The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Bartender Benny

Episode Date: June 2, 2021

Katie’s season of The Bachelorette is almost here and things… feel weird. Ben and Ashley try to figure out why Katie is a different Bachelorette than the rest. We discuss the uncertain future of The Bachelor franchise. Find out why you might see Ben helping your grandparents find love on TV,And, we catch up with the "chicken enthusiast" of Bachelor Nation! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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were meant to do. Listen to therapy for black girls on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is the Ben and Ashley I, Almost Famous Podcasts with IHart Radio. Almost Famous is back for another week, and we could not be more excited to be talking with you as we count down for this next season of The Bachelorette to start. Ashley, are you excited to get us off, just to get us kicked off this podcast and the best of ways? What are you most excited for as you look forward to another season of The Bachelorette?

I'm most looking forward to the ending. That sounds like horrible. It's a long time away. A long time away. It's because I think that she's going to end up with Blake. And that's what I'm really curious to see. I guess that's the answer is to see how far Blake gets. This do you mean, sometimes these past contestants going on new seasons backfires.

Actually, I'd say most of the time it backfires. We have something interesting and tell me where I, if I'm wrong or not, I remember something where Peter had came on and talked about in an interview with somebody else, how when Hannah Brown came on his season, he was actually ready to leave for her. That obviously didn't happen. and what do you think the reaction is when Blake shows up? Do you think there's like that kind of like, I'm ready to end this thing now kind of deal

or do they date through the whole process? No, no, no. Blake's like not a huge deal. Do you know what I mean? It's not like the former. Bachelor. Well, it's not like the, it's not like one of these people

was the lead in the past. Okay. So I don't think like everybody's waited with bedy breath. I just think that they actually make sense together just from the little I know about both of them. that's why I'm curious to see how far it goes and look how entertaining it was when Nick came on Caitlin season

and did get so far it's fun to like already know one person in the cast it just makes you more invested in the process I would agree I don't know I mean we have a we have many instances like people act like this is a brand new shocking thing

and I feel like it happens most seasons half the time I was going to say like we could like go back right now and think about it, I feel like almost every other season, there's somebody from a previous season. I mean, look, you had two. I do. You had, and that was that the start? I mean, we know that Chris, you know, um, Rukowski came on Andy Dorfman, just showed up to the gate. Never got later in. Yeah. No. So like, was he the first? I think so. And then it started a trend. And then Nick like did it so well that I think then it really.

started the trend as to like I could be successful in coming back yeah I mean obviously recently we've seen Heather Martin give it a good shot it didn't go well I wouldn't say it went well I mean I think it went fine but it didn't like it wasn't successful on either end no um Nick you know is is memorable for that Blake comes on you think they might be together I'm you know what I'm interested I was trying to think through how I was going to communicate this I'd say what maybe is intriguing me the most about this upcoming season outside of the storyline of if she ends up with somebody and who the contestants are and maybe we like these guys maybe we don't it's how different does this season feel like I'm really intrigued just to see what it's like to watch this season I can't say

I'm excited to watch this season I mean I can't say I am either but I'm intrigued yeah I mean we'll be really honest here it's like we didn't get to know Katie that well we didn't have a weeks and weeks with her. We didn't feel her heartbreak. I mean, I said this when she was first announced. I was like, I didn't,

I don't feel super invested in her. When they broke up, like I never felt chemistry between Matt and, and Katie, don't feel, you know, when you don't, when you don't see somebody's heartbreak on the show,

then it doesn't feel like you can't wait to see where they end up on Paradise or on the next show or anything like that. And I think it's going to take a bit I don't know that a lot of Bachelor Nation is like, oh my gosh, can't wait to see who Katie ends up with. So I think it might take some weeks for people to get into it.

I am kind of curious to see how the first week or two goes ratings wise. Just because it's a little later than usual. It's not somebody who made it to the top three. The last time we had somebody this far back, you know, who's eliminated that early on become the lead was Juan Pablo. Yeah. I mean, when she was, when she was even rumored, again, like, I can't even make a judgment calling Katie. Like, I think I like her from a distance. I think she has a lot of Caitlin Bristow in her, you know, which is somebody that, you know, people just enjoy being around and she's funny and she can carry a conversation. But I remember when she was even rumored, there was just this like, there's no way kind of feeling. Like there's no, not because of who she is. She doesn't make sense. Yeah, it doesn't make sense. Not because.

of who she is like paradise would make sense but it's like we don't know her and you had the breeze there still you right i mean you had brie yeah um you had you know even at some level rachel storyline where it's like she's not with matt anymore could that be something that they play off of michelle was there like it just felt like it was a stretch which if we're i mean if we're speaking honestly right now i don't know how much risk the bachelorette franchise bachelor's Bachelor franchise can take right now when it comes to stretches like they have some conversations they need to have they have some things that they need to change we'll see if that happens but when it comes to like league contestants I feel like they needed to pick somebody that

they knew everybody was going to know going into the season like this is a stretch I know it's like it's kind of like the Ari thing again in a sense like it's like how is this going to work people don't even hardly know what's going on here the what thing Like when Ari was there, it's like, this could either really go well and people will be super into this idea or it could really backfire and people are going to be like, I don't, I just don't know enough to follow this love story. People really weren't invested in Ari himself. They never, he never became the most lovable character on screen.

I like Ari personally, you know, like in between getting to know him in real life. But like if you ask Bachelor Nation, their feelings on Ari, I don't think they really warmed up to him until Lauren and him were married and they had a lessee and all that. I would agree. I mean, he left that season with Becca Kufram being the beloved character and, you know, the kind of the girls in the season being the ones that people were falling the closest. Hey,

again, I don't know enough about Katie to make a judgment call. Like, I don't know anything about her. I'm wanting the best for it. I just, I don't know how the people are going to react. And if they're going to tune into something right now and be talking.

about something. I mean, the franchise has been has been so successful of the last, let's say, five years because of the social media interaction, the press and the media and the way people talk about it. You know, they need to get people out there talking about it. And with everything going on,

it's going to be interesting to see if people keep talking about it. Yeah. And this is a crazy little detail for something of a season that we're so unsure about. I'll know if that made any sense, but you guys know what I'm talking about. just trying to build a suspense here

about this headline that I just pulled up I'm going to drag it out just a second longer that sounds good two just keep us anxious three okay yeah the Bachelor hasn't been renewed yet hasn't been canceled hasn't been renewed and the headline says

this is somewhat surprising considering the popularity of the series now I know that they are casting for The Bachelor. I follow Bachelor casting on Instagram and they are looking for women for that upcoming season,

but ABC has not announced whether or not it's going to be back. I'll tell you the best mood the Bachelor can make. People way above my pay grade, people that deal with this a lot closer than I do. Here's how the Bachelor saves themselves.

Paradise. No, no. One, again, just because I have to, you throw my name into the hat as the host, not because I'll be the most, Pop. No, no, no, no, no. You haven't heard where you're going with this. You haven't heard where we're going this. This is not to take anybody's job. This is not to be the host of the bachelor or bachelorette. Okay. You launch that senior citizen bachelor, bachelor, bachelorette franchise show. Instead of the bachelor? Well, just maybe even in addition to it to kind of like maybe for a year. You just kind of like do that. You highlight that. You give it a shot. And then you move back into seeing what the bachelor, bachelor, bachelor, it looks like. taken a year from now. You kind of take a break, reinvent yourself. You learn during the senior citizen show of like what love and dating looks like for people who are in a sense like really

wanting it and not just wanting the fame of it all. I'm the host of the show, not because I'd be the best choice, but because I want that job so bad. Listen, Ben, we both want Chris to return at some point. We also really want you to be the host of that show because you have a have an older spirit, an older soul than Chris Harrison. And I think that you would really speak to these people. Like, I could just see you kind of like sitting down in a Mr. Rogers sweater on a couch next to them. And just saying, just, just hearing about themselves. Like, I, yeah, I have, this is not any way speaking to Chris if he comes back or does not come back. This is not that. I'm just saying this is my dream job to, to facilitate the opportunity of love.

for a bunch of people who are what I think they said like 50s 60s 70s I think or 60s and 70s was kind of like the age range I mean because they're seniors right so what's the age of a senior I think well if you I think you get your ARP card 55 I think you get your ARP card at 55 and I think that's when people the AARP card uh typically comes in then oh no a senior citizen is technically 65 years old oh well good I mean that works like there's like different things like I feel like my dad's gotten that 50 cent cup of coffee at McDonald's for years and and every time he goes into like eat it and if we go to a restaurant to eat like a ponderosa or Ruby Tuesdays or Applebee's he always shows his art card and he gets like 10% off and he

I feel like he's the happiest guy in the world anyways I say like movie theaters I think my parents have been doing senior movie tickets for a while I I don't do this often because it makes me very uncomfortable but I like if If this show happens, I am pushing myself for it so hard. I'm calling up every single connection I have. I say, I will do whatever you want. I will be there. Oh, it'd be absolutely incredible.

Anyways, Ashley. Okay. No, no, no, not anyways. I have to just paint this picture for you. Yeah. So I think Wells is a great bartender for Paradise. Yeah. But you could be a perfect bartender for that show if you're not the host.

And instead of making like tropical drinks and stuff, I can see you like bonding over, bonding over life with these people over brandies and like whiskeys and stuff and tums and peptobismol because that's what happens I could I could literally just be passing out thums peptobismol brandies whiskeys uh in dark red wine I don't know it sounds like a dream job you have to keep that mustache I do have a mustache right now um this is for the senior show this is this is my prep I'm selling myself hard for this actually I don't I mean come on know. It's a super exciting day for us. Ashley, we're getting really close to finalizing the winners of our four-year anniversary giveaway. But before we get started, we haven't mentioned this in a while

and it's something super important for us to do because it's, you know, with COVID, it's just kind of been sitting there. We have a lot of almost famous apparel that's ready to be purchased. And you can go to myfanthreads.com slash almost famous and find some of this apparel. If you're a fan of the show. If you want to celebrate our four-year anniversary with us, we got hats. In fact, what I found out is people actually really love these hats. They've been wearing these hats. I get some pictures sent to me from these hats. So go out and purchase some almost famous apparel if you want that. If you're not fan of the show, I mean, who doesn't want to wear a hat? This is almost famous because aren't we all? Yeah, right? And then we have this huge giveaway

that we're super lucky to be promoting. Today we're going to be talking to one of the humans who helped set up the flower giveaway. That's a part of the But we also last week on the episode talked to the company and the single person who did the ring for the giveaway. Ashley, just to remind everybody, before we kick off the podcast here with headlines, what is the giveaway? What does it include? How do people sign up? All right. So we've been talking about the giveaway for the past couple weeks.

And for every week, that's four weeks leading up to the actual announcement of the giveaway, we are picking winners. okay so there'll be four winners total and they're going to get a custom made ring it's by love around the neck you can follow them on instagram at at love around the neck the ring is going to be in a size seven so if that doesn't fit your ring finger finger pick another finger to put it on it's because then you can wear it as a cool index finger ring or maybe even a thumb ring if you got tiny hands toe ring i know it's a really cool design it's 14 karat year yellow gold with diamonds and it has a f almost famous ingrained on the inside of the band you're also going to get two dozen red roses from hidden garden flowers we're going to have the people from them on later in the show but guys basically there's a lot of people entering this and we are really grateful for that and this this is how you enter follow us on instagram at at almost underscore famous podcast and then click the link in the bio and register for the contest that's all you have to do and there will be four randomly selected winners to win the custom made ring yellow gold guys

and two dozen red roses so you have until june 14th to enter we're we're hoping for you we got our fingers crossed for you we hope you all win but only a few of you can and uh and yeah we're super pumped today talk to somebody that's helping us out. Now, Ashley, before we dive in the headlines, a big week. We hope everybody had a really good long weekend, but we also hope that everybody took some time to take a step back and be thankful for those who have served the country, passed away, serving the country, and their memories and their remembrance. It's, it's Memorial Day is a great time. I mean, it's like the start of the summer. It's people out in the

lake. But it's always a good moment, too, to step back and just be grateful for those who have supported us. Ashley, it's time for Bachelor headlines. Let's get started. Before we do, let's take one break. 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 professional? 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. Hi, my name is Enya Umanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you. But if you have unmedicated ADHD, I'm God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, Psychobabble. Yes, yes.

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Listen to shock incarceration on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, guys, we have Tiara. You may not know her name, but you definitely know her title. She was the chicken enthusiast on, was it, oh my God, it was Ben's season. It was my season, Ashley. Don't forget, you know every contestant for my season. And we're on Paradise together, so. I can't believe it's been that many years since you were on the show.

I'm so old now. I was like, oh, dear God. Hey, watch yourself. If you're old, I'm old. I know. So when you saw your bio and you saw that your job, your occupation was listed as chicken enthusiast, how did you feel? Oh, I loved it because that was my idea. because when they were like, oh, you're going to go on this show

and you pretty much, like, for me, I was like, I have to quit my job because my job won't sit there and wait for me to come back. And so I was like, okay, so I quit my job. And I was like, I'm just going to be a chicken and fish because I love birds. Wait, but, I mean, right now it looks like you're driving home from work. No, I just got gas. Now I'm going back to work.

So now I have a job again. Okay. I do work now. What do you do? Okay. So let's go through. some other interesting titles that The Bachelor has had for their contestants

before. Well, first, with Victoria Larson, we have Queen with Lucas, Yancey from Rachel's season. This might be my favorite. His job title is Woboom. Just Woboom. That couldn't have worked out well for him. Colt's season

had a girl named Aaron Landry. She must not have lasted that long because her job title was Cinderella and I don't really remember that. Alex D from Colton season. Her Her job was sloth. Evan Bass, not far off from what he was. He was more of a business owner,

but they like to call him an erectile dysfunction specialist. Then Erica Rose. Yep. Erica Rose was just a socialite. Jonathan from Rachel's season was the tickle monster. And then there's you, Tiara, the chicken enthusiast. So, I mean, how do you feel about Bachelor giving these titles to people? I mean, I would say some of those are a little bit weird

And I feel like, you know, they might be for some attention But I mean, whatever, I think it's kind of funny People can take that and run with it and But I mean, okay, so you chose the chicken enthusiast You get a shot on national television In your mind, you're laying in the hotel room The night before this thing starts Best case scenario for you

When it comes to your title as a chicken enthusiast Your ideal job somebody reaches out and says what we want to hire you on as are you should have worked for Purdue after I was going to say petting zoo expert like what would have been your dream outcome from being a chicken enthusiast okay so my ultimate dream is to own an all organic chicken farm with like humanely like chickens that are like raising like laying eggs humanely not like stuffed in a tiny little cage that is my secret dream

that I probably told like six people and now you guys I think you can make this happen yeah what do you love about chicken so much it's a great question I don't know anything with a beacon feathers

I get real excited about they're super funny they're super smart they're so snugly they have such great personalities like they're wildly entertaining okay so what's

your first thought that goes through your head when you see Big Bird back in the day as a child? Like is there something inside of you that lights up in a way none of us could understand? You know, probably not Big Bird because it's not real. Oh, and as it would be real? It's just a man in a costume, a creepy man in a costume. Yeah.

I'm all, not today. Not today. Yeah, but I don't know. I just like I see chickens and I get really excited. Wow. That's like super interesting. Not in a weird way because I had one guy. So I did, I don't if you guys saw it, probably didn't see.

I did this interview for this for Fox News last week, like out of nowhere. And I took my chicken and I got a lot of good press from it. And then I get this one guy who called me, I won't say the word, I'll censor myself. They called me a chicken effer. And I was like, you have to be kidding me. Somebody online said that to you. Somebody online posted about me on his page. calling me that and I was just like cool because you love animals apparently that means

we hook up with our animals. I was like, oh, you're dead to me. Yeah, that's a little aggressive of a statement and an assumption by him. That would change this interview quite a bit if that was the direction we're going. But no, we're just more intrigued with the idea of these weird job titles because people now, I mean, I'm assuming you bring your chicken on the Fox News, you did an interview last week, like people still associate you with a chicken enthusiast, which will be what people associate these new cast members. They have some weird jobs.

Probably, you know, if they make a name for themselves for years to come as well. Yeah, no, for sure. I mean, people always remember the one guy is a tickle monster, the one guy's their dysfunction. Yeah. Yeah, so it might help. It may actually help contestants stay memorable.

Oh, totally. My last question for you, Tara, is I'm still always been very mind boggled as to how you can love these animals so much and then still eat them. Yeah, yeah, no, I got, PETA had a couple words with me about that. I, you know, chicken is good for you. I don't eat my own chickens. I, you know, it's healthy. So I'm not going to go eat my, the birds that I raise. I mean, I only use them for their eggs, but.

I've tried to cut chicken out before, and I just like meat. I just like it. Yeah. Well, I got one last question before we say goodbye to you. I know you had to run here. One last question for you. How, what is the oldest chicken that you have right now that you've raised? Like, what is your longest relationship with a chicken to date?

I have Karen. Yeah. And she's about six years old. Wow. Wow. And her name is Karen. And she is a for sure Karen. Oh, this is great.

And then next comes Trish. So, yeah, they got some great names. Trish and Karen are my two older women that I found on the side of the road. And I took them. Oh, cute. How great. Well, hey, thanks for coming on. This means a lot to us.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's nice to hear from you guys. I was like, oh, hey. Good to see you too. Okay. Bye, guys. See you.

We're back bigger and better than ever for Bachelor headlines. I hope next week's headline is this, Ashley. This is what I hope. I'm just going to keep pounding this. Ben is a. is announced as the host of the yeah and I'm only saying this I think Chris Harrison would have no interest

even if he had you know if everything was going smoothly over there at the network with him he would have no interest in this you know it would just be one more show he'd almost be working all year round I feel like I got some time on my hands I just yeah I hope that's the headline next week let's see all of you

albumless him is faithful you can email Warner Brothers and let them know that I'm ready. Should we give them some private email addresses? Let me just post in the show notes. We're going to post their... Oh, wait. No, but for real, guys,

if you really want to throw your hat in the ring for Ben, DM Rob Mills. Yeah. Okay? Just type in Rob Mills into Twitter and say, Ben, for senior host. I will wear so many cardigans. It will make the viewer sick.

Okay. First headline, Bachelor's Matt James, reveals Rachel Kay gave him the ultimatum he needed before they got back together. Yes, they're back together. Ashley, tell us everything. Okay, Ben, so I was a little confuzzled reading these headlines. So I decided to listen to the podcast in which Matt talks about Rachel because we had two headlines. First about this ultimatum and then we had one about an official move to NYC. We had like a lot of Rachel headlines.

with Matt. We also have one about their weekend. Getaway. I'm okay. Let me get the info from the horse's mouth. So Matt went on the podcast called Pomp Podcast this week, which is interesting because he doesn't do a lot of podcasts. And he picked a one that I've never heard of. It's not a Bachelor podcast. It's actually a business podcast because he wanted to talk about, you know, everything that he does beyond The Bachelor, which is respectable. And he says, He spoke about the relationship so oddly that I was like, okay, I got to, I can't just take these, this written, this written quote right now. I have to listen to the context. He made it seem like on this podcast that he had, he was speaking to an audience that wasn't just Bachelor fans, if you know what I mean.

And he made it seem like Rachel and him broke up at some point and like nobody knew it. he was like yeah so we met on the show and then while the show was airing we broke up for a little bit and now we're back together i'm like oh wow way to simplify things all right so basically he talks about after after the final rose but like i needed to go there for context he said we made a commitment to each other to work on this relationship and then there came to a point where it It was evident that my working on the relationship looked different than Rachel's because I wasn't really honoring that commitment that I had made to working on the relationship. So he was referring at that point to after, after the final rose. And then he said that Rachel said, if you're going to make this work, let's do it.

But if you're not going to make it work, then I'm not going, that I'm going to let you do your thing. and he said that's all he really needed to hear he said it was he calls it an ultimatum but it was an ultimatum that he really needed to hear and ever since it's been great so it was quite vague they didn't they didn't harp on the timeline of their relationship much or their reconciliation

but he said basically all it took was for Rachel to say hey are we going to do this or not so she comes out and says hey we're going to do this or not puts him and in his I mean from what we're understanding his response was like behind the scenes he kind of wanted this to work like you don't just react and say oh yeah okay thank you now I'm ready like he was in a sense what he's saying is he was kind of like not oblivious but he was like

pushing it off for a bit not really putting his work in and then there was something that happened or clicked for him to said no I really actually want to make this work with this girl yeah exactly Does this change Does this change the final episode Of his season at all for you? I mean just in the sense of like how it ended And how it kind of felt like Not that it was cold

But it was so distant Yeah you know I don't want to harp on it We talked about it again last week We talked about last week But it still like it gets more and more bizarre for me To think back on that final episode And be like you sat there so cold Towards a woman that you apparently had

plenty of thought about getting back together with. Yeah. I mean, there's just a lot left on set. And I think we said that a few weeks ago, but there's just a lot there where it's like, what exactly is going on behind the scenes of their relationship? But we're excited for them. I mean, we were so, I mean, ultimately,

no matter how crazy this show gets and how wild these contestants act, like one of the coolest parts is when people get together from it and they explore a relationship if it works forever or if it doesn't. But like, at least we get to see like a relationship. blossom, sometimes into a marriage, sometimes not, sometimes into just storylines that we follow. You know, this is one of those. We're now, we're like, this is, this is all good. And now let's follow it along.

But we have more headlines from Matt James and Rachel Kay. They made it official, in a sense, right? On Instagram this week. Yeah, I saw it being posted. I was like, I think this is a big deal. You know, I don't follow stuff as closely as maybe others do. But I was like, I think this is a big deal because there were photos posted and she was tagged in it. But there was no like announcement of like, yeah, actually, hey, we're dating.

It was just like we're together hanging out. Yeah, I actually kind of like the way that they did this. It's, you know, I think this seems very authentic to Matt. It's a picture of the two of them visiting a school in New York City and elementary school. And they're volunteering teaching students about financial literacy, which is really awesome. And underneath, we have Emmanuel Al Acho saying proud of y'all. Very nice. And this wasn't the only thing they did in New York City or the New York area together this weekend.

They also went away with Tyler Cameron and his girlfriend, Camilla Kendra. They went to the Hamptons together. And they said, it says, despite the chilly weather, it seemed like everybody was having a blast. And, well, speaking about Rachel and. Matt in New York City. She's currently deciding whether or not to move there. Of course, she's Georgia-based, and she says, or not the sources say, that she's always loved the city, but she's not going to move there solely just to be with Matt. She would also be moving there to be close to her friends. And if she did move there, she would definitely be going back and

forth a lot to Georgia, which is where her family is. Well, speaking of Matt James and one of his contestants. The next Bachelorette, Katie Thurston, who we talked about the beginning of the episode. We're very excited for her season. We're ready to watch another of the season again. Has a headline from E.T. that reads Katie Thurston's emotionally confronts her

men about why they're there. Ashley, what are we seeing here? What are we hearing? So she's wearing a beautiful green dress in this scene. You guys can go watch it on Entertainment Tonight's website. It's an exclusive to them. It looks as if she's

had a few rose ceremonies thus far and this scene takes place before another rose ceremony and she says I'm shaking I'm literally shaking right now I made my intentions very clear as to why I'm here a bomb was dropped on me about multiple people still here for the wrong reason she says if you are not here for an engagement than get out very interesting that she says there are people still here for the wrong reason so that's why i'm assuming it's a rose ceremony that happens a couple weeks in because i think she's kicking people out already for the wrong reasons we see in one of the teasers that there's a guy that says i'm not here to make friends i'm here for followers i mean that's i say that kind of laughingly kind of laughingly like that's a word but i say that lightheartedly

but it's actually quite sad. Sad for Katie. Yeah, I mean, entertaining for us, I suppose. Yeah, and I feel like that kind of stuff you're just going to see more and more of. And it's kind of, it's kind of the new cool thing to own. It's like, I'm here to get famous and I'm going to say it. And like, that's going to be my schick.

And I'm going to get yelled at for it. And people are going to like me. And then they get off the show and they don't really get famous. And then they just kind of like, I don't know, move on with life. but it's, I feel like it's just going to be a thing that people talk about. It's just interesting here, as you said, it feels like it happens a few weeks in. So, like, this is, what, is this going to be kind of the consistent storyline for the first couple weeks?

It's like, you know, you know, I've talked about it. Not particularly unique. No, that's what I'm saying. It's not shocking. Like, how many times during the show have we had people go on? I mean, you've talked about it. Like, you went on not only with Open to Finding. love but also going this could be good for me now you found love on it and that's great so you're

still open to it i think that's the big difference here but like if somebody would have asked you in private before this all started like actually at the end of it all what are you hoping this gets out you're like it just seems like a good opportunity i would say the same like when i i wanted to shake life up a bit i was like i want to create a story to tell back then followers weren't really a thing we talked about because it wasn't really there but it's like it was a story to tell it shook life up a bit it's It's, it's been around for a long time. Can you imagine the pressure there is to get far on the show now, just her financial reasons? I actually want to bring up another hot topic right now, which is Jason Tartick's new podcast.

It's really good. I listened to a couple episodes already. It's called Trading Secrets. And he had Dean on this week, his premiere week. And they talked about how much they got paid for doing Bachelor shows, but... To go back to my question, how intimidating is it to be there just knowing that if you get eliminated early, not only are you feeling embarrassed, missing out on like your TV time, you know, missing out on dating somebody that you were interested in, but also like you could have could have been a lucrative thing for you, but it doesn't work out.

Yeah. I'm just being honest. I guess it is. I think with Paradise now, that you kind of have. have like a back like if you can fall back on that if you can go to it then you have that and that helps out i mean you know dean got most of his following from paradise with his right you know so there's some other options it's it's still though just a i guess a sad attempt for like the katies who are there giving up a big portion of their life and she's like hey i i don't know if this

is going to end an engagement or not but at least i want to give it a shot and then when people are they're like just kind of like not wanting that but trying to stay around a long time it's probably frustrating and tiring for her i mean how many times do i have to say it it's like if you want to go on for followers and money and opportunities and travel and friends and all that it's like awesome do that but also like do not go on the show unless you do want to get engaged unless you are ready for marriage because that's when it's effed up yeah yeah well it's one guy that went back i think with good intentions. Katie Thurston gets a surprise visit

from former contestant Blake Moynes and Bachelor at Sneak Peak. We talked about this at the beginning of episode, but Ashley, in the sneak peek, we actually see it. It is now confirmed. So he doesn't come in with the guys on night one, it looks like, but I do think that he comes in really early,

early enough that he's not going to ruffle any feathers. In the clip, you see that he's outside her room holding a boom box, you know, a lot John Cusack and say anything. And then Katie goes, oh, my God, it's Blake. That's it. That's all we see. Katie Thurston's seasons come up.

When does it air, Ashley? June 7th. June 7. So a week from today, Wild. You guys also. Week from yesterday, actually. I mean, it's June 1st. No way.

That's so crazy. Okay. Just a couple of little sound bites that, are in the previews that are enticing, she says, I'm done. She's the classic, I'm done. Yeah. She says, someone book my flight home. And that, yeah, those are the two ones.

Big ones. She wants to leave at some point. Yeah, don't we all? Well, it's going to be an interesting season as we talked about. And we'll be talking about it more as weeks continue. This is our last podcast for the, I guess what we say off season. which is pretty crazy, we start breaking down KD season next week. But until then, one of the big storylines,

coming through the headlines for the last couple weeks now, it's not really stopping anytime soon either, I feel, because both sides are pretty open about it. But here's the headline. Peter Weber says Kelly Flanagan's interview about their breakup was very calculated. Ooh, what a word. I know.

Okay, so there's a little back, forth here if you guys remember last week we talked about how kelly was on chicks in the office the barstool podcast and she said not so great things you know she was like get out of my house i never want to see you again like that kind of thing when things finally ended with peter on like their second attempt or maybe their third attempt however you interpret it and then peter got on his podcast this week his Bachelors in the City podcast. And he said, I'm going to be so brutally honest with you guys

and just speak from the heart. I thought it was very calculated. He said, I thought hearing how it went that it was trying to push for a headline. Very calculated, very disingenuous. That's too bad. I didn't necessarily expect that from Kelly. This has been half a year.

He's saying half a year since their breakup. I don't believe that. They rekindled things in February. And then they dated for like six weeks. So it hasn't exactly been half a year. Okay. We're going to be precise about it. Because this has been half a year, which is even crazier now, in my opinion, that more podcasts,

hello there, are continuing to come out and talk about this. There's nothing new here. There is no new news. This is literally half a year old. and that's why I bring it back to this calculated point that I talked about in the beginning and wanting to write it out as long as, and her wanting to write it out as long as she possibly can

or make headlines or get people talking. He said that he's open to having a private talk with Flanagan and that he's 100% moved on. And of course, wish her the best. Well, I mean, you can say, some of this is his relationship you know it's six months out it feels like we've moved on okay whatever but we're going to talk about it as long as one of them is talking about it like exactly and then he's talking about it so you just you're talking about a podcast talking about it you're

talking about on your podcast we're going to this is a big story I wonder what peter's mom feels about the whole thing has she came out and said anything yet do we know oh my god let's have barb on the podcast yeah let's bring it down right now let's a barb on we got to hear what barb thinks about whole thing. It's wild. Does she love Kelly as much as she used to? Remember how she was obsessed with her? Yeah. I mean, they had a, they had a bunch of nice little, like, uh, didn't she, didn't Barb get into the, uh, TikTok game for a bit? Mm-hmm. And the reals and the stories. Yeah. I mean, a couple flan, I mean, hey, good for them. You, it's always nice when your, your mom likes your significant other, but I wonder if things have changed a little bit now. Well,

this story is not done yet. No. Because the next headline reads this. Kelly Flanick, and hits back at Peter Weber for accusing her of being calculated this according to the glamour. So this week, Kelly got on her own YouTube account to address some things in an eight and a half minute video. She said, usually I'd let it slide. But when there are things out there that are misconstrued, I'm always going to stick up for myself

as I think everyone else should. And this is kind of in reference to what is being said about me that I'm calculated, that I want to hit, headlines that I'm disingenuous and things like that she said that the bear was poked her she being the bear the bear was poked there was a lot of things going on being disrespected going and hanging out with my family friends posting everywhere it was just like i don't understand why when you end badly with someone you think that the person would just try to respect you a little bit and just go their way instead of reaching out to my friends.

When something happens that's extremely disrespectful, you have to know your worth and you have to sit there and say, good luck to you. I wish you the best in the future, but I just don't necessarily want you in my life. She also said, I think I would have respected him more if he didn't accuse me of trying to hit headlines. Oh, my, this is an ending, is it? We're going to go back and forth for a bit. Let's see if Peter has a rebuttal on his podcast.

Okay, let's have Peter. Peter, come on here. Come on. Barb, Peter. Maybe we could be like a family reunion. Come on. That would be great. Ashley, just a few more headlines here to break down.

One that we want to celebrate a couple that just got married this week. And Bachelors, Caleb Quinn, marries Nick Borello in Waterfront Ceremony. This according to us, it is a beautiful ceremony. She looks gorgeous. He looks handsome. Things are fantastic. They look so, so good, so pretty. I was following along with Olivia and Charlene's post this week,

and the wedding looked beautiful. It was at the Ringling Museum of Art. And Kayla gave an exclusive quotes to us saying, I am so excited to announce that Nick and I are finally married. It was truly a dream day in Sarasota, Florida. at the Ringling Museum of Art, wish it didn't have to end. And, yeah, they were supposed to initially get married

in Lake Cuomo, Italy. Oh, wow. Yeah, and then they were planning another one in Ohio, but because they had to postpone the wedding twice because of Corona, they just, I think, decided to do it in the States. Well, it was a beautiful day, super pumped for them. She's stunning and just a bright,

soul on her wedding day. Well, Ashley, I feel like recently all we've done is talk about, I mean, I feel like, I mean, this is definitely a show talking about The Bachelor, but I feel like it's just been a really confusing relationship show here recently also because this headline is one that I'm confused. I don't know if they're engaged, if they're dating, if they're broken up. I don't know what's going on. So you've got to break it down for me. Dale Moss shares couple pick from Hawaii trip with Claire Crawley featuring her engagement

ring, this according to people. there's a picture she's wearing her engagement ring are they engaged no i guess so what i get yeah i mean she wouldn't wear her engagement ring if they weren't engaged but i kind of love the way they're dealing with it now do you not feel like this is far more of a it was always genuine on clericide in my opinion yeah i had many doubts and reservations about dale but since they've rekindled i trust him so much more just me I mean, yeah, I guess so. Mostly because, I think mostly because the hot topics and the headlines and the posting and all that has slowed down.

And so then we see them back together. And it's like, okay, like maybe, you know, maybe this was just too much too soon. And like there's some clarity getting involved and they still care about each other, which is awesome. That's, yeah, that's good, isn't it? Yeah. I definitely just, I just trust him. more. I don't know. They're keeping it far more private. It just seems less splashy. Feels better. Feels much more grounded. So, yeah, we'll continue to see where they end up.

But I like that they're not like, it's not all splashy on Instagram with them. Because, you know, when you've had a pass of a rocky road, I think it's always safest to like kind of take it slow with the public. it's uh i'll say i mean i'm broken record here it's another relationship we're going to follow i don't know what's going on we're going to find out like are they engaged are they getting married i mean they've been together a lot recently they've been taking trips together um you know what's what's what's their life look like now post kind of consistent bachelor headlines except we're going to follow the story and we'll tell you about it right here well um just a few uh questions for you here, Ashley, before we kind of move on with the final headline, do you think Kelly Flanagan's

going to paradise? Like, do you think this is a thing? Yeah, I know. We should have talked about this a second ago. Bennett says that he's in touch with Kelly fairly regularly. We know Bennett is going to paradise. He says that the two of them have hung out once in person. He says that it was a great first meeting. He thinks she's a smart girl. He's open to seeing her again and would love to take her out and get to know her a little bit more as she moves to New York. She also mentioned that she was kind of sort of seeing someone down in Florida, which he says he's totally respectful of. But he says that he thinks that, you know, around 37, 36, 37, you kind of sort of know what seeing someone means. He also said that he's been in New York for a long time. Things

can change rapidly and quickly and with all due respect it would be a pleasure to get to know her so to me like taking that article and then taking like the fact that kelly is still posting on instagram i feel like maybe she's not going to paradise um maybe she's some sort of seeing someone down in florida or maybe she was kind of telling bennett that because she didn't want to see bennett again think both them are very plausible options what do you think i mean I've been it's got to be gone right I mean Bennett it's got to be week oneer I would think so

I mean he says you know like you said they're still in contact if he is seeing somebody yet now it's public that she's talking to Bennett like I don't know if it's like I don't think I'd be cool with that like especially if you're in like a relationship that you've agreed like hey let's date

and figure this out and then like the headlines are like yeah Kelly Flanagan's talking to Bennett Jordan it's like oh my God I know right I don't know if you're talking about our relationship way before it's a relationship. I would be like, I'm out of here. Yeah, it just seems weird. So I won't be shocked if she shows up,

but I know, I must, I don't know. I shouldn't say that. I would assume that Bennett's going to be there from the very beginning. Well, Bennett posted on Instagram last 21 hours ago, and Kelly posted last, so maybe they're just not in the original cast because I do blew the original castes down there already. Oh, Kelly posted 30 minutes ago.

So we'll see, unless they have somebody else running their Instagram right now for them yeah maybe they're like doing that whole thing where you go down to Mexico you quarantine for like 15 days before they release you from the hotel room and you show up for like how who did that a couple years ago with Connor yeah he was like down there for like two weeks in a hotel room and then all of a sudden they're like okay today's your day and there he goes well uh two last headlines uh one is about you actually uh you came out publicly uh and said that jared is getting sperm analysis after six months of trying to conceive.

This is according to an us article. What's going on, Ash? Oh, it's according to us and people and Yahoo. It was very awkward. So I wanted to, I mean, like, I've loved being open and honest, like, every step of the way during this

like trying to conceive journey. And I wrote a big post about it last week in like the last paragraph or something. I wanted to say that. Lots of people have been asking me, like, if I'm testing, like, for fertility stuff already and I'm like no my doctor said that it's very normal

six months in just no she does not think it's needed to be tested like girl that's more invasive and the woman gets tested the tests are more invasive she's like that's not needed for you until a year she's like but if you do

want to test the guy's sperm no no need to wait there it's super duper easy just here's literally a cup how does it happen making a how does it work you can you can literally do it at home um she gave me a cup with like the address to bring it to um when he's done and you just have to make sure that the sample gets to the doctor's

office within an hour and then they like do it like within the day and you just figure it out one in three to four so about a third of couples who are having fertility issues it's actually the sperm that is the issue so it's just a really nice nice, easy, quick test to kind of rule that out. And it's totally appropriate to do around the six month mark. Yeah. So, yeah, Jared never expected that my Instagram caption would go make headlines like that. It felt a little awkward. But it was also a very, very good laugh. More of a good laugh than anything. Well, and I had a couple people in my life. I know Jessica's mom and my mom, who they both, you know, struggled at times with getting pregnant. They both reached out.

We're like, hey, just let Ashley know she's just like. Oh, yeah, it was so sweet. Yeah, like, it's all good. So I know people out there in support, and I know you're not alone in this. I know a lot of people have been through this journey and can probably be there to rally around you. I mean, I think that's one of the cool things about the platform that you have is when you do have something going on that maybe you're confused by or that's not going the way you think. You can reach out to the general public and say, hey, is anybody else feeling this also? Yeah, it just, it's vulnerable yet it's supportive.

And so we're all here. you know, excited to see how this journey plays out for you. However, it does play out for you. We'll be supporting you along the way. Well, that's all we have for Bachelor headlines. We have Amy Marilla coming up from Hidden Garden Flowers, which is a part of our giveaway. It's going to be awesome. It's going to be crazy.

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on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. All right, guys, we have Amy, the owner of Hidden Garden Flowers on the phone now. She started this floral studio in 1999 as a little flower shop with the sole inspiration to make people happy through a beautiful flower arrangement. And she's been successful doing so many weddings, special events, lobbies and hotels throughout L.A. and Beverly Hills. And now she is sending two dozen beautiful red roses to whoever is the winner, the four winners of our four-year anniversary contest. Hey, Amy, thanks for being on. Hey, guys. Thanks for having me. Very excited to be on and talking to you guys about flowers, because that's what I like.

We really appreciate your support, too. I mean, this is a big deal. As we've said many, many weeks now, four years is not something we expected, but we're very excited to be celebrating that alongside. That's exciting. Yeah, it is. It's cool. Congrats. Yeah. Thanks for helping us out in this celebration. Now, you not only are the owner, and as Ashley mentioned, you started it in 1990. which is crazy to think about that this has been going on now for 20 years, a little over 20 years. My question

for you to start this thing out. Does a flower choice say a lot about a person? And if so, how do you feel about the roses representing the Bachelor and Bachelor of Franchise? Ah, tough one. Okay. Yes, I think

the flower totally says a lot about a person. But I'm a huge fan of all types of flowers. I have roses behind me right now. But roses just say love that you know. And then you pick all the different colors. I mean, if you think about it, a rose is one of those flowers

that has a meaning behind every single color. And there's so many different colors of roses, which is insane. So whenever people like pick flowers for their wetland or something like that, and they pick a color, I'm always like, okay, what rose is that? Like the first thing I think about. So I think it's kind of the staple. how do the flowers on the show look how do the flowers on the show yeah like do we have good quality roses oh yeah of course yeah no definitely it's hard to go wrong with roses you know

I mean they're just so getting beautiful I've been a play I just planted a garden outside and I have two rose bushes in there one is a pink rose bush the other one is what they call a neal diamond rose bush there's a little bit of mixture of colors it's like a white diamond it's like white and red together oh like speckled yeah it's like a speckled rose my question for you um we can take this offline if we need to but uh if i really rock this out how do i get how do i start selling my roses to you um i want to be a vendor a supplier i got two rose bushes i'm guessing i'll get at least 20 out of them uh this year we've got we've got a ways to go We've got a ways to go.

How many do I need to get to? We got to get to like acreage. So we're at two rose bushes. So I'm feeling we're like at four by four square. Yeah. So don't count me out. Yeah. Just think about it.

You can email me separately. But I'm very interested in selling my roses and daisies. I got daisies. Okay. I'll get my order in for 2040. I feel like we're going to be right there. Yeah. Okay.

So we know that roses, the color of the. them symbolize different things. I know red is love and romance, right? Isn't yellow friendship? Yes. Yellow is friendship. So what are the other colors mean? White can be purity, honesty. I mean, honestly, when you look up the colors of flowers and what they mean, you can kind of find something that works. I mean, red roses, universal love. We know this, you know. So that's kind of a go-to. But if you really want to look up the colors of flowers, you could pretty much find a meaning for almost any one of the colors really do you feel like the bachelor franchise has ruined roses

no not at all you've just and you've just made them even more important i still have like a little bit of a reaction every time i see a red rose i i feel uncomfortable yeah i get weird no think about all the different types of red roses there are now i mean the different types of red varietal roses is crazy there's like hearts roses there's red intuition there's black bakara there's the red velvet there's freedom i mean there's so many hundreds of red roses so it's crazy yeah well what kind do we use on the bachelor freedom is usually the ones that you guys have yeah okay yeah freedom roses you feel that way about that been yeah i'm gonna start i'm gonna start growing um so finally

question about roses. When I planted my roses, I made sure to keep them very hydrated. I put some paper or newspaper below them with some fertilizer that I think will work really well for these roses. How often do I water my roses? Oh my gosh. Now we're talking about planting, though. I'm not a grower. This is the problem. But let's talk about cutting them and how long you can keep them alive in your race. Let's do that. Let's cut them and keep them alive. Okay. Yeah. Because I'm not good at planting. You probably have better luck with your rose bushes than I do. I'm great at cutting and designing. But keep them alive, always make sure you have fresh water

when you're putting all your roses in a vase and then the lead end up in the water. That bacteria is what kills off the roses. That's what we don't want. Interesting. And now Ben's getting married in November. Ben, have you given any thought to the flowers yet? I mean, I guess so, right?

No, I've given, I mean, I'm sure Jessica has. I'm sure. He's growing the roses for the wedding. Yeah, I think my job was to garden. Her job is to pick the flowers for the wedding. I have given no thought to that, but I'm sure Jessica has. Is there any trends right now with roses at weddings, Amy? People are going to color, a lot of color this year, which I love.

And I honestly think more bang for the buck when you do that. So I have a feeling you guys might be headed down that path. I'm a big color fan. I like good color. Neil Diamond Roses. Where did this Neil Diamond Rose name come from? I mean, it has to come from Neil Diamond. You know what, rose bushes, a lot of the garden rose bushes like that, they have, a lot of them are inspired by someone.

So that's probably how. And then they take two different types of roses and they crossbreed them and they turn them into another bush. My mom's obsessed with Neil Diamond. I'm going to have to get her son. You're going to have to go. They're everywhere, actually. It's very popular. Okay.

Well, final question for you, Amy. This is a big deal. So aside from the almost famous four-year anniversary, which is something that the world is talking about right now and that we're so excited for. The world. So aside from this anniversary, is there one event that stands out to as a dream event that Hidden Garden Flowers would supply the arrangements for? We're here. We're doing it. We're supplying it with you guys.

No, I said aside from that. You can't pick this. Oh, aside from that. That was obvious. I mean, this, that's like, this is like the, uh, yeah, you know what we, we do, um, a dream event that we, we do supply for and we, and we still do it. And it's a dream to me every year as we do Super Bowl, which is pretty cool. Oh, well, that's so cool. That's, yeah, coolest. I can keep doing that every year. Then I am like happy as a clam. Wow. I need to get in the flower game. All right, guys, you can check out Amy Morella's flowers at hidden gardenflowers.com. And make sure. to enter the four-year anniversary sweepstakes. You can get two dozen roses from her for yourself.

Thanks so much for being here, Amy. You got it, guys. Thanks so much for having me. Congrats again on your four years. Appreciate you. Thank you. Okay. Bye. Hi.

Ashley, one last time for all the people listening. How do they enter before we sign off on this week's podcast? Yes, it's the last, the absolute last off-season podcast before we start Katie Thirsten's season. They only have to do this. Go and follow us on Instagram at at almost underscore famous podcast. Then you have to click the link in the bio and register for the contest and that's it. That's huge.

Just so easy. So awesome. Well, Ashley, another great week. Again, next week we'll be back breaking down Katie Thurston's very first episode of The Bachelorette. Woo, ooh, woo, sounds good. Can't wait. See you then, Ben. We'll see you then.

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