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I was RUDE at my friend's wedding party and I don't REGRET it! | Reddit Stories | ft. Rainie Toll | EP3066 · ok storytime

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Riley.
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  Speaker 3: I was rude at my friend's wedding and I don't
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  Speaker 3: regret it.
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  Speaker 4: Are we sure?
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  Speaker 5: I feel like she maybe needs to regret it. We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I was recently asked to be a member of a
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  Speaker 3: friend's wedding party. However, I was the only person, not
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  Speaker 3: only in the wedding party, but also at the ceremony
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  Speaker 3: who wasn't allowed to have a plus one.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. I think everybody hates your partner.
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's going to be definitely something you need
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  Speaker 5: to address.
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  Speaker 3: This was an outdoor wedding with an unlimited seating, and
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  Speaker 3: these people don't give a crap about the vid, so
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't about that. I was told it was because
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  Speaker 3: my relationship wasn't serious enough, despite us being together for
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  Speaker 3: a year. That only engaged or married couples were invited.
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  Speaker 3: And that they didn't want some random guy in their
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  Speaker 3: wedding pictures who I might not even be with later
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  Speaker 3: in the future. Dang, that's pretty harsh.
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  Speaker 5: They've been together for a year? A year. That's kind
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  Speaker 5: of enough time.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that's enough time.
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  Speaker 5: I think that one, it's like, I don't know. You're
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  Speaker 5: not married, right?
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  Speaker 3: No, but I'm in a relationship for almost a year.
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  Speaker 3: She's going to marry him. You think so? That's the plan.
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  Speaker 6: Not right now.
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  Speaker 3: This is a dumb line. They don't want to have
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  Speaker 3: to look at some random guy in their picture, even
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  Speaker 3: though he wouldn't have been in any of the posed
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  Speaker 3: pictures at all, maybe just in the background of crowd shots.
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  Speaker 3: There have been no conflicts between them and my boyfriend,
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  Speaker 3: and he's a nice, mild-mannered gent who gets along with everyone,
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  Speaker 3: so I don't think it was about him personally. I
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  Speaker 3: get to the ceremony and find out that literally everyone
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  Speaker 3: else has a plus one, not just married couples, but
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  Speaker 3: there are couples there who have been dating for less
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  Speaker 3: time than me. This is when I started feeling surly.
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  Speaker 3: I smiled and played my part during the ceremony, but
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  Speaker 3: inside I was very surly and angry.
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  Speaker 5: But I think this is good that she played her part.
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  Speaker 5: She was like, I'm going to make this a thing
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  Speaker 5: after the wedding. I'll let you do whatever you need
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  Speaker 5: to do at your wedding, but this is going to
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  Speaker 5: hurt my feelings.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I'm surly. By the way, this comes from Particular Visual 14.
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  Speaker 3: to the r slash OK Storytime subreddit. I'm Sophia.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Rainy Toll. I'm Riley.
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  Speaker 1: And Rainy, can you tell us a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: who you are, what you do?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I am Rainy. I started my career in public
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  Speaker 5: radio and then I switched into Try Guys, which was
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  Speaker 5: I was at the Try Guys for five years in
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  Speaker 5: their podcast department. And now I'm freelance, just out and about,
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  Speaker 5: bopping around Los Angeles, sort of doing some sketch, doing
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  Speaker 5: some comedy, making some projects that are coming out soon.
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  Speaker 1: Just making it happen.
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  Speaker 3: Just doing it all.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying. We were just talking about how it's just
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  Speaker 5: being your own boss. I'm just not really a good
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  Speaker 5: employee or boss to myself.
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  Speaker 3: I need a second part. You've got to be harder
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  Speaker 3: on yourself.
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  Speaker 5: I've got to be harder on myself. I need a
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  Speaker 5: KPI sync. I need some check-ins. Some check-ins.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, those are my words right here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You're like, I need a check-in.
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  Speaker 1: We need some KPIs around here.
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  Speaker 3: But Rainey has kindly joined us to give some advice
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  Speaker 3: on our stories. Thank you so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. I love the Reddit tea.
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  Speaker 5: Reddit is sort of, it's sort of a spicy little
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  Speaker 5: place that I'm on. I'm on a lot of the
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  Speaker 5: YouTube Reddit threads. Like, I don't even really watch Mythical
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  Speaker 5: and I'm like, what's going on at mythical they changed
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  Speaker 5: presidents like what's.
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  Speaker 3: Going on the reddit thread i haven't seen any of
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  Speaker 3: their episodes um but i hope it continues we then
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  Speaker 3: got to the reception which had way more people than
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  Speaker 3: the ceremony this is where all the more distant friends
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  Speaker 3: were invited and everyone there had a plus one i
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  Speaker 3: was literally placed at a table as the one single
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  Speaker 3: person and everyone else at the table was a couple
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  Speaker 3: some people at the table were other members of the
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  Speaker 3: wedding party but others were random distant acquaintances. People started
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  Speaker 3: asking me where my boyfriend was and I said I
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  Speaker 3: was told he wasn't invited. They asked why and I
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  Speaker 3: said I had no idea why. This is when I
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  Speaker 3: started letting my surliness show.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no.
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  Speaker 3: Wait till after. And started acting rude and mean because
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  Speaker 3: I was humiliated and then I was brought into conversation
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  Speaker 3: with the couple's male friend.
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  Speaker 8: Dean.
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  Speaker 3: I was previously told that Dean had a crush on me.
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  Speaker 1: What? Stop it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well now I think that Dean is the problem here.
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  Speaker 1: What? They planned this so she could get with Dean.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is big news.
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  Speaker 1: Big being Dean.
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  Speaker 3: Being Dean.
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  Speaker 5: And they have no regard for her relationship.
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  Speaker 3: No, they don't care.
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  Speaker 5: And so Dean is also a single person at the
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  Speaker 5: wedding then.
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  Speaker 3: So far as, yeah, we don't know.
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  Speaker 1: My next question is, are they related?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I actually don't know. We don't know how they're,
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  Speaker 3: hopefully not.
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  Speaker 4: Is it incest?
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  Speaker 5: You're wondering about incest alert?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll find out all those questions. And I made
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  Speaker 3: it clear I wouldn't be interested even if I were single.
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  Speaker 3: Even after that, he kept trying to message me and
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  Speaker 3: I ignored him. But now the people who brought me
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  Speaker 3: into conversation with Dean were standing around staring at us
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  Speaker 3: and giggling behind their hands, like they thought they were
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  Speaker 3: Cupid matchmakers. Dean was absolutely our participant in this, and
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  Speaker 3: I was meaner to Dean than I've ever been to
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  Speaker 3: anyone in my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: Chill, Opie.
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  Speaker 3: She is surly. She's full surly. I was as fully
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  Speaker 3: rude as I've ever wanted to be when... being the
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  Speaker 3: target of someone's romantic interest unwontedly. It's true, I don't
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  Speaker 3: really know if I was being set up, but I
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  Speaker 3: was already furious before that happened. Everyone was silent and awkward.
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  Speaker 3: I went back and finished my meal, and as soon
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  Speaker 3: as I was done, picked up my purse, left, and
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  Speaker 3: went straight to my boyfriend's house, skipping most of the reception,
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  Speaker 3: cake cutting, speeches, and everything.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like she's making this about her now. I
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  Speaker 5: get that she's in a bad situation. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I guess you're either going to be there
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  Speaker 5: in a bad vibe, or you're not going to go,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm like.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like if I went and I found out
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  Speaker 3: that everyone else was allowed to bring their partner and
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  Speaker 3: also maybe I was being set up with this guy
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  Speaker 3: I didn't like, I would just leave.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't say anything to anyone. Actually, I get that
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  Speaker 5: because there's a piece of it where it's like, I
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  Speaker 5: don't want to be fending off this weird person.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the whole night.
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  Speaker 4: The whole person.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: The whole person.
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  Speaker 1: I'm standing on this. I'm being even ruder.
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  Speaker 3: I'm making a scene.
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  Speaker 8: You told me I could bring the love of my
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  Speaker 8: life with me and now you talk to Big Bean Dean?
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  Speaker 3: Well, now you have to marry this, your boyfriend. Just
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  Speaker 3: to spite them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's to go all the way.
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  Speaker 5: That's the next step.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm now being told by the couple that they're hurt
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  Speaker 3: and confused why I left so early. I haven't replied.
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  Speaker 3: And we do have an update about texting the bride
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  Speaker 3: and groom. So I think there's going to be another conversation.
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  Speaker 3: But what do you think so far? Was it a
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  Speaker 3: pee in the right? How would you have handled this?
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  Speaker 8: I think.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's so hard because it's a wedding where it's
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  Speaker 5: just like, I think that I would go to, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know who you go to is the issue because
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  Speaker 5: it sort of seems like it's a group thing. I
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  Speaker 5: would go to the bride and groom, but they're busy.
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  Speaker 5: But I would like to know, I'm like, hey, like
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  Speaker 5: what's going on? Like, what are you guys talking about?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Why? Why are we talking about Dean and me?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm dating someone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I think, I think that the Dean crossed a line.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I think I was sort of on the wedding's side
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  Speaker 5: before because it's like, okay, well sometimes they.
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  Speaker 3: Don't owe you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Uh, partner I don't know though I think maybe
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  Speaker 5: I am on OP's side all the way I just
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  Speaker 5: feel like I think what I'm concerned about is like
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  Speaker 5: clearly they are not telling her something for some she's
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  Speaker 5: in the dark yeah so that makes me kind of
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  Speaker 5: be like why do they not trust.
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  Speaker 3: Her which is so weird to me because she's part
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  Speaker 3: of the wedding like she's a wet like a wedding
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  Speaker 3: party participant and they have fully you know clued her
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  Speaker 3: not clued her.
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  Speaker 5: In I know which is weird I think that it's
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  Speaker 5: also just like them playing cupid is super weird given
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  Speaker 5: like it's like oh if my friend is in a
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  Speaker 5: relationship i'm not like that even if i don't like
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  Speaker 5: the person yeah okay i just imagine they hate this
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  Speaker 5: yeah partner so much that it's like i don't want
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  Speaker 5: you in the wedding because he you suck and also
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  Speaker 5: actually what if like you hooked up with somebody else
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  Speaker 5: what if we sabotaged entirely yeah have you thought about
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  Speaker 5: that I think there's just not enough open communication.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And it's sort of urgent at this point.
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  Speaker 3: But maybe the text conversation changes that. And we're going
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  Speaker 3: to find out in this update.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay. How old is OP?
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  Speaker 3: We don't know, ages.
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  Speaker 1: I think that she is in college. And she's with
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  Speaker 1: a college boyfriend. And the parents are like, we don't
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  Speaker 1: think this is the best fit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's a theory.
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  Speaker 3: We also don't fully know. In the original text, the
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  Speaker 3: bride and groom are not referred to as friend, family,
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  Speaker 3: or anything.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So we don't really know Opie's relationship.
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  Speaker 5: It could be it could be like her mom and
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  Speaker 5: somebody else.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, OK.
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  Speaker 3: But we got an update after making this post. I
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  Speaker 3: emailed them back and I started small just to see
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  Speaker 3: what they would say. All I said to start it
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  Speaker 3: off was I was uncomfortable because I was the only
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  Speaker 3: one without a plus one after being told nobody but
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  Speaker 3: engaged or married couples would have them. Multiple people at
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  Speaker 3: the reception started repeatedly asking me where boyfriend was, and
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  Speaker 3: I was getting more and more humiliated, especially since I
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  Speaker 3: was seated with colleague and other colleague and their Tinder boyfriend.
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  Speaker 3: It was humiliating to be the only one singled out,
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  Speaker 3: and I was extremely upset. Here's the reply I got.
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  Speaker 3: We just meant no plus ones for the ceremony. It
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  Speaker 3: was perfectly fine for you to bring boyfriend to the reception.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what we assumed you were going to do.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we always planned for. The reception being much
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  Speaker 3: larger and looser. We never heard from you about bringing
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  Speaker 3: boyfriend to the reception, so we didn't plan for it.
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  Speaker 3: But it always would have been fine. And OP says
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  Speaker 3: this reply is some BS that was never, ever, ever
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  Speaker 3: said to me at all or presented as an option.
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  Speaker 3: I mean... If I get an invite that doesn't say
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  Speaker 3: anything about plus one, I'm not bringing them to anything.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 6: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: That's insane. Also, so, okay, so the Tinder dates were
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  Speaker 5: at the reception.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. They omitted critical information.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think on purpose.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I would actually have been fine with that as a compromise.
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  Speaker 3: And we have a second update about Dean. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that we're about to find out what Opie said
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  Speaker 3: to Dean.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Because she was like, I was meanest in my
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  Speaker 5: entire life. I was like, uh-oh.
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  Speaker 3: What did she say?
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  Speaker 5: That could mean anything. Because some people are like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: they're like so like dainty and polite. And some people
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  Speaker 5: are like kind of like mean often.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So people are like, I was so mean.
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  Speaker 5: And they're like, you suck. I like, yeah, like, looked
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  Speaker 5: at them a little weird. And then some people are like,
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  Speaker 5: let's see. I'm very curious how hard she's gonna go.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. What's your level of mean?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's a great question. I used to be, like,
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  Speaker 5: incredibly confrontational. Like, in high school, I was just like,
• 10:08
  Speaker 5: confrontation is my lifeblood. I love it. Like, I'll just, like,
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  Speaker 5: if I have an issue, yeah, like, we're talking about it.
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  Speaker 5: And then I sort of, like, went to therapy, and
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  Speaker 5: I was like, And my therapist was sort of like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: there's other ways to deal with like, and I'm like,
• 10:21
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, this is a huge life hack. This
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  Speaker 5: is I love this. I'm like obsessed with it. Then
• 10:25
  Speaker 5: I went way too far in the direction of like,
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  Speaker 5: no confrontation ever because it's like, it's just not worth it.
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  Speaker 5: Like what getting angry doesn't do anything. But now I'm trying.
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  Speaker 3: To get back into it a little bit.
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  Speaker 8: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I'm dabbling.
• 10:36
  Speaker 5: I actually got a little mad at my friend that
• 10:40
  Speaker 5: I'm working on a group project with two days ago.
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  Speaker 5: And you know what I'll say? Yesterday, he turned it around.
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  Speaker 1: No way.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. It was a happy ending.
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, anger does something. Anger can
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: be helpful.
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  Speaker 3: I think you just have to aim it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you have to temper it.
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  Speaker 5: You have to be really clear on what. This is
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  Speaker 5: the thing. It's like you have to be.
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  Speaker 8: I got a quote my mom told me recently. Unspoken
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  Speaker 8: expectations create resentment.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to tell people why you're upset. You
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  Speaker 3: can't expect them to read your mind. Update two. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't want to describe the conversation because people would probably
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: think really badly of me if they saw how horrible
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: I really acted.
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  Speaker 5: But F it.
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  Speaker 3: This was toward the end of the meal and some
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  Speaker 3: people are still eating and some people are just partying,
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: standing and talking, circulating around the room. I was eating
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  Speaker 3: and someone comes over to me and goes, hey, could
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: you come over here for a second? Someone has a
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  Speaker 3: question for you. That feels so high school.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, could you come over here?
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  Speaker 5: Somebody has a question. My friend wants to talk to you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my friend wants to talk to you.
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  Speaker 5: And it's like, okay, then talk to me.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Like, what are you talking about? My friend thinks you're cute.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Already I was suspicious because that was a scenario straight
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  Speaker 3: out of the second grade lunchroom. But fine. Whatever. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: it has to do with the bridal party. So I
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  Speaker 3: come over. And who's standing there? But Dean. Looking real smug.
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  Speaker 3: And a few other people are standing there who are
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  Speaker 3: already giggling. So I start feeling real angry. Because again,
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  Speaker 3: this is reminding me of a second grade lunchroom scenario.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm already imagining how it's going to go. He
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  Speaker 3: actually started out with, hey, beautiful. No.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's too much. That's too much. That's too much even
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  Speaker 3: if this person doesn't have a boyfriend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's just like you got to read the room a
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  Speaker 5: little bit higher and see what the interest level is,
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  Speaker 5: not just like going so hot.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's so intense.
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  Speaker 3: It went from, it went from, he sends a lackey over. Yeah. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: so Dina has something she wants to say to you.
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  Speaker 3: And Opie goes over and he goes, Hey, beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: It literally feels like it's like seventh grade and his
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: brother told him what to say.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And he's like, well, I don't even like you anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think he sensed that this wasn't going to go
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  Speaker 3: like what he had in his mind, but he continued
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: what he obviously planned out. So he said, I just
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: wanted to ask you something. And I said, what? He went,
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: there's something wrong with my phone. Can you help me
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: fix it?
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: I already know where this is going.
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: I already know where this is going. Oh, no. I said,
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know anything about phones. Sorry, I can't help you.
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: And turned around and go back.
• 12:57
  Speaker 9: No, no, no.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: What's wrong with my phone is that it doesn't have
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: your number in it.
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: This is cringe gore.
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: It is. It is. I don't even want to read this.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, I have used similar pickup lines like this before. No,
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: you haven't.
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: Have you actually?
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: What?
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: Not recently. No, no, no.
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh. I've never had anybody be that intense
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: with it.
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: I've had someone be very cringy with me before.
• 13:18
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: What did they say? No, they just like growled and
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: it made me very uncomfortable.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: It made me so uncomfortable.
• 13:25
  Speaker 5: Was it somebody you knew or like a cat caller?
• 13:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. This is somebody I knew. Do I
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: know them? What?
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: Do I know them?
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm not telling you.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: You have to tell me later.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Later, later, later.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you. Wait, just mouth it to me. And
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: then I'm going to get the reaction.
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: I bet you could. You can't say it online, but
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: I bet you know. Like, I bet you could figure
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: it out. I'll just let you say it.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: God, I want to know. Anyways, I have done this
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: to someone.
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: And they had a boyfriend.
• 13:49
  Speaker 10: Oh, no.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: And I still got the number.
• 13:51
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: What did you say? That's insane. You did, like, the
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: phone thing?
• 13:54
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 13:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I did the phone thing where I was like, hey, hey, hey.
• 13:57
  Speaker 8: And then she was like, I have a boyfriend. I'm like,
• 13:59
  Speaker 8: we can still be friends.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: And were you?
• 14:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it didn't work out, but I still got a number.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: That is impressive. I'm impressed by that.
• 14:10
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: So it works sometimes. Not with Opie, though. And I
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: just went off. I had already made it clear I
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: was not into whatever this was. And I turned to leave.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: But he interrupted me leaving and kept going despite it all.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: I was very furious because I was already angry. Plus,
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: he wasn't paying attention to how I felt or caring
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: about it. So I felt like he deserved what I
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: was going to give him. There's a little bit left
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: to the story.
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: This is so crazy. Wait, so she's... We're at the
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: point where he has.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: We're reenacting.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: He has.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: He's done his crime. Yes. And she's about to wreak
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: havoc on him.
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: That's where we're at. I feel, okay, level of crime,
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: I think it's bad. And he does not have any,
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: speaking of social decorum, no social decorum on this. But
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: I don't think it... I just feel a little bad
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: because I'm like, depending on how old they are, I'm like,
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: maybe he's like really nervous.
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: It's a vulnerable place to be saying, hey, beautiful.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: In a way.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: He's got a little fedora. Hey, beautiful. Hey, princess. Hey, princess.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: That is Dean's vibe.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Someone does. And not his friends who are egging him on.
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: This is something interesting.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: I feel Dean is cringe.
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: And her friends are like, you should be with Dean.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: So how is.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: Her vibe is similar to Dean's.
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: That's so much worse.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: When your friends try to set you up with, like,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: someone who you think is entirely unattractive.
• 15:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Like, just annoying.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: It's like, wait, you thought we would be a good match?
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: That's interesting.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: But we're going to get back.
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: Where even are we? Okay, yeah.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: We still have Dean.
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, my gosh.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: What's going on? I raised my voice and said, Dean, no.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: F off and leave me alone. No, you can't have
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: my effing number. No, I don't want to go out
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: with you. I don't want to talk to you. I'm
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: not attracted to you. I don't want anything to do
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: with you. You're not interesting or attractive to me at all.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: I want you to leave me the F alone.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: He was looking down during all of this and not
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: at me. And I said, I want you to look
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: at me and you're going to leave me alone from
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: now on. Yes or no. And he said, yes.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: Look at me.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: So he said, yes. So I turned around and left
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: him alone after that.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what? That's crazy.
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Well, there's a little bit. I know I humiliated him
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: and I did it on purpose. I hate to admit it,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: but it's true. Even though I raised my voice, it
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: was loud in the room. So only the people standing
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: nearby and one unrelated table nearby heard it.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: An unrelated table just being like, what is going on?
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Look at me.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Look at me. Look at me. That's really intense.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: That's insane. Wow.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Step by step on how to get a guy to
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: leave you alone. Yeah.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Look at me.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Yes or no.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Guys are afraid to make eye contact with men.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, clearly.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: That's why I only stare at their foreheads.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: That's what in theater they told you to do when
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: you're having a romantic moment. To look at their forehead
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: so you don't get nervous. In middle school, specifically.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay. I was like, wow. Yeah, no, no, no.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: In my middle school theater, that's what they said.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: That makes sense. I never had to do any romantic
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: scenes in middle school.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: I didn't either. But this was for someone else.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I heard about it. But that's the end of that story.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: We got another one coming up.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: We started out intensely.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Poor Dean or not poor Dean? Do we feel bad
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: for Dean?
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: I feel a little bit bad for Dean.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: I feel a little bit bad, but on the other hand,
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: I kind of do love a woman yelling at a man.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: There's something really nice about that. Dean had a lack
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: of curiosity. And she was like, don't assume that I'm interested.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: And I think that's fair.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: And I agree. And I think he went up a
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: little too strong. He probably knew that OP had a boyfriend.
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Because she said that she knew prior that he had
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: a crush on her. Yeah. And so despite all that,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: still has the audacity to go up to her.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: And then when she's like, not interested.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: He's like, push, push. And then he said, and she
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: just went off.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: And I think he's not going to make that mistake again.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: No. And I don't think he's ever going to talk
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: to anyone ever again.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: I think he's done. Yeah, I did yell at somebody
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: in front of all of his friends once.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Because I heard that he essentially stopped talking to me.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: We were friends. We sat next to each other and laughed.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: And then he stopped talking to me.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: We went on.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: This school trip.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: And then I was like... I heard that the reason
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: you stopped talking to me was because he thought I
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: had a crush on him and he wasn't interested and
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: so I was humiliated. And so then I went up
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: to him in front of all his friends and was like,
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: just so you know, I heard you stopped talking to
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: me because you thought I have a crush on you
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: and I don't.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: So good. I mean, you deserve that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think it was crazy. No, I don't think.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: That's that crazy.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: I think you still have business. I mean, but also
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: maybe I'm primed after reading what it would be.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I'm like, anything is not that crazy.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: It's not that crazy after like, you're not interesting.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Or attractive to me. Yeah, look at me. Look at me.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: I think the not interesting and attractive is maybe the
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: most scary part.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: And she said it twice. She said, look at me
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: and you're not interesting. You're not attractive. I'm going to
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: say it again. You're not attractive.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So I think that that's going to be something
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: that he will never forget. He's not going to forget that.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: No.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: I would never.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: And then she leaves the party.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: She's just like, I just.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Which I get now. I get that more now because
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: You can't stay after that. Yeah. You gotta go.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: I think you gotta take a breath.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: You gotta go home and take a breath.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: You gotta take a breather after that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: But we've got another story. My boyfriend is giving me
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: the ick over something stupid and I can't get over it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Ick is complicated. Because I feel like ick can go
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: one or two ways. We're going to find out which way. Yeah,
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: let's find out. Let's find out. Woo boy!
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: So I've, 31 female, always been the kind of person who...
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: thought the idea of giving me the ick was a
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: bit silly, but potentially a good measure of genuine interest
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: in someone. For example, watching another man hit a curb
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: kind of gave me the ick, but being in the
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: car when my boyfriend, 33 male, hits a curb is
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: funny and cute.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: No ick.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And this comes from throwawaykbb0207. Until recently, you started
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: an account on Instagram to post artistic pictures and stuff.
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's great.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Cool.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Go express your creativity, baby. He's actually a pretty talented
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: watercolor painter and sculptor, and I actively encourage him to
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: pursue his art hobby. But this account isn't for that.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: He just posts AI-generated images with weird captions. Like, not
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: even cute or funny videos or memes or whatever, just
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: images of a tree made of butterflies or a whale
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: wearing scuba gear. He bought a monthly subscription to some
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: AI generator, and he'll spend a couple of minutes writing
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: one-sentence prompts to generate dozens of images and then post
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: a couple images as a reel with a random song
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: over it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, there's only one way I'm okay with this. And
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: if it's about Toon Toon Toon Toon Toon Sahur and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: it's pretty engaging, then I'm cool with it.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: What?
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: What is that?
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: What did you say?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Time out, time out. You don't know about Italian brain rot?
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, Italian brain rot. I've heard of it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: You don't know about this?
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you got like all this different like Italian brain rot.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: You got ballerina cappuccino Toon Toon Toon Toon Sahur.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know their names, but they're like random names.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: What do you like about it? They're just funny and fun?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like just awesome.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: They're just awesome.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Bunch of different brain runs.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: So only if he's doing that.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: But I feel like not because it's like a tree
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: with a thing.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he said like a whale with scuba gear.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm so confused because if he does have watercolor,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: why on earth.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Would he not be? That's what I was wondering.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Opie says, now I thought this was
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: a little dumb, but whatever keeps you entertained, I'm not
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: gonna yuck your yum. Yeah, sure, I guess.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know, using AI.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: But he acts like generating the images is a special
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: skill or accomplishment.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: That would give me the ick. And it's not really
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: the ick, it's just sort of like, I think you,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: I might not like you.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's something wrong. Especially when you're an artist.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I don't like that.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: A couple of weeks ago when we were just hanging out,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: he kept scrolling through images he'd created to show me
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: and tell me about how interesting prompt writing is and
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: look at all the crazy things he's creating. This is
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: when I started to get a little icked out because yeah, sure,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: it's kind of cool, but you're not really creating anything.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: You're paying for an image generator. someone else created to
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: make something based off a sentence you type in. I
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: thought he'd be using the images as reference for his
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: actual amazing art he does, but no. He posts them
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: to an Instagram account with like 50 followers. Like, he's
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: a big influencer.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: That's... That's 50 people. He's a micro-influencer.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: He's a micro-micro-influencer.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, you can make some real money off of this.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: He's working on it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: I feel sad for him because I feel like he
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: is somehow trying to protect himself from being vulnerable with
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: his real art.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: He's like, oh, I want to do this. Like, maybe
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: he's testing the... I just don't understand why, really, what...
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Where's the why here?
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I think a lot of people... I
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: know especially I mean older people I think have just
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: loved using AI they're.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: Like oh look what I can do yeah they'll post
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: a picture of like them and their grandkids and be
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: like look this is us and it's like that's not you.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah they're like on a horse or something and.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: They're like I don't follow someone because I kept putting
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: that stuff on Instagram I'm like This is really annoying. Yeah, stop.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, my whole thing with AI art is
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: it's like we've really lost the plot. Like, have you
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: heard about people using AI to write their wedding vows?
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: We read a story. We read a story on here
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: about a guy who's like, I didn't know what to say,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: so I used AI to write my wedding vows, and
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: then my girlfriend, like, left me at the altar. Yeah.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Because it literally is like, what's your point of life?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Like literally it's like. You can't even write about how
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: you love someone? That's love for somebody that you like.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: It's like your life partner.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: And you can't even write. Like that to me is
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: like the best part of life is writing the vows.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: For somebody that you love.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Kind of sad that this guy is lost. You know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: the desire to make art.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: And it's also like art is about, I was actually
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: just really looking into the Mona Lisa.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Really good painting. It actually is really, you guys should
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: stare at it for like a while. Because I didn't
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: really care about it for a little, like for a while.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: But anyways.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: I was just thinking about it. It was just like, oh,
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: like I'm like, you know, connecting with. Leonardo da Vinci,
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: shout out. He made this thing, and it's invoking so
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: many emotions. And if AI had made it, it's like, well,
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: AI doesn't know these emotions.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: So I don't.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: There's nothing for me to trust here. Or, yeah, there's
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: no connection. So I'm just like, it's so weird. Yeah,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't like it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: I don't either.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Let's see what OP does. Yeah. The captions will always
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: be something like, we're so thankful and overwhelmed for all
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: your support so we can keep doing what we do.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: But like, who is we?
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: What support?
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: What are you doing?
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: I've seen some people use AI generation as a tool
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: in genuinely cool creative projects, like they'll come up with
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: an amazing concept and storyline and characters and world building,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: and then use AI to help with voiceover and background images.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: But his whole account is just images that took basically
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: no thought and no effort to make. And I'll always
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: say things like, Oh, got a post today. And I
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: don't know. I know it's so dumb and insignificant, but
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: it just gives me the biggest ick. I love him
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: and we're so aligned in so many ways. And I
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: guess I'm just hoping that venting here will get it
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: out of my system. Maybe someone can tell me it's
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: dumb and I'm not being crazy and I can't stop
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: thinking about it and move on. I don't know. I
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: just really want to hear what other people have to say.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Am I being overdramatic? Is there a way I could
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: or should approach this? And what do you think? Because
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: that's the end of the story.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Did they say how long they've been together?
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: No, they didn't. Here, let me check.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I thought maybe that was just the other story.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Because I'm thinking if it's six months, I think that
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: like investigate. I would say ask him more questions about politics.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, see where he stands in other areas.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Because I'm wondering if like.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: He's also 31. He's 31.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: No, he's 33, sorry.
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: He's 33.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: It's even worse. Why is he doing that?
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: How is he? His frontal lobe is really hooked.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: So I got an update.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: Or not like an update, update. But here it says,
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: to answer your questions, we've been together for two years.
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: This has been a recent development.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: So I've really.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Two years is kind of a long time.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: She hasn't brought it up yet. We've had a couple
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: of conversations early on. where he just discovered, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, yeah,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: two years, two years.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: I think you could tell him. I can't imagine this
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: is like, yeah, I would say, yeah, I think telling
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: him and being like, gauging his reaction.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, being like, hey, I feel like you haven't been
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: doing your own art.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Like, is there something wrong there? Do you feel like stuck?
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Do you feel more pressure to do that?
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: I think that's a good way to approach it because
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: I was like, how would you, would you be like,
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: if you didn't bring up the own art, it would
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: be like, what's up with this Instagram?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I don't like it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Like, that's a hard, it's like, I don't get this.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Your Instagram's unattractive.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: It's unattractive.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Do you hear me? Yes or no? Look at me.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Look at me.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Look at me.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I'm like personally really not a fan
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: of AI. Neither am I. Yeah, so it's just like
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: a hard, it really is, because to me it's so
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: tied to political beliefs.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: And it seems like OP doesn't have that same, like
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: she's not as opposed to it.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: But is more so focused on kind of like the.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Art of it. Yeah, she's like, this art sucks.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: This art sucks. And you're acting like this is a job.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: That would annoy me. I'm acting like this is a job,
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: but actually it's taking me 25 seconds.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're not doing any work. Yeah. I think
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: she's going from that route, in which case I feel
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: like she could bring up, hey, you can totally do
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: whatever you want on your own time.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: But.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: You're kind of annoying me.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: It's just, yeah, it depends on how he takes it
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: because I think it is sort of like, because I'm
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: assuming if you're like, okay, well, I've noticed you're not
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: doing like your own art. You're not posting your own art.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Like what's going on? And he's probably has an answer like,
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: oh yeah, this is like, this is what I want
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: to do or whatever. And then it's like, do you
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: broach the topic of like, this is loser behavior?
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: And how would you even go about that?
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: This is sort of like, maybe, would you say like,
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: I just don't want to hear about it?
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: Ooh.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Because it seems like he really cares about this. Yeah,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: that's the tricky thing. That is a tricky thing.
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know how I would. I don't know. I
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: don't know how I would approach it if I just
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: wanted to stop here. Like, if I wanted to stop
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: talking about it.
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Because I feel like there's always something that your partner.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: My mom has these conversations with my dad.
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: Oh, really?
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: Where my dad, he kind of goes down this loophole
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: of like, oh, the government, this, that. Mom's like, hey,
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: you keep talking about it. Either find someone else to
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: talk about it or just don't talk to me about
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: it because it brings this weird vibe to our house.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: And it works out for them. They're married. They've been
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: married for like 26 years. So, yeah, I don't know. Yeah.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So yeah. You can say, you know, it can
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: be like, Hey, I don't like this. If you could,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: you can like, yeah.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: You don't have to make it like a values thing
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: or whatever. Just like, I don't, this is not for me.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I think that's good.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I think that works. Yeah. And they've been together for
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: two years.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: If, We'll see. I mean, if they can't make it
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: through this, then.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're done.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: Dunzos.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 29:16
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• 29:19
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• 29:21
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• 29:24
  Speaker 3: My mother-in-law wanted to play an AI-generated song at our wedding,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: and I refused.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: I think that is fair. You're allowed to be like, no,
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: I don't actually want that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: My 27 female DJ reached out to me four days
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: before my wedding and said my soon-to-be mother-in-law, 50 female,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: asked if she could play a surprise song that she
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: had made for the groom. She's obsessed with Chachuiti and
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I couldn't be more anti-AI.
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: No.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I knew it was going to be AI slop. I
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: asked the DJ to send me the song, and yeah,
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: it was AI, hyper-specific about my fiance, 27 male, and
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: his family dynamics, and mentions both of us by name
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: multiple times, which really takes me out of the moment mentally.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: It's five minutes long, and the second half of it
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: gives boy mom, who is giving up her baby energy.
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: No.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: I asked if she would be- Wait, no, go back,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: go back. Oh, you know, you know. I asked if
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: she would be willing to play the song for him
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: before the ceremony while he gets ready. or even at
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: our rehearsal dinner. The song truly reads like she wrote
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: him a letter or toast and had chat make it
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: into a song. In my opinion, it's not appropriate for
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: our 195 person wedding reception. Dang, got a big wedding reception.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: She responded, it's okay, I'll do it another time. Followed
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: with a text that she- hasn't felt included except for
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: signing checks. Oh, she's pulling the money card. That is,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: that's why they do it. That's why a lot of
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: these Reddit mothers and mother-in-laws and in-laws in general will
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: sign those checks. They want to be able to.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: Play their AI song.
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Have you seen the AI? There's like TikToks of text
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: messages that are turned into a song.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: By AI I think they are.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah so this is what it reminds me of where
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: it's just like you can just like yeah insert some
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: sentences and then it's just like Vienna by Billy Joel
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: is that wait what well it's by AI oh my
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: gosh it's one of my favorite songs no.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: It's a great song but he took his dad's like
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: letter to him and then made it into a song
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: really It's just like a letter from his dad.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: That's so sweet.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, that song really does make me cry.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I love that song.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: It's so good.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: It's just like that.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: It's just like that, except using AI. Except, yeah.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: So much worse.
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Mind you, I took her dress shopping with me, brought
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: her along to tour the venue with me, and all
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: three of her other kids have a role in her wedding,
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: despite my fiance and I having a total of eight
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: siblings between us that we're trying to include. By the way,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: this comes from TrickyAd4898, and if you want to spend
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: your stories go to the r slash okay story time
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: subreddit one of her kids is an 18 year old
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: female so she will get the chance to be mother
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: of the bride one day and be fully included to
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: the extent that she feels entitled to i guess she
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: gets to be in the processional the family wedding pics
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: and have a whole mother son dance at our wedding
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: so i'm not sure what more she was expecting from
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: us i offered against my better judgment to let her
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: play the song during their mother's son dance Ooh.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have done that.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: That's almost, what was her original?
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Like, they walked down the aisle?
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Or maybe it was just one of the songs
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: that was played and you could kind of ignore it.
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Like, because now it's just putting a spotlight on it. Like,
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: it's like, oh, this is weird. Like, I mean, I
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: don't know. If you're dancing at a wedding and some
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: AI song comes on, what do you do with that?
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Because his name is Jake and they're like, Oh, Jake,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: I'm your mom.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: I love you.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: But it's five minutes.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I would leave.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm feeling like the husband is going to get
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: mad at her now. Yeah.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, surprise. I was going to have the DJ fade
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: it out after two minutes, but get this. She doesn't
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: want to play her special surprise song during the mother-son dance.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: She doesn't want it to take the place of the
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: song my fiance picked for them because she thinks he's
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: stressed over the song. and is sentimentally attached to it,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: but that's not the case. Additional context, my fiance has
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: a stepmom and will be doing a mother-son with her
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: as well. So my mother-in-law thought it would be appropriate
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: for him to do two mother dances and then still
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: play an additional five minute long song that is poorly
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: written by a robot. She hasn't spoken to me since
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I told her no.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Also, it's by Chad Chibouti, not a robot. It has feelings. Yeah,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: it's got a name. It's almost a thing, too. It's
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: almost sentient, too.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Opie should recognize that. The wedding is three days away,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: and we've always had a good relationship until this. Am
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I the a-hole?
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, here's my question. How much of the wedding is
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: she paying for?
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: She just said that she's written checks. We don't know
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: how much for her.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: So that's where I'm going to be thinking. Okay, she
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: paid for 50% of this?
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, where's your line?
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Where's your line?
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: If she paid for the whole thing, girl, yes, down.
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: But if she paid for like 50%, it's like, can
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: we make the song better and maybe shorter?
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we call her producer.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: Maybe we call a producer. Yeah. Maybe we sort of
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: get a professional in there. Yeah. Maybe be like, oh,
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: I love this idea.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: It's got bones. You know.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: It's got bones.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: It's workshop.
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, man. It's got bones is such a funny note
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: because it's like you hate it.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: That's what whenever my sketch group and I think like
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: we don't really like a sketch, we go, it's got bones.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: It's like there's something there.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: People tell me that all the time in my jokes.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I'm doing stand-up comedy.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Well, it's like we don't like the joke, but like
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: it does have bones.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: It does have potential there.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Is this a universal thing?
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: It's got, well, but it has bones. So, like, it's not, like, bad.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: It's not horrible.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: It's not the worst, but, like, there's room for improvement.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. Unfortunately. That's what it means.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: And, hey, people have said it to me, too.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: People say it to me all the time.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: People say it to me all the time.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I say it to some people, too, but I actually mean, like, oh,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: this is great. Like, I like this.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, you should be saying that.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, you've been unintentionally insulting them.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: You've been insulting them.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: No wonder they never do it again.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like, wow.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think the energy probably, I feel like
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: if you gave it your all, like, oh, wow, this
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: is bones. Like, if you're really, like, into it, I
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: think it could mean the other thing.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it made, like, great starting point.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it kind of does.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: But it's a backhanded compliment.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: No. It's not even, it's like a, um.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: It's like a better way to say it.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: There's no nervous system or muscles on this, just bones.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's got a structure, but we need to fill
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: it out.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's something here.
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: We're not at a point to apply skin yet, but
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: we're getting there.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: There's no skin here.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: There's no skin here. But yeah, yeah. I think it
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: could go either. It depends on how you say it,
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: but I feel like somebody, if it's an insult, it's, okay,
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: this has bones. I think what you should do is,
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: that is the insult version. If it's like, oh yeah,
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: this has bones.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, I've said that literal line though.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Oh my gosh.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: And you've actually made a lot of enemies. we have
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: a comment though not the ale so let me get
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: this straight it's a five minute song just about her
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: son not about you both or about this new chapter
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: in your life and op says the song is mostly
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: about my fiance but yeah it does talk about this
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: new chapter and her letting go of him so he
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: can be my man now instead of hers weird undertones
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: terrible writing and wording just not the vibe i wanted
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: my ceremony i want to get the formalities done asap
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: so we can party that's awesome The song is so
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: embarrassing to even listen to. And more comments from OP.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: We are paying the DJ. She covered catering, but that's it.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: So I don't feel too bad about being controlling here.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, catering?
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, catering can be pretty expensive for a 200-person wedding.
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: It's anywhere from $ 2, 500 to $ 5, 000, where I'm thinking this
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: wedding's probably around $ 30, 000 to $ 35, 000 to $ 40, 000.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: Whoa, do you know that off the dome? Yeah, you're
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: looking at, yeah.
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, dude.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: We're all the time talking about weddings and stuff.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: It's like.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, from Reddit.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: From, yeah. There was somebody who said in the chat,
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: tell her that that's how everybody in the room is
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: going to feel. Like, essentially, like, the way she is feeling,
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: everybody is going to be like, this is uncomfortable. And so,
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: in a way, she is sort of saving... her from
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: her own embarrassment.
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: So you, you say, Hey, it's a little bit too
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: intimate for everyone.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: This is more of like, I feel like it would
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: be better in a personal setting where it's like, Oh,
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: you can really listen to the words.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Put your bones inside.
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: Put your bones inside.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Um, Obie says my DJ has been great about it.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: He's made it very clear that he works for me
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: and will not play anything without my consent. And that
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: is the end of that story. So, OP's in the
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: clear as long as she's okay with making her mom.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: It's just, but if her mom is making a stink
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: at the wedding.
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: Her mother-in-law, it's going to just like.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Permeate. That stinks every, it's so stinky.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: In that wedding.
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's worth it. Would you rather
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: have a mother-in-law be in a bad mood the whole
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: wedding or have an AI song for five minutes?
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: Hmm.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: Bad options.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Those are terrible.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Those are really bad options.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Because people are going to walk away talking about.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: The AI song. People won't walk away with.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: The mother-in-law being in a bad mood. That's just you. Right.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Like they might say, oh yeah, the mother-in-law was kind
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: of in a bad mood. But they will remember forever.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Oh my God, I was at this wedding and they
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: played a terrible AI song.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: This is what I would do.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: Hey everyone, mother-in-law made this song for just for her
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: son we're gonna play it yeah by the way she
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: made this in her free time This is her idea.
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: We're honoring her.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's smart. Because I think the song,
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: I was just thinking even without that, I think the
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: song will be pretty clear from the mother.
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: The boy mom of it all is very uncomfortable.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would just say, sorry, thanks for paying for
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: the food.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah. You have full control over the food.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: Maybe.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: You can do whatever you want from the food, maybe. Yeah, yeah.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so there's no update. We don't even know what happened.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: No.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: That's it.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: We don't even know. Yeah, maybe they played it. We
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: don't know. We don't even know when the wedding was happening. Oh,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: my gosh.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, this was 27 days ago.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: So they might not have. Well, they said the wedding
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: was in like three days.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: It's come down to the wire.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, so they probably already had it.
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: I assume.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: No, everything we have is in here. No updates.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm assuming she didn't play it. My boyfriend abandoned
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: me at the airport, so I broke up with him.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Period.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: I think that's fine.
• 39:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I'll do that.
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: I'm always team breakup. I, 28 female, have been in
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: a long distance relationship for about five months with Eric,
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: male 28. He lives in a town that either takes
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: 12 hours to drive to, seven hours by train, or
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: an hour flight. Valentine's Day was coming up, so I
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: bought a flight to go see him so we could
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: spend a week together and celebrate. When I got up
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: in the morning, I started sending him snaps of me
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: getting to the airport and about being excited to see him.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: When I got to the airport, I messaged him that
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: I would see him in a bit, but there was
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: no reply. This is when my gut feelings started telling
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: me something was off, but I pushed it away, hoping
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: that I was just overreacting. When I landed, I messaged
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: him that I would see him soon. But no reply.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: I was still hoping so hard. When the arrivals door opened,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: I was so hopeful that he would be there. But
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: in the end, I was heartbroken to see he wasn't.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: I felt so undervalued and embarrassed because I started crying
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: in a corner of the airport. I had only come
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: to the city to see him and I was going
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: to stay with him. So what was I going to do?
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: I called him over and over to no reply. That's terrible. Oh,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: I've been picked up, of course, at the airport by
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: my boyfriend. And this was terrible.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: This is like, he knew she was coming, right? Yeah,
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: fully knew. Like, because that's the only thing I'm like,
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: did she surprise him?
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Because like, what are you talking about? You're not picking up.
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: Somebody's visiting. It doesn't even matter if it's a boyfriend.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: If somebody's visiting me, I'm like checking in on their flight.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: I'm like, what's your flight number? Like, what time are
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: you coming in?
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, it's delayed.
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: Okay, I'll be there.
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: Like.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll let them know.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: What are you talking about? Very worst, worst case, be like, hey,
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: I'm so sorry I have this thing, but like, here's
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: my address. Yeah, I'll pay for an Uber, like, whatever.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is unacceptable.
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: That's insane.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: By the way, this comes from OKPirate4219, and if you
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: want to submit your own story, go to the r
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: slash OK story, I'm subreddit. I ended up at a
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: pub drinking tea, and after about an hour there, he
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: messaged me, not called, but sent me a dang message.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: His excuse was that he had fallen asleep and that
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: he was sorry. I honestly felt so betrayed because how
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: can I not be worth setting a dang alarm? In
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: the end, I ended up staying with him because I
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: couldn't afford a hotel or to change my flight. And
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: that's when I found out that he was staying up
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: at night playing video games. When I got home, I
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: decided that I couldn't be with someone who undervalued me
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: so much and broke up with him. At the time,
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: he agreed, but now he sent me a love letter
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: declaring his love and that he's sorry for everything and
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: doesn't want to lose me. I feel like I'm overthinking
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: things and just need some advice. Did I overreact to
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: him not picking me up at the airport? Am I
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: the a-hole for breaking up with my boyfriend because he
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: forgot me at the airport? And edit to clarify, we
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: made these plans together two months before I left. He
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: was well aware of when and where I was arriving.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: and he was the one who offered to come get me. Secondly,
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: I posted here about this now because I just received
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: the love letter today and how they met. He's originally
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: from my city, so he comes here often to see
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: his family. We met online and spent a couple weeks
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: dating before he went off to university, so mostly long distance,
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: I guess. Commenter says, does he have a visit coming up?
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Because it sounds like he's waited almost seven months since
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: you broke up with him to try to get you back.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if he's just trying to reactivate
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: your relationship for when he's visiting. OP says, yeah, he's
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: coming home for holiday in a couple of weeks, so
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: you have a great point there. Another commenter says, so
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: why didn't you just take the bus over to his
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: place instead of creating all of this drama over him oversleeping?
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: OP says, because as soon as I mentioned it, he
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: said he would pick me up. This was the first
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: time I was flying to him. I didn't think to
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: ask for his address. Oh, after he said he would
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: come get me. So to answer your question, I didn't
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: know where he lived. And there is an update.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: You guys don't have a location or anything?
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's actually crazy to me.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: This is insane.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: So many ways.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: Wait, wait, wait. So they did break up after this.
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: It sounds, okay, okay. Whoa. Yeah, I'm like, do you
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: not have, yeah, do you not have his location?
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Especially because they're long distance. Yeah. I don't know. Are
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: you a location person? I love locations. I love giving
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: people my location. I love people giving me their locations.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: I am always checking in.
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: I literally am like, oh, interesting. Aiko's not at home.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, where is she? She's in West Hollywood.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: I'm going to text her.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Not really.
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: Sometimes I text, but sometimes, and it's a really crazy
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: old text, but usually I'm just like, interesting. I'll ask
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: her about that.
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: I don't typically like, I'm not like a, oh, where
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: are they? But I'm just like, you know, I'll be
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: looking or something because I know my brother is in
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: New York or something. And then I have like friends
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: who are in New York. I'm like, oh my God,
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: you guys are like right next to each other.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's exciting. Oh, that doesn't happen to me because
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: my friends are like really spread out.
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: But sometimes I will like East West Coast. Oh, you've
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: got your pockets kind of. I will say sometimes when
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: I text somebody and they haven't responded, I'm like, where
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: are they? And it's like, if they're at home, there
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: is hell to pay.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: No, I'm just kidding. There's not hell to pay.
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: But I'm sort of like, why aren't you texting me back?
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: But if you're like at work, I'm like, okay, yeah,
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: that's why you're done.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: So Opie should, I think, unless they're like a, we
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: don't share each other's loot, it's privacy. Right, right. Which
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: is strange. But unless they're that type of people, I'm
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: wondering why.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: Why no location?
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Why no address?
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: Also, this does sort of feel like a, that's crazy
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: too because I'm just like such a, I'm such an
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: anxious that I'm like, what's your house? I'm looking it
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: up on Google Maps so I know kind of what
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: I'm looking at.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Or like, I don't know, like sometimes my parents will
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: be like, hey, like send us the address that you're
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: at and the number of the person just in case
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: we need to contact anyone.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: There's a safety thing there. And yeah, so I mean,
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: it's hard because I'm like, on the one hand, it sucks.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: But on the other hand, I'm like, okay, people do
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: sometimes make mistakes. Sometimes you sleep in and like, it's like, fuck.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: Would you break up over this?
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: I feel like if there were already tensions, I would.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: In their long distance.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, in their long distance.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: It's like, you don't have a lot of, yeah.
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, what are we doing? Like, if I'm
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: going to visit and you're going to be asleep, like,
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: I think we need to break up.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Like, probably.
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: But if I was, like, really in love with them
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: and it was like, you just, like.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Messed up.
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: You did one mistake. I think I could get past it,
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: but I'd be mad and they would have to, like,
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: sort of be on their knees a little bit.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: I think if it was my boyfriend and that happened,
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: I'd be like, okay. Like, I'm really, my feelings are
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: very hurt. We have a conversation. I wouldn't break up.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: But I think because they're long distance and it's all,
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: you know, like, like you said, it's already tension. It's yeah.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Have you been in a long distance relationship?
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: No, I haven't either. No.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: They've been in it for about five months. The long
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: distance relationship.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, done. Oh wait, no, I thought you meant, wait,
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: how long is the relationship?
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: We've been in a long distance relationship for about five months.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: Were they ever in the same spot?
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: Total?
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like is that like their relationship total?
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: That's all I got on the long distance part.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Well, we don't know if their relationship extended beyond that
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: or before that.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: Ooh, somebody says if they're long distance, do they not
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: send each other packages? That's a good point.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: Good point. Maybe not.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: You're not sending a single present?
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering, because she said that they met in their hometown.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: So I'm wondering if they had any time where they
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: were together in person or if it was all long distance.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Because in that case, I'm like, yeah, it makes sense.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: I also want to know what he wrote in the
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: love letter. I don't know. I just received a love letter.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: I'm like, how good was it?
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: Was it good? Well, she's questioning.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: And he was planning on coming. Yeah. Yeah.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: But there's an update.
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Almost a year later. Just to be clear, the cringe
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: is me. Hilariously dumb, but cringe all the same. I've
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: hesitated to post this because if this gets back to him,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: he'll definitely know it's about him. So it's been almost
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: a year since I, 29 female, posted my story about
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: breaking up with my ex, 28 male. And I just
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: want to give a quick thank you to everyone who
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: reached out and reality checked me. Y'all are da bomb.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Now on to my update. So I took y'all's advice-ish
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: and stuck to my resolve about being broken up. But
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: I'm the kind of person who hates being the bad guy.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: So I told him we could still be friends.
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: I feel like you're not the bad guy if you
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: break up with someone.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think she was like, I don't want
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: to be mean, so we'll be friends. Oh, oh, I see,
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: I see, I see. And he accepted. Looking back, I
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: definitely think he was hoping for another chance. We kept
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: hanging out every so often, and it was a good time.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: A couple weeks go by, and I met someone new,
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: and I wanted to do the right thing and tell
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: my ex in person. So after a hangout, I'm walking
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: with him to the bus, nervous because I hate confrontation,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: and I'm thinking, crap, it's now or never. So I
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: took a breath and proceeded. Me, so I wanted to
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: tell you something because I wanted to be honest with you. Ex,
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: looking a bit trepidatious.
• 47:01
  Speaker 8: Me.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: I wanted to let you know that I've started seeing
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: someone and, you know, give you a heads up. X. Silence.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: Now starting to rub his head and look sad. I
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: had a nightmare last night where you told me you
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: were dating someone and now this happens.
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: Whoa, that's interesting.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Prophetic. Okay. Me. Has no idea what the F to
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: say to that. Brain blackout. I have no idea what
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: the F came over me, but I proceeded to raise
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: my hand and give... jazz hands and saying a kind
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: of chalked off small voice.
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: You have power.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: That's so funny. I don't think that's cringe at all.
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: I think that's hilarious. I think that's great.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: I think that's great. And I hope he finds this.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Now to this day, I still don't know why the
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: F I did what I did. And it still cracks
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: me up. I mean, where the heck did that come from?
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: My friends think it's hilarious. And my mom just gave
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: me a high five while laughing. We've got a little
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: bit left to the story. Any final thoughts or words
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: of wisdom for OP? I don't know.
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: It did make me think of when this guy was
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: breaking up with me. And then he said, I think
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: you're a good person, though. And he gave me finger guns.
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: And that has really stayed with me. And I thought
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: that was devastating. I think the powers thing is fun.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's kind of what I was thinking, too.
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: I was like, oh, my gosh.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: Like, wait, you're spooky. You're connected. How else would you,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: you know, respond to that? Yeah. That's tough.
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: That's pretty tough. Well, there's a little bit. Lex just
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: turned around and walked into the darkness. and I haven't
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: seen or heard from him since. I guess I unlocked
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: a secret hack in the game of life. I hope
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: you all enjoyed this story as much as I do.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: The end.
• 48:32
  Speaker 8: Wait, it doesn't even sound like you would be friends.
• 48:34
  Speaker 8: It sounded like you were just doing this out of
• 48:36
  Speaker 8: the kindness of your heart. I know we didn't reach out,
• 48:37
  Speaker 8: but you guys aren't friends at that point. Wait, wait,
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: like when they're hanging out?
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:42
  Speaker 8: She said, oh, we could be friends. And you didn't
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: reach back out or try to reach out after that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they didn't know they were hanging out.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Hanging out, but this is where the friendship ends. And
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: my friend of like two years does something like that.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: I'm reaching out.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: We're still friends.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't think he wanted to be friends. I
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: think he wanted a relationship.
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  Speaker 5: Right. You're saying like, okay, she gets with another guy
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: and then he's out.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I was just trying to say it doesn't seem like.
• 49:05
  Speaker 8: she was being friends. She was just being friends. So
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: she didn't, wasn't the villain.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: Being friends because he wanted.
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  Speaker 1: To get back together.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So no one really wanted to. So it's sort of
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: a quote unquote friendship. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But that's the end of that story.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. Man. Heart goes out.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: To be stranded at an airport.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah and just like i've been i've been like stuck
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: at airports for a while just.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Like not because not lost.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: No not lost but like waiting for a flight like
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: waiting to be like i was i went to guatemala
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: recently and i we were trying to get like a
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: ride out to because we're going to antigua which is
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: like two hours away okay and we were arrived at
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: 6 a.m and we were trying to get a car
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: to come earlier because we didn't expect to get there
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: so early yeah and we had to wait like an
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: hour and it was kind of they tell you like
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: like don't go outside in that area because it's not
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: like super safe and so we're stuck in the airport
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: and there was no food and.
• 50:00
  Speaker 10: We're so tired no how was it overall though it
• 50:02
  Speaker 10: was a great trip yeah it was so fun yeah
• 50:04
  Speaker 10: oh my gosh so we were fine after that yeah
• 50:06
  Speaker 10: it took like an hour for the the bus to
• 50:07
  Speaker 10: come okay okay not not terrible yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 9: My daughter destroyed her mother's treasured wedding dress and had
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: no remorse about it.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, your treasures are mine, mine to burn.
• 50:29
  Speaker 9: My wife made her wedding dress with her mother. It's
• 50:32
  Speaker 9: very sentimental to her, and she was very proud of it.
• 50:36
  Speaker 9: It was simple, but frickin' gorgeous. She has always said
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: she would love for our kids to wear her dress
• 50:42
  Speaker 9: at their wedding. We had three daughters, 34, 30, 25,
• 50:46
  Speaker 9: and one son, 28. My wife made it known that
• 50:49
  Speaker 9: the dress was not to be altered except to be
• 50:52
  Speaker 9: taken in slash let out so it could be kept
• 50:54
  Speaker 9: and reworn. Our youngest daughter didn't wear it. Our daughter-in-law
• 50:58
  Speaker 9: wore it for their reception and our son held it
• 51:01
  Speaker 9: up against him for some pre-wedding bridal pictures so he
• 51:05
  Speaker 9: wasn't left out. He totally rocked it. Oldest daughter wore
• 51:10
  Speaker 9: it for her wedding. We've offered some financial contributions to
• 51:14
  Speaker 9: all our children towards either school, a wedding, or a
• 51:17
  Speaker 9: house down payment. Olivia has asked for help paying for
• 51:20
  Speaker 9: her wedding. The wedding is in the beginning of August.
• 51:23
  Speaker 9: A few months ago, Olivia asked my wife if she
• 51:26
  Speaker 9: could use the dress for her wedding, and my wife
• 51:28
  Speaker 9: gave her the dress so Olivia could get it fitted
• 51:30
  Speaker 9: with plenty of time. Tuesday, Olivia asked me to go
• 51:34
  Speaker 9: with her to pay some vendors. One of the stops
• 51:36
  Speaker 9: was the tailor shop for a final fitting and to
• 51:38
  Speaker 9: pay the seamstress. Olivia was really nervous and I figured
• 51:42
  Speaker 9: it was just usual pre-wedding jitters and excitement. The dress
• 51:46
  Speaker 9: Olivia came out in was not at all her mother's dress.
• 51:50
  Speaker 9: It was a completely different dress with parts of her
• 51:53
  Speaker 9: mother's gown added to it. By the way, this comes
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• 52:05
  Speaker 9: She took the straps, the sash, the train, and the
• 52:08
  Speaker 9: embroidered top skirt and had it added to this new dress.
• 52:12
  Speaker 7: Dang, she literally systematically disassembled the dress and just added
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: it to a different one.
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
• 52:22
  Speaker 9: I was befuddled for a bit and then asked what
• 52:25
  Speaker 9: the heck this was. Olivia's reasoning was that she was
• 52:28
  Speaker 9: the last of our kids to get married and there
• 52:30
  Speaker 9: wasn't anyone else to wear it, and she made sure
• 52:32
  Speaker 9: to instruct they keep the original dress to be returned
• 52:35
  Speaker 9: to her. I told her that's not the same, she
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: knows it, and the dress was never hers to do
• 52:40
  Speaker 9: with what she wanted. I asked the seamstress for the
• 52:43
  Speaker 9: rest of my wife's dress and had Olivia tell my
• 52:46
  Speaker 9: wife in person what she had done. My wife was devastated.
• 52:50
  Speaker 9: I have since canceled the payments I made that day
• 52:53
  Speaker 9: and told her I won't be paying another cent to
• 52:55
  Speaker 9: her wedding. She and her fiance can figure it out.
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, yes, that is what you do now.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Like, I get it, but oh, it's like, who cares if.
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: Nobody ever wore it again? The whole point was that
• 53:08
  Speaker 7: it was her wedding dress. She just wanted to have it.
• 53:11
  Speaker 7: She wanted to have it to look at it.
• 53:12
  Speaker 10: Go.
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: That was my wedding dress.
• 53:14
  Speaker 9: And also it took her so much time and energy
• 53:16
  Speaker 9: and money to do that and have this like thing
• 53:21
  Speaker 9: to share with everyone.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, dang.
• 53:25
  Speaker 9: I mean, what was her issue? She just didn't like
• 53:27
  Speaker 9: how it looked. Just then just don't wear it. One
• 53:29
  Speaker 9: of the people in the story, one of the daughters
• 53:31
  Speaker 9: didn't wear it. So it's not like they were forcing you.
• 53:35
  Speaker 9: They were like, yeah, you can if you want. Some
• 53:37
  Speaker 9: of them wore it for the wedding. Some of them
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: wore it for the reception. Others didn't even wear it.
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: We're probably going to find out.
• 53:43
  Speaker 9: Our youngest daughter thinks I've gone overboard knowing Olivia planned
• 53:47
  Speaker 9: her wedding with our help in mind and without it.
• 53:49
  Speaker 9: She can't finish paying for everything. Olivia's future in-laws also
• 53:54
  Speaker 9: agree with that. They can't afford to help and suggested
• 53:57
  Speaker 9: I should pay. And then we just go low contact
• 54:00
  Speaker 9: with Olivia. I've told them both that Olivia took something
• 54:03
  Speaker 9: irreplaceable from her mother for her own vanity. I know
• 54:07
  Speaker 9: we originally offered help with the wedding, but I think
• 54:10
  Speaker 9: Olivia's actions weren't canceling that offer.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Am I the a-hole?
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, guess what?
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: People get married without big budgets all the time.
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: Oops.
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: Oh, you did a thing that made your parents revoke
• 54:22
  Speaker 7: their financial support for your wedding? Time to pivot and
• 54:24
  Speaker 7: figure out what works. You already got the dress. That's
• 54:27
  Speaker 7: not changing.
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: Congratulations. Now you have to pivot.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: It's so sad that she did that. I wonder why
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: she did it. I would want to hear her explanation.
• 54:34
  Speaker 9: Because I'm thinking like, oh, maybe, you know, maybe like
• 54:38
  Speaker 9: it didn't really look that great.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: But that's the thing. She didn't have to wear it, though. Like,
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: I think she wanted it, but she didn't want that.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: But then you just ruined it. I don't know. So weird.
• 54:47
  Speaker 7: It probably looks bad, too. They just took pieces off
• 54:50
  Speaker 7: of it and put it on a different dress.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: There's an edit. Thank you, everyone, for the responses.
• 54:56
  Speaker 9: My wife and I will look at more of them
• 54:58
  Speaker 9: tomorrow and discuss the subject further. Just want to address
• 55:02
  Speaker 9: a misconception. We have not gone low or no contact
• 55:05
  Speaker 9: with Olivia. Her in-laws suggested it, and that is insane.
• 55:09
  Speaker 9: My wife's initial reaction to finding out Tuesday was to
• 55:12
  Speaker 9: not go to the wedding. That was said in anger
• 55:15
  Speaker 9: and not a done deal. It'd probably depend a lot
• 55:18
  Speaker 9: on Olivia's handling until then as well. Taking her dress
• 55:22
  Speaker 9: she paid for would hurt our relationship with her just
• 55:25
  Speaker 9: as much as not paying for anything else, which is
• 55:28
  Speaker 9: why we are discussing our options in skimming comments for
• 55:30
  Speaker 9: things we have not thought of and are doable.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: And there is an update. What do we think?
• 55:36
  Speaker 7: Maybe she, maybe you can rebuild it. Maybe you can
• 55:39
  Speaker 7: put the pieces back, because didn't she make the dress?
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: What, like a bionicle?
• 55:43
  Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, like the mom made the dress, but
• 55:46
  Speaker 9: what the seamstress did was like take parts of it
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: and then like put it on a new dress and
• 55:51
  Speaker 9: then like kind of frame it to look like it
• 55:54
  Speaker 9: all went together.
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: It's probably impossible.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: It's probably impossible to fix.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: And it wouldn't look the same. That's the thing.
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I wouldn't support this at all.
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: I'd be like, that was one of the most.
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: unbelievably selfish things you could have done and we're not
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: going to support your wedding financially anymore.
• 56:13
  Speaker 6: And i guarantee you i hope not but she's like
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: i don't care yeah.
• 56:17
  Speaker 7: She'll be like how could my parents do this to
• 56:19
  Speaker 7: me it's like no dummy you did this to you
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: on to.
• 56:23
  Speaker 9: The update my wife and i are reading as many
• 56:26
  Speaker 9: comments as we can she appreciates the concern and support
• 56:29
  Speaker 9: For those saying the dress wouldn't be worn again anyway,
• 56:32
  Speaker 9: she has this to say. It's not about whether or
• 56:34
  Speaker 9: not it would be worn again. If none of my
• 56:37
  Speaker 9: children asked to wear it, I still would keep the
• 56:40
  Speaker 9: dress for me. My mother taught me everything I know
• 56:43
  Speaker 9: about sewing. We spent months picking out fabrics and doing
• 56:46
  Speaker 9: trial and error on practice dresses as we made mine.
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: It was mine.
• 56:50
  Speaker 9: It was my one prized possession that held incredible memories
• 56:54
  Speaker 9: for me. I have thought of having it put in
• 56:56
  Speaker 9: my casket with me because once I'm gone, The person
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: it mattered to is gone. However, I would have worn
• 57:02
  Speaker 9: it again. Our 40th anniversary is in a couple years
• 57:05
  Speaker 9: and I was very much looking forward to recreating our photos.
• 57:09
  Speaker 9: It may seem like I'm choosing my dress over my daughter.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: I'm not.
• 57:12
  Speaker 9: It is her deceit, indifference, and her blatant lack of
• 57:15
  Speaker 9: remorse that I am hurt most by and having a
• 57:18
  Speaker 9: hard time with. It is the underhanded way she thought
• 57:22
  Speaker 9: to address the issue. It is the fact she will
• 57:24
  Speaker 9: not apologize and have a conversation with me but is
• 57:28
  Speaker 9: only worried about the rest of her wedding items being
• 57:30
  Speaker 9: paid for and pinning it until after her honeymoon. I
• 57:33
  Speaker 9: did not raise her to be like that. I would
• 57:36
  Speaker 9: have loved to help her make decisions for the dress
• 57:38
  Speaker 9: she picked out if she had asked, and she knows this.
• 57:41
  Speaker 9: I have never denied her help in her life, nor
• 57:44
  Speaker 9: has her help come with conditions. Today we'll take my
• 57:48
  Speaker 9: wife's dress to the seamstress that has the frankendress to
• 57:51
  Speaker 9: see what can be repaired. My wife has said the
• 57:54
  Speaker 9: sash and train are most likely lost as the fabric
• 57:57
  Speaker 9: of the gown was cut and the seams undone properly.
• 58:00
  Speaker 9: Paraphrasing here, not up on sewing lingo. Unfortunately, even if
• 58:05
  Speaker 9: it can be restored or parts of it, Olivia is
• 58:07
  Speaker 9: currently not wanting to give up the dress after the wedding.
• 58:11
  Speaker 9: She wants to keep hers and is imploring her mother
• 58:13
  Speaker 9: to understand since she kept her wedding dress for so long.
• 58:16
  Speaker 7: But sweetie pie, no one else is going to wear
• 58:19
  Speaker 7: that anymore, so you don't need it. I'm going to
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: wear my dress for my party, so I need your
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: dress and I'm going.
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: To Frankenstein it, okay? These are your rules that you made.
• 58:29
  Speaker 9: We don't want to lose our relationship with our daughter,
• 58:33
  Speaker 9: but we both agree there needs to be consequences and
• 58:36
  Speaker 9: there isn't really any moving forward if Olivia isn't willing
• 58:39
  Speaker 9: to budge on anything.
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, update two.
• 58:43
  Speaker 9: After posting, my wife went to the seamstress's shop and
• 58:46
  Speaker 9: had the pieces of her dress removed since Olivia refused
• 58:48
  Speaker 9: to have them taken off and returned after the wedding.
• 58:52
  Speaker 9: This caused an upset with her daughter when she found out.
• 58:55
  Speaker 9: Our future son-in-law came to talk to us afterwards to
• 58:58
  Speaker 9: get our side of the story. Regrettably, Olivia was not
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: honest with him about the situation and had told him
• 59:04
  Speaker 9: my wife was upset that Olivia took too many parts
• 59:06
  Speaker 9: off the dress.
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: He was not aware. She lied.
• 59:10
  Speaker 9: To get the dress in the first place and was
• 59:11
  Speaker 9: avoiding her mother. As it turned out, he got involved
• 59:15
  Speaker 9: after two of her bridesmaids dropped out at the same time.
• 59:19
  Speaker 9: And he was getting conflicting stories from her and them.
• 59:22
  Speaker 9: Olivia had used their phones to cancel plans with their
• 59:25
  Speaker 9: respective boyfriends so they could be free for last minute
• 59:28
  Speaker 9: plans Olivia made for her bridesmaids.
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: That's like, yeah, you're crazy and I don't even want
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: to be friends with you anymore. That's psycho.
• 59:36
  Speaker 6: There has to be another story on Reddit with their like, uh,
• 59:42
  Speaker 6: this happened.
• 59:44
  Speaker 9: According to Olivia's friends, her personality has changed over the
• 59:47
  Speaker 9: last few years when she got a promotion at work
• 59:49
  Speaker 9: and had an assistant and a team working under her.
• 59:53
  Speaker 9: A week and a half before the wedding, son-in-law asked
• 59:56
  Speaker 9: if they could come over. He got Olivia to talk
• 59:58
  Speaker 9: to her mother and she apologized. She explained why she
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 9: did what she did. She wanted similar pieces on her dress,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 9: but the cost was going to be too much. It
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 9: was cheaper to add parts. Olivia has said she feels
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 9: a need to keep up with some of the other
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 9: women she works with and has a hard time shutting
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 9: that personality off. She has started therapy and will be
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 9: changing jobs to a different company.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: There's a little bit left. I mean, I don't know.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: I pass a new law. You're never allowed to take
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: off that dress, Olivia. Have fun. Have fun living in
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: your dress.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 9: I've I feel like she definitely does need some therapy
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 9: to realize. I feel like she's very much in a
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 9: different mind space. And this job has definitely affected her
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 9: in more ways than one. And has gotten out of
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 9: control now to where it's causing issues between her different
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 9: relationships in her life.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: That's not cool.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: And everyone is noticing it. So there is an issue.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: You are the issue.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 9: We did not pay more towards the wedding. They agreed
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 9: to have the catering they could afford on their own
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 9: and families potlucking the rest. They also came up with
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 9: a solution for music and decorations. This way, my wife
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 9: can get what she needs to repair her dress the
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 9: best she can. The parts that are not able to
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 9: be put back on her dress, my wife is using
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 9: them to make photo album covers for each of our kids.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: That's so sweet. Okay, this mom has great ideas. I
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: love her DIY brain.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 7: And you know, yeah, Audrey and TikTok says the sad
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 7: thing is if she just asked her mom to make
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 7: something similar, she would have done that.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 9: As for Olivia's dress, my wife spent the time leading
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 9: up to the wedding making new pieces and attached them
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 9: to Olivia's dress herself. It'll be a while before we
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 9: trust our daughter again like we used to, but we
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 9: are on the road to recovery. The wedding was a
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 9: lot of fun, and Olivia and our newest family members
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 9: seem to really enjoy themselves.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: Thanks again, everyone, for the support. Oh, there are some comments.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 9: Comment number one says, hmm, I'm surprised son-in-law went ahead
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 9: with the wedding after being deceived like that.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: But good luck to you all.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 6: I mean, kind of.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: I am, too.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 6: But maybe he just was like, ah, yeah.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: Bro, honestly, no way.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 7: I'm not cutting things off with my fiance, my wife-to-be
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 7: in like a month just because she did some tomfoolery
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 7: with a dress.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 8: No.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: Leave me out of that. I'm not even involved. You're
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: my wife.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: I don't care. Figure it out.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: You did something wrong.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 9: OP responds, confronting the people she wronged, therapy, and job
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 9: change were conditions of their relationship continuing. My first thought
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 9: when he called to come over was they were going
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 9: to say it had been postponed or canceled.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: But it wasn't.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: Uh-oh.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 7: Maybe divorce soon. Maybe a nice little divorce. Get a
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 7: little divorce dress. Start making a divorce dress for your
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 7: daughter who's going to get divorced soon.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: Divorce dress.
• 1:03:04
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• 1:03:10
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• 1:03:14
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