The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Almost Famous In Depth: Cassie Randolph

Episode Date: October 17, 2022

Ben and Ashley are live from Audrey's Coffee House and Lounge in Rhode Island and they're sitting down with Cassie Randolph!  Hear everything that went down after the final rose on Colton's season and we get an update on her love life that you won't believe!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, luckily, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend's been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone.

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Get in here. Listen to the super secret bestie club on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is Ben and Ashley I, almost famous in depth. Audrey's, thank you so much for being here. You guys, it means the world to us. Anybody here from outside Rhode Island tonight? Wow. If you're here from Massachusetts, give us a woo.

Yeah. If you're here from Connecticut, give us a woo. If you're here from another state, give us a woo. Whoa, we got a couple. We have Texas over here. Oh, Texas, no. You're not here just for us. No, they are.

Yeah. It's what birthday? 30th birthday, happy birthday. Is it today? Oh, my gosh. Well, happy birthday. It means the world that you've chosen to celebrate with us. And how cool of a spot?

How awesome is Audrey? This is my first time here. Yeah, it's really nice in here. Great coffee. So everybody who is, if you don't know why Ben keeps joking about the coffee, we serve his brand of coffee, generous coffee. And I know that a lot of our listening audience at home, the almost famous audience, knows a little bit about generous coffee.

but I think this would be a great time for you to remind them where you're basically donating every time you drink a cup of generous coffee. Yeah, no, thank you for that. That's a big deal. Well, big news. As of last week, Audrey's became Generis' biggest purchaser for any wholesale account. Yay! So this place is rocking and rolling.

It's very special to me because it's given us momentum and encouragement behind the scenes Is it generous? We're very thankful for Audrey's. We're very thankful that Ashley and Jared, when they built this beautiful place, said Generis is the coffee company we want to go with. So first off, thank you to them. Thank you to this place. Thank you for you, to you for coming in and getting coffee.

So in short, Generis is a for-profit company. We call ourselves for purpose. We provide specialty grade coffee. So if anybody leaves a Google review and says the coffee is not good, you're lying. It is scientifically the best coffee in the world. And it has made Jared think that Duncan is less than. Yeah. And that is a huge feat.

Yeah, that deserves an applause. We still love Duncan. We will have it whenever we're out of this vicinity in Rhode Island. But, like, wow, it's a huge feat to say that Jared has a new favorite brand of coffee. That means a lot to me. So here's how generous works. Everybody on the ownership team, which there's two of us, We have other jobs. Part of my job is talking for a living, which is why I'm here tonight.

We're able to run this company in our free time and then donate 100% of the profits from each bag of coffee sold to nonprofits around the world fighting injustice facing humans. So she's right. Every time you drink a cup of coffee, some percentage of that, usually 10 to 15% is what we can give away from each bag of coffee sold, goes to, nonprofits. Now you, just to close here, you're like 10 to 15%. You said 100%. That's 100% of profits. That's 10 to 15% of revenue. So we do have to pay for rent, gas, oil, all the things any other business has to pay for. So we keep our margins about 15%. And so thank you for buying generous. You can buy it online at generous coffee.com. We need more subscribers. You can get it delivered to your house. We're really good at that. And as my friend over here is mentioning our decaf is decaffeinated through a sugar cane process. So there's no chemicals at it. So if you're

somebody who's sensitive to chemicals, the decaf is really good for you. You can get it here tonight. I see it up on there. But yeah, super pumped about it. Audrey's has a really special place in my heart. I'm very thankful to be here. Been looking forward to this for a long time. We're going to have a lot of fun. We have some incredible guests, as Ashley mentioned. So let's get started. All right. Well, let's get started with our interview with Cassie. Cassie, have you ever been on our podcast? I think a long time ago. Was it right after the finale?

Yeah, I think so. I've never been here though, and I love, love this place. Hi, everyone. She came far and wide to be here. We're so grateful. She flew from Huntington Beach, you know, just outside L.A. to be here just for two nights. She loves Rhode Island, guys.

I know everybody in Rhode Island loves to hear that somebody else loves to say, but it is hard not to love. Beautiful. Ashley was my tour guide today. We took her in there. They got married. We took her on the Ashley Jared wedding tour. So she went to some of the mansions.

We had lunch in Newport, all that. Real quick, you want to know how you know you're beautiful? Cassie has a story from her flight yesterday. Cassie decides to leave her computer in her seat on the plane and walk off the plane. She's walking off the plane and she said it. Some angel walked up to her and said, hey, weren't you? sitting in seat 13B

and she says I was he goes they're calling for you you left your compute on the plane so if any of you ever have a stranger recognize what seat you're sitting on in a plane after you've gotten off the plane I think it was an angel you know but you've got something going

for you it's never happened to me but I look forward to the day Ben's humble I'm sure something very similar has happened to him okay so I also I don't know why I'm telling everybody your truck. This girl came

and she has two layovers tomorrow on the way home. Who's ever had two layovers? Me. Well, that's because Ben travels every... Does no one had two layovers actually? I can't remember ever having two layovers. I've never had two layovers. She's never had two layovers. Okay.

Okay, well, Cassie, since you were last on our show, it's a lot has happened in your life. You now have a boyfriend, Brighton, of two years. How serious are things? It sounds pretty serious. I mean, I feel like time has just flown in the last two years. I feel like everyone could do that too. But I mean, yeah, I guess we're serious. Do you think he's the

one? I feel like that's such a big question to ask. But I mean, I would, I hope so. Okay. I think so. Do you think he's planning a proposal? I feel like you have to ask this because we were like on The Bachelor and everyone wants to know our personal life. We have talked about proposals we have talked about rings I don't think I'm supposed to know right am I supposed to know you can go lots of different ways about this

I like the surprise proposal and not really knowing anything about the ring or the moment but there's lots of couples yeah I just don't know how that works I feel like he wants me to be surprised okay do you want to be surprised I don't know how I feel about

what kind of diamond do you want a very big one what's your favorite shape see this is what he keeps asking me that I don't know does he ask your sister I'm sorry Ben I'm just taking over that's fine how do you decide the ring

I feel like it's such a big decision you know so he's like what shape do you want and I change my mind I always everybody changes their mind whatever you get you're gonna like for a bit and you'll love it for what it is but then you're going to be like, ah, I like that shape. More like that style.

The style's always changing. But eventually your ring will go back into style. I feel like you're going to school. No, I'm fun. You know, when I was proposing to my wife, I asked her mom. So you just might want to give the hint. Like, your friends and family do know, and they probably know you better than you know yourself sometimes

when it comes to what you'll like. So I asked her. It leads us to a great question, though. Obviously, we are at least two years, removed from your time on the show, I would say, and tell me if I'm wrong, please, but you're a more private person. Like, you don't just love making headlines and being out in the spotlight. You enjoy your life in Huntington Beach, and you enjoy the quietness of your life. Does the time on the show now feel like a distant memory to you? Do you feel like it was just a chapter in a season,

or does it still feel very relevant for the life you're living the day? That's a good question. I don't know. so I feel like I took a step back from being like doing anything kind of for a while so even being here I'm like oh the nerves being up here still and I don't really leave my Huntington bubble I kind of just you know walk everywhere I go but I think with Bachelor it'll always be a part you know we all know it'll always kind of be a part of who we are and Like, I still love it. Like, I would still be associated or, like, go on the show and say hi to everyone and do little things here and there for sure. I just think things that have happened over the last few years made me have to kind of take a step back from things.

So it just kind of naturally happened, you know? But I am a very private person. I never considered myself a private person until I see all you guys doing all these things. and I'm like, am I a private person? I guess I am. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Well, wait a minute, Sam.

Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone.

Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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Well, how did a person like you, who is a little bit more like into being in their comfort zone go on The Bachelor? I don't, I don't know. I think. Well, like, did you not audition tape? Did somebody sign you up? No, I love. It's a really weird story, and I've told it before, I don't know. But one day I was I woke up and I was like 21 and I had had this vivid dream I was on The Bachelor and I was like, I had never really watched it before. I think your season, Ben, was one of the first I was like, I was like, math-wise. Yeah, yeah. You were 18? No, 21.

She was 21. And then she's 27 now. Yeah. But I like Googled it and there was a casting call in my area like 10 minutes from my house and I was like, I'm just going to like go. I don't know what this is about. I didn't even know how you got on the show. How soon after the dream? That day.

So then I just went. It was meant to be. It was really weird. But I ended up being like next season and he was a lot older than me. And then it was Ari the next year and he was also a lot older than me. And then it just worked out. I don't know. I happen to be single and went on the show.

I feel like I was very naive going into it. So did you have a choice as to what? when you got to go on? So the first year, they were like, we think you're too young. The second year, I thought, we definitely think you're too young for Ari. Except for, ironically,

Nick is older than Ari, I think. Or they're the exact age. I was just really young. Like, I was fresh out of college. The next year, when it was Ari, I thought it was going to be, I thought it was going to be Dean, actually. And I was like, ooh, it's going to be Dean.

He's a cash. You would have seen me there, too. but then they're like sorry do you want to go on I was like you know I just feel like it wouldn't be genuine you know so I said no but then they came back

well one of the one of the things we never want to do on this podcast is put people in a weird position but I'm going to try to dance that line very carefully tonight so if we can go back to then when you were told hey this is the season you're going to go on this is who the bachelor is going to

be do you remember being excited nervous what were your emotions around it and if you could even walk us into the first few weeks of the season did you feel like hey this could be something spectacular for me his name was Colton that was the name of the Bachelor I'll say his name so she doesn't have to no I was really excited I remembered like a week before I left my brother and dad at like this football game randomly and they like saw him from far away. They're like, oh, my gosh, Gassie.

I was super excited. And the first few weeks, I mean, you guys know. It's just a whirlwind. Like, you don't even know where you are half the time or what time of day it is. But, I mean, I was just very hopeful, I think, the entire time. I remember your season. I remember watching it vividly. And knowing that they're, I guess most people need.

audience probably that can remember that time we're thinking Cassie's going to be there towards the end. I remember even we were doing a podcast and like she's either going to be the next bachelor or she's going to be there at the end of it. Obviously that relationship ended up continuing past the show and we're going to ask the question. You know, then the headlines started to come out and you found out that Colton came out as gay through these headlines, correct? Am I remember that right? How does that make you feel at the time? I feel like this is a very loaded question because I can't necessarily talk a lot about it.

You know, I'm very happy that he, you know, is at peace with himself and not carrying that burden anymore, of course. It was a very just overall hard time for me, so I feel like there was just one thing after another, and I was just extremely overwhelmed just with everything going on. So yeah, it was really hard. You were with your boyfriend at that time for over a year, a year-ish, right? Yeah.

How did he support you through that? Did you try to not bring it up just because it was a past relationship? So me and Brian have been friends for like seven years now, which is... Which is the way to start a relationship. It's so nice. That's awesome.

Yeah. So yeah, we were friends for a long time before we started dating like that last summer kind of unofficially but we still count it as like we were dating then and no he was very very supportive just through everything he's never been weird if anything I feel like he I think he's just very defensive you know or protective or kind of makes me talk it out with him more than I would like to you know not in a bad way in a good way but it's just it's been really helpful I feel very lucky to have a good support system for sure. That's awesome.

I mean I think that's something to take note of too. Obviously when you're on this show, public things happen, you know, public breakups, public marriages. It's difficult and I think one of the things that just to say there is kudos to him for being that strong support to you. Because sometimes it does feel very lonely and it's confusing and there's, And there's a thousand messages. I remember talking about on the podcast as well. But when Lauren and I broke up, there was like a team Lauren and a team Ben. And nobody knows a real story, except us.

That's the most annoying part. Yeah. And so it's all out there and you're reading stuff and people are publicizing stuff. But you're like, wait, I don't want anybody to hate her. I don't want anybody to hate me. You don't know what's going on. And so to have that is very special. Yeah.

You feel lucky. When Colton did come out last year, did you, did you, did you hear rumblings that it was going to happen? Did it completely catch you off guard? Because I think even Ben and I heard rumblings that it was about to happen a day or two before. I feel like people didn't talk to me about things because I was so in a sensitive, like, fragile state

that I didn't hear anything. Okay. So I was just completely caught off guard. Well, and that brings us to today. Obviously, you're sitting here. You're back in public. You've been in public if you, you know, people can see you in Huntington Beach and wherever else you're traveling to. How are you holding up today?

Today I'm doing great. I'm fine. She's great, people. Well, like, tell us about your life today because you live with your boyfriend in Huntington Beach and you're like, nice little safe space with your cats. And we all knew that you were studying speech pathology when you were on the bachelor and you graduated. and now how does, how do you work with that in your day-to-day life? Yeah, so I, I don't know, life is weird. Life just changes all the time.

I feel like I've been in this zone, so I moved into my house like a year and a half ago, and I feel like ever since then, I've been, like, so settled, you know? So even coming here, I'm like, wow, I'm really out of my comfort zone again, but it's fun. Like, I love doing these kind of things, but I also love feeling so stable. and settled at home, you know. But, back to speech therapy. So I do speech therapy part-time in a clinic.

I work from home. I do all my jobs from home, so I literally don't have to leave. Is it via Zoom or like in an office at home? Via Zoom. I have my own little office space at home. And that I have been doing for a little over a year now. So it's a lot of commitment. I feel like it's only a few days.

a week, but it ends up taking over your life. I have a great story about this. I don't know if you remember this. My wife is a massive fan of Cassie. She just really enjoys her, and she's been able to be around just a few people from the Bachelor franchise since we've gotten married.

There's not a lot of people that she's been able to meet. But we went to the same golf tournament together. And Jessica and Cassie were kind of it was raining outside, I think, that day. And so you're both like, we're just going to stay in the clubhouse and hang out. And my wife at that time was starting her business as an

esthetician. And so she was very nervous to take too much time away from that. And you were also in school at the time. And I remember we walked into the clubhouse and both of you were sitting in the corner on your computers typing away. And I remember the conversation my wife and I had on the way home is how impressive it was that you were going through school studying, getting your master's, your master's in speech pathology. While at the same thing, time at the peak. I mean, this is during the peak of all the attention and all the craze from the show. I think I remember, again, I could be dreaming stuff. It's been a wild week that you've recently came out and said, hey, that was a really hard time. Maybe you wouldn't have

gone and gotten your masters during that season of life. Is that true? Yeah, I mean, I stuck with it because I had been pursuing it for so long, and it was this thing that I just had to, you know, once you have it, you have it, and no one can take it away from you. So I knew no matter what I would, that would be something I could always rely on. But at the same time, you know, when you, I had no idea what Bachelor was going to bring, and it's crazy the opportunities that it does. I mean, I feel like now everyone kind of expects that going to it, but I had, I mean, I went so naive. But looking back, sometimes I wonder, should I have just, like, taken hold of every opportunity instead of, you know,

sitting on my computer at home doing school work I mean I know you can't ever go back and do things differently but it's just I question it sometimes but I love it as well like I would have always finished

it eventually so I'm happy now looking back that it's that I didn't suck with it because I find it very impressive like incredibly impressive and I only meant to tell that story to show that you were dedicated to this you care about it that yes the show was swirling around you and

you still said, no, this is my dream, I'm going to pursue it. I like, weirdly enjoy it though. That's not weird. That's great. That's not weird. That's great. Like school, though. Like, I weirdly enjoyed school. We don't have that in common. I remember we were at like a makeup event for like Chanel or something. And she was like, I have to go home because I have like homework that needs to be submitted by midnight. Yeah. It was so awesome. I love that.

Maybe it was always my excuse to like stay home be a home body. I like that as well. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Well, wait a minute, Sam, maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone.

Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. It's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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speech pathology I don't even know what that means so can you explain what speech mythology is yes Okay, now I'm alone in this? No, okay, so yes. Yes. Oh, man, I'm embarrassed now. No, don't be. It's a good question.

We have some speech pathologist in the room. I'm like, do you guys want to explain it? It's so hard. There's so many things you can do with it. But essentially, what it is is just providing communication therapy in all different aspects of communication to any kind of person. So, like, you can work with little kids, you can work with adults, you can work with, like, autism. You can work with people who have dementia or have had a stroke. You can even, I know there's speech therapists out there who give voice lessons or, like, accent, work in the accent field, whatever you call it. But there's just so much, it's fun. Okay, so if a kid had a lisp, they would go to you?

That too. Okay. All right. That's a great clarification. Well, to close out here, Cassie, we do love having you up here with us. We have a big night in front of us. There's obviously some contestants, or one contestant, I guess, that's on Bachelor in Paradise right now that we're going to talk to in just a bit. Which leads me to my final question for you, Ashley might have more, I don't know. But if you didn't meet your boyfriend, if you never met him and you were single, would have Paradise ever been something?

you considered to do. Well, obviously, I'm with Brighton, and I'm very happy. I feel like I was so awkward about him at the beginning, too. I'm like, are we going to get married? I don't know. Sorry, I like to come out with Rapid Fire. And just let you know, if you're dating for two weeks with him, Ashley would have asked you, are you going to get married?

Like, that's not like, he's very excited about marriage. She loves Jared a lot. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, if we weren't together, I, of course, would have been like, oh, that's fun. Oh, good. But, you know, the contract's really heavy, so that would have scared me away, for sure. Yeah. Bachelor contracts, but.

Wait, I have one more question that I know is, like, maybe boring to, like, the masses, but I find it very interesting. You, like, basically flipped your house. Yeah, it's so. Isn't that, like, the biggest job ever? it has been it's been so much more work than I thought like when I originally bought my house I was like

I'm going to DIY everything I'm going to do it in six months three months and then you know you start doing that and it just does not work out how you had planned but it's been so fun yeah we moved into our house three months ago I haven't even finished decorating it's so exhausting

it's an obsession yeah it is and I feel like I can't do anything else until the house is done so I could never do a flip job well that's this is where i thank you bright in thank you my dad thank you my brother because thankfully my family lives close so they can help but i definitely will like invite you know my dad and landin over and be like hey are you all three going to be here at the same time might as well get this project done and they're like uh never go to cassie's house again yep uh fred my father-in-law he's around here somewhere and he knows that i do that to him all the time so it's like when

how you get a ref a game down here because I could really use the help with like frogs. Anyway, I just want to end with one question with you. Of your entire past, I guess it's been four years, right, since the beginning of your bachelor journey? Has it? Yeah. 2018? Yeah.

Wow. What has been the highlight? And I, like, one, right now. It can be one specific moment. It can be like a growing, learning about yourself thing. Oh, sorry. That's so hard.

Sorry. I hate these questions. Guys, I have no idea. I guess just the whole thing. Is that a horrible answer? I go, fine. I think it's just been a really growing experience. Like, you know, you're forced to come out of your comfort zone

and do things you didn't ever realize. would be placed in front of you. I feel like I've grown into myself a lot. I think if Bachelor never happened, I would never be the person I am today. But it sounds corny, but it's just so, so true, if you've been there. Yeah, and I guess that's the same for everyone

going through anything, but I feel like it's made me more decisive, more know what I want, and I think that's really important because I had struggled with that before a lot. That's beautiful. Well, two last things before we send Cassie off here. Just to give a little praise to your sister, we saw some headlines.

Oh, yeah. She landed a massive role. Do we have any Yellowstone fans in here? Where is your hammer? Wow. You want me to say it? Yeah. Okay.

Okay, yeah, I'm very proud of her. She booked 1923, which is the prequel to you. Yellowstone, which is the, I don't know what you call it, comes after 1883. It's the next show after that. Yeah. Yeah, so very excited for her. And if I, if I'm not wrong, I'm a massive fan of Yellowstone. Harrison Ford is in that, right?

Yeah. And Helen Mirren. Mirren, yeah. Helen Mirren is in it. She's gone. I'm so happy for her. Like, she deserves it. She's been working so hard for like, I don't know, five years pursuing this every single day.

So she deserves it more than anyone I know. But Montana did steal her from me for like a year. Yeah, she's filming right now. So make sure you check out the next sequel to 1883, which Cassie's sister is going to be in. We were telling the story last night, and it sounds like she's just worked very hard for this opportunity, and so we want to celebrate her.

Also, you're going to meet Cassie in just a little bit. She's going to be out there hanging out, wandering around. Cassie is one of the sweetest, kindest souls you're ever going to meet. This took a lot for her to come out here and sit with us. So hang out It's going to be a great night We still have Jill coming up

Ashley and I are going to be up here Just talking your heads off for a bit You get to hear from us all night long But be very sweet To Cassie Because she is one of the most special people From this franchise So thank you all

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