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America's Happiness Ranking is Sliding · Podcast - Big 98.7

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Trending. Now here's what you need to know. Well, did you see
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this Michigan teacher who ended up losing her position because she was moonlighting as a
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rapper. The moonlighting is really what what hit? But her name miss living
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a Secret Life. Well, her name is Dominique Brown, and she's been
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an educator for seven years and it all came to an abrupt end when there
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was one parent who came across her music videos. Gosh, you know what,
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I need to look them up just to see I guess she said,
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nobody even knew I was a rapper until this one parent just kept continuously complaining.
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So she ended up losing her job. Her rap name, by the
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way, Drippin' honey, Oh yum. She does acknowledge there is profanity in
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her lyrics, but she says this has nothing to do with the positive impact
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that I have on my students in the community. Despite the controversy, she
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did win Teacher of the Month back in December. Okay, I mean she's
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a great teacher. I don't know, mind your business teach unless the rap
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is like obviously racist, you know, something crazy, just mindy business?
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You know. For example, Amanda, I am recording rap artists myself,
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and there's stuff out there that, you know, if this company heard,
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they'd probably want to fire me too. But you you're a part of a
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band called Vowel, right, vow is that the name of it. It's
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called low Standards. What even doing? I'm just kidding you teasing its logo.
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I'm teasing because somebody said that they were going to the vow concert because
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they saw your logo, and that had me rolling the other day. Yeah,
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the l sort of looks like a v ha ha ha. I hope
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she gets her job back, or or if somebody else hires them, or
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if a record label comes in said, you know what, if you want
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to be a rapper, we'll make you a rapper. Yeah, all right,
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So how much are you paying with your video streaming services every single month
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video streaming? Well, like you're uh, you know what, like the
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apps you're paying for you're a sucker. You know, average American is paying
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about sixty one bucks. That's probably about right. I think we got four.
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I think we got Hulu and Netflick, which are you know, the
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primaries right, just switch mostly because Hulu has Family Guy and Netflix's Seinfeld,
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and then we have HBO Max or just Max and then we which actually is
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free with AT and T. A lot of people don't know. Yeah,
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so yeah, you like, they won't advertise it, they won't tell you.
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You kind of got a bit you gotta say. It's weird. You
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gotta like the secret code. But yeah, I called and oh, yeah,
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you get a free I'm like, well, thanks for telling me.
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Two years later, I remember when Verizon, when Disney Plus I think started,
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that was like a free bundle. So I think we're still at a
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discounted ish bundle with ESPN plus Disney and Hulu. Yeah, Disney, you
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can still jack from relatives, so that's not oh really, yeah, that's
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when you can still get away with the little password sharing. Don't tell anyone.
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I think uh, pretty much all of NOE all of them now have
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cracked down a little bit here and there, only not Disney. I know
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Nick's but cousin from Iowa got the boot off of our Netflix. I'm like,
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yeah, about time. I know, right, I've never jumped on
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anybody else's. I'm just I'm always the s same, I'm the one paying
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the others, no kidding, all right, And there's a Brazilian couple that
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is going viral because they are now paying money to work out naked at their
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gym, and the pictures are surfacing. You can't see. It's not like
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super super graphic, but they're why they're They're saying they're doing it because it'll
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help them become more fit. And I guess I could see that, because
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if you could see every inch of your body while you're working out, I'm
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gonna probably work out a little harder, you think, So I think what
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about the other people? And I think I would assume that it's just for
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so they're paying to rent the gym out. Basically, that's so dumb it
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is, it's gross. And also just what if something were to happen whoops.
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I mean there's things like but yeah, but what is a T shirt
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doing to protect you? You know? I guess that's true. It's some
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of those contraptions. So like the uh, the leg press snagged in there,
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you're at least being covered a little bit. All right, Gonna be
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cloudy today. We do have that winter weather advisory this evening through. It
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looks like tomorrow morning only about an inch or two of snow expected through the
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overnight high thirty three. Then there's another system rolling in and there's a there's
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a bunch of snow with that, but nobody's really set to tell us exactly
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how much. But also don't forget what they're not like. Some people are
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saying like twelve inches. Some people are saying a man is screaming at the
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TV. Makeup prediction. Yeah, they won't want to shared. But it
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is also a big happy hour tonight. I'll be hanging out over at the
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local seven oh one in West Fargo. Oh, we've got free beer for
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you for the first ninety eight people, delicious food, half price appetizers,
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and of course that meat raffle from five until seven. Bike at Amanda in
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the morning, Big nainety eight points seven. You want suspect a thing when
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you hear that telephone room by spread, what's like number this lesson by spread
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in the sun. You want to rest by true great a man. We're
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about to do what no man has done before. I Am about to prank
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call my own wife Lauren on her birthday. So are you going to try
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to sound different or is it going to be you? No? So here's
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what's happening, so all morning long for her birthday, I went really above
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and beyond as I do. Yeah, because you say you don't even do
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gifts, little sweetheart this morning, so I left a series of like sort
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of riddles and clues clever around her home, from gift to gift, and
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I mean, they're not big gifts, but they're little trinkets here and there.
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And so for the final riddle, I told her that I would call
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her with the final riddle. Okay, what a guy. Here we go.
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She thinks we're going to eat somewhere real nice tonight, by the way,
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but you see what we can do. Fancy pants. You'll be quiet,
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by the way. You're not in here, of course, not if
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he gets nervous around you. Hello. Well, good morning, birthday girl.
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Are you awake fairly well? Thank you for waking up a little early
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on your birthday to entertain my little scavenger hunt. Have you been enjoying the
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little surprises? Yeah, it's been fun. How's the show going? Oh
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it's okay. Amanda's not in here, she's taking it. Oh okay.
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So for the final birthday surprise, I wanted to give it to you over
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the phone. Are you ready? Yes. So it's a riddle that you
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got to solve. Okay, oh my god. What Okay, it's not
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one of those. It's not like the riddles we give Amanda. Okay,
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there's more of a poem. Okay, reminder, I never give you an
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actual riddle. It's been a morning of surprises, but we're not done yet.
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Hold on to your hat for this one, because it's as good as
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it'll get. Up to North Fargo. We go across the Fargo Dome.
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They say, is where you'll find our dinner reservation for your micbirthday. Well
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that's too Really, what do you think? What do you think it means
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going to McDonald Well, you don't want to go to McDonald's. Not really.
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Were you expecting something else? I thought we discussed this. Oh you
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wanted to go to like Spitfire or something right, something like that. I
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was on board of that until I opened my McDonald's app this morning and I
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saw a buy one quarter bounder get one for a dollar, and I just
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couldn't resist. So I thought we could celebrate your birthday at the McDonald's.
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No good or what you out of all people should know those deals last a
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few days. You got to use them to Okay, all right, this
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is stupid. Lauren. You obviously know I'm being a big, big silly
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goose here. You've been a victim of Pike's prank for the first time.
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Wow, how's it feel? You are such a lucky girl, Amanda's Oh
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she's back. Yes, no you. Happy birthday, Lauren, Thank you,
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love you, Happy birthday, love you, thank you. You're welcome,
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and we'll go to We'll go to a real restaurant. Don't worry,
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we'll save the We'll save that coupon for this weekend. Thanks. I've been
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Amanda in the morning. The list is out, Amana. You know I
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always I always talk about it, the list of the happiest countries in the
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world. I can't wait every year this comes. Maybe so America, where
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would you guess, having not seen this list? In the happiest countries of
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the world, And of course there's all sorts of factors, economical, societal,
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you know, weather, just overall happiness, where would you say America?
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The good old United States? I think we're probably right in the media,
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like right in the middle, really, because there's like two hundred some
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countries. You think there's like one hundred countries happier than us. I don't.
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Okay, you're way off. Okay, top twenty. Okay, that's
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a little more interesting because last year, Amanda, we ranked fifteenth. We've
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been slowly on a sort of a skid of late this year, pathetically,
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we've dropped out of the top twenty for the first time ever. Really,
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America currently the twenty second happiest country in the nation, and particularly because of
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the younger generation. They do it they break it down by age group,
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and older Americans tend to be happy. It's a younger generation that sort of
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bringing us down the list really just uh, they're not happy with what's going
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on. They're just not happy in general. I mean it's so secret financially,
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a little tougher sledding for the younger generation. Yeah. Absolutely, I
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can see that. You don't have the Maleman, you know, providing for
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an entire family while his wife stays at home and they got a five bedroom
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house, you know, not going in the cards for the kiddos, but
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a lot of time. Yeah, and I don't even know what a Maleman
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makes. That wasn't meant to be a no, it was just like more
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of like that was just the blue collar that was like on one salary.
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Yes, so the number one country for the seventh year in a row.
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They're doing something right over in Finland. Finland, where's my Finlanders at?
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You know, they got all those saunas. That's probably doing it. Oh
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is he? That's that'd be a nice relaxing situation. I was told I
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have a Finnish friend and he always corrects me it's not sauna, it's sauna.
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Yeah. So if you ever want to sound cool, say suna and
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then somebody would be like, don't know, you say it and you go,
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yeah it is. I'm a real dumb dumb over here. What's up?
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Sure, Finland? Where's that? That's a bit like yeah, I
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got it up in the Northern Europe. And then you got Denmark coming into
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number two, which is I believe, and I don't have a map in
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front of me, but it's like right there, it's got to be right
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by it in that area, okay, this happy area. And then number
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three I didn't even know people lived there, but Iceland is the third halfiest
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country. Maybe because there's only a couple of people there, that's why they're
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so happy. They were like, how are things going good? Nobody to
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bother me? Around here as long as he got one really happy guy,
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and if the other guy as long as he's just okay, really helps balance
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it out a little bit. Number four sweet and same area. And then
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number five is where it gets interesting. Man. That the fifth, the
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fift the fifth happiest. Yeah, the fifth happiest country is Israel. Now
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they do point out in the survey that it was conducted after the hostage situation,
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but before the subsequent warfare between Israel and Hamas, so it's sort of
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in that sweet spot. Okay. Now you want to go down to like
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the unhappiest countries, if you have to guess the least, I got the
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bottom ten. I mean, I hate to even say this, but I
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probably don't even know what they are. Like, I probably don't even know
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those countries exist. Household countries like Zimbabwe, Oh, okay, Afghanistan in
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the last but not least, Zambia. Yeah, I don't know a lot
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of third world countries, got it. I'm not going great necessarily. Well,
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we got to make America at least in the top twenty. We need
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to do better, We need to be happier. What can we do?
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What can we sounds like we all need a few more saunas well. We
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got a lot to be happy about it, a lot to be proud of
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here in the US of a absolutely respective. I mean, look at this
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anthem. This is jam. This is not the anthem I'm well, no,
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I meant like as a you mean like, I'm not like an American
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anthem, like a single long anthem, not the end, right, I'm
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not. Is that big of a dumb dumb let it rip? Then?
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Then I'm proud to be America, Queen Amanda in the morning on Big seven.
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So these are probably the two biggest idiots you've ever heard of. I'm
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not kidding, Okay, And you almost got to feel bad for him,
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do you? Two college students to Taiwanese college students? Just curious, man,
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if somebody was Taiwanese, where would they be from Taiwan? I know,
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just smarter than the average Joe over here. So okay, these two
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guys, now, one of them had lost quite a lot of money in
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cryptocurrency playing that game. You know, I don't even so, I mean,
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maybe not as smart as I alluded to earlier with the taiwan coma lady,
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you just struck oil, Quit drilling I don't get the whole cryptocurrency situation.
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Like I hear that, I'm like, oh, I don't know what.
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Well, he obviously didn't know what he was doing either, because he's
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in quite the hole. So he's trying to, you know, brainstorm ways
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as college kids do. He might remember trying to come up with some get
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rich quick schemes. Well one of them, he got it. He's like,
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I know, how about a little insurance fraud never hurt anybody. But
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his idea of committing insurance fraud included immersing his legs in dry ice for ten
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hours, so that just like a minute, doesn't that just destroy you?
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Yeah, it's very cold, So for ten hours he submerged his legs in
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dry ice, leading to them needing to be amputated. So then he claimed
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to the insurance company that he had suffered extreme cold from riding on a scooter
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at night, like hypothermia on his legs. No, Mandy, you remember
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from the beginning of this conversation, they're from where, Taiwan? Yes,
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it's correct. I don't know the whether they're Oh, well, it happens
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to be a subtropical climate in Taiwan. Me not that cases of severe frostbite
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due to natural climate factors in the area are entirely unheard of. By the
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way, can I tell you the visual I have him a head right now,
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and you're gonna love this guy with no legs, no freezing cold on
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a motorcycle. Hit me with it. There's a reference I can get down.
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That is the visual I have right now while they're just going through to
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get to Aspen. Yeah, but no, they skip that part. They
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just went right to the tub of dry ice. Now, my guys in
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a severe hole due to cryptocurrency poor investments. He's got no legs and it
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sounds like they're not going to be getting the insurance pace. Yeah. I
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can imagine at this point if you're a Taiwanese official, are you going to
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even give this guy a sentence? Or do you just I think you I
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think you did your own punishment, like happy life. Here you go figure
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it out. Yes, you got no legs. Oh man, they really
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weren't thinking this one through. I thought he did. Poor guy in the
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morning, Amanda fills the sea looks well. I do love the Travis Kelsey
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has his podcast with his brother every single week because you get a little bit
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of a little tea about him and Taylor Swift. And I don't think she's
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used to this. I mean she's been when her relationship was with a Joe
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Olwen, we didn't even know we existed. She's never seen media coverage like
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this. I mean maybe when her relationships have always been like a hot topic.
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But to have somebody talk about it, I think it's pretty awesome.
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But yesterday on the podcast, they were talking about an NBA player who is
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really, really tall and talking about how he's like a lab grown man.
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Yeah, and then they were alluding to the fact of like lab grown diamonds,
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and he made this comment, lab grown diamonds. That's lab grown NBA
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player. Listen, it's not far off. Let's be honest. I can't
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wait till I've make one. What do not give any of these other conspiracy
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theories anything else? Hard to understand? What that potty mouth? You know,
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I was told at a young age people who swear only swear because they
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don't know any other words to use. Oh well, basically, what are
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you saying there? If you couldn't get past it was can't wait to make
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one of those lab grown rings. Well, he's not going to get her
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a lab grown ring? What I don't know? Who are they good?
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Are they bad? What are we? What are our thoughts? I mean,
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if you want a big ring at a lower cost, you're going lab
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grown baby. I mean, who cares? As long as it shiny,
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sparkly, and really it's the love behind it that matters. But I just
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love that he kind of just joked about it a little bit because now people
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are losing their minds. He also was talking about the reality show Love Is
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Blind, alluding to the fact that him and Taylor Swift are just watching seasons
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every night like every normal American. Are they on season six? I think
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so? Yeah, you can watch TV by himself. But he was also
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mocking Chelsea Blackwell, listen, Jason, you got to watch Love is Blind.
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Man. It is the worst trash ever. It's worse than Catching Kelsey.
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But it is so good. Honestly, I just want you to watch
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the one girl and to just hear her not watching clingy O clingy. Really
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that made me laugh every time. I'm like, gosh, you're you're I
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don't know, kind of a bozo. Then he's there's just so many layers
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of Travis Kelcey. I want to like him. He's just kind of clean
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up that body mouth. I wonder if Taylor actually sits down and has conversations
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with him or sure. I'm sure they have a whole team coaching him,
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but he's not changing. And there's also something to be said about that,
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like, Hey, this is who I am. I'm not gonna change just
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because I'm with Taylor Swept. Or maybe they've done the research and people like
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the swearing. I don't know, who knows. Johnny Depp haven't heard this
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name in the headlines for a while. He is denying allegations of vicious,
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out of control behavior. So he was on the set of blow Back in
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two thousand and one and his co star Lola Gladini, she is saying that
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he was verbally abusive to her. His reps are saying his recollection differs.
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I feel like that's always his statement, but then you also know his past
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where his recollection is a lot different than a lot of people's. But blow
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what was that about. I don't know, never watched it. Huh,
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sounds like a good film. And Megan Fox is she with MGK or not?
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There was so many rumors that he was cheating on her, and then
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they were engaged and then they broke up. Well, yesterday she finally sat
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down for an interview and said that they did call off their engagement sometime last
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year. And then she said, but he is still my twin soul.
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Okay, they're so weird. You can just tell they were loving the attention
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they were feeding into so much, wearing each other's blood around each other's neck,
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I mean, and then you could just tell we'd stop caring. It's
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been so long since I cared about this too, So they just thought,
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well, well that's it. That's it's just a classic Hollywood couple. So
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when they say twin soul, does it mean they're still together or their souls
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are together? But they're not. All that's just some garbage about how they
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still care for each other even though they're moving on to other people. Thanks
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for breaking that down for me. I am a Hollywood insider. Appreciate Yoh
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like it a Manda in the morning. Come on, get up on Big
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twenty seven. Well, is this tacky or is this clever? Because you
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know, if you've gone through a wedding, you know that the RSVP process
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can be frustrating. Yeah, because it's your whole life is revolved around planning
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this wedding and making sure everybody's going to be there. And then you got
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people like me who have a hard time getting the RSVPs in on time.
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Why is that? It's amazing to me? And I feel bad. Sometimes
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we've been invited to since we've been married, a couple of Nick's like friends
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weddings, and I just I see it and I kind of like, I
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don't know, these people didn't think about it, Like that's so disrespectful and
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not even sending it back saying like, hey, we're not going right,
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and even if you're not going because that they sit there in wonder. I
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kind of feel like we just got the invite because you know, it's like
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if you weren't expecting us to show up to this, were you? I
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don't know. Well, there's this woman who has found a solution. She's
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gone fire roll because she had started sending out missed RSVP cards. So the
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deadline came and went and a bunch of people had an RSVP obviously that's how
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it goes. So she sent a card saying we're sorry you can't make it
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to our wedding. Our RSVP deadline has passed and unfortunately you did not respond.
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We would have loved to have you attend, but oh but final numbers
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have now been turned in in our and your presence will be missed. Signed
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the bride and groom. So she put on there like dot dot dot.
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We're still registered at Amazon dot com. No. I think it was passive
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aggressive enough, don't you. A lot of people saying it was tracky,
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unnecessary, harsh. Also, you're paying for postage to send them, not
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the one. That's crazy to me. I've seen so many people just get
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away from invitations in general and just kind of putting it out there through social
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media or SVP that way. I were invited to my cousin's wedding and it's
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all we get text messages, text club, yeah, every every month,
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and it's like, hey, you still haven't responded. That's what I need.
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That's great because when I get an RSVP, just the thought of putting
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something in the mail with postage like just stresses me out and it just makes
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me want to not do it. So I have because we're not going to
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this wedding. It says Hi Amanda, Jenna and Ryan are getting married using
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solo to join the celebration. Give us your contact information with the link below.
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So if I just say to stop receiving texts from this couple, do
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you just opt out? Because does that mean you're not going? Well,
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that means you're not going and you hate them. No, that's how I
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would interpret that. I've always taken it as, hey, we're not going,
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but we'll get via a really nice gift because it's not going to work
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for the timeome, I'm always the guy that the groom has to text me
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like, hey, dude, are you VP? So I know you're coming,
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You're in the wedding, So do you want beef or chicken? What's
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it gonna be? If there's food involved in this and they give you the
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option and you know it's gonna be a fancy wedding, you automatically have to
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respond right away. That's a big decision. Oh, being surprised is always
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kind of fun too. Or if they're like, oh my gosh, what
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is he doing here? Why are you were? They've filled your role as
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greenspan somebody else standing up