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LA Protests, Tequila Truths & The Wedding Meltdown You Won’t Believe!
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Brace yourself for a laugh-out-loud yet deeply reflective ride in this episode of Unsolicited Perspectives. Hosts Bruce Anthony and J. Aundrea dive headfirst into the complexities behind the LA protests, peeling back media narratives to uncover what’s really fueling public outrage—and who’s conveniently staying silent.
The duo then takes aim at the stark inconsistencies in recent immigration crackdowns, holding a mirror to the hypocrisy threaded through U.S. policy. With their signature blend of wit and insight, they even examine the Bible’s lesser-known takes on borders and belonging, sparking a conversation that’s as provocative as it is profound.
Switching gears, Bruce and J. Aundrea relive the ultimate Reddit wedding catastrophe—complete with tequila-fueled drama and jaw-dropping guest behavior. From family tensions to planning disasters, they share personal stories and hard-won wisdom about navigating weddings and adulthood without losing your mind (or your wallet).
As always, the hosts don’t hold back when it’s time to spill the tea. Whether it's the truth behind viral tequila brands or what your “top-shelf” pour really says about you, they're keeping it real and hilarious. #laprotests #tequila #WeddingDrama #immigration #protest #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
00:47 Sibling Happy Hour: Spicy Takes & Drinks 🍹🌶️
02:57 Quarter-Life Crisis: When Kids Call You Old 👵🤯
09:54 The Truth About Your Favorite Tequila Brands 🥃🔍
14:07 Big News: Exclusive Content Coming Your Way! 📺✨
18:40 LA Protests: The Truth Behind the Headlines 📰🚨
22:30 Immigration Double Standards: The Hard Truth 🌎⚖️
26:13 Military vs Protests: A Dangerous Game 🪖⚔️
35:16 Holy Borders? The Bible’s Surprising Take on Immigration 📖🌍✨
39:25 When God’s Law Clashes with Man’s Rules: Who Wins? ⚖️🙏🔥
41:53 Human Rights or Human Wrongs? The Real Cost of Immigration Policy 🧑⚖️💔🌎
47:31 Reddit's Wildest Wedding Story Goes Viral! 🎭🍿
49:31 Bridezilla Alert: Two Weeks Notice Chaos! ⏰😱
52:49 Wedding Party Rebellion: The Final Straw 🤬💔
01:11:48 The Bachelorette Party That Never Was 🎉❌
01:16:40 Final Thoughts: Don't Be That Bride! 💅🚫
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Introduction to 'Unsolicited Perspectives'
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hypocrisy and special treatment. We talking about protests and weddings. We gonna get into it. Let's get it
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Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping
Introducing Co-host Jay and Episode Topics
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On today's episode, it's a sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going to be dilly-dating a little bit. Then we're going to be talking about the protest in LA, and then we're going talking about weddings.
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But that's enough of the intro.
Banter on Adulting and Perceptions of Adulthood
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Let's get to the show.
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What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call it. I don't know how this first segment of Dilly Daddling is going to You've had a long day. I've had a long day.
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I've been agitated today. You've been agitated today. You got a nice hair wrap that matches your your shirt today on the video podcast. That's all good. Yeah, yeah. You know, I tried do a little something.
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little something. You know, now that I'm in the office, I'm like, okay, I gotta be a little presentable. I got called a, quote, like a real adult today by, ah as you know...
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What? As you know, there's but of the interns, I'm one of three graduate students. So the rest are undergraduate, rising seniors.
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You know, i ahpro babe they were babies. Yes. So ah they wanted to like do like a hangout outside of work. I said, oh, we can go bowling. you know, there's like a lucky strike.
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And they were like, oh, we can't get in because it's 21 up. So, and I was like, oh, I never have to think about things like that ever because I got friends whose kids are 21 and Okay. So that's, but yeah, they, ah they were talking, ah they were talking about ah saving money and holding onto their money. And when they, I said, you know, when I get paid, I got to take a screenshot of it because it disappears so quickly.
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And they were like, oh, cause you're like a real adult, right? Yeah. so yeah i guess you could say that what but that's true though right it's true i said yeah i have a my mortgage and ah you know and they're like oh my real yeah yes young people this is i am like a real adult
Generational Differences and Aging Humour
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so i'm That is really being emotionally intelligent and aware of where they are in their life.
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Because at that age, I swore i was grown. Swore. Swore. You could not tell me at 19, 20, 21 that i wasn't an adult.
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I was an adult. And the fact that there they that. that they are not there, that they don't have real responsibilities. Like one of them said the most expensive thing he purchased was he put new brakes on his car.
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Which can be expensive. Which can be expensive. But, you know, i was like, oh, okay, didn't purchase the car. I was probably giving to you. Okay, all right. Well, truth be told, we never purchased cars until we were
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Like adults, adults, like out of college and had jobs. Yeah. so yeah I purchased my first car. I was 26, I think. So, I mean, yeah, I mean, it's a little bit older than them, but that's yeah funny. Did they not realize how old you were?
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I don't know how they couldn't have. I've said like how long my career was in insurance, them dumb years I put it in. I've said, I even have a necklace that has my birth year on it. It's tucked into my shirt, because I don't want y'all to know. But I even ah have a necklace that has my birth year on it.
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So at there's no, i was born in the 1900s maybe. There's no way that y'all don't know that I'm grown. um But yeah, it was just really funny.
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You're absolutely right. At that age, I was 100% certain yeah that I was grown. Was grown and was doing everything. You know, was funny. I sent you a reel. You probably haven't opened it yet because you've been busy today.
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And it was these old people, when I say old people, like gray hair walkers type old, right? And he starts off, the the first person starts off, I was born in the 80th year of the 1900s.
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I said, wait a damn minute. That's the year I was born. He said, I'm 45 years old. but flight And it was a bunch of people was like, I graduated high school in 1998. That's when I graduated high school in 1998.
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I'm not that old. I'm not that old. Compared to these young people that I'm working with, I am... A real adult. that's That's old, I think. And you were born in the 1900s and they were not.
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They were not. They were not. Their birth year definitely starts with a two. So, um which is very, you know, very interesting. Yes, I was born in the last century. You know, it was kids even crazier.
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What is the age where you have to get off your parents' insurance? Isn't it 26? 26? Mm-hmm. and So somebody born in 2000's got one more year to be on their
Podcast Expansion Plans and Dedication
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parents' insurance.
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Yeah. they've already been drinking for four years. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, technically, without being r Kelly-ish, I can technically date somebody that was born but between 2000 and
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In 2005. Technically. I wouldn't. I said technically. yeah I would They're of age. right Yeah. but yeah wow I told you the story of when I met somebody recently and she told me that she was 26 years old and and I was like, we could be friends and hang out, but nothing more.
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yeah Because like You were born after I graduated high school. Yeah. Like, at I was already in college. You could literally be my child. You could literally child. Literally.
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Yeah. Might be. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. You know, was a long time ago. You were a different person. Nope. Who knows? Probably the same person.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I don't have any kids out there. the um somebody that we know. Somebody that we know loves to say... Oh, okay. I thought you were studying stuttering for second. Somebody that we know loves to say that you know of. And I was like, look, through technology,
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over ie And then I had to stop there because I was going to say, oh, i'm i I've come across somebody, everybody in the future. And that has not been the case.
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So technically, they absolutely could. Yeah. Absolutely could. And this child could be in l LA. It could be in Houston. It could be in Vegas. it Child could be anywhere. That's the reason why youll get our anest right ok yes houston lata vegas you so houston lata vegas that's a reason why i won't get So I am on it.
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So far, nobody has come up as potentially a niece or nephew like that close of a lineage. I don't have anybody on there like that. So I think you're safe. Well, it depends. They're probably...
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I don't know. I actually don't want to go down this road. So let's say it's a sentence. Let's not go down this hole. Let's not go down this rabbit hole. Let's not think too hard about things.
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I actually would be legitimately pissed if a grown adult said, hey, you're my father. I was like, I missed all the fun parts. Yeah. i like ah What am I going to do with you now? Now you're just a got go a bitter, jaded adult. Right. I didn't know.
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I didn't know. Oh, you didn't know. No, I didn't know. And now that I know, what am supposed to do about it? i Give life lessons. Yeah. What am supposed to now? Right. What's the point now? I got people who come to me for life lessons and they don't listen.
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Let me just give you my medical profile and go on and enjoy the rest of your life. Well, I don't know that neither because I don't go to the doctor. That, yeah, also that. o I'm a stereotypical black
Protests in LA and Political Critique
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man.
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Go to the doctor. yeah yeah And then we're like, what happened to Bruce? Oh, no. You don't go to the doctor, so we don't know. One day, I'm just going to walking down the street and just fall out.
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yeah I'm going be on my way to the liquor store, grocery store, and just fall out. And they'll like, you know where you're going to be going. Yeah. It's going to one them two places to the bitter end.
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To the bitter end. Either to go get me a bag of chips or to go get me some tequila. It's one or the other. One of those. something and You know how you can take everything that you get on the internet with a grain of salt?
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Yes. But there's this viral TikTok going around where this guy who's supposed to be like a tequila guy expert ah saying that the major brands, the top brands, the Casa Migos, the Don Julio 1492, the Casa Azul, like all this stuff, right?
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The top, top brands. It's not real tequila because during the process, they're adding all these didn't, what do they call it? Additives. Additives, yeah. I got that word right, ladies and gentlemen. You don't understand. I had to really think about that.
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They're adding all these additives, and that's not real tequila because real tequila is 100% de agave. Yes. And and they messing it up. And I was like, damn, like, Casamigos is my drink of choice.
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Now I got to find out if the Kirkland brand tequila is in that category, too, because that's my number one. I mean, well that's my number two, that Kirkland brand tequila. Yeah. So like, okay, because I'm looking it up.
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I have heard that like tequila is actually like a process or a brand or something like that. And like all of these other like ah brands or something not actually agave tequila.
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So I don't know. I mean, and that's... ah But what they're saying is that it's not solely like... They are just not like doing tequila properly. They're falsely advertising.
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Yeah. What it is. Right. Well, see on here, I mean, who knows if this is true or if it's coming from Casamigos themselves, but it says it's made from a hundred percent blue Weber agave.
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That's what it says. That it is real tequila, but there have been allegations that it's not as pure as marketed. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I want that put pure. like Like, if I'm going to have cocaine, yeah, I've been stumbling over my words. The other day when I filmed the episode, I was going to say, I was trying to say communicative.
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yeah Can't even do it right now. Communicative. Communicative, yes. yeah That's a hard word to say in a string of words when you're trying to explain something.
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Yeah, Okay, so I'm looking this up. It says Kirkland's signature tequila is considered real tequila because it's made from 100% blue agave. Well, i knew it was made from 100% blue agave, but so is Casamigos and they got the allegations.
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Well, it says, while it is a budget-friendly option, it still meets the standards for 100% agave tequila production. Look, let me tell y'all, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm not being sponsored by Kirkland brand tequila, though,
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I'll take that sponsorship. Yeah. I did a blind... You're not Kirkland anything, honestly. Actually, honestly, anything. I did a blind taste test with one of my snobby friends that was just like, only drink that good tequila. I said, hey, man, have you tried the Kirkland? I don't want that Kirkland, that Costco tequila. don't want that.
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I said, okay, let's do a blind taste test. Because at my house, I've got like 12 or 15 different bottles of tequila. And so I said, let me just line up four. Okay.
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And three of them were the top brands and one of them was the Kirkland brand. So he's going through all of them. He's like, man, those are good. This one seems like it's the best one.
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What bottle did I pull up? The Kirkland brand tequila. Y'all, if y'all don't believe me, if you can find a Costco that sells liquor. Yeah. Go to that Costco. Get you that Kirkland brand tequila.
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It is good. Try it out. It is good. I've also had it. And it is very good. So I don't know. It's deceptive. You might take a little sip and then that'd be it.
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Be on your ass. Yeah. I've got some good news. Okay. Sort of. Different news. You look confused. Well, So I'm not sure. Is it good? It's good for everybody that's a fan of our podcast because you're going to have the opportunity to get even more content.
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Nice. For a price. but So with our increase in...
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our presence on YouTube, we're gonna start selling memberships on YouTube. Nice. Just like our Patreon. And I might roll Patreon into YouTube and allow those people who access YouTube already to just access the same stuff on Patreon on YouTube but just have it be the same price, but we're gonna have like different tiers and there'll be a like a 299.
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That's just like a, hey, a thank you. And we'll give you some yeah some perks. And then what we're gonna start doing is cutting up the behind the scenes of me and my sister filming the show and the behind the scenes of me filming the show and doing the interviews.
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And we're going to put that behind the membership wall. We're going to stop doing it on the main page. So this might be the last episode where you get a behind the scenes. And that's a sneak peek. If you're watching the show, when I say, right, I'll holler.
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That's not the end of the show. There's another segment that's a behind the scenes. The last one was like 12 minutes. It was not supposed to be that. Me and you was just a chatting away at the end of the show.
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Yeah, because people don't know. like yeah once we the Once you say cut, we still talk for like another 30 minutes. but I don't know why. yeah ah because like well ah because we Because we like each other. love each it like Yeah,
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And we both messy and like gossiping. Oh, did you hear about this? Is some stuff going on the podcast? Yeah. There is a time where we're filming the behind the scenes. And then one of us say, all I'm about to cut this off because I got to talk to you about something. And then that is private.
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Y'all don't get all of that stuff. but now No. No. We don't record that. We're going to reintroduce the merch store. So all of that's going to be coming next month. Nice. Well, it's going to be in...
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and In phase and phases. Phase one. yeah By the end of the summer, all that stuff will be implemented. And who knows where we go from here? I might add more shows to the Unsolicited Perspective podcast network with different hosts to give you different flavors on different things. I think that that's the next step. So, yeah, we are. We making that.
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We making that move. We making that move. I'm all for it. I love it. You all for it. especially after you graduate. Yeah, for sure. Because, yeah, the next but like six weeks for me, it's going to be hell. so um But, ah you know, after that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, after that.
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and So now next year. Then I have the fall semester. No, no, no. Next year. Yeah, next year. That does yeah that doesn't mean that going to stop working on the show. We're going to still do the show.
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We're still doing the show. i can Part of like the my busy lifestyle, quote unquote, I include the show as part of it. Right, right. Ladies and gentlemen, my sister is extreme. She was working all day and and then came and filmed the show. I literally text her, when are you available to film the show? And then I fit it in my schedule. This is after me working all day. We doing this for you.
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For you. Because we know that you really enjoy the show. You like our banter.
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you like We got good banter. yeah I don't know. Maybe I'm biased. not look and Every now and then when I'm editing, I'll let the shows run and I'll watch them back. I'll be chuckling my ass off.
00:17:52
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No. Facts. Because I was in the car the other day listening to the show and I was cackling. I was cackling. I was like, we got it.
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And I don't know if it's just because Our sense of humor is my sense of humor, so I find it funny, but other people might not. But I don't know. Y'all seem to like it, so going to keep doing it.
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Hey, look, we ain't giving them anything they don't want. Exactly. All
Transition from Protests to Wedding Stories
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right, that's enough of this silliness. Yes. We're going to get into something serious, and we're going to get into that next.
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Jay, there is something serious
Personal Reflections on Weddings and Guest Impact
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happening in Los Angeles. And we have friends in Los Angeles. Yes, we do. And they are telling me that it's serious, but not as serious.
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In other words, it's being blown up on certain platforms and being properly reported on other platforms. Okay. But the insightfulness of certain platforms reporting this is causing a lot of people to be like, well, I can't go to LA.
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It's a hellscape. It's Mad Max out there. And it really, truly is not. But if you stream- down kind of is. No, not this general. I mean, just, you know, LA is tough.
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It's tough place to be. You talk about just in general. Just in general. Yeah. I mean, just, yes. LA is a tough place to be just in general because rent is too damn high.
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Too damn high. But what am I talking about, ladies and gentlemen? and If you've been under a rock, Los Angeles protests all this month have been erupting in response to a series of aggressive immigration and custom enforcement ICE raids targeting undocumented immigrants following orders from The that so-called commander in chief.
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President Donald J. Trump. This situation has escalated into one of the most significant confrontations over immigration policy that we have had and the federal authority in recent U.S. history.
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So this is people protesting these ICE raids and. I had got into an interesting conversation with somebody that think of as extremely intelligent.
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And i am not against deportation. What I mean by that is
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if you come into this country, they keep saying illegally. And it's more of a civil thing. It's not a criminal thing, right?
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It's like getting a parking ticket. That's what it technically is. it's It's not like committing murder. It's like getting a park ah parking ticket. ah Essentially trespassing, okay? yeah You should be able to go through the proper channels to determine if you should be able to get asylum and be able to become a permanent resident of this country.
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If you go through that process and you are deemed to not have ah proper reasoning for the pathway in which you got into this country, you got to go.
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If you commit crimes, yeah you got to go. Hard skill of these people that are being targeted by ISIS. Not ISIS.
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ISIS. I mean, they might be targeted by ISIS. i But it's ICE. Well, I'm calling it ISIS. and Okay. By the way, they're doing things. A large ah majority of these people are not that.
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No. Large majority of these people are people that you are friends with. They're their neighbors. They're your your friends. They're your the person that you say hello to the gro at at the grocery store, the gas station. These are more lawfully abiding citizens than i don't know, people who actually did riot.
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hmm. During January 6th. So I find it extremely hip. The thing that bothers me, and I'm going to get more into the details and I want to hear your opinion, everything that's going on. The thing that bothers me, the thing that always bothers me to my core is hypocrisy.
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Don't tell me. And this is Donald J. Trump's reasoning. Don't tell me January 6th was a peaceful protest. And in the moment you get in office, you get all those people out of jail. Right. Right.
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and then turn around when people are protesting and say, well, no, I'm gonna send in the National Guard, which escalates things. When people wanna say, well, they were throwing stuff at cops and cars and stuff.
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No, no, no, no, no. That happened after it was escalated. Yeah, yeah. ah what What people need to understand is that prior to this federal level intervention, state and local police were managing the protest peacefully. yep So, um Governor Gavin Newsom, he yeah he had an address, what was it, yesterday?
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Earlier today? and don't Probably yesterday. I think it was yesterday. And um he described the the escalation as a, quote, reasoned abuse of power that risked lives and inflamed violence. And that's exactly what it did. they were all they State and local police already were managing the protests peacefully.
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I don't know if, ah well, I'm pretty sure he doesn't know this because I'm not 100% sure that Donald J. Trump can read, but we do have a constitutional right to protest. So ah ah find this very troubling, to say the least.
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Yeah. So it was just announced before we jumped on air. Mm-hmm. That they are going to do the same similar raise that they're doing L.A. right now in five
Chaotic Wedding Logistics and Expectations
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Democratic cities.
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Yeah, of course. D.C., New York. Damn. I had them on and I forgot. Anyway, but he's looking. If you're paying attention to Trump, he's not an idiot. He's an idiot.
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but he's not an idiot. he's but He's seen what happened in LA, and he knows that he can get scared people that are over Middle America, that don't have hardly any interaction with marginalized people, to show them with Fox and and OAN and all those, to show what they deem as riots, the most salacious parts of what's going on, and don't get it twisted.
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yeah There are peaceful protests and then there are some rioters in the middle of there. There's always going be some people that take things a little too far that want to take things to the max because they feel like they can and they're not a part of it. They're two separate things.
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I know that's what they like to say with January 6th is that it was a few separate people. But it seems like it was a whole gang of folks. Yeah, and that's what it looked like. I watched that live on TV. That looked like a whole gang of folks.
00:25:36
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So what he's what he's aiming to do is to have the same situation happen throughout the nation. So he could say, see, I told you the world is burning because not only Democrats, but some Republicans and some people in the public that are not politicians are saying, yo, you deployed the Marines.
00:25:56
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You put 700 Marines L.A.?
00:25:58
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Yeah, that's not a Marine's job. Yeah. So it is a violation of a long standing norm in this country that military force is not used for domestic law enforcement unless absolutely necessary. And really, the last time that we saw a military force at this scale being used for as domestic law enforcement was a civil rights movement. Yeah, so that's what a lot of people that are defending Trump want to go to. with My favorite president, LBJ, deployed the National Guard in Alabama, Mississippi, think both.
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I don't think you're wrong either way. Yeah, in both Alabama and Mississippi. He deployed the National Guard. The reason was is because the local officials...
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were not following the law, not private citizens. The local officials were not enforcing the law. So he was like, look, I'm sending the National Guard down there so that the law is enforced.
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that so It's not the same thing here.
00:27:12
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gavin and Gavin Newsom is like, man, we got this under control. It's LAPD, baby. This one of the biggest gangs in the world. that in in And NYPD, they don't have no problem getting control under situations. It's one of the most... They're two of most populous cities in this country.
00:27:36
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The local law enforcement know how to handle these situations. Yes. Effectively. And so by bringing in the marine bringing a National Guard first and then sending 700 Marines, which is such excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, if your kids are listening, I apologize.
00:27:53
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Small dick energy because yeah it really, it it really, really is. Right. there is There's there's BDE and there's S-D-E. And he exudes that yes all of the time. This is not being tough, right?
00:28:09
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Picking on one people who are protesting. And the reason why they are protesting is because... The administration isn't following the law.
00:28:20
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The administration is breaking the law. There is a process in which you you gather people who are that you think you are here illegally.
00:28:31
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And then there is a due process before you deport them. He is yeah catching and sending. That's what he was doing. That's what they're doing. yeah They are catching people. And mind you, no warrants.
00:28:45
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right these These people that are working for ICE, they look like regular people that just been given a badge and not in tactical gear mask, like you're trying to hide your face type mask. You know are trying to hide your face. So the administration is breaking the law. And I got into a huge debate with a person one time about this whole thing.
00:29:09
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And their argument was, well, those people are here illegally. And I was like, OK. that's the basis of your argument. Okay. So they get deported. I was like, yeah, but when people come here illegally, we have a process before we deport them.
00:29:25
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Yeah. The administration is not following the law where they broke the law first. Okay. You're talking about a person breaking the law. And then you're talking about the system breaking the law. They are not the same thing. And people are trying to use that as an argument and it's stupid and it's lazy.
00:29:45
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It's stupid and lazy. You are not going to hold people to the same standard that you hold the government. If that's the case, if that's the way you want to live in. OK, wait when Republicans don't have power. Don't let me become president.
00:30:01
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Listen, me either. Because I'm going to tell you right now, if that's the way that you you are not going to compromise, because that's how politics is done, you got to give a little bit to get a little bit. OK, that's how it is. OK, if you are unwilling to compromise, then I'm going to squash you in my way.
Conclusion on Wedding Planning Demands
00:30:18
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Yeah. and And that's just the way it is. If that's the way you want to play, you're not going to like it when you're on the other end. And mind you, y'all might only got about 16 more months of this.
00:30:29
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And then y'all out the way. But that's the reason why people are protesting because they're breaking the law. Yeah. And they're challenging the court systems and they're saying, stop us if you can.
00:30:42
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And then when the courts say, yo, you got to stop, they'd be like, nah, nah, we're going to keep doing what we're doing. Yeah, we're going to whatever we want. And so the way to fight that is to rebel.
00:30:54
Speaker
And guess what, ladies and gentlemen? That's what this country was founded on. ah rebellion yeah you want to be strong supporters of the forefathers and the formation of this country the original rebellion was over tariffs taxes mm-hmm they felt that it was unfair I think that it's unfair that the government doesn't follow the laws in which they set yeah
00:31:26
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I don't understand how you don't follow through on your own things.
00:31:32
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They're your things. Follow through on your own things. Luckily, California is suing the federal government, claiming that it this move you know infringes on the state's rights under the Constitution. So that's good because here's the here's ultimately my fear, right? Is this is a slippery slope.
00:31:57
Speaker
if if this du if If something like this, this the normalization of military involvement, right, if it goes unchallenged, like, what what's the next thing? Like, this it could be just normalizes, like, oh, the way that we handle immigration raids or the way that we handle protests in this country writ large is by deploying the military.
00:32:26
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to squash any kind of dissent. Yeah, he's um stated that he, that was before he got into office, he's been saying that.
00:32:40
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Yeah. yeah Yeah. Again, he told the truth, literally the whole time on this on this campaign trail. It was honestly astounding.
00:32:51
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how transparent he was about his intentions. And y'all still, y'all really don't like um black people and women. but um black Black people, brown people, women, trans people, anybody in the LGBTQ,
Podcast Wrap-up and Listener Engagement
00:33:08
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LGP, LG, I am struggling. There might be a pe in there. who Well, Pan, Pan,
00:33:16
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Could. There you go. LGBTQ plus community. and Indigenous people. Yep. Foreigners except were white South Africans. and the right now um Right. Because because ah to date, ah let's see, they've they've detained and held in detention ah tourists from oh Britain, other European countries, Canadian citizens. so it's the that that and And honestly, the white South African thing, that was very that felt very Elon Musk forward. And now that they had their very public breakup, Well, Elon Musk reached out recently, you know, since since the whole protest in L.A.
00:34:01
Speaker
Oh, he said the what's up big head text. Yeah. Well, basically, he did it through the press. He was like, and then first of all, he was like, I'm with Donald J. Trump on l L.A.
00:34:13
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And then he was like, You know, maybe I did go a little too far with some the things I said about President Trump. And was like, nah, bruh. Nah, man, you said what you said. Stand on it.
00:34:24
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Stand on business. Stand on business because you were, you look, you tweeted it or X'd it when I don't know what it's called now. It's it's x Yeah, but like is is the act of posting on there still called a tweet?
00:34:40
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know actually what that is. but Literally don't know. But my concern is that it sets a dangerous precedent for weaponizing federal power. It does.
00:34:53
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That's an issue for for me as well.
00:34:57
Speaker
But there's another issue that keeps gnawing at me. You know, hypocrisy. That's... yeah that That's my, oh boy, that's my kryptonite. You really hate it. I've hated it all my life before I knew what the word was.
00:35:10
Speaker
and Okay. yeah You know, when somebody said, go clean up your room and I'm like, your room is dirty. i yes Since I was four, five years old, I've always hated hypocrisy.
00:35:21
Speaker
For people that are just like, if he illegally get out, you hear a lot of people that are so-called Christians say this. Mm-hmm. And I've already gone on the hypocrisy of Christians in this country in general terms.
00:35:41
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I really want to talk about immigration and what many people will say. Well, there's no such thing as immigration in the Bible. ah Yes, there is.
00:35:51
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but Y'all know Jesus was, he traveled like the whole time. he was just walking around lots of different places. He, was kind of thing.
00:36:02
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so so So I'm going to channel just a few family members who happen to be pastors and give y'all a little bit of scripture. Amen. When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.
00:36:18
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The foreigner resides among you must be treated as your native born. Love them as yourself for you were foreigners in Egypt. Leviticus 19.33-34. What is that? What is foreigners?
00:36:35
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What the immigrants are? Yeah. God is described as one who loves the foreigner residing among you. Give them food and clothing.
00:36:47
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Deuteronomy 10.18. Give them food and clothing. Don't just accept them in. Feed them. Nourish them. Protect them.
00:36:58
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Yeah. For all those people that say, well, I'm a follower of Jesus Christ. Jesus emphasized welcoming the stranger. He says, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. Matthew 25, 35. Now, tell it's the Bible.
00:37:17
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So I'm going to mess up some of these words. malla ke Malachi. Malachi. Malachi. okay The Malachi lists oppressing or depriving foreigners of justice among the sins of God and will be judged harshly.
00:37:35
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and In other words, if you treat but foreigners poorly, that is a sin against God. yeah You will be judged harley harshly on that road to the kingdom. You might not get there.
00:37:52
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You might not get there. Hey, Beth. Because you were treating the foreigner. And who is the foreigner? The migrants trying to come here for a better life. Mind you, they're coming here for a better life because we tore up their country.
00:38:06
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But that's neither here nor there. I'm talking about the Bible. That's a whole nother story. Exodus insists that abuse of a migrant will be punished by God.
00:38:19
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who will personally assume the role of the family Avenger of the wrong. Do y'all know what that means? That means God turned into an Avenger when you wrong a migrant.
00:38:32
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Okay.
00:38:35
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I don't say Avenger in the context of what you say of it. No, that's what it is. We're not talking about Marvel's Avengers. Hey, he could turn into whatever. He or she.
00:38:46
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He or she. God. It. They. They. day They. Pronouns here, ladies and gentlemen. They. Okay? Because when you think about it, if somebody was going to create all this yeah and talk about love, yeah,
00:39:02
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I would think that more and would more than likely come from a woman. but i But I'm neither here nor there. Neither here nor there. We're going say they. Okay. So people are also going to say, ah hear what you're saying, Bruce, but it's against the law.
00:39:18
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Well, what does the Bible say when man's law and God's law come in conflict. okay Disobedience is warranted only when human laws directly violate ah explicit biblical commands.
00:39:36
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yeah What does the Bible say? Treat your foreigner as the person of your native land. Feed them, clothe them. What does the Bible say? That you should be punished if you treat that foreigner harshly.
00:39:51
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Yeah. Or you deny or deprive them of justice. So. Wouldn't that be something that would be warranted to go against human laws because it directly violates explicit biblical commands?
00:40:10
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The Bible mandates obedience to human authorities unless they require actions that violate God's clear moral or spiritual directives.
00:40:21
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In such cases, believers are called to prioritize divine law, trusting God's sovereignty over earthly consequences.
00:40:32
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But y'all not trying to do that. what then But Jay, I got to break that down for what that mean. What does that mean? What do that mean? It means when man's law goes against God's law, you are commanded if you are a Christian and you got so many people i here saying they're Christian, saying and they follow Jesus Christ.
00:40:53
Speaker
They say it. That when they are in conflict, God's law supersedes. It is your duty as a follower of the word that you say that you are to go against the laws that are man-made, that violate God's law.
00:41:12
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Because God's sovereignty is over Earth's consequences. yes That's the Bible, ladies and gentlemen. I can't give no more better sermon than that.
00:41:24
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So for all those people out there that swear they're a Christian, okay but want to fight and say deport all the immigrants? Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:35
Speaker
Well, you're gonna have to answer one day to the avenger called God. Because let's be clear, they're, in their mind, they're thinking everyone, everyone, not people who are, ah most folks over here who are undocumented came over on a visa, on a plane, the visa expired, they stayed.
00:41:58
Speaker
That's a majority of the people. okay, there should be some sort of process that we go through where we take a look at that person, the circumstances, are they working, are they in school, what's going on?
00:42:14
Speaker
Like, can we get an extension on that visa? What can we do? Like, none of that's being done. They're rounding up anybody that look like they don't belong here and putting them on a plane to wherever they feel like.
00:42:34
Speaker
That should be scary to everyone. aye honestly I am considering like just doing like a photocopy of my passport and carrying it around with me. Yeah, because you are racially ambiguous.
00:42:49
Speaker
I'm ambiguous. You ambiguous. Okay. So carrying around with me, you know, not to not to mention the fact that my first my first name is is is ah is Arabic.
00:43:01
Speaker
Yeah. It adds up to I always get stopped at the airport. But everybody should be worried.
00:43:13
Speaker
Everyone should be worried. Well, Well, those hypocrites out there are not going to be worried because it's not happening to them or anybody around them. And they don't see these people as human beings. where have We heard that before. I think that we heard when we were three fists of a person. no we wasn't even that.
00:43:35
Speaker
battle When we finally got some semblance of personhood before that we were chattel. Right, right, right. right And then when we got some, when they said, we can't just say that they're chattel. I guess we can't do that. and But we can't say they're a person either. So we'll say...
00:43:53
Speaker
I don't even know where they came up with this equation. They're three fists. They're three fists. But I said this earlier, and I don't know if you caught it, but ah you were talking about how ICE, day they wear the masks and covering their faces and stuff, and I said, where does that sound familiar?
00:44:13
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And it's them hoods. oo and a Rounding people up. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:44:23
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and Very similar. Also, both acronyms are three letters. Think about it, people. Oh, God. Conspiracy. Is me or is it a conspiracy? Conspiracy Jaden came into the building. All I'm asking people out there is to think.
00:44:39
Speaker
Yeah. And if you can't think, shut up. How about do that? If you can't think, shut up. don't have You don't got to have an opinion on everything. Just shut up.
00:44:50
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Don't talk. Don't talk unless you're informed. And are going to be people on here that are going to say, well, y'all weren't very informed because this is it. No, no, we were. We were. Now, I may say some words wrong every now and then.
00:45:02
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Yeah, that's gonna happen. Yeah, I mean, that's it that's a given. I'm gonna stumble. We tired. We gonna stumble over. We gonna stutter. We gonna do all for Even if I was fresh, I'm gonna stumble over words because I got a speech impediment. And that's just the way, you know, I mean, that's just the way it is.
00:45:16
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That's just the way it is. But, I mean, we came with y'all with facts, law facts, okay and Bible facts.
00:45:27
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Yeah. i Talk your way out of that if you want to. You can try. And if you don't want to hear us, okay. You still got an answer to the mighty adventure.
00:45:43
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We are talking about the Incredible Hulk. you fact Or are we? The original Iron Man. The first Black Panther.
00:45:56
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I don't know if we gonna make it to heaven.
00:46:06
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Jay, you've been in a few weddings, right? I have, yes. I've been in more than a few. and that ah We've planned mine. Yep.
00:46:17
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And there's a lot of stuff that goes into planning a wedding. It can be stressful. lot of room parts, yes. For sure. the boom The thing that I felt the worst about when I got my divorce is not really getting a divorce.
00:46:36
Speaker
It was the fact that so many people had flown in come in, spent money yeah to go to my wedding. Yeah. And it ended in a divorce. Yeah.
00:46:47
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And I felt bad that people had came. It was a lot of people. It was a lot of people at my weddings. It was a lot of people. yeah And I felt bad about that. Because it costs people money.
00:46:58
Speaker
What do you do if somebody invites you to a wedding and they start changing up the script of what's going to happen at the wedding at the last minute?
00:47:09
Speaker
I mean, the very last minute. And why am I bringing this up? Reddit, y'all. yeah So I'm going to read to you this Reddit post about a change in a wedding.
00:47:24
Speaker
Yeah. This was an email that was sent out to all the people that's participating and coming to the wedding. Yeah. Hi, everyone. We want to make you aware of a critical, important update.
00:47:36
Speaker
The ceremony date is now June 27th, and the location has changed. Please note this down carefully. We have decided we want to have a church ceremony in addition to our planned beach ceremony and reception.
00:47:51
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The officiant of our choice does not do weddings at location outside of his church. Having a church ceremony is very important to us morally and ethically.
00:48:02
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We are canceling the beach ceremony to spare redundancies. they will still be a reception on the beach. The ceremony will now be Friday, June 27th at 2 p.m.
00:48:14
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someplace in Oregon. The reception will be the following day in Port Angeles, Washington. huh Two different states. If you cannot make the 27th, we understand, but please be aware that we will be the only opportunity to participate in professional photos.
00:48:35
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Bridesmaids, we kindly ask you to wear this yellow dress for the 27th. Still reserve the gray dress you already purchased to wear on the 28th. After the viewing the interior of the church, gray just would not work.
00:48:50
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Thanks. Groomsmen, yellow ties will be provided for you on the day of the ceremony. If you have any concerns, go ahead and reach out to our super girly wedding planner.
00:49:01
Speaker
Thanks. Can't wait to celebrate with you. And I'm to stop you right Yeah, I'm going to stop after every email. Yeah, because, okay.
00:49:14
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The way you would immediately see my RSVP change to know, first of all, it's on a week. First of, okay.
00:49:26
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First of all, the Reddit poster posted this six days ago. Okay. So what was that? June 5th. June 5th. Right.
00:49:36
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They're saying the ceremony is June 27th. Not of next year. This year. This month. And what is June 27th? What day of the week does that fall on? It's a Friday.
00:49:47
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And not only that, it's at 2 p.m. They couldn't even do it in the evening. So at least I could still go to work and then go after work.
00:49:58
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so So now I got to take a day off work because I'm in the wedding party. and Now got to take a day off work. I might have to take two days off work. You got to get an extra hotel because in another state. Yeah, I got to yeah i gotta get another hotel.
00:50:13
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And it's in two different states.
00:50:20
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on back-to-back days. So I gotta get one hotel room in Oregon, then drive several hours to Port Angeles, Washington, where I have another hotel room to attend this beach reception, because why?
00:50:42
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Well, they wanted to have it in the church, and the person that was the officiant don't do it outside of that church. They'll find another officiant. Well, they really like this one and morally and ethically, they just feel right about having it in the church.
00:50:55
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Morally and ethically, you can kiss my ass because this...
00:51:00
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Y'all weren't thinking ethically making this last minute change. What about the added dress for the bridesmaids? didn't even get to the second page. Because of the gray. Because of the don't have...
00:51:14
Speaker
Because the gray clashes with the interior of the church. First of all, why did you pick gray for your bridesmaid's dresses anyway? That seems like a dumb choice. Because they're going to on beach.
00:51:29
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Gray is not a good beach color. like i just I feel like gray isn't...
00:51:36
Speaker
I don't know. It feels sad to me a little bit. As a color. As opposed to like yellow. Okay. Yeah. no Which feels like a more festive color to me. yeah ah So now I got to buy another dress.
00:51:50
Speaker
You telling me this two weeks before I have to show up. I got to change my plane ticket. a I didn't even think about that. Yeah, because I'm not like um Oregon.
00:52:03
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I'm not from Washington. I'm flying out there. got to buy another dress, but still keep the other dress I had. For what? I'm not 100% sure. no ah for the For the beach.
00:52:18
Speaker
One for the church. One for the church, one for the beach. No, I'm not doing a wardrobe change. No, but that' that's what she requested. All right, so this is this is your concerns, right?
00:52:31
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Yeah, yeah. The next post is the follow-up. And this post is from a bridesmaid who's coming from halfway across the country and is also a relative of the groom. Yes.
00:52:42
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She states, am I to understand the above message correctly to mean your wedding ceremony is now on a weekday during the day? If so, I have to admit I'm pretty surprised and disappointed.
00:52:56
Speaker
My family booked tickets months in advance to travel to Washington and the church appears to be several hours away, necessitating another hotel stay. Between that and the unexpected day off work, we can't afford this extra day.
00:53:12
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I'm not participating for the party aspect so much as the special memory of seeing you and him get married and be a part of that milestone. If I'm misunderstanding something or if there is another ceremony that will be happening on the 28th, I apologize for the confusion.
00:53:31
Speaker
But please let me know, ASAP. Fair. Fair. Fair, fair message to send. What did the bride-to-be say back?
00:53:43
Speaker
Let's be respectful and take this offline, please. Ladies, friendly reminder, contact blank directly with any concerns so as not to spam everyone's inbox.
00:53:56
Speaker
Thanks. K-thanks. That's even worse. and And she didn't even spell K-thanks out. It's just K-T-H-X.
00:54:07
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that alone makes me want to punch you in the throat. Don't be so like, hi, guys. Thanks. Multiple S's at the end of thanks and all this stuff.
00:54:19
Speaker
No, this is not, this is, your, your, your email was not welcomed. This was not a welcome change. This is not of some exciting new piece of information that you're giving us.
00:54:34
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This is a nightmare.
00:54:37
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and and And I rightfully bring up my concerns. But if I'm misunderstanding, I'm sorry. Just let me know. And you, you shame me?
00:54:53
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for having some concerns and some questions and looking for clarification. Girl. Hold on. There's more.
00:55:05
Speaker
Oh, it yeah. There's more. So the bride sends out another reminder. Quick updates and reminders. Hi, everyone. We are so excited to have you as members of our wedding party.
00:55:18
Speaker
Thank you to those of you who actually care and stuck with us. Because at this point, people have dropped out. For sure. A few quick notes, to-dos, and FYIs.
00:55:30
Speaker
General, we will no longer be using the wedding planner. Wedding planner. Hey, guys. Y'all are doing entirely too much.
00:55:41
Speaker
And I can't be a part of this event any longer. It is not. We're no longer using. That wedding planner quit. Well, hold on. guarantee. Hold on. guarantee. Her husband and and she's she the name is blocked out, but her husband and her are just too quirky to fit into a box.
00:56:00
Speaker
We're doing things our own way. Please do not contact Megan with any more questions. She is no longer involved with the planning of the wedding. Megan quit. Megan quit.
00:56:11
Speaker
Please come early on the 28th because we will have been unable to secure enough chairs. We won't really need them. We'll be dancing all night. Nah, yeah. Well, yeah. Okay.
00:56:24
Speaker
Okay. Y'all ain't even got enough chick. Okay. If you're at the wedding party, you are not expected to send a gift. Your presence at our special day is gift enough. Now, that's okay.
00:56:37
Speaker
That's nice. Yeah, that is welcomed. Because I had to buy a new dress and change my plane ticket and get another hotel. So if you were expecting a gift from me on top of that.
00:56:48
Speaker
Oh, girl. As previously stated, we are unable to accommodate any dietary needs or requests. Please bring your own food if you require that.
00:57:00
Speaker
but It gets worse. After careful consideration, we have decided that we that with the exception of our boys, this wedding will be child free.
00:57:14
Speaker
That does also include the reception. Please plan accordingly. You done lost half your guests right there. We'll have special goodie bags for all members of the wedding party available for pickup at the venue.
00:57:27
Speaker
Spoiler alert, it includes a plant. So if you're traveling internally, please plan accordingly. Internationally, please plan accordingly. So I'm stop right there.
00:57:38
Speaker
First of all, the wedding was child-friendly. Now you're deciding, again, two and a half weeks before the wedding, there's no longer child-free. I've already bought our whole family's plane tickets.
00:57:54
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already booked the hotel room. I then rebooked the flight because now I got to fly in to Oregon first. And then I had to get a rental so that I could drive up to Washington. that I had to get another hotel. And now you're telling me I can't bring my kids, even though I've already paid for all of this stuff.
00:58:14
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Debt. If we don't fight...
00:58:19
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um At some point in 2025, I will not be satisfied. Okay. And then on top of that, you know, you have people coming in from internationally, you know that.
00:58:36
Speaker
So why in the full hell are you adding a plant that will make it incredibly difficult for them to get through customs with?
00:58:49
Speaker
What mean plan accordingly? I can't take live plant Through customs. There's no plan accordingly. Are you asking me to move to the United States so that I can get this? put No.
00:59:03
Speaker
Take the damn plant out the goodie bag. That don't belong in no damn goodie bag. What about the dietary? What about the what about if you don't if you don't like we serving, bring your own bring your own food.
00:59:14
Speaker
Bring your own food. Listen, that I'm actually going to address that but later because she makes another request. And so I'm going to go back to the fact that she said no dietary restrictions. this is a surprise to me because I didn't read it the whole way through.
00:59:30
Speaker
I stopped probably at this point and said, we're going to talk about this. And there's a whole yeah two more slides. So let's get to them. Let's get to them. So this is a continuation of the email she sent out. Bridesmaids.
00:59:41
Speaker
If you are over 5'5", please get these flats instead of the initial requested heels. So now it's another thing I have to buy after I've already bought the heels that you initially requested that I buy.
00:59:55
Speaker
Okay. Makeup will be $300 per person per day. Absolutely insane. don't and You don't have to get it if you don't want to on the 28th, but we kindly insist all bridesmaids get it on the 27th if they want to be in any photos.
01:00:11
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I will not be in a single snapshot because what do you mean $300 per person? Per day. Per day. Nobody, first of all, makeup artists, if they are doing a wedding, will charge a flat fee based on the number of people that they're going to be doing. And and for mine, did did we pay for that or did bridesmaids have to pay for that?
01:00:39
Speaker
ah Y'all pay. Remember, because I got my friend to do the makeup. So you got a good deal on it. But ah but what we paid. We didn't have bridesmaids come out the pocket because they already came out the pocket for the for the dress and the shoes.
01:00:56
Speaker
Right. Yes. OK. All right. This is insane. Yeah, no, it gets worse. hours For the reception day, we will be getting ready starting at 6.45 a.m. at our Airbnb. This is for the bridesmaids.
01:01:11
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For the ceremony day, we will be getting ready at the venue time TBD.
01:01:18
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If you are not there on the 28th by 7 a.m., you will not be let in. To ensure things runs run smoothly on a timely schedule, nobody wants to repeat...
01:01:30
Speaker
of a batch? ah She's talking about the bachelorette party. Oh. ah I had to dig through the comments to see what happened at the bachelorette party. I'll bring that up real quickly.
01:01:40
Speaker
Yeah. Groomsmen, per tradition, the groomman cannot see the groom cannot see the bride prior to the ceremony. So unfortunately, there is nowhere for y'all to get ready on the 28th. Since you basically just need ties, this is no biggie.
01:01:53
Speaker
Some people are going to get together at breakk ah blank pub beforehand. Feel free to coordinate amongst yourselves.
01:02:03
Speaker
Essentially, hey, Grossman, um we have zero accommodations for you. And if you do want some sort of accommodations, you're going to coordinate that yourself. Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. cool cool cook ball Next email.
01:02:16
Speaker
Hi, few quick updates and gentle reminders. You can't keep saying kindly, gentle, and things like that and think that that makes this not, ah like, less abrasive somehow.
01:02:30
Speaker
out First of all, I've already, I dropped out the first email she sent. Right. I dropped out. What if it's your best friend? I dropped out the first email she sent. Because, listen, if you're my best friend, then you know me.
01:02:47
Speaker
And you know not to send me nothing like this.
01:02:51
Speaker
because you're going to get a gentle response, kindly informing you that i ain't coming. Not only that, we're going to fight sometime in 2025.
01:03:03
Speaker
Okay. think I have to get rid of, I have to get through the rest of these is emails. Okay, go ahead. but I'm just so flabbergasted. After careful consideration, we have decided there will be no speeches.
01:03:15
Speaker
Only confirmed Catholic bridesmaids and groomsmen are permitted to stand with us during a ceremony. Not our rules, it's the church's rules. Sorry.
01:03:26
Speaker
Yeah, the fact that she spelled sorry, S-O-W-W-Y. Yeah, I tried to say sorry. nother This is another. another.
01:03:38
Speaker
it is in infuriating to read these, y'all. Some of you have not paid the $25 per person deposit for food, which sets a poor example for the other guests as y'all are all the wedding party.
01:03:52
Speaker
We kindly insist each member of the wedding party chip in $650 for expenses. I'm sorry to have to ask at this point, but it is customary for the wedding party to just offer.
01:04:05
Speaker
No, it's not. No, it's not. It's not customary for the wedding party to pay for your wedding. And it's also not customary to charge people a deposit for the food, because clearly you can't afford your own wedding. Yeah, we pay for the food.
01:04:21
Speaker
Yes, you clearly cannot afford your own wedding. I can't even get my dietary restrictions respected, but you asking me to pay a deposit per plate per person?
01:04:35
Speaker
Plus, for all the other expenses I assume dealing with your wedding, you want us to kick in $650 each? On top of the $300 per day for the makeup. So bridesmaids got to buy an extra dress.
01:04:52
Speaker
$300 per day for the makeup. And now she wants $650 for ah four expenses on top of the $25 for the plate. for Of the food that I can't eat because I'm ah i'm allergic to...
01:05:08
Speaker
peanuts or something. I don't know. If you don't drink, we gently suggest you seriously consider whether or not you really want to come to the reception. This is meant to be a once-in-a-lifetime celebration, and it only takes one wet blanket to sniff out everyone's fire.
01:05:23
Speaker
This is a personal choice you have to make.
01:05:28
Speaker
Now I'm being shamed because I'm a recovering alcoholic. Oh. Oh. and cow She says translation services. okay. We will offer translation services for those who need them.
01:05:42
Speaker
Please direct your guests who require such services to sit in the back on the left at both functions. There will be a 30 minute, 30 minutes of open bar before the other guests arrive as a thank you to our number one ever wedding party.
01:05:58
Speaker
Love you all. So just so we're clear, the 650 I'm kicking in is probably for that part of that's going to that open bar, correct? So it's really not open. Ladies and gentlemen, i'm paying for this is going to be a longer segment because there is more to go, but I feel like y'all are feeling this. So next yeah email.
01:06:20
Speaker
Hey, ladies and himbos, would anyone be interested in helping us get the wedding cake? You'll be shouted out specifically during the ceremony. If so, it has to be dairy free.
01:06:32
Speaker
Thanks. Love you all so much. Do not piss me off because you just said you weren't going to respect anyone's dietary restriction.
01:06:44
Speaker
But now, now I have to. kick You can't afford your wedding. Hold on. You don't have a cake at that little two and a half weeks before your wedding.
01:06:57
Speaker
You have a cake and you want it to be dairy free. So I got to respect your dietary restriction and you're not going to respect mine. Do not piss me off.
01:07:08
Speaker
The next and the last email. And this is by far the funniest. If you are no longer participating in our wedding, pulling out just days before the ceremony, we totally understand.
01:07:22
Speaker
But please be advised, we won't forget who stood with us or not.
01:07:30
Speaker
If, first of all, not if I'm no longer participating. Because you was out the first email. hey I was already out. But even if I stayed in, even if I tried to roll with y'all because that's the the groom is my brother or something like that, even if I tried to roll with y'all.
01:07:51
Speaker
And you're shaming people for pulling out days before the ceremony. It's because you changed everything and demanded minimum $1,500 from everybody at the last minute. Your math is wrong. $1,500? Where did you get that from?
01:08:09
Speaker
I just threw it out there. I'm thinking, I don't know how much the other dress costs. I don't know how much the shoes cost. I don't know how much the additional hotel room changing my plane ticket.
01:08:19
Speaker
I don't know how, $300 per day for the makeup plus $25. So that's $625 plus the $650. Plus the $650. if you press six So that's $1275. Okay, you not falling out for $1,800. Yeah, no. Plus, yeah, that's it. And if you help out on the cake, the dare-free cake,
01:08:38
Speaker
The dairy-free cake, which you're going to have to pay extra because, one, it's going to be a dairy-free cake, and two, it's at the last minute. Hotel, extra hotel room in another state. You got to find a way to get from one state to the next.
01:08:53
Speaker
and and And I have to figure out who's going to watch my kids. Yep. So more than $1,500. She didn't add in an additional over $1,500 for the bridesmaids.
01:09:04
Speaker
The groomsmen getting off kind of easy here. Yeah. They just don't have that so be they just made it yeah yeah mean they just don't have a place to to like go and sit. so the husband and the bee is just sitting there like Yeah, baby, whatever you want to do, that sounds good to me. Because he's only looking at it from his perspective.
01:09:20
Speaker
He's not seeing it from everybody else's perspective that's on the other side of the fence. And I'm sure he's not directing these emails. These emails seem like they're coming specifically from her.
01:09:30
Speaker
And she's the one catching the hell. So all she's doing is complaining to him. They pulled out. She pulled out. They're complaining about us going over here. Now... Now you're telling me that if I ain't Catholic, I can't even really participate with you in some of the festivities of being part of the wedding party?
01:09:49
Speaker
I ain't coming. If one of my friends had done this, I'd be like, hey, man, you know, I love you, right? You know, I consider you like a brother. ah But I'm out. And if that means that we can't be friends no more, I completely understand. But what you're asking is absolutely unreasonable. And I'm not about to pay What would amount to be, you got the $1,500, you got the extra hotel room, you got the transition back forth, you're probably getting close to $2,000. Easily, $2,000, $2,500. That's mark that yes' a mortgage payment. That's rent. And that's just assuming that I'm traveling by myself. Right.
01:10:27
Speaker
Right. What if I'm traveling with my partner? Now, first of all, I got find somebody to watch my kids. It might have to be your partner. Your partner came in and you're like, you can't go to the wedding now. Somebody got watch kids.
01:10:38
Speaker
Yeah, I got to take the day off work. Who gonna replace my PTO? and And then saying, if you ain't drinking at the reception, don't even come.
01:10:49
Speaker
Don't even bring your as ass to the reception. If you don't nobody want no wet blanket. Oh, and by the way, we ain't got enough chairs anyway. Right. So you're going to be on the dance floor. No, I got heel spurs and plantar fasciitis.
01:11:03
Speaker
OK, I got to wear hoka shoes at the reception because I need the extra cushion on my feet just to be around. I need to find a place sit. I can't find a place to sit because Aunt Ruth got to sit.
01:11:14
Speaker
Uncle George got to sit. But I can't sit because they taking up the seats because you ain't got enough seats. because you can't afford this wedding. Yeah, you know what?
01:11:25
Speaker
i mean, to me, as I was reading through it, i was like, oh, it's giving broke. What happened at the bachelorette party though? You so you said you read the comments. Yeah, so bachelorette party, I guess because they had, the bridesmaids had to pay for so much Nobody stepped up to plan a bachelorette party for her. So she demanded one.
01:11:51
Speaker
She wanted a destination bachelorette party. Okay. And she wanted it. She gave people a week's notice. A week. Okay.
01:12:03
Speaker
So she just assumed everybody was going to go. So she booked accommodations for her. So she had, wait a minute, so she had the money. Did she spend the money on that instead of on the web?
01:12:18
Speaker
It's very strange because you you're gonna have translation services so you're paying for that, but she ain't got enough chairs? you don't have a cake? And I gotta pay for my own food? ah because Because that $25 was just a deposit for the food.
01:12:33
Speaker
I'm assuming there's gonna be another bill, final bill for the food. That was just a deposit.
01:12:43
Speaker
ah well How'd you find the comments? that these These were people fell into from the wedding party that knew? The person that posted these. Okay, okay. I that they would have to be in the wedding party to get these emails.
01:12:55
Speaker
So the person that posted it was just like, this is what's going on. Yeah. Wait, what did she say? How old are these people? 33 and 47. Good Lord. So not young. So not young. these are These are grown people who should know better. I guarantee you, he's 47.
01:13:10
Speaker
She's 33. Yeah.
01:13:13
Speaker
yeah I guarantee you, this is not his first marriage. This is definitely her first. Yes. ah and And I saw another comment ah that the ah the poster made that he is not involved. like he's She said, concerningly checked out.
01:13:32
Speaker
yeah okay Because so if if my ex was acting this way, now I know you said before a previous podcast, if y'all listen to this regularly, my sister said, hey, I knew I couldn't say anything to you because I know who you are. I knew who she was.
01:13:49
Speaker
Y'all was going to dig in for straight ahead anyway. And I was like, right, we probably still be together out of spite for everybody else. But at this point, if she was acting like that, yeah would you say something?
01:14:02
Speaker
hell yeah because no because i was already we'll talk about that off okay all right but i was already annoyed by a couple facts okay let's talk about that but it wasn't to this extent this is i don't understand bride zillas and groom zillas like what what What breaks in your brain that you think that it is reasonable to ask this much of people who are coming to celebrate you? I'm getting nothing out of this.
01:14:40
Speaker
Nothing. There's no benefit for me to come to your wedding other than to support you. But I'm getting nothing out of this. And you're still asking me to go above and beyond. So anyway, the bachelorette party, of course, no one shows up.
01:14:56
Speaker
So then the bill for the accommodations is like footed by the bride and two other bridesmaids that actually showed up. So she's like, we don't want to repeat of that.
01:15:09
Speaker
Don't do stuff last minute. And if nobody was throwing you a bachelorette party, baby, why would you think that they would pay for a destination?
01:15:21
Speaker
I wasn't even willing to take you to the local strip club. So why would you think? And everybody want to go to the Blue Flame. Everybody does.
01:15:31
Speaker
But why would you think I want to go to the Bahamas with you if I wasn't even willing to take you down the street?
01:15:40
Speaker
to the local strip club. Please don't piss me off. The way this got me, as y'all can see, the show is going long and I'm sorry. The show is going real long. i and I apologize, but damn, this pissed me off because I wouldn't have a friend anymore.
01:15:56
Speaker
I wouldn't have a friend. I would not have a friend anymore. Because there is no way I can stay silent about this. There's absolutely no way.
01:16:06
Speaker
You would get a phone call from me or FaceTime something, and my first question would be, what the hell? God.
01:16:18
Speaker
ah All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to wrap this up. Before we do, I mean, I don't need to top anything that my sister said about this wedding. Like, this was crazy. I picked a good Reddit post. I picked a good one.
01:16:30
Speaker
Jay, what do you want to tell these people out here? And I know it's probably have something to do with weddings. Yeah, that it does. Your wedding is for you. So if people are willing to give their time, their money, their energy, is 100% in support of you.
01:16:52
Speaker
They get nothing out of it. So be mindful of that. Also be mindful that nobody has to do a damn thing for you. So if they do, you need to honor that.
01:17:06
Speaker
And if you can't afford your wedding, you better head over to the Justice of Peace and stop playing.
01:17:12
Speaker
Don't piss me off, not today. freedom over And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. the same i want to thank you for watching this very long episode. Until next time, as always, I'll holler.
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