Latest / I Do, Part 2 / Brutal Instagram Divorce Announcement From Reality Star; How NOT To Mix Social Media And Breakups
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
- 0:02Speaker 2: It is Saturday, September 12th, and obviously there's no easy
- 0:07Speaker 2: way to get the news from your spouse that they
- 0:10Speaker 2: want a divorce. But you sure as hell don't want
- 0:13Speaker 2: to see it on Instagram. And with that, welcome to
- 0:15Speaker 2: this episode of Amy and TJ. Did somebody really announce
- 0:19Speaker 2: that they want a divorce on social media?
- 0:21Speaker 1: Yes, this just happened, and it's a couple that we
- 0:25Speaker 1: actually have been following and watching. many of you may
- 0:29Speaker 1: know that we are big fans of 90 Day Fiancé.
- 0:33Speaker 1: We love us a 90 Day Fiancé.
- 0:35Speaker 2: All versions. Before the 90 Day, after the 90 Day,
- 0:38Speaker 2: the Tell All, the Beach Resort, whatever. We're all about it.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Yes. And so one of the couples that we followed
- 0:44Speaker 1: for years are Ashley and Manuel. So if you all
- 0:48Speaker 1: know the show, it's Ashley Michelle and Manuel Velez. And Ashley,
- 0:54Speaker 1: she stands out to us because she's from Minnesota. Yeah.
- 0:58Speaker 1: And so she is fluent, amazing in Spanish. Her fiance now,
- 1:02Speaker 1: husband Manuel, is from Ecuador. but she would always be like, yo, Kiero.
- 1:07Speaker 1: She said it in the most hilarious American Midwestern accent
- 1:11Speaker 1: speaking Spanish. She didn't even try to have a Spanish accent.
- 1:14Speaker 2: I've never quite heard someone do that because she was
- 1:16Speaker 2: so fluent. So fluent. She was so good at her Spanish,
- 1:19Speaker 2: but not an ounce of anything other than Midwest.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Yo me llamo Ashley. It was very funny, but she
- 1:28Speaker 1: nailed it every time. Anyway, she, this week, on Instagram...
- 1:33Speaker 1: Just ahead of their fourth wedding anniversary, and we're always
- 1:36Speaker 1: rooting for these couples, she put up a beautiful picture
- 1:40Speaker 1: of their wedding, which we watched on television, a beautiful
- 1:43Speaker 1: beach wedding, with this caption. What a shame. Tomorrow is
- 1:48Speaker 1: our four-year anniversary, and I'm officially asking for a divorce.
- 1:53Speaker 1: I have felt unsupported by you for years, and now
- 1:56Speaker 1: when I am in my most vulnerable state, you have
- 1:58Speaker 1: done nothing to support me. I am done. Do not
- 2:03Speaker 1: come back to this house at Jesus Negrita Velez Rojas.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Literally put his Instagram handle on the announcement. And people
- 2:15Speaker 1: went wild in the comments, like, is this for real?
- 2:18Speaker 1: She did. We don't know if she's officially filed divorce.
- 2:21Speaker 1: No one has seen that yet. But she actually asked
- 2:24Speaker 1: for the divorce and told him not to come back
- 2:26Speaker 1: home on an Instagram post that now is at about
- 2:30Speaker 1: 20,000 likes.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Is that for real? I mean, do we really, are
- 2:34Speaker 2: we supposed to feel that the first time he got
- 2:39Speaker 2: a heads up about a divorce is in that post?
- 2:43Speaker 1: It does appear that way, or at least she wants
- 2:46Speaker 1: us to all think that. And so then Manuel, on
- 2:49Speaker 1: his Instagram to respond, uploaded a picture of him hiking,
- 2:53Speaker 1: actually in a nature area I've hiked at. I was like, oh, wow,
- 2:55Speaker 1: that's in Ithaca, New York. He's going through a very
- 2:57Speaker 1: famous hike. He just shows the hike. He shows a
- 3:00Speaker 1: little bit of himself. And then on his Instagram story,
- 3:03Speaker 1: he shows another nature photo of that same hike and
- 3:06Speaker 1: says on his story, while others want to make statements,
- 3:11Speaker 1: I just want peace and quiet. People kind of said
- 3:17Speaker 1: that was an awesome way to respond.
- 3:18Speaker 2: I mean, this sounds like every man-woman fight I've ever
- 3:21Speaker 2: heard of.
- 3:23Speaker 1: I mean, it's funny, but it's crazy and it's sad.
- 3:26Speaker 1: And look, for those of you who don't know Ashley
- 3:28Speaker 1: and Manuel, they're from season 10 and they met over
- 3:32Speaker 1: a decade ago. She studied abroad in Ecuador. She met
- 3:36Speaker 1: Manuel at a New Year's Eve party. They broke up
- 3:38Speaker 1: after she moved back to the States, but they stayed
- 3:40Speaker 1: pen pals. They still kept in touch. And eventually they
- 3:44Speaker 1: kind of fell in love over their pen pal state,
- 3:47Speaker 1: decided to try again, went through the 90 day fiance
- 3:50Speaker 1: process and they married in 2022. We certainly saw them
- 3:54Speaker 1: have their fights. I think that's the cool thing about
- 3:56Speaker 1: the show. You get to see. All the problems in
- 3:59Speaker 1: everyone's relationship. And it does make you feel a little
- 4:01Speaker 1: bit better. Literally every single relationship has problems. And they
- 4:05Speaker 1: get even harder right before people get married, typically, because
- 4:09Speaker 1: there's so much stress. There's so much pressure. And they're
- 4:11Speaker 1: doing it in front of the cameras. But I really
- 4:14Speaker 1: rooted for these two. They were funny together.
- 4:16Speaker 2: I didn't realize they had made it four years.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Four years they made it together. And so look, what
- 4:21Speaker 1: led to the split? Everyone's trying to piece it together
- 4:23Speaker 1: because if you go on Ashley's... Wait, we'll get.
- 4:25Speaker 2: To reactions too, right? I would like to know what
- 4:27Speaker 2: people think.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Oh, yes. I will pull up the Instagram.
- 4:29Speaker 2: We'll have that.
- 4:29Speaker 3: All right, all right.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Go ahead. Yes, but two weeks before their split, she posted... Look,
- 4:33Speaker 1: her whole Instagram page is her weight loss journey. She
- 4:37Speaker 1: was not happy with her weight. And so she had
- 4:41Speaker 1: gone through a massive transformation. And it's cute because you
- 4:44Speaker 1: can go on her Instagram and see Manuel in the
- 4:46Speaker 1: gym with her, trying to work out with her, trying
- 4:48Speaker 1: to keep up with her. She lost a ton of weight.
- 4:50Speaker 1: She looks like a baddie. She's got muscles. She's fit.
- 4:53Speaker 1: She's fierce. And oftentimes when you lose a bunch of weight,
- 4:56Speaker 1: you have a lot of loose skin and all of that.
- 4:59Speaker 1: So she went in two weeks ago, got a tummy
- 5:02Speaker 1: tuck and a breast lift. And you even can see
- 5:05Speaker 1: Manuel helping her in her hospital gown, getting into the surgery.
- 5:10Speaker 1: So he was with her all along. But when she
- 5:12Speaker 1: refers to, you have done nothing to support me in
- 5:16Speaker 1: my most vulnerable state, she obviously is talking about this
- 5:21Speaker 1: surgery and the recovery from this surgery, which is really difficult.
- 5:25Speaker 1: So that is what people are believing she's referring to,
- 5:30Speaker 1: but we don't know exactly what he did or what
- 5:32Speaker 1: he didn't do. But she is... Look, anyone who's had
- 5:36Speaker 1: a massive surgery knows this is really, really hard. My
- 5:39Speaker 1: mom just had a tough surgery. We're actually here with
- 5:41Speaker 1: her right now. And yes, you do need extra support
- 5:44Speaker 1: from your spouse. And she's claiming he gave her none.
- 5:48Speaker 1: And that was it. So she told the world on
- 5:52Speaker 1: Instagram that she is divorcing Manuel.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Was there anything leading up? I mean, she's posting so
- 5:59Speaker 2: much stuff. Were there signs of trouble on Instagram? Instagram,
- 6:04Speaker 2: on social media before this or everything? This came out
- 6:06Speaker 2: of the blue.
- 6:07Speaker 1: I don't know because people are shocked. And if you
- 6:11Speaker 1: go look up articles, people are trying to figure out
- 6:13Speaker 1: what led to it and they can't really figure it out.
- 6:16Speaker 1: But some people wrote on her thing. I have seen
- 6:18Speaker 1: it from the beginning of the show. You need a partner,
- 6:21Speaker 1: not someone you have to mother constantly. Your evolution in
- 6:24Speaker 1: the past couple of years has greatly surpassed his growth
- 6:27Speaker 1: since he came to America. Um, someone said, I know
- 6:30Speaker 1: you're getting a lot of congratulation comments. I mean, women
- 6:32Speaker 1: are cheering her on saying way to go, drop him,
- 6:35Speaker 1: drop the man, get rid of him. Um, but this one,
- 6:38Speaker 1: this woman wrote, but I also know even if this
- 6:40Speaker 1: is for the best, your heart is still hurting. I
- 6:43Speaker 1: could tell you really loved that man and gave him
- 6:45Speaker 1: your whole heart. I just wanted to be the one
- 6:47Speaker 1: in the comments saying it's okay to be sad about it,
- 6:50Speaker 1: even if it's what needs to happen. And Ashley wrote back,
- 6:54Speaker 1: I appreciate that. So look, people are, people are, honestly,
- 6:58Speaker 1: it's kind of surprising or maybe it isn't surprising to you,
- 7:01Speaker 1: but they are all, it seems fully in support of her.
- 7:04Speaker 1: I mean, her other comments on her post, a couple thousand,
- 7:07Speaker 1: she has 20,000 likes. You have worked way too hard
- 7:12Speaker 1: on yourself to accept the bare minimum from any human being.
- 7:15Speaker 1: let alone someone who's supposed to be your biggest support system.
- 7:17Speaker 1: You deserve someone who praises you the way you praise others.
- 7:21Speaker 1: This is the whole deserve things. And you've said this often.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Women will support other women in these types of moments
- 7:28Speaker 1: when women are down and they're upset about their man.
- 7:31Speaker 1: And you say almost to their own detriment. You've felt
- 7:33Speaker 1: like you've seen it happen plenty of times.
- 7:35Speaker 2: Well, it could go both ways, right? A woman could
- 7:38Speaker 2: be very into a guy that might be bad for her.
- 7:42Speaker 2: And all the women around will Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
- 7:46Speaker 2: he's okay. We can make the same excuses. And then
- 7:48Speaker 2: I've seen it on the other side where it's not
- 7:51Speaker 2: going well. Yeah, to hell with him. And there's sometimes
- 7:54Speaker 2: not a fair and impartial, I guess, voice in the
- 8:00Speaker 2: room sometimes.
- 8:01Speaker 1: Right, because they're just there to comfort the woman, comfort
- 8:04Speaker 1: our girlfriend. And that's okay. And say, men are horrible,
- 8:07Speaker 1: men are bad. And that is honestly what I'm seeing
- 8:09Speaker 1: on here. Basically saying, I know what it's like not
- 8:12Speaker 1: to be supported. A lot of people, a lot of
- 8:15Speaker 1: breakups happen during cosmetic surgery recovery. Is that true?
- 8:19Speaker 2: My question, are people, they're supporting her, right? And what
- 8:25Speaker 2: she wants to do moving forward. Well, is there much
- 8:28Speaker 2: talk about doing it this way?
- 8:30Speaker 1: So a couple of people have written, and I was
- 8:32Speaker 1: just about to get to that. This is so cringe
- 8:34Speaker 1: to post to Instagram and tag him. She wrote back
- 8:38Speaker 1: to that person, I said what I said. And then
- 8:40Speaker 1: someone else wrote, not as cringe as being a bad husband.
- 8:44Speaker 1: So then other women went to go stand up for
- 8:46Speaker 1: her when someone called her out. Someone else called her
- 8:48Speaker 1: out and said, to be honest, good for you, but
- 8:50Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this isn't something you post on social media
- 8:53Speaker 1: with like question marks. And someone said, it's even crazier
- 8:57Speaker 1: going down the comments and seeing literally everyone say, congrats,
- 9:01Speaker 1: you deserve better. That's no one's place to say. So now,
- 9:05Speaker 1: you know, people are going back and forth about that.
- 9:08Speaker 1: But I have to say, I was shocked at how
- 9:11Speaker 1: little shade she got for doing this. I would have
- 9:14Speaker 1: thought more people would have said, girl, I get it.
- 9:17Speaker 1: Things happen. But why do you have to put it
- 9:19Speaker 1: out like that and tag him?
- 9:21Speaker 2: Obviously, she can do whatever she wants to do and
- 9:23Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily need to be criticized for it, even if
- 9:26Speaker 2: someone else might do it differently. But the thing is,
- 9:29Speaker 2: we have no idea what happened behind the scenes and
- 9:33Speaker 2: what has been happening behind the scenes. This is not
- 9:35Speaker 2: a matter of taking up for him. Just when things
- 9:37Speaker 2: happen like this, she's completely, like, he's done. I mean,
- 9:41Speaker 2: he's completely demonized, cannot defend himself. And that's, Fine, but
- 9:46Speaker 2: I just hate when these things, when it happens like this.
- 9:49Speaker 2: And everybody just a mob mentality. I have no idea
- 9:52Speaker 2: what he did, but she said it. He's a monster.
- 9:55Speaker 2: And that's the end of the story.
- 9:56Speaker 1: And that is probably what she wanted to happen. And
- 9:59Speaker 1: she wanted the public support. And that's why she chose
- 10:03Speaker 1: to do it this way. But there are real life
- 10:05Speaker 1: consequences for throwing someone under the bus publicly like that,
- 10:09Speaker 1: shaming them publicly, tagging them so that people then go
- 10:13Speaker 1: on his page. And by the way, people have gone
- 10:14Speaker 1: on his page and started trolling him. And saying, you're
- 10:18Speaker 1: a horrible husband. Why didn't you support your wife? So, yes,
- 10:22Speaker 1: if that's what she wanted, that's what happened. Yeah, man,
- 10:25Speaker 1: that's tough. It is tough.
- 10:27Speaker 2: Everybody do their own thing. It's just we don't know.
- 10:31Speaker 2: And everything she said might be true. This is the
- 10:35Speaker 2: damage that does. She loved him enough to do all
- 10:39Speaker 2: this with him and to stay married to him for
- 10:41Speaker 2: four years. And now I want to make sure I
- 10:44Speaker 2: hurt you at the end. And look, a lot of
- 10:48Speaker 2: people might say, well, you don't know what he did
- 10:50Speaker 2: to her.
- 10:50Speaker 1: Yes, I don't.
- 10:51Speaker 2: And that's the point.
- 10:52Speaker 1: And I will also say you and I both have
- 10:54Speaker 1: been through breakups and public ones at that. But we
- 10:57Speaker 1: always say this, and this is the one truth that
- 10:59Speaker 1: comes from all of this. You don't know someone is
- 11:02Speaker 1: until you divorce them. And so even if they're the
- 11:05Speaker 1: most loving, wonderful people while you're in a relationship with them,
- 11:08Speaker 1: when people get hurt, people do things to hurt back.
- 11:11Speaker 1: And that is what we see happen oftentimes. And by
- 11:14Speaker 1: the way, Ashley Michelle, just the latest. When we come back,
- 11:18Speaker 1: remember Megan Thee Stallion? She broke up with Klay Thompson
- 11:23Speaker 1: in a very public and damaging way. Megan Fox, Selena Gomez,
- 11:27Speaker 1: Justin Bieber. There are a bunch of celebrities who have
- 11:30Speaker 1: done this exact same thing. Welcome back, everyone. Yes, Ashley
- 11:44Speaker 1: may have asked for a divorce from Manuel, our 90-day
- 11:47Speaker 1: fiancé couple that we followed for so long on Instagram
- 11:50Speaker 1: this week. But not that long ago, Megan Thee Stallion,
- 11:53Speaker 1: we did a whole thing on this. Remember, accusing Klay
- 11:56Speaker 1: Thompson of all sorts of stuff? He never clapped back.
- 12:00Speaker 1: Not once.
- 12:01Speaker 2: And I appreciate that, but it leaves that void for
- 12:06Speaker 2: everybody to fill in the blanks to... call him whatever.
- 12:11Speaker 2: He can't defend himself.
- 12:12Speaker 1: No.
- 12:12Speaker 2: And he hasn't.
- 12:13Speaker 1: And she got specific. Her post was cheating, had me
- 12:16Speaker 1: around your whole family playing house, got cold feet. holding
- 12:19Speaker 1: you down through all your horrible mood swings and treatment
- 12:22Speaker 1: towards me during your basketball season. Now you don't know
- 12:25Speaker 1: if you can be monogamous. Bitch, I need a real
- 12:27Speaker 1: break after this one. Bye, y'all. And that is how
- 12:30Speaker 1: she broke up with him, in front of everybody. Megan
- 12:35Speaker 1: Fox did the same thing. She split from Machine Gun
- 12:40Speaker 1: Kelly after she shared a cryptic Instagram post and then
- 12:43Speaker 1: deleted her account. and let everyone know that something was up,
- 12:47Speaker 1: but she did it on Instagram first. Selena Gomez and
- 12:50Speaker 1: Justin Bieber, I didn't realize this, they had a very
- 12:52Speaker 1: public Instagram beef. Justin threatened to make his Instagram private
- 12:57Speaker 1: if the hate didn't stop after they broke up, right?
- 13:00Speaker 1: So Selena goes onto that post and says, if you
- 13:03Speaker 1: can't handle the hate, then stop posting pictures of your girlfriend.
- 13:07Speaker 1: It should be special between you two only. Don't be
- 13:09Speaker 1: mad at your fans. And then Justin gets on to
- 13:11Speaker 1: reply to her, saying, it's funny to see people that
- 13:14Speaker 1: used me for attention and still try to point the
- 13:16Speaker 1: finger this way. So sad. So they were literally publicly
- 13:20Speaker 1: beefing on each other's Instagram pages on comments.
- 13:23Speaker 2: I'm going to be honest with you, baby. I forgot
- 13:26Speaker 2: they dated. And there's a reason I forgot. I was
- 13:30Speaker 2: trying to forget it. Everybody's moved on. Why'd you have
- 13:33Speaker 2: to bring this back?
- 13:34Speaker 1: Right? Well, how about Rihanna? I forgot about this one.
- 13:36Speaker 1: She took a shot at all her exes in one post.
- 13:40Speaker 1: And this was 10 years ago. Obviously, she's very happy
- 13:42Speaker 1: now with Aesop Rocky. But she wrote in a post,
- 13:46Speaker 1: none of my exes are married or in happy relationships.
- 13:50Speaker 1: So it's safe to say that I wasn't a problem. LOL.
- 13:55Speaker 2: We love her too much to criticize. That's kind of hilarious.
- 13:59Speaker 1: Yes, but obviously the experts out there, relationship experts, say
- 14:03Speaker 1: there are clear do's and don'ts when it comes to
- 14:05Speaker 1: breaking up and social media. Look, and this is what
- 14:09Speaker 1: they say. It's obvious. It is tempting. It is tempting
- 14:13Speaker 1: to just put it out there, to get the support
- 14:15Speaker 1: that you want, the public support. And a lot of
- 14:17Speaker 1: celebrities know they have platforms and know they have fans.
- 14:21Speaker 1: And so if they're hurt and they're feeling sad to
- 14:23Speaker 1: go out there and throw their ex under the bus
- 14:26Speaker 1: or break up online or say, they know they're going
- 14:29Speaker 1: to get support. And that's why they do it because
- 14:31Speaker 1: it's tempting. But they say the best thing you can
- 14:34Speaker 1: possibly do if you are in the middle of a
- 14:36Speaker 1: messy breakup is to go cold turkey. Do not even
- 14:40Speaker 1: go on your social media because you might be tempted.
- 14:42Speaker 1: So turn your phone off for at least a week.
- 14:46Speaker 1: Keep it to yourself. They say it is never a
- 14:49Speaker 1: good idea to post publicly about your breakup or to
- 14:54Speaker 1: badmouth your ex. It doesn't ever end well. I think
- 14:58Speaker 1: we know this intellectually, but maybe we have to be reminded.
- 15:02Speaker 2: Do what everybody else does. Just call the tabloid. That
- 15:06Speaker 2: works too.
- 15:07Speaker 1: Right? I mean, this is what people do. But they say,
- 15:10Speaker 1: and this is about just being a good human being.
- 15:13Speaker 1: However badly your ex may have treated you or however
- 15:17Speaker 1: badly you think they treated you, two wrongs do not
- 15:21Speaker 1: make a right. And that is the golden rule when
- 15:25Speaker 1: it comes to breakups and social media. Two wrongs do
- 15:29Speaker 1: not make a right.
- 15:30Speaker 2: And you would be sitting here with some group of
- 15:32Speaker 2: girlfriends around you. Some people might even be listening to it.
- 15:36Speaker 1: Whatever.
- 15:36Speaker 2: If he blah, blah, blah, then he deserves that mindset.
- 15:40Speaker 2: I just, I just wrote, just like you said, some
- 15:44Speaker 2: folks know they have a platform. You, I'm going to
- 15:47Speaker 2: sick my 5 million followers on you, babe. That is,
- 15:51Speaker 2: it's not okay. And no matter what, baby, you cannot justify.
- 15:55Speaker 2: That's an intentional move to do harm, baby. That stuff.
- 16:01Speaker 2: Every celebrity knows that. What those comments feel like, you've
- 16:05Speaker 2: gone into depression over those comments. You avoid reading things
- 16:08Speaker 2: because you can't handle. And you're going to do that
- 16:10Speaker 2: to somebody. Whatever she's going through. I don't know. So
- 16:14Speaker 2: I don't know. And I shouldn't side with her or him.
- 16:18Speaker 2: That's not what we're talking about. I just, I wish
- 16:22Speaker 2: she hadn't.
- 16:22Speaker 1: It's tough, right? And I've been checking because she posted
- 16:25Speaker 1: this midweek and I've checked every day to see if
- 16:27Speaker 1: maybe she'd take it down. Maybe a cooler head would prevail. Nope,
- 16:32Speaker 1: it's still up. And she is commenting on the comments.
- 16:35Speaker 1: Like she is reacting to people who either support her
- 16:39Speaker 1: or tell her. And I would tell you, it's overwhelmingly
- 16:41Speaker 1: in support of her because that's what women do. And
- 16:44Speaker 1: I think that she knows and a lot of women
- 16:46Speaker 1: know that they will get their team of girls around
- 16:50Speaker 1: her to make her feel lifted up but there is
- 16:53Speaker 1: actually a real consequence to that and whatever Manuel did
- 16:57Speaker 1: or what he didn't do that was wrong I still
- 16:59Speaker 1: feel for the guy because there really isn't a good
- 17:02Speaker 1: next move for him for Clay Thompson for any of
- 17:05Speaker 1: the other men who get called out publicly for doing
- 17:08Speaker 1: something that they really like how do you.
- 17:11Speaker 3: Defend yourself in that situation because at least in Rose
- 17:16Speaker 3: we know in some of these circumstances through our connections
- 17:21Speaker 3: to people that some of these.
- 17:22Speaker 2: Stories are absolutely not true. These guys, some of them
- 17:26Speaker 2: are getting called out by big celebrities and big breakups
- 17:30Speaker 2: and we know it's false. We actually know. Please say something.
- 17:36Speaker 2: We were in the same position. We didn't know the game.
- 17:39Speaker 1: We didn't say anything and we should have.
- 17:42Speaker 2: Anybody who says I'm left-handed I will defend it. I
- 17:46Speaker 2: will hop on immediately and correct that record.
- 17:49Speaker 1: Nope, I'm a righty.
- 17:52Speaker 2: It's that kind of thing. I mean, you don't know, babe.
- 17:54Speaker 2: This stuff just gets going and play and Manuel will
- 17:57Speaker 2: forever be stamped. You can't get it back.
- 18:01Speaker 1: It's really hard to get back. So just remember to
- 18:04Speaker 1: be kind and that two wrongs don't make a right.
- 18:08Speaker 1: However tempting it may feel in the moment, put down
- 18:12Speaker 1: the phone, everybody. All right. And with that, we always
- 18:15Speaker 1: appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
- 18:18Speaker 1: We'll talk soon.