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Breaking News: Matt and Rachel · 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: It's a special headlines episode for the Almost Famous Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Today we are here to talk about something that's not
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  Speaker 2: that fun to talk about, but it is a headline
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure viewers and listeners want to know what
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  Speaker 2: we know about the Matt and Rachel situation. Now here
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  Speaker 2: is what we know so far. We were kind of
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  Speaker 2: brought onto this because of a post on Instagram that
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  Speaker 2: Matt did announcing their breakup. This was a sweet post,
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  Speaker 2: but it didn't go into any detail and it really
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  Speaker 2: didn't hardly say they broke up, other than one line
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  Speaker 2: where he said something about helping them get through this
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  Speaker 2: time as they have separated. That's all we know. However,
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  Speaker 2: through some investigation this morning from our team, we do
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  Speaker 2: have some sources that are close to Matt and Rachel
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  Speaker 2: that Ashley is going to speak about, and then we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get into some speculation and also some recent
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  Speaker 2: updates what we've been seeing from Matt and Rachel over
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  Speaker 2: the last few weeks that led up to this moment.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so they have been posting NonStop on their
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  Speaker 3: trip from London. Some people are saying that the trip
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  Speaker 3: from London wrapped about a week ago, but they were
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  Speaker 3: very happy seeming during this trip. He has been posting
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  Speaker 3: pictures and videos of the trip. As of last yesterday evening,
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  Speaker 3: it was like seventeen hours ago that he posted a
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  Speaker 3: reel as of the time that I got on this computer.
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  Speaker 3: If we want to go this dark deep Reddit. People
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  Speaker 3: are saying on Reddit that Matt was leaving comments on
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  Speaker 3: TikTok about Rings getting engaged, and some people were saying
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  Speaker 3: that she was probably getting sick of him doing that
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  Speaker 3: without actually proposing. Another rumor thought from Reddit is that
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  Speaker 3: this is the type of sh and the trip to
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  Speaker 3: Europe with no Ring during this season when everybody's getting
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  Speaker 3: engaged was probably the final straw for her. Guaranteed she
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  Speaker 3: was expecting some sort of proposal in London, and when
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  Speaker 3: she didn't get it, she decided this was it all right?
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  Speaker 3: Two valid thoughts. I think the things that they've been
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  Speaker 3: posting seemingly are I want to say that it's mostly
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  Speaker 3: been him posting this week of the two of them,
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  Speaker 3: and it doesn't seem to be sponsored content because in
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  Speaker 3: some relationships, especially in Bachelor Nation. I'm thinking about Chris
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  Speaker 3: and Crystal, they had to do some sponsored posts before
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  Speaker 3: announcing their breakup, because you know, you want to get
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  Speaker 3: the money for what you've done and being together. We
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  Speaker 3: get it, But this is sue. This is just really
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  Speaker 3: out of the blue for us. Because one of the
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  Speaker 3: last headlines that we read about them was that he
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  Speaker 3: was planning a proposal. It seemed like it was just
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  Speaker 3: around the bend. They have together for four years. That
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  Speaker 3: is a long time to date without a proposal. Before
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  Speaker 3: we move on, let me read the caption. This was
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  Speaker 3: posted at six am Eastern time. People are like, maybe
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  Speaker 3: Matt was on a run and he decided to post
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  Speaker 3: it then, because people were speculating about how weird it
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  Speaker 3: was that it was early, so early. Here's the caption. Father, God,
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  Speaker 3: give Rachel and I strength to mend our broken hearts.
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  Speaker 3: Give us a piece about this decision to end our
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  Speaker 3: relationship that transcends worldly understanding. Shower our friends and family
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  Speaker 3: with kindness and love to comfort us and remind us
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  Speaker 3: that joy comes from you, Lord, heartbroken emoji. Now. My
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  Speaker 3: initial thought was, oh, man, I want this to be
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  Speaker 3: some prank on us, because I was reading so many
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  Speaker 3: comments under the headline you saw.
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  Speaker 2: That this morning in a text, It's like, what kind
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  Speaker 2: of prank is a no, exactly, Like that would make
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  Speaker 2: me more mad than than breaking up.
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  Speaker 3: A prank to the public, I believe, But there was
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  Speaker 3: a lot of this. There's a lot of chatter. It
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  Speaker 3: was like every fourth comment was saying, could this be
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  Speaker 3: a prank on us? But as much as I would
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  Speaker 3: love to believe that, because I really really was rooting
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  Speaker 3: for them, they got they went through so much together,
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  Speaker 3: I can't imagine that he would use a prayer as
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  Speaker 3: a prank. Like, he's not going to do a fake prayer, right,
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  Speaker 3: no way. He started his season with the prayer with
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  Speaker 3: the girls.
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  Speaker 2: I respect a man of faith. I think this caption
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  Speaker 2: is saying enough for us to know it's over now.
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  Speaker 2: The speculation from Reddit, I don't think is completely unfair.
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  Speaker 2: So I do want to ign knowledge that this was
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  Speaker 2: a very tough time for them, and also respect the
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  Speaker 2: fact that they broke up and that we don't really
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  Speaker 2: we're not really owed too much information. Yeah, However, some
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  Speaker 2: weird things that stood out to me Ashley that I
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  Speaker 2: think are standing out to most people. They have done
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  Speaker 2: a tremendous job at separating themselves from the show completely.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they right away were you know, Matt especially
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  Speaker 2: was like, I'm done, I'm moved on. This thing is
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  Speaker 2: what it was. We mes together and the show is
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  Speaker 2: going to have no association with my life. And that
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  Speaker 2: is a okay, that is a very fine strategy. However,
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  Speaker 2: the breakup post is a picture of them at the
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  Speaker 2: Bachelor mansion, which is odd to me.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's also the moment that they met. They're holding hands.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe there's some symbolism to that.
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  Speaker 2: It just feels okay. I guess personally, it feels like
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  Speaker 2: an interesting choice, I should say, for this picture to
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  Speaker 2: announce a breakup when they have honestly done so much better.
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  Speaker 2: Since then, they have been posting or he has been
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  Speaker 2: posting on social media that seems like nothing is going on.
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  Speaker 2: And then, as you mentioned from the sources that we
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  Speaker 2: have that are very close to Matt and Rachel, when
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  Speaker 2: they woke up this morning and saw this post, they
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  Speaker 2: expected it to be a proposal post so.
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  Speaker 3: People can engagement announcement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, an engagement announcement. So people close to them had
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  Speaker 2: no idea that things were happening. So with all that
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  Speaker 2: being said, I, as Reddit does, I don't think they're
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  Speaker 2: far off with there had to be some frustration with
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  Speaker 2: the desire to get engagement and the jokes continuing about
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  Speaker 2: the rings and a potential engagement and it never happening,
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  Speaker 2: even with all these trips going on and all these
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  Speaker 2: times together. I would imagine at some point that would
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  Speaker 2: get frustrating, especially for the one that's like, are we
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  Speaker 2: ever going to do this thing?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: What am I doing? I'm getting older, We've dated for
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  Speaker 2: a long time, are going to actually make this thing?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the real deal? That would be my assumption,
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  Speaker 2: my speculation, based on the clues that we have. I
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  Speaker 2: have no context of that outside of the fact that
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  Speaker 2: most people that knew them thought at some point here
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  Speaker 2: soon they were going to get engaged.
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  Speaker 3: Ironically, that was also the reason that he left the
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  Speaker 3: show not engaged, because he just wasn't ready, and so
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  Speaker 3: he was like, let's date in real life. Well, they
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  Speaker 3: have been dating in real life for four years now.
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  Speaker 2: I will say this, this might be advisor and be
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  Speaker 2: listening if you've been dating somebody in your later twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties,
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  Speaker 2: as the Golden Show.
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  Speaker 3: Does, basically as you're saying, if you're not in high
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  Speaker 3: school or college for.
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  Speaker 2: Four years, and the two of you are on a
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  Speaker 2: different page when it comes to the future, it's probably
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  Speaker 2: time to step away.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you two are on the same page, you're
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  Speaker 2: like not going to ever get engaged. We're not into
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  Speaker 2: this marriage thing or you know, whatever that may be.
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  Speaker 2: We're saving up money and we both know that the
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  Speaker 2: timing will be once we get enough money together, all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. But if you're on different if you're on
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  Speaker 2: different pages there after four years and this conversation has
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  Speaker 2: not seemed to ever come together in a compromise or
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  Speaker 2: into an excitement about what the future could hold, it's
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  Speaker 2: probably time to move on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Any thoughts as to the fact that she hasn't posted
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  Speaker 3: This is six hours now after he posted.
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  Speaker 2: From my experience, I would typically say the person most
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  Speaker 2: hurt and most confused is the one that is hesitant
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  Speaker 2: to share with the public. I mean, if you're confident
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  Speaker 2: in this decision, you're sharing with the public. If you're
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  Speaker 2: still in a place of mourning, healing, being a little angry,
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  Speaker 2: you're not sharing this with the public because you probably
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  Speaker 2: don't have nice Like you don't have this, it's probably
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  Speaker 2: really hard for you to type out a caption that
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  Speaker 2: says what you want to say and doesn't slam the person. Now, again,
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  Speaker 2: this is speculation, that's my guess. If you're asking me why,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's been my experience.
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  Speaker 3: Has that been your experience with Lauren?
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember. Actually, honestly that was.
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  Speaker 3: You were so tied to the show still at that point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I must have been. You must have had aid good point,
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  Speaker 3: you had pr around you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I just also want to mention that this eighteen hours
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  Speaker 3: ago real that they posted, or that he posted, She's
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  Speaker 3: not a collaborator on it. It was everything we ordered
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  Speaker 3: at at CRISP Pizza. So I'm wondering if it was
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  Speaker 3: sort of a collaboration with the restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: For free pizza.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean that's I don't know. They are food
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  Speaker 3: bloggers really, so I don't know if they have to
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  Speaker 3: disclose whether it's an ad or not. I'm sure a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these places are paying them to eat there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think it'd be super duper weird of him just
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  Speaker 3: to post a funsie reeal with her eighteen twelve hours before.
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  Speaker 3: If you're going if you need to post this real,
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  Speaker 3: so you needed to post this reel last night he
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  Speaker 3: posts it, why would he decide I'm just going to
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  Speaker 3: announce the breakup tomorrow, wait a week.
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  Speaker 2: It's very confusing, honestly. Also, I can't imagine a restaurant's
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  Speaker 2: paying enough for you to say, hey, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to hold this deal, like I'll just give
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  Speaker 2: you the money back and pay for the pizza and
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to post this because it feels inappropriate
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  Speaker 2: at this time, like there's no way one restaurant is
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  Speaker 2: paying enough to make it worth sharing, and then the
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  Speaker 2: next day being like, oh, by the way, after that
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  Speaker 2: piece of pizza, we broke up last night. But this
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  Speaker 2: is not in live time supposedly, Well that's what it
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  Speaker 2: feels like to the public, though.
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  Speaker 3: I know I know that the public is going to
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  Speaker 3: assume that like, oh, you poosted a restaurant, this is
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  Speaker 3: probably where you ate last night. No, but even if
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  Speaker 3: it was a week ago, that where they ate did
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  Speaker 3: they ate there a week ago? It's still like, holy crap, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like that is a fast turnaround for the breakup. But also,
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  Speaker 3: if you have to post for the restaurant and you're
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  Speaker 3: broken up, at least hold off the breakup announcement for
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  Speaker 3: a week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's not a good look on the restaurant. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: the pizza wasn't good.
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  Speaker 3: The pizza looks freaking incredible. I'm so I'm thinking about
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  Speaker 3: what I'm going to eat after this podcast after looking
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  Speaker 3: at their Instagram. And you know how you mentioned earlier
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  Speaker 3: that they're so like not necessarily they're not necessarily tied
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  Speaker 3: to the show so much anymore. My nanny walked in
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  Speaker 3: today and she was like, did you hear about Matt
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  Speaker 3: and Rachel. She goes, I never watched them on the show,
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  Speaker 3: but like, I love their food blogging. That's what how
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  Speaker 3: she knew them.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm, that's sweet. I'm it's stink. I mean, it's too
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  Speaker 2: bad because they did have a long, a good thing
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  Speaker 2: going and they had dated for a long time. They
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  Speaker 2: obviously have a really rough start, not because of the
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  Speaker 2: two of them, but just because of the timing and
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  Speaker 2: what was going on the show. Obviously that was during
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  Speaker 2: the time of Chris Harrison's departure from the show. You
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  Speaker 2: kind I mean, I remember a conversation you and I
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  Speaker 2: had on this podcast where we said, if you can
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  Speaker 2: make it through these moments, it feels like you have
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  Speaker 2: the strength to really do this thing long term. And
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  Speaker 2: I never expected them to break up because four years in,
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  Speaker 2: you're thinking they've both agreed that this is just a
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  Speaker 2: path they're taking. Yeah, this was a shock this morning,
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  Speaker 2: this morning to so many. Hey, that's all we have
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  Speaker 2: for you. That's a special Headlines episode. We'll continue to
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  Speaker 2: share any information we have as we go. Obviously, breakups
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  Speaker 2: aren't the most fun thing to talk about, but they
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  Speaker 2: are a big part of the headlines within Bachelor Nations.
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  Speaker 2: So until next time, I've been Been, I've Been Ashley.
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  Speaker 4: See you.
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