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Breaking News - The Bachelorette Is Cancelled! Is This The End? · 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: Hi everybody, it's Trista and Deanna. We are here with
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  Speaker 2: the Almost Famous OG podcast and here to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the breaking news that is shocking, to say the least.
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  Speaker 2: I actually texted Dianna and told her about what was happening,
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  Speaker 2: and you were like, what you're kidding, right? Or no,
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  Speaker 2: you're kidding and literally.
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  Speaker 3: Driving down the five.
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  Speaker 4: Trista, I was trying to do adult things when you
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  Speaker 4: texted me. I was kind of shocked because you and
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  Speaker 4: I have already talked about this week. We were supposed
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  Speaker 4: to go to the premiere on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll catch you all up. The Bachelorette, if
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  Speaker 2: you haven't heard already, which it is all over everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: has been canceled for the coming season. It was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to start airing on Sunday and ABC has made a
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  Speaker 2: decision to cancel this season. Has never happened, honestly, This
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  Speaker 2: talk has been happening since the allegations came out about
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  Speaker 2: kind of second domestic violence incident. This just recently that
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  Speaker 2: has come out, and I felt like there was no
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  Speaker 2: way they would cancel it because they've just put too
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  Speaker 2: much energy, too much money. There's advertisers, there's all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of back you know, behind the scenes stuff that goes
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  Speaker 2: into making a television show. So I thought for sure
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  Speaker 2: it wouldn't be canceled until the video came out.
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  Speaker 4: I was with you, Trista, until I recorded with our
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  Speaker 4: producer Heather the other night, and her insight, even though
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  Speaker 4: you and I know the industry well, her insight into
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  Speaker 4: that really helped me.
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  Speaker 3: And she was right.
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  Speaker 4: Once we started seeing advertisers pull out, it's at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the day, it's money. It's money, and I
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  Speaker 4: personally have such a hard time with that because I
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  Speaker 4: want to think, oh, these people are my friends, the
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  Speaker 4: producers are my friends. We've already film did We've already
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  Speaker 4: put all this effort and this money into it. But
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  Speaker 4: Heather was right, once you start seeing those things disappear,
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  Speaker 4: it's a trickle effect. Because she pointed out that it
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  Speaker 4: affects their other shows, and she called it, she said,
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  Speaker 4: so much will be told within the next twenty four
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  Speaker 4: to forty eight hours if more advertisers pull out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and even Ryan who doesn't watch the
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  Speaker 2: show and his feed is not full of bachelorette stuff
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  Speaker 2: like mine is. He said, Well, I just heard Cinnabon
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  Speaker 2: pulled advertising from the show, and I'm like, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like that's probably a brand deal with her. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: you're right, I don't know if that was the only advertiser.
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  Speaker 2: I think at this point, more advertisers have pulled. And
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  Speaker 2: then Jimmy Fallon's show canceled her as a guest last night.
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  Speaker 2: I actually heard that she didn't show or she didn't come,
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  Speaker 2: so who knows. I assume they, you know, decided against
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  Speaker 2: having her on. So, yes, we are confirmed that Jimmy
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  Speaker 2: Foul Show canceled her appearance last night with them, and
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  Speaker 2: I just as we said in our text, my heart,
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  Speaker 2: just my heart goes out to first of all, the
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  Speaker 2: children involved in this relationship. Second of all, honestly to
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  Speaker 2: her because and listen, I've seen the video. I there
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  Speaker 2: is no getting around the fact that she threw a
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  Speaker 2: chair and there was a child pressurest.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry to interrupt you. Specifically, this video was the
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  Speaker 4: one from two years ago. This is not the mostion.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so this video is from twenty twenty three, and
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  Speaker 2: I just I guess because he was the one who
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  Speaker 2: was taking the video. Okay, she of course did not
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  Speaker 2: release this video. There's no way she would have released
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  Speaker 2: this video with the Bachelorette starting on Sunday, right. So
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  Speaker 2: the fact that the video was released the week of
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  Speaker 2: her premiere from two or three years ago, well, let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you, really fishy and sketchy to me, and
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  Speaker 2: does not it gives me the ick, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Thinking from personal experience, Yeah, from a situation that I
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  Speaker 4: was involved in, and there was video footage that was
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  Speaker 4: turned over to police, the DA and the courts to
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  Speaker 4: look at. So once that happens, the video can then
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  Speaker 4: be public knowledge once it reaches that part. So I
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  Speaker 4: don't know her court case. I won't pretend to be
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  Speaker 4: a lawyer.
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  Speaker 3: I am not.
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  Speaker 4: I am speaking for my personal experience. If that happened,
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  Speaker 4: she was charged with domestic violence. I'm sure the video
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  Speaker 4: was used as proof of that. Therefore, it can at
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  Speaker 4: any point in time be dug up and put out
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  Speaker 4: for public knowledge. Like to me, that's just gross and
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  Speaker 4: it's really really sad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: That he had.
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  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't it add Why wouldn't they have aired it before?
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  Speaker 2: Now do you know what I mean? Like, I just
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  Speaker 2: the timing just is gross to me. It just is
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  Speaker 2: a gross So how are you feeling with your personal experience?
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  Speaker 3: You know what? I'm okay?
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  Speaker 4: I was, you know, when Heather and I recorded the
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  Speaker 4: other day, after you and I recorded a podcast, I
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  Speaker 4: told her that I was. I was all up in
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  Speaker 4: my feels about it because it just brings up some
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  Speaker 4: personal issues for me. And I think at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day, we're looking at a situation like, this
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  Speaker 4: is this girl's life. It is messy and it is
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  Speaker 4: dirty right now, and my hope what happens. And I
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  Speaker 4: said this to Heather. The rope has gotten long enough
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  Speaker 4: and she is being yanked back to her knees. And
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  Speaker 4: I hope that she gets help. I hope that he
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  Speaker 4: does too. But so much as being published about her
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  Speaker 4: right now, which which I know feels really, really terrible,
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  Speaker 4: But she gets a pivotal point right now that she
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  Speaker 4: can she can have some humility, I hope, yeah, some
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  Speaker 4: responsibility and seek help and seek help. I haven't watched
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  Speaker 4: the video. I can't bring myself to watch the video.
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  Speaker 4: I don't really want to. I don't want that to
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  Speaker 4: be the image that I'm stuck with. But anybody given
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  Speaker 4: the toxic situation that she's in and that she has
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  Speaker 4: grown up in, and what she's experiencing now in this moment,
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  Speaker 4: I hope that she chooses to seek some mental health
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  Speaker 4: for herself, and whatever that looks like.
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  Speaker 3: If it's addiction, if it's.
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  Speaker 4: Depression, if it's if it's anger management, no matter what
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  Speaker 4: it is, that's what I hope that she seeks in
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  Speaker 4: this moment. If this has to be the bottom, then
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  Speaker 4: so be it. I believe that that's what the Lord does.
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  Speaker 4: He brings you to the bottom so that you can
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  Speaker 4: help be built up from there. And she has a
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  Speaker 4: choice right now, a pivotal moment that she could seek help.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to read the article that TMZ put out.
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  Speaker 2: It says The Bachelorette canceled on it exclusive The Bachelorette
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Taylor Frankie Paul's season canceled. This was put out
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  Speaker 2: at twelve forty pm today. TMZ has learned ABC is
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  Speaker 2: pulling the plug on Taylor Frankie Paul's season of the
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  Speaker 2: Bachelorette amid fresh claims of domestic abuse in the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three video of her fighting with her baby daddy.
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  Speaker 2: A Disney Entertainment spokesperson tells US quote, in light of
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  Speaker 2: the newly released video just surface today, we have made
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  Speaker 2: the decision to not move forward with the new season
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  Speaker 2: of The Bachelorette at this time, and our focus is
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  Speaker 2: on the supporting the family. The network dropped the hammer
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  Speaker 2: Thursday on the upcoming season of the reality TV dating show,
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  Speaker 2: only hours after TMZ published video of Taylor's brutal twenty
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  Speaker 2: three fight with Dakota Mortinson. A source connected to The
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  Speaker 2: Bachelorette tells US no one at ABC had seen the
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  Speaker 2: video before TMZ posted it Thursday morning. I'm I'm shocked
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  Speaker 2: to learn that this is the first time that they've
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  Speaker 2: seen the video, because you and I both know that
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  Speaker 2: when you are the lead, I don't care if you're
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  Speaker 2: famous or not. When you are the lead, there is
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  Speaker 2: so much that goes in to checking and triple checking
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  Speaker 2: and making sure that you are mentally ready, that you're
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  Speaker 2: physically ready, like they do sexual transmitted disease testing, and
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  Speaker 2: like I mean, the thing that you fill out like
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  Speaker 2: for mental health and you speak to a psychologist, like
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  Speaker 2: all of these things. I am shocked that if they
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  Speaker 2: knew that she went to jail for her domestic violence
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  Speaker 2: incident back in twenty three and they didn't know about
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  Speaker 2: this video. I'm shocked that they didn't know about this video.
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  Speaker 2: I think they did or not, but.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's two things.
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  Speaker 4: They ei their cut corners because they were so desperate
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  Speaker 4: to revive the show and get numbers. Because at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the day, you and I both know that
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  Speaker 4: that's what it's about, making money. So they either cut
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  Speaker 4: corners on that or they didn't care. Trista, they didn't care.
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  Speaker 4: You can watch The Mormon Wives on Hulu and you
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  Speaker 4: can see the mess unfold there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they cared about numbers and hopefully reviving a television
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  Speaker 4: show at all costs.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I think.
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  Speaker 4: And that's not because now we've watched somebody struggle with
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  Speaker 4: their mental health. She's been really open about it. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if you've seen some of the some of
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  Speaker 4: the precedents that she did this week. She sounds she
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  Speaker 4: sounds really bad.
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  Speaker 2: Little Yes, she sounds like puny.
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  Speaker 4: She's showing up for something because she's being told to
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  Speaker 4: when she really needs to be at home working on
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  Speaker 4: herself and her life and her kids and her own
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  Speaker 4: emotional well being. And she's contractually supposed to do these things,
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  Speaker 4: and what show up like she's got it all together.
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  Speaker 4: Her life is falling apart before America. We're seeing the headlines,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Like, what I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Most worried about is I hate the hatred we all know.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I didn't have social media. You didn't have
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  Speaker 2: social media, but we had message boards and people come
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  Speaker 2: out of the woodwork and tell you to kill yourself
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  Speaker 2: and tell you that you're a piece of trash and
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  Speaker 2: tell you like all the things. And I cannot imagine
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  Speaker 2: the hate that she's getting, and I don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like she's got enough on our plates. So
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  Speaker 2: I really hope that the people who are surrounding her
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  Speaker 2: that they are that she does not have her phone
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  Speaker 2: and she cannot look at any of that stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: she is not being told all of these things that
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee trolls are telling.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, I would have to say that when
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  Speaker 4: I was going through a difficult time, I stayed off
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  Speaker 4: of social media.
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  Speaker 3: I had to.
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  Speaker 4: Every time I turned around, there was a new article posted,
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  Speaker 4: there was a new link to something.
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  Speaker 3: A sweekly drove my name into the Philip.
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  Speaker 4: And Ground and for everything that happened, and it was
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  Speaker 4: really unhealthy for me to see those things. So I hope,
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  Speaker 4: I hope that she is aware withal and if she doesn't,
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  Speaker 4: the people around her are telling to do so, to
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  Speaker 4: just stay off of it, to just stay off of it.
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  Speaker 4: There's really nothing she can do right now to save face,
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  Speaker 4: not that she needs to, but you know, her driving
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  Speaker 4: force needs to be her emotional well being, her children.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm sure there's a legal issue here, so
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  Speaker 4: she probably needs to be really mum because anything that
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  Speaker 4: she says and does can be used against her in
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  Speaker 4: the court of law. Social media plays a part in that.
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  Speaker 4: So if she does get to have to go to
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  Speaker 4: court or convicted of anything, they will use all of this.
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  Speaker 4: They'll use her social media, they'll use her posts, they'll
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  Speaker 4: use anything, and they'll use it against her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so more of the article says. The article goes
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  Speaker 2: on to say, as we first reported, Taylor and Dakota
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  Speaker 2: have been ordered to undergo psych exams amid a fresh
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  Speaker 2: batch of spassal abuse claims, and the Utah Division of
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  Speaker 2: Children and Family Services and is investigating ongoing allegations of
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  Speaker 2: violence between them. So we know that Child and Family Services,
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  Speaker 2: you and I talked about that.
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  Speaker 4: The other day, though we knew that was going to
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  Speaker 4: happen because a child is involved. Anytime that happens, anytime
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  Speaker 4: police are called and a child is involved, DCFS is
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  Speaker 4: called an open investigation is made because a child, an
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  Speaker 4: underage child, is involved in a situation like that. So
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  Speaker 4: that's going to happen. It's really really scary. But they're
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  Speaker 4: doing it to protect a child, for.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, as they should, as they need to. I just
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  Speaker 2: I think that, like you were saying, there's definitely an
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  Speaker 2: ongoing investigation, and I think that she can't speak about
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it. He shouldn't be allowed to speak
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  Speaker 2: about any of it. It's just it drives me crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I do not hold him in the highest regard for
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  Speaker 2: what it seems like is a smear campaign against her
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  Speaker 2: currently because everything is from him, like pictures of his
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  Speaker 2: phone and how she called him you know however many times,
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  Speaker 2: and you know all of that is coming from him,
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  Speaker 2: And I just don't know.
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  Speaker 4: What you hope is that at this point they can
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  Speaker 4: act like adults, But it's going to become and hopefully
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  Speaker 4: not right. I can hope it's not, but it's going
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  Speaker 4: to become. He said, she said, that's the way this works,
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  Speaker 4: and it's just it's so unfortunate because the truth of
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  Speaker 4: the matter is is there's his side, her side, and
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  Speaker 4: then there's the truth. And in any situation, especially with
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  Speaker 4: a traumatic one like something like this, we all remember
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  Speaker 4: things differently. We all remember things differently. In my own situation,
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  Speaker 4: I remember things very differently than how they were told
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  Speaker 4: from other parties. So that's how it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: for her too, And unfortunately, this is going to look
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  Speaker 4: like a really long road for her as well. And
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  Speaker 4: I also question just the what's going to happen to
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  Speaker 4: the bachelor and the bachelorette. I don't see them surviving this.
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  Speaker 4: I do know from what we were told that this
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  Speaker 4: was a last ditch effort to keep the show alive,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't know that they can survive this.
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  Speaker 2: Trista, I'm wondering the same thing. And it's so sad.
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  Speaker 4: I was doing this with Heather the other night because
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  Speaker 4: I don't like endings.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like endings at all.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I imagine you feel significantly more attached
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  Speaker 4: given your whole life has surrounded the show. You were
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  Speaker 4: the first bachelorette, you have Ryan and your kids and
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  Speaker 4: this beautiful life. But you know, I said the same
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  Speaker 4: thing eighteen years ago, what a life this has created
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  Speaker 4: for me and my kids and the longevity of it
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  Speaker 4: and being attached to it, and the good memories that
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  Speaker 4: I have and the friendships and the bonds and look
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  Speaker 4: at what we did in November filming this special and
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  Speaker 4: how fun that was for us all to be together.
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  Speaker 3: I'd have done it for free, you know what I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean, like just being together with you women and the
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  Speaker 4: bond that we have and for this to be for
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  Speaker 4: this to be done like it's sad.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: You must feel stronger about it than I do. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: you haven't even thought what words to put to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's like literally, I'm just kind of like if
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  Speaker 2: that in this listen, we're not saying that that's the case,
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  Speaker 2: but because they're canceling that, TRUSTO. I have never done
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  Speaker 2: that before.
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  Speaker 3: No, it doesn't look good.
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  Speaker 2: It has been happened, I know, I know, but no
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  Speaker 2: matter what has happened in anyone's life before, it has happened,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously nothing has happened to this extent. But just
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  Speaker 2: oh gosh, it just breaks my heart because of all
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  Speaker 2: those connections and because of the memories. But it's also
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  Speaker 2: weird because we filmed the reunion we had that that
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  Speaker 2: was kind of like that if you now happy that
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  Speaker 2: to the future, if you look to the future and
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  Speaker 2: you say, and the show ended, say after this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're never going to get it back, and we go
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  Speaker 2: five years down the road and we're going to be saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: at least we got that reunion. So I feel like
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  Speaker 2: that's weird that the reunion was aired before any of
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  Speaker 2: this came out, and then Ryan and I are this
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  Speaker 2: week on the cover of People magazine.
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  Speaker 3: I saw that about how freaking Cuty Love.
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  Speaker 2: So it's weird, Like it's like all of these things
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  Speaker 2: are happening right before this season to like culminate all
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  Speaker 2: the goodness, and then it gets taken away. So I
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  Speaker 2: feel like, you know, signs are pointing towards it not
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  Speaker 2: surviving this. I'm going to hope that it does because
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  Speaker 2: it's just been such a blessing in my life, but
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  Speaker 2: I feel like all signs are pointing in that direction.
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  Speaker 4: I know it's sad, Yeah, it's sad, And I think
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  Speaker 4: this is the thing about you know, it's not even
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  Speaker 4: so much as like endings if we can prepare for them.
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  Speaker 3: So this feels like I've got a lots of the man,
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  Speaker 3: I've got lots of abandonment issues, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: So it's the it's the like the surprise.
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  Speaker 3: Of it all, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: We're not prepared for this. We were prepared for another season.
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  Speaker 4: We get to film a fun episode surrounding it, and
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  Speaker 4: now here with the backlash of at all. But you
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  Speaker 4: know what, at the end of the day, they took
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  Speaker 4: a chance. They wanted to revive a show. They took
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  Speaker 4: a chance making her the bachelorette. It backfired royally. I
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  Speaker 4: feel like people were obviously very divided anyway. They were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: this is going to do it. I'm going to watch
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  Speaker 4: our people were like what what were they thinking?
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  Speaker 3: You can't save this, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: But I think it's just the the honestly, the sticker
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  Speaker 4: shock of it all that like.
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  Speaker 3: It's Thursday, is the day of the week.
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  Speaker 4: On Sunday, We're on a high with all of our videos,
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  Speaker 4: our fun times.
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  Speaker 3: The show is starting one week.
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  Speaker 4: Later and four four days later, like that, it's done.
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  Speaker 4: They're pulling it and I hate to break it. To you,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: but I think that this will be the end. I
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: don't know how they say face after this. There have
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: been several things that have changed the trajectory of the
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: show Flice Chris Harrison, Yeah, you know all of that.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know how they come back from this.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows. I mean, someone's going to have to
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: be really, really, really creative. But I think you're right.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know that we're gonna survive this.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: And I mean maybe they do The Bachelor and they
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: get someone. I don't know. I don't know. I just
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: have to hope that it's not the end because it
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: has been such a positive force in my life. So honestly,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: like I'm thinking about getting rid of my cable because
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: it's like.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Over two hundred you well have cable, Trista.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I do because my husband is a massive sports addict
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: that they have out for that. Oh no, there's not
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: not in Denver. When you want to watch the Colorado
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Avalanche until literally until like recently, they did not have
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: an app where you could watch. I promise you we
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: had to because we have to watch the Colorado Avalanche
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: in this house.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: I don't think I have had a cable TV in
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: fifteen years. I am all for the streaming. I only
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: have apps, HBO, app Hulu, Netflix, all of the things.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: That's the same thing with my podcast. That's how I do.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: I'm part of I've become part of this culture that
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I am like. I'm small increments, I'm scrolling, I'm doing
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: all of these things. I'm reaching my I'm fast forwarding
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: through commercials. But I do think that even if there
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: isn't a space for it on ABC anymore, because this
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: season obviously didn't fit their mold of being. And you
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: know this Trista, this feel good television show. Take a
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: pretty girl, make her seem like she wants nothing but
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: love and a happily ever after, put her on fancy
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: dates with helicopters that's not real life, and then send
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: her right off in its sunset and let's not touch
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: her again. That was not going to happen with Taylor, Frankie.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Paul, No, no, no, no.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: They were flipping a coins with right They were flipping
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: a coin hoping it was going to work, and here
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: it hasn't worked. And that's sad, right because I don't
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: see the show surviving this.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: But I do believe that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: If it's able to I think that they can sell
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: it to another streaming network and tweak it a little
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: bit because people do love the show.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: They do love it for sure.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: For sure it would need to be tweaked and it
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: would need to be streamed. There's no getting around it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Because network television is like they have legal requirements like
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: they are. I feel like they're bound more legally to
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: producing stuff that they can actually air, whereas the stuff
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: that's streaming. I don't think they have as many regulations.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I am not an expert, I'm not a producer, but
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I would assume that that's the case.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: It's wild. It's wild.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: You know, the story is changing, it's still ongoing. I mean,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: you and I hopped on here within a matter of
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: seconds to talk about it because it is that sticker
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: shock Tristan and I think that more will be revealed.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks everybody for listening. Who knows if this will
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: be one of the last times that we talk about
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the Bachelor or the Bachelorette. Hopefully not, but thanks for
• 21:20
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