Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I almost Famous podcast.
Speaker 2: With I our radio. This is the almost SAMEOS podcast.
Speaker 2: Today we are trying something new, not trying doing something new.
Speaker 2: This is almost same as podcast today, we are doing
Speaker 2: something new. We have taken in your questions. You've sent
Speaker 2: us a bunch of questions. We're going to answer them
Speaker 2: today because they're some of these questions could be answered
Speaker 2: by both Ashley and myself. Our producer Hannah is jumping
Speaker 2: on to ask us these questions that she feels our
Speaker 2: most juicy or interesting, and then Ashley and I will
Speaker 2: both answer them, or one of us will answer them.
Speaker 2: This is exciting. Thank you for sending in these questions.
Speaker 2: Please don't stop doing that. With that, I'm going to
Speaker 2: introduce Ashley and Hannah. Come on in.
Speaker 3: Hey guys, we have twenty six questions in front of us.
Speaker 3: I don't even want to take a look at them.
Speaker 3: I just want Hanah to throw out what she thinks
Speaker 3: is the most interesting to both Ben and I. Let's
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 4: There are a lot of questions.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of good ones, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to start us off with this question. It reads, if
Speaker 1: you could choose any former bachelor or Bachelorette to come
Speaker 1: back and.
Speaker 4: Be the lead again. Who would it be and why.
Speaker 3: I'll go first? So there's a couple side questions that
Speaker 3: I have for this. Does this person have a significant
Speaker 3: other now? Or is if this is like a.
Speaker 4: Dream land, dreamland does not matter?
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, in a dream land, I think I'd still
Speaker 3: want Caitlin Bristow to be the lead again because she
Speaker 3: is so entertaining. Even if she had the most boring
Speaker 3: cast ever, she would make a great TV show. And
Speaker 3: of course she didn't find her happily ever effort through
Speaker 3: the actual show, so I think she would be worthy
Speaker 3: of getting another chance.
Speaker 2: Ben, I would have to say Caitlyn Bristow as well.
Speaker 2: I'm biased they so I'll try to pick somebody other
Speaker 2: than Caitlin. I think Andy Dorfman season was fun to watch,
Speaker 2: and desire A you Know was a good one as well.
Speaker 2: Like those two stand out to me as iconic seasons.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised you didn't say Emily Maynard.
Speaker 3: In my head already had two seasons. I'm not sure why.
Speaker 3: I think it's because she won Brad season and we
Speaker 3: never see the winner end up becoming the lead, So
Speaker 3: in my head she had to.
Speaker 2: My Bachelor pick is like so good. I have two
Speaker 2: Andrew Firestone because I just love being around him and
Speaker 2: watching him and I have the same I love being
Speaker 2: around and watching just this person operate life, Bob Guinea.
Speaker 2: I think those two coming back for a season would
Speaker 2: just be good television, and because I like them as humans.
Speaker 3: If I had to pick Bachelor again, I would be
Speaker 3: not in a dreamland, it would be right here in
Speaker 3: solid reality, and it would be Chris Sols. I just
Speaker 3: really want him to have his happily ever after, and
Speaker 3: now that he's sober, like he might just bet. He's
Speaker 3: just such a different place in life. I just really
Speaker 3: feel like that man needs to be a father and
Speaker 3: a husband because he'll be so good at it.
Speaker 2: That has a great choice. I didn't even think about that,
Speaker 2: but yeah, Chris Soles coming back, it would be a
Speaker 2: lot of fun.
Speaker 3: There's a sweetness about him too.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Next question, if you could change the ending of any
Speaker 1: season of The Bachelor or The Bachelorette, which one would
Speaker 1: you choose and tell us the outcome you wish had happened.
Speaker 3: M you go first.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Gen season. I think it was the
Speaker 2: worst too. Okay, Yeah, I think it was the worst
Speaker 2: ending to a season we've ever seen, and I think
Speaker 2: it was. I think we're seeing the ramifications of how
Speaker 2: that season ended now with the Bachelorette not coming back
Speaker 2: and people kind of checking out. I think Jen had
Speaker 2: a very poor cast, So how I wish that season
Speaker 2: would have ended. Well, she would have given the peace
Speaker 2: sign to all of them, said you ain't worthy, I'm out.
Speaker 2: We'll talk later, And that's how it would have ended
Speaker 2: in my mind, and I would have loved it.
Speaker 3: So when you get annulment, apparently you can put fraud
Speaker 3: as a reason for getting an annulment. I just know
Speaker 3: this from a Renee zelig Er checked off that box
Speaker 3: when she was getting divorced from Kenny Chesney. They were
Speaker 3: only married for like six weeks, and I feel like
Speaker 3: that's Jen. She experienced fraud.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it just I think looking back, there's no
Speaker 2: other seasons like seasons have had dramatic endings, right. We
Speaker 2: think about the ri situation, we think about the Peter
Speaker 2: Webber season, but those made like I know, it seems
Speaker 2: drama like, dramatic and chaotic, but they make sense on
Speaker 2: how it happened. They make sense on that they good people,
Speaker 2: We're involved, feelings were mixed up, a lot of chaos.
Speaker 2: You know what, great television, We'll call it good gen
Speaker 2: season felt like just a letdown at every level, and
Speaker 2: then continued to be post with the finale. So I
Speaker 2: would say that season, for sure, out of all the seasons,
Speaker 2: would be the one I would change.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good, good answers all.
Speaker 1: Right, next question, if you could remove one thing from
Speaker 1: the show that you think negatively impacts the relationships, what
Speaker 1: would it be?
Speaker 3: This is a good question.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say tell All's, but then again, like
Speaker 2: we just talked to Zachary Reality and he loves tell Alls,
Speaker 2: So yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: See, like I fantasy suites, as we talked about in
Speaker 3: our previous episode of the Regist Record with Gabby el Nikki,
Speaker 3: is that like they're called disappointment week or you could
Speaker 3: call them like regret week or whatever. But I do
Speaker 3: feel like what you get from a fantasy suite, which
Speaker 3: is a for the first time, is so vital. Yeah,
Speaker 3: how can you do it in a way that's not
Speaker 3: so sloppy?
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be sloppy. I don't think there's
Speaker 2: I think that is up to the contestants, and so
Speaker 2: we'd have to say like that that you can't change
Speaker 2: that part of the show. I will say this, this
Speaker 2: would be my answer. The thing that brings no drama
Speaker 2: to the show, really, it brings nothing interesting to me
Speaker 2: from the show, and it just feels unhealthy at every level.
Speaker 2: Is the amount of exposure or how the show allows
Speaker 2: others to watch, like the one on one relationships, meaning
Speaker 2: like especially when there's kissing involved, there's typically like people watching,
Speaker 2: sitting on a couch watching and they've set that up
Speaker 2: so that they can see it. And I would just
Speaker 2: say we could get rid of that on the show.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really ever make a storyline and it's more
Speaker 2: just awkward and it's it's hard to move forward when
Speaker 2: you're seeing like the front Runner doing that with the lead.
Speaker 2: So I would just get that up. It just it's
Speaker 2: a non factor.
Speaker 3: That's good. That's a good answer, all right.
Speaker 4: This next question is fun. I love this one.
Speaker 1: It says if the show brought back a second chance
Speaker 1: season for former contestants to find love again, who would
Speaker 1: you be interested in being a part of it?
Speaker 3: That sounds paradise no.
Speaker 1: But if if they chose a lead in all of
Speaker 1: the contestants that came back.
Speaker 4: We're on the show again. Let's say that.
Speaker 3: It's the they just redid the entire show again with the.
Speaker 2: Same contestants that stand out to you. Yeah, a few
Speaker 2: contestants that stand out to you.
Speaker 4: From the past.
Speaker 2: From the past, who would you want to see come.
Speaker 3: Back as part of a main cast on one of
Speaker 3: the main shows not Paradise.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think I can think of a few. Peter Weber,
Speaker 2: Chris Sols you just mentioned would love. I would love
Speaker 2: to see the two of them coming back. A lot
Speaker 2: of the women.
Speaker 3: Jen, I'd want to see Jen Jen.
Speaker 2: Would come back. I think that'd be great. As you mentioned,
Speaker 2: like a Caitlin Bristow would be an amazing cast member
Speaker 2: because we still don't have any confirmation in this world
Speaker 2: on where she stands romantically. She could be single, she
Speaker 2: could be single. Jason Tarctick, I think would be great
Speaker 2: to throw in there, just because he's single and he
Speaker 2: comes to mind, and he was a, you know, a
Speaker 2: big character during those seasons. A lot of the people
Speaker 2: from the show, and it would be interesting to do
Speaker 2: a little research and find out, like who is still
Speaker 2: single that came off this show all.
Speaker 3: Star Cast is basically like your is your paradise on
Speaker 3: on steroids? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Those are good, Those are good answers Rachel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she'd be a top for us, Rachel. Reki on
Speaker 2: another season would just be fantastic.
Speaker 3: She's great TV and she's so lovable.
Speaker 1: All right. Next question, I think this is kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Would you be open to a version of The Bachelor
Speaker 1: slash the Bachelorette where no one gets eliminated until the
Speaker 1: very end, forcing the lead to really get to know everyone.
Speaker 3: No, I would not be okay with that, but I
Speaker 3: would like there to be more stages where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're going to do the first night and we're going
Speaker 3: to eliminate anybody that I feel like nothing with, and
Speaker 3: then I'm going to have this group of twenty and
Speaker 3: I'm going to get to know them for three weeks,
Speaker 3: and then I'll narrow it down to ten, and then
Speaker 3: from ten, I'll go to four three weeks after that.
Speaker 2: I don't think i'd be okay with it because I
Speaker 2: think the way it works now works, it's very it's
Speaker 2: very rare that somebody that's eliminating, like week two, the
Speaker 2: lead is like, I wish I wouldn't have, I know, right,
Speaker 2: and so it all kind of plays its way itself
Speaker 2: out the way it should over time. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's some like I wish she would have been
Speaker 2: there or he would have been there another week, but
Speaker 2: it's very rare that you're like, can I bring that
Speaker 2: person back from week two just to see if there's something?
Speaker 2: So I like the way it is. I don't think
Speaker 2: it needs a change.
Speaker 3: You're right, Ben, and this is coming from you in
Speaker 3: the lead perspective. I guess I'm just thinking about ways
Speaker 3: we can mix up the show, but it probably would
Speaker 3: actually be more boring that way, because it would feel
Speaker 3: like less consequence if there wasn't an elimination every week.
Speaker 1: Next question, if you could choose one controversial moment from
Speaker 1: the show to revisit in a reunion style special, which
Speaker 1: one would you choose and why?
Speaker 2: I would love to see Sean Loh and Nick Vile
Speaker 2: sit on a couch together again and just start talking
Speaker 2: about the situation that happened on Caitlin season, because I
Speaker 2: know the two of them.
Speaker 3: Would still got Sean low.
Speaker 2: Oh, Shan bou Sorry, Shaan Booth and Nick to sit
Speaker 2: down again because I know the two of them would
Speaker 2: still like talk about it, like they would both be
Speaker 2: willing to like revisit it and hash it out a
Speaker 2: little bit, and I think it wouldn't be like a
Speaker 2: pretty perfect outcome. I also would say this, I would
Speaker 2: love if Jen could have a second chance on the
Speaker 2: couch with Devin Ough just like now without reairing that moment,
Speaker 2: where they could reair it again the emotions are gone
Speaker 2: and just see what happens.
Speaker 3: Yes, good answers. Okay, I'm thinking Nick with Josh Murray
Speaker 3: because that would be a really funny showdown as well,
Speaker 3: because they had it on TV, and I just think
Speaker 3: in real life they also just do not want to
Speaker 3: be in the same room together. And then the ultimate
Speaker 3: red Couch moment whatever was with Vienna and Jake Palvaka,
Speaker 3: and I would love to just see if they still
Speaker 3: hate each other too.
Speaker 2: That'd be good.
Speaker 4: These are good ones. Okay.
Speaker 1: Next question, if you could have a conversation with your
Speaker 1: younger self before going on the show, what would you
Speaker 1: tell yourself.
Speaker 3: I would tell myself pretty much, do exactly what you did,
Speaker 3: maybe close your mouth just for a few more moments,
Speaker 3: just like, say a couple few less dumb things in
Speaker 3: the interview room, but besides that, all the big things.
Speaker 3: Do those again.
Speaker 2: I actually I'm going to add to the last question
Speaker 2: that I didn't think of. I would love to see
Speaker 2: Ashley and Kelsey on a couch. That would still be good.
Speaker 2: It would be good. I would say, have more fun,
Speaker 2: like lighten up a little bit, loosen up, enjoy it,
Speaker 2: soak it in, have more fun with it.
Speaker 1: Next question, do you think a bachelor or bachelorette should
Speaker 1: be allowed to look at social media during the process?
Speaker 4: Why or why not?
Speaker 3: I don't have a strong opinion on this. You think yes, yes,
Speaker 3: you think the social media tells you that much about somebody.
Speaker 2: I think it's tells you more than what you see
Speaker 2: on the show, and I think it would help. I
Speaker 2: think it would help. I don't think it would change
Speaker 2: the elimination process, but I think it would help the
Speaker 2: clarity of everybody. If you had that kind of insight
Speaker 2: on what was being shared before, I think it would
Speaker 2: have answered a lot of questions. And I think the
Speaker 2: drama could still exist. But I would love to see
Speaker 2: like a little part of an episode at like week
Speaker 2: five where the lead sits down with like an investigator
Speaker 2: and they go through social media and like, what do
Speaker 2: you who do you want to look up? Here's you
Speaker 2: get four people out of your eight look up four
Speaker 2: of them. Who do you want to look up? And
Speaker 2: what do you want to find? I think it would.
Speaker 2: I think it would be a fine element.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't want to too my own horn, but like,
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm pretty authentic to myself on social media,
Speaker 3: which is probably why I'm like, I don't know if
Speaker 3: it would make a difference, but yeah, you're right, Like
Speaker 3: it could tell you a lot about somebody, especially when
Speaker 3: you're in the bubble.
Speaker 1: Next question is do you think Bachelor in Paradise is
Speaker 1: a healthier environment for finding love compared to the main show.
Speaker 3: I do because you are more in a real life,
Speaker 3: living environment. You're not getting just fantasy dates and just
Speaker 3: time to be on your best behavior. This person is
Speaker 3: watching you just be for up to twenty five days,
Speaker 3: and you have so much more time to talk to them,
Speaker 3: and so much more off camera time to talk to them,
Speaker 3: Like you could talk for up to sixteen seventeen hours
Speaker 3: a day. You get to know somebody so well, which
Speaker 3: is why I think that you see the more successful
Speaker 3: couples coming from Menha.
Speaker 2: I don't really have an opinion. I've never really been
Speaker 2: so I don't really know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a hard one for Ben to Ben sir, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to end on this question super blunt. This
Speaker 1: question is from Emily. She says, be honest, do you
Speaker 1: think this is a dying franchise?
Speaker 2: It matters? I mean, I think there's it matters what
Speaker 2: you mean by dying. Do I believe that the show
Speaker 2: is on a path to probably throwing up the white flag? Yes?
Speaker 2: Do I believe it has to be. No, because I
Speaker 2: don't think it's dying in compared compared to other shows
Speaker 2: that are on network cable television. I think it's hitting
Speaker 2: a really rough patch. I think they need to spark
Speaker 2: it up a little bit. I do believe there's still
Speaker 2: life there, and I think there's enough interest in kind
Speaker 2: of that like following to make this a very healthy
Speaker 2: network show. But I do believe changes will have to
Speaker 2: be made in a way that makes it a little
Speaker 2: more relevant, a little more exciting, a little more more
Speaker 2: talked about. And so I think there's two sides to that.
Speaker 2: I do think that we're on the fringe of the
Speaker 2: show not getting renewed, but I don't believe that will
Speaker 2: be the end of it, If that makes sense.
Speaker 3: I pretty much believe and have believed for a while
Speaker 3: with the spark that I got from Gary season and
Speaker 3: Joey's season, aside that it probably seems to be better
Speaker 3: suited on something like Hulu. You know, ABC Disney owns Hulu.
Speaker 3: I think that people would maybe want to see it
Speaker 3: in a binge format, and I think that they do
Speaker 3: need to tweak some of it because some episodes really
Speaker 3: drag on The two hour format might be a little
Speaker 3: bit antiquated these days. I think that they need to
Speaker 3: focus more on one on one dates and less on
Speaker 3: group dates, especially group date activities. Is there If there's
Speaker 3: good drama from you know, the cocktail portion, that's always
Speaker 3: fun to watch. I think if they added an element
Speaker 3: of realism there would be that would be good, whether
Speaker 3: that's like going to hometown's earlier, getting to see people,
Speaker 3: like kind of like what they do with Meridith for
Speaker 3: a site where they have to go, and like kind
Speaker 3: of they have regular life together. That would be interesting.
Speaker 3: I guess I do that in Love is Blind as well.
Speaker 3: I think that there needs to be a more interactive
Speaker 3: way to choose the lead. I think that they need
Speaker 3: to listen to the fans more. And if that's like
Speaker 3: a nationwide Dancing with the Stars like Pole, that would
Speaker 3: be really cool. But yeah, something needs to be just
Speaker 3: twisted a bit to make it a little bit more relevant.
Speaker 3: But I think that could go on for quite some time,
Speaker 3: just maybe not on ABC Monday nights.
Speaker 2: So to answer the question, do you believe it's dying?
Speaker 3: Uh No, I don't think it is dying. I think
Speaker 3: it needs to be reiterated.
Speaker 2: So you think it's you think at some level it's
Speaker 2: going to exist for the next five ten years.
Speaker 3: I think it's hard to imagine a modern television situation
Speaker 3: where the Bachelor's not included in it. It's such a staple.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to leave. No, I don't
Speaker 3: think it's gonna leave. I think it's gonna be like
Speaker 3: reborn in a way.
Speaker 2: That's the final question today. We're going to continue to
Speaker 2: answer these questions as we go throughout the year. It's
Speaker 2: obviously we're coming up a few weeks away from the
Speaker 2: off season, which is where we get to talk to
Speaker 2: past contestants, have new guests go through Bachelor headlines. We're
Speaker 2: also gonna do some questions and answers with you all.
Speaker 2: We enjoy the off season for those elements, and we
Speaker 2: hope that you stick around for that. This is an
Speaker 2: exciting time in the Bachelor world because we're coming down
Speaker 2: to the final weeks of Grant season of The Bachelor.
Speaker 2: Make sure you tune in next week and this week
Speaker 2: as we break down every episode from the telaws to
Speaker 2: the final moments. But until next time, I've been Ben, I've.
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