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Planning the Honeymoon with Marina Perera · 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: Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of the Almost as podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I am here with Marina from Gary.
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  Speaker 2: Season of The Golden Bachelor, and she just told me
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  Speaker 2: something amazing.
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  Speaker 3: She goes, I am, what don't you tell them?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this is a size ste dress. I'm not supposed
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  Speaker 4: to get into a size stood dress.
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  Speaker 2: But she did get into a size steel dress. And
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  Speaker 2: who does it belong to her daughter? That is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And also your boots are your daughters the high, the
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  Speaker 2: knee high boots with the four inch heel.
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  Speaker 3: You're killing it, Marina? How do you feel about you?
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, tell us a little bit about your backstory before
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  Speaker 2: you went on Golden Bachelor.
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  Speaker 4: A simple, humble amigrant from Sri Lanka. I'm so honored
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  Speaker 4: to be here and to represent my culture and to
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  Speaker 4: recognize diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. And I really feel
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  Speaker 4: that Golden Bachelor has really elevated the women in our
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  Speaker 4: age group and made us visible. And I had twenty
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  Speaker 4: seven followers on my Instagram when I flat started this
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  Speaker 4: show August first. Today I have nearly thousand, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't know who these people who are following me.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing and I am honored.
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  Speaker 4: I love it, and I really want to honor each
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  Speaker 4: and every woman who is single and older and mature
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  Speaker 4: and wants to own themselves. And I want to tell
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  Speaker 4: them you have power within yourself and reach out and
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  Speaker 4: grab it. And it's great if you have a man
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  Speaker 4: to make you feel like a woman, and if you don't,
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  Speaker 4: that's okay too, because you're a woman, You're a mother,
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  Speaker 4: you're a daughter, you're a sister, and you're somebody special.
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  Speaker 3: I love this settlement. That's so sad, that is so special.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel that I feel like that message
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  Speaker 2: really got out there with the Golden Bachelor. People love
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  Speaker 2: to see the difference in particularly the way that your
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  Speaker 2: community was within the house and how all of you
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  Speaker 2: were so supportive of each other. Can you tell us
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  Speaker 2: about your friendship circle with all those ladies today?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I really feel very honored to have the
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to so many people reach out to me and
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  Speaker 4: told me that that I represented their cultures and I
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  Speaker 4: was sorry, and they felt like I was one of them,
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  Speaker 4: and I am.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like I belong into.
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  Speaker 4: A group of people that was special and to be
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  Speaker 4: able to be an older woman sixty plus and to
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  Speaker 4: have a minute of visibility. I feel like it's an
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  Speaker 4: opportunity that I have to represent all the others who
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  Speaker 4: was sixty plus and beyond or whether you're twenty two
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  Speaker 4: or sixty plus or one or two, it doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 4: We have women and we should be able to speak
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  Speaker 4: up and be able to be visible regardless what age
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  Speaker 4: you are. And that's what it really means to me,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and to have that voice. And I really
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  Speaker 4: feel like ABC and Bachelor called on Bachelor really gave
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  Speaker 4: me that. I mean, really, I mean to me, that's
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  Speaker 4: why I'm here. Yeah, I really feel like I had
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  Speaker 4: that opportunity to speak for not only for myself, but
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  Speaker 4: for all the women out there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I love this, this, this is awesome. I'm totally switching gears.
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  Speaker 3: What was your first impression of Gary was a person
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  Speaker 3: that you would normally go for.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I was married to my guy, I got two
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  Speaker 4: beautiful children, mixed culture, so I was actually ready to
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  Speaker 4: take Gary to Sri Lanka.
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  Speaker 3: Are you were on my honeymoon? What would that look like?
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  Speaker 4: That would have really been amazing. He would have an
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to see a very tropical culture. He would see
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  Speaker 4: something that he has probably never seen before and appreciated
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  Speaker 4: the other side of the world literally, and he would
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  Speaker 4: have embraced diversity.
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  Speaker 3: You think that you think that he would have been
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  Speaker 3: you think he would have fit in Yes, yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we are a common I'm trying to picture him, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Bollywood type movie, in a Bollywood movie.
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  Speaker 4: But I know, I really think Gary woute fit in anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think Gary has a personality to fit in with
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  Speaker 4: anything and has adaptability to adapt to any situation. So
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  Speaker 4: because when I left, I had a phone conversation with him,
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  Speaker 4: he was like I I go and replay that every time,
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  Speaker 4: and I say this genuine concern face.
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  Speaker 5: You say that you had a phone conversation with him. Yeah, wait,
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  Speaker 5: what conversation with him? And after the show? Uh huh,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not actually doing the show how so tell us
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  Speaker 5: you'll have to find out.
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  Speaker 2: I will not find out thee was tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I do not think it was air.
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  Speaker 4: The finale. I mean, like you, you would see, his
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  Speaker 4: face is so genuine, so authentic, so real. He has
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  Speaker 4: the ability to make any woman feel real, you know,
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's very, very credible, and especially where
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  Speaker 4: he comes from Indiana right across the world to Sri Lanka.
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  Speaker 4: He will fit in.
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  Speaker 2: So you had a phone call with him, like after
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  Speaker 2: you were eliminated, mm hmmmm.
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  Speaker 3: And what was that about. Was who initiated it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I had to leave because I had an issue
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  Speaker 4: with my family, okay, and so I had to call
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  Speaker 4: him and tell him I had to leave because I
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  Speaker 4: had some things that I had to take care of.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So, but if you really listen to that phone conversation,
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  Speaker 4: he was so caring, such a beautiful gentleman, such a
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  Speaker 4: beautiful human being. I wish I could I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: really wish I could tell all the men in his
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  Speaker 4: age group.
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  Speaker 2: See.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a great example of what a man
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  Speaker 4: should really be. He has so much empathy, he has
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  Speaker 4: so much compassion. Even throughout the seasons, I've seen so
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  Speaker 4: much compassion in him, you know, as a human being regardless.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's a show at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day, it's a show, regardless, But at the
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  Speaker 4: end of you know, the way he dealt with every
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  Speaker 4: situation throughout the season, He's a remarkable human being. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how they're going to be able to
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  Speaker 4: find another Bachelor two for the next show. Yeah, because
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  Speaker 4: he's he said, as such a high standard.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you know, do you after.
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  Speaker 2: All you said about what it did for women of
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  Speaker 2: that age group, How disappointed would you be if.
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  Speaker 3: There wasn't a next Golden Bachelor received.
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  Speaker 2: So my co host Ben has this theory that they'll
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  Speaker 2: never be able to match Gary, so they're just not
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  Speaker 2: going to do another one. So but I find that
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  Speaker 2: to be completely disappointing to the entire fandom.
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  Speaker 4: And to like all the So I want you and
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  Speaker 4: I want to actually agree with Ben. But at the
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  Speaker 4: same time, I think Gary has been able to set
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  Speaker 4: the standard, has raised the ball. In one of my instagrams,
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  Speaker 4: I said, Gary actually raise the bar, and so because
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  Speaker 4: he has raised the bar, I think we have something
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  Speaker 4: to look forward to, and I think we'll be able
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  Speaker 4: to find another Bachelor or one hundred more because we
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  Speaker 4: have been able to identify what it should look like,
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  Speaker 4: because I don't think men really really knew what it was.
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  Speaker 4: In one of the Katie Couric interviews, I said, I'm
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  Speaker 4: raising my son to recognize and value women the way
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  Speaker 4: Gary values women. Because I think there's three women in
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  Speaker 4: this room and that's Ben. So you know, was we
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  Speaker 4: need to speak for ourselves, and I think at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Of the day.
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  Speaker 4: That we will be able to find somebody to get
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  Speaker 4: to fit in to gary shoes.
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  Speaker 3: I think, all right, well, that's very hopeful and I
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  Speaker 3: certainly I have one more question before we wrap this week.
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  Speaker 3: Some I want to say, like sort.
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  Speaker 2: Of fake, salacious news came out about Gary.
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  Speaker 3: It was a Hollywood Reporter article about how like his work,
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  Speaker 3: his past, like work history was like fluffed up a bit,
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  Speaker 3: and how he'd actually had a relationship post the passing
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  Speaker 3: of his wife.
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  Speaker 2: Did that change your mentality.
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  Speaker 3: Looking forward to seeing him today?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing has changed my perception about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a story.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that's him real and there's so many
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  Speaker 4: other stories that we probably don't know, and there are
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  Speaker 4: probably stories that we know. But at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the day, what really matters is who he really is.
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  Speaker 2: Is Yeah, I mean no, yes, and I don't I
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  Speaker 2: can't say I've done a lot of research on it,
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  Speaker 2: but from what it sounds like, it doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 2: anything worth giving a second thought one day.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I was always raised with the past really
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  Speaker 4: doesn't matter. What matters, just the future and the way
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  Speaker 4: the direction you're going.
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  Speaker 2: To, and let's end with that. Thank you so much, Marina.
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  Speaker 2: This is a pleasure, my pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: Bye.
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