The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - S6 E3 The Chicken and The Model

Episode Date: June 12, 2018

Kristina Schulman joins Ashley as the guest co-host, to do a deep dive into this week's episode of The Bachelorette. Michelle Money calls in for "Who the Heck Are You?", and she helps figure out what happened with the chicken, and why did he fall out of bed?? You won't want to miss the greatest dramatic re-creation ever, when Ashley performs the monologue of Jordan the Model.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the Ben and Ashley I almost famous podcast with IHartRadio. Hi guys, it is Ashley. Ben is off today, apparently on some secret project that we won't know more about until later this summer. I will be gone next week, and Ben will be here with a very special guest host. Our very special guest host today is Christina Schulman. Hey, guys. Christina, I'm actually surprised that you're here with me and not in Bachelor and Parenthood. paradise you won't see me there again probably no why is that is there love in your life or are you just

done with finding love on TV way to put me on the spot I know I that's my job right um well I'm just done with the TV show for now okay all right well we'll see where you are in a year I'm sure they'd have you back because you were such a significant storyline last year I mean love triangles do that to you yes I know all right so you and I both we watch the episode episode three it was i liked episode three better than episode two but a lot of people don't agree with me on that no i absolutely loved it i think this is the best one yet yes i mean we had david falling off the bed and we had that amazing fight between jordan and david and then the colton drama with tia this was a great episode but we're going to talk about that in a little bit first

we have to talk about some bachelor news you may know more about this issue than i do but daniel maltby She has a boyfriend who... She still does? Oh, I don't know. Tell me more. What do you know? I don't know. Okay, where is he from?

What show is he from? I think it was Big Brother. Okay, yeah. He's from Big Brother. And he's apparently like this villainous guy. Like, nobody likes him. People have been warning her up and down ever since she started dating him that he's bad news.

And then apparently he, like, cheated on her on TV, like, filming a new show. That's all I've heard. I don't know much about him. know he was on Big Brother and I knew they were dating because it was all over social media. I'm close with Danielle, but I did not go into what their relationship is about, whether she think of all the rumors. So I don't know where she stands on that, but I know I saw something out about him cheating and I messaged her. I was like, I don't know what I'm reading. I don't know if it's true, but I just know I'm here for you. So it just seems like she's been warned for a

couple months about this guy doing something and maybe Walt was filming the TV show and he kept saying to her, no, that's not the case. It's not the case. But then it apparently did it air and then well, isn't it airing in July? It just came back and maybe there was, I wish I had more information on this to. I probably should have done my research on it too. Whoops. Hey, Amy. Yeah. Right in the nick of time you guys i'm being such a bad host right now can you very exciting phone call which i'll tell you about later oh i'm late what's going on i said i feel bad i didn't do my research on the daniel maltby and the big brother dude okay so and i know amy does all her research on this i i did and the problem is i'm not totally familiar with all the

players on big brother yes he me too so here's what i gather Danielle had a she was like in love they were in love with each other. It was going great. But she's been warned the entire time of this guy with bad news. I didn't know about that, but it seems that he went to maybe some sort of Big Brother event.

Maybe he was having some problems with Danielle and it seems that he canoodled, as they say. I don't know if it was like a hookup or just a flirty thing or whatever with this other girl from Big Brother. Yeah. And then Danielle was like devastated. Was it the challenge?

or was it Oh, okay Okay, that all makes sense so it was on the celebrity challenge So was the girl from the challenge? Yeah, so he must have cheated on her Okay, so he's from Big Brother and then he cheated on her wall

filming the challenge Celebrity Edition. Or some kind of party or something. Yeah, or whatever, canoodle. I don't want to say cheated. Right, I don't really love the word cheated. Yeah. Okay, well, that's a situation.

And then he has acknowledged it. So the player, are Paula Calafiori and sorry to talk about these people you know I feel bad because it's like I'm sorry your public figures it's awful but you picked it seriously like I don't go on these shows because I would never be able to handle this I would just like literally never be able to handle well I mean people people listen to our show because we talk about people okay so this says Paula califiori goes on Twitter rant about Danielle maltby oh para Maria cheating scandal I try to be faithful but I can't oh that's the guy. I try to be faithful, but I can't. His name's Polly. Okay. Now I get it. He seems to

struggle. These people are young. They'll be fun. Okay. So end of that? A lot of drama. Poor Danielle, she needs to take some time for herself and I have a good therapist if she needs it. That's really like the best. She really does deserve better than that though. Yeah, totally. She's cool, right? I remember we liked her so much. Kelly Travis had a baby. We had Kelly Travis on a couple months ago to do a who the heck are you segment. We did? Yeah. I know.

Amy wrote the run down. She goes, who? I go, we had her on. Who the heck are you? I just found out that who the heck are you? The people really love it. Oh, yeah? That's great.

That's what I was on a call for like the last hour about like researching the podcast and what people like. And they like who the heck are you? Interesting. They like the throwback. So yeah, Kelly Travis, update on her, who the heck are you? She delivered her baby. I'm going to need that in probably a couple years with the heck are you.

Okay. we'll bring you back we have a good who the heck are you today oh i'm excited to see who all right then we have some word on another girl from your season carin olympios she thinks this show sucks not our show no not our show no we know that not our show sorry the bachelorette yeah maybe she's just threatened by jordan by jordan i think he's bringing good tv and that's why i'm really enjoying watching this season. He is 100% the Corinne in male form. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Jordan, I like Jordan. He's, I don't think he's, like, shying away from who he is. He's just being straight up. He's telling Beka exactly for who he is. And I don't think he's harming anyone, really, whenever he's making remarks or judgments. Right.

Don't you agree that that's why he's the Corinne? Because he's, like, ridiculous, but he's not harming anyone. Yeah. Did you feel like you were threatened by Corinne? or you're just like, wow, this girl is a lunatic when you were on her season? Yeah, something like that.

I don't know. I was like, as long as she's not affected my relationship, I don't care. We do have one of my favorite segments coming up with Ashley. With me? A dramatic recreation. Oh, yes, I'm so excited about that. It's going to be really good.

Yeah, we have a recreation with Jordan coming up. Everybody needs to stick around for that. Everybody loves the recreations. We need to do them more often. But there are very few times where there's a monologue on The Bachelor or the monologue or like an argument that is worth. of this segment. And this one

certainly was. All right. Then next week we are going to talk about the proposal, which is NZK or Mike Fleiss's new show. And we're going to call Ellen Kay the voice of the show. And I also do have a doctor standing by. Let me see if he's available because I

want to know if falling out of bed is a common injury. Oh, my God. Okay. So I can talk, should we jump into the falling out of the bed right now? Sure. I think so. Let me see if the doctor's available. All right. Framebridge is my new favorite website for decorating my apartment. As we know, I got a new apartment.

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weekly. Oh, God. Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson are engaged. Oh, well, way too fast. They have been together for six weeks, six weeks. That seems fast. And, well, they're going Bachelor style, you guys. That is a long time in Bachelor Nation six weeks.

He apparently already got a tattoo of her little bunny ears on his neck. Why rush to that? I don't get it. I don't understand because they're both so young, too. There's no need. She doesn't need. She's not a crunch. Her body is not running out of time yet. Anybody want to take the over under on that, like place a bet on whether that's-

So negative, Amy. So sorry, yeah. I'm a bitter party of one. I get it. I don't care. Right now I'm so bitter, but it's working for me. I think they're cute together. I think they're really cute.

I think he's very cute on his own and she's very cute on her own. But six weeks, you guys are nutty. You're just an infatuation. right now. Why don't they look at the track record of The Bachelor and realize it's too quick? Well, it depends. How they spent every hour together for the past six weeks? Because then in Paradise, if that's Paradise status, then the Paradise couples have done very well. Only like a couple. Well, yeah, but of the engaged couples, they've all stayed together. What it comes down to is it's a total crapshoot, 50-50 chance out of it, do what you want. I don't

care. You guys are young, young, young. That's why I think there's a lesser chance for them to make it. and don't call me when you're boo-hooing and crying because it didn't work out. What do you want me to say? Well, before we were talking about Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson, we were about to talk about David. Guys, I met David before he even stepped out of the limo when I did interviews for access,

and I thought this guy was totally cool. I wanted to hang out with him. He was a nice, warm conversationalist. Now he is such a nerd bomber. Holy. A nerd bomber? Which I was going to say loser, but I don't want to call him a loser. He's just like...

Wait, I like him. Why do you think that? He's such a geek, what? I like geeks, too, but like David, you like your liking David, or are you playing devil's advocate for me right now? Of course, but I don't, like, I don't know. I don't care. Oh, my gosh. Who comes off childish a little bit?

The way that he argues with Jordan is insane because I'm like, babe, babe, I don't know why I is called him babe. I'm so used to calling Jared Babe, that I'm calling my sister babe, and now I'm calling David, babe. So, David is taking Jordan so seriously. Everybody should be looking

at Jordan and, like, laughing and getting entertainment by him, but he is taking him so seriously, and he's making himself look ridiculous along the way. Don't you agree? Who's crazy? The chicken or the model? Who's crazy? The chicken or the model,

Christina? I think the chicken's crazier because I think at this point he's like just poking Jordan and he knows exactly what buttons to push. I feel like it's like in high school, click and you do everything to like. Do you think that Jordan, do you think Jordan's self-aware? Like, do you think he knows every movie's making and everything that's coming out of his mouth is funny? Or do you think it's like a little bit 50-50? Like he's hamming up him, his regular self? Oh, I think Jordan's being like himself. Oh, you don't think he's being a ham? Oh, I mean, With Jordan, let me get this together. I just think Jordan is aware because I think as a model,

you kind of have to know, like, yourself a little bit and what you can bring to the table type thing. But he's, like, full of himself, self-centered. And when he gets attacked by other guys or whatnot, he just fights back. He becomes defensive. It's not, I'm not necessarily. You're basically saying he's like, he's not like Derek Zoolander.

He's like, oh my God. He's like, I know. Luke Wilson? Yeah, no, Owen Wilson. It's Owen Wilson's character. Hansel. Yes. Thank you.

Hansel's so hot right now. He's like a Hansel to me. I'm just trying to like put it together. Jordan's like, I know who I am. I know what I have to offer. And honestly, I find him more focused on like, obviously himself. But then I would say Becca because he comes to her and he says like, oh, I'm a wild one and stuff like that. Yeah.

I'm a golden retriever. Oh, I'm a golden juror. That was so good. Okay, and also the fact that he had nail polish on for like three days straight and in mine and he would talk with his hands and you can see the red. I was like, the producers must have been dying at that because one, he probably didn't realize how much his hands would get on camera. And he's like, oh, it's no big deal. I'm in a house full of men. We don't have nail polish remover.

But it just really, it was like a small little nuance that really added to the episode. I did notice it myself. Yeah. I will never get over, though, his, like, opening line of, like, a heartbeat. The tapping of his shoes was the heartbeat of a gentleman. Oh, my God. That's why, I mean.

Great. These are the one-liner. You think the chicken, aka, what's his name, David? Yeah. Is a nerd bomber. Oh, yeah. Because of the bedfall or because of the fights? Because of everything.

Or the chicken. Because the way he's taking everything so seriously. Like, dude, do you realize that you just, you're starting an argument with a guy who literally was talking about his footprints being the heartbeat of a gentleman. And then he showed up

to a cocktail party naked. Like you think, or not naked, but like in underwear, you're like, if this guy is so ridiculous and it is so seeking attention that he stripped down to his underwear at a cocktail party, you probably shouldn't be wasting your breath on him.

Right. I can really talk about it. Do you realize how, I think it was like really cold at night too. Oh, I'm sure it was. And he was like, Almost naked. Yeah. I mean, props for that, too. No way. I mean.

He's perfect, because he's not a villain. He's just the guy that makes you laugh. Like, the ridiculous one. There's something, there's a difference between a villain and a ridiculous one. Like Ashley Sultor on my season, she was a nut, but she wasn't a villain. Oh, the short hair. No, no, that's Kelsey. She was an actual villain.

What did she do that was crazy just to refresh my memory? Ashley Salter? Yeah. Well, she talked to birds during Paradise. And then when we There was the hunting There was the zombie hunting date Where she like thought that she was in the Mesa Verde

Oh yeah Is that the honey? I kind of remember What I'm just trying to place which girl that is You know blonde hair onion oh yeah Is that a pomegranate? No it's an onion Oh but it's the layers I think Ashley Spivey is the one who keeps breaking news Oh yes yes Okay thank you thank you

You are welcome then David also gets on Jordan for talking about his 4,000 Tinder matches I mean that is a lot of matches but this guy is probably swiping swipe right is when you like somebody right right yeah so he's

probably swiping right on everyone just as a game to see how many matches he can get let's think about this real quick there's 365 days in the year yeah and he has 4,000 matches holy moly yeah right if he swive just like once every day,

but how many times he would have to get? He's swiping like a hundred times a day. No, because once a day would be 365. And he's 4,000. So that's 369, 3 times four, 12, about 15 people a day. Did I get that? Oh, that's not that bad.

Yeah. I think that's almost average. But I think the whole thing is him being conceded of the fact that like every girl matches with him back. It's like, you guys, you're going to start. an argument over this it's so ridiculous but you know it's even funnier and it was a everything worked out in the producer's favor this week like they were like i cannot believe this is happening we cannot believe this is so good because of all the men in that house that can fall

off the bunk bed it was david after that fight it was so i don't know how that happened and yes they probably need guardrails because christina were you on the top of that bunk i was definitely on the top bunk and they're high yep and all the floor are tile. It would be a hard-ass fall. Do we know if he fell from the top? Yeah. He fell to the top. I loved that they even put in Jordan, like,

what is it? Putting up their guard child. Oh, yeah. I was like, wow, this is just like rubbing salt in the womb. Just because Ben's not here to keep us on track, can you do a commercial and then we got to take the who the heck are you? Yeah. We will continue to talk about the fall off the

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She was like kind of my idol going into it, especially when it came to just all her beauty and all her clothing outfit, like... Perfect eyebrows. Her perfect eyebrows. Just the fact that everything was always on point and she had a different look all the time. She was always experimenting with her beauty on the show.

It was, there was so much variety. And here she is. Michelle Money is on the line. Oh, my gosh. Michelle, hi. But seriously, you know that I mean everything that I just said. You really were a fashion and beauty icon to me going into the show. I was like, I need to be like Michelle Money.

I have like all these different necklaces that match and just to have a different look every day. and now you're doing a lot of good with all your beauty tips. Can you tell us what you're up to? Yeah, first of all, I'm so, like, happy for you. Ah, thank you! Are you sick of talking about it now, or are you just, like, do you love it? I mean, like, I think the world is all so happy about you and Jared. It's like...

Are you sick of it? No, I'm definitely not sick of it. Every week I'm more and more blown away about people because it's so interesting, however, the course of, like, bachelor experience people come up to me and be like first it was like oh my god i love you from the show and now over the past like year it's like oh my gosh i love your podcast i'm like oh my god that's so cool and now people are coming up to me and be like oh my gosh i'm so excited about you and jared i'm so happy for you and it's just it's so nice it's so nice oh we just all wanted you guys to be together

so it's like we're all just finding closure and happiness and your joy and christina i'm so happy to meet you over the phone. Nice to meet you. I know. So fun. Well, yeah. So, yeah, like a few years ago, I, like, decided to start a makeup course online. Because, I mean, I'm a licensed, stiless, makeup artist, and I just love beauty.

I love makeup. I love hair. I love the confidence that it gives you when you, like, know how to do it, and you can actually help other people do it, too. And so I wanted to teach that. to women. And so a few years ago, I'm like, I want to start a makeup course. So I did. And in doing so, I started kind of finding out that the women that were taking my course were really kind of struggling with their own self-worth and their own, like, insecurities that we all as

women have. But it became really clear to me that what these women needed really wasn't like external makeup stuff. It was like the inner beauty, the inner self-love, the inner confidence. And so I kind of, like, sat and thought to myself, like, okay, how did I overcome a lot of, like, my trials to get to this place where I do feel, like, confident and secure? And I, you know, feel kind of more whole in my life. And I put together what I now call the money method. It's based off of my last name. And it's these five principles to all share with you. The M stands for Mind Your Own Business.

The O stands for Own Your Truth. The N stands for now is where your power is. The E is every single thought matters. And the Y is you choose happiness. And these kind of like principles I learned along the journey of life. And a lot of these came from my experience being on The Bachelor and kind of having to deal with, you know, all these people judging you and, you know, assuming that you're one person that you're not. and trying to kind of, like, work through that all internally. And so this method has really been, like, really impactful.

It's crazy. It's really, like, like, really helped a lot of women. And so I decided to turn it into, of course, like, makeup, both makeup and the money method. So it's both external and internal beauty. And it's been so impactful to thousands of women that have, like, really, really learned to both master, like, their makeup looks. which I think brings a ton of confidence. Totally. And then also, like, applying these things, like, to your personal life

and kind of, like, removing all the external crap that we've kind of, like, attain through life that's all just BS and getting to the core of who we are, and the core of who we are is love, you know, who we are underneath all of that is just we are unconditional love. And when you can learn, when you can unlearn all the crap that you've believed, that's not true about yourself, you get to this beautiful, authentic place that's just, like, we are all deserving of love. We are all empowered, beautiful, amazing women without any external stuff added to it.

And so it's just been this really incredible process of helping women feel empowered and beautiful on the inside out. So that is now what I turn into these online courses, and it's called the Master Your Money Look course. And, yeah, so it's like this incredible community. of women who have all taken the course and are like just so amazing and wonderful and yeah that's kind of what I've been doing it's all connected if you yeah she was talking about yeah you feel better if you think better you feel better you feel better you do better like it's all just completely connected how do they sign up for your class and is it like a course where you get like on something like a Skype or a face time and then you talk to multiple women at the

same time, or is it more like one-on-one sessions? So that's what I show through the private Facebook group. That's where I go live and I talk about this stuff in depth. But the course is all done online. It's all automated and it's, you can get the course on Michelle May.com slash courses and it's done through. It's teachable. So you can go through.

They're all automated courses that you can watch at your own pace. You get lifetime access to them. And then you also get to become part of the Money Talks community, which is where I do a lot of my teaching through Facebook live and I go, you know, we do meetups. We're going to Nashville this weekend, like 30 of us. They're all going to Nashville for our Money Talks meetup. And so, yeah, it's all just, you can like download it right this second. In fact, we put together a code for you guys, for your follower, your listeners. Oh, yay. Thank you. $10 off. Yes, of course, $10 off if you use the code. I'm almost famous. So

enter that when you check out, yeah. How do you sign up? Where did they go? They just on my website, misselmoney.com. Okay, Michellemoney.com. Use the code almost famous for $10 off. Yeah. I love it. You guys are both into makeup. I mean, it's just such a fun industry. What foundation do you guys like right now? I always like to know what foundation people were. Do you know what's so funny? I have been using Mabeline for years. You have been using Mabelian for years. Yeah. So. Okay, so you're still using it. Yeah, I like Mabeline's Dream Smooth Moose, which they discontinued, and I have been getting online on Amazon and eBay for a while.

But then I also love their new 24-hour stay longware. It's debatably better than the Dream Smooth Moose. And, yeah, it only came out like six months ago, so I've been using it for the past six months. But I love to use Becca's skin-perfecting lotion. I don't know. It's not a lotion. but it's like a cream-based thing and it's bronzy so it's perfect for the summer

I put that on first it really does smooth out like any redness and then I cover it a little bit with foundation because I don't need as much I love it what do you use Christina? I actually use Laura Mercere I mean I use the I guess primer

and all of that tinted moisturize is great too this couldn't be more fascinating can we talk about the episode oh wait Michelle did you do you? watched the episode? Oh, did I ever, girlfriend? Oh, oh, good. Oh, well, I didn't know that. So, yeah, we're talking about foundation because I didn't think that you saw David fall off the bed. Can you handle that? I mean, it was just a matter of time before someone fell off the damn bunk bed.

That's what these girls said, too. What's going on with these beds, guys? They are dangerous. They should definitely have guardrails. They should have done that a long time ago. Yeah, but how gleeful. I don't want to say that the producers were gleeful that David fell off the bed but if anybody were to fall off the bed they were probably pretty happy was David of all people of all people and then they leave us hanging with like I'm dying to see what happened to his fate I know exactly they said there's blood all over the place now they were probably pretty dramatic about you know the the what is it called like the carrying him out of into the ambulance on like a board but he probably just broke his nose that's probably

what happened and then there was blood from his nose. Right. Did you all... I was like, he couldn't walk? Because having never lived there, yeah. Falling out of bed was not the first thing that I thought caused it. Did you all think? Oh, I bet he fell out of the bed. Oh, yeah, I did actually. I didn't. I was like, what in the world

could have happened? And then it was like, I was piecing it together. I'm like, oh, that, he fell off the bunk bed. And of course that's what, like they're dangerous. But then again, what are the chances? It's been what? How many seasons? Somebody actually fell I know. I mean, I have a hard time thinking that was the first time that happened. It might have just been the first, like, really dramatic time.

Out of the top bunk onto the stone floor. Yeah, and they're really hard. It's really hard for, and they're really high bunks. Okay. I know. I mean, it was just, it was just really traumatic. You're not giving you guys, though, like, willies? It's giving me the, ugh.

Kind of, but Michelle, to answer your question, yeah, when I heard that it happened overnight. I was like he fell out of the bed. And then the way that Chris Harrison had to go tell Becca and deliver it in the most dramatic fashion was the best TV I've seen in a long time. It made me gleeful. It made me gleeful. I like, Becca's first question was, who did this? Who did this? I know. I know. I thought maybe there was a fight or maybe a pool injury, like on the bricks by the pool. So the pool, I'm surprised that nothing dramatic has happened in the past with the pool because I can see that part where you jump. off like if you get up

on the higher side of the pool and guys can like the guys will die even though it's not deep enough for that was I the only one who actually felt super sad when that football player left I actually got a little bit of a oh he was so darling I know he's so cute you guys I don't get

that he makes me feel awkward no Clay doesn't he makes me feel awkward to watch Clay that's right oh I thought it was so sweet that he was like I want to stay but this is my career and like a football injury, that's a big deal that that dude broke his wrist and he's a football player. But another thing that the producers,

and the producers must have been like, wait a second, of all people to get injured during the football game, the NFL player does. Oh, no. Oh, my God. And what was you guys have done? I think he really didn't have another choice. He had to leave.

Well, I don't know if he got picked up, you guys. Can we find that answer somewhere? I guess it's a little earlier in the season. It is June, so he could still get picked up for quite some time. Or he could be on the practice squad and still make money, who knows? He can't be on the practice squad

at the age that he is right now and the fact that he's been on rosters. I think there's a rule that you can only be on a practice squad for a certain number of years. Mark, can you Google that? Because I'm going to call Flag on the play.

I don't know. Amy's brother also works in the NFL, so you may act. Right, like, you can be in the NFL for a long time. You could be on the practice squad for like up until you're 30? I don't think there's a rule.

I don't know. I'm checking now. I don't think there's a rule. I don't think there's a rule. It's almost like the minor leagues in baseball. Okay. So, like, since he left, did they ever, I mean, it's not like she. Well, that is my question.

Yeah, they do add a rose back. Can he come back? Well, that was my question. I was like, why can't you just get the surgery and then return? Because there's been so many instances like that. It could be weeks. I just want to see his face the next week. Yeah, we'll find out in a week, unfortunately.

I also want to say that I think Clay is sweet, but, like, there was never any, like, chemistry there. Like, that was never going to happen. I think the only reason that Clay said, Clay was like, I'm going to go, because I think he knew that that's not his wife and she knew that that wasn't his wife. And if there was, if this was like a Garrett or a Blake sort of thing, then she probably would have begged him to stay. Can I, I'm going to say something that has been in my mind and I'm just going to have the guts to say it. Becca does not have a type. She is open to everyone. She definitely is. She really is. That makes it interesting this season in particular. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, like... She's got a good variety, too. Yeah. She does have a good variety. You know? What do you guys think of that, Richard Marks? Okay. Um, date guy.

I love Richard Marks. Okay, we are all obsessed with Richard Marks. I know. I love that. And Amy. Lauren, no. Me and Amy. I'm way more into Richard Marks than the guy that was on that date.

Let's, you guys, this is such a girl talk podcast. Like, Ben's not here and there's no structure. We're just like, I love Richard Marks. Ah! Amy and I were in the car once, and, like, we've always bonded over, like, like contemporary like soft rock so much we love soft rock but one time i was like do you love richard marks and she was like i love richard marks more than you can know and i was like remember a couple weeks ago i went to the richard marks concert and you were in new york so you couldn't go oh my goodness you did go

i forgot to ask you how it was like who else is going to possibly go with me other than you and you know who else wanted to go but he was filming this show was chris harrison chris harrison was like That sounds like an amazing night. Can you imagine you, me, and Chris at Richard Marks? And it was amazing. It was so amazing. It was just Richard Marks. So just Richard Marks and a guitar or a piano.

And he, like, talks to the audience. He's super hilarious. I got to experience that to me and my boyfriend went to one of his, like, concerts over at Pepperdine. Because my boyfriend's daughter was Pepperdine. He did a small concert there. And I swear to you, I felt like we were best friends. I felt like I knew him. I felt like, like, he has a, he puts a great concert together.

Oh, my God. He is one of the most talented musicians that we've ever had between his songwriting and his voice is so buttery. It's probably the one voice I can listen to every day for the rest of my life and never get tired of it. I often think I do listen to him in some way every day. If somebody said, what do angels sound like? I'd say Richard Marks.

And here's the thing. I'm getting off topic, but I absolutely think that Daisy Fuentes and Richard Marks are the hotest couple. Like, they are so in love, it makes me vomit. Yeah, they're so cute. They're so, darling. Oh, my goodness. I actually really, I really liked Chris.

I really thought that date was a really fun date. Wait, I want to try something weird that may or may not work, but Michelle, I just got a doctor that's going to give us information if falling out of bed is a common injury. So Ashley needs to do a commercial. Michelle, you hold. We're going to get the doctor on. And we're going to find out if this is common. Before we go any further on this, I need to ask you, Christina. Do you use ThreatUp or any sort of thrift store?

Oh, yes. I used Threat Up. I actually ordered a couple of things just recently. Tell me what you got. Quite a few shirts. I don't have enough of those. I probably have like 20 pairs of jeans, but no shirts to go with it. Oh, wow.

That's usually the opposite. Yeah, not in my case. I got all these jeans from Thread Up. We love Threat Up because it's the largest online resale store where you can find all your favorite brands like lucky um bcbg free people free people at up to 90% off their estimated retail oh they also have lulu lemon made well gap north face all these good brands so go to threadup dot com slash almost famous today and you'll get an extra 25% off your order thread up has a huge selection it makes it super easy to shop they also have all these filters so you can figure out your size your style

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Aw. How sweet a Dean. I mean, I picked it out. Every item on their site goes through a 12-point inspection process so you know it's high quality and the items, some of them, have still their tags on them.

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$50 pair of shorts that I got for 15 bucks, people. I know. I got some really expensive, like, citizens of humanity or, like, Hudson jeans for really cheap. Okay, let's talk to the doctor. I'm so curious. Dr. Smith. Thank you and welcome to the

Almost Famous podcast. what kind of doctor are you what's being trauma trauma he's an orthopedic surgeon oh you're an orthopedic surgeon so you see broken bones all the time how many injuries do you see from

people falling off beds little kids little kids poor David yeah they'll fall out the bed and they break their elbows typically is it often Is it often from bunk beds?

It can be, but any bed, you know, monkeys jumping on the bed, they'll get to an altitude. Big Brother, he'll give him a boost, and that's all it takes. So this guy was sleeping in a bunk bed, an adult, and fell off from the top bunk onto a stone floor. And we don't know yet what his injuries are. What would your best guess be? oh you could get anything with that that sounds terrible he said that was really bloody

like it could have fractured his skull i suppose yeah you know something to fall from that height being really bloody he'd probably cut something around his face or his scalp you know your scalp will bleed like stink your nose will bleed like stink the head and neck has such good perfusion

you just get a little cut up there and you know it's a lot of blood without much damage but an adult you probably wouldn't do anything like breaking arms or legs or anything like that but I guess I question why they fell out of the bunk well so whenever I'm scared of sleeping on a bunk bed people go hey do you ever fall out of your bed that's like you know two feet off the floor and I'm like no so you're right it's just like my body knows in the middle of the night not to roll over there's just something built in us that knows that I'm wondering if you're still asleep things to your body that would impair your ability to

avoid falling out of dead. Right, like he was drunk. Was he drinking? Yeah. Right. Right. And then they've got people who've got like parisomias, you know, they're sleepwalkers or they have narcolepsy and, you know, their boundary between being asleep and awake who's kind of fuzzy. And those folks will get out of bed and think they're in one place at one time. And, you know, if this is a guy who does that kind of thing and all of a sudden,

and he decides, you know, his mind is now active, but he's not in a wakeful state. He might try to, you know, roll right out of bed and wouldn't even have substances. Yeah. So when I was on the bathroom, I went to sleep and woke up with a black eye. That's right. Oh, yes. I feel to the day. I'm like, how in the little, how did that happen?

Like, do you have, you know, like, people, persons? How did that happen? Yeah, I think it's possible. I mean, I think you could. I mean, that's what I'm talking about. And these parisomnia kinds of things, you can absolutely do stuff yourself. But that's kind of weird. I don't think I've ever heard of somebody punching themselves.

There are cases of people committing murder, and they get off based on their parisomnia. Oh, God. I'm pretty sure that has a thing. But could she have you hit something? Could she have hit something on the bed and not known it? I guess, I mean, to be completely frank, was there any kind of other substance involved that could have all to get it? She was drinking. The correct answer is yes?

Yeah. I mean, that's always the most likely explanation. But it's still like, I mean, I was still feel like if I were, I don't know how drunk I was. I remember everything I did the night before. It wasn't like I blacked out. And you can't remember how drunk you were. That's when you're really drunk. Well, no, I remember.

I remember everything about that night. I remember doing a play-by-play. I went to get and then I went to bed. I have a question. I have a question on that. Because I consider myself somewhat of a doctor. Oh, my God. Could she have injured herself earlier in the day

and the black did not come out until the following morning? Oh. There was something that happened during the day? I don't know. We're asking you. You're the doctor. Yeah.

So the darkness actually does evolve over time. You know, if you've ever seen a bruise on your body, you know, it starts off as typically something that's sort of purplish red. But then it will actually evolve through different stages to something that's actually green and then yellow and then brown. But wouldn't you have to take yourself hard enough to feel that that, like, you like, for something? For something to cause, like, a black eye, you would think that you would have, like, hit yourself hard enough to know, like, oh, that's going to leave a mark. Actually, you know what Michelle? I've done this before. I once, I dropped a frame, a really heavy frame on my foot.

And then, like, eight hours later, I woke up at 3.30 in the morning with a throbbing foot. I called my dad, who's a doctor. And I'm like, Dad, I think I'm a blood clot. And he, like, seriously was about to send me over to Cedars. Right. But then I remembered, like, 20 minutes later that I had dropped a frame earlier in the day. But I didn't remember initially. Yeah.

Haven't you ever seen a bruise on your leg? And you're like, how'd I get that? That's true. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it doesn't take much force to break one of the little tiny, superficial, cutaneous pain and just get a blood collection without much trauma. Maybe that's what happened to it. Yeah.

Aggressive nose-picking will do that, too. Are you serious? What? That's super cool. Wait, tell us more about that. I had to say, use a tissue. I don't know. Ew. Dr. Smith, thank you for coming on and giving your expert opinion on this matter.

We really appreciate it. Very welcome. Have a lovely good. Bye. Thank you. I love what we call doctors for on this podcast. We one time called my dad to see if not using soap was real detriment to your health. And I'm almost a doctor.

I literally think I solved that. almost as well as the actual doctor. Well, Amy, I will say that something, yeah, you're right. In Michelle's case, Michelle, I'm sure something happened during the day that you don't remember. Because she could have just bumped into something and you're like, ow, and then you went to bed and then all of a sudden you woke up. I don't know. It's so bizarre to me, right, because you would think like,

oh, yeah, I hit that thing or I ran into that wall or you would, you would recall that. Like, it's not like I was walking around drunk all day. Like, I was only scared. Like, I've gotten hit a little bit before where, and then you forget about it. It just depends maybe it just hit you in that exactly. right way. Maybe you were drunk and it didn't hurt as bad as it should have. All right.

Well, we have more episode to talk about. We have to go beyond the bed talk. We have to go beyond it. Good question about that. Yeah. Oh, there's more. Do you think I'll give him like a lower bed now instead of the top book? Oh, yeah.

Well, it depends. For good TV, they're going to continue to give him the top bunk. Yeah, they did. We got to talk about Colton. You guys, I think he got away with this very. easily. They made it seem like we were supposed to watch this. We were supposed to watch Becca and Tia Talk, Becca and Colton talk, and then see Tia and Colton in the same room together and then we're going to be like, you know what? You're right. Everything's fine. No

relationship. He's moving on. We're all moving on and everybody's happy. And then Becca goes and gives Colton the Rose. And I'm so confused. Am I the only one that is so confused? I felt like I missed something. Yeah. Exactly. I feel like there's a whole story on they're hiding something from us that went down that day or they just saying it was all boring because tia was like i don't care it's fine i only kissed him once and he's like i'm not here for her i'm here for you and then it was just like boring boring and then she's like i like him because i do think he's pretty cute he's so cute and the only reason he's getting away with this so easily is because he's so cute if this was one of the random guys like i one of the random guys whose names i can't even

come up with it at the top of my head because they are so random there's no reason there's no way that he'd be sticking around i believe he also dated the gymnast alley racing yeah she he she did yeah maybe he just likes to date celebrity yeah he probably does which whatever i don't find any problem with that maybe he just wants there to be more there than it's actually there like maybe it really was just as simple as that you know what i mean like let's put it this way i wouldn't turn down Chris Pratt. I'm not going to call Anna Farris and be like, I met you one time. Do you care if I date Chris Pratt? Do you know what I mean? Oh, that's funny. I feel like Tia is probably really irritated, though, because Colton is so cute. She was too cool for it to be like, oh, yeah, he can

be here. Yeah. Like, as a, I mean, as Girl Coe type thing, even if Tia and Colton didn't have that much of a relationship, as a girl, I'd be like, you know what? I don't want, like, you're a man type thing. You know, it's just really. You and me both would be like, I'd like you not to date him, please. Yeah, and I would be like, you two be cray. You don't even know him. I also felt like Tia had a little bit of like a grin on her face that was kind of like when she saw him, you know, she gave him a little way. Yeah. Like there's like a story there. There totally is. There's something

we know the story. They met. They kissed one time. They probably texted. Like here's the thing, you guys. If you you guys play all those rules you're wonderful people and you'll never like get what you want i think i got what i want right but if you played girl code like you maybe wouldn't up because one time somewhere someone you knew kissed jared yeah i got really mad i got really mad that everything was televised you don't think there was something more between golden and kia i think there was a lot between cold and tia i think they were even downplaying it i think they talked for a long time.

I think that they made an effort to fly to each other somewhere. And I think it was talking before her season was airing, so in January, early January. Early to me. It didn't start filming until March. That's a bit of time.

I bet you they found out literally a couple days before if you've been selected or not. Yeah. Like, do you think they really cut off conversation when he found out he was going on the show? No. No. And plus, it wasn't decided until March.

that she wasn't The Bachelorette, so I bet you they talked all the way until Becca was announced. In the grand scheme of things, that's like two months, you guys. Like, that's not enough for Becca to never date him. Think about how emotionally attached we three get in two months. Well, this is the deal. When you're going on a show like this, like, you can't, I don't know, I don't think that you can hide stuff like that. Like, people would have seen them out. Like, you know, you worry about like conversations, like getting screenshots out and proving.

like, see, we were still talking, like, I don't know. I mean, they had to be careful. There was too much more going on. I don't. I think they actually only hung out in person one time, but I think they probably FaceTime a lot. That's what I'm saying. You guys with the FaceTime, by the way. I think they're telling the truth.

I just, I don't know. Yeah, I think it's fine. It's like, let's move on from it and see what happens. You know, Tia is definitely thinking in this moment. She's like, the odds of her ending up with him in the end are low, and the odds of him ending up in Paradise with me are high. So let's just play the game. It's going to work out.

It's going to work out. Absolutely true. Yeah. Okay. Now let's go back to talking about, I know we were distracted by Richard Marks, but let's talk about the one-on-one date with Chris and not talk about Richard. So Chris, I didn't really, I didn't like the first episode because he was the Mr. Right Reasons guy, the one that forced the other guy, Chase, into telling the history about

the text and the old girlfriend. And I was like, come on, dude. Why are we playing wrong reasons police already? He, by the way, looks like Danny W. would from new kids on the block. And you're right. Doesn't he? Yeah.

But then on this day, I thought Chris was so lovely. So adorable. Well, in him opening up about, you know, this letter he sent to his dad and not getting a response. Like, that broke my heart. That was so sad. So sad. I think he might do you. And call him to be so vulnerable about it, right?

Like to open up and talk about it. And you're sitting there going like, you know his dad's watching this and going like, well, I'm a hayhole. Oh, totally. You think his dad's even watching? If you didn't care about a letter like that, I'm sure he doesn't care about watching his son on TV. Who knows? It's so sad. I thought he was darling.

I thought he was adorable. She seems to really like him, especially in the end when they're slow dancing to Richard Marks. It seems like they really actually have something. And I can see him getting to like top 10 now. Oh, yeah. Even maybe top eight, top seven. Yeah. Sorry, Chris, I don't see you in their hometowns.

No, I don't see Chris in hometowns, but I see him getting a lot farther than I thought he was going to day one. Let's see. Yeah, I do too. What else? We talk about the group football date. I mean, Clay gets hurt. Why have we not talked about Jordan and David, or have you guys? Oh, we've already talked about them a ton before you got on the phone.

So sorry, Michelle. But what do you have to say about that? It was, I mean, I just can't handle Gordon. It is so funny. The stuff that comes out of his mouth, you're just like, are you. This is real, right? Like, this is, but it's so entertaining. I found it to be so funny.

And, like, I wanted to stay on the show just for, like, entertainment purposes. Oh, well, don't worry. They'll make sure that that happens. Yeah. Unbelievable. Let's talk about how dramatic Lincoln is. Like, could Lincoln be more of... About that football?

He's the most dramatic man I've ever seen on the show from the whole kissing Becca is, like, flying on the wings of a... a Pegasus to the way he was like, I hope David makes it through this. Seriously. Yeah. Real dramatic. Yeah. He's something.

He's something. He has something. Although I am surprised nothing came out about his stunt. Yeah. Oh, the pooping? Yeah. I don't hear anything about it yet. Do you think they were going to hear about this? I'm not sure. I don't think we are. Did you hear about this pooping thing? What's pooping thing? Michelle? Oh, Christina.

I'll let you do the honors. I don't know if I can explain as good as you. I don't think we've actually spoken about this on the podcast yet before. Mark, do you remember us talking about it? I do not. It's not ring a bell with me. Oh, my goodness gracious, guys. Okay, Christina doesn't want to talk about it, so I will.

Because, like, I don't know. I wouldn't be able to say it as much as good as you. I don't want to spread any rumors, but this is what was said as to how Lincoln poops. He apparently doesn't poop in the toilet. He played this, all rumors, guys, there's, we can't call our source, the Hollywood Reporter, about this. There's no confirmed facts, but apparently Lincoln poops on toilet paper, on the ground, in the bathroom, and then he picks up the toilet paper and places it in the toilet. No, he doesn't. Yeah, yeah.

Rumors. Rumors. Not in the world. Allegedly, as Wendy Williams would say, allegedly, he poops on the floor. What would be the benefits to something like this? Why would a person do such a thing? I have no idea. There's not one thing, like, you know.

Maybe there were there raised. Dean and his soap, Dean and his lack of soap used. Like, I understand where he's coming from. This is something that is unfathomable to me. A guy on the morning show, he had a roommate once that would put you with toilet paper in the trash can. Oh, my God. As he was growing up, they didn't have a good plumbing system. them that could accommodate toilet paper.

I'm about to bar just at that. I can speak on that. So there's got to be a reason. Oh, wait. The way I was growing up in Russia, you didn't flush toilet paper. You put in the garbage bag? Mm-hmm.

And does it smell the house up? No. No. But there's more depth and explanation to all of this, and it's kind of mind-blowing. So I don't want to, like, Mitra in here, really, because it kind of goes on. You can blow it.

Well, we definitely want, we want gross, but if you're not comfortable with it, then it's fine. It's only my experience. And again, I was growing up in an orphanage. In school, we had bathrooms. We didn't have bathrooms in school. It would be like an outside. Like an outhouse?

Like a porta potty? Not even a porta party. It's like a wooden building where you have like holes in the ground. Holes in the ground. And you're just staying and you do your thing. Sometimes I remember using, this is going to sound weird, book pages. Book pages. So if they're glossy, it's not good.

Oh, gosh. they have to find. Okay, that's too much. No, no, that's very, I mean. But that's, I mean, that's where I'm from. You know, in an orphanage in Russia, but this is at the Bachelor Mansion. True, true. Did Lincoln have any, I don't know anything about his upbringing?

He grew up in multiple places throughout the world, but I think he predominantly lived in the United States. And I think he lived in Northern California. Maybe it's a feeling of the toilet is germy. And also as cavemen, we went on the ground. And maybe it's more natural. Maybe he feels like he needs to squat that low. He can't sit. He has to, like, really get in the squat position.

Okay. This is the weirdest conversation I've ever been to follow. Yeah, but it is interesting. And we are going to let you go now. We're going to leave you with this, Michelle. On that note. Thank you for joining us, Michelle. It has been a pleasure.

You guys, make sure to go to michelmoney.com and sign up for some beauty classes inside and out. use our code almost famous. Yes, thank you guys. See ya. Bye. Bye. Sorry, I'm impressed with your life, Christina.

Growing up in an orphanage in Russia to a American television personality. I mean, that's an impressive journey for anybody. There's quite a bit. I mean, obviously, certain things that just block it out and wouldn't share, but then when topic comes up, I'm like, oh, wait, I remember this and this and that. Wow. Yeah. I do remember, like, my parents now, I was adopted,

and bringing a couple books for us to read, but they were all in English. So my mom and dad, but some of these books had to go, were being used for other things. So that's why I'm like glossy pages. I'm like, no. So when you were, when you got adopted,

and then you were able to use something that we take advantage every day, a toilet, was it like all sparkly and wonderful to you? Like all the, just the benefits of having a plumbing, a plumbed house? So inside the orphanage, we had toilets, but they're, okay, so here they have a seated cushion you can sit on, but if you lift it up, it's just glass bowl type thing. Yeah. So that's where we would sit on and it was, I was like, why is there water in here?

Because we didn't have water inside our toilet. So it's like so strange, but there was a couple different things that I had to get used to. So you had never sat on a regular toilet before until you were adopted. And now they have, what, come out, is that what it's called? Where they, like, clean you and air you and everything. Bades, okay. So I'm like, wow, okay. What about showers?

I don't know. I think that was new to me. Did you take, like, a bath and, like, how did you take bath? Okay, this is going to be how. It's a little bit uncomfortable for me to talk about, but so there would be a room. There would be one shower. and it would be like set up kind of like a table. So you would get a bucket and it's usually not like one person.

It's like multiple kids would be in the room. And they like use their own bowl to clean up. So occasionally if you're a young one, you do not get to use the shower. It's always seniority. So if you're older, you go cold dibs and whatnot. But showers is going to sound weird, but you would go and we would go and,

wash shop properly maybe once or twice a week otherwise it was up to you to use the bathroom well girls would inside like the orphanage because if you wanted like a proper shower you would have to leave the orphanage go elsewhere okay so at least that's my experience again

how old were you when you were adopted 12 wow you were going to like puberty and stuff in the orphanage I don't think I hit you don't think you hit it yet I think I came that must be a horrible time for girls in the orphanage Oh, yeah.

I mean, not that every, you know, the entire experience is probably horrible. All right. Is it weird? I'm sorry. Is it weird for you that rushes in the news every day here in the newspaper? Is that a weird feeling for you? It kind of is. Yeah.

Where I was, it was kind of secluded. Like, I didn't hear, I've said this multiple times. I didn't hear about the 9-11 incident. You never heard about 9-11 until you were here. I, like, I remember somebody older saying, like, hey, you should watch the news and I'm like I'm 12 like I want to play games and whatever she was like well you want to educate yourself and at that point I was like okay and still went outside and played so when I came here that's when I started learning all about American history and one thing that

stood out to me I was in I think sixth grade seventh grade seventh grade and I had a girl in my class by the name of Katrina and everyone would like make posters about like Katrina and all of that I'm like, why are they praising this girl? Well, it was her king, Katrina. I was like, wow. So, I mean, I didn't know any English then or anything. Wow. What was your typical meal like in the office?

One thing I hate the most is lentils because I remember sitting down and having to eat a bowl of lentils, and they would not let me get up until I finished the ball. And if the teachers, like, walking around, I would like take a scoop and put a person next to me, like, here. You'd rather not eat? Oh, they made you eat everything? I mean, I think I remember as a kid, I don't know how elastic time is, but I remember

it was like either 45 minutes. I felt like I was sitting there forever and I'm like, there's no way I'm going to eat this because I was either full, I couldn't finish, or I just didn't want it. But I just remember, like, scooping it to my person next to me. I was like, well, you eat this for me so I can leave. When you were adopted and your mom started cooking you dinner, were you just like, wow, food is so excellent. My mom's BLTs are the best.

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free and once you get these meals you're going to be hooked and then you're going to be using blue apron like every week because blue apron it's a better way to cook impress someone if you're trying to cook oh it's definitely definitely we've always been talking about how Ben needs to like put on that blue apron

and like cook for a lady Amy wants him to do it for her but would that work for you? Heck yeah I like a guy who can cook a guy can cook yeah candy and cook even if you want who? I don't know um all right moving on are you ready to do our reenactment our dramatic portrayal of wait i'm not doing it

am i yeah you are oh oh my goodness no way it's not it's an actual monologue yes you do it's all on me all right here goes my acting skills this is jordan talking to david david if you think you're sending me home. You're not. You're a skeleton of a man, David. Hey, cheers to you being a bitch. I just had to go and talk to Becca. Don't talk to me about her. It's been a pleasure. No matter what it's been a pleasure. David, you're living in a world of fiction in your own head. Your perception of reality is your reality. And your reality is not the same reality is mine. So if you think you need to chill out, have a drink, and stop talking to me, I don't have to look, I don't have to go back to anything. Thank you, David. Thank you for

showering me with attention. Thank you so much. This is exactly what I want. It's funny. You think I'm a joke. I am a Willamina model. I don't think you know what that means. I have an image. If you're trying to tear down my image and my three-year contract with them, it's actually pretty serious. Something some people consider the top. If you're trying to do that, you're failing at that because guess what? Attached to me

is professionality. It's my face. Everything I do, it's in the way I walk. It's in the way I talk. So if you want to try to wreck my image, you'll never succeed. You know why? Because my image is me. I have no idea what I was saying

half that time. Like most of that made no sense. And guys, that wasn't because I was reading it wrong. It's because it's Jordan. It's Jordan. Thank you. Thank you for. But I mean, that's quite a monologue. That was quite the thing. Did he really do that a monologue without having

David interject in that? Because that is mumbo jumbo. I think I love Jason's response to that and Willis says. They just sat there and they were like, okay. Oh, the guys were cracking up the entire time. They could not. They just could not. and Jason, before we move on with Bachelor emails,

let's talk about Jason and how amazing he is. What a dark horse. Yeah. You like him, right? I so far would have seen of him, yeah. Initially, when the pictures came out, whatever, I didn't think he would be a standout, but I think Becca likes him too and you can see that.

She's smitten by him. She forgot his name, though. She still has a crush on him. Yeah. She forgot his name and he handled it marvelously. Yeah. What a guy. All right.

Let's see This email is from Brooke I feel like there's always a girl named Brooke emailing us Maybe Amy just really loves Brooke's emails I was hoping y'all would touch on this on the podcast Becca met up with Joe I thought we didn't oh we didn't I forgot we talked about that

We didn't talk about that but it was on the rundown last week Becca met up with Joe the hot grocer In Chicago She gave out Joe a shout out on Instagram and they've met up at this store. The guy was bathing suit shopping. I wonder what he was bathing suit shopping for. And I wonder if Joe was going to be, you know,

like let's just like basically confirm it. Joe is definitely in paradise. He's in paradise. But I wonder if Joe was supposed to be in paradise before everybody freaked out about him not making it past week one. Do you think that he was on the paradise list? Or they were like, oh, wow, everybody loves Joe. We've got to add him.

to that list. Oh, he was going to go to Paradise either way. You think so? I think it helped when everyone was like, we love Joe. Yeah, definitely. So that was cool that Becca made the effort to go and see Joe while she was in Chicago. Oh, and here's another question that we've already now discussed on this podcast. She goes, how have you not talked about Lincoln allegedly pooping on the floor? Oh, yeah. He was apparently pooping on the floor at his old job. So we don't really know if it rolled over to his time in the house. Do you know if the guys have made mention of that?

No, I don't, and I hope you didn't. Okay. She sent the link, and I just read the article she said, it's fascinating. But the people do think it was a germaphobe situation. The toilets were so gross, he would not go near it. Okay. Okay.

That's an excuse, but it's not a good one. It's not a good one. You know what? You can use a little chlorox wipe on the toilet before you sit down. Also, it's not, you know, statistics will show you. There's not that much bacteria on a toilet. And it's just going to get back at the back of your thighs anyway.

And you can always use a toilet seat cover. Like there are other ways. There's so many other ways. Yeah. Put toilet paper on the toilet or whatever. Because you know it's gross at the bathroom floor. Yeah. So much dirtier.

So much dirtier. Yeah. Her third question. She goes, it was posted on Facebook that Leo was in a soft core porn. I'm sorry. How are these guys vetted again? With further investigation from the group, it's apparently called high-heeled homicides. decide. Okay, I may watch this when I get home just for shi giggles. Oops, I should shi. I'm terrified to

type this into the search bar. So if you all choose to talk about this, I'll let you guys see for yourselves. If I were The Bachelorette and I kiss a guy who was in a porn, I would lose it. So once I first heard about Leo being in a softcore porn, I go, what is the difference between softcore and hardcore porn? Apparently, and excuse me, gentlemen in the room, you may know better than us is softcore when you don't show um the private parts correct okay so it's kind of like a sexy a sexy video lots of action okay but they never show no genitalia oh so they're like actually doing it oh they're not i don't think so oh it's all simulation i think it's like showtime late at night okay so what makes rated r movies rated r movies i know what's the difference between

softcore porn and rated at our movies i think there's softcore has more action in it. It's like a full scene of this. Violence and like bad words. No, we see lots of sexy scenes in our movies. I mean shades of gray. But I think a soft core porn is less legitimate than an R-rated theatrical film.

I think a soft core means it's just kind of late night cable kind of garbage. Okay. So basically you're watching a sex scene out of out of a movie context. There's very little. There's some context, but not much. Okay.

All right. Yeah, Leo was in a soft core porn And apparently he also plays some, he plays the, a minion, I think, over at Universal Studios sometimes. Leo, you guys got range. We have an other fun email. It's a little off topic from The Bachelor. But first, we have got to talk about something that we are both big proponents of, right, Christina? Yes.

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They also had this really cute Yumi Kim makeup train case, Aforia Luna, guys, Aforio Luna. These things cost like $80 at least, and it's in the FabFit Fun box that you're going to get. When you go to FabfitFund.com, use the code almost famous, and you're going to get the box itself, the whole box with the tart makeup, the makeup tote, the Pier 1 stuff, and the Foria Luna for $39.99. Guys, you're not, I know, you're like, this math is not adding up, but it does because the FabFit fun box is the most incredible deal in the world. They're going to get you a box that's valued at this one is over three. $300 and you're going to get the box for $39.99. I know. It's weird, but that's just how it goes.

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box, making it only $39.99. Every day I get out of the shower And I see there on the counter I see the Pure One marble ring dish And on top of it is the Foria Luna Fofo My wife loves the summer box It's so, it's really good The summer box

It's actually a joke You're like, wait, how did you get all of this for me? It makes for great gifts too Oh, it's really good gift giving All right, final email is from Claire And Claire, I know what this email is about And I kind of take back my words from last week I'm going to read it, and then I'm going to explain.

Dear Ben and Ashley, when you guys were discussing Chris Pratt, Ben asked, is he really that good-looking? I would have to agree with Ashley in saying that based on looks alone, I don't find him super attractive. However, I still find him extremely appealing because of his charm, personality, sense of humor, and let's be honest, fame for what he lacks in looks. This brings me to my point. Why does Bachelor Nation have to be a beautiful people convention? what are your guys's thoughts on this oh and then they asked she asked ben as a former bachelor

if you were to do it all again would you be opening to having women who didn't currently fit the contestant mold for looks um okay well i actually Claire I think Chris Pratt's actually really hot last week I said he wasn't like the most stunning person but I think Chris Pratt in Jurassic Park is like wow holy moly it's when he's tan and sweaty that it gets really, that he's really hot. That's true. Tan and sweaty.

That's why I like the guys in paradise. But I, but what do you think, Christine? I've got to throw this back on you. Yeah. If they just had, you know, sevens,

six and sevens on the Bachelor. I mean, personalities make up for it a lot. It's really true. I just, I mean, I just don't like a lot of Bachelor. Past Bachelor contestants because I see them like,

on TV, and it's kind of, I know you're supposed to give a person like a chance, get to know them, type of thing, but it's like, in the back of your mind, you already know that they were with this person and that's how they were portrayed. I don't know. I think there are a lot of attractive

people on The Bachelor, Bachelorette's. I just, I think, I don't know. I'm trying to find a way because I'm like, wait, I'm trying to think of a person that's like, not attractive, but I'm like, okay, they all are. Yeah, well, I mean, I think we could even use Jason Jason as an example He's definitely good looking

Like he's a nice looking guy But would you turn and look at him on the street No Okay that hair Yeah I'll be like hold on Why because he does have good hair I know good hair but I'm like That's not my style

But then again Maybe Chris like I wouldn't turn I think Chris is actually the perfect example Because I didn't think Chris was that cute And then he had his one on one this week And then I was like no I see it He's so cute Once I got to learn his personality, I thought he was a lot cuter.

That's a good example. I don't know if we're answering your question, Claire. I know you're saying, like, should we have more average-looking people on the show? But in the way, it's like, I don't know. Everyone's average is just... Yeah, I don't know. Well, it's a noble thought, but would America be interested in watching such a show? That's what I was going to say.

Like, do you want to... Is it a show? Would it be as interesting as a show if it wasn't all these beautiful people trying to fight over one guy? or in paradise, like all these beautiful people trying to fight for one another. I don't know, because then wouldn't it just be kind of like real life? A bunch of dad bods and muffin tops out there in paradise?

It would just be like, it would be like how all, how there's like a hot guy in real life and all these girls are after him. But it makes it more interesting to see like more model-esque-looking people after model-esque looking people. Do you think people are going to watch the Miss America pageant

now that they've removed the evening gown and swimsuit competitions? They've removed the evening. evening gown? They did not, do they? I knew that they removed the swimsuit, which I was like, sure. She said they were revamping the evening gown competition. That's what... Well, and what they wear, jeans and a t-shirt? I don't know. I'm very

curious. I might tune in the first time, but I'm not sure the world's going to tune in anymore after the changes they made. It's not the gowns or the bathing suits that make these that make you watch the show. It's... That is not what makes these girls beautiful. These girls just have beautiful faces and bodies.

And it'll be shine, that will shine regardless of what they're wearing. I think. I do think if you see somebody in the bathing suit, think of Victoria's Secret fashion shows. All girls tune in. And that gives us something to look up to. So then removing the bathing suit aspect of the competition, I think it's just, oh, you have a pretty face. But girls like to see the fitness, the workout, how your body looks, something to strive towards.

I guess you're right. Even though they always ask, hey, why don't you just be normal? I'm in the minority because when I watch a Victoria Secret fashion show, I'm just like, I want their face. I want their face. I was like, I don't necessarily want their body because they are sure. so skinny and I feel like a lot of guys like curves like oh yeah for sure yeah but for me I'm like wow that muscle did not exist it so what can I do together yeah it's just interesting but claire I don't have an answer for you but I don't see it happening that that is my answer

before we leave we have to give a little shout out to 786 degrees pizza the california pizza Festival is coming to Los Angeles on July 28th and 29th. I'm going to definitely be there. Didn't know until I just read that. One of the pizzas represented will be 786 degrees pizza from Sun Valley, California. They were awarded the best restaurant in California by USA Today. I'm going to go get a piece of pizza outside. And they are also number one in Los Angeles by Yelp.

So you've got to try them out. Get your ticket to the California Pizza Festival this summer at www. www.cali PizzaFestival.com. Christina. 28th and 29. Are you going to be joining me at the pizza festival? Yeah. Yum.

I try all the pizzas. I love pizzas. I went and actually I ordered barbecue chicken pizza the next day. I went and I got very tasty pizza from the butcher's daughter. I had like two pizzas. Oh my God.

What a felony. So I'm going to this pizza festival. It feeds lentils. Oh my God. What was the first time you had pizza? When I came here, actually, I think it was in Europe whenever I had to travel over. That's a good place. That's probably a knife and a fork. You ate it with a knife and a fork?

I think that's a European style. I think you're right. I think in Italy they do sometimes do that. And then I came here and go. Well, you came to America. I'm sorry, we're back on. No, we love it. I love it.

It's so fascinating. Yeah. You were adopted by a family and they lived where? Kentucky. Kentucky. So that was your first taste of America was Kentucky. No. I can't actually

So my flight was from where I was to Moscow It was like nine hours by flight From Moscow to Paris That was probably like six hours Then from that to Miami And that's where I was like Hold on It was June 10th, today's June 10th

My 14 years Happy anniversary Thank you Oh my gosh, happy anniversary It's the 10th right It's the 11th Oh you missed it yesterday I did I guess

But so I came to Miami And I remember I guess this is when they were still doing the checkpoint every 12th person or something like that and I got singled out and I'm like, what is happening? Oh my gosh, that's so scary. Every random person actually. Okay, so I saw palm trees

and I was like, what is this? I saw different ethnicities and I was like, what is this? Had you seen any America on television? I'm guessing there wasn't a lot of television. There wasn't a lot of television, but when there was, it was like English speaking and Russian over. obviously I understood Russian but I saw it on TV but not enough to kind of but not

enough anyway so I remember going to the gas station and being able to pick out anything I wanted and then go to the counter and it was like one 99 and I'm like what is this in Russia would be like two dollar two roubles out I was like wait I can pick food up and just like take it and go to the counter there they would give it to you they'll be I'll be like hey I want that piece of gum and they would take it and give it to you oh I see so a little bit of culture shock but then I was like I hope when I'm going there's no palm trees because it was too much of a change too soon and now I'm like hello palm trees are living in LA now yeah so culture shock for sure well you're I've read your story actually since we in the last 20 minutes

I've been reading up on your story some more and it's fascinating you're on a really bad path and you've really made it a life for yourself so I think that's inspirational I really do well thank you yeah I'm really trying to inspire others it's possible it's really cool guys and thanks for having me today. Well, Christina, thank you for joining us and giving us all your thoughts on the episode and all your inside knowledge and telling us a little bit about your life. Also, thank you to our sponsors, Blue Apron, FabFit Fun, Hubble Contacts, Frambridge, and Thread Up. And thank you guys for joining me and listening to me without Ben here. Means the world. Next week? You're a natural. The opposite. Next week, I will be away and Ben will be here.

And you'll have a great time with him as well. I love you guys. Thank you so much. Bye. Bye, guys. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast on IHeartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.