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DONKEY: Wedding Venue Denies Bride Refund After Fiancé’s Sudden Death · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Donkey up to day time. Damn he hogged. It's time
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  Speaker 1: for donkey, I mean trying to beat donkey today. No more.
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  Speaker 1: They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not making new people do these days called donkey of
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  Speaker 1: the day. And it really caught me off guard.
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  Speaker 2: Damn Charlamagne, who got the donkey out of the day today? Well,
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  Speaker 2: just hilarious donkey today for Tuesday, January twentieth has me
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  Speaker 2: very conflicted.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, every now and then and I get a suggestion
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  Speaker 1: for donkey.
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  Speaker 2: To day, and I'm like, I can see why you
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  Speaker 2: would want them to get Donkey of to day, but
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  Speaker 2: honestly I can see where they shouldn't. Okay, we are
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to take this one to Breakfast Club Court
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  Speaker 2: because I really don't know if these folk should get
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  Speaker 2: the biggest he holed. But today's potential Donkey of to
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  Speaker 2: day is going to uh lukas Rakowski.
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  Speaker 1: He's the owner of the Crystal Ballroom in Lake Mary, Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: According to News six, Orlando ty Henson and William Coney
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  Speaker 2: was set to marry in May of this year at
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  Speaker 2: the Crystal Ballroom and then sadly tragedy struck.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the new six police Crystal Ballroom.
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  Speaker 3: Here in Lake Mary is where Ty Hinson thought she'd
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  Speaker 3: be marrying her best friend this coming spring. When her fiance,
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  Speaker 3: William Coney, suddenly died just before Thanksgiving. Hinson says her
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  Speaker 3: wedding vendors voided all of their contracts and gave back
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  Speaker 3: her money.
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  Speaker 4: All, she says, except this one. This was like a cancelation.
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  Speaker 1: This was a person dying.
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  Speaker 4: Hinson acknowledges she signed a non refundable contract with the
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  Speaker 4: Crystal Ballroom of Lake Mary. Still, she assumed the company
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  Speaker 4: would give back at least some of the seventy six
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  Speaker 4: hundred dollars she paid for the wedding venue.
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  Speaker 2: Her suggestion was, maybe you can do a memorial here
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  Speaker 2: on the wedding day, and that even now sorry.
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  Speaker 4: The owner of the wedding venue encourages clients to purchase
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  Speaker 4: third party cancelation insurance. In a statement, the company says
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  Speaker 4: Crystal Ballroom has served thousands of couples over many years,
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  Speaker 4: while also encountering a small number of illnesses, accidents, deaths,
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  Speaker 4: military deployments, and other life events. These experiences shaped our
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  Speaker 4: policies and procedures, not to avoid responsibility, but to protect clients,
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  Speaker 4: vendors and the venue in a fair, transparent and legally
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  Speaker 4: sound way.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, first things first, rest in peace to William Coney,
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  Speaker 2: died unexpectedly at the age of forty two from a
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  Speaker 2: heart attack. This is why I encourage you all to
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  Speaker 2: take your cardiovascular health serious.
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  Speaker 1: This is why I.
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  Speaker 2: Encourage you all to go see doctor Puma and go
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  Speaker 2: get a star and heart scan. Please, please, please, brothers,
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  Speaker 2: take your cardiovascular health serious, because I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: it's the food, COVID, the vaccine stress, something as younger
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  Speaker 2: people having heart attacks and strokes.
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  Speaker 1: So please take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: But this is why I get conflicted, because business is business,
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  Speaker 2: and there is a reason venues take deposits. Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know the details of the contract. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: the stipulations in the contract. Most contracts have a clause
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  Speaker 2: for unforeseen, uncontrollable events.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's called the.
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  Speaker 2: Forced majure clause majure commonly known as the Act of
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  Speaker 2: God clause. And I would think death would fall under that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like she just canceled for no reason. And
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  Speaker 2: I would think a venue would refund the deposit just
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  Speaker 2: out of the kindness of their heart, even if.
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  Speaker 1: They legally didn't have to.
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  Speaker 2: And that is where the situation gets perplexing for me,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm expecting me from other people. Okay, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying I think Crystal Ballroom is wrong because legally I
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  Speaker 2: don't believe they are. From a business perspective, they aren't
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  Speaker 2: at all, but from a human perspective, from a kindness perspective,
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  Speaker 2: they could give tire break and give her the deposit.
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  Speaker 2: Back then, I thought it was very cold to suggest
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  Speaker 2: to her to do the memorial there, which sadly the
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  Speaker 2: venue is thinking about their bottom line. Okay, they don't
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  Speaker 2: want to miss out on that seventy six hundred. That's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money. I get it, But damn, did
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  Speaker 2: you not.
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  Speaker 1: Have a heart or does a heart matter?
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  Speaker 2: When a contract was signed and business was done by
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  Speaker 2: the way? News six Orlando confirmed that the contract states
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  Speaker 2: all payments are non refundable.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, But I agree with Ty Henson.
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  Speaker 2: She said, she understands the legal side, but there should
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  Speaker 2: be space for compassion. Okay, Ty said, and I agree
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  Speaker 2: with her wholeheartedly. My compassion as a human being carries
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  Speaker 2: over into my business. But then I understand with the
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  Speaker 2: venue owner lukax Rokowski is coming from, because he said
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  Speaker 2: they are a full service venue that coordinates space, staffing, inventory,
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  Speaker 2: and third party services months in advance and incurs costs
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  Speaker 2: on a different timeline.
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  Speaker 1: Than individual vendors.
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  Speaker 2: And they said that complex and unfortunate situations like death
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  Speaker 2: have shaped their policies to be fair, transparent, and legally sound.
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  Speaker 1: He noted that these rules are.
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  Speaker 2: Reviewed before signing to avoid emotional or inconsistent decision making later.
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  Speaker 2: So where are we with this? I really see both
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  Speaker 2: sides of this situation. I understand. But people want this owner,
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  Speaker 2: lukax Rakowski, and this venue to get donkey of the day.
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  Speaker 2: So let's open up the phone lines one eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: and five eighty five one one.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta go to Breakfast Club Court. We gotta go
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  Speaker 1: to Breakfast Club Court.
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  Speaker 5: Now, people are saying that this owner and this establishment
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  Speaker 5: should have a heart, but also this is business.
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  Speaker 1: They had to pay other people.
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  Speaker 4: They had to pay, maybe the florist, maybe the DJ.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe the sound, maybe balloons, whatever, they had to pay
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  Speaker 5: a lot of it had to go out. And not
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  Speaker 5: only that, they costs in advances. Yes, they booked these
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  Speaker 5: things out here as in advance. So if you don't
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  Speaker 5: take this date, somebody else would have. So they gave
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  Speaker 5: it to you. So it is what it is. But
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  Speaker 5: what he did say was that person should have got insurance.
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  Speaker 5: If you would have got insurance, nothing would have happened.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't hear that. That's what you said. You
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  Speaker 1: said they should have got insurance. That's what you said.
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  Speaker 1: I said that, Yes, I don't know. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: insurance just in case something happened. No, he said, he said.
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  Speaker 2: The owner noted that these rules are reviewed before signing
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  Speaker 2: to avoid emotional or inconsistent decision making.
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  Speaker 5: Later I heard, But anyway, that's the question. Eight hundred
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  Speaker 5: and five eighty five one.
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  Speaker 4: Who's at fault?
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  Speaker 1: Who should get the donkey?
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  Speaker 5: Should it be the owner of the establishment or not.
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  Speaker 5: Let's discuss eight hundred and five eighty five one oh
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  Speaker 5: five one.
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