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Hey, it's Danny Klein-Modest, author of Take My Spouse Please.

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Welcome to The Storyworthy. Welcome to the Story Worthy podcast. Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannah Sfini.

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My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Spinni, and we're coming to you from the Milwaukee Turner's Hall, home of the Turner's who are like Shriners. And it's a place where you celebrate weddings, wedding anniversaries, bar mitzvahs. But what's a Turner? What's that mean? It's just like a Shriner. I know, but is it T-U-R, N-E-R?

Yes. I assume there are people who used to turn things. That is so stupid. I can't even take it. Listen. No, I'm just saying. In Wisconsin, we care for the, look, the Green Bay Packers are named after meat packers. Right. Mm-hmm. So somebody had to turn the crank on the meat grinder. Do you really think this is where it comes from?

I believe that is.

That is. Right. So somebody had to turn the crank on the meat grinder to get the meat.

Do you really think this is where it comes from? I believe that is. That is so Midwest. There's like a big guy like a sort of a gothic looking. Yeah. Like the Rockefeller Center, you know, Atlas guy and he's turning a crank. It's exciting. Well, it's exciting to be here. You know, it's podcast gold. The kids, they love a 300-year-old lodge.

I think the reason why Hon it's exciting to be here. It's podcast gold. The kids, they love a 300-year-old lodge.

I think the reason why Honest would like us to be at a lodge where they celebrate wedding anniversaries is because of our guest tonight.

Danny Klein Modisette.

She's here.

And her topic is wedding anniversary nightmares.

Nightmairs.

Wedding anniversary nightmares.

Now, when I hear this topic, of course, I go to my 12 or 14. How many wedding, yeah, between your two marriages, how many wedding anniversaries did you have? Let's see. You know what's so funny is, okay, so I, maybe I've had 12 or 14 or 10. I don't know, but no, about 12 or 14. No, wait, but how long were you married for the first? The first time I got married, I was 25.

But it was such a sweet wedding. It really was, it was all outside. And there were feather, you know, not feathers, but flowers in my hair. You know, it was very hippies. Exactly, very hippie. And I vowed to have a wedding anniversary party like that every year. Like I even knew at 25 that you, if you, listen, and I'm talking to you, honest, if you just want to get married because you want to have a nice party and get presents, you can actually do that every year and not have to get married at all. Do you know what I'm saying? Wow. Your friends are going to get sick of that real quick. Hey, we need more silver.

But you can rent a space and cater a really nice party and have an event where people get dressed up and tell people you want presents.

Like for your birthday or say, and they'll do that.

You don't have to get married to do that.

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