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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mark and Easton and I Heart Radio and Time People's
Choice Award winning podcasting. Hellllo, everybody, we're scrubbing in. I
was hoping you could start it that way. Yeah, it

(00:22):
hash do with tradition. Hey, check it out, everybody, for
all of you are always wanted to scrubbing in with
Becca Antonia. Without Becca Antonia, you got your wish. It's
Mark and Easton running the show without them, and you know,
a show that's all about bringing women together and female empowerment.

(00:46):
We thought, why not have the two white guys take
over the show and just talk. That's the perfect ending
to here. We realized we need more white guys, especially
white guys in podcasting. That's that's desperately. Oh man, well
here we are. You know, let's uh, let's do it.

(01:07):
Let's get started. East And how was your Christmas? It
was great? Uh, it was really nice. It was just
we didn't go anywhere. We stayed home. Um and uh
we watched movies all day and uh we uh it
was really low key to you're over and look at
Christmas lights. It was really nice to day. Actually, what
have you? What did you watch that was particularly fantastic?

(01:27):
Oh my goodness, you know we Allison had never seen
Home Alone and uh, I hadn't seen it in a
really long time. So that was that was a big
highlight for us. We we love um we've been watching
Crampus every year the it came out in and it's
kind of like a like a horror comedy movie. Uh

(01:48):
we we really dug that. We want. I meet Allison
watched the holiday because I know Tony talks about it
every year. Oh yeah, I remembered really enjoying it in
theaters and Allison watched it and she's like, wow, this movie.
But we ended up really enjoying it. I think like
there were parts of that are really cute and then
there's parts that are like laughably dumb. But yeah, those

(02:08):
are probably the highlights for us. Well we uh we
uh got a cabin up in the Lake Arrowhead area
and so that was nice because it was just somewhere
to go and not be home, you know, so we
just wanted the kids to go do something and so
we did. So that was nice. It was a cute
little cabin and they liked it and it was it
was different. It was definitely a Christmas to remember. No,

(02:31):
it's snowing as we speak. I think they're getting a
ton of snow up there. But we left on Saturday. Um.
But like I said to the kids, I said, uh,
you know if because we do the same thing every year,
we go to Wisconsin and we see the same people
on the same days. And I said, if I asked
you your favorite memory of Christmas, you'd have no idea.
When I bring up Christmas, You're gonna have all these

(02:51):
amazing memories. And it was. It was really a great time.
We watched Uh, we showed them Christmas Vacation. You know,
I remember being underwhelmed by that movie a long time ago,
and I remain underwhelmed. I know it's a classic and
everybody watches it every year, and my friend Dmitri has
literally memorized the entire film. I don't It has some

(03:14):
funny moments, but as a whole, I don't know. It's
not It's not my favorite. You know, I consider myself
as Vacation is one of my favorite movies. Of vacation
I love, like I have that one memorized. But Christmas Vacation,
I'm on the same boat. Like I remember thinking, like, man,
everyone loves this one, but like I almost like Vegas
Vacation more and that's like one of the bad new ones,

(03:36):
you know, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So anyway, so that
was fine. I also would like to say that I
watched uh Wonder Woman eighty four and I'm apparently one
of the few that really enjoyed it. I thought it
was a lot of fun. I watched the Bags documentary
on HBO Max that I saw everybody talking about, and
that was awesome. Here, that's amazing. It's amazing. It's really good.
And I finished ted Lasso, which is fantastic. So there

(03:58):
you go. Um so today on the show, we are
going to get to something a little bit that people
are very excited about and I've been talking about for
a long time. Our wives are coming on the show.
That's right there, it exists. They're real people. Yes, it
involved some arm twisting on my side of things. She
is just not interested. She's been on the Secrest show

(04:20):
like twice over the years because that's Ryan, that's the boss,
that's my job. She's she's very she she'll help out
if I need the help. But coming on this and
talking about our Mary, it's just not her thing. She
doesn't she doesn't have that desire to be the focus
of the focal points. So anyway, but we'll give it

(04:41):
a go. We'll see how it goes. In the meantime,
we got a lot of questions on the Facebook group
that I wanted to address. Um, So I basically took
some of the questions that people asked and that got
a lot of likes. I figured that was people seconding
like this would be good. So, um some of these yeah,
I think so. Hailey Hineman asked, and a lot of

(05:01):
people actually asked how we got into radio working with
Ryan Seacreft that sort of thing whereas you go to school,
how did you end up in l A that sort
of stuff. So I'll go real quick, and they didn't
go real quick. Um. And a long long time ago,
I guess this was a buddy I went to high
school with. His name is Shannon and we're still friends.
We were texting over the holiday. Uh. He knew a

(05:23):
guy who worked at a radio station who let us
use their production studio. It was a Sunday night and
he just let us have the keys. We kind of
had to figure out how to work the equipment, and
I recorded fake demo of me pretending to be on
the radio. I remember I I I was I talked up.
That's a radio phrase, talking up a record, meaning you

(05:44):
talk over the intro before they start singing. I talked
up Angel of Harlem by you two. And I was
on w m r K, right, you get it, Mark
Radio or whatever, And I did that, and it's and
I don't have it anymore. I kind of wish I did,
because I bet it's horrendous. But that got me my
first job at w M A D in Madison, and
there's a direct line from there to Seacrest and scrubbing

(06:06):
in and all that stuff. So I either owe a
debt of gratitude to my friends Shannon or the blame
to my friend Shannon that I've been in radio for
nearly thirty years and who knows I could be so
much better off of that had never happened. But here
we are. Did you did you study radio in school
or anything like that. I studied communication arts in college.

(06:28):
Didn't really have any effect one way or another on
me getting that job or helping me excel at that job.
You know, I had a similar experience, like like, I
love radio my entire life, but I always thought that like, oh,
that's like saying you want to work in radio. That's
like saying like I want to be Tom Cruise, like
you know, like that no one gets to do that,
you know, so I never even tried. I was taking

(06:50):
classes to be a police officer and then um, one
day I was listening to radio and I I love
talk radio. Talk radio was like what really grew my
passion for it? And I thought, Um, I'm just gonna
go to the station k s c O in Santa
Cruz and just like see if they let me like
hang out and watch them do the show. And I
walked in and I was like, Hey, can I hang
out here? And they said yes, and I sat and

(07:12):
I got watched their like afternoon show, and then the
news person gave me, um an obituary for the chancellor
for UCSC had just died and they said, here here's
her obituary. Rewrite this for the radio and yeah, and
and like, let's just see what you got. This is
the first day, And so I did, because all I

(07:33):
did was listening to radio news, so I knew exactly
how it was formatted, and uh, I wrote it and
they said okay, and then they gave me like ten
more and I was there for like four hours and
I did it and then they're like, Okay, come back
for the morning show tomorrow. And I was an intern
and that was it. That was it for me, like
like an unofficial intern, like you weren't earning college credit
or r anything. You were just free labor. Absolutely not. Yeah,

(07:53):
they did not do the interns the way you're supposed to,
which keeps you from having an army of unmade workers.
But I'm grateful for it because I probably, you know,
if I had grown up in Los Angeles or New
York or something, there's no way that could have happened,
like uh, But so I'm really grateful for that. And
I worked there for like five years and then I
moved to they moved to l A. But you were

(08:15):
hired eventually. Yes, Yes, I was an intern for a
year without making any money, and then I got it.
Then one of the news people left and I became
a reporter and then I then I was making I
was making some real dollars. Yeah. Uh, that's that's that
leads me to a couple of other questions on here

(08:37):
on the radio, Like Sabrina Reagan wanted tips on getting
into radio and she did some college radio, and she's
having a hard time getting internships or entry level positions
right now. So many people I've talked to it started
from hanging out at the radio station. And I don't
I don't know that I recommend that or if that's
even possible now, but a lot of people had that happened.
I think even Seacrest had that happened. We're just kind

(08:57):
of show up at the radio station and hang out
until they kind of give you stuff to do. Um.
I've gotten a lot of trouble once. And I might
have told this story before, UM, but the truth is,
I don't know how to get into radio these days.
And I was addressing a bunch of UH broadcast students
who came to get a tour of the Secrest facilities,

(09:20):
and they asked me how to get into radio. What
it basically told them was the way I got into
radio doesn't exist anymore. You know, you work weekend being
on the radio. You know I did weekend overnights. I
did midnight to six am, I did two to six am,
I did eleven to five am. Because those are the
times you can be on and suck and nobody cares.

(09:40):
Because nobody's listening. But there's no longer such a thing
as the DJ that's on at three o'clock in the
morning because those are all pre recorded, or there's no
DJs nowadays because it's all automated. So what I told
them was I'm not sure how to get into radio anymore.
But apparently some of them took it as don't go
into radio, and and people a mad at me about that.

(10:01):
So I'm not saying don't go into radio. I'm saying
I'm not sure what the path in is anymore. But
I do think it's getting your foot in the door
anyway you possibly can, and then making yourself indispensable. Yes, yes, absolutely.
And the thing I always think about is like, you know,
you're not going to get an on air gig like
right off the bat, but I think that if you

(10:22):
like the way I got good because I didn't go
to school for this like either. But the thing the
way I got good at this was, uh, I listened
to a bunch of it and then I just like
copied what I heard. And these days, like you have
a radio studio in your pocket, like the iPhone microphone works,
we use it for a ton of podcast here you know,
like you can record your own demo tape at home.

(10:43):
And you know, I'm not saying that like if you
send someone a demo tap, they're just gonna hire you
on the spot. But at least you can like prove
that you know what you're doing or the at least
you kind of understand what they're looking for, and then
you know they might bring you into like you know, uh,
I don't know, street teams are a thing and where
it like be on the street team and stuff like that.
Not currently, but hopefully they'll be back at some point. Yeah. Yeah,

(11:04):
But but making yourself indispensable, man, that's the because like
I got into Seacrest by being an engineer. I do
not have any engineer experience, Like I'm not good at it,
but I learned enough and I was able to do
the job so that they when they needed someone, I
was there. Well that that's that, and you should talk
more about that because that's amazing because you got the
job as Ryan's engineer without engineering experience, and now you're

(11:27):
the writer producer of American Top forty with no writer
producer experience. So you should talk about that because that's
kind of amazing that you know that's a that's a
career pivot I'm very proud of. And I don't know
if that's that's happened before or at least very few times. Uh. Yeah,
you know when when I, uh, when I moved to
l I wanted to move to l A because I
figured I did everything that I could at KSCO and

(11:48):
Santa Cruz, I just couldn't like besides owning the station,
I couldn't do anymore. So I applied for every single
job in l A and radio that I could find,
every single job, and I got a job at the
Network Operations Center for Premier Networks, which is a syndication
part of our Heart Radio. And uh, it was like
working in a big room where like there's a ton
of radio feeds going in and out. I didn't know

(12:09):
how to work any of that stuff. But I said
that I had a working knowledge of broadcast equipment, which
was true, okay, But I mean I knew how computers worked,
and I could, you know, turn the board on and off. Uh.
And when I was in there, I just like I
looked around at all the equipment and I just found
all the manuals for them and I read them and
then I and I then I knew how they all worked,

(12:31):
and uh eventually taught you. You just taught yourself. Yeah,
like they taught me to proceed. You know, they taught
me like how they what they do with them, but
as far as how they worked and like how to
fix them when they break, that's the big one. I
just taught myself because we had all the manuals in
the room and you're sitting there for eight hours listening
to Rush Limbaugh and the Breakfast Club all day by yourself.
There's like there's other people in there, but they're you know,

(12:53):
they're there's something broke during the reading manual process that
could have been kind of catastrophic for your career. That's true. However,
the manuals right in front of you. I mean, no
better time for something to break than that. Uh yeah,
and so so I. I. You know, I kind of
became uh my boss when I was there. He used

(13:13):
this phrase, He's like, you know, you're that girl like
that from that TV show from the I think it's
from the sixties. Uh, if something, if they needed something
like it was, I was raised my hand. I don't care,
Like I don't know if if I didn't know how
to do it. I didn't know what I didn't care
what it was. If they needed something done, I would
just volunteer and then I would figure it out if
I didn't know how to do it. Uh So everyone
knew that they could they could rely on me to

(13:35):
do it and hopefully do it well. And then when
Seacrest his engineer position opened, I didn't want to apply
because I was like, oh god, that's like that's they
need a real engineer for that, like that's big time.
And Allison, my lovely wife, was like, if you don't
apply for that job, I will leave you. So I

(13:58):
applied for it and I got it. And how did
you get it? Because somebody they knew you, and they
knew you were up for anything and that you had
a good personality or like how like how how do
you beat everybody else for that job? You know? Uh So,
my friend Andy Hendrickson was the engineer before, and he
he told me not to take the job. He was like,
you should not apply for this job. It's not it's
not a good job. And uh o he he said

(14:22):
it wasn't. I think I don't know if he didn't
want me taking the I don't know what his reason
he was, but he told me, don't don't take the job.
I applied anyway. Uh, and then I got an interview,
and um, I I talked to the chief engineer for
the show Man named Jeff Tubbs. Yeah, and I told
remember like he asked me, you know what my experience was,

(14:43):
and I told him like what I knew how to do.
And then in a moment of weakness, I was like, hey,
I gotta be honest with you. Like I there's certain
things I'm not very confident in and I just want
you to know that right off the top. And Tubbs
told me I would rather have someone that is willing
to learn everything and knows how to work with people
that doesn't know everything, versus someone that may know everything

(15:05):
and it's horrible with people and everybody hates That's a
great that's great, uh from Tubs. That's a great outlook
on things because you are in the studio with me,
Tanya Sissony, Ryan, John Para, and a couple of other
people all morning, and so yeah, you need to fit in.
That's an important thing. If we don't like the engineer,

(15:26):
you're not going to be there very long because we
need somebody that we can hang with exactly exactly. And
then like when when things go wrong and Ryan Seacrest
is looking you in the eye, going what's happening, you
need to be able to tell them that you're you know,
what's happening and how you're fixing it and now going
you know, like so right, uh so yeah that I
mean that's how I that's how I got that job.
And then but engineering wasn't really what I wanted to do.

(15:49):
I wanted to be involved with whatever was on, you know,
just like everybody I won't I want to be near
the spotlight. I want to be near them. Let me
let me side truck this for just a second cause
and Irwin asked the question about how you and I
started working together and our first impressions of each other
and how our relationship has evolved since, And um, I
don't remember. It's hard to remember my first interactions with

(16:11):
you because we went through a lot of engineers during
that period, and so I probably wasn't the friendliest because
it's just another guy standing back there, and who knows
if we'll be here in a couple of months. But uh,
I don't know. I remember you just made us laugh,
and you would probably just say some one liner that
made people laugh, and that's the quickest way to make friends.
That's what I remember, is you making everyone in the

(16:33):
room laugh and then you fit in very quickly. That
makes me feel good, Uh you know, yeah, because like
I mean, like I was introducing at least I was
introduced to you as that's Mark. He's he's executive, pretty
sure of the show. You got to make sure he's happy.
He needs ant make it happen. Yes, yes, And you're

(16:54):
You're extremely friendly guy. You're very charismatic. Like people are
drawn to you so like it was from the first day,
even like even if we probably didn't talk, I was like,
this is the fun guy to be around. Well, that's
nice because I've gotten in the past, I've gotten that
I could be kind of aloof when I first meet
people because I don't I don't know why. That is,

(17:14):
probably because I just I'm probably so busy and focused
on the show that I don't have time to kind
of endear myself to your right off the bat. So
I've gotten kind of a negative review on a negative
first impression review from people before Hey not not with
me though, at least just fun with me. Um. So
that so anyway, So yeah, so from being an engineer
to being the producer. Yeah, yeah that Uh I wanted

(17:38):
to be Uh. I wanted to be a producer really bad. Um.
And I was trying my best to let everyone on
the ship, like, you know, I want to work with
Ryan too. I just I love Ryan and I love
that show so much, and so I I anytime like
Ryan brought me on the air, I try to make
sure that I, like, really did a good job. And
you you, he liked you from the beginning because you're

(17:58):
funny and you're in dear right away he liked you.
And then that's and that's my job to be able
to tell how he feels about people. And he liked
you right away. Man, this feels great. Uh. So you know,
I just in positions on this show don't open up
very often. You know, all people have been there a
really a long time, and uh, why why would you
want to leave? It's the best um so I but

(18:22):
but I wanted to make sure when a position did
open up, I was ready. Uh. And then Miles Miles Harvey,
the executive producer of A T forty at the time,
he was moving back to Kentucky and um I again,
I was like, oh I can't that's a T forty.
That's a big I can't do that. I didn't even
dream of applying for it. And then the web the

(18:44):
web guy, just by chance, was like, I gotta write
this dumb thing about j Lo, but but I really
want to go get a coffee. And I said, if
you get me a coffee, I'll right this thing about
j Lo for you for the website, and uh, then
you don't have to do it. And so I wrote
it and he's like, I owe a lot of this
to this decision. He's like, I'm gonna put your name

(19:04):
on this Eastern because this is good. Was that Murray?
That was market Essencio? Who is market Essensio? I thought
it was Michael Murray? Oh no, uh so yeah. So
I wrote this like blurb. I can't remember what it was,
something about j LO and um he put on the
website and it said by Easton and then the boss uh,
I amed me, I'll never forget. I was standing. I

(19:27):
was in the studio with Ryan and she and me
and said, have you thought about being the A t
Ford producer? And I said, yes, yes, I have and
I would love to. And uh. Then then that kind
of started the process. You know, I had to write
a bunch of sample scripts for Ryan and he had
to approve it and everything. Um, and we had to
convince a bunch of people because that on paper, that

(19:48):
sounds very weird, like we're gonna take our engineer and
give him this like syndicated show. Yeah, it is weird,
but you and I came at this similarly because, um,
I'm the executive producer of this show and I've never
produced a morning show before in my life. So um,
it's similar. Without going into that story because that's too long,
but it's similar in the sense that when somebody leaves

(20:09):
from a big position like that producer of ET executive
producer Van Air, the instinct of Ryan and the powers
that be at my heart is let's scour the planet
for the greatest producer who ever lived. And that's not
as easy as it sounds, because people are under contract,
and people work for companies, and people work for talent
that wants to keep them and stuff like that. And

(20:31):
I've always said that Seacrest experience Trump's any other possible experience,
meaning if you know him and his rhythms and how
he works. It's gonna be such a smooth transition where
if you're bringing somebody from Texas, it's gonna who's never
worked with Ryan before, it's gonna be bumpy. And that's
how I got my job because I was there, And

(20:51):
that's how you got your job because you were there
and we were ready to go and eager to help.
Exactly all those years of I've never heard to man
speak more than Ryan Seacrest at this point, and that
all those years of listening to him so closely like
Game and Andy, for that moment, for sure, that's the
most important thing. Whitney Jones wants to know our favorite

(21:13):
and least favorite guests, and I have an answer for this,
and I'm going to focus on Seacrest the guests because,
um it's it's just I think these people are more
widely known. Um, I mean, there's so many favorites and
so many great Nile Horrn couldn't be a nicer guy.
It's always so nice when he comes in. Honestly, Jennifer
Lopez is so fun when she's in studio and she

(21:36):
just talks to everybody and she swears like a sailor
and it's just great. Uh, these are the people that
come to mind. Um, who else is great that comes
in all the time. There's a lot of them that
we really like, but my least favorite, and you're gonna
have to help me with their names. Here, who's the
dude from Riverdale? kJ Appa? No, No, he's fine. Here.

(21:57):
Oh I know that one of the one of the
sweet Life kids. Um, yeah, it's either No. Cole Sprouse,
col S Braws came in so and this ties into
scrubbing it. So remember when Tanya was first talking about
starbursts and the Starburst company sent us two massive jugs
of red Starbirst because Tany was looking for her red Starburst.

(22:19):
I'm sure you all remember that. Well, Starbursts sent us
these massive jugs, like there had to be five hundred
starbursts in each of these giant jugs, and they were
just sitting on the on the counter and we would
snack from time to time. Well, Cole Spraws comes in,
he sees the starbursts there, he starts eating starbursts throughout
the entire interview. So he's talking like this when he's

(22:40):
talking to Ryan on the radio, and that infuriated me.
So Cole Sprouse, I am not a fan of I
am not a fan of Kara dell Avine. Kara del
Levine was like forty five minutes later for interview, and
then when she got here she had a total attitude,
so much so that the dude she was with, who
I can look up because they were in Paper Towns together,

(23:03):
because that's what they were promoting I'm thinking of. There
was another situation was very similar for a movie called
five ft apart Um. Oh yeah, but that's a different
set of people people, but similar circumstances. I got it
right here. Kara Delvin and net Wolf came in for
Paper Towns. She was four to five minutes later. He

(23:23):
was on time, apologizing for her, and then she was
weird and had attitude, and he would kind of jump
in to help her answer questions because she was giving
one word answers and she was terrible. Uh. Five ft
apart I think was a similar situation. Patrick Schwarzeneger and
Bella Thorne. He was on time, bellaphone was late, and
then weird when she got here. So, yes, similar situation.

(23:44):
So those three are my ones that I don't ever
need to see on the morning show again. Wow. I
remember that Cold s Brows Day very well, and I
would have to agree that that was that was like
infuriating to watch. Yeah, that was really maddening. And then
we had to ban the star Wars from this studio.
We could no longer have Starbursts in the studio because
that could never happen again. Yeah, that was horrible. I

(24:06):
loved eating those starvers. Uh. You know my my favorite guests,
I gotta say it's uh. I loved being able to
talk to Hillary Duff here on this podcast. That was
a thrill something I wanted to do. And these are
I'm picking these people very selfishly because I got to
speak to them personally. Uh So Hillary Duff on Scribbing
in podcast, that was a thrill. And then Chris Evans

(24:27):
on the Morning Show with Ryan. Uh, Ryan, let me
talk to Chris Evans on the phone and I got
to just gush and be a fan and he was
so nice about it, and uh, I'll never I listened
to that like once a month. It was like conversation
and it was so much was on my list at
one point. He he came in one time when they
were shooting the first Avengers movie and proceeded to complain
to Ryan off the air about how difficult it was

(24:51):
doing this superhero movie in New Mexico, like, oh Man,
these hours and uh, you know, like you got to
be kidding me, dude, But honestly, he's been on a
bunch of times since then. He's been awesome, So I
rescind my feelings about him. He's actually been really great.
Um and actually, actually with Casey vander Ziel, Brandon wanted
to know who we fan girls over over the years,
so you mentioned Hilary and Chris Evans. For me, having

(25:12):
Elton John and his duty was amazing. Yes, I'm older
than all of us, but Elton John and Studio was
one of those moments we were like, how the hell
has my life gone that I am now standing in
a room with Elton John. You know, as a kid
from Madison, Wisconsin who would lay in the back of
the van on the family trip to yellow Stone when

(25:36):
I was a kid listening to Elton John's greatest hits
and Madmen across the Water on my Sony Walkman. And
here I am standing in a room with really just me,
Ryan and Melton John, Like, how did this happen? It's
just one of those moments, and those moments are kind
of neat. I had that moment when they brought in
the Victoria's Secret Swarovski Crystal underwear. I'm in the same

(25:57):
room with this million dollar bra and panties. How did
this happen? Uh? Devior Graham wants to know what's our
favorite podcast to work on. I guess this question. I
guess this question so much. I can't pick. They're like
my children. How can you pick a favorite child? And
they're all and they're all really great. I love Ben

(26:18):
and Ashley, I love Jared and Dean, I love um,
Janna and Mike, Like, they're all really great people. So
it's yeah, it's hard to say. I mean, I would
say Scrubbing In just because we're more involved. Um, Tanya
and Becca are so fun. This one was not the
first one we started doing, but you know, the second
one we started doing, so we've been doing it for
a long time, so you know, I would say Scrubbing In.

(26:40):
But there's a lot of really fun shows. Yeah, yeah,
they're all fun for different reasons. But I mean, yeah,
I guess, I guess Scrubbing In is like the most fun. Okay,
let's let's end with this one. Jennifer Hudgins wants to
know the thing that we love about Becca Antonia the
most and the thing that annoys us or frustrates us
about Becca Antonia the most, and if somebody else asked

(27:02):
our first impressions of those two. So it's a similar
kind of a question. But I mean, you know, Tanya,
here's how I'll answer both questions with Tanya. Tanya is sunshine.
I've said that before, but there are times when we've
all been there. You first wake up in the morning
and somebody opens the window and the sun shines, then
you're not really in the mood for sunshine at that point,

(27:23):
or the sun is just a little bright in your eyes.
So a lot of the times, Tanya's sunshine is wonderful
and warming and welcoming, but sometimes you're like, oh, can
you just dim it down just a little bit. I
don't need sunshine right now. And Becca, I mean Becca
Um from the day we met her was incredibly warm
and friendly. She's a hugger, which is very nice. Of

(27:44):
course that's on hold these days, but Um, but I
think that says a lot about a person Um and
she just couldn't have been nicer and friendlier and well,
I don't know why I expected her to be more
of Um I expected more of a diva for some reason.
Maybe it's because I knew she had it on TV
and she's so stunning, Like I thought that she's gonna
be have more of an attitude and there was none

(28:06):
of that ever from day one. My pet peeve about
her is that she's not on time a lot, and
as a producer, I really preferred things throughout on time. Yeah. Yeah,
that's that's my pet peeve with with Becca too, because
especially these days that the the remote podcasting requires so
much preparation at the very beginning, and a lot of
times we don't have time to do that because they're

(28:27):
starting fifteen minutes late. Uh. But yeah, they're they're they're
the best. I it might you know. The first time
I met both of them, it was just so they're
both so friendly and so outgoing and they make you
feel so comfortable. Uh it's it's it's unlike anything else. Um. Yeah, okay,
I guess my biggest pet peep about Tanya. Uh this
is from when I was the main engineer. Uh. Times

(28:51):
I go with technical stuff and she she doesn't have
to be that's okay, but it's man. I spent a
lot of time fixing her email and stuff like that.
When when I first started with Ryan, I spent so
many hours fixing her laptop. I don't know how she
does this stuff to it, but anyway, that was my
pit peep with her. All Right, there we go. I'm

(29:12):
sure those will get back to the girls, and let's
talk about those in the new year. All right, Coming
up next, we have coaxed our wives to join us,
Alison and Amy on the podcast for the first time ever.
Coming up neck all right, we're back. Um, I've always

(29:43):
wanted to do that. I always I hear the girls
bring us back in, and I'm just chomping at the
bit to do it myself. Um. You know, it's the
Market Easton show here on scrubbing In and uh, this
is a segment we've been really excited about. I know
the listeners are really excited about it too. We're gonna
bring on some very special used here. Uh. Sitting next
to me is my lovely wife, Allison, and staying next

(30:06):
to you, Mark is your lovely wife. Baby. Hell, this
is this is kind of my wife is excited about
this is like a root canal, kind of like, let
me just get this over with. And I've mentioned this
before because we've been asked many times to have our
wives on the show, and I was explained, it's just
not my wife's thing, like she's not interested, she doesn't

(30:28):
want to be on camera, on Mike, any of that stuff.
Is that fair to say? Okay? Yeah, very very different,
uh for each I mean I think Allison is the
same way. She doesn't like being in front of people.
I felt like I was going to give like a
book report on something I hadn't read yet. For the
last three days. I was that I just found out
the questions a minute ago. I don't even know those

(30:49):
You're doing better than Sorry. Yeah, but it's very different
from you and I Mark, because I mean I I
if I didn't have a microphone in front of me,
I would shrivel up and die. That's the only thing
I was put on. I haven't pretending to do your
radio show since I was six years old. Say that
it's a different situation. Yeah, all right, Well, why don't
we ask my wife her questions. Let's do it. You

(31:12):
can interrogate her and then we'll break and I'll interrogate
Allison and then that will be that. Okay, sounds good
to make this as quick and painless as possible. Amials
will be fun. I haven't seen you since our wedding,
but I think this will be a really good time.
All right, this is what people want to know. What
was your first impression of Mark Um. He's, you know,

(31:34):
very outgoing and he was kind of like an interviewer
at the very start. I mean that sounds like it
makes things most comfortable. What was it like dating him?
Was he like cracking dad jokes and things like that?
That's my reputation now, Mr Um, Well, I mean I wouldn't.

(31:55):
I don't know if I call him dad jokes. They
were corny jokes. Yeah, always until you have kids and
then their dad. Yeah I suppose so. Yeah, that's that's
been his his personality for all. Did you have any
game at all? Did you use any pickup lines on you? Oh? God, no, no.
I don't think you did well that first night. And

(32:17):
we've mentioned the story before. I said the Wisconsin State
Fair and I was doing a live broadcast once again
with the microphone in front of me, and she and
her friends came up to request a song. And that's
the first meeting, and I felt like I was kind
of smooth because she had a boyfriend, and I said
to her, like, if you did, that's too bad that
you have a boyfriend, because I really would like to
ask for your number something like that. That's kind of smooth.

(32:38):
That's not a pickup line, no, not a traditional Yeah.
I like Mark answering the questions for you. It works
for me. Uh, When did you know that Mark was
the one? Oh? Um? Probably? I mean I feel like
it was earlier, but you questioned that, you know, and

(33:00):
he was planning on moving to California and I was not,
So I think it was after he moved and my
life kind of felt like it ended. I think that's
when I knew. Well, who said I love you first?
I honestly don't remember. That was like twenty three years ago.
It was I think it was you, But I kind

(33:21):
of coaxed you into doing Like I feel like you
were alluding to wanting to say something and I and
weren't sure how it was going to go over, but
I knew it was going to go over really well.
So I kind of coaxed you into saying it knowing
that I would receive it properly. I picture was sitting
on the floor of my bedroom in my apartment in Wawatosa.

(33:44):
But yeah, that sounds about right, but I honestly don't know. Well,
here's another big moment in any relationship walk us through
the proposal, was that everything you dreamt of, how did
he do it? You know? I didn't really have dreams
of that. I'm not one of those. Yeah, no, I never, um,
because then if you have a dream of how it's

(34:05):
going to go in your mind, you're going to be disappointed.
So I never really thought about it that much. He
was definitely weird and nervous and um, he had to
like you could just tell he was on edge, so
I knew something was wrong. And then when he started crying,
I thought something was really wrong. So it wasn't, I guess.

(34:26):
It wasn't until I saw the ring that I realized
that what was happening? Right? Oh oh, definitely between us,
he's the crier in the relationship. We were in San
Simeon on the beach across from Hurst Castle and we
just ended watching the sunset. But she could tell that
my insistence that we find a sunset well I think
we'd tried like three different spots, and I was like,

(34:47):
what's wrong with this one? He gets back in the
car and away we go again, and so, yeah, he
was on edge that night. Yeah. I was crying so
hard I could barely speak, and so she was concerned
I had really bad news for her. I don't know.
I didn't. I didn't really, I didn't know what was
going on, and I just knew he was on edge.
There's no better improv game than man trying to propose
that that's something I love. Uh So I I just

(35:08):
learned this myself, actually, that Mark is a horrible snore.
How did you learn that Easton, Well, we spent the
night together, but Mark opened up about it on the
podcast and wind Down on the wind Down pod, they'll
win together the same. But did you how did you
react when you discovered this for yourself? Well, you know,

(35:31):
I used to be a very hard sleeper, like out out,
so I never thought much about it until we had kids.
And then when we had kids, I can't I'm the
lightest sleeper in the world right now, So now his
snoring makes me crazy. But before, when we were younger
in dating, it didn't bother me, so keep that in mind, ladies.
And as I mentioned on Winddown, I've had numerous procedures

(35:53):
done to my sinus cavities and it still has not
done the trick, including a deviated septum repair, a what
do they call it a balloon procedure, a balloon procedure
where they stick balloons up your nose and inflate them
to expand your sinuses. It's better. His breathing is definitely better,
like daytime breathing. Like even then, he was never able
to breathe through his nose. He was only a mouth breather. Um,

(36:15):
So that's gotten better. And the story I'd probably a
little better, but I just in such a light sleeper
that and then and my the e n T said
to me, he said, the only other thing we can
do is shave down your uvula, and I do not
recommend it, That's what he said, So I can't. I
don't think we can do that. The uvula is as
Curdie would put, the little dangly thing to hang at
the back of your throat, right that that is correct,

(36:37):
And then they shave it down and then you can't
eat anything but ice cream or something for weeks. It
doesn't sound bad. Okay, I got one more question for
you and then I will I will release you back
to your life. What makes Mark the best dad? Well,
he um, he's a child still, so that helps when

(36:58):
you're playing like he um, he was the player always
like he can. He's a good improver and so making
the little scenes with the little dolls in the dollhouse
was something that came naturally to him. Um, when the
girls were young, he was always on the floor playing
with them, and that's I think like the fact that
he never fully grew up helps him be a wonderful dad.

(37:21):
It just warms my heart. Well, thank you so much,
Amie for taking time out of your day and hanging
out with us here on the Scrubbing I podcast. You know,
are you guys dying without Disneyland? I was just I
think about you With Disney It's actually been a welcome change.
At least I've been slowly dissenting into madness. But that's

(37:41):
a little game. I'm enjoying a right up here and
here alone. Okay. I do catch Eastern just staring at
the map on the app all the time that he'll
just launch the phone app and pretends he's like walking
through the park. I guess they can very disturbing. I
just want to see they changed anything. But oh well,
I hope it opens quickly. You guys, thank you for

(38:03):
your sympathy. All Right, Allison, you're turning. All right, Allison,
here we go. Let's see. Now you have a different
situation than we had in the sense that you guys
were friends for a long time before dating. So how
is it? Because it is a challenge leaving the friend zone,
it's not easy. How did Easton get out of the
friend zone? So? I actually really had a huge crush

(38:24):
on Easton from the time I met him, and we
hooked up when we were eighteen, but it didn't really
work out, and I thought Easton wasn't interested, and then
he never returned my text message the next day, so
I was sure he wasn't interested. So I just ignored
it for the next ten years and then we and
we were just so I thought I was in the
friend zone. So then we both moved to l A

(38:46):
within a month of each other, and I was like, oh,
how great this friend I've had, we can reconnect, And
then we kind of started hooking up, and then one
day we realized we were basically dating, so it just happened.
But um, yeah, I mean it took eleven years. I
guess Eastern has a different version. And he claims he
didn't get the text from that he had a migraine,
so I'll let him for his interview. Well, I had

(39:06):
a I had a sidekick on a T Mobile plan,
and anyone who was using one of those in two
thousand and six knows that they would drop text messages
all the time. I didn't get the text. I didn't
hear from her. I should have probably reached out, but
you know, I was a nervous person and uh yeah,
so I thought that she didn't have a good time,
and uh we just let that faster for a decade. Wow.

(39:28):
I mean, it's kind of sad you missed out a
lot of time together. But I think if we started
dating when we were like eighteen, we would not be
together still. I feel like we're very different people, and um,
I don't know. I think it worked out. I think
it worked out in the end. I think we would
have broken up after like six months. Yeah, I think so,
I personally had a lot of growing up to do
in that time. Well, on that note, Um, Eastern. Uh,

(39:52):
I guess the question is what's the most embarrassing thing
that Eastern has done? How was he embarrassed you the most?
Because between the outfits and the clogs and the crocs,
I mean, and yeah, I'm guessing there's an embarrassment involved.
You know, those things don't bother me. I actually really
like that Eastern is just he's so Eastern, and he's

(40:13):
so himself, and he's never embarrassed of the things he's
interested in, even though everyone else likes to make fun
of him for it. But I actually find that a
very appealing quality. Um. But I most recently, Uh, Eastern
is very stubborn, and we spent an entire walk home
from walking our dog with him trying to convince me
that the word mortified meant really scared. And even though
I'm an English major with a much better vocabulary, he

(40:34):
would not listen to me when I tried to correct
him on the definition. So that's I've been making fun
of that for he's mortified about it. Now, Yes, that's
the correct ease. I am mortified about how wrong I
had that word. But you chose that as your health
to die. That's the other funny things like defer to
the English major on that who said I love you first?

(40:55):
Between you two? I did, and I was so embarrassed
because it was when we were in that weird and
limbo phase and Eastern had just lost one of his
close friends. And I just sort of reflexibly said, oh,
I love you on the phone, and I thought, shoot,
that was weird to say, like we're not even d
we're kind of dating, but we're not. I was like,
I was mortified, and I think it was like another

(41:15):
year before we actually I think we were dating when
we said it again. But I don't remember who said
it first. I just remember that first time and being
like embarrassed about that time. I wasn't even thinking I
just was sort of saying it as a friend, and
then I thought that's weird, Like he uster just didn't
say anything back, and we hung up the phone. It
feels like we've always been saying it. That's that's how
I like to think of it. I don't remember. I

(41:36):
don't remember the first time. I don't remember the most
recent time. So but you remember everyone in between, that's right. Um,
do you guys seem like such a happy couple, do
you ever fight constantly bicker. We don't have huge, huge fights,
so we definitely fight. Um, but we're both really seven.

(41:57):
We picker all the time, especially with like our home
or vasion. We live in an hundred and ten year
old house that we're trying to slowly restore and we
constantly are bickering about how to do it. But I
think that, at least for me, I feel like that's
brought me closer together because it's really made me work
on my communication skills and um, then maybe I'm not
always right, even though I think I always am. So

(42:17):
I think that's been good for me. Okay, all right,
I thought East was going to chime. I mean, well,
you know, it's funny. I was just thinking about how that, like,
through these little bickers, I like have learned like what
things to drop. Like I think this is something that

(42:38):
is uniquely male, which is like the weird instincts you're
correct people who didn't ask for it. And there's times
where like we'll be talking about something and like all
have remembered a different version or like there's some weird detail,
and I'm like realizing as I get older, like none
of these things matter, and you know, that's a guy thing.

(43:02):
And I'm with you on that because that the instinct
to man splain is strong. And I appreciate social media
for calling out man splaining because I'm way more aware
of it now. Just last night, a woman used to
work with tweeted about the rain in l A. Because
We've got a ton of rain in l A. Last night.
She goes up first, you know, first rain in the

(43:22):
new house. And I was like, oh, you know, look
out for leaks or something like that, and then she
wrote back like, oh, I know, I'm really gonna be careful.
And then I started to write back like, but it's
not just drops. You also have to look for stains
and you also have to look for in the carpet
in the corners you might And I was like, stop,
what are you doing? Why do you feel the need
to do that? There's so many times so were like,
we're trying to figure something out. And then I suggested
and then like thirty seconds later, Eastern just rephrases the

(43:45):
same thing I said, Like, what I think he's noticing?
Like yesterday he even said, oh wait, that's exactly what
you said. But you know, it's a it's a slow
humbling process for both of us. They fixed for that
as a man, as he said, well, yes, I was
just reiterating it because it was such a good idea. Okay,
what is your biggest pet peeve about Easton? I feel

(44:07):
like I've said this on this podcast before, But when
I'm talking and then Easton has a bit or like
a joke, and then I can just tell he's just
waiting for me to finish this, and he does this thing,
he licks his lips and he's just like staring off
in his face and he's just waiting for me to
stop talking to say a stupid joke, And it drives
me crazy. That does. I feel like I've been in

(44:29):
that position so many times. I think that guy's hand
in hand with the man's plaining they're on the same
beIN diagram. Yeah probably. When did you know that Easton
was the one? You know? Like, honestly, wasn't sure even
after he proposed to me. Just wow, I was so
I mean, that's so scary to think, like, oh, I'm
hopefully going to spend the rest of my life with
this person, but it's just one person, and I was

(44:51):
really scared for me. Um My dad passed away two
weeks after Eastern proposed, and Easton was so good with
handling the entire situation, and I realized like that he
was the one just for how he responded when things
weren't going well. And I think it's easy for people
to get along when things are okay, but when there's
a problem, you really see like the person's true self.

(45:12):
And Easton was so much more mature and put together
than he is of the time when I actually needed
him to be so for me, that was That was
when I was sure of it. Didn't worry you guys
on them And this came up a couple of different places,
and I know Nicole mcquarie asked about this on the
Facebook page. UM the whole not having kids thing. Where

(45:33):
are you guys on that right now? I think, I
mean definitely still not. If it happened, I wouldn't be
upset about it, but we're not actively trying and we
don't have plans to. UM. I have endometriosis, so I
was told I would have to do IVF a few
years ago, so it something we talked about before we
were married. But I'm still waiting, Like the do you
guys ever have that feeling we're like, Okay, I just

(45:54):
I know I definitely want kids now, Like did you
wake up one day? I know you wanted them, because
I've never had that happen, never didn't want them. We
knew from the beginning that we wanted them. We knew
we wanted to like it was always we're always very
much on the same page, and it seems like you
guys are too, But it wasn't. It was. It was
never a question for us. I guess. I guess. So
I feel like my mind is going to be changed

(46:15):
someday and I don't think that actually happens. So I
feel like it's just not going to happen. But we're
both at least I'm open to adoption. I know we've
kind of talked about it a little bit, like maybe
later down the line, um, but right now, not something
we're actively pursuing. We talked about we watched a lot
of Christmas movies, you know, over the last couple of weeks,
and we're Kevin McAllister from Home alone, Like God's like

(46:37):
excited about it. If I could have a Kevin, like
guaranteed Kevin out, you know, like a kid that can
build Booby traps and like be left alone for a
long time multiple times, something like that. So we'll see,
we'll see. Yeah, I mean that's in the IVF element.
Is interesting because that means, um what you're you gotta

(46:57):
really want it, because it's going to be really expensive
and really time consuming and a lot of stress and
and with no guarantees. So yeah, I understand the hesitation
there and how that would add to your decision. I
could adopt a lot of dogs for the price of
one IVF treatment, So see how it goes. I guess,
I guess so well. Thank you. That's those are the
questions that we have for you. Thank you. This is

(47:18):
so fun. It's finally my time to shine after watching
Eastern be the star for so long. He did great.

(47:41):
Did you get the sense from Amy that she couldn't
get out of there fast enough? Because yeah, I just
saw a cloud of smoke. Were hurt? So it used
to be exactly that's exactly right. All right. We have
a couple of emails here before we wrap it up,
and UH send this out to all the different podcast
companies as a pilot for our new show, The Eastern
Mark Shaw. Uh. Samantha says, I just got engaged after

(48:04):
ten years of dating. Wow. We met in high school,
so he's prepared for the following. My mother is extremely overbearing.
I've dealt with it my whole life, and now that
I've started wedding planning, she's over the moon, excited, but
already inserting herself in very unhealthy ways to help me plan.
How do I keep my sanity while also getting my
mom to back off a bit? I want her involved,

(48:25):
but I know asking her to back off will make
her shut down and not want to be involved at all.
Oh man, I mean, I I really I know that
she says, like, if I bring it up, she's gonna
shut down. But I really think communication is the key here,
especially when you're going through something that's that that big

(48:47):
of a deal. I think you got to make it clear, like, hey,
I want you involved with with this part of my life.
This is a very big deal. But but also you
have to remember this is this is my wedding, and
there's and things that I'm going There's stain decisions I'm
gonna make that you may not agree with, and you
gotta get used to it. And I know it's easier
said than done, but I think that's what you gotta do.

(49:09):
This could be terrible advice, but what would this work?
What if you established parameters right away? Like what if
you took all the duties of the wedding and you've
made a big list and you assigned some to your
mother and some to your future mother in law, and
some to yourself and some to your fiance, and you
basically divided it up, and then you said to your mom, here, mom,
here's what you're in charge of. And you're gonna and

(49:30):
I can't wait for how you're gonna do it. You're
gonna be so great at this that you are doing flowers,
you are doing alcohol of the reception, you are doing
you're a book in the venue. Whatever it is is
that is that a night? That's a way to do it?
Maybe I think it's a good idea. And then she
knows and then you don't have to like, like tis
the season of parents pouting, especially since a lot of

(49:50):
us didn't go back to see our parents for Christmas
and like my mother in law refused to put up
her Christmas tree in protest of us not going to
Wow the we're on Christmas R. Yeah? Um so yeah,
I mean I'm thinking she might pound a little bit,
but I think you'll pound last if you're giving her
marching orders right, saying you're saying do this instead of

(50:13):
saying don't do this. That's that's the right perspective. That's
why you should look at it. I hope so. But
good luck to both of you, and good luck once
you start having kids. All right, Alexis says I met
a guy through a mutual friend a few months ago,
became friends, and a couple of months later decided to
start dating. He checked off everything on my lift, but

(50:33):
I had non settling feelings or randomly googled him the
other night. Turns out he's a felon with multiple charges.
I brought it up to him and I ended things
after realizing he clearly lied to me about most of
his background slash life and is clearly a manipulator. Am
I naive? Or have we come to a day and
age we have to run background checks on guys we date.
This situation affected the way I trust men drastically. Any advice,

(50:57):
Alexis you, that's right, this is all positive, this is
all upside. Yes, you should do background checks and all
the guys you date. Yes, you should not trust men. Yes,
this is all I know. This has changed your world view,
but you had to have your eyes opened at one
point or another. Glad that it happened with no damage done.

(51:17):
I think this is all positive. Yes, I agree wholeheartedly.
Uh her her email does kind of sound like the
beginning of a Carrie Bradshaw column, like, uh, do I
have to run a background check on my Like, man,
I'm ding? But yeah, I agree, you know, because um,
if if it's the right guy, nothing, you know, nothing
will come up and then you'll be fine. But it's
a way, the only way to uh prevent further problems

(51:40):
and heartbreak. I think the time nothing is going to
come up. You know. I'm not saying you have to
keep a p I on retainer for every time you
go on on a hinge date, but uh, you know,
at least give them a cursory Google. I'm surprised you're
questioning this because you should be saying, thank god I
checked him, and yes, I'm going to check every guy
because these are extreme circumstances that he's a felon and

(52:01):
I don't know who knows what those charges were, but
can't be good. So I think this is all upside
and uh, there's no harm in running Google checks on
future boyfriends because you probably find nothing. You might find
something misleading. I guess that's the danger, right as you
find out he dated somebody he's in the I'm not
sure why a guy would show up on Google he

(52:23):
dated somebody with some notoriety, um, and that may put
stuff in your head that doesn't need to be there.
So maybe that's a reason not to. But I think
I at least find out if they're a felon. What
if you find some like questionable social media posts from
like ten years earlier, Like, oh, that's a good question,
you know, because the good chance they've changed since then.

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But also it's it's out there if you google it,
it's out there. It's true, like racist stuff like that
sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's
happen to a lot of professional athletes who say that
I'm not that person anymore. That was ten years ago.
Oh boy, that's a tough one. I mean everyone's got
a line somewhere, and we all did'st with stuff if
we were in high school too, So I guess you
gotta take a case by case, all right, before we

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wrap it up here. A couple other Facebook questions. Ron
Wyn Dunlop wanted to hear about my parenting style. I
don't know, you know, I don't know. I just it
was a lot easier when there a little and all
I had to do was what my wife talked about
is get down on the ground and play dollhouse with them,
and that that was easy. And we did that for
hours and hours and hours. But nowadays they're doing their
own thing, and my instinct has kind of let them

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do their own thing with some oversight, you know, you
just kind of gotta keep track of what they're up to.
But um, I'm I'm a little more hands off. And
Lisa Sakota asked about advice I would give my younger
self about parenting, and I would say, you got to
find the patience. You got to find a way. And
that's something I've gotten better at over the years, and
I wasn't great at to begin with. You've got to

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find a way to find patience before you lose your temper.
You just got to do it. If it's breathing mantra
walk away, you gotta figure here it out. Because it's
just life's a lot easier if you could figure out
patients with kids, and it is not easy. Um. But
bron One also asks Eastern, and this was very sweet.
I thought, I want to know what Eastern loved about

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his childhood and how his parents were, because if my
three year old boy it can be as genuine and
kind and fun as Eastern is, I would be a winner.
Isn't that sweet? That's very sweet? That's very sorry. You know,
I had a great childhood and uh, my parents encouraged
me to be myself and love who I was and
love who other people are, and that was That's something

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that I think about a lot, and I I never
I never struggled with any confidence issues in that regard
growing up as a result, and I'm grateful for their
parenting for that for that very reason. Um. But before
we wrap this up, just very quickly, I did want
to say I got a lot of messages of people
asking for an update on my friend Jordan's and my

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friend Chris um and I just wanted to give a
quick update on how they're doing. Um. I want to
thank everybody we did to go fund me to raise
money for their medical expenses, which are growing by the day,
and a lot of Scrubbers donated a lot of money
and I really really appreciate that because that's just so
so helpful, and anyone who sent nice messages and words,

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that was so great. Um. Jordan is back home now.
She is awake, Uh, but she is. Her her brain
activities very very low. Um. She can communicate. They have
like a little button thing that she can click. And
the thing that's really incredible is like her favorite show's Friends.
They play a Friends episode and go do you like
this one? Click yes for yes, and click once for no,

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and she'll click yes and then she'll say, no, I
hate this episode. And so she's aware of what's going
on to a certain extent, but she's not spending Just
to recap. She was carrying boxes and tripped over another
box and fell. Yeah, they were It was my friend
Chris and Jordan. They live in Chicago. They were moving
into their first house together. They got married a year
or two ago and they're they're moving into their house.

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She's carrying boxes. She stepped into a pothole and twisted
her ankle or broke well, she broke her ankle. I
had to go to hospital and have surgery done. And
during the operation, Uh, she went into cardiac arrest and
went into a coma for for for a couple of
weeks before she was able to like really react to

(56:19):
things and like open her eyes and stuff like that. Uh.
So it's a it's gonna be a really really long
road too. We don't know what recovery looks like, you know,
if anything's possible, but but it's kind of looking like
a really long way before she can speak or like
you know, move her arms and things like that. But

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you know, Chris has a good support system and uh
they've they've got all the equipment in his house now
and he's getting trained by uh re rehab therapists and
stuff like that. So, um, this has been a really
hard year for a lot of people, and uh he's
having a really hard time this holiday season. And I
really appreciate everybody sending the nice words. Uh he really
needs it. But um that that's uh, that's where where

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we're at with them, with them, and uh, we appreciate
every everyone's ongoing uh good vibes because Chris Jordan really
need that right now. Is it fair to say she's
already come a lot farther than it was maybe expected. Yes,
definitely definitely and thankfully, um, they were able to get
her in one of the top rehab centers like in
the country, is in Chicago, where they live, so they

(57:26):
were able to get her in there for a number
of months before bringing her home. And I think that
care really helped her along in a way that wouldn't
have happened otherwise. Uh yeah, So again, we you know,
we don't know what to expect, but the progress she's
made is very encouraging so far. So um, thank yeah,

(57:49):
thank you all for that. And then to to slightly
pivot to something much more trivial, I did want to
invite everybody to the East Awards. Oh yeah, this is
a big deal. I do an award show on Instagram
live every New Year's Day. I've been doing it for
like five years or something on a live stream, and
this one's going down New Year's Day on my Instagram

(58:11):
at three pm Pacific time, that's uh six pm Eastern.
And it's gonna be a lot of fun. Maybe some
of your favorite podcast personalities will show up along the way.
Some of the categories Actor that pleased Eastern Most, Actress
that please Eastern Most. What are some other categories this year?
You know. So I think about the categories as I
changed them every year for you know, there's some mainstays

(58:31):
like Fruit to the throu to the Year, Best Song,
stuff like that. But this year we're also looking at
Potato of the Year, Best stovetop Burner, Best fictional Butler.
These are things that What are the nominees for best
stove top burner if you don't mind, Well, it's been
a big year for all of them. But but the
nominees are front right, rear right, front left, rear left.

(58:55):
Oh wow, okay, yeah, that's that's a great list of nominees.
I tell you, race a tight race, but only one
of them can take home the gold knee ticket. And
that's going down New Year's Day. Um, don't miss the
East Awards maybe, oh I I do enjoy the r
That would be great. And the goal is next year
it's going to be at some sort of arena with

(59:15):
an audience. You know. Actually, the other day I had
a thought, is anyone doing public access anymore? Is that available?
That's a good question. I have no idea because someone
someone left to comment saying this better be on network
television by and I thought I can get this on
television next year probably, so, I don't even know if
that's a thing anymore, Public access television, Wayne's World, Yeah exactly,

(59:38):
I'm gonna maybe in the future, who knows. But but
this year it's going to be a remote, remote broadcast
like every other awards show. Alright, good, well, that'll be great. Hey,
thanks everybody, thanks for listening to us. Uh Yeahmaran for
an hour. We appreciate that. It was very kind of you,
especially if you've made it this far. January four, they're back, Tanya, Becca,

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