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Welcome back to Amuse Goose, everybody.

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Thank you for continuing to come back and chat with us.

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And hang out with us. Hi, Nate.

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What are you up to? I'm thanking the viewers.

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For listeners. Viewers? Both.

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Both? Yeah. We're coming back because I want to thank them, too.

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You got to thank them. And I wanted to turn to also thank them.

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It's important. It is very important to thank them because we wouldn't do this if no

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one listened. I'd still do it because it's nice to hang out with you.

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Mhm. And you love hearing yourself talk.

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So I can't hear myself because I have headphones on.

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But later after I edit and then watch everything back and then watch

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it again, I just completely mute your side and just crank my side up.

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Yeah. Until I'm done. And then when I put it all together, I'm like, I sound fine.

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I don't know what she sounds like Sounds like. Yeah.

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Checks out, checks out. Yeah.

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We're talking about today, will you? You wanted to talk about something very important.

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Very, very important. Well, yeah, it is.

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It is kind of important what I have to say.

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So what I have to say is be yourself and stand up for yourself always.

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Do you know where this is coming from, folks?

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We're we're going to talk a little bit about our weddings.

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Some of us have more than one. I had two, I've only

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had one. And I recommend just going with the one.

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Listen, you can do whatever you like. You can.

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There's lots. It's just there's lots of reasons, a lot of stuff going on.

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Yeah, but you know what? I wish I had the second one though versus the third one.

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But that would be my one. Well no, because you have your you had your children from your first.

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So I didn't have them at the wedding. No, I'm just talking wedding okay.

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The wedding, not the relationship. But gone are the days where you should be, um, I don't know, like,

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embarrassed about a divorce. Like, no.

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People change. Oh. Humans evolve.

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It's. It's fine. Um, however, just the wedding part, like, I'm still

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married, so it's it's what it is.

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What it is. Obviously, it didn't impact us too much, but my the day of my wedding,

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not leading up was fine. I mean, I was very stressed.

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I lost a bunch of weight and end up having to, ended up having to have

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my dress taken in at the last minute.

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Oh, wow. Um, and they had it. So it was

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my husband's cousin who, uh, was the seamstress who helped me with.

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Oh. That's handy. Yeah. Um, that was our.

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That was her gift to us because I had this very heavily beaded bodice

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on my wedding dress, and she had to, like, hand do all the beads and

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stuff like that. So, um, she she took it out because it was too small a

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little bit too tight when I first bought it, but I lost.

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I was so stressed. I lost so much weight leading up to the wedding that she had to take

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it in, um, leading up to the wedding.

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So, um, and this is because I at the time and this was 13 years ago,

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so I, you know I've grown a lot since then.

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We all have grown, I'm sure, a lot in 13 years.

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Um, and I just did what was expected of me.

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Mhm. Um, I did all the things that our families wanted me to do.

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I did a traditional, you know, traditional everything

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at a church. You know, we had all the bridal showers and all the things.

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Um, but those could be fun bridal showers can't they.

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Don't you guys have fun at those things? Yeah.

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Like, have some wine. And did you get gifts?

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Yeah. At a bridal shower. Yeah, you get gifts, but when I.

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So I married into a huge family.

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I come from a small family Yeah.

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Um, I'm married into a huge family.

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And the thing about them is they're all wonderful, and they

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legitimately give a crap about you, right?

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Like when they ask me how I am, they actually want to know.

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I married into a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful family.

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When they're there and they're interested and they're, you know, they

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want to be there with you. Um, and that's amazing

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But I was not used to it. And my bridal shower, I didn't know half of them at the time.

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I know them all now, but I didn't know them.

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That's kind of typical, though, right? Yeah. He has such a huge, um, his mom was one of seven and his dad is one of

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ten. Oh, um, big families.

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And then there's cousins and, like

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you know, it's not just. And then there's, you know, all their, uh, in-laws and stuff like

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that, and they're all wonderful, wonderful people.

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Um, but at the time, I didn't know them, and I was a little bit more

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like I'm medicated now for my anxiety and depression.

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Like my I have a lot of social anxiety.

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Um, and I wasn't medicated

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medicated for it back then. So my bridal shower on that side, like my mom had one for my side and

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I knew everybody and it was fine.

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Um, but my bridal shower on that side of the family was I was so

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uncomfortable. I was I had a glass of wine in one hand and one of his aunts that I

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really like, I knew and loved, um, was in my on the other side of me saying, uh, okay,

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that's from Susan and that's Susan in the green shirt.

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So I walking you through it. That's nice.

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So, so I could look. So I had the present and I'd be like, oh, from Susan.

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And she'd be like, green shirt. And then I'd be like, thanks, Susan.

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Like, because I had no idea who have these people

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were. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, there's like 50 people there and I don't want any of them.

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There was a lot. Well, he comes from a huge family.

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What was your favorite gift? I'm putting you on the spot.

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I have. No I couldn't even remember. I couldn't even tell you what we got.

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Was it from Susan? Probably.

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I said Susan, but there is no Susan.

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There's no Susan. Got me family

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Um, so, you know, there was there was this there was the stuff leading

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up to it. Um, the day of was one of the most stressful.

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Like I said, I was not medicated. Um, and I purposefully did not wear my contacts, and I hadn't had

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Lasik at the time, so I've, I've, I've had laser eye surgery now.

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Yeah. This tactic would have not happened.

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Um, now, but I didn't wear my contacts so that I couldn't see the

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faces of everybody as I walked by. Everybody like I knew people were there, but I knew if I could see

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their eyes looking at me, I would, like, run out.

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Really. Like I had a really hard time walking down the aisle like that.

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The walk and having

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everybody watch me was one of the most stressful moments of my life.

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Wow. I've been in plays and I've been in plays and musicals.

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Mhm. I can do that because I'm not myself.

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Yeah. You're acting, you're acting right. Like you're another person.

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So you're not supposed to be you. But walking there and doing that, I'm just

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me. Mhm. And that's terrifying.

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That was terrifying at the time. And we had over 150 people there.

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That's a lot. Um we had a huge like and that was the other thing I wanted a really

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small I would have loved a small intimate wedding like outside, um

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with just our family. Close family and friends.

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Yeah. And it was like upwards of 200 people.

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Oh, yeah. Even even mine were weren't that big at all.

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Like, not even close. No. Either one I, I threw up four times that morning getting my hair like

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I getting my hair done. And, um, I

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threw up four times at the hairdressers.

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Yikes. Because I was so stressed and nervous about it.

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Yeah. And I there's, there's video, there's video.

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And I the whole time I have my, uh, what's it called?

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Bouquet shaking the whole time. Oh, my bouquet is shaking.

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Yeah, I had a shake weight. My bouquet. My bouquet

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was shaking in the video. Really? The whole time.

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Poor thing. Mhm. And that's not to say that like that.

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It's, that's the worst way to go. It's just that, um, my advice I guess is stand up for yourself and

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it's not about, it's your wedding right. Yeah.

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It's not and I didn't and I didn't and I just went along with it and

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it was beautiful. Like, we like, we had a, um, a decorator and it was gorgeous.

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And that was one thing I, I don't or I do recommend is that if you can

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outsource things, that was great.

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Like not having to do that. Um, we

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had a great photographer. He was wonderful. And he made me feel really comfortable when he was taking, um, some of

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the, like the fancier photos.

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So that was good. Um, so there were, there were awesome things about, you know, about

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that day. But by the time, um, like, by the time

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00 rolled around 9 p.m..

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Mhm. Like, we had our reception at the, at a hotel and we stayed there that

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night and 9 p.m.

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I was like, I can't stay awake any longer.

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00, we went up. Yeah.

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And I'm not an I'm not an early to bed.

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I'm not an early to bed kind of girl

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Mhm. Like I'm a I'm a partier now.

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Yeah. Party mom I love I love dancing and hanging out and stuff like that.

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I couldn't, I couldn't, I had to go to bed because I was just tanked.

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Um big toll on you, right. All the emotional stress and stuff like that, it'll burn you out huge

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huge and the like, the adrenaline drop after being so heightened and

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and stuff all day, um, and having people come up to me all day, people

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that I didn't know, um, because there was lots of people I didn't know

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at my own wedding. Right. Yeah.

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Well, I mean, that that that can happen with the big families, right?

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Yeah, yeah. And like you know, my my parents and then my in-laws, they split on the, um,

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the food bill for the, uh, for the reception.

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Mhm. Um, because, because we couldn't afford, we couldn't afford it and

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they were like, well, we need to have you can't invite one cousin and

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not all of them. It's like

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we couldn't pick, you know, you can't pick and choose.

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And we couldn't just pick the ones that I knew because he knew all

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mine. Yeah. Because I, you know, I have a very small family, but like, we couldn't

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just do that. Mhm. Um, and then like, you know, because they were paying for that, they

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got to invite some friends like their good friends who might not like be super

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important to us. Right.

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But because they were paying I'm like not going to say no for their

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bestie Linda or whatever. There's no yeah.

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It's weird though. Like I think like if like, you know, when my kids eventually if they

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do, if they ever get married um, I wouldn't be like, I want to bring some of my friends that don't

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even know who you are. No.

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Yeah. No, like, I don't I don't know, a different mindset.

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And I know they were excited and and another thing is I'm the oldest.

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Mhm. And the oldest grandchild.

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Oldest child. Oldest grandchild. My husband is the oldest child.

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And one of the oldest grandchildren. Mhm.

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So we were both the first. We were the first in our family.

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First batch. Yeah. Okay.

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So there was so much riding on us like my sister eloped.

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Yeah. Good for her. And it was beautiful. Like they went to a lawyer's office.

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Oh like like that kind of elope. They just went.

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Yeah they just got married at a lawyer's office.

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No, um, New Year's Eve.

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Nice. They went to. So my mom, my mom retired on December 30th.

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And then the next day, we were going to have drinks, um, over at their

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place to celebrate. Just just us just, you know

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um, just the family. And we were gonna have drinks to celebrate.

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And then, uh, my sister and her husband showed up, and we're like,

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hey, guess what? And handed the marriage certificate.

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They were like, great. We got married today. We got married this morning, and I am so frigging happy for her.

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She did have like a a small reception, um, at a, at a restaurant.

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There was like 40 people, I think there.

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It was so much fun.

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We still got all the family pictures. Like we still got, like, did you think, you know, she she got a

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pretty, like. She got a really nice dress. Like, we all got our, we got dressed up and we went and did like, you

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know, the, uh, my dad gave a speech like, we did a lot of the traditional stuff, um, but

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without all the. And I'm so proud of her for doing what was right for her and not just

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what was socially acceptable, like societally, socially, whatever

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accepted or expected of her

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Um, it makes me sad for myself, but I mean, would I change it?

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I don't know, yeah. Still experience.

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Right? It was. Yeah, it was an experience.

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And like today looking back, I'm like, was the wedding important?

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No no.

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It's like not really. Right.

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Like it's just would I. And if anything ever happened like would I get married again.

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No, no. Like, you know, if.

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No, if something happened like, let's say my husband passed away or

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whatever, or, you know, if we got divorced, whatever.

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Mhm. Um, even if I was in a relationship with someone else, I don't think I

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would get married again. You know who also said that? Who?

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You. I know you did. Um, yeah, it would definitely.

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It would totally depend. But I would do it, you know, I would probably do it differently, you

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know, probably do it however we wanted, like you did.

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Yeah. We had a lot of fun. Yeah.

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Like, I, I mean, you were there, I was there, and that was the that

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was only the second time I ever walked down an aisle, because that was

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the first time I was ever a bridesmaid. Oh, glad we could take care of that for you.

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Thank you. And I was not nervous.

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I was having fun. Your son walked me down.

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What was my escort? Down the aisle.

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And it was lovely. And I had a great time

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It was good. Yeah, that was the. I've never been a because my sister eloped.

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Yeah I guess. Yeah. So yeah, ours was ours was fun.

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So my first wedding was, uh, we went to Dominican Republic and we did,

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like an all inclusive thing and we're like, oh, well, let's make it

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easier and do the all inclusive thing. It was still a lot of work.

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Um they took care of a lot of stuff for us, but a lot of the downsides

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were, um, a lot of us got sick.

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We all we all got the tummy buddies. So a lot of bathroom time, which, you know, that was that was pretty

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rough. Um, I guess there was like a shot that some people took to help with

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that. There's like, kind of like a Imodium Premia

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Um, I don't know. I don't know what it's I don't know what it is, but it's an actual

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like, shot you take versus just taking the pills.

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Um, so some of them took that because they were. They knew better.

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Uh, this is my first time ever traveling to Dominican, so I had no

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idea that, uh, it wasn't going to work out in my favor.

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Uh, and then we had I think it was like, including kids.

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There's, like, 60 ish of us at an all inclusive.

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And then just, like, trying to get everyone together for, you know,

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certain things and trying to organize and this and that.

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And like, we were in an all inclusive resort, but it felt like work.

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It didn't feel like we were relaxing because it was like constant,

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like trying to check up on people. How are people

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doing this and that? And then because you're still technically hosting.

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Yeah, right. And we didn't want to be rude and like, you know, we would check in

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with everyone and all that stuff and, um, you know, get to go scuba

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diving and like, down there, like, all the corals dead.

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So like that was like a crapshoot.

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And they're like, you want to swim with sharks? Like nurse sharks and stingrays.

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So we're like, okay, let's go. You know, take a look at that.

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And they're in this like almost like a cage just out in the ocean.

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Like it's just like a floating kind of thing with like mesh, like

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these big heavy duty, like rope mesh walls.

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And they just swim around there inside of it, and you swim around the

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outside, you swim on the inside with them because their nurse nurse sharks and like the stingrays, but

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the stingrays, they cut the the bar.

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I was going to say I was like, it's just like, not what I was thinking

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at all. I don't want to Irwin myself. Poor guy, I love I love that guy, I miss him, I know, um, so that was

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a thing we did. And then, you know, there was like, there

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was a club there, there was a casino there, and we did stuff like

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that. But I would never, ever do that again.

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Um, it was too much and I never got to enjoy it, like, we didn't.

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We didn't get a honeymoon. We never honeymoon after that.

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That was. Yeah, but I wouldn't call it that.

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There was no there was no real relaxation.

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And right, my, my ex and I actually had my

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daughter before we were married. So at the time, um, she was a toddler and my ex's parents were like,

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oh, well, we're taking her on the wedding night. You know, you guys shouldn't have.

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So you guys can go party this and that. We're like, okay, great.

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8 a.m. banging on the door at 8 a.m.

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after we were up till I don't even know what time banging on the door.

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Oh, yeah. We're gonna go down to the beach. You can take it.

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You can take your daughter. Like what the.

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Thanks. I wouldn't have even, like, said.

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Yeah, go ahead. Because then I wouldn't have drank so much.

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Yeah. And like, you know, because I knew it was gonna be the next morning.

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No. And and I'm not like, saying like, hey, you like, don't drop off my

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kid in the morning, but like, maybe

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00.

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Okay.

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00. Yeah, definitely.

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Like we're on vacation. Like. Yes, 100%.

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Like, let's get up. Let's go. You know, let's go do something.

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Right. But 8 a.m. banging on the door, I'm just like, no, why bother?

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Thanks. Yeah. Thanks

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Uh, so that one that sucked. That was awful.

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And obviously that relationship didn't work.

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Um, but then, Ellie, we were trying to think of, like, you know, what

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kind of wedding we want to do. So we moved her up here from Florida.

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So she's an American citizen. But, um, we're actually working on her permanent residency, which

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we're in the home stretch now, so we're just waiting for some

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finalization uh, from the Canadian government.

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Um, most likely that's going to go through, uh, it doesn't look like

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there are any issues. We just know a couple more T's to cross and I's to dot.

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Um, so anyways, we moved her up here, and in order to kind of help the

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process along because I'm technically her sponsor as her husband, who

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is a Canadian resident, I can sponsor her.

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And basically if she does bad things, then I can be held on you kind

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of liable to like they they're going to be mad at me as well.

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Uh, so in order to get that process started, we're like, well, why

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don't we go to City Hall, get married there?

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And that way we're married and we can start the process.

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So that's what we did. We went to City Hall. Um, and then after a couple months of like, trying to figure out who

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how we want to do it, how we can do it, we ended up just getting a

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lawyer because Canadian government website, it's just trash.

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Oh I know, yeah. For the immigration stuff and a lot of other things, it's the worst.

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Like, I don't even understand how bad it is.

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Like you put up a a text document and it would explain better than

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their stupid website how much crap we spend in taxes.

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You'd think we'd get a just a usable website.

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And like you'll click on the link, it's like, click here to do this

19:23

thing. You click on it page not found. Are you kidding me right now?

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And it's like last updated and it's like, you know, two weeks ago or whatever, you click on it and

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it's like, no page not found.

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Oh. Anyways, um, so we did that.

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So we did that, um, got married and then we wanted to have like a

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proper wedding ceremony without it being like official because we were

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already married. It's more like a we didn't do the renewal of vows.

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We did a marriage ceremony.

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Um, we just didn't have to sign the document. So we already got all the paperwork out of the way.

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Yeah. So there's no worry about, like. Oh, you got to sign here.

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You got to do this. You got to do that. Uh, whatever I think, um, I think that was, uh, a really nice way to

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do it. And then. Yeah, for sure we were talking about, like, what do we want to do?

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How are we going to do it? And then, I don't know, we were doing for you guys.

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It's where. Yeah. Where because she's got a lot of family down in the States.

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I have a much smaller family than her.

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Mhm. Um, overall I think and I already had a wedding and I did feel guilty,

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like even asking like my friends again like, hey, like having another one.

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Yeah. Yeah. You. So I remember you did invite me to your first one.

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Mhm. But I believe I just had a baby uh 2012 ish.

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Something like that. Yeah I was pregnant.

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Yeah, yeah And it was Dominican so.

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Yeah. Um, so yeah, we, uh, couldn't figure out what we wanted to do.

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And she brought up, like, would you want to do, like, a ren faire?

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Like a Renaissance Faire style wedding and like, I went through and

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I've never even been to a Ren faire. Yeah.

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Before, I think when we actually finalized

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she took me to one of them in Florida, and it was awful.

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It was so bad. It was like super bad.

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It was like a wish.com of what we went to for our wedding.

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Yeah, it was it was really bad. Um, and she showed me like, where this one was in North Carolina.

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And what is it? What was it called It has specific name.

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It wasn't just like North Carolina Ren Faire, it was the Charlotte.

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Um, no, it wasn't Charlotte Ren Faire. That's a different name, though, did it?

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No. Hang on. You should follow them on Instagram.

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Yeah, it started with a C, for sure. Uh, can was it Charlotte?

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It was a. Yeah. Uh, let me just look up

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Charlotte Ren faire. Oh, geez.

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It would help if I spelled it right. It would help you spell it right.

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Anyways, I'll keep talking while you do that. Yeah.

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Uh, and then this thing was amazing. So once she figures out the name of it, if you ever have a chance to

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go to it, go to it. If you're into that sort of thing.

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And you like the medieval stuff. Yep. Okay

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Um, Carolina Renaissance Festival.

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Oh, so they drop the North? Yeah.

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Just Carolina wren. Yeah. Festival.

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Not fair. Okay, so that is Carolina Renaissance.

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Renaissance Festival ten out of ten.

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Do recommend even if you're not getting married There was so much fun there all in character like we had, uh, so our,

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like little venue, they set up a tent for us. Very, very basic stuff.

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Um, and, um, she had some connects, uh, some people she knew from the

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past and, uh, friends of, uh, what?

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Kimmy and Danny, they, uh. Because Ellie

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So you didn't mention. But valuable for the viewers.

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She did live there in North Carolina. She used to.

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Yes. Yeah, yeah. So she used to live in North Carolina and went went to high school

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there. That's how she knew her. Our friend Kimmy, who was also spearheading, uh, she was the matron of

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honor. Yeah. And they did a great job. They were awesome.

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So thank you so much, Kimmy and Andy to Kimmy and Andy

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Andy did. Andy. Andy. So much. Danny.

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Candy. Randy. Yeah. Andy, um, did so, so much, um, for for the wedding and stuff like

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that, and, and prepping for us so that we didn't have to worry.

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Like I say, we as if I had a, you know, I was a bridesmaid, I had

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everything was taken care of, but yeah, she did so much.

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So, yeah. Um, for the bride and groom, if you're ever curious, if you want to go

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to a rent fair and do it as a wedding, uh, they had the Queen with,

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like, her consort or whatever, what do you call it?

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Yeah, I don't know, like their groupies. Uh, they showed up.

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The Queen and her groupies. Yeah, yeah, they showed up and they did, like, a little dance.

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And they did this and the Queen comes and talks to you and all this stuff.

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Then after that, they parade. You like trumpets and all that stuff, yelling, and then they're like,

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you know, make way for the whatever the, you know, the new bride and

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groom and all this stuff. And then we went down and we watched the joust and we got to bet, um,

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like, would they give us these fake gold coins to

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bet on, like, just silly things, like first person to break a shield

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or who's gonna say this?

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Or, like, really silly things just to have a lot of fun with it.

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I was terrible at it. I just she she, the Queen would be like, do you want to bet on this?

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I'm like done. And I'd just be like, yeah, all in.

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And yeah, it was a bad idea. I'm not a good I'm not a good gambler

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You guys were up in the Queen's ball.

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We had to look down on you guys. Peasants. Yeah, yeah.

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And we like, we were in the front row, like the wedding party and

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stuff like that. And all the people at the wedding, we were like, we got to be in the

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front row, which was amazing. But like, yeah, you guys were.

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You guys were up, up high, which was really cool because like, we get

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to see you as part of the show

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because you were part of the joust show. I know you did.

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You guys come out and they were like a little wave.

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It was fun. Yeah. It was it was really cool. Notice, you probably did notice, but like, did you notice when they

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were parading us through? Did you notice all the shopkeepers would like lift their.

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No glasses. Yeah. So as we walk by, all the shopkeepers

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all the actors and stuff would be like lift their tankards and we'd be

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like, yeah. Oh, that's fun.

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I'd see people like bowing and stuff.

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Yeah. Even to like, the Queen. Like, everyone's in character.

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It's wild. Like, it's it's so cool. Really, really, really, really cool.

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And yeah, it was even wedding aside, it was one of the most fun

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experiences that I've been a part of.

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And I'm really happy that Ellie was into that sort of thing.

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Like, uh, it was really cool.

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She is all about the fantasy stuff.

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Speaking of fantasy, I'm going to drop her books right now.

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She's she's working on a redo.

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Um, but she, um, she has some books.

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I don't know if we can make I don't have my copy.

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I have a podcast or or anything like that.

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Have you read her books? I have read her books.

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I have the trilogy. Which was your favorite?

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Um, I think the last one, because by the time, uh.

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Is that the Prince of Navarre? Maybe it never hardy.

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Yeah that. Um hum. Um, so what's the name of the series you can you get that?

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At least the Royal Rogue series. There you go.

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All right. We'll let it slide. She she got the new series at least.

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Okay. So yeah. That was your, the the last one was your favorite I think the last.

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Because by that time you know all the characters really well.

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Yes. You know their backstories, you know the world.

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So it's not so the the first book is really you're being introduced to

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character. You're being introduced to what drives them.

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You're being introduced to the world. World. Um hum.

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Um, and Ellie does a she's a beautiful writer, first of all.

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Um, her she it her writing, it seems

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to really flow beautifully and it's very eloquent and her world

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building, like you feel like you can see it.

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Yeah. It's very neat, you know, such a great.

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Um. She's such a beautiful linguist.

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Um, um, she just she really, she she really is like an artist in

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painting. This. Yes. World

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with her words. Um, so the first one is all like setup.

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Second one is like, this is where, like, um, this is where action.

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This is where, like, turmoil happens, like between characters.

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And, um, then the third one is.

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And the second one kind of ends like, well, what's going to happen?

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Like, um, you know, you're, you're like, okay, now I got to read the

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third. The third one ties up some loose ends, still leaves room.

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You know, she can definitely. I mean, we've we've said, you know, what happens?

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Like, wait, wait. No. Like, um, um,

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but the third one ties up some loose ends.

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It, um, completes some story, like, character arcs, um, and brings,

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like, it ties up the story, it ties up.

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It really does. It does a good job. It ties up the trilogy.

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Yeah. There's there's a few ends that could, you know.

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Yep. Could go. Yeah. It could branch elsewhere.

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Yeah. But it really does. And I think that's why like the the last one was my was my favorite

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because I love I don't necessarily need like a happy ending or

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whatever. But I like to know resolution okay.

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Shut up I like to know a resolution to, you know, problems or I like

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to figure out the mystery where, you know, so there was a lot of that, like there were surprises

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that are revealed, like, so I like that sort of thing.

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Like, I like when, um, all my guesses, they're either right or wrong

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and whatever. Yeah, yeah. Um, but anyway, yes, the Royal Rogue trilogy by Ellie Carlton

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it's Elizabeth Carlton. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I gotta get you.

28:46

Gotta use your full name. Elizabeth Carlton.

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Yes. Prim and proper. Uh, you can find it on Amazon.

28:52

Amazon. You can find, um, on your e-readers.

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Um. Yep. She does like they're in both versions.

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So I actually originally read them

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um, on e-reader, and then I bought the trilogy to have a physical copy

29:08

of it as well. Yeah. Um, and then I'll buy.

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I'll get, I'll get, I'll get the rewrite. I'll get the rewrite.

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So. Yeah. So speaking of the rewrite, so she did write the first book at like,

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like 15 or whatever. Um, um, she was super young.

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So if you're reading it and you're like, oh, there's grammatical, there's there are some of

29:26

those errors in it. She's self-published.

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Uh, so yeah, that's the way she went.

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Um, if you can look past that part and just get into the story, you'll

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notice it's just it's really well written. But she's what she wanted to do was now that she's older and she's,

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um, she's got that writing bug again

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She's re essentially, she's not completely rewriting it, but she's,

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she's adjusting and changing things. So they just work better.

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And it's not as, um, focused on the like the younger reader, which is

29:59

kind of like the series what used to be before, and now it's going to

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be it's going to kind of bump up the type of, um, content that's in the books without making it like

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it's not like adult, but it's just a little bit more mature.

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So when you read it, um, I would, I would honestly, I would they're

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not expensive at all. No. And if you're looking for a good read and you're into fantasy books

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like Lord of the rings or anything like that, um, not to

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say it is Lord of the rings, but no, it's that building feel.

30:26

It's very good. It's better than Tolkien for his world, because that bastard would go

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on for pages talking about like, a tree leaf.

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She's, she's, she's she's in and out.

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And then you, you understand what you're looking at.

30:41

Um, and then you're on to the next exciting thing, um, which, which and in the rewrites, like, I know,

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like, she was 15. Now, as a profession, she's an editor.

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Yes. Like, she works in the industry, like she's, you know, she manages

30:54

editors. Yeah, she manages editors and stuff like that.

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So she's very professional. Yeah. She knows, uh, the the English language.

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She knows, like a couple words like that.

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Like some of those big words. Yeah.

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Um, but she also went back. Went back and edited like some problematic language that we probably

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wouldn't use now because she is a conscientious person.

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Like, you don't have to do that. But like, she's a conscientious person who wants everybody.

31:20

She wants it to feel inclusive. She wants she doesn't want it to be

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uh, problematic and want anybody to be hurt by anything.

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So, like, so she buy the books and buy the books.

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Buy the books, buy the books. 10 to 10.

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And I wouldn't say that if she wasn't one of my best friends, or I

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would say that if she even though she's one of my best friends

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controversy. She's one of my

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she's one of my best friends. But that aside, like, I would still read those books, um, and I and I

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would still recommend them even if she wasn't there.

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Like I always say, I would love to see this in like a Netflix.

31:56

Yes, I think it would be a like an animated Netflix series.

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I think it would. They would crush it. I think it would be really, really cool.

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So if you're listening to this and you work at Netflix and you're looking

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for a new idea, I can hook you up with someone that's really cool.

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Just it's a beautiful story with some great character and world

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building. Mhm mhm mhm mhm. Uh but we're out of time.

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So there's one thing you should never do and that is don't feed the

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geese, don't ever feed the geese, don't feed the geese.

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Goodbye everybody. Bye

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Bye.