If I Were You - 345: Jake and Jill's Insane Wedding (w/Jillian Vogel!)

Episode Date: August 27, 2018

In this episode Jillian Vogel joins us to recap perhaps the most eventful wedding weekend of all time. Note: This is a true story. Also worth mentioning: BUCKETS! Amir's new NBA Podcast. Subscribe wherever you're listening to this.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.

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They don't count at all Jillian Vogel and Mrs. Mr. Jillian Vogel That's right On the podcast together at last a married couple sits on a couch And this is just gonna be the show going forward It's just gonna be the three of us gabbing I love that It's a little therapy sesh

Two soulmates in one room This is gonna be a special episode because one I thought it would be fun to recap your wedding regardless of what happened Just because our fans are interested they're excited they want to know the details and the intimate ins and outs of the wedding and rehearsal dinner But then what actually happened was the most eventful rehearsal dinner I've ever been to It's definitely the most eventful one I've ever thrown A lot of things happened that you was unexpected It was a nightmare And it was different depending on who it was

We can always make a different podcast about the rehearsal dinner where we interview different people at the rehearsal dinner About their viewpoints on the rehearsal dinner Did you take off your shoes so you could wait through the mud? No spoilers So this might be a little bit of a different episode but it's very exciting to have you both here It's extremely exciting to have Jillian here I don't even know if you've listened to the show You've definitely never been on the show

I've never met Jake This is our first I've never listened I've got a handle on it Alright you get it but you don't even have to know anything because right now it's just about us telling the story of Oddly enough as we record it exactly a week ago Does it feel like a lifetime ago? Yes, that's a good first question

Exactly a week ago Yes, absolutely feels ages ago So we're recording this on Friday, August 24th And this rehearsal dinner that we're talking about was August 17th Like right at this time Alright Okay so let's start from the top because it's all so exciting The first thing is

I arrive in Beacon, New York That's the city where you're living Having had, having had glad, I was glad I arrive, it's two hours outside of New York City I arrive with my parents and my girlfriend The entire family is having an affair We're there, we're meeting people, we're seeing your friends, we're seeing Jake's parents in the lobby Your dad is the first person I ran into

My dad, you're building At a coffee shop? Outside, yeah outside our building right after I had gone It a little bit felt like my wedding because it's like my parents are there and I'm introducing them to like Brian Steinberg So it's like, I don't know, it just felt like all people from my walks of life, I had to like entertain And so you know the background of that too where I was like inviting your parents was a no-brainer to me When we first were making this list like months ago That's nice

And I'm like, okay so it's like, we've got like here we're gonna put amendment and Jake's like, oh we are? I thought tooth and nail Against Just my dad I was full anti-drone probably They were a big part of my wedding weekend but it felt like they were a big part of just the wedding weekend in general Oh they were MVP, like I mean At the very least sixth men and seventh men of the wedding

Yeah, as the story unfolds, Daron will come up more than once Alright, so let's, we fast forward a little bit, it's around 4.30 p.m. on Friday of the rehearsal dinner There's a rehearsal wedding where we practice walking, at this point everything is 100% normal Except that our officiant did not know where to be so he wasn't there Oh yeah, this is like the first small hiccup that nobody really knew That the officiant, my cousin Scott, was supposed to be there at the wedding rehearsal But he went to, he went to the farm instead of the venue So that was like a little, it's like in Jurassic Park where it's like, ooh there's a little mosquito here

Alright, crisis averted And then it like pants to reveal a tyrannosaurus rex being born Like I had been keeping an eye on the weather pretty much non-stop all week And I knew there was a 90% chance of a thunderstorm That's a good, I think we even talked about it maybe on the podcast Just the idea of weather being an issue for an upstate New York wedding Hope for the best but expect the worst is the basic gist of it, right? There was a time when we were expecting the worst but then it was also like

What, what, what, really like it's not July and like it's not a heat wave So how bad could it get? At worst it would rain, which is fine We also, I remember when we toured our wedding venue We like chose it specifically because it had a really great backup rain plan And I had this crazy premonition that it was just gonna rain on our wedding day Yeah, you kept saying it's just gonna rain, I'm used to it, whatever It's fine

Yeah, if I want it, it's gonna rain and then it will bother me This is what I did not predict that it was going to rain during the rehearsal dinner Which is the day before the wedding Right, okay Which is what we did not plan for Very correct Okay, so now It's 5 p.m. It's time to get on the buses to take us to the rehearsal dinner

How far away is the rehearsal dinner from the venue? Okay, 35 minutes? No, because I get pretty defensive about this because I've packed in so much time for this to work out 35 minutes 35 minutes but in a car So close to like 27 minutes And so then in a bus it's like 45 minutes Got it

And you were accounting for traffic, 45 minutes even on a Friday Exactly It should have been 35 minutes on the bus, it's 30 minutes in a car Oh, okay, good Yeah, it was like reasonable Right And it was also supposed to be that we were leaving at like an early time So we arrived at the farm like 15 minutes before cocktail hour even started

Oh, that's nice, that's beautiful, that's pleasant, that was the idea Yes I step on the bus, it's already a little bit too hot on the bus, it's like 100 degrees on the bus I turn around and I look at my parents and I'm like, take the car, do not get on this bus You're not gonna like it, you're an elderly couple, there's no need for you to like sit on this bus without air conditioning It's not worth it My mom's like, now it's fine, whatever No wait, did they get on the bus?

Yes, they were on the bus Oh my god On the bus on the way to the venue Oh my god This is considered an oh my god moment This is the fucking preamble They had a car and they didn't take it I warned them, it's their fault

Okay You should have gone in the car with them I know I should have This is on you The bus would have been fun, there were friends there, so it's like me, my carnell, my girlfriend, Kunal I was on your bus, right? I don't think you were on my bus No, I was on the other bus

Your mom was on our bus, Sencero was on our bus Second mosquito, it was 15 minutes late The bus The mosquito, yeah, bus was a little late Yeah And then we started heading there and it's like, we're not moving, so there's no like air coming into the windows So it's just like, this is getting a little hot But you know, whatever, it's fucking August in upstate New York

Suck it up, you stand up and get as much air as possible We start moving, we get a little more breeze, no big deal Then the bus turns around at a certain point Do you know what happened? I'm not really sure myself Yes, yes So for me, being in traffic in that bus was like a nightmare Got it

I was just sitting in that, in the seat being like Small talk, haha And then turned to chill and like, what the fuck Just like looking at ways, like why, like, oh my god, it's 35 minutes from here Yeah, what happened? It was just because of, there was like, I think it had started raining at that point Mm-hmm And there was just like, shitty traffic getting to the farm

But like once, like you said, once we got to the highway On the highway The air was flowing, the sun came back out We're like, feeling good A little bit of crisis averted Yes Although it did feel, I heard something about a bridge that the bus couldn't go under That's what it was

So then we hit a tunnel So then it turns out that these bus drivers haven't pre, you know, determined what the route is And so they get to a certain point in the drive where they realize their buses can't go under said tunnel And so they have to stop and make like a 20 point K turn Because they don't know how to turn around A coosh ball turn, that's how many points there are This was incredibly frustrating because when they made that turn We were like four minutes from the venue

Got it Jill and I are keeping track of this You're on the ways Yeah We're like, okay, we're almost there It's cooled down, the sun's out, we're happy And then it's like, why did we stop? Why did we stop?

Oh, we're turning around We turn around and then it's like the estimate cruise back up to 12 minutes And that's like Great, we've had people on buses for close to an hour at this point Oh my god The only thing I can think about is like, yes, you are going to have beer and food when you get there But like nobody can hold on to that hope as hard as we can So we got like 95% of the way there and then had to turn back to like the 75% mark

And then we got there And then we got there So all in all, the trip to the rehearsal dinner took how long? Do you guys know? Yeah, we left at 5.20 and we probably got there at like 6.20 Got it, so about an hour It was rough And then you're like, okay, but at least we're here Christ, it's a little bit of a burden

When we filled off the bus, it felt so incredibly good The temperature dropped like 15 degrees Yeah The light was perfect It was sunsetting, breaking through the clouds Brisket sandwiches Brisket is flowing Somebody put a beer in my hand

We had this venue, it was like being prepped for a wedding the next day So we like inherited their tents We had no idea what they were going to look like, or at least I didn't And they were beautiful circus tent with the big pole in them That's right We ate under a big top All weekend, Jake was just like, we didn't plan any of this I'm like, I planned all of this

What are you talking about? Sorry, man, I didn't plan any of this I knew what the tent looked like I was blown away by the rehearsal So you get there, tempers go down a little bit We're off the bus, everyone's eating, everyone's drinking There's a nice corn soup that I'm guzzling I like the corn soup, I like the brisket sandwich

So far the food does sound kind of weird though We eventually make our way to this big top That is where the rehearsal dinner is going to be At this point, are you thinking about the weather at all? Yeah, because as we were walking down that hill That cocktail hour at the rehearsal dinner welcome party thing That was bliss for me That was like crisis averted

The bus thing was a debacle, but we're here And this is the best, and people like it And we're happy They feel the magic of the farm And then we're walking down the hill towards the big top And you just see this like, just a huge storm cloud And I'm like, oh it's coming But I sort of like, I embraced it

And I started being like, we're bringing the marriage with the storm That'll be like a fun story And I'm like, okay everybody It's time to get into this tent immediately The cocktail hour is in like a barn restaurant And then there's like a little 50 yard walk to this big top At this point the bus thing felt like a big deal But by the end of the night no one will even remember the bus ride to the thing

Like the bus ride, which was a 10 out of 10 of alarm and concern Ended up being a one or a two at the end of the night That was nothing Right So we get to the Hey, even hearing that makes it like PTSD Did you guys think about this stuff over the course of the week? The honeymoon or was it like it's over?

Yeah, yeah No, I didn't really Alright, so let's get back to the big top People are settling in, drinks are being had That's a good way to describe it, it's like a circus tent It's probably like three stories high It's elevated, so the tent almost starts like 10 feet above the ground But if necessary, in rain situations

There's a clear plastic that would go from the base of the tent all the way to the ground No problem No problem, if the rains were safe and if it doesn't, that's fine too That's what I was thinking It just starts to rain a little bit I felt like the sky opened I didn't see it as little ever Well, it started to rain and then like, and we dropped the

And I was like, okay, this is perfect It's so far so good Crisis is managed Like it was sunny and beautiful during cocktail hour And now we're in the tent anyway It was cute So the rain can start It almost felt like threading the needle, dodging the bullet

It's raining, but it's gonna rain during dinner when we're all inside That's why we got the tent It was charming And we're walking around like making the rounds Dipping into the different tables where people are sitting, saying hello, hugging Yeah, you gotta stay together, make moves, say hi, mingle You're mingling I'm, you know, hanging out with friends, hanging out with parents

The rain doesn't seem to be stopping And it gets a little humid in the tent because How many people were there? 150 All inside the tent, which is now closed It's getting a little steamy Some people start letting up the tarp a little bit This is where the rain abated It sort of like stopped raining for a second

So people start rolling those things up That's right Like, oh, this is cooling off, this is nice It's kind of like people are going back to the bus situation in their minds They're like, we don't want to be that hot again So like let's I went to the bathroom at that point Yeah, like let's keep it breezy

Let's feel good Open up the windows Yeah And now we're back to that like 15 degree cooler Yeah Sense of, you know So then once they, I think we made Then we made like an announcement

To thank everybody Yep, that was nice Jillian spoke a little bit I spoke a little bit And Wait, no, you're missing No, no, no, we didn't speak a little bit Until after like two more thunderstorms

All the thunderstorms are sort of blending together So the screen's one up, everyone's chill Then clap a thunder It's lightning It storms again And then the things go down again Plastic goes down to shield us from the rain Right, and that's around the time that our like, you know, coordinator at the farm

Starts to be like, okay, we're going to bring food in But like, we're not ready for people yet Because the rain has been making it hard for us to bring food in and out of this tent Got it Food is also a hundred feet away from where the tent is They got to walk it through the rain They have to walk it through the rain And the rain is like coming down

That's right But we make that announcement and I'm basically just like Nothing is perfect right now Like, I am a perfectionist, I'm so sorry But you're all the best for being here and being good sports Yeah Because at that point when we gave the speech, the shoes were off So the shoes started coming off

The first person I saw My father Me too, Amir's dad Yeah I saw Jerome and he was like just pointed to his legs And he's got his pants rolled up to a little below the knee Mid-calf, yeah Shoes on his hands

Socks in his barefoot And I was like, oh, that's fun Summer chic I didn't, I just thought that was something he was doing Yeah, because he's like vaguely European Not out of necessity And then like, I had my head on a swivel and I went back And I saw that like the, since we're at the bottom of the hill

Yeah The water and the mud and the rain and everything It's flowing in It started to flood Trickle in Stage right of the tent Yeah, near the food, near the buffet area It starts to

Because the tent is on grass and mud So it's like three inches of rain Probably Yeah, it starts seeping in from the corners And then like the line to get to the food is around the perimeter of the tent Inside is mud coming in more and more and more And the rain is starting to get harder and harder Like, whoa, this is fun

It's kind of scary, we're camping and it's like a lightning storm Right, because the sun is set, it's now dark That's right And half the guests are thinking this is still charming Because they're on the dry side of the tent And the other half are like, my shoes are fucked And also knowing that people were coming up to me going You did say casual in the dress

And I'm like, I'm so sorry Am I ruining your shoes? We have like all of our friends are coming up to us and like laughing and being like This is so, like it's a story, it's so funny Everybody is just giving me positive energy, which I needed And then, but then like, you sort of like if you catch any little thing like of Jill's Great uncle or like Jill's parents, family, friends or like my aunt Like they're just, they're sitting out there and like they're looking a little silly

Like, okay, I know not everyone is, it's not a great story for everybody That's right, okay, I want to pause right here I thought we would talk about all the rehearsal dinner in the first act But this is a great halfway point because trouble is afoot and it's starting And let's go to a commercial break and people are on the edge of their seats And we'll talk to you guys after we thank a few sponsors Here comes the storm Thank you as well to Helix for sponsoring this episode of our show

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I was just being goofy a little bit Like this is how I told my grandma she was pregnant Yeah Yeah, kind of like she misheard it or something like that Or the way you said it was kind of like could go either way By the way, Jill's grandma is pregnant Oh my god Jill's grandma is 90 and pregnant

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Check them out, thanks BetterHelp And we're back! I'd be remiss not to mention that I started a new podcast I know this is a weird time to start it While I was gone? While you were gone, well it's starting, I launched it today So if you're listening to it on Monday, August 27th I go on one goddamn honeymoon and I start a new podcast

A mini-moon A mini-moon and a mini-podcast Now this is a real podcast, episode zero Which is just an explanation of what it is And I'll tell you guys right now real quickly, it's an NBA podcast I've been thinking Heming and Han for over a year And I finally decided to start one It's called Buckets

I'm gonna give it a season, see how it goes You can subscribe now, it would help it out Because it would bump it up to the top of the sports and recreation center Category of iTunes I'll subscribe Okay, I got one subscription, Jillian I'll subscribe That's two

Do you have a co-host? No co-host, just me It's me and a guest every episode Episode zero is the explanation Then the next episode, episode one will be with Ben Will the guests know things about basketball? Ideally, yes I think I'm gonna ask my funniest

Jill and I are trying to get on the podcast You guys could be on because you could be like the people who Jake often asks me questions of somebody who's casually into basketball And then I can answer them That could be a good episode Sweet And then Jillian, I can help you find a favorite team Thank you

Alright, where were we? The rain is starting to come in It's around the food I'm trying to think of words to describe disaster When the sky opens up, collapse of thunder How do you describe it? The farm rep came in and told you that one of the buses was gone Oh, this was

At what point was that? Well, I want to follow Amir's story Because I feel like you have a little bit more And then I can definitely fill in the points for that guy At this point, it's time You guys are like, fuck it, we gotta power through Speech is time The rain is so loud

But the show must go on, I guess People are barefoot and wet But at the same time, your mother has to talk about your relationship with Jake Your friends have to speak and give props And the power points are shorting out It's like, right, then we are a multimedia family In this case, who knows why we powered through that But like

Literally power pointed through it Because your sister was navigating a fucking extension cord Into a laptop, into a tent I don't know where power came from The mic was probably barely loud enough if there was no storm So with the storm, it was just not loud enough It's like, it sounds like, you know, when you're going camping or under an umbrella And it's raining a lot, it just

Yeah, and the mic was just bad But I mean, I think at a certain level Speeches at a wedding are only for me and Jill anyway So you guys can hear it Yeah, we went, I heard everything that all of Jill's friends and her mom I just say it At a certain point, it looked like your sister was doing the Doc Brown Like at the end of Back to the Future

Like putting those two cords together, getting electrocuted by the lightning This is, they'd wade through those speeches I just decided that I was going to get drunk Yeah, I saw that And I was like, I motioned to the bartender, I was like No, to the mic To anyone who would look, you were just like, flag, flag, no Whiskey, and the bartender and I had a rapport from earlier

Because Whiskey on the Rocks was not on the menu, but it was for me Because he knows the man Yeah, and the man is getting wet Did you guys ever take off your shoes? No I didn't I threw my shoes away when I got home Got it, okay

So water seeping in, it's loud, you can't hear speeches Things at this point are kind of a shit show in a funny way Because the show is still going on People are still eating, Jake's mom's cookies are out We're all having fun So this is, so as, after I called for the whiskey And at the end of Jill's bridesmaids speech Right, and for that last bridesmaids speech

Friends of ours were just sitting moments away Ready to just pummel at her Like to like catch her and bring her away Because the lights are swinging above her And it looks like the tent is going to fall While she's talking right above where she's talking The whole thing is swing I'm like, I hope this thing doesn't go under

It was a very powerful storm It was a bad storm It was like one of the worst thunderstorms that Upstate has had That's what I wanted to ask Is this normal for Upstate or was it even bad for Upstate New York? We had our planner texting us the next day Just being like, I was thinking about you guys last night How'd it go?

Like, Jesus! Not now, Cheryl! God damn it! So I, at the end of Jill's bridesmaids speeches I was like, I'm going to give everybody a reset here Make sure everyone can go to the bar I heard that, yeah Let's take a break

Yeah, let's take a break Because I knew that all of my speeches on my side Were a surprise, I had no idea who was going to talk And they were supposed to be coming up Yeah, I saw a little baby picture of me on the projector And I was like, guys, we'll do... Everybody get a drink, get some dessert We'll do more speeches in a bit

And I'm thinking like, maybe we can make the microphone louder Maybe the rain will calm down Stop, yeah, because they come fast and they go fast Yeah, that's a thunderstorm So I'm like, this thing is going to like breeze away any second And like... It'll be calm And that's when that guy comes up to me

And he's just quietly too Because there's no one else for him to talk to He has to talk to the bride It's not as if I had somebody between me And the guy planning this event with me That's right So he comes up to me and just goes, I just want to... Hey, I'm soaking wet

He's just like drenched I just want to let you know that... Okay, one of the buses apparently is not here anymore Because they hit a car in the parking lot And just left Okay Which is insane Like, what does that mean?

I hit a car so I left Why did it move? Why did it hit a car and why did it leave? All great questions Three weirdnesses while the rain is happening And also no service on a farm No service Because you're in the middle of a field That's right

And also it's pouring rain And I don't want to leave the tent to go nowhere To figure out if I should like survey this car Because you're also listening to your mom talk about shopping for wedding dresses with you Of course But your head is in a place where it's like, how do I get these people home? And yet I pull out my phone And I essentially just start calling other transportation that I had flagged

Because I'm organized And I'm like, and transportation Leprechaun transportation Like, hi, and I sound insane on the other side of the phone Because it's loud behind me And I'm basically just like, hi I'm in the middle of nowhere And I have 50 guests who have to get to Fishkill

Can I order a postcard? Hell I was like, no I'm sorry, I have no drivers right now Jake, what are you doing while these phone calls are happening? I peed outside the tent I got high I got another whiskey

And then somebody handed me a cookie And I think that's when the power went out That's exactly right So this is the big moment This is when things go from bad to worse This is the point of no return You thought it was off the rails before That's right

Power flickers Goes back on Ooh, scary 150 guests all at once That's right And then, have you guys seen videos at this moment? I took a video of it I'll show you guys the video that I have

Light goes off Power goes off It's dark because it's nighttime There's no electricity anymore The power points are done Everybody's phones are out Because they still have power on their phone But other than that, it's complete darkness

In a tent, 150 people Wet, shoeless, muddy Rain, no bus And Allison's still there Still certainly Here's the video You can see the action I'll send you the whole thing

And with your permission We'll put it online one day Oh, my God Yeah, there's lighting in the background So that's the light Because it's still pouring Yeah, it's still pouring The nice thing about this video

Is you see, even here We had some positive energy All your friends were into it a little bit People still like clapping Yeah, they're like This is fucking nuts How stressed are you guys at this point? Or is it like

Whatever, this is crazy I don't know How are you feeling? I, for the very first time In all this planning Because I was new at planning a wedding Just like turned to I think it was

My dad or something I just went I do not know what to do In this situation This is beyond emergency preparedness Yeah, I've just been I'm just out So that is when I started

That was my version We had the rain plan That was the tent Yeah, exactly We didn't have There's no other plan beyond this And you probably thought Jillian was over-prepared

Like, oh, she knows alternate Okay, transportation It won't come to that I didn't even know that she had Alternative transportation But I sure as hell would have But none of them were picking up So that's fun too

But that's when I was like Okay, somebody came up to me And she was like What are we doing now? And I was just like I'm having ice cream I don't know So have you felt more stressed than that?

Was it not quite stressed? Because it was so much That it didn't even register I disassociated myself So it's like I'm in it with you guys I'm not responsible for anything And I was like

I can't believe this is my wedding But like, we're here And I don't know This is Are you sad? Are you upset? Are you excited? Actually, yeah

For the first time I just went Oh, the event is over Like, this whole time I'm thinking like We gotta go till 10 Like, how are we gonna stall? This was 9.45 at this point Yeah, no

At this point Somebody else made the decision Of just like I don't know who it was But I think it was A grown-up in the room Just being like Okay, now we go home

I'm going back to the buses Yeah, so the buses Started to like come down the hill But I thought one of the buses left One of the buses had left And that's when I got noticed that like The bus magically came back And this woman like

I guess decided to turn around No, this was another great She came back Denied that she hit the other car Got it And then some Some guess I don't know who it was

No, it was a Yeah, somebody that works at the farm Was like Lady, I saw you I saw you hit that car And then once There was a witness She was like

Okay, I did hit the car Wow, okay So I didn't even know any of this stuff Yeah Is that why you heard of that? No, I was I think Well, everybody was filing out

I was still like talking to some people And I was talking to Jill And trying to figure out If we actually had a third bus or not And you did But it didn't go to the same hotel? Exactly So two buses to one hotel

Right And third to it Auxiliary Exactly So the hope was like Get those two that are fine And have no like You know, relationship to a car

That just got hit Yeah Out of here And load them up But what was mortifying Was just that no one was making those decisions Without somebody just being like Now go

Yeah So people again And I want to hear what happened to you Like were you just sitting on that bus For like 15 more minutes after loading? So we We heard that the buses couldn't come down the hill Because of the rain

So we start trekking up Everyone's barefoot Because we took our shoes off So we're doing this Tiny rocks Yeah We're doing this like March of shame

Slash Passover Exodus reenactment At this point, it's like This whole thing was a diagonal This entire event Like had the buses not arrived late It would've been enough Yeah, we should've had Matzah at the end But we finally get onto the buses

My mom's like What bus are you on? She's calling me Freaked out I'm on a bus I don't see you She's like I'm on another bus

I don't see you Your bus had not left So she comes on to our bus And we're just waiting for the bus to go Eventually, our bus, which is kind of like packed, starts leaving and we're like, okay, this is like a Titanic life raft. We look back, Arrivederci, thunderstorm, lightning storm, we made it out, last helicopter out of Vietnam.

So you... It's... It's pouring rain. What's going on back at the venue because I'm on a bus. So we're up at the... Yeah. We finally... We've been...

I've been overseeing this bus driver exchange insurance information with this random guest. I'm trying to rush her, but I want them to get all of the information. But there's 20 people on this other bus. And those 20 people are actually the ones with the least amount of patients because they're all the ones coming from the hotels that our friends are not staying at. Our friends are only Airbnbs or at the main hotel. They're not at the holiday inn, the courtyard. It's like all of our older relatives and John and John Carlo on a bus that won't move.

Because this lady is taking forever to get insurance from this guest. Finally, I'm just like, all right, you have to take these people home now. She goes over to that bus. It won't start. The bus won't start. And you're like, of course the bus won't start because nothing can go right right now. I was just like, just try it again. It'll start.

It'll start. It'll... Now it's not starting. Now it's not starting. Are you getting mad or are you just at this absolute moment of like, beyond this is insane Zen where it's like nothing... No, my uncle is like, is there a toolkit? I'm like, this is not happening.

There's nothing we can do. A toolkit. Again, hands up in the air. I don't know how to fix a giant school bus. This is not part of the bride training. And then I'm talking to the bus driver being like, call your boss. She's like, she's not answering. I have never seen Jake get more mad at a person.

He's the most good with customer service. I flare up at customer service. I'm like, hey, you're trying to help me. I'm not trying to help you. Jake tries to kill it with kindness. But Jake is like, I'll help you. You help me. Yeah.

We're all friends here. I'll be friendly to you so you can be friendly back. Oh my God. Yeah. So this... Well, I didn't get mad. Is this when you struck her? Yeah.

I didn't get mad until... So I kept on saying like, just like get your boss on the phone and give me the phone because I have to like... We have to figure this out either like another bus... Another bus needs to come and pick everybody up. Have two buses left or one? Both of... Yeah.

So over the three buses, two have left. And one is going to the hotel that we stay at? Both of them are going to the hotel that you guys are at. Okay. And as I'm like trying to figure out a way to get another bus or to get a repairman... People are calling Ubers. Yeah. Yeah.

People are calling Ubers. Yeah. They're 20 minutes away and over $100. That's right. Of course. Half an hour away. Sure. I see two pairs of headlights coming back.

This is like 15 minutes after you guys had gone. Yeah. I see two pairs of headlights coming down the driveway and I'm like, oh, we're saved. They sent another bus. And then I see on that bus, I'm like, wait, there's people on that bus. That's all of our friends. We came back. We weren't on the bus.

I was not on the bus that came back. Oh, your bus did not come back? So my bus... I thought two buses came back. No, two buses came back. One bus came all the way back, another bus started to come back. Right. And you did another 20-point K-turn.

So halfway through our ride home, it's probably 11 or 1130 at this point. Everybody's feet are just muddy and we're like, finally, we're barefoot on a fucking school bus but we're heading home. The bus stops half an hour into our ride and we're like, what's going on? And at this point, people are starting to get angry at each other like, what's going on? I'm like, I don't know, man. I'm next to the bus driver.

You don't have to yell at me. And then it's like, we're stopped and then somebody goes out in the back. They open the emergency exit in the back and went to go pee. And I'm like, what's going on? Everyone doesn't know what's going on. The bus driver's like, we got to go back. And I'm like, what are you talking about? We got to go back.

She's like, we're going back to the venue. This is after driving for 20 to 30 minutes away from the venue. I want to die. We can't go back to the venue. Why are we going back to the venue? And then I was like, we're going back to the venue. That's like... Oh, your parents are on the bus.

Yes, my parents are on the bus. Jeffery, the dumb ass is on the bus. Everybody's on the bus. That's why this bus didn't turn around. It's because fucking Jerome wouldn't have it. Everybody I know from all walks of life are on this dark bus in the rain and this bus was starting to turn around. I'm like, why are you turning around?

She's like, the other bus won't start. I'm like, okay. What are we going to do about it? We're a full packed bus. She was like, she chose this moment to become like a moral soldier is like, if they can't start, we're not going to go either. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? Like, what?

No, we go and then you do whatever you need to do without all going back. Yes. So we start going back to the venue. I'm like, this is absurd. What's happening? Midnight at this point, everyone's like going delirious. We start joking about how we're like in this futuristic dystopian future where phone battery is currency.

So like we hear rumors about someone in the back that has 75% and how we're going to kill them and shit like that. The streeter on this bus? No, unfortunately not. Oh, the streeter with a pregnant wife took a car. That's good. So they took the car. Thank God.

I love hearing stories about people that took the car. Made it out. Yeah. Seriously. You made it out. Then I'm like, oh, sweet. You didn't have the worst time ever. Yeah.

Marty and Pyle did not, they took the car. Oh, that's so nice. It was just the incompetency of this company over and over. So we had, all right, so the other bus, the other bus gets all the way there. Yeah, it gets all the way there. Okay. So we're not quite there yet. We're not back yet.

We're heading back. Yeah. And you never got back? Or did we stop? Sure. Yeah. So maybe we stopped at the entrance but didn't go all the way in. The bus is fixed.

Did the other bus get fixed? No. Everybody, all right. So the other bus, two buses came back to fix a broken bus as if a bus can perform surgery on another bus. That was their logic. Nimrods. I think it was.

I don't know if this is true, but we couldn't jump the bus with like regular jumper cables because it would have like drained the battery or fucked up the bus. I don't know. So maybe only a bus can jump started a bus. Got it. I had no idea. Anyway, when I saw all of our friends, I was like, just, I marched up to the lady. And she, she was on the phone with her boss then.

And I was like, is that your boss? And she was like, yes, I'm trying to, I was like, give me the phone. Whoa. This was the moment that I was like, I've never seen Jake this amped before. And she gave me the phone. And I, without saying anything, I just, I was like, do you realize how hard you fucked me? Whoa.

You said that? Yeah. That was cool. Did it feel cool to say that? It felt really, it felt so good. And then she was, it was a lady and she was just like, sir. And I was like, no, listen to what happened. And then I just like went down.

I was like, do you think, like that's unacceptable. This is crazy. We're not paying a cent for these buses. Wow. You're covering everybody's Uber. I'm embarrassed and you guys should be ashamed of yourselves. And she was like, I am embarrassed. I'm really sorry, sir.

Like, I know you won't pay for anything. And what did you say? I was like, good? Or like, I'm sorry. I was like, honestly, it feels good to yell at somebody. You said that? No. But I was thinking that.

I was like, yeah. So much of it was coming out that was like, Jill, did you like to see that? I know. I wasn't there. I know. I was like, I could see, I could hear him out of the corner of my eye or whatever. I could hear you. You could hear me out of my eye.

This is the day before your wedding, by the way. Your wedding day hasn't even started. And people are coming up to me just going like, you should get to bed. I'm like, are you kidding me? I can't do anything. I can't not be where I am in this exact moment. People are like, your eyes are going to be like so sleepy tomorrow. I'm still cut to 2 a.m. writing emails to people going like, if tomorrow is a fucking

shit show, I'm out. Oh my God. Just make it work. Please contact the bus company. Your face is going to be worse. We have the same bus company the next day. That's why I panicked again. Oh no.

Okay. So this is the perfect storm, literally, of weather plus incompetent bus driving plus weird corporate strategy where they said every bus goes together, a bus broke down, both buses came back. Eventually you put everyone on an Uber. We put some people on Ubers, some people carpooled, and then the remaining people got on the two living buses. Got it.

We left the driver with the workers at the farm, Jill and her mom and her dad and I were the last people out. So watch the Titanic, turning behind and then just seeing it explode. Just people texting us as we're on our way back, being like, everything's cool, like you guys are the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Carnell texted me and he just said, what do you need? And I was like, just get as many people as you can to go to the bar across the street

from the hotel. Right. Yeah. That's exactly what happened. There was like 40 people at the bar. There was like a planned after party. No, there was not. It was just like, let's get drinks because we are depressed and need to end the night

on a goodness. Well, was the car ride to the bar like silent? That was crazy. Or was it like, what the hell is going on there? It was a lot of just me being like, I'm so ashamed. It was self-hate. Oh yeah, a lot of that. It was quiet.

It was quiet. It was not like animated. That was crazy. Oh my God, I'm so pissed. It was like just like stewing, stewing, stewing, just like, I just can't believe like why would they and then like just sort of like a quiet, a quiet discussion about wondering why. Yeah. Cosmically.

Yeah. What did I do wrong? And then I kind of turned to my mom and sister and was like, great speeches. Great speeches. It was really good work. Were there any tears in the car? No, no, no. Oh, that's good.

There was never any like real sadness. It was more like, it was a sense of wonder how can all these bad things happen at once. It was baffling, but like this tone that I have right now, this is kind of like what it was. Yeah, it was like incredulous. We were incredulous. Like how dare God do this to me. Laughing the whole time, but just like a little bit shook, a little bit of this belief that

it happened. Outer shookness. Do you, a week out, do you wish that it went well or are you now happy that you have this story? I would definitely rather it went well. I would rather that like charming rain kind of happened and everyone was like, this is so symbolic. Like you guys like, of course the storm hits and it's like, you know, weird wedding, great

marriage, like that kind of thing. But then everyone was just kind of like, no, no, no, no, no, weird, weird wedding. This is not going to be good. Like this, oh, it was a weird tone set. Well let's talk silver linings. Rehearsal dinner ends the next day, a new day. New day. I think that was about a little bit enough, not as bad as the day before.

The sun. Yeah. The next, I think it was hangover a little bit. You wake up and you're like, wow, that was fucking crazy. Did you sleep well? No, I will. I shot awake at like four in the morning at like short of breath. Oh, really?

That was, I guess that was like, that was the darkest for me. It was like, oh my God, like this, what if the whole entire wedding is bad? Okay, that's interesting. That was like my, I think that was my fear. It was manifesting itself. I really wanted Saturday to like go right. Right. I had a lot riding on that.

Yeah. So for me, I woke up Saturday, I went to the soccer game. The plan. Oh, wow. That's still happened. My dad had put together. And I think we had like 16 or 17 people that came solid, solid crew and then like a couple spec, like probably 20 people all told sort of felt like a new dawn.

Well, when we got there, we got to the soccer field and there was a middle school team practicing the field. Then a helicopter landed on it. And then I was like, all right. So the wedding was off. This is full bad. The wedding was even worse than the rehearsal dinner. Let's get into that.

But we walked over, we walked over to another field and we played a great game of soccer and that I instantly felt better. I was like, this is. It's over. Now this is my memory. Like I look back like every Saturday, Friday night sort of like was retreating into the rear view. Yeah.

That was good. Let's start there. The memory there. And then I went and I got an aside bowl. Oh, that's really nice. And like that was good too. Yeah. That was good for Jake.

And then Carnell with the suits. Jill, what was going on with you at 8 a.m. because you weren't playing soccer. No, I was like talking to the planner being like, Hey, so can we call back Ann and Leprechaun and tell them that they need to be like our new coach buses? Because I didn't want anyone to have PTSD getting like seeing at the hotel that the school bus was re-arriving for them to bring them to the wedding. The good news is the event, the wedding was at the venue that some people are staying at.

So at the very least, I didn't have to travel anymore. Exactly. Mom and dad, we just got to walk across the street. There was also like, it was a sunny day for pretty much the entire day, but there was like a 40 to 50% chance of a shower that day. So we're like, we're doing the wedding inside chairs up outside. And sure enough, at 4.30, it started to rain. And then I was just like, all right, well, it's indoors now.

Yeah. I was like, nothing can stop me now. No matter what the storm is, the ground's not going to flood, the PA system's not going to short out, the buses aren't going to break down because it's all here, right? Did you have any like, hurt locker-esque flashbacks or like, whoa, what was that? Or like you turn around and it's like, nothing, sorry, I'm just still thinking about something. The rain fatigue, the rain fatigue really set in at like that 7 a.m. wake up and I was just like, we're done.

No more, no more weather today. We're going inside. Yeah. It's just like, it's anxiety inducing to like think about the weather that much. Like even, I wonder just like how I would have felt all weekend if I like woke up on Thursday and it was like 75 and sunny is the prediction for the weekend. Like that would have been crazy. Do I deserve that?

Should I get married in LA? But that does, the silver lining is that the wedding was like, it was just exactly what I wanted it to be. The wedding was perfect. There was no, there was no problems with the wedding at all. If anything, the wedding was better now because everyone like, you know, some stuff had shifted to the wedding. So there were really nice speeches during the wedding.

Yeah, yeah. We pulled all of the speeches for Jake from your family, from you guys, like all of that into the wedding itself, which was really charming too, because it was like, oh, now you get to hear even more about this relationship. Like usually you have one or two toasts at the wedding and everybody like keeps dancing and drinking. The triplets and Hannah. But it was like really emotional and it felt really like people had endured a traumatic

event together the night before. It forged by fire. Everybody wanted to be in this room to be like we are dry here and under shelter and drinking. They gave me something to talk about with literally every guest. Anybody, like I was meeting for the first time. Your speech crushed. Yeah.

I thought, like, Mike has made me cry. My mom's made me cry. All the siblings. Your dad is really sweet. Yeah. Vinnie. And that all happened because it would have happened the day before. Right.

It always moved because of the storm. Right. Yeah. And Drone again. My dad. Oh wait, yeah, that's true. He's the first. Jeff, Dave and Mike made everybody bow down to us, Ben Vinnie, which that's like another

podcast in and of itself that was insane. Yeah. Especially because I don't really know enough about the Lord of the Rings. So when he was saying this like metaphor, I was like, I don't know what's happening. And so then everyone starts taking a knee and I'm like, okay. They like got everybody to rise. Like and everybody's like, Mike was like every able-bodied person here rides. And like that's nice.

Like everybody's like, hold the glass. So everybody rises and then he's like, now Ben, bend the knee to the king and you're like, I'm okay. Thank you. And everybody fucking bent the knee to us. We had like amber goblets on the table. There's a photo of our show. Oh wow.

So fucking funny. It's like both of us are laughing and like all of her friends are fucking kneeling before us. But yeah. So Drone during the, man, there's so much to talk about. We've got to make this a five parter. All right. So real quick, Dorone recap, which is my dad, by the way, for those of you who don't know,

which is all of you. Yeah. We have the first, we have the first look. That's the first time I see Jill in her wedding dress. And my dad should be there for that. The rain is threatening, but still holding off. That's right. They're like, do you want to do it inside or outside?

And we like, we want to do it outside. We're stressed, but the rain holds off. I see Jill. Like I asked Jake, I asked Jake a couple of days later, like, what were you thinking about on your way to the first look? Like, are you thinking like, oh, it's Jill's outfit going to be like, no, he's just like the rain. And I'm like, that's crazy because of me too.

I wasn't thinking about like how cute you were going to look or like where we were going to stay. I was just, no, we had time to get lovey later, but like when we're outside, all I thought about was the rain. But we're coming back. We're like going to meet up with you guys to take photos and we see your mom and your dad. And the picture you take is, or like that you posted on Instagram is the one where your

mom is basically just standing in, on the corner of the street and beacon and we're both running because it's about to, the sky is about to open again, holding this umbrella. And she's taking this picture just as your dad looks at me and just goes, blah, blah, blah. Nice. Your first words. That's it. That's the dress.

You got it. That's it. I'll never forget. That picture, which is now on my Instagram, my most liked photo. My mommy took my most liked photo. She doesn't even know what Instagram is. You didn't even give her credit. I couldn't.

And then we did the catuba, personal vows. Yep. Then we... Ceremony. Walked out, did the thing, kissed, stomped the glass. Everything after that went boringly well, like exactly what you want a wedding to be. The next time I saw your dad though was during the horror, screaming at me. Yep.

You didn't know what to do. There were like three, like true Jews there. It was Daron, Sammy, and like maybe your dad, maybe your uncle. My grandma. Yeah, that's probably true. But the... But like the horror... Jews around you dancing for the horror.

Yeah. It is like, it's not... They don't fuck around. You like, it's such a funny dance because you're just like spinning and kicking your legs and like... Spinning and circle or grabbing someone's leg. Or something. Yeah, and spinning.

And like, but your dad was like, fucking... It was like... He was like a drill sergeant. Yeah. He was like, my captain in wartime, just like looking at like pointing at his eyes, pointing at me. It's like... It's like bobbing around, like doing an adorable little skiff with a frown on his face.

That was the chairs. Chairs were great. They were deep. They were deep chairs. You can really settle in. The chair was the worst. I like lifting the chairs. The chair was the worst experience of the entire wedding for me, including the rehearsal

dinner. Because you were afraid of falling. And also, you didn't want it to be too Jewy was like the thing of the thing. Like the whole night was like... No, that's not true. Yeah. I feel like, even when we were talking to the DJ, we were just like, what's your most like...

American horror. What's your like coolest horror? Did Jay-Z ever do a horror? I was totally down to do the horror. I just never wanted to do the chair because I don't trust anybody. And sure enough, like within three like raises of the chair, I have Dave Rosenberg is raising the back of my chair. Too high up.

He's fucking towering over everybody in the field. I'm just going to follow my face. And he just like push it. He goes full extension for some reason. No, you can't slide him off the chair and I see grandma Rachel right in front of me. Like I'm about to fucking fall on her and all I could think about is that I'm going to fall on grandma Rachel and break my heel again. What would be worse?

Breaking my heel. I was going to say you don't have to answer that, but you already did it correctly. Even if I sprained it, even if it was just a slightly bruised foot, I'd kill myself before anything happened to grandma Rachel. I missed a joke there. I was going to say, does hova have a horror? Oh, okay. Thank you.

You can splice that in. I will. Yeah. Did hova ever? Oh, wow. I know this is running really long, but I have a question for you. It's good stuff. Which is post-wedding, what was, because I stayed like pretty sober during all the speeches

because I wanted to remember what everybody said. And again, you're really crushed on the speech. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'm going to make a video of it. Maybe we'll leak some of it online. Oh, that's fine. It was crush-worthy.

Thank you. That's really fun. One of my highlights was colleges, or LA is going to be like college only better because I think Jake could succeed at LA. No classes. Sorry. Really good. Everyone starts booing me.

Oh, come on. Heal gets off to this shit. I like that. I can curse yet. I said in the speech and it was true. I'm like, I had scripted down Jake's a piece of shit. Like maybe I shouldn't say it. I'm like, it's funny to do it in front of friends.

But like Jake's parents and Jill's grandmother is going to be there. I'm going to be like, Jake's a piece of shit. And then during your vows, Jill called you a dumbass. I'm like, all right, it's back on. We're in. If dumbass is in the vows, I think I can say the C word. You called Grandma Rachel that. Jake is charming, creative, kind of a dumbass.

That's true. That's true. So wait, what was your, I got blurry at the after party. The one thing I remember seeing is you guys all trying to draw circles. Yeah. At a certain point, the after party devolved and just like a night out at a bar and Nick Rads like, you think you could draw the perfect circle, which led us off for a one hour game where everybody would sit down, try to draw a perfect circle.

And like we started coming up with like little vernacular. Like if you do the circle, but it overlaps that like where you started it, like that's called the tickle. Oh, the circle is good, but it's got a little bit of a tickle. The perfect drawing, you couldn't tell where the person started. So you draw a perfect circle and there's such a precise overlap. No tickle. You look, there's no tickle.

Yeah. It's just a perfect circle. And you drew very good one. I feel like that's what you ended the night with. Yeah. That was the last thing I remember. It's like walking over and being like, everyone, what are you guys doing? We're trying to draw the perfect circle.

A lot of good content at this wedding. It's funny to think that, wait. All right. One last question. At any point where you like, this is going to be a good podcast episode because somebody came up to me and said that. I'm like, oh, that's true. Marissa said that to me on the bus.

I know. Yeah. I'll think about it. But when you texted me today and said Jill should be on the podcast, I said that will, I thought this will like a good podcast episode. Yeah. And I'm like, I'll find some questions in case the story lasts 15 minutes. We are at nearly an hour at this point.

Go us. Woo. Good story. Great episode. We haven't even told you about the honeymoon. That's true. You got to come back. I don't even know about the honeymoon.

You guys landed in LA. By the way, it's not going to rain here for another six months. It's going to take me a while to appreciate good weather because we've had good weather in New York and I'm like, every time I see that it's like in the 70s and it's sunny, I'm like, fuck this. Why not me? Yeah. It's such a rant.

Like that storm happened once a summer and it was the hour of the rehearsal during the break. Of course. It's a bullseye in time. I mean, the other thing is just like dealing with hoping you get your money back too. We can get some reefs. Yeah. We got a little bit of reefs.

Hey, we want 50%. They're like, we'll give you 10. We're like, how about 20? We just got it. Rain is a fucking coupon. It is. Well, that's why they call it a rain check. That's actually really smart and I'll use that in my next email.

Is that what the next week is about? It's just like, all right, let's get some money back. I'm just trying to make sure that we don't pay for the buses because that was very poor. Hard stop on the credit card charge. Quick tips for people getting married soon. Anything you planned? Rain planned. Strategy, emergency strategy.

I guess I have a really good rain plan. But what could you have done? Yeah. I don't know. The real thing is that at a farm wedding, you need to have a platform or you need to have a concrete base to your tent so you're not just on the field. It's just that in this particular case, you're at such a new, like at a farm that really didn't know event planning yet and so they were like, this is the right way to do it.

They learned the hard way using your rehearsal. Exactly. I bet they're like building a wooden floor right now in that field. Exactly. I was trying to think about if I had any wedding advice, but I don't know if I really do. It's just. It's really. Enjoy the ride.

Yeah. Just enjoy it. I mean, definitely let things brush off of you. It's fun that you guys have this story forever. I think at a certain point, you guys are going to appreciate the fact that it happened this way. Yeah. Once we stop thinking about people contacting their insurance for their car claims and such.

Once that guy gets paid out, I'm going to laugh. That would be good. I can't wait. I was laughing that night, but it is going to be a long time before I'm like. Really? Okay. Especially because I go to weddings all the time and I'm just like, these fuckers, like they're putting us on a hot bus for 30 minutes, bringing us to the middle of nowhere.

So we could do something they love. Like we get it. You guys are cute. What? No. I fell right into the trap. Yeah. Exactly.

Never again. Because you know what goes into it and how many things can go wrong. Yeah. All right. Great story. Thanks to Jillian for coming on the episode. Thanks, Brad. You got anything to plug, babe?

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Wow. Good memory. If that's correct. I haven't looked yet. It's not even close. Jill. What an awesome pull. You want to give us a fake name because I didn't even get to ask you any questions.

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