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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia acknowledges

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Speaker 1: is recorded on from Mamma Mia. Welcome to the Spill,

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Speaker 1: your daily pop culture fix. I'm Laura Brodneck and I'm Vernon.

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Speaker 1: And do we have an action package show for you today?

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Speaker 1: I know that sounds dramatic, but I stand by it

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Speaker 1: because a new report has come out about Megan Markle

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Speaker 1: and it is absolutely scathing.

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Speaker 2: Is it packed with information?

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Speaker 1: Actually the gym doesn't make a cameo this time, but

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a few things and then we need

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Speaker 1: to debunk, so we're gonna get to the bottom of this. Also,

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Speaker 1: as an extra special treat, we have a special interview

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Speaker 1: done by one Emily Vernon with an Oscar winning actress.

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Speaker 1: So that is coming up the clickbait.

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Speaker 2: But first, freshly divorced couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez

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Speaker 2: were spotted having lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel with

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Speaker 2: their children. You can see all the photos are online.

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Speaker 2: We don't publish paparazzi photos here, Mummy up, but do

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Speaker 2: we look at normalize them and look at them? I

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Speaker 2: memorize every single one of those shots. So they looked

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Speaker 2: like they were. They were getting out of a car

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Speaker 2: walking into the hotel together. He was holding a coconut sugar.

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Speaker 2: Phony coconut sugar fans.

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Speaker 1: Out there, I know he's off the Dunkin Donuts coffee.

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Speaker 2: He's off the dunkin Donuts coffee. He's moved on to

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Speaker 2: better things. They were kind of talking together. They were

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Speaker 2: looking very close. There was one shot which was a

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Speaker 2: bit unfortunate for him. He looked like he was kind

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Speaker 2: looking super hot and completely blanking him. It was also

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Speaker 2: reported that they were very close at the lunch. They

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Speaker 2: were sitting together while their children sat at a separate table.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a classic kids table situation.

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Speaker 2: The kids, except some of their children are like sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but if your parents are like those two love them,

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Speaker 1: both Ben and Jen, but also they would be divers.

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Speaker 1: They've got some baggage at five of the kids. I'd

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Speaker 1: also be like, you guys need to go sit over

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Speaker 2: That's fair. It was reported that they shared a kiss

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Speaker 2: and that Jennifer Ghana made an appearance to pick up.

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Speaker 1: This is way too much for me to take in.

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Speaker 2: She came along to pick up the kids that she

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Speaker 1: Okay, they're so, it's just what's I doing. It's such

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Speaker 1: a small little series of photos in a tiny video,

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Speaker 1: but the amount of information that we have to unpack

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Speaker 1: here is obscene. So we know they filed for divorce,

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Speaker 1: but they both have said, you know, about wanting to

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Speaker 1: in a family. But they look very happy and smiley

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Speaker 2: If you zoom extra extra in, you can see his

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Speaker 1: Now, oh wow, he did well. He would have hated

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Speaker 1: being photographed, but you know, that's just they're in a public.

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Speaker 1: Whereas Jennifer's like knows that she's looking amazing and everyone's

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Speaker 1: It's like, I'm exhausted by these two. It's like holding

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Speaker 1: Are you guys in or out?

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Speaker 2: I remember saying so specifically, like I'm so happy when

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Speaker 2: I wish go get out.

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Speaker 1: No, I care about I really care about this. I'm invested.

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Speaker 1: I want like ten more paparazzi photos to analyze. So

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Speaker 1: a new article about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry was

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Speaker 1: I know. Then Prince Harry's birthday, we covered that earlier

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Speaker 1: a super flattering title for them. I didn't make a

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Speaker 1: lot of headlines at first. It was just like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: This suppsed to do with their Netflix series that's coming out.

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Speaker 1: No, these are at anonymous. This is what I mean.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's more of a business article, but

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Speaker 1: like Harry and Meghan have done it all again. They've

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we knew about Josh because that happened a while ago.

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Speaker 1: Yes, because in this article they go on to list

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Speaker 2: Kanda knew we were like, well, you had them churning

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Speaker 1: Not quite the factual is what we're trying to do here.

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Speaker 1: Lege by me leave companies for lots of different reasons.

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Speaker 1: We can't say for short it's because Meghan and Harry

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Speaker 2: At the same time, I'm surprised how they got those

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Speaker 2: And there's no real like specific moments mentioned. There's actually

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Speaker 2: It's not like hundreds of staff members.

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Speaker 1: Yet I know I go back and forth, that is

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Speaker 1: So it's really hard to say. But I think like

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Speaker 4: Oh, thank you so much, work very hard at it.

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Speaker 2: Oh Lo, Peter, this was so amazing to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: make sure you're up to date, so you have.

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Speaker 2: To watch part one and part two.

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Speaker 1: Yes you, and that's a note to yourself saying that

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Speaker 1: to my ready for our Friday episode.

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Speaker 2: We will also put a link to last week's Brutally

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Speaker 2: on his review In case you missed it, we did

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Speaker 2: a review on The Perfect Couple starring Nicole Kidman. We

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Speaker 2: did not hold back in that one. It is such

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Speaker 2: a goodie. We will be back here in your podcast

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Speaker 2: be at three pm tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Bye bye,