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Hello and welcome. This is Chris Gilleville, your host of Side Usual School. Here with you

episode 2,344 in the theme of Failure Friday. Failure Friday are weekly segment, a collection

of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters and of course failure, all of the things

that go wrong. So basically the opposite of a case study of success, more like a story

of well you know what that is, the opposite of success. And just like our throwback Thursday

segment, you get to hear directly from a side usler who is struggled to get something off

the ground, something just doesn't work at all or maybe it works for a little while and

it stops working. Maybe some disaster comes along. In this case it just did not work at all.

I mean that's probably the best introduction I could put on it. This short story features

Billy from Denver. He is a serial and adventurous side hustler who isn't afraid to try different

ideas. So I really respect that. This particular idea that you're going to hear about however

just didn't work and maybe it wasn't the best idea. But let's let him tell the story, fake

wedding guest business, Fizzles out.

And I'll start it with a brilliant idea of a side hustle. I thought what if I could make

a living by attending weddings as a professional guest? I could help riots, I could help grooms

fill seats, I could add some extra pizzazz to their day, make some extra cash on the side

too. So I set out to become the world's first wedding guest extraordinaire. I carefully

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