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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
- 0:03Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
- 0:06Speaker 2: It's the Almost Famous podcast. I'm here today to break
- 0:09Speaker 2: down Frankie Fridays. Thank goodness, it's Frankie Friday. I'm so
- 0:15Speaker 2: excited to be breaking down another week of what's going
- 0:18Speaker 2: on in Taylor Frankie Paul's life. We're coming to you
- 0:21Speaker 2: from San Francisco. Trista's with me today.
- 0:24Speaker 3: Hello, Trista.
- 0:25Speaker 4: Hi.
- 0:26Speaker 3: We are here for the Big Game, super Bowl week.
- 0:28Speaker 3: So we're out in.
- 0:29Speaker 2: San Francisco hanging out at the New Pop Podcasting studios.
- 0:33Speaker 2: It's beautiful. It's wonderful, natural lighting. I'm looking at a
- 0:37Speaker 2: tree full of what kind of tree is that, Trista.
- 0:39Speaker 5: It's beautiful. I don't even notice it until now.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a rose tree bush that's grown up,
- 0:47Speaker 2: real big, beautiful out here in San Francisco.
- 0:53Speaker 3: A lot is happening this week with Taylor. Frankie Paul.
- 0:55Speaker 3: I'm actually wondering if she is in San Francisco.
- 0:58Speaker 4: Also, Frans, I wonder because I got to come to
- 1:00Speaker 4: Super Bowl when I was a bachelorette.
- 1:02Speaker 5: Well I didn't, you didn't.
- 1:04Speaker 3: I missed out on that one. Sorry, I must have didn't.
- 1:08Speaker 3: I didn't answer my phone. I'm sure they called me about.
- 1:12Speaker 5: You're right.
- 1:12Speaker 2: Let's start with the Taylor Frankie Paul news that Taylor
- 1:16Speaker 2: and the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Cash Show support
- 1:19Speaker 2: Whitney for her Broadway debut.
- 1:23Speaker 4: Yes, amazing. I am so excited for Whitney. I was
- 1:26Speaker 4: a huge fan of hers on Dancing with the Stars.
- 1:29Speaker 4: I haven't watched Mormon Wives, so I don't know all
- 1:32Speaker 4: of these people. I mean, I'm getting to know them
- 1:35Speaker 4: because obviously Taylor is now part of the Bachelorette sisterhood.
- 1:39Speaker 4: But what an exciting time for Whitney, and then to
- 1:45Speaker 4: have all of the Mormon Wives with her.
- 1:48Speaker 5: I'm sure felt really good Whitney.
- 1:50Speaker 2: I mean, Dance with the Stars has always been kind
- 1:53Speaker 2: of a good jump start for people. Yep, it kind
- 1:59Speaker 2: of died off there for bit where you didn't really
- 2:01Speaker 2: hear much like many success stories coming from Dance with
- 2:03Speaker 2: the Stars. Recently, obviously it's changed. Yeah, Whitney has definitely
- 2:09Speaker 2: I don't want to say taken advantage because that sounds bad,
- 2:11Speaker 2: but she's definitely rolled Dancing with the Stars into some
- 2:16Speaker 2: incredible opportunities and now she is in Chicago.
- 2:20Speaker 3: The musical on Broadway.
- 2:23Speaker 4: As Roxy Heart, like the that's incredible, the biggest part
- 2:28Speaker 4: in Chicago.
- 2:30Speaker 2: And usually because Ashley's watching it and I need to
- 2:34Speaker 2: catch up on Mormon Wives.
- 2:35Speaker 3: I'd ask some Mormon Wives questions.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Because I've always, at least I've been oder the assumption
- 2:39Speaker 2: that there's like a lot of drama in that group.
- 2:40Speaker 2: But maybe there's not, because for all these girls to
- 2:45Speaker 2: show up to support Whitney on Broadway, yeah, says something
- 2:50Speaker 2: totally agree.
- 2:52Speaker 4: I feel like we were talking about it last night,
- 2:54Speaker 4: Rachel and Joan and I at the party we were
- 2:57Speaker 4: at and I don't watch, but they watch, and Rachel
- 3:01Speaker 4: was saying, they're really good at talking if something happens,
- 3:07Speaker 4: like something dramatic, if you did something to me and
- 3:10Speaker 4: I took you know, took it personally. If I'm a
- 3:14Speaker 4: Mormon wife, I bring it up. Then I put it
- 3:16Speaker 4: on camera, we hash it out and it's done. So
- 3:19Speaker 4: I wonder if because of the show, like yes, there's
- 3:22Speaker 4: a lot of drama on the show, but they actually
- 3:24Speaker 4: like hash it out, they talk it through, they say
- 3:28Speaker 4: what they need to say, and maybe that helps them
- 3:30Speaker 4: like get past it and support each other.
- 3:32Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 3:33Speaker 2: I mean that feels very healthy, right right, That's what
- 3:35Speaker 2: the marriage counseling tells you to do.
- 3:37Speaker 5: So I feel like to do what the Mormon wives do.
- 3:42Speaker 3: Why not you spent some time recently?
- 3:46Speaker 2: In the next headline is the Bachelorette Special, which we've teased,
- 3:51Speaker 2: but now we can officially start to talk about it more.
- 3:54Speaker 5: Yeah, because they announced it.
- 3:55Speaker 3: They announced it.
- 3:56Speaker 2: There's a Bachelorette special with eighteen former Lee led by
- 4:00Speaker 2: the one and Only Trista Sutter and Taylor. Frankie Paul
- 4:05Speaker 2: is there as well. It's going to air after the
- 4:07Speaker 2: Oscars on ABC. Trista, let's start with instead of you
- 4:12Speaker 2: were there? I mean, goodness, you know who was there?
- 4:14Speaker 2: Who wasn't there? There was another article that came out
- 4:17Speaker 2: based on this that Claire Crawley wasn't there, and US
- 4:20Speaker 2: Weekly is or US Magazine is covering why Claire Crawley skipped.
- 4:25Speaker 2: The article doesn't necessarily give the reasoning. I know you've
- 4:28Speaker 2: spoken to Claire, you texted her, because that's just who
- 4:31Speaker 2: you are.
- 4:32Speaker 3: What do you know about the reasoning why she didn't come?
- 4:35Speaker 4: So I think in the US article it said that,
- 4:40Speaker 4: and I think there was a comment, or she did
- 4:42Speaker 4: a story. Maybe somebody asked maybe she was doing like
- 4:45Speaker 4: a Q and A, and someone asked why she wasn't there,
- 4:48Speaker 4: and I think she said she was not feeling well
- 4:51Speaker 4: first of all, and then she said hard pass was
- 4:55Speaker 4: her explanation. I wrote her and I said, I'm so
- 4:58Speaker 4: sorry to hear I won't get to squeeze. You know,
- 5:00Speaker 4: you will be missed, and she said, I know same.
- 5:02Speaker 4: I was looking forward to it so much and wanted
- 5:04Speaker 4: to see everyone, so like she didn't say anything to
- 5:07Speaker 4: me about being sick or you know, hard pass, because
- 5:12Speaker 4: I know that she would have loved to see all
- 5:13Speaker 4: of us. And that was really really the sentiment of
- 5:17Speaker 4: the day. Regardless of anyone's drama with anyone else, or
- 5:21Speaker 4: with the producers or with the show or whatever, we
- 5:25Speaker 4: just were all in on just spending time together, making
- 5:30Speaker 4: it a special day, getting to meet Taylor and helping
- 5:34Speaker 4: give her advice on her journey. And anytime we get together,
- 5:39Speaker 4: it is always and I say this because we've had
- 5:42Speaker 4: it twice now, maybe just two times, but anytime where
- 5:46Speaker 4: any of us are together, just like this weekend with
- 5:49Speaker 4: me and Joan and Rachel, it's just like a little
- 5:53Speaker 4: mini reunion. And I don't think that I'm alone in
- 5:57Speaker 4: that sentiment that we just love seeing each other.
- 6:01Speaker 3: The bachelors have never gotten together.
- 6:03Speaker 4: I know what I was actually going to say that
- 6:05Speaker 4: yesterday when we were talking about it. Why not they
- 6:08Speaker 4: need to do a bachelor reunion.
- 6:10Speaker 3: I have no idea.
- 6:11Speaker 2: There's so many bachelors I've never met, Like totally, I
- 6:14Speaker 2: probably only have met four or five other like bachelor men. Yes,
- 6:19Speaker 2: well maybe a little more than that. Uh, you know
- 6:22Speaker 2: the fires still into the guineas Jason Mesnik, Sean Lowe, souls.
- 6:27Speaker 5: And you went on some of the shows to give advice,
- 6:30Speaker 5: didn't you.
- 6:30Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Joey's and Matt But okay, so there's eight
- 6:34Speaker 2: of how many?
- 6:35Speaker 5: Like I have no idea.
- 6:36Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 6:37Speaker 2: I mean, I probably mean there's so many I haven't met,
- 6:40Speaker 2: especially before my time, I met a lot post time.
- 6:44Speaker 2: It'd be so fun'd be so great. This looks like
- 6:47Speaker 2: it's so fun. There are other bachelorettes that could not attend,
- 6:51Speaker 2: jin Cheft, Gillian Harris, There Crawley, as we mentioned, Michelle Young, Gabby, Wendy,
- 6:58Speaker 2: and then Gin.
- 6:59Speaker 5: Tran Jen was going.
- 7:01Speaker 4: She was I think she went to Paris with her mom,
- 7:03Speaker 4: and she had already had this trip planned, so she
- 7:06Speaker 4: couldn't make it because she was going to.
- 7:08Speaker 5: Paris with her mom.
- 7:10Speaker 4: Jillian, Maybe, I no, I mean, I guess I could
- 7:15Speaker 4: say it. I show a video to no. Never mind,
- 7:19Speaker 4: I'm not going to talk about it. But anyway, Yeah,
- 7:22Speaker 4: most people were there, and including Meredith who was season
- 7:28Speaker 4: two so and I guarantee, I think everyone except me
- 7:34Speaker 4: had never met her, so no way, Yeah, I don't
- 7:37Speaker 4: think anyone had met her besides me.
- 7:40Speaker 2: It's just cool because, especially in today's time, like everybody,
- 7:45Speaker 2: so many of this list has moved on, right, Yeah,
- 7:48Speaker 2: and so many of these people we've not lost touch
- 7:50Speaker 2: with it as much as they've just moved on with
- 7:52Speaker 2: their lives and they have families, and they've spread out
- 7:55Speaker 2: across the US or the world, and they're great people.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Bring them back together in one room, I have to imagine,
- 8:03Speaker 2: it's so fun. Trist I want to ask you, though,
- 8:07Speaker 2: any insights you can give to what we'll be watching
- 8:10Speaker 2: during this Bachelorette special and also what does it feel
- 8:15Speaker 2: like for you as the first bachelorette when everybody gets
- 8:20Speaker 2: in one room again?
- 8:22Speaker 5: Like I said yesterday, it's just my heart is so
- 8:26Speaker 5: happy being everyone.
- 8:28Speaker 4: I feel maternal towards anyone who's been on the show,
- 8:31Speaker 4: and especially have connection with my fellow Bachelorette leads. You know,
- 8:39Speaker 4: there's just there's only so many of us who have
- 8:42Speaker 4: been leads on The Bachelor or the Bachelorette, and it's
- 8:46Speaker 4: a unique, very unique process. And just to be able
- 8:52Speaker 4: to like I didn't record the Bachelor mansion wasn't a
- 8:56Speaker 4: thing until way after my season, or was in a
- 9:00Speaker 4: place in the show. I was in Malibu, I think,
- 9:03Speaker 4: and or no, I was in the hills. So it's
- 9:09Speaker 4: not like I'm going back to the scene of where
- 9:11Speaker 4: I fell in love with my husband, but it definitely
- 9:15Speaker 4: brings back those sort of memories and being around, you know,
- 9:19Speaker 4: the crew and the producers and just being in the
- 9:25Speaker 4: midst of where it is filmed is just really special.
- 9:28Speaker 4: So it brings it brings happy, happy memories for me
- 9:34Speaker 4: back to the surface and just remembering how I fell
- 9:36Speaker 4: in love with my husband and.
- 9:38Speaker 5: Why we met or.
- 9:41Speaker 4: You know, and also the friendships, because I will always say,
- 9:45Speaker 4: you know, the best thing to come out of it
- 9:48Speaker 4: was Ryan and I for me, but also the friendships
- 9:53Speaker 4: that I've taken from it, So to be able to
- 9:55Speaker 4: get together is so much fun. You guys are definitely
- 9:58Speaker 4: going to want to tune in. It is just energetic.
- 10:02Speaker 3: Yes, good, not just because you were a part of that.
- 10:06Speaker 2: You actually think the show part, Like they made a
- 10:09Speaker 2: good show from this.
- 10:10Speaker 4: I think, so it's special. It's leading up to her season.
- 10:14Speaker 4: We give her advice. She asks tons of questions. You
- 10:17Speaker 4: will see that she is very genuine, She is very present,
- 10:21Speaker 4: She is very interested in hearing what we all have
- 10:26Speaker 4: to say. And I give her props because it has
- 10:30Speaker 4: to be really I don't want to say intimidating. There's
- 10:36Speaker 4: another word for it, like very gosh, what's the word overwhelming?
- 10:42Speaker 5: Overwhelming?
- 10:43Speaker 3: Is I know quite a few of these women.
- 10:48Speaker 4: Yes, overwhelming, And I mean there's so many of us
- 10:54Speaker 4: and we all have a different experience. And she's not
- 10:59Speaker 4: just sitting down to like have a little coffee talk
- 11:02Speaker 4: with like two or three of us, which is kind
- 11:04Speaker 4: of how it's been done in the past. It's seventeen
- 11:08Speaker 4: of us in her face, saying.
- 11:11Speaker 3: Welcome, well, goodness, we're here.
- 11:15Speaker 5: For you, and she's like, holy crap. But I don't
- 11:18Speaker 5: even know what to think right now. Like, what do
- 11:20Speaker 5: I even say?
- 11:21Speaker 4: So, I feel like it probably was very overwhelming for her,
- 11:25Speaker 4: and she handled it so well. I am so excited
- 11:29Speaker 4: for all of you to be able to see this special,
- 11:31Speaker 4: but also to see the rest of the season.
- 11:34Speaker 3: That's awesome.
- 11:35Speaker 2: Again, The Bachelorette special will air after the Oscars on
- 11:40Speaker 2: a B seat.
- 11:52Speaker 3: This is a great one.
- 11:53Speaker 2: I'm pumped about this and Taylor just recently posted on
- 11:57Speaker 2: her social media as she prepares for this announcement, Taylor
- 12:00Speaker 2: Frankie Paul's basketball skills will be on display at the
- 12:04Speaker 2: NBA All Star Game. She posted a video on social
- 12:07Speaker 2: media here recently showing off her skills.
- 12:12Speaker 3: It's great.
- 12:13Speaker 2: I can't wait to see her out there just fucking baskets.
- 12:17Speaker 5: She's actually good. Did you see videos of her?
- 12:20Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean she's better than I thought.
- 12:24Speaker 5: Okay, okay, should she be playing in the NBA?
- 12:27Speaker 2: No, but she can I think basketball, and I think
- 12:30Speaker 2: it was impressive. However, we don't know how many like
- 12:33Speaker 2: shots she took to make all the ones she showed,
- 12:38Speaker 2: so it's hard for me to judge. However, if that
- 12:41Speaker 2: was if she was shooting even thirty percent. Yeah, with
- 12:46Speaker 2: the shots that she was shooting. I'm impressed.
- 12:49Speaker 3: Great, I was. That's why I'm so excited to watch it.
- 12:56Speaker 2: Yeah, because i just want to see her hucking from
- 12:57Speaker 2: like twenty five like she was in the video.
- 13:01Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 13:01Speaker 5: Love it.
- 13:03Speaker 3: So.
- 13:03Speaker 2: The All Star Game will air at seven pm Eastern
- 13:07Speaker 2: on ESPN. If you're a fan of The Mormon Wives
- 13:09Speaker 2: or our Next Bachelorette, make sure you tune in to
- 13:12Speaker 2: watch Taylor Frankie Paul and a celebrity NBA All Star Game.
- 13:15Speaker 2: Taylor Frankie Paul shares candid message about mental health Trista.
- 13:21Speaker 2: For the last few weeks, we've kind of been covering
- 13:24Speaker 2: Taylor Frankie Paul and she's been taking like sabbaticals from
- 13:28Speaker 2: social media. I think life has sped up. I think
- 13:31Speaker 2: she was saying very quickly for her with all the
- 13:34Speaker 2: stuff going on, and she's still a mom, and she
- 13:37Speaker 2: obviously has friendships and so break down what this headline
- 13:41Speaker 2: means again, Taylor Frankie Paul shares candid message about mental health.
- 13:46Speaker 4: You know, I saw this post pop up because of
- 13:48Speaker 4: course I follow Taylor, and I was actually I don't
- 13:53Speaker 4: know if impressed is a good word, but I was impressed.
- 13:57Speaker 4: She I don't know if you've seen the trend where
- 14:01Speaker 4: basically someone says, I don't know ball, and she said,
- 14:05Speaker 4: I'm struggling with my mental health and I just listen
- 14:08Speaker 4: as if I don't know Ball. And then she goes
- 14:10Speaker 4: on to say she's tried equine therapy, safe and sound protocol,
- 14:16Speaker 4: art therapy, working out, massage therapy, trauma, yoga, sound bass, prayer,
- 14:21Speaker 4: psych ed, red light therapy, reading self help books, listening
- 14:25Speaker 4: to inspirational podcasts, and grounding herself. And I was like, wow,
- 14:29Speaker 4: I mean, you do a lot for your mental health.
- 14:32Speaker 2: Might be the reason why you know, I would go
- 14:35Speaker 2: crazy if I was doing all this in the course
- 14:37Speaker 2: of a day.
- 14:38Speaker 3: Right, how do I find time?
- 14:40Speaker 5: How do you find time?
- 14:41Speaker 4: But I don't know that she wasn't saying like, this
- 14:43Speaker 4: is what I do, and this is what she's tried
- 14:45Speaker 4: over the years to work.
- 14:47Speaker 5: On her mental health.
- 14:48Speaker 4: And I give her kudos for doing putting in the work.
- 14:54Speaker 4: You know, she's not just complaining about it, which I
- 14:56Speaker 4: think a lot of people do. She's actually putting in
- 14:59Speaker 4: the wor and being better for herself and her family well.
- 15:05Speaker 2: And I think a big deal here too, is which
- 15:07Speaker 2: so many of us have done learned from or witnessed
- 15:12Speaker 2: is taking the break from social media has been such
- 15:14Speaker 2: a healthy step for so many because what it does
- 15:18Speaker 2: do is like it lowers or stimulation. It keeps us
- 15:22Speaker 2: from judging and comparisoning, comparing ourselves and also the negative
- 15:26Speaker 2: comments that goodness gracious everybody with any type of platform,
- 15:30Speaker 2: and I would even go as far as saying anybody
- 15:33Speaker 2: that exists on social media platform or not will receive
- 15:36Speaker 2: at some point. And so I think it's great of
- 15:39Speaker 2: Taylor to do this, especially as it's not like life
- 15:43Speaker 2: is going to be slowing down for her, oh gosh,
- 15:46Speaker 2: just speeding up filming is over sure, but she still
- 15:48Speaker 2: has a lot, you know, a lot of room here
- 15:51Speaker 2: time in front of her where she'll be doing press,
- 15:54Speaker 2: doing interviews, showing up to live shows and then hopefully,
- 15:58Speaker 2: you know whoever she ends up with it at the
- 16:00Speaker 2: end of this, if there is somebody, they're out there
- 16:03Speaker 2: enjoying their life as well.
- 16:04Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 16:05Speaker 2: Final headline in the Frankie Fridays is really focused on
- 16:11Speaker 2: Letia gar The headline is that she's stepping away from
- 16:14Speaker 2: her podcast for a period of time, but the reason
- 16:17Speaker 2: it's tied into Frankie Fridays is because she went on
- 16:21Speaker 2: Bachelor Happy Hour with the new host of Bachelor Happy Hour,
- 16:25Speaker 2: Charity Lawson and Rachel Recia, and they asked Letia if
- 16:30Speaker 2: she knew anything about Taylor Frankie Paul's season.
- 16:34Speaker 3: Trista, yes, what did you say?
- 16:36Speaker 4: So? I listened to or saw the clip that they
- 16:40Speaker 4: posted from Bachelor Happy Hour, and they asked Letia what
- 16:45Speaker 4: she thought was going to happen or if she knew
- 16:49Speaker 4: because she's friends with one of the house or not
- 16:52Speaker 4: the housewives. She's friends with one of the Mormon wives.
- 16:55Speaker 4: And this was her quote for legal reasons, of course,
- 16:59Speaker 4: not meaning she can't talk about what happens in the
- 17:03Speaker 4: end of the show if she knows, She said, I
- 17:04Speaker 4: have my guesses, but I don't have any hard evidence
- 17:07Speaker 4: or dead giveaways. She's keeping it pretty close to the chest.
- 17:10Speaker 4: Speaking about Taylor, I think it would it will be good,
- 17:13Speaker 4: though I am sad for it. I'm excited to watch.
- 17:16Speaker 4: She's so entertaining to watch. I just love her.
- 17:18Speaker 3: So are these friends.
- 17:20Speaker 4: I don't know if she might know her, but I
- 17:22Speaker 4: know she's friends with one of the more Mormon wives.
- 17:25Speaker 4: To the point that Rachel and Charity asked her if
- 17:29Speaker 4: she would ever go on Mormon Wives.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Which ties us into the headline because she's stepping away
- 17:35Speaker 2: from her podcast that's brand new. I mean, it just
- 17:38Speaker 2: was announced. We talked about it here on the Almost
- 17:41Speaker 2: Famous podcast. It hasn't been out for more than like
- 17:43Speaker 2: a month or two, and she's stepping away until April,
- 17:49Speaker 2: and fans are speculating that she will be on the
- 17:52Speaker 2: next season of or season five of Secret Lives of Woman.
- 17:56Speaker 3: Ah, you think it's true.
- 17:57Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 17:58Speaker 4: I so, okay, So because I don't watch Mormon Wives,
- 18:03Speaker 4: tell me, do you have to be married to be
- 18:07Speaker 4: a Mormon Wife? Like obviously Taylor's not married right now.
- 18:11Speaker 3: Point, But I don't know. I wouldn't really fit the
- 18:14Speaker 3: like show title, right.
- 18:15Speaker 4: I don't know if Lytia, I don't know. Is it
- 18:19Speaker 4: like a housewives thing where they're just at this.
- 18:21Speaker 3: Point maybe they can be single.
- 18:23Speaker 2: Yeah, they could be single, and they just got gonna
- 18:25Speaker 2: kind of ignore the title and be like, anybody can
- 18:27Speaker 2: be a part of this as long as you're like
- 18:28Speaker 2: a good character. That's a great question, trusting that I
- 18:32Speaker 2: can't answer. Okay, But that's what fans are speculating, is
- 18:36Speaker 2: that she is stepping away from the show because she
- 18:40Speaker 2: will be filming. Her co host on the show will
- 18:42Speaker 2: be recording solo episodes until she comes back in April. Obviously,
- 18:48Speaker 2: it's a big week for Taylor Frankie Paul. Make sure
- 18:51Speaker 2: you tune into the Bachelorette Special. Make sure you tune
- 18:54Speaker 2: into the NBA All Star Game Celebrity All Star Game,
- 18:58Speaker 2: so you can watch Taylor out there.
- 19:00Speaker 3: I mean, she's tiny, isn't she. This is gonna be great.
- 19:04Speaker 2: I can't wait this because like there's there's like some
- 19:06Speaker 2: big people in that really tall humans, and I can't
- 19:09Speaker 2: wait to see her dribbling through their legs. Make sure
- 19:12Speaker 2: you tune into all the things that Taylor is doing
- 19:15Speaker 2: on television and on her social media's. That's been a
- 19:20Speaker 2: Taylor Frankie Paul Frankie Friday until next time.
- 19:24Speaker 3: I've been Ben, I've been interested.
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