Speaker 1: What's up bachor happy our listeners. I'm backa koufriend and
Speaker 1: I'm Michelle Young, and we're excited to be back with
Speaker 1: you this week because today we're catching up with one
Speaker 1: of my girlfriends, one of the most lovely women I
Speaker 1: have ever met thanks to the show, and that is
Speaker 1: Kendall Long. We have so many questions for her. I've
Speaker 1: never met her in person before, but I've only heard
Speaker 1: great things. And we have her move to Germany that
Speaker 1: we'll be talking about and her new fiance. She's an
Speaker 1: engaged from a woman. Oh, I'm so happy for her
Speaker 1: and her new fiance, Mitch. But before we bring her on, Michelle,
Speaker 1: it's a big week because the holidays are here. Do
Speaker 1: you have any fun plans for them? Are you going
Speaker 1: to be going back to Minnesota for them? Yes, I
Speaker 1: will be back in Minnesota for the holidays. I'm so excited,
Speaker 1: just because last year at this time it was so crazy.
Speaker 1: I feel like things are finally like slowing down a
Speaker 1: little bit during the holidays, so just spending time with family.
Speaker 1: I have two nephews now, so one of them it
Speaker 1: will be his first Christmas, so that's going to be amazing.
Speaker 1: And just I don't know the usual, the food, the cookies.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. What about you? What are
Speaker 1: you and Thomas doing now now that you're engaged? This
Speaker 1: is your first like holiday together engaged? Yes, yeah, we
Speaker 1: had well, yes, we spent the holidays last year together.
Speaker 1: Obviously we weren't engaged at that point, so we're taking
Speaker 1: it pretty easy. Last year we went back to Minnesota.
Speaker 1: So this year we're going to stay here and celebrate
Speaker 1: with his family, and then I'm planning on to Minnesota
Speaker 1: and we'll celebrate with my family in January. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be pushed back a little bit, but I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: Thomas's mom is the most incredible woman, and I truly
Speaker 1: don't know how she does it, but she goes all
Speaker 1: out for the holidays. We were just there last night
Speaker 1: watching her setup the house and she has seven Christmas trees,
Speaker 1: seven seven all around the house. She put one so
Speaker 1: like Thomas and I will spend I mean, she only
Speaker 1: lives a half hour from us, but she put so
Speaker 1: we'll spend a couple of nights there around Christmas. But
Speaker 1: she has a tree in every room. She has a
Speaker 1: tree in our bedroom, in the guesthouse, like she goes
Speaker 1: all up because so this is something that I have
Speaker 1: yet to experienced. This will be my first time experiencing
Speaker 1: the ideology Jamboree. Apparently it's this massive holiday party that
Speaker 1: they've had for years, but because of COVID and then
Speaker 1: last year their house actually flooded and was under construction
Speaker 1: so they couldn't host it. So this is the first
Speaker 1: year that I will be able to witness it for
Speaker 1: the first time. This is one of the things I
Speaker 1: give you not I think on Thomas. In my our
Speaker 1: first date that we had, he told me about this party,
Speaker 1: so it has been a long time coming. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: I just I can't wait, just to eat, drink, be merry.
Speaker 1: I already have the dogs ugly Christmas sweaters too to
Speaker 1: wear so they can match us. But yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. I mean, his family is so so,
Speaker 1: so incredible. I already feel like I'm part of their family,
Speaker 1: so I'm thrilled to be spending it with them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then no plans for New Year's Eve. I'm like,
Speaker 1: whatever happens happens. I don't want to plan anything big
Speaker 1: this year because I feel like, do you ever feel
Speaker 1: like this where if you plan too much or like
Speaker 1: hype up something too much, it never lives up to
Speaker 1: the expectation. Always. I just had this conversation with one
Speaker 1: of my friends about New Year's Eve, and it's just
Speaker 1: from as far back as I can remember, it's always
Speaker 1: been like the stress of what are we gonna do?
Speaker 1: Like you feel like you have to do something special.
Speaker 1: It's almost like if you don't do something big and
Speaker 1: that's how you start your year, then that's how your
Speaker 1: year is gonna go. I don't know if like that,
Speaker 1: if that's where the pressure comes from, but it's so
Speaker 1: so much, and so it's like, no, I'm going to
Speaker 1: plan to not plan to do anything. Im coming from
Speaker 1: the girl me. I had a panic attack on New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve last year. I had such a bad anxiety
Speaker 1: attack that I literally cried in Thomas's arms for like
Speaker 1: two hours as the ball was dropping, because I was
Speaker 1: like convinced something bad was going to happen. I was like,
Speaker 1: something bad and terrible's gonna happen in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: and so far it's been like one of the best
Speaker 1: years I've ever experienced. Knock on one. We still have
Speaker 1: a few days left. But I'm like this year, like,
Speaker 1: no plans as long as I'm with Thomas and our
Speaker 1: dogs or friends or family, like, it's just gonna be
Speaker 1: low key. So I'm looking for forward to not worried
Speaker 1: about that, and then hopefully it just exceeds expectations exactly.
Speaker 1: All of my New Year's is like, well last year.
Speaker 1: Last year was all right, yeah, I guess you are right,
Speaker 1: so I thought, but you were going through so much
Speaker 1: at this time last year it was finale. I was
Speaker 1: so exhausted. And then I remember I got COVID right
Speaker 1: after I like writing in the New Year, like the
Speaker 1: two days after I had COVID, I swear me too.
Speaker 1: Um yeah so yeah, and then the like I also
Speaker 1: remember we'll back in Like the year after college, I
Speaker 1: got cheated on on New Year's by my boyfriend at
Speaker 1: that time, Like New Year's is like everyone's like New Year's.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, board up the house, talking nobody. I
Speaker 1: will treat this night like any other night. I will
Speaker 1: eat a big thing of pasta and be in bed
Speaker 1: at nine pm. That's a new hopect Like all I
Speaker 1: gotta remember is to write twenty twenty three as my instead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that's my biggest worry. But I think this year
Speaker 1: we Rachel and I might go to Mexico and just
Speaker 1: like Carbo and just my unpluck. Yeah, because it's funny
Speaker 1: year for both of us. Yes, okay, as we should
Speaker 1: go relax, get off the grid for a little bit. Um,
Speaker 1: and when I talk to you next, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to year about this trip. No, there's no expectations, No
Speaker 1: what trip. Watch, it's gonna it's gonna blow everything under
Speaker 1: the water. You're gonna make this is the best trip
Speaker 1: I've ever had. Um. That'll be fun though. That sounds
Speaker 1: like a perfect way to bring in another year. Um.
Speaker 1: And speaking of bringing in something, I think it's time
Speaker 1: to welcome our guest Kendall to Happy Hour. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: We got my girl Kendall all the way from Germany,
Speaker 1: and before before we even ask how you're doing it,
Speaker 1: show us that rock please. Good for anyone listening, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at a massive of stunning oval with two side diamonds.
Speaker 1: She's beautiful. Wow. Okay, so now I'm gonna ask, how
Speaker 1: the hell are you? I'm doing very good, Um, a
Speaker 1: little chaotic. There's a lot going on currently. This is
Speaker 1: our first week in Germany. But overall it's it's been
Speaker 1: an adventure. Yeah, it's been great. Okay, we have so
Speaker 1: much to catch up on. I I know you and
Speaker 1: Michelle have never met, so welcome Michelle and Kendall meeting
Speaker 1: for the first time. I know, I feel like being
Speaker 1: in this family, like you kind of know everybody, so
Speaker 1: it feels like we've met before, but we actually have not.
Speaker 1: I know, right. I think I saw you at an
Speaker 1: event one time and I was like, oh, I have
Speaker 1: to say hi, but you know how those are. It
Speaker 1: was like, all, there's so many things going on, Michelle.
Speaker 1: For a little refresher for you. Kendall and I were
Speaker 1: on our season of The Bachelor back in the day.
Speaker 1: We also did Paradise together last year. Kenda, you're the
Speaker 1: reason why I said yes. You're one of the reasons
Speaker 1: like why I said yes to Actually, it's a very
Speaker 1: fun thing to go on again. So Kendall and I
Speaker 1: were out to dinner. We were at sushi with one
Speaker 1: of our friends, just drinking wine. I think we had
Speaker 1: some sake and we were like, Okay, are we going
Speaker 1: to do this? Like and it was literally like the
Speaker 1: day before we're supposed to fly down, like do we
Speaker 1: say yes, like, do we sign the contracts? Do we
Speaker 1: do this? I was like, I'm in in Fiorian and
Speaker 1: so we did it together. Yeah we hear sake to it.
Speaker 1: So yes, yes, it was good. Um. Yeah what wild times.
Speaker 1: It feels like lifetimes ago. Um. Okay, so much has
Speaker 1: changed in your world within the past couple weeks. You
Speaker 1: recently got engaged. So so happy for you, Midge. Thank
Speaker 1: you is such a gem. You are both so cute together. Um,
Speaker 1: but catch us up just on your life. You're not
Speaker 1: living in Germany. How is that transition? It's a it's
Speaker 1: really crazy. It's a crazy transition. Um. Germany does things
Speaker 1: a lot differently. Um. So it's just adjusting to that. Um,
Speaker 1: learning the language. I know how to say I don't
Speaker 1: know how to speak much German, so that sud to me.
Speaker 1: And UM, yeah it's been it's definitely been an adjustment,
Speaker 1: but it's been really cool. I decided to come here
Speaker 1: during winter, which is a great idea because it's like
Speaker 1: snowing and freezing and I've never lived in the snow before. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's just so beautiful here during the holidays and
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's just been a whirlwind. And I'm excited
Speaker 1: to fully get to know more about the German cultural
Speaker 1: and really immerse myself into it. And I'm with Nich
Speaker 1: so it's been a fun little intro to being engaged.
Speaker 1: Like this is the first time we've been living together.
Speaker 1: It's a completely different country. Yeah, yeah, what would you
Speaker 1: sort of love right there? But honestly, home is where
Speaker 1: the heart is? Is Is that is that how it goes?
Speaker 1: What would you say is like the biggest difference. You
Speaker 1: said that there's so many things that are different in
Speaker 1: Germany that you've learned or that you've noticed. So far.
Speaker 1: Everything is paper bay based, so we've been doing a
Speaker 1: lot of paperwork. We have to change our phones, and
Speaker 1: in order to get a place here, you have to
Speaker 1: order to get a license here, you have to have
Speaker 1: your landlords sign off and say that you officially live here.
Speaker 1: So everything's by the book, very structured, and so that's
Speaker 1: been interesting to get used to because I'm very much
Speaker 1: like all over the place, and I'm not used to
Speaker 1: having to reset my life because I've just broke up
Speaker 1: in La my entire life. And they take they take
Speaker 1: holidays very seriously, like Christmas is so festive here, and
Speaker 1: the weather is very different. So just dressing that, preparing
Speaker 1: for that, and I'm going to put out a park
Speaker 1: on thick boots. Well, I didn't know that warm stocks
Speaker 1: or a thing like, I've never had to really dress
Speaker 1: incredibly warm. I've been to New York during snowstorms, but
Speaker 1: living here is a lot different than visiting or like
Speaker 1: a vacation, So you got to get those cozy cabin
Speaker 1: socks going. I've seen people literally with jackets that look
Speaker 1: like uh, sleeping bags. Their whole body just just covered
Speaker 1: and like they have these thick socks and it. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm like taking notes, like these are things
Speaker 1: I must ask sounds Yeah, the two exactly. They had
Speaker 1: these codes nowadays that they actually like they're not electric,
Speaker 1: they're safe, but they heat up like like a heating pad.
Speaker 1: But the park but it's probably got one of those actually.
Speaker 1: So but it's so we're shipping. So I shipped all
Speaker 1: of my clothes, um, well a lot of my clothes.
Speaker 1: I sold basically everything, um, And so I'm shipping things
Speaker 1: here and so I will get that probably in a
Speaker 1: month or two because it takes a while to ship
Speaker 1: thing here. So I'm kind of living out of a
Speaker 1: couple of suitcases until then. But I did see I
Speaker 1: got that coat, and my mom was the one that
Speaker 1: suggests to get that to me if you're going to
Speaker 1: need it. Yeah, that I'm here, I'm like, yes, this
Speaker 1: is perfect. Mama knows best. So it was Mitche's job
Speaker 1: that brought you both there, correct, Yeah, okay, okay, and
Speaker 1: you'll be there for two about two years, that's the
Speaker 1: plan right now. Do you think there's a chance you'll
Speaker 1: stay longer or do you already have plans like you'll
Speaker 1: do the two years and then come back to California.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's such a crazy adjustment to move to
Speaker 1: a different country. But I think after we do it,
Speaker 1: we already talk, we're already talking about different places we
Speaker 1: might live after this. But our goal is to go
Speaker 1: back to where our family is in California. Our family's
Speaker 1: families live so close together, and so that's the ultimate goal.
Speaker 1: This is more so like an adventure before we settle down,
Speaker 1: have kids and do all that. So, yeah, knock it off,
Speaker 1: check it off the bucket list. Oh yeah, what does
Speaker 1: I do that brought you to Germany? Um? So he's
Speaker 1: an aerospace engineer and so he is working for Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he's working here in all the things, I'm not
Speaker 1: exactly about to know it you picked one. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's incredibly intelligent. The one thing that I fell in
Speaker 1: love with him it's like his mind, Like his mind
Speaker 1: is just a he's a beautiful brain. So well, and
Speaker 1: you also have a beautiful brain. It's so creative and
Speaker 1: unique that I feel like you needed somebody that was
Speaker 1: going to be able to stimulate you. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like you. I feel like you both are very even
Speaker 1: for each other. I was telling I think maybe just
Speaker 1: mentioned this to Michelle before you popped on Weirdly enough,
Speaker 1: So we met Mitch, Well, I met Mitch at Thomas's
Speaker 1: thirtieth birthday. That's where you brought him. Well, no, we
Speaker 1: went him before. I guess that on the tour, but
Speaker 1: oh yeah, but not really getting to know yeah yeah ye.
Speaker 1: And such a small world. Mitch is cousins with one
Speaker 1: of Thomas's good friends from high school, and so he
Speaker 1: kind of like already I felt like he was like
Speaker 1: already part of the group and like welcomed. And he's
Speaker 1: not only smart, he's obviously very handsome, but just such
Speaker 1: a nice, fun guy, like very down to earth. So okay,
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about Germany and
Speaker 1: then I want to get into obviously the engagement. But
Speaker 1: you mentioned that Germany takes the holidays very seriously, and
Speaker 1: I have seen the holiday markets that you have attended
Speaker 1: in these past two days. Yea more for any of
Speaker 1: our listeners who maybe didn't see your stories on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Talk more about these holiday markets, but also please elaborate
Speaker 1: on I think you posted it yesterday. I like this
Speaker 1: scary Christmas man, like like he had like sticks and
Speaker 1: he was like spanking someone with yea, so those are
Speaker 1: birch branches. So Acrompus is kind of like a Christmas demon.
Speaker 1: He works with Saint Nicholas and he'll capture bad naughty
Speaker 1: children and take them back to his layer. Will he'll
Speaker 1: torture them, like hitting them with like birch branches or
Speaker 1: eat them. It's like very much a nightmare. I'm really
Speaker 1: curious about because I'm a like teacher everything, and so
Speaker 1: in education you can't I mean, you don't really celebrate
Speaker 1: you felebrate winter, but you can't really celebrate Christmas and
Speaker 1: just different things. You kind of keep those out of it.
Speaker 1: But in family, I just know that there's so many
Speaker 1: families that use like elf on the shelf and um
Speaker 1: and what else is it? And just like coal and like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get any gifts, like as a
Speaker 1: threat for a spres But like in Germany, do they
Speaker 1: threaten like this person's going to come and take your
Speaker 1: vegetables if you don't need your vegetables everywhere in Germany.
Speaker 1: I think it's certain districts, in districts in Germany because
Speaker 1: um so, the guy who owns the airbnb that we're
Speaker 1: staying in currently, he didn't even know about the crampas
Speaker 1: test and he was raised in stuke Guards, So I
Speaker 1: think it might be just to certain areas. But the
Speaker 1: kids seem to love it. When we were at the festival,
Speaker 1: they were all like all the kids that were in
Speaker 1: the front was getting picked on and they were just
Speaker 1: laughing and it was scary this crumpus. Yeah, but like
Speaker 1: I saw this video and I was like I would
Speaker 1: be traumatized as a child to see this. Oh, their
Speaker 1: masks are so cool, like they so they handmake or
Speaker 1: homemake their masks and it looks like they carved them
Speaker 1: out of wood and they get these crazy wigs. It's
Speaker 1: just it's so elaborate, and I thought they were really
Speaker 1: beautifully done. Um terrifying. Yeah, but I think each area
Speaker 1: might have had their own, um I guess type of
Speaker 1: crampus that they were representing, because they'd have these signs
Speaker 1: that would say like a town or a location, and
Speaker 1: they a group of them together and it was in
Speaker 1: the middle of the Christmas festival. So there's really pretty
Speaker 1: gingerbread looking houses with gluvine and all this like pretzels
Speaker 1: and everything, and then it's crazy, What a fun time
Speaker 1: to move to a new country. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: like the best way to immerse yourself in the culture
Speaker 1: is just like being here around the people, around the food,
Speaker 1: around their festivities, in the traditions. Speaking of food, because
Speaker 1: you mentioned the pretzels, talk talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about the food. Do you like the German food better
Speaker 1: than the American food? Like what's in your favorite thing?
Speaker 1: I'm such a foodie, so I need to know everything well.
Speaker 1: At first, I was worried that I wouldn't really like
Speaker 1: the German food, because you don't really I never really
Speaker 1: personally heard about Germany's food culture. I knew there was
Speaker 1: a lot of potatoes and pretzels and stuff. But their
Speaker 1: food is really good. They have a big Italian community here,
Speaker 1: so Italian food's great. They have there's a sushi place
Speaker 1: around the corner from where we are. Um, yeah, so
Speaker 1: they're the big Asian influence here. So we we've tried,
Speaker 1: Like the first week we are here, we had to
Speaker 1: go out to eat all the time, just because you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't have anyhere else to go. And yeah, it
Speaker 1: didn't disappoint. It was very interesting, like certain things where
Speaker 1: like I've never tried it before, but yeah, I love
Speaker 1: I feel like that's my favorite part of traveling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: making around food. But now that y'all are in Germany,
Speaker 1: do you have like what are your plans for the holidays?
Speaker 1: Do you plan to combine You're like holiday traditions make
Speaker 1: new ones. I'm definitely already planning to get a Christmas
Speaker 1: tree and to decorate things. Um it's it's sad. It's
Speaker 1: hard because I'm so close with my family. Mitch is
Speaker 1: so close with his family, so being away from family
Speaker 1: during the holidays, it's going to be incredibly difficult. Um.
Speaker 1: Niche's birthday is actually the nineteenth, so we're going to
Speaker 1: be celebrating his birthday first, and then Christmas is shortly after. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm like excited. I'm excited to have my first
Speaker 1: Christmas with like with Mitch, and you know, we're newly
Speaker 1: engaged and it's gonna be really cute and get like
Speaker 1: a little tree. Um. But because last year we our
Speaker 1: first date was the day after Christmas. Really yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, circle, I'll look at that. Does any of
Speaker 1: your family have plans yet to come out there and
Speaker 1: visit you two? Yeah, so I have a girlfriend who
Speaker 1: already booked her ticket for um, I think March, and
Speaker 1: then my parents were thinking of coming probably around April May,
Speaker 1: like around springtime. There's a spring festival that looks really fun.
Speaker 1: So my brother's also going to be coming around that
Speaker 1: time because he's visiting visiting friends in London, so they
Speaker 1: have no options but to come visit right where they have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're getting a place at the couple rooms, so we're
Speaker 1: hoping that that'll like entire people to come. YEA. How
Speaker 1: close are you this is totally a topic. How close
Speaker 1: are you to the Rhine River? Um? Is that the
Speaker 1: river that's a munich? I believe I think so, so
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. Actually, I might be there at the
Speaker 1: beginning of June, so if you really are in town,
Speaker 1: I'll we'll talk obviously after this, but I'm like, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm doing a river cruise with my mom and sister
Speaker 1: and I need to see you if I'm there. If
Speaker 1: it's a Munich. I think it's a Munich. That's only
Speaker 1: about two hours away, but you can cut it with
Speaker 1: the autobod, so it's about okay, Okay, Well, we'll talk
Speaker 1: after this. I definitely want to see you Uma, for sure.
Speaker 1: I just catch up and eat all the German pretzels.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely eat a German pretzel. I haven't had
Speaker 1: one yet. Really, there aren't so many cool things to try.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I tried a pretzel before, obviously I haven't
Speaker 1: had a German one, so yeah. Or beer. I haven't
Speaker 1: had beer here either, so let's yeah, you got time,
Speaker 1: you got time together. Yes, you're gonna dip the pressl
Speaker 1: the beer. And now I don't know were you the one? Okay?
Speaker 1: I think I learned this about you when we were
Speaker 1: traveling meat. I want to say to Paris on our season,
Speaker 1: because that was the first international area we went to.
Speaker 1: Were you the one who said, um, and correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, you would only eat meat when you
Speaker 1: would travel? Correct, Yeah, yeah, okay, yes, And so now
Speaker 1: that you're traveling for two years, are you able to
Speaker 1: eat all the meat there? I've actually already started me. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So whatever I post about eating meat because I thought
Speaker 1: you were vegetarian, I don't know. I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: like there's so many interesting things to try and un't
Speaker 1: it was a cool part of my life to be
Speaker 1: able to. I was vegan, then vegetarian, then Presbyterian, um,
Speaker 1: and I just really really paying attention to where I
Speaker 1: get my meat from. And in Germany they are just
Speaker 1: so much better with food in general. Like you can
Speaker 1: see that things are a lot fresher, there's a lot
Speaker 1: more regulations on what they can serve, what they can sell,
Speaker 1: so you're getting really good quality stuff, and um, you
Speaker 1: can feel it. Like people who have gluten intolerance. Um,
Speaker 1: of course everyone like people see the actor or whatnot.
Speaker 1: But people who have gluten intolerances in America usually won't
Speaker 1: have them in Germany. I've seen that actually all over recently,
Speaker 1: about like them eating like pasta anything like that can
Speaker 1: eat straight up bread when they can't tolerant in the US. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and in years. I feel like just from like the
Speaker 1: couple countries that I've been to, everything like you said,
Speaker 1: is homemade, fresh, like minimal ingredients, which I appreciate. It's
Speaker 1: like just the basics. You don't need all these add ons, additives,
Speaker 1: whatever you call it. So I guess that makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know it looked at me talking like I'm a doctor,
Speaker 1: like I know, or like a nutritionist. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Don't listen to me. I'll go back and see how
Speaker 1: I feel after a couple of years. You know, I
Speaker 1: cannot wait to see you, visit you out there. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be so fun. Okay, Becca, have you you've met
Speaker 1: Mitch before? Beca, Yes, yes, Okay, I literally I just
Speaker 1: know him from social media on your page. That's it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that is totally it. How did you? How
Speaker 1: did you guys meet? So we met through a mutual friend,
Speaker 1: one of his volleyball buddies, and we met at a
Speaker 1: It was kind of like a pregame before going out together.
Speaker 1: And um, yeah, I think the first thing that I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed about him was that he was very into science,
Speaker 1: like myself. So that's kind of how he first really connected. Um.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, from there we just kind of clicked.
Speaker 1: I mean pretty much knew quick quickly that we were
Speaker 1: going to Well that was my That was my next question.
Speaker 1: And like, you were you immediately drawn and it interested
Speaker 1: in him or did it take a little bit? Uh?
Speaker 1: I was immediately So when I first met him, I
Speaker 1: thought he actually came with a girl, and so I
Speaker 1: was more so telling myself. I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: think he's very cute. It's like, oh my gosh, she's
Speaker 1: like really into science. He's like, but don't look at him,
Speaker 1: you can't like no, And then I found out later
Speaker 1: on that night that he was not spoken for and
Speaker 1: so you know, and it was and we met the
Speaker 1: day before his birthday, so at midnight we had our
Speaker 1: first kiss on his birthday. So, yeah, you say there
Speaker 1: was a lot of chemistry between you two. That was
Speaker 1: very much a lot of jos scientists who made the
Speaker 1: first move. Then for that kiss, was it your Mitch
Speaker 1: is the kind of guy that makes the first move,
Speaker 1: so he was very much the uh yeah, the more
Speaker 1: dominant one and up nut regard to take in charge. Yes,
Speaker 1: I loved it. Did okay, when you guys met, did
Speaker 1: he know that you had been like on a TV show?
Speaker 1: Did he know that you'd been on like Paradise? He
Speaker 1: knew elements of it just because his friend that introduced us,
Speaker 1: he was supposed to be on Claire season of the
Speaker 1: Bachelorette and so he was in that kind of bachelor world.
Speaker 1: So because of that, he knew that we had met
Speaker 1: through that um and so yeah, he kind of had.
Speaker 1: He knew a little bit of it. He has still
Speaker 1: never seen it, and I encourage him not yet, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he might one day, but it's just weird
Speaker 1: to watch yourself like two other people do that. I
Speaker 1: will say that. I would say, if he's going to
Speaker 1: watch anything, he should do The Bachelor. Yeah. Yeah, so fun.
Speaker 1: I remember I remember the first I want to say
Speaker 1: it was either the first sight or the first like
Speaker 1: a big official row ceremony after night one. I well,
Speaker 1: you were one of the very first people AVERAGE talk to.
Speaker 1: We hit it off right away, we sat down. You
Speaker 1: had this beautiful necklace. I remember that that your mom
Speaker 1: had made you, and we started talking about her jewelry.
Speaker 1: But then one of these rose heremonies you brought you
Speaker 1: started bringing out the taxidermy, and I remember being like,
Speaker 1: I love this girl. She's so unique, Like you just
Speaker 1: were so fun, just like such a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 1: You kind of reminded me of some of my friends
Speaker 1: back in Minnesota. Um, and so we just hit it off.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know where I'm going with this
Speaker 1: other than like how much I love you. But I
Speaker 1: was gonna say he should watch if he's gonna watch
Speaker 1: any season, if you watched The Bachelor, because I feel
Speaker 1: like you just see more of you too. You know,
Speaker 1: you were on for basically the entire season. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I just gosh, those were times. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was they I mean it was definitely very much taxidermy.
Speaker 1: Focus was just hilarious, and they taxidermy for the first
Speaker 1: time on that on that season's just fun. So yeah,
Speaker 1: were you walking around the old ship on your shoulder?
Speaker 1: Oh my little dog? Yeah? And then yeah, I like
Speaker 1: traveled everywhere with me. Wait do you still have him do? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: Ping and Pongs have two little ducks. Um I left
Speaker 1: them back, um back home, because bringing animals across you know,
Speaker 1: lines of countries, it is very difficult. So um, I
Speaker 1: got away with it surprisingly when I was on the show.
Speaker 1: But and you took him every where. We were in Paris,
Speaker 1: we went to Italy. Oh wow, yeah, has has Mitch
Speaker 1: met ping and he has? Yeah, Mitch has met all
Speaker 1: my taxes for me and they all have names as
Speaker 1: as you know, scary as that sounds. Um, has he
Speaker 1: made any taxidermy with you? He has not, So we've
Speaker 1: discussed the taxi or me. We're very both very interested
Speaker 1: in having a study in our future home. And we're
Speaker 1: like got studyed with like bookshelves, a bunch of books
Speaker 1: we've collected, and like taxit me all around, like it
Speaker 1: will reside in the cool area. I love school of it,
Speaker 1: like you're describing how my house was when my dad
Speaker 1: was still around, like because he would hunt and fish
Speaker 1: and so we had like the fish and the ducks
Speaker 1: and the deer antlers and the geese and all the things.
Speaker 1: And I love it. It's a good vibe you that.
Speaker 1: Oh you were thriving when we went to Taha, because
Speaker 1: I remember the house that we stayed at had some
Speaker 1: taxidermy and you were so expited to be there. Mean
Speaker 1: taxider me there, Oh my gosh. And they have like
Speaker 1: some kind of lions on the or something. And I
Speaker 1: think it was in the room that you sucked in, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why we got that room. Yeah, bitter and like okay,
Speaker 1: like reserve the room for you because there was like
Speaker 1: a dead tigers. Yeah. Yeah, it was like that's insane.
Speaker 1: Were people having nightmares in that in that lodge or
Speaker 1: where we were like because of all the tax For me? Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I loved it. I thought it was great,
Speaker 1: but I hope I was saying they were scared to
Speaker 1: sleep there, so it was Oh no, it was perfect.
Speaker 1: It was like such a little secluded, big cabin in
Speaker 1: the mountains as lovely. Um, okay, can we get into
Speaker 1: the whole proposal engagement? Did you have any idea that
Speaker 1: it was coming? Um? I mean I think when you're
Speaker 1: in a relationship for a while and you kind of
Speaker 1: feel like you're the one you know that you want
Speaker 1: that you know with each other. So I knew that
Speaker 1: we were eventually going to get engaged. I didn't know when,
Speaker 1: but um, but yeah, So it happened to be like
Speaker 1: right before we left for Germany. And it was great
Speaker 1: because our families were there and we can celebrate it
Speaker 1: together with them. And I love that he shows that moment,
Speaker 1: Like before we were going to be leaving for two years,
Speaker 1: so it was nice that it was right before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have two years. Okay, you just had this big move.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be the for two years, but you're still
Speaker 1: getting settled. Is wedding planning taking like a back seat
Speaker 1: for a little bit? Do you want a long engagement?
Speaker 1: Do you want to is it going to be a
Speaker 1: super small wedding? Like what are your thoughts with how
Speaker 1: fast this is going to go? Well? I want to
Speaker 1: have it back home, just with family, So either we
Speaker 1: can plan something or we'll come back. It seems kind
Speaker 1: of difficult to do that while we're abroad. Um, so
Speaker 1: we're thinking probably when we around the time we get back,
Speaker 1: maybe in a couple of years. Um. Also because his grandparents,
Speaker 1: like I really want them to be able to join
Speaker 1: as well like our grandparents. So um, so yeah, we're
Speaker 1: thinking maybe like a couple of year engagement. I'm sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: until we Yeah, okay, And what does Kylie for anyone listening.
Speaker 1: Kylie is Kendall's twin sister, not to be confused with
Speaker 1: Kendall and Kylie from the Kardashians. She approve of Mitch.
Speaker 1: He definitely approves his Mitch. Okay, good. It was funny
Speaker 1: though in the beginning, like we're with our first date. Um.
Speaker 1: At first she was like, who's this guy that's taking
Speaker 1: you away from Christmas like the day after Christmas? Um,
Speaker 1: But then she has grown to like love him, and uh,
Speaker 1: Mitch gets in to like all the drama on conversations,
Speaker 1: and he loves like like the getting advice and like
Speaker 1: listening and interacting with everyone, which is another reason why
Speaker 1: like this guy's great. Um. So he loves just kind
Speaker 1: of getting to the conversations with my friends and family. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's He's great at asking questions. He's very easy. If
Speaker 1: I want to meet him, everyone things, Yeah, come to
Speaker 1: Germany with us. I'll come. I'll be there too. So honestly, honestly,
Speaker 1: please do, please do. I would love to show you around.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, he's I mean, obviously, I'm very biased. He's
Speaker 1: like the best man in the world. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you knew that, but for anyone listening, Okay, I
Speaker 1: just have to offshoot this story really quick. So Mitch
Speaker 1: and Kendall came to Thomas's thirtieth birthday and most of
Speaker 1: the people that were there like lived in San Diego.
Speaker 1: They were Thomas's longtime friends from high school or college.
Speaker 1: And I'm so happy you and came. It was such
Speaker 1: a blast. But it was supposed to be a pool party.
Speaker 1: The pool wasn't finished at Thomas's parents also, I was like, shit,
Speaker 1: but like it's in the middle of the summer and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be so hot. We want something to do.
Speaker 1: So I ended up buying two big slipping slides for
Speaker 1: the front yard, and like so no one really wanted
Speaker 1: to do them besides Thomas, Kendall and Mitch. And so
Speaker 1: these three were just zipping down this slip and slide
Speaker 1: like they have like just breaks in their hands. They're
Speaker 1: like having us feed them pizzas they're going down on
Speaker 1: this sliping side. So like you two were just down
Speaker 1: for the count in for anything. It was so fun
Speaker 1: to see and he just fitten perfectly. Like he's that
Speaker 1: type of person that I think can converse with anyone
Speaker 1: feel comfortable. It's not like you had to be right
Speaker 1: there with him the entire time. Like he was very
Speaker 1: much just so outgoing and so friendly and so yeah,
Speaker 1: we all are huge fans of Mitch, now, thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's an adventurer definitely, Like I found that out really quick.
Speaker 1: He very much just likes to throw himself into things,
Speaker 1: and uh just he was like a kid. He likes
Speaker 1: to have fun and play around and it just makes
Speaker 1: it so we have a very like playful element to
Speaker 1: our relationship. And whenever we've traveled, like he's gotten me
Speaker 1: to do things I wouldn't probably normally do in my owns.
Speaker 1: That's you too, yeah, Like I'm sure you both kind
Speaker 1: of bounce each other out and push each other and
Speaker 1: are so so adventurous. Um, Okay, I need to go
Speaker 1: back to this ring though, because when you showed it
Speaker 1: off at the beginning, it was stunning. Did you kind
Speaker 1: to tell him what you wanted or did he just
Speaker 1: go on blind and he just picked out the star
Speaker 1: of the show. So I gave him like my sister
Speaker 1: more so is the one that kind of geared him
Speaker 1: into a direction. Um. But and I kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, it was like said little things that I
Speaker 1: was interested in. But he actually went to a jeweler
Speaker 1: that was a family jeweler, um called Anderson Jeweler. His
Speaker 1: mom's wedding ring. Like they worked on her wedding ring
Speaker 1: as well. So it was in the family, which is
Speaker 1: really nice, and so he worked with them to create it.
Speaker 1: So he did. It was so funny. After he proposed
Speaker 1: we were and we were talking like later that night.
Speaker 1: He like knew all the facts about different cuts and
Speaker 1: like how the diamonds worked and everything. And yeah, he
Speaker 1: likes said to gather very much. So he loves he
Speaker 1: does research and gathers his information. And he was just
Speaker 1: like a professional on it. So he's not going to
Speaker 1: be exactly right. Well he I just love that he's
Speaker 1: curious as well, because we could just teach each other
Speaker 1: things all the time. You know, things we've researched are
Speaker 1: like we're curious about and zo um. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: enjoyed hearing the behind the same story on how the
Speaker 1: ring came to be. It's beautiful and it's perfect for you.
Speaker 1: I feel like it has this like slight antique vintage
Speaker 1: vibe with the two side diamonds and it's I feel
Speaker 1: like it's so fitting for you. Oh thanks, I did
Speaker 1: get so crazy. I never It's weird because I never
Speaker 1: really pictured what kind of engagement ring I would have, like,
Speaker 1: let alone being engaged. It just wasn't really something that
Speaker 1: I had ever really thought about. But as soon as
Speaker 1: like Mitch and I were together, it just seemed like
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, it just also it was kind
Speaker 1: of awkward, like awkward like talking about it, like oh, yes,
Speaker 1: like engagement you know, I don't know, it was so funny.
Speaker 1: It was just something that I had never really dove
Speaker 1: into before. So yeah, but it was yeah, you were
Speaker 1: you were top three at R season, you were so
Speaker 1: close to that finish line. I was gonna say, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I was never asked about engagement rings, so
Speaker 1: I wasn't he don't worry shit, Well, well damn okay,
Speaker 1: So are you the person to like pick up exactly
Speaker 1: what you want for a wedding then, even though when
Speaker 1: it's in the future, like do you have really must have?
Speaker 1: Not really? I mean, I feel like the most important
Speaker 1: thing to me is having a fun time he have
Speaker 1: friends and family there, and yeah, just making it close
Speaker 1: like I don't want to. I used to actually be
Speaker 1: a wedding photographer, like an assistant wedding photographer, So I've
Speaker 1: been to a lot of weddings, and what I've noticed
Speaker 1: is that a lot of the time to get so
Speaker 1: caught up in like capturing little moments, you know, and
Speaker 1: I almost feel like the briding groom or like pulled
Speaker 1: from one place to another where there's a photo off.
Speaker 1: We just to take it, do this this. I don't
Speaker 1: really want it to be like that as structured. I
Speaker 1: more so want it to be like be blowing and
Speaker 1: you know, so that's the only thing that I kind
Speaker 1: of have in mind for a wedding. Well, I am.
Speaker 1: I just started like very tentatively, like dipping my toes
Speaker 1: in the water for wedding and planning. So chat about
Speaker 1: this like once you're closer to it too, because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know where to beget, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do. Yes, have you? Okay, so sorry, we're all
Speaker 1: over the place right now. But obviously the last time
Speaker 1: we did see you was on Paradise to years ago,
Speaker 1: and then you were also on it what You're twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: the year before COVID, right was that season? So season
Speaker 1: six and seven technically, even though there was like a
Speaker 1: break in between. Did you happen to watch like the
Speaker 1: most recent season of Paradise But I have not taught
Speaker 1: up with it? No, Okay, I feel like I haven't.
Speaker 1: I just don't know the characters anymore. You know, you're
Speaker 1: used to seeing everybody in Bachelor and then Bachelorette and
Speaker 1: then then Paradise. You have more like a background as
Speaker 1: to who they are. So I don't even know too
Speaker 1: much about But it's a great venture. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: probably having a great time. I mean, yeah, sure, what
Speaker 1: about German Bachelor? Is there is there a German Bachelor?
Speaker 1: There is a German Bachelor? There is there? Really? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe so that would be. And there are in
Speaker 1: the language? Yeah, isn't there an Australia? Is there? There's
Speaker 1: an Australian? There is one? Two? Right, I feel a
Speaker 1: couple of friends who did Australia's Yeah, quite a few coins. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Japanese one. Yes, I think Japan.
Speaker 1: I'd been so curious to compare, like, oh yeah, compare
Speaker 1: how it is, and like I would just talking to
Speaker 1: somebody who has been in that experience to compare just
Speaker 1: like the American I experience. Well, well, no, that's true.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Yuki who did um. I think
Speaker 1: she was the one that was chosen for the Japanese Bachelor. Um,
Speaker 1: And she said that there was like no kissing or
Speaker 1: anything until like she was chosen at the end and
Speaker 1: that's when there was a kiss. Very reserve. I never
Speaker 1: watched it, but the way that she presented it made
Speaker 1: it seem like it was very polite, and I'm not
Speaker 1: surprised because Japan is very polite country and I love
Speaker 1: That's why I love loved visiting there because everyone was
Speaker 1: so kind. Yeah, and then the Australian I know, I've
Speaker 1: a friend Lily who was the bachelortte actually in Australia,
Speaker 1: and well she's kind of like a crazy personality, so
Speaker 1: she was predy. Yeah. They were both on Winter Games,
Speaker 1: correct they were Yeah, okay that's how I met Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: it's all coming together now. Yeah, there's quite a few offshoots.
Speaker 1: I would it would be interesting to see how they differ.
Speaker 1: But I will say, like I said a little bit ago,
Speaker 1: a great way to learn the language. Do you have
Speaker 1: any plans on like taking a German language course or
Speaker 1: like what is your mindset in trying to learn this
Speaker 1: language if you want to? Yeah, no, I actually a
Speaker 1: hundred percent want to learn the language. My mind works
Speaker 1: in a way where I like learning phrases that I
Speaker 1: can actually implement into the real world. So I'm listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast I think it's called like German one podcast, um,
Speaker 1: and I'm listening to nineties German pop music. Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: So that helps, And I learned like little phrases. So
Speaker 1: I've learned how to say um uh exchoolly glunk, which
Speaker 1: is like sorry, m so um what is it called
Speaker 1: kennie uh veil Deutsch speaking and it's I can only
Speaker 1: speak a little bit of German and so wow yeah,
Speaker 1: and then say and I can say like speaking z
Speaker 1: English and like be speak English. Yeah, We're going to
Speaker 1: meet you on in like three months to see where
Speaker 1: we're at. Oh man, that's that's that would be good
Speaker 1: because will hold me accountable and so I'll actually have
Speaker 1: to learn more German. Well, I love that you said
Speaker 1: you're listening to nineties German songs. That's so I took
Speaker 1: French back in the day. And that's actually how our
Speaker 1: teacher helped us learn the languages. She would start class
Speaker 1: every day with she would print out the lyrics and
Speaker 1: she'd have missing words in the lyrics, and then we
Speaker 1: would have to listen to the song like two or
Speaker 1: three times and write in to see like what words
Speaker 1: we're missing? So so so cool because you can have
Speaker 1: a cadence of the music. It's it's a fun way
Speaker 1: to memorize things, like I'll think of lyrics in my head. Um, so,
Speaker 1: like there's a song that it's like it's like a
Speaker 1: nursery rhyme but teaches you had to count. So it's like,
Speaker 1: uh so it it goes like I spied. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm butcher right now, but it counts like one too,
Speaker 1: Like wait, wait is this sense thing nish in America?
Speaker 1: That one? Oh no, it's not that one. It goes
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah, baslus yeah yeah yeah, like what I'm
Speaker 1: looking at? What is with you? Now? I'm we should
Speaker 1: do we should do it in the car Babel rose
Speaker 1: that a stone. I'm gonna be over here, bop into
Speaker 1: the German alphabet as soon as we get off. Now
Speaker 1: it's a difficult, like that's the same alphabet, the same
Speaker 1: letters as in English. The English language. The English language
Speaker 1: has like Germanic and Latin roots, so a lot of
Speaker 1: the words are actually similar. Oh that makes them a
Speaker 1: little bit easier than for you have no idea? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what has been the hardest cultural barrier, Like, have you
Speaker 1: found it difficult to get around? Do? Most people have
Speaker 1: some foundational English that they can kind of help direct
Speaker 1: you if you need it. Yeah. The most German speech
Speaker 1: speak at least two or three different languages, which is
Speaker 1: like amazing. But the most difficult thing has been driving
Speaker 1: because all the street signs are different. So and it's
Speaker 1: also really difficult to read like the names of the
Speaker 1: exits because they're very long Germanic names, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's just difficult to kind of like figure out. And
Speaker 1: the way that the roads are like structured. It's like
Speaker 1: turning is difficult, Like we went down the wrong side
Speaker 1: of the road like twice. There's a lot of constructions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's probably the most difficult part about moving here sols
Speaker 1: to you though for you two already taken the what
Speaker 1: is it the wheel the seared by the wheel, and
Speaker 1: like driving already, I would be way too nervous. I
Speaker 1: think I have not driven yet. Nich has driven. He
Speaker 1: is more gutsy than I am in that regard. He's
Speaker 1: I would probably run into something. I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 1: a great drivers not but uh so I know I've
Speaker 1: driven with you before. No, you were a good driver.
Speaker 1: We drive in your convertible that one time. That's true,
Speaker 1: that was really fun. Yeah, it was such a last
Speaker 1: I feel confident driving in America. Um, and we usually
Speaker 1: I try to drive like my sister calls me a
Speaker 1: grandma driver, but she is an insane driver. So all right, Kendall, Um,
Speaker 1: I know it's very late where you are, so we
Speaker 1: won't keep you too much longer. Before we get into
Speaker 1: like this whole last part. I want to ask you,
Speaker 1: do you have any big goals for this next year.
Speaker 1: We talked a little bit last week on Happy Hour
Speaker 1: about resolution, so I'm not gonna ask about New Year's resolutions,
Speaker 1: but goals for twenty twenty three for you definitely. Um,
Speaker 1: just kind of ingraining myself in the culture here has
Speaker 1: been a big goal, and I'm really excited to learn
Speaker 1: the language and to really fully take advantage of the
Speaker 1: opportunity that is living abroad and learn as much as
Speaker 1: I can. And um, yeah, work wise, definitely doing certain
Speaker 1: things I'm excited about. So there's always that yea and yeah,
Speaker 1: So mainly it's like trying to embody being German. You know,
Speaker 1: I got a little bit of it in my blood.
Speaker 1: So that's such a fun goal though. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: a Germany is a difficult place to I guess integrate into.
Speaker 1: But it's because of that that makes it so much
Speaker 1: worth it. I have a friend who lives here and
Speaker 1: so that really helps. Good. Yeah, he's German, so he
Speaker 1: has taught Mitch and I so much and so yeah,
Speaker 1: I have helped. You know, I'm not to get alone.
Speaker 1: Oh that makes it better. Yeah, it'll be I'm sure,
Speaker 1: as you said, worthwhile, it'll it'll be a thing like
Speaker 1: keep you on your towels for sure, but you can definitely,
Speaker 1: I think, do something with it each and every day
Speaker 1: for sure. Oh yeah, I mean that's what makes life
Speaker 1: fun and interesting, like always having a different challenge and
Speaker 1: kind of just like a little just sketch. He knows
Speaker 1: that he thought you knew how life was no stratch.
Speaker 1: So well, I can't watch your story. I will say this, Kendall.
Speaker 1: I we have not met in person, but our first
Speaker 1: time that we're going to be meeting might be when
Speaker 1: I tag along with Becca to Germany. Yeah. I love
Speaker 1: Germany and I'm not a beer drinker, but I feel
Speaker 1: like when you go to Germany, you have to. You
Speaker 1: have to try the beer. I will definitely be trying
Speaker 1: the pretzels with you. Um, and and then we can
Speaker 1: talk tax to Germany. Yeah. Oh yeah, it's beautiful here
Speaker 1: during summer. I've heard people will jump into the river
Speaker 1: and just kind of like go to work through there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was like, yeah, if there's a
Speaker 1: lot of really fun fun commute, yeah, like swim, they'll
Speaker 1: swim yeah, river to get water. Well, okay, they must
Speaker 1: have really good like clean water system yeah, or just
Speaker 1: waterproo phone cases. Yeah, like water what do you do
Speaker 1: this or something? I think they must have like a
Speaker 1: waterproof bag. There's also like a volleyball court inside one
Speaker 1: of the rivers that Mitch wants to play on. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like kind of partially submerged in the river. So okay, yes,
Speaker 1: they really are so much fun exploring. I cannot wait
Speaker 1: to follow this new chapter along on Instagram with you
Speaker 1: and come come see one day. Um. So before we
Speaker 1: let you go, we got to get into our little
Speaker 1: resource section. We always love to keep our listeners formed
Speaker 1: in chair important resources. So Michelle, do you want to
Speaker 1: start this week? Sure? I will start during my time
Speaker 1: when I was not feeling so great. I watched there's
Speaker 1: this docu series it's called Profiled, and there's more than
Speaker 1: one season, but season one is like specifically like Profiled.
Speaker 1: It cuts down how black men are profiled. Everything. It
Speaker 1: like tunes into special cases, gives like the background, really
Speaker 1: breaks everything down in a way that can be well received,
Speaker 1: is what I would say about it. And you're I
Speaker 1: can't even remember how many episodes it was, but it
Speaker 1: like it throws you into it, it jumps to it
Speaker 1: right away. You can kind of watch each of the
Speaker 1: season's separately if you want to, or sorry, each of
Speaker 1: the episodes differ separately if you want to. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like a little bit like Black Mirror. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I'm comparing these two, but like it's a
Speaker 1: little bit like that where it's like it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: you can just jump into whatever episode. So they're all
Speaker 1: kind of like separate but like still the same concept. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I know that there was one that just came
Speaker 1: back came back in it like viewed into George Floyd.
Speaker 1: I know that there's one that went into um shoot
Speaker 1: a different murder also that was all about like racial
Speaker 1: profiling and goes in and you know, like the mother
Speaker 1: breaks it all down. It was just so so interesting
Speaker 1: and it's very well done. Um this one I watched
Speaker 1: on Amazon Prime, but I did check it's also on
Speaker 1: Discovery Plus. But if you have Prime, yeah, Amazon Prime,
Speaker 1: like you'll be able to watch it for free. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: like you could rent it if really profiled profiled Yep,
Speaker 1: it cool, thanks for shell. Yeah. So the one that
Speaker 1: I'm going to share today is a little outside the box,
Speaker 1: so bear with me. But this past week Thomas and
Speaker 1: I started, um the Megan Markel and Prince Harry documentary
Speaker 1: and it obviously like just gets into the timeline of
Speaker 1: their relationship right, but also especially within episode two and three,
Speaker 1: it gets more into the history of Great Britain and
Speaker 1: the roots and how slavery was a huge part of
Speaker 1: creating that country and how it's still pretty prevalent today.
Speaker 1: But it also touches on two things that set out
Speaker 1: to me. One like just the way Megan Markle was
Speaker 1: profiled within especially the British press. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of racist undertones talk in the headlines talking about her
Speaker 1: background and her upbringing, and a lot of it was
Speaker 1: like also very factually incorrect. The media didn't always fact
Speaker 1: check everything, which is not a good look for the media.
Speaker 1: But but also it talks about and this is Prince
Speaker 1: Harry actually touches on this, I think in episode three,
Speaker 1: touches on the different unconscious bias that he dealt with
Speaker 1: growing up and how he didn't even realize he had
Speaker 1: these biases and tell later in life and especially after
Speaker 1: meeting Megan and dating Megan and seeing the headlines out
Speaker 1: there about him about her. So it really it's a
Speaker 1: very interesting documentary. There's so many components to it, but
Speaker 1: those were my main takeaways from especially episode two and three.
Speaker 1: And if Prince Harry can emit his implicit bias or
Speaker 1: is unconscious bias that he had growing up, I think
Speaker 1: we all can and just learn from it and get
Speaker 1: to the root of maybe where it stems from or
Speaker 1: the ones that we all carry internally. But it was
Speaker 1: again kind of off the beaten path for a resource here,
Speaker 1: but I think it's still something that everyone can learn
Speaker 1: from and half takeaways from, so that it's going to
Speaker 1: be my resource of the week. Honestly, that's not even
Speaker 1: that's not I don't see that off the beaten path whatsoever,
Speaker 1: because I binged it this past weekend, and it is.
Speaker 1: It is really well done in the sense of like,
Speaker 1: for example, the whole profiling, like people are saying that, um,
Speaker 1: Megan Marco came from like compting compt and like these
Speaker 1: like rough rough areas, which even if she had so
Speaker 1: what so, But that's not even true. It's not even true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's what's crazy. And just like all of like
Speaker 1: the racist artists that were you know, paintings and stuff
Speaker 1: that that were the statues, the statues and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and then the conversation that her mom had to have
Speaker 1: with her about just the different language that's being used
Speaker 1: to describe her. It's just wow. So yeah, it was,
Speaker 1: it's done really well. It was, And it was so
Speaker 1: interesting because they they'll touch on, for instance, like the
Speaker 1: British press and different headlines and they won't even like
Speaker 1: read headlines word for word, but like they'll pull them
Speaker 1: all up on the screens you can kind of see
Speaker 1: and there's certain words that like on their own, you know,
Speaker 1: if they're if it's just on their own, you probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't think about. But in the context of talk about
Speaker 1: Megan Markle, who is a biracial woman, it's I'm like,
Speaker 1: how did half of this ship go to print? Like
Speaker 1: it's and again you know, like I I remember like
Speaker 1: watching on the news and like on social media when
Speaker 1: they got together and like knowing kind of just like
Speaker 1: the gist of everything. I never really got into them
Speaker 1: as a couple just because I was like whatever. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a really well done documentary. Um, so everyone please
Speaker 1: if you have time. I don't know how many episodes
Speaker 1: is it total? Is it three? I'm I just finished,
Speaker 1: oh at six, so I'm halfway. Oh wow. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I watched a lot this weekend. I just flew by.
Speaker 1: The next three out next week. Okay, I haven't seen Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been like it. Yeah it's yeah.
Speaker 1: Um so great, great watch. Um and with that Kendall girlfriend,
Speaker 1: you are up. So one of my favorite influencers that
Speaker 1: I follow is Black Forager. I have been foraging for like,
Speaker 1: I don't know too much about it yet, foraging for
Speaker 1: a couple of years, but she has just so much
Speaker 1: knowledge about the culture behind it, the indigenous people who
Speaker 1: have been foraging in America since way before we've been
Speaker 1: got here, And I just love her knowledge that she
Speaker 1: brings the table not only with like different plants you
Speaker 1: can utilize, but just also what it's like to be
Speaker 1: a black woman in the forging space. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: just think she's very well. She's just extremely like has
Speaker 1: a wealth of knowledge and so I've just really enjoyed
Speaker 1: following her like a number of years. So that is
Speaker 1: and it's just I'm assuming at Black Forager. That's her, Yes,
Speaker 1: Black Forager, all right, yeah her out? Thank you? Um, Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're going to close it out on a fun
Speaker 1: high note. You've done this for but the Thorn and
Speaker 1: the Rose. And usually we'll do this like first specific
Speaker 1: season or episode, but because there is not one and
Speaker 1: so many fun things are going on in your life,
Speaker 1: we wanted to just go into your world. So the
Speaker 1: Thorn maybe like the messiest, most awkward moment that you've
Speaker 1: experienced lately, and then obviously the Rose, which is a
Speaker 1: top highlight. I think the most awkward experience that I've
Speaker 1: gone through recently was going to a grocery store and
Speaker 1: then trying to talk to the woman at the register,
Speaker 1: like trying to say, oh, I don't speak much German,
Speaker 1: and her just kind of looking at me like why
Speaker 1: I Like, obviously I'm pronouncing it like isn't correct, I'm
Speaker 1: probably saying something really weird and abstract. So that was
Speaker 1: probably the most uncomfortable situation that I've that I've been
Speaker 1: in recently, just like not knowing what I'm saying when
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say things U and the Rose would
Speaker 1: be just starting something completely new and scary with somebody
Speaker 1: that I love, and yeah, it just makes it. It
Speaker 1: makes it that much more exciting and better being able
Speaker 1: to experience it with niche like together. So yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's going to be a lot of
Speaker 1: growth these next few years, and um, I'm really I'm
Speaker 1: so excited for that. So yeah, oh well, I you
Speaker 1: have such a support system with both Thomas and I
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Michelle now oh you too, So anything, yes,
Speaker 1: oh we would love to anything from a far that
Speaker 1: you need, please let us know. But also like we're
Speaker 1: really going to try to make it out there to
Speaker 1: see you and celebrate your love because I couldn't see
Speaker 1: you off before you you left me. Um but I know,
Speaker 1: I know, And it was like also Thanksgiving week and
Speaker 1: there was so much was going on in your in
Speaker 1: your world, so um, I wish I could have given
Speaker 1: you will hug goodbye, but one day very soon. Um.
Speaker 1: But again, I know it's so late there, so thank
Speaker 1: you for calling in from Germany. UM. Hopefully you'll acclimate
Speaker 1: acclimate to the time more in the next couple of weeks. Um.
Speaker 1: But again, we can't wait to see her adventures. We
Speaker 1: love you, Love you guys, fun catching up. I will
Speaker 1: okay say hi, tell hi to Will, I will wait,
Speaker 1: want any say um uh gluten tag gluten Yeah. And
Speaker 1: Alita saying, always so fun catching up with her. You
Speaker 1: really do need to meet her in person. She seems
Speaker 1: so sweet. No, it's always so fun catching up with Kendall.
Speaker 1: So many fun things in store for her and Mitch. Again,
Speaker 1: like I'm I obviously follow her and I love watching
Speaker 1: her stories. She's just so informative, so educational. But it's
Speaker 1: been fun to watch this new German chapter for them.
Speaker 1: So Kendall, thank you so much. Congratulations to you and Mitch. Michelle,
Speaker 1: thanks for being here again this week, and of course
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