The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Getting The HONEST Truth From Brian Austin Green

Episode Date: April 4, 2026

Brian Austin Green is serving the brutal honest truth when it comes to dating, and how men think. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How could this have happened in City Hall building? How could this have happened in City Hall? Somebody tell me that. A shocking public murder. This is one of the most dramatic events that really ever happened in New York City politics. I scream, get down, get down. Those are shots. A tragedy that's now forgotten.

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and one of our newest mentors here on the pot, Brian Austin Green, and a new friend to me. So glad to have met you. And we're here in Beautiful Solving together. This is unbelievable. This is really, it's hot outside, but it is gorgeous.

It's gorgeous, right? Yeah. I was hoping you were going to tell about our new friendship. How about our new friendship? What if I was saying before and then you cut me off and you told me to shut up, what a great day today has been. It's been so incredible spending time with you, getting to know you doing this. Okay, you're going to make me cry now. Okay.

Well, yeah, soak those up. So soak those up. Those tears. Okay, Brian, seriously, one of the best things about you joining the I do Part 2 crew is that you get to really bring our listeners inside the mind of a man. And I, for one, absolutely love this. So today, I'm putting you on the spot here. I loved your podcast.

I want to grill you on some things. Okay. But you got to promise me you're going to give me your brutally honest answers. It's all I know. Okay. There's nothing like pre-form or prefab about anything. I don't even want to know the questions before you get into it.

Okay, well, I didn't share them with you, but we're going to go right into this. And these are like rapid fire. Just help me out, okay? Okay. I don't, I'm not rapid, just so you're aware. That's not what I heard. Okay, do men find these things attractive or a turnoff if a woman does them quickly?

Change a tire. Turn off or attractive? Unnecessary. It's, it's fine. It's fine. How about double texting? How about double texting? Oh, yeah, you're pressuring somebody to respond?

Yeah, I don't like that. So Brian, when I text you and you don't answer and I text you again, how you can feel about that? I will erase our conversation completely. And I'll get a divorce ring made that day just so you know. I mean, I think I slept through the marriage. But okay. All right. Hang in a curtain rod.

You find it attractive or a turn? I think that's awesome. If I hang the curtain rod? Yeah. I like somebody that just sort of gets in whether they know how to do it or not and just does it and at least tries it. Love it. Yeah. Having an Instagram or TikTok for their dog or in my case, cat.

You have one for your cat? No, but I have two cats. Oh, okay. but you don't have an Instagram for your cats. Well, I did. But just for about 10 seconds. Divorce ring. Here it comes.

You know, I was so in love with you. I think that is ridiculous to have an Instagram or social media page for your... I actually agree with you. Yeah. I agree with you. Okay. Bench press... Now, you know I lift weights.

Bench pressing their body weight. Attractive or a turnoff? Depends on what they're doing it for. Okay, let me start over. I bench press weights. What do you do it for? you do it for fitness or do you do it for the way you are seen by other people? Fitness, totally fitness.

Totally fitness. Then that's awesome if you can bench press your own weight. Okay. Thank you. I'll continue it. How about this one wearing makeup to the gym? It doesn't make any sense. Can I answer this one?

Sure. Stupidest thing ever. It just doesn't make any sense to me. It's like you're going to sweat. Like the idea is that you're going to go there and you're going to work out. You're not wearing makeup for anybody for yourself. You're wearing it for everybody else. That's right.

And you shouldn't give a shit. And you're there to. work out. So leave the makeup. I think you're going for the wrong reason. It's the same way I feel when I go to like a hike and there's somebody walking in nice shoes. It's like, what are you doing? Well, that's just stupid. That's asking for problems with your ankles. It's asking for like multiple trips to the shoe store to buy new shoes. Yeah, I agree. Totally 100%. I have hiking boots. I wear mine. Okay, talking about this one blows my mind. Talking about astrology and taking it seriously. And like, I don't know what sign you are. What sign are you? I'm a cancer. I'm a, what do you think?

I am. A tourist? I am. Because you just almost said it. Oh, damn. Okay. But I'm just going to pretend like I'm psychic and I knew that. You couldn't pretend you were psychic.

So do you think it's attractive or turn off of a woman sitting there talking about her astrology sign? I think, again, I think it depends. I don't, I don't generalize those answers. I think astrology is fun if it's part of somebody. If it's your only thing, that's fucking boring. That's boring. That's boring. Well, that and then like all they want to do is sit and talk about astrology.

You're like, can we talk about something else? Yeah, like in the moon of the seventh sun, I'm over it. Yeah, I'm over it. Totally. I don't care what your rising sign is. It's too much. I don't care. Okay, this one, turn off or attractive to drink beer.

If a woman drinks a bear. I can't even, we can't even do this one. Like, who cares? Yeah, I don't care at all. If you want to drink, drink it. Okay, pick up lines. it's got some pickup lines. I got some good pickup lines.

Is it attractive? If I come up to you and say, hi, Joe, oh, wait, and you go, my name's not Joe. I go, oh, I have a friend that looks just like you. It's named Joe. By the way, what's your name? Yeah, that's so cheesy.

I'm not a fan of pickup lines. That was nice. And you've never used that one before? This is the first time. I actually stole it from someone else and I would never do it. So it's a six-shooter. I would never.

Six-shooter. We're here on a ranch, so I figured I would tie it all in together. Yeah, I don't, to me, pick up lines, like you're starting off the wrong way. Yeah. On the other hand, how the hell are you supposed to meet somebody if you got to say something? Yeah, you walk up and you say hello and you say your name and you ask what their name is and then you start a conversation and you see if you guys have anything in common. That's way. That's way too sophisticated.

Then you move the fuck on. All right. All right. All right. All right. What about wearing at leisure wear when not working out, which is how I live. so be careful what you say. Yeah, I don't.

Look at me. Like, I'm not, I, I just got my first, you know, country cowboy hat today. Your first? I, um, I don't, I wear leisure comfortable stuff all the time. The only time I don't is when there's a dress code. Okay, but what about a woman? Do you want a woman in an evening gown? Doesn't matter.

No, I, no, I want somebody to be comfortable. I want to be able to enjoy our day. All right. All right. I like it. All right. Now we're going to move it to some questions. Well, these are tougher, but they're specific for me because I am single.

I was married for many, many moons and my husband passed away. So I'm in the dating market. I'm not engaged like you are. But, you know, if there is a God this time next year, I'll be right there. No, if there is a God, he's got you on the path that you're supposed to be on. I actually agree with that. And you will meet someone and you'll be in something if and when you're supposed to be. I actually agree.

But if you're searching for it, you could sidetrack yourself from. what path you're actually supposed to be on. Absolutely agree with you. You were such a wise man. I actually agree with you. Okay. So I'm of a certain age and I am very fit and I love to work out and I have a lot of energy. So I tend to look to date guys younger.

So how should I dress? Because, you know, do I want to look my age? Do I want to look younger? You know, sexy short skirt. How do I look sexy? But also, And I don't even like the word sexy. How do I look that I'm interested and are approachable but also appropriate?

Approachable but appropriate. I could have given me these questions earlier, but you told me not to. I think, no. I think honestly you should dress the way you dress. Like it is, again, it's going to depend on what it is you're doing. If you're meeting somebody for the first time you're going to a nice restaurant, you're going to have dinner, you dress appropriately for that. But you still dress the way you would dress. Don't dress pretending to be somebody else or something else because I think you're setting yourself up for disappointment and failure.

You are creating a version of yourself that doesn't actually exist. So you're only going to be able to maintain that for so long. Okay. So mostly you're telling me to dress how I feel. comfortable. So this means athlete's wear with cowboy boots. It means how you would normally

dress. Again, appropriate to the situation. All right. If you're trying to keep up with everything happening on and off the court, we've got you covered on the podcast, flagrant and funny. You look at the top four

number one seeds. What do you think UCLA is going to do? Break down that for me, my friend. Obviously, Yukon is the overwhelming favorite in this tournament. But I'll be honest, I think people are kind of sleeping on Texas. Experts are suggesting that UCLA is the number one challenger to Yukon

and that right after that would be Texas. S&C is so deep and so thick and just about everything. It really is annoying. So it's UCLA, Texas, South Carolina, LSU. Only ones that could possibly upset Yukon. On Flagrant and Funny, we're giving our unfiltered takes on the biggest moments the conversations everyone's having. So whether your bracket is busted or you just want the latest on the

tournament. We got you. Listen to Flakran and Funny with Carrie Champion and Jamel Hill on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHart Women's Sports. I'm Lori Siegel, and I'm mostly human, I go beyond the headlines with the people building our future. This week, an interview with one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley, Open AI CEO Sam Altman. I think society is going to decide that Creators of AI products bear a tremendous amount of responsibility to products we put out in the world. From power to parenthood. Kids, teenagers, I think they won't need a lot of guardrails around AI.

This is such a powerful and such a new thing. From addiction to acceleration. The world we live in is a competitive world. And I don't think that's going to stop, even if you did a lot of redistribution. You know, we have a deep desire to excel and be competitive and gain status and be useful to others. And it's a multiplayer game. What does the man who has extraordinary influence over our lives have to say about the weight of that responsibility? Find out on Mostly Human.

My highest order bit is to not destroy the world with AI. Listen to Mostly Human on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. You know Roald Dahl, the writer who thought up Willie Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy? Was this before he wrote his stories? It must have been. Our new podcast series, The Secret World of Roll Doll

is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life. His job was literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans. And he was really good at it.

You probably won't believe it either. Okay, I don't think that's true. I'm telling you, the guy was a spy. Did you know Dahl got cozy with the Roosevelt's? Played poker with Harry Truman and had a long affair

with a congresswoman. And then he took his talents to Hollywood, where he worked alongside Walt Disney and Alfred Hitcher. before writing a hit James Bond film. How did this secret agent wind up as the most successful children's author ever? And what darkness from his covert past seeped into the stories we read as kids. The true story is stranger than anything he ever wrote.

Listen to the secret world of Roll Dahl on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Why hasn't a woman formally participated in a Formula One race weekend in over a decade? Think about how many skills they have to develop at such a young game. What can we learn from all of the new F1 romance novels suddenly popping up every year? He still smelled of podium champagne and expensive friction. And how did a 2023 event called Wagageddon change the paddock forever? That day is just seared into my memory. I'm culture writer and F1 expert Lily Herman,

and these are just a few of the questions I'm tackling on no grip, a Formula One culture podcast that dives into the under-explored pockets of the sport. In each episode, a different guest and I will go deeper into the wacky mishap, scandals and sagas, both on the track and far away from it that have made F1 a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to no grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What are younger men attracted to? Like, how do I make myself attractive to younger men? It's another way of saying it. Oh my God. Well, I mean, you have to decide what you are really looking for and if you want to be attracting younger men or not.

The reality is the younger men tend to be much more immature than women do. Well, that's true. But here's the thing. Men my age, you know, I talk about it on my podcast, they're used to guys. They used to ski. They used to ride bicycles. They used to golf. You were saying that before.

And now they sit on the sofa with a beer and, you know, and a big gut and watch, you know, watch the March madness. I mean, it's like finding guys who share the same energy that I have. I think being 100% true to your energy is the best thing that you can do. Again, because you're going to be you daily. So you can show up trying to pretend to be something else, but that's not going to last long. And you're going to end up going from a relationship to relationship, trying to fit some sort of a mold that you don't, that isn't you.

Yeah. And you want to find somebody to share your life with. Yeah. And I also want somebody who accepts me for me. So, okay, this, you know, I have a lot of questions to you. So this one, no, I'm just going to keep humbling you. Yeah. But I do.

I think you are why, I mean this, truthfully. I think you're a smart guy with a lot. You have sage advice. So I'm going to continue on here. That's no surprise to you, even though we just met. I do have a strong personality. No two ways about it. You do.

But I also have a soft side. Here's the thing about me. You have to get to know me before I'm going to show you my soft side. And that's just why I'm built. I can't change who I am. How do I not intimidate men so that they're willing to get to know me? I think if you represent yourself in a way where you make it obvious that you're closed off to really connecting with someone,

then it becomes intimidating for people to be around you because they feel like what's it going to take for me to get past the hard candy shell and get to the gooey center, you know? I think you need to I think there's a certain point where you maybe just in

being honest in a situation and going, listen, I am not someone that opens up right away. Then somebody knows, that. So then they don't take it personal that you're not opening up. Yeah. But I think if you don't say that and you just are, you have these walls up and you're a bit distant, people start taking it personally because that's we're human beings. And that's, that's kind of the first place we go to. Like, oh, they must not like me because they don't want to talk about anything beyond this. Oh, that's so. So I often, men have said to me, wow, Kathy, you're beautiful. You're beautiful.

you're smart, but damn, you're a lot. And that hurts my feelings. And so I'll say something like, I'll say something like, I'm too much. They'll say you're too much and I'll say I'm too much or maybe you're just not enough. Because to me, if they can't. Do you say that though as like a defense mechanism to feel better for yourself? Well, probably because I'm irritated that they don't want to take the time or don't have the ability or whatever it is, especially if I'm attracted to the guy. So you take it as an insult right away when you know that? Yeah, I think I do. Right.

But it's mostly because, come on, you're, not you, Brian, but a guy that I meet that I'm interested. And come on, you're a smart guy. Surely you see that there's more to me that I can have a vulnerable side. Are you just, are you not willing to do the work? Like, I don't want to say that, but it's like, you got to put some energy into this. What? Because I'm not a sweet, bless your little soul kind of girl. But are you not as a defense mechanism or are you not because you just honestly aren't?

You know what I'm saying? No. Like is it something that you have built in a lifetime of disappointments and things where you're like, I'm not going to share and connect right away? Instead, I'm going to put this foot forward first. I can tell you honestly. Yeah. For me, and I've just actually put this together recently,

for me to put myself out there and really be vulnerable and really tell someone that I want them in my life, I'm afraid of being abandoned again. And, you know, my husband died by suicide. And to me, call it whatever you want, it feels like, you know, he left me. I wasn't good. There was a reason he left, right? Even though it's not my fault, I know that. So I want to be left again.

So it's, you know, you're right. It's sort of a defense mechanism. I'm not going to put a lot of energy into this. Because I don't want you leaving me. If I decide I want you and then down the road, you say, eh, you know. What do you want? I mean, what kind of a relationship do you want? Are you looking just to date?

No, I'm looking for a permanent. I'm looking, this is I do part two. I'm looking for my part two. I say it many times. this is the last great chapter of my life. I wanted to be the best chapter. I wanted to be the, you know, the longest it can be. But I wanted to be the best and greatest chapter of my life,

notwithstanding the great marriage I had with my husband and my three kids and my grandkids. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I want to, I look to the future. I try not to look in the rear view mirror. Right. So, you know, that's kind of what I'm after. I think, though, so it's interesting that you said that, that you look to the future instead of in the rearview mirror.

but a lot of your actions are looking in the rear view mirror. Oh, man, this is tough. Why do you say that? Because you have these red flags and these things where you're like, okay. Like I make them prove too much? I've experienced this before, so I'm going to make sure that this hurdle is cleared before I jump in. But then when you look back, or to me at least, when I look back on my life and I think of my best relationships, my best relationships, my best relationship. up until the one I'm in now, because this one we went into in a new way, which was

incredibly refreshing, was my first because I went in wholeheartedly. I didn't have any of the red flags. I loved her and I was in it and I had never had my heart broken before. You never had? No, that was my first real relationship was the first time I really went into something and went, okay, I'm like, I'm going to do a relationship, but I think that you have to sort of go into all of the relationships in that fresh way. You have to be willing to possibly get hurt to be loved fully and to be in it fully and really, really appreciate it and have it. You know, it's the hardest things in life can be the most painful sometimes, but you have to be willing to. So you're saying the risk is worth the reward or can be? It can be. Absolutely.

It's great advice. I mean, I feel like I. It's not easy. It's not easy. And you're right. I, you think the road less traveled is called the road less traveled for a reason because it's the harder road to take. Damn, how did you get to be so smart?

Years of failure. Yeah. Well, you know. I'm not afraid to fail at this point of my life. I don't think I'm afraid to fail. I think I'm afraid. I think I'm afraid to be accepted for who I am. Not afraid that it can't, that that's going to be really hard.

Because I'm not your typical woman. I know that. And that's why all the, that's the genesis of all these questions. I think, I didn't say it was special. I'm just different from a lot of my single friends. But you are, but don't say that you're not special. No, I'm saying I'm not, I'm not, you know,

it's a loaded term. I'm saying I know who I am. I've done a lot of therapy. I'm so clear about who I am and what I want. But I think sometimes that gets lost in the translation. Well, and I'm sure a lot of times, too, that will sort of cloud situations where you meet with somebody because you're so set on, I am not going to be who I don't want to be. And this is about me now. And I'm going to, you know, this is my power.

And I'm going to take. And you can almost, it's like putting a big log on a tiny fire. Wow. You know? I mean, I should be paying for this therapy session. Right. But I charge so much money. I'm worth it.

I'm worth it. But I think it's really important to identify what you really want. I know exactly what I want. If you want a real, honest, loving relationship, you need to be willing to put yourself out for it. You need to be willing to take risks for it. And you need to be willing to wholeheartedly jump in and go, okay, like this could hurt at the end, but this could be amazing.

But I'm also, remember, I was married very young. I was 20. So I'm just learning now. I mean, I've got a bunch of other questions that sounds so inane, given what we're talking about. No, but, but, but in yet, and yet, there are questions that are real ways to approach the whole idea of dating, if that makes sense. And so like, I'm not.

go into a bar. I mean, I go to lots of bars. I get it. I totally get it. I go to lots of bars, but to meet a guy, I hate dating apps. I don't like them. You know, I've met a few guys that, but to meet the kind of guy I want, it's not the same. That you want to share your life that you want to, it's not the same as a 20. So when I think about, you know, do I want to go into a bar and say, hey, Brian, can I buy, you know, what's your name? whatever it is, you know, can I buy you a drink? Like, I'm not that kind of, and I'm not, I'm from New England. I'm a Boston girl. I'm a Yankee girl, which means I say what I think, I mean what I say, and I come off, some people will tell me I'm rude. I'm just direct. I don't play games. So you can

see that doesn't always play well. So walking up to some guy and say, hey, you know, is your name Joe or whatever, like that's really playing games to me. And so I want your opinion. How do I, how do I tweak that? How do I? So it's funny that you said that because I've had this conversation with people before. I'm from Los Angeles and I've had a conversation with people before about, oh, I love New York because they're just, they're honest there and they just tell it like it is. And I always have that question comes into my mind of are they being honest or are they just being rude to because it's easier for them? easier to just be kind of blunt and whatever and act like you don't care what anybody thinks. But I don't

think I'm ever rude. I take it. I am, I try to always be kind of people. That's not if you say, what do you think, or I'm joking. I don't joke. But I, I don't tolerate rudeness. I'm, I would never describe myself as rude. I agree. Like, I don't tolerate rudeness either. I, I work really hard. I live consciously every day. to make sure that I am kind to everybody that I'm around, even if I'm having a bad day. Yeah, me too. Because you don't know what kind of day they're having.

I always say to people. Like the only control that I feel like I have in life is the person I choose to be while living it. Yep, I agree. It's going to do this all the time. I do all those things. I wake up grateful for life. I thank God every day.

I find something to be grateful about. But here's what I get a lot of. I live in Texas, you know, and southern, I'll meet southern men and they'll say, you know, I recently met a guy who said, you're so refreshing because, you know, I was married to a Southern Bell and I'm done with Southern Bells. I don't want someone to want me because I'm the opposite of what they had. Right. I want somebody who wants me for me being me.

But it's, at my age, it's really hard. I don't, it's like as you get older, you don't have all the tools. all the, not tools, I don't even know how to say it. You don't have access to, the game changes. It's,

you know, the board, the game, the board of the game changes. It's like, instead of, I mean, I got all these metaphors,

instead of 52 cards in the deck, let's cut it down to about 10 cards in the deck because we're not wasting time with, you know, hi, my name is Joe, you look like Joe.

So I struggle with being who I am and hoping, that a guy sees through it. Why don't you try making a choice because that's all it is. I learn in therapy, like the things that I wasn't good at, that was who I was.

I try now to be the person I want to be compared to the person that I am. So I would suggest maybe just really making a very poignant choice to be emotionally honest with people. And sit and go, you know, this, like, I normally don't connect this way and I normally don't talk.

I don't want you to feel put out or feel like, or feel like I don't genuinely like you and want to try this. But I'm very, I've been through a lot of my life. So what's too soon? What's too soon to say those things? I think you say that from the very beginning. I say you start that way. And then if I get you're too much?

If you get your too much, that is not somebody you want to be with anyway. But you act that way and you speak that way in the hopes that somebody really genuinely appreciates who you are and the person you're trying to be. And they go, oh, I like that you said that. And thank you for telling me that. And so now they've got that in their back pockets. They don't take things personally, which, again, like we said before, we tend to do as human beings. If you're trying to keep up with everything happening on and off the court, we've got you covered on the podcast, flagrant and funny. You look at the top four number one seeds.

What do you think UCLA is going to do? Break down that for me, my friend. Obviously, Yukon is the overwhelming favorite in this tournament. But I'll be honest, I think people are kind of sleeping on Texas. Experts are suggesting that UCLA is the number one challenger to Yukon and that right after that would be Texas. S&C is so deep and so thick and just about everything, it really is annoying. So it's UCLA, Texas, South Carolina, LSU. Only ones that could possibly upset Yukon.

On Flagrant and Funny, we're giving our unfiltered takes on the biggest moments the conversations everyone's having. So whether your bracket is busted or you just want the latest on the tournament, we got you. Listen to Flakran and Funny with Carrie Champion and Jamel Hill on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHart Women's Sports. I'm Lori Siegel, and I'm mostly human. I go beyond the headlines with the people building our future. This week, an interview with one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley, OpenAI CEO, Sam Alman. I think society is going to decide that creators of AI products bear a tremendous amount of responsibility to

the products we put out in the world. From power to parenthood. Kids, teenagers, I think they won't need a lot of guardrails around AI. This is such a powerful and such a new thing. From addiction to acceleration. The world we live in is a competitive world, and I don't think that's going to stop, even if you did a lot of redistribution.

We have a deep desire to excel and be competitive and gain status and be useful to others. And it's a multiplayer game. What does the man who has extraordinary influence over our lives have to say about the weight of the world? that responsibility. Find out I'm mostly human. My highest order bit is to not destroy the world with AI.

Listen to Mostly Human on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. You know Roll Doll, the writer who thought up Willie Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy? Was this before he wrote his stories? It must have been.

Our new podcast series, The Secret World of Roll Doll, is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary controversial life. His job was literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans. What? And he was really good at it. You probably won't believe it either.

Okay, I don't think that's true. I'm telling you. I was a spy. Did you know Dahl got cozy with the Roosevelt's? Played poker with Harry Truman and had a long affair with a congresswoman. And then he took his talents to Hollywood, where he worked alongside Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock before writing a hit James Bond film.

How did this Secret Agent wind up as the most successful children's author ever? And what darkness from his... covert past seeped into the stories we read as kids. The true story is stranger than anything he ever wrote. Listen to the secret world of Roll Dahl on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Why hasn't a woman formally participated in a Formula One race weekend in over a decade? Think about how many skills they have to develop at such a young age?

What can we learn from all of the new F1 romance novels suddenly popping up every year? He still smelled of podium champagne and excited. expensive friction. And how did a 2023 event called Wag Ageddon change the paddock forever? That day is just seared into my memory.

I'm culture writer and F1 expert Lily Herman, and these are just a few of the questions I'm tackling on no grip. A Formula One culture podcast that dives into the under-explored pockets of the sport. In each episode, a different guest and I will go deeper into the wacky mishaps, scandals, and sagas, both on the track and far

away from it, that have made F1 a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to No Grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Your advice, I wish you could be inside my head. Because a lot of what you're saying, like even this conversations are for me, to be honest, because you've seen me.

I'm a joke a minute. Sure. Just because that's easy for me. It's a defense mechanism. It's a total, I've been this way in my whole life. Yeah. And so, but I do let people in. I do let people in.

But, you know, the guys that say to me, oh, you're so funny, it's like, make me laugh. You know, it's sometimes I let a man in too soon. That's what I struggle with. And you just answer the question. When is it too soon? I guess the answer is it's never too soon. Never too soon. It's never too soon.

It's better to jump right into it and then know right away, okay, I'm not going to waste time on this anymore than to sit and to try and like put on a happy face and drag it out for three weeks and then all of a sudden be kind of emotionally connected to it and then be heartbroken if things don't work okay so if knowing me as you do because now we're fast friends what knowing my person i what's the biggest red flag i should look out for that's not going to serve me well for you yeah somebody that's somebody that is not going to appreciate your honesty that to me you are who you are and you are special because of that so you want to make sure that you find someone that appreciates and loves that and gets that sense

of like, God, I know I can trust you because you're not going to bullshit. And now that I know you and I have had this conversation and we've really connected, like I know. And I have your fiance's phone number. I have to have a little conversation. But I know that like you and I could talk at any point no matter what is going on in your life for whatever's going on in my life, that will have this.

Yeah, do you think people, do you think people appreciate the honesty? For sure. Okay. I think people appreciate anything that normalizes and makes them feel like they're not so alone. Okay, I didn't expect to get this deal.

I mean, I don't think anyone's going to be listening to this podcast, but you know what? Maybe someone will listen to it, who I care about or who cares about me, and we'll say, wow, now I get it. That's the hope. That's the hope.

That's the hope. That's the hope. That one person hears some. Yeah. Because none of what I'm saying is anything that I found on, that I came up with on my own. This is all, these are all things that I've heard. Yeah. And little things that people have said that have become light bulb moments where I go, it's not nearly as hard.

Yeah. It shouldn't be. It shouldn't be. Okay. Well, I, there are, I probably have another hundred questions that I could ask you. And I mean that. Like, I've, I wrote a bunch of. of questions because I just, you know, you're not a 20 year old and you've been through life.

You've had children. You've had divorces. You have a lot of wisdom that comes with age. So will you maybe come back and do another podcast with me? Absolutely, of course. I'm going to save my questions. Save them. Thank you.

Save them or you'll come up with new ones now that we have the friendship that we do. Yeah. I really appreciate you, Sidney, talking with me. And I mean that, Brian. Thanks. Thanks so much. Do you need some advice straight from a man? Call us or email us.

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