The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - 12 Days of The Bachelorette: Stealing Jesse Palmer for a Second

Episode Date: July 7, 2022

As we prepare for Gabby and Rachel's season of The Bachelorette, we sit down with host Jesse Palmer for a sneak peek at some of the drama that face our two new Bachelorettes.  We hear about how things are going in Paradise and we hear his perspective on the outcome of Clayton's season. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bachelor nation lovers, we are so pumped today. We are continuing the party leading up to this season of The Bachelorette with Gabby and Rachel. And today we have a very special guest who might know a thing or two about this season. The host of the show, Jesse Palmer, is joining us right now. Hello, Jesse. Hello, sir. How are you? I'm doing well, man. I'm doing really good. You're busy right now. How are you holding up? I'm holding up good. Stomach feels great. I've been in Mexico for a while.

I'm shooting Bachelor in Paradise. So digestion is at an all-time high. I'm doing well. I cannot complain. It's been a lot of fun down here in Mexico and obviously really excited about July 11th for the premiere of a Bachelorette. Man, you hit the ground running. I want to start by, we've talked about it before on here, but I want to kind of mention it again. You did just get married in 2021. Yeah. Filming for The Bachelor happened fairly soon after that. Is your wife able to travel with you?

she's able to come out for short bursts of time and that is critical to our marriage and the success of that so far in these early stages it's been really nice through clayton season throughout the bachelorette even down here in paradise emily has been able to come down for for sometimes weeks at a time which has been really really great to have her company and just so she doesn't forget what i look like and vice versa yeah i mean how are you navigating i mean i'm I'm a newlywed myself. It comes with its amazing, amazing, beautiful moments and times together. But it's also challenging because you're kind of figuring out what life looks like.

How are you navigating newlywed life while also being on the road? Great question. It's really, for me, it's always been about one day at a time, I guess, and just trying to focus on, you know, that day and whether it's at home with Emily or whether it's on the road filming, you know, we just sort of try to take it in stride. we're really enjoying this process to kind of add to the complexity of everything that's happening in our lives professionally we also just moved to Miami yeah so we're in this new home and we're trying to get it decorated and we're buying this furniture and I've been home like six nights

in three months yeah and so like you know it's also that so it's just about trying to find time to you know face time each other as much as possible and interact and get her down here as much as we can. But I got to say, you know, maybe it's because we're still very new at this whole marriage thing and we still got a lot of energy and we're still, you know, very excited. But it's actually gone, it's gone quite well. It's gone pretty well. And we're just handling it in stride. What are some of the things like the characteristic that she shares that helps you do this kind of with a free mind, focus on your job and not, you know, because none of us are our best when we're feeling guilty or burdened by something. So what does she do for you to concur?

you during this time. Yeah, that's a great question. I think Emily is really good at just sort of giving me the mental space to sort of put my best effort into doing this or ESPN or whatever the job is. She sort of knows that my work is a big part of my life. And I think she gives me space to sort of do that. I think we know that balance is obviously a really, really important thing for us. And it's really critical that we find the alone time for just her or nine, whether that's home in Miami or if that's going to Brazil to go see your family or traveling somewhere, just getting away and turning our phones off. You know, having that happy balance, I think, is really special. She's the type of person that knows like, okay, like if you're off the clock

and you're not working, we need to be right here. Like I can't see, I don't want to see you on the phone. I don't want to see you FaceTime and people are doing whatever that has anything to do with work. But one thing I really appreciate about Emily is that she does give me the space to do all this because in my Maslow's hierarchy of needs in the pyramid, work is pretty high up. It's important to me, and it's, you know, this is something I love doing, and I take a lot of pride in what I do, and I want to be the best that I can be at it, and she gives me the space and allows me to do that. If that makes any sense at all. It makes a lot of sense. I mean, it's important. And, you know, nobody that's a fan of The Bachelor

is unfamiliar with the time commitment that it takes, you know, especially for the contestants. They get to hear about it after their seasons film. Contestants come on, leads come on, and they say, hey, that was wild. Like, we were up till ridiculous hours in the morning, up really early the next morning, filming again. It's, you know, months of shooting. You know, for the host, I don't think we get a great picture of your time commitment.

So if you don't mind, kind of walk, let's do Paradise, since you're there right now. You're familiar with it. What does your, like daily routine look like? So this is, I would say, and of course, I'm so new to the, this. And I don't know if it's like this every year. I can only talk on my personal experience, but what I would say, Paradise at least, is a much more intensive shooting schedule than, say, The Bachelor or Bachelorette. I feel like here in Paradise, we're filming every day. And I have a role somehow, somewhere in most days of filming. Sometimes on the Bachelor or Bachelorette, you might

get a day or two days off in between a row ceremony and maybe a group date or something where you're not needed. You're always on standby. And literally, you're on call. And if they need you to kind of run in to help put out of fire or do whatever, you got to go do that. But I'd say here, it's basically every day. And a day could be four hours. A day could be 15 hours down here. The row ceremonies here in paradise last just as long as the row ceremonies on the bachelor or the Bachelorette. So I hope I won't get in trouble by saying this. But I wrapped one row ceremony down here at like 6 a.m. 6.30 a.m. I don't think you're hiding anything from any of the better. Like people can watch this and see the sun coming up. Nobody's shocked. That was like last

that long. It's like, dude, it's like the cocktail party. Like, you're in the palapa and you're like kicking off the cocktail party at like like right as it gets dark at like 939.45. And all of a sudden, you know, you look down and it's, it's 5 a.m. And, you know, you're, you're tink-tinking and trying to get everybody into the setup for the Rose ceremony. So these are definitely very long days. They're just one after another after another. Um, so I have, I have a tremendous respect not just for the cast, but the crew. Yeah. And these cameramen and these ops and lighting and producers and everybody that have the real hard jobs out in the sun in like 100 degree weather all day, long days, every day for a month. I mean, it is brutal. And what they do, the job they do,

the people, the hundreds of people, and you've seen this, they're literally hundreds and hundreds of people that get on planes and fly places to make this show happen. What they do to me is amazing. And I think I have a much, I have much more of an appreciation for them after watching them do this show, because this is a unique beast in itself. It really is. Yeah, I remember Jesse, I think we were in the Bahamas during my season and there's men and women behind the scenes that are working, like you said, tirelessly on making sure that the content is being filmed.

There was a moment, it was really hot. And two of their, I won't say their names, but it was a man and a woman, they're kind of working together doing the camera and then the camera's assistant. And it was so hot that they took off their shirts and they were ringing out the sweat. I still, just from,

dripping because you're carrying, I don't know how heavy these cameras are, 50 pounds, 40 pounds on your shoulder for hours. Now, they love doing it. This is what they've wanted to do. They're, you know, but like, and they do it with joy most of the time, but it's a hard job. It's so true. You know, it's so funny you say that. I was, I was taking a golf cart this morning with one of our camera ops and she was telling me about filming recently on one of the seasons. She's been on, she's been on working on the show for a couple years now. She loves doing it so much so that she was pregnant and still did it. Wow.

She was carrying these cameras around and lugging all this equipment. She's like five, six months pregnant. And she just loved, she just loved being out here doing it. And I mean, she just didn't want to be away from it. And obviously she was able, she told me later that she took some maternity leave and she was able to get away and sort of settle down and make sure everything was in order. But to their credit, too, I think that's what makes this so much fun is that it really does feel like a family. I don't know how you felt about it when you did. But what I've sort of learned in these last couple of seasons is that.

that it's the same, like I love seeing the same faces behind the cameras and the same person setting up your mic. They all are a big family. They travel the world and they work these insane schedules all throughout the year. They have to give up things and sacrifice things with their own families and being back home to make this whole thing even possible. And so it really, really is amazing. It is. And we won't say any names, but they do share with me. It is a family. They give me hugs when I come back, which makes me feel very loved and accepted and special. But I do know that filming Paradise is easier than filming a show that takes place on an island on a different network in the middle of the jungle with snakes and gators and everything else. We won't mention the names, but they do tell me that this is a lot better and a lot easier.

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Are you having good time with it? Just where are you at now that you kind of get an understanding of this whole Bachelor universe again? Yeah, I'm really having a good time with it. I think it sort of goes back again to just trying to itemize each thing and doing one thing at a time. It started with Clayton's season and my focus was just on Matt. And that was a real big learning curve every single.

single day, you know, hosting that show for the first time and sort of reacclimating to the Bachelorverse and sort of being in it and kind of understanding that role and trying to feel comfortable doing it, trying to be authentic doing it. And then into Rachel and Gabby's season, there were, there were a few subtle differences. And I, you know, that, you know, that came about with that. And that was its own learning curve as well. And then obviously Paradise, Paradise to me feels like an entirely different show. Bachelor and Bachelorette, at least to me, sort of felt like they sort of mirror each other. This one in particular, I think, is kind of a different animal, which is good in a lot of ways. I think it feels fresh. It feels new. It sort of

allows you to be a little bit more re-energized going into it. I feel like it's nice having little breaks of time in between each show, which has definitely helped. But I've really just tried to sort of be present in the moment throughout each one. And for me, me at least I really feel like that's helped me a lot because this whole year this whole year of these seasons of shows has been eye-opening and it's been I've learned a lot I've just tried to not talk a lot and just sort of watch and try to learn and figure it out and ask a lot of questions and I'm just having a blast like I love it really like to the point where I can't wait now for the next like Bachelor like I can't wait for the next show whatever it is just because it's like

I'm having so much fun doing it well that's great to hear because it is a lot and you could easily have walked into this uh whole world and then a year later been like this is not what i thought it was going to be this is i'm i'm ready to sign up for yeah what am i doing yeah no it's been it's been good it's been good like what's helped me too is there are a lot of familiar faces here from when i was the bachelor okay 15 years ago and so i think that the family atmosphere here has really helped help help me feel and everybody's been so It's been so nice and welcoming and helpful. So I'm sort of intertling grateful for that.

And just, you know, people support at home and online and vaccination, everything has really helped me along tremendously throughout all this. Yeah, you know, it's, and we won't go into any detail, but it was just a, it was a big transition for a lot of people, right? It was a legacy and then Bill and then a whole new thing. What are you doing to kind of add your own flavor to the show? a show that is for years and if you talk to the executive producers like it has a bread and butter it knows what works

it knows what doesn't how are you adding your own you know mix to this show yeah people people ask me that sometimes and I don't know what it is specifically I'm doing all I'm trying to do is just be authentic and real and me but you're absolutely right Ben

like this thing is formulaic like there is a formula and it's a set formula and it works every year and so it's you're trying to sort of put yourself in that and fit into that formula and you know the role you have but you know I just want to be me and I don't really know what that is like I'm trying to be compassionate I'm trying to show empathy I'm trying to give advice when when called upon an ask for it the biggest thing I don't want to do is make it about me that that's one thing that's always

in the back of my mind as I do this this is not about me at all and I don't I never want to sound as if I'm trying to make it that. It's about Clayton and his cast. It's about Rachel and Gabby and their cast and their journeys to find love. And it's to use like an awful sports analogy, it's like being a quarterback or a point guard and you're just facilitating. You know, you take the ball, you tell them what's going on, you give them the ball back and you get out of the way. That's really what I'm trying to do and fit in the formula as best I can. I guess that's it. And I mean, I think that's important too, because if you tried to, make it about you or control it, it would be found out very quickly, right? I mean, when the show

brought on a new host, it was important that somebody had, I guess, the humbleness and the lack of ego to not say, no, this is my big moment. ABC's calling. This is my time to shine. Well, it brings me into then my final question, kind of my overall arcing questions, and we'll get into Gabby and Rachel's season here. You're the host of this show now. You have been for a year. You agreed to do it for multiple reasons, but do you believe in it? Do you think this can work, or is it just a really cool time? Or do you see this actually bringing about anything good to the world? I believe in it, and I believed in it when I did it 15 years ago. And in the time I've been watching since then, I still believe in it. I think there's a lot of examples of couples and beautiful love stories and

diverse love stories that have come from this show. Does it work every single time? No, it doesn't. And we obviously know that, but this show is about giving people an opportunity to find love in a very unconventional way. And I think what people are going to see, what they saw sort of on Clayton's season, that was a love story that we had never seen before. It sort of went off the rails.

But at the end of the day, you know, Clayton and Susie, you know, they're together today and they're happy. And, you know, and it's, that's really to me what it's about. And I think they're going to see that on Gabby and Rachel's season as well. They're going to see these beautiful love stories sort of develop with all different types of people from different backgrounds. And so I do. And that's part of why I think as a host, you keep coming back to do it or hopefully

you keep coming back to do it is because you want to see it happen again. And you're hopeful and you believe that it can happen again. and I do believe in it. I really do at the end of the day. Wow. We have so much to talk about with Jesse. We have to get into this season of The Bachelorette. So stay tuned for part two of this episode.

Again, it's going to be a part of our party leading up to this season of The Bachelorette. Jesse is going to join us again in part two. But until then, I've been Ben. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast on IHartRadio, or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Hi, my name is Enya Eumanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips.

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