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Speaker 1: Tell them, Yeah, they talk better than they These are the.

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Speaker 2: Radio blogs on the Fred Show, and we're bena testing

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Speaker 2: our YouTube streaming this morning too.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we are beta testing.

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Speaker 3: So you can see us on our YouTube right now and.

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Speaker 2: Search for the Fread Show and subscribe. It's a beta test.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing something to you. If you feel it, I

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Speaker 2: certainly hope. So Jason, let's do a blog.

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Speaker 1: Take it away? Thank you?

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Speaker 3: So much pressure. Because I'm on YouTube live right now,

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Speaker 3: I know, all of a.

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Speaker 2: Sudden, it's like there are seven people what I don't

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Speaker 2: even if there's a seven, and several of them are

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Speaker 2: already in this room watching ourselves.

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Speaker 1: So never mind, we don't have that many people.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's yeah, that's harder. So deer blog. So I

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Speaker 4: have as we always do. We have a crazy June,

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Speaker 4: right There's a million things happening. It's Pride month. There's

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Speaker 4: just a million events we have to do. In the

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Speaker 4: middle of all of it, I am officiating my first

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Speaker 4: wedding in like a little over two weeks from now,

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Speaker 4: so I'm like trying to wrap my head around, like

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Speaker 4: how to work this out. So last Friday, Mike and

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Speaker 4: I had dinner with his nephew and his fiancee. Who

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Speaker 4: are the couple that I am whose wedding I'm officiating for.

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Speaker 4: And of course we went to our favorite Mexican restaurant

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Speaker 4: and it's your church. Yes, next right, you would go

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Speaker 4: all right? I tried to talk them into actually having

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Speaker 4: the ceremony there. Yeah, like me up there with a clergy.

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Speaker 2: Right, I assume you went through the arduous process of

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Speaker 2: the Universal Life Church.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's very hard.

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Speaker 3: I have the badge. I have this certificate kit.

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Speaker 1: Well depends which kitchen.

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Speaker 2: Did you get the deluxe kit that comes with the

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Speaker 2: parking pass from the hospital?

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Speaker 4: Everything I got like the top tier. I got a

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Speaker 4: whole packet of stop. I didn't even go through it.

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Speaker 4: There's like a magazine in it, Like I don't know

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Speaker 4: what it is, but I.

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Speaker 2: Know he conducts Mass on Friday nights at his favorite

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Speaker 2: Mexican restaurant. And instead of the chalice of you're a Catholic,

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Speaker 2: instead of the chalice of wine, which Margarita.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that is the altar that I worship at.

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Speaker 2: And then he wipes it and turns it and then

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Speaker 2: you know, you get your turn anyway, Sorry, sorry, sorry,

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Speaker 2: I digress.

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Speaker 3: Exactly that sounds like a great friend to night.

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Speaker 4: So we had dinner and I brought and I found

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Speaker 4: a script that I was like sort of tweaking and

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Speaker 4: going section by section, and they were like, no, we

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Speaker 4: don't want that, we want to skip that, we don't

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Speaker 4: want to do that. And then so I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 4: like I'm taking notes like whatever. They don't want to

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Speaker 4: shout out their dead relatives, got it, Okay?

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Speaker 3: Cool? So I'm like, right, like, you know, pour one out.

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Speaker 4: So then we're going through and then Mike starts chiming in,

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Speaker 4: who has vehemently said since the beginning of this process

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Speaker 4: that he doesn't want to have a role, like he

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Speaker 4: want to be an usher. He just wants to sit

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Speaker 4: they he doesn't like that, right. So but all of

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Speaker 4: a sudden he's got an opinion about like what I

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Speaker 4: should be doing. Right, So let's say he's like, well

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Speaker 4: it better be funny, like it better be your here

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Speaker 4: I'm not here to be. So I'm like, is does

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Speaker 4: here like jef GM Comedy Hour, Like that's not what

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Speaker 4: I was planning, Like I was gonna throw a little

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Speaker 4: you know, pizzazz in it. I wasn't gonna like go

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Speaker 2: Fun and I I have done many of these, and

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Speaker 2: I this isn't my idea. A few different people can't talk.

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Speaker 2: I can't talk this why I don't do them anymore.

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Speaker 2: A few different people gave me this idea. But I

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Speaker 2: can give you a questionnaire. It's a two page questionnaire

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Speaker 1: How did you meet?

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Speaker 2: And it's a bunch of different things, and then you

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Speaker 2: give it to both the same question to both of them,

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Speaker 2: and then you take the information that they fill out

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Speaker 2: and integrate that into what you're saying. But you can

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Speaker 2: ask funny questions like I don't know about memories, like

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Speaker 1: Where was your first kiss?

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Speaker 2: And you can even play off of the fact that

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Speaker 1: I can give you my little script too. I got

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Speaker 1: a little script.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yes, I'll take you out.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm a veteran of the I'm married three

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Speaker 2: lesbian couples at once.

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Speaker 1: You were there.

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Speaker 4: Because you were there, be trained, you know, learn from greatness.

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Speaker 4: But I was also well done. If you want greatness,

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Speaker 4: then we'll get you quickly over something. But like I

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Speaker 4: can give you, like just to get you through it.

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Speaker 4: I'll take what I can get. What I was also

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Speaker 4: thinking was finding people that like weren't giving speeches that

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Speaker 4: getting like a couple one liners from them right, like

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Speaker 3: But I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, don't try it, like put funny things in it,

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Speaker 2: but don't try and be funny. That's the biggest like

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Speaker 2: wedding speech gaff that I see from people is that

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Speaker 2: they write jokes right, and they're not comedians and they're

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Speaker 2: not speakers, and there's no fault of their own, but

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Speaker 2: they go up there and they're nervous already, and then

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Speaker 2: feel deflated, So like, don't write jokes, like maybe put

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Speaker 2: stuff in there that's cute or funny. Yeah, but then

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Speaker 2: if you don't hit, then you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: you feel bad. Yeah, like you're right because we're not

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Speaker 2: Chris Rock up here and Dave Chappelle. So yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: this is gonna be the icebreaker. I'm gonna say it.

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Speaker 2: Within the first minute. Everyone's gonna laugh, and then I'm

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Speaker 1: And then that's how you start.

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Speaker 4: So exactly the rest of the exactly, so I don't know,

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Speaker 4: I'm getting really nervous, but you got this. I'll take

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Speaker 4: any and all suggestions and resources that you might have.

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Speaker 3: You got this when I think of preacher, when I

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Speaker 4: You know, a man of the word, Jason Brown, that's

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Speaker 4: how you got That's what Mike might be.

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Speaker 3: He's like, you know, you need to have a handheld Mike.

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Speaker 3: You be walking around.

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Speaker 2: Either get involved or you get out Mike the mechanics.

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Speaker 2: You you find some rolling here, you know, either you

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Speaker 2: change out their carburetor or something in the middle of

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Speaker 2: this thing, or you can have a seat and then

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Speaker 2: stay out.

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Speaker 4: Like you don't have to get up and do anything

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Speaker 4: like I have. Oh gosh, so yeah, I'm a little nervous,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be fine.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, You're gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be great.

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Speaker 2: Now you're gonna wear like a full like you're gonna

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Speaker 2: have like a chalice and you're gonna wear like a

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Speaker 4: I wanted to give Popolo like, that's what I wanted to,

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Speaker 2: White hat they wouldn't let me. But really that's mainly

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Speaker 2: because it's sacriligious. But other than that, never mind.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we gotta hit a church.

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Speaker 2: So I remember when we married the uh it was

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Speaker 2: I remember we did the rehearsal and the people, like

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Speaker 2: think I was gonna take it seriously.

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Speaker 1: They were like, this is some kind of joke for you.

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Speaker 2: And I remember at the end of it, one of

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Speaker 2: the mothers of the bride, it was not nice to me.

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Speaker 2: She was rude to me the whole time. Wow, because

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Speaker 2: I think she thought it was a joke. I think

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Speaker 2: it seriously, And I'm like, yes, I take other people's

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Speaker 1: I do. I take other people's lifelong commitment seriously. My

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Speaker 1: own not really