When Weddings Starve, Pizza Delivers: Viral etiquette, smart ring chaos at the airport, and the $30k baby-name business

A hungry guest orders pizza at an eight-hour wedding, a smart ring swells and blocks a flight, and a consultant charges $30,000 to name babies—three viral headlines that sound ridiculous until you dig into the rules, risks, and status games underneath. We follow the thread from etiquette to engineering to identity, asking why private choices keep turning into public brawls.

First, we break down the wedding blowup: when a reception stretches across mealtimes with nothing substantial to eat, is delivery a rude move or self-preservation? I share an honest take on host duties, guest boundaries, and how to solve a hunger problem without making a scene. Then we pivot to the Galaxy Ring fiasco: lithium-ion swelling, airport policy, emergency removal, and the hidden hazards of tiny batteries near soft tissue. If you fly, wear wearables, or love new gadgets, you’ll get practical tips on what to watch for and when to ditch convenience for safety.

Finally, we examine the luxury baby-naming boom. Spreadsheets, genealogists, “name aesthetics,” and five-figure invoices sound wild—but they also reflect how modern parents outsource decisions to avoid regret and family fights. We talk value versus vanity, what a thoughtful naming process actually includes, and why taste now sells like a service. Across all three stories, the pattern holds: social norms feel blurry, tech is intimate yet risky, and everyone is performing for an audience that never forgets.

If you enjoy sharp takes with real-world advice—on manners that protect relationships, gadgets that won’t bite back, and choices that age well—hit follow, share this with a friend, and drop your spiciest wedding story or baby-name hot take in the comments. Your stories might spark the next episode.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Midweek kickoff & lineup
• 1:09 The starving wedding guest saga
• 3:59 Eight-hour reception, no food
• 6:32 Pizza etiquette vs. bride outrage
• 9:32 Smart ring swells, flight denied

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:15

Hello, good morning. We're midday mid mid midweek. Yes. Wednesday. Happy hump day. Oh, I hate that term. Okay. I don't know why I just used it. Alright, we have three stories. We're talking about wedding guests who ordered pizza. We have a passenger. Okay, this is kind of weird with his. I'll have to get to that in a minute. A passenger on an air. They wouldn't let him on because of his okay, we'll get to it. Uh, and then we have okay, this next, this other story I'm gonna save for last. This person charges$30,000 to help with the naming their babies. I can't believe it. It's gotta be a fake story. All right. First up, though, is the hungry wedding guest. I have questions about all of this. Um, a UK bride, so it's in the United Kingdom, uh, but I wouldn't put it past Americans to do this too. A UK bride ripped into her starved wedding guest who ordered a pizza at her reception, but viewers are divided over her controversial move. The ludicrous story came to light via a video by a TikToker, I know, I know, named Lisa, who frequently shares stories sent to her by fans. See, this is what I need to do. Send me stories. I'll get on TikTok. I'll talk about them. That's what I'm doing right now on my podcast. Lisa stealing my thunder. Okay. Am I wrong for ordering a pizza to a wedding after we weren't fed for eight hours? Reads the caption to the clip, which amassed over 350,000 views. Yeah, I'm on the wrong platform. I need to get on TikTok. So what wedding lasts for eight hours? Would I like to? Not even a Catholic wedding lasts that long. Trust me, I'm Catholic, married a Catholic, we had a Catholic wedding. It was not eight hours long. I promise you. It could be though that it was because it was November 1st, football season, and Alabama. I mean, uh, Georgia played Florida. And that's, you know, I married a Georgia boy. I tell you what, we got to the reception maybe an hour, and then boom, everybody started leaving. We gotta go, we gotta go, we go. Nice wedding. Congratulations, bye. It was so fun. All right. Um, so I want to know why this was eight hours long. According to the viral video, the incident occurred. Oh my gosh, go away. The incident occurred at a wedding in York, which reportedly didn't provide anything substantial for guests despite running from 12 p.m. until 8 p.m. Is that an that is not a normal timed wedding, is it? I don't think it is. If no, I'm not staying for for eight hours. I'm not staying that long at your wedding. That is ridiculous. Okay. And then so there's no food apparently. So the one of the guests orders the pizza, has it delivered, eats, and then it gets around to the bride. The bride is just upset. I didn't finish reading the story because I think it's dumb. All right, we need to move on to the next one, and that is about this guy, this passenger lands in the hospital. Oh my gosh. Okay. Another United Kingdom. Why are we reporting on United Kingdom and things? You can't find anything interesting and weird in America to write about? Okay. A UK man has sworn off a certain piece of electronic jewelry after he was prevented from boarding a flight because it wouldn't come off his finger. He detailed the humiliating ordeal in a series of ex posts taking off on the platform. Why can't Okay, why are they demanding he take off this ring for one thing? You don't need to take off your jewelry, do you? The passenger in question, Daniel Rotar, had reportedly been wearing a Samsung Galaxy ring. This AI enhanced piece of gadgetry monitors sleep, activity, heart rate, and other health markers, but fits around one's finger, unlike the clunkier smart watches. Well, here you go. This is why you don't get these kind of gadgetry things. So according to the post, the traveler had been traveling back from Hawaii from a tech summit, an Odyssey that's involved three different flights and two long layovers, when the gadget's lithium lithium ion battery swelled and trapped his finger. He says, Ah, this is not good, wrote Rodar Hugh, who runs Zone of Tech YouTube channel. My Samsung Galaxy Rings battery started swelling while it's on my finger, and while I'm about to board a flight, now I cannot take it off, and this thing hurts. A follow-up photo showed the swollen device stuck around the tech whiz's finger like a thumb, like a thumb handcuff. Let's see, I don't see any pictures of it on his finger swollen. Uh there was one picture, but it didn't look that swollen. Okay, anyway. Um despite imploring Samsung for help on X, the Brit was unable to free his digit from the high-tech prison and was prevented from boarding the flight as a result. I was denied boarding due to this been traveling for 47 hours straight, so this is really nice. Lamented on okay, that doesn't make any sense. He added that he was sent to the hospital and had the galaxy ring removed, a process that reportedly required them to apply ice to reduce the swelling and some kind of lubricant. Won't be wearing a smart ring ever again. Well, yeah, that's what you get, dumbass. Alright, we need to move on to the next story. Let's see, because this next story is outrageous, and I think it's fake, but I don't know. It has pictures and everything. Although you can create AI pictures, I know. Let's see what it has to say over here on this ridiculous ass story. Alright. A San Francisco woman charges an eye-popping$30,000 to help desperate parents name their babies. What in the world? These people are stupid. Wealthy parents to be are spending tens of thousands of dollars to hire a professional baby namer to help them dub their new addition. How do you get into this line of work? That's what I would like to know. Taylor A. Humphrey started posting online about a decade ago about her obsession with baby names, and now it's a whole luxurious enterprise. I don't believe this story. There's a lot more to this job than people realize, Humphrey, who was named after 1980 soap opera actress Taylor Miller, told the San Francisco Chronicle. Sometimes I get calls from clients that are so urgent that I need to drop everything and help them right away. BS. I do not believe this story. The San Fran-based consultant helped name more than 100 babies in 2020, raking in more than$150,000 from cashed up couples back when she charged just$1,500 for the service. Now Humphrey37 has 100,000 combined followers on TikTok and Instagram, as well as growing portfolio for more than 500 children's monikers. She helped choose with services now costing up to$30,000. Man, there's a sucker board every minute. Humphrey is a trained doula. What is a doula? D-O-U-L-A. What the hell is a doula? With a background in branding and marketing, and she's also a self-described name nerd with thousands of spreadsheets full of baby names. Oh, this is so stupid. I really I need to meet these couple that are shelling out$30,000 to this woman. When taking on clients, she uses naming questionnaires to get better understanding of the parent's personalities, interests, and likes and dislikes when it comes to names. Those who want a simple email with some personalized name recommendations, which include each name's meanings or origin. You can't go to the internet and look this up yourself, you dumbasses. I can't even go on with this. This is so stupid. Her add-on services include things such as identifying a unique name aesthetic, baby name branding, baby name branding. Come on. Getting a genealogist to compose a list of names from old parts of the family tree and even hiring a think tank to discuss to discuss the options. A think tank? Oh god help me. This cannot be real, y'all. The requests from her client have become more specific over the years, with parents to be asking for names that are uncommon but not weird, simple but not basic and on trend but not too trendy. I gotta read on. Come on now. During video consultations, she often finds that she can feel more like a therapist or mediator than a baby name consultant. She has a range of clientele from the anonymously rich to high profile celebrities who seek out assistance to find perfect name for their baby, which could feel high stakes. It oh my gosh. Humphrey declined to reveal her estimated income from her career, but shared that she has a backlog of clients ever since the New York the New Yorker profiled her in 2021. What? And there's a link to that. I so this has got to be a true story. She is one of just about a dozen professionals baby name consultants nationwide with a full-time gig to help parents name their children. And she's believed to be the only one in the Bay Area. After the New Yorker profile went viral and Humphrey's social media blew up, it allowed her to gain plenty of clients and increasing her pricing. Oh wow. I had to come to terms with the fact that people often find me through content that pokes fun at me, Humphrey said. I accept it because I believe the work I'm doing is really important. It's it's a little embarrassing when you get made fun of on the internet, she said. But at the same time, I'm like, well, it is silly. I come up with these baby names for a living, and you make a lot of money. And that was the end of the story. Oh my gosh. That has got to I mean, really, really. I'm gonna go back and see if I can find that New Yorker. Let's see. Uh let's see, where was it? Bear with me, bear with me. Here we go. The New Yorker. Yes, it is in the New Yorker for sale, baby names lightly used. This is true. Uh well, it's in the New Yorker. Can it can the New Yorker? And this was April 11th, 2022. Wow, that's true. Oh my gosh, that is insane. All right, we need to move on to the question of the day. Okay, I am sure in your lifetime that you have been to a wedding. What was your experience like? Was it good? Did it have good food? How long did you stay? Uh how was how was your ex what was the best wedding ex besides your own that you went to? I'm talking about as a guest. Um was it a good experience? Just give me some little some little weird thing about it, if you have a weird thing about it. Okay, I gotta go. Thanks for listening. Bye.