What does it take to transform a creative concept into a beloved television show? Join us in the debut episode of the Your Story Club Podcast as we sit down with the phenomenal Ashley Williams-Allen, lovingly known as "The Bosser" by my sons, Miles and Memphis. With over two decades of experience in the television industry, Ashley shares her journey from modeling to becoming the executive producer and showrunner of Magnolia Network’s "Happy to Be Home with the Benkos." Get an inside look at the creative evolution of the show, which began as "Ferris Does Faces," and discover the importance of collaboration and friendship in bringing a project to life.
Our chat with Ashley isn’t just about professional achievements; it’s a deep dive into her personal story, including her upbringing in Columbia, South Carolina, and her childhood dreams of becoming Miss America. Ashley opens up about the challenges she faced, from bullying to feeling out of place, and how these experiences have shaped her approach to storytelling and problem-solving. We also touch on the creative dynamics of working with friends and offer heartfelt advice on handling bullying and feeling out of place. Tune in to be inspired by Ashley’s incredible journey and gain valuable insights into the world of unscripted television production.
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Boys (00:02):
Hello world, I'm Miles and I'm Memphis.
Welcome to the your Story Clubpodcast, a place where stories
are told and legends are made.
That was cute, but I'm here forthe interviews and not the
jokes.
Sorry, oh guys.
And, by the way, his nicknameon the podcast is the Lame Joke
(00:25):
Dude.
Hey, I'm watching you here.
Emily Rose (00:28):
And so am I.
I'm also watching you.
We're going to be interviewingevery week all kinds of
creatives, and you guys aregoing to be asking them awesome
questions about what?
Boys (00:38):
Their childhood.
Emily Rose (00:40):
I think that if we can chat with people about their
childhood, you creative twowill be inspired and then we can
pass it on to other people.
Boys (00:47):
Should we call you dinosaur dude or lame jokes guy?
Emily Rose (00:51):
I think we're going to call you nickname maker.
That's what we're going to callyou.
Boys (00:54):
I actually don't like that nickname, mr Nickname maker no.
Emily Rose (00:58):
Okay, okay, everyone , we want to welcome you to.
Boys (01:02):
The your Story Club, where everyone has a story.
Emily Rose (01:09):
All right, so we are going to get started with our
first interview on what's thename of our podcast Miles the
your Story.
Boys (01:20):
Club podcast.
Emily Rose (01:22):
Yes.
So I'm so excited for our firstepisode and if you're joining
us this early on on our veryfirst debut episode, then you
most likely know that I am EmilyRose.
I'm an actor and a voiceovervideo game person, a creative,
but one of my most favoritetitles that I have is Mom to my
Kiddos and I'm so excited to bedoing this fun project of a
(01:45):
podcast with my two boys, milesand Memphis.
So we came up with this ideabecause we wanted to listen to
more podcasts together and Ifelt like there was a space to
have kids interview creativesand musicians and writers and
thinkers and ask them what theirbeginnings were like, what were
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their childhoods like, whatmade them into who they were,
you know, good or bad.
So today, for our very firstepisode, we have a wonderful
guest with us.
Today we have.
I guess I should ask you this,ashley how do you want me to
introduce you?
Ashley Williams-Allen.
Ashley Williams Allen (02:23):
That's great, ashley, the boss lady
Ashley Williams-Allen.
That's great, ashley, the BossLady Williams-Allen.
Emily Rose (02:28):
Ashley the Boss, lady Williams-Allen.
Ashley Williams Allen (02:32):
Well, actually, you know what I think?
Miles should give me a nickname, because he's the nickname man.
Boys (02:38):
Wow, miles, memphis.
Emily Rose (02:43):
I'm trying to think what's her.
I think her nickname.
What's her nickname going to?
Be, she's already given you ahint that she's a boss lady.
Boys (02:50):
Big boss lady, no, no, the bosser.
Emily Rose (02:57):
Okay, so the bosser, yes, the bosser.
Well, that actually doesn't doyou justice, though, ashley.
Okay, boys, listen up.
Ashley, I know you know her asMiss Ashley, but Ashley is a
film and television producer whois currently executive
producing and show runningMagnolia Network's amazing,
colorful, successful show Happyto Be Home with the Bancos,
(03:19):
which we are going to be talkingabout today, and she's worked
in this industry for over twodecades and has been involved in
producing and contributing tosome of the most popular,
high-list rated reality seriesthat I know our listeners have
heard of, including America'sGot Talent, the Bachelor,
dancing with the Stars, hell'sKitchen.
(03:40):
I mean, she's done so many ofthese reality shows Ashley is,
she's awesome and has such apassion for storytelling and is
one of our dear friends who isdoing this thing that she loves
producing, so we're so excitedto learn more about your story,
ashley, and you know, guys, wego so far back with Ashley that
(04:03):
I think she actually has anickname for you, memphis.
Can you tell us what thatnickname is?
Ashley senator, the senator?
Oh yeah, I forgot, she calledyou the senator because you had
these big, big, chubby cheeksand big, curly hair I did.
Boys (04:23):
Do you have a nickname for me?
Ashley Williams Allen (04:24):
no, I love nicknames.
I love giving people nicknames.
I have about a millionnicknames for my kids miles.
Your name is like your nameneeds to.
You have to say your first andyour last name together, like
that's how we, that's what wecall you in our house.
We always have to say your nametogether your full name is your
nickname anyway.
Emily Rose (04:42):
Anyway, we are so excited.
We are so excited that you'rehere with us today.
You are an original OG championof this podcast.
A adult is an amazing creative,but maybe not your typical
(05:06):
creative.
You know.
We're going to learn about whataspects of her job are creative
.
She's been in television for solong.
I'll let you guys take it awayand go ahead and get to know
Miss Ashley.
Boys (05:23):
And we are live.
Thanks so much for being here.
Can you tell us a little bitabout what you do?
Ashley Williams Allen (05:28):
Yeah, I would love to tell you about
what I do.
So I am a television producer.
I've been producing televisionfor about 20 years, whoa, and I
know that means I'm old.
Boys (05:41):
Yeah, you're an old lady Whoa bro, old lady, we'll have
to edit that part out no, we arenot editing that part out.
Ashley Williams Allen (05:50):
I love that part yeah, and so right now
I'm the executive producer andshowrunner of a show on the
Magnolia Network called Happy tobe Home with the Benkos uh,
what is a producer for the kids?
who don't know.
Well, you know, a producermeans a lot of different things.
There's a producer for films,there's a producer for scripted
(06:13):
television and there's aproducer for unscripted
television.
So I am a producer forunscripted television and for
the show that I'm currentlyworking on.
I helped develop it and createit and pitched it to the network
and sold it to them, and so nowI'm involved in every part of
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production.
So at the beginning of theseason, during pre-production,
I'm getting everything organizedand ready for the shoot.
When we're filming, I go intothe field and I direct the cast
and the cameras and then, oncewe get into post, I work with
our edit team to take all thefootage that we shot all season
(06:55):
and craft a really beautifulstory.
So yeah, I kind of am a jack ofall trades, I guess.
Boys (07:01):
That's interesting.
How long did it take?
Ashley Williams Allen (07:04):
How long did it take to?
Boys (07:04):
do what To get TV show up and running Well this particular
TV show.
Ashley Williams Allen (07:12):
It took a while because when we started
developing it it was aboutsomething completely different
and it probably took like a yearand a half of a development
process from conception to itreally getting sold and then us
filming it.
What was it originally about?
It was originally a show calledFerris Does Faces.
That was about like a10-year-old girl who would paint
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people's faces as if they wereartwork and as she was painting
their face she would learnreally interesting things about
them and she did faces of likeastronauts and movie stars and
famous country singers and stufflike that.
So that's kind of what itstarted off as and then it just
sort of developed and developedand developed and became a home
renovation show.
Isn't that wild, that's?
Boys (07:57):
a big change and it sort of reminds me of this podcast.
We're just learning stuff aboutpeople.
Yeah, totally, did you getcreative with a group of friends
?
Ashley Williams Allen (08:08):
Like when I was a kid.
Boys (08:10):
Yeah, and right now.
Yeah, we're about to take adive into your childhood.
Ashley Williams Allen (08:14):
Well, right now, yes, I am creative
with a group of friends.
I actually you guys, this iscrazy, but I actually get to
work with my best friend and youactually know her.
I get to work with my bestfriend and you actually know her
.
I get to work with my bestfriend.
We've been best friends sincewe were in high school.
Isn't that crazy?
That's incredible, can be kindof crazy, and we need organized
(08:48):
people to keep us in line andmake sure that we're doing all
the things that we need to do.
So it's it's really fun to havea group of friends and
everybody has differentstrengths so that when we work
together, we can producesomething really spectacular.
Emily Rose (09:00):
So you're talking about that.
You get to work with yourfriends and I.
Is that something that you felt, like you and Tracy when you
guys first met were creativetogether, or is this something
that you've kind of discoveredas your friendship has gone
along?
Ashley Williams Allen (09:14):
Well it?
No, we never really didcreative stuff together.
We were always just friends andalways had a great time.
But she's always been somebodyin my life that I really trusted
and that I knew that I couldcount on.
She's very dependable and alsoI, knowing her for so many years
, I knew that she was reallyorganized.
And when I started producingthis show, I realized that there
(09:35):
was a gap in what we were doingand we needed somebody who was
super organized to jump in andhelp us get things sorted out.
And so I just thought you knowwhat I trust Tracy and she knows
me in and out and she's theperfect person to bring onto the
show to work with me.
Boys (09:57):
Where were you born?
Is that where you grow up?
Ashley Williams Allen (10:00):
Yep, I was born in Columbia, south
Carolina, and I grew up in theColumbia area.
Boys (10:08):
Nice yeah.
At what age did you decide todo your job?
Ashley Williams Allen (10:12):
Well, not until I was pretty old, not
until I was about 23 years old.
Boys (10:18):
Not until you were an old old lady.
Emily Rose (10:21):
Memphis stop old lady memphis, stop well I guess
that was really when I was likean old lady and now I'm an old,
old lady, right?
Yeah, there's no room for oldlady jokes on this show.
Boys (10:38):
No room for old lady jokes when did you first realize you
were creative?
As a kid, I was about to askthat question.
Ashley Williams Allen (10:48):
I don't think I really ever saw myself
as creative.
When I was a kid I was in a lotof like.
I guess I was in a lot ofcreative type school classes and
stuff like that.
Like we had, um, uh, a littleprogram called odyssey of the
(11:08):
mind where you would do kind ofcreative things with your
classmates.
But honestly, I don't reallyever think that I consider
myself a creative, and even as Istarted producing um, a lot of
times producers are problemsolvers.
That's really sort of what wedo.
(11:28):
We look at a situation andthink what are possible problems
and how can we go ahead andthink about how we could solve
them, whether it's, you know, insomething that's being written,
something that's being producedand filmed in the field, or
something that's being written,something that's being produced
and filmed in the field, orsomething that's in an edit.
So I think I saw myself more aslike a problem solver, and it
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wasn't until really the lastfive or 10 years that I really
understood my capacity for liketrue creativity when it comes to
writing or adding music to ascore or, you know, really
setting up shots visually.
I think it's something that Idon't think I realized as a kid.
Boys (12:12):
If you didn't know you wanted to be a producer.
What did you want to be as akid?
Ashley Williams Allen (12:18):
Well, memphis, I wanted to be Miss
America when I was a kid.
Yes, the moment has arrived andI actually was Miss South
Carolina.
Yeah, so the early part of mycareer I was a model and I
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traveled all around the worldmodeling and that's what
actually brought me to LosAngeles was I was pursuing
modeling and acting and then,shortly after moving to LA, I
sort of fell into the role ofcasting and producing, and
that's how I got my start as aproducer.
Emily Rose (13:00):
Wait, so no, hold, hold.
This is.
I need to park here for asecond nice, so now don't park
here.
So so you wanted to be MissAmerica as a kid, and you, you
achieved that.
You, while you achieved, youknow being a part of that entire
thing.
You achieved being Miss SouthCarolina yes, that's right,
(13:24):
which was a big deal.
Do you feel like there wereglimpses of what you do now in
that that you saw?
Now, as you look back on things, you know what Interestingly?
Ashley Williams Allen (13:35):
yes, so a big part of.
Sorry guys, I know this isprobably not going to be super
interesting to you, but I'm justgonna we'll blaze through it.
Emily Rose (13:44):
It's very interesting because I think it's
important that sometimes kidswant to be things and it ends up
turning out to be littleshadows of maybe what they will
become, like the fact that maybea kid would want to be like I
wanted to be a singer, anastronaut and an artist.
And now I look back and I say,well, that's an actor getting to
(14:06):
do all those different things,right.
So there's shadows, I think, ofthings that you are now, that
maybe you wanted to be as a kid.
So if you could tell us moreabout that, I think that's kind
of interesting.
Boys (14:17):
Did you ever get braces as a kid?
Emily Rose (14:20):
We'll come back to that, because I want her to tell
me about this part old ladyneeds to answer my question.
Boys (14:26):
No time for old lady jokes .
You can tell other jokes.
No, old lady jokes.
Ashley Williams Allen (14:31):
Since I am an old lady, I'll quickly
answer your question, memphis.
So I don't forget, I did havebraces as a kid, um, but I to
answer your mom's question.
So, being in a pageant, a hugepart of it that people don't
know about is you go through areally intensive interview
process, and I worked and workedand worked with interview
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coaches to learn how tointerview and to learn how to
speak to people, because I'mnaturally introverted, naturally
pretty shy and don't lovepublic speaking.
And now my job as a producer ahuge part of my job is
interviewing people.
I'm the interviewer and they'rethe interviewees, and we use
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those interviews all throughoutour episodes to narrate the
stories that we're telling.
So interacting with people inan interview setting was
definitely something that Ilearned as I was going through
pageants.
Emily Rose (15:30):
Wow.
So there's interview coaches.
Huh, do you guys want to?
You want to do some interviewcoaching?
Boys (15:35):
Speaking of braces, I saw a deer in a patch yard.
That really needed braces.
Emily Rose (15:43):
Oh yeah, what kind of deer was that, memphis?
It was a deer who had buckteeth.
Oh wow, you're hilarious.
That was good.
Oh my God, that was a reallygood pivot into that moment,
Memphis.
Thank you.
Boys (15:57):
Hello, this is our commercial break segment called
the Creative Corner.
The Creative Corner is all aboutbeing creative.
So, memphis, what have you beendoing to be creative lately?
Well, miles, what I've beendoing to be creative is I made a
TV, because mom doesn't let uswatch TV all day, kids, we don't
know how that feels.
You made a TV.
(16:19):
That's impossible, dude.
You're not in an engineeringclass.
That's literally impossible,miles, I did, I actually did.
I made it out of a shoebox, ashoebox, some duct tape, toilet
paper roll and stuff.
So you went to the bathroom.
No, a used toilet paper rollthat I did not use.
(16:43):
Ah, I colored some pictures, Iput them inside and I'm not
actually done with them yet.
So it's an incomplete creativeproject.
Yeah, pretty much.
Miles, what have you been doingto be creative lately?
Well, I have not been makingany TVs, aw, but I am pretty big
into drawing planes right now.
Nice, what made you want todraw fighter jets?
(17:05):
A little movie called Top Gun,maverick.
Okay, some of the kids haven'twatched that, so let's not
encourage that.
Let's not encourage them, kids.
It's a great movie.
You should totally watch it.
Miles, what kinds of things doyou learn when you draw?
You have to take a couple triesto do it, because the shape of
the wings and the uh mach 9 uhengine is very hard to draw.
(17:32):
Yeah, it took me a couple timesto get my design right.
Well, that was a good creativeclue.
So there's a couple ways to becreative this week.
You can uh, draw a shoebox.
Make a tv.
Draw a shoebox.
No, make a shoebox tv yeah, Ijust wanted to make sure we were
getting that right well, thereyou have it.
Emily Rose (17:54):
There's some ideas from the creative corner.
If you want to see thiscardboard box tv or these plain
drawings, go ahead and head onover to our instagram at your
story club podcast.
Give us a follow and tell uswhat you think.
Okay, back to our show here'sthe million dollar question.
(18:16):
Take a few guesses on what itis.
Oh my goodness, what is milliondollar question?
She has to guess first, okay oh, the million dollar question.
Ashley Williams Allen (18:24):
She has to guess first.
Oh okay, million dollarquestion.
Million dollar question.
I don't know, I'm bad at this.
Boys (18:30):
He doesn't even have a million dollars, so don't answer
it.
This is the million dollarquestion.
Are you a dog person or a catperson?
Ashley Williams Allen (18:42):
I don't even.
Oh, miles, miles.
I don't think you want to knowthe answer to that.
The answer is neither all rightthen.
Boys (18:51):
Are you a durable person?
Are you a hamster person, arabbit person?
Ashley Williams Allen (18:55):
no, I'm a nothing.
I don't like animals.
I do not like really anyanimals, but you know what I do
like is humans.
Boys (19:02):
Old lady offends me.
Emily Rose (19:08):
I would just like to state for the record you're the
most gorgeous old lady that hasexisted, so let's not put her
in that category, okay, so what?
What question?
Oh, I have a question.
Okay, is it about her?
Is it about her childhood?
Yes, go ahead.
Boys (19:23):
Childhood?
Yeah, Did you have a characterfrom a movie or game that you
looked up to and admired?
Ashley Williams Allen (19:30):
Well, yeah, my favorite movie was
Girls Just Want to have Fun withSarah Jessica Parker.
I haven't seen that one and Idon't want to.
Boys (19:39):
Yeah, I don't want to either.
Anything that involves girls, Ihate.
I don't want to.
Yeah, I don't want to either.
Anything that involves girls, Ihate you like jurassic world?
Especially princesses.
If it involves princesses, I'mout no way all right.
Emily Rose (19:55):
How about let's listen to her answer?
Ashley Williams Allen (19:56):
go ahead um, yeah, I would say, girls
just want to have fun.
Um, it was just like a reallyfun movie about dancing.
I used to love to dance when Iwas a little kid and that was
sort of a I don't know what itwas about that movie, but I just
I loved it.
I think maybe I loved itbecause it was a little bit of a
story of an underdog and I kindof felt like an underdog when I
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was a kid because I got madefun of a lot.
Boys (20:23):
Oh, so you're saying you were bullied?
Ashley Williams Allen (20:25):
Yeah, kind of.
Emily Rose (20:27):
So you felt left out and you felt different and you
felt bullied.
What did you do when youexperienced those things?
How did you deal with that?
Ashley Williams Allen (20:35):
Well, when I was a kid, the kids in my
school, they were pretty meanto me and all the boys would
call me fish lips and and Icould go home oh so boys, don't
call people names, sticks withthem I can still tell you the
names of the people that calledme fish lips right now okay,
tell us it's okay, I'll beatthem up to smithereens.
Emily Rose (21:00):
Oh, memphis thank you, go ahead, sorry, go ahead,
ashley, oh no, I was just gonnasay I would.
Ashley Williams Allen (21:05):
Miles was asking how I dealt with it and
I would.
Just.
I would go home at night andcry every night.
Emily Rose (21:10):
When do you feel like you were able to kind of I
don't know move over that or getpast that, or did you feel like
getting into the pageant sideof things helped with that?
Ashley Williams Allen (21:20):
you know, the summer between middle
school and high school I reallysort of blossomed, I got taller
and like I think I just kind ofgrew into myself.
But you know that stuff for meit took a really long time to go
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away and I think even now youknow it, sometimes it still
bothers me.
Even now you know it, sometimesit still bothers me and a lot
of times I see myself as anunderdog or feel like I don't
fit in.
Especially if I walk into aroom with new people, you know
I'll feel uncomfortable and feellike, oh, maybe I won't fit in
or maybe they won't be nice tome so what advice would you give
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kids that feel that way?
Boys (22:07):
Like me, I am kind of getting old right now.
Ashley Williams Allen (22:10):
You are, I am Well, I would say number
one always talk to a grown-upabout it, like if it's your mom
or your dad or you know agrown-up that you trust.
Always talk to somebody aboutit.
Um, me and my kids, we, we talkabout darth vader a lot.
(22:33):
If you think about anakin, likewhat a sweet boy you know and
he went through some really hardtimes, and when you think and
you realize that he grew up tobe Darth Vader, it's kind of
wild.
But you realize that when badthings happen and we let them
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fester and they get into ourhearts and we don't deal with it
, we don't take care of it, itcan have a really bad effect.
And so that's the same advicethat I would, that I would give
anybody who's feeling bullied istalk to a grown-up about it and
you know kind of work throughit and deal with it, because you
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don't want to let that hurt,get bigger and bigger and bigger
, and then we become darth vader.
Boys (23:21):
Darth vader was actually a good guy, and I think the part
of him also turning bad wasmaybe the fact that he got
eternally burned by lava.
Maybe, as all kids hate them.
But what was your favoritevegetable?
Ashley Williams Allen (23:40):
My favorite vegetable.
Boys (23:42):
For the record, I don't have one.
Ashley Williams Allen (23:43):
I eat broccoli pretty much every day
here in my house.
Boys (23:46):
So, speaking of vegetables , oh no, oh no.
Do you know how I know thatcarrots are so good for you?
Ashley Williams Allen (23:56):
How.
Boys (23:57):
I never once seen a rabbit wearing glasses.
Again, I emphasize his nicknameas the lame joke dude, you are
so mean Memphis.
Emily Rose (24:10):
I like the jokes We'll be here all week.
We'll be here all night.
He'll be here all night, ladiesand gentlemen.
All right, memphis, we got towrap, or Miles, we got to wrap
this up.
So what are the last couplequestions about creativity and
childhood that you would askMiss Ashley?
Boys (24:26):
What you said.
This would be a 30 minutepodcast it's going quick, it's
going quick what advice wouldyou give?
So would you give a kid whowanted to produce his own films
like an iMovie?
Ashley Williams Allen (24:40):
I would say just just get going, don't
don't wait, don't feel like youhave to learn or go through all
of the school, don't feel likeyou can't do it.
Just get started.
Start filming something, startusing iMovie on your phone to
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create little movies and youwill learn as you go.
And if there's adults in yourlife who can help, you ask them
for help.
But I think the biggest thingis to just do it Like just jump
in and try, just like you guysare doing with this podcast.
Boys (25:17):
Thank you so much.
It was so good talking to you,and now it's time for the recap
of the your Story from Mom.
Emily Rose (25:25):
Oh yes.
So this is where we move to aspecial part that I think I just
forgot about, but now Iremember.
Thank you for reminding me.
As our podcast is called theyour Story Club podcast, we like
to wrap things up at the endand maybe reflect a little bit
of your story back to you,reflect a little bit of your
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story back to you.
So we say once upon a timethere was a little girl named
ashley and she was created tocreate and she felt sad
sometimes because she was calledfish lips and felt now we can
laugh at it, but at the time itwas not funny and she would go
home and cry and cry and cry anddream like darth vader Vader.
She felt like she could becomeDarth Vader if she didn't deal
with it.
But she dreamt of maybe one daybeing Miss America.
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She worked so hard and so longand she learned how to talk to
people and she became interestedin people and she even achieved
her dream of becoming MissSouth Carolina and going through
that process.
But even more, she became anincredible producer because
she's learned through all ofthat how interesting people are
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and with her creative heart shehas gone on to tell great, great
stories and be great friendswith great people and we'll live
happily ever after.
Boys (26:45):
We have one final ask.
Oh, what's the ask?
Can you get us to Chris Pratt?
Oh, can anybody that listens tothis podcast get us to Chris
Pratt?
We have them on the list.
Or Dude Perfect, we have themon the list.
So anybody just email us and wewill send you anything you want
(27:09):
.
Emily Rose (27:10):
Well, I don't know about that, but we do have a
running excel spreadsheet of allthe people that we're excited
to interview, and so that is onMemphis' list, although I don't
know if he'll be able to evenspeak, if he ever gets Chris
Pratt on the yeah, so it will bemy interview.
Oh my gosh, I love it.
Boys (27:32):
What does a shark say after it eats a cloudfish?
Emily Rose (27:35):
Oh, dear Lord.
Boys (27:36):
That tastes funny.
Emily Rose (27:38):
You can't get all of your jokes out now.
It's only the first episode.
Well, thank you so much, MissAshley.
Ashley Williams Allen (27:44):
Oh my, gosh, it was my pleasure.
I have a question for you.
Do you guys have anything youwant to ask me about
interviewing people, since I'vedone it for many, many years and
you guys are just taking yourfirst steps into it?
Boys (27:57):
I'll take memphis for the first uh question.
If, say, he was to have chrispratt on show, what would you
suggest for someone who has ahero fright?
Ashley Williams Allen (28:08):
Who has what Hero fright.
The thing that takes away yourfear is preparation, and so if
you were gonna have Chris Pratton, then I would do some
research about him, learn alittle bit, so that you would
have some talking points for him.
And then, once you guys do thisa few times, you'll be like old
(28:29):
pros and you'll be prepared.
And so when Chris Pratt doescome on, it'll be easy peasy
lemon squeezy.
Boys (28:36):
I'm pretty sure I'll still just faint.
Yeah, he'll probably just faint.
Thanks so much for being on thepodcast.
Ashley and everyone.
Check out our show Happy to BeHome with the Bancos.
We've watched it and it isawesome.
It airs Saturdays at noon andyou can Stream it on Max
Magnolia or Discovery Plus.
What do you call a Crownfishwith a messy room?
Emily Rose (28:55):
Okay, I'm going to have to put a little muzzle on
him.
Thank you so much, and we'regoing to end it Good job.
Boys (29:03):
A slobster.
Thank you, ashley.
Emily Rose (29:07):
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Boys (29:34):
This has been a North Rose Pictures podcast.
Hello world, I'm Miles and I'm Memphis.
Welcome to the your Story Clubpodcast, a place where stories
are told and legends are made.
That was cute, but I'm here forthe interviews and not the
jokes.
Sorry, oh guys.
And, by the way, his nicknameon the podcast is the Lame Joke
(00:25):
Dude.
Hey, I'm watching you here.
Emily Rose (00:28):
And so am I.
I'm also watching you.
We're going to be interviewingevery week all kinds of
creatives, and you guys aregoing to be asking them awesome
questions about what?
Boys (00:38):
Their childhood.
Emily Rose (00:40):
I think that if we can chat with people about their
childhood, you creative twowill be inspired and then we can
pass it on to other people.
Boys (00:47):
Should we call you dinosaur dude or lame jokes guy?
Emily Rose (00:51):
I think we're going to call you nickname maker.
That's what we're going to callyou.
Boys (00:54):
I actually don't like that nickname, mr Nickname maker no.
Emily Rose (00:58):
Okay, okay, everyone , we want to welcome you to.
Boys (01:02):
The your Story Club, where everyone has a story.
Emily Rose (01:09):
All right, so we are going to get started with our
first interview on what's thename of our podcast Miles the
your Story.
Boys (01:20):
Club podcast.
Emily Rose (01:22):
Yes.
So I'm so excited for our firstepisode and if you're joining
us this early on on our veryfirst debut episode, then you
most likely know that I am EmilyRose.
I'm an actor and a voiceovervideo game person, a creative,
but one of my most favoritetitles that I have is Mom to my
Kiddos and I'm so excited to bedoing this fun project of a
(01:45):
podcast with my two boys, milesand Memphis.
So we came up with this ideabecause we wanted to listen to
more podcasts together and Ifelt like there was a space to
have kids interview creativesand musicians and writers and
thinkers and ask them what theirbeginnings were like, what were
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their childhoods like, whatmade them into who they were,
you know, good or bad.
So today, for our very firstepisode, we have a wonderful
guest with us.
Today we have.
I guess I should ask you this,ashley how do you want me to
introduce you?
Ashley Williams-Allen.
Ashley Williams Allen (02:23):
That's great, ashley, the boss lady
Ashley Williams-Allen.
That's great, ashley, the BossLady Williams-Allen.
Emily Rose (02:28):
Ashley the Boss, lady Williams-Allen.
Ashley Williams Allen (02:32):
Well, actually, you know what I think?
Miles should give me a nickname, because he's the nickname man.
Boys (02:38):
Wow, miles, memphis.
Emily Rose (02:43):
I'm trying to think what's her.
I think her nickname.
What's her nickname going to?
Be, she's already given you ahint that she's a boss lady.
Boys (02:50):
Big boss lady, no, no, the bosser.
Emily Rose (02:57):
Okay, so the bosser, yes, the bosser.
Well, that actually doesn't doyou justice, though, ashley.
Okay, boys, listen up.
Ashley, I know you know her asMiss Ashley, but Ashley is a
film and television producer whois currently executive
producing and show runningMagnolia Network's amazing,
colorful, successful show Happyto Be Home with the Bancos,
(03:19):
which we are going to be talkingabout today, and she's worked
in this industry for over twodecades and has been involved in
producing and contributing tosome of the most popular,
high-list rated reality seriesthat I know our listeners have
heard of, including America'sGot Talent, the Bachelor,
dancing with the Stars, hell'sKitchen.
(03:40):
I mean, she's done so many ofthese reality shows Ashley is,
she's awesome and has such apassion for storytelling and is
one of our dear friends who isdoing this thing that she loves
producing, so we're so excitedto learn more about your story,
ashley, and you know, guys, wego so far back with Ashley that
(04:03):
I think she actually has anickname for you, memphis.
Can you tell us what thatnickname is?
Ashley senator, the senator?
Oh yeah, I forgot, she calledyou the senator because you had
these big, big, chubby cheeksand big, curly hair I did.
Boys (04:23):
Do you have a nickname for me?
Ashley Williams Allen (04:24):
no, I love nicknames.
I love giving people nicknames.
I have about a millionnicknames for my kids miles.
Your name is like your nameneeds to.
You have to say your first andyour last name together, like
that's how we, that's what wecall you in our house.
We always have to say your nametogether your full name is your
nickname anyway.
Emily Rose (04:42):
Anyway, we are so excited.
We are so excited that you'rehere with us today.
You are an original OG championof this podcast.
A adult is an amazing creative,but maybe not your typical
(05:06):
creative.
You know.
We're going to learn about whataspects of her job are creative
.
She's been in television for solong.
I'll let you guys take it awayand go ahead and get to know
Miss Ashley.
Boys (05:23):
And we are live.
Thanks so much for being here.
Can you tell us a little bitabout what you do?
Ashley Williams Allen (05:28):
Yeah, I would love to tell you about
what I do.
So I am a television producer.
I've been producing televisionfor about 20 years, whoa, and I
know that means I'm old.
Boys (05:41):
Yeah, you're an old lady Whoa bro, old lady, we'll have
to edit that part out no, we arenot editing that part out.
Ashley Williams Allen (05:50):
I love that part yeah, and so right now
I'm the executive producer andshowrunner of a show on the
Magnolia Network called Happy tobe Home with the Benkos uh,
what is a producer for the kids?
who don't know.
Well, you know, a producermeans a lot of different things.
There's a producer for films,there's a producer for scripted
(06:13):
television and there's aproducer for unscripted
television.
So I am a producer forunscripted television and for
the show that I'm currentlyworking on.
I helped develop it and createit and pitched it to the network
and sold it to them, and so nowI'm involved in every part of
(06:34):
production.
So at the beginning of theseason, during pre-production,
I'm getting everything organizedand ready for the shoot.
When we're filming, I go intothe field and I direct the cast
and the cameras and then, oncewe get into post, I work with
our edit team to take all thefootage that we shot all season
(06:55):
and craft a really beautifulstory.
So yeah, I kind of am a jack ofall trades, I guess.
Boys (07:01):
That's interesting.
How long did it take?
Ashley Williams Allen (07:04):
How long did it take to?
Boys (07:04):
do what To get TV show up and running Well this particular
TV show.
Ashley Williams Allen (07:12):
It took a while because when we started
developing it it was aboutsomething completely different
and it probably took like a yearand a half of a development
process from conception to itreally getting sold and then us
filming it.
What was it originally about?
It was originally a show calledFerris Does Faces.
That was about like a10-year-old girl who would paint
(07:35):
people's faces as if they wereartwork and as she was painting
their face she would learnreally interesting things about
them and she did faces of likeastronauts and movie stars and
famous country singers and stufflike that.
So that's kind of what itstarted off as and then it just
sort of developed and developedand developed and became a home
renovation show.
Isn't that wild, that's?
Boys (07:57):
a big change and it sort of reminds me of this podcast.
We're just learning stuff aboutpeople.
Yeah, totally, did you getcreative with a group of friends
?
Ashley Williams Allen (08:08):
Like when I was a kid.
Boys (08:10):
Yeah, and right now.
Yeah, we're about to take adive into your childhood.
Ashley Williams Allen (08:14):
Well, right now, yes, I am creative
with a group of friends.
I actually you guys, this iscrazy, but I actually get to
work with my best friend and youactually know her.
I get to work with my bestfriend and you actually know her
.
I get to work with my bestfriend.
We've been best friends sincewe were in high school.
Isn't that crazy?
That's incredible, can be kindof crazy, and we need organized
(08:48):
people to keep us in line andmake sure that we're doing all
the things that we need to do.
So it's it's really fun to havea group of friends and
everybody has differentstrengths so that when we work
together, we can producesomething really spectacular.
Emily Rose (09:00):
So you're talking about that.
You get to work with yourfriends and I.
Is that something that you felt, like you and Tracy when you
guys first met were creativetogether, or is this something
that you've kind of discoveredas your friendship has gone
along?
Ashley Williams Allen (09:14):
Well it?
No, we never really didcreative stuff together.
We were always just friends andalways had a great time.
But she's always been somebodyin my life that I really trusted
and that I knew that I couldcount on.
She's very dependable and alsoI, knowing her for so many years
, I knew that she was reallyorganized.
And when I started producingthis show, I realized that there
(09:35):
was a gap in what we were doingand we needed somebody who was
super organized to jump in andhelp us get things sorted out.
And so I just thought you knowwhat I trust Tracy and she knows
me in and out and she's theperfect person to bring onto the
show to work with me.
Boys (09:57):
Where were you born?
Is that where you grow up?
Ashley Williams Allen (10:00):
Yep, I was born in Columbia, south
Carolina, and I grew up in theColumbia area.
Boys (10:08):
Nice yeah.
At what age did you decide todo your job?
Ashley Williams Allen (10:12):
Well, not until I was pretty old, not
until I was about 23 years old.
Boys (10:18):
Not until you were an old old lady.
Emily Rose (10:21):
Memphis stop old lady memphis, stop well I guess
that was really when I was likean old lady and now I'm an old,
old lady, right?
Yeah, there's no room for oldlady jokes on this show.
Boys (10:38):
No room for old lady jokes when did you first realize you
were creative?
As a kid, I was about to askthat question.
Ashley Williams Allen (10:48):
I don't think I really ever saw myself
as creative.
When I was a kid I was in a lotof like.
I guess I was in a lot ofcreative type school classes and
stuff like that.
Like we had, um, uh, a littleprogram called odyssey of the
(11:08):
mind where you would do kind ofcreative things with your
classmates.
But honestly, I don't reallyever think that I consider
myself a creative, and even as Istarted producing um, a lot of
times producers are problemsolvers.
That's really sort of what wedo.
(11:28):
We look at a situation andthink what are possible problems
and how can we go ahead andthink about how we could solve
them, whether it's, you know, insomething that's being written,
something that's being producedand filmed in the field, or
something that's being written,something that's being produced
and filmed in the field, orsomething that's in an edit.
So I think I saw myself more aslike a problem solver, and it
(11:49):
wasn't until really the lastfive or 10 years that I really
understood my capacity for liketrue creativity when it comes to
writing or adding music to ascore or, you know, really
setting up shots visually.
I think it's something that Idon't think I realized as a kid.
Boys (12:12):
If you didn't know you wanted to be a producer.
What did you want to be as akid?
Ashley Williams Allen (12:18):
Well, memphis, I wanted to be Miss
America when I was a kid.
Yes, the moment has arrived andI actually was Miss South
Carolina.
Yeah, so the early part of mycareer I was a model and I
(12:39):
traveled all around the worldmodeling and that's what
actually brought me to LosAngeles was I was pursuing
modeling and acting and then,shortly after moving to LA, I
sort of fell into the role ofcasting and producing, and
that's how I got my start as aproducer.
Emily Rose (13:00):
Wait, so no, hold, hold.
This is.
I need to park here for asecond nice, so now don't park
here.
So so you wanted to be MissAmerica as a kid, and you, you
achieved that.
You, while you achieved, youknow being a part of that entire
thing.
You achieved being Miss SouthCarolina yes, that's right,
(13:24):
which was a big deal.
Do you feel like there wereglimpses of what you do now in
that that you saw?
Now, as you look back on things, you know what Interestingly?
Ashley Williams Allen (13:35):
yes, so a big part of.
Sorry guys, I know this isprobably not going to be super
interesting to you, but I'm justgonna we'll blaze through it.
Emily Rose (13:44):
It's very interesting because I think it's
important that sometimes kidswant to be things and it ends up
turning out to be littleshadows of maybe what they will
become, like the fact that maybea kid would want to be like I
wanted to be a singer, anastronaut and an artist.
And now I look back and I say,well, that's an actor getting to
(14:06):
do all those different things,right.
So there's shadows, I think, ofthings that you are now, that
maybe you wanted to be as a kid.
So if you could tell us moreabout that, I think that's kind
of interesting.
Boys (14:17):
Did you ever get braces as a kid?
Emily Rose (14:20):
We'll come back to that, because I want her to tell
me about this part old ladyneeds to answer my question.
Boys (14:26):
No time for old lady jokes .
You can tell other jokes.
No, old lady jokes.
Ashley Williams Allen (14:31):
Since I am an old lady, I'll quickly
answer your question, memphis.
So I don't forget, I did havebraces as a kid, um, but I to
answer your mom's question.
So, being in a pageant, a hugepart of it that people don't
know about is you go through areally intensive interview
process, and I worked and workedand worked with interview
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coaches to learn how tointerview and to learn how to
speak to people, because I'mnaturally introverted, naturally
pretty shy and don't lovepublic speaking.
And now my job as a producer ahuge part of my job is
interviewing people.
I'm the interviewer and they'rethe interviewees, and we use
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those interviews all throughoutour episodes to narrate the
stories that we're telling.
So interacting with people inan interview setting was
definitely something that Ilearned as I was going through
pageants.
Emily Rose (15:30):
Wow.
So there's interview coaches.
Huh, do you guys want to?
You want to do some interviewcoaching?
Boys (15:35):
Speaking of braces, I saw a deer in a patch yard.
That really needed braces.
Emily Rose (15:43):
Oh yeah, what kind of deer was that, memphis?
It was a deer who had buckteeth.
Oh wow, you're hilarious.
That was good.
Oh my God, that was a reallygood pivot into that moment,
Memphis.
Thank you.
Boys (15:57):
Hello, this is our commercial break segment called
the Creative Corner.
The Creative Corner is all aboutbeing creative.
So, memphis, what have you beendoing to be creative lately?
Well, miles, what I've beendoing to be creative is I made a
TV, because mom doesn't let uswatch TV all day, kids, we don't
know how that feels.
You made a TV.
(16:19):
That's impossible, dude.
You're not in an engineeringclass.
That's literally impossible,miles, I did, I actually did.
I made it out of a shoebox, ashoebox, some duct tape, toilet
paper roll and stuff.
So you went to the bathroom.
No, a used toilet paper rollthat I did not use.
(16:43):
Ah, I colored some pictures, Iput them inside and I'm not
actually done with them yet.
So it's an incomplete creativeproject.
Yeah, pretty much.
Miles, what have you been doingto be creative lately?
Well, I have not been makingany TVs, aw, but I am pretty big
into drawing planes right now.
Nice, what made you want todraw fighter jets?
(17:05):
A little movie called Top Gun,maverick.
Okay, some of the kids haven'twatched that, so let's not
encourage that.
Let's not encourage them, kids.
It's a great movie.
You should totally watch it.
Miles, what kinds of things doyou learn when you draw?
You have to take a couple triesto do it, because the shape of
the wings and the uh mach 9 uhengine is very hard to draw.
(17:32):
Yeah, it took me a couple timesto get my design right.
Well, that was a good creativeclue.
So there's a couple ways to becreative this week.
You can uh, draw a shoebox.
Make a tv.
Draw a shoebox.
No, make a shoebox tv yeah, Ijust wanted to make sure we were
getting that right well, thereyou have it.
Emily Rose (17:54):
There's some ideas from the creative corner.
If you want to see thiscardboard box tv or these plain
drawings, go ahead and head onover to our instagram at your
story club podcast.
Give us a follow and tell uswhat you think.
Okay, back to our show here'sthe million dollar question.
(18:16):
Take a few guesses on what itis.
Oh my goodness, what is milliondollar question?
She has to guess first, okay oh, the million dollar question.
Ashley Williams Allen (18:24):
She has to guess first.
Oh okay, million dollarquestion.
Million dollar question.
I don't know, I'm bad at this.
Boys (18:30):
He doesn't even have a million dollars, so don't answer
it.
This is the million dollarquestion.
Are you a dog person or a catperson?
Ashley Williams Allen (18:42):
I don't even.
Oh, miles, miles.
I don't think you want to knowthe answer to that.
The answer is neither all rightthen.
Boys (18:51):
Are you a durable person?
Are you a hamster person, arabbit person?
Ashley Williams Allen (18:55):
no, I'm a nothing.
I don't like animals.
I do not like really anyanimals, but you know what I do
like is humans.
Boys (19:02):
Old lady offends me.
Emily Rose (19:08):
I would just like to state for the record you're the
most gorgeous old lady that hasexisted, so let's not put her
in that category, okay, so what?
What question?
Oh, I have a question.
Okay, is it about her?
Is it about her childhood?
Yes, go ahead.
Boys (19:23):
Childhood?
Yeah, Did you have a characterfrom a movie or game that you
looked up to and admired?
Ashley Williams Allen (19:30):
Well, yeah, my favorite movie was
Girls Just Want to have Fun withSarah Jessica Parker.
I haven't seen that one and Idon't want to.
Boys (19:39):
Yeah, I don't want to either.
Anything that involves girls, Ihate.
I don't want to.
Yeah, I don't want to either.
Anything that involves girls, Ihate you like jurassic world?
Especially princesses.
If it involves princesses, I'mout no way all right.
Emily Rose (19:55):
How about let's listen to her answer?
Ashley Williams Allen (19:56):
go ahead um, yeah, I would say, girls
just want to have fun.
Um, it was just like a reallyfun movie about dancing.
I used to love to dance when Iwas a little kid and that was
sort of a I don't know what itwas about that movie, but I just
I loved it.
I think maybe I loved itbecause it was a little bit of a
story of an underdog and I kindof felt like an underdog when I
(20:20):
was a kid because I got madefun of a lot.
Boys (20:23):
Oh, so you're saying you were bullied?
Ashley Williams Allen (20:25):
Yeah, kind of.
Emily Rose (20:27):
So you felt left out and you felt different and you
felt bullied.
What did you do when youexperienced those things?
How did you deal with that?
Ashley Williams Allen (20:35):
Well, when I was a kid, the kids in my
school, they were pretty meanto me and all the boys would
call me fish lips and and Icould go home oh so boys, don't
call people names, sticks withthem I can still tell you the
names of the people that calledme fish lips right now okay,
tell us it's okay, I'll beatthem up to smithereens.
Emily Rose (21:00):
Oh, memphis thank you, go ahead, sorry, go ahead,
ashley, oh no, I was just gonnasay I would.
Ashley Williams Allen (21:05):
Miles was asking how I dealt with it and
I would.
Just.
I would go home at night andcry every night.
Emily Rose (21:10):
When do you feel like you were able to kind of I
don't know move over that or getpast that, or did you feel like
getting into the pageant sideof things helped with that?
Ashley Williams Allen (21:20):
you know, the summer between middle
school and high school I reallysort of blossomed, I got taller
and like I think I just kind ofgrew into myself.
But you know that stuff for meit took a really long time to go
(21:40):
away and I think even now youknow it, sometimes it still
bothers me.
Even now you know it, sometimesit still bothers me and a lot
of times I see myself as anunderdog or feel like I don't
fit in.
Especially if I walk into aroom with new people, you know
I'll feel uncomfortable and feellike, oh, maybe I won't fit in
or maybe they won't be nice tome so what advice would you give
(22:04):
kids that feel that way?
Boys (22:07):
Like me, I am kind of getting old right now.
Ashley Williams Allen (22:10):
You are, I am Well, I would say number
one always talk to a grown-upabout it, like if it's your mom
or your dad or you know agrown-up that you trust.
Always talk to somebody aboutit.
Um, me and my kids, we, we talkabout darth vader a lot.
(22:33):
If you think about anakin, likewhat a sweet boy you know and
he went through some really hardtimes, and when you think and
you realize that he grew up tobe Darth Vader, it's kind of
wild.
But you realize that when badthings happen and we let them
(22:54):
fester and they get into ourhearts and we don't deal with it
, we don't take care of it, itcan have a really bad effect.
And so that's the same advicethat I would, that I would give
anybody who's feeling bullied istalk to a grown-up about it and
you know kind of work throughit and deal with it, because you
(23:16):
don't want to let that hurt,get bigger and bigger and bigger
, and then we become darth vader.
Boys (23:21):
Darth vader was actually a good guy, and I think the part
of him also turning bad wasmaybe the fact that he got
eternally burned by lava.
Maybe, as all kids hate them.
But what was your favoritevegetable?
Ashley Williams Allen (23:40):
My favorite vegetable.
Boys (23:42):
For the record, I don't have one.
Ashley Williams Allen (23:43):
I eat broccoli pretty much every day
here in my house.
Boys (23:46):
So, speaking of vegetables , oh no, oh no.
Do you know how I know thatcarrots are so good for you?
Ashley Williams Allen (23:56):
How.
Boys (23:57):
I never once seen a rabbit wearing glasses.
Again, I emphasize his nicknameas the lame joke dude, you are
so mean Memphis.
Emily Rose (24:10):
I like the jokes We'll be here all week.
We'll be here all night.
He'll be here all night, ladiesand gentlemen.
All right, memphis, we got towrap, or Miles, we got to wrap
this up.
So what are the last couplequestions about creativity and
childhood that you would askMiss Ashley?
Boys (24:26):
What you said.
This would be a 30 minutepodcast it's going quick, it's
going quick what advice wouldyou give?
So would you give a kid whowanted to produce his own films
like an iMovie?
Ashley Williams Allen (24:40):
I would say just just get going, don't
don't wait, don't feel like youhave to learn or go through all
of the school, don't feel likeyou can't do it.
Just get started.
Start filming something, startusing iMovie on your phone to
(25:01):
create little movies and youwill learn as you go.
And if there's adults in yourlife who can help, you ask them
for help.
But I think the biggest thingis to just do it Like just jump
in and try, just like you guysare doing with this podcast.
Boys (25:17):
Thank you so much.
It was so good talking to you,and now it's time for the recap
of the your Story from Mom.
Emily Rose (25:25):
Oh yes.
So this is where we move to aspecial part that I think I just
forgot about, but now Iremember.
Thank you for reminding me.
As our podcast is called theyour Story Club podcast, we like
to wrap things up at the endand maybe reflect a little bit
of your story back to you,reflect a little bit of your
(25:49):
story back to you.
So we say once upon a timethere was a little girl named
ashley and she was created tocreate and she felt sad
sometimes because she was calledfish lips and felt now we can
laugh at it, but at the time itwas not funny and she would go
home and cry and cry and cry anddream like darth vader Vader.
She felt like she could becomeDarth Vader if she didn't deal
with it.
But she dreamt of maybe one daybeing Miss America.
(26:11):
She worked so hard and so longand she learned how to talk to
people and she became interestedin people and she even achieved
her dream of becoming MissSouth Carolina and going through
that process.
But even more, she became anincredible producer because
she's learned through all ofthat how interesting people are
(26:34):
and with her creative heart shehas gone on to tell great, great
stories and be great friendswith great people and we'll live
happily ever after.
Boys (26:45):
We have one final ask.
Oh, what's the ask?
Can you get us to Chris Pratt?
Oh, can anybody that listens tothis podcast get us to Chris
Pratt?
We have them on the list.
Or Dude Perfect, we have themon the list.
So anybody just email us and wewill send you anything you want
(27:09):
.
Emily Rose (27:10):
Well, I don't know about that, but we do have a
running excel spreadsheet of allthe people that we're excited
to interview, and so that is onMemphis' list, although I don't
know if he'll be able to evenspeak, if he ever gets Chris
Pratt on the yeah, so it will bemy interview.
Oh my gosh, I love it.
Boys (27:32):
What does a shark say after it eats a cloudfish?
Emily Rose (27:35):
Oh, dear Lord.
Boys (27:36):
That tastes funny.
Emily Rose (27:38):
You can't get all of your jokes out now.
It's only the first episode.
Well, thank you so much, MissAshley.
Ashley Williams Allen (27:44):
Oh my, gosh, it was my pleasure.
I have a question for you.
Do you guys have anything youwant to ask me about
interviewing people, since I'vedone it for many, many years and
you guys are just taking yourfirst steps into it?
Boys (27:57):
I'll take memphis for the first uh question.
If, say, he was to have chrispratt on show, what would you
suggest for someone who has ahero fright?
Ashley Williams Allen (28:08):
Who has what Hero fright.
The thing that takes away yourfear is preparation, and so if
you were gonna have Chris Pratton, then I would do some
research about him, learn alittle bit, so that you would
have some talking points for him.
And then, once you guys do thisa few times, you'll be like old
(28:29):
pros and you'll be prepared.
And so when Chris Pratt doescome on, it'll be easy peasy
lemon squeezy.
Boys (28:36):
I'm pretty sure I'll still just faint.
Yeah, he'll probably just faint.
Thanks so much for being on thepodcast.
Ashley and everyone.
Check out our show Happy to BeHome with the Bancos.
We've watched it and it isawesome.
It airs Saturdays at noon andyou can Stream it on Max
Magnolia or Discovery Plus.
What do you call a Crownfishwith a messy room?
Emily Rose (28:55):
Okay, I'm going to have to put a little muzzle on
him.
Thank you so much, and we'regoing to end it Good job.
Boys (29:03):
A slobster.
Thank you, ashley.
Emily Rose (29:07):
Thanks for listening .
If you enjoyed this episode andyou'd like to help support the
podcast, please share it withothers, post about it and share
our Instagram at your Story ClubPodcast.
You know the drill leave arating and review, especially so
other parents, kids andcreatives can find us.
To catch all the latest from me, you can follow me at
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(29:27):
Pictures and we hope you wereinspired by listening today
because remember everyone has astory.
Boys (29:34):
This has been a North Rose Pictures podcast.
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