Latest / The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast / Adding to the Kiss List
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
- 0:03Speaker 1: with her radio. Hey guys, and welcome to the Almost
- 0:07Speaker 1: Famous Podcast. It's Ashley and then there's that guy. Hey,
- 0:13Speaker 1: I'm here. Hey Hey. So first we're gonna run down
- 0:16Speaker 1: some bachelor headlines. Then we have got some interviews with
- 0:20Speaker 1: one Pablo's girls, and Heather Martin, who is a she's
- 0:24Speaker 1: got a hot guy in a music video. We gotta
- 0:27Speaker 1: ask whether she has kissed this hot guy, and she's
- 0:30Speaker 1: she's added one to you know, what do you call it?
- 0:35Speaker 1: Not the mini she's had it added one to, not
- 0:38Speaker 1: the many of who she's kissed, the list or what
- 0:41Speaker 1: they call it, the bed the bedpost notch, but like
- 0:44Speaker 1: in in Heather, in my world, it's the kiss notch
- 0:47Speaker 1: because like I one time, you know, I had a
- 0:49Speaker 1: kiss list. At one point, you would have a kiss list.
- 0:54Speaker 1: You would definitely have a kiss list. Actually that's what
- 0:56Speaker 1: I was really proud of it. I was like, all
- 0:58Speaker 1: these guys are hot, Ashley, You're one of a kind
- 1:04Speaker 1: and I love you for it. Um head. There's also
- 1:07Speaker 1: on a trip right now with Hannah Brown, so maybe
- 1:09Speaker 1: we can get some details about what they're doing, why
- 1:11Speaker 1: they're together, and what it is that they're experiencing on
- 1:14Speaker 1: this Girl's retreat, Ashley. Before we bring on all our
- 1:19Speaker 1: our guests, we do have to break down this week's
- 1:21Speaker 1: good episode and also the Bachelor headlines, because there is many,
- 1:25Speaker 1: So let's just dive in. The very first topic is
- 1:28Speaker 1: one that we've been hinting at, you know, wondering about.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Bachelor Nation has been up in arms about and wondering
- 1:36Speaker 1: what is going on. It's Becca Koufferin and Garrett have
- 1:39Speaker 1: officially now announced that they ended their engagement. Uh. We
- 1:43Speaker 1: do think that all signs were pointing to this, however,
- 1:45Speaker 1: we just hadn't gotten clarity. But now we can confirm
- 1:48Speaker 1: that this has happened. So I want to read the
- 1:50Speaker 1: quote that Becca put out there. She said, after many conversations,
- 1:54Speaker 1: we came to this decision. It wasn't something that just
- 1:56Speaker 1: arrived one night. It wasn't based solely off one instag,
- 2:00Speaker 1: gramdpost or somebody else's opinions or comments. There's much more
- 2:04Speaker 1: to it. To any relationship, There's lots of layers and
- 2:07Speaker 1: it's not for me to divulge the details. It's no
- 2:09Speaker 1: one's business other than what I am telling you right now. Um.
- 2:14Speaker 1: But that being said, we have to analyze it a
- 2:16Speaker 1: little bit. Right. So I haven't seen Becca since February,
- 2:20Speaker 1: but you are way closer to her. You were on
- 2:22Speaker 1: the road with her for almost a month. Do you
- 2:26Speaker 1: mind me asking you, Ben, if you think that they
- 2:29Speaker 1: would still be together if it weren't for what went
- 2:31Speaker 1: down in June. It's so hard and I have to
- 2:36Speaker 1: take her words for it, right, like, I can't assume
- 2:40Speaker 1: in anything more than that. Uh, it was a lot
- 2:44Speaker 1: leading up to it, and I think in relationships you
- 2:46Speaker 1: can always point to there's gonna be conflict, and there's
- 2:49Speaker 1: gonna be things that your partner does that you don't
- 2:51Speaker 1: agree with. Um. If it is a healthy relationship, then
- 2:56Speaker 1: you make those things work, You work through them, you
- 2:59Speaker 1: talk about you come to compromise on him. If it
- 3:02Speaker 1: was coming from a foundation that maybe wasn't the healthiest,
- 3:04Speaker 1: then I could see where there would be some final
- 3:07Speaker 1: straws that would break and you would say this isn't
- 3:10Speaker 1: gonna work. I you know, I can speak to a
- 3:14Speaker 1: little bit more of this now because I didn't want
- 3:16Speaker 1: to assume too much before. But I did get to
- 3:21Speaker 1: spend a lot of time with Becca. She is a
- 3:23Speaker 1: terrific human and I feel very similar to Becca that
- 3:28Speaker 1: I feel about you, like I get I've told you this.
- 3:30Speaker 1: I'm lucky enough to be able to host and co
- 3:34Speaker 1: host things with some people who I am I'm just
- 3:37Speaker 1: really fond of and who I care about a lot.
- 3:40Speaker 1: I didn't, though, within our time together, get to speak
- 3:43Speaker 1: a lot to where her and Garrett were at, because
- 3:46Speaker 1: they were together on the bus for the most part,
- 3:48Speaker 1: and I saw there really their relationship look good from
- 3:50Speaker 1: the outside. Um, but again, this is where I can
- 3:54Speaker 1: speak to it. It's it's always, uh, you always want
- 3:58Speaker 1: to put up a good face when you're around people,
- 4:01Speaker 1: and I then know how hard it is to go
- 4:03Speaker 1: through a public breakup, especially in this bachelor world, and
- 4:09Speaker 1: there there's no easy or right way to break up
- 4:13Speaker 1: within it because you know that it's going to be
- 4:15Speaker 1: a story, you know you're gonna have to talk about it,
- 4:17Speaker 1: you know that there's going to be assumptions made, and
- 4:20Speaker 1: so it's it's more I think when Ashley and I've
- 4:23Speaker 1: been able to talk about it, we're just coming out
- 4:24Speaker 1: at this and like it sucks, like this sucks and
- 4:27Speaker 1: it's not fun, and we we It sounds cliche, but like,
- 4:32Speaker 1: we just hope the best for them moving forward, and
- 4:35Speaker 1: that they can separate and separate cordially and both pursue
- 4:41Speaker 1: whatever it is now that's next in their lives, uh,
- 4:44Speaker 1: and move on from this relationship that they obviously didn't
- 4:47Speaker 1: see being forever. Yeah, so maybe, I mean I don't
- 4:51Speaker 1: want to make assumptions either, but maybe if it weren't
- 4:54Speaker 1: for the post in June and how he dealt with it,
- 4:58Speaker 1: that maybe their relationship would have gone longer, but it
- 5:02Speaker 1: didn't have the forever to it because maybe that there
- 5:07Speaker 1: were issues that they just could never see eye to
- 5:09Speaker 1: eye on and they were too important to not And
- 5:13Speaker 1: then maybe they had different ways of like talking out issues.
- 5:20Speaker 1: It's just it is kind of it's um um for me.
- 5:27Speaker 1: It just seemed like they had a great relationship until then.
- 5:30Speaker 1: But again I was watching from afar well and you
- 5:36Speaker 1: have to see you know, I think we all have
- 5:38Speaker 1: to see this and we have the benefit and also
- 5:41Speaker 1: for them sometimes in demise of they both you know,
- 5:44Speaker 1: especially Becca lives a very public life and we've we've
- 5:48Speaker 1: gotten listened to her podcast with Rachel. She was was
- 5:52Speaker 1: really experiencing a lot of learning and growth throughout the
- 5:56Speaker 1: last few months, as many of us have. And I
- 6:00Speaker 1: think when it comes to these, like some of these
- 6:03Speaker 1: foundational viewpoints that really determine how you see people and
- 6:08Speaker 1: what you want to stand for, those do come into
- 6:11Speaker 1: conflict if you don't agree, like they do become major
- 6:14Speaker 1: issues in relationships if you can't see eye to eye
- 6:17Speaker 1: and who knows you know. Again, we have to take
- 6:20Speaker 1: Becca's word for it and and say, hey, this wasn't
- 6:23Speaker 1: the final deal, but I think that we can all
- 6:27Speaker 1: understand that, like it was a part of it, and
- 6:30Speaker 1: now they're moving on. In fact, the next headline in
- 6:34Speaker 1: this is that Becca has completely moved on now and
- 6:37Speaker 1: she's moved to Los Angeles. She announced, uh, just a
- 6:42Speaker 1: little while back that she has moved fully to Los
- 6:45Speaker 1: Angeles and she's starting life there. Yeah. I was thinking
- 6:48Speaker 1: that she wasn't going to continue to live in Carl's Bad, California,
- 6:51Speaker 1: which is about an hour and a half two hours
- 6:54Speaker 1: south of l A. Without Garrett. I feel like Garrett
- 6:58Speaker 1: probably was the kind of guy who didn't want to
- 6:59Speaker 1: live in a major city. And now that Becca single,
- 7:02Speaker 1: she's like, I'm gonna go live around people that I know.
- 7:05Speaker 1: She said that she signed a lease without even seeing
- 7:08Speaker 1: the apartment, making a giant step. And uh, we should
- 7:12Speaker 1: also mention that the dog is staying with her. Of course,
- 7:17Speaker 1: I was not shocked because I no, I knew that
- 7:22Speaker 1: Minno and Becca had a really special relationship. I mean,
- 7:25Speaker 1: if you it's similar to you, actually, if you talked
- 7:28Speaker 1: to Becca about her life. Uh, Minno is within the
- 7:32Speaker 1: first couple of words, the dog is a big deal.
- 7:35Speaker 1: So that's not a shock to me. Um, But it
- 7:39Speaker 1: is now confirmed the Beckett her that Minno is staying
- 7:42Speaker 1: with Beck in Los Angeles. From one bachelorette to the next.
- 7:45Speaker 1: Caitlin Bristow says Dancing with the Stars is her last hurrah.
- 7:51Speaker 1: This is a huge topic, Like this is actually a
- 7:53Speaker 1: really big statement by Caitlin because she's referencing that she
- 7:56Speaker 1: wants to start a family, so just Dancing with the
- 7:59Speaker 1: Stars experience is her last hurrah. Now, actually, this is
- 8:03Speaker 1: why I want to get your insight into not only
- 8:05Speaker 1: that statement, but then now she's also referencing that I'm
- 8:09Speaker 1: assuming that Jason is a part of this next step
- 8:13Speaker 1: for her. I know I was like, this was pressure
- 8:15Speaker 1: on Jason. Um. I feel like a proposal is just
- 8:18Speaker 1: around the corner. She's saying that she's already to start
- 8:21Speaker 1: having babies, and uh, this is going to be like
- 8:25Speaker 1: the last big exciting travel experience that she's going to
- 8:31Speaker 1: have before that they like settled down. Uh crazy. But
- 8:36Speaker 1: the greatest thing is that we don't have to suspect
- 8:39Speaker 1: anything because we can just ask. And that's because Jason
- 8:44Speaker 1: is going to be on our in depth podcast we're
- 8:47Speaker 1: recording in next Thursday, so we'll ask him all about
- 8:53Speaker 1: you know, their their future. It's it's exciting. I mean,
- 8:57Speaker 1: this is a just a huge statement that I feel
- 9:00Speaker 1: like kind of got like thrown undernee some of these
- 9:03Speaker 1: other headlines. I was like, wait a second, what I
- 9:06Speaker 1: think She wasn't sure when for a long time. But
- 9:10Speaker 1: we wish her the best. I mean, this is gonna
- 9:11Speaker 1: be an exciting time for her. Obviously, Dance with the
- 9:13Speaker 1: Stars felt like it was always made for Caitlin. It's
- 9:16Speaker 1: not made for everybody. It was made for Caitlin. She's
- 9:19Speaker 1: going to thrive and shine during this And what better
- 9:22Speaker 1: way to kind of say, for black of better word,
- 9:26Speaker 1: goodbye to a lot of the entertainment world, uh other
- 9:31Speaker 1: you know, for her, it stands with the stars, Like
- 9:33Speaker 1: what a cool way to do that. It's her celebration. Um,
- 9:35Speaker 1: but it hasn't always been celebration for Caitlin. In fact,
- 9:39Speaker 1: this week we also have seen Caitlin breakdown. Um, the
- 9:44Speaker 1: trolls got to her. And in fact, the headline reads,
- 9:46Speaker 1: Caitlin Bristo cries after trolls criticized her appearance ahead of
- 9:50Speaker 1: Dance with the Star's debut. She states, and I quote
- 9:53Speaker 1: it got to me. Yeah. So on Saturday, she shared
- 9:58Speaker 1: a picture of herself crying on Instagram. Her eyeliner was
- 10:00Speaker 1: still pretty pretty perfect. Um, and she said I forgot
- 10:04Speaker 1: how mean people are when you go on TV. Just
- 10:07Speaker 1: so many she looks old and plastic comments everywhere you
- 10:12Speaker 1: win today, trolls, you got to me. So she also
- 10:16Speaker 1: she also says that she's p messing and that she's
- 10:20Speaker 1: really tired. Not a great combo. She got really emotional.
- 10:24Speaker 1: But yeah, Charles suck. I mean these people suck. And
- 10:28Speaker 1: for any of you out there who would write such
- 10:31Speaker 1: a thing like could you imagine getting at yourself Like
- 10:33Speaker 1: I can't imagine just going to somebody's Instagram profile typing,
- 10:39Speaker 1: typing those words out so that they could see it.
- 10:44Speaker 1: It's uh, you know, ash what I what I think
- 10:47Speaker 1: of here is the best responses as Caitlin. If this
- 10:50Speaker 1: is her last hurrah, UM, then I hope Dancer the
- 10:56Speaker 1: Stars is a magical success for her and any But
- 11:00Speaker 1: that's criticizing her right now as she preps for it.
- 11:03Speaker 1: Uh is silence due to her success, and I think
- 11:06Speaker 1: that will happen. I've have full confidence in that, UM.
- 11:10Speaker 1: But it's unfortunate and it's not fun to watch. It's
- 11:12Speaker 1: not fun to watch a friend breakdown, especially publicly. You
- 11:16Speaker 1: know that haters hate success, so sometimes sometimes success can
- 11:22Speaker 1: feel more hate. But you just have to remember that. Well,
- 11:25Speaker 1: there is a great statement uh that says that with
- 11:29Speaker 1: your worst enemies, you need to heap coals of kindness
- 11:33Speaker 1: over them. And so I think Caitlin's best way, and
- 11:36Speaker 1: all of our best ways to do this is to say, hey,
- 11:38Speaker 1: I don't like it. It's not fun for me, but
- 11:40Speaker 1: I'm not gonna uh. You know, I'm not gonna go
- 11:43Speaker 1: down to your levels. I'm gonna shine in her place,
- 11:46Speaker 1: and she's gonna shine. We know that, UM. Question for you,
- 11:50Speaker 1: do you think that acknowledging the fact that you're seeing
- 11:53Speaker 1: the hate comments fuels their fire and makes them comment
- 11:59Speaker 1: more because getting satisfaction and attention out of it. Or
- 12:02Speaker 1: do you think the best cases and do you think
- 12:05Speaker 1: the best cases to ignore or do you think it's
- 12:07Speaker 1: more powerful to say, like these are the effects of
- 12:09Speaker 1: your words. That's a good question my my approach. Now,
- 12:14Speaker 1: originally it went to I'm going to ignore. That was
- 12:17Speaker 1: impossible because they come up in places that you can't
- 12:20Speaker 1: ignore them at I I now see that you're gonna
- 12:24Speaker 1: you and we know this on almost from this podcast.
- 12:26Speaker 1: In fact, this is a good point to bring up
- 12:28Speaker 1: our Facebook group, Um you know who you know? We
- 12:32Speaker 1: get messages saying, hey, there's there's hate being spread on them,
- 12:34Speaker 1: and then there's great things, but there's there's hate. Here's
- 12:37Speaker 1: what you I think we got to look for it.
- 12:39Speaker 1: And I'm not an expert in this, but you're gonna
- 12:41Speaker 1: find your select few who are outstanding humans, who have
- 12:47Speaker 1: your your back, who you have their back, who you
- 12:50Speaker 1: become a team together, who you enjoy each other, and
- 12:54Speaker 1: you want to lift those people up. You also want
- 12:57Speaker 1: to show what you also want to show those those
- 12:59Speaker 1: trolls what it's like to respond positively and maturely to
- 13:04Speaker 1: those comments. I think approaching it is is great I
- 13:06Speaker 1: think it's a it's an important thing to do. I
- 13:08Speaker 1: think it's showing them that, hey, you've hurt me. I'm
- 13:10Speaker 1: gonna show you've hurt me, but I'm not gonna stoop
- 13:12Speaker 1: to your level, but I'm gonna show you that there's
- 13:14Speaker 1: pain here. And I believe that when you show that,
- 13:17Speaker 1: the people who actually want to support, who actually care
- 13:21Speaker 1: about your well being, who actually enjoy um, people putting
- 13:27Speaker 1: themselves out there, will get more fuel to their fire
- 13:30Speaker 1: to say I've got your back. And so you're building
- 13:32Speaker 1: that team. And the people that don't want a part
- 13:35Speaker 1: of the good things in life, well, you can't force
- 13:38Speaker 1: them to like those good things, but you've got to
- 13:40Speaker 1: show them that they've hurt you. Because I think it's
- 13:42Speaker 1: important for people to know, hey, your words do still matter,
- 13:45Speaker 1: and we're not just going to ignore them because I
- 13:47Speaker 1: don't think they're going away. So well, we'll move on
- 13:52Speaker 1: to a little happier, funnier topic. Um we we just
- 13:56Speaker 1: talked about Caitlin excited to have kids and start a
- 13:59Speaker 1: family out there's one Bachelor Nation couple who have definitely
- 14:02Speaker 1: start a family. They've done it quickly and their kids
- 14:04Speaker 1: are growing up the headline reads pregnant, Jade Roper is
- 14:09Speaker 1: pretty sure Tannard Toilbert will get a vasectomy after third baby.
- 14:14Speaker 1: Snip snip is the comment. Why does the why does
- 14:17Speaker 1: the expression snip snip make me feel so comfortable? Because
- 14:22Speaker 1: it is uncomfortable. Actually, you gotta think about what you're
- 14:23Speaker 1: doing here. You're literally sticking something up between our legs. Now, granted,
- 14:28Speaker 1: you guys have your own uncomfort more than ours. Yeah, yes,
- 14:32Speaker 1: there's more, but like, it doesn't take away from the
- 14:34Speaker 1: fact that aasectomy is not a fun experience. Nobody looks
- 14:37Speaker 1: forward to it. And snip snip just I think best
- 14:40Speaker 1: categorizes the idea that you are cutting off something that
- 14:44Speaker 1: that just cannot be fun to be cut on. Yeah,
- 14:47Speaker 1: and you guys, bisectomies are reversible in case you decide
- 14:52Speaker 1: to have more children. But yeah, I know Jade and
- 14:54Speaker 1: Tanner they kind of just want to have these these
- 14:58Speaker 1: three grow up and all together in a chunk. So
- 15:01Speaker 1: like when they're done with the baby face, they're done
- 15:04Speaker 1: with the baby face, and then they can all There's
- 15:07Speaker 1: like a certain freedom when kids get to be able
- 15:10Speaker 1: to like walk, have conversations, all that stuff, you know,
- 15:14Speaker 1: because say, Emmy is like getting to that point. Now
- 15:17Speaker 1: she's so fun and conversational and really cool to be around,
- 15:22Speaker 1: becoming independent, and then you bring up like a newborn
- 15:25Speaker 1: into it, and everything kind of falls back. You're like, well,
- 15:28Speaker 1: we still can't do this, and we still can't do
- 15:30Speaker 1: that because now we have to take care of the baby.
- 15:32Speaker 1: So even though Emmy can do it, we can't go
- 15:34Speaker 1: on a family trip, you know, with three kids. But
- 15:38Speaker 1: like once they get to the age of well seven, seven,
- 15:43Speaker 1: five and four, then you'll be like, Okay, now we
- 15:46Speaker 1: can tote them around a little bit more differently, A
- 15:48Speaker 1: little differently, that makes sense. Yeah, Ashley, I have waited
- 15:52Speaker 1: patiently to not interrupt you, but you just said something
- 15:55Speaker 1: a little bit ago that is just really made me
- 15:58Speaker 1: squirt to wait what you said. You prefaced all this
- 16:03Speaker 1: by saying vasectomies are reversible. If at any time Jessica
- 16:08Speaker 1: looks at me and says, I need you to get
- 16:09Speaker 1: a vasectomy. But don't worry, honey, it's reversible. If we
- 16:13Speaker 1: ever choose not to be, I would go bonkers. Are
- 16:16Speaker 1: you kidding me that that's even an option? If you're
- 16:19Speaker 1: getting a vasectomy, I'm keeping my vasectomy. You are not
- 16:23Speaker 1: touching my vasectomy more than one time. And I'm sure
- 16:28Speaker 1: there's people out there have been like, yeah, I had
- 16:29Speaker 1: my husband do it, reversed it two or three times.
- 16:31Speaker 1: Like we just life change. I get that that happens
- 16:34Speaker 1: in unique scenarios, but nobody goes into getting a vasecondy
- 16:38Speaker 1: saying hey, I'm gonna do this as like pre emptive
- 16:40Speaker 1: just in case one day we want to start again.
- 16:42Speaker 1: That's so funny, and I'd like to share that Tanner
- 16:45Speaker 1: is the kind of guy who passes out at everything.
- 16:48Speaker 1: So he had this like a cyst on his head
- 16:51Speaker 1: and he needed to get it removed. A couple of
- 16:53Speaker 1: months ago, he fainted in the chair and that is
- 16:56Speaker 1: something that he couldn't even see. He was on top
- 16:58Speaker 1: of his head and it was very surface, you know
- 17:01Speaker 1: what I mean. So like, this is definitely this is
- 17:04Speaker 1: the guy that's not gonna be able to handle it.
- 17:06Speaker 1: This liked to me very well. I get it, man,
- 17:09Speaker 1: I get if you only knew all my stories, you
- 17:12Speaker 1: you knew I can relate. Hey, um, we have a
- 17:15Speaker 1: lot of topics to fly through here. Uh. Bachelor x
- 17:18Speaker 1: Is Nick Vile and Vanessa Grimaldi reunite for first time
- 17:22Speaker 1: since the two seventeen split. We talked to Nick about this.
- 17:25Speaker 1: This is on his nick V Trash TV and his
- 17:29Speaker 1: ex is tell all it's it's kind of a summary
- 17:32Speaker 1: of his season and speaking with the girls from his season, Ashley,
- 17:36Speaker 1: what more do you know about this? Well, they like
- 17:39Speaker 1: hash out a lot. It's definitely not just a surface
- 17:42Speaker 1: e fun conversation and if you guys want to listen
- 17:46Speaker 1: to it, you have to just type in nick V
- 17:50Speaker 1: Talks trash t V. It's a couple of dollars to
- 17:53Speaker 1: listen to this interview, but it's definitely worth it. So
- 17:57Speaker 1: moving on to dating, there are some Bachelor contestants that
- 18:01Speaker 1: are now publicly dating. We're gonna start with Hannah Ann
- 18:07Speaker 1: from Peter's season. The headline reads, Bachelor contestant link could
- 18:12Speaker 1: make NFL's team's locker room awkward. This according to the
- 18:16Speaker 1: New York Post. Okay, So, Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Josh Dobbs
- 18:23Speaker 1: was just acquired off waivers to Pittsburgh and very soon
- 18:29Speaker 1: after that she was spotted with um Mason Rudolph, who
- 18:34Speaker 1: is the backup quarterback at the Steelers. So basically, Dobbs
- 18:39Speaker 1: and Mason Rudolf are going to be in the same meetings,
- 18:44Speaker 1: in the same locker room, and they both supposedly maybe
- 18:49Speaker 1: had a flirtation hooked up with Hannah, and I don't
- 18:53Speaker 1: think this is a real rarity in the NFL. I
- 18:56Speaker 1: don't think this is going to be as awkward as
- 18:58Speaker 1: the headline is trying to make it. I also don't
- 19:02Speaker 1: think either of these guys are currently dating Hannah because
- 19:05Speaker 1: she hasn't seen she has been spotted with Rudolph since March.
- 19:11Speaker 1: I don't think so. Yes, the headline is is probably
- 19:15Speaker 1: overstating the fact, but hey, what a coincidence? Can we
- 19:20Speaker 1: say that? What a coincidence? More dating rumors, but now
- 19:25Speaker 1: actually not a rumor, it's confirmed. Bachelor Nations star Jeff
- 19:29Speaker 1: Holme confirms he's dating Too Hot to Handles Francesca Farrago. Wow,
- 19:33Speaker 1: Jeff Holme would just confirm this. I don't think they've
- 19:37Speaker 1: been seeing each other very long? Um they because like
- 19:42Speaker 1: she was holding she was holding hands with another guy
- 19:45Speaker 1: good week ago. That's true. Yeah, right, so they're certainly
- 19:50Speaker 1: not exclusively dating. And Jeff points that out. He says,
- 19:54Speaker 1: people are quick to put a title on things, but
- 19:56Speaker 1: we're taking it slow, it's in the beginning stages. Oh okay, Um,
- 20:00Speaker 1: they were spotted on Tuesday, September one out on a
- 20:04Speaker 1: boat on like Powell in Arizona, and uh yeah, Francesco
- 20:10Speaker 1: is just I think Francesca is just having fun right now.
- 20:14Speaker 1: She's she's super hot, almost too hot to handle, too
- 20:18Speaker 1: hot to handle. Well, Uh, moving on now from dating
- 20:23Speaker 1: to we're gonna kind of get We're gonna ramp this
- 20:26Speaker 1: up to the Clear season and leading up to Clear season.
- 20:29Speaker 1: Obviously we'll break down here in just a second. Um,
- 20:32Speaker 1: but Wan Pablo season of the Goat. Uh The Bachelor
- 20:37Speaker 1: aired on the Goat here this week, and uh, well,
- 20:41Speaker 1: Wan Pablo hasn't been thrilled about this. In fact, he's
- 20:44Speaker 1: been tweeting Ashley what do we know? So we'll get
- 20:50Speaker 1: into this later. But I do think that they piled
- 20:52Speaker 1: on one Pablo a little bit last night. They made
- 20:54Speaker 1: it seemed like he was the worst man to ever exist,
- 20:56Speaker 1: Like they like they went beyond like he was our
- 21:01Speaker 1: least back like bachelor and went more to like this
- 21:04Speaker 1: is like a terrorist to women around America. They called
- 21:08Speaker 1: him the most hated man in America. I'm like, come on,
- 21:10Speaker 1: this is so ridiculous. So Wan Pablo tweeted something a
- 21:15Speaker 1: couple of days ago saying, interesting promo of Claire and
- 21:19Speaker 1: the season of the Bachelorette six years later, and I
- 21:23Speaker 1: know who is the wand that can't get over one
- 21:29Speaker 1: would love if you take a guess. Ps. Claire got
- 21:33Speaker 1: over a long time ago, just in case. Okay, So
- 21:38Speaker 1: Wan Pablo was never especially articulate on Twitter. He had
- 21:43Speaker 1: a lot of like sub tweets, a lot of games
- 21:48Speaker 1: used to play on Twitter that would just cause excess
- 21:52Speaker 1: speculation about things. I think what he's trying to allude
- 21:56Speaker 1: here is that the bachelor at franchise is obsessed with Claire,
- 22:03Speaker 1: is obsessed with Wan Pablo and bashing him, and Claire
- 22:09Speaker 1: has no feelings attached to him and like has moved
- 22:14Speaker 1: on extremely fine. It's uh, it's an unfortunate time for
- 22:21Speaker 1: Wan Pablo because obviously we will talk to the guests
- 22:23Speaker 1: a little bit and here their ideas about how the
- 22:26Speaker 1: Go episode was portrayed. But we've also now heard that
- 22:31Speaker 1: Juan Pablo has quietly split from his wife of two years. Uh,
- 22:36Speaker 1: and that was announced on US Weekly. Yeah, so I
- 22:40Speaker 1: don't even know that that was really ever announced that
- 22:42Speaker 1: Jan Pablo was married. I crept on his Instagram like
- 22:45Speaker 1: a year ago and I figured that out. She was
- 22:49Speaker 1: a former Miss Venezuela, and we don't know that Miss
- 22:52Speaker 1: Venezuela's are always like smoke shows. But they've been split
- 22:58Speaker 1: up for a while now and and they just his
- 23:01Speaker 1: what his ex wife made it public in March. So
- 23:04Speaker 1: if you guys didn't know, Juan Pablo got married and
- 23:08Speaker 1: now he's divorced, it is now over. And speaking of over,
- 23:14Speaker 1: will clear in Wan Publo. We obviously saw last Night
- 23:18Speaker 1: are over. However, Clear season of The Bachelorette is just beginning,
- 23:24Speaker 1: and her promo came out and Claire Crawley kisses one
- 23:28Speaker 1: of her suitors in new Bachelorette promo. Yeah, so remember
- 23:32Speaker 1: how last week we watched the promo together here on
- 23:36Speaker 1: the podcast and it was on YouTube on my computer screen,
- 23:39Speaker 1: And since I've seen it a number of time times
- 23:42Speaker 1: on ABC, and I get super stoked, like I love
- 23:46Speaker 1: this promo. I loved Hannah's promo as Cinderella and then
- 23:51Speaker 1: she transformed from the beauty queen into like the sophisticated woman.
- 23:55Speaker 1: But I'm obsessed with this promo almost as much Key
- 23:59Speaker 1: Palmer saying respect. In the background, Claire looks super hot
- 24:04Speaker 1: and in it they flashed to a couple little sea
- 24:07Speaker 1: like the quickest little splits to uh two scenes from
- 24:13Speaker 1: the season, one of which is her kissing a guy
- 24:18Speaker 1: who looks like the one that everybody is speculating she
- 24:22Speaker 1: left the show for. Oh well, that problem might speak
- 24:27Speaker 1: some truth to this season, but we still do not know.
- 24:31Speaker 1: In fact, we know very little in fact to this day. Um,
- 24:35Speaker 1: but get excited because Claire Crawley season is now just
- 24:38Speaker 1: beginning and we're going to talk about it here on
- 24:40Speaker 1: the Almost Famous podcast. Well that's all the hot topics
- 24:42Speaker 1: we after today. Again, we have some really great guests.
- 24:46Speaker 1: We have Charlene joint, Amy Long and Heather Martin coming
- 24:49Speaker 1: up in just a second. But before you do, let's
- 24:51Speaker 1: take a break. So watching this Goat episode, we're reminded
- 25:04Speaker 1: of three major Bachelor history moments. Let's start with Andy.
- 25:09Speaker 1: Andy goes into a fantasy suite thinking that she's just
- 25:13Speaker 1: like so into Wan Pablo. She's picturing her future with him.
- 25:19Speaker 1: She she says that she can picture her settling down
- 25:22Speaker 1: with Wan Pablo. She comes out the next morning completely
- 25:27Speaker 1: different attitude. She she can't even stand him for another day.
- 25:31Speaker 1: She's got to leave. What did she tell What did
- 25:35Speaker 1: she tell us on the podcast? She said that he
- 25:37Speaker 1: just talked about himself the entire time, asked no questions
- 25:40Speaker 1: about her. He seemed very self absorbed, right, Yeah. I
- 25:44Speaker 1: also think she kind of hinted at there's things she
- 25:46Speaker 1: wouldn't share publicly that happened that evening. And that's basically
- 25:50Speaker 1: what she does with Harrison in her interview in the
- 25:53Speaker 1: Goat episode, and that's what she did during the actual
- 25:57Speaker 1: Wan Pablo season. So maybe we don't know exactly what
- 26:00Speaker 1: happened that turned her off so bad, but I do
- 26:03Speaker 1: have to But watching this back in the confrontation, it's
- 26:07Speaker 1: so it's so fun, it's a very girl power moment,
- 26:10Speaker 1: but it does leave me wondering, does Andy just want
- 26:14Speaker 1: want Pablo to be like, no, I don't want you
- 26:16Speaker 1: to leave, like I want you to stay. I really
- 26:18Speaker 1: like you? Or or did he like really royally f up?
- 26:24Speaker 1: And we're not seeing it because because watching it back,
- 26:27Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Oh, she doesn't like him and he doesn't
- 26:31Speaker 1: really care about her, but she still wants him to
- 26:34Speaker 1: care about her. Well, I think, yeah, I mean I
- 26:38Speaker 1: would imagine that in most cases during this show, especially,
- 26:40Speaker 1: you want the lead to care about you, and sometimes
- 26:45Speaker 1: as a lead, you really want one of the contestants
- 26:48Speaker 1: to really care about you. And you're far enough along
- 26:51Speaker 1: in the journey at the fantasy suites where you're probably
- 26:55Speaker 1: pretty sure of at least who your final couple are,
- 26:59Speaker 1: and you're pretty confident that the person okay. For me,
- 27:05Speaker 1: that last final few was the hardest part because you
- 27:08Speaker 1: start to see who you want to be within the
- 27:10Speaker 1: end and who you want to work through a few
- 27:12Speaker 1: things with uh in the last couple of weeks, and
- 27:16Speaker 1: then that you have this person there. In my case
- 27:18Speaker 1: it was Kayla, who you care a ton about, who
- 27:20Speaker 1: you really respect, and now you have to say goodbye
- 27:24Speaker 1: to them. What I think this didn't show was the
- 27:28Speaker 1: mutual respect between each other, and that's why it was
- 27:31Speaker 1: so controversial. It looked like they are both like, this
- 27:34Speaker 1: is stupid, this is over, and you're like, wait, you
- 27:36Speaker 1: guys have been through some stuff already. Yeah. I think
- 27:38Speaker 1: she's frustrated because yeah, exactly what you're saying, Like there's
- 27:45Speaker 1: no emotion attached to him. He's saying it's okay, Like
- 27:48Speaker 1: she's like even though we both just kind of decided
- 27:50Speaker 1: that we we weren't into each other enough to continue.
- 27:54Speaker 1: I think, like, I would like you to acknowledge the
- 27:56Speaker 1: fact that we got to know each other as humans
- 27:58Speaker 1: and we have we had something. Yeah, this isn't just okay,
- 28:05Speaker 1: this hurts, and I want you to tell me that
- 28:07Speaker 1: you get that it hurts. It's probably what she was
- 28:09Speaker 1: looking for, right, and it didn't hurt, and I think
- 28:11Speaker 1: she just felt like, Okay, so you're just detached throughout
- 28:17Speaker 1: this entire process. You're just you're just not forming any
- 28:20Speaker 1: bonds with these women. And I think that rolls over
- 28:23Speaker 1: into the next historical moment when he tells Nikki that
- 28:28Speaker 1: he really likes her. She goes, I love you, and
- 28:33Speaker 1: he goes, I like you a lot. And that was
- 28:36Speaker 1: in addition to not proposing what she expected. But I think,
- 28:40Speaker 1: in hindsight, what a blessing that he didn't get down
- 28:43Speaker 1: on one knee. She didn't experience that with Wan Pablo.
- 28:46Speaker 1: She got to experience that with her husband. But but
- 28:50Speaker 1: the I really like you, I guess Wan Pablo kind
- 28:56Speaker 1: of he brought himself on being honest, so I didn't
- 28:59Speaker 1: want to lie and say I love you in that
- 29:01Speaker 1: moment when he wasn't feeling love, and maybe the Bachelor
- 29:04Speaker 1: franchise does put him down a little bit for that.
- 29:06Speaker 1: Like Harrison even said last night, he was like, I
- 29:10Speaker 1: like you a lot. Like they are making fun of
- 29:12Speaker 1: him for saying I like you a lot, But like,
- 29:14Speaker 1: would we have rather him say I love you and
- 29:17Speaker 1: not mean it? I don't. I don't know. I don't
- 29:20Speaker 1: think that is that really something we should feelize them for.
- 29:22Speaker 1: I think it's shocking and I think it shows that
- 29:25Speaker 1: he wasn't ready to be the Bachelor and he shouldn't
- 29:27Speaker 1: have been the Bachelor. But I don't know that we
- 29:30Speaker 1: can like make it seem like that's not a good
- 29:34Speaker 1: a good move. Anybody that comes to the show, my
- 29:37Speaker 1: advice and then would be do what's authentic you? Like,
- 29:40Speaker 1: this is a life changing moment, and just because the
- 29:45Speaker 1: show is telling you you need to you should get
- 29:48Speaker 1: engaged in or that feels like the path that you're
- 29:50Speaker 1: going towards, it doesn't mean that you have to nor
- 29:54Speaker 1: do you need to. Yeah, I don't think one probably
- 29:57Speaker 1: did this whole thing well at all. However, I don't
- 30:03Speaker 1: think we should villainize him for being authentic to his feelings,
- 30:06Speaker 1: even if they weren't what we wanted. Um, because I
- 30:11Speaker 1: watch it going okay, he he's confident enough in his
- 30:16Speaker 1: feelings to not express what she's expressing. It's unfortunate that
- 30:21Speaker 1: it has to look and be like this. However, he
- 30:26Speaker 1: he was true to He was true to how he
- 30:28Speaker 1: was feeling, and for that, I do think we celebrate
- 30:32Speaker 1: his authenticity. Yeah, and I think that's what Wan Pablo wants,
- 30:36Speaker 1: because that's what he's always frustrated with. He's like, if
- 30:39Speaker 1: you're not on it, if you're honest, they don't like you.
- 30:43Speaker 1: And the bottom of the crux of all of this
- 30:46Speaker 1: is that he wasn't the Bachelor that ABC wanted him
- 30:49Speaker 1: to be. He wasn't the kind of woman that most people,
- 30:54Speaker 1: or at least from what we saw he's. He's not
- 30:57Speaker 1: the person that most women want to end up up with.
- 31:00Speaker 1: Like nobody watched that season and thought like, this is
- 31:03Speaker 1: the kind of guy I would like to be with.
- 31:05Speaker 1: But also we can't. Once he was chosen to be
- 31:09Speaker 1: the Bachelor, he was just himself and we can't villainize
- 31:14Speaker 1: him for being honest in these situations. I could go
- 31:21Speaker 1: I could be a Bachelor fan right now, that it's
- 31:23Speaker 1: not coming. I mean I could. I don't know. If
- 31:25Speaker 1: there's anbody agrees with me. In fact, it's a great question.
- 31:27Speaker 1: Please email us at Ben and Ashley I heart media
- 31:29Speaker 1: dot com, or tweet us at the Almost Famous podcast
- 31:32Speaker 1: on Twitter use the hashtag you know. We talked about
- 31:36Speaker 1: it every season. I still stand firm in this. I
- 31:38Speaker 1: might change my mind at some point, but as a fan,
- 31:42Speaker 1: I get now the ups and downs of the season.
- 31:45Speaker 1: I get to the first couple of weeks are ridiculous.
- 31:47Speaker 1: I get that there's weird dates. I get that there's arguments.
- 31:49Speaker 1: I know that there's going to be drama. I expect that. However,
- 31:53Speaker 1: when it comes to the very last episode, I watch
- 31:57Speaker 1: it excited for somebody that I know to find love.
- 32:02Speaker 1: I also want to know if they really found love. Like,
- 32:05Speaker 1: I don't want this to just be a fake engagement,
- 32:07Speaker 1: because this is how it's supposed to go. I want
- 32:10Speaker 1: to be as a fan going you know, for example, Colton, okay, Colton,
- 32:14Speaker 1: you weren't you know, you and Cassie weren't ready to
- 32:17Speaker 1: get engaged. I can get behind that, Like, I know
- 32:19Speaker 1: where your relationship stands. Uh one, probably you weren't ready
- 32:22Speaker 1: to get engaged fair enough, like I get where your
- 32:25Speaker 1: relationship stands. But when there is that moment when somebody
- 32:27Speaker 1: gets down on the knee and look somebody in the
- 32:28Speaker 1: eyes and says, will you marry me? I want to
- 32:31Speaker 1: be on my couch in tears, going this is beautiful,
- 32:34Speaker 1: like I don't want I don't want to be misled.
- 32:37Speaker 1: I guess I should say, and I'm I'm glad. If
- 32:39Speaker 1: he did one thing really well, it was that he
- 32:41Speaker 1: did not mislead us on what his feelings were. I
- 32:45Speaker 1: will say that he didn't do it in a very
- 32:49Speaker 1: heart felt like he never he didn't. He doesn't seem warm,
- 32:54Speaker 1: he doesn't seem his delivery is constantly terrible. Because we
- 32:58Speaker 1: see Brad Walmack, who at the end of his season
- 33:01Speaker 1: doesn't pick anyone. Yet you still feel for Brad and
- 33:05Speaker 1: like there's so much emotion there and here there's just
- 33:09Speaker 1: coldness and logic and it just didn't it doesn't feel right,
- 33:16Speaker 1: and his character is definitely this is this is the
- 33:22Speaker 1: moment where I'm like, Okay, now now we can kind
- 33:26Speaker 1: of fil anize. When he says to Claire in a
- 33:31Speaker 1: helicopter ride, I don't really know you, but I love
- 33:35Speaker 1: screwing you and yeah, good, no like that, that's m hmm.
- 33:41Speaker 1: She talks it out with him in the in not
- 33:44Speaker 1: a fantasy state, but that last date where they get
- 33:46Speaker 1: to sit on the couch and like have their last
- 33:48Speaker 1: conbo and she I get that, she gets clarity and
- 33:53Speaker 1: like they have a good like hash out of the situation.
- 33:57Speaker 1: But man, with that stick with me, I don't. It's
- 34:01Speaker 1: it's not even like he was trying to be sexy
- 34:03Speaker 1: and said like I love screwing you. It was I
- 34:06Speaker 1: don't really know you. Yeah, it's just bad. It's the
- 34:14Speaker 1: antithesis of romantic. Yeah, that's not good. No, I'm like
- 34:21Speaker 1: sitting here and I'm like, yeah, and what scenario and
- 34:25Speaker 1: what scenario does that even work? And it's like maybe
- 34:31Speaker 1: in your most promiscuous like days, that could work, but
- 34:34Speaker 1: like when you're looking towards the end and you're you're knowing,
- 34:37Speaker 1: you're already nervous because you're a few days away from
- 34:40Speaker 1: something happening, either you're just leaving the show together or
- 34:43Speaker 1: you're engaged or getting broken up with and you're like
- 34:46Speaker 1: pouring your heart out into somebody else and they look
- 34:48Speaker 1: at you and go like, yeah, you know what, I
- 34:49Speaker 1: don't know you, but like you're I just love screwing you.
- 34:54Speaker 1: Like there's no way to say that and have good
- 34:56Speaker 1: intentions behind it. That isn't probably the one the most
- 35:00Speaker 1: jaw dropping moments I've ever had as a viewer watching
- 35:03Speaker 1: the show, right, Yeah, not good, not good. There's no
- 35:07Speaker 1: there's notion for that one. And I think that so
- 35:10Speaker 1: much of what she says to him in that scene
- 35:13Speaker 1: where you know, he dumps her and she has her
- 35:16Speaker 1: girl power moment, it's not so much daddy dumps her.
- 35:20Speaker 1: It's that that convert. It's that it's it's what went
- 35:24Speaker 1: down in the helicopter coming out. Yeah, I think, yes,
- 35:28Speaker 1: you're right, And I think that's where we forget, is
- 35:30Speaker 1: like we watch this in clips and we see her
- 35:33Speaker 1: getting you know, angry or she's like on him, and
- 35:38Speaker 1: we're like, well that kind of came out and know
- 35:39Speaker 1: her wise, But what we forget is that this was
- 35:41Speaker 1: leading up to that moment, by the things that he
- 35:45Speaker 1: told her and how it made her feel, and how
- 35:48Speaker 1: she where she felt her relationship was out with him
- 35:51Speaker 1: and where he felt his relationship was out with her,
- 35:53Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate. There's nothing about this moment Ashley that
- 35:59Speaker 1: I enjoy way watching. There's nothing about this moment that
- 36:02Speaker 1: I can even wrap my head around. Um, but what
- 36:05Speaker 1: it does do is it it points me and I'm
- 36:08Speaker 1: sure it was kind of their hope, but it does
- 36:10Speaker 1: point me to the excitement that is coming up with
- 36:13Speaker 1: Claire where I can go. Now we get to watch
- 36:15Speaker 1: her find somebody that cares to get to know her
- 36:19Speaker 1: and whenever they decide to one day will also enjoy
- 36:23Speaker 1: being with her and do it in a way that's
- 36:26Speaker 1: like caring completely. The why I enjoy watching that scene
- 36:33Speaker 1: is because she's just such a badass and she had
- 36:36Speaker 1: all the right things to say from the way that
- 36:38Speaker 1: she even stopped him like with her hands and just continued.
- 36:42Speaker 1: And it was, in my opinion, you know what he
- 36:45Speaker 1: says in the helicopter that makes her say, I would
- 36:49Speaker 1: never want you to be the father of my children,
- 36:52Speaker 1: and then two make matters worse in this whole dumping scene.
- 36:57Speaker 1: She walks away and he goes, I'm glad I didn't
- 37:02Speaker 1: pick her. Now that just proves that you know, you
- 37:08Speaker 1: don't want to be with him, like as if like
- 37:10Speaker 1: he had to like put the nail in his own
- 37:12Speaker 1: Coffin anymore. Yeah, well, it sets us up for this
- 37:15Speaker 1: good episode that we obviously it was not in favor
- 37:20Speaker 1: of Wan Pablo. He did not come off of this.
- 37:22Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's gonna wow, I liked Wan Pablo
- 37:25Speaker 1: more from it. I do think there'll be some maybe sympathy. Um,
- 37:30Speaker 1: I think there'll be some some opinions on, hey, wild,
- 37:34Speaker 1: you really dragged Wan Pablo through this all again, which
- 37:37Speaker 1: isn't super unexpected. He didn't do things great or well
- 37:41Speaker 1: or even halfway well. However, we don't know Wan Pablo,
- 37:44Speaker 1: but we have some women coming up that do know
- 37:46Speaker 1: Wan Pablo, and so I'm excited and ready to ask
- 37:49Speaker 1: Charlene joint her opinion on While Pablo and her opinion
- 37:53Speaker 1: on this good episode and see if he did, you know,
- 37:56Speaker 1: get dragged through again, if she felt like it was unfair, unjust,
- 37:59Speaker 1: or maybe she's like, yeah, he deserves every second. So
- 38:02Speaker 1: in a second after the break, we're gonna bring Charlene
- 38:06Speaker 1: joint In Amy Long from Wan Pablo Season onto the
- 38:09Speaker 1: podcast and dive in to this week's episode of the Goat. Alright, guys,
- 38:24Speaker 1: if you didn't fall in love with Charlie and joint
- 38:26Speaker 1: all over again last night watching Wan Pablos Goat episode
- 38:30Speaker 1: like You've Got Issues. We are joined here by Charlene Hey,
- 38:33Speaker 1: Charlie Hello, Ashley I, and Ben Higgins. You I mean
- 38:38Speaker 1: if I wow, you're a freaking cool girl, but like
- 38:42Speaker 1: you were so cool because you're so authentic and just
- 38:45Speaker 1: so real and you weren't filtered at all when it
- 38:48Speaker 1: came to you. Okay, says like you are. You are
- 38:50Speaker 1: the post of child for being authentic and being real.
- 38:53Speaker 1: So thank you. I think ever since the day we
- 38:56Speaker 1: ran into each other and met in the Delhi before
- 38:59Speaker 1: and I was like, don't go on the show. It's terrible,
- 39:02Speaker 1: so unbelievable. It ends up changing your life and you
- 39:05Speaker 1: met the love of your life. It's like the worst
- 39:07Speaker 1: advice in the world. No, it's okay, at least I
- 39:10Speaker 1: didn't take it seriously. Yes, Um, okay, So watching this back,
- 39:15Speaker 1: like I know that you. You didn't love watching yourself
- 39:18Speaker 1: back the first time around, and people called out certain
- 39:21Speaker 1: moments that they felt were awkward. But I feel like
- 39:23Speaker 1: with these Goat episodes, people are looking back with so
- 39:26Speaker 1: much more clarity. Um. How many people were responding to
- 39:32Speaker 1: you on Instagram and Twitter last night being like, oh
- 39:34Speaker 1: my gosh, you're so amazing, Like how much positivity did
- 39:36Speaker 1: you get yesterday? I got a lot, and it was
- 39:39Speaker 1: a little overwhelming because that truly was my only go
- 39:43Speaker 1: on TV and it was a long time ago, like
- 39:45Speaker 1: pre Instagram being as big as it is now. Uh,
- 39:49Speaker 1: it was very sweet, but I am naturally, unfortunately one
- 39:52Speaker 1: of those people that tends to focus on the negative.
- 39:54Speaker 1: I'm working on this. So as as sweet as it is, uh,
- 39:58Speaker 1: you know, it's it's very but I also feel like
- 40:02Speaker 1: whatever you see on TV is just such a tiny
- 40:04Speaker 1: facet of who I am. It's like, in no way
- 40:06Speaker 1: doesn't really represent me. So it's flattering, but it's also
- 40:09Speaker 1: like I take it with a grain of salt, do you? So?
- 40:13Speaker 1: With that being said, as you watch yourself back and
- 40:16Speaker 1: then also as you watch the season bag, what else
- 40:19Speaker 1: would you have loved to show about yourself that you
- 40:22Speaker 1: couldn't capture on television? I mean that is a that's
- 40:25Speaker 1: a deep one, then asked by a former lead. Uh,
- 40:31Speaker 1: you know, I remember watching it back and thinking, man,
- 40:34Speaker 1: I look like I have a giant stick up my ass,
- 40:36Speaker 1: Like I just looked really unfun and like I take
- 40:38Speaker 1: myself and the whole thing way too seriously. And I
- 40:42Speaker 1: think it's possible to take that seriously but not take
- 40:45Speaker 1: yourself too seriously and not take it all too seriously,
- 40:48Speaker 1: Like there's a fine line, as both of you know.
- 40:51Speaker 1: And I just I kind of wish I hadn't let
- 40:54Speaker 1: it get to me, especially in the later stages, like
- 40:56Speaker 1: I was crying a lot. I was, you know, just
- 40:58Speaker 1: really down. I was home sick, and as your friends
- 41:01Speaker 1: get sent home, you're like, I'm alone, and I just
- 41:04Speaker 1: you get clarity when you're out of the bubble, like immediately,
- 41:07Speaker 1: and I just sort of wished I had taken it
- 41:09Speaker 1: a little more in stride and just laughed about it
- 41:12Speaker 1: all a bit more and shown that side of myself
- 41:16Speaker 1: because it's real, it really represents me more than you know,
- 41:20Speaker 1: Oh I'm so smart, Like that's just so not who
- 41:22Speaker 1: I am. I really wish that I had just been
- 41:25Speaker 1: let's just let loose a bit. You came across very smart,
- 41:29Speaker 1: but not in like the Kelsey Poe way where it
- 41:31Speaker 1: was like I'm intelligent and she's not. You just can't
- 41:34Speaker 1: regretly that was your natural self. That's thank you. That's
- 41:39Speaker 1: a nice way of putting it. I think that I
- 41:42Speaker 1: went into it really like paranoid. I was like, Oh,
- 41:46Speaker 1: the producers are at to get me. Like the first
- 41:49Speaker 1: impression Rose was the best example of that, because I
- 41:51Speaker 1: was convinced that they had told me to give it
- 41:53Speaker 1: to me, and I was just like, I was just
- 41:55Speaker 1: like overthinking everything and analyzing everything. And I think that
- 42:01Speaker 1: comes off as you know, thinking you're too good for
- 42:04Speaker 1: it or too smart for it, when it's not really
- 42:07Speaker 1: my It wasn't really in my intention. It was more
- 42:09Speaker 1: that I had watched the season for so many years.
- 42:11Speaker 1: Actually I think you had as well. Yeah, and like
- 42:14Speaker 1: I was just like, you know, you're in, You're seeing
- 42:17Speaker 1: how the sausage is made, and I was just I
- 42:19Speaker 1: was just two in my head way too in my head.
- 42:23Speaker 1: Last night seemed like a pile on to me of
- 42:25Speaker 1: wam Pablo. He has tweeted a few times and he
- 42:29Speaker 1: was obviously annoyed. What's interesting is that the show makes
- 42:32Speaker 1: him seem like an actual horrendous person and you girled
- 42:35Speaker 1: a lot of you went on social media and kind
- 42:38Speaker 1: of defended him. So how do you feel about how
- 42:41Speaker 1: they represented him, especially last night? Like having bachelorettes like
- 42:45Speaker 1: Caitlin Um and Becca who have never met him and
- 42:48Speaker 1: just rip on him. I'm so glad you touched on that.
- 42:52Speaker 1: I it was pretty painful to watch. If I'm honest.
- 42:56Speaker 1: I think we all make mistakes, and you certainly know that,
- 43:01Speaker 1: you know if you went back and we're in that position,
- 43:02Speaker 1: and I can't speak to that position, but I'm sure
- 43:04Speaker 1: you do some things differently as we all would, but
- 43:07Speaker 1: especially as the lead, I just think so much. I
- 43:13Speaker 1: think that people wanted to misunderstand him. There came a
- 43:17Speaker 1: point where that happened, and the show really leaned into
- 43:20Speaker 1: that he wasn't that bad, you know, he really he
- 43:23Speaker 1: I he was a lovely person, especially to the women
- 43:27Speaker 1: he was genuinely interested in. Now you can criticize him
- 43:29Speaker 1: for not giving every woman that same treatment, but at
- 43:32Speaker 1: the same time, would you not rather that authenticity on
- 43:35Speaker 1: both sides. It's a bit of a quandary for sure,
- 43:40Speaker 1: but I think that it is reprehensible to rake him
- 43:45Speaker 1: over the coals one more time for good measure, to
- 43:48Speaker 1: remind us how great but Claire is for bachelorette. When
- 43:50Speaker 1: Claire is great for bachelorette with or without that, in
- 43:53Speaker 1: my opinion, absolute freaking lately. Alright, look, we should talk
- 43:58Speaker 1: about Claire. How what was your what was your relationship
- 44:02Speaker 1: with her in the house, Claire, Claire and I have
- 44:06Speaker 1: nothing bad to say about Claire. I honestly thought we
- 44:09Speaker 1: were friends until I watched it back and she kind
- 44:11Speaker 1: of said a few things about me, and and that's
- 44:12Speaker 1: always a little like traumatizing. You're like, oh, yeah, I was,
- 44:17Speaker 1: as you know. But I have nothing bad to say
- 44:21Speaker 1: about Claire. I think that she's perfect for the role.
- 44:25Speaker 1: I've always thought that she would make a great bachelotte,
- 44:27Speaker 1: and I thought there was a very good chance she
- 44:29Speaker 1: would get cast actually right out of our season. So
- 44:32Speaker 1: and actually I remember a Lawn telling me that he
- 44:34Speaker 1: always he was like, Claire would make a great bachelorette.
- 44:37Speaker 1: That was so many years ago, and you know he's
- 44:40Speaker 1: long gone, but he's getting his wishes. He is, you know,
- 44:44Speaker 1: before we let you go, because I know we're in
- 44:46Speaker 1: a tight, tight time crunch here, I do want to
- 44:49Speaker 1: just add a little bit of encouragement to you because
- 44:51Speaker 1: we haven't you know, we haven't done enough yet. Uh.
- 44:55Speaker 1: We had Andy Dorfman on an in depth episode about
- 44:57Speaker 1: a week and a half ago, and she said something
- 44:59Speaker 1: that I remember about you, Charlotte, and I've We've never
- 45:03Speaker 1: been on a meet in person, but I've heard a
- 45:04Speaker 1: lot about you from mutual friends and girls from you
- 45:06Speaker 1: know that were on my season who have a ton
- 45:08Speaker 1: of respect for you. Andy said she on Night one
- 45:11Speaker 1: got out of the limo or was in a limo,
- 45:14Speaker 1: I don't know the time, I don't remember the exact
- 45:16Speaker 1: time frame, and she saw you and the first thing
- 45:19Speaker 1: that came to her mind was I don't belong here,
- 45:21Speaker 1: because this woman is absolutely gorgeous. And then I remember
- 45:26Speaker 1: watching this season and there was a moment and that
- 45:28Speaker 1: you were sitting on a soccer field or a football field,
- 45:31Speaker 1: in the middle of like the field, right, remember this, Yeah,
- 45:33Speaker 1: you remember this, And it was a super awkward scene
- 45:37Speaker 1: because you, yeah, sitting in the middle of a soccer
- 45:41Speaker 1: field with nobody else around and you're talking. And that
- 45:43Speaker 1: stands out to me because I do think and I
- 45:47Speaker 1: could be wrong, but there was just like in the
- 45:49Speaker 1: first word that comes to my mind is glamorous or
- 45:51Speaker 1: just like you stood out amongst the masses, which doesn't
- 45:54Speaker 1: happen easily from this show. And I just want to
- 45:57Speaker 1: give you some encouragement to say Andy, who was a
- 46:00Speaker 1: Bachelor app who was on your season, and then me
- 46:03Speaker 1: years past. Uh, you know that season airing still remembers
- 46:08Speaker 1: that moment and goes that woman stands out above the rest,
- 46:11Speaker 1: and I think you have continued to do that. And
- 46:13Speaker 1: so I just want to say thank you for coming
- 46:14Speaker 1: on the podcast, thank you for sharing your time with us,
- 46:17Speaker 1: and uh and yeah, we we loved you just as
- 46:19Speaker 1: much during this good episode as we did from your
- 46:21Speaker 1: season to that. Oh, it's add on to that. You're
- 46:25Speaker 1: so memorable and you were only on one season and
- 46:29Speaker 1: you were top six, Like, way to go, way toge.
- 46:34Speaker 1: You're going to laugh at this. One time. Nick was like, wait,
- 46:38Speaker 1: you were only on that one season, right, And I'm
- 46:40Speaker 1: like yeah, He's like, I don't know if there's anyone
- 46:42Speaker 1: who's done more with so little than you. That sounds yeah,
- 46:46Speaker 1: that sounds very yeah, very Nick Like it's like a
- 46:49Speaker 1: compliment that you're like, I don't know what to say. Hey, Charlene,
- 46:54Speaker 1: thanks for coming on. We appreciate you and uh and
- 46:56Speaker 1: we'll be keeping up with you as time goes on.
- 46:59Speaker 1: Thank you for having me by for a person who
- 47:12Speaker 1: made a real splash on one public season to somebody
- 47:14Speaker 1: who was eliminated a little bit earlier, we had any
- 47:17Speaker 1: long joining us. Hey, Amy Ashley, how are you good?
- 47:21Speaker 1: How are you so? We know you're limited? Week two
- 47:24Speaker 1: of one public season? How well did you get to
- 47:26Speaker 1: know the guy? I mean not that much, not that much,
- 47:31Speaker 1: but more than what TV showed, of course, but there's
- 47:34Speaker 1: always that they always picked the most interesting part of
- 47:37Speaker 1: the conversation and go with it. So then, looking back
- 47:42Speaker 1: on your experience, how could you summarize it knowing that
- 47:45Speaker 1: it probably ended quicker than you were hopeful. Definitely ended
- 47:49Speaker 1: quicker than I was hopeful, But I think also ended
- 47:51Speaker 1: faster than even producers thought that it might. I mean,
- 47:55Speaker 1: they time to come out to my hometown, and I
- 47:57Speaker 1: don't know, really, I know they just seemed more encouraging.
- 48:01Speaker 1: They probably do that to everybody to make them hopeful.
- 48:04Speaker 1: But um, I thought I was going to be around
- 48:06Speaker 1: a little more because I don't really feel like I
- 48:08Speaker 1: got that fair of a shot. I wasn't even really
- 48:10Speaker 1: invited on a date. He just kept me around because
- 48:13Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, But well, watching everything back last
- 48:17Speaker 1: night on the greatest ever time I was, it brought
- 48:22Speaker 1: back so many memories of how excited I was and
- 48:24Speaker 1: how open I was to that kind of relationship at
- 48:27Speaker 1: that time, and and I still felt that way. I
- 48:30Speaker 1: was like, yes, those were all very real feelings. However,
- 48:33Speaker 1: watching it back, I can kind of see how the
- 48:37Speaker 1: whole experience was a little bit more um produced in
- 48:43Speaker 1: certain ways, I guess, but it was it was still
- 48:46Speaker 1: those feelings in that moment. We're all real kind of
- 48:48Speaker 1: like how how all of the girls came back and said,
- 48:50Speaker 1: oh my goodness, yes, that was That's like a fresh
- 48:52Speaker 1: wound again. That's crazy watching his season back, did you think, oh,
- 48:57Speaker 1: I dodged a bullet by getting eliminated. We two, I
- 49:00Speaker 1: didn't waste time or were you like I would have
- 49:02Speaker 1: rather gone along further so I could have just lived
- 49:06Speaker 1: the experience more. Uh in the moment and still now
- 49:10Speaker 1: I guess I would like to have lived the experience
- 49:12Speaker 1: a little bit more. I don't like I said, it
- 49:15Speaker 1: was hard to get to know him too much, and
- 49:18Speaker 1: I wasn't there that long, but we did have interesting conversations.
- 49:22Speaker 1: The whole premise of the show is to hopefully find love,
- 49:24Speaker 1: and I knew from the very beginning. Um he interrupted
- 49:28Speaker 1: me three times when I first got out of the
- 49:30Speaker 1: Lima before I could even say my name. So I
- 49:32Speaker 1: was like, well, this is not off to a great start.
- 49:35Speaker 1: But I'm still like, maybe he's overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed. This
- 49:38Speaker 1: is completely new for all of us. So who knows. Um, So,
- 49:41Speaker 1: I wish I were there a little longer, not only
- 49:44Speaker 1: to get to know him, but even some of the
- 49:46Speaker 1: other people that were on my season. I really enjoyed
- 49:48Speaker 1: them a lot. But you know, they went on this
- 49:51Speaker 1: crazy journey then, and yeah, it was. It was a
- 49:56Speaker 1: crazy experience. I still can't believe I did it. I
- 49:58Speaker 1: kind of wish it would have lasted a a little
- 50:00Speaker 1: longer in that aspect, but I'm glad that, like nobody's
- 50:03Speaker 1: time was wasted on my end anyway, the it's always
- 50:07Speaker 1: interesting amy to sit down with people who were eliminated
- 50:10Speaker 1: earlier than they probably should have been. Um, And I
- 50:13Speaker 1: don't know you personally, but I'm assuming that, like you
- 50:15Speaker 1: have things that want Pablo would have loved to get
- 50:18Speaker 1: to know better. Right, UM, how how for you was
- 50:22Speaker 1: that if you can go back to that moment, what
- 50:24Speaker 1: was the feeling like knowing that you risk a lot,
- 50:28Speaker 1: that you went on to this show that you put
- 50:30Speaker 1: yourself out there, and then the feelings of going home
- 50:35Speaker 1: within two weeks, like what was the emotions like around that.
- 50:39Speaker 1: I don't why. I don't feel like anybody really could
- 50:42Speaker 1: even get a good judgment of me. Um. I work
- 50:46Speaker 1: in TV news, so I'm very higher aware of cameras,
- 50:50Speaker 1: so I was like, I'm not gonna act like an
- 50:51Speaker 1: asshole every here. We gotta like keep it cool just
- 50:54Speaker 1: in case Grandpa's watching. But I, um, I was kind
- 50:58Speaker 1: of humiliated, just because it is a lot to be like,
- 51:01Speaker 1: all right, very and as you guys know, a very
- 51:04Speaker 1: small pool of people even knew what I was doing
- 51:07Speaker 1: in the first place. But then I was like, oh crap,
- 51:10Speaker 1: I have to relive all of this in a couple
- 51:12Speaker 1: of months. But thank goodness, I went to Florida State
- 51:15Speaker 1: in the national championship game was on that night, so
- 51:17Speaker 1: I was like, we're just gonna watch them. Yeah, how
- 51:23Speaker 1: well did you get to know Claire during your week there? Um?
- 51:26Speaker 1: I I did. Actually, you know how they're like everybody's
- 51:30Speaker 1: so new, so um certain producers, everybody is so kind
- 51:34Speaker 1: to of course, everybody's in the house in the very beginning,
- 51:37Speaker 1: putting their best foot forward for the most part, and
- 51:41Speaker 1: so it was easy to get to know girls right away. Um,
- 51:44Speaker 1: Claire and I had a whole day at home together whenever,
- 51:49Speaker 1: you know, there was a big group date, so it
- 51:51Speaker 1: was one thing to know where then we were actually
- 51:53Speaker 1: the cameraman because like I said, I worked in TV
- 51:56Speaker 1: news and I was my own one man ban reporter.
- 51:58Speaker 1: So they let me like play with the cameras and
- 52:01Speaker 1: I was shooting interviews with Molly's dog and playing like
- 52:03Speaker 1: with Claire and she's like holding the boom, and um,
- 52:06Speaker 1: I think my favorite parts of that whole season were
- 52:09Speaker 1: the outtakes of that day probably, But and then they
- 52:14Speaker 1: were like, hey, why don't you go ask her about
- 52:15Speaker 1: her kiss with Juan Pablo? And I was like, well,
- 52:18Speaker 1: I don't want to know about her kissing, but sure
- 52:23Speaker 1: I will go ask her about that, because you need
- 52:25Speaker 1: someone to problem too that conversation. But I feel like
- 52:29Speaker 1: also Claire very much had her head in the game.
- 52:31Speaker 1: I don't know, it's not that she wasn't there to
- 52:33Speaker 1: make friends. She's a lovely human, but she also like
- 52:36Speaker 1: knew her end goal was to pursue this person, and
- 52:41Speaker 1: not necessarily that really on at least the best friends
- 52:45Speaker 1: with everybody if that makes sense, So Amy, confirm or deny. Uh,
- 52:52Speaker 1: the report came out years ago that you were asked
- 52:55Speaker 1: to be on Bachelor in Paradise. It is true. I
- 53:00Speaker 1: I was actually seriously considering it, and um, I still
- 53:04Speaker 1: kind of like, I wonder if they need another bartender.
- 53:10Speaker 1: But there was a reason. There was a reason that
- 53:13Speaker 1: you didn't go on Paradise, and that was because you
- 53:15Speaker 1: started dating Drew Kinney and he he who season was
- 53:21Speaker 1: he on? He was on Deserts. So the whole backstory,
- 53:25Speaker 1: this was just kind of funny whenever I was doing
- 53:27Speaker 1: the whole hopefully and uh, you know, we were quarantining
- 53:32Speaker 1: before it was cool over there, but you know, staying
- 53:35Speaker 1: to question in your hotel room and all of that.
- 53:37Speaker 1: The like. During that process, they had kind of told
- 53:41Speaker 1: me to check out Desert Season because the potential bachelor
- 53:44Speaker 1: is going to be on. Well, there are only three
- 53:46Speaker 1: people left at that point, so I was like, I
- 53:47Speaker 1: can do this. I can watch a couple of seasons,
- 53:49Speaker 1: a couple of episodes of this, but I think that
- 53:53Speaker 1: and I'll honestly, looking back, all of us girls on
- 53:56Speaker 1: one public season. Um, and if you remember, they so
- 54:00Speaker 1: added some girls, so there were extra girls at the
- 54:02Speaker 1: end of the night. They were like I thought they
- 54:04Speaker 1: captured at whatever number it was, but then there ended
- 54:06Speaker 1: up being like five more. Um. I think we were
- 54:10Speaker 1: all kind of picked for either like Brooks Forrester or
- 54:14Speaker 1: Drew Kitty, and that's why that's what they told me, Hey,
- 54:18Speaker 1: check it out and there's three left, and like, let
- 54:20Speaker 1: us know what you're thinking. And whenever they called me
- 54:24Speaker 1: just to say, hey, this is gonna be one poblo,
- 54:26Speaker 1: do you still unto it? I was like, sure, why not?
- 54:28Speaker 1: But then after one publo all of that was over,
- 54:31Speaker 1: I was like, wonder what this too canny guys up to.
- 54:33Speaker 1: So whenever they flew me out to ask me, like, hey,
- 54:36Speaker 1: do you want to be on Bachelor in Paradise, it's
- 54:37Speaker 1: this new show, And my initial reaction was I kind
- 54:42Speaker 1: of felt humiliated going home so early. I don't know
- 54:44Speaker 1: if I want to do that to myself again. And
- 54:46Speaker 1: things were also picking up in my career too, so
- 54:48Speaker 1: I didn't know that I can just leave it and
- 54:50Speaker 1: run around on a beach, because it's kind of the
- 54:52Speaker 1: opposite of what I should be preturing if I want
- 54:56Speaker 1: to be taken. Seriously, these were all thoughts that I
- 54:58Speaker 1: were having I was having in my in my head
- 55:00Speaker 1: at the time. I kind of wish I could go
- 55:02Speaker 1: back and be like, yes, let's do it together. But
- 55:04Speaker 1: he made it. Drew Kenny was runner up on Desiree
- 55:08Speaker 1: season and that was one season before me. He had
- 55:11Speaker 1: been through enough at that point and he didn't want
- 55:14Speaker 1: to expose, you know, any more of his family and
- 55:17Speaker 1: he had just kind of had it. And we met
- 55:20Speaker 1: actually on one of my trips out there to talk
- 55:22Speaker 1: about being on Bachelor in Paradise because he lived in
- 55:25Speaker 1: l A. I lived in Florida still, so I actually
- 55:28Speaker 1: messaged him. I was like are you are you were?
- 55:30Speaker 1: You asked like, what's what's the deal? So we were
- 55:33Speaker 1: kind of hooking up on Instagram before it was cool
- 55:36Speaker 1: and I was a deal and are you gonna do it?
- 55:40Speaker 1: And I'm not really sure about this show because it
- 55:42Speaker 1: was the first time they had ever even I mentioned it,
- 55:45Speaker 1: so I was thinking, yeah, like, what's the goal here?
- 55:49Speaker 1: We all gonna look ridiculous or I don't know. We
- 55:53Speaker 1: both decided not to do it because we found each
- 55:55Speaker 1: other instead, and we were like, we don't really need
- 55:57Speaker 1: that show to finding each other. We already found each
- 55:59Speaker 1: other there and that's funny enough. We went on a
- 56:03Speaker 1: trip to Mexico that summer and we just had the blast.
- 56:08Speaker 1: And I flew out a day early because how to
- 56:10Speaker 1: get back to work. He ended up running into the
- 56:13Speaker 1: long Gale and Christops and Chris Harrison and the airport
- 56:17Speaker 1: on his way back from Mexico. They were filming into Loom.
- 56:20Speaker 1: So that's awesome. I was. Yeah, so I was like,
- 56:25Speaker 1: this is this is kind of funny. So I didn't
- 56:27Speaker 1: messile on a Mexican adventure, Mexico adventure over here, like
- 56:31Speaker 1: and I got to go with the person I loved,
- 56:33Speaker 1: so it was perfect. How long were you together? Um,
- 56:37Speaker 1: we're still in l a together. So wait, you guys
- 56:40Speaker 1: are together six years? No? Yeah? Yeah. So it's crazy
- 56:49Speaker 1: because I think, like, oh, I wish I were to
- 56:52Speaker 1: stay in touch with some of my some of the
- 56:54Speaker 1: friends that really got a long with and we still
- 56:55Speaker 1: pay each other back on social media makes it really
- 56:57Speaker 1: easy for that. But I guess I I mean, I
- 57:00Speaker 1: still get my best friend from my bachelor experience and
- 57:03Speaker 1: just happened after the fact. Wait, this is wild. This
- 57:07Speaker 1: is a story that hasn't been shared enough in Bachelor
- 57:09Speaker 1: name pretty private like that. I guess, well, hey from us,
- 57:14Speaker 1: it's the almost famous podcast. Congrats, some big deal, a
- 57:18Speaker 1: story we didn't even know about it. Thanks guys, Thanks guys.
- 57:23Speaker 1: How are you guys doing? Then you're engaged. I'm engaged,
- 57:26Speaker 1: happily engaged, thrilled. Ashley's happily married, I think with two dogs,
- 57:33Speaker 1: and we are happily married and we have one dog,
- 57:38Speaker 1: but that one fine, Well there's always she was at
- 57:41Speaker 1: her parents house and so there's like six dogs. Yeah, yeah,
- 57:45Speaker 1: there she goes, she said. I wanted to say hi,
- 57:48Speaker 1: but yeah, well, depending on where we are in the country,
- 57:50Speaker 1: we have a number of dogs. Oh, Amy Long, you
- 57:57Speaker 1: are a dream. Hey, congrats again on behalf of all
- 58:00Speaker 1: of us. This is a bachelor success story that we
- 58:02Speaker 1: will celebrate. Uh please tell Drew hello for us, and uh,
- 58:09Speaker 1: we really appreciate you coming on. And I if all
- 58:12Speaker 1: else failed, I think you made the right decision, if
- 58:14Speaker 1: my opinion matters at all, by not going on Paradise
- 58:17Speaker 1: and pursuing this relationship that has proven to stay in
- 58:21Speaker 1: the test of time. Amy Long, thank you, Thank you.
- 58:25Speaker 1: Great to see you guys, by I mean thank you.
- 58:29Speaker 1: That's awesome. Thank you. Yeah, of course, I was actually
- 58:35Speaker 1: hoping to stick up for one pable a little bit more.
- 58:38Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. After rewatching his the episode, I
- 58:42Speaker 1: was like, man, I don't think that he had a
- 58:44Speaker 1: fair shot. We talked about it with Charlie and if
- 58:47Speaker 1: it makes you feel any better, okay, yeah, what she
- 58:51Speaker 1: actually had to say, I was like, I agree. I
- 58:53Speaker 1: always admired the hell out of her because she was
- 58:55Speaker 1: not a sophisticated and I'll again I was like, wow,
- 58:58Speaker 1: she's killer. She she seems to be a consistent voice
- 59:04Speaker 1: of not like reason and like logic and just like
- 59:09Speaker 1: a really caring voice. Um. So yeah, rough, you don't
- 59:14Speaker 1: just like you don't want to see these go Yeah
- 59:16Speaker 1: you don't want to see Yeah, you don't want to
- 59:17Speaker 1: see these goat episodes go and drag somebody through it again.
- 59:21Speaker 1: And it kind of felt like it did right, Um,
- 59:24Speaker 1: which is tough, but yeah, he uh that was rough.
- 59:29Speaker 1: Well I'm just yeah, I was like, I wonder what
- 59:32Speaker 1: he is doing today, but I don't know. I just
- 59:35Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, he just got it so bad.
- 59:39Speaker 1: But you know, I'm really happy for you. It's really
- 59:43Speaker 1: cool to be a bachelor family. And it was this
- 59:46Speaker 1: is a fun like revisit because I won't like, like,
- 59:48Speaker 1: I kind of avoided it for a while. It's really embarrassed.
- 59:51Speaker 1: And then I was like, one, am I embarrassed? This
- 59:53Speaker 1: is stupid? No, you know, And I think there's always
- 59:56Speaker 1: that moment where, you know, for me, it was a
- 59:58Speaker 1: little different because I got back, you know, I went
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: from the Bachelor to the Bachelor, and I saw the
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: beauty with I think I got to see the beauty
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: within the craziness of it all. And so I just
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: like really have enjoyed meeting the different contestants and the
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: people in their stories, um, and now seeing you know,
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: everybody come out on the better side of it all.
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: Like I think that's good. It's nothing to be embarrassed by.
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: Like everybody has these crazy stories from the show. Um.
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: But yeah, I just appreciate you coming on because life
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: has moved on, right, I'm engaged with somebody who's never
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: been a part of the show. But it's fun to
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: get to meet people like you who've done it, who've
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: been in it. And you know, I had no clue
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: and that's my fault that you were still in a
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: sense in it. And uh, I'm really happy to hear that.
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: Thank I'll pass that on to please do so. Thanks An. Yeah,
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: thanks guys, great to chat with you too. Well, we
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: want to think Charlie joint for joining this podcast. She
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: is a voice of reason and just tremendous voice in
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: the Bachelor family. If you want to hear her voice more, uh,
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: you have to go listen to her podcast, Dear Shandy.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: It is terrific. Uh. You can hear her wisdom, her insight,
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: her elegance, and also her raw honesty. So again, go
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: check out Charlene's podcast, Dear Shandy. Well, our next guest
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: was not a part of Wan Pablo season. We're getting
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: a breath of fresh air from somebody that can offer it. Uh.
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: We have Heather Martin on the line right now. Heather
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: has been working on a few projects. She's been traveling
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: the US, uh, and we have her live. Heather, Welcome
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: to the podcast. Thanks for having me, guys, It's good
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: to be here. So Heather, catch us up a little bit.
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: I know we have some specific things we want to
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: talking about, especially the new music video coming out, some
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: of your projects you're working on. Also, I have been
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: following I think last evening this is going to come
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: off so weird. Um, And there's no other way to say.
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: I watched you in the bathtub um with Hannah Brown
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: answering questions to fans. So you have been up to
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: some stuff? What's been going on? So? I mean so
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: right now, Hannah the last minute last week it was
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: like you when it comes to this spot with me.
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: So currently I'm at this insane health spat, so she
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: said spot. I didn't realize so I was thinking just
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: like relaxing spat. But we're at this like it's called here, yes,
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: and it is insane. It's like absolutely stunning and it's
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: like European style in the hills. It's like absolutely beautiful,
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: but it is insane. Like we're working up at six
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: am and working out like all day and then being
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: like treated like queens and jumping around the golf car
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: and getting massages. So it's been pretty cool. But yeah,
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: where are you there for? Um? It's a three day
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: retreat so we leave today. But that's awesome. Have you
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: have you and Hannah always been this close or has
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: it been since she moved to California that you guys
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: got closer? Oh? No, And me and Hannah have always
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: been super close. Um, I haven't been able to hear us.
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: That's just because she's been on TV shows like for
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: the past year. But no, yeah, we've all believe them
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: close forever since the show the the This Retreat. Yeah again,
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: I have been watching you, um and this this retreat
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: does look amazing. Uh, just for anybody out there listening,
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: who you know, it's like, hey, I need a girls
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: get away or guys get away or couples get away,
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: whatever it is. How are you feeling three days into
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: a health and wellness retreat? Has it been worth it
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: for your friendship and for you personally? It is totally
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: unworth it. I mean we're kind of I feel like
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: we're not doing it in the way that everyone does it.
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: Like like last night we like so you're just calories
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: a day and we just, um, we went crazy last
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: night and like begged the front desk to let us
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: get some and sneak some pizza. And but no, it's
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: been feeling amazing for the most part, as long as like,
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: I feel like it would be even better if we're
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: actually eating great and but it's been. It's been great,
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: And it's been so fun to like actually connect with
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: Hannah again. And like just have someone on one time.
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: So so new something something that you have out is
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: a music video with loss in Bates is a song
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: called song for a Girl. How did you get in
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: a music video? So it's so so random. Um, it's
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: been like my life long goal. I'm like, there's like
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: there's one thing I want to do in life. It
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: was being a country music video, which is like the
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: most random thing, but it was so he just randomly
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: message gm mea on Instagram, was like, Hey, do you
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: want me in the music video? And I was like,
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: no questions asked, absolutely and so um yeah, he like
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: it would just message me in the beginning of July
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: and then like two weeks later he like flew um
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: their team flew me and my little sister out to Nashville.
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: And then yeah, that's kind of how it happened. That's
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: so cool. You join a whole bunch of bachelor girls
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: who have been in music videos. Now Tia has been
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: in a country music video, right, and so is hand
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: I think, Hannah Gee, am I'm making that up? Hannah
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: Gee did a butt like she was like she like
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: did a bunch of music videos, like even before the
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: show is there anybody a missing? I think Hannah and
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: oh yeah, thank you. I knew there was the other one. Yeah,
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: I think she did them too. There's obviously a plane here.
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: Country singers are singing seeing that's a target demographic. Did
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: you know team that I was once in a country
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: music No, but I was gonna say, I'm sure Lauren
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: Bushnell has been in a country music that would make sense. Yeah,
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: that would make sense. Um. I was in Ford's uh
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: country music video. You can look it up. I was
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: a school teacher who was just greatly um her and
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: confused by a girl. It's it's a great, a great watch.
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: Wait what was this was last year? Um? The song
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: is how You Lose a Woman by cult Ford. Um,
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: I do play a school teacher. Um, I am you know.
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: In fact, I'm not gonna give you too much away
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: because I think you need to go out and watch
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: this video. Um, but before you that, you have to
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: watch Heather's video that just came out. Then. Well, I
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: wasn't this in Hot Topics last year? Honestly, I don't know,
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: like I eliminated it from the Hot Topics. It is
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: actually it's really fun. Um I was distressed, but the
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: crazy part is so Heather. I don't know if you
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: had this experience, but you're kind of acting out whatever
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: it is that the artist asks of you during this
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: video and the kind of the music is playing in
- 1:07:07Speaker 1: the background, But you hear this song twenty thirty forty
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: I don't know how many times, and it's you know,
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: there's multiple cameras and there's multiple camera crews and there's producers. Uh,
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: it is a it is an intensive experience. How long
- 1:07:22Speaker 1: is your shoot? Was it one day or is it
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: multiple days? There's just one day. I like to consider
- 1:07:26Speaker 1: myself a one take guy. So yeah, and I do
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: know how to lose a woman no longer, but I did,
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: and so I was pretty good at it. That's amazing.
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: It was you in like the school the entire time.
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: Like was she a fellow teacher? Uh? Well, I don't
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: really know who the woman was that he was referencing
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: because she never showed up in the video. Um but
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: Colt played the janitor who was kind of overhearing my complaints,
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: and I was the school teacher in my office, frustrated,
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: its saddened her. I was making poor decisions. I was
- 1:08:03Speaker 1: staying at work too late. Um so when it comes
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: to though, Yeah, I'm not the topic here to talk about.
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: I get to talk about myself all the time on
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: this podcast. There's some flecting. Yeah about what is the song?
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: H what is the song that you played in? What
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: is that about? Um? It's so it's called song for
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: a Girl. So basically it's like a very lighthearted song
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: about he's singing a song. It's like a summertime vibe
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: song that he's like singing it about. He can't like
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: focus on writing or anything that he's doing because he's
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: just thinking about the girl. So that's pretty much it.
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: So yeah, People Magazine said it is depicting the early
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: stage of a blossoming romance. And when I see these
- 1:08:50Speaker 1: pictures of you with Lawson, I think, oh my god,
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: have there kissed another guy? Yeah? What I'm saying that like,
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: I'm looking at these pictures and I'm feeling a blossoming
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: romance between you two. Was there anything more than just
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: co stars here? No? No, wasn't there really wasn't he was.
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: He was literally he was so much fun. But yeah, no, Unfortunately, Well,
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: according to last night's uh Instagram live, UH, you are
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: looking for a man with a servant's heart who was
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: humble and kind of love. Have you found this man?
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: I have not. I have not found this man yet.
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: I feel like they're ben Where do you guys have
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: any suggestions far between? Well, we we know a lot
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: of people from the Bachelor franchise. I think some of
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: them would fall into this category. Uh, the for anybod
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: be out there right now that is single, that is dating,
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: how are you going about finding this man or this partner?
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: For you? Me? How am I? I'm really not. I
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: think that's the issue. You probably, I mean I don't.
- 1:10:17Speaker 1: I don't really, especially like right now. It's like, I
- 1:10:20Speaker 1: don't know, how do you meet people in this time?
- 1:10:22Speaker 1: It's really hard. You know, it's not easy. I mean
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: obviously you know there is the social distancing, there is
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: the pandemic. I don't know if dating has ever been easy.
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: I don't remember any generation that said that, Hey, dating
- 1:10:35Speaker 1: is super simple. But I had some advice and I
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: got to give a shout out to our scrubbing in
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: podcast friends Becca and Tanya. Tanya a little over a
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: year ago gave me some advice to any single person
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: out there, and this is what she told me. I
- 1:10:51Speaker 1: think it's I think it's simple, but I think it's
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: the best advice I've ever been given. Um. She said,
- 1:10:57Speaker 1: if you're single and you want a partner, some don't.
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: It's great. If you're single and looking, you can never
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: stop dating. Keep dating, go on bad dates, go on
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: good dates, go on dates in between. It helps you
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: not only get out there and find what you're looking for,
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: but it also helps you create stories and connect with
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: people that you typically wouldn't connect with. And I think
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: for me, I just took that and I've told any
- 1:11:21Speaker 1: of my single friends that like, if you're looking, just
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: don't stop dating. Get out there, have fun. People are
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: interested in all different sorts of people. That is that's
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: true because it's the total opposite. I recently told the
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: friend was like, I'm just like, I don't know, I
- 1:11:39Speaker 1: want to give up so bad. Um, And I was like,
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: and I was like, if you if you stop dating,
- 1:11:46Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that you're giving up. It just means that,
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: like the universe is going to help, is going to
- 1:11:52Speaker 1: get your guy to you in a different way. It'll
- 1:11:56Speaker 1: just come in a different way. And now you just
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: like show up at your doorstep. Yeah, like just going
- 1:12:02Speaker 1: around life like go grabbing a coffee and like then
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: there's a cute guy on lines something like that. I
- 1:12:08Speaker 1: don't know, you never know. I know. That's the thing
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: is like I just I really I love meeting new
- 1:12:15Speaker 1: people and I love like connecting with people. But I
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: just I don't like I hate dating because like I
- 1:12:21Speaker 1: hate going on a date and then then and then
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: you just I feel like I kind of know immediately
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: and it's like you have to say no to a
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: second day. It's just like I feel terrible. It like
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: stresses me out. It makes me feel like a terrible human,
- 1:12:34Speaker 1: and so I just kind of try to avoid it,
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: which is probably the wrong move. Well, you're young enough
- 1:12:38Speaker 1: that if you want to avoid it, you can go
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: ahead and avoid it. Actually, and I will disagree on this,
- 1:12:44Speaker 1: I think you just keep dating. I think people can.
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: I think people can take getting said no to a
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: few times. I think you can. You can take saying
- 1:12:52Speaker 1: no to people a few times. But you are a catch. Um,
- 1:12:56Speaker 1: You're a terrific human. I hope you have a blast
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: on this reat. Three. And and please, from from Ashley myself,
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: please pass on to Hannah that we say hello and
- 1:13:07Speaker 1: wishing her the best again. If you want to find
- 1:13:09Speaker 1: Heather Martin. Uh, go listen to and watch Song for
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: a Girl. This is a beautiful song. Uh. Heather is
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: in the video and it's by Lawson Bates. Song for
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: a Girl by Lawson Bates. Heather Martin, thank you for
- 1:13:25Speaker 1: coming on. Awesome. Thanks guys on this podcast. Obviously at
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: the beginning, we topped at this podcast. Obviously at the beginning,
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: we hit some hot topics that are big and Bachelor Nation.
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: We then went on to have some tremendous guests. We
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: want to thank Charlene, Amy and Heather for coming on
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: the podcast today. They were all terrific and all insightful
- 1:13:49Speaker 1: and Uh. And then I want to thank my co
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: host Ashley for sitting with us for the last hour
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: plus walking through everything Bachelor. Hey, we'll talk to you
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: next week. Uh. We have a really great in depth
- 1:14:03Speaker 1: coming up. As we mentioned with Jason Tardik, it's going
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: to be terrific. I'm super excited for that. UM, make
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