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Speaker 2: Technique, and you're like, oh, I don't want to drink that.

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Speaker 1: It's Eat Drink smoke. I'm Tony Katz. That is fingers

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Speaker 1: from Moore. I find everything at Eat Drinks smokeshow dot com.

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Speaker 1: That's what we are having today, the two XO Oak series.

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Speaker 1: American Oak. It says American Oak on that. Yes it does.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to check. This is from Dixon, Deadman

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Speaker 1: forty seven percent alcohol by volume or ninety four proof.

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Speaker 1: that is under one hundred proof.

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Speaker 3: I was watching you pour and I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: he's gonna quit. No, No, he's still pouring. Has it

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Speaker 3: been a day no quit and tony kats. That's that's

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Speaker 1: I like the color here right, a little darker, a

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Speaker 1: A little bit in that nose fingers maloy.

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Speaker 3: You're getting a little honey on top of us, some

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Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what it is. If you get

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Speaker 1: I'm not complaining. I'm not complaining about it at all

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Speaker 1: but enough enough sniff and fingers malloy, Are you ready

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Speaker 3: It's my favorite song, by the way. Enough sniffing, enough sniffing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: A fingers Willy is gonna do what's known as the

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Speaker 3: It's nice first of all, nice little bit of staying

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Speaker 1: This is the two exo, the Oak series, American Oak.

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Speaker 3: All of that, it's absolutely all of that. Labor prices

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Speaker 3: We're getting to the point now. I believe in ten

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Speaker 1: Terrible at their jobs. But learning stick, I mean stick

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are only a few. I will tell you.

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Speaker 1: I've been driving the Miana, and first of all, I

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Speaker 2: To the whole car will fall apart.

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Speaker 1: It's a go cart. Yeah, it's ridiculous. And in Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: new rims. You gotta get new rims. That wasn't what

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: If I gotta do something with the engine, I get

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Speaker 3: You got twenty six year old vehicle, You're gonna be

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Speaker 3: nickeled and dimed. Son of a I paid, I paid

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Speaker 3: like nothing for there. Did you pay nickels and dimes

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Speaker 1: I paid nickels and rolled up, you know, but I

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Speaker 1: you should know. I don't drive a stick looks alike.

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Speaker 1: It looks like a lot of fun, a lot of

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Speaker 2: A car, A lot.

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Speaker 1: Eat drink smoke. It is your cigar bourbon foody extravaganza.

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz Fingers Meloy right there. Find it all at

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Speaker 1: EA Drinksmoke show dot com. This is the Alec in Bradley,

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Speaker 1: the Alec Bradley gate Keeper Toro six by fifty two.

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Speaker 1: It is an Ecuadora and habano rapper Nick Roguin and

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Speaker 1: the binder. The filler is Nick Roguin and Dominican coming

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Speaker 1: in at just about thirteen dollars a stick. And that

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Speaker 1: that that cedar spice, as I would describe it, has

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Speaker 1: And this is why you got to buy one and

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Speaker 1: is a well constructed cigar. Fingers, you've had a little

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Speaker 1: that can happen from time to time. A nice stick

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you wholeheartedly about the tobacco forward.

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Speaker 3: And now I don't know if because I've had to

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Speaker 3: sometimes when you relight it over and over again it

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Speaker 3: I'm getting right now going along with that tobacco forward

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Speaker 3: that you mentioned, and then that that spice has really

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Speaker 3: dollars a stick with twelve seventy seven. Yeah, let's go

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Speaker 3: with twelve seventy I love it. Yeah, it's it's in

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Speaker 2: This is it. It is in my humid or.

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Speaker 1: And moving my bourbon here onto the rocks.

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Speaker 2: It's gotten a little getting rid of a little bit

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes, this is the two XO we're

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Speaker 1: doing right here. This is two XO number two XO.

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Speaker 1: Whiskey dot com. There double Oak technique. This is the

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Speaker 1: American Oak Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey. I said forty seven percent.

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Speaker 2: Fingers. My apologies there.

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Speaker 1: It was this unique suite that was going on. Certainly

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Speaker 1: And I'm going in because I think I think the

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Speaker 1: Water brings down proof, it can open up the bourbon

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Speaker 1: some flavors, a little more pronounce I'm a little more muted.

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Speaker 3: He's going in, ladies and gentlemen. He's got the big

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Speaker 2: That was a big sip.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and oh yeah, so what did it do. Oh,

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Speaker 1: there's a little more spice happening on the tongue. That

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Speaker 1: There's a little more there's a little more fruit. There's

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Speaker 1: in the lower lower lower chest. Oh that's not bad

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Speaker 2: Oh, look at you, you look so happy. Much better

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Speaker 1: This, this is a couple of ice chips. Much better.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well on the cube.

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Speaker 3: I was wondering, you know, about putting water here because

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Speaker 3: I thought that it may bring out more spice. And

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Speaker 3: now you're starting with that analysis to make me think

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Speaker 3: that that's probably gonna happen with me.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: See what happens.

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Speaker 1: Added a little bit of water from the dropper that

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Speaker 1: But water does change, It changes the complexion of the bourb.

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Speaker 1: And you have to do this. You need to go

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Speaker 3: For the first time, I'm getting that kind of stone fruit.

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Speaker 3: the spice for me and actually brought down a little

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Speaker 3: bit of the oak for me before. The first thing

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Speaker 3: But that fruit, that stone fruit that you mentioned, I

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Speaker 3: can see where you're getting that. Now. The caramel is there,

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Speaker 3: that oak and the spice is still there, but it's

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Speaker 3: a little bit more subdued than it was before. I

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Speaker 2: So it's forty nine ninety nine.

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Speaker 3: You're still I'm still all in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, yes, I think having it on the

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Speaker 1: cube The answer is yes, you you should.

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Speaker 2: This could be in my look.

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Speaker 3: So let me ask you this because I feel like

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Speaker 3: I feel like you're hesitating a little bit on the yes.

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Speaker 3: Is it because you'd rather with this flavor flavor profile

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Speaker 3: it be more of a forty dollars bottle.

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Speaker 1: And is this a value question, No, this is a

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Speaker 1: palette question. I think it's it's much better on the cube.

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Speaker 1: I just I would like a little more, as I said,

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Speaker 1: a little more oak in there. Okay, that would make me,

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Speaker 1: that would make me happier. But I get it. I

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Speaker 1: get it, And I could see the value that people

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Speaker 1: is not a cheap price, but it is more and

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Speaker 1: more a standard price. So I can I could see this.

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Speaker 1: I can understand where this is because I can that

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Speaker 1: that presentation would work, like, Okay, that's very very nice.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's time fingers Awy for News of the Week, Tony.

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Speaker 3: The New York Post has the story, Corporate media continues

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Speaker 3: to struggle. NBC News is preparing for its largest round

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Speaker 3: of layoffs in years. About seven percent of the workforce

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Speaker 3: in the newsroom is going to be laid off. How

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Speaker 3: many seven percent and fifty jobs? Okay, and you know

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Speaker 3: you've got the whole rebrand with MSNBC.

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Speaker 1: Now becoming ms now. That's literally what they're calling it.

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Speaker 1: News Opinion World, Miss now, Yes, miss now.

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Speaker 3: So many jokes. Having said that, as opposed to miss

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Speaker 3: right now, there it is there. It is, by the way,

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Speaker 3: terrible rebrand name, awful, awful. I might as well call

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Speaker 3: it New Coke, terrible rename. They would have been better

447
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Speaker 3: off just coming up with something completely different than trying

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Speaker 3: to incorporate the MSS in it. Right, just you know

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Speaker 3: Peacock for instance. You know it's the whole NBC umbrella.

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Speaker 3: You got the Peacock app, and you know you stream

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Speaker 3: from Peacock. You should have come up with something different.

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Speaker 1: Going the stalget and called it pets dot Com.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 2: I was great.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna go with n RON. You went with

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Speaker 3: pets dot Com. But still the message is the same.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be interesting. I hear bear Sterns is

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Speaker 3: still available.

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Speaker 1: Too soon.

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Speaker 3: No, if you look at my stock portfolio, it's too soon.

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Speaker 3: Having said that, nothing but n run bear Sterns and

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Speaker 3: t w A.

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Speaker 2: Thank god.

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Speaker 3: I thought we were gonna go a full episode without

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Speaker 3: a t w A reference.

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Speaker 2: Never gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: But this is gonna happen all over. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: it's not. It's this is not an NBC MS NBC problem.

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Speaker 3: This is a corporate media problem. And you know some

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Speaker 3: media outlets are trying to shake things up.

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Speaker 1: CBS News, iHeart, which is owns radio stations across the country,

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Speaker 1: laid off of was it over fifty people last week?

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Speaker 1: And you know who lamented it? No one, With all

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Speaker 1: due respect, I am not going to lament NBC News

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Speaker 1: doing layoffs. I'm not gonna lament for these people. If

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Speaker 1: you lost your job, hey, that stinks. Losing your job stinks,

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Speaker 1: but no one is guaranteed a job. The market forces

478
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Speaker 1: are very very real here. So many people are getting

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Speaker 1: into this game and providing quote unquote news, and people

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Speaker 1: are going to all these other bifurcated spots. You can't

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Speaker 1: think that the model is going to work for forever,

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Speaker 1: and some models aren't. Some people aren't necessary. As models change,

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Speaker 1: as AI comes, as job descriptions morph, and more people

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Speaker 1: are doing more for less.

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Speaker 2: You may not like it, but it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: After considering what my life has been like being married

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Speaker 1: and oh I'm staying married, my marriage is very very good.

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Speaker 1: The one thing that my wife and I have concluded

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Speaker 1: is that the wedding was a terrible idea see drink Smoke.

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Speaker 1: I'm Tony Katz. That is fingers below. I find it

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Speaker 1: all at Heat Drink, Smoke Show dot com. Yes, fingers

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Speaker 1: shahla la lah. Terrible idea. Why did we spend that

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Speaker 1: money on those people? Half of them we don't talk

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Speaker 1: to anymore, another quarter of which are dead?

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Speaker 2: What was the point?

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Speaker 3: See? For me, half of them are dead and the

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Speaker 3: other at least a quarter of them we don't talk

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Speaker 3: to anymore.

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Speaker 1: We could have done three weeks in Italy and those

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Speaker 1: memories would still be with us. It's not that we

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Speaker 1: didn't have a good time. Some other people didn't have

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Speaker 1: a good time. It's that we didn't We know. The

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Speaker 1: Italy trip would have been better for us. It would

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Speaker 1: have been better because it was never about the wedding.

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Speaker 1: It's about the marriage.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let me let me pose this question to you.

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Speaker 3: M You and I are you know, right around our

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Speaker 3: You know, we're in our late thirties. We've seen it all.

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Speaker 3: We've been, we've been there and we've done that. Yes,

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Speaker 3: been to I don't know a couple dozen weddings. I

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Speaker 3: don't know about you, maybe four, maybe six. You've been

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Speaker 3: at four or six weddings. I've been in four weddings. Really, Yes,

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Speaker 3: I I've been in one wedding, mister personality been in

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Speaker 3: one modding, and you're both of you and I we

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Speaker 3: both have been an efficient well, yes I.

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Speaker 2: Have been officially, I forgot about that one.

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Speaker 1: I've been I've been an efficiant at what.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I just have not been to hundreds of weddings,

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Speaker 2: like lots of people.

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Speaker 3: So how many people really want to go to somebody

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Speaker 3: else's wedding?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Depends

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Speaker 2: on the person. I feel like.

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Speaker 3: Once you reach especially once you reach a certain age,

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Speaker 3: it's one thing if you're like in your early twenties,

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Speaker 3: you're like, woo, open bar. But for the most part,

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Speaker 3: I feel like most people, unless it's like a really

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Speaker 3: close relative, think to themselves. I do not want to

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Speaker 3: go to this wedding. I don't care if it's an

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Speaker 3: open bar. Why would they pick Labor day weekend? Why

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Speaker 3: would they do a destination wedding. I don't want to

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Speaker 3: go to this wedding. I don't want to. I got

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Speaker 3: to put on a suit and go to pretend to

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Speaker 3: like other people and show up.

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Speaker 1: I feel like.

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Speaker 3: Eighty percent of the people that attend the wedding feel

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Speaker 3: like they have to be there and don't really want

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Speaker 3: to be there.

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Speaker 1: I don't know the numbers eighty percent, eighty percent, but

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Speaker 1: there's definitely those people. But by the way, we love

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Speaker 1: love here any drink, smoke and if you would like

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Speaker 1: to invite us to your wedding, we will show up.

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Speaker 1: We'll wear a tuxes, we will cut and light cigars

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Speaker 1: for everybody that's there. We won't bring you the cigars,

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Speaker 1: you have to pay for those yourself, but we will

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Speaker 1: do it. We will come to your wedding. Just email

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Speaker 1: Fingers at eatrinksmokeshow dot com. We'll take care of that.

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Speaker 1: The reason I bring up weddings s fingers Boy is

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Speaker 1: there's a story from the New York Post shocking number

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Speaker 1: of Americans open to having a sponsored wedding. Survey have

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Speaker 1: two thousand Americans. Sixty one percent said they'd consider having

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Speaker 1: a brand sponsor for their big day or would have

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Speaker 1: considered it at the time they initially got married. And

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Speaker 1: the answer is sure, why not?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm glad that's where you were going with this.

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Speaker 3: I thought this was a whole I'll sponsor your wedding

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Speaker 3: with an indecent proposal, and next thing you know, Robert

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Speaker 3: Redford runs off with your wife for half a million

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Speaker 3: dollars or was it a million?

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Speaker 2: It was a million? Was a million?

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Speaker 1: She's worth more than half a million. She's worth more

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Speaker 1: than that. Don't be ridiculous. No, uh, you know, Tony

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Speaker 1: Katz is getting married brought to you by Subway. The

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Speaker 1: catering is taken care of Subway marrying people and flavor.

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Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna say, Mary Fresh, Oh that would

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Speaker 1: have been better, damn it. Oh yeah, I could see it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I could see it. And and honestly, the tuxedo with

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Speaker 1: like a patch like you're you're a Nascar.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to thank the Texico team for putting this

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Speaker 3: wedding together. Every name off like five sponsors in the

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Speaker 3: wedding video.

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Speaker 1: Right, and you do pit stops and your groom's been

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Speaker 1: change your shoes and get you a drink.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I love this whole idea.

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Speaker 3: You know what's unfortunate about this is well, I love

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Speaker 3: the idea. You know, you you walk up, you walk

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Speaker 3: down the aisle, and your tuxedo has a Nike swoosh

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Speaker 3: on it. Right, the only people where you could see

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Speaker 3: this getting done. Are the people who could afford to

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Speaker 3: throw the wedding to begin with, Like, I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 3: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey could have their their their

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Speaker 3: wedding sponsored by someone.

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Speaker 1: Oh, but in their case, so many things are going

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Speaker 1: to be donated because they want to say we provided that.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's gonna happen for sure, for sure. Now you're

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Speaker 1: asking the question is does a brand see any value

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Speaker 1: in this whatsoever?

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Speaker 2: And the answers I have no idea.

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Speaker 3: Well, one thing I know is people ask all the time,

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Speaker 3: what's it like to go to a wedding for someone

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Speaker 3: as rich as Taylor Swift? Give you one example. At

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Speaker 3: the ceremony, afterwards the reception, they'll have two cakes.

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Speaker 2: What did you not have the two cakes?

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Speaker 3: It's a norm John nor McDonald joke. Is it Norm MacDonald?

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Speaker 3: Gone too soon?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Totally gone too soon?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you had, you had the two cakes. You had

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Speaker 3: the one cake that you cut into to do the

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Speaker 3: whole bride and groom? No, what do you how do

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Speaker 3: you feel about the bride and groom cutting the cake?

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Speaker 3: And then one of the Wisenheimer's in the couple decides

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Speaker 3: to shove the cake and the other person's face.

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Speaker 1: Media divorce, shove it in, shove cake in my face,

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Speaker 1: just kidding, and I walk and I walk, gone.

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Speaker 2: Gone.

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Speaker 1: It's not cute, it's not funny. You're a jerk of

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Speaker 1: a person. End of discussion.

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Speaker 3: But what if Pepperig Farms sponsored the cake smash.

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Speaker 1: Wedding cake brought to you by into its Well wait,

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Speaker 1: if you're doing it for the sponsor, you're like, well,

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Speaker 1: it's how we're paying for the wedding smash.

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Speaker 3: Away if you make the announcement after the fact that

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Speaker 3: they paid for it, I didn't want to, but I

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Speaker 3: like Pepperidge Farms.

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Speaker 1: So in your scenario, this has to be a secret

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Speaker 1: kept from the audience.

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Speaker 3: Yes, until after the fact when people are disgusted by

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Speaker 3: and making better.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're disgusted by it. I don't

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Speaker 1: I have no idea if they are disgusted.

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Speaker 2: By it or not.

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Speaker 3: I feel like people are taking side bets at that point.

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Speaker 3: Do we give this five years?

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Speaker 1: Do they make it?

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Speaker 2: Oh, that they're doing but they're doing that anyway.

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 1: You've never been at a wedding because I said, I

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Speaker 1: haven't been doing a ton, been to a wedding and

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Speaker 1: turned to your girlfriend of your spouse or everybody'd be

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Speaker 1: like six months time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because that person and I'm not pointing out what sender.

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Speaker 3: That person's crazy. This is not gonna last. Everybody has

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Speaker 3: done that.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that the people who attended your wedding

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Speaker 1: to the lovely Missus malloy, do you think that they

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Speaker 1: were saying, yeah, this isn't gonna last.

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Speaker 2: Probably.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I will bet you any amount of money that

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Speaker 1: got said at my wedding. I will bet you any

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Speaker 1: amount of money that got said at my wedding.

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Speaker 3: Well part for me, for me is because Missus malloy

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Speaker 3: is my third wife.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well that's a that's a thing.

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Speaker 3: She hasn't know that though. Oh shouldn't have said that

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Speaker 3: in the microphone.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry, she doesn't listen to That's true. She's working

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Speaker 2: on her fourth husband.

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Speaker 3: She's got by the way, no cake stuffing by the

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Speaker 3: way at our Oh absolutely not. I just find that

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Speaker 3: so And the other thing too, is it's so played out.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: What do you follow that with?

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Speaker 2: Y m c A.

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Speaker 3: You know there are certain things just like do you

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Speaker 3: really have to do that?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 2: I figure it's just Okay, if you play YMC A

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Speaker 2: your wedding.

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Speaker 3: But do you play it right after the cake smash? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Immediately, yes, immediately. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a wedding TJ.

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Speaker 1: Well, by the way, we will DJ your wedding and

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Speaker 1: after the cake smash we will play ymc A. Well,

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Speaker 1: you need the construction helmet anyway, got it? Don't ask

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Speaker 1: why I also have the Indian feathers. Judge me. Not

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Speaker 1: is what you what you will do?

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Speaker 3: That's just fun.

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Speaker 1: We are are drinking the two XO. This is the

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Speaker 1: Oak series American Oak forty six percent alcohol by volume,

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Speaker 1: ninety two proof better.

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Speaker 2: On the cube me, I'm just gonna go back in

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Speaker 2: real quick because it's all gone.

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Speaker 3: Good for you going back in one more time?

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Speaker 2: Yeap, yeah.

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