Latest / The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast / Winter Games Special!
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I almost famous podcast
- 0:03Speaker 1: with our radio. This is a special special episode. Actually,
- 0:09Speaker 1: I can tell that you, uh you really excited this
- 0:13Speaker 1: episode because Winter Games just meant a lot to you.
- 0:15Speaker 1: I mean I meant a lot for me too, because
- 0:17Speaker 1: we both got to do it together. Um but I
- 0:21Speaker 1: think you saw Winter Games as a special opportunity going
- 0:24Speaker 1: into it more than maybe anybody else. Am I right?
- 0:27Speaker 1: I think it was my opportunity to change my storyline,
- 0:31Speaker 1: um like, to get away from the caricature that was
- 0:34Speaker 1: developed around me and crying Ashley like crying Leyeah, it
- 0:37Speaker 1: was like all I was was crying dramatic, uh starting
- 0:42Speaker 1: you know, being I don't but I don't always had
- 0:47Speaker 1: drama with a girl. I don't want to ruin this
- 0:49Speaker 1: for you. But up until maybe a year ago, not
- 0:52Speaker 1: that you were dramatic with the girl. That that is
- 0:54Speaker 1: not actually I've ever seen thank you, thank you. I
- 0:58Speaker 1: don't think it exists. But up until a year ago,
- 1:01Speaker 1: the crying actually is a very accurate an accurate character
- 1:07Speaker 1: of who you are. Yeah, totally, And according to the
- 1:10Speaker 1: Winter Games promos, it continues. Yeah, but Ben, isn't it
- 1:13Speaker 1: interesting because uh, I don't know if it's gonna make air.
- 1:18Speaker 1: But when you had me crying there at the picnic
- 1:20Speaker 1: table in the kitchen, you go, I've known you for
- 1:23Speaker 1: two and a half years and I've never seen you
- 1:25Speaker 1: cry in real life with me? What is it about
- 1:28Speaker 1: this show that brings it out in you? I have
- 1:32Speaker 1: no idea. But our guest that's in the line right
- 1:34Speaker 1: now might have an idea because he's known you for well.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Eric Bigger, Welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. Thanks for
- 1:41Speaker 1: having me, guys. How you doing it? We're good? How
- 1:44Speaker 1: are you doing? Oh man, I'm just about to walk
- 1:46Speaker 1: into a class like probably like sixty people got a
- 1:51Speaker 1: fitness class on out here in Colgate University, so we fun.
- 1:54Speaker 1: That's right. You told me you're going to be out
- 1:56Speaker 1: east again. Well, um, Eric, tell us about what Bachelor
- 2:01Speaker 1: Winter Games meant to you, and like what kind of
- 2:03Speaker 1: mindset you wanted to go into it, how you wanted
- 2:05Speaker 1: to change the way you're viewed from the Bachelorette season
- 2:08Speaker 1: going into this, I mean a Bachelor one of the games.
- 2:12Speaker 1: It was just something new, something different. Um. I kind
- 2:15Speaker 1: of compared it to uh, Bachelor in Paradise, which I've
- 2:17Speaker 1: never done before. So I didn't have no game plan
- 2:20Speaker 1: because I never did that, but it was up in
- 2:23Speaker 1: the code is never mind. I knew a lot of
- 2:25Speaker 1: the casts from the Vatican was gonna be there, international people,
- 2:28Speaker 1: so I was just open. I had an open mind
- 2:30Speaker 1: and just one of the if things was going to
- 2:32Speaker 1: happen or gather in place with the show, it was great.
- 2:36Speaker 1: My attention was just to be open, have fun people.
- 2:39Speaker 1: You just mentioned you were going into a workout class
- 2:42Speaker 1: right now you are Mr Fitness. Did that have that
- 2:45Speaker 1: I play a role in your decision to do this show,
- 2:47Speaker 1: that you're a competitive sports guy. Yeah, honestly, I don't know.
- 2:51Speaker 1: Front fact I did hire a trainer. Um, yeah, I
- 2:56Speaker 1: was hired a trainer. Yes, so I was trained twice
- 3:00Speaker 1: week because, like I said, I think that was to
- 3:02Speaker 1: expect I thought, you know, it's really crazy, a lot
- 3:04Speaker 1: of you know a lot of things, so I don't
- 3:06Speaker 1: really so I wanted my body, my mind, everything to
- 3:09Speaker 1: be ready and prepared for whatever was coming. So that much. Again,
- 3:12Speaker 1: you know, my dad actually thought I was supposed to
- 3:14Speaker 1: train like an Olympic athlete. Like in August, my Dad's like,
- 3:20Speaker 1: why are you going to the gym every day? You know?
- 3:21Speaker 1: How it's lotically competitive, you're gonna have to be and
- 3:24Speaker 1: like Dad, I think you're crazy. I think this show
- 3:25Speaker 1: will I'll have to be like in shape so I
- 3:28Speaker 1: don't get out of breath walking up a hill. Buddy,
- 3:31Speaker 1: I think, I think I'll be okay if if I'm
- 3:35Speaker 1: I'm out of breath going up two hills. I was
- 3:39Speaker 1: so I want to get be compared. I didn't want
- 3:41Speaker 1: to fail that any our case. So I was shot.
- 3:44Speaker 1: If you're ready, So I had a you know, I
- 3:47Speaker 1: remember one day specifically in the house during Winter Games.
- 3:51Speaker 1: I wake up in the morning, I'm brushing my teeth. Um,
- 3:55Speaker 1: I look over and Eric is doing push ups and
- 3:58Speaker 1: his muscles are popping out of places that I've never
- 4:00Speaker 1: seeing anybody's must stop and I asked him how he
- 4:03Speaker 1: does it, and so Eric puts me through about a
- 4:06Speaker 1: two D push up workout that morning. I was sore
- 4:09Speaker 1: for the rest of the time on Winter Games. I'm
- 4:11Speaker 1: not kidding. I could not lift myself up out of bed. Hey,
- 4:16Speaker 1: if it doesn't challenge here, it doesn't change here. It's
- 4:17Speaker 1: all about that break through. What you did, and you
- 4:19Speaker 1: got it done, so hopefully you still a strong in
- 4:21Speaker 1: front of two push ups than you should. You should
- 4:25Speaker 1: see me now, Eric, I'm already take off my shirt
- 4:27Speaker 1: and so actually I'm rich. No shirt season HIGs your
- 4:33Speaker 1: shirts off? Hey, Eric, So you may be good at
- 4:37Speaker 1: push ups, but are you good at skiing? I'm really
- 4:41Speaker 1: not good at skiing. I will be honest. I'm not
- 4:44Speaker 1: good at skin that is, I'm very bad. But I
- 4:48Speaker 1: can own it. I accept it, and it's all right.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Have you ever been on skis before the Bachelor Winter Games?
- 4:55Speaker 1: I had not been never have our ever been on
- 4:58Speaker 1: skis before the Bachelor Win Game ever in my life,
- 5:01Speaker 1: So this is a new new news for me. So
- 5:03Speaker 1: do you ever plan on getting back on them? I
- 5:05Speaker 1: don't think I do. I mean neither. I don't think
- 5:10Speaker 1: you can have that going into the Bachelor Winter Games.
- 5:14Speaker 1: As as basically any Bachelor's put off show like Paradise,
- 5:18Speaker 1: the producers ask you which girls are you hoping to
- 5:21Speaker 1: see there? Which girls were you hoping to see? Who
- 5:24Speaker 1: was on your list? Vanessa because she's from she's from Montreal.
- 5:30Speaker 1: It's not I'm like, it would be cool to have
- 5:33Speaker 1: on um Beta dilly bt. I mean, those those women
- 5:39Speaker 1: pique my interest, So I was like, why not you know,
- 5:42Speaker 1: if they were all I would be. I can't wait
- 5:43Speaker 1: to stay there, you know, so that over my two
- 5:47Speaker 1: that I had in mind for sure. You know both
- 5:49Speaker 1: those ladies live in l A. And you can just
- 5:51Speaker 1: see the mouth camera as well. You're gonna set it
- 5:54Speaker 1: up as Okay, the numbers, well, the cast for the
- 5:58Speaker 1: Winter Games has been an out and neither Becca or
- 6:01Speaker 1: Vanessa were announced as the cast. So I'm sorry, Eric,
- 6:06Speaker 1: winter Games must have not been as fun for you
- 6:08Speaker 1: as she thought. It was fun. It just wasn't what
- 6:12Speaker 1: I thought, and it was okay. I still made a
- 6:15Speaker 1: great connection. It's a great friendship. It was amazing. I
- 6:17Speaker 1: had a great time. Good. Hey, I know you gotta go,
- 6:20Speaker 1: but I got one last question. You um you know
- 6:23Speaker 1: where I'm crying in the promo saying Limel is friend zoned.
- 6:27Speaker 1: I'm so confused. You said that I friend zoned you
- 6:32Speaker 1: when we first met collaboration. Yeah, I think you did
- 6:35Speaker 1: friend zone me. I actually I think I don't know.
- 6:38Speaker 1: I just kind of self the energy that I was
- 6:40Speaker 1: like everything is just a friend. I'm not really, I
- 6:42Speaker 1: don't we're not even I don't see him at that level.
- 6:45Speaker 1: So that's what I felt. I could be wrong, but
- 6:48Speaker 1: the energy I was getting was like, I'm a friend.
- 6:51Speaker 1: You say you just a friend, just a friend. Hey,
- 6:56Speaker 1: we're just friends. But it's all good with great friends.
- 7:00Speaker 1: So I appreciate you as you're amazing. You done great energy.
- 7:05Speaker 1: You know what you're doing a camrathon. But yeah, thank you,
- 7:08Speaker 1: but good thanks Eric? Hey, Eric, you are the man.
- 7:12Speaker 1: We appreciate you. I appreciate you, a great guy. I've
- 7:14Speaker 1: enjoyed getting to know you. Thank you for coming on
- 7:16Speaker 1: our podcast once again. And good look out there at Colgate.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Uh will make some other people sore right now? Well, manute,
- 7:24Speaker 1: thank you, Bett, thank you asked me, Thank you, Howard
- 7:26Speaker 1: you guys go, I'll talk to you sating Gate. Let's
- 7:29Speaker 1: go alright up next, we have one of America's favorite
- 7:36Speaker 1: contestants and I was so excited to meet her. I
- 7:40Speaker 1: think we all love her, we all want the absolute
- 7:44Speaker 1: best for her. Claire. Are you out there? Claire? Miss
- 7:48Speaker 1: your voice? And oh my god, I don't know if
- 7:51Speaker 1: you know right now? So you have one right now?
- 7:56Speaker 1: Strep throat? Oh no, I know, I know, but it's
- 8:00Speaker 1: on time. On the upswing, how are you guys saying?
- 8:03Speaker 1: We're great? Yes, I have the flu. Actually, also, Claire,
- 8:09Speaker 1: you've been sick now for a while. Um, I hope
- 8:12Speaker 1: you get better. This is not good, But I have
- 8:14Speaker 1: had the flu myself, as the listeners have have been
- 8:17Speaker 1: able to tell over the last week, I've been stuffy. Uh, Claire,
- 8:21Speaker 1: we we gotta get into Winter Games. America is ecstatic.
- 8:25Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not kidding. Once the cast was announced,
- 8:27Speaker 1: I think actually I can both attest that our Twitter's
- 8:30Speaker 1: filled up with Oh my gosh, Claire's coming on Winter Games.
- 8:33Speaker 1: I'm so excited to see here again. So from all
- 8:36Speaker 1: of us, tell us, what was your hope going in
- 8:39Speaker 1: the Winter Games? Okay, so that I say it lets
- 8:43Speaker 1: me feel good because I pretty going. Oh we've seen
- 8:47Speaker 1: the cold times, get a life, Claire. But you and
- 8:50Speaker 1: I are tied, right, I think? I don't know. I
- 8:55Speaker 1: was so excited going into this. I think the best
- 8:59Speaker 1: thing for me going into this, which was different than
- 9:01Speaker 1: all the other shows, was that I didn't have any expectations. Um,
- 9:05Speaker 1: I really really just wanted to go how of a
- 9:07Speaker 1: blast and everybody see everybody that I've seen before. You
- 9:11Speaker 1: asked me hang out with you guys, just have a
- 9:14Speaker 1: good time. I think there's no expectations. That's kind of
- 9:17Speaker 1: when the best things happening, you know, yeah, let down.
- 9:22Speaker 1: I think a lot of people think like, oh, I mean,
- 9:25Speaker 1: I guess real hardcore fans would be like, oh, Ashley
- 9:27Speaker 1: and Claire on the same season together. I wonder if
- 9:30Speaker 1: they'll have beef because we had. I guess we had
- 9:32Speaker 1: a little bad blood between us during Bachelor and Paradise
- 9:35Speaker 1: season two because Jared asked you on a date after
- 9:38Speaker 1: he and I had already gone on a date, and
- 9:41Speaker 1: I made fun of you a bit. I made some
- 9:43Speaker 1: insensitive comments that I absolutely regret, and I was young
- 9:48Speaker 1: and immature and stupid. But but we and not you
- 9:53Speaker 1: and I got really close this season. Uh you were
- 9:57Speaker 1: you made me feel homey. You really did like you
- 9:59Speaker 1: just were really great support system and a good person
- 10:02Speaker 1: I could vent to. That's a really good to say.
- 10:04Speaker 1: I thank you so much. It's so funny because it's
- 10:07Speaker 1: like people see the shows and they go, oh my god,
- 10:09Speaker 1: even tat this person I see two minutes or two comments.
- 10:13Speaker 1: But I always laughed because it's like, yeah, I probably did.
- 10:15Speaker 1: I mean, I did say that comments. But it was
- 10:17Speaker 1: like when I was Hily in Grugby in stress and
- 10:20Speaker 1: probably no sleep. So all that stuff. I think within
- 10:23Speaker 1: the fast formation we understand on my others, like there's
- 10:27Speaker 1: no bad, bad blood on any level. I think that's
- 10:30Speaker 1: why it was easy to fallen back into like the
- 10:32Speaker 1: friendship with me, because it's so understandable of that stuff,
- 10:36Speaker 1: you know. I agree. When you've got in the car
- 10:38Speaker 1: and I first saw you before we did the parade,
- 10:40Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, we're good, We're gonna do this great,
- 10:43Speaker 1: She's gonna be one of my best friends in the house.
- 10:45Speaker 1: I just knew that Raff the bat and then we'd
- 10:46Speaker 1: like talk the entire press ride and we're yeah, I was.
- 10:50Speaker 1: I was really really thankful you were there. Oh I
- 10:54Speaker 1: it's always thinking sweet, it's always it's always fun to
- 10:58Speaker 1: see like similiar faces and people you know and love.
- 11:01Speaker 1: So if I think can come off when away on
- 11:03Speaker 1: the show, but at the end of the day, it's
- 11:05Speaker 1: like nothing, you know. I mean, if if all else
- 11:10Speaker 1: fails for the two of you, at least you fell
- 11:13Speaker 1: in love with each other. Which I'm over here just
- 11:15Speaker 1: glowing with excitement about Claire going into Winter Games. What
- 11:19Speaker 1: was your best winter sport? Oh my god, Okay, so
- 11:23Speaker 1: that's so short. You guys, I'm I'm thinking I'm good
- 11:29Speaker 1: at sports. I could. I'm pretty athletic, I could do stuff.
- 11:32Speaker 1: What I didn't really realize I put into play was
- 11:35Speaker 1: that I'm good at summer sports. That's good at like
- 11:37Speaker 1: California's sports. I'm not good at so so I would say, uh,
- 11:43Speaker 1: none of the sports were by sports, which is not good.
- 11:48Speaker 1: You certainly weren't the worst at them either, though your
- 11:50Speaker 1: middle of the pack, none of the pack. I have
- 11:53Speaker 1: a little bit back is going in my blood. But
- 11:55Speaker 1: I think for me too, that's what I wanted to
- 11:58Speaker 1: be there with the case. I did not know or
- 12:01Speaker 1: have ever done any of the sports. So for me,
- 12:03Speaker 1: it was like you get to do new things and
- 12:06Speaker 1: try new staton thought I would have never tried or
- 12:08Speaker 1: have not tried sport. You know, you had never seen
- 12:11Speaker 1: never in my league. That's embarrassing. How much better you
- 12:15Speaker 1: were than I was then. It was pure luck. Let's
- 12:17Speaker 1: be honest, it was pure luck. I was. I hit
- 12:19Speaker 1: the blokes. It was like, I can't stop now on us.
- 12:22Speaker 1: I'm really didn't eat it all, you know. That's the
- 12:27Speaker 1: thing and I and one of the coolest parts about
- 12:29Speaker 1: this players, you and I did get spend a lot
- 12:30Speaker 1: of time together before the show. During the show, we
- 12:33Speaker 1: got to live in the same house in Vermont, all
- 12:35Speaker 1: of us. Did you know, actually you, myself and a
- 12:38Speaker 1: bunch of others who are coming up here on this podcast.
- 12:42Speaker 1: In your opinion, okay, without giving any spoilers away, keeping
- 12:46Speaker 1: at as high level as possible, I think we all
- 12:49Speaker 1: walk out of Winter Games saying, hey, uh, this was
- 12:52Speaker 1: a unique experience. If anything, what if you were a
- 12:55Speaker 1: fan of The Bachelor fanchise, why would you be excited
- 12:58Speaker 1: about Winter Games? Or why shouldn't it be excited about
- 13:01Speaker 1: Winter Games? Well, that's exactly the reason. Who they say
- 13:04Speaker 1: about it is because there's a lot. I can honestly say,
- 13:06Speaker 1: there's not like a show that Bastler has ever done.
- 13:09Speaker 1: It's like us, I know that they're saying. I mean,
- 13:13Speaker 1: I don't know. It's hard to People are honestly asking
- 13:15Speaker 1: all the time, what did you guys do? How what's
- 13:17Speaker 1: the concept of the show, And I'm like, I don't
- 13:19Speaker 1: know if I still understand it. There's so much it's fun, crazy,
- 13:23Speaker 1: weird turns and it takes and it's like there's no
- 13:26Speaker 1: formula to it. And that's the cool part about it
- 13:28Speaker 1: is you don't know what is going to happen next,
- 13:29Speaker 1: you don't know what's predictable about it, And I think
- 13:33Speaker 1: for me, sorry to be the one winned about it.
- 13:35Speaker 1: But I think the exciting thing for us on our
- 13:38Speaker 1: side of it was we don't know international people coming
- 13:41Speaker 1: in and didn't know. There's no like looking him all
- 13:44Speaker 1: up and goon and come on, actually I know you did.
- 13:46Speaker 1: You're trying to do your recon but it's like you can't.
- 13:48Speaker 1: You know, there's no where do you start to to do?
- 13:50Speaker 1: So these are all these faces for us, So the
- 13:53Speaker 1: interactions are funny. I think completely agree. I keep saying
- 13:57Speaker 1: that it's like the focus is on love and humor
- 13:59Speaker 1: and Tachler self awareness. Um, I learned that. I like that.
- 14:04Speaker 1: Before we go, before we let you go, I want
- 14:07Speaker 1: to talk about your too love interests. On the show,
- 14:09Speaker 1: you get involved with two foreigners. Um, you're having a
- 14:13Speaker 1: love triangle. As briefly and without spoilers, can you describe
- 14:19Speaker 1: your feelings on that? Oh my gosh, I don't even
- 14:22Speaker 1: know where to start on that. Let's just say it
- 14:25Speaker 1: was the most unt to think for me, because I
- 14:29Speaker 1: don't I went into thinking I would just be like
- 14:32Speaker 1: an extra on the set. And so for me, it
- 14:36Speaker 1: was like I was the last thing I ever would
- 14:39Speaker 1: have expected to guys to be for in two guys.
- 14:42Speaker 1: So you know what's really funny about you and these guys.
- 14:46Speaker 1: I felt like your your interest in them and they're
- 14:49Speaker 1: interest in you was kind of under wraps and like
- 14:51Speaker 1: all happened behind closed doors. Uh funny you say that,
- 14:56Speaker 1: because there a lot to the story that isn't going
- 14:59Speaker 1: to be like wait a minute. When you watching, trust me,
- 15:02Speaker 1: you're gonna be like I had no clue about that,
- 15:04Speaker 1: And that's what I'm excited to watch about. Everybody else
- 15:06Speaker 1: do it? How are things going on? But we don't
- 15:09Speaker 1: know what really happened? Was that pot really fine? And
- 15:12Speaker 1: I talked to you guys all the time? I know,
- 15:15Speaker 1: I feel the exact same way. People were like, oh
- 15:17Speaker 1: I didn't know that you guys were like hitting it off,
- 15:18Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, yeah, how do you not know that?
- 15:21Speaker 1: And Ben Ben even told me he was like, actually,
- 15:23Speaker 1: I think you need to be more obvious about it
- 15:25Speaker 1: in front of people. Is it crazy? That's fun about
- 15:29Speaker 1: the sus room And I'm like, I don't even know
- 15:31Speaker 1: who used it or anybody. I don't think anyone used it.
- 15:34Speaker 1: It was right there by the kitchen. It was a
- 15:36Speaker 1: very odd placement. Oh you did? Is that? Did you
- 15:41Speaker 1: go there by yourself? Why is that your first response?
- 15:48Speaker 1: Why was your first response yourself? Because I feel like
- 15:52Speaker 1: you would just like go in there and be like,
- 15:54Speaker 1: oh I'm nappy and then just fall asleep in there. Unbelievable, unbelievable.
- 16:03Speaker 1: What is that a true story? Yes, I did sleep
- 16:05Speaker 1: in the Boo Boom room one night at night, and
- 16:09Speaker 1: it was and it was by myself. So thank you
- 16:12Speaker 1: actually for making me feel even worse about myself than
- 16:14Speaker 1: I already do. Oh my goodness, be um looking by yourself?
- 16:21Speaker 1: Do you know about the car sank as I have
- 16:24Speaker 1: on the bus going to that on the bus? No, no,
- 16:27Speaker 1: he doesn't know. Do you remember that? Yeah? I said,
- 16:31Speaker 1: I said see that for the teacher. Um you can go.
- 16:37Speaker 1: Oh I was. Claire was like Ben is really cute,
- 16:39Speaker 1: and I was like, Ben things, you're cute too. He
- 16:42Speaker 1: actually like you're really his type physically. That's a true story.
- 16:46Speaker 1: He's giggling like a little little boy. I just said
- 16:50Speaker 1: there was some hope to be had. What do you say? Oh,
- 16:58Speaker 1: I stayed the boom. That is the true test. So
- 17:02Speaker 1: you know I could tell you that, So don't feel
- 17:06Speaker 1: bad at all staying in the bigger room either. Point. Well, Claire,
- 17:11Speaker 1: you are the best. You are absolutely gorgeous. So thank
- 17:14Speaker 1: you for sharing the mutual feelings. Um Claire, thanks for
- 17:18Speaker 1: coming on Almost Famous podcast. We love you, We always will.
- 17:21Speaker 1: You are one of the best people we've ever met.
- 17:23Speaker 1: Thank you. I love you, guys. Thank you so much
- 17:25Speaker 1: that I'm talk to you soon. See in a week
- 17:28Speaker 1: or so. By Yes, Actually, why don't you tell me
- 17:31Speaker 1: this kind of stuff? Did you want to know that stuff?
- 17:35Speaker 1: I mean, you're I mean, you're supposed to be a friend. Like,
- 17:37Speaker 1: even if I didn't want to know it, I feel
- 17:38Speaker 1: like you should still tell me. Well, I feel like you, oh,
- 17:42Speaker 1: because you didn't know that Claire thought you were cute.
- 17:45Speaker 1: I mean, I just feel like if a guy came
- 17:47Speaker 1: up to me in the house, no matter if I
- 17:49Speaker 1: knew you were intim or not, or if I thought
- 17:50Speaker 1: maybe you'd be really into him and he was like
- 17:52Speaker 1: that actley girl, dang like she'd be fine, I think
- 17:56Speaker 1: I would tell you. I haven't actually just let you know,
- 18:00Speaker 1: like a girl a guy in this house thinks really cute.
- 18:02Speaker 1: Like if for no other reason to pump you up
- 18:05Speaker 1: a bit, Ben, we can't talk spoilers here, but every
- 18:11Speaker 1: girl is interested in you in the house. Everybody was like, Oh,
- 18:14Speaker 1: I'm into Ben. That wasn't the problem. Claire's very alurty.
- 18:20Speaker 1: So if she likes you, you know you would know. Okay,
- 18:24Speaker 1: So here's the deal. Everybody out there that's already watched
- 18:27Speaker 1: Winter Games, Um, it gets interesting. Let's just say uh,
- 18:32Speaker 1: let's just say it's from from my perspective. Winner game
- 18:35Speaker 1: has been a lot to me because I learned a
- 18:37Speaker 1: lot about myself. So uh, without actually ever trying to
- 18:41Speaker 1: pump me up a bit or give me any kind
- 18:43Speaker 1: of like behind the scene's advice about what the pillow
- 18:45Speaker 1: talk was at night between the girls, I was still
- 18:49Speaker 1: just trying to get through it, thinking that I was
- 18:51Speaker 1: just on my way to the singleness. But maybe that changes.
- 18:55Speaker 1: You never know. To tune in the Winter Games to
- 18:57Speaker 1: find out yourself actually something come back from the Games.
- 19:00Speaker 1: One of the best gifts that I was able to give, uh,
- 19:04Speaker 1: the closest woman in my life, my mother, was credits
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- 21:00Speaker 1: of the guests is one of the most fashionable uh
- 21:04Speaker 1: women we've ever met, also one of the most beautiful
- 21:07Speaker 1: inside and now I have a huge spot in my
- 21:10Speaker 1: heart for this girl. Leslie Murphy, are you out there,
- 21:14Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm here, Hello, some of my favorites from
- 21:17Speaker 1: t mus a. Hey, Leslie, So tell people where they
- 21:23Speaker 1: will remember you from your bit of a throwback. Oh yeah,
- 21:28Speaker 1: I'm a bit, I'm a bit. I'm a vintage, I guess,
- 21:31Speaker 1: but memorable. Like I knew exactly who you were. I
- 21:35Speaker 1: saw your face as soon as they said the name,
- 21:37Speaker 1: Leslie Murphy. You're a favorite of mine from the past. Thanks,
- 21:41Speaker 1: as that means so much. I know, and it was
- 21:44Speaker 1: a pleasure to be on bast Winter Games with you
- 21:47Speaker 1: time people, so we would know you from Sean Low
- 21:51Speaker 1: season of the Bats that you were around for a
- 21:54Speaker 1: long time. You actually really had strong feelings for Sean,
- 21:57Speaker 1: if I remember right? Correct? I did, I really did.
- 22:00Speaker 1: I liked him a lot. He was Southern, I'm southern.
- 22:04Speaker 1: Those were into football. I think that was actually my intro.
- 22:07Speaker 1: I like, hiped the football to him, um, which is
- 22:10Speaker 1: a little moozing. And then yeah, we just we had
- 22:14Speaker 1: a lot in common and I really liked the guy.
- 22:16Speaker 1: But don did my best friend Catherine from the show, um,
- 22:20Speaker 1: so that was a little awkward. And then once I
- 22:22Speaker 1: once I left, then they really hit it off and
- 22:25Speaker 1: they're married today with two kids. But yeah, I have
- 22:27Speaker 1: a really so funny in my brain, I was like,
- 22:30Speaker 1: who's Katherine of Sean and Catherine and you were a
- 22:34Speaker 1: bridesmaid in their wedding? Correct, right? I know it's some
- 22:38Speaker 1: people find that so weird, but honestly it was. It
- 22:41Speaker 1: was totally normal and fine for us. And it was
- 22:44Speaker 1: also strange is that we held the world record for
- 22:48Speaker 1: the longest on screen kiss. Is actually just going to
- 22:52Speaker 1: talk about that? Yeah, oh, God, I mean talk about
- 22:56Speaker 1: talk about a weird like the world's most awkward date ever. Uh, well,
- 23:02Speaker 1: will you be kissing? It was like it was yeah.
- 23:08Speaker 1: So we toured the Guinness um World Record Museum on
- 23:12Speaker 1: Hollywood Boulevard in l A. And I had no idea
- 23:15Speaker 1: that after this we were going to break our own record,
- 23:18Speaker 1: which was essentially the world's longest on screen kiss. And
- 23:22Speaker 1: I think at the time the longest screen kiss was
- 23:25Speaker 1: back from the Citties and it was like, I don't know,
- 23:27Speaker 1: maybe two minutes, so we had to beat that. But
- 23:30Speaker 1: what they didn't show is that our lips essentially couldn't
- 23:34Speaker 1: separate during this whole ordeal. But we were trying to
- 23:37Speaker 1: make it fun and and our lips didn't separate at
- 23:41Speaker 1: one point, and so we had to start all the
- 23:42Speaker 1: way over. And I think it lasts like some ungodly
- 23:46Speaker 1: like four minutes what seemed like an eternity, but I
- 23:50Speaker 1: have now have a world record to prove for it.
- 23:52Speaker 1: So Pepper, I was gonna say, this is the precursor
- 23:58Speaker 1: date to the Hot Peppers, and that was the world
- 24:01Speaker 1: honest kiss. Oh, that was the worlds hottest kiss. That's right,
- 24:05Speaker 1: that's right. Well, I thought I had the world's hottest
- 24:07Speaker 1: kiss ones, but it wasn't documented. Again, speaking speaking of kisses, Leslie,
- 24:19Speaker 1: are you kissing anyone on this season? Uh? Yeah, Yeah.
- 24:23Speaker 1: I looked back on the season and I think I
- 24:25Speaker 1: kissed too much on camera. I was I'm like, what
- 24:28Speaker 1: am I doing? Um? So it should be it should
- 24:30Speaker 1: be really interesting for everybody involved. I thought you guys
- 24:33Speaker 1: had the first kiss of the season. Did not know
- 24:37Speaker 1: that there was actually a kiss on Night one? Can
- 24:41Speaker 1: we say it was? I can't say who it was from,
- 24:43Speaker 1: but it was usam Usa had the first kiss, and
- 24:47Speaker 1: then I think with you t mus they had another kiss. Um. Yeah,
- 24:51Speaker 1: but yeah, started making out early on. Yeah, sure, sure was. Hey, hey, Leslie,
- 24:59Speaker 1: I have a really close to worried about that. Uh
- 25:03Speaker 1: uh yeah. So I actually had a front row seat
- 25:05Speaker 1: at Leslie's first day. I was sitting beside literally the
- 25:10Speaker 1: person she was kissing. They're kind of hanging out the
- 25:13Speaker 1: good old evening on the couch, and all of a sudden,
- 25:15Speaker 1: I look over and I quickly realized that I was
- 25:17Speaker 1: no longer welcomed to the conversation on the conversation no
- 25:21Speaker 1: longer existed. They were making out, and I was just
- 25:24Speaker 1: sitting awkwardly close staring. Well. The weird thing about all
- 25:28Speaker 1: this has been I don't think you were the only
- 25:30Speaker 1: one there. I mean, there are a lot of people
- 25:31Speaker 1: in the room and and so yeah, we'll see how
- 25:35Speaker 1: it plays out on screen. I'm a little nervous. You
- 25:38Speaker 1: guys are playing a game when your first kiss came about?
- 25:40Speaker 1: Were you not what was this game? And it was
- 25:42Speaker 1: a wild night. I had gone to bed early. I
- 25:45Speaker 1: was emotional and exhausted. I went to bed, I missed
- 25:48Speaker 1: all the festivities. Tell us what was the scene? Was like, yeah,
- 25:52Speaker 1: I can we talk about something real quickly because I
- 25:54Speaker 1: feel like you said you were emotionally exhausted, and I
- 25:58Speaker 1: I never once you shed a tear? What when we
- 26:02Speaker 1: were when we were calling Bastard on our games? That
- 26:04Speaker 1: was because I cried right before I went to bed,
- 26:06Speaker 1: and then you were really distracted that night too, And
- 26:08Speaker 1: that was the only time I cried. Okay, okay, because
- 26:11Speaker 1: these proms, you know, I see these promos for Baster
- 26:13Speaker 1: Winter Games, and here you are shedding some tears, and
- 26:15Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I never saw her study singles here.
- 26:19Speaker 1: I did, definitely. Yeah, that was with Ben. I was
- 26:23Speaker 1: like all up in his shoulder definition of cry on
- 26:27Speaker 1: his shoulder, Leslie, I'm really interested. Okay, So I know
- 26:30Speaker 1: in the past you you've never done Paradise. You've you've
- 26:35Speaker 1: been I don't know how to stay that a hot
- 26:38Speaker 1: commodity in the Bastard franchise for a while. Um, you know,
- 26:41Speaker 1: obviously you're a catch. We all agree to that. I
- 26:44Speaker 1: think actually would definitely agree to that. You've never done Paradise,
- 26:47Speaker 1: but you chose to do win our Games, and I'm
- 26:49Speaker 1: very interested. Why. That's a great question, Ben, I'm glad
- 26:52Speaker 1: you asked, because I don't think Paradise is ever on
- 26:58Speaker 1: my radar because for me just it's just you know,
- 27:02Speaker 1: bringing on the beach all day, which is there's nothing
- 27:04Speaker 1: wrong with that. But I loved the aspect of Bachelor
- 27:09Speaker 1: Winter Games because it's a brand new show and it
- 27:11Speaker 1: brought people from all over the world together. All all
- 27:14Speaker 1: that's the franchises from Bashela Australia, Bachelor in New Zealand,
- 27:18Speaker 1: Bachelor Sweden, Bachelor of Germany and that, Um, that really
- 27:23Speaker 1: spoke to me because it's it's almost like it brought
- 27:25Speaker 1: my two worlds together, traveling people from all over the world,
- 27:29Speaker 1: and my favorite reality TV show ever, So it was
- 27:33Speaker 1: kind of a no brainer. It was just like brand
- 27:36Speaker 1: new show, people from all over the world living in
- 27:38Speaker 1: one house in Vermont together. What could possibly go wrong
- 27:42Speaker 1: working on Capitol Hill back when you're on Shawn season
- 27:45Speaker 1: and now you're a travel blogger and you're super successful
- 27:48Speaker 1: at it. Your pictures on Instagram are amazing. Where can
- 27:50Speaker 1: people follow you and see all your adventures? Oh thinks
- 27:53Speaker 1: as Um? Yeah, my my Instagram is my name Leslie
- 27:57Speaker 1: and Murphy, and my blog is called The row Less
- 28:00Speaker 1: Travels and it's less with one s. Um. It's so funny.
- 28:04Speaker 1: I have obviously it's a takeoff Robert Frost poem. Um,
- 28:09Speaker 1: and obviously my name is Leslie, so it's less fun s.
- 28:11Speaker 1: But I've had some people email me and say there's
- 28:14Speaker 1: a type of in the name of my blog, which
- 28:17Speaker 1: I find hilarious. But yeah, dot com it's funny. I
- 28:21Speaker 1: feel like I could talk to you forever. I still
- 28:23Speaker 1: have a couple more questions. Um, you were you're just
- 28:26Speaker 1: athletically inclined, you know, that's just like your thing. You
- 28:28Speaker 1: can even look at you and you're like, oh, that
- 28:30Speaker 1: girl's good at sports. She was like the hot soccer
- 28:32Speaker 1: player in high school that all the guys, it's just
- 28:34Speaker 1: like you were, Like you're like Blake Lively in traveling pants,
- 28:38Speaker 1: like your blonde hair just swinging back and forth as
- 28:40Speaker 1: you kick a soccer ball. You're really making my day. No,
- 28:44Speaker 1: you are, you know you are? Um, what was your
- 28:47Speaker 1: favorite competition we did? And? Uh, yeah, competition not usually
- 28:57Speaker 1: uhad on Twitter. Sometimes like when she actually says this,
- 29:02Speaker 1: she actually means it because sometimes you know, we can
- 29:05Speaker 1: really be brutal. So Leslie just take this for what
- 29:08Speaker 1: it's worth. Actually really loves you and thinks you're Oh
- 29:10Speaker 1: my god, I'm never going to be able. I love you,
- 29:17Speaker 1: asked me. I think the same. I think the same
- 29:22Speaker 1: of you. Anyway, let's go back to sports. Okay, my
- 29:26Speaker 1: favorite competition of Nastro winning games. This is tough, um,
- 29:30Speaker 1: but I feel like I've got to say, uh the
- 29:35Speaker 1: end where we did a couples ice skating dance. Umice
- 29:43Speaker 1: went into that. I think we practiced for three days
- 29:46Speaker 1: straight and I just really loved my costume at the end.
- 29:50Speaker 1: I think that really helped. Um. It kind of uh
- 29:53Speaker 1: made my childhood dream come true of being this like
- 29:55Speaker 1: fancy Um cargain that popular ice skater. But I don't
- 30:00Speaker 1: think in the end, I did the best that I
- 30:02Speaker 1: could do. But that's okay. Maybe we'll edit it in
- 30:05Speaker 1: a way that makes me look super athletic and great
- 30:07Speaker 1: on figures tape. Then do you have any more questions
- 30:12Speaker 1: for you know? I I don't. I think uh. I
- 30:16Speaker 1: guess My only question before we think good bye the year, Leslie,
- 30:18Speaker 1: is are you glad you did win a game? I
- 30:21Speaker 1: had the time of my life on Winter Games. I'm
- 30:23Speaker 1: so glad I did it. I I've always loved about
- 30:26Speaker 1: the franchise, and so I'm happy to be back. I
- 30:28Speaker 1: think we'll probably end up having you come on and
- 30:31Speaker 1: talk a little more detail throughout the next couple of
- 30:34Speaker 1: weeks of it airing. So I think there's a few
- 30:36Speaker 1: things we haven't talked about, and I think a lot
- 30:38Speaker 1: of people are like, why didn't you talk about that.
- 30:39Speaker 1: It's like, let's just talk about when it's airing, looking
- 30:43Speaker 1: up to your potential engagement. Yeah, leading up to the
- 30:46Speaker 1: potential engagement. Yeah, we'll be excited about seeing how this
- 30:49Speaker 1: plays out. All right, thanks for coming on by, Okay,
- 30:56Speaker 1: thanks absolutely. Yeah, do you think any of the couples
- 31:00Speaker 1: that come out of Winter Games will get engaged, like
- 31:03Speaker 1: maybe not on the show, but in the future. Too
- 31:07Speaker 1: early to say that's not fun. Actually answer my question, no,
- 31:12Speaker 1: um Ben, I want your opinion. Yes, I do you
- 31:19Speaker 1: do interesting? I think? Let me elaborate. So, I think
- 31:25Speaker 1: there are some couples that come out of Winter Games
- 31:27Speaker 1: that are some of the realist couples have ever seen
- 31:29Speaker 1: come out of this tranchise, and I think there's some
- 31:31Speaker 1: absolute actual chemistry going on. I think they're I think
- 31:35Speaker 1: Winner Games allowed an environment where people can really start
- 31:38Speaker 1: to work through issues as couples and also celebrate and
- 31:41Speaker 1: have fun memories together. I think the couples that walked
- 31:44Speaker 1: out of Winter Games actually as somewhat knew each other.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Like I I can't imagine if Winner Games not allowing
- 31:51Speaker 1: the environment for people to come out possibly finding left.
- 31:54Speaker 1: So I do think you maybe I shouldn't say engagement,
- 31:58Speaker 1: but I will say there will be some very serious,
- 32:00Speaker 1: long lasting couples, uh that I would not be surprised
- 32:03Speaker 1: if they got engaged that who met at Winter Games. Okay,
- 32:07Speaker 1: now I have a quick interesting question for you, knowing
- 32:11Speaker 1: that you went through the bachelor process, which is like
- 32:14Speaker 1: literally six times as long as the Bachelor Winter Games process.
- 32:20Speaker 1: Do you think that the couples that are together now
- 32:24Speaker 1: from Winter Games know each other coming off the show
- 32:28Speaker 1: better than you knew Lauren coming off your show. I
- 32:33Speaker 1: don't think so, because I really thought I knew Lauren.
- 32:35Speaker 1: I think I did know Lauren. I think my feelings
- 32:38Speaker 1: for Lauren were very real. I mean, honestly, there was
- 32:41Speaker 1: no moment after the Bachelor that I can I remember going,
- 32:44Speaker 1: oh crap, I don't know this girl, Like I really
- 32:47Speaker 1: really cared about her coming off the show, during the
- 32:49Speaker 1: show and moving forward. But I think maybe that I
- 32:52Speaker 1: was an anomaly to at some level. I think, just
- 32:56Speaker 1: like every Bachelor show, it's about love and it's about relationships.
- 32:59Speaker 1: And I really do mean that, and I believe that.
- 33:01Speaker 1: I think Winter Games and Paradise and all of these
- 33:04Speaker 1: side shows now offer a really good environment for couples
- 33:08Speaker 1: to me, and I'm interested here for our next guest
- 33:12Speaker 1: feels the same way we have who we like to
- 33:15Speaker 1: call no Chill on the line right now, Bibiana, are
- 33:18Speaker 1: you out there? Welcomes all the same as podcast to be.
- 33:23Speaker 1: We're just talking about do you feel like Winter Games
- 33:28Speaker 1: allowed the environment or produce the environment for people to
- 33:32Speaker 1: truly fall in love. I think it did. I agree,
- 33:36Speaker 1: I completely agree. Yeah, I do. Okay, So I just
- 33:40Speaker 1: asked to ask you this question, and I know actually
- 33:42Speaker 1: has a list of questions here that she's excited about
- 33:44Speaker 1: asking you, and I'm gonna let her get into this
- 33:45Speaker 1: and take this away, but I want to ask you
- 33:47Speaker 1: the same question. Out of the couples, and you might
- 33:50Speaker 1: be in one of these relationships, We're not gonna we're
- 33:52Speaker 1: not gonna spoil this. Out of the couples that came
- 33:55Speaker 1: out of Winter Games, do you believe there's a possibility
- 33:59Speaker 1: that one of these pups will end up engaged? Absolutely?
- 34:03Speaker 1: I agree. I completely agree with Jana. Actually, I'm telling you,
- 34:07Speaker 1: I think there's some real love going on here. Very interesting.
- 34:12Speaker 1: I now that we've talked about this, I kind of
- 34:15Speaker 1: feel like I have a better idea. Why actually do
- 34:19Speaker 1: you think it's Do you think otherwise? No? I said
- 34:22Speaker 1: it was too soon to tell, But then I threw
- 34:24Speaker 1: it back at Ben and I said, like, these couples
- 34:27Speaker 1: have now known each other as long as Ben did
- 34:29Speaker 1: during his process with Lauren. But my, my, whole the
- 34:32Speaker 1: whole debate is just the Paradise Winter Games model versus
- 34:37Speaker 1: the Bachelor Bachelor atte model, where you have eight weeks
- 34:40Speaker 1: together on that show, but it's not constant time together
- 34:44Speaker 1: like it is on the other shows. So I think
- 34:47Speaker 1: the other shows, like the spin off shows, um prepare
- 34:50Speaker 1: you better to know who you're getting engaged too. I agree,
- 34:55Speaker 1: because it's like real life, like you're living together, living,
- 34:58Speaker 1: living and not just on mantic dates all the time, right,
- 35:02Speaker 1: Like you're seeing everyone in different elements, like you're seeing
- 35:05Speaker 1: you're seeing each other when you wake up, you're seeing
- 35:07Speaker 1: each other like through these events. Yeah, you see each
- 35:11Speaker 1: other without makeup, with ice on your face, like me
- 35:13Speaker 1: in the morning. Right, So yeah, it's like for who
- 35:20Speaker 1: they are, you know, even if you're a little bit
- 35:21Speaker 1: nervous the first few days, eventually you just become really
- 35:24Speaker 1: comfortable and it's like this one big family. So you're
- 35:27Speaker 1: getting to know each other at a very Probably I
- 35:30Speaker 1: would like to think, like what you tend to see
- 35:33Speaker 1: after six months, you're seeing within three days. I probably agree. Yeah,
- 35:38Speaker 1: I mean I think I think this just Babyanna even
- 35:40Speaker 1: watching these relationships kind of around us and and maybe
- 35:43Speaker 1: we're a part of these Uh, we're not gonna say,
- 35:46Speaker 1: I just really felt comfortable and not awkward about the
- 35:49Speaker 1: relationships that are existing. Like I remember the relationships outside
- 35:53Speaker 1: of myself being like celebrating those while I was in
- 35:56Speaker 1: the house, because like, this is a real thing, this
- 35:58Speaker 1: is a cool thing. I'm watching my and right next
- 36:01Speaker 1: to me developed relationships that I can now celebrate, and
- 36:04Speaker 1: I think those relationships were very real. Um And so
- 36:08Speaker 1: I this is my first time doing a show outside
- 36:10Speaker 1: of the Bachelor and Bachelor I'm a big fan. I
- 36:12Speaker 1: think people should do that Paradise. I think people should
- 36:15Speaker 1: do Winter Games. If they really are trying to find somebody,
- 36:17Speaker 1: why not. This is a great example of people that
- 36:21Speaker 1: can find love. Baby, you have a date on the
- 36:23Speaker 1: first episode. Um, I know from some Little Birdie's that
- 36:31Speaker 1: it's chopped down a lot. The whole scenario is chopped
- 36:34Speaker 1: down a lot. We talked a bit about it on
- 36:38Speaker 1: when you were on our podcast on these This Almost
- 36:41Speaker 1: podcast a couple of weeks ago, and how you and
- 36:44Speaker 1: I both had interest in the same guy. I don't
- 36:47Speaker 1: know if they're going to show much of our interaction, um,
- 36:51Speaker 1: and how I was actually quite supportive of you going
- 36:53Speaker 1: on this date. Of course, I don't know if I'm
- 36:57Speaker 1: getting get in trouble. No oh no, no, You're not
- 37:01Speaker 1: gonna get in trouble. As I love you, you're so worried, Like, hey,
- 37:04Speaker 1: let's just throw it out. I'm so worried because of
- 37:06Speaker 1: my past. I know, but as your as your co host,
- 37:11Speaker 1: I will tell you that I know, and Bibiana back
- 37:14Speaker 1: me up here if you can or if you agree,
- 37:16Speaker 1: don't agree, please go for it. It's a great podcast material, Ashley.
- 37:21Speaker 1: When it comes to women, you aren't dramatic, like You're
- 37:24Speaker 1: not gonna so stop trying to protect yourself. It's good.
- 37:28Speaker 1: I just like that's just like my That's the criticism
- 37:31Speaker 1: that I get the very most is that people don't
- 37:34Speaker 1: think like I'm supportive of like other girls. And there
- 37:38Speaker 1: was just really one scenario, one scenario in the past
- 37:43Speaker 1: where it was very hard for me to be okay
- 37:46Speaker 1: with what was going on. We get it, We get it,
- 37:49Speaker 1: and tell you if there's one woman that would tell
- 37:52Speaker 1: you how they feel, it's Bibiana. Bibiana, did you feel okay,
- 37:57Speaker 1: let's just settle this now so I don't have to
- 37:59Speaker 1: hear about if the rest of the season may be honest,
- 38:01Speaker 1: did you feel supported by Ashley. Yes or no? Absolutely, Okay,
- 38:07Speaker 1: you're supportive. She really is. I don't know what I
- 38:13Speaker 1: can or can't say, but she's basically like she just like, yeah,
- 38:16Speaker 1: go on the day absolutely like she was just like,
- 38:19Speaker 1: go for it. And then two days later when we talked,
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- 40:00Speaker 1: that I support it, Bibana, do you support it? And
- 40:04Speaker 1: I think I'm about to sign up. I was just
- 40:06Speaker 1: talking to my girlfriend's the other day and I was like,
- 40:08Speaker 1: why can't there be like a wine delivery service? Because
- 40:11Speaker 1: you know, Monday comes around and then you're you're running
- 40:13Speaker 1: along wine and what happened. I'm with you, Hey, actually,
- 40:21Speaker 1: I know you have more questions. My final question from
- 40:23Speaker 1: be hones at this point is this, are you still
- 40:25Speaker 1: watching this season of The Bachelor? I am. I want
- 40:29Speaker 1: to know what are you going to watch? Winter Game?
- 40:31Speaker 1: Are you gonna watch when her game? Absolutely? Who isn't?
- 40:36Speaker 1: Who do you think she is? Then? I don't watch it.
- 40:40Speaker 1: I don't watch any of mine. No, I don't watch
- 40:43Speaker 1: any of these this stuff I'm on. I might, I
- 40:46Speaker 1: might watch Winter Games, but I haven't seen The Bachelor.
- 40:49Speaker 1: Watch the Bachelor, right, Yeah, I haven't watched any of that. No, shot,
- 40:53Speaker 1: you didn't watch your win of the Batchel. No, we
- 40:58Speaker 1: have gone on this podcast for almost nine months and
- 41:01Speaker 1: I'm just learning that you didn't watch your your season
- 41:03Speaker 1: of The Bachelor. If I releasedaw this early, we would
- 41:06Speaker 1: have a podcast to last actually funny enough, and I
- 41:09Speaker 1: was actually watching, so I my mistake was probably I
- 41:12Speaker 1: think one of my mistakes was not watching enough of
- 41:15Speaker 1: The Bachelor before I actually jumped onto this season. So
- 41:18Speaker 1: when you guys asked me, like what my thoughts were
- 41:20Speaker 1: on Aria as a batchelor, I really didn't have a
- 41:22Speaker 1: lot to stay because I didn't really know, so I
- 41:25Speaker 1: went back and I watched some of your season. Then
- 41:27Speaker 1: it just kind of like as a repression and you
- 41:29Speaker 1: were such a good battuet. What does that mean? I
- 41:34Speaker 1: don't even know what that means. I've always wondered what
- 41:36Speaker 1: that means when people say that. I feel like you
- 41:40Speaker 1: just knew how to navigate your conversations and even just
- 41:43Speaker 1: saying goodbye to the women, you had much more to
- 41:45Speaker 1: slay than It's almost like personal Um, I watched your
- 41:48Speaker 1: Woman's Tell All and you can just tell the women
- 41:50Speaker 1: just wanted you to really be happy, and that shows
- 41:53Speaker 1: a lot. That shows that you took the time to listen,
- 41:56Speaker 1: you navigated conversations very well throughout the date. I I
- 42:00Speaker 1: personally feel victimized that that what that? What? What do you? What?
- 42:08Speaker 1: Do you feel like I pick him up? That I
- 42:11Speaker 1: didn't get such a good bach? Hey, hey, hey, we
- 42:15Speaker 1: all have to feel that way. Here's okay, this is
- 42:18Speaker 1: what everybody said about your Women tell All. They're like,
- 42:21Speaker 1: it seems like all the girls who just didn't have
- 42:23Speaker 1: any complaints about him, they're just happy that he was happy.
- 42:27Speaker 1: You should I think I think that's changed. I mean,
- 42:31Speaker 1: here's here's the truth. And not to make this about
- 42:33Speaker 1: my season the Bachelor, but we we've touched it. I
- 42:35Speaker 1: got to know this question from the both of you now, um,
- 42:38Speaker 1: and then we moved into moor games here more. If
- 42:41Speaker 1: the women were happy for me, then I don't know
- 42:44Speaker 1: if there is happy for me now. I don't know why,
- 42:47Speaker 1: but I feel like it's really hard for the bachelor
- 42:50Speaker 1: or bachelorette to keep any type of friendship or close
- 42:53Speaker 1: relationship or any type of relationship period, like even admiration
- 42:57Speaker 1: after the show. I mean, honestly, I would. One of
- 43:01Speaker 1: the hardest things for me coming off The Bachelor has
- 43:03Speaker 1: been the fact that I don't know if you need
- 43:05Speaker 1: these women that I really cared about, that I really
- 43:07Speaker 1: think are great, that I really have a soft about
- 43:10Speaker 1: my heart for. I don't know if they still even
- 43:12Speaker 1: like like me as a person. And I don't know why.
- 43:16Speaker 1: Is that how you feel about your bachelor's You're just
- 43:18Speaker 1: different then, But I think you're referring to like they're
- 43:25Speaker 1: your Your girls are cookie, so they're either going to be.
- 43:30Speaker 1: I think it's as a post break up issue that
- 43:31Speaker 1: you're dealing with. I don't know, this is a post
- 43:33Speaker 1: show break a bus show issue. Okay, that makes sense,
- 43:36Speaker 1: that makes sense. I get that. Maybe on it. What
- 43:38Speaker 1: do you mean I'm different? He is, Yeah, you're just different.
- 43:43Speaker 1: Like that doesn't make me feel good? Okay a good way, No,
- 43:47Speaker 1: in a good way. Like you just you have a
- 43:49Speaker 1: different kind of presence, you have a different kind of energy.
- 43:51Speaker 1: It's really hard to have to not love you. You know,
- 43:54Speaker 1: either of these things don't work out. You're not the
- 43:56Speaker 1: guy that you're just people are drawn to you and
- 43:59Speaker 1: how this great? And then about like I can't explain that,
- 44:03Speaker 1: BENNI are just like different in a really good way.
- 44:06Speaker 1: And you know, like watching your part of like what
- 44:09Speaker 1: you went through on yourself, I'm just like, this guy
- 44:12Speaker 1: is just incredible. Um, but I can't see anybody not
- 44:19Speaker 1: we should be the best, even like well, I mean
- 44:22Speaker 1: a moment breaking up with them, everybody seemed to be
- 44:24Speaker 1: really happy with Well, I mean, this is this is
- 44:28Speaker 1: the truth. And and I cannot wait to get into
- 44:30Speaker 1: your story because Viviana, you are one of the most
- 44:32Speaker 1: captivating people we've ever had in the Backlor franchise. There's
- 44:35Speaker 1: a moment at Winter Games that you sat me down
- 44:38Speaker 1: and I have never had this happened to me. And
- 44:39Speaker 1: I told you this there, and I told you that
- 44:41Speaker 1: I don't even know how to respond to you, because
- 44:43Speaker 1: at the moment I was so taken back. Viviana sat
- 44:47Speaker 1: me down at Winter Games and she just spoke like
- 44:49Speaker 1: what she said was truth into me. She sat me
- 44:51Speaker 1: down and directly talked to me and said some the
- 44:53Speaker 1: most encouraging, some of the most raw, real things to me,
- 44:57Speaker 1: like at my face, just to say it and and
- 45:01Speaker 1: beyont that moment there, I realized that there is a
- 45:04Speaker 1: depth to you, that there is just a rawness and
- 45:07Speaker 1: a genuine and authenticity to you that I've never been around.
- 45:12Speaker 1: And I think for all of us coming out of
- 45:14Speaker 1: the Winter Games, all of us when we talk say
- 45:17Speaker 1: the same thing you. I mean, you might say that, Hey,
- 45:21Speaker 1: you know I look special. You, Bibiana, I can tell
- 45:25Speaker 1: are very very special. And I think Ashley can attest
- 45:28Speaker 1: to that because she loves you so much. Um down,
- 45:33Speaker 1: I'm blushing. I'm glad that by honest and talked to
- 45:37Speaker 1: you about that, because I think like she really was
- 45:39Speaker 1: able to articulate everything that everybody in that house is
- 45:43Speaker 1: feeling about you, and you don't sometimes see about yourself,
- 45:47Speaker 1: which we are just mind boggled by well in Winter Games.
- 45:53Speaker 1: This is the cool part about watching this back is,
- 45:55Speaker 1: you know, we see your storyline change actually where you
- 45:58Speaker 1: and your supportive of the Beanna in her pursuit of
- 46:01Speaker 1: some of you may be into, and Bibiana you vice versa.
- 46:04Speaker 1: And then for me personally, it was a big moment
- 46:08Speaker 1: of discovery. For me, I had people around me like
- 46:10Speaker 1: you actually and Bibiana speaking to me and walking me
- 46:13Speaker 1: through something that wasn't necessarily easy, or maybe it was
- 46:17Speaker 1: just a little too raw and too real and not
- 46:19Speaker 1: something I expected to feel or think. And that's what
- 46:22Speaker 1: Winter Games was. Winter Games is gonna be a lot
- 46:25Speaker 1: of fun to watch because I believe that every turn,
- 46:28Speaker 1: in every moment, there was a genuiness and an authenticity
- 46:32Speaker 1: and and almost what I want to say, a joy
- 46:35Speaker 1: to being in the house. But I don't think you
- 46:37Speaker 1: get a lot on these shows. Yeah, yeah, there was
- 46:40Speaker 1: no hostility. That was what was interesting. You know, we
- 46:43Speaker 1: kind of laughed with the first day when Chris Harrison's like,
- 46:47Speaker 1: this is a demonstration of worldwide unity and love and
- 46:51Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, cheesiest line of all Bachelor history.
- 46:54Speaker 1: But it actually became the truth. Um, speaking of love, Bibby,
- 46:59Speaker 1: one last question, just to get some dirt out of you. Um,
- 47:04Speaker 1: when you walked into that house, who were the guys
- 47:07Speaker 1: that stood out as like You're like, I'm gonna go
- 47:09Speaker 1: get my flirt on with them? Well, I can't say
- 47:12Speaker 1: that I act that way like I'm gonna go get
- 47:14Speaker 1: my flirt on it my thing. But I mean I remember, um,
- 47:20Speaker 1: somebody asking me like, oh, who's somebody that stands up
- 47:23Speaker 1: to you right now? I was like, it's so soon.
- 47:24Speaker 1: But if I had to pick one, it was Ben.
- 47:28Speaker 1: H Yeah. Other things that Ben did it now well
- 47:34Speaker 1: only because like how are you supposed to how are
- 47:36Speaker 1: you supposed to know within just like a few hours,
- 47:39Speaker 1: Like how you like who stands out? But one thing
- 47:42Speaker 1: that Ben did while during the parade when all of
- 47:45Speaker 1: us were you know, it's the first time all of
- 47:47Speaker 1: us are meeting, then just went around and just introduced
- 47:51Speaker 1: himself to every single person and we're like in this
- 47:53Speaker 1: we're all standing, so it's like awkward to get to
- 47:56Speaker 1: like make it wait if they hit everyone, he found
- 47:59Speaker 1: a way and he introduced himself and he just that's
- 48:04Speaker 1: that to me is something that you can't really teach
- 48:06Speaker 1: people to just to know how to connect and be attentive.
- 48:09Speaker 1: So um I would say that Ben was the guy
- 48:13Speaker 1: who said got to be the most first thing. Yeah. Well,
- 48:16Speaker 1: oh Bibby, you continue to to just make me feel
- 48:20Speaker 1: a lot better about my stuff than every foot before
- 48:22Speaker 1: you and actually have this way about you. Babiana. We
- 48:25Speaker 1: love you so much. We want to have you back
- 48:27Speaker 1: on the podcast as Winter Games continues. Can you can
- 48:30Speaker 1: you agree to that? Can you come on? Absolutely? I
- 48:32Speaker 1: love you guys, All right, thanks babe, Sam of course
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- 51:04Speaker 1: Can I ask one favor of you? I don't know
- 51:07Speaker 1: if this is overstepping my bounds, and if it is,
- 51:09Speaker 1: just tell me please. Um. I have this new pet
- 51:13Speaker 1: peeve when it comes to people in the Bachelor franchise,
- 51:16Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what it is. They overuse the
- 51:19Speaker 1: word obsessed. Obsessed. Okay, obsessed? I just say obsessed? Did
- 51:25Speaker 1: he did just say obsessed? And I want to challenge
- 51:27Speaker 1: you now to see Okay, I just want to ask you,
- 51:30Speaker 1: in all and and anything that you do from here,
- 51:33Speaker 1: try not to use the word obsessed. To see it.
- 51:35Speaker 1: You're part of this crew Okay, so that is something
- 51:39Speaker 1: that I've been noticing too. I'm trying not to use
- 51:41Speaker 1: the word amazing or awesome anymore or excited. No, that's awesome, amazing.
- 51:46Speaker 1: Everybody knows that that's overused. It's the words excited. I
- 51:49Speaker 1: don't like to say, oh, I'm so excited, because it
- 51:51Speaker 1: just between The Bachelor and the Kardashians, everything is so exciting.
- 51:56Speaker 1: It's like I'm going to go eat a burger. Oh
- 51:58Speaker 1: my god, I'm so excited. You know what. We all
- 52:01Speaker 1: have our issues. But actually, I'm just asking you as
- 52:03Speaker 1: a friend, and I'm gonna follow up with this in
- 52:06Speaker 1: the weeks to follow. Is if you feel like obsessed
- 52:09Speaker 1: is overused as well, like, oh my gosh, I'm so
- 52:11Speaker 1: obsessed with this new product. No, you're not. You're not obsessed,
- 52:15Speaker 1: And if you are, you have major issues. I'm really
- 52:17Speaker 1: passionate about it, really passionate. Yeah that's good. That's good. Hey, um, okay,
- 52:23Speaker 1: we we've briefed Winter Games. Winter Games is coming to you.
- 52:27Speaker 1: And there's a rumor one of the executive producers on
- 52:30Speaker 1: The Bachelor and Bachelor d secretly told me and I
- 52:34Speaker 1: mean this, and I know they meant this because this
- 52:36Speaker 1: was just between us, but Winter Games betweend of you listeners.
- 52:43Speaker 1: That's what you get for telling a podcast guy, secrets
- 52:46Speaker 1: of the show. Um that Winter Game is some of
- 52:49Speaker 1: the best television The Bachelor's ever produced, if not the best.
- 52:54Speaker 1: I've heard that too. I've heard it too, and not
- 52:56Speaker 1: from an executive. We all have different sources from people
- 52:58Speaker 1: who have already seen the press release. I agree it's
- 53:02Speaker 1: gonna be amazing. People have to watch it. It's gonna
- 53:05Speaker 1: be I mean, it's gonna be like you said, Astley,
- 53:09Speaker 1: what were the words that you just use? Yeah, something
- 53:13Speaker 1: like that. That's really shappy and weird and makes me
- 53:16Speaker 1: awkward to say, but it's probably It's probably true. Um,
- 53:21Speaker 1: but we gotta think all of our guests are coming
- 53:23Speaker 1: on the day because these these guests, including the international guests,
- 53:27Speaker 1: are the ones that make this show so great. It
- 53:29Speaker 1: was very real, very real, very raw. Real relationships are formed.
- 53:34Speaker 1: Ashley and I are both a part of it. We
- 53:36Speaker 1: cannot wait for our listeners out there to watch. Please
- 53:38Speaker 1: email us, email us any of your thoughts, questions, Um,
- 53:43Speaker 1: you know, reviews of Winter Games at Ben and Ashley
- 53:45Speaker 1: I a i heeart media dot Com. We want to
- 53:48Speaker 1: hear from you. We have to hear from you, and
- 53:50Speaker 1: then also go out and review our podcast on the
- 53:53Speaker 1: I heart Media app once you download it. We want
- 53:56Speaker 1: to hear if you like this podcast, because we like
- 53:58Speaker 1: doing it. We of it and thank you to our
- 54:01Speaker 1: guest Eric Bigger, Leslie Murphy, Bibianna, Juliana, and Claire Crawley.
- 54:07Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for listening to this. The
- 54:09Speaker 1: Winter Game starts Tuesday, February. It's Galantine's Day. That the
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