October 6, 2025 • 55 mins
Birthday Boyfriend Series... part two! Mr. B joins Morgan for a second episode, this time for a listener Q&A. They're spilling alllll of it from why she kept him a secret to how they've built a strong foundation outside of her public life. They talk about their shared love for travel as well as the small quirks that make their relationship so special (Morgan gets night time zoomies!!) It's a candid conversations about communication, boundaries, and supporting each other while staying true to who they are. Morgan and her boyfriend also open up about tattoos with deep personal meanings, past heartbreak, and what makes them feel safe and loved in this relationship. Plus, they reveal future dreams like marriage, and the possibility of starting a family.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Personally, as one of my best friends wrote in the
questions for this week's episodes, spill it all came from Ali,
please spill it all, which she knows everything, so it's
funny she wrote that. But my boyfriend is back for
(00:34):
round two. Hello, thanks for coming on again. You're technically
we're recording this at the same time, so there's not
a lot of magic here, but episodes This time's a
little bit different though, so if you missed it. Last week,
we talked all about our love story and Brayden. Yes,
(00:55):
we shared his name. You have an identity.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm a real boorer.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We shared all of that last week's episode and talked
about his story. We talked about how we met and
just our kind of favorite moments in our relationship, and
that one very important question that everybody's been asking. Did
he like my dog coming on vacation as much as
I did?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So all that's over there if you missed it. But
this one we're going to answer a bunch of listener
questions because this is a fun way to get to
know each other via listeners, and I always start out
with some shout outs, so we've got eg exciting. Can't
wait to listen to this episode. He so exciting. I
got a lot of egs. I'm so excited. Oh great,
(01:42):
now a new favorite. And shout out to you guys.
You guys are writing your names and stuff. But honestly
it was typing so fast because there's so many I forgot.
But that one was from Michelle and Apple Valley. Yay.
I'm so happy for you, no question, just yay. I
just want to know everything. Just want to say happy
for you, Morgan, you deserve it, So happy for you.
There's a lot of love in here. Y'all are perfect.
(02:02):
Just be the best version of yourselves, which I think
we are. Yeah, do you feel that right? You better
not hurt her in any way. She's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I've gotten a lot of those. I know my place.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Are you gonna hurt me?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Absolutely no, geez.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I absolutely love seeing you too. In love and so happy,
So happy for both of you. Just a million thanks
for making our girl so happy, Thanks for making our
girl smile. Just a shout for his confidence even with
all the haters. Nice, Please thank him for treasuring you
and being good too, and for you.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That's sweet.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, are the sweet?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah? I love reading a nice comments and Obviously I've
known you for this long, but a lot of the
listeners have known you for far longer, and so the
appreciation they have of your happiness and your smile and
just knowing what you've gone through and get to see
this different side of you, like because I only know
(03:03):
the side I know, right, So it's really cool to
see the other side and people love you for it,
which is really cool.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, now they're starting to love you. Does that feel weird?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
No? Not me?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah you okay? You ready for some question?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
How is it navigating the public eye and maintaining your relationship?
Do I get away? Miss Debby?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't really, nothing has really changed where I think.
At first, I was really afraid to like comment on
your social media because I know that we're trying to
keep it separate. So I was trying to be Batman secrets.
I was trying to be Batman living in the shadows.
(03:47):
So I was just trying to be respectful of you
because I know you have to navigate stuff differently. I
wanted to shout from the rooftops that I love you,
but like, I can't really do that with who you
are on social media right off the bat didn't want
to embarrass you.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh okay, Dad, And so.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I don't know, like it's as far as public eye.
You're in the public eye. I just get to celebrate you,
you know. So it's easy for me. I get to
be a one clapping.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah. But what about when our relationship gets made fun of,
or things happen on the Bobby Bone Show, or there's
like negative comments. How do you feel about all of that?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
The real relationship is between you and I when we're
watching a movie or going on a date or going
on a walk with remy people want to make fun
of the happiness that we have, then that's fine. People
are bored right, Like they're going to sit behind keyboards
and say stuff, and it's fine. That's probably something I'm
going to have a skill. I'm going to have to
(04:55):
learn to let it just kind of roll off. But
I've been preparing myself for it. I guess it's just
going to be part of who we are and part
of our relationship, and let's make it fun and exciting
instead of being worried about it. And it's going to
be okay.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I agree with you. A big part for me, especially
early on when we were dating, is I would always
ask him, I'm like, are you okay with this if
I share this in my show prep? Or are you
okay if I talk about this? Or how do you
feel about these posts? And every single time it was
just like, you just do you. I'm good, Like I'm fine,
whatever you want to do. You were so confident from
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the very beginning, and I think you have a lot
of confidence in yourself in general, which is why a
lot of that is okay and doesn't seem to bother you.
But there's also a protective layer for me, which is
I'll get into a little bit later, like why I
didn't share his identity for a while is just I
very much mama bear the people that are in my life.
And it's not that I didn't want to share you
(05:57):
right away and share in the excitement of everything was happening,
because it was so exciting and just so like, holy crap,
what is this real? But it was a protectiveness also,
like I already started to deeply care about you, and
I went into the protective mode of Okay, I have
to protect this person from this place in space that
he's not familiar with yet. And that was very much
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some of the beginning of our relationship.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And I really appreciated that for sure, But at the
same time, I think it my instant love for you
outweighed what I could imagine people would call me names
or you know whatever like that. I just didn't care,
you know, and so you were protecting me, and I
(06:42):
appreciate that, but it's we have something real here and
I don't need validation from anyone else.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm an little school girl. How do you feel about
all the radio conversation happening about you both? It's also
in the same kind of course of how do you
handle criticism from the guys about you on the Bobby
Bunch Show.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I don't know. I haven't met the guys, So it's like,
and I understand there's going to be bits about me
on the show, and that's totally fine. I think once
they get to know me that they're going to realize
that I'm just a guy and I deeply care about you,
and so no, that doesn't bother me. I don't listen
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to the show every day, so usually it's whatever you
tell me. So maybe there's bits that have been going
on that I don't even know about.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
About the hair gel, right, you know, about the taking
me on vacation and so just in general getting criticized
that you are, you work out so and you wear
hair gel, which is a comparison to my ex boyfriends
for reason. Yeah, but beyond maybe the working out and
having muscles, there isn't much comparison. In my eyes.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I like that, that's my hot eggs. But I keep
trying to say anybody's listening to me.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
But at the same time, they're like, they're allowed to
have fun with it, So run with it if that's
what the people want.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
To scratch that. Speaking of muscles, what is your back routine?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
The back picture, that's what everything really? That was like
the first.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That was a soft launch, yeah, breakfast that he made me.
And although he has a sexy back.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well, let's see. So back is always the third workout
of the week. I isolate it by itself, so it's
just back. I used to focused on, Yeah, used to
do back in biceps together, but now only do back, legs, chest,
back or the first three of the week. And I
don't really have a routine. I just do whatever I
(08:57):
want to do.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, which lately has been going on walks with me
because as of right now, I'm trying to call my
nervous system in the whole detox and clans I'm doing.
And this sweet man has been getting up and going
on walks with me before work because I can't quite
work out right now while I'm trying to get my
body to chill the f out.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And it's good for me because your body needs balance.
Where I was weightlifting six days a week every.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Week, and we were together for the beginning portion of
our relationship, we would go work out together, but.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Then like you introduced me to hot yoga, and yeah,
we're going on more walks and we're gonna start playing
more volleyball together here soon, right, Yeah, yeah, But there's
different ways to work out. I just when you're single
and you have all the time in the world, going
to the gym and working out and just kind of
(09:54):
putting your headphones in and turning the world off is
pretty nice. But I don't want to my world off anymore,
which is just kind of a crazy thing.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So how many one lighters are you gonna have? That
maybe the giggle.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
For that time.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
When do you consider adopting a pet together? Jessica asked
this question.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Well, we have a very specific schedule with Remy and
Hazel right now. So sweet Ram cannot be stressed, so
introducing another animal into the family would not be good
on her nervous system right now. Hazel is also I
(10:40):
don't think introducing any more stress to Hazel would help
her kidneys anymore. And so I think adoption will come
down the road. But we'll get there when we get there,
you know, And it's not in the realm of possibilities soon.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, but hopefully not for like thirty years exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I was thinking forty five, but thirty good.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Perfect. Yeah, I'm glad we're on the same page and
we are at a kind of a halt. He fostered
with me when I was taking care of the first foster.
When we had first met Roscoe. He was over here
a bunch helping me take care of him because he
was a very special case and I really needed to tackling,
which I was ready to tackle by myself. But he
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came along and him and Roscoe loved each other. So
that was a cool moment. Yeah, be digative, feel what
it was like. And you know, maybe we can foster
again sometime, but right now not so much.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah. Yeah, And Roscoe was fun because he loved us,
but he also had small things about him where he
would turn on me quickly. Yeah, And so it was
learning how to handle situations like that and together and
staying calm with a dog who is could get angry at.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
The drop of a very reactive yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, And so that was a really cool learning experience
for us, kind of parenting a new dog in a
new relationship, and you learn a lot about someone pretty
quickly in that situation.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So that was Yeah, how chaos and stress, It's kind
of like, here you go, and we did. We managed
it really well, and Roscoe now has an awesome new
mom and he's been doing really well.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So boy, Roscoe, I know you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So maybe one day we'll start fostering again. It just
kind of really depends how Remy and hazelill keep doing. Okay,
what is your first core memory of Morgan?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I mean, the first core memory would be you turning
around because I thought Holly was introducing me to someone
behind your guys' group for some reason, Like I thought
she was bringing me over, and you turned around, and
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like instantly I thought you were the most adorable thing
I'd ever seen in my life. And you turned around
and you looked at her and like shook your head,
and then we met ies and it was just like
that first moment and there was something about you looking
up at me that was just like made it even
cuter because I was so old, just andie baby, and
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there was that. And then later that night, when you
devoured those Mozsreli sticks, that was a warming. It's a
corn memory.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I'm so rude. You loved when.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
It was really fun. You were pumped up about those
moths sticks.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah. You learned very quickly that I also love cheese
as much as I loved dogs.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, yeah, and specifically pimento cheese. I think I said
the words pimento cheese five times total in the past
ten years, and then since I've met you, it was
like ten times a day every day.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You want to tell the pimento cheese story, where that
like really happened. Do you remember this at the brewery?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh, when you ordered the when we got the pretzels,
not when.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We did you don't remember this. So we were sitting
there and we were having a drink and.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh yeah, the people sitting next to us got it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
You got pretzels or fimento cheese, and I just looked
over and I was like, oh, that has pimento cheese.
When you just I think this is like our fourth
and you were just like, okay, pimento cheese.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Some girl memento cheese.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And before I knew it, that all came out of
my body. I think it was my internal thought coming
out and instead it was an external thought, and you
learned this girl loves pimento cheese.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
You don't remember that moment. I think my first core
memory was us really two stepping. I think was the moment,
which it was so it was so cute. It was
that whole just kind of middle there where we were
at the bar. We both admitted we didn't remember each
other's first names from our introduction, and then it was like,
let's two step. I was like, oh, he can also dance.
(15:13):
I like this, nobody ever dances with me. I felt
very much like this feels like a movie and I'm
just living my best life, okay, and it kind of
felt like a fairy tale and just that whole moment.
But that was where it started for me, because I
really think up until then I was still annoyed with
my friends that I was like, we're supposed to have
a girl's night, and you guys brought this man into
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the picture.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I didn't night.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, and then the dancne happened and the conversation like
kept flowing, and that was really where I was like, oh, okay,
he's more than just cute. Dang it all right, first impression,
I feel like it's that the same as for first
core memory for you. Okay, what about the first impression
(15:57):
on the first date when we actually went on a
date together.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
So I'd say on the first date, you were you
had a very professional sense about you, and we had
gone from like this fun loving first meeting and then
our conversation. We did get deep in that first conversation
(16:24):
on the phone, but you seemed very professional. And then
the sushi came. Remember the sushi piece, And this sushi piece.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Was like I was put my best foot for it. Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
It was like that big and You're like, there's no
way I could fit this in my mouth. I just
took out my phone. I was like, please try.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
And we have a little mouth. You're little.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
You just you shoved that in your mouth and you
laughed so hard and it was like you went from
this professional, and you were like, you were dressed very nice,
and then you shove this piece of sushi in your mouth,
and it was like from that point on, we were just
like being goofy and taking pictures together, and we learned
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that we both really enjoy taking videos and pictures and
documenting things, especially as a guide. I don't find that annoying.
We'll take four billion photos to get the right angle.
I think I turned that sushi, played around and took
nineteen photos of it, trying to get the white lights
in the background.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, you want to talk about best ever influencer boyfriend.
This guy right here. I didn't even have to train
him a game like that.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Ready made. That's an aspect of life that I love.
I love documenting that, and so we learned that we
both liked doing that. It was really fun and we
just got to enjoy each other's company while being goofballs.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It was and honestly, my first impression was like, dang,
this guy listens to me. This is nice. You listened
to me with the sunflowers. You listened to me that
I was vegetarians, So you picked a restaurant that we
and you ate vegetarian with me. I was just very
impressed with you as a human being. Honestly, well, thank you. Yeah.
I was like, this is a good human let's.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
How my mom dad made me and just came out
this way.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Okay, yeah, life didn't have any impact whatsoever. Okay, what
does it? I actually laughed out loud writing this question.
What does it feel like to be dating a famous
celebrity like Morgan? Which, mind you, I'm not I'm not okay,
I'm not a famous celebrity.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
It's so cute that you say that I'm not, like
but you are.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
But okay, public figure, sure, I'm not a famous celebrity. Anyways,
please answer this question. I literally wrote lmao next to
the question.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I wrote it down. Veronica had a very funny joke today,
So like, I think it's fun because I know and
not that you're any different, like when you're doing famous
people stuff versus just it's you and I like you're
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the same person. But I feel like I get the
behind the scenes and like I get all the real
and then the nitty gritty, and I think it's really cool.
And I've had friends from high school reach out and
be like, oh my gosh, you're irl guy. You know,
and so like, moments like that are definitely cool. I'm
not gonna lie that's a cool aspect of it. But
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at the base of it, I fell in love with you.
I didn't fall in love with this idea of you,
and I think that's really special. And I was very
intentional about that. When we first started dating. I was
not going to start listening to the Bobby Bone Show.
I wasn't. I didn't listen to your podcast, I didn't
snoop on your Instagram. Really made it intentional to just
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get to know you, and I thought that maybe would
be different than what you had in the past. I
wasn't sure, but I already had such strong feelings for
you so early that it was like, I want to
do everything I can to try to convince her to
want to keep going on dates with you.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Convinced me on the first day. What are you talking about?
But I mean you convinced me actually the first time
we met, and then the phone call, and then the
first day, and then I was like, Okay, well, I
guess I'm hanging out with this guy for what he
thinks is the rest of our lives.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
A long time. Let's go sign me up twice.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, thank you. Okay, I feel weird now. What surprised
you most about Morgan? I'm so happy for you all.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
The I would say, the big surprise was right after
we got to Lakeside Lounge.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And you could also entire relationship. You don't have to
focus the first night if you don't want to, Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
We'll go first first night and then whole relationship. First
night at Lakeside Lounge. The moment that we both learned
that we love to nerd out where we talked about
Marvel and we talked about Harry Potter and we talked
about Star Wars. That was not something that I thought
was going to be next in our conversation. It's so
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funny because I had conversations with my little sister about
what I wanted my next partner to look like, and
that was one of the things that we had talked about.
And I was like, I'm nerdy in some ways and
I want my next partner to be nerdy in those
ways too, And so that was but that shocked me
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just from the couple hours I had gotten to know you.
I just didn't think that you'd be so fired up
about Jedis that quickly. That was very exciting me.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Brou you mean brood, You mean you want to talk
about Yoda? You mean you want to talk about Harry Pata.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
We got.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yes, we are weird together. We're incredibly weird together. Actually, yeah,
we nerded out together and that was very fun.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But that's a really special part of our relationship ties
into that vacation that we went on down to Florida,
Like we can just be two nerds and talk about
Harry Potter all day and not think twice, and.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I don't have to hide any of it away. It's
very nice you let me be a nerd. It was
really funny too when you mentioned that You're like, I'm
pretty nerdy. I was like, yeah, I'm really nerdy, and
you're like, okay, what he thought? I was going to
be like, I don't even know what you expected me
to say, but I was like, well, like, I go
to the movie premires of Marvel and I'm really big
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on Star Wars and also Fodder, and I just kept
listening him down. I was like, I should probably stop talking.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
But then there's room to grow because like I love
Lord of the Rings. You're not really crazy about that? Yeah,
I wasn't really raised in a Star Wars house, Like,
I'm fine with it. So it's like we're going through
Star Wars and then we'll eventually go through Lord of
the Rings.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, sadly, I thought we talked about this. No, I'm excited.
I'm excited to see why you love it and finally
give it a chance again after I didn't. So I am.
I love that part of our relationship.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You're gonna love the Hobbit. You're probably gonna sleep through
the Lord of the Rings and.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
That's okay, okay, and you'll accept that. Yeah, okay. Good.
What is he like as a person. Mister b is kind,
He's big hearted, he's authentic, he's a very hard worker.
He's dedicated to his people. He's very fiercely loyal. He
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is That would have been a really good quality on
the first time we did the interview. I loved that one.
He's trustworthy and I can always count on him. There's
never a moment where I can't. And I'm now getting
to the point where anything good or bad that happens
to me, or even every little thing. If I got
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to finally eat cheese, I think I would call him
and tell him it's like you have become my best friend,
and I just love doing everything with you because you
also have this adventurous side to you. You can chill
with me on the couch and most of the time
pass out, but most of the time also hang out
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with me when you're not passed out, and you're always
up for trying new things, and you see the world
very kindly and very bright. And yeah, I don't know,
there's just there's really not a lot of things that
I don't like about you. I could tell you one
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thing he doesn't like about me, though, and it's that
I like to try and poke his butt all the time.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
It's like there's a target, just a heat seeking missile,
and it's just at the weirdest times of emptying the
dishwasher and it's like whoat.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Or very early on in our relationship, I would stick
my finger in his mouth when he yawned. He hated that.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
You still do that? You just did that.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I've tried to be a little bit more sneaky about it,
so I will unsuspecting.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And now so you can't get in there.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Oh you know, I'm not all rainbows and sunshine, but
he is he's truly he doesn't do any of those
things to me.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You enjoy being a goofy menace.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Like you do.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Like you just like it.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I do. You want to talk about my nighttime zwies?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Oh gosh, And it's like I can feel him coming on.
Oh my gosh. There will be nights where we're getting
settled in for the night and all of a sudden,
it's like, jump on top, standing over me, just like
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ready to go. And we full out wrestled the other
night because you had so much energy. I was like,
I gotta get this out of her.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I'm like a dog, you have to get my energy out.
And then it was like a w W wrestling match
in the living room.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
And then I finally got you in a lock and
you're like pouted about it, You're like mad, and then
two seconds later you jump right back on me. Oh
my gosh, and it's like blowing raspberries on my neck
and just full, full blown energy blast. Like eleven thirty
at night, she's like, oh, I have to get up
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so early tomorrow. Boom zoomies, let's go.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I don't know why I've never had those before in
my life. It's only with you I think I just
really like hanging out with you, and I don't want
the night to end. We'll go that. Yeah, okay, so
I had to deflect saying to.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Me, nice things there we go felt weird.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
What are some things that you can love about Morgan
and favorite things about her besides her weird quirks.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I think my favorite things about you is it's just
how you do life, how you look at life. There's
always I think before we were together, I spent a
lot of time like either doing something or resting. And
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you are so good at feeling all of your time
with productive things plus resting a little bit to like
watch movies and stuff like that. But like our saturdays
are hot, yoga, going to the farmer's market, like getting
stuff done, going to the store, food prepping, like so
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you're so on it, and I just I think that
you fill your time with the stuff that brings you joy.
And I love doing all those things. And that's been
something different that I've learned in our relationship of not
just laying around on a Saturday morning, it's getting stuff done.
You feel so good at two o'clock in the afternoon
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when you have all your stuff done, so that's something
that I really love. We love different kinds of music,
and that's something that's really fun that we also love
a lot of the same music. But you've introduced me
to new artist that I didn't even know their name,
and now I'm like putting the record on when we're clean,
and that's been really exciting. The nature of your work.
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We get to go to a lot of really fun events,
and that's all new and shiny and bright to me.
And I know it's just another event that you're going to,
but it's all new for me, and so that's really exciting.
And then down to the emotional level, I've never been
Something I love about our relationship is I've never been
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cared for. I'm cared for with you. I know that
you have my back, I know that I can count
on you for anything. I know I can talk to
you about anything. I've never communicated the way that we communicate,
and it just feels so good that we don't because
we've had a few TIFFs and we communicate and it's
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like we hold each other's hands and it's like, let's
figure this out together and then it's done. And that's
a totally new ont for me. Because I shut down
right like, I go inward. I'm not a yeller. Or
if I get upset, it doesn't come out, it goes inward,
and I shut down. And with you, you don't let me
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shut down. And you are such a good communicator that
you're teaching me how to communicate. And that's a skill
of a high level relationship. And I love that.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Did you just cause a high level relationship?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, we are a level relationship.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Thank you for saying all those nice things.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I don't even remember the question.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I know you were yapping. I liked it though. I
love you being a yapperd You're talking about me like
it's like one of those memes where you just see
when he talks about me and I'm just sitting there
with my eyes little hearts in him. That was me
as you were just talking, okay, And I think he
kind of just answered that in that it was Morgan's
had bad luck with guys? What makes you different? In
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a loving way? Of course, I'm pretty sure you just
answered that in a whole lot of ways. So it
was how did I know he was different from the rest?
And I mean, gosh, just a lot of quality traits.
But he doesn't give himself enough credit here, but he
has the emotional intelligence down to an art. He shows
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exactly how he's feeling the support that he provides people.
He makes you feel calm. He's genuinely like this calming presence.
There's never been a part of me that didn't want
to be around you because it's so peaceful, it's so calm.
It's I want you around all the time because it's
feel safe, it feels secure, and it's consistent, it's loyal.
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There is no chaos. So you think of something that's
so calm and peaceful and was like, oh, well, that's
not fun, and I'm like, no, no, no, this relationship
is so much fun. And it's so much fun because
of also how peaceful and calm it is, because we
can have fun, because we can enjoy each other without chaos,
and we really get to enjoy each other's company. And honestly,
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a lot of that is just not stuff I've ever known.
And he's dealt with a lot of my relationship baggage
that comes out just in spurts because I'll make comments
and you just be like, hey, look at me, that's
not happening. I'll be like, well, please, you know, don't
leave me. And he's like, I'm not leaving, and he
just sits me down, and it's like he has to
walk this young Morgan back who learned just so many
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bad things of people. And you in the gentlest way
I can say this, you handle me very well. You
handle me like I'm bubble wrapped in a little package
and you gently untie the bow and you say, hey,
it's safe to come out. That's how you treat me
when I'm scared and when I'm not sure how to
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respond to a situation, and when you know things that
from my past come up and I don't feel secure
in whatever's happening, you just know how to handle all
of that really well. Oh I love how you say
that I'm the one who has all this emotional indulgence.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Because you do those a really nice compliment. You feeling
safe is the number one thing that I could ask for,
right Like, I want to take care of you, I
want you to feel safe. I want you to be
open with me. I want all of those things. And
I feel like I've been pretty intentional of trying to
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create a safe place because I know that your past
relationships haven't been a safe place, and I'm going to
be that for you.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You are that for me. Fikee, how do you deal
with different diets? Has he tried new foods because of
you being a vegetarian. We did hit on this a
little bit last episode, but I'm going to quickly touch
on this.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah. I mean it's nice because I've done so many diets.
I've done keto, I've done a carb free diet, I've
done only meat diets. I've been pescatarian. So I've played
around with how to eat differently, and so now with you,
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and now we're getting into vegetarian, gluten free, dairy free.
I'm definitely eating different things, but I'm learning from Kara
how to create delicious meals and like truly cook, not
just throw stuff together. When I was a vegetarian, it
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was like a bunch of veggies and saute them up
and that was lunch. But this is a quarter of
a teaspoon of nutmeg and this and you got to
roast that for five minutes. And that's a style of
cooking that I haven't put that much care into those
types of meals. And so it's really it's fun and
(34:52):
we really enjoy cooking together, So that's another We'll make
a few meals at the beginning of the week and
eat those throughout the week. It's fun and I like it.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
We're pretat going chefs together in the kitchen and.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
We eat good too, It's tasty stuff. We always rank them.
Where does this ring?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah? And the Marry Me Took piece are a very
top contender, the best one so far. Where are you from?
I'm curious because you're a Steelers fan.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yes, so gosh. Born in Maryland, moved to Colorado when
I was really young, then moved to Florida, and then
moved up here. But my mom is from Pittsburgh and
my entire mom's side of the family is black and gold.
Christmas trees and babies are wrapped in terrible towels. And
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it was always a really fun part of getting together
with family. And my grandma until the day she passed.
She had her little Steeler's purse and she had her
black nikes that had gold swooshes on them, and she'd
wear Steelers earrings to church John Sunday and it was
just the Steelers. Football in Pittsburgh was just if you
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lived in Pittsburgh, you love the Steelers. They grew up
with it. And my dad he worked in Washington, d C.
So he's always been a Washington fan. And when I
was a kid, they kind of gave me the choice of, Hey,
do you want to be a Steelers fan or do
you want to be a Washington fan? And I like
the Terrible towels, and I like the black and gold
Christmas trees, and I like Jerome Bettis and I just
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attached to them. And so it's an ode to buy
to my mom's family, really.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
And your grandma. You talk about your grandma a lot
when you reference Steelers.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yep, the terrible towel I have. I have lots of
terrible towels, but the yellow one I have is hers.
And that was one of the most special pieces that
I got from her when she passed, was her terrible towel.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I didn't know that one was hers.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
That's memes.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
That's so sweet. I love that. Okay, Also, do you
have more than just your what jersey? My fourteen year
old says, if you're a real fan, you have too.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yes, So I have my favorite jersey is my Shazier jersey,
which you probably don't know. Ryan Chazier was a linebacker
for the Steelers. Incredible look like he was going to
be a Hall of Fame linebacker. And he made a
routine tackle one week and broke his back and he
was paralyzed, and so purchasing one of his jerseys, half
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the profits go to helping kids who have gone through
the same thing. So I got a Shazier jersey because
of that. And also he can't get traded because he
doesn't play anymore, so I knew that he wasn't going
to go to a different team. I have a TJ.
Watt jersey. I have a Najie Harris jersey. So sorry
to hear about his acl oh. I feel so bad
for him. And I have a main Joe Green jersey.
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I have a Joey Porter jersey. I have a Bettast jersey.
That's my other one we.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Ever lived together. I have a feeling there has to
be like a closet of Steelers stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
First, cause it a room a room.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I'm gonna have to find a bigger place or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I have a Steeler's American flag. I have a Steeler's
just a regular flag. I was wearing the American flag
Steelers flag around my neck when I met Frank o'harris,
who was Hall of Fame running back. I was walking
into a game in Pittsburgh and he was walking from
the player's lot into the building and it was about
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ten steps in between where they go and I happen
to be walking next to him and I took a
picture with him, and he said, I like your cape, so.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
You low cave. You gotta keep that. You kept that? Okay?
Are the sports bribes working? So, in case you've missed it,
he has been bribing me with food to watch the
Steelers games with him, And yes, I do believe that
they are working. I think I enjoy hanging out with
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you on Sundays and watching you do something that you love,
which is being very involved in the game and does
your whole story of being involved in the Steelers is
also really cool too, So I love everything about it
so far. I don't know that I'm quite a sports fan,
but I do know what's going on on the field,
and I love saying big third down.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I was gonna say what's your favorite thing to say.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Big third down and then yelling at him like why'd
you do that? There's lots of anxiety. I do think
they are working. Next question, what do you do for work?
What industry? He seems very calm.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
It's funny because I went to school to be a
special education teacher. So in Colorado I ran a day
program for adults with special needs. Moved down to Florida,
I ran a coffee shop that employed adults on the
autism spectrum. When I moved up here, I unexpectedly got
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a job in a field that I had no experience whatsoever.
But it was kind of a new and fun way
to learn a new skill. So I'm now the sales manager.
I work in the golf car industry, and fun fact,
they are golf cars, not golf carts, which Morgan and
(40:14):
I have talked about a lot. I have a lot
of fun tricking out golf carts and working with golf courses,
and I have a lot of fun with it. And
I got to learn sales in an environment where I
wasn't pressured to sell. And the company that I work
for is awesome and I love it. And I get
to golf a lot. And I'm terrible at golf, but
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I love getting out there and whacking some balls into
the woods. It's one of my favorite things to do so.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, you've been trying to get me to golf ever
since we met. It has yet to happen yet, not intentionally,
just we haven't had time.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
We need to go to Top Golf. I have that gift card.
We need to go and get me to go do
some golfing.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
I was pretty good at Top Golf when we did.
We went for a charity event. I was pretty good
that time. But we need go out for an actual
date night there.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
And you're smoking them that night.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Just had Top Golf, real golf course. No, okay, but
I'll be really good at driving the golf cars for you.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yes, exactly, golf cars.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
What has been your favorite date? He is planned and
vice versa if you have planned any or favorite adventure together.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
My favorite date is one that's yet to come.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
What is one of the surprises you have planned and
you just haven't told me for my birthday?
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yep, so we'll we'll have to do an update episode
on your birthday celebrations. That day is going to be
so good.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Oh, I think my favorite date so far it was
an unintentioned date, but like also an adventure. It was
when we a combination of grand Murray trying to catch
the northern lights and then also watching the sunrise.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yes, that was That was a wild like eight hours.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
It very much was. And I made him get up
very early to go try and catch the northern lights,
but it didn't happen. So after that happened at one am,
two hours later, I was waking him up because we
wanted to watch the sunrise on the beach in Graham
Ray and we didn't get hardly any sleep. We were
also driving that day down to Iowa, so it was
just a long day. But I loved everything about that
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twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Our whole road trip was like just music and travel
and adventure and remy and pictures and totally different places,
going from Chicago to the what were they the Spanish
mines in Iowa, and it was just like we were
(42:53):
all over the place. That was if you call that
a date a road trip, Yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Have you talked about moving in? Yes, very much so,
lots of conversations about that.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
I was ready on March twenty.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Ninth, which is the day that we met. You're just
ready to move in with a stranger?
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Yeah, Oh I like her. I want to move in
with her.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yes, I want to do lives. I want to do
things with her. We have very much had this conversation
and thanks for going great. So all signs pointing to yes, I.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Want to do sleepovers with you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
I think the animals would also love to have you
for sleepovers. Also side note, if you are hearing Perine
in the background, it is not mister b or I,
it is Hazel. She's joined us for now. Does the
boyfriend have plans to visit every state as well? Because
that's one of my goals.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
I went through and I did a little map of
states that I had gone to, and you definitely have
a lot more checked off, but I think we could.
I don't have the super desire to hit all of them,
but I definitely want to hit the states that we
both haven't been to. And if there's any other things
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that you just can't live without, we would definitely do
that too. All hit as many states as we need to.
Let's talk about he loves.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
To travel and he likes doing adventures. But I have
like specific goals and checklists and bucket lists, and he's
just like, where shall we go? What should we do?
It's very much we.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Work really well that way. We do.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
I like it too. Why did you keep his identity
a secret? Well, because I had to protect him. There's
crappy people out there on the internet. I also work
on a show where we give each other crap for
everything all the time, so there's just a lot of
it where I just it is a protectiveness of me
of not wanting to expose him to the not so
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great parts of my job, which is mean on the
internet and people judging your life who don't even know you.
And I just really felt this protectiveness to take care
of our relationship and also just allow us to have
our relationship without any outside factors for as long as
I possibly could, until I got to a point where
I was all bubbling up inside me and I was like,
I want to talk about this guy, and I want
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to talk about a relationship. Hence why the podcast happened.
But I tried really long to withstand that as much
as possible, just for the sake of privacy and for protectiveness.
Thanks Mama Bear. When is he proposing?
Speaker 2 (45:35):
I was ready on March.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
You keep okay, it not right. I don't know, guys,
I don't know. Do you both want to get married
and have kids? Both want to get married. We've had
lots of conversations about kids, both on the same page
about it where we're like, yes, also no, we could
go either way, and a lot just a lot of
(45:59):
conversation about that, really, but we're pretty much on the
same level of there's just a big question mark there.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Yeah, I think in order to have kids you shouldn't
have questions to be the best parents you can be.
And I understand things happen and life happens, but if
you're planning, there shouldn't be a question it should. I
always say it should be a heck yes or a
heck no, And right now in our lives, I don't
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think it is either way.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
We both we both admitted that we've never been in
relationships where we felt that we could be comfortable to
have the conversation of even having kids or feeling like
we were gonna marry someone that was going to be
the right partner for that situation. So we're both also
just navigating something super new right now, and that's interesting
(46:53):
for both of us, I think. So we're trying to
understand what that looks like. And I think both of
us had kind of put in the back of our
minds like Okay, maybe we won't ever have kids, and
then we meet each other and it's like esportially my
sister having a baby. I was like, ah, okay, maybe
I do. There's just more questions than answers right now,
and that's kind of where that sits. But definitely both
(47:13):
of us want to get married. Yeah on a mountain
top somewhere, Yes, please, probably with most realistics and cheese.
Tell us about his tattoo and why is it important
to him?
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Well, there's a couple that are important. So I have
one on my shoulder that is for those of you watching,
it says the only disability in life is a bad attitude.
And it has the Special Olympics logo made out of
puzzle pieces. So again, with my degree in special education
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and working with the special needs population. For as long
as I've done it, I've literally done it since I
was twelve years old. It's always been a part of me.
It's always going to be a part part of me.
And I ended up getting this tattoo when I was
the program director of a pre vocational program in Denver,
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and I had all the participants at the program pick
out a puzzle piece and they would say which one
is theirs, and it's funny because I know that's Dan's
and I remember that's Matts, and it's cool to have
everyone I've worked with in my tattoo. And then I
have another tattoo on on my leg. It says Nova,
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and Nova was my pitbull Dalmatian that I rescued and
that she was the most honre, beautiful, anre anri girl
that I had ever met. I loved her with all
my heart and she was diagnosed with lymphoma and so
(48:53):
lost her to cancer, and that was one of the
hardest things I've ever gone through. But I got the
tattoo on my leg, and I say I did that
so I can always go on walks with her, and
so Nova will always be Nova was my Remy, and
so we get to connect a lot because we both
had that special soul dog and I just didn't get
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a lot of time with mine and just loved her
to pieces when I could, and she would bark at
the clouds and drive me crazy, and I just wish
I could yell at her one more time for barking
at the clouds. She was my everything. And so I
have that tattoo.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
I love when you share stories of her. It always
it's definitely hard knowing you now, and I wish of
send this before to you. I wish I could have
met her, and I wish I could have met you
with her. And it's probably the one thing that I
wish I had prior to meeting you.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
You would have loved I would. She was a little
sweetie pie.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
She was.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
She would come hang out. When I was the program
director at stepping Stone working with the people with special needs.
She would come and it's funny because she had so
much energy, but she'd get around and individual in a
wheelchair and she would just lightly put her paws up
and she would rest her chin on their legs and
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dogs know, and it was really cool to see that
in action because she was wild. And then she'd get
around my people and she'd chill out and it was
so fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
So I love that so much. What are boundaries you
guys have set in your relationship that you feel have
truly helped strengthen you guys as a couple. I think
something definitely that we've both done is I told him
very early on how important my friendships were to me,
and maintaining a lot of the life that I had
before him, and it was very much like blending our
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two lives together, not me abandoning everything of who I
am and the things that I love. And both of
us have really done a great job at that, not
only doing that, but supporting each other in doing that.
Even though we love to spend all the possible time
we can together, we try really hard to maintain a
lot of those and I think that's been really healthy
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for both of us.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
And it's I think it's a lot easier because I
love all of your friends that I've met, and I
feel like you feel the same way about my friends
that you've met, and so.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Yes, we your friends are now my friends. But that's fine.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Yes, I did lose some friends who they went to
Team Morgan, and then we've kind of blended some of
our groups, which is really cool. Yeah, like when we'll
see stories and friends are out on boats together and
it's like, oh, that's so cool that they like each
other's company enough that they go and hang out. That's
really fun. But yeah, so keeping friendships and staying true
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to who you are definitely something we focused on. I
think we've been really great on communication and just in general,
I mean I touched on that earlier, but our communication
style is just something I could have never dreamed of,
and I think that's really important in our relationship. And
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part of that is being able to communicate your wants
and needs and non negotiables and stuff like that. And
I kind of had the same thing with staying true
to myself and who I am. And I know a
big thing has been football, and football means a lot
more than just football to me. It's family, it's who
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I am, and it's something that I think has been
suppressed in the past. And so being able to really
just enjoy something that just brings me joy nothing else, like,
it's just something that makes me happy. And you being
open and even though I know you don't love football,
but you'll sit there and you know, you'll have the
(52:50):
snacks with me and you'll commentate on the game.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
And I also play Renegade for him when the game
is not going well. There you go.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Renegade is the Steelers the pump up song during the
third quarter. And so yeah, playing Renegade is a big
part of Sunday mornings and it's just it's fun to
keep that piece of me and keeping my friends is
important too. I think it's maintaining who we both are
while coming together and creating a life together. And that's
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something we've done really well.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
And owning both of our past stuff. Neither one of
us had shied away from the things that we've gone
through and the things that we feel and the baggage
we're carrying with us. We just both owned it and
ran headfirst into this and that's where we are. I
think it's very good. Okay, we're going to end on
the last one, mostly because the cameras are going to die,
so we got to wrap up so to answer this
(53:45):
one quickly, and we're going to do another one. Thanks
for making our work so happy. What your advice for
being a good partner.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
I think we've heard it. It's listen to your partner
and care about what they're talking about, care about their
wants and needs, listening does wonders okay?
Speaker 1 (54:04):
And is Morgan the one?
Speaker 2 (54:07):
Absolutely one? She is the one for me. I am
so in love. It is crazy. Oh gosh, I want
to shout it from the rooftops.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
I love you too, love you. Good bye everybody, Okay bye,
And that wraps up the Boyfriend Birthday series. Thank you,
guys for tuning in. Maybe this was your first time,
and if so, I'm so happy that you're here and
you joined to listen, and hopefully our story and us
talking and letting you guys in a little bit more
(54:39):
will put any suspicions to rest. He's a very special guy,
and I feel very lucky and very happy right now
at this point in my life. So, whether this was
your first time tuning in, or you've been listening to
the show since it started, thanks for watching, listening or both.
I know there was a few of you guys out there.
You can watch every single interview I've done is up
on the YouTube page at web Girl Morgan, and you
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can always follow the show Instagram at take this Personally,
thank you guys for indulging me, allowing my boyfriend to
come on here, and for you guys being even just
a little bit interested in our life together now. So
I appreciate each and every one of you. And happy
birthday to mister b Happy birthday to myself. And we'll
catch you guys next week, well I will. That's it
(55:22):
for him for now. I think we can give him
a little break now.
Personally, as one of my best friends wrote in the
questions for this week's episodes, spill it all came from Ali,
please spill it all, which she knows everything, so it's
funny she wrote that. But my boyfriend is back for
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round two. Hello, thanks for coming on again. You're technically
we're recording this at the same time, so there's not
a lot of magic here, but episodes This time's a
little bit different though, so if you missed it. Last week,
we talked all about our love story and Brayden. Yes,
(00:55):
we shared his name. You have an identity.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm a real boorer.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We shared all of that last week's episode and talked
about his story. We talked about how we met and
just our kind of favorite moments in our relationship, and
that one very important question that everybody's been asking. Did
he like my dog coming on vacation as much as
I did?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So all that's over there if you missed it. But
this one we're going to answer a bunch of listener
questions because this is a fun way to get to
know each other via listeners, and I always start out
with some shout outs, so we've got eg exciting. Can't
wait to listen to this episode. He so exciting. I
got a lot of egs. I'm so excited. Oh great,
(01:42):
now a new favorite. And shout out to you guys.
You guys are writing your names and stuff. But honestly
it was typing so fast because there's so many I forgot.
But that one was from Michelle and Apple Valley. Yay.
I'm so happy for you, no question, just yay. I
just want to know everything. Just want to say happy
for you, Morgan, you deserve it, So happy for you.
There's a lot of love in here. Y'all are perfect.
(02:02):
Just be the best version of yourselves, which I think
we are. Yeah, do you feel that right? You better
not hurt her in any way. She's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I've gotten a lot of those. I know my place.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Are you gonna hurt me?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Absolutely no, geez.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I absolutely love seeing you too. In love and so happy,
So happy for both of you. Just a million thanks
for making our girl so happy, Thanks for making our
girl smile. Just a shout for his confidence even with
all the haters. Nice, Please thank him for treasuring you
and being good too, and for you.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That's sweet.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, are the sweet?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah? I love reading a nice comments and Obviously I've
known you for this long, but a lot of the
listeners have known you for far longer, and so the
appreciation they have of your happiness and your smile and
just knowing what you've gone through and get to see
this different side of you, like because I only know
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the side I know, right, So it's really cool to
see the other side and people love you for it,
which is really cool.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, now they're starting to love you. Does that feel weird?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
No? Not me?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah you okay? You ready for some question?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
How is it navigating the public eye and maintaining your relationship?
Do I get away? Miss Debby?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't really, nothing has really changed where I think.
At first, I was really afraid to like comment on
your social media because I know that we're trying to
keep it separate. So I was trying to be Batman secrets.
I was trying to be Batman living in the shadows.
(03:47):
So I was just trying to be respectful of you
because I know you have to navigate stuff differently. I
wanted to shout from the rooftops that I love you,
but like, I can't really do that with who you
are on social media right off the bat didn't want
to embarrass you.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh okay, Dad, And so.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I don't know, like it's as far as public eye.
You're in the public eye. I just get to celebrate you,
you know. So it's easy for me. I get to
be a one clapping.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah. But what about when our relationship gets made fun of,
or things happen on the Bobby Bone Show, or there's
like negative comments. How do you feel about all of that?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
The real relationship is between you and I when we're
watching a movie or going on a date or going
on a walk with remy people want to make fun
of the happiness that we have, then that's fine. People
are bored right, Like they're going to sit behind keyboards
and say stuff, and it's fine. That's probably something I'm
going to have a skill. I'm going to have to
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learn to let it just kind of roll off. But
I've been preparing myself for it. I guess it's just
going to be part of who we are and part
of our relationship, and let's make it fun and exciting
instead of being worried about it. And it's going to
be okay.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I agree with you. A big part for me, especially
early on when we were dating, is I would always
ask him, I'm like, are you okay with this if
I share this in my show prep? Or are you
okay if I talk about this? Or how do you
feel about these posts? And every single time it was
just like, you just do you. I'm good, Like I'm fine,
whatever you want to do. You were so confident from
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the very beginning, and I think you have a lot
of confidence in yourself in general, which is why a
lot of that is okay and doesn't seem to bother you.
But there's also a protective layer for me, which is
I'll get into a little bit later, like why I
didn't share his identity for a while is just I
very much mama bear the people that are in my life.
And it's not that I didn't want to share you
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right away and share in the excitement of everything was happening,
because it was so exciting and just so like, holy crap,
what is this real? But it was a protectiveness also,
like I already started to deeply care about you, and
I went into the protective mode of Okay, I have
to protect this person from this place in space that
he's not familiar with yet. And that was very much
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some of the beginning of our relationship.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And I really appreciated that for sure, But at the
same time, I think it my instant love for you
outweighed what I could imagine people would call me names
or you know whatever like that. I just didn't care,
you know, and so you were protecting me, and I
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appreciate that, but it's we have something real here and
I don't need validation from anyone else.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm an little school girl. How do you feel about
all the radio conversation happening about you both? It's also
in the same kind of course of how do you
handle criticism from the guys about you on the Bobby
Bunch Show.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I don't know. I haven't met the guys, So it's like,
and I understand there's going to be bits about me
on the show, and that's totally fine. I think once
they get to know me that they're going to realize
that I'm just a guy and I deeply care about you,
and so no, that doesn't bother me. I don't listen
(07:26):
to the show every day, so usually it's whatever you
tell me. So maybe there's bits that have been going
on that I don't even know about.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
About the hair gel, right, you know, about the taking
me on vacation and so just in general getting criticized
that you are, you work out so and you wear
hair gel, which is a comparison to my ex boyfriends
for reason. Yeah, but beyond maybe the working out and
having muscles, there isn't much comparison. In my eyes.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I like that, that's my hot eggs. But I keep
trying to say anybody's listening to me.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
But at the same time, they're like, they're allowed to
have fun with it, So run with it if that's
what the people want.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
To scratch that. Speaking of muscles, what is your back routine?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
The back picture, that's what everything really? That was like
the first.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That was a soft launch, yeah, breakfast that he made me.
And although he has a sexy back.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well, let's see. So back is always the third workout
of the week. I isolate it by itself, so it's
just back. I used to focused on, Yeah, used to
do back in biceps together, but now only do back, legs, chest,
back or the first three of the week. And I
don't really have a routine. I just do whatever I
(08:57):
want to do.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, which lately has been going on walks with me
because as of right now, I'm trying to call my
nervous system in the whole detox and clans I'm doing.
And this sweet man has been getting up and going
on walks with me before work because I can't quite
work out right now while I'm trying to get my
body to chill the f out.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And it's good for me because your body needs balance.
Where I was weightlifting six days a week every.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Week, and we were together for the beginning portion of
our relationship, we would go work out together, but.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Then like you introduced me to hot yoga, and yeah,
we're going on more walks and we're gonna start playing
more volleyball together here soon, right, Yeah, yeah, But there's
different ways to work out. I just when you're single
and you have all the time in the world, going
to the gym and working out and just kind of
(09:54):
putting your headphones in and turning the world off is
pretty nice. But I don't want to my world off anymore,
which is just kind of a crazy thing.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So how many one lighters are you gonna have? That
maybe the giggle.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
For that time.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
When do you consider adopting a pet together? Jessica asked
this question.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Well, we have a very specific schedule with Remy and
Hazel right now. So sweet Ram cannot be stressed, so
introducing another animal into the family would not be good
on her nervous system right now. Hazel is also I
(10:40):
don't think introducing any more stress to Hazel would help
her kidneys anymore. And so I think adoption will come
down the road. But we'll get there when we get there,
you know, And it's not in the realm of possibilities soon.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, but hopefully not for like thirty years exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I was thinking forty five, but thirty good.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Perfect. Yeah, I'm glad we're on the same page and
we are at a kind of a halt. He fostered
with me when I was taking care of the first foster.
When we had first met Roscoe. He was over here
a bunch helping me take care of him because he
was a very special case and I really needed to tackling,
which I was ready to tackle by myself. But he
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came along and him and Roscoe loved each other. So
that was a cool moment. Yeah, be digative, feel what
it was like. And you know, maybe we can foster
again sometime, but right now not so much.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah. Yeah, And Roscoe was fun because he loved us,
but he also had small things about him where he
would turn on me quickly. Yeah, And so it was
learning how to handle situations like that and together and
staying calm with a dog who is could get angry at.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
The drop of a very reactive yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, And so that was a really cool learning experience
for us, kind of parenting a new dog in a
new relationship, and you learn a lot about someone pretty
quickly in that situation.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So that was Yeah, how chaos and stress, It's kind
of like, here you go, and we did. We managed
it really well, and Roscoe now has an awesome new
mom and he's been doing really well.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So boy, Roscoe, I know you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So maybe one day we'll start fostering again. It just
kind of really depends how Remy and hazelill keep doing. Okay,
what is your first core memory of Morgan?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I mean, the first core memory would be you turning
around because I thought Holly was introducing me to someone
behind your guys' group for some reason, Like I thought
she was bringing me over, and you turned around, and
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like instantly I thought you were the most adorable thing
I'd ever seen in my life. And you turned around
and you looked at her and like shook your head,
and then we met ies and it was just like
that first moment and there was something about you looking
up at me that was just like made it even
cuter because I was so old, just andie baby, and
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there was that. And then later that night, when you
devoured those Mozsreli sticks, that was a warming. It's a
corn memory.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I'm so rude. You loved when.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
It was really fun. You were pumped up about those
moths sticks.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah. You learned very quickly that I also love cheese
as much as I loved dogs.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, yeah, and specifically pimento cheese. I think I said
the words pimento cheese five times total in the past
ten years, and then since I've met you, it was
like ten times a day every day.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You want to tell the pimento cheese story, where that
like really happened. Do you remember this at the brewery?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh, when you ordered the when we got the pretzels,
not when.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We did you don't remember this. So we were sitting
there and we were having a drink and.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh yeah, the people sitting next to us got it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
You got pretzels or fimento cheese, and I just looked
over and I was like, oh, that has pimento cheese.
When you just I think this is like our fourth
and you were just like, okay, pimento cheese.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Some girl memento cheese.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And before I knew it, that all came out of
my body. I think it was my internal thought coming
out and instead it was an external thought, and you
learned this girl loves pimento cheese.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
You don't remember that moment. I think my first core
memory was us really two stepping. I think was the moment,
which it was so it was so cute. It was
that whole just kind of middle there where we were
at the bar. We both admitted we didn't remember each
other's first names from our introduction, and then it was like,
let's two step. I was like, oh, he can also dance.
(15:13):
I like this, nobody ever dances with me. I felt
very much like this feels like a movie and I'm
just living my best life, okay, and it kind of
felt like a fairy tale and just that whole moment.
But that was where it started for me, because I
really think up until then I was still annoyed with
my friends that I was like, we're supposed to have
a girl's night, and you guys brought this man into
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the picture.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I didn't night.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, and then the dancne happened and the conversation like
kept flowing, and that was really where I was like, oh, okay,
he's more than just cute. Dang it all right, first impression,
I feel like it's that the same as for first
core memory for you. Okay, what about the first impression
(15:57):
on the first date when we actually went on a
date together.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
So I'd say on the first date, you were you
had a very professional sense about you, and we had
gone from like this fun loving first meeting and then
our conversation. We did get deep in that first conversation
(16:24):
on the phone, but you seemed very professional. And then
the sushi came. Remember the sushi piece, And this sushi piece.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Was like I was put my best foot for it. Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
It was like that big and You're like, there's no
way I could fit this in my mouth. I just
took out my phone. I was like, please try.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
And we have a little mouth. You're little.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
You just you shoved that in your mouth and you
laughed so hard and it was like you went from
this professional, and you were like, you were dressed very nice,
and then you shove this piece of sushi in your mouth,
and it was like from that point on, we were just
like being goofy and taking pictures together, and we learned
(17:13):
that we both really enjoy taking videos and pictures and
documenting things, especially as a guide. I don't find that annoying.
We'll take four billion photos to get the right angle.
I think I turned that sushi, played around and took
nineteen photos of it, trying to get the white lights
in the background.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, you want to talk about best ever influencer boyfriend.
This guy right here. I didn't even have to train
him a game like that.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Ready made. That's an aspect of life that I love.
I love documenting that, and so we learned that we
both liked doing that. It was really fun and we
just got to enjoy each other's company while being goofballs.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It was and honestly, my first impression was like, dang,
this guy listens to me. This is nice. You listened
to me with the sunflowers. You listened to me that
I was vegetarians, So you picked a restaurant that we
and you ate vegetarian with me. I was just very
impressed with you as a human being. Honestly, well, thank you. Yeah.
I was like, this is a good human let's.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
How my mom dad made me and just came out
this way.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Okay, yeah, life didn't have any impact whatsoever. Okay, what
does it? I actually laughed out loud writing this question.
What does it feel like to be dating a famous
celebrity like Morgan? Which, mind you, I'm not I'm not okay,
I'm not a famous celebrity.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
It's so cute that you say that I'm not, like
but you are.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
But okay, public figure, sure, I'm not a famous celebrity. Anyways,
please answer this question. I literally wrote lmao next to
the question.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I wrote it down. Veronica had a very funny joke today,
So like, I think it's fun because I know and
not that you're any different, like when you're doing famous
people stuff versus just it's you and I like you're
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the same person. But I feel like I get the
behind the scenes and like I get all the real
and then the nitty gritty, and I think it's really cool.
And I've had friends from high school reach out and
be like, oh my gosh, you're irl guy. You know,
and so like, moments like that are definitely cool. I'm
not gonna lie that's a cool aspect of it. But
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at the base of it, I fell in love with you.
I didn't fall in love with this idea of you,
and I think that's really special. And I was very
intentional about that. When we first started dating. I was
not going to start listening to the Bobby Bone Show.
I wasn't. I didn't listen to your podcast, I didn't
snoop on your Instagram. Really made it intentional to just
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get to know you, and I thought that maybe would
be different than what you had in the past. I
wasn't sure, but I already had such strong feelings for
you so early that it was like, I want to
do everything I can to try to convince her to
want to keep going on dates with you.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Convinced me on the first day. What are you talking about?
But I mean you convinced me actually the first time
we met, and then the phone call, and then the
first day, and then I was like, Okay, well, I
guess I'm hanging out with this guy for what he
thinks is the rest of our lives.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
A long time. Let's go sign me up twice.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, thank you. Okay, I feel weird now. What surprised
you most about Morgan? I'm so happy for you all.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
The I would say, the big surprise was right after
we got to Lakeside Lounge.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And you could also entire relationship. You don't have to
focus the first night if you don't want to, Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
We'll go first first night and then whole relationship. First
night at Lakeside Lounge. The moment that we both learned
that we love to nerd out where we talked about
Marvel and we talked about Harry Potter and we talked
about Star Wars. That was not something that I thought
was going to be next in our conversation. It's so
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funny because I had conversations with my little sister about
what I wanted my next partner to look like, and
that was one of the things that we had talked about.
And I was like, I'm nerdy in some ways and
I want my next partner to be nerdy in those
ways too, And so that was but that shocked me
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just from the couple hours I had gotten to know you.
I just didn't think that you'd be so fired up
about Jedis that quickly. That was very exciting me.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Brou you mean brood, You mean you want to talk
about Yoda? You mean you want to talk about Harry Pata.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
We got.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yes, we are weird together. We're incredibly weird together. Actually, yeah,
we nerded out together and that was very fun.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But that's a really special part of our relationship ties
into that vacation that we went on down to Florida,
Like we can just be two nerds and talk about
Harry Potter all day and not think twice, and.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I don't have to hide any of it away. It's
very nice you let me be a nerd. It was
really funny too when you mentioned that You're like, I'm
pretty nerdy. I was like, yeah, I'm really nerdy, and
you're like, okay, what he thought? I was going to
be like, I don't even know what you expected me
to say, but I was like, well, like, I go
to the movie premires of Marvel and I'm really big
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on Star Wars and also Fodder, and I just kept
listening him down. I was like, I should probably stop talking.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
But then there's room to grow because like I love
Lord of the Rings. You're not really crazy about that? Yeah,
I wasn't really raised in a Star Wars house, Like,
I'm fine with it. So it's like we're going through
Star Wars and then we'll eventually go through Lord of
the Rings.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, sadly, I thought we talked about this. No, I'm excited.
I'm excited to see why you love it and finally
give it a chance again after I didn't. So I am.
I love that part of our relationship.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You're gonna love the Hobbit. You're probably gonna sleep through
the Lord of the Rings and.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
That's okay, okay, and you'll accept that. Yeah, okay. Good.
What is he like as a person. Mister b is kind,
He's big hearted, he's authentic, he's a very hard worker.
He's dedicated to his people. He's very fiercely loyal. He
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is That would have been a really good quality on
the first time we did the interview. I loved that one.
He's trustworthy and I can always count on him. There's
never a moment where I can't. And I'm now getting
to the point where anything good or bad that happens
to me, or even every little thing. If I got
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to finally eat cheese, I think I would call him
and tell him it's like you have become my best friend,
and I just love doing everything with you because you
also have this adventurous side to you. You can chill
with me on the couch and most of the time
pass out, but most of the time also hang out
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with me when you're not passed out, and you're always
up for trying new things, and you see the world
very kindly and very bright. And yeah, I don't know,
there's just there's really not a lot of things that
I don't like about you. I could tell you one
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thing he doesn't like about me, though, and it's that
I like to try and poke his butt all the time.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
It's like there's a target, just a heat seeking missile,
and it's just at the weirdest times of emptying the
dishwasher and it's like whoat.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Or very early on in our relationship, I would stick
my finger in his mouth when he yawned. He hated that.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
You still do that? You just did that.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I've tried to be a little bit more sneaky about it,
so I will unsuspecting.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And now so you can't get in there.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Oh you know, I'm not all rainbows and sunshine, but
he is he's truly he doesn't do any of those
things to me.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You enjoy being a goofy menace.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Like you do.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Like you just like it.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I do. You want to talk about my nighttime zwies?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Oh gosh, And it's like I can feel him coming on.
Oh my gosh. There will be nights where we're getting
settled in for the night and all of a sudden,
it's like, jump on top, standing over me, just like
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ready to go. And we full out wrestled the other
night because you had so much energy. I was like,
I gotta get this out of her.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I'm like a dog, you have to get my energy out.
And then it was like a w W wrestling match
in the living room.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
And then I finally got you in a lock and
you're like pouted about it, You're like mad, and then
two seconds later you jump right back on me. Oh
my gosh, and it's like blowing raspberries on my neck
and just full, full blown energy blast. Like eleven thirty
at night, she's like, oh, I have to get up
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so early tomorrow. Boom zoomies, let's go.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I don't know why I've never had those before in
my life. It's only with you I think I just
really like hanging out with you, and I don't want
the night to end. We'll go that. Yeah, okay, so
I had to deflect saying to.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Me, nice things there we go felt weird.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
What are some things that you can love about Morgan
and favorite things about her besides her weird quirks.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I think my favorite things about you is it's just
how you do life, how you look at life. There's
always I think before we were together, I spent a
lot of time like either doing something or resting. And
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you are so good at feeling all of your time
with productive things plus resting a little bit to like
watch movies and stuff like that. But like our saturdays
are hot, yoga, going to the farmer's market, like getting
stuff done, going to the store, food prepping, like so
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you're so on it, and I just I think that
you fill your time with the stuff that brings you joy.
And I love doing all those things. And that's been
something different that I've learned in our relationship of not
just laying around on a Saturday morning, it's getting stuff done.
You feel so good at two o'clock in the afternoon
(28:43):
when you have all your stuff done, so that's something
that I really love. We love different kinds of music,
and that's something that's really fun that we also love
a lot of the same music. But you've introduced me
to new artist that I didn't even know their name,
and now I'm like putting the record on when we're clean,
and that's been really exciting. The nature of your work.
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We get to go to a lot of really fun events,
and that's all new and shiny and bright to me.
And I know it's just another event that you're going to,
but it's all new for me, and so that's really exciting.
And then down to the emotional level, I've never been
Something I love about our relationship is I've never been
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cared for. I'm cared for with you. I know that
you have my back, I know that I can count
on you for anything. I know I can talk to
you about anything. I've never communicated the way that we communicate,
and it just feels so good that we don't because
we've had a few TIFFs and we communicate and it's
(29:50):
like we hold each other's hands and it's like, let's
figure this out together and then it's done. And that's
a totally new ont for me. Because I shut down
right like, I go inward. I'm not a yeller. Or
if I get upset, it doesn't come out, it goes inward,
and I shut down. And with you, you don't let me
(30:13):
shut down. And you are such a good communicator that
you're teaching me how to communicate. And that's a skill
of a high level relationship. And I love that.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Did you just cause a high level relationship?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, we are a level relationship.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Thank you for saying all those nice things.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I don't even remember the question.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I know you were yapping. I liked it though. I
love you being a yapperd You're talking about me like
it's like one of those memes where you just see
when he talks about me and I'm just sitting there
with my eyes little hearts in him. That was me
as you were just talking, okay, And I think he
kind of just answered that in that it was Morgan's
had bad luck with guys? What makes you different? In
(30:59):
a loving way? Of course, I'm pretty sure you just
answered that in a whole lot of ways. So it
was how did I know he was different from the rest?
And I mean, gosh, just a lot of quality traits.
But he doesn't give himself enough credit here, but he
has the emotional intelligence down to an art. He shows
(31:20):
exactly how he's feeling the support that he provides people.
He makes you feel calm. He's genuinely like this calming presence.
There's never been a part of me that didn't want
to be around you because it's so peaceful, it's so calm.
It's I want you around all the time because it's
feel safe, it feels secure, and it's consistent, it's loyal.
(31:43):
There is no chaos. So you think of something that's
so calm and peaceful and was like, oh, well, that's
not fun, and I'm like, no, no, no, this relationship
is so much fun. And it's so much fun because
of also how peaceful and calm it is, because we
can have fun, because we can enjoy each other without chaos,
and we really get to enjoy each other's company. And honestly,
(32:06):
a lot of that is just not stuff I've ever known.
And he's dealt with a lot of my relationship baggage
that comes out just in spurts because I'll make comments
and you just be like, hey, look at me, that's
not happening. I'll be like, well, please, you know, don't
leave me. And he's like, I'm not leaving, and he
just sits me down, and it's like he has to
walk this young Morgan back who learned just so many
(32:27):
bad things of people. And you in the gentlest way
I can say this, you handle me very well. You
handle me like I'm bubble wrapped in a little package
and you gently untie the bow and you say, hey,
it's safe to come out. That's how you treat me
when I'm scared and when I'm not sure how to
(32:47):
respond to a situation, and when you know things that
from my past come up and I don't feel secure
in whatever's happening, you just know how to handle all
of that really well. Oh I love how you say
that I'm the one who has all this emotional indulgence.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Because you do those a really nice compliment. You feeling
safe is the number one thing that I could ask for,
right Like, I want to take care of you, I
want you to feel safe. I want you to be
open with me. I want all of those things. And
I feel like I've been pretty intentional of trying to
(33:25):
create a safe place because I know that your past
relationships haven't been a safe place, and I'm going to
be that for you.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You are that for me. Fikee, how do you deal
with different diets? Has he tried new foods because of
you being a vegetarian. We did hit on this a
little bit last episode, but I'm going to quickly touch
on this.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah. I mean it's nice because I've done so many diets.
I've done keto, I've done a carb free diet, I've
done only meat diets. I've been pescatarian. So I've played
around with how to eat differently, and so now with you,
(34:09):
and now we're getting into vegetarian, gluten free, dairy free.
I'm definitely eating different things, but I'm learning from Kara
how to create delicious meals and like truly cook, not
just throw stuff together. When I was a vegetarian, it
(34:30):
was like a bunch of veggies and saute them up
and that was lunch. But this is a quarter of
a teaspoon of nutmeg and this and you got to
roast that for five minutes. And that's a style of
cooking that I haven't put that much care into those
types of meals. And so it's really it's fun and
(34:52):
we really enjoy cooking together, So that's another We'll make
a few meals at the beginning of the week and
eat those throughout the week. It's fun and I like it.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
We're pretat going chefs together in the kitchen and.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
We eat good too, It's tasty stuff. We always rank them.
Where does this ring?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah? And the Marry Me Took piece are a very
top contender, the best one so far. Where are you from?
I'm curious because you're a Steelers fan.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yes, so gosh. Born in Maryland, moved to Colorado when
I was really young, then moved to Florida, and then
moved up here. But my mom is from Pittsburgh and
my entire mom's side of the family is black and gold.
Christmas trees and babies are wrapped in terrible towels. And
(35:42):
it was always a really fun part of getting together
with family. And my grandma until the day she passed.
She had her little Steeler's purse and she had her
black nikes that had gold swooshes on them, and she'd
wear Steelers earrings to church John Sunday and it was
just the Steelers. Football in Pittsburgh was just if you
(36:07):
lived in Pittsburgh, you love the Steelers. They grew up
with it. And my dad he worked in Washington, d C.
So he's always been a Washington fan. And when I
was a kid, they kind of gave me the choice of, Hey,
do you want to be a Steelers fan or do
you want to be a Washington fan? And I like
the Terrible towels, and I like the black and gold
Christmas trees, and I like Jerome Bettis and I just
(36:29):
attached to them. And so it's an ode to buy
to my mom's family, really.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
And your grandma. You talk about your grandma a lot
when you reference Steelers.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yep, the terrible towel I have. I have lots of
terrible towels, but the yellow one I have is hers.
And that was one of the most special pieces that
I got from her when she passed, was her terrible towel.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I didn't know that one was hers.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
That's memes.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
That's so sweet. I love that. Okay, Also, do you
have more than just your what jersey? My fourteen year
old says, if you're a real fan, you have too.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yes, So I have my favorite jersey is my Shazier jersey,
which you probably don't know. Ryan Chazier was a linebacker
for the Steelers. Incredible look like he was going to
be a Hall of Fame linebacker. And he made a
routine tackle one week and broke his back and he
was paralyzed, and so purchasing one of his jerseys, half
(37:23):
the profits go to helping kids who have gone through
the same thing. So I got a Shazier jersey because
of that. And also he can't get traded because he
doesn't play anymore, so I knew that he wasn't going
to go to a different team. I have a TJ.
Watt jersey. I have a Najie Harris jersey. So sorry
to hear about his acl oh. I feel so bad
for him. And I have a main Joe Green jersey.
(37:47):
I have a Joey Porter jersey. I have a Bettast jersey.
That's my other one we.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Ever lived together. I have a feeling there has to
be like a closet of Steelers stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
First, cause it a room a room.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I'm gonna have to find a bigger place or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I have a Steeler's American flag. I have a Steeler's
just a regular flag. I was wearing the American flag
Steelers flag around my neck when I met Frank o'harris,
who was Hall of Fame running back. I was walking
into a game in Pittsburgh and he was walking from
the player's lot into the building and it was about
(38:26):
ten steps in between where they go and I happen
to be walking next to him and I took a
picture with him, and he said, I like your cape, so.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
You low cave. You gotta keep that. You kept that? Okay?
Are the sports bribes working? So, in case you've missed it,
he has been bribing me with food to watch the
Steelers games with him, And yes, I do believe that
they are working. I think I enjoy hanging out with
(38:57):
you on Sundays and watching you do something that you love,
which is being very involved in the game and does
your whole story of being involved in the Steelers is
also really cool too, So I love everything about it
so far. I don't know that I'm quite a sports fan,
but I do know what's going on on the field,
and I love saying big third down.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I was gonna say what's your favorite thing to say.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Big third down and then yelling at him like why'd
you do that? There's lots of anxiety. I do think
they are working. Next question, what do you do for work?
What industry? He seems very calm.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
It's funny because I went to school to be a
special education teacher. So in Colorado I ran a day
program for adults with special needs. Moved down to Florida,
I ran a coffee shop that employed adults on the
autism spectrum. When I moved up here, I unexpectedly got
(39:53):
a job in a field that I had no experience whatsoever.
But it was kind of a new and fun way
to learn a new skill. So I'm now the sales manager.
I work in the golf car industry, and fun fact,
they are golf cars, not golf carts, which Morgan and
(40:14):
I have talked about a lot. I have a lot
of fun tricking out golf carts and working with golf courses,
and I have a lot of fun with it. And
I got to learn sales in an environment where I
wasn't pressured to sell. And the company that I work
for is awesome and I love it. And I get
to golf a lot. And I'm terrible at golf, but
(40:36):
I love getting out there and whacking some balls into
the woods. It's one of my favorite things to do so.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, you've been trying to get me to golf ever
since we met. It has yet to happen yet, not intentionally,
just we haven't had time.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
We need to go to Top Golf. I have that gift card.
We need to go and get me to go do
some golfing.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
I was pretty good at Top Golf when we did.
We went for a charity event. I was pretty good
that time. But we need go out for an actual
date night there.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
And you're smoking them that night.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Just had Top Golf, real golf course. No, okay, but
I'll be really good at driving the golf cars for you.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yes, exactly, golf cars.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
What has been your favorite date? He is planned and
vice versa if you have planned any or favorite adventure together.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
My favorite date is one that's yet to come.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
What is one of the surprises you have planned and
you just haven't told me for my birthday?
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yep, so we'll we'll have to do an update episode
on your birthday celebrations. That day is going to be
so good.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Oh, I think my favorite date so far it was
an unintentioned date, but like also an adventure. It was
when we a combination of grand Murray trying to catch
the northern lights and then also watching the sunrise.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yes, that was That was a wild like eight hours.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
It very much was. And I made him get up
very early to go try and catch the northern lights,
but it didn't happen. So after that happened at one am,
two hours later, I was waking him up because we
wanted to watch the sunrise on the beach in Graham
Ray and we didn't get hardly any sleep. We were
also driving that day down to Iowa, so it was
just a long day. But I loved everything about that
(42:29):
twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Our whole road trip was like just music and travel
and adventure and remy and pictures and totally different places,
going from Chicago to the what were they the Spanish
mines in Iowa, and it was just like we were
(42:53):
all over the place. That was if you call that
a date a road trip, Yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Have you talked about moving in? Yes, very much so,
lots of conversations about that.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
I was ready on March twenty.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Ninth, which is the day that we met. You're just
ready to move in with a stranger?
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Yeah, Oh I like her. I want to move in
with her.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yes, I want to do lives. I want to do
things with her. We have very much had this conversation
and thanks for going great. So all signs pointing to yes, I.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Want to do sleepovers with you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
I think the animals would also love to have you
for sleepovers. Also side note, if you are hearing Perine
in the background, it is not mister b or I,
it is Hazel. She's joined us for now. Does the
boyfriend have plans to visit every state as well? Because
that's one of my goals.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
I went through and I did a little map of
states that I had gone to, and you definitely have
a lot more checked off, but I think we could.
I don't have the super desire to hit all of them,
but I definitely want to hit the states that we
both haven't been to. And if there's any other things
(44:12):
that you just can't live without, we would definitely do
that too. All hit as many states as we need to.
Let's talk about he loves.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
To travel and he likes doing adventures. But I have
like specific goals and checklists and bucket lists, and he's
just like, where shall we go? What should we do?
It's very much we.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Work really well that way. We do.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
I like it too. Why did you keep his identity
a secret? Well, because I had to protect him. There's
crappy people out there on the internet. I also work
on a show where we give each other crap for
everything all the time, so there's just a lot of
it where I just it is a protectiveness of me
of not wanting to expose him to the not so
(44:58):
great parts of my job, which is mean on the
internet and people judging your life who don't even know you.
And I just really felt this protectiveness to take care
of our relationship and also just allow us to have
our relationship without any outside factors for as long as
I possibly could, until I got to a point where
I was all bubbling up inside me and I was like,
I want to talk about this guy, and I want
(45:19):
to talk about a relationship. Hence why the podcast happened.
But I tried really long to withstand that as much
as possible, just for the sake of privacy and for protectiveness.
Thanks Mama Bear. When is he proposing?
Speaker 2 (45:35):
I was ready on March.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
You keep okay, it not right. I don't know, guys,
I don't know. Do you both want to get married
and have kids? Both want to get married. We've had
lots of conversations about kids, both on the same page
about it where we're like, yes, also no, we could
go either way, and a lot just a lot of
(45:59):
conversation about that, really, but we're pretty much on the
same level of there's just a big question mark there.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Yeah, I think in order to have kids you shouldn't
have questions to be the best parents you can be.
And I understand things happen and life happens, but if
you're planning, there shouldn't be a question it should. I
always say it should be a heck yes or a
heck no, And right now in our lives, I don't
(46:28):
think it is either way.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
We both we both admitted that we've never been in
relationships where we felt that we could be comfortable to
have the conversation of even having kids or feeling like
we were gonna marry someone that was going to be
the right partner for that situation. So we're both also
just navigating something super new right now, and that's interesting
(46:53):
for both of us, I think. So we're trying to
understand what that looks like. And I think both of
us had kind of put in the back of our
minds like Okay, maybe we won't ever have kids, and
then we meet each other and it's like esportially my
sister having a baby. I was like, ah, okay, maybe
I do. There's just more questions than answers right now,
and that's kind of where that sits. But definitely both
(47:13):
of us want to get married. Yeah on a mountain
top somewhere, Yes, please, probably with most realistics and cheese.
Tell us about his tattoo and why is it important
to him?
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Well, there's a couple that are important. So I have
one on my shoulder that is for those of you watching,
it says the only disability in life is a bad attitude.
And it has the Special Olympics logo made out of
puzzle pieces. So again, with my degree in special education
(47:49):
and working with the special needs population. For as long
as I've done it, I've literally done it since I
was twelve years old. It's always been a part of me.
It's always going to be a part part of me.
And I ended up getting this tattoo when I was
the program director of a pre vocational program in Denver,
(48:10):
and I had all the participants at the program pick
out a puzzle piece and they would say which one
is theirs, and it's funny because I know that's Dan's
and I remember that's Matts, and it's cool to have
everyone I've worked with in my tattoo. And then I
have another tattoo on on my leg. It says Nova,
(48:32):
and Nova was my pitbull Dalmatian that I rescued and
that she was the most honre, beautiful, anre anri girl
that I had ever met. I loved her with all
my heart and she was diagnosed with lymphoma and so
(48:53):
lost her to cancer, and that was one of the
hardest things I've ever gone through. But I got the
tattoo on my leg, and I say I did that
so I can always go on walks with her, and
so Nova will always be Nova was my Remy, and
so we get to connect a lot because we both
had that special soul dog and I just didn't get
(49:17):
a lot of time with mine and just loved her
to pieces when I could, and she would bark at
the clouds and drive me crazy, and I just wish
I could yell at her one more time for barking
at the clouds. She was my everything. And so I
have that tattoo.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
I love when you share stories of her. It always
it's definitely hard knowing you now, and I wish of
send this before to you. I wish I could have
met her, and I wish I could have met you
with her. And it's probably the one thing that I
wish I had prior to meeting you.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
You would have loved I would. She was a little
sweetie pie.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
She was.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
She would come hang out. When I was the program
director at stepping Stone working with the people with special needs.
She would come and it's funny because she had so
much energy, but she'd get around and individual in a
wheelchair and she would just lightly put her paws up
and she would rest her chin on their legs and
(50:13):
dogs know, and it was really cool to see that
in action because she was wild. And then she'd get
around my people and she'd chill out and it was
so fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
So I love that so much. What are boundaries you
guys have set in your relationship that you feel have
truly helped strengthen you guys as a couple. I think
something definitely that we've both done is I told him
very early on how important my friendships were to me,
and maintaining a lot of the life that I had
before him, and it was very much like blending our
(50:46):
two lives together, not me abandoning everything of who I
am and the things that I love. And both of
us have really done a great job at that, not
only doing that, but supporting each other in doing that.
Even though we love to spend all the possible time
we can together, we try really hard to maintain a
lot of those and I think that's been really healthy
(51:08):
for both of us.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
And it's I think it's a lot easier because I
love all of your friends that I've met, and I
feel like you feel the same way about my friends
that you've met, and so.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Yes, we your friends are now my friends. But that's fine.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Yes, I did lose some friends who they went to
Team Morgan, and then we've kind of blended some of
our groups, which is really cool. Yeah, like when we'll
see stories and friends are out on boats together and
it's like, oh, that's so cool that they like each
other's company enough that they go and hang out. That's
really fun. But yeah, so keeping friendships and staying true
(51:46):
to who you are definitely something we focused on. I
think we've been really great on communication and just in general,
I mean I touched on that earlier, but our communication
style is just something I could have never dreamed of,
and I think that's really important in our relationship. And
(52:07):
part of that is being able to communicate your wants
and needs and non negotiables and stuff like that. And
I kind of had the same thing with staying true
to myself and who I am. And I know a
big thing has been football, and football means a lot
more than just football to me. It's family, it's who
(52:28):
I am, and it's something that I think has been
suppressed in the past. And so being able to really
just enjoy something that just brings me joy nothing else, like,
it's just something that makes me happy. And you being
open and even though I know you don't love football,
but you'll sit there and you know, you'll have the
(52:50):
snacks with me and you'll commentate on the game.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
And I also play Renegade for him when the game
is not going well. There you go.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Renegade is the Steelers the pump up song during the
third quarter. And so yeah, playing Renegade is a big
part of Sunday mornings and it's just it's fun to
keep that piece of me and keeping my friends is
important too. I think it's maintaining who we both are
while coming together and creating a life together. And that's
(53:19):
something we've done really well.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
And owning both of our past stuff. Neither one of
us had shied away from the things that we've gone
through and the things that we feel and the baggage
we're carrying with us. We just both owned it and
ran headfirst into this and that's where we are. I
think it's very good. Okay, we're going to end on
the last one, mostly because the cameras are going to die,
so we got to wrap up so to answer this
(53:45):
one quickly, and we're going to do another one. Thanks
for making our work so happy. What your advice for
being a good partner.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
I think we've heard it. It's listen to your partner
and care about what they're talking about, care about their
wants and needs, listening does wonders okay?
Speaker 1 (54:04):
And is Morgan the one?
Speaker 2 (54:07):
Absolutely one? She is the one for me. I am
so in love. It is crazy. Oh gosh, I want
to shout it from the rooftops.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
I love you too, love you. Good bye everybody, Okay bye,
And that wraps up the Boyfriend Birthday series. Thank you,
guys for tuning in. Maybe this was your first time,
and if so, I'm so happy that you're here and
you joined to listen, and hopefully our story and us
talking and letting you guys in a little bit more
(54:39):
will put any suspicions to rest. He's a very special guy,
and I feel very lucky and very happy right now
at this point in my life. So, whether this was
your first time tuning in, or you've been listening to
the show since it started, thanks for watching, listening or both.
I know there was a few of you guys out there.
You can watch every single interview I've done is up
on the YouTube page at web Girl Morgan, and you
(55:00):
can always follow the show Instagram at take this Personally,
thank you guys for indulging me, allowing my boyfriend to
come on here, and for you guys being even just
a little bit interested in our life together now. So
I appreciate each and every one of you. And happy
birthday to mister b Happy birthday to myself. And we'll
catch you guys next week, well I will. That's it
(55:22):
for him for now. I think we can give him
a little break now.
Host
Morgan Huelsman
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