The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Red Roses on the Red Planet with Adam Rippon

Episode Date: July 12, 2023

Ben and Ashley are traveling to Mars with figure skater Adam Rippon to talk about Ashley’s latest reality TV adventure “Stars on Mars”! Find out what it was like to “go on a mission” with Ashley, and Adam reveals why tensions were out of this world just before Ashley arrived!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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as The Bachelor at it airs at 8 on Fox on Monday nights and then you can roll right over to ABC and watch The Bachelorette after you watch me on Mars guys so we did a little preview a couple days ago Ben's here obviously and he was asking me about what the stars on Mars experience was like and it was in Australia in the middle of the outback which is kind of cool It looked, it was a place that looked like Mars. Do I think they probably could have used like North or South Dakota? Probably. But, you know, we went to the middle of nowhere.

Ben, do you have any questions before we get on our, my co-star from Zars on Mars, Adam Rippin, who is a very well-known figure skater? Do you have questions for Adam and I about what Mars was like? I have a lot of questions for the two of you. Okay, great. Well, let's get him on. Hi, Ben. Hello Adam, it's nice to meet you

Nice to meet you Well, Adam is on the line Hello Adam So thrilled to have you here To talk about the planet Mars You were there before me Significantly before me And you formed

I don't know what I want to say alliances But like friendships and such Before and I got there And tell us just how it was The first week or so on Mars Before I got there Okay So before you got there

I mean, sort of just like how when you got there, you didn't know what you were signing up for, right? Absolutely not. No. I knew that I was going to like a Mars simulation. And I was like, okay, I don't know what that. I'm assuming that means I'm going to like the Graham Waiolae. And I'm just going to be hanging out.

And that's it. And then when we did the first few challenges, it was so physical I did think and if I do think back I think that I was in danger You were in danger? I thought so

I was like concerned because I saw the cast list beforehand and I saw that there were so many athletes yourself included and I'm like wait a second this has got to be like a challenge show like the one that Hannah Brown was on what was it called special forces?

I'm like is this special forces but on Mars? like I told the casting producers I'm not in shape No and I I got asked to do special forces and I they were like you know it's like oh you're going to do these things

these Marine like tasks and I was like there's a better chance of me actually joining the Marines than me doing this thing show and then like a year later they're like would you like to go to Mars and obviously I'm an idiot and was like

yes and so um when we got there it was just it was the the challenges that we did before you got there were so physical and like yes i'm an athlete on paper but in practice i'm i wouldn't consider especially with the likes of like ronda rousey who could bear handedly kill me so if she had to she wouldn't but if she had to she could she could now i don't i don't know how much you're able to give away yeah i feel like there's a way to do this and and keep it very secretive because my thought is when i heard about this show that yes uh so i'm claustrophobic i don't tell adam what happened well so i got an email saying hey are you interested in doing this show i couldn't give up uh as much time as they originally needed i could give up a lot of time but i had like

two commitments in the beginning and then I didn't hear anything and so Ashley I think took my place in a way or kind of represented the bachelor franchise well's also was asked clear crawley was asked and then um jojo was asked all couldn't do it for other reasons so my moral reasons yeah moral reasons so I have these like things that I don't love I can do heights I cannot be claustrophobic I cannot be stuck in something small and thrown to a dark place for very long or I panic out. And so can you explain a little bit of what you were feeling once you showed up? And then once you started to hear about some of the competitions and challenges you were going to be a part of, like what went on inside of you? Honestly, nothing went on inside of me because I had to.

a part of me had to die to make it through this. And so I'm just like you. Because I don't like, I'm claustrophobic. And so I didn't think that this was going to be an issue

because I was like, there's nothing on Mars to be claustrophobic about. Obviously, I'm a scientist. Except for space shuttles and the helmets. Well, I figured that out once I got there. And when we put on, like, the space suit for the first time, you know, in my mind, I'm like, it's going to be a costume, like, in which it is, but it was heavy. Like, Ashley, you remember, the backpack was like 30 pounds and the helmet was like 10 pounds.

At least, yeah. At least. And Ashley and I actually bonded because I, by the time Ashley got there, I had realized that, like, I need to take a beta blocker before. before we did you have some on you yes because i was like maybe you know maybe it i'm it'll be like um you know i'll have anxiety yeah you you were definitely the one that like seemed to understand my physical uncomfortability the most because one it the most claustrophobic part about it all was the helmet because like oh it felt like um i felt like i felt like i was like i was like that Mexican woman who was like buried and she wasn't dead and like and she like knocks on

the coffin at her own funeral I was that was who I was this is what you mean by you had to die a little bit because like I had to really strike myself up out in the helmet to be like okay you're not in that like don't don't think about the helmet you can't think about the helmet because if you like take a second to be like my head is in a glass case yes you're you're gonna go into the panic zone. No, you're going to go into the panic zone. The thing I didn't like, but I, there's, Ben, if you ever do go to Mars, there's some tips and tricks of the trade that I'm willing to share is that they buckle the helmet in. They like buckle it in. And every time they buckled it in, that's when I felt like, okay, this is the end. So I would, and don't tell anyone,

unbuckle it and so there would be times when like you know I'm in the middle of like a challenge and the whole visor like flips right up and they'd be like buckle your blazer or your blazer your visor and um but it was the only way I could do it because I was like there's no air in here yeah yeah and then like Richard Sherman he he decided to really kind of he was over Mars a lot of that because there was so much hurry up and wait so we would have to really get to the location of the challenge hours before we would participate in the challenge because getting the suits on everyone would take just as long as the challenge yeah the first mission that we did I'm such like an astronaut now doing missions the first mission that we did

took six hours and it was because they had never put the costume on anyone before they had to figure out how to put it on 10 people it was just it was chaos and then like we we held at the before we did the mission for like an hour and then we held back after for an hour and a half or two hours but the whole thing took like five or six hours okay so I have so many questions here the one And this is just shore. And how often, like, what percentage of the day were you actually in your helmet and space shoot? I would say that maybe every other day. Okay.

Sometimes you'd have to do, like, a, like, a B scene where it was like you had to do, like, a chore. And they would make you go and shoot, like, a scene with someone else. And it was like, you were doing chores. and it was like to, like, clean a piece of shit or something. I don't know. It was like, and so you'd have to put the suit on to go shoot that scene. I had to do something with Ronda Rousey in the suit as a B as a side project. It was like my worst nightmare.

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just going with it because now they're on a show so now they're like super accommodatable and like cool i think that because it's like you have the living situation of it all everybody not everybody but I think everybody kind of found like a balance of how to be a roommate with everyone and that felt totally separate of the show of like of the things that they would put us through while we were there um but I do think that they were like I think Richard Sherman he's too rich to wait that long yeah so I'm not too rich to wait Adam, this was me. Okay, so as soon as, like, I may have done it in the bunk,

but as soon as I left Mars, I Googled these people's net worth. Oh, yeah. I was like, wait a second. Why did they come here? A couple of them? I remember, wait. They came for fun.

They just truly came for fun. No, because they went, because they were like, this is going to be like space camp. I win. This is amazing to make money. And so I remember that, like, in the very beginning, you know, it's a season one of a reality show. So there were, there's like a lot of like hiccups. One of them when we first got into the hab, when we first got our home, our home.

When we first got there, before we got in, they said to pack one suitcase, you're allowed to bring one suitcase in and we will leave it. in there for you. And we're like, okay, so I brought two suitcases. Basically, I brought like everything that I thought maybe I would need. Yeah. What are you? I have no idea what you need. We literally only needed underwear. They gave us everything else. Yes. And so I packed my one suitcase. I go in. We shoot that scene of like everybody entering for the first time. And then they're like, um, you know, go pick up your bag. And then so we went and what happened was there was like a miscommunication where some like the they went through all of our stuff to put it in a box that looked like more space like so like they accidentally went through all of our stuff and then like before you got there

we actually did run out of food they just didn't yeah they were freaking out they're like actually new people there's no food like and all the food we get is crappy and like because it was like supposed to be like food that really only would be surviving on mars right yeah it It was like mostly M&Ms. That's mostly what I ate while I was there. But what did you ask me and what am I talking about? Okay, that's what I was going to say. I will answer the question for myself.

Ben said, who did you, like, because it was more of an all-star cast and less of like a bachelor cast where we're all newbies, did you feel like intimidated? Was there anybody who's a diva? Was there anybody more humble than you would imagine? imagine like for me we walked in late so I was already in a position of like intimidation where I'm like oh I'm the new kid here but then also I I gathered very quickly that it wasn't a situation like the bachelor where everybody just bonds instantly because we're all in it together like everybody here felt like they were just the most confident people on earth because they truly were like the top tier of all of whatever the things that all their fields. So I was just shy. I felt like I couldn't talk the first like five hours. Well, also, you came in and there was a big fight before you got there.

But did that really, like, change the vibe that much? Yes. Okay. It was like a very, it was like a very jarring experience. Everybody had been, we had, like, just been having fun and whatever. Like, because at that point, there were a few. people who were there who were like I need to go next I can't do this like please vote me out next and be like okay and then you know then there's some people who are like no no I I'll

I'll stay okay well I'll go next okay I'll go after you so it wasn't in like there was no drama to it and then there was like a big fight one night um and it created this like riff um and so when you got there, everybody is still like on edge. I mean, and that's going to be something interesting to watch too because, you know, obviously Ashley's experience doesn't have that.

The cast is incredible for this show. Stars on Mars has an incredible cast. They got some amazing people to go over the two of you included. Adam, you are very successful in your sport. You are an athlete. And Ashley is my beautiful, wonderful

co-host who I probably wouldn't say athlete would be a top 10 but she is competitive she is very competitive and she does like to win and she does like to have success and whatever she's doing do her best you know like when it comes to like competition with me though it's like can I win Bachelor trivia

I will turn up for Bachelor trivia but like let's sprint 100 meters versus like glance Armstrong Richard Truman and I saying Ashley is going to give, you know, she's not getting that one. So is it, was it interesting for you, Adam, because you were there for that first week, especially when people were healthy, like, feeling good and excited to see these other professional athletes and their competitive drive and, like, how they prepped to win a competition. Did you get to see that up close?

Yeah, but I'm going to, this is what, okay, at the end of the day, you're pretending you're on Mars and it's a reality show and so my favorite thing is like when they would talk about like who's going to make it all the way or who's going to do this the other athletes

and some of the people on other people in the cast would be like well we need them here because we need strength on Mars and I'm like what do you mean we need strength on Marshawn doesn't clean any dishes I'd rather

somebody who's going to wash a fucking dish than strength on Mars I'm like you know if that satellite falls down again we're not actually going to lose

connection to Earth I'm like what are you talking about but I you could see everybody is competitive and I think that like everybody had their own way of being competitive and I think

with, like, the athletes. Specifically, is that, like, when it was really physical, you can see people who have done a lot of physical things at varying levels, but, like, you could see the focus and, like, the quiet intensity of, like, everybody when they were in these, like, physical challenges. For sure. When I do physical things, I don't talk at all. Yeah, you're in it.

You're in it. So did the two of you ever start to actually thank you? on Mars like did that ever happen in your mind where you one moment had like a weird like point of weakness and you're like I'm living on Mars and you forgot that you're on earth in the middle of the outback no but I will say what I thought about a lot was how anybody lived where we were in the outback of Australia so the nearest like they go to they go to Kmart the nearest Kmart is an eight and something hour drive so that's like us like the nearest target being like or Walmart being eight hours away like their nearest like big

conveniences were eight hours away and the population of this town was 2000 and like when you're in the plane so the scariest actually adventure that I went went through getting there was I took four planes to get there but the last plane where did you fly from I flew from I was leaving from DC. Okay. And then I went to San Francisco and then I went to Melbourne and then I went to Adelaide and then I went to the middle of nowhere. Right. So when you're going from Adelaide to the middle of nowhere, it's a little bit less of a two hour of flight. And guys, it was a prop plane, but like one that wasn't a celebrity jet plane. It's one of the ones where like people, there's like one that goes down every day in the world. Yeah. Or they lose it on sat like on the satellite. They're like,

will never see again. Yeah. So here I am with like Amy Learhart took and it's still missing. Yeah. She's driving it. We're like Amelia. Okay. Yeah.

So I'm with Kat Kora, Paul Pierce, Andy Richter. And I'm like, we are all go. We're going to go down. The guy who's packing our suitcases onto the four seater play. It's four seats and then there's two seats in the front. The guy who's packing it up, I go, are you the pilot? And he goes, no. And then all of a sudden, he gets in the captain's seat.

And he is the pilot. He was just joking with me. And then there's no co-captain. And I'm like, if this guy has a heart attack, we're goners. And it was a two-hour. So, but then again, yeah, okay. So almost a two-hour flight to the middle of nowhere. And when you are flying over, no society.

No one. And I'm like, I got stressed thinking of all the people that live in that town. Yeah. When they go to the dentist to the doctor, they have to like plan it out to fly into Adelaide. Yeah. 2,000 people is quite a bit of people too. It is.

It is. Yeah. I mean, you know, I grew up in Indiana. There's towns of 700 and 900 everywhere. So 2,000 people isn't a small, I mean, it's small, but it's not like the, you know, that nobody lives out there. It's a mining town. Yeah.

And also, it gets so hot there that a lot of the living situations are underground. The living caves, guys. Yes. That's so interesting. 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.

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take off we're living in mars for a month you're coming with us would you say yes to that. No. No. I couldn't say, do you think I'm actually going to go to Mars? No.

I don't know. That's what I asked. No, I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever would do that. That's insane. Zero desire. No, I have no desire to leave Earth.

I barely had a desire to go to that outback. So, I mean, the fault that would be okay. So you've done the show, you're back now. If you were on the show, would you watch it?

I yes because okay I would watch it because my taste level is middle America and so like I love like master chef I love you know those shows and before I watched the show I was like I you know I hope it's good I hope it's you know whatever I'm sucked in even if I wasn't on the show I would be watching it because it's just dumb enough to be really. fun. Okay. Because it's like Big Brother. Or like surreal life. Yes. It's something like that, but it's like there's this weird twist that makes it different. And I think it's so funny when people start talking about like, well, on Mars, we like just so I love that. So I actually really like this show. I'm good. If they do more seasons, which I think that they're going to do, I'm going to watch them because I do enjoy. watching it a lot. Would you watch it, Ashley? Yeah, for sure. It's a lot more tongue-in-cheek than I thought it was going to be edited to be

because when we were in those interview rooms, I was like, the producer behind the screen, because guys, unlike the Bachelor where we're talking directly to somebody in the room, they had you basically talking to a speaker. You're in the room by yourself. And the questions were like dead serious. So, like, what do you think that you bring to the Mars team?

Like, is there a skill that you have that'll help them survive on Mars? I was like, they're dead serious. Which is even funnier. Yeah, on the show, it comes across. Like, what do you bring to Mars? And you just flew in from D.C. All right, Adam, I got a question. Who were you most starstruck by?

And did you know the cast before you walked in there? Because I knew the cast going in there because they had released your names a couple days before I landed? I did not know the cast. They wouldn't. And when we got there, since it was like the beginning of the show, they tried to stagger us in so that we wouldn't know who anybody was before we got there. But I didn't cheat, but I did.

A little bit. You saw the sheets that they had. Well, I saw when we were getting our like final fitting for the costume, like the day we were about to go in, I saw first names on all of the costumes. And so I was trying to put together what I thought. So I saw like, Portia. And I was like, I'm assuming that's Portia Williams from Atlanta Housewives. I saw Tanasha and I went, she doesn't use her last name.

It's going to be Tenache. I saw Ariel. And I was like, okay, I think Ariel Winter. I saw Rhonda and I was like, oh, Ronda, and I was like, oh, Ronda. Yeah. And I think Ronda was probably the person that I was most taken back with. In what sense? In the sense that like, I don't know. I just, I've watched her like compete before. And yeah, I don't know. I just think that she's like a really impressive person.

And I think that like she's super nice. like very kind and I think that it was like the way that I had always seen her I wasn't expecting her to be so nice. Yeah. So I think that that was the thing that shook me up the most. Okay. Yeah. She's like far more like motherly and gentle. Yes. Very gentle. Yeah. She's like a cartoon like a good like a Dragon Ball Z character. For me it was I was excited to see Richard German and Marshaun Lynch in competition together. Like, I wanted to see, like, their bromance. I loved the Seahawks back in the day when they had the Legion of Boom and all that.

So I was excited to see that. But when I got there, Richard was gone. But it was okay because Marshawn really delivered, like, that man. Holy moly. So funny. Multifaceted, right? Like, he can go from having a serious, like, emotional conversation to just say the most outrageous thing the next second.

Yeah. He brought his own Hennessy, which I think is so funny. That's smart. What are you going to have on Mars? He's like, I know how this is going to go. Yeah. I know how this is going to go. Here's my one suitcase. He packed one hoodie and four bottles of Hennessy, which was so brilliant. I love that man then. I would have kicked it with him all the time. You would have loved him. You would have gotten, you would have had a field day. I would have loved it. Hey, Adam, we're going to. let you go here soon. Again, you're starring in Stars on Mars alongside our wonderful co-host here at the Almost Famous Podcast, Ashley, Ikenetti Haven. And Adam, before we let you go, I do want to highlight

that you have two incredible podcasts, normalize this and The Run Through. Tell us a little bit about those podcasts, where we can listen to them, what they're about, and before you say, goodbye. So the Run Through is very niche. So if you're a figure skating fan, you'll love it because it's me and one of my really good figure skating friends Ashley Wagner and we just talk figure skating stuff. I don't have like anybody to talk figure skating

stuff anymore so that's my outlet and then normalize this I co-host with my amazing co-host Danielle Young and we just talk about different topics and culture and whether we should normalize them and it's usually just me going off on

a tangent the entire time and then Danielle having to deal with me and rain me back in, which is a fantastic job. Can you give us an example of one of those rambles? So we usually talk about like anything, but like sometimes we'll talk about like heavier things. Like we talked about like death and we talked about religion and we talked about like when your parents get older.

I think sometimes, you know, like when we talked about something, your parents getting older, I went into like a tangent of like how I am going to continue to at like laser work done on my face so I don't look older. And I talked about it for about 20 minutes, which is important to me.

I agree. Me too. I'm like stressed that I haven't had a laser in over here. I like that when you, Adam, I got to respect that when you start talking about your parents getting older,

your mind goes to, but I'm getting lasers done. And that's what I'm passionate about. See, I thought you were going to talk about parents dying. Parents dying is the scariest thing. Right, because your parents can get old, but that's on their watch.

but my skin is not going to lose its elasticity. Adam, we should have talked about this on Mars. I know, but I was on a beta blocker when you saw us out. Adam, I guess our listeners will be upset. They want to know because they're fans of yours. Do you still skate at all, like for fun?

I was going to ask, yeah. Yes, I do. A little bit here and there. Like, sometimes I'll skate and I'll be like, wait, when was the last time I did this? So I was like, oh, three months ago. I just, I don't. I go actually.

where I go work out, I work out at the gym that's like connected to the rink that I used to train at, because I'll go visit like my friends who are like coaches and work at the rink. So I go there often. I just don't get on the ice all the time. But I do love it. So we all have to go one day. I'll give you both a lesson. That would be so fun.

We were on Bachelor Winter Games together. Ben doesn't need a listen. He doesn't need a lesson. He's very talented. Not at ice skating. I remember it took you a few rounds around the rink but before you know it you were skating by me and I was like oh guys I used to skate as a kid like I'll be able to stand and here's the thing I am able to stand and I'm able to not cling on the wall but I will go slow as molasses and all these other super athletic people were just like caught on so quickly you know the best would have been if they brought in Adam and he just goes backwards and passes me about seven laps before. We had Nancy Kerrigan come in. That's true.

Adam's great to have you. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, I'm super pumped for this show. I'm super pumped that you're on it. Ashley talks very highly of you. Thanks for coming on the Almost Missed podcast, promoting the show. And do you watch The Bachelor or Bachelor at all? Be honest.

No. Okay, that's fair. I'm scared of it because I'll see visions of myself having breakdown. So that's why. That's fair. That's fair. Well, if you ever want to tune in, let us know and then come back and break down an episode with us but until next time oh wait now i'll do that now i will do that okay i would

appreciate so hey uh the two stars of stars on mars ashley and adam joined us today uh we're gonna keep talking about this show because obviously ashley's on it and we want to support the show in any way we can um but it sounds fun it sounds exciting it sounds like chaos it sounds like a mess and that's what we love to watch so uh until next time i've been ben i've been actually and i'm adam ripon that's right let's go Bye. Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcasts on IHeartRadio

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