September 25, 2025 • 19 mins
Ashley is going to a Jonas Brothers concert with Bachelor nation alum, Mari Pepin, Susie Evans, Daisy Kent, DeAnna Pappas, and Goldens Susan Noles and Kathy Swarts!
Before they head out the ladies are doing Jo Bro trivia…that quickly escalates to bulges and hall passes!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey everyone, it is a treat for me to be
hosting this podcast, which is the Almost Sanna's podcast meets
the Jonas Brothers. The I mean no Jonas isn't here.
I did put an early request in. It was not met.
I said, Kim we Le's get Franklin and then I
got no response.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Aimate doesn't care about my wishes. It's all good. Look
just dip it along. Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So I am joined here on this podcast by Susan, Kathy, Daisy, Mari,
Susie Indiana, and we're all going to the Jonas concert
tonight in San Francisco. It's a couple of your first
It's going to be Susan and Kathy's first. Daisy, you've
been no, oh, hold the mic up to your mouth.
(00:57):
You've never been to a Jonahs concert before?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh wait, no, I had.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I guess it was.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I was like I think in college.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Okay, so you're you're wearing We all have hats. Thank
you Amy for making these personalized, amazing hats. Mine of
course says I'm a Joe girl. He says, I'm in
my Joe era. It's been eighteen years and uh, well,
Susan is really into Joe right now. I showed her
some thirst traps on Instagram that I've saved in a
(01:31):
Joe album and she's really on board.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Wow, all the lips, the eyes, really every single feature.
So I have talked about how Joe is my hall pass?
Would he be your hall pass with your boyfriend?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Okay? Great?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Kathy has also been introduced to Jonah's brothers today and
Kathy your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
I think their bodily parts are very well packaged.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So she has she's like looking at the nether regions
more than the face.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
And I mean, listen, he's cute. They have cute hair.
They have good hair, sound great hair. And you know what,
it's just taught me if you put a guy in
really tight pants, don't matter, you can sing her dance just.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
She loves tight pants. Okay, well you're in for a
tree tonight. They've always been known for their tighte pants.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Did you want?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
These these laid the Goldens love their bulges. It's been
a topic of discussion the last like an hour. I
think you The topic of discussion is how tall they are.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
The Warmer has it they're five to seven. But you
know what I told you before, I'll make an exception
for age height all of it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Okay, So just letting you know, Kevin has been married
for like fifteen years, so he's out of the running.
Joe is single when he's thirty six, and that's that's
what he's going for tonight.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
For me, he can have an affair with my daughter
who's also married. Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The family, where do I get to go in this?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
All?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And then Mari has been to how many have you
been to? You think I think I've been to like
twelve twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Okay, I'm pretty sure this will be like my thirty eighth.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I'm pretty sure I'll have to go through and count
one day. It's pretty far gone now. The number, Okay, Susie,
do you know number?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I actually don't know.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
I should text my best girlfriends because they have the memory,
and I've got the memory of a goldfish. So I
would to say like around like between seven and ten.
At the times i've seen them, maybe not always their concerts,
but like they've appeared somewhere where I've.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Been, you know, and I've seen them before, and Deanna.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
You guys are all better off than me. I've never
had the luxury to see the brothers in person.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
It's gonna be a magical night. Listen, my options are
just fast. I'm very excited, Danna, can you name all
three of them? I mean, Joe, Kevin, and Nick.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh, come on, Kathy, yep, exactly. So then I wanted
to ask you newbies to the fandom, do you know
who the bonus Jonas is?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Frankie who now goes by Franklin. Good, good Good. We're
gonna play some trivia, so we'll go We'll go to
trivia first.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And this is mainly targeted to Mari and and.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Susie what they're doing, Like, yeah, we may be the
worst of this.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
They're actually kind of hard. And I have to say
I did come up with him on my own, which
is shocking. What are the names of Kevin's daughters?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Which I did? I do know this good job. I
thought it was really crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And when I even told Kevin this once, I was like,
I can't believe that your daughter's name is Alena Rose
because my daughter's name since like, I'm never going to
have a daughter now, but in my head if I
were ever had one. In two thousand and eight or something,
I came up with the name Arena Rose and that.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Was gonna be the name.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And then when they announced the baby girl's name was
Alena Rose, I was like, this is too weird. They're
gonna think I copied it, But Jared would have never
let me name a daughter Arena. I think it's pretty
because I wanted it to be arena, like going to
a concert, a Jonah's concert arena, because that's where I
feel high on life and like most alive.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Do you guys know what their name would be or
one of the names that they had in the running,
if they weren't going to be named the Jonahs brothers?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
This first son of Jonas that's it?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay, truor faals of Jonah's brothers have had a Christmas album? True?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
The answer is actually Diana's right, it is false.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
They have. They have released I had an a handful
of Christmas albums, but never an EP.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Or an album. Wow, how well, what is Nick's nickname?
It's kind of more of an old It's more of
a does he do a dance to it? Is there?
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Like as like it's.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Kind of like early Jonas, not like off the chain.
That's what is a good answer, but the really.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Okay, that was it is? Mari. What's Jonas's birth what's
Joe's birthday? August? Oh, Susie knows it?
Speaker 6 (06:46):
What?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Oh gosh?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Is August thirteenth? August? Up? Nope?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah? U eighteen, twenty eight, nineteen or fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Every time I see August fifteenth on my calendar, I go,
what day is that?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yes, since Joe's That's why it sticks out to me.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
I know, because I'm a Leo and I'm like a
fellow Leo to attention horse.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Wait, isn't it Kathy's son is my birthday?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah? That's me?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Yeah if you were, oh man, that'd be great. Maybe
still could be a lavender marriage.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You need it, if you need it, you know, down
the line, you just need a companion.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So my last question for the hardcore fans of the
group is who would you want? Which brother would you
want or trust the most to get you off of
a deserted island? Nick one thousand percent? Nick is My
answer to Nick is getting me off the island actually
more than anybody else I may ever know he's figuring
that shit out.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
I'm leaning towards Kevin. He feels very responsible. We may
not even have ended up on the island to begin with.
If I was like with Kevin, you know what I mean,
I think he would have prevented the disaster from happening.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
We all know that Joe on the island.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
We were like, it would just be George of the
Jungle and yeah, we would be living on the island forever.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
This is true, Kathy seas him.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm trying to equate this to a band that maybe
you guys would have been fans of in the eighties?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Who did You? Is that the compara?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Would that be they quit seventy six?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
The eighties? It would definitely be the eighties?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
R em, so did you?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Who did you?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Was there a band that you guys followed the way
that we follow Jonas.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I was raising kids in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
That's not like in my twenties I was raising kid
Did you wait? What about Donnie? Donnie? And was he
was that like if my mom was obsessed with is that?
Is that like? And that's my mom loves gonna say.
I feel like that's like that, and they's like the
curly hair like Cassidy kind of like as a similar.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
No, how about the Beatles, Yeah, that's my mom, but
they are like my mom's six, my mom sixty seven.
So yeah, she's right in the same boat with you guys.
So no, I mean, was it the Beatles? You guys
are too young for that. That was your hot shut
clear Water, Like yeah, okay, Chicago loves chicag My mom
(09:40):
loves Neil Young Neil.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
My mom loves Neil Diamond like the world. No, my mom,
like that might be her pall pass.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
She like loves the with the jazz singers, like her
favorite movie.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I know, we're like she's obsessed with.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Having us watch it, and we're like, Mom, it's it's
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So if you guys don't have a band that you
would ever equate to your Jonas, I don't know how
to relate to you your heart throb?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Who's the heart dub I've sent Chicago? Okay? Would you
would have said that's your heart throb? Like who is
your heart throb? Like who is your hall pass?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
M hmm.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
What came to mind was Alan Alda.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
For a mash.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah that's yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Everybody like give me the reggaegain. Okay, very fun.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So I just have like I think it's like kind
of a millennial joke. And I don't know especially I mean,
like you, Daisy, who would have been your like who
did you fangirl over?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Justin Bieber? Okay, so you kind of go one to
either way.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Yeah, but Jonah's brothers, So my older sister was obsessed.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, because you just kind of missed you're just a
little too young for Jonahs for a little bit. Yeah, okay.
And then Deanna, I.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Was just thinking, I've never felt so old.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I guess mine would be new kids on well too,
I'm here for it all. But so who is your
new kid?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I have to remember their name?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Donnie Joey, Jonathan Jordans.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And and and oh my god.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah Danny.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Would Danny raise raise your hand if you like bing Crosby?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Jonathan was your favorite? Interesting? Interesting choice? I mean, Jonathan's
so sweet the safe game? Did you choose the.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
K one Kevin Kevin because Kevin Jonas is too safe
for you?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Well, Kevin's the sweet one?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That was.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Okay all right?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So where I was going with this conversation was like,
when you went to a Jonah, when you went to
a Justin Bieber concert, did you like, how did you
prepare yourself for the.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Day, your boss to your look like anything?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Because I have a joke at least with my friends
and the internet that like, I would pretty much shave
my body head to toe to make sure that I
was prepared for a Jonas concert.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Hey, just in case, Yeah, just.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
In case, the pure just in case, the purity rings
needed to come off like you know they're going to
come off that day, and I had the same ritual,
don't worry up, I'm not shaving my whole body today.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
For them.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Day.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Oh for Justin bieber Well, I was in fifth grade when.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I went, sure you put on your training bra.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Right literally I had a sparkly hat.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Top. That was the thing for him. Yeah, it was
like his purple concert. Yeah, didn't he pull someone up?
Like at every content.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Was in the seventh throw and it was only fifty bucks.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Wow, what time change in those days? Right, Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
We're thirty five dollars. Yeah, that's crazy, brothers, like all
the thirty five dollars, that's two hundred and thirty five
for bed seats.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Okay, Well before we wrap this up as we're going
to a concert tonight, what was your favorite concert of
all of your life, Susan, okay, or we can come
back to you.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
My first like fun concert that I remember is when
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill to work together.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, and I just like love them.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
I love them and they're still just as great today.
But I will always like we rented it. We're from
the South, so we do southern things. We got a
charter bus and there's a bunch of rednecks on one
bus and we like went and Kenny Chesney came.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I was like living my best life. Was like all
of my dreams come true.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
So his dad, Tug was a good friend of my
husband's am I, and they sent a limo for us,
and my daughter was in. We looked back from them
and met them talk about that was her dream.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That's awesome, Billy Joel, Oh, Billy Joel, that's a great answer.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
I loved him.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, what year did you see, Billy Joel.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I've actually seen m a couple of times. Last time
was probably ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's kind of a bucket list thing. Gotta go see
daily Daisy.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Oh, thanks, probably Khalid. That one was really cool, Okay, Yeah.
It was very random, like I bought my roommate and
college really wanted to go, and I found these tickets
online for like one hundred bucks each, and then we
showed up and it was like we went like backstage.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
They like brought us backstage.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It was for like a portable charger company or whatever,
and then they brought us like literally from row.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
That's awesome and I was like, well, that's because they
wanted you to be seen.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
They were like yeah, they were like, let's bring this
pretty girl up here. We'll take some video, make him
look real cool.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And we were like under twenty one, and they were
like giving us drinks.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Yeah, fun, Mine is going to be Jonah's brothers.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
Happiness begins to It was the first time I was
able to see them, and I flew to Salt Lake
City for it because it was one of the only
spots left that still had met and greets left, so
I actually got to meet them for the first time.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Also, that's fantastic, fantastic, A good one.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
I was like really trying to think because I've been
to a lot of great concerts, but I will say
I think it was like when I was in a
freshman I think in high school, maybe a little older,
and we went to the Jonas Brothers and we were
front row and somehow we were literally right in front
of like where Kevin would kind of like stand where
the stage would extend a little bit, and there was
nobody on either side of us in the entire front row,
(16:52):
and then the closest people were behind us, and like
I remember taking a selfie and he literally posed in
the background like he was so like nice. I mean,
it's nice, but I was just like it was the
closest I had ever been to them, And I was like,
this is so crazy and it was like I look
back at like that really was like so much fun.
It like sparked the the probably like you know, fandom
(17:12):
and me and I was like, we're this close. It
was yeah, and okay, I'll send it around.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I'll find and send it around. Oh my turn.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Okay, well it's really really too hard to pick one,
but I'm going to pick the rife. Okay, right now,
these are the ones at the top of my head.
Definitely backs Boys at the Sphere Like that was like beyond.
That was like just like an experience, like I've never
smiled like it with a dopamine going through my brain.
Was absolutely like I've never like I've never experienced like that.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
That was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Then, when Jonah's happiness begins, that first week that they
announced their reunion, Amy gave me tickets to a private
show that they did in La It was secret, they
didn't tell anybody where it was, and it was like
a two hundred person show. They took our phones at
the front and we had to like zip it up.
(18:07):
So everybody was so in the moment, and it was
their first time like performing on a stage publicly for years,
and I'll never forget.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
How that felt.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
And then I would also say last year when Justin
Timberlake talked to me from the stage and we actually
had a true conversation from the stage. Yeah, all right, guys,
well this has been such a fun podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And it's gonna be even more of a fun night.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Is there anything anybody has to add?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Susan's reaction.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Susan, it's going to be saying, now what are their
names again? Wait?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
What are they singing?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
All right, well, fun fun times.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I've been Ashley, and I won't go down the whole
row unless you guys want to.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Kathy, Daisy, Mari, Susy, Bye bye.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey everyone, it is a treat for me to be
hosting this podcast, which is the Almost Sanna's podcast meets
the Jonas Brothers. The I mean no Jonas isn't here.
I did put an early request in. It was not met.
I said, Kim we Le's get Franklin and then I
got no response.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Aimate doesn't care about my wishes. It's all good. Look
just dip it along. Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So I am joined here on this podcast by Susan, Kathy, Daisy, Mari,
Susie Indiana, and we're all going to the Jonas concert
tonight in San Francisco. It's a couple of your first
It's going to be Susan and Kathy's first. Daisy, you've
been no, oh, hold the mic up to your mouth.
(00:57):
You've never been to a Jonahs concert before?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh wait, no, I had.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I guess it was.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I was like I think in college.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Okay, so you're you're wearing We all have hats. Thank
you Amy for making these personalized, amazing hats. Mine of
course says I'm a Joe girl. He says, I'm in
my Joe era. It's been eighteen years and uh, well,
Susan is really into Joe right now. I showed her
some thirst traps on Instagram that I've saved in a
(01:31):
Joe album and she's really on board.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Wow, all the lips, the eyes, really every single feature.
So I have talked about how Joe is my hall pass?
Would he be your hall pass with your boyfriend?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Okay? Great?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Kathy has also been introduced to Jonah's brothers today and
Kathy your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
I think their bodily parts are very well packaged.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So she has she's like looking at the nether regions
more than the face.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
And I mean, listen, he's cute. They have cute hair.
They have good hair, sound great hair. And you know what,
it's just taught me if you put a guy in
really tight pants, don't matter, you can sing her dance just.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
She loves tight pants. Okay, well you're in for a
tree tonight. They've always been known for their tighte pants.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Did you want?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
These these laid the Goldens love their bulges. It's been
a topic of discussion the last like an hour. I
think you The topic of discussion is how tall they are.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
The Warmer has it they're five to seven. But you
know what I told you before, I'll make an exception
for age height all of it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Okay, So just letting you know, Kevin has been married
for like fifteen years, so he's out of the running.
Joe is single when he's thirty six, and that's that's
what he's going for tonight.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
For me, he can have an affair with my daughter
who's also married. Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The family, where do I get to go in this?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
All?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And then Mari has been to how many have you
been to? You think I think I've been to like
twelve twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Okay, I'm pretty sure this will be like my thirty eighth.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I'm pretty sure I'll have to go through and count
one day. It's pretty far gone now. The number, Okay, Susie,
do you know number?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I actually don't know.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
I should text my best girlfriends because they have the memory,
and I've got the memory of a goldfish. So I
would to say like around like between seven and ten.
At the times i've seen them, maybe not always their concerts,
but like they've appeared somewhere where I've.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Been, you know, and I've seen them before, and Deanna.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
You guys are all better off than me. I've never
had the luxury to see the brothers in person.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
It's gonna be a magical night. Listen, my options are
just fast. I'm very excited, Danna, can you name all
three of them? I mean, Joe, Kevin, and Nick.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh, come on, Kathy, yep, exactly. So then I wanted
to ask you newbies to the fandom, do you know
who the bonus Jonas is?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Frankie who now goes by Franklin. Good, good Good. We're
gonna play some trivia, so we'll go We'll go to
trivia first.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And this is mainly targeted to Mari and and.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Susie what they're doing, Like, yeah, we may be the
worst of this.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
They're actually kind of hard. And I have to say
I did come up with him on my own, which
is shocking. What are the names of Kevin's daughters?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Which I did? I do know this good job. I
thought it was really crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And when I even told Kevin this once, I was like,
I can't believe that your daughter's name is Alena Rose
because my daughter's name since like, I'm never going to
have a daughter now, but in my head if I
were ever had one. In two thousand and eight or something,
I came up with the name Arena Rose and that.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Was gonna be the name.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And then when they announced the baby girl's name was
Alena Rose, I was like, this is too weird. They're
gonna think I copied it, But Jared would have never
let me name a daughter Arena. I think it's pretty
because I wanted it to be arena, like going to
a concert, a Jonah's concert arena, because that's where I
feel high on life and like most alive.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Do you guys know what their name would be or
one of the names that they had in the running,
if they weren't going to be named the Jonahs brothers?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
This first son of Jonas that's it?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay, truor faals of Jonah's brothers have had a Christmas album? True?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
The answer is actually Diana's right, it is false.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
They have. They have released I had an a handful
of Christmas albums, but never an EP.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Or an album. Wow, how well, what is Nick's nickname?
It's kind of more of an old It's more of
a does he do a dance to it? Is there?
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Like as like it's.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Kind of like early Jonas, not like off the chain.
That's what is a good answer, but the really.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Okay, that was it is? Mari. What's Jonas's birth what's
Joe's birthday? August? Oh, Susie knows it?
Speaker 6 (06:46):
What?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Oh gosh?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Is August thirteenth? August? Up? Nope?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah? U eighteen, twenty eight, nineteen or fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Every time I see August fifteenth on my calendar, I go,
what day is that?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yes, since Joe's That's why it sticks out to me.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
I know, because I'm a Leo and I'm like a
fellow Leo to attention horse.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Wait, isn't it Kathy's son is my birthday?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah? That's me?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Yeah if you were, oh man, that'd be great. Maybe
still could be a lavender marriage.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You need it, if you need it, you know, down
the line, you just need a companion.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So my last question for the hardcore fans of the
group is who would you want? Which brother would you
want or trust the most to get you off of
a deserted island? Nick one thousand percent? Nick is My
answer to Nick is getting me off the island actually
more than anybody else I may ever know he's figuring
that shit out.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
I'm leaning towards Kevin. He feels very responsible. We may
not even have ended up on the island to begin with.
If I was like with Kevin, you know what I mean,
I think he would have prevented the disaster from happening.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
We all know that Joe on the island.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
We were like, it would just be George of the
Jungle and yeah, we would be living on the island forever.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
This is true, Kathy seas him.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm trying to equate this to a band that maybe
you guys would have been fans of in the eighties?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Who did You? Is that the compara?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Would that be they quit seventy six?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
The eighties? It would definitely be the eighties?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
R em, so did you?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Who did you?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Was there a band that you guys followed the way
that we follow Jonas.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I was raising kids in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
That's not like in my twenties I was raising kid
Did you wait? What about Donnie? Donnie? And was he
was that like if my mom was obsessed with is that?
Is that like? And that's my mom loves gonna say.
I feel like that's like that, and they's like the
curly hair like Cassidy kind of like as a similar.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
No, how about the Beatles, Yeah, that's my mom, but
they are like my mom's six, my mom sixty seven.
So yeah, she's right in the same boat with you guys.
So no, I mean, was it the Beatles? You guys
are too young for that. That was your hot shut
clear Water, Like yeah, okay, Chicago loves chicag My mom
(09:40):
loves Neil Young Neil.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
My mom loves Neil Diamond like the world. No, my mom,
like that might be her pall pass.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
She like loves the with the jazz singers, like her
favorite movie.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I know, we're like she's obsessed with.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Having us watch it, and we're like, Mom, it's it's
just not that great, but anyway.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
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So if you guys don't have a band that you
would ever equate to your Jonas, I don't know how
to relate to you your heart throb?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Who's the heart dub I've sent Chicago? Okay? Would you
would have said that's your heart throb? Like who is
your heart throb? Like who is your hall pass?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
M hmm.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
What came to mind was Alan Alda.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
For a mash.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah that's yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Everybody like give me the reggaegain. Okay, very fun.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So I just have like I think it's like kind
of a millennial joke. And I don't know especially I mean,
like you, Daisy, who would have been your like who
did you fangirl over?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Justin Bieber? Okay, so you kind of go one to
either way.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Yeah, but Jonah's brothers, So my older sister was obsessed.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, because you just kind of missed you're just a
little too young for Jonahs for a little bit. Yeah, okay.
And then Deanna, I.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Was just thinking, I've never felt so old.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I guess mine would be new kids on well too,
I'm here for it all. But so who is your
new kid?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I have to remember their name?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Donnie Joey, Jonathan Jordans.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And and and oh my god.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah Danny.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Would Danny raise raise your hand if you like bing Crosby?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Jonathan was your favorite? Interesting? Interesting choice? I mean, Jonathan's
so sweet the safe game? Did you choose the.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
K one Kevin Kevin because Kevin Jonas is too safe
for you?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Well, Kevin's the sweet one?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That was.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Okay all right?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So where I was going with this conversation was like,
when you went to a Jonah, when you went to
a Justin Bieber concert, did you like, how did you
prepare yourself for the.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Day, your boss to your look like anything?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Because I have a joke at least with my friends
and the internet that like, I would pretty much shave
my body head to toe to make sure that I
was prepared for a Jonas concert.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Hey, just in case, Yeah, just.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
In case, the pure just in case, the purity rings
needed to come off like you know they're going to
come off that day, and I had the same ritual,
don't worry up, I'm not shaving my whole body today.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
For them.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Day.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Oh for Justin bieber Well, I was in fifth grade when.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I went, sure you put on your training bra.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Right literally I had a sparkly hat.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Top. That was the thing for him. Yeah, it was
like his purple concert. Yeah, didn't he pull someone up?
Like at every content.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Was in the seventh throw and it was only fifty bucks.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Wow, what time change in those days? Right, Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
We're thirty five dollars. Yeah, that's crazy, brothers, like all
the thirty five dollars, that's two hundred and thirty five
for bed seats.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Okay, Well before we wrap this up as we're going
to a concert tonight, what was your favorite concert of
all of your life, Susan, okay, or we can come
back to you.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
My first like fun concert that I remember is when
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill to work together.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, and I just like love them.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
I love them and they're still just as great today.
But I will always like we rented it. We're from
the South, so we do southern things. We got a
charter bus and there's a bunch of rednecks on one
bus and we like went and Kenny Chesney came.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I was like living my best life. Was like all
of my dreams come true.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
So his dad, Tug was a good friend of my
husband's am I, and they sent a limo for us,
and my daughter was in. We looked back from them
and met them talk about that was her dream.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That's awesome, Billy Joel, Oh, Billy Joel, that's a great answer.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
I loved him.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, what year did you see, Billy Joel.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I've actually seen m a couple of times. Last time
was probably ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's kind of a bucket list thing. Gotta go see
daily Daisy.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Oh, thanks, probably Khalid. That one was really cool, Okay, Yeah.
It was very random, like I bought my roommate and
college really wanted to go, and I found these tickets
online for like one hundred bucks each, and then we
showed up and it was like we went like backstage.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
They like brought us backstage.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It was for like a portable charger company or whatever,
and then they brought us like literally from row.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
That's awesome and I was like, well, that's because they
wanted you to be seen.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
They were like yeah, they were like, let's bring this
pretty girl up here. We'll take some video, make him
look real cool.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And we were like under twenty one, and they were
like giving us drinks.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Yeah, fun, Mine is going to be Jonah's brothers.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
Happiness begins to It was the first time I was
able to see them, and I flew to Salt Lake
City for it because it was one of the only
spots left that still had met and greets left, so
I actually got to meet them for the first time.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Also, that's fantastic, fantastic, A good one.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
I was like really trying to think because I've been
to a lot of great concerts, but I will say
I think it was like when I was in a
freshman I think in high school, maybe a little older,
and we went to the Jonas Brothers and we were
front row and somehow we were literally right in front
of like where Kevin would kind of like stand where
the stage would extend a little bit, and there was
nobody on either side of us in the entire front row,
(16:52):
and then the closest people were behind us, and like
I remember taking a selfie and he literally posed in
the background like he was so like nice. I mean,
it's nice, but I was just like it was the
closest I had ever been to them, And I was like,
this is so crazy and it was like I look
back at like that really was like so much fun.
It like sparked the the probably like you know, fandom
(17:12):
and me and I was like, we're this close. It
was yeah, and okay, I'll send it around.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I'll find and send it around. Oh my turn.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Okay, well it's really really too hard to pick one,
but I'm going to pick the rife. Okay, right now,
these are the ones at the top of my head.
Definitely backs Boys at the Sphere Like that was like beyond.
That was like just like an experience, like I've never
smiled like it with a dopamine going through my brain.
Was absolutely like I've never like I've never experienced like that.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
That was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Then, when Jonah's happiness begins, that first week that they
announced their reunion, Amy gave me tickets to a private
show that they did in La It was secret, they
didn't tell anybody where it was, and it was like
a two hundred person show. They took our phones at
the front and we had to like zip it up.
(18:07):
So everybody was so in the moment, and it was
their first time like performing on a stage publicly for years,
and I'll never forget.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
How that felt.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
And then I would also say last year when Justin
Timberlake talked to me from the stage and we actually
had a true conversation from the stage. Yeah, all right, guys,
well this has been such a fun podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And it's gonna be even more of a fun night.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Is there anything anybody has to add?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Susan's reaction.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Susan, it's going to be saying, now what are their
names again? Wait?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
What are they singing?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
All right, well, fun fun times.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I've been Ashley, and I won't go down the whole
row unless you guys want to.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Kathy, Daisy, Mari, Susy, Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
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