Speaker 1: Wind Down with Janet Kramer and I'm Heart Radio podcast.
Speaker 2: All right, so welcome to part two of wind Down. Everyone.
Speaker 2: Welcome my fiance Alan Rosso. We get to keep him forever.
Speaker 2: He's like, what did I sign up for? He's like,
Speaker 2: it's me and my three wives. Is so Mark, that's Mark,
Speaker 2: that's our we call him Daddy. He's like the podcast Dad.
Speaker 2: Mark is a huge soccer fan, and so he was
Speaker 2: the one who said I think you should date a
Speaker 2: soccer player. Oh yep, sorry that it just.
Speaker 1: That just seemed like right to me. It just seemed right. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know why that was in my head, but
Speaker 1: it seemed right and it turned out to be very precious.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're of a psychic Mark.
Speaker 1: Maybe I AM could.
Speaker 2: Have used you about nine years ago, Big Mark.
Speaker 3: Okay, the old magic gate ball didn't that much to say.
Speaker 2: So do you have any questions? Mark? I know you
Speaker 2: have to go soon.
Speaker 1: I mean I have a lot of questions. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think a word to begin. I guess we'll start
Speaker 1: with how long have you known? How long have you
Speaker 1: known that you were going to be taking a knee?
Speaker 4: Oh, she told you that I took a.
Speaker 1: Knee, not that she told me.
Speaker 4: Pretty much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, from the moment I met really wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you knew very quickly she was the one
Speaker 1: I did you. Wow. That's lovely.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: I feel like I have lots of questions about you
Speaker 1: and and I hate to double up if if this
Speaker 1: has been cover on the pod before, but we haven't.
Speaker 2: Honestly, he's very private, so like we don't. I don't.
Speaker 2: I haven't even said like his anything like really truly.
Speaker 2: I mean I've really respected his privacy on things, but
Speaker 2: I mean he can he can.
Speaker 1: Should I also respect his privacy on things, And I'd
Speaker 1: ask these questions.
Speaker 2: I think people want to get to know him, and
Speaker 2: I think he's open to I would like to. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so let's try it.
Speaker 1: Well, h are you have you been married before?
Speaker 4: I have you?
Speaker 1: Okay? You have kids?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got a little boy who will be sixteen
Speaker 5: this year and a stepdaughter who will be twenty four.
Speaker 1: Twenty four?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, and you were married for.
Speaker 4: I was married for.
Speaker 5: Eleven years together for together for yeah, like sixteen years
Speaker 5: fifteen sixteen years.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I mean I don't need to get into
Speaker 1: that stuff. I mean that seems like your business. So
Speaker 1: it's a blended family, but not like in it, you know,
Speaker 1: where the kids will be playing together, like there's a
Speaker 1: big age gap there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a few age gaps. Yeah, but they all
Speaker 5: got on.
Speaker 1: Well yeah that's good. And Janna's met the kids adult
Speaker 1: and teenager and everything hit it off.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, yeah, it was nice.
Speaker 5: They were out here about three weeks ago, three four
Speaker 5: weeks ago, so here for like ten or eleven days, so
Speaker 5: it was nice.
Speaker 1: And how are we going to handle logistics here of
Speaker 1: London to Nashville.
Speaker 5: I go back for about ten days a month, so
Speaker 5: I've got fast and foremost I go back to see
Speaker 5: my kids and then I've got some business stuff back
Speaker 5: in London as well, So yeah, roughly.
Speaker 1: A soccer coach, football coach, right, and.
Speaker 4: A football coach.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I've got a protein bar business as well,
Speaker 5: which I go back for.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, but during the season, the football season, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have to be there full time.
Speaker 5: And the moment, I mean, I stepped away from from
Speaker 5: my last club about nine ten weeks ago, and at
Speaker 5: the moment, I'm just weighing up the options of where
Speaker 5: to go next, whether it's whether it's Yukia, whether it's America.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Oh so okay, that's great. So we were
Speaker 1: undecided if to where the like you know, the marital
Speaker 1: home might be or maybe would be an international you'd
Speaker 1: have multiple.
Speaker 3: Well, I think if we're going to go international, we
Speaker 3: need to talk to the rest of the couch because
Speaker 3: the rest of the couch is a little codependent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels fair. We're not moving, are we.
Speaker 5: I think we'll have a home in both both sides
Speaker 5: of the wall size.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to visit the other home. I think
Speaker 2: home bases. You know, we have definitely the new Nashville home.
Speaker 2: And then you know, I've always said to him, like,
Speaker 2: wherever the job takes you, like I just want you
Speaker 2: to be happy and successful in your career, Like we'll
Speaker 2: be fine regards less, which is again very new for me,
Speaker 2: because but I just I trust him and I trust
Speaker 2: what we have, and I'm like, I'll, you know, we'll
Speaker 2: figure it out. Like I think you make work what
Speaker 2: you you know you really want.
Speaker 1: And if I'm correct, you two. This is another example
Speaker 1: of a dating app success story. No wrong, no, oh,
Speaker 1: I read that somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he DMed me.
Speaker 1: Oh so it was app based, but not like Riya,
Speaker 1: this is like Instagram DM.
Speaker 2: We did not meet on Rya.
Speaker 1: He so what why what drew you to her in
Speaker 1: the first place? Were you a fan?
Speaker 2: It was a big one tree killer Mark.
Speaker 5: Well, no, my friend got a job here and Memphis
Speaker 5: as a as a head coach, and we discussed me
Speaker 5: possibly coming out to work with him.
Speaker 4: So I was looking a lot.
Speaker 5: On my phone on the Memphis and Nashville area, and
Speaker 5: as your phone does, it thinks of algorithms and spits
Speaker 5: things out on your phone, and this little face popped up.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: That's cute.
Speaker 1: And then did you like if if it's me, I'm
Speaker 1: doing my homework at that point, I'm looking in I'm
Speaker 1: googling her. I'm seeing who she is and what she's
Speaker 1: all about. Did you do that before you asked her out?
Speaker 5: That didn't look into it too much? Now I think,
Speaker 5: do I feel background check?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, that's just what girls do. That's what I did.
Speaker 1: That's what I done. Did you know that she was
Speaker 1: a musician, that she was an actress, this stuff and
Speaker 1: if she was a musician, yeah, okay, gotcha, And that
Speaker 1: I was a man? Yeah, okay, that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So you knew those things.
Speaker 5: And then yeah, I mean, I mean, obviously I knew
Speaker 5: once I looked up Push she was. I knew about
Speaker 5: being an actress in the music industry and that she
Speaker 5: looked like an amazing mom and had a couple of
Speaker 5: amazing kids.
Speaker 4: So I knew that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and his message was very respectful.
Speaker 1: Sorry, go ahead, that's what I want to hear. I
Speaker 1: want to hear that initial message roughly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, roughly, I don't. I actually can't. I actually can't remember.
Speaker 1: Because I don't know that that's could be educational for people,
Speaker 1: Like how do you do that? Like a stranger to
Speaker 1: another stranger, dming them with romantic interests, Like it's more
Speaker 1: than just a hey, right, it's like a hi, Alan,
Speaker 1: I'd like to get to know you better. Like what
Speaker 1: is it? What's the vibe?
Speaker 4: I think it was.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm quite a traditional person enemy so I
Speaker 5: think it was. It was very respectful and monoly, and
Speaker 5: I think it was along the lines of you look
Speaker 5: like an amazing person, a great mom, and it would
Speaker 5: be it'd be good to connect something along those lines.
Speaker 5: So don't quote my words on it, but it was really.
Speaker 3: Like it was really handsome and like not slimy. It
Speaker 3: was the part that was it was very appropriate and
Speaker 3: just like courtship.
Speaker 1: Like so this was immediately shared with you two when
Speaker 1: she got to steer Mark.
Speaker 2: Mark. We're all marying Allan, all of us. But it
Speaker 2: also was something where I saw it and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: he lives in London, like I'm not. And at that
Speaker 2: point I was very happy being single and like I
Speaker 2: was good, and so I kind of let the message
Speaker 2: go for a bit and then for some reason, I
Speaker 2: kept thinking, I'm like, there was this football player coach
Speaker 2: I think like he and so I kept going kind
Speaker 2: of back to the message and then I gave him
Speaker 2: we kind of what stopped a few times, but then
Speaker 2: I went away again for a few weeks, and then
Speaker 2: he would text and but he stayed pretty stayed pretty persistent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, was the first date here or there.
Speaker 2: Well, so he was like, hey, you know, if you
Speaker 2: want to come over here, and then I was like
Speaker 2: hm hmm, like if you want to me, Like yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know this guy, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like I do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: For sure?
Speaker 2: Come here? And I've kids and I'm like I'm not
Speaker 2: doing that, you know, And so he had.
Speaker 4: A Yeah, I was.
Speaker 5: I was already in the US, so I made a
Speaker 5: short trip to Nashville from where.
Speaker 2: I was and yeah, he was again very respectful, very
Speaker 2: And then the second we met at the One hotel
Speaker 2: in Nashville, and when he turned around, it was like
Speaker 2: I was living my I told the girls. I was like,
Speaker 2: it was like we were in our own version of
Speaker 2: like a Christmas movie, because like the lights were already
Speaker 2: up in the hotel, and like he's wearing this long
Speaker 2: like pea coat and just like I just see like
Speaker 2: his behind, you know, his jacket. But I knew it
Speaker 2: was him, and so I was like, I'm walking into
Speaker 2: the hotel and then I go hi, and he turns
Speaker 2: around like a slow mo It was like a slow
Speaker 2: mow thing with like a little the end the ends
Speaker 2: of his peacoat kind of like in the wind. And
Speaker 2: he's like, you know, he says, I can't impersonate his
Speaker 2: accent to save my life. But he was just like hello, Joanna,
Speaker 2: because that's how he says my name. And I was
Speaker 2: just like, oh, I'm done, done, done so.
Speaker 1: And did you feel the same, Alan when you saw
Speaker 1: in person? You were pretty pleased.
Speaker 4: I told you pretty please, pretty please?
Speaker 1: And was it just drinks? The first day was drinks
Speaker 1: at the bar hotel bar, and.
Speaker 4: Did we get fits?
Speaker 2: So what happened was we give no, Well, what happened
Speaker 2: was is we were sitting down, we got a drink.
Speaker 2: He's like, what would you like to drink? And I
Speaker 2: was like, I'll take a gossip wine, I think I said,
Speaker 2: and he got a drink. But then someone approached me.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh my god, I'm wake one Tree Hill.
Speaker 2: And I was so embarrassed. I was so embarrassed, embarrassed.
Speaker 1: That's a big deal. That's like an after easy act, Like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, she has fans.
Speaker 3: So after I paid that girl twenty bucks, she left
Speaker 3: Alan and Jane alone.
Speaker 2: It was just for the effect, you know, we got.
Speaker 1: To that effect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, And but then we ended up I'm kind
Speaker 2: of trying to find a different place to go, and
Speaker 2: then we ended up going up to his suite. But
Speaker 2: we've just stayed in the sweet department and we ordered
Speaker 2: we ordered a take in member because we didn't want
Speaker 2: I wanted I didn't want anyone to see us because
Speaker 2: it was like, you know, even though I felt mad
Speaker 2: attraction in a connection, you have to be careful. There's
Speaker 2: people around Nashville that talk, and so I just wanted
Speaker 2: to keep it quiet in private. And so we had
Speaker 2: a lovely time. And then I saw him the next
Speaker 2: day and the next day, and then we faced the
Speaker 2: next day. Do you mean that you saw him the
Speaker 2: next morning or I had I got I had a sitter,
Speaker 2: and I had to go home. And that's the responsible
Speaker 2: Christian thing to do, was to go home in Jesus name. Amen,
Speaker 2: I just want to clarify for the folks, Yes, I
Speaker 2: went home. No, I know, they need to know.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then she last, yes, I understand. And then he
Speaker 2: went back to England a couple days later, and then
Speaker 2: that was my when, like then I started flying there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I need to go soon. But I do have
Speaker 1: one more question. I want to set the scene for
Speaker 1: the for the listeners that he's very handsome as you
Speaker 1: as you all have googled by now, I'm sure. But
Speaker 1: he's in a black T shirt, he's in black jeans,
Speaker 1: and he's in flip flops. And I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: I feel about the flip flops. Janney, your thoughts.
Speaker 3: The most American thing about him?
Speaker 2: They're his house slippers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't mind that. Huh.
Speaker 2: No, I like a guy in flip flops. He actually
Speaker 2: never he's usually he's always in trainers, so it's like
Speaker 2: it's weird to actually see him in flip flops.
Speaker 4: It was wrong with flip flops.
Speaker 1: I'm not I know, if I were walking around my
Speaker 1: house and flip flops, I would get my wife would
Speaker 1: be like, what's going on?
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 1: Really, let's let's put those away.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just think guy's feet aren't attractive. Does he
Speaker 1: have nice feet?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Cute man feet?
Speaker 3: I confirmed just now when you said the flip flops,
Speaker 3: I had to take a good gander.
Speaker 1: I forget like a long life of playing football. I
Speaker 1: feel like there's some damage done to those and some
Speaker 1: broken toes, and yeah, I bet I knew.
Speaker 5: I was sitting with them underneath the table.
Speaker 2: So I actually have a question period. Mark had asked
Speaker 2: a question. So the one part one of the podcast,
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, the announcement is I engaged?
Speaker 2: And he was just he was taken back a little
Speaker 2: bit given the short time period in which we got engaged.
Speaker 2: Does that bother you at all? Like how quick we
Speaker 2: got engaged? Or I mean I guess not because you,
Speaker 2: but I'm like And then also a two part to
Speaker 2: that is when you looked up my past, did any
Speaker 2: of that bother you with my past, like divorces and
Speaker 2: marriages and relationships?
Speaker 5: No, I think I mean sounds of the first question.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it was your question, mark over
Speaker 5: it yours.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I was wondering what the rush is? Necessarily,
Speaker 1: why not wait a little longer.
Speaker 5: I'll try, and I'll be blunted about this. So I
Speaker 5: think I think you see, you see people who wait
Speaker 5: for years and years and years to get engaged and
Speaker 5: get married.
Speaker 4: And I mean.
Speaker 5: I've got friends who've waited years and then they get
Speaker 5: engaged and they split up a year later, six months later,
Speaker 5: or they get married and a split up three four
Speaker 5: years later, and they've waited years to do it. I've
Speaker 5: got friends who did it within weeks and have been
Speaker 5: together for over twenty years. So I don't I'm not
Speaker 5: so sure there's a set of way to do things.
Speaker 5: If something feels feels right in your heart and your soul,
Speaker 5: then I think you should you should follow it. We've
Speaker 5: got a relationship that's we trust each other and it's
Speaker 5: built on respect, and for each other.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I didn't. There was no there was no
Speaker 4: rush to do anything. That's all. It just it felt
Speaker 4: it felt right.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that's lovely. I think that's great if
Speaker 1: you when you know, you know, as they say, right, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean why not? And she also meant you're not
Speaker 1: going to get you're not going to actually tie the
Speaker 1: knot for a while yet. So it's not in that sense.
Speaker 1: Is you're not really rushing into anything?
Speaker 4: No, well not not, so.
Speaker 1: It's just a commitment.
Speaker 2: What about the past stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good question, Joan. I kind of wish
Speaker 1: i'd asked that one.
Speaker 2: I was, I was really I was taking your energy
Speaker 2: of like, Okay, what would Mark? What would Mark ask?
Speaker 1: A good one? That's a good one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good question. I think.
Speaker 5: I mean, everyone regardless of how what the past has been.
Speaker 5: Everyone has a past, but it's how they've they've learned
Speaker 5: and grown and managed those situations. And and I don't
Speaker 5: I don't judge Janna on anything from the past. I
Speaker 5: don't judge anyone on anything from the past, as long
Speaker 5: as they as long as they show up for me
Speaker 5: and the people that I love and the people that
Speaker 5: are important to me. Then it shows that they've they've
Speaker 5: grown from from any sort of decisions or mistakes that
Speaker 5: might have been made in the past.
Speaker 4: And for me, that's attractive.
Speaker 5: And it's just one of the many things that it's
Speaker 5: hugely attractive about Jana. A's how she she has had
Speaker 5: all these upsets in the past, but she she moves forwards.
Speaker 4: She's a little warrior mm hm. And that's and that's attractive.
Speaker 1: I think you're getting a good version of Jenna.
Speaker 4: I think you are.
Speaker 1: Has everyone crying in the room.
Speaker 4: I've got tears.
Speaker 6: I think Cat's okay, our little warrior here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm happy for you. I think it's great. I
Speaker 1: think I think you're getting a great version of Jana.
Speaker 1: She's done a lot of work on herself. She's been
Speaker 1: through a lot of stuff, and I wish you both happily.
Speaker 2: Ever, Aft, thank you so much, Thank you Mark, thanks
Speaker 2: for popping on.
Speaker 4: Pleasures to meet you.
Speaker 1: My pleasure, pleasure to meet you. I hope we'll see
Speaker 1: your own Bye. Mark gets you on the show frequently.
Speaker 2: Talk talk football. We love you, Mark girls. Do you
Speaker 2: have you guys?
Speaker 1: Bye?
Speaker 2: Mark Girls, Do you have any last things you want
Speaker 2: to say to Alan, I'm just glad we get to
Speaker 2: keep Allen forever. I wrote that.
Speaker 3: When she sent the picture, I was like, you guys,
Speaker 3: we get to keep Allen.
Speaker 2: I did because I love him. Yeah, it's wild though, right,
Speaker 2: Like I.
Speaker 3: We have really can I just we have just really
Speaker 3: put up with a lot of douchebags, and I just
Speaker 3: am so thankful we have like a man in our
Speaker 3: world now who's just like respectful and seize you for
Speaker 3: who you are and like can handle his own. Like
Speaker 3: my favorite thing about Alan is that Alan is such
Speaker 3: a secure person in himself, so like he gets to
Speaker 3: come in and like finally you get someone to like
Speaker 3: step in and partner up with you instead of attaching
Speaker 3: to and clinging to and like it just I can't.
Speaker 3: I just love him so much.
Speaker 2: Well, and I think, like, you know, I can go, Okay,
Speaker 2: what's my part? I you know, in the past, like
Speaker 2: I attached, I clinged, you know, for because I was
Speaker 2: still had a lot of work I to do too.
Speaker 2: So I think where we're at is we both did
Speaker 2: the work and then we found each other. Yea, Yeah,
Speaker 2: timing was perfect. Remember our little Christmas party Queendom. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll never forget it. Oh my goodness, I did I did?
Speaker 2: I have a video? I forget it, you guys, I
Speaker 2: have a video saying I know this sounds crazy, but
Speaker 2: I'm going to marry him. And we were all like
Speaker 2: asking a million questions and you were just smiling. You're like,
Speaker 2: I was just like, I know, I just know I'm
Speaker 2: going to marry them. I know that was there was me.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, she said she's gonna marry I
Speaker 3: marry him, the hopeless romantic. We all we all had
Speaker 3: our personalities then, like everyone I know.
Speaker 2: Sarah's like, I mean all of you guys, Yeah, like,
Speaker 2: how is this gonna work? Pamulan's like getting out the
Speaker 2: globe and spending and I'm like, I know, I just
Speaker 2: I don't know why or how or what, but I
Speaker 2: will marry this man. And then I started googling what
Speaker 2: a Scottish bridesmaid could look like and I really went
Speaker 2: with it for a minute. Yeah, we have not discussed
Speaker 2: those details yet, but.
Speaker 3: Maybe next year, are you guys, you're gonna be one
Speaker 3: of the brides that doesn't have any bridesmaids after all
Speaker 3: this time?
Speaker 2: No, no, I'll have well TVD Queendom goes to the Kingdom, remember,
Speaker 2: but in the UK. But also why GBD, Well, I
Speaker 2: mean I want her to make your own decisions to
Speaker 2: what the wedding looks like. Hey, we make decisions together,
Speaker 2: I know, but she has allan Now we have to
Speaker 2: start to like, it's fine, we have to start to
Speaker 2: have let your girl go. You have to we're all
Speaker 2: marry now. I do have one question, would you be
Speaker 2: upset if the wedding wasn't in England or Scotland, or
Speaker 2: like if I was like, we're doing it up in
Speaker 2: the hills at Tennessee. I love it.
Speaker 3: I'm here for it. I just want I just want
Speaker 3: you guys to be happy. I love you so much.
Speaker 3: This has just been so fun for me.
Speaker 2: Me too, But I love Scotland.
Speaker 3: Well, she's gonna have a vacation home there. I was
Speaker 3: kind of counting that we'll go back and forth because.
Speaker 2: You don't realize you're marrying Queendom. He's already figured that out.
Speaker 2: And I love the relationship that you have with Sarah
Speaker 2: and Julie and Pam and Kristen obviously Catherine. It's it's cute.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's all great, every one of them.
Speaker 2: Any last words any last words, my love. Okay, I
Speaker 2: love you, you accent. You're welcome wind owners all right,
Speaker 2: We'll see you next week for another announcement.