Latest / The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast / Getting "Clare-ification"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost famous podcast
- 0:03Speaker 1: with IR Radio. We are energized, we are excited. It's
- 0:09Speaker 1: the almost in his podcast, I'm Ben, what up, ash Hi,
- 0:16Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you? I didn't ask if you're
- 0:19Speaker 1: okay or not. I was gonna ask you know what
- 0:21Speaker 1: I was gonna do, Ashley, why is it that you
- 0:26Speaker 1: want to go back home to Virginia for isolation? Because
- 0:33Speaker 1: I wanted to spend the time with my family. I
- 0:36Speaker 1: wasn't going to have anything else to do, so it
- 0:37Speaker 1: would be such a waste. I felt. If I wasn't
- 0:40Speaker 1: with my family, you and Jared might be producing the
- 0:44Speaker 1: best and most well produced TikTok content that there is
- 0:48Speaker 1: out there right now. That is such a nice compliment.
- 0:52Speaker 1: We are trying. How much time does it take you
- 0:55Speaker 1: in the course of it? Like I've always wondered this.
- 0:57Speaker 1: So we have the Tyler camerons of the world, and
- 1:00Speaker 1: you have the hand of browns uh, and we have
- 1:04Speaker 1: others in Batchelor Nation really kind of all over that
- 1:07Speaker 1: are feels like from an outsiders perspective perspective, Wow, they
- 1:11Speaker 1: must spend hours a day producing content. Ashley. Yeah, I
- 1:17Speaker 1: watch your content. I'm I'm always amazed at how well
- 1:19Speaker 1: it comes out. How long does it take you to
- 1:23Speaker 1: make something like that happen? And then, in the same right,
- 1:26Speaker 1: how long do you think it takes the Tyler Cameron's
- 1:28Speaker 1: of the world to do what he's doing. It probably
- 1:31Speaker 1: takes about the same amount of time we put. We
- 1:35Speaker 1: put a little more thought into it. But how many hours?
- 1:39Speaker 1: Like when how many hours of your bet? It's really
- 1:42Speaker 1: not that much. When we do those musical productions that
- 1:45Speaker 1: we did on Instagram, those take about an hour each,
- 1:49Speaker 1: maybe an hour to film and then an hour for
- 1:52Speaker 1: Jared to edit. But TikTok's they're pretty easy because the
- 1:55Speaker 1: editing is right there in the app, So maybe fifteen
- 1:59Speaker 1: minutes to film. And yeah, insane, really like, you guys
- 2:05Speaker 1: are really good at that. I'm impressed. And for a
- 2:08Speaker 1: little pop culture crazy people. We love pop culture, So
- 2:11Speaker 1: if we get to imitate our favorites, we love that. Yeah,
- 2:15Speaker 1: well it's fun to watch the content is being pushed
- 2:18Speaker 1: out like crazy right now. Well, hey, I guess we
- 2:21Speaker 1: should just probably jump into it, Ashley, A lot is
- 2:24Speaker 1: still happening. Embassadation. I don't know how. I don't get it,
- 2:29Speaker 1: Like it doesn't make any sense to me that we
- 2:31Speaker 1: can be in isolation, in quarantine, yet we have a
- 2:34Speaker 1: list of hot topics to still to discuss every week.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's it's unbelievable. Like, thank goodness that this
- 2:42Speaker 1: season continues off air because who knows, and we'll be
- 2:47Speaker 1: back in season. So thank you, Peter Weber season for
- 2:50Speaker 1: continuing to crank out the drama. Can I just say
- 2:55Speaker 1: something before we move on from TikTok it's gonna be
- 3:00Speaker 1: out blonde. No, I can't believe some of the cringe
- 3:05Speaker 1: content out there. And sure you can call Jared and
- 3:07Speaker 1: my content cringe, I suppose, but it's actually insane how
- 3:11Speaker 1: many likes and views a video that just is so
- 3:18Speaker 1: basic it gets Yeah, look at my content. My content
- 3:22Speaker 1: is about as basic as it gets. And it Jesse
- 3:27Speaker 1: and I go, hey, we should try this dance that
- 3:30Speaker 1: seems to be trending, and so we try it. We're like, oh,
- 3:32Speaker 1: we did it all right. Philip, which is her brother,
- 3:36Speaker 1: let's videotape it. And then he does, and then we
- 3:38Speaker 1: post it and we laugh about it like it's cringe e.
- 3:43Speaker 1: There's no science to it. Really, it's a whole new world.
- 3:46Speaker 1: It's a playground that I hope I play in for
- 3:48Speaker 1: a very short period of time. I don't know how
- 3:51Speaker 1: this uh, this sand box of fun ends. All I
- 3:54Speaker 1: know is right now, I'm trying my best to stay
- 3:58Speaker 1: up on it. I'm enjoying watching you guys has been
- 4:00Speaker 1: fun for me. I know. There's a lot of stuff
- 4:04Speaker 1: out there. Uh and and quite frankly, I guess that's
- 4:07Speaker 1: where we'll start Bachelor News. It's now time for Bachelor
- 4:11Speaker 1: News again. We're gonna give some updates that have happened
- 4:14Speaker 1: this week, uh kind of revolving around Bachelor Nation. Let's
- 4:18Speaker 1: take one break, Ashley. When we come back, we'll fill
- 4:21Speaker 1: everybody in and let's start with some uh and I
- 4:24Speaker 1: put up my air quotes content that is uh controversial.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Right now, we'll back first hot topic, the Bachelor's Peter Webber.
- 4:44Speaker 1: If you've forgotten, yes, he was your last Bachelor. Cheers
- 4:48Speaker 1: on girls that still like me? After drama with Xes,
- 4:52Speaker 1: Madison and Hannah and Ashley, what do we got going on? Okay,
- 4:56Speaker 1: so Maddie put a TikTok out there. There's a TikTok
- 4:59Speaker 1: out there that featured uh, Kelsey, Tammy and a couple
- 5:05Speaker 1: of the other girls from his season, and it was
- 5:08Speaker 1: captioned this video featuring women who are too good for
- 5:14Speaker 1: Peter l O L. So wow, right, this comes on
- 5:22Speaker 1: top of Um, Maddie going on Caitlin's podcast this week
- 5:27Speaker 1: and talking about how days before the thing with Kelly
- 5:35Speaker 1: and Peter came out, Peter actually reached out to Maddie
- 5:40Speaker 1: and then Peter fired back and said, Maddie, you know
- 5:45Speaker 1: that there's more to this story, hmm. And then in addition,
- 5:50Speaker 1: there's more shade as far as the TikTok goes. Somebody
- 5:55Speaker 1: asked in the comments section, where's Kelly in this video?
- 5:58Speaker 1: And she said, with our x L O L. So
- 6:04Speaker 1: the biggest scoop I got from Yeah Yeah, and the
- 6:07Speaker 1: biggest scoop you get from Caitlin's podcast shameless plug her
- 6:11Speaker 1: off the Vine is that they Maddie seems the most
- 6:17Speaker 1: irritated with Kelly UM, and not so much Peter because
- 6:22Speaker 1: you know, Peter and her ended because they just weren't
- 6:25Speaker 1: super compatible. But Kelly was her best friend in the
- 6:28Speaker 1: house and a girl that she even imagined being a
- 6:31Speaker 1: bridesmaid one day in her wedding. And of course, since
- 6:36Speaker 1: Peter and and Kelly have been seen out together. Since
- 6:40Speaker 1: that first viral picture, they have not spoken. You know,
- 6:50Speaker 1: I'm really it's this this whole like Peter thing right
- 6:54Speaker 1: now has intrigued us, right, it's called us once beginning.
- 6:58Speaker 1: I don't understand the Himelnes. Do you get the timelines
- 7:01Speaker 1: of how everything has gone down? Well? That was another
- 7:04Speaker 1: part of Caitlin's podcast. Um Maddie says that there is
- 7:10Speaker 1: some timeline issues that Peter doesn't seem very accurate with
- 7:16Speaker 1: when he was on that podcast row week, so basically
- 7:21Speaker 1: he was She was like, I feel like there's a
- 7:23Speaker 1: big chunk missing, and it seems like Kelly must have
- 7:27Speaker 1: been part of his life more predominantly than he led on.
- 7:34Speaker 1: And so I guess from all of you listening to that,
- 7:38Speaker 1: well yeah, I mean, Ashley, there's a lot of people
- 7:41Speaker 1: out there listening a lot of people out there, we know,
- 7:44Speaker 1: really good at investigating these things. How do we feel
- 7:47Speaker 1: about this? Right? Are we? Is this kind of like
- 7:49Speaker 1: an r situation where we go, hey, good for them,
- 7:53Speaker 1: they're happy, everybody's moving on, or are we sitting back
- 7:56Speaker 1: going there was some like weird stuff going on. I
- 8:00Speaker 1: don't think his viewers we've been able to see the
- 8:02Speaker 1: whole picture. There's obviously like more to the story or
- 8:06Speaker 1: are we just all going to move on right now?
- 8:08Speaker 1: I don't think we're moving on anytime soon, Okay, And
- 8:12Speaker 1: I I do believe Maddie has something when she says
- 8:16Speaker 1: that they must have been talking while he was still
- 8:20Speaker 1: talking to her pre finale um, because don't you remember
- 8:25Speaker 1: when Barbara wrote under Kelly's picture and I think it
- 8:28Speaker 1: was like the exact day of the Monday Night finale,
- 8:32Speaker 1: said something like I can't wait to lunch and shop
- 8:34Speaker 1: with you. So that alludes to the fact that Peter
- 8:37Speaker 1: must have had something semi romantic going along with Kelly
- 8:42Speaker 1: before he ended things with Matt. What a risky comment
- 8:45Speaker 1: if it really was kind of like a oh, I
- 8:48Speaker 1: don't realize what I'm doing kind of here, how much
- 8:50Speaker 1: trouble could that have gotten Peter into? If like that
- 8:54Speaker 1: comment ever was like legitimized to be something more than
- 8:58Speaker 1: what we took it as at the time, she was
- 9:00Speaker 1: just like, Hey, they want to connect and still be
- 9:02Speaker 1: friends and we don't really know why. We don't get it,
- 9:04Speaker 1: but like whatever, let them do their thing now. If
- 9:07Speaker 1: it does point to something happening before the finale, that
- 9:13Speaker 1: could have really blown up in the face of everybody.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Maybe it's too late to blow up now, but I'm sure.
- 9:19Speaker 1: But in my personal view of it, all seems like
- 9:23Speaker 1: there must have been something. And um, I think we'll
- 9:28Speaker 1: have to talk to Kelly. I mean, I don't think
- 9:29Speaker 1: we'll necessarily get honest answers from like the Peter Kelly
- 9:33Speaker 1: camp um about the timeline of their relationship. Peter was
- 9:37Speaker 1: on us saying that they damned a bit and they
- 9:40Speaker 1: ran into each other a bit in l A before
- 9:43Speaker 1: the finale. But I really want to know more about
- 9:47Speaker 1: the friendship break between Maddie and Kelly. It's uh, it
- 9:51Speaker 1: is a story that continues. We don't understand the whole
- 9:56Speaker 1: picture because we don't have the full picture, but actually,
- 9:59Speaker 1: thank you for filling us in with what we do have.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Next story, Hey, our next bachelorette Bachelor Nation is Claire Crawley.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Claire Crawley slammed, yes, slammed, for shading Bachelorette contestant Matt James.
- 10:15Speaker 1: And when I say slammed, the reaction to Claire has not,
- 10:20Speaker 1: by any means been positive. I prepped for this by
- 10:24Speaker 1: reading through comments today. Ashley, why is she being hated
- 10:29Speaker 1: on so much right now. It's very crazy. This is
- 10:32Speaker 1: it's insane to me, the fan reaction. But I feel
- 10:35Speaker 1: like Matt has been doing enough press that if I
- 10:39Speaker 1: were Bachelorette, I might possibly be a little irritated as well. Um,
- 10:44Speaker 1: I'm gonna read you guys some of the headlines that
- 10:47Speaker 1: kind of demonstrate how much Matt has put himself out
- 10:51Speaker 1: there over the past couple of weeks. Okay, so this
- 10:54Speaker 1: is from April one, and this is an exclusive with
- 10:59Speaker 1: Life and Style. Headline says Tyler Cameron's bff, Matt James
- 11:03Speaker 1: is sure that they'll connect with Hannah Brown after coronavirus
- 11:07Speaker 1: and the text the body of the paragraph says, Hannah
- 11:10Speaker 1: Brown and Tyler Cameron are sure to reconnect after spending
- 11:14Speaker 1: time together in quarantine amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The former
- 11:18Speaker 1: Bachelorette contestant BF Matt James exclusively tells Life and Style
- 11:24Speaker 1: it says, quote, we will all connect again eventually unquote.
- 11:29Speaker 1: The soon to be contestant on Claire Crawley season says
- 11:32Speaker 1: while promoting n EOU Fitnesses twelve Hour thon benefiting Operation
- 11:40Speaker 1: Food Fight on Instagram Live this Thursday. So we all
- 11:44Speaker 1: know that Matt is very involved with charity and that
- 11:47Speaker 1: is amazing. UM. So here it seems like he reached
- 11:51Speaker 1: out to Life and Style or they reached out to him,
- 11:54Speaker 1: and he felt like he wanted to take up the
- 11:58Speaker 1: opportunity to promote something that does good for others. So
- 12:01Speaker 1: I can't can't get on them for that. Another headline
- 12:04Speaker 1: says exclusive new Quarantine crew Tyler sees BFF Matt James
- 12:11Speaker 1: is quote happy for Peter Webber and Kelly's TikTok videos.
- 12:16Speaker 1: The more the merrier. The body of the paragraph says
- 12:19Speaker 1: Tyler Cameron's BFF Matt James is happy quote um for
- 12:24Speaker 1: Peter Webber and Kelly Flanagan. Um. He goes on to
- 12:28Speaker 1: say Matt thinks that the reality stars are amplifying a
- 12:31Speaker 1: positive message. He exclusively tells Life and Style again. I
- 12:38Speaker 1: can see Claire getting a little annoyed with the amount
- 12:41Speaker 1: of times that he's exclusively giving information to the entertainment magazines.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Last headline that I found was on April two. Headline
- 12:54Speaker 1: says Matt James is looking forward to meeting bachelor at
- 12:57Speaker 1: Claire Crawley post quarantine. Quote. I've been very patient. The
- 13:03Speaker 1: body of the paragraph reads, waiting for his love story.
- 13:07Speaker 1: Matt James is still eager to compete for Claire Crawley's
- 13:10Speaker 1: heart on season sixteen of The Bachelorette, despite the delay
- 13:14Speaker 1: in production caused by the coronavirus. Here's his quote. I've
- 13:19Speaker 1: been patient up until this point. There's a young woman
- 13:21Speaker 1: in Sacramento right now that I'm looking forward to meeting
- 13:24Speaker 1: once this stuff has all settled down. Uh. He goes
- 13:28Speaker 1: on to say, So, I'm hoping that I can be
- 13:31Speaker 1: patient a little bit longer and ride this thing out
- 13:34Speaker 1: and everyone's safe, and then we can get back to
- 13:37Speaker 1: our daily lives moving forward. Basically, after a couple exclusive
- 13:43Speaker 1: chats with entertainment magazines, I can see why Claire, an
- 13:47Speaker 1: old school bachelorette, somebody who wasn't around when the press
- 13:52Speaker 1: covered the Bachelor the way they do these days, a
- 13:56Speaker 1: time without TikTok and at a time without Instagram, how
- 13:59Speaker 1: she could be annoyed by the amounts that he is
- 14:02Speaker 1: speaking to the press before his season. I am somebody who,
- 14:07Speaker 1: you know, pretty notorious for taking advantage of every opportunity
- 14:11Speaker 1: that comes at me, So I can't can't fault him
- 14:13Speaker 1: for that, I'm like the queen of taking advantage of
- 14:16Speaker 1: what this franchise has given me and taking press ops.
- 14:19Speaker 1: But in my personal taste, if I were Clear's position,
- 14:24Speaker 1: seem this amount of press that he's done, seeing him
- 14:26Speaker 1: on Cameo um before his season, before coming onto my season,
- 14:33Speaker 1: it will leave a bad taste in my mouth. So
- 14:35Speaker 1: I get that she doesn't want her guys doing all
- 14:38Speaker 1: this press. Yeah, And I mean he's been out there.
- 14:41Speaker 1: You don't see that. So this is unprecedented in the
- 14:43Speaker 1: sense of we've never seen a contestant before even the
- 14:48Speaker 1: show has started airing, start to get on the press circuit. Now,
- 14:53Speaker 1: we also have never had a scenario where contestants have
- 14:58Speaker 1: been announced then there's been a delay and and and
- 15:03Speaker 1: they've also had a connection to to the press so easily.
- 15:07Speaker 1: Now I get it, Like, it's crazy to me that
- 15:11Speaker 1: all of this is happening right now. There's really no
- 15:14Speaker 1: rules for the shutdown and what's going on with COVID nineteen.
- 15:18Speaker 1: Here's my concern actually, and here's why I think we
- 15:21Speaker 1: should take this is Matt's been out there in the press.
- 15:24Speaker 1: He's been talking, he's he's been sharing things. You know,
- 15:27Speaker 1: I've seen the comments people are saying, oh, come on, Claire,
- 15:30Speaker 1: be nice to him. He's doing it for charity. I've
- 15:31Speaker 1: also seen the comments of this is ridiculous. Why is
- 15:34Speaker 1: he trying to get fame? Right now? Both sides okay,
- 15:37Speaker 1: we we don't even need to say whose side we're on.
- 15:40Speaker 1: The truth is this. Claire has now spoken out against
- 15:44Speaker 1: Matt very clearly said Hey, I'm not okay with this.
- 15:48Speaker 1: I don't like this. It doesn't make sense to me
- 15:50Speaker 1: on why you are out there doing cameos and press
- 15:54Speaker 1: before the season even starts. That shows that you're not
- 15:57Speaker 1: here for the right reasons. That is what she has
- 15:59Speaker 1: said on her tweet. If that is the case, how
- 16:02Speaker 1: can Matt James be on her season at any level?
- 16:07Speaker 1: If they already are doing this with each then just
- 16:12Speaker 1: he he can't. I just don't think it's a good
- 16:14Speaker 1: idea for him to to be honest. And then there's
- 16:16Speaker 1: the whole he created a cameo thing, and he created
- 16:20Speaker 1: a cameo. She calls him out on Twitter for creating
- 16:23Speaker 1: the cameo and doing press um and then what the
- 16:28Speaker 1: fans are coming out after her about is that the
- 16:31Speaker 1: cameo money is supposedly going towards charity. Well, actually it
- 16:36Speaker 1: is going towards charity, but he didn't make that clear
- 16:40Speaker 1: before getting on cameo, so he's he fired back, if
- 16:45Speaker 1: you want to use the dramatic language. He fires back
- 16:48Speaker 1: and on on Instagram story and says, I created a
- 16:51Speaker 1: cameo and the money is going to be going to
- 16:54Speaker 1: this charity. I'm doing it with this New York Giant. Well,
- 16:58Speaker 1: his friend who is a New or Giant, ends up
- 17:03Speaker 1: screenshot or you know, re gramming um Matt's post and says, well,
- 17:10Speaker 1: we never talked about this, but I'm down for the challenge.
- 17:12Speaker 1: All the donations will be going towards Robin Hood and
- 17:15Speaker 1: y C and Team nigu. Uh Okay. It just seems
- 17:19Speaker 1: like Matt got caught in sort of kind of a
- 17:22Speaker 1: sticky situation there because it seems like he never previously
- 17:27Speaker 1: announced that the cameos are going to charity. And I
- 17:32Speaker 1: don't think I think, and I think because he never
- 17:35Speaker 1: announced that the cameos are going to charity, that it's
- 17:37Speaker 1: totally fine that Claire express frustration over him having a
- 17:41Speaker 1: cameo and doing press and I know that Matt has
- 17:45Speaker 1: done so much wonderful work for charity alongside Tyler and
- 17:49Speaker 1: the ABC food tours. Um, And maybe if you're a
- 17:53Speaker 1: super fan, you could see that, like you would assume
- 17:55Speaker 1: that it was going to charity. But I think that
- 17:58Speaker 1: I think that Claire had every right to express frustration
- 18:01Speaker 1: over this. So I'm not saying I'm one team or
- 18:03Speaker 1: the other, but I am saying there's already enough tension
- 18:07Speaker 1: between these two they can't be on the show that
- 18:09Speaker 1: they can't be on the show together. He knows that
- 18:12Speaker 1: he'll get eliminated night one. He he has to know
- 18:15Speaker 1: that Claire is going to clarify him the way that
- 18:19Speaker 1: she is so notoriously known for doing. Why doesn't he
- 18:23Speaker 1: just wait until the following season and go and explore
- 18:28Speaker 1: relationship with somebody else? Yeah, I mean I think that's
- 18:31Speaker 1: the answer here is like, no matter what you think
- 18:33Speaker 1: or feel, it would be weird in a lot of
- 18:36Speaker 1: ways if they now start out the season together and
- 18:38Speaker 1: if he does make it past night one, we would
- 18:41Speaker 1: I think I would just feel odd about it if
- 18:43Speaker 1: it went with clear right now after they're like already
- 18:45Speaker 1: kind of like publicly um arguing, and I will say
- 18:51Speaker 1: this and Claire's defense, Uh, I don't know a lot
- 18:55Speaker 1: of the behind the Sword of Matt is a sensitive
- 18:58Speaker 1: time for this here for the right reasons kind of stuff. Right,
- 19:01Speaker 1: we just got off a Peter season where one of
- 19:03Speaker 1: the biggest issues that we had was where audiences and
- 19:06Speaker 1: contestants all admitted yet we weren't really there for the
- 19:08Speaker 1: right reasons, Like we were there to get the the
- 19:13Speaker 1: attention that the show brings. If we happen to end
- 19:15Speaker 1: up with Peter, great, but this is a lot more
- 19:18Speaker 1: of a focus on how can I get something out
- 19:20Speaker 1: of this? And it was a this could be my
- 19:22Speaker 1: love story being played out. For Claire, this is a
- 19:25Speaker 1: serious thing for her, like this is a big deal,
- 19:28Speaker 1: it's a huge opportunity. She's very excited to potentially find
- 19:31Speaker 1: her partner from this experience. And so I do get
- 19:35Speaker 1: where she is sensitive to the here for the right reasons, Uh,
- 19:40Speaker 1: chat and talk, because she is definitely gonna be there
- 19:43Speaker 1: for the right reasons. Claire wants to find her partner
- 19:46Speaker 1: in this. That's why she's saying yes to this. I though,
- 19:52Speaker 1: I do think though that before this whole thing starts,
- 19:56Speaker 1: especially during a time where there are no rules and
- 19:59Speaker 1: we don't have any clear your guidelines on what we
- 20:00Speaker 1: should and should not be doing. I think we all
- 20:03Speaker 1: have to walk through this with a little bit of
- 20:05Speaker 1: grace and understanding that if Matt James did this for charity,
- 20:09Speaker 1: and he's done these press outlets just because he's bored,
- 20:12Speaker 1: and he's doing all this other stuff not for attention
- 20:15Speaker 1: at all, which is what he's claiming, then we say,
- 20:18Speaker 1: all right, let's see how it goes. But I just
- 20:20Speaker 1: it's hard for me to imagine that being the case
- 20:22Speaker 1: right now. Now, Ben, why do you think the fans
- 20:27Speaker 1: are coming at Claire so hard for this? Also? I
- 20:30Speaker 1: want to say that Claire did tweet yesterday saying that
- 20:34Speaker 1: she was not pointing this at one specific person. She
- 20:37Speaker 1: was not coming just at Matt. And it backs up
- 20:42Speaker 1: because there were two other guys from her supposed cast
- 20:48Speaker 1: that signed up for CAMEO. One I don't have his name.
- 20:51Speaker 1: I saw it a couple of days ago before this
- 20:53Speaker 1: whole Matt thing came up. And then the other one
- 20:56Speaker 1: is Dale Moss, who is, if I believe, former NFL
- 21:01Speaker 1: athlete he makes yeah, he must be former. So like
- 21:04Speaker 1: it's not just Matt. She's concerned that she's not going
- 21:08Speaker 1: to find somebody out of this her for her fifth whirl. Yeah,
- 21:15Speaker 1: it's gonna be an interesting season, Ashley, and there is
- 21:17Speaker 1: a lot of pressure to it. I think it's one
- 21:19Speaker 1: of the reasons why we're both excited for it is
- 21:21Speaker 1: it feels like, hey, we need to either root for
- 21:24Speaker 1: Claire to find somebody or this is gonna be um
- 21:27Speaker 1: I said, I mean it's that a sad finish. If
- 21:30Speaker 1: she doesn't find somebody through this, it will hurt her
- 21:33Speaker 1: heart and our heart. Uh So, you know, like Matt
- 21:37Speaker 1: or not or support the people doing press or not?
- 21:40Speaker 1: We I am I will be in the corner of, Hey,
- 21:43Speaker 1: give Claire the best possible shot to have the one
- 21:47Speaker 1: group of people if if we just get it for
- 21:49Speaker 1: this season that are there for their love story, Like
- 21:53Speaker 1: just give that to her. Like, let's really weed out
- 21:55Speaker 1: the people that aren't there or could not be there
- 21:57Speaker 1: for the right reasons. Give Claire affair show because that's
- 22:01Speaker 1: the reason we're gonna be tuning in is to see
- 22:03Speaker 1: Claire extremely extremely happy in the end. Why um, why
- 22:09Speaker 1: are people reacting this way to Claire is? I mean,
- 22:12Speaker 1: I I think I think there's two reasons. One Matt
- 22:15Speaker 1: is relevant. Right now, we've seen more of Matt in
- 22:18Speaker 1: a sense than we have of Claire in years. I
- 22:20Speaker 1: think Matt, uh, I think Claire has kind of been hidden,
- 22:24Speaker 1: and I also think Claire is known, her personality is
- 22:28Speaker 1: known to be the one that definitely comes down hard
- 22:32Speaker 1: on people, uh during their time on the show. I mean,
- 22:36Speaker 1: she did it with Juan Pablo rightfully, so uh, she's
- 22:39Speaker 1: done it on Winter Games with I forget his name
- 22:42Speaker 1: at this Christian I think his name was at this point, Like,
- 22:44Speaker 1: she has been the one for, you know, to come
- 22:47Speaker 1: down hard on people. I think people might be going
- 22:50Speaker 1: Claire like walk into this being a little kinder, Like
- 22:53Speaker 1: you don't have to be the police of this show.
- 22:57Speaker 1: You're just the lead here, Like you don't have to
- 22:59Speaker 1: be police. You don't have to be the one that
- 23:02Speaker 1: jumps on everybody for any decision or thing they say.
- 23:05Speaker 1: Just let's let's get behind you here to find your
- 23:07Speaker 1: love story. But don't don't be hostile at the beginning,
- 23:11Speaker 1: Like you don't have to walk into this, Matt already,
- 23:13Speaker 1: I can see that. I can totally see people are
- 23:15Speaker 1: coming from there. I need to close on saying that.
- 23:18Speaker 1: I think it's still if Matt had made it so
- 23:22Speaker 1: obvious that it was for charity. I think people would
- 23:26Speaker 1: be able to say, like, okay, um, Claire, you definitely
- 23:30Speaker 1: jumped down his throat too soon. But it's obvious based
- 23:34Speaker 1: on the social media activity that he did not make
- 23:36Speaker 1: it clear that it was for charity. So I'm not
- 23:38Speaker 1: sure why people are just going to smack Claire before
- 23:42Speaker 1: ever raising an eyebrow to Matt. Yeah, now I'm with you. No,
- 23:47Speaker 1: I agree. I think I think there is I'm wondering
- 23:50Speaker 1: the same thing. And you know, especially for Matt's friend
- 23:54Speaker 1: to go, hey, we've never talked about this. You said
- 23:55Speaker 1: this is for charity that we're doing together, and you've
- 23:57Speaker 1: never brought this to my opinion, and to say that publicly, Uh,
- 24:00Speaker 1: it all feels weird. All I can say is, let's
- 24:03Speaker 1: take a step back. Realize it's the wild West right now.
- 24:05Speaker 1: There's a lot of laws not being um stuck to.
- 24:09Speaker 1: We're all trying to figure it out. But I just
- 24:12Speaker 1: to close, I just don't think Matt James can go
- 24:14Speaker 1: on clear season. It just doesn't make sense now at
- 24:16Speaker 1: this point unless we just want or doing it just
- 24:18Speaker 1: to have controversy, which doesn't feel healthy at all. Hey. Final, uh, well,
- 24:24Speaker 1: second to final, topic. H Tyler Cameron says he and
- 24:27Speaker 1: Hannah Brown are just starting off as friends and not
- 24:30Speaker 1: in a place to date right now. I mean, I
- 24:33Speaker 1: think the headline speaks for herself. Actually, anything to add here, No,
- 24:36Speaker 1: I was gonna say that's that's it. Uh. And lastly, yes,
- 24:42Speaker 1: according to Nick Viles podcast, Jessica and I are not
- 24:46Speaker 1: sharing rooms at this time. Uh shocker, I guess, uh
- 24:50Speaker 1: weird to have this uh as now a dinner conversation
- 24:54Speaker 1: for her family, my family and Jesse and I a
- 24:57Speaker 1: healthy conversation to have. I mean, this is something I've
- 25:00Speaker 1: never shied away from. It's it's you know, when it
- 25:02Speaker 1: comes to sex and talking about the boundaries that you
- 25:05Speaker 1: know I've set with my uh with my partner. It's
- 25:09Speaker 1: it's not something I want to hide. But it's also
- 25:10Speaker 1: weird to be talking about, so that it is true. Uh.
- 25:14Speaker 1: We Uh, we're excited about this decision. It's been the
- 25:17Speaker 1: healthiest decision for us. I think people are uh confused
- 25:21Speaker 1: about it or like going, what in the world's going
- 25:23Speaker 1: on here? It's the decision we made that we thought
- 25:26Speaker 1: was best for us as a couple to allow us
- 25:29Speaker 1: the healthiest relationship. Um. And we wanted to do that
- 25:32Speaker 1: because we knew that we had something special and we
- 25:34Speaker 1: wanted to do we wanted to do some things personally
- 25:37Speaker 1: to make sure that we were setting ourselves up for
- 25:40Speaker 1: the most success. And this is one of the decisions
- 25:42Speaker 1: we've made and it's been really good for us. It
- 25:44Speaker 1: might not be for everybody. I get it. I'm not
- 25:47Speaker 1: saying it should. All I know is that for Jessica
- 25:49Speaker 1: and I, um, it's been healthy and it's been great,
- 25:52Speaker 1: and we're really excited for what the future holds. I mean,
- 25:55Speaker 1: it's worked so far. We're happily engaged, having a great
- 25:58Speaker 1: time being engaged. Um. But yeah, that's that's the clarity there. Uh,
- 26:02Speaker 1: it was everywhere this week. Holy cow, nothing nothing is
- 26:07Speaker 1: more awkward than uh than having to call your your
- 26:10Speaker 1: future in laws being like, hey, I'm sorry. Well hey,
- 26:14Speaker 1: at least your future in laws are hearing that there's
- 26:17Speaker 1: nothing going on better than the opposite, right, Hey, Actually
- 26:24Speaker 1: that's the headlines of this week. We as we said,
- 26:25Speaker 1: we did have a lot, a lot to break down there.
- 26:28Speaker 1: Please write us at Ben and Ashley at I heart
- 26:30Speaker 1: media dot com with your opinions or just hey, you
- 26:33Speaker 1: can just hashtag the almost Famous podcast on Twitter or
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- 26:44Speaker 1: a comment if you appreciate what Ashley and I are
- 26:47Speaker 1: doing along with I Heart Team. We would love to
- 26:50Speaker 1: hear from you and to get some feedback, so please
- 26:54Speaker 1: rate us, review us. Actually, we'll take one more break
- 26:56Speaker 1: when we come back, we're gonna break down this week's
- 26:59Speaker 1: episode of Listen to Your Heart. We're back with another
- 27:12Speaker 1: week of The Bachelor Presents Listen to your Heart. Like
- 27:15Speaker 1: the show or not, it is The Bachelor Presents and
- 27:19Speaker 1: as a result, the Almost Famous podcast is gonna be
- 27:21Speaker 1: breaking it down now. This week's episode, we're gonna fly
- 27:24Speaker 1: through it because we do have a very special guest
- 27:26Speaker 1: who I'm very interested to talk to and I know
- 27:29Speaker 1: Ashley is as well. Uh, Savannah from the show will
- 27:32Speaker 1: be coming on after we break it down to discuss
- 27:34Speaker 1: everything Listen to Your Heart. But before we bring Savannah,
- 27:38Speaker 1: and we're gonna bring producer tore On, who is a
- 27:41Speaker 1: massive fan of The Bachelor Presents Listen to Your Heart.
- 27:44Speaker 1: She freaks out every week over the episodes. She can't
- 27:47Speaker 1: say enough great things about it. Her heart is in
- 27:51Speaker 1: it and she's listening Tori, how you doing? I can't
- 27:55Speaker 1: get enough of it? Then? UM, all right, so Ashley,
- 28:00Speaker 1: you're really good at breaking these down. I am not,
- 28:04Speaker 1: because I will say this from the top. I like
- 28:08Speaker 1: the contestants and I enjoy hearing their stories. I am
- 28:12Speaker 1: not a fan of this show, and I'll tell you why.
- 28:16Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm watching okay, and you guys
- 28:19Speaker 1: can maybe explain it to me. I don't know if
- 28:21Speaker 1: I'm really there for the love stories. It feels like
- 28:23Speaker 1: the love stories are kind of forced, like you need
- 28:25Speaker 1: to choose your partner now and and what you know,
- 28:29Speaker 1: and then love will come if you can sing together. Well,
- 28:32Speaker 1: here's the truth. I have dated people who can sing
- 28:35Speaker 1: really well, and I don't think me singing well had
- 28:39Speaker 1: anything to do with our success or failure at any moment.
- 28:43Speaker 1: So I'm gonna sit back. I'm gonna let you too
- 28:45Speaker 1: take it from here. I'll chime in when I can
- 28:47Speaker 1: prove to me on why I should be so invested
- 28:49Speaker 1: in this thing. Ben, Now that you give me such
- 28:53Speaker 1: like you make this show have so much depth, I
- 28:56Speaker 1: don't know if I can really give you an answer.
- 28:59Speaker 1: I think it's just entertainment. That's why you're watching. It's
- 29:02Speaker 1: just supposed to be entertaining story. Is that why you watch?
- 29:06Speaker 1: Is it entertaining to you? Or you in it? I'm
- 29:09Speaker 1: kind of in it. And I always got these character
- 29:11Speaker 1: developments where I mean, there's a there's Brie and Chris
- 29:15Speaker 1: and she was like previously in gig before and that
- 29:19Speaker 1: whole wedding it didn't happen, and now you're kind of
- 29:21Speaker 1: like rooting for that. I say, Brie and Chris seems
- 29:24Speaker 1: to be the only couple that I see getting out
- 29:26Speaker 1: of this show still as a couple. Wait, why not
- 29:30Speaker 1: Trevor and Jamie Um. I just feel like he's probably
- 29:33Speaker 1: gonna pull one of his usual things. He's not going
- 29:36Speaker 1: to be able to commit like um long distance, and
- 29:40Speaker 1: she's so young. I just feel like there's not a
- 29:44Speaker 1: stability there in their relationship. They have a really sweet,
- 29:46Speaker 1: like summer crush. I don't really know that they have
- 29:49Speaker 1: like what it takes to go to long haul. I'm
- 29:52Speaker 1: laughing at the fact that it sounds like you've known
- 29:55Speaker 1: Trevor for years, because you're like, he's gonna go do
- 29:57Speaker 1: the same thing it always does. Well, we know that
- 30:00Speaker 1: Trevor has a sketchy background. As we learned last week,
- 30:03Speaker 1: he has emotionally cheated in the past. I think there's
- 30:05Speaker 1: been multiple girls. It was definitely like a fleeting topic.
- 30:10Speaker 1: You know, they tease it up and then it was like, Oh,
- 30:13Speaker 1: I emotionally cheated, but I'm going to be here for you.
- 30:17Speaker 1: It's interesting to think about how that would have been
- 30:20Speaker 1: a way bigger narrative if this was on The Bachelor,
- 30:23Speaker 1: and that listen to your heart is allowing it to
- 30:26Speaker 1: be seen almost like you sympathize with him that he
- 30:29Speaker 1: was really struggling and didn't speak up in that relationship
- 30:32Speaker 1: and you must feel more connected to him the Jed
- 30:37Speaker 1: and that didn't help work well for him. You know,
- 30:39Speaker 1: it felt like that was the worst thing you could
- 30:42Speaker 1: have ever done. But with Trevor, you're really really are
- 30:45Speaker 1: kind of like, oh, I get it. You just you
- 30:46Speaker 1: wanted to leave her, but you didn't. Well. With Jed,
- 30:49Speaker 1: it was something that was currently supposedly still going on,
- 30:53Speaker 1: and then with Trevor, it seems like it's a relationship
- 30:55Speaker 1: in his past. That's the difference. Well, let cut in
- 31:00Speaker 1: here then, uh, let's break down this week's episode. Uh.
- 31:04Speaker 1: Tori do you mind staying on for that because I
- 31:07Speaker 1: have a feeling that my opinions. I mean, I'll be
- 31:10Speaker 1: as honest as possible and you, guys, I want you
- 31:12Speaker 1: to convince me otherwise. I was interested the first week,
- 31:18Speaker 1: questionable the second week, and at now the third week
- 31:20Speaker 1: hits and I'm like, I'm gonna keep watching because I'm
- 31:23Speaker 1: in it already, Like I'm I'm far because I have
- 31:25Speaker 1: a podcast, well, because I have a podcast. And it's
- 31:27Speaker 1: kind of like a bad season of the Bachelor or Bachelor.
- 31:31Speaker 1: It's like, you can't stop now, like I gotta see
- 31:33Speaker 1: if these things work out or not or got wins.
- 31:35Speaker 1: It's just I'm in it now, but I'm still not
- 31:39Speaker 1: convinced and I'm not sold on. I guess I'm not going.
- 31:45Speaker 1: Oh man, I can't wait till next week. And that's
- 31:47Speaker 1: typically how I judge good shows or not, like Ozark's
- 31:50Speaker 1: can't wait to watch it four episodes tomorrow night, listen
- 31:54Speaker 1: to your heart. Well, I can take a few weeks off. Anyways. Hey,
- 31:57Speaker 1: let's start here. We're gonna start with the very first
- 32:00Speaker 1: part of this episode. We'll run through it. Ashley. How
- 32:03Speaker 1: about you lead Tor and me through this it's gonna
- 32:06Speaker 1: be Brandon, uh is split between Julia and Savannah. Savanna
- 32:10Speaker 1: will be coming on in a second take it away. Yeah,
- 32:13Speaker 1: so you know, Brandon gave Savannah his rose, but then
- 32:17Speaker 1: kind of comes up to Julian says, hey, I wanted
- 32:20Speaker 1: her to stick around. I knew you'd be sticking around
- 32:23Speaker 1: because you'd be getting Sheridan's rose. And I just want
- 32:25Speaker 1: you to know that just because I gave her rose
- 32:26Speaker 1: doesn't mean that like I'm I'm stuck on her, like
- 32:28Speaker 1: this is gonna be a real relationship. I'm still feeling
- 32:31Speaker 1: things out between the two of you. Uh. Fast forward,
- 32:35Speaker 1: we see Brandon and Savannah pretty much couple up as
- 32:39Speaker 1: soon as Gabe pulls Savannah aside and she goes, nah,
- 32:43Speaker 1: it's not it's not gonna be. You can't can't go
- 32:45Speaker 1: forward with you. Um. But then so then you know,
- 32:50Speaker 1: Savannah's single and on the verge of leaving the house
- 32:53Speaker 1: because Chris Harrison says, you must couple up. The people
- 32:57Speaker 1: that you're gonna be with now are the people that
- 33:00Speaker 1: you're going to be performing with and going forward with
- 33:02Speaker 1: in this competition. Uh So, then all of a sudden,
- 33:07Speaker 1: Brandon quickly chooses Savannah, and Julia gets coupled up with
- 33:12Speaker 1: Sheridan by what seems like default, because she definitely seems
- 33:17Speaker 1: to have Brandon on the mind more than Sheridan. She
- 33:20Speaker 1: definitely like thinks that Sheridan is probably the better option.
- 33:24Speaker 1: He really loves her, really cares about her, or maybe
- 33:26Speaker 1: not love, but you know he's he's all in right,
- 33:30Speaker 1: He's the safe option, the sweet guy that you want
- 33:33Speaker 1: to be into. But you know that you are feeling
- 33:36Speaker 1: more pulled towards the bad boy in the situation, which
- 33:38Speaker 1: is probably Brandon. So let me put you off there then,
- 33:42Speaker 1: because I think there's a lot going on. Uh. We
- 33:45Speaker 1: were going to bring her on afterwards, but because this
- 33:49Speaker 1: starts out so much with the Savannah talk, let's just
- 33:52Speaker 1: bring Savannah in now. Yeah. Well, hey Savannah, it's great
- 33:56Speaker 1: to have you on. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks
- 33:59Speaker 1: for having me at. Good to see you guys. So
- 34:01Speaker 1: we were just going over all the gossip of episode three.
- 34:06Speaker 1: I've listened to your heart. Gabe comes to you early
- 34:09Speaker 1: in the episode and says, hey, I'm into you, and
- 34:12Speaker 1: you were super honest with him and you're like, I'm
- 34:14Speaker 1: not really into you, leaving you with what you thought
- 34:20Speaker 1: was no options, but then all of a sudden, Brandon
- 34:23Speaker 1: comes around and says, yeah, like, uh, I want to
- 34:27Speaker 1: choose you over Julia, and he just keeps going back
- 34:30Speaker 1: and forth, back and forth. What what? What was your thoughts?
- 34:34Speaker 1: Why did you think that he had to quick turn
- 34:36Speaker 1: around because earlier in the morning he was telling Julia
- 34:39Speaker 1: that he wanted to explore that. Fast forward a couple
- 34:42Speaker 1: of hours and he was quote unquote committed to you, right.
- 34:48Speaker 1: I think episode three has been really interesting to watch
- 34:51Speaker 1: back because you have to remember that I only have
- 34:54Speaker 1: my perspective and what I've been told with my relationship
- 34:56Speaker 1: with Brandon, So I didn't know about the conversation before.
- 35:01Speaker 1: All I knew was when Brandon and I had our moment.
- 35:04Speaker 1: I've been saying, Hey, I want to do this with you.
- 35:06Speaker 1: I just trusted that and I was like, hey, it's
- 35:08Speaker 1: me and you. Um. He hadn't really mentioned too much
- 35:11Speaker 1: about the whole Julia situation, so at this point I'm
- 35:14Speaker 1: just like, hey, I've told you that I am kind
- 35:18Speaker 1: of uncertain of what this is and it's time to
- 35:21Speaker 1: go whatever I said, and he's like, We're going to
- 35:24Speaker 1: do this, and it's it's me and you. So I
- 35:27Speaker 1: thought that that was really solid. I didn't really realize
- 35:29Speaker 1: that there was another conversation that happened just before it. Okay,
- 35:35Speaker 1: but then you and Julia were also talking before the
- 35:40Speaker 1: couples were officially chosen, and she was telling you, yeah, um,
- 35:44Speaker 1: I'm still kind of set on Brandon, and You're like,
- 35:47Speaker 1: oh damn. I didn't know that that was still a thing.
- 35:51Speaker 1: So how do you think that you went from that
- 35:54Speaker 1: to being coupled up with Brandon? So I have to
- 35:59Speaker 1: remember back to all of it. Um. So I think
- 36:03Speaker 1: that conversation with Julia, she had just told me about
- 36:08Speaker 1: their conversations, and again I'm just like, hey, I'm I'm
- 36:11Speaker 1: doing this thing with Brandon, And that was really where
- 36:14Speaker 1: my mind was, um. And so I was a little
- 36:17Speaker 1: bit shocked whenever Julia had mentioned, um that there's conversations
- 36:21Speaker 1: going down between the two of them. But again, in
- 36:24Speaker 1: the height of the moment, I think Brandon had just
- 36:27Speaker 1: told me, Hey, we're gonna do this, and I believed
- 36:29Speaker 1: him and I trusted him and was like, Okay, it's
- 36:31Speaker 1: just it's me and you and we're just we're going
- 36:33Speaker 1: to do this thing. Um. And so in my mind
- 36:36Speaker 1: that was set and solid, and it was like everything
- 36:39Speaker 1: else is off the table and it's just me and
- 36:41Speaker 1: you got you. So then later in the episode, Julia
- 36:46Speaker 1: becomes such a drama queen and it's seemingly so jealous
- 36:49Speaker 1: of you. She keeps calling you out on not having
- 36:53Speaker 1: genuine feelings towards Brandon, saying that you were moving too
- 36:56Speaker 1: fast for somebody who normally says that they don't move
- 37:00Speaker 1: fast in a relationship. And she was like, I don't
- 37:03Speaker 1: have any failings or Brandon anymore. This is just an
- 37:06Speaker 1: issue that I'm having with you. What was going on?
- 37:10Speaker 1: It's a girl, don't lie to yourself. You keep going
- 37:13Speaker 1: back and forth. She's like, I'm still thinking about Brandon.
- 37:15Speaker 1: I have absolutely no feelings about Brandon. I still was
- 37:19Speaker 1: feeling like this is not right with Sheridan, and I
- 37:21Speaker 1: keep thinking about Brandon. And then it was like I
- 37:25Speaker 1: got nothing just issues with you, Savannah, right right. So
- 37:30Speaker 1: my my response to that is like, hey, if you
- 37:32Speaker 1: really don't have feelings for him, then this is this
- 37:35Speaker 1: conversation doesn't need to be happening. So it's kind of
- 37:38Speaker 1: reading between the lines of that of like, Okay, well,
- 37:40Speaker 1: I can tell that you're upset I can tell that
- 37:43Speaker 1: there are obviously feelings there. So I think in those conversations,
- 37:49Speaker 1: I'm like, what are we trying to get at because again,
- 37:51Speaker 1: like I've been trying to do my thing and I'm
- 37:52Speaker 1: staying out of all of your drama and all everything
- 37:55Speaker 1: that's going on there, and so um that it was
- 37:59Speaker 1: just it was frustrating to think that, Okay, you're handling
- 38:03Speaker 1: your relationship with Sheridan, and then you're feelings with Brandon.
- 38:06Speaker 1: You're telling me you don't have feelings for him and
- 38:07Speaker 1: almost speaking down about him, and that you know, at
- 38:12Speaker 1: the end of the day, I'm just like, whatever you
- 38:13Speaker 1: guys have dealt with, you're going to deal with it.
- 38:15Speaker 1: That's fine. But if somebody tells me that, hey, I'm
- 38:18Speaker 1: choosing you, I'm gonna take you at your word unless
- 38:20Speaker 1: you give me a reason to not trust you. Um
- 38:23Speaker 1: And at that point, when he had told me like, hey,
- 38:25Speaker 1: it's me and you, I forgot about the conversation with Juliet.
- 38:28Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, that's done, that's settled, you've handled that.
- 38:31Speaker 1: We're moving forward from here. So then she was also like,
- 38:35Speaker 1: you're being disingenuous. But then she goes on that stage
- 38:38Speaker 1: at the end of the episode performs amazingly. It was
- 38:41Speaker 1: Sheridan apparently is like the best actress ever. Um so
- 38:46Speaker 1: who's being disingenuous? Now? I think, honestly, this is what
- 38:52Speaker 1: I believe. I really believe she was being authentically herself
- 38:57Speaker 1: in that conversation, because is I really think that she
- 39:02Speaker 1: couldn't figure it out. I mean, if you think about it,
- 39:05Speaker 1: it's like she put herself in this situation where she's like,
- 39:09Speaker 1: she goes on this amazing date with Sheridan, right, and
- 39:11Speaker 1: then immediately comes back when we see that when she
- 39:13Speaker 1: finds out the brand and I went on the date,
- 39:15Speaker 1: She's distraught and then leaves the room because she's so upset.
- 39:19Speaker 1: And so I think that Julia was just always in
- 39:21Speaker 1: this situation where she's being pulled into directions and I
- 39:26Speaker 1: don't know what was going on in her head, But
- 39:28Speaker 1: whenever we had that conversation, I think she actually was
- 39:31Speaker 1: like trying to figure out her stance here and maybe
- 39:35Speaker 1: trying to look for a problem with me to call
- 39:37Speaker 1: me out so that that clears up her feelings for Brandon.
- 39:39Speaker 1: I don't know where I fit into all of that,
- 39:42Speaker 1: but I think attacking my character was a little low um,
- 39:46Speaker 1: especially since, like I said, I'm like, I've only been
- 39:50Speaker 1: nice to you, Like I thought that we were friends.
- 39:52Speaker 1: I thought that we were good. So all of this
- 39:54Speaker 1: coming out and all this animosity and you're questioning me,
- 39:56Speaker 1: and it was just so dramatic. It was so incredibly dramatic,
- 40:00Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, so do we have do we
- 40:03Speaker 1: have a resolve to this conversation? It was none. It
- 40:06Speaker 1: was more so just calling me out, to call me out,
- 40:07Speaker 1: to make me feel bad. I'm like, well, I'm not.
- 40:10Speaker 1: I don't because I know who I am and I
- 40:13Speaker 1: know what I'm here to do, and I know what
- 40:14Speaker 1: my relationship looks like. I don't know why that should
- 40:16Speaker 1: affect you. That's that's my my question coming out of
- 40:21Speaker 1: this is you know, Savannah, what do you think? And
- 40:25Speaker 1: this isn't like a we didn't bring you on to
- 40:27Speaker 1: talk about Julia, but there is a larger thing at
- 40:31Speaker 1: play here where your storyline with Julia affects so much
- 40:35Speaker 1: of this episode. What was her ideal outcome from having
- 40:39Speaker 1: that conversation with you? Like, right now, as we're fans
- 40:42Speaker 1: of the show, I'm confused on what Julia really wants.
- 40:45Speaker 1: Does she want Sheridan. Is she interested in pursuing that?
- 40:48Speaker 1: Is that really something real that She's like, I'm I'm
- 40:51Speaker 1: excited about Is it too? Have you leave? Like? Is
- 40:56Speaker 1: is her outcome to say, hey, Savannah, please walk out
- 40:58Speaker 1: that door because I just want this to be my territory?
- 41:02Speaker 1: Is it? Like? What what is she saying to you? Ben?
- 41:06Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know, and I think I'm with
- 41:08Speaker 1: you and wondering the same thing. And that's when I
- 41:10Speaker 1: sat down she started the conversation with I was going
- 41:12Speaker 1: to leave because of you. You would think that there
- 41:15Speaker 1: if it got if it was that intense and that
- 41:18Speaker 1: serious of an issue with me, that we would have
- 41:21Speaker 1: had a conversation. I would have had an inkling towards
- 41:23Speaker 1: there being a problem, And so that blindsided me. And
- 41:27Speaker 1: so I don't. I really don't know. And that's what
- 41:29Speaker 1: I asked her. I'm like, Okay, so what are we
- 41:31Speaker 1: trying to get at? Because typically if you have an issue,
- 41:34Speaker 1: you come to a person either saying, hey, you're behaving
- 41:36Speaker 1: in this way and I think it's hurting you. So
- 41:38Speaker 1: as a friend, maybe we go this direction, or there's
- 41:42Speaker 1: some sort of a resolve um to come at the
- 41:44Speaker 1: end of it, and so to me, I'm like, Okay,
- 41:47Speaker 1: we're bringing up your opinion of me that you're blatantly
- 41:50Speaker 1: telling me you think very poorly of me, But anything
- 41:53Speaker 1: I have to say in response to it, you have
- 41:56Speaker 1: no rebuttal to, and then just keep saying that I'm disingenuous.
- 42:00Speaker 1: So I think there's the issue of her and Sheridan,
- 42:03Speaker 1: then there's the issue of her and Brandon, and then
- 42:05Speaker 1: suddenly one with me. And at the end of the day,
- 42:08Speaker 1: I think if even if I would have walked out
- 42:10Speaker 1: the door, I don't know if that would have made
- 42:14Speaker 1: her decision any easier, any different. Um. But again, it's
- 42:19Speaker 1: not like I was trying to be this mean girl
- 42:21Speaker 1: walking in and all of our relationship, it was just like, Hey,
- 42:24Speaker 1: this is my journey, this is what I'm here to do,
- 42:26Speaker 1: and I have a connection with Brandon. I'm here to
- 42:28Speaker 1: find love. I'm here to partner with somebody in music
- 42:30Speaker 1: and love, and this is my person and thus far,
- 42:33Speaker 1: he's chosen me every single time publicly that we've seen.
- 42:36Speaker 1: So I'm just like, I can't help you. You and
- 42:41Speaker 1: Brandon seemed to actually have pretty good chemistry in the house.
- 42:44Speaker 1: Why do you feel like the judges didn't think it
- 42:46Speaker 1: translated to the stage. I think because first of all,
- 42:50Speaker 1: the song that we were given was very upbeat. So
- 42:53Speaker 1: if you look at all the other performances, there was
- 42:56Speaker 1: a lot of these like UM, very like slow, sultry
- 43:00Speaker 1: and very romantic songs. Then you look at our song
- 43:03Speaker 1: and it was more upbeat, it was more rocky, it
- 43:06Speaker 1: was more fun UM. And so something that Brandon and
- 43:09Speaker 1: I talked about going into the performance was, hey, um,
- 43:13Speaker 1: this one actually kind of captures the mood behind our
- 43:16Speaker 1: relationship better than anything, because we are fun loving, we're
- 43:19Speaker 1: outgoing or very like loud people, UM, and we just
- 43:24Speaker 1: like to have a good time, and so that actually
- 43:25Speaker 1: embodies our relationship really well. So going on to that stage,
- 43:29Speaker 1: we knew, hey, we have to do a really good
- 43:31Speaker 1: job above and beyond to be connected on that stage.
- 43:35Speaker 1: But it's also really important to us to engage the
- 43:38Speaker 1: crowd and to engage UM listeners to as performers. So
- 43:43Speaker 1: he and I had to get on the same page
- 43:44Speaker 1: before even going up on that stage and knowing that, hey,
- 43:47Speaker 1: we've been given a challenging song, so let's connect the
- 43:50Speaker 1: best that we can, but also show off the personality
- 43:53Speaker 1: UM of our relationship and that was just like fun. UM.
- 43:58Speaker 1: So I know that came back in the responses from
- 44:00Speaker 1: the judges of hey, how do you feel about each other?
- 44:03Speaker 1: How this and that until we are able to verbalize that.
- 44:06Speaker 1: But I think that our performance really did capture who
- 44:09Speaker 1: we were at that time, Like, as a couple, who
- 44:12Speaker 1: chooses the songs? We were given the songs? So do
- 44:16Speaker 1: you think that possibly certain songs are given to certain
- 44:20Speaker 1: couples and certain songs are given to other couples to
- 44:25Speaker 1: either propel you forward or make you fail. I think
- 44:29Speaker 1: that all the songs given we're just unique. I think
- 44:32Speaker 1: all of them are love songs, but they each had
- 44:34Speaker 1: unique twist to them, and so part of that challenge. UM.
- 44:37Speaker 1: Even going onto the show, it's like we know, we
- 44:39Speaker 1: know that we're going to be challenged in a lot
- 44:40Speaker 1: of ways, and one of those is the communication, um
- 44:43Speaker 1: with your partner and then figuring out how to knowing
- 44:47Speaker 1: that the judges are judging based on your connectivity and
- 44:50Speaker 1: based on your love. UM. I think any of the
- 44:53Speaker 1: songs had their own set of challenges, are just looked
- 44:56Speaker 1: a little bit differently. UM. And actually what the judges
- 44:59Speaker 1: said was something we said beforehand of Hey, they might
- 45:02Speaker 1: say this, but we have to be okay with knowing
- 45:04Speaker 1: that we put it all out there. Well, thank you
- 45:06Speaker 1: so much for coming on, Savannah. This is actually gave
- 45:09Speaker 1: so much clarity to our recap. I have one more question, Ben,
- 45:12Speaker 1: you have anything, Yeah, definitely, so Savannah, Um, how important
- 45:18Speaker 1: is it to have a connection musically, Uh, in a
- 45:21Speaker 1: romantic relationship? Oh my gosh. There musicians everything. It's I mean,
- 45:26Speaker 1: it's everything. I think if you're not a musician, it's
- 45:29Speaker 1: hard to understand. But there there is something that happens
- 45:32Speaker 1: whenever you really connect over your music, whether that is
- 45:36Speaker 1: like the same kind of music you like listening to.
- 45:39Speaker 1: But then it's so amplified whenever you're on stage and
- 45:42Speaker 1: you have to perform with someone, because it's like all
- 45:44Speaker 1: of your communication, all of your emotions, all your feelings,
- 45:47Speaker 1: everything you abdore about that person is amplified when they
- 45:50Speaker 1: open their mouth and they sound wonderful and you see
- 45:52Speaker 1: them move and operate in their element, and when you
- 45:56Speaker 1: are kind of in that same environment and you love
- 45:59Speaker 1: it so much, it's like you look at each other
- 46:01Speaker 1: and you're like, we're really doing this and I love that.
- 46:03Speaker 1: I'm doing it with you, and so it's huge. Give
- 46:06Speaker 1: us My final question for you before I actually finished
- 46:08Speaker 1: you up here, is um, what was it like being
- 46:13Speaker 1: in this experience? This is the first time ever for
- 46:15Speaker 1: this show. You're just explaining how important it is to
- 46:18Speaker 1: have that connection not only musically but also romantically m
- 46:23Speaker 1: in my life. Maybe because I'm not a musician, I've
- 46:27Speaker 1: never been given the opportunity to connect musically with somebody else.
- 46:33Speaker 1: That's what this whole show is. What was it like?
- 46:37Speaker 1: I mean, it was amazing, it really was. I think
- 46:40Speaker 1: that Listen to your Heart was really, um, such a
- 46:43Speaker 1: genius idea and that's why I committed to going onto
- 46:46Speaker 1: it because it's it's fifty percent music and it's fifty
- 46:49Speaker 1: percent love and UM, I think it's just electric whenever
- 46:53Speaker 1: you can walk into a room. I mean, we walked
- 46:55Speaker 1: into this mansion, right and we don't know anybody, and
- 46:58Speaker 1: having watched other Bachelor's show os and knowing how it
- 47:01Speaker 1: all goes down, it's mostly just relationship relationship. UM, and
- 47:06Speaker 1: this one was so cool because you're meeting all of
- 47:08Speaker 1: these amazing musicians, but then you're attracted to them, and
- 47:11Speaker 1: then you know that you have the opportunity to go
- 47:13Speaker 1: deeper with them through music. UM. And so it was amazing,
- 47:16Speaker 1: Like it was passionate. It was amazing, It was electric.
- 47:20Speaker 1: And I think everything that went on in that house
- 47:25Speaker 1: was genuine, Like everything that we see and everything we experienced,
- 47:28Speaker 1: like really happened. Um, all the years, all the laughter,
- 47:32Speaker 1: I mean everything, UM, and the fact that we all
- 47:36Speaker 1: just are passionate about music and passionate about each other
- 47:39Speaker 1: in relationships, it just amplifies it all. Thank you. And
- 47:43Speaker 1: the scenes from the next episode we see, uh, Julia
- 47:49Speaker 1: and Brandon together looks like they could be rekindling something.
- 47:54Speaker 1: Can you tease anything good? I'm just gonna have to
- 47:58Speaker 1: watch watch episode and forward to find out because there's
- 48:01Speaker 1: a lot. There's a lot, but you'll definitely have to watch. Okay, fine,
- 48:04Speaker 1: follow up question, would you ever see anything with Sheridan
- 48:08Speaker 1: if you guys did swap partners? Oh my gosh, listen
- 48:12Speaker 1: to your heart meet's wife swap. Can you imagine? Oh
- 48:15Speaker 1: my gosh, Sheridan and I are so I love him.
- 48:18Speaker 1: He and I are very close. UM, but I don't
- 48:22Speaker 1: I don't know. See, I was talking to someone the
- 48:25Speaker 1: other day about this, Um, Sheridan and I actually spent
- 48:28Speaker 1: so much time while we were filming because of everything
- 48:31Speaker 1: that now we know is going down with like Brandon
- 48:34Speaker 1: and Julia. But there was more times than not than
- 48:36Speaker 1: we would that we would find each other just sitting
- 48:38Speaker 1: there and he'd be strumming his guitar and I would
- 48:41Speaker 1: just be sitting there like, well, do you want to
- 48:43Speaker 1: sing a song? And so he and I actually bonded
- 48:46Speaker 1: so much, and I adore him. He's so talented, so
- 48:49Speaker 1: wonderful um and such an amazing guy. So never saying
- 48:53Speaker 1: another Sheridan, I just love him. He seems so sweet
- 48:56Speaker 1: from the show. He's definitely one of my favorite characters characters.
- 48:59Speaker 1: You all right, thank you so much, Savannah gret getting
- 49:04Speaker 1: to know you more. Yes, you as well, thank you
- 49:06Speaker 1: for having me. I appreciate it. Guys. Alright, Ben Tory,
- 49:20Speaker 1: let's get to the other topics of the episode besides
- 49:23Speaker 1: Savannah and Brandon and Julia, which did dominate the episode,
- 49:27Speaker 1: but we also need to talk about the fact that
- 49:31Speaker 1: the first day card went Tobecca and Danny and they
- 49:33Speaker 1: had absolutely no chemistry at all, and of course we're
- 49:36Speaker 1: eliminated at the end of the episode none. Poor guy
- 49:42Speaker 1: when she pushed away his face at the end. It
- 49:48Speaker 1: was it was just hard to watch, Tori, What did
- 49:50Speaker 1: you think? Well, you think that I don't know. People
- 49:54Speaker 1: are questioning like are they here for the right reasons?
- 49:56Speaker 1: But it really shows you you can't think your feelings.
- 49:58Speaker 1: So I'm kind of like a spect her for being
- 50:01Speaker 1: like I could act like I'm gonna kiss you and
- 50:03Speaker 1: really like you right now to stay, or I'm gonna
- 50:07Speaker 1: be kind of honest and know that I'm just not
- 50:09Speaker 1: that into you, and it's probably translated through the performance
- 50:12Speaker 1: and it is what it is. Yeah, right, And I
- 50:15Speaker 1: think it was obvious because those two hadn't been getting
- 50:17Speaker 1: no airtime. I was like, yeah, we're going to eliminate
- 50:20Speaker 1: them real quick. He's so cute though, who what you
- 50:23Speaker 1: think they're cute? He's so cute. Yeah, he's very very cute,
- 50:28Speaker 1: very sweet. Yeah. That's how I like to be explained.
- 50:33Speaker 1: When the girl goes, Ben, you're so cute, and the
- 50:36Speaker 1: girl next year goes, I mean he's He's like, yeah,
- 50:39Speaker 1: he's sweet. Okay, alright. Moving on day card number two
- 50:45Speaker 1: with Ryan and Natasha. I all you guys know, I
- 50:48Speaker 1: love Ryan, but I don't really feel any chemistry of
- 50:51Speaker 1: theirs until they're on stage. So I thought their date
- 50:56Speaker 1: was just like spark free. Don't get them, don't feel
- 51:00Speaker 1: any sort of like mental connection. But when they did
- 51:04Speaker 1: hit the stage, they're able to like sex it up.
- 51:07Speaker 1: You agree, Yeah, that performance was like captivating. Yeah, that
- 51:12Speaker 1: was a good performance to really talented people there. And
- 51:15Speaker 1: I agree with what the judges said that she just
- 51:19Speaker 1: blew him out of the water. But the thing was,
- 51:22Speaker 1: I think I think that he wasn't able to belt
- 51:26Speaker 1: he he wasn't really able to show all these got there, right?
- 51:30Speaker 1: Do you if you could predict this, who do you
- 51:33Speaker 1: think is more and like the other person? Like, who
- 51:36Speaker 1: do you think likes each other more? I think he's
- 51:39Speaker 1: more into her, she's more into him. I think that
- 51:41Speaker 1: he's like, Wow, I've never gotten a girl like this
- 51:45Speaker 1: Vava Boom before. And then I think she's like, he's
- 51:48Speaker 1: one of the most talented guys in the house and
- 51:50Speaker 1: I'm glad to be paired with him. Oh, so you
- 51:53Speaker 1: think it's equal. I think it might be in a
- 51:54Speaker 1: way equal. I don't think either of them from watching it,
- 51:57Speaker 1: I really don't think either of them would claim I'm
- 51:59Speaker 1: just putting word to their mouth. But I don't think
- 52:01Speaker 1: either of them would claim that they're going to have
- 52:03Speaker 1: like a marriage or romantic relationship after this. I think
- 52:06Speaker 1: they're like, this makes sense. We're into each other, we're
- 52:09Speaker 1: good partners, we like our time together. We're both pretty talented.
- 52:13Speaker 1: You're hot, I'm hot. Let's just make this thing happen. Agree. Agree?
- 52:18Speaker 1: Any other standout performances in your opinions? Because I got one, Uh,
- 52:24Speaker 1: Jamie and Trevor. Jamie and Trevor. That was cute, very cute.
- 52:28Speaker 1: I also don't think they're powerhouses vocally, but she said
- 52:34Speaker 1: that she's falling in love with him when she starts
- 52:36Speaker 1: seeing him on stage. She's like, I think I love
- 52:39Speaker 1: him when I see him performing on stage. Ben, I
- 52:42Speaker 1: feel like you think he's a player. I mean, I
- 52:46Speaker 1: just know I can't say that. As much as there,
- 52:50Speaker 1: it is weird to me that we skimmed over this
- 52:52Speaker 1: whole like emotional cheating things so quickly, Like I don't
- 52:56Speaker 1: know how that ended. I'm still confused on where we
- 52:58Speaker 1: we got there. And even if he was a player, musically,
- 53:04Speaker 1: I think they did well. I mean, he has that
- 53:06Speaker 1: thing on stage. I will say this Trevor, out of anybody,
- 53:10Speaker 1: had the most swagger on stage. He felt like he
- 53:13Speaker 1: had the most confidence. There was a moment where he
- 53:16Speaker 1: was singing and he like delivered a line and like
- 53:20Speaker 1: the perfect timing with a little smile, and it's like,
- 53:22Speaker 1: I get it now. I had never got it until now.
- 53:26Speaker 1: Player not he has something with him on stage. It
- 53:29Speaker 1: makes him work. I'm gonna say, I think it's Chris
- 53:31Speaker 1: and Bree. Is it that that I really think just
- 53:34Speaker 1: destroyed things. Chris is so good, he's so talented, so
- 53:39Speaker 1: much better than what they did on that date. I
- 53:41Speaker 1: thought after their date together, I was like, oh, this
- 53:43Speaker 1: is gonna be rough on stage and not at all,
- 53:45Speaker 1: so much better. I agree with what the what the
- 53:48Speaker 1: judges said, though it seemed like she didn't know how
- 53:51Speaker 1: to play to him and play to the audience at
- 53:54Speaker 1: the same time. Fair I mean, yeah, and I'm sure
- 53:58Speaker 1: that comes with Pratt This right, Tori, for sure? I
- 54:03Speaker 1: think that it's also I'm giggling just because I think
- 54:07Speaker 1: he's so much better than her. Okay, That's what I
- 54:10Speaker 1: was basically saying to So it's like it's hard to
- 54:15Speaker 1: watch it because you're almost like it's like, you know,
- 54:20Speaker 1: I just want him to be with an equal as
- 54:22Speaker 1: far as skill goes. She's very talented. It's just like
- 54:27Speaker 1: he's so amazing, He's so good. I was exactly on Bridges. Yeah.
- 54:33Speaker 1: I also have a soft spot for Matt and Ruby
- 54:37Speaker 1: Rudy Rudy. I love Rudy. She's so real, and they
- 54:41Speaker 1: were just cute, had nice chemistry. It just felt easy
- 54:44Speaker 1: breezy for me. You're right, that was a really good performance,
- 54:48Speaker 1: and I loved how Matt took a step back and
- 54:50Speaker 1: really let her just saying, I mean, obviously she's really good,
- 54:53Speaker 1: but you could see he wasn't trying to compete. It
- 54:55Speaker 1: wasn't like a Chris and bree where they weren't trying
- 54:57Speaker 1: to compete, but they just couldn't sync up. Like Matt
- 55:00Speaker 1: single handedly just took a step back and was like,
- 55:01Speaker 1: I'm just gonna strom the guitar and you sing girl. Now.
- 55:04Speaker 1: The couple that I was most surprised about their on
- 55:08Speaker 1: stage chemistry was Sheridan and Julia. I thought they killed it. Yes,
- 55:13Speaker 1: they sing a Backshop Boys song. Of course I'm gonna
- 55:16Speaker 1: like the Backshep Boys performance. But they were so amazing
- 55:20Speaker 1: and she really seemed into him, and I'm like, oh,
- 55:24Speaker 1: not only is this girl singer, she also maybe an actress.
- 55:29Speaker 1: That's interesting. I felt very different, really mm hmmm why.
- 55:34Speaker 1: I feel like she was almost trying to prove a
- 55:36Speaker 1: point so much to Savannah that she was like, I'm
- 55:38Speaker 1: just gonna give it my all the starden but like
- 55:41Speaker 1: she doesn't have anything to give. But it still just
- 55:44Speaker 1: like it did. But I didn't think that was like
- 55:46Speaker 1: a standout performance because it just felt very forced to
- 55:49Speaker 1: take me. Okay, all right, any comments about are amazing
- 55:53Speaker 1: judges this week? You know our friends Jojo Fletcher and
- 55:56Speaker 1: Jordan Rodgers and Kesha and Jason Mraz. I'm I mean,
- 56:01Speaker 1: I'm always a Jordan and Jojo fan. I think they're
- 56:04Speaker 1: both great. I love them and I love them as
- 56:06Speaker 1: a couple. They're really good on camera. Uh, they were
- 56:10Speaker 1: very spot on when it comes to analyzing connection. And
- 56:15Speaker 1: Jayson Murraz is one of my favorite artists of all time.
- 56:19Speaker 1: I mean, that guy has serenaded me through good and bad.
- 56:24Speaker 1: So I'm I'm honestly like I was, just I was
- 56:28Speaker 1: a huge fan of having them on there. You know what,
- 56:31Speaker 1: I made it better though? What if the Kesha and
- 56:34Speaker 1: Jason Murraz did a duet to to show them how
- 56:36Speaker 1: it's done. Hey, Ben, is it kind of weird that
- 56:42Speaker 1: Jojo and Lauren we're in the same episode. Yeah, I
- 56:46Speaker 1: was watching. I was like, oh man, this is this,
- 56:49Speaker 1: this is a power play for me. I'm watching them
- 56:52Speaker 1: like gosh thing and like not only am I like
- 56:54Speaker 1: not fully sold out on the show yet, but I
- 56:56Speaker 1: gotta watch it and see this like what a day?
- 57:00Speaker 1: Um No, it's fine. I mean, I uh, what are
- 57:04Speaker 1: you gonna do? It's it's where where This is part
- 57:07Speaker 1: of living in this world, right, Sometimes you just gotta
- 57:10Speaker 1: get back into it and see see them all over again.
- 57:13Speaker 1: You guys have all found your partner in life though,
- 57:16Speaker 1: so right for everyone, we're all doing good. But yes,
- 57:20Speaker 1: that's a that was a that was ironic. I cannot
- 57:23Speaker 1: believe that that's the way that played out. But it's
- 57:26Speaker 1: pretty funny. But you know what I was actually shocked
- 57:28Speaker 1: is like the Chris and Lauren thing, Like you didn't
- 57:30Speaker 1: see very much of it. I'm surprised that it was
- 57:33Speaker 1: so quickly, so quickly came and gone, like I thought
- 57:37Speaker 1: they would be around a little bit longer. And I
- 57:38Speaker 1: mean they should have like made sense for him too. Yeah,
- 57:42Speaker 1: you're right, all right to finalize the episode. Uh here
- 57:46Speaker 1: where the performances Matt and Ruby, Ashley, as I say,
- 57:51Speaker 1: these just given an A, B, C, D E or
- 57:54Speaker 1: the chemistry test. See how I added E in there.
- 57:57Speaker 1: I don't even mean to, it just happened. Yeah, overall performance,
- 58:01Speaker 1: chemistry and music. Uh, Matt and Ruby A to F.
- 58:05Speaker 1: I think A, Hey, Brian, Chris B plus he gets
- 58:10Speaker 1: an A. Becca and Danny, d WO Savannah and Brandon,
- 58:19Speaker 1: Savannah and Brandon and get a B. Julia and Sheridan A,
- 58:26Speaker 1: Natasha and Ryan, Jamie and Trevor. I'll go with an
- 58:33Speaker 1: A minus there. Well, Uh, Ashley, obviously you've seen the episode,
- 58:38Speaker 1: so this is easy for you. But Becca and Danny
- 58:40Speaker 1: were sent home at the end of the episode, leaving
- 58:43Speaker 1: the couples that were mentioned before outside of Beck and
- 58:46Speaker 1: Danny still at the house for next week. And next
- 58:49Speaker 1: week I mean, I guess, according to Savannah, is gonna
- 58:52Speaker 1: be a doozy. Well, hey, we've got a couple of
- 58:55Speaker 1: emails from people asking about this, and so I guess
- 58:59Speaker 1: there's no better time than now. Uh. Danielle wrote us
- 59:04Speaker 1: in with an email that says Ben bitches. During quarantine,
- 59:07Speaker 1: I was wondering in your episodes if we could get
- 59:09Speaker 1: some special quarantine edition of Ben Bitches, I think would
- 59:13Speaker 1: light in the road a separation right now. Thank you
- 59:15Speaker 1: all for variety, for providing some relief in this time.
- 59:18Speaker 1: I do have one. Now it's gonna be twisted a
- 59:20Speaker 1: little bit and moved around. It's not gonna be as
- 59:25Speaker 1: angry as the others because I'm'm in a very peaceful
- 59:27Speaker 1: state right now. I've done a lot of prayer, meditation,
- 59:31Speaker 1: counseling and quiet time during this time of my isolation.
- 59:35Speaker 1: Here's my problem, COVID nineteen. You have ruined something for me.
- 59:40Speaker 1: You have made me flustered, frustrating, and feeling more alone
- 59:45Speaker 1: than I ever had before. I spent most of my
- 59:48Speaker 1: life and knowing that a connection with others meant not
- 59:50Speaker 1: only emotional, spiritual, but also physical and COVID nineteen, you
- 59:55Speaker 1: have taken the physical away from my life, and I
- 59:58Speaker 1: don't like it. In fact, I'm mad, I'm angry, and
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: I'm bitching. I want to hug somebody, I want to
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: squeeze somebody. I want to look somebody out in the
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: eyes and tell them how much they matter to me.
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: And I want to get as close as humanly possible
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: without getting too awkward to them. I want to see
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: where their soul lies, and I believe it's in their heart.
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: I want to squeeze them tight and hold them until
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: they try to get away. I want to tell my
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: family I love them. I want to see my grandma,
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: give her a hug. You have lots of people you
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: can let that out on, though, like you can squeeze
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: your family and Jesse's family too, your ribs. But Ashley,
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: what about the grandparents? Yeah? I know that's really sad.
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: My Grandma's gonna be nineties seven in June, and it's like,
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: when do I get to see her? I feel so bad.
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: So here's my point to it all. I miss those
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: who are loved and at a distance right now. We
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: I know, as a people group, take it took for
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: granted for too long, how much we love those who
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: we haven't seen in a while. I'm bitching a day
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: at COVID Night Team because you've taken some physical intimacy
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: away from me and I don't like it. Well, Ashley,
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: that's all I got with that. I've been, Ben, I've been, Ashley.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: I agreed, Ben, I would I would like a Ben
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: hug almost breaking my bones, Ben Hug Ashley, and I'll
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: be hugging you deep. Okay, bye. Follow the Benn and
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