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It's been a wonderful two years shitty shitty podcast hosts, right? Jessica actually reminded me in our group chat for Edmonds for a Facebook group. And I was just like, oh man. Well shit, that's awesome. Cause I'm thinking three. We're just having so much fun. We are right. Yeah. We just the time is flying by we don't know what to do about it. So thank you for listening. Hey and Big Show. Out to anybody who's been with us for two full years. You are either the best podcast fan in the world or certifiably insane. Yeah. I'm not for both. You know, I'm not going to discriminate at this point. But thank you for your so exacting you for your support whether you've been listening for a day or whatever. 365 is x 2. We love you. I'm not doing math in my head. No. Do you came here expecting that you were wrong? There you go. Okay, so why don't we jump into in the news to celebrate two years with slow? All right in the news we got Pentatonix Kevin. I'm not going to say this and I try yeah Olu Sola that I think Mary's Lee Wiseman the group's beatboxer wedley Wiseman on September 16th at the hummingbird nest Ranch in Simi Valley cyme Valley City Valley, California, and people has all the exclusive details pentatonic stores and makes music rear around September was literally the only month where we could fit in the wedding. So basically PTX is to reschedule dictated our wedding weekend the bride who met the groom through a mutual friend in 2017. Those people with help from Orange Blossom Special Events. I can't say it. Say it again Lisa. Oh, oh so low, so low and wise men hosted two days of weddings with 225 guests at the American style wedding and a hundred sixty-five at the traditional Nigerian wedding Lisa. This wedding was fucking gorgeous. I loved it so much their rehearsal dinner doubled as a traditional Nigerian ceremony to pay respect to the groom's Heritage on his father's side. Our traditional Nigerian outfits and dresses were custom-made in Nigeria with Fabrics. We Elected here in Los Angeles the bride a College admission to admissions consultant shares Nigerian brides wear colorful wedding dresses and are known to travel far and wide to find the most unique and exquisite fabrics for their dress and their bridesmaid dresses. No pressure whatsoever. Also that actually sounds amazing. Doesn't it on the second day the American Wedding the bride wore a lace floor-length strapless dress her gown, which included layers of light pink. The ivory lace overlay also featured floral applique a sweetheart neckline and a sweeping train. The theme was a blending of two cultures with traditional Nigerian food clothing and music at the Nigerian ceremony. Then Italian food and Villa setting at the American Wedding. They also wrote their own vows. They are sentimental and sweet Kevin definitely cried. I think we both teared up the brighter calls people complimented us on our vows the whole night. It was the One thing people commented on the most I love it very very cool congratulations. And on the other side of weddings the shitty side according to Daily Mail UK the headline reads and I quote woman 26 falls in love with her wedding, DJ 49 just two years after getting married because her husband made her feel neglected. That's a really good DJ. Megan Willis 26 about her current partner DJ Mark Stone 49 in November 2015 Megan sister later booked Mark to DJ at Megan's wedding in July 2016 a year into her marriage Megan was unhappy and felt neglected by her husband bumped into Mark and found herself opening up to him about her marriage by August last year with both of their divorce is finalized. They moved in together. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Wow, I'm not sure I should. Do you think okay so they were both married? No. No, I got it. I'm just thinking do you so Megan is the the woman and Mark is the DJ. Do you think on the you know Megan's in bed and and marks coming in and they're going to have some sexy time he puts on some music that's like and then you go and here and he gets on the mic here. I am for a night of love. It's me. Mark and then he runs in with his hands in the air does a little dance and then jumps on the bed and then you've got like a stone down here to Bone and then you then you've got maybe like a disco ball that turns on above the bed. There you go. It's the who what husband could you know live up to that? I yeah, I feel bad for the guy. You know what I feel like we need to let everybody in on a dirty little secret you do. This know this kind of shit happens more than you think a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and it happened with someone, you know, it's it's happened II her story. I've heard wedding vendors getting involved with their clients. Yeah, you've seen letting a vendor's getting involved with their clients. Yeah, not Rebecca. We're not we're not saying names. I'm just saying have you not seen it firsthand? Yes, I have. Yes, so there. Yes, and I have nothing to say about it. Well, I has always have something to say but not about that. We are going to hit the fucking bucket now and this week in the fuck it bucket throwing in boutonnieres. Now, this is going to be a controversial one because man Brides love a boutonniere. There's something about picking a boutonniere that makes their hearts sore. Okay, is it But is it or is it just everyone's just so stuck on the tradition of it? I think it's both I think some I think some people and I say women because let's be honest traditional. It's a you know, or hey a dude picking out a boutonniere first partner. My point is one partner picking out the boutonniere for the other is typically where we see this kind of I really want this the groom groom is typically don't care about the boot new. They're wearing It's usually the partner so yeah what I'm saying is, you know, you've got the Pinterest board. You've got it all picked out you've got I get it, but I have really good reasons to throw it in the bucket bucket and we've talked about this before guys they get crushed because everybody's hugging right? They look like us bumping chest-bumping men. I'm talking to you you traditionally are doing this. They they Wilt and die pretty quick. If they're not done. Well, my most hated reason. The biggest reason it is in the fuck of bucket is because for some reason Sinbad florists think it's appropriate to use a rose with the size. It looks like the its massive on the lapel. Okay. Yeah, I hate when they do that. Looks like the groom is growing a second head out of his chest. Yeah. I hate the really big ones like those really bother me there in the way there. Oh my God, I'm re cutting everything. You just said to talk about dicks. I hate the really big ones. They're just oh is in the way everything you just said was slop around they hit you in the face Ashley. Oh, that was perfect. I'm going to use that against you one day. That's gonna be fun. Hey, Rebecca. What do you think about penises? I'm going to add that to the end and it's all going to be edited together guys. Stay. Listen, we got this is the Easter egg this week. You ready? Stay tuned till the end. I'm putting that in at the very end. You're welcome. So yeah, I fucking pocket for me. Nothing says class like a beautiful pocket square. Can you can you disagree? Yes, I would like I would like everyone to just officially dump out the boutonnieres and adopt the pocket square also and let's just leave it at that. So hey cost savings save money save money way nicer. Do you know what I say to the guys honestly half the time I'll get to the wedding and they don't want to fuck. Oh that they don't like it or it just is a half-assed boutonniere and I can tell nobody really cared about it. Yeah, and I kind of I always ask. Well, how does your partner feel about it? Do they really want you to wear it and they go they don't care or whatever. So I go what are your feelings on just doing a pocket square and then they go. Oh maybe and I said, I want you to think about GQ. When was the last time you saw a boutonniere in GQ? Right exactly. Think about a hot suit is a man wearing a boutonniere. Hell no. He's wearing those pocket square. That's it. And this is what I mean. I think everyone's just so stuck on the tradition of it a great I'd be okay with you know, the Father of the Bride father of the groom wearing one. Yeah, I'm good with that. I mean you want to make them feel special sure go nuts also the but the wedding party now know the wedding party and the groom. Oh my God, they are breaking it constantly. I have fixed Rebecca so many boutonnieres over the years. Yeah, and there's always one flipped. Down because they're so top-heavy. Yep in photos. It's they are so not worth it. Also people men in particular not nobody really can pin a boutonniere worth shit. Nobody knows they can't nobody knows where it's supposed to go. I have yet to shoot a wedding where I did not have to pin a boutonniere. Yeah me too or fix it because they are Put It Up near their face and let me tell you something. I've watched the videos on pocket squares. Ears and everything and I've done them I know how to do lots of pretty fancy shit with Blanca squares now and you know what get me to do that instead and I've done it for a lot of my weddings where all fold it for them because a lot of them don't usually you know, where one so I just do the floppy grab it in the middle style, but it still looks better here, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, that is our fucking book for this week. Listen, if you have a fuckup bucket idea something you are hating in the Planning process or are you went through a wedding? And you hated it anything really were open to suggestions? Even Bachelorette stag party stuff, whatever send it to us secret life of weddings at gmail.com life can be unpredictable sometimes in life. You just don't know what's going to happen. So when life gets unpredictable, you don't want that to affect your bank account. 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Hi ladies, it's me again from episode 113 conversations with my Mom all I loved this story the one we're going back and forth fast. I have another mom update that was inspired by the segment on episode 115 putting mothers-in-law and the fucking bucket. I think I've personally put my mom in the fuck it back. Bucket, so she is always with me but I can't actually hear what it is. She has to say because my quote from last week. I love it lately. My mom has been asking about the real wedding. What is a real wedding? You might ask a church ceremony. My mom is in denial that I am getting married because I have yet to plan the church portion for those who don't remember me. I was raised very Catholic but have fallen out of And am the first of the youngest of four kids to get married my fiancé and I don't want a church portion of the wedding. So we are trying to just keep mom happy right now. We also have plans to move out together before the wedding so that everything isn't happening at once and we can hopefully be a little bit less stressed back when we got engaged almost a year ago. Now my mom and I had agreed that we would do a small immediate family only church ceremony before we I moved out so that we are legally married and can live together and then have our prearranged date as a renewal of vows / reception that all of our friends and family will be at I recently mentioned to my mom that we were going to get a second batch of engagement photos done with our wedding photographer as it's part of the package bad mistake. She says we don't need them as we had a friend do some already. So why bother mom thinks that we should ask the photographer to not do the engagement It wasn't come to the real wedding instead. Okay, just all does a lot. I have a problem with this. Actually, we should only have the real wedding so we could save our money and be able to plot by a place closer to home. We are currently looking for places that are you know, one one and a half hours away from my parents home. But our Dream location would be 3 to 4 hours away. Do it. Just saying my mom says Says that if I live one hot one and a half hours away, it would kill her and the highway I would be driving on would also kill me as quote. It has an accident every day not true. My fiancé currently lives. It sounds like your mother needs some kind of pill like some something to relax because she's just really tense. Mom needs boundaries. Yeah. Yeah. Mommy's boundaries my fiance currently lives one hour away from me. So really were not looking that far from home PS, we live outside of Vancouver Canada where the housing market is fucked R.I.P to us almost newlyweds in our 20s looking to buy that is tough. Yes, Vancouver is one of Vancouver's finest crazy expensive. Yeah, it's not you got your work cut out for me baby. You move where your than Milton and Milton's really fucking high. I'll have another update soon as we just finished buying bridesmaids dresses. That's a whole. Episode in itself. No, no. Okay, that'll be the special coming up in two weeks. Okay. I'm kidding whenever she writes it in just about six months until I'm married. So happy. I have a place to rant about my family. Love y'all. No. Thank you for the update. Yeah, good luck with all of that. Yeah. I'm glad we have some solid advice here. That's it. That's all you get this week from. Yeah, that's the fun with that know what and yeah, do your second round of engagement pictures do it do it? And yeah, let us know how all that works out. We want to thank our patreon and flick chat premium members this week. Sarah s are in a V Amaya G and our producer for the week and always for the rest of our lives in our heart. Charlotte Solomon We'll go to patreon.com slash secret life of weddings or flick chat download the app and use the link in the show notes go over there get premium content chat your little faces off and support the show. Alright our wedding joke for the week. It may have been the most romantic statement ever uttered in our courthouse in between hearings. A wedding was performed as the newlyweds left the courtroom the bride nestled up to the groom and coud. Isn't it nice. Nice to be here when we're not being convicted of something guys even convicts get married. Let's just let's just be supportive of their life choices. Shall we congratulations? I'm glad your first words is newlyweds was that that's awesome. All right, so this was sent in by I'm going to get her name wrong, Dalene. Dalen, dalen. Dalen dalen. We're fucking it up. I'm sorry. We're trying we're trying she sent it in Via Reddit. I 28 year old female and marrying my fiance 32 year old male in March. I was in my parents home recently and I was telling them about our wedding party, which is going to include a male friend of mine as a groomsman for some background. This male friend will call him Stephen went to high school with Me and is a post-op trans man. My fiancé said he'd love to have Stephen as a groomsman and I asked Stephen and he was delighted then I told my parents and they were like, oh, we didn't realize she yep. They said she was going to be actually in the wedding. She'll be in all the photographs. We don't think that's appropriate. Oh, oh, yeah, so I was Obviously instantly mad, they then said that they weren't going to be comfortable attending and being in all the photographs with her. Yep her again and that I would need to remove Stephen from the wedding party. If I wanted them to come to the wedding you're joking add. So I basically told them that if they weren't comfortable they didn't have to come I left came home and immediately transferred them the money for the wedding dress. I then get a phone call from my mother telling me that they will pay for the whole wedding. If I remove Stephen basically bribing us. I just told her I needed space and I hung up that was three days ago and I haven't spoken to them. I'm shocked because they have never spoken ill of Steven before I'm upset that they would show so little respect to someone who is so important to me. I'm also upset that they have so little respect for me. They think I would turn my back on a lifelong friend for money. I don't know if I should speak to them in a few days when everything is calm down or if I should leave it to them a few people I've spoken to have said I'm being a bit of an asshole because they're my parents and they had all know and they have a right to an opinion. Even if it's something I don't agree with that. I'll regret them not being at my wedding and that realistically it will ruin our relationship. I've had aunts and uncles calling me saying that this will tear our family apart and I'm being selfish. He's a cousin texted me to say that I'm choosing friends over family and that she and her parents won't be attending if my parents aren't and the same for the members of the family. So it's basically blown up into this huge deal where a good portion of my family will likely not attend. Either my view is that I don't think it's selfish to want to celebrate my day with everyone. I love I feel like the ball is in their court and they have the choice to come or allow their bigotry. To stop them attending their only child's wedding also to be clear. I am a hundred percent not removing Stephen from my wedding or taking the money. I'm not considering either option. My fiancé is in full agreement, but I just want to know if I'm the asshole for so easily accepting that my parents and by default a lot of my family won't be coming to the wedding. No, you're my hero. You are my fucking hero for real. Wow. Seriously, I could not thank you for sending that to us. By the way, because I did not see it. I'm Blown Away speechless. I could I was so mad reading that though. I was so mad and heartbroken. You know it people suck, right. I get you know parents are from a different generation and all that but you know what? That's not cool. Now cool and so many levels I don't even know what to do with it. And yeah, you're clearly you're in the right. You know what I would say then don't come I would I would do the same thing. I would I would shit on this but I don't even know where to begin shit. Right? Do you know what everybody like I can I'm so blown away by how horrible those parents are acting and the whole family acting. Yeah that they're going in the fucking bucket suit. Yes, so great with the boutonnieres this week. Oh my God, gross good for you, though. I know it's not like, you know one of those shit show haha funny stories, but it's still you know, it's something I wanted us to touch like talk about because it just I'm sure if it's happened to one person. It's happening to other people. So, of course also, it's important that you do stand up for your friends and family or trans and different and just anybody who being who they are and I don't care what they are who they are. They're your friends at as long as they're there for you. You're there for them. The story and everybody else can go get fuck. Yeah. So saying we're just because they're your family doesn't mean you have to stand by them. It's true really seriously guys stand by the those who are supporting you. How about friends are the family you choose? Yes like that. That's a good one. That's a good one. Thanks for sending that in getting our attention on that because let us know how to say your name. I'm just going to call her Dee and I won't fail at that you go. Okay guys today. I need to talk to you about COs Theta by Lutron. It's smart lighting control brought to you by Lutron Pioneers in Smart Home Technology. A lot of people think you need smart bulbs to get smart lighting but there is a smarter way Casitas smart dimmers and switches replace the switch in your wall making all of the light switch controls act smart. Think about all the places in your home where a switch controls more than one bulb ceiling lights chandeliers bathroom vanities and more safe. By replacing the switches instead of replacing all of those bulbs smart bulbs give you the ability to control your lights with an app or voice assistant, but they sacrifice control from the wall switch. 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She hadn't talked to in a few years to be her maid of honor. This maid of honor did nothing. So I scrambled to organize a bridal shower only the Bridesmaids showed up. I felt horrible that's a downer about a month before the wedding. She phoned in a panic she'd been unable to acquire a DJ for the wedding. She called Mark still. I was just thinking that oh, man. Stone is ready to Bone. That's all I'm ever going to think I've ever again every time I hear the word DJ Mark Stone, so my husband said he'd help. He went out and bought a mixing board because you know, that's a good idea and the two of us started downloading music almost non-stop because that's all that's involved. Really? Oh my gosh God that's a lot of work though to take that on stupid. She started to tanning. We went for a dress fitting the seamstress advised her to cut back on the tanning. You look like a carrot honey. Just stop this whole time. We never laughed or did anything together. Anywho a few days before the wedding. She phoned me totally de-stressed her future mother-in-law was supposed to be looking after she decided that she was going to buy a few Frozen boxes of chicken fingers for a hundred and fifty guests. Somehow I somehow I ended up taking care of the food a wedding is a special day and I just couldn't ruin it for them. I scrambled trying to find all kinds of finger sandwiches and appetizers Etc that I could make. Oh, wow, the rehearsal and dinner was the night before the wedding. The bride had made a new best friend oddly enough named Michelle as well. And the whole evening was totally about the two of them eyes. I spent the whole time looking at my watch because I still had shawls to finish for the bride and bridesmaids as well as prepare all of the food for the reception. Needless to say, I was up all night you oh my God, you're doing too much. Oh my gosh, that's crazy the day of the wedding the bride insisted that we meet at a salon. We had no idea what we were supposed to be doing there. I ended up getting told off by the hairdresser because I had washed my hair that morning and that I didn't know what I wanted done with my hair. Meanwhile the Also to do list is still beating on my mind a Mad Dash home get dressed load up the car with DJ equipment food and rush to the church. Wow, we get to the church. The bride is her old self again, like nothing had ever happened as if the way she had been acting for months never happened her new friend. Michelle was desperately trying to be part of it all but the bride totally brushed her off from this point on remember I mentioned tanning. Oh it does come back. Well, she wore White. And was so dark that her face didn't even show up and photos. Oh my God. Apparently she was so dark. She disappeared after the ceremony and photos. I rushed to the reception to set up the sound system and then jump into the kitchen, but the time I finally got out of there there wasn't even one little finger sandwich left. My husband needed a break. So I ended up playing DJ for about half of the evening. He needed a break half the eat. Maybe he was hungry. Somebody call Mark Stone immediately because this is not Okay, but you got to think he's been at the wedding all day with her. So DJ's they do the ceremony now see this is my point professionals. We got stamina. That's what we got. Yeah, there you go during the whole night. The bride was drinking champagne pretty much non-stop. She ended up hugging the toilet. I ended up holding her head and applying damp cloths to her forehead and back all of the guests including the other bridesmaids left. Even the groom didn't help out. That's bad finally the night so Over we pile the bride into the car and pack up our equipment did I mention that I had a work event that day. So we had from the reception to the end of my work event. I was up for at least 40 hours. Oh, yeah, no food either. How are you? Not dead right. Now this crazy Michelle, you're insane the bride and groom had registered at a fairly high end department store and had selected very expensive items about a month before the wedding. Absolutely. Nothing had been purchased from the registry. I purchased several items spending more money. I could really afford did I mention that I paid for all of the food a few weeks after the wedding. I received a standard. Thank you for your gift card. No mention of all the food music or anything else. I did. I never heard from them again. I'll never be a bridesmaid again Michelle. Yeah likes you did way too much. I know we've talked about how you know wedding parties have an obligation to do things. But that was way too much above and beyond I I think that's fair that you will never be a bridesmaid again because you had enough, you know, yeah, I wouldn't either but that shit no way. Oh my God. Okay ready for some double D's always. Oh guess what and it was sent in by a listener. Love those. What's the category dating dating? Let's do it. I promised you a few feel free to break them up or use them all in one. Thanks. Ladies Jackie. One first story I did it the sky my senior year of high school. Let's call him rich. I was his first person. I was the first person he had sex with and he was madly in love with me while we only dated for about 9 months. I broke it off because I just wasn't it just wasn't what I wanted. He faked cancer to try to get back together with me in hopes. I would feel sorry for him. That's so bad. Right fast forward a year or so I get dragged to a college party with some friends turns out Rich live there with some other people. I totally got drunk and told all his friends and roommates. What an asshole. He was I mean, come on who fakes cancer. That is some bad. Karma. How do you like but that's high school. How do you even have the oh man? Okay. That's a special kind of crazy. Hmm. You dodged a bullet there, darling. Story number two. I got so drunk one night. I stayed over at a guy's place. I was on a date with he had gone to a party and I wasn't going to be able to drive home. I have never in my life done this before but I was too drunk to wake up to pee turns out turns out I peed in his bed. I asked I asked him to get me a glass of water in the middle of the Night, and then I casually spilled it everywhere and hopes. He wouldn't notice of that that is so sweet. He changed the sheets in the dark. So I don't know if I got away with it or not. Huh? Needless to say I didn't see him again. That's great. You know what the best part is a girl goes out of her way to like, you know have some kind of sneaky plan to like cover it up a guide be Here pissed the bed. Sorry about that. Yeah. Yeah, right. Oh my God, I'd be mortified. Oh, yeah Story number three. Oh boy. You're on a roll but dating Ben had a crush on me in middle school, but I had no idea that Crush continued through high school and we became friends. He was a nice boy, so I wanted to keep hanging out with him, but I felt bad because it was definitely just as a friend we kept in touch. Touch every once in awhile when he went off to the military and I went off to college after my graduation. I moved seven hours to a new state little did. I know his whole family had moved South so when he got out of the military he moved to the same state just over an hour away. We hung out and caught up but his girlfriend was not happy fast forward another four years after our relationships with others had come and gone and we decided to hang out again. Note a few more times and then he went for it and kissed me three years later. We got married April 2019 and are happy as could be never thought moving to another state. I'd marry someone I knew from middle school. He always gives me shit about keeping him in the friend zone for 15 years. Great story. Wow. That reminds me of John Krasinski its name Krasinski. So how you say John Sampson ski cousins games and I don't know was her name Emily Blunt. He loved her from like the me. First time you met early. Yeah. Yeah, and then they like it took a while before they got together. It's crazy. Anyway, so sweet. Yeah. Thanks for sending those in so funny and congratulations. Yes, that's amazing. We're gonna end this week on a listener email about episode 103. So you guys may remember back in episode 103 were talking about a story about cream. It ashes and I don't I don't remember the details, but I do remember as talking about cremation and Ashes. It sounds like something we do. So she writes. Hey ladies. I was just listening to episode 1 of 3 Where You rabbit trailed about cremation versus burial and although it's not wanting related in the slightest. I have a story. I think you'd get a kick out of I used to work at a bank with a coin machine and people would regularly. Come into dumped in a ton of coins to deposit or turn into larger bills it often jammed. So I would fix it clean it or sometimes just help people use it. Oh no once I put the I see where this is going. One day. I had a middle-aged woman come in with several random containers of coins and by several, I mean like 15, they varied from Tupperware to or any boxes. I pointed her. Machine and told her to wave me down if she had any problems. I should have gone on break after one container. She called me over because the machine jammed turns out she was a housekeeper for an elderly woman who was a bit of a hoarder this old lady had a habit of collecting money and I wish I had a habit of collecting money, right? I want I want that problem good problems to have she just stashed it. Absolutely everywhere. She was Also, not fully there anymore. So her stash is were also full of buttons rocks trash and other random items. These own on coin items were jamming the machine who puts in an item. That's not a coin. She probably just dumped it, right? Oh, well you dump it into those machines and it sorts itself and it spits out a receipt. Yeah, and you yeah get bills. Let's not a sort. Are you freak? Anyway, these non coin items were jamming the machine, so I called over. Her co-worker to take over transactions while I helped clean out the junk from the machine after every box of coins after several containers. We had worked out a system where I dumped coins ran the credit on them and cleaned out the junk while the lady I was working with carried empty containers to her car and brought more containers in that's why it was me who dumped the Fateful box. I was getting dramatic I picked up. Up a colored tupperware box the kind with opaque size. So you can't see in Mystery Box. Yeah and went to dump it. I didn't look inside because every box had been coins and junk. So I was expecting more coins and junk the second the contents of the Box dumps on to the Spinning Disk that sorts coins. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust except it wasn't dust I was covered in and had inhaled human ash Oh my God, I would fucking freak. I would barf and blow my nose and do everything at the same time turns out old lady had a late husband whom she had cremated in kept around except in her declining State. She decided she wanted to use his urn for more important things like seven dollars and pennies. Oh my God. So all the ash was under the pennies. Oh my God. No, no. No, she took him out of the urn because she wanted to put seven dollars of pennies in his urn and she put him in a tough primary. Oh my God. Oh my God, so she transferred him to a tupperware container instead. I did my best to hold it together helps my customer finish processing three more boxes of coins. How did you stay how no IBO. I'm like, I'm done. I don't get paid enough for this shit. Like I quit this company I quit this day. I quit this life. I'm out. Oh, she she actually finished helping the woman process three more boxes of coins and then stumbled into my boss's office and said I am hail some dead guy. Can I go on a break? My boss made me clean the ash out of the coin machine first. I almost quit. I almost quit on the spot you're at oh who is your boss? They're a fucking douche walk douche. Canoe. I'm Be sure this is breaking some kind of Union rule. There's got to be a this can't be legal. There has to be something in the bylaws about inhaling dead dudes. When you have a dead body on you once a dead man enters you you may have a break. So that's the story of how I decided. I wanted to be buried and not cremated. That's also the story of why my lungs are haunted. The best love the show you guys are awesome. Wish you the best Ellie. Oh Ellie, that's the best friggin story ever. I'm so sorry that happened to you. No, I'm not it was hilarious. Yeah, I fucking love it because we got to read it. But I love how her lungs are haunted that must have been living apart. You are the shit. Oh my God. Thank you so much for hanging with us this week. By the way Rebecca. Now, this is me putting pressure on myself. Okay, you ready? Yeah, where we go this week. I'm going to tell I'm going to Everybody. Okay. I'm going to keep everybody updated. I just finished course one of my my real estate training. Okay. I picked the very first exam date. They had meeting. I'm one of the very I'm pretty much the first class taking it. I have no idea what I'm getting into except that it's going to be like 50 multiple choice questions and I'm studying my ass off and I only have oh my God, it's Friday and it's on Monday. So what Saturday Sunday two more days. Yes get Baby, I'm going to cram and the next time I'm at the next episode I'm going to have my my results and I'm going to share them no pressure. So you guys are going to be like and I'm not going to share them. No, I'm going to share them and you guys are going to know if I passed if I failed I will be honest about it. So I will tell you there's seven courses in total. The next one apparently is like 70 hours, which is crazy. The first one is only 15 guys. Wish me luck. I'm going in I'm going for it and I'll let You know how I score. Okay, but this is me putting a little ownership on it so that I'm going to kick its ass over the next few days and I will talk to you and update you next week. Nice. All right. Well, thanks for hanging out with us on this episode number 116 of the secret life of weddings podcast and Rebecca anything can happen at weddings and we will be here to tell you all about it. Hey, Rebecca. What do you think about penises? Yeah, I hate the really big ones like those really bother me there in the way there. Yeah. Well, that's it for us this week on The Secret Life of weddings podcast. If you need more drama in your life go over to patreon.com slash secret life of weddings to sign up for additional weekly episodes. The first few episodes are free. So go check it out patreon.com secret life of weddings, and we will see you here next week.
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