The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Goodbye Bachelor Mansion

Episode Date: May 12, 2020

What does the future hold for The Bachelorette?? what will happen if the show moves out of California! And we try to make sense of Hannah B and Tyler’s “relationship” plus Kaitlyn Bristowe opens up about a difficult moment from her past.Deandra from Peter’s season shares some recipes for another edition of “What’s Cookin Bach Nation?”We recap this week’s episode of “Listen to Your Heart”, Ben and Ashley get to know Matt Ranaudo! Will Rudi join his band?? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast with IHartRadio. It's another week of the Almost Famous Podcast with my terrific co-host, Ashley Ikenetti. Ashley, how you doing? Hey, Ben. I'm good. How are you? Anything interesting to regale me with from the past week? Oh my.

You know what? I've done this last week. I've started going to bed. listening to the Spotify station meditation. So I had these like headphones in and I go to bed listening to it. And I feel like I am sleeping so well. Oh, really? I used to do that too.

But I have a question about meditations and so trendy these days. Do you actually clear your mind or just think about one thing, concentrate on one thing? Or is it more of like getting you into like a peaceful internal state? I'm not good at meditation. I don't think. My mind like goes in a thousand directions. And so I was telling my counselor this and they were saying that I need to practice this thing. I think it's called like focus concentration. So I pick a feeling and emotion or a word that I want to focus on. So like joy is a

good one right. And you just continue to say joy in your like in your mind. And like as soon as your mind starts to drift away you just go back to and like you you start over and you just say joy and joy and you kind of breathe it and you start to try to start it you try to start to feel it and I think I'm okay at it I don't think I'm great but it helps me at least try to stay focused and like relax and take away all the stresses that you know maybe came with the day interesting okay all right I can get into that it's trendy yeah it's so trendy hey um Ashley, I think you and I were chatting and I think we both want to say like, hey, this is a week and we get to on the day up, happy Mother's Day to mothers of biological children, mothers of foster children, mothers that have adopted, mothers of people, mothers who have cared for others, just I read yesterday that mothers are mothering is a verb. So, you know, it does, it means nothing more than the care and nurture and be a friend.

to those around you so hey happy mother's day to to everyone were you with jess's mom or your mom yesterday i was with jess's mom but i've been doing this show on sunday nights called hope still wins and uh my mom was my guest last night and uh she just hit it out of the park she shared us her story of her we called it a process to motherhood and she shared a story you know a few months ago i don't know if you remember but i had mentioned during the podcast that uh you know i was learning um a lot that like people's stories really matter and that you can't assume and my mom shared her story and the reason you know where that came from and why i learned that so it was really powerful for me i'm really proud of her and i don't know it's

special to to hear that uh and to know that my mom is strong and courageous and she's speaking her story now that's one that's not easy to share and she did it last night so i got to talk to her on uh instagram live that's awesome I have to watch those. So it's every Sunday at what time? 8.7 Central. It's been really fun. I've had some of my favorite people on.

And it's just been a good, just a good time to learn that, you know, all of us are pretty messed up. We all got our issues. We're all struggling at some level, but, you know, we're not alone. And it's been a good reminder for me and just hearing from some really bright minds. So, yeah, what about you? How was your mother's day? My mom had a good day. We just had a good day.

We planned on, like, picking up Magianos, but that failed because every single restaurant in the area was totally jam-packed, no longer accepting, like, any online orders. So I scrambled and I put together this macaroni and cheese and broccoli casserole. And she was like, this is better than anything you could have ordered. And we just had, like, a nice family meal and what else did I do with my mom yesterday? are you a chef do you cook a lot um i like cooking i really do i don't have like a ton of recipes under my belt though i wish i could expand beyond pasta because that's definitely my specialty um and i've been trying to eat a lot less meat lately um so it's kind of hard to come up with things that are in pasta to make when you're trying to be um better about being like a little bit more prescatarian well it's one of the

reasons we're doing what's cooking batch nation our segment that will come at the end of this episode and at the end of every episode during self-isolation uh where a bachelor nation contestant shows us and teaches us maybe a new recipe to cook i would love to learn some new ones do you think your mother left mother's day feeling loved she did i know this she's like it was a really good mother's day it just like doesn't really matter what you do or what you give her as long as you spend that quality time which i've gotten yeah eight weeks up now which is super awesome i love it. I know. I'm just keep thinking about the separation anxiety I'm going to have for my mom and my dad when we leave. It's going to be really hard. I think it will be an adjustment. I would imagine

it's going to be an adjustment kind of getting back into the swing of things. Ash, I don't know. Yeah. I think it would be like, wait, we record from home. Why can I stay here with my sweats and not have to drive out to the Burbank? Well, Ash, I'm glad your mom had a great day. And if somebody out there is wanting to watch, it is on Instagram. my mom's story and it is one that uh i think will help listeners to this i hope me them make a lot more sense of me and why i am the way i am and and what probably annoys them about me and and why that is and where my story comes from as well so hey uh ashley bachelor nation again has not stopped with the headlines so let's take a break when we come back we'll talk

everything going on in bachelor nation this last week since the last time we talked 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... Oh my God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, psychobabble.

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to life outside the home he suggests Texas which I think is interesting since that's his home state but I guess it really doesn't matter where they film because it looks as if they'll be renting out a resort hotel and filming the entire season there without any travel so i don't think it's going to affect the vibe in any way do you think we'll ever see the bachelor mansion again i mean i know we talked about this a couple weeks ago i think it's going to be really tempting to not use the listen to your heart mansion for everything going forward it just seems like a more comfortable living environment and now with a year away they move from it i you know the fans will be removed from an even longer.

I wonder if there'll be a pull back there. It'd be interesting to see what happens. But who knows? It sounds like they're working, though, to make a Bachelor out season happen. I know also they're working behind the scenes to do these like recap shows that we talked about a few weeks ago as well where they kind of highlight a season in like a three-hour period of time. So the producers at The Bachelor are busy at work.

Oh, I should also mention that Chris Harrison says that he's not okay. with it being a Zoom season and I don't think any fan would be either no I don't think that I think that would be a whole new show and I think it would be really hard to get into personally Caitlin Bristow Tanner Tolbert and more members of Bachelor nation react to Chris Souls and Victoria Fuller's relationship this according to us magazine so funny how people are just so weirded out by this couple for some reason I'm not that weirded out by it because I mean, are we supposed to think that every couple makes sense on paper in life? No. We don't know Victoria, like how she is in real life. And you and I know Chris and who knows, maybe they're

compatible or maybe they're the perfect like ying yang sweet, sour, salty mix, right? Where she's a little bit more outspoken, a little bit more outgoing. She's got a little bit more of an attitude and then chris is so laid back and just sweet and go with the flow that perhaps like it's really a good combination i uh have we yet to get officially confirmed that they are dating no i mean like she pretty much confirmed it being that she took a picture and made the geo tag um iowa wait what what's his state what's his town in iowa oh shoot i don't know it's a small little town iowa arlington Naira yeah yeah well yeah that would be a pretty good hint I don't know why she'd be passing through Arlington there was that and then they also took and posted the same picture of a sunset

to their Instagram stories it's kind of cute I think it's adorable I mean but can we talk about the pressure on a new relationship you're talking about like probably never having met each other in real life to being quarantined for what seems to be I don't know she's still there but like She was there for at least two weeks, two, three weeks. How do you go from no time together to three straight weeks of no alone time? It would be a big change. Now, granted, I think Chris's property is so big that if they need to get away, they could. But yeah, I mean, that is, but I also feel like we've seen some successful quarantine relationships.

Obviously, we announced Peter and Kelly are together. You know, Jessica and I had never spent as much time as we're spending together now. I know you and Jared are getting good, like, marriage time with your families. It feels like people are, if they're able, spending some really quality time with their partners. And I haven't heard of any massive fallout yet. Yeah, me neither. So we'll see. Hannah Brown's mom appears to throw shade at her daughter's ex, Jed Wyatt.

This is according to E online. Okay, so this week Hannah's mom posted an Instagram. It was her brother's birthday, so her son's birthday. and the caption read this Thank you God for letting him stay with me a little bit longer You listen to my prayers And he is going to have a wonderful life She this is captioned with the photo being a picture of Patrick

And then it says the best mother's day anyone could ask for And I don't have a son-in-law that hurts my ears when he sings So there's the shade very random Thoughtful message toward her son and then she says glad I don't have a son-in-law that doesn't hurt my ears when he sings. Oh, wow. With a prayer hands emoji. It says prayers have been answered.

She went at him. She went hard. I know, but it's so random. It's so random. Like, yeah, you're talking about your son and then all of a sudden you talk about your possible son-in-law from a year ago. Yeah. She did not take to go lightly at Jed. She went hard at him. It must be an inside joke. Maybe, but then Hannah goes on and writes underneath the photo saying, mom, we should

probably make some edits to this, which is a pretty funny response. Well, another headline of Hannah Brown. Bachelorette Hannah Brown says she's single, but definitely wants to be in a relationship. This is according to people. Not much more to this story except for the fact that Hannah has been. single for pretty much a year now and she said she hasn't been ready to date until just about now however of course the quarantine situation is not making that easy it's uh you know what i'm still there's so many hannah and tyler topics that come up week to week oh it's insane

can we call it insane we it is insane this one's the next is tyler cameron reveals the heartbreaking reason he's not ready to date so basically this says that tyler's mom of course passed away a couple months ago and that right now he's focusing on taking care of his brothers both of them are you know significantly younger his youngest brother is 20 years old and he just feels like it's his place to kind of take over that nurturing role for them and he just doesn't think it's the appropriate time to start dating someone new especially of course in quarantine well in the same breath actually Tyler Cameron wants to set up his dad with bachelorette pal Dylan barber's mom This according to Us magazine.

Yeah, so we know that Dylan's father passed away a couple years ago. He talked to us about that in the in-depth episode. And his mom seems to be ready to date. And Tyler's dad, who divorced his mom, who, you know, recently passed away over a decade ago, I believe. They are both single. They both seem ready to mingle. and Dylan and Tyler being good friends and want to set their parents up.

It makes sense. Well, moving on from Tyler and Hannah then, Chris Harrison did some very pointed interviews over the last few weeks. He has been out in the news talking and it's kind of interesting to hear his perspective. Very interesting, I think. Chris Harrison calls Peter Weber a mess

and says he wants to scream at him. This is according to Cosmopolitan. Yeah, so he was on the Kelly Clarkson show this week and said that he just wanted to grab Peter by the shoulders and shake him and be like, yo, get yourself together. He said, come on, man, pull it together. He said he was a mess coming down the stretch. And that is, that's what he has to say about that.

He also was a wild ending. We can say that, right? Ash, we both agreed, like, this was a mess. Yes, it completely was. And he also said on Series X-7 this week that he felt sick to, his stomach watching Maddie have to be berated by Barb during after the final rose. He said that he felt really bad for this poor girl who's getting taken apart on live TV. What was she supposed to do? And what was Peter supposed to do?

Did he at any point say he agreed with Barb? Or was this just a, hey, I don't, I feel terrible for Maddie? It was just an I feel terrible for Maddie. Wow. Yeah, the, uh, Chris Harrison hasn't been afraid of, talking publicly about the show, which I appreciate, but doesn't happen all the time. We don't get a lot of Chris Harrison juicy headlines on the breakdown. Well, hey, two more stories to break down for you. The headline is no other caption needed. Bachelorette star praised for body positive pullside selfie.

This according to Yahoo, and they're speaking about Ali Fittatowski Mano. Yeah, so Ali's done this before, but this picture again got some, some waves on the internet. She posted a picture of poolside of her tummy, which has carried two children over the past couple years. And she's got a whole bunch of extra skin there. And she's embracing it. And she's like, yo, moms, just letting you know that my tummy probably looks a lot like yours and vice versa. So a lot of women commented under the picture saying how thankful she was about being so raw and honest with how her body is after childbirth. How do you think people respond?

Ashley, as a woman, yeah, like, and you have friends who have had children, how do you think women respond when they see something like that and they feel like they can relate and that they feel maybe less alone? Yeah, I mean, I think that's just it. They just feel less alone. They feel less insecure about their own bodies and they know that no matter like how in shape you look when you're on TV in a cute dress you are in shape but like that doesn't mean that there aren't other effects that are so normal that have been left on your body well hey awesome

for ali fidatowski mano and coming off of that story to kately bristow uh gets vulnerable this week and share some raw information yeah so um kately has a new show it is called nine to wine it's on YouTube and she talks in the first episode about this horrible depression that she went through after she broke up with her boyfriend, a hockey player who was, she was living with in Germany and she came back home. I think she was 27. She was living with her parents again. And she said that she's just so depressed. And when she went to go see a psychiatrist, they gave her an antidepressant, but they also gave her Valium. And she just got addicted to the Valium. And she just got addicted to the Valium. And she got to be so skinny.

She just wasn't eating. And she, you know, said that she had to work her way out of that addiction to the Valium. And she, you know, at that point in her life, she was feeling so low. But she picked herself up, moved to Vancouver. And then she kind of, she was, you know, making a career for herself. And then one of her friends said, you should sign up for The Bachelor. you love love so much and look at where she is now she's thriving uh tell us about the nine to wind do you know anything about it it's just a new youtube series that she's going to be like

opening her soul on every week i'm not sure if they're all going to be like this quarantine episode where she basically sits and just has an intimate chat with her followers it was 20 minutes i watched the whole thing it was like you were having a conversation with her but she you know she was the only one talking but you know katelyn has that awesome ability to be able to like talk to an audience and feel make it feel like it's a conversation and um i guess we're gonna get to learn other aspects about katelyn's life that she hasn't shared yet on her podcast but i don't know if it's going to be like a follow doc or if it's going to be more of like a fireside chat like it was this episode well as usual kately bristow is out there just rocking and

rolling and we're a big fan of that uh ashley it's time for us to take a little break. When we come back, we're going to break down this week's episode of Listen To Your Heart, then bring in Matt from Listen to Your Heart to speak to him about the show. And finally, we're going to do a What's Cookin Batch Nation segment. Ashley, we'll be back. Hi, my name is Enya Yumanzoor. 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...

Oh my God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, psychobabble. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free IHeartRadio app. Search Emergency Intercom and listen now. My name is Ed.

Everyone say hello, Ed. Hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer and the mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like... What do you get? and a true crime producer walks into a comedy club. I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke,

but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. The 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club?

A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth? Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced. He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you. Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs

that mimic military basic training. These programs aim to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. Mark had one chance to complete this program and had no idea of the hell awaiting him the next six months. The first night was so overwhelming, and you don't know who's next to you. And we didn't know what to expect in the morning. Nobody tells you anything. Listen to shock incarceration on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Hi, I'm Janica Lopez, and in the new season of the Overcover podcast, I'm taking you on an exciting journey of self-reflection. Am I ready to enter this new part of my life? Like, am I ready to be in a relationship? Am I ready to have kids and to really just devote myself and my time? I wanted to be successful on my own, not just because of who my mom is. Like, I felt like I needed to be better or work twice as hard as she did.

Join me for conversations about healing and growth. Life is freaking hard. And growth doesn't happen in comfort. It happens in motion, even when you're hurting. All from one of my favorite spaces, the kids. Listen. Honestly, these are going to come out so freaking amazing. Be a part of my new chapter and listen to the new season of the Overcumper podcast as part of the MyCultura podcast network on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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This week's Listen to Your Heart. It's getting down to the end, which means that we would expect drama to ensue. Ashley, what do you think of this week? Break it down. Hey, we, uh, man, this week, what do you think I'm thinking right now? What do you think I'm thinking, Ben? I think you're sad. Yes, I'm sad. I think you're sad.

I think sad is the emotion. Go ahead. Let it out. I'm so upset. I mean, I know obviously that Ryan and Natasha don't have some like amazing romance. I don't like they have anything at all They gave them the least romantic date there could be They played with like construction machines

They played with bulldozers I thought that they were ignoring their relationship Most of the episode And I thought like they were doing so Because they just wanted us to focus on their performance Because their performances are so strong But to go from last week's amazing performance That I watched four times over and over

over again. Oh, wow. Yeah. To this week's performance, which I have to admit was pretty darn sucky. But then to eliminate them because of one crappy performance, that was upsetting. But I also was very, very prepared for it because the other couples are so much stronger. And I think at the end of the day, the show is still a bachelor show and the love is going to trump the performance. So,

I'm very sad, but I'm at least happy that it was like five of the six episodes Ryan was president and I know there's just one episode that I'm going to have to get through without my boy band Broadway musician you know he's super talented

they both are it was not the right song for them it felt weird it was so weird and like the arrangement and the fact that she effed up and sang a different verse I was like did they do that on purpose did somebody tell her to do that so that they could just like flounder? I don't know. I thought that they

may have been told to flounder on purpose because the relationship wasn't strong enough. Okay, that's all. Well, if we start at the beginning of the episode here, the couples this week are Matt and Rudy, Jamie and Trevor, Chris and Bree, Ryan, and Natasha. Chris Harrison arrives at the mansion, and as usual, he has big news for the contestants involved. He said they're heading from the mansion and going to Las Vegas. So they jump in their own tour buses and get on the road.

So I'm going to stop here and Ashley think one of the funniest parts about this to me was they're acting like this is a long road trip. I know it's four hours. It's like a four hour drive. I know that long at all. They're going to get to know each other so well in the four hours. I said the same thing to my mom. She's like, oh my God, this is so cool. It's like, mom, they're going to be on the bus for four hours.

also ben i couldn't stop thinking about the cost of a tour bus having known how much your tour buses cost for a week of being out on the bachelor live tour it is not cheap at all it's very very not economical so you're looking you're looking at these tour buses i'm thinking how cool it is i just got off tour uh and it was awesome like it was such a cool like experience for me personally and to live on a tour bus was a big change, but it was fun. It was exciting. So, hey, you get a four-hour drive from L.A. to Vegas. The funniest part is these couples are getting out.

And, like, I remember one of the couples, I forget who was like, oh, we watch a couple movies. I know. I was like, Jamie and Trevor. You watched movies. You only have time for, like, maybe a movie and a half by the time that thing starts. Totally. I was like, you wasted your alone time with the movie?

But I guess, like, I don't know. Jared and I kind of did that in our fantasy suite. People are like, what did you do? I was like, well, we watched a TV show in the morning. It was really nice to watch TV because you've been without TV for like two weeks at this point. It's, you know what? It was sweet. I get why and I'm sure it was fun.

So I don't want to poo-poo their tour from L.A. to Vegas. But let's be honest. Most people would drive from L.A. to Vegas for like, even a day just to kind of hang out in the city. So the first date card comes is to Bree and Chris. And it says a love like this will last forever. And they head to the Little White Chapel. Yep.

And they watch a couple get married and they sing for them. And that's it. You know, all those teases about them getting married in a little white chapel where, of course, just that teases. It kind of felt like they could, though. Like this couple is legit. I feel like they could. too. I wouldn't have been surprised if they did. I would have been like, yeah, I think they're

going to be together forever. And based on the fact that we had that conversation with Bree last week and she keeps talking about them in the present tense, I'm like, yeah, they're still together and I feel like, I think they're going to end up together. Could I go as far as to say this is one of the most, what I want to say, like noticeable connections that I've ever seen on a Bachelor show, the two of them together? Yeah, I would say that. It feels very peaceful. It's really, sturdy it's something to celebrate yeah it's very celebratory um so the date card number two comes in your love will keep you warm this is to Trevor and Jamie they're playing hockey or ice skating at the stadium there in Las Vegas yeah the T-Mobile arena and I'm like wow they spent a lot of

money on this season uh they go ice skating where the Las Vegas nights play and that was a really cool experience. Trevor was a former hockey player and Jamie you know there's points in this episode where I just keep thinking man this girl is so 21 she's telling Rudy to say I love you she wants to say I love you to Trevor after two weeks and I'm like two weeks I was like girl just keep it and just play it cool but she is relatable in the sense that like she she's a little awkward she's so excited about everything that's going on and she just can't keep it in She says, I love you. And then even though Trevor says to her like 10 minutes earlier that he can't say,

I'm falling for you until he like really feels it. Apparently he did really feel it because they're out on the rink. And he says, I'm falling for you too. It's, you know, so far it's a match made and listen to your heart history. I mean, there's some good couples going on. Now, later on in the podcast, we're going to have Matt on to talk about his relationship. with Rudy's but we do want to mention that the date card came out to Matt and Rudy and said it's you it's both of you and they went to a concert that Shaggy performed at Shaggy

Shaggy so let's stop here Ashley because to your point earlier you're saddened because every date to this point was romantic or fun like fun and like the Shaggy concert maybe not the most romantic concert but exciting you got to get to get on stage you got to sing and dance with shaggy and then we have the date card number four come for ryan and natasha and it says it's time to dig deep they are destroying cars so random uh yeah so they just definitely put them on the least romantic date that's because there's nothing there like it would be so awkward to see them at a candlelight dinner right no they just both have amazing talent like what do you

At this point, what do you assume their conversations are like? Do you think they both believe? I mean, you saw later on when Natasha left and Ryan left that Ryan hints to her. Hey, I want to see if this can work outside of this. Is that something that you believe is still going on? No. But I do. I think that Ryan's probably thinking, man, I am so good at performing with this girl,

as we saw in the two weeks prior, like, you know, last week and the week before. that he probably doesn't want to drop out on what they could do together on stage probably wants to keep some sort of performance relationship together especially since they'll be paired in Bachelor Nation so it's best to monopolize on that makes sense well I mean we move on it yeah let's move on so the dates have happened

the connections exist Ashley you are saddened because you felt like that Ryan and Tasha did not have a romantic date I would agree but hey We're excited for their performance because their performance always pulls them through. I was waiting for them to just blow the pants off that performance. And I was so disappointed. Everybody was better than them.

Let's go and talk about the performances. Chris and Breyer. Well, the judges this week are Ari and Lauren Lyondike, Pat Moynihan, massive name from Train. And Ashley and Evan Ross, formerly known as Ashley. Simpson was her maiden name. Chris and Bree were first. They sing a song by Elvis. I can't help falling in love.

Yeah. At first, I'm like, Chris, this isn't giving Chris the vocal range that he's so good in. And then halfway through, they amped it up,

and I thought it was amazing. They did a great job. And she sounded probably the best that she has all season, in my opinion. No, I'd agree. I mean, Chris started out,

you know, shaky. Like those first couple notes we're like oh what's going to where's this going to go this isn't what you're used to but by the end i mean i think i'm learning i'm learning something from the show is when you do have a true connection with somebody i think you see i think it does show through music and i think his true connection with brie helped him take it up a notch after those first couple notes were shaky and by the end we were all we had forgotten the beginning we were just celebrating them as a couple again and i agreed with what I think Evan said, he said that even though it wasn't like his perfect register, because he was so gentle and sensitive singing those lines, it almost made up for it.

Chris is talented. Bree is extremely talented. I'm such a huge fan of this couple. It's fun to see, no matter, you know, the show or not, it's fun to see a connection made like this. We got to celebrate love when it exists. And it's love, it's definitely existing between them. The next performance was Jamie and Trevor. Just a Kiss by Lady Antebellum. I was very surprised that the two of them were not super familiar with this song, especially with Jamie being a Nashville native and a country singer. But we got to see Jamie have this amazing jolt of confidence this week because I think they exchanged the eye fall. I'm falling in love with yous. And she just rocked the stage.

She didn't have her normal jitters. she expressed herself with confidence and I thought they did it was their best performance so far when you get told when you you know risk saying hey I love you to somebody and they respond back like how good does that feel it's the best I mean it's only happened to me once in my life but it was the greatest and I when I saw that scene I flashed back to where I was when Jared told me for the first time that's so cool ash that really is I mean it does because you can see it in Jamie this week she's doing like high kicks in a dress she's like I don't know she was like ready to explode through a wall that girl was so pumped up she was adorable it was awesome to see

and the love existed on stage and the two of them crushed it Natasha and Ryan were up next they sang perfect by Ed Shearant yep and I didn't even recognize the song I didn't recognize the song it was weird and apparently like I said earlier Natasha sang a verse that was supposed to be his and I was wondering during the performance I was like why isn't he singing at all and then she like grabbed two mics and then he started like playing the guitar and walking out the catwalk and it was just so cringe if only those judges saw them last week I know I'll drop it I'll drop it it's tough it was hard to watch but I do think you know the three couples remaining have the best connections as well so uh

The last couple, Rudy and Matt singing Shallow from a Star is Born. We'll talk to Matt about it more here in just a little bit. But from our perspective, just one of our favorite songs. Oh, absolutely. And this is the song that they tease the whole season with. And it's the song that I truly was like, why are they teasing this season with? Because it's one of the best songs of the past decade.

And it's got to be one of the most chemistry-filled performances that us millennials have probably ever seen and it's a lot to live up to and I just kind of wanted them to let it lie. It's kind of like when they reboot your favorite show or they do a sequel to your favorite movie. You're like, oh, just let it lie. But I think Rudy and Matt did it justice.

I mean, it ain't Gaga and Bradley Cooper, but it pretty good. It was super good. I thought it was a great performance. We'll talk to Matt here about it just a little bit well that leads us to the rose ceremony jamie and trevor receive a rose then matt and rudy receive a rose finally chris and brie receiver rose and ashley ryan and natasha are sent home yes bye guys it was a pleasure watching you well ryan was super talented

natasha just an incredible artist the two of them will be just fine i i i we wish them the best careers because I think the two of them are just off to do amazing things in music, but the contestants that are left, well, they're off to one of the best music cities in the world, according to Chris Harrison. They're heading to Nashville. Ashley, what do you expect with the upcoming episodes? Well, I'm wondering if it's going to be like American Idol where for the finale, they're each going to sing two songs together because I think it would be weird if like on this last chance to perform on a stage and like before they're crowned

listen to your heart couple if they only get one song. They should get multiple songs. Yeah, like really music focused. Kind of, you know, you have the dates, but you also have a lot of more, a lot more music next week. This one performance thing

just isn't given me personally enough. And can we figure out the criteria that makes you the couple that is the listen to your heart winner? We don't know. Is it going to be based on love, performance? I mean, because at this point, when it comes to the depth of a relationship, I think we just have to say that Chris and Brewery just win.

Yeah, I mean, you're right. We haven't heard yet. Is this up to the judges? Is it up to a fan vote? Is it just the most talented performance? Is Chris Harrison just picking his favorite? We don't know this yet. But it is a big deal to win.

like this could change their careers but it also could be like bachelor winter games where it was like there were four remaining couples and everybody kind of won except for then like they crowned somebody at the end and then it's like it's just for fun yeah then it's over yeah the only loser was like me and michael g stop it's kind of like um it's actually very much like the um too hot to handle show which i know you haven't watched but i'm too hot to handle like they don't really know how they're going to split the money up in the end and in the end they're like oh we each get five thousand dollars each and taxes are going to get taken out and uh cool yeah sounds good uh hey well ashley uh this show this week i'm gonna we end every episode with

this and your rating from this episode for listen to your heart was I thoroughly enjoyed. Let's give it an A. I would give it an A also. The last two weeks have been a lot better. I've actually enjoyed and appreciated watching them. This has been a fun journey to see these couples fall in love and to connect over music. So I'd give it an A as well. I wasn't sold on the show at first.

I'm getting sold as we go. I got to say with Listen to Your Heart, I've loved the character development. I feel like I know these characters by week five. better than I know most characters on The Bachelor by Week 5. Or even Bachelor in Paradise. It's obviously more closer aligned with Paradise. Yeah. Yeah.

It's been an interesting journey. I would say this, Ashley, the closest thought. I would 100% agree with you on all things. I thought Natasha and Ryan did not have a great date. I thought their song was weird. But I do think that I have invested into these characters now, these people. And I want to see love exist.

I think it would be awesome if we could see some couples come from this. Oh, wait, I'm so excited to see if they put any of these guys into Bachelor in Paradise whenever that may happen. I think it's a given. You know what? Ashley, what would you do if Ryan shows up to the beach

with a guitar? Well, Jared was like, Jared, he saw that I was annoyed that my favorite was going to get eliminated and he comes and watches for like the only time he gets watched. And he's like, I can't wait to see your reaction. And then I was like, Jared Ryan needs to go to paradise And then he's like, Ashley

He's going to paradise And then I was like, but we need to see him Seeing in Paradise He's like, you know they're going to be giving him a guitar Yeah, that dude's going to have a while That dude's not ready for paradise That thing's going to blow his mind Yeah

Holy cow Well hey, let's take a break When we come back We're going to bring on Matt From Listen to Your Heart to break down His relationship with Rudy And everything Listen to Your Heart up to this point in the season

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Matt, hey, welcome to the Almost Nass podcast. Thank you for having me. So we want to recap with you right now what went on in this episode five, because you and Rudy were probably the main stars, the most airtime on this episode. But before we get to that, I want to talk a little bit more about, like, your musical background. So you started music at three years old. You have a band with your cousin called, it's called, it's behind you, brother stone and the get down. And your dad was a musician and you live in L.A.

So tell us about what like a day to day looks like in your music life. Well, yeah, I grew up in Connecticut. My dad was a touring musician. So I was surrounded by by music all the time and great musicians. I do. I have a band with my cousin who, it's called Brother Stone to Get Down, like you said. We do a lot of music for TV shows and film, and we do our own original music as well. And when there was concerts to be played, we would go play lots of music out, touring and cover gigs and private events and stuff like that.

So TV shows and film, anything we know? Yeah, like some of the guys here, we kind of have, so I live in the house with a lot of the guys in my band, and we kind of have like a revolving door of different TV shows that we write little background music stuff for. That kind of like helps pay the bills. But like 24 hours to Hellen Back, Wicked Tuna, some of those kind of shows. Okay, cool. You'll hear like the dramatic music in the back. Is there anything you do other than music?

for work yeah no no we just just just just play music i'm a lucky guy so you and rudy uh you had something from day one um but it was complicated also since day one in this episode you guys are all over the place um first it seems like you're starting out strong then rudy says that you guys weren't ready to go to Vegas so then you stop on the side of the road to a creepy hotel and you supposedly stayed overnight. Did you really? Yeah. Yeah, we did. And it was and it was really creepy too. So did you have a ghostly experience because in the end credits, we see that you guys are asking the owner about it. Um, it was it was really a very creepy place. It definitely was. The funny thing that happens that you don't get to see is there was a train train tracks right

next to the hotel. So at three, four in the morning, it came blaring with the horn and like woke us up and it was like, it kept coming. It came like three or four times. So that was, that was pretty cool. Were there any other guests at that hotel? No, no. I don't think there's ever been a guest there in the past 20 years. There was like an abandoned West World weird town that we were in. You arrived to Vegas and you guys seem to be in pretty good spirits. And then you guys get a date card you get to go and perform a shaggy which was cool for all us 90s early 2000s kids that's right that's right and then she tells you that she's following for you and it kind of freaks you out of it tell us about how like your mood your attitude just kind of changed in

that moment i think that i was so um i was taking off guard we we had just gotten off stage with shaggy we had a couple of drinks and and it's kind of naive of me to think that we weren't going to have that kind of conversation but i think i was just so overwhelmed with just everything that had been going on that when she said it kind of it kind of took me back a little bit and uh i wish i could have said something better than what i said because what i said was like the dumbest you could possibly say and i you know anything else would have been would have been better to say But I unfortunately was just kind of defending it and like not really knowing how to say what I actually met. So I actually didn't think that it was a crazy reaction because I'm thinking, I think you guys probably only know, only have known each other for about two weeks.

Is that true? How long had it been up into that point? Very, very short amount of time. It seems like it's a lot longer. but the whole process is over a very, very short amount of time. Yeah, so I don't think hearing, I could understand if hearing I love you or I'm falling in love with you could be a little freaky at that point. Yeah, and to be honest with you, in real life, I'm so guarded and I'm so, I don't talk about my feelings and I don't express these kinds of things, especially with cameras and lights and and shaggy is standing you know what i mean like i don't know it's it was very overwhelming

for me and that's that's the only thing that i guess my brain could figure out to say and yeah so i don't know rudy has a huge personality i but i also think she's super relatable to girls she's relatable to me i feel like she has so much emotion she doesn't hold it back she has no filter right But she's also hilarious. She just seems like you're never going to be bored in a life with Rudy. Yeah. There was never a dull moment with us. And you didn't get to see a lot of it.

But whenever she has like a drink or food, she spills it everywhere, drops it. She's like a pleasant tornado moving throughout the world. And it's great. What do you think it is about personalities like hers, that girls just seem to really, you know, register with that guys get completely freaked out and overwhelmed by. It's that undying, like, loyalty, like, that rider died loyalty, like, she'll murder somebody for you. That's how much she cares. And some people can't, can't handle that.

And that freaks me a lot. But I'm down with that. I like that. I think that's super cool and endearing. And I don't know. She's a badass chick. And yeah, I know we're both crazy. We're both crazy people. So it, you know, it kind of, it kind of works out. You were super forgiving early on in the season. Like she lost it on you guys.

And now you just joke about it, which I love. Yeah. Yeah. Believe me, I've been through so much that was that was not anything. And in fact, it was kind of sweet and cute. And I get that kind of craziness. So I don't know, it worked for me. So you guys. go from you know ups and downs throughout this episode she says she is falling for you you get kind

of freaked out you seem to be in a by place she keeps crying and then you guys get shallow as your performance song i feel like they gave you that song because like uh talk about having something almost impossible to live up to you know because with lady gaga and bradley cooper everybody was obsessed with the chemistry everybody is obsessed with that performance for like an entire year. Even watching this episode back, I was like, mom, do you want to watch a star is born tonight? So I felt like they purposely gave you the most challenging of performances. Do you think so? I think that they gave us the perfect, the perfect song, really. I think that, yeah, that when we got it, we were, we were adamant with each other about like, let's, let's not

overdo this. Let's not, you know, try to do anything crazy because it's such an iconic performance and it's you could really mess that up. And yeah, I think they gave us that song because A, they wanted to see if we could rise to the occasion and B, it just was the perfect song for the moment for and for both of us vocally. It was the perfect song. Her performance was unreal. Like you guys are both great. The fact that she was able to like kind of of compete with Gaga in that, oh, oh, part. Like, how did she do that? She gives Gaga a run for her money, totally.

And being there, like, in person watching that happen was one of the most powerful and amazing things I've ever done performing. And I'll remember it for the rest of my life. It was such an amazing experience. And she's so, she's so freaking good. It's crazy. It's just crazy to watch it. You guys both, I mean, you really came together on that song.

when you both felt like you had a rift in your relationship. How did you do that? Because we, because her and I just, we have such a great connection. Musically and as human beings, like, we just, we do. We have this magnetic connection with each other. And when, when we're like, yo, let's do this, we do it. And we, we come together and good stuff happens. And I've never made music with somebody where it's been so easy and just so, like, right.

And it just comes so naturally to both of us. We just have that thing where we could work off each other. And it's just an amazing thing to be a part of. And I'm so grateful for her and for this whole experience because I never experienced anything like that. you guys are headed to the finale next week and you have an amazing musical connection you both live in l.A. Could Rudy be the next member of Brother Stone? Rudy would never be a member of any band. She is too cool for that. She's a solo artist. Yeah, well she's too she's too badass to just be a member of my band.

But you definitely will see her and I performing together, making music together, and continuing on what we've done on the show. In the real world. In the real world. All right. So you guys are on good terms no matter what kind of drama goes down next week. Thank you so much, Matt, for joining us and for giving us a little insight into this wild episode of yours. Of course.

Thank you for having you so much. I really appreciate it. All right. We'll see you around L.A., I'm sure. All right. Bye. Bye. Hi, my name is Enya Humanzor.

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All right, guys, we're back with our quarantine segment. What's Cooking, Batch Nation? And we have Deandra from Peter's Season on the line, and she's going to tell us what she's been cooking, what her specialty is during quarantine. Hey, Deandra. Hey, hey, hey, what's up? Before we get into your recipe, I just have a quick question for you. You were eliminated rather early on in Peter's season.

What week was it? Week four. Okay. How has it been watching as a viewer, having not been there for all of his mess and then being able to just observe what's happened in the aftermath of the season? I think it's weird getting the side like when you're there obviously you don't see everything happening but like when you get to watch as an outsider you get to see the big picture so I think like a lot of things start to make sense to me watching it back being like oh okay

so this is what was happening that I was so far removed from so much of the drama and so much of the things that went on I was like oh wow so this is what was going on I feel like so dumb I was there in the middle of everything and I didn't even notice these things happening so it's definitely weird looking on but it was kind of funny like it made a lot of stuff how do you feel about uh kelly and peter being together now i is it true because like my thing is like i'm friends with kelly but she's never once actually mentioned anything so i'm like is it true like are these rumors like what's going on um but they've confirmed it yeah they confirmed it okay so i mean hey at least he ended up with someone from our season that

makes me happy like at least it wasn't a complete l somebody won That's right. Hey, before we get started here on the segment of What's Cook and Batch Nation, there's an interesting fact about you that I have to bring out. You are one of 10 siblings. 11, actually. They got it wrong. 11, 11 siblings.

Tell us about that. I mean, I have a bunch of siblings. A lot of them are half. It's a very, like, blended family. So I got half siblings. I have adopted siblings that are my cousins. But it's awesome. I love having a big family.

I wouldn't change it for the world. Wow, that's amazing. Oh, that's so crazy to think I'm an only child and you have 11 siblings. How differ our worlds are? I couldn't. I'd get very lonely. I feel like that's why I love being around peoples because I always have someone to be with when I'm home, always. Oh, that's awesome.

All right. Have you been cooking for the family? How many are you quarantined with? Right now I'm quarantined. One, two, three, four, five, six of them. Six of us at the house. Yes. fun all right so are you the go-to cook i'm not the go-to cook i feel like i'm more so cook for

myself because i eat so differently like i'm just into different stuff i'm into super healthy like weird recipes and i also i'm like a snacker so i'm not even a meal person i'm just constantly eating snacks which is why i brought a snack recipe today for the podcast thank you go for it oh i'm pumped oh okay so i mean you guys probably don't know this but I'm obsessed with peanut butter. So I'm like, any way that I can get peanut butter into my diet, even though it's probably not the healthiest thing, I do it. So today I'm going to be talking about how I make chocolate peanut butter bites

and banana bites. It's super easy, super simple. All you need is chocolate chips, coconut oil, a banana, whatever nut butter you want to use, and that's it in a freezer. So what I'll do is I'll take like one to two bananas, just depending on how many bites I want to make. and you cut it up real thin and small pieces, kind of like if you were going to make little sandwiches,

so not too thick. And then you take whatever nut butter you want to use, again, I'm obsessed with peanut butter, and you just take the little slices of banana and you put the peanut butter in between them, and then you make little sandwiches out of them. Now the trick here is you have to freeze the little sandwiches before putting any chocolate on it.

So I like to put my little peanut butter bites, however many I make at that time, into the freezer for 30 minutes. And while they're freezing, you can melt down your chocolate chips. And the key to melting the chocolate chips is to add, like, two tablespoons of coconut oil. And if you don't add the coconut oil, it might burn the chocolate chips or make it harder to actually get that melty consistency that you're looking for. So while the bananas in the freezer, you do that. And then whenever the little bites are frozen after 30 minutes, it makes it a lot easier to actually coat them in chocolate or drizzle them in chocolate.

So you take a cup of chocolate chips. You milk it down with two tablespoons or two teaspoons of coconut oil in the microwave. And then you take your little peanut butter bite sandwiches that are halfway frozen now. And you can either dunk them like with a spoon I dunk because I need them to be like almost like a wreaths pieces like dunk. Or you can drizzle them. You're a little healthier. You can drizzly get a little bit of chocolate. And then you put them back in the freezer for 30 minutes to an hour.

And that's it. That's so amazing. I'm so into this recipe, and it's also very podcast-friendly. So, like, I followed the entire thing. Okay, good. I was worried about the measurements, but you really don't have measurements. It's all about what you want and how much you want, and that's what I love about it. So in total, like, how long would it take from, like, start to finish?

How long are we talking? I would say an hour or 45 minutes, only because, and it's not, no, I know. Ben, it's not work involved, though. The work time is like 10 minutes. Oh, yeah. No, no, no, no. I'm not saying bad. that was a good one like oh a relief like I can do that yeah that was that sound okay yeah and honestly

if you didn't want to freeze the chocolate on it you don't have to you can just drizzle it on it and the little bite should be frozen already and you could just eat them right there if you're like in a rush but I say freeze it because it's nothing better like biting into like a hard frozen little banana chocolate fight I'm so into it thank you so much for sharing of course all right Anything out there you're up to that you need to share with us outside of your recipes before you go? Oh, I don't know. I'm up to not that much because quarantine's happening. It's really put a dent in the dating scene, I feel like.

So I feel like Bachelor is like very pro dating. I mean, I'm happy for Kelly and Peter because they got a right. They're quarantined together, I guess. So they're winning. Yeah, I'm not really up to much. I'm back at work, weirdly enough. What do you do? I'm an account executive and insurance company.

so what Tammy does me and Tammy come an eye to eye with each other nice all right well maybe we'll see you guys in paradise whenever that may happen could be a year from there in 2020 thousand three billion years away from that yeah that's amazing see you deandra bye guys this has been another episode of the almost famous podcast Ashley we've talked about it all the time but more than ever during I think quarantine I have felt the weight of negative comments and criticism, especially revolving around this podcast, which I love so much and I really love hosting with you.

And so I've been talking to people about it, trying to get some help and assistance. Did you know scientifically that for every bad comment or bad scenario that happens in your life, science would point to you needing at least four positive ways of reassurance based around that event to get you back into a positive mindset. Isn't that crazy to think about? That's interesting, but it's not surprising to me at all.

It's like how I'll go through a whole bunch of Instagram comments and there'll be 100 positive ones and then there'll be one negative one and that's the one that I want to respond to. It's like paralyzing. I was asked this week on a podcast myself that I was doing separately than this. hey if you were a middle school student right now what is your advice for them on how to handle social media and how to try to be leaders so say they want to be leaders in whatever field they're doing it knowing that criticism is going to come and i honestly

that question kind of shook me because i don't i don't know what i would tell them and i don't know if i have a place to tell them because i thought you were going to ask me what my advice would be and i was like totally blank yeah i guess my advice would be no there worth, know their value, know their purpose, know that if they're trying something, then they're doing something. Like, just know that we're all trying here and we all kind of can feel it. I don't know, Ash. It's just been, I think this is one of the things in quarantine that I'm learning the most is through struggle and through these kind of heavy times, I'm going to learn something. Jessica promised me last night before I went to bed. I was walking into my room and she knew this has been heavy on my heart. She goes, hey, I just want you to know.

know this. I don't know when. I don't know where. But all of these heavy moments, they're going to lead to something beautiful in the end. You just don't know how. And I was like, wow, I hope so. She's so cute. She's so good. Ashley, you're so good, though. You're the best. I love you. Thanks for another episode co-hosting with me. You've made this work during a time of quarantine where there isn't a lot of stuff out there to talk about. And you've done it in such a great way. Oh, thank you, though. Ben, right back at you. Sorry about my dogs constantly interrupting. You listeners don't know because our producers and editors do a great job editing it out, but my dogs are a pain in the butt.

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