1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: with her radio Hey, Almost Famous friends, family, Bachelor Nation lovers, 3 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: We're so pumped. Today we are continuing the party leading 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: up to this season of the Bachelorette with Gabby and Rachel. 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: And today we have a very special guest who might 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: know a thing or two about this season. The host 7 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: of the show, Jesse Palmer, is joining us right now. 8 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: Hello Jesse, Hello sir. How are you. I'm doing well? Man, 9 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: I'm doing really good. You're busy right now. How you're 10 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: holding up? I'm holding up good. Stomach feels great. I've 11 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 1: been in Mexico for a while now shooting Bachelor in Paradise, 12 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: so digestion is at an all time high. Doing well. 13 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 1: I cannot complain. It's been It's been a lot of 14 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: fun down here in Mexico and obviously really excited about 15 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: July eleven for the premier of Bachelorette. Man, you you 16 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: hit the ground running. I want to start by We've 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: talked about to before on here, but I want to 18 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: kind of mention it again. Uh, you did just get married. 19 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: Uh filming for the Bachelor happened fairly soon after that. 20 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: Is your wife able to travel with you, She's able 21 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: to come out for for short fursts of time, and 22 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: that is critical to our marriage and a success of 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: that so far in these early stages. Um, it's been 24 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: really nice through Clayton Season, throughout the Bachelorette, even down 25 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: here in Paradise, Emily has been able to come down 26 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: for uh, for for sometimes weeks at a time, which 27 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: has been really really great to have her company and um, 28 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: just so she doesn't forget what I look like and 29 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: vice versa. Yeah, I mean, how are you navigating? I mean, 30 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: I'm I'm a newly wed myself. It comes with its amazing, amazing, 31 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: beautiful moments and times together, but it's also challenging because 32 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: you're kind of figuring out what life looks like. How 33 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: are you navigating newly wed life while also being on 34 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: the road. Great question, It's it's really for me, it's 35 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,639 Speaker 1: always been about one day at a time, I guess, 36 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: and just trying to focus on, you know, that day 37 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 1: and whether it's at home with Emily or whether it's 38 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: on the road filming. You know, we just sort of 39 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: try to take it and stride. Um. We're really enjoying 40 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: this process. To kind of add to the complexity of 41 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: everything that's happening in our lives professionally. We also just 42 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: moved to Miami, so we're in this new home and 43 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: we're trying to get it decorated and we're buying this 44 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,239 Speaker 1: furniture and I've I've been home like six nights and 45 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 1: three months, and so, like, you know, it's also that 46 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: So it's just about trying to find time to to 47 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 1: you know, FaceTime each other as much as possible and 48 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: and interact and get her down here as much as 49 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: we can. Um. But I gotta say, you know, maybe 50 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: it's because we're still very new at this whole marriage thing, 51 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: and we've still got a lot of energy and we're 52 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: still like, you know, very excited. But it's actually gone, 53 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 1: it's gone quite well. It's gone pretty well, and we're 54 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: just handling it in stride. What are some of the things, 55 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: like the characteristics that she shares that helps you do 56 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: this kind of with a free mind, focus on your 57 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 1: job and not you know, because none of us are 58 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: our best and we're feeling guilty or burdened by something. 59 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: So what does she do for you to concourage you 60 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: during this time? Yeah, that's a great question. I think 61 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: Emily is really good, um at just sort of giving 62 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: me the mental space to sort of put my best 63 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: effort into doing this or ESPN or whatever the job is. 64 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: She sorts. She sort of knows that my work is 65 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: a big part of my life, and I think she 66 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: gives me space that to sort of do that. Um. 67 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: I think we know that balance is obviously a really 68 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: really important thing for us, and it's really critical that 69 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: we find the alone time for just her or not, 70 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: whether that's home in Miami or if that's going to 71 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: Brazil to go see your family or traveling somewhere just 72 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: getting away and turning our phones off. You know, having 73 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: that happy balance I think is really special. Um. She's 74 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: she's that the person that knows like, okay, like if 75 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: you're off the clock and you're not working, we need 76 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: to be right here. Like I can't see I don't 77 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: want to see on the phone, I don't want to 78 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: see you face on and people are doing whatever that 79 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: that has something to do with work. But one thing 80 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: I really appreciate about Emily is that she does give 81 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: me the space to do all this because in my 82 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: Maslow's hierarchy of needs in the pyramid, work is pretty 83 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 1: high up. It's important to me, and it's you know, 84 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: this is something I love doing, and I take a 85 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: lot of pride in what I do and I want 86 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: to be the best that I can be at it, 87 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: and she gives me the space and allows me to 88 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: do that. If that makes any sense, it makes a 89 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: lot of sense. I mean it's important. And you know, 90 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: nobody that's a fan of The Bachelor is unfamiliar with 91 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,799 Speaker 1: the time commitment that it takes. Uh, you know, especially 92 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: for the contestants. They get to hear about it. Uh 93 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: after their season's film. Contestants come on, leads come on 94 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: and they say, hey, that was wild, Like we were 95 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,359 Speaker 1: up till ridiculous hours in the morning, up really early 96 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: the next morning filming again. It's it's you know, months 97 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: of shooting. You know, for the host, I don't think 98 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: we get a great picture of your time commitment. So 99 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: if you don't mind, kind of walk, let's do paradise. 100 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: Since you're there right now, you're familiar with what does 101 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: your daily routine look like? So this is I would say, 102 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: And because of course I'm so new to this and 103 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's like this every year. I 104 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: can only talk on my personal experience, but what I 105 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: would say, Paradise at least is a much more intensive 106 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: shooting schedule than say The Bachelor Bachelorette. I feel like 107 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: here in Paradise, we're filming every day, and I have 108 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: a role somehow somewhere in most days of filming. Sometimes 109 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: on the Bachelor Bachelorette you might get a day or 110 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: two days off in between a rose ceremony and maybe 111 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: a group date or something where you're not needed. You're 112 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 1: always on standby and literally you're on call if they 113 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: need you to kind of run in, um, to help 114 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: put out a fire or do whatever you got to 115 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: go do that. But I'd say here, uh, it's basically 116 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: every day, and um, a day could be four hours, 117 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: a day could be fifteen hours down here. Um, the 118 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: rose ceremonies here in Paradise just as long as the 119 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: rose ceremonies on The Bachelor for the Bachelorette. So, UM, 120 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: I hope I won't get in trouble by saying this, 121 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 1: but uh, I wrapped one ROAs ceremony down here at 122 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: like six am, six thirty am. I don't think people 123 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: can watch this and see the sun coming up. Nobody 124 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: shocked those like last out, Like dude, it's like the 125 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: cocktail party. Like you're you're in the palapa and you're 126 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: like kicking off the cocktail party at like like right 127 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: as it gets dark at like and then all of 128 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, you look down and it's it's 129 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,799 Speaker 1: five am, and you know you're you're your tink tinking 130 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: and trying to get everybody into the set up for 131 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 1: the rose ceremony. So these are definitely very long days. 132 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: They're just one after another after another. Um, So I 133 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: have I have a tremendous respect not just for the cast, 134 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: but the crew and these cameramen and these ops and 135 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: lighting and producers and everybody that have the real hard 136 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: jobs out in the sun and like a hundred degree 137 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 1: weather all day, wrong days, every day for a month. 138 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: I mean, it is brutal. And what they do, the 139 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: job they do, the people, the hundreds of people, and 140 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,119 Speaker 1: you've seen this. They're literally hundreds and hundreds of people 141 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: to get on planes and fly places to make this 142 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: show happen. What they do to me is amazing, and 143 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: I think I have a much I have much more 144 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: of an appreciation for them after watching them do this show. 145 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: Because this this this is a unique beast in itself. 146 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: It really is. Yeah, I I remember Jesse. I think 147 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: we were in the Bahamas during my season, and there's 148 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: men and women behind the scenes that are working, like 149 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: you said, tirelessly on making sure that the content is 150 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: being filmed. There was a moment it was really hot 151 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: and two of their um I won't say their names, 152 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: but it was a man and a woman. They're they're 153 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: kind of working together doing the camera and then the 154 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: cameras assistant. And it was so hot that they took 155 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: off their shirts and they were ringing out the sweat. 156 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: I still just from dripping because you're carrying I don't 157 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: know how heavy these cameras are, fifty pounds, forty pounds 158 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: on your shoulder for hours. Now. They love doing it. 159 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: This is what they've wanted to do there, you know, 160 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: but like and they do it with joy most of 161 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: the time. But it's a hard job. It's so true, 162 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: you know, it's so funny you say that. I was. 163 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: I was taking a golf cart this morning with one 164 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: of our camera ops and she was telling me about 165 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: filming recently on one of the seasons she's been on. 166 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: She's been on working on the show for a couple 167 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: of years now. Um, she loves doing it so much 168 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: so that she was pregnant and still did it. She 169 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,079 Speaker 1: was carrying these cameras around and luging all this equipment. 170 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: She's like five six months pregnant, and she just loved 171 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: She just loved being out here doing it. And I 172 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 1: mean she just didn't want to be away from and 173 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: obviously she was able. She told me later that she 174 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: took some maternity leave and she was able to get 175 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: away and sort of settled down and make sure everything 176 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,079 Speaker 1: was in order. But it's their credit too. I think 177 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: that's what makes this so much fun, is that it 178 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: really does feel like a family. I don't know how 179 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: you felt about what you did, but what I've sort 180 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: of learned in these last couple of seasons is that 181 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: it's the same. Like I love seeing the same faces 182 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: behind the cameras and the same person setting up your micre. 183 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: There all are a big family. They travel the world, 184 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: and they work these insane schedules all throughout all throughout 185 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: the year. They have to give up things and sacrifice 186 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: things with their own families and being back home to 187 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: make this whole thing even possible, and so it really 188 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: really is amazing. It is uh. And we won't say 189 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: any names, but they do share with me it is 190 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: a family. They give me hugs when I come back, 191 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: which makes me feel very loved and accepted and special. 192 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: But I do know that filming Paradise is easier than 193 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: filming a show that takes place on an island on 194 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: a different network, in the middle of the jungle with 195 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: snakes and gaiters and everything else. We won't mention the names, 196 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 1: but they do tell me that this is a lot 197 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 1: better and a lot easier. Jesse, I do want to 198 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: walk into then this season of your life you have now, 199 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: you're not completely done with paradise, but you you get 200 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 1: a good grasp of what paradise is. You've done a 201 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,599 Speaker 1: bachelor season, a bachelorette season that we're gonna talk a 202 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: lot about here coming up. Uh, and you are familiar 203 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: now with paradise and how that works in films. Uh. 204 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: Is it more than you thought it would be? Is 205 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: it less? Are you stressed? Are you having good time 206 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 1: with it? Just? Where are you at now that you 207 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 1: kind of get an understanding of this whole bachelor universe again? Yeah, 208 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:29,959 Speaker 1: I'm really having a good time with it. I think 209 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: it sort of goes back again to just trying to 210 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: itemize each thing and doing one thing at a time. 211 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: It started with Clayton season, and my focus was just 212 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: on Matt and that was a real big learning curve 213 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: every single day, you know, hosting that show for the 214 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: first time and sort of reacclimating to the Bachelor verse 215 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: and sort of being in it and kind of understanding 216 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: that role and trying to feel comfortable doing it, trying 217 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: to be authentic doing it UM. And then into Rachel 218 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 1: and Gabby season, there were there were a few subtle 219 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: differences and I think you know that that you know 220 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,079 Speaker 1: that came about with that and that was its own 221 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: learning curve as well. And obviously Paradise Paradise to me 222 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: feels like an entirely different show Bachelor Bachelor that, at 223 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: least to me sort of felt like they sort of 224 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: mirror each other. This one, in particular, I think is 225 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 1: is kind of a different animal um which was which 226 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: is good in a lot of ways. I think it 227 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: feels fresh, it feels new, Uh, it sort of allows 228 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: you to be a little bit more re energized going 229 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 1: into it. UM. You know, I feel like it's nice 230 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 1: having little breaks of time in between each show, um, 231 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: which has definitely helped. But I've really just tried to 232 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: sort of be present in the moment, uh, throughout each one, 233 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: and for me at least, I really feel like that's 234 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: helped me a lot because this whole year, this whole 235 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: year of these seasons of shows has been uh eye opening, 236 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:51,959 Speaker 1: and it's been uh, I've learned a lot. I've just 237 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: tried to not talk a lot and just sort of 238 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,719 Speaker 1: watch and and try to learn and figure it out 239 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: and ask a lot of questions. And I'm just having 240 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: a blast, Like I love it, like to the point 241 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: where I can't wait now for the next like Bachelor, 242 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: like I can't wait for the next show whatever it is, 243 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: just because it's like I'm having so much fun doing it. Well, 244 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: that's great to hear because it is a lot, and 245 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: you could easily have walked into this the whole world 246 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: and then a year later been like, this is not 247 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:23,199 Speaker 1: what I thought it was, this is what am I doing. 248 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: It's been it's been good. It's been good. Like what's 249 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: helped me too, is there are a lot of familiar 250 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: faces here from when I was the Bachelor fifteen years ago, 251 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: and so I think that the family atmosphere here has 252 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,199 Speaker 1: really helped helped me feel and everybody has been so great. 253 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,439 Speaker 1: They've been so nice and welcoming and helpful. So I'm 254 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: sort of internally grateful for that, and just you know, 255 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: for people support at home and online and Battel Nation. 256 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: Everything has really helped me along tremendously throughout all this. Yeah, 257 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: you know, it's uh, and we won't go into any diesel, 258 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: but it was just a it's a it was a 259 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 1: big transition for a lot of people, right. Uh, it 260 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: was a legacy and then Bill and then a whole 261 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:06,959 Speaker 1: new thing. What are you doing to kind of add 262 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 1: your own flavor to the show? A show that is 263 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: for years and if you talk to the executive producers, 264 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: like it has a bread and butter, it knows what works, 265 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: it knows what doesn't. How are you adding your own 266 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 1: you know, mixed to this show? Yeah, people people ask 267 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 1: me that sometimes, and I don't know what it is 268 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: specifically I'm doing. All I'm trying to do is just 269 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: be authentic and real and me. But you're absolutely right, then, 270 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: like this thing is formulaic, Like there is a formula, 271 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: and it's a set formula and it's sort of it 272 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: works every year, and so it's you're trying to sort 273 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: of put yourself in that and fit into that formula, 274 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: and you know the role you have, But you know, 275 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 1: I just want to be me, and I don't really 276 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 1: know what that is. Like. I'm trying to be compassionate, 277 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: I'm trying to show empathy. I'm trying to give advice 278 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: when when called upon an asport. The biggest thing I 279 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,559 Speaker 1: don't want to do is make it about me. That 280 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: That's one thing that's always in the back of my 281 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: mind as I do this. This is not about me 282 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: at all, and I don't I never want to sound 283 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: as if I'm trying to make it that it's about 284 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 1: Clayton and his cast. It's about Rachel and Gabby and 285 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: their casts and their journeys to find love. And and 286 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: it's to use like an awful sports analogy, it's like 287 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: being a quarterback or a point guard and you're just facilitating. 288 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: You know, you're you're you take the ball, you told 289 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: them what's going on, you give them the ball back, 290 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: and you get out of the way. That's really what 291 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: I'm trying to do and fit in the formula as 292 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: best I can. I guess that's it, And I mean 293 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: I think that's important too, because if you tried to 294 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: make it about you or control it, it would be 295 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: found out very quickly, right, I mean when the show 296 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: brought out a new host, Uh, it was important that 297 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: somebody had I guess the humbleness and the lack of 298 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: ego to not say no, this is my big moment. 299 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: ABC's calling, this is my time to shine. Well, it 300 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: brings me into then, uh, my final question kind of 301 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: my my overall arcing questions, and we'll get into the 302 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: gabbing Rachel's season here. Uh, you're the host of this 303 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: show now, you have been for a year. You agreed 304 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: to do it for multiple reasons. But do you believe 305 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: in it? Like, do you think this can work or 306 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: is it just a really cool time or do you 307 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: see this actually bringing about anything good to the world. 308 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: I believe in it, you know, And I believed in 309 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: it when I did it fifteen years ago, and in 310 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: the time I've been watching since then, I still believe 311 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: in it. I think there's a lot of examples of 312 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: of couples and beautiful love stories and diverse love stories 313 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: that have come from this show. Um, does it work 314 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: every single time? No, it doesn't, Um, and we obviously 315 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: know that. But this show is about giving people an 316 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: opportunity to find love in a very unconventional way. And 317 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: I think, UM, what people are going to see what 318 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: they saw sort of on Clayton season that was that 319 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: was a love story that we had never seen before. 320 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: It sort of went off the rails, Um. But at 321 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: the end of the day, you know, Clayton and Susie, 322 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: you know, they're they're together today and they're happy, and UM, 323 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's that's really to me, what 324 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: what it's it's about. And I think they're going to 325 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: see that on Gabby and Rachel's season as well. They're 326 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: going to see these beautiful love stories sort of developed 327 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: with all different types of people from different backgrounds, um 328 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: and and so I do. And that's that's part of 329 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: why I think as a host, you keep coming back 330 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: to do it, or hopefully you keep coming back to 331 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: do it, is because you want to see it happen again, 332 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: and you're hopeful and you believe that it can happen again. 333 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: And UM and I do believe in it. I really 334 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: do at the end of the day. Wow, we have 335 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: so much to talk about with Jesse. We have to 336 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: get into this season of The Bachelorette, so stay tuned 337 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: for Part two of this episode. Again, it's going to 338 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 1: be a part of our party leading up to this 339 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: season of The Bachelorette. Jesse is going to join us 340 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: again in part two, but until then, I've been been 341 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: follow the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcasts on 342 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 1: I Heart Radio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.