Speaker 1: All right, So right now, we are an hour away
Speaker 1: from my actual wedding ceremony, and we did not plan
Speaker 1: to do a podcast, but we have an hour to
Speaker 1: just sit and we're actually in the area where the
Speaker 1: podcast is. We're all dressed very nicely. I do add
Speaker 1: it's the best we've ever looked in the podcast as
Speaker 1: a group. And here it was in here. It's the
Speaker 1: entire group of Grosman, Mike, d Eddie Arkansas, keith A,
Speaker 1: mod Andy and Courtney Um all obviously friends from all
Speaker 1: different years and and you know parts of my life.
Speaker 1: Eddie is my best man. So here we are our out, Like,
Speaker 1: what what's happening in your mind right now? Before I
Speaker 1: tell you what's happening to mine? Um, I just see
Speaker 1: a lot of scrambling, a lot of scrambling outside, people
Speaker 1: moving around in different directions. Uh, you were writing your vows.
Speaker 1: I wasn't writing them. Well, I have known them. I
Speaker 1: shut your mouth. I have memorized mine. But here's the problem.
Speaker 1: Last night at our rehearsal, as I was just saying
Speaker 1: thank you to people, I got choked out up. I
Speaker 1: wasn't even anything emotional. I was just going, hey, thank you,
Speaker 1: and I went there and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I need to have these written down because if I
Speaker 1: get emotional, I won't be able to remember what I
Speaker 1: have planned to say. And so I believe in and
Speaker 1: I think probably and he can speak to this about sports,
Speaker 1: but I believe and putting myself in the environment of
Speaker 1: where I'm about to perform. So I used to walk
Speaker 1: in the backyard and go stand at the tree and
Speaker 1: be like, all right, this is what I'm gonna see.
Speaker 1: When she wasn't here, you did this like in the
Speaker 1: last last month, the last couple of weeks. I would
Speaker 1: go stand where we're going to have the ceremony, trying
Speaker 1: to envision myself at happening so I could be in control.
Speaker 1: And it's not gonna happen. And so I sat in
Speaker 1: here and I typed them out right, and so that's
Speaker 1: what I did. It took me like fifteen minutes to
Speaker 1: type them all out. And I do think that's unfair
Speaker 1: of you. So you're now and then and welcome to
Speaker 1: the best man. And then then you came back and
Speaker 1: then you said, uh, hey, is it shorter of than
Speaker 1: ten minutes? Longer tally long, really long? But yes, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say by the way, we're talking about like
Speaker 1: Kayla was trying to get like. He's like, how on
Speaker 1: your vows? She's like one minute, two minutes, and I
Speaker 1: didn't want to interject, but I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 1: how long they are, but Vegas has the over. I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you that right now. We were driving back
Speaker 1: from the rehearsal and Caitlin was like, okay, but at
Speaker 1: least tell me. Are they like I promise you? Or
Speaker 1: is it like a story? And I'm like, why don't
Speaker 1: you just let me do the vowels and we'll just
Speaker 1: see you up there? Okay, you don't have to tell anything?
Speaker 1: But how long are they? She's like, what would you say? Though?
Speaker 1: You like? Best estimate? Um, Keith, here we are, You're here,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're you know, dressed up looking good, fancy suit. Um,
Speaker 1: how are you feeling an hour out about me finally
Speaker 1: getting married? Did you ever think you'd see it happened?
Speaker 1: I did not? And why not? Too much work and
Speaker 1: too much play and not enough Bobby serious time? But
Speaker 1: I was wrong? How about that? And what do you
Speaker 1: think about Kitlin? Caitlin's wonderful, she's great. You couldn't do
Speaker 1: better man saying you know, she's as sweetie. Last night
Speaker 1: when people were giving speeches, Amad got up and I
Speaker 1: had had a couple of notes, and then he kind
Speaker 1: of threw the notes away, and then you just decided
Speaker 1: to go from from your heart? Um, like, how much?
Speaker 1: Like what did you want to say? I'm always curious
Speaker 1: about people want to say, like what was your intention
Speaker 1: when you got up to talk? Because I had asked you,
Speaker 1: I said, hey, would you mind saying a few things,
Speaker 1: because we didn't want everybody feeling they had to stand
Speaker 1: up and say something that's always awkward. Who were looking
Speaker 1: around going all right, do I stand up? So we
Speaker 1: had asked you people specifically, and you and I have
Speaker 1: been friends as long as almost anybody in this room.
Speaker 1: What was your intention with what you had to say? Well?
Speaker 1: I wanted to kind of tell the story about how
Speaker 1: me and Caitlin spent some time and how I got
Speaker 1: to know where and how great she was. And then
Speaker 1: I also wanted to illuminate that you were just ready
Speaker 1: to be giving so much love to somebody, And I
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of tied all up in a biblical
Speaker 1: sense as well. So I think I kind of got
Speaker 1: nervous a little bit, but like you said, I threw
Speaker 1: the way of the notes and so from the I
Speaker 1: just went from the heart. Everybody said it was cool.
Speaker 1: I saw you out there laughing a couple of times.
Speaker 1: That made me comfortable. Kitlyn came up, she was like,
Speaker 1: that's so sweet. I was like, I mean that's the truth.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's where we went through. That's what that's
Speaker 1: what I learned from or not learned from you, but
Speaker 1: that's what I saw from you when I first met you.
Speaker 1: And that was it. And I really had to come
Speaker 1: through that speech last night because he missed rehearsal completely
Speaker 1: the wedding. I called him. We were all drewary to
Speaker 1: go go through. What do the actual rehearsal of the wedding?
Speaker 1: This goes here? And when I call him, Eddie called
Speaker 1: him me that n answer. I called him an answer.
Speaker 1: I call him again, he goes yo yo, that was up.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, where are you going? I'm chilling And
Speaker 1: I was like, what do you mean you're chilling? It's
Speaker 1: like I'm at the hotel of my underwear. I'm like,
Speaker 1: we're going on all right, right, right? But to be fair,
Speaker 1: I wasn't given any time that the rehearsal dinner was
Speaker 1: the different my house like two hours prior to that
Speaker 1: earlier in the day about the rehearsal dinner, pairing through
Speaker 1: the rehearsal itself. Right. But the funny thing is that
Speaker 1: when I was when I came here, after I was
Speaker 1: here late, I get a text from you with a
Speaker 1: card saying the rehearsal is at five, but I'm sitting
Speaker 1: right by you. So then Caitlin told my wife, Oh,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it, because a lot of people on
Speaker 1: the Arkansas side didn't get the information that they need
Speaker 1: to get. I think I'm making up stories last night.
Speaker 1: We're driving back said uh. And Andy would not sit
Speaker 1: in the front seat, even though he's six ft four
Speaker 1: or five or eight whatever he is. He demanded to
Speaker 1: sit in the back seat like Caitlyn sit up front.
Speaker 1: And as he's back there, he goes, Hey, I just
Speaker 1: want to be honest with you, guys. Um, I was
Speaker 1: never worried about Bobby professionally. He's like, I don't don't
Speaker 1: worry about that. He goes seriously like I was really
Speaker 1: worried about him as a human and as funny as
Speaker 1: that is like, I think that was an extremely um,
Speaker 1: authentic way to describe how you have felt about me
Speaker 1: and even inside of our friendship the last ten years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we don't I don't know that we've ever had
Speaker 1: the friendship where we need each other's attention all the
Speaker 1: all the time. Um. And so honestly, like how far
Speaker 1: you've you all have gotten and team effort largely in
Speaker 1: this room with the people that that work with you. Um,
Speaker 1: but that was there. How psychotic you are about you
Speaker 1: have to do this and you have to do that,
Speaker 1: and you don't you say yes before you think it through.
Speaker 1: That was always gonna work on on some level. Um,
Speaker 1: you're kind of the opposite when it comes to relationships.
Speaker 1: You need a little bit of space, you need a
Speaker 1: little time to think, You need U, X, Y and Z.
Speaker 1: So for me, UM, that the happiest part about this
Speaker 1: for me is you actually committing to like being a
Speaker 1: whole person and not like just kind of driving traffic
Speaker 1: through uh, the professional side of yourself and letting that
Speaker 1: be your identity. I think having your identity outside of
Speaker 1: that without of getting too deep is gonna be a
Speaker 1: great thing for you When it makes me happy, kind
Speaker 1: of looking in from the outside. I have a lot
Speaker 1: less worry because of this. Well and two, I mean
Speaker 1: I saw in your early stages, because right after you
Speaker 1: and Brooke got married, you and I became friends, and
Speaker 1: I saw you change into a family like that guy
Speaker 1: that I didn't think I would ever see, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, to see you go hey like my kids,
Speaker 1: that's the most important thing. That wasn't who you were
Speaker 1: when you and I met at all. And you know,
Speaker 1: I obviously look up to you in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And you know, we talked about again, we don't need
Speaker 1: each other's attention, so we don't say good morning and text.
Speaker 1: But you know, for for you to say that last
Speaker 1: night was hilarious but also the most true thing anyone
Speaker 1: had said the entire night. And I give you too
Speaker 1: much craps. So I actually had to qualify to Caitlin, Like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm actually being serious right now, Like I was really worried. Well,
Speaker 1: my like first week of college, I wore my high
Speaker 1: school letterman jacket from playing football into a communications class
Speaker 1: and it was cold. It's the only code I had.
Speaker 1: You know, it's no secret. I've only said it ten
Speaker 1: million times, and I know that where this is going.
Speaker 1: You know that It's not like I had a bunch
Speaker 1: of coats. We didn't have a lot of money. And
Speaker 1: so I wore my one coat that I had to school.
Speaker 1: And this one, this this prepu looking kid who played
Speaker 1: quarterback on the football team was like, hey, guy, well
Speaker 1: we don't where a high school jack as to college.
Speaker 1: And I was like, what he goes, you don't where
Speaker 1: your high school jacket of college. People don't think you're
Speaker 1: a lose their. I was like, it's the only code
Speaker 1: I had. And so the next day I didn't wear
Speaker 1: a coade at all, and I was really cold the
Speaker 1: all day long because I didn't have another coat. Well
Speaker 1: that got that got it was coordinay. And so that's
Speaker 1: how Courtney and I met. And you know, Courtney, him
Speaker 1: and I were stuck at the hip from freshman year
Speaker 1: of college and until a couple of years after. And
Speaker 1: you know, I saw Courtney meet his wife and get
Speaker 1: married and have kids, and you know, um, for you
Speaker 1: to be here today and heck, I'm forty one now,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not it's not like the nineteen Hey
Speaker 1: we are, You're forty one with a couple of kids,
Speaker 1: and like what what what do you tell me? At
Speaker 1: this point, I'm about to do this today five minutes
Speaker 1: from now, Like, what what do you tell me? There's
Speaker 1: no way to get ready for this. There's there's nothing
Speaker 1: that I can possibly say, I think, to completely prepare
Speaker 1: you for what's about to happen. Um. It's kind of
Speaker 1: funny you bring that up, though, because I've probably spent
Speaker 1: the entire day reminiscing about me and you, and I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to you too must about it, but oh
Speaker 1: I'm happy before you man really to say, you know,
Speaker 1: Keithan talking about whether or not would with this happen
Speaker 1: for you? I didn't think so I really didn't know, Carrie.
Speaker 1: I've been talking about today and all day and sorry
Speaker 1: about that. Um actually wide a speech. I didn't know,
Speaker 1: you know, if we're going through it or not, but
Speaker 1: um I did, UM just thinking about um gonna get together. UM.
Speaker 1: It's so weird because you know, you're not really aren't
Speaker 1: this emotional? Right, Like we don't really show our emotions. Um,
Speaker 1: we're gotting tough guys and things like this, these big
Speaker 1: events right like this, it kind of um, it brings
Speaker 1: it out at times, right, And I guess I'm just
Speaker 1: having that this moment right now. But I thought about
Speaker 1: probably three times in our lives that you've really shown
Speaker 1: me emotion. And the first time I was thinking about
Speaker 1: with this when uh, you got hired on at Kiss
Speaker 1: that film and um, you were going to leave the
Speaker 1: queue go to Austin and there was this huge ice
Speaker 1: storm at that time. I don't know if if anyone
Speaker 1: remembers it, even Austin saw ice. I think that year
Speaker 1: and Bobby needed someone to help him move from Arkansas
Speaker 1: at Austin and he asked me to do it. It's
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, there's Bobby, it's impossible, there's no
Speaker 1: way we're going to get this done right. But he
Speaker 1: gives me this look. And it's really hard for me
Speaker 1: to articulate the look that he gave me. But I guess,
Speaker 1: if you know, having kids now, the way I would
Speaker 1: say that look would would be someone that you know,
Speaker 1: like your kid that first Christmas morning when Christmas is
Speaker 1: real to him, you know, and it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's nothing that they want more, right, And he
Speaker 1: gave me that look and I couldn't tell him, no, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know, how are we gonna get there, but
Speaker 1: as dad, if we can borry his trailer. I told
Speaker 1: him it was for and you know, he's like, all right, man,
Speaker 1: you know I know how much of a friend he
Speaker 1: is to you. That's what we're gonna do this And uh,
Speaker 1: that drive is like a seven hour drive. It took
Speaker 1: us twenty one hours to get there, and we didn't sleep.
Speaker 1: And when um, the relevance of this story is when whenever, um,
Speaker 1: you and Kaylen come to visit me and Okay, see
Speaker 1: uh and you know I'm meeting him for the first time.
Speaker 1: You had that look. Man, you had that look. And
Speaker 1: and when y'all left, you know, immediately text you because
Speaker 1: kind of like what Andy was saying, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: our relationship. I know, I know professional you are, but
Speaker 1: knowing relationships because your life has been tough, you know,
Speaker 1: and I know that you would overthink it or maybe
Speaker 1: even think that you don't deserve it, you know, And
Speaker 1: so I wanted to I just text you as I
Speaker 1: want you to know that you do deserve it, okay,
Speaker 1: and I'll want you to know that you go as
Speaker 1: I've support this and I think you deserve it, and
Speaker 1: I'm happy for you. I'm sorry we've just uh friends
Speaker 1: for over twenty years now, and I know we don't
Speaker 1: talk as much, you know, because our lives, you know,
Speaker 1: me having kids and I'm and I'm in Houston now,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, things are different. It's not like
Speaker 1: the same. But you know what, when we get together,
Speaker 1: you're my friend or your brother, it's like, IM meanly
Speaker 1: go back to that place with you. No, maybe because
Speaker 1: these tears have already fallen, they won't fall later. That's
Speaker 1: the goal, right, Maybe the seals already been broken. I
Speaker 1: mean maybe, And I had no ideas just gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I mean, as soon as you come to me, you
Speaker 1: and you brought those stories like it just it just
Speaker 1: overwhelmed me, you know, and I wasn't expecting it. You know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like what you're talking about last night.
Speaker 1: You're like, you know, probably every five years, right, and
Speaker 1: and man, we've we've shared so much, you know, like
Speaker 1: so many first first relationships, first breakups. I mean we've
Speaker 1: had you know, there were so many times you know,
Speaker 1: like I remember, it's just us you were just talking
Speaker 1: about just sitting up just talking about hardships or goals
Speaker 1: or whatever we want life, you know, and um, it
Speaker 1: was always great having someone, you know, a friend like
Speaker 1: you that we could talk about things like that, you
Speaker 1: know together, m thank god. I mean, how many years
Speaker 1: has it been, you know, we're going on like twenty two,
Speaker 1: twenty three years now, friendship. I mean, it's and I
Speaker 1: know that, you know, if I was having some kind
Speaker 1: of hardship tomorrow, I could call you about the blue
Speaker 1: even if we hadn't sweeen each other in years, and
Speaker 1: you would talk. You know, you don't no matter how
Speaker 1: long you need, you know that we need to talk
Speaker 1: to each other. You do it, you know. And dude,
Speaker 1: I don't think you seem more I can say, you know,
Speaker 1: no idea what's gonna happen, But I appreciate that. Man. Well,
Speaker 1: Mike d who's producing it and who was probably with
Speaker 1: me more than anybody else except for Caitlin right now,
Speaker 1: who by the way, we're in this room. And I
Speaker 1: said Mike, I said, hey, Mike had a girlfriend and
Speaker 1: at the time, and I had a girlfriend at the time,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm gonna beat you. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: propose on Saturday or a week from Saturday. And he goes,
Speaker 1: I'm proposing this Saturday and I was like, you son
Speaker 1: of a gun. We did. It was right here we
Speaker 1: talked about he jailed me by a week. Um, Mike,
Speaker 1: you are the newest kind of member of this very
Speaker 1: close brotherhood. You know that that that is all of us,
Speaker 1: and you know the same. I guess the one common
Speaker 1: theme is that I'm not the best at being that communicative.
Speaker 1: But luckily for me, you don't talk much either. I
Speaker 1: think that's why we get along so well. Um, but
Speaker 1: I just appreciate you, know, your ability one to just
Speaker 1: put up with me, but also to just to always
Speaker 1: be there, like if there is one constant person that
Speaker 1: is there all the time, regardless if it's a text
Speaker 1: or phone or work or like, it's always you, and
Speaker 1: that I hope you kind of feel that same love
Speaker 1: in this room, you know, as as I'm about to
Speaker 1: walk down the aisle. And you know, for for you
Speaker 1: to say yes to be a part of this group
Speaker 1: meant a lot to me as well. I'm happy to
Speaker 1: be a part of it, dude. And that's what he says,
Speaker 1: and that's that's that's Mike right there. And then that's
Speaker 1: always like thank you, thank you, thank you. Well listen, uh,
Speaker 1: somebody beat on the door and said something like somebody's
Speaker 1: on fire. I think you need to get Yeah. But
Speaker 1: and this one, we were just gonna pop in and
Speaker 1: say afe you thanks because we were killing time. But
Speaker 1: I genuinely appreciate the words you guys said here. And
Speaker 1: you guys know it doesn't matter what it is from me,
Speaker 1: you will always get it. And I know the sam
Speaker 1: about you, so uh. I love you all. This about
Speaker 1: to be a crazy night. May not talk to you
Speaker 1: guys much more. Everybody keep saying it's gonna flash by,
Speaker 1: and I'm not really going to get to talk to
Speaker 1: anybody except everybody. But just appreciate all you guys. Love
Speaker 1: you guys. One thing, this is like your your day
Speaker 1: and your night, Like you said, advice advice for tonight,
Speaker 1: do what makes you happy and not what you feel
Speaker 1: like you need to do tonight, like say you're hellos
Speaker 1: and say your old thing, but also take time to
Speaker 1: enjoy it with Caitlin. Don't get separated and not actually
Speaker 1: share the night because you're going through whatever people think
Speaker 1: the ritual of a wedding and a reception ship. You're
Speaker 1: not working a night man, You're off tonight. I don't
Speaker 1: think you're not hosting tonight. Just the last thing I'll
Speaker 1: say is you know, um, we're having the wedding at
Speaker 1: my house, and I'm pretty sure that that's going to
Speaker 1: be said publicly and um, but you know, traditionally the
Speaker 1: wedding is where you leave in a car and you
Speaker 1: drive away. Nobody wishes you could buy, and they're sparklers
Speaker 1: and stuff. What I had pitched to Caitlin was that
Speaker 1: we her and I have sparklers and everybody else leaves
Speaker 1: and then we just stay. She would have been the
Speaker 1: most on brand. She didn't accept. After that was my goal.
Speaker 1: We said everybody else away, well even last night quickly
Speaker 1: to last night, I mean truly Bobby fashion, Like it
Speaker 1: was nine o'clock, like all right, you don't have to go,
Speaker 1: but you can't stay. Honestly, God that we saw like
Speaker 1: dirty minutes left in that place. But I was like,
Speaker 1: we gotta go on the start getting charged more so
Speaker 1: we got to get out of here. So I ran everybody, Okay,
Speaker 1: I love you guys. I like to say real al right, right,
Speaker 1: I mean you've been like a brother. No, but I
Speaker 1: would like to say, real quick, let the emotions come tonight.
Speaker 1: Don't try to not let them or block them. Let
Speaker 1: them all come, feel them all, accept them all, and
Speaker 1: show Caitlin how much you really feel and show yourself.
Speaker 1: Let it all out, man, accept it be there. Not
Speaker 1: as much as I did, because be hard to get
Speaker 1: the words out. Okay. So and as always, this was
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