The Kashley Show
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What if every plan you made fell apart — and it was somehow always your fault, but never on purpose? Welcome to Kashley Show, the podcast where one husband is too lovable for his own good, his wife is a certified disaster magnet, and somehow they've made it work. Try not to break anything while you listen.
Welcome to the Cashley Show. We are Kevin and Ashley.
SPEAKER_00Hello.
SPEAKER_01We started this podcast after recent tragedies to take a break from negativity and discover the good news happening all around us. We asked AI to write a podcast. In seconds, it created a script for Kevin and I. No coffee breaks, no brainstorming sessions, just instant, almost too smooth content. This took about a minute for the AI to write a 25-minute podcast. It takes Ashley hours to write each podcast. Welcome to the age of AI podcasting, where robots have opinions and jokes and nobody's getting paid. This episode was a second was a second try. The first episode, Kevin was accident prone and I was an arrogant man. I changed the episode to be to me being accident prone because that's actually true.
SPEAKER_00And me being an arrogant man.
SPEAKER_01No, I don't think you're arrogant. This is the little part that I'm going to put on the podcast, and I thought you might think it's funny. What if every plan you ever made fell apart and it it was somehow always your fault, but never on purpose? Welcome to the Cashley Show, the podcast where one husband is too lovable for his own good, and a wife is a certified disaster magnet. And somehow they've made it work. Try not to break anything while you listen. Alright, so this episode is called Married and Confused. It's Ashley tried to adult and we're still recovering.
SPEAKER_00So it's like a script that you printed off that the AI came up with, right?
SPEAKER_01Yep, so we're just gonna read the script.
SPEAKER_00We're just gonna read through. Yep. I've never done read through. What do they call it in like sitcoms or whatever? Like is that what it's called? A read-through? Like at the a table read. Maybe a table read. I don't know. Yeah, I've never done this before. So we'll see how it goes.
SPEAKER_01You're up first.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. Hello, and welcome to Married and Confused, the podcast about love, life, and whatever Ashley broke this week. I'm Kevin.
SPEAKER_01And I'm Ashley. And I want to say for the record, the thing I broke was already fragile.
SPEAKER_00It was a cast iron skillet.
SPEAKER_01It had a weak spot.
SPEAKER_00Cast iron does not have weak spots. That's the whole thing about cast iron. That's its entire identity.
SPEAKER_01Well, this one did. This one was different.
SPEAKER_00It was my grandmother's.
SPEAKER_01It was my grandmother's too now. We're married. Community property.
SPEAKER_00Is that laughing despite himself? I don't know. That's what it says to do. I don't know. I don't know what laughing despite myself sounds like.
SPEAKER_01Probably laughing at me like I'm an idiot.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01You got that one.
SPEAKER_00Nailed it. I can't even be mad. I genuinely cannot stay mad. That's why you married me. That, and I didn't fully understand what I was signing up for.
SPEAKER_01Nobody does. That's a secret to marriage. Full concealment until the lease is signed.
unknownTrickery.
SPEAKER_00Well, right, and that's what I was about to say. It's gonna be a little bit hard because it's like what parts like when I break away from the script because I want to talk about it or say something. How is anyone gonna know? I'll have to like, I don't know, say it. I'm breaking away from the script. Alright, I'll read this little header. Segment one, Ashley's Week in Review. Okay, so we have a segment we do every week called Ashley's Week in Review, where Ashley tells us what happened to her, and we all try to understand how.
SPEAKER_01I'd like to point out that this segment was Kevin's idea, and I think it's mean.
SPEAKER_00Breaking away from the script here. We should really do this segment. You always have stuff happening to you all week long.
SPEAKER_01And you're always you're always saying, How did that even happen? I don't know. Just happens to me. Just happens. I'm seriously like a bad luck magnet.
SPEAKER_00Alright, back on script. You love this segment.
SPEAKER_01I do love this segment.
SPEAKER_00What you all right, off script. Do not you just said you just said the line above. I think it's mean. Yeah. Okay. It's mean, but I love it. But you love it.
SPEAKER_01Remember AI wrote this. It's not amazing. It's it's okay.
SPEAKER_00It's fun. It's a fun little read.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay, back on script. Go ahead, babe. Do I call you babe? Off script. Do I call you babe? Like ever.
SPEAKER_01Uh you used to. You don't anymore now.
SPEAKER_00No more terms of endearment. No more endearment.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. Just don't call each other names anymore. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Call you Ash. Ashley. Yeah. Hey you.
SPEAKER_01I don't think you ever call me hey you.
SPEAKER_00Back on script.
SPEAKER_01Okay, Monday. I lock myself out of the house.
SPEAKER_00Classic.
SPEAKER_01Which probably would happen.
SPEAKER_00You have to say off script and over. This is like on talking on walkie-talkie. You gotta say over.
SPEAKER_01Back on script. But here's the thing. I was already inside the house. I locked myself in.
SPEAKER_00How does that happen?
SPEAKER_01The deadbolt got stuck. I googled it, tried three different fixes, and somehow made it worse. It's a design flaw. I'm actually surprised this doesn't happen more often. Off script. Don't you have another door? How did you lock yourself in? How did I lock myself in?
SPEAKER_00AI doesn't know what our house looks like. So it doesn't know that we have more than one door.
SPEAKER_01I guess if you live in an apartment, maybe you only have one door.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I mean, usually they'll have like what do you call it, like a balcony or back patio or whatever.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I think every apartment I've lived in has had a balcony. Yeah, some sort of balcony, some sort of something where you can put your barbecue in one potted plant. I mean, it doesn't help you get out, I guess, though.
SPEAKER_01Especially if you're on your second or third floor.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay, sorry. Back on script. Your turn.
SPEAKER_00Alright. So you were trapped in your own home?
SPEAKER_01For 45 minutes. Why didn't you call me? I was handling it. I had a system.
SPEAKER_00Ashley. I would have helped you.
SPEAKER_01You would have laughed at me.
SPEAKER_00Off script. It says laughed differently. Sorry.
SPEAKER_01You would have laughed at me. Do you want me to yell it? It's all caps.
SPEAKER_00Okay, you're being ridiculous.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna have the AI replace you. Sounds good. Thank God it's true. AI does it all.
SPEAKER_00It's true. I would have laughed and helped you. That's what marriage is.
SPEAKER_01I eventually got out through the back door, which for the record I remembered existed. I just wanted to fix the front door first on principle. Okay.
SPEAKER_00We have a backdoor. Is this a okay off script? Is this a I can't tell if this is a question? Because it's like got the was it ellipses? We have a backdoor, but there's no question mark. So okay. Background script. We have a back door.
SPEAKER_01We have a back door.
SPEAKER_00We have a back door.
SPEAKER_01We have a back door. I don't know. It makes us both say it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Okay. That you remembered existed after 45 minutes?
SPEAKER_01I was thinking very clearly. I was just thinking about the wrong door.
SPEAKER_00What? Hop script. I guess now we're moving on. Back on script. What happened Tuesday?
SPEAKER_01Tuesday was actually fine.
SPEAKER_00Really?
SPEAKER_01I mean, I signed up for pottery class instead of yoga, but that was the app's fault. The icons looked identical. Someone in UX. I don't know what that means.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's it means uh user experience. So like in an app, like clicking buttons and like your flow and experience as a user. Like it's uh it's a job at bigger companies and stuff like that where they design those things.
SPEAKER_01Well, thanks AI. I don't know what that means. Didn't know what that meant. Someone in UX made a very irresponsible decision.
SPEAKER_00Oh no.
SPEAKER_01But I stayed. I did the pottery class, I made a bowl.
SPEAKER_00Can we use it?
SPEAKER_01It's more of a statement piece.
SPEAKER_00What does that mean?
SPEAKER_01It means it's not food safe, but it looks interesting on the shelf.
SPEAKER_00It is supposed to be a bowl?
SPEAKER_01It's supposed to be whatever you feel when you look at it.
SPEAKER_00I feel confused.
SPEAKER_01Then it's working.
SPEAKER_00Off script. Moving on. Next one. There's a line and off to the next one.
SPEAKER_01Next day.
SPEAKER_00There's not a lot of transitions or segues going on in this piece. We just bounce from one thing to the next. Alright. Is this gonna go through your whole week, like day by day?
SPEAKER_01I did not pre-read this. I read the first few lines and that was it. I haven't read this whole thing.
SPEAKER_00Okay, all right.
SPEAKER_01Surprise for everyone.
SPEAKER_00Back on script. Wednesday?
SPEAKER_01Wednesday I tried to meal prep.
SPEAKER_00Okay. It says sharpenhale. I think I did that correctly.
SPEAKER_01Don't make that sound.
SPEAKER_00What sound?
SPEAKER_01That oh no inhale. You did an oh no inhale.
SPEAKER_00I did a tell me more inhale.
SPEAKER_01I found a recipe online. Very simple. Chicken, vegetables, rice. Five ingredients.
SPEAKER_00Alright, off script. That's more than five.
SPEAKER_01That's more than five. I guess chicken.
SPEAKER_00It doesn't say what kind of vegetables.
SPEAKER_01Three vegetables and rice.
SPEAKER_00Right. We yeah, the previous AI episode we did, we talked about how it was terrible at math. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So and is there any sauce? You just got chicken and vegetables and rice, it seems.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. I'm imagining it's gonna make like a chicken soup of some kind. And then put like was it like chicken and rice? Isn't that a canned, like a camel soup? Chicken and rice, chicken and stars. Is that what I'm thinking of? Chicken noodle? Yeah, yeah, it does have chicken and stars. But this is like this is kind of like a corny, like a corny sitcom. Yeah. Like on, I don't know, like the UPN. Yeah. Remember that? Where it's like just cheesy. Like oh, Ashley. A woman and wife and mother who's been doing it for 20 years. I did can't cook chicken and rice.
SPEAKER_01Like I did I did make it me did make me not as dumb as it was before because on the previous one I had no idea that we had a back door, which seems ridiculous. How does someone not know they have a back door?
SPEAKER_00Off the deep end there. Yeah. Sorry, keep all right back on. Um how many did you use?
SPEAKER_01Eleven. But some were accidental. Well, off script. It's very easy to do extra vegetables or something.
SPEAKER_00Sure, like you want celery in your stuff. I change recipes all the time, so it's not really Yeah, like when I make ramen noodles, I actually don't really care for just like straight up ramen noodles, like top ramen or whatever.
SPEAKER_01You put so much stuff in it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm cutting up mushrooms and celery and spinach and like water chestnuts even. I said mushrooms already. Oh so yeah, and I like to put you like if it's beef, right? Like I'll cut up some of like if we have leftover steak or whatever, or chicken. Yeah. So I make like a like a real stuff.
SPEAKER_01Ramen.
SPEAKER_00Alright, back on. How do you accidentally add ingredients?
SPEAKER_01I was multitasking, which studies show is actually a sign of high intelligence. I was watching a documentary and cookie. Most people can't do that.
SPEAKER_00What did it taste like? Off script. I would have asked you what what documentary did you watch? I feel like this doesn't really annoy me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it I don't understand.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Back on.
SPEAKER_01Brave.
SPEAKER_00Brave?
SPEAKER_01It tasted brave. Like it was trying very hard and you had to respect the effort. Off script. So you didn't have any of this, I guess.
SPEAKER_00Oh, it says right here.
SPEAKER_01Oh, wait, wait, wait.
SPEAKER_00Next line.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, next line.
SPEAKER_00Back on screen. I ate it. For the record, listeners, I ate it. All of it. Because I love my wife.
SPEAKER_01He had ant acids after.
SPEAKER_00I had an I had ant acids after because I love my wife very much. Also, my stomach is a war zone.
SPEAKER_01Which is also true, but that was your sorry off the script. Which is also true, but that was your fault for eating a whole thing of wasapi when we were younger. Yeah, it's true.
SPEAKER_00I made that money though.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, 20 bucks for your whole thing of Wasapi.
SPEAKER_00Turned out to be about a dollar a year. So earned with for that. Alright. Back on. I'll read the header here. Okay. Segment two, Kevin's Corner.
SPEAKER_01Okay. We also do a segment called Kevin's Corner, where Kevin shares a wholesome observation about life, and I make fun of it. Which seems off script. Which seems opposite.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's all right. We'll see. Here we go.
SPEAKER_01Back on script.
SPEAKER_00It's called Kevin's Corner and it's a safe space.
SPEAKER_01It is not a safe space. It's my corner. Go ahead, babe.
SPEAKER_00Off script. What show was it where like babe? They're using like they're someone. It was like couples. They're like, babe, babe. Oh, it's it's gotta be in the office. And you got Michael, Scott, and like Jan or something, maybe. Yeah, and then Pam and then start making fun of him. Yeah. Babe. Yeah, anyways. Not that it's I don't like I like you said, I used to call you Babe, different stuff. So totally fine to have little names and whatever. But it's just funny the way that it's like dialogue in here and phrase. I mean they only use it twice, but just the words put it. Anyways, okay. This is back on me. Okay, back on script. Okay, so this week I was thinking about how, and stay with me here, how every single person you walk past on the street has a full, complete, complicated life. Like the guy at the gas station who seemed annoyed, he's got a whole thing going on, a whole story, a whole history.
SPEAKER_01That's beautiful, Kevin. Thank you. That's generally a beautiful thought.
SPEAKER_00I am a thoughtful person.
SPEAKER_01Off script, that sounds just like Kevin.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, this is the type of stuff I think about. When someone's like, you know, angry or whatever, I'm like, I wonder what happened there to their day. Like, what's going on in your life where put you in that spot. Like when when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, I was like, man, what's going on in Will Smith's life? Yeah. Like that was yeah. Anyways.
SPEAKER_01Back on script. You cried at a dog commercial last week.
SPEAKER_00The dog was old, Ashley. He'd been with that family for years.
SPEAKER_01It was 30 seconds long.
SPEAKER_00They packed a lot of emotion into 30 seconds. The filmmaking was exceptional.
SPEAKER_01He cried for longer than the commercial.
SPEAKER_00I was processing.
SPEAKER_01He's a very sensitive man, and I genuinely love that about him off script. He doesn't cry a lot, and he's not that sensitive to cry about a commercial. Maybe, maybe like old yeller or something. Where the red fern grows. Where the red fern grows. That's what I was thinking. Okay, back on script.
SPEAKER_00Thank you.
SPEAKER_01But he also cried at a furniture sale ad once.
SPEAKER_00The family was so excited about the sectional. They finally had enough seating for everyone. It was a moment. That was Kevin's Corner. Off script. That was Kevin's Corner. I'm not really sure what that was about. Kevin crying. I feel like I'm looking at your bowl. I just feel confused. Okay. All right. Segment three, listener mail.
SPEAKER_01Okay, listener mail time. First one from surviving marriage underscore Todd. Todd writes, My wife once tried to fix the Wi-Fi router and somehow also turned off all the lights in the house. We still don't know how those two things are connected. Off script.
SPEAKER_00This is our house.
SPEAKER_01Totally something I would do.
SPEAKER_00It's also our house. We're just like, whoever did the electrical here just hooked up things and stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's true. When I worked at the IRS, I didn't answer phones, but there was like that program was on the computer, but I never opened it. And one day my computer just started taking phone calls. And I have no phone. I have no way to answer it. I'm like, I can't help these people. And they came, the IT people came down, they're like, How did you do this? I didn't do anything. It just started happening.
SPEAKER_00I just sat down.
SPEAKER_01And so they had to like take the whole program off my computer because it just kept answering calls, and these people have been waiting for hours to talk to someone, and I'm like, I can't help you. I can't talk to you. Anyway, sorry, back on script.
SPEAKER_00Todd. Todd, I see you.
SPEAKER_01I feel seen by Todd's wife. The lights and the router are not connected, and yet the router and the lights are both connected to the electrical system, Kev Electrical System. Kevin, it's not that far-fetched. Todd's wife was probably onto something.
SPEAKER_00That is not how houses work.
SPEAKER_01It's how our house works.
SPEAKER_00How do it know? Back on script. That's fair.
SPEAKER_01From just here for the chaos underscore Linda. Linda writes, Ashley reminds me of myself. Last week I went to the grocery store for milk and came home with 17 things, none of which were milk.
SPEAKER_00Linda! That's that cheesy. Oh, Linda.
SPEAKER_01I've totally done this. Gone to the store. I think everybody's what I went for. Got other things.
SPEAKER_00Just picked up stuff. You're like hungry or whatever. Oh, yeah, I do want steak. I also want salmon. Oh, look at those shrimp, right? I bought food for six days. I just went for one thing.
SPEAKER_01Alright, back on script. Linda is my people.
SPEAKER_00How do you go in for milk? Did it say that? I guess I'm just assuming that it was milk. How do you go in for milk and come out with 17 other things?
SPEAKER_01I'm a curious person, Kevin. I engage with my environment. No, you don't. You didn't say off script.
SPEAKER_00Off script. No, you don't. On script.
SPEAKER_01I see something interesting and I investigate. That's not a flaw. That's intellectual curiosity.
SPEAKER_00That's not things don't just appear.
SPEAKER_01Have you ever been to a grocery store?
SPEAKER_00Yes. I go with a list. I get the things on the list. I come home.
SPEAKER_01That sounds so lonely. It's efficient. Where's the adventure? Where's the discovery?
SPEAKER_00It's a grocery store, Ashley. Not an archaeological dig.
SPEAKER_01Last week I found a type of cheese I'd never seen before, and it changed my life.
SPEAKER_00You didn't even like it.
SPEAKER_01The discovery changed my life. The cheese itself was fine.
SPEAKER_00Off script. So I want to go to Smith's. Like I walk by like the cheese section, right? Because they have like a huge yeah, I always like look at the cheeses. I never really know what I'm looking at or what I want, but I just like look at it and I'm like, I feel like I should get one of these.
SPEAKER_01Just try it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like just eat it. Just try it. Or like the mozzarella balls. Those are weird.
SPEAKER_01I I'm not a big fan of mozzarella.
SPEAKER_00Because it's like not solid enough.
SPEAKER_01It doesn't have a lot of flavor to it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, okay. That's fair enough. Yeah. I'll I'll go with that. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Back on.
SPEAKER_01Last one from newlywed underscore Marcus. Oh Marcus. He writes How do you stay patient with someone who is a self-described disaster magnet asking for a friend? The friend is me. I just got married.
SPEAKER_00Marcus, buddy, congratulations and welcome.
SPEAKER_01First of all, Marcus, your wife is a gift.
SPEAKER_00She absolutely is. Here's what I've learned after six years with Ashley.
SPEAKER_01Five.
SPEAKER_00Six.
SPEAKER_01We've been married for five years.
SPEAKER_00Off script. We've been married a lot longer than five years.
SPEAKER_01It's almost 17.
SPEAKER_00Back on. I'm counting the year we dated when things kept happening.
SPEAKER_01It says fair, but off script, that's not fair. That's not married. We were on a break. That's dating. Completely different. Back on script.
SPEAKER_00Here's what I've learned, Marcus. You stop trying to prevent the chaos. You cannot prevent the chaos. The chaos is not a problem to be solved. The chaos is Ashley. And Ashley is wonderful. So you just you buy extra an acids. Man, they've really got this off script. This whole an acids thing. I don't know if I've really had an an acid in my life. I've actually maybe had Tums because I thought like as a kid, right? They look like candies. Like those delicious NECO wafers we saw today, too.
SPEAKER_01Right. Probably just like that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm sure they do. Just chalky. Chalky and nasty.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Back on script. You learn to love a bowl that isn't food safe, and you understand that every single day is going to be a story worth telling.
SPEAKER_01Off script. You should write a story of all my disasters. All your disasters. Back on script. That was really sweet.
SPEAKER_00Don't get used to it. I'm going back to making fun of you after this.
SPEAKER_01There he is.
SPEAKER_00Segment four. This week's disaster ranking. Okay. We end every episode with the disaster ranking, where we rate Ashley's week on a scale of one to ten, one being totally fine, minor chaos, and ten being we're calling the insurance.
SPEAKER_01I'd like to note that I've never hit a ten.
SPEAKER_00You hit a nine in February.
SPEAKER_01The bathtub incident was a seven at most.
SPEAKER_00Ashley, the plumber used the word unprecedented.
SPEAKER_01He was being dramatic.
SPEAKER_00He took photos for training purposes.
SPEAKER_01Okay. This week. What are we thinking?
SPEAKER_00Let's break it down. Locked inside your own house, that's a three. Creative, but low stakes.
SPEAKER_01Agreed.
SPEAKER_00Accidental pottery class, I'm giving that a one. That was actually a win. You made something. Thank you. The meal prep situation, that's a four. It was edible. Aggressively so, but edible. I'll take a four. Average that out in Ashley's week was a two point seven. That is a great week, babe. That might be a record low.
SPEAKER_01I'm growing as a person.
SPEAKER_00You really are. I'm proud of you.
SPEAKER_01I did also have a minor incident with the mailbox on Thursday, but I want to be clear, I also fixed it completely. I problem solved in real time.
SPEAKER_00You fixed it?
SPEAKER_01I pushed the mailbox back into the ground. It's mostly straight.
SPEAKER_00We're back up to a five.
SPEAKER_01Still below average.
SPEAKER_00Still below average. I'll take it. All right. That is our show. Thank you so much for listening to Married and Confused.
SPEAKER_01If your week was messier than mine, and statistically it wasn't, we want to hear about it. Send us your disasters or your confessions and your food unsafe pottery or you can find us wherever podcasts are played, including apparently at full volume in waiting rooms.
SPEAKER_00Someone emailed us about that.
SPEAKER_01We're so sorry to the waiting room.
SPEAKER_00I'm Kevin.
SPEAKER_01I'm Ashley.
SPEAKER_00We're married.
SPEAKER_01Somehow.
SPEAKER_00Happily.
SPEAKER_01Very happily.
SPEAKER_00See you next week.
SPEAKER_01Thanks for listening. Quick note this whole episode was written by AI. It's just a language model that tried its best to be funny. Kevin and I aren't real, although we actually are. But maybe the chaos felt familiar. If you've ever locked yourself in your house, eaten something unusual, or married someone who turns every week into a story, this episode was for you. See you next time.
SPEAKER_00So on on my script it has like your little your little what, your exit line. Did you put that on there? Like how does it know that? Or did you show it other episodes you wrote?
SPEAKER_01No, I I put that on because I moved all this to a Google Doc. That's what I read off of your copy of this.
SPEAKER_00That wasn't the AI writing that.
SPEAKER_01No, that was me putting it on. Okay. It wrote that last paragraph though. Alright, remember, even a small act of kindness can be someone's beacon in their darkest moment. Choose kindness every day. Reach out to someone today. You have the power to change a life. Be the signal of hope this world needs.