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Speaker 4: Have you guys ever been scammed like I'm talking about,

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Speaker 4: like bigtime scammed?

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Speaker 5: Have you ha?

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Speaker 3: Has it ever happened?

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Speaker 4: Because in this this wedding planning process, as I'm booking vendors,

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Speaker 4: you know, trying to do collabse, trying to work with

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Speaker 4: different people. Oh, I feel like everything is it.

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Speaker 3: Could be a scam, might be a scam.

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Speaker 4: Because a lot of people they want their money up front,

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Speaker 4: you know, and I'm not really a money upfront type

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Speaker 4: of girl.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, especially you got to have the money to give

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Speaker 2: it up front, which is that that's usually my issue

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Speaker 2: with with money upfront is oh so I needed now.

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Speaker 3: Then yeah, oh okay, And so I've been talking.

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Speaker 1: I thought I had until twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 4: Well, and that's how I feel because the wedding is

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Speaker 4: not until twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 3: So I'm like, wait a minute, you won't you want

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Speaker 3: all this.

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Speaker 1: Money up front?

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Speaker 4: Like what something could happen to you tomorrow and I

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Speaker 4: never see my money again. You know, I'm nervous about

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Speaker 4: the whole process, and I'm just trying to avoid being scammed.

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Speaker 4: And I was talking to my friends earlier this week

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Speaker 4: and they had these horrible stories about being scammed from

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Speaker 4: businesses that they invested in, and you know, just trusting

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Speaker 4: people with money. And I'm like, are people like how

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Speaker 4: have you been? Has this happened to y'all?

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Speaker 3: Isn't usually a deposit, Like I'm the full money up

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Speaker 3: front is crazy? And a lot of them do just

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Speaker 3: want deposits.

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Speaker 4: Have the deposits because we're talking about weddings a thousands

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Speaker 4: of dollars.

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Speaker 3: You know, how can you.

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Speaker 1: Buy insurance for this? Can't you buy wedding insurance? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Really, I think you can. I think I read it

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Speaker 2: about that that Raleigh wedding and that venue. I don't

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Speaker 2: even know if that was a result, but remember we

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Speaker 2: talked about that, uh and how they got you know,

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Speaker 2: the groom or the fiance. The groom passed away and

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Speaker 2: then they didn't get any money back.

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Speaker 1: And again I don't know.

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Speaker 2: If that's been rectified, but as you know, a few

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Speaker 2: weeks ago, they were just out the money, right, And

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Speaker 2: I think that I read somewhere that you could get

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Speaker 2: wedding insurance, ok yeah, which might be worth it just

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Speaker 2: in case, right.

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Speaker 4: I wonder how that works though, Like, so you can

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Speaker 4: they're saying, I don't like insurance at all.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that'll be a problem with you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's like I'm sure it's that you're

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Speaker 2: covered up to a certain amount or something if something happens,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not sure what the terms are.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: For instance, this lady reached out to me and she

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Speaker 4: wants to collab on making my wedding dress.

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Speaker 3: But she's in Africa, so right, right, do you like measure?

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Speaker 3: I mean, so we've been talking over zoom.

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Speaker 1: She's going to look at a picture of you. I

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Speaker 1: got it.

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Speaker 4: No, I'll go get measured here, send her the measurements,

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Speaker 4: and like we have these zoom meetings. Like she's calling

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Speaker 4: me at ten o'clock at night because of the time difference,

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Speaker 4: and I'm just like.

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Speaker 1: How did you find out about this person?

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Speaker 3: She reached out to me? What's in it for her

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Speaker 3: over in Africa? I mean money?

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Speaker 1: So like to get paid, that's right.

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Speaker 4: So she'll give me a discount on a dress, but

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Speaker 4: I need to be paid. The dress needs to be

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Speaker 4: paid in full before they will ship the dress. And

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Speaker 4: I'm like, this feels a little scammy.

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Speaker 3: And she reached out to you.

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Speaker 1: Did I don't know?

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Speaker 3: And I'm just like, while we scamming each other.

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Speaker 1: Like come on, man, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I don't know if you know you ever scammed?

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Speaker 1: Was I ever scammed? You were.

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Speaker 4: Like that?

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Speaker 2: On any digital money sharing platform. Because she's tried to

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Speaker 2: quote money around before and it didn't work.

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Speaker 5: Out, I choose to stay quiet of situations that I don't,

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Speaker 5: you know, want to put myself in. But you know, I, uh, yeah,

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Speaker 5: I've been scammed, actually I have. This is a really

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Speaker 5: dumb story. It's not even that make She had a

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Speaker 5: serious so all my friends when we were younger, we

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Speaker 5: got I ds. I'm gonna just say that, right, we

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Speaker 5: got some d's, Okay, may.

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Speaker 2: Or may not have had accurate information, accurate information on them.

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Speaker 5: You're saying, no, the guy never he took my money,

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Speaker 5: but I never got mine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I never got mine.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 3: I messaged him and it wasn't It wasn't good. So

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Speaker 3: I left it alone.

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Speaker 5: I was like, you know what came a little hundred

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Speaker 5: dollars crusty, You're fine, Like I don't. I'm gonna argue

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Speaker 5: with you about it. So that was my only scam.

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Speaker 5: Now after that, you know, things have happened. I've been

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Speaker 5: involved in stuff, but it wasn't bad. I would never

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Speaker 5: scam anybody personally.

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Speaker 2: That would make me nervous too, to give to get

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Speaker 2: people lots and lots of money, you know, ahead of time,

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Speaker 2: knowing that eighteen months from now is when I claim it,

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Speaker 2: you know exactly.

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Speaker 4: And people are making a good someone made a good

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Speaker 4: point on the text. They say, key, key, they don't

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Speaker 4: want to get scammed by you or you're canceled wedding.

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Speaker 2: That could be true, right, and the deposit I get

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Speaker 2: right because if I'm saying to you, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: be available on November twenty first to twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 2: and then you change your mind, and then you know,

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Speaker 2: we get I don't know, several months away, and now

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Speaker 2: I can't feel that date understand that. But I see

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Speaker 2: well and I don't understand in the case of someone dying,

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Speaker 2: I mean, if they're extenuating circumstances, I would hope that

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Speaker 2: somebody would work with me, like things that were completely

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Speaker 2: out of my control, right, But if you just change

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Speaker 2: your mind, or you guys break up, or you decide

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Speaker 2: I want to go with somebody else, that's not my problem.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: No, the event, the event is happening, with or without

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Speaker 4: the event, I would jar rule is already booked, is happening,

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Speaker 4: so they can maybe.

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Speaker 1: A celebration of you either way.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 4: So I'm just like, this whole thing is just a

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Speaker 4: it's a very scary feeling though, because it's so expensive.

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Speaker 3: Everything is.

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Speaker 2: I remember when I was really pretty young, I mean

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Speaker 2: probably like eight nine, we had a babysitter and she

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Speaker 2: lived near the house, and so like my parents would

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Speaker 2: go to dinner and sometimes we'd go to dinner. You know,

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Speaker 2: they'd be like, go get pizza or something, and then

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Speaker 2: sometimes we'd go to like her parents' house and she

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Speaker 2: lived with her boyfriend, and her boyfriend was a wedding DJ.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know why I remember this, I mean,

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Speaker 2: all these years later, but he used to let me

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Speaker 2: play with the equipment, like because I liked radio and

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Speaker 2: music stuff and you know, so I used to like

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Speaker 2: be and I'm sure that was really great for everyone

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Speaker 2: in the house to hear me try and like span

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Speaker 2: at eight years old. But he was trying to teach

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Speaker 2: me and whatever. So we go over there. It was

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Speaker 2: a Saturday night, my parents were on a date, and

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Speaker 2: I'm doing this stuff and I remember, I don't know

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Speaker 2: why I remember this so vividly, but the nanny or

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Speaker 2: babysitter's dad walks in and goes, hey, man, don't you

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Speaker 2: have a wedding tonight? And he goes, yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 2: going what he just didn't go. He just he was

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Speaker 2: the wedding DJ for someone's wedding and he just didn't go.

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Speaker 1: And at the time, I'm like, that's weird, you know.

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Speaker 2: And I remember telling my parents that and they were like,

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Speaker 2: do you have any ida, Like of course I did,

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Speaker 2: and I don't think I've been to a wedding before,

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Speaker 2: but like the entertainment just didn't show Can you imagine,

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Speaker 2: Oh and this dude just wasn't feeling it.

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Speaker 3: I would be deva.

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Speaker 1: I mean you don't you get sued for something like that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, can you the day of your wedding and

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Speaker 2: you're getting everything ready and like the music just doesn't show.

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Speaker 4: Up right, Like you cannot You cannot play with people

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Speaker 4: on their wedding day, Like hairstyle is makeup artists the past.

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Speaker 4: Everybody needs to be information or else I will come

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Speaker 4: to your house.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I suppose now, all these years later, I mean,

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Speaker 2: worst case we could we could plug some speakers in

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Speaker 2: and get someone's playlist going. At least there'd be a vibe.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm not saying that's that's not a substitute, but

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Speaker 2: like then, yeah, I mean this was in the nineties,

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Speaker 2: Like what were you what are you gonna do? Like

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Speaker 2: get someone's case logic CD thing out and like sit there,

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Speaker 2: and I mean there was there was really no alternative.

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Speaker 2: Turn the radio one, yeah, he skipping turn the radio

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Speaker 2: for our medium. But yeah, no, I don't I just

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Speaker 2: remember I don't know why I remember that so vividly.

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Speaker 2: But now every time I think about like people planning weddings,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, somebody could just not show up. It's

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Speaker 2: so crazy and that's gonna kill your business now, especially

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Speaker 2: because now you've got all the Google reviews and everything's

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Speaker 2: so much more public now. But at the time, these

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Speaker 2: poor people, these poor people don't have a wedding view.

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Speaker 5: Ta