Christina & Brayden: One Year of Marriage | Happy Hour

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Speaker 1: Hey, well, welcome back to bad Your Happy Hour.

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Speaker 2: I'm Joe and I'm Serena, and we.

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Speaker 1: Are here today with Brandon and Christina. Welcome back to Bad Your Happy Hour. Guys.

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Speaker 3: How are you out of this world?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 5: I clearly she don't want me to do the background, but I felt like it was, you know, appropriate.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And you're listening and not watching on YouTube right now? Brandon and Christina have a what even? Is this an outer space view of Earth?

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Speaker 2: As I kind of like it.

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Speaker 1: I find that to be.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of soothing, It's a twinkly light.

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Speaker 1: I'm enjoying speaking to you guys like this.

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Speaker 5: I'm glad that you know. It's keeping your attention that's important, so hopefully the viewers degree.

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Speaker 6: So last time we had you guys on here was right after you got married, which was almost a year ago. Now, when's the exact anniversary date?

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Speaker 3: Oh you're right? Twelve? Oh my gosh, should you get to be a present? It's not I need to get on that. I actually thank you for bringing that up. I would have never thought of that, did you.

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 1: You would have never thought of your one year anniversary? No, I mean we're not actually big anniversary. We're not like big on it either, but I think maybe as time goes on, you made it, like as once you hit like the ten year mark.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like five years is like you can start like really celebrating, like we made it five years.

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Speaker 4: Like one year is like you know, I mean, it's a it's an accomplishment, you know, especially this one.

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Speaker 3: But I'm skidding already. No, I feel like it should be a big deal because we have so many random dates of like when is our actual anniversary, So really we should just hone in on the twelve twelve. It was twelve to twenty four, which is that's why we did it on that date. We should do something. But we have the date of when we met, but we weren't allowed to announce it that we were dating because Paradise hadn't come out yet. The date that we were a bill to launch. Yeah, I was like, gosh, you knew that.

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Speaker 4: That was the day we first met?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, person and then.

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Speaker 5: And then our anniversary when we started dating was nine eighteen. So we actually start dating like like boyfriend girlfriend pretty fast because voting accident engaged engaged was one four.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, look at me, I'm the one who remembers the dates in this.

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Speaker 2: Look at you good with numbers?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I remember our university, which apparently as someone for your guy.

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Speaker 3: It was a total joke.

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Speaker 6: My mom Texas every year on our the anniversary of the day we got engaged and is like, do you know what Dave is?

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Speaker 2: We're like no, They're like, it's your engaged anniversary.

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Speaker 1: We're the same as you guys where we just have a there's a lot of dates in the mix. Yeah, so it makes it difficult.

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Speaker 6: This will be what our third wedding anniversary in September. I feel like the more years from the marriage, the more it becomes significant.

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Speaker 2: Is that weird to say?

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Speaker 1: Like I feel like I just I said that three minutes ago.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but yeah, I thought you were saying, like, you start celebrating it once it's been more, But for me, it like locks into my mind.

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Speaker 1: No, well yeah, that's kind of I'm we're on the same page. That's what I think.

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Speaker 3: Too. Great point just there.

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Speaker 5: Also, I feel like I feel like, honestly, similar to like Valentine's Day, It's like, I know it sounds cliche or cheesy, but it's like every day needs to be an anniversary. You know what I mean, like they're all that you can celebrate, you know, and go out to dinner or do something.

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Speaker 3: Nicer Valentine's Day, but really yeah.

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Speaker 5: So I mean, I don't know. I feel like it's like you should celebrate it every day, you know.

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Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, So no plans for the anniversary yet, maybe we'll do something special.

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Speaker 3: Well, we have it up. We actually Blakely, she's at school right now so she can't hear. We have a surprise birthday party that we're throwing for her golden birthday, which is she's starting nine on the ninth, so that's tomorrow. So we have like a lot going on with that. And then we have soccer tournaments every single weekend. We are full, like just normal life right now, we're living it.

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Speaker 4: And then I have an ultra marathon on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Them so yeah, okay, ultra marathon is what is that? How many miles?

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Speaker 3: Is that?

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Speaker 1: Fifty six?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's like a one and a half marathon, I think, or no, sorry, am, it's.

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Speaker 1: A Marathon's twenty six point two so that would be fifty so yeah, fifty two point eight.

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Speaker 4: Something like that. So I really don't have a whole bunch of information. I kind of signed up really. So Blakely's soccer coach.

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Speaker 5: He like does ultra marathons and Ironman's and stuff like that, and me and him were getting it talking and I was like, you know, I've always wanted to do one. He's like, well, I'm doing one. This is like, you know, in two weeks. He's like, I do you want to do it. I'm like, I don't know how fast I can go. And he's like, well, I'm gonna th bee taking it pretty easy. He's like, you seem like you're in decent shape. I'm like, all right, let's send it. So I got spent one hundred and what twenty bucks or something like that to get a ticket, and I'm running it next weekend.

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Speaker 1: So, okay, if you run a marathon ever.

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Speaker 5: I've ran three marathons, yeah, okay, okay.

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Speaker 4: It's been like a couple of years since I ran my last marathon.

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Speaker 3: I've known you since you've done a marathon.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so it's been a minute.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna go on recently, but honestly, like step and then like I just I just if I do another marathon, I want to actually train for it. And try to beat my last like my best time. So like the best time is what three forty six okay, so, which isn't like crazy impressive, but it's so forth So I would like to get like he sub three hours and thirty minutes.

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Speaker 4: I think, is like what my next goal would be?

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Speaker 1: Well, let me that's my that's my next goal.

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Speaker 3: Be realistic here. But the last one, you were totally gonna do it. You were, and he is very very athletic, but while were wet while we were at field.

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Speaker 4: Day, oh shoot, yeah, he ended.

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Speaker 3: Up pulling his hand string and so he was still going to run the marathon. I'm like, and I called, I'm like, no, we're not doing that, Like yeah, heero.

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Speaker 4: So I've learned. I mean, I'm not old.

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Speaker 5: I know I'm not old, but I feel like I'm like my body's starting to get a little bit older to where I have to stretch now before I do things.

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Speaker 3: He was running the fifty yard dash against yeah, older brothers. It was like this eighteen.

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Speaker 4: Year old he was like twenty.

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Speaker 5: He was twenty, but he was like I guess he ran track for his college or something like that, and I was like, I gotta beat this kid, and so we were sprinting and.

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Speaker 4: It was like nick and neck and I was like tried to.

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Speaker 5: Kick it up that extra gear like as we were nearing the finish line, and that extra gear just took my hammy out.

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Speaker 4: So that was a that was the learning experience for me.

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Speaker 5: I did win, but okay, I mean I was limping off the people, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Have you have you trained it all for this? Like how are you training right now? Nothing? No running at all.

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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna send it.

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Speaker 5: I feel like, uh, I mean for me at least, like with the experiences that I've had with marathon. So I've sent a marathon before, so like, uh my first marathon was the one that I got three forty six on.

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Speaker 4: I trained for. My second one that I ran, I didn't train for.

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Speaker 5: I had signed up like pre covid and then the marathon got canceled and then basically like it like just re like RE signed me up for a new one.

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Speaker 4: And the new one.

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Speaker 5: I got like an email the day before and I was like, oh, shoot, I have a marathon tomorrow, and I was like eating pizza and so that was a really tough run for me. I still got like four hours and six twenty six or seven minutes moves in the twenties.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it was I feel like I could do Wow, I mean ultras, Yeah, ultras were scared for him.

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Speaker 3: I'll be at the finish line.

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Speaker 4: Won't be at Blakely's soccer tournament.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's right. Coach and him are both not gonna be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to coach the soccer team.

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Speaker 4: Me, you could. She's coached. We did.

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Speaker 3: Actually I don't know if we were doing this last time we chatted, but we did coach the rec league. She's now moved up and she's on a what's a club soccer team, But we coached the rec league and we won the championship first place.

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Speaker 2: Why adulations. That's kind of fun.

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Speaker 3: I peaked now that was that was it?

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Speaker 5: No, it's kind of crazy. She brings it up at least like once a day. It's like something she hasn't let go of. Like she's so proud. I like one of her most proud moments. It comes up in every conversation.

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Speaker 1: So you guys are in Nashville, right, Yeah, do you love it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I'm I mean I love that.

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Speaker 5: You know, I can't I can't stay I just I struggle with like the weather because it's like I love being outside and but I hate being outside. It's yeah, no, because it's like you can have like a decent day, it'll be like seventy five, even like on the good days, it'll be like seventy five and pretty, and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you got tornadoes.

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Speaker 4: Just flying around, and you're like, you know, what the heck? Like you see Nashville nine one one, right, that's real life. That's it's not real life, but it's close. That's how I feel.

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Speaker 1: But what about the scene of Nashville, Like do you enjoy to enjoy the restaurant? Do you like Nashville or so you don't like Nashville as what I'm.

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Speaker 3: No, so you have like I'm sober now too, so we're not going out and it's yeah, I mean that's what you're doing in Nashville.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I like, I'm from San Diego, where it's like we had some of the best food that you could have, Like we had Italian food that was like legit good Italian food. We had sushi that was fresh, like Mexican food's the best Mexican food.

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Speaker 2: You're here in great weather.

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Speaker 1: What Yeah, like the best weather ever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, water is really cool.

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Speaker 5: The water's not I mean you wear whatt suit, but I mean, I don't know, I just I love it. I mean we're trying to eventually move back, I think to California, hopefully within the next year or so.

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Speaker 2: Uh, okay, that's.

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Speaker 4: The plan, so crossing her fingers.

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Speaker 1: But Christina, you're you're sober?

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's how long?

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Speaker 4: A year and a year?

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Speaker 3: Almost on the twentieth, it'll be a year and two months. Cool. Yeah, that's been a big lifestyle change for the better. And yeah, no loving that. But again, not much to do here in Nashville anymore.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, what are some like fine activities in Nashville that don't revolve around like drinking?

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Speaker 3: Escape rooms? Recent escape room we wait for the new ones to come out. We do them, just us to to try, and we always get out. We're really good at them.

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Speaker 5: So it's funny because like the first escape room, I took her in her family too, because like I've always loved the escape rooms, Like I just find them so interesting and like they have like cool mechanisms.

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Speaker 2: Like the Joe just did his first one recently.

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Speaker 1: I just did my first one to get out. We got out, Yeah, we got out, but we we we did. There was an option to like get a clue, like are there options in all of them to like get it? Get that If you use that button, is that it still counts.

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Speaker 5: So the places that we've been to, like for your scored account, you can't use more than three clues. Oh that's like the rules. So if you use less than three clues, then your score still counts. If you used more than it's questionable.

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Speaker 3: Well usually one, because there's one where it's just like okay, there's I mean or stuck.

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Speaker 5: And I feel like when you're working with multi like a lot of people and especially people that are like kind of newer to it, sometimes they'll move clues around and so it's like you'll press the clue and they'll be like, hey, do you remember that thing you picked up and you moved over there, go and grab it, and so it's like we kick them out. Yeah, then we then we catch them out. We're like, hey, don't touch it. I get pretty serious. I'm like, don't touch it again, like you know, but just I don't actually get serious. I just love escape.

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Speaker 6: Would you ever go to like a bar, listen live music and just do like a mocktail or is that really just not your scene anymore?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, we definitely. I mean his mom came to town. We went and did the whole Broadway thing, and it was just different. I think the first few months of that it was like, no, I wouldn't have done that. But I'm to a point now where I'm like, yeah, I can do that. We you know, do weddings, I do all the normal things.

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Speaker 4: I think.

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Speaker 3: I think I usually he's tried to have me some mocktails, though, I think just stay away from it. I don't know why, just like the mentally like upholding it. I'm like, I don't need to do that. I'm at that point where I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel so much as your body and everything? You just feel so much better?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I do feel so much better. At first I did not. I do feel so much better now. I feel so much more period, like I feel so much emotions and so he's been doing that. Yeah, I don't know. It's been good.

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Speaker 4: No, it's more I do I do. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I'm very proud of her in all the progress and she's like made with that. I mean, I know, it's like it was difficult when she first stopped because it was like, you know, especially with like you know, how it is influencing and like social media events, it's like there's alcohol at every single one of them, you know what I mean, and so you know, being constantly surrounded by it can be very challenging. And so it's like, I mean, I'm amazed by how she's overcome that and how well she's been doing without it.

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Speaker 4: So it's been awesome.

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Speaker 3: Well, I got to where for my job, I'll have to do a lot of lives, not even just on my social media but for the place I work for, and so it's ending up having to do them a transition to doing them at home. And it was late nights and it was like for four hours at a time, and I'm like, okay, it just I need to still have a personality and I need to be engaging and all this, and so it was kind of a fear at first of like do I even have a personality, But I think I've gotten past that, like, okay, well sometimes I'm more chilling down and that's okay to you don't always have to be out of ten.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I get that. I I go. I drink way less now than I used to. Like, I mean a few posts ago on my Instagram I talked about having like ten drinks or something, but it was the day. It was the day before Thanksgiving. But for the most part, I really I usually go like like a month, month, two months without a drink. Do you mind me asking you? And feel free? Don't have to answer this, but was there like a reason that you wanted to go sober?

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Speaker 3: I definitely definitely was addicted.

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Speaker 1: To it alcohol.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, problem for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's good.

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Speaker 6: Congratulations, that's awesome, and thank you for sharing that with That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: You guys are crushing your Braden's running ultra marathons for I'm actually curious to see if you if you get through this because so your last marathon right when you get to when you finish it, I don't know what time you finish. It doesn't kind doesn't matter this with the question I'm asking, but like you do you was your body? You think your body could have done another twenty something miles.

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Speaker 5: I think it'd be different so from what the coach and he kind of convinced me to do it.

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Speaker 4: He said, it's different than running a regular marathon.

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Speaker 1: Like because you're more walking, right, Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 5: Like in my marathons, I've ran, I've never walked, so I'm always doing a job or run of some sort. Like I think my first mile time was around like, you know, seven fifty five in my marathon, and then I kind of just like tapered off and slowed down from there. The way he was kind of explaining it to me is he's like, your first mile time, you'll do it, like your first few miles, you'll do it run, but you're running out like thirteen minutes a mile, so it's like you're really not pushing your body.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 5: So I mean, and he said, because he said, you have all daya basically run this thing. He's like, it's just a matter of you know, timing it out and doing your blocks. He's like, so the first like you know, ten miles or show you're doing a thirteen minute mile. I feel like I could almost walk a thirteen minute while if I was like speed walking. So I mean, I feel like running and doing a quick job, like a light job for thirteen miles is not too difficult. But mentality, the mental is going to be the hardest part. And that's like, that's really why I was excited about doing it, as I like challenging myself mentally and like kind of re getting myself back down to like a place of discipline, you know what I mean, where it's like my mind's in control of my body, you know what I mean, Because sometimes I feel like I'm just listening whatever my body's craving to do or wanting, and so I feel like it's kind of a good reset button to do something challenging every once in a while.

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Speaker 1: I agree. I agree.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to like, I have a quick question for Joe. Have you ever done the I fly the indoor skydiving?

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Speaker 4: Have you do?

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about. I've ever done it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've done that.

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Speaker 3: And as you were talking about that, I was like, Yeah, challenging our bodies. I want to see Joe doing one of them. We just did this I fly in skydiving. We're planning my mom's seventieth birthday there next month in Atlanta. Hopefully she's not watching this. And they ended up afterwards talking about him being athletic. The guy comes over to and handsome his like personal card, and was like, hey, you know, if I know you're out of town because we were in California, but like, if you ever like want to take this more seriously, like you have a true talent if you're a natural.

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Speaker 4: Athute did sound as a natural athlete? I was bragging.

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Speaker 5: So we went my with my sister and stuff, and me and my sister are super competitive, and I told her afterwards. I was like, hey, do you get recruited to get part of the you know, indoor scout diving community.

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Speaker 4: No, I did, and so yeah, but is there.

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Speaker 6: A still set I don't know how you would be and I you are naturally very athletic, I will give you that.

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Speaker 2: But you are not comfortable in the water.

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Speaker 6: And I think that there's something to be said about the parallels of like athleticism with a natural element.

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Speaker 1: Well, I am comfortable in the water. I mean every hotel we go to, I'm the one that goes in the pool. Right do you like to you like to be? You are never in.

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Speaker 6: The pool, But I mean like the natural like like open bodies of water.

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Speaker 1: But I've I've actually sky died, I've jumped out of a plane, you have. Yeah, so I have that experience.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's different because that is like obviously badass. But when you feel like you're in a tube of wind, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Trying to orient your body as like you've done it. Yeah, so my aunt.

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Speaker 3: And you just feel manhandled it.

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Speaker 2: They like lift you and like throw you into the wind.

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Speaker 1: And you're just like, ah, well, so so Brandon, what did you do that was so athletic that the instructors like you have.

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Speaker 2: A career and that I would imagine it was like your coordination.

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Speaker 5: My first time doing it, and he was pretty hands off with me, so it was like a lot of people he man handled, but like for me, he kind of just let me do my thing. And I don't know, I was just kind of feeling the wind and like kind of moving my body and uh, like you know, I learned it when I like did different things on my body. I'd go up or down, and so I started doing kind of some of that and then I don't know, I really I don't know why. I think he was just trying to sell me something. To be honest, I don't necessarily think.

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Speaker 2: You inspired him.

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Speaker 5: He saw me as a vulnerable prospect for ah, it's also like indoor skydiving.

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Speaker 4: You know, pyramid scheme or something. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: That's very hupful of you to say.

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Speaker 4: That, I think, and very very global.

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Speaker 2: So how is Blakely doing well?

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Speaker 5: She is, she's nine almost and tomorrow, and her attitude is getting there to three teen.

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Speaker 4: It's uh, it's yeah, yeah, nine.

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Speaker 2: It starts at nine.

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Speaker 3: Eh yeah, no eight, I mean it's it's I mean, she's also she's an amazing kidd I want to make sure everyone knows she's an amazing kiddo. But just the past couple of days she's been testing us and so that's where we're at with that. But like we just when we went for Thanksgiving her a few days before to California, she was just amazing as far as behavior. But she's such a cool kid. I mean, I have to say that I'm her mom, but.

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Speaker 4: No, she was.

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Speaker 5: She was absolutely amazing, like as far as like. So we went back to California. I actually I lost my grandfather when we went back to that. I appreciate that, but it was it was really amazing to see her in that environment because it was a very emotional time for a lot of my family, and I was so proud of how she was, like so empathetic and so supportive, like for you know kids normally like eight years old, they're just running off and playing or not paying attention. But she was there like consoling like my mom, and like, you know, see your grandfather and wanting, yeah, wanting to see my grandfather. He was super excited to see her. So it was just it was really I was very impressed, to say the least, with how she like behaved and you know, handled herself there.

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Speaker 4: It was really really cool.

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Speaker 3: And on a different note, we can tell I have a little friend over.

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Speaker 4: Here, Ye have a surprise for her for your birthday.

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Speaker 3: Not only are we doing the surprise birthday dinner because again we can't do a big party because she has a soccer tournament, but with her soccer team, because they're all really close, we're going to do a surprise dinner tomorrow. But in the morning, she went ask for a new backpack because her backpack broke, and I was like, maybe maybe for your birthday you can get a new backpack. So I got her a backpack and we're gonna put this inside of it, something she's been asking for for a very long time.

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Speaker 4: I really, don't you gott hurry up? People are waiting. We got a ball python.

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Speaker 6: Oh my god, I thought you were going to hold up a puppy And that's just so much more shocking.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be like like a olf on the shelf type of thing.

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Speaker 2: Did you just pull a snake out of a plastic container?

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Speaker 5: Okay, so this, this whole snake thing, honestly is the most ridiculous thing in the world.

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Speaker 2: What kind of snake is it?

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Speaker 4: It's a ball python? And look how pretty he is?

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Speaker 2: It is kind of pretty? Does it? Is it safe?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Apparently, I mean apparently they said they're safer than like corn snakes and stuff like that, like when they get scared, they'll just ball up.

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Speaker 2: But you know, yeah, looking scared?

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Speaker 1: Well did they what do they eat?

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Speaker 4: Mice?

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Speaker 2: Maybe live mice?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he has like a little elephant on his tail on the Honestly, we don't really know, so I think we're gonna do live mice. I'm never had a snake before in my life, and neither has Christina. The whole story for how she ended up going about getting this snake for blakely is kind of ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: There's this guy who names Reptile Steve.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I just drove an hour or you know, our their hour pack and went met him in his shed out behind his house where he has a thousand snakes by myself.

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Speaker 1: But I'm mag Reptile Steve.

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Speaker 4: Huh No, he's great. It's it's not sketchy at all at first.

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Speaker 3: Whenever I told you what she was telling me about it a real this man's shed.

00:21:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, she like found this guy through a friend and she was like, oh yeah, he like her friend, I guess told her like, oh yeah, he has amazing snakes that are super pretty and all this stuff. And I was like, big, you're gonna go drive to the country to someone's house and go to their shed where they have thousands of snakes?

00:22:04
Speaker 4: Like that sounds like a plot line for like a Taken movie, you know what I mean.

00:22:10
Speaker 1: I just want to go have some tacos in San Diego.

00:22:13
Speaker 2: Was like, no, I'm actually gonna go get a snake from those random shed.

00:22:17
Speaker 4: No, that's exactly how it was.

00:22:19
Speaker 5: So but she did, and Reptile Steve is legit, honest to god great snake handler.

00:22:25
Speaker 4: If you guys are looking for a snake in Tennessee reptile. Steve is your guy?

00:22:29
Speaker 3: Okay, slicety drop the name suggestions and also we can send you guys a video of tomorrow morning when we do surprise it with a snake if you want.

00:22:39
Speaker 6: Okay, quick disclaimer before we move on to the next section of the podcast, we are going to be discussing Christmas, and if you have young kids around, or you're in the car with some kids in the back seat, you might want to skip this next section.

00:22:57
Speaker 1: Is she now too old to believe in Sannah?

00:22:59
Speaker 3: Is that?

00:22:59
Speaker 1: Is that not a thing anymore?

00:23:00
Speaker 3: Right? She doesn't believe in Sannah?

00:23:04
Speaker 1: She doesn't?

00:23:05
Speaker 2: Is that because someone said something he.

00:23:08
Speaker 3: Didn't realize that she believed in Santa?

00:23:11
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I mean I think, like what's the age?

00:23:14
Speaker 3: Well, what was two years ago?

00:23:16
Speaker 2: I mean she was seven.

00:23:19
Speaker 5: I okay, in my defense, I never really believed in Santa myself, So it was like, I don't know, I kind of forgot that people believe.

00:23:28
Speaker 3: Sanna's not really scaled at you really best from the driver's seat and she's like, well, what do you mean. I think she was a little suspicious at the time. I was just afraid of like letting her know, and then her being too young to not tell other kids. But we worked through it. She didn't tell anybody because okay, cousins and stuff, and I didn't want to ruin it for anybody.

00:23:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was a lapsed on my part.

00:23:47
Speaker 3: I think she was asking for a million dollars from Santa, and so that's kind of what did it. We're like, well, that's like.

00:23:54
Speaker 5: This, Santa doesn't have a million dollars to give you. She was like saying, any real, what are you talking about? And then it was like, you know, yeah, I don't know.

00:24:06
Speaker 4: I just I mean for me, I think that like, I don't know, I'm new parents. I was new to parenting at the time. It was when I first came.

00:24:13
Speaker 1: Out, you know.

00:24:13
Speaker 4: And you know, again I don't know. I had a lapse because I meant the lapse that was fine.

00:24:20
Speaker 3: I was also kind of it kind of I wasn't sure if I wanted to do Santa with her or not. And when the time came, she was around other again, cousins and people that that were doing it, so it just got sprung or I never made it like a huge deal, all.

00:24:34
Speaker 2: Right, So you got out of like elfa on the shelf and all that.

00:24:36
Speaker 3: Stuff, but not doing Yeah, no, that's too much for me.

00:24:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, what will you guys do for the holidays this year?

00:24:45
Speaker 5: Honestly, it's been hard because we've been so busy with planning our anniversary anniversary.

00:24:50
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, every day I'm thinking about it NonStop.

00:24:54
Speaker 5: No, we've been so busy because we traveled to California and then we've been having soccer game games. Like again, soccer takes up our life, like it's it's crazy, like when people like I didn't realize how much my parents really put into me playing sports as a kid, Like I thought, like I just went and played sports.

00:25:09
Speaker 4: But it takes like a lot to take your kid out of sport.

00:25:12
Speaker 5: And then we're coaching teams or when you're doing things like that, so things kind of take a little bit longer to plan. So I think that, I mean, this next week, now the school's kind of winding down, we'll probably start planning things for Christmas.

00:25:23
Speaker 4: We got to create a Christmas tree.

00:25:24
Speaker 3: Still I don't even have a tree. Y, Yeah, so well you got to do that.

00:25:27
Speaker 1: I mean you'll go, you'll go to the country and buy a python, but you won't put up a Christmas tree.

00:25:32
Speaker 4: Right, That's what I'm saying. I think we just have random things that I don't know. I don't feel like we're very traditional in that sense. What it is.

00:25:39
Speaker 3: I think about going in the attic, getting all the decor down, and then putting it right back a couple of weeks later.

00:25:44
Speaker 1: And I get that so much.

00:25:46
Speaker 3: It's so much she got.

00:25:48
Speaker 6: Joe gets like that when we decorate because we go to Chicago for Thanksgiving.

00:25:53
Speaker 2: So do we leave I linked to death.

00:25:55
Speaker 6: And then we'll either go to Chicago or Toronto for Christmas, depending on the year. So I like to decorate before we go away for Thanksgiving so we can come back and it's already done. And I mean, look, we're putting up like a tree and like one other thing, maybe because we're in an apartment and you see.

00:26:10
Speaker 2: Like our little like door here.

00:26:13
Speaker 6: But he's always like, oh, like, we're gonna go to the storage. You know, we're gonna get on the boxes, we're gonna unpack, we're gonna take them back, and then like literally in six weeks we're gonna have to do it again.

00:26:21
Speaker 2: But once it's done, it feels good.

00:26:23
Speaker 4: You guys, do you guys do a real tree or do you guys do fake tree?

00:26:27
Speaker 3: Fake?

00:26:27
Speaker 1: We do fake tree here as we will no matter no matter you. I mean, listen, I grew up.

00:26:34
Speaker 6: With a real tree, Like we used to go and cut it down. Oh yeah, we still do it. My parents still do it. My dad loves real tree. And I think I don't want to do a real tree right now. But like if we, you know, in ten years, have like an actual house, then maybe you.

00:26:50
Speaker 1: Would want to. I mean I would do it. Yeah, I just think it. I think a fake tree is like so much easier.

00:26:55
Speaker 2: It is so much easier.

00:26:56
Speaker 6: But like I like the smell and it's fun, especially if you have like can I love going and picking the tree and we'd get my chocolate.

00:27:04
Speaker 2: It's like a whole thing.

00:27:05
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a whole spiritual kind of experience picking the tree out. You know, you have to find what tree talks to you and stuff.

00:27:11
Speaker 3: And you know, do you guys have dogs?

00:27:13
Speaker 2: No, we don't have any pets, but Joe is really getting the itch.

00:27:17
Speaker 1: Do you guys have Do you guys have a dog?

00:27:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have two big ones. That's what my next question was going to because you guys were on opposite ends of the tree as we are as well. And I was going to ask if their dogs are allowed to sleep in the bed, because we're also non agreeing.

00:27:29
Speaker 6: No, if we get a dog, it's not sleeping in the bed, and Joe will want it to sleep in the bed for sure.

00:27:34
Speaker 5: I just feel like, I mean, the house is like our dog. They have their like even when my dog's sitting over here and he's looking at me because he knows what we're talking about. He's one hundred picks fight for me, Dad, like when he looks at me.

00:27:46
Speaker 4: Dad, you know. But he's such a cuddle bug. I mean he might be one hundred and twenty pounds and he might lay right on top of you, but it's like they love you and you're their life and be strong.

00:27:55
Speaker 3: But when I'm half asleep and I have to get up in the middle of night to go to the restroom, I can't get up.

00:28:00
Speaker 4: Yes Bury argument.

00:28:03
Speaker 5: Okay, So we have blakely May and she'll come in our house, come into our bed at like two am every morning, scared of a living crowd. It's still a fear of mine because like I'll just wake up at two am because she's loud when she comes in and I just see the shadow standing over the bed.

00:28:16
Speaker 3: Scary move.

00:28:17
Speaker 6: I definitely scared my parents a few times doing that, but I wasn't allowed to sleep in their bad. My mom would like grab my hand and walk it back to my room.

00:28:23
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, this one says, okay, yes, so it opens the covers up and let her sleep, right, she doesn't get out. Blakely's like, what eighty pounds you're you're pushing around to get up and go to the bathroom.

00:28:34
Speaker 4: She wakes me up in the middle of the night to get up and move so she can go to the bathroom.

00:28:38
Speaker 6: A lot of things in your bad Guys, you got two dogs, you got a kid. I hope you have a king size.

00:28:44
Speaker 3: We do, we do, But I agree it's too much, too much happening in the bed. That sounds weird.

00:28:49
Speaker 4: I'll sleep in the guest room with the dogs.

00:28:51
Speaker 3: Who does a whole?

00:28:52
Speaker 4: Guy? I do. Sometimes I will like go to bed like or like I'll take a nap and like cuddle the dogs in the guest room bed that's only bed they're allowed in.

00:28:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree with Actually, like I I love dogs, but I agree with not keeping them on the bed. I just I was just watching videos on sleep being so important and it's yeah, it's messing with my head anyways, you guys, Yeah, I want a dog. I want a dog. But here's the thing. We we can't get a big dog because we live in a New York apartment and we travel too much, and we'll travel is something that's probably always going to be a part of our lives to some extent, just because we're both from different same as you guys, right, you're from different cities, so you'll always have to travel. So I think if we get a dog, it's gonna have to be a small dog. And yeah, I mean, I mean I would get one right now, but then I then, I know, I know, I'll be like, damn, I shouldn't have got this dog. But then I'll be like, I love but I love the dog.

00:29:57
Speaker 6: I suggest, what if we foster Joe? Is like I won't be able to send it back. Like fostering for him is the same as like just getting a dog.

00:30:05
Speaker 4: I'm having a moment right now with this guy who he's.

00:30:09
Speaker 2: Beautiful, the bed.

00:30:17
Speaker 4: Gown.

00:30:18
Speaker 3: He's like, well, well what else? What else y'all got any rapid fires?

00:30:25
Speaker 6: No?

00:30:26
Speaker 2: I think that's it.

00:30:27
Speaker 1: That's it. Anything you guys want to plug plug anything you're doing now that you want to let our listeners know.

00:30:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, as always stay tuned with life updates, especially this marathon. We'll be covering down over on Instagram, on our socials.

00:30:43
Speaker 1: And yeah, when is that? What's the date?

00:30:46
Speaker 2: What's Saturday?

00:30:46
Speaker 5: Right? Yeah?

00:30:48
Speaker 1: Okay, and last question before we let you leave, how are you how are you like fueling for it? Do you have a breakdown? Like you you're a nurse, right, like you know you have to put like a left lights and chitt in your body.

00:31:01
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like it's like four days away. I'll get to it. No, honestly, I don't know. I haven't really been feeling up for it quite yet.

00:31:09
Speaker 5: I think I'm gonna start carbloading, you know, spaghetti's pastas, things like that. I have to go and get like apparently for the ultras you have to bring like nutrition like so like, yeah, so I have to go and get that. I have to get walking sticks because it's like a trail like part of it's a trail run.

00:31:25
Speaker 4: So I still have to do that. There's quite a bit of stuff I have to do.

00:31:28
Speaker 1: Go and you got Blakely's birthday inane behavior right now.

00:31:33
Speaker 4: It's a type of lifestyle that I'm choosing to live.

00:31:37
Speaker 3: And uh so he did talk me into a real Christmas tree last year. We actually still have it on the side of our house. We wanted to make a walking stick out of it.

00:31:45
Speaker 2: You still have your last year's Christmas tree on the side of the house. So wait, did we go fake this year?

00:31:51
Speaker 4: We're going to get another real.

00:31:53
Speaker 3: We have to get on the real one because he talked me into donating my my fake.

00:31:56
Speaker 4: I'm not going to get a fake I'm not putting a fake tree up. I think it's sacrilegious. It's just it's not good.

00:32:02
Speaker 1: No, it's it's fine. It looks like real.

00:32:06
Speaker 2: They have a home, they can get a steak, they can get a real tree. I'm for it. It's it's so it's cozy.

00:32:12
Speaker 5: Even like I have even in like my six hundred square foot studio apartment, I had like a real like tree like it was, but it was like a real true.

00:32:21
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:32:22
Speaker 1: Well, thank you guys so much for coming on Battery Happy Hour and taking the time.

00:32:26
Speaker 4: Really thanks, I'm glad you guys didn't forget about this man it's nice.

00:32:29
Speaker 1: Summer, no.

00:32:32
Speaker 5: And uh.

00:32:33
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00:32:38
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