1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: I married my best friend to save on taxes, but 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: I accidentally fell in love. The problem is he's straight. Okayop, 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: this is OKAYOP. I'm Samuel Donner and I'm John, and 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: we read the funniest stories on the internet. And John, 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 1: have you ever had like that conversation with a friend 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: where it's just like, hey, from out of the country, 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,119 Speaker 1: would love to stay in the US, but there's only 8 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: one way that I can stay. 9 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 2: I've had some international friends. That is an offer I 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 2: have never received, though. 11 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: I've never received the offer, and I've never really been 12 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: quite asked to give the offer. One of my roommates 13 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: is from India and Loki like, if he doesn't, you know, 14 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: have a job, he has to leave the US. Like 15 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: I think he has like a couple months to find 16 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: like employment or something. So I mean, he has a 17 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 1: job right now, but if you ever didn't, he would 18 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: have to leave the US. And so there's talk amongst 19 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: the apartment on who's going to marry Arhan first. 20 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 3: Takeway for the team so the team can stay together. 21 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: That's right, But yeah, did green card weddings they happen, 22 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: not just John, just for people to stay in in 23 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: the US, but also just for tax purposes, like you 24 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,639 Speaker 1: can't save a ton on taxi one hundred percent. 25 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 2: It also makes some great content on ninety day Fiance Fantastic. 26 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: Dude, Like, does anyone think everyone knows those relationships are 27 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: a sham? 28 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 3: Right? 29 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 2: They do, But that's the point, the beauty of it 30 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 2: is we all know they're a sham. The people in 31 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 2: them do not know they are a sham. 32 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 3: And I feel like you said, the fiances know they 33 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 3: are the sham. Right. 34 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 2: The men who are like trying to get women from overseas, 35 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 2: they believe it's real. 36 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, they believe it's real, but they overseas people are like, yo, 37 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get that green card in that 38 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: bag green card. 39 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 2: There's literally one case of someone who is literally only 40 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 2: messaging someone from Ukraine. Maybe they've seen a few pictures, 41 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 2: but I think it might have been just one pictures 42 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 2: for eight years, been to Ukraine multiple times, and they 43 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 2: would basically just say like, oh, I'll be here, I'll 44 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 2: meet up with you, and then of course they never 45 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 2: met up. But he will not give up. Eight years, 46 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 2: years and one hundred thousand dollars gone. Wow, I told 47 00:01:57,840 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 2: you it made some good content. 48 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: Holy well, that just blew my mind, and hopefully the 49 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: story will blow your mind because it covers a very 50 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: similar topic. 51 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 3: It does. 52 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: I married my best friend to save on taxes, but 53 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: I accidentally fell in love. 54 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 3: The problem is he's straight. 55 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems like it would propose some issues in 56 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 2: the relationships. 57 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 3: Some issues, let's go jeez, everybody's a comedian. 58 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: Me, twenty one Mail, and my best friend's brother, twenty 59 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: five Mail, were roommates in an expensive southern California home. 60 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 3: At the time. 61 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: I was still doing my undergrad and my buddy was 62 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 1: a full time engineer. 63 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 3: He was extremely. 64 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: Bright, sociable, so it ended up causing some engineering firms 65 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: to fight over him and getting paid extremely well as 66 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 1: an entry level engineer at an aerospace firm. 67 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 3: Making that bre a baby. Both. 68 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: As young as he was, he cared about his finances 69 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: a lot. We used to have at length conversations about 70 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: how taxes were killing him in California and how he 71 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: would be bawling harder if he was married or something. 72 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 1: He asked me to see if one of my would 73 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: marry him to help reduce the tax numbers, and he's 74 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: willing to pay her fifteen hundred dollars a month. 75 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 2: Hey, that's a pretty penny. 76 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 3: Penny canny, bro, that's so cash month. 77 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 2: That is you can pick work that you want to 78 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 2: do with that. Yeah, that's that's rent. 79 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 3: Baby. 80 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 2: You no longer have to work for money. You can 81 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 2: work for what you want to do. 82 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 3: That's rent. 83 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 1: I took this opportunity to jokingly say, marry me, I'd 84 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: happily take one thousand dollars. Gay marriage was legal in California, 85 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: and I said I wouldn't mind. After contemplating for a 86 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,959 Speaker 1: few days, he came back to me and said he'd 87 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: do it and pay the rent. So off we went 88 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: on our honeymoon. We got fancy clothes, We went and 89 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: took wedding photos. We went to a courthouse, brought my 90 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: best friend and another buddy as witnesses and buy them. 91 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 3: We were married. 92 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: I ended with one thousand dollars a month and rent free. Wow, 93 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: he got a huge tax reduction and so is a 94 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: win win for both parties. 95 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 3: That is incredible. Yeah, dude, this is a great. 96 00:03:58,440 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 2: This is a great deal. 97 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: During this whole marriage, about three to four years, we 98 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: got to know each other at a deeper level. I 99 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: don't know if it was a paranoia or what. But 100 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: we had got to know know each other. He was 101 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: extremely smart. We were both anime nerds, PC enthusiasts, great gamers, 102 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,359 Speaker 1: and former engineering students. We had so much in common, 103 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: and he was pretty cute. Unbeknownst to him, I was 104 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: by and I fell in love with him. 105 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 3: Oh this canon will oh God? 106 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 2: Like, I wonder if it crossed Op's mind like that 107 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 2: was a possibility going into it. He probably already knew Okay, 108 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: I clicked with this guy. He probably thought he was 109 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 2: cute before. You know, you think he would maybe be like, 110 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 2: should I do this? Given that you mean op or OP? 111 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 2: It's like, what about the possibilities of me actually falling 112 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 2: in love with him? 113 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 3: I don't know. 114 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: If you think you're going to fall in love before 115 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: you fall in love, you know that's true. I think 116 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 1: he's just thinking, like, damn, that's a bag. Yeah, you know, 117 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars a month, I'll marry a man for 118 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: that man and I are getting married for tax purposes 119 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 1: now that we have a company together. Yes, the thing 120 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,919 Speaker 1: is he was straight, and telling him would be really 121 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: awkward and may even destroy our friendship in mutual agreement. 122 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: So I kept it going for as long as I 123 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: could and drown my sorrow in liquor. 124 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,799 Speaker 3: Weed in indie video games is a recipe for disaster. 125 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: I love the third one indie video games. My husband 126 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: found a woman he loved during our marriage. She was 127 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,359 Speaker 1: cool as hell. They eventually reached the point of deciding 128 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: marriage was what they do, so me and my buddy 129 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: got divorced. My heart was shattered. 130 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:29,559 Speaker 3: Of course. 131 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:31,919 Speaker 1: I was happy for them, but sad for myself. So 132 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: I went down a spiral, but caught myself and got therapy, 133 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: and it helped tremendously with reorganizing my feelings and finding 134 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: out I fell in love with the thought of my friend. 135 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: I'm now happily married to a woman who was a 136 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 1: good friend during college, and now we're all good friends. 137 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 2: Wow. Oh man, I gotta give a little clap for 138 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 2: that one. Like, that's a great story. 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