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How to Give a Wedding Speech · Podcast - Big 98.7

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All right, Amanda. You know November. Interesting about the month of November.
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It is the most popular month for engagements. November. Yeah, believe
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it or not, Amanda, there are stats that show this is the month
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that the most people will be getting engaged. So if that is you and
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you got a wedding coming up, you might want to take note here because
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an expert, an etiquette expert, has shared the top dos and don'ts of
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wedding speeches and this is this one hits close to home. Is the answer,
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Just don't do them? Kidding was settled down. It's a joke.
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It's an exciting moment for it. I do because, as you know,
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we've all been to a million weddings, there's more bad ones than good ones.
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It is the nervous bridesmaid. Always, there's the nervous bridesmaid who's going
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to start the speech with the microphone down by her hip bone and say,
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for those of you that don't know me, I'm Kristen. And then she's
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going to share a story about when they were younger, and she's going to
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talk about how the first time she met the guy, she wasn't so sure
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about him, but then he grew on her blah blah blah, almost like
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a Hallmark movie, right, and then of course there's the uncle or the
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dad who just goes on and on and on. Is the way too long?
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But these are the notes, okay, So just keep this in mind.
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Number one, keep it classy, all right, when it comes to
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the wedding speech, the art of the toast, you just want to keep
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it class He is tempting as it is as a guy who's obviously you know,
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you went to college with the groom, and of course I had some
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crazy stories. I mean, you could allude to that, but don't give
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like graphic details about a night out or anything. Gotch mother in law,
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grandma. They don't want to hear it. Practice makes perfect. I feel
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like a lot of people, can you know, definitely take heed to this
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advice. You'd just whip it up real quick. Well, everybody, you
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got two type of people. The one that are gonna have they're gonna pull
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out like six pages of descripted speech, which you know that's never great either.
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And then you got the one who's like, a dude, I'm just
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gonna wing it. I'm just gonna have some fireball. I'm just gonna wing
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it, and it's almost never good. Nobody wants to be at a wedding
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with you right now, like the judgment zone is happening. You look out,
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I'm just sitting in the crowd the pen and the paper, just like
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taking notes. Keep it upbeat and positive. Oh for sure. Absolutely,
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you can't go wrong with that. Know your audience. It's another one again.
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You have the guys, you have the grandma, mom, dad kind
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of filter on where you just know or you should be taking it. Absolutely,
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And the number one piece of advice is kiss Amanda K I S S.
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Keep it short and simple. Oh, I'm like, you're supposed to
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kiss the bride and grip what where is this? It's customary you give a
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big smooch. No, I mean, I just can't stress that enough against
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the worse against It's just the truth. Kiss K I S. S.
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That's what you might call an acronym. Yeah for what though? Keep it
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short and and it doesn't get the simple and simple. I agree. You're
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also the most memorable sometimes I think, yeah, well, I mean,
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what's the shortest one you've seen. I had a friend who got up there
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and we think we timed it was like twenty three seconds. Really. I
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mean it was basically just a toast. It was like, all right,
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here we go, cheers, have a good night, and everybody went sweet,
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Oh yeah, you'll be the most popular person at the wedding if you
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get up there for your best man or bridesmaid speech and it's under a minute.
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Yeah. I don't think I've ever been to one that was actually short.
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To be completely honest with you, I feel like they're always drawn out
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to a couple of minutes and don't so comfortable because you know it's getting to
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that point and you can see everybody's look on their face and people have kind
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of checked out. You can hear feeling. You start hearing like a roar,
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a rumble from the back of the room because people have just given up
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on listening. Now there's just a million conversations happening. People are at the
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bar ordering drinks. But it's also for me timing where I kind of blame
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sometimes the bride and groom for how they set it up that day. You
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know, some people wait until way later, like let's do it will people
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are eating make it kind of quick? Yeah, multitaskt a little bit,
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but then it's tough and I know I sound critical at the end of the
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day, like you do. Well, yeah, but we're just in a
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vacuum judging the speech. At the end of the day, it's about the
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person giving the speech and the bride and groom, Like that's the most important
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thing. And if that's what you want to use your because for a lot
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of people as their one opportunity in their whole life to be the best man
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or the bridesmaid or of honor. I mean, just do what you want.
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Like, we'll get over it. I'm at the bar, talk and
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drink it anyway. Who cares. I don't care what's going on. Tune
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you out. I mean thy minutes ago. Bro, Sure, I'm gonna
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look at my buddy and be like, jeez, can you believe you're still
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talking? But I'll be fine. Just do what you want. And the
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bride and groom. They'll have her recorded, so in five or ten or
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twenty years from now, when they watch that video or never watch that video
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again, they'll be like, gosh, that was a sweet that was a
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sweet speech. Jeez, Dan went on that long. Jeez, takee Amanda
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in the morning. Dig seven. We do a little thing called is it
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Weird? It's where we talk about the things that we do in our private
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time, the things you wonder you know, am I the only one that
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feels this way or the only one who does this? We just get it
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out there and we decide is it we I got one, and it makes
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me feel like I'm a little paranoid, to be honest with you. For
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sure, Sunday nights, I do it. But I will wake up or
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even before bed. Last night, I checked my alarm probably seven times before
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I fell asleep to make sure that it was on. Like I will go
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to my phone, look at my alarm, make sure that I have all
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of them on, put it down, go back. I just continuously do
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it because I just get so anxious as though it's not gonna go off.
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It's the old did I turn the oven off syndrome. It's so you know
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you're sure you did, but then it's like you keep thinking about it,
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and then eventually you're like, oh, I just got to go look,
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I just got it for peace of mind. I just have to do it
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to see what happens. Yeah, but I do that with my phone and
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my alarm all the time. Yeah. No, I'll wake up in the
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middle of the night to let the dog out or go to the bathroom.
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And that's I look at it again to make sure, like, hey,
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is this gonna go off? Did it not? I don't know. I
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would say that's weird, that's overkill. Yeah, that's something going on upstairs.
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You might want to get checked out, Like I know people who a
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friend of mine's dad growing up. He would give us rides, you know,
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to wherever. But he would be so paranoid that he didn't lock his
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truck and he would have to walk back to the truck. If we were
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just like walking into a store. I'm not kidding, like four times what
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was in his truck? And that would be I know, I know that
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you have to want it would just be paranoid, just constantly go back,
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have to jiggle the handle, jiggle it again, jiggle it again. And
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then he'd be like, I gotta go check again. Why Really, it
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was like borderline debilitating his obsession with whether any you know what I mean.
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And that's just what you see. Imagine what's going on in his head as
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he's just sitting there. Again, I'm just wondering what was he hiding in
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that truck? All sorts of just paraphernalia. No, all right, man,
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is it weird that I don't like when the person checking me out at
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a store or a grocery store comments on what it is that I'm buying.
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Oh, I do not like when they say something like, for example,
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Saturday, we went to the grocery store. We were making chili. You
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know, it's pretty obvious that I'm buying all the ingredients for some chili in
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the first the obe. They go, oh, looks like you might be
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making some chili, and I go, yeah, yeah it is. But
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then like, where do you draw the line, because they're like, well,
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yeah, if I'm checking out with some you know, I was gonna
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say scription stuff. Prescription stuff always makes me like weirded out. But now,
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as a woman, if you're going through and it seems stereotypical, but
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we've all been there. You're getting tampons, Snickers bars like all this stuff,
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It's like, what are they gonna say, Well, lady, must
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be your time in the month stop And as anybody ever said that, you
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know back in the day, if you're ever is a male, you know,
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going through to purchase some you know, yeah, if they were to
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say anything, But then again, It's like the silence is even worse because
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nobody's saying anything. So what if Dan just looks at you, goes in
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for a real nice weekend, aren't you. Sometimes I waited to be safe,
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but I would I would just like break the ice and just say something.
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They'd be like did you find everything? Or they wouldn't say anything.
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I would just be like just the one box of you know, that'll be
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it for me, Thank you? Did you find everything? Okay? No,
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you could play shows a little bit closer to the checkout thanks. Oh
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that's yeah. We went to a I had to get a winter jacket finally,
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because I you know, I don't have a jacket. Yeah, way
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to go. Just just an idiot thing. But anyway, so you know,
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checking out, it's like, yeah that that time year. Huh.
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I'm like, yeah, you just don't like small talk in general. Thats
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just you know what it's coming. There should be a barrier. I'm fine
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talking about the weather or the football game or whatever, but don't be commented.
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There should be a barrier between what I'm like purchasing for me, you
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know what I mean? Like, it's not even like just pretend you don't
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see there's a time and a place, Tell me what the price is,
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Tell me how much coal's cash. I racked up with my purchase. That's
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funny. We were talking off air too about situations where somebody may recognize your
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voice but not you, and you're in a circumstance where you're like, I
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really don't want you to be talking about, like, hey, you're the
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girl on the radio while I'm you know, the in stirrups. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, how's your blood pressure? Great? Oh gosh, that
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Pike in the morning. It's just so unwilling to pretend we don't know each
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other. And Amanda in the Morning on stage seven trending. Now here's what
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you need to know. Well, the Grammy New nominations were out on Friday
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and leading the way. I was kind of surprised by this. Scizza was
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the top nominee with nine and I thought for sure would be Taylor Swift,
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but she was kind of in the mix with about seven other people with seven
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nominations, Miley Cyrus, Billy Eilish, Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo. But there
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were some snubs. I saw a lot of people very upset that Morgan Wallen
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did not get any nomination whatsoever. And then what did they have a whole
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country category right now, don't they? Right? Yeah, well then that's
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surprising. I mean he's had what three or four songs on the Billboard charts
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for weeks pretty much the entire year last night, that was out there for
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some time. I don't geez, I don't. I would like to.
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They should have to explain themselves really, yeah, you know what I mean,
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like, oh, here's why you were close but because of this.
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But then, of course that wouldn't be as exciting for us. I know
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another one that also kind of made it over to the crossover world, Luke
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Combs and Tracy Chapman for Fast Card, didn't make it, so people were
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well a little up in arms. I don't mind them not including the cover
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songs, if you know. If that's the case, we need to get
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low standards and rendition of all the small things on there. And I don't
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see that on the ballot for next year. Would you say, what's the
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most dominated sizza? Back in school, I used to always forget my Scissa.
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I had to borrow the teachers. You're the guy, like around here
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we have Scissa's labeled here, this day is up front. Yeah, it
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was the worst dad joke I've heard in a long time. Thank you all
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right to be I do know who Sissa is and I think she's great.
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Okay, thank you for clarifying for the people who I thought you were just
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a rascal right there. And I am not into Marvel movies, to be
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completely fair or dc any of that, but I believe it was James.
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He was filling in and there was a movie that was released. You had
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another man on the show. I had another man on the show, Pike,
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you weren't here. I had somebody who knew a little bit more than
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you about the Marvel movie, and I guess he said that it's just gone
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downhill and that the chances of this movie being successful were pretty slim, and
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he was right. This weekend it set a record of the lowest launch in
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the fifteen year franchise history. Still brought in forty seven million dollars, but
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people were very upset about it. The previous low was set with The Incredible
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Hulk earning fifty five point four million back in two thousand and eight. But
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you got to think the money they put into these are you even like getting
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close to what you know, I think, so I don't think we're at
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the break even point quite yet. Now. The movie was called what the
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Marvel the Marvel yeaes the Marvels got I don't know? And I'm with you,
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man, I don't watch I watched that endgame, the one with the
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you know what I mean, just by accident, like my brother in law
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had it on during Thanksgiving or something, but never on purpose. I've never
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really gotten into any of them. I couldn't tell you. This is why
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I don't want to speak on it, because people are going to go,
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You're a big dumb dumb because I don't know which is which with the Avengers
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and all that, man is the DC thing got it? And then or
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Spidey Goo That's a good question. I feel like that's but here and now
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I'm going to risk sounding like a dumb dumb as well. You know what,
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I can talk to you about the brothers and this is so great.
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Jason Kelsey of course, a super Bowl championshim, champion and a championshim.
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You know, you don't really see his channel lot with that beard. He
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is also a finalist for the Sexiest Man Alive, but over the weekend he
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was in Chicago and have you ever been to Wiener's Circle that restaurant they just
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troll people all the time. That's not familiar with the Wiener Circle for years.
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Anyway you've been to Chicago, I felt like this would have been the
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top spot for you to go. And uh, I'll put it on the
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list though for next I do love Chacock Hi down anyway. They give people
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grief, is that what they do? They do? So they greeted him
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and on the sign it said welcome Taylor's boyfriend's brother on the restaurant Marquis.
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I don't know why that had me rolling, mainly because you know, he
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laughed about it. He didn't care. And weatherwise, today you guys get
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out and enjoy. If you've got a couple of sick days and you want
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to be outside, now is the time to use them. I'm gonna beautiful
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sunshine today, Hi fifty five like in a minute in the morning on Big
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Nuddy eight points seven. This is gonna be a lifesaver though, because you
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know, when you had a few drinks, the things you're willing to post,
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the things you're willing to text, it changes. Little liquid courage is
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what they call it. Eh, well, it's not even courage. It's
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just like you're dumb. Your brain just gets stupid. There's no other way
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to say it. Right the morning you drink, you wake up the next
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day and you see what you posted or you text, it's like, what
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am I doing? It's just and it's not always like graphic or grotesque or
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it's just stupid. It's just things that I'm like, that wasn't funny,
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that wasn't interesting, It doesn't make sense. It's just embarrassing, you know.
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But thank god for these researchers at Stanford, very renowned university. Yeah,
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they've created an app for your smartphone that will detect whether or not you're
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drunk based on your speech, so you don't have to blow into anything.
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It simply will detect the frequency of your voice, which of course you might
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not realize it changes as you're drinking absolutely deeper. It detects that and your
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speech in general, and it, with ninety eight percent accuracy, can tell
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if you're above a point oh eight or not really so, and then it
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won't let allow you to do anything on your phone in that regard. Well,
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at this point, it's just the technologies. But now that the technology
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exists, of course, there's going to be other apps that use this to
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basically lock you out of your phone if you so choose when you're drunk so
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you don't make those embarrassing posts. I do love is that we get to
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catch a lot of this because we wake up so early. I mean when
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my alarm goes off around three point thirty. I get to see because one
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of the first things I do I start scrolling and you can tell people who
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I'll screenshot. I'm like, I bet they did not want to post this,
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and they're airing dirty laundry, tagging people and stuff doing that, and
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by the time the rest of the world gets up to see it, oh
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wait gone, And you're right. You see the posts, you're like,
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well, that's a weird thing to post at eight am. And then you
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like, oh posted eight hours ago, gotcha? Yep, that makes sense.
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You do the math, You're like, oh little midnight, little midnight
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post about your ex or whomever they're with or whatever it is, right,
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yeah, So, and I get the same way. It's tempting because you,
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just, like you said, you just you get loose and you feel
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like everything is now way more interesting. Than it actually is that or it's
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funny, Like if you do something and everybody around you is laughing at it,
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it's like, oh yeah, I bet the rest of the world is
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gonna think that's funny. You know how many times fances are it's not one
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of our favorite things to do if we don't go out with stan and watch
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just YouTube videos, a lot of music videos, a lot of old performances
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from nostalgic bands. And it's with that I know I've hit the point of
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I shouldn't be posting. Once I start watching Google Doll music videos, that's
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your limit. That's like your app telling you my wife knows. Once once
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the Googoo Dolls live performances come on the TV, it's over and I immediately
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you know, you get this feeling, this like nostalgic emotional feeling, and
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you convince yourself that not only the Google Doll is great, but they're the
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greatest band of all time, and you want to post about it. And
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you want because you feel like everybody else is probably on the same level as
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you, like how emotional like this is so good, that we're so lucky
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to have these guys in our lives. See one of them dolls. I
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love most about you, and a lot of people may not know. This
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is when you hit your limit. You do you get emotional, you you've
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you're in a moment people mean, some people getting like fighting me. You
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know you just kind of step back and just like take in all these feelings.
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I feel a lot, aman it. You're like all the feels when
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you have had a couple of toddies. But real talk could be seen any
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goog Dolls live performances, because I got a few right now, we can
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watch it. You went to the Goo Goo Dolls ones and I don't even
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think I cried. Well, you said a lot of bad things too,
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You said it was bad. It is such a critic, Amanda, Like
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remember the time I had to get down in the weeds here, But remember
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the time we went to Pink the first time in snow Patrol opened lovely band.
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They said, oh is that when I was When I was sleeping.
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She on the air the next day referred to snow Patrol as snooze Patrol Cash.
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What a wild thing to say when I was snoozing during snooze Patrol.
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Pike and Amanda in the morning, come on, get up on Big Amanda
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Stills the see Let's see. If you love life, you're following along with
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this love story Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey. Here is what is going down.
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On Friday, Taylor Swift was supposed to perform in Argentina, kicking back
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off her Aarris tour. Well it was down pouring rain. Travis Kelsey flew
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in in the nic of time before there was any rain delays, I'm being
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told, and they ended We didn't delay the show because his flight was.
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They delayed it because of the rain, and she moved it till Sunday night.
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By the way, the airlines actually didn't charge anybody for changing their flights
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or anything either. I wonder if Taylor had anything to do with it either
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way, just super cool for people who were going to the show. Must
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have been an allegiant flight, yeah, probably always accommodating. So here is
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what went down that night. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey were spotted out for
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dinner holding hands. They brought along Dad Daddy. Swift met Travis, to
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our knowledge, for the first time. They must have hit it off because
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the next night at Taylor's concert, they were in the VIP tent together.
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A lot of people know this, but Taylor Swift's a huge Eagles fan.
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Her family is. Her dad was rocking a Kansas City Chiefs lanyard standing next
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to Travis Kelse, so that was funny. People were trolling him for that,
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but he was showing his support. And the end of the night,
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she was singing Karma, and she changed the lyrics to her song and Travis
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went wild. Listen is the guy Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming
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straight home to me? His face, he's giddy. Even Taylor's dad is
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like, yeah, look at this, like just oh my god. And
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then he started doing the little awkward dance, which oh yeah it was.
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It was a doorable. He blew her a kiss, He gave her the
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hearthands a couple of times during the show. Her dad's reaction was by far
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my favorite. Then they're walking off at the end of it, her and
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her dad, and she runs up to Travis and gives them a big hug
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and they make out in front of everybody. I think they're in love.
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I just wonder how long for him, how many shows before he's like,
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all right, I don't need to go anymore, you know, what I
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mean, because like, not to compare the two, but my band low
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standards, you know how many My wife like right away, she was all
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gung ho, just like Travis. Oh, this is so cool dating a
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guy in a band, and then you know, three shows later, she's
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like, yeah, I'm not gonna go tonight over it completely. I feel
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like he's close. Well, it'll be interesting to see how they make it
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work. Though it's very close to the couple say that they have arrangements to
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make it work because it's going to be long distance for quite some time.
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He flew back yesterday to Kansas City. Of course, he's going to be
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finishing out the football season before he can get back out on tour with her.
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But Thanksgiving that's like the next big holiday. I haven't looked at her
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tour schedule, but maybe they'll get together. I don't know. I just
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love this for them. It's adorable, Amanda, it is and Britney Spears
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kind of chiming in on Taylor Swift. Over the weekend, she threw up
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a couple of throwback photos of both of them, and in the caption,
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she said, this is way back when, but kind of cool. During
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my oops tour. I got a knock on the door. One of my
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good friends, who was my assistant at the time, said, I have
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a girl named Taylor who wants to come in and sing for you. I
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was like, of course, he walks in, she sings a beat.
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This was in her backstage area, IK, yeah, not in her house
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anyway. She had a guitar and I was like, wow, wow,
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Wow, she's unbelievable. We took a picture. She then became the most
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iconic pop woman of our generation. Kind of cool. She plays stadiums.
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I prefer her videos over movies any day. She's stunning. Girl crush.
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Well, I don't know what the line about the movie was for Little Shade.
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I was like, oh, she's awesome. I mean, her movie
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sucked, but other now she's great. Yeah. And as you're reading through
21:22
this, you're like, what a great post. And then all of a
21:23
sudden, she put dot dot dot. She hit enter a couple times.
21:27
Part two es Mom, I love you so so much. But there were
21:33
three dolls in the cabinets when I went home two years ago. Kind of
21:37
really weird. You would have taken them out and then put them back in,
21:41
so messed up. Nope, I don't want them keep it all.
21:45
I honestly don't care anymore dot dot dot. Honestly though, why is a
21:48
mother daughter argument of getting you know, throwing away their childhood crap? Why
21:53
is that playing out over Instagram? Why is it playing out on a Taylor
21:57
Swift. Yeah, like gratitude Poet was like, I want to comment on
22:02
this, but I also don't want to get in the middle of whatever that
22:04
is. And I don't like this. Matthew Perry's ex girlfriend Katie Edward,
22:10
speculates that Matthew may have relapsed right before his death. Now, she said,
22:15
I know Matthew, and I know that he wouldn't have just drowned.
22:18
I think he might have been just drowned, right. I think he may
22:19
have taken pills in the weeks leading up to this. Now. I don't
22:23
know how close they still were. They dated in two thousand and six,
22:26
she ended up being his assistant in twenty eleven. Maybe they talk from time
22:32
to time. I just don't like what she's alluding to without really knowing this
22:36
situation, because he very easily he was playing pickleball for a few hours,
22:40
he could have who know, I mean, there's so many things that you
22:41
could have had a heart attack. He didn't just sit in there and drown
22:45
like nobody thinks that, right, Yeah, I mean, I will admit
22:48
she probably knows him better than we know him. Yeah, it's not like
22:51
we not we as and me and you, but we as a society haven't
22:53
been speculating already. So it's like she's just doing out loud what we've all
22:56
been doing, and she knows him better. So I know, I get
22:59
whatever. You know, it's whatever we do find out when this test comes
23:03
back, which it sounds like could be months. Yeah, it's just sad
23:07
either way, you know what I mean. Does it make a big difference.
23:08
I don't know. No, I just don't like I guess in my
23:11
mindset, I feel like she's trying to get a little clout here talking about
23:15
it like, oh I dated am, I was assistant, I was the
23:18
closest to him. I don't like it. One thing people like to do
23:19
when somebody passes away is they sure like to make it about themselves. So
23:23
true in the morning, Big naty eight point seven, Well here we are,
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it's already Jonas brothers will super yes, and we got pair of tickets
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right now. All week will be giving you a chance to win the last
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minute pair of tickets for the show at the Alare Center. Right now,
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we have Callar nine on the phone. Good morning. Who's this? This
23:40
is Brandy, Brandy your caller nine? Yes, good morning, Sanchi.
23:44
What are you up to? I'm on my way to the gym. We're
23:47
just talking about working out in the morning. It's such a game changer,
23:49
you know, because if we just get up too early, we'd have to
23:52
work out at like three am. So we don't That would be a real
23:55
struggle. But you got to feel good getting it out of the way,
23:57
right absolutely, the rookie, I love it. Well, Brandy, let's
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get you a chance here to win a pair of these Jonas Brothers tickets.
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All you got to do, though, successfully win a round of sixty second
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Showdown show Down boy. So you've heard have you heard? Have you heard
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the sixty second show Down before? Oh? No, Okay, here's how
24:15
it goes. You will have seven things that I've written down. You have
24:19
to get five of them based on the clues Amanda is going to give you.
24:23
Okay, okay, so in sixty seconds or west, she'll give you
24:26
clues if you get five, right, bingo, you win. Now the
24:29
theme today since we did put up our Amanda, like Amanda says, put
24:33
up Christmas this weekend and watched a couple holiday movies. It's holiday holiday movie
24:38
theme. Okay, okay, all right, all right, all right,
24:41
Brandy, sixty seconds going on the clock in three to one. Uh you
24:47
put this up. It's green. It's a Christmas No, it's the tall
24:52
one, a pine tree, yep tree. Ooh. If you didn't put
24:56
up your Christmas in your anti, you are no the Grinch. But oh
25:07
pass okay. Will Farrell plays this in a movie at Santa's Little Helpers el
25:11
yep ol. I just talked about that man with the white beard. What's
25:15
his name? Panta full name? And I was gonna tell you about Scrooge,
25:25
but it's not. It's the other one. I was going to tell
25:26
you the green guy who's still oh gosh, the mcallisters Kevin No the name
25:34
of the movie. Brandy. Wow, very very impressive. You know your
25:41
stuff. Nice job. And because of that, Brandy, you had just
25:45
won Jonahs brothers take adds. Who who are you bringing to the show.
25:51
That's a good question. Well, you got four days about it man,
25:55
I love it. Well, congratulations Hank ty Brandy. She didn't want to
25:57
put respect on Santa's full name. I mean, mister class. I know
26:02
the Saint Nick, Jolly Old, Saint Nicholas, isn't that his real name?
26:06
First name jolly Old and last name Saint nicholasp you got Pa and Amanda
26:11
in the morning on Big seven Old Tattoos. Now, there's a line of
26:21
thinking out there, Amanda. I don't know if you believe this or not,
26:22
but people with tattoos are bad people, ridiculous, one of these,
26:26
one of these what you might cause stereotime. Absolutely. Now, I feel
26:30
like we've come along ways in society over the years of you know, just
26:33
our tolerance of people with tattoos, people who just look different in general.
26:37
Oh my gosh, I remember even just ten years ago, probably even longer,
26:41
gosh, I'm getting old. Fifteen years ago, I remember I had
26:45
a job as a hostess and the a lot of people had tattoos, and
26:48
it was just ridiculous what you'd have to wear to cover up and do what
26:52
it's like. And this is just like a franchise restaurant. I know,
26:56
why do we care this much? And that in piercing to all of it.
27:00
Yes, I mean now you don't even honestly, don't even pay attention.
27:03
Well, this is not gonna help. There's a study that was done
27:07
on people with tattoo and their association with being arrested or incarcerated. Oh stop
27:12
it. And it revealed that men with tattoos were found to be two and
27:18
a half times more likely to be arrested than those without. Oh really,
27:22
they were two times more likely to be convicted and nearly twice as likely to
27:26
be incarcerated. Now, women with tattoos two times is likely to be arrested.
27:32
So it did reveal that for males and females, having a permanent tattoo
27:36
was associated with an increased risk of being arrested. Well, I don't really
27:41
have a whole lot of data to help back this up, but they do.
27:42
I do know that you have a couple of tats or is it just
27:47
one? But it's visible on my forearm, so you know, I feel
27:49
like it counts for more. You've got a misdemeanor on your hands. Oh
27:53
geez, really, I this is anecdotal evidence at best. I have no
28:00
tattoos and zerocker, no arrest No, it never been busted because I've done
28:06
and you got picked up one time, but nothing that would. You'll be
28:08
able to look at the You're never able to see it and it has been
28:11
dodging convictions for years now. No, I mean, is it Is it
28:15
one of those things where are you getting arrested because you've got the tattoo?
28:21
Or do you get the tattoo because you're living a or do you get him
28:25
a Chivas lifestyle? I hear you get him when you're in prison. Duo.
28:27
There's that too, don't people. It's like, I don't think you
28:32
get arrested because you got the tear drop tattoo. I think it's the other
28:36
way. Like in a minute in the morning on Big Buddy eight points.
28:41
We had a lot of questions after it. Was it a couple of weeks
28:44
ago October twenty second that the pilot in Alaska Airlines pilot attempted to shut off
28:48
the engines on a flight. Yeah, because he was in the cockpit right
28:52
right. He wasn't the actual pilot, correct, He was a pilot on
28:56
you know, not on duty, and so we were like, well,
28:59
what the what was he trying to do? And obviously he's shutting the engines
29:02
off. Your plan is for the plane to crash, right, Thank god
29:04
it didn't. He's been detained and arrested. Now, this guy, he's
29:07
forty four. His name is Joseph Emerson. He's in prison right now,
29:11
awaiting trial, charged with eighty three counts of attempted murder, obviously one for
29:15
every person on the front. Yeah, so now he's speaking out. He
29:19
did an actual interview from jail, you know. So he's answering a lot
29:22
of the questions. One, what was he doing? Well, he says
29:26
that he had taken some what he calls magic mushrooms. He was at a
29:30
weekend getaway in Washington, basically him and his friends. And this is where
29:33
it gets kind of sad. He was celebrating the five year death of his
29:37
best friend. Oh, his friend died back in twenty eighteen, and he
29:41
admitted that since then he's battled with depression. So him and his friends got
29:45
together to remember their friend, and they said he said they did magic mushrooms
29:48
along with some other drugs. So wow, because yeah, I remember all
29:52
the interviews, people were just shocked. I mean, not only just employees
29:56
that have worked with him for so long, but those closer, the like
30:00
this is so out of nowhere, Like this isn't He's not a terrorist.
30:03
There's nothing like that, right. So he said that when he got on
30:07
that plane, he started to have a panic attack. So he texted his
30:10
friend who had dropped him off at the airport. He said, I'm having
30:12
a panic attack, and his friend said, do your breathing exercises, and
30:17
he said, this is from Joseph Emerson said send love. I need to
30:19
be home. This is when he said he started to feel like he was
30:22
dreaming. He thought nothing was real, so imagine the confusion of it.
30:26
He thought that basically his plan was to shut the engines off, the plane
30:30
would start heading toward a crash, and he would wake up. So he's
30:34
hallucinating, basically thinking he's dreaming. So he's doing whatever he can to try
30:40
to wake up, or at least that's what he's saying now from prison.
30:42
So that's when he threw off the cockpit head said, yelled to the pilots
30:47
for help. When nothing happened, he pulled the shut off handles. Oh
30:51
convinced that he was imagining the whole thing. Okay, do you believe this?
30:56
You know it seems like the most likely. Now there is somebody who
31:00
came out who's a psychedelics expert saying that basically, if he had taken,
31:03
like he said, these mushrooms forty eight hours prior, they would have not
31:07
been in his system. Okay, so they thinking he maybe took something else
31:11
or a combination of just sleep, you know, being deprived of sleep yep,
31:15
being depressed, having a panic attack, and then then throw some drugs.
31:18
And it's kind of all of it. I mean, I know what
31:19
it's like to have, like a hangover. I've never done any of like,
31:23
never ca a mushroom. True, I've never done any of that,
31:26
but like a hangover, anxiety, anxiety waking up the next thing, and
31:30
just like, ugh, I don't know what it would be if you were
31:33
taking other drugs, but my goodness. Well, so then he started screaming
31:37
that he needed to be coffed. He said he better cuff me. So
31:38
of course they cuffed him during the in the plane and that's when he sent
31:42
several texts, including one to his wife that said I've made a big mistake,
31:47
to say the least. But then Joseph Emerson, he also said that
31:49
when he was detained in a detention room at the airport. Once they landed
31:55
in Portland, he stripped naked, urinated on himself, pleasured himself what and
32:01
then tried to jump out of a window in an attempt to wake up.
32:07
So he still had to have been something else that he had taken or like
32:12
a what do they call it a bad trip? I mean, I mean
32:15
that is going to be a bad trip for the eighty three people on board,
32:20
but didn't exactly get to their destination. But now he said he wants
32:23
to be transparent. He said he never intended to hurt anyone. He admitted
32:27
to struggling with lingering depression in silence, fearing that he could be grounded from
32:31
flying, basically taking his pilot license away. Okay, you're on the jury.
32:36
You know all of his backstory. You know that he's never had a
32:42
track record any of that. I mean, what he did was terrible.
32:45
But do you are you a little lenient? I mean I feel for the
32:47
guy because I just feel like, gosh, you just had a real bad
32:51
night. What we say the least, But it's like what if you know,
32:54
what if he had succeeded? Yeah, no, that's at the same
32:58
time, eighty three counts of attempted. Like, we know that's not happening,
33:00
right, He's not they're not locked. I don't think he's going to
33:02
prison for the rest of his life. No, I feel like he might
33:06
lose his job for the rest of his life. Of course, Well that's
33:08
that. Yes, I'm sorry, my man, you're gonna have to find
33:12
another occupation if you do, in fact not go to prison. But isn't
33:15
that enough punishment? Or am I being a softy over here? Well,
33:17
if you're the family of one of the people on that plane, thinking you
33:21
could have lost your loved one because of this guy's bad trip. But I
33:23
also think if even even if I was on that plane, I'd be like,
33:27
gosh, you got to have a heart for a guy who's just struggling.
33:30
No, what you do a man? I got the heart right here,
33:35
baby, You got the saying you know, you don't do the crime.
33:38
If you can't do the time,