The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Naked and Unafraid

Episode Date: October 14, 2022

Ben and Ashley are baring all while they break down another episode of Bachelor in Paradise, but not as much as Jill and Jacob! We get into all the intimate details of their full moon naked date, and find out if Ben and Ashley would have stripped down in front of the cameras.  We hear a behind the scenes story about a never-ending order of pizzas!  Plus, we take a trip to the boom-boom room!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.

Now, 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.

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My name is Curley. And I'm Maya. Get in here. Listen to the Super Secret Bestie Club on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast with IHeartRadio. It's time for another almost famous podcast. Yes, Ashley and I are together. I get to sit in the presence of Ashley.

High Kennedy. And I am so pumped about it. We are in Newport, Rhode Island, her hometown right now. I get to spend the day with Dawson. is very special. And we're here because tonight in about 40 minutes, we're going to be stepping over to Audrey's coffee shop for a live podcast with some live humans. Yes, I am so pleased to be here on this podcast with you in person, Ben. Are you happy I'm in town? Yes. It's so nice to have you in town. Why are you sitting like that? I have no idea. I have no idea. We're sitting on a

bed right now and I am like crouched over with my leg straight. I don't know what I'm doing right now. Ben, we're doing four podcasts in the next four hours, four podcasts. I'm very excited. We have some great guests coming to Audrey's. Cassie Randolph is in town along with your friend Jill. Yep. Well, Jill's always in town. Yeah, but we're going to be doing a show. It's going to be a special night. But we do have an episode of Bachelor in Paradise to break down. You were there. For a lot of this, right? I was. I was there for all of this, except for, like I said on Monday's episode, Jared and I

slept through most of this action, most of this drama. I'm telling you, 50% of what goes on in Paradise this season happens after 1 a.m. So it would not be very Ben Higgins friendly. No. This guy goes to bed, guys, or he and Jess go to bed at 8.30, 8.45. Yeah, we're asleep by 9.30. I think it's very normal. That is, like, very grandparents.

of you. Well, a lot of things I do in my life is very grandparent of me. I have this theory, Ashley. I don't think I've ever shared it with you, but I've shared with my wife. I want to find enjoyment and the things that I know I can be enjoying at 80 years old so that I don't have that midlife crisis. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Yeah. So I've, I've lived a lot of my life prepping to be 80, knowing that if I can today enjoy my glass, my, you know, two fingers of whiskey at night, my golf fingers my golf game is two fingers a shot or two shots it should be a shot if you have a normal glass and you one ounce is about the depth of your fingers so you go to which about you sip on that um I can enjoy my golf games on Saturdays with my buddies I can watch college football and

NFL football and I can go to bed at 830 uh and life is good like life will be good forever not a lot has to change in my life so uh no paradise would not be for me I would not do well there is a question. Obviously, you and Jared spoke about your time on the show. You had free rain then to do what you want when you want it. Like you don't have to, you didn't have to wake up at a certain time or go to bed. Oh, it was the best. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We could wake up whenever and then casually get coffee. Jared would see the guys all miced up. And he was like, hey, just grabbing coffee and going back to my solo room with air conditioning in the private bathroom. See you later. It was so nice. Nobody needs to

give you any heat for going to paradise because if you can have a couple's trip and get away and have air conditioning on a beach, I support it. Thanks. Many people do. Okay, Ashley, let's run through this episode that you are part of you at the behind the scenes look. Let's start with the beginning of the episode, as always, and walk through it. All righty.

Bullet point number one, relationship that we shall, relationship human being, we should talk about first is Sally. Sally came in the middle of the night again while Jared and I were sleeping and we we weren't even sure she's going to show up. We had like a little inside knowledge. You know, like so we hear from last last week that Wells tells everybody that story, you know, that she kind of like left a producer hanging, missed a flight, you know, was there at the gate, didn't get on the plane, had multiple flights booked, didn't get there for any of the flights, um how to producer wait in the car the trunk of a car an SUV i don't know the people who like some people say that this is legit like it was really at the trunk of an SUV for like four to five

hours that's not good no and the heat of like tennessee in the middle of the summer there's no way like i just am so confused by this but she was having this long conversation with her ex there blah blah blah i know this you know this i remember knows this. But like, so Jared and I heard this from a producer, not from Wells. And the producer was like, I think she's coming tonight. But I'm not 100% sure. We can't be 100% sure about anything with Sally.

Lo and behold, Sally did come down the stairs that night after 1 a.m. and was like up and away out of paradise by 3 a.m. She just got down there and felt super uncomfortable because the girls were questioning why she was there. Her status at home back with her ex-fiance. Like, why is she getting his approval to go on the show? I do think that getting approval from a guy that is supposed to be your ex is kind of, what do you think about that?

No, I think it's, I mean, I don't know approval is the right word. You don't need to get their approval, but I did. Like a warning. Yeah, I just warned some of the people that I've dated and that were serious in the past. Like, hey, I'm going on this show. Yeah, but she wanted like approval. Yeah, that's different. And I think there is, Ashley, I think there is multiple.

sides of this story. I don't think we're ever going to know it all or the true story. I know that a lot of people think that like the producers hate her and like the cast hates her, but she legitimately seems like a mess. She seems like somebody who had no respect

for anyone. The way that she just would not get on planes, would not show up when she was told. But my question is, why did they fight for her so bad? Why did they want her there so bad? Was it because she and Justin had a former, like a fling or a kiss at stagecoach.

And I knew that stagecoach, they wanted to bring kisses at stagecoach back as a storyline. Or maybe they wanted just the fact that she seems like a flighty character. I would say she won this season. She was never there and still made more air time than most of the contestants so far. So she's winning. I think she's brilliant. All right. Well, obviously, there's really nothing much to talk about.

She didn't solidify any sort of connection. She felt a little bit bullied, but I wouldn't call it bullying. I'd say the girls were truly questioning, like, why are you here? If you seem to so badly not, why be here if it seems like they had to pull teeth in order to get you here. Also, approval from your ex. She's saying that she works with her ex, and that's got to be BS. Her, she works with her ex.

I think her ex is a doctor. she didn't she's like a nurse she's a nurse yeah i think so i remember that okay okay so she could be a nurse in the office now okay to play devil's advocate here's my position if i showed up to a beach that i'm already nervous to show up to that i'm a tad hesitant to even go to and everybody teems up on me i bet i'm bouncing also like i'm not sticking around for that yeah i know i'm going i'm out i'm out i don't need to be here but why should go in the first place well that's that's a good question. I have no clue. If it was so difficult for her.

Because her bag was there. Yeah, she had to go back and get her stuff. Yeah, she had to get her stuff. She's like, hey, I don't know what else to do, but like my bag is in one place. I'm in another. They're not going to give me my stuff back unless I go show up to this beach. So I guess I'll find a Mexico for it. Yeah. Okay. So on from Sally then, obviously there is. You don't have to talk about us. You don't have to talk about us. I'm not going to talk about you. Oh, okay, good, because there is nothing consequential that we didn't have to talk about it. I mean, other than the fact that I, I enjoy seeing you guys on the beach, I mean, that, but I wasn't even going to say that.

I thought I was like, well, technically the next piece is, uh, we really definitely don't have to recap our boom, boom room. Holy crap. I cannot believe that they, I actually, I can believe that they made it such like this storyline. It's like, oh my God, is it going to happen or is it not going to happen in the boom boom room. Did it happen? Yeah, but I was like definitely made it seem like it was like a wedding suite. Like I wanted it like, I wanted it like, I wanted. Like, you don't, like, tradition.

Was it like special? Not particularly. But it's definitely like, you know, your wedding night, you're like, ah, I'm tired. Do I really feel like it? But do I, do we want to do it for tradition and like to say that we did it years on the road? For sure, we have to say that we did it. But, yeah. Just have to do it on a camera.

We covered the camera up. That never works. It doesn't work. No, well, I don't know how people don't cover the camera up. How do they do that? How do they, like, have sex in boomer rooms and not cover the camera? Ashley, that's a question. I don't know if I feel comfortable answering right now.

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. 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. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you. But if you have unmedicated ADHD, ADHD...

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Listen to the Super Secret Bestie Club as a part of the Michael Thura podcast network available on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. So Peter shows up. Is that where you're going to go? I was going to show up with this because he might be the most shocking guest to walk to the beach this season for me. I don't understand. how he makes the cut for Paradise and others don't. And he does. Especially with his time

on the The Bachelorette. He wasn't an extremely likable figure. And there wasn't, I mean, some people have like a villain edit. I don't know if I could consider his edit a villain edit. It's a silly edit. It was just mostly a, hey, like he's just not somebody we're going to put a lot of weight behind. But yet they use him in Paradise. And they make it a story. this episode, and that's surprising to me. Oh, that's surprising to you? He's such a, like, he's such a foolish, foolish character. It's like, of course they're going to use him as a storyline.

But it makes me feel bad. Like, well, we have characters like this where they don't do anything malicious or villainous, and we're just like, oh, this guy's embarrassing. Why is he embarrassing? He just has, like, an embarrassing, like, type of personality. Like, that makes me feel bad to say. But it's, but it's the truth. Well, he's a pizza guy.

So a little bit of the... He's the pizza guy. to talk about pizza, incessantly? I would say, the reason I was making the claim that I was earlier is it's interesting me for them to use him because, yes, his personality might be the one that's goofy and funny, but you have so many other great characters on the beach right now. And we're not getting enough of like Andrew. We're totally not getting enough of Andrew.

And so I would say, Ashley, this has been a theme through The Bachelorette and Bachelor is where we're begging to get some character development and some depth with each of these characters, yet we don't get them because they are filling the space, uh, which is unfair to the audience. We have six episodes, right? It's a lot of episodes for, or six more episodes. It's a lot of episodes. Oh, I think we have more than that, Ben. They added on six, I think this season. They added on six to the normal. To the normal. I think we have like, and so some of this, some of the opportunity there is for us to get to know the, the people that are investing deeply into their relationships, the stories that are being told, the people that

are still searching yet we bring a Peter to the the beach and it's like okay not that I don't like the guy I don't know the fella but I'm just not interested because of his time on the bachelor in watching him oh see when I was there I was like as somebody who doesn't have to participate in any of this I live for this moment because they bring you if you were there it was so funny this is what I feel bad for the audience that they miss out on they had this bit going on that they were going to bring out a pizza every like 15 minutes so while we were there and like he was deciding who he was going to bring on a date they brought down like three pizzas and it was like pizza time pizza time and they just don't show it and then every time they brought down pizza with

pineapple and he thinks that's like disrespectful to pizza and so every time they brought it down and it was just too funny so I want to know the chef behind the scenes who gets the the he wakes up in the morning, goes to work. They're like, all right, today, we need you to make 30 pizzas. But they need to be at 15 minutes, like, increments. And he's like, oh, my gosh, just the show needs to leave Mexico right now. I'm pretty sure when they're on the date, they were serving them pizza too and just bombarding them with it. And they didn't show it or they didn't actually go through with that plan.

But I think that was the initial plan. And I almost peeved my pants imagining that happened. We all remember that my girl, Brittany, we all know that she's just not going to like this guy. she's shockingly optimistic and interested in the in and semi interested or so it seems on the show my memory serves me that it was not necessarily like that it was more like i'll give him a shot i'll get out of this place for a day and she seems genuinely interested in him which may just have been a little bit of positivity for the camera i mean brittany brittany to me is still one of the most shocking stories of paradise shocking stories she's so amazing how she doesn't get all the attention yeah has been been surprising to me from her time on The Bachelor to her time on Paradise. I'm sitting here and going what are you guys doing? Gorgeous and amazing and smart and like everything just full package

it doesn't make any say it never has I don't know if it ever will and now these guys I mean I'm assuming she goes on a day with Peter and these guys are looking around like what have we been doing? I hope that that is what was crossing some of these guys' minds. There's one thing that you guys aren't seeing and that is

Casey really was quite interested and they're not really showing that a lot but Casey was trying and Brittany at this time was quite interested in Andrew yeah but that he wasn't really making moves okay but she basically doesn't she comes back from this awful date and she's like he talked about himself the entire time he even was trying to get me to compliment his eyes saying aren't my eyes beautiful I get so many compliments on my eyes that's I mean that's a strategy and then he goes like in high school. Hey, Ashley, are my arms really big?

They are. No, granted. I do have this thing at night with Jessica that I flex and she every night goes strong boy. And I think you. That's so cute. Oh, that's so cute. Yeah, not that it's true. But it's something we do. Oh, that's so cute. I love that. That's different when it's with your wife. And he's like, did you know that I won best eyes in high school and like all this crazy stuff? And he's not complimenting gorgeous, gorgeous her. So she comes back. She's grossed out. so gross out. She's like almost feels like violated from this date. It was so bad. Like I felt bad.

Like she was like I need to take like an emotional shower. I feel like I need to pick a real shower, an emotional shower. Poor girl. But then she was like I am going to just put it out there with Andrew tonight because I need a I need somebody to basically be my night in sunshining armor. And we see that they do have a nice little moment and they kiss. And truly I have no idea where this really leads. Because just. Jared and I, thankfully, according to Moses' Bachelor Nation, we'll be leaving on Monday's episode before the Rose, for the cocktail part. About time. Yeah. Yeah, so we leave before the cocktail party, so I have no idea what goes on between the two of them. It's very romantic kiss. It's very sweet. It's very, very cute. I mean, I remember she drops her wine glass down to kiss him? I mean, that's a very, that's a very, it's only a move you would make when you don't own the wine glass that you drop. But it is very sweet. And I feel like this could go somewhere. I see them together.

They both have a very joyful connection. And I'm hoping, actually, we do see more of them. This is a relationship I want to see blossom, but I want to watch it blossom. I want to be familiar with it so that I can either celebrate it or cry over it as the season ends. Yeah, I know. It's so cute. Okay. So the next big thing we have to talk about is your friend.

No. Oh, I thought you were going to say. Your fantasy sweet. Okay. Sorry. See, now I'm becoming Peter Pizza Pete. This is twice now. Ashley's gone. Don't talk about me. I'm like, I wasn't. Don't worry. Your friend who will be joining us tonight at Audrey's Jill. Jill has her date. I want to ask you from somebody that was talking about Jill before Paradise. As somebody you liked and enjoyed, we've been watching here. And we enjoy watching her on television. She was on our podcast last week. We have a connection with her. When you're there and you're seeing this happen, are you excited for her? Are you questioning the move to go with Jacob? Are you nervous? What's going through your head? Oh, I'm like, I'm just glad she's having fun with somebody.

Okay. Being light with somebody. This is not her husband. I know this. But hey, if they're going to have some fun in paradise, go for it. I was astonished when she came back and she was like, I got naked with him. And I was like, oh, so you got like leaf naked, like where you had like leaves on your boobies and your jaja.

And she's like, no, no, no. We were naked, naked, touching each other's fronts. And I was like, oh, my God. How does that work? That pushes the envelope. I would not be okay with this. Like, I would not have been okay with it. But she was chill.

There's a lot of things in my mind right now. And I just don't know how that is. I just don't know how that you operate in that and feel comfortable for multiple reasons. How do they pull this off? I don't know. This is the first time people got truly naked on a date. the show, I feel like, except for like maybe some of those moments like out in the ocean and be like, do you have a problem with it? Do you have a problem with it? Yeah. I certainly would have had a problem

with it if I was on the date and I was encouraged to be putting myself in that position, which I would not. I would have absolutely refused. I would say that I know that you would have refused too. I would have refused. I feel like it does put people in a weird position. Like I don't have, I've had very, very few people in my, have seen me naked. Yeah. And, uh, I would, I would not be okay with doing that with somebody that I knew for a week. Especially on like on a date on cameras. A shit on camera. Yeah.

There's different scenarios. I don't know. I don't love. But it doesn't come across super trashy because there is some elements of like like like like I get it. I just don't love the show asking people to do this. Yeah, yeah. We can go away from that. This goes back to like throwing on a wedding dress and taking pictures.

Like we just don't need it. Yeah. It doesn't feel like it's necessary. and it doesn't feel like your teenager at home wherever it is, is probably like watching this and the family's like, oh, this is all cool, right?

I would have such an issue if I had teenagers watching this, I think. Yeah, so all right. Well, that's the date. Jill comes back. She says she got naked. What was your take? Outside of what we saw on the show,

on this date. Well, she just had it so much fun. And she was feeling so great about her relationship with Jacob. I was like, down. I was like, okay, if you were comfortable with it, then fine, good for, I'm glad. I'm glad you had a great time. I'm glad you got, like, I'm just glad that you have somebody who's giving you affection and attention in paradise because a couple of days earlier, she was so down about feeling unwanted.

She's like, nobody ever wants me. And then all of a sudden, there's this guy who's basically all over her. So I was just really happy for her. Oh, that's great. 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 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 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. The Super Secret Festi Club podcast season four is here. And we're locked in. That means more juicy cheesement. Terrible love advice. Evil spells to cast on your X. No, no, no, we're not doing that this season. Oh. Well, this season, we're leveling up.

Each episode will feature a special bestie, and you're not going to want to miss it. Get in here! Today, we have a very special guest with us. Our new Super Secret Bestie is The Diva of the People. 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. What is the heck? That's us. My name is Curley And I'm Maya In each episode We'll talk about love, friendship

Heartbreaks, men And of course, our favorite secrets Listen to the Super Secret Bestie Club as a part of the My Cultura podcast network Available on the IHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast Hola, it's HoneyGerman

And my podcast, Grasias Come Again, is back This season we're going even deeper Into the world of music and entertainment With raw and honest conversations with some of your favorite Latin artists and celebrities. You didn't have to audition? No, I didn't audition. I haven't audition in, like, over 25 years.

Oh, wow. That's a real G-talk right there. Oh, yeah. We've got some of the biggest actors, musicians, content creators, and culture shifters, sharing their real stories of failure and success. You were destined to be a start. We talk all about what's viral and trending

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I won't say whitewash because at the end of the day, you know, I'm me. But the whole pretending and cold, you know, it takes a toll on you. Listen to the new season of Grasasas Come Again as part of my Cultura podcast network on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, sis, what if I could promise you, you never had to listen to a condescending finance, bro, tell you how to manage your money again.

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Their relationship continues to be one that I think all of Bachelor Nation is going to remember and support and be excited about. It's a very real relationship. and I put myself in like Brandon's shoes for a second and I think how cool it would be to be where they're at in their relationship with somebody while at the same time still knowing there's weeks in front of them on the beach and they just get to enjoy it together and get to know each other more and share these experiences that hopefully they'll laugh about and smile about and have for the rest of their lives I am a huge

fan of them and very excited that we get to see more of them for weeks to come he was the cutest. He was just so cute in this moment. Ugh, the love was just evident. Um, he wanted to make her feel so special. And the birthday cake was truly delicious. I, of course, in classic Ashley fashion,

ate a ton more than everybody else. Okay. Logan and Chenet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Logan and Chenet. Okay. Logan and Chenet, geez. Um, this is just something that I am not invested in here watching or there on the beach because it just was

like there's nothing's going to happen with any of this i guess i don't know for sure whether i think does happen with any of it but it just doesn't feel strong uh so logan steals cheney from james she has like some love triangle going on with james he wants to show that he cares about her and hopes that she can see herself with him and logan says that he heard that there's a treasure there's treasure in the area so he puts on snorkel gavels which is actually quite adorable and then he grabs a bottle and then there's a bracelet in it also quite adorable um and he says it's his lucky beads and he tells her to hang on to them chenay says she doesn't like jumping around and she likes to be all in so she doesn't want to be like going back and forth between james and logan

um she said that she's that he she likes that that he's stepping up a little bit and she likes like where this is going uh she thought that the little at home date was thoughtful and now she doesn't really know what she's going to do she has a hard decision ahead of her the night the night you know ahead the next night at the rose kiss ceremony um she says that when she's with logan it's hard not to think of james so i think that that's kind of like your sign there well i mean overall your take uh you just highlighted the the moments between them but your take on this relationship is interested in me at the beginning you said i'm just not that invested into this relationship is that because of the two people involved or is it

no there just like no flame there just there was no fire no spark i'd like see that them out and it just seemed like blah. Okay, that's fair. Well, the rest of this episode is intriguing because Kira shows back up. Yeah. She went home last week if you don't remember and she shows back up to take care of unfinished business according to her, according to her. Kira continues on her process to try to find somebody, but at the same time causing some

damage along the way, kind of upsetting the current things going on. it's interesting to me, ironic, you may say, that Jill and Jacob go on a date that day while Kira shows up that night to talk to Jacob. Isn't that interesting how that worked out perfectly timing-wise? Two questions for you off the bat here, Ashley. How does somebody leave and come back? Is it that easy? We saw it with Dean. That obviously worked out pretty good for him. But does she just go to the hotel and chill for a week and ask to come back? Did she go back home? I think she's probably at the hotel for like 48 hours and it's not even a week.

Okay. Yeah, she was, she left the day before Jared and I got there. Yeah, so this is like, maybe she was there for three days. Didn't know that she came back in the middle of the night. You were asleep. Yeah, again, big entrances and we're not there for. So she tells Jacob, she's like, I was shocked that you didn't give me the rose. And truthfully, based on what we saw on TV.

it did seem like they had the most like physical connection and I would have expected him to give her the rose too but she just needed to get like feel closure on that situation but then she just still can't stop thinking about Romeo she really thought Romeo and her were going to be a thing she's definitely not putting all of her eggs in one basket no well yeah she you're right kind of sort of I don't know she's just ridiculous

that's what she is she's just hanging around and she's like you know what I'm thinking that I need to go back for closure with Jacob and then I need to go and try to win Romeo back over I don't know why she needed to talk to Jacob right like I don't think that if she wanted to go down

and see if she could get one more try with Romeo okay but like I don't think you need to talk to Jacob I think the Jacob thing was just supposed to freak Jill out they wanted Jill to be like oh my God she's going after the guy that I'm into when I'm feeling good about it. Well, I mean, and it works.

It does freak Jill out. So Jacob is kind and considerate. It thinks it through. There feels like there could be a connection between Jacob and Jill. But then Kira, like I said, doesn't put all of her eggs in one basket because she does pursue Romeo, which ends in a kiss. And then it ends with him leaving with her. I can't believe this happened because I didn't even know. I didn't even know this.

So you know how on Rose Ceremony Day. they split the girls and the guys and you don't really know there's no action going on. Yeah. So I didn't even realize Romeo was gone. Well, I feel like again,

people are finding loopholes to the system because if all you have to do is walk off the beach at some point and you're not ready to get engaged, then go do it. You get a nice hotel room at the Vedanta, you get to hang out and get some room service, you're off the beach, you're in air

conditioning, you have your own boom boom room for crying out. out that nobody's videotaping at that point. Yeah. I mean, if this is the way things can go, if people can just choose to come and go as they please, then what are we doing here? I mean, keep them, keep them on the beach.

I want to see where this goes. I want to see them break up tomorrow. Like, I want to see this relationship start and finish. There should be just a follow-up show. Life at the Vendanda. See? I'm sure, I'm sure it wasn't just that easy, but it is interesting to watch.

Well, another episode of Paradise, Ashley, your take so far, obviously, this is final episode that you guys are a part of. Well, not do you include Monday when we say goodbye. Well, you say goodbye. Do you feel like Paradise is at this point? We talked about at the beginning of the season, like, hey, are things exciting? You said, hey, it's week one. I know it picks up.

I know the speed of this picks up. I know people are going to enjoy watching this. Do you feel like now we're, I don't know how many episodes in? We are five full episodes in. Do you feel like it's doing what you hoped it would do? Okay. it's actually like kind of slow but why because it's so stretched out we are going we are we've had five full episodes and we've only had one rose ceremony and we're still very far away sort of

from next rose ceremony because monday night's episode will probably be mostly cocktail party followed by rose ceremony so i would say there's another hour of content before we even get to the rose ceremony so yeah it's a good thing we even get to the rose ceremony so yeah it's feeling slow because there's not a lot of people coming in. Yeah. You know, because normally it's like, oh my God, somebody's coming down the stairs. There's another date and somebody is stealing so and so. But right now, there's not a lot of stealing and worry, which is a horrible feeling to actually

experience down there, but great for the audience. Yeah. And we, there's no anxiety. And we love a little anxiety watching. Yeah. Some comedy. There's also not like a ton of comedy. No.

What do you think? No, it's not making me giggle and, laugh and I like to giggle and laugh actually it's not doing it for me you like to giggle and laugh yeah I like to go it's not doing it for me I I would say I'm kind of checked out at this point I'd like to get back into it because I love paradise I look forward to it every year for multiple reasons and I'm just not there but let me tease what will be a huge twist okay uh how do you and Jared's day no Jared and I are gone but once that rose ceremony is over on Monday night Jesse comes in with an announcement that will divide the community.

That will change the lives of all of Bachelor nation. It won't change the lives of all bachelor nation, like the carnival or the cruise. What was that, Virgin Cruz? Yeah. It's not going to change the lives like that. Okay. But it's, it is something that we've never seen before in paradise. And I'll use the word divide.

Interpret as you may. All right. You get it first. Ashley says there's a divide in paradise that we all got to look forward to. Well, that's all we have for you today. We're going to head over to Audrey's coffee shop and lounge right now to do some live episodes that will be put up on this feed. So if you can't join us in Newport, Rhode Island, well, make sure you tune in.

And listen, they're going to be great. We're very excited for them. But that's another episode of the almost famous podcast. Until next time, I've been Ben. I've been, Ashley, you know that I like forget that every single time you're here. when you're not here, I'm like, I, I, I, I, I, what? I've been. Yeah, I've been Ashley.

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