WEBVTT - Roses for Ratings (Q&A) 0:00:00.750 --> 0:00:03.810 This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast 0:00:03.830 --> 0:00:04.770 with iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.790 --> 0:00:10.850 Hey, guys. Welcome to another episode of the Almost Famous Podcast. 0:00:10.970 --> 0:00:12.760 Ben and I are doing a fun little one today 0:00:12.810 --> 0:00:16.799 where we're doing fan questions. And I just thought of 0:00:16.860 --> 0:00:22.600 a question that I have for you, Ben. Since I, quote, 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.160 own a coffee shop, even though I have absolutely nothing 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.190 to do with the day-to-day or really anything. 0:00:28.230 --> 0:00:31.170 You just pushed. You just placed a huge order today, 0:00:31.210 --> 0:00:31.610 by the way. 0:00:32.090 --> 0:00:35.570 Oh, I'm sure we did. That's awesome. And you own 0:00:36.430 --> 0:00:39.870 a coffee company. I was thinking, what? How do you 0:00:39.890 --> 0:00:42.870 make your own coffee at home? Like, what brand do 0:00:42.909 --> 0:00:45.810 you use? I mean, I know you use Generous. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:47.680 Yeah. 0:00:47.700 --> 0:00:49.059 But I mean, like, what coffee maker? 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.540 Yeah, sure. Well, I like a good French press or 0:00:53.659 --> 0:00:58.480 pour over. There's a many mornings where I just use 0:00:58.500 --> 0:01:01.180 like the old school coffee maker. I mean, like I'm 0:01:01.220 --> 0:01:02.900 not against it. I think it makes a great cup 0:01:02.940 --> 0:01:07.660 of coffee. Here's the interesting thing. I used to really 0:01:07.780 --> 0:01:13.910 love a vanilla latte. Uh, but after being in the 0:01:13.970 --> 0:01:17.350 coffee world and traveling to the farms, seeing the work 0:01:17.410 --> 0:01:21.510 that is put into each cup of coffee that we consume, 0:01:22.550 --> 0:01:25.339 I drink it straight with nothing at it. 0:01:26.190 --> 0:01:28.600 Um, Now you just drink black. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.080 Just black. And I love it. It's great. 0:01:32.380 --> 0:01:36.340 Why did seeing the effort make you go black. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:43.030 No cream sugar? Yeah, great question. Well, one, every bean 0:01:43.069 --> 0:01:47.030 is picked by hand when it's specialty coffee. So you 0:01:47.050 --> 0:01:49.830 have people climbing up and down the side of a mountain, 0:01:49.910 --> 0:01:55.040 usually family members or people from the local community. that 0:01:55.060 --> 0:01:58.000 get brought in during harvest season, but they're like climbing 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:59.690 up and down these mountains with like a hundred pounds 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.770 of coffee on their back, picking each bean by hand. 0:02:03.230 --> 0:02:05.490 Then you see the process of them scattering it out, 0:02:05.570 --> 0:02:09.590 drying it out, then re packaging it into the bags 0:02:09.630 --> 0:02:14.270 that end up showing up to generous or to whatever 0:02:14.330 --> 0:02:17.490 roaster you consume. I hope it's generous. And so I 0:02:17.590 --> 0:02:19.980 think it was just this, I think when you see 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.429 the art behind it and the, time into it. I 0:02:24.470 --> 0:02:27.830 don't want to dilute, not that that's bad because I 0:02:27.870 --> 0:02:31.050 know like producers who are growing and harvesting the coffee 0:02:31.090 --> 0:02:34.890 that will add sugar or milk to their coffee. That's 0:02:34.930 --> 0:02:38.850 not like a, a frowned upon thing. But I think 0:02:38.910 --> 0:02:40.600 for me, I came back and said, I want to 0:02:40.780 --> 0:02:48.380 like taste the coffee in its purest form as like a, 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.220 as like a little bit of a like ode to 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:52.760 the work put into it. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:59.619 That's really sweet. Now, as you've developed that taste, do 0:02:59.660 --> 0:03:02.220 you prefer it black or do you just still drink 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:03.639 it for the purity sake? 0:03:04.060 --> 0:03:07.720 I don't really like cream or sugar in it. Also, 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.850 there's a health side to that. Like it's just extra calories. 0:03:10.910 --> 0:03:13.590 Not that I'm counting calories, but it is, you know, 0:03:13.669 --> 0:03:17.390 one of the sneaky ways to get out of shape 0:03:17.650 --> 0:03:19.649 is to drink a lot of sugar in the course 0:03:19.669 --> 0:03:21.210 of a day. And it's really easy to do, right? 0:03:21.270 --> 0:03:25.780 Like juices, sodas. adding you know sugar to your coffee 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.200 you're just consuming sugar all day long so it's one 0:03:28.380 --> 0:03:30.960 easy way for me to cut out that uh i'm 0:03:30.980 --> 0:03:33.250 not like goodness i'm not a health nut by any 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.970 means but that was it is one idea i don't 0:03:37.130 --> 0:03:40.130 love the idea like the idea of waking up in 0:03:40.150 --> 0:03:45.370 the morning and having uh sugar i guess uh but 0:03:45.930 --> 0:03:49.510 it's also i like bourbon so i like the like 0:03:49.630 --> 0:03:52.900 kick like it kind of You know, I like the bitterness. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:58.040 I like the the the kick in the morning. I 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.140 like spicy things like I like things that like wake 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:00.820 up my palate. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:01.460 Yeah. 0:04:01.780 --> 0:04:06.260 What about you? I mean, you obviously are you do 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:12.510 own a coffee shop, one of America's best. But you're 0:04:12.550 --> 0:04:14.369 probably in there quite a bit. What is your go to? 0:04:15.130 --> 0:04:17.070 Well, what's funny is like one of the questions that 0:04:17.089 --> 0:04:19.669 we got sent from one of our listeners via social 0:04:19.730 --> 0:04:23.350 media is what kind of coffee do you guys drink? Like, 0:04:23.390 --> 0:04:27.479 are you into seasonal drinks? And of course, I love 0:04:27.510 --> 0:04:30.200 a pumpkin spice latte. What's funny is that like pumpkin 0:04:30.220 --> 0:04:33.340 spice can either taste in like the same sip, taste 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.140 absolutely delicious and also taste kind of like throw up. 0:04:37.860 --> 0:04:38.900 Interesting to you. 0:04:39.660 --> 0:04:42.239 Yeah. I mean, I don't know if this is specific 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:42.620 to me. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:44.900 No, I get it. I get what you're saying. 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:45.000 Yeah. 0:04:45.330 --> 0:04:45.609 Yeah. 0:04:45.950 --> 0:04:50.690 Like it can almost taste like white your mouth. Like, yeah, disgusting. 0:04:51.029 --> 0:04:54.650 But like, why is it so good? Yet also seems like, 0:04:55.270 --> 0:04:57.360 is it so good at the same time? I do 0:04:57.390 --> 0:05:01.320 like pumpkin spice in the fall. I do not like fall. 0:05:01.380 --> 0:05:03.640 It is the one thing about fall that I like 0:05:04.620 --> 0:05:09.200 is just, it's truly a brisk fall morning with a 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:13.279 pumpkin spice flavored coffee. That is the only ounce of 0:05:13.339 --> 0:05:18.870 fall that I enjoy. Um, then I, but I'm basic. I, 0:05:19.130 --> 0:05:22.010 I asked you the question because we just got an 0:05:22.070 --> 0:05:25.390 espresso and I mean like truly, wow, what a basic 0:05:25.430 --> 0:05:29.150 biatch I am. But I posted on Instagram a couple 0:05:29.170 --> 0:05:31.890 of weeks ago. I was like, Hey, um, there's like 0:05:31.980 --> 0:05:34.040 something about my Keurig, which is like grossing me. Like, 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.420 I just don't look forward to my morning coffee with 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:42.300 the Keurig anymore. What do you guys suggest? And half 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.589 the people. hundreds of people said, get an espresso. And 0:05:45.630 --> 0:05:48.320 my sister like called me immediately after seeing the post. 0:05:48.339 --> 0:05:50.979 And she was like, you need to get an espresso. 0:05:51.380 --> 0:05:54.880 Got an espresso. I know it's basic, but solved my problems. 0:05:55.029 --> 0:05:57.430 I enjoy my at-home cup of coffee now again. 0:05:57.970 --> 0:06:00.190 But it's not generous. So you don't find that. 0:06:00.210 --> 0:06:00.690 I'm so sorry. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:02.290 A little bit offensive to me. 0:06:02.910 --> 0:06:05.670 Not a little bit because we buy plenty of generous 0:06:05.710 --> 0:06:07.710 for the coffee shop. You do that. 0:06:07.830 --> 0:06:10.670 Yeah, you make up for it there. Yeah, I think 0:06:11.029 --> 0:06:12.609 Nespresso does a great job. 0:06:13.170 --> 0:06:16.250 Ben, I don't like the drip coffee from home anymore. 0:06:16.310 --> 0:06:19.080 Like the pot, like a pot of coffee. I don't 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.180 know whether it's my maker or not, but Jared and 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.880 I used to make delicious just pots of old fashioned coffee. 0:06:25.620 --> 0:06:28.460 And I don't know what happened to the maker or whatever. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.310 Or if it's a different one, it's just not yummy 0:06:33.490 --> 0:06:35.950 from the pot. It tastes like soap to me or something. 0:06:36.589 --> 0:06:38.390 Well, you probably are washing it with soap and not 0:06:38.410 --> 0:06:41.710 getting all the soap out. It must be deep in there. 0:06:41.750 --> 0:06:43.470 Were you brewing generous at home? 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:49.840 No, because I just want, like, I was doing, we 0:06:49.860 --> 0:06:53.680 wouldn't grind the things. We would barely ever make a pot. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:54.820 This is like years ago. 0:06:56.580 --> 0:06:58.480 Well, you do make up for it. We can go, go. 0:06:58.500 --> 0:06:59.520 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0:06:59.540 --> 0:07:02.750 Yeah, you make up for it in your purchasing for Audrey's, 0:07:02.810 --> 0:07:05.789 and I appreciate that. I would say everybody out there, 0:07:07.630 --> 0:07:11.270 consider serving generous at your home. That would be a 0:07:11.330 --> 0:07:12.750 big win for all of us. 0:07:13.270 --> 0:07:13.830 You need to make. 0:07:14.410 --> 0:07:18.990 You know what we're supporting right now? No, I don't. 0:07:19.790 --> 0:07:24.410 There's this really cool organization in Indiana that's getting beds 0:07:24.530 --> 0:07:28.650 for kids that have grown up without a bed. So 0:07:28.670 --> 0:07:30.750 they're making sure that they like have a comfy bed 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:34.480 to sleep in with blankets and stuff for the winter, especially. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.860 You'd be amazed at how many kids go without having 0:07:38.900 --> 0:07:41.240 a bed to sleep on in their home. And so 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.120 this is the organization we're supporting right now. So this 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.430 holiday season, if you want to go support something good, 0:07:46.450 --> 0:07:49.310 go buy some generous for you and your friends. Ashley, 0:07:49.550 --> 0:07:53.630 this is an episode where we're answering listener questions. Um, 0:07:53.950 --> 0:07:57.250 if you want to ask us a question for the future, uh, 0:07:57.330 --> 0:08:01.360 go to and message us at the almost underscore famous podcast, 0:08:01.500 --> 0:08:05.100 or leave us a message at eight, four, four, five. Almost. 0:08:05.700 --> 0:08:09.220 We want to answer anything. Uh, this question is from 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.420 D guard child. One, two, eight, three. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:12.580 Okay. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:13.240 Ashley, you ready? 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:13.740 Okay. 0:08:13.780 --> 0:08:13.960 Yeah. 0:08:14.820 --> 0:08:17.970 Can we talk about the latest unfair dancing with the 0:08:18.070 --> 0:08:19.090 stars elimination? 0:08:20.980 --> 0:08:22.260 Do you know what she's referring to? 0:08:22.380 --> 0:08:25.860 Taylor Hanson has to be. And his partner, Britt, right? 0:08:26.300 --> 0:08:26.540 Yeah. 0:08:28.020 --> 0:08:32.340 So Taylor and Britt got higher scores than Guillermo, which is, 0:08:32.500 --> 0:08:37.750 you guys know Guillermo from Jimmy Kimmel. So this happens 0:08:37.970 --> 0:08:42.410 frequently in Dancing with the Stars. Taylor, I mean, obviously 0:08:42.470 --> 0:08:46.030 wasn't one of the greatest dancers of that celebrity group, 0:08:46.590 --> 0:08:49.949 but people will say that he should have gotten especially Britt, too. 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.660 People really love Britt and think that she's been screwed 0:08:52.740 --> 0:08:55.040 over the past couple of seasons and like she hasn't 0:08:55.059 --> 0:08:57.559 had her shining star moment, but she's considered a leader 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:02.400 amongst a lot of the dancers. So they got eliminated 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.800 this week, even though their scores were better than Guillermo's. 0:09:06.820 --> 0:09:09.760 And I mean, like, I get it. It's obviously unfair, 0:09:09.860 --> 0:09:13.340 but like it's kind of like part reality show, part like, 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.380 you know, fan favorite situation. I don't know. Like, remember 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:18.800 when Andy Richter got so far? 0:09:19.830 --> 0:09:22.709 Yeah, but fan favorite feels weird because I think Taylor 0:09:22.750 --> 0:09:23.699 Hanson would be a fan favorite. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.140 It has more fans than Guillermo. Yeah, I mean, like, 0:09:26.260 --> 0:09:28.880 I don't get it. Obviously, you're talking to a fanson 0:09:28.900 --> 0:09:32.240 right now. I wish I could. Taylor just, like, seemed 0:09:32.260 --> 0:09:35.220 to have gotten so emotionally invested. Yeah. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:40.230 Britt has fans. Like, you would think that. Okay, I 0:09:40.270 --> 0:09:41.809 would understand if they didn't win the whole thing. 0:09:42.230 --> 0:09:42.830 Yeah, exactly. 0:09:42.850 --> 0:09:45.490 It's just odd that they got eliminated so early when 0:09:45.510 --> 0:09:48.550 you're looking at, when you compare everybody side by side. 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.660 Yeah, I thought that Taylor was going to go really 0:09:51.700 --> 0:09:55.970 far because fans are really crazy. Like I could see 0:09:56.230 --> 0:09:59.130 really hardcore fans that have followed them for the past 0:09:59.130 --> 0:10:02.200 30 years, like actual fans. being on the phones, just insane, 0:10:02.500 --> 0:10:07.740 insane amounts. Um, I can't say that I understand it 0:10:07.780 --> 0:10:09.670 with the stars. Like the reason that I never got 0:10:09.750 --> 0:10:13.070 into it is because I feel like when I watch 0:10:13.090 --> 0:10:15.750 people dance, I'm either, I'm impressed by all of it. 0:10:15.750 --> 0:10:17.040 Yeah. I agree. 0:10:17.100 --> 0:10:20.060 I am so bad at dancing that if you can 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.980 memorize a dance and then perform it in front of 0:10:23.260 --> 0:10:26.540 millions of people and look pretty decent doing it, I 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:31.020 am like, wow, eights at least. When they give fives, 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:36.440 I'm like, that was a five? I would have zeros 0:10:36.540 --> 0:10:39.079 on the show. I would get zeros. I am so 0:10:39.140 --> 0:10:41.640 bad at dancing, and everything that I've ever seen on 0:10:41.660 --> 0:10:44.060 Dancing with the Stars looks good to me, looks nice. 0:10:44.540 --> 0:10:47.680 I can tell when it's like an, a wowie zowie. 0:10:48.140 --> 0:10:50.140 But for the most part, I just think everybody looks 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:51.620 like they're doing a good job. I'm just not a 0:10:51.660 --> 0:10:54.830 dance critic. When it comes to music, like American Idol, 0:10:54.970 --> 0:10:58.830 I know what sounds good to my ears and what doesn't. Yeah. 0:10:58.870 --> 0:11:01.189 But dancing, it all looks pretty nice to me. 0:11:01.730 --> 0:11:05.670 It's funny. I was on social media this week prepping 0:11:05.730 --> 0:11:10.870 for this and reading some of the criticisms. Each person's dance, 0:11:11.050 --> 0:11:13.750 like the whole, you know, every time somebody dances, everybody 0:11:13.770 --> 0:11:17.610 gets on, especially X and kind of comments on it. 0:11:18.290 --> 0:11:23.689 And I found it wild, wild how we're criticizing these 0:11:23.730 --> 0:11:25.850 celebrities like they're professional dancers. 0:11:25.929 --> 0:11:26.250 I know. 0:11:26.650 --> 0:11:28.270 And I don't even know what I was looking at. 0:11:28.370 --> 0:11:31.709 One of the people's comments were like, look at this dance. 0:11:31.890 --> 0:11:33.929 It's pretty much like it was so bad. Look at 0:11:33.950 --> 0:11:36.530 the two step or whatever. And I'm watching, I'm like, 0:11:36.740 --> 0:11:38.800 I'm with you. I was like, that looked awesome. Like 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.560 that was so much better than I could do. 0:11:40.580 --> 0:11:46.569 Yeah. Seriously. Seriously. I can't even express how crappy I 0:11:46.610 --> 0:11:47.010 would be. 0:11:47.410 --> 0:11:50.140 Do you think there's a collusion on Dancing with the Stars? 0:11:50.700 --> 0:11:55.760 That's what people say. There's rumors about this. I don't know. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.500 I guess there's always going to be rumors when it 0:11:57.540 --> 0:11:59.760 comes to Dancing with the Stars and American Idol and 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.329 Voice and such where it's like how much vote really counts. 0:12:04.390 --> 0:12:05.810 I would like to think it's all legit. 0:12:06.429 --> 0:12:08.829 It kind of has to be, right? It's a game show. 0:12:08.850 --> 0:12:12.420 It's in the game show category so there's There's legislation 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.840 that makes it fair that it has to be at least, 0:12:16.700 --> 0:12:21.470 you know, the algorithm has to be presented in some way. 0:12:21.550 --> 0:12:24.310 I know there is no prize money, so maybe that 0:12:24.410 --> 0:12:26.469 is a way to get around it. But in a 0:12:26.490 --> 0:12:29.290 lot of ways, you could argue there is prize money 0:12:29.390 --> 0:12:31.090 because the longer you're on the season, the more you 0:12:31.130 --> 0:12:31.530 get paid. 0:12:33.010 --> 0:12:36.550 That's true. With American Idol, not to keep comparing, but 0:12:36.590 --> 0:12:38.190 that was all fan votes. 0:12:38.690 --> 0:12:38.950 Yeah. 0:12:38.990 --> 0:12:42.890 Not any judge votes. there was like no judge votes 0:12:43.330 --> 0:12:46.650 and the voting times were a lot longer. 0:12:46.670 --> 0:12:47.050 I don't know. 0:12:47.130 --> 0:12:49.700 How did they make that fair on dancing with the stars? 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.420 Like everybody has the same amount. Does everybody have the 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.120 same amount of voting time? I guess so. 0:12:54.780 --> 0:12:57.260 Yeah, I would guess so. You know, what's going to 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.500 be interesting to me. We're obviously coming up on in 0:12:59.540 --> 0:13:04.210 November to the midterm elections. You know, there's probably some 0:13:04.230 --> 0:13:07.620 big races going on in your local area. Uh, I'd 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.160 be curious to see the numbers side by side on 0:13:10.540 --> 0:13:13.059 once the midterms come out, who voted, like who had 0:13:13.140 --> 0:13:17.400 received more votes, dance with the stars or like our 0:13:17.980 --> 0:13:18.760 political system. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.540 American Idol, again, not to bring it up, used to 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.800 definitely bring in more votes, but then again, one person 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.760 could vote a bajillion times with American Idol. Like I 0:13:27.820 --> 0:13:30.180 used to be on the phone for American Idol for 0:13:30.370 --> 0:13:32.349 legitimately two full hours. Cause you were allowed to do 0:13:32.370 --> 0:13:34.850 it for two full hours. And I would, I mean, 0:13:34.870 --> 0:13:36.290 this is who I am. You know what I mean? 0:13:36.490 --> 0:13:36.790 Yeah. 0:13:36.870 --> 0:13:40.190 As an obsessive person. And I would be on the 0:13:40.210 --> 0:13:44.030 phone and I would tally how many times I got through. Because, like, 0:13:44.070 --> 0:13:47.090 sometimes you wouldn't get through. And it was always concerning 0:13:47.110 --> 0:13:48.550 when you got through too many times. 0:13:49.170 --> 0:13:50.910 Oh, wait. Did you find this a worthy pursuit? 0:13:52.450 --> 0:13:54.760 I loved it. I was fully fulfilled by it. 0:13:54.770 --> 0:13:55.010 Yeah. 0:13:55.250 --> 0:13:59.939 Two hours just voting. And thank you. Thanks for voting 0:13:59.980 --> 0:14:04.060 for me. Blake. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.140 again and again and again. I think I got, like, 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.360 it was about, like, 100 times. I got about 50 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:09.400 an hour. 0:14:09.420 --> 0:14:13.199 Oh, Ashley, just being in the same house as you 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:14.960 for a week would be so funny. 0:14:14.980 --> 0:14:17.740 I wish it was like this still. You know, I can't, like, 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.120 be fully as obsessive anymore. Nor do I find, like, 0:14:21.140 --> 0:14:21.620 I have obsessiveness. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:22.859 You feel like a piece of your heart is missing? 0:14:24.220 --> 0:14:25.320 I just, you know. 0:14:26.260 --> 0:14:27.120 No. No. 0:14:27.540 --> 0:14:30.970 But it's funny, like, what I used to do. It's 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:32.250 not really funny. I totally get it. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.850 Next question is from Katie Wilk, 16. How did the 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.230 two of you end up hosting together? She says, love 0:14:50.270 --> 0:14:51.830 your banter. That's sweet. 0:14:52.790 --> 0:14:57.109 So sweet. We ended up hosting together because Amy Sugarman, 0:14:57.470 --> 0:14:59.810 our wonderful executive producer over here. 0:14:59.830 --> 0:15:02.200 She's like the Andy Cohen of. pop culture. 0:15:03.980 --> 0:15:08.070 She is the andy cohen of iheart yes except. 0:15:07.850 --> 0:15:10.910 She shows up less like we don't ever like you never. 0:15:10.790 --> 0:15:15.090 See her that's because she doesn't fly anywhere amy's like 0:15:15.270 --> 0:15:17.210 oh you come join us and do these fun things 0:15:17.310 --> 0:15:20.510 it's like only in la or san francisco or tahoe 0:15:20.530 --> 0:15:24.320 because guys amy doesn't fly she hasn't flown since 1999. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.020 I can't believe that woman hasn't been to new york 0:15:27.300 --> 0:15:32.239 since 1999 that's wild um So we love Amy so 0:15:32.300 --> 0:15:35.080 much and she put us together. She just thought that 0:15:35.140 --> 0:15:40.250 we would have a good silly dynamic where it's like I, Ashley, fangirl, 0:15:40.300 --> 0:15:44.730 somehow ended up on her favorite show with Mr. You know, 0:15:45.190 --> 0:15:49.910 the perfect Ben and lead of the show. More serious, 0:15:51.050 --> 0:15:55.870 very gentlemanly with like this absolute hee hee hee in me. 0:15:56.910 --> 0:15:58.630 It was fun. I mean, you know, there is a 0:15:58.670 --> 0:16:03.570 backstory to it. So I had gotten off of... What 0:16:03.610 --> 0:16:06.400 was the show called? With Lauren and I. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.560 Oh, yeah. Happily Ever After? 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:15.020 Happily Ever After, question mark. And because of that show, 0:16:15.180 --> 0:16:17.660 I couldn't do the Dancing with the Stars. It was 0:16:18.260 --> 0:16:20.870 same time, right after the filming of The Bachelor. I 0:16:20.890 --> 0:16:23.310 don't really know the behind the scenes of how they 0:16:23.370 --> 0:16:27.430 chose what I did and not do. But after Happily 0:16:27.490 --> 0:16:28.260 Ever After, it was. 0:16:30.530 --> 0:16:35.390 The week that we announced our breakup, it actually might 0:16:35.410 --> 0:16:36.190 have been day of. 0:16:36.410 --> 0:16:38.010 It was so awkward, Ben. Yeah. 0:16:38.190 --> 0:16:40.650 Amy calls me because she had originally set up this 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.560 show for Chris Harrison. It was Chris was going to 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.900 host it and they had it all planned out. But 0:16:48.980 --> 0:16:51.830 then he was still hosting The Bachelor at the time. 0:16:51.870 --> 0:16:54.630 The Bachelor came and said, hey, you can't be like 0:16:54.650 --> 0:16:56.910 the behind the scenes guy when you know everything behind 0:16:56.930 --> 0:16:59.350 the scenes. This doesn't make sense. And I think it 0:16:59.410 --> 0:17:01.870 was one of those mutually agreed upon, yeah, it doesn't 0:17:01.890 --> 0:17:04.870 make sense for you to host this show. So Amy 0:17:04.930 --> 0:17:09.710 was looking for a host. Now, flashback a little bit 0:17:10.250 --> 0:17:13.320 to how I know I got the role. I was 0:17:13.380 --> 0:17:17.639 in Vegas right after I was The Bachelor. JoJo's Season 0:17:17.660 --> 0:17:23.200 was airing on television. iHeart was doing a big panel 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.159 with a lot of the contestants from JoJo's Season. They 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:30.040 got clearance to do these interviews. While the season was airing, 0:17:30.060 --> 0:17:31.400 it was going to be a lot of fun. And 0:17:31.420 --> 0:17:34.659 a friend of mine was going to host that panel 0:17:35.700 --> 0:17:40.320 for iHeart. The friend ended up not feeling well and 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.270 not being able to get out of bed. And so 0:17:42.369 --> 0:17:44.790 everybody shows up to the panel. He has to bow 0:17:44.869 --> 0:17:47.210 out last minute. Everybody's sitting in the green room to 0:17:47.250 --> 0:17:52.250 walk out to the audience. And I'm in there and 0:17:52.430 --> 0:17:54.910 Amy looks at me and she says, we need a host. Ben, 0:17:54.930 --> 0:17:55.810 can you host this? 0:17:56.190 --> 0:17:57.909 A friend of yours, part of the show? 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:04.080 Part of the show I'm not gonna out him on this. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.240 I feel like I may have an idea who it is. 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:07.619 And so I said yeah I can host this I 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.010 don't know what we're hosting but yes I can ask 0:18:10.030 --> 0:18:11.930 the questions to these guys because I was just there 0:18:11.970 --> 0:18:13.290 kind of to hang out I wasn't even on the 0:18:13.310 --> 0:18:15.230 panel I was just it was going to be a 0:18:15.270 --> 0:18:18.190 JoJo season panel I said that's great I'll do that 0:18:18.869 --> 0:18:20.690 we step up we have a great time I walk 0:18:20.750 --> 0:18:23.409 off stage and Amy tells me hey I had this 0:18:23.450 --> 0:18:26.300 show for Chris Harrison we still want to do it 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.530 would you want to co-host this with Ashley. And I said, 0:18:30.710 --> 0:18:34.010 I would love to host with Ashley. I didn't know 0:18:34.050 --> 0:18:35.090 you very well at the time. 0:18:35.109 --> 0:18:38.840 I still fangirled over Ben. I was like, what? 0:18:38.890 --> 0:18:39.100 Me? 0:18:39.300 --> 0:18:42.140 I was nervous to talk to Ashley. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:42.230 Why? 0:18:42.980 --> 0:18:43.840 Because you're a big deal. 0:18:43.859 --> 0:18:45.460 The least nerve-wracking person to ever be around. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.700 Well, I think after 11 years, I would agree. 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:52.879 He's like, maybe after 11 minutes, I would have agreed. 0:18:53.460 --> 0:18:57.430 But our first episode was us talking about the breakup. 0:18:57.550 --> 0:19:00.090 And it was a very like sensitive, emotional time for me. 0:19:00.530 --> 0:19:02.590 There was still a lot that I was processing. I 0:19:02.630 --> 0:19:06.340 just need, I wanted this job. And so Amy was like, 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:07.980 you need to talk about it. And I'm like, I 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:09.679 don't want to talk about it. Like, it doesn't make 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.460 sense if you don't, I don't know if it was 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.879 a good decision or bad. I look back and like, 0:19:13.900 --> 0:19:17.550 that was such a brutal couple of weeks. But the 0:19:17.609 --> 0:19:21.370 funny part to finish this thought is Ashley and myself 0:19:22.450 --> 0:19:25.440 we used to do this whole show by calling each 0:19:25.500 --> 0:19:28.719 other and three-waying in iHeart. We used to do this 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.580 whole thing over the phone. It was a big step 0:19:31.619 --> 0:19:34.320 for us to end up, one, getting in person in LA. 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.220 You used to. I used to be in the audience. 0:19:37.340 --> 0:19:38.480 Oh, yeah, because you were in LA at the time. 0:19:38.500 --> 0:19:41.310 And you would call in. And then I would three-way in. Yeah. 0:19:41.510 --> 0:19:43.050 And then every once in a while, I could show 0:19:43.109 --> 0:19:46.149 up to LA and do it in person. Those are 0:19:46.170 --> 0:19:48.450 always some of my favorite times. They still are my favorite, really. 0:19:48.470 --> 0:19:50.169 Yeah, they're so fun. I miss the studio. 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:55.880 But then COVID happened and Zoom obviously took over. But 0:19:56.540 --> 0:19:58.440 a lot of things have changed. I will say this. 0:19:58.500 --> 0:20:04.560 I'm proud of this, Ashley. We are the first podcast 0:20:05.060 --> 0:20:09.030 to really take off underneath the iHeart umbrella. They obviously 0:20:09.070 --> 0:20:10.840 acquired some other companies along the way. 0:20:10.859 --> 0:20:12.640 I feel cool about that, too. 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:14.420 Yeah, we were the, like, pioneers. 0:20:14.980 --> 0:20:17.780 I know. We were the pioneers under Amy's, like, pop 0:20:17.820 --> 0:20:19.679 culture umbrella. Well, I mean, I guess there's a zillion 0:20:19.700 --> 0:20:22.160 pop culture umbrellas, but there's a lot under Amy's that 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.260 you know. And now the Jonas podcast is, so I 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:26.310 just feel pretty cool about that. 0:20:26.330 --> 0:20:28.090 Yeah. 0:20:28.310 --> 0:20:31.969 Yes, so we were paired up by Amy, and we 0:20:32.050 --> 0:20:33.300 are forever grateful for. 0:20:34.690 --> 0:20:36.500 And if you love our banter, I do think it's 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.740