August 18, 2025 • 53 mins
Holly and her son Nate join this week's episode! Nate is the 22-year-old founder of 21 Pineapples, a Hawaiian shirt company on a mission to spread joy, break stereotypes, and change the world with love. Nate, who has Down syndrome, shares his humor, wisdom, and heartfelt outlook on life reminding us all to “be a good human.” Holly opens up about their journey, the challenges and gifts of parenting, and her own resilience as a cancer survivor. Together, they discuss family, acceptance, and why embracing the unexpected can lead to the most beautiful parts of life.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Personally with Lloyd Uelsman.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This week, Holly and Nate are joining me. You may
know them as twenty one Pineapples. You may know them
because you've seen them all over social media, whatever the
case may be. There are a super fun mother and
son dubo, and they're going to share their story why
they post on social media, why it's so important what
they're doing, And I think you're gonna get not only
a lot of laughs, but also maybe some tears, some
(00:38):
heartwarmy moments, the whole shebang. I am so excited right
now to be joined by Holly and her son Nate,
who some may know online as Nate the Great? Is
that correct? Yes, thanks for joining me today, Thanks for
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having us. I'm so excited to hear about your guys'
story and the main reason you're here, which we're gonna
talk about, and then we're going to talk about all
the fun personal things. But you guys launched a company
we did called twenty one Pineapples, right, yes, give me
the whole story behind this.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So the twenty first means the twenty first chroma zome
and Pineapple shes welcoming right, okay?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
In the twenty first chromosome.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, all kids with Down syndrome have an extra one.
Oh that was kind of Let me just back up
a teeny little bit if you don't mind, and you
can cut me off anytime you want, because I'm a talker.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I would love for you to talk all the things,
all the things, all of it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay. So what had happened was Nate I had a
non for profit many years ago because when he was born,
the doctors and the nurses all told me that they
were sorry. And immediately he was my fifth child and
realized there was absolutely nothing to be sorry about. But
they robbed me of that celebration in the room, and
it was horrific. So I remembered that I had promised
(02:01):
him literally minutes after his birth, that I will never
let anybody say sorry again, and I will make sure
that the world sees the brightness. I just got chills.
And that's my own story.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Is that crazy anyway at all?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It's crazy. So we did a non for profit, went
to hospitals and schools and educated people on simply saying congratulations.
And you'd think people would have known that by now,
but they still say sorry. We got sympathy cards in
the mail, and I respect that people don't know what
to say, and maybe that was the purpose of our beginning,
(02:35):
was to just say congratulations, say he's a beautiful boy,
because he was and you still are.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I am absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Then covid hit, so the non for profit kind of
went to the side. And then my daughter was doing
a bit on the Tiger King for TikTok and I thought.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh, I'm going to do one.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
She's like, don't you dare, You're too old for TikTok.
I'm like, oh, game on challenge, thank you, thank You'll
start now. So we did our very first video Nate
and I just said to Nate we were in the car, Nate,
the world needs change, and what do you think it'll
take to change this world? And he simply said, love.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's a great answer, Thank you. Why do you think love?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Because I love people and they mean a lot to me.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It feels good, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And what else?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You kindness and accepting.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Today? Yeah, So the video blew up and I saw
how many people resonated with that simple word. It was
so profound and yet so simplistic. So I knew we
had something and we always did know, and we should
joke my daughter and I in the car, like when
will it hit? When will the world see him and
(03:55):
know him? And we were very careful and we didn't
want to exploit him in any way. Of course, we
get accused of that, and anybody else does too that
tries to celebrate their child in the public.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And Nate, do you feel exploited at all?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh my god, why did I know?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Why did I know?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Wait? Wait, what is exploited mean?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I actually don't know?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Perfect, okay, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Do you feel like you're taking advantage of by making
social media videos?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Do you like making social media videos?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I do?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
There we go, we have the real answer. But that
was funny.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That was great. So we're always scared on live shows.
We're like, oh, what's she gonna say next?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But it's perfect because that's who you guys are, and
the beauty is He's honest.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He's like, I really don't know what the word is.
This makes it even funnier. So we did the not
for profit, we did the TikTok it blew up, and
then he was discovered by so many people that just
fell madly in love with him. You were in La
Nate Models for designer in Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What designer?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
His name is Jacob. He designs Lady Gaga, Katy.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Perry, all of them.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Did you meet the fella that you met in the audience?
Who was there?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Jason?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Jason Derulo? Like what you say?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That guy?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I do? The savage love?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
He was saying with him in the as Nate was
modeling Michael Jackson or not Michael Jackson? Who was jacket?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh? Prince, Prince, that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Did you always want to be a model?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I do?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, you did it?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I did?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah. We just kind of fell into it. He made friends,
They fell in love with him, and they're like, he
needs to be on the catwalk. Yeah, and you rocked it.
He's been in so many not the point. We're in La.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And here's the cool part about social media. And I
know there's so much negative, but think about how fun
this is. We're at a little hotel in Hollywood. He
had just finished the fashion show the night before. My
daughter's on Instagram and she sees these two gigantic influencers
from TikTok are staying across the street and how she
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knew it is one had taken a picture from the
window and was pointing to our hotel. I mean, come on,
and that's been like that since he was born. These
kismet kind of magical things just kind of happened. So
left the powers that be me and my loud voice.
I found someone that knew them, and they came over
to the hotel to meet Nate. Yes, and they tried
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your jacket on. Yes, the designer gave him Princess Jack.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You had to keep Prince's jacket.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I do.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Do you have it hanging up in your house somewhere? Yes,
it's like on a shrine. I wore this as this
princess jacket.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yes, not at all.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's in the closet with all the other ones.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And but you used it when you were Elton John.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yes, it was perfect coustume for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Perfectness that just any day you want to be Elton John.
That is true.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You could be out and John any day or Prince
any day.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
You gotta do the dance moves, yes.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You have them. You don't have dances, and it's time
to learn.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I think I should.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, So these guys come over and we loved them.
They were there working for Dwayne Johnson the Rock and
his energy drink, and they were trying to figure out
what they needed to change the world, and they again
turned to Nate and said, Hey, we're doing this thing
for this energy drink. What do you think it'll take to.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Change the world? Love, Now, it sounds kind.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Of robotic sometimes, Nate, I'm not gonna lie, because that's
the answer for almost everything. What do you want for dinner? Love, No,
there's make a sentence out of it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Try no altho. I went up at dinner at stake.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, so yeah, you're a liar and lobster pretty much anything,
yes and alcohol. So the guys fell in love with
them clearly, and they started to cry because of the
profound beauty in that word and the way he delivered
(08:02):
It was so real. So I came home literally the
next day and said, we're starting a company. And that's
within three days we had a running Hawaine shirt company.
And then our first shirt was be a Good Human
because that's something that came out of his mouth. And yes,
sold in our first year two million. Wow, we're not
(08:22):
there anymore, but we.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Did tell our first year, but that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And it all started because all you wanted to do
is change the world with the word love. Yes, why
do you want to change the world?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Because I want to change the world with different abilities
what they can do?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And do you want to remind people that you're human?
And you also just want to live life too?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yes? I love people because they make my day.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
If they're nice.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yes, what do you do if they're not nice? I
don't want to scroll on Facebook?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Scroll on.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No one?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Has anybody ever been into your face?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Sometimes?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I ignore them?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Perfect?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I wish we could all learn to ignore mean people.
That's a quality trait it is.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You're very empathetic though, Yes I am.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And why Hawaiian shirts? Why was that the company?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The Hawaiian Shirts? I actually make the patterns and the colors.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, he's a fashionista, I was. I don't know where
you get that from.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't know me.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But so he always dressed pretty, or I should say
I dressed him very flamboyantly because he loved it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I do day.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
He'll put on a suit and tie just to go
to the grocery store. He just loves fashion.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I do.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
So it was kind of a no brainer, right, Hawaiian shirts?
And then what are we doing with Hawaiian shirts? Do
you remember that?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Oh? I do change the way. We're changing the way
the others who perceive those with one funky shirt at
a time.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
We're changing the way people see those with disabilities. Yes,
one funky shirt.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
And a lot of your models I've seen on social
media are also fellow people with disabilities or down syndrome.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Are those your friends or just people you find random
on the internet?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Both?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Okay, we just go up to people on the street.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, okay, find them.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But you know what's cool too, If you bought a shirt,
please send us the photos. We love bragging. So I've
always said this just about Nate, even though it started
about Nate. I wanted again to change the world and
change it to be a better place for him to
live and to be accepted included. The awareness isn't there still?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But why do you feel like the awareness still isn't there?
What do you feel like we've not gotten right?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Wow, well there's so much Where do I begin in
that world?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That's a purpose?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You guys are so good at.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
What you're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, And I think one of the things that two
things that we get lost when we see people with
Down syndrome. One is recognizing that they just start he
want to live their lives too, And two that we
don't really consider them still normal. We consider them, Oh,
there's something about them that's different, instead of just saying
we're just all people.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Good point. I like to say that kids with downcyentrom
are more alike than they're different, and that I think
is such a loud statement to be made. That when
he was born, they should have let me have a
baby at birth, a baby boy. Instead, they handed me
a child with a Down syndrome diagnosis that needs to change.
(11:36):
I don't care if you have a cleft palate missing
a limb. It's still a child and I deserved and
sorted my husband to celebrate that. So I always felt
robbed of that moment, but we've made up for it.
You've had some killer parties, especially you're twenty first.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I have been seeing you having a great time in Nashville.
A lot of alcoholic drinks are involved.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yes, do you like alcohol? I love it.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
What are some of your favorite things? Tell us like
alcohol parties? What do you like to do?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
My favorite beavers are actually coys, light Mailer light and
Budweiser and things. What I do for fun is making
tiktoks and spending time with my mom and my sister.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
For I was gonna say, don't you have some other siblings?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I do, but sometimes sometimes they're cranky for you.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
No, you're the crankiest.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
No, I'm the most famous one, the most famous.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
The most famous, and the funniest.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I don't know where he gets that from. I'll tell
you where he gets that from.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, you were.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Raised on Saturday Night live skits.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yes, that's what you guys watched together.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yes, yes, he loved them.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
He refused to watch the movies with anything Disney. Yes,
he would watch hours of Will Ferrell. Yes, Adam Sandler.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And I think that's where you got is comedic timing
because people always say that, like, how is he You
must be telling him what to say? Clearly I'm not.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I think he's got a lot of wit about him.
He's just off the cuff.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And that's another thing that the world hasn't gotten. He's funny.
Why can't he be funny? He's beautiful? Why can't he
be handsome? So many things that we've taken away from
kids with disabilities, because we don't even consider you disabled.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
To be honest, right, I mean, what do you hit?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
What's different?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
My eyes they are?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And your great at sports? Tell them about that.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I do basketball, I do golf and bowling, and I'm
really good at golf. I could beat you.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I would bet you could beat me. I am terrible
at golf. But if you didn't play, you're right, yeah,
you'll beat me. Even if I was good at golf,
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
A lot of confidence. Definitely has a lot of confidence.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You have so much confidence. Where does that come from?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Special Olympics? Special Olympics since I was eight years old
and I love sports, okay?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And confidence just in everyday life because you seem to
not care what people think, right, and you go online
and you be exactly who you are. So where does
that come from?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
My mom? Actually? Because my mom is special to me,
she's like my favorite person. All right, I'll buy you
something to thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I was thinking about that the other day because he's
truly freaking magical. How'd he get this way? I'm not
saying my other for aren't. If you're listening, I think
you're all magical, But what is it what is it?
And I realized how the world could change. If you
could love your child or your person unconditionally seven days
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a week, you will have nothing but confidence. All he
hears all day is I'm proud of you. I love you.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That was amazing not and it's not fake, it's real.
But I think as a society we find the flaws
in others and kind of pay attention to that instead.
I'm like, your eyes are beautiful, got great lips?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I do.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I love your shorts. And it's not it's real affirmations.
But if it's the deepest love, like I say a
lot when we speak, it's like technicolor love, the love
I had never had before, something so profoundly deep of
die for your family, it is different. It's so strong.
(15:30):
And I think about you twenty fo hours day some
days a week. Yes, I miss you when you're gone
for a couple hours. Yeah, And I think that's the confidence.
It's just that you've been surrounded by love and unconditional
love from your siblings. They don't think of them as
a kid with down syndrome.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Huh do they know?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Right? Because what does that even mean?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I don't know exactly, And that's just you're just their brother.
That's the way that they see you.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yes, hot brother, Yes, you're.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
The hot brother and the famous brother and the funniest Yes,
I'm seeing a trend here. Yeah, okay, you're also the favorite.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Child I am. I am.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Mom's not gonna admit that because she can't, but I
have a sense.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I have a feeling they think so too.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So it's okay. I'm also my dad's favorite child. Apparently
it gets talked about a lot, So I know that feeling.
But how do you feel getting to be the favorite.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Child because I am the best child in our house?
How does make you feel amazing? Loving? Because my mom
is very special to me.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You're so mean to me every day. I don't understand
this truth.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Sometimes you have ups.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And downs, just like everybody else. I know those downs
really far down because you are so happy all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yes, no, you're not happy all the time. It's it's
not realistic. Another thing the misconceptions of kids with down syndrome. Yeah,
they're definitely not happy all the time. And you know
what I'm gonna say. You probably don't know this about yourself.
You're a quick crier. His emotions run so deep, so
he will. I don't use a word obsess, but if
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something sad happens or bad, he can't forget it. And
it's beautiful. And yet it pains me because I know
he's in pain. But again, the depth of each child
is different. The everybody's different on how they articulate, how
they show, how they present and take everybody for who
they are, and then excel with what they're great at.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yes, I like the agreement in all of this. I
need to know too for you guys. When you guys
are like hanging out of the house together and you
spend a lot of time together, do you ever get
annoyed of each other?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, yes, when he was when he was a little
it took a long time to talk. I don't even
remember what h I had five kids. Yeah, and we'd bet,
you know, like, God, please let him talk now, Nate
shut up, stop, Nate stop.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I don't want to say this right now. But my
mom eats in her.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Bad oh, and we find that not good.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
No, it's not good. But you do you look like
if you have an I is blowing. Actually, Okay, here's
the deal.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I sleep walk, Okay, I've been caught.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yes, and I eat. Yeah, I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I know, Sharon Osborne, I get that every day. So
the other day we did Lindsay I think had a
video and at the end he said, well loosed my milk.
So Cheron Osbourne and Charon bless her heart reposted it
and then Kelly said, oh my god, I love him. Yes,
and then unfortunately two days.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Later Ozzie, Yeah, he passed away.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
But that is a cool reference. Do you like the
reference to being shared?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
No, not at all, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And it's all because of Nate that you are.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
No, every drive through person is like, oh my god,
are you sharing Osborne? And one of his fashion shows, actually,
these two girls wanted to take a selfie with me
and I was like, why, let's wait for Nate Like no,
just you and I was like okay, that's weird, but okay,
and then as they were walking away, they're like, Sharon,
we love you.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
So I took a photo of myself and then Sharon
I put it side by side and put it on
the internet. Everyone's like, yeah, doppelganger.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I do see it, but like, you don't like that,
then I'm not gonna agree to Okay, No, I mean, no,
of course, she's.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
A beautiful woman. She's who she is, but I just
don't see it. I usually look like Bonnie Tyler. No,
I don't even know where that is.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
She's a singer.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Impressive.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yes, Nate, what is it like for you when you
get recognized? Because your mom was telling me you been
here in Nashville, You've been getting recognized a lot.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yes, I love Nashville. I love country singers.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
You're very Who is your favorite country singers?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't want to say his name because I did
a music video with Mark Wills?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, oh yeah, Okay, there's a big music video.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yes, was that cool to be on set of a
music video?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Who is the other band?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Home three?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Love Home Free?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
They are in an a cappella group. And yes, the
song don't Me Nice?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Can you sing? Are you a singer?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I am a good singer.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Let me you want to sing something for us?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I do, But let me think what's a good song?
What do you think? Mom?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I think you shouldn't sing. I think we should just talk.
There's no band, there's no nothing really, Yeah, okay with it? Yes, okay,
he was proud. You want viewers writers At the point yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I think listen, I love a karaoke. Do you like
to do karaoke?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I love karaoke.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
What's your go to song for karaoke?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
I'm gonna say Mars just the.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Way you are? Yes, twenty four k Magic.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Oh yeah, okay, there we are.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I do We can probably play that at the and
you can sing yes. Tell them who you did sing with?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Well, I sing the lead singer with cued.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay, that's the leady. That's Scott Scott's Yeah. And I
ran into his wife the other day, like I didn't
know her life is crazy after our segment she had
hers anyway. No, Mark TREMONTI Mark Tmanti, who is the
lead guitarist and a killer shredder I've heard. Do you
(21:28):
know what that means? I do not neither.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
He can essentially with his guitar. He can just go
to town and just play all kinds of notes on
a guitar and he gets tread really hard.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Ready nicest and they happened to have a child with
downsing rome. Her name is Stella and she's only three.
She's so beautiful. So we met them at an event
and this was the coolest thing. I didn't know who
they were sorry, Creed and they were like, Nate the
Great again? Huh what? So then we ended up becoming friends, Yes,
(21:58):
invited over to their home. Oh yeah, and then he
started teaching Nate couple things on the guitar, and he goes,
I'd like to sing with you, and he goes, okay,
so Nate got to sing eight. Was it a Sinatra song?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
A Fink Sinatra song.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
With Mark in New York? That's incredible mechanic events.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Did either of you guys, ever see your life going
this way?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Never?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Never? Yeah you did?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You always think you're famous? I am yea, which what
does famous mean?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, it's kind of just a word.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It is fame to some people means you've made it.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yes, people recognize you.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, you haven't made it yet, right, because you're still living.
I am so every day you just keep getting better
and better.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yes, you're pretty close, though, if you're canning recognize a
bunch of Nashville. You're hanging out with Creed. Ye, you're
going on catwalks and.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It was tough. Yes, Oh I'm sorry. What else have
you done? That's maybe on Amazon Prime?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Oh? My movie is ol you're in a movie. Yes,
well movie it is I when it's about abilities and bullying.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Okay, can you tell me some more, like what do
you do in the movie?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So the movie it's about different kids and being a
movie like me.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
You were the lead?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes, we were the lead.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, you guys just buried the lead there by the way.
That's a big deal. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Okay, but one thing doesn't top the other, which is amazing,
you know what I mean. It's all so fascinating to watch. Yes,
but the director saw him on TikTok loved that and
wrote a script with him in mind.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That's incredible, it is. How did you feel acting?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I love acting. Acting is my favorite thing to do
for fun, it is.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Okay. What about between modeling, singing, and acting? Where did
they lay? If you had to rank them.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I will say acting is number one, Fame is number three,
fame okay, and the last one, I think in the.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Middle, modeling is number two.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
We're coming up with those, okay.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
So we were in the break and Nate was like,
I'm just texting my girlfriend from the movie, Nate, who
are you texting?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Her name is Kayla. She played as Juliette Tanner in
the movie I.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Win, okay, and you're texting her? Is this one of
your friends?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yes, she's my best friend since the movie. Actually we
actually talked about life.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I did not know that.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yes, and she's in one of my best friends. She's
beautiful too, she is what what was she just in?
Miss delaway er w W? Yes?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
So, Nate, do you ever want to date? I see
you go back and forth on social media a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I do.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
So how do you feel I'm amazing? I actually want
to date someone and I think I'm ready. Okay, I
know my mom Dolby here is saying no, but it
will happen.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I would imagine that is because mom is protective, yes,
and just concerned. I want you to share your real
this is real life.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I know, I know. Wow, how much do I want
to stay here? He may have just in the last
couple of days been offered a show about dating, so
this has actually been a gigantic topic. So that's why
it was so funny. Yeah, you brought that up. Let's
be honest. When girls try to give you a kiss,
what's your reaction?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, no, we don't like that gross as yet?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Right, and some days he likes women and men. He
just loves to love.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I do so, I.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Personally as your mom. Yes, I don't think you're ready, right,
you can follow any path you want. I'll be behind you.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
No, I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So now we don't want to date, but we do
just no kissing.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yes, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And maybe dating is in learning seeing what you like,
seeing what dating is all about. Have you ever been
on a date?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Okay, yeah, not really. I mean you hang out with girls,
but it's not what he's got. His best friend back
home has a girlfriend, and I was trying to explain
to him that would look like the same thing for him.
If he had a girlfriend, I'd be driving, I'd be
this chauffeur, and you go to a movie, you do whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah, he just loves.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
To be around people.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I do so.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I don't know if he's necessarily looking for love right now,
because I think he's so full of love from everybody
and everything he does. And when you're ready, I'm with
you one hundred percent. Seriously, Maybe you're.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
So full of love that you don't need a full
on relationship you love regardless I do. It sounds like
that is how you live your life in general too,
with friendships as well. Yes, so is there this thought
in your mind where you're like, no, it's okay, I
don't need that.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I think so. Yes, he's a yes man.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I put it in his head and he'll be like, yeah,
that's it, that's it. Okay. Remember Jimmy McDonald.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I do.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
He was about fifty when when we met. He head
down syndrome. Unfortunately he's not with us any longer. But
he used to say, why would I settle with just
one woman? I want to love all of them? And
I thought, okay, we're going to pick that up. Yeah
you feel the same way. Yeah, I just think that
right now. He's so focused on friendships of learning about that.
(27:34):
He just graduated school.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I do you. I'm twenty two.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, exciting so school meaning.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
He graduated high school and then he went on to
what we refer to college. It was a four year
occupational school.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
It is.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And what did you study?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
When did I study? Mom?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
What did you do every day? That's what she means, like,
what do you do?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I actually do a homemark? Sometimes?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Okay you're lying. Okay, you worked to Starbucks?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yes, you worked at one of the museums. Yes, so
you learned tasks like every day. You learned laundry. Yes,
you learned how to cook.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
What was one of the things you made?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Pineapple salsa?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Is this where the pineapple comes from?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Also not at all. Okay, that was after see see
you now can vouch the fact that this is all him.
But no one's telling him what to say. Yeah, okay,
he's a knutball. No, you did culinary after we created
the company. Yes, and now, and then it became the
year of the pineapples, you know, like right now it's
(28:38):
the ear of the cherries.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Oh yeah, to the point of nauseum, I'm like, please,
no one find me another pair of earrings with pineapples
and them. I love you, thank you. No. So you
learned how to fold clothes? Do you bring that back
to the house. Do chores and stuff at home?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Never? Never?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Why don't you do tours at home?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Sometimes my parents get creamky me, so they don't pay me.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh so it's because you're not getting paid that you
don't do them. Now you know that you work for
them and.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You do on your own company. I do, but we
have to get profitable.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Again, Okay it will.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And then you can make your salary.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Got it work harder? I got you.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
And what do you do in the company?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I am the CEO, And what does CEO mean?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Chief executive officer?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And that's me.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
You're the man in charge.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Do you help design a lot of the stuff that
gets put out?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yes, they do.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Do you make the ulta? Are you the final decision?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yes, okay, I do.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That's a big role. Is So how are you marketing?
Are you doing your marketing on social media with your
guys's accounts?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yes, You've got so many accounts, don't you. I do
so many. One has recently taken off. I think it's
Nate the Great and Lindsay and he has so many
celebrities following him. Now that again, you kids are young,
so you I don't even know who follows I don't look,
I don't know. And we'll get a text from his
sister and be like, oh my god, Cam from Modern
(30:07):
Family just followed you, or like I said, Jeron Osborne,
just repost it. It blows my Jennifer Gardner, Yeah, like
I love this kid, blows my mind. But that's a
part of what you said. What needs to change, Well,
somebody sees him as a normal twenty two year old
and finds his video funny. They don't say when they
(30:29):
repost check this kid with down centerme out? Yes, oh
my god, this kid Nate is so funny. And that's
what we're trying to show the world, your greatness. Yes,
everybody has a disability, Yes, everybody. I have more than.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Most right, yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
And yeah? Anyway, gosh and.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
They can you tell me to you? What makes you
a normal person? Like through your eyes?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Oh that's an enormous word, though, normal.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I know, and that's my asset because everybody sees you
a certain way. Yes, but I feel who you are
is just a normal human being. Yes, So what makes
you feel like you're normal?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Because if I'm normal, I do normal things? Right?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
What do they do?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Get up in the morning, brush your teeth?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I do, take a shower?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yes, your heart's beating?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yes, you text your friends? I Do you have a beer?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Oh yeah? I love beers?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Because how you couldn't wait to get to be what.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
A twenty one?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Where'd we go?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Las Vegas? Baby?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You went to Las Vegas for your twenty first Yes?
What did you see in Las Vegas?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I don't want to say, but strippers.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Did not see strippers in Vegas? Did you want to
see in Vegas?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I know? No, you know, And I told him, like
I have to be honest, right, yeah, for the last
perfect I'm like, way strippers get naked, they do gross,
I don't want to see. And then he goes, I'd
like to see strippers with their clothes on, and like
then that would be a model that's not a stripper. Yes, yeah,
(32:07):
but that's the beauty of the pure ness. You know.
He'd heard about girls, right, and he does have three brothers.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I do.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Okay, so you've learned some things from your brothers and
from your sister. Yes, what is What do you think
makes you a good brother to your siblings?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
If I'm a good brother to my siblings, they do
so much for me everything there are my happiness in
my life.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
You must have taken a nice pill before we got here.
What makes you go a good brother to them?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Sometimes I talk to them about life and beers.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Beers we come back to I feel like you need
a beer partnership. I feel like that is the next
step in.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Gosh, yes, oh my gosh, he's a light man.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yes, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
We never thought about that. Thank you hired that? I
all he talked about from when he was like twelve,
is I wait to be twenty one? And then the
strippers came up. I want to see strippers? And then
have you ever seen a stripper?
Speaker 3 (33:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Perfect? And then oh that's not true. Do you guys
know who trailer? Is it?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Trailer trailor trash Tammy?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Do you know who that is?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
That sounds familiar?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
He's a comedian. She's here at Nashville and she has
a newdi calendar that somebody peeked through.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I did, Oh why did you though?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
We didn't like that?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Never No, yeah, she's got some large things happening. Yeah,
like please don't think other women look like that, Nate,
because no, right, yeah, we all have different.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
And then this puts us back to the dating. This
is why maybe, yes, we aren't ready for dating. That's okay, already,
that's okay. Do you have dating advice? I know you
give dating advice?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I do, okay, but I'm the first date. You would
never kiss?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I like that, never kiss on the first date. Give
me your five dating rules?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Got it? Number one flowers?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Okay, what what do you mean you give them to
her or you get them.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
You give them. Number two, I will say, you go
to a movie theater, watch a great movie. Number three,
you go to the hotel and just lay down.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Okay, which hotel exactly?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I don't know the name of it. Go with the
w Okay, that's a nice one. Yes. Number four, I
would say, just go bowling.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
After the hotel. You've laid down. You take it a name.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
No, we go to the movie and then we go
to the hotel and we lay down. Okay, which, by
the way, at the hotel, to get a room? Or
do we lay in the lobby?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
They lay down in the lobby, in.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
The lobby okay, okay, and then we go.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
And number five getting a beer and to get lit.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Get a beer, to get lit. This is your idea
of a first date. Yes, and honorable mentioned. Do not
kiss on the first date?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Can you hold hand?
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
So what about that's dating. I'm in a newer relationship.
What would you give me advice for in my new relationship?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Okay? And your first relationship? Do not kiss?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Okay, no kissing? This is a theme.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yes, okay, just bring flowers, it's very easy.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
And be kind, Be kind, is good. I like your
dating advice.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Anyway, I am lined up.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I sure do.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Do you know how to flirt? Is flirting part of
your repertoire?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Yes? I love flirting. Oh, I got one right here.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It's a mood that would work on me.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
We might have to tell my boyfriend that. And somebody
flirted with me today. Sorry it happened.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, I hope he's not jealous.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
You're right, Yeah, I get your girl. I actually met
a lot of celebrities. Yes, Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga. Okay, nice,
I did.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
See that one, did you.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Yeah? He made Top five Funniest clips with THEO.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
If you're out there, we need to have lunch.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Yes, please shout up. And this guy was on the
new foot Loose. Oh, Dennis Quaid.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Yeah. We went to Hollywood a couple of weeks ago
and we're checking into the hotel and I get a
FaceTime from his designer, So I answer it. I'm sweating,
and I got my bags with me and I just
worked on a three hundred hour flight and I oh, hi,
Jacob the designer, and then he moves to the phone.
It's Dennis Quaid. So, of course, me being me I
(36:41):
go Dennis freaking Quaid. Yeah, my face was like I
had I don't know, seen a ghost, so I of
course somebody screenshotted me being like, so that's what Dennis
got to see. You weren't with me. We tried to
see him. He lives in Nashville. He doesn't country right now.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
But fan, big fans, big fan? Who are you? Who
are your top five of biggest fans?
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I would say Garth Brooks.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Oh you mean of like his people? He thinks the
most that love him.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
You could do either? Which route are you going?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Garth Brooks, Blake Shelton?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Okay, but you've met Garth brook You didn't like, did you?
Speaker 3 (37:21):
I wanted to? Okay, and I really want to meet
this really good singer. He has really good movies out
Jack Black Okaying, Yes.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
School of Rock he ish, I'm sorry you can't do
that to Jack Jack, so sorry.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Jack met Tanner? Yes, Tanner is a fella on is
Love on the Spectrum? Correct, we're sending Tanner some merch.
I just talked to his mom, so we're super excited.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I never showed you that clip. You would be so jealous.
He got a.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Hug Jack Black. Yeah, those are your top three? Who
you would want to meet?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yes? Two more I actually do?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Who let me think pink?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
But no, who do love?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
You keep saying you're gonna take from me if he
ever comes?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Travis Kelsey? Yes, six, you know what?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I agree with you?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yes, saying you want him?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
I want he might be my husband.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Travis Kelsey, You're gonna get fought over.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
If you came to this household.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Oh yeah, Okay, and your fifth one?
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Okay, my fifth one. Let me think this is a
hard one. Who is it you?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I don't have any idea.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
You don't Adele, she's got to kill her voice.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
We love everybody very blessed.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Okay, so you've met all these people. You've got to
do a lot of these cool things. What's been your
favorite part, say, from starting the company to this point
right now, it's been your favorite part.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I would say starting my own company. Yes, so Pineapple
it's a great company. And I made Hawaiian shirts, tumblers,
hoodies and everything everything.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
How many What happened the other night when you went
out to a bar here in.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Nashville with your sister, I got recognized again.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
But what happened. Do you even know you sold five
Hawaiians that night?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
I love marketing.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I am.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Do you hand out your card to people?
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Yes, they do, and you're like, go.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Buy a shirt. Yes, I'm gonna need one of those,
so I can go buy a shirt I got you.
Will they fit women's? Are they just for men?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Both?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
What kind of se we have? T shirts?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yes? A lot of stuff you do.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I've never met a better shelvesman.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Oh I believe it.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Oh my gosh, because you know we're talking earlier. The
filter's gone. That fear that we all have to approach
somebody or to be vulnerable beaut is I don't think
you have that. Sometimes you hesitate, you know, but if
you get encouragonate, you can do it. You can do it.
He will, and believe me, we've had nothing but beautiful
(40:11):
receptions back.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Are you afraid of anything? Is there anything you're afraid of?
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I'm afraid of wigs, dolls and clowns.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
There is a theme there. I see it. Okay, has
something happened with wigs, dolls, clowns?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Actually I wore a wig before I was fear Yeah,
I was impressed. Yes, then it came back.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
People want to think it's I am a breast cancer survivor.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
People want to think it's because of that I had
all these wigs. It's not true. He what did you
have when you were young? Do you remember what that
was called?
Speaker 3 (40:47):
I do not?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Pika?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
And pika is where you eat things that you aren't
supposed to eat. And your flavor of choice was fuzz.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Oh that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Yeah, so the texture of a wig just freaked him out.
Don't get it.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
When did that go away?
Speaker 1 (41:05):
It's not. It's still there. It's still So if we
want to traumatize them, we'll take a wig and just
run around the house with it and chase them. That's
what my bores will do to entertain themselves. He can't
go near one, I can't touch it.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
But he doesn't still eat, does he?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Are we done with eating fuzz? No? You're still eating it.
No you're not. We couldn't even have a Santa hat
in our house. He would eat the insides of the
ball and the carpets. And it's such a strange thing.
It's a common thing, it is.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
I have seen lots of stories about this, right, and
to you, it tastes good?
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Really? Ye? Did it have a flavor.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Only catch up? I eat bird pool?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Oh my god, you did.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I like the realization of mom and son right here where.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
It has traumatized one of my best friends.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Who was with us. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
When he brings it up, time to get her, you know,
because he knows it's a trigger for her. He'll be like,
do you remember the time I ate? And she's like,
why do you do this to me? Of course I
remember it was there? Yeah, I sticking it to people,
I do.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Are you a bit of a prankster? What is your
favorite prank to pull on people?
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Only jokes?
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Just jokes, like corny jokes. You have a good corny joke?
Speaker 3 (42:24):
I actually do. What time do you go to the dentist?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
What time tooth hurdy?
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Okay, can you give me another one? Do you have
another one on deck?
Speaker 3 (42:38):
I do one?
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Okay, I got one for you. What do you call
a nosy pepper?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Is halop in your business?
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Oh my god, that's a good one. I don't get
that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
I don't think I got it. Get up Hella in
your business?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Halipin your business?
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Maybe my delivery was wrong, he can deliver better, Yes,
that's okay.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Or Mom's not with it, yeah, which is what you'd
like to say.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
That's hysterical is not good?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Okay, enough, we came back to that always because again, okay,
we're very good at that. Yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Maybe I'm gonna hide candles.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Fifty pounds you know what?
Speaker 3 (43:24):
That would might be not a bad idea, right.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
It's I'm curious. You say he sticks it to him?
Does he point out a lot of your flaws?
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yes, every one of them? Yes, every okay, And sometimes
it will come a jab and then a compliment like, uh,
you look kind of fat. Oh you look but you
look pretty, and you're like it's like all his double handed.
He doesn't have a mean bone in his body. He
wants to be funny. I think that's truly's goal. I
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think he loves getting people to laugh without even knowing it.
You know, someone just asked me social media, just you
know how funny he is? No, I don't think so.
I think he knows he can't bring funny to someone,
but I don't think he realizes just how clever and
sharp he is.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Your next thing that you ATTEMPD.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
That's why I'm calling out. You need him on your show?
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Yes, please, I know, Nate.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
What it is your favorite things about your mom?
Speaker 3 (44:31):
I can't say the rest because it's not good.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
No good things. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
What do you like about your mom?
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Her hair?
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Why?
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Because like mullets sometimes her eyes, her eyes sparkle to me,
there's okay, there's the one important thing about my mom
that I have not said this before and since I
was born. I love you through my heart and out.
You will always be my closest friend. I will always
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love you.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
I'm gonna cry.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
I'm gonna cry. I'm really glad I got to be
here for that.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
I you should write for Hallmark.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Oh yeah, you can totally write even Hallmark cards. Yes,
that would be fun.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
Yes, I do not usually can spit one out. Okay, fine,
roses are red, rabbitur blue. You could be a villain,
but sometimes you are.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I just you know what, Nate, I really appreciate that
we went from loving her through everything your heart and
soul to yes, you are a villain.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
What's a villain?
Speaker 3 (45:41):
You don't know what a villain is? Something bad about you?
What do I do that's so bad? Too much?
Speaker 1 (45:50):
See okay, hounds it?
Speaker 2 (45:52):
What do you Is there certain things you don't like
just in general?
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Yes, about my mom?
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yes, not.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Keep it going skin it's okay. No, I haven't heard
it before.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
What about people in general? Or people get CKX and
they think something is gross and they're like, oh, that's
a I don't like that about that person. What are
your ex.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Wow about my sister Lindsey, I have okay, No, I
have lies because when I went.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
To her bathroom, oh boy, she.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
Has hair in her shower. It's disgusting. It's like my
mom's wigs.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Actually, okay, I went in to look after you said
that to me the other day and there was a
clump of hair in there.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
I'm not gonna okay.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
So that's a nick.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Clumps of hair. That's I think most men feel that.
It's a nick.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Understandable if you like, if you find a man going
in the shower with you, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Don't have clumps of hair.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Women and men shower together. What do you mean you said,
if you're a man, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (47:04):
I don't know. I have no idea exactly.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
A dirty mind, I sure do.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
But sometimes I could be a lesbian.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Yeah, we went through that phase.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
We like the juxtaposition variety is.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
You would go around Chicago he was young, and these
were the times we were like, can you please stop talking?
And he would just go up to random strangers and be.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
Like, I'm a lesbian.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
And then, once he was old enough to understand what
the man I said him down, I'm like, hey, Nate,
that's cool and all, but you can't be So then
we were at a restaurant in Chicago. He was sitting
with a bunch of policemen in the back, and all
of a sudden, and I'm with my girlfriend up in front,
and the policeman yells out and he goes, hey, Holly,
I just heard you're a lesbian. And my girlfriend's like, oh,
(47:51):
this is gonna be great for me to find somebody now.
And so then I'm like, Nate, I'm not your dad
does not appreciate that at all.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
Learn something stick.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
So he was funny out of the womb. Yeah, after
that stopped, because I'm like, that's just not funny. What
did you say to people.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Strangers finding my birth payments?
Speaker 1 (48:09):
I'm looking for my birth parents. I'm standing right there.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Yeah, at least you've always been entertained.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
But that's the cool part, like where did you get that?
But then I'd see like he'd do the I need
a more Peppa from Certain Night Live, that dirty one,
and I'm like, oh gosh, just the Sertenate live videos.
Like I've left him too long in the room alone,
so I get there on the back of his head. Yeah,
and he'll put his own twist on it.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Yeah, we just have to be careful of it. They
don't say anything inappropriate, right, Yeah, Okay, we love lesbians
by the way.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Okay, I'm quite sure you're thankful for But Okay.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Yes, I loved to and I think I could sit
here and talk to you guys all day, but I
know you have beers to drink in places to be yes.
So what I liked to in my podcast on is
always a piece of advice or inspiration or motivation and
not in away from your company, because don't worry, we'll
plug that. We'll do all of that. But I want
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to know from you guys, each of you, to share
something in that realm. It can be inspirational, motivational advice
you want.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
To give people.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Okay, can it be my brother or no?
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Let's see what you have to say first.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
Okay, it's gonna be inspiration one. So, my brother Nick,
he got married to another beautiful lady. Her name is Taylor.
I think they are a beautiful couple. I am so
proud of them. My brother Nick is very loved by
others and I am a really good brother to him,
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and sometimes I could be clanky to him.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
I don't think you understand questions, right, Yeah, it a
just turns out to be something weird.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
That's okay, here, we'll try this again. Okay, Yes, to
all the people that are listening to this, what would
you want them to know that fits out of the
realm of you want to inspire them, just like you
said you want to change world with love? Yes, or
with telling them hey, I started my own company. Yes,
and you see me as a kid with downstair and
I see myself as a CEO. Yes, something in one
(50:10):
of those realms. What would you tell to all the
people that are listening.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
I want people to listen about how I'm saying. Our
things are right, like seeing like if I have one
would describe human, we'd be loving because you mean a
lot to me and you are my personal gift.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
Wow, personal gifts. Hey, taking notes because this is some
good stuff. I think what you're trying to say.
Speaker 3 (50:37):
Is, yes, just love to love. I do, and people
should learn to love to love? Yes, right, be a
good human, be a good.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
Human, Be a good human. And why should people be
a good human?
Speaker 3 (50:49):
It's that easy. It's just brightening up their days.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (50:54):
Yes, I think we have a new shirt coming. Okay,
go ahead.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
I never thought in a million years that this would
be my life. Ever, when Nate was born twenty two
years ago, it changed the entire trajectory of my life.
So for all those that are facing change, I also
am a cancer survivor, so hardship or just the unknown,
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I want you to embrace it and accept that it
is what it is. And once you learn to accept it,
whatever it is, your life will change and you'll see
it in a more beautiful, clear light. Lose the fear,
embrace the good. And I'm going to tell you something.
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Down syndrome is the best gift I've ever had in
my entire life, and I would wish it upon anyone. Nate,
how does that make you feel?
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Amazing?
Speaker 1 (51:53):
I got myself chills. I got to literally I'm like, Wow, Oh,
you're so profound. You freaked out yourself.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
I love that, Holly Nate, thank you guys both for
joining me today talking about everything. Please go check out
their company, make Nate a millionaire so he can keep
being famous and model and singing stuff.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
What's the name of your company, twenty one Pineapples, and go.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
Get yourself a shirt, a tumbler, Yes, a Hawaiian shirt specifically, Yes,
would be really cool.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
What are you gonna buy when you profit?
Speaker 3 (52:24):
A golf cart? And girls?
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Okay, we don't pay for.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Girls, but okay, that comes back to strippers and that
is where we end. So I love this for us.
Thank you guys both for being here. It's great to
have you.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Thank you so much for having us, truly thank you.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
I don't know about you, guys, but Nate's advice is
hitting a little close to home. Make sure you check
out their website twenty one Pineapples dot com to get
your fun Hawaiian shirts for an incredible cause, and of
course follow them on social media and all the good things.
You can watch their funny videos and it'll give you
so many different good laughs. At twenty one Pineapple's shirt
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co as always, I'm so happy you're here and you're
listening to this podcast. I hope you got all kinds
of emotions out of this episode, and I can't wait
to talk to you guys next week
Personally with Lloyd Uelsman.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This week, Holly and Nate are joining me. You may
know them as twenty one Pineapples. You may know them
because you've seen them all over social media, whatever the
case may be. There are a super fun mother and
son dubo, and they're going to share their story why
they post on social media, why it's so important what
they're doing, And I think you're gonna get not only
a lot of laughs, but also maybe some tears, some
(00:38):
heartwarmy moments, the whole shebang. I am so excited right
now to be joined by Holly and her son Nate,
who some may know online as Nate the Great? Is
that correct? Yes, thanks for joining me today, Thanks for
(00:59):
having us. I'm so excited to hear about your guys'
story and the main reason you're here, which we're gonna
talk about, and then we're going to talk about all
the fun personal things. But you guys launched a company
we did called twenty one Pineapples, right, yes, give me
the whole story behind this.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So the twenty first means the twenty first chroma zome
and Pineapple shes welcoming right, okay?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
In the twenty first chromosome.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, all kids with Down syndrome have an extra one.
Oh that was kind of Let me just back up
a teeny little bit if you don't mind, and you
can cut me off anytime you want, because I'm a talker.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I would love for you to talk all the things,
all the things, all of it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay. So what had happened was Nate I had a
non for profit many years ago because when he was born,
the doctors and the nurses all told me that they
were sorry. And immediately he was my fifth child and
realized there was absolutely nothing to be sorry about. But
they robbed me of that celebration in the room, and
it was horrific. So I remembered that I had promised
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him literally minutes after his birth, that I will never
let anybody say sorry again, and I will make sure
that the world sees the brightness. I just got chills.
And that's my own story.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Is that crazy anyway at all?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It's crazy. So we did a non for profit, went
to hospitals and schools and educated people on simply saying congratulations.
And you'd think people would have known that by now,
but they still say sorry. We got sympathy cards in
the mail, and I respect that people don't know what
to say, and maybe that was the purpose of our beginning,
(02:35):
was to just say congratulations, say he's a beautiful boy,
because he was and you still are.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I am absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Then covid hit, so the non for profit kind of
went to the side. And then my daughter was doing
a bit on the Tiger King for TikTok and I thought.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh, I'm going to do one.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
She's like, don't you dare, You're too old for TikTok.
I'm like, oh, game on challenge, thank you, thank You'll
start now. So we did our very first video Nate
and I just said to Nate we were in the car, Nate,
the world needs change, and what do you think it'll
take to change this world? And he simply said, love.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's a great answer, Thank you. Why do you think love?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Because I love people and they mean a lot to me.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It feels good, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And what else?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You kindness and accepting.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Today? Yeah, So the video blew up and I saw
how many people resonated with that simple word. It was
so profound and yet so simplistic. So I knew we
had something and we always did know, and we should
joke my daughter and I in the car, like when
will it hit? When will the world see him and
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know him? And we were very careful and we didn't
want to exploit him in any way. Of course, we
get accused of that, and anybody else does too that
tries to celebrate their child in the public.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And Nate, do you feel exploited at all?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh my god, why did I know?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Why did I know?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Wait? Wait, what is exploited mean?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I actually don't know?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Perfect, okay, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Do you feel like you're taking advantage of by making
social media videos?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Do you like making social media videos?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I do?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
There we go, we have the real answer. But that
was funny.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That was great. So we're always scared on live shows.
We're like, oh, what's she gonna say next?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But it's perfect because that's who you guys are, and
the beauty is He's honest.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He's like, I really don't know what the word is.
This makes it even funnier. So we did the not
for profit, we did the TikTok it blew up, and
then he was discovered by so many people that just
fell madly in love with him. You were in La
Nate Models for designer in Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What designer?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
His name is Jacob. He designs Lady Gaga, Katy.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Perry, all of them.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Did you meet the fella that you met in the audience?
Who was there?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Jason?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Jason Derulo? Like what you say?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That guy?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I do? The savage love?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
He was saying with him in the as Nate was
modeling Michael Jackson or not Michael Jackson? Who was jacket?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh? Prince, Prince, that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Did you always want to be a model?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I do?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, you did it?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I did?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah. We just kind of fell into it. He made friends,
They fell in love with him, and they're like, he
needs to be on the catwalk. Yeah, and you rocked it.
He's been in so many not the point. We're in La.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And here's the cool part about social media. And I
know there's so much negative, but think about how fun
this is. We're at a little hotel in Hollywood. He
had just finished the fashion show the night before. My
daughter's on Instagram and she sees these two gigantic influencers
from TikTok are staying across the street and how she
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knew it is one had taken a picture from the
window and was pointing to our hotel. I mean, come on,
and that's been like that since he was born. These
kismet kind of magical things just kind of happened. So
left the powers that be me and my loud voice.
I found someone that knew them, and they came over
to the hotel to meet Nate. Yes, and they tried
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your jacket on. Yes, the designer gave him Princess Jack.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You had to keep Prince's jacket.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I do.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Do you have it hanging up in your house somewhere? Yes,
it's like on a shrine. I wore this as this
princess jacket.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yes, not at all.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's in the closet with all the other ones.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And but you used it when you were Elton John.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yes, it was perfect coustume for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Perfectness that just any day you want to be Elton John.
That is true.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You could be out and John any day or Prince
any day.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
You gotta do the dance moves, yes.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You have them. You don't have dances, and it's time
to learn.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I think I should.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, So these guys come over and we loved them.
They were there working for Dwayne Johnson the Rock and
his energy drink, and they were trying to figure out
what they needed to change the world, and they again
turned to Nate and said, Hey, we're doing this thing
for this energy drink. What do you think it'll take to.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Change the world? Love, Now, it sounds kind.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Of robotic sometimes, Nate, I'm not gonna lie, because that's
the answer for almost everything. What do you want for dinner? Love, No,
there's make a sentence out of it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Try no altho. I went up at dinner at stake.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, so yeah, you're a liar and lobster pretty much anything,
yes and alcohol. So the guys fell in love with
them clearly, and they started to cry because of the
profound beauty in that word and the way he delivered
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It was so real. So I came home literally the
next day and said, we're starting a company. And that's
within three days we had a running Hawaine shirt company.
And then our first shirt was be a Good Human
because that's something that came out of his mouth. And yes,
sold in our first year two million. Wow, we're not
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there anymore, but we.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Did tell our first year, but that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And it all started because all you wanted to do
is change the world with the word love. Yes, why
do you want to change the world?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Because I want to change the world with different abilities
what they can do?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And do you want to remind people that you're human?
And you also just want to live life too?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yes? I love people because they make my day.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
If they're nice.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yes, what do you do if they're not nice? I
don't want to scroll on Facebook?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Scroll on.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No one?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Has anybody ever been into your face?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Sometimes?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I ignore them?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Perfect?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I wish we could all learn to ignore mean people.
That's a quality trait it is.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You're very empathetic though, Yes I am.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And why Hawaiian shirts? Why was that the company?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The Hawaiian Shirts? I actually make the patterns and the colors.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, he's a fashionista, I was. I don't know where
you get that from.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't know me.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But so he always dressed pretty, or I should say
I dressed him very flamboyantly because he loved it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I do day.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
He'll put on a suit and tie just to go
to the grocery store. He just loves fashion.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I do.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
So it was kind of a no brainer, right, Hawaiian shirts?
And then what are we doing with Hawaiian shirts? Do
you remember that?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Oh? I do change the way. We're changing the way
the others who perceive those with one funky shirt at
a time.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
We're changing the way people see those with disabilities. Yes,
one funky shirt.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
And a lot of your models I've seen on social
media are also fellow people with disabilities or down syndrome.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Are those your friends or just people you find random
on the internet?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Both?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Okay, we just go up to people on the street.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, okay, find them.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But you know what's cool too, If you bought a shirt,
please send us the photos. We love bragging. So I've
always said this just about Nate, even though it started
about Nate. I wanted again to change the world and
change it to be a better place for him to
live and to be accepted included. The awareness isn't there still?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But why do you feel like the awareness still isn't there?
What do you feel like we've not gotten right?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Wow, well there's so much Where do I begin in
that world?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That's a purpose?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You guys are so good at.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
What you're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, And I think one of the things that two
things that we get lost when we see people with
Down syndrome. One is recognizing that they just start he
want to live their lives too, And two that we
don't really consider them still normal. We consider them, Oh,
there's something about them that's different, instead of just saying
we're just all people.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Good point. I like to say that kids with downcyentrom
are more alike than they're different, and that I think
is such a loud statement to be made. That when
he was born, they should have let me have a
baby at birth, a baby boy. Instead, they handed me
a child with a Down syndrome diagnosis that needs to change.
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I don't care if you have a cleft palate missing
a limb. It's still a child and I deserved and
sorted my husband to celebrate that. So I always felt
robbed of that moment, but we've made up for it.
You've had some killer parties, especially you're twenty first.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I have been seeing you having a great time in Nashville.
A lot of alcoholic drinks are involved.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yes, do you like alcohol? I love it.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
What are some of your favorite things? Tell us like
alcohol parties? What do you like to do?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
My favorite beavers are actually coys, light Mailer light and
Budweiser and things. What I do for fun is making
tiktoks and spending time with my mom and my sister.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
For I was gonna say, don't you have some other siblings?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I do, but sometimes sometimes they're cranky for you.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
No, you're the crankiest.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
No, I'm the most famous one, the most famous.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
The most famous, and the funniest.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I don't know where he gets that from. I'll tell
you where he gets that from.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, you were.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Raised on Saturday Night live skits.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yes, that's what you guys watched together.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yes, yes, he loved them.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
He refused to watch the movies with anything Disney. Yes,
he would watch hours of Will Ferrell. Yes, Adam Sandler.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And I think that's where you got is comedic timing
because people always say that, like, how is he You
must be telling him what to say? Clearly I'm not.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I think he's got a lot of wit about him.
He's just off the cuff.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And that's another thing that the world hasn't gotten. He's funny.
Why can't he be funny? He's beautiful? Why can't he
be handsome? So many things that we've taken away from
kids with disabilities, because we don't even consider you disabled.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
To be honest, right, I mean, what do you hit?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
What's different?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
My eyes they are?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And your great at sports? Tell them about that.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I do basketball, I do golf and bowling, and I'm
really good at golf. I could beat you.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I would bet you could beat me. I am terrible
at golf. But if you didn't play, you're right, yeah,
you'll beat me. Even if I was good at golf,
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
A lot of confidence. Definitely has a lot of confidence.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You have so much confidence. Where does that come from?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Special Olympics? Special Olympics since I was eight years old
and I love sports, okay?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And confidence just in everyday life because you seem to
not care what people think, right, and you go online
and you be exactly who you are. So where does
that come from?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
My mom? Actually? Because my mom is special to me,
she's like my favorite person. All right, I'll buy you
something to thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I was thinking about that the other day because he's
truly freaking magical. How'd he get this way? I'm not
saying my other for aren't. If you're listening, I think
you're all magical, But what is it what is it?
And I realized how the world could change. If you
could love your child or your person unconditionally seven days
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a week, you will have nothing but confidence. All he
hears all day is I'm proud of you. I love you.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That was amazing not and it's not fake, it's real.
But I think as a society we find the flaws
in others and kind of pay attention to that instead.
I'm like, your eyes are beautiful, got great lips?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I do.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I love your shorts. And it's not it's real affirmations.
But if it's the deepest love, like I say a
lot when we speak, it's like technicolor love, the love
I had never had before, something so profoundly deep of
die for your family, it is different. It's so strong.
(15:30):
And I think about you twenty fo hours day some
days a week. Yes, I miss you when you're gone
for a couple hours. Yeah, And I think that's the confidence.
It's just that you've been surrounded by love and unconditional
love from your siblings. They don't think of them as
a kid with down syndrome.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Huh do they know?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Right? Because what does that even mean?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I don't know exactly, And that's just you're just their brother.
That's the way that they see you.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yes, hot brother, Yes, you're.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
The hot brother and the famous brother and the funniest Yes,
I'm seeing a trend here. Yeah, okay, you're also the favorite.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Child I am. I am.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Mom's not gonna admit that because she can't, but I
have a sense.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I have a feeling they think so too.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So it's okay. I'm also my dad's favorite child. Apparently
it gets talked about a lot, So I know that feeling.
But how do you feel getting to be the favorite.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Child because I am the best child in our house?
How does make you feel amazing? Loving? Because my mom
is very special to me.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You're so mean to me every day. I don't understand
this truth.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Sometimes you have ups.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And downs, just like everybody else. I know those downs
really far down because you are so happy all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yes, no, you're not happy all the time. It's it's
not realistic. Another thing the misconceptions of kids with down syndrome. Yeah,
they're definitely not happy all the time. And you know
what I'm gonna say. You probably don't know this about yourself.
You're a quick crier. His emotions run so deep, so
he will. I don't use a word obsess, but if
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something sad happens or bad, he can't forget it. And
it's beautiful. And yet it pains me because I know
he's in pain. But again, the depth of each child
is different. The everybody's different on how they articulate, how
they show, how they present and take everybody for who
they are, and then excel with what they're great at.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yes, I like the agreement in all of this. I
need to know too for you guys. When you guys
are like hanging out of the house together and you
spend a lot of time together, do you ever get
annoyed of each other?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, yes, when he was when he was a little
it took a long time to talk. I don't even
remember what h I had five kids. Yeah, and we'd bet,
you know, like, God, please let him talk now, Nate
shut up, stop, Nate stop.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I don't want to say this right now. But my
mom eats in her.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Bad oh, and we find that not good.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
No, it's not good. But you do you look like
if you have an I is blowing. Actually, Okay, here's
the deal.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I sleep walk, Okay, I've been caught.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yes, and I eat. Yeah, I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I know, Sharon Osborne, I get that every day. So
the other day we did Lindsay I think had a
video and at the end he said, well loosed my milk.
So Cheron Osbourne and Charon bless her heart reposted it
and then Kelly said, oh my god, I love him. Yes,
and then unfortunately two days.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Later Ozzie, Yeah, he passed away.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
But that is a cool reference. Do you like the
reference to being shared?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
No, not at all, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And it's all because of Nate that you are.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
No, every drive through person is like, oh my god,
are you sharing Osborne? And one of his fashion shows, actually,
these two girls wanted to take a selfie with me
and I was like, why, let's wait for Nate Like no,
just you and I was like okay, that's weird, but okay,
and then as they were walking away, they're like, Sharon,
we love you.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
So I took a photo of myself and then Sharon
I put it side by side and put it on
the internet. Everyone's like, yeah, doppelganger.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I do see it, but like, you don't like that,
then I'm not gonna agree to Okay, No, I mean, no,
of course, she's.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
A beautiful woman. She's who she is, but I just
don't see it. I usually look like Bonnie Tyler. No,
I don't even know where that is.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
She's a singer.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Impressive.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yes, Nate, what is it like for you when you
get recognized? Because your mom was telling me you been
here in Nashville, You've been getting recognized a lot.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yes, I love Nashville. I love country singers.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
You're very Who is your favorite country singers?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't want to say his name because I did
a music video with Mark Wills?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, oh yeah, Okay, there's a big music video.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yes, was that cool to be on set of a
music video?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Who is the other band?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Home three?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Love Home Free?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
They are in an a cappella group. And yes, the
song don't Me Nice?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Can you sing? Are you a singer?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I am a good singer.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Let me you want to sing something for us?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I do, But let me think what's a good song?
What do you think? Mom?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I think you shouldn't sing. I think we should just talk.
There's no band, there's no nothing really, Yeah, okay with it? Yes, okay,
he was proud. You want viewers writers At the point yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I think listen, I love a karaoke. Do you like
to do karaoke?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I love karaoke.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
What's your go to song for karaoke?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
I'm gonna say Mars just the.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Way you are? Yes, twenty four k Magic.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Oh yeah, okay, there we are.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I do We can probably play that at the and
you can sing yes. Tell them who you did sing with?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Well, I sing the lead singer with cued.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay, that's the leady. That's Scott Scott's Yeah. And I
ran into his wife the other day, like I didn't
know her life is crazy after our segment she had
hers anyway. No, Mark TREMONTI Mark Tmanti, who is the
lead guitarist and a killer shredder I've heard. Do you
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know what that means? I do not neither.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
He can essentially with his guitar. He can just go
to town and just play all kinds of notes on
a guitar and he gets tread really hard.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Ready nicest and they happened to have a child with
downsing rome. Her name is Stella and she's only three.
She's so beautiful. So we met them at an event
and this was the coolest thing. I didn't know who
they were sorry, Creed and they were like, Nate the
Great again? Huh what? So then we ended up becoming friends, Yes,
(21:58):
invited over to their home. Oh yeah, and then he
started teaching Nate couple things on the guitar, and he goes,
I'd like to sing with you, and he goes, okay,
so Nate got to sing eight. Was it a Sinatra song?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
A Fink Sinatra song.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
With Mark in New York? That's incredible mechanic events.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Did either of you guys, ever see your life going
this way?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Never?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Never? Yeah you did?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You always think you're famous? I am yea, which what
does famous mean?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, it's kind of just a word.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It is fame to some people means you've made it.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yes, people recognize you.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, you haven't made it yet, right, because you're still living.
I am so every day you just keep getting better
and better.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yes, you're pretty close, though, if you're canning recognize a
bunch of Nashville. You're hanging out with Creed. Ye, you're
going on catwalks and.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It was tough. Yes, Oh I'm sorry. What else have
you done? That's maybe on Amazon Prime?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Oh? My movie is ol you're in a movie. Yes,
well movie it is I when it's about abilities and bullying.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Okay, can you tell me some more, like what do
you do in the movie?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So the movie it's about different kids and being a
movie like me.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
You were the lead?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes, we were the lead.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, you guys just buried the lead there by the way.
That's a big deal. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Okay, but one thing doesn't top the other, which is amazing,
you know what I mean. It's all so fascinating to watch. Yes,
but the director saw him on TikTok loved that and
wrote a script with him in mind.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That's incredible, it is. How did you feel acting?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I love acting. Acting is my favorite thing to do
for fun, it is.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Okay. What about between modeling, singing, and acting? Where did
they lay? If you had to rank them.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I will say acting is number one, Fame is number three,
fame okay, and the last one, I think in the.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Middle, modeling is number two.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
We're coming up with those, okay.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
So we were in the break and Nate was like,
I'm just texting my girlfriend from the movie, Nate, who
are you texting?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Her name is Kayla. She played as Juliette Tanner in
the movie I.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Win, okay, and you're texting her? Is this one of
your friends?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yes, she's my best friend since the movie. Actually we
actually talked about life.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I did not know that.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yes, and she's in one of my best friends. She's
beautiful too, she is what what was she just in?
Miss delaway er w W? Yes?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
So, Nate, do you ever want to date? I see
you go back and forth on social media a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I do.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
So how do you feel I'm amazing? I actually want
to date someone and I think I'm ready. Okay, I
know my mom Dolby here is saying no, but it
will happen.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I would imagine that is because mom is protective, yes,
and just concerned. I want you to share your real
this is real life.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I know, I know. Wow, how much do I want
to stay here? He may have just in the last
couple of days been offered a show about dating, so
this has actually been a gigantic topic. So that's why
it was so funny. Yeah, you brought that up. Let's
be honest. When girls try to give you a kiss,
what's your reaction?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, no, we don't like that gross as yet?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Right, and some days he likes women and men. He
just loves to love.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I do so, I.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Personally as your mom. Yes, I don't think you're ready, right,
you can follow any path you want. I'll be behind you.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
No, I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So now we don't want to date, but we do
just no kissing.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yes, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And maybe dating is in learning seeing what you like,
seeing what dating is all about. Have you ever been
on a date?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Okay, yeah, not really. I mean you hang out with girls,
but it's not what he's got. His best friend back
home has a girlfriend, and I was trying to explain
to him that would look like the same thing for him.
If he had a girlfriend, I'd be driving, I'd be
this chauffeur, and you go to a movie, you do whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah, he just loves.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
To be around people.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I do so.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I don't know if he's necessarily looking for love right now,
because I think he's so full of love from everybody
and everything he does. And when you're ready, I'm with
you one hundred percent. Seriously, Maybe you're.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
So full of love that you don't need a full
on relationship you love regardless I do. It sounds like
that is how you live your life in general too,
with friendships as well. Yes, so is there this thought
in your mind where you're like, no, it's okay, I
don't need that.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I think so. Yes, he's a yes man.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I put it in his head and he'll be like, yeah,
that's it, that's it. Okay. Remember Jimmy McDonald.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I do.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
He was about fifty when when we met. He head
down syndrome. Unfortunately he's not with us any longer. But
he used to say, why would I settle with just
one woman? I want to love all of them? And
I thought, okay, we're going to pick that up. Yeah
you feel the same way. Yeah, I just think that
right now. He's so focused on friendships of learning about that.
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He just graduated school.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I do you. I'm twenty two.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, exciting so school meaning.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
He graduated high school and then he went on to
what we refer to college. It was a four year
occupational school.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
It is.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And what did you study?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
When did I study? Mom?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
What did you do every day? That's what she means, like,
what do you do?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I actually do a homemark? Sometimes?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Okay you're lying. Okay, you worked to Starbucks?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yes, you worked at one of the museums. Yes, so
you learned tasks like every day. You learned laundry. Yes,
you learned how to cook.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
What was one of the things you made?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Pineapple salsa?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Is this where the pineapple comes from?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Also not at all. Okay, that was after see see
you now can vouch the fact that this is all him.
But no one's telling him what to say. Yeah, okay,
he's a knutball. No, you did culinary after we created
the company. Yes, and now, and then it became the
year of the pineapples, you know, like right now it's
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the ear of the cherries.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Oh yeah, to the point of nauseum, I'm like, please,
no one find me another pair of earrings with pineapples
and them. I love you, thank you. No. So you
learned how to fold clothes? Do you bring that back
to the house. Do chores and stuff at home?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Never? Never?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Why don't you do tours at home?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Sometimes my parents get creamky me, so they don't pay me.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh so it's because you're not getting paid that you
don't do them. Now you know that you work for
them and.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You do on your own company. I do, but we
have to get profitable.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Again, Okay it will.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And then you can make your salary.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Got it work harder? I got you.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
And what do you do in the company?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I am the CEO, And what does CEO mean?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Chief executive officer?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And that's me.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
You're the man in charge.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Do you help design a lot of the stuff that
gets put out?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yes, they do.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Do you make the ulta? Are you the final decision?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yes, okay, I do.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That's a big role. Is So how are you marketing?
Are you doing your marketing on social media with your
guys's accounts?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yes, You've got so many accounts, don't you. I do
so many. One has recently taken off. I think it's
Nate the Great and Lindsay and he has so many
celebrities following him. Now that again, you kids are young,
so you I don't even know who follows I don't look,
I don't know. And we'll get a text from his
sister and be like, oh my god, Cam from Modern
(30:07):
Family just followed you, or like I said, Jeron Osborne,
just repost it. It blows my Jennifer Gardner, Yeah, like
I love this kid, blows my mind. But that's a
part of what you said. What needs to change, Well,
somebody sees him as a normal twenty two year old
and finds his video funny. They don't say when they
(30:29):
repost check this kid with down centerme out? Yes, oh
my god, this kid Nate is so funny. And that's
what we're trying to show the world, your greatness. Yes,
everybody has a disability, Yes, everybody. I have more than.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Most right, yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
And yeah? Anyway, gosh and.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
They can you tell me to you? What makes you
a normal person? Like through your eyes?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Oh that's an enormous word, though, normal.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I know, and that's my asset because everybody sees you
a certain way. Yes, but I feel who you are
is just a normal human being. Yes, So what makes
you feel like you're normal?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Because if I'm normal, I do normal things? Right?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
What do they do?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Get up in the morning, brush your teeth?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I do, take a shower?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yes, your heart's beating?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yes, you text your friends? I Do you have a beer?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Oh yeah? I love beers?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Because how you couldn't wait to get to be what.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
A twenty one?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Where'd we go?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Las Vegas? Baby?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You went to Las Vegas for your twenty first Yes?
What did you see in Las Vegas?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I don't want to say, but strippers.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Did not see strippers in Vegas? Did you want to
see in Vegas?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I know? No, you know, And I told him, like
I have to be honest, right, yeah, for the last
perfect I'm like, way strippers get naked, they do gross,
I don't want to see. And then he goes, I'd
like to see strippers with their clothes on, and like
then that would be a model that's not a stripper. Yes, yeah,
(32:07):
but that's the beauty of the pure ness. You know.
He'd heard about girls, right, and he does have three brothers.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I do.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Okay, so you've learned some things from your brothers and
from your sister. Yes, what is What do you think
makes you a good brother to your siblings?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
If I'm a good brother to my siblings, they do
so much for me everything there are my happiness in
my life.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
You must have taken a nice pill before we got here.
What makes you go a good brother to them?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Sometimes I talk to them about life and beers.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Beers we come back to I feel like you need
a beer partnership. I feel like that is the next
step in.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Gosh, yes, oh my gosh, he's a light man.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yes, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
We never thought about that. Thank you hired that? I
all he talked about from when he was like twelve,
is I wait to be twenty one? And then the
strippers came up. I want to see strippers? And then
have you ever seen a stripper?
Speaker 3 (33:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Perfect? And then oh that's not true. Do you guys
know who trailer? Is it?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Trailer trailor trash Tammy?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Do you know who that is?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
That sounds familiar?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
He's a comedian. She's here at Nashville and she has
a newdi calendar that somebody peeked through.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I did, Oh why did you though?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
We didn't like that?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Never No, yeah, she's got some large things happening. Yeah,
like please don't think other women look like that, Nate,
because no, right, yeah, we all have different.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
And then this puts us back to the dating. This
is why maybe, yes, we aren't ready for dating. That's okay, already,
that's okay. Do you have dating advice? I know you
give dating advice?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I do, okay, but I'm the first date. You would
never kiss?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I like that, never kiss on the first date. Give
me your five dating rules?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Got it? Number one flowers?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Okay, what what do you mean you give them to
her or you get them.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
You give them. Number two, I will say, you go
to a movie theater, watch a great movie. Number three,
you go to the hotel and just lay down.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Okay, which hotel exactly?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I don't know the name of it. Go with the
w Okay, that's a nice one. Yes. Number four, I
would say, just go bowling.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
After the hotel. You've laid down. You take it a name.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
No, we go to the movie and then we go
to the hotel and we lay down. Okay, which, by
the way, at the hotel, to get a room? Or
do we lay in the lobby?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
They lay down in the lobby, in.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
The lobby okay, okay, and then we go.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
And number five getting a beer and to get lit.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Get a beer, to get lit. This is your idea
of a first date. Yes, and honorable mentioned. Do not
kiss on the first date?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Can you hold hand?
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
So what about that's dating. I'm in a newer relationship.
What would you give me advice for in my new relationship?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Okay? And your first relationship? Do not kiss?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Okay, no kissing? This is a theme.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yes, okay, just bring flowers, it's very easy.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
And be kind, Be kind, is good. I like your
dating advice.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Anyway, I am lined up.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I sure do.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Do you know how to flirt? Is flirting part of
your repertoire?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Yes? I love flirting. Oh, I got one right here.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It's a mood that would work on me.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
We might have to tell my boyfriend that. And somebody
flirted with me today. Sorry it happened.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, I hope he's not jealous.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
You're right, Yeah, I get your girl. I actually met
a lot of celebrities. Yes, Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga. Okay, nice,
I did.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
See that one, did you.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Yeah? He made Top five Funniest clips with THEO.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
If you're out there, we need to have lunch.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Yes, please shout up. And this guy was on the
new foot Loose. Oh, Dennis Quaid.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Yeah. We went to Hollywood a couple of weeks ago
and we're checking into the hotel and I get a
FaceTime from his designer, So I answer it. I'm sweating,
and I got my bags with me and I just
worked on a three hundred hour flight and I oh, hi,
Jacob the designer, and then he moves to the phone.
It's Dennis Quaid. So, of course, me being me I
(36:41):
go Dennis freaking Quaid. Yeah, my face was like I
had I don't know, seen a ghost, so I of
course somebody screenshotted me being like, so that's what Dennis
got to see. You weren't with me. We tried to
see him. He lives in Nashville. He doesn't country right now.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
But fan, big fans, big fan? Who are you? Who
are your top five of biggest fans?
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I would say Garth Brooks.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Oh you mean of like his people? He thinks the
most that love him.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
You could do either? Which route are you going?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Garth Brooks, Blake Shelton?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Okay, but you've met Garth brook You didn't like, did you?
Speaker 3 (37:21):
I wanted to? Okay, and I really want to meet
this really good singer. He has really good movies out
Jack Black Okaying, Yes.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
School of Rock he ish, I'm sorry you can't do
that to Jack Jack, so sorry.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Jack met Tanner? Yes, Tanner is a fella on is
Love on the Spectrum? Correct, we're sending Tanner some merch.
I just talked to his mom, so we're super excited.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I never showed you that clip. You would be so jealous.
He got a.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Hug Jack Black. Yeah, those are your top three? Who
you would want to meet?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yes? Two more I actually do?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Who let me think pink?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
But no, who do love?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
You keep saying you're gonna take from me if he
ever comes?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Travis Kelsey? Yes, six, you know what?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I agree with you?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yes, saying you want him?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
I want he might be my husband.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Travis Kelsey, You're gonna get fought over.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
If you came to this household.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Oh yeah, Okay, and your fifth one?
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Okay, my fifth one. Let me think this is a
hard one. Who is it you?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I don't have any idea.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
You don't Adele, she's got to kill her voice.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
We love everybody very blessed.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Okay, so you've met all these people. You've got to
do a lot of these cool things. What's been your
favorite part, say, from starting the company to this point
right now, it's been your favorite part.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I would say starting my own company. Yes, so Pineapple
it's a great company. And I made Hawaiian shirts, tumblers,
hoodies and everything everything.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
How many What happened the other night when you went
out to a bar here in.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Nashville with your sister, I got recognized again.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
But what happened. Do you even know you sold five
Hawaiians that night?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
I love marketing.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I am.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Do you hand out your card to people?
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Yes, they do, and you're like, go.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Buy a shirt. Yes, I'm gonna need one of those,
so I can go buy a shirt I got you.
Will they fit women's? Are they just for men?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Both?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
What kind of se we have? T shirts?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yes? A lot of stuff you do.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I've never met a better shelvesman.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Oh I believe it.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Oh my gosh, because you know we're talking earlier. The
filter's gone. That fear that we all have to approach
somebody or to be vulnerable beaut is I don't think
you have that. Sometimes you hesitate, you know, but if
you get encouragonate, you can do it. You can do it.
He will, and believe me, we've had nothing but beautiful
(40:11):
receptions back.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Are you afraid of anything? Is there anything you're afraid of?
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I'm afraid of wigs, dolls and clowns.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
There is a theme there. I see it. Okay, has
something happened with wigs, dolls, clowns?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Actually I wore a wig before I was fear Yeah,
I was impressed. Yes, then it came back.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
People want to think it's I am a breast cancer survivor.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
People want to think it's because of that I had
all these wigs. It's not true. He what did you
have when you were young? Do you remember what that
was called?
Speaker 3 (40:47):
I do not?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Pika?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
And pika is where you eat things that you aren't
supposed to eat. And your flavor of choice was fuzz.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Oh that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Yeah, so the texture of a wig just freaked him out.
Don't get it.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
When did that go away?
Speaker 1 (41:05):
It's not. It's still there. It's still So if we
want to traumatize them, we'll take a wig and just
run around the house with it and chase them. That's
what my bores will do to entertain themselves. He can't
go near one, I can't touch it.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
But he doesn't still eat, does he?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Are we done with eating fuzz? No? You're still eating it.
No you're not. We couldn't even have a Santa hat
in our house. He would eat the insides of the
ball and the carpets. And it's such a strange thing.
It's a common thing, it is.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
I have seen lots of stories about this, right, and
to you, it tastes good?
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Really? Ye? Did it have a flavor.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Only catch up? I eat bird pool?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Oh my god, you did.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I like the realization of mom and son right here where.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
It has traumatized one of my best friends.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Who was with us. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
When he brings it up, time to get her, you know,
because he knows it's a trigger for her. He'll be like,
do you remember the time I ate? And she's like,
why do you do this to me? Of course I
remember it was there? Yeah, I sticking it to people,
I do.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Are you a bit of a prankster? What is your
favorite prank to pull on people?
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Only jokes?
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Just jokes, like corny jokes. You have a good corny joke?
Speaker 3 (42:24):
I actually do. What time do you go to the dentist?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
What time tooth hurdy?
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Okay, can you give me another one? Do you have
another one on deck?
Speaker 3 (42:38):
I do one?
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Okay, I got one for you. What do you call
a nosy pepper?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Is halop in your business?
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Oh my god, that's a good one. I don't get
that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
I don't think I got it. Get up Hella in
your business?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Halipin your business?
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Maybe my delivery was wrong, he can deliver better, Yes,
that's okay.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Or Mom's not with it, yeah, which is what you'd
like to say.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
That's hysterical is not good?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Okay, enough, we came back to that always because again, okay,
we're very good at that. Yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Maybe I'm gonna hide candles.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Fifty pounds you know what?
Speaker 3 (43:24):
That would might be not a bad idea, right.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
It's I'm curious. You say he sticks it to him?
Does he point out a lot of your flaws?
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yes, every one of them? Yes, every okay, And sometimes
it will come a jab and then a compliment like, uh,
you look kind of fat. Oh you look but you
look pretty, and you're like it's like all his double handed.
He doesn't have a mean bone in his body. He
wants to be funny. I think that's truly's goal. I
(43:55):
think he loves getting people to laugh without even knowing it.
You know, someone just asked me social media, just you
know how funny he is? No, I don't think so.
I think he knows he can't bring funny to someone,
but I don't think he realizes just how clever and
sharp he is.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Your next thing that you ATTEMPD.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
That's why I'm calling out. You need him on your show?
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Yes, please, I know, Nate.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
What it is your favorite things about your mom?
Speaker 3 (44:31):
I can't say the rest because it's not good.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
No good things. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
What do you like about your mom?
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Her hair?
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Why?
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Because like mullets sometimes her eyes, her eyes sparkle to me,
there's okay, there's the one important thing about my mom
that I have not said this before and since I
was born. I love you through my heart and out.
You will always be my closest friend. I will always
(45:02):
love you.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
I'm gonna cry.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
I'm gonna cry. I'm really glad I got to be
here for that.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
I you should write for Hallmark.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Oh yeah, you can totally write even Hallmark cards. Yes,
that would be fun.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
Yes, I do not usually can spit one out. Okay, fine,
roses are red, rabbitur blue. You could be a villain,
but sometimes you are.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I just you know what, Nate, I really appreciate that
we went from loving her through everything your heart and
soul to yes, you are a villain.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
What's a villain?
Speaker 3 (45:41):
You don't know what a villain is? Something bad about you?
What do I do that's so bad? Too much?
Speaker 1 (45:50):
See okay, hounds it?
Speaker 2 (45:52):
What do you Is there certain things you don't like
just in general?
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Yes, about my mom?
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yes, not.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Keep it going skin it's okay. No, I haven't heard
it before.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
What about people in general? Or people get CKX and
they think something is gross and they're like, oh, that's
a I don't like that about that person. What are
your ex.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Wow about my sister Lindsey, I have okay, No, I
have lies because when I went.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
To her bathroom, oh boy, she.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
Has hair in her shower. It's disgusting. It's like my
mom's wigs.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Actually, okay, I went in to look after you said
that to me the other day and there was a
clump of hair in there.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
I'm not gonna okay.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
So that's a nick.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Clumps of hair. That's I think most men feel that.
It's a nick.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Understandable if you like, if you find a man going
in the shower with you, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Don't have clumps of hair.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Women and men shower together. What do you mean you said,
if you're a man, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (47:04):
I don't know. I have no idea exactly.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
A dirty mind, I sure do.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
But sometimes I could be a lesbian.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Yeah, we went through that phase.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
We like the juxtaposition variety is.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
You would go around Chicago he was young, and these
were the times we were like, can you please stop talking?
And he would just go up to random strangers and be.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
Like, I'm a lesbian.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
And then, once he was old enough to understand what
the man I said him down, I'm like, hey, Nate,
that's cool and all, but you can't be So then
we were at a restaurant in Chicago. He was sitting
with a bunch of policemen in the back, and all
of a sudden, and I'm with my girlfriend up in front,
and the policeman yells out and he goes, hey, Holly,
I just heard you're a lesbian. And my girlfriend's like, oh,
(47:51):
this is gonna be great for me to find somebody now.
And so then I'm like, Nate, I'm not your dad
does not appreciate that at all.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
Learn something stick.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
So he was funny out of the womb. Yeah, after
that stopped, because I'm like, that's just not funny. What
did you say to people.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Strangers finding my birth payments?
Speaker 1 (48:09):
I'm looking for my birth parents. I'm standing right there.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Yeah, at least you've always been entertained.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
But that's the cool part, like where did you get that?
But then I'd see like he'd do the I need
a more Peppa from Certain Night Live, that dirty one,
and I'm like, oh gosh, just the Sertenate live videos.
Like I've left him too long in the room alone,
so I get there on the back of his head. Yeah,
and he'll put his own twist on it.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Yeah, we just have to be careful of it. They
don't say anything inappropriate, right, Yeah, Okay, we love lesbians
by the way.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Okay, I'm quite sure you're thankful for But Okay.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Yes, I loved to and I think I could sit
here and talk to you guys all day, but I
know you have beers to drink in places to be yes.
So what I liked to in my podcast on is
always a piece of advice or inspiration or motivation and
not in away from your company, because don't worry, we'll
plug that. We'll do all of that. But I want
(49:08):
to know from you guys, each of you, to share
something in that realm. It can be inspirational, motivational advice
you want.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
To give people.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Okay, can it be my brother or no?
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Let's see what you have to say first.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
Okay, it's gonna be inspiration one. So, my brother Nick,
he got married to another beautiful lady. Her name is Taylor.
I think they are a beautiful couple. I am so
proud of them. My brother Nick is very loved by
others and I am a really good brother to him,
(49:41):
and sometimes I could be clanky to him.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
I don't think you understand questions, right, Yeah, it a
just turns out to be something weird.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
That's okay, here, we'll try this again. Okay, Yes, to
all the people that are listening to this, what would
you want them to know that fits out of the
realm of you want to inspire them, just like you
said you want to change world with love? Yes, or
with telling them hey, I started my own company. Yes,
and you see me as a kid with downstair and
I see myself as a CEO. Yes, something in one
(50:10):
of those realms. What would you tell to all the
people that are listening.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
I want people to listen about how I'm saying. Our
things are right, like seeing like if I have one
would describe human, we'd be loving because you mean a
lot to me and you are my personal gift.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
Wow, personal gifts. Hey, taking notes because this is some
good stuff. I think what you're trying to say.
Speaker 3 (50:37):
Is, yes, just love to love. I do, and people
should learn to love to love? Yes, right, be a
good human, be a good.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
Human, Be a good human. And why should people be
a good human?
Speaker 3 (50:49):
It's that easy. It's just brightening up their days.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (50:54):
Yes, I think we have a new shirt coming. Okay,
go ahead.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
I never thought in a million years that this would
be my life. Ever, when Nate was born twenty two
years ago, it changed the entire trajectory of my life.
So for all those that are facing change, I also
am a cancer survivor, so hardship or just the unknown,
(51:20):
I want you to embrace it and accept that it
is what it is. And once you learn to accept it,
whatever it is, your life will change and you'll see
it in a more beautiful, clear light. Lose the fear,
embrace the good. And I'm going to tell you something.
(51:42):
Down syndrome is the best gift I've ever had in
my entire life, and I would wish it upon anyone. Nate,
how does that make you feel?
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Amazing?
Speaker 1 (51:53):
I got myself chills. I got to literally I'm like, Wow, Oh,
you're so profound. You freaked out yourself.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
I love that, Holly Nate, thank you guys both for
joining me today talking about everything. Please go check out
their company, make Nate a millionaire so he can keep
being famous and model and singing stuff.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
What's the name of your company, twenty one Pineapples, and go.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
Get yourself a shirt, a tumbler, Yes, a Hawaiian shirt specifically, Yes,
would be really cool.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
What are you gonna buy when you profit?
Speaker 3 (52:24):
A golf cart? And girls?
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Okay, we don't pay for.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Girls, but okay, that comes back to strippers and that
is where we end. So I love this for us.
Thank you guys both for being here. It's great to
have you.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Thank you so much for having us, truly thank you.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
I don't know about you, guys, but Nate's advice is
hitting a little close to home. Make sure you check
out their website twenty one Pineapples dot com to get
your fun Hawaiian shirts for an incredible cause, and of
course follow them on social media and all the good things.
You can watch their funny videos and it'll give you
so many different good laughs. At twenty one Pineapple's shirt
(52:59):
co as always, I'm so happy you're here and you're
listening to this podcast. I hope you got all kinds
of emotions out of this episode, and I can't wait
to talk to you guys next week
Host
Morgan Huelsman
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