Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe - Ashley Iaconetti & Jared Haibon | Bachelor Alums Discuss Marriage, Parenting, and Navigating Reality TV Edits!

Episode Date: March 12, 2024

#718. Join beloved Bachelor alums, Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon, as they dish on their 5-year marriage journey and the excitement of expecting Baby #2! From dissecting the latest trends in "bro marketing" to reflecting on their Bachelor experiences, get ready for their candid insights on BAD reality TV edits. Don't miss out on the heartwarming highs and lows of their relationship, along with their exciting new venture of opening a coffee house & lounge. Do you want to know if they would allow their son to go on the Bachelor !? Well, tune in to find that out & so much more! Episode Highlights: (06:45) - Ashley and Jared reflect on their journey since appearing on The Bachelor. (11:40) - Insight into the production process of reality TV shows like The Bachelor. (17:26) - Discussion on parenting styles and getting on the same page. (23:50) - How Jared & Ashley handle disagreements in their relationship. (29:15) - Jared shares insights on navigating the challenges of reality TV edits. (35:40) - Ashley and Jared reminisce about memorable moments from their time on reality TV, including their perspective on Sydney Gordon's portrayal. (42:55) - The couple discusses their friendship with fellow Bachelor alum, Ben Higgins. Come See Me On The Pour Decisions Tour!! BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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pregnant, sober people come to my show and say it was still fun. They bring their boyfriends, their husbands, and I even see them smiling at the end of it. So let's toast. that. I'll see you on tour. Off the Vine. Well, welcome to Off the Vine. Thanks. Thank you so much for having us. You guys have been on this before.

You have obviously, but together have you? I don't think you've been. I don't know. It's probably been. We did like over soon probably. Maybe when we were like first got together. Something. Talk to me about Broglo.

Oh my God. Jared, we got to get you sponsored by Blime. It was getting mad. So listen. This is your pitch. My future brother-in-law, we had a family dinner like two months ago. It was literally three weeks ago. His time is so off.

It was Dawson's birthday. So it was like four weeks ago. We had a family dinner four weeks ago. And my future brother-in-law was sitting there. And he was doing dry January. So he looked good. And he was like, oh, I'm also using broglo. So he lost 10 pounds in alcohol.

Yeah. I mean, it was a fast. And he had a tan, too. And then he's like, yeah, I'm using broglo. And I was like, what in the hell is, can we swear on this podcast? Yeah. I was like, what the fuck is Broglow? I got to get on Brogloat.

I get translucent in the winter. And then so now it's just, it's so marketed towards guys. It's the dumbest thing ever, but also the coolest thing ever. And now I'm on Broglo. Because everybody's on Broglo. I'm on Broglo. I'm doing Broglo. I'm doing Broglo.

Hey, but don't you find it funny how they market things to men? Like, it has to make you feel dudely to like have a tan. I know. I know, because I was like, Jared, we have. have so many glow drops and sprays around the house and you know it's got to be bro-low to order this because the marketing which the broglow would also work for you yeah yeah but then my sister i think brought it up the same point yesterday would you or did you say it you were like would you put the bro glow on your face i'm like you're right like i

probably was like does it have like a masculine smell i don't know i didn't smell but i'm thinking like maybe there's like a chemical in there that would be like a little bit harsher on my like it's totally in my head and totally in your head because her point was was like, why don't you just use the stuff that I have? Yeah. Which is obviously little, like, little thing. Right, right. But I was like, if Broglo was the last thing in the cabinet, you wouldn't use it.

You would go buy your own stuff. No, I would use it as a last thing in a cabinet. Yeah, but you wouldn't use it consistently. You wouldn't be like, oh, I'll just use it until it's out. You'd be like, oh, I'll use it this once and then go buy my own stuff. You're probably right. And I just can. I am right.

Why didn't we come up with this concept? This is a multi-million dollar idea. Well, now we just got to think of other. things bros want that girls have that they're too scared makeup like sometimes he like if we're going to something bro sealer bro sealer little concealer for your face little bro sealer he'll like have me put stuff on pimples and things yeah if like we're doing an event oh yeah because it sucks like I always regret anytime we do a red carpet or anything like that and then I'm like no I'm fine I don't need anything I'm good and then there's these pictures and she looks tan and I'm like

you I'm like the sun and then I realize I'm like why didn't I just feel put something on and make myself look better. So I feel better in pictures that are now on the internet. And then the problem is these publications, which I love anytime like we're very lucky to be in a news cycle, I can't believe that still happens. But it's like they'll use stock photos, right? And it's like a picture of me where I'm like, oh, shit. He gets unbelievably white though.

Like he does get translucent. It's really weird. But that's because you do have vampire vibes. Yeah. He's such a vampire. But he could be a werewolf during the summer. When he's 10, he gets a little wolfy. Fair.

Very wolfy. Fair. You're definitely a vampire. Like, holy crap. What do you mean? You could never, you're not, you don't have any wolf in you. I don't get it. What does that mean?

I'm talking about Twilight era. I never watched you. You look like Dracula, Caitlin. No, you like, it's like the high cheek bones and like all that. Oh. But that's good. You want to look like a vampire. Oh, I do.

Also, you can be beautiful and be a wolf. Like as much as I love Taylor Lawtoner, he's great. Like, you've never had this conversation with Taylor. I've had a couple conversations with Taylor. And they were very funny because. he was team Britt just like fuck Jared out there. Okay, listen, I've talked how many times do I have to say I'm sorry

I made a mistake? It was my fault, my bad. Jared picks me up from the airport last night and we talked about what life would have looked like for him if Britt was the Bachelorette. Yeah. And how crazy is that? That he could be with Britt right now. I know. It just all worked out. No.

You and Britt. Yeah. Who would have lasted longer with though? If Caitlin picked you or if Britt picked you, which one would have more sense with you. Well, I was joking with Kailen last night how I was her gay best friend on the show.

Yeah. So I was like, fuck. And then I told him how I was actually, they really wanted Ben to be the bachelor. Yeah. So he, Ben had to be third.

There was no way they were breaking up. I know that Jared knew. I knew I had a, Ben knows this. When I went, I'll never forget that row ceremony because I was not confident throughout the entirety of the show. Just like my own insecurities.

Like every time we went into row ceremony, I was like, I'm gone probably like, even though we had a great connection. Yeah. I was like she probably has 10 better. connections. And then it is so funny looking back, though, how intimidated I was by other guys where I look at the now and like, I cannot believe. You're like you let someone like Nick Viol get in your head. Oh, I'm not even talking about Nick. Like I'm talking about like someone. I don't even want to say names because I don't want to. Well, I'll say names because I love him to death like Joshua Albers, right? Where I was like this guy's good looking. He's got Southern charm. And then I look back up like, all right. I had I had it over Josh. I had it over Joshua. Love him to death. Yeah. Yeah. But that was the one. road ceremony where I was like, I feel

very confident that I have a better connection with Caitlin than Ben does. And like Nick and Sean, I was like, I don't know. But I was like, I feel pretty confident that like she would pick me over Ben. And then of course, I got voted off. I was like, well, I was wrong. But then you guys would have had a fantasy suite. And then I don't know how I would have dealt with that.

That's true. Yeah, that would be true. It all worked out. It all worked out. Wait, now that I think about it, I think I wanted to send wait I think I wanted Nick to go home yeah but they were there was no way they were not having the Nick and Sean show at the right of course that was like a whole thing but but you were kind of like ambivalent then about like the whole top four like as long as Sean was number one yeah yeah yeah you're like any order you really prefer that's so true at the end of the day yeah I have yeah

it was good to be him yeah yeah it was very clear it was a little too clear no that's not a bad thing though yeah but it was so clear and that's not a bad thing though yeah but it was so clear and then I went ahead and spoiled it on Snapchat. I've talked about that for that. We don't need to keep talking about that. We're in Rhode Island, by the way, for people watching. Thank you for coming to Rhode Island. This is so cool.

Are we allowed to say where we are? Yeah. Okay, well, you're going to do a better job explaining it. Okay, so we here are sitting at Folk Vintage, which is owned by this season's villainous, Cindy Gordon. Kurella DeVille is sitting next to us. She's right there. I'm staring at her right in her dead eyes right now.

she's what did she's just vile oh my gosh no we love sydney i mean we've been very oh dangerous that's oh we don't have to talk about that that was ridiculous yeah oh well she doesn't seem very dangerous over here she like folds close yeah she's folding clothes over there looking like a sweet pee and her little scrunchy and her sweet little army pants and it's i well we're gonna act like you're not here for a minute so obviously you're watching this season yes we've been well actually to be honest, Jared doesn't watch. And even though, and Sydney is quite weirded out by the fact that Jared didn't even watch her full episodes. I saw the episode, the one that we watched together. Yeah, but you didn't watch the two on one episode. I have not seen your two on one. I did watch the two on

episode. I don't really remember. Do you not recap it anymore? Not really. I honestly, I was going to watch the season full on. And then I don't know, I've missed two episodes so I need to catch up. And then I will because I want to have people on. Yeah. And I want to talk about it. I just have, I've been behind. Yeah, yeah. But I did watch that part. Wait, how did you guys all meet? So obviously, we won't have Sydney. We'll like, we'll let her sit there. But what happened was so when I, yeah. So there's another coffee shop. When I was opening Audrey's, I obviously was talking to other people, just getting advice. And then there is a business owner who owns a cafe called Mary Souls. And he said, Sydney does his social media. She does a great job. Like, I highly recommend her because she really helped us build.

a following. So, of course, I talked to Sydney, and then she started doing social media for Audrey's, and then we just became friends. You know, she's from Newport. She's a little bit younger than us. 28, 29? 29. So, God, we're 35. I know. I'm going to be 36 next week. I'm going to be 39 this year, so let's move on. Okay, anyway. Oh, and then she started doing our social media Audrey's, and she did such a great job. And then we just became friends, and Sydney started doing social work for us. And then she owns Folk Vintage. So she was a business owner. Obviously, I'm a business owner.

So we just became friends. And then one night, I was working. And then Sydney and Ashley were at the house. And I think it just, you guys were kind of like talking. And then Ashley was like, you're, you're single. Like, I should try to get you on the show. Yeah. And then I was, and then she said to me that this guy, Joey is like the one, like the one bachelor that I can think of that I'd actually want to go on the show for.

And I was like, you know, it's a little late for me to talk to the producers. But like, you'd be so perfect. Like my girlfriends and my sister. like when they'll come into the store when they're visiting and they just think like Sydney was so cool they're like oh my gosh she's like such an aura she's like such a cool girl yeah and like she's so pretty and like effortless and blah blah and then I was like yeah like she was so good on the show and then um I texted producers and I sent them pictures and like immediately they were like oh my gosh yes so pretty let me talk to so and so and it happened so fast for her like it was like a week and because I don't

I don't think I submitted her pictures until like the last week of August or something. So Sydney, how would you say it went? So, but then like, now I have this horrible guilt. Oh, yeah. That, like, she gets on. It does not go according to plan. And it doesn't seem like we have paradise, which would be the ultimate, like, why don't have paradise?

I don't think it's happening. Well, it's not confirmed. Nobody knows what's going on right now. And, like, Sydney, you can only call this out. And I think that they don't want to overwork production because production now with the edition of the new golden bachelorette it's just like that's four shows for them a year these poor people i don't know how they deal with allegedly allegedly this is all happening uh that's sad i know i always feel bad for the producers because i was thinking about them as well and just like their

schedule sydney's probably other than they're like i don't feel bad about producers well obviously different story but yeah so i don't know hopefully she gets to go on paradise if she's so willing and then like eventually people will get to know the side of her that we didn't see or just a more complete version of herself and decide that you guys know yes so we're good again i hate that you're right here but we're talking in a positive light about you do you what do you think about people's edits because don't you think they could have made me the villain on they could have made both of us the villain maybe not on chris's season you think why would you think that on christ's season they can make you a villain easily oh yeah 100% that came out of my mouth about people

okay yeah yeah you know you get with a producer and they could say a producer could say to me they actually did say that about you and then i'm going to hate that person i'm going to say things about them but that producers can be lying to me just to make television and i had all these one-liners that i wanted to like throw out there and zingers i was you stole the word right i was just about to say zingers really yeah if they if they put scary music behind some of things that you said and i said them as jokes and i that's just my sense of humor and my way of flirting like i saw a meme the other day that was like i'm sorry i offended you so much. I was just trying to flirt with you. That's me. Like I use it as like a way to

flirt or like poke fun and I just have all these like peepoos. And so yeah, they could have. So what do you think about our friend over here, her edit? Well, you speak. I think as we've always said, nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad as it seems. It's kind of like it sucks because and Cindy can probably attest this. It's like, yes, that happens. happened but that's not how it happened and it's like yeah 100% that's exactly what happens and it sucks because not everybody gets their full story out and it's just like i wish i had more words of wisdom or positivity but like it's just like sometimes that shit happens and it sucks yeah but it's just i mean never in a million years that i ever think it was like going to happen

to sydney where you'd be like in the middle of this shit oh my gosh i was like ah she'll make Because Ashley was like she's going top four. And I was like if she she'll probably like get halfway like get to paradise, you know, be like one of those. That's what I thought I was going to be. Yeah. And then you dragged my ass the fourth. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. So off camera, Sydney just said that like she's the kind of person that, you know, she can't just keep her mouth shut if she sees something like kind of wrong happening. And I feel like I have that quote. Well, I have that quality. Yeah. And sometimes that quality on the show. is really is hard to have. And it can come across a different way and it can be edited a certain way. Like I always say, I don't know how the editors don't get awards at TV, like those award shows.

Right. Yeah. Because they are so good in ways where it's like brilliant and beautiful and hilarious in ways where I'm like, oh, you little asshole. Yeah. You know. Even in movies, because I'm a big movie guy, But, you know, you talk about the, I've heard stories about editors really changing actors' performances and how they can really take a, like, I've heard stories about actors giving horrible performances, but the way the editors are able to put the film together, that it really makes actually a somewhat decent performance. It's crazy.

That's like how Russell Crow, you know, can win two Oscars. Has he won two? Yeah, he won for Gladiator and he won for Beautiful Mind, I think. No, we ever, we talked about this when we were playing our game. He definitely won for gladiator. Yeah, I know that. But remember we thought he won for Beautiful Mind? And then he didn't.

Okay. So maybe he's only one one. Oh, Master and Commander. Master and Commander? Yeah. Okay. So I thought he won for two. And I think it was,

that's weird that he won for Master and Commander and not Beautiful Mind. But whatever. So he's got two Oscars, but then, like, apparently up for like a Razzie this year. So like, is that how it happens? Oh, for the Pope's exorcists? Something like that. Yeah, it did not do well. Yeah, but that's just the way it happens.

I mean, uh, I mean, there were definitely things on my season where I was like, those sex. noises they showed oh yeah oh my god i forgot about that no that that would keep me up at night and that's the only thing from your season that i that would keep me up from oh just like god that i'm like did you really need to make the noises like sound show the noises and the idea was that really you yeah it was me but it was the morning it was the i was having morning sex with sean and they had a blue like outside where dub noises over when a blank door this is like oh Fantasy sweet.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. All right. So it wasn't Nick's voice. It was only mine. Yeah, they only played hers. Oh, I don't remember. Because then, like, thinking about, like,

oh, God, the sound of Nick. God, my poor. Poor Papa Bristow. Let's talk about that for a second. What would you do if Dawson wanted to be the Bachelor one day? Yeah, we're cool with it. We're cool with it. Oh, yeah.

I would be, too. Yeah, how could we not be? Like, it's given us, like, the life that we've lived for the past 10 years almost. That's true. And it's an amazing amazing. amazing life. I do wonder if that will be a thing, like when the, like our franchise age has kids and they are old enough to be? I don't know. That show is it going to be around that long? That's the show that doesn't quit. I mean, it's been on for 25 years and it feels like it's

only getting more popular with Joey season. Well, but it's balancing out. What if like, you know, Dawson and Emmy got married? Well, Dawson and Emmy have great chemistry. That's what I mean. It's a little bit of a cougar situation, especially right now. But like, yeah. Who do you think right now is going to be the next Bachelorette? Well, I think that Maria does have a chance. I do too. I think she's kind of like runner up though because I do think that with the top four being Maria and then... Are they already at final four?

Yeah. Oh, shit. So Maria and Rachel, and I don't think Rachel would ever be. I'm so sorry about Rachel. I mean, like I like her, but I just don't think that she'd have. like that pizzazz and then if it goes between Kelsey and Daisy I think that those two also have a chance so there's three there she doesn't have that pew-poo that's I can't wait for Dawson to be old enough to understand everything of your guys's relationship because it's just it's like pure at the same time and

it's so sweet and it's such an incredible story but it's so funny like it's just kids are just going to have to understand that yeah you know I'm excited for to realize that love is not easy you know like I love the show so much I love Bachelor it has given me more my life than anything besides like my parents but you know we all know that love is is much more complicated and difficult and hard and I'm actually weirdly happy that he can see his parents and be like bro it wasn't always good and it's not always going to be good for you like whoever you end up like you're going to be in relationships and they're going to work out and they're not going to work out and you're going to get married one day and there's probably

going to be times in your marriage when you're sad and angry and that's just the way life is and I love that Ashley would probably disagree with me but I just want you know you I feel like you have to go in with a sense of realism he's like realism yeah oh you're like romance fantasy fantasy land which also is very true as well but there's it's all of that it's so many you know the highs and the lows and the peaks of valleys of not just your story, everybody's, like everybody goes through something. I wish I would have learned more in my upbringing about, like my parents hid their fights and then all of a sudden they're getting divorced. I'm like, well, but you guys are in love. Like, yeah, I think it's important to show all sides. I'm not a mother yet. Who knows? But if I ever will, I want to be both.

I want to like protect their little magic land in their head and also be like, but life will You up, son. Well, hey, hey, yeah, life's hard. Get a helmet. Yeah. Like, right now, of course, I would never introduce that to Dawson. You know, it's just Santa Claus is real. Yes.

You're going to get a dollar when you lose a tooth. Yeah. Like, because there's a dollar. Yeah, what's the two-third price? Dude, we're going to. Yeah. What are you about to say? I knew he was going to say this.

How much do you think we're giving Dawson? Yeah. Get the fuck out of here. You're going to give $20. My, okay, my parents, my parents one time gave me. $20 and I was like look at this and they were like the tooth fairy obviously couldn't see in the dark so I think like five to ten no Jared inflation what did you get I mean maybe yeah well I want Dawson to know that it's not easy for him to get money okay I think five is at least fine we'll talk

about I think five is good I said 20 but your reaction scared me so 20 I just don't want him to be i'm not saying 20 babe that's too much i'm just five at least we can move on we'll talk we can move on obviously you're pregnant right now you just announced you're having another boy yeah that is crazy because didn't you say you thought it was going to be a girl or i can't remember we kept going back and forth like when i saw you last i definitely thought it was going to be a girl yeah the pregnancy has been not like the extreme opposite as last time but so much better than last time that I was like, oh, hormonally, I must be able to tolerate a girl better or something. Right.

And no, my midwife was like so shocked. I don't know why I thought it was going to be a girl too. Yeah. My whole body was like, girl. I don't know why I think if you have a boy. But how crazy is it when everybody says to you, are you going to try for a girl next? Oh, everybody. I am literally halfway just having another boy and like leave me alone.

Like, never ever. Like, sorry, guys. Like, I'm not. And my mom is like, but you. will and I'm like mom then you can pay for the surrogate because I'm not caring another kid nor do I like need another kid in my life and you can pay for the night nurse and you can pay for the nanny how do you guys like if you have like the conversation we just had about the tooth fairy we've got realism we've got dreamland how do you get to the same page on parenting and how do you navigate your disagreements that's a good question I don't think that right now we've had a ton because like he's just too yeah but we talk about this like sometimes when it comes like saving money for college right like jared doesn't prioritize it as much as i would because i was definitely like you know raised in the family where it's like you go to college yeah but like i think

that like my thoughts are evolving and i think like even my parents thoughts were evolving whereas like my parents saved for like us to go to ivy leagues if we wanted to but i don't think that that's a priority for us like i'm like no i they can go he go to a good state school and if he like finds something he's really passionate about he wants to move on like blah blah and jarring's more like Like, you know, if he wants to just become like a plumber, which is actually quite a fantastic occupation, like an electrician, yeah. He wants to go to trade school. Of course, I want him to go to college, but Jared's like, I don't, we don't need to excessively save for college. And I'm like, so that's just kind of like one of the point I was making on that was that there's not to get in the minutiae, but there are certain things that you can do like with college funds that are like, save you a ton of taxes and stuff like that.

But it's like they can only be used for college. So if he doesn't go to college, it gets like passed down to your grandkids. So you can never take that money out. Yeah. Yeah. But you save so much money in taxes. Oh, got it. For the money you put away.

So it's like, yeah. So you have conversations like that. I didn't go to college. Yeah. Yeah. And look at you. So. Seriously.

Look at you. Bank account, I think, too. 100%. Yeah. It's not so bad. Like, you know, but exactly. So it's, but like, it's just things where it's like, yeah. You can see that on like the cuss.

But I think like Jared and I are pretty, we find the middle. He's definitely more the disciplinarian the family than I I like I didn't think I was going to have such a problem with it yeah I have I if I upset him I can't it's tough I mean I get it face going from being normal to squishing up it's very sad but I and I understand it from Ashley's point of view as well because when he gets upset it's not he's not screaming for dad that he's screaming for mama so I get why Ashley's much I just I wish you would just walk away and just like just get out of the room and then like I'll handle it you know you're like I know but it's tough because he's like reaching out from

mama so it's just so tough and it's not even that bad but like the problem is even when I raise my voice where I'm like he'll he'll throw something and we're like don't do that and then he'll look at me and throw it again I'm like Dawson do not throw that yeah and I'll lower my voice yeah it's stern and then he'll get scared yeah cry and then that's about the extent of our discipline right now because he's fair but what okay first of all he's so cute, I can't even handle this. We'll make sure that you meet him later. I need to.

Yeah, of course. I can't even ever met him. Yeah, so weird. I've never met him. And I'm just obsessed. I love kids so much. How do you, okay, take parenting out of it. How do you two get through disagreements as a couple?

Or do you have many? We're lucky we were to hunt me. We like, we'll bicker, but like, we don't like have a lot of fights. No, I think. The last one we had was like a week and a half ago where you were like, Where you were mad at me about the keys. Oh, yeah. I was very mad at you about the keys.

Because I always say, in my opinion, Ashley's greatest quality is also probably one of her greatest weaknesses in terms of, like, relationships. Because what Ashley is so great at is that she's so transparent. Like anything, she cannot tell a lie. She can't hide anything. She has no poker face. And it's so endearing. but also it's difficult because you don't have the ability to really be like it's okay babe like we're fine i'm fine like you're never fine you're never fine you know which i get but i think

it's hard because she also has a way like the way she talks to her sister it's very like why didn't you do this and it's like she talks to me like that sometimes and i'm like why like why the fuck would you say it that way and she's like this is just the way I talk. I wouldn't like, I don't mean anything by it. I know. At all. I'm the same way as Ashley.

Yeah. My delivery, I'm like, but I would say that I would talk like that to my sister or my friend. That's just like it's my delivery. Yeah. Are your hormones crazy? Like, we all know Ashley for crying. Yeah. But then I feel like you came out of that phase.

I think so too. But I do cry every time we have a fight. And he does not like that. Like I can't fight without having tears shirmy down my face. Oh, yeah, yeah. Because our fights. And he says that like I can help that. And I was like, no.

Oh, no. I can't. When the tears start, no stopping them for me. We have to try to, but the problem becomes, I don't, I was like, biologically, I don't think. No, I couldn't. The more I try and stop, the more they flow. Yes. I agree.

But we have to get to a place because the problem is whenever like we fight, it really is more of like an argument. Yeah. In terms of like, we never raise our voices, but we're very like, if we have opinions about things. Yeah. Well, this is what I think, Ashley. And it's like a serious conversation. Yeah. even then she'll start crying and then as soon as Ashley starts crying it's over like I'm not going to disagree with her anymore because I'm going to be like well we we just it's fine and then she's like it's not fine obviously there's no we need to figure out a solution yeah I'm like I can't like I just can't be tough on you if you're crying I can't stick to my opinions like I'll disagree with you you don't like seeing her like that because then it's who would yeah anybody who starts crying if you have any type of empathy and like you see someone start crying it's like like never mind you know

I'll just, it's fine. So you're like, stop manipulating me with your tears, bitch. I know. I don't even think you think they're sad. I just think that you don't want to talk to me like through them. Yeah, because it's honestly, again, one of your greatest strengths is you're so, and I say this with all the love of my heart is that you're so childlike. It's funny because you are, you're so innocent and childlike yet so in tune with

yourself that it's like we, I always joked about this with you and maybe off camera on. I can't remember or podcast. whatever. But everyone always thought, like, you on The Bachelor, for example, so this is a lot of years ago, like that you weren't self-aware. But I think you were the most self-aware person and you've only got more self-aware, but it's so funny because you like get known as the crier or this, this, this. But then now you're a mom and you're just like, I don't know, you're like the most you you've ever been. Well, thanks. I think so. Thank you. But you're just, you're so in tune with your emotions. Yeah, I do think that. I do, and I do make fun of myself. And for anybody who would

like write to me during the Bachelor and Bachelor in Bachelor in Paradise and be like she's so not self-aware. I'm like, wow, you don't get it. No, you are the most self-aware. I'm laughing at myself crying because I know how ridiculous it is. And it's, it's cool because when people come up to me and Caitlin, you're the exact same way. They'll say like, oh, I feel like I know Ashley. Yeah. And I'm like, you do. Yeah. Like, I know it sounds weird, but you do. Yeah. Because what she is on social media, that is. It's just such a compliment. It is a compliment. And you are the exact same way. Yeah, you really are too.

Where people are like, I feel like I know you. And it's like, you do know them. Yeah. Okay, let's talk about why I'm here. Yeah. People know us. That's sweet. The last time, actually, yes, Jared, you have it on my podcast because now I'm remembering

you said this on my podcast that it was like a dream of yours to open a coffee shop in Rhode Island and have it turn into like a martini bar at night. Oh, here we are. I should find that footage. Oh, my dream that's turned into a nightmare. I mean, how hard is it too? I always knew it was going to be hard, and I've accepted that. The problem becomes is it's not so much, and I hope I actually can attest this.

Like, I work very, very hard, but I'm able to continue doing life tired and exhausted, and I just can kind of like grind through. And so the thing is, it's never like the amount of hours I'm there don't bother me that much. I love to work. but it's now I just see the effect it has on Ashley and Dawson I mean that's what it really it's hard because I know restaurant hours and running it and having it be coffee

into drinks like that's a lot we only do that like twice he definitely only has it once a week which is Fridays and then he does that again like for events and like other special like it'll be peppered throughout the month if there's more there's always more because he has like these after parties these wedding after parties

for private events and all that stuff but he does work so insanely hard that's awesome and like he's he's so dedicated to it yeah it's really impressive i mean it truly was your dream and now you're living it eating sleeping breathing it doesn't feel like a dream though when you like when you accomplish some dreams you know oh my gosh no it's a grind yeah it's an absolute grind but it is like there are times i definitely let it soak in like i remember when a grocery store joe who we love so much we love him so much. Go get his sauce.

Yeah. Now. His sauce is available at Audrey. Sundays with Joe. Um, but I remember when he came and Joe's such a good guy, like I love him so much. And he was, we were talking and he was like, dude, you were just kind of look around and think that if you just stopped caring, this place would just crumble.

And I'm like, I've never thought of it that way, but I, in a weird way, that's kind of one of the best comments that everybody's given me. Yeah. The fact if I just, if, if I, me, only me, stopped caring, Audrey's. is done yeah yeah that's crazy that is crazy that's that is literally your second third baby whatever yeah i know it's what it why did you name it audries again i remember after my mom which i mean he loves my mom but he also just thought it was a cute coffee shop name i love it cozy yeah it is cozy so explain to people if they come to rhode island what they would get if they came there like

what is the experience oh well i mean good coffee good drinks it's hard because it is very much a coffee shop. Yeah. You know, and it's cute in there and it has great vibes and people love coming and hanging out. And I love that so much with the fireplace and there's painted murals on there and string lights. You've never been in there. Oh, you're going to love it. I'm so excited. Like, it's very much like we tried to cater it towards like the coffee shop and friends. Yeah. Uh, central perk. But at the same time, it is very much a functioning coffee shop. So it's like hard because people come in. We've had people come in from all around the country which is so humbling the idea that they would

dedicate their time to come to Audrey's and it means the world to me but I also can't help but feel a sense of guilt because it is still it's like you're just coming to a coffee shop right right but it's cool like for them if they're fans of the show and like they literally see me like cooking in the back and then yeah like there's a little square

you'll see it that his head is always in the cooking square just in the cooking square you need to start like an Instagram account just for the square Honestly, it would, yeah, I would probably kill. That's amazing. But it's where he goes. Order up. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I love when people like do something from the show and they're actually like in it. Like how I stomp the grapes with my own two feet. Obviously. You know? I do love your tagline. I never realized what your tagline was for Spaden's Barrow's. Long legs full body.

Great legs, full body. And the wine's not bad either. Oh, so good. I read that out of the box. I was like, wow, that's good. you're going to be having the spade and sparrows there and joe's sauce yeah and we have nick's book and it's ben's coffee and ben's coffee yeah jenn's coffee so it's cool because i it is very you know we've just i mean we're all just friends and so the idea that we all have different companies and

it's like supporting each other and people love it if they come in and they love the show they're like i can buy katelyn's wine and then get joe's sauce and then buy ben's coffee yeah well also like you know meeting Jared the one with the patch of facial hair it's like this is perfect it's a great day I'm very proud of my patchiness it's part of your

it's just me yeah it's part of your whole vibe yeah yeah yeah yeah I just never noticed it until like everybody kept talking about it I know I don't get it but no I guess I get it I'll never forget one of the greatest comments I ever got to is from Donnie Wolberg that the one time what did he said

so this was before we were together and we were on Jenny's podcast and Donnie was there too and obviously from you know new england's like oh yeah that's oh yeah that's huge and so we sat down and then donnie said he he was he was like no i get like jared like he's got that providence vibe i think they were saying that they get it oh donnie won't just said out of providence life though i think they're like saying that yeah 100% i feel like i'm more understood in in real life which i guess is a it's a good thing yeah that's a good thing and then ashley you've had a podcast for so long now you've been in the game i think as long as i have

Yeah, I think you came out with yours like two or three months after. Really? Yeah. Oh, so you've been it longer than me. How is that? I mean, you're both in the podcast world. Her's is much more successful. I can't believe suckers is still a thing.

Love it to death. It's so, no, it's still good. It's still good. Like, I love, I love Dean so much. And I love Caitlin too. Yeah. I love Caitlin, but, you know, obviously I'm just very close with Dean. Yeah.

He's just like, I was actually talking about Dean on the podcast's very brief story. Just like, how incredible, like, Dean is when you really think about what he's come from and the man that he is yeah you know because he was very open about it about you know losing his mom at a young age and then what's happened with his father yeah and how Dean kind of just raised himself yeah and the idea that he is just this wonderful human being and you know all the credit goes to him because he was talking about on the podcast about his dad because he moved back to Colorado I saw that and he like lives in the neighborhood that his dad lives in he hasn't seen really no

way why would he choose that name like in like the town yeah in the town not so in the town he's like waiting so and his dad works at a store owns the store and he hasn't gone in kind of crazy that he'd be like open to living so close to like where all the memories are I wonder if that's something deep down that's what he was talking about he's like I wonder if it like subconsciously I just felt like I needed it too yes oh that makes me want to give him a really big hug like that's why like talk about just like loving him being I think he might own a store it and he just has they're going to have i feel like they're going to have a moment i think so well he the thing is and i can talk about it because he was very open about it he doesn't know if he wants

the moment got it so that's the issue but he might need the moment maybe but he also he was it's so profound i find it so profound he was talking about how is he is nervous that his dad would he doesn't want his dad to take credit for the man he's become there and it's like shit like that man that's a movie it's just like that just gave me chills it gives me chills it gives me chills all the time just thinking about it. Oh, he should write a book. Yeah, he really should. Actually, the way he's a storyteller, but he does it through visuals,

he should do like a documentary. Totally. Yeah. Or like he's on like some like hike or something and he's discovered. I wonder if there's any home videos of him that they could find like and tell his story. Yeah. And it could be like roll the credits and it's just him, his name. It could be like an eat, pray, love situation.

Oh, my God, I have all these visits. He goes to different places and then discovers more things about himself. I love where we're planning Dean's life and I love it. Oh, my God. Dean, I will produce. No, he will produce. I will just have some creative ideas for you and you can run with them and give me. You can edit it.

Well, he needs help because I love Dean so much. But like, he'd start two weeks in. He'd be like, I'm kind of over it. No, bro. You need to do it. That's kind of me too. How is your and Ben's relationship like evolved over the years of podcast? it's just like very I'm just so comfortable with him yeah and it's like whenever I see him in real

it's kind of funny because so much of it has been through his screen yeah and then when I see him in real life I'm like oh my god you're like my best you're like one of my very best friends I feel like he's like family to you oh yeah 100% yeah yeah he's just such like a comforting presence too he is and just like such a a character like just a good charactered man and like I just feel like so many times he says things like on a podcast and I'm just like why can't I like think and feel like you sometimes you know you know like he's so soulful yeah he is soulful yeah yeah and he's just a good just a good human yeah he really is and we do this like advice podcast now like we just like a couple episodes a month

and I'm like Ben how do you like everything is so well thought out and so kind you know everything is just like with just so much thought people always say I should do like advice and I'm like nope I shouldn't see that's but like usually like it's like all my take real quick and I'd be like I think you should I think this is a horrible man and you should divorce him and then then we'll get on and he'll just like have so much fuller of just a take yeah yeah what I like about Ben a multitude of things but something I relate to as well is that and I think people actually find this as a fault and I find as a great thing is that he tries so hard to be a good man because like as like I live in my mind every day so I know that I have thought sometimes like I could be a dog human being he still says

this that he has I don't tell you some of my thoughts he tells me that he's like you know he used to tell me before we were like really married but like particularly before we got together that he was like I have things you know like demons first of all I didn't say it like that you did you made it see I was much manlier than that when I said it okay I was broglow and I have weird And I still haven't really seen the darkness. I know that he can have like a little bit of a temper. The temper is never directed towards me. But like I don't know.

Do you have like dark intrusive thoughts? Yeah. No, just like just some of the shit that says that like, yeah, of course who doesn't have dark intrusted thoughts? I have antrusive thoughts about Dawson. Just like things that like I was like, oh shit, I could never say that out of like. Like I could never say that a lot. But my point being is that like everybody has that.

I feel like everybody's good and bad. But like I think some people hold it against. Ben for like, oh, like, he's got some demons in him, but he tries so hard to be a good man. Like, I want to, I think he just needs to let loose. And I'm like, yeah, but should we really fault someone for just like actively trying in their everyday life to be the best person they possibly can be? And he still lets his little demons fit. Oh, yeah, when he's got a little whiskey. Yeah.

Or bourbon or whatever. He just doesn't have to do it on camera. Yeah. And then, yeah, of course. And then Ben is obviously just like someone we use an example. But like, I just, I think, uh, yeah, it just makes, I don't know, that was a thought that went my head on. I was like, why do we fault someone for not? Like, it's like, oh, just be your authentic self.

And it's like, yeah, but sometimes my authentic self is an asshole. I don't want to be that. Yeah, exactly. I want to fight against that. Yes. Because it's not about like, I have darkness in me, but it's about like the choices that I make. That's the person that I'm, that I am. I literally did therapy about this for an hour yesterday.

Really? It was like talk about business, but it turned into like what living authentically actually looks like. And basically what you. just said like I was like sometimes I try too hard to be like I need people to like me and that's not living authentically and she was like well what is the alternative like you're also not a dick and if you want to be you don't have to share that side on social media and that still doesn't make you like you know it's basically everything that you guys are saying that's so interesting yeah yeah and that but like you said of course like we want realness there are times

when of course everybody's selfish or so on but like yeah for the majority of times like I don't know why we fault people for trying to be a good person yeah i don't know it's interesting it is interesting i have a game for you guys to end this oh my god love games we do love games jared and i never play games together it's because she won't she won't i want to play chess i bought a chess i told you i love that one we have the harry potter one that's oh my god you guys would have a harry potter chess board it was given to us and i can't wait to play it well jared you can just turn off a tv one night and just see like we're playing chess and i'd be totally down okay great so i'm waiting for that moment. It'll actually be kind of romantic.

That's, that's marriage for you right there. When a romantic gesture is telling your wife, we're going to play a game of chess. And you get excited. Yeah, but it's like that would be the most romantic thing he's done for me in years. It would be more of like an interaction at night. Wait, how many years have you guys been together? This month. Six or seven?

Six this month. Do you, do you hear about the seven year itch? Oh, well, we've heard about the movie. What's the seven-year itch? Marilyn Monroe movie. That's where she has like the wave in the skirt. Oh. Yeah.

That's the seven-year itch is the movie? Yeah. What? I did not know that. Yeah. Oh. Okay, well, don't worry about it if you haven't heard of it. Nope, just keep moving along.

So wait, but people like start like really contemplating like forever at 70s? No, it's like the honeymoon phase into three years where then you start choosing. Yeah. And you're choosing to love the other person. Yeah. Then you get the seven year it where you're like, can I do this? And then you get through it and you go, okay, I love them more than ever now. And it, like, becomes more beautiful after.

Oh, wow. So I hope you don't get that. But if you do, just know there's hope on the other end, which is, by the way, isn't that? Rhode Island's like, hope. Is your motto? I love it so much. I love Hope. I love Rhode Island.

So you really, you have to live here longer than. You have to come here for like. She also just comes to Newport. She comes to Newport. Newport's the best part of the house. When I come to Newport, when I cross the bridge, like in the summer, I'll come here from like May through October. Yes.

like I'll just cross the bridge and I'll feel like I have entered vacation land. Yeah, let's bring her to West Warwick. See how she likes here. Yeah. So I love Newport. I used to come here as like a little kid because we I used to, oddly, we used to live like 45 minutes away from each other when I was like

two through five. Yeah, cool. So my parents would take us here on the weekends and I love that. It's just beautiful here. Wow. The rest of this day is I do believe not that. I've never heard of this an ear itch but I do believe in that I this is going to sound so lame like what what Rob Thomas once told

he tells us on every podcast I thought you were going to get through a whole podcast without bringing him up the way that I got through the whole podcast without talking about family guy but go on quick my but my point being is that he talked about relationships one time and I think it's a pretty interesting little facto where he said that like the same thing where there's this honeymoon phase that he

went through and it's incredible and you could be folding laundry and it doesn't matter you guys just love being together and then shit happens and then real life happens and then it's dark for a little while pregnant and gross no but it's just like it's not romantic anymore like there's just like things happen yeah and then he said once you get over that there is this love that you discover that as like that is this dependency like you just you are so dependent on that person and not in a bad way but just in a wonderful way so i love that before we move on i have to say two things i didn't want to shit on rhode island too much because there are lots of pretty places just want to give them a shout out wickford wickford's great um then there at gansett and then um watch hill where taylor swift has a house

oh she does so if taylor swift has a house in a different place you know it's great so great places federal hill yeah yeah but like they're definitely spotty we can also edit out where you shit on it what we can also edit out where you shit oh no no no leave it we got to get the the shout outs to the pretty places because in the summer it is a great place to be loved it here and in the winter it's it's a dock place i'll give you that and then the other thing i was going to say i was just going to make fun of jared and i together right now just like because this is what we went through when dawson um when i was pregnant with dawson but like this is our good night kiss to each other oh like you won't touch she does it with me but it's not me laugh like we pack the smallest peck and

And then, like, we laugh. Wait, why? But it's because she's so self-conscious about her breath when she's pregnant. It's like my whole being. I mean, there's a little stinkiness. But it's not your fault. I'm so stinky. Like, in the morning, like, I'll shower the next day.

Like, you know, like, deodor and all that. And then the morning, I'll, like, go like this. And it's just, who. Dude, she, the other morning, I'm not even joking. She was just sitting there. We were sitting at the table. It was me, her, and Dawson. And then just I don't know where she goes.

Holy shit. I just showered. And I was like, well, now I know not to go to you. Wait, was the honeymoon phase not like that? Because I picture you always being like that. It was like that. But you have like lingerie and stuff like that that can supplement it. The honeymoon phase, Shan Boudrein was telling me about this.

She's like, the longevity of your life is actually shortened if you lived in the honeymoon phase forever. Like the butterflies actually are tearing up the like tissue of your stomach. Yeah, yeah. No, I've read this and I tell everybody this that like it's only supposed. to be two years max because then we wouldn't be functioning human beings right i took this class uh it was like human intimacy in college and that's the that is that's the tidbit that really stuck with me because it makes me feel better on like times like this because i'm like well we we we couldn't be like the way we were in 2000 i mean i looks like i've got the three year itch every three years i'm like

mom i'm out see you butterflies are gone so is kately Fly fly. Fly, fly way. Maybe that's my problem. I'm like, choose love. Bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like a tissue in my stomach forever.

I'm going to be asexual. That's amazing. Oh, well, we've got the giggles. Well, I was going to say, well, we've got them. We'll keep the joke. This isn't actually really that much fun of a game. It's more of a negative thing where we go, can you not? Where I used to do this segment, can you not all the time?

I'm bringing it back. Okay. Everybody wants it. I'm bringing it. back can you not coffee shop edition okay have you ever seen yes this is awful I can't wait for him to air this out have you ever heard Nate Bargotsie or I don't know I say the coffee order bit uh no I'm sure I have but it will go it's it's basically this like how people can't just order a coffee with cream they're like oh mychiato and they're like no just coffee with cream

okay so like can you not so I'm going to go as a customer but you go as an owner all right Like for me, I'm like, can you not just have regular sizes? Like, why is it either 16 ounce, 24 ounce, grande, venty? Like, why can't we just do small, medium, large? So we do, so I say small, medium, large, but then a lot of people will be like, well, what's the size of the large? I'm like, 20 ounces. So that's the other thing. And then honestly, a lot of people, because I think it's just a Starbucks thing.

I really do. A lot of people come in, they have specially coffee orders, but it's nothing like the foreign language that I hear in a Starbucks. And I love Starbucks, not shitting on it. But it's just like, I'll take a grand. caramel macchiato skim almond uh an extra shot of espresso and then no foam and then can you please make that upside down but then just put a i don't like it fully to the cup i need a little bit more room because sometimes i like to put too sweet and low but make sure you put a one sweetener in there before you hand it and then just take it off with the lid and then if you could do

i had one time someone come in they were like do you do latte art and i said well yeah they're like oh okay great as if they they weren't going to order anything unless you did the art Wow. Damn, that's crazy. My art sucks, though. So, you know, I mean, it doesn't suck. I try so hard to do latte art and I cannot. I make a leaf that looks like, you know. A leaf? That's nice. Yeah, it's the leaf. It's the classic. Yeah, it's, I mean, it's an artistic view of what a leaf should look like, you know. The eyes, the beauty's in the eye of the beholder. Yeah. Okay. So what is your can you not? Like, what's something that just, you've got to, you've got to tell them the story of the girl that came in a couple weeks ago. I don't remember what story this is. The one where she was.

like but the job of coffee is better oh no it was just like some woman was sitting at the bar and i don't even want to shit on her because i don't she just seemed a little out there but she was very sweet but she was sitting there and then i heard her talking to one of the baristas and then it seemed like something might have been wrong so of course i just kind of inserted myself oh that's me it's real professional over here wow it's probably her like time to end the alarm yeah yeah yeah oh jared's talking about audries Time to end. It's like playing the music at the Academy Awards.

Oh, he's talking about Rob Thomas. But so she was just out of nowhere. So I inserted myself. I was like, hey, is everything, you know, how you do it? How is everything over here? And she goes, not good? And I said, oh, what's wrong? And she said, I just, I don't like the dark roast coffee.

And I said, oh, I'd love to get. I'm so sorry about that. I'll get you, you know, what do you want? I'll get you something else. No worries. she's like well I only drink dark roast and I said oh well and usually people love our dark roast I was like that's so weird you know what what is it about it you don't like and then she was like I just I just don't like it and she's like have you had Java which is another coffee and I was

like Java coffee she goes yeah and I was like yeah I've had Java I like I like I love their dark roast and I said oh you said can you not and then I was like can you not because I was like there's nothing I can say yeah and I'm like oh I I was like, I can make something else for you. You know, usually people love our dark roast. And she's like, have you ever considered carrying Java here? And I said, no, we use Generis. And then I was telling her the story about Generous.

It's a nonprofit. She's like, yeah, I just don't like it. And then I was like, she, I was like, oh, yeah, she was like, I also love Mills. And I said, we carry Mills. I have Mills coffee for you. I said, we do their flavored coffee because Generis doesn't have flavored coffee. And she's like, well, I only like their French press. And I was like

One of those people All right I can't win I know I was like I wish I could help I will do it I was like do you want food She goes no

I don't like that I'm not hungry And I was like all right And then she didn't leave though And then she left And I was like I Can you not That's a good can you not

But it's so funny Because especially as you know Working in the hospitality industry Like you get some people in there That I just batched crazy In the most lovable way But because I love those customers

I love dealing with those customers because I find it because I I love a challenge I'm very lucky to have a way with the way I interact with people I feel like I'm able to talk to people and so but it's so funny because my cook and my chef is not like that at all he is like a back of house guy who just says what's on his mind and he was like dude I wish we could give a 10% discount to people come in who are just normal you come in you act normal you're getting 10% off you come you come in you're an asshole you're painful press i was like that's so funny that's a great idea actually i'll never forget guys that came in like grown men in suits asking me to cut up their chicken fingers for them and i'd be like gross yeah yeah dude some guys are gross i remember i worked at a bar it's called turtle soup who's in narragansit shout out to my bartender who's also manager's name was Mike he's my liquor rep now Mike Devaney awesome awesome dude but he there was a moment where like I wish I took you know a learning lesson from it and it's like a story that I'm going to tell Dawson of how he should act there's two guys that came in like two assholes older guys

whatever came to the hostess they wanted a table was outside they just grabbing beers so the hostess brought him out to an outdoor table and he like patted her on the ass saying thank you so she came in she's like 18 19 she's in college so she's kind of like a little shaking because She's like, I can't, like, that's crazy that just happened. She's like, just shaking up about it. And then Mike was like, what's going on? And she told him the story. He went directly to the table.

They just got their drinks. He grabbed their drinks and he said, you guys got to get out of here. They were like, what? And he's like, you know, you guys, that's not allowed. You can't stay here. Well, you sexually harassed somebody. And then he was like, they were like, we just got our drinks. We'll let us just finish the drinks and then we'll get out of here.

And then he was the best line ever. He goes, okay, fine. You can sit there, finish your drinks. But while you're finishing drinks, I'm going to call the cops. and then tell them what happened when they get down here. So you can either leave now or you can finish your drink and I'll call the cops and they left. And I was like, dude, you're Batman.

You are Batman. You are Batman. It was just like one of those moments from like that's the guy I want to be like. Yeah. So cool. See, I would have handled that much differently. I would have just kicked him right in the nutsack. They probably deserve that.

Throw the drinks in their face. But at 18, that same thing happened to me as a hostess. I was 19 and I was like wiping the, my butt's moving as I do it and that's what he said I was what I was like what kind of joint did you work at I was wiping the whiteboard or the hostess stand and he was like I love watching your ass move like that

from like the table and I was like I just froze like now if somebody said that to me I'd handle it much differently but like at 19 I was like okay oh my gosh but like can you not compare our coffee to Duncan or the sizes like they have what a 32 ounce cup It's ginormous. We don't have that. I'll never forget somebody came in. They were like, what's your biggest coffee?

And I said, oh, we have a 24-ounce size. And he was like, that's it. He was like, Duncan has twice that size. And I was like, we're not Duncan. It's like, we're just not like, no other small coffee shop has sizes like Duncan has. Yeah. For a reason, you know, it's Duncan. It's different coffee.

So can you not? Yeah, good. Love it. Can you not bring in your own food into the establishment that sells food because I had to put signs up. I had to put signs at doors saying no outside food and drink allowed. And because trivia night. So I host trivia.

I do it Friday night. I love it so much. But obviously the reason I do is because I wanted to be busy and make money. Yeah. And so people are bringing in. College kids. They bring in Wendy's. They bring in Wendy's or they bring in Poked.

And it's like, guys, like you can't do that. You know? And they come in order a coffee. And it's like, guys, you can't be here for three hours. bring in outside food and order a $4 coffee. Yeah, and they don't tip and they don't spend money. And so I had to put signs up and then I felt bad the other day. We have signs up to say no outside drink and food allowed.

And then these two girls came in. They walked directly to a table and they had two large Starbucks ice coffee. I know. Isn't that just the most obscene thing? So like I'm waiting because they didn't come and order anything. So obviously I'm giving them a couple minutes because I'm going to give them a couple minutes to see if they like smarten up. And they're like, oh, maybe we should put this way. We'll go get like food.

or like at least come up and buy something. Yeah. And then maybe I won't bust your balls too hard. They just sat there. They were very nice and I went up to them and I was like, ladies, I'm so sorry. I can't have these in here. And they were like, oh my God, we're so sorry. We just, they said they were like Starbucks was closing at two today.

So we had to take it out. I'm like, it wasn't, but that's fine. Imagine then they asked for a selfie. Oh, probably. We love the show. But then I felt bad because even though I shouldn't feel bad because then they were like, we'll just leave them in the car. And so they took their Starbucks coffee, put them in the car,

came back, sat down, and we're there for like two more hours. And they didn't order anything? Didn't order anything. Can you not? Ladies. I know I've heard these stories before and every time you say them, my jaw still drops. Yeah, my jaw dropped hard. That's insane.

One of the reasons why I love working the restaurant industry is because you are introduced to so many different people. So I feel like it has taught me and I feel like it probably teaches a lot of people when you work in hospitality in any capacity how to deal with different types of person. and how to talk to people and how to um while of course still make fun of them endlessly but understand be like that's just you know that's cindy she's she's Cindy yeah she's going to come in she's going to be Cindy it's going to be annoying but we'll be fine and she's fine that's a good outlook because by the end of my serving career I was such a bitch like you could

not do anything right if you sat in my section I was like the worst and that's when I was like I got to get out of here. I got to, like, be the bachelor, right or something. I don't go get on TV or something. I remember say to my girlfriend, I was like, can't I just get on TV and, like, somehow make money from doing that? And she was like, doesn't work like that, Caitlin. Could you and Matt?

Can you believe? You're like, what a dummy. I would just die to go and have that conversation on recording. And we just, I was in Hawaii with her this last week. And she was like, you would. And it all, I'm always like the universe. It just always has my back because I, I wasn't going to go on the show because it was her wedding.

And she was like, are you really going to miss my wedding for season 19 of The Bachelor? And I was like, yeah, maybe I shouldn't do that. Like, I should choose my friend's wedding. Hurricane comes through Mexico, takes out where she's going to get married. Oh, thank God. See you later. I was like, and nobody was hurt. And it was just like a small little baby hurricane and took out her wedding venue.

And then I said, I'll see you when I'm back. And then I made her wedding. can never be out perfect what if you didn't do the show because of a wedding well then i would probably i don't know where i'd be but it wouldn't be good i say the same about myself honestly oh you'd be fine you think so where would you guys both be if you didn't have the bachelor i i can't even start you graduated with your master's from syracuse at new house you would be successful in whatever endeavor you would take plus yours you I would be married and divorced three times to hockey players with three kids who would I have found to marry though babe and that would be so amazing

be like oh this guy he's on the Canucks or something I'd have to go settle for like the WHL the HL after a while I'd be like I've made my rounds now I'm going to Europe I don't know what the hell I'm doing with my life she's already been to Europe in there done that hockey player oh really Oh, never mind Amazing You'd be so I have no doubt about you Well, thanks, babe

But I think I would be probably single No, you wouldn't Oh, but where would my life be without you? Yeah, you guys would both be single If you didn't have each other Obviously I don't know Jared would have married some girl

That lives in like Small town Yeah, but like Patucket Or like Cranston, I would have married Freda Felcher And then she would have Like always like just black liner

Inside and outside That's not Yeah, he just like loves a heavy trashy eye No, no, no, no I'm not said this yourself I do but I never said I would marry someone like that You said this yourself, you love a heavy trashy eye Yeah

I do That's incredible Okay, so you'd be married to her Probably still running some sort of restaurant Uh, probably, yeah I don't know, I'd probably be still working in restaurants I don't know what I'd be doing But also like I could see myself

I could have saw myself like going back to school Like I did and graduating And then like becoming a teacher or something like that You're going to be with you too. I could see that. Well, thank you guys so much for bringing me out here.

I can't wait to go tonight. Don't thank us. I honestly, like, I just, I can't believe that you were so willing to be so kind.

What? I'm obsessed with you guys. It's just like, just take a plane ride and then like, first of all, take a plane from Nashville to Detroit and Detroit to Providence.

Exactly. And that was quite a route. And then it's not like peak season. Like, if we were having you come during summer, then I wouldn't feel so guilty. Guys, I'm so happy to be here.

I would not say yes. if I didn't want to come. I know. I want to be here. It was so funny we'll talk about last night about how when we were at Harrison's wedding, Caitlin was like, I want to come to Audrey's and I was like, Caitlin. If you say that. I'm booking it.

So like, don't tell me. Don't tell me. Yeah, I know. It's so awesome. You know, you really pull it together so quickly too. I'm very excited and people seem to be very lovely. They're all DM. It's going to be madhouse.

I'm so excited. But we'll have. I love getting weird and I'm going to get super weird tonight in the best way. I'm Caitlin Bristol. so, I'll see you next Tuesday.