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BREAKING NEWS: Will Taylor Frankie Paul Be Part of SLOMW? · 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 on our radio.
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  Speaker 2: We are back on the Almost Famous podcast with some
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  Speaker 2: breaking news. I wish we had like that sound when
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  Speaker 2: breaking news happens, or like if I was like the
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  Speaker 2: nightly news guy, where I'd be like, we're here the
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  Speaker 2: Almost Famous podcast, some breaking news as we hit the air.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Frankie Paul's future with per Hulu show The Secret
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  Speaker 2: Lives of Mormon Wives. We just talked about it a
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  Speaker 2: few days ago, wondering what was.
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  Speaker 3: Going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have some breaking news and updates that we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna share with you. We'll start with this headline, The
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  Speaker 2: Secret Lives of Mormon Wives to resume season five production
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  Speaker 2: without Taylor, Frankie Paul, and Dakota Mortensen.
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  Speaker 3: This is a lie, Heather.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this was out for a couple of
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  Speaker 4: minutes I think before it was quickly not rich acted,
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  Speaker 4: but updated. Yeah, they are going to be going into production.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like we're hearing as early as this week,
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  Speaker 4: but that Taylor and Dakota will not be a part
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  Speaker 4: of filming. And then what I saw online and I
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  Speaker 4: don't exactly know where Taylor commented it but she left
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  Speaker 4: a comment on one of these outlets saying.
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  Speaker 5: News to me or it's not the call I got, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I got.
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  Speaker 4: And then we see the next article, which is Taylor
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  Speaker 4: Frankie Paul chose not to resume filming Mormon Wives following
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  Speaker 4: domestic abuse investigations, so it is uncertain, it says about
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  Speaker 4: her future, but the Hulu series will continue filming following
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  Speaker 4: a weeks long pause.
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  Speaker 5: Weeks long is an interesting way to phrase it.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we've been down for a month, at
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  Speaker 4: least over a month at this point, maybe, it says
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  Speaker 4: a source close to Taylor now tells people that she
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  Speaker 4: has the option to return to the reality show and
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  Speaker 4: it's possible she could make an appearance.
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  Speaker 5: It's quote she's receiving.
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  Speaker 4: Strong support from the cast and producers, but is focusing
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  Speaker 4: on her kids and mental health issues and recovery from
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  Speaker 4: an abusive relationship. She's doing great and realizing how abusive
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  Speaker 4: her relationship actually was. And then it says that people
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  Speaker 4: reached out to Hulu and Taylor Frankie Paul's rep for
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  Speaker 4: a comment. So if I'm guessing, I'm going to say
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  Speaker 4: she's not coming back this season.
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  Speaker 2: If I was her like pr team, I'd say it's
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  Speaker 2: not a good look. One. Two, you've you know, she's
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  Speaker 2: communicated from a human level, how before any of these
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  Speaker 2: things come out, came out on social media, how much
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  Speaker 2: was going on in our life, how much she was
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  Speaker 2: trying to carry, how she wasn't doing well, and so
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  Speaker 2: all of us here without knowing at that time anything
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  Speaker 2: that happened in February or seeing the video that from
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, we're saying, Taylor, you got to just
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  Speaker 2: step away, like step away from all of this for
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  Speaker 2: a bit. If that doesn't feel like an option, it
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  Speaker 2: might be a really hard decision, but it feels it
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  Speaker 2: seems like what you're crying out for is that kind
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  Speaker 2: of help.
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  Speaker 3: So for her.
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  Speaker 2: To choose, based on you know what we're hearing, for
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  Speaker 2: her to choose to not come back, I think is
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  Speaker 2: a very wise choice.
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  Speaker 5: I would agree with that.
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  Speaker 4: I will say, as as I'm thinking about kind of
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  Speaker 4: what the rest of this season will look like, we
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  Speaker 4: know that there well at some point be a reunion film.
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  Speaker 4: That's what they've done the previous seasons. So I actually think,
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  Speaker 4: if I'm making an educated guess that I would say
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  Speaker 4: Taylor doesn't come back for the reality filming, but maybe
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  Speaker 4: makes an appearance or a one on one conversation for
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  Speaker 4: an update at a reunion setting that feels more private
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  Speaker 4: and controlled and maybe less invasive because it's not happening
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  Speaker 4: like in her home or something.
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  Speaker 5: I could see that happening.
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  Speaker 3: You obviously have watched this show.
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  Speaker 2: If Taylor Frankie Paul is not on it for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 2: is there any role for Dakota to play, or is
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  Speaker 2: by her not being on it, is it just pretty
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  Speaker 2: much his elimination from the show as well? Like is
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  Speaker 2: he a part of this show without her? I guess
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  Speaker 2: is the best way to ask that.
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  Speaker 4: I believe if she is not on the show, he
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  Speaker 4: will not be on the show. I mean, you can
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  Speaker 4: as a producer, you can grasp at straws and say
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  Speaker 4: he's still friends with the dads on Dad Talk and
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  Speaker 4: dads in the group. But I think that does he
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  Speaker 4: bring a compelling story without filming with her? I don't
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  Speaker 4: think so. I don't think so. I will say this
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  Speaker 4: is not the end. I don't think for Taylor Frankie
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  Speaker 4: Paul and this show. I think that Secret Lives of
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  Speaker 4: Mormon Wives cannot continue this cast, this iteration because we
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  Speaker 4: do know that they're making a spinoff in the Orange
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  Speaker 4: County right now. But this Utah cast, I think the
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  Speaker 4: show cannot move forward indefinitely without Taylor Frankie Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Can it move forward without Dakota? Yes, yes, it can
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  Speaker 2: move forward without Dakota.
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  Speaker 4: I believe so. Taylor Frankie Paul is the reason they
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  Speaker 4: have a show. It was her Swinging Scandal that got
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  Speaker 4: them picked up. And in season one we didn't even
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  Speaker 4: have anybody from the Swinging Scandal as a part.
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  Speaker 5: Of the cast.
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  Speaker 4: So all of these girls only got the show because
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  Speaker 4: of the attention that she got by going that public
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  Speaker 4: on her Instagram or her TikTok platform.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, in a lot of ways, she created the
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  Speaker 2: I mean she created this show.
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  Speaker 4: She is the of the show as much as these
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  Speaker 4: girls have large followings. And you know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: going on right now with Jesse and her husband and
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  Speaker 4: Marciano and all the things. I won't get too into
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  Speaker 4: the weeds, but like, is there a lot of drama there? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 4: Is it enough drama to sustain the show?
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  Speaker 5: I do not think so. I think this show needs
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  Speaker 5: Taylor Frankie.
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  Speaker 2: Paul because right now we're getting the reports that Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Frankie Paul chose not to resume filming. We don't know
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  Speaker 2: if Dakota chose not to resume filming or was strictly
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  Speaker 2: just not asked.
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  Speaker 4: I would guess if the door remains open for Taylor
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  Speaker 4: Okay to come back and film, there's gonna be stipulations
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  Speaker 4: that that means Dakota doesn't get to come back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just based on we had a really interesting,
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  Speaker 2: i think episode with a legal expert coming in and
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  Speaker 2: talking through about the court case and all the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that's preliminary to the hearing that's going to be done
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  Speaker 2: on the thirtieth of this month. That was super interesting.
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  Speaker 2: But from that, I mean, I'm guessing here, it's my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: there is going to be no matter what happens, no
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  Speaker 2: matter what the outcome, there is going to be some
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  Speaker 2: stipulation placed in the two of them being near each
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  Speaker 2: other for a period of time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because they've got those orders of protection at against
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  Speaker 4: each other, so it would be a violation if they
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  Speaker 4: were filming anywhere near each other or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: So it seems like it would be more difficult from
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  Speaker 4: a production standpoint to constantly be having to film with
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  Speaker 4: them separate, Yeah, then just being like if we go
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  Speaker 4: with her. And by the way, Dakota is only on
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  Speaker 4: the show because he was her boyfriend at the time
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  Speaker 4: that the show started.
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  Speaker 5: That is literally the only reason.
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  Speaker 2: We do have an interesting quote from TMZ. TMZ, they
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  Speaker 2: work through the night, they break everything these days. It
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  Speaker 2: seems like the headline reads Taylor Frankie Paul Secret lives
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  Speaker 2: of Mormon wives return will happen? Family remains priority.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it said similar to I think what the other
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  Speaker 4: quote said, that she will return at some point. However,
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  Speaker 4: her main focus right now is her family and kids.
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  Speaker 4: Production sources tell TMZ that Taylor's priority remains her Kinson family,
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  Speaker 4: but she is not completely cutting off ties with the
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  Speaker 4: show and will and we're told she will film at
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  Speaker 4: some point. A source tells us cameras will go up
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  Speaker 4: nearly immediately, even as early as this week, and the
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  Speaker 4: entire cast and production crews are supportive of Taylor returning
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  Speaker 4: to the hit Hulu show when she's ready. So that
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  Speaker 4: is interesting, right, because all we hearing in this last
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  Speaker 4: month was that the cast banded together and said we
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  Speaker 4: will not film unless we can address and talk about
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  Speaker 4: this issue that was happening with Taylor. We also heard
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  Speaker 4: reports that they didn't want to continue filming because of
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  Speaker 4: what they had known or heard about the violent acts
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  Speaker 4: in question. So to hear now that TMZ is reporting
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  Speaker 4: that the entire cast is supportive of her returning and
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  Speaker 4: some of her cast members have come out and made
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  Speaker 4: statements since the das have Since the das have decided
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  Speaker 4: to not press charges against her, some of her cast
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  Speaker 4: members have come out in support of her. So I
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  Speaker 4: think that's an interesting turn. Again, I don't think you
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  Speaker 4: have a show this Utah cast if you don't have her.
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  Speaker 4: And when they say that she is definitely returning to
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  Speaker 4: film at some point, I don't know, the verbiage of
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  Speaker 4: some point leads me to still believe this season, which
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  Speaker 4: makes me think reunion.
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  Speaker 3: The reunion, and that would make sense.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, if you know, it's like kind of sitting.
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  Speaker 3: Out of a sports team.
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  Speaker 2: In my mind, you can sit out a sports team
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  Speaker 2: because of an injury because the healthy thing for you
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  Speaker 2: to do. But it's hard to sit and know that
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  Speaker 2: you know the game is being played without you, that
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  Speaker 2: the team is together without you, and at some point
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  Speaker 2: it is nice to walk back into the locker room,
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  Speaker 2: even if it's for a short period of time, to
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  Speaker 2: let everybody know you still exist, to feel like you're
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  Speaker 2: a part of something, and to see if they, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, desire you to be back or not.
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  Speaker 2: So I can see that how that happens in closing here, Heather,
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  Speaker 2: Are all of them friends? Like, That's one part of
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  Speaker 2: this I don't quite understand when it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. They're obviously on the show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the Real Housewives of Rhode Island headspace still
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  Speaker 2: where I'm like, Okay, some of them are friends. They're
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  Speaker 2: all connected in some way. They have like this web
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  Speaker 2: of connection. They don't all like each other, but they're
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  Speaker 2: there for a reason. Are the Secret Lives of Mormon
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  Speaker 2: Wives cast all friends?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I'm gonna say a big no on that one.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's some of the similar dynamics I think
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  Speaker 4: you're seeing some girls have closer connections to each other
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  Speaker 4: than some.
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  Speaker 5: But there is a lot of jealousy.
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  Speaker 4: And animosity that we've seen play out between the women
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  Speaker 4: in seasons. A perfect example being Taylor got to walk
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  Speaker 4: her first red carpet, and this was a couple of
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  Speaker 4: seasons ago, and she posted it on her socials, and
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  Speaker 4: none of the girls congratulated her publicly on her socials.
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  Speaker 4: That ended up becoming a very large fight between the women.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that there's animosity between some of them,
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  Speaker 4: but their connection is that they did tiktoks together and
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  Speaker 4: they all have known each other. The bond does not
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  Speaker 4: run nearly as deep as the Rhode Island cast.
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  Speaker 5: It is not.
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  Speaker 4: It's not like I went to school with you in kindergarten,
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  Speaker 4: I know your brother, like that kind of thing. Some
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  Speaker 4: of them have swapped boyfriends and things like that, but
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  Speaker 4: that goes I think more so that the dating pool
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  Speaker 4: is really small in Utah where they're at.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I know, I wouldn't say they're all besties.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's the big breaking news of today. And to
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  Speaker 2: break it down if you've just zoned out, because our
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  Speaker 2: voices are so soothing that it's kind of made you
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  Speaker 2: take a nap. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives are
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  Speaker 2: resuming filming after many weeks of being down and not filming.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Frankie Paul. According these headlines, Hassen not to resume
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  Speaker 2: filming with the cast, but has left the door open
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  Speaker 2: for some appearance of some kind in the future, either
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  Speaker 2: this season or the next.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Dakota Mortensen, there is pretty much Right now, all we
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  Speaker 2: know is that he is not resuming filming, and we
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  Speaker 2: don't know if he chose that or if that was
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  Speaker 2: chosen for him, but he is not resuming filming.
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  Speaker 4: Can I just say something, ben, Which will be interesting
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  Speaker 4: when we do end up seeing this season because obviously
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  Speaker 4: they were filming before all of this went down, So
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  Speaker 4: it'll be interesting to see how much of Taylor and
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  Speaker 4: Dakota we see when season five ends up coming out,
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  Speaker 4: Well we see Dakota at all, Well, we see a
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  Speaker 4: cut down version of him. So that's something that I'm
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  Speaker 4: actually kind of intrigued by when this season does eventually
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  Speaker 4: come out.
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  Speaker 3: We're all intrigued, Heather, the world is intrigued. We'll be
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  Speaker 3: back soon. NaNs more tea.
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  Speaker 3: So until next time, I've been.
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  Speaker 5: Ben, I've been Heather Hi.
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