Speaker 1: Hey, guys, it's a Separation Anxiety with Larsa.
Speaker 2: And Marcus hashtag Larcus. Hi, guys, I'm Larsa Pippen, I'm
Speaker 2: on the Real Housewives in Miami, and.
Speaker 3: I'm Marcus Jordan, the CEO and founder Trophy Room. And
Speaker 3: we're here for our first episode of our podcast.
Speaker 2: And what's it called then, Separation anxiety?
Speaker 1: Separation anxiety with Larsa and Marcus.
Speaker 2: I love that we sound so cute with that.
Speaker 1: I love it too.
Speaker 2: You know, when I think of like separation anxiety, I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like that's where everyone should be, Like,
Speaker 2: if you love someone, you should miss them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like, you know, for us, it's because
Speaker 3: we compliment each other so well when we're together that
Speaker 3: you know, when we're not together we have separation anxiety.
Speaker 1: It's like we want to get back to each other exactly.
Speaker 2: It's like I'm missing a limb without you, right.
Speaker 1: It definitely feels like it's something's off when I'm not
Speaker 1: with you then.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of why we wanted to share our
Speaker 2: life with you and talk to you a little bit
Speaker 2: about our separation anxiety.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, there's a lot of chatter about
Speaker 3: our relationship, and so the podcast gives us a platform
Speaker 3: to kind of put things into our own voice and
Speaker 3: our own perspective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I feel like being really open and telling
Speaker 2: our truth, you know, for sure.
Speaker 1: So starting with that, how did we meet? Man?
Speaker 2: So we met four years ago in La We were
Speaker 2: at a party and I was with Fat Joe, Lorena
Speaker 2: and a bunch of our friends, and I guess someone
Speaker 2: was texting with you and they said, hey, we just
Speaker 2: got here, and you said, okay, I'll come get you guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: It was a party where Jordan Brand was hosting, and
Speaker 3: I was kind of like in the VIP area, and
Speaker 3: anytime there's an event like that, I kind of like
Speaker 3: to be the liaison for people to kind of you know,
Speaker 3: get close to my dad, get in the top secret section.
Speaker 3: And so I think it was either Joe or DJ
Speaker 3: Kella that texting me and was like, hey, we'd love
Speaker 3: to see pops. You just happen to be with them,
Speaker 3: And so I finished the way for everybody to get in,
Speaker 3: and I don't know, I just felt like even at
Speaker 3: that point, like you know, we hadn't really hung out yet,
Speaker 3: we were just meeting, but like I just found myself
Speaker 3: staring at you across the room and like wanting to
Speaker 3: talk to you and get to know you more. But
Speaker 3: I just feel like we didn't have that opportunity. We
Speaker 3: kind of said hi and by and just kept it moving.
Speaker 3: But we kind of, like, you know, kept in contact
Speaker 3: after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we started talking be a text and on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And plus we've got a lot of mutual friends, you know,
Speaker 3: And so every time I would be in Miami, we
Speaker 3: would not say, Hey, you know, I'm in town.
Speaker 1: What's you up to? Where you at tonight? You know?
Speaker 1: And I feel like it just kind of gradually happened
Speaker 1: over time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, it's crazy because I kind of like
Speaker 2: thought you were like my homie for a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And when I would talk about you, I would tell
Speaker 2: all my girlfriends. I'd be like, you have to date
Speaker 2: Marcus because he's hot, he's smart, he's cute, Like he's amazing,
Speaker 2: and I feel like, you guys like one of my
Speaker 2: close friends who date him. Now, you know, if I'm
Speaker 2: like you, I thought really highly of you for me
Speaker 2: to tell my friends, like for sure, because I didn't
Speaker 2: want to smoke.
Speaker 3: Well, I just think it was a thing that just
Speaker 3: happened over time. Yeah, and I'm glad it did, because
Speaker 3: we started off as friends. I don't think either one
Speaker 3: of us really pictured a relationship like we are now.
Speaker 3: But I know, you know, I'm thankful and glad that
Speaker 3: they have.
Speaker 2: I know, same same. But I will say that like
Speaker 2: when we first started hanging out, I think we were
Speaker 2: literally just friends, and someone took a photo of us
Speaker 2: and it was everywhere and people thought that They're like, oh,
Speaker 2: they're denying their relationship, and I was like, we're just friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think you know, we've talked about this before,
Speaker 3: but like, timing is everything, and I feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: you were at a point in your life where you
Speaker 3: weren't really you know, looking for.
Speaker 1: A situation like this.
Speaker 3: Uh you know, I was doing my thing in Orlando,
Speaker 3: trying to start my business, hanging out with all my boys,
Speaker 3: et cetera.
Speaker 1: So you know, I just.
Speaker 3: Think that the stars aligned, the time was right, and
Speaker 3: you know, we haven't looked back since.
Speaker 2: Nope, not going back in time.
Speaker 1: So who made the first move?
Speaker 2: You did?
Speaker 1: I beg to disagree.
Speaker 3: I think you know again, I was looking at her
Speaker 3: across the room, but we were looking at each.
Speaker 2: Other for sure, But is that the first move looking
Speaker 2: at each other?
Speaker 1: No, you know, I don't I think that's the first move.
Speaker 3: But I definitely i'd say I made the first move
Speaker 3: because I do remember going on a trip to the
Speaker 3: Bahamas taking a big group of friends hit you with
Speaker 3: a DM just saying, hey, look, you know we're going
Speaker 3: to the Bahamas. Up, going to come. It's gonna be
Speaker 3: a good time. So I'd say that was probably the
Speaker 3: first move.
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny. I feel like a lot of
Speaker 2: people don't know that I could never really put you
Speaker 2: under your name on my phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't find out until we started dating either, So.
Speaker 2: I had you under Mark Jacob. Yeah that's like I
Speaker 2: don't know why I had you under Mark Jacob, but
Speaker 2: like that's what I had you on my phone because
Speaker 2: I didn't want anyone to know when you would call me,
Speaker 2: like just wanted it to be very like.
Speaker 3: Well, I feel like when we first started dating, it
Speaker 3: was random, like when we would talk, it'd be like
Speaker 3: I was going on a trip, I'm coming to Miami,
Speaker 3: or you know, somehow we were going to bump into
Speaker 3: each other. So you know, that's that's kind of funny
Speaker 3: that I was stored under Mark Jacob so funny.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I feel like that was the very beginning.
Speaker 2: You invited me to the Bahamas. Yeah, and we were
Speaker 2: still friends then, and I was like, yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: you're taking a bunch of people. How fun?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: I just I feel like there was just always a
Speaker 3: scheduling conflict and so we you.
Speaker 2: Know, I feel like when you would come to Miami,
Speaker 2: I'd always be in La too. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 2: times and you were like, hey, I'm in Miami and
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I'm already in La right, And I just.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know busy schedules and all that stuff,
Speaker 3: and so, you know, a lot of our foundation was
Speaker 3: built through face times and like texting and stuff, so
Speaker 3: in calling, I think that made it easy.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were I feel like we knew, we knew
Speaker 2: all of our flaws beforehand.
Speaker 1: Is it fair to say, yeah, well, I just think
Speaker 1: that we knew we got along. You know.
Speaker 3: I feel like sometimes when you're dating somebody, it's like
Speaker 3: the first it's.
Speaker 1: Like ninety days.
Speaker 3: You know, you got a first ninety day trial period
Speaker 3: where you're still feeling each other out, and you know,
Speaker 3: I feel like Ours was a more gradual, you know,
Speaker 3: learning of each other.
Speaker 1: So I feel like it's better that way.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, I agree. I liked it. I like the way
Speaker 2: it transformed.
Speaker 1: And so how did we finally get together.
Speaker 2: You texted me and said you were coming to Miami,
Speaker 2: and I said, oh my god, I'm here. And so
Speaker 2: you said I'm coming for two days.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's true.
Speaker 2: And then when you came for two days, you stayed twelve.
Speaker 1: I stayed for twelve days.
Speaker 2: And it's funny because when you called me from the
Speaker 2: car and you said, hey, I'll be there tomorrow at
Speaker 2: ten o'clock or something, and I remember telling all my
Speaker 2: girlfriends we should get a big group together for dinner.
Speaker 2: And I said, if anybody likes him, he's a great guy,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure he's gonna have a lot of friends
Speaker 2: with him, so like there will be a lot of
Speaker 2: single guys for you guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, it's funny because I was just busy in Orlando.
Speaker 3: I've been working so much, and I was like, I
Speaker 3: need to get to Miami for two days and just
Speaker 3: hang out, let loose whatever.
Speaker 1: And you know, I was wondering if you were in town.
Speaker 3: And it's funny because it was one of my boys'
Speaker 3: birthday also, so we did dinner as a group at Chipriani,
Speaker 3: and then I had to jet over to my boy's birthday,
Speaker 3: and I just remember telling my best friend Ali, like,
Speaker 3: please don't let me get too drunk, like obviously we
Speaker 3: were going to meet back up later that night I Lived,
Speaker 3: so I was like, don't let me get too drunk.
Speaker 3: I want to make sure I, you know, get back
Speaker 3: to Larsa, have a good time, you know whatever, whatever,
Speaker 3: And then I just remember, you know, when we got there,
Speaker 3: I feel like you had some drama on. You're in too,
Speaker 3: because we walked in, Oh I did. We walked in
Speaker 3: at the same time, but you were like handling something
Speaker 3: on your phone and alarm was going off or whatever,
Speaker 3: and so I don't know, it was just bumpy to start.
Speaker 3: But then I feel like there was a moment in
Speaker 3: Live where it was kind of like, all right, we're
Speaker 3: having a good time, we having fun.
Speaker 1: This could work.
Speaker 2: I know, it's kind of crazy, no, you know what.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was, but I felt like
Speaker 2: at dinner I kind of was looking at you like, God,
Speaker 2: he's really cute. And then that night it Live, I
Speaker 2: kind of felt like, no, he's hot, of thank you,
Speaker 2: and then it was just kind of like I never
Speaker 2: viewed you like that before, just because I figured like
Speaker 2: this was like off limits, like it was not something
Speaker 2: I wanted to go to war for. You know. I
Speaker 2: feel like you have to pick and choose your battles,
Speaker 2: and I wasn't sure that this battle was going.
Speaker 1: To be that's true, you know, because we hadn't really
Speaker 1: hung out in person yet.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I feel like that changed everything, you know,
Speaker 3: to a degree, because I know, you know, one of
Speaker 3: the things we want to touch on later in the
Speaker 3: podcast is can love be blind?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: And I feel like we weren't necessarily in love talking
Speaker 3: on the phone, and we knew we were attracting each other.
Speaker 3: We wanted to kick it, you know together, But I
Speaker 3: feel like once we actually got around each other and
Speaker 3: like realized that our chemistry was like off the charts,
Speaker 3: I feel like that took things up.
Speaker 2: In that too totally. I agree.
Speaker 1: How long were we.
Speaker 3: Seeing each other before we decided to say something to
Speaker 3: our friends and family, Well.
Speaker 2: We were in the media the first time. The first
Speaker 2: two weeks we hung out. I know, there was kind
Speaker 2: of hard for people like I feel like we were
Speaker 2: taking getting smoke. We were just friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like, you know, the first article that
Speaker 1: went out when we went to lunch.
Speaker 2: And it was literally like lunch, you guys, it was
Speaker 2: nothing else more than lunch.
Speaker 1: It definitely was.
Speaker 3: And I got a couple of texts from like my
Speaker 3: mom and you know, just other family members, and you know,
Speaker 3: it's just it's just funny that I think there was
Speaker 3: a lot of interest in intrigue, even in us hanging
Speaker 3: out early on.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, happy to start sending the rector straight.
Speaker 2: I know, God, thank God, because I feel like people
Speaker 2: are calling me a liar. I was like, I promise
Speaker 2: we're just friends. Yeah, so let's talk about my kids, okay,
Speaker 2: because I do feel like I don't normally bring guys
Speaker 2: around my kids. I'm really selective on who I invite
Speaker 2: into my home, who I have around my kids, because
Speaker 2: I feel like, for me, you know, my kids are
Speaker 2: my best friends, and I feel like we ride the
Speaker 2: wave together and we talk about everything beforehand. But I
Speaker 2: feel like it was very natural and normal when you
Speaker 2: came around, because they already knew you.
Speaker 1: Obviously, we hadn't really spent a lot of time around
Speaker 1: each other. But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like I prefer to be a fly on
Speaker 3: the wall and take in my environment before I get
Speaker 3: comfortable like speaking. And obviously your kids are great and
Speaker 3: they've been gracious, you know, with me, So I love you.
Speaker 3: I think it's been it's been great.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's like I think when you're friends
Speaker 2: with someone, I think it just kind of evolves, you know.
Speaker 2: I don't think like you have to put pressure on
Speaker 2: everyone in your family and everyone else when you genuinely
Speaker 2: start as friends, you know, because they already used to
Speaker 2: teach you guys hanging out, you guys being friends. And
Speaker 2: I feel like my kids already knew you, like when
Speaker 2: I would FaceTime with you or call you and I'd
Speaker 2: be like, ohh like I you know, just conversations we
Speaker 2: would have. So I think when they finally did get
Speaker 2: to meet you, it was not like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: who's this guy? It was almost like, hey, Marc is up?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, for sure.
Speaker 3: And I feel like, you know, there's things that we
Speaker 3: have in common, you know, in terms of like you know,
Speaker 3: my basketball background, and you know, obviously now with my
Speaker 3: store and fashion and stuff, I know that Preston is
Speaker 3: you know, heavily involved in fashion, and obviously Sophia does
Speaker 3: are modeling and stuff.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I just feel like there's a.
Speaker 3: Lot of common ground, yeah, which makes it easier for
Speaker 3: us all that we around each other.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's like hard to meet someone that
Speaker 2: fits all the categories, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and I feel like we definitely fit all the category.
Speaker 2: No, you definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean you're funny, smart, cute, hot.
Speaker 2: Thank you, so, I literally said last year, I was
Speaker 2: telling everyone, I'm like, look, I think I might be
Speaker 2: single forever because there's no one that's cute, funny, you know,
Speaker 2: we do the whole skit exactly. And then when I,
Speaker 2: like when you and I first got together, I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, this is the guy, Like, this is
Speaker 2: the guy I prayed for, because I really prayed for
Speaker 2: a best friend, and I feel like I got my
Speaker 2: best friend. Yeah, and there's not like a better place
Speaker 2: to be because I feel like I could never let
Speaker 2: you down because you're my best friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I feel like that too.
Speaker 3: I feel like we make each other better and both
Speaker 3: of us like hold each other to a higher standard,
Speaker 3: you know, and we don't want to let each other down.
Speaker 2: Totally love that about us. Yeah, so pretty amazing. I
Speaker 2: love that my kids love you and that you're so
Speaker 2: like sweet and nice and like fun with them.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. That means a lot, you know, I
Speaker 3: feel like, you know about that to talk about like dating,
Speaker 3: dating someone with kids, Obviously, I don't have kids that
Speaker 3: haven't been married.
Speaker 2: You're a big kid.
Speaker 1: I'm still take care of myself.
Speaker 3: The trophy room is my baby and has been my baby,
Speaker 3: you know, for the past six almost seven years now,
Speaker 3: and so you know, that's kind of where I've focused
Speaker 3: all of my energy. Yeah, I think that'd be a
Speaker 3: great topic for us to talk about, is dating someone
Speaker 3: with kids.
Speaker 1: You know, Again, I.
Speaker 3: Said, I always prefer to play back seat, you know,
Speaker 3: a back seat role. But you know, there's some guys
Speaker 3: out there that would you know, take a different approach
Speaker 3: or if your children are younger, you know, maybe then
Speaker 3: you know you need to be around or are more
Speaker 3: influencible or something like that. And so you know, what
Speaker 3: do you think, what do you see in your experiences
Speaker 3: with you know, your friends who have kids who are dating. Obviously,
Speaker 3: you have a couple of friends who are doing you know,
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: I don't. I think it's hard when you have kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: I've dated. I dated too guys with kids, and it
Speaker 2: was not a good experience for me. Really, No, it
Speaker 2: was not a good experience for me because I.
Speaker 1: Felt like, how old were the kids?
Speaker 2: They were like seven and like.
Speaker 1: Nine, Okay, so that's still pretty young.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just was not It's just too much work,
Speaker 2: I feel like for guys, because guys don't know how
Speaker 2: to manage your time as well as women. I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's a fair asist, and.
Speaker 2: I feel like guys deal with it's just hard to
Speaker 2: like manage when you're like if you're in a relationship
Speaker 2: where your ex as a psycho and it's like the
Speaker 2: person's putting a lot of pressure on you, and then
Speaker 2: you're putting pressure on the new relationship. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like that sometimes is like too much smoke,
Speaker 2: Like I can't deal with that.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: I definitely feel like it's different dating someone with kids,
Speaker 3: like from the male perspective versus the female perspective. You know,
Speaker 3: I feel like as a woman, maybe you have to
Speaker 3: come in and you know, take over more motherly duties
Speaker 3: and tests, whereas.
Speaker 2: I feel like most men, you're watching the game.
Speaker 1: You're sitting back and kind of going with the flow
Speaker 1: and most self.
Speaker 2: Then Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: At least that's my role.
Speaker 2: You know, you're real. Is great, you have the best roll.
Speaker 2: You come and watch games, and we ordered dinner. When
Speaker 2: dinner it's like movie night exactly. It's easy stuff.
Speaker 1: I think you kind of touched on it earlier.
Speaker 3: It was like knowing that you were at a position
Speaker 3: earlier when we first met that you didn't want to
Speaker 3: take on all the smoke and so not all the smoke,
Speaker 3: but like you didn't I guess you framed it that way,
Speaker 3: like there might have been smoke with us dating. Obviously,
Speaker 3: there has been a lot of interest.
Speaker 2: I do want to say this. I I you know,
Speaker 2: I totally forgot to talk about this, but I feel
Speaker 2: like a lot of people thought that we knew each
Speaker 2: other our whole lives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that definitely was a.
Speaker 2: Like I threw your like fifth birthday or something like,
Speaker 2: I don't know it, just like I'm like, no, by
Speaker 2: the way, I never met you before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, that's one of the things
Speaker 3: that I've had to like try to restrain myself from
Speaker 3: commenting to on social media, just because like it's the
Speaker 3: most common thing people say. It's like, oh, you used
Speaker 3: to babysit me, or we knew each other when I
Speaker 3: was real.
Speaker 1: Young or whatever.
Speaker 2: By the way, you're not that much younger than we
Speaker 2: just seen.
Speaker 1: I know, I trust me.
Speaker 3: I know I'm just kidding, but yeah, I just think that,
Speaker 3: you know, it's funny people that don't know or that
Speaker 3: I'm misinformed, you know, obviously make assumptions, and so, you know, again,
Speaker 3: thankful for this podcast because it because it's an opportunity
Speaker 3: to set the record straight.
Speaker 2: Definitely, I feel like, you know, we're both adults, and
Speaker 2: I did kind of in the beginning, you know, I
Speaker 2: was kind of skeptical because I kind of felt like,
Speaker 2: why would you do this, Larsa, Why would you do this?
Speaker 2: Why would you date someone that you know? Just the families.
Speaker 2: It's just a really crazy situation to be in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I think that, like for me, I never wanted
Speaker 2: to be put in that situation, not that I ever
Speaker 2: cared who. I never had to explain who I was
Speaker 2: dating to my ex or my exes or whatever. Like,
Speaker 2: I don't feel like it's anyone's business. I think when
Speaker 2: you're an adult, when you break up with someone respectfully,
Speaker 2: like you move on, you do whatever you want, you
Speaker 2: date whoever you want, and you're happy. And I think
Speaker 2: the goal is normally, like if you have kids with them,
Speaker 2: you want the kids to feel good about the situation.
Speaker 2: And to me, that's all I ever cared about was
Speaker 2: like my kids.
Speaker 1: For sure, and my parents.
Speaker 3: And I feel like, you know, again, when we were
Speaker 3: talking getting to know each other, I was definitely in
Speaker 3: more of a party phase in my life, you know,
Speaker 3: And so I feel like you weren't really looking at
Speaker 3: me that way, and I wasn't necessarily looking to do
Speaker 3: that way because every time I was hitting you up,
Speaker 3: it's like, Oh, I'm coming to Miami to turn up
Speaker 3: or as a party, I'm coming to Vegas, you know,
Speaker 3: come meet me in Vegas from La whatever. And so
Speaker 3: now I think, you know, just given where we are
Speaker 3: in each of our lives, I just feel like timing.
Speaker 2: Is everything, you know, I think so too. For sure.
Speaker 1: Did you know it would be the topic of discussion
Speaker 1: for everybody?
Speaker 2: Well, I never imagined we would be like we are today.
Speaker 3: No, I just feel like it kind of just gradually happened,
Speaker 3: you know, because I feel like when it first, you know, again,
Speaker 3: like when it first made the headlines, I feel like
Speaker 3: we were like hiding out and like trying to be
Speaker 3: low key, and.
Speaker 2: Then we didn't trust anyone ever we went. We were
Speaker 2: like scared.
Speaker 3: Phones a camera backing from flashes in the club and
Speaker 3: all this stuff. And I don't know, I just feel
Speaker 3: like over time, you know, we got more comfortable with
Speaker 3: being out there, and obviously I think, you know, we
Speaker 3: spent some time together during the holidays with each other families,
Speaker 3: and so, you know, I just feel like everybody once
Speaker 3: we realize that everybody around us was good, it made
Speaker 3: us easy. It made it easier for us to kind
Speaker 3: of step out and do our own thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's really what. Yeah, because I feel
Speaker 2: like I don't really care about people that don't know me.
Speaker 2: I really care about people that know me that I love.
Speaker 2: That's that's the number one thing for me.
Speaker 3: So I guess now it's not a challenge to this
Speaker 3: day because I feel like we both live in our
Speaker 3: truths and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're living our best lives, living our best life.
Speaker 3: It's funny my mom says that all the time. She's like,
Speaker 3: you're in Miami, And I was like, yeah, Mom, what's up.
Speaker 3: She's like, Oh, you're just living your best.
Speaker 1: Life out there. Huh.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 3: How do I feel about you being a real housewife
Speaker 3: of Miami.
Speaker 2: I feel like in the beginning, I mean it's been
Speaker 2: almost a year or so, but I feel like in
Speaker 2: the beginning, I feel like you really didn't love, Like
Speaker 2: you never wanted to be on the show. Can you
Speaker 2: say that, yes, you can. Definitely you really weren't like
Speaker 2: wanting to be.
Speaker 3: I just look, I think my upbringing, in my family history.
Speaker 3: You know, we're very private people. And I tell you
Speaker 3: this all the time, like I prefer my anonimity.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I feel like oftentimes, you know, just running the store
Speaker 3: or not being in the spotlight. You know, I could
Speaker 3: fly under the radar a little more and not have
Speaker 3: to worry about.
Speaker 2: You can't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: It's definitely a little more. I love that there's more
Speaker 3: eyes these days. But you know, I don't have an
Speaker 3: issue with you being on the show. I think it's great.
Speaker 2: It's fun. I feel like it's fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like you have fun with it, and
Speaker 3: you know, I think you're the biggest start I.
Speaker 1: Got so thank you you do. Well.
Speaker 3: How do I feel about the other household? I think
Speaker 3: everybody's great. Everybody's been great to me. Yeah, I haven't
Speaker 3: had any instances. Obviously, going into the show, there was
Speaker 3: some you know, some hiccups and some things that were
Speaker 3: prior to me. But you know, since I've been on
Speaker 3: the show, I've gotten along with everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like whenever you work with people, you're
Speaker 2: not always going to get along with them for sure,
Speaker 2: and I feel like you're going to be in a
Speaker 2: good place with them, you know sometimes and then you're
Speaker 2: not going to be in a good place with them.
Speaker 2: And I feel like right now, I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: in a good place with most of the girls.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm growing up thanks to you.
Speaker 1: I'm growing up thanks to you too. So what's a
Speaker 1: regular Tuesday night? Like?
Speaker 2: Well, you guys, I normally cook for you on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: I know, and.
Speaker 3: You actually did. We had lunch today, Taco Tuesday. Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 3: I think it's like my favorite day of the week.
Speaker 3: You're often throwing down in the kitchen and I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there ready to.
Speaker 1: Eat it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we normally like make dinner at home and you
Speaker 2: put on and you do put on great shows for us.
Speaker 2: You were like, I feel like I'm the kitchen person,
Speaker 2: and you were like the show connoisseur.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I definitely am a TV snob a little bit. So
Speaker 3: I love to watch a lot of HBO and we'll
Speaker 3: watch a lot of TV. But you know, one of
Speaker 3: my favorite things to do is to try to put
Speaker 3: you on a TV show or a new show, and
Speaker 3: you know, obviously we binge it until we till we
Speaker 3: finish it. What's been your favorite show that I've introduced
Speaker 3: you to?
Speaker 2: I kind of feel like loving Death right now?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: It's so good.
Speaker 1: How much time do we spend together and how much
Speaker 1: time do we spend apart?
Speaker 2: That's pretty easy?
Speaker 1: Is it easy?
Speaker 2: We spend a lot of time together?
Speaker 1: I know, we definitely all day.
Speaker 2: I feel like, when you're in one bathroom, Monama and
Speaker 2: the other were texting each other. I don't think that's normal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we definitely do spend a lot of time together.
Speaker 3: I feel like I don't think most couples spend as
Speaker 3: much time together as we do.
Speaker 2: No, because I think most people get sick of each
Speaker 2: other after the first Like, yeah, I think I think
Speaker 2: like people fall off after like two or three months. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because it's just like once you start spending a lot
Speaker 2: of time with each other, you kind of like get
Speaker 2: burned out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like, again, we've kind of been touching on
Speaker 3: it the whole podcast, but we're like best friends, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, And so it's like we spend
Speaker 3: a lot of time together, but.
Speaker 2: We like the same thing exactly. We like the same
Speaker 2: food and we like to go to the same place. There.
Speaker 3: I feel like who has the bigger motor because I mean,
Speaker 3: we both like to go out, we both like to
Speaker 3: be social.
Speaker 2: It's a toss up, I know.
Speaker 3: I feel like it varies on a week to week basis.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you've got more stuff going on. Sometimes I'm like
Speaker 3: trying to drag you along the stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you definitely have a lot of energy. I always
Speaker 2: had a lot of energy, But I feel like now
Speaker 2: like I want to put my energy into things that
Speaker 2: I know like are valuable. I don't want to just
Speaker 2: give my time to everyone. Yeah, I'm at the point
Speaker 2: where I just want to spend time and do things
Speaker 2: that like are meaningful for sure.
Speaker 1: What's the longest time that we've been apart from each other?
Speaker 2: So five days? I think your last trip to Orlando. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: five days.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. I know, separation anxieties.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, separation anxiety. So the girls are going
Speaker 2: on a trip to Palm Beach. Really, we had this
Speaker 2: conversation and I'm like, are your husband's or boyfriends coming?
Speaker 2: And they said, I don't know. They were all saying,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I have to see a schedule. And
Speaker 2: I was like, well, I'm not going without Marcus. Like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to go on a girl's trip anymore.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do those things anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, I got no problem going up on beach.
Speaker 2: I know you like to golf.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my dad's golf course isn't too far, so yeah,
Speaker 3: definitely do for that.
Speaker 2: I just will feel better if you're there.
Speaker 1: Well, you're going to make sure I can come visit.
Speaker 2: No, you're definitely going to come visit. What do we
Speaker 2: in preschool? I'm just saying they're definitely long days, I know,
Speaker 2: but you're still coming, all right. So I feel like
Speaker 2: when we met in La four years ago, I wasn't divorced,
Speaker 2: but I was separated for sure. I had been dating
Speaker 2: other guys. Obviously, I was in the media a lot
Speaker 2: for guys I was dating.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's funny because I wasn't really like
Speaker 3: I don't keep up with the media like that, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. I know you from you know,
Speaker 3: obviously you were in TV et cetera. But like, I
Speaker 3: just felt like, you're a beautiful girl looking at across
Speaker 3: the room, and I wanted to get to know you more.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's exactly what. But it's funny because four
Speaker 2: years ago, I feel like our lives were so different,
Speaker 2: you know, we were both in a different place for sure.
Speaker 2: I feel like I was in a long, long marriage,
Speaker 2: and so for me, like four years ago, I was
Speaker 2: just kind of like trying to figure out who I was,
Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, And I feel like when we got together,
Speaker 2: I really like I really knew what I wanted. And
Speaker 2: I feel like, in order to be with the person
Speaker 2: you're supposed to be with, you really have to know
Speaker 2: what you want for sure. That's like the number one thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, again, I was at a
Speaker 3: different face. I focused on wild I was traveling a lot,
Speaker 3: I was partying a little bit, but you know again,
Speaker 3: I just wasn't in the mind frame to settle down.
Speaker 3: You know again, I knew I wanted to hang out
Speaker 3: with you, kick it with you more often, and so
Speaker 3: I think, you know, again, when we linked up over
Speaker 3: three years after that, you know again, we were both
Speaker 3: in different spaces, you know, mentally, and just ready to
Speaker 3: hang out a little more.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's funny if people told me that, like you would
Speaker 2: be with someone that you were just friends with, I
Speaker 2: never would believe that. Really, I don't know, I just
Speaker 2: before I met you, before we got together, I never
Speaker 2: really believed in all that. I kind of felt like
Speaker 2: you would see the person like in a movie and
Speaker 2: like be like, that's my guy. I had that feeling
Speaker 2: when I saw you. But yeah, I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like it wasn't you know.
Speaker 3: I think I think it was more gradual over time,
Speaker 3: as we started to learn peel back the layers, you know,
Speaker 3: and started to learn more about one another. I think
Speaker 3: then the attraction started. And then obviously I think once
Speaker 3: we got together and there was actual chemistry as well,
Speaker 3: I think it made it easier.
Speaker 2: Well, how many days do you think it took? Do
Speaker 2: you remember for you to tell me you love me.
Speaker 3: I feel like I can count it on on one hand.
Speaker 3: I think it was like three four days where I
Speaker 3: was like, damn, I think I think I love you.
Speaker 2: I know I love it.
Speaker 1: You know What's funny?
Speaker 3: Going back on what we were just talking about, I
Speaker 3: feel like, can you I think a good topic for
Speaker 3: us to discuss, maybe not on this episode, but down
Speaker 3: the road is can you be platonic friends with someone
Speaker 3: of the opposite sex?
Speaker 2: I think you can? Right, I think so. I mean
Speaker 2: we never kissed, We never like, yeah, we also didn't
Speaker 2: see each other for sure, Like it wasn't like we
Speaker 2: were hanging out every week.
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily you know, but I do.
Speaker 2: But I personally have so many guy friends that, like,
Speaker 2: I would never and it's like a relationship that's been
Speaker 2: established as friends, you know.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's this it's like a double standard,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, because I feel like for guys,
Speaker 3: it's a little more rare for you to be strictly platonic.
Speaker 3: Not that it doesn't happen, because there are cases where
Speaker 3: you know, just strictly friends, but I just feel like
Speaker 3: there's a double standard there. To a degree depending on
Speaker 3: you situation.
Speaker 2: You always think that if a guy is friends the girl,
Speaker 2: he wants to be with her. But if a girl's
Speaker 2: friends with this guy, she just wants to be friends
Speaker 2: with him.
Speaker 1: That's not true.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, I just think I think there's
Speaker 3: a ratio to it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe that's the case higher.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe that's the case seventy five percent of the
Speaker 3: time for guys, and you know there's a lower percentage
Speaker 3: in you know, female and male friendships.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: You know what's really interesting. I used to tell my
Speaker 2: guy friends that I love them, yeah all the time.
Speaker 1: I know, you say a lot of hey babe, you
Speaker 1: know like that. It's not that I don't like it.
Speaker 3: I just feel like, if this shoe was on the
Speaker 3: other foot and I was, you know, texting girls hey babe,
Speaker 3: you know, that might never be something that you.
Speaker 1: Would want nobly, But I do think it's different.
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, as a woman, you say
Speaker 3: hey babe to all your girlfriends and stuff too. It's
Speaker 3: not like you just said to guys. But I feel like,
Speaker 3: as a guy, there's never really an instance where I say,
Speaker 3: hey babe.
Speaker 2: You better not ever say I'm just saying, I'm just
Speaker 2: saying that's funny. But yeah, I feel like friendship is
Speaker 2: really important, and I feel like it's it's really important
Speaker 2: all your relationships. Like I feel like even with my kids,
Speaker 2: like I try to be friends with them and let them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is something that I applaud you on.
Speaker 3: You're like best friends with your kids, you know, and
Speaker 3: like you're on their ass every day, you know, knowing
Speaker 3: what they're up to and facetiming them, and you know
Speaker 3: in a good way, not like you know, in a
Speaker 3: bad way. But then you're also you know, best friends
Speaker 3: with them giving them advice, you know, saying you've been there,
Speaker 3: done that before, and so you just give them your perspective.
Speaker 3: I think that's a thing that I admire about you.
Speaker 2: I love you. Think you h no problem for us
Speaker 2: being together. Right, So I feel like in the beginning,
Speaker 2: we were both skeptical. We didn't really want to like
Speaker 2: make waves with the families, the media, with people that
Speaker 2: didn't know our story and didn't know who we were,
Speaker 2: and that we didn't know each other that we just met.
Speaker 2: But for me, I feel like I never I don't
Speaker 2: really like go into any relationships, worried about what my
Speaker 2: ex or whoever I spend time with. I feel like
Speaker 2: for me and any of my relationships, whether it was
Speaker 2: with girlfriends or my ex or whoever it was, I
Speaker 2: feel like, once I leave that relationship, I'm like, the
Speaker 2: only thing we need to talk about is if we
Speaker 2: have children together, we could talk about them. If we
Speaker 2: have a business together, we could talk about that. But
Speaker 2: when it comes on like my personal life one time,
Speaker 2: move forward, we don't talk about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I think you know, our paths are different, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. I think it's something like you
Speaker 3: spoke about earlier, with it just being like a cultural thing.
Speaker 3: We both come from really tight knit families. I just
Speaker 3: think they're tight in different ways, you know, And so
Speaker 3: I don't think there was ever any hurdles. I just
Speaker 3: think that there was some shock value to the fact
Speaker 3: that we were dating. You know, they caught you know,
Speaker 3: maybe some people on my side of the family off
Speaker 3: guard a little bit, but.
Speaker 1: Guard it caught both of us off guard.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I get it, I understand, and.
Speaker 3: So I just think that, you know, once people really
Speaker 3: got to understand and see us together, it made everything
Speaker 3: a little more comfortable. I agree, Yeah, and I think
Speaker 3: you know. My parents wanted to see me happy. Your
Speaker 3: family wants to see you happy. That's all you could
Speaker 3: ever ask.
Speaker 2: I feel like we all want to be happy, and
Speaker 2: if they make each other happy and better than why not.
Speaker 2: For sure, guys, we had a great time. Thank you
Speaker 2: for spending time with us.
Speaker 3: Sure, it's definitely a f one episode. I'm looking forward
Speaker 3: to our next episode next week.
Speaker 2: I feel like we have so much to share.
Speaker 1: Definitely got a lot more to share, for sure. This
Speaker 1: is just a tip of the ice.
Speaker 3: Alright, but make sure you rate, review, and subscribe to
Speaker 3: our new podcast, Separation Anxiety.
Speaker 2: With Larcia and Marcus. Should we call ourselves Marcus?
Speaker 1: That's reveal on our next show.