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June 1, 2019 22 mins

Ashley can barely contain her excitement, because she’s backstage at iHeartRadio’s Wango Tango. Before she goes to fangirl over the Jonas Brothers, she catches up with Colton and Cassie. We hear how Colton’s been adjusting to life in “Cali”, and where they’ll live when they move in together.

And Corinne Olympios stops by, to tell us a crazy story about an ex boyfriend. Plus, we discuss what happens when people say “I love you” too early. (Corinne says it VERY quickly)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, welcome to the Almost In his podcast, we
are here live at Wango Tango, which has been more
exciting for me this year than ever before because the
Jonas brothers and Taylor Swift are here together and reminds
me of two thousand eight. But we are all here
thanks to sugar Bear Hair. This is the Benn and
Ashley I Almost Famous podcast with i R Radio. Hey, guys,

(00:22):
Like I said, today is very exciting. We're here at
Wango Tango, the I Heart Music festival that happens every
you know, May June, and it's always so good, but
this year it's just a little bit more special in
my heart because Jonas and Taylor Swift are here, and
it does make me think about when Joe Jonas and

(00:43):
Taylor Swift dated in two thousand and eight, and you know,
when you think back here, they were eighteen years old
and there are there were seniors in high school basically,
and I still think, I'm like, oh, is it gonna
be awkward if they run into each other today? But no,
it's just not. They're professional. So I have some I
had some friends here they are going to talk about
this with me. I have my best friend Lizzie Sharkey,

(01:06):
do you'd my right, My sister across from me and
another wonderful woman are honorary Bachelor member right here, right now,
Karin Olympios. It's not really honorary because she's just a
Bachelor honorary member of the Bachelor family here on this
podcast right now. Okay, so let's talk about like who

(01:28):
you dated as an eighteen year old and if you
ran into them today as here's Karin at twenty and
basically everybody here's twenty except for me. So I'm thirty one,
but I did not know that. I had no idea.
Thank you, ju Thank you, Juveiter, fabulous, honey, thank you
so much. Well, it's really Allergan, who knows the botox

(01:50):
has really helped me stay my stay and you talked
to me my first botox experience. It doesn't hurt. It
doesn't hurt. I got that. It hurts, I said you after.
I was like, actually that really hurt. We're like, no,
it didn't, it does it. It's like a little prick,
it's like your finger. That for me, that's like a batter.

(02:11):
You know, I could do anything else, I can't do that.
I have a really high beauty tolerance, so like for
pain pain beauty tolerance, I have a very low pain
tolerance in general. But there's something about like if it's
going to make me look better, I'm like, it's okay,
hurt me as much as you want. Oh my god, Okay.
But like, let's go back to like relationships for a second. Um,

(02:32):
you are in a relationship for a year now, how
would you feel if you were to run into like
a boyfriend from ten years ago. Well, actually it happened recently. Um,
on my birthday in November, I ran into my boyfriend
that I dated when I was eighteen, and I ran

(02:55):
into on my birthday at a basketball game with John,
and he like it was really bad, Like it was
like a really bad ending, like the parents had to
like I don't know, I think actually ended up in
like wait, a psych ward or something. I don't know
what meetings had been in the psych ward. Yes, like

(03:19):
this really was obsessed with me, really like had issues
like would like stalk me, hunt me down, like like
break my cell phones like crazy. And so I ran
into him and he like literally just his entire body
just like like he went I've never seen this actually
happened to a human, but he actually went white. I

(03:41):
was genuinely concerned. I was like, Hey, how are you
gotta go? DM me immediately after that meeting and was like,
I can't forget eleven eleven, Like please let me take
you to lunch, like you're just the one that got
away like this that, and like I'm not saying this
to make fun of him, Like I like he really,
like really like I was that girl for him, Like Okay,
it was so weird. I feel like Taylor Swift and

(04:02):
Joe Jonas will not have an experience like that. I definitely,
I feel like, but you never know, you never know.
Apparently they joke now about her calling him out on Ellen,
because she called him out on Ellen, saying that he
broke up with her in a fifteen second phone call,
and now when they're backstage at things like this together,
that was so scandalous, scandalous. Back then, we were like,

(04:25):
oh my god, he did her dirty. We were like, oh,
that's bad. But that's also how you break up people
in high school. Basically, Taylor and Joe are also with
their perfect people. Yeah, so if your guy, your eight
year old boyfriend was with the person he's supposed to be.
I'm sure he wouldn't have gone so white yet, you know, yeah,
like if he were taken, he probably would have been

(04:46):
totally fine. Yeah yeah, ten years too, who still harbored
those feelings? Real real? Did real bad to him? I
don't know? All right, Well, you're just on the help
Ice Get Dating podcast talking about your relationship with John,
who you've been together for a year. How did you,
guys meet? I met John through a mutual friend in Miami,

(05:10):
and we hit it off that night. It was honestly
love it first sight. I literally was just like, no,
it literally was as cheesy as it sounds. Well that's
how I felt, like, Jared, But did you? So let's
bring it to Hannah's season here for a second. Luke
p claimed that he had love feelings right and basically said,

(05:30):
I feel like I'm starting to fall in love by
our forty eight. Do you think it's inappropriate to say
those words or even to say like, I'm starting to
fall in love even if you did believe it was
love at first sight, Because even though I think I
experienced love at first sight, it's so ridiculous to actually
say that until time helps prove that you're right, yeah,

(05:51):
I think. Also the setting was not very good, like
him him doing it in a competition setting. Current. Did
you say I love you first to your boyfriend? I did?
Why would you ask that long? I feel like she's
a strong woman who would say I love you first
for some reason? How long did it take a few months?
A few months? And he said I love you back?

(06:11):
No problem? First, he was like honestly, like I just
like I was cuddling on him and just like blurt
it out. No, I like, I like, he like said
something funny, like really funny, and I was I literally
almost peeed my pants and then I just looked up
at him and I was just like, I love you,
and he like started crying. Oh that's so cute. He

(06:33):
started crying and he's like, I love you too. Want
to hear the craziest thing ever. The next day, I'm
in his car with him and I was looking for
something in his center console and I just see like
the word corn right, and I like go and I
like dig it out and I pick it up and
it's a card and it says this is another corn
E birthday card, and like you open it and it's
like a bunch of corns. It was the last card

(06:55):
his grandma gave him before like she passed away, and
and he wrote like I can't wait for you to
find someone, like someone special, and like whatever, how you
say that in the card? How weird is that? And
he started crying again. He's like I can't saying. He
called it his entire family, and he's like, this is

(07:17):
the craziest thing ever. So you guys are into the
long haul? Yeah I think so. Yeah? Alright, So no
more Paradise Shenanigans for you? Does he know? Does he
know anything about your time on the Bachelor franchise? Like
did he know that you were from the show when
he first saw you? Yeah, but he told me he
didn't really explained. He acted like he had no idea

(07:38):
who I was. Um was obsessed with me? Like did
he posted pictures of you on Instagram or something tweet
about you? What do you mean before? Like they're like
him and all of his friends are just like really
big fans of the show and loved me. And like
my friend Jared who Jared who introduced us? Not your Jared? Sorry?

(08:00):
I just like she art, did I know? No? And
like he was texting Jared saying like, oh my god,
like I love this girl. You gotta like like just
please let me have a chance. Let me have a chance.
And Jared knows that. I'm not like, I don't like
people like that whatever, but you like that when they're

(08:22):
more subdued. No, I just don't like people giving out
my number. It's not safe, number one, number two. It's weird. Anyhow,
I agreed to do it. I was coming from ultra.
I was all like hyped up to go out and
I faced time to him and I was like, I'm
gonna marry that guy. Do you like that he acted that?

(08:43):
He acted like he didn't know you from the show
or was that did you when? And He's like, say, yeah,
it's weird. It all worked. Yeah, who knows. So have
you been keeping up with the season of The Bachelorette?
Um here and there a little bit? Really, so not
do emails with you? What do you mean emails like
about the cast? No? Okay, alright, let's sorry. I mean

(09:06):
I could try. No, No, no, you're good. It's it's
all good. Um, all right, Well, who are you most
looking forward to seeing here at Wingo Tango? I think Taylor. Yeah,
that's cool. I've never seen her in person. What Taylor
Swift song most best described your life? Right now? Okay,

(09:29):
there you go. That was so many reasons you didn't
even have to look in your phone to like, you know,
just like see the Discovery that comes on and I'm like,
like literally like so many things to go through my
mind there. I will admit that there were times, um
with my history on the show where I like had
certain scenarios play out where that song was the most

(09:51):
perfect describer for that. It's like, I will get back
at you. I will, Yeah, sums up. My experience is
in paradise. For the most part. I did something bad,
something bad. It doesn't it feel so good that one

(10:11):
fits you too? I feel like the whole Tailor Reputation
album is very Korean. It is because not only is
it like a little bit like I'm going to get
back at you like I'm a tough badass, It's also
I can have a soft side and I can fall
deeply in love. Sums it up. Alright, Gren, Well, thank
you so much for joining us here on the mini

(10:33):
version of the Almost a Miss podcast. Thank you from
Wango Tango. What happened to your amazing hair. It used
to look so healthy. What happened Lauren? I know you
relate to this every day she goes, what happened to
my healthy hair? Well, that's because healthy state. Lauren's actually
in hair school. So Lauren is always trying to figure

(10:53):
out how to make hair healthier and better looking. But
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(11:36):
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Com slash Almost Famous. You guys, we have somebody new
to the Almost Famous podcast is very exciting. Cassie Randolph
is here with her boyfriend called Underwood. This is so nice.

(11:57):
It's good to have you back. Colton and Cassie and
I just met the first time the other day, and
now here I am like three days later seeing you again.
That's how it always works, right, I don't meet you forever,
and now I see multiple times in a week. All right,
So you guys are not living together in l A,
which I totally respect. I told Jared, I was like,
we're not living together until I'm engaged. So until we're engaged,

(12:18):
so that's I feel. Yeah, I'd like the tradition of that.
I actually wanted to probably wait till we were married,
but then I was like, this is actually not logistically
doesn't logistically make sense. Why would we pay for two rents?
Why would we like sleep over each other's places every
other night and just always have to drive back and forth? Right,

(12:38):
So how is that working for you guys? Living in
two separate places? I mean, it's kind of nice because
we're in two different parts of town. So if we
ever need to be somewhere else we can just we
have two places. That is nice. So where is your place?
If you don't mind me asking? I'm in West Hollywood.
Oh you are? You were so close by? Yeah, I'm
in West Hollywood. Oh I thought you were by the ocean.

(12:58):
Still no, Yeah, I just moved to West Hollywood's okay.
So all right, so you're like a little more suburban area. Yeah,
I need it nice almost like feels I just need
my my space live right on top of like I
don't know how she lives in West Hollywood. Bared wants
to move to Sherman Oaks so bad? Where like the same?
Like why would you want to leave the convenience of

(13:20):
West Hollywood. Love suburbs and like shopping centers and parking
lots and all that grocery stores that you can just
pull into and park instead of having to go into
a garage. Parking is a nightmare with Allywood across from
like an elementary school, and it's so it's just like
it's like family. It's like a family town. That's so nice.

(13:41):
So I mean you think that if you guys do
get engaged, that you would move into his place? Or
am I jumping ahead right now? Where I'm not even
for sure my place is going to stay my place.
I'm just renting, just trying to figure out exactly what
we want. I don't know. We're just gonna be back
in Orange County, okay O County. So yeah, if I'm
gonna live in Callie, I want to live by the beach.

(14:02):
I know, I feel like people who aren't from Cali.
That's absolutely the fact. Still stop saying in a couple
of years, how is that justin been moving here? You've
been here for I want to see like six months now. Yeah,
it's been good. You know, I spent a lot of
time here these last few months, well this last year obviously,

(14:23):
but it's been good. We've been traveling a lot, so
we haven't had a lot of time here. But I
love the beach. And because when I was with the Chargers,
I lived in San Diego for two years, so I
always been in Calli for a while. Yeah. Yeah, but
that's why Mcali boy. Now you guys, everybody loves watching
you on Instagram. Like I it's mind boggling how every

(14:47):
every Cassie quote and picture blows up and your Instagram stories,
Like everybody wants to know what you're doing at all times.
You feel this pressure to constantly be documenting your trips
and do you ever just want to be like, Okay,
this trip, we're going to go away and we are
knocking use it's a story for a whole week. I know,
it's like a love hate and you slow it down
then it messes you up. You got to keep rolling

(15:09):
with it. But also I think I'm having some fun
with it because now we can pick and choose what
we want to share with everybody, So we could be
a little more selective and we could like live our
lives in private if we want, and then we could
also share with everybody, because I mean we are like
very I'm very grateful for coming off the show and
having so many people supporting us. So it's nice. Yeah,

(15:31):
I know we have the best support on Instagram. Our
fan accounts are so cute. We have a group chat
with our account. Wow, that must be like we say
high and sometimes we like send them like exclusive. I
feel like we're like yeah, and then other pan accounts

(15:52):
get mad at them. Where you get that and it's like, well,
we're in a group chat with them, so it's very
young girls. Um, one of my fan accounts actually sent
her birthday gift and like a big package of all
her favorite things to everything. Oh, that's so cool. And
she's also sent like a peanut butter jar for my
dog Sniper for amazing. I was talking to Cassie about

(16:14):
your dog the other day because I brought mine to
the event that we were at. Your dogs like fourteen,
and he's a lab. He's like, he's an old baby,
but he's not living here. Your mom brings him out
to visit. He's just moved. She's retiring. She just drove
him out, so he's retiring with me out in goodness.
He is like a sweetheart. He has a little gimp
to him. Um he has. He's a little high maintenance.

(16:35):
He's a little deevish, so he fits in perfect. Speaking
of devish, you are like basically living with I feel
like three girls because maybe you don't live in their complex,
but in the complex it's Cassie, her sister, and Klin.
Do you feel like overwhelmed by estrogen? Because Jared was
just in the car with my sister who he lives with,
and it's a little overwhelming and my best friend and

(16:57):
he's like, oh my god, the girl talk. I can't.
I can't listen to girls anymore, got Gregg at least
Michelle's boyfriends. And then hopefully after Paradise, Kalin will come
back with her man, so then we'll all it will
just be like modern day friends, modern day friends, all
in the apartment. Comment, that really is modern day friends.
That's really cool. Yeah, it's really cool. Okay, Well, we're
here at WAYNEO Tango, and I need to know who

(17:20):
you're most excited to see. Colton and I have a
relationship in our heads with the Jonas brothers via Twitter excited. Okay,
so is that who you're most excited to see? I
think everybody from the West Parts gotta be Jonas well
anti Swift. Yeah, it's like a toss up, right, Yeah.
I mean you get the nostalgia of Jonas and then
you have you know, Taylor, who's an icon. Yeah. So

(17:43):
if you guys, let's let's do a little question. It's
a little a little question game. You were in a
boy band for a minute when you recorded the Oh
Town song. If you had to be in any boy band,
Jonas included which boy band would you want to be
part of? Oh? In Sync? Okay, yes I did I

(18:03):
did a talent show back in grade school and I,
um did I remember like my whole routine, I like
popped out of the box because you know, they were like,
it's like it's gonna be punched out through like we did.
We did like the saran wrap out of the box.
That was my talent show. I got made fun of
so much for it. But I think I think there's

(18:25):
a video but buried it deep deep um. So it
would love to do a boy but a Bachelor boy
band with you if you're ever ever felt like it.
Which one would he be in? In in sync? I
think he would be j C. Yeah. I feel like
Jared is more of it is like a j C. Right, Lauren,

(18:46):
I go over there. He's not a Chris Kirkpatrickson is
like more of like the Brian Latrelle. You could be
like a Brian and child from back Street. Um, or
you can be a little bit of Justin Justin. I like,
oh okay, now, Cassie, Um what Taylor Swift song describes
your relationship during the Bachelor During the Bachelor? Yes, like

(19:11):
you could pull up her discography right now. I know.
I feel like you need a list of these songs
or somebody who were. We were just playing some t
Swift around the bonfire the other night, going through her songs.
I know she's changed her style and music so much
since first. I love her like rouse first initial albums. Oh,
the Fearless Fearless album, something on there you belong with me?

(19:34):
That one, that's a good one. Maybe that's the current song. Well, no,
that's about a friend. That's more like my Bachelor in
Paradise song. You know she was on the sideline. She
really thought that she should be with him. Yeah, have
a bachelor song. Okay, good answer. Alright, guys, I know

(19:56):
you have to go hit the pink carpet down there,
but thank you so much for joining me and maybe
well yes, thank you so much. Do you ever wonder
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(20:18):
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(20:41):
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(21:02):
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(21:22):
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I have to go downstairs. We have pit passes. For Jonas.
So i gotta get a good spot up against the
stage and I'm gonna chew on some sugar bears, you know,
only two though, only two sugar bear hairs a day.
So unfortunate because these things are so delicious. But thank

(21:43):
you for joining me for our many almost famous podcast
episode here at Wino Tango, which will be airing on
Freeform on Friday. Alright, see you guys, I've been Ashley
and that's all. Bye. Follow the Ben and Ashley I
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