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Speaker 1: news over here. Hey, everyone, welcome to ridiculous news, not

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Speaker 1: and hidden to the absolutely ridiculous. I'm bill wilio. I'm

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Speaker 1: an Atlanta based filmmaker, comedian and mark. I'm registered and

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Speaker 1: Make sure you're registered to vote, everybody. Bill. That's an

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Speaker 1: I'm Mark Kendall, an Atlanta based comedian. Also, I just

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Speaker 1: up episode and we'RE gonna be talking about a very

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Speaker 1: heartwarming telegram story. We are talking about our French spider man,

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Speaker 1: fun dip into the world of selogamy and single life. And, y'all,

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Speaker 1: if all of that is not enough, we are joined

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Speaker 1: about Diana and Eli. They are co hosts of Ridiculous Romance.

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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Romance is a wonderful podcast where they explore the weird,

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Speaker 1: wonderful and ridiculous relationships throughout time and across the globe.

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Speaker 1: We're so happy to have you. Thanks so much, alk thanks.

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Speaker 1: it's like the best way to hear the news. Forget twitter,

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Speaker 1: is this and that, yeah, so great. So, like it was.

423
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: It was a great, great nineties show, Queen Latifa. She

424
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: had this cool job she was working for like some Zene. Anyway,

425
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 1: great premise, first show, so good, great, so good, great.

426
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: I'll say Max Maxine, Eric Alexander, was one of my

427
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: first TV crushes. Yeah, all business, all business, he oh,

428
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: and then there's this other show called heart of Dixie,

429
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: and there's a character on heart of dixie. I forget

430
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: their name, unfortunately, but it's just like their their character

431
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 1: and hard of Dixie. Heart of Dixie was like late

432
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:50,199
Speaker 1: two thousand's, early tens show. Uh, I forget what network

433
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 1: it ran on. Maybe it was a C W show. Anyway,

434
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: a character on that. I was watching a random episode

435
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 1: of living single and one of Queen La Team's old

436
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: friends is that per sin. It was also in heart

437
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: of Dixie. So living singles in the in the early nine,

438
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: like early mid nineties, hard of Dixie like twenty years

439
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: after that. This man looked exactly the same but he

440
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: was in both shows. It was like someone was like

441
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: time traveling. Anyway. Yeah, he's well preserved. I'm jealous. That

442
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: is awesome. Yeah, but just these these facts from psychology

443
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: today just sort of like affirming singles week. I thought

444
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: was really important because, I mean it helped me realize

445
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: like some of the ways that, like, I would hear

446
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 1: singles week, I wouldn't necessarily think about like all these

447
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: positive things that they list, not right away, and that's

448
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: just my own like framing of how, like I framed

449
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: being single, you know what I mean, like and so

450
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: I thought that was a cool way to flip those

451
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: Um flip those perceptions. Yeah, it's kind of like with

452
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: Inter the interracial merits. It's like we've grown to accept

453
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: it pretty much as a society. I don't I wonder

454
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: if we've come that far. On just the sink, people

455
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: in the attic. We're always getting the broom and hitting

456
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: the walls and all these things. You know what? I

457
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: do think it's the attitude might not be as positive,

458
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: which is kind of weird. We and good that we're

459
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: trying to switch that around. H Yeah, I hope these

460
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: singles weeks are like because it feels like singles events

461
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: are so much about finding someone. So like a singles

462
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: night so you can meet people, or a singles you know,

463
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: you pick a name out of a hat, speed dating

464
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: kind of thing. It's all about finding someone and not

465
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: being single. Anymore. So it's kind of cool to be like,

466
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: let's actually have an event where we're just we're happy

467
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: this way and it's not about finding somebody and you

468
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: know you're not incomplete as an individual. Yeah, I feel

469
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: like we have a tendency as people to think that

470
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: our the thing we experience joy in. Other people must

471
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: have it too, like if you don't, you're missing out,

472
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: if you don't have it, as opposed to like appreciating

473
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: everybody's unique experiences and saying other people might be perfectly

474
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: happy not living the way you live or like in

475
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: the movies you like or things like that. Is it

476
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: just spreads across so many things. You see it in

477
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: people so constantly. Yeah, different priorities and different goals in

478
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: life doesn't mean UNMISERABLE, right. I'm just stuck in the

479
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: addict with these other singles that that you know, Jimmy

480
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: Carter's is funny when I hear things like that because

481
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: you always hear of America described as this melting pot,

482
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: but I like what he said, is that he doesn't

483
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: think we're a melting pot, that we're a beautiful quilt

484
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: and that we're all have our different patches that can

485
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: you know, contribute to this beautiful thing and we're all

486
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: our own unique thing and I feel like that's a

487
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: much better way to think about that. We can have

488
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: our own cultures and our own beliefs in our own

489
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: hobbies and interests and then work together, Um, to resort

490
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:55,719
Speaker 1: the votes. Remember. Yeah, and and I through some questions

491
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: for real, because it's like hey, we have us single

492
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: dudes have this wonderful married couple on the show. UH, yeah,

493
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: so we're gonna throw some questions out y'all. I wonder

494
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: how did y'all, and Y'all, you know, Ya might have

495
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: already addressed this stuff, I'm sure, on the on y'all's podcast.

496
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: But for for us, how did Y'all first meet? What was?

497
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: Oh boy, UM, well, to cast our minds back, we

498
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: were at Georgia State University. Um, we both ended up

499
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: in the same theater company. I think. At the time

500
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: we were both in different long term relationships, UH and UH.

501
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: And when those respectively ended, we got together. A couple

502
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: took a couple of a couple of false starts. Yeah,

503
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: that's true. But well, I feel like we got together

504
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: like a month or two after our long term. Both

505
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: our long terms had ended. And so then we were

506
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: both like, I don't think I'm trying to jump into

507
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: something very serious right away and this feels like it

508
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: could be or something. So whatever, forget too. And like

509
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: a year went by and then it was like, actually,

510
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: everyone else sucks. No offense to everyone else. I had

511
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: I had only ever been in long term relationships pretty

512
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: much since high school up through college, like fourteen months

513
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: or more. and Um, so then we started dating and

514
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, like, however long it was, in a

515
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: few months. Um, I had had even the feeling like,

516
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if I'm ready for another

517
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: long term thing. I've I've never just like casually dated

518
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: and I feel like maybe I want to try that.

519
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: and Um, and among other things, we decided that we

520
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: would kind of split up for a little while and

521
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: I think, and you said, it was about a year, Diana,

522
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: that we were a part and Um, you dated. How

523
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: many people? And how many people did I date in

524
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: that time? How many? Zero we got back together. I

525
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: guess casual dating is not for me. Oh, I love that.

526
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: I was never a go getter on the dating scene.

527
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: It was usually think you easily could have gotten thank you.

528
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: I think this is such a great story. Sorry to

529
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: bring it back to because we're talking about singles in

530
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: singles days. That anything you'll miss about being single? Yeah,

531
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: I mean, look, different phases. Oh, two different experiences being single.

532
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: I was being required to like go on dates and

533
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: like the whole interview process where I'm like, I'm my

534
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: best behavior. I didn't like that. No, it's just me

535
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: and my dog and no bedtime video games. So different

536
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: from now going to bed whenever you want. That's yeah,

537
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: I guess. Jeez, I guess not. Then it's very good

538
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: for me because I hate to cook. So as soon

539
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: as we got together I started eating a lot better.

540
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: So I don't miss my single life. There's a lot

541
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: of craft dinner for me. That's that's that's what I miss.

542
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: I missed cooking PTABELLA, mushrooms, mushrooms. We will be right

543
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: back with more ridiculous news after this short break. Ye,

544
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: don't to confuse ridiculous news. Well, we actually have like

545
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: a fun game that we put together for Y'all. Uh, so,

546
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: this is called compliment battle, all right, and so I

547
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: wanted to have the two of y'all, Eli and Diana,

548
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 1: face off against one another, and so, rather than just

549
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: giving each other a compliment, which I'm sure y'all can

550
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: do an amazing job of, you know y'all. Y'All are

551
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: great with words, such great people, uh, and we realize

552
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: it's putting all on the spot. So take your time,

553
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: you know, no rush here. We want you to give

554
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: the other person a compliment that you've never given them before.

555
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: So here on the show, you want to see if

556
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: you can debut a new compliment for the other person. Um,

557
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna Give Y'all uh some time to think about

558
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 1: it during this time. Y'All may not know this. Bill.

559
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I told you. I'm a

560
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: professional jazz singing improviser. I don't always. Yeah, yeah, I

561
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: studied for many, many years, Um, in different places. Yeah, yeah,

562
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: I mean I've I've studied for a long time, like uh,

563
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: several years, uh, you know, in in showers, road trips,

564
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: things like that. So you know, pretty intense, pretty intense

565
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: educational background. So I was just gonna like sing a

566
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: little bit. Uh. There's no like real strong lyrics, but

567
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: just to give you all time just to ruminate and

568
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: to think and then we'll come we'll come back to

569
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: you all right, uh, and sorry, you don't have to,

570
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: but if you want to Tarry, add in some underscore

571
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: of some jazz music, you can pretty much put any

572
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: jazz music in. It'll go along with what I sing,

573
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: just simple scales and chords. So all right, here we go, dude,

574
00:35:36,320 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: dry it, try it. Get tranks the queen when alright.

575
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: So I could go for a really long time, but

576
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: you know, it's really it's part of like a three

577
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: hour piece. So Um, Oh wow, that's yeah, yeah, yeah, beautiful. Well,

578
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,439
Speaker 1: it's great. Is that I was able to just clear

579
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: my mind. It wasn't distracted. I just think good. I'm

580
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: glad I had that. Uh So, so do you'all. You'll

581
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 1: have some compliments you're ready to share for the other.

582
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: Do you want to go first? You want me to go?

583
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: You're so good at going first. Lord, thank you for

584
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: that confidence. That my confidence that was going first could

585
00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: be an insult, an underhanded Um. I was gonna say

586
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard for Eli because he compliments me

587
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: a lot. I've had a lot of things. He's very sweet.

588
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: So sorry, Babe, I'm I'm gonna have an easier time

589
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: because I'm more withholding Um. I was gonna say that

590
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: I really admire Eli's self esteem. Um, he's really just

591
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,959
Speaker 1: taught me a lot about going. You know, I don't

592
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: know why I care about this person's opinion about what

593
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,399
Speaker 1: I do or what I like. I am who I am.

594
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: I want to live my life and that's okay and fine,

595
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: and that was something I really had a hard time

596
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: with and he's helped me so much throughout the years

597
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: of our relationship to kind of be like, you know,

598
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 1: if it's not something that's harming somebody else and they're

599
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: not coming to you with like something real that you

600
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 1: you hurt my feelings or something like that, Um, who cares?

601
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: Let it go, let them be, say whatever they want,

602
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: you know, and I was really admired that. It's just

603
00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: such a strong personality and sense of self. And you

604
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: have really nice hands. I've ever tell you that we

605
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: have sexy hands. Oh, thank you. That's that was really good.

606
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Um. Well, no, I I've I mean,

607
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: you're right, I try to try to tell you the

608
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: things about you that impressed me regularly, because they are

609
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: many and frequent, but I really I don't. I don't

610
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: know how much we talked about this because we kind

611
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 1: of take it for granted a lot, but I really

612
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: love your appreciation of like nature and and the natural

613
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: world and animals. And you know, we can go, we

614
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: like to travel, but those travels can be fairly simple.

615
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I don't know if it's simple. WE

616
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: DROVE OUT TO UTAH in and camped out in the

617
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 1: desert and that I love that stuff. I mean I

618
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: could be in the middle of nowhere and love it

619
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: and uh, and a lot of people don't. And I

620
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: really love that you not only like doing that stuff

621
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: but you have a real appreciation for that. You notice details,

622
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: you notice little tiny things. Um, not to throw back

623
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: to our show again, but we just did this walt

624
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: whippen episode where you talked about his appreciation of just

625
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: looking at a single blade of grass and saying, Oh

626
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: my God, how does this exist? You know, and I

627
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: feel like you have that too, and that's something that

628
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: you help keep that active in me, because I really

629
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: like having that same just appreciation and awareness of the

630
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 1: world around us. So that and your love of animals.

631
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: It's really again, it's something that's just so taken for granted.

632
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: We don't talk about but it's really important to mediculous romance.

633
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: Now what could bend the needs of Ridiculous News Romance?

634
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: On this single episode we made our married life even

635
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: we've been talking about doing an episode on ourselves on

636
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: the show at some point and now we'll have to

637
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: include this moment. Yeah, maybe we should have someone on

638
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: to ask US questions, because we clearly take our own

639
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 1: story for granted. Sometimes you can good details and stuff.

640
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: I love that story. Yeah, great story and it's so

641
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 1: much fun to hear you'll tell it and so genuine

642
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: how much you all love each other and care about

643
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: each other. And it's funny because mark and I we

644
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: were prepping for this episode and I had all these

645
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: shitty questions for you all because I was thinking about

646
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: a single day, like what do you miss about single?

647
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: What's the worst part about being married? And then we realized, Oh,

648
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: this is a terrible direction to go about that. No, no,

649
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: I think what we just did was way, way better

650
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: and yeah, reminds uh me of why y'all are such

651
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,800
Speaker 1: a good pair and why everyone should check out ridiculous romance.

652
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, guys. Thanks y'all. Yeah, that was

653
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: a good exercise. Maybe more people should do that in

654
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: there they should be like every you know, month, we

655
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: have to come up with a compliment. We've never paid

656
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: each other. That's like compliment day. That's just tough, because

657
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: that took what thirty seconds and some jazz music for

658
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: me to come up with that. They don't have the

659
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: soundtrack now that they might need the inspiration. I just

660
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,919
Speaker 1: feel like now I've given you all the compliments. It's

661
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: hard to find. Now I have to find out another

662
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: new one next time. Well, that's the other thing about it, though,

663
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: is that you have to continue improving and being cool

664
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: in order to inspire the compliments. If you just sit

665
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: on your ass and act like a fool, what am

666
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: I going to come up with the next compliment day?

667
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: Like halfway through the month, they're like, I see you

668
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,479
Speaker 1: sitting there again. Now what do you think I'm gonna

669
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: say to you on compliments day? And you're like, Oh, okay,

670
00:41:52,640 --> 00:42:00,879
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go clean the bathroom or something. We've got

671
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: more ridiculous news to cover, but before we do, let's

672
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: take a quick break. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, confulous news.

673
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: All right, y'all. So we're back. Uh, we're gonna kick

674
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 1: things off with a little bit of dessert so these

675
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: are some fun headlines that we found that we wanted

676
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: to talk about. So this first headline from Reuter's Uh

677
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: French spider man uh climbs Paris skyscraper to mark turning sixty.

678
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: So Elaine Robert, the free climber, dubbed the French Spider Man,

679
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: scaled a forty eight story skyscraper in Paris recently, fulfilling

680
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: a goal yead set for himself once he reached the

681
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: age of sixty. So he climbed this building. It was

682
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: set tall and he was quoted as saying I want

683
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: to send people the message that being sixty is nothing.

684
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: You can still do sport, be active, do fabulous things, uh.

685
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 1: And he went on to say, Um, I promised myself

686
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: several years ago that my reach sixty, I will climb

687
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 1: that tower again, the building that he climbed, because sixty

688
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 1: symbolizes retirement age in France, and I thought that that

689
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: was a nice touch. And so he told the paper back. Yeah,

690
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: and he not only did he do that, but he

691
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: climbs without permission. He's been arrested a whole lot and

692
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: he climbs with no harness, uses only his bare hands.

693
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: And that guy's that guy's hardcore. Yeah, I'm shocked he

694
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: made it to sixty. I would celebrate to yeah, I

695
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,479
Speaker 1: should have fallen off a building a long time ago

696
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: and here I am. I still thriving. That's amazing. That's cool.

697
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 1: I just celebrated my dad's sixty six birthday this past

698
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: weekend and I was like, what do you want to do?

699
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: Go out to dinner, you know whatever, and he was

700
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: like on a climbstone mountain Um, and I was like Oh, okay,

701
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: and then when we were actually doing it, I was like,

702
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: I guess you felt like I'm sixty six, but damn it,

703
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: I can still climb a mountain. It's not the same

704
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 1: as scaling a building without a harness, but it made

705
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: him feel good about I mean he was doing better

706
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: than I was. I know he was doing we were like, Oh,

707
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: we're much younger and keeping that healthy. That's so cool. Yeah,

708
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: my dad like bikes twenty miles every day and he is, yeah,

709
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: sixty nine, and he gave me his old bike that

710
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: he had kind of worn out, which is a great gift.

711
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: He listens thanks to and uh, it's it's inspiring the

712
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: amount that he commits to it and I think sometimes

713
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: see in better shape than me. Um, it's a good

714
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 1: reminder to get out there in exercise. Yeah, yeah, I

715
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: bumped into my parents at the gym pretty frequently. There, there,

716
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: before I am and after I leave. That's so interesting.

717
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: So y'all go to the same gym? Yeah, they live

718
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: like two streets, like y'all, next to each other on

719
00:44:55,520 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: lifting machines. There's a little competition going on. Keep to

720
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 1: keep adding another. Oh, you doing fifty? Well, I'm doing sixty.

721
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 1: I'm doing a seven day. I'm going back to fifty.

722
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:25,479
Speaker 1: I'll be real with your dad. Going back to well, y'all.

723
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: Speaking of being healthy in your bodies, we do a

724
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: segment sometimes called the mental health minute, and I saw

725
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:36,280
Speaker 1: a cool article that reminded me of that recently from CNBC,

726
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: and it was talking about there's actually eleven phrases from

727
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 1: your vocabulary that they say you should ditch these if

728
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: you want to feel more confident and sound more confident.

729
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: And I just picked three and I thought these were ones,

730
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: because I feel like I say this to myself a

731
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: decent amount. So, and the three I picked, one of

732
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: was Asad saying I have to do that. What you

733
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: can say instead is I get to do that and

734
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: just swapping that one little word at change your attitude.

735
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: It makes you look at something as an opportunity rather

736
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: than an obligation. Um, yeah, yeah, that's cool. I remember

737
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: being younger, we talked a lot about gratitude in my

738
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: house and they, you know, they were just like, if

739
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: you think about you know, if you look at something

740
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: and you appreciate it, if you're grateful for it, you

741
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,399
Speaker 1: know you have more of a capacity to deal with

742
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: things that happen in your life. Um, and I remember

743
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: sitting in the dentist chair and I was getting like

744
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: a cavity filled or something, and I hate the dentist.

745
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:33,879
Speaker 1: I have a lot of anxiety. So I was sitting

746
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: there thinking to myself, how grateful am I that I

747
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: can afford this right now? How grateful am I that

748
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: this exists? And it really did. I mean it really

749
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: did help me, like my anxiety kind of went down

750
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: a little bit. So that actually does work in some scenarios.

751
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: Other Times, please put me under. It'll be easier for

752
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: both of us. That's so great, especially for the dentist

753
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: because you know, then love what y'll do. Y'All are

754
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,799
Speaker 1: so important, but man, it is a stressful thing. So

755
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: I am definitely stealing that, Diana. Thank you for that.

756
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 1: Try It. It might, it might help you, like I

757
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,720
Speaker 1: don't know. It gave me a different mindset. It didn't last.

758
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 1: That should still hurt, but I had better teeth when

759
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: it was over, so I was able to focus on

760
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: what was really important. You know, I think that's real

761
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: to an extent. Yeah, and that's a great like a

762
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: way to reframe it. The other two that these have

763
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: are kind of just reframes. You know, instead of saying

764
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: I failed, you can say this attempt didn't work. Um,

765
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:38,399
Speaker 1: the way do you think of hey, you know what,

766
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: every every failure, is really a learning opportunity. And I

767
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: also like a phrase that called there's no such thing

768
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,919
Speaker 1: as failure, only feedback. Yeah, a good way to get

769
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: flip it. And the last one is, why is this

770
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: happening to me? Um, which a lot of times when

771
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: I'm listening to mark's jazz album, sometimes that POPs in

772
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: and it is a beautiful album, a beautiful album, but

773
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: you get into two and a half hours of it

774
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: and sometimes that'll come. That can become what am I

775
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: learning from this? Uh, in particular, I learned that Mark

776
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: is a brilliant uh musician and, Um, you know, Jazz.

777
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 1: Next time. Hoping a double album, maybe our triple album.

778
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: I think three hours might already that might be a

779
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: double album. Yeah, I just hit record, but yeah, just

780
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: let it go. That sounds like jazz improvisation to me.

781
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: You just see what happens up there with the greats. Yeah. Oh,

782
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: the last story that we have for you all is,

783
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: to feel, a good story to end it about a

784
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: missing cat who returned home and rang their video doorbell. Uh.

785
00:48:55,360 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: In the family in New York all gasped there at

786
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,720
Speaker 1: eight year old cat named Lily disappeared from owner Stephanie

787
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:07,720
Speaker 1: Whitley's Long Island home. Four days they were gone, producing

788
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: panic throughout the household. Whitley said Lily always comes home.

789
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: She's a very smart cat. Response to her name. You

790
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: can call her, she comes. I never felt like she

791
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: would not come home, but this time felt different and fortunately,

792
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: a surprising sound came late at night. The family received

793
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: an alert around ten PM and all looked at each other.

794
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:32,479
Speaker 1: WHO's at our house at this time of night, and

795
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: the TV screen, which I guess I should do this.

796
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: The ring is connected to their TV just displayed the

797
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: giant lily cat face me owingsing. Yeah, she said they

798
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: were laughing, they were crying. It was a great moment Um.

799
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: Whitley said, I don't know how she found us, but

800
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: she definitely knows what the ring camera is, because every

801
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: time a notification goes off she'll look towards the door.

802
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: It's a smart cat. Oh, that's a very smart cat.

803
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: That's really interesting. I'm impressed. We just thought a video

804
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: of a bear like walking around someone's car and then

805
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 1: figuring out how to open like he opened the car

806
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: door and got in the front seat. I was straight

807
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: up like he's about to drive, drive. was like, how

808
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: about it go to McDonalds, but he ended up just leaving.

809
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: But I was like wow, they already know how to

810
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: open car doors, like they really understand. They live with us,

811
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: animals live with us, and they think they evolve alongside

812
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: and they kind of go, okay, they care about this,

813
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 1: this is a priority. I better learn what this is.

814
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm amazed sometimes. I had a dog for a long

815
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 1: time who she would bark when a doorbell went off

816
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: on the TV or something like that, but she never,

817
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: and I had her almost her entire life, never lived

818
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: somewhere with an audible doorbell. So I don't know where

819
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: she learned that that sound meant something was happening, but

820
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: she's she's just like, that means somebody's at the door. Yeah, right,

821
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: that you know what I've had, you know, the dogs

822
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: in my life, and it does seem like it's this

823
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: trigger reaction that's inborn into them. Yeah, what is it

824
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: with all dogs? That's maybe that's we should do a

825
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 1: deep dive into that mark. Yeah, yeah, dog psychology. I'd

826
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 1: listen to that and that. That's so cool, though, that

827
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: she rang the doorbell's adorable. In her face popped up

828
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,840
Speaker 1: on the TV. She's like, I saw how fast you

829
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: come to this door when there's pizza over here. That's

830
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 1: so true. Well, y'all, we'll close things up with a

831
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,839
Speaker 1: segment we like to call the spring of inspiring inspiration.

832
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: So this is when we pick an inspirational quote to

833
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: send you off on a positive note. And so this

834
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: quote is from unknown when I when I searched it

835
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: on on online, but the quote is as follows. Worry

836
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 1: is a misuse of imagination. Oh that's good, I like that. Yeah, yeah,

837
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,319
Speaker 1: it's true. Why not just imagine the best instead of

838
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 1: the words. Yeah, point it's kind of like the I

839
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:23,319
Speaker 1: get to do this instead of I have to do this.

840
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: Such a good way to like. Yes, guess what, it's

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