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What is up everybody? I am George Masi. Say hello to my co-host, Sharona. So this is the

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TLC Weekly Roundup. We are talking 1,000 pound best friends, 1,000 pound sisters. This is

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actually the season finale of 1,000 pound best friends. And we were kind of left with

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a cliffhanger, but I want to kind of start off with Ashley. So this is season two, episode

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10. And Ashley had her surgery. This was her second bariatric surgery. It was a pretty

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big surgery because this was her second chance. And she did all of the things that she needed

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to do. She lost her weight. She did fit farm. She did the 5K. We're very, very proud of

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Ashley. She has come a very long way. And when it was time for the wedding, which we're

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going to talk about a little later, she had already dropped 30 pounds, which is only in

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like two weeks. So this is like a huge deal. So congratulations. We love you, Ashley. You're

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doing amazing. I can't wait to see what you look like now because we know that this show

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was filmed months and months ago. So I know there's going to be a reveal soon. So I'm going

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to be watching your Instagram for you. Want to show us your progress because I'm excited

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for you. But I do want to kind of talk about Tina, right? Because Tina did the work too,

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right? She did the hard stuff. She lost the weight. She also did the 5K. She also did

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fit farm, but she let her fear and anxiety kind of take control of herself. And she wasn't

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able to get out of her bed and leave her room and go to the hospital. And I want to be mad

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at Tina. But I do want to say this because I've talked about this on the podcast a lot

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too. When I was younger, I was dropped on a water slide. We were and I drowned and I've

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been really scared of swimming like ever ever since that, like my whole life. I was like

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three years old, it wouldn't happen, but I still have memories of it. And my mom actually

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put me in swimming lessons like five or six times. I couldn't do it. Like I just couldn't

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run through the water without freaking out. So I know the real immersive experience that

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fear and anxiety can really put you in. So it's like, I want to be mad at Tina, but I

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also understand that fear of leaving her kids and losing her life is real. And you can't

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really convince yourself when your mind has made itself up that this is going to be the

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outcome. Your mind can be your worst enemy. So it's like, I wish that she would have done

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the surgery. I know it would have changed her life, but I understand where she was when

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she made that decision.

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Yeah, I definitely feel exactly how you feel like. I feel like everyone has anxieties and

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issues. And sometimes like you said, like your brain and your anxieties are your worst enemies,

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because you know it's going to be beneficial and you know it's going to help you. But sometimes

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it's just like that fear, like you said, like, of you getting in water, like you just feel

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like if you jump in water, you're going to die. And you just sometimes there's nothing

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you can really do until you are 110% ready. And sometimes it's going to take a little

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bit longer.

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Yeah. And Vanessa tried, Megan tried. So let's talk about Vanessa. Vanessa was actually

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at her first plastic surgery appointment, which is the next step in her goal. She's

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lost 204 pounds at the time of this taping, probably a whole lot more since then. But

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I'm so excited for her because this is the beginning of a new life for her because going

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through this process and the doctor showing her what she could look like and what she

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could improve literally brought Vanessa to tears. Like she was so excited about this

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new beautiful queen is how she referred to herself that she saw in the mirror that she

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didn't even know it was an option that she could see when she looked in the mirror. So

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I'm excited for her. There was a little harrowing news. The doctor did say that she needs to

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be 180 pounds in order for her to have this surgery. And the negative part of that is

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they want her to maintain it for six months to a year before they have the plastic surgery.

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And it's only to increase how well the end result looks, but this is going to be really

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hard because Vanessa is having a hard time walking and just living everyday life with

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so much excess skin. It's just so painful and it's really taking a toll on her. So I'm

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hoping emotionally she's going to be able to keep it up because physically she looks

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amazing, but it's really a stab in the back, you know, a stab in the heart knowing that

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you've worked so hard and you just can't get this last step done because you know, you've

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earned it. She's earned it. She's done all the hard work. She really wants to do that.

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A whole nother year because it's already been a year. This is a lot to ask.

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I don't know what I would do in her shoes. Honestly, I would probably go wherever I could

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for someone to just take my skin off if that was my situation because like she feels trapped

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in her body like she said, and she really does need the surgery and I get where the

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doctors are coming from. But like when someone is in that much pain, I don't know, maybe

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they'll reconsider and let her do it a little bit earlier.

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now let's talk about doctor now for a second, he makes people lose like a hundred and to

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a hundred and twenty pounds that have surgery. Dr. Proctor and Dr. Smith only require like

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30 to 40 pounds. So different doctors have different requirements. So I don't want to

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say I'm not saying that she should go to a different doctor or shop doctors or whatever,

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but there might be a doctor who might do it sooner than that or not make her wait six

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months to a year. I'm not saying that's what she should do, but I'm just saying it's up

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in the air, you know, it's out there. It's very possible. Different doctors have different

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requirements. And even if you go like if you go overseas like to Mexico or Turkey, they

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do plastic surgery without like running even tests and stuff. They like do whatever you

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have the money to do, they will do. I'm not saying do that. That's dangerous. But I'm

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just saying there are other ways to get it faster. So Megan got married to John. Congratulations,

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Megan. You kind of had us on our toes because you were there and it was time to get started

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because you're getting married at 11, 11, 11, 11, 11. You weren't ready at 11, 11.

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So we were very, very nervous. And you did say that there are some things in the marriage

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that you want to work on and your relationship you want to work on. But in the end of the

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day, you love him. He loves you. You got married. It was beautiful. Congratulations. I'm happy

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for you guys. And it's never going to be rainbows and butterflies. So even though you

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think in the back of your mind, there's issues you need to work on that is marriage. Marriage

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is a big issue and obstacle that you work through together. It's like doing an obstacle

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course. It's like fit form like marriage is just you're going to keep working on. So I'm

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so happy for you guys. It was an amazing wedding. I didn't understand any of the vows. I'm not

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a gamer. So I didn't get any of it. But I'm glad that you guys got it.

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help me very much for this. But congratulations. You were beautiful. Everything was beautiful.

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I'm so glad that it worked out. And yes, marriage is the hardest thing, but it is the most rewarding

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and congratulations. So one more hard thing happened at the end of the season right at

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the tail end. And it's going to be a cliffhanger because we don't know. But Tina had the horrible

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hard conversation that she had to have with her best friend. She told Megan that she and

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John needed to get out of the house. And Megan didn't take it well. I mean, we assumed as

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much right? We knew that it's not going to be good news like two days after your wedding.

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You're like, Hey, by the way, you should get out of my house now. And she spent a lot of

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money on that wedding. It was a beautiful wedding. So we're going to see next season

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if she really leaves as abruptly as she said she would. But I hope that their friendship

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is okay because you can still be best friends and not live together. So that's in the back

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of my mind. I was like, you know what, Megan, store my other house, you know, get it out

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of your system, but don't ruin this friendship with Tina. Tina's only doing what's best for

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her and her family. And we know that she would never do it if it wasn't something she had

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to do. Yeah, definitely. I mean, she has to save her marriage. And that's what Megan needs

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to also think about is like, she's just starting her marriage. And Tina's been in her marriage

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for such a long time. And I mean, sometimes obstacles come up and you have to do what's

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right for your family. And it's not saying that she doesn't love Megan and they're not

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going to be friends, but she had to do it was right for her in this situation. And I really

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do think that they will be friends. I'm crossing my fingers. And I just hope that this is opening

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up something even better for Megan and her husband when they move out and they find somewhere

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for themselves to call their own home. And then they don't have to feel like they're

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just the people living in the basement. Like this is their home that they're going to have.

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So I think, yes, I wish Tina would have told her earlier, but you know, not everything

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happens how you want it to. And I think it's gonna I feel like they'll end up being friends.

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I hope so. So that was a crazy season. So I want to talk about this 1000 pound sisters

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episode season four episode eight, because Tammy was leaving rehab and she had been there

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a full year and then there was a trait infection. She ended up having to stay in additional two

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weeks for the IV. But that's not what got me. I mean, I'm glad that she's okay. But what

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got me was Caleb, right? Like I've been trying to talk about this for a while. Like Caleb

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found out that she was there from a friend, a girlfriend's friend, or I don't know, somebody

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who knew and it was quite stalker vibes. And he decided to go to this rehab facility because

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Tammy was there. I'm really worried, right? Like, because I feel like Caleb is a fan,

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right? And I feel like a fan can't truly love someone because they're always going to look

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at you as a celebrity and not a person. And I'm just really worried. And I know Tammy

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is looking to be in a relationship. She's looking to be loved and she wants to start

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a family. But this episode went just as fast as anyone could think it could have because

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he literally was she didn't know him. And then two weeks later, they're spending every

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moment together and then they're engaged. And I'm just really worried. Now, are you

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like, as worried as me, because Tammy is turning her life around and I just don't want anyone

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to come and hurt her now that she's starting her life over, you know?

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someone and stuff can move quickly. But two weeks is just so fast. And like how you said

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that like he was her fan, I thought they just met in rehab and like connected. But the fact

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that he went there for her, I mean, that's cute and everything. And I really wanted to

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work because Tammy does not need anyone like her last boyfriend. Oh my God, she does not

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need that ever again. Like that negative energy needs to be gone forever. But I just hope

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that like you said that he looks at her as his wife or his girlfriend or whatever they're

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going to be. I mean, they're engaged and they're they're married on Instagram. Like they're

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already married. So I hope that he just looks at her as like his wife and his person and

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not like you said like a celebrity and someone that he just wanted to be with because he

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saw her on TV and that she was at this rehab. Like, yeah, it's a little stalker. I kind

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of get where the family's coming from. Like it just that didn't sit well with me. I thought

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I thought the other gentleman that was at the rehab was the guy that was her Nathaniel

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Me too. Yes. And that would have been a little different because they would have just met

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there regularly. Yeah. And they have been talking for many months. So it so when I saw him

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the saw Nathaniel earlier in the season, I assumed that that was the guy. So as we were

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going through the season, and then I realized literally abruptly out of nowhere, Caleb just

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pops up in the one episode in the exact same episode they're engaged. It just and I don't

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want to like come across as like Caleb could be a bad I don't know. Caleb. I have seen

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him on social media and I don't know anything about him. Just worry about Tammy, you know,

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and it's just like she has been through so much her look in general. Like whenever something

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goes wrong, it's like we say in true Tammy fashion, complicated, it can't be easy. She

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goes through so much and I just don't want her to be in a relationship that's not true

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and honest. And it's like this really got me like I've been watching the season and

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I was and I literally had my jaw drop because I was like there's no way they are engaged.

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They literally she's like, I know we've only been talking for a couple of weeks, but he

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seems and I was just like, no, this cannot be happening. Somebody has to step in like

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this cannot be happening. And even her friends at the facility were like, that's stalkerish.

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That's weird. Like I don't feel like it's honest. And it's like, I don't want to say

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that because I know they're married and it's very possible that they have fallen in love

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and they love each other for real. But like at that moment, I don't know how true that

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really was.

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they stay together and then they have their kids and they have this beautiful life. Like

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he said, I hope he doesn't for some reason like put her on the back on the wrong path

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or something like that. And I hope that he does get his surgery and they can both just

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grow together. And I hope that it's like a true like fairy tale for her because she

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deserves that.

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She does. And she's really angry with family because they didn't do the training. If she

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does leave rehab with Caleb, I don't know if he's allowed to leave, but I think it's

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a volunteer rehab. I don't think it's like you have to stay. So if she does leave with

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him, he will be the direct person with her. So he would have a lot of influence on like

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you said, if she stays on track, if she does, she do. So that's where my worry comes in

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because her family is going to keep her on track. But if she decides that she doesn't

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want to go home to them because it's going to be too much and she's really angry that

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they didn't get that training. But she has to remember Amy has a two babies and Amanda

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has a job and kids and she is a week long process. And a lot of them couldn't just take

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off that time from work. Money is money, you know, and they couldn't do it. And unfortunately,

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the rehab facility, they're trained on it. And oh man, this is just a crazy, crazy season

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right now. I'm really worried about it because I've been seeing everybody making all this

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progress and then this happened and it kind of caught me off guard. Definitely caught

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me off guard too. I was like, what is going on? Oh no. So we're going to be watching very,

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very closely and getting to know Caleb a little more. I've already found him on social media

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talking. He's on cameo. So if anybody wants to get a cameo and ask him some questions,

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send me the cameo so we can get a little inside scoop. All right, guys, I'm George Mossy.

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This is my co-host, Sharona. Make sure you're following me on all social media platforms

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at GeorgeMossy, GeorgeMossy.com, and anywhere you get your podcasts. And make sure you're

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following my co-host, Sharona, as well. This has been the TLC Weekly Roundup. A thousand

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pound sisters, a thousand pound best friends. We're saying goodbye to a thousand pound best

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friends for now until next season. And we're going to have to see where Megan and Tina

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stand when that comes back. I think they should be good, but I don't know. I'm hoping fingers

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crossed. All right, guys, we'll talk to you guys really soon.