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Speaker 1: Put on your dance and shares may give me your

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Speaker 1: best shot. From Momma Me is canceled podcast. It's Claire Stevens.

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Speaker 2: Oh clear, how you going.

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Speaker 1: We're going very well and we're looking forward to hearing

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Speaker 1: all the goss of the Jalo Ben Affleck relationship. I

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Speaker 1: must say I know a lot of people were thrilled

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Speaker 1: when they got back together. I just see ego through

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Speaker 1: the whole thing, and I don't know how I feel

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Speaker 1: about it. Over to you.

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Speaker 2: Very interesting. So this story really starts twenty years ago

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Speaker 2: when they started dating for the first time. In two

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Speaker 2: thousand and two, they were engaged and they were meant

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Speaker 2: to get married actually in a ceremony very similar to

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Speaker 2: what they had on the weekend. And then they split

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Speaker 2: up in two thousand and four. They got together again

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Speaker 2: last year, and then in mid July they had this

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Speaker 2: small wedding in Las Vegas and they literally lined up

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Speaker 2: with other couples to get their marriage license. Lopez wore

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Speaker 2: a dress from an old film. Affleic got changed in

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Speaker 2: a public toilet. It was all very low key, and

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Speaker 2: we thought. We talked at work about how we thought

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Speaker 2: this was the rise of the anti wedding, how refreshing.

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Speaker 2: We don't need a million people, We just need our

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Speaker 2: children and going to I didn't know if Las Vegas

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Speaker 2: is the most romantic place to get married, but you

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Speaker 2: know that you do. You and they We thought that

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Speaker 2: maybe people were just getting away from making a big fuss.

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Speaker 2: But that's embarrassing for us because a month later they

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Speaker 2: have had a three day extravaganza. Turns out that the

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Speaker 2: Vegas one was really like an entree. This is the

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Speaker 2: main event, and so what they had on the weekend

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Speaker 2: was a rehearsal dinner on Friday, a ceremony on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: and a barbecue on Sunday. Plenty of guests, fancy marquees,

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Speaker 2: and a custom cature Ralph Lauren dress. So there was

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Speaker 2: a dress code for guests, with all of them wearing white.

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Speaker 2: But we know the best part of any wedding is

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Speaker 2: the gossip. So I'm just gonna tell youth what have

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Speaker 2: you got around There was an ambulance called because Ben

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Speaker 2: Affleck's mum reportedly fell off a dock at his Georgia

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Speaker 2: and she did cut her legs.

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Speaker 1: She had a few drinks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like that's.

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Speaker 1: You're falling off a dock you've had a few drinks.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, look, a lot of weddings have a

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Speaker 2: family member going. That's actually probably the most relatable thing

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Speaker 2: about this wedding. They were married in afflex imitation plantation home.

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Speaker 2: People feel weird.

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Speaker 1: About that because he's part of the slaver His dad

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Speaker 1: was a slaver, was his father?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? No, he's historically his father's ancestor, his ancestors. He's

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Speaker 2: not a Highland, he's not old. But one of his

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Speaker 2: ancestors was a slave owning Georgia sheriff. And it just

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Speaker 2: feels a little bit distasteful. And then there were some

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Speaker 2: noticeable absences, which is the greatest gossip at a wedding.

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Speaker 2: So Jennifer Garner wasn't there fair enough? I know, I

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Speaker 2: kind of think did we expect her to be? But

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Speaker 2: Casey Affleck wasn't there?

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Speaker 1: His brother? His brother? Has there been a falling out

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Speaker 1: because Casey's a troubled man too, isn't he.

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Speaker 2: Here's a little bit. I think he said he was

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Speaker 2: just busy, But I don't know. I think we go

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Speaker 2: to each other. What about what about Matt Damon? He

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Speaker 2: was there with his thought of course he was he

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Speaker 2: wouldn't miss it for the world. But as someone who's

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Speaker 2: currently planning a wedding, my god, it must be so

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Speaker 2: hard to not have limitations. I imagine that what allows

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Speaker 2: people to get through the process is that you go. Luckily,

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Speaker 2: I have this constraint, and that constraint is money. I

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Speaker 2: can't have seventeen events.

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Speaker 1: No, and the friends that don't get invited or people

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Speaker 1: acquaintances that don't get invited will understand that I've got

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Speaker 1: to limit numbers. Yes, yeah, it hurts feelings. It's a

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Speaker 1: wedding tons of marted numbers.

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Speaker 2: You're saying, hey, you got tons of money, it's not

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Speaker 2: going to kill you to put out another shrimp cocktail

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Speaker 2: for me.

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Speaker 1: Exactly fair enough.

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Speaker 2: If I had met her, I would be expected to

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Speaker 2: I would expect to go to the wedding. But what

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Speaker 2: do we think of this trend of multiple weddings. Because

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Speaker 2: Courtney Kardashian just did it, George and I, Mark Clooney

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Speaker 2: did it, Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner, they have these

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Speaker 2: several events. Do you guys think you should have to

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Speaker 2: kind of commit and be excited about that.

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Speaker 1: I don't even have time for wedding photographs.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and I got married a long time ago, but

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Speaker 2: even back then it was too much effort.

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Speaker 1: I look at the kids these days when they.

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Speaker 2: Get married, the whole palava with the wedding fighter as

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Speaker 2: you go, and this is just normal people. Yep, they're

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Speaker 2: not even rock stars. This is normal people getting married.

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Speaker 1: I get no time was I see. I just see

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Speaker 1: show off. I like the idea that they just got

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Speaker 1: He got changed in the toilet she had addressed, she

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Speaker 1: had already worn. Because you think, after all these years

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Speaker 1: of they've both had multiple relationships, they know life. Let's

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Speaker 1: cut to what matters. But then you see this and

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Speaker 1: I think it's ego again. And didn't he say something like, well,

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Speaker 1: whatever she wants, it's her day. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: much he likes all of this. He doesn't like.

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Speaker 2: It, he doesn't like it. It doesn't His facial expression

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Speaker 2: during all of these things is like, get me home.

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Speaker 2: I just don't want to do that. She had a

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Speaker 2: twenty foot train on her, like a veil that was

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Speaker 2: just really like actual train, and I just I think,

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Speaker 2: I just think we've done this a few times now, Jennifer,

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Speaker 2: maybe let's just chill out. His face looks like when

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Speaker 2: he was talking about Batman versus Slipperman. It's just like,

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Speaker 2: oh Man, darkness.

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Speaker 1: That's why they broke up the first time, wasn't it.

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Speaker 1: He felt that it was demeaning, that through through around

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Speaker 1: his life had become demeaning, and here we go again.

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Speaker 1: Look I like those kids.

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Speaker 2: I like them.

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Speaker 1: I think they've grown up a bit now. And sure

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Speaker 1: they got pots of money. I think that's fair enough.

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Speaker 2: I do think there's something romantic about there'll be a

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Speaker 2: movie about it, the fact that you were in love

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Speaker 2: and that they'll be in and it.

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Speaker 1: Will be terrible. It's not Spanglish too.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about it personally.

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Speaker 1: Claire, it's always a tree to catch up with you.

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