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Justice For Clayton Echard · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I, Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Almost Famous. It's Ben and Ashley together.
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  Speaker 1: Yay!
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  Speaker 2: I'm so happy, guys. Oh, this makes my heart flutter.
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  Speaker 2: Breaking down some headlines happening in Bachelor Nation. Ashley, we've
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  Speaker 2: been doing this without you for a few weeks. It's
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  Speaker 2: never the same, but we've had some great people step in,
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  Speaker 2: including our producer, Heather. who is moonlighting as a co-host
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  Speaker 2: on Almost Famous. So shout out to Heather for doing
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  Speaker 2: what she does. Now, let's start with this one. Bachelor
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  Speaker 2: Nation's Clayton Eckerd breaks his silence on Laura Owen's pleading
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  Speaker 2: guilty and fraud case. Now, Ashley, you have mentioned before
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  Speaker 2: the success of Clayton's podcast that is out. It's reached
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  Speaker 2: the top 10 on Apple. Good for him. But now
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  Speaker 2: in the last week, we have had this kind of
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  Speaker 2: breaking news where Laura Owens did plead guilty in Frog Case.
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  Speaker 3: Just going back a little bit, a couple of years back,
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  Speaker 3: Clayton was in quite a pickle with this woman, Laura Owens,
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  Speaker 3: who was claiming to be pregnant with his twins. He
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  Speaker 3: argued that he never even slept with the woman. So
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  Speaker 3: how would that even be possible?
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  Speaker 4: It was... It was an interesting situation.
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  Speaker 3: And then we come to find that she'd actually done
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  Speaker 3: that multiple times.
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  Speaker 4: With other men.
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  Speaker 3: So this week, we see that Laura has actually pleaded
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  Speaker 3: guilty in this fraud case. And it's been an ongoing case.
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  Speaker 3: This is what Clayton says. It's been the first time
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  Speaker 3: we've seen Laura take any accountability action. On this matter,
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  Speaker 3: upon the ending of yesterday's court hearing, I found myself
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  Speaker 3: telling the other guys, the other victims, it was anti-climatic.
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  Speaker 4: What occurred?
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  Speaker 3: I felt numb and emotionless. I couldn't understand why that was.
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  Speaker 3: I woke up today and after reflecting more, it's because
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  Speaker 3: healing was not contingent upon.
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  Speaker 4: What occurred yesterday. I have already healed.
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  Speaker 3: I'm grateful for this entire experience. I know that sounds backwards.
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  Speaker 3: The amount of resilience I've built through all this, the
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  Speaker 3: community that I've found with all this adversity and the
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  Speaker 3: power of presence that I've gained insight that I've gained
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  Speaker 3: the insight, everything that has come from all of this.
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  Speaker 3: I would do it a thousand times over because I'm
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  Speaker 3: proud of the man that I've become through it all.
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  Speaker 4: It's very interesting, huh?
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  Speaker 2: It is interesting. It's big news, and you did mention
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  Speaker 2: his podcast that's out there that you can kind of
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  Speaker 2: get the details. Do you think there'll be a Netflix documentary?
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  Speaker 3: You know, they do a great job with those three-part series.
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  Speaker 3: I can see them having enough for one of those,
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  Speaker 3: especially since Clayton is a public figure in all of this.
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  Speaker 3: And it's called Love Trap, guys. It's currently number eight
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  Speaker 3: on Apple. Also, just want to say that as part
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  Speaker 3: of the plea deal that she took, prosecutors agreed on
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  Speaker 3: August 28th to drop other criminal charges if she pleaded
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  Speaker 3: guilty to two counts of fraudulent schemes and artifice, one
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  Speaker 3: count of perjury, and one count.
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  Speaker 4: Of taking the identity of another. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Bachelor's Colton Underwood moves out of Los Angeles to, and
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  Speaker 2: I quote, get his farm.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's lived in L.A. twice, one of which
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  Speaker 3: was the time where he met his husband. They welcomed
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  Speaker 3: their baby, and now he's ready to move on somewhere else,
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  Speaker 3: we don't know where, to a farm with their 23-month-old son, Bishop.
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  Speaker 3: He said, thank you, Los Angeles. And I'm really interested
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  Speaker 3: to see their life on a farm and what state
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  Speaker 3: that might be in.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have any inside knowledge?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's from Denver. I know that. So I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be shocked if they come back to Colorado. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know where Jordan's from. It just feels like to
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  Speaker 2: me there's an exodus from Los Angeles. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: other than one buddy. I have nobody else that I
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  Speaker 2: know that lives there any longer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that weird? I think it's because you just don't
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  Speaker 3: really have to live there to be entertainment anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You really don't.
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  Speaker 2: Producer Heather lives there. It's a quiet town. She runs
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  Speaker 2: it by herself at this point. Caitlin Bristow calls Zach
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  Speaker 2: Clark her hero after he celebrates 15 years of sobriety.
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  Speaker 2: Let me be clear. Zach Clark is awesome. And 15
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  Speaker 2: years of sobriety along with helping so many others get
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  Speaker 2: back on their feet has been nothing short of amazing.
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  Speaker 2: But this is a headline, Ashley, because it's rumored that
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  Speaker 2: the two of them have been dating.
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  Speaker 4: It is rumored.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, she's not really hiding much about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: dating someone because she just posted on Instagram or TikTok
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  Speaker 3: a couple days ago where she goes living with a man.
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  Speaker 3: And then she shows herself and she's in a mask,
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  Speaker 3: like a face mask. And he is in the background
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  Speaker 3: literally coughing up a lung.
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  Speaker 4: Actually kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like he's throwing up. And I'm like commenting, Caitlin,
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  Speaker 3: this is not normal. This is not living with a man.
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  Speaker 3: What is going on with him? But she basically told
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  Speaker 3: us she's living with a man. And she happened to
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  Speaker 3: just move to New York City where Zach lives.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they're just good friends.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they are. But also, he's her hero.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if it isn't Zach that she's living with,
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  Speaker 2: that guy would probably be like, hey, what about me?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, grocery store Joe opens up about struggling with speech
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  Speaker 2: difficulties after brain surgery. We've mentioned, Ashley, previously about the
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  Speaker 2: surgery that Joe had, but he has recently opened up
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  Speaker 2: about some of the difficulties as he recovers from the surgery.
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  Speaker 3: What's crazy is that he had the surgery almost a
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  Speaker 3: month ago, and it feels, I mean, I am not
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  Speaker 3: living it, but it feels like yesterday. So Joe chatted
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  Speaker 3: with Good Morning America talking about his recovery, and he
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  Speaker 3: said that he's like about 90% back. The speech is
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  Speaker 3: getting much, much better. He said, I still struggle a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. I could think of what to say, but
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  Speaker 3: I had a hard time vocalizing it. But I would
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  Speaker 3: say it's about 90% back.
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  Speaker 4: So that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: According to his doctor, he said, I probably wouldn't know
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  Speaker 3: about this until I eventually had a seizure. That was
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  Speaker 3: in reference to the tumor that the MRI, the pre-novo
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  Speaker 3: scan caught. So that's pretty scary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then he said, I think being able to share
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  Speaker 3: so that many, so many other people can relate and
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  Speaker 3: people are going through, I think it's super important. There's
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  Speaker 3: unexpected challenges that are going to be thrown your way.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like this has made me feel very
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  Speaker 3: grateful for the partner that I chose. Another sweet bachelor
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  Speaker 3: nation love story between Serena and him. And again, shout
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  Speaker 3: out to pre-novo for being such an incredible, you know,
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  Speaker 3: company that allowed him to find this so, so early.
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  Speaker 2: Jen Tran reveals she's officially a certified physician's assistant.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm so excited for her. That's so awesome.
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  Speaker 3: As you guys may remember, when she became Bachelorette, she
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  Speaker 3: was in between. She was kind of like in between
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  Speaker 3: PA school. She had been trying to do it when
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  Speaker 3: she was on Bachelor and then took a little bit
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  Speaker 3: break when she was Bachelorette.
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  Speaker 4: And then she did Dancing with the Stars.
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  Speaker 3: So she was all over the place, but she did
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  Speaker 3: go back to school and And she's officially graduated as
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  Speaker 3: a certified physician's assistant. Congratulations. We are so happy and
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  Speaker 3: proud of you. She said that she's beyond grateful to
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  Speaker 3: be an official and a nationally certified physician's assistant and
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  Speaker 3: expi excited to spend my career taking care of patients
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  Speaker 3: and serving something bigger than myself.
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  Speaker 4: Let's keep chasing that dream. Very, very awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Ashley, this one is a headline. I wonder if
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  Speaker 2: you were invited. Sydney Gordon marries fiance Nathan and shares
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  Speaker 2: sweet wedding video. Were you invited to this wedding?
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  Speaker 3: I was not, and that is absolutely fine. No expectations there.
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  Speaker 3: I have not even met her husband. I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 3: it's the quickest.
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  Speaker 4: Of marriages, but I know that I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: They, I would say that they've been together for a year,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a little bit more, but she said that she
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  Speaker 3: knew that he was the one after just two months
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  Speaker 3: of being together. And, uh, at the beginning of this year,
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  Speaker 3: after seven months of dating, they announced their engagement. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It just like kind of seemed to blow by. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: she looks stunning, stunning. It was definitely a Newport wedding.
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  Speaker 3: He is from, I think South Africa. So I think
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  Speaker 3: it was just a small ceremony. It looked beautiful from
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  Speaker 3: what we've seen.
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  Speaker 2: It does look beautiful. Congratulations to Sydney. You might remember
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  Speaker 2: her from Joey's season, getting married to her fiance, Nathan.
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  Speaker 3: Very happy for Sydney. She went through the ringer on
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  Speaker 3: bachelor and I felt, I felt bad for what she
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  Speaker 3: went through. And I'm glad that now she has her
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  Speaker 3: husband and never has to go on.
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  Speaker 4: Another show to find love ever again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Don't wish that for everybody. Hey, that is all the
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  Speaker 2: headlines we have for you today. Again, Clayton's podcast is
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  Speaker 2: out if you want some more details on that situation.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations to Sydney. Best of luck as Joe continues to recover.
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  Speaker 2: And we will continue to investigate if Caitlin Bristow is
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  Speaker 2: dating Zach Clark. It's a mystery. that none of us know. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be back soon with more headlines coming your way,
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  Speaker 2: more interviews, catching up with former Bachelor Nation contestants. Also,
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  Speaker 2: please keep on the Almost Famous feed to hear the
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  Speaker 2: rundowns of the Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip and then
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  Speaker 2: all other things happening in Bachelor Nation. It feels like
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  Speaker 2: as The Bachelor has slowed down, the talent from The
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  Speaker 2: Bachelor has expanded. spread their wings and gone to other
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  Speaker 2: networks and other shows. And we'll be breaking them all
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  Speaker 2: down here on the Almost Famous Podcast. But until next time,
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  Speaker 2: I've been Ben.
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  Speaker 4: I've been Ashley. Love you.
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  Speaker 3: See ya.
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  Speaker 1: Bye. Follow the Ben and Ashley Eye Almost Famous Podcast
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