The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Some Virgins Have All the Fun with Jade Roper Tolbert

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

Ashley is joined by her pal Jade Roper Tolbert to break down the latest Bachelor Nation headlines and take us behind the scenes of the new Backstreet Boys show at the Las Vegas Sphere!Ashley and Jade share their reactions to the latest episodes of Bachelor in Paradise, and we hear their shocking theory about the true motive of the Goldens on the beach. What's trending? Bachelor alums hosting dating shows - and one has Ashley feeling major FOMO!And, we have an update on the fate of our next Golden Bachelor, Mel Owens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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every wednesday on exactly right listen wherever you get your podcasts this is the ben and ashley i almost famous podcast with iHeart radio hey guys welcome back to the almost famous podcast today i am joined by one of my best friends jade tollbert hey jade hello so we thought that it'd be fun since ben couldn't be on the pod today to have you come on because we just had a great, really impromptu week at the Backstreet Boys concert in Vegas at the sphere. It was the best time. We stayed at the Waldorf Astoria and Jade had texted me legit like six days before I left. Yes. And she was like, hey, we should do a girl's trip to Vegas for Backstreet Boys. I was like, well, I actually am going to the Sunday show and I think I might have an extra ticket. And,

she was like let me ask Tanner if he'll watch the kids for like 24 hours and uh we made it happen it was very serendipitous because i really couldn't go and i was like the only friend i know who would be like down to do that with me so like impulsively it would be you and then and then you were like it was so perfect it really i couldn't be happier there would have been no better person to come and it was her first back street boys concert so oh geez you'll never be able to go see him on tour after seeing them at the sphere, even though it's wonderful at all times. You guys, this was the nuttiest concert I've ever seen in my life. It was pure sensory candy.

Your eyes, your brain was just on so much serotonin. They were, they literally haven't changed as performers, if not gotten better through the years, because I think back when I like saw them, I guess like during my college years, like early 2010s, they were great in live. But sometimes you were like, oh, it's not what it used to be. And now I feel like it's 2001 again. They sound great. The acoustics in the sphere are unbelievable.

You like feel the music in your body, but not in the way that you normally would at a concert. Like it's crystal clear. Yeah. I mean, I think I told you somebody messaged me that there's 67,000. and speakers in the sphere, including one in every single seat. So it did. It felt like they were singing right next to you.

It was so crystal clear. They sounded amazing. Like, even your chairs vibrated with like the visuals and stuff. It was like, I don't know. It was like being on a two-hour ride. It was incredible. It was a themed ride. The theme was the Backshade Boys.

It felt like we were in a Universal Studios ride. And actually the visuals were better than what you usually would find out of Universal Studios. Right. When you said that you felt like you were xenon, I'm like that was, it felt like we went to outer space. Yes. It was too cool. We actually through the Bachelor, I met their manager, Jen. She is the greatest. She is a powerhouse. This woman manages like the biggest boy band in the world and has just kept them going at this amazing level, especially over the past decade, which she's been mostly within the past decade. and um so she got us to do their little meet and greet beforehand they basically have a friends and family room where the guys you know if they choose come and hang out with about i don't know how many people were in there about a hundred maybe a little less yeah maybe a little less yeah and

so we got to say hi to nick we got to say hi howie gave us a very private like a just a very personal moment he was so freaking sweet he remembered details about me and nats that and because we also went with Nas Perez, who was one of our Bachelor producers. That's how I became really good friends with her back in Bachelor in Paradise season two. And then Jared was there. So it was truly a BIP2 reunion at the Backshie Boys. And it was so great. Howie was so nice.

I just have to say, I could not believe how warm he was. Yeah. Like he was just so inviting, so kind, so warm. His family was the sweetest. Yeah. His wife has always been really nice. Yeah, they were so sweet. It just made me, and still, I just be like, I can't, I don't know.

You just don't know what to expect from people who have, like, mega stardom. Like, they've been worldwide known, right? And this guy is just sitting there talking to us, like, I don't know, like, we were friends. I mean, you know him, but I don't know him. And it was just like, it was really like a, no, no, it was a moment for me. I was like, he was, I don't know. I feel like he left such an impression on me. It was so crazy because, guys, he had, NAS interviewed him, I think.

it was like two and a half years ago she did this jc penny ad with them where she was like the host of this sponsored event and he goes nas you're dominican right like he remember her ancestry he remembered that it was a jc penny event that she hosted yeah he was like talking to me about my kids ages i'm like you are so kind i like can't believe it and then he like helped us make a reel to an Instagram real. And it was like so ridiculous and he was like just went along with it. Yeah, he was like, do you want to do it again? If it takes not right, we'll do it again.

And then you see them all like because they're all so sweet and so humble. AJ wasn't feeling good. He didn't show up to the back room. And then I didn't get to say hi to Kevin, but we've, I've met Kevin a number of times and he's just so sweet. So I was like, I don't need to push any meetings right now or like hello's when I have such great memories, you know, like they're so bombarded right now. with other people and um let's see who so like when they got on the stage it's just like they

your personas take over like older egos the back street boys exactly they're just like these sweet humble guys just like talking they're just like regular dads then all of a sudden yes holy cow it was so good i i don't know i i have like all those videos but i feel like it's just stored in here forever my brain is like forever like chemically altered i know I feel like I can't even post some of these videos because they don't even do it justice the experience of

seeing these visuals all around you having this live music like having your favorite band it was just absolutely out of this world if you are a back street fan and you have thought like oh I should make the trip like you've got to make the trip. Jade and I are trying

to put together a giveaway right now so that people can experience this so stay tuned. I feel like when I go on these things like when I go to concerts and it just feels like I don't know you just feels like I said forever changed I just want everyone to experience it I'm like oh I just wish everyone could go because it's just that good yeah you were thinking about emmy when you were sitting there I was thinking about oddly my parents I was like my parents would love this my dad loves backstreet boys he's always he was the one who took me to the concerts in high school and college and stuff

and I just know that he would geek out at the cool of it all. We could go on and on and on. Seriously, you guys have got to check it out. The theme was fun, millennial, millennium, because they all wore white in the millennium album cover. And like a lot of the times in that millennium era, it was like universal white with the baby blue background. So they wanted to do a white out. And it was cool to look out into the crowd and to see everybody participating in the white. Totally. It was so fun. And then I wore a butterfly outfit and Jade wore really cool Xenon pants, basically. When you got up the backshy boy, it's concert, I mean, why not?

I know. It was just the perfect night. I smiled so big for so long. It was just, I've never, I've really, like, I was overloaded with serotonin. I couldn't go to sleep. I don't think I've, I mean, we got back to our room at, like, midnight. And I was like, wow, it's midnight. Like, I'm doing good for being in Vegas.

And I don't think I fell asleep until about 3 a.m. because my brain could not down. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, what I also love about you and Tanner is that you guys keep up with Paradise, you keep up with The Bachelor. A lot of alums have like kind of dropped off as far as like watching dedicatedly

throughout the years. But we are, we will always watch. For me, I can't possibly imagine like the show that I was on and met my husband and have my family through to not watch it, right, if it's, like, still ongoing. However, with grand season, there were times where I was like, please, I don't want to watch this. Oh, I mean, you know what? I was having high hopes when, like, Joey became the Bachelor again. It's up trending. And then I don't know what happened. And I don't know what's happening with Paradise, but we are watching. So Tanner was the one that Ben and I.

relied on for his polls. I love Tanner's polling. I think he has a good grasp of the bachelor demographic through his following as well. So most people like 80 something percent don't like the new version of the show, totally new production crew, highly stylized edit. You, we were texting because Jade, Tanner, me and Jared have a pretty ongoing text thread, and we were just talking about how it feels so different. Can you describe what Tanner and yourself complain about when you're watching on Mondays? And, of course, the good things, too, because there are good things. And especially as time goes on, I think it was like a big, the first episode or two, I was like, oh, God, this feels so weird. This feels so weird.

And now that we're getting deeper into the storylines, I'm not seeing the edit as much, like the style. Oh, my gosh. I mean, Tanner definitely has a ton to say. But I, um, I just feel i just miss the campiness that was like i don't know the old song and the old intros and just what made it classically paradise and just i don't relate i just don't relate to the new styles of dating that the generation below us how is it different you think i don't i just feel like they're always just like one like one foot barely in you know like one foot out the door one foot. No one's ever just like, I'm going to fully dive into this and see what happens. Because I feel like maybe that's just more of my personal styles. Like when I'm ready to just

like give it a shot, I just 100% try to give it a shot. And I feel like everybody nowadays is always so hesitant. They always have this like, I don't know. I feel like people have really high this is good. It's good to have high standards. But I feel like people have like exceptionally high standards. And when something goes wrong, they just like totally write off the person instead of understanding that we're complex people with cats and like with like our quirks and everything and that like if you really want to make something work you work through it with somebody and so I just like people give up so easily and I don't know that's just like my two sense on that but the show just doesn't have the same there's like a heart it's a warmth and a heart yes yeah I mean god I'd give

anything for that air conditioning I was so jealous when they're like we're saying in an air conditioned space. But also, like, I kind of like the suffering element to it. It made, like, you made you have to, like, be tough for love. Like, you really wanted to be there. And it did, like, create more of, like,

a, it kind of created, like, a community vibe with us, like, all, like, suffering together in one bedroom. That is true. When we're sleeping outside in a hundred degrees. My gosh, we all, like, are bitten by the sand mites, where you all are sweaty, gross. Like, you didn't poop for nine days, you know? I didn't poop for nine.

days we're all dehydrated our makeup's running off our faces yeah then about the dating style there's two theories to it one i think you're correct i do think that that's how people i think people are extremely picky these days and they get very freaked out by flaw yeah i think it's due to like swiping right it's just like oh onto the next on to the next oh i don't like this thing about you there's in someone else like totally really think dating apps are ruined dating but it could be. We're glad that we got, you know, we were around during, we were single during dating apps, but it was true. It was like 30% of people were meeting that way. Now it's like, whew, a lot of a lot. Now that there's a problem with it, I mean, it finds somebody through

dating out. That's so, so great. But yeah, the never-ending options mentality is probably the issue. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Well, wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate.

Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app,

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Yeah. But if you think about Love Island, they are very all open-minded about that, though. They're like, I'm coupled up with you, but we owe it to all of ourselves to get to know everyone. And so everyone's allowed to go have a conversation. Everyone's kissing everybody and nobody's getting like really weird about it yet. And so like halfway through, then it's kind of like, all right, now you've got to be serious with this person. And then you're not really like entertaining other people anymore. And if you do, then you're kind of a villain.

But in the beginning, I feel like everybody is really open and understands that that's just the concept. And so I feel like almost Paradise should kind of like ours was not. I was like, if you like go after anybody else, you're going to be like totally like a villain when we were on Paradise. Oh, 1,000 percent. Yeah. Yeah. Like if say like next week I like jumped over to somebody else and then like was wishing to watch you with Tanner, I would have people would have hated me. Yeah. But I feel like if they all had that. that like understanding of we're all just here to get to know each other and they be getting

then maybe that's like then I understand we're like you're not supposed to couple up or like the first week doesn't have rose ceremonies that would actually probably could work best for paradise that's a good spin the first like two weeks you know which is really like six days I also think if they're going to adopt some of these new ways to do paradise I think if you don't get a rose I don't think you should have to be sent home I just think you're just single in that villa or whatever, and then more people come in. That way, like, you have an option to see the new people, too. And those new people aren't just coming in and be like, oh, everybody's coupled up.

Oh, I've got one option. That's like when I walked in on season three, and Daniel was truly the only person I could ask. And, like, he didn't even want to go with me. And I didn't really want to ask him. But it's like, but I guess it's just the two of us. It's just, yeah, that is such a good point. And also, we could see people like Susie, like, Like, Lexi continue to date in that area, and it would be fun to watch them because we'd still have the awkwardness of Justin being around.

Totally. Like, I would have loved to have seen Lexi stay around and Susie. You know what I mean? And then you get to see when the new guys come in, how those, how everything plays out. It's just like different dynamics. Or if they say, like you said, if they stay around, then how are Susie and Justin and Lexi still going to navigate that? Like, I feel like it just cut off so fast. Yes. You could actually make more drama by having people hang around more. And then you'd also have possibly more couples. Totally. And that leads me to my next question. So we see that Jess and Spencer are like the Jaden Tanner kind of of this season so far. They're like the one really solid feeling couple. And they're doing what they oftentimes do. They don't give them a lot of air time.

because, quote, quote, they might be boring. Then people always are sad about not getting to know the couple that may end up being together. I think that if anyone, of all the seasons of Bachelor in Paradise, you and Tanner probably got more air time than most couples that ended up getting married. What do you think? I can't remember. It still was not a lot because we were so unproblematic. Yeah.

You know, and we didn't really participate in any of the other drama, too. Like, I know they tried to really pull me into Sam, the Sam, um, Joe stuff. Yeah. And I was just really sad because I loved Sam. And I was like, I don't want to be sucked into this. And they were trying to suck me in. I didn't like that either because I liked Sam too. Yeah.

And I was like, am I going to look bad for being like supportive of her? I know. So I just didn't play the game. So then I feel like that was the only. Tanner did. He did. He loves it though. He loves to like, he loves to like, he loves to like, he.

loves little like one-liner quips and he like still like start little fires and watch him but yeah so I can't remember the air time but maybe but yeah it is it does kind of if it's a show about love I don't know why they aren't at least giving the couples who are possibly on their way to an engagement more screen time because then you too get to develop that you get to see that develop that relationship develop and blossom do you think that Jess and Spencer will get engaged do you think there's going to be any other couple that gets engaged? My guess is now, but I guess that,

my guess that they will. I guess that there's still, if the show is still trying to end it in an engagement, but I saw there's now like a money pot at the end. Oh, right, that we still don't know anything about? No, I'm like, wait, what is this show now? So, I mean, but they are the ones I pick if there's an engagement going to happen. They seem to be the ones that are actually like getting to know each other, spending time with each other that are all, you know,

they seem like you're falling in love. Do you think that there could be a possible spin on the money where it's like, this is your $500,000 for a down payment if you guys actually make it to the altar? I mean, that would be incredible. Yeah, that works. Are they going to be like awful and be like, you have the chance, if you, you know, if you're the final couple, you have the chance to keep the 500 pot or whatever, the $500,000 to yourself or split it between you and the other person.

like you don't they like do that on and then like yeah you know that's like too hot to handle and stuff but i don't haven't i don't know i'm not really you guys watch more dating shows than i do because you guys watch love island right standard watches um he was just the uk version oh okay yeah it's too dirty for me like it's so uncomfortably dirty i don't watch i haven't seen the the u.s version but that's another thing i wish that Paradise didn't have the hotel rooms. I feel like it's stifling so much of the, like, connections. If it's raining, you just go sit in your room.

I know. Terrible. So crazy. And what do you think about the Goldens? My last question about Paradise. I actually think that they bring fun to it. I wasn't very keen on having them come because I wanted attention to be on the young ends. And I didn't want any of those, like, crossover storylines.

I think it's actually bringing. levity to it. I find them entertaining. Like, I do find them, like, funny. I like Gary, who's funny. And, but I just feel that they're there for fun. Yeah, they're not going to, like, leave together.

No way. They're just there for, like, margaritas and a vacation. Yeah, 1,000%. And those people have been mingling. I know that, like, the rules of mingling before paradise is far more lax than it used to be. but those people have hung out so many times if they really felt a connection they would

already be together yeah i agree but i do find like i thought it was going to be gross i was like ew like i don't want to it would be so uncomfortable for me but it doesn't seem that way as much as i'm watching it no okay let's get into some bachelor headlines the virgin dating show that we did know about uh i don't know that we talked about it yet probably not probably weren't allowed to but it's called are you my first is hosted by bachelor alum colton and katelyn and it's going to be on hulu starting on august 18th um it's going to stream all 10 episodes at once so it's like part of like the hulu disney plus like ABC like family dealio and it obviously you know obviously like a little fomo like like okay so

There was, like, lots of virgins, but, like, maybe, like, I could have been there. And maybe, like, if you guys do another season, I would love to be your host. But Colton makes sense. They have two leads here. Caitlin makes sense because I think she's probably, when it comes to leads, not very virginy. Oh, so it's like the, it's like the angel and the devil on your shoulder. Yeah, the yin-yang, for sure. the tagline is the largest hottest group of virgins ever assembled and where we were following them

as a search for intimacy, love, and maybe their first in a tropical paradise designed just for them for the first time they're free to explore their connections without judgment, allowing these sexy young singles to embark on a heated yet heartfelt journey packed with romantic dates, revealing challenges and new love interests that are eager to find the one I'm just picturing myself

at 26 and like on this show I was going to say how do you feel about this? I would feel so effing awkward I think that like I felt awkward being on The Bachelor and having to be like hey guess what I'm a virgin this actually makes me feel like

I would be like so much more like I had like a weird scarlet leather like a nice scarlet letter but like everybody in the country being just like oh look dating virgins I don't know it makes me feel weird weirder even and yeah I mean just imagine like a whole dating show revolve it around losing your V card well that's that's definitely what it is that's like when they would try to allude that I was going to lose it in a fantasy suite and I'm like you guys this is so effing ridiculous like I would never lose it in a fantasy suite on TV and so I think that's what so awkward about this is they're like searching to kind of lose it oh my god where i was just like

this is like an element of me but like this is like they people are going to be watching to see if somebody loses it on the show i i don't know i don't know if i could watch that i think i'm going to watch it it feels so intimate like it feels like so like i don't know i don't know i will definitely watch it because like i want to be supportive of like of course katelyn and like it's it's it's nice to see two Bachelor alums as the host. Like that's really, really cool. And then it's something that I can relate to. So I will definitely be watching. See if they grab me for all 10 episodes. Maybe it'll be super sweet because everyone's so like vulnerable. You know what I mean? Exactly. Like everybody is going to really be in it, I think, for the love and the relationship

and not like just hooking up. It's going to be the opposite of Love Island. So it probably won't feel icky at all for me. Yeah, that's true. awkward but icky but awkward but not icky all right so nick vial and natalie joy vial um they will be also hosting a new dating show it's called age of attraction and it's going to be launching on 2026 on netflix i know that they were just spending the last month i think it was june and canada filming it and in this obviously they were picked to be the host of this show because crazy enough Nick and Natalie are 18 years apart and it doesn't feel like that ever at all

like hanging out with them looking at them doesn't feel like that at all right because Nick is the youngest looking 44 year old I've ever seen my entire life and he's just and he's mature but he has young he has the youth about him right? Yeah anyway so and she seems mature

and she's totally exactly she grows she matures up and he doesn't mature down I think is mostly her maturing up, but, like, also, it's just youth at 44. Like, how does he look like that? I don't know. So there, this is the, um, this is the synopsis for this. Age is thrown out the window as single search for their soulmates with the help from Nick and Natalie, the daters range from 22 years old to 59 years old.

So potential matches will see if age is truly just a number or if the years will come between them oh that is a that's a big chunk 18 years i've seen 18 years work plenty of times this is 22 to 59 what are your thoughts so 22 year old me would have been like yeah whatever i'll yeah i see that on 38 year old me is like no that's predatory yeah like that man's not no he's not no he's going to try to like manipulate you and you know what I mean like why is he dating that young like and as a mother yeah hell no yeah right I know I just get worried I have so many thoughts I don't know if I should share them I thought that your 22 year old self wouldn't care but your mom's

22 year old free spirit and me would have been like we like let's go and whatever like age is just a number that's like when nas because you guys we went with our friend Nas to Backstreet and she will like casually go on a date with somebody like her dad's age

and I'm like Nas no no and she's like it's fine it's cool she's just like so much more free reeling than me I am such a generational person like I am definition millennial

that like if I wasn't with the millennial I would feel like we had nothing in common I couldn't do that. Well, what does a 59-year-old have in common with a 22-year-old? Ever? I don't know. And I know that's just the age range. That's probably not who's dating who, but...

Yeah, exactly. So we will try to see. This also is the third Bachelor alum to be recently announced as the host of a dating show because Gabby Woodenly is doing Alex Cooper's new show on Hulu. She's being the host of that. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Well, wait a minute, Sam, maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon.

This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him?

Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hello, it's Daniel Fischel. Writer Strong. And Wilfredel from PodMeets World.

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Oh, so that was the rumor, but it actually didn't happen? I don't think so, because I believe that they had to start filming like this week. Gotcha. No time to grab anyone out. No. Time to remind everybody if you weren't, if you didn't know, Mel Owens, the new Golden Bachelor, said that he would be cutting any female contestant over the age of 60. He said this on a podcast. Did he realize that the golden starting age is 60? And like all the contestants thus far in this series have been from 60 to 70 years old. He also said a couple of other things. he said that his ideal age would be like 45 and he said something about like no grannies or something like oh i forget

but he something about bodies he said something about bodies that was in this not a tasteful comment it's really highly of himself doesn't he i know they really should have switched him out because this is going to carry with everybody's feelings the entire season because when he is dating six year olds we're going to be like, oh, wow, he's probably just going to dump this lady because he's just doing it for the show. He doesn't really want to be with somebody of this age. Anyway, to get back to the headline, Gary says this. I think it'll be unfortunate if he cuts anyone over the age of 60. I think he's going to have a change of heart in this when he starts. I think he will see the grace and the charm of women who are over 60 and the confidence that they carry and that he's going to have a change

of heart. The age thing, ignore the number, deal with the person. Gary also said that If Mel treats each and every one of them with courtesy and respect and with courtesy and respect and is a good listener, he's going to be fine. Okay. That's very nice, Gary. That's very positive and optimistic and you're being a great spokesperson for the show there. I really think that this is a mistake for them. I think there's so many handsome, worthy men to be the Golden Bachelor and he royally messed up. Well, how are you going to feel if you're one of the Golden Bachelorette?

going on now yeah you get that's if you they haven't started filming so obviously you've probably already read that headline so how are you going to feel you're not going to go in feeling like self-confident and like no i have value i have worth i'm here to find my person and like have this like next chapter of my life like so many of them we did see like that's why we fall in love with all those women anyways it's like you know it was just like their readiness to be like vulnerable and find love in the stage of their life and now you're like oh but you want to for I know. And, you know, I think about us and the fact that 45 for you is seven years away. For me, it's eight years away. Like, like, if, when I take this, I don't even want you, Mel, okay? In eight years, I don't want you. All right. Now I'm being hypocrite. Whatever. So now we move on to some happy love news. Kelsey Weir from Peter's season, Pete's season, is, engaged basketball pro Matt Thomas. He plays out in Europe. She moved with him over there in

2023. And they just got engaged this week, July 21st, at a beautiful resort that one of our, that our producer has been to. It's apparently so nice out in the desert. We are so happy for her because I know that she's such a hopeless romantic and she went through a lot after Pete's season. And now she's found her happily ever after. It's wonderful. And another exciting news. This dropped on Instagram yesterday. Rodney Matthews. Rodney, our sweet Rodney from Michelle's season, marries his fiance, Ari, in an intimate ceremony. It was, they've been together since 2003. And they officially tied the knot in at Beverly Hills City Hall this week. So that's, that was the cutest pictures. I do love a courthouse wedding, not for myself, but for others. Yeah, that's awesome. I didn't know that they got married. So, congrats. So wonderful. All right, Jade. Well, thank you for coming on. I'd like to create a headline for you because everybody's always interested in your house, your house stuff.

Because you guys switch houses all the time. We love it. We love the excitement of it. I love seeing all your new houses. So you're currently in a place that is, like, you bought when you first moved back to Kansas City a year ago. but this was always supposed to be your transitional home while you guys figured out where you really, really wanted to live forever in Kansas City and first you bought a lot

that you thought you were going to build on and then stuff happened and you decided to buy a house that was built, what, in the 90s? Yeah. And you're totally redoing it because Tanner has a thing where Tanner loves a fresh house. Oh my gosh, okay. Yeah, so when we moved from California, we wanted to move back to Kansas to have our kids in the school system there because

Tanner has all these wonderful memories. And it's a great school system. It's okay. We were in very similar boat, not the school system element, but the home state. Yeah. Yeah. And so our household is in like one day. And so we needed to find somewhere. We bought the house we're currently in like sight unseen. And then we had bought that land like six months before. So we thought that that was totally going to like start like being a thing. We were going to have a house soon, but then some stuff happened. And it fell through kind of with the building of it. So now we bought a house that we're renovating because it is true. My husband loves like new builds. I never thought he had to do a reno. I can't believe he is too. I know. But I think I just convinced him

because it's on 26 acres. It's so beautiful, so serene. It just feels like the people we bought it from call it the healing vortex because their daughter while they were living there, she was pregnant. And when she was pregnant, she found out she had stage four colon cancer. Oh my gosh. And she moved in with them. And while living there and like doing like her treatments and stuff, she completely healed. It's like, I'll find any trace of the cancer in her body. He wrote this whole book about it.

But they call it the healing vortex. And I'm like, I swear to God, every time we're out there, and it's so peaceful. It feels so healing. I don't know what it is about the energy there but I just feel like it's just I don't know I feel so happy that that's what we're going to be and this we're not moving anymore after this

I promise that is so magical that's really that's a nice history to the space oh my gosh the history is really beautiful and it was so nice they're the nicest people they built the house themselves and but yeah I would love someday like I want to see like

Emmy get married there and Because the beautiful peninsula near the pond And have a family compound there's some day If I can convince all my kids to live next to us That would be incredible I think that's like the way of the future Is like all of us are going to have compounds We all like want to live on the same cul-de-sac

As our families which is really nice Yeah Alrighty well Jade thank you so much For coming on to recap our weekend Talk Bachelor And our next trip we hope is going back to Playa Escondida

not really Playa Escondida Vendanta. We hope to have a joint family vacation over the fall where we go back to where we filmed Bachelor in Paradise is season two through nine the OG resort. Vodonta is calling us. I can feel it. I know. I feel that too. Okay. All right. Love you.

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