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Speaker 1: This is Kelly Henderson and you are listening to the

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Speaker 1: Velvet Edge podcast. My guest this week is Hugh Houser

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Speaker 1: of Aged three Events. Hugh is Nashville's go to guy

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Speaker 1: for weddings, and since the wedding industry has been one

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Speaker 1: of the main industries to crash overnight during this pandemic,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to get the details of what that specifically

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Speaker 1: looks like. He also gave some tips for brides to

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Speaker 1: the best wedding possible, no matter what your budget. He

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Speaker 1: even gave me his secret for the best at Hometan,

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Speaker 1: which is something I think we all need. Right now,

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Speaker 1: here's our conversation, you Houser. Can I like, this is

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Speaker 1: so weird that I have never met you. I feel

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Speaker 1: like I know you because we have so many mutual friends.

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Speaker 1: But it's one of those Nashville things where I've actually

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Speaker 1: never met you. Greens together for something. You know that's

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Speaker 1: true before coronavirus, of course, before everyone bought the toilet paper.

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Speaker 1: I know, and if I club, if I ran into

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Speaker 1: you today, we've I wouldn't recognize each other because half

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Speaker 1: of our faces would be covered. It's such a weird

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Speaker 1: world we're living in so weird, but you would know

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Speaker 1: mine because my mask would be covered in spray tan. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's a good point. You also said you did a

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Speaker 1: blowout today for this podcast, which I really appreciate. I did.

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Speaker 1: I didn't have a hair dresser come over here, and

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Speaker 1: I did it all on my own. And I've got

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Speaker 1: carpal tunnel hanging in there. I'm hanging in there. I'm

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Speaker 1: so glad you're ready for you. Because Bill, it's itch,

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Speaker 1: which sounds like a lifetime movie tout. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how to take that. Where there's like a designer in

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Speaker 1: New York that's killed someone. I could see that because

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Speaker 1: a little yeah, it's like, what is that Delta Berg

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Speaker 1: that whole Designing Women meets a murder mystery. I like

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Speaker 1: that my favorite Wow new content ideas every night. That's weird.

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Speaker 1: I know, well, she always figures it out. She didn't

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Speaker 1: never travel with her because someone that is true, I

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Speaker 1: would not want her in my life. Well, let's let's

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Speaker 1: talk about um, your career, because you own h three

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Speaker 1: events and we were talking before. Obviously there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of changes happening in the event planning world as there

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Speaker 1: is in the entire world. But your event planning company

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Speaker 1: is huge. I mean you plan events for celebrities. You've

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Speaker 1: Even Nathan Followell from Kings of Leon. So you're all

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Speaker 1: over the place with all of these events, all over

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Speaker 1: the wedding world because that is one of the main

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Speaker 1: things in Nashville that you're known for. What are the

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Speaker 1: main changes that you've seen that have happened since coronavirus hit? Well,

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Speaker 1: most people, well, it's horrible, let's just be honest. That's

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Speaker 1: horrible because most people have invested so much money and

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Speaker 1: it's it's all about money when it comes down to it.

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Speaker 1: And that's all I mean. Right now, brides are asking

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Speaker 1: me to see about getting discounts, you know, on various

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Speaker 1: and and while you want to, you can't. The people

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Speaker 1: And then and we're trying to find a happy medium

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Speaker 1: about me, the good news for me and for Kate.

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Speaker 1: Kate Steals my business partner. She's all the brainians I'm

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Speaker 1: fall weddings are are right, you know, are pretty much done.

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Speaker 1: exactly exactly have you seen a lot of just complete cancelations,

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Speaker 1: how they lead off with. But there's usually chaos and

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of people waiting. A lot of people

424
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Speaker 1: don't like to wait for cocktails. They don't like to wait.

425
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Speaker 1: Do you remember that life Like I feel like my

426
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 1: life is waiting right now. But the urgency we used

427
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Speaker 1: to live in. Wow. Interesting that is that You're exactly right,

428
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Speaker 1: And that's the key. When I was thinking that today,

429
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 1: there were some traffic today and I couldn't believe it.

430
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 1: I haven't had any traffic in a while. Yeah, And

431
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 1: I was thinking, this is my old life right here. Yes,

432
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 1: getting irritated with traffic. I had that moment yesterday. But

433
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,399
Speaker 1: nobody likes to wait, and that's a huge that's a

434
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:17,920
Speaker 1: huge issue at weddings. Yes, that is so true. I

435
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:22,360
Speaker 1: feel like weddings these days before a coronavirus um had

436
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 1: just become these elaborate events, which is so amazing and beautiful.

437
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 1: Do you feel like there's a lot of people that

438
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: just are overstressing and they're not able to just stay

439
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,560
Speaker 1: calm and enjoy the wedding and maybe like even the

440
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,440
Speaker 1: whole purpose of celebrating the love, Like, are they getting

441
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,720
Speaker 1: so wrapped up in just the planning process? Not really.

442
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 1: We kind of keep it at bay, so like we

443
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,640
Speaker 1: we really break it up. And since we're two minds,

444
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 1: you know, they're only talking to me about decor and

445
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 1: creative side of it. They're talking to her about catering,

446
00:22:53,760 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 1: bay and photography, logistics, transportation. Um, you know the actual ceremony. Um,

447
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 1: we kind of break it down in the very very

448
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 1: first meeting. So in the very first meeting, they already

449
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 1: know the plan. And then they every time we have

450
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 1: a meeting, they usually say, oh, thank God for you guys.

451
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know where I begin. And

452
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: then some people are very a time and love all

453
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: of it and love every detail of it, and they

454
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: get in my car and follow me all around. And then, um,

455
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: some people really love all the budgeting stuff and our

456
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: accounts themselves, and they are sitting at Kate's desk with

457
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,959
Speaker 1: her all day and you know, figuring, figuring all that out.

458
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Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't hear anything worse. Oh, I just

459
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,640
Speaker 1: I mean, as long as they tell me where to stay,

460
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: I stay. And then it usually always goes over. And

461
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 1: then we have a tweak and nobody ever wants to tweak.

462
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 1: And you know, and here's another some other advice budget

463
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: wise for for brides. So you have a meeting. Let's

464
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: say you don't have a planner. You go have a meeting.

465
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Speaker 1: Let's just say you start with your invitations and nothing

466
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 1: in your price range you like, Which is the story

467
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 1: of all of our lives. Which is shoes, whether it's jackets,

468
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: whether it's anything. We always like the best thing. That's

469
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: called having having excellent taste. Well you have to pay

470
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: for that. So you say to yourself, Okay, well it's

471
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 1: just thirteen dollars over my budget, you know. So, for instance,

472
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 1: Q and Kate tell the vendor, will they have to

473
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Speaker 1: this person needs to stay in this price range, and

474
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Speaker 1: so we show them things that are totally in their

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Speaker 1: price range. So they don't We don't even have to

476
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 1: worry about it. They can pick out of out of

477
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,439
Speaker 1: hundreds of things they can pick out. But if they

478
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: don't like any of it, because all the really pretty

479
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: ones are up on this shelf behind me, and they

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Speaker 1: let's say they want all that, then that takes them

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Speaker 1: over budget. Let's just say that's twenty dollars. Well, in

482
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: their head they're thinking, well, that's just twenty dollars over budget,

483
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: you know. No, that's where it begins. Everything flowers and outrageous.

484
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 1: This is really what you can afford. Well I don't

485
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: like that, I want that one. We have to take that,

486
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,239
Speaker 1: you know. That's sort of that's sort of that's how

487
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 1: it all begins and where it where it should stop.

488
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 1: So in the very beginning, you should say, is it

489
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 1: really worth it? Or would I rather save my money

490
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 1: and put some more money towards the band or to

491
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 1: the bar, or towards the core my dance floor. Really

492
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: figuring that out, Yeah, so that's really that's that's where

493
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 1: you get catchy. So then I'll call Kate and say,

494
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, they went over budget, because I'm like,

495
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 1: we're like two old church ladies who call each other

496
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: and paddle him and I would like, they want ever

497
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,879
Speaker 1: budget on it, and she's like okay. So then she'll

498
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Speaker 1: contact the mother and say, just so you know, you're

499
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Speaker 1: over budget on this, and she's like, oh yeah, I

500
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,959
Speaker 1: proved it, no problem, no big deal, I don't care

501
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 1: or whatever. And as long as they approve it, you know,

502
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: we're good. And we spend I mean, she spends hours

503
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: on that stuff. You know, it's just constant. Well, you

504
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: know you're over on this. And then she'll call me

505
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: and say, okay, we can't be over on this. You've

506
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,919
Speaker 1: gotta cut You've got to cut back, So cut back

507
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: and show them where they'll be. So then I'll have

508
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 1: to go back and redo all the decor show them

509
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 1: where they'll be. If they say yes, we're good, we

510
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: move on. If they say no, they pay the higher

511
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Speaker 1: price and we move on. Man, quite a balancing act.

512
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: It is a balancing act and then we get it

513
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 1: all the way down and see what happens. Is an

514
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Speaker 1: event planning and which brides will know with or without planners.

515
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: The decor area, My area is so variable. I get

516
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: stomped on every time because I don't have You can

517
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: cut me, you can cut a photographer, you can cut me,

518
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 1: because you don't have to have everything right. But it's

519
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: gonna be gorgeous. Well, that's what I was just about

520
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: to say. I spent some time on your website, which

521
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: is H three events dot com for anyone who wants

522
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 1: to go check it out. But your weddings, oh, you

523
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: know it. Your weddings are beautiful. I mean, it's just

524
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 1: that's what I said earlier. Their epic and so it

525
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 1: would be very hard for me, knowing your style, to

526
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: want to cut that right. And then so I'll have

527
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: and and listen, I have hysterical clients that will call

528
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: me and be like, okay, we gotta cut all this.

529
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: In fact, I had great, what a great lesson. So

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00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,439
Speaker 1: she called me and she said, let's cut all this.

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Speaker 1: I don't need that. I don't need this, I don't

532
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: need that. She had dissected all down because I had

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00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: Kate had center all the decor, you know, line items,

534
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: so we could cut it all, you know, where she

535
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 1: could see what what was she was meant what she

536
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: was gonna lose if she went with a lower budget. Okay,

537
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: She's like, okay, that's perfect, I want to go with

538
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: all that. Well, she went to a wedding and she

539
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: hated it. So then she called me and she was like,

540
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 1: bring it all back. And I told you in the

541
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: very beginning, I've used this. I've used this so many times.

542
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 1: This is years ago. And she said, I told you

543
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 1: in the very beginning, I'm not scared to spend it,

544
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: but I won't waste it. Oh. I love that. I

545
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: love the two. She goes, I'll spend I'm not scared

546
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: to spend it, but I won't waste it. So if

547
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 1: it's worth it, it's worth it. It's worth it. Yeah. Yeah,

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00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,719
Speaker 1: I kind of think it is at this point, especially

549
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: that is the you know, the big celebration for you

550
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: and the way that you pictured it. You know, if

551
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: you're one of those girls who's dreamed about this day

552
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: for your whole entire life. You want it to be

553
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: as beautiful as possible, right, and you've gone and we've

554
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: worked together for so long. That's the best part of this.

555
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,199
Speaker 1: The only reason I even do it, and and I

556
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: got into it in such a weird way, but the

557
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: only reason I do it is because it's so fun

558
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: to see all these vendors, all these people I have

559
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: all these meetings but I talked to on the phone,

560
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: and you know, I drive them crazy, you know that's

561
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: but at the very end, how it all just comes

562
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: to life right in front of my face is the

563
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: best feeling in the whole world, whether the whether the

564
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: client knows it or not, like it all happened, because

565
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: they sometimes they can't even picture it, you know, they

566
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: don't really realize. They see everything on a board and

567
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,919
Speaker 1: they see their design decks that I, you know, present

568
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: to them that they don't really grasp the whole room,

569
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: you know, and then when they walk in, and that's

570
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: the best feeling in the history of the world. Yeah,

571
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: Just people don't really understand that. How because even when

572
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,479
Speaker 1: we're not talking to the brides, you know, they panic.

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00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: You know, they have a cake so funny, they have

574
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: like a you know, they have a six month panic,

575
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 1: they have a three months It's all we can even

576
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: predict it. Like I should just put them in there.

577
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: Are probably call them the day before and be like,

578
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna black out tomorrow. But but today,

579
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: remember everything's okay. Because when you're not talking to your planner,

580
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: that's our only job. You have to be working on

581
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: you constantly. Otherwise nothing would happen. Right, I've been on

582
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: the phone with the Gun Club of Tennessee trying to

583
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: reserve the entire gun club for a bunch of guys

584
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: to shoot. You know that. Actually I would love to

585
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: see that. I can't want you to have a meeting.

586
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: I hope to have like a hot instructor who's like, oh,

587
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: Coulton and then here's my gun. But I don't even know.

588
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: I don't even know anything about a gun and here,

589
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: you know, then you're planning an event the Gun Club

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00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: of Tennessee. Young lord. Oh my gosh. Well, like I said,

591
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: you guys can check out Hughes Events at Age three

592
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,719
Speaker 1: events dot com. I have some other very important questions

593
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: to ask you though, because I was. I was on

594
00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: your Instagram earlier and your Instagram by a describes you

595
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: as an event planner, a comedian, and it says that

596
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: you're usually tan. So I need you to give myself

597
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: and all the listeners your tips for staying tan and quarantine.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've never been more pale in my life. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now I am. I make fun of influencers all the

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Speaker 1: time Instagram. I do not I do not understand why

601
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Speaker 1: anybody needs I mean, I think it's great to promote

602
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: something like yeah, of course you're buying it, but I

603
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: have people want to give me three so whole time

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00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: and tell me to promote it. Well, I'm happy to

605
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: buy it if I like it, if you like Yeah.

606
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Speaker 1: It's like when you go to a skincare place and

607
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: they're like, this is the best lotion and hit your

608
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Speaker 1: eyeballs will recess back into your head and you'll become

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Speaker 1: an embryo. I mean you're going, I'm like, well, give

610
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Speaker 1: me a sample of it and I'll exactly how it works, right,

611
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: you know That's kind of my philosophy and all that, ok.

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00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: Because it drives me crazy, hoodie, I don't want to

613
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: buy hoodies from you. If I did want to buy it,

614
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: I just don't order it online. We all have the internet, okay,

615
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 1: So why do I have to give you a percent

616
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: of the sales? Okay? And people are worried about people

617
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: worried about returning there their money that they invested for

618
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: their most gorgeous wedding. We're paying people eight percent for

619
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Speaker 1: a hoodie, okay. Okay. So I have this girl who

620
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: comes to my house and spray tans me in my

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Speaker 1: dining room. They have a tent, so my dine room

622
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Speaker 1: is not terra cotta like my like my kneecaps. But

623
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Speaker 1: but I used this product. Well, now that I'm home quarantining,

624
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Speaker 1: I used. She shipped me the lotion and it's called

625
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: Sunless Bloom and it's i'm less Bloom. Okay. It's the

626
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Speaker 1: best ever. And I've never even heard of it. Well,

627
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,479
Speaker 1: it's kinda new. She was just doing it was her

628
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: own formula, but she was spraying me with it, you

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Speaker 1: know here, and it's great because you put it on

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Speaker 1: and it dries. And I've had I have air listen.

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Speaker 1: I am George Hamilton, I am Katokalin, I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: tan I am I haven't even seen my epidermis since nine. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so I'm telling you I know about Tanning. I trust,

634
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Speaker 1: and I've been tail sort of during this quarantine to

635
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: give myself a break. But when I say pale, I

636
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: mean like you yeah, I'm still putting. You're like yeah, medium,

637
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: And I just thought this. I bought this overall over

638
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: the shoulder thing that you can apply to your back.

639
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: It's like what it's like a paddle and you can

640
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: do put it on your back. I see this is

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00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: I needed to influence on this. I would swipe up

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00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: on this ship so fast. Yes, now I would swipe

643
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: up on that. I would swipe up on that. But

644
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: but I would also google, like how do you tang

645
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: your back? Right? Right? Okay? So I got this like

646
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: wand thing from Loving Tank is a great product too.

647
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure I've never used their their their lotions, but

648
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: everybody loves it. Okay. So I got their big wand

649
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: to put on my back. So blim is what it

650
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: used because it drives really fast, so you can put

651
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: it on and go out like you you know, some

652
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: of you're sticky and smell bad. I feel like you've

653
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: been like in a in mayonnaise and a sleeping bags

654
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: hate that. I can't stand it, and there some are

655
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: so sticky, and then I'm freckly too. I look like

656
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: I look like I don't know Andy what's his name,

657
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: Andy Griffith's opie. I mean, yeah, yeah, Howard. Yeah, I'm

658
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: frankly too. So when I put some of the other

659
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: creams on, they make my freckles like I look like

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00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: a Dalmatian. They make them. Oh yeah, hers just evens

661
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: you out and makes you tan. So this is the

662
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: sun Less Bloom, Sunless Bloom, and she's on Instagram. It's amazing.

663
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: I'm literally gonna go by this when we finished. And

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Speaker 1: I get the dark one because I like everything dark,

665
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: so I think I think she has light, you know, fair,

666
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: medium and dark. I get the dark one because I'm

667
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: not an animal. I really really really like to be tanned.

668
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: And Sunless Bloom is it. And I pay for it,

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00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: so this is not some sort of endorsement deal. I

670
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: pay for and I bought four of it. Do you

671
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 1: spray this? Well, it's like a foam, so you okay?

672
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? The mits good and the mid its great

673
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: because your hands aren't nasty. Okay, some mits are not

674
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: good as others ternament. It's really good, good thick, kind

675
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 1: of thin and your your hands look like your a mechanic.

676
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: Oh that's no good. No, So we like the Sunless

677
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: Bloom brand mit as well. Yeah, well yes, there isn't.

678
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: It's a it's a thick black mit that's amazing and

679
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: you can use either side and you can wash it

680
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: and all that. Wow. Droping knowledge about the tan on

681
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: the podcast. But disclaimer, I did pay for that, right right, right,

682
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: right right. You're not being paid that you You actually

683
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: are a customer, which I appreciate. Um, everybody's gonna stay

684
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: in business. Everybody's gonna stay in business. And I'm telling

685
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: you because Nashville has been so rainy and cold it's May.

686
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: I'm so confused about this weather situation. But I just

687
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: keep saying to myself, I've really got a dial in

688
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: my tanning program because spray to hands are not happening.

689
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: I need a little self tanner situation. It's really hard

690
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 1: to spray tan in a mask, and there's a lot

691
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: happening right exactly. There's all kinds of phases with opening

692
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: nash I think they're not I don't think any of

693
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: that will happen until Phase four, which is way on

694
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: down the road. I don't know how they don't think

695
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: anything beauty related is essential, because I just need it

696
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: to for survival. I felt like that's exactly right. It's

697
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 1: just like when the weather is better, I think any

698
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: depressant sales are down. I agree, we've had bad weather

699
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: and we've been quarantined in our homes. The least they

700
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: could do is give us our beauty products. I totally agree.

701
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 1: Everyone wears masks and just throws on their hair color

702
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: and runs up that they don't have to blow out.

703
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 1: That's what we need to blow out, exactly right. Well,

704
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: tell everyone else where they can find you. What your

705
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: Instagram handle is at Hugh Houser. It's at Hugh Hanser

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00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: h O W S as in Sam e Er. Okay,

707
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: and you talk a little bit about your comedy career.

708
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: And I've found a lot of funny videos that I

709
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: think everyone needs a good laugh right now. Oh you're sweet, Um,

710
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: that's really that's really what I've learned in quarantine. And uh,

711
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: I was I've always done. I've always been funny, and

712
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: I've always tried always been funny, and so I and

713
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: I started doing comedy well in the last few years.

714
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: My really good friend who everybody needs to look up,

715
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: Lean Morrigan on Lean Morgan Comedy on on Instagram. She

716
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: hired her for an event years ago. Didn't know her

717
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: at all. She's from Knoxville, Tennessee, and I've met her

718
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: and she's his country as buttermilk and hysterical and she's

719
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 1: all about family humor. She's not nasty, she's she's amazing.

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00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: I'm a little racier than she is, but you know,

721
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: but I'm not just I'm not nasty nasty. Can we

722
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: just find this stuff on Instagram or where's the best

723
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: place to find any She's gone, She's gone worldwide. And

724
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: so she let me open for her three times at

725
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: Zanty's and we've had a ball and my first one

726
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: was great. My second one one night said great and

727
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: was all right, Okay, it's really hard to do. I

728
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: can't imagine doing stand up comedy. That seems like the

729
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: hardest job to me. Well it is, and and I've

730
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: got it down now much. You know, with practice comes everything.

731
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: But it was great and I have to give myself

732
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: props for even doing it, because people vomit and want

733
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: to die but I knew. I knew that I was

734
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: funnier than some people there, so I knew I'd be

735
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,760
Speaker 1: all right. That totally. Does it gave you that little

736
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: extra boost? Yeah, I knew I could. I knew I

737
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: could get a laugh. So anyway, we had met. She

738
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 1: and I had met years ago. I hired her for

739
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: an event and I fell in love with her. We can,

740
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: she tells everybody. She introduces me, and she's like, lord,

741
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: y'alln't know what it's like having him backstage. It's like

742
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: having Diane Ross here. I've given him evy on and

743
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: I'm barely I can barely get my shoes tied. And

744
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: he's got three game in one springing him. One's blowing

745
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,760
Speaker 1: his bang tail. Oh my god, lorn him into bill bottoms.

746
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: And anyway, we have a ball. And she introduced me

747
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: and it's it's great. And when when we first met,

748
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: I was at the end of a long, long driveway

749
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: and she was pulling down the driveway in her Honda

750
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,919
Speaker 1: Pilot and she was coming at me and she rolled

751
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,439
Speaker 1: her window down and she said, I thought, for a minute,

752
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: you were David Cassidy. Wow. I didn't know what was

753
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:31,439
Speaker 1: going on, And then we just locked eyes, as she says, yeah,

754
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: that's how it all began. Well, I can't wait to

755
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: come check you out at comedy clubs and they finally

756
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: open again. That sounds like a blast. Yes, I'll get

757
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: you a ticket. Thank you swipe up for that. Um,

758
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here. Tell people where

759
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: they can find you one more time. You can find

760
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: me at Hugh Houser on Instagram and then all the others.

761
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 1: It's all at all the other socials and it's aged

762
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 1: three events dot com for when events do come back.

763
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,720
Speaker 1: You guys should check out their beautiful work. It's pretty epic.

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00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,720
Speaker 1: As I said before, thank you guys so much for listening.

765
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: And Hugh, thank you again for being here. I'm so

766
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: excited to talk to you, saying okay, bye,