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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: Hey everyone, it is a treat for me to be
- 0:09Speaker 2: hosting this podcast, which is the Almost Sanna's podcast meets
- 0:12Speaker 2: the Jonas Brothers. The I mean no Jonas isn't here.
- 0:16Speaker 2: I did put an early request in. It was not met.
- 0:21Speaker 2: I said, Kim we Le's get Franklin and then I
- 0:24Speaker 2: got no response.
- 0:25Speaker 3: Aimate doesn't care about my wishes. It's all good. Look
- 0:32Speaker 3: just dip it along. Okay.
- 0:35Speaker 2: So I am joined here on this podcast by Susan, Kathy, Daisy, Mari,
- 0:42Speaker 2: Susie Indiana, and we're all going to the Jonas concert
- 0:47Speaker 2: tonight in San Francisco. It's a couple of your first
- 0:51Speaker 2: It's going to be Susan and Kathy's first. Daisy, you've
- 0:54Speaker 2: been no, oh, hold the mic up to your mouth.
- 0:57Speaker 2: You've never been to a Jonahs concert before?
- 1:00Speaker 3: Why not?
- 1:00Speaker 4: Oh wait, no, I had.
- 1:04Speaker 3: I guess it was.
- 1:07Speaker 4: I was like I think in college.
- 1:10Speaker 2: Okay, so you're you're wearing We all have hats. Thank
- 1:14Speaker 2: you Amy for making these personalized, amazing hats. Mine of
- 1:19Speaker 2: course says I'm a Joe girl. He says, I'm in
- 1:22Speaker 2: my Joe era. It's been eighteen years and uh, well,
- 1:25Speaker 2: Susan is really into Joe right now. I showed her
- 1:28Speaker 2: some thirst traps on Instagram that I've saved in a
- 1:31Speaker 2: Joe album and she's really on board.
- 1:34Speaker 5: Thanks.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Wow, all the lips, the eyes, really every single feature.
- 1:43Speaker 3: So I have talked about how Joe is my hall pass?
- 1:46Speaker 3: Would he be your hall pass with your boyfriend?
- 1:48Speaker 2: Now?
- 1:49Speaker 3: Okay? Great?
- 1:50Speaker 2: Kathy has also been introduced to Jonah's brothers today and
- 1:53Speaker 2: Kathy your thoughts.
- 1:56Speaker 6: I think their bodily parts are very well packaged.
- 2:00Speaker 2: So she has she's like looking at the nether regions
- 2:03Speaker 2: more than the face.
- 2:04Speaker 6: And I mean, listen, he's cute. They have cute hair.
- 2:08Speaker 6: They have good hair, sound great hair. And you know what,
- 2:11Speaker 6: it's just taught me if you put a guy in
- 2:13Speaker 6: really tight pants, don't matter, you can sing her dance just.
- 2:16Speaker 2: She loves tight pants. Okay, well you're in for a
- 2:19Speaker 2: tree tonight. They've always been known for their tighte pants.
- 2:22Speaker 3: Did you want?
- 2:23Speaker 2: Oh?
- 2:23Speaker 3: These these laid the Goldens love their bulges. It's been
- 2:27Speaker 3: a topic of discussion the last like an hour. I
- 2:30Speaker 3: think you The topic of discussion is how tall they are.
- 2:35Speaker 6: The Warmer has it they're five to seven. But you
- 2:38Speaker 6: know what I told you before, I'll make an exception
- 2:41Speaker 6: for age height all of it.
- 2:43Speaker 2: Okay, So just letting you know, Kevin has been married
- 2:46Speaker 2: for like fifteen years, so he's out of the running.
- 2:49Speaker 2: Joe is single when he's thirty six, and that's that's
- 2:52Speaker 2: what he's going for tonight.
- 2:54Speaker 6: For me, he can have an affair with my daughter
- 2:56Speaker 6: who's also married. Okay, so.
- 3:00Speaker 3: The family, where do I get to go in this?
- 3:03Speaker 2: All?
- 3:03Speaker 6: Right?
- 3:04Speaker 3: And then Mari has been to how many have you
- 3:05Speaker 3: been to? You think I think I've been to like
- 3:07Speaker 3: twelve twelve.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Okay, I'm pretty sure this will be like my thirty eighth.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
- 3:18Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I'll have to go through and count
- 3:20Speaker 2: one day. It's pretty far gone now. The number, Okay, Susie,
- 3:23Speaker 2: do you know number?
- 3:24Speaker 3: I actually don't know.
- 3:25Speaker 7: I should text my best girlfriends because they have the memory,
- 3:29Speaker 7: and I've got the memory of a goldfish. So I
- 3:32Speaker 7: would to say like around like between seven and ten.
- 3:34Speaker 7: At the times i've seen them, maybe not always their concerts,
- 3:37Speaker 7: but like they've appeared somewhere where I've.
- 3:39Speaker 3: Been, you know, and I've seen them before, and Deanna.
- 3:42Speaker 8: You guys are all better off than me. I've never
- 3:44Speaker 8: had the luxury to see the brothers in person.
- 3:47Speaker 3: It's gonna be a magical night. Listen, my options are
- 3:51Speaker 3: just fast. I'm very excited, Danna, can you name all
- 3:55Speaker 3: three of them? I mean, Joe, Kevin, and Nick.
- 4:00Speaker 2: Oh, come on, Kathy, yep, exactly. So then I wanted
- 4:09Speaker 2: to ask you newbies to the fandom, do you know
- 4:12Speaker 2: who the bonus Jonas is?
- 4:15Speaker 3: Frankie who now goes by Franklin. Good, good Good. We're
- 4:20Speaker 3: gonna play some trivia, so we'll go We'll go to
- 4:23Speaker 3: trivia first.
- 4:24Speaker 2: And this is mainly targeted to Mari and and.
- 4:28Speaker 3: Susie what they're doing, Like, yeah, we may be the
- 4:32Speaker 3: worst of this.
- 4:33Speaker 2: They're actually kind of hard. And I have to say
- 4:35Speaker 2: I did come up with him on my own, which
- 4:37Speaker 2: is shocking. What are the names of Kevin's daughters?
- 4:41Speaker 3: Which I did? I do know this good job. I
- 4:45Speaker 3: thought it was really crazy.
- 4:47Speaker 2: And when I even told Kevin this once, I was like,
- 4:49Speaker 2: I can't believe that your daughter's name is Alena Rose
- 4:52Speaker 2: because my daughter's name since like, I'm never going to
- 4:56Speaker 2: have a daughter now, but in my head if I
- 4:59Speaker 2: were ever had one. In two thousand and eight or something,
- 5:02Speaker 2: I came up with the name Arena Rose and that.
- 5:07Speaker 3: Was gonna be the name.
- 5:07Speaker 2: And then when they announced the baby girl's name was
- 5:10Speaker 2: Alena Rose, I was like, this is too weird. They're
- 5:12Speaker 2: gonna think I copied it, But Jared would have never
- 5:15Speaker 2: let me name a daughter Arena. I think it's pretty
- 5:19Speaker 2: because I wanted it to be arena, like going to
- 5:21Speaker 2: a concert, a Jonah's concert arena, because that's where I
- 5:24Speaker 2: feel high on life and like most alive.
- 5:27Speaker 3: I love that.
- 5:29Speaker 2: Do you guys know what their name would be or
- 5:33Speaker 2: one of the names that they had in the running,
- 5:36Speaker 2: if they weren't going to be named the Jonahs brothers?
- 5:39Speaker 3: This first son of Jonas that's it?
- 5:48Speaker 2: Okay, truor faals of Jonah's brothers have had a Christmas album? True?
- 5:57Speaker 3: The answer is actually Diana's right, it is false.
- 6:00Speaker 2: They have. They have released I had an a handful
- 6:04Speaker 2: of Christmas albums, but never an EP.
- 6:06Speaker 3: Or an album. Wow, how well, what is Nick's nickname?
- 6:15Speaker 3: It's kind of more of an old It's more of
- 6:17Speaker 3: a does he do a dance to it? Is there?
- 6:19Speaker 7: Like as like it's.
- 6:21Speaker 2: Kind of like early Jonas, not like off the chain.
- 6:24Speaker 2: That's what is a good answer, but the really.
- 6:29Speaker 3: Okay, that was it is? Mari. What's Jonas's birth what's
- 6:41Speaker 3: Joe's birthday? August? Oh, Susie knows it?
- 6:46Speaker 6: What?
- 6:48Speaker 7: Oh gosh?
- 6:50Speaker 3: Is August thirteenth? August? Up? Nope?
- 6:55Speaker 6: Yeah? U eighteen, twenty eight, nineteen or fifteen fifteen.
- 7:00Speaker 2: Every time I see August fifteenth on my calendar, I go,
- 7:03Speaker 2: what day is that?
- 7:04Speaker 3: Yes, since Joe's That's why it sticks out to me.
- 7:08Speaker 7: I know, because I'm a Leo and I'm like a
- 7:09Speaker 7: fellow Leo to attention horse.
- 7:15Speaker 3: Oh that's right.
- 7:16Speaker 7: Wait, isn't it Kathy's son is my birthday?
- 7:20Speaker 2: Yeah? That's me?
- 7:22Speaker 6: Wow.
- 7:23Speaker 7: Yeah if you were, oh man, that'd be great. Maybe
- 7:28Speaker 7: still could be a lavender marriage.
- 7:31Speaker 3: You need it, if you need it, you know, down
- 7:33Speaker 3: the line, you just need a companion.
- 7:37Speaker 2: So my last question for the hardcore fans of the
- 7:40Speaker 2: group is who would you want? Which brother would you
- 7:43Speaker 2: want or trust the most to get you off of
- 7:46Speaker 2: a deserted island? Nick one thousand percent? Nick is My
- 7:50Speaker 2: answer to Nick is getting me off the island actually
- 7:53Speaker 2: more than anybody else I may ever know he's figuring
- 7:57Speaker 2: that shit out.
- 7:58Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
- 7:59Speaker 7: I'm leaning towards Kevin. He feels very responsible. We may
- 8:03Speaker 7: not even have ended up on the island to begin with.
- 8:06Speaker 7: If I was like with Kevin, you know what I mean,
- 8:08Speaker 7: I think he would have prevented the disaster from happening.
- 8:10Speaker 3: We all know that Joe on the island.
- 8:13Speaker 2: We were like, it would just be George of the
- 8:16Speaker 2: Jungle and yeah, we would be living on the island forever.
- 8:19Speaker 3: This is true, Kathy seas him.
- 8:24Speaker 2: I'm trying to equate this to a band that maybe
- 8:27Speaker 2: you guys would have been fans of in the eighties?
- 8:31Speaker 3: Who did You? Is that the compara?
- 8:35Speaker 6: Would that be they quit seventy six?
- 8:38Speaker 3: The eighties? It would definitely be the eighties?
- 8:42Speaker 6: R em, so did you?
- 8:44Speaker 3: Who did you?
- 8:45Speaker 2: Was there a band that you guys followed the way
- 8:47Speaker 2: that we follow Jonas.
- 8:48Speaker 6: I was raising kids in the eighties.
- 8:51Speaker 3: That's not like in my twenties I was raising kid
- 8:55Speaker 3: Did you wait? What about Donnie? Donnie? And was he
- 8:59Speaker 3: was that like if my mom was obsessed with is that?
- 9:04Speaker 3: Is that like? And that's my mom loves gonna say.
- 9:07Speaker 3: I feel like that's like that, and they's like the
- 9:08Speaker 3: curly hair like Cassidy kind of like as a similar.
- 9:15Speaker 2: No, how about the Beatles, Yeah, that's my mom, but
- 9:18Speaker 2: they are like my mom's six, my mom sixty seven.
- 9:21Speaker 2: So yeah, she's right in the same boat with you guys.
- 9:23Speaker 2: So no, I mean, was it the Beatles? You guys
- 9:27Speaker 2: are too young for that. That was your hot shut
- 9:32Speaker 2: clear Water, Like yeah, okay, Chicago loves chicag My mom
- 9:40Speaker 2: loves Neil Young Neil.
- 9:43Speaker 3: My mom loves Neil Diamond like the world. No, my mom,
- 9:48Speaker 3: like that might be her pall pass.
- 9:51Speaker 2: She like loves the with the jazz singers, like her
- 9:54Speaker 2: favorite movie.
- 9:56Speaker 3: I know, we're like she's obsessed with.
- 9:58Speaker 2: Having us watch it, and we're like, Mom, it's it's
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- 10:51Speaker 2: So if you guys don't have a band that you
- 10:53Speaker 2: would ever equate to your Jonas, I don't know how
- 10:55Speaker 2: to relate to you your heart throb?
- 10:57Speaker 3: Who's the heart dub I've sent Chicago? Okay? Would you
- 11:00Speaker 3: would have said that's your heart throb? Like who is
- 11:02Speaker 3: your heart throb? Like who is your hall pass?
- 11:05Speaker 2: M hmm.
- 11:06Speaker 6: What came to mind was Alan Alda.
- 11:11Speaker 3: For a mash.
- 11:12Speaker 2: Yeah that's yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
- 11:22Speaker 3: Everybody like give me the reggaegain. Okay, very fun.
- 11:33Speaker 2: So I just have like I think it's like kind
- 11:35Speaker 2: of a millennial joke. And I don't know especially I mean,
- 11:38Speaker 2: like you, Daisy, who would have been your like who
- 11:40Speaker 2: did you fangirl over?
- 11:42Speaker 3: Justin Bieber? Okay, so you kind of go one to
- 11:45Speaker 3: either way.
- 11:45Speaker 4: Yeah, but Jonah's brothers, So my older sister was obsessed.
- 11:48Speaker 3: Yeah, because you just kind of missed you're just a
- 11:50Speaker 3: little too young for Jonahs for a little bit. Yeah, okay.
- 11:53Speaker 3: And then Deanna, I.
- 11:55Speaker 8: Was just thinking, I've never felt so old.
- 11:57Speaker 3: I guess mine would be new kids on well too,
- 12:04Speaker 3: I'm here for it all. But so who is your
- 12:06Speaker 3: new kid?
- 12:07Speaker 2: Oh?
- 12:08Speaker 6: I have to remember their name?
- 12:09Speaker 3: Donnie Joey, Jonathan Jordans.
- 12:12Speaker 2: And and and oh my god.
- 12:18Speaker 3: Yeah Danny.
- 12:19Speaker 6: Would Danny raise raise your hand if you like bing Crosby?
- 12:28Speaker 3: Jonathan was your favorite? Interesting? Interesting choice? I mean, Jonathan's
- 12:33Speaker 3: so sweet the safe game? Did you choose the.
- 12:35Speaker 2: K one Kevin Kevin because Kevin Jonas is too safe
- 12:41Speaker 2: for you?
- 12:42Speaker 3: Well, Kevin's the sweet one?
- 12:46Speaker 2: That was.
- 12:48Speaker 3: Okay all right?
- 12:50Speaker 2: So where I was going with this conversation was like,
- 12:53Speaker 2: when you went to a Jonah, when you went to
- 12:54Speaker 2: a Justin Bieber concert, did you like, how did you
- 12:58Speaker 2: prepare yourself for the.
- 12:59Speaker 3: Day, your boss to your look like anything?
- 13:01Speaker 2: Because I have a joke at least with my friends
- 13:03Speaker 2: and the internet that like, I would pretty much shave
- 13:06Speaker 2: my body head to toe to make sure that I
- 13:08Speaker 2: was prepared for a Jonas concert.
- 13:11Speaker 3: Hey, just in case, Yeah, just.
- 13:13Speaker 2: In case, the pure just in case, the purity rings
- 13:16Speaker 2: needed to come off like you know they're going to
- 13:18Speaker 2: come off that day, and I had the same ritual,
- 13:22Speaker 2: don't worry up, I'm not shaving my whole body today.
- 13:24Speaker 9: For them.
- 13:28Speaker 6: Day.
- 13:29Speaker 4: Oh for Justin bieber Well, I was in fifth grade when.
- 13:32Speaker 6: I went, sure you put on your training bra.
- 13:38Speaker 4: Right literally I had a sparkly hat.
- 13:44Speaker 3: Top. That was the thing for him. Yeah, it was
- 13:49Speaker 3: like his purple concert. Yeah, didn't he pull someone up?
- 13:53Speaker 3: Like at every content.
- 13:55Speaker 4: Was in the seventh throw and it was only fifty bucks.
- 13:58Speaker 3: Wow, what time change in those days? Right, Wow, that's awesome.
- 14:05Speaker 10: We're thirty five dollars. Yeah, that's crazy, brothers, like all
- 14:09Speaker 10: the thirty five dollars, that's two hundred and thirty five
- 14:12Speaker 10: for bed seats.
- 14:14Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 14:16Speaker 2: Okay, Well before we wrap this up as we're going
- 14:19Speaker 2: to a concert tonight, what was your favorite concert of
- 14:22Speaker 2: all of your life, Susan, okay, or we can come
- 14:28Speaker 2: back to you.
- 14:30Speaker 8: My first like fun concert that I remember is when
- 14:33Speaker 8: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill to work together.
- 14:36Speaker 3: Yeah, and I just like love them.
- 14:37Speaker 8: I love them and they're still just as great today.
- 14:40Speaker 8: But I will always like we rented it. We're from
- 14:43Speaker 8: the South, so we do southern things. We got a
- 14:45Speaker 8: charter bus and there's a bunch of rednecks on one
- 14:47Speaker 8: bus and we like went and Kenny Chesney came.
- 14:49Speaker 3: I was like living my best life. Was like all
- 14:51Speaker 3: of my dreams come true.
- 14:52Speaker 10: So his dad, Tug was a good friend of my
- 14:54Speaker 10: husband's am I, and they sent a limo for us,
- 14:57Speaker 10: and my daughter was in. We looked back from them
- 15:02Speaker 10: and met them talk about that was her dream.
- 15:05Speaker 6: Love it.
- 15:05Speaker 3: That's awesome, Billy Joel, Oh, Billy Joel, that's a great answer.
- 15:08Speaker 6: I loved him.
- 15:09Speaker 3: Yeah, what year did you see, Billy Joel.
- 15:11Speaker 6: I've actually seen m a couple of times. Last time
- 15:14Speaker 6: was probably ten years ago.
- 15:18Speaker 3: It's kind of a bucket list thing. Gotta go see
- 15:19Speaker 3: daily Daisy.
- 15:22Speaker 4: Oh, thanks, probably Khalid. That one was really cool, Okay, Yeah.
- 15:29Speaker 4: It was very random, like I bought my roommate and
- 15:32Speaker 4: college really wanted to go, and I found these tickets
- 15:34Speaker 4: online for like one hundred bucks each, and then we
- 15:38Speaker 4: showed up and it was like we went like backstage.
- 15:41Speaker 3: They like brought us backstage.
- 15:42Speaker 4: It was for like a portable charger company or whatever,
- 15:46Speaker 4: and then they brought us like literally from row.
- 15:48Speaker 3: That's awesome and I was like, well, that's because they
- 15:51Speaker 3: wanted you to be seen.
- 15:52Speaker 2: They were like yeah, they were like, let's bring this
- 15:55Speaker 2: pretty girl up here. We'll take some video, make him
- 15:57Speaker 2: look real cool.
- 15:58Speaker 4: And we were like under twenty one, and they were
- 16:00Speaker 4: like giving us drinks.
- 16:08Speaker 7: Yeah, fun, Mine is going to be Jonah's brothers.
- 16:11Speaker 9: Happiness begins to It was the first time I was
- 16:15Speaker 9: able to see them, and I flew to Salt Lake
- 16:17Speaker 9: City for it because it was one of the only
- 16:19Speaker 9: spots left that still had met and greets left, so
- 16:22Speaker 9: I actually got to meet them for the first time.
- 16:25Speaker 3: Also, that's fantastic, fantastic, A good one.
- 16:28Speaker 7: I was like really trying to think because I've been
- 16:31Speaker 7: to a lot of great concerts, but I will say
- 16:33Speaker 7: I think it was like when I was in a
- 16:35Speaker 7: freshman I think in high school, maybe a little older,
- 16:38Speaker 7: and we went to the Jonas Brothers and we were
- 16:39Speaker 7: front row and somehow we were literally right in front
- 16:44Speaker 7: of like where Kevin would kind of like stand where
- 16:45Speaker 7: the stage would extend a little bit, and there was
- 16:48Speaker 7: nobody on either side of us in the entire front row,
- 16:52Speaker 7: and then the closest people were behind us, and like
- 16:55Speaker 7: I remember taking a selfie and he literally posed in
- 16:57Speaker 7: the background like he was so like nice. I mean,
- 16:59Speaker 7: it's nice, but I was just like it was the
- 17:01Speaker 7: closest I had ever been to them, And I was like,
- 17:03Speaker 7: this is so crazy and it was like I look
- 17:05Speaker 7: back at like that really was like so much fun.
- 17:08Speaker 7: It like sparked the the probably like you know, fandom
- 17:12Speaker 7: and me and I was like, we're this close. It
- 17:14Speaker 7: was yeah, and okay, I'll send it around.
- 17:17Speaker 3: I'll find and send it around. Oh my turn.
- 17:21Speaker 2: Okay, well it's really really too hard to pick one,
- 17:25Speaker 2: but I'm going to pick the rife. Okay, right now,
- 17:30Speaker 2: these are the ones at the top of my head.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Definitely backs Boys at the Sphere Like that was like beyond.
- 17:35Speaker 2: That was like just like an experience, like I've never
- 17:37Speaker 2: smiled like it with a dopamine going through my brain.
- 17:41Speaker 2: Was absolutely like I've never like I've never experienced like that.
- 17:44Speaker 3: That was unbelievable.
- 17:46Speaker 2: Then, when Jonah's happiness begins, that first week that they
- 17:50Speaker 2: announced their reunion, Amy gave me tickets to a private
- 17:55Speaker 2: show that they did in La It was secret, they
- 17:58Speaker 2: didn't tell anybody where it was, and it was like
- 18:02Speaker 2: a two hundred person show. They took our phones at
- 18:04Speaker 2: the front and we had to like zip it up.
- 18:07Speaker 2: So everybody was so in the moment, and it was
- 18:09Speaker 2: their first time like performing on a stage publicly for years,
- 18:14Speaker 2: and I'll never forget.
- 18:15Speaker 3: How that felt.
- 18:16Speaker 2: And then I would also say last year when Justin
- 18:19Speaker 2: Timberlake talked to me from the stage and we actually
- 18:23Speaker 2: had a true conversation from the stage. Yeah, all right, guys,
- 18:28Speaker 2: well this has been such a fun podcast.
- 18:30Speaker 3: And it's gonna be even more of a fun night.
- 18:32Speaker 2: Is there anything anybody has to add?
- 18:37Speaker 3: Susan's reaction.
- 18:40Speaker 6: Susan, it's going to be saying, now what are their
- 18:42Speaker 6: names again? Wait?
- 18:44Speaker 2: Wait?
- 18:45Speaker 6: What are they singing?
- 18:46Speaker 3: All right, well, fun fun times.
- 18:50Speaker 2: I've been Ashley, and I won't go down the whole
- 18:52Speaker 2: row unless you guys want to.
- 18:54Speaker 7: Kathy, Daisy, Mari, Susy, Bye bye.
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