YBIOTL Episode 23 Publish
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Shubh: [00:00:00] Tater, give me a sound check, please.
Tate: Hey, check, check, check.
Shubh: You sound great. Sound check. Hey, Shubh. The
Tate: sound check.
Shubh: Okay, but you're done sound checking. It's my turn. Okay. It's my life. It's now or never.
Tate: Mm, bop, mm,
Shubh: bop. I ain't gonna live forever.
Tate: Mm, bop, mm,
Shubh: bop. Philippe, can I get a- Mm, bop ... sound check?
Tate: Mm, bop, mm, bop,
Shubh: ba, ba-da-ba-doo, bop.
Let's give it up, bop. Oh, we can't sing the whole thing. Um-
Tate: Tate, you must be very busy. What are you doing at 3:00 PM on on a Tuesday?
Shubh: Okay, you're
Tate: doing- Not much.
Shubh: We're gonna do-
Tate: Joining my friend's podcast for the third time.
Shubh: We gonna, we gonna do this, we gonna [00:01:00] do this, we gonna do this, we gonna do this, right?
I once asked Tate to start a podcast where he just- Is this recording? We did the oral- Yeah. Yeah Okay. We did the oral history of, like, different startups, and he said no.
Philippe: Oh, wow. Yeah. I just said no. You're like, "I don't have time for that."
Shubh: He's like, "It feels like that's the kind of thing we'll have to spend a much time prepping for."
He's right. I was honestly very impressed. Welcome to episode 23.
Philippe: Holy hell.
Shubh: Of Your Business Is On The Line, the podcast where serious people come on and pitch us unserious business ideas. Episode 23, first ever emergency pod.
Tate: Episode 23, episode three for me.
Philippe: Yeah, episode three.
Tate: I, I, I, I might be a co-host at this point.
Shubh: You-
Philippe: Honestly, please, we gotta
Tate: go. Co-host.
Shubh: Actually, could
Tate: you- Play the- ... questioning my life. I don't know what
Shubh: I'm- Could you also be a video producer, too? That would actually help a lot. Uh, ladies and gentlemen, Tate Hackert is back for the third time. [00:02:00] Still hasn't ever pitched an idea.
Tate: Might not.
Shubh: Still just does not believe- Tate's like, "Yeah, I'll come on whenever you want, but I will not adhere to your rules," end quote.
Third,
Philippe: third episode, still disrespects the format.
Shubh: Yeah. Oh, sorry, guys, I'm founder mode. I'm going founder mode. I'm just gonna figure it out as we go. Is that it?
Tate: Spot on.
Shubh: Uh, so- Yeah ... Philippe, the reason that Tate and I had to do an emergency podcast is because, uh-
Tate: Whoa ... I
Shubh: was just gonna say there was an important event last week.
Tate: Okay. Well, I, I, I'm, like, we didn't talk about this, so I, I don't know what the story arc
Shubh: is. No, no, we talked about it. You said, "Hey, we should talk about this on the podcast," and I said, "Sounds good."
Tate: But, but, well, what's the story arc here?
Shubh: Oh, the arc?
Tate: Yeah, yeah. Like, like, do, do, do you wanna give the cat out of the bag right at the beginning here?
Do we work up to that?
Shubh: Uh-
Tate: What happened?
Shubh: You know what? I would love you to just be like, "Hey, here's what's, here's the journey that you've been on," and then I can talk about, uh, I can layer in my involvement, which is really at the finish [00:03:00] line, I would say, right?
Tate: Yeah, so last week in Shubh Married-
Shubh: And then we have, then we have a pitch out of it Oh, sorry, I just cut you off.
Now it sounds awful. Okay, start again.
Philippe: I'm sorry, what? Last weekend Shubh married who?
Tate: Last weekend Shubh married me and my fiance.
Shubh: That's right.
Philippe: Well, now wife, obviously.
Tate: Now wife.
Philippe: Unless-
Tate: A- as long as Shubh dropped the paperwork off.
Shubh: Hey, that's one thing. When you hire an operator, I got the job done. Thank you, AMA, sponsor of this podcast.
Philippe: Whoa.
Shubh: Yeah, so- So
Philippe: you are now married. Congratulations.
Tate: We should think about, do we have, uh, I say we like I'm, I'm part of this, uh, podcast- Yeah, you are ... as a co-host, which I am at this point. You're
Shubh: like the, you're the backup co-host.
Tate: Do, do we have any family attorneys sponsoring this?
Philippe: No.
Shubh: No.
Tate: We should.
Philippe: Yeah.
Tate: 100%.
Name
Philippe: drop, Seb.
Shubh: Uh, I, I don't, I don't know any family attorneys.
Philippe: I know one out of Toronto.
Tate: I, that's not gonna
Shubh: help.
Philippe: Maddie [00:04:00] Thompson.
Shubh: Hey, Maddie Thompson, sponsor the pod.
Tate: Maddie Thompson, sponsor the pod, please. Uh, Taraban Law- Okay ... out of Kensington.
Shubh: Taraban is one word or is it Tara Bane Law?
Tate: It's, it's one word.
Okay. It's, it's a last name.
Shubh: Okay.
Philippe: Wow, wouldn't wanna mess with them.
Shubh: For the audience out there, he's pointing at me. Not sure why. Uh, okay. Taraban Kensington, sponsor the pod.
Tate: It's very good. I think we
Shubh: should- Very sharp ... probably ask people to sponsor before we shout them out, so.
Philippe: So, so, so what happened?
Shubh: Yeah, great question, Philippe.
Philippe: Give me the re- where do you wanna start your story of, of your wedding?
Shubh: You, you and your lovely now wife have been together for a very long time.
Tate: Yeah, we've been together for eight years now. Yeah. Uh, we met on Tinder.
Shubh: Tinder for people, not for houses
Tate: Uh, Tinder, not Timber?
Philippe: Yeah.
Shubh: Timber would've been a way better name for that idea that that guy had instead of Nest Quest.[00:05:00]
Philippe: So are we ... That's where you wanna start your story is eight years
Shubh: ago? Yeah, so eight ... Yeah. Tate, Tate walked in. Philippe was like, "I got a hard stop at 4:00." Tate was like, "I got a hard stop fo- at 4:00." Tate was like, "No long stories this time, Philippe." Philippe was like, "What the ... You told a 49-minute story-
about going to Turkey last time."
Philippe: It was actually much longer Yeah,
Shubh: yeah, yeah.
Philippe: I've cut so much.
Shubh: Yeah.
Tate: You did cut a lot. I was kinda disappointed. I, I didn't listen to it until- I- ... like a couple weeks ago and- I
Shubh: had to. It, the, I couldn't ... Like, there's a cap on the size of file you can upload through our podcast distributor.
Philippe: Sidhu, there is no way.
Shubh: Well, the, yeah. Also, I had to save two careers. Uh, spoiler alert, none of them were Chaz's or mine.
Philippe: You sh- Shubh has been making edits these days that, that make me sound worse.
Shubh: I can assure you that's not the case. The, the Turkey
Tate: pod edits definitely made Philippe sound better. Yeah,
Philippe: yeah.
Those ones,
Shubh: those ones- I would say they definitely made Philippe sound better. They definitely made Tate sound [00:06:00] better.
Tate: Yeah. Yeah, me, yeah, perhaps, perhaps. Definitely Philippe, though. No.
Shubh: I don't ... A- again, I can guarantee you they made Philippe sound better. Okay. So eight years ago, uh, you started dating your, uh, lovely Val.
Tate: Yeah. How do we, how do we wanna, how do we wanna run this? Well, I think that- What are we thinking? I mean, I'll, I'll-
Shubh: So, so I w- we were at a party together, like 10 months, eight months ago?
Tate: So, so eight months ago we were, we were at a party, and I was talking about how Val and I still hadn't got married.
Shubh: Yep.
Tate: Um, but we, we'd been engaged at that point for, I don't know, five months or so.
Shubh: Yep.
Tate: Um-
Shubh: Can't close. Classic date.
Tate: And, and so- ... I think, I think you said-
Shubh: W- um ...
Tate: or maybe I said.
Shubh: Yeah, I don't think I would've just volunteered. I th-
Tate: I, I, I mean, I 100% think you would've.
Shubh: Yeah. So I think Rita and I were both there, we were like, "Oh, you guys should..."
Uh, 'cause you were both like, "I don't know if we're gonna do a real wedding," right? Yeah. And then Rita and I were both like, "Pff, you should totally do some kind of wedding." [00:07:00]
Tate: And then I think I said like, "Oh, well, you can officiate it or something."
Shubh: Yeah. And then I said, "I don't think you can do that in this country."
Tate: Ah. And then what happened was right there you pulled up chat.
Shubh: Yep.
Tate: And then you searched and, "Oh, wow, I can totally do this."
Shubh: Yep. "
Tate: Well, when do you wanna do this?" And I said, "Well, I don't know. Let's do it next week."
Shubh: That's right. And that was, uh, October I think.
Tate: And that was in October. Yeah. Yeah. So that was about eight months ago.
Shubh: Yeah. So I don't hear anything back, Philippe.
Philippe: Right.
Shubh: So I'm kinda like, "Oh, I thought we were having a lovely, like, time and commitment to, like, work together again on something." You
Tate: know? Yep. Now- You're... This is your
Philippe: edit ...
Shubh: another, another founding story,
Tate: right? M- m- now, now, so, so, so- ... yeah, eight months goes by.
Shubh: Yeah.
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Tate: Eight, eight months-ish goes by Sure,
Shubh: yeah
Tate: And, uh, well, I finally get some paperwork done. Shout out Taraban Law.
Philippe: Okay.
Tate: They, they, they com- they completed some paperwork for me. Shout out
Philippe: prenups.
Tate: Shout, shout out
Shubh: prenups.
Are we, are we allowed to talk about Val's state at this point, or should we park that?
Tate: Oh, yeah, yeah, we, [00:09:00] we, we can talk about that. So, so look, I just have an Apple Notes full of, like, to-do list che- check items that I need to get done, right? One of them is, like, prenup Taraban Law. Yeah. Shout out Taraban Law.
Philippe: Yeah. Sponsor of the pod.
Shubh: Yeah. I wasn't talking about that so much as I was about-
Tate: Well, the, the, the, the- Yeah ... the other, the other one was, um, you know, if everything works out, try to get married before the baby's born.
Shubh: That's right. So there's a baby imminently.
Philippe: Oh.
Tate: So Val, Val is-
Philippe: Out of wedlock ...
Tate: almost nine months pregnant.
Yeah. Not that any of us, like, not, not that either of us really care about that- No ... but I, I know how I work. I know how Val and I work, which is if we didn't get married before the baby, it's just c- we might never do it ever. That's
Philippe: right.
Tate: Our ins- Artificial deadlines, yeah ... e- exactly. The artificial deadline works.
And, and you would go
Philippe: to hell.
Shubh: Shout out Jesus Plus. No, I'd pray. I'd pay for a bunch of prayers. You go to
Tate: hell. And so th- th- there's, there's a, there's a, you know, [00:10:00] inertia that just takes place, and so I'm trying to get all these things done. Uh, look, th- this is ranging from, yeah, what, what I just said all the way down to whatever little home improvements need to be done, you know?
You just... The artificial deadline of a baby is a scary thing. Yeah. I guess it's not really artificial. It's, it's a real deadline of a baby- Right ... of a real human coming. And so, um, yeah, on that list was wedding.
Philippe: Right.
Tate: And so I've texted Shubh. I think that was Monday night, and I said- Last week. Yeah, last week Texted
Shubh: me Monday, Monday, yeah.
And
Tate: I said, "Hey" Uh, let's get married this week.
Shubh: Uh, no. Uh, yeah. I mean- Yeah ... kind of. You said, "Hey, you still wanna get... You still wanna marry?" And I was like, "Cool. When?" And you said, "I don't know, Wednesday, Thursday?" Here's the thing you need to know about this wedding officiant process, Philippe.
Philippe: Yeah.
Shubh: In Alberta, the jurisdiction under which we are governed, [00:11:00] you have to fill out a form, and you have to set the date.
So as a, um, as a unpaid marriage officiant, you can only do three weddings a year. You have to submit a form for each one, and you have to set the date. So the intent, I believe, of this program is like, you know, Philippe, when you get married and you ask me to officiate, you'll be like- Yeah ... "Oh, Shubh, we're getting married in, on the lake in Manitoba," on some lake.
Philippe: Right.
Shubh: Right? "We're getting married on some lake, uh, July 22nd."
Philippe: That's a lovely-
Shubh: And you give me months of notice, and I'd be like, "Yeah, I'm on." I don't, actually, I don't know what the rules are in Manitoba. Let's assume they're the same. So Tate, Monday, "Uh, hey, Shubh, uh, maybe Wednesday or Thursday?" And I was like, "Well, I can't do Thursday.
I'm heading out of town." So it's Wednesday or bust. But then you gotta go to the government to get these forms. Now, credit to you guys, you guys already had the marriage licensing stuff done.
Tate: That was part of the, the to-do list in Apple Notes. Yeah. Got the marriage registry. [00:12:00]
Shubh: Right. Who needs fancy AI project trackers?
Tate: Yeah.
Shubh: Uh, so okay. So I fill out this form- Right ... uh, on the internet to the government, which is the date, uh, you know, the, the usual to become a certified marriage commissioner for one day only in the province of Alberta. Submit the form, I send it in. I get an auto-reply that says, "Hey, we'll get back to you in a week or 10 days."
Philippe: Oh, no.
Shubh: I submit this form on Tuesday. Tate and Val wanna get married Wednesday. And just beware, like yeah, we're not working under like a real deadline, but we'd like to get this thing done before the baby comes out, yeah? Everybody would. You know, you're gonna be pretty busy once the baby comes out, right?
Carve off 20, 30 minutes to get married is pretty tricky.
Tate: Look, my mom would be happier. She might not be happy that I didn't invite her to my wedding, but she'll, she'd be- She's
Shubh: gonna be super unhappy when she just finds out you got married on this, through this podcast.
Tate: I, I don't think she was happy with me when she found out that we got married.
Philippe: Oh, really? Yeah,
Tate: yeah.
Shubh: But she was probably super happy that I was there. [00:13:00]
Philippe: Yeah, okay, well, it does make me... I was sitting here thinking like, "What the hell? Did I not get an invite?" Yeah. But I'm, you know, I'm glad your mom was invited. Yeah. Okay, so- You- ... what, what makes you feel better?
Tate: It wa- it wasn't that she wasn't invited.
It was just, you know, it, it, it was too soon notice. Um, I, I mean, Sh- Shubh will walk through this story a little bit more, um, and then maybe I'll come back to it, but you know, like, my, my, my sister and my brother-in-law weren't... They didn't show up either. Uh, they just-
Shubh: That's a, that's an incredible way of like throwing them under the bus because when you gave them the 12 minutes notice, they couldn't make it?
Tate: I gave them a full 38 minutes notice. Yeah. Yeah. And they decided that they had other priorities in life.
Philippe: Do they live in, in Calgary?
Tate: They live a block away from where the wedding was.
Philippe: Yeah. No way.
Tate: So I submit this
Shubh: form.
Philippe: What? I, yeah. Unacceptable.
Tate: Unaccept- That's what I thought.
Philippe: They, the Shoelace Express can get you there.
Tate: He was on calls. On
Philippe: calls? Yeah, but
Shubh: what would he do? Like, we don't care
Philippe: so much about- Or on call
Shubh: to the doctor ... we don't care [00:14:00] about, as much about him, like-
Tate: No, she's a doctor and she was headed to work.
Shubh: Okay. Oh. But I mean, I'm not, I don't wanna be that guy. She's an animal doctor. The animals can wait.
Tate: She is an animal doctor.
Shubh: Right? What's a cow gonna do?
Tate: She's still a doctor.
Shubh: Cow's gonna write a letter to the- Alberta Animal Doctor Association? This
Philippe: is, oh, she, she, she's a
Shubh: veterinarian. That's the word we're looking for.
Philippe: A, a big animal vet?
Tate: No, no, a small animal sh- Oh ...
Philippe: Shubh
Tate: just brought the cow in. Oh,
Philippe: okay.
Shubh: Oh, she doesn't do big animals?
Tate: No.
Shubh: Oh, is ... I didn't realize that was a specialty. Two
Philippe: different- Okay ... two different homies.
Tate: Yep.
Shubh: Oh, really?
Philippe: Kind of makes sense. I don't really want my, my, my goldendoodle's vet . But
Shubh: it could be confusing because if someone's like, "Are they a little animal vet?" And they are little- You might
Tate: think they're like a, a gerbil.
Shubh: Oh, no, I, I thought they're, they maybe are just a small person.
Tate: Or like a small animal, a Tibet.
Shubh: Right. Um,
Tate: medic- Like a little animal vet.
Shubh: Well, that would- [00:15:00] Small animal ... sorry. And, well, that is- Exactly ... an animal who's a vet would just be a doctor, 'cause they're treating their own kind.
Tate: Back to the story,
Shubh: Shubh.
Okay. So I submit this form, and then I was like, I text Tate. I was like, "Hey, man, it's gonna take a week to 10 days." And Tate, pretty classically, texted back like, "Oh, shit." I think that was the exact- And I was like, "Hey, man," like, uh, this, im- we, we immediately slip back into the roles that we filled for eight years at ZayZoon, where Tate would walk into the office and have what I think many people would think was, like, an insane idea for something to be done that day.
We'd all be like, "This can't be done, Tate. You don't understand anything." And sure enough, almost, I would say, like, 97% of the time, A, it could get done, and B, his idea was really, really good. So we just slipped right back. I was like, "Well, we gotta get this wedding done." We don't have a choice. We have to get this wedding done.
Philippe: Yeah.
Shubh: So I called the government. First I called, uh, I'm not gonna do names, but let's say for argument's sake her name was Brenda. So I [00:16:00] called Brenda at Vital Statistics, and I said, "Hey, Brenda, I just submitted a form to get my friend married for tomorrow. Is there anything we can do to expedite this?" And she goes Shubh, um, sorry, that's a, that's a separate department.
You know when I'll do those? Uh, and I explained, I was like, "Hey, there's a baby on the way." I might have, like, embellished. I might have said the baby is, like, on the way, on the way.
Philippe: Oh, yeah. Like, w- we're getting some contractions.
Shubh: Yeah, like- ... I mean, a- like, in addition to the animal doctor, we had an actual doctor just on, on standby.
Um,
Philippe: this baby's gonna have- Yeah ... you know, Mary in the next 38 minutes.
Shubh: So, uh, so yeah, Brenda's like, "You know what?" Sh- a very nice conversation. She's like, "You know what? I will send an urgent note to that team to see if anybody will call you back." And I text Tate. I was like, "Hey, they said they were gonna try to call me back."
But, like, listen, I don't wanna slag the government here, but I was not expecting any kind of feedback.
Philippe: Yeah.
Shubh: So tomorrow [00:17:00] morning, next morning goes by, Tate and I talk. We're like, "Yeah, it's probably not happening." 11:00, phone rings, Alberta Vital Statistics. I'm on the treadmill.
Philippe: Why is Vital Statistics?
Shubh: That's what it's called. That's Alberta Vital Statistics. That's the- They're
Tate: vitally important.
Shubh: This is a vital statistic, I guess, but Vital Statistics handles the marriage business.
Tate: Also, why can't you be an efficient... Like, like, why don't they just give you the license for the full year?
Shubh: Because, uh, you can only do three, so I think this is their way of, this is their way of not disrupting an industry- Mm-hmm
where you need more paid to do this. But I gotta just be honest, I didn't... There was no ID verification. There was no... I didn't have to provide anything other than my name, basically. So anyway, so I get a call on the treadmill. I pick up. The lady goes, "Hi, this is, uh..." Uh, what's her, what's an assumed name? "Hi, this is Joanne from Vital Statistics."
I said, "Hi, Joanne. It's Shubh." This is the actual... I wish I would've recorded this call. And Joanne goes, "You submitted an application [00:18:00] to be a marriage commissioner." And I said, "Yeah, that's right." And she goes, "And they wanna do this today?" That was her tone, exact tone, and I just started laughing. And I said, "Joanne, I don't know what to tell you."
And she goes, "Uh, generally, we need more than 24 hours notice for this kind of thing." I get, I'm chuckling. I'm like, "I... You... We're acting like I had any ability to impact this timeline, Joanne." And she just sighs- You don't know
Philippe: who
Shubh: you're dealing with, yeah ... the, the loudest sigh, and the lo- not the loudest, the longest sigh I've ever heard on a professional phone call.
She just goes
Philippe: That was a good sigh. "
Shubh: You'll have the forms in 30 minutes."
Philippe: Whoa.
Shubh: So I'm like, "Oh my God. Now what?" So I texted Tate, I was like, "Uh, I'm gonna get these forms in 30 minutes. Do you own a printer?" I was fucking floored- ... when you said, "Yeah, I got, we got a printer." [00:19:00] I did not know that about you- ... that you would have a printer.
So Tate's got this printer, and then he, uh, "Where should we do it? Should I come to your house?" He's like, "Well, we can come to your house." And I'm like, "Well, no."
Tate: I wanted to do a destination wedding. I thought that'd be fun.
Shubh: Yeah,
Philippe: yeah, destination.
Shubh: It would've been
Philippe: fun. So, uh, and Shubh lives super far south, right?
Shubh: No, no, just west. Not that far.
Philippe: Oh.
Tate: Yeah.
Shubh: Get out there. Yeah. But Tate goes, uh... Well, well, I go, well, I go to- You
Philippe: would've had to taken a plane to get there then ...
Shubh: I gotta do a little work before this wedding, so c- I'm gonna stop in at House A31 to do some work. Shout out House A31.
Tate: Shout out
Shubh: House A31. As, as we, as we talked about last week, second-best tech community gathering.
Uh, okay. So I'm like, "I'm gonna be at House A31." Tate's like, "Well, let's just do it at A31." And I was like, "Dude, we need two witnesses." What was your answer when I said, "We need two witnesses"?
Tate: I said, "Oh, there'll, there'll be two people there."
Shubh: Yeah. Yeah. But first you were like, "I'll text my sister," and your brother-in-law.
Do you wanna come back to that, the fact that-
Tate: Yeah, so I texted them and said, "Hey, I need two witnesses. Can you get married in 45 minutes?"
Shubh: And Parker said that he's got calls.
Tate: He said, "I'm, I'm on calls." My sister said, [00:20:00] "No. I have to go to work right now." And, uh, that was that. Can I
Shubh: just be like-
Philippe: What kind of sibling?
Shubh: If your employee called and said, "Hey, I'm gonna be 40 minutes late to work. My brother's getting married."
Tate: You know, I, so, so I actually haven't talked with my sister or Parker about this. Um-
Shubh: This is a great forum to do it
Tate: then. But, uh, part of me thinks that they probably just didn't think that it was real.
Shubh: Yeah, that's fair. Or,
Tate: and, or they were, like, thinking, "Oh, you know, Tate's saying this, but it'll actually be, like, next week," or- Yeah.
Shubh: Or like seven months from now.
Tate: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Exactly. Um, but they didn't know that the officiant license was good for that day and that day only. Well,
Shubh: we didn't do it that day.
It was not getting done. It
Tate: was not getting
Shubh: done. Well, you could've gone to the quarter, done something like a regular person would do this, but-
Tate: No, no. Well, uh, you have to get another officiant. Yeah.
Shubh: But- For 5, 500 bucks.
Tate: Exactly. Yeah.
Shubh: So Tate goes, "We'll just do it A31." So we go there. Philippe, I [00:21:00] have never been this nervous about filling out paperwork in my entire life.
You have to fill everything out perfectly and exactly. You can't use white-out. If you make a mistake, we had one copy of their certificate, right? I was sweaty
Tate: already.
Shubh: And then Tate, you know me a little bit. Do I ever get nervous s- It's rare ... standing in front of people?
Tate: Pretty rare.
Shubh: I was so nervous. You have to say these certain phrases, otherwise the wedding's not real.
Philippe: I mean, so what were the phrases?
Shubh: Well, that's a great question. I don't know, actually.
Tate: Yeah, we, we both blocked out.
Shubh: I think I said, to say something like, "This jurisdiction," uh, the, the province of Alberta there was something. The, one of the funniest lines though was, uh, "This is not to be entered into, uh, uh, casually," or, like, what was it?
Like, without the necessary weight or seriousness. We all had a nice chuckle during that. Not because it's not important- ... but because-
Tate: That, Val, Val had tears at the altar. Tears from- Whoa ... from laughing.
Shubh: Yeah.
Philippe: Oh, wow. That's [00:22:00] amazing. Yeah.
Shubh: Yeah, it was a, it was pretty awesome. I will say, like, it was kind of a, like, a bit funny, but then I felt a little, like, uh, emotional.
Tate: It was still a cool milestone, right? It was still a cool milestone moment, but it, it was definitely hilarious. I mean, we were there. Shubh was wedding us. Wedding us? Marrying us.
Shubh: W- yeah, I was marrying you.
Tate: Marrying
Shubh: us. It s- it feels weird to say I was marrying you, though. And- Is there another way to say this?
I was, uh, performing the marriage ceremony? That's a lot of words.
Philippe: Yeah. Well, officiating, I think. Officiating a wedding.
Shubh: Is it officiating or officianting? Isn't it officiant? I should know this. I-
Philippe: It's an officiant. It's an officiant-
Shubh: But I officiate?
Philippe: Yeah, you officiate.
Tate: In any case, so the, the ceremony was beautiful.
Shubh: Yeah.
Tate: And then we went inside and we- Yeah.
Shubh: Outside at 831, it was pretty nice.
Tate: And then we cut the cake.
Philippe: Did you do vows?
Tate: We did not.
Shubh: No.
Tate: No. Um, but the, the cake cutting was-
Shubh: I, I didn't do any either.
Philippe: Okay. Are you supposed to?
Shubh: [00:23:00] I don't know. I felt like I, I just wanna make sure that- I just felt everything was very, like, if I do anything wrong, 20 years from now we're gonna find out they weren't married.
Philippe: Yeah.
Shubh: So that's what- Anyway, keep going. Sorry.
Tate: I, I was just gonna say, we had, we had a beautiful box of Craig's Cookies. Shout out Craig's Cookies.
Shubh: Yep.
Tate: Great cookies. Are you sponsored?
Shubh: Yep. One of the witnesses, John, was your videographer and photographer.
Tate: Beautiful video that came out of it. Was he a
Shubh: professional?
Tate: He was a professional.
Philippe: Whoa, that's brilliant.
Shubh: So you had a, you had a venue. You had a cake.
Tate: We had, um, we had cookies.
Shubh: You had an of- well, you had something sweet. Yep. You had an officiant. You had a professional videographer. You had a, I would say a professional marriage officiant. You had a DJ there. It was
Tate: pretty good.
It was top- Now, now, now- Had
Shubh: all the, all the, all the pieces you needed for a wedding.
Tate: Look, I, I, like, love Val so much because this would not have worked, I don't think, in any other situation. So, like, thank you so much for, for her, for her, for-
Shubh: Yeah ... [00:24:00]
Tate: Val being, like, the coolest person ever.
Shubh: Yep.
Tate: She is pretty
Shubh: cool.
Um,
Tate: and, and just, like, matching that casual vibe. But the video's hilarious. It, it looks like- ... Season One, Episode One of the Trailer Park Boys.
Philippe: Oh, really?
Shubh: Well, I mean, with one glaring exception. I, I don't recall a ton of people of color It was
Philippe: one fat
Shubh: guy. Yeah. Well, also we were dressed nicer-ish.
Tate: Ish.
Shubh: Yeah.
Tate: I, I mean, I was-
Shubh: You guys-
wearing- Val was dressed nice.
Tate: Yeah.
Shubh: Yeah. I had a blazer on.
Tate: Yeah.
Shubh: Rita, r- the funniest thing was Rita-
Tate: Really what you're trying to say is you were dressed nice.
Shubh: Yeah, Rita couldn't make it, uh, there either. She did not have a animal to care, but, uh, um, she was like, she was texting me. She's like, "Oh, you're gonna do this.
Don't you have to come home and change into, like, a suit?"
Philippe: Right.
Shubh: And I was like, "N- n- no." I had a blazer and a T-shirt on. The embarrassing thing was thankfully- That's pretty good ... I was wearing a blazer and a T-shirt, 'cause Tate was also wearing a white T-shirt. That would've looked [00:25:00] ridiculous. I wore white on his wedding
Tate: Just like Shubh to steal the thunder, you
Shubh: know?
Oh, I do love being the center of attention. That is true. Uh, yeah, no, she was amazingly cool. But it got us to thinking, I think, as we were kinda going through this. It's like, okay, when you plan a wedding, what do you need? What do you need to plan out in advance? I mean, neither of you know this for different reasons.
Uh, you gotta get-
Philippe: That's right. You got girl- a girlfriend, fiancé.
Shubh: Yeah.
Philippe: That's number one.
Shubh: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Wait. Um- Timber. Sorry. Timber
Tate: check.
Shubh: Sorry, you need a partner of any kind.
Philippe: Oh, yes.
Shubh: A, a partner- In your cases, yes, girlfriend, fiancé. But i- uh, for the w- world at large, could be either. Um-
Philippe: That would be step one for
Shubh: me.
Yeah, that would be step one. Yeah. It is, you know, a long-term, committed relationship of some kind. It's
Tate: a really, really long step for
Shubh: Philippe.
Tate: Yes. Yeah. It's like, it's like a, like a long jump.
Shubh: Hey, listen, I b- I believe he's gonna get there. Um, but okay, the first thing is always book your venue, right? You gotta get your venue in place.
Once you get your venue, it's always find your photographer. That's usually the next big step. Then, [00:26:00] uh, DJ, right? These are the, these are the things, or band. These are the things you can't move around. Then you go through all the smaller things. Who was your
Tate: band at your wedding?
Shubh: There was no band, just
Tate: a DJ.
You have
Shubh: a DJ? Uh, yeah.
Tate: Well, okay. What, what was your first dance song? Uh, that's
Shubh: a good
Philippe: question.
Shubh: It was, uh, Rain Made His Voice, Chantel Kreviatiuk.
Philippe: No way.
Shubh: Yeah. So when I see Rain Made, I'm gonna tell him that story.
Tate: Cool. '
Shubh: Cause Phil knows him. Uh, okay, so, uh, venue, DJ, photographer, those are the major things that you have to deal with.
You have to book the person who's going to do the wedding. You guys, most people would take... This was the Tate Hackert wedding experience, 'cause most people would take a year to put this together. You had all the things you needed for your wedding inside of 24 hours.
Tate: Yeah. I mean, I m- I mean- So- ... most inside of 24 minutes.
Shubh: Yeah, so it got us to thinking, Phil, here's- We're getting, is this a pitch? We're getting, we're getting a pitch. What if there's other people who need to get married in the next 48 hours? [00:27:00]
Philippe: Mm. I mean,
Shubh: y- you're supposed to say, "Yeah, I bet there's a bunch of people."
Philippe: I wa- yeah, no, I, I bet there's a bunch of people.
But I do think there's such an opportunity for a wedding planning business.
Tate: No, we're, listen, we're, Calgary, they call it the Vegas of the North.
Philippe: They-
Tate: We're gonna, we're gonna, 17th- Yeah ... we're switching it up.
Philippe: Yes. But just-
Tate: Any, all, the restaurants, gone. The coffee shops, gone. Everything's chapels. And so, so
Shubh: the inspiration here was like- Yeah
Tate came up with this idea to revolutionize payday. It was every two weeks, right? Most people get paid every two weeks. You can get paid with ZayZoon- But I guess indirectly sponsor the program in- No ... seconds.
Philippe: What way?
Shubh: Well, I mean, you know, 'cause I had that job there, so- ... I'm using some of those funds from working to, you know, pay for the podcast.
You
Philippe: guys should sponsor it.
Shubh: Oh my God, you really should. [00:28:00] Yeah. Uh, okay. So ZayZoon Revolution update. God, Jeff's getting a
Philippe: penny out of these
Shubh: guys. Every two weeks to e- you know, seconds that we think we do the same thing for the wedding industry, right? Like weddings on demand.
Tate: Weddings on demand. I love it.
Shubh: You gotta get married and it's-
Tate: You find, you find the love of your life at Stampede.
Shubh: Mm-hmm.
Tate: You walk down the Red Mile-
Shubh: Mm-hmm.
Tate: Oof ... into one of the chapels on 17th.
Shubh: Hey, listen, I know you wanna-
Tate: Weddings on demand ...
Shubh: I know you wanna do chapels. I don't know why we just can't do them at 831.
Philippe: Yeah, that's right.
It's
Shubh: got a great outdoor space.
Tate: Well, you, you need different themes.
Philippe: Instead of House 831, Chapel
Shubh: 831. Hey, if we just hang some shit up, we'll just get some stuff in the basement, just be ready to go at any opportunity.
Tate: Love it. I'm in.
Philippe: Just, you just gotta put a little cross at the top there.
Shubh: You
Philippe: want a- And then it looks like a little chapel.
Tate: Yeah, I love it. I love that. L- look, listen, I'm, I'm, I'm not too tied to the whole chapel thing. I just thought about that as we were talking here, so I-
Shubh: I put as much thought into that as you did. Yeah, but I think this would be fun. Yeah, uh, so Rita was like, uh, 'cause Rita couldn't be there, but Rita's jam is she was like, hey, she could put a party together.
Obviously, Philippe's in the room, knows how to throw an event. [00:29:00] I mean, it feels like Philippe would need- Yeah ... a little bit more time than 12 hours to put-
Tate: Wedding, wedding's by
Philippe: Tech- Well, I mean, might ...
Tate: weddings by Tech Thursday.
Philippe: But he
Shubh: spent- What, what if you had the wed- the wedding, but then the s- the reception was like a se- like an add-on, like an upsell, where you're like, "Hey, we know you had the wedding, but you sh- you owe your friends a party."
You know what I mean? I'm just saying, I'm just projecting here 'cause I built with Tate maybe owes his friends a party.
Philippe: How about if you genuinely were to start an events company- Yeah ... just as like a, or a wedding company, um, how long do you think it would take to turn that into a million dollar company?
Shubh: Mm, million dollar revenue company?
Philippe: Million dollars in
Shubh: revenue. Okay. Well, you, as a temporary marriage officiant, you're not allowed to charge for the officianting, wink. Just kidding. But I think you could, you know, someone's like, "I gotta get this wedding," you know, venue, everything else. Yeah, 1,000 bucks? If it's urgent-
Philippe: No, you-
Shubh: 2,500.
Philippe: You could charge w- I, I mean, like, just a genuine wedding events company.
Shubh: Oh, you're talking about real weddings.
Tate: Yeah, Phil, Phil, Phil's not talking about weddings [00:30:00] on demand anymore. He's talking about real weddings.
Philippe: But you could offer that as a product if you wanted to.
Shubh: Yeah, so yeah, weddings on demand.
But a- Then you're saying- Yeah ... full-blown weddings. I like the idea of weddings on demand, then weddings on demand, but reception later. "Hey, we gotta get married, the baby's coming. We don't have time for a party. Let's get this done." Follow-up commit to a party.
Tate: Your lead, your lead source, Foothills Hospital.
Go to Foothills, stand out there with brochures. So you
Shubh: guys
Tate: match- After all the perinatal classes and stuff, people coming out, pass them a brochure.
Philippe: Oh, wow. Yeah.
Shubh: Yeah. And
Tate: then you, and then you've got- You guys married
Shubh: yet? You guys married yet? ... a full-blown-
Philippe: Oh, you're not? You wanna go to hell?
Shubh: Okay, let's say, uh, you know, Tech Thursday knows a lot of successful people, right?
A lot of successful people in the network. Sure. A lot of younger people maybe looking to get married. If they were going to come to the, I'm now assuming the three of us will do this in some way, shape, or form together, we got on demand, and then we got this big, big package, Weddings by Thursday, Thursday Weddings.
Tate: Ooh. Which- Thursdays is actually a great name.
Shubh: Except the wedding- Yeah ... you know why? 'Cause it starts on Thursday, but it doesn't finish till Sunday. It's like [00:31:00] my people's weddings.
Tate: Love it. It's
Shubh: a full weekend party.
Tate: Love it. Bring Indian weddings to- Calgary
Philippe: This is really the full scale of- Well to- Arranged
Shubh: Yeah.
So- Yeah
Philippe: Arranged, just you know, you meet unarranged.
Shubh: Yeah.
Philippe: And then we will
Shubh: do fairness- Where else, where else
Philippe: does that- What's,
Tate: what's arranged?
Shubh: Ar-
Philippe: That's my dating app idea
Shubh: Where the couples or, you know, the couples one? The couples put the, the, the couples sign you up, and then your couple friends do all the work, and then you- Oh,
Tate: yeah, yeah, yeah.
Philippe: Like you and Val would start matching on, for me, on my behalf.
Shubh: Yeah.
Tate: Oh, beautiful.
Shubh: Yeah.
Philippe: Come on, now.
Tate: Beautiful.
Shubh: So that's another top of funnel. So okay, so founder comes to you, uh, Philippe, and is like, "Hey, Phil, uh, I don't know where to go to get my wedding planned." Thursday weddings. What does that look like?
Philippe: Uh, to plan a wedding? Well, I guess that's my, that's my point is, is-
Tate: At The Pioneer. Are
Shubh: they still... No, they're not a space. The off-site YYC.
Philippe: Off-site YYC. Um- A
Shubh: beautiful wedding venue, actually.
Philippe: Yeah, it actually is a wedding venue.
Shubh: Yeah.
Philippe: But, um, [00:32:00] but I feel like I've often thought about, 'cause weddings are so expensive, but I can't figure out why they're so expensive.
Yeah. Like, I think people just upcharge the shit out of you. Yeah. Or, like, no one knows what they're doing, and so there's just, like, first price, they're like, "Yep, let's do it." But I feel like it would be kind of addicting to run a wedding events company and just plan a bunch of... I feel like- I think it'd be-
that'd be cash cow.
Tate: Well, so, so i- it's definitely, like, people want to... People are already in the mood of spending money, or they know that they're going to have to spend money on, on, on a wedding. And so I think, like, the delta between, like, an $8,000 thing and a, I mean, that's very low, obviously, but just for sake of numbers, like $8,000 and $10,000, it's all the same.
Right. They, they may as well just spend the $10,000. Well, also it's
Shubh: an easy sell. You're like, "D- oh, you don't think this is an important thing?"
Tate: Well, correct. So there's, there's that. And then, um, but, but look, like, it'd be... It's gotta be difficult. You- you're, you're dealing with some personalities there.
Shubh: Yeah.
People get pretty emotionally invested. Yeah. [00:33:00] I don't know. Right? So this- Rita and I had a pretty big couple of weekends of weddings, and we ran the whole thing ourselves. I had a, like, a seven-page project management plan printed up and, like, taped up around the house so everybody knew where to be and when.
I think you just have to be organized.
Tate: Yeah.
Shubh: But, uh, can we just talk about wedding costs for a second? The thing that always blows me away-
Tate: How much was your wedding? Huh? I'm sorry. How much is a wedding typically cost?
Shubh: In today's market?
Tate: Yes.
Shubh: Today's infla- We've been married for 20 years- Yeah ... almost. Uh, I think if you're doing a big wedding, for your people a big wedding 200 people, for- Yeah
my people a big wedding 400 people, I think you're, you're into six figures-
Tate: Yeah ...
Shubh: pretty quick.
Philippe: I think so. I think a lot of my friends are spending, uh, six figures on their
Shubh: wedding. Hold on a sec. Wait. Before we leave this, the one thing I can't wrap my head around with wedding expenditures is $8,000 for a wedding dress that you will never wear again.
That's a racket. I'm sorry, the [00:34:00] wedding dress people. It's a racket. I get spending a lot of money on the party. I don't get the dress.
Philippe: Yeah, I don't get the dress either. That's cra- I mean, people are spending so much money on everything. Yeah. Every aspect of it.
Shubh: Uh, and you know, I'm gonna ... Another hot take. Uh, spending like $2,000 on a wedding cake, also not worth it.
'Cause the cake-
Philippe: Shout out Craig's Cookies ...
Shubh: the cake- ... the cakes are never that good. You know where we got our wedding cake from? Save On Foods.
Tate: Beautiful.
Shubh: And it was good.
Philippe: Yeah.
Shubh: Tuxedo cake.
Philippe: Did Val ... Did ... Are you guys gonna have a party later on or no, this is it?
Tate: So, so we uh-
Shubh: Oh, this is you pitching. You gonna pitch?
Philippe: No, this is me, my, me selling. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
Shubh: yeah. That's what I mean. Yeah. You're gonna sell them on your ... Yeah. Sure. We
Tate: uh-
Shubh: Also, it does ... The side benefit is you actually get an invite to the wedding even though you might not be on the list, you'll have to be there.
Philippe: Yeah. You'll
Shubh: be like, uh, the dude in, uh, Father of the Bride, who's the like wedding planner, but then, you know- Yeah
he, he also needs to be fed.
Philippe: There's ... I'm actually, uh, over the summer I'm at my cabin, and there's one weekend where all my friends are going to a [00:35:00] wedding.
Shubh: Yeah.
Philippe: But that I'm not invited to. Oh.
Shubh: So-
Philippe: You're just crash- ... I've just, I volunteered myself- Feels like you as a server ... to bartend the event. Yeah. Yeah.
Shubh: Well, why weren't you invited?
Philippe: I don't know the guy too well. He's, uh ... But he's a awesome guy. I love him. But, um-
Shubh: Okay ...
Philippe: he like, he lost his, um, thumb tubing. And so they moved his index finger to where his thumb is. And so you shake his hand, and he's got like just a big old index finger wrapping around your hand.
It's crazy. But he's such a lovely guy, James Steele. Uh, I would love to have the opportunity to bartend at ... You know? How does he ...
Shubh: A powerful name, too. Sorry, take, get back to ... Okay. Are you gonna have a party? He's a cutie. Are you gonna have a party? N- no party for us.
Tate: We, um, we, we, we did the bachelor/bachelorette thing.
Shubh: Oh.
Tate: And that was, uh- Oh,
Shubh: that's right. I was about to say, "Oh, thanks for the invite," but I, I wasn't invited.
Tate: That, that, that was, uh, that was the big hurrah for us. So mine was 22 [00:36:00] guys. We went down to- Oh ... Mexico City.
Philippe: Oh, right.
Tate: And Val's was a large group that went to a cabin on the lake in Quebec.
Philippe: Oh. 22 guy- Okay
I
Shubh: gotta, I gotta be honest, this is a little jarring. I only agreed to do this officiant thing 'cause I thought there'd be a party later.
Philippe: I gotta ... Uh, 22, that seems like way too many people.
Tate: Yeah, I would agree. It was super fun.
Philippe: Really?
Tate: Oh, it was the best. I, I, I actually had the same thoughts. Now, there's a whole story there that we don't have time for.
No. Um-
Shubh: We barely had time for this story. You guys both gotta go in like five minutes.
Tate: But, but so we had a beautiful Airbnb booked for that bachelor party.
Philippe: Yeah.
Tate: And then it Yeah. It just, it kept growing.
Philippe: Right.
Tate: And then eventually I'm like, "Oh, there's a lot of, there's 22 people. That's a lot of people." And I kind of got worried.
Shubh: Tate's just trying to tell us how popular
Tate: he is. The Airbnb would no longer work. So the thought was, well, do we do [00:37:00] an Airbnb and just hotel rooms at the hotel across the street? This Airbnb's beautiful.
Philippe: Yeah.
Tate: Uh, talked to a couple friends and they said, "Nah, like get everyone under one roof." Well, the only option for getting everyone under one roof was a hostel.
And so we ended up renting out an entire hostel.
Philippe: That's so sick.
Tate: It was. However- So sick is what everybody got. It's a hostel. Hey-o. Which was hilarious because the, the age difference, uh, the youngest person at my bachelor party was 28, the oldest was 58. And to see, like, these 50-year-olds sleeping in bunk beds and complain about it was, was- Yeah
pretty special.
Philippe: Yeah. Was that, did it make it better for you?
Tate: Yeah.
Shubh: Yeah.
Tate: Yeah. Kn- know- know- knowing that coming out of that there'd be like, you know, stories for life. Yeah. That's what it's about, yeah.
Philippe: Absolutely.
Shubh: So, uh, Philippe, I would love a rating on this joint pitch of Tate and mine's. Um, so the, the, basically the, the whole sum total [00:38:00] of what we're doing is, it's Weddings on Demand presented by House 831, and in concert with and in partnership with Weddings by Thursday-
Philippe: for the big weddings.
Tate: I think you gotta do Thursdays.
Philippe: Thursdays.
Tate: Thursdays.
Shubh: Thursdays. Thursdays weddings or Weddings by Thursday?
Tate: No, Thursdays, it kind of reminds me of, like, Sundays, like the furniture company, you know? It's just like elevated. Just Thursdays. Yeah, Thursdays. Just Th- just Thursdays.
Shubh: But do people, do people kind of go-
where our wedding has to be on a Thursday then?
Philippe: I
Shubh: mean, Thursday's a great
Philippe: day for a wedding.
Shubh: The pitch is by Thursday you're so relaxed because everything's taken care
Tate: of. Oh, I love
Philippe: that. You know, having, uh, already started a company with Thursday in the name-
Shubh: Yeah ...
Philippe: I, I'm here on the other side telling you it's not a good idea.
Everyone's always like, "We have these events on Wednesday," everyone always has to make a joke, you know?
Shubh: I told you once that I was gonna start a competing company called Web Wednesdays.
Philippe: Web Wednesdays is pretty good.
Shubh: Pretty good, right? It's beautiful.
Philippe: But, [00:39:00] um, our pitch, well, so I think, like, the, the on-demand weddings is pretty smart.
Like, can you pull together a wedding within 24 hours? I guess it is just like Chad Owens. Sorry.
Tate: Well, what do you think the demand for an on-demand
Shubh: wedding is? But the pitch, you said, can you put a wedding together in 24 hours? We've just demonstrated we absolutely can put-
Tate: Yeah, we have a proof of concept.
Give us our seed money.
Shubh: Yeah. Yeah.
Philippe: Well, I mean, I'd just put up a we- a landing page and, like, be like, "Yeah, weddings in 24 hours." What would you need? Would you need a professional, um-
Shubh: No, you need a place, you need a person to perform the wedding. So I would probably have to go through the exercise of becoming a licensed marriage commissioner.
Philippe: So that you could do it anytime.
Shubh: Let's be honest, this is the ultimate progression of my career anyway. I'm just out here marrying people, right?
Tate: Yeah. It really fulfills all the core milestones.
Shubh: I get to talk in front of people.
Tate: Correct.
Shubh: I get to do some bits.
Tate: Yep.
Shubh: Uh, I like it when people like each other.
Tate: Yep.
Shubh: I like vibes. I like good vibes. I like a little [00:40:00] cake.
Tate: This could be a career option for you.
Shubh: This could be. And Rita would definitely be all in on getting involved in this whole endeavor.
Philippe: If you wanted to, a shotgun wedding at a chapel-
Shubh: We're not gonna call it a shotgun wedding. So we wanna elevate it.
Philippe: Okay. Yeah. But if you wanted that, could you go to anywhere in Calgary and get that right now? No. Or you would need to go to Vegas?
Shubh: No, and in fact, if you wanted, like, a licensed marriage commissioner to do it that day, I think you could maybe go to a courthouse, right? But, like, you, you, there's no guarantees.
Tate: I, I think the courthouse is a fallacy. Like, I think you actually still need to go to, like, the register base and-
Shubh: Yeah, you still have to have the- ...
Tate: hire a Christian.
Shubh: Yeah. So all I'm saying is it's not as easy- Oh, really? Yeah ... to pull together day of as you might think. It's definitely hard to get a place.
Philippe: I love it then.
Shubh: Yeah, I think this is a, uh ... I mean, I know it's our own idea.
Philippe: But if you were-
Shubh: 72 south
Philippe: If you were a, a, an official, would you be able to do it [00:41:00] any- at the drop of a hat, or would you always have to call Joanne?
Shubh: No, no, no. That's only to become a temporary marriage commissioner, which you can only do three times a year, and you can't get paid for, and you have to set the dates.
I don't know what the process is to become a actual marriage commissioner. Um, I'm guessing y- man, I'm guessing you can do it.
Tate: You might have to show them your ID for that one.
Shubh: Put in the time and energy, yeah. Or maybe take a training course, right? Um, but I- Yeah ... I think that that's, that's the one investment.
So we would need an investment of time, and energy, and money to get a marriage officiator on, on the team.
Philippe: On the payroll.
Shubh: Who's
Philippe: ready to go. But then you could just ... Yeah, you should just set up a lending cage, and just, like, wait for people to look up instant weddings.
Shubh: Yeah, I think this was the biggest question, is how many people need to get married real quick in this city?
Tate: I think you do it during Stampede. I'm telling you, Vegas of the North.
Philippe: Yeah. Vegas of the North.
Shubh: I, I truly believe- What
Philippe: about, what about, uh, Winnipeg, though? I was trying to get that to catch on. Las, [00:42:00] Las Vegas.
Shubh: Why can't we stand this up in Winnipeg once we get- ... once we get it going here? You've got some buddies who'd probably make some good marriage officiants.
Philippe: Oh, yeah.
Shubh: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Philippe: Yeah, I've ... Mikey Hart. My boy Mikey Hart, I feel like-
Shubh: Mikey Hart, that's the name of a guy. His heart's in the name.
Philippe: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Shubh: He's got the perfect name for this business. Get him on the phone. Don't get him on the phone, actually. You guys gotta go. Uh, it just, y- you, you love this idea.
What's the score?
Philippe: Uh, I mean, if you guys can execute, this is l- this is like a
Shubh: l- Why do you keep saying that as though we have an MVP? I, I understand. We just, we literally just did it, Philippe.
Tate: I'm, I'm married, Philippe. But you- Did you miss that part?
Philippe: You're one of one. Legally. You're one of one. If other people want this, then let's go.
I will give you money right now to do it, 'cause I think it'd be hilarious. No, we
Shubh: don't need your money. We need you to give up a whole shitload of your time and energy. I
Philippe: see, I
Shubh: see. 'Cause you're gonna have to take on the ... Yeah, 'cause every once in a while, someone's gonna be like, "Hey, [00:43:00] like what you guys are doing, but I wanna get married at, uh- I don't know, the top of some fucking mountain, but 300 of my friends have to be there.
And then- Then, but that's when we- That's for
Tate: Thursday helicopters coming
Shubh: to the- That's when- Oh, shit ... that's when we turn to you.
Philippe: I'm so in. '
Shubh: Cause we go, "We don't know how to
Philippe: do that." There's the choppas.
Shubh: The most people house 831 can fit, 80, wink, fire department,
Tate: right? So- What
Philippe: are the number?
Tate: It's 120.
Philippe: Yeah,
Shubh: I said that.
120.
Philippe: With the patio, right?
Tate: Correct.
Philippe: Yeah.
Shubh: Uh-
Philippe: About ...
Tate: technically 60 inside, 60 outside, but who's counting, you know?
Shubh: The fire department. Yeah. The fire department. My buddy Matt's coming on. He's an ex-firefighter. We'll ask him about this. Um-
Philippe: J- so is he coming on?
Shubh: Yeah. So we're just saying 60, more than 60 people in the winter.
Philippe: This is a 65 sauce idea.
Shubh: Ooh, 65 and, and I gave, I self-rated it pretty high, too. What would you give it, Tate, if th- this was not [00:44:00] part of, partly your idea?
Tate: I'd give it 70 Craig's Cookies.
Shubh: That's not how this works. Guy, can we cut that part?
Tate: That's
Shubh: good. Uh, okay. Well, Tate, uh, I wanna make sure you guys are out of here on time.
Look at this, 3:59, boom, roasted. You guys gotta go. Um- Congrats on
Philippe: the wedding ...
Shubh: Tate- Tate ... congratulations. Thank you for involving me. It was actually legitimately a lovely experience.
Tate: It was very cute. I feel like, uh, this podcast did it zero justice. Um, it was great to tell the story and, but, but I feel like we should've, we should've prepared a little bit more of that story arc.
I, I, I, I did my relationship a disservice perhaps, but- ... I hope everyone listening enjoyed the, the pitch and, um-
Shubh: I think we spent more time preparing for the podcast than we did for the actual wedding. I think, uh, this podcast went exactly how it w- it was, it was supposed to go.
Tate: Yeah, I'm excited to sh- show this to my kid one day.
Shubh: And Val is great. You, yeah. Um, Philippe, thank you for, uh, uh, jumping in at the last minute.
Philippe: Well, I'm so glad I got to hear [00:45:00] this story. We had a call on Friday and you, and I asked you about your wedding. You said, "No spoilies."
Shubh: Yeah, no spoilies. We'll post, uh, w- so you'll post some pics when this podcast comes out.
Yeah, yeah. You're gonna do the thing justice.
Tate: Yeah.
Shubh: Uh, shout out 831. Shout out John for- Yeah ... doing the, doing the heavy lifting on Thursday.
Tate: Shout out Thursdays.
Shubh: Shout out Sam, Sam Doty-
Tate: Yeah ...
Shubh: for, uh, being a witness, and shout out to The Amy. Is it
Philippe: Doty or Doty?
Shubh: $21 you can get your friends married, everybody.
Tate: Adios.
Shubh: Peace.
Tate: Peace.
Shubh: Oh, you said peace. Uh, uh, what, that's a wrap.
Philippe: This is a presentation of Indian
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