Ashley & Jared Return to ‘Paradise’

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Speaker 1: What's happy our listeners. I'm one of your hosts, Becca Goo Friends, and I'm Michelle Young, and you are listening to Boucher Happy Hour exclusively on Wondery Plus. Yeah. So we are so happy to be here with you, and I'm excited because Becca, today we're answering fan questions and we do have some fun ones. So should we get right to it? Apps positively, tutely yes, these are always my favorite episodes. Honestly they are. I love I just love hearing these questions. Some of them are so good. Um, let's just take it away. We have a couple here that you have either DMed us about or email us about. So let's start with this first one. Michelle, what is your go to Boucher watch party snack or cocktail or both? Oh? Okay, so I'd say my favorite snack would probably have to be I don't know if this is a Minnesota thing, but you take like chips and you melt cheese on top of it, Like you take a little shred of cheese, melt on top of it, and then you have salsa on the side. Oh, it's just like chips and cheese and salsa. It's like eat all the time. Growing up, My dad would make it all the time when we'd watch like movies and stuff. So that's definitely like my weekly snack. Do you do it with doritos and like make them extra cheesy? Honestly, I've never done it with doritos, Michelle, you have to try it next this next week, okay, really like, but like I'm dipping it in salsa, doritos, cheese and sala extra seasoning. It's so good. That's what we grew grew eating too, Oh my gosh. And like if you get the cheese like extra cheesey crispy, it's so much better. Oh okay, I'll have to try that. What's your cock My cocktail would honestly probably either like if I'm drinking wine or some type of like margarita. But I've been going healthy lately, as you could tell by my snack choice, so it's so it's honestly just been like some type of like water with lemon. Wow, you're the epitome of health. Hey, look how about you go to snack? Go to snack? Oh man, I'm just such a snacker. I will literally eat anything. Um. Lately, I have been on a extra toasty cheese at Binge. I am obsessed with the still I got hooked when I was on tour and I just need like something to crunch on. So I just like those. Yeah, I don't know what it is. Um, I probably should be like eating carrots or something, but at least cheesets are orange too. And then cocktail, I would say, well, everyone knows I love wine. I love the bubbles, so I'm usually always drinking my Wineline Bordone for those of you who haven't heard of it, you can buy it at bordone dot com. Drink Bourdonne. But yeah, I just I always just have the bubbles. I don't know, it's just it's like my go too, it's me. Have you ever had the I think it's made by health Aid kombucha And like for anyone who's on like health kick and like doesn't want to drink wine during the week or its like on that whatever whatever thirty day challenge thing that you can't have alcohol, health Aid makes a rose kombucha and if you pour it in a wine glass, it is perfect, Like it's it's amazing. That's sounds delicious. But let me ask you this with kombucha, because it's tea. Does it keep you up at night with the caffeine? No, it doesn't. I don't know. I'm very caffeine sensitive, and so I don't, like I haven't had any issues with it. I don't even know how many milligrams of caffeine it actually hasn't it? As I say, I'm caffeine sensitive, sensitive, and I'm like drinking celsius and like shaking to death. But no, okay, maybe I'll give it a go. But yeah, I cannot sleep at night if I have like any sort of tea obviously can't do coffee past like one pm. But that sounds delicious. So I'll talk to up and I'll get back to you. Okay, thank you, Michelle. So you have now been living in LA for about a month. How is that going? Like are you feeling settled? Have you had any highlights lowlights? You say that I've been living in LA for a month, and I think I've maybe spent a total of like six full days in LA with all the traveling. That's true. During that time, I have gotten like everything set up so like I I'm in Becca's old house and so it's been so nice to have like all the essentials there, and now I'm like getting to the point where like I'm going to start doing a little bit of decorating. And it's been like putting together furniture and like stands and like ordering a dinner table and things like that, and so I'm like really st arting to feel like it's becoming home and now, but it's been It's just I don't know, it's nice and I've door dashed way too much already because I don't have my car yet. My car and my dog are going to be coming like at the end of the month, and so yeah, Dordash has been pretty pretty insane. But I've got a lot of really good food. Good there are so many good spots where you are. I mean, yeah, like you're right, well, I'm not going to give names, but there are so many I'll have to send you a list of recommendations too. But yeah, I'm so happy you're enjoying it. I feel like I've never felt like such a landlord in my life. Like Michelle will call me and be like the AC's out or like what about this, and I'm like, I don't know, this is not anything I've ever had to deal with, because if I'm being completely honest, Michelle. So I bought the house I closed. I was literally in the process of buying that house when I was in Paradise last year. So like that's what I thought. One of the producers every now and again would pull me out of like a group chat or an interview and be like him, your reeler's calling you, or your broker's calling you. You have to sign these documents. So the day I left Paradise was the day I officially closed on the house that you're living in. But I right after that got back together with Thomas and we were like back and forth between my place and San Diego that you've probably been in that house about the same amount of time that I, like actually formerly proberly lived in it. And so it's so funny. Thomas made that comment the other day. He's like, Michelle has been in that house probably just as long as you have, and I'm like, yeah, that is so funny. I yeah, I love it. And I so it's like a two bedroom, two and a half bath, and the second bedroom has one of like you know, like that Murphy bed for like all the listeners. It has like the Murphy bed that can fold down and up. But I've made that like my podcasting slash styling room, and so like I have one of those cart the wardrobe rad wardrobe racks thank you, that has like all of my dresses for like these events coming up, and I have like a large mirror in there, and I have my desk and then like my heels and like stylists will come in and set up like all the shoes that I need to like try on for like these like carpet events and stuff. So it's like I'm loving having that second room as like my little personal closet. I love that. Will you please take videos or some photos because I never I never even got around to doing that, but I want to see like the difference of how you now decorate and style everything versus what the bones that I had when I was there. Absolutely yes, I'm planning making some like tiktoks with it too, so I'll definitely get that. I want to add. Okay, so you just mentioned that you have all these red carpets and appearances coming up. Please tell me because when I like haven't done that many just because I don't say yes to a lot of stuff because I just find those exhausting. Do you drive off of that or like, how do you feel about always doing red carpets appearances? Like being so like lively out and about. I am so extroverted that I get my energy, like I almost recharge when I'm around people. I will say though, that this show has made me become a little more introverted, just because every time you're out and about, you kind of feel like you have to be on and so that's hard as well. But I definitely get tired of like wearing makeup and dresses and things like that. But I also for me, it's kind of like a mindset thing. I really embrace like these experiences of you know, like you don't get to do this stuff. And it's like it's not the fact that like, you know, I've changed or I want to, you know, be a part of this life more than my old life. It's just more of like it is a cool experience and like when else do you get to do this stuff? Um? But I will also say I definitely get tired. Yeah, Like it's a lot because there's so many hours that get put into like finding a dress and you have to make sure your nails are done or not done. Like I literally like I have like half of my nails on and then I had to like stick other nails on because I didn't have time, and then half my nails are broken. So I'm like walk in the red carpet with broken nails, like to walk in my hands. Let me pur something with pockets, right, But it's just like it's a lot. It's like hair, makeup everything. So it's like it's probably gonna be a minute till I do my next event or so, but well, we'll have to go. We'll have to go together. It's nice when you can go with like people that you know, oh yeah, never on your own, right, it's fun. Yeah, well okay, let's let's ask this. And how about it's like favorite place from somebody else's season that you wish you could have gone to, favorite place from somebody else's season, um, any where, literally anywhere. I'm like, that is one thing that I feel like not I guess envious isn't the correct word. Maybe I don't know, but just like missing it by this much to like getting to travel the world. And I think Becky, you and I have spoken about this, Like Nimicole in Pennsylvania, California, Indian World, Minnesota, in Mexico, it's like damn. And then you know, you see all these like Paris and all these beautiful places. So I don't know anywhere anywhere, anywhere anywhere? What about you? Well, I think it was on, so I didn't. I started watching the show on and off, like I would watch it in college with my roommates because they loved the show. And then like once I moved out, I stopped watching it. So it's like so on and off, and I think it was Emily Maynard season, I believe where she went to Saint Lucia and it looked so beautiful and I just remember like seeing a part where I think she was doing some b roll and like walked out of her hotel room and like the beautiful mountains are just in the back. So I've always wanted to go to Saint Lucia. That like has been on my bucket list travel place because just from that um And again, like I could be wrong, I think it was her season. I'm sure everyone will correct me very shortly if this is a different season, but yeah, Saint Lucia Lucia definitely is on that list. Has anyone has anyone do you remember if it has anyone traveled to Switzerland during their season. I don't know, that's like my place. Well, but denying to travel to next I was curious. I think Rachel might have. I could be wrong too, I think Rachel Lindsay may have fiba. Um but okay, oh okay, wait this question. So somebody asked Becca, if you could set Michelle up with anyone from Bachuration, who would it be? Okay, oh wow, this is interesting. Um, this is funny. Honestly, no one, Um, thank you, thank you. I would say no one, but only because I know you and like I have, I have some people who like I consider brothers and close friends in this world that I've done the tour with, who I absolutely adore, but I don't know if they would be a fit for you. So I would personally rather set you up with somebody that's like maybe a cousin of Thomas's, so then we can basically be family one day if it all works. It sounds like you're scheming. Okay, I'm gone to that. Yeah. That that answers the next question. If I would ever go to Bachelor in Paradise, like, there would have to be something. There's just like nobody that I'm interested in right now. Well, that's the world there, doesn't need to be And like you went through a breakup, a very public one at that you just need some time on your own to date or not date on your own. But I will say, if you ever did consider going on Paradise, I mean when I did it, I was a few years removed from my season, which I think helped because I literally went in and I don't, like, this is going to sound bad, not giving the fuck and like not caring and just like not having any expectations. I went in being like, some of my girlfriends are going to be on that beach, some of my best friends who are the producers are there. It's gonna be great food. Like I went in with zero expectation of like finding a partner. So I feel like and also it took time for me to get there, like it wasn't like it took me a hot second, and so you could get there one day, who knows if you do. I would fully support you. I would never say that, like I would never close the door, like I joke about closing the door, but like potentially in the future, possibly if I was called up right now I'd be like no, because you also know everybody. Okay, you don't know everybody to extent, but you know who's in Bachelor Nation. And it's also like everybody most recent you know, how everybody gets off the season. I feel like, at least for the guys anyways, I feel like the guys go through this phase is they get off the season, everybody's out clubbing, everybody's out in their attention that they're getting and it's like I don't want that, Like I don't you know what I mean, Like it call it a phase, whatever it is, get it out of your system. Like that's totally fine, there's nothing wrong with that. I just don't think it's that that's the right time for someone to choose to settle down. I don't see an evening Bachelor Nation that's like, you know, that's okay, honestly, Like take it from somebody who went in not having any expectations. I ended up meeting my fiance from Paradise, which I never ever ever would have thought it, Like I never thought I was going on Paradise to begin with. But the fact that like I found Thomas through that, Like you never know who will surprise you. But it is funny because I was walking on a red carpet someone asked me the same question, would you ever go on Bachelor in Paradise, And like, without even missing a beat, I was like, hell no, And I was like, but it did work for back On Thomas. So I like, I can understand that. I went immediately to you guys, and I learned I should never say no because every time I say, like, shut the door, hell no, definitely not happening. The opposite ali sense of happening in some way somehow. So I'm like, I just have to stop saying no. So I'm just trying to reverse psychology life right now, so then I can just hurry up and find my person. Yeah, that's that's what's happening. Well, All in good time, Michelle, All in good time. You are enjoying your single life in La Like, there's so much fun things happen, so many fun things. Oh wow, I cannot speak what are words right now? There's so many fun things happening for you. So just focus on you for a little bit, travel, have fun, like soak everything in and you know, all in good time exact when you're not looking, that's when it all takes place. I feel like, yes, a thousand percent. Okay, back the next question for you. Do you have a guilty pleasure? I have a thousand guilty pleasures. Yes, yes I do. I would say my guilty pleasure. I don't even know if this is guilty. I mean, and this is no shock. I'm obsessed with true crime obsessed like I'm Joey podcasts. I love crime documentaries, like the Dahmer documentary gets me like I just started, It's what episode started? It? Just like see episode one today this morning, have fun, text to me all about it when you're watching it. It's freaking wild wild. But that is definitely my guilty pleasure. Like I know too much about serial killers. It's like my mom actually yells at me to be like you shouldn't know this much, but I just like, yeah, it's just so I would say that's one of my guilty pleasures. Um, what about yours? Okay, we are very similar in this is because I have so much to say. Yes, crime just it's so fascinating. But do you ever catch yourself before I tell you my other one of my other guilty pleasures? Do you ever catch yourself? Um? Like you'll be driving, and or you like walk into a restroom at like a rest stop or at a gas station and like somebody else walks in, and because you're so used to like watching all this crime stuff, like you make note of like they're wearing like a red collared shirt and like the types of shoes, so that like at this time and yes, okay, listen crime drunk, he's one to one, be weird, be rude, and stay alive and pay attention to detail, oh all the time. And that's like I think, like I think some people obviously get very creeped out by it, but like I also want to know what I'm up against, and like I want to learn from things in the past. So I'm every time I walk my know or leo, now I always only have one earbuton I need to make sure I can like listen behind me take note of everything, like yeah, oh yeah, I'm like if I ever need to make a call, I will give you height, weight, tentative, age, what color I somebody had, like anything I use yet anything all of us always on the lurch a right. I feel like I had another guilty pleasure that I was thinking about the other day that I was like, oh, this is definitely something I shouldn't admit. But now I can't even remember what a guilty pleasure. I'm trying to think of one outside of the crab. I mean mine is very much just like probably junk food. Yeah, like I'm very very healthy, but like I go in junk food phases of like right now, mine's like donuts. So yeah, like I love it. Guilty, that's just a pleasure different, that's not even I don't know. I don't feel guilty about it. I just I'm like cool, I well everyone knows. Minus Chipotle. I literally go to Chipotle every weekle How we haven't done it Chipotle check in in a while, have you been, Like I'm paying rent at Chipotle. I'm always there every single day, every single day, Thomas night. Because yeah, because I got that card, we are there all the time. They know us like by name and order. Now, lovely, I might as well just work here, But that's you don't need to because you have a gold card now. No, but I kind of love it, Like I would like to leave work smelling like Chipole in my hair. You know, it's a good sense. I'm just gonna say, you're about to come up with like a Chipotle. They do have a Chipotle candle, actually do they? Yeah, I might have to send it to you. I don't know what it smells like. But Ryan, Ryan Klaytor, she sent it. She sent a picture to me and she's like, I feel like this is something that you would get, Michelle, And I was like, I'll have to send this to Becca. Oh my gosh. Yes. If it smells like an actual chicken burrito, sign me wild or like the lime cilantro rice or something like that. Anything. I just it smells like heaven when I walk in. Okay, Michelle, do you have a worst date story? And it can be from the show or just like personally dating a worst date story? I think I'm not going to pick one from the show. I would say, Okay, so my worst date story would it's nothing like necessarily crazy. But it was right after college, like I had graduated. I had been in a relationship a lot of my college experience or whatever like for like three years, and so I just got out of college, graduated. I played sports in college, so I like really didn't like party or get to do like all those social things or whatever, and so like afterwards, like that time where I was, you know, transitioning into you know, going into education. It was the summer, so it's not like I could get a job right off the bat. I had to wait a little bit. But I had like started dating and it was just really really weird. And I went on this first date with this guy from Minnesota and we went out to eat. It was I can't even We went out to shoot what is it called w WA frost I think is what it's called. It's like downtown somewhere, Okay, super cute patio was like fine, you know I kind of already like figured that I wouldn't be going on a second day, like did nothing wrong. Was a good looking guy. I think he was like six seven, like super tall, athletic, all this other stuff. But he was like a yes many meaning that like everything I said, like he would just like mold into that. And so like he wasn't opinionated or was just like trying to connect so much that he had like no opinions of himself. And then when we were finished, it was like one of those situations where he forgot his wallet, which is fine, right, but he forgot his wallet. We came outside, like his his car ended up like breaking down, but it was a nice car, so it was just like this uncomfortable situation. And then by the time he dropped me off, he um like was trying to come inside, trying to come inside, trying to come inside, and I was like sorry, like I just like I was just so uncomfortable. And then he ended up like saying how he's never felt this way before, and like he said, I love you. Wait what he said, I love you? He just casually dropped it at the end of the conversation, like can I love you? No, No, he was talking to me like before, and like my foot was like my body was already halfway out the door of the car, like I'm ready to go, Like you know what I mean, Like I get, I get not even the ick, but like I don't open up very well, right, and I'm just like I get really uncomfortable, like once I know I don't like somebody, and if they're like coming on to me, I'm like, oh, like I'm like the people they love you, yeah yeah, And I was like, honestly, we had such great conversation and you know, like I feel so comfortable around you, and it's just so odd and I just like I am really into your energy and like, which is like, oh wonderful. I mean like the date wasn't horrible, but but yeah, and he's like, I'm I've never felt this way before, and like I need you to like pause for a second, like I have gone through a lot in my life, like I know what I want. And then yeah, he said, I really really think that, like I really think I know what this is. And I was just like, huh, because like I really do think that, like I believe in love at first sight. When I think that, like I'm starting to fall in love. I was like, let me ask you this. Now, have you ever grouped on him on Instagram? Like is he now engaged or married? Or like does he just moved really fast? Like have you do you know what is up with this man? In his O? No? Not no, not anymore. But it got to the point where like I had to block him from texting me my dad. My dad had to like I told him like I'm, I'm this is making me really uncomfortable, like I'm not there, like I just you know, tried to like let him down nicely. And he has sent these texts about like the balls in your court like, I'll wait for you to be ready to date my dad. I had to tell my dad. My dad almost had to get on the phone with him and tell him to like leave me alone, because he like wouldn't back off. If can you imagine if he would have stepped out of the limo on your season peace out? No, I mean I would have told him next, get back in. I would have been like, nope, absolutely, yeah, no, it was read the rule, you know, when someone's uncomfortable, like if a girl is saying, I'm physically uncomfortable with this, yeah, yikes. Okay, do you wait? Do you have a worst date story? Do you have an embarrassing story? Tell me? Oh, I have so many bad date stories. Where do you like, I don't even know what want to pick? Okay, there's one though that really sticks out. And this was before everyone on the show. I think I was twenty five and I went on with my name my Name. One of my best friends was living in an apartment building at the time, and we met her neighbor because this guy came by to like borrow a vacuum when I was there one day and I was like, oh, he's kind of cute, and she ended up giving him my number later on, so we went on a date. But it started off because so we had texted me. We planned like the day and time and location to meet great right before that he was like, hey, I don't remember what happened, Like he didn't have a car, and so he's like, can you come pick me up? And I'm like sure, that's fine whatever, So pick him up. We go to wherever we're eating dinner, and it was so bad. It was so bad. He was the type of guy that would not ask questions about you. He would just talk about himself. But he was also a finger liquor. Oh, so he would eat his food and then lick his fingers and I'm like, there are napkins for it, and it was so allowed and adop it all off. He ended up face timing his sister, Like I went to the bathroom really quick, came back and he was facetiming and his sister, which is one thing, Like I was gone, but then like he continued to stay on the phone with his sister for well after I sat down and I was like, still on this day with him? So what was he talking about with his sister? Was it like one of those situations. I don't know. People are on the phone and they want people to hear them talk. No, Michelle, I know exactly do you. This is what he was talking about, the questions. When I sat back down, he was talking to his sister about if she eats ice cream, does it make her cough? Like does eating cold foods make you cough? And I'm just like, this does not need to happen right now, But whatever I was, I wanted to hear what she had to say, and I was just like, this is not it. So end of the date, drop him off again, I'm like not into him. He was like, do you want to go grab a nightcap somewhere. I was like, nope, I'll bring you back by bring him drop him off at the front of his building and he leans over and tries to grab the back of my head for a kiss, and I was like, I was like, I'm not feeling this, No candy, buddy. So he got the hint he left. The next day, he texted me to be like, I had fun, want to go on another date. And by this point, I think it was like a Friday, so I was going out with some of my girlfriends who happened to be who like in the building that he lives with my friends, and so we all go out and apparently we're at one bar, Bar Louis. I think it's closed in Minneapolis. Now we're Bar Loui. And he had ended up texting one of my friends who was his neighbor, to be like, Hey, where are you guys at tonight? I'm going to come meet up with you. And so I rounded the corner and see him walking there and I'm like nope, and I booked the I was like, we're going to another bar. So we ended up just leaving. I was like, know, this guy is not it for me. Some of the stories he was telling me about his clients though, we're so disgusting. I was like, you should never tell anyone this, you should not even be representing these people. But like, you should not. No, I'm really curious, so like, off record, you might have to tell me. I'll tell you separately. I like, it's so disgusting. I like, don't it was? I should have just left right after that he told me this, But wait, what did he order for dinner? Like? What was he looking off his fingers? Um? So we had we shared a plate of nachos, and after I saw the finger looking, I was like, I don't need these nachos anymore. I don't remember what else we got, but I was, I was twenty five. It was it was a time in the life. I think I just like I had a couple of glasses of wine to not remember. But honestly, we're state stories and embarrassing stories. I think that's going to be my new guilty pleasure because I love that. I love that we had a website or the app fml. Yes. Yes, funny, so funny. And with that Happy Hour listener, we're going to wrap on such a high note of our worst date stories. Please write in and share yours because I would love to read some of these. 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