Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. It's Memorial Day, well
Speaker 2: almost Memorial Day. It's an exciting weekend for all of us,
Speaker 2: kind of the start of Lake season if you're from
Speaker 2: the Midwest like I am. Ashley though, is already doing
Speaker 2: cool things. She's already been up to cool things. If
Speaker 2: you watch or follow Jared and Ashley on Instagram. If
Speaker 2: you don't, you should. They just got back from the
Speaker 2: Mission Impossible premiere, which I have to imagine is a
Speaker 2: dream come true. It's your second time, though, so is
Speaker 2: it as cool the second time?
Speaker 1: Ashley?
Speaker 3: We went to the last premiere as press, but it
Speaker 3: doesn't really matter because it's being at the red carpet
Speaker 3: and being at the event that is the cool part.
Speaker 3: And I'd say it was just as cool as time.
Speaker 3: Our moment with Tom this time was so sweet, so awesome.
Speaker 3: I will say that last time it was like unbelievable
Speaker 3: because we had such a crazy intimate conversation with him
Speaker 3: last time and this one was in more of like
Speaker 3: a meet and greet format, but both were amazing experiences.
Speaker 2: The Okay, so this is your second time meeting Tom Cruise,
Speaker 2: if not definitely close to the most well known actor
Speaker 2: in our lifetime. The first time was when I'm blanking
Speaker 2: on this.
Speaker 3: The first time was two years ago pretty much exactly. Okay,
Speaker 3: why at the Dead Racketing premiere, So this is the
Speaker 3: final Reckoning But.
Speaker 2: You didn't see the movie the first time. You just
Speaker 2: happened to meet Tom.
Speaker 3: Well, we had right, It was like last time we
Speaker 3: got to be part of a private Q and a
Speaker 3: session that only like a very very high up influencers
Speaker 3: were invited to. But because one of our friends at Paramount,
Speaker 3: she's become a friend, she was, she's one of the
Speaker 3: publicists at Paramount knows that Jared and I have such
Speaker 3: an organic, true passion for Tom and his movies that
Speaker 3: she was like, if you want to come and watch, like,
Speaker 3: we can get you guys like two seats in the
Speaker 3: influencer era era area. And then we got to have
Speaker 3: a little bit of a moment with him last time
Speaker 3: that was not supposed to happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: I made some eye contact and I moved my way
Speaker 3: over there like an expert fangirl, and some people weren't thrilled,
Speaker 3: but Tom did not care that those people were in thrilled.
Speaker 3: He had such a nice conversation with us, and this
Speaker 3: time we knew we were going to be able to
Speaker 3: meet him. It was a scheduled meet and greet with
Speaker 3: some select influencers, including Dylan Efron, who I was fangirling over.
Speaker 3: Didn't tell him, even though I had it in my
Speaker 3: soul to tell him that his brother is like my
Speaker 3: hall pass, even though I don't just truly believe in
Speaker 3: a kiss hall past. Perhaps, and then Harry Josie was there,
Speaker 3: and then of course Hannah Godwin and Dylan Barber.
Speaker 2: The I think fans would be interested. I'm intrigued. How
Speaker 2: do you I mean, you just mentioned that you have
Speaker 2: a publicist friend, but how do you actually get invited
Speaker 2: to these specific events? What does that process look like?
Speaker 3: Well, Jared and I, when we've lived in LA, we'd
Speaker 3: have a you know, influencer events for certain movies. You know,
Speaker 3: we'd get invited to certain screenings just because The Bachelor
Speaker 3: and our following. And one of the things that we
Speaker 3: got asked to do via The Bachelor, I think it
Speaker 3: was Bachelor related. I think it was one of those
Speaker 3: commercials that they kind of you know, they tie into
Speaker 3: the show or tied into the commercials. We One was
Speaker 3: a paramount movie, and through that we got connected with
Speaker 3: the paramount's publicity. And that's how we've been able to
Speaker 3: go to like screen premiere as a mission impossible and
Speaker 3: have like a special top gun screening. Ah, okay, are
Speaker 3: you wanting to come and be involved? Because we'd love that,
Speaker 3: But you're not like so much of a you're not
Speaker 3: a celebrity dude, and you're not a movie dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I would. I would meet Tom Cruise and
Speaker 2: be so excited because I think his work is fantastic,
Speaker 2: But I like, honestly, I don't know if I would
Speaker 2: travel outside of Denver to go do it? Like I
Speaker 2: think that's how much excitement out of here? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I understand that from you, because like
Speaker 3: there's many actors that I wouldn't travel for pretty much
Speaker 3: most Who is there anybody that you would travel for.
Speaker 2: Celebrity wise?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Even a concert, say like go out to a concert
Speaker 3: outside of state.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. I think Jason isbel I would consider it
Speaker 2: if somebody invited me to it. Nate bergatsey Uh to
Speaker 2: see his comedy show, I would definitely consider that that's
Speaker 2: probably I mean amos Lee, but amos Lee hasn't came
Speaker 2: out with new music in a while, so no, Like,
Speaker 2: I can't think of anybody.
Speaker 3: I only know amos Lee threw you and you having
Speaker 3: him on your season, and the other guys I don't know.
Speaker 2: See, Well, it's very interesting. I've never I've never been
Speaker 2: that into it. I mean, Anthony Bourdain may his sole
Speaker 2: rest in peace. I would have traveled across the world
Speaker 2: toang out with him. No, but like that that would
Speaker 2: be it. When people ask me like, who are my
Speaker 2: four people to have dinner with? I oftentimes have a
Speaker 2: hard time answering it. But Tom Cruise is somebody. Tom
Speaker 2: Brady's obviously one that your family has traveled long and
Speaker 2: far to see Tom Cruise. Is there anybody else on
Speaker 2: that list? I remember Jared having an infatuation with Rob Thomas.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's still a thing.
Speaker 3: Oh, of course it is, but like he's friends with
Speaker 3: Rob Thomas now, like they like literally casually. Rob Thomas
Speaker 3: texted Jared last week, So we still will go, you know,
Speaker 3: hours hours or so for Rob. And if Rob happened
Speaker 3: to be in Virginia and we're like, oh, we should
Speaker 3: go to Virginia to like hang out with my parents,
Speaker 3: and we would make the trip around that time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would say I when I was a lot younger,
Speaker 3: I would travel way further like we used to go.
Speaker 3: My mom would take us on airplanes to American Idol
Speaker 3: concerts because when the American Idols the season would go
Speaker 3: on tour, we would go to at least three shows
Speaker 3: and it was the most fun summer trips. It's like
Speaker 3: camp Rock for my family and my friends. And then
Speaker 3: I'll still travel for Jonas brothers. I'll go to you know,
Speaker 3: four hours. I'll go to New York, so that's three hours.
Speaker 3: You know in Boston's an hour and a half, and like,
Speaker 3: you know, anything that would be convenient for my friends
Speaker 3: and I all go to and have an experience together.
Speaker 2: Your parents really when Charles Ling, which you haven't listened
Speaker 2: to that episode, we just interviewed Charles, it's out. It's great.
Speaker 2: His advice to me as a girl, dad was too
Speaker 2: I mean in a sense he said a lot wiser,
Speaker 2: like say yes to their dreams and what they want.
Speaker 2: Your parents definitely said yes.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, my mom.
Speaker 3: There was one month where we went to seven Jonas
Speaker 3: concerts in one month, and my mom was there for
Speaker 3: all of them.
Speaker 4: We were at the age where like we could go.
Speaker 3: She stayed at the hotel and then we would go
Speaker 3: to the Massonsquare Garden shows. But then there were a
Speaker 3: few like in random Ass, upstate, New York, where she'd
Speaker 3: go to the parents' room where they'd have that to
Speaker 3: the parent wouldn't have to have a ticket. It was
Speaker 3: the greatest times ever.
Speaker 4: And then so will we just tell you? And my
Speaker 4: mom had a great time too.
Speaker 3: My mom had such a good time, Like she's got
Speaker 3: great memories of just traveling with us girls and like
Speaker 3: heeing our pants in the back of the car, like
Speaker 3: with my friends, telling stories.
Speaker 2: I was working fish fries.
Speaker 3: Now, the cost of all of it, I have to say,
Speaker 3: you know, not always the most thrilling, but the memories
Speaker 3: were worth it, all right. So should I tell you
Speaker 3: about like our interaction with Tom Cruise now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to hear it all. Just lay it
Speaker 2: on us, tell us everything. I also want to put
Speaker 2: in a note. I know you think the same, so
Speaker 2: I'll just say it for both of us. Dawson was
Speaker 2: looking so good, oh thank you, so cute. It was
Speaker 2: an incredible viewing experience to see Dawson in that light. So, yes,
Speaker 2: let us know everything.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, so let me just briefly tell you about
Speaker 3: the last time because he was It was just so
Speaker 3: funny because last time, when the publicist was trying to
Speaker 3: take Tom away from us, and Jared and I were
Speaker 3: explaining that Jerry maguire was a movie that I heard
Speaker 3: Jared quoting the first day that I ever met him,
Speaker 3: and it wasn't just like you had me at hello,
Speaker 3: or like show me the money, like he was doing
Speaker 3: deep cuts and it being one of my favorite movies
Speaker 3: and Jerry McGuire having the personality of somebody like just
Speaker 3: like that I've I'm so drawn to. I feel like
Speaker 3: Jared is probably closest to Jerry McGuire of all of
Speaker 3: Tom Cruise's characters. And when I heard Jared quote that
Speaker 3: movie like the first day that we ever met, I
Speaker 3: was like, I.
Speaker 4: Am so screwed.
Speaker 3: And then we ended up reciting that scene at our wedding,
Speaker 3: which you may remember, like yes, during the service at
Speaker 3: the church, the actual ceremony, remember that we had a
Speaker 3: reading from Jerry maguire. So the first time we told
Speaker 3: Tom about that and he was very touch and he
Speaker 3: was like, this is why I make movies, to inspire
Speaker 3: this kind of romance. And it was just like so
Speaker 3: many things he said. He was like, the world needs
Speaker 3: more people like you. And we're like, what, I know,
Speaker 3: it's so great and so it was truly just one
Speaker 3: of the most mind boggling memories of our whole lives. Anyway.
Speaker 4: So then fast forward to this.
Speaker 3: We knew that, like, we could never beat that moment,
Speaker 3: but we wanted to bring Dawson because Dawson is a
Speaker 3: fan of Top Gun. He watches Top Gun Maverick often.
Speaker 3: He cannot watch any of the other movies. We have
Speaker 3: shown him clips from censored clips from Jerry Maguire and
Speaker 3: he thinks, show me the money and help me. Help
Speaker 3: you are absolutely hilarious. And you know, we have a
Speaker 3: picture of him with Tom Brady on his first birthday.
Speaker 3: We're like, you know, it's our second time meeting him.
Speaker 3: Let's see if we can get him to come to
Speaker 3: the meet and greet with us. And he did and
Speaker 3: it was so sweet. We told Tom that are that
Speaker 3: Hayden's middle name is Cruse after him, and he was
Speaker 3: very touched by that. And then he showed Dawson his stomach.
Speaker 2: You don't think that's creep Wait, let me pause you there.
Speaker 3: Like, well, Dawson's middle name is Brady. Okay, so Dawson
Speaker 3: is ready.
Speaker 2: And I mean I personally hear that. I mean I
Speaker 2: like it because, like it's a good name. But like
Speaker 2: if I heard somebody say that to me, like, I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'd be touched. I think I'd be like,
Speaker 2: you really are obsessed with me.
Speaker 3: I think that Tom Cruise is like such an entity
Speaker 3: that like it doesn't really face him. Now, if you
Speaker 3: were to tell Amos Lee that you named Winnie's middle
Speaker 3: name Amos, like, maybe that would No, he would still
Speaker 3: love it. I think he's I think basically you would
Speaker 3: think you'd be obviously you and I would be freaked
Speaker 3: out if somebody said, like, I'm named her middle name Ashley,
Speaker 3: ourr middle named Higgins.
Speaker 2: And sure we'd be like.
Speaker 4: What that's it's so crazy, that's so awesome and what
Speaker 4: this seems to make so well, it's a little more sense.
Speaker 3: It's absolutely but it's proof that like we're like we
Speaker 3: are invested.
Speaker 4: So he showed Dawson the stunt. He was like, see
Speaker 4: how I'm out here on the wing.
Speaker 3: He's like, you like planes, I'm out here on the
Speaker 3: wing here, and I need to get into the cockpit
Speaker 3: right here.
Speaker 2: It is very cute.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I could go on an on and I suppose,
Speaker 3: but that was our meet and greet, and then my
Speaker 3: sister picked up Dawson before Jared and I headed to
Speaker 3: the movie, which is great and you should definitely go
Speaker 3: see it. In the plane stunt, which has been teased
Speaker 3: for about three years now really lives up. It is
Speaker 3: the craziest stunt you'll ever see ever. I can't even
Speaker 3: imagine a stunt like He's just a He is a
Speaker 3: stunt man, like there's He's probably the most impressive stunt
Speaker 3: man there is now.
Speaker 2: One of our producers had a question of how does
Speaker 2: Tom Cruise smell? That's not a question I would ask,
Speaker 2: but I'm laying it on our producer because it was
Speaker 2: a question asked out of curiosity. So give us your take.
Speaker 2: I guess, let's answer in a few ways. How does
Speaker 2: he smell? Is he as handsome in person as you imagine?
Speaker 2: I look at the picture and I would never have
Speaker 2: taken the picture Tom Cruise did because Jared's looking so
Speaker 2: handsome that it almost overshadows Tom Cruise, which I feel
Speaker 2: like is is something that should should never happen. But
Speaker 2: I mean, goodness, Jared can't help it that he's beautiful.
Speaker 3: Well, Jared also has like a similarity. There's something there.
Speaker 3: I can't put my finger on what it is. It
Speaker 3: might even be their voice or their cadence, but there's
Speaker 3: something very Tom Cruisey about Jared and I get messages
Speaker 3: about this all the time. Whenever we talk about Tom
Speaker 3: Cruise on Instagram, people are like, you do know that
Speaker 3: Jared is like him? And I was like, yes, all right,
Speaker 3: so we don't know what he smells like because I didn't.
Speaker 4: I did not. I didn't smell a smell.
Speaker 3: Okay that I would have stood out if he had
Speaker 3: a potent clone, but it was not there. He just
Speaker 3: smells like a human, which doesn't really smell. And I
Speaker 3: will give you a fill in for the fact that
Speaker 3: I don't know what he spells like. He does not
Speaker 3: come across as short as everybody thinks that he would.
Speaker 3: Everybody's always like, is he as short as he as
Speaker 3: he seems? Or you know, he's notoriously like five six.
Speaker 3: I don't know whether he has lifts in his shoes,
Speaker 3: which he very very may well have, but both times
Speaker 3: he's never come across to me as a short man. Average,
Speaker 3: a little bit below average, but nothing to be like,
Speaker 3: Holy moly, what a short guy.
Speaker 4: In my heels. He's like just right there with me.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have always heard Tom Cruise is very short. Now,
Speaker 2: to summarize this whole experience, this's your second time. There's
Speaker 2: no more mission impossibles. Would you do it again? If
Speaker 2: you got the invite? Would you and Jared take a
Speaker 2: night out and go see Tom Cruise?
Speaker 3: Oh, we will will be there whenever they callful and
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, we're already telling Dawson that when Top
Speaker 3: Gun three comes out, he will be at the premiere.
Speaker 2: This is beautiful, Ashley, beautiful Ben things.
Speaker 4: I'm a psycho, Ben, what are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 2: I do think you're a psycho. I don't get it.
Speaker 2: I always have with this stuff. I've always thought that
Speaker 2: your fangirl dumb is something I cannot wrap my head around.
Speaker 2: And I know, but I've also told you that I
Speaker 2: think I'm on the outside looking in with this because
Speaker 2: I know since you talked about I know so many
Speaker 2: people who are like, I mean, the Taylor Swift craze
Speaker 2: really show me. People love this stuff and they love
Speaker 2: the fall. These people they'll fly across the US the
Speaker 2: world to see these tours.
Speaker 3: Now look at that those people for Taylor, well they'll
Speaker 3: travel to France to sit in the nose blades.
Speaker 2: No, That's what I'm saying. I I do think I'm
Speaker 2: I'm not right. I'm not like claiming that I'm I
Speaker 2: have the superior like world. I just don't get it.
Speaker 2: But it's great and I'm so happy that you guys
Speaker 2: had this evening together. And I'm so you know what else, Ashley,
Speaker 2: what makes this even more when I say beautiful, it
Speaker 2: is beautiful, is that you found a Jared who also
Speaker 2: is down for this stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, like I found a man who cannot
Speaker 3: wait to go see the Backstreet Boys at the Sphere
Speaker 3: this summer.
Speaker 4: Who would have says that guy wants to do that.
Speaker 2: Nobody says that it's beautiful.
Speaker 4: All right, Ben, what are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 2: So I have a huge weekend. Something that I invited
Speaker 2: Jared to is.
Speaker 4: He's not good climbing. The man he would love.
Speaker 2: To do he would have said yes to Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2: If I was Tom Cruise, he would say, Okay, so
Speaker 2: here's what we're doing, and you're gonna hear more about
Speaker 2: this because I do want to try to get an
Speaker 2: episode going after the fact on Sunday. Jessica this weekend
Speaker 2: is going to go and hang out with her family
Speaker 2: in Nashville for a few days and then come back
Speaker 2: to Denver, which is great. She's gonna bring Winnie, They're
Speaker 2: gonna lay in the pool. They're gonna just hang out
Speaker 2: on Sunday then, So we kind of are overlapping a
Speaker 2: little bit. I leave for French Lick, Indiana, home of
Speaker 2: Larry Bird, one of the greatest basketball players of all
Speaker 2: time and a Celtic and a Celtic, and I am
Speaker 2: going to French Lick, and I have invited forty of
Speaker 2: my friends to come on a golf trip. We are
Speaker 2: golfing at French Lick and at their courses. Well's Adams
Speaker 2: is going to be there, Joey is gonna be there.
Speaker 2: Grocery store joe is gonna be there, Zach Clark is
Speaker 2: gonna be there.
Speaker 4: Wow, Dean is.
Speaker 2: Gonna be there. It's gonna be a great experience, and
Speaker 2: it's friends of mine, from elementary school, from middle school,
Speaker 2: from high school, from college, from my first job out
Speaker 2: of college to the Bachelor world to post Bachelor world.
Speaker 2: It is a mixed bag of friends. I'm the only
Speaker 2: one that knows everybody that's going, and most people probably
Speaker 2: will know four to five other people in this huge group.
Speaker 2: But I've been working on that, setting that up. And
Speaker 2: so we're leaving and everybody's meeting us in southern Indiana
Speaker 2: for a nice little golf trip.
Speaker 4: That's so fun.
Speaker 3: Well, that's quite a crew. Jared's definitely gonna have fomo.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry you're going to Virginia. We haven't been there
Speaker 3: since March not that doesn't actually sound very long, but.
Speaker 2: Less than too much.
Speaker 4: We got a lot going on on our plate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it. I have seen my parents in
Speaker 2: two months. I have to get it.
Speaker 4: It's well, I actually saw them two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so that's what I'm gonna be doing. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be great. You all are going to your parents'
Speaker 2: house to hang out for a few days, which is
Speaker 2: always fun, always something you look forward to. But yeah,
Speaker 2: we both have really exciting weekends. And I hope everybody
Speaker 2: listening has a really great weekend doing whatever they're doing.
Speaker 2: It's usually the weekend for barbecues. It's the weekend to
Speaker 2: get outside, to start messing around in the yard, to
Speaker 2: clean out the garage, to go to a brewery, to
Speaker 2: do whatever you do on this holiday. I hope it's
Speaker 2: a great time and if you get the chance to
Speaker 2: be around family. My dad is going, my father in
Speaker 2: law is going, which is super exciting. My brother in
Speaker 2: law is coming to French Lick. So I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: around family at some level.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we got going on.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Well, Ben, I hope you have the best time, and
Speaker 3: we will recap that golf trip when you get back.
Speaker 4: We'll put it in our next Headlines episode.
Speaker 2: Well, it'll be some stories we can share, probably not share.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: Until then, guys, I've been Ashley.
Speaker 2: And I've been Ben. We'll talk to you soon.
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