Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Lauren Zema. Coming to you from the
Speaker 1: home office in Austin, Texas. We're finally home. Nobody is
Speaker 1: in our house. It is quiet. We are post wedding,
Speaker 1: post parents weekend at TCU.
Speaker 2: I need to just run through quickly what we've done
Speaker 2: because I want to thank you, because Chris Harrison is
Speaker 2: the best partner in so many ways, but very particularly
Speaker 2: good TV host, also just good host of people of events.
Speaker 3: He helps me put on parties in your shue.
Speaker 1: I'm your co host for life?
Speaker 2: Wow? How is that not in the vows and now
Speaker 2: co hosts for life? Lauren Zema and Chris Harrison husband
Speaker 2: and wife co host for life. Okay, so here's real
Speaker 2: quick what we've done, like since October fourteenth, since we
Speaker 2: got married to Napa the NAPA wedding. Then we hosted
Speaker 2: two other couples at our house for f one in Austin.
Speaker 2: Then it was Halloween and we threw a Halloween party.
Speaker 2: Then it was all of our family came in and
Speaker 2: we did the Austin wedding. Then we had a wine
Speaker 2: dinner at our house for twenty people. Then we had
Speaker 2: parents weekend at TCU. Now we are home.
Speaker 3: So when he says we have our house in our
Speaker 3: life back, we really like.
Speaker 2: We paid a neighborhood kid to clear all of the
Speaker 2: cardboard boxes out of our garage because of all of
Speaker 2: the stuff we had ordered for all these different things.
Speaker 3: I've we yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We were gone at Dad's weekend at TCU. We had
Speaker 1: to pay pay a neighborhood kid to come in, gave
Speaker 1: him a couple hundred bucks to just take everything out
Speaker 1: of our garage because things have just piled up. Like
Speaker 1: you know, a normal week probably for many people around
Speaker 1: the country, you just get a thousand Amazon box. This
Speaker 1: is multiply that by a thousand, and that was our
Speaker 1: garage and our life and things that just piled up
Speaker 1: beyond me.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean it to sound like we're venting.
Speaker 2: These have all been wonderful things. People keep asking me
Speaker 2: friends and people on Instagram, like, oh my.
Speaker 3: Gosh, are you exhausted? Are you tired?
Speaker 2: Yes, But there's nothing I would rather be tired about.
Speaker 2: I'm so happy, We're so lucky.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to a little downtime. Although we're heading
Speaker 1: into the holidays, Yeah, but I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 2: Well, you're right, sometimes we push ourselves to the point
Speaker 2: of exhaustion. But the thing is, I mean, I remember,
Speaker 2: I think I mentioned this on the podcast before. Caitlin
Speaker 2: Bristow was like, you guys, didn't have anyone come help
Speaker 2: you clean up after the Bachelor people came near house
Speaker 2: on Friday.
Speaker 3: Night, and I said no.
Speaker 2: And the thing is, we like to do stuff ourselves
Speaker 2: because I think it means so much more.
Speaker 1: I find the cleaning cathartic. I know you always because
Speaker 1: I do all the cooking here in this co hosting relationship,
Speaker 1: but I also end up cleaning mostly in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: But I'll be honest, it's because I find it cathartic.
Speaker 1: I like it. I end up talking to you usually
Speaker 1: sit at the table and we talk. And I like
Speaker 1: to put things where they're supposed to be in my kitchen.
Speaker 1: I definitely am am dominant and territorial in my kitchen.
Speaker 1: I like things a certain way, and so I don't mind.
Speaker 1: It didn't bother me at all to clean up everybody's glasses,
Speaker 1: put them up in the bar, and get everything back
Speaker 1: the way I like it to look.
Speaker 2: Here's a question I have for everyone because you and
Speaker 2: I differ on this, and I think this is part
Speaker 2: of why you end up cleaning up. I am okay
Speaker 2: with leaving a sink full of dirty dishes until the
Speaker 2: next morning. I'm not a disgusting person. I love a
Speaker 2: clean and organized home. But Chris can't go to bed
Speaker 2: unless the kitchen is clean. Please tell us where do
Speaker 2: you follow everyone? And Babe, why do you think that
Speaker 2: is like psychologically? Why can't you just let the dishes
Speaker 2: wait until the next morning?
Speaker 1: I can, but no you can. But here's you're here.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I've allowed this to happen once. Or
Speaker 1: you're like, I got it, Babe. You go to bed
Speaker 1: or whatever, and I get up in the morning and
Speaker 1: it's just been moved around. So here's how this goes.
Speaker 1: I'm the first person up, so whether I do it
Speaker 1: at night before I go to bed, I'm the first
Speaker 1: up in the morning, so either way, I'm facing it.
Speaker 1: So I would rather face it at night and know
Speaker 1: when I wake up, I'm the first to walk in
Speaker 1: the kitchen and everything spot.
Speaker 2: No, you're not addressing what is a psychological thing. I
Speaker 2: would clean it up when I wake up in the morning.
Speaker 3: It is about why can't you wait a little bit.
Speaker 3: I don't know, like I would wake up at nine
Speaker 3: am and clean it up or whenever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, because I know I can't wake up and
Speaker 1: just walk out and go to the gym and leave
Speaker 1: the kitchen line.
Speaker 3: Why is that?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what that is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we need go I don't know, But I just
Speaker 1: I like everything tidy when I when I wake up,
Speaker 1: I like waking up to everything clean. I love when
Speaker 1: our house is. And by the way, you are really
Speaker 1: good at this. You organize after I go to bed,
Speaker 1: because you always up later than I do. You'll organize.
Speaker 1: I'll come in and things are always you know, spotless,
Speaker 1: you've cleaned, and you've organized, You've done laundry. I like
Speaker 1: waking up to that. Okay, I like the organization and
Speaker 1: I and this is why I don't like airbnbs.
Speaker 2: I think sometimes you have to welcome those moments of
Speaker 2: like planning your wedding stuff together and or your or
Speaker 2: your parties and doing the cleanup and the breakdown together,
Speaker 2: because sometimes those moments, like you just said, are the
Speaker 2: best memories. I always say, the debrief after is sometimes
Speaker 2: just as fun as the event itself. Like I will
Speaker 2: always remember putting together gift bags for both my sister's
Speaker 2: wedding and our wedding in my garage with my little
Speaker 2: sister and my brother's girlfriend, Casey, and my mom. Like,
Speaker 2: we laughed and we had a great time doing all
Speaker 2: that stuff. Yes, my mother completely annihilated and destroyed our
Speaker 2: kitchen because she wanted to bake everything for our brunch.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have done that. I would have outsourced the food.
Speaker 2: But sometimes you gotta let your mom do what she
Speaker 2: wants to do.
Speaker 1: And so this weekend, this last weekend, we went up
Speaker 1: to TCU up at Fort Worth, Texas for Dad's technically
Speaker 1: it was Dad's weekend with Taylor with our daughter.
Speaker 3: Thank you for letting me crash Dad's weekend.
Speaker 1: You crash Dad's weekend. So Taylor is a theta in
Speaker 1: the sorority. So is Lauren from Miszoo, and so Lauren
Speaker 1: came up kind of crashed Dad's weekend in a good way.
Speaker 2: Can I say we kind of had this idea of
Speaker 2: because some of our best friends also have kids at TCU.
Speaker 2: It was a big game. I can't believe I know this,
Speaker 2: and I'm saying this. It was the ut game, and
Speaker 2: so we sort of made it a couple's weekend. So
Speaker 2: I wasn't the only no no. There was a woman
Speaker 2: crashing dad's weekend.
Speaker 1: There were other moms there and it was a blast.
Speaker 1: We so step one, this is something and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to completely bag on a company. And if you
Speaker 1: love this, good for you. We got an airbnb. Three couples,
Speaker 1: we got an Airbnb. My best friend Chip, mother, Buddy Church,
Speaker 1: and their wives. So three couples piled up into an Airbnb.
Speaker 1: Now I think problem number one my buddy Chip is.
Speaker 2: He's the same guy who was in his underwear locked
Speaker 2: out of his hotel room in Napa. Ship is becoming
Speaker 2: a real character on this spot.
Speaker 1: So that is the baseline. Uh, this is the same
Speaker 1: guy in the Apple Pie or Pumpkin Pie was He
Speaker 1: was funking pie underwear at my weddings, trapped out of
Speaker 1: his room. He booked an Airbnb. Now Airbnb's I'm not
Speaker 1: a huge fan. I'm a maybe I'm old school, but
Speaker 1: I'm a hotel.
Speaker 3: You're a diva.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, Chris Harrison is not a diva on
Speaker 2: many things. You're a diva on this one thing. I
Speaker 2: think it's from years of travel with the show decade decades.
Speaker 2: He is a diva with travel and accommodations. He doesn't
Speaker 2: like to spend more time than he has to in airports.
Speaker 2: He wants to be comfortable in hotel rooms.
Speaker 1: My brother, my brother, and I know this about myself.
Speaker 1: I you know, there's the videos with ill. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know the TikTok with the memes, and you got the
Speaker 1: music from the hardware commercial. That's uh, you know guys
Speaker 1: going through an airport. I get that. I was with
Speaker 1: my brother at the World Series a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: in Arizona, and I haven't traveled with my brother in
Speaker 1: quite some time. He came to Austin, then we flew
Speaker 1: out to Arizona together and I get off the plane.
Speaker 1: I ordered the Uber. I know where the uber is
Speaker 1: because I've been to Phoenix before. I am walking at
Speaker 1: a good clip, you know, a good you know, say
Speaker 1: ten miles an hour, and I am weaving, dodging, weaving,
Speaker 1: go straight.
Speaker 3: You are an Olympian.
Speaker 1: My brother is like, I got to go to the
Speaker 1: bathroom before we got I'm like, oh man, that just
Speaker 1: that really just put the.
Speaker 3: Can off you had to use the restaurants. Like just basically, the.
Speaker 1: Car was here, the car was pulling up. The timing
Speaker 1: was perfect. So I go on outside, so I say,
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom. I'm going to go meet the car.
Speaker 1: So the car doesn't leave. It was I don't know,
Speaker 1: twenty yards from the bathroom.
Speaker 3: Sorry, your brother had to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't have a problem with that. But my
Speaker 1: brother comes out of the bathroom and he calls me
Speaker 1: and he's like, where are you? And I said, I
Speaker 1: came outside to the ride share curb to meet our car.
Speaker 1: It's here, come on out. He's like, well, where is it?
Speaker 1: Is it crazy to look for signs? Like there's a
Speaker 1: sign right there that says ride share. Just I said,
Speaker 1: just walk straight out. You're going the right direction. I
Speaker 1: can see you. Just So he gets outside and we
Speaker 1: put a luggage and he goes, man, you don't waste
Speaker 1: any time now, And I said, you know, it's just
Speaker 1: been years of survival, of trying to get home, of
Speaker 1: trying to get through airports and Third world countries, planes, trains,
Speaker 1: and automobiles. It is a survival thing. So I know
Speaker 1: this about myself.
Speaker 2: A diva about travel and accommodation. Yes, and I would
Speaker 2: love to hear from everybody. By the way, do you
Speaker 2: prefer hotels or airbnbs? Where do you fall? Because I
Speaker 2: don't know. So your buddy Chip had picked this, And
Speaker 2: here's I think the mistake Chip made. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: he glanced at the listing and the listing said three bathrooms.
Speaker 2: There's three couples. We get there. Every couple does not
Speaker 2: have a bathroom. We are sharing bathrooms. And Chris Harris,
Speaker 2: I think the listing was really for like a half
Speaker 2: powder bath and Chris Harrison, even with his best friends,
Speaker 2: does not want to share a bathroom.
Speaker 3: But again, everybody please weigh in. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I might be I think it might be an age
Speaker 2: thing because my mom will tell me, like me and
Speaker 2: my girlfriends when we go on trips, we still share
Speaker 2: bathrooms and we're fine. And maybe that's just because it's
Speaker 2: only women. But my mom she's like, oh, and my
Speaker 2: friends and I go on trips, we do not share bathrooms.
Speaker 2: So maybe it's as you get older, you need your own.
Speaker 3: The house oilet space.
Speaker 1: The house is a great location. The house had enough bedrooms. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: no one slept on the couch but it was a
Speaker 1: bit of a dump.
Speaker 2: I'll give him that. There was cardboard on the wind,
Speaker 2: there was cardboard in the bathroom. There were cardboard covering
Speaker 2: the windows, so there was a nasty shower curtain. It
Speaker 2: felt like on a college weekend. It felt like we
Speaker 2: weren't a frat house.
Speaker 1: The bonus I will say about airbnbs were all together,
Speaker 1: so three couples living together for the weekend. It was
Speaker 1: a bit of a fraternity sorority house. And that part
Speaker 1: was fine. We all have children at TCU.
Speaker 2: How kai youp salon something was our our for the
Speaker 2: TCU parents, we need to come up with the Greek letters.
Speaker 1: So Dad's weekend, any parent's weekend, is very interesting. We
Speaker 1: all come in as parents and you basically live the
Speaker 1: life of a college student for about three days. And
Speaker 1: that's one to two days too many for most parents.
Speaker 1: We will tell the story of the dad who was
Speaker 1: doubled over throwing up in the parking lot. I'm there
Speaker 1: was that day.
Speaker 3: We've never been that parent.
Speaker 1: No, but but for three days, you are going into
Speaker 1: the sleep habits of a college kid, the eating habits
Speaker 1: of a college kid. What I mean by that is
Speaker 1: maybe you'll go to the one of the kid's houses.
Speaker 1: All of our kids live either dorms or houses, and
Speaker 1: so we went to a friend's daughter's house. We're playing
Speaker 1: this game called rage Cage, ordering fried pickles and pizza
Speaker 1: at twelve thirty at night. It is you know how
Speaker 1: we all like our sleeping habits and our routines.
Speaker 2: You don't have that, no, right, I didn't think about
Speaker 2: it this way. We were all wondering why we're so exhausted.
Speaker 2: That's exactly why. Because the beautiful thing about it is
Speaker 2: the kids want to show you the life they're living.
Speaker 2: They want you, they want you to meet their friends
Speaker 2: and see, this is where I get lunch, and this
Speaker 2: is where we go out and come out to the bars,
Speaker 2: and it's They think it's so cool that their parents
Speaker 2: are there, and it is.
Speaker 3: But then we're.
Speaker 2: Staying up till two in the morning and I haven't
Speaker 2: worked out in three days, and yeah, I've drank a
Speaker 2: white claw. I never drink a white claw unless I'm
Speaker 2: at a TCU weekend. I don't even know the flavors.
Speaker 2: I said, oh wow, they have peach. Because when we're
Speaker 2: at the fraternity tailgate, the best option pulled out of
Speaker 2: the cooler is the white claw not going to drink
Speaker 2: the jungle juice as they call it that the frat
Speaker 2: boys are brewing in an igloo.
Speaker 1: No, the so we get there, you know, we got
Speaker 1: there Thursday and we had, you know, a nice dinner
Speaker 1: and some cocktails. But then Friday. So Friday it all
Speaker 1: kind of begins. And the Thedas, by the way, Thetas
Speaker 1: are amazing, love them all. They had the itinerary, they
Speaker 1: had activities, they had it nailed down. So we went
Speaker 1: to lunch and then we went mini golfing and go karting.
Speaker 3: Perfect activity for the dads.
Speaker 1: Reactivity for the dads.
Speaker 3: Some of them brought their own putters to mini golf.
Speaker 1: It was fun. And then we all went to a
Speaker 1: dinner after where we had some cocktails. Then we decided
Speaker 1: that was just the prelude to the entire night. Then
Speaker 1: we go out to this great bar in Fourth called
Speaker 1: the poop Deck.
Speaker 3: What a name, I think.
Speaker 2: Imagine confidently naming your business the poop Deck.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a pirate theme. It's a boat.
Speaker 3: They serve food there. They do, they do, They have
Speaker 3: a many They start scallops.
Speaker 1: Not they should have rethought the poop deck serving food,
Speaker 1: but anyway, it's also just a great karaoke bar, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. And yes, I did get on stage
Speaker 1: with with my daughter Taylor. We did karaoke. Yes, my
Speaker 1: song is Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks. Because
Speaker 1: it's short, it's sweet, and everybody can just yell it,
Speaker 1: so we crushed it. Lauren did get up. She also karaoke.
Speaker 1: You did Mister Brightside, which is a crowd pleaser. So
Speaker 1: that that was Saturday. But we're not done.
Speaker 2: Quick note on karaoke song selection is so important. You've
Speaker 2: taught me that every karaoke bar should have an abbreviated
Speaker 2: version of every song. A full song is too long
Speaker 2: to sing like one. A karaoke song should be a minute.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: And I will also say Chris Harrison actually has a
Speaker 2: pretty good voice.
Speaker 3: Pretty good voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we're leaving the poop Deck, you know, and I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of leaving on a high. You know,
Speaker 1: my son's there, his girlfriend and Taylor and our friends
Speaker 1: are there. We had a great time, had a few cocktails.
Speaker 1: Then we leave. We're like, okay, let's get out of here.
Speaker 1: We walk out in the parking lot and here is
Speaker 1: the scene, because this happens every parent's weekend all across
Speaker 1: the country. There's that mom, there's that dad. So daughter
Speaker 1: is standing beside him, embarrassed as can be. Mom is
Speaker 1: rubbing dad's back. Dad is doubled over throwing up ten
Speaker 1: feet from the door of the poop deck, and we
Speaker 1: all just walk by, and I'm like, just your goal
Speaker 1: is always don't be that parent. I know, because flash
Speaker 1: forward to the next day. So that's just Friday, well,
Speaker 1: Saturday's game day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing is you've nailed it in that
Speaker 2: you're living the college life. But it's what thirty years
Speaker 2: after you should be, right, So some of the parents,
Speaker 2: obviously none of us. You can't drink on the same
Speaker 2: level as these kids. You can't go on this little sleep,
Speaker 2: you can't eat this food they're eating. And it is
Speaker 2: a marathon, not a sprint, because when you come in
Speaker 2: for these parents' weekends, they've planned one million adorably, they've
Speaker 2: planned a million activities for you to do, and like
Speaker 2: you said, there's still the football game coming. Plus i
Speaker 2: mean we went to poop deck, We're like, okay, let's
Speaker 2: be home by one am.
Speaker 3: The kids don't even go out until ten thirty.
Speaker 1: No, our kids drop us off at one and then
Speaker 1: they go out.
Speaker 2: Like that's all right, that's already a lot for us.
Speaker 2: We're usually holed by eleven. They're going out at eleven.
Speaker 1: And then you go back to the house and again
Speaker 1: it's the fried pickles and the pizza and you're eating late,
Speaker 1: and then.
Speaker 3: It gives you new appreciation for your parents.
Speaker 1: Then there's game day and we go to the pregame
Speaker 1: tailgate party. This is at my son's fight cap little fraternity,
Speaker 1: and we're all their daughter, everybody, all our friends are there.
Speaker 1: They have a mechanical bowl. So again, don't don't be
Speaker 1: that mom, don't be that dead. Don't get on the
Speaker 1: mechanical bowl. As much as people will urge you, Oh,
Speaker 1: mister Harrison, it'll get up there. It'll be awesome.
Speaker 2: Until you've fallen, break a collar ball until no, just
Speaker 2: until you're there, and then you're that person for life.
Speaker 1: So you can't ever take those pictures and videos back.
Speaker 2: That's the probab Well, first of all, everyone has a
Speaker 2: cell phone. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing I've noticed
Speaker 2: that's different with the kids in college. Like I was
Speaker 2: talking to Taylor about how where I went Miszoo. I
Speaker 2: forget how many, but there was this list of things
Speaker 2: you're supposed to do before you graduate, and one of them,
Speaker 2: which I never did, was streak the quad. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: could never do that. Today everybody has a cell phone.
Speaker 2: Everybody'd be pulling it out. That video would live forever,
Speaker 2: so kids and parents be aware.
Speaker 1: But I'm standing next to one of the dads. ACDC
Speaker 1: is blaring and I look over and he has one
Speaker 1: of those little mini shot you know bottles, the plastic
Speaker 1: bottles of fireball, and his daughter puts one in her
Speaker 1: mouth and without using hands, you lift it up and
Speaker 1: you take the shot. You down the whole bottle of fireball.
Speaker 1: Dad does it right next to her.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, man, I was kind of impressed by that.
Speaker 1: I was impressed, but I'm like, that's gonna come back
Speaker 1: to hunt.
Speaker 3: Well, you just got to watch yourself.
Speaker 2: I mean, because here, from what I've seen at these weekends,
Speaker 2: here are the two pitfalls. The dads tend to drink
Speaker 2: too much and they either pass out too early or
Speaker 2: we're saying the problem people, or they throw up in
Speaker 2: a parking lot and that's bad.
Speaker 3: The moms tend to get a little too.
Speaker 2: If you're the mom, you shouldn't be being You do
Speaker 2: get on the bowl, or you.
Speaker 3: Think it's fun to dance up on a table, or
Speaker 3: you get a.
Speaker 2: Little too flirty, and so you just got to watch
Speaker 2: those two. You don't want to fall into those two buckets.
Speaker 1: Just remember you're not Chris. You always need to be
Speaker 1: mister Harrison.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a good game.
Speaker 1: That is your lesson. Always be the mister of you
Speaker 1: are the dad, you are the mom. Just remember that
Speaker 1: you are at that next level and you need to
Speaker 1: be now. I did, even though they want to bring
Speaker 1: you down.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: The thing is, though, you have to watch the line
Speaker 3: because the kids also want you to have fun.
Speaker 1: Oh we a bit.
Speaker 3: I think it's so fun.
Speaker 2: If you play rage Cage with them, if you do
Speaker 2: karaoke with them again, And it warms my heart because
Speaker 2: I love seeing that they're happy. Like there's nothing that
Speaker 2: makes me happier more than to see the kids say
Speaker 2: hi to friends they've made and to know that they're happy.
Speaker 2: I would rather and they do call us, but I
Speaker 2: would rather not hear from them and know they're having
Speaker 2: a great time than obviously them call and want to
Speaker 2: come home and they're in such a great place. But
Speaker 2: I did as much as they want you to have fun,
Speaker 2: and they like make sure you're included in things.
Speaker 3: We did have to adjust the music at the tailgate
Speaker 3: because there's literally a DJ.
Speaker 2: At this tailgate and the kid is playing I mean
Speaker 2: music that I'm a millennial that I hadn't even heard.
Speaker 2: I guess it's that new, but it was like unedited,
Speaker 2: like someone's grandpa, Someone's Grandpa's there at Dad's weekend, and
Speaker 2: the music is like swear words, swear word, inappropriate word,
Speaker 2: like like all these things. And I pulled aside one
Speaker 2: of the kids and I said, hey, this is Dad's weekend.
Speaker 2: We got to crank the dad jams, get some eighties
Speaker 2: music on for the dads. We need to adjust, we
Speaker 2: need not so many expletives. And luckily one of them
Speaker 2: went up there and threw on his eighties playlist and
Speaker 2: before you know it, all the dads were rocking out
Speaker 2: to Journey and it was so cute.
Speaker 1: Then game day comes and we go to the game.
Speaker 1: By the way, great game, so much fun. It was
Speaker 1: packed a night game, as all college games should be.
Speaker 3: The university let me stop.
Speaker 1: The University of Texas finally beat TCU. Kudos to the
Speaker 1: Longhorns for winning, but it did not dampen.
Speaker 3: Did you just say the game was so much fun?
Speaker 1: It was? I love you so okay, let's hash I
Speaker 1: know you didn't love the full game, but you really
Speaker 1: got into the spectacle. We got there like twenty minutes early.
Speaker 1: We were walking down Frog Alley. It's packed, everybody's having
Speaker 1: a cocktail. It's great, we're tailgating. Then you walked in
Speaker 1: and they had the fireworks and the displays, and you
Speaker 1: got into all the flyover.
Speaker 2: All of that is fun. When it starts only being football,
Speaker 2: it stops being fun. And the problem is that it's
Speaker 2: four hours.
Speaker 3: Let's hash this out.
Speaker 2: I really think I think I might be done. I
Speaker 2: don't want you to waste the money on the ticket
Speaker 2: on me anymore. I'm going to come to the weekends
Speaker 2: as or you have to be okay with me only
Speaker 2: going to half.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, I realized, Taylor's the same, you
Speaker 1: and Taylor, our daughter. She's the same. She does not
Speaker 1: enjoy going to football games. She does not really go
Speaker 1: to football games. She'll stay it for like half yeah,
Speaker 1: no matter what, and just because her friends are there
Speaker 1: and she knew I wanted to go so and all
Speaker 1: the dads, so what the dads do? There was all
Speaker 1: these day to dads. We all sat together. There's like
Speaker 1: four or five of us and our kids, and we're
Speaker 1: all together in the end zone. And it was a
Speaker 1: perfect one of those perfect fall football nights. So that part,
Speaker 1: to me, warms my heart. It was wonderful. I did
Speaker 1: we did have one major issue. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go too deep into this because it's been kind of
Speaker 1: done before, but when I looked over and you had
Speaker 1: a hot dog and you had ketchup on your hot dog,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'll just be honest. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: I don't get it.
Speaker 3: This is so crazy. Why are you so fired up
Speaker 3: about this? Are we going to get divorced? We've been
Speaker 3: married a week.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get on a hot dog? You know, someone
Speaker 1: dm me and they go mayonnaise. I would have broken
Speaker 1: up with you if I'd looked over and you were
Speaker 1: like slashing on something.
Speaker 2: And manly, we've been together five years and this just
Speaker 2: came up. I guess it's because I don't go to
Speaker 2: sporting events and get a hot dog very often. But
Speaker 2: obviously when I'm at a sporting event. All that I
Speaker 2: have to do activity wise is eat and snacks and drink.
Speaker 3: There's nothing else to do.
Speaker 2: So I got a hot dog and I come back
Speaker 2: and I have I have only ketchup on the hot dog.
Speaker 2: That's how I usually eat a hot dog. I just
Speaker 2: throw some ketchup on there. Chris thinks it's offensive to
Speaker 2: have ketchup on the hot dog at all. You say
Speaker 2: it's only mustard and relish. I need you to realize
Speaker 2: ketchup is an available condiment for people, so.
Speaker 1: Obviously I think it's a test.
Speaker 3: Ketchup on that.
Speaker 1: I think it's a test. So someone actually texted me
Speaker 1: and they said, like, how blessed is your life that
Speaker 1: five and a half years into a relationship you're just
Speaker 1: seeing your girlfriend eat a hot dog for the first time.
Speaker 1: I got You're right, She's never eaten a hot dog
Speaker 1: in front of me this entire time.
Speaker 2: It's so exciting to keep learning new things about each other,
Speaker 2: even now that we're married.
Speaker 1: The next day, we got up and Taylor took us
Speaker 1: on this beautiful walking tour of TCU because I've actually
Speaker 1: never walked across the entire campus, and she showed us around.
Speaker 1: That was really cool.
Speaker 3: Alle treat to.
Speaker 2: Have a son and a daughter both in college, because
Speaker 2: you see the differences.
Speaker 3: Josh is a senior.
Speaker 2: Chris is saying, we've never had a walking tour because
Speaker 2: I think boys just don't think this way. We go
Speaker 2: to Josh's lacrosse games. Josh takes you out to bars.
Speaker 2: It's super fun. Yeah, Josh never said.
Speaker 3: You know what, let me give you, guys a tour
Speaker 3: of campus. That's more a girl idea.
Speaker 1: Let me send you pictures of what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: Oh, we haven't gotten a photo from Josh in four years. Luckily,
Speaker 2: Taylor and Josh are in school together because now through Taylor,
Speaker 2: she sends us pictures of both of them.
Speaker 1: But so for all the parents out there, your takeaway
Speaker 1: from are amazing Dad's weekend slash parents Weekend is just,
Speaker 1: you know, try and stay above the fray a little bit.
Speaker 1: Enjoy it and be involved in the fray, but stay
Speaker 1: above it just enough that you're not that dad puking
Speaker 1: in the parking lot. You're not that mom on the
Speaker 1: mechanical bawl or dancing on the table.
Speaker 2: Can I ask you a question, because I actually had
Speaker 2: a couple of people DM me about this. Do you
Speaker 2: think you can hang? People were asking me because I
Speaker 2: posted some dad's weekend stuff, how is Chris Harrison doing
Speaker 2: on these weekends?
Speaker 3: Can he hang? Can he? Like? How do you do?
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I'll give myself a B B plus,
Speaker 1: like I'm pretty good at going late, I can stay
Speaker 1: up whatever, But I'm not. I'm just it's the continuous
Speaker 1: like Friday was a long, long day, long night. Then
Speaker 1: it was the next day.
Speaker 2: They also got no sleep because the house next to
Speaker 2: our airbnb had a raging house party till four thirty
Speaker 2: in the more.
Speaker 1: Someone was dropping the bass at a fraternity party right
Speaker 1: outside our bedroom till four thirty in the morning.
Speaker 3: Should we have called the cops?
Speaker 1: You and I both had the same thought, was do
Speaker 1: you are you the person that calls the cops? I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't ever want to be that person.
Speaker 3: But I didn't want to run their fun. But I
Speaker 3: don't want someone to go into the jail.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that sucked. And then the next day got up,
Speaker 1: did our thing, went to lunch with all the they
Speaker 1: to day all right.
Speaker 3: I'm going to give you an an well thanks.
Speaker 2: I totally think you can hang babe, I look, we
Speaker 2: did all the things. We went out, we did the karaoke,
Speaker 2: we went to a couple of bars.
Speaker 3: You also are so.
Speaker 2: Amazing at and I meant you guys, everybody who comes
Speaker 2: up to him for a photo he takes. I've said
Speaker 2: this about him before, but he takes the time. You
Speaker 2: have a nice conversation with everybody, So I know that
Speaker 2: on weekends like that, you are leaving exhausted because you're
Speaker 2: hanging with your kids, your friends, and even random Pea.
Speaker 1: Even took pictures with some ut fans. Obviously I was
Speaker 1: in purple. But but what happened.
Speaker 3: Love, and it is.
Speaker 2: One of the many reasons I fell in love with
Speaker 2: you is watching how you are with the kids. You
Speaker 2: just prioritize them at the highest degree and exhaust yourself
Speaker 2: to the point of, like I mean, you want them
Speaker 2: even on a weekend that's supposed to be about you
Speaker 2: Dad's weekend. What you want is for them to have
Speaker 2: a great time. And you're such an incredible.
Speaker 1: Follow well, very proud of Taylor, our girl, like really
Speaker 1: wanted to make it a special weekend. She did. She
Speaker 1: planned it to the nth degree and made us feel loved.
Speaker 1: And then I give you kudos because as if going
Speaker 1: to a football game wasn't enough, on the way out
Speaker 1: of town, Joshua, our son was having an alumni lacrosse game,
Speaker 1: and we swung by that just for a little bit.
Speaker 1: We didn't stay for the whole thing. Wanted to show
Speaker 1: our presence and give them a hug and say goodbye.
Speaker 1: And we saw all the la crossboys. So just one
Speaker 1: more kick in the pants for Lauren on the way
Speaker 1: out of town to stop buy a sporting event. But
Speaker 1: so a great dad's weekend, parents' weekend. Good to have
Speaker 1: it really was good to have you there, be there
Speaker 1: with all our friends. Obviously see our kids. The best
Speaker 1: thing about this, and I said this on social media,
Speaker 1: it's going and seeing your kids on their path, the
Speaker 1: path that they've created, the bonds that they have forged,
Speaker 1: the friends. You just see them living their life and
Speaker 1: making their life on a different level than junior high
Speaker 1: high school in all that they are becoming adults and
Speaker 1: they're really kind of expressing their independence and all that.
Speaker 1: And when you can celebrate that, that's always a beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful time, and you're doing it on their turf, which
Speaker 1: is always important. So thank you to the beautiful kids,
Speaker 1: had a great time at TCU, had a great time
Speaker 1: talking to you, and Laura and I will continue to
Speaker 1: take care of each other as we come off the
Speaker 1: wedding high, but the celebration will continue. Thanks for talking
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