1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast. 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Lauren Zeema coming to you not at 3 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: home today. We are on the road yet again, getting 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 1: away from that Texas heat. We are well, I'll say this, 5 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: we're very close to Canada. We're up here a little 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: vak with some friends, and we have had such a 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: crazy week to the point of I hope Els can 8 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: get through this podcast today because well, her singing voice 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: was used elsewhere here. 10 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 2: I am. This is the first time I'm talking this morning. 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 2: I wow, I have got to look in I got 12 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 2: to get something right. I need to be educated on 13 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 2: how to use my voice. Also, I don't know if 14 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 2: anybody else does this, but I overbook myself. I had 15 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 2: our trip that we took to celebrate your birthday with friends. 16 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: Yes, say, I say, I am partly to blame for this. 17 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's your Then I flew home Delp. 18 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: And your voice was kind of going after that birthday. 19 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: It was. 20 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 2: And again I'm doing something wrong, Chris says, I'm speaking 21 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 2: out of my throat and not my diaphragm. I don't 22 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 2: know how as someone who is a broadcast journalist for 23 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 2: years I'm not better at this at this point, so 24 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,119 Speaker 2: this is a failure of me on my body. 25 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: But what really threw you over the ledge was well. 26 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 2: Then I went home to help Taylor pack up for 27 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 2: college and do some shopping for the new school year, 28 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 2: and then I flew to Mexico for my annual sorority 29 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 2: sister reunion girls trip. We do it every year. I 30 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 2: highly recommend if you've got great friends from college or 31 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 2: high school, or just any great friends in your life. 32 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 2: Oh my god listening, make a pact that you will 33 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 2: do it one trip together every year and that unless 34 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,559 Speaker 2: major unforeseen circumstances happen, you will not miss this trip. 35 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 2: So we do that every year. We try to do 36 00:01:58,080 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: it in a different city every year so that we 37 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: experience something new together. It's been so good for us 38 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 2: to maintain our female friendships and our sisterhood, which is 39 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 2: just so important in life. We look forward to it 40 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: every year. 41 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: I've said this before and I'll say it again. One 42 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: of the most incredible things about you is this group 43 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: of friends, these women you have surrounded yourself with the bond. 44 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: Y'all have the love, y'all give each other, the support, 45 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: y'all give each other and the success of this group 46 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 1: doctors and lawyers, you name it emmy winners. But I 47 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: love that this group fiercely protects itself and you guys 48 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: have been doing this for so long. It's really a 49 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: special thing. 50 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 2: Well they made it even more special this time because 51 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 2: they turned one of the knights into a surprise bachelorette party. 52 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,839 Speaker 2: There was myself and one other bride, so we had 53 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 2: two bachelorette parties. And yeah, I mean, listen, when you've 54 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 2: got fifteen women talking and then you add in some 55 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 2: like screaming and singing all weekend, this is how I've 56 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 2: ended up sounding. So I'm sorry, but no regrets. And 57 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 2: then you want to talk about overbooking yourself. We've now 58 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 2: added on to it. We're on a little couple's trip 59 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 2: right now. This is a blessed life. It's been a 60 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 2: wonderful summer. I feel very lucky to have lost my 61 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 2: voice for so many great reasons. 62 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: But let's go back. I want to just gloss over 63 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: this bachelorette party. Was this? Did you know going into 64 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: it that the girl they were going to kind of 65 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: surprise you with some things, because they came with some gifts, 66 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: some fun things. 67 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 2: Well, we had two brides, yeah, and it was myself 68 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 2: and my friend, and I actually was part of the 69 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 2: idea of surprising her. 70 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: How funny. 71 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 2: I got balloons and I kept saying, I do not 72 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 2: want to do a bachelorette party, Like I don't. This 73 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 2: is not that I'm against it. I'm not against the 74 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 2: bachelorette parties. They're awesome. I'm have been married before, and 75 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 2: this group of friends had celebrated me before, and I 76 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 2: wanted it to be about my other friend who this 77 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 2: is her first time getting married. Let's do a bachelorette 78 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 2: party night for her. So I had actually gotten balloons 79 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: and I thought that's what we were doing, and then 80 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 2: they kind of surprised me with oh, it's also about you. 81 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 2: They had it's a dual bachelorette party, so she and 82 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 2: I were both surprised. They had had some tattoos made 83 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 2: with your face on them. 84 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: I did get a video one night and it was 85 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: one of the girls putting a tattoo on LZ and 86 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, what is that. I click it and 87 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: I zoom in. I was like, oh my gosh, that's 88 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: my face. 89 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 2: It was wonderful. We both put we all put both 90 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 2: of your faces on various parts both guys faces on 91 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 2: various parts of our bodies. It was the perfect bachelorette 92 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 2: party because it didn't lean I'm not too into the 93 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 2: like I don't want a stripper, It didn't lean into 94 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 2: the Penis Straws world of bachelorettes. It was just fun silliness, 95 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 2: and we went out and danced all night long and 96 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 2: had the best time. And it was kind of the 97 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 2: perfect outing actually, because we ended up at this restaurant 98 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 2: seated next to two other bachelorette parties and a bachelor party, 99 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 2: so we kind of all united into a swirling force 100 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 2: of bachelor energy and batchel energy and it was wonderful. 101 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: That's amazing, and I'm glad to know this is where 102 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: the line is drawn. Penis Straws, Well, let's. 103 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 2: Talk about it. If you are, first of all, I 104 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 2: don't even know are you having a bachelor party? 105 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 1: You know it's funny, I am now what You don't 106 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: even know. You don't know what's been happening since you've 107 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: been gone. But I have figured out yes, a kind 108 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: of essentially, I'm having a bachelor party. 109 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 2: Wow, this is breaking news. 110 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: As really is. I know, I meant to surprise you 111 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: on this podcast. 112 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 2: So are you planning your own ish? 113 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: It all kind of happened in this beautiful kind of culmination. 114 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: Oh beautiful. It was a beautiful culmination. 115 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: It was a gorgeous it came together and I'm like, 116 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: I'm like, this is what I want. Because I'm not 117 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: a penis straw guy either. That's where I draw the line. 118 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: And so, no, I didn't want to have a bachelor party. 119 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: I'm not going to go. You know, I'm not a 120 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: Vegas guy. You know that I'm not. I don't want 121 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: to go to the clubs. I'm not that guy. If 122 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 1: I went on a golf trip with my buddies or 123 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: maybe go fishing or something great. But I really didn't 124 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: want to take a trip just to do that. So 125 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: it just didn't make sense to me. But last week, 126 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: as you know, I'm having suits made for all the 127 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: people in that'll be kind of part of our wedding party, 128 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: and so started making calls and it just turns out 129 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: we all need to be in the same town to 130 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: get these suits made, at the place where I want 131 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 1: to get the suits made, which you'll find out later. 132 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: I'm not going to divulge that yet, but we're all 133 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: getting suits made. And I said, well, befo're in town. 134 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: There's a ballgame the night before. The Dodgers are in town. 135 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: So all the guys that are going to be a 136 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: part of my wedding party are flying into Dallas. We're 137 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: going to go to Rangers Dodgers baseball and then we're 138 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: going to go have suits made. And that's just going 139 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:21,239 Speaker 1: to be my bachelor party. 140 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 2: Wow. Well, are you sure you don't want to go 141 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 2: out in Mexico and dance all night and get on 142 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 2: a table and dance and lose your voicemam. 143 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: And this is just a small group, by the way, 144 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: very so it is really none of my friends per se. 145 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: It's more family. So my brother Glenn is coming up, 146 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: Joshua obviously coming over from TCU, and actually Glenn's son 147 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: Sam will be there. And your little brother John, my 148 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: brother is going. Your brother's going, Oh. 149 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 2: My god, I'm really just learning this. Okay. 150 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: John is flying in and he will be a part 151 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: of this crew and we're all going to go to 152 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: the ballgame and then we're going to get suits made. 153 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 2: All that really warms my heart. 154 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: It's going to be awesome. It's all all my guys, 155 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: you do. 156 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: Weeby little Dad having your bachelor party at a baseball game. 157 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: Well it was sad, but it was it's what I want. 158 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: When I started putting it together, you know, my brother 159 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: just kind offhand mentioned, oh, hey, Rangers are into you know, 160 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: the Dodgers are in town. Let's go to the Ranger game, 161 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: which were diehard Texas people from growing up in Dallas. 162 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: And so I called all the guys that were going 163 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: to be a part of the wedding and I was like, 164 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: I knew Josh could make it, and my brother had 165 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: to fly up and your brother, hopefully we're crossing our fingers. 166 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: He's a phenomenal lawyer. He may have a trial starting 167 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: that day, so he's literally he's a daytime decision. If 168 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: he he doesn't think it's going to go to trial. 169 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: And so we have a plane booked and he's ready 170 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 1: to go, and so hopefully John's going to make it 171 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: into But that's it. Are those are the guys in 172 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: my wedding party. And I was like, that's all I want, 173 00:08:58,240 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: That's it. 174 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,079 Speaker 2: And that's so sweet. It I didn't as you were 175 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,839 Speaker 2: saying those names out loud. I really didn't expect you 176 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 2: to say my brother, just because your brother and Josh 177 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 2: are both in Texas and I thought they just travel 178 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 2: up easily, and I figured you'd coordinate with my brother 179 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 2: to do something in LA. So thank you for including him. 180 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: That's right, Well, I love him. I love your family, 181 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 1: and it's one of the great things about you. One 182 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: of the things I think we love about each other 183 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 1: is that we have such great families around us. Yeah, 184 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: they're crazy, it's it's family, but at the same time, 185 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: we love them fiercely and they're amazing. And it's been 186 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: fun to be a part of your family and get 187 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,319 Speaker 1: to be more a part of your family versa. 188 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 2: I was with people before who didn't who wouldn't have 189 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 2: automatically done that? Who would have made it? And not 190 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 2: that you can't make your bachelor party about you, but 191 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 2: who would have I don't know. I was with someone 192 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 2: before who didn't always think of my family, and I 193 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 2: didn't realize it until kind of too late in the relationship, 194 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 2: when we were already very committed to each other. And 195 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 2: I that's something I should have looked for sooner. I'm 196 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 2: not family doesn't always get along, but are you with 197 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 2: somebody who will think of your family, want to care 198 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 2: for your family, do the right thing with your family. 199 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 2: So that really warms my heart. 200 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. I'm looking forward to it, despite 201 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: how geeky it is. It's gonna be really fun. 202 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you a question. Huh, say, well, 203 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 2: just generally, where do you fall on strippers with bachelor 204 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 2: and bachelorette parties? 205 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: And I know it sounds like, oh, you're saying this 206 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: because you're fiance sitting right next to you. I am 207 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 1: not a stripper guy, never have been, never will be. 208 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: I just I don't I feel comfortable. I don't love it. 209 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,079 Speaker 1: I've never loved it. I've been, I've been to a 210 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: strip club before, but god, it will probably thirty years ago, 211 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: twenty thirty years ago. I just it's never been my thing. 212 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 1: I went to one when I was my first quote 213 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 1: unquote bachelor party, when I was in my twenties. What 214 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,439 Speaker 1: it was like twenty two, twenty three, and I just 215 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just don't get it. Yeah, 216 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: I just don't. I just don't get it. 217 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 2: I did have a friend who had what is maybe 218 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 2: the best possible scenario for a surprise stripper for her 219 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 2: bachelorette party. She is a Harry Potter fan like me. 220 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 2: Oh god, and our friends hired a stripper. I actually 221 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 2: could wasn't there. I couldn't make this bachelorette party. But 222 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 2: our friends hired a stripper. And the guy said, it 223 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 2: was the first request you'd ever gotten of this kind. 224 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 2: They asked him to dress up like Harry Potter. 225 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: I'm shocked that that's the first time he's been asking. 226 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: I am too, actually, because all the Harry Potter readers, 227 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 2: the millennials are getting married now, the people who grew 228 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 2: up on Harry Potter. But he had the cape, he 229 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 2: came out to the movie theme music, he had a 230 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 2: wand there's a lot of wand jokes you can make there. 231 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 2: But I loved that it was kind of funny. I 232 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 2: think that's the way to go to me at a 233 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 2: bachelor bachelorette party is, if you're gonna do it, is 234 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 2: it funny? Is there? Is it quirky in some way? 235 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 2: I was just thinking about it because you just included 236 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 2: my brother on your super dweepy dad vibes bachelor party. 237 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 2: And there was a bachelor party that we were near 238 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 2: when we were out last weekend. And the groom's brother 239 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 2: in law was there, meaning like the brother of obviously 240 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 2: his future wife, and I actually I didn't ask them, 241 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 2: And now I'm sitting there thinking, I wonder if they 242 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 2: had a stripper. Is that not a little weird if 243 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 2: you are the groom and a stripper is there, and like, 244 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 2: as the brother in law, you're like, that's my sister's 245 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 2: future husband. I don't know, there's there's some there's some 246 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 2: dynamics there. 247 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: It would for sure be weird if I was sitting 248 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: with Andrew, who's married to your sister, John, your brother, 249 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: and I and my family at a strip club or 250 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: in heaven. By the way, the strip club is even 251 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,599 Speaker 1: one thing hiring a stripper, where like someone comes to 252 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: your house and it's like a bunch of dudes just 253 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: sitting around staring at someone in a living room. Not 254 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: not my thing, but that would be really weird sitting 255 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: there with your brother, like, yeah, my arm around him 256 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: doing shots? What do you think? 257 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 2: I don't get it. Maybe there could be something I'm missing. 258 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 2: I think it's something that feels a lot more acceptable 259 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 2: when you're really young getting married. The older you get, 260 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 2: the more it feels icky and zero I'm so glad, 261 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 2: so so glad. I think my friends knew me well 262 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 2: enough and my other friend to not go down that 263 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 2: road at all. 264 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: I'd be interested to know if the what the average 265 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: is now like has that waned over the years? Is 266 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: that something that we did more in the seventies, eighties, nineties, 267 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: early two thousand, Like, are kind of the millennial crew 268 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: getting married now? Are they imbibing in this as much that. 269 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 2: The Harry Potter stripper is the only one I know 270 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 2: of my friends who did it? 271 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: Or is it just gotten weirder now? 272 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 2: With right it's just how nerdy and awkward? Can we 273 00:13:49,280 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 2: make it tough? 274 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: To segue from love and strippers to some sad news 275 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: for some friends of ours. Jason Tarctic Caitlin Bristow broke 276 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: up announced their breakup last week, and it's you know, 277 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: it was being rumored about for a bit. We even 278 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: had a tabloid reach out and contact us and said, 279 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: do you have a comment. This is before Jason and 280 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: Caitlyn ever had a chance to break the news themselves 281 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: and talk about it. It was, you know, being put 282 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: out in the press and stuff, and so we obviously 283 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: politely told this person to go f off and no comment, but. 284 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 2: Is there a polite way to do that? 285 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: We didn't say, f Off, I kindly request you kissed 286 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: my butt. No, but very sad news. You know, both 287 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: of them are friends of ours, and it's always interesting 288 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: when these things happened because it happening publicly. They were 289 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: a very public couple, obviously coming from my bachelor Bacherette 290 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: family world and getting together, and I love them dearly 291 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: and I like them together, and I was so excited 292 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: when they when they got engaged and shared in that news. 293 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: And then when the demise happens of a couple like this, 294 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: it is a public but be just as equally personal, 295 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: especially for us, and so it's a very difficult line 296 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: to walk when yes, we've all opened our lives up 297 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: to a certain degree, but at the same time, these 298 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: are also just two people that we know and we 299 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: love and we respect and we wish them well, and 300 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: we know their hearts are breaking and broken right now. 301 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: We know they're sad, and Lauren and I have been 302 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: through divorces, we've been through breakups, so we are old 303 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: and wise enough to know it's a brutal time for 304 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: them and it's never easy, and so I would My 305 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: only thing before I toss it to you would be please. 306 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: I'm not saying don't talk about it, because I know 307 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: it public and people will continue to talk, but just 308 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: have some grace and have some love in your heart 309 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: that these are two human beings that are actually going 310 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: through something that's pretty brutal. No one really needs your 311 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: snide comments right now, no one. You know, if it 312 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to help the world, then maybe don't put 313 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: it out there. But I just want to send them 314 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: our love. 315 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. It's always amazing to me when you can see 316 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 2: like someone split on Instagram and the comment will be 317 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 2: you know, I hate her, or I hate him or 318 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 2: no Bay's It's always interesting to me when people feel 319 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 2: like they just need to connecue or. 320 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: She should have done better anyway, or you can do better. Why. 321 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know I I I hated hearing this, but 322 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 2: I think they both handled it so well. I thought 323 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 2: that their statement was really beautiful, they posted pictures together. 324 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 2: I thought the way they put it out to the 325 00:16:55,880 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 2: world was really really mature and just eloquent. So I 326 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 2: don't know where they'll both go from here, But I also, 327 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 2: I guess commend them on this realization at this point, 328 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 2: because I have had friends before where it's really hardier 329 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 2: on the engagement train, and once you are on that road, 330 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,399 Speaker 2: that roller coaster of you're engaged and you're starting to 331 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 2: play in a wedding and everybody's asking you when the 332 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,399 Speaker 2: wedding is and how things are going. If you are 333 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 2: having issues in your relationship, it can be really difficult 334 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 2: to recognize that and pause because of this forward momentum 335 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 2: you have and because you don't want to disappoint people 336 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 2: and you've made this commitment and you don't want to 337 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 2: be embarrassed and get out of this. So I've had 338 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 2: that happen to friends, and then I've had friends who 339 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 2: have realized, you know what, I shouldn't go down this road. 340 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 2: I should not take that extra step and get married. 341 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 2: I'm not ready for that. This isn't right. And I 342 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 2: don't know anyone who's regrets I did that. So if 343 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 2: this was the decision that they needed to come to, 344 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 2: and I just really commend them because I think it 345 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 2: takes an extra amount of bravery when you have not 346 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 2: just gotten engaged, but publicly announced your engagement. And again 347 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 2: they've handled it really really gracefully in the press. So yeah, 348 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 2: I know that they're both going through a really rough time, 349 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 2: and I think that we just want to send them 350 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 2: our support. 351 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully they will continue this grace and that that 352 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: mutual statement was wonderful and I'm glad to see. I 353 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 1: would expect nothing less from either one of them. Jason's 354 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: a gentleman, love Caitlin, and you know, I think inevitably 355 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: people go, oh, what side are you on? I'm on 356 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 1: team Jason and Caitlyn. I love them both. I wish 357 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: them both well, and I know they are both struggling 358 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 1: through this and so it's not easy, and we both 359 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: will be there for them. And you brought up a 360 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 1: really good point because I was thinking about us and 361 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 1: our marriage, our upcoming wedding, and people have asked us 362 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: for the last couple of years when you're getting married, 363 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: what's the date? What's going on? And it's such a 364 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: point of pride and excitement for me right now. Hopefully 365 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: it is for you too. But I was thinking immediately 366 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: about Jason and Caitlin once I heard this news of 367 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: the opposite would be true if every day people are 368 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: asking you, when are you guys gonna get married? What's 369 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: going on. You know, we can't wait, and if you 370 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 1: know behind the scenes things are not going well, what 371 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 1: A just exacerbates the cut, right It just it's pouring 372 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: salt in the wound day after day after day and 373 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: just makes it that much harder. And it's one of 374 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: the pitfalls of being public and opening your life up 375 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: the way we all have. But anyway, I love them 376 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 1: and we wish them the very best. 377 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 2: It's a reminder, you know, of like that, these stories, 378 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 2: I don't know, they're painful, they affect real people. I 379 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 2: was completely blown away this week when I saw the 380 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 2: headline about Sandra Bullock's longtime partner dying, Brian Randall dead 381 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 2: at fifty seven after a private three year battle with 382 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 2: the horrible disease ALS. And I was completely blown away, 383 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 2: a because the news was shocking and sad and tragic, horrible. 384 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 2: But then I remembered that only a few days before, 385 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 2: I had seen a headline in US Weekly, and that 386 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 2: headline was Sandra Bullock and Brian Randall on the Rocks 387 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 2: having cooling off period while living apart. A source told 388 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 2: US Weekly, I have it here. The chances of reconciliation 389 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,680 Speaker 2: are a long shot. According to the insider who adds 390 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 2: that Bullock fifty nine and Randall fifty seven have been 391 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 2: cordial amid their on off romance and that they hit 392 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 2: a bump in fall twenty twenty two. So say it's 393 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 2: on a Monday. US Weekly runs the headline that Sandra 394 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 2: Bullock and Brian Randall are cooling off and in an 395 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 2: on off relationship, and a few days later, the true 396 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 2: news is revealed that he has died. And I was 397 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 2: thinking to myself, as a member of the media, my 398 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 2: guess of what went on behind the scenes here is 399 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 2: maybe you know, someone said, God, we haven't seen them 400 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 2: out together in a while, maybe there's rumors of a breakup, 401 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 2: and then you get an insider who says they know 402 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 2: what's going on, but probably obviously doesn't really know what's 403 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 2: going on, or you know, I know that in some cases, 404 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 2: I'm not accusing US Weekly of this, but some really 405 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:39,479 Speaker 2: tabloidy publications will truly just make up, just fabricate source quotes, 406 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 2: And this was a case to me of just a 407 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 2: reminder that you cannot believe everything you read. 408 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: He was, especially when they posted that he was on 409 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 1: his deathbed. 410 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 2: When they posted that Sandra Bullock and Brian Randall were 411 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 2: in a cooling off period and in an on off relationship. 412 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 2: He was in the last days of his life, he 413 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 2: was dying and he had hidden this private battle with als. 414 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 2: And it's so hard. I mean, I was an entertainment 415 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 2: journalist and I always tried to report things out and 416 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 2: to not go with rumors, and to fight against people, 417 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 2: even in my own office, who wanted to run something 418 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,159 Speaker 2: that I didn't think we should run. But you know, 419 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 2: it's hard, I mean, especially I think of red carpets. 420 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 2: There were, for sure times when I asked people questions 421 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 2: that my boss has wanted me to ask. And you know, 422 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 2: looking back, I didn't know what somebody was going through privately. 423 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 2: So having been on the other side of it, I 424 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 2: have a different empathy for it now. And empathy is 425 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 2: the word, humanity is the word. 426 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 1: And you're right, you don't know what people are going through. 427 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: And I saw, you know, as soon as Jason and 428 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: Caitlin mentioned and posted that they were breaking up, the 429 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: inevitable picture shows up online. That picture that if you've 430 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: been through a public divorce, you've had this. I've had 431 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: it with my ex wife, and that is picture of 432 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: you and your significant other with the proverbial torn page 433 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: down the middle, and. 434 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 2: You know, like they've literally created it. 435 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: They've created the graphic of the torn page between you, 436 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: and it's like, it's so it's laughable if it wasn't 437 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: so sad. And you and I went through that when 438 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: we were going through the craziness with Bacher Batzorette. Stuff 439 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:25,640 Speaker 1: of sources said, insiders say, and a lot of times, 440 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,719 Speaker 1: like you said, they will just make things up because 441 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: what they really want is for you to rebut that 442 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 1: and then that creates a story. So the people that 443 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: started the story will then take what you said and 444 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: write another story. And now this story has legs, and 445 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: so it just keeps going and going. And I think 446 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: the Sandra Bullock story is a great testament to how 447 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: sad it can be sometimes that that was wild. I 448 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: can't believe they did that. 449 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,159 Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about somebody who is putting it all 450 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 2: out there herself on the record via her music, Kelly Clarkson, 451 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 2: She has this is my instinct, My gut instinct is 452 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 2: that I love it. But I wanted to talk to 453 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 2: you about it because you've been through a very public 454 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 2: breakup obviously. Kelly Clarkson went through a public divorce, and 455 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 2: she has now started changing the lyrics to her past 456 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 2: songs to reflect on her divorce. And the latest one 457 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 2: is the song Piece by Piece. The song was about 458 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 2: her ex husband, Brandon Blackstock. It was about how Kelly's 459 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 2: own father had disappointed her in her childhood and Brandon 460 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 2: had showed her what a real man could be. But 461 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 2: now they've split up, and. 462 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 1: So the literal tune has changed. 463 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 2: Yes, so one part of the song that she changed 464 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 2: was she had sang in the past, he never walks away, 465 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 2: he never asks for money. He takes care of me. 466 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 2: He loves me. She's now changed it to I just 467 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 2: walk away when they ask for money. I take care 468 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 2: of me because I love me. Here's what I love 469 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 2: about it. She has changed the lyrics in a way 470 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 2: that is reflecting her own independence, reflecting her confidence in 471 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 2: her self. And look, look, I'm not for bashing your 472 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 2: ex in public. But also I was singing in this case. 473 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,199 Speaker 2: How can she keep singing this song when she is 474 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 2: going through a heartbreaking, monetarily painful, devastating divorce right now? 475 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,479 Speaker 2: How that song is one of her biggest hits. Her 476 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 2: fans want to hear it and I can't imagine being 477 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 2: in her position. You've got to sing this song that 478 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 2: was praising your ex husband and. 479 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: Now you're getting half the money. 480 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 2: Well no, I mean, and now she's in such a 481 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 2: different place, Like imagine if she hadn't changed the lyrics, 482 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,199 Speaker 2: continuing to sing his praises when she's going through what 483 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 2: she's going through. So I understand why she needed to 484 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 2: adjust the lyrics a little. 485 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: And you're right, it's kind of that curse because it's 486 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: such a big hitch song that you can't just cut 487 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: it out of your set list. People will be disappointed 488 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: if you don't have that in your settles. 489 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 2: What do you think should she have. 490 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: Get just get rid of the get rid of the song? 491 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 2: Oh you do think she should? 492 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know I heard. I saw it was in 493 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: Vegas and I saw some video of her and she 494 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: really it was aggressive the way she kind of went 495 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 1: after him, and I know she's It's wonderful she has 496 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: this avenue to express her feelings in emotion. I found 497 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: it kind of funny too. Her interesting, I guess, not funny, 498 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: And just to hear her lamenting the fact that this 499 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: guy's getting so much money that she has to pay 500 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: her ex, and I'm like, welcome to the you know, 501 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: welcome to the club. It's like every you know, every 502 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: marriage has one side that's you know, probably going to 503 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: give more than the other. 504 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, well she did. She also had changed the lyrics 505 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 2: maybe you're referring to. She did the song A B, 506 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 2: C D E f U and that was not one 507 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 2: of her songs, but she changed the lyrics to the song. 508 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,400 Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, she's singing F you yes, 509 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 2: and she said F you and your dad and the 510 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 2: fact that you got half and my broken heart turned 511 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 2: that into art F you and your view from the 512 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 2: Valley I bought too. Yeah, so that is Yeah, that 513 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 2: song she didn't have to have on her set list. 514 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 1: She brought it in. 515 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,880 Speaker 2: So that bothered you a little. 516 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: Bit, did It's just that seemed a little public and 517 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: a little but I mean, the crowd went crazy and 518 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: they supported her, and I get the showmanship of it all. 519 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,439 Speaker 1: But I'm like, I don't know, just not my style. 520 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 2: And but I've had this discussion with friends before who 521 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 2: are going through divorces about when the woman has to 522 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 2: pay something, and it's it is interesting. I'm not saying, 523 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,959 Speaker 2: you know, I guess It's just interesting because like, I 524 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 2: had a friend and she's so shocked she's going to 525 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 2: have to give her ex husband some child custody payments. 526 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 2: And I'm like, I mean, babe, you if you were 527 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 2: a guy, you would have to. This is just the 528 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,719 Speaker 2: way to be both ways, right, And you know, California 529 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,640 Speaker 2: is a very fifty to fifty state when it comes 530 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 2: to splits and custody and you're making more than him, 531 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 2: and you're going to have to do it, and it 532 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 2: is painful no matter which whether you're a man or 533 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 2: a woman. But I don't think there's anything unusual that 534 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 2: Kelly's gone through here. She had more money and she's 535 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 2: got to give him some money. 536 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,120 Speaker 1: The only thing that struck me is I always think, 537 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,360 Speaker 1: do you have kids? Yes, the answer is yes. Are 538 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: they going to hear this at some point and understand yes? 539 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: And so that's the only thing that always drives me 540 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 1: is would I say something publicly knowing full well that 541 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: my kids are someday going to hear that and it 542 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: will shine a big certain light on me and their 543 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: father or their wife or whatever their mom. So that's 544 00:28:53,120 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: the only thing that kind of stuck with me. Can 545 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: we talk about some better music news. 546 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 2: Please be about Taylor Swift. 547 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: Everything is about Taylor Swift. The world is about Taylor Swift. 548 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: I put something out on social media the other day 549 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: that do you even live in Los Angeles if you're 550 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: not posting from the Taylor Swift concert this week? 551 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 2: I had a little fomo. Everybody was there and. 552 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: I everybody so far she did what seven shows? I 553 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 1: believe she had previously had the record of selling out 554 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: the Staples Center that's where the Lakers play down town. 555 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: She had sold the most nights out, and then she 556 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: did like six or seven nights at Sofi Stadium. This is, 557 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: by the way, you're gonna love this because this is 558 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: such a Lauren thing to post. I saw this one 559 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: thing on social media and this girl had posted a 560 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: picture of she was close to the top row of 561 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: the stadium. She's like, you know, what's not surprising is 562 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 1: not that all these people are Taylor Swift fans. I'm 563 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: shocked there's this many people that would go to a 564 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 1: football game because it was in a football stadium. 565 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 2: How many people fit in so far? 566 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: Gosh, I'd probably say, if you fill the floor, I 567 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: would have to guess it's upwards of sixty to eighty 568 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: thousand people in those. 569 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 2: Oh good call, babe. I just looked it up. Seventy 570 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 2: thousand people. 571 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't know depending on where her stage 572 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: and how much the stage cuts off that they can't 573 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 1: fill the back behind it. But she has absolutely crushed it. 574 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: And we've talked a lot about this tour, but when 575 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: you think about the impact she's having socially, someone brought 576 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: up the question of how big is this? And Billy Joel, 577 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 1: who is absolute icon legend and has really spanned the decades. 578 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: He's an older man, so he was around for all 579 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: the quote unquote legends back in the day. He said, 580 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: the only thing he can compare this to is Beatlemania. 581 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 1: The Beatles the greatest rock and roll band of all time, 582 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 1: bar none. And that's the level he's putting Taylor Swift on. 583 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,239 Speaker 1: And I can't argue against that. 584 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 2: I don't want to argue against it. I mean she 585 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 2: first of all, well, I don't know with Beatlemania, was 586 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 2: that right when they first started? Was it throughout? 587 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: Could say it was during the British invasion when they 588 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: it was when they came over to the States, they 589 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 1: did the Ed Sullivan Show. 590 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 2: So in the beginning. Yeah, because what I want to 591 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 2: point out here is Taylor Swift is fifteen, sixteen, seventeen 592 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 2: years into her career at this point, and so that's 593 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 2: what really impresses me is. 594 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: That she's just hitting her stride now, which is crazy 595 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: to think. 596 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 2: Well, I don't think she's just hitting her stride, but 597 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 2: I think that she's this stride is unlike anything else, 598 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 2: she has continued to grow her career. Most people have 599 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 2: peaks and valleys. 600 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 1: Or the one off album, or you change your style, 601 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: or maybe. 602 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 2: You're really big as a teen idol and you continue 603 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 2: playing those hits, but you don't necessarily keep growing your career. 604 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 2: It's very odd. The old saying is it's not that 605 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 2: hard to get famous, it is really hard to stay famous. 606 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 2: And the fact that she is continuing to get bigger 607 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 2: and better every single year. When she was doing these 608 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 2: shows in La, I saw the La Times said that 609 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 2: by the numbers her shows would become the most tiktoked 610 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 2: place in the world. She is expected to have sales 611 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 2: reaching one point four billion dollars or more by the 612 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 2: end of her full Eras World tour in twenty twenty four, 613 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 2: which would exceed Elton John's record of nine hundred and 614 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 2: thirty nine million dollars with his multi year farewell tour. 615 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 2: So that's Elton John decades in doing his big farewell tour. 616 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 2: Taylor Swift is still thirty three years old and doing 617 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 2: a tour and she's gonna seemingly set the record. 618 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: And if you saw the videos back in the day 619 00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 1: of Elvis concerts, of the Beatles concerts, you saw the 620 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: manic crying and the screaming and these these were also 621 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 1: heart throbs. And this is what I find interesting if 622 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: you talk about how incredible a woman is doing this, 623 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 1: is that she's not the heart throb, but you're getting 624 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 1: the same emotion. You see the videos from these young ladies, girls, mom, 625 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,719 Speaker 1: they're bawling their eyes out. We had a friend who 626 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 1: took her daughter to So Far. She sent us the video. 627 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: Her daughter was in tears, I mean beside herself with emotion. 628 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: And our daughter Taylor, when I was taking her to 629 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: school the other day, we were listening to Taylor Swift. 630 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: Of course in the car. She goes, I would give anything, 631 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: I would pay anything to go see this concert one 632 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: more time. 633 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,719 Speaker 2: It was so many told us she cried. We got 634 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 2: her the tickets for her birthday and she cried when 635 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 2: she went in Dallas. 636 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 1: So who has moved? What artist has moved millions and 637 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: millions of people like this and been so successful. I 638 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: don't know if you can bring one up. I don't 639 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: know if the Beatles are even comparable anymore. It is, 640 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 1: and that's well, She's scary to say because that is 641 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 1: such a crazy bar that we're talking about. 642 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 2: She's been a brilliant combination of talent, emotional connection and marketing. 643 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 2: And you know, sometimes I think she keeps really good 644 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 2: people on her team. She's worked with the same publicist, 645 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 2: Tree Payne for years and years and they really have 646 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 2: built this brand and know what the brand is. And 647 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 2: that brand continues to reach young people too. So she's 648 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,799 Speaker 2: continued to like she hasn't just come up with the 649 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 2: young people when she was young. I still see twelve 650 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 2: thirteen year old girls screaming at Taylor Swift concerts. And 651 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 2: she has also been so smart about making her tours 652 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 2: an event. This isn't just I'm going on tour, I'm 653 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 2: singing my songs. You know, She's branded this as the 654 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:02,839 Speaker 2: Eras Tour and that has created like the friendship bracelets 655 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 2: and dressing up to go to the tour. 656 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,880 Speaker 1: And she's done the pick your album. 657 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,920 Speaker 2: Yes, she's done two surprise songs at each show, so. 658 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,720 Speaker 1: She's very newsworthy. That was brilliant. 659 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, remember on her last big tour she had 660 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 2: the surprise guests. So on each tour over the years, 661 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 2: she's thought, how can I continue to make the news 662 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:24,400 Speaker 2: with each show? 663 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,839 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that she is credited with coming 664 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,920 Speaker 1: up with all these ideas, but what I love about 665 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,279 Speaker 1: her is she is the boss. She is CEO, she 666 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,479 Speaker 1: is the chairman, she is the captain of the ship. 667 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 1: She runs her business and obviously runs it like a boss. 668 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,799 Speaker 1: And then there was this other headline that came out 669 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: last week about her, as if we don't love t 670 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,400 Speaker 1: Swift enough, that she gave a five million dollar bonus 671 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:52,960 Speaker 1: to her truck drivers. Obviously massive sets, massive stages for 672 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 1: this tour and trucks upon trucks, and this amounted to 673 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:02,400 Speaker 1: I think five truck drivers getting what was it, no, 674 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:06,359 Speaker 1: fifty truck drivers getting one hundred thousand dollars bonuses. So 675 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 1: she donated five million dollars to her crew and to 676 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: the guys you know, driving the trucks and moving these 677 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,279 Speaker 1: stages around and again just goes to show, you know, 678 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,279 Speaker 1: and I know you're like, look, it's a drop in 679 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,239 Speaker 1: the bucket, it's a rounding air. She's making, you know, 680 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,359 Speaker 1: a billion dollars off this. She didn't have to do it. 681 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,840 Speaker 1: These people are already getting paid. It's their job. But 682 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:25,359 Speaker 1: she did it. 683 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,279 Speaker 2: By the way, not everybody does it. There's a lot 684 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,920 Speaker 2: of rich people, a lot of rich men out in 685 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,840 Speaker 2: the world who don't do stuff like that, who just 686 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:34,560 Speaker 2: take take takes. 687 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,600 Speaker 1: So good on you, Taylor Swift. And speaking of Taylor, 688 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,840 Speaker 1: before we go this week, there was quite an emotional 689 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,360 Speaker 1: journey that I just took again. Our daughter Taylor just 690 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 1: went back to school. And I posted something online the 691 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,480 Speaker 1: other day of just, you know, sitting there. I was 692 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,080 Speaker 1: just packing up her cars. We're about to drive north 693 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,080 Speaker 1: up to TCU and I was just sitting there looking 694 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: and it hit me. I was in the garage by myself, 695 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,239 Speaker 1: and I got a little tear. I'm getting teary eyed 696 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:06,240 Speaker 1: again talking about it. Just the taking your kids to school, 697 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:11,160 Speaker 1: and I remember vividly doing this in elementary school. I 698 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:15,080 Speaker 1: remember junior high and the first high school and you know, 699 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,160 Speaker 1: the first trip with Joshua up to college and now 700 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:21,000 Speaker 1: Taylor at college, and this was a little different because 701 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,320 Speaker 1: you know, she now has a car. She's a sophomore 702 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 1: in college and she drove me. I went with her, 703 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,120 Speaker 1: but she drove me up to college and we moved 704 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 1: all her stuff in. And it is awesome to see because, 705 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:34,799 Speaker 1: as I always say as a parent, if you do 706 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: your job right, your job is to set them free, 707 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,480 Speaker 1: and they are independent, strong men and women and they 708 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,680 Speaker 1: go off into the world and conquer it and forge 709 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,000 Speaker 1: their own path. But that's also the gutting part of 710 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,279 Speaker 1: it is that there wasn't this big emotional goodbye. There 711 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 1: wasn't the anxiety that we had last year. Remember obviously 712 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,960 Speaker 1: her freshman year when she was like, hey, can you 713 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,319 Speaker 1: guys kind of swing by and say hi before you leave? 714 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,120 Speaker 1: And we did. There was none of that. She was 715 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,440 Speaker 1: just like, you know, her girls there, she has the 716 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,240 Speaker 1: lay of the land now and it was like bye, 717 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,520 Speaker 1: thanks Cia, And part of that warmed my heart, but 718 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,880 Speaker 1: part of it crushed me. But I have rarely gotten 719 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,880 Speaker 1: a response like I did on social media with people 720 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:18,280 Speaker 1: dming me of and it was the broadness of it 721 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,600 Speaker 1: is what hit me. I'm just about to take my 722 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 1: kids to kindergarten. I'm just about to drop my son 723 00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,360 Speaker 1: or daughter at the University of Arkansas. Across the board, 724 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,000 Speaker 1: everybody was talking about this. It really hit a tune 725 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,319 Speaker 1: with everybody. And so it's just something that you and 726 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,239 Speaker 1: I have been through now with both kids, taking them 727 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,120 Speaker 1: to college, and wherever you are in this journey of 728 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,480 Speaker 1: taking your kids to school. It's about that time we're 729 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,800 Speaker 1: all heading back to school. And I know we also 730 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:46,719 Speaker 1: enjoy that. I know there's a lot of parents out 731 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,919 Speaker 1: there like thank God, because dealing with your kids during 732 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,239 Speaker 1: the summer, trying to plan their lives and then live 733 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,439 Speaker 1: your life is not easy. But at the same time, 734 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,480 Speaker 1: I know we all have that little twinge in our heart. 735 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,400 Speaker 2: I and I get the twins, I think, but they're happy, 736 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,800 Speaker 2: They're good, and I would want that so much more 737 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,319 Speaker 2: than them calling me telling me they wanted to come home. 738 00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,520 Speaker 2: So I feel so grateful for that. What is it 739 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 2: what makes it so hard that drop off moment? For me? 740 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,160 Speaker 1: It's weird. I get emotional just talking about this. You 741 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,160 Speaker 1: and I have talked about this this summer. I have 742 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,759 Speaker 1: had such a special gift given to me late in 743 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:32,280 Speaker 1: my career of this break honestly and leaving the Bachelor 744 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,440 Speaker 1: bacherette when I was traveling around the world NonStop. The 745 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,880 Speaker 1: sacrifice was I missed a lot of my kids. I 746 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:42,640 Speaker 1: have been so in trenched with them the last couple 747 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,480 Speaker 1: of years and enjoying them and just knowing that this 748 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,200 Speaker 1: is the last summer that our son Joshua was going 749 00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,640 Speaker 1: to be around. He'll get it, you know, we're going 750 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:53,960 Speaker 1: to see him, but it's like, this is the last 751 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,360 Speaker 1: summer he's really going to live with us as a student. 752 00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:01,520 Speaker 1: He graduates this next May, and with Taylor we got 753 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,000 Speaker 1: two more. That's it, and that windows closed for me. 754 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:06,920 Speaker 1: And I felt it in high school when they were 755 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:08,799 Speaker 1: going off to college, and now I'm really feeling it 756 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,160 Speaker 1: in college where my babies are all grows up and 757 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,920 Speaker 1: you know, they're taking flight, and I'm so excited to 758 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,719 Speaker 1: see Joshua and he's talking about what job he might 759 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: get and taking that big leap, and I know he's 760 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:21,680 Speaker 1: you know, he'll get his own place and move on, 761 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,680 Speaker 1: and it just I don't know, man, When he goes 762 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,560 Speaker 1: to get a little cereal in the morning, I'm like, 763 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,839 Speaker 1: I just look at it and I remember him sitting 764 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,239 Speaker 1: there in his high chair, and that stuff just kills you. 765 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,360 Speaker 1: It just it does. And I'm trying to keep it 766 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,960 Speaker 1: together right now. But as I said in the video 767 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,200 Speaker 1: that I posted, I don't know where these seasons are going, 768 00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:47,200 Speaker 1: but I just they're going so fast, and I'm just 769 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,160 Speaker 1: I'm holding on for dear life. 770 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,720 Speaker 2: It's also that if it feels like it went by fast, 771 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,799 Speaker 2: that means it went well, yeah, which is a catch. 772 00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,120 Speaker 2: Twenty two. Well, you're such a great dad, and I'm 773 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,880 Speaker 2: I'm always so in awe of the kids that you've raised, 774 00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,960 Speaker 2: the people you've raised, and I love it. I love 775 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,640 Speaker 2: seeing you know that you're the dad who will be 776 00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,280 Speaker 2: at every movement and not miss any moment. And yeah, 777 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:15,840 Speaker 2: the kids. 778 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,560 Speaker 1: Are so lucky to and thank god you were there 779 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:21,360 Speaker 1: because if Taylor had to go shopping with me for 780 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,520 Speaker 1: all the sorority stuff and the preschool, it would have 781 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 1: been a nightmare. So and so it is awesome and 782 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,440 Speaker 1: it is special to see and this talking to you 783 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,600 Speaker 1: guys is always something that Lauren and I love. And Babe, 784 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,560 Speaker 1: you did a great job. You did a great job 785 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:38,160 Speaker 1: getting through this. 786 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,719 Speaker 2: I this is horrifying. I'm so sorry for everyone. I 787 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,960 Speaker 2: had to listen to my voice like this. Somebody told 788 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,360 Speaker 2: me that I sounded like if you remember the Friends 789 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:49,640 Speaker 2: episode when Phoebe is sick and she has what she 790 00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,560 Speaker 2: calls sexy flamah, and then actually she gets better and 791 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,000 Speaker 2: she misses the sexy voice. So maybe I'll feel that way, 792 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,600 Speaker 2: but I don't think so. I'm ready to talk again. 793 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I want you to leave me messages. 794 00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:58,600 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 795 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,200 Speaker 1: But before I say goodbye, we also so did a 796 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:05,080 Speaker 1: podcast last week. Go back and take a listen. Elsie. 797 00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:06,520 Speaker 1: You weren't a part of this, but I know you 798 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,960 Speaker 1: listened to it. The doctor Mary Claire Haver, board certified 799 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:15,640 Speaker 1: obg yn. We had this amazing discussion about menopause. And 800 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,200 Speaker 1: I know people are like, wait, Chris, what are you 801 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,319 Speaker 1: doing talking about menopause? But we spent about an hour 802 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:26,200 Speaker 1: with doctor have and she went deep into menopause. I 803 00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:30,600 Speaker 1: think it was a fascinating discussion. I learned a tremendous 804 00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,480 Speaker 1: amount and what I found astonishing is just how little 805 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,359 Speaker 1: a lot of women know about what their bodies are 806 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,480 Speaker 1: going through or what they're about to go through with menopause. 807 00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,080 Speaker 1: So go back and have a listen to doctor Mary 808 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,960 Speaker 1: Claire have. I think we will talk more and more 809 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,200 Speaker 1: with her about this because it was definitely something that 810 00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,600 Speaker 1: you guys really responded to, and so when you love something, 811 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,759 Speaker 1: definitely leave a comment. You can always find Elz at 812 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,760 Speaker 1: Lauren z Ema on Instagram. I'm at Chris B. 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