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Family Reunion Wedding, Absolutely Knot, Ask Us Anything, VIP Table, & ABC Venue · Absolutely KNOT Another Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to episode four of Absolutely Not Another Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Wedding Procast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here I am.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here she is in the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Typically, I would introduce myself, but Cassie, I have been given a new name online.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've seen it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've seen it as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't mind it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I do not mind it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is Mr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cassie.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that people are calling you that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cassie.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will wear it with the badge of honor.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm thankful that people think of me that way as Mr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cassie.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I kept you hidden.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like you weren't really on my social media that much.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Probably until like the last year, you started like, I'd post more about our personal life and like you'd come on.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I love that they're loving you, Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cassie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Mr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cassie was behind the scenes a lot of the time.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: I would be in the living room with the kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: You would be in the back room, downstairs, kitchen area, doing your skits, doing your videos, all your content.
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  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes I would appear.
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  SPEAKER_01: It would be just uh on a how-to basis.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Didn't say any words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like if I needed somebody to like show an example of something or like that ring trick, people loved that.
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  SPEAKER_00: People did like that ring trick.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know how to use my hands.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nonetheless.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you all for listening in.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's been great to see the support online through any of our clips that we post on social media, any of the viewers that we see through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music.
• 1:39
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  SPEAKER_01: There are some other ones too, but I don't know where other people like get their podcast from.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people were like, when can we see the video?
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: We want to see like the actual recording of the podcast.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: It took us a minute, but yesterday we uploaded episode one.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to upload episode two.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're recording four now.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, everything will be on.
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  SPEAKER_01: By the time you see here this one, all of the first four episodes will be online on Wedding Procast, my YouTube channel.
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  SPEAKER_01: YouTube channel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you can catch us bantering back and forth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you could see our wigs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I felt that some of our clips content better to see visually than from our like Aunt Delilah voices.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Aunt Delilah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like Delilah.
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  SPEAKER_01: She wasn't in it.
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  SPEAKER_01: She might be an aunt, but Delilah.
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• 3:01
  SPEAKER_01: We are growing four episodes in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three episodes in.
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  SPEAKER_01: This fourth one's about to begin.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to improve as we progress on this.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to bring in some special guests.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're working on that now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some some local Pittsburgh guests on the pod.
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  SPEAKER_01: Local Pittsburgh guests and maybe national guests down the road.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tom Hanks was mentioned in the last episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fingers crossed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fingers crossed, Tom Hanks.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if he doesn't show up, that's fine.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever, Tom Hanks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as always, if you have a good story or you want to submit a story for us, it doesn't have to be wedding related, but we love the wedding stories too.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just to make sure it's okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: We did that ABC venue the last episode with the mustache.
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  SPEAKER_01: And spoiler alert, that's my mom and dad's name, Ted and Louise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ted and Louise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ted.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ted.
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  SPEAKER_01: What a Pittsburgh name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ted.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is a Pittsburgh name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready for our juicy story?
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, now we're gonna get into the juicy story.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: This is the story about how my surprise wedding ruined a family reunion and the relationship with my petty, jealous aunt who can't let anyone else have the spotlight.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: As requested, the names are changed.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: Buckle up, you're in for a wild ride.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: We went no contact with my aunt after this, but I still talk with my cousin.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: My name is Alexis, and I am from a huge family.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: My fiance, Marcus, is an only child who isn't used to all the chaos.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: Every year, my family does a huge get together at the lake.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: My grandparents owned five little cabins and one main house, and every year we stayed there for a week.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: Take the boat out, have bonfires, ride the bikes, the real outdoors experience.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: I love it, and so does Marcus.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_00: This would be his fourth reunion with our family, but his first reunion as my fiance.
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  SPEAKER_00: In total, there are about 36 people that attend, split between seven families, lots of friends, significant others, new faces every single year.
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  SPEAKER_00: His family doesn't live too far from the lake.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's actually how we met.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: I know it's pretty cliche.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: We met doing shots at the towny bar, both fresh out of college and spending our last summer free at the lake.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love at first sight type of thing.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: And five years later, here we are engaged.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: We only had been engaged about three months, and I couldn't wait to marry him, but I had done zero planning.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: I would have happily married him in my living room, in my pajamas.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't one for a huge party or fancy dresses.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: My immediate family came up one day early to prep the camp and grocery shop and do everything else because we're the only family without little kids.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's very generous of them.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: That first evening, we started talking about the engagement, and I jokingly said, I wish we could just do it here, like right now.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't have to plan a thing.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: And we all looked at each other, and my mom said, Well, why can't we?
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: All the family will be here.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: And Marcus, do you think your parents could drive in?
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to be anything crazy.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: My heart in that moment was so happy that it could burst.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: And just like that, we got to work planning a surprise wedding.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: We were not going to tell anyone until about 15 or 20 minutes before it was actually going to happen.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: One of my goals is to have a surprise wedding.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: For yourself?
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: No, like I would love to be a planner for a surprise wedding.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like that moment I didn't think you were we were trying to do like another surprise wedding.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: But but like the moment that you would be like, hey, everybody, we're getting married.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like that would be like so fun.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen like a clip of that where a family got together.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think it was a reunion, but it was a planned engagement party.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: And they welcomed everybody.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're giving a speech.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: And then at the end of the speech, like, not only is this our engagement party, but this is also our wedding.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: Amazing.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: Outstanding.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: Outstanding.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: I do have to say I had a virtual client that was planning a surprise wedding.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I helped her with that.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: But like I would love to be there in person.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: I just feel like that would be such a like a special moment and like to see everybody's reactions.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: That's a surprise worth like holding in.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: So the fact that they're like, let's just get married, they're going to surprise their family.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: This seems like fun to me.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: The next day, all the families begin to roll in.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: Most of my cousins are new parents and we're busy chasing around their kiddos.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: But then my Aunt Denise and her daughter, my cousin Rory, arrive.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: Rory is the youngest of the cousins and is turning 19 during our reunion week.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: She is an only child, as well as my aunt, who is turning 55.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: They weirdly share a birthday.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: Side note for the story: she's freshly divorced.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: Aunt Denise and Rory share her birthday.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's always fun to have a parent kid birthday sharing.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: My sister has the same thing with her daughter.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: Same birthday.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: Her first daughter was born two days before.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's pretty cool.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: And then her second daughter on her actual birthday.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: On her actual birthday.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_01: Every time they have their birthday weekend.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: Last year we went to a cabin at the lake and had a good time.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: Wasn't a family reunion, no surprise wedding.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: No surprise wedding.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: And you and Benny share like you're two days apart.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: Two days apart as well.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: And I did think there was an opportunity for that shared birthday.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: Which would have been sweet to have.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: But I had a C Space.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: Now we have the same now.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: We have the same weekend.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, same weekend celebration, which is kind of fun.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: So Aunt Denise and Rory share a birthday.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: And side note for Aunt Denise, she's recently divorced.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: They arrived together, just them two.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: We usually dedicate one day to celebrate their birthdays during the reunion week.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's typically last minute, nothing big, just cake and ice cream and a few gifts.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: So low-key.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: I would have loved to avoid their birthday for the surprise wedding, but it was the only day of the week, two days away, that all of Marcus's family and cousins were going to be able to make it in.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: It was a Sunday.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: My mom figured it best not to mention to anyone about the surprise wedding so they wouldn't blow the surprise.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: So we could pull it off.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: And we got to work ordering a cake, we got some flowers, and we were bringing in a local cater to grill for everybody.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: Most of the items we were having delivered to our cabin and were staying hidden.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't make much fuss, but the bakery had to deliver a day early because they had a large wedding on Saturday.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody was down at the lake, but Aunt Denise was up at the house.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: Apparently the bakery stopped by and she told them, You have the wrong house.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: There's no wedding happening at this address.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: The bakery then called my mom three times, and she finally had to call them back and tell them to loop around so she could accept the cake.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: She put it in the fridge in the main house and put a note on the box that said, Do not touch.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: It was in a box so nobody could see what it was.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: So cake arrives, cake's in the main house.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: The next night, Aunt Denise was in the kitchen with my mom when she said, You know, you really shouldn't have.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: And my mom said, shouldn't have what?
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: And she said, Gotten me a cake for my birthday.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: I know it's a big birthday this year, but the cake in there is so over the top for Rory and me.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: My mom laughed it off and said, Well, it's not for you, so there's no need to thank me.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, this was my pet peeve about people and their birthdays.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's like this is a big birthday for me.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: She's turning 55.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: What is the celebration for it?
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: There are monumental birthdays.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: When you're young, when you're you're uh sweet 16.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: When you turn 18, when you turn 21.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: After 21, it starts to just go to 30.
• 11:44
  unknown: 40.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: 40.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: Increments of 10.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: 60.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: Increments of 10.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: 55 is not an increment of 10.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: So Denise is like, I know it's a big birthday, you don't have to celebrate me.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: She thinks the cake is for her.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: Ant Denise truly thought she was kidding and said, I noticed the girls taking centerpieces into the cabin and carrying boxes of something.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: You really don't need to throw me and Rory a surprise party for our birthday.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: My mom again repeated herself, we are throwing a party, but again, it's not for you.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: So she's being a little ominous and like not revealing.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: An Denise scoffed and said, What do you mean it's not for me?
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: My mom then replied, Well, we were trying to keep it under wraps, but on Sunday, Marcus and Alexis are going to get married.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: My mom said Denise fell silent and got so upset.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: Who told you that Alexis and Marcus can get married here?
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: To which my mom said, It's nothing crazy, just a few people, and we're bringing in somebody to grill for the family.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: They are gonna get married on the dock, cut a cake, just enjoy us all being together.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing more than a normal night during the reunion.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: Just she'll be wearing a white dress and we'll have some extra guests.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's a great location for them to get married considering that's where they met.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: They're from the area.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: It seems that Marcus's family is small.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: Thirty-six people in the other side of the family.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: So you're thinking 50 people tops.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: Celebrate something special.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: What I don't see any issue with this at all.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: To me, there's no problem.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: But Denise slammed her fist on the counter and said, I will not allow it.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: Not here and not on Rory and I's birthday.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_00: How dare you try to steal our day away from us?
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: And how disrespectful to try and throw a wedding here.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: This is mom and dad's spot, not some DIY spot to say I do.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: My mom tried to calm her down and asked her to lower her voice.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't purposeful planning it on their actual birthday.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: It just happened to be the day that Marcus's family could make it, which is important for a wedding.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: Denise stormed out and went up to her room.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: My mom texted her and said, Please don't bring this up or ruin the surprise.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: We can totally sing happy birthday that night and celebrate your guys' birthday after the the I do's are over.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: Denise replied with, Change the day or I'm calling the cops.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: You need a permit here to have a wedding.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: A permit.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: She figured it was just her drunk sister upset that her birthday was going to be shared with something other than herself and her daughter.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: We went to bed that night full of anticipation.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody had a clue the wedding was happening the next day.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: I was so excited to surprise everybody.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: Marcus and I stayed up late, writing letters to everyone in the family as a memento and a thank you for celebrating with us.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's sweet.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: We woke up in the morning and headed to the main house for breakfast.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: I just have to say, I think these people have money.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: Five cabins in a main house.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: This is a spot I want to visit.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we woke up in the morning and we headed to the main house for breakfast.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: We were up bright and early, probably the nerves, and we walked into the kitchen with our wedding cake cut and smashed with a note that says, Congrats to the happy couple.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: I already knew who did it.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: I started crying, and Marcus quickly consoled me and cleaned up the mess.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: He put everything right into a large tin container to salvage what he could.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: How effing rude is it that she would do this?
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: My cousin Rory then walked in on the whole ordeal.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: And all I could say in my tears was, Happy birthday.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: She smiled and said, Why are you guys covered in icing?
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: And Marcus said, I first want to apologize, and second, are you able to keep a secret?
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: He spilled the beans on the plans for later and apologized ten times to my cousin about doing it on her actual birthday.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: And all she could reply was, that doesn't explain the icing.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: She was so happy about our plan, so it was odd that her mom was the exact opposite.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: I did not want to bring up what her mom had just did, so I didn't.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: I just thought it wasn't worth it, not in that moment.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: Good choice, I think.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: Also, I would have been ratting out and Denise.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: I would have been like, Your mom did this to our wedding cake.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: As the day went on, Denise got in her car, didn't say a word, and left.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: We were all happy.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody breathing down our necks or shooting us dirty looks as we secretly prepared.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: She returned around 4 p.m.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: and went straight to her room.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: At around 6 p.m., my family typically gathers to begin setting up for dinner.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: It everybody gets a task.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why my ma that's when my mom came out and asked everyone to pour a glass of champagne.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: We all started pouring drinks and Denise stomped down the stairs, standing there with daggers at me.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: My mom then announced to raise a glass to family and to love.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: And she said, Tonight we will need some extra help decorating.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: Marcus and I then stepped out with a basket of flowers and a just married banner.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: And my mom announces that we are going to get married on the dock in about 15 minutes, but we will need some help setting up for the wedding.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody started cheering and hugging us.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: It was such a happy moment until Denise started yelling.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like that would be so fun.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like, hey, we need all your help.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna put the flowers out.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go get married on the dock.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: What a great memory to have.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: Until Denise comes in.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's a great memory to have now with Denise included in it as well.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just like imagining she stomps down the stairs and is just staring at them, and everybody else is happy.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Denise is probably just like pissed on the stairs.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone has a relative similar to a Denise.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like a Debbie Downer.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: So it was such a happy moment until Denise started yelling.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: Really, really, you're really doing this.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: After I told you I didn't want you to do this today on me and Rory's birthday, but you always get what you want.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: Rory tried to stop her mom, but she kept digging into my mom with nasty remarks.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: They are rivalry siblings.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: If you know, you know.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: So siblings that always fight with each other.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: And in this very awkward fight in front of everyone, Marcus's family opens the door and walks into the yelling match between Denise and my mother.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: So awkward for everyone.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like it goes from this happy moment to this like negative, very negative mess.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: My other aunts and uncles usher them around the house towards the dock, and we all leave them to hash it out in the house.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: The windows of the house were open, so we all heard all of it.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: My mom was fighting for her to be a part of this special moment with us, but Aunt Denise only cared about herself and how everybody never wants to celebrate her.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: She was having an incredibly terrible time after her divorce, and nobody checked on her.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: Double side note, she cheated on my uncle.
• 18:24
  unknown: Very important for the story.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: She's talking about like no one wants to celebrate me.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like she probably likes to celebrate her birthday every single year at the reunion.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: So she anticipates a celebration.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: Now we have one year where it's not being celebrated, and this is how she responds.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not even that they wanted to not celebrate them.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: They were just like, hey, we're gonna do the wedding.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: We can also do your birthday there.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like they were like, we'll sing happy birthday.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what what Denise's problem is, but she has a problem.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: So she's mad, nobody's been celebrating her.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: She's having a terrible time, nobody's checking in on her after her divorce that she caused.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not fair that they get to get married here since the last people to do it here were my grandparents.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: They had both passed on.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so there's like a sentimental moment that like the aunt is mad about.
• 19:15
  unknown: Yeah.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: There are family members that do take that into consideration.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: So she's holding on to something that she can't let go.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: But she's really hashing it out in a way that should not be handled.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: Very inappropriate and like everybody else seems very happy about this.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: She's just negative Nancy over there.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: It was so loud and so awkward.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: We all tried to pretend that we couldn't hear the conversation while we placed our decorations out and hung the banner up.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: But then it was time for my wedding.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: We played the music from a little portable speaker we had, and my dad was officiating the wedding.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: That's sweet.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: It was short and sweet and nothing crazy, but very romantic and peaceful.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: During the tail end of our ceremony, I could see Aunt Denise walking around the property on her phone.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: No clue who she was calling since we were all at the wedding.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: And then she proceeds to get on the pontoon boat and sail off, walking past everyone, huffing and puffing.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like everybody's together and she's just like marching around mad.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: Not 10 minutes later, the cops show up looking to talk with a Denise.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: She had called in a noise complaint on the house.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: She literally called the cops on us.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: Good thing it's a small town, and my parents knew the cops on duty.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: They told us to continue on and enjoy our now our night, and congratulations.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: She's a witch with a B.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: We are all enjoying our burgers and chicken when the boat starts coming back towards the dock.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's Denise wasted blasting happy birthday on the speaker on the boat.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: She is not the best driver, and she then crashes the boat slightly into the dock.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone is pissed, but more concerned about Denise.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: They want to make sure she's not injured.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone rushes to help her get off the boat and also get the boat docked.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: She flips us the bird, stomps up the deck into the house.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: Right before she slams the door, she yells out, and just so you know, marriage isn't good, and I give you three years, and then slams the door shut.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, any advice from Denise who caused her own divorce.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody that's driving drunk, boat, car, cannot be having that happen.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: So did she get any repercussions for doing that?
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't say in the story, but I hope so.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: I was thinking this when I read the story.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's like Denise was blasting happy birthday on the boat speaker.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: What happy birthday is it?
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: Is it the one that's like, Happy birthday?
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: No, happy birthday.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: If she if she did the Stevie Wonder version, then maybe it's not terrible.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's a good song.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm like, can you imagine the boat floating back in and you just hear that and you're like, what is she doing?
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's actually the happy birthday with the second verse that's very Christian oriented.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: That may the good Lord bless you.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: We don't know what she was blasting, but she crashes the boat, slams the door, says something very rude.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: We were all speechless.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: Rory broke the silence with, Hey, I have an idea.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't it time that you cut the cake?
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: She comes back with the tin container of cake that was smashed on the counter that we put in the container earlier that day.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: They have to cut the cake.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, and we have to sing you happy birthday.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: So we did just that.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: After they cut the cake and sang happy birthday, we started a massive cake fight, and we all ended up j jumping in the lake.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: A night I'll never forget.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: My perfect wedding night, minus Aunt Denise and her sour attitude.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't spoken to her since the reunion.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: Apparently, she's in rehab for her drinking problem, and Rory is doing great and moved in with her dad.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: The end.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: The end.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: It goes back to when you're when you were telling the story and it got to the grandparents part.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: There are a lot of family members that do hold on to memories that they cannot be reduplicated.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: And Denise seems like that type of person where her grandparents got married there, no one else can do it.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes it's great whenever it is done over.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_01: And someone else in the family takes on a tradition, and hopefully someone else does the same thing down the road in that family.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like a new era of the family is coming forward to do it.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: I love it whenever something is passed down from wedding to wedding.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: I had I had like a piece of my grandma's dress, which my mom also wore my grandma's dress, but I had a heart patch of that sewed into my dress.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: We removed it from my dress, and then my sister wore it for her wedding.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: So like passing stuff down and sharing is special.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: I just think Denise was too sentimental and too obsessed with her own day to like share, which if she would have just enjoyed the wedding, she could have got happy birthday sung to her.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe she should have known about it, considering it his is her birthday.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: And Rory's, my sister, got married on the same day as my other sister.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: This was not a surprise wedding.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: It was discussed beforehand.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: And they made sure it was okay before it actually happened.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: If it wasn't gonna be okay, do I know if my oldest sister would have continued on with that?
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe, maybe not.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: But it happened and there was no animosity between the two from it.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I think in this situation, the reason they didn't say was probably because it was a surprise.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: And they knew, like, oh, if we tell one person, they might tell somebody else.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: But then it did come out and it just made her matter.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like she thought the party, she thought all the stuff she was seeing was for her own party, but then it was like, hey, actually, we're throwing a wedding and it's not for you at all.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'll put it to a TV show that I love Survivor, and you have a hidden immunity idol, and you don't want to tell anybody, but if you tell the wrong person, they're gonna go ahead and tell that to everybody within the tribe.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: Denise is somebody that you don't tell, hey, I have a hidden immunity, I have a hidden immunity idol.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: I have an extra vote.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: Lips are sealed.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: We're not telling Denise.
• 25:02
  unknown: Yeah.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: Again, though, she should have been.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: I think personally, she should have been in the no.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: Everything beyond that.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: How she reacted.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_01: Any action that she did, not okay.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: Also, I wish I I wish I could go to that reunion.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: That sounds fun at a lake.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: I our reunions, both of us have family reunions that we attend.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: Mine go on for like every other year now.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: Whenever I was growing up, it was every single year.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: My grandma is a sibling of like nine brothers and sisters, maybe ten.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of my second cousins are my I treat them as they're my first cousins.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: My favorite thing of my family reunion is a basketball tournament that we do.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: It is called Plop.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: And it's the same concept as horse.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: And you play to put your name in brown sharpie.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's like a homemade trophy.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: And then it's spray painted plop on it.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't win for my whole entire life until about three years ago.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: And it was one of like the greatest achievements of my life.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: The happiest moment of his life, besides our wedding and our kids.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_01: It was uh yeah, my happiest moments of my life.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_01: Number one, having our kids, two, getting married, three, winning plop at our family reunion.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: All right, we're moving into our segment segment, absolutely not.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: And this week we're reversing it where I'm gonna be saying some statements to Garrett, and he'll be saying absolutely not, or absolutely yes, maybe.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: And we are talking about things you should just absolutely not be doing as a person.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: Any day actions.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: Posting on Facebook prayers, please, with little to no context.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this is an absolutely not on the grand scheme of things.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you're somebody that never posts and you say sending prayer or send prayers, it might mean something big is happening.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: But it's the vague posting that come on, you gotta give some insight on it.
• 27:12
  unknown: Yeah.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: If you're somebody that posts it maybe once a month, once every few months, you're just asking for people to reach out to you and connect.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: It might be sending prayers and then you find out, oh, I was just going for a job interview and I wanted sending prayers for it.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: I was nervous for a test.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was nervous I was nervous for a test.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: But if it is something that's like extreme, like obviously, yeah, I'm concerned.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: I hope everything's well, I'll send my prayers to it.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: Furthermore, if you're somebody that posts, it's similar to sending prayers and there is an issue going on.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: But if you have a post and you have your like hospital band on, it's just like a picture of your hospital band in the hospital, but no words about what's going on.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_01: What happened?
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: Are you okay?
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: More than more likely than not, you're okay because you're posting on Facebook.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's a lot of the time, it's just you want attention.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not a lot of the time there's a big problem going on.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely not though, sending prayers.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's like if you're gonna ask for prayers, please give a little context so people know what kind of prayers are we sending?
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_00: What kind of support do you need?
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: Prayers, please.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm confused then.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: You're probably telling somebody close knit to you what's going on.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: So then sending it out to everyone that you're friends with.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_00: And then there's like hundreds of people that are like, prayers, prayers.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what is happening here?
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, moving on.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: Saying, let's hang out soon, and then never following up and scheduling something.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm assuming this is somebody that like you haven't interacted with regularly.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's say it is.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I would say it's fine.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's more likely than not you see them at a place that you're attending.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh, I haven't seen you in X amount of years.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: Let's get together, let's hang out again.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: And if the conversation just ends there, that's okay.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: If you're close friends, family with that individual, you're gonna make plans with them.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I also feel like if you're a parent, a lot of us will be like, let's hang out soon.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: We have to get together more.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's hard.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: Very hard.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_01: Or hey, let's schedule a play date with our kids.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: Most of the time, our schedules don't line up for it.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_01: It is great when it actually does happen.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: But to have it happen as frequently as the let's hang out, yeah.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: That's all right.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: And there's I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be ill-willed about that person if we don't get together.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: But that's how we are as people.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: Some people are opposite.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, they never followed up.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they take it to heart.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: I don't do that.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, are we ready?
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: Clapping when the plane lands.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot stand people that clap on just like a normal flight.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, we've just went from we had an hour flight from Philly to Pittsburgh, and it was smooth flying the entire time.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: Please do not clap.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if we're going through like extreme turbulence, we're having some issues on the plane and we land, I might clap as well.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_01: Thank goodness that I'm okay.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_01: Thank goodness everyone's okay.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: But if you're just gonna clap once we land, it's not like airplane etiquette, I feel like.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we're gonna stick with it with flight airplane and um standing up immediately once the plane lands.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so this is it, it's twofold.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm okay with somebody standing up if they are the aisle seat and they stay in that spot because they might be defending people that is an absolutely not, where they get up from their seat and then they're instantly rushing ahead of everyone else in front of them.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: Not okay.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely not.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_01: Caveat to that if the flight's delayed and then there are a lot of connecting flights.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_01: This happens for Pittsburgh flights a lot.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: We're going to connecting location and then need to hop on a plane to go to where our final destination's at.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: The flight attendant will go on there and say, we're gonna be landing in 20 minutes.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: We have a lot of connecting flights that need to get onto the get to their gate before their flight departs.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_01: If you know any, if there is an individual in your row, please let them out first.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: That's okay.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: But if you're just getting to your final destination and you're cutting me off, no.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: I hate it absolutely not.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: Calling instead of texting with zero warning.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_01: My assumption is that did they text beforehand?
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like you were texting back and forth.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: Let's say, because if I just get a call from somebody, I'm I am now, I'm a millennial.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_01: So if it's just a direct call, nothing, and it's not my mom, it's not you, it's not somebody close by close to me, I'm probably not gonna answer it right away.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'll figure out because then they might text me right after.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_01: If it's someone that texts me before, say, hey, are you busy?
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, what are you doing?
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I give a response, and not 10 seconds after I give a response, they're calling me.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: What pressing need do you have?
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_01: What pressing need do you have to give me a call and not just text it back?
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_00: Agreed.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's an absolutely not for me, too.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: If you need to talk to me on the phone, that's great.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: I love phone conversation, but like it needs to be something that can't be sent in a text.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that's how I feel about it.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_00: If it's like, hey, what time's dinner starting?
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: Text back 5 30 p.m.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_00: I don't need a call that's like, hey, you texted me about what time dinner is.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna do it at 5 30.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: Why are you calling me?
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I just gave you the answer to it.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: Just text me.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_01: We're like, hey, I'm I'm leaving in 10 minutes.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_01: Do you need me to pick up anything on the way?
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_01: No, we're good.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_01: I get a call.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, I'm on my way.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: Do you need me to get anything?
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm stopping here.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: Very nice of you to ask, but I already gave you an answer.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're good.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_00: We're good.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: Not returning the shopping cart in the parking lot.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely not.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: There are murderers, there are cheaters, and there are people that don't return their shopping cart.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: I hate it.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's I get it.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_01: If you're going, if it's raining, just take it to like the one that's in the parking lot itself.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: The other corral.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: Put it in the corral.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_01: That is the best you can do.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_01: I do that.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: I do that all the time.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: I like to get my steps in.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: If it's nice weather, I'll take it back to the front of the grocery store.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: That's very comfortable.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: My buggy, by the way.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's not a shopping cart.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: But I agree.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: Asking who all is going before committing yes or no to plans.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is a yes.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: This is an absolutely yes.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_01: Because there are times.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_01: It depends on who's telling me.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm like a family get together.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm assuming the family's there.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_01: And there's no one that like I don't need to not be there for me to not go.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: But if it's a friend's get together and I know that friend is friends with somebody that like I don't necessarily want to like deal with when we're going out for something.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, who's all going?
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm busy.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm busy.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_01: It the best thing about being a parent is you can always use the kid excuse.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: Can't find a sitter.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_01: Cassie's working late.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_01: Can't attend it.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_01: If you get a text from us about that, it's not.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're totally, we totally have those excuses.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: Accurate.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_00: Leaving without saying goodbye.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's the old Irish goodbye.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's okay.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's okay to Irish goodbye, but if you're saying goodbye to somebody you haven't seen in a while, or not saying goodbye to somebody you haven't seen in a while, you can at least nudge them like, hey, I'm getting out here, good to see you.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_01: If you're with a group of like 20 plus people, even 10 plus people, maybe even five plus people, you don't have to say goodbye to everybody.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_01: Irish goodbye.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_01: Irish goodbye, the majority of the bunch.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: There might be a few, like, hey, I'm getting out of here.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then if one person says, Oh, hey, where did Mr.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: Cassie go?
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, he left.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_00: They're not going to be upset over it.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_01: They're not going to be upset over it.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: I do feel like if you're at like a fancy hosted event or like a family party, it's more customary to say goodbye.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_01: If you get invited to something, to somebody's house, say goodbye to the people that invited you.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_01: So that's it.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone else are kind of like, fair game.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: You can Irish goodbye.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: Peace.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: Last one.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: Texting call me with no explanation.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_01: This is similar to the sending prayers on Facebook.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_01: If it is somebody that I know might that might be a health concern, it might be something extreme.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_01: My heart sinks.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_01: What can this possibly be?
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: You don't know what you're getting into.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_01: Don't know at all.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes it's just a call.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like, hey, I know that you were coming, like said you were going to arrive at three o'clock.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: Can you make that four?
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like we have other things going on before end.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like, really?
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_01: That was that was the call me concern.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's stress-inducing.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_01: That could be a str that could be a text.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_01: Not a not a call me.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_01: I have gotten text of a call me from individuals that know I'm doing something that is something I should be concerned about.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: And they don't want me to worry about it.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: But when I have the moment to call them, if it is specific individuals doing that, I'm going to call them.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um like a parent's text say it's such a parent thing to do.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like my mom or dad will just text me, call me.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be like, about what?
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what am I calling you about?
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: Are you okay?
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_00: What do you need?
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_00: I need I need like some prep before the call.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: I need answers.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: For our next segment, this is something new.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_01: This is Ask Us Anything.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_01: Cassie posted on her social media pages to all of you to hey, ask us anything.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: Could be wedding related, could be personal.
• 36:56
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• 37:40
  SPEAKER_01: Ask us anything.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_01: We have three that we picked out that are personal, three that are going to be wedding based.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: You are going to ask me the personal ones, and obviously you can answer as well.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_01: The wedding ones, I'll ask you.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_01: And if I have my professional wedding guest insight, I will do so.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: First question we got for personal was how did the two of you meet and how long have you been together?
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: Summer of 2010, we met at our freshman orientation at Slippery Rock University, go rock.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_01: And you were sitting directly next to me at orientation, you and your best friend.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_01: My parents were to my left, you were to my right, and I can just hear the thick Ohio accent coming out of you.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_00: My accent has like died down a little bit, but it's still there.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was prominent during that day.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_01: And my dad nudges me and he was like, Oh, you should talk to one of those girls.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_01: And as a teenager, hearing that from your dad, I'm like, Oh no, dad, you're good.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Come on, do it.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_01: You might marry one of them one day.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: And here we are.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_01: And here we are.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't date.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: We were friends, like we knew each other.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't really into our junior year.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_01: We were the same major.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_01: We got our degree in the same field, and we started taking classes together.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: And we were both in Greek life.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: So we like knew of each other and like Yeah, knew of each other, saw each other.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_01: We had a lot of similar friends.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_01: Your roommate grew up in the same area that I did.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_01: So we had some commonalities and common friendships.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_01: We started doing projects together and we went to a conference together.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_01: At that conference, you were actually trying to get me with other girls.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was like his wingwoman trying to set him up with other ladies.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: I was going through a rough patch and she was trying to cheer me up.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_01: And not long after that, we started talking, like, oh, like we kind of enjoy each other's company.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_01: And we started dating.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_01: And it wasn't until we moved to Florida that for our summer internship.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_01: At first, it was supposed to be like us two and multiple interns.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_01: And it turned out that we were the only two interns at this location.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: We lived together on the beach for three months, and it was kind of like a make or break.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: It was like, are we gonna stick this out or what?
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_00: And after one summer, I was like, I think he's the one.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: Which was kind of crazy.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_01: And we loved it, loved that area so much.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_01: We went back and the start of a healthy relationship.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: So we have known each other for 16 years then.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_01: 16 years, which is coming up on like half my lifetime.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_00: And we've been married for 10 of those years.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_00: Coming up on 10.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, coming up on 10.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_01: Engaged for over 10, though.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_00: And that kind of bleeds into the next question, which was you mentioned you lived in Florida before moving back to Pittsburgh.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_00: Where in Florida did you live?
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_01: So our first location, our internship, we were in Amelia Island, Florida.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: A magical place.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_01: Magical place.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: It was a hidden gem then.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's starting to get discovered now.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's the best place.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_00: I absolutely love it.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we loved it so much.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_01: It was between our junior and senior year of college that our senior year, at first, we were going to go intern separate locations, one of which we'll get to because that's where we ended up after Amelia.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_01: But we both found ourselves back at Amelia Island after we graduated.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_01: We were there for the summer and a little bit into the fall.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_01: We moved to Orlando for about half a year.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm like six to eight months.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't too long.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_01: I love Orlando to like uh as a destination.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_01: Love taking our kids there.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_01: I loved going there when we lived in Florida, but I understood very quickly that I could not find myself living there.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_01: Once we moved back to Pittsburgh and I worked for a company that was based out of Orlando, I realized that there's more to it than I saw whenever I was there because we went to a bunch of places that were touristy as residents.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't get to see, like we didn't expand beyond that.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_00: Living in Orlando as like a young 20-year-old versus living in Orlando as an established 30-year-old is a different experience.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_01: Funny enough, we lived in Orlando for that brief amount of time and then we went back to Amelia Island for about two years.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_01: And then found an opportunity for myself in Key Largo at a private club, which is where you were going to intern your senior year.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_01: I almost interned there.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_01: And had some great friendships.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_01: We were in the Florida Keys, Key Largo, great place to be.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_01: Amazing place.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_01: But we found ourselves of we had Hurricane Irma hit us.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_01: And that was the moment for me that as much as I love my job and I love the people that I was working with, the friendships we were making, that this wasn't a place that we were going to be able to grow and raise a family at.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: I was at the same, like we were at the same spot of like, do we stay here or do we like move back and have our kids closer to our parents?
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_01: Our parents, our families, they're tight-knit.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's great that they would visit us, which was great.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_01: And it was an opportunity for us to say, hey, let's look into opportunities back at home.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_01: And that's when you found an opportunity in downtown Pittsburgh.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_01: You went, followed you, and we've been here ever since.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_00: And our last personal question um, what are your favorite things to do in Pittsburgh?
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's a broad question.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_00: There's so many fun things.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, personally, I am part of why I wanted to move back is I wanted to go to like the sport events.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_01: I want to go see the Steelers live for better or worse.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_01: Wanted to see the Pirates.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_01: Same thing.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_01: They're on a good trajectory right now.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_01: Paul Skeens.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_01: Connor Griffin just signed an extension.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_01: Love going to see the Penguins.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: Word of advice for anyone that goes see a penguins game, please find a good parking place because we run into this issue every time.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: We got screwed last time.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_01: If you park near the arena, it's taking you forever to get out.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_01: But when it comes to like things to do in Pittsburgh, if I had a day, one day to spend in Pittsburgh, and you've never experienced it before, you kick off things by getting breakfast in the strip district.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_01: There's great options that are down there.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: Followed by perusing the markets that are in the strip.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_01: So fun to walk around.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_01: Staple to do it.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: You don't need to buy anything, no, but peruse it.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_01: There's always those like graphic teas that everyone's selling.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_01: Cheap teas.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: Cheap teas, cheap teas.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_01: Once you finish that, if there is a sporting event going on, it's a matinee pirates game.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_01: There's a one o'clock Steelers game, and you're here on a Sunday.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_01: There's a Penguins game happening in the afternoon.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_01: Definitely check that out.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: If there isn't, go to any of the tourist attractions.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_01: The Warhol Museum, FIPS.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_01: If you have kids, take them to the zoo, children's children's museum, history center.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: Once you wrap that up, take the gateway clipper over to Station Square, go up the incline, have a nice fancy dinner of the sky with a skyline view.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then when you wrap dinner up, head down to the North Shore.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_01: Go into Tequila Cowboy, pass by everything, and go straight to Wannabes where you'll find me singing some karaoke.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_00: That does sound like a great day.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_00: I the only thing I would add is like obviously we have kids, so we do a lot of the museums and such, which I feel like the majority of our time is spent there.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there is just so much to do, and even in like the surrounding areas, there's places to go.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_00: There's good wineries, there's Sarah's chocolates, there's like other places that you could visit outside the city, but inside the city's fun.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_00: You can walk like across the city in 20-ish minutes.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, lots to see.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_01: My memories of everything was what brought me back.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_01: Kennywood.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_01: I was so fearful when I grew up riding any of the roller coasters.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_01: But now I've kind of let that fear somewhat.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm afraid of heights.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_01: So I close my if I'm going up the Phantom's Revenge, it's a two-minute incline to the top of the hill, the first hill, and then the rest of the ride is less than going up the hill.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone uh comments about Permanence.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta get Permanes.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_01: I don't mind Pramannies.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_01: This is not me bashing Permanes in any way.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_01: But if you ever have the time, one hour south in my hometown of Belvern in Pennsylvania, you will find the best Pramanis style sandwich with the meat, the coleslaw, and the fries and the tomato, or you can go without it.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's fine.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's from Foster House.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_01: It is so good.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_01: So good.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_01: No free ads.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_01: No free ads, Foster House.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_01: The Primanies, again, not bad.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_01: The coleslaw-based.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's more vinegar-based, where the Foster House one is more mayo-based coleslaw, which I like more.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a mayo-based gal too.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_01: Foster House is just like this really good Italian bread.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's like thick, fluffy bread.
• 46:12
  unknown: Yeah.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_01: So foster house, no free ads, but it's cash only.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_01: So bring cash to it.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_01: Or the Evan ATM there.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_01: Pittsburgh, baby.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh my questions are the wedding-related ones.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm ready.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_01: I again I'm a professional wedding guest, but I figured you might have better insight on this.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_01: If you only have$5K to spend on a wedding, what would you prioritize?
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_00: So it's going to be different for every single couple, but if it's me and I'm like, I have$5,000, I'm going to prioritize making sure there's good food, good music, good drinks.
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's my main thing.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like as long as those three are covered, your guests are probably going to have a pretty good time.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_00: So you don't want to skimp on the food.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_00: You want to make sure the vibes are right on the dance floor.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_00: And for me, an open bar or like a hosted bar is important.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_00: So that's something that I would take into consideration.
• 47:01
  unknown: Yeah.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of your tips that you give online is a lot of DIY things to do that are beyond what you're suggesting for it.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like you can do at a minimal cost.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like even saying, like, okay, I want an open bar.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_00: Your open bar doesn't have to have every liquor under the sun or the top shelf liquor.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_00: You could have an open bar that's serving beer, wine, and one or two liquor options or a signature cocktail.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_00: But I don't think your guest should be paying for it.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_00: So for me, that's what I would prioritize.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_00: Drinks, food, dance floor, and then of course, like making sure all your important people can come.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_01: Other question different save the dates for family and friends or just one?
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_01: And what's the best place to get free digital ones?
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_00: So your save the date.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_00: I do not think you have to have different from family versus friends.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_00: The save the date serves one purpose to make sure those people save the date on their calendar.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_00: So it could be like super basic.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_00: The easiest or free way to get digital save the dates is to go on Canva and design it yourself.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_00: Download it, email it out.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_00: Could cost you zero dollars, depending on what fonts you're choosing and how you're designing it.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_01: All right, last one.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_01: Let's talk about the second weddings, older couples.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think about an older bride?
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_01: Let's call her 50 plus, wearing white and having a second big wedding.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_00: I have no problem with that.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_00: To me, it's like, I think every love story deserves to be celebrated however you want to celebrate it.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_00: So if you guys are getting married, it's both of your second weddings, and you want to do the big wedding, you want to wear the white dress, then do it.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_00: Don't like hold yourself back from doing it because you're scared other people are gonna judge.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_00: Regardless of what you do, there's gonna be somebody that's like, ah, I can't believe she's having a second wedding.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_00: I can't believe she's doing this.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_00: She already had a wedding.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's your day.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to celebrate your love at a big wedding with the sit-down dinner and the dancing, then just do it.
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't understand anybody that wants to not celebrate something.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_00: Or like, if you don't want to celebrate it or you don't think they should have a wedding, if you get invited, respond no.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not coming.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you don't gotta come.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_01: And they probably don't want you there.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_01: This segment is VIP table.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_01: We're back for another edition.
• 49:08
  SPEAKER_01: This one is going to be wedding guest stereotypes.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_01: This is a good one.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_01: Great one.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_01: Got some creative ones.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_01: There's like the cliche ones that I would love to pick, but I'm gonna probably go.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_00: You probably got more creative than me, though.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_01: I got a little creative with this, to be honest with you.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_01: I will let you kick things off just to see where your mind's at and where I should go with my picks.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I'm doing a pretty generic one that a lot of people would have on their list, and it's one that I play out quite frequently, which is the overbearing mother of the bride or the momzilla.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_00: I have some crazier ones on my list, but that's where I'm gonna start because that's the most frequent one that I see.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_00: The mom that just won't stop.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's like she's acting like it's her wedding day.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's not, it's her daughter or son's, you know.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this is definitely one-one.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_01: It was my one one.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_01: I assumed that you would probably take it one-one.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't happen at every wedding.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_01: There's not always a momzilla.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_01: But when it does happen, you sure as hell know about her.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and like it's unforgettable.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like there's moments I've had where I'm like, oh, I'm so happy I'm done with those clients.
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_00: Not because I didn't like the clients, but because the mom was just so much.
• 50:15
  unknown: Yeah.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'll go uh with my first pick.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_01: More lighthearted.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_01: It is the lifesaver.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_01: Not we're not saving lives here.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_01: This person's not doing CPR at a wedding.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's somebody that is essentially a wedding planner that's not making any money off of it.
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_01: Could be a bridesmaid, it could be an aunt that's helpful, it could be a groomsman, surprisingly or not, that is doing something that, hey, something's going, something's awry, and they're stepping up to fix the situation.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_00: That is a good one.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_00: And you do see those, like at every wedding, there's somebody there that's like, oh my gosh, I have a sewing kit, I have this, and they're like saving the day.
• 50:54
  unknown: Yeah.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 50:56
  SPEAKER_01: This one for my second pick.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_01: This is not me.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like we do not.
• 51:03
  SPEAKER_01: We're going to this wet a wedding this weekend.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_01: That I am not defining myself because I am somewhat of this type of person.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_01: But there's things that are inaccurate.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_01: They're inaccurately describing me.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_01: The white guy that is past his prime, he has no rhythm, but he won't leave the dance floor.
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_01: You know that guy that's if he's drinking a little bit too much, he's taking his jacket off.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_01: His tie is either unlike loose or it's around his head.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_00: The guy who rips his pants on the dance floor or ties his tie on his forehead.
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like they're always gonna be there.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen I've seen the rip pants before.
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_01: The tie on the head, and you're like, all right.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_00: This isn't prom.
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like, let's get Uncle Bill off the dance floor immediately.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_00: You're you're not that because you have rhythm.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I was saying.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's not.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm like, you might, you might be taking your jacket off and not leaving the dance floor.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not putting a tie on my head.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_01: I am loosening it or I'm taking it off.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_01: But I am also not leaving the dance floor.
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_00: Mine is another one that I see very frequently.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_00: The dad who has no clue what's going on.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like the dad is there physically, but like did not pay attention or read a thing.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Where am I supposed to go?
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_00: Am I supposed to be wearing flowers?
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like literally standing around waiting for somebody to tell them what to do.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like they show up on time.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing wrong with that.
• 52:27
  SPEAKER_00: But they just they have no clue what the plan is.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_00: They probably paid the bill and they don't even know what's going on.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what I'm gonna put as my next one.
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I think I'm gonna go with the drunk uncle or the creepy uncle.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like he's maybe in his 50s, drinking heavily, trying to chat it up with the bridesmaids, making comments, and everyone is just like, Who is that guy?
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like, he's probably not actually even related.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_00: He's like a family friend that they call uncle.
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's who I'm talking about.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's a good pick.
• 53:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's a good pick.
• 53:00
  SPEAKER_01: I've had I had like a little bit of both.
• 53:02
  SPEAKER_01: I had the drunk uncle and the predatory bachelor.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_01: So it's a topic.
• 53:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's a same thing, so I won't take that one.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_01: With my third pick, is gonna be the cousins who don't know that they're actually cousins dancing sexually with each other.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
• 53:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you can't be doing that.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_01: You can't be doing that.
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_01: But it happens with my fourth pick.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna go with the random man that's there and is way underdressed.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like he's wearing jeans, he has just like a casual polo on, he has his work boots on, and he's he's there.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_00: He probably was somebody's plus one and like didn't read the invitation for a tire, and their partner wasn't like, hey, you should put on a pair of suit pants or like wear a coat.
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 53:50
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good one.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, do I get one more?
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_01: You got one more.
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I don't know which one I'm gonna go with.
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm gonna go with the sappy sister who can't get the speech done.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know this person.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_00: They get up there, they're like, for those of you who don't know me, I'm the bride's big sister.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_00: And then like it's just them crying, and the speech is like 20 minutes long, talking about an it's like a chapter book of their childhood.
• 54:17
  SPEAKER_00: You don't understand half of it.
• 54:18
  SPEAKER_00: When me and Britney first met.
• 54:21
  unknown: Yeah.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm going for.
• 54:24
  SPEAKER_00: My last pick.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I I said it on the first episode when I introduced myself of something a bridesmaid or groomsman or the best man or the maid of honor should not say to start their speech.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_01: They just got introduced by the DJ.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like, ladies and gentlemen, welcome up.
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_01: Best man, Andrew.
• 54:40
  SPEAKER_01: And then he's like, for those of you who don't know me, like, please stop doing that.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_00: You also have months to prepare anything else but that.
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like, look online, get a different starter for your speech.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_01: I I've had to do best man speeches.
• 54:54
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I take inspiration from speeches online just to see like how does it flow?
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to like make myself viral by doing a speech, but I want it to seem like all the this one got a lot of clicks.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_01: I want to kind of like banter the same way that I'm doing that.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm no comedian, so I'm not gonna try to like crack a hundred jokes on it.
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's on my list of people, uh it's bridesmaids or groom best man or maid of honor that say a lot of inside jokes in their speech that no one gets.
• 55:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_01: So that was that was part of my list.
• 55:27
  SPEAKER_01: Other ones that I have is the groom's aunt that wakes up in the middle of the night in bed with the bride's sister's ex.
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_01: That's more personal.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_00: Happened at our wedding.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_01: The oldest relative, front and center of all the photos, that's just like gazing at the bride and groom.
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's kind of like a happy one.
• 55:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, people who ask, so when are you gonna have the baby?
• 55:47
  SPEAKER_01: Or is tonight when you're gonna start?
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_00: The worst, the worst kind of people.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, the single girl that takes the bouquet toss way too seriously.
• 55:55
  SPEAKER_00: Slap down.
• 55:56
  SPEAKER_01: Slap down, slap down for it.
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_01: And the other one I have is like uh very standard one, but a groomsman or a bridesmaid that are exes but are friends with the couple.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_01: So then there's kind of like some tension going on with them.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_01: So you don't partner them up if you're a bride's if you are getting married and you have that situation of exes that are on either side of the party, don't partner them up.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_01: Keep them separated.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_01: They're exes for a reason.
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_00: And these are these were my kids' table picks.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_00: The one upping mother-in-law, another character I play frequently.
• 56:29
  SPEAKER_00: The blacked-out bridesmaid or best man, like too drunk to even like do anything.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_00: They're they're not helpful.
• 56:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the wedding planner aunt, that's like annoying to me as a wedding planner.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, what are you doing?
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_00: And then um the teenage drink stealers.
• 56:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they're underage, but they're at a wedding with an open bar and they're like slurp slinging the drinks back.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_00: And like, are the bartenders not carting them?
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_00: Are they taking them from people's tables?
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_00: You never know.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_01: The only other one I had was the it's the wedding crasher, but they might not necessarily be wedding crashing, but they they are more likely than not friends of either couple's parents that get invited, but nobody knows who they are.
• 57:11
  SPEAKER_01: They might be a plus one of somebody like that that gets invited, and they for some odd reason get a plus one, but they're like shutting the place down, they're having a great time on the dance floor.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's their day night, they're conversating it up with everybody, and you're like, who is this person?
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like, they're awesome.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then you befriend them afterwards.
• 57:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh, that was a good time.
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_01: So good picks.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_01: Those were good.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_01: I will we will post that online and see what you guys think about that one.
• 57:39
  SPEAKER_00: All right, welcome back to our segment ABC Venue, where silly shenanigans happen with people from ABC Venue.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for calling ABC Venue.
• 57:46
  SPEAKER_00: This is Jessica.
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_00: How can I help you?
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_01: Hey there, this is Rocco.
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm here to drop off all of the equipment for tomorrow's wedding.
• 57:54
  SPEAKER_01: It the door's locked, so I just want to make sure that you can unlock it for me so I can get all of this equipment in just so we're ready to go.
• 58:00
  SPEAKER_00: How much equipment are you bringing in?
• 58:03
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm here with the catering service, and I also um good friends with the florist, so pick that up as well.
• 58:10
  SPEAKER_01: So we have the floral and we have all of the um needs for the cater minus the food.
• 58:16
  SPEAKER_00: And you're trying to get in today.
• 58:18
  SPEAKER_00: Your wedding's the wedding's tomorrow, right?
• 58:20
  unknown: Yeah.
• 58:20
  SPEAKER_01: So I figured it's no problem.
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_01: I figured there's nothing else going on.
• 58:23
  SPEAKER_01: So um if you can just let me in and get everything set up so we're not rushed tomorrow.
• 58:29
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm not gonna be able to let you in.
• 58:30
  SPEAKER_00: We have a different event tonight.
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_00: We have a rehearsal dinner.
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_00: So you're not gonna be able to get in and decorate and the contracts for tomorrow at 10 a.m.
• 58:38
  SPEAKER_01: Is the rehearsal dinner for the same wedding that's taking place tomorrow, or is it for something different?
• 58:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's for a different couple, so you can't come in and decorate.
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_00: They're they have their own decorations coming in.
• 58:48
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what if I just put it to the side?
• 58:51
  SPEAKER_00: You can't put it to the side.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_00: They have rented the space, you're not allowed to come into the space.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have like a locked location that I can come in and just drop it off.
• 58:59
  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm in a really time crunch.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_01: I have to drop off um some animals for a petting zoo tomorrow.
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_01: So if you can just let me in, that'd be great.
• 59:07
  SPEAKER_01: No, Rocco.
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, I won't be doing that.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_00: So the moral of the story here is read your contracts.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_00: Do not organize or try to get in early to set up unless the venue says you have access the day prior to drop things off or set things up.
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have it.
• 59:22
  SPEAKER_00: Most of the time they're rented out, especially if you're a weekend wedding on a Friday.
• 59:25
  SPEAKER_00: Most of the time they're doing an event on Friday.
• 59:27
  SPEAKER_00: You cannot come in and decorate unless you've rented it.
• 59:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you do have to plan for multiple days for it.
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, Rocco.
• 59:33
  SPEAKER_01: Too bad, so sad.
• 59:35
  SPEAKER_00: Too bad.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that was our episode.
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for tuning in.
• 59:39
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• 59:43
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• 59:48
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• 59:49
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• 59:55
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see you next week.