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Speaker 1: M hmm. Are you ready for this?

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Speaker 2: I'm ready for no.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no.

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Speaker 2: A great start.

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Speaker 1: Well, world, meet my boyfriend. M hm. I call him

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Speaker 1: mister B. His name is Braiden, Braiden, Welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to having a name.

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Speaker 2: I finally got a name today.

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Speaker 1: From this moment forward, you can now be known as

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Speaker 1: your name. But up in this moment, you have been

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Speaker 1: known as IRL boyfriend, just the boyfriend to me, mister B.

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Speaker 2: I'm still on your phone as mister B. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I know that's never going to change.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we're gonna do your favorite thing to share

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Speaker 1: to start this off. We're gonna share our story. You

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Speaker 1: love telling that how we met story.

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Speaker 2: You want to tell it with me? Rim huh Okay.

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Speaker 2: March twenty ninth, eleven thirty pm. I went out with

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Speaker 2: and Hally grabbed me by the arm. She was like,

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Speaker 1: He didn't know who Holly was. At the time. Holly,

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Speaker 1: a girl who helps save me in my Vertigo episodes.

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Speaker 1: So new friend in the last two years, but one

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Speaker 1: of my good friends. Please continue.

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Speaker 2: So she had pretty aggressively grabbed my arm and just

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Speaker 1: Thinking when this happened, were you like, what is this

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Speaker 2: No, there was no communication before it. She just grabbed

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Speaker 2: And you just get grabbed at a bar and little

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Speaker 1: Just so I was wearing high heels that night too.

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Speaker 2: So you were telling me about all the dogs, and

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Speaker 2: were grilling me about my red flags, I was like,

437
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,439
Speaker 2: all right, so tell me about Morgan, like how is

438
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 2: she single? And they were like, she just works really hard,

439
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 2: and so you have to be okay with someone who's like,

440
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,879
Speaker 2: really excels in their career and they're going to go

441
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 2: out of their way to set their life up for success,

442
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 2: and you have to be okay with that. And I

443
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 2: was like, all right, sounds wonderful that they were.

444
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 1: My friends are very well trained in the capacity of

445
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: not talking about the show. Everybody in my life pretty

446
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 1: much knows. That's not something that I very much advertise,

447
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: not because I'm ashamed of it, but because I just

448
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: don't want people to assume that's all I'm trying to

449
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 1: put out there, and especially in dating, I want to

450
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 1: make sure people are getting to know me for who

451
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,439
Speaker 1: I am. And so I love that my girls in

452
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,719
Speaker 1: that situation were very protective over that, and they were

453
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: trying to tell you why it really hasn't worked out

454
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 1: in a lot of scenarios is a lot around just

455
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,199
Speaker 1: my job in general, and lacking the confidence to be

456
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 1: with someone who has succeeded and has success and is

457
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 1: in a position that I'm in, and I love that

458
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: they were trying to tell you that without telling you

459
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: the main reason behind that. I didn't know that happened.

460
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they definitely they had your back.

461
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 1: I had no doubts. I knew they would, But that's funny.

462
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,640
Speaker 1: I didn't know that this whole moment happened. We have

463
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 1: seen also Holly since we haven't seen Carlas since, which

464
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: were kind of the two drivers behind this, so beyond

465
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: on that first night we met, it was really funny.

466
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,119
Speaker 1: I didn't ask them to go up to him. So

467
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: they were on a mission for some reason to make

468
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: me meet somebody that weekend. These are some of my

469
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 1: childhood best friends, and Holly was just one of my

470
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,479
Speaker 1: friends here and they were just like on this mission

471
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: to make it happen. I was like, guys, it's girls weekend,

472
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: we're hanging out. We're not focused on any of this.

473
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 1: Let's just have fun. And Carla spots you and drink

474
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 1: beer ped dog shirt and then Holly, here's Carla mentioned this.

475
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 1: It was like, well, I'm just gonna go up to

476
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: him and bring him over. And I was like, what, No,

477
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 1: we're not. I hadn't even seen you. I didn't know

478
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:34,919
Speaker 1: what you looked like. I didn't know who they were

479
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: pointing to because I just kept ignoring them. And so

480
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,679
Speaker 1: when Holly brings you up, she taps me on the

481
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: shoulder and I turn around, like what are you doing?

482
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: And then I see you and you say you melted?

483
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: I melted. I was just like, ah, crap, it's actually cute.

484
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 2: The first motion was you shaking your head. It was

485
00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,479
Speaker 2: a headshake, and then we like locked eyes and it

486
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 2: was no from there on that moment.

487
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 1: Do you want to share about the Florida side of this?

488
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 2: Yeah?

489
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: And how you were not going to be here much longer.

490
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So this was a story that I didn't

491
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 2: tell you for a while.

492
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: I didn't learn this until when my parents came the

493
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: day that he was getting to meet my parents because

494
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: they were coming into town. He had told me this

495
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: story earlier that morning, and then he told my parents

496
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 1: the story later.

497
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 2: Yeah. Previous to Nashville, I had lived in Saint Petersburg, Florida,

498
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 2: and I came up here on vacation to visit Ashton,

499
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,360
Speaker 2: who lives here, and I accidentally got a job here.

500
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 2: I decided to stay. So I had never planned to

501
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 2: live in Nashville. I love the beach, I love Florida life,

502
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 2: I loved the sand and so I always thought I'd

503
00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 2: go back to Florida. And part of me thought maybe

504
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 2: it was time to go back to Florida. And so

505
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: I had started entertaining a few different job opportunities down

506
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 2: in Florida, and I was talking to some people, and

507
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 2: on Friday, I had accepted a job in Florida with

508
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 2: my cousin's husband who had just started a business and

509
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 2: he needed a right hand man.

510
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: And this is a Friday before the Saturday that we met.

511
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 2: Yes, So on Friday, I had accepted a job in Florida.

512
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 2: On Saturday morning, we had me and all my friends

513
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 2: had a volleyball tournament at Sandbar. And one of my

514
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 2: friends that I was talking about seeing if there were

515
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 2: any other job opportunities in Nashville or you know, she

516
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 2: had some opportunities in Florida. She pulled me aside and

517
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 2: she was like, Hey, I think there's a job opportunity

518
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,959
Speaker 2: here in Nashville, and I was like, I'm so sorry,

519
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 2: but I just accepted a job down in Florida. And

520
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 2: I was like, don't tell anyone yet, but I think

521
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 2: I'm moving forward with this. And she was like, oh, Brad,

522
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 2: how could you leave this? And we're looking at this

523
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 2: amazing friend group and there were probably forty of us

524
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 2: out there and we're all really good friends. And she

525
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 2: was like, how could you possibly leave? What? Like we've

526
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 2: built here? And so she had walked away and I

527
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 2: kind of looked up in the sky and I was like,

528
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 2: all right, Universe, like send me a sign if I'm

529
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 2: supposed to be in Nashville, Like I need to know

530
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 2: because I'm at this part like my heart's torn. I

531
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 2: don't know what to do. And so that was in

532
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 2: the morning, and then I decided to go out and

533
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 2: get some beers with my now our friend Chris, and yeah,

534
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 2: we went to Skinny Dennis and I met you. And

535
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 2: it's funny because you think of shutting the door to

536
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 2: the uber as like you're I'm never going to see

537
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 2: that guy again. And that was like the moment where

538
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 2: I look back up at the sky and I was like, Uni,

539
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 2: what are you doing? Like that was crazy, like I

540
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 2: literally that morning asked for a sign and then I

541
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 2: meet you and it was like, Okay, I need to

542
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 2: I'm already crazy about this girl and I need to

543
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 2: at least talk to her on the phone. So we

544
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 2: got on the phone, and then that fifteen minute time

545
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 2: window we had turned into almost three and a half hours,

546
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 2: so I'm getting ready. So right after that phone call

547
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 2: is when I set up the reservation at the restaurant,

548
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 2: and I was like, something feels really good about this,

549
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 2: Like I feel all in and we haven't even gone

550
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 2: on a date, and there was something just really special

551
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 2: about that. And so I go to work and I'm

552
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 2: sitting there and I'm just thinking about my life in

553
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 2: Nashville and thinking about Florida and thinking about this job

554
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 2: opportunity that I was really excited about. And I had

555
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 2: gotten you sunflowers and I was driving over to come

556
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 2: pick you up, and there was a yellow jeep that

557
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 2: kind of cut me off and they had big sunflower

558
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 2: tire cover and it was just like I'm exactly where

559
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 2: I need to be, Like this is exactly where I

560
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 2: need to be. I came to Nashville to meet Morgan,

561
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 2: and so I called him right before I got to

562
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 2: your house and I told him, unfortunately, I can't take

563
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 2: the job. I'm just not finished. I told him verbatim,

564
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 2: I said, my time here in Nashville isn't done yet.

565
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 2: And he said, I wish you all the best. Definitely bummed.

566
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 2: And then we hung up and I literally I got

567
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 2: out of my truck and I walked up to your door.

568
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 2: I had already made a huge life decision knowing what

569
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 2: this was going to become. I just knew it. I

570
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 2: could feel it.

571
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: And how do you feel about making that choice now? Exactly?

572
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it these oh yes, of course,

573
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 2: like the universe works in the craziest ways, and it

574
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 2: comes down to even if you rewind Ashton, my little

575
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 2: sister bought me the drink beer pet dog shirt. She

576
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 2: bought that at a brewery in Colorado, and her husband,

577
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 2: Justin did a fabulous job on budgeting, right, so they

578
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 2: had the set budget. Ashton buying me that t shirt

579
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 2: would have gone over her fun money budget for the month.

580
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 2: So she had picked up that shirt and she set

581
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 2: it back down and she's like, no, that would you know?

582
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 2: I need to be good. And they walked to a

583
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 2: different place in Breckenridge, and she just kept thinking about

584
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 2: that shirt. So she ended up going back and she

585
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 2: bought the shirt, even though it went over her fun

586
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 2: money budget. But she was getting it for me, And

587
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 2: if she would have never gotten me that T shirt,

588
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 2: I probably would have been wearing a black T shirt

589
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 2: that night.

590
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: Well, and don't forget that this shirt is typically your

591
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: travel shirt. It's not typically a wearing out shirt that

592
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: you do.

593
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 2: It's my airport shirt. Yeah, you like to wear it

594
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 2: at the air It's the best conversation starter.

595
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: It is, which I learned because he wore it at

596
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: the airport on our first trip together. Well, second trip together,

597
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: the one that we didn't road trip, which we'll get into.

598
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: The first flight we had together, which was my first

599
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: flight ever with a boyfriend. Mind you, it did not

600
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: go according to plan.

601
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 2: Tune in for we two. That could be a whole episode.

602
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: Oh my god, So he wears this shirt. We get delayed,

603
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: multiple delayed, like this one flight. We have a direct

604
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: flight out and it is just getting delayed, delayed, and

605
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: then it gets canceled. We did a book the flight together.

606
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: Mind you, I've never traveled with a boyfriend before, so

607
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: I just thought you buy your flight, separate, you go

608
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: together or whatever.

609
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 2: Sitting on the couch together. We just booked m on

610
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 2: our phones.

611
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: We put our information in and we get rebooked on

612
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: different flights. And I'm about to have an anxiety attack

613
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: first of all, because we're going through with everything with

614
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:16,959
Speaker 1: Hazel and front of me, and I'm like, maybe this

615
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: is a sign we shouldn't be going whatever. And I'm like,

616
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: now we're not even on the same flight, and this

617
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: is gonna be the first flight with my boyfriend that

618
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: I've ever had in my life. I'm like, what is happening?

619
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: And so we ended up getting separated. We went through

620
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: with it. I was like, Okay, I'll meet you down

621
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: in Orlando, like I'll see you there. And I'm just

622
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: getting texts from him. He's made like eight friends at

623
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: the airport who he like, took shot. He bought a

624
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: guy a shot to borrow his charger because his phone

625
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: was gonna die because I had his charger. We didn't

626
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: think about the fact that we'd be separated.

627
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, my phone was dying. We were separated, and I

628
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 2: was like, I need to go make a friend that

629
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 2: has a charger.

630
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: Yep, And you made another friend with a woman who

631
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: had the koozie with the same thing on it.

632
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was ye, I was wearing the famous

633
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 2: shirt and she came up to me and she had

634
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 2: a koozie that said drink beer and pet dogs from

635
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 2: that same brewery in Colorado, and so yeah, I'd made

636
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 2: a friend there. And that was right at the moment

637
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 2: where your plane was leaving. So I like it was

638
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 2: pretty funny. I was, but they could get very dramatic.

639
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 2: I was like, my girlfriend's on that poy, but she

640
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 2: liked it, and so yeah, I made that friend. And

641
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 2: then I went to the bar and sat down and yeah,

642
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,800
Speaker 2: ended up buying a shot for he was a music

643
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 2: producer from Australia or something.

644
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I still don't know who it was.

645
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, he can't remember, And so I bought him a shot,

646
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 2: and then he ended up giving me his phone charger,

647
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: but he didn't even have the right charger. So I

648
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 2: bought this guy a sixteen dollars airport shot and it

649
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 2: didn't even fit my phone. And I had asked one

650
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 2: bartender if I could use the charger that I could

651
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 2: see right behind the bar, and they're like, no, we

652
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 2: don't do that for customers. Then another bartender, here's this

653
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 2: whole story. The iPhone charger doesn't fit, and he was like, oh,

654
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 2: you can just use this one, and I was like, okay,

655
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 2: So I just spent sixteen dollars on this random guy's

656
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:14,919
Speaker 2: shot all.

657
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: Because we got separated. Yep, we're a flight just supposed

658
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: to be our first one. We did, spoiler alert, have

659
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: our first flight together. Yeah, on the way back. It

660
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: was very exciting, but we were exhausted, so I don't

661
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: think I enjoyed it.

662
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 2: And I slept for a good amount of the flight,

663
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 2: and You're like, first boyfriend flight, You're just going to sleep.

664
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm so tired. We were averaging thirty

665
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 2: four thousand steps a day. I know.

666
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 1: I was just excited to have my first boyfriend flight.

667
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 2: No, well it was a boyfriend flight. I was just

668
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 2: sleeping on you.

669
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: I was, and we had the whole aisle through ourselves,

670
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: which made him better. I do want the people to

671
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: know a little bit more about.

672
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 2: You, so let's digging.

673
00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, not that they haven't already, but your story is

674
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: super unique, and your whole family story is really unique.

675
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: Oh you want to take it away from me?

676
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we had a year I guess it was

677
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:17,280
Speaker 2: two thousand and two where kind of everything went wrong,

678
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 2: but everything turned out to make us who we are.

679
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 2: So it started in November of two thousand and one.

680
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 2: My dad was laid off from a tech company, if

681
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 2: you will, and so he was a higher up at

682
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 2: this tech company and he was laid off. The first

683
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 2: week of December. My little sister, Ashton, who was eight

684
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 2: at the time, was diagnosed with leukemia, and so she

685
00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 2: started going through treatment for that. My older sister had

686
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 2: some back issues and they had finally decided that they

687
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 2: were going to do surgery. The first week in June,

688
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 2: she was scheduled to have two rods and twenty eight

689
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 2: titanium screws put in her back. And the week before

690
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 2: she was supposed to have her surgery, I was at

691
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 2: a pool party and I ended up having a stroke.

692
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 2: A lot of people say, healthy twelve year old boy

693
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 2: doesn't have a stroke. Well I did. I had an

694
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 2: old person stroke. It was in my cerebellum and I

695
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 2: was playing in the pool and I got out of

696
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 2: the pool and at my left side started curling in

697
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 2: and I lost color, and the grass that I was

698
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 2: walking on all of a sudden just kind of went sideways,

699
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 2: and I felt like I was walking really wonky, and

700
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 2: I started getting sick, and the lifeguards had run over

701
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,720
Speaker 2: to me, and they thought I was having a heat stroke.

702
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 2: And parents are calling my parents and trying to figure

703
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 2: this out, because they realized pretty quickly that it was

704
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 2: a pretty extreme case. And so my mom rushed over

705
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 2: to the pool, picked me up, and took me to

706
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 2: the hospital and they just couldn't figure out what was

707
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 2: happening with me, and kind of long story short, they

708
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 2: ended up sending me home and they said that it

709
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 2: was just a really bad migraine. So I spent the

710
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 2: next day or so at home, basically just sitting in

711
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 2: a dark basement with a wet cloth on my face,

712
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 2: and my parents were just waiting on me hand and foot,

713
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 2: and I ended up going back to Children's hospital. This

714
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 2: was all in Colorado, just outside of Denver, and so

715
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 2: I went back to Children's hospital and they diagnosed that

716
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 2: I had a stroke, and so I had to have

717
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 2: emergency brain surgery and I lost about a third of

718
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 2: my a rebellum and doctors didn't think i'd ever walk

719
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 2: or talk or be able to move my left side

720
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 2: because at this point my left side was still curled in,

721
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,720
Speaker 2: and so I literally shared a hospital room with Jordan,

722
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 2: my older sister, who had back surgery, and Jordan and

723
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 2: I were on the third floor while Ashton was up

724
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 2: on the fifth floor getting chemotherapy. And then we have

725
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 2: my brother at home who was couch hopping and going

726
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 2: from family to family and kind of wondering when the

727
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 2: shoe was going to drop for him. So we went

728
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 2: through it, and my parents were so strong getting through it,

729
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 2: and they would just flip flop between the two rooms

730
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 2: and check in on whatever family was helping Garrett out.

731
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 2: And Ashton had a full recovery and she's been in

732
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 2: remission ever since. And my older sister would say, she

733
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 2: got the good hair twice. She had curly blonde hair

734
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 2: and she lost her hair during chemotherapy and it came

735
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 2: back like this luscious brown, straight hair. And so Jordan says, oh,

736
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 2: she got the good hair twice, and Jordan sits up

737
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 2: very straight. Now you would never know. And then for me,

738
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 2: I had this amazing recovery that was a little bit unexpected,

739
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 2: but it's definitely led me to places in life where

740
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 2: I was already heading, but maybe accelerated where I was

741
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,399
Speaker 2: at I'm very thankful for my stroke. I wouldn't change

742
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 2: that for the world.

743
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: And you have a really cool Harry Potter scar.

744
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, from the back of your head. I have a

745
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 2: scar on the back of my head. It's curvy because

746
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 2: hair grows straight, so if my neurologist were to cut

747
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 2: a straight line, the hair would separate, so you'd always

748
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 2: be able to see it. But I like to keep

749
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 2: my hair a little bit shorter so you can see it.

750
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 2: But if my hair was longer, it would cover up.

751
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 2: And yeah, something I got made fun of as a

752
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 2: kid because Harry Potter was pretty popular when I had

753
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 2: my stroke, and I have this squiggly line, you know.

754
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 2: The Harry Potter jokes were pretty rich in middle school.

755
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: And it didn't make you hate Harry Potter because you

756
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: and I both peek out of her Harry Potter.

757
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 2: I loved Harry Potter, and honestly, like when people would

758
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 2: say it, I thought it was cool. You know, it's

759
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 2: like a lightning bowl, you know. But just the tone

760
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 2: of some of the ways it was brought up, whispered

761
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 2: about behind me, because middle schoolers just don't know that

762
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 2: even if you're behind someone, you could still that person,

763
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 2: could hear you. I really wear it with bride now.

764
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 2: I like my scar and yeah, just missing a third

765
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 2: of my sarahbellum, which my family reminds me of all

766
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 2: the time, especially my brother.

767
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: You do. Their family loves to make a lot of

768
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 1: jokes now about this time. Yeah, I think the first

769
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: time when I was around all of them and they

770
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: were all making the jokes together, and I was like, wait,

771
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: what's happening. We're making jokes about all of that? Okay,

772
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: all right.

773
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, we like to remind Ashton that she has the

774
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,439
Speaker 2: bad blood in the family, and you know, we make

775
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 2: fun of Jordan for being made of metal. And then

776
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 2: they like to remind me that I don't have a

777
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 2: full brain and if only I had a full brain,

778
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 2: I could have said that or remembered this. So yeah,

779
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 2: we were very, very playful with it because you just

780
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 2: everyone in the family's healthy and not a lot of

781
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 2: people get to tell that part of a story when

782
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 2: you have that many things go wrong in a family,

783
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,839
Speaker 2: and it's brought us really close, all of us are

784
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 2: you know, my mom, my dad, you know, both my sisters,

785
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: my brother were all so close and it's really cool

786
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 2: that we got to go through hardship at such a

787
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 2: young age but be able to bounce back and everyone's

788
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 2: all good.

789
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: You know, I love your family so much. They are

790
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: so much fun, and we hang out with them anytime

791
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: they're in town, which is quite often, so they come

792
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: down quite a bit. Yeah, I love that. Thanks for

793
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: sharing that. It's part of your story. Does it feel

794
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,320
Speaker 1: weird that I'm interviewing you?

795
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, it's weird to be on this side because

796
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 2: I've sat in to see a couple of them, but yeah,

797
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 2: to be on this side is a little different.

798
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: You're doing really good. I'm so proud of you. What

799
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: else should we hit on before we get out of here?

800
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 1: Anything else that you think is pertinent at this moment.

801
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: We are going to do another episode because there's so

802
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: many questions that got asked and they're very specific, so

803
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: we'll get into those. But anything else you want to

804
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: openly talk about here that we haven't gotten to.

805
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 2: I won't talk about anything.

806
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: I know you will. You're very open, very good. You

807
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 1: know what, let's talk about this. Do you love Remy

808
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:46,720
Speaker 1: and Hazel?

809
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 2: I don't know if love covers it. Remy, you need

810
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 2: to get over here right now.

811
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: She's just staring at you. You got a mini tail wag.

812
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,919
Speaker 1: But it's little cool. The people would like to know, Hey,

813
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 1: pay attention to me.

814
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 2: Oh, here we go.

815
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: See he loves her more than me. Sometimes he pays

816
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: attention to her more than me. But the people would

817
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: like to know. That was a very heavily asked question

818
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: because it got brought up on the show that I

819
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: brought miss Remy on our first vacation together and I

820
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: shouldn't have apparently, So how did you feel in all

821
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: of that?

822
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 2: I one thousand percent supported that from the get go.

823
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 2: I've always been a dog guy. I've traveled with dogs.

824
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 2: I was way more than comfortable bringing her on the vacation.

825
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 2: I loved I feel like I was the one that

826
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 2: was like, we should take the stroller, we should like

827
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,760
Speaker 2: she should come with this, like sitting on patios with dogs.

828
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 2: Like if you're a dog owner, it's a whole skill

829
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,839
Speaker 2: and you have to think differently. And you if you're

830
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 2: on a road trip, you can't just stop anywhere for food,

831
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 2: and you can't stop somewhere where the dog's going to

832
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 2: have to stay inside the car or you know whatever,

833
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 2: and so it's just a different thought pattern and It's like,

834
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 2: I feel like I think about Remy as much as

835
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 2: you think about Remy, and it was never even a

836
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:26,320
Speaker 2: question that she was coming, and everything that we did

837
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:31,240
Speaker 2: was better because she was there. And the whole time

838
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 2: we got like two comments on people that are like, oh,

839
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 2: you're pushing a dog in a stroller, and it's like, yeah,

840
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 2: it's not affecting you. If it was a baby, you

841
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:44,720
Speaker 2: wouldn't have said anything. So whatever. People love their dogs,

842
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 2: and dogs deserve love. So that's exactly what I'm gonna

843
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 2: give Ren. And Hazel's a whole nother story.

844
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, so funny enough, okay, but just making sure I

845
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: didn't coerce you to say that you were happy. No, okay,

846
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: I'm just making Remy's literally on his lap right now

847
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: for all of our listeners, if you're not watching this

848
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: on YouTube, she very much is. I'm pretty sure she

849
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 1: loves you just as much as she loves me. I'm

850
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: getting side eye for some reason right now, like this

851
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: is my man, not yours. But Hazel's a funny story.

852
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: So I had told him when we first met that

853
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: I had a cat, and he was like, gosh, I'm

854
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: not a huge fan of cats. I've had some bad

855
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:32,320
Speaker 1: interactions with them. Just not a good situation. You weren't

856
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: like a hater, you just didn't have good experiences with cats.

857
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, wait till you meet mine.

858
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: He's like, okay, yeah, whatever, so much so that he

859
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: didn't like cats, that it was the one thing on

860
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: his dating app profile that he said he didn't want

861
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: to date somebody with or like. That was one of

862
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: his two things. I don't remember what your other thing was.

863
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, I tried to be funny with it, but yeah,

864
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 2: cats were definitely involved. I had never met a cat

865
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 2: that I felt like a better person after I met

866
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:07,439
Speaker 2: I left with bite marks or they smell bad, or

867
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:12,720
Speaker 2: their mean, or they shed like I don't like everything

868
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 2: that I love about a dog. I had never seen

869
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 2: those qualities in a cat. And it's nothing against cats.

870
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 2: I just for some reason, I just met nineteen of

871
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 2: the worst ones out there, for some reason, I don't know.

872
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: But and now you give SubQ fludes to Hazel. He

873
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: snuggles her every time he comes in. Sometimes he will

874
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:35,919
Speaker 1: come and say hi to her before he ever says

875
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: hi to me when he comes over. Yeah, it's like

876
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 1: the first thing you'll do. Where's Hazel. No.

877
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 2: I think it was a couple days ago when I

878
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 2: came over and I walked in the kitchen. I think

879
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 2: I had a full blown conversation with Remy and then

880
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 2: I was snuggling Hazel as she was sitting in her

881
00:47:56,040 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 2: cat bed, and we hadn't even communicated. It had been

882
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 2: like five minutes, and I like, look over and it's like,

883
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 2: I love these animals, and you're like, oh, Hi, Like

884
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:12,760
Speaker 2: that's not normal.

885
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: So has your mind changed on cats because of Hazel?

886
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I'm open to cats now. I didn't

887
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 2: know cats like her existed. It's like, we go to

888
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 2: let Remy out back, and you hear the pitter patter

889
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 2: of Hazel's paws because she wants to go out back.

890
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 2: She's just a dog that's trapped in the Siamese.

891
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: Cat body exactly. So all those people who were haters

892
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: of this man not wanting my animals around or on

893
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,479
Speaker 1: vacation or any of the above, you were wrong.

894
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 2: I just love I've always loved animals.

895
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know we bonded over that.

896
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. And it just so the fact that people thought

897
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 2: that I was upset that you brought Remy on the trip,

898
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 2: and it was like, no, I want olden her up.

899
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: I think some of that was because it was our

900
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: first vacation together. So does that change your mind at

901
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: all because it was our first one together?

902
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 2: No, Like, that's it's the package deal. And you can't

903
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 2: be like if I thought Remy was annoying, that relationship

904
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 2: is not gonna last. You need the whole thing. Stop settling,

905
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 2: stop settling. You need the whole package. And Remy's just

906
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 2: been nothing but the sweetest little and I can't get

907
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 2: over this haircut that she just got. But she's just

908
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 2: been the sweetest little ball of fur. And I'm lucky

909
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 2: to have her, and I'm lucky to have Hazel, and

910
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 2: I'm actually lucky to have you. For sure?

911
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: Are you trying to make me cry?

912
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 2: No, She'll lick your tears off. She's a lucky move.

913
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna end on this because we're gonna go

914
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: and answer a bunch of questions. But I want us

915
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: to each share our favorite qualities about each other. Let's

916
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: go top three or top five, you choose, Okay, do

917
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:20,720
Speaker 1: you want to go first? You want to go first,

918
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: I'll go first. Okay, you can go first.

919
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 2: First. Quality is kindness, Your kindness. It's an unwavering kindness

920
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 2: like you. You are kind to a stranger that we

921
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 2: meet at the farmers market. You are kind to your

922
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,799
Speaker 2: family members, you are kind to your friends, You're kind

923
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 2: to animals. You're I can't get over how naturally you

924
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 2: are just kind to everyone. Your work ethic inspires me

925
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 2: to be a better person. You are not afraid to

926
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 2: tell me that we can't hang out or we can't

927
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,359
Speaker 2: do that because you have this to do and you

928
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 2: have other plans and you have work Like this is

929
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:15,479
Speaker 2: you stay true to yourself and I just think that's

930
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 2: so admirable that you do that, and watching you do

931
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 2: that helps me learn how to be a better person.

932
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:36,319
Speaker 2: Like literally and my third gosh, I would say the

933
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 2: fun that you have with life. I remember it was

934
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 2: I think it was the second time that we hung

935
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 2: out and I played a song in the truck and

936
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 2: you were just singing along and you didn't have a

937
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 2: care in the world. And this is like, still, we're

938
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 2: getting to know one another, and you can't be too

939
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 2: lucy goose with you know who you are and you

940
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 2: can't let the weird out and you were just like

941
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 2: one hundred percent you and I just I was like,

942
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 2: all right, that's it. If she's going to be comfortable

943
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 2: enough to just open up and sing at the top

944
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 2: of her lungs. And you were like tapping on your

945
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 2: legs and you were just getting it and not looking

946
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 2: at me. It wasn't like attention seeking. You were just

947
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 2: in your own world. And so like, the fun that

948
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 2: you can find in life is something that I want

949
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,439
Speaker 2: to constantly strive for, and I think I'm pretty good

950
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 2: at it. But there's definitely times where you remind me

951
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 2: to come back to just kind of silly fun, live

952
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 2: your life and smile while you're doing it.

953
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: Oh you know, that's really sweet.

954
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 2: I like you a little bit.

955
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:56,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a little bit. Okay, okay, just ari of it.

956
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: My my three for you. By the way, thank you.

957
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 1: I'm learning to say thank you. I'm not very good

958
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: at accepting compliments.

959
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 2: It usually turns into like an awkward twisting. I'm like,

960
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, you look gorgeous, and she's like so rude.

961
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: You know how to call me out like that.

962
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 2: And you're openly working on it.

963
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying, so thank you, you're so well so

964
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: twist my bodies out of that. Oh my goodness. Okay,

965
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: your three qualities that I love so much. Okay, you

966
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: have genuinely one of the biggest hearts I believe that

967
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: I have ever met with your friends, with your family,

968
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 1: with animals, with everything. You will give your shoes, shirt

969
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 1: and pants off your back to somebody who needs it.

970
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 1: You show up in this world just so positive and

971
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: so optimistic and so leaving. Like if there's ever a

972
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: moment where I start to go down a little bit

973
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,439
Speaker 1: of a pessimistic lane, You're like, well, there's this side.

974
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: I'm like, dang it, you took me back to the

975
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: other side. You're so good at just existing and exuding

976
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 1: in this like just kind of bubble of love. And

977
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: I think it's a lot of the testament of the

978
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 1: things that you've been through, and so much of that

979
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: is where that comes from. My second one would be

980
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:32,759
Speaker 1: that you are very consistent. Steadfast is another word. You

981
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: have been the same person since the moment that I

982
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: met you in the best way possible, Like you aren't

983
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: trying to be somebody else, You're exactly who you are.

984
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: You don't change for anyone. Any moments where you be

985
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: a little funny or weird, you don't care what anybody

986
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: thinks about you. You just have this genuineness to you

987
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: and it shows and how consistent you are and showing

988
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: up in your life, and how dead fast you are

989
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: in our relationship and your working relationships and your friendships

990
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,479
Speaker 1: with your family. Gosh, this guy talks on the phone

991
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: more than I know. I'm pretty sure every time he

992
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: drives to and from work he's on the phone call

993
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 1: with somebody catching up with him. And then the other

994
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: one would be I think my last one for you.

995
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: There's so many I know.

996
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 2: It's it well, and it's tough when you when you

997
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 2: put yourself on the spot too.

998
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: I know, I even knew I was going to ask

999
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: these things, and I still don't know which one I

1000
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:38,279
Speaker 1: was gonna No, there's something on my hands. Mine. I

1001
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 1: think mine would be that you and it maybe it

1002
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: goes too much along with another one. But your compassion,

1003
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, You're just a super compassionate human being.

1004
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: You just the way you interact with the world is

1005
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: something that so many people could learn from and so

1006
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 1: many people would be better off for knowing you, And

1007
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: I just wish there was more of that that existed.

1008
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: And maybe those were all very similar I don't know.

1009
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:11,359
Speaker 1: They're different words, so whatever counts. It's something, well you'll

1010
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: allow it.

1011
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 2: Yeah it's three.

1012
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 1: Okay you like those? Well, thank you coming on you

1013
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:23,839
Speaker 1: so much. Look at you accepting compliments so well usually yeah,

1014
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: I can't hear like no, not me. Thanks for coming on, mister.

1015
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 2: B Thank you for inviting me and.

1016
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 1: Sharing our story. And you're cutie.

1017
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 2: I did not know what was going to come out.

1018
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,839
Speaker 1: Okay, give me kids, Yes you heard that correctly. We

1019
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: are doing another episode next week. So this episode was

1020
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: really just for us to share our story together, and

1021
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: I wanted him to share his story and just have

1022
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:57,439
Speaker 1: a really fun episode without too much pressure. But next

1023
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 1: week we are answering all of those questions that you

1024
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: all sent in because there was so many, we had

1025
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: to do another episode. Now. I do know a few

1026
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: of them got answered in this episode, but all those

1027
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: specific ones you guys are asking, very nitty gritty details,

1028
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: we will be doing next week, so make sure you subscribe.

1029
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that you're here. Maybe you were giggling, screaming,

1030
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: kicking your feet with me as this episode happened. If

1031
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: that's not the case and you're like ooh love, throw up.

1032
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 1: That's totally fine too. Maybe don't listen to next week's episode,

1033
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 1: but all the same, I'm just happy you tuned in.

1034
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: I'm happy you're here. Lots of episodes on all kinds

1035
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: of things if this is your first time tuning in,

1036
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: so check it out and you can follow the podcast

1037
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Speaker 1: Instagram page at Take this Personally, I can't wait to

1038
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: yeap with y'all next week