The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Almost Famous OG: College Bound

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

Trista and Ryan are in LA for the iHeartRadio Music Awards and they’ve turned the show into a family vacation! Trista spills all about visiting colleges with Blakesley and what they’re looking forward to most about the iHeartRadio Music Awards!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So what are we supposed to talk about? we can talk about anything really i mean this is my podcast so um but i think just life in general let's just give give the people a little uh glimpse into life lately and um what's going on with us so thanks for coming on the podcast sure i didn't didn't have a choice i don't think you did not but you're welcome anyway that's actually true Um, so we're here for the IHeart Radio Music Awards and I know, um, I'm really excited, but we have a member of the family who is also probably way more excited than me. And that is our daughter, Blakesley. Um, she is so, she's so excited, babe. We were in the car. So Blake'sley and I, for everybody listening, Blake'sley and I flew out to Los Angeles last night and Ryan flew in today because he was working. And, um, I was like, okay, blakes. look up who is performing or who's going to be there or whatever. And she looked up everybody and she was like, and Kelsey Ballerini.

And I was like, do you know what that means? And she's like, no. And I go, do you know who Kelsey Ballerina is dating? And she was like, no. And I go, do you know John B? And she's like, what? Outer ranks. You know how obsessed she has been with that show.

She was freaking out that he might be there. I mean, this is like for a teenage girl. So our daughter is 15. Almost 16. Almost 16. It's crazy. She turns 16 and gosh, what is it? Like two weeks now?

I don't even know what today is. Right? It's somewhere around there. Yeah. It's like two weeks away. that makes me happy and so sad at the same time anyway um so teenage girl dreams like this event i'm so grateful for just because she is living out her best life dreams you know yeah i think she's really excited yeah it's so fun i wish that max could have been here but he's got some

hockey obligations so he couldn't be her but um to walk a red carpet and get glammed and you know see people that she kind of idolizes like taylor swift maybe and oh gosh billy ilish she was obsessed with billy ilish you know a few years back um anyway i'm really excited to be here you feeling okay you feeling good about it i know it's not really your i wouldn't go with i'm really excited to be here but I think it's fine. I mean, I'm actually more excited to see Blake's Lee and, you know, have this opportunity for her. Like, we used to do this kind of stuff a lot

and haven't for a long time, especially since the kids have been old enough to kind of appreciate what it was and to be sort of into pop culture. And for her to have this opportunity and, you know, to get, like you said, get to see the people that she really looks up to and listens to and that sort of stuff is pretty cool. I don't think Max would have gotten the same experience out of it. I think he's

probably more, you know, like sort of hedges more in my direction when it comes to that sort of stuff. But it is kind of fun. Yeah, no, he's, you know, it would be fun for him to be here. I think he's just less into like the show. Totally. The red carpet. Yeah, for sure. I agree. Yeah. No, I think it'll be fun. And I mean, Kenny Chesney's performing. It's like a, it's like, you know, when we've been to other award shows in the past, it's like a big concert. Yeah, of all the things that we used to do, I think the award shows were probably up there with my favorite. Just because of that, you get such a wide variety of performers and you get to see people in person and see kind of sometimes get to meet them and see how they are. And that's always kind of fun too. Yeah, I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad I'm here to you. So, and then afterwards, we talked about Blake'sly turning 16, which, you know, it makes me sad just because I feel like I saw someone, someone, you know my brain does not work that well these days, people. So someone was talking about, why would you be sad with your kids growing up? And I'm like, it's just, I can miss the baby days with any milestone. it's just one more step for her, like, leaving the nest in my mind. So it, you know, it's a happy thing for her to turn 16, and I'm really excited for her because she's very excited to drive and have that independence.

But it also, like, breaks my little mama's heart that she's getting older and closer to leaving me. Not leaving you. She's just leaving. I know. I know. Well, hopefully. I mean, hopefully they'll both find their footing in life and be able to have successful, fun, lives with families that we'll get to enjoy that phase of, too.

Yeah. I agree. I think as the kids were growing up, I always thought, you know, I think every little phase of life, I was always kind of like, I wish they could just stay in this phase of life. And then they would progress to the next phase of life. And I would say the same thing and on and on. And so I think that's going to continue to. to be the case where we'll just appreciate all of the milestones and all of the steps and and what will be really strange is if they're if they're both off in college or like if our house

is empty I know that will be um an adjustment but yeah um that's still a ways often so i think they'll having moments like this with blakesley and um you know when i got to go to north dakota and watch Max play hockey and those sorts of things those are sort of the bigger things but even just the day-to-day interactions and stuff just trying to appreciate those more.

Yeah, totally. Yeah, it's interesting because people always ask, I mean, it's kind of a superficial question these days but just like what's new. I'll see, like I'll work with somebody I haven't worked with for a while or something and they'll always ask what's new

and there's really not anything, you know, momentous or monumental or anything giant, but it's just a lot of little things that in this phase of life, I think I'm trying to do a better job of appreciating because I do kind of see the sort of riding off into the sunset part of it. And, you know, like 50 years old, you're like closer to 100 than zero now. And that's not sometimes that awakens something and you just say like, well, let's make sure that we appreciate these days and stuff.

Yeah. Well, I like that you said closer to 100. That means you're thinking that 100 will bear your number. So that's good. Stick around for a while, please. I don't know if I'll make 100. Yeah, I don't even know if I would want to live that old. Like, you know, if I'm in pain already,

I can't even imagine how I'm going to feel when I'm 100, you know. Well, just imagine. this is totally off topic. 50 years ago. So what is that? 1975-ish. I don't know. You're better at math.

Well, when were you born, 1974? Yeah. So, yeah, exactly. I mean, that would be an easy way to figure it out. You did just turn 50. Like the world, like it was so much different. Right? So, drastically different.

that those little Apple 2E computers were out yet. Heck no. No. Like it was all televisions were giant boxes within like ears sticking out. You said telegraphs. No, I'm just kidding. Everything is so different. And then in another 50 years, I mean, who knows?

Maybe we will be 100 years alone. Or maybe the world will be gone. Or maybe the world will be gone. Yeah. We'll prefer to think of it. Let's prefer to think positive. Yes. in hopes that we actually can become grandparents and enjoy that part of life, too.

No rush there, by the way, Blakesley and Max, if you're listening. They are. Yeah, so I don't know if I interrupted you and if you had more to that thought. No, that was just a brief, like, wonder of, like, you know, because that would be, well, let's just say when Max and Blakesley are 50 years old and we're grandparents, hopefully. Yeah. Like, what will the world be like for our grandparents? hopefully we as a human population figure it out and we can kind of start to make things good yeah for everybody but know that they're bad now but no better yeah

yeah no life is good my boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious oh 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?

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I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer, and my mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like... What do you get when a true... crime producer walks into a comedy club. I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear.

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that we would go look at some colleges, which is a whole other thing. Like, just envisioning her being in college, you know, or, and not necessarily college, just being on her own, you know, not living in our home. She's always welcome to come back to as is Max. But I, it's, it's kind of of a little shock to the system. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. Trying to take advantage of it and really enjoy it. Rented a convertible because when we were in L.A. the last time and Blake Slee and I rented a convertible, it was, I feel, like, a core memory.

You know, like just blasting the music and driving down, you know, I don't think we were on the PCH, but just cruising around L.A. So we did that again, and we're going to go visit some colleges. I wish you could be there, but it's a little shock to the system, and it's kind of bittersweet. Like, it'll be exciting to share that with her, but at the same time, thinking about my baby girl. I mean, hopefully they can figure out sort of what they want to do, which I think is kind of a weird thing to ask a 16-year-old. I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was 17 years old, and I'm not sure you're

supposed to know, unless, like, there are those rare people who, like, some of them will probably see today that just, like, knew they wanted to be musicians. And so that's what they just strove for their entire lives. But I think the majority of people are still on a exploratory mission as they graduate high school and go to college and, you know, deciding on which college to go to is part of that. And so I think Blake's, tends to want to go somewhere more beachy, like the West Coast. I couldn't imagine Max wanting anything to do with the Los Angeles area. He did say at home because we were talking like what we were going to do.

And he said, yeah, I don't think California is, you know, for me. Actually, I think you were in the kitchen when we said that. Yeah. Yeah. But I think you guys will have a good time. and hopefully she'll see something at one of these places that sort of sparks her interest and at least gets her thinking in that direction. Yeah.

It's hard. You know, like with the move to Denver, I think that was partly intentional as a way to sort of start to build a foundation for our kids so that we could do as much as we could to set them up to be successful adults. This is just a continuation of that. That's definitely the phase of life. that I feel like I'm in, that we're in, is it's more, it's less a selfish phase. So, you know, less of these types of I heart radio events and that sort of stuff that just you and I go to that we're incorporated our kids into our lives and we're trying to build them

as best we can and prepare them as best we can for that time when they do step out the door or leave the nest and then, you know, then you can kind of circle back. and we can refocus our attention in other places, hopefully we will have given them enough to be self-sustaining. But like you said, I don't think parenting ever ends. I mean, clearly we live super close to my parents and I feel like my mom and dad are always helping out and checking up on us. And my mom always says that she just never stops worrying about me or my brother and so it doesn't matter um what period of life you're in you know you're always gonna love and care for and want the best for your kids always yeah i recently i don't know if

i told you this but um so you know how they're always on snapchat i've decided like they snap their friends constantly yeah or boyfriends or girlfriends or whatever and i'm like i need to do that with them so that they'll like so we can continue this interaction so maybe you i know you don't have it on your phone but maybe you set up an account so that like just just even snapping like pictures it's kind of like so um my mom and i as you know but you know people listening um in order for me to stay connected to my mom who's in indiana we like send each other we play wordle every morning you know and we send each other um like our results from wordal just i need to know that she's okay like every morning i want to make sure that she's okay she lives alone you know i want

to make sure she's okay and um i'm feeling that way about the kids like i want to create some kind of habitual thing where um we stay connected so i don't know if there's something that you would want to do too or if you want to join me in the snapchat thing but um yeah i mean i guess i I know you hate it I don't hate it I just don't know that I need another thing yeah true but none of us do

none of us too yeah it's hard enough to just check my regular text messages and emails that I have like 200,000 I've never looked at so adding another form of communication isn't top priority but yeah

and plus you know I think there are certain things that are just theirs you know I think Snapchat's kind of theirs that was developed for more of their generation than ours and so yeah i mean we we got married i think it was like my space my space for sure and now there's no my space although it or wait what was it it was um well twitter had had twitter no twitter hadn't even started it was like my space and chat rooms and stuff but there was no the message boards right there was nothing really there was

no twitter no instagram no facebook no None of that. No. Those kids weren't even in college yet, those Facebook guys. Yeah. They were not. They were still in the womb. No.

Maybe not. Maybe not. 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. Hello, it's Daniel Fischel. Writer Strong.

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I feel fine, basically. Is that the actual update? Because that's what you tell everybody. I think there's just a new definition of fine that isn't maybe as like, I don't know what the word would be, the descriptive, or, like, it's not as great as maybe fine was 10 years ago, but there's nothing, like, in my life that's preventing me from doing really anything that I want to do in my life. Because you don't let it. Well, maybe. I think, and I think, honestly, I think age plays a large factor into a lot of decisions now. It's less so than any kind of, or more so than any

kind of health concerns or anything like that. So I don't know. I mean, it's a tough adjustment when mentally you want to be or feel like you're in one place and then physically sometimes you're reminded that you're not in that same place. And so just trying to find a balance there and still live a productive, fun, enjoyable life is the challenge that I face. but certainly a lot, I'm a lot better than I was four years ago, I would say, but probably not 14 years ago.

But I was 36. I was just going to say, I think that's all of us. It is what it is. That question's hard to answer, and I think the hardest part about that is when people ask me what they can do, when they're not feeling good and when they understand kind of what I went through health-wise, which is I'm assuming what you were referring to. Yes. And they're also going through something similar.

Yeah. And the hardest part for me is to say that I feel fine, but not really be able to explain how to find that for them. Because I think it's such a personal journey and effort and a lot of it. It just depends on what you're willing to go through and what works for you and what, like, it's a very complicated subject, I think. And I really feel for people that are suffering through things like chronic illnesses and things like that that there really isn't a lot of attention given to or there's not a lot of remedies offered. And so you're just kind of, you know, throwing darts and hoping that some of them. happened to hit. And I think for luckily for me, several of them have hit and that's reduced the impact that's had on me personally. Unfortunately, I don't know how to translate that for

everybody. And so that's, that's probably the biggest frustration for me is just now the understanding of what that feels like and what people are going through and how frustrating and debilitating that can be. And then to top it all off to not have any real, um, legitimate hope. I mean, you can always have hope, but there's just sometimes it's hard to find it when you, you just can't see a lot at the end of the tunnel. So yeah, and you feel like crap. Yeah. And I think what I feel like a lot of people don't understand is that Lyme, for whatever reason, is different for everybody. So like, you know, you say, oh, well, I have a cold. So I'm coughing and I'm sneezing, and, you know, I've got congestion.

That's kind of across the board what people experience, no matter your nationality or gender, or you know what I mean. Yeah. And Lyme is different for everyone because it attack whatever, wherever it's attacking in your body, that's what your symptoms are going to show, right? So it's different for everybody. And I think the hard thing is that it,

you know, your path, your life with Lyme disease has been, it's all individual. It's very, very personal, personalized. I don't, what's the word? Do you know what I mean? Like, it's unique to everybody. And I think that's really hard because a lot of people ask you for, you know, your help in like how you've found. some success in feeling better. And it's hard because I feel like everyone that you talk to who has dealt with Lyme has a different path. So it's not like you can't take this one medicine and find a cure. Yeah.

I don't know. Yeah, there's just not very much known about it. And I think it can bring out other conditions and things like that that you have to deal with. And so, but anyways, I don't want to go down a, like a Debbie downer path. No, no, for sure not. Life, life for me is great. And I think life in general is great. And so hopefully, hopefully that could be the message is that there is, like, I can be an example of someone who has dealt with it and has come out the other end for the most part.

And I probably will always be dealing with some component of it. But it definitely doesn't impact me in any naked. sort of way. I'm able to come here. I'm able to work. I'm able to enjoy the kids. Like, you know, take the dog for walks and like, like, really doing just about everything I've always done. So. Totally. So, yeah, it's not. Yeah. There is. There is. There is hope. There is. Thank you. Thank you. For our little chat. Not that I don't talk to you every single day. Not like this. I know. I pressure conversation. Um, so thanks for listening, everybody.

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