Cardboard Box Kind of Love

Published Nov 23, 2023, 6:16 AM

Jared joins Ashley for a round-up of the latest Bachelor Nation headlines!
 
We find out if Ashley ever regrets marrying Jared… instead of a pro athlete like many other Bachelor alums.
 
Hear about the latest wedding from a Bachelor Nation OG.
 
Plus, Jared and Ashley reveal why they ALWAYS tell people to go on Paradise… no matter what!

This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.

Here. Everyone, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. Ben is out. He had a last minute doctor's appointment, so we have Jared right here and he's filling in for headlines.

So we're always just going to be almost famous, right, We'll never be famous?

Yeah?

Are we even almost famous?

Yeah?

I guess that's an appropriate title.

Yeah, we'll just get into it. Well, actually, should we not? Should do some host chat?

I don't know, no, what's to talk about?

It's Thanksgiving time? Happy Thanksgiving?

Everyone, very grateful, very thank you.

Then there's the fact that Jared he gets like scammed into coming mite to my parents' house.

Scam, I don't know.

This is this is how I am mad. This is what happens. This is our host chat for the day. Jared comes to my parents' house at least once a month, which is like super super spends at least like five days here once a month. And this was kind of fact, but six weeks, I say, pretty much once a month. Continue, okay, So and this is like already like kind of negotiation for the fact that we live in Rhode Islands, right, So, and that's fine. And that's fair. I'm not saying that like, oh so nice of him to like come every month. But what's hilarious is that like he I think he has rose colored glasses when he is in Rhode Island and like, oh yeah, we can go to here, we can go to Virginia. And then when he gets here, he he's just in the midst of absolute chaos. Like the most overstimulating type of place ever. This is always nobody shuts up. There's just always something going on in this house. And when there's not, then there's dogs barking.

It's more the lack of escape. I mean you know that.

I like, he wants to have his own car here, but you can't just take the car except for like sometimes most of many were out of you know.

Your mom's like running in RUMs and obviously your dad's at work, and it's it's I don't want to be a nuisance because if.

Your mom's like four of a nuisance.

Yeah, they're learning to stay here. I don't.

I don't think I stay here.

This is my home. This is their home.

You call our home their home, Well no, but they didn't live in that home.

Yeah, do you what.

Do you think of your parents' house. Like I say, I referred to this house as my parents' house, but I also referred to it as home. So but then I refer to our house and Rhode Island as home also. But I don't know that I refer to Rhode Island as home yet because again I don't even know how long that takes. It's only been two and a half years, so I don't know. That's up to you. So we have to just I'm just wondering what do you think? Do you what do you think of your parents' house as.

My parents house? But yeah, I've never going home if you're in the.

Home is parents house, no home. Home, home is our home. Yeah, okay, but do you think.

That has to do it still my home? Yeah?

But like okay, so get this is it? Because like we're in Rhode Island, so you're thirty minutes from your parents' house and where you grew up. Because when we lived in La, did you think of that as going home when we went to our apartment.

No, I thought of that as a chore, Like, oh my god, I gotta go back to La.

I loved our home there.

It was very nice for LA, which was great, nice little cozy apartment in a corner felt very secluded, which is great I did.

All right, Well, guys, let us know what home is. I'm not saying I feel like at home both places. It's is like when do you stop referring to like your parents' house as home.

Well, also, it.

Is different because we live around and when we come here, we stay here. When we go back to r Island, we go back to exactly.

Yes, yes, yes, so it is very different. All right, Well, now let's get into this week's Bachelor headlines. So Katie Thurston, she got some bad reviews, some mixed reviews about her appearance on Bachelor in Paradise and coming in and confronting Blake and seeing him the first time in two years and doing so on camera, especially when he was already like in another relationship. You know what, I actually had absolutely no problem with that because I think it was the test that they needed. I just think that Blake and Jess, you guys know, if you listen to this podcast, I just never thought that they were strong. I think he just needed like a realization kicking the butt, and I think seeing Katie gave him that. And I actually would love to see I know that they've been kind of spotted on social media together and seemingly a very friendship oriented space, but like it just seemed like there's something else there. But anyway, let's get to the actual crux of the headline. It is that there was some trolls coming after her. There's one particular troll that she she addressed, says, ick, just watched Bachelor in Paradise. Shame on you, totally classless in tact, no wonder why you're single, that's just what.

You show up.

And then she wait, this one person said, if I could roast you, I tell you, I'd tell you to get some romane, do some stumpy leg exercises, and grow a decent personality. I'm following for sure, I know.

So said when people like that just don't want to follow your story and just constantly redic judge, Yet some room criticize you. Maybe yeah, I don't understand Romaine is that high.

And some sort of jared it just lettuce.

It's just his saying. She's saying, eat a salad.

But she's not.

No, but she's just great shape. She looks amazing. Katie looks so so beautiful. I was actually just thinking watching her in that scene, I was like, Wow, I don't know if I've ever seen her looks so good.

I would love to see what this person looks like.

Oh yeah, Well, in response, Katie said, happy women don't put strangers down. Best of luck with healing whatever negativity you're going through in life. I hope you will find happiness.

What did Katie do that was so controversial?

That's I just told you. She came in and she did. Yeah, she came in.

That's ridiculous.

She came in to host a roast. Okay, so she was hosting a roast as like activity. Yeah, but then, Blake, why do you look like you're pained right now? This is Jared's constant being. Is just like him rubbing his face and like putting his head down. That's right. Can you just relax, I'm relaxed, Okay, talk about Katie Thursday. So, yeah, it's so dramatic. This is so crazy. You gotta get a life. Because Katie came down because she was asked to come down, and it was actually quite good content, except for the roast was a little intense. As Ben went on a tangent with last week, Yes.

Blake seems like a really nice guy. He doesn't own the beach. It's Bachelor in Paradise. It's a TV show. You're gonna have excess come in. So not that Blake was complaining about it, So.

He honestly wasn't. That's what's so crazy, because I actually feel like Blake initially was like, oh shit, but then.

He he knows what's up.

Yeah, he one knows what's up. This is his third show. He's dealt with producers a lot because hey, he had to come on the middle of kat season. He knows the way the workings of all this, and three, I actually think he appreciated the sit down, which may have never happened in real life. Moving on, in a brief teaser of new footage from this upcoming season, Bachelor, Joey, Wow, we're gonna I'm gonna have to practice his last name, Graziade. I'll go in anyway, Okay, anyway, guys. So he is just he's got butterflies, got butterflies? Oh my god, I can't believe this is the headline.

He's got butterflies. I hope he has butterflies. Yeah, and that would be really women. I hope one of them gets in butterflies.

I think there's more than twenty five list this season.

But okay, So I just.

Feel the most ready that I've ever been to be an engagement in a marriage. I get butterflies, that's.

What he I just feel the most ready, Bro. I hope you're ready. You're going to get engaged with people.

He also said, I didn't think this was the way I was going to be doing it back in the day finding his person, But I've fully committed to it now and the excitement's great, and I'm glad people are happy to see me trying to find my person. That they're excited about this season, and I am too.

Yeah, he's gonna be good. I think he'll be good. I think the season will be good. He's a good choice to be the Bachelor. It seems like people are excited about it.

I hope that. I hope it's a good season. I hope it does well.

I sure hope it does well, too. And I think it will do much better than the past two because Joey just seems to be more of a guy that like people wid watching more. He was more rootable in the past couple, and he's a very, very handsome young logan man.

Yeah, he'll be good.

Season will be good, and hopefully it has a little momentum built up after what's going on with Golden Bachelor right now.

Which it's gonna be hard to compete to keep compete with. And if you know Ben, Ben doesn't think that they're ever going to do a Golden Bachelor again because he said that it's actually too much for them to live up to, kind of because they don't ever want The Bachelor to be like the second favorite show. They want the Bachelor to still be the golden child of the franchise.

Yeah, I just I don't know if that's if that is truly how producers are thinking. I think that they're in the wrong mindset. My gut tells me they're not thinking that. I mean, you, you know, the reason they created a Golden Bachelor was because they thought he was going to be successful. It is successful, so the idea that they created this show. It exceeded expectations or lived up to expectations, however they looked at it, and now they're going to say, well, we can't have it, we can't do another season because it's too successful.

Yeah, I'm absolutely ridiculous, then why do it in the first place.

Would be ridiculous. I can't imagine that that's the case. I would imagine that they're going to do another season of The Golden Bachelor, whether it be a Bachelor Bachelorette, they'll continue doing Bachelor. I think, you know, it helped one helps the other, you know what I mean. I don't think Golden Bachelor is taking away from Bachelor. I don't think Paradise is taking away from Golden Bachelor or vice versa. I think it's all kind of you know, team players here, so I do.

In a big wedding news one of my Bachelor Idol's icons from before my time and during our time. I'm just somebody I've always greatly admired. Michelle Money is now Michelle Weird. She married PGA Masters champion Mike Weir.

Do you ever feel bad that there's so many former contestants on this show, women that end up marrying athletes, athletes, people with money, successful, and then you got drags. Do you ever think that, like, maybe if it didn't work, you know, if it didn't work out between us, you could be married to an NFL player Right now, I.

Think I think I'm very happy with the way it turned out.

All that makes me happy, shared, Yeah, my.

Gosh, it's so sweet. You have these insecurities about it.

Just about me, you know, be like, oh, I'm not I'm not that cool, I promise you anyway.

Oh, Jared, I love that you married me. And then I'm in Rhode Island.

Little yeah, you're geting me on a coffee shop. This was your dream, is my dream? It was your dream.

Anything with you in my dream?

Bad?

I live in a cardboard box with you.

I don't believe you. I know what would be.

You certainly wouldn't live in a cardboard box with me.

I would live in a cardboard box with you as long as Dalson was there.

You would you live in a cardboard box with me? Yeah?

Sure, I mean I would probably live in a carboro box by myself.

I don't know.

That's why.

I'm not sure that's a graduation for you to think about your life. But Babe, I would live in I would live in this room with you.

It's like a twelve sounds pretty big. It's nice, twelve to twelve.

I would be able. It's actually just plywood.

So oh yeah, well, anyway, I bought Michelle money. Congratulations. Yeah, she's awesome. I've gotten to meet her a couple of times. Do you obviously know her pretty well?

She's just the best. Michelle's the best.

Yeah. They were actually thinking about not getting married. She thought that she was okay with just being like together.

Has she been divorced?

Yeah, but they decided to tie the knot actually with ten year age yap. He's fifty three, she's forty three. They got married in an oceanside ceremony in Hawaii on the ninth of November. She said, I'm so excited to look Mike in the eyes in front of our girls. She has a daughter and he has daughters, and commit myself to him for time in internity. She has two girls, and then she has Brielle, and oh my god, Brielle officiated the nuptials, all three of them did. Girls did. How cute is that it was just very intimate. It was just like them his parents, selles, mom, best friend, stuff like that. That's so nice. That's so so sweet. Okay, and congratulations guys.

Michelle Eminem's Okay.

I brought this up a couple weeks ago when we had Rodney on the podcast, because do you see how Susie Evans and Justin Glaze like they just are always posting of each other and they're doing content and lots of ads and stuff together.

Yeah, and if they lived together, they were it was just Rodney that Andrew Andrew andrews close with them, but no, So she lives by herself in LA and during a recent Q and A.

She opened up about her relationship Slash I Guess friendship with Justin and why she didn't go to Paradise. One fan asked, are you and Justin ever moving things out of the friend zone, and she shared a video of her trying to hold his hand and he just bats her hand away, and she said, I keep trying. I don't believe that's I don't believe that. What do you mean you don't believe that.

They're probably sleeping together?

Well, I do think that there was something we're meant to at some point. I don't know about sleep. I'm not saying that there was anything sexual, but I think there was definitely like a flirtation, if not like a makeout.

Yeah, you're not saying it, I'm saying, Okay, No, I'm obviously being dramatic and teasing.

I mean they've probably they probably tested the waters. Maybe, I don't know. They seem pretty tight.

And then another person asked Usie why she didn't go on Bachelor in Paradise, and she said, I really considered it. I thought long and hard about it. I just didn't feel aligned, and I was worried I would regret, But I was also worried that I would regret not going.

I know that's so, what does she say?

She said that she went on a wellness retreat before making her decision and it gave her clarity that Bachelor in Paradise didn't fit her goals at the moment, and it felt good letting it go.

I can see that.

Yeah. And then she said that while everyone left the beach, I'm met a guy in LA that I dated through the summer. Although it didn't work out, I'm glad that I took the summer and dated in a more traditional format.

I think, also, you and I always tell everybody to do Paradise. Yeah, and I'm stick by that. I think if you have the opportunity paradise, if you're listening to this and you're a Bachelor member and they say, hey, you want to be paradise.

You say yes.

Because you should always do it, because you will regret not going on most of the time, probably all the time.

I don't know. I've never met anybody who said no and then they.

You know, somebody who said no and didn't regret it. Yeah, yeah, but well you know these kids these days, these days don't have them, so some of them are saying no and actually being happy about it.

Well tell, time will tell that.

Actually, good point.

But with Susie, interestingly enough, probably because she's a former winner, she's still a pretty big.

Name within the so good at social media. Yeah, so I don't eat kicks ass there.

I feel so creative, funny saying yes the paradise in terms of the business sense, like letten, do it, stay relevant, have fun, it's great, it's enjoyable. And I still say all those things like go have fun, enjoy it to everybody. I think with her like she'd be able to sustain not going on if she really wants to, like listen, I don't want to date there. I don't want to put myself back on TV. Like again, I could totally see her marrying a professional athlete and they live in their mentioned it in La and live happily ever after.

You know, I think she'll be okay, Yeah, of course you're actually very You got to point that bad Yeah, all right, Courtney Robertson, this is our last highline on today. She is pregnant with baby number three and it's a boy. They have two other kids together, Joaquin and Paaloma, and they're have been their third one more. She says. In twenty twenty four, we're excited to share the news there was a People exclusive baby boy arriving in May, and as a lot of people are including in their baby announcements these days, she says, I know these announcements can sometimes be hard to see. I'm sending all the love party five. There's no one, There's nobody else I would rather be out numbered with than you. Humberto her husband. You and I we we don't want to ever be outnumbered.

No, Why are these announcements hard to see.

Because of just inforticular? Yeah, because everybody is being like pretty open about their infertility. You know, you know, people are being more open these days about infertility and how balance.

Yeah, I think, yeah, I think every every woman should feel comfortable being able to talk about infant.

Fertility but also being able to like.

Express joint I mean, I don't want Courtney or anybody who's announcing baby to feel guilt.

It's kind of like a balance, you know. But yeah, it's tough.

It's you know, parenthood, Uh is not easy.

But it's also wonderful.

And well, actually we have one more headline because now that we're talking about babies, Haley Ferguson and our husband Ula Paul, they they have revealed the sex of their baby. What do you think it is, babe? Because I girl, you saw it on Instagram. Okay, well, I wonder earth if there's any jealousy on Emily's part because they have a boy, and because I remember the girls were always like, of course they wanted girls, the girliest girls. But you know, because but here's this, this is why, because Emily has the baby, like the baby boy. Like she's like, now that I have a baby boy, I obviously don't care about what. Yeah, it's like you guys, I truly just it's so weird how little I care what our next child.

It's not weird. I mean it would be you know, what's Dawson's bored? He started growing up.

I mean it was you know, just fell in love with him and you're like, who cares, I don't care if it's boy or girls.

Like, he's just awesome.

Yeah, it's just so crazy how things change. But yeah, they're having a girl and it's gonna be so cute because like obviously Haley, like I said, it's the girliest girl, and she'll be a wonderful mother to a girl. And she said on her Instagram that she had a very vivid dream of our baby before we even transfer the little embryo, and that dream came true. Can't wait to meet you, little darling.

So cute, so.

Cute, all right, Very happy for them and Courtney and Humberto. And we hope that you and Michelle, so guys, hope that you have the greatest Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving weekend and we'll see you next week. We love you so.

Much, Thank you so much.

Bye.

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