Karaoke Night

Published Apr 27, 2023, 7:08 PM

It’s the off-season, so things are getting a little weird around here! 

Ben shares a very intimate and embarrassing story from one of his post-Bachelor appearances, and we cannot stop cringing.
 
And, we have a LOT of Bachelor Baby news to break down! Bekah Martinez has another on the way, Arie and Lauren might adopt, and Dean might end up being his own child’s uncle??

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It's time for another week of the Almost Famous podcast. We are pumped to be here, are we? Ashley?

We are so pumped? I said that, like Courtney Kardashian. Then we are so pumped to be here.

And the reason is there's a lot of good headlines today. I was in Dallas, Texas all week for a golf tournament. You were able to probably watch it. It was the Invited Celebrity Classic if you didn't make it out this year, So.

Sorry, I didn't watch it on TV.

Ben, that's okay. Ash Well, if you didn't watch it or you didn't come.

There, Dad, are you serious? Are you sad?

I'm a little sad. I mean it's a big deal.

That makes me sad. I should like set an alarm. Do you find yourself not watching your friend's stuff on TV? Because I feel like I'm so guilty of like my friends doing cool things and then I don't even watch on TV and I hate myself for it. Yeah, we have too many friends on TV, right, we have.

Too many friends on TV. I guess if you you know, I know you have some cool projects coming up, I'll watch those. I'll make sure to tune in.

Oh yeah on SNL. Yeah after the SNL after finale. Yeah, Jared and I have a show on. But guess what, Ben, I'm gonna go on YouTube. I'm gonna front of your clips to the PGA Golf Tournament.

That will be a really hard search to find. I will say this though, Ashley, there's a lot of people that came out from Bachelor Nation in support. They were all super nice, really fun to talk to. I really love it when people do come to these events, if they live in the area, or even if they don't, and they say hi, because it's just it's nice to be out in the public, nice to be mingling with people while I'm doing something I love so much. A lot of really kind people out there. But if you didn't make it next year or this year, I hope to be invited back next year, and if i am, I would love to see more people come out. It was a great event, a great weekend, a little cold in Dallas, but the Invited Celebrity Classic did a great job. And congratulations to Tony Romo and Mark Kensby. Mark Kinsby was the pro that won it in a playoff and Tony Romo just won straight up. I mean, the dude is so good, Like.

Could Tony just become a professional golf player now.

He's close? Yeah, I mean I can't say that he is, you know, once he becomes a senior, I do think there is possibility for him to qualify for some of these events.

What's a senior in PGA fifty?

Okay, so fifty. I mean he's really good, he's he's a stud. I do have a funny story for you though.

Okay, okay, because you did tease that you're gonna have a Tony story for us.

Oh oh yes, I did. Okay, let me share. Yeah, let me share this story about this week first, and I'll share you share with you a Tony Romo story. Ready for it?

And first I just want to say this just in on YouTube, there's no content of you of golfing this week.

Well, I'm not surprised.

I'm gonna find it somewhere.

Okay, here's the first story from this week. Wells plays in this event with me, and I play with him. We're always paired together on the first day, and Wells and I go into this knowing, hey, we're good golfers, like I will say that about us, but when we have a very small chance of winning it, like these guys are a lot better than us, and so we go in for like different goals, right, top ten, top fifteen, top twenty, those kind of things. Well Wells gets asked before the event. They're doing a celebrity pickleball tournament and there's four teams in the pickleball tournament. He gets asked to play in it. I don't, he does. Wells has always told me, Hey, I'm a decent pickleball player. I really like pickle ball.

And he said, I tell me what pickleball is.

Pickleball is like a mix between ping pong and tennis, and it's playing on smaller courts and you hit a different type of ball with a solid racket. It's an incredible game. It's the I think.

Sounds like tether ball of like the nineties.

Yeah, similar, similar in a lot of ways. I do believe it's the fastest growing sport in the US right now. It's it's really thriving. Well Wells is jacked. He's telling me, Hey, I think I might win this thing. I have a chance here. I could compete here, and I'm so pumped for him. This is gonna be a lot of fun. So we show up to the event. The brackets for the pickleball tournament get put out. Wells Adams and his partner are paired against Marty Fish, one of the best tennis players of all time, and John Isner, the former number eight tennis player in the world who's also six ' ten. Wells gets smashed in the first game, like absolutely.

Just I thought you were gonna say.

Like, no, no, no, he just gotta smashed. So sad for Wells. Okay, So here's my Tony Romo story. This happened in Tahoe at the American Century Classic a few years ago. I've never really told this story in the Almost Famous podcast because it's something that embarrasses me deeply.

Okay.

So that's a big that's a big celebrity event that.

Makes us want to know more, and it means it's gonna be a great story. Yeah, and knowing you, it's probably not really that embarrassing.

That's pretty embarrassing, okay, Okay, Okay. So the American Century Tournament is one that is stacked full of celebrities. I mean this this is where like the Justin Timberlakes. My partner that week was Miles Teller before he was obviously in Top Gun. You know, you have the Tom Brady's and the Aaron Rodgers and the Tony Romo's, all these Steph Curry, all these huge athletes come out for it right, and actors and actresses. So I get invited to play in it. I am so excited, and one of my buddies gives me the advice, Ben, if you ever want to get invited back, you just do whatever they say to do, like you are entertainment.

This week sounds like The Bachelor.

It really is. Yeah, And so I'm I'm fired up. I can an email from the tournament director saying, okay, it's a time to sign up for our annual karaoke night. This karaoke night is something that's sent through an email. So I'm like, I gotta do it right, I gotta do karaoke. That's following my buddy's suggestion. So I sign up and I sign up for Whitney Houston. I want to dance with somebody. Why Whitney Just it's a good karaoke song. I felt like it was a cloud crowd pleaser. I also did it because I'm not a good singer at all. Like I'm a terrible singer.

So you went with the best singer in the entire world.

Well, that's the problem. I thought people would sing along with me, so that my carry my mind. My karaoke job would be very easy. You point the mic at the audience and they sing. So I show up to the event and one of the guys, the guitarist for Rascal Flats, is there at our player meeting and he goes, hey, Ben introduces himself. You must be a really good singer. I said, no, no, I'm not a good singer at all.

Why would you think that.

He goes, you're not a good singer, but you signed up for karaoke Night. I said, yeah, yeah, I did, and he said, do you know what karaoke night is? Oh gosh, I said, I have no idea what karaoke night is. I'm assuming it's karaoke, that's it. And he goes, Ben, Karaoke Night is in front of twenty five hundred people on the lake in Lake Tahoe. Everybody from the tournament is there, and this night is meant for the justin Timberlakes of the world. The Alfonso Rivero's of the World, the Rascal Flats of the World to sing cover songs for the audience. This is not meant for people like you, and I freak out right freak out. Yeah. So I have two options, you back out or you just go with it. So I just went with it because I didn't.

I'm sorry. Were you the bachelor at this point? Like, were you the reigning Bachelor?

Now this was probably a year and a half later, two years later.

Okay, but you're still pretty cool.

Yeah, I'm pretty cool. Well, I mean as cool as I've ever been. Yeah, the coolest I've ever been in my relevant.

Yeah, and almost famous.

Almost famous. And so I show up to this event and he's not lying. There is a huge stage in front of twenty five hundred people, all of which are heroes of mine, the athletes and the actors and the people and the singers of the past. And then there's the public. The public could buy tickets to this. And everybody is up on stage crushing it. I mean, they are singing beautifully, They're covering songs, people are dancing around. It's a beautiful evening. And then they tell me it's my turn, and I step up on stage and I don't realize that this is legit karaoke where they don't even have the words to this song. And no, guess who the band is that plays the music, like the Roots or something, Rascal Flats. So Rascal Flats is playing the music. I am supposed to be singing Whitney Houston. I know enough of the words to fake it a little bit. It is awful. I mean, it is embarrassing. There is nothing about that like song that I did well. The crowd is in shock. They are embarrassed, they are confused. I get off the stage and I know that this was awful, like.

This was audience is shocked, like they don't have any humor. They don't have any sense of.

Oh no, people are laughing at me.

No, sure, but like they're not like deciding like, oh, let's sing and dance. None obviously doesn't have it.

I think in a lot of ways they thought it was disrespectful because they had paid They had paid tickets to hear their favorite singers sing songs, and I'm taking up four minutes of that with my music. So I get off the stage. My head is sunk. I'm at this event that I wanted to be at so bad. I've always wanted to play in I've just started the event with the most embarrassing moment that I can remember in a long time. Nobody was like really being kind to me. This wasn't like, oh, Ben, that was awesome way to go, Like you did it like that, you should be proud of yourself. It was more like everybody's kind of upset.

Are you sure this isn't like Ben Higgins, Like like, I could have walked off the stage, walked to my hotel room and nobody would have stopped me.

I would have just got looks like that was definitely how it was going. Tony Romo is standing there, okay, off to the side of stage, the only person to say anything to me, and he goes, hey, man, that that took balls aw and I just came aw. It was sweet. It is the only interaction I had with Tony that week, but it was the only interaction I had post this embarrassing moment, And I just remember him saying one thing to make me feel like, hey, You're not a complete embarrassment. Somebody sees it as courage and it just happened to be Tony Romo.

That's very sweet a lot.

Yeah sweet, well, Ben.

Thanks for sharing that story. I do feel like you're deeply affected by it, and that's why you haven't told it.

Well, I don' think it invited back to the tournament the next year, So really, I'm wondering if that might have been it.

No, Ben, this is crazy people. One should have had a sense of humor, and two should have made you more clear of the rules.

Yeah, they should have given me that out. They should have said, hey, this isn't just this isn't for you.

But yeah, and guess what, it didn't make any headlines.

No, but I'm sure sure the video's out there.

Should I YouTube that? Ben Higgins karaoke? Just let me do it. Don't say anything. It's not You just made up that story, didn't you.

No?

I really didn't. I really didn't, Ashley. We have a podcast packed with headlines. Let's jump into him now right after the break. First headline is this he is making the headlines. Recently, Bachelor's Dean Ungler suggests using brother sperm to impregnate fiance Klin. This according to people, All right, ash tell us more.

Okay, so Jared was there for this conversation. Dean keeps saying Dean like things on HOLP. We suck at being newlyweds. The new branding for help. I sadit dating.

So isn't it just help we suck?

Now? Yeah, it should just be help we suck.

I think it is.

No, according to my husband who's on the show, it's still help. We suck at being newlyweds. I just think it should be helped. I suck at relationships. But whatever. So they talk about fertility on this episode, Kaylin said that she did the modern fertility test, and then Dean has apparently checked his sperm eight years ago. He's always thought that he's infertile, always thought he's sterile, he says, So, I guess that's why he got it checked eight years ago. And he was good back then. And then Dean does the Dean thing where he kind of makes a joke about what he says he's thought of in the past. He says, because I've always thought I was infertile. I've always thought that, if need be, I did impregnate my wife with my brothers. He has two brothers sperm, and he goes, I guess that's weird now that there's a person here, that would be the one being impregnated.

Like.

He goes, no, and now that Caitlin is here, I'm thinking it might be a little weird. He goes, you can just go in the room with them for like thirty minutes. And she goes, I'm not going, Oh my god, this is the most ridiculous conversation ever, let alone. I'm not gonna have sex with them. He goes, oh, I guess, so, I guess it would be more of like a like in Vitro type situation. It's I go Jared, like, how is this making headlines? And then he goes, It's just Dean being Dean and like joking around, and then everybody makes headlines about it. And I have to say, when you do read the actual article, and this is people, Okay, this isn't like a tabloid. People's not a tabloid. When you read the quotes, it sounds avery legitimate. I think that Dean has some sort of seriousness to it. I think he has thought of it as like a passing thought in the past, and now he's just kind of joking for a good podcast content.

Yeah, well, that kind of stuff happens. I just I didn't know all this about Dean.

No, oh, you think that people usually use their sibling sperm.

Yeah, it happens, No, they you know how.

On friends like Phoebe was the surrogate for her brother, Like that is a little strange but also okay. But using the sibling.

Sperm, I do think it happens. I do, he goes.

Okay, But wouldn't that be weird knowing that your son is really like your brother's son biologically, And he was like, I guess that would be kind of weird. How, I don't under I don't know if you could do that, Like I understand, I totally from donation is a great thing. Egg donation is a great thing. But like the brother, a sibling that you're still in good touch with.

It is Dean. Dean would find a way to Dean just finds a way to do anything out of the ordinary or out of left field, and so I wouldn't put it past him to think this is a good idea. And I'm sure it does happen. I'm sure it does well. Carly Waddell is releasing new music and teases song your friends like me more, I don't know. She could sing, Oh, you don't know she could sing.

Carly sings like an angel. Really yeah, Carly has a great voice. Carli was a professional singer before going on the show. She did a lot of cruise ship sing She was the cruise ship singer at the nightly shows. And whenever she sings around me, I'm like, oh my god, she is so talented. And now we see her put out a new song, an original song. It's called Your Friends Like Me More, and it's amazing. Guys. I'm not saying this as her friend. I've watched it multiple times, the Little Teacher that she dropped on Instagram, and I keep listening to it over and over again. And even even Dawson like when the video is playing, He's like, oh, all attention on that song. It sounds so good, Like that is the kind of song if you heard it on the radio, you wouldn't be like, ah, this is a reality star trying to be a country singer. Like she just sounds straight country singer. So you guys, please go check out our friend Carly's well. Her EP is dropping on may Well. It's it's she's releasing them song by song, So this song, which will compile into one EP eventually is dropping on May first, and you can pre save it with a link. Just just go to her Instagram and find out how to do it.

Bachelor stars Ari and Lauren Lyondyke reveal there can centering adoption in the future. Really happy with our three children now is the quote they use, But they're considering it.

Yeah. I was actually shocked to see this headline knowing that Ari has had a vasectomy. Yeah, they did say. In this article, says their shop is closed. He's had a vaseectomy and we wouldn't have any more biological children, but we've considered adoption. Said, it's not like on the agenda right now, but if it does, it's something that if it does seem like like a craving that they have in the next couple of years, they will look into it.

Well. Catherine and Sean say they originally wanted five kids, but they're set with three. It's a lot, they say this according to people.

Yes, again in this article, Sean is talking about getting a vasectomy soon. Man, what a trend in bachelination. They said that they wanted to have and then once they had three, they're like, okay, we like this little group of ours. Says that a couple weeks, A couple of weeks are a couple of months ago. Recently, they they've had a little pregnancy scare, thinking that maybe she was pregnant. She took a test and it was negative, and they both said when they saw that it was negative, they were both really happy and that was a moment that they that they were like, Okay, we should probably be done with three. Now that being said, Sean said that he could have like ten girls. It's the boys who are trouble that are a lot more difficult. Makes me feel much better, Sean. And then he said that right now they're enjoying their little family, soaking it all in. He says, he catches himself a lot. I don't want to sound super emotional, super sensitive dad over here, but I'll catch myself looking at their sweet, doorable faces and thinking this isn't gonna last much longer.

It's a beautiful family. I know you have another Sean headl that you kind of have the ends on. Yes, and it's something about Sean and a robbery story.

Mm hmmm. This was recently as well. He and Samuel, their oldest who was six and a half. They were shopping at Dick's and somebody came in just you know, a shopper comes in and goes if anybody has a truck. There's some guys outside trying to break into a truck and like steal it. I don't know what they were doing, like trying to pop up open the lock or trying to like hot wire it to like actually steal the car. And he was like, oh great, that's definitely mine. He says, now he regrets having a car that like a truck that is like super shiny, big revs. He says, like it's just got a fancy truck. He's like, oh great, that was a mistake. He actually says that after this experience, he's gonna sell it soon. Just too flashy. So so he goes outside, sees these guys like in their getaway car trying to escape because they actually couldn't figure it out, and they were wearing like masks and hoodies or something like that. And he said that he left Samuel inside the Dicks and he because he didn't want him to see it. I'm sure he left him with like an employee or something. And yeah, so that's the story. It's pretty scary. Another shot in Catherine's story similar so many things about like their kids in safety, their dog. They had to rehome their dog, which is so sad because he showed a little aggressiveness. And then the final straw was the fact that one of their kids again I think it was Samuel, had to go to the hospital get a couple staples in his head after the dog kind of took a bite out of him. It's so sad, and you know, shot in Catherine just talked over and over again how difficult decision that was. That wasn't them just being like, ah, we're getting read of the dog, like it was like a thought out decision. But that moment, of course, was like the nail on the coffin. But what's great about the rehoming is that the dog is actually living with the trainer because that they sought out a trainer to see if they could you know, obviously train the dog into not doing this anymore. And the trainer says that she, like, you know, she loves the dog so much she wanted to make it her own. And now the dog lives with lots of other dogs on like a big piece of property and they get to even come visit sometimes.

Well, that's great. Well, that'd be tough. I can't imagine getting.

I was thinking about you. Yeahen I read it, I was like, yeah, Ben, it's gonna have sympathy towards this story.

Yeah, my buddy Whalen he uh, he's got a little wild in them. But we're working on it. We're working on it.

We have a little wild and Lois as well, she's not the most baveda.

Also, we have a headline about Beca Martinez.

Beca Martinez is pregnant with baby number three. She teased this announcement on Instagram for a while this week, had a couple like posts about the announcement coming, and we're all like, what's the announcement? She was like, are we expanding our family? Are we going off the grid? Are we signing on to a TV show? Uh? And it was expanding their family, which I think a lot of people who follow beckup closely like I do, was actually pretty shocked about, because I believe that she's spoken relatively recently, like over the past maybe like six months to a year, that they were not planning on expanding the family at a time soon. She definitely always seemed she wanted more kids but I think like she was getting to a point where she was like, I think we're gonna stay with these two now and then down the road. But that is not what happened. And maybe I'm wrong. Well, maybe she changed her mind. Maybe like the other two kids, it was a little bit unexpected. But I'm sure she'll tell us the entire story very soon. Yesterday we just got the announcement, and the announcement was quite unique. She's been into like clamation lately and creating claymation, so she did a stop motion clamation announcement real on Instagram, and it depicts her clamation character going into the bathroom and taking a pregnancy test, seeing that it's positive and being shocked, and then going into her and her I'm not sure if they're secularly married. Sometimes she refers to her to Grayson as her Grayson as her fiance, and sometimes she refers to him as her husband, but you know, either or she does have a ring on her finger. And then in the video, the claymation goes into the bedroom throws the pregnancy stick towards towards her fiance and he looks at it and then he falls back and faints. It's really cute and funny. It's definitely worth watching.

Yeah, go and check it out.

Well.

The final headline of the day, Gabby Wendy posts a picture and the dress she was gonna wear for the bachelor proposal on Clayton Season, and Clayton responds, did you see this?

I was shocked. I saw this in real time unfold. She's she posted a really sexy picture of herself right in this dress that apparently she was supposed to wear when she walked up to Clayton. Now we know that Clayton season didn't end in that traditional way where like one is dumbed, you know at the altar and underneath this sexy picture, Clayton says, you can wear it to Scottsdale. Can you believe?

What does that mean?

He says, bring the dress to quote directly, bring the dress to Scottsdale this weekend. Vaccination could not get enough of this moment.

Yep. And then yeah, what do you think this means? Ashley? Let's dig in a little bit. What is your assumption here? Is she going to visit him?

Do you think that she would have posted that? I mean, obviously it's a great attention grab. I mean as far as business goes, This was the perfect caption, sure to get headlines, to get likes and comments and all that. Now, did she do it for that? Would she be willing to do it for that? Even if she didn't have a little something maybe going on with Clinton?

I thought she was rumored to be with one of the guys from Dancing with the Star.

Yeah, you know Vinnie from Jersey Shore.

Yeah, so she This is wild and a story that we're gonna have to keep up with. It feels, it feels interesting, even if it is an attention grab, it's interesting. It's good content, and I'm here for it. I know Ashley is also. Well, that's all the headlines we have for everybody today. It is the off season here with the almost famous podcasts, but we do want to remind you that the Bachelorette season is currently being filmed. I'm excited for We're going to continue the off season until that season airs, or until Paradise airs also, so we have a lot to get to. We hope you are staying warm. The reason I say that, Ashley is I have two feet of snow in Denver as of today. Oh yeah, oh yeah, it sucks. It's wild. It's wild. We have two feet of snow, so I hope everybody else out there is enjoying the kickoff of the summer or at least the spring. In the warm weather, I'm gonna go shovel my driveway.

All right, Well, before you know it, it'll be Yeah.

We'll see. But until next time.

All right, until next time, I've been Ashley.

And I've been Ben.

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