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Yannis Getting Married at Oheka Castle

from The Pauper Is Just Working · #113

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4 min

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Yannis discusses his upcoming wedding to a Long Island girl, getting married at Oheka Castle, the cost of Long Island weddings, and riffs about heroin kids versus football kids if he raises children on Long Island.

In this bit9 moments
  • 1:05Yannis is getting married in his 40s, describing it as a "what now" type of thing after doing everything else.
  • 1:29Being engaged to a woman from Melville, Long Island feels like being married to a party planner.
  • 1:46The wedding is at Oheka Castle, which Tim calls the Disney of Long Island and the proper way to do it.
  • 2:25If you're Albanian and done well in life, Oheka Castle is where you start your marriage $100,000 in debt.
  • 2:48Yannis would rather walk into the Bay than live on Long Island, threatening to backward into the water like a dog.
  • 3:08Bay Ridge is about an hour from Yannis's fiancée's family, which is the optimal distance.
  • 3:34A drive to Governors Island from Bay Ridge at 5:30 AM took three hours, turning what should be a half-hour trip into a journey you could fly to Miami for.
  • 4:01Raising kids in a Long Island house versus a city apartment shapes whether they'll be heroin kids or cerebral New York City kids.
  • 4:23Long Island kids will definitely be on heroin, but they'll also be on football teams, making them straight in their own way.
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