The Mel and Peg Debrief
The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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3.8 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Ashley have made it through no limits interviews with Peg Munson and Mel Owens, but now that they’ve wrapped… how do we feel??
We go through a full recap of the honest and at times tense conversations, and we try to figure out what else we can learn about our second Golden Bachelor based on how he answered the tough questions.
Plus, did Mel study up on Ben’s season before the interview??
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | This is the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast with IHartRadio. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Recently, we've gotten to interview Peg and Mel from this latest season of The Golden Bachelor. |
| 0:19.5 | They are a happy couple operating in this world, |
| 0:23.3 | traveling and having fun. You can watch them on their social medias as they promote and share |
| 0:29.0 | what they've been up to. These have been big interviews because they haven't done a ton of |
| 0:33.5 | interviews. And so we got to get that we had the opportunity to interview both of them separately. |
| 0:40.0 | There's a lot to break down, |
| 0:41.0 | a lot to discuss because this season was one that was, |
| 0:45.8 | uh, |
| 0:46.2 | maybe not controversial, |
| 0:47.9 | but polarizing in the fact that it was unlike anything we've seen. |
| 0:53.1 | Uh, |
| 0:53.4 | they had asked us, Ashley to come on. They reached |
| 0:56.6 | out. And as Mel shared, hey, it feels like it's not a bachelor season unless you do the |
| 1:04.1 | almost famous podcast. And for that, Mel, I fully agree. So let's talk about it. Ashley, |
| 1:10.0 | let's start with the Pegg interview. So much came out of that. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah. So many things that I've been tossing over since we talked with her. Obviously, her relationship with Mel is it fits, especially interviewing the both of them. I think I'm going to start with saying it makes sense on how they are together. |
| 1:28.7 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 1:29.9 | Now that we've interviewed Pegg specifically, I understand why the two of them are together. |
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