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Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody. Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 1: This is another one of our special episodes in our

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Speaker 1: Love Stories series where we count you down to Valentine's

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Speaker 1: Day and ask our couples who come from all different

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Speaker 1: walks of life, who are in lots of different types

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Speaker 1: of relationships, what the key is to their relationships success.

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Speaker 2: And we ask our couples all the same questions.

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Speaker 1: This time we are talking to Joan Vasso's you know

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Speaker 1: her from the Golden Bachelorette and the man she met

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Speaker 1: on the show Chalk Chappelle. They got engaged in July

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, and we check in with the

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Speaker 1: couple to see where they are now.

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Speaker 2: Here is Joan and Chuck's love story.

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Speaker 3: This is Amy and TJ Love Stories.

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Speaker 2: And we have Joan and Chalk with us right now.

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Speaker 4: We have person.

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Speaker 1: We have Chalk long distance, which kind of is appropriate

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Speaker 1: given the status of.

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Speaker 2: Your relationship right now. How we do it?

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Speaker 1: How? How what is that like to always be in

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Speaker 1: a different state from one another?

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Speaker 4: I know, well, we're not always in a different state.

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Speaker 4: We actually merge a pretty pretty often. In fact, we

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Speaker 4: spent the whole month of December and early January together,

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Speaker 4: we got a place in New York and we actually

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Speaker 4: lived together, which is the first thing, the first time

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Speaker 4: we've done that for more than like a few days

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Speaker 4: at a time or a week at a time.

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Speaker 2: So that was great.

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Speaker 4: We had a wonderful time. It's always been like both

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Speaker 4: of his and my dream to live in New York.

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Speaker 4: So we got a little taste of it, and I

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Speaker 4: think we'll do it again and maybe do it more

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Speaker 4: for a longer time, you know, longer period of time

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Speaker 4: next time. But we merged a lot. We know, we

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Speaker 4: go on vacations together. We have opportunities like this, We

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Speaker 4: come to La to do iHeart stuff and other things.

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Speaker 4: So we end up being together like at least once

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Speaker 4: every three weeks.

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Speaker 3: We'll chuck. You all are our first law long distance

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Speaker 3: couple that we have interviewed as a part of our

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Speaker 3: Love Story series. So we've asked everybody the same questions.

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Speaker 3: We'll start with you, and I will tell you all first.

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Speaker 3: The first question seems to be the one that trips

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Speaker 3: everybody up the most chocked, So I'm gonna.

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Speaker 5: Start all right.

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Speaker 3: Question number one, just in five words or less, describe

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Speaker 3: your relationship today. How would you characterize it in five

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Speaker 3: words or less.

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Speaker 5: Very deep, very loving and enjoyable.

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Speaker 4: Nice jump, amazing, second chance at love?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 4: Love that all right?

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Speaker 2: Who said I love you first?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I did?

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Speaker 5: It was on TV.

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Speaker 1: Can't deny that, And you couldn't say I love you back?

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Speaker 2: Correct?

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Speaker 4: You can, you can. But if you look at like

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Speaker 4: previous batchlor seasons, like the people that do that end

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Speaker 4: up getting a lot of crap at the end because

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Speaker 4: they end up have maybe said it to two or

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Speaker 4: three people. I mean, Gary did it, when Becher did it,

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Speaker 4: said it to three people, and that comes back to

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Speaker 4: haunt you because the final person was like, well you

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Speaker 4: you know you love two other people. So I was

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Speaker 4: really careful not to ever say.

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Speaker 3: Did you feel it? Though? I just you wouldn't allow

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Speaker 3: yourself to go there though.

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Speaker 4: Not really I wouldn't let myself go there. Plus, you know,

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Speaker 4: when you invest.

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Speaker 5: I disagree that eighteen year old girl deal with me

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Speaker 5: going I really really really like you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah that was right.

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Speaker 5: Some people take a little bit longer than others.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a slow burn. When did you tell him

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Speaker 4: you loved him? The day that we got engaged? I

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Speaker 4: saved it and back you know, at that point I

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Speaker 4: wanted it to be a special day, and even though

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Speaker 4: it like prematurely, like the day before or two days

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Speaker 4: before that. I thought it was special to do it

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Speaker 4: like when he got down on Wendy. Oh wow.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So normally we would ask how long you dated

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Speaker 1: before you got engaged, But this is a little bit

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Speaker 1: awkward because it all happened on TV on TV and

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Speaker 1: you were dating other men at the same time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was that what has your.

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Speaker 2: Engagement period been like?

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Speaker 1: And we usually then ask how long were you engaged

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Speaker 1: before you got married? So do you have a timeline

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Speaker 1: for the wedding and what's the engagement period been like?

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Speaker 4: So the engagement period has been like so fun, Like

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Speaker 4: we're just living in this school world and we don't

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Speaker 4: have any obligation to get married because we're not like

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Speaker 4: trying to have babies. You know, we're a different stage

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Speaker 4: of our lives. So probably different than most people that

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Speaker 4: a life together. We both kind of already have really

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Speaker 4: rich lives and I'm like, you guys, and if.

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Speaker 5: I can interject, if I can interject real quick. I

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Speaker 5: think there might be somebody on this podcast it's been

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Speaker 5: engaged for three years.

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Speaker 3: Three years? Not quite just I know, I know you

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Speaker 3: got that right, felt like that, Jocko.

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Speaker 5: Well's I read that because I wented to did a

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Speaker 5: little bit of research. Engaged for three years, so you know,

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Speaker 5: the internet might not always be faction.

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Speaker 3: But I think the last time where we engaged, the

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Speaker 3: last time we saw I don't know if we saw I.

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Speaker 4: Don't think so a jingle ball with you guys, and

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Speaker 4: you were engaged, but I think the year before you

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Speaker 1: No, Yes, we got engaged in September last.

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Speaker 3: Year, so talk we got some celebrating to do with

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Speaker 4: When we saw that, that's right, Champagne.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So how I know you're not living

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Speaker 1: in the same house and maybe you don't have some

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Speaker 1: of the same frustrations or the daily arguments that a

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Speaker 1: lot of couples have. But how often do you fight

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Speaker 1: and what do you fight about? Huh?

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Speaker 4: I don't think we've ever fought.

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Speaker 5: Really, We've had We've had things as any adult couple has,

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Speaker 5: where you have different thoughts, different beliefs, and when you

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Speaker 5: work on going. It's really not that important. Communications. So

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Speaker 5: we've not not had a drag down, you know, knockdown,

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Speaker 5: You know, I'd like for you not to say that,

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Speaker 5: or you know, let's not do that, those type of things.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like time, experience, maturity keeps you from having

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Speaker 3: the fights you know better, is what it sounds like.

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Speaker 3: Is that right, Jack?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, because I'm going to lose it doesn't make a difference.

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Speaker 4: But he is very easy going, so you know, if

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Speaker 4: So I you know, I take that into account.

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Speaker 2: That's very good.

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Speaker 1: And we we have asked all of our couples this,

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Speaker 1: but I think we already know the answer. Have you

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Speaker 1: ever come close to calling it quitz, to saying this

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Speaker 1: is too hard? Maybe given the distance, maybe given the

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Speaker 1: public pressure. I know you all deal with a lot

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Speaker 1: of rumors about whether or not you're still together. Does

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Speaker 1: any of that actually put pressure on your relationship?

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Speaker 5: If I can't, I'd say absolutely not. From the fact

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Really, it's just it's it's just.

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Speaker 5: It's social media, it's the internet, it's the news. It

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Speaker 5: is so inaccurate. And there's been a couple of times

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Speaker 5: and that's pretty personal.

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Speaker 4: Tragic car accident as in dyed Yeah yeah, yes, tragic

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Speaker 4: car accident while I was on vacation.

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Speaker 5: And then so you you know, you go, oh, it's just,

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Speaker 5: you know, it's it's it's the news, it's whatever. But

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Speaker 5: then when you have friend calling you and texting you,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you got to skin and there's pictures of

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Speaker 4: an ore that' said rip with a like a like

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Speaker 4: a Jesus Day I died, And it was Yeah, it

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Speaker 3: Did you know it wasn't true?

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Speaker 4: Obviously?

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Speaker 3: Did you all address that one? I mean talk you're

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Speaker 3: kind of talking to Stuff's out there is just silly.

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Speaker 3: Does every does anything ever rise to a level where

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Speaker 4: I think I made a point of like putting something

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Speaker 4: but I didn't say like I didn't die.

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Speaker 3: Proof of life.

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Speaker 5: We're really good at bouncing things off each other because

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Speaker 5: it's usually me that's going to be a little bit

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Speaker 5: more elevated and Jones going just let it go, it's

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Speaker 4: The less air you get, most things they'll go away.

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Speaker 4: I do feel like we every once in a while

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Speaker 4: need to address the rumors like that we've broken up,

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Speaker 4: because I think that people like really invest in like

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Speaker 4: and they want to make sure that it's still going on.

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Speaker 4: And it seems fairly often if I don't or if

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Speaker 4: we they say that we've broken up. So I think

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Speaker 4: of on my plate because I'm more of the social

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Speaker 4: media person than he is to like say, hey, come

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Speaker 4: sit next to me. We've got to talk on like

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Speaker 4: film and put a video, right, so people don't say

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Speaker 4: that we've broken up.

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Speaker 5: So j and Amy, excuse me. We did have an

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Speaker 5: issue over one thing. You don't called me because she

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Speaker 5: was in Austin with some of the ladies from her

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Speaker 5: show and there was some information out that I bought

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Speaker 5: excited and she's like, I didn't have anything to do

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like awesome.

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Speaker 1: Fake news I've heard all day. Would you all say

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Speaker 1: that you're still in your honeymoon period?

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Speaker 4: Hmmm, I don't think honeymoon period. I don't think we

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Speaker 4: really had a serious honeymoon period, to be honest. I

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Speaker 4: fun interactions. So when when you get engaged on TV

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Speaker 3: That is a great practical, little piece of advice. That's

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Speaker 4: Or sometimes just venting helps you get to the place

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Speaker 1: That's very very cool, do you all And not that

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Speaker 4: How about your talk?

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Speaker 5: I think a lot of it, especially with some of

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Speaker 2: Never leads to resentment. Yeah, all of that stuff.

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Speaker 4: you know, I know that it makes him feel good,

444
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Speaker 4: So I do it. And it's becoming more and more

445
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Speaker 4: natural to me by forcing myself to do it. And

446
00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,000
Speaker 4: it's completely on me. It's my weird thing. So I

447
00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:52,679
Speaker 4: get it all right.

448
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Speaker 3: Last couple of things here and Chuck, this was one

449
00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,320
Speaker 3: from earlier that we kind of skipped over. We know

450
00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,200
Speaker 3: you all are long distance, but give us an idea.

451
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Speaker 3: What is the longest amount of time that you all

452
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,680
Speaker 3: have had to spend a part in your relationship?

453
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Speaker 5: Three weeks? Three weeks and then like we were in

454
00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,479
Speaker 5: New York the next weekend, I came to see some

455
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,359
Speaker 5: friends in Maryland and went to see Joan on the

456
00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,960
Speaker 5: second half of the weekend. We're going We've had a

457
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,840
Speaker 5: couple of times that have been three weeks, and this

458
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,880
Speaker 5: is one. But we're going to be all together all

459
00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:25,239
Speaker 5: next week. So we don't live together, but we are

460
00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:30,919
Speaker 5: extremely busy people, and Jon's got some bachelorettes, some baby

461
00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,840
Speaker 5: showers and things like that that are coming up, and

462
00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,440
Speaker 5: so we probably won't see each other for a couple

463
00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,520
Speaker 5: of weeks there, but we've had it's just been incredible

464
00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,439
Speaker 5: the amount of time we've been able to spend together,

465
00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,080
Speaker 5: and we've got to do some really fun stuff. And

466
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,920
Speaker 5: that's you know, is it a relationship? You know from

467
00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,439
Speaker 5: the fact is if you're always vacation and doing stuff,

468
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,440
Speaker 5: it is because we're adults. We like talking to each

469
00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,240
Speaker 5: other and we have to interact a little business in

470
00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,960
Speaker 5: that too, and that sure makes you figure out the relationship.

471
00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's true. I mean we most of our

472
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,879
Speaker 4: interactions when we're together, we're doing something really fun. Like

473
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 4: we've been with you guys before, Like last year we

474
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,080
Speaker 4: were at jingle Ball and like it's we're usually doing

475
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,200
Speaker 4: like something really really fun. It's a great way to live.

476
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 4: And I got to say, like as when I was

477
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 4: married to my late husband, like you planned for this

478
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,880
Speaker 4: point in your life. You know, you work really hard,

479
00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,040
Speaker 4: you raise your kids, you you know, stow away some

480
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,240
Speaker 4: income so you can live comfortably and then you get

481
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 4: to be this like golden part of your life and

482
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 4: you need a partner and I lost mine, he lost his,

483
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,720
Speaker 4: and we found each other. So it's just like it's

484
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 4: what you planned for and just kind of worked out

485
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 4: in a weird way for us, but we found each

486
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 4: other and we get to live like this cool thing.

487
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:42,240
Speaker 1: Now.

488
00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,440
Speaker 2: That is so beautiful.

489
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,119
Speaker 1: People look at you, especially when you get later in

490
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: life and you're looking for that second chance, right sometimes

491
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 1: maybe a third chance, and they want to have what

492
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,919
Speaker 1: you all have found. What would you say is the

493
00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,119
Speaker 1: key to your relationship success between the two of you?

494
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 5: I think respecting the other person.

495
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, so true. I was thinking, like wanting similar things

496
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,159
Speaker 4: out of this part of your life. Travel, if you know,

497
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 4: whatever you want. We are very similar. You know, we

498
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 4: want to go out and have fun, but we also

499
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 4: get that we have responsibilities and we respect each other,

500
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:21,480
Speaker 4: like I know he has to work, he knows I

501
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,080
Speaker 4: have to be you know with my family here. So

502
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 4: we're very respectful of each other. But we're still like

503
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 4: really interested in like living this second part or life.

504
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 3: And the second part of life. I guess you will

505
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 3: always get asked but when is the next big thing

506
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 3: for you guys? I know you talked about moving in

507
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 3: together at some point, you talk, we got all kinds

508
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,199
Speaker 3: of stuff. What are the next headlines we're going to

509
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,919
Speaker 3: see from about you too? And the next step you

510
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 3: take in your relationship? Go ahead?

511
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Speaker 4: Do you answer it?

512
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:54,920
Speaker 5: He always Joe has a son getting married. That's there

513
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,280
Speaker 5: and Amy, that's one of the things that we that

514
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,880
Speaker 5: we've had to deal with. But Joanes had a son

515
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 5: that got married last year and has another one getting

516
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 5: married this year, and it's we're adults and we don't

517
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 5: want to compete with that. And Joan is just so

518
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 5: involved with her family, with the grandkids and all that

519
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,159
Speaker 5: she wants to make that the biggest time for them.

520
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:17,399
Speaker 2: It's very sweet.

521
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want to take any focus off of them.

522
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 4: I mean this, the light has been on us a

523
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 4: long time. I don't we don't need to be in

524
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,679
Speaker 4: the limelight at all. And I want like their special

525
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 4: time to be their special time. So I'm not talking wedding.

526
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 4: So maybe twenty twenty seven, who knows, but certainly not

527
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 4: twenty twenty six.

528
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Speaker 3: We respect that and we get that it's fun being engaged.

529
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that, right right, last, just

530
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 1: even the word fiance. It's fun to say, that's so

531
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: much better, doesn't it? Right?

532
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:42,879
Speaker 4: Like I would always we talked about this.

533
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: We would struggle when we were dating, you know, like

534
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 1: people you would have to reference, like, well, my my boyfriend.

535
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 2: In my fifties, I have a boyfriend friends.

536
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 4: So it's so fun to say I'm steady.

537
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 2: My fiance's fun.

538
00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:58,640
Speaker 4: I'm very elegant.

539
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 3: We go together. We look forward to seeing you in

540
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 3: the flesh man, not on the screen the next time.

541
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 3: But it's seeing you man real quick.

542
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Speaker 5: Amy, Can I tell you a quick story?

543
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Speaker 1: Yes?

544
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 5: So was it, honey? When it was? It was the

545
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 5: jingle Ball that we were at correct.

546
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 4: Out in La Yeah, like a like a year ago.

547
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 5: And I watched very little TV, very very little, I

548
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 5: mean hardly any at all. And I remember the bar

549
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 5: and hotel and I see this guy and I like

550
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,439
Speaker 5: to look at guys that are in shape, and I

551
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 5: see this guy that said shape and I see this

552
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 5: good looking guy and he standing there and I go,

553
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 5: I know you from somewhere, and that was your fiance,

554
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 5: And I was like, he is much better.

555
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Speaker 3: We had a good time that lotty my daughter was

556
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 3: with me at the time. Yes, correct, So this is

557
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 3: special to us. We've been through our hell, you all

558
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,439
Speaker 3: go through your hell. But to get to know you

559
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 3: all and to have stories and memories and actually stories

560
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 3: to tell like you just just did, Chalk is not

561
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 3: lost on us. Joan Chalk seriously that it's special to

562
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Speaker 3: us to be able to have these conversations and to

563
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 3: get to know you all and to have you all

564
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 3: in our lives, given this is not where we thought

565
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 3: our lives would be, but we love exactly where we

566
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 3: are and you all are a part of that and

567
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 3: it's not lost on us. So thank you both.

568
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 4: We feel the same way. Thank you for having us