October 29, 2025 • 20 mins
Ashlee Feldman makes her first appearance on the After Show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, welcome into the after Show, justin here, Welcome in everybody.
Thank you to everybody for checking in on the talkbacks.
I'll try my best to get to them today. Probably
not though, because I do have a guest in here,
and this one is going to be quite the trip.
I've been teasing this for like a week now, because well,
she's a big star. You know her, I know her.
(00:22):
Her name is Ashley Feldman, and she is the host
of the gem In morning show right down the hall
here and also one of my closest friends in the
whole world. And you know what makes her so close
to me is she loves to tell me about myself always, always,
so welcome to the after Show, Thanks for having me.
I have a lot of questions. I don't know where
to start. We don't have a ton of time. I
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just want to say that, well, I will say thank
you for being my friend, no, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
For me my friend. And let me tell everybody a
fun fact.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I don't think people might believe this, but we literally
speak on the phone every day.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You're the only person that I talk on the phone too.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
And I don't know how you feel, but how things
go in your house, But like my husband just knows
if I'm on the phone and I'm talking about work,
it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
With you, we don't even address it anymore. He's like, gosh,
she's alw with just.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The same thing in my house. Yeah, yeah, Well we're
talking about work things always, yeah, or I'm asking for advice,
you know. So you and I though, real quick, go
way back to twenty thirteen. Did you know that twenty thirteen?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
That's when you started. So I was working on JAMM
in ninety four to five. They needed a new co host,
and I'll never forget. It was a week of auditions.
They had a different girl every day, and so we
did a couple of the girls and then Santy said
one morning I went in, he said the girl today
is she's from the Real World And I didn't watch
your season and he said her name is Ashley. Feldman
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said cool, and then he went to go get you
and he walked down and I was sitting in the
office in the old building, and I'll never forget Santy
walked in and he goes, justin, this is actually and
you walked into the doorway, and you know how like
memory is funny, like that yeah, like seven feet tall
and you were all done up, and I remember I
said high and you were like hey, and it gave
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me a hug, and I was just like, who is
this person?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I will never for I remember that as well, because
I was supposed to do two full days on Jaman
of My audition was supposed to be two days, but
unfortunately there was a snowstorm out of my control. But
the whole time, Santi Ramiro on air being like, she
thinks she's better than Oscar.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
She on the road.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Now we have to Now we're stuck with her for
a whole show. And this is before I'm even I'm
listening to this, before I'm even.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Doing my audition. And then I come in and I
got to act like I didn't hear any of that,
but then of course that came out within ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Of course, I was like, remember what you guys were
saying about me yesterday, because because I do, Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You got you meshed. Well, I remember, because you know,
they were kind of auditioning and then talking about who
it should be. But I remember them saying like she's
going to be the one.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, and the fun fact is our boss, Dylan Sprague
didn't want it to be a miss.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Did you just say that?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's true?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It is true. I didn't know you could say that publicly.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, he did. He didn't want me. He was pushing
for a different woman out of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It wasn't because I know, but it was. We should explain.
It wasn't because he didn't like you.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
No, you didn't think I was the He thought she
was the better fit. And she was older, and I
think she's way more experienced than I was.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I hadn't done radio. Well, I had done a small
sports station. I hadn't done radio like this.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, and yeah, he pushed for for this other woman
from Philly and Santina Romiro pushed for me, And.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Here we are, all these years later, through many changes.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So many change, too many changes. Yeah, so like recent changes,
A lot of changes, A lot.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I mean, yeah, I mean we'll talk about that, the
changes recently. But okay, So twenty thirteen I met you.
You're from New Jersey. You're a D one basketball player.
You are excellent a basketball We know what I know
it Northeastern. You love to tell people that you are.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I mean, I have a few records out of all,
I don't bring it up.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's fine. Don't they have your poster at Northeastern? Yeah, yeah,
there you go. So you grew up in Jersey, went
to Northeastern and played D one ball, went on the
Real World in what year?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I was on the Real World in two thousand and
nine in New.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Orleans and we went back to New Orleans because there
was an original New Orleans series and we went back
to Neworleans like pretty much right when I graduated college.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah. Actually, it's funny. I remember when I found out
you were on the show after I met you, and
I looked up New Orleans and you weren't in the cast.
I was so confused.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, And it's crazy because I had just graduated college.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I was what twenty two years old, about to be
twenty three, and I was one of the older people
in the house, Like most of the people in there
had just her and they were fresh twenty one.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah. So if you could sum up that experience in
like the thirty seconds, wow, would you?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I mean, I would literally say it was pivotal to
my career.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I launched and got my first radio gig out of
the real world, and I think going into it That's
what I always knew I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm like, I need to be seen.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I need somebody in the industry to see me and
be like, wow, maybe she's meant for for more than
just this. And I was able to kind of like
pivot and get my first radio job in Saint Louis
from that sports station.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Like I said, but my boss at the time, he was.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
A real world fanatic, and after the season was over,
he sent me a message and was like, listen, we
have an opening here in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't know if you'd be willing to move, but
I think you'd be great. And then there.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It was, so you wanted to do sports radio or radio.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I wanted to do sports. I actually wanted to do TV.
I think was my first like love to do like
sports TV stuff. But then when I was playing basketball
at Northeastern, I did the local radio station there and
I was doing color commentary. So you know, for sportshead
they'll understand, but if you don't really watch sports, there's
gonna be the guy that actually passes the.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Ball to Justin and Justin's you know, five for two.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I was the color so I would be like, yeah,
and you know, Justin actually has quite the story and
I would kind of fill in, you know, and that
was like my first taste of radio. So then I
think after Real World course TV was number one. But
when I got that off or, I was like, this
is great, let's go. I went to Saint Louis and
the rest is history.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And then you applied here. Now you knew Jaman and
kiss wana wait I.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Didn't apply here if that was actually another funny story.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh you didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
No, I wrote Dylan.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Just like a threatening email, essentially being like you need me,
and he was like, who are you? He tells this
story all the time because they had no openings on
Jaman at the time, and I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Be back in Boston so much because obviously I went to.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
School here and my friends were here, and I was like,
you you may not have any openings, but you need me.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I have an X factor.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I'm telling you, like I'm made for this radio station,
like you should, you should meet me. So he was like, okay,
I guess like here's when I have an opening, and
I came and I sat down with him.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The full circle moment was when Pebble's left and.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
There was an opening and he sent me and he
will be like, hey, we're going to audition some women.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You can finally come in. You bulled off. Oh okay,
see if you work.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Out see wow yeah yeah okay. But you knew of
jammen from going to school in Northeastern.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Used to listen to Jim and all the time, went
to monster jams all of.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
The things, like we would pregame at Northeastern parties games
and we would put Jammin on.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah yeah, and a huge Drake fans that.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah. I named my dog after Drake and like old
school Drake, like I you know, I liked Drake when
Drake wasn't really as popular obviously as he is now.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So that's so. Then, you know,
all through all the changes on Jammin, eventually you get
your own show.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yes, you know, it was. There was a build up
to it. It didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I had done pretty much every single day part to
get there. And then uh, Dylan again had asked me
to go. He wanted to say, I want to take
you out to dinner, like let's have a conversation and
you'll understand this.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I was like, oh, I don't want to get a
dinner to just take me to Chick fil A. I
love Chick fil A.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, So we went to the Burlington Mall and we
sat it at Chick fil A and he's like, it's time.
Like He's like, I wanted to do this over a
steak and like maybe some champagne and tell you that
it's time. You've you've you're ready for your own morning show. Like,
but here we are.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Eating nuggets and Chick fil A sauce and yeah. So
he said, you know you finally you're ready. Who do
you want?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I said, I won't do it if it's not with
Santi And Santio was at a country station at the time,
so he came over and then speaking of the recent changes,
I also.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Was like, I want to DJ FORRN on the show.
And that's how we started.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You built your own show.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I got to build my own show.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, which I think is a testament to him because
he trusted me enough to know what I needed at
the time to like get this going. I mean, he
will leaves in me a lot, but you know, I
think he just was like, what's going to make you
feel the most comfortable doing this?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And to give some reference to the listeners right now.
Santi worked for years on JAM and was let go,
laid off. That was kind of a hot situation, Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well, yeah, because when he was like, oh him and
Ramira did this podcast at things, and so it was
uncomfortable around here for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And then look at the power that you have. You said,
I want him, and they brought him back, which is amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Well, and you know their relationship has certainly had its
up ups and downs, but that they're in a really
good place now.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And they've come a long way.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I mean, Santi's in his soul, he's not He's a
really great person and I think they just needed to
get past that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And they did, absolutely did.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I mean he wouldn't be here if they didn't. There
was no He's here because of it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah. So you brought up the changes, obviously, which is
partly of the reason I wanted to have you on
other than you're my friend and I love talking to you.
You're very easy to talk to.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, thank you, And to be honest, I'm glad you
brought it up because you are one of my best
friends and I'm very offensive of that and I have
been seeing you know, some of the comments and things
you've been getting and it hurts my heart.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And if it was worth it for me to.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Comment back to some of these people, I would, but
it pains me to see kind of like some of
the heat that you've been taking, as if you no offense, respectfully,
have any sort of power to stop a situation like this.
That day was so hard for every single one of us.
It was such a shock for every single one of us.
You know, I think a good example and I always
(09:28):
give this to people, is we were kind of told, hey,
stay in studios, go back. I texted my husband, I said,
I'm losing my job and we're gonna have to move
from the house in Marshfield, Like we're not going about
to afford it. I am losing my job today. That
is how much I didn't know. We didn't know. So
when I see people say things like that, you know
they're not listening to Kis Winwait anymore because of what
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you did to Winnie or whatever. The situation like that
breaks my heart because that's so far from the truth.
And I'm sorry they have to deal with that. But
that's also like the nature of our business, which sucks.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, where public figures yea as they say that morning
that it all went down people. I really I've told
the story on this podcast before I realized I didn't
know what's happening. I walked out, I saw something was
happening with Winnie. I saw her crying. I immediately texted
you and I wrote, oh my god, oh my god,
something's happening with Winnie, and you wrote back DJ farign too,
and I was like, holy shit. Yeah, so it all
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went on at once.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I have said this a million times.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I get emotional every time anybody losing their job is
just it's so horrifying. And the thing about the two
of them, they're going to be fine because they have
they have in it factor, they have something special that
doesn't make it any better. And you know when people
people will call in my show to tell me about
something else in the middle be like I miss born
and I'm like, the truth of the matter is.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I do too. Like I'm not going to hide that fact.
I do too. And it sucks because this is radio.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
This is our business, and it's there's great things about
our business and there's really just shit things. I was
shocked that you said shit, because I forgot you can
say shit on here something.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Went not regulated by the FCS. So both of us
and both of our shows are adjusting to this kind
of new thing. Yeah, that's what it is. We're trying
to find our way. You know, you took a major
piece out of each show, and so here we are
trying to.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Like move forward fake time. But they hate has died down.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I think people are Initially we're very angry, and now
they're kind of like, okay, like we get it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah, And I think in your situation too, if they
actually spoke to Winnie directly, she would say exactly what
we're saying. I talk to her me too, Yeah, you know,
and I And the same thing goes for foreign I
mean they love all of us.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It had nothing to do with us.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, yeah, it sucks. It sucks.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I think in general, people get mad, they want to
blame somebody, they want to point fingers. I'm one of
them when things happen, like I kind of resonated in
my brain with like I love certain shows so much.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I fall in love with characters, right.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And when you watch a show like let's use Game
of Thrones for example, Kalisi dies, You're like, fuck this show.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I don't want to watch this show without Kalisi?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
How am I gonna? And then you continue to watch
the show because you love the show. But there's a
part of the show. Oh that's missing, and that's kind
of where we're.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
At transition here. You just brought something lease here, Yeah,
no about the TV shows. Well, I want to say
that you have two daughters I do all right, who
are beautiful, and you actually just posted a Halloween.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Video Halloween photos job.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
It's on your Instagram at Ashley. It's the most extra
thing you'll ever If you know Ashley, if you follow
her on Instagram, you know that she is the most
extra person.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Ever beyond I will say that about myself.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
By the way, it's at Ashley Feldsman as h L
E E F E L D m an.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Please go look at my Halloween photohoo. I'm not a
big like.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I don't post on my feed a ton, but when
I do, you better believe there's been.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Some thought put into that. And my Halloween shoot is
like my super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah. One time I had an endorsement when I first
started getting them, and the client wanted social media as
part of it, and they wanted something like one feed
post a week and I was such a newbie to it.
I remember I said that to you, and you go,
are you fucking out of your mind? Do you know
how much they have to pay to get on my feed?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I was like, I was like, are you to First off,
you're taking me sound bougie, But I was like, the
fee pos?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
What such a big deal.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It is a big deal. It's gonna live, It's gonna
live on.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So go check that out. It's a Halloween I don't
even know video photo shoot. It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It's a combination. Listen.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It was extremely hard for me to get pregnant for
the second time, and when I did, I remember, this
is crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This is crazy, ABC, All visits are crazy. I'm nuts.
I was pregnant and I thought to myself, we didn't
know what we were having.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But if it's a girl, oh my god, we can
beat the Sanderson Sisters for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
One year. Here we are. It has come to fruition,
the iconic Sisters.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I don't even know, like what went into this and
how much this possibly costs. All I know is I'm
sure your husband has no idea.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
If he's not involved in it. He doesn't ask me anything.
But when he's involved. Then the questions come, so I.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Don't include him. Yeah, we don't need him.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So you have your two daughters. How old? How old
are they?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Daisy is a little over one and Leila is going
to be four in December, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, that is crazy. So so Leila and Gemma are
right around the same age. Yes, And what's so funny
about this is I had children first, okay, And so
years ago we were working together. I was the show guy.
I watched all the shows. I had the recommendations. If
he needed the show, you came to justin.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Oh first, okay, And he was like at my disposal guys,
because I didn't have kids.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
So I would call him six seven times a day,
and but did you watch? Did you watch? Did you watch?
And he'd be like, what do you not understanding?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Like, I'm knee deep in diapers right now, I'm trying
to figure out how to parents. I can't watch the
shows actually, Like I can't do this anymore like I
was doing.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I didn't get it. And fast forward.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
If I watched ten minutes, ten minutes of one episode,
I'm like, honey, I'm winning for the day.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And if you have young kids like that, you understand
it's the fucking wild West in my house wild West.
So I get it now, and it obviously took me
having kids dinners.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, we connect a lot about the kids stuff too,
we do, and we talk on the phone every day,
and it's so funny because either your kids or my
kids are both will be in the background and we
don't even I don't even here.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
We don't.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
And by the way, when one of them starts crying,
we just go okay and we just hang up. We
don't need to say good bye anymore because it's like
an unwritten thing.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Nobody. You don't want to hear your own own kids
crying and whiny. I certainly don't want to hear someone
else is like, I'm good goodbye, right.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah exactly. Yeah, So all right, So all is good
in your world?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I mean, today's a big day for me with the
Halloween photo shoot. Yeah, I mean, all is good is relative. Obviously,
we just chatted about it. Things have changed, but we
just we did a big live show on Friday in Salem,
and I cry. I get emotional, but I started crying
a little bit on air because it was six am
in Salem at Rockefellers, and there was already like thirteen
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people at this bar and I couldn't believe it. Like
they set their alarms in the three to come see
us do the show, and then by eight thirty I
blinked and the place was just swamp.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
There was so many people.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
And you know, I say this all the time on
the show, And there are so many good radio stations
in Boston, yours included, So.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
When people actively wake up and they choose.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
To listen to ours or they listen to the podcast,
it really is the greatest compliment of all time because
you have so many options at your disposal, podcasts, all
the things. So I'm very appreciative when people choose to
listen to our show as.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Am I and I feel like with Kissing jam And
they've always been kind of, you know, competitors in a sense,
but we work.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And we're the ghetto.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Okay, Like kiss hits all the money, kiss one a
week gets all of the good prizes, Kiss one Awake
gets everything, Jamming gets nothing, and so that's the real,
that's the real.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right. But I have noticed and I've found that
since your show has launched, right how many years now,
like seven? Yeah. I feel like before people either listen
to kiss or Jamming, they chose, they stuck with them,
but now they go back and forth. Yeah, so when
we go to commercial, they go to Ashley. When you
go to commercial, they come to us.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I know, we do have a lot of people that
go back and forth, and they love when we fight
or we have like something going on.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
But I even got DM's like, oh my gosh, Justin
said you're coming on the.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
After show and you're going to come on his podcast,
and so that just proves that people do go back
and forth. I don't want to cause beef. I think
our show is better, respectfully, but I have to, right,
you should you should feel that I should.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, that's not well.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You also have an advantage, you know what that advantage is,
but the audience is different. You can talk about things
that are more sexual.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I can't talk about that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I know you can, but you can't like you would,
but you can't.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Well, I also think like there's ways you don't have
to say like penis at six am like I do,
but you guys could.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, Billy can't be trusted.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, he'll just say things because I want. I want
to know Lisa's thoughts on some things, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But yeah, I mean they can't be trusted to not
to kind of ride the line if you will. So
that's just the way it is. But I know, I know, yeah,
So I love you.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You know that, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I will come on more often if the people want
it at Oh, really, sure we can make it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
We can make it a thing.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Can I share one final story?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Please? I'm wondering.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's a good story. It's a good story. This really
just goes to show the kind of friend that you are.
I told you this recently. I reminded you. But years ago,
I was going through a tough time with my wife Jen,
and I was under the belief I really believed that
she didn't love me anymore, and that she didn't find
me attractive, and that she did not want to sleep
with me, and that she was just with me because
we had kids. That's it, I convinced myself. And it
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got to a point where we weren't talking and I
was like it's over, Like it's over. So one day
I called Ashley. I was walking in a park by
myself and I called her and I'm like, I'm just
gonna tell her, like I'm gonna leave my wife. And
I laid it all out to her, like an hour
long talk, and she was like, are you fucking out
(18:36):
of your mind? She goes, are you done? I go yeah,
she goes, okay, and then she proceeded to just lay
into me for like twenty minutes, and I'll tell you,
by the end of it, I was like, oh my god, yeah,
like what am I thinking? Yeah, you know, and you
gave me advice, which was between us of things that
I need to do and to work on. And I
did those things and I'll never forget like when it
wore turned around and we entered this new chapter in
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our marriage and we were all good. I was thinking
about you and I'm like, imagine if I never called culture, I'm.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
So thankful that you did.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
And you know what, this is a real testament to
our friendship because we will both you know, we will
say what we want to say, and sometimes it's hurtful.
But you look at someone like Britney Spears and you're like,
it's sad she has no real friends, she has no
one to sit her town and be like, get out
of your foolia get better, extensions, stop, be a good mom.
Just have anybody she just has. Yes, people say you
always need someone that's going to tell you by yourself
you do and by the way, and let's and also
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marriage is a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Just in general, we can get a lot of Marriage
is a full time job as well.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
It's definitely a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, definitely a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah. Uh oh. We didn't even mention Mike, your husband.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Shout out to We don't say his name, shout out
to the fireman.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Fireman.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
He doesn't like to be known. He hates. He has actively.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Said to me many a time, sometimes I wish you
just worked at like Duncan. Yeah, you know, he hates
the the attention of it all. But he's the best dude.
He definitely compliments me. He's the office, yeah of me.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
One of the first things that was said to me
by an experienced person in radio when I was an
intern was that they said, if you continue to work
in radio, you're gonna learn that the people that matter
the most in your life, right, that mean the most,
do not give one fuck that you work on the radio.
You know what I mean? And it's so true. My
wife doesn't care. My wife listens to your fucking show. Okay,
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she's a.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Big fan of the passion you have morning shoes.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It's great, okay, all right, see now now we've gotta
wrap things up. But thank you very much, and you'll
come back.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I'll come back.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I'll come back, DM me or leave a talk back
if you want Ashley back. All right, but oh go
check out your post, Ashley with two ease.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, Ashley Felman.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Guys, go check out my post and check out our
show too, where you know, I know you guys. A
lot of you listen to Kiss obviously, and you probably
listen to a podcast.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Are you gonna plug your show?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I am trying to pluck listeners, is what I need.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Ratings, all right, check them out. We'll come back. We'll
see it by
Okay, welcome into the after Show, justin here, Welcome in everybody.
Thank you to everybody for checking in on the talkbacks.
I'll try my best to get to them today. Probably
not though, because I do have a guest in here,
and this one is going to be quite the trip.
I've been teasing this for like a week now, because well,
she's a big star. You know her, I know her.
(00:22):
Her name is Ashley Feldman, and she is the host
of the gem In morning show right down the hall
here and also one of my closest friends in the
whole world. And you know what makes her so close
to me is she loves to tell me about myself always, always,
so welcome to the after Show, Thanks for having me.
I have a lot of questions. I don't know where
to start. We don't have a ton of time. I
(00:44):
just want to say that, well, I will say thank
you for being my friend, no, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
For me my friend. And let me tell everybody a
fun fact.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I don't think people might believe this, but we literally
speak on the phone every day.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You're the only person that I talk on the phone too.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
And I don't know how you feel, but how things
go in your house, But like my husband just knows
if I'm on the phone and I'm talking about work,
it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
With you, we don't even address it anymore. He's like, gosh,
she's alw with just.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The same thing in my house. Yeah, yeah, Well we're
talking about work things always, yeah, or I'm asking for advice,
you know. So you and I though, real quick, go
way back to twenty thirteen. Did you know that twenty thirteen?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
That's when you started. So I was working on JAMM
in ninety four to five. They needed a new co host,
and I'll never forget. It was a week of auditions.
They had a different girl every day, and so we
did a couple of the girls and then Santy said
one morning I went in, he said the girl today
is she's from the Real World And I didn't watch
your season and he said her name is Ashley. Feldman
(01:42):
said cool, and then he went to go get you
and he walked down and I was sitting in the
office in the old building, and I'll never forget Santy
walked in and he goes, justin, this is actually and
you walked into the doorway, and you know how like
memory is funny, like that yeah, like seven feet tall
and you were all done up, and I remember I
said high and you were like hey, and it gave
(02:03):
me a hug, and I was just like, who is
this person?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I will never for I remember that as well, because
I was supposed to do two full days on Jaman
of My audition was supposed to be two days, but
unfortunately there was a snowstorm out of my control. But
the whole time, Santi Ramiro on air being like, she
thinks she's better than Oscar.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
She on the road.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Now we have to Now we're stuck with her for
a whole show. And this is before I'm even I'm
listening to this, before I'm even.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Doing my audition. And then I come in and I
got to act like I didn't hear any of that,
but then of course that came out within ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Of course, I was like, remember what you guys were
saying about me yesterday, because because I do, Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You got you meshed. Well, I remember, because you know,
they were kind of auditioning and then talking about who
it should be. But I remember them saying like she's
going to be the one.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, and the fun fact is our boss, Dylan Sprague
didn't want it to be a miss.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Did you just say that?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's true?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It is true. I didn't know you could say that publicly.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, he did. He didn't want me. He was pushing
for a different woman out of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It wasn't because I know, but it was. We should explain.
It wasn't because he didn't like you.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
No, you didn't think I was the He thought she
was the better fit. And she was older, and I
think she's way more experienced than I was.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I hadn't done radio. Well, I had done a small
sports station. I hadn't done radio like this.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, and yeah, he pushed for for this other woman
from Philly and Santina Romiro pushed for me, And.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Here we are, all these years later, through many changes.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So many change, too many changes. Yeah, so like recent changes,
A lot of changes, A lot.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I mean, yeah, I mean we'll talk about that, the
changes recently. But okay, So twenty thirteen I met you.
You're from New Jersey. You're a D one basketball player.
You are excellent a basketball We know what I know
it Northeastern. You love to tell people that you are.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I mean, I have a few records out of all,
I don't bring it up.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's fine. Don't they have your poster at Northeastern? Yeah, yeah,
there you go. So you grew up in Jersey, went
to Northeastern and played D one ball, went on the
Real World in what year?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I was on the Real World in two thousand and
nine in New.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Orleans and we went back to New Orleans because there
was an original New Orleans series and we went back
to Neworleans like pretty much right when I graduated college.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah. Actually, it's funny. I remember when I found out
you were on the show after I met you, and
I looked up New Orleans and you weren't in the cast.
I was so confused.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, And it's crazy because I had just graduated college.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I was what twenty two years old, about to be
twenty three, and I was one of the older people
in the house, Like most of the people in there
had just her and they were fresh twenty one.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah. So if you could sum up that experience in
like the thirty seconds, wow, would you?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I mean, I would literally say it was pivotal to
my career.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I launched and got my first radio gig out of
the real world, and I think going into it That's
what I always knew I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm like, I need to be seen.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I need somebody in the industry to see me and
be like, wow, maybe she's meant for for more than
just this. And I was able to kind of like
pivot and get my first radio job in Saint Louis
from that sports station.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Like I said, but my boss at the time, he was.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
A real world fanatic, and after the season was over,
he sent me a message and was like, listen, we
have an opening here in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't know if you'd be willing to move, but
I think you'd be great. And then there.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It was, so you wanted to do sports radio or radio.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I wanted to do sports. I actually wanted to do TV.
I think was my first like love to do like
sports TV stuff. But then when I was playing basketball
at Northeastern, I did the local radio station there and
I was doing color commentary. So you know, for sportshead
they'll understand, but if you don't really watch sports, there's
gonna be the guy that actually passes the.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Ball to Justin and Justin's you know, five for two.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I was the color so I would be like, yeah,
and you know, Justin actually has quite the story and
I would kind of fill in, you know, and that
was like my first taste of radio. So then I
think after Real World course TV was number one. But
when I got that off or, I was like, this
is great, let's go. I went to Saint Louis and
the rest is history.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And then you applied here. Now you knew Jaman and
kiss wana wait I.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Didn't apply here if that was actually another funny story.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh you didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
No, I wrote Dylan.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Just like a threatening email, essentially being like you need me,
and he was like, who are you? He tells this
story all the time because they had no openings on
Jaman at the time, and I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Be back in Boston so much because obviously I went to.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
School here and my friends were here, and I was like,
you you may not have any openings, but you need me.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I have an X factor.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I'm telling you, like I'm made for this radio station,
like you should, you should meet me. So he was like, okay,
I guess like here's when I have an opening, and
I came and I sat down with him.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The full circle moment was when Pebble's left and.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
There was an opening and he sent me and he
will be like, hey, we're going to audition some women.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You can finally come in. You bulled off. Oh okay,
see if you work.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Out see wow yeah yeah okay. But you knew of
jammen from going to school in Northeastern.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Used to listen to Jim and all the time, went
to monster jams all of.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
The things, like we would pregame at Northeastern parties games
and we would put Jammin on.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah yeah, and a huge Drake fans that.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah. I named my dog after Drake and like old
school Drake, like I you know, I liked Drake when
Drake wasn't really as popular obviously as he is now.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So that's so. Then, you know,
all through all the changes on Jammin, eventually you get
your own show.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yes, you know, it was. There was a build up
to it. It didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I had done pretty much every single day part to
get there. And then uh, Dylan again had asked me
to go. He wanted to say, I want to take
you out to dinner, like let's have a conversation and
you'll understand this.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I was like, oh, I don't want to get a
dinner to just take me to Chick fil A. I
love Chick fil A.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, So we went to the Burlington Mall and we
sat it at Chick fil A and he's like, it's time.
Like He's like, I wanted to do this over a
steak and like maybe some champagne and tell you that
it's time. You've you've you're ready for your own morning show. Like,
but here we are.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Eating nuggets and Chick fil A sauce and yeah. So
he said, you know you finally you're ready. Who do
you want?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I said, I won't do it if it's not with
Santi And Santio was at a country station at the time,
so he came over and then speaking of the recent changes,
I also.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Was like, I want to DJ FORRN on the show.
And that's how we started.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You built your own show.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I got to build my own show.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, which I think is a testament to him because
he trusted me enough to know what I needed at
the time to like get this going. I mean, he
will leaves in me a lot, but you know, I
think he just was like, what's going to make you
feel the most comfortable doing this?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And to give some reference to the listeners right now.
Santi worked for years on JAM and was let go,
laid off. That was kind of a hot situation, Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well, yeah, because when he was like, oh him and
Ramira did this podcast at things, and so it was
uncomfortable around here for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And then look at the power that you have. You said,
I want him, and they brought him back, which is amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Well, and you know their relationship has certainly had its
up ups and downs, but that they're in a really
good place now.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And they've come a long way.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I mean, Santi's in his soul, he's not He's a
really great person and I think they just needed to
get past that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And they did, absolutely did.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I mean he wouldn't be here if they didn't. There
was no He's here because of it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah. So you brought up the changes, obviously, which is
partly of the reason I wanted to have you on
other than you're my friend and I love talking to you.
You're very easy to talk to.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, thank you, And to be honest, I'm glad you
brought it up because you are one of my best
friends and I'm very offensive of that and I have
been seeing you know, some of the comments and things
you've been getting and it hurts my heart.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And if it was worth it for me to.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Comment back to some of these people, I would, but
it pains me to see kind of like some of
the heat that you've been taking, as if you no offense, respectfully,
have any sort of power to stop a situation like this.
That day was so hard for every single one of us.
It was such a shock for every single one of us.
You know, I think a good example and I always
(09:28):
give this to people, is we were kind of told, hey,
stay in studios, go back. I texted my husband, I said,
I'm losing my job and we're gonna have to move
from the house in Marshfield, Like we're not going about
to afford it. I am losing my job today. That
is how much I didn't know. We didn't know. So
when I see people say things like that, you know
they're not listening to Kis Winwait anymore because of what
(09:48):
you did to Winnie or whatever. The situation like that
breaks my heart because that's so far from the truth.
And I'm sorry they have to deal with that. But
that's also like the nature of our business, which sucks.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, where public figures yea as they say that morning
that it all went down people. I really I've told
the story on this podcast before I realized I didn't
know what's happening. I walked out, I saw something was
happening with Winnie. I saw her crying. I immediately texted
you and I wrote, oh my god, oh my god,
something's happening with Winnie, and you wrote back DJ farign too,
and I was like, holy shit. Yeah, so it all
(10:20):
went on at once.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I have said this a million times.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I get emotional every time anybody losing their job is
just it's so horrifying. And the thing about the two
of them, they're going to be fine because they have
they have in it factor, they have something special that
doesn't make it any better. And you know when people
people will call in my show to tell me about
something else in the middle be like I miss born
and I'm like, the truth of the matter is.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I do too. Like I'm not going to hide that fact.
I do too. And it sucks because this is radio.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
This is our business, and it's there's great things about
our business and there's really just shit things. I was
shocked that you said shit, because I forgot you can
say shit on here something.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Went not regulated by the FCS. So both of us
and both of our shows are adjusting to this kind
of new thing. Yeah, that's what it is. We're trying
to find our way. You know, you took a major
piece out of each show, and so here we are
trying to.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Like move forward fake time. But they hate has died down.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I think people are Initially we're very angry, and now
they're kind of like, okay, like we get it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah, And I think in your situation too, if they
actually spoke to Winnie directly, she would say exactly what
we're saying. I talk to her me too, Yeah, you know,
and I And the same thing goes for foreign I
mean they love all of us.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It had nothing to do with us.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, yeah, it sucks. It sucks.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I think in general, people get mad, they want to
blame somebody, they want to point fingers. I'm one of
them when things happen, like I kind of resonated in
my brain with like I love certain shows so much.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I fall in love with characters, right.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And when you watch a show like let's use Game
of Thrones for example, Kalisi dies, You're like, fuck this show.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I don't want to watch this show without Kalisi?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
How am I gonna? And then you continue to watch
the show because you love the show. But there's a
part of the show. Oh that's missing, and that's kind
of where we're.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
At transition here. You just brought something lease here, Yeah,
no about the TV shows. Well, I want to say
that you have two daughters I do all right, who
are beautiful, and you actually just posted a Halloween.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Video Halloween photos job.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
It's on your Instagram at Ashley. It's the most extra
thing you'll ever If you know Ashley, if you follow
her on Instagram, you know that she is the most
extra person.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Ever beyond I will say that about myself.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
By the way, it's at Ashley Feldsman as h L
E E F E L D m an.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Please go look at my Halloween photohoo. I'm not a
big like.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I don't post on my feed a ton, but when
I do, you better believe there's been.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Some thought put into that. And my Halloween shoot is
like my super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah. One time I had an endorsement when I first
started getting them, and the client wanted social media as
part of it, and they wanted something like one feed
post a week and I was such a newbie to it.
I remember I said that to you, and you go,
are you fucking out of your mind? Do you know
how much they have to pay to get on my feed?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I was like, I was like, are you to First off,
you're taking me sound bougie, But I was like, the
fee pos?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
What such a big deal.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It is a big deal. It's gonna live, It's gonna
live on.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So go check that out. It's a Halloween I don't
even know video photo shoot. It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It's a combination. Listen.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It was extremely hard for me to get pregnant for
the second time, and when I did, I remember, this
is crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This is crazy, ABC, All visits are crazy. I'm nuts.
I was pregnant and I thought to myself, we didn't
know what we were having.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But if it's a girl, oh my god, we can
beat the Sanderson Sisters for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
One year. Here we are. It has come to fruition,
the iconic Sisters.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I don't even know, like what went into this and
how much this possibly costs. All I know is I'm
sure your husband has no idea.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
If he's not involved in it. He doesn't ask me anything.
But when he's involved. Then the questions come, so I.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Don't include him. Yeah, we don't need him.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So you have your two daughters. How old? How old
are they?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Daisy is a little over one and Leila is going
to be four in December, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, that is crazy. So so Leila and Gemma are
right around the same age. Yes, And what's so funny
about this is I had children first, okay, And so
years ago we were working together. I was the show guy.
I watched all the shows. I had the recommendations. If
he needed the show, you came to justin.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Oh first, okay, And he was like at my disposal guys,
because I didn't have kids.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
So I would call him six seven times a day,
and but did you watch? Did you watch? Did you watch?
And he'd be like, what do you not understanding?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Like, I'm knee deep in diapers right now, I'm trying
to figure out how to parents. I can't watch the
shows actually, Like I can't do this anymore like I
was doing.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I didn't get it. And fast forward.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
If I watched ten minutes, ten minutes of one episode,
I'm like, honey, I'm winning for the day.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And if you have young kids like that, you understand
it's the fucking wild West in my house wild West.
So I get it now, and it obviously took me
having kids dinners.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, we connect a lot about the kids stuff too,
we do, and we talk on the phone every day,
and it's so funny because either your kids or my
kids are both will be in the background and we
don't even I don't even here.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
We don't.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
And by the way, when one of them starts crying,
we just go okay and we just hang up. We
don't need to say good bye anymore because it's like
an unwritten thing.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Nobody. You don't want to hear your own own kids
crying and whiny. I certainly don't want to hear someone
else is like, I'm good goodbye, right.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah exactly. Yeah, So all right, So all is good
in your world?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I mean, today's a big day for me with the
Halloween photo shoot. Yeah, I mean, all is good is relative. Obviously,
we just chatted about it. Things have changed, but we
just we did a big live show on Friday in Salem,
and I cry. I get emotional, but I started crying
a little bit on air because it was six am
in Salem at Rockefellers, and there was already like thirteen
(15:37):
people at this bar and I couldn't believe it. Like
they set their alarms in the three to come see
us do the show, and then by eight thirty I
blinked and the place was just swamp.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
There was so many people.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
And you know, I say this all the time on
the show, And there are so many good radio stations
in Boston, yours included, So.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
When people actively wake up and they choose.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
To listen to ours or they listen to the podcast,
it really is the greatest compliment of all time because
you have so many options at your disposal, podcasts, all
the things. So I'm very appreciative when people choose to
listen to our show as.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Am I and I feel like with Kissing jam And
they've always been kind of, you know, competitors in a sense,
but we work.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And we're the ghetto.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Okay, Like kiss hits all the money, kiss one a
week gets all of the good prizes, Kiss one Awake
gets everything, Jamming gets nothing, and so that's the real,
that's the real.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right. But I have noticed and I've found that
since your show has launched, right how many years now,
like seven? Yeah. I feel like before people either listen
to kiss or Jamming, they chose, they stuck with them,
but now they go back and forth. Yeah, so when
we go to commercial, they go to Ashley. When you
go to commercial, they come to us.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I know, we do have a lot of people that
go back and forth, and they love when we fight
or we have like something going on.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
But I even got DM's like, oh my gosh, Justin
said you're coming on the.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
After show and you're going to come on his podcast,
and so that just proves that people do go back
and forth. I don't want to cause beef. I think
our show is better, respectfully, but I have to, right,
you should you should feel that I should.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, that's not well.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You also have an advantage, you know what that advantage is,
but the audience is different. You can talk about things
that are more sexual.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I can't talk about that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I know you can, but you can't like you would,
but you can't.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Well, I also think like there's ways you don't have
to say like penis at six am like I do,
but you guys could.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, Billy can't be trusted.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, he'll just say things because I want. I want
to know Lisa's thoughts on some things, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But yeah, I mean they can't be trusted to not
to kind of ride the line if you will. So
that's just the way it is. But I know, I know, yeah,
So I love you.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You know that, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I will come on more often if the people want
it at Oh, really, sure we can make it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
We can make it a thing.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Can I share one final story?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Please? I'm wondering.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's a good story. It's a good story. This really
just goes to show the kind of friend that you are.
I told you this recently. I reminded you. But years ago,
I was going through a tough time with my wife Jen,
and I was under the belief I really believed that
she didn't love me anymore, and that she didn't find
me attractive, and that she did not want to sleep
with me, and that she was just with me because
we had kids. That's it, I convinced myself. And it
(18:16):
got to a point where we weren't talking and I
was like it's over, Like it's over. So one day
I called Ashley. I was walking in a park by
myself and I called her and I'm like, I'm just
gonna tell her, like I'm gonna leave my wife. And
I laid it all out to her, like an hour
long talk, and she was like, are you fucking out
(18:36):
of your mind? She goes, are you done? I go yeah,
she goes, okay, and then she proceeded to just lay
into me for like twenty minutes, and I'll tell you,
by the end of it, I was like, oh my god, yeah,
like what am I thinking? Yeah, you know, and you
gave me advice, which was between us of things that
I need to do and to work on. And I
did those things and I'll never forget like when it
wore turned around and we entered this new chapter in
(18:58):
our marriage and we were all good. I was thinking
about you and I'm like, imagine if I never called culture, I'm.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
So thankful that you did.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
And you know what, this is a real testament to
our friendship because we will both you know, we will
say what we want to say, and sometimes it's hurtful.
But you look at someone like Britney Spears and you're like,
it's sad she has no real friends, she has no
one to sit her town and be like, get out
of your foolia get better, extensions, stop, be a good mom.
Just have anybody she just has. Yes, people say you
always need someone that's going to tell you by yourself
you do and by the way, and let's and also
(19:28):
marriage is a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Just in general, we can get a lot of Marriage
is a full time job as well.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
It's definitely a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, definitely a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah. Uh oh. We didn't even mention Mike, your husband.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Shout out to We don't say his name, shout out
to the fireman.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Fireman.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
He doesn't like to be known. He hates. He has actively.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Said to me many a time, sometimes I wish you
just worked at like Duncan. Yeah, you know, he hates
the the attention of it all. But he's the best dude.
He definitely compliments me. He's the office, yeah of me.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
One of the first things that was said to me
by an experienced person in radio when I was an
intern was that they said, if you continue to work
in radio, you're gonna learn that the people that matter
the most in your life, right, that mean the most,
do not give one fuck that you work on the radio.
You know what I mean? And it's so true. My
wife doesn't care. My wife listens to your fucking show. Okay,
(20:15):
she's a.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Big fan of the passion you have morning shoes.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It's great, okay, all right, see now now we've gotta
wrap things up. But thank you very much, and you'll
come back.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I'll come back.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I'll come back, DM me or leave a talk back
if you want Ashley back. All right, but oh go
check out your post, Ashley with two ease.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, Ashley Felman.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Guys, go check out my post and check out our
show too, where you know, I know you guys. A
lot of you listen to Kiss obviously, and you probably
listen to a podcast.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Are you gonna plug your show?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I am trying to pluck listeners, is what I need.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Ratings, all right, check them out. We'll come back. We'll
see it by
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