The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Famous in the Freezer Aisle

Episode Date: March 29, 2022

Ben's back! And he predicts a messy season ahead for the incoming Bachelorettes. Find out what he and Ashley think of the new set of contestants. Ben reveals why he can't believe that Clayton and Susie ended up together!Plus, we catch up with some Bachelor OGs: Trista Sutter and Bob Guiney! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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place. It's March 23rd. I'm 33 years old. I was born in 1989. I did celebrate it when I was gone. And when's your fake birthday, your internet birthday? There's multiple. I think the internet thinks I'm 34 and I think it is in April. It's like April 21st. But it's March 23rd, 1989. I promise you. Okay. All right. He knows when he was born. So how was your trip to Israel? we, you miss some big bachelor days. You know, you left, you had seen the pre-recorded finale, but you didn't see the live thing where it just turned on its butt. Yeah, it's wild.

So let me start with The Bachelor and then I'll go into my trip real quick. So I was on a plane when the finale was airing. So I was following it on Twitter because I couldn't watch it on the plane. We were flying to Munich and we connected there. And so I was following Twitter. I had no idea what was going to happen. you know, Bachelor alum had gone out and seen the final episode before it aired and kind of hinting at, hey, this is crazy.

And I did the same thing because I watched it. I was like, this is wild. Like, this has never been done. I think he's going to end up alone. Well, you saw that he apparently to you ended up alone, or at least you probably assumed that he did because Susie had, from what you last saw, dumped him at the altar. Exactly. And so then I found out there together.

which was shocking. That's about all my thoughts because I just saw it on Twitter. I was like, Ben. I texted. I was like, Ben, period. This is crazy. Susie is with Clayton. It's crazy.

And I mean, I don't know even what to think about it. Like, good for them. I'm happy for him. You know, we had Clayton on. He was obviously very upset. I mean, I don't think he's a bad dude. I wanted to seem happy. I just thought, oh, this isn't going to go well for him.

It seems like it went okay. Like, it doesn't seem like it was the best thing ever, but he found maybe love through it. And that's cool. And so that was my thoughts. I was only getting the Twitter updates and I was only getting texts from Ashley and so now I'm caught up to speed and I would say hey I'm in the camp of being a supporter of Susie and Clayton if they're happy together. That's where I stand. And the other big thing was

Gabby and Rachel are both bachelorette. You have firsthand experience being on a bachelorette a season that has two bachelorette. How do you think that they're going to deal with this differently? we already know right off the bat that they're not going to be eliminating a bachelorette which is great they just started filming this week so how do you feel they're going to spin it well i'm glad they're not eliminating somebody that was weird i also though uh in finding it hard to even imagine how they're going to do it if they don't eliminate somebody because it's going to get messy like are they doing group dates with both bacheloretts or guys choosing who they like more like that just feels like it puts a lot of weird pressure on everyone.

Yeah, I was saying that if the guys get to pick who they want to go on dates with, it's going to inevitably split the girls and it's going to make one feel really bad when the guys want to go out with one more than the other. Yeah, so I don't get it. I don't, but I'm not mad at it. Like, they're both very likable, very good for this role. And I'm so excited to see how they now. navigate it, like to see how they do, um, because I think they're both going to go down as

some of the best bachelorette we've ever had. I just don't know how they're going to do it together. I don't. Um, I've been saying in the podcast that you weren't around for that there's no way that the whole I love you both or I love all three of you isn't going to come back around because now I feel like. Yeah. These girls, there's going to be some guy who's torn between the two of them and then they're going to be fighting over this guy this is just how i see it unfolding yeah which is which is good tv which is sad again but also good tv it's everything that's sad for for them will be good tv for us you know what i mean yeah i do so we'll wait and see and uh we'll highlight we get the list of the guys that are going to be on this show supposedly today we'll just kind of like point to two

of them because later on we'll do our normal like episode where we break down all the guys so that was my thoughts. Here's my thoughts in Israel. Israel was an incredible trip. We went with Denver Community Church. It's a pilgrimage they do, so it's two weeks long, and it goes through the desert, kind of wraps around to all the places that are within the Bible from the Old Testament to New. It felt like to me, because we went with not only the pastor of my church, but also somebody who is a historian. And so he has both like a bib, like he believes in the Bible, but he also has a lot of history based into what he's saying. So it's not always as clear cut as maybe what the Bible says, which I really like. It felt like a clear cut, or it felt like

two weeks of a college course in religion, history, geography, culture, all slammed into one. So it wasn't relaxing, but it was really incredible. And I don't fully know my thoughts yet other than a few key points here. One, I learned a lot. And I felt like for me personally, just with my faith tradition and my faith practice, I feel more understanding of it. I think that's the word. Like, I just understand more than I did when I walked in. I also was very surprised at how Israel and that area

has kept up some of these ruins. So seeing stuff that's 5,000 years old blows my mind. I have no concept of that here living in the U.S. Right? Yeah. Like stuff that's still standing from 5,000 years ago. And the final thing is what I learned a lot about is just the current situation and the political situation within Israel with the Palestinians and kind of how they're treated and how they're pushed aside and how the country has, it's such a prevalent and right in front of you thing when you're there. You see it all the time.

You see cities that are gated off and Palestinians can't come into Israel or they can't. can't fly out of Israel. That is something that I'm still processing. I think it's pretty clear how I feel what's right and wrong, but I'm still processing how they got to this point. How does it get better? How do we allow people to live in a place where they have freedoms and they feel like they can thrive no matter who they are or where they come from? I think that's a question a lot of as asked here in the U.S. right now. And so that's still something that I'm sitting on, just trying to think through, okay, how does this get better?

The trip was great. And my parents and Jessica and I had a great time together. I will say the most relaxing part of the trip was the Sea of Galilee. I didn't realize that the Sea of Galilee was also a vacation spot for many. People have like lake homes on the Sea of Galilee, which was so weird. But we're back. Jet lag hasn't fully gone away. but we're getting better.

I worked out today, so I'm starting to feel more normal. And I am excited to be here. I felt when you're gone for too long, you start to feel disconnected. And I don't love that feeling. And so it is good to be back. Did you go to Bethlehem?

We did, which is a Palestinian area. And so it's gate. I mean, there's a wall around it. So you drive in, you have to go through a checkpoint. We went to Bethlehem to see one of the old churches there that Helen Constantine's mother built, I think it was like 400 Bs or 400 AD and it's still standing. And that's another part is like you're going to places that millions upon millions of people who are a part of Christianity or Judaism or Islam have been to. These spots are

places that so many people who maybe don't believe all the same things, but they're humans who have tried to exist in this world in the best ways they know how have visited and pilgrimaged too, which is such a wild thing that these places are still standing and you're touching things that millions of people thousands of years ago

had also touched. Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah, it's sacred in a lot of ways. Isn't that funny how fresh everything in America is? Yeah, I mean, I live in the West. Like, we're still... Yeah, we find like error heads and stuff from the gold mines, and we freak out.

And that's like, what, 200 years ago, maybe? Nothing. Yeah, it's nothing. Like, we can conceptualize that, you know? So easily. 5,000 years ago? Not so much. Well, I could go on and on and talk about this trip.

I really could. There's so many things that I would want to say and can say about it. Those are the main points. But I do know we have a big podcast in front of us today, Ashley. Bob Guinea and Trista Sutter are coming on because they have a new project that I think people are going to be really pumped about, that it is going to be a kind of a part of our almost famous family. They're here right now to tell us more about it.

Let's take a break, actually, and bring them on to tell us about their new podcast. As we promised, Trista Sutter and Bob Guinea are here, two of Ashley and I's favorite people in the world, but also they just happen to be on the franchise. guys. I have been personally able to spend time with both of them. Ashley has as well. I have great memories with both of them that I could speak to. I'm so pumped that they're joining our family here and expanding what we do on the Almost Famous Podcast. So I'll just throw it over to you two. You're hosting this thing. Tell us about it. Oh, God. Well, okay. So we're almost famous. And they are, well, what we're calling,

here in a very self-deprecating way formerly famous and they're going to be doing a podcast which is about the past bachelor bachelor bachelor's seasons when we are going to remain staying the podcast of the current seasons so trista bob explain more like are you going to be watching your own seasons first and then like recapping them and like cringing while speaking about at all you know i think this thing is kind of cringing is for sure you know i think um this whole thing was sort of born a little bit out of obviously i mean you guys have had such success and i've been a guest on your show a bunch and i still don't really even know how to spell podcast so there's that uh but it was really born from you know trista and i always get called on to do a lot of the

same uh television things where we talk about the days of yester year and the uh you know the og seasons of the show. And I think that was kind of in large part, you know, we have so much fun doing those things together. And it's always a blast, recapping, you know, how things were and all the experiences from then until now. And, you know, I fancied it as my mother going into the frozen food section of the chicken, in the chicken department at the mall. And somehow she's still, you know, Frozen food section, wait, right, frozen food section of the. Yeah, Ashley, I don't even want to know. I call it. Somehow, I'll walk in there and no one recognizes me. And it's kind of funny. So that started this whole conversation. And I love hanging out with Trista. And I think it's going to be a little bit

of like the, you know, from the Bachelor Mansion to the suburbs conversation too, right, T? So yeah, Bob and I just did. We did an interview the other day and we were texting afterwards going, we should do something together. We have a great relationship and have for obviously almost 20 years. Holy crap. You guys, 20 years. Yes, it's crazy. So, you know, since you guys kind of go off-season and obviously have some other things to focus on in your life right now, we figured we'd help out if we could. And why not talk about the olden days of vaccination?

Yeah, we'll fill the gap. So are we going to watch your seasons first? Are we going to do season at a time? Like you're going to binge a season and then come and talk about it? Are we going to do episode by episode? I think honestly, we're kind of throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.

And we'll watch, you know, an episode here, an episode there. We would love to have people call in and ask questions. You know, I can talk to my experience with Ryan and how we've been successful. And Bob can talk about his experience. of not being successful and I'm a success now it just took me a long time I can relate Bob he he has success now of course with two third times a charm right yeah we're not sure so I you know honestly I think we're here to do whatever with anyone from the past who wants

to come on and share some time with us well I do think it's going to be great because one of the questions that we get asked all the time is how is the show different now than it was when you went on. And so the thread line to draw that comparison, to tell the old stories, to bring on people and the progression of what it was like when you were on and bringing the progression to what it's like now, I think it's going to be really interesting for so many loyal fans who've been a part of this franchise for, you know, some of them all their lives or all their least adult lives. Yeah, I agree. I think it's going to be really interesting. I mean, It's so different from Winters than I did it to when the two of you were on the show as well.

I mean, it's just remarkable how things have changed, but oddly how they stayed the same in the same presence and the same voice, right? Well, and honestly, I feel like there are a lot of people who are watching now who were like babies when we were on and they don't really understand where it all started. So I think it'll be interesting for everybody. I mean, if you're a Bachelor fan, then I would assume you want to know, like, how it all started. And that's what we're here for. Yeah.

And, you know, like I also like the, I like the element, too, of I want to hear about Trista's, a day in the life of Trista. You know, I want to know what Trista Sutter is doing. I want to know, where does she go? What is she doing? And after you leave the glam squad behind you. Yeah. Make up in the morning. Hair and makeup is there.

Then what? Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Hair and makeup, meaning. my fingers. I need to know these things. Yes. I'll tell you all of it, Bob.

It's just so glamorous. I can't wait. I can't think of two better people to do this with. This is going to be awesome. You both have played a role in my story from, you know, when I was announced as The Bachelor, I saw Trista randomly at a breakfast spot like a week later. And she said, hey, good luck. And kind of sent me out.

to the wild and then bob you and i were able to do the today show for you know two years together and do the panel uh and uh you know it's sad i'm no longer doing that i don't know if it exists anymore but if it does i i got i got the the axe um i got cut but um you know it's uh you both are incredible voices a lot of insight both very funny so we're pumped to to have you a part of this and uh and i cannot wait for people to tune in and listen uh to formerly famous it's going be a great podcast. Thank you, buddy. Thank you so much for helping us launch it and for letting us be a part of your already incredible brand. So we're glad to be on your coattails. We'll be listening. We'll see you soon. All right. Take care you guys. Thanks, guys. Hi, Dawson. Bye, guys.

So as promised, most people did in the U.S. You could find it if you're a fan. We got the list of a lot of the guys that are supposedly on this next season of The Bachelor. with both Bachelorette. It's a long list. Obviously, we do have our special episode that we always do when we run through the guys in detail. And we kind of go through each of them, tell them where they're from, what they do for living. We judge them critically and it's never right and always a lot of fun. We'll do that.

We'll do that at some point. In a couple weeks. Yeah. But for this, for today, let's just give our overall opinions. Ashley, you've seen the list of guys. Does any of them, like, jump out at you? And then also, what's your overall thought? on this group.

Okay, the overall thoughts are that they're way too young. I thought the same thing. Most people are complaining about that. That's like the general consensus online because Gabby's 31 and let's see, Rachel, she's 26. But they just looked a little bit, they look a little bit more gauged for her. Yeah. Because most of these guys are in their 20s.

And yeah, if we want to like make fun of them or like do first impression, Number one first impression is Ryan M from Boston, who is 35, looks exactly like Clayton. Maybe if Clayton met crystals. It looks exactly like Clayton. I think that's one of the takeaways. Look up Ryan M from Boston. Ashley, you're spot on there. I would say my first opinion is, yeah, they're a little young.

Now, I think they can go good and bad. I don't know what Gabby's looking for necessarily. But it would have been nice to see a few guys that kind of reach that 35-year-old range. There's maybe four of them that I'm kind of scrolling through and seeing. It's a good-looking group. It's a group with, it seems like a lot of personality. It looks like there's twins on here. Is there twins?

I don't know. I was distracted by the thought of when it comes to The Bachelor, I'm going to say it. It's a little cruel. but when it comes to The Bachelor of these days The girls are like so pretty right So beautiful And that's how it's always been Yeah

But when you look at Bachelorette Vic The girl I know this is super vain But it's like then you look at the pictures That the girls get Of the guys And you're like I could find this at my local bar

Yeah Am I horrible No you're not horrible No you have You're not horrible And I mean, it's definitely your opinion. I would just say, Ashley, I remember very distinctly that Hannah Brown season, we looked at the guys were like, this is not good.

Like none of these guys in their pictures at all seem like their standouts. And then, you know, obviously. Except for Tyler Cameron. But even back then. Holy crap. No, we were like, that guy's hot. Oh, well, maybe. I forget.

But I think I remember being like, that one's the only real hot one. Well, good, I'm good for you. And then can you name anybody else from that season besides Peter? I mean, Connor Saly seemed to do all right for himself. Connor. Okay, okay. Yeah. So, I mean, you never know. Their personalities will shine.

People, it's a great thing as you get older. You realize that the most attractive people can become very unattractive once you get to know them. And people that you don't find attractive physically can become very attractive once you get to know their personalities. And so. So true, Ben. So true. But then look at Caitlin's season. The best of both worlds.

there you guys are just a big combination of beauty inside and out you're so biased all right no i'm not i think it's the general consensus you guys you guys i did that poll a couple you know months ago and kaitland's won with flying colors well uh that's very nice and i hope uh i would be grouped up into why the vote was a positive vote um but i know jared uh was included in that but you're also very very much included in that at the top of my brain. You're the best, Ash. You always make me feel better. I am excited for this season.

I think these bachelorette's are going to shine. I hope people tune in to watch them. I think that's going to be something that the show has a hard time doing now, is can you bring back viewership? If they ever can, it's this time. It's with two bachelorets. I think it's a good opportunity. So I hope this cast is full of personality,

full of incredible things. And I'm hoping some of these guys do shine, because it would make for a complete season. I know we're going to have good leads, but it's always the question is, can we have good cast members? So as we mentioned, we'll break down the guys in a ton of detail here coming up

in the next couple weeks or next couple months because this isn't aired until July. I know. But until then, we do have a lot to talk about that's going on in Bachelor Nation, a ton going on. So Ashley, let's take a break.

We come back. We have some Bachelor headlines to break down with you. Hey friends, a surprise self-care package of beauty goodies landed at my door. I'm used to beauty goodies landing at the door. And I'm a huge fan of these, and so is my wife. And today I'm opening it with you. I also have a box here that I'm about to open.

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really work on those fine lines and wrinkles that no one wants to deal with. Okay. So I'll be using that tonight. And the easy part about this, it really, is easy enough for everyone. It's that simple skincare. This, you apply it once at night. Right after you wash your face, dry your face, you put on the serum, and then you put on your moisturizer, and that's it. And then after about a month, you'll see these major changes in your skin. And it includes some natural ingredients that are iconic within Loxetan brand. If you don't know our anti-aging line, we use immortal essential oil. And that flower from the island of Corsica in the south of France, if you want to get fancy, is known as the flower that never

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This is how you spell it. I know it's pretty intense. L-O-C-I-T-A-N-E. That is Loxetan. dot com Ben, before we break down Bachelor headlines I'm not sure who I was talking to

but why didn't they just start feeling Paradise now air that in the summer and then go into the Bachelorette because we have a Bachelorette season Michelle and Clayton's season to go off of for Paradise. Are they doing Paradise?

Yeah. Paradise is the ultimate summer show. It's going to be weird for watching it in the fall. I don't. I mean, the rumors have been that Paradise isn't coming back. Okay, but that doesn't make any sense

because everybody gets way more excited for Paradise than anything else. But the ratings were down even below the Bachelors this year. They were? They were below the Clinton season? I believe so. You have to fact check on that.

Well, they're always below the main seasons. Yeah. It just seems like the fandom loves it harder, even though I guess... It's very loyal. The viewership is lower. Yeah, it's a very loyal following. and it is a summer show.

So you'd expect viewership to be lower. That's kind of what the summer is all about. People aren't watching TV. They're out later. The sun is brighter, you know, later in the day. So they don't sit inside and watch TV. I don't know if we yet, and we'll look into it. So next week we can talk about it.

I don't know if we can convince. I don't know if we can be convinced that it's coming back. And I think this airing in July does make us wonder if things are changing, which would be really sad. I would not love that. But I wonder if things are changing. I don't know. Maybe you're right. What are you going to do?

All right. All right. Let's go into Bachelor headlines. Here we go. First headline of the day. Daniel Ratcliffe, you know him as Harry Potter, says he unironically watches Love is Blind and The Bachelor with his girlfriend. Okay. Love the fact that he says that he doesn't believe in guilty pleasures. That's how he starts the conversation off, which I totally agree with. You shouldn't feel guilty about any of your pleasures. He says that he has referred to his love for reality TV. He said that he would have in the past referred to his love for reality TV as a guilty pleasure.

But now he just admits that he unironically enjoys it. And he says that the most recent season of The Bachelor, he did not watch, but he heard that it was, quote, mental the end anyway. It's pretty crazy that he watches it. We're glad he does. Pretty cool. He watched our season, I guess. Maybe.

He could have been filming Harry Potter back then, too. Well, hey, next headline is Katie Thurston and John Hersey. Celebrate one year anniversary of meeting on The Bachelor at. They're still together. Yep. And their Instagram posts, the one that Katie posted, says, it is mind-boggling to think has been exactly one year since this evening. And then he said, you know,

There's a picture, obviously, of, you know, her first night of The Bachelorette. And he said, contrary to what Katie Thurston says, I absolutely believed I could be right here in this moment, which is really funny. And then he said, sorry to all the fans whose Bachelor brackets, we effed up. Oh, there you go. That's good. That's good. I hope the Bachelor brackets need to extend a year with points because things have been changing. Right. I was like, I don't know, dude.

I love that it makes total sense, but I get where you're going with it. Yeah, there you go. Again, I want to quote that I was a big John Hersey fan when he was on the show. I thought he had a chance, and here she goes and eliminates him early. So call me a Bachelor expert. I don't know. Hey, next headline is one that people have been curious about. Cassie Randolph shares how she found out that her ex, Colton, Underwood, was gay.

So she was on Caitlin's podcast, and if you guys remember, we had Colton on our podcast a couple weeks ago. And I asked him, I said, was there any reason why you didn't tell Cassie before going on GMA and announcing that you were gay earlier, right? Why didn't you tell her earlier before all of America found out? And he said that there was like a legality reason. And this is what she said on Caitlin's podcast. She said, I found out the same way everybody else did. I was actually in Mexico on vacation with my friends, which was great to be away. But yeah, I found out through Snapchat on GMA, it was horrible.

It was just a kind of, it was a shocking kind of thing. I guess I did kind of, she said like, okay, so that's all she said about that. And then she said about taking a step back in the Bachelor world because, you know, she's not super involved anymore, which was kind of shocking to see her on the finale. She said, I guess I did kind of take a step back from doing things for a while last year because I needed a little break from everything. So maybe that's why people were shocked. And she just said that she didn't want, you know,

everything to be out there in her face and that she needed a healthy break from the franchise. That's fair. That's fair. Well, Bachelor Nations Jojo Fletcher celebrates her bachelorette party with Becca Tilly and more before Jordan Rogers' wedding. I believe they're getting married in May in California. I think. I don't think I'm revealing anything here. And then they were in Mexico. Yes, this weekend or like for four nights. Becca and her did their funny thing where they dressed up like boys. They love doing that. It's like their Halloween stick. And they brought it to her bachelorette party. But pretty much it was just a weekend based on what I've seen on Instagram of them looking stunning, enjoying lots of champagne toasts. It looks really fun.

They look like they're having a blast, and they always know how to have a good time. That's a really fun group of people. Well, Bachelor Nations Anna Redmond and Chris Bukowski, hard launch. That is in quotes, according to people, their relationship on Instagram. Yeah. So if you guys saw over the weekend, Anna from Matt James's season and, you know, the beloved Chris Bukowski. He's still around. It's wild that he's still here.

He's still, you know, he's dating somebody in the franchise. He's got to keep it in the family. Yeah, hard launch, aka like them going public with their relationship. She's 25, he's 35. They were on vacation together. And then Chelsea Vaughn, you know, who she knows, obviously, from her bachelor season, said, this is the moment we've all been waiting for. And then another one, Clay Harbor, he joked, damn, are they filming Bachelor in Paradise already?

So I'm very happy for them. That's awesome. I wonder how they connected. Who slid into whose DMs, basically, right? Yeah, that's the question of the day. You know, obviously a transitioning time in Tasia Adams' life. The headline is this. Tasia Adams is ready for her next chapter after co-hosting second season of The Bachelorette.

I believe they have announced that Jesse Palmer will be the Bachelorette host since, you know, filming has begun and he is there with those two Bacheloretts right now. But she is transitioning into. her, you know, second season of life, which, hey, we all do. Yeah. So Taser was on the Drew Barrymore show on Thursday, and she says, I have to say, at least that time really served me. It's taken up a lot of me time for the last four years.

Can you believe we've known Tasia for the best four years? She says she's ready to do the next thing. She also, she was asked about coming back to another dating competition show in the future. and she says it's a pause on whether, I guess, if that would be something you should consider again. Those are the headlines we have for today. Stuff's going to still be happening in Bachelination. Even though the season is being filmed right now,

they are in it, they're in the midst of it. It's happening. It's going on. But we're going to still be here with the Almost Famous Podcast. And don't forget that formally, formally famous with Trista and Bob, is going to be starting as well. We're going to have an action-packed off season for you.

We're pumped to talk about it. We're pumped to be here with you. But until the next episode, I've been Ben. I've been Ashley. Bye. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcasts on IHartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.