1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. We have some news 4 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 2: to discuss. I'm not gonna call it breaking news now, 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 2: it's just news and it's updates. Maybe maybe this is 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,080 Speaker 2: the best way to say it. We have some updates 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 2: to give you in relation to the Matt James Rachel breakup. Obviously, 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 2: we talked about Rachel going on Call Her Daddy. A 9 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 2: lot of information was shared on that show about their breakup. 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: If you want to go back and listen to that 11 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: if you're kind of just catching up on this story. 12 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 2: The reason it's a story in general because Ashley and 13 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 2: myself we don't love talking about breakups on this show. 14 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 2: The reason this is a story, though, is because of 15 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 2: how it was done. Matt James did it. Supposedly, it 16 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 2: was just like a few hours after the breakup. Rachel 17 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 2: was on a flight and so, you know, Bachelor Nation 18 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 2: kind of reacted and said, like, what's happening here? We 19 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 2: want more answers. Well, we have some answers today. Matt 20 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: James showed back up on social media. Ashley, what do 21 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: you know about it? 22 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 3: Yeah, so he took a two three week break ever 23 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 3: since the announcement of their breakup, which was wait, this 24 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 3: is weird. I'm looking at his Instagram right now. He 25 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 3: deleted the breakup announcement. 26 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,279 Speaker 4: Whoa, that is breaking news. Now we do have news. Yeah, wait, 27 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 4: it's not there. That post isn't here right now. Wow, 28 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 4: but she is still there. 29 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 3: He hasn't deleted any other videos or posts with Rachel. 30 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 5: But it's so weird the breakup post is gone. 31 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 3: I'm sorry if this is old news to you guys, 32 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 3: but I haven't seen any headlines about him deleting the 33 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 3: breakup yet. 34 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 2: All I've seen is that his first video posted since 35 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 2: the breakup announcement, at least is that he is doing 36 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 2: it looks like running training in Kenya. 37 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 3: Just has morning run with friends in Kenya, and then 38 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 3: he posted to a story. Now there's something similar about 39 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 3: his trip in Kenya. The question is, is this weird? 40 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 5: I don't think so. 41 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 2: I don't think it's weird necessarily, because what do we 42 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 2: expect of him to come back and try to speak 43 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,839 Speaker 2: further into what Rachel's already spoken into. And I don't 44 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 2: know if there's space if he honestly and these are assumptions, 45 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 2: if he felt like something she said during that interview 46 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 2: with call Her Daddy was worth confronting, correcting, protecting, or whatever. 47 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 2: He would have done it. But I'm assuming based on 48 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 2: this maneuver he's saying, no, what she said is true. 49 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 2: I'm regretful for how I posted about this breakup. We 50 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 2: are broken up. This She did say a lot of 51 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 2: things about our relationship, mostly it was protective of me, 52 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: and now I'm going to move forward with a whole 53 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 2: separate chapter of life. So I don't think it's weird 54 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 2: more than it's just disregarding what most people are interested in. 55 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 3: Like, well, you know it's out there that he broke 56 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 3: up with her, and I think it's just yeah, well guys, 57 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 3: you know the story, so we're moving on that. 58 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:17,119 Speaker 5: You're right, just like this is a new chapter, and it's. 59 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,239 Speaker 3: Kind of I think it might be just kind of 60 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 3: nice that this symbolizes that it's not going to be 61 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 3: some back and forth breakup. 62 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 2: I agree. I think it's nice that that's going to 63 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 2: be the case. I think from the interview that Rachel did, 64 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 2: we have perspective on how it happened. I don't know 65 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 2: if there's anything else to be said. Also, I do 66 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: think The key here would be if he felt like 67 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: there was something to confront, he would have confronted it. 68 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 2: But I don't think he thinks there's anything to confront 69 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 2: at this point. I think it's just a move on 70 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 2: chapter for him, and that's that's fair. He has every 71 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 2: right to do it. I'm also still I think Rachel 72 00:03:58,320 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 2: had every right to go on that show because she 73 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: gave a lot of clarity to the questions that everybody 74 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 2: was asking and probably making worse assumptions about their breakup 75 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 2: without her doing that interview, like did he cheat on her? Yeah, 76 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 2: did he step out? Those kind of things. She answered those. 77 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 2: But Matt James's back, he's running in Kenya, he is 78 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 2: at a training facility, and that's the best we got 79 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 2: right now. That's the biggest update, and it's probably going 80 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 2: to be the only update that we now have moving forward. 81 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 2: I'm assuming both of them are going to be transitioning 82 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 2: to whatever this next chapter. 83 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 3: Looks like they still follow each other on Instagram, and 84 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 3: that's not surprising to me, As she said on her 85 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 3: on the podcast, that they've been talking ever since. 86 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 5: So I don't think that there's. 87 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 3: Like a lot of hostility between the two of them 88 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 3: just sadness. 89 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 5: So we'll see where this goes. 90 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 3: And I'm more thoughtful now about why he deleted the 91 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 3: post that was just so infamous, Like everybody knows what 92 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 3: the post said, what it looked like, and it can 93 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:01,919 Speaker 3: be found on the internet so very easily. 94 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 5: Why did you delete it from your feed? 95 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 2: I think Matt has probably I think having it up 96 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 2: there probably is just a reminder of a mistake he made, 97 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: I would assume, and getting it down just feels like. 98 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 3: A mistake he made in posting before she knew he 99 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 3: was going to post et cetera. 100 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 2: Which he's owned up to. She said, Well, that's a 101 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 2: big update on the Matt James Rachel situation. I assume 102 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 2: unless new major updates come about, this is probably going 103 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 2: to be the end of the Almost Famous podcast talking 104 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 2: about this. But if there are bigger new updates that 105 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 2: present themselves, you know we will be talking about it 106 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: right here. So until next time, I've been Ben. 107 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 5: I've been Ashley. See you guys. 108 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcasts on 109 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.