Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison coming to you from the home office in Austin,
Speaker 1: Texas today. I am so excited for this particular episode
Speaker 1: of the most dramatic podcast ever. Two very good friends
Speaker 1: are coming on the show, Ashley Ikenetti and Jared Habn.
Speaker 1: Obviously they are married, but we got to know them
Speaker 1: first of all separately because ash was on Chris Soul's
Speaker 1: season of The Bachelor, and then Jared was on the
Speaker 1: next season of The Batcherette with Caitlin and Britt it
Speaker 1: turned out to be Caitlin Bristow season. And then they
Speaker 1: went on a couple of seasons of Paradise where we
Speaker 1: fell in love with these two as they attempted to
Speaker 1: fall in love, although it seemed like love was going
Speaker 1: to elude them, especially Ashley I who was more known
Speaker 1: for tears, more known for being in love with Jared,
Speaker 1: but Jared was never going to reciprocate that. It just
Speaker 1: seemed like this romantic comedy that was never going to
Speaker 1: have that happy end, and yet it did, and it has.
Speaker 1: They are married, they have a beautiful baby boy, Dawson.
Speaker 1: They are expecting their second child in July, which is
Speaker 1: unbelievably exciting. They're now living their lives, hosting podcasts and
Speaker 1: running the coffee shop and lounge Audrey's up there in
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, so a lot to catch up to today
Speaker 1: with Ashley I and Jared. Ashley, Jared, good to see
Speaker 1: you guys. And Ashley, you look beautiful. You're glowing, so
Speaker 1: let's just get that out of the way. But Jared,
Speaker 1: I caught a glimpse and you've lost some weight. You're
Speaker 1: looking swelt, you're looking fit. Are you just trying to
Speaker 1: piss your wife off?
Speaker 2: Obviously it's annoying that I lose weight when she gains
Speaker 2: it during pregnancy, even though it's not your fault. You're
Speaker 2: growing another human being. If I put weight on, it's
Speaker 2: nobody's fault of my own. You can blame number two
Speaker 2: on this one.
Speaker 1: There's the sympathy weight. Usually, usually that's what dads do,
Speaker 1: is they go sympathy weight. It's like an extin to
Speaker 1: eat you would. So when she was pregnant with Awesome,
Speaker 1: you gain weight?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah for how Nick even said like, hey dude, yeah,
Speaker 3: of course I.
Speaker 2: I won't freaking Nick. So we go to see him
Speaker 2: in La and this was right after Dawson was born
Speaker 2: or whatever she was pregnant. And then Nick like literally
Speaker 2: the third thing he says to me, he's like, huh
Speaker 2: pull the wait on. Huh. I was like, dude, I
Speaker 2: good to see you too. Go straight to hell. And
Speaker 2: then he's like smiling and he's like no, no, no, you
Speaker 2: look good. You look good, and it's Nick Way, I'm like, bro,
Speaker 2: get out of my face. Why am I here? Why
Speaker 2: am I here?
Speaker 3: Tanner's like, welcome to the Zadbod life.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: So honestly it was comments like that. I was like,
Speaker 2: I gotta get out of here. I got I gotta
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 1: How much of zempic are you taking? What's going on?
Speaker 2: No zempic?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: So I downloaded like four months ago, I was, you know,
Speaker 2: going to the gym, and it's just like, tired of
Speaker 2: just doing the same old thing, was to do something.
Speaker 2: So then I signed up for a half marathon because
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, I'm going to train for something.
Speaker 2: I want to train for something, okay, And then I
Speaker 2: decided I didn't like running, and so then I downloaded
Speaker 2: this app called Fitbod, and I really I freaking love
Speaker 2: this thing. Because it just gives me different routines. And
Speaker 2: also it brings out the competitive side because it gives
Speaker 2: you goals to hit, and if you don't hit those goals,
Speaker 2: it alerts you.
Speaker 3: This sounds like an ad but it's not.
Speaker 1: That's why Lauren loves orange theory because it's competitive. She
Speaker 1: says she's not competitive, but she is. It's a total lie.
Speaker 1: Don't ever let Lauren's ema get away with saying she's
Speaker 1: not competitive. By the way, you guys, you do. You
Speaker 1: both look great and congratulations. Baby number two is imminent.
Speaker 1: Where where are we in the grand scale of things?
Speaker 1: What's our due date?
Speaker 2: So he's cooking at three seventy five right now, said
Speaker 2: about thirty five minutes, So we're about twenty seven minutes
Speaker 2: in now.
Speaker 3: I guess I think it's like exactly two months away
Speaker 3: right now, Like if you were to look at the date, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like I would.
Speaker 1: So we're going to have an early or of July. Baby,
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 3: It's late. It's a late late mid July.
Speaker 1: Maybe like around July twenty sixth?
Speaker 2: Is that is that somebody's birthday?
Speaker 1: That's that's my birthday?
Speaker 3: And then uh, everybody wants me to have a baby
Speaker 3: on their birthday.
Speaker 1: But also, you know Trista had her first baby on
Speaker 1: my birthday.
Speaker 3: Well that is too saw.
Speaker 1: Wild is that the first Bachelor baby was born on
Speaker 1: my birth It was really wild. So baby Brady we're
Speaker 1: calling it.
Speaker 3: That's already Dawson's middle name.
Speaker 1: But we can do baby Brady, Dawson Brady. Do we
Speaker 1: know it's a boy. Yeah, obviously Dawson. Dawson came from Titanic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for not thinking it's from Dawson's Creed.
Speaker 1: No, no, but by the way, nothing's not by the way,
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with James Vanderbeek also living in Austin right now.
Speaker 1: Great guy.
Speaker 3: Oh he seems super cool. I love following him.
Speaker 1: He has forty seven kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went to a soccer game recently and he was
Speaker 1: there and we were in the same suite and he
Speaker 1: and his wife his kids, by the way, are lovely,
Speaker 1: but there it's like a circus. But he's in town.
Speaker 1: I just saw him, his daughter actually saying at this
Speaker 1: event we were at Okay, not from Dawson's Creek. It
Speaker 1: was from obviously Titanic, one of the greatest movies that
Speaker 1: Ashley thinks she ever saw and baby number two is
Speaker 1: also going to be a boy Do we have a
Speaker 1: name already?
Speaker 3: We think we do? Okay, Yeah, we think so, but
Speaker 3: we're not saying is it okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But is it derived from sports? Or is it
Speaker 1: derived from a movie? Or is it derived from a
Speaker 1: boy band? Just give us that much.
Speaker 3: Nothing for the first name, but the middle name will
Speaker 3: have an ode to pop culture of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a family name. It's the first name
Speaker 2: is a family name. Ashley loves this name. It took
Speaker 2: a while for me to come around, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's no, but it's bizarre. The naming thing
Speaker 1: was interesting when I went through it twice. The pressure
Speaker 1: of that, Yeah that's what you think? Okay, what going
Speaker 1: to yell on the playground? What are they gonna yell
Speaker 1: on the ball field? What are they gonna yell in
Speaker 1: the theater?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Like, what are the different iterations of this name that
Speaker 1: will turn into what?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: It's funny the pressure. Did y'all think about that?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I've thought about like what name would get
Speaker 2: my kids ass kicked?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Like I don't want to name it that right, you know?
Speaker 2: Like what what name was bullied when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: the poor thing, because it's you don't think about that,
Speaker 2: because I'm like, all right, I want to name my
Speaker 2: kids something cool and unique and different, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: but kids are cruel. I also don't want to be
Speaker 2: made fun of for the first twelve years of his life.
Speaker 3: I think our generation is naming their kids weird things,
Speaker 3: so it's like not even the thing anymore to make
Speaker 3: fun of names.
Speaker 1: Like, We're not going to get on The Bachelor in
Speaker 1: like thirty years and it won't be like you know,
Speaker 1: the Lorens we went through, you know, the nine different Laurens,
Speaker 1: Lauren M, Lauren L, Lauren Z. So what will that
Speaker 1: will be the interesting thing to see, like what the
Speaker 1: names are twenty years from now and all the reality
Speaker 1: shows when the Chiron pops up Dawson's two Did he
Speaker 1: just turned two? Right?
Speaker 3: He turned to in January?
Speaker 1: Okay? Wow, so he's walking talking. I've seen and heard
Speaker 1: his singing and dancing routine. The guy is killing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't know. Well, I think he has rhythm
Speaker 3: from Jared. Jared's really good at choreography. Jared's club dancing
Speaker 3: skills will make meke Frinch as every girl will cringe
Speaker 3: at her husband club.
Speaker 2: Then I don't think I have good choreography, but Ashley's
Speaker 2: just so bad that any rhythm that this kid has
Speaker 2: he definitely got for me absolutely did not get it back.
Speaker 2: A possible boy band future, one can only hope, honestly
Speaker 2: up Like, dude, if he I mean, I just want
Speaker 2: obviously I want him to love sports. I won't force
Speaker 2: him to do it. But that was a way that
Speaker 2: my dad and I bonded. Yeah, And I like, he'll
Speaker 2: appreciate this. So I was going through like an accidential
Speaker 2: crisis the other night and just like thinking about fatherhood
Speaker 2: and other night or just like like generally in my life,
Speaker 2: he's going.
Speaker 1: Through a mid life crisis right now, dude.
Speaker 2: I youtubed the end of Field of Dreams while I
Speaker 2: was given Dawson a bath and was watching.
Speaker 1: It, Dad, do you want to have a catch?
Speaker 2: You want to have a catch, And it was just like,
Speaker 2: so I start crying by myself thinking about this moment
Speaker 2: with Dawson many years from now, and then of course
Speaker 2: thinking about this moment with my dad and just like
Speaker 2: having this moment to myself in the bath for while
Speaker 2: Dawson's in the bath and I'm in the bath room
Speaker 2: giving him a bath. And then it was funny because
Speaker 2: on the YouTube algorithm, it obviously gives you suggested next video.
Speaker 2: And the next video was an interview with Kevin Costner
Speaker 2: when he was on Conan O'Brien, and it said Kevin
Speaker 2: Costner asked why grown men cry at the end of
Speaker 2: field of dreams? While I'm crying at the endfield dreams.
Speaker 1: That gets me every time, and flashed forward. By the way, God,
Speaker 1: what would that be eighteen years from now? Well, I
Speaker 1: guess twenty years from now when Joshua is twenty two
Speaker 1: years old now and just graduated from TCU, just graduated college.
Speaker 1: And obviously you guys met Joshua back in twenty fifth teens.
Speaker 1: That was ten years ago. You guys met josh my
Speaker 1: son oldest when he was twelve years old. So he
Speaker 1: just graduated. Him finishing his last game, walking off the
Speaker 1: field and going up to give him a hug. That
Speaker 1: was that was my field of dreams moment. I cried
Speaker 1: like a baby. It just gave crushed me. Those last
Speaker 1: going to tournaments in high school, the last college game.
Speaker 1: Lauren and I are moving him into his apartment. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you. It will fly by.
Speaker 3: It flew by for us, for you. I remember when
Speaker 3: you moved him into his first year of college. It
Speaker 3: feels like yesterday, right.
Speaker 2: Dude, I remember you. This was we were in Ireland
Speaker 2: with Caitlin. Yeah, it might have been Clarney or something
Speaker 2: like that. But he was there, and then you were
Speaker 2: You're kicking the soccer ball with him, and then us
Speaker 2: guys were there too. But I remember all of us
Speaker 2: were like, well, no, we're not. We're not disturbing Chris
Speaker 2: with his son right now like you were. We're all
Speaker 2: very scared to like, oh no, no, no, no, no, he
Speaker 2: needs like you know, he's with his son right now.
Speaker 2: Nobody go near nobody go near you.
Speaker 1: That's funny. Those are what I do. I relish those
Speaker 1: moments as I think back now, and I'm glad they
Speaker 1: traveled with me so much, and and you know, they
Speaker 1: met so many of you guys during your time on
Speaker 1: the show, which is wild. You know, Andrew Firestone and
Speaker 1: I because we were very similar in age. We have
Speaker 1: these pictures and same thing with Bob Guiney, some of
Speaker 1: our older bachelors that they met him when they were
Speaker 1: born or just born, and it's crazy to me to
Speaker 1: think how that because I had two sets of lives
Speaker 1: going bachelor life and then my family and my kids
Speaker 1: growing up, and those intersected a lot, which is and
Speaker 1: they're kind of crossing over with all of you guys
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: It was pretty wild, so sweet, yeah, and must to
Speaker 2: you almost feel like you were living two lives.
Speaker 1: Well, when people say what's your favorite season, what's your
Speaker 1: favorite thing, and I'm like, it's going to be boring,
Speaker 1: You're not going to like it. It's when my was
Speaker 1: swinging on the Eiffel Tower when we were in France,
Speaker 1: and it's when my son kept asking for chocolate tacos
Speaker 1: which were crapes, you know, when we were looking at
Speaker 1: the Eiffel Tower, and you know, eating gelato on the
Speaker 1: steps in Italy, and you know, those are the moments
Speaker 1: I remember. It's I mean, obviously, if you want to
Speaker 1: talk about the show, you know it's Ashley crying. But
Speaker 1: if it's and then they would say which time?
Speaker 2: Too many times she's still everybody asked me that, Like
Speaker 2: the amount of times I get asked, does Ashley cry
Speaker 2: that much?
Speaker 1: I'm like, who do you think cries more? Now? I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you have a lot of hormones kicking, so you're emotional.
Speaker 1: But I could see Jarrett almost crying more now, as
Speaker 1: have the roles reversed with this midlife crisis you're going through.
Speaker 2: No, I just internalized every time a few times through
Speaker 2: the midlife crisis. Yeah, definitely. Oh dude, she cries.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I literally can't have a serious conversation without crying, which
Speaker 3: really sucks.
Speaker 2: What we were watching the other day was it The
Speaker 2: Land before Time? We were showing done.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was Home We're Abound, And I wasn't actually
Speaker 3: about to cry during that.
Speaker 2: There was a different movie than then you started crying out.
Speaker 2: I can't remember. But we're showing Oh, we're watching.
Speaker 3: That full House episode for Uncle Jesse's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're showing Dawson full House and there's an episode
Speaker 2: where there's a grandfather that dies in the episode, and Ashley,
Speaker 2: I look over as Dawson's watching, and oh, please, you
Speaker 2: always say that. He always says that, like, oh, I'm
Speaker 2: not crying, even though there is water in her eyes.
Speaker 2: That is crying.
Speaker 1: Speaking of crying, Ashley and I were texting the other
Speaker 1: day and I said, did Jared watch the Tom Brady
Speaker 1: Roast on Netflix? It was the funniest thing that I
Speaker 1: have ever seen. It was genius. And I'm not the
Speaker 1: biggest Tom Brady fan. I know you are, but I said,
Speaker 1: tom Brady isn't the hero we asked for, but he's
Speaker 1: the hero we needed right now to step up and
Speaker 1: to allow himself to be roasted. It's something that the
Speaker 1: whole world just needed to rally around of, like, okay,
Speaker 1: we can laugh again. And so I was texting with
Speaker 1: Ash and I said, Hey, what did Jared think? Knowing
Speaker 1: full well you watched it and we're obsessed with this.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe her answer when she said, Jared has
Speaker 1: not and maybe will not watch the Roast of Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: It's not that I will not, it's the fact that
Speaker 2: it's three hours long. So I watched. I also have
Speaker 2: never enjoyed roast because I just like, I get it right.
Speaker 2: It's like bit after bit after bit, new comedian, bit
Speaker 2: after bit afterbit, new comedian. And so I watched clips
Speaker 2: of it and then, like, you know, so many of
Speaker 2: my friends are like, can you believe Belichick said this?
Speaker 2: Or Belichick said that? And it's just like like I
Speaker 2: saw the clips of Belichick and it's very clear that
Speaker 2: a comedian wrote those jokes and he's saying them now.
Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, I'll give him props for saying it,
Speaker 2: but it's like.
Speaker 1: Well, of course Belichick didn't write a comedy bit. But
Speaker 1: the point I mean, but to hear to hear Drew
Speaker 1: Blood and Gronk and those guys just do it and
Speaker 1: allow and Brady to sit there and take it was brilliant.
Speaker 1: And the fact that they got they got Robert Kraft
Speaker 1: and Belichick and Brady on the same stage and they
Speaker 1: did a shot together. I told Lauren, I go, you
Speaker 1: don't understand how crazy this is, and like, what a
Speaker 1: big sports moment this is. It was wild to see.
Speaker 1: And I will say, if you're if you don't want
Speaker 1: to watch the whole thing fast forward, uh watch Jeff
Speaker 1: Ross because he kicked the whole thing off. But go
Speaker 1: to Nicky Glazier.
Speaker 2: I saw the Nicky Glazer.
Speaker 3: I will say, the Gronk jok wher is like I
Speaker 3: know that fake.
Speaker 1: Money even I know that, and then kill Tony crushed
Speaker 1: it towards the end. Those are the two. But it
Speaker 1: was I I was like, Jared's got to be dying
Speaker 1: loving this because it was maybe the best performance Tom
Speaker 1: Brady ever gave. It's the performance we needed from him.
Speaker 1: This world needed to be brought together to laugh at ourselves.
Speaker 1: So you should relish in the fact that your hero
Speaker 1: rose once again to save the world.
Speaker 2: Oh trust me, I relished in every second where people.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it became the pop culture phenomenon that
Speaker 2: it is. Like I was like always doing a roastar
Speaker 2: you know, people will like it, and then it just
Speaker 2: became the topic of every every podcast, every talk show,
Speaker 2: Like everywhere I had looked, they'd be talking about the
Speaker 2: Tom Brady roast and like, I cannot believe how big
Speaker 2: this thing was.
Speaker 1: Well, it was the first time we could all, honestly,
Speaker 1: the first time comedians really let loose in a public
Speaker 1: forum without locking up our phones. And you know, because
Speaker 1: it was live on Netflix, they let it loose. And
Speaker 1: it was the first time we all just laughed in
Speaker 1: unison because there was someone Because there was someone so big.
Speaker 1: It took Tom Brady. It took someone so untouchable, unapproachable,
Speaker 1: so big that he was above reproach. That's what you needed.
Speaker 1: You needed that mount rushmore of a human to go
Speaker 1: bring it on. I'll be the guy. If it was
Speaker 1: anybody else, it would have fallen on deaf ears.
Speaker 2: And it's good that it's Brady that you know, he
Speaker 2: was just so successful and good looking and he's got
Speaker 2: it all. And it's like it's there's people that like
Speaker 2: they're like, we need we don't mind tearing that guy
Speaker 2: down because we know he's fine.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like when I host an event, you know,
Speaker 1: it's easy. It's like I just did an event the
Speaker 1: other day and Tim Tebow was in the audience, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, you just picked the biggest, most famous,
Speaker 1: safe guy. You make fun of him because we can
Speaker 1: all laugh at that because there's nothing to laugh at
Speaker 1: with Tebo. The guy's perfect and he's this like wonderful
Speaker 1: human being, and so you make fun of it, and
Speaker 1: that's like everyone can rally around that. It's like you
Speaker 1: don't want to pick on the smallest guy. You pick
Speaker 1: on the biggest guy.
Speaker 2: But yeah, what I didn't like was after that. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you saw the headlines were Brady, because obviously I
Speaker 2: love Brady, but it's like when he said that he
Speaker 2: regretted doing it, don't say.
Speaker 1: Well that was Look, my guess is that it was
Speaker 1: just one off com and I didn't. I never even
Speaker 1: saw where the comment came from. He said, yeah, my
Speaker 1: kids didn't love it.
Speaker 3: Me.
Speaker 1: Look Gizelleizell.
Speaker 3: She'll got angry text afterward and was like, what are
Speaker 3: you doing?
Speaker 1: There's no pun intended when I say Gizelle really took
Speaker 1: it on the chin there, but she really did. And
Speaker 1: her jiu jitsu teacher. I mean it was the jokes
Speaker 1: did right themselves. They were pretty good, but I was
Speaker 1: shocked to hear and I just I think it'll be
Speaker 1: cathartic for you man, sit down and watch the show.
Speaker 1: I was looking back over the both of you and
Speaker 1: going over because it's funny. How when I become friends
Speaker 1: with somebody, and I've been friends with you guys for
Speaker 1: ten years now, as I think ash you started twenty
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: Right September is when I met.
Speaker 1: Our ten year anniversary is coming up? Is that diamond anniversary?
Speaker 1: What do I get you? Is that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the ring upgrade.
Speaker 1: But so I've known you guys for the better part
Speaker 1: of ten years, which is wild to me, and so
Speaker 1: I kind of forget sometimes where y'all came from. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know you're on the show, but I'm like, I
Speaker 1: kind of lose the specific site. I went back and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, so Ash was on Chris Soul's season,
Speaker 1: and now I started looking about who else came off
Speaker 1: that season, and a lot, a lot, a lot of
Speaker 1: stars came off that season. Whitney won it, so to speak.
Speaker 1: They didn't stay together, but there was Becca who was
Speaker 1: runner up, who was a huge star. Didn't Jade wasn't
Speaker 1: Jade on that season?
Speaker 3: Yep, Jade was fourth, and then Caitlyn was there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Britt, by the way, I forgot Britt was
Speaker 1: even on that season. And that's where Caitlyn and Brett
Speaker 1: came from, which is wild to me as well. And
Speaker 1: what I never put the two and two together of
Speaker 1: you and Jade were on the season together and then
Speaker 1: Jared and Tanner were on Caitlyn and brit season together.
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, I'm thinking about my season. You definitely got
Speaker 3: probably the most engagement from the girls on my season collectively,
Speaker 3: because I'm thinking about Caitlyn twice.
Speaker 2: Chasler.
Speaker 3: Within Bachelor Nation, we had Caitlyn's engagement, Jade's engagement, Carly's engagement.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about Instagram, like what going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Carly out of Paradise as well? I forgot about Yeah,
Speaker 1: Carly Wedell was on that season.
Speaker 3: Chris and then yeah yeah and you and then you
Speaker 3: forget Jane Tanner are really the only success stories.
Speaker 1: To make it out well ten years ten years, uh,
Speaker 1: and Tanner did.
Speaker 2: Tanner made it on Kaitlyn season. He was like eighth
Speaker 2: or ninth or something like that, and it was so
Speaker 2: funny because he was very self aware and he's like, honestly,
Speaker 2: I'm just not screwing up. I'm just coasting, like I
Speaker 2: want to see how far I can get without I
Speaker 2: don't really have a good connection with Kaitlyn. And then
Speaker 2: we were just joking about how he was going to be.
Speaker 2: It was gonna be like him and shot in the
Speaker 2: final two and Andrew shows up all disheveled, hasn't showered,
Speaker 2: shaved or anything like that, being like, Kaitlyn, please send
Speaker 2: me home, and then she gives him her final rose
Speaker 2: and he's like, you gotta be.
Speaker 1: Kidding men, you guys. So in your season started with
Speaker 1: the debacle of the two bachelorettes that we were voting on,
Speaker 1: and then we swore we would never do that again.
Speaker 1: And they did.
Speaker 2: And then fast forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a lot different the second.
Speaker 1: Not any better, but just different. And then so did
Speaker 1: you did you remember did you vote for Kaitlin or Britt?
Speaker 2: Dude? Vote? I voted for Britta and Caitlyn still to
Speaker 2: this day will never let me live it down, which
Speaker 2: I can't blame.
Speaker 1: I mean, the fix was in. We were never going
Speaker 1: to let Britt win. The other producers had the fix in,
Speaker 1: the scales of justice were not even in that vote,
Speaker 1: and Caitlyn became the best. I didn't. So you you
Speaker 1: voted for Britt.
Speaker 2: That's funny, Yeah, but I I also it was terrible
Speaker 2: because I had this two incredibly good looking women who
Speaker 2: were funny, personable, way out of my league, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I have to choose which one I want to date.
Speaker 2: This is the stupidest night of my life.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But Britt was so your original type. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 3: And then Caitlin was the type that you became to
Speaker 3: you started to like, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, once you went to your boy band phase. And
Speaker 1: but that season was good because we traveled, Like you said,
Speaker 1: we ended up in Ireland. We had different travel planned,
Speaker 1: but things were so good in Ireland. We decided to
Speaker 1: stay because we were gonna leave. I think we were
Speaker 1: going somewhere in Asia. Maybe I forget where we were deaf.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is that your theory? Is that how it happened
Speaker 3: in your memory, Chris, because Jared has a different memory.
Speaker 1: Oh, what's the memory?
Speaker 2: I got screwed out of a hometown? That's my memory
Speaker 2: because I was fourth and we were supposed to go
Speaker 2: from From what I'm understanding, we're supposed to go from
Speaker 2: Ireland to back to hometowns and then go I don't
Speaker 2: know the location, but like somewhere for fantasy suites, yes,
Speaker 2: and then fancy suites. Something happened.
Speaker 3: The Nick sex happened.
Speaker 2: No, that's the story they gave us.
Speaker 1: No, that's that's true. Though, that's true.
Speaker 2: You're telling me that I got screwed out of a
Speaker 2: hotel hometown because Nick and Caitlyn had sex.
Speaker 1: Essentially, Yes, that's the Nick just.
Speaker 3: Talking. I was like two months ago.
Speaker 2: Oh I thought it was actually know, I don't like
Speaker 2: the sex.
Speaker 3: We had to like kind of change up the storyline.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who told you that? Yeah, No, it's true. Well me,
Speaker 1: Caitlyn didn't have anything to do with it. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess she kind of did. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: I hope she's aware of everything was.
Speaker 1: Going according to plan. And then obviously Nick and Caitlin
Speaker 1: the infamous uh sex in the hotel there in Ireland,
Speaker 1: and then we didn't want it because when we leave
Speaker 1: you stop filming, right because you know, we have dark
Speaker 1: days with the with the crew and we had to
Speaker 1: shut down for a day then we all travel and
Speaker 1: so we were just going to let the steam out
Speaker 1: of the balloon there and and it was just going
Speaker 1: to lose the storyline and lose the momentum of what
Speaker 1: was going on, because really what it came down to
Speaker 1: was obviously Sean and Nick and the craziness that was
Speaker 1: going on, and we just didn't want to lose that,
Speaker 1: so we kept it going and so we kind of
Speaker 1: just blew up the rest of it and then we
Speaker 1: ended up going That's why we went from like Doublin Trellie,
Speaker 1: but then we just went up north to locker Urn
Speaker 1: up in northern Ireland to that resort, which is a
Speaker 1: good golf course as well, by the way, which is
Speaker 1: really what I cared.
Speaker 2: About obviously the most important.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's that's what happened. Your season was blown
Speaker 1: up because of that.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine. I would actually love to see Caitlin
Speaker 3: and meet your family Warwick, Rhode Island. That would be hilarious.
Speaker 3: But I'm just glad you didn't go to Fantasy.
Speaker 1: And then so both and then Ash came on Winter Games,
Speaker 1: which was an absolute blast. I had the I had
Speaker 1: the best. So it was funny because Bachelor Winter Games
Speaker 1: is something it was an experiment we tried because the
Speaker 1: Winter Olympics were going on and they obviously they weren't
Speaker 1: on ABC, and ABC's like we got to counter program
Speaker 1: something against the Olympics because no one's going to watch
Speaker 1: ABC and no one cares, so just we just just
Speaker 1: create something. So we were like, oh, we'll go to
Speaker 1: Vermont and we'll shoot Bachelor Winter Games, our own Winter Olympics.
Speaker 1: And we were so burnt out. I forget whose season
Speaker 1: we came off, but we just we had just come
Speaker 1: off a bender of a season. We most of us
Speaker 1: didn't even go home. I went home, changed suitcases and
Speaker 1: went to Vermont for like three weeks and lived in
Speaker 1: this snowy house and it was so we were all
Speaker 1: a little fried, but it turned out to be really fun.
Speaker 1: Did you remember it as fun ash or was it
Speaker 1: just a disaster for you?
Speaker 3: It wasn't It was fun. Yeah. It was definitely like
Speaker 3: the easiest of all these.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the pressure was yeah, it was. I mean, u
Speaker 1: key was there for.
Speaker 3: Jared feels awkward? I love thee an Okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: it was definitely easy breezy.
Speaker 1: And then we went to Winter Games and then we
Speaker 1: went to Paradise twice.
Speaker 3: Right, well, yeah, we went to Paradise twice before Winter Games, before.
Speaker 1: The cap Okay, so that was so we went. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Winter Games was like fifteen sixteen, and then.
Speaker 3: It was Winter Games was seventeen.
Speaker 2: Fifteen sixteen, and then yeah, yeah win Winter Games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the end of sixteen seventeen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you and I got together in the winter of eighteen.
Speaker 2: And then I went to Bachelor in Paradise, Australia. Yeah,
Speaker 2: which was stupid. I made it, okay.
Speaker 3: You also was easy breezy.
Speaker 1: I don't remember you doing that. You went to Bachelor
Speaker 1: of Paradise Australia.
Speaker 2: Because I was on the phone with I won't say
Speaker 2: producers names, but I was on the phone with the
Speaker 2: producer who was inquiring about Winter Games, and then they
Speaker 2: were like, hey, listen, you're not gonna be on Winter Games.
Speaker 3: We have to choose Ashley over it.
Speaker 2: Obviously, it was probably like they were like, we don't
Speaker 2: want Ashley Jared to be on the same season again, and.
Speaker 1: Then America can't take this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like, guys, we're bored. So then they
Speaker 2: were like, would you want to do Bachelor in paradish Australia.
Speaker 2: They're doing Americans and Grant was down there and Daniel
Speaker 2: McGuire the Canadian. Yeah, And so I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll do it. And then I made it through five
Speaker 2: Row ceremonies didn't kiss anybody while I was there.
Speaker 3: They didn't kiss anyone. It was also came home befoorrid
Speaker 3: that back to me and I was like, cool, well,
Speaker 3: I'm leaving in two days for my show. I'll probably
Speaker 3: kiss someone. And it all worked out well for you.
Speaker 2: It's so funny man, that. Yeah. Anyway, different life is it?
Speaker 1: I mean, it really is. When you guys think about it.
Speaker 1: Now you're about to be a parent of two, and
Speaker 1: when you think of all the the hijinks and shenanigans
Speaker 1: and the craziness that went on it, it's it's got
Speaker 1: to kind of blow you away and in a good way, though.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, totally. It's so crazy when people come up
Speaker 3: to us still and they're like, I'm so glad it
Speaker 3: happened for you, and I'm like, we have been together
Speaker 3: twice as long now as we were ever not together.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the show kind of got I mean, people
Speaker 1: got to know you guys so well, or at least
Speaker 1: they feel like they did obviously going through these journeys
Speaker 1: with you. I'm sure that you still get if there's
Speaker 1: a couple like even like you run into Shawn and
Speaker 1: Catherine or Ryan and Trista, easy to root for, easy
Speaker 1: to like. But I don't know if anybody went on
Speaker 1: a journey like we went on with the two of you,
Speaker 1: like together, are they not? Are they together? We want
Speaker 1: them together? So it really was this rom com between
Speaker 1: the two of you, unlike any of our other seasons
Speaker 1: and couples.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you, my dream come true.
Speaker 1: Rom com like Jayde and Tanner are boring is like
Speaker 1: come on, we Yeah, they went off and had their
Speaker 1: own show and like just they came back. It was
Speaker 1: like the couple that like showed up day one of
Speaker 1: school and then you didn't see him again. They showed
Speaker 1: up a graduation. We're like, have y' all been here
Speaker 1: the whole time?
Speaker 2: Yeah? With three kids at graduation?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh wow yeah nice and don't happy quick?
Speaker 2: No getting flying.
Speaker 1: Through that, y'all. S y'all are living in Rhode Island,
Speaker 1: right know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ashley hates it.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Her biggest argument will know how to settle it, to
Speaker 3: be honest, I.
Speaker 2: Will figure it out. Yeah. She wants to be home
Speaker 2: closer to fam, which makes sense. I love Rhode Island,
Speaker 2: So just kind of figuring it out right now.
Speaker 1: Like, well, you're you're having babies in Virginia. Is that
Speaker 1: like a home turf thing?
Speaker 3: I know. Well, so my dad's a doctor. My dad's annologist,
Speaker 3: So I like to be at the hospital in which
Speaker 3: my dad is ancycologist.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I like home field advantage.
Speaker 3: Field advantages the exact way of putting it, like, you
Speaker 3: could not have it, couldn't have a better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the hospital. Everybody knows who she is, not only
Speaker 2: because like a little princess, Yeah, because of her dad
Speaker 2: and she's very much taken care of and Fairfax is
Speaker 2: such an incredible hospital. It's just a no brain.
Speaker 1: Also, not sponsoring the show.
Speaker 2: If they want to.
Speaker 1: Okay, So of all the things you guys fight about,
Speaker 1: you do fight about where you're going to live. That's
Speaker 1: a big thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a big thing.
Speaker 3: We don't like fight about it. Like it's not like
Speaker 3: an we don't fight about it, but like it's like
Speaker 3: a constant like always there. Where will you know if
Speaker 3: you talk about the future and you're like, oh, is
Speaker 3: that where we will be in the future, will he
Speaker 3: be playing softball on this field?
Speaker 2: Yeah? When I like, that's funny you think Dawson's going
Speaker 2: to play baseball there because he'd been playing baseball about oh,
Speaker 2: at least a thousand miles away.
Speaker 3: It's not a thousand.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I just I find it interesting because
Speaker 1: that's something that couples like Lauren and I went through
Speaker 1: it and when we started dating, and I said, Hey,
Speaker 1: this train is going to end up in Texas, so
Speaker 1: don't get on. Don't get on this train at all
Speaker 1: if you don't want to go on this trip with me.
Speaker 1: Because I'm I knew I was going to boomerang back.
Speaker 1: I was already even towards the end of the Batchel
Speaker 1: I was already looking at homes here in Austin, I
Speaker 1: knew I wanted to move back here between here in Dallas,
Speaker 1: and when Lauren and I really fell in love and decided,
Speaker 1: you know, to do life together, I was like, look,
Speaker 1: you know we're going to work. I'm taking off to Austin.
Speaker 1: Let's do this. And we chose Austin because neither one
Speaker 1: of us have ever lived here. We could build a
Speaker 1: life together and do it together and do something kind
Speaker 1: of different. Like I grew up in Dallas, he was
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Let's do something where we are kind of
Speaker 1: on neutral ground and we can kind of build it together.
Speaker 1: Have y'all, where would that be for you? Guys? Where's
Speaker 1: the dream for you?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 2: Cranston?
Speaker 3: I think like just for me, I would just want
Speaker 3: to be back in Virginia, which is like something I
Speaker 3: never expected myself wanting until we had a kid. I
Speaker 3: always was the girl that was like, I'm happy to
Speaker 3: move back to Rorde Island. I don't care I'm anywhere.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be happy. I love the ocean. I love Newport.
Speaker 3: I do love the ocean. Yeah, I do love Newport.
Speaker 3: But it's like that's not going to suffice when it's
Speaker 3: just so nice to like sit around just with Dawson
Speaker 3: in like a playroom with my mom and my sister.
Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, it's definitely like the I think the
Speaker 2: biggest I don't want to say issue, but it's more
Speaker 2: it's just like there, it's always there because I can
Speaker 2: see it. You know that she's very clearly much happier
Speaker 2: anytime she's in Virginia. And not that you're sad here,
Speaker 2: but you're just you're always with your mom, You're always
Speaker 2: with your sister. Yeah, you know that's where you want
Speaker 2: to be, which totally makes sense, you love because then
Speaker 2: when you're there with Dawson, it's like Dawson is not
Speaker 2: just hanging out with you, Yeah, it's like a he's
Speaker 2: hanging out with three or four people at once. So
Speaker 2: and then I'm like, you, Chris, when we first got together,
Speaker 2: this this train is going to Rhode Island. And then
Speaker 2: she was totally fine with that and there's no issues.
Speaker 2: But obviously, you.
Speaker 1: Know, things have changed, kids changed that you can change that.
Speaker 2: You know, So, I mean, we'll figure it out. I'm
Speaker 2: not concerned about it. It's not like she's.
Speaker 3: I'm not like every day I'm like, I can't believe
Speaker 3: I'm here. I'm so sad. You know, it's just like
Speaker 3: it's kind of more.
Speaker 2: Of like a and it's not la a place across
Speaker 2: the country, you know, yeah, literally an hour flight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like y'all are about to have two places.
Speaker 3: I say that I would like to have, you know,
Speaker 3: I said, And in the dream world, we'd have like
Speaker 3: the beach house here.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, I mean it's place place.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, and you can like AIRBNBA or college students
Speaker 3: live in the beach town and.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the Escape Patch just really need to figure
Speaker 2: out a way to get more free flights. That's what's
Speaker 2: I can just buy.
Speaker 3: I am such a huge Southwest pand here's another shout
Speaker 3: out or something I'm not paid for. But their companion
Speaker 3: pass is the most brilliant.
Speaker 1: So you guys will determine this later. But this is crazy,
Speaker 1: But Jared, I didn't know you owned a lounge in
Speaker 1: coffee shop.
Speaker 2: Yeah you didn't know.
Speaker 1: I swear to god, I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I had no.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Well, you're not supposed to know. It's like it's not
Speaker 2: that's not true.
Speaker 1: I think I should know. That's that's information I should know,
Speaker 1: I felt really bad.
Speaker 3: We should definitely have shared that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably because Ben Higgins is too busy talking
Speaker 1: about his crappy coffee all the time.
Speaker 2: I know it's very good coffee.
Speaker 1: No, I'm just kidding. Shout out to Ben Higgins and
Speaker 1: his coffee company.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was funny. When I first opened, Ben reached
Speaker 2: out was like, you know, would you want to carry
Speaker 2: generous and I was going to reach out anyway. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, it's a perfect fit. So yeah, we opened
Speaker 2: Audrey's Coffee House in Lounge. It's in South Kingston, Rhode Island,
Speaker 2: in December of twenty twenty one. Audrey is her mom,
Speaker 2: So you know, I wanted to name it a family name,
Speaker 2: something meaningful to us because it was a family business.
Speaker 2: I love the name Audrey reminds me of Audrey's half Burnt,
Speaker 2: Audrey Halfburn, and so I just always felt like, oh,
Speaker 2: let's get a coffee at Audrey's. It's gotta drink at Audrey's.
Speaker 2: It felt right. And so it actually used to be
Speaker 2: a different coffee shop that I went to when I
Speaker 2: was in college, and so I was very familiar with
Speaker 2: the area and just working restaurants all my life. I
Speaker 2: always wanted to own and operate my own place and
Speaker 2: felt like I could. It's obviously so stressful, the margins
Speaker 2: are so small, but I love I do love owning
Speaker 2: the place. Like as much as I bitch about it
Speaker 2: and complain and it tires me out and it takes
Speaker 2: up so much of my time and effort. There is
Speaker 2: this feeling of pride that I get from from being
Speaker 2: there and being in the midst of the chaos with
Speaker 2: you know, other employees that work there, and you know,
Speaker 2: they're an attachment of my family now, and it's it's nice.
Speaker 2: There's something to be said about the camaradity that a
Speaker 2: brick and mortar business brings, especially a small one.
Speaker 1: It's something that's lost today, isn't it. I Mean, there's
Speaker 1: so many businesses and things that just are generated and
Speaker 1: you're not really getting your you know, your hands dirty,
Speaker 1: so to speak. And yeah, I think this generation and
Speaker 1: I feel bad that they will miss out on that
Speaker 1: brick and mortar experience of what it's like to go
Speaker 1: to a building and to have to keep it clean
Speaker 1: and to work on it and to stock it and
Speaker 1: to grind there and it becomes this place that means
Speaker 1: a lot to you.
Speaker 2: Oh, one hundred percent. It means so much to me
Speaker 2: because Ashley and I another you know point.
Speaker 3: Of these are the two points of contention that.
Speaker 2: You have Pien on is how much time it takes
Speaker 2: me there.
Speaker 3: But he likes it, like he doesn't really want to
Speaker 3: change that.
Speaker 1: It's a passion.
Speaker 2: It is a passion. And because so many times I've
Speaker 2: told her I will change, I will change, I will change,
Speaker 2: and I've I've tried, and I've definitely gotten so much better.
Speaker 3: You know, the first six months, you couldn't get worse.
Speaker 3: He was there for like we counted one hundred hours
Speaker 3: one week, but it was when we didn't have.
Speaker 2: A kid, and we did have a kid. Oh, Dawson
Speaker 2: was born in January, a month after reopened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was like a he's watch TV all
Speaker 3: day with him.
Speaker 1: He's a throw rug at that point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's fine, but yeah, it's just I it is
Speaker 2: another kid to me, Like I care about it so
Speaker 2: much and just like being there, there's nothing, there's not
Speaker 2: a better feeling than when someone comes in and sees
Speaker 2: me like washing dishes or whatever.
Speaker 3: I need literally unplugged, unclogging toilets.
Speaker 2: Unclogging toilets, but most of the time that's very rare. Yeah,
Speaker 2: thank god. Yes, but obviously washing dishes, making drinks, making food,
Speaker 2: doing whatever I need to do. And it's always nice
Speaker 2: when someone who's a fan of the show comes in.
Speaker 2: They're like, I can't believe you actually work.
Speaker 1: If there's any fans listening, you're in Rhode Island, go
Speaker 1: to Audrey's. Yeah, stop by and order a nice piping
Speaker 1: hot cup of generous coffee compliments of Bin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that coffee is so expensive.
Speaker 1: It goes to a good cause, Yes, nonprofit, which is great.
Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for coming on. But before
Speaker 1: we go, there is something that seems to be happening
Speaker 1: every time I have someone from the show on. It
Speaker 1: may not it may not be the case with you too,
Speaker 1: But I just had bread Walmeck on it happened, and
Speaker 1: I had Jason Tartick on and it happened. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna make this a thing when I have
Speaker 1: Bacheler's and Bacheorettes on. What is the one thing you
Speaker 1: wanted to ask me? What's that question? You're like, I
Speaker 1: want to know the truth about this. Is there anything
Speaker 1: that's a good question?
Speaker 2: Because we've become so much more comfortable with you over
Speaker 2: the past few years.
Speaker 3: Say we're intimidated as we're on the show, I would
Speaker 3: be so scared. I was so scared to talk to.
Speaker 1: You, which is so funny because I really tried so
Speaker 1: hard to ingratiate myself to the cast and to get
Speaker 1: to know most of it, but not everybody. But like
Speaker 1: I try, you You're so.
Speaker 3: Nice and like so social around us and like open
Speaker 3: and welcoming. But I was still like that as a
Speaker 3: celebrity in the room, like I can't.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. I remember one night at Paradise, we
Speaker 2: were waiting for something like Rosa mourn or whatever, and
Speaker 2: we were just talking sports, and I remember you said
Speaker 2: something like you were busting my balls, and I was like, dude,
Speaker 2: Chris Harrison's bust my balls? Do I bust his balls back?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna get offended if I say something.
Speaker 1: We're probably talking about the Patriots.
Speaker 2: Oh, you were talking about the Cowboys. It's gonna make
Speaker 2: like a Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It's easy to make fun.
Speaker 2: Of Quincy Carter joke or something.
Speaker 1: You could just make a Dak Prescott joke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, man, what something I've always wanted to
Speaker 2: ask you. So, how about this at Rose ceremonies, Right,
Speaker 2: you show up at like, I don't know, two in
Speaker 2: the morning sometimes like that's the first time, like we
Speaker 2: see you when you intro and then you come back
Speaker 2: at two in the morning. What do you do in between?
Speaker 2: Do you sleep?
Speaker 1: I used to so back in the day, I would
Speaker 1: stay up, you know, because I was young and you know,
Speaker 1: vibrant and could do that. It would be nothing. I'd
Speaker 1: get there like probably run ten thirty or eleven or whatever,
Speaker 1: have dinner, and I'd sit in the control room because
Speaker 1: I needed to listen to what was going on and
Speaker 1: see the storylines that were being pushed and to talk,
Speaker 1: you know with the producers and all that. So I'd
Speaker 1: come hang and then you know we would do uh
Speaker 1: tink tank and then you know, break for Rose ceremony.
Speaker 1: Then it got to the point where you know, I
Speaker 1: had so Chris Sole season still they was probably still
Speaker 1: I was sleeping in the closet, you know, and the
Speaker 1: so in the Bachler in the bachelor mansion, in the
Speaker 1: master bedroom and master bathroom, there's that walk in closet
Speaker 1: and that's where Carrie Fetman, my stylist and the stylist
Speaker 1: for the show. We would keep all the clothes, and
Speaker 1: so they that's the one place in the house there
Speaker 1: was no cameras, no lights, no nothing. We would go
Speaker 1: in there and that's I would make a makeshift little
Speaker 1: bed and we would just sit in there and I
Speaker 1: would lay down and go to sleep in the closet.
Speaker 3: If we walked into the closet and just like Chris
Speaker 3: Harrison's sleeping dur a cocktail party, amaze.
Speaker 1: And then they got me finally because it wasn't because
Speaker 1: they were nice, because lord knows that's not the case.
Speaker 1: But they got me at trailer and down by production
Speaker 1: and I would come in, make sure I knew what
Speaker 1: was going on, get dressed, and you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: stay awake through tink tink, but there was it just
Speaker 1: went so long. I would go to sleep and then
Speaker 1: Paullie would come wake me up. Big Polly if you
Speaker 1: guys don't remember who Polly was, the guy who the
Speaker 1: big guy that usually would either kick people out, not
Speaker 1: you guys, but people listening, would you know, come get
Speaker 1: the suitcases. And that was Polly. And so he would
Speaker 1: come wake me up and they drag me back up
Speaker 1: for the road ceremony at four, five, six in the morning.
Speaker 1: And you know, because I did, I didn't have the
Speaker 1: union issues. So what would happen is if your camera, audio, whatever,
Speaker 1: you would shoot all night. You shoot your eight hours,
Speaker 1: ten hours, whatever it was. We always went into overtime.
Speaker 1: But then that crew would go home at six or
Speaker 1: seven in the morning, Me and Gina and Carrie make
Speaker 1: up wardrobe and myself. We would then turn around and
Speaker 1: have to do the date card like two hours. You know,
Speaker 1: as y'all remember, we'd get to bed at six thirty
Speaker 1: seven in the morning, and then at nine o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning we had to do a date card to
Speaker 1: set up the dates for that day. And so I
Speaker 1: was the only one that had to turn around and
Speaker 1: do that because all the rest of the crews would
Speaker 1: change over. And so I would go home for like
Speaker 1: an hour. Sometimes it was really depressing. I'd come home
Speaker 1: and the kids would be leaving for school, and I
Speaker 1: would like hug the kids. I would go lay down
Speaker 1: in bed for an hour, shower, shave, and go back
Speaker 1: up to the mansion.
Speaker 3: It was really wild, and then could you sleep after that?
Speaker 1: And then I would sleep that afternoon. Usually I wasn't
Speaker 1: on that date. I'd make sure I wasn't on that
Speaker 1: date that day, so I would sleep that day so
Speaker 1: I had to pick the kids up from school at
Speaker 1: like two thirty. But you're just a zombie.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I have a question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what is tink tink?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: That's where I would come in. And that's what we
Speaker 1: called the tink tink, like the call the tink tink.
Speaker 1: Sorry to break this up, but it's time for the
Speaker 1: roads ceremony.
Speaker 2: I have one more question.
Speaker 1: There's even a little glass. We would set it on
Speaker 1: the washer and dryer, and you know Pollie would fill
Speaker 1: it up because you know, Polly was the floor director
Speaker 1: and he's in charge of everything going on on the floor,
Speaker 1: so he would like, have my little butter knife, and
Speaker 1: then it would say, do not touch tink tink.
Speaker 2: It was I they I know. I don't even know
Speaker 2: if you can answer this. If you if they ever
Speaker 2: asked you to be a part of the franchise again
Speaker 2: in any capacity, would you be open to it.
Speaker 1: I would never say never, you know, I like my
Speaker 1: mom taught me well enough to say never say never.
Speaker 1: I can't see a world in which I would want that,
Speaker 1: or which in which I would think it would be
Speaker 1: healthy or good for me. We have the project going
Speaker 1: at Merritt Street Media now with Doctor Phil, which is
Speaker 1: going to be awesome, and you know, that ship is sailed.
Speaker 1: In my life, it was so wonderful and I'm so
Speaker 1: grateful for it. It brought me so many blessings. Two of
Speaker 1: them are right here in front of me, like the
Speaker 1: friends I never thought I was going to meet and
Speaker 1: have in my life. So I always look at it
Speaker 1: as a blessing. But I think things happen in your
Speaker 1: life for a reason, but also for a season, and
Speaker 1: that season of my life I think has passed and
Speaker 1: I'm excited for the next one. So but it's not
Speaker 1: because of like any bitterness of like screw those guys
Speaker 1: or whatever.
Speaker 3: What's your relationship with Like with doctor Phil.
Speaker 1: Really bizarrely close now he is.
Speaker 3: He want to know, like what you guys look like
Speaker 3: if you're having a beer at the bar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's it's more of an I It's it's more
Speaker 1: of an iced teeth thing. He's a big iced tea guy.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: When you go into his office after his show, he
Speaker 1: always has iced tea.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: He does have a sweet tooth and you know, the
Speaker 1: first one of our first meetings, we sat there and
Speaker 1: we almost emptied out a box of Girl Scout cookies.
Speaker 1: But he is such a thoughtful, smart human being. And
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys I always say, you run
Speaker 1: into a text and he can, you know, because he
Speaker 1: has that slow drawl. People like that can be easily
Speaker 1: underestimated in life because oh he's he's a redneck, or
Speaker 1: he's I dare you to underestimate someone like that. He
Speaker 1: is unbelievably smart, brilliant, gets the gets the business, which
Speaker 1: is really fun. It's it's been really fun to get
Speaker 1: to know him and become friends with him and Robin
Speaker 1: and the family, and he's really taken Lauren and I
Speaker 1: under his wing and just a sweetheart of a guy.
Speaker 3: That's so great.
Speaker 2: We're so happy for you, guys.
Speaker 3: We're seriously so excited for you.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: Will find your way on. I'm sure we would love
Speaker 1: that you and you said, Dawson and Little Brady, Little
Speaker 1: Brady Tom Tom Yeah.
Speaker 2: Tom Tom Tom Tom Tom Tom Tom Karate Kid three
Speaker 2: Ninches John John John John, Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3: That would make sense.
Speaker 2: You want to mention John Paul Jones to me today
Speaker 2: because his name is John Paul. Yeah, John Paul Jones
Speaker 2: is my favorite because my name is John Paul. I
Speaker 2: was like, cool, bro, that's a throwback.
Speaker 1: Christopher, Chris, Chris. Maybe you know Harrison. Those are good
Speaker 1: middle names, those are strong, those are strong presidential names.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Harrison is a very.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know you guys have to go, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to say thank you for the support the Friends show.
Speaker 1: You guys have always been so wonderful. Lauren and I
Speaker 1: love you guys to death, and if we don't talk
Speaker 1: for some reason between now and two months from now,
Speaker 1: I wish you guys all the blessings in the world.
Speaker 1: On a healthy, beautiful baby boy.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Our ten year anniversary coming up.
Speaker 3: Ash, I can't wait to see the diamond.
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