Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 2: It's the almost Famous podcast. We are here breaking down
Speaker 2: this week's headlines in Bachelor Nation, and we have some doozies.
Speaker 3: Ashley.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna start with a few that I think
Speaker 2: kind of warm us up a little bit. Okay, just
Speaker 2: warm us up into the big ones. The Bachelor's Peter Weber.
Speaker 4: And this is a big one.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's the biggest Oh why not? I
Speaker 2: don't know, because it's not like confirmed.
Speaker 3: We don't really know.
Speaker 2: There's a video, yeah, but it's not confirmed that they're
Speaker 2: like hooking.
Speaker 5: Up sitting on the same side of the booth. Let's
Speaker 5: just jump into it, Okay. So here's the stitch. Peter
Speaker 5: and Maria we're seeing out to dinner in New York City.
Speaker 5: All right, So it is misleading, you're kind of right,
Speaker 5: because I'm watching the video right now and it's one
Speaker 5: of those circular booths where like you just all sit
Speaker 5: next to each other. If you just read the article,
Speaker 5: it sounds like, oh, wow, two of them cozy on
Speaker 5: a date. No, they're with a group of people and
Speaker 5: they're on a booth that is like the semi circle.
Speaker 5: They happen to be sitting next to each other.
Speaker 4: So Ben's right, not as juicy.
Speaker 2: It's not as juicy as we'd want it to be.
Speaker 2: We will follow along. I'm assuming Peter was in New
Speaker 2: York City because he did run the New York City Marathon,
Speaker 2: which we'll talk about in a little bit. I don't
Speaker 2: know that if that's where Maria is living or not
Speaker 2: right now. I haven't necessarily kept.
Speaker 3: Track of that.
Speaker 2: Actually, the biggest part of this story for me is
Speaker 2: I look at this video and it is a circular booth.
Speaker 2: Do you know the story of the circular booth?
Speaker 3: And I do.
Speaker 4: You have a bachelor or related story with it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: It like you and me sitting in a booth.
Speaker 3: No, like thath No.
Speaker 2: I mean see you and I would be sitting like
Speaker 2: this at some point if like it was a big
Speaker 2: group of us going out, I'd be like, hey, Ash,
Speaker 2: sit next to me.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, eat a buffer.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: When we open up our very first restaurant ever in Denver, Ashkara,
Speaker 2: my biggest thing I pushed for was to add this
Speaker 2: circular booth in the corner. Here's the problem with the
Speaker 2: circular booth if you sit on the back side of
Speaker 2: the circular booth, it's a pain in the butt to
Speaker 2: go to the bathroom or do anything. So nobody wants
Speaker 2: to sit in the booth. And that's the only thing
Speaker 2: I asked for. That's why I no longer put my
Speaker 2: input in when we design our restaurant.
Speaker 3: Next headline is this.
Speaker 2: This is you know, it's interesting Ashley to me that
Speaker 2: we've been so invested into the Caitlin Burstow kind of
Speaker 2: romance journey since really the show and Jason Tarctick, as
Speaker 2: we've definitely spoken about way too many times, is a
Speaker 2: part of that journey. Well, Jason then moves on to
Speaker 2: Kat Stickler. She is very famous on TikTok and the
Speaker 2: Instagram for her content. They dated for we don't really
Speaker 2: know how many more, but it was longer than I
Speaker 2: think we realized. Well, they just recently announced that they
Speaker 2: broke up. The headline says this, and we're not talking
Speaker 2: about this as much as I thought we would Bachelor Nations.
Speaker 2: Jason Tartick details hard that's his word, hard, aftermath of
Speaker 2: Kat Stickler breakup.
Speaker 5: He was at Heidi Kluton's twenty third annual Halloween party.
Speaker 5: It's probably a pretty big get invite, and on the
Speaker 5: carpet he was interviewed, he said, every day gets a
Speaker 5: little better. I'm doing okay. Breakups are just really hard.
Speaker 4: That's it. They're really hard. He goes, I think my
Speaker 4: breakup advice.
Speaker 5: I guess he was asked about that, especially that he's
Speaker 5: now navigated to public breakups. He says, I think that
Speaker 5: just sitting in it and learning from everything and just
Speaker 5: trying to grow to be a better you than there
Speaker 5: was yesterday.
Speaker 4: It's never enough, it's never easy. It's tough.
Speaker 3: It's interesting. I love Jason. He's one of my closest
Speaker 3: friends from the franchise. That's not a secret.
Speaker 2: I need to ask him at some point how he
Speaker 2: gets these invites, because, let's be honest, he still is
Speaker 2: a bachelor contestant who does a finance podcast about money
Speaker 2: and where you know and how money is circulating through
Speaker 2: our system and all the tips and trades on money.
Speaker 3: But like he's still going to these huge events.
Speaker 2: He's always traveling, he's always showing up at something, He's
Speaker 2: in celebrity games. It's like he is working really hard
Speaker 2: to keep this thing going. Or maybe I'm missing it.
Speaker 5: No, No, he definitely has a great PR person or
Speaker 5: he himself is the great PR person, but he's definitely hustling.
Speaker 3: It makes me tired watching it.
Speaker 5: As he's single, he's well, he's well, no, he was
Speaker 5: doing that when he had girlfriends too.
Speaker 3: It just makes me tired.
Speaker 2: Next one is this Kelsey Anderson's dad, Mark spends Halloween
Speaker 2: with One Tree hillstar Barbara. Now we spoke about this
Speaker 2: in kind of like passing, but we have more details now.
Speaker 5: Yes, So Barbara Alan Woods was the mom on One
Speaker 5: Tree Hill. She was Nathan's mom. It was Nathan's mom,
Speaker 5: and she was seen out with Mark. This was like
Speaker 5: the weekend before Halloween, and they were with her daughter,
Speaker 5: and they were both dressed up as Cinderella and Prince Charming.
Speaker 5: So that's couple's costume. And they were and far enough
Speaker 5: along as I don't want to say a couple that
Speaker 5: they would do a couple's costume.
Speaker 3: Do you think they're dating Ashley?
Speaker 5: I do definitely. And they went Instagram public. So two things.
Speaker 5: I know that the age range just probably affects things.
Speaker 5: They probably like, don't think it's that big of a
Speaker 5: deal to post a picture on Instagram as a hard launch,
Speaker 5: but I think that this is something.
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think it's awesome if they're finding
Speaker 2: companionship and if this is working. I think Bachelor Nation
Speaker 2: in general hasn't realized the ramifications of what we're seeing,
Speaker 2: which means that Mark won't be our Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Ben, how did this not dawn on
Speaker 5: me yet?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: We're excited and happy for him, But selfishly, I'm like,
Speaker 2: dang it, like he was going to be a really
Speaker 2: good choice.
Speaker 4: Well, Jonathan, it is done.
Speaker 5: Or Pascal, come on, Pascal, that's all right, Pascal too.
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 5: I still not convince the past scal's a ready or
Speaker 5: once he's he's sixty something, he's ready.
Speaker 4: But does he want I don't know.
Speaker 2: This actually is what I think, and I could be wrong.
Speaker 2: The biggest headline of all headlines here?
Speaker 3: Okay? You ready for it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I saw it on Instagram. And as you know and
Speaker 2: our listeners know, I am not very social media savvy.
Speaker 2: It is not a huge part of my life. I
Speaker 2: usually am behind the times on what is happening with
Speaker 2: headlines and dating and all these things, and I get
Speaker 2: caught up by you and on this show well. On
Speaker 2: Instagram this week, I saw Ariel Frankel post a picture
Speaker 2: or a TikTok with Jeremy Simon, and I thought this
Speaker 2: was a big deal. Ariel was obviously a character that
Speaker 2: we all loved and celebrated during her time on the show.
Speaker 2: We don't remember Jeremy as so much, but that's okay.
Speaker 5: Well, Jeremy was fourth. We do remember Ariel, and she
Speaker 5: was further back in time than him. Jeremy was fourth
Speaker 5: on gen season.
Speaker 2: So here's the headline. Ariel Frankel and Jeremy Simon sparked
Speaker 2: dating rumors with viral TikTok. So it's pretty much what
Speaker 2: I just said.
Speaker 5: Okay, So the two of them are both from New
Speaker 5: York City area, both from recent seasons. They're both Jewish,
Speaker 5: they're both they both talk about their culture a lot,
Speaker 5: both part of their hometown episodes. This doesn't surprise me,
Speaker 5: this coupling and this TikTok. Basically it's her dubbing over
Speaker 5: the line because I try dating apps. Oh god. First
Speaker 5: of all, they just need to put all the apps
Speaker 5: on one app and call it what's left. And then
Speaker 5: the camera pans over to Jeremy and he's staring at
Speaker 5: the camera while sitting with Ariel Ariel at a restaurant,
Speaker 5: and then he starts laughing.
Speaker 2: You know, Jeremy has you know, kind of been obviously
Speaker 2: from this last season. He did make a name for himself.
Speaker 2: He was a part of the group that went out
Speaker 2: in New York with Devin to the club, and so
Speaker 2: it's kind of how we best know him, honestly, because
Speaker 2: it's how we last saw him. It's a little recency
Speaker 2: bias there. Can you see this thing working? Ashley? Do
Speaker 2: you actually think they're dating? Or is this kind of
Speaker 2: what Bachelor Nation seems to be into right now with
Speaker 2: the Jen and Jonathan stuff and all these other things.
Speaker 2: Is they like to create a headline. It's helpful.
Speaker 5: We all like to create a headline. It's helpful, it's fun.
Speaker 5: And I think that there is something there. I don't
Speaker 5: think that you do it unless someone in the rumored
Speaker 5: couple is like kind of down to play with a rumor.
Speaker 4: Goodness, right, don't you.
Speaker 5: I mean when Jared and I were rumored, you know,
Speaker 5: when Jared and I would post together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're both down to play with it.
Speaker 2: I doubt there's anything going on.
Speaker 4: I think it's probably really Why do you doubt.
Speaker 3: I don't know, just because you think she's.
Speaker 4: Too hot for him? You do you did see it working.
Speaker 3: Let's just say it this way. I don't see it working.
Speaker 2: Caylin Bristow praises Zach Clark before twenty twenty four New
Speaker 2: York Marathon. Okay, Ashley, you're they're the best of friends.
Speaker 4: They are. They're the best of friends.
Speaker 2: Either they're the best of friends, or there is something
Speaker 2: romantic happening, Like at some point they just have to
Speaker 2: tell us, because she flew to New York City to
Speaker 2: like celebrate him doing the marathon. If there isn't any
Speaker 2: romantic involvement, then we just want to watch their friendship
Speaker 2: blossom because it is the most intimate friendship I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: This is one of the most public moments they've had together.
Speaker 5: She was in New York City for the marathon. He
Speaker 5: posted about the marathon, how proud he was, how grateful
Speaker 5: he was being part of it, and then Caitlin wrote
Speaker 5: in the comments, you are one bright ass light.
Speaker 3: We did see pictures of her there.
Speaker 5: She was, That's what I'm saying. Yeah, she was there,
Speaker 5: she was in New York. She was showing a clip
Speaker 5: from like a holiday display in New York City, and
Speaker 5: she's like, New York is ready for Christmas, you know,
Speaker 5: maybe insinuating that she might be there around Christmas time.
Speaker 4: And that's what we have. But I think that is
Speaker 4: a good amount.
Speaker 5: And if we're going based off of the pictures of
Speaker 5: them from New Year's Eve last year, it's as if
Speaker 5: they've maybe been like best friends for close to a year.
Speaker 2: Best friends, that's what we'll say, best friends. Speaking of
Speaker 2: best friends, Tasha Adams also ran the New York Marathon.
Speaker 5: Could you imagine if they ran into ran punintended into each.
Speaker 2: Other, along with Peter Weber obviously, Matt Adams also or sorry,
Speaker 2: Matt James also ran the marathon. So we had a
Speaker 2: few Bachelor contestants that participated and Grocery Store Joe was
Speaker 2: supposed to but unfortunately, after all the training and when
Speaker 2: I was with Zach just about two months ago, he
Speaker 2: was so excited for Joe to do this. It's been
Speaker 2: so good for him. He's been so excited for this,
Speaker 2: and then he gets a fever the night before and
Speaker 2: has to pull out.
Speaker 4: The race, which was a good move.
Speaker 5: I remember a couple months ago there was a TikToker
Speaker 5: who like was talking about how he didn't feel good
Speaker 5: the night before that he ran a marathon and then
Speaker 5: he passed away.
Speaker 4: So if you don't feel good.
Speaker 3: Don't do it.
Speaker 4: Don't don't do it, don't do it.
Speaker 2: Bachelor Nations Tyler Cameron explains why he initially kept his
Speaker 2: relationship with Tate Madden private.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are so cute.
Speaker 5: They've been He's been posing a lot of her on
Speaker 5: his Instagram and it'll be like a subtle like it's
Speaker 5: not subtle, but for some reason it comes across us
Speaker 5: to me because it'll be like in the midst of
Speaker 5: the mids of like a carousel or in the midst
Speaker 5: of a reel, he'll like pop something cute of like
Speaker 5: the two of them kissing or dancing, and I don't know,
Speaker 5: it's just kind of like adorbs that Like Tyler Cameron,
Speaker 5: who's dated Juji Hidid and been like such a hot
Speaker 5: commodity for years now, has settled, settled, you know, stars
Speaker 5: around it with a girl that he's known for a
Speaker 5: long time and a friend from Florida, Tate.
Speaker 4: He said that the reason.
Speaker 5: That they've been keeping it quiet is I've been in
Speaker 5: the scene for a long time.
Speaker 4: People like to niitpick and like to judge and all that.
Speaker 5: I've dealt with it, but not everyone else has aka
Speaker 5: tate and that could be a lot. And so I
Speaker 5: just wanted to make sure we were in a great
Speaker 5: place before we started all that.
Speaker 2: So it means they're in a great place. I think
Speaker 2: we just assume because now you're.
Speaker 3: Sharing about it. Good for them.
Speaker 2: Claire Crawley shares how she'll tell daughter about her bachelorette journey.
Speaker 5: Claire is definitely a little sassy towards the whole thing now,
Speaker 5: even though she she did she did a lot of shows,
Speaker 5: but I do feel like she was She feels quite
Speaker 5: wronged by the last one with Dale, understandably so. And
Speaker 5: she said that when that time comes when she tells
Speaker 5: her daughter, Rowan, who is only nine months right now,
Speaker 5: she goes, I want to always be the example of
Speaker 5: real and mom was trying her best. Mom was putting
Speaker 5: herself out there, she was believing in herself. Mom was
Speaker 5: following her heart and regardless of if it was on
Speaker 5: a reality show or something else in life. I want
Speaker 5: to be an example for Rowan of that, you know,
Speaker 5: following your heart and doing what you want to do.
Speaker 3: You go girl.
Speaker 2: Final headline is this bachelorette alum Chase McNary expecting first
Speaker 2: baby with wife Ellie and their quote is baby McNary
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 5: Well, congratulations to them. They got married. When did they
Speaker 5: get married recently? I want to say, within the past
Speaker 5: six months or so? Oh?
Speaker 4: Why July? Okay, there you go.
Speaker 5: And now they're having a baby. He's thirty five. And
Speaker 5: have you seen him around at all?
Speaker 4: Like, does he still live in No, he lives in Arizona.
Speaker 4: Now he lives in Arizona. Now okay.
Speaker 5: Well, bachelination is of course saying congratulations in the comments
Speaker 5: Christ Grousei, Adam Raven and we're all so happy for them.
Speaker 5: He's gonna be a really good dad. He's got like
Speaker 5: dad energy, very similar to you.
Speaker 2: Ben dad energy, just enough to keep things interesting.
Speaker 5: The headline, no, no, no, Our final headline is that
Speaker 5: Ben put a crip together this week and it was
Speaker 5: the hardest thing he's done in quite some time. And
Speaker 5: that is not belittling the other things that he does.
Speaker 3: No, I'm exhausted. It was wild.
Speaker 2: The nursery is now done. How cool is that it
Speaker 2: is ready to go? That baby is set up, and
Speaker 2: uh yeah, I'm pretty pumped about it. I feel pretty
Speaker 2: good about where we're at.
Speaker 4: So, hey, do you names we do? Do you know
Speaker 4: you're gonna what it's gonna be?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 4: Oh, it's set.
Speaker 2: Well, it's set today. I mean last week just came
Speaker 2: home and said, hey, what about this name? And I
Speaker 2: was like, I thought we had a name, and she goes, yeah,
Speaker 2: but I kind of like this name. And so that's
Speaker 2: still you know, that still exists.
Speaker 4: What letter does it start with?
Speaker 3: I can't tell you. It's you. Too many people guess it.
Speaker 4: Is it weird? Is it traditional? Is it somewhere in between?
Speaker 3: Somewhere in between.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be weird enough where people are
Speaker 2: like whoa, But it's it is a part of my life,
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 3: Is the way I would the only hint I'll give.
Speaker 4: Okay, Indiana, that's not a bad name.
Speaker 3: Actually, I don't think that.
Speaker 4: It's kind of cute.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of cute.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: So but yeah, we're you know, we're I guess we're
Speaker 2: still open. But I was told, I think by you,
Speaker 2: to not ever tell anybody our names, or somebody told
Speaker 2: me to.
Speaker 5: Not I've always been a fan of not telling names,
Speaker 5: particularly for me. It was with Dawson because it had
Speaker 5: been picked out for so long, and I was like, no,
Speaker 5: I don't want to be stealing my name. And then
Speaker 5: you also don't really want to get feedback from other
Speaker 5: people about the name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want that, like, hey, this is the name,
Speaker 2: and then they're like oh oh, and you're like all right.
Speaker 5: My mom still doesn't like Hayden Haben. She thinks it's ridiculous. Mom,
Speaker 5: get used to hey, and our producer says she's predicting
Speaker 5: the name in the Rose, which I can't believe. I
Speaker 5: said Indiana before Rose when you said it was part
Speaker 5: of your life and Waalan sounds like he's confirming it.
Speaker 3: All right. See, hey, guys, until next time, I've been
Speaker 3: bed Bye.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to Ashley.
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