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Speaker 1: This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hi everybody, welcome back to the Almost Famous OG podcast.

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Speaker 1: I am Bob Guiney.

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Speaker 2: Today I'm without my co host Trista Sutter Nay Wren,

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Speaker 2: but I am telling you we are having a good

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Speaker 2: time here in Lake Tahoe. We are at the Lake

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Speaker 2: Tahoe House and we have been having a very very

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Speaker 2: fun week. I was gonna say a weekend, but it's

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Speaker 2: a Wednesday, right, Yeah, Today's Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: So it's been a very fun week a couple of days.

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Speaker 2: So we are podcasting from the Verbo Summer House in

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Speaker 2: Lake Tahoe. Procrastinators rejoice. The early bird is not the

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Speaker 2: only one who gets the worm. Verbal offers last minute

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Speaker 2: deals for private vacation rentals, and we scored a sweetheart deal.

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Speaker 1: Here in Lake Tahoe. We're having so much fun, and.

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Speaker 2: Today I am super fired up because my next guest,

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Speaker 2: or my guest here on the next hour of the

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Speaker 2: Almost Famous OGS is my buddy Ryan Sutter. And many

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Speaker 2: of you may not know, but Ryan does not grant

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Speaker 2: many of these interviews. It's tough to get them, tough

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Speaker 2: to nail him down. He's a busy, busy man. But

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Speaker 2: he was willing to come and hang out with me

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Speaker 2: and talk with me, which I love. Ryan is my

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Speaker 2: oldest and dearest friend from this whole Bachelor Shenanigan's franchise

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Speaker 2: that started so many years ago and has basically ridden

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Speaker 2: the atrista Ryan Coat Trail Coat Tails all the way

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Speaker 2: to twenty three years later. Yes, I mean it really

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Speaker 2: has right, it's pretty spectacular. A lot of people don't

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Speaker 2: know this, but Ryan and I were in the same

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Speaker 2: bunk area and our incredible mansion there in Malibu.

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Speaker 1: Somewhere that I've never been able to find.

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Speaker 2: When all the guys moved into the mansion and we

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Speaker 2: had a lot of fun in that house.

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Speaker 1: Man, that was a very good time.

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Speaker 3: It was a great time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what.

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Speaker 2: Are you what are some of your first memories of

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Speaker 2: when I mean, I know you probably recapped that night,

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Speaker 2: the first night many times, getting out the limo and

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Speaker 2: everything else, But what are the when we moved into

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Speaker 2: that mansion that next morning and it was kind of like,

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Speaker 2: what is going on? And you looked around that room?

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Speaker 2: What were you thinking?

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I don't like it's all it's all kind

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Speaker 3: of a blur. I don't know. If it's a blur

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Speaker 3: or I've just gotten so old that like I've forgotten.

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Speaker 3: But somewhere in between those two things, I honestly remember

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Speaker 3: it being a really positive experience too. I feel like

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Speaker 3: we always had a really good time. And in fact,

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Speaker 3: I always tell people like we would get the card

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Speaker 3: to go on a date and there would be some

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Speaker 3: level of excitement because you're going with Trista and some

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Speaker 3: level of disappointment because you were leaving all of these

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Speaker 3: like hanging out with So it was it was, I

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Speaker 3: think different than it is today where really everyone got along.

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Speaker 3: I think I told I told you this when we

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Speaker 3: want to know who you got, Like where was the

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Speaker 3: conflict and where was all this stuff happening? And I'm like,

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Speaker 3: I literally liked every single person on that show, and

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Speaker 3: we had a great time, and it was like we

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Speaker 3: were in this big fraternity house. Yeah, just throwing parties

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Speaker 3: and you know remember when we took Jack's bed outside

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Speaker 3: all this stuff was it was just super fun.

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Speaker 3: And then you know, obviously it got serious as guys

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Speaker 2: It was Man, I remember it so well too. It's

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Speaker 2: you know. I think it was obviously, you know, the

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Speaker 2: most successful season probably ever of the show. And I

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Speaker 2: think it's kind of interesting because they, I think wanted

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Speaker 2: I'm not doing it. But everybody was. We were all

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Speaker 2: I'm like, you guys are gonna get me say anything.

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Speaker 2: And it was so funny because we were kind of

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Speaker 2: in this experimental pod. They never had a bunch of

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Speaker 1: And we did like you said it best. It was

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Speaker 2: We'd grant our buddy Jack, he's a firefighter from Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: We took his he went to sleep early, poor dude,

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Speaker 2: biggest mistake he ever made in his life. We'd take

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, just doing dumb, fun stuff that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I passed out on my bed and

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Speaker 3: I woke up like embarrassed that I was the one

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Speaker 1: And she's she was like, no big deal.

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Speaker 3: Obviously she forgave me.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, she clearly forgive you. I remember so

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Speaker 1: many things in that show.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was a really fun experience because, like

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Speaker 2: I said, I don't think many of us or any

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Speaker 2: do you think everyone's gonna want to eat today?

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Speaker 2: Maybe some Tito's. At the time, it was a great

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Speaker 1: We'll be fine. But I remember, it was just such

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Speaker 2: And and you're right about the date cards, because I

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Speaker 2: do recall. I was never mad when I didn't get

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Speaker 2: that did. And then when I was on a date card,

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Speaker 2: I was excited to go, but I was also bummed

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Speaker 2: And it was genuinely that you described it best.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, And I think it Actually it's interesting having

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Speaker 3: out your path to the show was very similar to mine,

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Speaker 3: I almost wonder if that played in our favor somehow,

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Speaker 1: They thought it was a play, so they just kept.

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Speaker 3: They were persistent with us, which worked out for us.

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Speaker 3: And then I always tell people, had you not ended

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Speaker 3: Man, Well, it's true, like you mentioned that they come

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Speaker 2: So and that's what she was looking for for someone

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Speaker 2: I was like, I was like your wingman, and I'm

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Speaker 2: like still technically supposed to be trying to date her,

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Speaker 2: course she's beautiful, and of course, you know, but it

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Speaker 2: watching your relationship progress in a way that mine wasn't.

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Speaker 2: And I remember it was more one of those things

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Speaker 2: And I remember thinking to myself, like it was never

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Speaker 2: Always this morning I was, yeah, I mean for everyone listening.

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Speaker 2: Then we're at dinner with four hundred people and we're

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Speaker 2: And so I appreciated that too, And I loved that too.

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Speaker 2: You Actually, you and my wife Jessica have a lot

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Speaker 2: It could have been Trista, It could have been my

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Speaker 2: I just don't think I was prepared emotionally for that journey.

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Speaker 2: You have that you're such a sincere person and you

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Speaker 2: just don't care about all the other bs. And it's

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Speaker 2: all I've always said that about you like the guy

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Speaker 2: So I was saying to that guy today. He was like,

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm like, that's the house that Tristan Ryan belt.

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Speaker 3: And yeah that was all Trista. I mean, so much

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Speaker 3: what it's been great and hopefully continues to be.

437
00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,000
Speaker 2: Absolutely no, I think you put it perfectly. I often

438
00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:34,720
Speaker 2: say that when people will say, you know, why we're

439
00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,480
Speaker 2: Tristan and Ryan so successful and these other couples can't

440
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,840
Speaker 2: make it. And I do think a lot of it

441
00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,600
Speaker 2: has to do with making the decision to move and

442
00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:45,840
Speaker 2: go back to Colorado.

443
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,080
Speaker 1: You never quit your day job, you know.

444
00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,200
Speaker 2: I know you changed some things a few different times,

445
00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,600
Speaker 2: but you've always stayed true to who you are. And

446
00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,080
Speaker 2: Trista embrace that too, you know what I mean. And

447
00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,760
Speaker 2: so yeah, she still of course, you know, dabbles here

448
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,199
Speaker 2: and there and does the things that she can do,

449
00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,800
Speaker 2: and of course the podcast that we do together and

450
00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:05,960
Speaker 2: everything else. But I think for the most part, it

451
00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,439
Speaker 2: was like I can I can move to la like

452
00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,880
Speaker 2: everybody else does, you know, and see if I can

453
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,160
Speaker 2: become you know, the new Ben Affleck and the new

454
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:17,399
Speaker 2: you know, Jennifer Lopez or I can go home and

455
00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,359
Speaker 2: I'll take what comes when it comes. And you know,

456
00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 2: I actually went through that after the show too, because

457
00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,400
Speaker 2: there was just all these opportunities and but I had

458
00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,119
Speaker 2: to make a decision. I was like, I'm never going

459
00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:30,919
Speaker 2: to quit my day job because my fear was and

460
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,359
Speaker 2: this was this was really something I kept waiting for

461
00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:34,800
Speaker 2: the other shoot to drop. I'm like, I'm not gonna

462
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,960
Speaker 2: be flavor of the Month forever, and they're going to

463
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,240
Speaker 2: find a cheaper, funnier, younger, better looking version to me

464
00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,200
Speaker 2: in the next Bachelor, and you.

465
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 1: Know, and and they did.

466
00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,639
Speaker 2: Jesse Palmer came along, you know, and all of a sudden,

467
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a minute, he's already in a broadcaster,

468
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:50,919
Speaker 2: you know, creat like a guy.

469
00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,159
Speaker 1: Quarterback, and he actually started no.

470
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,120
Speaker 2: It was like they you know, but I just kept thinking,

471
00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:57,399
Speaker 2: like so, I'm like, if I don't put all my

472
00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,760
Speaker 2: eggs in that basket, then I can be happy, you know.

473
00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 2: And it took time for me to find the right person.

474
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 2: But once I finally didn't, you know, we've got a

475
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 2: family of our own and everything else, It's like, you

476
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,680
Speaker 2: can still You're right, you can still kind of have

477
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:13,199
Speaker 2: both worlds coexisting, but you've got to make the decision

478
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,399
Speaker 2: on which side of that fence you want to be on. Yeah,

479
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,959
Speaker 2: and I think that the younger people now, with all

480
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 2: the social media opportunities and things like that that didn't

481
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,320
Speaker 2: exist when we were on the show, probably find it

482
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 2: harder to decide what's more important. Yeah, you know, because

483
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,359
Speaker 2: they wanted the fame part of it. We didn't know

484
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,119
Speaker 2: that that was going to be a byproduct of what

485
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:32,479
Speaker 2: we were doing.

486
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:33,440
Speaker 1: We didn't know what we were doing.

487
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:33,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

488
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 3: I specifically remember when you sat in there with a

489
00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,199
Speaker 3: psychologist or psychiatrist, I can't remember which one she was.

490
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,399
Speaker 3: She said, this is going to affect your life for

491
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,159
Speaker 3: probably up to three months, so just be ready for

492
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 3: that impact. And it's been twenty something years and it's

493
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 3: still sort of impacting. And the first several years were

494
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 3: like you like, it was a major impact on your life. Yeah,

495
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 3: to be on Like to be in the grocery store

496
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,359
Speaker 3: with the guys getting groceries for the shift and there's

497
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 3: you and your wife on People magazine. Yeah, this is weird.

498
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 1: It is weird.

499
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 2: That was actually a because I mean, I don't think

500
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,440
Speaker 2: we don't see the magazines like we used to write.

501
00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 2: But I remember that was a big thing for me

502
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 2: because I was I'd be at the grocery store and my.

503
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:19,919
Speaker 1: Mom loved it, right, So my mom would walk up.

504
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 2: My mom would be in like the chicken section and

505
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,000
Speaker 2: be like, Bobby, this woman's a huge fan of yours.

506
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:25,399
Speaker 1: I'm like, how does she know?

507
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 2: What do you?

508
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 1: Mom? Are you walking up going?

509
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 2: Are you gonna go chicken breast or thighs? That my

510
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 2: son's Bob Guinea's over there? Like how is how does

511
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 2: this person even know I'm here? I walked Bastard twenty times.

512
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 2: She didn't recognize me. But I remember like seeing especially

513
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 2: when things like when Nostella and I were splitting up,

514
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,199
Speaker 2: and I remember seeing the cover of the magazine with

515
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 2: the rip down the middle and it was like, you know,

516
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 2: And I remember calling the executive editor US Weekly and

517
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 2: I was.

518
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 1: Like, why would you do that? Yeah, you're my friend,

519
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 1: Like why would you She's like, well, no, it was

520
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 1: just we just did it to you know sell.

521
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,199
Speaker 2: You know, I'm like, that hurts my feelings, like, you know,

522
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 2: I'm not getting paid millions of dollars. I guess in

523
00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 2: my mind that would have been okay to take a

524
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 2: pot shot, but why.

525
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 1: Did you do that to me? Like I'm the normal guy,

526
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 1: you know.

527
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 2: So I remember that that did change life for a while,

528
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 2: and that had to be really tough for you because

529
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 2: you went right back to the firehouse.

530
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fine until the show started airing, and

531
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 3: then I had to take six months off of the

532
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 3: firehouse because people would pull fire alarms and people would kidding,

533
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 3: would take be taking pictures while you're on medical calls,

534
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 3: and it was a huge distraction. Yeah, So the fire

535
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 3: chief suggested that I take six months off, and he

536
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,919
Speaker 3: was right, and so that was when we planned our

537
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,400
Speaker 3: wedding and it ended up working out great. Yeah, but

538
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 3: but yes, hugely impactful there for a while. And you're

539
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 3: just when you're just constantly taking pictures and constantly sort

540
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 3: of and there was a great there was a good

541
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 3: side of it too, like we got to do a

542
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,360
Speaker 3: kind of ton of really cool events and like I said,

543
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 3: we got to live in this really sweet cabin and

544
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 3: on Veil Mountain for a while. So there were there

545
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,439
Speaker 3: were definitely some benefits to it, but it was an

546
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 3: adjustment just to try to find some privacy in your life.

547
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 3: And yeah, and you know, always being nice. Like both

548
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 3: Tristan and I realized the only reason why people wanted

549
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 3: to take pictures was they we they enjoyed the experience.

550
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 3: And we heard a ton of really positive like I

551
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 3: watched this with my right after I had my child

552
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 3: in the hospital, or I watched it as my mom

553
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 3: like she was passing away or something like that, all

554
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 3: of these stories that are really touching, and.

555
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can't ignore them when they're talking to you.

556
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 3: You know, you're listen. The only reason why we're able

557
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,640
Speaker 3: to enjoy the things we're doing are because of these

558
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 3: people who all they want is a picture.

559
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 1: Yeah that takes two seconds.

560
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, we'll do that. And so we've always felt

561
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,919
Speaker 3: that way, and we've we were blessed with a positive,

562
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 3: a mostly positive impression coming off of that show. So

563
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 3: people have always been super supportive and nice, and that's

564
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 3: been easy to handle.

565
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right, cause I'm sure I used

566
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 2: to hear stories about like guys like you know, I

567
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 2: don't know if they were the villains of the season

568
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,119
Speaker 2: or something like that, but they would go into a

569
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 2: and people would mess with them and stuff like that.

570
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: That just never happened to me.

571
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 2: You know, I think I got the sun kissed of

572
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 2: being on the season with the two of you and

573
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 2: you two finding love, and then my season people seem

574
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:13,360
Speaker 2: to like And it wasn't successful from a relationship perspective,

575
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 2: but it was successful from the standpoint of I was

576
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 2: nice to everybody, they were.

577
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: Nice to me, and there was no scandal. It was like,

578
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 1: you know, that kind of stuff.

579
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 2: So it was easy to come off of a good

580
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,959
Speaker 2: at it like that, you know, as opposed to perhaps

581
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 2: one of the others. But well, I love I know

582
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 2: that this isn't something you love to do with these

583
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, but I love that you're here. I

584
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 2: love that you're willing to do this with me. We

585
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 2: are also here, of course, for a pickleball tournament, and

586
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 2: I will tell you I had an early pick. I thought,

587
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,959
Speaker 2: you know, well, let's see, I think Trista suggested this.

588
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, we should do the iHeartRadio Pickleball tournament.

589
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 2: And I'm like, clearly someone has played pickleball, right, because

590
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 2: I wouldn't necessarily suggest something I didn't know how to do.

591
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 2: So I told Kenyon, I'm like, Canyon, I think I

592
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 2: think the Sutters are going to be pretty good. I'm like,

593
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 2: first of all, Ryan's the best athlete I know. Secondly,

594
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 2: Trista suggest us at this, so I have a feeling

595
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 2: they're coming in strong.

596
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: We need to practice. We've never done this before.

597
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 2: So two weeks ago at our at our family's lake house,

598
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 2: we got like our friend has like a basketball court.

599
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 1: We put the net over the thing and we're in there.

600
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 2: She everyone's trying to teach us the rules, and I

601
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 2: was just I didn't understand the kitchen because they didn't

602
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 2: have that kind of layout, so I didn't even know

603
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 2: what they were talking about. And then the bouncing of

604
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 2: the ball, letting it bounce twice was the hardest part

605
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 2: for me, like remember to do that?

606
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:28,479
Speaker 1: But I felt like we got we got pretty good.

607
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,479
Speaker 2: So then we get out here and uh, you know,

608
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 2: we had some stiff competition. However, I think it's important

609
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 2: that we let people know. Well, first of all, who was.

610
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 3: All right?

611
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 2: You are the champions. Trista and Ryan Sutter won the

612
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 2: Pick a Ball Championship. First and foremost, congratulations, you were

613
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 2: a worthy competitor. I was very appreciative that during our

614
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 2: matches you were coaching us on how to play the game,

615
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 2: which was super nice, like up Bob the next time,

616
00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 2: you know, rushing that when you're not serving, And that

617
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 2: was awesome because as we end up having to play

618
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 2: each other twice, yes, yeah, and the first time I

619
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 2: think we almost got shut out. I think it was

620
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 2: eleven to one, and the second time a much better,

621
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:13,479
Speaker 2: much improved game, much closer eleven to three, but still

622
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 2: it was.

623
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 3: Much closer than the score indicase.

624
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you guys when you guys got on a

625
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: heater serving and it was just like sheeeze, pets, we can't.

626
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 2: But who would you say from the standpoint of like

627
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,959
Speaker 2: watching everybody play, Because I expected I expected Golden Gary

628
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 2: to be pretty good. Yeah, and he brought his own rackets,

629
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 2: his own paddles. I guess you'd call him. I'm like

630
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 2: anybody who's traveling with paddles. That dude's serious, right, He

631
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 2: had special shoes.

632
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 3: Court shoes, yep, tort shoes.

633
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,360
Speaker 2: Who were you expecting to be tough competition and who

634
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 2: were you surprised by?

635
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 3: Well, if I'm being honest, I wasn't really totally sure

636
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 3: who all was coming to this.

637
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 4: Thing, so I don't really know who I was expecting

638
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 4: to be good. But when we got there, Gary was

639
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 4: one I knew you would be good. Yeah, I thought

640
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 4: Ben would be pretty good.

641
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 3: Yep. I didn't realize he had had bue need that. Yeah,

642
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 3: I didn't it a little bit. Yeah, Deanna was Dianna

643
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 3: was probably the one that surprised me the most because

644
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 3: she had never played and we played her. I want

645
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 3: to say, we played them first, Ben and her, and

646
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 3: she was hitting the ball over the place. And then

647
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 3: by the end of it, kind of like you and Canyon,

648
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 3: Like the the improvement was was noticeable, right like you guys,

649
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 3: you figured it out really quickly and became pretty proficient,

650
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 3: Like within a few games.

651
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 2: I thought Deanna easily wins the award for me for

652
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 2: funniest funniest player. Oh you know, like every time she'd serve,

653
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 2: she was doing like the Serena really was like that ah.

654
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: And then she'd when she hit the ball, it would

655
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 2: either be a grunt or she'd just yell the worst

656
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 2: cuss word you've ever heard in your life.

657
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: And I was like, it would.

658
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 2: Make you laugh and you couldn't even return the ball,

659
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 2: and you're like, damn it.

660
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, she was good.

661
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 3: She was enjoying it, and I think you hit the

662
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 3: nail on the head with with Why we won is

663
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 3: because Trista. Trista planned this whole thing out.

664
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

665
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, Trista has been playing pickleball for years in like

666
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 3: leagues and stuff.

667
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: She knew all the rules.

668
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 3: She knows all the rules, and she's very competitive. I

669
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 3: don't know if people know this about her, but she

670
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 3: does not like to lose, no mean, and so it is.

671
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 3: I thank god I was on her team because if

672
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 3: I was not, and God forbid, we would have beaten her.

673
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 3: It would have been awful.

674
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: Well.

675
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 2: Kenyon also is incredibly competitive, and it was kind of

676
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 2: funny when because we kept coming up against each other

677
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 2: for the finals. The finals match was between the Guineas

678
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 2: and the Sutters, and we get up there.

679
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: And Kanyon is like, she the first time we played,

680
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: was super competitive and ready to go.

681
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 2: Second time we played, she was like, We're never gonna

682
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 2: beat them. I'm like, hey, I can't have that attitude. Okay,

683
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 2: you need to fire up. And I was like, yeah,

684
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 2: what I love about pickleball? And I do think this

685
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 2: is actually kind of a universal things. I've seen it

686
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 2: in movies seeing everything. It does make couples like argue more.

687
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yeah, yeah for sure.

688
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: Because I saw you guys a couple times. She's like

689
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Why are you back there? And

690
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: you're like what And you just hit like a winner

691
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: and she'll be like, well you could have. You should

692
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,719
Speaker 1: have hit it from up here. You're like, I just

693
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: hit a winner. Like, no one hit, no one hit

694
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: the ball back.

695
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 3: I will let one ball go thinking she was going

696
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 3: to hit it. Apparently that was my responsibility.

697
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, I rushed the net too soon.

698
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: Glad I know now, or I'd never do that again.

699
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's she's relentless on me when we play together.

700
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 3: Oh god, it's I enjoy seeing that side of her sometimes. Yeah,

701
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 3: it's surprising because she's not normally like that. She's normally

702
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 3: pretty subdued and a sweetheart. But when she gets into

703
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 3: anything competitive.

704
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 2: He's competitive man. Yeah forget, she was a competitive dancer.

705
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 2: She I know, Blakesley does that now your daughter is

706
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 2: in now, It's like you know that stuff that that

707
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 2: is that is a very difficult sport and a very

708
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 2: grueling sport to be conditioned for and everything else. So

709
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 2: you put in all that time and effort, You're not

710
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 2: doing it to come in second.

711
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: You know, so I get it.

712
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,719
Speaker 2: You know, my sister was a competitive cheerleader growing up

713
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 2: and competitive dance and stuff, and I remember they were

714
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 2: I mean it was they worked hard on that story.

715
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 2: Those routines did not you know, choreograph themselves, you know

716
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 2: what I mean.

717
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 3: Tristan was a little bit of a tomboy growing up.

718
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 3: She played soccer and softball, and she was an athlete,

719
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 3: so she has that in her. Yeah, both of our

720
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 3: kids do. Blakesley has that. I told you Max, Max

721
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 3: has it. It's buried a little deeper in Max. He's

722
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 3: he's more of a stoic type of kid, but also

723
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 3: super hard worker, competitive in that regard. But he doesn't

724
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 3: lose his temper as easy as his mom man, probably

725
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 3: his dad. Yeah, he does a good job.

726
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,719
Speaker 1: He's an improved version of Yea.

727
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 3: He's got the management.

728
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 2: Stuff's important, you know, it really is. I mean he's

729
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 2: got that down. So, yeah, I did notice the few

730
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 2: times i'm that Max, he is very quiet, very very humble,

731
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 2: just sits you know, sits back kind of I think

732
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 2: gets that from you, right, like.

733
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: From the reality perspective.

734
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and but yeah, I mean I know he's a

735
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,479
Speaker 2: really good hockey player, and and you know, I'm sure

736
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 2: probably everything he does he's probably pretty good at because

737
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 2: he's got two very athletic parents, you know, and it

738
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 2: kind of comes by default if nothing else.

739
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 3: I think he's getting his genes from somewhere. I don't

740
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 3: know for sure if it's Trista and I, but maybe

741
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 3: it's Trista's grandfather was World War two vet. Like, I

742
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 3: think some of it's coming from him because he's he's

743
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 3: of that greatest generation, and Max has a lot of

744
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 3: those kind of old soul, old soul qualities. He's matured

745
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 3: a lot over the last few years. He's really grown

746
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 3: up as a person. I'm super proud of him. Again,

747
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 3: knock on wood, he's home home alone. He probably throwing

748
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 3: some sort of giant kger at our house. They're going

749
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 3: to come home to you. And I'm gonna regret having

750
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 3: ever said this, but both of our kids have been

751
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 3: really awesome. It's really strange to get to this point

752
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 3: in your life where you can see your kids like

753
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 3: they're close to moving out of our house and that's

754
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 3: just going to leave us these as these empty nesters,

755
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 3: which one makes you feel so old, it does, And

756
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 3: two I don't know what it's going to feel like.

757
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 3: That Max's room is down in our basement where our

758
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 3: little home gym is, and so I go down there

759
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 3: and it's like smells like Max. It's like feels like Max. Yeah,

760
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 3: And I don't know what that's going to be like

761
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 3: when there's no Max down there anymore. So I am

762
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:31,479
Speaker 3: trying to really soak it up.

763
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 2: You know.

764
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 3: We just took a sweet backpacking trip the other day

765
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 3: for his eighteenth birthday, and those moments have become way

766
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 3: more precious than the closer he gets to leaving. And

767
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 3: so it's this whole parenting journey is crazy, like sort

768
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 3: of the stage you're in is a super fun stage

769
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 3: with your kids that are like really exciting and they're

770
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 3: facetiming you and all that sort of stuff. And I'm

771
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 3: writing these long text messages to my son or something,

772
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 3: and I get I get an expect like a response

773
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 3: back that's just like good, but.

774
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, that's all I get is good.

775
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 2: So one of my best buddy's sons, he has an

776
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 2: eighteen year old and the sixteen year old, both boys,

777
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 2: and he's like and he's he's like that, like he's

778
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 2: he's always been like the best friend dad and he

779
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 2: does all the sports with him and you know, and

780
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 2: he's like, God, you know, I used to think, man,

781
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 2: these kids just never stop talking, right, And he's like.

782
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: And now I can't get him to talk to me.

783
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: He's like, and it breaks my heart.

784
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 2: He's like, we'll have these conversations going and he'll just

785
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 2: go mm mmm, and he's like, I'll be like, how

786
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 2: was school today?

787
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: Good? What'd you do?

788
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 3: Nothing?

789
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: Who you talking to nobody?

790
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 2: He's like, come on, man, give me something, you know,

791
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 2: and he's like, it's just I don't know what the

792
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 2: duke because I don't want to be the I don't

793
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 2: want to be too pushy. But at the same time,

794
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 2: I'm trying to carve out moments because I know he's

795
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 2: leaving for school and yeh, he's at that exact same

796
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 2: stage as you and I. And it's interesting because that

797
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 2: makes me almost really want to cry, because right now

798
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 2: Grayson will talk to me and Blake will talk to

799
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 2: me until I can't literally take it anymore. Yeah, and

800
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 2: I don't want to be the dad that's like I

801
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 2: read something once that they said, h never if your

802
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 2: kid ever asks you to like pick him up and

803
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 2: carry him.

804
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,919
Speaker 1: Never say no, yeah, because you never know the last

805
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: time they're gonna want you to carry them.

806
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.

807
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 2: So I'll be on a walk with the boys and

808
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 2: they'll be like, Daddy, carry me, and I'm like, in

809
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 2: my mind I should be saying like, nope, you need

810
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 2: to keep walking, build your and I'm like, okay, I

811
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 2: snatch him off to carry what are you doing. I'm like,

812
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 2: he might not want me to carry him anymore tomorrow.

813
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: I'm missing this.

814
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 3: You never know when it's the last time. I used

815
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 3: to do this thing called the leaf with my daughter Blakesley,

816
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 3: where I would hold her up and I would like

817
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 3: I would like rock her back and forth as I

818
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 3: brought her back down into her bed and drop her

819
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 3: and she loved it, like loved it. And I remember

820
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 3: doing it one time and I'm like, oh god, she's

821
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 3: like getting kind of big. I don't know, I don't

822
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 3: know if I can do this much longer anymore. And

823
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 3: I distinctly remember the time she asked me and I'm like,

824
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you just you've just grown up too much,

825
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 3: Like I can't do it.

826
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: And he just never crushes me.

827
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 3: Know when that last one is yeah, you so want

828
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 3: to go back to those days where you could like

829
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 3: swing them in between you and do like things like that,

830
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 3: and and you know, instead Max is talking about like, Dad,

831
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 3: I benched to twenty five today, and I'm like, I'm

832
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 3: damn twenty five and so like, and Blakesley is just

833
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 3: all over the dance floor and look doing these like

834
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 3: these dances that make a dad uncomfortable.

835
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: It's like, so you think you can dance style that

836
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: she does?

837
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 2: Right? Yes, I've seen some of those routines before, and

838
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 2: then I've seen when Trista posts them, and I'm like,

839
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 2: that's like, it's like a grown.

840
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 3: Up my sixteen year old daughter.

841
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: You probably looking around. If anybody's like staring at her,

842
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: I'll kill them.

843
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 2: Yeah.

844
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 3: The one side of me is like, how is she

845
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 3: doing that? It's it's amazing the way that she can

846
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 3: move and and remember these dances and just like they're

847
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 3: also talented. The other part of me is like, dang it,

848
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 3: she's grown up way too fast and she sixteen looks

849
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 3: twenty two up there, and I just don't like it.

850
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 3: It just she has a boyfriend now and all these

851
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:52,399
Speaker 3: sorts of things.

852
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: How does that make you feel?

853
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 3: I actually thought it would be worse. It's not that bad.

854
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 3: Her boyfriend's pretty cool and he makes her happy, and

855
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 3: there's times when he's kind of a dick, and then

856
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 3: we have to sort of be like I have to

857
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 3: be like listen, Blake, he's a sixteen year old boy.

858
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 3: He's going to be kind of like, this is just

859
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 3: how it is. I was the same way. Yeah, it's

860
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 3: going to be. You just have to put up with it. Yeah,

861
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 3: you know, so, I'm but I'm like, but don't put

862
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 3: up with it, right, Yeah, but don't you expect.

863
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: But don't let him do that.

864
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 3: You ever get Yeah, that's good, it's crazy. I mean,

865
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:27,439
Speaker 3: it's it's fun.

866
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,399
Speaker 1: I challenges I got every time you turn around.

867
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 3: Yep, I remember. I remember, like every single phase of

868
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 3: our kids growing up, was like, oh, I wish they

869
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 3: would never leave this phase. And then they go to

870
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 3: the next phase. I'm like, oh, I wish they would

871
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,320
Speaker 3: never release this. So it just keeps getting better. Different,

872
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 3: for sure, but it's it's fun to watch them grow

873
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 3: into their own people and and wonder how they're going

874
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 3: to turn out.

875
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 2: That's such a Yeah, that's a really cool perspective. I

876
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 2: love that there's this thing I saw on Instagram not

877
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 2: too long ago, and it's the dad from Modern Family,

878
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 2: you know, the guy that was on Married with Children

879
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 2: Ed I can't think of his name, and he was

880
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 2: giving a speech to the whole family and he was

881
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 2: talking about, you know, I exactly what you just said.

882
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:08,760
Speaker 2: Like he was talking about, you know, the little baby

883
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 2: in my arms. And then I'm like, oh, I hope

884
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 2: she never goes up. The next thing, you know, she's

885
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,479
Speaker 2: become a toddler and she's talking and saying her first words,

886
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 2: and he goes all the way through the whole thing.

887
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 2: He's like, but I never had a chance to miss

888
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 2: the old one because the new one showed up, you know.

889
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 2: And he's like, and I fell in love with her

890
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 2: too as well. You know. It's sort of interesting, you know,

891
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 2: from a parenting perspective, as I'm watching my boys grow

892
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 2: and I'm loving where they're at right now, and I'm

893
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 2: missing where they were. And I think being an older

894
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 2: dad too, like I'm fifty four with a six year

895
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 2: old of four year old, you know, I'm already the

896
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 2: grandpa showing up at t ball and I feel like

897
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 2: it's one of those things where I'm really trying to

898
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 2: savor these moments because I've heard from my friends whose

899
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 2: kids are older that you need to you know.

900
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: So that's great advice.

901
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 3: So thank you.

902
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 2: All Right, So we got a few minutes left before

903
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 2: we wrap this up. So I want to talk about

904
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: the one thing that we've talked that I've always said

905
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 2: I loved about you was you never quit your day job.

906
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 2: He came on the show that back then, they made

907
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 2: us very one dimensional people, right, even Ryan the firefighter.

908
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 2: You know, I, however, because we were bunkmates, knew more

909
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 2: about you. And I remember saying to the producers, why

910
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 2: do you keep bringing up the fact that I was

911
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 2: a backup quarterback at Michigan State, which essentially means I'm

912
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 2: a party planner. But then you've got a guy who

913
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 2: played in the NFL, and all you keep talking about

914
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 2: is that he was a firefighter, Like this dude was

915
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 2: a beast and it would drive me crazy. And I'm like, you, guys,

916
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 2: I get it. He's humble, he's not talking about but

917
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 2: he's a next level athlete.

918
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:28,240
Speaker 3: Man.

919
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 2: So anyway, I digress. I won't get into that one,

920
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 2: but they want to talk about some of this stuff.

921
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 2: So I was thinking about this the other day. You know,

922
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 2: one of my other buddies a firefighter and he was

923
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 2: a paramedic for a period of time as well, and

924
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 2: my father was a police officer. Always had the best

925
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 2: stories of things that would happen, and they'd be like, oh, yeah,

926
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 2: you know, this happened, this happened, and you should have

927
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 2: seen this, but you know whatever, And it wasn't like

928
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 2: they were talking about people specifically, but they were talking

929
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 2: about moments. Like, for example, my dad's partner for a

930
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 2: long time in the force was a guy who was

931
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 2: a nervous eater. Right, so they walk into a scene

932
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 2: and the fireman I already be on the scene of

933
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 2: the paramatics, and the guy would be like getting the

934
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 2: report from the lady as to what, well my husband

935
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 2: fell down, dah dah, and he would he would look

936
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 2: around and he one time saw a thing of almonds

937
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: and he's he grabbed he goes, do you mind if

938
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 2: I and he's like, no, gover ahead, and he's eating

939
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 2: the almonds while the firefighters are taking care of the

940
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 2: man who had fallen or whatever. And she's like, oh,

941
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 2: thank god, I'm so glad you're eating those almonds. And

942
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, I love almonds and she goes. I mean,

943
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 2: my husband all he does is just suck the chocolate

944
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 2: off him and put him back in that bowl. My

945
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 2: dad to this day, I mean, my dad would just

946
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 2: laugh and laugh telling me that story.

947
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: I had heard of one hundred times, but it was

948
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: never not funny to me.

949
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, any circumstances like that, when you look

950
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 2: back and you think about all the years you've been

951
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 2: on the forest, and especially with the experiences I'm sure

952
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 2: you've had. You guys are in a mountain community, you know,

953
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 2: and there's a lot that goes on in those in

954
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 2: those communities. I'm sure a lot of tourism, a lot

955
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 2: of things like that where you get called out for

956
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 2: some silly stuff. Any funny stories that you think, like,

957
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 2: when you look back on him, you're like, this is

958
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 2: just like you couldn't write this.

959
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 3: Uh, I mean, it's it's hard to come up with

960
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 3: anything specific. I do remember when they legalized marijuana and Colorado,

961
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 3: you had this influx of forty somethings who hadn't probably smoked,

962
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 3: they probably smoked joints in high school, and they're like,

963
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,760
Speaker 3: all right, and so they started taking because instead of smoking,

964
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 3: people were just ingesting these like dummies of us. Yeah,

965
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 3: and it's kind of like doing shots where you're like,

966
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 3: I don't feel like this is doing anything. I'll have

967
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 3: another one. And then all of a sudden and there

968
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 3: was it was still this kind of weird Am I

969
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 3: in trouble? Am I not in trouble? Because this used

970
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 3: to be illegal and I'm not legal, And so we

971
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 3: would show up to these just way overly paranoid forty

972
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 3: somethings that would be like hiding behind things. Yeah, so

973
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 3: I remember that as a phase of the first service.

974
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 3: It was kind of kind of funny. But the beauty

975
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 3: of my job is like, right now, I'm on I'm

976
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 3: on Rescue one in Denver, which is a pretty serious

977
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 3: We go to just about everything and we see a

978
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 3: lot of pretty terrible stuff, but we also see a

979
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 3: lot of good stuff. And then when we're back at

980
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 3: the firehouse, the there's always like things. There's like there'll

981
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 3: be like a personality like yours, or there'll be a

982
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 3: couple of guys that can are just so good at

983
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 3: finding humor in the day, and it's never it's never

984
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 3: about the call, like we're never making fun of like

985
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 3: a person or like you said anything like that, but

986
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 3: a lot of making fun of each other, you know

987
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 3: each other's mistakes, or like we have this one guy

988
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 3: who has big teeth, and we have this one guy

989
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 3: that has a big nose, and like the banter back

990
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 3: and forth much most of it far too inappropriate to

991
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 3: say in a public forum, But it's just that is

992
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 3: the beauty of the job is that you go to

993
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 3: work with a bunch of people that are your friends,

994
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,320
Speaker 3: and you you go and you do these you accomplish

995
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 3: these tasks that sometimes turn out really well and sometimes don't,

996
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 3: but you always come back to this group of people

997
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 3: that you really love and care for and that support you.

998
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,280
Speaker 3: And I think that's what keeps people coming back. It's

999
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 3: it's like the job is the job, and it's fun

1000
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 3: and you feel there's some purpose and some it's a

1001
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 3: there's a rewarding aspect to the actual job of a firefighter. Yeah,

1002
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 3: but ninety percent of the time we're not doing that.

1003
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 3: We're hanging out with each other training and cooking and

1004
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 3: all these sorts of like sort of household type things. Yeah,

1005
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 3: and that camaraderie and friendship is really special. Is what

1006
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 3: makes the job really special and so there probably are

1007
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 3: a million different memories like that that hopefully someday I'll

1008
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 3: be able to like sit down and really recall, yeah

1009
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 3: and remember. But just the overriding impression and the reason

1010
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,439
Speaker 3: why I've been at this job for like almost thirty

1011
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 3: years is because of that component of it.

1012
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 2: Sure, which I'm sure is an extension of your sports

1013
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 2: years and everything else. Right, it's kind of that same

1014
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 2: type of camaraderie and bonding and sure kind of like

1015
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 2: what we had in the Batsrette house, you know, honestly

1016
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 2: it really is.

1017
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, dude, I love you, man.

1018
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 2: I always love when we get to get together like this,

1019
00:43:58,200 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 2: and I always love when we get to hang out

1020
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 2: a little bit. And I obviously spend a lot more

1021
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 2: time talking with your wife than I do with you.

1022
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 2: But I've always really cherished these moments, and I treasure

1023
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 2: the time we get to spend together. And thanks for

1024
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 2: always being such a good friend to me, and for

1025
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 2: being supportive of all that, for always being cool with

1026
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 2: me walking the red carpet with your wife, and you

1027
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 2: and my wife are hanging out at the end with

1028
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 2: cocktails waiting for us. So but I love you, buddy,

1029
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 2: I appreciate you I appreciate you making the.

1030
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:24,800
Speaker 1: Time to come and be a part of the show.

1031
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are really gonna enjoy

1032
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 2: getting to hear you talk a little bit about the

1033
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,919
Speaker 2: things that you have taken away from this experience, because

1034
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 2: it is a unique one. Even though there's been thirty

1035
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:36,959
Speaker 2: some seasons of it, it's still a pretty unique thing.

1036
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 1: For people to get to go through. I'm glad I

1037
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: got to go go through it with you.

1038
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 3: Thank you, Bob Bla. Likewise, I'll love you too.

1039
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:41,720
Speaker 1: I love you, buddy.

1040
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1041
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 2: We have had a great time here today, of course,

1042
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 2: catching up with my great friend Ryan Sutter.

1043
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: I think what we're gonna do right now.

1044
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 2: You know, we are in this incredibly beautiful Lake Tahoe

1045
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 2: Verbo mansion. It's called the River House in Lake Tahoe.

1046
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 2: It is absolutely unbelievable.

1047
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 3: You know.

1048
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,439
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1049
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1050
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1051
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: Take a book within thirty days to check in.

1052
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna tell you right now, if you can

1053
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,800
Speaker 2: get yourself to Lake Tahoe, get to the river House,

1054
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 2: you will lose your mind.

1055
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:10,240
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1056
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,960
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1057
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Speaker 2: including Hilton Head, South Carolina, Cape cod Massachusetts.

1058
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1059
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 2: I love, and of course right here Lake Tahoe, inside

1060
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,960
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1061
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,960
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1062
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1068
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Speaker 2: the upfront price. Thank you, Ryan Sutter, this has been

1069
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 2: an absolute blast. I appreciate you being here and thank

1070
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 2: you all for listening to the Almost Famous podcast with

1071
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 2: Bob Guinea and Trista Sutter nay Rehn.

1072
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,319
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