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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
- 0:03Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Today we
- 0:10Speaker 2: found out who the official cast was for The Bachelor Arite.
- 0:14Speaker 2: All those pictures and names have been released, So we're
- 0:17Speaker 2: gonna take a look. Ben and I are gonna give
- 0:18Speaker 2: our thoughts. We're not gonna go down every single one
- 0:22Speaker 2: of them, but we are going to go and look
- 0:25Speaker 2: through the cast photos with you guys, figure out who
- 0:28Speaker 2: we think is gonna be of interest to Taylor. Which
- 0:31Speaker 2: ones are the ones that look like her ex husband
- 0:35Speaker 2: or Dakota because those two look very much alike, and
- 0:37Speaker 2: there's a lot of cast members who also look like them,
- 0:40Speaker 2: and then who we think should just generally be compatible with.
- 0:44Speaker 2: You guys know that we did this a couple of
- 0:46Speaker 2: months ago based on some spoiler pictures, but not always
- 0:49Speaker 2: the spoiler pictures aligned with the real cast. So Ben,
- 0:55Speaker 2: are you ready to kick it off? Do you have
- 0:56Speaker 2: these guys in front of you?
- 0:58Speaker 3: Have them in front of me.
- 0:59Speaker 4: We've been doing so much research on Taylor Frankie Paul again,
- 1:03Speaker 4: go back and listen to our Frankie Friday episodes to
- 1:07Speaker 4: hear more about what's going on in Taylor's life. I
- 1:09Speaker 4: also think those will help you get a better understanding
- 1:13Speaker 4: of who Taylor is and will help us kind of
- 1:15Speaker 4: pick who we think could be right for her.
- 1:18Speaker 3: Ashley, I want to start.
- 1:19Speaker 4: Out with somebody who is an alumni of the University
- 1:26Speaker 4: of Purdue or Purdue University. Actually don't know which one
- 1:28Speaker 4: that is. My parents both have went there. He played
- 1:32Speaker 4: basketball there and played for my cousin. My cousin was
- 1:35Speaker 4: a coach at Purdue during this time. Matt Campbell is
- 1:39Speaker 4: his name.
- 1:40Speaker 2: I'm going to scroll down to him. It is an
- 1:42Speaker 2: alphabetic order. We are following the one from US Weekly.
- 1:47Speaker 4: He's tall. I think that's one thing that he's got
- 1:49Speaker 4: going for him. He is from Carmel, Indiana. That's another
- 1:53Speaker 4: thing he's got going for him. He's also the oldest
- 1:56Speaker 4: on the season, Ashley, at forty three years.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Oread gracious, this is not that forty three is old,
- 2:06Speaker 2: but this is old.
- 2:07Speaker 3: For the show for sure, definitely is. I do will
- 2:10Speaker 3: know that.
- 2:11Speaker 2: I don't remember a time. I think Kenny, you know
- 2:16Speaker 2: Kenny and Maury. I think he was forty on Paradise. Okay, damn,
- 2:22Speaker 2: forty three. He's dad, He's what a dad. So that
- 2:29Speaker 2: is somebody a dad of three, assuming he's been married before.
- 2:33Speaker 4: That's one thing that's going to be interesting, Ashley, as
- 2:35Speaker 4: you watch this season. Obviously we know that Taylor Frankie
- 2:38Speaker 4: Paul is a mom. Will she be looking for somebody
- 2:42Speaker 4: who is a dad or I mean, obviously she's going
- 2:46Speaker 4: to be looking for somebody that is interested in being
- 2:48Speaker 4: a dad. But is it going to be more or
- 2:50Speaker 4: less attractive to her to think that, Hey, we would
- 2:52Speaker 4: be right away growing the size of our family if
- 2:57Speaker 4: we got together.
- 2:58Speaker 2: They would be the actual Brady bunch, like they'd have
- 3:01Speaker 2: six and six. Come they've had three and three making sex.
- 3:03Speaker 3: I love the pretty bunch.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Why does he look so much cuter in the picture? Okay, wait,
- 3:10Speaker 2: is it the same photo shoot? I'm looking at the
- 3:12Speaker 2: picture from his Instagram and then comparing it to the
- 3:16Speaker 2: picture that they posted, and he looks it looks like
- 3:19Speaker 2: it maybe the same photo shoot. But he looks cuter
- 3:21Speaker 2: on Instagram, which is per huge. But he has a
- 3:24Speaker 2: really dorky position in the official photo with his arms crossed.
- 3:30Speaker 4: We can never judge these photos, but we will judge
- 3:32Speaker 4: them here until a bunch of lies because we know
- 3:34Speaker 4: nothing about any of these men, including Johnny. If you
- 3:37Speaker 4: look into Johnny's photo here, he's doing like a dua
- 3:40Speaker 4: lipa like leg spread to tease the audience. I mean
- 3:44Speaker 4: he he literally looks in his photo here Johnny from
- 3:48Speaker 4: New York, like, why am I not thinking of the bottle?
- 3:53Speaker 3: Where you put your foot up on the barrel? What's
- 3:55Speaker 3: the liquor?
- 3:56Speaker 4: Captain Morgan, He's doing the Captain Morgan look here, which
- 3:59Speaker 4: means he has really stretchy pants on and he's gotta
- 4:03Speaker 4: get I mean, he's as a man. He's got some
- 4:07Speaker 4: nut crushers happening.
- 4:10Speaker 5: It takes me forever to scroll in this thing. I'm
- 4:12Speaker 5: just trying to find his picture. These photos are gigantic.
- 4:18Speaker 5: John Josh Johnny, Okay, there he is. Oh yeah, he's
- 4:22Speaker 5: definitely in that position. So this guy is standing out
- 4:25Speaker 5: to you.
- 4:25Speaker 4: Why Mostly because I have no clue where his boyhood
- 4:30Speaker 4: is hit hiding in that picture. And I was just
- 4:32Speaker 4: more curious about how somebody like that can pull that
- 4:34Speaker 4: pose off.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Not the fact that he is a former professional baseball player.
- 4:39Speaker 2: He used to play he doesn't say who he used
- 4:43Speaker 2: to play for, but he likes cheering on the mets.
- 4:48Speaker 3: He doesn't. They're pretty bad.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Usually he has signature dance moves that went viral on TikTok,
- 4:55Speaker 2: and so that a little bit of re flag there
- 5:00Speaker 2: asks a little bit of a red FuG for multiple reasons. One,
- 5:03Speaker 2: I don't know that I want my man going viral
- 5:05Speaker 2: for dancing on TikTok. But number two is he like
- 5:08Speaker 2: trying to be a Taylor, because like he wants to
- 5:11Speaker 2: be like this viral dancing TikTok couple.
- 5:14Speaker 4: I hope when he goes to bed at night, one
- 5:17Speaker 4: of his dreams is to become a viral TikTok dancing couple.
- 5:20Speaker 3: And that's how he thinks life is gonna work out right.
- 5:24Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, his picture is so funny, like almost
- 5:27Speaker 2: looks like it's not like he's attractive, man, but he
- 5:30Speaker 2: looks like it's everything about it kind of looks like
- 5:33Speaker 2: a caricature. It looks like a Bob Ross type thing.
- 5:37Speaker 4: You know who else. Also kind of looks like a
- 5:39Speaker 4: character to me in like the best of ways. He
- 5:42Speaker 4: looks like he could be in the movies. He looks
- 5:45Speaker 4: like a movie star an actor. For so many reasons,
- 5:48Speaker 4: I'm going with Mike T from New Jersey He's thirty
- 5:52Speaker 4: six years old, a brand protection manager, loves iced coffee,
- 5:58Speaker 4: Yankees games, a nice walk on the beach.
- 6:00Speaker 3: What a guy.
- 6:01Speaker 4: But if you look at his photo, you're like, that
- 6:03Speaker 4: dude looks like an actor. To me, he just looks
- 6:05Speaker 4: like the guy that's gonna put a suit on. Honestly,
- 6:10Speaker 4: he kind of looks like one of those like TV villains.
- 6:13Speaker 2: He looks like a bad guy in a TV show,
- 6:16Speaker 2: But he.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Does look like he could be on TV.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Right Dawson would see this guy and without knowing he'd
- 6:21Speaker 2: go bad guy. He's like very into like good guys
- 6:24Speaker 2: versus bad guys. Right now, I can see that he
- 6:28Speaker 2: would be. This guy would be like in a law
- 6:29Speaker 2: of order or some type. Just like from looking at him,
- 6:32Speaker 2: doesn't seem like he has the personality to go on Bachelorette. Yeah,
- 6:36Speaker 2: thirty six, I mean, he doesn't look like he fits
- 6:40Speaker 2: on this show like it we do.
- 6:42Speaker 3: Having a little older cast here. I like it, you know.
- 6:46Speaker 4: Yeah, there's guys in their mid thirties to obviously forty three.
- 6:51Speaker 4: Richard from Charleston, South Carolina is just flexing on us.
- 6:55Speaker 4: In his picture, he's wearing like a eight thousand dollars
- 6:59Speaker 4: watch or maybe more. I can't really tell what it is.
- 7:01Speaker 4: It's a little blurring the picture.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Yeah, can you tell that really? You know the brand?
- 7:06Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 7:06Speaker 4: That's uh well, I believe isn't that the watch that
- 7:13Speaker 4: you like? Can see through? I forget like the exact brand,
- 7:17Speaker 4: but those are very expensive. If not, it's a very
- 7:19Speaker 4: it's a very nice looking watch. But he made sure
- 7:21Speaker 4: to show that thing off in his photo.
- 7:23Speaker 2: He and Lou look very similar. But like, if I
- 7:27Speaker 2: were just to go off on like this photo, I
- 7:30Speaker 2: would say that Richard is like the nicer looking Lou.
- 7:33Speaker 2: But I do think that Lou and that is spelled
- 7:35Speaker 2: I say it like Lou because it's spelled l e W.
- 7:40Speaker 2: And that is silly to me. Lou is probably good looking,
- 7:47Speaker 2: but his haircut is doing nothing for him, and he's
- 7:50Speaker 2: probably much better looking on in real life. See Richard
- 7:53Speaker 2: can pull off this buzz cut, but Lou definitely needs
- 7:57Speaker 2: some hair up there and he'd be just here and
- 8:02Speaker 2: the trim is just like what's driving me. This is
- 8:05Speaker 2: what Jared does too, And I'm like, can you just
- 8:08Speaker 2: Nobody wants your two week long beard, okay, I want
- 8:12Speaker 2: your two day scruff two day two day scruff none
- 8:16Speaker 2: of this week. Oh, Ben's nodding as he's guilty of
- 8:19Speaker 2: his two weeks long beard two.
- 8:25Speaker 4: Ashley, we have a guy on this show who has
- 8:27Speaker 4: the kindest eyes in any photo I've ever seen come
- 8:30Speaker 4: out of the Bachelor. Okay, his name is Shane. Shane's
- 8:33Speaker 4: from Atlanta, Georgia. He's a private wealth planner. If this
- 8:37Speaker 4: guy ends up being a villain, he is going to
- 8:40Speaker 4: shock me because if you look at his photo, he,
- 8:43Speaker 4: for whatever reason, it feels like he's staring into my
- 8:45Speaker 4: soul with the kindest eyes I've ever seen.
- 8:48Speaker 2: Shane is one of the more right off the bat like.
- 8:51Speaker 2: He's definitely gonna be attractive guys to me. I say
- 8:56Speaker 2: that his eyes look like player, though they don't look
- 8:59Speaker 2: like I don't necessarily say I'm not kind, but it
- 9:02Speaker 2: says like I know how to play.
- 9:04Speaker 3: Mmm.
- 9:04Speaker 2: It could go both ways in a very rare commodity.
- 9:08Speaker 4: Ooh interesting, Hey, why somebody else I want to talk
- 9:13Speaker 4: about here? Trenton. He's a pro athlete. He's a professional
- 9:16Speaker 4: athlete and three time paralympian. Damn, but why do they
- 9:20Speaker 4: have him in a T shirt? All these other guys
- 9:22Speaker 4: are like in jackets and sweaters. They said, you know what, Trenton,
- 9:27Speaker 4: what you look best in is like a baggy T shirt.
- 9:31Speaker 2: I'm not sure some guys do look best in their
- 9:34Speaker 2: backy T shirts.
- 9:36Speaker 3: He does look bad. I'm just saying like they did
- 9:38Speaker 3: nothing to help the poor guy.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. How old is he? Thirty five? Yeah? Wow,
- 9:44Speaker 2: we got a lot of mid thirties. I'm thinking I
- 9:48Speaker 2: just want to say one general comment before moving on
- 9:51Speaker 2: to anybody specific. If you look at the promotional material
- 9:54Speaker 2: that they've posted on Instagram of these guys today, it's
- 9:57Speaker 2: just like, what are they doing. They're making the guys
- 10:00Speaker 2: dance and I'm not sure if they're making that. They
- 10:02Speaker 2: probably said, you know, when they were rolling the cameras,
- 10:04Speaker 2: now do your best TikTok dance for Taylor, And then
- 10:07Speaker 2: they like did some little like squirmy squirm move, probably
- 10:11Speaker 2: very much like the higgye and we all know how
- 10:14Speaker 2: that goes over for women. Really well yeah, and then
- 10:17Speaker 2: they decided to montage them together, and it's just makes
- 10:20Speaker 2: me feel like all the guys are so much lesser
- 10:23Speaker 2: good looking than they actually are. I think they're gonna
- 10:27Speaker 2: because because they do the dancy thing and the TikTok's
- 10:29Speaker 2: and the Instagram and then they freeze it and then
- 10:32Speaker 2: they just talk to the camera and you're like, oh
- 10:34Speaker 2: my god, you look five times better than you looked
- 10:36Speaker 2: in that previous clip.
- 10:38Speaker 4: Well, there is one very easy way for the show
- 10:40Speaker 4: to ruin this season, and it is to do what
- 10:44Speaker 4: they just did with this cast, making them like super
- 10:46Speaker 4: TikTok viral dancy, you know, social media focused for the
- 10:51Speaker 4: whole entirety of the Like, the season will ruin the
- 10:54Speaker 4: season like that, it will get so cheesy and corny.
- 10:59Speaker 4: I also think most people today are kind of not
- 11:03Speaker 4: over it. We still watch it for entertainment, but it's
- 11:05Speaker 4: not They're five years behind on If they wanted this,
- 11:10Speaker 4: like wanted it to be Tiktoki, they could have done
- 11:12Speaker 4: it five years ago. If they make a bunch of
- 11:15Speaker 4: like thirty six to forty three year old dudes dance
- 11:18Speaker 4: for the whole time on camera and like post it,
- 11:23Speaker 4: I'll stop watching.
- 11:25Speaker 2: You're like, I'm going to sign off from the podcast.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just dumb. It just they can't do that.
- 11:30Speaker 4: I hope that's a one and done.
- 11:32Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna do it. I think they
- 11:34Speaker 2: I don't think Taylor is gonna want to be with
- 11:36Speaker 2: a guy who wants to be TikTok famous. Let's go
- 11:39Speaker 2: on to one of the guys. His name is Casey.
- 11:42Speaker 2: He's one of the ones that's more blindingly similar to
- 11:47Speaker 2: her ex'es. Casey is thirty, he's from Nashville. I think
- 11:53Speaker 2: I nailed like I said that this was one of
- 11:55Speaker 2: the ones to watch out for early on. He says
- 12:00Speaker 2: that he's emotionally did he say it? I don't, you know.
- 12:04Speaker 2: The self describing really gets to us in these bios.
- 12:07Speaker 2: He's an emotionally intelligent romantic you can't call yourself emotionally intelligent.
- 12:15Speaker 2: But he's also a mechanical engineer and loves all things
- 12:19Speaker 2: science and math. So there's a plus.
- 12:22Speaker 3: Casey won't be around very long.
- 12:24Speaker 2: Ash I think he is going to be around. I
- 12:26Speaker 2: think we've seen him around on some of these dates.
- 12:29Speaker 2: I think this is the guy that we saw her
- 12:31Speaker 2: making out with in Vegas in spoilers, but I'm not
- 12:35Speaker 2: one hundred percent.
- 12:47Speaker 3: Ashley it.
- 12:48Speaker 4: Overall, let's kind of do our universal thoughts and feelings
- 12:52Speaker 4: towards this season coming up, based on the pictures, based
- 12:56Speaker 4: on the videos, you've seen, do you find this to
- 12:58Speaker 4: be a very attractive group coming into date Taylor, Frankie Paul,
- 13:02Speaker 4: I mean not really. A few stand out to you though,
- 13:06Speaker 4: So who in your opinion already?
- 13:09Speaker 3: No, it's fair.
- 13:10Speaker 4: Who are the two men that stand out to you
- 13:12Speaker 4: that you're like, hey, I could see them with Taylor
- 13:14Speaker 4: at the end of this.
- 13:15Speaker 2: Okay, so Casey okay, probably the one that I said
- 13:20Speaker 2: looked like lu but was more attractive, was that Richard?
- 13:23Speaker 3: Yes? No, I think Richard was the one.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Richard Richard?
- 13:28Speaker 3: Oh, Richard?
- 13:29Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, you guys. They're all good looking.
- 13:32Speaker 3: You said it wasn't a good looking cat, you know
- 13:34Speaker 3: what I mean.
- 13:36Speaker 2: I'm sure they're all very handsome men in real life,
- 13:38Speaker 2: but you know, and then Shane is very cute. So
- 13:46Speaker 2: I'm going to go with Richard and Casey as my
- 13:50Speaker 2: top two.
- 13:51Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna go with Brad and Shane. Okay, it's
- 13:56Speaker 3: my top two.
- 13:56Speaker 2: Good choice because I wanted to include him. And then wait,
- 14:00Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what was your other choice?
- 14:01Speaker 3: Brad?
- 14:03Speaker 2: Brad?
- 14:04Speaker 4: Mm hmmm, Brad, because you gotta have a Brad and
- 14:06Speaker 4: a Chad every season, Brad.
- 14:09Speaker 2: But we didn't even go over Brad. He's twenty nine.
- 14:11Speaker 2: He's from Newport. He's a handsome California cowboy, and when
- 14:16Speaker 2: he's not on the ranch, he enjoys swing dancing, hanging
- 14:19Speaker 2: by the beach, and listening to Adele. This fearless romantic
- 14:23Speaker 2: is ready to start a family and prides himself on
- 14:26Speaker 2: being a generous, loving partner. I don't like the way
- 14:30Speaker 2: that like they just self described these nice Like you
- 14:33Speaker 2: can't just make things stories up about them. You're supposed
- 14:36Speaker 2: to tell them.
- 14:37Speaker 4: Factually, you're like ruining it, Like you really are ruining
- 14:42Speaker 4: it by trying to tell us, Oh, he's a really
- 14:45Speaker 4: great kind lover.
- 14:48Speaker 3: Like what, no, Taylor tell me that.
- 14:52Speaker 2: I just spit water on my keyboard when you said
- 14:55Speaker 2: she's a kind lover.
- 14:58Speaker 4: It's pretty much what I'm feeling like I'm reading here,
- 15:00Speaker 4: like the inn windows and the Yeah, he's so generous
- 15:04Speaker 4: and kind and he'll make sure everybody's happy, including himself.
- 15:08Speaker 4: I don't know, ash, I get excited for this because
- 15:12Speaker 4: I do believe this is going to It always happens
- 15:15Speaker 4: this way. The photos never do the guys or I
- 15:19Speaker 4: do think the women probably just do better at it.
- 15:22Speaker 4: But justice, we're always surprised. I am happy. Here's a
- 15:27Speaker 4: couple of takeaways from seeing the cast officially announced. I
- 15:30Speaker 4: am excited about the age of this cast. I think
- 15:34Speaker 4: the mid thirties to forty who are single are going
- 15:39Speaker 4: to add an element of just that is that has
- 15:43Speaker 4: been different and something missing from so many years previous.
- 15:46Speaker 3: So I am excited for this.
- 15:48Speaker 4: This layer of desperation, there's a layer of this is
- 15:52Speaker 4: my one shot.
- 15:53Speaker 3: If I don't have this, I've got to wait twenty
- 15:55Speaker 3: years to the Golden.
- 15:58Speaker 2: So guys, you know me, I just want to say
- 16:00Speaker 2: one more time. I always feel very uncomfortable with this
- 16:02Speaker 2: episode because I can't judge him on one photo and appearances.
- 16:07Speaker 3: You're just too kind. You're a kind, kind person and
- 16:11Speaker 3: never say anything.
- 16:12Speaker 2: If I said to you recapping bachelorettes like the girls
- 16:16Speaker 2: that are going to be on The Bachelor, and I said,
- 16:18Speaker 2: is this a very attractive cast and you said no,
- 16:22Speaker 2: you wouldn't say no. I couldn't say no.
- 16:27Speaker 4: That's definitely true. Actually you're right, But these guys will
- 16:30Speaker 4: be fine. I'm sure they all have six packs. I'm
- 16:33Speaker 4: sure they'll be doing a ton of push ups, dance
- 16:36Speaker 4: moves in the Bachelor mansion. We have our favorites coming
- 16:41Speaker 4: off of the photos and the quick writeups about them.
- 16:44Speaker 4: Another interesting thing is they're kind of spread out across
- 16:47Speaker 4: the country, which is something I think so many were
- 16:50Speaker 4: looking at is are they going to kind of be
- 16:52Speaker 4: focused in the West and is that going to be
- 16:55Speaker 4: a thing. We don't know too much about their backgrounds
- 16:59Speaker 4: outside of what the write ups told us.
- 17:02Speaker 3: We'll get to know more and more about them.
- 17:03Speaker 4: We'll also start on Frankie Fridays, maybe breaking down a
- 17:07Speaker 4: few of these guys one by one.
- 17:09Speaker 2: Let's do that, throw in a few every week to
- 17:11Speaker 2: get deeper into If you're interested in following along with
- 17:16Speaker 2: the Frankie Fridays, turn in every Friday.
- 17:18Speaker 4: Tune in every Friday as we break down what's happening
- 17:20Speaker 4: in Taylor, Frankie, Paul's life. And we're going to add
- 17:22Speaker 4: in some of the cast breakdowns so you get to
- 17:25Speaker 4: know everybody a little bit better as we enter into
- 17:28Speaker 4: this next season of The Bachelor. If you're a fan
- 17:31Speaker 4: of the show, go check out the cast yourself, write
- 17:34Speaker 4: us let us know what you think who your favorites are.
- 17:36Speaker 4: We'd be excited to hear from you. Ashley, you made
- 17:41Speaker 4: it through your least favorite episode of the year.
- 17:43Speaker 2: Congratulations, ooh, let's do it. We do it a couple
- 17:45Speaker 2: times a year with all these different seasons, but one down.
- 17:49Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Until next time, guys, I've been
- 17:51Speaker 2: Ashley and.
- 17:52Speaker 3: I've been Ben. We'll talk to you soon.
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