Girls Gotta Eat's Ashley Hesseltine Brought WHAT for Her Bagel?!
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I had the opportunity to interview influencer, comedian, and one half of the Girls Gotta Eat Podcast Ashley Hesseltine on my “What Is Your Bagel Order?” series. Watch the full episode below to see what Delaware/Pennsylvania specialty food she wanted on a bagel…plus see all episodes HERE, but below with Ashley we talk about why she didn’t invite me to her wedding, her new comedy special, and why an Atlanta strip club is the best place for a first date.
New Special: “Here Comes The Bride”
Jeremy: You have a brand new special that just dropped on YouTube and on Amazon Prime?
Ashley: Yes. You can watch it right now on YouTube and on Prime, whatever you want to do. Whatever experience you want to have, you can have it. It’s called Here Comes the Bride.
Ashley: I filmed it last year here in New York, and it’s about my journey of getting married and dating and all the things. Rayna, the other half of Girls Gotta Eat, is a part of it. You were there, right?
Jeremy: I was there.
Ashley: Yeah, so you can speak on it. What do you think?
Jeremy: It is very funny, you laugh your ass off. The production was incredible. Even from seeing the thing, I was in awe. It’s like, “Holy shit, there’s so many cameras and lights and people. It’s just crazy.”
Ashley: It’s so gorgeous. We did it at City Winery.
Jeremy: The stage too.
Ashley: They did it incredibly. My vision really came to life. I can’t believe how they transformed the space.
The Wedding Invite “Controversy”
Jeremy: Speaking of your wedding, why wasn’t I invited to your wedding?
Ashley: You were invi—you got like a B-list invite. I can’t believe we’re doing this.
Jeremy: Oh, I don’t care. But what’s funny is: one, I was running the marathon, I wasn’t able to go.
Ashley: Yes.
Jeremy: Two, when I was out with Shshank, Shashank was like, “Bro, just come.” I was like, “I don’t think that’s how it works. I don’t think that’s how weddings work.”
Ashley: It is though. Ours was.
Jeremy: Oh, just come to your wedding uninvited?
Ashley: I gave you an official invite via Rayna. I said, “Rayna can invite Jeremy to the wedding.”
Jeremy: I could be Rayna’s plus-one.
Ashley: Yes, exactly. And then you declined.
Jeremy: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yes, I was allowed to be Rayna’s plus-one, but I had the marathon anyway, so I could not come.
Ashley: No, you were invited on your own accord. I don’t know what Rayna said to you. She was just trying to sabotage this.
Jeremy: No, she lied to me.
Ashley: You’re always a part of our big moments, so it just feels like you should have been there.
An Atlanta Strip Club is the Best 1st Date Spot in the City?
Jeremy: (You Said) the best first date in Atlanta is Clermont Lounge?
Ashley: Yeah.
Jeremy: Was that a bit?
Ashley: No.
Jeremy: It’s true?
Ashley: It’s so true. Do you know the Clermont Lounge? Should we talk about it?
Jeremy: Yeah, I know. I know. I know. Tell everyone, but yes, I know what it is—that’s why I’m like, “Wait, what?”
Ashley: The Clermont Lounge is a historic Atlanta landmark. It is a strip club where the strippers are all more mature. Some of them are 70, I kid you not. There’s a range, but the most famous one, her name is Blondie. She is a Black woman, she wears a blonde wig, and she crushes PBR cans between her tits, and then she’ll sign it and give it to you.
Ashley: And there’s one—I hate talking about them because they could be dead, you know—but my personal favorite was… Actually, Blondie’s my favorite. But there was a woman there dressed like Little Bo Peep. She was probably 60-plus. It’s the bottom of this hotel. They’ve since renovated the hotel.
Jeremy: Oh, I haven’t been there in like 10 years.
Ashley: Okay, yeah. So you used to just go, the hotel was uninhabitable. Now they renovated, they have a rooftop bar, they’ve really made it. But they haven’t changed the Clermont at all. I used to love going there on dates. And a couple times I would meet a guy who was in town from somewhere on Tinder, and I’d be like, “Meet me at this bar.”
Jeremy: I thought you were going to say, “Meet me at the strip club,” and not let him know which one, like what is going to happen there.
Ashley: Well, it doesn’t say strip club. I’m just like, “Meet me at the Clermont Lounge.” You don’t know. Some guy came, he was in town for a wedding. I met him on Tinder and I was like, “Meet me here.” And for him to walk in and there’s this 70-year-old woman stripping on the bar, he was like, “Where are we?” I’m like, “The best place in Atlanta.”
Ashley: I brought my parents there. I didn’t tell my dad. My dad walked in and he was like, “I love this place.”
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