Latest / The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast / S2, #2 'Paradise Wedding'

Transcript

S2, #2 'Paradise Wedding' · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

0:00
Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
0:03
Speaker 1: with our radio. Oh it's been so long, like what
0:07
Speaker 1: like twenty four hours or something. Welcome back to the
0:09
Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast. I'm Ben, I'm Ashley, and this is
0:14
Speaker 1: season two, episode two, and we're talking Bachelor in Paradise
0:17
Speaker 1: in this week's Bachelor in Paradise is a little bit different,
0:20
Speaker 1: actually a lot different than any weeks we're used to. Uh,
0:25
Speaker 1: not only do we have a wedding, but we also
0:26
Speaker 1: have a little group think Pink Cat led by Chris Harrison,
0:31
Speaker 1: where it feels very elementary school s um. But the start,
0:35
Speaker 1: I want to talk Bachelor in Paradise wedding. Actually, you
0:38
Speaker 1: were at this wedding. What a cool experience. It was
0:42
Speaker 1: my second Bachelor wedding and it was beautiful. Uh, these
0:46
Speaker 1: are the coolest weddings ever because you were with your
0:49
Speaker 1: friends when they met and fell in love and now
0:52
Speaker 1: you're watching them get married and well you're watching them
0:55
Speaker 1: have a kid too, because Carly was pregnant at the
0:58
Speaker 1: time and we didn't know. But it is the coolest thing,
1:02
Speaker 1: and I think it was definitely the type of thing
1:04
Speaker 1: that this show needed in an episode like this one.
1:07
Speaker 1: You know they're addressing this controversy that made the show look.
1:12
Speaker 1: I don't know if sleazy is the right word, but
1:14
Speaker 1: I think it definitely could have because of all the
1:16
Speaker 1: allegations around Karin Tomorrow in their hook up, and this
1:20
Speaker 1: really proved like, hey, this show is classy and people
1:24
Speaker 1: find love this way, and and all the marriages that
1:27
Speaker 1: have happened through The Bachelor, and there are quite a
1:30
Speaker 1: number they've never led to divorce. How cool is that?
1:34
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's awesome. And and you you
1:36
Speaker 1: said it right, like, there did kind of feel I
1:39
Speaker 1: guess in the first two episodes I was a little
1:40
Speaker 1: on edge watching because there did kind of feel like
1:42
Speaker 1: there's a dark cloud around um this season so far,
1:45
Speaker 1: right something. Bachelor in Paradise is usually this very happy, joyous,
1:49
Speaker 1: kind of bright show, but there was this dark cloud.
1:52
Speaker 1: Uh and last and and and being able to watch
1:55
Speaker 1: his wedding kind of lighten things up. I guess, um
1:59
Speaker 1: it was exciting for me. I I was obviously not there.
2:02
Speaker 1: I've been to one Bachelor wedding Tanner and Jades and
2:05
Speaker 1: I and I think you said it best. They're one
2:07
Speaker 1: of the most beautiful things I've ever been a part
2:08
Speaker 1: of why do you like them so much? Actually? I
2:12
Speaker 1: think for me, like it's just so cool to be
2:15
Speaker 1: friends with both of them, to watch their love story
2:17
Speaker 1: happen in real life and then to see it end
2:20
Speaker 1: in the ultimate commitment to each other. That I gotta
2:23
Speaker 1: talk about. Some of my favorite parts of the wedding.
2:25
Speaker 1: One Evan looking at Carly. I was at a wedding
2:29
Speaker 1: this weekend and I tweeted out dresses. The chick flick
2:34
Speaker 1: taught me to always look at the groom when the
2:38
Speaker 1: bride starts walking down the aisle and not turn around
2:41
Speaker 1: and look at the bride because you need to catch
2:43
Speaker 1: that glimpse of the guy's face when he first sees her.
2:47
Speaker 1: It is magical, it has it's just love. It is
2:50
Speaker 1: love visually on somebody's face. And Evan really came through
2:55
Speaker 1: with that moment for me and obviously led to quite
2:58
Speaker 1: a many tears, as you guys saw on TV last night.
3:01
Speaker 1: I uh, do you actually you might know this? And
3:03
Speaker 1: this is just kind of a side comment. Do you
3:05
Speaker 1: know if if them, you know, being pregnant kind of
3:10
Speaker 1: pushed the wedding forward or was the wedding already planned
3:12
Speaker 1: before they kind of found out that they were pregnant.
3:15
Speaker 1: I believe, if my timeline is correct, she probably got
3:19
Speaker 1: pregnant a couple of weeks after they called me to
3:21
Speaker 1: give the date. Yeah, okay, they called me the first
3:24
Speaker 1: week of May, so, I mean, and they're definitely planning
3:27
Speaker 1: on a paradise wedding. What a cool thing. I mean,
3:29
Speaker 1: this this show is is so ridiculous. It's so crazy.
3:32
Speaker 1: I think everybody could say it, right, I mean, from
3:34
Speaker 1: the Bachelor to Bachelorette, the Bachelor in Paradise, there's so
3:37
Speaker 1: many aspects of this franchise that just make you like
3:40
Speaker 1: confused and uh feel sometimes very awkward, sometimes a little dirty. Um.
3:46
Speaker 1: But these are the moments where everything kind of comes
3:50
Speaker 1: full circle and you say, this is this is what
3:52
Speaker 1: it's all about, right, I mean, we have we're kind
3:55
Speaker 1: of talking earlier, you and I were about some of
3:58
Speaker 1: these reality television shows that then can work in real life.
4:01
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm thinking here married at first Sight. Uh,
4:04
Speaker 1: you know, I've there's people that came off of that.
4:06
Speaker 1: I was just in Honduras um with with two people
4:09
Speaker 1: that came from an mv MTV reality show and and
4:13
Speaker 1: dating show, and they're very very happily in love, So
4:17
Speaker 1: these shows can work. And when people ask me, hey,
4:19
Speaker 1: do you really believe that the Bachelor? You can find
4:22
Speaker 1: love on the Bachelor? UM, I very confidantly can say
4:25
Speaker 1: yes because we've seen it. Now. Yeah, you definitely just
4:29
Speaker 1: bond in a different way. I remember I was talking
4:31
Speaker 1: to sammy sweetheart from Jersey Shore Ones and people always
4:36
Speaker 1: ask her as if as they asked me and Jared,
4:39
Speaker 1: why are you guys so close? Especially since you've like
4:43
Speaker 1: broken up a zillion times on TV? And it's just
4:47
Speaker 1: like no one will understand what you're going through more
4:49
Speaker 1: than the person that you're with during those moments. And
4:53
Speaker 1: actually this is a side comment and we can get
4:55
Speaker 1: into this later later later on in a podcast, because
4:57
Speaker 1: it's not we've gone on you are you? And the
5:00
Speaker 1: fact that you can have a boyfriend break up with
5:03
Speaker 1: his boyfriend, or have this boyfriend break up with you
5:05
Speaker 1: and you're still friends with him afterwards. And we're actually
5:07
Speaker 1: going to talk to one of your former flings later
5:09
Speaker 1: in this episode, which I'm excited about. Um, but somebody
5:12
Speaker 1: that I know you love and that I love dearly
5:16
Speaker 1: looked real good last night, Chris Harrison, And are you
5:21
Speaker 1: kidding me. I mean that dude, how long has he
5:24
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been on the show since the very
5:25
Speaker 1: beginning and he still wants up the guys. Every season
5:29
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison is killing it. Like he gets better and better.
5:32
Speaker 1: I don't know, He's just more and more lovable to
5:33
Speaker 1: me with each season that goes on, because I feel
5:36
Speaker 1: like he's just so self aware. He's like, here I am.
5:39
Speaker 1: I am just a man who gets to like marry
5:42
Speaker 1: people because I host a show. You know. It's just
5:45
Speaker 1: so funny. That's kind of Chris Harrison's life now he has.
5:48
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't imagine what his closet looks like.
5:50
Speaker 1: He wears a different suit with a different pocket square,
5:53
Speaker 1: in a different tie every time I see him. We're
5:56
Speaker 1: on the golf course and he's wearing a suit he
5:57
Speaker 1: should probably have like a charity auction or yard sale,
6:01
Speaker 1: you know where he goes and he sells all of
6:03
Speaker 1: his suits. Before we get off the topic of the wedding,
6:06
Speaker 1: I do have to talk about the evolution of Evan
6:09
Speaker 1: and Man. Evan is that guy that I watched during
6:12
Speaker 1: Joejoe's season and I thought, this mofo is literally the
6:18
Speaker 1: most awkward gross out guy I've ever watched, right, I
6:23
Speaker 1: just couldn't And then I choke up to Paradise and
6:27
Speaker 1: I immediately liked him. Um, he's just the sweetest, like
6:31
Speaker 1: warmest soul. He truly listens. He's like you Ben where
6:34
Speaker 1: he like really listens and cares about what people are saying.
6:37
Speaker 1: He well, you can go on and on with more adjectives.
6:41
Speaker 1: He's very smart, very successful. Oh my goodness, gracious. That
6:45
Speaker 1: article that he wrote for The Hollywood Reporter following the
6:48
Speaker 1: controversy and before their wedding was one of the best
6:53
Speaker 1: pieces of of journalism I've ever read. And people are
6:57
Speaker 1: going to say, wow, actually you don't read very much.
7:00
Speaker 1: But the thing is, like I felt it to my
7:02
Speaker 1: soul because I've experienced it, and it was all about
7:04
Speaker 1: just like the good stuff that the Bachelor does for
7:07
Speaker 1: people's lives. Um. But yeah, So it was just cool
7:10
Speaker 1: to watch Evan go from like loser who couldn't get
7:14
Speaker 1: Carly to give him the time of day to being
7:18
Speaker 1: his being her husband and having him heard just so
7:22
Speaker 1: and all of him. He is truly husband goals. He
7:25
Speaker 1: he really is. I mean he I got to sit
7:27
Speaker 1: down with Evan for only one time in my life
7:29
Speaker 1: and it was a little Mexican restaurant in Santa Monico
7:32
Speaker 1: and him, he and I sat and talked about life. Uh,
7:36
Speaker 1: just on our first meeting in a way that you
7:37
Speaker 1: don't typically get with a lot of people from the franchise.
7:40
Speaker 1: He he is just a really great guy. He really
7:42
Speaker 1: cares about his now wife and UM, it's great to
7:47
Speaker 1: see um and there's no offenses. It's great to see
7:50
Speaker 1: the geek win because he is a complete nerd and
7:53
Speaker 1: he is now a nerd that is living just the
7:56
Speaker 1: absolute dream. Um. I want to I want to flashback
8:00
Speaker 1: here to a second. We have to give a shout out.
8:03
Speaker 1: I have a note here that we had to do
8:04
Speaker 1: it right. So everybody's always asked me these questions, how
8:07
Speaker 1: does you know who dresses Chris Harrison? Or how did
8:09
Speaker 1: the Bachelor or bachelorette um always keep up to date
8:13
Speaker 1: with the clothes or whatever it is. We have to
8:15
Speaker 1: give a special shout out to the stylist on The Bachelor,
8:17
Speaker 1: Carrie Fetman. He is an amazing guy. Uh, And we
8:20
Speaker 1: can just close it with that. He's one of my
8:22
Speaker 1: best friends. He's a huge support system. But that guy
8:24
Speaker 1: had everybody at that wedding looking great last night, So
8:27
Speaker 1: go um Carrie, speaking of people looking really great last night,
8:33
Speaker 1: two of my favorite people, um, and two of the
8:35
Speaker 1: most impact to the people that have been a part
8:37
Speaker 1: of some of the most impactful moments of my life. UM,
8:41
Speaker 1: at least uh during the season, as Caitlin and Sean,
8:44
Speaker 1: we don't get this here a lot from him. We
8:45
Speaker 1: don't get to see a lot from him. They are
8:47
Speaker 1: to just really funny, fun people to be around. Uh.
8:50
Speaker 1: Sean and I were best friends during the Bachelorette, and
8:54
Speaker 1: Caitlin obviously had a huge place in my heart. UM
8:57
Speaker 1: there at the wedding last night. And we have a
8:59
Speaker 1: question from Chelsea an email that was sent in and
9:01
Speaker 1: asked Ashley and I but mostly myself, is who I
9:05
Speaker 1: voted for on my season The Bachelor at Britt or Caitlin,
9:07
Speaker 1: And I said, Caitlin. I think they're both great. They're
9:10
Speaker 1: they're probably both wonderful women. I only got to know
9:13
Speaker 1: Britt for five minutes, but I voted for Caitlin because
9:16
Speaker 1: she just when you when you meet her, you just
9:18
Speaker 1: know there's something special about her. She's just an energetic, loving,
9:22
Speaker 1: fun loving person. And that was very attractive to me,
9:25
Speaker 1: Caitlin is the greatest. So she's honestly like the coolest
9:28
Speaker 1: girl I've ever met. And I've told her, you are
9:31
Speaker 1: one of the few people that I know that I
9:33
Speaker 1: would trade personalities with, are you So? Yeah? I mean
9:37
Speaker 1: that's is Caitlin has such a big personality. She was
9:39
Speaker 1: an amazing bacherette because every moment, every day, it was
9:43
Speaker 1: exciting because she made it exciting. And so I'm I
9:47
Speaker 1: can't say I could go on and on, and I
9:48
Speaker 1: used to after the bachelort about Sean and Caitlin and
9:51
Speaker 1: about Sean and who he was to me during the show,
9:53
Speaker 1: and and and vice versa. But um, they're just awesome,
9:57
Speaker 1: Like they deserve a huge, huge praise, and it's great
10:00
Speaker 1: to see them out in doing well. Uh, and I
10:03
Speaker 1: look forward to seeing them again soon. Um. But yeah,
10:06
Speaker 1: I mean the wedding was just full of bachelor people,
10:08
Speaker 1: you right, I mean this is kind of like a
10:10
Speaker 1: reunion for you. Yes, it was the first time I
10:12
Speaker 1: really got to know Sean, love him, what a warm dude.
10:16
Speaker 1: And then some massive oh yeah there's that too, And
10:19
Speaker 1: he was training for the what's it called the Iron Man,
10:23
Speaker 1: And I was like dude, who are why? Why? But
10:29
Speaker 1: he's the coolest. Um. Some of the things you didn't
10:32
Speaker 1: get to see on TV, which I think is unfortunate,
10:35
Speaker 1: was um Wells gave a nice toast at the reception.
10:38
Speaker 1: He was one of the groom's men. We actually have
10:40
Speaker 1: Wells on the line right now. Hey Wells? Hi? Oh? Hey, well,
10:45
Speaker 1: what's going on buddy? Oh? Is that the sweet, sultry
10:49
Speaker 1: vocalizations of America's most beautiful Bachelor Ben Higgins? Oh? That's
10:56
Speaker 1: a lot. I keep forgetting that your professional talker, So
10:59
Speaker 1: you're pretty good at this? Why do all the bachelor
11:02
Speaker 1: guys have great radio voices? Hold on? To be fair,
11:06
Speaker 1: that is my actual profession. All I know, Well is
11:11
Speaker 1: that like over the past year, I've found some guys
11:13
Speaker 1: that would probably also do well at it. I can't
11:18
Speaker 1: answer that. But I listened to Wells's uh Instagram stories
11:21
Speaker 1: just to hear here his voice and hear what he's
11:23
Speaker 1: talking about and speaking of things to talk about, Wells,
11:26
Speaker 1: you gave a beautiful toast at a wedding? And where
11:29
Speaker 1: did that come from? And where did it go? Are you?
11:31
Speaker 1: Are you disappointed it didn't make cut? I know that
11:33
Speaker 1: you knew it wouldn't, but it was great initiative been on.
11:37
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I'm kind of glad it
11:38
Speaker 1: didn't make cut because I made fun of everybody there,
11:41
Speaker 1: And I think Batchel Nation would have like come at
11:45
Speaker 1: me with like pitchforks and torches if they heard what
11:49
Speaker 1: I had said about their their beloved um, their beloved
11:54
Speaker 1: bachelor's and bachelorettes. So you know what, Ben, you weren't there,
11:59
Speaker 1: so I didn't rip on you. You're lucky me because
12:03
Speaker 1: we're part of I talk a lot well is on
12:05
Speaker 1: this podcast about a group threat that I'm a part of,
12:08
Speaker 1: and I don't share the details because that wouldn't be appropriate, um,
12:12
Speaker 1: but I do talk often about how we rip on
12:14
Speaker 1: each other and and and and it's it's a funny
12:17
Speaker 1: thing we're talking um the last episode about ben Zorn
12:20
Speaker 1: and just how ridiculous it was and how much he
12:22
Speaker 1: loves his dog. But you get some good jabs in there.
12:25
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what you're you know what you're
12:26
Speaker 1: doing when you really want to take a knife to
12:29
Speaker 1: the heart. Listen, Ben, I thought that like our group
12:35
Speaker 1: chat was like the trust Tree and the next of
12:37
Speaker 1: the state area, and that like I could say what
12:40
Speaker 1: I wanted to say without billions of people from here
12:43
Speaker 1: adoring podcasts bandom to hear about it. So I'm a
12:46
Speaker 1: little scared right now. But no details, no details, wells,
12:51
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I can't. I wish I could have
12:55
Speaker 1: heard this toast because it probably was beautiful. It probably
12:58
Speaker 1: made everybody laugh because you you honestly can make anybody
13:01
Speaker 1: laugh very quickly, including Ashley, who let's just talk about it.
13:06
Speaker 1: I mean I wanted to talk about the speech still
13:09
Speaker 1: very lively history, that's true. I mean, I don't know
13:15
Speaker 1: what to say here. Ashley and I've had a torrid
13:18
Speaker 1: love affair on television and off, and you know, I
13:24
Speaker 1: gotta be honest to be like I always felt second
13:26
Speaker 1: fittled to to the beautiful Jared, you know, and you know,
13:32
Speaker 1: I think that we need to address it. Like, let's
13:33
Speaker 1: just call the elephant in the room. You're Ashley, if
13:37
Speaker 1: if either Jared, if you had your choice between Jared, well,
13:43
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw in a third one me Jared or Bean.
13:48
Speaker 1: Who are you choosing? This? Mary f Kill on the
13:54
Speaker 1: podcast before? Um well, okay, let's just let's just put
13:58
Speaker 1: it off for all America. I had such a frustration
14:02
Speaker 1: when Wells last summer would say like, I'm second place
14:05
Speaker 1: to Jared and I'm never gonna I'm never gonna be
14:08
Speaker 1: okay with being somebody's second place, and at the time
14:13
Speaker 1: he wholeheartedly was not second place, but apparently didn't believe me. Um, now,
14:20
Speaker 1: of course, Wells, I'm going to have to say that
14:22
Speaker 1: I would marry Jared over you the whole time. I mean,
14:28
Speaker 1: it's just but you you know why Jared and I have?
14:34
Speaker 1: Why why Jared treats me better? Wait? Hold I wasn't
14:45
Speaker 1: planning on getting into it. This is so funny. I
14:47
Speaker 1: was gonna be like the most poised actually I've ever been.
14:51
Speaker 1: But you just asked you just call yourself second place
14:53
Speaker 1: to Jared and I you definitely weren't. And if you'd
14:56
Speaker 1: asked me this question, like maybe even in April, I
14:58
Speaker 1: probably said, Mary, do wait hold on, how does he
15:02
Speaker 1: treat you better than me? How does he treat better
15:07
Speaker 1: than dead air? Right? Easy for her to say, Um,
15:17
Speaker 1: are you single right now? I am single? Right now? Yeah,
15:21
Speaker 1: all the ladies are flocking. I mean you your name
15:23
Speaker 1: has been brought up. Actually texted you to the other
15:25
Speaker 1: day and said, hey, man, your name keeps getting brought
15:28
Speaker 1: up to be the next Bachelor. If you were asked, well,
15:31
Speaker 1: would you do it? I don't know. Um, that's a
15:37
Speaker 1: conversation that i'd have to have with like my family,
15:41
Speaker 1: I think, and I don't. I don't know. That's not
15:45
Speaker 1: something that I take whitely. I don't know if I
15:51
Speaker 1: would do that. To be honest with you, I think
15:53
Speaker 1: it's it's like I think it might be nice to
15:56
Speaker 1: be asked to the prom, but I don't know if
15:59
Speaker 1: i'd really want to go, and I can't say no.
16:01
Speaker 1: I get that, And I mean, you're you're doing just fine.
16:03
Speaker 1: You're doing great things. You're busy, you're travel all over,
16:06
Speaker 1: You're you're doing your radio show. But you also just
16:09
Speaker 1: got a huge role in Paradise and I'm loving watching it.
16:13
Speaker 1: You are the bartender of this season, right you. You've
16:15
Speaker 1: replaced um the legend uh and and you're standing by
16:19
Speaker 1: the bar now as I mean, I guess what would
16:21
Speaker 1: you say your main responsibility was? Is it to mediate?
16:25
Speaker 1: Is it to be a counselor? Or is it to
16:27
Speaker 1: mix the drinks? Um? Okay, first of all, I want
16:31
Speaker 1: to like get something out there because I feel like
16:34
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize this. Orne is not
16:36
Speaker 1: like gone from the show at all, Like Orne just
16:39
Speaker 1: has like another cooler job actually, like he got promoted
16:44
Speaker 1: in Paradise and then like I came to like replace him.
16:47
Speaker 1: So like if you guys think the wholemad is like
16:49
Speaker 1: not going to be seen on the show, like that's crazy. Um,
16:54
Speaker 1: I would say that first I'm a counselor second, I'm
16:58
Speaker 1: a drink maker. Third I am like a sunscreen applier.
17:05
Speaker 1: Oh yes that is. I don't know if they'll show,
17:11
Speaker 1: but there was a moment when I don't know who
17:13
Speaker 1: it was Christina, someone came up and all the guys
17:16
Speaker 1: were around, and she was having a hard time, like
17:19
Speaker 1: putting the sunscreen on her back, and she she was
17:22
Speaker 1: obviously like doing it in front of the guys to
17:24
Speaker 1: like some guy would help her, and no one did anything.
17:27
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, this is the moment, this
17:29
Speaker 1: is my moment, this is your moment, Like I got
17:31
Speaker 1: a girl. Okay, wait, so I have my answer, and
17:35
Speaker 1: I want to I just want to take I want
17:38
Speaker 1: to just take back what I said. I didn't mean
17:39
Speaker 1: it like that. I think Jared has characteristics, like a
17:42
Speaker 1: certain level he delivers me a certain amount of sensitivity
17:46
Speaker 1: that I personally require. That's like another level like most
17:51
Speaker 1: people don't have as much patience and like mushiness as
17:56
Speaker 1: Jared does that and I just need that because like
17:58
Speaker 1: I'm obviously like the most most a crying person in
18:01
Speaker 1: the entire world. Does that make sense? I understand, I
18:04
Speaker 1: understand that, But can I defend myself? Yeah, I would
18:10
Speaker 1: say that. Um, I would say that I'm more honest
18:16
Speaker 1: to you. I totally agree, And so I feel like
18:21
Speaker 1: that is that's caring for someone more, to be like
18:25
Speaker 1: more like honest about how you really feel, then to
18:29
Speaker 1: kind of like, uh no, I totally what you mean. Actually,
18:35
Speaker 1: Shamon's plug Dwells is on the I Don't get a
18:37
Speaker 1: podcast this week and this week or last week and
18:40
Speaker 1: this week he's um me, my sister and Naz are
18:44
Speaker 1: talking back, responding to the guys stuff. And one of
18:48
Speaker 1: the things that I complimented well is about is that
18:51
Speaker 1: sometimes he says things to me that make me feel
18:53
Speaker 1: like he's a dick for like five minutes, but then
18:56
Speaker 1: in the at the end of the day, I like
18:58
Speaker 1: get over and I'm like okay, understood, got it, moving on.
19:01
Speaker 1: Whereas like with Jared, I would linger and linger and
19:04
Speaker 1: Linger I wouldn't. I would never be done with anything
19:06
Speaker 1: because he does sugarcoat stuff so much. Actually, yeah, I've
19:11
Speaker 1: said this once before and I'll say it once again.
19:12
Speaker 1: Wells and Jared are both great guys. I think any
19:14
Speaker 1: girl would be be lucky to be with either of them.
19:17
Speaker 1: And but you deserve the best, and so whoever that is,
19:21
Speaker 1: whoever you can kind of sort through and figure out. Um,
19:25
Speaker 1: they're not, then I'm excited for you. But we we
19:27
Speaker 1: both we need to say that Jared and Wells are
19:30
Speaker 1: both great. You're comparing two amazing men and well because
19:35
Speaker 1: you're amazing. I mean I would have to think. And
19:37
Speaker 1: I was watching the show last night, right, I mean,
19:39
Speaker 1: you're a good looking guy, you're well spoken, you're sensitively
19:42
Speaker 1: care Um, do you feel like you've got extra attention
19:45
Speaker 1: in Paradise because you're kind of non threatening because you
19:47
Speaker 1: couldn't date, you feel like the women kind of we're
19:50
Speaker 1: kind of just around you more because you could just
19:54
Speaker 1: be a friend. And was there any sparks that flew
19:56
Speaker 1: because of that? Okay? Um, I mean I think it's
20:01
Speaker 1: very easy for anybody to confide in the bartender like
20:05
Speaker 1: like the the first shrinks where I think bartenders. So
20:09
Speaker 1: I think it's easy for people to come and and
20:11
Speaker 1: talk to. And then for for me, I think I'm
20:14
Speaker 1: an easy person to talk to, especially because I I
20:17
Speaker 1: for the most part, can bring like um levity to
20:22
Speaker 1: a bad situation. Um. And so I think it was
20:26
Speaker 1: it was comforting for a lot of people out there.
20:28
Speaker 1: And then there's also that thing of there's fifteen of
20:32
Speaker 1: like the most beautiful women in the world, like walking
20:36
Speaker 1: around next like the resort, who haven't been told no
20:41
Speaker 1: in since like high school, right, And then all of
20:43
Speaker 1: a sudden I show up and I'm like, the one
20:46
Speaker 1: rule is we can't ever go on a date. And
20:48
Speaker 1: I think that that kind of mess with those girls
20:50
Speaker 1: heads because they've never had a guy, especially one that
20:53
Speaker 1: looks like me that's like skinny and like nerdy, being
20:57
Speaker 1: like we can't go on dates. So I think that
20:59
Speaker 1: kind of men to their heads. There was like that
21:01
Speaker 1: forbidden fruit thing, were like, wait, why can't I take
21:03
Speaker 1: wealth on a date? So I think that that is
21:06
Speaker 1: my appeal there. Um, So you're saying that girls did
21:11
Speaker 1: want to take you on dates? Um, well, yeah, I
21:16
Speaker 1: think you gotta keep watching the show, but like, yeah,
21:20
Speaker 1: I think people did. I think people were like, oh wait, wait,
21:22
Speaker 1: why can't we take my date? Like I don't know,
21:24
Speaker 1: I understand, like Amanda, I remember Amanda said something about it,
21:27
Speaker 1: and you know, you gotta keep watching this show. But
21:30
Speaker 1: I when I watched, when I watched like last night
21:33
Speaker 1: and the night before, like, I'm not on it a
21:35
Speaker 1: whole lot. And I had this realization when I was
21:39
Speaker 1: on a walk earlier today that um, the people that
21:43
Speaker 1: are the most memorable aren't the people that get a
21:47
Speaker 1: ton of screen time. It's the people that do memorable things.
21:52
Speaker 1: Um become super memorable. Like to be honestly, like, I
21:55
Speaker 1: did like three things in last night episode and my
21:58
Speaker 1: Twitter feed was going nuts. One was I gave I
22:01
Speaker 1: gave Christina hug when she was crying. People thought that
22:05
Speaker 1: was like super nice. I made that joke of being like, hey,
22:09
Speaker 1: can you say uh? Like we meddled with the election
22:12
Speaker 1: in Russian That was funny. And then like I kissed
22:16
Speaker 1: Evan on the cheek when we were like taking pictures.
22:20
Speaker 1: Those are the three things I did. And I wasn't
22:23
Speaker 1: on the show really at all, and I thought it
22:24
Speaker 1: was really interesting. Everyone is so concerned with like how
22:28
Speaker 1: much screen time they get, and then you can probably
22:32
Speaker 1: attest to this, like the most memorable things are like
22:37
Speaker 1: the things that, um, I don't know, like at the time,
22:41
Speaker 1: probably don't seem to be a big gesture, you know.
22:46
Speaker 1: I mean, you know wells I think we we've talked
22:48
Speaker 1: about a little bit on here before, but you're exactly right.
22:50
Speaker 1: And I think it's a good lesson for our listeners
22:52
Speaker 1: to kind of hear about in life too. I'm not
22:54
Speaker 1: here to give life advice, I trust me. I'm I'm
22:57
Speaker 1: not I'm not not exactly living the dream at all times. Um.
23:00
Speaker 1: But the one thing that that I have realized is
23:03
Speaker 1: it's not the things that, uh that we do that
23:05
Speaker 1: everybody else does. Right. You go in paradise and everybody
23:07
Speaker 1: can drink, and everybody can hook up, and everybody can
23:10
Speaker 1: can fight and bicker and cry, and those things happen, right,
23:12
Speaker 1: It's part of it's part of the experience. But if
23:15
Speaker 1: you take that back to your life, it's the things
23:16
Speaker 1: that you do that are unique that's that separate you.
23:19
Speaker 1: The things that that you're remembered for are the things
23:21
Speaker 1: that are different than what everybody else is doing. The
23:23
Speaker 1: things that go against the grind, to get to go
23:25
Speaker 1: against the flow. So for you to reach out and
23:27
Speaker 1: give Christina hug with no ulterior motives, just to say, hey,
23:31
Speaker 1: I'm here for you, I care about you. I'm gonna
23:33
Speaker 1: be here the whole time. If you need support, you know,
23:36
Speaker 1: come back, and that I'm not going to be, you know,
23:38
Speaker 1: trying to rub sunscreen on your back every day because
23:41
Speaker 1: you let me do it once. I think that. I
23:44
Speaker 1: think the viewer watched that and just said, man, like
23:46
Speaker 1: Wells is loving Christina very well in a non romantic way,
23:51
Speaker 1: and that is something that that everybody should try to
23:53
Speaker 1: do more of. So well, I'm actually a horrible bartender,
24:00
Speaker 1: but it was, Yeah, I was gonna wait the drinks.
24:03
Speaker 1: But like, so I tended bar when I was like
24:05
Speaker 1: in college, and then when I got out of college,
24:07
Speaker 1: I waited table was the bartender while I was like
24:09
Speaker 1: doing double duty as like a night jock and um,
24:13
Speaker 1: but like that was ten years ago. So I took
24:15
Speaker 1: a class right before coming out to like learn every time.
24:20
Speaker 1: I learned all the crazy drinks like uh my ties
24:24
Speaker 1: and peanut coladas and like blended drinks and all this
24:27
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And then when I got there. Everyone
24:30
Speaker 1: is so terrified of a carb and a sugar and
24:34
Speaker 1: I made I made one freaking drink and it was
24:37
Speaker 1: a tequila soda with a splash of pineapple. Probably that's
24:42
Speaker 1: the only thing I made there. I pought four beers
24:45
Speaker 1: and three of them were for me. I used to
24:48
Speaker 1: drink my ties every day there. That was my go
24:51
Speaker 1: to Paradise drink hate wells um. I just talked to
24:54
Speaker 1: Vinny and he said that you actually worked a job
24:57
Speaker 1: when you were there, Like you worked from like it
24:59
Speaker 1: was like an end of five, You had hours, you
25:01
Speaker 1: had to clean dishes. Yeah, Like it was really funny
25:05
Speaker 1: when when I was talking to So, there's an executive
25:08
Speaker 1: producer that like us three know that maybe everyone else
25:11
Speaker 1: does this note named Alan Uh and he was kind
25:14
Speaker 1: of in charge of this whole idea. And he was like,
25:16
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm not giving you a bar back,
25:19
Speaker 1: and you don't have like someone like, you know, cutting
25:22
Speaker 1: the lines for you. You have to do all this stuff.
25:24
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, it's fine. So like the
25:28
Speaker 1: ben you've never been to Paradise, But what's annoying is
25:31
Speaker 1: my bar, which was the beach bar. You can't have
25:34
Speaker 1: glass down there because it breaks in against in the sand,
25:37
Speaker 1: and then someone that cut their foot right, so you
25:39
Speaker 1: could only have these plastic cups down there. And the
25:43
Speaker 1: problem was that I'd make a drink for someone and
25:45
Speaker 1: then someone go and they chit chat with someone over
25:48
Speaker 1: and some palapa, and then they'd weave their glass and
25:50
Speaker 1: then I'd run out of glasses. So I'd like, I mean, like, god,
25:53
Speaker 1: these swabs, and so I'd be like running around the
25:55
Speaker 1: beach like picking up glasses. I was like, I would
26:00
Speaker 1: like and I don't think that Orge would ever do it,
26:03
Speaker 1: because he was such a sweetheart. But like I was
26:07
Speaker 1: in the bachelor world before, like I'm friends with these guys,
26:10
Speaker 1: I would like chastise them. I'd be like, you can't
26:12
Speaker 1: have another drink until you return your cup like a
26:15
Speaker 1: big boy. I didn't, man, I would toot. Man, that's
26:18
Speaker 1: all that's that's so funny here. I had no clue.
26:20
Speaker 1: It's it's the backstory, this whole thing that just kind
26:22
Speaker 1: of makes everything make more sense now as I watch it. Um, Hey, well,
26:26
Speaker 1: we gotta get going here, but I want to play
26:27
Speaker 1: one last game with you. I need. I'm gonna throw
26:29
Speaker 1: a couple of names out there, and I just need
26:31
Speaker 1: one word answers for for how you define them? Is
26:34
Speaker 1: is that? Is that? Okay, okay, everyone's favorite speed round.
26:38
Speaker 1: Come on, it's gonna be right, it's gonna be the
26:40
Speaker 1: word that you think of immediately pausing, Okay, okay, gonna
26:44
Speaker 1: start with Taylor, Um, thoughtful, dean, beautiful, Raven, hilarious, Robbie, Uh,
27:04
Speaker 1: I know you want to say it, Falcon wing hair
27:08
Speaker 1: oh Man, Well if you are always a pleasure dude,
27:11
Speaker 1: I uh, you're a great man, and thank you for
27:13
Speaker 1: being kind to in our speed round. Uh. We have
27:16
Speaker 1: a great segment coming up, UM called who are you?
27:20
Speaker 1: Because well you probably know no clue who they are. Um,
27:26
Speaker 1: so well, thanks for joining us well as well. You
27:29
Speaker 1: are a very kind soul and one of the my
27:32
Speaker 1: very favorite friends from this and you've treated me very well.
27:35
Speaker 1: She's backpedaling by wells I love you guys, Ashley. Yeah. Um,
27:44
Speaker 1: we only have this podcast going and we're only able
27:47
Speaker 1: to talk to people like well, by the way, what
27:48
Speaker 1: a great call man, that guy. He knows how to talk.
27:51
Speaker 1: He's a good talker, but he's a great guy. Because
27:53
Speaker 1: of our sponsors and one of our sponsors that we've
27:55
Speaker 1: consistently talked about because they've been a huge supporter of
27:58
Speaker 1: our show from the very big inning from season one
28:01
Speaker 1: now to season two is fab bit fun. Um. Actually,
28:04
Speaker 1: you know more about fab fit Fun than I do.
28:06
Speaker 1: Even though I just received a box and uh, there's
28:09
Speaker 1: some stuff in there. I'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna
28:11
Speaker 1: start using. There's a pink water bottle. Um, I'm all
28:14
Speaker 1: about it. It seems nice, But actually, can you tell
28:16
Speaker 1: us about fab fit Fun. Yes, you're referring to this
28:19
Speaker 1: season's editors boxes, the fall box that comes out in September.
28:23
Speaker 1: You can go get it at fabfit fund dot com
28:26
Speaker 1: and you can get ten dollars off of our code
28:28
Speaker 1: almost Famous. All the products in fabit fund boxes are
28:31
Speaker 1: full size, and you're gonna pay forty each season or
28:36
Speaker 1: get ten dollars off of that with the code almost Famous.
28:40
Speaker 1: But the box itself is valued at at least two
28:43
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Some of the stuff in the new Editor's
28:46
Speaker 1: box includes a real her eyeshadow palette which is worth
28:49
Speaker 1: twenty eight dollars. And then there is Dr Brand's Poor
28:54
Speaker 1: derm Abrasion, one of my very favorites, and a fab
28:57
Speaker 1: fit Fund Discovery for me and that retail els at
29:00
Speaker 1: fifty eight dollars. This entire box default editor's box comes
29:05
Speaker 1: to a total of three and fifty nine dollars. By
29:08
Speaker 1: you guys, Like, what the heck? You're going to get
29:11
Speaker 1: it for less than fifty dollars, So make sure to
29:14
Speaker 1: head over the fab bit fund dot com, plug in
29:17
Speaker 1: our code almost famous, and get ten dollars off. Great job. Actually, actually,
29:23
Speaker 1: this is uh. This is a segment that you and
29:25
Speaker 1: I uh and our producer Amy kind of came up with, um,
29:29
Speaker 1: just based on watching the season Bachelor in Paradise, And
29:31
Speaker 1: this isn't meant to be mean. It isn't meant to
29:33
Speaker 1: be rude. It's kind of what Wells was saying, right,
29:34
Speaker 1: Some of the most memorable moments within the Bachelor franchise
29:37
Speaker 1: are from people that aren't necessarily getting a lot of
29:40
Speaker 1: screen time, but they just seem to stand out and
29:42
Speaker 1: be unique. Well, unfortunately that people were going to talk
29:44
Speaker 1: about here haven't been that unique. So we're gonna play
29:47
Speaker 1: a game called wait, who are you? Um, Actually, I'm
29:53
Speaker 1: wondering there's a few people that you were talking about.
29:55
Speaker 1: Who are some people in this season of Bachelor? And
29:57
Speaker 1: Paradise that you really have no clue who they are. Well,
30:00
Speaker 1: definitely Lacey and I have a special kinship to Lacy
30:03
Speaker 1: because I feel like she's the me of this season.
30:05
Speaker 1: She's like, I'm going around talking to everyone. Everybody kind
30:09
Speaker 1: of wants to talk to me, but nobody wants to
30:11
Speaker 1: get in to know me. Romantic like I mean, so exactly.
30:15
Speaker 1: So you have people like Lazy, I have the Santa
30:17
Speaker 1: Claus Feller who who saying you know who? Who tried?
30:23
Speaker 1: I guess he tried with Jasmine. Um So, for today's podcast,
30:27
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to two people um that that
30:30
Speaker 1: people just don't seem to know. And it's unfortunate because
30:33
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have huge storylines in Paradise this
30:36
Speaker 1: year and hopefully get to know him better. To start
30:38
Speaker 1: today's conversation, we have the lovely Derek Peth on the line. Derek,
30:42
Speaker 1: who in the heck are you? That was the best
30:48
Speaker 1: thing you've ever said? Tell us about yourself. The first
30:54
Speaker 1: thing I'm gonna do is correct to you. Okay, it's oh,
30:58
Speaker 1: it's I always tell people it's easy. I always tell
31:02
Speaker 1: people have faith and paid. I love it, man. Okay,
31:06
Speaker 1: So can you give us just a real quick rundown on.
31:09
Speaker 1: I want to hear about how people would know you
31:11
Speaker 1: from the Bachelor franchise. Where are you from? And and
31:13
Speaker 1: one of your favorite little hobbies to do? So just
31:15
Speaker 1: so we can get to know you a little better.
31:17
Speaker 1: Cool man. Um yeah, so I am from chat season
31:20
Speaker 1: of The Bachelor at uh, which is also a judge season. Um,
31:28
Speaker 1: and uh, you know I'm from Iowa. I'm sorry, I'm
31:30
Speaker 1: in the airport here, so there's like people talking, Um,
31:33
Speaker 1: I'm from Iowa and from the Midwest as yourself, and um,
31:36
Speaker 1: you know, I just came to the Bachelor franchise really
31:39
Speaker 1: by accident. My little sister put my information in and
31:43
Speaker 1: I got a call and I said, uh, you are
31:46
Speaker 1: you're a radio station. This is not real, Like I
31:48
Speaker 1: don't know who you are and I don't know why
31:49
Speaker 1: you're saying with the Bachelor. So um, yeah, this is
31:52
Speaker 1: very very crazy to be to be taught in this world.
31:55
Speaker 1: For the last couple of years, a lot of people
31:57
Speaker 1: remember me as the guy who's the only guy who cried,
32:01
Speaker 1: I believe on Joe Joe's season outside of back checked
32:07
Speaker 1: for a second, that's just wait. Yeah, there's the whole season,
32:10
Speaker 1: there's only one guy that cried. I think, like Benny,
32:13
Speaker 1: you saw like one little tier and like, uh, I
32:17
Speaker 1: think wells of sweating and people, that's that little area
32:22
Speaker 1: tire yeo, yep, yep. So so unfortunately, you know that's
32:28
Speaker 1: uh that that became pretty tied to me. But then
32:30
Speaker 1: I also, I think, uh have been focused on as
32:34
Speaker 1: as the Jim Halpert diet, like the diet version of
32:37
Speaker 1: Jim Halpert. So um yeah. And then at the office
32:42
Speaker 1: of my favorite TV show, So you know, that's I
32:44
Speaker 1: think what I get the most. And I might have
32:46
Speaker 1: thrown a couple of Easter eggs into the season so
32:48
Speaker 1: far with some some office quotes. I love that. I
32:52
Speaker 1: love that. Yeah. So Derek, we've already seen you kind
32:56
Speaker 1: of build a relationship in Paradise, right, I mean we're
33:00
Speaker 1: for a couple episodes in uh, you've been one of
33:03
Speaker 1: the coolest storylines. I mean, I guess I was kind
33:04
Speaker 1: of comparing it last night to the Evan Carley storyline, right,
33:07
Speaker 1: I mean, we we knew Evan, we but we knew
33:09
Speaker 1: him about as well as we probably know you. Um
33:12
Speaker 1: and and and look who look where Evan stands today.
33:14
Speaker 1: So for you, Um, how was Paradise different than your
33:18
Speaker 1: experience on the Bachelorette UM. I tell you that on
33:23
Speaker 1: the Bachelorette Um, you know, there was a very different
33:27
Speaker 1: mix of people. Our season was uh full of a
33:30
Speaker 1: lot of meat hut lovable, some were not so much.
33:35
Speaker 1: And so I'd say that, like, it was very refreshing
33:38
Speaker 1: to have like of a very mix of men and women.
33:42
Speaker 1: And like the nicest thing that comes out to that
33:44
Speaker 1: is that there's a little bit less like prevlocity and
33:47
Speaker 1: and trying to like beat each other up to like
33:50
Speaker 1: grabbed the girl by her hair and take her off
33:51
Speaker 1: to your cave. Yeah, because there's uh, you know, a
33:56
Speaker 1: lot of other a lot of other options. So they
33:59
Speaker 1: just feel like it was a lot of a lot
34:00
Speaker 1: more fun and a lot less of a competition than
34:03
Speaker 1: I'd say the Bachelor at was. That's interesting. So I
34:06
Speaker 1: mean we're seeing I guess we're seeing too, Like the
34:10
Speaker 1: legitimacy of your relationship with Taylor so far seems far
34:13
Speaker 1: and beyond anybody else's in Paradise. Why is that? Like
34:16
Speaker 1: what was it about the two of you that really
34:18
Speaker 1: propelled things for uh huh Um, I'd say the it's
34:24
Speaker 1: a weird thing, right, But I say the most powerful
34:26
Speaker 1: thing about the two of us was we came on
34:29
Speaker 1: both absolutely saying we do not want to meet that person.
34:34
Speaker 1: So like Taylor wanted had nothing to do with me,
34:36
Speaker 1: and I want to have nothing to do it, sir.
34:39
Speaker 1: So it was like this big surprise, and uh, you know,
34:43
Speaker 1: I think you see that there's definitely like an attraction
34:46
Speaker 1: there immediately. Um, once we did finally talk and get
34:50
Speaker 1: to know each other a little bit, so um. And
34:52
Speaker 1: then something that I think that we didn't really see
34:54
Speaker 1: a lot of, even though we we we talked about
34:57
Speaker 1: um briefly on the episode last night, was was that
35:00
Speaker 1: you know, there was I don't know what ten twelve
35:03
Speaker 1: days worth of of us basically on the phone on
35:06
Speaker 1: FaceTime for like five six hours when everyone else you know,
35:10
Speaker 1: went home. So we were already planning for Taylor to
35:13
Speaker 1: actually coming and uh and visit me. Uh that's a
35:17
Speaker 1: little spoil I probably seem to set that, but okay, Um, yeah,
35:23
Speaker 1: we thought that we thought the show was was done,
35:26
Speaker 1: you know, like we thought it was absolutely no no
35:28
Speaker 1: way that it was coming back. So um, during that
35:31
Speaker 1: during the shutdown, Taylor had I got our plane ticket
35:34
Speaker 1: to come and actually see me in aisle over like,
35:36
Speaker 1: well maybe we'll try this thing, right. So, I mean
35:39
Speaker 1: that's about the stage that we were at when you saw,
35:42
Speaker 1: um the episode resumed. It's like what happened in that
35:45
Speaker 1: little bit see time really interesting, I mean extremely interesting.
35:49
Speaker 1: I think I'm just I mean, I've talked to actually
35:53
Speaker 1: many times about this, and Paradise just seems to be
35:56
Speaker 1: a place where people build stronger relationship ships. Um. Maybe not,
36:01
Speaker 1: I mean not all the time, but it just seems
36:03
Speaker 1: like the masses like there's more people that can build
36:05
Speaker 1: charming relationships at Paradise, obviously because there's men and women there. Um,
36:09
Speaker 1: But it's it's a really cool thing to watch, and
36:11
Speaker 1: I'm starting to believe in it more and more and
36:13
Speaker 1: more as the seasons go. And you're one of those reasons.
36:16
Speaker 1: I'd like to be your reason then for believing. Um No,
36:19
Speaker 1: it's been great to be it's been great to be
36:22
Speaker 1: put you know, like you do. I just just mentioned
36:24
Speaker 1: Evan and people said like ten or you know, and
36:27
Speaker 1: like that. That's a very stressful position too, because you know,
36:30
Speaker 1: like those relationships are amazing and and this is just
36:33
Speaker 1: still a new relationship. Um. As you're seeing so far,
36:37
Speaker 1: and um, you know, who knows where it's gonna go.
36:40
Speaker 1: So that's that's the scary part of Paradise, right, Um.
36:44
Speaker 1: And it's just like it can be a lot of pressure.
36:46
Speaker 1: So I think that that also though, Like you know,
36:49
Speaker 1: pressure can can make you build and decide things or
36:52
Speaker 1: break things apart sooner, you know, and you kind of
36:55
Speaker 1: know where you're going. So can I just say that
36:58
Speaker 1: you have really brought out a a full side of Taylor.
37:01
Speaker 1: I know that she wasn't a character that everybody loved
37:04
Speaker 1: from nixt season, but you've made her so happy and
37:07
Speaker 1: glowy and just like lighthearted and I really like this
37:10
Speaker 1: side of her. And she looks freaking gorgeous with her
37:13
Speaker 1: hair natural and curled like that. For the record, that
37:17
Speaker 1: was she did it one day and she was like, oh,
37:20
Speaker 1: I really need to straighten my hair. I said, please,
37:22
Speaker 1: don't ever straighten your hair. Yeah. That's awesome. Man. Well,
37:28
Speaker 1: we are excited Derek to uh well, first off, hey,
37:31
Speaker 1: nice to meet you, and we're excited to watch your
37:33
Speaker 1: your experience unfold here through Paradise. We wish you the best, um,
37:38
Speaker 1: and man, so far, we we were very excited about
37:42
Speaker 1: what you and Taylor have to offer. So Derek, thanks
37:45
Speaker 1: for joining us, buddy. Thanks guys, I'd hope to see
37:48
Speaker 1: you guys sometime throughout the journey. We certainly will see
37:53
Speaker 1: you soon. All right, take your guys, And now we
37:56
Speaker 1: know who is he. He is Derek, and he seems
38:01
Speaker 1: like a lovely guy. I agree. I mean I really
38:04
Speaker 1: enjoyed talking to him. He seems like he has his
38:07
Speaker 1: head on right. He's I mean, I couldn't. I was
38:09
Speaker 1: trying to kind of read through the lines there a
38:11
Speaker 1: little bit. Actually, I was thinking, Okay, is he still
38:13
Speaker 1: with her or is he not? Like, is he going
38:15
Speaker 1: to talk very highly or is he not? But I
38:17
Speaker 1: have a feeling, I don't know how you feel. How
38:18
Speaker 1: do you feel that they're still together? Definitely? I mean
38:22
Speaker 1: he he could even tell him his voice. He's he's
38:24
Speaker 1: pretty chipper. I would agree, what a good word. You
38:27
Speaker 1: just keep pulling out these old fashioned words feller and schipper,
38:30
Speaker 1: and I like it. Next are going to say that
38:33
Speaker 1: seems swell? Let's bring um you're coming up next. We
38:38
Speaker 1: have a a lot of people don't know, but I
38:41
Speaker 1: seem to know pretty well. He's a friend of mine
38:43
Speaker 1: and so, Ashley, I'm gonna let you just kind of
38:47
Speaker 1: interview this man because ladies love him. Uh, they always have.
38:52
Speaker 1: Like I said, he's a part of Wells and I
38:54
Speaker 1: group thread um and the only thing I want to
38:56
Speaker 1: share and kind of give a hint to he loves
38:58
Speaker 1: his dog. Which so does that? Actually? So actually take
39:00
Speaker 1: it away. So it is ben Z. You may remember
39:04
Speaker 1: him as the big, cuddly teddy bear from Caitlyn season,
39:08
Speaker 1: the other Ben back when Ben here used to be
39:11
Speaker 1: Ben h and this was ben Z. That's good. I
39:14
Speaker 1: remember that time. So, Ben, who in the heck are you? So?
39:21
Speaker 1: I mean, the way that's been going is I'm pretty
39:23
Speaker 1: much the guy that's not been h That's pretty much.
39:27
Speaker 1: Oh man, that could be anything farther from the Ben.
39:32
Speaker 1: Have you cried since Caitlyn season? I have not. No,
39:36
Speaker 1: I have not. I think it's gonna be uh. I
39:38
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be one of those things where it
39:40
Speaker 1: will be uh, a moment in my life that is
39:43
Speaker 1: extremely happy that'll bring those tears, not something that's sad. Sweet. Yeah,
39:49
Speaker 1: we'll see when that happens. Ben, What was the last
39:51
Speaker 1: time you cried? Actually? I cry all the time. Do
39:55
Speaker 1: you really Oh my gosh, I am. Yeah, I'm an
39:59
Speaker 1: emotional wreck half the time I watch uh you know,
40:04
Speaker 1: actually you know I watched uh um Free Willie a
40:09
Speaker 1: couple of nights ago, and you know the moment where
40:11
Speaker 1: the Willie jumps over and he touches the belly. Um,
40:16
Speaker 1: it gets me, It got me. I was done. I mean,
40:19
Speaker 1: it's just such a beautiful moment that represents freedom. So, yeah,
40:21
Speaker 1: I'm a crier. No, nobody's surprised by that. I love
40:25
Speaker 1: I love you. So it's a great movie. The Michael
40:27
Speaker 1: Jackson song from that movie is one of the most
40:29
Speaker 1: underrated Michael Jackson songs of all time. Yeah, thank you.
40:34
Speaker 1: I mean I was alone in my house. I'm sorry.
40:36
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to talk about myself for a second
40:39
Speaker 1: moment for me. Um, and you all can get to
40:41
Speaker 1: know me better from this. I was alone in my house,
40:43
Speaker 1: which doesn't get to happen very often. I'm travel all
40:46
Speaker 1: the time. This is last week Free Willie comes on
40:49
Speaker 1: watch the movie. I turned on my son nos to
40:52
Speaker 1: the Michael Jackson song and it's me alone in my house,
40:55
Speaker 1: just arms wide open. Yeah, I really wish I could
41:01
Speaker 1: have seen that and been there. That's amazing. Then that
41:04
Speaker 1: song is truly liberating. I listened to it every time
41:07
Speaker 1: I'm at the beach and I look at the waves
41:09
Speaker 1: and I feel free. That's right. But that's enough about me.
41:12
Speaker 1: We we gotta to know about Ben here. Ben, You're
41:14
Speaker 1: you're really good at pushing the attention off on other people,
41:17
Speaker 1: as we've just seen there. Um, Ben, can you give
41:20
Speaker 1: us a little bit of a snapshot, snapshot of who
41:23
Speaker 1: the heck are you? Like literally, like tell us about yourself.
41:25
Speaker 1: How would fans know you, what would they remember you for? Um?
41:29
Speaker 1: And then like kind of leading up the paradise, what
41:31
Speaker 1: were you hoping for? Um? So I think the fans
41:35
Speaker 1: probably know from Caitlyn season of The Bachelor. As as
41:37
Speaker 1: us asked, you just pointed out that I haven't cried
41:40
Speaker 1: in a long time. So I think that was pretty
41:42
Speaker 1: big focused on the show, as well as losing my
41:45
Speaker 1: mom when I was fourteen. So those, uh, those life
41:50
Speaker 1: moments had a pretty pretty big impact on all my
41:53
Speaker 1: life and the way that I go about my life,
41:54
Speaker 1: and it made me grow up very quickly. So um,
41:57
Speaker 1: I think that's a big reason why in a lot
41:59
Speaker 1: of aspects life, Um, I kind of have been more
42:02
Speaker 1: of an adult than I think my age UM put
42:06
Speaker 1: out there, and so I think that's how twenty right
42:12
Speaker 1: now it was twenties to come the show. Between me
42:15
Speaker 1: and you, Ben, between me and you and Jared, we
42:17
Speaker 1: were the three youngest ones in the show, but honestly
42:20
Speaker 1: we're probably three of the most mature guys on the show. Also,
42:23
Speaker 1: is that the case? I think so. But then there's
42:26
Speaker 1: a lot of great guys from your season. I still
42:28
Speaker 1: say to this day, as anyone who listens to the
42:31
Speaker 1: Ben Nashally I almost Fans podcast does know that I
42:34
Speaker 1: think that Caitlin season was the most golden. I completely
42:39
Speaker 1: agree from an extremely biased opinion, I could cletely agree
42:44
Speaker 1: that's right. I think so too. I mean, not only
42:46
Speaker 1: was she a great bachelor, but we have some guys
42:49
Speaker 1: uh from that season that I that I plan to
42:50
Speaker 1: be friends with for a very very long time, and
42:54
Speaker 1: including yourself. Then yeah, no, I completely agree, man, I
42:58
Speaker 1: definitely agree. So Ben, let's talk about new pup. My
43:01
Speaker 1: new pup. Yeah, um, it seems like that's apparently all
43:05
Speaker 1: that I talked about, apparently according to according to TV UM,
43:09
Speaker 1: But no, I got him. Um, I got him in
43:12
Speaker 1: February and I got him as a puppy and I
43:16
Speaker 1: have had him pretty much had him ever since. Obviously
43:19
Speaker 1: other than going on the show, we've been following your
43:22
Speaker 1: life with him on Instagram ever since. Um, is it
43:25
Speaker 1: frustrating to see that they're not showing you speak about
43:28
Speaker 1: anything other than him? Zeus, UM a little bit. I'm
43:32
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. I think that there's a lot more
43:34
Speaker 1: that happened in Paradise, as I'm sure you know. Um,
43:37
Speaker 1: not everything gets showed, but um, you know, the frustrating
43:41
Speaker 1: party is when you know you are there and you're
43:44
Speaker 1: talking about your dog and then Ravens talking about her dog,
43:48
Speaker 1: actual conversation and they cut they cut her whole half
43:52
Speaker 1: out of it, and then I was like a crazy person.
43:54
Speaker 1: You know. I make it that I was done. I
43:59
Speaker 1: make a p to not talk about editing as much
44:01
Speaker 1: as possible, but there are moments like that I mentioned
44:04
Speaker 1: on yesterday's podcast where you just have to be like
44:07
Speaker 1: that was editing and it was funny. It was like
44:09
Speaker 1: the one time I was talking to a parrot. You know,
44:11
Speaker 1: It's like, did you guys really think that I was
44:13
Speaker 1: just talking to a parrot, Because then this makes you
44:17
Speaker 1: the crazy person exactly, but a lot of a lot
44:20
Speaker 1: of viewers don't necessarily know that, and so it's good
44:23
Speaker 1: to uh, it's good to see the other side. Sometimes
44:25
Speaker 1: it makes good TV. Though it does make good TV.
44:29
Speaker 1: And for a while apparently Zeus was trending, so he's
44:32
Speaker 1: doing better than I. That is cool. Let's talk about
44:35
Speaker 1: your relationship with um with Raven right now, and how
44:39
Speaker 1: are you going to salvage yourself and get a rose
44:41
Speaker 1: this coming rose ceremony. That's a great question. I mean,
44:45
Speaker 1: at this point, what you guys seen is you've seen
44:48
Speaker 1: You've seen Raven get taken on a date by Robbie
44:51
Speaker 1: and they seem to have fun on the jet skis
44:53
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But um, you know, in Paradise, I kind
44:57
Speaker 1: of looked at it as there's no rule and you
44:59
Speaker 1: can pretty much do whatever you want. So um I
45:03
Speaker 1: kind of made my own one on one day. What
45:04
Speaker 1: you what you don't see is that Raven actually wasn't
45:06
Speaker 1: feeling good and she had a cough and a sore
45:09
Speaker 1: throat and all this stuff, and so UM I had
45:12
Speaker 1: actually set up a little a little thing on on
45:14
Speaker 1: one of the cabanas with with tea and honey and
45:17
Speaker 1: cough drops. It's kind of like a joke, but also like, uh, um,
45:20
Speaker 1: a way to show her that like, hey, you know,
45:22
Speaker 1: I know you're not feeling good, but here's some stuff
45:24
Speaker 1: to hopefully make you feel better. Oh, you are getting
45:27
Speaker 1: that rose. I'm trying. I'm trying hard to get that rose. Uh.
45:31
Speaker 1: Then yes, I want to give you a chance to respond. Um.
45:34
Speaker 1: And this is uh please understands in no way it
45:37
Speaker 1: dig towards you at all. But we did talk yesterday
45:40
Speaker 1: on the podcast about how after a few of the
45:43
Speaker 1: seasons um you have you had reached out to a
45:46
Speaker 1: couple of the women that have been UM, let go
45:49
Speaker 1: and try to you know, kind of talk to started
45:51
Speaker 1: talking to him. What was your thought process to that?
45:53
Speaker 1: Can you just explain to the audience so it's not
45:54
Speaker 1: left out there in lombo exactly what you're doing and
45:57
Speaker 1: and and and just give us your give us your thoughts. No, absolutely,
46:02
Speaker 1: I think, in in all honesty, since I got off
46:05
Speaker 1: the show, I have romantically reached out to a girl
46:08
Speaker 1: from the show only two times. The other times when
46:13
Speaker 1: I have had like conversations with a girl or something
46:15
Speaker 1: like that, UM, A lot of times you niceness comes
46:21
Speaker 1: across as flirting as I'm sure you've probably ran into
46:24
Speaker 1: in the past. And um, and in some of these situations, Uh,
46:30
Speaker 1: you know when when you go from zero to a
46:31
Speaker 1: hundred overnight and you have no idea how to handle fame,
46:35
Speaker 1: you have no idea how to handle being in the spotlight. Um.
46:38
Speaker 1: And I know from my standpoint, I didn't have somebody
46:43
Speaker 1: that was like there to help you out or kind
46:45
Speaker 1: of like show you what to do and what not
46:48
Speaker 1: to do. And I wish that I had. And so um,
46:52
Speaker 1: there there were girls that had either reached out to
46:54
Speaker 1: me or I reached out to them and saying you know, hey,
46:56
Speaker 1: you know you're part of the family now, the Vastport family,
46:58
Speaker 1: and if you ever need any advice or something like that,
47:00
Speaker 1: let me know. I'm happy. I'm happy I'm here to help. Basically,
47:03
Speaker 1: hey Ben, yeh Um, can we ask who you've reached
47:08
Speaker 1: out to? Who two girls are? Uh? Those two girls are?
47:14
Speaker 1: One of them? One of them was Shoshana. She was
47:18
Speaker 1: in she was on Ben season. Actually I remember her.
47:22
Speaker 1: I accidentally called her a Russian hooker during my season
47:25
Speaker 1: of Paradise accidentally. He actually check yourself before you speak. Oh,
47:35
Speaker 1: the influence that goes down the peer pressure in that
47:38
Speaker 1: I TM room. Oh my gosh, my apologies, Shoshanna, you
47:44
Speaker 1: were We got along very well the day that you
47:46
Speaker 1: were there. I'm sorry for what I said behind closed doors.
47:51
Speaker 1: And I actually think that I actually think that was
47:52
Speaker 1: the only person actually, now that I think about it. UM,
47:55
Speaker 1: I know that there was some other girls that had
47:57
Speaker 1: originally thought that I was talking to them, but that
48:00
Speaker 1: is definitely not the case. UM. I had I think
48:04
Speaker 1: I had talked to Amanda. Uh post show, I guess
48:08
Speaker 1: you could say, but we had it. It was never
48:10
Speaker 1: more than a few a few texts or anything like that.
48:13
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm glad we cleared your rep Yeah,
48:16
Speaker 1: I mean thought after man, Um, you are you. I'm
48:20
Speaker 1: not surprised that you being nice and kind in reaching
48:23
Speaker 1: out to women has has led people to believe that
48:25
Speaker 1: you are flirting or just incredibly interested in everybody and anybody. UM.
48:31
Speaker 1: So I wanted to give you the chance to speak
48:33
Speaker 1: on that, um Ben before we say good body here. UM,
48:37
Speaker 1: I want to know from from your experience, because Ashley
48:41
Speaker 1: is very high on Paradise, and she should be. She's
48:43
Speaker 1: had great experiences and that great people. Uh. And we
48:46
Speaker 1: just talked to Derek Payte, who had a very similar
48:50
Speaker 1: feeling that actually did what was your biggest issue, Like,
48:53
Speaker 1: what was the worst part about Paradise to you? The
48:55
Speaker 1: worst part about Paradise? I think that, um, in it
49:00
Speaker 1: depends on the people that are there, and it also
49:02
Speaker 1: depends on the timing. I think that on preview seasons
49:05
Speaker 1: of Paradise there were I mean, you go start to
49:08
Speaker 1: finish twenty eight days and you have a bunch of
49:09
Speaker 1: people down there. Some are actually there to find love
49:12
Speaker 1: and others are are there to just have a good time. UM.
49:16
Speaker 1: I think on this season there was a lot more
49:19
Speaker 1: people down there that were just looking to have a
49:20
Speaker 1: good time. Uh. There were some rumors of people who
49:23
Speaker 1: already had relationships from the outside and stuff like that. Um.
49:27
Speaker 1: And then also with the with the whole Tomorio and
49:30
Speaker 1: Karin things, everything was kind of cut short, and so
49:32
Speaker 1: it kind of turned into less of like a a
49:36
Speaker 1: longer love story vacation being down there, and more of
49:40
Speaker 1: like just a lot of people that genuinely liked each
49:42
Speaker 1: other hanging out. UM. I think that Paradise is definitely
49:46
Speaker 1: a place where you can go down and genuinely meet
49:49
Speaker 1: somebody and spend a lot of time with that person.
49:52
Speaker 1: But what I found on our season was that because
49:55
Speaker 1: of of the way that everything happened, everybody kind of
49:59
Speaker 1: everybody really close and it turned into a large group
50:04
Speaker 1: hang out almost if you will, like a couple of
50:07
Speaker 1: couples here and there. Actually, do you have the same
50:09
Speaker 1: experience at Paradise um like more friendship group hang out
50:13
Speaker 1: vibes versus coupled up vibes? Definitely, Um, I definitely feel
50:18
Speaker 1: the opposite. I feel like during my season's everybody was
50:22
Speaker 1: very coupled up, and I felt like the one that
50:24
Speaker 1: was left out because I was always struggling to be
50:26
Speaker 1: with someone. What do you think is changing? I think
50:29
Speaker 1: that it goes back to like the last seasons of
50:32
Speaker 1: being like the Golden era being your season of girls
50:37
Speaker 1: and and like and older, and then than You're than
50:41
Speaker 1: Caitlin season and older, being like you were there more
50:45
Speaker 1: for the right reasons, more for like the love and
50:48
Speaker 1: the romance, and less for the social media fame, less
50:52
Speaker 1: for just being like famous for being friends together. And
50:57
Speaker 1: now everybody kind of gets a lot. Everybody that kind
51:01
Speaker 1: of bonds over the fact that they're like a famous
51:03
Speaker 1: group of friends. That's so any I mean, I honestly
51:07
Speaker 1: I never thought about it that way. Um No, I
51:10
Speaker 1: definitely agree with that. With that point that actually just
51:12
Speaker 1: made Um I've talked to Amanda and Well both down
51:15
Speaker 1: when I was a Paradise and I was asking, was like,
51:17
Speaker 1: is this is this how Paradise was last year? And
51:19
Speaker 1: they both said that was not the case. It was
51:22
Speaker 1: the opposite, and so, um, yeah, I definitely second, But
51:25
Speaker 1: I would ask Lois stands Yeah, Well, I think for
51:28
Speaker 1: all of our cases, and especially for the viewers, we
51:31
Speaker 1: hope that the show can get back to the people
51:33
Speaker 1: that are pursuing relationship and pursuing love over fame. Because
51:36
Speaker 1: famous fleeting it always will be, it always is, especially
51:40
Speaker 1: in in reality world. Um. And so I hope that
51:44
Speaker 1: the people that are involved from here on out understand
51:46
Speaker 1: that no matter how memorable they are, no matter how
51:49
Speaker 1: unique they are, no matter what they do, if they
51:53
Speaker 1: make a fool themselves or their stand up people, that
51:56
Speaker 1: they will be forgotten and that they aren't the biggest
51:59
Speaker 1: thing out there. So I hope the cast can kind
52:03
Speaker 1: of take a switch back and we can get back
52:04
Speaker 1: to people pursuing love, which Ben, we hope that you
52:07
Speaker 1: do on this season of Bachelor in Paradise, we will
52:10
Speaker 1: watch anxiously. I will as a friend to see if
52:13
Speaker 1: you're with anybody, because honestly, I don't know because you
52:15
Speaker 1: don't tell us anything on our thread. So, Ben, thanks
52:19
Speaker 1: for joining the Almost Famous podcast. Thank you, Ben, so
52:21
Speaker 1: glad to know you now. Thanks for having me gright.
52:25
Speaker 1: So what's your thoughts on Ben? Women love him? Huh
52:27
Speaker 1: oh Yeah, he's like such a like a big, nice,
52:29
Speaker 1: warm teddy bear. I mean, like I'm not just saying
52:32
Speaker 1: like in a teddy bear way, like I feel like
52:33
Speaker 1: coming off the season the Bachelor, he was actually maybe
52:38
Speaker 1: desired more to be the Bachelor than than anybody else. Um.
52:41
Speaker 1: I just I think women just really have this infatuation
52:44
Speaker 1: with with Ben's orn. I think he's very masculine in
52:47
Speaker 1: appearance and in personality, you know, I think because he's
52:51
Speaker 1: a little bit more mysterious because he doesn't show too
52:53
Speaker 1: much emotion. There's just something manly about that, and it's
52:57
Speaker 1: a mystery that they kind of want to crack. I'll
53:01
Speaker 1: be very interested in watching Ben out from here on
53:03
Speaker 1: out in Paradise. He was one of my favorite cast
53:05
Speaker 1: members going and I was really excited to see exactly
53:07
Speaker 1: who he is and how he deals with the pressures
53:11
Speaker 1: and the people involved, because we didn't get to see
53:13
Speaker 1: a lot of him on Caitlin season speaking because now
53:16
Speaker 1: he's on weight. Who are you h So nobody really, Um,
53:21
Speaker 1: we're running into our final segment here and I know
53:24
Speaker 1: this is one of your favorite segments and so take
53:26
Speaker 1: it away. Okay. So one quick moment for an email
53:29
Speaker 1: from Michelle. She says, HI, question for you, is it
53:33
Speaker 1: weird for the Bachelor franchise that in Paradise it's pretty
53:37
Speaker 1: much everyone's ex is getting together. Is it weird for Rachel,
53:40
Speaker 1: Ben and Jojo to see their past contestants there are
53:43
Speaker 1: other people hooking up with each other? And then is
53:46
Speaker 1: it weird for previous Bachelor in Paradise cast members to
53:48
Speaker 1: see the people that they've had connections with on the
53:51
Speaker 1: show hooking up with others? And the answer to your
53:53
Speaker 1: question is yes, Like I don't like it? Did did
54:03
Speaker 1: I have some thoughts about Wells being there this season
54:07
Speaker 1: and being like, oh, this sucks. I don't want him
54:10
Speaker 1: to go. I don't want to see him making out
54:11
Speaker 1: with anyone else, Like I just like it's natural. It's
54:15
Speaker 1: just a natural thing. You're gonna have to experience. It's
54:17
Speaker 1: actually it's a jealousy is a natural thing to experience,
54:20
Speaker 1: but having to watch your x is make out with
54:23
Speaker 1: somebody else on TV is very unnatural. Yeah, I would
54:26
Speaker 1: say the same. I mean, but I actually want to
54:28
Speaker 1: ask you. I mean, you're a little bit more emotionally
54:29
Speaker 1: attached than most like you. Do you do you give
54:32
Speaker 1: your full hearts to these people that you meet, Um,
54:34
Speaker 1: they're not only this the show, but also outside of
54:37
Speaker 1: the show. Do you think your thoughts and your feelings
54:39
Speaker 1: are similar to how everybody else's is on the franchise?
54:42
Speaker 1: I guess it just depends who you're talking to. I mean, yeah,
54:45
Speaker 1: I do think that I have my my emotions are
54:47
Speaker 1: stronger than most. But Jojo, I mean, I can't really
54:51
Speaker 1: put it. I don't know. I can't really flip this
54:54
Speaker 1: on you, you know what I mean? Because you're very
54:57
Speaker 1: happy with Lauren when you went on to watch Joe Joe,
55:00
Speaker 1: you with other guys. Yeah. No, I was saying the
55:03
Speaker 1: same thing as I was reading this question, was I
55:05
Speaker 1: can't really relate with this like I mean, I guess
55:07
Speaker 1: I can in a sense of some of the women
55:10
Speaker 1: from the season the Bachelor that I was a part
55:12
Speaker 1: of are now on paradise. They're still on paradise. Um.
55:15
Speaker 1: But it never has really been hard for me because
55:17
Speaker 1: once I left the show, I was happy, and then
55:20
Speaker 1: all I really wanted was for the women that I
55:21
Speaker 1: think are great. I mean, I think Amanda is wonderful.
55:24
Speaker 1: She's a great mom, she's a great person. I had
55:26
Speaker 1: to blast with her, um, and I've gotten to watch
55:29
Speaker 1: her now. Um. You know, she's good friends with Laurence,
55:31
Speaker 1: she's best friends with Lawrence. So I don't get to
55:33
Speaker 1: talk to Amanda, and I don't necessarily know where we stand.
55:36
Speaker 1: But I'm happy to see her happy. And that's really it,
55:38
Speaker 1: you know. Um, I can't really relate with the fact
55:42
Speaker 1: that I get jealous because there's been no residual feelings
55:45
Speaker 1: post Bachelor for me, right, and I always have residual feelings.
55:49
Speaker 1: Let's be real. Um. Okay, So I guess that's it.
55:55
Speaker 1: We're gonna do more reader emails next week. Make sure
55:58
Speaker 1: to email Benn and Ashley. I heart media dot com
56:01
Speaker 1: if you want your questions answered on air. Love you
56:04
Speaker 1: so so much, and I love you Ben, I love
56:07
Speaker 1: you Ashley. Actually, I uh, I mean we we said
56:10
Speaker 1: it last time, we'll say it again. Like it is
56:11
Speaker 1: incredible that we have listeners and sponsors that allow us
56:15
Speaker 1: to work together to just talk. And it is one
56:18
Speaker 1: of my favorite parts of the week, if not my
56:20
Speaker 1: favorite is getting to talk to you about all the ridiculous, ridiculousness,
56:25
Speaker 1: all the love, all the memories. UM, ask you the best. Actually,
56:28
Speaker 1: I think today let's try something different. How about you
56:31
Speaker 1: close this out? Okay you guys, UM, if you want
56:34
Speaker 1: to have a free moment, you should go listen to
56:36
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson's Free Willy Song and make yourself feel good.
56:39
Speaker 1: And until then, I have been Ashley and I have
56:43
Speaker 1: been been, and this has been the Almost Famous podcast.
56:48
Speaker 1: Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast on
56:51
Speaker 1: iHeart Radio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.