Latest / The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast / S2. #1 "Bachelors in Paradise"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I almost famous podcast
- 0:03Speaker 1: with our radio everybody Ashley. I voice is gonna sound
- 0:09Speaker 1: a little different for a while because I have a
- 0:12Speaker 1: very special co host, the Deaner, the Dean Baby. Hey
- 0:18Speaker 1: how are you, Ben Man? You did so good last
- 0:21Speaker 1: time we had to have you back. I'm a flatter,
- 0:24Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me back. But I
- 0:26Speaker 1: feel very special because I get to be your co
- 0:29Speaker 1: host this time. Um, at least for a while. I
- 0:31Speaker 1: hear a rumor that Ashley jumped on a plane to
- 0:34Speaker 1: fly back because she had to be in studio with you.
- 0:37Speaker 1: She could not be away from you for too much longer.
- 0:39Speaker 1: It's pretty lonely in here without her, so uh yeah, Um, well, Dean,
- 0:45Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Man. We had a crazy Bachelor
- 0:48Speaker 1: in Paradise premiere last night, and it's good that you're
- 0:51Speaker 1: around because I feel like if anybody would know what
- 0:54Speaker 1: went down, it could be somebody that was there. Um, Dean,
- 0:59Speaker 1: let's just want to jump into it, and here you're
- 1:01Speaker 1: kind of recap of last night. Uh. I guess I
- 1:05Speaker 1: just want to hear your recap. I guess of the
- 1:07Speaker 1: premier episode of Bachelor and Paradise. Um, I liked it.
- 1:11Speaker 1: I thought that it encompassed the early relationships pretty well.
- 1:15Speaker 1: And obviously there's a lot of drama around the whole
- 1:18Speaker 1: Cranda Mario thing, and they showed a lot of footage
- 1:20Speaker 1: from that, so, um, you know, I thought I thought
- 1:23Speaker 1: overall it was a good episode. So that's I mean,
- 1:26Speaker 1: I guess that's been the hot topic, right, I mean,
- 1:28Speaker 1: everybody is talking about. Everybody has been talking about. It
- 1:30Speaker 1: made national news. Um. You know, outside of the actual
- 1:35Speaker 1: event that took place. From your perspective, while you were
- 1:38Speaker 1: there in Paradise and the cameras kind of went down,
- 1:40Speaker 1: what were you thinking, did you did you know what
- 1:42Speaker 1: was going on? Um? They didn't really give us much
- 1:45Speaker 1: information about what was going on. They just said that
- 1:47Speaker 1: there was an incident and then that we'd be they
- 1:50Speaker 1: would be delaying um um filming for the time being.
- 1:54Speaker 1: And we we pretty much went about our lives living
- 1:56Speaker 1: on the island there in Paradise for you know, the
- 1:58Speaker 1: next three days, UM doing what were you allowed to
- 2:02Speaker 1: talk to each other? Yeah, I mean, of course we're
- 2:04Speaker 1: basically we were hanging out normally, just without cameras. UM,
- 2:07Speaker 1: while they were figuring out what they wanted to do
- 2:09Speaker 1: about everything. Um So, I mean, so you were in
- 2:12Speaker 1: the same place that we're seeing on TV there. I
- 2:14Speaker 1: haven't been down there, so you're you're on that little
- 2:17Speaker 1: in that little well, I don't know how area thing,
- 2:20Speaker 1: and no cameras around, so you were literally living in
- 2:22Speaker 1: paradise with no pressure. Yeah, no pressure. And it was
- 2:25Speaker 1: interesting too because what we won't be able to see
- 2:27Speaker 1: is a lot of those relationships continue to grow while
- 2:30Speaker 1: the cameras were gone, right, So you know, there's gonna
- 2:32Speaker 1: be probably about a ten day period that we won't
- 2:35Speaker 1: see when we all come back for I don't know
- 2:36Speaker 1: if it's episode two or episode three or which one
- 2:38Speaker 1: it is, but um, a lot of the relationships and
- 2:40Speaker 1: the friendships, romantic ones, what have it are going to
- 2:43Speaker 1: be much closer than they were before we left. I
- 2:46Speaker 1: mean that's I mean, that's a great thing to bring
- 2:48Speaker 1: up to to all the listeners. Then, so the fans
- 2:50Speaker 1: of Bachelor Paradise are gonna see the resuming of paradise
- 2:53Speaker 1: right where the cameras come back in and all of
- 2:55Speaker 1: you kind of gathered together again. And what the viewer
- 2:58Speaker 1: need to understand is that for three days, there were
- 3:02Speaker 1: no no stresses, no cameras, so people are just building
- 3:04Speaker 1: relationships and starting to talk to each other, maybe more
- 3:06Speaker 1: than they would if cameras were around. Well three days
- 3:09Speaker 1: three days there, and then I think it was maybe
- 3:11Speaker 1: like seven days when we were all basically flowing back
- 3:14Speaker 1: to our homes, um, and then eventually flowing back to Mexico.
- 3:17Speaker 1: So um, you know, there was basically a week ten
- 3:19Speaker 1: days where we're all essentially in a group chat talking
- 3:21Speaker 1: pretty much every single day, um, you know, obviously relying
- 3:24Speaker 1: on each other for support and updating with each other
- 3:26Speaker 1: if we hear anything. So um, it was a lot
- 3:28Speaker 1: of back and forth that pretty much all of the
- 3:30Speaker 1: cast members had with each other. So that's sort of interesting.
- 3:31Speaker 1: So you could really develop a relationship with somebody who
- 3:34Speaker 1: just met or a friendship during that off time. Yeah,
- 3:38Speaker 1: And it's it's so much more of a real life
- 3:40Speaker 1: scenario too. I mean, you know, obviously, when you're on
- 3:43Speaker 1: Paradise or the Bachelor Bachelorette, you don't really have the
- 3:45Speaker 1: opportunity to, um see how someone I guess acts when
- 3:48Speaker 1: you're not immediately in front of them. It's always just
- 3:49Speaker 1: face to face interaction. But this is more of like
- 3:52Speaker 1: a real world setting of this is how I act
- 3:54Speaker 1: with them, you know, when we're halfway across the country,
- 3:56Speaker 1: whatever it is. I mean, I guess, so how many
- 3:59Speaker 1: of these are relationships that we're going to see uh
- 4:02Speaker 1: coming up throughout the season? Really started to blossom, Um,
- 4:06Speaker 1: in this little period of time there there there are
- 4:09Speaker 1: quite a few of them. Um. I mean, I can't
- 4:12Speaker 1: put a specific number on it, but I would say
- 4:13Speaker 1: almost majority of them were influenced by it. I mean,
- 4:16Speaker 1: that's what a unique situation. I mean, I always kind
- 4:19Speaker 1: of feels as I'm thinking about this, that's not a
- 4:22Speaker 1: bad format for the show in general, right like bringing
- 4:24Speaker 1: the cameras, introduce everybody, you know, get everybody kind of comfortable,
- 4:28Speaker 1: then everybody leaves and give these people two or three
- 4:30Speaker 1: days just to kind of invest into each other without
- 4:32Speaker 1: any cameras around, and then we'll come back in and
- 4:34Speaker 1: kind of catch back up with their stories. Do you
- 4:36Speaker 1: think that's a good format? Maybe keeping the in the future.
- 4:38Speaker 1: It's definitely interesting. It's definitely the most unique, I guess
- 4:43Speaker 1: in situation in the Bachelor franchise up at least in
- 4:47Speaker 1: Paradise up until this point. So, um, I mean, it's
- 4:49Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see what it plays out. I
- 4:50Speaker 1: guess it's kind of still early to make that judgment,
- 4:52Speaker 1: but it definitely definitely influenced things quite a bit. Mean,
- 4:56Speaker 1: did you have a relationship continue throughout these couple of days? Yes,
- 5:01Speaker 1: I did, okay, because I mean I saw a little
- 5:04Speaker 1: meme of you sitting on the beach all alone, playing
- 5:06Speaker 1: with sand and and as somebody that I think you're
- 5:08Speaker 1: great and from everything I hear, which is a lot
- 5:11Speaker 1: from Ashley um I and I guess our producer Amy there, uh,
- 5:15Speaker 1: you seem like an awesome dude. And I was I
- 5:18Speaker 1: was looking at these memes and I was sad for
- 5:19Speaker 1: a second, thinking poor Dean, Uh just killing the beach
- 5:23Speaker 1: all alone. Now, No, I think the point that I
- 5:25Speaker 1: was hanging out by myself, I was like the only
- 5:26Speaker 1: guy on the island or on the beach, and there
- 5:28Speaker 1: was like four girls and they were having the girls time,
- 5:30Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm just gonna go play in
- 5:31Speaker 1: the stand for a little bit by myself. Um and like,
- 5:34Speaker 1: let I love that. You know one thing I want
- 5:38Speaker 1: to ask you about because you want people kind of forget.
- 5:41Speaker 1: But when I was on the Bachelor at I was
- 5:42Speaker 1: twenty five, um and everybody criticized me for being young. Right,
- 5:46Speaker 1: he's too young to do this. He's not really ready,
- 5:49Speaker 1: he's not interested, he's just doing this for for kicks
- 5:51Speaker 1: and giggles. And I knew, you know that wasn't the case.
- 5:55Speaker 1: I was ready, Um, to you and I can relate
- 5:57Speaker 1: on that level now. I'y eight, So you can see
- 5:59Speaker 1: how my to my my life has been consumed with
- 6:02Speaker 1: the Bachelor. Uh, and you better be careful because this
- 6:05Speaker 1: could be you soon. Um, but I want to I
- 6:08Speaker 1: want to hear your thoughts. So at twenty five, you're
- 6:10Speaker 1: sitting on the beach, were you ready to kind of
- 6:13Speaker 1: find a relationship in Paradise? Yeah? I wanted to to
- 6:16Speaker 1: be able jump in head first, and I mean, funny enough,
- 6:18Speaker 1: that is kind of what happened. So, Um, I think
- 6:21Speaker 1: that everyone that was there was was ready and willing
- 6:24Speaker 1: for that. It's just obviously happened for some people and
- 6:26Speaker 1: not so much for others. Yeah, I think you're right.
- 6:30Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's always good to kind of
- 6:32Speaker 1: protect yourself there and make sure people know, like you're
- 6:35Speaker 1: not doing this just for fun, because a lot of
- 6:37Speaker 1: this isn't just fun, right, I mean a lot of
- 6:39Speaker 1: it is is hard work. Uh, and it's a lot
- 6:42Speaker 1: of this downtime, it's a lot of playing in the sand.
- 6:45Speaker 1: And uh, it's good to know that you went there,
- 6:47Speaker 1: uh for the right reasons. Yeah. I mean, as much
- 6:50Speaker 1: as it kind of stinks to say, some of the
- 6:51Speaker 1: most stressful one with my life have happened over the
- 6:53Speaker 1: past four or five months when I've been filming the show.
- 6:55Speaker 1: So there are obviously a lot of fun moments that
- 6:57Speaker 1: have have taken place, both during and after. But it, um,
- 7:00Speaker 1: it's it's definitely a give and take. I want to
- 7:02Speaker 1: ask quickly about the shutdown. So what we saw on
- 7:05Speaker 1: the first episode was very dramatic, like they the girls
- 7:09Speaker 1: were like what's happening and like all that. So what
- 7:12Speaker 1: really happened, Like, if you could just describe for a minute,
- 7:16Speaker 1: was there a buzz? Did you know Karin and do
- 7:18Speaker 1: Mario had been pulled away? I mean what I know
- 7:21Speaker 1: is pretty much what everyone knows. I wasn't there for
- 7:23Speaker 1: any of the interactions between them, so I can't really
- 7:25Speaker 1: speculate too much. But um, I mean when the shutdown happened,
- 7:31Speaker 1: when they turned the cameras off, Karan and Tomorio were removed,
- 7:34Speaker 1: so it was basically all of the original cast members
- 7:36Speaker 1: of minus those two. And you know, of course we
- 7:39Speaker 1: could we could circulate rumors amongst the group, but none
- 7:41Speaker 1: of us really knew exactly what happened. Um. And that's
- 7:44Speaker 1: another thing too. You know, during the shutdown, some of
- 7:47Speaker 1: us spoke with Mario, some of us spoke with Krant,
- 7:48Speaker 1: and we got both sides of that story. And obviously
- 7:50Speaker 1: there's a lot of press about it. So, um, it's
- 7:53Speaker 1: nice to be able to see I guess it all
- 7:54Speaker 1: played back because this is my first time seeing with
- 7:57Speaker 1: my own eyes. Yeah. Do you do you think the
- 8:00Speaker 1: way you viewed it last night? Because there's a lot
- 8:01Speaker 1: of questions that I'm getting sent in through email from
- 8:04Speaker 1: from listeners. Do you feel like the way it was
- 8:06Speaker 1: shown last night was appropriate and kind of done similar
- 8:10Speaker 1: to how it really happened in real life, or where
- 8:11Speaker 1: there are things edited out, where the things over dramatized,
- 8:14Speaker 1: I mean, correct portrayal last night? Yeah, as far as
- 8:18Speaker 1: I observed, I think that they displayed it pretty well. Um. Again,
- 8:22Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they're leaving anything out or add
- 8:24Speaker 1: anything extra, but from what I saw, it seemed to
- 8:27Speaker 1: be pretty harmless and um, yeah. I mean again, I'm
- 8:32Speaker 1: kind of in the same book as you guys in
- 8:33Speaker 1: terms of what I know from just from what I saw. Well,
- 8:36Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, that's that's I mean, that's totally fine.
- 8:38Speaker 1: That's an interesting respected that you were there, you're you're
- 8:41Speaker 1: a part of everything, and that you didn't in that field,
- 8:44Speaker 1: you didn't know. I mean, that wasn't affecting the every
- 8:47Speaker 1: moment of every day until really the shutdown, right, No,
- 8:51Speaker 1: not at all. And I think the night of the shutdown, um,
- 8:54Speaker 1: I was removed from the group as well. I think uh,
- 8:58Speaker 1: I pulled Christina aside and I guess noted how stressful
- 9:02Speaker 1: it must be for her, and so I gave her,
- 9:04Speaker 1: like like an hour long massage in the privacy of
- 9:07Speaker 1: like one of the cabanis bean beany man, Well, there's
- 9:13Speaker 1: a problem, Dean. You're you're kind of in a place
- 9:16Speaker 1: right now. Not a problem. I'm jealous. Honestly, you can
- 9:19Speaker 1: do no wrong. So you announcing to the public that
- 9:23Speaker 1: you just gave Christine an hour long massage because it
- 9:25Speaker 1: must have been stressful. It's about it. It's charming, and
- 9:29Speaker 1: every woman out there listening to this podcast, it is
- 9:33Speaker 1: just melting right now, because an idea of an hour
- 9:36Speaker 1: long Dean massage is a dream. I was doing it
- 9:39Speaker 1: for selfish reasons. I just wanted to get one back eventually.
- 9:42Speaker 1: And did that happen? Unfortunately? No, When everybody came down
- 9:47Speaker 1: the stairs, did she sort of? Was she the one
- 9:51Speaker 1: that you liked right away? I was definitely the most
- 9:55Speaker 1: struck by her beauty the first time she came down
- 9:58Speaker 1: the stairs. Um, I I think that she has a
- 10:00Speaker 1: really fun personality and that as time wore on that
- 10:02Speaker 1: first day, i'd be again to get to see that.
- 10:05Speaker 1: Um it's funny too, because I was I was drinking
- 10:07Speaker 1: quite I mean not quite a bit, but I was
- 10:08Speaker 1: definitely like having fun with my friends. And then I
- 10:11Speaker 1: realized that she wasn't drinking very much. And when I
- 10:13Speaker 1: began to realize that her and I had a spark,
- 10:14Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I need to tone it back,
- 10:17Speaker 1: keep drinking water and kind of like focusing on this.
- 10:20Speaker 1: So you were, I mean, you're ready to sacrifice your
- 10:23Speaker 1: fun to kind of get to get the nok skin
- 10:25Speaker 1: a little better? Absolutely? Oh man, this is this is
- 10:29Speaker 1: gonna be a fun storyline to see played out the
- 10:31Speaker 1: whole season. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna really pressure
- 10:33Speaker 1: you to answer, because I want to watch as a
- 10:36Speaker 1: fan and as a friend and kind of see where
- 10:38Speaker 1: this goes. And I honestly don't know, but I could
- 10:41Speaker 1: tell after last night episode there was something there that
- 10:44Speaker 1: was special, um, not just for you, but with a
- 10:47Speaker 1: couple of the couples there. And and I just on
- 10:50Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten, how much love was
- 10:53Speaker 1: there in Paradise this year compared to the previous seasons.
- 10:58Speaker 1: I guess it's the only way we can only do it.
- 11:00Speaker 1: I would say maybe like a seven. UM, I will
- 11:03Speaker 1: say last there's a lot of love last season, and
- 11:06Speaker 1: that's the only season I watched, so it's it's it's
- 11:08Speaker 1: basically the only one I'm comparing it to. UM, but
- 11:11Speaker 1: I think I think the last season had a little
- 11:12Speaker 1: bit more love than this one. Well yeah, and this
- 11:16Speaker 1: and this is kind of something I want to start
- 11:18Speaker 1: UM talking about at the beginning of this podcast, considering
- 11:21Speaker 1: this is season one of Bachelor in Paradise, almost famous
- 11:25Speaker 1: episode one. So the shutdown happened, the filming schedule or
- 11:29Speaker 1: the amount of time that you're on the island is shortened.
- 11:31Speaker 1: Did that negatively affect anything or did it Did it
- 11:35Speaker 1: affect the relationships at all? Or do you feel like
- 11:36Speaker 1: people just kind of got right back up and going
- 11:39Speaker 1: waits the shutdown? You mean yeah, after the shutdown, filming
- 11:43Speaker 1: was kind of condensed, right, I mean, you're pretty rusty,
- 11:46Speaker 1: You're only there a few more weeks. Do you think
- 11:48Speaker 1: that affected situation? The situation? Yeah, I see what you're saying.
- 11:51Speaker 1: So so maybe the shutdown kind of eliminated a few
- 11:53Speaker 1: row ceremonies, obviously limited a few days that we could
- 11:55Speaker 1: spend with each other, and people were probably trying to
- 11:58Speaker 1: expedite their relationships a little bit more than they would
- 12:00Speaker 1: be otherwise. Um, it definitely, it definitely changed things. And
- 12:06Speaker 1: again I don't have anything to compare it to, but
- 12:07Speaker 1: you could definitely feel the tension in the air, maybe
- 12:10Speaker 1: among the people that were less solidified in the relationships
- 12:12Speaker 1: that they felt like the time was dwindling down and
- 12:15Speaker 1: they had to, um, you know, make some moves. Yeah, yeah,
- 12:18Speaker 1: I mean so, I guess I'm watching the preview Dean,
- 12:21Speaker 1: and I'm a little bit of a pessimist because I
- 12:24Speaker 1: live in I've lived in this world for a while,
- 12:26Speaker 1: and I get asked the question all the time. How
- 12:27Speaker 1: can somebody fall in love and such a short period
- 12:30Speaker 1: of time? And I can say, well, and I know
- 12:32Speaker 1: from experience, it can happen. I I don't know the
- 12:35Speaker 1: psychology around I don't know the science around it, but
- 12:36Speaker 1: it can happen, right, Um. And I'm watching the preview
- 12:39Speaker 1: for Paradise this year and there are a lot of tears.
- 12:41Speaker 1: And I was honestly surprised because I expected this to
- 12:45Speaker 1: be just more of a all fun and games. Everybody
- 12:47Speaker 1: goes has a good time, you know, spence time on
- 12:50Speaker 1: the beach, and they get back and they come back
- 12:52Speaker 1: to the real world and if they want to pursue relationship,
- 12:54Speaker 1: they do. But it seems emotional. I mean, this season
- 12:57Speaker 1: is going to be emotional, isn't it. Well, I mean
- 12:59Speaker 1: I would expecting that too. I was expecting to go
- 13:01Speaker 1: to the beach and have fun with my friends. Maybe
- 13:03Speaker 1: um you know, obviously me a cool girl. But I'm
- 13:06Speaker 1: not sure if you notice in that preview I was
- 13:08Speaker 1: sobbing kind of a lot. Um yeah, um so so yeah.
- 13:15Speaker 1: I mean, as you as you're well aware, you know
- 13:16Speaker 1: you you develop feelings much quicker sometimes than you ever
- 13:19Speaker 1: expect to. And um, when things don't necessarily go the
- 13:21Speaker 1: way that you want them to. Uh, it's it can
- 13:23Speaker 1: be pretty upsetting. Yeah, I mean what I guess what
- 13:26Speaker 1: is it? What is it about when your opinions Bachelor,
- 13:29Speaker 1: Bachelor in Paradix. That kind of um allows feelings to
- 13:32Speaker 1: be wide open like this, that allows feelings to happen
- 13:35Speaker 1: quicker than than the real world. Well, what do you
- 13:38Speaker 1: think I mean? Because obviously all you're really doing is,
- 13:41Speaker 1: you know, you're you're interviewing with people, talking about these
- 13:43Speaker 1: people constantly. Uh, there's no distractions that the real world
- 13:47Speaker 1: typically has for you. So I mean what do you think.
- 13:48Speaker 1: I think those are probably the main ones for me.
- 13:50Speaker 1: You just kind of immerse yourself in this UM environment
- 13:53Speaker 1: and you allow yourself to be, you know, obviously fully
- 13:55Speaker 1: open and susceptible to the feelings that you have when
- 13:57Speaker 1: normally you have these these other distractions to kind of
- 13:59Speaker 1: allow to focus on something something else. Yeah, No, I
- 14:03Speaker 1: think I think you hit it spot on. I've a
- 14:04Speaker 1: I've always when I think about it, I've always said
- 14:07Speaker 1: it's the elimination of distractions, and so maybe it's a
- 14:10Speaker 1: good lesson for the real for real life is as
- 14:12Speaker 1: you pursue somebody or as you're trying to meet, um,
- 14:16Speaker 1: that person that you you could spend the rest of
- 14:17Speaker 1: your life with. It's important to try to eliminate as
- 14:20Speaker 1: many distractions as possible so that you can really focus
- 14:23Speaker 1: on their relationship. I think that's it. I mean, when
- 14:26Speaker 1: you're the bachelor, Bachelor at or when you're in Bachelor
- 14:29Speaker 1: in Paradise, you really only have one responsibility, and that's
- 14:32Speaker 1: not the fall in love. It's to pursue people at
- 14:35Speaker 1: the best of your ability and to see if there's
- 14:37Speaker 1: a connection. Um. And I think that's a really I mean,
- 14:39Speaker 1: that's what I've always said. It's a really good opportunity
- 14:42Speaker 1: for anybody to participate in, as long as it's done
- 14:44Speaker 1: well and with the right intention, um being. I don't know.
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- 17:10Speaker 1: next to you now, and I'm just gonna continue to
- 17:13Speaker 1: be far far away and allow this, this relationship to
- 17:16Speaker 1: bostom between the two of you. Well, we see each
- 17:20Speaker 1: other enough that I don't need him taking your spot
- 17:22Speaker 1: here at my heart. Um, last night, I want to
- 17:24Speaker 1: tell all the listeners out there, last night we were Dean, Amy, Ashley, myself,
- 17:28Speaker 1: frant a text start during Paradise and uh, and it
- 17:32Speaker 1: kind of hit me that you know, I still I've
- 17:35Speaker 1: talked about this before. I closed my eyes during most
- 17:37Speaker 1: makeup makeout scenes because I get really, really just feeling awkward,
- 17:41Speaker 1: and and then this is a joke. And then the
- 17:45Speaker 1: only person that I watched was Dean's makeout scene because
- 17:49Speaker 1: I needed to get some pointers because actually talks so
- 17:51Speaker 1: highly of Dean, I figured he's just a good kiss um,
- 17:55Speaker 1: which which brings me to a listener email that we're
- 17:57Speaker 1: gonna fill in real you have to talk about it.
- 17:59Speaker 1: We have a listener email that we'll do listen to
- 18:02Speaker 1: emails later as well, but this listener emails that asked
- 18:05Speaker 1: just pretty directly, Um, Dean, if Ashley I confessed her
- 18:10Speaker 1: love for you, would you be interested in like, does
- 18:12Speaker 1: that mean that I have confessed love of Fording in
- 18:16Speaker 1: other places? No? No, this is an email. Actually, we
- 18:19Speaker 1: can shut this down right now if with with an
- 18:22Speaker 1: answer here. But then it follows up with, um, have
- 18:26Speaker 1: you and Ashley I kissed before? Which I know the
- 18:28Speaker 1: answer this, but I think we should clear this up
- 18:30Speaker 1: before we get started the rest of the podcast. What
- 18:32Speaker 1: do you mean you the answer, you haven't kissed. I
- 18:35Speaker 1: don't think that would be a huge spoiler, so we're not.
- 18:42Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, no, things are getting crazy. Um, let's
- 18:47Speaker 1: move on. It. We're not gonna get an answer from
- 18:49Speaker 1: these two, so we're gonna talk about last next episode.
- 18:51Speaker 1: I have a couple of bullet points from our text
- 18:53Speaker 1: thread last night that I would like to talk about.
- 18:56Speaker 1: I'm gonna start. I'm gonna start out there and throw
- 18:58Speaker 1: one out there at you. Robbie hair, let's talk about it.
- 19:03Speaker 1: It's it's perfectly manicured at all times. I didn't think
- 19:07Speaker 1: it was that bad at first when you guys were texting,
- 19:09Speaker 1: and then I started seeing it from different angles and
- 19:11Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, there's a piece of his hair
- 19:13Speaker 1: that is significantly longer than the rest of his hair,
- 19:16Speaker 1: and he just he brushes it back on that one side.
- 19:18Speaker 1: Do you think he's receiving more on one side? I
- 19:21Speaker 1: can't really say much about it because I think my
- 19:23Speaker 1: hair looks really weird. Your hair looks beautiful. I busted
- 19:27Speaker 1: all of it off the other day, partly because I'm
- 19:29Speaker 1: mad at that, So, I mean, I can understand Robbie's
- 19:33Speaker 1: decision with what he's doing. Well, I need your advice
- 19:36Speaker 1: from perspective. How does that's my process of getting your
- 19:42Speaker 1: hair to look like that? You think? Is it? Is
- 19:45Speaker 1: it natural? Is there like I mean, is there a
- 19:47Speaker 1: straight iron? Is it a lot of gel? How does
- 19:49Speaker 1: how does that happen? I don't think he uses anything
- 19:53Speaker 1: like that. I'm sure he uses a lot of gel
- 19:54Speaker 1: to keep it in place, but I definitely don't think
- 19:56Speaker 1: he needs a flat iron. I mean, I don't think.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Let's talk to Dean. Because Dean was in the bathroom
- 20:04Speaker 1: with him. You guys all share a bathroom. Did he
- 20:06Speaker 1: have any special tools so there were two separate rooms.
- 20:09Speaker 1: I did not room with Robbie. I cannot speak objectively
- 20:12Speaker 1: about his hair products or hair grooming routine. Um. I
- 20:16Speaker 1: did laugh out loud at Daniel Maaltby's comment about the
- 20:19Speaker 1: flat iron last night because I started looking at it.
- 20:21Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, you could see him using a
- 20:22Speaker 1: flat iron. But I will say that I didn't see
- 20:24Speaker 1: any of those products or utensils in the bathrooms whenever
- 20:29Speaker 1: I was around. Would you have used them? If you
- 20:32Speaker 1: could have, bean, I mean you could learn a thing
- 20:34Speaker 1: or two. I could learn a lot. I mean, out
- 20:36Speaker 1: of interest, I'll try anything once if it could drastically
- 20:39Speaker 1: improve my hair. I don't see why not. Yeah, I mean,
- 20:42Speaker 1: Joe Jonas used to use a hair straightener all the
- 20:44Speaker 1: time and that was the peak of my obsession with him.
- 20:48Speaker 1: Uh well, if we could all be Joe Jonas, so
- 20:51Speaker 1: um rob Moving continue with the Robbie conversation, Bean, what
- 20:54Speaker 1: do you think of Robbie's apps? They're fantastic, They're pretty
- 20:58Speaker 1: something there something put all the shame the second you
- 21:00Speaker 1: walked onto that beach. I'm not like somebody who's like
- 21:03Speaker 1: really into abs or anything like. That's not going to
- 21:05Speaker 1: make or break a guy for me for sure. But
- 21:08Speaker 1: the thing about Robbie's abs are they're fascinating to look
- 21:11Speaker 1: at because they are actually a dolls abs Like they
- 21:15Speaker 1: don't look real like you know how Emma Stone says
- 21:17Speaker 1: that about Ryan Gosling and Crazy Stupid Love. She's like,
- 21:20Speaker 1: you look photos shop like when I look at Robbie,
- 21:23Speaker 1: I'm like, no, that's actually photoshop. Ben. Do you have abbsy? No,
- 21:28Speaker 1: come on, I don't. I don't have apps either, So hey,
- 21:32Speaker 1: we're in the same boat. Girls love abs. I don't
- 21:34Speaker 1: really give a flying f do you know? You know?
- 21:39Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean that's good for us, but
- 21:41Speaker 1: why not. I don't really care. I mean, as long
- 21:43Speaker 1: as you don't have a beer palley, as long as
- 21:45Speaker 1: you don't look fat, then you're good. I'm more into arms.
- 21:49Speaker 1: I think arms are sexy, yeah, or both of them,
- 21:54Speaker 1: to be honest, Um, I think there's something very sexy
- 21:58Speaker 1: about a guy's four arms. I think it's an under
- 22:00Speaker 1: shaded part of them. Um, hands are a big thing.
- 22:04Speaker 1: And then but yeah, you're triceep. It's important because it
- 22:08Speaker 1: shows how easy it's going to be to pick us up.
- 22:12Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's true. I mean, we gotta keep
- 22:14Speaker 1: taking notes here. I mean that's one of the things
- 22:15Speaker 1: that I've been using. Uh actually, I for it on
- 22:19Speaker 1: this podcast is to get some good advice for me personally.
- 22:22Speaker 1: And so if it's about to b step to try
- 22:24Speaker 1: step in the forearms, you better believe I'm hin the gym,
- 22:26Speaker 1: the Steffnue, not that I'm definitely taking notes right now. Yeah, No,
- 22:29Speaker 1: his arm looks really good. Just for all you ladies
- 22:31Speaker 1: out there wondering, I have a question that I think
- 22:33Speaker 1: a lot of guys probably struggle with on the show,
- 22:35Speaker 1: and I know I did, and it brings up a topic.
- 22:37Speaker 1: So you're on the beach, right and dude, you're you're
- 22:40Speaker 1: in shape, you look good, You're fine. But I'm not
- 22:42Speaker 1: the most ripped man out there either. Um, do you
- 22:45Speaker 1: get self conscious being on this beach with a bunch
- 22:47Speaker 1: of people that are just absolutely jacked out of their mind? Um?
- 22:51Speaker 1: Kind of, but not really because so so there's no
- 22:53Speaker 1: real like gym you could work out at, and a
- 22:55Speaker 1: lot of the guys like worked out every morning on
- 22:56Speaker 1: the beach, like lifting rocks and stuff. And I was
- 22:58Speaker 1: just like, you know what, I'm just gonna I'm just
- 23:00Speaker 1: gonna live my life. Those guys are literally insane. I
- 23:02Speaker 1: used to look at them. Nick used to do it,
- 23:05Speaker 1: a lot of the other guys used to do it,
- 23:06Speaker 1: and I used to look at them in awe because
- 23:08Speaker 1: part of it was their bodies look great. The other
- 23:10Speaker 1: part of it was like their dedication to working out
- 23:13Speaker 1: in the I don't know, it probably feel like it's
- 23:16Speaker 1: very hot and humid. Yeah, it's like, guys, just get
- 23:19Speaker 1: back into shape when you get home. I don't think
- 23:20Speaker 1: your muscles are going to disintegrate within sixteen days. That
- 23:23Speaker 1: that was my take on it. I was like, this
- 23:24Speaker 1: is my flabby body. You can take it for what
- 23:27Speaker 1: it is. If you love it, you love it. If
- 23:28Speaker 1: you hate it, you hate it. But here I'm just
- 23:29Speaker 1: like I'm here. I'm sitting here and really get kind
- 23:31Speaker 1: of in shock. I just don't understand why bodies are
- 23:34Speaker 1: that important to you. Guys. As long as you're healthy
- 23:36Speaker 1: and like you, you don't work out every day, you
- 23:38Speaker 1: look great. I don't any girl doesn't need more than this.
- 23:42Speaker 1: Considering what I eat on a daily basis, I'm incredibly lucky.
- 23:47Speaker 1: Me too. I mean, that's that's a good point. So
- 23:50Speaker 1: being fit is important on all of these series. I
- 23:53Speaker 1: think it's obvious, and our listeners love hearing the behind
- 23:56Speaker 1: the scenes of the show. And and I think one
- 23:58Speaker 1: thing that is not on often is is how much
- 24:01Speaker 1: like workouts are done with very little weight, to very
- 24:05Speaker 1: little tools, uh in the downtime. So, yeah, there's rock workouts,
- 24:08Speaker 1: there's a bunch of squads going on, there's running up
- 24:10Speaker 1: and down the beach um so that everybody can look
- 24:13Speaker 1: their best for each other. And also because this will
- 24:16Speaker 1: be you know, viewed on national television. People, do you
- 24:19Speaker 1: know what I find? Wait, I kind of say this.
- 24:21Speaker 1: You know what I find way more attractive a guy
- 24:24Speaker 1: who's going to sit there and eat with me. There,
- 24:27Speaker 1: that's it. I'd much rather you eat with me than
- 24:29Speaker 1: like work out. Actually, you're you're you're the best. Um.
- 24:33Speaker 1: One guy that is well, you know one guy that
- 24:36Speaker 1: is absolutely Jack because he was on my season. Uh
- 24:40Speaker 1: I guess Caitlin season the Bachelor in the season as
- 24:42Speaker 1: a part of is Ben Doorn? And Ben Doorn last
- 24:45Speaker 1: night has this obsession with his dog. Right we're watching
- 24:48Speaker 1: this show and all he wants to talk about is
- 24:50Speaker 1: his dog Dean. Is this how it was going down
- 24:54Speaker 1: in real life? Like that? Is Jorn only talking about
- 24:56Speaker 1: his pup. He didn't only talk about Zeus, but his
- 24:59Speaker 1: dog is incredibly adorable. I don't know if you follow
- 25:01Speaker 1: him on social media or anything like that, but every
- 25:02Speaker 1: time he posted a picture of it, I'm all over it. Um. So,
- 25:05Speaker 1: I mean, he has every right to be obsessed with
- 25:06Speaker 1: this dog. He's he's a handsome little fellow. But um no,
- 25:09Speaker 1: I mean there were definitely obviously a lot more conversations
- 25:11Speaker 1: had that weren't necessarily about just the dog. Um. Ben's
- 25:14Speaker 1: a great guy. I was actually just with him this
- 25:15Speaker 1: past weekend up in San Francisco, So, um, we will
- 25:19Speaker 1: be seeing a lot of him. I was on I'm
- 25:21Speaker 1: on another texture to him, and I texted him last
- 25:24Speaker 1: night said, Hey, I just want to give you full warning,
- 25:25Speaker 1: like you're gonna get made fun of on the podcast
- 25:28Speaker 1: because the only thing you talked about was your dog
- 25:31Speaker 1: and I got to talk about that because I mean,
- 25:33Speaker 1: Ben is a great guy. I love Ben. He's been
- 25:36Speaker 1: a good friend since since the season back. But how
- 25:42Speaker 1: season he was on Caitlin season he came in what
- 25:45Speaker 1: six seven? And you guys, if you didn't know how
- 25:49Speaker 1: highly edited his conversation with Raven was when he first
- 25:53Speaker 1: walked into Paradise, like you're an idiot, I'm sorry, it
- 25:56Speaker 1: was like they showed her face responding and then they
- 25:59Speaker 1: would clip right over to him, cut right over to him,
- 26:02Speaker 1: and then he'd be talking about his dog and they
- 26:04Speaker 1: cut and cut. You have to look for for scenes
- 26:06Speaker 1: where you see it going from one face to another
- 26:09Speaker 1: without a two shot. So explain to us who don't know.
- 26:12Speaker 1: What are you saying that they weren't really talking to
- 26:14Speaker 1: each other. You know, I'm saying, they totally we're talking
- 26:16Speaker 1: to each other, but her facial expression isn't matching what
- 26:19Speaker 1: he's saying. And if if some guy was talking to
- 26:21Speaker 1: me about his dog, I'd be like all in and
- 26:24Speaker 1: that would be a red flag. If the girl wasn't.
- 26:26Speaker 1: I will say that of mine and Ben's conversations at
- 26:29Speaker 1: Paradise were concerning dogs, and I mean most of it
- 26:33Speaker 1: was because of me, A lot of it was because
- 26:35Speaker 1: of him, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Yeah,
- 26:38Speaker 1: I mean I talked about my dog like a good
- 26:41Speaker 1: you know, ten percent of the day. So they can
- 26:43Speaker 1: make that into an entire storyline. Well, I think we
- 26:46Speaker 1: all know Ben Dorn is a great guy, and I
- 26:49Speaker 1: think it was just something funny to bring up because
- 26:51Speaker 1: edited or not, it's still funny and it's still entertained
- 26:53Speaker 1: to watch. And I was watching it last night laughing
- 26:55Speaker 1: because he is a friend and I could just imagine
- 26:58Speaker 1: that that he was going to a lot of heat
- 27:01Speaker 1: for for speaking about his dog more than anything else. Um.
- 27:05Speaker 1: So we have a guy last night, and we kind
- 27:07Speaker 1: of had to explain who Ben Zorn was because it's
- 27:09Speaker 1: been a few years since we've been on the back threat.
- 27:11Speaker 1: We have a guy last night that I had no
- 27:12Speaker 1: clue who he was. And he I guess he's nicknamed
- 27:15Speaker 1: Santa Clause for whatever reason. Um, but he's hammered last night.
- 27:20Speaker 1: I mean he's drunk, he can't function. Who is Santa clause. Actually,
- 27:25Speaker 1: Santa Claus was what, I don't know somebody on Joe
- 27:29Speaker 1: Joe season. He may have eliminated eleven twelve somewhere in there.
- 27:35Speaker 1: Do you know him? What's that guy's story? Well, I
- 27:37Speaker 1: met him for the first time at Paradise. I mean,
- 27:40Speaker 1: you're not wrong, Ben, He definitely drank quite a bit
- 27:42Speaker 1: that first night, but I think he realized that he
- 27:46Speaker 1: needs to tone it back a little bit. In the
- 27:47Speaker 1: coming episodes, you'll see a little bit more sober version
- 27:49Speaker 1: of him. He seemed like he was actually really into Jasmine.
- 27:52Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he very much was. I think that
- 27:54Speaker 1: he she was his focus in priority the entire time
- 27:57Speaker 1: he was in Paradise. But you really have to respect
- 28:00Speaker 1: someone coming down and focusing solely on one person before me.
- 28:04Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, I mean yeah, I mean to have
- 28:07Speaker 1: the fortitude to go through something like that. Um, I
- 28:12Speaker 1: think that a lot of people went in with an
- 28:14Speaker 1: open mindset, and Nick was one of the few that
- 28:16Speaker 1: really wanted to dial in on someone. So where does that, like,
- 28:19Speaker 1: is that a common or where does I guess where
- 28:21Speaker 1: does the connection come from? Then? So Nick comes in
- 28:23Speaker 1: knowing that he wants to talk to Jasmine, does that
- 28:25Speaker 1: happen way before Bachelor in Paradise. Do you think you
- 28:28Speaker 1: just saw her on NIX season of the Bachelor and thought,
- 28:32Speaker 1: from that moment on, I want to get to know
- 28:33Speaker 1: this woman. That's a great question, Ben, because when I
- 28:35Speaker 1: was watching this with my sister Lauren, she said, it
- 28:38Speaker 1: seems like these two have talked prior. What are you
- 28:41Speaker 1: think I could see that part of part of what
- 28:43Speaker 1: I really wanted to do before going in as well.
- 28:45Speaker 1: And I feel like I keep talking about myself and
- 28:46Speaker 1: you're supposed to want you to. Um. I made a
- 28:50Speaker 1: considered effort to not talk to any of the women
- 28:52Speaker 1: before I went on the show because I wanted to
- 28:53Speaker 1: go in with a very blank canvas, I guess, an
- 28:57Speaker 1: open mindset to meet every single one of them. Um,
- 29:01Speaker 1: is that why you talk to me for advice? Because
- 29:02Speaker 1: you knew I was safe? Well, I knew you weren't.
- 29:05Speaker 1: You weren't going this year. Um. Yeah, And there was
- 29:07Speaker 1: basically just an advice stuff. But yeah, I mean it
- 29:09Speaker 1: seems like they might have talked beforehand. I didn't hear
- 29:12Speaker 1: anything of that, but I definitely wouldn't be surprised if
- 29:14Speaker 1: they had. You're such a good boy, you just followed
- 29:16Speaker 1: all the rules, and that's how you don't get in trouble.
- 29:19Speaker 1: I am I follow the rules. Probably No, Actually, I
- 29:22Speaker 1: don't want to say that. But in regards to the
- 29:24Speaker 1: Bachelor stuff, I want to have as pure and as
- 29:26Speaker 1: real of an experience as I can, So I definitely
- 29:28Speaker 1: don't want to. Uh, I don't know break form. Speaking
- 29:32Speaker 1: of pure form, um, I know ben Z hasn't done
- 29:35Speaker 1: it the past two years because honestly, he's just been
- 29:38Speaker 1: kind of He's been very chatty with the girls coming
- 29:42Speaker 1: off the past two seasons, so I think this season
- 29:44Speaker 1: he was like, Oh, I'm not going to talk to
- 29:46Speaker 1: these girls and I'm going to go into Paradise and
- 29:47Speaker 1: meet them for real the first time there. Did he
- 29:50Speaker 1: tell you anything about that? No? I have. This is
- 29:51Speaker 1: my first time hearing about it. Oh did you see
- 29:53Speaker 1: coming off of Ben's season? Ben, were you aware of this?
- 29:58Speaker 1: I am spilling a lot of he right here. I know,
- 30:01Speaker 1: but you know, that's what we do. We're a podcast.
- 30:03Speaker 1: We're supposed to entertain people, you know what. No, I
- 30:06Speaker 1: was aware of it, actually, and because I am friends
- 30:08Speaker 1: with Ben and uh, that's the text head that I'm
- 30:10Speaker 1: on with a bunch of Bachelor people you know obviously
- 30:13Speaker 1: make fun of each other for everything we choose to
- 30:15Speaker 1: do in life, and so one of the one of
- 30:17Speaker 1: the things was making fun of Ben's thorn for you know,
- 30:19Speaker 1: kind of talking to the girls that would come off
- 30:22Speaker 1: past season. And I don't I mean knowing been his
- 30:25Speaker 1: intentions with that were probably really good. He he just
- 30:27Speaker 1: wanted to get to know these women. UM. I don't
- 30:29Speaker 1: know if if he ever went on a date or
- 30:31Speaker 1: if anything was ever if there was any ever action
- 30:33Speaker 1: taking place from him talking to as women, But I
- 30:35Speaker 1: was very familiar and very aware with the fact that
- 30:38Speaker 1: Ben was talking to women that came off past seasons.
- 30:41Speaker 1: I'm curious to know who was actually don't know that.
- 30:45Speaker 1: I don't I don't know that actually have any insight
- 30:47Speaker 1: into that. Um from your season. I know that he
- 30:52Speaker 1: was like talking to Lauren Himmel, Leah Block, basically anyone
- 30:59Speaker 1: from your and to four. Well, I mean, that's that's
- 31:03Speaker 1: an interesting thing for for us to talk to listeners about.
- 31:06Speaker 1: Vaccination is very closely connected. So it's a very risky
- 31:10Speaker 1: move too, I think on anybody's part to start talking
- 31:12Speaker 1: to people from past seasons or multiple people from past
- 31:15Speaker 1: seasons because just like the three of us know, everybody's
- 31:18Speaker 1: going to find out about it very quickly. Ben, there
- 31:21Speaker 1: were some crazy rumors going on at Shabby's wedding about
- 31:24Speaker 1: you and I. What were the rumors? Actually, I don't
- 31:27Speaker 1: even know if I can say it podcast. They said
- 31:31Speaker 1: she was doing dirty stuff to you. Actually, is that true? Well,
- 31:36Speaker 1: that the rumor. It's true that there's a rumor, and
- 31:39Speaker 1: we obviously can clear up here that No, there's nothing
- 31:43Speaker 1: going on. I have never been kissed. Vent How can
- 31:46Speaker 1: you answer that question like that, and you answer the
- 31:48Speaker 1: question about me and you so much more? Are they
- 31:51Speaker 1: are professional partners? We would never cross that line, Okay, okay?
- 31:56Speaker 1: And the intrigue being I just I can't wait for
- 31:59Speaker 1: the headline tomorrow. Uh be. Actually, I won't answer the
- 32:03Speaker 1: question about being This is gonna be great. This is
- 32:07Speaker 1: so entertaining. No, everybody, we've said up many times, we'll
- 32:10Speaker 1: keep staying again. I absolutely love Actually she is one
- 32:13Speaker 1: of the best people I know. But there is nothing
- 32:16Speaker 1: romantic going on. We are really good partners in this
- 32:19Speaker 1: podcast and friends, and that's why working together with her
- 32:23Speaker 1: has been so much fun. It's because she really is
- 32:24Speaker 1: a friend to me outside of this podcast. I also
- 32:27Speaker 1: confide in her about small things, little things. Um, she
- 32:32Speaker 1: knows a lot about me and uh, and so no,
- 32:35Speaker 1: there's nothing romantic going on. So let's the rumors keep spreading.
- 32:37Speaker 1: I guess any publicity is good publicity. That's what I think.
- 32:40Speaker 1: That's why I'm not answering any other questions. But let's
- 32:43Speaker 1: give him something to talk about. But as far as
- 32:46Speaker 1: you and Dean, we're just gonna leave it. Uh, leave
- 32:48Speaker 1: it out there and leave it ambiguous because who knows
- 32:51Speaker 1: what happened there? Uh speaking of being ambiguous. Um, this
- 32:56Speaker 1: has nothing to do with that. Um. Okay, Dean and Ashley,
- 33:05Speaker 1: we've talked about this sponse before. They're great, They're incredible.
- 33:08Speaker 1: I've given the sponsors product out as a gift to
- 33:11Speaker 1: my coworkers. I've talked about that in a previous podcast.
- 33:14Speaker 1: But we're gonna talk about bio clarity, right, Um, Ashley
- 33:18Speaker 1: and Dean, we know how how important it is to
- 33:20Speaker 1: be confident in your own skin. Right, you're gonna be
- 33:22Speaker 1: on national TV. People are gonna be judging you. You
- 33:24Speaker 1: don't want to unwant to break out. You want to
- 33:26Speaker 1: make sure your skin looks good and clean. But you
- 33:29Speaker 1: also want to make sure that you're you're using products
- 33:32Speaker 1: on your skin that are healthy and that that aren't
- 33:34Speaker 1: gonna hurt your skin long term, right, And that is
- 33:36Speaker 1: exactly what bio clarity is. Your faith, especially athletes and Dean.
- 33:42Speaker 1: I gotta say years too, because the only thing I
- 33:44Speaker 1: ever hear about, including emails of this podcast, is how
- 33:47Speaker 1: can I get to no Dean? So obviously your face
- 33:49Speaker 1: is doing just fine also, but your faith is no
- 33:52Speaker 1: place for weird, harsh chemicals. Bio Clarity has naturally called
- 33:56Speaker 1: me in cleansing extracts including green tea and camera meal,
- 34:00Speaker 1: bio theory cools, and sue skin with cucumber and oat
- 34:04Speaker 1: kernel extract. Actually, I know you us, right, I do.
- 34:08Speaker 1: We definitely know that Dean doesn't because you know he
- 34:10Speaker 1: doesn't use so but his skin is perfect. My skin
- 34:13Speaker 1: is perfect because of bioclarity. You guys don't even know.
- 34:16Speaker 1: My skin is like an oil mine. It's actually insane,
- 34:21Speaker 1: and this stuff reduces my oiliness, but it doesn't dry
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- 35:23Speaker 1: the largest or our biggest segment in in any episode
- 35:28Speaker 1: of Almost Famous that we've done yet. Uh Being. You're
- 35:31Speaker 1: here to be our co host and we're excited to
- 35:34Speaker 1: have you. This will not be the last time, but
- 35:37Speaker 1: were We also brought you in the studio because I
- 35:39Speaker 1: have a very important question for you, uh one that
- 35:42Speaker 1: you know has effected my life in many ways. Um Being.
- 35:45Speaker 1: There is a lot of rumors out there, um that
- 35:48Speaker 1: you could be the next Bachelor Okay, would you do it? Um? Well,
- 35:55Speaker 1: first of all, I think if I were presented an
- 35:57Speaker 1: opportunity like that, you and I would have to have
- 35:59Speaker 1: a lengthy station. I would of course be flattered to
- 36:02Speaker 1: be presented an opportunity like that. UM. I know I
- 36:05Speaker 1: said I I'm publicly supporting Peter for a bachelor if
- 36:08Speaker 1: he so chooses to to have that position. Um. But again,
- 36:11Speaker 1: I would never say no to an opportunity, especially of
- 36:14Speaker 1: that magnitude, for right away, I would definitely have to
- 36:17Speaker 1: consider it quite a bit. Um. People really want you
- 36:20Speaker 1: to do it, and I mean I mean that. I
- 36:22Speaker 1: think that's got to be a good feeling. I know
- 36:25Speaker 1: that the process of kind of prepping to be the
- 36:28Speaker 1: Bachelor before even they asked him be the bachelor, one
- 36:31Speaker 1: of the things I was most worried about was the
- 36:33Speaker 1: scrutiny that that entails. Um. But people are huge fans
- 36:37Speaker 1: of you, deep and they really want they really want
- 36:39Speaker 1: to want to see you find somebody, but they also
- 36:41Speaker 1: just want to see more of you as a person, um,
- 36:44Speaker 1: which has got to be a great complement to you,
- 36:46Speaker 1: and I hopefully that makes you feel good. UM. One
- 36:49Speaker 1: of my I guess one of my concerns going into
- 36:52Speaker 1: this when I was going to be the Bachelor, was
- 36:54Speaker 1: you know, what does it look like at the end,
- 36:56Speaker 1: would I propose or not? Um? If I was in love?
- 36:58Speaker 1: And my question to you is, if you find yourself
- 37:00Speaker 1: in love at the end of it, um, would you
- 37:03Speaker 1: propose to somebody? Well? Well, so what was your I
- 37:07Speaker 1: guess thought going into it? My thought was, honestly, when
- 37:11Speaker 1: I went into being the Bachelor, I was very confident
- 37:14Speaker 1: with the idea that I could walk out of it
- 37:16Speaker 1: just dating somebody or being in a sparce relationship. I
- 37:20Speaker 1: was actually feeling very confident about that idea because, uh,
- 37:23Speaker 1: it's kind of this I would say, I don't know.
- 37:26Speaker 1: I'm not going to choose my words very carefully here, um,
- 37:29Speaker 1: but it scared me um that I could be engaged
- 37:32Speaker 1: into the bachelor was somebody that I didn't really know,
- 37:36Speaker 1: And that ended up not being the case for me. Right,
- 37:38Speaker 1: I feel like I knew Lauren well um, and and
- 37:41Speaker 1: so all those fears kind of subsided after more and
- 37:44Speaker 1: more time together. But it was a huge concern and
- 37:47Speaker 1: one that I feel like every batchelor should consider. I
- 37:49Speaker 1: told Nick the same thing, I said, don't feel like
- 37:51Speaker 1: you're going to be the Bachelor, and that you have
- 37:52Speaker 1: to to propose at the end. But sometimes it is
- 37:56Speaker 1: an expectation, and I guess, being my question is could
- 37:58Speaker 1: you handle that expect case m I guess I definitely could.
- 38:03Speaker 1: I could see myself proposing to someone after eight or
- 38:06Speaker 1: nine weeks. I don't think I would have gone on
- 38:08Speaker 1: the Bachelor I had I not been able to see
- 38:09Speaker 1: that within myself, I would kind of go in it
- 38:11Speaker 1: with the same mentality as you where Um, it would
- 38:14Speaker 1: be a different season of sorts. You know, it would
- 38:16Speaker 1: be obviously, in my opinion, maybe a little more high energy,
- 38:19Speaker 1: a little bit more fun. Just focus more on fun
- 38:22Speaker 1: and and and the romance side of things instead of
- 38:24Speaker 1: focusing so heavily on the engagement itself. Um. But as
- 38:28Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, I think you put yourself through
- 38:31Speaker 1: that process and by the end of it, you're you're
- 38:32Speaker 1: in a complete different position than you you kind of
- 38:34Speaker 1: thought you're you're going to be in. So I think
- 38:36Speaker 1: it's kind of lame that in this age of the Bachelor,
- 38:41Speaker 1: you're so shamed if you don't propose at the end,
- 38:45Speaker 1: Like the last person that didn't propose was one Pablo
- 38:48Speaker 1: and then of course at the beginning of the franchise,
- 38:51Speaker 1: it wasn't so much a must. Why does the audience
- 38:55Speaker 1: just force the proposal? Well, I think you guys mentioned
- 38:58Speaker 1: that Wan Pablo was under a bit of scrutiny for
- 39:01Speaker 1: not proposing, but I think Ben mentioned once before that
- 39:03Speaker 1: there were other reasons for that, other people who haven't
- 39:06Speaker 1: proposed that when the show's passed and somehow we've gotten
- 39:10Speaker 1: to this age where you just have to propose or
- 39:12Speaker 1: people hate you. So I think it took a turn
- 39:14Speaker 1: this season because it's switched, because people think she should
- 39:18Speaker 1: have stayed with Peter despite his not wanting to propose,
- 39:22Speaker 1: and they're ripping on Rachel and Brian because that proposal
- 39:26Speaker 1: was like the lamest proposal in the history of forever.
- 39:29Speaker 1: So I think it's making a turn, could be. Well,
- 39:32Speaker 1: the challenging thing is it's it's like, regardless of what
- 39:34Speaker 1: the lead does, there will be people thinking it was
- 39:37Speaker 1: right and people thinking it was wrong. Um so so
- 39:40Speaker 1: there's basically no winning everyone. I think with Dinas Bachelor,
- 39:43Speaker 1: people do just want to watch you and like look
- 39:46Speaker 1: at your cute, smiley face and your eyes and just
- 39:48Speaker 1: see your interaction, like you're cute self that I don't
- 39:51Speaker 1: really know if they're super care I think people would
- 39:54Speaker 1: get annoyed by me in this stop week. No way,
- 39:57Speaker 1: that's just my opinion. Um, well I do Ben, Do
- 40:01Speaker 1: you have another question for Dean? Okay, well, Dean, you
- 40:06Speaker 1: also are just like well, like I just said, the sweetest.
- 40:09Speaker 1: So my question for you is, how could you possibly
- 40:12Speaker 1: deal with twenty five girls in breaking up with twenty
- 40:15Speaker 1: four of them? Possibly? That sounds miserable. Yeah, you just
- 40:19Speaker 1: don't like breaking up with people in general. You sometimes
- 40:22Speaker 1: ghost them. You have a hard time with like, but
- 40:25Speaker 1: it's like out of the sweetness of your heart that
- 40:27Speaker 1: you have a hard time with it because you don't
- 40:29Speaker 1: want to hurt anyone, so you try to avoid hurting
- 40:33Speaker 1: people as best as you can. But in this scenario,
- 40:36Speaker 1: you're gonna have to hurt twenty four girls. And is
- 40:38Speaker 1: there any easy way to do that? No, no, there's not.
- 40:42Speaker 1: I mean, that was my next question, Dean, was you
- 40:44Speaker 1: know are you? I mean, it sounds like you've got
- 40:46Speaker 1: a great head on your shoulders and you understand that
- 40:48Speaker 1: you're never gonna make everybody happy. Um, You're gonna try
- 40:51Speaker 1: really hard to treat these women fairly and tomorrow. And
- 40:54Speaker 1: I know about you you would do that. Um. There's
- 40:56Speaker 1: no easy way to go through this experience and not
- 40:59Speaker 1: be emotionally connected to the women's that are involved. Uh
- 41:03Speaker 1: and being your biggest asset. Uh And and maybe the
- 41:08Speaker 1: one thing that will be going to make it make
- 41:11Speaker 1: the Bachelor being the hardest for you if that happens
- 41:13Speaker 1: for you, will be your heart. Um. It's going to
- 41:16Speaker 1: get torn up in a thousand different directions. Uh. You
- 41:19Speaker 1: know one thing that I would like to tell you is,
- 41:22Speaker 1: you know the crazy part about the Bachelor is you're
- 41:24Speaker 1: literally breaking up with everyone. You have very little things
- 41:29Speaker 1: to celebrate until the very last day is when you
- 41:31Speaker 1: can get down on one knee, or if you walk
- 41:33Speaker 1: out of it happy with somebody else, you can you
- 41:35Speaker 1: can say hey, we did it and I love you. Um.
- 41:38Speaker 1: But for for most of the experience, it's a lot
- 41:41Speaker 1: of a lot of heartache. And are you ready for that? Um?
- 41:46Speaker 1: Could anyone ever be ready? Yeah? That's a great point.
- 41:48Speaker 1: Could anyone ever really be ready for that? Like you said,
- 41:50Speaker 1: it's it's basically nine weeks of heartache and hardships for
- 41:53Speaker 1: one obviously grandiose celebration at the end. But um, I
- 41:57Speaker 1: don't think anyone's really ready for it. It's just a
- 42:00Speaker 1: situation of if you want to be put in that situation,
- 42:04Speaker 1: right That's that is the question, just something you have
- 42:09Speaker 1: to think about what concerns you as you sit here
- 42:13Speaker 1: now and and say is say I'm the bachelor, and
- 42:16Speaker 1: I say, Dean, I want to ask you to consider this.
- 42:19Speaker 1: What What's what's the thought process in in summary that
- 42:22Speaker 1: you would have to go through, like what are some
- 42:23Speaker 1: of the things that concern you or the things that
- 42:25Speaker 1: would make you excited? Well, I guess to answer you, well,
- 42:30Speaker 1: can we flip it back on you, what were some
- 42:31Speaker 1: of your biggest concerns going into it? Because again I
- 42:33Speaker 1: haven't I don't know, to be perfectly honest with you,
- 42:35Speaker 1: I haven't really given it serious consideration. I've never really
- 42:38Speaker 1: considered myself to be think about it right now. I mean,
- 42:42Speaker 1: if the bachelor would come to you and say, Dean,
- 42:44Speaker 1: we want you to consider this because this is how
- 42:45Speaker 1: it will happen if it if it does go down right,
- 42:47Speaker 1: they called me, they said, Ben, we want you to
- 42:49Speaker 1: consider this. Uh. You have X amount of days uh
- 42:53Speaker 1: to process do these thoughts? Uh? And right away I
- 42:56Speaker 1: know as soon as they asked me, my mind started twirling.
- 42:58Speaker 1: And I can tell you that some of the stuff
- 43:00Speaker 1: thought within those first two minutes after they asked me
- 43:02Speaker 1: were the things that were the biggest issues to me
- 43:04Speaker 1: later on. So as I asked you that, and you
- 43:07Speaker 1: would have to start thinking about it, what would be
- 43:09Speaker 1: the stuff that comes your mind? I guess did they
- 43:12Speaker 1: was it was there like a contractual obligation for you
- 43:14Speaker 1: to walk away from that with a proposal? I would
- 43:16Speaker 1: assume not. But no, no, no, not at all. I mean,
- 43:24Speaker 1: I don't know. My mind is just working like a
- 43:25Speaker 1: million miles a second. Right now. I asked a question
- 43:27Speaker 1: that may easily bring him to that okay guy to
- 43:32Speaker 1: answer it. I think I think it blows back down
- 43:34Speaker 1: to as as you alluded to initially as well. You
- 43:36Speaker 1: you're under a lot of scrutiny, and regardless of what
- 43:39Speaker 1: you do, whether you think it's right or wrong, people
- 43:41Speaker 1: are going to find the wrong in it. And I
- 43:46Speaker 1: I think that I handle scrutiny well, but I still
- 43:48Speaker 1: let it affect me way more than I wanted to.
- 43:51Speaker 1: And I think at the end of the day that
- 43:52Speaker 1: would be maybe the biggest hurdle for me to overcome.
- 43:55Speaker 1: All right, as a girl, I need to ask you
- 43:57Speaker 1: this um be in your age is not that huge
- 44:01Speaker 1: of a deal because you're twenty six and Ben was
- 44:04Speaker 1: and he was the Bachelor, But I want you to
- 44:07Speaker 1: really think about this. If you were the Bachelor and
- 44:11Speaker 1: you're supposed to be on the search for your forever one,
- 44:14Speaker 1: are you sure you're ready to not be with anybody
- 44:17Speaker 1: else for the rest of your life, especially given the
- 44:19Speaker 1: temptation that comes along with the Bachelor, Like you're going
- 44:22Speaker 1: to be such a sex symbol, Like why would you
- 44:24Speaker 1: want to settle down at that point? I think that's
- 44:26Speaker 1: I think that's kind of ridiculous to even think about.
- 44:29Speaker 1: I don't really have an interest in pursuing twenty different
- 44:33Speaker 1: women outside of the show. I mean not even on
- 44:35Speaker 1: the show really, but like I would like to go
- 44:38Speaker 1: on a show, I would like to find a relationship
- 44:41Speaker 1: that can allow me to be with that person for
- 44:42Speaker 1: the rest of my life. I'm not interested in going
- 44:45Speaker 1: out and playing a bunch of women and hooking up
- 44:47Speaker 1: with as many people as possible. So to be able
- 44:49Speaker 1: to go on and find someone that can spend the
- 44:51Speaker 1: rest of my life with I think is is the
- 44:54Speaker 1: obviously the purest joy that you can come from that. Um,
- 44:57Speaker 1: that's not really interesting mine. Honestly to play, I'll let's
- 45:01Speaker 1: let's make this easier. You know, we've we've just pounded you.
- 45:03Speaker 1: I honestly, I just wanted to hear your thoughts and
- 45:05Speaker 1: because I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in
- 45:08Speaker 1: your life you're gonna be asked a similar question. Why
- 45:10Speaker 1: I just ask you, uh to You're a good dude.
- 45:13Speaker 1: If I can do it, you can do it. You're
- 45:14Speaker 1: gonna be fine. They're scrutiny, you know, going into it.
- 45:17Speaker 1: At the end of it, it it can be one of
- 45:18Speaker 1: the most beautiful moments of your life. Uh. The experience
- 45:21Speaker 1: itself is not easy. It's hard, um and it is.
- 45:24Speaker 1: I will never claim that it can be fun at times,
- 45:27Speaker 1: but it's really hard. But it is worth it because
- 45:30Speaker 1: you learn about about yourself and you learn a lot
- 45:31Speaker 1: about a bunch of other people. And if you're as
- 45:33Speaker 1: lucky as I was, Uh, you have a lot of
- 45:36Speaker 1: great women that invest a lot of their time and
- 45:38Speaker 1: take a lot of their life, time out of their
- 45:41Speaker 1: lives to come try to meet you. Um. So man,
- 45:43Speaker 1: if they ask you, I just encourage you to think
- 45:45Speaker 1: through it, but know that you can do it, and
- 45:47Speaker 1: you can do it really well. You can do it
- 45:48Speaker 1: a lot better than I did. Um And And honestly,
- 45:52Speaker 1: I think there's a great couple of guys that they're considering,
- 45:54Speaker 1: and I'm excited to see who they choose. Um. In
- 45:58Speaker 1: my opinion, I feel like us here collectively we just
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- 47:29Speaker 1: final two segments of the almost famous podcast, first season
- 47:34Speaker 1: of Bachelor Paradise, first episode. Here's the deal. We're gonna
- 47:38Speaker 1: take some callers. Do you have any callers in the line. Yes,
- 47:40Speaker 1: we have Emily in Indiana. Hi, Oh my gosh, Hi,
- 47:45Speaker 1: how are you what up? I'm actually a boiler maker. Um,
- 47:54Speaker 1: you're gonna hang up on me? Emily? Do you have
- 47:57Speaker 1: a question about Bachelor in Paradise? I do I have
- 48:00Speaker 1: a question for Dean. I've heard um Ashley on her
- 48:03Speaker 1: podcast Talk a lot about the behind the scenes UM
- 48:07Speaker 1: for the girls, and I kind of wondered how it
- 48:09Speaker 1: was um comparably with the guys, like sleeping arrangements, UM,
- 48:14Speaker 1: showering or um Like obviously you don't have a bunch
- 48:17Speaker 1: of makeup sitting around, so was it as uncomfortable and everything?
- 48:23Speaker 1: I didn't mind it. So, as I actually mentioned earlier
- 48:26Speaker 1: in the podcast, I actually reached out to her for
- 48:28Speaker 1: some advice before heading into Paradise, and she had mentioned
- 48:30Speaker 1: how rough the living conditions down there are. UM. The
- 48:34Speaker 1: guy's rooms, there's two rooms. There's probably like six beds
- 48:37Speaker 1: in each, maybe eight um, one bathroom for each. And
- 48:41Speaker 1: I mean, I honestly didn't mind it. Um it gets
- 48:44Speaker 1: kind of messy. I mean myself particularly, I just kind
- 48:46Speaker 1: of had my clothes wherever they fell. Um. But it
- 48:51Speaker 1: wasn't an issue ever, Like everyone was able to shower
- 48:53Speaker 1: on time. UM. No one was ever really waiting for
- 48:55Speaker 1: a bathroom. It was basically just like you're living, um
- 48:58Speaker 1: in a bunk bed with you know, other guys. It's
- 49:00Speaker 1: like summer camp. I've never been to summer camp, I
- 49:03Speaker 1: imagine what it is like. And the thing is it's
- 49:06Speaker 1: a lot easier for guys, and it is for girls.
- 49:09Speaker 1: The girls actually have their own dressing room, um, for
- 49:13Speaker 1: all our clothes and all our makeup. They have vanities
- 49:15Speaker 1: and lights and all that. I mean, I enjoy it too.
- 49:18Speaker 1: Like I wake up, like say, like seven thirty am,
- 49:21Speaker 1: and I look over and I see like Diggie is
- 49:23Speaker 1: still sleeping in his bed. So I'm all right, I
- 49:24Speaker 1: can still sleep for a little bit longer. So um,
- 49:26Speaker 1: it's nice to be able to have your friends around.
- 49:28Speaker 1: And we really didn't have any issues with it, at
- 49:30Speaker 1: least I didn't personally. Yeah, very cool, Thank you so much.
- 49:33Speaker 1: Thank you, Emily. Great question. Now we have Vanessa on
- 49:37Speaker 1: the phone in Ontario, Canada. Hey Vanessa, Oh my god,
- 49:43Speaker 1: Hi Aslee, Hi, how you doing there? Oh my god,
- 49:49Speaker 1: I love you. How are you hid? How are you?
- 49:52Speaker 1: I'm good? Thank you for asking? And Hi Ben, I
- 49:54Speaker 1: love you too. Don't worry. Do you have a question
- 50:01Speaker 1: about Paradise? I do. I do. So. I was just wondering,
- 50:05Speaker 1: obviously these questions freaking but when Karin made her welcome
- 50:08Speaker 1: speech and you kind of gave a little bit of
- 50:11Speaker 1: a look in the episode, I was wondering if that
- 50:13Speaker 1: was the editing or if you actually had a little
- 50:16Speaker 1: bit of an issue with her welcoming Um. That was
- 50:20Speaker 1: the editing, wasn't it. That was the No. I don't know.
- 50:25Speaker 1: I don't want to. I would never say I have
- 50:27Speaker 1: an issue with Karin. I think that her speech was
- 50:30Speaker 1: a little bit I want to use a word narcissistic,
- 50:33Speaker 1: welcome me to paradise, and that's that's just not really
- 50:36Speaker 1: my style. So I rolled my eyes a little bit
- 50:38Speaker 1: and it was it was just purely reactionary. I didn't
- 50:40Speaker 1: realize it until watching it back, but I thought it
- 50:42Speaker 1: was hysterical. Also amen um, But no, the limited time
- 50:47Speaker 1: I spent with the Crench, she seems like a sweet girl.
- 50:49Speaker 1: It was just that that moment I was like, okay,
- 50:51Speaker 1: here we got talking. That was a great question. Oh
- 50:57Speaker 1: thank you. I love you guys so much. Watch all
- 51:00Speaker 1: your listens. I should say to all your podcasts. I
- 51:03Speaker 1: don't even know what I'm saying, and I'm whenvous, Well,
- 51:05Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for calling Vanessa and you guys.
- 51:11Speaker 1: Same was plug. That is the I don't get a
- 51:13Speaker 1: podcast she's referring to. And I actually had Jared Wells
- 51:16Speaker 1: and Cupcake on this week. They were talking about things
- 51:19Speaker 1: that they don't get about dating. She should gotta check
- 51:22Speaker 1: that out. But now we have Megan and Boston calling Hi. Hi,
- 51:27Speaker 1: it's Astley. How are you doing. I'm good? How are
- 51:31Speaker 1: you good? What's your question for Dean? My question was
- 51:35Speaker 1: actually for Ben there it is of course about forget
- 51:42Speaker 1: about you Ben, what's going on? Um? Well, my question
- 51:47Speaker 1: was I was wondering if you would ever consider going
- 51:50Speaker 1: to Bachelor of Paradise. Yeah, Ben in Paradise. Um, you know,
- 51:55Speaker 1: I don't think so. Um, I'm not against it, and
- 51:59Speaker 1: I do and OI watching it, it just doesn't When
- 52:03Speaker 1: I watched it, it kind of gives me anxiety. Um,
- 52:06Speaker 1: I think for a couple of reasons. Right, you know
- 52:09Speaker 1: there it's a lot of fun, and it's it's very
- 52:11Speaker 1: kind of free spirited, and I'm just I really am
- 52:13Speaker 1: not that kind of I'm not good at dating in
- 52:16Speaker 1: that way. I'm much more, uh, just kind of one
- 52:19Speaker 1: on one traditionalist. Um, even though I did the Bachelor. Um,
- 52:24Speaker 1: but I don't think so. However, you know, kind of
- 52:26Speaker 1: like my answer last week for being a Bachelor again
- 52:30Speaker 1: was you can never close the door to a possibility
- 52:32Speaker 1: or to an opportunity. Um. And so if there was
- 52:35Speaker 1: somebody from a past season that I had my eye on,
- 52:37Speaker 1: or that I was really interested in meeting, and I
- 52:39Speaker 1: didn't know any other way to meet them outside of Paradise,
- 52:41Speaker 1: Then then I think the risk would be worth it. Um,
- 52:44Speaker 1: you could see me going there, but it would have
- 52:46Speaker 1: to take the right person. And I don't think I
- 52:48Speaker 1: would go unless I knew that there was somebody that
- 52:50Speaker 1: was going to be there that that I really wanted
- 52:52Speaker 1: to meet. Got it? Oh my gosh, that's well. Thank
- 52:59Speaker 1: you for the quiet and it really it really was
- 53:01Speaker 1: a good one. We joke about it a lot, but
- 53:03Speaker 1: it is one now that I probably, I guess again,
- 53:06Speaker 1: could consider, um, But right now I just don't think
- 53:08Speaker 1: it's enough about possibilities, Yeah, it would be awestimate. We
- 53:12Speaker 1: could see again, Well we'll see. Maybe for consolation for now,
- 53:19Speaker 1: I'll take I'll take a consolation price. What about, Hey, Ben,
- 53:22Speaker 1: what about Winter Games? Uh? You good question. I have
- 53:27Speaker 1: no clue what Winter Games even it, so I don't
- 53:30Speaker 1: know if they do. But if Winter Games is a
- 53:32Speaker 1: cool concept and it seems spawn and then yeah, I
- 53:35Speaker 1: definitely think I would do it, But we'll have to
- 53:38Speaker 1: wait and see. I would have to I would have
- 53:39Speaker 1: to kind of hear what it is first. Yeah, I agree,
- 53:43Speaker 1: I think Winter Games would be fun. It sounds like
- 53:45Speaker 1: it's going to be more of like a competition aspect
- 53:47Speaker 1: than Actually I'm not I've never realized, but being a
- 53:49Speaker 1: Colorado guy, I'm sure you could be interested in doing
- 53:52Speaker 1: something like that. That'd be cool. Yeah, man, well, I
- 53:54Speaker 1: hope maybe I could see you there. Um, finally we
- 53:57Speaker 1: could meet in person. Yeah, they'd be great one of
- 54:00Speaker 1: these days. All right, you guys, we gotta go on
- 54:05Speaker 1: to Caroline in Pennsylvania. Hello, Hi, welcome to the Almost
- 54:10Speaker 1: Famous podcast. Hey guys, what's up. How are you? We're great? Um.
- 54:17Speaker 1: Question my question is how you guys feel about the
- 54:22Speaker 1: rule that Wells of not going to be dating anybody
- 54:25Speaker 1: and it's solely going to be bartending. Well, when I
- 54:29Speaker 1: first heard that Wells was gonna be the bartender, I
- 54:31Speaker 1: definitely thought that was just their way to make his
- 54:35Speaker 1: entrance into Paradise and then people would start dating the bartender. Um,
- 54:39Speaker 1: I don't think that's actually gonna happen. He was pretty
- 54:42Speaker 1: firm on that yesterday. I know Amanda was a little disappointed,
- 54:45Speaker 1: and um, if I hadn't dated him previously and I
- 54:48Speaker 1: was part of this cast, and I also would have
- 54:50Speaker 1: been very disappointed. Uh huh, Dean, can you give us
- 54:55Speaker 1: any little scoop? What about you? Ben? What do you
- 54:59Speaker 1: think being You're good at asking me quite? I like this,
- 55:03Speaker 1: thank you. I don't know. I mean, Wells is a
- 55:06Speaker 1: very thought after man. I mean I think, uh, Wells
- 55:09Speaker 1: is such a good dude. He's funny, he's good looking.
- 55:11Speaker 1: I can see him being, um something that the women
- 55:15Speaker 1: really gets, like to get to enjoy it or get
- 55:17Speaker 1: to know there um. But it's also I think a
- 55:20Speaker 1: cool element to have him as a bartender, because it
- 55:22Speaker 1: does kind of separate and give him a perspective now
- 55:25Speaker 1: where he can speak to each person or each couple
- 55:28Speaker 1: individually with a little bit of a better perspective than
- 55:30Speaker 1: maybe the former bartender could. I want to know was
- 55:35Speaker 1: he a good bartender? I will say that I definitely
- 55:37Speaker 1: confided in Wells quite a bit in regard to relationship issues. Um,
- 55:42Speaker 1: so it was great to have a familiar perspective there um.
- 55:46Speaker 1: I guess we just have to wait and find out
- 55:47Speaker 1: if he goes on any dates or not. He's got
- 55:49Speaker 1: a smile on like maybe he does. I always have
- 55:52Speaker 1: a smile on has to be like somebody left. I'm
- 55:57Speaker 1: telling you That's what I yesterday. I was like, I
- 55:59Speaker 1: don't know how any of these girls are looking at
- 56:02Speaker 1: anyone other than Dean. What do you What do you
- 56:04Speaker 1: guys think about Wells for bachelor? No, for bachelor. I
- 56:08Speaker 1: think you'd be a good one. Would you do it?
- 56:09Speaker 1: I don't know you guys obviously know him. Do you
- 56:11Speaker 1: think you would be up for that? I mean I
- 56:13Speaker 1: don't see why not? Yeah, I think not talkative like
- 56:18Speaker 1: didn't he wouldn't be wasn't he dating like four or
- 56:20Speaker 1: five girls at the same time in Paradise? Last year
- 56:22Speaker 1: he was a Bachelor in Paradise. He was the Bachelor
- 56:24Speaker 1: in Paradise. He went on three dates. Um yeah, yeah,
- 56:34Speaker 1: we'll stick with Peter for now. I think we stick
- 56:36Speaker 1: with you know Peter um either the every time I
- 56:42Speaker 1: see you, Dean, I like you more and more. I
- 56:44Speaker 1: think you and Ben that's like such great guys. That's
- 56:47Speaker 1: in you to say thank you so much. I'm surrounded
- 56:50Speaker 1: by wonderful man at all times. Yeah, I'm so jealous
- 56:53Speaker 1: of you. You are living your best wife right now.
- 56:57Speaker 1: It really makes guys that are outside the bachelor family, like, crap,
- 57:02Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It's like it's hurting me too, and I'm
- 57:05Speaker 1: not good enough, I know, honestly, Like every time I
- 57:15Speaker 1: go on a date, I'm like, I think I'm just
- 57:16Speaker 1: going to continue to day inside the franchise. They're screen
- 57:19Speaker 1: for me. They're beautiful and they have wonderful souls. I mean, yeah,
- 57:24Speaker 1: how can you go wrong with that? I agree? All right,
- 57:27Speaker 1: we gotta move on now. All right, Well, thanks guys,
- 57:30Speaker 1: great talking to you. Good talking to you. Hey, Dean,
- 57:33Speaker 1: do you remember last time you were here. We were
- 57:35Speaker 1: talking about how you were going to get some blue
- 57:36Speaker 1: apron sent to your door and you're going to cook.
- 57:39Speaker 1: And Amy was a little afraid because she was like,
- 57:41Speaker 1: I'm not going to let a guy who doesn't wash
- 57:42Speaker 1: his hands cook. I said, I trusted, So tell us.
- 57:46Speaker 1: How did it go? Yeah, so I got three meals
- 57:48Speaker 1: delivered to my house. Um, and for Amy's uh sake,
- 57:53Speaker 1: I did wash my hands. But when I was preparing
- 57:55Speaker 1: the meals, um, they were great. I mean there was
- 57:59Speaker 1: there was fish, there was chicken. Um, they were all delicious.
- 58:03Speaker 1: So I have two roommates, um, and I was sent
- 58:05Speaker 1: three meals, so I cooked three meals all all tasted delicious.
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- 58:12Speaker 1: over a hundred fifty local farms, fisheries, and ranchers across
- 58:14Speaker 1: the US, leading to uh more seafood source sustainably through
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- 58:23Speaker 1: and pork coming from responsibly raised animals, which I love produce,
- 58:27Speaker 1: is sourced from farms that practice regenerative farming. Because Blue
- 58:31Speaker 1: Apron ships the exact amount of each ingredient required for
- 58:33Speaker 1: a recipe, they are reducing food waste. And when I
- 58:35Speaker 1: cooked for my roommates, the best part about it was
- 58:37Speaker 1: I us literally every single ingredient that we're in all
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- 58:43Speaker 1: is how affordable it is. For less than ten dollars
- 58:45Speaker 1: a person per meal. Blue Apron delivers seasonal recipes along
- 58:48Speaker 1: with the preportioned ingredients to make delicious, home cooked meals,
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- 59:18Speaker 1: that's Blue Apron dot com Blast almost Famous. Oh we
- 59:23Speaker 1: got one more collar. It's Kayla and Oregon. Hi. Hi,
- 59:28Speaker 1: what's your question? Yeah, it was okay, So it's about
- 59:32Speaker 1: bastl in Paradise. Um, I was just curious if there's
- 59:36Speaker 1: like more sex going on than like blunt Wait what
- 59:41Speaker 1: was the full question? If they're okay? So obviously not
- 59:45Speaker 1: in like the first week, but is there like more
- 59:48Speaker 1: sex going on than like the TVs in the show?
- 59:52Speaker 1: Like shows? I think you're referring to the boom boom room.
- 59:56Speaker 1: There are cameras everywhere. Um, there are a couple of
- 59:59Speaker 1: room that have like a curtain and I don't know, Dean,
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: I've never been in that room. Well, Kayla, I did
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: share a boom boom room, but there was no boom
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: booming because it is the one there's I think there's
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: two of them and sometimes I I personally am a
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: very big fan of cuddling, and they were there were
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: several occasions where we would go in and snuggle. I mean,
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: of course, I can't speak to the show itself. I'm
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: sure ben Ken, I would imagine there's more in Paradise
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: than there is on The Bachelor Bachelorette just because there's
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: more couples. I can clarify this. There is more sex
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: that's going on in Paradise. Um, they're they're just doing
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: it all the time. I can say that I had
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: as much sex on Paradise as I did on the Bachelorette.
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: So I was just I had like two questions, like,
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: are you guys allowed to stay the night together like
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: some first night on or is it just like the
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: Boom Boom room. So in Paradise you can't sleep wherever
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: you want, whenever you want, with whomever you want. There
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: was a rule post um break that you had to
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: both consent on camera before going in, and that was
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: just for the show's purposes. They wanted to ensure that
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: you know no one was doing anything against their will.
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: On a sad note um usually at the end of
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: every Paradise season, I'm the only girls sleeping in the
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: girl's room by myself, and everybody else has coupled up
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: in other beds throughout the resort. That's awesome. Well that's sad,
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: but okay, thank you, thank you, love you guys being.
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna have to get used to these
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: kind of questions. I have a feeling that questions more
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: intense than that are going to be in your feature
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: very soon. You're gonna have to know how to answer them.
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: I just also is a good reason to keep your
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: morals and values in check throughout all these experiences, because
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: if you don't want to have to lie, and you
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: don't want to have to skirt around issues, then you
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: might as well hold yourself to a standard as above approach.
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: That's you thought. It was a great question if you
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: If you never lie, you never have to remember anything, right,
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: that's the quote I'll though whenever actually sitting next to me,
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: She'll be sure to put me on blast at any
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: given moment. So appreciate that. Hey, that's the journalist in
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: me being. I think Dean is actually pissed at me
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: for the first time in his life. No, that's okay, Hey,
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: relationships have that, and it actually brings us into our
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: last segment, which is listeners emails, and um, if Dean
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: is mad at you or not, this is a great
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: question for that this is from Karen. Karen is from Canada,
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: and she asked. She says, I'm twenty three and I've
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: been dating my boyfriend for almost four years. Throughout our
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: whole relationship, we have never fought at all, which is
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: a good sign for the two of you as you
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: sit in the studio together. I've always been pretty proud
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: of this until my girlfriend started saying this is a
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: red flag and fighting is essential to keep relationship strong.
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: They want to know your thoughts, so, Dean, because you
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: may be a little fresh through with actually right now,
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: is this a good thing or a bad thing for
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: your relationship. I think that the fact that Karen has
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: been dating her boyfriend for four years and had zero
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: fights with him, I think that's a that's a great sign.
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: I think that's amazing. I think that your friends wanting
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: to say those are red flags or maybe because they've
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: been in relationships that have out our arguments and I
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: don't know. I think that any relationship that you can
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: be constantly happy and is a good thing. I agree.
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: Are those friends jealous or something that's really that's weird?
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: It's not a red flag. I mean a little argument
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: here there that's healthy. But no fights. That's not necessary. Hey, guys,
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: just to close up your Dean, I have one final
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: question for me from Kinsey from Utah. Um. If Rachel
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: and Brian break up, Bean, would you try to date
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: date Rachel again? I don't even want to consider that
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: as a hypothetical. I wish nothing but the best for them,
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: and I don't even want to consider answering that perfect Well,
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: you know what, go to the Almost Famous Podcast. We
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: really we hope the best for Rachel and Brian. They
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: seem to be doing really well. Dean, we we hope
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: the best for you. Thank you for joining us today
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: on the Almost Famous Podcast. Dean, We're going to teach
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: you something real quick. Okay, I'm gonna close us out.
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: How we do I say? This is Almost Famous podcast.
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: I've been been, Dean. Who have you been? I've been
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: Dean and I've been Ashley. Hey, thanks for joining us today.
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: We'll talk to you very very soon for more Bachelor
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