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160 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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Speaker 1: Hello, my name is Kai, and I like to travel, learn,
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Speaker 1: and tell stories. And I had to stop in the U.S.
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Speaker 1: for a wedding. So, coming back to the U.S., this
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Speaker 1: is the first, I think, ramble on that I've stopped
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Speaker 1: by the U.S. Oh, no, I stopped by Hawaii, right?
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Speaker 1: Told you about the turtles. That was pretty cool. Alright,
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Speaker 1: first time stopping by the mainland U.S., and... Visit friends.
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Speaker 1: There's a whole bunch going on. So I'm going to
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Speaker 1: try and go in order. I didn't take a ton
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Speaker 1: of notes during the wedding because it ended up being
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Speaker 1: a lot busier than I thought. But I'm really glad
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Speaker 1: I did go back. It's really fun that my friend
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Speaker 1: can tell everybody who didn't show up to the wedding
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Speaker 1: from the same state that his friend showed up from
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Speaker 1: Mongolia to attend his wedding. He was really happy that
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Speaker 1: he'll be able to tell everybody that. That's a pretty
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Speaker 1: good guilt trip if they're like two hours away from
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Speaker 1: Portland and they're like, ah, sorry, really just can't make it.
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Speaker 1: It's just too far. It'll be like, my friend came
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Speaker 1: from Mongolia. Mongolia. I actually came, you know, from Japan,
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Speaker 1: like we were talking about last week, but Mongolia sounds
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Speaker 1: so far away, it like barely sounds real to most people.
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Speaker 1: So it's an even, and I was there like a
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Speaker 1: couple weeks before Japan, so it's an even better place
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Speaker 1: to say that I came from. And accurate. Okay, so
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Speaker 1: I left Japan, I hammock camped Tokyo for a few days,
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Speaker 1: got on my flight, and then there I am on
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Speaker 1: a plane thinking, oh boy, here we go again. Because
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Speaker 1: like China, I like to go to the US every
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Speaker 1: couple years and just see what's up. But during both
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Speaker 1: of Trump's terms now, little visits, things are not getting better.
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Speaker 1: Every time I go, the prices are significantly increased, often
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Speaker 1: 30-50% from the last time I was there, which is
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Speaker 1: a crazy inflation rate. Hardware lumbers probably four times as
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Speaker 1: much as it was since Trump's first term, because all
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Speaker 1: of our lumber comes from Canada, and you know there's
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Speaker 1: zero trade between the two countries anymore, and that's permanent.
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Speaker 1: Because like most other countries, they've just decided to form
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Speaker 1: new trade alliances that cut the U.S. out. Because the U.S.
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Speaker 1: can't be trusted with trade at all anymore. Even after
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump moves out, those trade alliances with new countries
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Speaker 1: by our old allies, they're not going anywhere. Those are
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Speaker 1: in place permanently. And that's why every time I land
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Speaker 1: in the States, I'm like, oh boy. Buffets are a
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Speaker 1: great one. I love going to buffets, but they're a
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Speaker 1: great price barometer. Because it's food. It's the most dynamically
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Speaker 1: changing prices. And every time I walk into a supermarket
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Speaker 1: in the States, and I've come back after a year
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Speaker 1: or two, I know that the apples are going to
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Speaker 1: be one more dollar per pound or 50 more cents
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Speaker 1: per pound. But a buffet that I used to go
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Speaker 1: to three years ago or four years ago, something like that,
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Speaker 1: when I was in Golden... It's a little part of Denver, Colorado.
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Speaker 1: It's a little town outside of Denver. It's where Coors
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Speaker 1: is produced. The terrible beer. That does taste way better
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Speaker 1: if you get it right next to the factory, but
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Speaker 1: it doesn't taste way better like Guinness tastes way better
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Speaker 1: if you go to Ireland or whatever. Coors doesn't become
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Speaker 1: an amazing beer. It just does taste a little more
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Speaker 1: fresh if you get it right there. Restaurant or bar
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Speaker 1: near the brewery. Or a six-pack right next to the brewery.
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Speaker 1: It is a little fresher. But there's a great buffet
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Speaker 1: near there that I used to like to go to.
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Speaker 1: I still like to go to. And four years ago,
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Speaker 1: it was... Actually, I have the numbers right here. It
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Speaker 1: was $ 11 less than four years ago. And three years later,
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Speaker 1: three and a half years later, it is $ 16. So
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Speaker 1: about a 50% increase. There's another sushi buffet I used
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Speaker 1: to go to. That was $ 20. Now it's $ 32 more.
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Speaker 1: Also in a three year span. Beer prices are totally
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Speaker 1: crazy here. Like one canned cocktail at a bar is
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Speaker 1: $ 10 or $ 12. Alcohol has gone up a lot. Beer
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Speaker 1: here is probably more than 50% more expensive. The cheap
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Speaker 1: six packs are about $ 11 now. And those used to
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Speaker 1: be $ 5 when they were on sale. And there was
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Speaker 1: always like a couple on sale. So yeah, prices have skyrocketed.
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Speaker 1: So as I was flying over to Portland for the
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Speaker 1: wedding and see some friends, I was just like, oh boy,
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Speaker 1: where are the prices going to be? And long story short,
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Speaker 1: the prices were more expensive. They are more expensive. As
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Speaker 1: if you were from the US, I'm sure you have
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Speaker 1: seen year after year. Direct result of destroying trade alliances
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Speaker 1: with countries, especially once they Build new trade agreements with
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Speaker 1: other countries so that you are not invited back in. Now,
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Speaker 1: it's okay for me. I rent a place, so even
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Speaker 1: though I'm in the United States, I can rent a room,
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Speaker 1: and it's not a crazy as expensive deal as it
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Speaker 1: would be as if I were living in the U.S. permanently. Oh, wait,
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Speaker 1: I gotta say one thing that I learned from Korea
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Speaker 1: that I didn't realize my whole travels until... This year, basically.
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Speaker 1: Korean is an alphabet. I went to Seoul so many times,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm only here for a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Same when I just visited Busan and then Jeju. I
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Speaker 1: just never learned Korean because I didn't think I was
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Speaker 1: going to live there. But I had such a good
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Speaker 1: time in Busan and Jeju, I decided to start learning Korean.
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Speaker 1: And then I found out that Korean is an alphabet
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Speaker 1: with 24 letters. Very simple alphabets. I figured since I
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Speaker 1: had learned Chinese and Japanese, I didn't also need to
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Speaker 1: learn Korean since I wasn't planning on living there. Then
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Speaker 1: I looked into it. I could have just learned that.
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Speaker 1: It's way easier to learn an alphabetic language, alphabetical, than
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Speaker 1: it is to learn a pictographic language, because China does
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Speaker 1: still technically have an alphabet, but it has 250 characters
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Speaker 1: and there are parts of other letters, and Japan's The
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Speaker 1: same way, they're pictographic. So you have a bunch of characters,
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Speaker 1: but you're going to have to memorize at least 10
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Speaker 1: times as many characters and know how they all go.
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Speaker 1: And then there's pictographic characters that aren't even a part
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Speaker 1: of that alphabet. Korea, 24 letters. They simplified their writing
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Speaker 1: system a few hundred years ago or something. I wish
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Speaker 1: I knew that while I was still living in Asia.
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Speaker 1: I probably would have just studied the Korean alphabet and
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Speaker 1: tried living over there at some point. It's so funny,
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Speaker 1: I never knew that. I know how it looks because
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Speaker 1: the main Asian alphabets, East Asian, are so distinct. So
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Speaker 1: China has square letters. Japan has a lot of swirls
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Speaker 1: and circles. And then Korea has little circles connected to
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Speaker 1: lines in their alphabet. So you can tell them apart
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Speaker 1: pretty easily. easily, if you're used to East Asian alphabet,
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Speaker 1: seeing them, or if you just know that trick, really.
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Speaker 1: If it's square, probably Chinese. If there's circles and swirls,
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Speaker 1: probably Japanese. And then if there's tiny circles attached to lines,
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Speaker 1: that's Korean. But if I had known that there was
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Speaker 1: an alphabet I could have studied of the East Asian languages,
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Speaker 1: rather than two pictographic languages, I just think it's so
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Speaker 1: funny I chose those two to learn first. China, sure,
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Speaker 1: I was living there. But Japan or Korea, if I
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Speaker 1: knew one was only a 24-letter alphabet, probably would have learned.
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Speaker 1: I definitely would have studied Korean harder each time I
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Speaker 1: visited if I knew it was an alphabet. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how I missed that. I might have heard it
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Speaker 1: at one point. But, yeah, that's just so funny to me,
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Speaker 1: how many times I visited Korea and I never focused
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Speaker 1: on learning the alphabet. Reading is a lot easier for
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Speaker 1: me personally to pick up than speaking, so that probably
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Speaker 1: would have helped too, but anyway, I didn't. If you're
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Speaker 1: looking to pick up a major East Asian language, Korean
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Speaker 1: is an alphabet, and that's a pretty good place to start, probably. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so let's get back to the U.S. I have to
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Speaker 1: get to this wedding, so I get on a bus,
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Speaker 1: and they drive us to the wedding, and And generally,
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Speaker 1: I'm okay with Greyhound. I like those, actually, to be
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Speaker 1: perfectly honest. I like the long-haul buses in the States.
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Speaker 1: I was kind of worried about the prices, and they
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Speaker 1: are much more expensive than I remember. But if you
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Speaker 1: luck out and you book them a little early, then
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Speaker 1: you can get the right ticket. I booked mine a
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Speaker 1: few days earlier, and I don't mind the red eyes.
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Speaker 1: So it wasn't too expensive. The problem was that the
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Speaker 1: bus driver... missed both exits for the town outside of Portland.
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Speaker 1: This is the only town for miles, and somehow the
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Speaker 1: driver missed the first exit, and then the second exit
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Speaker 1: five minutes later, had to turn around after 10 minutes,
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Speaker 1: and then missed the first exit again, and then barely
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Speaker 1: caught the second exit. It was a new trainee driver,
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Speaker 1: but there's nothing on the road for miles until it
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Speaker 1: says exit and he just went right past it and
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Speaker 1: then after he on the way back missed the first
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Speaker 1: exit I stood up and went near the front of
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Speaker 1: the bus just so I could be like that's the
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Speaker 1: exit right there please turn there I didn't have to
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Speaker 1: do that but the trainee driver has a regular Greyhound
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Speaker 1: driver right behind him Or I guess this was Flixbus.
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Speaker 1: And they both missed three exits in a row. It
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Speaker 1: was pretty wild. But I got there. And my plan
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Speaker 1: was to backpack outside. Because now I had all my
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Speaker 1: backpacking gear. They had showers in little bunkhouses at this
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Speaker 1: farm they had their wedding at outside of Portland. And
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Speaker 1: I hadn't been to Portland, Oregon in a long time.
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Speaker 1: So I was really looking forward to it. I had
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Speaker 1: some friends from back in the day. And I love
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Speaker 1: the foliage and the greenery and all that. It's nice.
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Speaker 1: It's the Pacific Northwest. It's wonderful. So I was excited
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Speaker 1: to backpack out, but I showed up and they knew
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Speaker 1: my plans. My friend and the bride-to-be was to backpack out.
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Speaker 1: But when I arrived, they're like, just so you know,
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Speaker 1: there is poison ivy everywhere. Every single place that's not
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Speaker 1: a path through and around this farm is basically poison ivy.
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Speaker 1: So it's okay if you want to backpack, just be
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Speaker 1: aware that there's poison ivy everywhere. Also, if you don't
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Speaker 1: want to backpack, we have this bunkhouse. Now, it was
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Speaker 1: always described as a bunkhouse because that's how it calls itself,
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Speaker 1: but there were like three people staying in the bunkhouse
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Speaker 1: and it's a huge, very nice house with hot water
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Speaker 1: and AC and a full kitchen and Bunkhouse brought to
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Speaker 1: my mind a little broken down cabin, but this was
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Speaker 1: a fully modern amenities place to sleep. So again, I
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Speaker 1: was like, okay, well, versus Poison Ivy, and there's no
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Speaker 1: way I wanted to get Poison Ivy the day before
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Speaker 1: the wedding and be in the wedding party standing up
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Speaker 1: front with red blotches all over my face and body.
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Speaker 1: So I decided to stay in the hotel room, like
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Speaker 1: a fancy hotel room. And it was again, an entire,
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Speaker 1: it was a huge structure. There were probably 16 bunks,
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Speaker 1: like separate rooms. And for the most of the time
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Speaker 1: I had the entire structure to myself. It was great.
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Speaker 1: So my friend of long years was, is the groom here.
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Speaker 1: And he told me, he showed me their wedding plan,
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Speaker 1: how everything was going to work out, what they had
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Speaker 1: to set up before the wedding. And I think I
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Speaker 1: was going to stay there one day. And then the
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Speaker 1: wedding was the next day. I think that's how it
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Speaker 1: worked out time-wise. So the best man, who is the
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Speaker 1: guy who cut his leg wide open and texted everyone
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Speaker 1: about it, was pretty much healed up. I mean, his
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Speaker 1: leg was healed up pretty well, considering what a big
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Speaker 1: gash it was and how recently he did that. But
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Speaker 1: when I showed up, the other member, I think there
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Speaker 1: were six of us in the wedding party. And all
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Speaker 1: the other members, including the groom, expressed the opinion that
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Speaker 1: cutting his leg open a week before the wedding on
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Speaker 1: his own dirt bike was something that his best man
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Speaker 1: was super good at. He was an adventurous and somewhat
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Speaker 1: reckless person. Now, we were all gifted, you know, the
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Speaker 1: gift that the groom gives to the wedding party. And
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Speaker 1: the groom asked me, hey, what would you want? Like
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Speaker 1: a battery pack? Or a hatchet. And I was like, well,
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Speaker 1: it's your way. I think you should have the hatchet wedding.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. So I gave that advice before Best
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Speaker 1: Man cut his leg open. Yeah, I'll just call Best
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Speaker 1: Man Best Man. Because he doesn't, like, shine in a
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Speaker 1: few of these stories. So Best Man, yeah, is a
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Speaker 1: reckless guy. And everybody told me that. But he's a
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Speaker 1: good person, I found out. And he wants to help.
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Speaker 1: He is just super enthusiastic about everything, fairly reckless with
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Speaker 1: most things, but not everything, and gets distracted very easily.
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Speaker 1: So I found out that we were getting the hatchets
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Speaker 1: so that they could do, like, hatchet throw for the
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Speaker 1: pictures of the groomsmen, and I immediately thought, uh-oh, one
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Speaker 1: of us has already cut his leg open, and that
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Speaker 1: also sounds like the person is going to throw hatchets
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Speaker 1: really hard, and I've done that before, and if you
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Speaker 1: haven't ever thrown an axe or a hatchet or a knife...
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Speaker 1: They bounce if you haven't done that before. So if
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Speaker 1: you throw it hard enough, it'll bounce right back at
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Speaker 1: you in a random direction. Could be right at you,
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Speaker 1: could be at one of the other six groomsmen around us.
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Speaker 1: So when we went out to take pictures of us
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Speaker 1: throwing the hatchets, I said, just so anybody who hasn't
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Speaker 1: done this before knows, and I explained that. And none
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Speaker 1: of them had ever thrown a hatchet or a knife before.
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Speaker 1: And so five of us threw it softly... At my recommendation,
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Speaker 1: just throw it softly. We'll try and get in there.
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Speaker 1: There'll still be good pictures. But if we throw it hard,
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Speaker 1: we're going to a wedding in a few hours. This
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Speaker 1: was the next day. So we don't want to cut
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Speaker 1: up anybody. There was also a ton of drinking at
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Speaker 1: this wedding, which has to be considered when we have
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Speaker 1: six people holding hatchets. And Bestman went up first, chucked
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Speaker 1: it pretty hard, and it flew and almost hit one
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Speaker 1: of the photographers. And I said, OK, so that's a
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Speaker 1: perfect example. Just you saw how hard he threw it.
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Speaker 1: Throw it like half as hard. It'll bounce off the tree.
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Speaker 1: You can try and get it. And the other groomsmen
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Speaker 1: all threw it less hard and it didn't bounce off dangerously.
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Speaker 1: But they wanted to throw it harder. But everyone agreed
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Speaker 1: it's just not really worth it, except best men who
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Speaker 1: really wanted to make his hatchet stick. And he threw
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Speaker 1: it hard and they threw it harder. And I just
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Speaker 1: walked away and told everybody, OK, he's just going to
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Speaker 1: keep throwing it, guys. Let's let's back away. And he
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Speaker 1: did get it to stick. Bestman got it on like
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Speaker 1: his 20th throw. It did just stick into this tree,
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Speaker 1: which was as hard as ironwood. It felt like this
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Speaker 1: tree was not a great. It looked great. It was
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Speaker 1: definitely a great photo shoot tree. And it looked the
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Speaker 1: pictures of us throwing hatchets at the tree look cool.
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Speaker 1: But it was made of iron and none of the
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Speaker 1: hatches could penetrate until Bestman did it. And then he
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Speaker 1: was not giving up until he got it. And he
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Speaker 1: got it. Earlier that morning, Bestman was tasked with decorating
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Speaker 1: the gazebo. So there's tons of nice branches and trees
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Speaker 1: all around this property. And he agreed with the wedding
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Speaker 1: coordinator that to get a bunch of branches and then
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Speaker 1: hang them from the rafters and decorate the gazebo. So
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Speaker 1: the morning of the wedding, about two hours before the wedding,
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Speaker 1: before the groom had to go to his place and
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Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, we got a call from
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Speaker 1: the wedding coordinator because Bestman hadn't rigged up the gazebo.
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Speaker 1: That's where the after party was going to be held,
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Speaker 1: this really big gazebo. And we had boxes of ornaments
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Speaker 1: that were supposed to be strung up and Bestman had
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Speaker 1: gone out and got branches, but then hadn't set any
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Speaker 1: of them up. And the wedding coordinator told us they
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Speaker 1: had a long conversation for about 30 minutes yesterday, and
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Speaker 1: he explained exactly how the gazebo was supposed to be
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Speaker 1: set up to Bestman, who said, yes, I'll be there
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Speaker 1: at 9, I will set everything up. And now it
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Speaker 1: was 11, and Bestman, nobody knew where he was, and
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Speaker 1: he hadn't set up the gazebo. So groomsmen got a
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Speaker 1: call about this from the wedding coordinator, who was kind
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Speaker 1: of freaking out because the place where the whole afterparty
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Speaker 1: was going to be set, there were zero decorations up,
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Speaker 1: and the wedding was starting in two hours. And groomsmen
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Speaker 1: told the room of us, except for Bestman, who wasn't there,
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Speaker 1: what had happened. And I had no idea what to
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Speaker 1: do because I didn't know any of these decoration setups,
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Speaker 1: but I just said, okay, let's go do it right now.
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Speaker 1: We only had... maybe two hours until the wedding, something
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Speaker 1: like that. There was not a lot of time before
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Speaker 1: the ceremony would start going on. So I figured groomsmen
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Speaker 1: would know roughly how the bride wanted the pavilion to look,
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Speaker 1: and I could lift things and put things on other
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Speaker 1: decorated with him. So no time to waste. Let's get
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Speaker 1: down there. So me and groomsmen drove down to the
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Speaker 1: gazebo where it's going to be held. There was a
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Speaker 1: pile of branches and then a bunch of wooden rafters
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Speaker 1: over this covered gazebo. And I thought, what the heck
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Speaker 1: are we supposed to do? And we, me and groomsmen
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Speaker 1: were pretty lost. But I asked the wedding coordinator. He said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we already talked about everything he's going to do. It's
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Speaker 1: just not up yet. And that was not part of
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Speaker 1: my job. It was in the list that we had.
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Speaker 1: So I can't do this. You guys have to do this.
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Speaker 1: And I said, OK, so what what was the plan, though?
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Speaker 1: What was it? And he explained that we were going
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Speaker 1: to hang the branches from the rafters and there was
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Speaker 1: going to be some balloons and some ornaments and And
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Speaker 1: I was like, OK, where are those? And he called
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Speaker 1: his staff and they brought out a boxes of like
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Speaker 1: little mini disco balls. And luckily, groomsmen had a saw
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Speaker 1: in his truck because we had to cut a bunch
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Speaker 1: of these branches tinier. And then the wedding coordinator had
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Speaker 1: some fishing line and we just used fishing wire to
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Speaker 1: tie a bunch of branches to the roof of this gazebo,
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Speaker 1: the rafters. And then I put a few disco balls
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Speaker 1: on the corners so that it had a couple elements.
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Speaker 1: And you know what? It looked fine. The funniest part,
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Speaker 1: I liked the disco balls. I had a plan to
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Speaker 1: put up all 16 of them that we had in
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Speaker 1: a star pattern, but I put up four, one big
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Speaker 1: one at each corner, and then I put up the
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Speaker 1: fifth one. And then with that and hooking up all
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Speaker 1: these branches to the rafters of the gazebo, an hour
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Speaker 1: had passed and groomsmen had to go get ready for
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Speaker 1: the wedding party, I had to change out of my clothes,
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Speaker 1: go take a shower, get into my clothes. Oh, also, groomsmen, who,
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Speaker 1: I was in Mongolia when we were doing all this,
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Speaker 1: and he says that he has to order everybody's clothes anyway,
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Speaker 1: so he'll just order mine. But on that wedding morning,
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Speaker 1: before we found out that the after-party gazebo was bare,
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Speaker 1: we found out that groomsmen had accidentally ordered the wrong
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Speaker 1: size of shoes, the wrong size of shirts. and no belts.
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Speaker 1: And the whole reason he ordered the belts, the reason
20:46
Speaker 1: that he ordered the clothes for other people was that
20:48
Speaker 1: so we wouldn't have to worry that people would show
20:50
Speaker 1: up with mismatching stuff, because his bride-to-be was dictating a
20:54
Speaker 1: lot of the looks of things. But that morning, the
20:58
Speaker 1: morning of the wedding, this is 30 minutes before we
21:01
Speaker 1: get the call from the coordinator that we have to
21:03
Speaker 1: fix up the after-party gazebo, we found out the groomsmen
21:07
Speaker 1: had accidentally ordered all size 13 shoes and, uh, all extra,
21:14
Speaker 1: extra large size shirts, which fit nobody in the party.
21:18
Speaker 1: And then two belts were missing as well. Okay. So
21:21
Speaker 1: I have to fix stuff all the time. So I
21:24
Speaker 1: know that pants, if, if you fix the waistline, they'll be, Oh,
21:30
Speaker 1: that's right. The pants, I didn't mention that the wedding
21:32
Speaker 1: pants also, uh, were also extra, extra, extra large, but
21:37
Speaker 1: If you can just sew a couple inches tight, there's
21:39
Speaker 1: not a huge inch difference between extra-extra-large and regular-large or
21:45
Speaker 1: medium pants. So, I sewed pants so that they were
21:50
Speaker 1: the correct size for our waists. One guy was on
21:54
Speaker 1: belt duty and went to go get belts. I can't
21:58
Speaker 1: even remember how we solved the shoe issue. Half of
22:00
Speaker 1: the groomsmen had their own clothes that fit the theme, but...
22:07
Speaker 1: All of us that the groomsmen had ordered the clothes
22:09
Speaker 1: for didn't have clothes that fit. But it's okay because
22:13
Speaker 1: I sewed my pants to the right size. We figured
22:16
Speaker 1: out the shoe somehow. There was a belt guy going
22:17
Speaker 1: to get belts. And then right when we were all
22:20
Speaker 1: ready and we're like, hey, okay, that's pretty good. We
22:22
Speaker 1: still have like, you know, an hour and a half
22:25
Speaker 1: before we have to start. That's when the call came
22:27
Speaker 1: in that we weren't ready because the after party gazebo
22:30
Speaker 1: wasn't ready. So we go down there. We set it up.
22:34
Speaker 1: An hour later, it looks pretty nice, but now we
22:36
Speaker 1: only have half an hour. So we drive back up
22:38
Speaker 1: to the gazebo. I take a shower. I get ready.
22:42
Speaker 1: Groomsman is ready and already at his spot where the
22:45
Speaker 1: wedding is going to happen. Oh, but right before we drive,
22:49
Speaker 1: after I take my shower and I get ready, Bestman
22:51
Speaker 1: comes in and they're like, Bestman, change your clothes. Because
22:56
Speaker 1: Bestman insisted on wearing his wedding attire while he was
23:00
Speaker 1: walking around that morning. And at one point was playing
23:03
Speaker 1: and running around the farm and jumped in on an incline,
23:10
Speaker 1: fell down and did a front flip and his white
23:12
Speaker 1: wedding shirt was completely ruined. The white shirt that we
23:15
Speaker 1: were all going to be wearing standing up there in
23:18
Speaker 1: front of the wedding audience, all of the wedding guests.
23:22
Speaker 1: And he had this huge dirt stain, brown stain down
23:26
Speaker 1: the back of his entire back. Huge giant cannot be missed.
23:30
Speaker 1: And his shoulder. where he had done a front flip
23:35
Speaker 1: in his wedding here 20 minutes ago. Luckily, there was
23:38
Speaker 1: one more of those giant shirts ready to go. So
23:42
Speaker 1: Bestman got a new white wedding shirt, the last one,
23:45
Speaker 1: and was told, do not do any more jumps for
23:48
Speaker 1: the next, like, 20 minutes. Just wait until the wedding's over.
23:53
Speaker 1: That guy was so funny, though, Bestman. I can see
23:56
Speaker 1: why he was the best man. He's very funny. He's
23:58
Speaker 1: a very sweet guy. Very nice. Just very distractible and excitable.
24:04
Speaker 1: So there was like all the other groomsmen basically putting
24:08
Speaker 1: his shirt on him. He's like looking around and talking
24:10
Speaker 1: to all of us, making jokes, folding the shirt back
24:13
Speaker 1: so it doesn't look so loose on him. And then
24:16
Speaker 1: we had to put on the corsages, which come with
24:20
Speaker 1: two pins. And you're supposed to pin a corsage directly
24:24
Speaker 1: through the stem into the shirt. Oh, the man corsages,
24:27
Speaker 1: the boutonnieres. But there was no way to do that
24:30
Speaker 1: without the corsage falling off. It just wasn't holding. So
24:34
Speaker 1: I said we should just put them in sideways like
24:37
Speaker 1: little swords. And that looked kind of cool. So we
24:40
Speaker 1: did that. I don't know if it was the smooth
24:44
Speaker 1: shirt material or what, but there was just nothing for
24:46
Speaker 1: the pins to grab onto because they weren't, you know,
24:49
Speaker 1: safety pins. They were just straight up fancy wedding pins.
24:51
Speaker 1: They were just pins. But we did them laterally and
24:54
Speaker 1: that worked out. Looked pretty cool. I say because I
24:57
Speaker 1: suggested it, of course. Yeah, so when we got down earlier,
25:01
Speaker 1: when we were called to the gazebo, groomsmen was planning
25:06
Speaker 1: on doing the wedding arch and just slipping branches into
25:09
Speaker 1: the wedding arch. So when we got down and saw
25:11
Speaker 1: the gazebo and the wedding coordinator explained that we had
25:14
Speaker 1: to decorate the entire gazebo rather than just a wedding arch,
25:17
Speaker 1: we were like, oh. And wedding coordinator man, who deserves
25:23
Speaker 1: a fun name, I'll say Fuzzy Drill Sergeant. Because he
25:27
Speaker 1: was very barky orders-y, but he was also very hippie dippy. So, yeah,
25:34
Speaker 1: hippie drill sergeant. He told us that he was going
25:37
Speaker 1: to do the arch. That was the original plan. Hippie
25:39
Speaker 1: drill sergeant was going to do the arch, and then
25:42
Speaker 1: Bestman was going to do the gazebo. But since Bestman
25:44
Speaker 1: didn't show up, he called us up. And then when
25:47
Speaker 1: we were doing the gazebo, he went and did the
25:49
Speaker 1: wedding arch. Then we went back, fixed all the clothes stuff.
25:52
Speaker 1: Guy arrived with a couple belts. And then the wedding
25:55
Speaker 1: was about to start. It was really a blur for
26:00
Speaker 1: those two and a half hours before the wedding on
26:03
Speaker 1: the day of the wedding. The day before, by the way,
26:05
Speaker 1: like the pre-day that we had, we just drank like
26:08
Speaker 1: the whole time. Everybody was just drinking the whole time.
26:12
Speaker 1: They bought a lot of alcohol for that wedding. And
26:17
Speaker 1: I did not go crazy at all. I think I
26:19
Speaker 1: had a few beers the first day because I just
26:21
Speaker 1: wanted to be able to stand still and be normal to...
26:24
Speaker 1: during the wedding, and then I was like, after the wedding,
26:27
Speaker 1: we'll all get crunky. Okay, we're all in place. The groomsmen,
26:30
Speaker 1: we have practiced with our maids of honor on how
26:36
Speaker 1: to walk down in the middle of the wedding guests
26:39
Speaker 1: and then assemble up front for the wedding. And honestly,
26:43
Speaker 1: everything looked great. Hippie Drill Sergeant, like I said, he's
26:46
Speaker 1: hippie dippy, but he barks orders and he had enough
26:49
Speaker 1: coordinators and they made everything look great. And he was
26:52
Speaker 1: very clear about on explaining to us how to do things.
26:56
Speaker 1: And then I was still relieved to find out, even
26:58
Speaker 1: though we knew the schedule, that Hippie Drill Sergeant would
27:01
Speaker 1: kind of be out of sight of the wedding guests
27:02
Speaker 1: in the back, but he would be in our sight,
27:05
Speaker 1: the maids of honor and the best men, and he
27:07
Speaker 1: would just tell us when to go and do everything.
27:09
Speaker 1: So the bride was super dehydrated or something, and we
27:13
Speaker 1: ended up waiting nearly an hour for the actual wedding
27:17
Speaker 1: to start because she wasn't coming out of the little
27:21
Speaker 1: cabin that she was getting ready in. and the groom
27:23
Speaker 1: went in there to talk to her and her friends,
27:26
Speaker 1: and basically she was dehydrated is the story that went
27:29
Speaker 1: around that sounds correct. Groomsmen and Bride Lady are very
27:33
Speaker 1: practical down-to-earth people, so it doesn't seem like it was
27:36
Speaker 1: any kind of cold feet or anything like that. She
27:39
Speaker 1: just was physically exhausted and dehydrated because she had been
27:43
Speaker 1: running around for days trying to get everything ready. Oh, also,
27:47
Speaker 1: this was the first time I ever met her, because
27:49
Speaker 1: I've been out of the country so long, since... groomsmen
27:52
Speaker 1: and her got together and she's one of the coolest
27:55
Speaker 1: people ever and I am so happy for the two
27:58
Speaker 1: of them they fit each other extremely well and as
28:02
Speaker 1: soon as I met her I was like oh this
28:03
Speaker 1: is perfect you guys will be happy this is great
28:06
Speaker 1: and I still am very happy for them so the
28:09
Speaker 1: wedding starts us best men and the maids of honor
28:13
Speaker 1: hook arms with our you know and we walk through
28:16
Speaker 1: the guests and stand up front and then the wedding
28:19
Speaker 1: is underway And she came down eventually, and yeah, but
28:22
Speaker 1: it started up. So the wedding's going, and I'm looking
28:25
Speaker 1: at the wedding guests, and I see this one person,
28:28
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what the heck? And I actually look
28:31
Speaker 1: back at the wedding arch where the groom is standing,
28:34
Speaker 1: because when I look back down, there's a clone of him. Like,
28:41
Speaker 1: he looks bigger than my groom friend, but otherwise they
28:45
Speaker 1: look identical, and I was like, Is that? Wait, what?
28:48
Speaker 1: Because he doesn't have any brothers. The groom doesn't have
28:52
Speaker 1: any brothers, but this guy is clearly related in some way.
28:55
Speaker 1: So I was like, maybe it's one of those cousin
28:57
Speaker 1: things where like two cousins look nearly identical. But this
29:00
Speaker 1: was like really close. Pretty, pretty identically. Except this guy
29:05
Speaker 1: had crazy long hair, like down to his waist long hair.
29:09
Speaker 1: And so I had to do a few takes like
29:12
Speaker 1: to this wedding guest who looked like the groom and
29:14
Speaker 1: then to the groom and be like, no, they're definitely
29:16
Speaker 1: not the same person. They're standing in different, they're in
29:19
Speaker 1: different areas. So this is a different person who just
29:21
Speaker 1: looks exactly like him. And then I found out later
29:25
Speaker 1: that he was just introduced to this stepbrother for the
29:30
Speaker 1: first time in his life. And they just happened to
29:35
Speaker 1: look at each other. They met each other like two
29:37
Speaker 1: months ago. groomsmen and his half-brother. And he was like,
29:42
Speaker 1: you want to come to my wedding? And he did.
29:44
Speaker 1: And that was pretty crazy. And he was a nice guy.
29:48
Speaker 1: They deliberately kept the wedding ceremony itself very short. The
29:51
Speaker 1: plan was 30 minutes. And, you know, as everything is
29:54
Speaker 1: unspiraling and we're trying to find people at the last
29:57
Speaker 1: minute and we have to take all the photos and
29:59
Speaker 1: Hippie Drill Sergeant is kindly letting the photographer know that
30:03
Speaker 1: she has to hurry up because we have to start
30:06
Speaker 1: the ceremony. Everyone's like, is this really going to be
30:09
Speaker 1: 30 minutes? But the ceremony itself was 30 minutes, thanks
30:13
Speaker 1: very much largely to Hippie Drill Sergeant, who was a
30:17
Speaker 1: great wedding coordinator. I don't know the company or his
30:21
Speaker 1: real name, or I might tell you it, but Hippie
30:23
Speaker 1: Drill Sergeant really describes him to a T. Groovy Drill Sergeant.
30:28
Speaker 1: Maybe that's closer. Whatever. So Hippie Drill Sergeant gets things going.
30:32
Speaker 1: It goes off without a hitch. The whole... Yeah, it
30:37
Speaker 1: was great. It was a very nice, short wedding. Their
30:40
Speaker 1: vows were very heartfelt and beautiful, and they traded those.
30:46
Speaker 1: And then the ceremony was over, and it was time
30:48
Speaker 1: to start the afterparty. And I was told... Everybody else
30:53
Speaker 1: knew this was happening, but I was... told, oh yeah,
30:57
Speaker 1: by the way, you're going to be taking part in
30:59
Speaker 1: the public games before like the after party really kicks off.
31:02
Speaker 1: So we had this DJ and I said, okay, luckily
31:06
Speaker 1: I had just been to a Filipino wedding, which is
31:08
Speaker 1: basically all games. And I was like, well, look, I'm here.
31:12
Speaker 1: I'm going to try and make their wedding as nice
31:14
Speaker 1: as possible. So I will participate in these games that
31:16
Speaker 1: I wouldn't like to do, but I know that if
31:20
Speaker 1: I look like a goofy game player, that'll make the
31:23
Speaker 1: That'll make everyone laugh and it'll be more fun. And
31:26
Speaker 1: so I'll do that. So when they told me that,
31:28
Speaker 1: I was like, oh good, I just did this two
31:29
Speaker 1: months ago. I'm ready to participate in public games again.
31:33
Speaker 1: And the game I can remember the best is Get
31:36
Speaker 1: a Scavenger. It was like a scavenger hunt. So he'd say, like, lipstick.
31:39
Speaker 1: And then you had to... Well, the eight of us
31:41
Speaker 1: that were seated up front facing the wedding guests had
31:45
Speaker 1: to run into the audience and a member of the
31:47
Speaker 1: audience had to give us the item in question. And...
31:53
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's also musical chairs. So the game
31:55
Speaker 1: is pretty simple. Let's say there were six of us.
31:58
Speaker 1: I don't remember how much there actually were. There's six
32:01
Speaker 1: of us in these chairs, maids of honors and groomsmen.
32:04
Speaker 1: And he says, reading glasses. And then the eight of
32:08
Speaker 1: us stand up, go into the audience, get reading glasses.
32:11
Speaker 1: The DJ's assistant takes one chair away. And then there
32:14
Speaker 1: are seven chairs. So the last person to get the
32:16
Speaker 1: item and come back is out. three times the DJ's
32:21
Speaker 1: assistant forgot to take the chairs. So three times we
32:25
Speaker 1: got back and then the last person sat down with
32:28
Speaker 1: the item and we're all looking around like who was eliminated?
32:31
Speaker 1: Oh no. And he forgot to take the chair again.
32:34
Speaker 1: By the third time I was like, we have to
32:36
Speaker 1: switch the assist. He doesn't. And, um, we did switch
32:39
Speaker 1: the assistant with someone else who remembered to take a
32:41
Speaker 1: chair away. After the second time, like I looked at
32:44
Speaker 1: the assistant and He had the biggest grin on his face.
32:47
Speaker 1: He was just having fun watching us run into the
32:49
Speaker 1: crowd and get the scavenger items. And he just forgot
32:53
Speaker 1: each time that he was part of it also and
32:55
Speaker 1: was supposed to take away one chair. So that was
32:58
Speaker 1: incredibly funny that he couldn't remember to do that. I
33:03
Speaker 1: also cheated the system. I didn't want to run. I
33:07
Speaker 1: was tired from all morning and just waiting to start partying.
33:12
Speaker 1: So I just found one lady. I scanned the crowd,
33:16
Speaker 1: and I saw one lady, and I was like, her,
33:18
Speaker 1: she'll do it. And I just walked over to her
33:21
Speaker 1: near one of the front tables, and I was like, glasses?
33:23
Speaker 1: And she was like, glasses. And I was like, okay,
33:26
Speaker 1: you're the winner. Thank you. And I went back, and
33:29
Speaker 1: I just tried to establish some sort of rapport. So
33:30
Speaker 1: the next one was lipstick, and I just walked straight
33:32
Speaker 1: back to her, and she handed me lipstick. And we
33:35
Speaker 1: just became partners, basically. I think I got second place once.
33:39
Speaker 1: Because there was one item that only one there was
33:42
Speaker 1: only one of those items in the entire wedding party
33:45
Speaker 1: because there's no kids at the party. But for some reason,
33:48
Speaker 1: there was a kid. No, there were some kids at
33:50
Speaker 1: the party. And someone had some kids accessory. I can't
33:55
Speaker 1: remember what it is now. Maybe a bow tie. No,
33:57
Speaker 1: you know what? That was a bow tie. One kid
33:59
Speaker 1: had a bow tie and the other person bolted like
34:02
Speaker 1: ran through the audience. And I just asked the same
34:05
Speaker 1: lady like, hey, you got a bow tie? No. OK.
34:07
Speaker 1: And then I. didn't try after that and lost the game.
34:10
Speaker 1: But the audience, as convoluted and weird as this game sounds,
34:14
Speaker 1: the audience loved it. The wedding audience were clapping and
34:17
Speaker 1: hooting and laughing, so they were all having a great
34:19
Speaker 1: time the whole time. And then the real after party started.
34:22
Speaker 1: The groomsmen made of honors finally got to sit down
34:25
Speaker 1: and relax. The DJ talked about some things. There was
34:28
Speaker 1: the father-daughter dance and the groom's mom dance. And then
34:33
Speaker 1: they hired a local DJ who who they know, and
34:38
Speaker 1: there was a pair of them, and they were very
34:40
Speaker 1: cool people, and they played great music, and yeah, there
34:44
Speaker 1: were kegs of beers and unlimited drinks, there were some
34:46
Speaker 1: kind of amazing cranberry Moscow mules, something like that, and
34:50
Speaker 1: I had ten of those, I just kept going back
34:52
Speaker 1: and getting free Moscow mules. Ginger beer drinks, sign me up,
34:57
Speaker 1: it's fantastic. And this was really, this really was like
34:59
Speaker 1: the best Moscow mule I've ever had, it was very good.
35:04
Speaker 1: And Groomsman asked me to hold his backpack because he
35:08
Speaker 1: had to do all the dances, and I treated that
35:10
Speaker 1: like a sacred responsibility. I took it, and he said,
35:14
Speaker 1: you can just leave it on the table or wherever
35:16
Speaker 1: you're sitting. And I said, no, no, no, I will
35:18
Speaker 1: be carrying this backpack the rest of the night. It's
35:20
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. We're not losing a single thing. And
35:23
Speaker 1: I had that backpack with me. I danced a bunch
35:25
Speaker 1: with the backpack. I like to get the party started,
35:28
Speaker 1: and I know that my role as part of the
35:30
Speaker 1: wedding party is to make sure the fun keeps going.
35:33
Speaker 1: So whenever there was nobody on the dance floor, I
35:35
Speaker 1: would go out with my backpack and start grooving out,
35:38
Speaker 1: and every time, people would come into the dance floor
35:41
Speaker 1: and start dancing, and then I would dance out of
35:43
Speaker 1: the crowd and go sit back down until time was
35:45
Speaker 1: needed to start another dance floor. It was a lot
35:48
Speaker 1: of fun, and his entire wedding party was very cool. Like,
35:51
Speaker 1: all of the bride's friends and all of his friends
35:55
Speaker 1: who I had never met were very kind and very
35:57
Speaker 1: easy to assimilate into and hang out with. So I
36:00
Speaker 1: had a great time. And then the DJ started doing karaoke.
36:04
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, baby, because I really forever
36:09
Speaker 1: have not been super into karaoke. I like it. It's fine.
36:13
Speaker 1: In China, I did it a bunch because KTV or
36:15
Speaker 1: karaoke is very popular there. But that's just in a
36:18
Speaker 1: tiny room with just your friends. So this was on
36:22
Speaker 1: the dance floor karaoke. And it was great. The pastor
36:27
Speaker 1: who had done the ceremony, she sang like Joni Mitchell songs.
36:32
Speaker 1: And other people sang. And my favorite karaoke song right
36:36
Speaker 1: now is Shiny by Jemaine Clement from Moana. Shiny like
36:42
Speaker 1: the treasure from a sunken pirate wreck. Which I might
36:44
Speaker 1: have explained before because I sang it a bunch of
36:47
Speaker 1: times in the Philippines before I went to my friend's
36:51
Speaker 1: wedding over there. So I knew the song pretty well.
36:55
Speaker 1: And I had to ask the DJs for a special
36:57
Speaker 1: request because they had to find the song. But they
36:59
Speaker 1: found the song and I sang it and it was
37:01
Speaker 1: quite a crowd pleaser, and it led to a very
37:05
Speaker 1: fun after-after party. So the after-party itself went until 10.30,
37:10
Speaker 1: and then the karaoke ended. Everyone left, except for a
37:15
Speaker 1: few people. There was a few of the bridal party,
37:18
Speaker 1: and a few guests ended up going back to the
37:20
Speaker 1: clubhouse where the main after-after party was going to be.
37:23
Speaker 1: It was just a big building. There was a TV
37:25
Speaker 1: in there, and we hung out for a bit, and
37:27
Speaker 1: then the karaoke started back up in there. And someone
37:31
Speaker 1: sang a system of a down song, violent pornography, and
37:37
Speaker 1: nobody else in the room knew it. There were still
37:39
Speaker 1: like 20 people in the room at this point, but
37:42
Speaker 1: nobody knew what that song was. And a couple of
37:44
Speaker 1: them were the parents of another of one of the
37:47
Speaker 1: bridal party. And they were like, what's happening? Because if
37:49
Speaker 1: you don't know that song, the lyrics are pretty violent
37:52
Speaker 1: and pretty explicit. But I know that song. I grew
37:56
Speaker 1: up with it in high school. And so I grabbed
37:58
Speaker 1: the second mic. and joined the girl, and she was like, yes,
38:02
Speaker 1: you know it! And we sang Violent Pornography by System
38:05
Speaker 1: of a Down together, and it was a great time.
38:08
Speaker 1: Screaming obscenities. And then that was kind of the end
38:12
Speaker 1: of the beginning afterparty, and then the afterafterafterparty. That lasted
38:16
Speaker 1: for like an hour, just like regular songs. Everyone sitting
38:18
Speaker 1: on the couch hanging out. Couple drinks going around. The
38:22
Speaker 1: bride and groom retired. All the regular guests left, and
38:26
Speaker 1: then there was me and a few groomsmen and one
38:30
Speaker 1: maid of honor. And we were just into the karaoke
38:34
Speaker 1: and just kept singing. And this was the after-after-after party.
38:37
Speaker 1: This lasted until 5.30 a.m., I think, from 11.30, maybe 12,
38:39
Speaker 1: until 5.30 a.m. The Maid of Honor, I sing some
38:48
Speaker 1: other Disney song, can't remember. And she said, wait, do
38:50
Speaker 1: you really like Disney songs? And I was like, yeah,
38:53
Speaker 1: I definitely like those two that I'm singing anyway. And
38:56
Speaker 1: she said, I love Disney songs. Let's sing Disney. And
38:59
Speaker 1: then the karaoke turned from a lot of songs for
39:04
Speaker 1: three hours of Disney songs. And we sang one jump
39:07
Speaker 1: ahead from Aladdin, one jump ahead of the bread line.
39:11
Speaker 1: And we sang songs from the Newsies, which is my jam.
39:15
Speaker 1: Saying songs from Mulan, I'll make a man out of you.
39:18
Speaker 1: If I'm falling asleep while driving cross country, I'll play
39:21
Speaker 1: that song and get reinvigorated again. And that was great
39:24
Speaker 1: because the groom, maybe at 3.30ish or 4.00. showed up
39:30
Speaker 1: again to this after after after party and I was
39:34
Speaker 1: like we have to sing that again and he had
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Speaker 1: a very fun time singing I'll make a man out
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Speaker 1: of you with all of us and he hung out
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Speaker 1: for an hour And then went back. One guy sang
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Speaker 1: a song. I guess there's a YouTube trend of singing
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Speaker 1: songs in the voices of the Disney character Goofy. So
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Speaker 1: he sang like a serious Nine Inch Nails song or something,
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Speaker 1: but as Goofy. That was his brother, his brother that
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Speaker 1: looks exactly like him that he met for the first
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Speaker 1: time recently that I just met at that wedding. He
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Speaker 1: can sing like Goofy really good. sang a bunch of
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Speaker 1: stuff from The Jungle Book, pretty much every Disney song.
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Speaker 1: We just sang every Disney song for five hours and
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Speaker 1: had a ton of fun, and it was a great
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Speaker 1: after-after-after party. And while we were singing, I was thinking, man,
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Speaker 1: we'll want to remember this. So I took a bunch
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Speaker 1: of videos, because even though the videos looked terrible to me,
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Speaker 1: I knew that later on they'd be really fun to
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Speaker 1: look back on. And they were. I shared them with
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Speaker 1: the groom and bride who watched them at home on
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Speaker 1: their big HD screen a couple... maybe a week later
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Speaker 1: or something. And then I sent them to members of
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Speaker 1: the bridal party who asked about it. And I have
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Speaker 1: a bunch of those fun videos singing Disney karaoke and
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Speaker 1: other karaoke all night until that dawn broke. And then
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Speaker 1: there was a full day of R & R, and
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Speaker 1: then the next day I would leave. So the plan
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Speaker 1: was to leave two days after the wedding itself. But
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Speaker 1: as it turned out, that's not exactly what happened. I
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Speaker 1: will talk about that on the next Ramble On. I
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Speaker 1: hope this was a fun story for you. I am
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Speaker 1: glad I came from Mongolia, China, Japan, Korea to go
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Speaker 1: to this wedding. One of my oldest and best friends.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like now that I went to this wedding,
41:23
Speaker 1: I don't have to go to any more. I went
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Speaker 1: to plenty of weddings recently, especially this year. So if
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Speaker 1: someone else asks me, unless it's like an hour away,
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Speaker 1: I think I am also going to be weddinged out
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Speaker 1: for a while. My whole plan after this wedding, because
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Speaker 1: I was exhausted from the Filipino wedding, and then I
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Speaker 1: had one where I had to fly all the way
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Speaker 1: back to North America from Asia. I was like, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to be so tired and pissed off at weddings
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Speaker 1: after this that I won't want to do them anymore.
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Speaker 1: And that is how I felt. I had a great
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Speaker 1: time at this wedding in Oregon, but I definitely don't
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Speaker 1: want to go to another wedding in the near future.
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Speaker 1: If you want to talk to me, you can talk
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Speaker 1: to me at bitofarambler at gmail.com or bitofarambler on Lemmy
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Speaker 1: or Blue Sky. Go to the travel community on Lemmy.
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Speaker 1: I hope your day is going great. I will talk
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Speaker 1: to you soon. Thank you so much for listening.