Latest / The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast / Popping Off with Sharleen Joynt
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I almost famous podcast
- 0:03Speaker 1: with our radio Ashley, I canetti get to talk to
- 0:12Speaker 1: you to the first time in a long time. Last
- 0:15Speaker 1: week I felt like it was just cut short. You know,
- 0:18Speaker 1: the podcast was as long as we typically get to
- 0:21Speaker 1: have and today it's just you and I. It's actually
- 0:25Speaker 1: so nuts. The last time I was in this room
- 0:28Speaker 1: looking at you on Skype was like four weeks ago
- 0:32Speaker 1: because we did the Switchero podcast, then we did the
- 0:35Speaker 1: NAPA Valley one, and then last week we were remote.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Isn't that sad? We're back and there's so much to
- 0:42Speaker 1: talk about. I'm telling you, it's wild to think that
- 0:45Speaker 1: we're less than a month away from the start of
- 0:49Speaker 1: the Bachelor At Before we jump into Bachelor At talk, Ashley,
- 0:55Speaker 1: I know that there's been some things going on in
- 0:57Speaker 1: your life that have kind of had, you know, a
- 0:59Speaker 1: little funking. So if any of our listeners out there going,
- 1:02Speaker 1: you know what, actually, just she she feels a little
- 1:05Speaker 1: heavy today. Just her spirit is a little bit heavier
- 1:09Speaker 1: than what we're used to. Ashley. We need help. You
- 1:13Speaker 1: need help more than I do. I need a lot
- 1:15Speaker 1: of help most of the time in my life. All right,
- 1:16Speaker 1: now you need help, and we're gonna open up to
- 1:19Speaker 1: our listeners to help be your counselor. And so listeners,
- 1:23Speaker 1: here's how it's gonna go. Actually, gonna give you a
- 1:25Speaker 1: little background, tell you about the story that's happening. I
- 1:27Speaker 1: have very little advice for her because I haven't dealt
- 1:31Speaker 1: with this situation before in my life. And then we're
- 1:33Speaker 1: gonna ask you to email us at Ben and Ashley
- 1:35Speaker 1: I heart media dot com all of your suggestions, all
- 1:38Speaker 1: of your insights, all of your knowledge, all of your
- 1:41Speaker 1: sweet little words of help and care for Ashley and Jared.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Ashley and Jared, you actually you're going through a really
- 1:47Speaker 1: tough time. Jared's there beside you. Let's talk about it.
- 1:51Speaker 1: You're definitely making it sound like it's some serious relationship
- 1:54Speaker 1: issue and actually has to do with a dog. Guys. Ever,
- 1:57Speaker 1: everyone out there, So about a week ago, my my
- 2:02Speaker 1: sister has actually been trying to get this dog adopted
- 2:05Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks now because she has this
- 2:07Speaker 1: friend at school whose mother in law is was wanting
- 2:12Speaker 1: to get rid of their twelve and a half year
- 2:14Speaker 1: old Lab German Shepherd mix and she just she used
- 2:20Speaker 1: to take it for like one walk a day. She
- 2:22Speaker 1: was overtaking care of it. The ladies older I wouldn't
- 2:26Speaker 1: say necessarily old enough that she couldn't take care of
- 2:28Speaker 1: a dog or like debilitated in any way. But they
- 2:32Speaker 1: decided to not just take the dog out for a
- 2:35Speaker 1: one walk a day, but that they were going to
- 2:38Speaker 1: move into an apartment complex that no that didn't accept dogs,
- 2:44Speaker 1: so they were just going to bring the dog to
- 2:46Speaker 1: the pound a shelter, just be done with a dog
- 2:49Speaker 1: after twelve and a half years, which just makes me
- 2:52Speaker 1: like sad to my soul that anybody would do that.
- 2:55Speaker 1: I I'm sorry, I'm judging them. It's very, very crazy
- 2:59Speaker 1: for me to think that like this, this soul that
- 3:03Speaker 1: has been in your life for so long, you can
- 3:05Speaker 1: just throw it away. Basically, so, my sister and I
- 3:09Speaker 1: we've adopted three dogs over the past three years, which
- 3:13Speaker 1: is insane, and we have no more room. We have
- 3:15Speaker 1: two dogs that live with us of the ones that
- 3:17Speaker 1: we've adopted, and one lives with my parents. We have
- 3:21Speaker 1: we have no more room to take care of this dog.
- 3:23Speaker 1: But last week, Jared and I were away for about
- 3:26Speaker 1: ten days, so my sister said that she was going
- 3:28Speaker 1: to take the dog in, tried finding a home, and
- 3:31Speaker 1: then deal with it when we came back, because she
- 3:34Speaker 1: could deal with two dogs in the house. So Jared
- 3:38Speaker 1: and I get home last night and the situation isn't good.
- 3:42Speaker 1: It's just our dog Lois was not having another dog
- 3:46Speaker 1: in the house and we can't deal with it either.
- 3:49Speaker 1: There's that we try to separate them. They were getting
- 3:52Speaker 1: kind of violent and they were just like scratching at
- 3:55Speaker 1: the doors and barking whatever. They couldn't get with each other.
- 3:58Speaker 1: And I'm obviously going on to tangent. You don't need
- 4:01Speaker 1: to know all this detail. What makes me sad is
- 4:04Speaker 1: that Jared had to go and this after this morning,
- 4:07Speaker 1: this morning um bring him to We wanted to take
- 4:11Speaker 1: him to a sanctuary, which is basically where old dogs
- 4:15Speaker 1: who don't have homes or have been given up or
- 4:18Speaker 1: have um owners that have passed away going to run free. Well,
- 4:23Speaker 1: we learned when he took the dog to the sanctuary
- 4:26Speaker 1: that those dogs actually come from shelters. Like the sanctuaries
- 4:30Speaker 1: go to shelters and seek out old dogs so that
- 4:32Speaker 1: they can live their last years and happiness. So the
- 4:36Speaker 1: only option we really have is to bring this dog
- 4:39Speaker 1: to the shelter now, which was what the whole the
- 4:43Speaker 1: whole process over the past couple of weeks has been
- 4:45Speaker 1: trying to avoid. But we don't know what else there
- 4:48Speaker 1: is to do. And it just sucks because I feel
- 4:50Speaker 1: like I want to help every other dog in this world,
- 4:53Speaker 1: and I think about all the dogs and shelters and like,
- 4:56Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? I donate to the A
- 4:58Speaker 1: B C. A. I don't. I adopted three dogs, but
- 5:02Speaker 1: this time there's like nothing I can do to help.
- 5:05Speaker 1: And it sucks. And if any you guys are listening
- 5:08Speaker 1: and you live in southern California or you want to
- 5:11Speaker 1: take the drive out here and you want to give
- 5:14Speaker 1: a twelve and a half year old dog a lawn
- 5:18Speaker 1: d run in for the last couple of years of
- 5:21Speaker 1: the last maybe a year of its life. I mean
- 5:23Speaker 1: a German Shepherd lab mix. I can't imagine it's gonna
- 5:26Speaker 1: last much longer than like thirteen and a half years. Um, yeah,
- 5:30Speaker 1: you can let me know. I'm gonna put on my
- 5:31Speaker 1: Instagram and uh then I know you have nothing else
- 5:35Speaker 1: to say about this. No I do, But what I
- 5:39Speaker 1: think this is a really tough real life situation. And
- 5:44Speaker 1: to sum up Ashley's story. Please email us at been
- 5:47Speaker 1: an Ashley I Heart media dot com with all of
- 5:51Speaker 1: your insights into this. This is just tough. We got
- 5:54Speaker 1: a dog that's getting old. Ashley's heart is heavy, Jared's
- 5:57Speaker 1: heart is heavy. It's not a situation that's working off
- 6:00Speaker 1: with two of them. And on top of that, they
- 6:01Speaker 1: travel at the time, so this poor dog would be
- 6:03Speaker 1: sitting alone in their apartment really upset with this small,
- 6:06Speaker 1: little white dog that's been around the beginning, so little
- 6:09Speaker 1: small white dogs. We've got two small white dogs and
- 6:11Speaker 1: we have them portable size so that we can travel
- 6:15Speaker 1: with them. Because Gurgy and Lois go everywhere. They go
- 6:17Speaker 1: on planes all the time. This dog can't go on planes.
- 6:20Speaker 1: And that was even if they did get along. So
- 6:23Speaker 1: please email us all of your thoughts, all of your questions,
- 6:25Speaker 1: all of your insight. Just is just Ashley's and Jared's
- 6:28Speaker 1: real life being displayed here on this podcast almost famous podcast.
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- 8:04Speaker 1: today one of We've gotten so many emails on the
- 8:08Speaker 1: Almost Famous Podcast about this next guest since the very beginning.
- 8:13Speaker 1: I bet this next guest has gotten at least top
- 8:16Speaker 1: five amount of emails from any person that we haven't
- 8:18Speaker 1: had on the show yet. This person is somebody that
- 8:21Speaker 1: a lot of us in Batchelor Nation look up to.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Is good friends with the masses on the Bachelor Nation,
- 8:27Speaker 1: and Ashley Connettie loves her a ton. We also have
- 8:31Speaker 1: a new producer who's sitting in studio right now named Danielle.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Danielle just say hi real quick. And Danielle has a
- 8:38Speaker 1: story to share with our next guest once we bring
- 8:41Speaker 1: her on. Why wait, let's bring it on now. Charlene
- 8:44Speaker 1: Joint Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Thank you for
- 8:48Speaker 1: having me, guys, I am honored to be here. Yeah, Charlene,
- 8:51Speaker 1: how are we done this podcast for two years? I
- 8:53Speaker 1: think this is like almost our two year anniversary, Ben,
- 8:55Speaker 1: and we've never had Charlie. That's freaking weird. Honestly, I
- 8:59Speaker 1: think an we're getting weird. That I'm here like I cannot.
- 9:02Speaker 1: I'm shocked that people have requested me thank you. Surely
- 9:07Speaker 1: there's something about you that people still like even though
- 9:11Speaker 1: you didn't. You weren't on the show during the Instagram age.
- 9:14Speaker 1: People I love you still talk about you to this day.
- 9:19Speaker 1: I'm flattered. Thank you. Also have our producer here wants
- 9:26Speaker 1: to tell a little story about your ringy dinghy. This
- 9:29Speaker 1: is a really random story. But I just got married
- 9:31Speaker 1: in October and um, but when we were going through
- 9:38Speaker 1: the whole ring shopping phase, I had sent him, my husband,
- 9:43Speaker 1: a picture of your ring because I loved it. And
- 9:46Speaker 1: it was a random picture of you, like eating an
- 9:48Speaker 1: ice cream sandwich with your engagement ring, and that's what
- 9:53Speaker 1: I used to pick up my ring. And I have
- 9:56Speaker 1: a very similar ring to yours. That makes I know
- 9:59Speaker 1: exactly the a you're talking about. And actually my biggest
- 10:02Speaker 1: takeaway from that everyone was like giving me a break
- 10:04Speaker 1: because photos my big takeaway from that photo. But I'm
- 10:10Speaker 1: so happy that you got your right. Thank you. This
- 10:15Speaker 1: is uh, this is actually Charlie. This is Daniel's very
- 10:18Speaker 1: first podcast with almost famous podcast, and she let us
- 10:22Speaker 1: know right away. I mean, how crazy is it that
- 10:25Speaker 1: your inspiration has allowed her to have a voice on
- 10:28Speaker 1: this podcast on day one. That's a really great story.
- 10:34Speaker 1: I'm happy to hear it. Well, thank you, I appreciate it.
- 10:36Speaker 1: My husband thanks you as well, because it was very
- 10:38Speaker 1: easy for him to figure it out. Yeah, I was
- 10:42Speaker 1: less easy with with the ring. He was like, what
- 10:45Speaker 1: do you want. I'm like, I don't know. I'll know
- 10:46Speaker 1: when I see it. So, Charlene, we have a segment
- 10:52Speaker 1: on this podcast and I don't I feel I don't,
- 10:55Speaker 1: I feel wrong. Don't say it. Then I have to
- 10:57Speaker 1: say no, no, I don't like it. I saw it
- 10:59Speaker 1: all the run down on all get I don't like
- 11:01Speaker 1: it either, But we're gonna do it. Charlene, I asked
- 11:03Speaker 1: for a little bit of grace in this moment because
- 11:05Speaker 1: we've had a segment that means nothing more than the
- 11:10Speaker 1: fact that you're coming on and that you've been on
- 11:12Speaker 1: the show in the past. But in the offseason, we
- 11:14Speaker 1: bring us somebody on that says, who the heck are you?
- 11:17Speaker 1: Because what the whole segments supposed to be is people
- 11:20Speaker 1: from Bachelor Nation that our love, that are cared about,
- 11:22Speaker 1: that have been requested by our listeners, but we've maybe
- 11:25Speaker 1: missed them and haven't heard from them in a while.
- 11:28Speaker 1: So Charlene, welcome to the who the heck are you? Segment?
- 11:34Speaker 1: That's uh with that? Can you please catch any listeners
- 11:39Speaker 1: up because now, I mean it's weird. I just turned
- 11:42Speaker 1: thirty and Ashley's into thirties. It's been a while since
- 11:45Speaker 1: some of us have been on the show. Just in
- 11:47Speaker 1: case there's some listeners out there to maybe in their
- 11:49Speaker 1: teens and thenn't watch the show when you were on,
- 11:52Speaker 1: can you please give all of our listeners a little
- 11:54Speaker 1: rundown of what your season was like, who season you're
- 11:56Speaker 1: on and why people may know you. Oh, I have
- 12:01Speaker 1: to do this little man um. So I was on
- 12:04Speaker 1: the show five years ago. I was on one Pablo
- 12:08Speaker 1: Susan And when I say that, it usually elicits grown,
- 12:12Speaker 1: but he actually wasn't so bad. And yeah, on my
- 12:17Speaker 1: claim to say, I guess are leaving on my own
- 12:22Speaker 1: m being an office singer. Actually the that's sent about right. Yeah.
- 12:26Speaker 1: What I love about Charlene is that if you do
- 12:29Speaker 1: follow her blog all the pretty pandas dot com she does,
- 12:34Speaker 1: you do it's in coordination with another magazine. What's the
- 12:37Speaker 1: magazine called? That you do your reviews with Yeah Flare,
- 12:40Speaker 1: I like using articles with them, and you talked about
- 12:43Speaker 1: this before about a recapping. You are notorious recaper, though
- 12:48Speaker 1: you're so good at them. I feel the same way
- 12:51Speaker 1: about you. Thank you well, thank you for I honestly
- 12:54Speaker 1: think that I was inspired by your recap is because
- 12:56Speaker 1: they are very authentic and you're not afraid to talk
- 12:58Speaker 1: about what goes on behind the scenes. You're also not
- 13:00Speaker 1: afraid to defend people, um who may not look that
- 13:05Speaker 1: good because you're able to see it from a different
- 13:07Speaker 1: perspective and you're able to like give a little bit
- 13:09Speaker 1: of an insight as to what you think they may
- 13:11Speaker 1: have been thinking in that moment. I appreciate that. I mean,
- 13:14Speaker 1: I really I try and darn to do that. I
- 13:17Speaker 1: don't know what something about going on this show and like,
- 13:20Speaker 1: and it's not even like I watched myself back and
- 13:23Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's so tordly not who I am.
- 13:26Speaker 1: It's more that I don't know. You feel like there's
- 13:28Speaker 1: so much less unsaid and there's so much more to
- 13:31Speaker 1: every person on the show. It's like I kind of
- 13:32Speaker 1: kind a bit of a chip on my shoulder. I
- 13:34Speaker 1: guess right, the wrongs I guess why is it? I mean,
- 13:39Speaker 1: I do see oftentimes during a season that your name
- 13:42Speaker 1: is brought up on defending somebody for you know, the
- 13:45Speaker 1: actions that were being taken, that were being done. Why
- 13:47Speaker 1: do you feel like that is your role? Or why
- 13:49Speaker 1: is that chip existing on your shoulder? I don't know
- 13:54Speaker 1: if I'm always defending people. I guess it's hard to
- 13:58Speaker 1: I mean, you can go to test for this, but
- 14:00Speaker 1: when you sit on the show, it's hard to not
- 14:02Speaker 1: watch it through the lens of a former contestant. And
- 14:05Speaker 1: when you hear someone sentence was clearly chopped up or
- 14:09Speaker 1: you know how obviously some things are out of order chronologically.
- 14:16Speaker 1: I just can't help myself, Like I'm I want people
- 14:19Speaker 1: to know it's even and sometimes it'll work in someone's
- 14:22Speaker 1: favor and sometimes it won't. Like I am not afraid
- 14:24Speaker 1: to jump on the bandwick and when I think someone's
- 14:28Speaker 1: behaving badly, but when I think it's truly just a
- 14:30Speaker 1: matter of lack of self awareness and maybe you know,
- 14:34Speaker 1: trusting the producing a little too much, Like I cannot
- 14:37Speaker 1: keep that to myself. I mean I look back on
- 14:42Speaker 1: your season, right and I remember watching and I know
- 14:46Speaker 1: that you and actually have a good friendship out that
- 14:48Speaker 1: I don't know a lot of the women on my
- 14:50Speaker 1: season really appreciate you as well. I've heard your name
- 14:52Speaker 1: brought up many times, but I remember, and we haven't
- 14:55Speaker 1: talked about a ton on this podcast, but I remember
- 14:57Speaker 1: watching your season of The Bachelor and Wan Pablo was
- 15:01Speaker 1: the Bachelor at the time, and he was obviously criticized
- 15:05Speaker 1: and still is to this day as not being the
- 15:08Speaker 1: most likable bachelor in history. Do you defend him? Do
- 15:12Speaker 1: you agree with the masses? Do you get where everybody's
- 15:15Speaker 1: coming from? I defend him on a near daily basis,
- 15:19Speaker 1: and not not you know, like, oh, he's still wonderful
- 15:23Speaker 1: kind of way, just you know, especially when it's been
- 15:25Speaker 1: five years and bears than the show. It's one of
- 15:27Speaker 1: the defining features of my you know, bachelor experience that
- 15:31Speaker 1: I was on kids season and he's still well known
- 15:33Speaker 1: for being you know, so quote unquote terrible, but I,
- 15:39Speaker 1: you know, being on the other side of an advoc
- 15:40Speaker 1: contestant onto season, he was truly a gentleman for me,
- 15:45Speaker 1: and he was just not I think he has cursed
- 15:50Speaker 1: is that he wasn't able to sort of go through
- 15:52Speaker 1: the motions and you know, he didn't do things just
- 15:56Speaker 1: for the sake of what there was the right thing
- 15:57Speaker 1: to do, And I think it that really does not
- 16:01Speaker 1: translate well on TV, especially when you're dealing with people's
- 16:04Speaker 1: feelings and women who like checked us a lot to
- 16:06Speaker 1: be there, it just makes them seem, you know, like Talus.
- 16:11Speaker 1: But truly, if you were looking at the way he
- 16:14Speaker 1: behaved in like a real world sense, he was simply
- 16:17Speaker 1: more interested in some women than others and didn't really
- 16:20Speaker 1: have the time with a patient to pretend. He just
- 16:25Speaker 1: wasn't a good pretender. I think, oh he was terrible pretender.
- 16:29Speaker 1: I still remember like at the tail and this my
- 16:32Speaker 1: second one on one, we had to do this like
- 16:35Speaker 1: responsive things for these like cattleboards that had life coming
- 16:39Speaker 1: out of the bottom, and we were just exhausted with
- 16:41Speaker 1: the end, you know, at the end of the date.
- 16:42Speaker 1: But I feel like any other back to be like, Okay,
- 16:44Speaker 1: well you know, let's do it. Let's go out on
- 16:47Speaker 1: these paddle boards and make out on the paddle bow
- 16:49Speaker 1: of the night. And he was just like he was
- 16:51Speaker 1: like a little bit about it. It's not she was like,
- 16:55Speaker 1: I don't want to do this, but I don't want
- 16:56Speaker 1: to do this paddleboard scene, and it was like, you know,
- 16:59Speaker 1: I didn't mind, Like I didn't really want to do
- 17:02Speaker 1: it either, But I do feel like, you know, nine
- 17:04Speaker 1: out a Bachelors, and I'm sure you would have been like,
- 17:07Speaker 1: all right, we'll do it. Do the battle productions hated him. Yeah,
- 17:14Speaker 1: It's like he made all these little things so much
- 17:16Speaker 1: more difficult than they had to be. There's no question. Yeah,
- 17:20Speaker 1: is that a bad thing that I would have done it? Yeah,
- 17:21Speaker 1: I definitely wouldn't. So I actually think that you were
- 17:25Speaker 1: one of You're one of the most loved to this day.
- 17:28Speaker 1: Whenever anyone I talked about the show, anyone like you
- 17:30Speaker 1: were the season that people remember like you were like
- 17:33Speaker 1: the you know, the ultimate Bachlor. It's true. I'm not
- 17:38Speaker 1: just right now, I'm gonna talk to you. And Ashley first,
- 17:41Speaker 1: Sank actually gets to talk to me every week. She's
- 17:44Speaker 1: one of the my closest friends in this Batchelor world.
- 17:47Speaker 1: And Charlene, I do hear from most people. Most of
- 17:50Speaker 1: the women on my season or women I read, they
- 17:52Speaker 1: love you, they appreciate, they do look up to you.
- 17:55Speaker 1: I don't know you personally, but you must have something
- 17:58Speaker 1: about you that that other women and other men when
- 18:00Speaker 1: they're around you to go, yeah, she's somebody that I
- 18:02Speaker 1: just enjoy, appreciate or find interesting. So so let's talk
- 18:07Speaker 1: for a second, because you just said something that we've
- 18:09Speaker 1: never touched on in this podcast. If this is true, right,
- 18:13Speaker 1: and I'm not claiming it's not, because I do hear
- 18:15Speaker 1: that you know you are one of the most favorite batchelers,
- 18:18Speaker 1: or maybe the statement is, um, you were the best
- 18:21Speaker 1: bachelor or you did it the best. It's starting to
- 18:24Speaker 1: feel more and more. Not to interrupt, but I've never
- 18:27Speaker 1: I'm very good friends with I've told them that, well,
- 18:34Speaker 1: that's fair, you're honest, and I appreciate that. But here's
- 18:36Speaker 1: here's what's happening. As time goes on, it's feeling less
- 18:40Speaker 1: and less like a compliment, and it's feeling more and
- 18:42Speaker 1: more like I'm a little bit insecure when somebody says
- 18:44Speaker 1: it because and because of what you just said before
- 18:48Speaker 1: with you know, he couldn't fake it or whatever he was,
- 18:52Speaker 1: he just had to be to himself the whole time.
- 18:55Speaker 1: For me, even though I didn't fake it. And there's
- 18:57Speaker 1: very few moments I could name a b two that
- 19:01Speaker 1: I was in a situation that I just didn't want
- 19:03Speaker 1: to be in and I did it for the sake
- 19:04Speaker 1: of the show. And I could, I could name those
- 19:07Speaker 1: I'm just not going to because it be offensive to
- 19:09Speaker 1: the person that I was on the date with or around.
- 19:12Speaker 1: But but for the most part, I really did try
- 19:16Speaker 1: to do it to the betterment of the women, to myself,
- 19:20Speaker 1: and to the production team, because there's two undred people
- 19:22Speaker 1: that worked that show and that rely on this show
- 19:24Speaker 1: to make them a living. Is it a compliment? Should
- 19:28Speaker 1: I kind of cringe when I'm told it? Or should
- 19:31Speaker 1: I let it soak in and enjoy it and take
- 19:34Speaker 1: it with me now as my life continues and the
- 19:37Speaker 1: Bachelor becomes lesser part of my legacy, should I hold
- 19:39Speaker 1: that close to my heart and say no, I did this? Well, yes, yeah, yeah,
- 19:45Speaker 1: I agree to. I mean, editing on an easy thing
- 19:48Speaker 1: to do. I think possibly you could have been more
- 19:52Speaker 1: true to yourself and like freed yourself up a bit,
- 19:57Speaker 1: like because you probably felt like you're holding onto like
- 19:59Speaker 1: a lot of tension at that time because you were
- 20:01Speaker 1: trying to be so well behaved. But I think for
- 20:05Speaker 1: the sake of the girls on the show and for
- 20:07Speaker 1: the sake of the whole crew, you did a very
- 20:11Speaker 1: lovely thing for them and for what it's worth, I think,
- 20:15Speaker 1: I mean, audiences are not dumb, like they can tell
- 20:17Speaker 1: when someone is taking it. Like it was clear you're
- 20:20Speaker 1: just a considerate perceptive because like courteous person like, yeah,
- 20:26Speaker 1: you might have done a couple of things you didn't
- 20:27Speaker 1: want to do, but I've never doos the thing when
- 20:29Speaker 1: anyone thinks somebody is taking it even slightly. People are
- 20:32Speaker 1: not a pretty clip that you know. Like, so you
- 20:35Speaker 1: just seemed like well behaved and well spoken. It didn't
- 20:39Speaker 1: seem like you were putting on anything. I think that
- 20:42Speaker 1: that's something you should just let wash over you and
- 20:44Speaker 1: give you a warm, steady feeling. Yeah, that's a nice
- 20:47Speaker 1: thing because you are just like you put other people's
- 20:50Speaker 1: feelings and like their jobs before yours, and that's beautiful.
- 20:56Speaker 1: It is true. And further director the context of the
- 21:01Speaker 1: whole tattle board with the lights, you know, the context
- 21:03Speaker 1: of that was that was a moment where I could
- 21:05Speaker 1: see why he wasn't like, you know, we might call
- 21:08Speaker 1: them a little bit about it, I don't. I think
- 21:11Speaker 1: that it's just something of which to be proud that
- 21:13Speaker 1: you would have done it even though you were tired.
- 21:15Speaker 1: You didn't want to do it. It's one of the
- 21:17Speaker 1: things you sign up for if your duty is that,
- 21:20Speaker 1: yeah it is, and then you know it is. It's
- 21:22Speaker 1: just an interesting world to live in. But you get
- 21:25Speaker 1: I mean, I hope you understand where I'm where I'm
- 21:27Speaker 1: coming from when I say yeah. Now, as I get
- 21:28Speaker 1: older and it's it's farther and farther in the past,
- 21:31Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like as much of a compliment as
- 21:34Speaker 1: maybe it did when it first happened, and people like
- 21:36Speaker 1: your loved I was telling Colteness together night I was
- 21:39Speaker 1: with Colton. It's like Colton people a doory. They love you, um,
- 21:43Speaker 1: but just know that, like that's not going to be
- 21:46Speaker 1: that cool anymore in five years, Like you being a
- 21:49Speaker 1: good bachelor isn't that tight? Ones like you know you
- 21:53Speaker 1: have you know, hopefully Cassie and him have kids or
- 21:56Speaker 1: they get married or whatever. And then like the pressures
- 21:59Speaker 1: of a job start setting it again, and the world
- 22:01Speaker 1: stops recognizing you, and then you're you know, getting asked
- 22:05Speaker 1: to show up two shows and everybody else is like
- 22:07Speaker 1: twenty six years old, just getting off the show, and
- 22:09Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, I'm thirty four to meet and greet
- 22:11Speaker 1: this sounds great. Um, you know. So the other side
- 22:14Speaker 1: of that coin is in five years, you know you'll
- 22:18Speaker 1: remember this so fondly and it'll be such a non
- 22:21Speaker 1: part of your life side. It'll just be a pleasant surprise,
- 22:25Speaker 1: isn't When you hear it, it'll be a little tripped
- 22:28Speaker 1: down memory lane, you know, as he was on the
- 22:30Speaker 1: show five years ago, when someone you know miraculously recognize
- 22:35Speaker 1: as me or tells me that they read my blog,
- 22:38Speaker 1: it's I you know, it's it's kind of cool. Like
- 22:41Speaker 1: in the beginning that first year or two, it's full on.
- 22:44Speaker 1: We all know that, and I'm sure you guys still
- 22:46Speaker 1: experience that quite a bit. But as it stay, it's like,
- 22:51Speaker 1: it's for the most part, really cool. But that said,
- 22:53Speaker 1: when someone does remember you, that means it pretty die hard.
- 22:56Speaker 1: It's been five years and it's just it's so nice.
- 22:59Speaker 1: So and you know, it takes the time out of
- 23:03Speaker 1: their day to tell them to tell you that you
- 23:05Speaker 1: made an impact of Oh, I'm saying it's enjoyous. That's
- 23:09Speaker 1: what we're taking it. Then, yes, I agree, Charlene. I
- 23:15Speaker 1: have so many questions for you, but I'm gonna get
- 23:18Speaker 1: like We're gonna get like a little bit like dirty Now.
- 23:22Speaker 1: I always say that because I want to get some
- 23:24Speaker 1: juice out of you. Who are you? Who are you
- 23:28Speaker 1: friends with on your season that you're still friends with today? Um?
- 23:34Speaker 1: You know time taps is it's it's not just to
- 23:36Speaker 1: make it sound like I'm not friends like the people
- 23:38Speaker 1: that I was really close with straight off my season
- 23:40Speaker 1: or Kelly, Um, Nicky, somewhat Andy Dorkman and uh Cat Okay, so,
- 23:50Speaker 1: but like you, I don't know none of them live
- 23:52Speaker 1: in the city election that's what Andy business city. It's
- 23:55Speaker 1: just like, you don't what brought you together with this
- 23:58Speaker 1: unique experience and if you don't have that sort of
- 24:03Speaker 1: continuing on in your life, I don't know. It's I
- 24:06Speaker 1: don't have still will towards anyone. It's just sort of
- 24:09Speaker 1: like we're just not clot Like I still tech Kelly
- 24:12Speaker 1: all the time, and you're in touch with everyone, but
- 24:15Speaker 1: it's just not the same. It's the same degree. This
- 24:18Speaker 1: goes the beginning. It feels like you're going to get
- 24:21Speaker 1: tattoos forever, right, I know. It's so crazy how like
- 24:25Speaker 1: some of the strongest friendships are built on the show,
- 24:28Speaker 1: but then it's interesting which one's last and which ones
- 24:31Speaker 1: were like a star that just burned bright and then
- 24:36Speaker 1: burned out. It's like so weird, but something that I'm
- 24:39Speaker 1: experiencing now, And it's not just a bachelor thing. It's
- 24:42Speaker 1: something that I think a lot of girls experiences once
- 24:46Speaker 1: they find their guy and they're engaged and they're getting married,
- 24:49Speaker 1: friendships start changing. Because with all my single friends, I
- 24:54Speaker 1: used to just bond about being single and like guy
- 24:57Speaker 1: struggles and stuff with and now ever i've been with Jared,
- 25:00Speaker 1: you see like you don't relate to those friends as much,
- 25:04Speaker 1: or like you have other friends that are getting into
- 25:06Speaker 1: serious relationships as well. It's just it's a weird time
- 25:08Speaker 1: of life for female relationships. I think. I'm not sure, Ben,
- 25:11Speaker 1: do you do guys do the same thing, Like when
- 25:14Speaker 1: you do get coupled up, do you find yourself relying
- 25:17Speaker 1: less on your friendships and you just you just put
- 25:22Speaker 1: everything almost into the relationship. Uh, you know, It's it's interesting,
- 25:27Speaker 1: Charlie and I I don't know if you uh I've heard,
- 25:29Speaker 1: but I've had a girlfriend, a wonderful girlfriend who has
- 25:32Speaker 1: really made my life a lot better here in the
- 25:34Speaker 1: last couple of months. And I was telling Ashley about earlier,
- 25:36Speaker 1: and we had this conversation this weekend, Um, and one
- 25:40Speaker 1: of the things that we talked about was that we
- 25:42Speaker 1: we hope as a couple here as we do continue
- 25:45Speaker 1: to date and we do get closer and we do
- 25:47Speaker 1: start to build on, you know, the relationship we have,
- 25:50Speaker 1: that we never give up those friendships because I've seen
- 25:53Speaker 1: it happen. It's I've seen it happen in relationships around me,
- 25:56Speaker 1: and it becomes the relationship is just too dependent and
- 26:01Speaker 1: you're do to depend on each other, and that you
- 26:03Speaker 1: lost your kind of edge and you lost your factor
- 26:06Speaker 1: when it comes to you and your friends. You've lost
- 26:08Speaker 1: the ability to explore and adventure outside of your relationship.
- 26:11Speaker 1: And and so yes, I do think it happens to guys.
- 26:14Speaker 1: I think it's it is something that is a natural
- 26:17Speaker 1: transition because this person is your closest friend, your confidente,
- 26:20Speaker 1: your lover on on all levels, they know you best
- 26:22Speaker 1: and they care about you most. But there is still
- 26:25Speaker 1: that level of friendship that I think is vitally important
- 26:28Speaker 1: to keep, even if it doesn't always feel convenient. I
- 26:31Speaker 1: agree with you, Ben, but I think what I meant
- 26:33Speaker 1: more is like, do you have you have always been
- 26:36Speaker 1: the single guy of your married friends. So maybe you're
- 26:40Speaker 1: not relating the way that I'm talking about with Charlene, Like,
- 26:43Speaker 1: did you feel like once you got together with Andy
- 26:46Speaker 1: you had less things to talk about with your single
- 26:50Speaker 1: girlfriends who you always would just like complain about guys
- 26:53Speaker 1: or share dating stories with. Yeah? Um, yeah, so I
- 26:59Speaker 1: and I talked to that's this when we first met,
- 27:01Speaker 1: and it's it's very real, unfortunately with female friendships, but
- 27:05Speaker 1: actually with male for institute, But you can really tell
- 27:07Speaker 1: you who your friends are by not how say how
- 27:10Speaker 1: they are when things are rough. Everyone thinks it's all
- 27:13Speaker 1: about having a shoulder to cry on and like you're
- 27:15Speaker 1: there for me when the going got the going gets tough,
- 27:18Speaker 1: But it's actually opposite. It's when you're genuinely happy that
- 27:21Speaker 1: you can tell your true friends are interesting. It's sad, actually,
- 27:27Speaker 1: but I mean it was something that I'm sure you're
- 27:31Speaker 1: dealing with now and I have absolutely dealt with and
- 27:34Speaker 1: it does definitely make you, you know, just reconsider your
- 27:41Speaker 1: certain friendships for sure. Just to chime in then to
- 27:46Speaker 1: answer that I always have been the single we've talked
- 27:48Speaker 1: about in the podcast A bunch. My dynamic with my
- 27:51Speaker 1: friendships have. I've always been a single friend a bunch
- 27:54Speaker 1: of the married friends, and so I don't know what
- 27:57Speaker 1: that's going to look like or how it's changed for me,
- 27:59Speaker 1: because now I just feel like I fit into the
- 28:02Speaker 1: mold a little better. Right now, I'm a part of
- 28:04Speaker 1: the team and I'm not the outside. Look I'm not
- 28:06Speaker 1: on the outside looking in, you know, Like that's that's
- 28:11Speaker 1: kind of it is, where there's no longer the victim
- 28:14Speaker 1: mentality I can hold or the sympathy I get from
- 28:16Speaker 1: my friends on we're gonna find you somebody or that
- 28:19Speaker 1: person is waiting for you out there, they're gonna be there.
- 28:22Speaker 1: Now it's like, let's move on from that. Let's let's
- 28:25Speaker 1: make life happen, and I'm no longer your project. So
- 28:28Speaker 1: I think in that in that world, yes it happens, guys, girls, whatever. Yeah.
- 28:33Speaker 1: I always feel find myself feeling guilty when like I'm
- 28:37Speaker 1: talking about my relationship and then I'm looking over to
- 28:39Speaker 1: my single friend and I'll be like, we're gonna find
- 28:41Speaker 1: you someone, Like who can we set you up with?
- 28:44Speaker 1: It's just like, oh, it's just it's just a pity party,
- 28:45Speaker 1: and I don't it doesn't feel good. Yeah, I mean,
- 28:49Speaker 1: I know exactly the feeling where you actually are sort
- 28:52Speaker 1: of censoring what you're saying based on based under your
- 28:55Speaker 1: w Yeah. But god, you're like, you're so have everything
- 28:59Speaker 1: is so great. Just enjoy it. Yeah, all right, more
- 29:01Speaker 1: random questions for Charlene. Now, uh, well, actually this kind
- 29:05Speaker 1: of rolls over in that conversation. When it came to
- 29:08Speaker 1: inviting people from the Bachelor franchise to your wedding with Andy,
- 29:12Speaker 1: how'd that go about? How did you pick and choose
- 29:15Speaker 1: because we had some pretty famous faces there. We had Becca,
- 29:18Speaker 1: we had Nick, we had Chris souls Andy, how did
- 29:21Speaker 1: you go about that? Because it's it's a very sensitive
- 29:23Speaker 1: subject when because it's a family, it is and it's
- 29:27Speaker 1: kind it is a family, and it's also there are
- 29:29Speaker 1: a lot of huge and just sort of people that
- 29:34Speaker 1: you know, some people you're close with them, you should
- 29:36Speaker 1: be equally closed to someone else for you just you know,
- 29:38Speaker 1: you just don't really connect with them in the same way.
- 29:40Speaker 1: I'm sure you're facing this or have been facing it.
- 29:43Speaker 1: I just honestly, I was little ruthless when it came
- 29:47Speaker 1: to wedding stuff. We knew we wanted a hundred people,
- 29:49Speaker 1: and it just came down to like who I really
- 29:53Speaker 1: bond with and and it would matter to me that,
- 29:57Speaker 1: you know, wouldn't Russell Feathers down the line? If that
- 30:01Speaker 1: makes sense. That makes like there there was a sort
- 30:04Speaker 1: of hierarchy, like these are the most important people who
- 30:07Speaker 1: I'm super close with, and it's like, yeah, I could
- 30:09Speaker 1: invite this like other person, but if that primary person
- 30:12Speaker 1: is not thrilled about it, then I just you know,
- 30:14Speaker 1: I don't feel so passionately that I'm gonna go there.
- 30:18Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, this world is a funny one.
- 30:21Speaker 1: You know, only send me degrees of separation in every direction. Yeah,
- 30:25Speaker 1: I think, Jared and my general idea is that like
- 30:28Speaker 1: we're inviting bachelor family who has been with us through
- 30:32Speaker 1: it all and who we socialize with in a like
- 30:38Speaker 1: just like on our own, not a bachelor, not bachelor
- 30:41Speaker 1: of related events, not professional only events, just like people
- 30:44Speaker 1: who are actually part of our everyday life and yeah,
- 30:48Speaker 1: friendship with through all. Yeah, there, they serve a deeper
- 30:51Speaker 1: purpose for you in your life. And just like the
- 30:53Speaker 1: occasional Instagram photo right about them being there, Yeah, totally
- 30:57Speaker 1: so crystal exciting. It is a very citing. Thank you.
- 31:03Speaker 1: Um I met you at it was that the first
- 31:08Speaker 1: time we met, No we met before that we did.
- 31:12Speaker 1: I was wondering if you were going to bring this
- 31:14Speaker 1: up how we first met. Oh my god, we met
- 31:16Speaker 1: randomly in a Delhi. Oh my goodness. Okay, this is
- 31:20Speaker 1: a good this is a good story. So I was
- 31:23Speaker 1: in casting. I was through, like to like the talking
- 31:27Speaker 1: to the producer's face, not just like I had submitted
- 31:29Speaker 1: a tape. And Charlene was one of my favorites from
- 31:32Speaker 1: one Pablo season and I saw her in a deli
- 31:34Speaker 1: in New York and I went up to her. I go,
- 31:36Speaker 1: this is so awkward, but I'm in casting, in the process,
- 31:41Speaker 1: and do you have any advice for me? I still
- 31:45Speaker 1: feel like a why I do not remember what I
- 31:49Speaker 1: told you? Did you say, don't do it? I said
- 31:53Speaker 1: twice about Oh my god, how hilarious. I'll go down
- 31:58Speaker 1: in history. Is the worst I've ever given to any bachelor.
- 32:04Speaker 1: So funny. I mean, in my defense, I was like,
- 32:07Speaker 1: it was, you know, the period after the show where
- 32:09Speaker 1: it's hardest. But I still feel really bad about I
- 32:14Speaker 1: feel like it was during the airing or like one
- 32:16Speaker 1: month after one public season wrapped airing, because I think
- 32:18Speaker 1: it was like April or May of that I was
- 32:22Speaker 1: like a peak fame and teake like you know, criticism
- 32:27Speaker 1: from and just not not kind of wondering why I've
- 32:32Speaker 1: done it, and you know, it looked like it could
- 32:35Speaker 1: have possibly been back to my career, and it was
- 32:37Speaker 1: just like I was definitely not in like a rosy,
- 32:41Speaker 1: huge place about the show. Well, I was gonna say
- 32:46Speaker 1: it was like a backhanded compliment, but like I didn't
- 32:49Speaker 1: really remember your advice, So there you go. That's all
- 32:52Speaker 1: that's all you need. Yeah, I think I think we
- 32:54Speaker 1: exchanged numbers. And then you texted me when you were
- 32:58Speaker 1: doing casting weekend. Yeah, okay, yeah, I remember. And then
- 33:02Speaker 1: while you were filming, I had texted like a lawn
- 33:05Speaker 1: and I were texting and I told him about our
- 33:08Speaker 1: deli meat and he's so pun intended and he said,
- 33:13Speaker 1: um again, what did you tell her? And I was
- 33:16Speaker 1: like to thank you so much about doing that. He
- 33:18Speaker 1: was like, well, that's that's just that's a very funny story.
- 33:24Speaker 1: I saw you again when there was a taping for
- 33:28Speaker 1: Caitlyn season, the day in which Nick went on Caitlin Season,
- 33:33Speaker 1: Like all these monumental times and when it comes to
- 33:36Speaker 1: me and also your Valentine's Day event. Yeah, yeah, it
- 33:44Speaker 1: has good meat. How did you become good friends with Nick?
- 33:48Speaker 1: You know, I actually from my recap, I he was
- 33:53Speaker 1: a classic case of me defending the sort of villains.
- 33:57Speaker 1: I just really didn't think he was all that bad.
- 33:59Speaker 1: I found him pretty entertaining and he broke the fourth
- 34:03Speaker 1: wall a lot, and I really applaud that on my
- 34:05Speaker 1: you know, retract and like, yay breaking the fourth wall
- 34:09Speaker 1: looking into the camera. Um, and it's the greatnest thing
- 34:13Speaker 1: that can happen for the show. I mean, it's happening
- 34:17Speaker 1: more and more, and that's clearly less and less of
- 34:18Speaker 1: Freid to show it. But so we kind of, you know,
- 34:23Speaker 1: as it happens, we should have ended up d ning
- 34:25Speaker 1: each other and he's in the city doing I don't know,
- 34:28Speaker 1: some morning show and this is at the scale end
- 34:31Speaker 1: of um uh andy season obviously, and then we just
- 34:35Speaker 1: could have became grant. He became close with Andy as well,
- 34:38Speaker 1: because he's sort of he's one of our favorite third wheels. Okay,
- 34:46Speaker 1: So Chris Souls was invited to your wedding. He attended
- 34:48Speaker 1: your wedding, and it was, as far as I know,
- 34:54Speaker 1: one of his big outings after his accident. Is a
- 34:57Speaker 1: couple of months after his accident, he still keeping to
- 35:00Speaker 1: to Chris and how is he doing? Can you give
- 35:01Speaker 1: us us an update on that? Um? Yeah, I mean
- 35:04Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not going to talk about yes, you know,
- 35:07Speaker 1: so we can understanding. But yeah, no, I've actually met Chris.
- 35:11Speaker 1: You were there like that, you know Becca's blog launch
- 35:15Speaker 1: as the Yeah, at the best. That's it was that
- 35:19Speaker 1: weekend where we met him. We had met him like
- 35:20Speaker 1: to night before with Nick, and he just bonded with
- 35:24Speaker 1: him so hard. He's a nice guy. Yeah, he really is. Yeah,
- 35:30Speaker 1: Like it's how that must have been fun, Like I
- 35:32Speaker 1: feel like he would have. He was probably was super fun.
- 35:36Speaker 1: He wasn't like I think he was a little bit
- 35:38Speaker 1: al ofvis Elman as the Bachelor. But the times that
- 35:40Speaker 1: I spent with him outside of filming like a year
- 35:43Speaker 1: or so, removed so much fun. Just like bring so
- 35:46Speaker 1: much warmth and love to a room. Absolutely. Yeah. He
- 35:50Speaker 1: does not have like a mean or medacing bone in
- 35:53Speaker 1: his body. The ultimate fun loving teddy bearer. Yeah, it's
- 35:59Speaker 1: like a dad's I like dad's love crystalls. You know.
- 36:03Speaker 1: She's very small to the earth that way. Yeah yeah. Um, yeah,
- 36:07Speaker 1: so then we should have wanted with him and hung
- 36:09Speaker 1: out with him a couple of times in the city
- 36:10Speaker 1: and then we were like why a kind of her
- 36:12Speaker 1: wedding and he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was
- 36:17Speaker 1: a good time. You saw him recently actually in the city,
- 36:19Speaker 1: just a couple of weekends ago. Oh good, I heard that.
- 36:22Speaker 1: The Yeah, Charlene, not to We're taking out a ton
- 36:27Speaker 1: of your time today. Sorry, And I know you're an
- 36:29Speaker 1: extremely busy person, um, but we have to celebrate with
- 36:33Speaker 1: you a little bit because you haven't been on the
- 36:34Speaker 1: podcast in the two years that this has been going on.
- 36:37Speaker 1: That's not fair for anybody involved. I just wanted so
- 36:41Speaker 1: quickly and give you like a classing emoji, because I mean,
- 36:45Speaker 1: this is a really awesome podcast. You guys are chilling it.
- 36:49Speaker 1: We fake it so well. It's really amazing how good
- 36:52Speaker 1: we are at just faking this. And then it's really
- 36:55Speaker 1: great that the show is on television year over year
- 36:59Speaker 1: over year, three times a year for us to breakdown
- 37:02Speaker 1: and talk about people that are new every year. It's
- 37:06Speaker 1: we have a blast of this podcast. But thank you
- 37:08Speaker 1: for that. I appreciate it, Um, But we have to
- 37:11Speaker 1: talk about your wonderful looking husband. Um, he's a great
- 37:17Speaker 1: looking fellow. I'm looking at him now. I googled him
- 37:20Speaker 1: the Jewish Richard gear. He's so good looking. He'll be
- 37:26Speaker 1: very happy just as that. Will you tell us really
- 37:30Speaker 1: quick about your love story, how you met and what
- 37:33Speaker 1: life has looked like over the last two years before
- 37:35Speaker 1: we say good bye to you, if you think it's
- 37:38Speaker 1: of interest. Um, yes, we love love. Oh, everyone loves love. Yeah,
- 37:44Speaker 1: he'll be very flattered to hear that. He you know,
- 37:47Speaker 1: he spends a lot of time with that to people,
- 37:49Speaker 1: and you know, I don't. He's extremely confident and not
- 37:53Speaker 1: in an arrogant way. But I think, you know, whatever
- 37:56Speaker 1: any one in there being with him, he know, conventionally attractive.
- 38:01Speaker 1: He's like huo's not that. Um, so yeah, I happened.
- 38:07Speaker 1: We we met in a very rare way. Now it
- 38:10Speaker 1: is not as rare as actually and Paris, obviously, but um,
- 38:16Speaker 1: we happened to sit next to each other at a
- 38:19Speaker 1: fundraiser one night on a rainy night when both my
- 38:22Speaker 1: girlfriends like veiled on the plans because it was like
- 38:26Speaker 1: like torrential downpour, and his friend bailed on him too,
- 38:31Speaker 1: And I don't know something drew me to this event
- 38:33Speaker 1: that night despite the weather, and I happened to sit
- 38:37Speaker 1: next to him, and if anyone had been with me,
- 38:38Speaker 1: I wouldn't have sat there because there's only one seat.
- 38:41Speaker 1: And yeah, we just sat sort of sat next to
- 38:43Speaker 1: each other, like on our phones as we do, and
- 38:47Speaker 1: he I think he was sort of observing me and
- 38:49Speaker 1: sort of trying to figure out what my deal was,
- 38:51Speaker 1: and then he just struck up a conversation and the
- 38:53Speaker 1: rest with history. I knew within five minutes that it
- 38:56Speaker 1: was you know, legit, there's something special. It's that that
- 39:01Speaker 1: that I mean, I'm telling you that is a story
- 39:04Speaker 1: that we all hope to have, and some people out
- 39:06Speaker 1: there have found them. You know. This brings me to
- 39:08Speaker 1: a great point. Charlene has been an amazing guest. No
- 39:11Speaker 1: wonder people love her. If you're out there listening and
- 39:14Speaker 1: you have a love story similar to Charlene's, where all
- 39:18Speaker 1: of a sudden you had a random place at a
- 39:19Speaker 1: random time, we like to say on this podcast, Charlene
- 39:22Speaker 1: that if if you took a second in your day
- 39:24Speaker 1: to think back of how you're actually sitting in the
- 39:26Speaker 1: place that you are in the time that you are,
- 39:28Speaker 1: so take about the small events that got you to
- 39:29Speaker 1: this place, to the city that you're in, to live
- 39:32Speaker 1: in whatever apartment you're living in, and have the friendships
- 39:34Speaker 1: that you have. It would be a really incredible story
- 39:37Speaker 1: and journey to tell. So I want to hear yours.
- 39:40Speaker 1: Please email us at been a Nashley iHeart media dot Com.
- 39:42Speaker 1: Email us the small little things that have happened in
- 39:45Speaker 1: your life that have made the biggest impact long term. Charlene,
- 39:49Speaker 1: your story is one uh that uh that a lot
- 39:52Speaker 1: of people listening. I'm sure going now that is something special.
- 39:55Speaker 1: Never knowing when love is gonna find be found. She
- 39:58Speaker 1: found it. Its to it. Yeah. Um, I was invited
- 40:04Speaker 1: to this event by someone I had gone on to
- 40:06Speaker 1: Max dates with like three years before, and I'd stayed
- 40:09Speaker 1: platonic friends with and Andy was at this event to
- 40:12Speaker 1: be a s coeptical right on Tinder. So even though
- 40:15Speaker 1: we did not meet online, as we met because of
- 40:17Speaker 1: online dating. Pretty cool whatever, friend, like the heralds of
- 40:23Speaker 1: online dating. I'm like, just get on there. You never know,
- 40:26Speaker 1: you never know. I we have so many stories about it.
- 40:28Speaker 1: I mean we talked about it. We we actually I
- 40:30Speaker 1: think had a podcast last year that we we asked
- 40:32Speaker 1: for stories of online dating encounters, and I think it's
- 40:35Speaker 1: time to do that again. It's been a year. People
- 40:37Speaker 1: are dating still, right? Is that still a thing? In
- 40:40Speaker 1: two people still dating? Yeah? What's actually the better response? Hey, Charlene,
- 40:48Speaker 1: you're awesome. You're great. We appreciate you. And and also
- 40:51Speaker 1: I just want to let you know, and I mean this, um,
- 40:55Speaker 1: just because I have heard it. Thank you for being
- 40:57Speaker 1: so great to the women getting off of the season
- 41:00Speaker 1: of The Bachelor that I was a part of, because
- 41:03Speaker 1: I know that you were a great influence for them
- 41:05Speaker 1: and you gave them a safe place to talk to
- 41:07Speaker 1: you and land on it. And I really appreciate that,
- 41:08Speaker 1: even though I don't get to talk to those women
- 41:10Speaker 1: very often. Um, it made me feel warm and fuzzy
- 41:13Speaker 1: inside knowing that they had somebody like you. So thank
- 41:15Speaker 1: you and they should know. Check out our blog All
- 41:17Speaker 1: the Pretty Pandas dot com. And you're an opera singer.
- 41:21Speaker 1: Are you on tour right now or are you a
- 41:23Speaker 1: stationed anywhere on the theater? Um? I'm generally freelance, so
- 41:26Speaker 1: I just I go where the contract takes me. Right. Yeah,
- 41:30Speaker 1: you know how, we do have a contract and when
- 41:32Speaker 1: I I have like the slow periods when I'm singing again. Yeah,
- 41:36Speaker 1: it's good. I get to have the best of both world.
- 41:39Speaker 1: It's really nice. It's a nice lifestyle. All right. Thank you, Charlie,
- 41:43Speaker 1: I thank you. I'm really I'm very honored, Like I
- 41:46Speaker 1: like the least relevant first never No, you're you're actually not.
- 41:50Speaker 1: You're really not. We can name a lot more. We
- 41:52Speaker 1: just won't be weird to them right now. Thank you
- 41:55Speaker 1: for having me. It means a lot. All right, Bye bye?
- 41:58Speaker 1: That was Who the heck are you with? Charlene joint Uh,
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- 44:37Speaker 1: almost Famous to this weekend Bachelor Nation. Uh, there's a
- 44:42Speaker 1: couple of hot topics that we got to discuss. It's
- 44:45Speaker 1: the off season and this is when we get to
- 44:47Speaker 1: dive into the things happening around bachelations and some of
- 44:50Speaker 1: our contestants lives that we all love. In the door,
- 44:54Speaker 1: Bachelor in Paradise isn't that far away? And one of
- 44:56Speaker 1: Bachelor in Paradise's favorite couples, Crystal and Chris. They had
- 45:02Speaker 1: an ad this week on their Instagram, and I mean,
- 45:05Speaker 1: I guess this work because now we're promoting the ad
- 45:07Speaker 1: as well. If you haven't seen it, you gotta go
- 45:10Speaker 1: out and watch it. Here's a sneak peek at what
- 45:13Speaker 1: happened in the ad. It shows Crystal manskaping Chris Ashley.
- 45:21Speaker 1: You and I both have strong thoughts on this. I'll
- 45:24Speaker 1: let you start and i'll close in where you don't
- 45:27Speaker 1: what you don't touch on. Okay, Well, I have no
- 45:31Speaker 1: problem with the ad because I am all about doing
- 45:35Speaker 1: ads in the most creative way possible, where you make
- 45:39Speaker 1: it fun, you make it personalized to you, to yourself
- 45:44Speaker 1: or as a couple, and you get attention for the
- 45:49Speaker 1: company that's paying you. Three things right there present in
- 45:54Speaker 1: Crystal and Chriss Instagram ad. Is it cringe? E? Sure?
- 45:58Speaker 1: Did it get our attention and work of the brand? Yes?
- 46:01Speaker 1: Was it true to them as a couple? Yes? They
- 46:05Speaker 1: are like that. They are that like all put it.
- 46:09Speaker 1: They put all their junk out there. You know, they
- 46:11Speaker 1: air their relationship out there, and they don't present themselves
- 46:16Speaker 1: as like this innocent couple. They prevent themselves as like
- 46:20Speaker 1: a sexy couple, So manscaping is sort of on brand.
- 46:23Speaker 1: The only thing that really Okay, there are two things
- 46:25Speaker 1: that made me cringe. And I'm not saying they should
- 46:27Speaker 1: have done it, but you know, we're talking about the
- 46:29Speaker 1: cringe worthiness of the ad. Then the fact that they
- 46:32Speaker 1: said babe and baby like eight times was like, okay,
- 46:37Speaker 1: can we not? Can we refer to each other by
- 46:38Speaker 1: another pet name? Give it some variety, um, maybe each
- 46:43Speaker 1: other each other's names, but babe, baby, babe, baby babe.
- 46:47Speaker 1: That was a little bit much um. And then Crystal
- 46:51Speaker 1: getting like the shot of Crystal ian Chris's crotch doing
- 46:56Speaker 1: the manscaping herself was like, oh my god. But I
- 47:01Speaker 1: hear I am saying, oh my god. But like I
- 47:03Speaker 1: don't have a real problem with it. It's them. I
- 47:07Speaker 1: couldn't do it, couldn't get I couldn't pull it off.
- 47:10Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to do it. Jared would. I could
- 47:15Speaker 1: never see Jared letting you do this. You know, here's
- 47:18Speaker 1: my thoughts. I I think it's creative. I think it's funny.
- 47:22Speaker 1: I think it was one of the better like commercial
- 47:24Speaker 1: ads that we've seen really anybody do, because typically I
- 47:29Speaker 1: scrolled right through and I had to stop and watch
- 47:31Speaker 1: the whole thing just based on pure interest and what
- 47:33Speaker 1: the heck was happening. I would agree with you. My
- 47:36Speaker 1: biggest critique, and it's one that I'll stand on. I
- 47:39Speaker 1: had to stop watching it because the babe baby baby babes.
- 47:43Speaker 1: We gotta get better at that, you know, for criticized that,
- 47:47Speaker 1: We've got to get better at the content and the writing.
- 47:51Speaker 1: The video itself really really catchy. So I'll give Crystal
- 47:57Speaker 1: and Chris an a on that ad. It's it's content,
- 48:02Speaker 1: just the writing. Struggling with the writing. Yeah, they grabbed
- 48:07Speaker 1: the audiences attention, that's for sure. I'm done talking about
- 48:10Speaker 1: Chris's balls. I've talked about I'm way too long writing.
- 48:12Speaker 1: Um here's one that is personal to me. This weekend,
- 48:16Speaker 1: we celebrate Blake's Blake Hurtzman's thirtieth birthday in Denver, Colorado.
- 48:22Speaker 1: We did it at Chase mcnerry's club or bar called
- 48:26Speaker 1: Revel Social and Denver. It was a really good evening.
- 48:29Speaker 1: Jessica and I were able to stop by and be
- 48:31Speaker 1: there for about forty five minutes before the crowds got on.
- 48:33Speaker 1: Here's actually I gotta talk about this. So here's the scenario. Right,
- 48:38Speaker 1: I have sweet little jess with me, um, And I'm
- 48:41Speaker 1: telling you, Jessica is is just a tremendous person. The
- 48:44Speaker 1: attention for the fans she just doesn't get and she
- 48:47Speaker 1: definitely doesn't get it when it revolves around me. She's
- 48:49Speaker 1: just so confused all the time because you know, she
- 48:53Speaker 1: now knows me just as her boyfriend. And so when
- 48:57Speaker 1: like people start screaming or yelling or whatever, she just
- 49:00Speaker 1: gets thrown off. So this is what happens. We went
- 49:03Speaker 1: to dinner with my parents here in Denver at a
- 49:05Speaker 1: great restaurant down south, and uh, come back up and
- 49:09Speaker 1: on the way home, I have way up to the house.
- 49:11Speaker 1: I have my my parents dropped Jesse and I off
- 49:13Speaker 1: at the bar to see Blake can celebrate his thirtieth
- 49:15Speaker 1: birthday with him. Well, the bar is set up where
- 49:19Speaker 1: and revels a great great bar downtown Denver now, and
- 49:22Speaker 1: Chase has done a great job of setting up. But
- 49:24Speaker 1: you walk in through a side door and there's this
- 49:26Speaker 1: kind of roped off area for any v I P
- 49:30Speaker 1: guests and Jesse and I just happened to be the
- 49:33Speaker 1: first two v i P guests there. We showed up
- 49:35Speaker 1: before everybody else. So you know what happens is walk
- 49:37Speaker 1: into this pack bar all waiting for you know, these
- 49:40Speaker 1: Bachelor contestants show up. There was David Louiser there, and
- 49:43Speaker 1: Wills is there. I mean, there were so many guys
- 49:46Speaker 1: in that picture. It was so many. I was like,
- 49:48Speaker 1: what is this a Bachelor reunion? It was Jason Tartik
- 49:51Speaker 1: was there. I mean, there was a lot of guys there.
- 49:53Speaker 1: So Jesse and I walk in first, fans start going crazy,
- 49:56Speaker 1: and then it's just Jesse and I standing in this
- 49:59Speaker 1: roped off area that probably fifty square foot big, like
- 50:01Speaker 1: pretty big for two people, while there's fans ten ft
- 50:05Speaker 1: from us just staring, and Jessica goes, I don't want
- 50:08Speaker 1: to be here anymore, said I don't want to be
- 50:09Speaker 1: here either, and we walked. We just walked right back
- 50:12Speaker 1: to the kitchen. We stood in the in the Revel's
- 50:14Speaker 1: kitchen for forty five minutes, probably until Blake and got there.
- 50:17Speaker 1: It was so awkward, it felt like, I mean, especially
- 50:20Speaker 1: for jess like eyes were just on you. There's too
- 50:25Speaker 1: much anyway, Um, but anyway, we celebrated Blake Courtsman's thirty birthday.
- 50:29Speaker 1: He's a great dude, good friend, uh, and it was
- 50:31Speaker 1: a great time. But there's a topic that was brought
- 50:34Speaker 1: up even that evening that I want to discuss on
- 50:37Speaker 1: the podcast with you. It feels like Bats their nation
- 50:40Speaker 1: is in complete support but also putting a ton of
- 50:44Speaker 1: pressure on the Hannah Gee and Blake situation and Paradise.
- 50:48Speaker 1: And to me, I have two thoughts, and I'll start
- 50:50Speaker 1: this one with my thoughts. One, it's unfair to the couple.
- 50:54Speaker 1: It's unfair to to the other people there um, and
- 50:57Speaker 1: it's unfair to the love story that could exist for
- 51:00Speaker 1: Hannah Gee and some other guy, or Blake and some
- 51:01Speaker 1: other girl, or maybe even still free themselves, like maybe
- 51:05Speaker 1: they do get together. I don't like it. As a
- 51:08Speaker 1: friend of Blake's, I feel like it is too much pressure.
- 51:10Speaker 1: And after meeting Hannah Gee the first time, I'm such
- 51:13Speaker 1: a fan of her that I don't want her to
- 51:15Speaker 1: go into Paradise with any pressure or feelings other than hey,
- 51:19Speaker 1: I'm here to maybe meet my match. What do you think?
- 51:22Speaker 1: I just completely agree with you. Knowing both of them
- 51:26Speaker 1: a very tiny bit, but like, no, you know, interacting
- 51:30Speaker 1: with both of them in real life. It's not like
- 51:32Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh my god, you would be the
- 51:35Speaker 1: perfect match with Blake. Like nothing about their personalities like
- 51:38Speaker 1: screams their destined to be together. For me, I think
- 51:40Speaker 1: people just love the fact that she was such a
- 51:43Speaker 1: front runner on her season and got screwed over and
- 51:47Speaker 1: that he was the same in his season, And people
- 51:49Speaker 1: just want to see those two big powerhouses come together.
- 51:53Speaker 1: But I'm not saying they're not compatible. I'm not saying
- 51:55Speaker 1: there's something like amazing that I see between them either. Yeah,
- 52:01Speaker 1: I mean I think I think you're spot on, like,
- 52:03Speaker 1: why are we going to force? The coolest thing about
- 52:05Speaker 1: Paradise to me has always been that there's these random
- 52:08Speaker 1: couples that we never would have guessed existed. Or I
- 52:11Speaker 1: put Tanner in Jade at the top of that. Jade
- 52:14Speaker 1: was like fought fought four and sought after and Tanner
- 52:18Speaker 1: was this like kind of goofy, funny, great dude that
- 52:21Speaker 1: we all loved from Caitlin season. And then they go
- 52:24Speaker 1: down there and I would say, Jay gave Tanner a
- 52:27Speaker 1: chance and then they fall in love and now look
- 52:30Speaker 1: at him, and I'm thinking, why put pressure on those situations.
- 52:33Speaker 1: Let let Paradise be what it is. Yeah, I agree,
- 52:36Speaker 1: super great, But I have to say, I had a
- 52:39Speaker 1: dream about Hannah Gee. I regard her this highly, you guys,
- 52:43Speaker 1: I had a dream of her last night. It was
- 52:46Speaker 1: like it was a concert that ABC had on their
- 52:50Speaker 1: you know, their channel, and it was like Billboard Music
- 52:53Speaker 1: Oars or something about Billboards on ABC, and she was
- 52:57Speaker 1: part of a collaborative performance. It was her, Celine Dion,
- 53:03Speaker 1: j Lo Beyonce, like Taylor Swift and Carrie Underlood Like, yeah,
- 53:10Speaker 1: I apparently think that Hannah Gee is that great, that
- 53:12Speaker 1: she's amongst those those women. She is that great. Here's
- 53:17Speaker 1: a story, Ashley, that almost feels as great. Um headlines happened.
- 53:25Speaker 1: I think it was last week. I'm on a chat
- 53:27Speaker 1: thread with a bunch of people, uh, former Bachelor's and
- 53:31Speaker 1: this was the topic that was brought up. Nick Vile
- 53:34Speaker 1: admits that he's hooked up with a guy and it
- 53:37Speaker 1: and and in quotes he says it moved. Now I'm
- 53:41Speaker 1: assuming I know what he's talking about when he says
- 53:43Speaker 1: it moved, Ashley, are you surprised? What is the context here?
- 53:49Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, okay, I don't know what's happening.
- 53:53Speaker 1: I was shocked when I read it. I haven't read
- 53:55Speaker 1: the story yet, but what was moving and why was
- 53:57Speaker 1: it moving and what was happening in the situation. Actually,
- 54:01Speaker 1: he was acting. I think it was for a small
- 54:04Speaker 1: a short film, uh, something independent, and he had to
- 54:09Speaker 1: kiss a guy for his role. Apparently he's just saying that, Uh,
- 54:14Speaker 1: he didn't hate it. He didn't hate it. There you go,
- 54:17Speaker 1: he didn't hate it. Hey, good for Nick for admitting it,
- 54:19Speaker 1: Good for Nick for doing it. No problem there. But
- 54:22Speaker 1: it was a topic. And wow, I'm telling you, if
- 54:26Speaker 1: you want to get clicks, that's something that we all
- 54:29Speaker 1: stopped and go surprising. Good for Nick and and Nick
- 54:33Speaker 1: would be the guy that would do He's just he's
- 54:35Speaker 1: just an open guy that would discuss anything. And you
- 54:38Speaker 1: look at his Instagram, he's he's answering all these questions
- 54:40Speaker 1: in brilliant ways all the time. So uh, anyways, check
- 54:44Speaker 1: out Nick's new short film. The headlines aren't what they
- 54:48Speaker 1: point to. He did kiss a guy. It was for acting.
- 54:50Speaker 1: But either way, good for Nick. Next topic in the
- 54:54Speaker 1: Bachelor world, the Bachelor at Reunion. The special is happening
- 54:58Speaker 1: because The Bachelor is premiering May thirteen and May six,
- 55:01Speaker 1: there is a reunion show that I've got to check out.
- 55:04Speaker 1: I mean these bachelorettes. When I look at the picture
- 55:07Speaker 1: of all the bachelorettes in history, I mean, these are
- 55:09Speaker 1: some classy, amazing women. Actually, what do you know about
- 55:14Speaker 1: it and what's going to happen. I don't know anything
- 55:16Speaker 1: about it. That's fantastic. Are going to be a surprised,
- 55:21Speaker 1: But I will say that those pictures of all them
- 55:23Speaker 1: together are quite dominant, Like those are some powerful ladies
- 55:27Speaker 1: that have looks, personality and Brand's album it's pretty cool.
- 55:30Speaker 1: I mean, leading ladies, amazing women. It just shows and
- 55:34Speaker 1: you know what, as and I've I've said this actually
- 55:36Speaker 1: changed my mind on this. I believe that Hannah b
- 55:41Speaker 1: not only will be standing that group obviously she's a bachelorette,
- 55:43Speaker 1: but she will be a force to be recognist with
- 55:46Speaker 1: in Bachelor Nation. I think she's gonna go down as
- 55:48Speaker 1: one of the favorites just based on even some of
- 55:50Speaker 1: the clips. I think she's gonna be rab. I don't
- 55:52Speaker 1: think she prepared for this. I think she's very unprepared
- 55:55Speaker 1: to be the Bachelorette, and I think we're going to
- 55:57Speaker 1: get a very authentic, genuine Bachelorettes season because she's so
- 56:01Speaker 1: unprepared and I'm so stoked to watch. I don't know
- 56:05Speaker 1: that we ever talked about that Cinderella esque promo, like
- 56:09Speaker 1: how it was that that the best promo they've ever
- 56:11Speaker 1: put out there. It was like a Taylor Stuff music
- 56:14Speaker 1: video plus the most amazing chick flick rom com of
- 56:18Speaker 1: all time. I mean, the transformation from prom queen to
- 56:22Speaker 1: like this kick ass bitch. You can't take that out? No, yeah,
- 56:30Speaker 1: take that. You know what I meant? A wonder woman,
- 56:34Speaker 1: wonder woman? That's it? Am I wrong? Maybe I'm crazy here.
- 56:38Speaker 1: When I watched that promo, I thought it was Beauty
- 56:42Speaker 1: the Beast esque because Hannah Beast. I thought like that
- 56:46Speaker 1: felt like very like transformational. Was I wrong? So transformational?
- 56:50Speaker 1: So awesome? I don't know. It was so good, the
- 56:54Speaker 1: music behind it, the lyrics. Going to be a really
- 56:57Speaker 1: really good season and I'm so pumped to watch it. Anyways.
- 57:00Speaker 1: The Bachelotte Reunion Special premiers May six, with The Bachelorrette
- 57:05Speaker 1: premiering mayte. We're back in Bachelor Nation and we're coming
- 57:09Speaker 1: in strong. Hey, two stories I want to talk to
- 57:11Speaker 1: you about, Ash. Yeah, we we forgot one other headline.
- 57:14Speaker 1: Clay and Angela officially broke up. I wondered. I was
- 57:18Speaker 1: with him this weekend. I want to ask, I wondered,
- 57:20Speaker 1: and I was looking at h I was he came
- 57:24Speaker 1: out for the he came out for the U the
- 57:27Speaker 1: birthday party. And I didn't want to ask because I
- 57:29Speaker 1: really enjoyed that couple. I thought they were great together.
- 57:31Speaker 1: I know we had her on the podcast and she
- 57:33Speaker 1: was so into him at the times. Something obviously happened.
- 57:36Speaker 1: I'm glad we can finally break that news. Because I
- 57:39Speaker 1: looked at their instagrams, hadn't seen pictures being posted in
- 57:41Speaker 1: a while. I was like, something's going on here? Can
- 57:43Speaker 1: we get juicy? Yeah? What if they but bring them
- 57:46Speaker 1: both to Paradise? Oh no, what if they will? They will? Right?
- 57:51Speaker 1: That would be so good for us yours. Oh my god,
- 57:54Speaker 1: there's some storylines that are gonna be existing in Paradise
- 57:57Speaker 1: this year. Uh, you know, we gotta look out. I
- 58:00Speaker 1: wonder if any of Joejoe's guys will be there. Chase
- 58:04Speaker 1: is really the only one I can think of that
- 58:05Speaker 1: should should be there. Robbie, Robbie's coming back, I know it.
- 58:09Speaker 1: Probably he's not coming back to the Third Paradise. You know,
- 58:12Speaker 1: we need to do Ashley I think we need to
- 58:15Speaker 1: call on somebody I haven't got talking a while, um,
- 58:18Speaker 1: and bring Amanda Stand onto the podcast for an in
- 58:21Speaker 1: depth episode. You know our special episodes that we do
- 58:23Speaker 1: called in depth, where we really dive deep into somebody's life.
- 58:26Speaker 1: I think we need to do that too. I think
- 58:28Speaker 1: we need to bring up with Amanda Stand talk about Paradise,
- 58:31Speaker 1: what works in Paradise, what didn't work in Paradise. She
- 58:33Speaker 1: just obviously got out of a new or she just
- 58:36Speaker 1: got out of a relationship. We should hear about that
- 58:39Speaker 1: and just kind of dig deep with batch Nation's favorite mom,
- 58:43Speaker 1: Amanda Stanton. Let's call her up and see if we
- 58:45Speaker 1: can do that. What do you think call her right now?
- 58:47Speaker 1: I wanted in depth? Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah yeah. Let's
- 58:50Speaker 1: call her off air to see if she'll do an
- 58:53Speaker 1: indpth in depth episode. It would be fun. That would
- 58:55Speaker 1: be a good one. I think it would be helpful
- 58:56Speaker 1: for everything. Hey, two storylines I want to touch on
- 58:59Speaker 1: that shocked the world uh this week. One is Nicolas
- 59:02Speaker 1: Cage is getting divorced after four days and his uh
- 59:07Speaker 1: the lady that his I don't know what you call
- 59:09Speaker 1: it his divorce or the why the woman that he's
- 59:12Speaker 1: now divorcing after four days is asking for spousal support,
- 59:17Speaker 1: which means she's asking for money after four days. Anybody
- 59:20Speaker 1: out there listening, please write, has it been in Ashley?
- 59:22Speaker 1: I hurted media dot com? Is it right or wrong?
- 59:24Speaker 1: Should he be paying spousal support? What is happening here?
- 59:28Speaker 1: What is this situation? And why have we got to
- 59:30Speaker 1: this point? Actually? Any context? Any comments? Didn't know the
- 59:33Speaker 1: story existed? I mind boggled. I thought he was still
- 59:37Speaker 1: married to his other wife. But uh what? Oh it
- 59:42Speaker 1: was a Vegas Was it a wild night in Vegas?
- 59:46Speaker 1: Still Nicolas Cage divorced after four days? I want to
- 59:50Speaker 1: hear your thoughts. Please read the articles you can google
- 59:52Speaker 1: Nicolas Cage. Not a lot else is happening in his life?
- 59:55Speaker 1: And read and then get back to it been in Ashley?
- 59:57Speaker 1: I hurted me dot com. The next story. Before we
- 59:59Speaker 1: close out, we had a couple of big updates why
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: the podcast has existed today and why we've been recording
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: it in Ashley's Life with the Dog. Before we start
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: talking about this dog story, let's touch on one that
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: shocked the world that came out in April. This one
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: is one that brought tears to my eyes. A dog
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: was found off the coast of Thailand, a hundred and
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: thirty five miles out of puppy had been swimming for
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: who knows how long and was found by an oil rig.
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: You can google the article oil rig worker rescues a dog.
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: It's an amazing story of a puppy a hundred and
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: thirty five miles off the coast of Thailand to do
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: amazing things. I wonder if you jumped off a boat
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: or something, who knows, who knows? Would we should ask
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: the dog? He was, Hey, please catch all of our
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: listeners up because I'm sure we we've been getting emails
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: already about what has happened with you and Jared's foster dog. Okay,
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: so Jared took the dog to a no kill shelter,
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: which here's some news for you guys. I thought no
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: kill shelters actually meant zero kill. It actually means not kill.
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: Just know this for the future. Um, they keep all
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: dogs alive that they feel like have a good chance
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: of being adopted and living a full life. So we
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: dropped it off a no kill shelter. It's at one
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: one three six West Peego Boulevard. Its name is Choco.
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: So if you go there looking for Choco and eleven
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: and the twelve year old chocolate chocolate lab and German
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: Shepherd mix, that's the one that Jared and I have
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: brought there. He's gonna be up for adoption officially on
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: thet of April, but if you guys heard it here
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: on the Almost Famous podcast or on our social media,
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: they are open to accepting those interested before. So that's
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: that's my update for you guys. We're trying to do
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: the right thing. Ashley and Jared story with their fast
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: dog continues. Hey, our story on this podcast continues because
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- 1:06:21Speaker 1: few things that really make me angry, and one of
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: them is not being understood. This is this Week's Been
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: Bitch's segment. There's moments in life that I am not
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: understood and I don't get why. It happened. In high
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: school for the first time, I became addicted to Dr
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: pimple Popper. Oh, I love it too. I love Dr
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: pimple Popper. Why Because it's satisfying, it's engaging, and every
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: bump has something new behind it. If it's if it's juicy,
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: if it's a solid, if it's something so surprising it
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: gets me Jack and my friends and family look at
- 1:06:58Speaker 1: me with a frown on my face. It doesn't feel
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: like anybody else wants to participate in the majesty that
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: is something being relieved by the pinch of two fingers
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: or by the slice of a scalpel. I don't get it.
- 1:07:12Speaker 1: I don't understand it. I don't get why people look
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: at me in confusion. And in this Ben Bitch's segment,
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: I'm asking for everybody to understand that I have an
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: addiction and I'm happy about it, and I don't want
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: to change. I don't want to stop. I feel satisfied
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: when I feel well, that was gonna rhyme. Let me
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: do that one more time. I have an addiction and
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: I don't want to stop. I feel satisfied when that
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: little pimple pops. Oh my god, did you memorize that?
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: I just started talking. I realized it was gonna rhyme,
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: and so I just got super jacked about it. And
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: I want to say, and then you, I'm so excited
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: that you stumbled over it. I stumbled over access. So
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: through it, Astley, tell me your thoughts. Why is that
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: people don't understand that we all have pimples, we all
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: have those blemishes and those issues. And I was backstage
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: at Haitlin Bristow's live podcast last week and I was
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: standing next to Colton and Blake and one of my
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: buddies texting me this new video of this cis being
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: relieved and I showed Chase Blake and I so Chase
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: and Colton, and they both were so grossed out that
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: I felt now like an outsider, and I don't like
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: to feel like an outsider. Jared. Jared doesn't like Dr
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: pimple Popper either, so he's on their team. But Ben,
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: there is an audience for Dr pimple Popper, and I
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: am a part of that audience. There's a show for
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- 1:08:35Speaker 1: They just need an audience of like maybe a million,
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: and the million of us are satisfied by watching these
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: pimple's insists mostly cis and abscesses get relieved. As you said,
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- 1:09:09Speaker 1: and I like to think that watching that pimple be
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: pop makes me a better person. Hey, this podcast was terrific.
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: We want to give a few shout outs and Thank
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- 1:09:21Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the podcast and talking to
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- 1:10:06Speaker 1: Bachelorette Reunion Special. It's gonna be fantastic, Ashley, who are
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- 1:10:15Speaker 1: I am a massive fan of Trista Sutter. We're gonna
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