December 9, 2025 • 32 mins
Today on “Happy Hour,” Joe and Serena are sitting down with Brayden and Christina! The last time we saw this happy couple, we were deep in wedding talk — so there’s plenty to catch up on now. We get into all their exciting life updates, starting with Brayden’s impulsive decision to run an ultramarathon (yes, you read that right!). Then, Christina opens up about her sobriety journey and how she’s officially passed the one-year mark without alcohol. Plus, we get a sneak peek at Blakely’s birthday present and the hilarious story behind how Christina found the little critter. And of course, Brayden shares his first real parenting mishap — you don’t want to miss this one. Tune in now to hear all this and more, and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, well, welcome back to bad Your Happy Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Joe and I'm Serena, and we.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Are here today with Brandon and Christina. Welcome back to
Bad Your Happy Hour. Guys.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
How are you out of this world?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (00:13):
I clearly she don't want me to do the background,
but I felt like it was, you know, appropriate.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (00:17):
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?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
As I kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I find that to be.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's kind of soothing, It's a twinkly light.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I'm enjoying speaking to you guys like this.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
I'm glad that you know. It's keeping your attention that's important,
so hopefully the viewers degree.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
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?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
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.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
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.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Yeah, I feel like five years is like you can
start like really celebrating, like we made it five years.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Like one year is like you know, I mean, it's
a it's an accomplishment, you know, especially this one.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
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
(01:45):
Paradise hadn't come out yet. The date that we were
a bill to launch. Yeah, I was like, gosh, you
knew that.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That was the day we first met?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, person and then.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
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.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, look at me, I'm the one who remembers the
dates in this.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Look at you good with numbers?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, and I remember our university, which apparently as someone
for your guy.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It was a total joke.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
My mom Texas every year on our the anniversary of
the day we got engaged and is like, do you
know what Dave is?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
We're like no, They're like, it's your engaged anniversary.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
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.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
This will be what our third wedding anniversary in September.
I feel like the more years from the marriage, the
more it becomes significant.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is that weird to say?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Like I feel like I just I said that three
minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
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.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
No, well yeah, that's kind of I'm we're on the
same page. That's what I think.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Too. Great point just there.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
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.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Nicer Valentine's Day, but really yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
So I mean, I don't know. I feel like it's
like you should celebrate it every day, you know.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Okay, Yeah, So no plans for the anniversary yet, maybe
we'll do something special.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
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.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
And then I have an ultra marathon on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Them so yeah, okay, ultra marathon is what is that?
How many miles?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Fifty six?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, so it's like a one and a half marathon,
I think, or no, sorry, am, it's.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
A Marathon's twenty six point two so that would be
fifty so yeah, fifty two point eight.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
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.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
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
(04:39):
or something like that to get a ticket, and I'm
running it next weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So, okay, if you run a marathon ever.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I've ran three marathons, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
It's been like a couple of years since I ran
my last marathon.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I've known you since you've done a marathon.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, okay, so it's been a minute.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
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.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I think, is like what my next goal would be?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Well, let me that's my that's my next goal.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
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.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Day, oh shoot, yeah, he ended.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
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.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
So I've learned. I mean, I'm not old.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
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.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
He was running the fifty yard dash against yeah, older brothers.
It was like this eighteen.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Year old he was like twenty.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
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.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It was like nick and neck and I was like
tried to.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Kick it up that extra gear like as we were
nearing the finish line, and that extra gear just took
my hammy out.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
So that was a that was the learning experience for me.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I did win, but okay, I mean I was limping
off the people, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Have you have you trained it all for this? Like
how are you training right now? Nothing? No running at all.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'm just gonna send it.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
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.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I trained for. My second one that I ran, I
didn't train for.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
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.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
And the new one.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
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.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But yeah, it was I feel like I could do Wow,
I mean ultras, Yeah, ultras were scared for him.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I'll be at the finish line.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Won't be at Blakely's soccer tournament.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Oh yeah, that's right. Coach and him are both not
gonna be.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, he's going to coach the soccer team.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Me, you could. She's coached. We did.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
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.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Why adulations. That's kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I peaked now that was that was it?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
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.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So you guys are in Nashville, right, Yeah, do you
love it?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah? I'm I mean I love that.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
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.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
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.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
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.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
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.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
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.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You're here in great weather.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What Yeah, like the best weather ever.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, water is really cool.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Uh, okay, that's.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
The plan, so crossing her fingers.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
But Christina, you're you're sober?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yes, it's how long?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
A year and a year?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
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.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Yeah, what are some like fine activities in Nashville that
don't revolve around like drinking?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
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.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Like the Joe just did his first one recently.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
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.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
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.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Well usually one, because there's one where it's just like okay,
there's I mean or stuck.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
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
(11:00):
get serious. I just love escape.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
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?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
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.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I think.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Do you feel so much as your body and everything?
You just feel so much better?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
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.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
No, it's more I do I do. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
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
(12:30):
how well she's been doing without it.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
So it's been awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
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
(12:53):
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.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
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?
(13:26):
And feel free? Don't have to answer this, but was
there like a reason that you wanted to go sober?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I definitely definitely was addicted.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
To it alcohol.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, yeah, problem for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, well that's good.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Congratulations, that's awesome, and thank you for sharing that with
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
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
(14:04):
your body? You think your body could have done another
twenty something miles.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
I think it'd be different so from what the coach
and he kind of convinced me to do it.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
He said, it's different than running a regular marathon.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Like because you're more walking, right, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
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
(14:40):
it's like you're really not pushing your body.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
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.
(15:04):
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
(15:26):
button to do something challenging every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I agree. I agree.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I'm going to like, I have a quick question for Joe.
Have you ever done the I fly the indoor skydiving?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Have you do?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I know what you're talking about. I've ever done it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, I've done that.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
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,
(16:03):
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.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Athute did sound as a natural athlete? I was bragging.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
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.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
No, I did, and so yeah, but is there.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
A still set I don't know how you would be
and I you are naturally very athletic, I will give
you that.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
But you are not comfortable in the water.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
And I think that there's something to be said about
the parallels of like athleticism with a natural element.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
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.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
The pool, But I mean like the natural like like
open bodies of water.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
But I've I've actually sky died, I've jumped out of
a plane, you have. Yeah, so I have that experience.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh it's different because that is like obviously badass. But
when you feel like you're in a tube of wind, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Trying to orient your body as like you've done it. Yeah,
so my aunt.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And you just feel manhandled it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
They like lift you and like throw you into the wind.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
And you're just like, ah, well, so so Brandon, what
did you do that was so athletic that the instructors
like you have.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
A career and that I would imagine it was like
your coordination.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
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,
(18:01):
I don't necessarily think.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You inspired him.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
He saw me as a vulnerable prospect for ah, it's
also like indoor skydiving.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
You know, pyramid scheme or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's very hupful of you to say.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
That, I think, and very very global.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So how is Blakely doing well?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
She is, she's nine almost and tomorrow, and her attitude
is getting there to three teen.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
It's uh, it's yeah, yeah, nine.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It starts at nine.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
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
(18:54):
to say that I'm her mom, but.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
No, she was.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
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,
(19:19):
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.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
It was really really cool.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And on a different note, we can tell I have
a little friend over.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Here, Ye have a surprise for her for your birthday.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
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
(20:09):
a very long time.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I really, don't you gott hurry up? People are waiting.
We got a ball python.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Oh my god, I thought you were going to hold
up a puppy And that's just so much more shocking.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I thought it was gonna be like like a olf
on the shelf type of thing.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Did you just pull a snake out of a plastic container?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Okay, so this, this whole snake thing, honestly is the
most ridiculous thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
What kind of snake is it?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
It's a ball python? And look how pretty he is?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It is kind of pretty? Does it? Is it safe?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
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.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
But you know, yeah, looking scared?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well did they what do they eat?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Mice?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Maybe live mice?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
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.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
There's this guy who names Reptile Steve.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
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.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
But I'm mag Reptile Steve.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Huh No, he's great. It's it's not sketchy at all
at first.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Whenever I told you what she was telling me about
it a real this man's shed.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
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?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Like that sounds like a plot line for like a
Taken movie, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I just want to go have some tacos in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Was like, no, I'm actually gonna go get a snake
from those random shed.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
No, that's exactly how it was.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
So but she did, and Reptile Steve is legit, honest
to god great snake handler.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
If you guys are looking for a snake in Tennessee reptile.
Steve is your guy?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
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.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
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.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Is she now too old to believe in Sannah?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Is that not a thing anymore?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Right? She doesn't believe in Sannah?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
She doesn't?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Is that because someone said something he.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Didn't realize that she believed in Santa?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
And so yeah, I mean I think, like what's the age?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Well, what was two years ago?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I mean she was seven.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
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.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
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.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah, I was a lapsed on my part.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
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.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
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.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
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.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Out, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
And you know, again I don't know. I had a
lapse because I meant the lapse that was fine.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
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.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Right, So you got out of like elfa on the
shelf and all that.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Stuff, but not doing Yeah, no, that's too much for me.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, what will you guys do for the holidays this year?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Honestly, it's been hard because we've been so busy with
planning our anniversary anniversary.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Right, yeah, every day I'm thinking about it NonStop.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
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.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
But it takes like a lot to take your kid
out of sport.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
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.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
We got to create a Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Still I don't even have a tree. Y, Yeah, so
well you got to do that.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I mean you'll go, you'll go to the country and
buy a python, but you won't put up a Christmas tree.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
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.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I think about going in the attic, getting all the
decor down, and then putting it right back a couple
of weeks later.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And I get that so much.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It's so much she got.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Joe gets like that when we decorate because we go
to Chicago for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So do we leave I linked to death.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
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.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Like our little like door here.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
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.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But once it's done, it feels good.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You guys, do you guys do a real tree or
do you guys do fake tree?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Fake?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
We do fake tree here as we will no matter
no matter you. I mean, listen, I grew up.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
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.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Would want to. I mean I would do it. Yeah,
I just think it. I think a fake tree is
like so much easier.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It is so much easier.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
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.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It's like a whole thing.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
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.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
And you know, do you guys have dogs?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
No, we don't have any pets, but Joe is really
getting the itch.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Do you guys have Do you guys have a dog?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
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.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
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.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
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.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
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.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
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.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Yes Bury argument.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
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.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Scary move.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
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.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
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.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
She wakes me up in the middle of the night
to get up and move so she can go to
the bathroom.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
A lot of things in your bad Guys, you got
two dogs, you got a kid. I hope you have
a king size.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
We do, we do, But I agree it's too much,
too much happening in the bed. That sounds weird.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
I'll sleep in the guest room with the dogs.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Who does a whole?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
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.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
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.
(29:19):
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
(29:40):
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.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
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.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
I'm having a moment right now with this guy who he's.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Beautiful, the bed.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Gown.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
He's like, well, well what else? What else y'all got
any rapid fires?
Speaker 6 (30:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
That's it. Anything you guys want to plug plug anything
you're doing now that you want to let our listeners know.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah, as always stay tuned with life updates, especially this marathon.
We'll be covering down over on Instagram, on our socials.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
And yeah, when is that? What's the date?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
What's Saturday?
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
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.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
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.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
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.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
So I still have to do that. There's quite a
bit of stuff I have to do.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Go and you got Blakely's birthday inane behavior right now.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
It's a type of lifestyle that I'm choosing to live.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
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.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You still have your last year's Christmas tree on the
side of the house. So wait, did we go fake
this year?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
We're going to get another real.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
We have to get on the real one because he
talked me into donating my my fake.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
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.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
No, it's it's fine. It looks like real.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
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.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
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.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Well, thank you guys so much for coming on Battery
Happy Hour and taking the time.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Really thanks, I'm glad you guys didn't forget about this
man it's nice.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Summer, no.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
To all our listeners, thank you guys so much for
tuning in the Battery Happy Hour, and make sure you
download and subscribe to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
We'll have new and this interviews for you every single week.
Thanks for listening by
Hey, well, welcome back to bad Your Happy Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Joe and I'm Serena, and we.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Are here today with Brandon and Christina. Welcome back to
Bad Your Happy Hour. Guys.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
How are you out of this world?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (00:13):
I clearly she don't want me to do the background,
but I felt like it was, you know, appropriate.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (00:17):
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?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
As I kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I find that to be.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's kind of soothing, It's a twinkly light.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I'm enjoying speaking to you guys like this.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
I'm glad that you know. It's keeping your attention that's important,
so hopefully the viewers degree.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
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?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
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.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
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.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Yeah, I feel like five years is like you can
start like really celebrating, like we made it five years.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Like one year is like you know, I mean, it's
a it's an accomplishment, you know, especially this one.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
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
(01:45):
Paradise hadn't come out yet. The date that we were
a bill to launch. Yeah, I was like, gosh, you
knew that.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That was the day we first met?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, person and then.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
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.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, look at me, I'm the one who remembers the
dates in this.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Look at you good with numbers?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, and I remember our university, which apparently as someone
for your guy.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It was a total joke.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
My mom Texas every year on our the anniversary of
the day we got engaged and is like, do you
know what Dave is?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
We're like no, They're like, it's your engaged anniversary.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
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.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
This will be what our third wedding anniversary in September.
I feel like the more years from the marriage, the
more it becomes significant.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is that weird to say?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Like I feel like I just I said that three
minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
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.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
No, well yeah, that's kind of I'm we're on the
same page. That's what I think.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Too. Great point just there.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
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.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Nicer Valentine's Day, but really yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
So I mean, I don't know. I feel like it's
like you should celebrate it every day, you know.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Okay, Yeah, So no plans for the anniversary yet, maybe
we'll do something special.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
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.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
And then I have an ultra marathon on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Them so yeah, okay, ultra marathon is what is that?
How many miles?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Fifty six?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, so it's like a one and a half marathon,
I think, or no, sorry, am, it's.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
A Marathon's twenty six point two so that would be
fifty so yeah, fifty two point eight.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
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.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
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
(04:39):
or something like that to get a ticket, and I'm
running it next weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So, okay, if you run a marathon ever.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I've ran three marathons, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
It's been like a couple of years since I ran
my last marathon.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I've known you since you've done a marathon.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, okay, so it's been a minute.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
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.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I think, is like what my next goal would be?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Well, let me that's my that's my next goal.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
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.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Day, oh shoot, yeah, he ended.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
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.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
So I've learned. I mean, I'm not old.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
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.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
He was running the fifty yard dash against yeah, older brothers.
It was like this eighteen.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Year old he was like twenty.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
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.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It was like nick and neck and I was like
tried to.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Kick it up that extra gear like as we were
nearing the finish line, and that extra gear just took
my hammy out.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
So that was a that was the learning experience for me.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I did win, but okay, I mean I was limping
off the people, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Have you have you trained it all for this? Like
how are you training right now? Nothing? No running at all.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'm just gonna send it.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
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.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I trained for. My second one that I ran, I
didn't train for.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
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.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
And the new one.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
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.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But yeah, it was I feel like I could do Wow,
I mean ultras, Yeah, ultras were scared for him.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I'll be at the finish line.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Won't be at Blakely's soccer tournament.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Oh yeah, that's right. Coach and him are both not
gonna be.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, he's going to coach the soccer team.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Me, you could. She's coached. We did.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
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.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Why adulations. That's kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I peaked now that was that was it?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
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.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So you guys are in Nashville, right, Yeah, do you
love it?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah? I'm I mean I love that.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
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.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
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.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
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.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
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.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
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.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You're here in great weather.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What Yeah, like the best weather ever.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, water is really cool.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Uh, okay, that's.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
The plan, so crossing her fingers.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
But Christina, you're you're sober?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yes, it's how long?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
A year and a year?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
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.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Yeah, what are some like fine activities in Nashville that
don't revolve around like drinking?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
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.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Like the Joe just did his first one recently.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
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.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
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.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Well usually one, because there's one where it's just like okay,
there's I mean or stuck.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
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
(11:00):
get serious. I just love escape.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
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?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
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.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I think.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Do you feel so much as your body and everything?
You just feel so much better?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
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.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
No, it's more I do I do. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
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
(12:30):
how well she's been doing without it.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
So it's been awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
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
(12:53):
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.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
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?
(13:26):
And feel free? Don't have to answer this, but was
there like a reason that you wanted to go sober?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I definitely definitely was addicted.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
To it alcohol.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, yeah, problem for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, well that's good.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Congratulations, that's awesome, and thank you for sharing that with
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
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
(14:04):
your body? You think your body could have done another
twenty something miles.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
I think it'd be different so from what the coach
and he kind of convinced me to do it.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
He said, it's different than running a regular marathon.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Like because you're more walking, right, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
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
(14:40):
it's like you're really not pushing your body.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
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.
(15:04):
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
(15:26):
button to do something challenging every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I agree. I agree.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I'm going to like, I have a quick question for Joe.
Have you ever done the I fly the indoor skydiving?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Have you do?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I know what you're talking about. I've ever done it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, I've done that.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
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,
(16:03):
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.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Athute did sound as a natural athlete? I was bragging.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
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.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
No, I did, and so yeah, but is there.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
A still set I don't know how you would be
and I you are naturally very athletic, I will give
you that.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
But you are not comfortable in the water.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
And I think that there's something to be said about
the parallels of like athleticism with a natural element.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
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.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
The pool, But I mean like the natural like like
open bodies of water.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
But I've I've actually sky died, I've jumped out of
a plane, you have. Yeah, so I have that experience.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh it's different because that is like obviously badass. But
when you feel like you're in a tube of wind, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Trying to orient your body as like you've done it. Yeah,
so my aunt.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And you just feel manhandled it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
They like lift you and like throw you into the wind.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
And you're just like, ah, well, so so Brandon, what
did you do that was so athletic that the instructors
like you have.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
A career and that I would imagine it was like
your coordination.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
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,
(18:01):
I don't necessarily think.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You inspired him.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
He saw me as a vulnerable prospect for ah, it's
also like indoor skydiving.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
You know, pyramid scheme or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's very hupful of you to say.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
That, I think, and very very global.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So how is Blakely doing well?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
She is, she's nine almost and tomorrow, and her attitude
is getting there to three teen.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
It's uh, it's yeah, yeah, nine.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It starts at nine.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
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
(18:54):
to say that I'm her mom, but.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
No, she was.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
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,
(19:19):
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.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
It was really really cool.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And on a different note, we can tell I have
a little friend over.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Here, Ye have a surprise for her for your birthday.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
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
(20:09):
a very long time.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I really, don't you gott hurry up? People are waiting.
We got a ball python.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Oh my god, I thought you were going to hold
up a puppy And that's just so much more shocking.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I thought it was gonna be like like a olf
on the shelf type of thing.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Did you just pull a snake out of a plastic container?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Okay, so this, this whole snake thing, honestly is the
most ridiculous thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
What kind of snake is it?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
It's a ball python? And look how pretty he is?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It is kind of pretty? Does it? Is it safe?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
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.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
But you know, yeah, looking scared?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well did they what do they eat?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Mice?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Maybe live mice?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
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.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
There's this guy who names Reptile Steve.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
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.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
But I'm mag Reptile Steve.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Huh No, he's great. It's it's not sketchy at all
at first.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Whenever I told you what she was telling me about
it a real this man's shed.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
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?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Like that sounds like a plot line for like a
Taken movie, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I just want to go have some tacos in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Was like, no, I'm actually gonna go get a snake
from those random shed.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
No, that's exactly how it was.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
So but she did, and Reptile Steve is legit, honest
to god great snake handler.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
If you guys are looking for a snake in Tennessee reptile.
Steve is your guy?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
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.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
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.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Is she now too old to believe in Sannah?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Is that not a thing anymore?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Right? She doesn't believe in Sannah?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
She doesn't?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Is that because someone said something he.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Didn't realize that she believed in Santa?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
And so yeah, I mean I think, like what's the age?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Well, what was two years ago?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I mean she was seven.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
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.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
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.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah, I was a lapsed on my part.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
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.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
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.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
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.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Out, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
And you know, again I don't know. I had a
lapse because I meant the lapse that was fine.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
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.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Right, So you got out of like elfa on the
shelf and all that.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Stuff, but not doing Yeah, no, that's too much for me.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, what will you guys do for the holidays this year?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Honestly, it's been hard because we've been so busy with
planning our anniversary anniversary.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Right, yeah, every day I'm thinking about it NonStop.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
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.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
But it takes like a lot to take your kid
out of sport.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
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.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
We got to create a Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Still I don't even have a tree. Y, Yeah, so
well you got to do that.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I mean you'll go, you'll go to the country and
buy a python, but you won't put up a Christmas tree.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
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.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I think about going in the attic, getting all the
decor down, and then putting it right back a couple
of weeks later.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And I get that so much.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It's so much she got.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Joe gets like that when we decorate because we go
to Chicago for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So do we leave I linked to death.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
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.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Like our little like door here.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
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.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But once it's done, it feels good.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You guys, do you guys do a real tree or
do you guys do fake tree?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Fake?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
We do fake tree here as we will no matter
no matter you. I mean, listen, I grew up.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
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.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Would want to. I mean I would do it. Yeah,
I just think it. I think a fake tree is
like so much easier.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It is so much easier.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
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.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It's like a whole thing.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
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.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
And you know, do you guys have dogs?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
No, we don't have any pets, but Joe is really
getting the itch.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Do you guys have Do you guys have a dog?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
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.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
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.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
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.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
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.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
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.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Yes Bury argument.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
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.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Scary move.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
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.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
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.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
She wakes me up in the middle of the night
to get up and move so she can go to
the bathroom.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
A lot of things in your bad Guys, you got
two dogs, you got a kid. I hope you have
a king size.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
We do, we do, But I agree it's too much,
too much happening in the bed. That sounds weird.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
I'll sleep in the guest room with the dogs.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Who does a whole?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
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.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
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.
(29:19):
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
(29:40):
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.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
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.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
I'm having a moment right now with this guy who he's.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Beautiful, the bed.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Gown.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
He's like, well, well what else? What else y'all got
any rapid fires?
Speaker 6 (30:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
That's it. Anything you guys want to plug plug anything
you're doing now that you want to let our listeners know.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah, as always stay tuned with life updates, especially this marathon.
We'll be covering down over on Instagram, on our socials.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
And yeah, when is that? What's the date?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
What's Saturday?
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
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.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
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.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
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.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
So I still have to do that. There's quite a
bit of stuff I have to do.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Go and you got Blakely's birthday inane behavior right now.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
It's a type of lifestyle that I'm choosing to live.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
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.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You still have your last year's Christmas tree on the
side of the house. So wait, did we go fake
this year?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
We're going to get another real.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
We have to get on the real one because he
talked me into donating my my fake.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
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.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
No, it's it's fine. It looks like real.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
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.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
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.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Well, thank you guys so much for coming on Battery
Happy Hour and taking the time.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Really thanks, I'm glad you guys didn't forget about this
man it's nice.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Summer, no.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
To all our listeners, thank you guys so much for
tuning in the Battery Happy Hour, and make sure you
download and subscribe to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
We'll have new and this interviews for you every single week.
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