The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - A Finale in Paradise Part 2

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

Ben and Ashley are back for part 2 of the Bachelor in Paradise finale!  We try to figure out what happened with Tyler and Brittney, and Ben has an update on Danielle and Michael. Plus Ashley shares some inside tea on Jill and Tarzan… will they make it work??See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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have those two couples left down there, but we're going to get to that later. So we're getting flashbacks to the girls getting live reactions. And the first couple that we see kind of go head to head live on stage is Sheney and Logan. And how did

you feel like that conversation went? Because we forgot that they were together. It was so long ago. I really forgot they were together. That's how I felt. Yeah. So I didn't really care about this confrontation, but I do think that Logan's confrontation with Kate was kind of funny. One, she admitted her wrongs and said that she shouldn't have talked to him like that.

That did seem demeaning and such. But then he really went out and defended himself. He was like, I'm really proud of my career. I moved out here to L.A. It started from scratch. And I like how far I've come right now. Here's the deal, Ashley. If anybody's lived in L.A. for more than three years,

give them respect because that city is the most expensive city in the world other than New York City. Other than San Francisco. Yeah, fair enough. Okay. But if you figure out a way to like make it work, yeah. Respect. Respect. I couldn't do it. That's why I never moved there. I stayed in Denver. And so and at the same time, there's a beautiful story I want to share with you for a second. Can I share it with you? Sure, of course. One of my parents, or one of my parents, one of my parents actually good friends and my best friend's parents one night. They sat me down when I was in middle school. Never forget it. They're like, don't move to L.A. Yeah. They're like, they told me their love story. I asked them. Like, hey, how'd you guys meet? You know, whatever? And they're like, you know what they said,

you know what the best season of our life was? The season that set us up for everything? And they're very wealthy. I mean, they've done very well from themselves now. They've bought and sold their own businesses twice. And they said the first five years of our marriage, we lived in an apartment that was a studio apartment that didn't have room for us to really even both move around in it. Our bed was in our living room. We had a small little kitchen. We didn't have any money to buy anything. And it brought us stronger because our love is what pushed us through and our support of each other. And I've kept that with me ever since then. And this is why this whole Kate conversation, I know she's a little older. Yeah. And so there's a bugged you. Yeah. But like,

it's bugged me because it's like, get off his back. I think he's doing fine. I don't know how what his net worth is. Maybe he's the grandchild of the Rockefellers. And he's just not telling anybody. doesn't want anybody to know it and he's just kind of like living his dream and doing his thing and once you guys get married you're going to find out that this dude's loaded or maybe he's not maybe he's not and if you love my parents were the same yeah i mean look at your parents right like yeah they had to go through med school together like yeah my dad didn't even he wasn't even able to get into med school when they got together he had to like go take more classes in college and like get his masters and stuff in order to be like eligible for

for med school and my dad graduated so much later than most other kids you know like he didn't become a part of a practice until he was in his late 30s. So moral of the story. Money is not the driving force to love.

This couple just didn't work but I never liked those conversations because I felt like it put him in a weird spot and I also just want to tell her hey it ain't that important. You're going to be fine. Love conquers all. But that's how we

get introduced to this episode the next scene I'm forgetting Ashley what happened in the next scene Jill and Tarzan Jacob they basically say

I'd like to give it another go we don't have like a ton of contacts but like just between us basically he was he kind of alluded to on our podcast that he wanted to try things out

and that he started to think about her a lot more after Paradise and they were texting during that time and calling each other FaceTiming and such. So that's where he tried to make it official right there on that Bachelor finale stage. And I think I could say it now. Yeah. He's coming to Rhode Island to visit her in a couple weeks and we're going to have him at Audrey's, Jill and Jill and Jacob at Audrey's. Let's go. I'm sure he'll pick her up a number of times during that event. Yeah, that's their thing. Do you see this couple working, Ashley? No. Okay. Cool. We Will you tell them that?

Yeah, but it's just fun for now. Okay. I actually see it working because I got to meet Jill at Audrey's, the best coffee shop, um, east of the Mississippi. No, generous. East of the Mississippi. East of the Mississippi. Um, incredible spot.

A lot of fun. And I was like, this girl has a lot of depth. We got to talk to Jacob on the podcast. He obviously has a lot of depth. I see it working. I, I, I would be disappointed if they break up. Yeah. but I think they'll always be friends.

Like they'll always bust each other's drops, you know? Well, keep us updated. I feel like the Audrey's coffee shop is going to bring us a ton of insight into this relationship. Okay. Then we get into the heaviness. It kind of was glossed over during the reunion. Eliza? Yeah.

Yeah. I felt like there was more to it, like a hot seat kind of moment and some really like, but it just felt like the show didn't feel like it needed it. I felt like it did. It took up a whole episode of people crying, but Eliza Rodney and Justin's love triangle comes up next. What obviously happened was the producers talked to Rodney and he was like, no, I don't want to be with her anymore.

And so they were like, well, if he doesn't want to be with her anymore, let's not make it a grand moment. What was the strangest of all was that Justin wasn't brought up once. And Justin's sitting there making his awesome Justin expressions and he didn't speak once during the airing. of the reunion. Neither did Andrew. That is weird.

But why do you think Rodney's not still into her? Do you think he found somebody else? No. I think like after watching it back, I just feel like Rodney deserves the world, not this girl that didn't think that he, you know, that obviously didn't like him enough.

She obviously didn't like him enough. Yes, there's extra, whenever I say stuff like this, it's like, okay, but Jared didn't like you enough. for a long time. You know, like, I always feel like I have to bring that up because it's just too weird to, you know? So, things can change.

Things can change. But I don't think Rodney is, is wanting that moment now. You know, maybe down the road, if she is, but, like, too fresh. It's too weird. It's too weird for me to talk about Ben. It's too weird.

You have to talk about it. Because, like, I was in paradise. Jared picked other people in front of me multiple times and here I am saying that he shouldn't take her back. Yeah. So, I mean, what do you think?

I don't think so. I don't know. I just don't think so. Not yet. Not yet. Give them another shot on the beach. We'll see if it works. I don't think she's the one.

I just don't think she's the one for him. I also think Rodney's DMs went about a thousand miles an hour after everyone on the beach was crying and I think he's fine and he's probably realizing he's fine. Call me a sucker for romance.

I actually think he truly is getting out of it now five months later and is just not wanting to address it and just like just not wanting to get back down into the suck that was Eliza. Yeah. Well, the suck that was the situation, not Eliza specifically.

Okay, yes. I meant the suction that was her pull on him Yeah, that makes sense Okay, that clears that up I'm so articulate guys You're doing great Hi, my name is

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idea what happened. This feels like the most useless scene in the whole episode because Tyler is crushed and he feels like he wants to say something but he doesn't feel like it's appropriate to say it and he doesn't want to. Totally. And then it just like ends with them not being together and there's nothing. There's like so much left to the imagination. You think that Tyler's holding something back because I think Brittany is definitely holding something back more. She doesn't want to make him sound pathetic or something like that. But I think that he went way too fast. Okay.

They said, I mean, they did say, I love you on the sand. So, you know, they were in a serious relationship when they left. But I think that he may have been like super clingy or something. Yeah. Because he was calling her, texting her, face-having her, DMing her, all of that, like, right after she broke up with him. And then he goes, you're not supposed to let somebody you love, like, be in pain like that or something along those lines. then it's like well actually if you break up like you're kind of on your own like yeah sure a check in here or there but also a check in often opens the door for that person to try to get back in

and sometimes it's not an appropriate time for that that's fair no i get that i mean i think there's something there's something there yeah i think the way to end that would be there's something there that's weird and that neither of them are saying out of respect for somebody in that group but it just felt pointless why have them both out there if there is nothing that's going to be said I didn't gain any insight from it I don't know if I deserve it

but I'm going to have to ask Bernie Michael and Danielle then come out together with some very exciting news the very exciting news is that she's moving out of Nashville which I feel like she's very solidly based in Nashville you know

yeah And she's moving to Akron, Ohio. No, I'm not saying I'm surprised. I'm just saying that, like, I feel like that's been her home for a long time. And this is how serious they are, that she's moving to Ohio for him, not in with him, but she'll find a place of her own close to him. And the biggest thing is that he said, I love you right there for the first time on stage, second girl in his life that he's ever said, I love you to. and I cried. Can I give some insight now?

Yeah? Insight or like Intel? I don't know what the difference is. Oh, Insight is like your opinions on the matter. Intel is like what you know from Michael. Well, now we can say that they're both at Wells and Sarah's wedding together. Yeah. And we spend a lot of time with them.

And they are cute. I mean, they are cute. Like, there is a lot there. There's a lot of joy there. There's a lot of, like, euphoric, like, love there. Like, they're good. And I want to get them on this podcast. Ashley, you think we can do that?

Yeah. We're getting them on the podcast. I think we're getting them on the podcast. Okay, good. We're getting unnamed happy couples this week. There's surprises to you, surprises to us. I love Danielle's reddish hair. That shade is always like the shade that girls are like doing right now because it's very trendy. And normally I'm like cute on you, but your,

your normal color looks better. With Danielle, I think she should stay this color forever. She looks so good. They're so adorable. And how cute was her response to the I love you? Because she's, she like freaked out. She's like, I've been wanting to say it accidentally. said it and then like I felt awkward and I wanted to like, but now he says it and I'm just, you know, it was so gleeful. This is good. This is good. I don't want any of us that are fans of Bachelor Nation to dismiss just how good this moment is. There's a lot of realness here. There's a lot of pain here. There's a lot of story here. We've, you know, maybe got to overplayed in a sense. like everybody talked about it, but their relationship led to this beautiful moment where the two

of them can say, no, I love you. And they met on the beach in paradise. No matter how it worked out, no matter how it happened, they met on the beach in paradise. They seem really happy and we're happy for them. It was awkward for Sierra to be sitting in the audience. I felt for her in that moment. No, I fell for her, too. But how many other, okay, how many other exes from the beach are in that audience, like watching another relationship flourish? That's so true.

You know, I mean, so, no, it doesn't take away and doesn't diminish, like, the fact that she felt something and she thought something was real, but there's other exes sitting in that audience and they're sitting there watching it. And I think in paradise, you got to go in with the mindset of, hey, if somebody ends up happy, they end up happy and we celebrate it. matter what. And this is a happy couple. Okay. Ashley, I'm going to, and tell me if you disagree, fight me on this. Okay. But the Johnny and Victoria situation, I'm going to touch on it here, but we have Johnny on the podcast in an in-depth that explains everything that

happened that night. And we know it explains everything because it's already been recorded. Yeah. And so I feel like what I want to say about the Johnny and Victoria situation is there's more to learn there's more to see um there doesn't feel like there's a heavy grudge held but there is a lot to discover and i think hearing from johnny would be a lot better than the two of us trying to explain what happened on that couch yeah and then it's just going to be weird because like we're going to be giving our thoughts and then you're going to hear like our real thoughts when we get far more details from johnny and we'll finish here with a very happy happy couple, Serene and Brandon.

Have you ever seen anything more pure? No. It's like, I'm so glad they made it. Because if this relationship would have ended, I would have been crushed. I will venture to say, I have never, I don't think I've ever on this franchise. Yeah. Seeing a couple more in love than them. And I know that I am married from the franchise.

You didn't get to see. You didn't get to see a lot of the goodness in our formation. No, this is a good couple. And then they have friends, you know, who are. married from the show but there's something about this couple it's i've never seen a relationship just seems so easy it's a good couple blissful it's awesome well it's something to celebrate the two of them together um it worked from paradise and we could not be more excited for them um oh what about their marriage and how they didn't they decided not to get married which i was really grateful for when i

saw jesse walking up with that book the bible not sure what he was holding i was like oh no don't do it. Don't marry. Don't ask them to get married now. You know they did that to me. You remember that? They flew my childhood pastor out to Los Angeles. And I was like, my gosh. I was like, wait, what? Like, and he didn't really know what he was doing. So like, no discredit to him. He was like, they asked me to come out and like hang out with you guys. And I was like, I get why you'd say yes to that. But then he gets out there and like, yeah, we're going to try to do this thing right here on stage. And it's like, you guys are psychos. What? Like, we're, we're going to break up in a couple of years.

Yeah, no thanks. It's just not really romantic. It's not like a, let's go to Vegas and get married situation. It's like, let's do this for TV. Not at all. Yeah. And, like, in their case, you're saying we've never met each other's families and you want us to just get married and be like, oh, hey, guess what?

We got married. Obviously, it seemed as if, like, off camera, they may have contemplated it because, they did call Brendan said that they called his mom and she said I'll kill you if you get married

without me there I would too like that's just not a thing no I'm glad they said no but enjoy an engagement period that's a nice period

of your life so fun it's so fun well the moral of the story is those two are great together and they seem to be great together

and going to be great together and I hope they are great together forever and ever and ever and ever and ever never. All right. That's the finale of Bachelor in Paradise. Ashley, but it's not the end of our work. As you mentioned, we have some incredible episodes coming up with Johnny, with some happy

couples. We're going to have Genevieve on. We have some big things happening here at the Almost Famous Podcast that are worth listening to. They give a lot of insight and clarity into the things that maybe we didn't see. So continue to tune in to the thread of the Almost Famous Podcast we're working hard to keep you entertained. That's what we like to do. Sure are. For living. We love you guys so much.

Have a fantastic Thanksgiving. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. I forgot that. That's happening soon, isn't it? Yes. Be warm and merry and cozy. Watch some good football.

Hug a lot of family. Ashley, what's your favorite Thanksgiving food? Stuffing. Mine is ham. Shocker. Oh, really? I love a good ham. Love a good ham.

All right. That's it for The Almost Famous Podcast. We'll be talking to you very soon with Johnny in an in-depth episode. This should be posted right about... No. All right. Hey, with that, I've been Ben. I've been, Ashley. See ya. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, Almost Famous Podcasts on IHartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Hi, my name is Enya Umanzor.

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