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hello welcome to her Wildside hockey
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podcast my name is Mickey I'm your
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Hostess uh AKA hockey she wrote and I'm
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going to be honest this is the second
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time that I've tried to record this I
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got like a good five minute chunk into
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doing this episode but my camera was so
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laggy and I couldn't tell if it was
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going to be laggy on the recording it
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was so distracting that I finally was
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just like you know what I'm just going
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to start over and uh it seems fine now
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so that's great um we are almost halfway
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through August it is August
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13th and you know what I am a little sad
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that summer's coming to an end I've been
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very much in ' 80s early 90s type mom
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this summer there's a lot of little kids
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on my street here and we just kind of
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push the kids out the door tell them to
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go find a friend and they spend a lot of
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time outside with friends and I love it
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um so I'm a little sad because I know
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that they've just been having a really
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great time um on the other hand I am
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excited for fall um first of all I just
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selfishly I actually get time to
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work uh and I've got lots of things on
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on my plate because I am overly
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ambitious but I am excited for them to
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go back and so I can actually have some
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work time and I have to say though the
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weather this week I'm going to knock on
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wood my desk is actually from Ikea so
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it's probably more particle board but
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you know what it counts um and say that
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the weather we've been having here in
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Minnesota the past week is exactly how I
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want summer to be between like 70 and
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82 beautiful you know sometimes it's a
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little steamy sometimes it
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rains that's fine I don't I don't
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care um but it's just it's felt so long
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without hockey because as Minnesota Wild
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fans we've been really spoiled to be
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able to just assume we make the playoffs
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every year because for a very long time
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we just have we can't get past the first
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round but at least the playoffs have
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just always been kind of been a given so
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this year was very much a reality check
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on that um and it's felt very very
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strange to not have that extra you know
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week two weeks of hockey I mean it's it
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the offseason has just been so long
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that's not to say that I haven't watched
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hockey because I have I watched all the
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Stanley Cup playoffs I watched the men's
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World Championships I watched uh I watch
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de Beauty League every week my son has
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hockey practice three Sundays a month um
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and then you know in amongst that is the
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draft and free agency and like there's
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been plenty of hockey in my life so
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don't get me wrong but it feels like
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training camp is just around the corner
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I feel like it starts somewhere around
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like September 20th or something that
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might be totally off but I'm just gonna
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I'm spitballing um and that just it
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feels so soon you know a lot of the
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players are starting to come back into
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town um you know Jared Spurgeon hosts
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like Captain's practices I know a lot of
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you know I know who nof came back a
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couple weeks ago I think um rossy's back
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um Li Ogen has been here most of the
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summer I mean it's just you know it's
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great to see them start to come back
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because then it feels like it's so much
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closer um so I'm going to give you a
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little preview of the things I'm going
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to talk about because like I said it's
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just there's kind of not a lot going on
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in the hockey world there is and there
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isn't first of all I'm going to talk
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about uh Matt zukaro in his allstar game
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that he hosts every year for his charity
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um and then I you have to stick around
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to the end because the last segment that
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I'm going to do is a very large segment
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on the wedding of the summer in the
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hockey world which was the wedding of
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Connor McDavid and Lauren Kyle we are
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going to chitchat about dresses about
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events about all sorts of things and if
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you are watching on the video I will
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also have pictures so you know if you
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are listening to this and you want to
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switch over to YouTube or you just
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listen to it all the way through and
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then you know you can just go find it on
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YouTube and you know maybe I can just
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chunk I'll have to ask my editor I don't
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know how to do that um we'll figure it
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out anyway the very first thing that I
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am going to do before we go on is I am
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to put on my little Ticket Master QR
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code um as always I'm just throwing out
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there that if you are purchasing tickets
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to any sort of cultural event any sports
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any Arts festivals any concerts any
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anything um we just asked like it would
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be really cool if you used our QR code
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or the uh Link in the show notes to do
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that and now after I bring my face back
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oh uh oh I did something
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bad okay no it wasn't bad it just I have
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like these really like professional
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overlays now but like I kind of forget
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see like I just there we go I kind of
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forgot how to get back to it moving on
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so man gell has been hosting this
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All-Star Game apparently this is the
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10th year like so this is like a big a
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bigger deal than it usually is and what
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he does is he has he invites a bunch of
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friends from the NHL to play on a team
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against um stars of the ehl which is I
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looked this up excuse my Norwegian the
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lean um I'm just assuming that that's
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how it's said but the elite hockey lean
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which is the um Norwegian professional
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league and they play in the Olympic
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hockey Stadium from when the Olympics
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were in um Norway and apparently it is
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the 30th anniversary of when they were
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in lilling Hammer I hope I said that
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right I'm pretty sure I did I don't it
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doesn't look that difficult to pronounce
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um but I do think it's really really
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cool they're making a really big deal of
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this this year like I said they have
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like a FanFest they've got um the game
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but they also have like a skill
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competition they're doing the night
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before they have got um like a a boxing
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match or something and like concerts and
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like just it it's like a big deal and
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part of the ticket cost for every ticket
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goes towards his um Foundation which his
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foundation is just working to make sure
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that all children are able to
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participate in sports kind of helping
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lower the cost so that they can be
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active and and try Sports which I think
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is such a great cause and I can you know
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I see him sharing things like on
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Instagram uh all the time of his like
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the camps that his foundation puts on or
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that kind of stuff so it is really cool
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that he does that and I've been looking
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everywhere to see if it is being
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somewhere I cannot find anything about
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it I'm going to assume it's not being
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streamed but I'm going to keep I'm going
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to keep looking and obviously I will
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share information if I find it because
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so far for NHL and there are like a a
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bunch other but we've got juler s is
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going to be there Matt Baldi Brock Faber
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Marcus Johansson Jonas Bine Philip
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gipson Kevin fiala like he like all his
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absolutely like even cooler that both
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Faber and baly are flying to Norway
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specifically for this I mean I'm
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assuming they'll also do like a little
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VK kind of a thing but just the idea
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that like the rest of the guys are in
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Sweden that's not that far away well
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fiala's not but the other handful are um
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but to come from America for that I
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think is really cool and kind of goes
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towards what I always say about how we
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love the Minnesota Wild Boys because the
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Minnesota Wild Boys love each other they
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really do feel like such a tight
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so that is really cool I'm hoping I can
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find it somewhere on a live stream or
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even after the fact because gosh Norway
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is what seven hours ahead of central
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that um I can hear my children screaming
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outside and I'm GNA ignore it and I'm
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nothing oh it sounded like a good yell
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so we're good so before I get into the
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McDavid wedding coverage that we have
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been waiting for I am going to play a
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welcome back thank you for sitting
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through the adre as always and I have
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three different slides of photos that we
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are going to work our way through um now
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you'll have to stick with me for just a
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little bit because I wrote all of the
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notes and then I was like hey I should
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add pictures but like the pictures I put
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kind of in a different order so just
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hold with me first of all obviously this
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is the wedding of the summer for the
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hockey world just because they are are
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the biggest names when you think of
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outside of the world of hockey because
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you know remember back to they had that
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whole spread about their new house um
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the house that had like barely any
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furniture and was kind of Stark and
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Barren but I'm assuming that that was
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just for the the magazine so this is
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going to be the biggest wedding until
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next summer when Leon ridol and celest
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Hardin get married because they are
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bestie besti besties with the McDavid
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put here is slide one so the first
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picture we have got Lauren in I I'm GNA
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say I love this dress of hers I love it
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so they had a rehearsal dinner on the
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first day this this whole wedding took
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four days it and actually like it was
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four separate events and they even
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before it took 10 days to set everything
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up before the wedding like this is like
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this is event this is a thing so this
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first one she's wearing this beautiful
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dress and it's a plunging neckline she's
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got a beautiful um diamond necklace and
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it's because their rehearsal dinner they
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steamboat and the attire called for old
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attire which I think she is is pulling
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off and apparently Connor in this
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picture he is wearing a green linen suit
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I I zoomed in on this picture and I'm
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going to say it does not look green to
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me it it looks kind of tan so I don't
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like but there was no other pictures of
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him in a suit that looked Greener so I
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don't know what kind of green this is
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but it also has a striped tie like I I
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like it I like it but this first picture
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it very much looks like my husband
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ordered pickles with his sandwich or he
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said medium well and this is medium it
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very much giving off that Vibe and you
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know what Lauren go for it because I
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feel like sometimes uh while Connor has
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been coming out of his shell a little
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more I do feel like he would not uh you
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know insist that they redo part of his
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meal or anything if he had asked for
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something specific but I feel like
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Lauren would Lauren would be like excuse
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me and I hope that she could do it
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without you know just like in a super
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respectful way now the second picture
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this is actually after their vows it's
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like I said we're going a little out of
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order they went on a little boat ride by
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themselves which is such an awesome idea
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this whole event took place at their
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house and like it was all centered
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around islands and I don't know
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beautiful but she you can see that she
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is wearing this one is her wedding dress
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that she wore to the actual
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ceremony and it's it's very plain but at
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the same time it isn't like it's just
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structured in a way where the neckline
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really really unique like it is not a
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sweetheart neckline it is not a just a
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flat strapless it's kind of it goes up
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at the armpits I don't know it's really
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it's really good I liked it and she has
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this very long but very see-through Veil
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that kind of just makes it so the middle
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picture they're in the
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boat again incredible idea to get a
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moment alone with your spouse and then
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in the last picture on this slide this
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is the picture where
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like you know Connor a lot of times have
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been accused of being a hockey playing
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robot and like maybe I've said that I
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definitely have said that but this is
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like this is why we think that because
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he just got this blank
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expression and Lauren looks so beautiful
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but she also looks like she's just kind
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of like I mean it's probably been a long
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day at this point you know depending on
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when they took this picture even even if
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it's before the ceremony it's already
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been a long morning she just looks like
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she is zoning out so they look like they
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are just like they have checked out
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they're just mentally preparing
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themselves for the test gajillion other
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events that they have for this
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wedding so we're going to go to this
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next slide now first of all there is
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this overhead picture and it shows
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they've got this gigantic house of
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course on an island and they actually
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built a Giant floating dock to hold not
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only kind of this little it looks like a
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little space where you would have your
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cocktail hour you know there's a couple
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like umbrella stands it's kind of almost
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like a little waiting area and then it
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extends out into the water for where
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they're sitting for the ceremony and
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there's got to be you know I would say a
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good 250 to 300 people in this audience
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I would guess I mean this is this is not
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just like oh we nailed a couple of
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pieces of wood together like let's sail
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down the river this is legitimately a
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gigantic floating dock and they made all
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of this it just I it just blows my mind
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people can do this not only people can
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do this but like that they can just be
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like oh hi um doesn't matter what the
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cost like we can pay you whatever you
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want we just this is my
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vision it must be wild to be rich so I
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have another picture in the middle that
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just kind of shows her wedding dress
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again it's actually a really cute
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picture um Connor is facing away or like
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from she's coming up behind him for a
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first look photo that's what I'm trying
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to say um and this kind of shows what he
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wears for the wedding so as a man of
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course he only gets like two outfits
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whereas she gets like
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five um but it is a nice just custom
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tuxedo bow tie all the good stuff and
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then you can see kind of a fulllength
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dress but so after I'm getting my notes
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Here I made notes you guys so
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after the ceremony on the floating dock
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then they have a cocktail hour and
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dinner and she wears this gorgeous form
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um I don't even know it's it's almost
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like a a beige tan color but it's got
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all of these sequins and they're they
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look like Ivy and she was like I wanted
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it to reflect all the wildlife around
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the space and she actually said
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something about how she wanted each
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event that she's hosting to have its own
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story and its own feel
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and wow like I wish I had so much money
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that I could also do that because that
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sounds incredible especially when you
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don't have to do the work yourself it's
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one thing if you're like you know yeah I
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want my wedding to feel like this and
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then like you have to do all the crafts
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and it's not fun anymore but just to be
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able to tell people like here's what I'm
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thinking and they do it and then you're
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like wow this is great I would love
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that um and I'm going to hold up here
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just for a minute because we're still
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I've still got this picture of their
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lake house up um apparently so this is
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where Connor actually proposed to Lauren
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but so in the article I'm
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reading it I'm I'm really confused here
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she said Connor Connor was playing their
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favorite song Only Love by Ben Howard on
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guitar and he proposed okay does that
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mean that Connor was playing it on his
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guitar because then I Googled and I was
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like does Conor McDavid play an
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instrument and he actually like not that
17:51
long ago answered a question that was
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like I don't play any instruments so I'm
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assuming they mean that they had a
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recording of This artist playing it on
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guitar while they propose like it just
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it's written in such a weird way because
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at first I was like oh that's so cool I
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didn't know that McDavid played guitar
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but like I don't think he does I think
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they just phrased it in like a super
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way all right so I've got one more
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little thing I'm looking to make sure
18:18
that I didn't didn't uh forget
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anything so here we have a couple of
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interesting interesting photos now this
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is what she wore what Lauren wore to the
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welcome dinner now here's the thing day
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one everyone gets there that's like part
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of the wedding rehearsal dinner day two
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all the rest of the guests come for the
18:41
welcome dinner and then day three is
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wedding ceremony cocktail hour dinner
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and an after party and then like I know
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the fourth day they were still there
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like doing a bunch of things that's when
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they were like jumping into the the
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water in their bathing suits whoever
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follows them on on social media will
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know what I'm talking about but so this
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middle picture is what she wore to the
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welcome dinner and from what I could
19:07
tell it's almost like a a strapless
19:11
leotard with a sheer dress over
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like I don't know how I feel about it I
19:19
don't hate it it's it's a really
19:22
interesting choice I mean I have to give
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it to to Laura and Kyle for being
19:25
willing to like take
19:27
risks because she did but like I think
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so and you know what if if I had to sit
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and pick five different dresses for my
19:38
wedding week I would I would try and be
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a little unique too you
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um first we're going to talk about the
19:52
wardrobe which she wor to the Afterparty
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because apparently you're supposed to
19:57
have an Afterparty after
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your like dance which I did not my
20:02
Afterparty was we rode the little mini
20:04
bus back to the hotel and then I took 60
20:07
million bobby pins out of my hair and
20:10
asleep um but she's wearing this little
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mini dress and it's actually it's hard
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to tell in this picture but it's
20:16
actually like an ice blue so she was
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using that as like her something blue
20:20
you know um something old something new
20:22
something viral something
20:23
blue but there is this really
20:25
interesting story in the magazine where
20:28
they origin were looking for some like
20:31
vintage dress that had been on the
20:33
runway uh like Kate Moss had worn it and
20:35
they called all over the place and they
20:37
were looking and they were looking and
20:38
they couldn't find it so then they had
20:39
this other dress maker make kind of I
20:42
don't think it's an exact like replica
20:44
but like like a similar
20:46
dress and then like two weeks before the
20:48
wedding she gets a call that like hey we
20:50
found it so I really respect what she
20:53
did she wore the original one just for
20:56
kind of like coming into the after party
20:59
pictures and then she changed out of it
21:01
just to make sure that it stays safe and
21:03
then she put on kind of her similar
21:06
replica dress um but there's one other
21:09
thing that I want to talk about and that
21:13
idea I feel like if some people that
21:16
listen are going to this is going to
21:17
come so out of left field for you that
21:19
you're not even going to know what
21:20
you're listening to there have been this
21:22
idea on social media that the mcdavid's
21:26
and then leand ridle and his girlfriend
21:29
are in a polycule now this maybe they're
21:32
definitely in a platonic one like I'm
21:33
going to say that because you tell me
21:36
why there's a picture of Lauren and
21:39
Celeste so they're besties right and
21:42
they have it's like celest has her hand
21:45
on Lauren's thigh showing off her
21:48
engagement ring and then Lauren has her
21:50
hand on top of it showing off her ring
21:53
but it kind of looks like we're at a
21:54
wedding where they married each other
21:56
and they're showing their rings from
21:59
other like it's this very strange Vibe
22:02
like I I love my best friend her name is
22:05
Amanda I love her so much we did not
22:06
take a picture like this at my wedding I
22:09
don't think we even took anything close
22:11
to like close to this it's just it's a
22:15
very unique thing I and I get like okay
22:19
because this from what I can tell this
22:20
was in Vogue Australia like such a
22:23
random thing but um it was and I'm sure
22:27
that maybe they were like let's show off
22:29
your ring Lauren but like I find it a
22:31
little weird that she was like sure but
22:33
I also want to show off my bestie's ring
22:36
like we're in this together so some
22:39
people have joked that Lauren and
22:41
Celeste got married this Summer and then
22:43
Conor and Leon are getting married at
22:45
the dry Sidle wedding next
22:47
summer I do think it's hilarious
22:49
obviously this is a joke right this is a
22:51
joke they are just sometimes they are
22:55
weirdly obsessed with each other and
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like depend on each other it just feels
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like they are always together like
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they're always they come as a foresome
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they do not come as two separate couples
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which also goes into the last picture on
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my little slide here where Connor and
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Leon are picking up Lauren in her mini
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dress which is like really kind of a
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that's like that's bold you got to watch
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out if you're wearing a mini
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dress so hopefully this has been
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informative for those of you who um are
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not on The Vibes side of Twitter that I
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am and I am going to leave it there so
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until next time when hopefully I will
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have more hockey to talk about we will
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see we're we're we're scraping the
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bottom of the barrel here folks so
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anyway everyone out there you have a
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great day and I will see you all soon