The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Almost Good Advice Part XI

Episode Date: June 28, 2024

Ben and Ashley are ready for you! Take a seat on the Almost Famous couch and get ready to hear some (almost) good advice!  What do you do if your partner is looking at OnlyFans while you’re pregnant? Should you move your family for a big job opportunity? All this and more from Ben and Ashley on Almost Good Advice!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That seems inappropriate. Maybe find out how it ends by listening to the OK Storytime Podcasts and the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Jennifer Lopez, and in the new season of the Overcomfort Podcast, I'm even more honest, more vulnerable, and more real than ever. Am I ready to enter this new part of my life? Like, am I ready to be in a relationship? Am I ready to have kids and to really just devote myself and my time?

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I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story. Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now.

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It's time for the Almost Famous Podcast. We have almost good advice. This is a really great little segment that we get to do. We get to get questions from you, the listeners. probably people listening right now to this podcast, at least I hope so, because you're the ones that wrote us in with the questions. And we get to just talk through it. You can't promise any great answers. We can't promise any 100% truth. But what we can do is going to talk through how we would talk through it if these situations came into our lives. Ashley, we're going to start

with Shelby. I'll read the first one here. I'm 24. My husband is 29. We've been married for four years and I'm pregnant with our fourth baby girl. Goodness gracious, congratulations. Yeah, goodness gracious is exactly what I thought when I read this too. He seemed off lately and I figured something was up. So I went through his phone and just like my last pregnancy, I found pictures of a girl from Instagram on his recently deleted photos. It was a video of her and her underwear arching her back. However, I searched her up and found nothing. My guess is she's an only family. this happens every time he gets me pregnant then i follow my doctor's orders and stay on bed rest he threatens to kick me out if i tell him i'm hurting he claims that i don't know what pain is then i find

those videos and it just makes me feel so much worse he deleted his internet history before we went to bed last night and i guess it was so i wouldn't know where he got the video any advice i'm so upset, but I feel I may be overreacting because of my hormones. No, no. You're not overreacting because of your hormones. Your husband has a pattern of going to Onlyfans when you're pregnant.

That's pretty gross. I'm sorry. And then he says that your doctor recommended bed rest is fake pain. I'm really concerned about you having four children for this man.

I feel a lot of sympathy for you. You seem like you deserve better. I can, I laugh a little bit because I feel very insecure, pregnant about my body image. I'm not one of those pregnant women who feel like my body is beautiful now. It goes beyond the fact that I feel like my face looks different.

Like I don't feel like my body is sexy. at all. Like, I don't know. I don't think, Jared, you know, I, I don't understand, like, being attracted to that, even though, like, it's very healthy and wonderful that so many men do, and I think that's great. Um, but I don't, but your husband going to get, during pregnancies specifically, he goes to other, like, more pornographic sources. And that has got to be just a really bad feeling for you. And I, just feel bad for you. I don't know that I have advice because I don't want to encourage you to leave your husband, but I don't know that I like him. Yeah. I think we take leaving off the table

right now because we don't, you know, obviously we don't know them personally, but I don't like him either. I'll say that. Ashley, if you don't want to answer this, that's fine. But I think her husband is not good. I don't like him. I don't like what he's saying to her. I don't like that he's not treating her with respect as she's carrying another child as she's on bed rest. But I guess if you had advice, there's two ways I want to go about this. One is advice on confrontation within relationships because there has to be a confrontation here where she has to stand up for herself but the big thing here is he has to love her enough to want to respond well and it sounds like right now he's just a jerk and he's hiding a lot the second piece of this is intimacy

while you're pregnant with your spouse i would love for you to talk about that like how do you and jared stay intimate because also here i'm sure there's some level of hey you're not feeling attractive you're you know you're on bed rest are you two still connecting in some way physically yeah um okay first off i want to like not shame the fact that the husband like that may be like a husband's got to watch porn sometimes um i'm talking about only fans here which it's more of like a personal relationship it seems like he's having a person more of a interactive relationship well i don't you know i specifically don't think that um porn is like a healthy choice. Yeah, I know. I'm not like, let's like not get into that. I will say this. I also would imagine

that if it was a something that you did in your life, your spouse should maybe know about it, right? Like, if you're going to be doing it, maybe they're okay with it. If they're not okay with it, then that's a conversation you guys should have as a couple. Yeah, this feels like, I know that watching porn can be interpreted to some people as cheating, but this, but with only fans and with girls like with pictures being deleted. It seems like there's a more interpersonal relationship going on so that feels particularly cheaty um but yeah uh intimacy while in pregnancy it's not the greatest for us uh talked to we even talked about this last night i was like um just letting you know uh probably in a few weeks you just really won't look at me

you're just not gonna you're just not gonna you know so um so we have a couple weeks here so exactly So if you feel like it, let me know, because you're on the clock is kind of how it is. But we definitely could be more intimate and other and just like snuggling on the couch and stuff like that to make up for it. And it's interesting that we had this conversation literally last night. I was like, well, if we're not, when we're not going to do that, like, we have to be closer in some other physical way. because I need that physical touch even though I'm not feeling like my sexiest so it's like you don't have to

just need to be close it doesn't have to be necessarily like the sexiest yeah and I think here's the point to that thanks for sure because I'm sure that's a question a lot of people have is like how in the world do we stay intimate at any level while like and I'll tell you that

it was non-existent with Dawson because I was so sick and like it just no like that because I was I was throwing up until 30 weeks. And then at 30 weeks, I was like, hey, I put on some lingerie. And then he was like, I, no. Like, you know, then there's like an actual like viable human being in there. And you're just like, we'll figure this out later.

But here's the point. I think that the undertone here, with Shelby, Shelby again, to answer you go back to your question, you're not overreacting by any means. you might be underreacting at some level, in my opinion. But in healthy relationships, you have an example like Jared and Ashley there, where they're able to talk it out and be like, hey, like, I just want to let you know, like this is what I'm feeling, this is what's going on, what are you needing, what are you desiring, like how can we both be there for each other?

Ashley needs physical touch. I'm sure Jared has his own love languages that he needs as well, but you talk it out. And the two of you come to a consensus because you are. team and you're walking through this process together. Yes, you are carrying the child. You are carrying the weight. And so in my opinion, the husband then steps in as a support system to encourage, to be there, to care, to love, because your wife is carrying your baby. Show me you're carrying the fourth child here. But in healthy relationships, you have the ability to talk these things out so that there's not these things being hidden and that you're kind of caught off by surprise.

I'm sure if Jeremy is like, hey, Ashley, I am, you know, starting to look at something. Like, that's a conversation the two of you would have. It wouldn't be easy. It's not like a conversation that you would want to have, but as a couple, you would have it. Yes, definitely. And I'm interested to see how he treats you when you're not pregnant. that's a good question because if this is a pattern of him just possibly not being attracted to you while you're pregnant maybe he just doesn't you know but it's really when you threw in that comment that he says that you don't know

what pain is when you're on bed rest that makes us like in general make us judge this man it's ridiculous trust me i just got a lesson on delivery from uh from you what two weeks ago on this podcast i have no doubt that it is painful and I have no doubt that you know what pain is you've had three children it it hurts I'm sure yeah all right well we're thinking about you yeah so the advice would be to try to have a healthy conversation with your spouse uh to explain that you have i don't even know if you need to explain it to remind that you have carried now four of his children uh that he needs to step up as a husband, but also offer the space to allow him to speak into kind of what he's feeling and where he's, why he's doing what he's doing so that maybe you guys can come

to a better understanding and build that healthy kind of communication channel. Not going to be easy. It's not fun, but it's, you guys can do it because you are a team still. But he needs to step up. I don't like him. 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. Hey, sis, what if I could promise you you never had to listen to a condescending finance bro? Tell you how to manage your money again. Welcome to Brown Ambition.

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My name is Ed. Everyone say, hello, Ed. Hello, Ed. 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. Well, 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family.

And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Your entire identity has been fabricated. Your beloved brother goes missing without a trace. You discover the depths of your mother's illness, the way it has echoed and reverberated throughout your life, impacting your very legacy.

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and the way in which family secrets almost always need to be told. I hope you'll join me and my extraordinary guests for this new season of Family Secrets. Listen to Family Secrets Season 12 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Janica Lopez, and in the new season of the Overcover podcast, I'm taking you on an exciting journey of self-reflection. Am I ready to enter this new part of my life? Like, am I ready to be in a relationship? Am I ready to have kids and to really just devote myself and my time?

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Be a part of my new chapter and listen to the new season of the Overcomper podcast as part of the MyCultura podcast network on the IHHHHH Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Beth has a question. She goes, my teens do not want to move again. We have already moved them once in elementary and middle school and then back. My husband would like to take a job that would be really great for his career. I do not think it is fair to move my kids again, especially in high school.

Terrible idea, right? we've been married for 20 years I don't want to turn I don't want him to turn down this opportunity and forever regret it however I don't want him to separate and God forbid we meet someone else

he will have to travel here to the East Coast at least once a month and I could travel there some too any advice on living on separate coast so I'm all I'm not all I would be more understanding

of this him having to commute situation. If it weren't separate coasts, I think that really puts a detriment on it because this is not like he could come home for like three-day weekends. This is not like he can come home every weekend. This is like really life apart. And maybe this is ironic that I'm saying this considering I was saying that like that Gary and Teresa could do this long-distance marriage if they wanted to. But this is different because I think you're in the point of your, you know, you're probably in your 30s or 40s, you're just like at that point, you're raising kids together. You want to have the father in the house with the kids if you can.

I don't know what to do. I do like your mentality where we've moved the kids too much. Like I was even saying in our headlines episode this week that Jared and I want to figure out by like mid-elementary school where we're going to like really raise the kids because we don't want to take them and change their schools a whole bunch of times. I think it's particularly difficult, of course, when you're in high school.

I think this is going to have to be a conversation that you and your husband work out. Like I know that he'd like to take this job. It would be great for his career, you say. But is it worth it? Like how much more money is he going to take? How big of a step is he going to take? Could he take this step?

he stays where he is a little bit longer, it's really going to be a balance. And how does he feel about the kids having to change schools? These are my lingering questions. I mean, I think my advice would be more to the husband. It would be really hard to move in high school. You lose great friendships. I have still friends from my high school that are my best friends in the world. And they're friends of mine because we did high school together. at some levels, middle school together. And so it would be really hard to move in high school. And I don't think that's fair to the kids.

If I'm talking about like my family unit that I hope to have one day, I think once they get into high school, it's like you're going to finish at this high school. I'm going to do whatever you can for you to finish at this high school. Unless, you know, some really difficult thing happens and we have to move, the have to would be the only scenario where you would be moving. And then I go to the husband and say, if you poll a hundred people in their 80s you ask them some of their biggest regrets in life

they would say the pursuit of money at some level that would be the pursuit of a career advancement and the lack of time i spent with my fame those are the two highest poll categories and so i think here you would have to say am i going to regret this one day right now i don't feel like I would right now this feels really good right now it feels like I'm getting everything I ever wanted but actually when it comes down to it what is important to you is it seeing your kids you know soccer games is it going to their graduation is it going to their plays is it them coming home from school and telling you about their their you know be on a test that would be my upbringing um and being very excited about it but ultimately I think the question here is

is for the husband, do you really want to be away? And to what you were saying, at what value can you put on this one opportunity you have in life to see your kids turn into young adults, do you want to be a way for that? Or do you want to be there? Because it sounds like you still have the option to stay where you're at. I think that was absolutely perfectly put. 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, 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. My name is Ed. Everyone say, hello, Ed. Hello, Ed. 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 and... 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. Onstage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. The 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club. A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Your entire identity has been fabricated.

Your beloved brother goes missing without a trace. You discover the depths of your mother's illness, the way it has echoed and reverberated throughout your life, impacting your very legacy. Hi, I'm Danny Shapiro, and these are just a few of the profound and powerful stories I'll be mining on our 12th season of Family Secrets. With over 37 million downloads, we continue to be moved and inspired by our guests and their courageously told stories. I can't wait to share 10 powerful new episodes with you,

stories of tangled up identities, concealed truths, and the way in which family secrets almost always need to be told. I hope you'll join me and my extraordinary guests for this new season of family secrets. Listen to Family Secrets Season 12 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, sis, what if I could promise you you never had to listen to a condescending finance, bro, tell you how to manage your money again. Welcome to Brown Ambition. This is the hard part when you pay down those credit cards. If you haven't gotten to the bottom of why you were racking up credit or turning to credit cards,

you may just recreate the same problem a year from now. When you do feel like you are bleeding from these high interest rates, I would start shopping for a debt consolidation loan, starting with your local credit union, shopping around online, looking for some online lenders because they tend to have fewer fees and be more affordable. Listen, I am not here to judge. It is so expensive in these streets. I 100% can see how in just a few months you can have this much credit card debt and it weighs on you.

It's really easy to just like stick your head in the sand. It's nice and dark in the sand. Even if it's scary, it's not going to go away just because you're avoiding it. And in fact, it may get even worse. For more judgment-free money advice, listen to Brown Ambition on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp? designed to be hell on earth. Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo,

this was the choice he faced. He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you. Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These programs aim to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing strict discipline,

physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. Mark had one chance to complete this program and had no idea of the hell awaiting him the next six months. The first night was so overwhelming and you don't know who's next to yet. And we didn't know what to expect in the morning. Nobody tells you anything. Listen to shock incarceration on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. says this, some of our best friends have become super flaky since we had a kid.

My wife and I have been friends with another couple for the past several years. We honestly consider them our best friends because of how reliable, friendly, and helpful they were and having several shared interests. Then a year ago, we had a kid. Of course, that shakes schedules up a bit, but we've still been able to meet up with them a handful of times. Once for dinner out, a couple dog playdates, and one's hosting at our house. But over the last four-ish months, they've become super flaky with us.

We'll text them to make plans, but then the last minute they got to the point where we weren't surprised when they canceled. Most recently, we had plans. Then they decided to take a spontaneous international trip. So we made plans to hang out when they got back, but then they got sick when they returned and canceled again, fine. But they didn't even offer to reschedule again. We can't imagine that us having a kid has ruined the friendship for them.

them. When my wife was pregnant, we were like, I hope we still have time to hang out, they would say, and they would respond, oh yeah, have a kid and we'll still see them. At this point, it's been months since we've tried making any plans with them because we're kind of gauging their commitment to our friendship. Since having a kid, it's always us that takes initiative to make plans or reschedule when they fall through. And even if they're trying to be considered to let us initiate since our schedule is well obviously more hectic but there hasn't even been anything like hey we're free for the next three weekends if you guys wanted to hang out neither of them are very confrontational people so we're hesitant to just blatantly be like guys what's up thoughts

advice we don't want to burn the bridge because we aren't mad at them just confuse okay so we can relate a little bit we just feel like it's harder in general to make plans with people since having a kid. Sometimes there's a relatability thing going on with people who have kids or don't have kids. So maybe you are talking about your kid a ton and they're like, all right, well, I'm listening to you talk about your kid,

but you're not talking about the stuff that used to interest us. Also, just feel like you mentioned that they wanted to have kids and that you guys got pregnant first. maybe there's a little sensitivity there who knows i can't say that if you guys may have said something that turned them off but i do think in general just friendships can sort of change when you're in two different places in life and they said you know i hope we still have time to hang out when the kid is here yeah like they probably did but then maybe like they just realize that you guys are in different places in life right now. I don't know. I don't think that

they hate you. I think it's a sad situation. You know, it sucks when you have people that you love hanging out with. And then all of a sudden, like, it just doesn't seem like there's a mutual ambition to hang out. Any advice? Yeah, I don't know. Like, you can just kind of be up front with them and just say, hey, like, we've, we really miss being able to see you guys more often. Is this something we could work on? My advice would 100% be confront this. There's obviously miscommunication going on. And maybe they have something they want to tell you, but you have to also be prepared for

them to come back and be like, hey, I like you too. You guys were great. You're still great as parents. But we aren't interested, like, we are interested in like spending time with people It's such a different season of life than us. I don't think that's fair, but it could be the case and you have to be willing to hear it. But there's a difference between being a confrontational person or non-confrontational person and then just having a really honest conversation.

It doesn't need to be angsy. It doesn't need to be angry. It's a, hey, we miss seeing you guys. We really love seeing you guys. We consider you two, some of our best friends in the world. And we haven't seen you as much as we'd like. to. Is there something we could do to be more accessible to you? Is there something that you haven't told us that you want the opportunity to be able to tell us? But we miss you. And that's

simply it. That could be the conversation and allow them then the space to speak to it. But it doesn't have to be a, hey, you guys are being bad friends. I'm sure that some level they probably already know that if they're bailing so much. There's also the odds that like this is all coincidence and things really have just come up. And they got sick and they wanted to go to Italy for a couple days. And you guys, it's just been a bad like stretch of planning. I get it. Or he was the other side. They could just be like really not designing to hang out. I mean like Jess and I, we love time at home. And it is very often that it's no, not because we don't want to hang out with anybody. It's just because we want to be home. And so we say no to all plans. Like completely all plans. It doesn't mean. It doesn't mean.

we don't like these people when you have kids and you do kind of crave interaction with adults even more in that case because because exactly ben i feel like when you don't have kids i could get more into like a hobbit mode but when i want but but after as being a mom i find myself wanting to be more social because i need the more adult connection and i think it could seem more offensive when you're when like you keep getting bailed on because you look forward to those moments together more. That's fair. I guess I get that.

I mean, I don't get it. You get it. Yeah, I get it. Parents night out is a thing. My advice would be the only way to solve this unless you want this really ship to kind of flounder would be just to have that conversation, say you miss them, say you want to see him more, maybe even kind of like fall in the sword a little bit and say, hey, I know that our lives have changed quite a bit since having a kid, but we want to find, you know,

space to still see friends again. is there something we could do because we miss you and just leave it there that's the i think the best path forward and the best conversation to have and typically in my life tough conversations with friends uh have always ended up in a better place afterwards so you know it's it's always been when when you've had the conversation with friends that i care about uh there's typically that the after effects are really positive so don't be afraid to step into a tough conversation I guess would be my advice. Yeah, that's good advice.

All right, well, that's good advice. That's almost good advice. I mean, Ben's was good advice, but the episode was almost good advice. So thank you guys so much for joining us. Send us your questions. I can't believe these are real questions sometimes. Our listeners are going through it out there.

So please email those stories to Ben and Ashley at iHeartMedia.com. We want to hear from you. We're excited to you. So until next time, I've been Ben. I've been Ashley. Bye guys. Follow the Ben and Ashley I. Almost Famous Podcasts on IHartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. 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.

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