The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Koko for Bachelorette

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

A Kardashian Bachelorette?! Well, if Ashley has her way— YES! She and Ben weigh in on why Khloe would be perfect for the role while sharing their thoughts on some recent headlines from the franchise including Arie’s vasectomy reversal to Kelsey Anderson’s recent health scare and more. Follow us on Instagram @almost_famouspodcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. 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. 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. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free IHeartRadio app. Search Emergency Intercom and listen now. Hi, I'm Jenna Lopez and in the new season of the Over Comfort Podcast, I'm even more honest, more vulnerable, and more real than ever. 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? Join me for conversations about healing and growth, all from one of my favorite spaces, The Kitchen. Listen to the new season of the Overcombered podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Everyone thinks they'd never join a cult. But it happens all the time to people just like you. And people just like us.

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We are here today to do our weekly Bachelor Nation headlines. And I would say this, Ashley, we have some really good headlines this week. Just interesting. Not like we're not talking about breakups necessarily. we're not talking about this huge amount of drama. There's no stories that feel intrusive to talk about, but we have some really good updates and things, and that makes me excited.

Yeah, okay. So let's hit it off with the number one. And sorry, you guys, for my voice. I got quite a lovely cold over here. Jesse Palmer reveals his surprise celebrity pick for the Golden Bachelor, and why Kim Kardashian wouldn't, and I repeat, would not be, an ideal bachelorette.

Okay, well, you're never getting Kim Kardashian, okay? She's out of the realm of reality here. I don't know why this keeps getting brought up. Well, mostly people bring up Chloe. Chloe makes a little bit more sense. Chloe's a little bit more of like a homebody. She isn't Kim Kardashian, like the icon that will go down in history. You know, she's her sister.

Love Chloe. That is no shade of Chloe. She's an extremely successful business woman on her own right. um but chloe has really had some tough times in love she's been screwed over kim has married a he she's married an awful person in the past but she um you know she hasn't been screwed over in the way that chloe has that's my little cardassian ramble to answer the first question jesse pomer says that his celebrity pick for the golden bachelor would be george lopez and george lopez i think kind of was into doing it right he said i am prepared if asked to be the next golden bachelor he said

that on jennifer hudson's show earlier this month he admitted in an earlier episode that he's been really terrible in love situations before so he's been throwing his hat in the ring for the golden bachelor and uh jennifer asked jesse what he thought of that idea that's how the conversation went and he said he just kind of joked and he said george this is the final rose and then George like flipped his hair anyway they were all joking about how that would be a fun little opportunity

and you know what I don't mind a stuntcast I would like a stun cast it's time it's time for another um quasi well George Lopez is a real celebrity I was gonna say Jesse Palmer was kind of a quasi celebrity beforehand as a backup quarterback you think he was you frown you fur your brow

as if he was a real celebrity would you count of that as a real celebrity? No that wasn't why. I mean, I think I would fur my brow to stunt cast because I think George Lopez actually, especially on a golden show, could find somebody in this. I think it could be an incredible love story.

Stunt cast as in like make it a big deal with it being a celebrity but then it could actually work out. I don't mean make it fake. I think it could be a really fun. I would be all for it. I think especially with the golden show. I think the other two shows, there's already too much proving right now

that people are there for the right reasons that this isn't just their way to try to get famous but I think with the Golden Show we've seen that yes some of the contestants go on to have really successful careers

and entertainment from it but nobody there is like I can't wait to spend the next 20 years in my life hosting this game show or like you know I think some people on the other shows do and I would love I would love to see George Lopez potentially find love on the Golden Show. It would be an awesome experience. And isn't his show

on Hulu? He has a show. Lopez versus Lopez. Yeah. And yeah, if it's on Hulu, that's a good crossover. That comes back to the whole Kardashian thing. They were joking about that because on their Hulu series, they're always bringing up the Bachelor and the Bachelorette because, you know, the ABC Hulu partnership. That's right. All right. Next headline is this, Bachelor Nation's Kelsey Anderson. explains why she got veneers. I didn't know she got veneers. I know. But she did.

Yeah. So she posted on Instagram, breaking news, Kelsey Anderson has fake teeth. But seriously, I did get nine veneers and one crown. I know that I'm not bound to tell you guys this, but in my moral compass, it feels like it is what is right. I don't want to just brush past the fact that I have. have a new smile or let people know that it's whitening strips or whatever that has enhanced my smile. She said, you'd be able to tell, because I can't brighten my teeth, that they'd be really obviously fake. And she said that she recently went to the dentist to get a regular checkup,

and the dentist was like, wait, there's something kind of weird going on up in here. Let's go get a head CT scan. Then she realized that she had an infection in her face. This is crazy. from seven or eight years ago whenever she broke a certain tooth and that she had the root canal and apparently it wasn't, we don't know whether it was properly done or whatnot, but she got an infection growing in there for the past, you know, however long. And it caused bone decay. And then she had to get a root canal redone. This is quite the story. And she said, and the dentist could not believe that the infection wasn't causing her severe pain, and then decided that it was time for her to get new veneers that matched so that all her teeth would match. Oh, so I wonder she had some already in

there. Anyway, she goes, they'll know in about six months where they got everything out and it's all clean. If it's still infected, they're going to have to go in there, do surgery, bone grafting, but hopefully we get the all clear and we don't have to do that and my bone grows back and all that like that's crazy she said that her veneers had nothing to do with her not liking her smile that she's always loved her smile i just wanted my smile to all match i've always had insecurities at my teeth they're all very brittle and i'm very prone to breaking teeth and i think um that the dentist did a great job trying to keep my original smile and then just enhancing it and i'm very happy with my smile right now okay so there we go it's all infected and i think that she may have had a few in there

earlier and she just wanted it all to match up which obviously makes a lot of sense makes tons of sense my boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now i'm seriously suspicious oh wait a minute sam maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit well dakota it's back to school week on the okay story time 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 Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up.

Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him?

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

And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you. But if you have unmedicated ADHD... Oh my God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, psycho babble. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercoms the podcast for you.

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Are Tanner and Jake going to have any more kids? She said they're done, and it's time for Tanner to be snipped. Yeah, so that's really interesting. I mean, I know it sounds weird for me not to know this all firsthand. but I guess like you don't like regular check in with your friend

being like hey so is Tanner getting a vasectomy? But I am a little surprised to learn it through our headlines because Jade is someone who just loves children

but they have gone back and forth since she had the big miscarriage a little over a year ago I guess it was like a year and a half ago so I guess apparently they have decided

they are done she said that she still will have baby fever all the time and probably forever it's time for Tanner to get the snip totally understand and then on the reverse end Ari is actually undergoing a

vasectomy reversal he got a vasectomy right after the twins they were overwhelmed with children obviously you go from one to three quite quickly for them and they thought they were done now they're saying they do not

want to be done watching his children grow up has made them want to try for baby number four he's saying he's getting a new vasectomy now and I can tell you I'm sorry guys, it's a little personal but I think he was done

a couple months ago anyway hopefully they'll get their wish and they'll get baby number four soon would you ever ask Jared to get a vasect me well so every month even though I'm on the pill now

I get scared that I'm pregnant every month. I'm like, oh, there's our period. Thank God. I've never felt that in my whole life. Because in my whole life, I've always wanted kids. But now I'm like, oh, I'm overwhelmed by two. So I'm so done. And every month, I'm like, could you imagine if I didn't get my period?

So, yeah, I think it's something that I would think of. So I didn't have to be scared. Even though I'm on the pill, I'm obviously being like hyper sensitive to it. just if we found out that I was pregnant now I would we would just lose our I watch these Instagram videos of people finding out that like their third kid is actually triplets and that's the scariest thing I could ever think of because a third kid obviously at this point when you have a three year old and then a seven month old is like terrifying it happens to a lot of people but it would not be ideal now but if you were to get if you were to get if you were to get

pregnant not trying for the third kid and then it ends up being triplets i don't know what kind of lifestyle change we'd have to make but like you have to how do you do that how do you do that you know you saying that makes me think of something that's probably completely irrelevant but it just is where my mind went okay what you know you you you we all know people who got pregnant you know before marriage or before they really found their partner college school etc right it happens but you like wanted kids you know i don't know anybody that was in that scenario that had triplets yeah how crazy would that be like how like scary would that be i mean at least at this point your life actually you know you're married you got the foundation for it like you had

kids before you're yeah it would be scary but it wouldn't be this like oh my gosh moment now let me ask you this you say right now you're done you're overwhelmed you're in it right now. At what point would you actually sit down with Jared and talk about are we actually done? Because I don't think it's fair for you to have the conversation right now because it's chaos. It's stress. You're tired. Things are moving so fast. So when do you actually think that conversation could exist and that you would like believe that, believe it? I believe what we say now and we have this conversation often when people ask us and we're like absolutely not like 100% done

I could see this I don't think so but like in in a fantasy world if we want to talk about a fantasy scenario if like I could if somebody would be like you know what actually you win the lottery you can retire tomorrow you can have a house

in Virginia and a house in Rhode Island and you can have all the help that you need you can have you know and you can have a surrogate would you want to go have another one. I'd be like, well, if I'm retired and I can have a surrogate, it pretty much is like, hey, you can have another kid, but you don't really have to take care of it that much

because you can have it done to help? Like, that's kind of what you just said. It's kind of like, can I have someone like always helping me? And then like, I can fully just like relax and just enjoy my time with them. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Yes, I know what you mean. I just don't like, I think I'm asking more like for a realistic situation here. No, a realistic situation, I feel like I can't handle it. What I'm saying is if I could just like sit down and enjoy all my time with children and not have to worry about anything else, somebody's cooking, cleaning, I, you know, I'm not having to work at all.

If I'm not juggling anything and I could just focus on children, then I would have one with be a surrogate, though, because I would not be pregnant again. you don't want to be pregnant again no okay and i'd have all the money that i could just pay for this surrogate no no guilt i can't wait until a year from now and baby number three is cooking see you're gonna you're freaking you know drinks us uh final headline is wait wait wait now we got get this and you're gonna reverse this you are not at all in any difficult phase yet yeah i was gonna say you're not at all this is a stupid question for me because i don't know um nobody's on the move she's in her sleepy phase oh the sleepy newborn phase is so great but but

would you at this point say three would you say three yeah i mean i think at this point like that isn't out of the question now give us time right give us being in it like you are right now the chaos you know those kind of things and maybe that would change but um it's hard to say we just we don't know yet like so far i will say this this, when he has been easier than I expected. See, they pump fake you, they pump fake, yeah. Well, that's, that's great. I'm so sorry.

Yeah. I was like, why do you feel complain about this? It's this easy. Yeah, I mean, it's not easy. It's still, you know, especially for Jess. She's like in it. Yeah. But it's been more of a joy than I could have imagined.

it's, you know, the difficult moments, like even when she's screaming and crying at me and I'm trying to suck her nose out of any, like, stuff or she's, you know, I'm cleaning a diaper and she's kicking her legs around so it makes it impossible to get the diaper on or she's crying. These are, like, really special moments. And it's also because I waited a long time for these moments. And so for me, it's like, this is my next stage of life. Like, I don't have anything else that I'm dreaming of other than trying to be a good dad. So three, seems like oh that would be amazing i've always thought in my head too yeah but right now like if it was one i'm an only child so i'm very used to that like i that makes sense to me too i don't know so let me just say one more thing so i can go on and on about this when we saw lorne and arie at alon's wedding they were like you would understand wanting a fourth like once everybody's in preschool they're like imagine that and i was like okay i get that yeah and then finally ben I always said two or three but then when I was pregnant with Dawson

and, you know, Ella's mother effort, I was like, no, we will just be having one more. I am not doing this to myself two more times. Sure. Hence the circuit. Okay. That's fair. Final headline is this, completely switching gears.

The Bachelor alum, Rachel K. Kirkconnell gets last laugh And it was on Matt James with new ad. This ad was chef's kiss. Oh my goodness. I didn't even realize the humor here. I just saw that she did a brawny ad. But this is the, what would that be called?

The chef's kit, I guess I'll just call it the chef's kiss. The greatest line is even though I don't have to, to worry about picking out the perfect restaurant spot anymore life can still get messy but now i have someone i can always rely on ronnie man someone's strong and reliable too no matter what surprises come my way this is so good it was this in the caption yeah she got paid fat cash to do this too there's no way she's agreed to this unless she's getting the brink truck backed up to her house. Oh my gosh.

That is absolutely hysterical. I only saw this in photo version on my own like Instagram feed. It's a real? It's like a, I don't know. I don't know the difference. But it's a video. Oh, yeah, it's a video here. That is genius.

Good for her and good for Brony for having such a good sense of humor too. because a lot of these brands, like, they don't want to be quirky. This is unreal. Yes. They got to dive into it. This was so good. In fact, I looked for Brani right when I saw this ad because it was in my head. And all I can think about now is this big old lumberjack dude with a perfect beard walking up to Rachel and helping her out.

And I'm like, that's a good ad. Like, this should be on TV type ad. Yeah. For your creativity, Brony, I have to order some paper towel. And I'm going to order your paper towel because I love. of a brand who can have a sense of humor and creative ads on Instagram. And let's just add in the almost famous podcast. Would love the support you in any way you see fit.

That's the big headlines for today. Some vasectomies, the Rachel ad that you have to go out and watch. It is so good. Kelsey Anderson and her fake teeth and why she has fake teeth. It's so good. It's such a good week. And we'll be back next time talking more about The Bachelor. The Bachelorette and everything happening around Bachelor Nation.

Until next time, I've been Ben. I've been Ashley. See you guys. Thank you. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, 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 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, my name is Enya Humanzor. 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. Everyone thinks they'd never join a cult. But it happens all the time to people just like you.

And people just like us. I'm Lola Blanc and I'm Megan Elizabeth. We're the host of Trust Me, a podcast about cults, manipulation, and the psychology of belief. Each week we talk to fellow survivors, former believers, and experts to understand why people get pulled in and how they get out. Trust me, new episodes every Wednesday on exactly right. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Jenna Lopez and in the new season of the Overcomfit podcast, I'm even more honest, more vulnerable, and more real than ever. 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? Join me for conversations about healing and growth, all from one of my favorite spaces, The Kitchen. Listen to the new season of the Overcomber podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. This is an IHeart podcast.