Latest / The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast / S8 E8 Are You Sick of Me? with Wells Adams and Graham Bunn
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
- 0:03Speaker 1: with i R Radio. Hello, Ben, this is kind of
- 0:09Speaker 1: a sad day. It's a really sad I've been thinking
- 0:12Speaker 1: about my entire ride here. I'm not like, I don't know,
- 0:17Speaker 1: I'm usually excited for this podcast, and I feel like
- 0:19Speaker 1: it's still important. It's maybe more important than ever. But
- 0:22Speaker 1: this is a tough one. So Caitlin and Sean broke up.
- 0:26Speaker 1: They call off their engagement after three years together. And
- 0:31Speaker 1: these are two people that mean a lot to Ben
- 0:33Speaker 1: and myself because well Caitlin was on my season and
- 0:36Speaker 1: then Ben was on her season, and it was really
- 0:41Speaker 1: great friends with Sean. You guys bonded immediately in the
- 0:45Speaker 1: house that was your roommate. Yeah, I like, I mean,
- 0:49Speaker 1: I love them both. I haven't been able to stay
- 0:51Speaker 1: in as good as touch with either of them as
- 0:53Speaker 1: i'd like to be. Um. I did know that there is,
- 0:56Speaker 1: you know, trouble and paradise, but there always is at
- 0:59Speaker 1: some level, right, you never really believe it could come true.
- 1:01Speaker 1: I was there for this whole love story to play out.
- 1:04Speaker 1: I mean, I really thought they were meant to be. Um.
- 1:08Speaker 1: I truly still believe, honestly that their soul mates. I
- 1:11Speaker 1: feel like they are. This is just my personal opinion.
- 1:14Speaker 1: I could be totally off, but I feel like they've
- 1:18Speaker 1: gotten lost a bit in work. I think both of
- 1:21Speaker 1: them have a lot of their separate things going around.
- 1:25Speaker 1: He has his business, she has her podcast, and like
- 1:27Speaker 1: a zillion other things, and I just feel like they
- 1:32Speaker 1: let work at the best of them, and they were
- 1:34Speaker 1: spending so much time apart that they weren't finding ways
- 1:38Speaker 1: to reconnect with each other. They just didn't have enough time.
- 1:42Speaker 1: They were not living a life that was like conducive
- 1:45Speaker 1: to having a romantic personal relationship. What do you think? Yeah?
- 1:50Speaker 1: And I also think, actually with everything you said too,
- 1:52Speaker 1: was that maybe time apart will bring them together. That's
- 1:56Speaker 1: always something that you hope for if they're open to it.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Uh So we're I'm looking here at the US Weekly
- 2:01Speaker 1: article that came out, which is um It's titled Caitlin
- 2:05Speaker 1: Bristow and Sean Booth split call off engagement after three
- 2:08Speaker 1: years together. I'm just gonna read it for a little bit.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Breaking up it's hard to do. Caitlin Bristow and Sean
- 2:11Speaker 1: Booth have split and they've called up their engagement after
- 2:13Speaker 1: three years together. Says in this article, Caitlin has basically
- 2:17Speaker 1: caught off her engagement to Sean, but they're still trying
- 2:20Speaker 1: to work on their relationship. That's that's important for us
- 2:22Speaker 1: to know, because um, I don't want to give up
- 2:25Speaker 1: hope that this is still something that could work, but
- 2:27Speaker 1: I know that this is really none of our business.
- 2:29Speaker 1: I've been through this, and all I will say is
- 2:32Speaker 1: I'll reach out to Sean um just to be It's
- 2:35Speaker 1: a tough season, no matter what I mean. There is
- 2:37Speaker 1: a thousand bits of criticism and then there's support and
- 2:40Speaker 1: like the oddest ways actual listening to this. So when
- 2:43Speaker 1: you get like when a breakup happens publicly, the hardest
- 2:47Speaker 1: part is sometimes not the criticism of like, oh, I
- 2:50Speaker 1: knew it was never gonna work, Like you can brush
- 2:51Speaker 1: it off because that's not anybody's business and nobody really knew.
- 2:55Speaker 1: What sucks is when people when you still love the
- 2:57Speaker 1: the person that you're with, and people message you and
- 2:59Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, he was terrible or she was terrible,
- 3:02Speaker 1: and yeah you were never meant to be together and
- 3:04Speaker 1: you should have done this, you shouldn't. That's when it
- 3:07Speaker 1: really sucks. Like when people are trying to support you
- 3:09Speaker 1: or make you feel better about yourself, but at the
- 3:12Speaker 1: same time criticism criticizing the partner that you're with for
- 3:15Speaker 1: so long and you shared your heart with. So that's tough. Yeah.
- 3:22Speaker 1: I don't want to say speak as if I know
- 3:24Speaker 1: exactly what's going on. I mean I obviously sensed trouble,
- 3:29Speaker 1: as even most fans did, because they just really stopped
- 3:33Speaker 1: liking each other's stuff on Instagram. I know it sounds stupid,
- 3:36Speaker 1: but they did. They stopped posting with each other, and
- 3:39Speaker 1: it maybe that wouldn't have been weird if they hadn't
- 3:43Speaker 1: been a couple that was always posting about each other
- 3:47Speaker 1: before whatever like trouble came about. So how did they
- 3:53Speaker 1: announced the break up? Ash Well, it looked like through
- 3:56Speaker 1: people dot Com really were the ones to announce it.
- 4:00Speaker 1: US Weekly article is interesting because I also heard that
- 4:03Speaker 1: on Thursday he had an article come out saying that
- 4:07Speaker 1: they were like pretty much on the rocks but really
- 4:10Speaker 1: trying like it was a bad spot, but like they
- 4:12Speaker 1: weren't ready to call it. But then people on Friday
- 4:16Speaker 1: said that they kind of just called it, and they
- 4:19Speaker 1: had the quotes. Um, I'm just I don't know, guys,
- 4:24Speaker 1: I really feel like their soul mates. And maybe I'm
- 4:27Speaker 1: just an optimist, but I really do hope that they
- 4:29Speaker 1: split and then they realize how much they missed each
- 4:31Speaker 1: other because watching them on TV and in person together,
- 4:35Speaker 1: you're just like, that's electric, that's goals. Honestly, Jared and
- 4:39Speaker 1: I have always named them as the couple that It
- 4:43Speaker 1: sounds bad now, but we'd always wanted to be like,
- 4:46Speaker 1: because they're just so fun and playful together and you
- 4:49Speaker 1: just felt the magic around them. That's something special. That's
- 4:52Speaker 1: not your average couple. No, it's not. No. Actually, I
- 4:55Speaker 1: think I get to what you're saying, and I think
- 4:57Speaker 1: everybody does. Is they We all were cheering for him
- 4:59Speaker 1: and rooting for him, and you know, their their journey
- 5:01Speaker 1: had been long. I mean, at this point, it doesn't
- 5:03Speaker 1: even seem like they're a bachelor cuple anymore more. You know,
- 5:05Speaker 1: it's Caitlin Sean just together. In general. Um, what do
- 5:09Speaker 1: you think life looks like for each of them individually? Now?
- 5:13Speaker 1: Moving forward? Do you think Sean gets a lot of
- 5:15Speaker 1: attention or do you think he kind of keeps it quiet?
- 5:17Speaker 1: You know, how does Caitlin move forward? Is she the
- 5:19Speaker 1: next bachelorette? What happened. I think fans would love to
- 5:23Speaker 1: see Caitlin as the next bachelorette, but I don't know
- 5:25Speaker 1: that the show would do that again. I don't know
- 5:30Speaker 1: what's going to happen with their house or their dog,
- 5:33Speaker 1: because man, is Caitlin attached to that dog. You know
- 5:37Speaker 1: they'd have to have joint const talk. All of this
- 5:41Speaker 1: is so sad ash this is this is the moments
- 5:43Speaker 1: that we don't like doing the podcast, but we know
- 5:45Speaker 1: we need to do it. The truth is, Kaitlin Sean
- 5:48Speaker 1: have now officially broken up. Okay, so I just pulled
- 5:50Speaker 1: up the people dot com article. This is their exclusive
- 5:54Speaker 1: statement to people. After three incredible years, we have decided
- 5:59Speaker 1: to go our separate ways. This difficult decision has come
- 6:01Speaker 1: after thoughtful, respectful consideration. Even though we are parting as
- 6:06Speaker 1: a couple, we are very much committed to remain friends.
- 6:09Speaker 1: We have both of allD us people, which is taking
- 6:13Speaker 1: us in different directions, but with the hope that we
- 6:16Speaker 1: will continue to support each other in new ways. Due
- 6:19Speaker 1: to the nature of how we met, our relationship has
- 6:21Speaker 1: always been very public and we have enjoyed sharing it
- 6:24Speaker 1: with all of you, but we asked that you respect
- 6:27Speaker 1: our decision and privacy at this time. That makes me
- 6:30Speaker 1: think of two things. One, please guys be kind and
- 6:35Speaker 1: respectful and don't retaliate against this, you know. And then
- 6:42Speaker 1: my second thought is three incredible years. It's just you
- 6:47Speaker 1: never see bachelor couples split after a long period of
- 6:50Speaker 1: time together. We've never really seen that until now. No.
- 6:54Speaker 1: I mean, we have a couple of begs. The question
- 6:56Speaker 1: anybody out there listening email us at been and Ashley
- 6:59Speaker 1: I heart media dot com. It's a couple of other
- 7:00Speaker 1: couples out there that have been together for a while. Joe,
- 7:02Speaker 1: Joe and Jordan's um, Rachel and Brian. Uh, you know,
- 7:06Speaker 1: we obviously have Ari and Lauren, and then Becca and
- 7:09Speaker 1: Garrett right now. They're all kind of out there in
- 7:10Speaker 1: the dating world. Which one of those couples will be
- 7:14Speaker 1: married first? We want to hear from you. We don't
- 7:15Speaker 1: want to talk about the breakups, who knows, that's not
- 7:18Speaker 1: something to talk about, but we want to hear who
- 7:19Speaker 1: do you think will actually make the commitment first? Because Ashley,
- 7:21Speaker 1: as Ashley said, it feels like we're losing a married
- 7:24Speaker 1: couple from Bachelor Nation, even though officially they never were.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Switching gears here, we're bringing on somebody that's on this
- 7:31Speaker 1: podcast almost as much as we are. I am I
- 7:34Speaker 1: annoying you guys at this point. No, you're our favorite
- 7:36Speaker 1: fill in. You're It's seamless, it's so easy, it is real.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Can I sit in the middle here, I'm the moderator
- 7:42Speaker 1: in the as If his voice wasn't distinct, he does
- 7:49Speaker 1: have that like radio voice. Wells, you've been getting a
- 7:51Speaker 1: lot of awards recently for your radio work. That's right.
- 7:54Speaker 1: I got second place again in Nashville. Pretty good about it.
- 7:58Speaker 1: I've lost Bobby Bones seven years, so good stuff. Um,
- 8:04Speaker 1: the two of you, when did you mend your relationship? Like,
- 8:06Speaker 1: how do the two of you sitting in the same
- 8:08Speaker 1: room as friends now today? Because at one point in
- 8:10Speaker 1: your life you weren't just friends. Well, it was at
- 8:14Speaker 1: the romantic point, and then it wasn't a romantic Yeah,
- 8:17Speaker 1: there was like never anything to mend. It was like
- 8:19Speaker 1: romantic non romantic friendship. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Sorry,
- 8:24Speaker 1: there was no drama there started stir stuff. It's so funny.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Try to stir suf up with Ben and he like
- 8:32Speaker 1: won't have it. He'll do his piece right out of
- 8:35Speaker 1: it and I'm like, damn it, Ben. One with these
- 8:38Speaker 1: two were never gonna work was when Wells said what's
- 8:42Speaker 1: your favorite music? And Ashley said Hansen, and just it
- 8:48Speaker 1: was like, wow, they're done. I have never but that
- 8:52Speaker 1: just ended right there. I've never been so happy that
- 8:56Speaker 1: they kept a clip into that show. Then that clip
- 9:00Speaker 1: I don't remember. I got to watch it this weekend.
- 9:02Speaker 1: We put on umbop Um onto the stereo. Dance to
- 9:05Speaker 1: umbop isn't Hansen? Yes, that is Hanson Wells joke that
- 9:09Speaker 1: means you're a figures. That just ended like I was
- 9:13Speaker 1: too focused. Alliance is lost on those Oh he's insane.
- 9:18Speaker 1: I sometimes I sit with Wells. We're in Vegas, I
- 9:21Speaker 1: heart Fest and I was sitting at my computer and
- 9:22Speaker 1: I was like, well, here's a couple of the bands
- 9:24Speaker 1: I've been listening to. He knows him all. He knows
- 9:25Speaker 1: the lead singers, he knows the backstories. And I was like,
- 9:27Speaker 1: I was pulling out deep stuff like Milk Curtain Kids,
- 9:29Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, like I know all about him,
- 9:32Speaker 1: but that's my job. If if I would, that's like
- 9:34Speaker 1: me being surprised that you know a lot about coffee
- 9:37Speaker 1: and being a good guy. Did you'd be surprised how
- 9:41Speaker 1: little I know about coffee. But um, now that's a
- 9:44Speaker 1: good point. But well, you've got some great musical tastes.
- 9:46Speaker 1: Why are you in studio? Well, we are going to
- 9:49Speaker 1: be unveiling a new podcast here at I Heart Studios
- 9:53Speaker 1: that I'm going to be hosting, and I can't say
- 9:55Speaker 1: too much about it, but I think a lot of
- 9:58Speaker 1: people are going to be very, very in died in
- 10:00Speaker 1: what we're doing and who also is going to be
- 10:04Speaker 1: on the show with me and what we're going to
- 10:06Speaker 1: be talking about every single week. It's similar to like
- 10:09Speaker 1: what we're known for, but a little different. Yeah. Yeah, no,
- 10:14Speaker 1: I don't know love reality TV. Yeah, oh okay, And
- 10:19Speaker 1: it is not Bachelor related at all. Yeah, you're not
- 10:23Speaker 1: going to talk Bachelor at all, not at all. Enough.
- 10:26Speaker 1: There's enough Bachelor podcast guys, I love you, there's not enough.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Many things just keeps going. You're gonna have a co host, yes,
- 10:36Speaker 1: but I can't tell you who it is because then
- 10:38Speaker 1: it would give away what the show is going to
- 10:40Speaker 1: be about. But I'm really excited about it. I think
- 10:41Speaker 1: a lot of people are gonna be really excited about it.
- 10:43Speaker 1: I think you, in particular, Ashley, are going to be
- 10:45Speaker 1: all into it. We know Sarah Highlands into it. She's
- 10:48Speaker 1: very into it. Yeah, and all our friends and so
- 10:50Speaker 1: it's gonna be It's gonna be a really cool podcast,
- 10:53Speaker 1: I hope. So I'm intrigued. Yeah. Do you think I'm
- 10:56Speaker 1: gonna be into it? I don't know. Yeah you will? Yeah?
- 10:59Speaker 1: Is it for? Are all people of all ages and
- 11:01Speaker 1: all kinds? It is? It? Really is? Yeah? I think
- 11:04Speaker 1: I know what it is? Not a what do you
- 11:06Speaker 1: think it is? Really? Put the mics off while she
- 11:08Speaker 1: says it, So that just has that has happened yet? No,
- 11:14Speaker 1: it hasn't happened yet. It's about you anyways, Ashley. Why
- 11:18Speaker 1: am I not surprised at it? Right on the head
- 11:20Speaker 1: when it Ben has no idea what we're talking about.
- 11:22Speaker 1: Actually literally just said it, and he's all, I don't
- 11:24Speaker 1: know what that is? That happening though? Okay, I got
- 11:27Speaker 1: another question. So do you have a new podcast? Are
- 11:29Speaker 1: you're still gonna be doing your favorite thing with Brandy? Yes?
- 11:32Speaker 1: I am. That is never ending. I mean everyone needs
- 11:35Speaker 1: a little positivity in the world that shows only about
- 11:37Speaker 1: our favorite things. Uh, this is gonna be about my
- 11:40Speaker 1: new favorite Uh guilty pleasure, though, I'm so excited about
- 11:45Speaker 1: this show. That's amazing. I've been on your podcast with
- 11:48Speaker 1: Brandy Sires a couple of times. We've You guys always
- 11:51Speaker 1: seem to dig out parts of me that I don't
- 11:54Speaker 1: know exist. This is what Ben does, guys, and I
- 11:57Speaker 1: know I'm sure your listeners now know this. Ben. You
- 12:00Speaker 1: said in the beginning, Ben deflects when it ever gets seriously,
- 12:04Speaker 1: and it's so easy for Ben to pull out some
- 12:07Speaker 1: like real deep dark stuff out of you. The second
- 12:10Speaker 1: you try to get Ben to talk about anything, he's like, well,
- 12:12Speaker 1: hold of second. Ben said, he's having an emotional a
- 12:17Speaker 1: little bit of an emotional sort of times emotional. So
- 12:19Speaker 1: I said, what's going on? Nothing? He switched it. Suddenly
- 12:24Speaker 1: we were knee deep into talking about how he doesn't
- 12:26Speaker 1: like people that talk during the movies. Yeah, bad thing.
- 12:28Speaker 1: I hate the movies. Well, it was the movies that
- 12:30Speaker 1: started as that's the reason he doesn't watch scary movies,
- 12:33Speaker 1: because there's some darkness inside him. The house. Yeah. Along.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Gale makes an appearance on Netflix's new show what is
- 12:41Speaker 1: it called The Hunting of Hill House? Why phenomenal? Terrified,
- 12:48Speaker 1: Like I can't stand scary things and I watched it
- 12:50Speaker 1: is so good. But Alon is a plumber, the executive
- 12:54Speaker 1: producer of the Bachelor. How does he get on this stuff?
- 12:57Speaker 1: He showed up on the Avenger Aventures movie Friends with
- 13:05Speaker 1: James Gunn, and then he shows up on this is
- 13:06Speaker 1: he's taking an acting career. I don't know. He's phenomenal.
- 13:10Speaker 1: I think he wants to be known for his cameos.
- 13:12Speaker 1: I think he'd like to show up for like five
- 13:14Speaker 1: seconds in every movie he could. I kind of like it.
- 13:17Speaker 1: Of course he's good, right, Yeah, I'm really good. There's
- 13:20Speaker 1: only one person in this world. I tried to make
- 13:22Speaker 1: Ashley cry during win her games a couple of times
- 13:24Speaker 1: during interviews. She's just a lock Caage. Alan walks in
- 13:27Speaker 1: the room, she just starts bawling. It wasn't there, he
- 13:30Speaker 1: wasn't even there. But I know, you're the only good
- 13:32Speaker 1: looking guy in America that hasn't made this. I was.
- 13:39Speaker 1: I was actually watching UH this last week. I was.
- 13:42Speaker 1: I was in the studio last week for the podcast
- 13:44Speaker 1: that came in this week as well, and I was
- 13:46Speaker 1: watching videos from UM a few months ago, and Ashley
- 13:49Speaker 1: announced that she was in love with Jared, and I
- 13:52Speaker 1: was in love with Jared or that we were together both.
- 13:55Speaker 1: So you're watching clips from Paradise sure, announcing it and studio. Yeah,
- 14:01Speaker 1: and she is bawling, I mean balling, and it just
- 14:03Speaker 1: made my heart so happy that it was so nice.
- 14:06Speaker 1: It was such a beautiful moment for us, when you
- 14:10Speaker 1: find your wife. I'm good, I'm just hanging out. What's
- 14:14Speaker 1: real quick? Who is your celebrity crush right now? That's
- 14:17Speaker 1: a good question. It's always gonna be Halle Berry. She's
- 14:20Speaker 1: always going to let's be realistic, Ben, who is someone that,
- 14:22Speaker 1: like I, we could legitimately go out and like get
- 14:26Speaker 1: for you? You know? Olivia Corpo still still well you know,
- 14:31Speaker 1: I'm just like obsessed with her so much like you guys.
- 14:33Speaker 1: I look at her Instagram like way too much. I
- 14:37Speaker 1: study like how I could be more like her? Do
- 14:40Speaker 1: you do you look at hers more than like a Kardashian? Yes? Really,
- 14:45Speaker 1: oh so much more, don't the Kardashians. Yes. Yeah, it's
- 14:49Speaker 1: kind of weird because she like kind of knows she
- 14:51Speaker 1: like Olivia is very aware of my obsession with her.
- 14:53Speaker 1: It's kind of weird. No, it's not weird. You're just supportive,
- 14:56Speaker 1: like when you're in on something. You like to go
- 14:58Speaker 1: all out, like, you don't want to go halfway. So
- 15:01Speaker 1: Danny A. Mendola and Olivia couple have been like dating
- 15:03Speaker 1: for two years, and of course he used to be
- 15:05Speaker 1: a Patriot, So Jared has like a man crush on him,
- 15:07Speaker 1: and I have a girl crush on Olivia. So here's
- 15:10Speaker 1: the weird thing. Uh TMZ came out with these pictures
- 15:14Speaker 1: very recently that Danny was seen spotted with another girl
- 15:19Speaker 1: on the beach. So that means that Olivia may either
- 15:22Speaker 1: be cheated be cheated on, or she's single and she
- 15:26Speaker 1: can date you and I definitely haven't in there took
- 15:29Speaker 1: that up. Let's let's let's go down that route. Okay,
- 15:32Speaker 1: let's get him hooked up. Okay. Also, can we just
- 15:34Speaker 1: pivot real quick, like, if you are famous at all,
- 15:38Speaker 1: why do you think that you're gonna be able to
- 15:39Speaker 1: get away with cheating on your significant other. Everyone has
- 15:44Speaker 1: a camera on their in their pocket right now. He's
- 15:46Speaker 1: on the beach in these pictures, in a very public beach.
- 15:49Speaker 1: I'm so confused, unless, like Olivia and him broke up
- 15:52Speaker 1: this week and then he's getting a really quick rebound.
- 15:55Speaker 1: I'm not sure what's up. I don't get that. Yeah,
- 15:57Speaker 1: I just feel like you gotta be careful or just
- 16:00Speaker 1: hold tight for a little bit. Yeah, or just don't
- 16:01Speaker 1: be a jerk and cheat on your significant other. Yeah,
- 16:05Speaker 1: you know, but we don't know where they're at yet.
- 16:07Speaker 1: I'm with you. This is weird. Actually, Danny, do you boy,
- 16:10Speaker 1: because we gotta get Ben. Yeah, right horizontal. I mean,
- 16:16Speaker 1: thank you, Danny. I mean like I really have it
- 16:19Speaker 1: in here, like we d m sometimes. Well, we try
- 16:22Speaker 1: to play this game a year ago, nothing ever happened. Well,
- 16:24Speaker 1: that's because you're scared or something you really don't want
- 16:27Speaker 1: it to happen or something. I'm good. I'm good. Um, Wells,
- 16:32Speaker 1: you're the man. I'm gonna be listening to your voice
- 16:34Speaker 1: for as long as I possibly can while I'm on
- 16:36Speaker 1: this earth. So thank you. I'm pumped for iHeart Radio.
- 16:40Speaker 1: It's a project with Wells, Adam and some mystery guests
- 16:43Speaker 1: that we still don't know a lot about. Yeah, we'll see. Well,
- 16:46Speaker 1: you'll know soon enough. It's not gonna be Bobby Bones
- 16:48Speaker 1: because keeps beating board shows that. Wells guys a sweet man,
- 16:55Speaker 1: very very special to my heart. Um, speaking of things
- 16:58Speaker 1: special to my heart, stally. Yeah, what have you been
- 17:02Speaker 1: eating lately? A lot of Blue Apron? Yes, you have,
- 17:05Speaker 1: I know that you have to. You're really into that
- 17:08Speaker 1: hot Italian sausage pizza, aren't you? Big fan of hot
- 17:12Speaker 1: Italian sausages. Blue Apron delivers far and fresh ingredients and
- 17:15Speaker 1: step by step recipes to your door. So what do
- 17:19Speaker 1: you do is you choose chef designed recipes and they
- 17:22Speaker 1: deliver fresh, seasonally inspired ingredients right to your door. And
- 17:24Speaker 1: all it takes is twenty minutes to repair each meal.
- 17:26Speaker 1: As you said, actually, I'm a big fan of a
- 17:29Speaker 1: lot of the things. One of the things I'm a
- 17:31Speaker 1: fan of is every week, at least through recipes built
- 17:33Speaker 1: with your busy schedule in mind, where Blue Apron has
- 17:35Speaker 1: done the meal prep for you with prepared sauces, spices,
- 17:39Speaker 1: and ingredients. So I show up, there's a box in
- 17:41Speaker 1: my door, all the stuffs inside, I pull it out,
- 17:43Speaker 1: I put in my fridge and then when I'm ready, actually,
- 17:45Speaker 1: from start to finishment, the time I pull stuff out
- 17:47Speaker 1: of my fridge, I want to hear your time seventeen minutes,
- 17:50Speaker 1: forty five seconds seventy WHOA, mine's about twenty four minutes? Um,
- 17:56Speaker 1: you get distracted because here it's there. That's probably really true.
- 18:02Speaker 1: I have trying I'm trying to eat a little bit
- 18:04Speaker 1: healthier than pizza. So I've been eating the hardy vegetable
- 18:08Speaker 1: grain ball. It's perfect for fall because it's in season.
- 18:11Speaker 1: You know, everything with the blue apron is in season. Yeah,
- 18:15Speaker 1: that's that's that's unique. It means it's uh fresh, it's
- 18:18Speaker 1: all healthy. I've actually mentioned before I was talking to
- 18:22Speaker 1: her about it before the podcast. I've been dying over
- 18:24Speaker 1: the hot Italian sausage pizza. I put it in the
- 18:26Speaker 1: oven for a little extra time because I love my
- 18:29Speaker 1: pizza just a little crispy. But if I'm feeling a
- 18:33Speaker 1: little more healthy, I'm beating all the healthy vegetable grains
- 18:35Speaker 1: like Ashley um. But for the most part, I'm just
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- 20:35Speaker 1: slized podcast. UM one Holiday season or one Holidays Done? Uh?
- 20:41Speaker 1: Finished up Halloween, Ashley Scale one to tend. How exciting
- 20:45Speaker 1: was your Halloween? It was a really great I mean,
- 20:49Speaker 1: Halloween's get really tame as you get older. But the
- 20:52Speaker 1: only part I've ever really cared about is dressing up.
- 20:55Speaker 1: I feel like there could be I'd be happy if
- 20:58Speaker 1: there was one day each month where you dressed up
- 21:01Speaker 1: as somebody else. I'm not a big dress up guy. Yeah,
- 21:04Speaker 1: I know. We established this last week I don't get it,
- 21:07Speaker 1: I know, but here's one should come on the I
- 21:08Speaker 1: don't get a podcast and we could talk about how
- 21:10Speaker 1: I literally don't get how you don't have a passion
- 21:12Speaker 1: for dressing up. I would love to talk about it,
- 21:14Speaker 1: because I don't get it either. I've never had I
- 21:17Speaker 1: think I'm secretly really evil. You know what's funny? Sometimes
- 21:25Speaker 1: I think that you could be like that sometimes when
- 21:31Speaker 1: you've had too much whiskey. And only when you've had
- 21:34Speaker 1: too much whiskey. Do I think this man could be
- 21:37Speaker 1: a secret feeling? What do I do? You have a
- 21:40Speaker 1: little like you have trouble in your eyes, like you
- 21:43Speaker 1: want to start something. Well, that's kind of where I
- 21:46Speaker 1: was going with this. You were, Yeah, I feel like
- 21:49Speaker 1: Ben is actually mad at me. You guys, I'm not
- 21:52Speaker 1: really mad at all, really, just one of those other things.
- 21:55Speaker 1: Just somebody else thinks I'm unlovable. Oh, stop that I'm
- 22:03Speaker 1: talking about what you have whiskey in you. Well, here's
- 22:06Speaker 1: the thing getting on Halloween. I have this weird urge
- 22:09Speaker 1: and I always have that. All these people out and
- 22:12Speaker 1: it's like supposed to be spooky and scary, right, I
- 22:15Speaker 1: don't know what it is about me? But I do
- 22:16Speaker 1: want to hide in the bushes and scared, Like that's
- 22:20Speaker 1: the only thing I want to do on Halloween, and
- 22:21Speaker 1: I feel like it's the only time that actually can
- 22:23Speaker 1: sym I be acceptable. I don't want to ruin their lives.
- 22:26Speaker 1: I don't want to do anything too drastic, but I
- 22:28Speaker 1: just get this urge to like hide behind something and
- 22:31Speaker 1: jump out and go boom. You should live in my
- 22:35Speaker 1: apartment then, because Lauren and Jared are always trying to
- 22:37Speaker 1: scare each other. So when one person was out and
- 22:42Speaker 1: then like the key starts turning in the door, one
- 22:45Speaker 1: of them will hide and then bust out of a
- 22:47Speaker 1: door minutes later, you know, like not just like right away,
- 22:51Speaker 1: but like ten minutes later, after casual chit chat. Then
- 22:55Speaker 1: they'll burst out of a closet get each other. Yeah,
- 22:58Speaker 1: that's been a couple of good times. Fun. There is
- 23:00Speaker 1: one really good time where Jared was hiding in Lawrence
- 23:04Speaker 1: closet and the reaction he was filming at the entire
- 23:08Speaker 1: time unbelievable. And but what's the best part was almost
- 23:12Speaker 1: her face when she realized it was Jared, just because
- 23:15Speaker 1: she was what like felt safe, just like embarrassed almost
- 23:20Speaker 1: because she flipped out and then like the realization that
- 23:24Speaker 1: it was him. She was just like, oh, oh my goodness,
- 23:26Speaker 1: how did he do that to me? Are you jump not?
- 23:29Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, but I'm not scared easily. Like
- 23:33Speaker 1: we kind of touched on last week. I there's no
- 23:36Speaker 1: movie that I can think of that really whacked me
- 23:38Speaker 1: out as an adult. The Ring, The Exorcist, and The
- 23:44Speaker 1: Sixth Cents where it really got me as kids as
- 23:46Speaker 1: a kid. Yeah, what about you? What got you as
- 23:49Speaker 1: a kid? Only the bathroom seed with all the blood,
- 23:53Speaker 1: Just the clown. I don't like clowns, well, do I
- 23:55Speaker 1: remember you? Clowns. That's what we talked about last year.
- 23:58Speaker 1: It's just an issue. I don't understand clowns. There's nothing
- 24:01Speaker 1: about a clown that makes any sense. I would love
- 24:03Speaker 1: for somebody out there explained the intrigue of clowns, Like
- 24:06Speaker 1: why would you hire a clown to come to your
- 24:07Speaker 1: birthday party? Why would you pay a grown adult to
- 24:10Speaker 1: dress up in something that is pretty creepy? I think,
- 24:14Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not even gonna apologize for any
- 24:15Speaker 1: clowns out there. No, I don't think that. I think
- 24:18Speaker 1: it's very outdated thing. I don't think people have clowns
- 24:21Speaker 1: come to birthday parties anymore? I think it really stopped
- 24:23Speaker 1: with our generation. I think clowns coming to birthday parties
- 24:27Speaker 1: was lastly a nineties thing, don't you agree? Have you
- 24:30Speaker 1: seen a clown at a birthday party? At least? No? No,
- 24:33Speaker 1: I would never go to a birthday party with the clown.
- 24:35Speaker 1: I would not go. I promise you we did this
- 24:37Speaker 1: on them Happily ever After? Yeah, I know you, like,
- 24:40Speaker 1: didn't you have a clown experience on Happily ever After? Um,
- 24:42Speaker 1: I have had a couple of Yeah, the show seems
- 24:44Speaker 1: to like to bring out, you know, things that scary
- 24:47Speaker 1: the most. So Happily ever After definitely had clowns. Um
- 24:50Speaker 1: and then one of the girls during Leah on the
- 24:52Speaker 1: season the Bachelor dressed up as a clown. I couldn't
- 24:55Speaker 1: look at the same ever she went home that week. Um,
- 24:57Speaker 1: I just had to get rid of it. There. There's
- 25:00Speaker 1: a thing that happened with me as a young child.
- 25:02Speaker 1: I remember this day. I think I've shared on the
- 25:04Speaker 1: podcast before, and if not, we'll share it again. It's
- 25:05Speaker 1: been a while. Um, I was at the circus with
- 25:09Speaker 1: my grandmother and should we sat front row? Really nice
- 25:13Speaker 1: of her to buy me tickets to the front row
- 25:15Speaker 1: of the circus, and a clown and a gorilla, like
- 25:20Speaker 1: a man dressed up like a gorilla, came over and
- 25:23Speaker 1: took my grandma like into the circus like arena, you
- 25:26Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about, and left me there. So
- 25:28Speaker 1: I'm just little kids sitting all alone, and I see
- 25:30Speaker 1: her being stolen. At the time, I don't know it's
- 25:32Speaker 1: a fake gorilla, and the clown, to me is something
- 25:35Speaker 1: I've already been scared. So you want to picture your
- 25:38Speaker 1: absolute worst nightmare. You have your grandmother that you love
- 25:41Speaker 1: dearly get taken into the arena by two of your
- 25:44Speaker 1: least favorite things. Oh my goodness, and you have to
- 25:47Speaker 1: watch from the sidelines. It's not okay, it's it's scarred
- 25:50Speaker 1: me for life. That's so so scary. On a clown note,
- 25:57Speaker 1: my grandma clowns and Grandmother's my grandmother actually loves clowns.
- 26:02Speaker 1: She has porcelain clowns in her house still. They always
- 26:06Speaker 1: used to freak me out as a as a kid.
- 26:08Speaker 1: But there's one thing. It's in the guest room upstairs,
- 26:12Speaker 1: and it's a clown portrait. And whenever I'm sleeping in
- 26:15Speaker 1: that room. I have to take it down and turn
- 26:16Speaker 1: it around. It's so creepy it stares you overnight. And
- 26:19Speaker 1: it's not a joyful looking clown. It is a clown
- 26:22Speaker 1: that it's an eight clown, to be honest, Do you
- 26:24Speaker 1: ever wonder anybody out there listening? Please email us at
- 26:28Speaker 1: Ben and Ashley I heard me dot com? Do you
- 26:30Speaker 1: ever wonder what's going on? And these are loved ones
- 26:32Speaker 1: of ours? Like these are people I love dearly. What
- 26:35Speaker 1: is going through their minds? Why would they have pictures
- 26:38Speaker 1: of semi creepy looking people staring at them with makeup on?
- 26:42Speaker 1: I don't understands. Really weird? Okay, we speaking of Halloween
- 26:46Speaker 1: and just recapping Halloween. I I don't know why we
- 26:48Speaker 1: didn't talk about this last week. What was your favorite
- 26:51Speaker 1: Halloween costume? And did your parents ever dress up? My
- 26:54Speaker 1: parents never dressed up. My favorite two favorite Elvis that
- 26:59Speaker 1: was a vampire said that yeah, And I was a
- 27:01Speaker 1: good vampire because I was like the palest little kid.
- 27:04Speaker 1: I mean, I just had no color to dark hair
- 27:06Speaker 1: and dark hair, and so you slap up cape on
- 27:09Speaker 1: me and some fans and I'm ready to go have
- 27:12Speaker 1: I talked about my strong desire to make Jared Tom
- 27:16Speaker 1: Cruise in interview with a vampire. Have I talked about
- 27:19Speaker 1: this before? All I want to do is give him
- 27:22Speaker 1: red contacts powder his face, make him sparkle, and he
- 27:27Speaker 1: looked just like Tom Cruise and interview with the vampire
- 27:29Speaker 1: with one of those really cool like seventeen hundreds jackets.
- 27:33Speaker 1: You're not wrong, I know, yeah, you're not wrong. I'm
- 27:37Speaker 1: nervous for you. Why because I want to dress Jared
- 27:39Speaker 1: up all the time. But oh no, no, I didn't
- 27:43Speaker 1: know about that. We'll talk about that. What was thinking
- 27:45Speaker 1: about that next week? I famous podcast. Um, I'm nervous
- 27:50Speaker 1: you because Jared just seems to get increasingly better looking
- 27:52Speaker 1: year by your Isn't it so rude? It's so scared
- 27:55Speaker 1: for myself as well. I don't know what's going to
- 27:57Speaker 1: happen to you. See. People used to be like, oh, no,
- 27:59Speaker 1: you're the better look one, like you know, back when
- 28:01Speaker 1: I just had like a crush on him, when I
- 28:03Speaker 1: was in love with him, and he didn't reciprocate. But
- 28:06Speaker 1: now that we're together, people will tell me that anymore
- 28:10Speaker 1: because it's not true anymore, because he's absolutely the better
- 28:13Speaker 1: looking one. And I call this Jackie syndrome because one
- 28:17Speaker 1: time there was a guy who had a crush on
- 28:19Speaker 1: his girlfriend's day was Jackie and she was not cute
- 28:23Speaker 1: and he was stunning, and so now I think I
- 28:26Speaker 1: have Jackie syndrome. No, you're beautiful. Well thanks, but you
- 28:30Speaker 1: know he's a model. Now he is. You go back
- 28:33Speaker 1: and look at him in two thousand and fifteen. Two
- 28:36Speaker 1: Now it's almost not no, not happy. He says. It's
- 28:40Speaker 1: love though. Isn't that cute? He's always like, I'm just happy.
- 28:43Speaker 1: This is just happy. Sounds gross. So you guys are together,
- 28:48Speaker 1: this is your holidays together. Yeah, this is a big deal,
- 28:53Speaker 1: your first engaged Thanksgiving coming up, you know, Halloween. It's fun.
- 28:58Speaker 1: It's all fun and games than giving. What do you do, Like,
- 29:01Speaker 1: how are you managing this? Well, um, we've decided that
- 29:05Speaker 1: he's gonna come to my house for Thanksgiving and I'm
- 29:08Speaker 1: going to go to his house for Christmas. It was
- 29:10Speaker 1: not easy, Jared. He's a holiday man, like, he loves
- 29:14Speaker 1: the Northeast during the holiday season and is his favorite
- 29:19Speaker 1: stretch of time from that Thanksgiving through New Year's period,
- 29:23Speaker 1: And it wasn't easy for him to, you know, surrender
- 29:25Speaker 1: to having Thanksgiving at our house, but I thought that
- 29:28Speaker 1: Christmas means more to him. So there you go, speaking
- 29:30Speaker 1: of big deals. Graham Bunn is coming into studio. He's
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- 29:35Speaker 1: a squat. When did your show premiere? No? Um, but
- 29:42Speaker 1: before before we start with Graham, Graham, make yourself comfortable, Um,
- 29:46Speaker 1: Ashley compromises big in the holidays. Oh, I want to Yeah,
- 29:49Speaker 1: I want to talk to you. Would you do agree
- 29:51Speaker 1: that you are with Lauren? Uh? Yeah, so we're too.
- 29:54Speaker 1: We just spent two holidays together. Um. My first year,
- 29:58Speaker 1: my family flew to Portland's so my parents were the
- 30:02Speaker 1: Portland and we celebrated in Portland. I think we might
- 30:05Speaker 1: do that for Christmas. I think my parents may come
- 30:07Speaker 1: to the Providence area and then for the next year.
- 30:10Speaker 1: I went with Lauren's family to um A Palm Springs there,
- 30:17Speaker 1: but she didn't get to spend a holiday with my family,
- 30:21Speaker 1: and so, um, I'm I guess my families are still
- 30:24Speaker 1: holiday virgins when it comes to having Maybe is it
- 30:27Speaker 1: because you're an only child and your parents can travel? Yeah,
- 30:31Speaker 1: I think it was easy. I think I think they volunteered,
- 30:33Speaker 1: so it wasn't a big deal. But I do think
- 30:35Speaker 1: compromise is big in the holidays. I can see where
- 30:37Speaker 1: it become a big issue. Um, and it's actually kind
- 30:40Speaker 1: of nice to spend the holidays together, like both families. Yeah,
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- 34:22Speaker 1: got Graham Bun in studio. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Hey,
- 34:26Speaker 1: do you know how to talk in a mic? I
- 34:29Speaker 1: wouldn't say that I know how to. I have done
- 34:31Speaker 1: it before, but I don't know if I'm any good
- 34:32Speaker 1: at same here. So for for those of you who
- 34:36Speaker 1: do not know Graham, Graham, you were, which would be
- 34:40Speaker 1: of the people listening the Bachelorette in what year? I
- 34:45Speaker 1: believe it was two thousand nine? It was Diana Peppers,
- 34:50Speaker 1: but then she I that was before my time. Yeah,
- 34:55Speaker 1: she went with a guy named Jesse Sin Sak. I
- 34:58Speaker 1: believe they're together still. No, I think that last and
- 35:01Speaker 1: maybe six days. You know what I noticed about bachelor relationships,
- 35:05Speaker 1: they're either really quick to end or they last the
- 35:08Speaker 1: long hault Ben you may have been the only exception
- 35:10Speaker 1: I can think of where it lasted a year and
- 35:12Speaker 1: a half the middle of the road. Would you would
- 35:14Speaker 1: you say a year and a half the middle of
- 35:15Speaker 1: the road. I would say that's the middle of the road.
- 35:17Speaker 1: I would agree. I would agree at that point, like
- 35:20Speaker 1: the like honeymoon phase has gone away, the nostalgia has
- 35:24Speaker 1: kind of gone away, and you have to actually start
- 35:26Speaker 1: having like a real like you worked at it, Yeah,
- 35:28Speaker 1: you worked at it. So eighteen months in um then
- 35:32Speaker 1: after the Bachelorette you transitioned, uh into radio? Or were
- 35:36Speaker 1: you already in radio? No? No, I've never done radio before.
- 35:39Speaker 1: And it was years and years later that I kind
- 35:41Speaker 1: of actually fell into radio, which was an amazing opportunity,
- 35:44Speaker 1: very cool. So um act of God. For sure, never
- 35:47Speaker 1: been behind a mic, and uh, I didn't think it
- 35:50Speaker 1: was gonna work out well, but yeah I did it
- 35:51Speaker 1: for like four and a half years out here in California.
- 35:53Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, it's very cool. What was the show
- 35:55Speaker 1: set up on? It was just country music. It was
- 35:57Speaker 1: a morning show, so it was like morning drive, you
- 35:59Speaker 1: get up, drive to work. I was a guy introducing songs,
- 36:02Speaker 1: interviewing artists, kind of talking about country music. Where it's going,
- 36:05Speaker 1: stuff like that. What do you do now? I am
- 36:07Speaker 1: hosting a television show which will premiere on USA Network.
- 36:10Speaker 1: No's under the premise. It's different than American Idol, but
- 36:15Speaker 1: I think people would kind of acknowledge that that's the
- 36:17Speaker 1: most widely known singing competition, so kind of like American Idol.
- 36:21Speaker 1: Each episode in itself, though, it is kind of a showcase.
- 36:23Speaker 1: So there will be a winner every week, So if
- 36:25Speaker 1: you miss week one or week two, it doesn't really matter.
- 36:28Speaker 1: You can watch week through. Every show is a one off,
- 36:30Speaker 1: and then there'll be a grand finale with all the winners.
- 36:32Speaker 1: Is there a certain genre of music It's all country.
- 36:35Speaker 1: It's called real country. Yep, it's gonna be good. A
- 36:38Speaker 1: big country fan. If so? I mean, now you're hosting,
- 36:42Speaker 1: and so I want to talk. I want to dig
- 36:44Speaker 1: into the show. Here, dig into it. Lets you told
- 36:46Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong? You know that Grant you have
- 36:49Speaker 1: done a lot kind of with Do you feel like
- 36:52Speaker 1: the connections and networking that was made coming off the
- 36:55Speaker 1: Batchelorrette or is this all kind of in the works
- 36:58Speaker 1: totally separate from the batchel at I mean, for you
- 37:00Speaker 1: did not be hosting a show on the USA network.
- 37:03Speaker 1: Uh is a big deal? Well? Thank you? Yeah, I
- 37:05Speaker 1: mean it's anytime you get to do anything cool and exciting,
- 37:08Speaker 1: just like what you guys are doing, it's a big
- 37:10Speaker 1: deal and it's uh yeah, it was very flattering and humbling.
- 37:12Speaker 1: And I think you can never discount the influence that
- 37:15Speaker 1: Bachelor and Bachelor Nation and everyone that loves that show has.
- 37:18Speaker 1: But I fully feel like my the work that I've
- 37:21Speaker 1: done in country radio was was a big influence on
- 37:24Speaker 1: getting this job. Yeah. The relationships that you build and
- 37:27Speaker 1: the way that you treat people and stuff like that.
- 37:29Speaker 1: You know, speaking of relationships, have you found one since
- 37:32Speaker 1: the Bachelor att Yeah, I was in two long term relationships,
- 37:35Speaker 1: one for five years and one for six years. So uh,
- 37:38Speaker 1: definitely did the long term thing. And and l A
- 37:41Speaker 1: is kind of a hard place to date, but so fortunate.
- 37:44Speaker 1: And you know, I'm actually still really close friends with Diana,
- 37:47Speaker 1: So I cannot speak enough about what a wonderful opportunity
- 37:51Speaker 1: it was to be on The Bachelor, and and you know,
- 37:52Speaker 1: I had a great time just She and I weren't
- 37:54Speaker 1: meant for forever, but we're definitely forever friends for sure.
- 37:58Speaker 1: I went to her wedding, which was which was cool. Unfortunately,
- 38:01Speaker 1: no one told her dad, because I ended up in
- 38:02Speaker 1: the toast somehow as like a joke, and that was
- 38:04Speaker 1: kind of weird. It was like, don't let me get
- 38:07Speaker 1: don't get me started on the Grand Years or something.
- 38:09Speaker 1: Everybody at my table was like, uh, so, did where
- 38:12Speaker 1: did you end up on that season? I left? So
- 38:15Speaker 1: I actually asked to leave the show. Um, I left
- 38:17Speaker 1: after Hometowns because I she had met my family, nothing
- 38:20Speaker 1: changed in my heart, and I didn't want to deprive
- 38:23Speaker 1: her of finding something because she you know, she had
- 38:26Speaker 1: already been through the ringer with Brad Womack and being
- 38:29Speaker 1: left as the final girl and oh that's okay, So
- 38:31Speaker 1: that's how I know her. You have the final girl
- 38:34Speaker 1: on the first season. Yeah, and then uh so yeah,
- 38:38Speaker 1: so it got down to the hometowns and she met
- 38:40Speaker 1: my family. My family loved her. It's just it didn't
- 38:42Speaker 1: change for me. So I went to her and everyone
- 38:44Speaker 1: that worked there and said, hey, look, this is gonna
- 38:46Speaker 1: be my last episode, and uh, whatever she wants to do,
- 38:49Speaker 1: it's cool with me. She's the best and I'll always
- 38:51Speaker 1: love her, but I don't think that I'm gonna propose.
- 38:54Speaker 1: So I left the show. Uh the next day, Okay,
- 38:59Speaker 1: So moving now back into the show. This is the
- 39:01Speaker 1: big piece of your life. Radio Left Radio took the
- 39:05Speaker 1: jump into TV and UH could not say enough about
- 39:08Speaker 1: USA and Wilson Studios everyone that was behind the scenes.
- 39:11Speaker 1: The talent on the show was insane. One of the
- 39:15Speaker 1: things that's different about this show is they booked people
- 39:18Speaker 1: that it either done a hundred and fifty two shows
- 39:21Speaker 1: on their own touring doing professional gigs. So these are
- 39:25Speaker 1: all professional singers that don't currently have a record deal,
- 39:28Speaker 1: but are right there. You know, there's only so many
- 39:30Speaker 1: spots that these record labels can take on, and there's
- 39:34Speaker 1: so much talent out there, so it's just another platform
- 39:36Speaker 1: for very talented artists to get their names and their
- 39:38Speaker 1: music out there. I was gonna say, um, why watch
- 39:41Speaker 1: your show instead of The Voice or American Idol? Well,
- 39:43Speaker 1: our show if the Voice in American I will do
- 39:46Speaker 1: a wonderful job of encompassing all genres of music. So
- 39:49Speaker 1: if you're a country fan and you're watching The Voice,
- 39:51Speaker 1: you kind of have to wait four or five songs
- 39:54Speaker 1: or four or five artists to get to something that
- 39:56Speaker 1: you really identify with. For a real country if you're
- 39:59Speaker 1: a country music fan, every song that gets saying it's
- 40:02Speaker 1: going to be by one of your favorite artists, and
- 40:03Speaker 1: you're gonna get to see someone insanely talented put their
- 40:06Speaker 1: own spin on it. So it's kind of best of
- 40:08Speaker 1: both worlds. You get to see new talent with familiar
- 40:10Speaker 1: music that you already love. So it's it was a
- 40:12Speaker 1: really cool thing to see. And we had like a
- 40:14Speaker 1: live audience there when we filmed it. It was a blast.
- 40:17Speaker 1: We held it in a bar, people were drinking. Yeah, yeah,
- 40:20Speaker 1: it was a blast. Like the scene was super dope.
- 40:22Speaker 1: It was cool. Are their celebrity judges Yeah, so Shania Twain, Yeah,
- 40:28Speaker 1: so Shania Twain, Travis Tritt, and Jake Going Yeah, those
- 40:31Speaker 1: are huge. Yeah there, and they were great. I mean
- 40:35Speaker 1: they were really invested. And the cool thing about this
- 40:37Speaker 1: show is they went out and they brought the people
- 40:39Speaker 1: they wanted. So they went out and found artists that
- 40:42Speaker 1: they thought were super cool and they're kind of competing.
- 40:45Speaker 1: There's there is an element of the voice there that
- 40:47Speaker 1: each one of them has. They don't have a team,
- 40:50Speaker 1: but they're the ones that hand picked the artists that came,
- 40:53Speaker 1: and so you'll you'll see who Travis invited, who Travis
- 40:56Speaker 1: believes in and the kind of music that Travis kind
- 40:58Speaker 1: of associates with and what influence to him. And it's
- 41:01Speaker 1: completely different from Shania, and it's cool to see how
- 41:04Speaker 1: they kind of navigate that give us all the dirt,
- 41:06Speaker 1: like how Shania is a human being. I was very
- 41:10Speaker 1: fortunate for some reason Shania, Like, yeah, she was, She
- 41:14Speaker 1: was very cool. I got to do a lot of
- 41:16Speaker 1: cool things on the show with Shania, just kind of
- 41:18Speaker 1: teaming up, and uh, Jake and Travis were great. Travis
- 41:22Speaker 1: is one of my favorite people on the planet. Jake's
- 41:24Speaker 1: just a really cool dude. Like what you see with
- 41:26Speaker 1: Jake oen is what you get. He's a cool guy.
- 41:29Speaker 1: He loves country music. He's an encyclopedia of knowledge, as
- 41:32Speaker 1: is Travis and Shania. And it was just cool to
- 41:35Speaker 1: be a fly on the wall just hanging out with
- 41:36Speaker 1: those guys doing dinners and and kicking it being in
- 41:39Speaker 1: Nashville hearing stories. I mean, one night Travis was in
- 41:42Speaker 1: my my dressing room for like two hours telling stories
- 41:44Speaker 1: about hanging out with Whalen Jennings and I was I mean,
- 41:47Speaker 1: I was just blown away by some of the things.
- 41:49Speaker 1: You know, because Whalon has gone now and that's not
- 41:51Speaker 1: anyone that I can go see. So the only thing
- 41:53Speaker 1: that I could ever learn about Whalen if you love
- 41:55Speaker 1: country music is through Travis's stories, And it was just,
- 41:58Speaker 1: I mean, it was like surreal. I was it there,
- 42:00Speaker 1: Like Travis is a legend in his own right and
- 42:02Speaker 1: talking about hanging out with Whalen and Jennings don't get
- 42:05Speaker 1: much better than that. Actually, you a fan of country,
- 42:07Speaker 1: I am. I'm like, I don't go deep cuts, but
- 42:10Speaker 1: like nineties and two thousands, country is one of my
- 42:12Speaker 1: favorite genres. Really, I'm a huge country fan. Yeah, Whale
- 42:16Speaker 1: is the man. I think I'm wearing my whaling ring,
- 42:18Speaker 1: which is good luck. But do you guys ever go
- 42:20Speaker 1: to country shows? Like if people aren't fans of country music,
- 42:23Speaker 1: I encourage them to go to country shows because it's
- 42:25Speaker 1: one of the best times you'll ever have. That's something
- 42:27Speaker 1: that Jared says. He's he's not one to listen to
- 42:29Speaker 1: country on the radio, but whenever he goes to a
- 42:32Speaker 1: country show, he's like, I could really get into this, Okay, Yeah,
- 42:35Speaker 1: it's a good time. It's just like a relaxed atmosphere.
- 42:37Speaker 1: So I was saying, I've been to a couple of
- 42:39Speaker 1: music festivals. The country's festivals always the best because I
- 42:42Speaker 1: feel like the artists are always so welcoming and they
- 42:44Speaker 1: just want to have They want to have a drink,
- 42:46Speaker 1: they want to have a talk, they want to hang out,
- 42:47Speaker 1: and they want to play good music. Yeah, I think
- 42:49Speaker 1: country artists in and I'm biased, are and I'll say
- 42:52Speaker 1: some because I never want to offend anybody. The most
- 42:54Speaker 1: relatable artist on the planet some of Now, there's definitely
- 42:58Speaker 1: artists in pop and rap, hip hop, R and B,
- 43:00Speaker 1: whatever you wanna call it, that are definitely very relatable.
- 43:02Speaker 1: But I think across the board, country does an amazing
- 43:05Speaker 1: job of just being very relatable. I think that country
- 43:07Speaker 1: music is just the pop music today because if you
- 43:09Speaker 1: listen to pop radio, it's very like R and B based,
- 43:13Speaker 1: and it's all electronic. It's like sort of like a
- 43:15Speaker 1: mix of R and B and club music, and it's
- 43:18Speaker 1: definitely not my style. It just sounds very produced, you know,
- 43:22Speaker 1: it's very in studio sounds, not organic instrument sounds. So
- 43:27Speaker 1: when I want to hear a story and like a
- 43:29Speaker 1: meaning behind the lyrics, I have to listen to country.
- 43:32Speaker 1: There's sometimes where I just I'm like, oh my god,
- 43:34Speaker 1: I hate radio and then like you're like okay, yeah,
- 43:36Speaker 1: you can actually change it over to the country stations
- 43:39Speaker 1: now and like feel substance. Yeah, it's cool. You know.
- 43:41Speaker 1: I think country artists do a great job of staying
- 43:43Speaker 1: authentic to storytelling. I mean, I know the sounds evolving
- 43:47Speaker 1: in Nashville goes through phases with different sounds, but the
- 43:50Speaker 1: storytelling aspect and just kind of relating to people on
- 43:52Speaker 1: a human level that never goes away. And I think
- 43:55Speaker 1: they do an amazing job on Real Country and you'll
- 43:57Speaker 1: see it on USA UH premiering November three. They they
- 44:01Speaker 1: reinforced that theme throughout the entire show of why people
- 44:04Speaker 1: wrote a certain song, why people connect with this song,
- 44:07Speaker 1: why they chose to perform certain songs, and what it
- 44:09Speaker 1: means to them, how it's encouraged them in their life.
- 44:12Speaker 1: And it's just really cool to see one I'm not
- 44:14Speaker 1: blessed with that kind of talent, Like I could never
- 44:16Speaker 1: get up and sing a song and play an instrument
- 44:18Speaker 1: and kind of make someone feel what I'm feeling when
- 44:20Speaker 1: I wrote or performed it. But to see these people
- 44:23Speaker 1: get up there and do it in front of Shanaya,
- 44:24Speaker 1: in front of Travis, in front of Jake, you know,
- 44:26Speaker 1: legends and icons and people that are doing their thing. Uh. Currently,
- 44:30Speaker 1: it's really impressive to see me. I mean it was
- 44:32Speaker 1: so cool. You have all ages, all ages, Yeah, all
- 44:35Speaker 1: ages for sure. But there was the caveat that they
- 44:37Speaker 1: had to have played a certain number of shows on
- 44:40Speaker 1: their own touring, so they're like professional, professionally. Have any
- 44:44Speaker 1: bad audition American? I know, there's there's none of that.
- 44:47Speaker 1: Like from the very first performance you see to the
- 44:50Speaker 1: very last performance you see, you'll see a professional performance. Yeah,
- 44:53Speaker 1: you're right, You're you said that they had the artist
- 44:55Speaker 1: had to pick them m and so obviously they're semi professional.
- 44:58Speaker 1: H Have you seen The Stars Born? I have seen it.
- 45:01Speaker 1: I've seen it twice now. Yeah. Incredible And Bradley I
- 45:05Speaker 1: want to be Bradley Cooper. Okay, so I was actually
- 45:07Speaker 1: going to tell you you kind of have Jackson. Oh yeah,
- 45:11Speaker 1: that is one of the nicest things anyone's ever character.
- 45:14Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, he's the man in that movie. And uh,
- 45:17Speaker 1: they did an incredible job with the soundtrack. He's I
- 45:20Speaker 1: hope they win everything across the board. I mean the
- 45:23Speaker 1: soundtrack is incredible. I believe that one of the songs
- 45:26Speaker 1: Shallow might be charting on Billboard. Oh, I think it
- 45:28Speaker 1: probably is. Do you think that they're going to win
- 45:30Speaker 1: Best Song for Shallows or the one at the end
- 45:33Speaker 1: that guy got wrote. I'm not sure. But what there
- 45:37Speaker 1: are The cool thing about the movie, if you haven't
- 45:39Speaker 1: seen it been check it out, is that is an
- 45:40Speaker 1: actual conversation that people are having, like what song is better?
- 45:44Speaker 1: What song is gonna win award? Like it's so good
- 45:46Speaker 1: that that multiple could win. If he doesn't win Best Director, though,
- 45:50Speaker 1: I'll throw something at the TV screen. I'm not well
- 45:53Speaker 1: versed enough to know if anyone's won Best Director and
- 45:56Speaker 1: their direct Best Actor at the same time. Well, maybe
- 45:58Speaker 1: that has happened, but for your ectorial debut. So the
- 46:01Speaker 1: first time he's ever directed to win, which I think
- 46:04Speaker 1: he's the front runner, would be incredible. Well anyway, anyway, Ben,
- 46:08Speaker 1: you gotta see it. Sorry, this is two podcasts in
- 46:10Speaker 1: a row where I just have to continue to talk
- 46:12Speaker 1: about it. It's just like last year with The Greatest Showman.
- 46:14Speaker 1: So much passion, just so much love. I actually had
- 46:17Speaker 1: to look up to see if the Greatest Showman was
- 46:19Speaker 1: this year. It wasn't. Um, so, what do you mean
- 46:23Speaker 1: it came out in December of two. Yeah, I'm just
- 46:28Speaker 1: like I think for the last two weeks, I've just
- 46:30Speaker 1: been a little bit behind. I just noticed that I'm
- 46:32Speaker 1: losing touch with the world, slowly but surely, out of you.
- 46:37Speaker 1: Ben's been having some what did you call it, sort
- 46:40Speaker 1: of an emotion emotion last week? He's emotional and then
- 46:43Speaker 1: I mentioned it earlier today, but it's like let it out. Yeah, yeah,
- 46:46Speaker 1: let's let's get into this. What's going on? What's going
- 46:48Speaker 1: on in Ben's life that you're out of touch? And
- 46:51Speaker 1: I think it was we figured out after the podcast
- 46:53Speaker 1: last week. We did our volunteer retreat, an organization that
- 46:57Speaker 1: was part of People in two Houses called me mann
- 47:00Speaker 1: I Hope United. Actually the winner for our Many Hope
- 47:04Speaker 1: funder is your Standing's going to co host with with
- 47:10Speaker 1: you guys today. Nice? Yeah, Hi, Lindsey, Welcome to Los Angeles. Um.
- 47:17Speaker 1: But we did our volunteer retreat. So it's twenty five
- 47:20Speaker 1: people in two houses. Uh, And it was two and
- 47:24Speaker 1: a half full days. But and then I flew out
- 47:26Speaker 1: here right afterwards to do the show last week, and
- 47:29Speaker 1: I just think I was drained. Yes, you're on the move.
- 47:31Speaker 1: I was on the move. There's only so much. I
- 47:33Speaker 1: don't know if you feel his way, uh you know
- 47:35Speaker 1: within the church or within people that really cared. They
- 47:39Speaker 1: the caveat is they actually euthentically care. How many times
- 47:42Speaker 1: in your life can you really be asked? How are
- 47:44Speaker 1: you doing? No? No, no? How are you? Dude? Like
- 47:49Speaker 1: not like right now? Not good? I'm tired? You know?
- 47:53Speaker 1: How are you? Is one of my least favorite questions.
- 47:56Speaker 1: I hate the question how are I don't don't like
- 47:58Speaker 1: people go him great to ask you. How how do
- 48:04Speaker 1: you even answer that question? We talked about last week.
- 48:06Speaker 1: We couldn't come anywhere. How can you answer the how
- 48:08Speaker 1: are you? Questions? I answered it the same way every time,
- 48:10Speaker 1: crazy blest. Okay, yeah, crazy because I'm like the luckiest
- 48:14Speaker 1: person I know, so like no compliance. I am posessive.
- 48:18Speaker 1: I've never been a time, there's never really been a
- 48:20Speaker 1: time where I couldn't say crazy blest. Yeah, I'm crazy.
- 48:24Speaker 1: I mean honestly, I I you know, it did a
- 48:26Speaker 1: job that I was not groomed for. I didn't go
- 48:29Speaker 1: to school for radio, and it had no radio background.
- 48:32Speaker 1: I got a chance to do my own show on
- 48:34Speaker 1: you know a station out here in l A for
- 48:35Speaker 1: four years, never hosted a TV show, got a chance
- 48:38Speaker 1: to host on USA Network, Like I'm crazy, blesed, like
- 48:41Speaker 1: God has definitely put his favor on my life. So
- 48:43Speaker 1: like I feel I would feel selfish to answer it
- 48:46Speaker 1: any other way than be like, yeah, I'm crazy, blessed,
- 48:48Speaker 1: super lucky, super fortunate. That's a that's a great way
- 48:51Speaker 1: to answer it. I think there's that like level though,
- 48:53Speaker 1: when you're around people for two full days and they
- 48:55Speaker 1: really want to dig deep. They don't just want to
- 48:57Speaker 1: hear that but why oh yeah, But in the moment, yeah,
- 49:00Speaker 1: it just gets a little bit. So I was just tired,
- 49:03Speaker 1: but I feel good this week, and I'm also just realized, well,
- 49:05Speaker 1: you look amazing, man, you look like you fully recover.
- 49:09Speaker 1: We had a dinner together last night and somebody said
- 49:12Speaker 1: to me, you're like you're They're like, you look drained
- 49:15Speaker 1: and tired, but sexy, like a good time sex. Well,
- 49:20Speaker 1: the problem was it was I don't know what you
- 49:22Speaker 1: guys in l A do, but it was eight thirty
- 49:25Speaker 1: at night. We're starting dinner. That's not thirty dinner time.
- 49:27Speaker 1: I'm exhausted. By the time we're done, it's eleven o'clock midnight.
- 49:32Speaker 1: My time. I've been in bed for two hours a night.
- 49:34Speaker 1: Like you guys out here, you hid it well Man
- 49:36Speaker 1: too hard? Or was it me? Were you so excited?
- 49:39Speaker 1: I was excited to come in. I've been hearing great
- 49:43Speaker 1: things about you. We were super excited for men. You
- 49:46Speaker 1: are crazy, blessed. Thank you. This show is going to
- 49:49Speaker 1: be a really fun to watch. I'm gonna be excited
- 49:51Speaker 1: to watch. I s a network, Graham, Bun, Thanks Bud,
- 49:57Speaker 1: thanks Man, thanks for having you guys. Enjoy having to
- 49:59Speaker 1: find Jack. And there we go. Tell your friends actually
- 50:05Speaker 1: talking to guys like Graham. He's so awesome. I loved it.
- 50:08Speaker 1: I could tell like when he's sits down, Yeah, good vibes.
- 50:12Speaker 1: Those guys always make me a little today. Maybe I'm
- 50:15Speaker 1: just a little sensitive to it, but I feel like
- 50:17Speaker 1: guys like him I get a little jealous of because
- 50:20Speaker 1: like twenty minutes ago, you said that I have evil
- 50:22Speaker 1: in my eyes when I drink too much bourbon, and
- 50:24Speaker 1: so I just I'm not throwing good vibes off. And
- 50:26Speaker 1: so when he said that, I was like, this is
- 50:27Speaker 1: the type of guy that Ashley would never say that
- 50:29Speaker 1: about then ever ever say it about Well, No, I
- 50:35Speaker 1: mean I just spare him to Jackson, Maine our special
- 50:39Speaker 1: guests for the day. And I'm so sorry you said
- 50:43Speaker 1: it's yeah, but you're not supposed to respond with oh, yeah,
- 50:49Speaker 1: I agree. I know the one day I will just
- 50:53Speaker 1: bring this back up when you're like when I call
- 50:55Speaker 1: you on the phone, I'm like, Ashley, I'm struggling, I'm
- 50:57Speaker 1: feeling you know, a little bit, you know, down and out.
- 51:01Speaker 1: I need a little help. And you're like, no, Ben,
- 51:03Speaker 1: like you're loved, You're cared for. I like, you actually
- 51:08Speaker 1: remember that one time. Remember that one time, Hey, you
- 51:11Speaker 1: remember that one time that we had a really special
- 51:12Speaker 1: guest in studio. Yeah? Right now, Yes, we have the
- 51:18Speaker 1: fundraiser winner for Humane Hope United. Uh and I heart radio. Lindsay,
- 51:22Speaker 1: Welcome to studio. So Lindsay, Uh, just give a little background.
- 51:27Speaker 1: It's been a couple of weeks since we last talked
- 51:29Speaker 1: about it. Um. We threw a fundraiser for Humanity and
- 51:32Speaker 1: Hope United. UM. This fundraiser is gonna go to buy
- 51:37Speaker 1: a piece of land in Honduras that we currently lease
- 51:40Speaker 1: that supplies twenty plus people everyday jobs. And these jobs
- 51:44Speaker 1: then obviously then equate to access to education, healthcare, clean water, UM, infrastructure,
- 51:50Speaker 1: so on and so forth. It's a really big deal
- 51:53Speaker 1: that we buy this piece of land because the palm
- 51:54Speaker 1: companies are coming in to buy it. And so that's
- 51:56Speaker 1: the reason why it's pressing now that we raised two
- 51:57Speaker 1: or fifty dollars by March one of next year to
- 52:01Speaker 1: buy this piece of lane. And we're grinding. I mean
- 52:05Speaker 1: it's we're trying every are So this is the idea
- 52:07Speaker 1: behind it, and then we'll move on and lindsay, I
- 52:09Speaker 1: cannot wait to get to know you. This is awesome
- 52:10Speaker 1: that you're here. I know you have a crazy cool story. UM,
- 52:13Speaker 1: and just you're you're coming into studio at a really
- 52:15Speaker 1: awesome time UM for us because it's just uh, we're
- 52:18Speaker 1: excited to talk to you. But the UM, this is
- 52:21Speaker 1: the way that we're gonna raise We have asked each volunteer,
- 52:25Speaker 1: if HU many Hope United, to do their own individual
- 52:27Speaker 1: fundraiser because we can't raise this alone right as a
- 52:29Speaker 1: as a group of people. We need everybody to start.
- 52:32Speaker 1: So uh, that's why the retreat happened two weeks ago,
- 52:35Speaker 1: was we asked everybody come and say, hey, this is
- 52:37Speaker 1: the deal, this is the issue, this is what's facing us.
- 52:39Speaker 1: If you go back to your homes and your communities
- 52:42Speaker 1: and take ownership in this, uh, do your own fundraisers
- 52:45Speaker 1: that we think we could have over a hundred and
- 52:47Speaker 1: fifty fundraisers going on that could raise two dollars each
- 52:50Speaker 1: that happens, that's three dollars that buys us the piece
- 52:53Speaker 1: of land, and everybody has ownership in that. So this
- 52:55Speaker 1: is my fundraiser. This this this uh, this giveaway or
- 53:00Speaker 1: uh you know, bidding auction was my my way of
- 53:02Speaker 1: raising funds and Lindsay was the one that contributed to it. Lindsay,
- 53:05Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming out to l A again.
- 53:09Speaker 1: You gave a happy chunk. Yeah what was it? What
- 53:11Speaker 1: was the final bid with a fun today? So it's
- 53:17Speaker 1: actually gonna be like you donate the money but you
- 53:19Speaker 1: never really did, because it's gonna be worth it. I think,
- 53:23Speaker 1: I hope. I think I hope. So so are you
- 53:26Speaker 1: like the biggest Ben Higgins friend of all life? I'm
- 53:29Speaker 1: a pretty big fan. That's really sweet. Why I needed
- 53:33Speaker 1: to please tell me? Well, um, this is actually used
- 53:37Speaker 1: to be like you. I love Ashley, I hate my life.
- 53:43Speaker 1: I hate myself so much right now, I don't know
- 53:45Speaker 1: how to take this back because you know, I'm just thinking,
- 53:50Speaker 1: I'm like having this moment I backflashed or whatever. It's
- 53:53Speaker 1: called a flashback backflashback, flashback to this time. We were
- 53:57Speaker 1: sitting around a campfire and he was trying to put
- 53:59Speaker 1: to quila down my throat. Okay, and he knows that
- 54:02Speaker 1: I can't drink tequila. I just tried to explain the
- 54:06Speaker 1: one time I saw trouble in his eyes, and now
- 54:09Speaker 1: I feel so bad. It's okay, No, Benny, He's gonna
- 54:13Speaker 1: think about this for the rest of his life. It
- 54:16Speaker 1: definitely hit his soul. And he has the best soul
- 54:19Speaker 1: of all time. Right. He does anything for anyone. He's
- 54:22Speaker 1: the biggest mushball. He's so sensitive and basically his whole
- 54:25Speaker 1: existence is helping people. And here I am saying this
- 54:29Speaker 1: one time he had evil in his eye when he
- 54:31Speaker 1: tried to feed me tequila. No, I'm not mad at you.
- 54:35Speaker 1: It's just I respect you for speaking your truth in
- 54:37Speaker 1: your heart. Und I'm gonna go I'm glad that hurt myself. Um,
- 54:44Speaker 1: you're going, You're out here, um to have a really
- 54:47Speaker 1: awesome day. What we're gonna do is we're gonna co
- 54:48Speaker 1: host this podcast together. We're gonna dig into a couple
- 54:51Speaker 1: of topics. We're gonna dig into your life where you're at.
- 54:53Speaker 1: Then we're gonna go shopping. We're gonna go to Ashley
- 54:57Speaker 1: help me out. It's Lauren Conrad's story, Been Covert, which
- 55:02Speaker 1: has the most amazing leggings of all time. Yeah, you
- 55:05Speaker 1: know what you gotta do, uh, Lissie. They're filming the
- 55:07Speaker 1: housewives down the hall here. Um, all the housewives from
- 55:11Speaker 1: Beverly Hills are here. They're doing a workout class and
- 55:13Speaker 1: they're all in these This is the thing. I walked
- 55:15Speaker 1: in there. There's cameras facing me when I kept elevator
- 55:18Speaker 1: to day and I thought I was really cool for
- 55:19Speaker 1: a second. Then I realized that I'm not. And they're
- 55:21Speaker 1: here for the housewives and they all all the housewives
- 55:26Speaker 1: and then beck attillies in there with Tanya and they
- 55:29Speaker 1: all look like really good, like the workout closed these days.
- 55:33Speaker 1: Aren't just workout there like cool? Yeah, and that's what
- 55:36Speaker 1: Carbon three D has right our style. Yeah, they're fashion
- 55:39Speaker 1: forward stuff. I'm not sure you'll find out soon. I
- 55:42Speaker 1: was still can rocket pare leggings. I wouldn't get in
- 55:44Speaker 1: deep with her because this is sad, but I hear
- 55:48Speaker 1: that you're going through a divorce, So I'm so sorry
- 55:51Speaker 1: about that. But did you think that maybe bidding this
- 55:54Speaker 1: much on Ben and winning this contest would this would
- 55:56Speaker 1: become a date and then there could be some loves
- 55:59Speaker 1: that grew from this. Um, I don't know if I
- 56:02Speaker 1: thought about that far honest, Please now no. I mean
- 56:05Speaker 1: when you go through a divorce and you, um, you
- 56:07Speaker 1: really get to a place where you're ready to move on.
- 56:10Speaker 1: I think you just really want self love more than
- 56:12Speaker 1: like love with someone else, especially like having a four
- 56:15Speaker 1: year old. I think I really want to be a
- 56:16Speaker 1: good role model to her and give her a good life.
- 56:18Speaker 1: And so I think, um, it's really for me just
- 56:21Speaker 1: kind of pulling back from a lot of codependency and
- 56:24Speaker 1: focusing on me loving her, giving her a good life,
- 56:28Speaker 1: and knowing that Ben Higgins will be a great stepfather. Yeah,
- 56:32Speaker 1: have a great stepfather. I can read. Um, I'm really
- 56:36Speaker 1: good at reading the Uh. I get what you're saying. Uh.
- 56:39Speaker 1: You know, at this season of life, I don't know
- 56:41Speaker 1: how much you want to get into it and feel
- 56:43Speaker 1: free to not answer fully. Um, it is that season
- 56:46Speaker 1: where just maybe life has taken a turn that you
- 56:49Speaker 1: never expected or foresaw, and so now you sit here
- 56:52Speaker 1: needing to kind of invest into yourself again. UM, what
- 56:55Speaker 1: if some of your ways that you want to do that?
- 56:56Speaker 1: I mean, this is awesome. You come out to l A,
- 56:58Speaker 1: you get into some good weather, We're gonna shop and
- 57:01Speaker 1: go to dinner, all that stuff, going to host a podcast.
- 57:03Speaker 1: I mean if this isn't you know, cathartic, I don't
- 57:05Speaker 1: know what is? Um. But then one other ways do
- 57:08Speaker 1: you see yourself kind of rebuilding yourself again? I think
- 57:11Speaker 1: following your passions. I think a lot of my life was, UM,
- 57:14Speaker 1: my husband was in the military, and so a lot
- 57:16Speaker 1: of it was and I you know, I love our
- 57:18Speaker 1: military and I love what they do for us, UM,
- 57:20Speaker 1: but a lot of it was following him around and
- 57:22Speaker 1: doing the things I needed to do so that we
- 57:24Speaker 1: could raise a family together. And and he had those
- 57:26Speaker 1: opportunities that he needed to fulfill in his career. And
- 57:29Speaker 1: I think I kind of lost myself and the things
- 57:31Speaker 1: that I'm passionate about. So I think a lot of
- 57:33Speaker 1: it is kind of throwing myself back into things that
- 57:35Speaker 1: I find important and things that I so I can
- 57:37Speaker 1: find my own success and feel happiness and my success
- 57:40Speaker 1: and you know, show that to my daughter and be
- 57:42Speaker 1: able to be like, you know, like you can definitely
- 57:44Speaker 1: find your success at any time in your life, you know.
- 57:47Speaker 1: So I think that's a big part of it. Is
- 57:49Speaker 1: a first step is just kind of finding something you're
- 57:51Speaker 1: passionate about and enjoying that. Your daughter is four years old, Um,
- 57:57Speaker 1: she did not come out here with it. She's taking
- 57:59Speaker 1: a little little great grandma. That's nice. I have Ella's
- 58:03Speaker 1: for her. You're from Arizona. I am born and raised
- 58:09Speaker 1: in Arizona. I moved out here for an ocean side
- 58:11Speaker 1: actually for about five years. Really enjoyed that. Um lived
- 58:15Speaker 1: on base over there, and then I moved back to Arizona.
- 58:17Speaker 1: Why not he got out and now I'm planning on
- 58:20Speaker 1: moving back here. Actually, oh great, Lindsey, welcome back to California. First,
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- 1:00:46Speaker 1: let's talk about twenty three and me. I know, Ben,
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: you haven't gotten your results back and I keep talking
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: about how I am now only fourteen percent Italian. But
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: you may be wondering out there, actually, if you only
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: fourteen percent Italian, what is the rest of you? Okay, well,
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: here here's my breakdown. I am twenty seven point seven
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: percent French and German, and then it's like astrict Netherlands,
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: so that is my Dutch side. I knew that I
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: was from the Netherlands, but I didn't know it was
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: of French and German descent. Then it's ash Kenazi Jewish Oshkennazi,
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: thank you Mark Oshkennazi Jewish, which is twenty four point
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: three percent. That's my grandmother from Lithuania, so that was expected.
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: Then there's my fourteen percent Italian. Then here's something out
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: of the blue British and Irish nuts, Iberian one point three,
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: Balkan point nine, broadly Northwestern European twelve percent, broadly Southern
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: European five percent, and broadly European two percent, Western Asian
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: and North African one. So I am just a mutt
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- 1:02:51Speaker 1: want to do this now? Yeah? Definitely, Yeah, it sounds awesome,
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: sounds exciting. What do you think you're gonna be? Besides
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: what you know? What do you know? What do you know?
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: Right now? What are you? I am somehow from the
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: um Eastern Europeans. So I'm Yugoslavian which no longer exists
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: and so I don't really know. Okay, well that that
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- 1:03:34Speaker 1: do it right now. Finish this podcast and then you
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: can go over to another IR podcast. So we we
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: talked about a little bit last week, Lindsey, is um
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: this idea of that you know a lot of people
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: in the world right now are feeling lonely. It's a
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: common it's a common feeling, right the loneliest aspect. Has
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: Has that been you know kind of has that came
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: into your life here recently? Or are you still feeling
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: you know, pretty good? And is this part of this
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: self love stuff to bring to kind of show yourself
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: that you aren't alone anymore? Or is it more just
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: to kind of pick up the spirits. I think a
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: lot of Um, what I've noticed is there's, um, we
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: live in this world where everyone kind of relies on
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: likes and you know, kind of almost like this infamy
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: where they want people to know who they are based
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: off a brand that they've created and not really who
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: they are as a person. And so I think we
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: kind of like end up we're more lonely than ever
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: our society at this point in time. And I've noticed that,
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: and I think I'm trying to kind of learn how
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: to be happy alone so that I can engage in
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: others and enjoy others truly, so where I'm not using
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: them as an opportunity to feel some type of like
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: like selfishly, you know, like you hang out with people
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: sometimes selfishly because you're lonely. I want to hang out
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: with people because I truly enjoyed our company and it's
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: something that I want to pass my time life versus like,
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: oh I'm so lonely I want it was like hit
- 1:04:54Speaker 1: someone up into something with them. That's interesting because last
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: week Ben was talking about how he has this theory
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: that people watch The Bachelor because they're in this state
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: of vulnerability and they're able to connect with them on
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: a deeper level than up most other shows. So did
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: you feel like watching The Bachelor you feel connected to
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: people such as Ben. Yeah, I think it's an kind
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: of an escape. I think a lot of that, like that,
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: the beauty of the Bachelor and kind of this like
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: fantasy they create. I think a lot of people like
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: to escape in that and just kind of like, I mean,
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: people love romance. Who doesn't love romance? You know, that's
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: why Disney's made it so big? Um So, yeah, I
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: think The Bachelor that kind of what it was. That's
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: kind of what it was for me, is it was,
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: you know, a time in my life where I was,
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: you know, living on a base with you know, kind
- 1:05:45Speaker 1: of like settled in in a in a very like
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: complacent place in my life, and so The Bachelor was
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: kind of like a getaway. Like watching it was kind
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: of it was exciting to be able to pop it
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: on and see everyone doing these exciting things and being
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: swept away and having romantic more months. And I think that, Um,
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: I mean, most women enjoy that, and I'm sure there's
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: a lot of men that enjoy watching that, in especially
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: the recaps each week on the Almost Famous podcast. Um.
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: You know, you know something that's really that I'm listening
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: to Lindsay here, talk here, Lindsay. I'm gonna speak for
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: you for a second. Um, but it's something I admire
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: right now. Is everything she say makes complete sense. Right.
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: You know, we're going she's going through a tough time
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: in life. Um, it's weird you're sitting right here as
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, but that's how podcasts work. He is.
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: But she's going to do a tough time in life.
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: She has a child, she's hurting, you know, personally, and
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: she's rebuilding herself right now by doing these things that
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: are self um loving and we'll talk about all day today.
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: But she's doing it for her child, not for herself.
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: You hear that, Like, you know, I want to offer
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: this to my my my daughter, so that she sees success,
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: she sees confident, she seems a mother that's healthy and
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: and and fulfilled. That's cool, Like, that's that's awesome. That
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: that's shows a level of sacrifice and unselfishness that goes
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: far beyond um. Well, even a lot of people can intempt.
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: And so I think, I mean, I don't I don't
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: know you fully yet. We'll get to know each other
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: really well throughout the day, but it sounds like the
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: right path. Um, but you are a Bachelor fan, but
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: you have an internet you started watching The Bachelor. Y Um,
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: it's actually kind of funny, so, um, I think it
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: was right after Um, so one of my friends we
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: were kind of hanging out for the like the first
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: time both our significanthers were deployed, so we started kind
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: of like hanging out a little bit because we're waiting
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: for them to come back, and we we saw an
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: ad for you on The Bachelor. It was like you
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: holding the rose perfect And Um, I actually never got
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: into the batchelor. I swear I never. It was never
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: something I really was interested in. I didn't watch a
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: lot of reality TV, Like it's just something I never
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: got into. But then my friend and I looked at
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: we're watching the ad and like do you see this?
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: Like is this real? Do you think he's I don't
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: think that's saying. They're debating me, like is he that
- 1:08:03Speaker 1: kind of a communicator? Like what is this? And you
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: need to watch it to see if they right. We
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: watched the whole season together, but I had no idea,
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: like before that the season with Ben, I didn't watch
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: Caitlin season or any of that, I went back and
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: watched it later, like like actually a few months ago,
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: just randomly, ben No and I became like a fan
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: girl over you. No. Um, when you did the sex
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: talk episode of Caitlin's podcast podcast show, Yeah, that was good.
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: When I did this, I dressed her up like an
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: egg and I was a sperm and we met each
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: other in the ovaries. Yes, well that wasn't all that
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: wasn't all aired. But when you were like walking through
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: the class of students, like really interacting telling me in
- 1:08:50Speaker 1: the most gentle way. My mom and I were rewounded
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: and watched a couple of times, that really is Yeah,
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: it was fun, you know, I got that. But that
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: was I had one up because I worked at a
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: youth center, so I was used to teaching sex. Said
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: the like little like kids were that before, done that
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: scenary because they give me props and they gave me
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: a sperm in an egg and they're like, go make
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: this thing work, and so I feel like I had
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: a little practice before, and but I also enjoyed it. Um.
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: I was so nervous. That was my very first like
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: big date, and I killed it. I remember going on
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: a walk by myself and just continue to talk to
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: myself like you can do this, you can do this,
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: you can do this, You've done it before, you can
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: do this. I was so nervous. Um, but yeah, that
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: was That was a cool momentau It gave me a
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: little confidence. I actually walked out of the date with confidence,
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: and I hadn't walked out of that like most of
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: those dating scenarios with like a personal confidence before. And
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: it's a good feeling to like stick your chest up
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: a little bit walking and be like you did all right,
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: Oh you left as a front runner there with confidence
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: and front runner status. Yeah, well I was. I got
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: third Um. Yeah, that's funny that you say, like that
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: is he? Was he real? I wonder if the show
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: I haven't asked him this when they did the perfect
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: ben thing, if that's what they wanted the question to be, Um,
- 1:10:10Speaker 1: like is this real? Like is he? I thought? I
- 1:10:12Speaker 1: think there were setting me up for almost failure by
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: the perfect bend, Like how do you how do you
- 1:10:17Speaker 1: then like match that title? If that kind of except
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: for when you said I love you to two girls
- 1:10:23Speaker 1: that was the only downfall of the perfectness. Yeah, I
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: think we've all been there though. I think we've all
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: been like I think we I think I can understand
- 1:10:31Speaker 1: that that the ability to love like more than one person,
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: not necessarily like um, romantically, but I think like when
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: you open up to someone and there's an interpersonal connection there,
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: I can see you feeling that strongly to want to
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: express that to two people, Like I understood it. I
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: didn't think you were a bad guy for doing that.
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: I didn't really. Yeah, I was like, like, that's that.
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: It's like that's a bad situation for the women to
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: be in. But I feel like I totally get it,
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: and I probably wouldn't tell them that by loving two people,
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: it's just the thought that they were one was going
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: to be so much more let on. That's the only thing.
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: But like, that's so that's so crazy to villainize you
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: for which I don't think you ever were. But the
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: only time you ever got a little flak was that moment.
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: Do you think, what do you think about Colton? Then?
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: I mean Colton, Colton's a sweet guy. Uh, he's he's
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: Uh you have thoughts on Colton, don't you? Honest We've
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: I mean, we've had everybody from Dean in here saying
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: it's going to be a dumpster fire. That was hilarious.
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: I actually saw that. I love Laurence interview. So tell
- 1:11:33Speaker 1: us what are your thoughts on Colton? Um? My thought
- 1:11:39Speaker 1: is he's not remotely ready as someone who has been
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: at that point in my life. And I look back
- 1:11:43Speaker 1: on a nineteen year old Lindsay who got married, and
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: I'm like, oh God, this guy is not ready at all. Six.
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: But it's not even the age, it's them. It's the maturity.
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: Let it's the emotional get that a lot. And I
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: can in the way he and I get it, like
- 1:11:56Speaker 1: he is like, you know, I kind of feel like
- 1:11:59Speaker 1: he's the was her child for the first bachelor that
- 1:12:02Speaker 1: hasn't lost his virginity before and and um so I
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: I understand the appeal, and I get that he's like
- 1:12:08Speaker 1: a really attractive guy. He's got a bunch of charity
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: work he does like he seems like a good person.
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: But I just don't think emotionally he's ready at all
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: to be in a committed relationship where he's going to
- 1:12:18Speaker 1: get married. Like I could see him dating for a
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: few years, maybe getting to know someone, but as far
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: as like, um he him if someone was like is
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: this guy like not and he wasn't even on the show.
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: If they were like, do you think this guy is
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: ready to get married? And say no, I don't. I
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: don't personally don't think so. I wonder, Ashley, what do
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: you think she brings up a good point. I wonder
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: if the show kind of like they were with me,
- 1:12:38Speaker 1: but they're setting people up because everybody has that feeling.
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: I mean, as a buddy of his, I have that
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: feeling of like, is he really ready? Like I don't
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: think he is. He's not even remotely ready from the
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: last time that we saw him on Dating on Paradise
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: to be engaged and to be a strong partner to
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: somebody else. And I wonder if this show knew more
- 1:12:56Speaker 1: about him than we do and that I do. And
- 1:13:00Speaker 1: they said, yeah, everybody's gonna ask this question. They're going
- 1:13:02Speaker 1: to go into it expecting disappointment and expecting to finish
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: the season being like, well, we told you so, And
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: they know that his growth and his ability to surprise
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: us far out weighs any of our understanding. Right now.
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: I think that might be the case because what Colton
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: and I have always bonded over in interviews is that
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: we grew up so much from the show, and we
- 1:13:23Speaker 1: gained so much relationship relationship experience from the show, but
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: also just got to know ourselves so much to the
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: show that I think this third time around, he's gonna
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: show massive growth. Yeah, I actually I think you're in
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: the right head spin. I think as a fan that's
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: where I'm at. Like, I know, Shot, he's ready. Why
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: would he be the Bachelor. There's so many better choices.
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: There's guys that they're ready blah blah blah, but you
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: never know when you're ready on it. You never know.
- 1:13:47Speaker 1: And I think that the show knew how ready he was.
- 1:13:50Speaker 1: This is my I think they're they're they're doing the
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: flipping room on us. Actually I have Colton is also
- 1:13:57Speaker 1: much like me and like I don't think he has
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: any design to day a round. I think he truly
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: wants to beat with his person and just like live
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: a nice, calm life with this person. I don't think
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: he's the kind of guy who actually wants to go
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: and like go to a bar pick up chicks. No
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: offense to Jason and Blake, but I think that they
- 1:14:14Speaker 1: have that more in their soul than Colton does. Like
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: they like to kind of play the field. It's kind
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: of fun for them to live the Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: I mean he even clean up. He was such a
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: good guy to Tea, even though you could tell that
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: for him he was really torn, but it was really
- 1:14:30Speaker 1: about making Tea happy. Yeah, he's a good guy. I
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: can I mean, I can see that aspect that he's
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: a good person. I just think that I think he
- 1:14:39Speaker 1: has room to grow as a person before he finds
- 1:14:40Speaker 1: his happy you know, before he finds this perfect person.
- 1:14:43Speaker 1: I think he needs to like maybe grow a little
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: bit emotionally, and like I understand. I remember the first
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: time this is funny. Remember the first time, um I
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: told Colton I'm up for dinner. Right after got off
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: the back streap. We're sitting at a restaurant in Denver
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: called Senior Bear, and I had never met him. The
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: show had reached out and said, hey, can you reach
- 1:15:01Speaker 1: out to this cool and guys and a really good guy.
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: But he's super hurt and he has a lot of stuff,
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: like he needs a mature a little bit when you
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: walk with him through some stuff. I said, yeah, of course,
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: So I made up for him, and like, you know,
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: it's two guys hanging out who don't know each other.
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: It's a little awkward, but it was like easy. We
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: had something common to share and talk about. What do
- 1:15:16Speaker 1: you want to drink? He's like, oh, man, I don't
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: really drink that much. I was like, okay, cool. It's like, well,
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: I'll have a margarita. He's like, I'll have a drink.
- 1:15:23Speaker 1: I was like, okay, what do you want. He's like cingria.
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, you don't drink that. We're just
- 1:15:29Speaker 1: kicking in. He's so like, He's just what my point was,
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: as you're saying that Blake and Jason are having fun
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: with this, They're they're able to go out to these
- 1:15:37Speaker 1: like clubs and do these appearances and have a really
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: good time. That would have been cool and cool. I've
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: never done it, So if he wasn't a Bachelor, I
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: think he would have just kind of faded out here.
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: But because he is, I think he's gonna pleasantly surprise us.
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: I think we're gonna watch this season and be like,
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: I get him now, I understand him now, and I
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: personally am excited to see him kind of win over
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: the hearts because I think he has the most possible,
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: like the most between to do that. Um, and I
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: think because the show knows how fragile this season is.
- 1:16:05Speaker 1: If if they don't get people within two episodes, they're done. Um,
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: so I think in the first episode we will see
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: Colton do incredible things. Hey, Lindsey, we've got a big
- 1:16:14Speaker 1: day ahead of us. Uh, We've got to go, uh
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: have a really good time. I've never been to the
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: Palisades and so We're gonna go meet up with Carbon
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: thirty eight in the Little Market with Lauren Conrad. H
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: We're gonna go to lunch, um and uh, just take
- 1:16:30Speaker 1: a trip around l A. Cannot wait to hang out
- 1:16:32Speaker 1: with you, Lindsey. Thank you again for your donation to
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: Humane and Hope United. Thanks to my heart, Ashley. I
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: love you. I love you know. I love you like
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: I need you to know that. I know I need
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: you to know that. It was just a stupid comment
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: coming from one flashback. Actually, if here's the thing, there's
- 1:16:50Speaker 1: a difference between being evil, which you are not in
- 1:16:53Speaker 1: liking to stir up trouble. Definitely sorry about the word choice.
- 1:16:57Speaker 1: It's stirring up trouble that you have in your eyes.
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: You have talked to me every week for the last
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: year and a half I think at this point if
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: you didn't dislike me a little bit, Oh my god,
- 1:17:09Speaker 1: So what's the dislike about me? Please be honest? Actually,
- 1:17:12Speaker 1: you know what, you know, what I honestly dislike most
- 1:17:14Speaker 1: about you, um is is really the fact that I
- 1:17:19Speaker 1: kind of enjoyed the Ashley that would come in here
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: and be super emotional. I don't like that you're not
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: as emotional anymore. I missed the emotional. Actually the what
- 1:17:26Speaker 1: I missed your tears a little bit. Yeah, that's okay, tears.
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: Actually I would walk in here and like, she's doing
- 1:17:33Speaker 1: exactly what I want to do. I just can't do
- 1:17:34Speaker 1: it the same way. Really, So that's actually an insecurity
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: of mine right now, because on my I don't get
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: a podcast, which is just like girl talk. You know,
- 1:17:43Speaker 1: a lot of the girls right into my Facebook message
- 1:17:46Speaker 1: boards and they'll be like, I don't relate to her anymore,
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: she's too happy. Like that makes me sad that I'm
- 1:17:53Speaker 1: not as relatable anymore. No, you're relatable. I just missed.
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: I just always I think what I enjoyed. I enjoy
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: a lot more of of you now because you're happy,
- 1:18:03Speaker 1: you're confident, you're wise, your thoughts, you enjoy me more now,
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: but you just so that you miss them. No, no no, no,
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: what I miss is coming in here never knowing what
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: I was going to get, like never knowing if Ashley
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: had a blind date the night before that you're gonna
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: like that you thought was the one for two hours
- 1:18:18Speaker 1: and in the third hour he told you he wasn't,
- 1:18:19Speaker 1: and then you're gonna cry about it like what the hell?
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