The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Going to the Chapel with Michelle Young

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

Michelle is a bachelorette no more! She's here to spill all the details on her upcoming wedding to Jack Leius including teasing the date, location and where she's at picking out the coveted gown.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to an other episode of the Almost Famous Podcast. Today we have Michelle Young here. She's been engaged since we last talked to her. Hey, Michelle. Hello. How are you doing? Good. So we were reporting on your engagement in December, but you guys got engaged a significant amount of time before that, right?

Yeah, we got engaged in October and we're able to just kind of enjoy it and keep the secret for a little bit, which was really nice, not something that we expected just because it was outside and there's some people that saw so we're like, let's hope that they just let us announce it, but they did. So, yeah, it was, it happened in October, and we didn't announce until, like, end of December, early January, and it's just been wedding planning chaos. It's been great, though. Oh, that's so nice. Okay, so I'm assuming you just did it so that you can privately enjoy the engagement before anybody else knew. Did you tell your family and your friends right away? Yeah, so we had Jack set up a little bit of an engagement party rate afterwards, and so we were able to have, like, an intimate gathering with family and, friends and tell some people. And then we got on the phone with some other like family members that were out of state. And so people who were really close to us knew, but we were careful to like not let it get too big just because then, you know, something happens. It slips up. We want to be the ones to be able to say. And we just wanted to enjoy it for a little bit. And, you know,

once you kind of announce something like that, I think all these like questions and full-blown like planning and all this other stuff comes into play. So we're like, let's just take a breath and enjoy the holidays and everything. And then we'll now to afterwards. I think that's a good decision because, yeah, you immediately get asked about planning. And you're like, are you guys crazy? It just happened. Now that you've been engaged well twice because of the show, how do the two engagements compare? They don't compare at all. Okay. Tell us everything. think about those feelings. Yeah, I think that with just, I've talked about this before, but Jack, he just calms my nervous

system so much. And he really puts my anxiety at bay. And so I just feel like with him, I'm able to, I know social media has seen a little bit more of like my goofy side and all these different sides that have always been there. But I think just there's always so much going on. And so it's been really nice to just. fully feel so comfortable in a relationship and so accepted and so loved. And he just is somebody who is always going to stick around.

And I don't know. I can't. When you're in like a healthy relationship after you've been in not so healthy relationships, it's hard to explain because I always said, oh, it's just a feeling. It's just a feeling. There's times where I thought I had that feeling before. And I'm like, oh, this is what it's supposed to feel like.

This is what actually like a healthy relationship feels like. and how it operates. And so we just have, I don't know, a really great system, really great communication. And he's just, he's just such a jump. I don't know how the hell I found him in Minnesota. I really don't. But he, if anyone can get to know him, he's like literally a lovely man. He's so wonderful. Oh, that's so nice. Would you think that your relationship with Nate during the show, do you think it was healthy during filming? Do you think that it's a, it's a, it's a place that anybody can find a relationship that they really know is going to work out because you only know them for eight weeks and in a secluded environment? I mean, I think anything is possible.

So you do see successful relationships. But I would be lying if I didn't say I really thought I had watched prior leads go into the show and like maybe they didn't ask the correct questions to really get to know somebody. So when I was stepping into the lead, I really thought, oh, I'm going to ask the questions, whether it's like during fantasy suites or during it's like dates and things like that, I'm going to ask the right questions so that I can fully know somebody. And then as you know, you get out of it and go through what, I guess what I went through, I did have this like, shattering moment where I'm like, holy shit, you do not know. Because you have to watch people go through a certain amount of life. Like people pass away. You navigate through death together.

you navigate through sickness together, you navigate through social media together. There's so many different things that you navigate through together that you can kind of attempt to ask questions and see during that period of time getting to know each other, but you truly don't know unless it's like this lengthy period of time. And so do I fully believe you can 100% to get to know somebody to know? Can you take a risk and can that risk work out? Yes. Am I really incredibly happy that my risk didn't work out?

Hell yeah. I'm definitely with the person I'm supposed to be with. and could not be happier. Oh, we're so happy for you. This is awesome. I, like, love, like, you could just tell from looking at her. She's just absolutely flowing and in love. It's amazing.

You were really close to, quote, winning Matt James this season. He ended up being with Rachel for quite some time. They obviously got to know each other very well in real life. Did you see? I mean, you probably didn't see this breakup coming, as we all didn't really. what was your take on at all? I think my take was honestly that I didn't have a take. With social media, it's everyone assumes that it's so black and white and, you know,

given certain platforms or opportunities to speak on things, you hear one side of the story, not the other side of the story, but you can agree with certain things, you can disagree with certain things. But for me personally, I can't sit and think about, okay, well, whose corner am I in? Because through that situation, like, I'm in my corner. When I kind of take a look at that relationship and just this whole, like, I want to say like bandwagon jumping when it comes to like these big breakup statements or like things happening in social media, I think back to like that whole massive controversy

that I sat down and I went through and I had to speak about race and I had to be the teacher and speak up about, you know, women in color and how we should be treated within reality television and explain things to people. And I went through this whole, like, racial trauma experience when I sat there. And so I had such a whole different experience that I kind of in my corner and I don't think about it. Like, I just choose to be at peace with it and not spend so much energy, you know, whose side or who's right or who's wrong because I think both parties can make mistakes and

relationships. But also it's like I spend a lot of time focusing on these two. two people at the end of that season, what's sitting next to you, you may know Acho and had to have the whole conversation be about race. And so it's like, I really just am in nobody's corner and am at peace with it

and really don't spend a lot of time thinking about it. So I really just have tried to stay off social media because like every other scroll has been this whole thing. And I'm like, yeah, you know, maybe it's not something that I want to like focus and spend energy on. Have you spoken to either of them since, That time? No.

No, I think we briefly all ran into each other with things. And everything is cordial, like you said. Like, everything was put down. But it's just not something that I necessarily like to sit and spend energy on. Totally. I understand that. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly. And now I'm seriously suspicious.

Well, wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast. So we'll find out. soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former

professor and they're the same age. It's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not. To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, my name is Enya Umanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips.

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expect in the morning. Nobody tells you anything. Listen to shock incarceration on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right. So back to you and Jack. I'm going to ask the annoying question. Have you guys started wedding planning? We have. We have started wedding planning. We have a date picked out. We have a venue picked out. Is it this year? you let us know that? Yes, it is. 2025.

It is. And it's coming up quick here. I'll say that. Whoa. Yeah, we got to it. Like, the man means business. It's really kind of nice. I mean, long engagements are fine, too. But it's, we got engaged and we're like, yeah, let's do life together. Let's go. And so it's been really fun with the whole wedding planning thing. But we were like full force wedding planning. Like we are, I don't even want to give away what everything that we've like. are ordering or what spot we're at because I feel like you can like look up how many months ahead you would do that. Yeah. I'll give it away. But yeah, we have our wedding party. We have all that stuff asked and figured out. It's been really fun. Were you able to book the venue that you wanted

to book? So last minute? Yes. Yes. Honestly, we didn't have, I was never one of those girls who like Pinterest, how I wanted my entire wedding to look because I felt like I didn't really have an idea and I didn't want to give me a heart set on something, you know, and then you go when you never know when you're going to get married and then you go and get to that time and you can't find anything. Yeah. That's like that. You're heartbroken.

So I always told myself I was going to leave it open. And so we never had like this ideal, let's do this. Let's do this. And so once we got engaged, we kind of started to look at time. of what time a year we wanted it, how long we wanted to wait, and that conversation really pushed us to do like, okay, we have to really like lock something down here. And so we started looking around and we were able to find a venue that we absolutely, absolutely love. And I would say it was like one of my dream venues, if I were to think about it, I just didn't know it yet. So

we're really happy. That sounds like it's in Minnesota. yes i'll say that and you guys are both from there so how did you meet again we met a little over a year and a half ago yeah oh how it's kind of crazy to think about because it's really not that long it feels like we've been together a lot longer but yeah we met a year and a half ago so like august 2024. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. No, 2023. Yeah. So it's been, it's been good. I mean, we just kind of spent so much time together and got to know each other really quick and put all the BS to the side and the small conversation to the side for a little bit, got to the real stuff and learned about each other real quick. So do you meet three friends? Yeah. Yeah, we did. Yeah, we met through friends. So it was

And a mutual connection. Look at that. Go on The Bachelorette, end up meeting through friends. In Minnesota. Yeah. How long were you friends with these friends? And why didn't they set you up earlier? That's what I asked.

So we had both been friends with them. Jack had known them a little bit longer than I did a few years. And then I recently met them like within the last like two years or so. And we got close. But what happened was I wasn't really on the apps in Minnesota or just in general. Like, at one time I was, I'm like, this is not for me. Everybody in Minnesota looks the same. Literally, every guy in Minnesota used to swipe through a dating app.

They're in camouflage with their golden retriever dog holding up a fish or like went hunting. And I'm just like, I don't know. This is not going to work for me. So I was with one of my girlfriends and her brother. And I jokingly said to her brother, like, do you have any friends that are like good swag. And it was looking to, like, honestly, like a good person, you know? And I jokingly threw that out there.

And he came back and he was like, actually, yeah, have I ever talked to you about Jack? I'm like, no, who's Jack? So he showed me his social or his Instagram and he only had two pictures. So I'm like, oh, yeah, green flag, two pictures only. That's great. But I actually started blushing. And that was a little interesting that I made note of. But I was asking him, like, is he a good person?

and he said he's so sweet, I should introduce you. And it was weird because I had brought it up. And then Jack actually had asked this friend to be introduced to me like 48 hours beforehand because he kept seeing me pop up on social media and was like, I have this gut feeling. Just can you please introduce me to her? So he kept checking in. So after we had started dating, it was like a month in, we were talking on the couch. and I was bringing up how, like, I asked to be introduced to him.

And he's like, no, no, no, no, no. It's the other way around. And we figured out that we had both asked to be introduced to each other. Wow, that's fate. That's so cool. He beat me by, like, 48 hours. But we both had this idea that we initiated it when it was actually in. Wow, that's so cute.

That's so cool. What does Jack think about you having been the Bachelorette? he just i don't know he accepts it i don't think he reached out or wasn't like i want to meet her because she was the bachelorette he very much just had heard about like my qualities through friends and was like she's cute i want to meet her and i don't know he doesn't he really overlooks it and i think that's why i like it is because he understands stands and accepts like the different you like like I said going on podcasts and exes are constantly being brought up like that's not an easy thing for what I mean he's like my fiance

and he has to always hear about this stuff we're going on social media and you know somebody we just did this podcast and this couple threw on he was on the podcast and they overlaid like pictures of like the proposal of me and Nate and like one that's kind of disrespectful if he's like sitting on the podcast next to me that's really weird but like there's just all these different things that he has to put up with and he accepts it because that's the baggage that I come along with and he wants to be with me and and so I love him for that but like he bachelor at or not he would still be there and that's what I love about him so much is that he understands just all the different ways that I'm tugged the anxiety that it can

bring all the different nuances, but like he loves Michelle for Michelle and that has nothing to do with The Bachelorette. That's very sweet. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Well, wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot.

He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. It's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them.

I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime. podcast on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, my name is Enya Umanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom.

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The diva of the people. I'm just like text your ex. My theory is that if you need to figure out that the stove is hot, go and touch it. Go and figure it out for yourself. Okay. That's us. That's us. My name is Curley.

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I think like two, three we've talked about. I think two is good. It kind of really depends on how it goes. I always thought I would have kids by now, so I'm a little bit older. and everything but I don't know it would be great to like part of me is like I want to pop out twins so I can just have them running around and you know get it done I feel yeah on that yeah same time like that's also a lot too I've heard so some some kids I don't know going to sports tournaments bringing them there like that whole life we both absolutely love that we both had that

life growing up. And so hopefully something looking like that. Yeah. When I was pregnant with the first one, it was so miserable that I was just like, please let it be twins when we went in for the ultrasound. So I don't have to do this again. Oh my goodness. Did you hear that whole new statistic about how it's, I don't know what percentage, so don't quote me on this. You have to look it up. But it's like majority of the men's health that decides how you're pregnant he goes. Did we both see the same Instagram real?

I told you that immediately. He was like, how does that have? He's like, I was in better shape when you got pregnant with Dawson than when you got pregnant with Hayden and yet you were sicker with Dawson. So how does that make sense? I don't know. We got to look into this.

I'm like, I have no idea. But I'm like, don't tell me that now because I'm like, no drinking six months before. No, like anything. I can eat whatever I want to stay fair, eat corn dogs, do all this other stuff. But, like, you have to eat perfectly clean, right? Take your supplements. Just for my experience, I'm going to say that I'm not 100% sold in this theory,

but we do like to blame the men when we're sick. That helps a little bit, you know. Well, okay, before we wrap up, I just want to know, like, the general vibe of your wedding. Is it going to be a surprise? Like, are you going to tell people, like, is our wedding weekend coming up? Or is it going to, or are we going to get the headlines, like for your engagement? Like, oh, it already happened. Surprise.

Is it going to be small, large? Have you picked out your dress? Like, I want these little fun details. The dress shopping is coming up here shortly. And so that will be hopefully decided on. But then as far as like, will we just give hints? I don't know. I think we'll probably eventually say once it gets a little bit closer and

a safe manner, I guess. You know, we're not like location time so that people can show up. But we'll, like, let, you know, or people will just figure it out. I feel like so many people are like detectives and I have some wonderful supporters. They read between the lines and can figure anything out. So I'm sure people figure it out sooner rather than later. So you haven't dress shopped yet? No, but that doesn't mean, you know, I'm also.

So you're like, got to rush order it, you know? I procrastinate and do things that way too. I'm very like ADHD when it comes to that. So you can't really go off of, right? Like a lot of brides order to dress like a year ahead of time. I was a year. That's because they told you it's supposed to be a year ideally, which is nuts. Here's the thing.

If that was the case, if that was the case, like if I was able to order it a year ahead of time, then I honestly probably would have. That's just timeline already passed, so I can't do that. So we're here. Well, I'm just going to let you know that dress shopping is probably the most fun part of the entire wedding planning experience, along with tasting your menu and picking out all that food. We just finished the tasting and it was so much fun. Yeah. It was so amazing.

Yeah, that was, it was a lot of, it was a lot of fun. It was me and Jack and then his dad was able to come. And we were at the venue and it was really good. cool to be able to go through that. I've never experienced anything like that. They just kept bringing out like massive plates of food and drinks and after like the champagne and the wine and the other wine and the cocktails. I'm like, it all tastes great. Yeah, we had to do three in Newport because like the venue that we use, they pick from, you know, you get to pick from three caterers. And it was like three days of Thanksgiving in a row. And I was like, I don't know that I

want to eat like this again today. But it was really fun because it was like a whole family Thanksgiving three days in a row because we had like our parents. Right. Did you eat on your wedding day? Did you remember to eat or were those friends that I didn't even like try it? Okay. So I'm all I'm like not the one that's going to skip out on any type of food ever. But there was something about the anxiety like not anxiety like just the adrenaline I think of your wedding day. I couldn't swallow it. Like, people are like, you need to eat, you need to take a bite. And I'd, like, try to eat it.

And I'm like, I literally cannot stomach this right now. Not because, like, I feel queasy or nervous or anything like that. Just my body can't take it. So Jared and I actually ended up, like, six months later, having a really cute date at the caterers where we ate our entire meals, like, start to end. That's such a cute idea. Yeah. It was so good. And I was so bummed out that I didn't get to experience it then. So I was like, let's just go and have like the biggest lunch of our lives. And it was really awesome that they let us do that. That's amazing. That's a good wedding tip. Yeah. It is a good wedding tip. My other wedding tip, if you're unsolicited advice here is just make sure that you guys hang out with each other the entire day and like do not worry about saying hi to people that you have never really met from his side. This is not a day. and make new friends and don't need to say hi to people that you're not going to see for another year

or even people that you're going to see like the next month because the day is about you guys and you can chat with them some other time. Quick close are just fine. I think that is like the biggest wedding tip that so many people have said is just stay by each other's side. Yeah. We've already talked about it. I'm like let's just like handcuff each other so you have to be stuck. Yeah. You see too many brides and grooms on that day just with a totally different group of people for over an hour, you know, they just get kind of swept up. Like, no, never leave each other for more than five or ten minutes. Okay. Got it. And that's it because the next time we probably chat on this podcast will be after your wedding. So please come on then and tell us all the details. Hopefully. Well, Michelle,

thank you so much for joining us. And good luck and enjoy every single freaking second of it. It's so, it's just one of the best periods of life. Thank you so much. It was nice talking to you. See you too. Bye. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast on IHeartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, luckily, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend's 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. Hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That seems inappropriate. Maybe find out how it ends by listening to the OK Storytime podcast and the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's start with a quick puzzle. The answer is Ken Jennings' appearance on The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs. The question is, what is the most entertaining listening? experience in podcast land jeopardy truthers believe in i guess they would be conspiracy theorists that's right to give you the answers and you still blew it the puzzler listen on the iHeart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hi my name is enya umanzor

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