The Wedding Ringer

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**SPEAKER_4** (1:45)
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**Sona Movsesian** (1:52)
Okay, let's get started.

**Matt Gourley** (1:55)
Hey, Brian. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:58)
Hello, Brian. How are you?

**Brian** (1:59)
Nice, nice. Look at you guys. Amazing.
Look at us. You look even better on Zoom.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:04)
Yeah.

**Brian** (2:05)
That's great.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:06)
Just look at us. Isn't that an incredible sight? Brian, very nice to meet you. I'm told that you are a wedding vow writer. Is that correct?

**Brian** (2:17)
Yes. Yes, sir.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:18)
And you don't just write wedding vows. You write any speech that would be a part of a wedding ceremony. Is that correct?

**Brian** (2:26)
Speeches, the wedding ceremony itself, if you have a friend or a family member doing it, all the written parts of the wedding that have been largely neglected from professional guidance.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:37)
I mean, first of all, this sounds like a demand that's, a job that's much in demand. But second, how did you create this gig? Where did the idea come from?

**Brian** (2:47)
Well, it's actually got a connection to you slightly adjacent. A guy named Doc Switzer, a friend of mine, a very close friend of mine recommended or introduced me to John Max, the writer, the TV writer. And Max, and I interviewed him during COVID. I, like many people, started a COVID podcast where I just started interviewing friends that had done something in their lives. And he started talking about his role as a ghost writer. And I had officiated a few weddings and helped friends and family write speeches. Before this, I was in politics. I wrote, I was a political consultant. Sure.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:28)
So you had written speeches before.

**Brian** (3:30)
Correct. Correct. And so I got the, I was looking to get out of politics because politics sucks.
And, badly. That's what I hear. Yeah. Yeah. It was soul crushing. And I just, you know, I felt a part of the problem. So I wanted to get out of it. And, and so I had this idea and I started looking around and there were people that wrote speeches, there was nobody that was making a real business out of it. A couple of people that had been doing it at some level or another. But, but I went on, there was an app called Clubhouse at the time where all of the wedding people were congregating because they had nothing to do during COVID. And I, I went in there and it's, it's like an audio conference room where you raise your hand. I raised, I raised my hand and I said, hey, what do you guys think about this? And, and they loved it. And I made a site that day and I put some stock photography up and put an ad out and got a client the next day and I was like, okay, this is, there's something here. So, so we explored that. My wife and I were in politics together and now we're, we're in this together. We went to a conference and, and started talking to people. And, and my wife, Nicole was like, you know, you've had a lot of cockamamie ideas before, but this isn't one of them. And so we figured it out. We figured it out.