The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Where There’s a Wells, There’s a Way with Wells Adams

Episode Date: September 21, 2023

Ben and Ashley are hanging out with Wells Adams who is fresh from the beach in Paradise and has all the tea to spill before the premiere! Wells drops some hints about what we might see when the contestants hit the sand, and he shares a WILD twist that fans will love… but contestants will hate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ben? I want to know who else is the most, you're one of your more favorite people in the world. Ashley, Jesus. That's because she's in the room right now. You have to say that. My wife, my parents, parents. So just people you know. I just like people. I've been lucky enough to know some really great people. We're getting ready to all be at Dean and Caitlin's wedding this weekend, which we're very excited about. It's going to be a great celebration, a lot of fun. I'm very pumped to be around some of my favorite people at that wedding. Wells, let's just kick it off, though, because we're here to talk about Paradise today. You're now back from Paradise. Obviously, that's not a secret.

I'm back. If we're to kick this thing off, I think the first question I want to ask you is, do you get excited personally for Paradise every year? At this point, does it feel more like a job? Yeah, that's a good question. I get very excited for it every year because it's in Mexico. It's in a nice place. Like, it's beautiful for me.

And, like, yes, it is a lot of work. And it's like a lot of long hours and stuff. but it still is fun you know like at the end of the day my job is yes I'm serving all of them and making drinks and like getting ice and cleaning cups and stuff

and so there is like the nuts and bolts of all of it but it still is a little bit of it feels like I'm hanging out with a bunch of friends for a month and then we get to do like fun wacky stuff which I always like because

you know that show is a little less serious you know, and you know that kind of going into it. The opener is all, you know, all the cast members being silly and stuff. And so I think that gives us a little bit of carte blanche to be a little fun and silly. And obviously, like, my sensibilities lean towards comedy a little bit. So I just like going and doing the show. And then, you know, the chair on top of making that show is what comes out of it.

Case in point, your co-host here. Jared or like, you know, I was, I just married Joe and Serena and they came out of that show just a couple seasons ago. So we're going to a wedding this weekend of another. Of an exactly. Yeah. And, you know, dare I say that I think it's the show that is the most successful in terms of what the mission statement is, which is to get these people engaged and married.

So for all of that, yes, I'm very, very excited every year. I will say this, though, like, I'm getting a little long in the tooth. Like, I'm not the same guy who first started bartending, whatever it was, eight years ago. The hours are getting longer. I'm getting a little more like, I had to go to bed. My back hurts. And there's that weird thing of when I first started doing it, I was the same age as everybody. Or I was a little bit older, but basically the same age.

Now there's this thing of like, like, get off my lawn. these these kids i don't understand like that all the verbiage they're using and stuff um but no to answer your question i i love doing it it's it is so much fun and uh yeah and mexico just holds like a special place in my heart anyways so it's the best so you learn the word riz from the gen zers what else did you learn from them they also say like what's that expression that they say all the time like well it's a lot of giving like giving yeah that's kind of annoying to me yeah like it's it's It's giving Barbie. It's giving, it's giving, uh, Hollywood chic and really all it's giving me is a headache

because you sound like an idiot. I don't know what you're saying. Um, I mean, and then there are a lot of, it's funny. Oh, you said it was, um, like highbrow or not highbrow, um, low key and high key. Low key, low key and high. Yeah, it's a lot of low key, like, uh, like, yeah, like low key, like I kind of like him or like high key, like everyone knows we like it. We do that, that gets used a lot and it's like, low key, you guys are all annoying to me and shut up and just order your, you know, your vodka soda, get out here.

That sounds like high key. I think low key because I don't want everyone to know how much I can't stand them. That's not true. I love everyone down there. And then, yeah, the other one was vibes. It's a lot of vibe checking. Like the vibes are off. The vibes aren't right.

And then like a lot of flags. There's a lot of green flags, a lot of red flags. a lot of red flags and a lot of beige flags, which is the dumbest thing, because the beige flag, really all that is, is just an idiosyncrasy of your character that's not neither good nor bad,

so it's just kind of who you are. Yeah, we said like Jared being obsessed with Rob Thomas is his beige flag? Yes, for 100%. Yeah. Okay. Let's play a scenario out here.

Okay. I'm 34 years old. You know, I wouldn't even be like, I don't think old if I was the bachelor again. Like, I don't think that would be like a storyline of he's an old bachelor. Like 34 seems like kind of the age that the bachelors are going on. Chris Soltz was 33. So, yeah, it's fair.

So if I, let's play a scenario where I am single again, I'm the bachelor last season. And then they asked me to go on Paradise. You understand the amount of confusion I would have on that beach with these things being said. Like I, you're saying this right now, Wells. And there is like anxiety inside of me where I'm feeling way older than I feel like I should. And also just annoyed hearing it, I would not, like, I don't belong. Yeah, you don't. And I especially don't. I'm five years older than to your senior, you know, like I really am, you know, kind of confused. I watch a lot of TikTok. So I, I feel like I was,

I feel like I was, um, a little prepped. And then there was a, there was a nice little like, okay, everyone just sit down and just explain all this to, you know, your, your, your old. old buddy Wells. But at the end of the day, like, it's, there's, everyone's saying the same stuff, you know? It's just they found a new way of saying it.

Yeah. And everyone needs the same piece of advice because they're still going through the same problems, you know? Okay. Yeah. So, Wells, we had a headline last episode where Jesse says

that there's going to be this twist, totally new. And he says that everybody cast and audience is going to love it. And now, about the same twist, you said in a separate interview that, like, the audience will like it, but the cast is going to get really angry.

Can you tease this a little bit more? Well, I think what everyone thinks it's going to be is that, like, we separate everybody, like we did last season, a la, like, Casa Moore from Love Island. And that's not, we don't, that's not happening. I mean, it might happen, but that's not what everyone's talking about.

I think you, I think what he's talking about, about is, and we show it in the teaser, so I don't think it's a huge spoiler. We try a new thing, which is, I put out this thing called like the truth box. And it's a way for the cast to be able to say what they want to say without any judgment or with anonymity, effectively. and it allows people to speak their truth and it helps a lot of couples. It hurts a lot of couples.

It brings people together that you never thought we're going to. It separates people that probably shouldn't be together. So it's this new tool that we've put together that actually I think really does help the bottom line and the mission statement of the show, which is like get people to find each other and, you know, hopefully get engaged at the end of this thing or leave together, you know?

Is it like post a secret? Do you remember that thing? It's similar to, I don't know if you guys ever worked like in a corporate office, but I did. There's this thing of like the complaint box that you can like put in complaints about like effectively managers and then and you don't have to put your name on it so you can just say what you think.

and then, you know, people have to, you know, you have like a meeting at the end of the week to be like, okay, so this is those in the complaint box. It's a little bit like that. And I'd be lying if there weren't a lot of like, Wells's drinks suck in that complaint box this year. But, you know, well, everyone's upset because they want stronger drinks. That's just not an option.

It's not an option. And also, I'm trying to do you a service here of you not being like, I can't believe. season to me. I'm not as as sneaky as you jog. I am, okay? Because every season I have to be like, hey, sweetie, let's go drink a water.

Yeah. It's got a liquid IV in you, huh? You know? So I think that's what he's talking about. Because we see it on the teaser of like I present it. But it could be something else. I don't even know. So, I mean, because when you hear this and you hear his statements,

do you immediately in your mind go to what you were talking about in your interview or something else? I don't know. So there's a lot of those interviews we do like before the show starts, you know? So it's a lot of like hyperbole that you're like, well, I think I know what's what we're going to be doing this season. But you don't really know. But I don't really know.

I'm not sure if it's really like anything's really happened yet. I will say this like we have more leads than we've ever had come on the show this year, which is, you know, like praise be to Becca for like kind of like starting this. trend of like leads feeling comfortable coming on the show which is really really good because I think one it brings a lot of brand awareness back to the show and listen leads are leads for a reason like they're really good TV makers right like you know that like they're going to come in there with some fire and some grit and also like a lot of people want to date them and stuff so that's really exciting we have some funny games and scenarios that we do you know there's always those like

tonight we're doing this thing or like um and we and we do one this year that we've ever done before and i don't even know if it'll make air but it's really really funny and i think if it does make air i think that the audience is really going to love this like new wrinkle that we've thrown in but for the i have no idea what jess who was talking about um honestly i have no idea what i don't even remember saying what you guys said i said i believe it you're quoted it's fine yeah my boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now i'm seriously suspicious oh wait a minute sam maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit well dakota it's back to school week on the okay story time podcast so we'll find out soon this person writes my boyfriend

has been hanging out with his young professor a lot he doesn't think it's a problem but i don't trust her now he's insisting we get to know each other but i just want her gone now hold up isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor and they're the same age. It's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast,

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hey, you hooked up with me before the show and you told me we're going to date down here and now we're not dating. I am worried this truth box is allowing kind of like a social media buffer between humans to be able to speak. And it's just allowing people to hide behind a box. Am I looking at this scenario wrong? Argue with me on this. Tell me I'm not right. I think you're right and you're wrong. Yes. Like I think there's a little. little bit of cowardice in not being able to have the Cajonis to actually say what you want to say. But then again, I think the problem that we've had in the past is that someone feels a certain way and might not even be a part of their relationship.

And they don't want to get in the middle of things, which I totally understand. Like, I don't want to be a potter. I don't want to be a villain. Like, this isn't my thing. But, like, I heard someone say something and, like, that's not cool. and I feel like someone should know that but I don't want to be the one that gets in the middle of all the drama

which I totally understand and we are now living in a very interesting world where the and I've been talking about this a lot like when we all went on the show social media wasn't such a thing right like you just kind of like lived your life and yes there were tweets

and like you'd post on Facebook like your photos of your food you ate that day or whatever but now the the cast members that are coming on this show are these kids who have lived their life with social media. And effectively, they have been curating their storyline on their own social media for a very long time. And they have a very, their brand awareness is so much stronger than what we had.

And so there's a lot more trepidation going in the show of being like, okay, you saw that or you heard them say that or you feel this way you should say it well that's not like i don't want to put myself out there like that you know but the problem with that is it doesn't get to the heart of the problem which is the honesty the truth and uh finding your right person like paradise at least for ashley and i when we were there it was a lot of like you did that person like that didn't work i did that person that didn't work that then then you come to this last person. And you go through all these motions. And it's been, it's been a little bit harder with this younger generation who's lived their life, you know, being the star of their own TV show on

their phone. And so I think this was a, this was a really good way of being able to allow people to say what they want to say without diminishing their brand of how they perceive themselves in the show. If that makes any sense to you. It makes a lot of sense. I think that was a perfect explanation. Yeah, it's been a weird. I'm seeing it transpire because, and of course I'm the guy who's like, I'm very black and white when I see things on the show because it's always happening right in front of me.

And I always say the same thing. I'm like, but it's crazy if you don't say that. Like the entire world is going to be like, what, you knew this thing, but you didn't say anything? Like, that's bonkers to me, you know? And so that's usually a lot of, like, what my advice is, is like, I think you can just say something because if I were in your shoes, I would definitely say it because that's crazy if you didn't. Like, I feel like the audience would be more upset that I didn't say something than,

than if I did, you know? So, yeah, it's an interesting, it's very interesting doing the shows now in comparison to when, you know, Ashley and I did it, you know, decades ago. Interesting. You mentioned that, like, there's more leads this season than ever before. why am I only thinking of Rachel? Well, I don't know. You've got to wait and watch your show, I guess.

Oh, okay. Well, I know leads come down. That's a good teaser. That's going to get a lot of people watching. Okay, but off that question, who is your dream lead to come back on Paradise? Ooh. I mean, he's married now with Ben Higgins.

That would be, that like it would be. This dad bought on the beach, let's go. Oh, God. Oh, baby. Oh, my God. What I would do to be... I'd let my chest here grow out for that show. What I would do to be able to, like, have my opening credits with Ben with our shirts off,

being like, this is what the wrong side of 30 looks like, America. You all have a lot to look forward to. Okay, well, you're not getting out of the question. That's a good question. Okay. He's not a lead, but I would like him to... come and that's Tyler Cameron like I think that he would be I think he would be in high demand so we got to wait we got to wait for his Riz to cool down a little bit before he's like has to come

back on these shows and then I think um you know Peter Krause was a guy that like everyone loved right Jared and I are so team at Peter Kraus to do anything bachelor related we would love to have them make him the lead just out of nowhere and have half the audience not even know who he is. I think Paradise would be a better fit for him. I would also add, can I add to this? I would love to see Pilot Pete in Paradise because I don't think his personality shows as well as the Bachelor. And I think he is like really wild and fun. And I just feel like he's kind of got pushed behind. I think he would be a really great person in paradise yeah and listen you know this is sad because i was such good i'm such good friends with both of them with with um uh with with with kately and i think

that kately would be really good in in paradise you know that would be really fun wow uh i don't know i don't know if she would do it but she would be funny down there for sure um jason too jason never came to paradise did he No, he didn't. No, he didn't. Now, wait, now you have a whole other show concept that I'm thinking of. Yeah. It'd be more like Bachelor in Paradise All-Stars.

So it would have to be like the huge names. That's the only way to get the other huge names to get on. For sure. Or like, I don't know if you guys ever watch. It was like this kind of like bad MTV rip-off that I love so much called X in the Beach. Yeah. Chase McNary from The Bachelor went on that, I think. Yeah, Jared and I hosted the reunion show one year.

Yeah, yeah. we could do something like that that would be pretty great listen I just like the fact that that one like leads that like don't find love like still deserve to like to like find love

it's just funny though like you're I think that they're used to being the star of the show and then all of a sudden they get thrown into a situation where like there is no star you know there's Jesse he's the star I guess and then and then you're just kind of like your your special treatment is is gone and there's a little bit of learning curve there which

I always find funny you know I wouldn't enjoy that I want to be the star yeah I want to be the center of attention I want people I want a handler uh yeah I want a personal handler yeah I won't know filling up my whiskey glass uh wells shaking an empty glass of ice excuse me sir oh I would just like to come up to Wells and be like Wells another drink ma'am sorry this one wasn't good enough Yeah. Hey, we obviously have made it very clear that this show is, is, you know, films in the summertime. And you're off of it now. And I want to give listeners a taste of what is expected. And so let's drill into the details a little bit. What, as much as you can, what characters that we know are going to be in paradise should we be most excited to watch? Okay, I think the world fell in love with Aaron Over this last season Or at least we got a lot of him

On the show on charity season I think that that's a good character to watch I'm trying to think of everyone who we know is going to be on there I like Braden Like and I know that might be a controversy He's always been mad at me Because I've defended him throughout the entire season Yeah like well

okay here's what I'll say about Braden he he has weird style like he reminds me a lot of Dean if I'm being honest like just kind of a out there guy that you're just like I you know and you're not really sure if if that's like a bit you know like

I'm doing this because I want everyone to think that I'm crazy and different or like you are just crazy and different like I and I still don't know if I really know the answer to that question I like him because and obviously it's weird because we filmed that show before charity season aired. So we didn't get to know who the villains were and who were.

So I went into being like, you're just a guy with rubber ducky earrings on right now. Like you just, if you're the villain, where have we gone? Like, you know, like my villain was a guy named Chad who was 300 pounds of pure muscle and protein and steroid anger. Like, you're rubber duckies the bad guy. Okay. Oh, his scarf is scary. So I just couldn't buy it.

And I liked it because there was a little bit of, you know, I want a redemption story in him that I appreciated. And like also all these guys come down. They're like, oh, we hate Braden. I'm like rubber duckie guy. Like, really? Jeez. So I really like him. He's also just a nice guy.

I don't think he's a bad guy. Who else? Cat is. Yeah. Those are two cats, one with a K and one with the C. Yes, both of the cats are good. The one with the C is she's like the one that's like a cat lady. Oh, is she?

She just seems a little bit more of an instigator. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's like a bartender in New York. And every time there's a bartender that comes down, that's like judge me the entire time. And I'm like, just get out of here. Go to the other bar. You're just a bartender on TV.

Yeah. I'm trying to think of who else is on there. What about Rachel and Avan? Because they had obviously, you know, a thing in the past. Yeah, Rachel's great. But Rachel, Rachel, there's a little bit of like Mama Bear that Rachel has. Becca had this too, you know, where it's they want to take care of everyone else except themselves. and you're like, hey, by the way, don't forget, like, you're supposed to be here to date people.

You know, there's a little bit of that. Listen, there are a bunch of people that, like, I don't think we've released that are coming on the show that are going to be amazing. Everyone's going to love this season. It's really, really fun. And there's a wedding in it, too, which we haven't had a wedding in Paradise in a very long time. And you know what? Traditionally, I'm just thinking off the top of my head, Bachelor in Paradise Weddings have not been wildly successful, have they? Just one.

There was, oh, yeah, the ones that have happened there. because they've all been very unsuccessful. So I'm hoping this one last. Let's just hope for everlasting love. I really like these two people. So I'm really rooting for them. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Oh, wait a minute, Sam.

Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast. So we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor. a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor and they're the same age. It's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists

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If we could take 20 seconds, 30 seconds to just tell people out there why they should watch Paradise. this year or as long as you really want the floor is yours yeah i think the show is what the show has always been so if you have been a fan of paradise you're going to get that again um you're going to get tears you're going to get drama you're going to get crabs the ones on the beach um you're going to get engagements you're going to get heartache you're going to get breakups you're to get funny you know exit uh limo interviews like all the things that i think that you're looking for from that show you're going to get you know villains are going to become heroes

heroes are going to become villains all that kind of stuff great character arc it's just a fun good show and I feel like I feel like everyone is going to be so happy that it's back yeah we are for sure yeah all right so you were the efficient at Joe and Serena's wedding how did they come with you

with that ask Joe texted me and I my initial response was, I feel like this is more of a phone call, but, um, sure. And I was like, I'm not, I'm not a priest, you know, but luckily you can go online to the universal lifechurch.com and get a, uh, I should be sponsored by them, by the way. I recently, I recently officiated a wedding two, three weeks ago, and I did it through the Universal Life Church. And I'm like, okay, are we sure that this is it? Because you basically just sign some, like you sign a digital form and that's it. Yeah. Oh, my own was like $37.

$39. It wasn't, it was nothing. But like now, like, I'm like, I think I could be like a cult leader. Like, I think I could start a cult real easily. How long did it take to write their ceremony script? It took a while. I have a bunch of friends who have married people and I took the script that Jesse Tyler Ferguson did for ours. And so I kind of did this amalgamation of all of these different weddings that I liked. And then obviously they came, they flew out here. here and we went to lunch and I was like, let's talk about what you want, what, like, what you want for me. And so, yeah, it probably took like three weeks, but it wasn't like every day, all day. It didn't take me very long. And it was, it was not to like, you know, it was like, pat myself on the shoulder, but like, it was a really, really beautiful ceremony. And not because of anything that I did, but because of like their love, it was just so palpable

and obvious. And it was just, uh, it was so. fun. And Joe had like the best line of the whole thing. I did like 20 minutes of stand-up up there, which I thought like killed. Then Joe does one line and absolutely destroys me and like absolutely takes the house down, which I

love. It's their moment. Not mine. But it was just, it was like really fun. And like both of their families are exactly what you think their families are. Like, it's just like these really nice Canadian people who are just so sweet and pretty and fun. And then like, Italian's from Chicago.

Like we like sauce and pears and peat. and everyone's name is Joe, a Joanne, a Josephine. And it was just like, Ivy was like a movie. I was, and I was like a part of it. And, yeah, it was so much fun. In my time, I think it's up to 15 or 13 people I've been able to officiate the wedding for. It's not a competition, Ben.

No, you got to remember, I also started an event called the Wedding Fest, like years ago where we married 10 people at once. Yeah, that's right. Okay. So, like, yeah, it was a wild thing. for COVID. I say this to say 15 people in, there's nothing that makes me more nervous in my life than marrying people. Were you nervous for this like massive responsibility? Not really. I have really no anxiety speaking in front of people if I'm prepared and all that kind of stuff. But I remember I was

up there and Joe walked down and I was like, I was still feeling pretty good. And then I saw Serena start walking down and I had this flashback to my wedding of when I when I saw Sarah turn the corner and I was like that was the that was the biggest day of my life it was the most important moment of my life and then I then I was like shot back to where I was sitting in Charleston you know at the altar and I was like oh my God I really don't want to screw up their most important day of their life and then I started getting a little bit of um a little bit of you know flop sweat but you know then I opened up with like a couple jokes and then we were off and running and it was it was fine.

Yeah. Once those first couple words come out of your mouth, you're like, okay. So I just want to know a little bit more about Joe's dad because everybody made it seem like he was like the big character of the wedding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big Joe. First of all, like Sarah and my wife, Sarah and Big Joe are like best of friends now. Like they hung out the entire time.

There was a moment in which I walked outside and everyone was hanging out at like a table. and Sarah was singing show tunes to Big Joe and like all these Italian and I was like, do you think that they're like Broadway? And they were loving it. Like they were all singing like. And it was just bonkers,

but Big Joe is the best. Like he was just so much like larger than life. And yeah, we're going, we have like, we are planned a trip to go to Chicago purely to go. have Big Joe cook for us. And he's like, I'm going to make you,

they call it gravy, but I have, it's sauce. We call it sauce where I come from. I'll make you a delicious sauce. We're like, yeah, okay, I don't know what that is, but let's do, we're doing that. So, yeah, he was the best. But also, Serena's parents are absolute dolls. And by the way, Serena's mom is drop dead gorgeous.

Not shocked. Just not shocked. Well, so when I met her for the first time, I go, you look just like Serena. And she goes, you mean Serena looks just like me? And I said, no, you look like you 25-year-old. That was a good, good comeback, Wells. You're smooth, you're smooth, man. Hey, Wells, it's always great having you on. Cannot wait to see you this weekend. Continued success, obviously, as the season of Paradise comes about, thanks for talking about it with this. We hope to have you back. All right. Love you guys. See you. See you this weekend. Okay. Yep. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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