November 22, 2024 • 19 mins
In today's episode we go back in time and answer a frequently asked question... how did we even meet? We also talk about how we chose our 10th anniversary watch gifts for each other, and the difficulty in making that seemingly simple task work.
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(00:08):
Welcome to this Watch LIVE. Hi, I'm Lydia Winters.
And I'm Boo Boo. And happy anniversary, Lydia.
Happy anniversary. No.
Now, to be clear, this is not our podcast's anniversary.
No, that would be January 1st, 2025.
No this. Is our anniversary.
This is our 13th anniversary. That feels like a long time
(00:29):
lucky I'm questioning all my life.
Oh, oh, lucky number 13. Yeah, lucky number 13, we made
it. 13 years we have made it someone wrote consecutive, which
I I think that's an amazing question for and like that was
a, that's a really funny question and I was like, that's
awesome, yes. We'll do a few years here, a few
(00:51):
years there. Eventually it'll add up.
It's pretty awesome. So November 22nd should be very
easy for us to remember because it's 1122, right?
Very easy to remember. Yeah.
And somehow. No.
I was like, wait, what day is it?
Third wait, when is that thing happening?
So yes. It was actually 11/22/11.
(01:13):
Yeah, it was a great number. Yeah, We just can't always
remember it. Yeah, 11/22/11 in the way that
Americans write dates here it's 221111 so.
OK, but 11 and 11 equal 20 22 soeither way it still works.
There you go. So 2222.
What? Never mind.
(01:33):
Well, OK, so a lot of people. Yes, many times. 1,000,000
Millions of millions of our listeners have asked us like
over the course of the many times we've said, hey, ask us
anything. We've gotten the question of
like, how did you meet? You know, how did this even
(01:55):
happen? Yes.
And and often like how to watch his tie into that.
And so we thought we could try. On this episode.
On this episode to to tell that story a little.
Bit, yes, yes. So we met in 2010.
Yeah, 2000, February 2010. At a photography workshop where
(02:17):
I was invited by the woman who was running the workshop because
she hadn't sold all the seats. Yep.
And so she was like, hey, come up from for Florida and like
attend for free. Yes, so I did that.
Yeah. You drove up from South Florida
to Jacksonville, where this workshop was.
And my brother and I at the time, we, we were doing various
(02:41):
types of filmmaking. And she had reached out to us
and asked, will you film my workshop?
I I will pay you to film my workshop so I can make DVDs out
of it. Yes, this this tells you 2010
workshop on DVD. People were still selling that
wasn't that. Long.
(03:01):
Ago. But anyway.
So anyway, this was a all women workshop.
Which made it weird that she hired two men to come and film
the workshop. Agree and these two boisterous
men, which is like if you imagine.
Friendly. And then his brother LON.
They are quite you. You are.
(03:22):
You are unmissable in a really great way.
Especially together. Yes, together.
Sometimes I'm like, it's so loud, white ears.
So many people think you and I are loud together.
That is true, they do. Next time they they you don't
even know if LON was. Into watches.
(03:44):
LON and Boo are the four they the two of them like they're yes
and so and also they're super friendly and outgoing and and
lovely. The workshop was the workshop
was pretty bad. It was horrible.
So these poor women, because Lydia was at least lucky, like
(04:05):
she was just spending her time. Yeah, and money on hotel and
yeah, you know, driving. But you didn't.
Pay her no for the work. And LON and I, well, we were
getting paid to be there, right?But unfortunately for a lot of
the attendees, they had paid thinking they were going to
learn a bunch of stuff. And they realized, I think
fairly quickly everyone realizedlike, wow, we're not learning
(04:26):
too much here. However, your roommate.
Yes, roommate in, in the, in theworkshop.
Yeah. Because you were paired off.
Yes. And so she was like, hey, the
guys who are filming those are the Bowie brothers, which was
your name? Well, I mean it is still both of
your. Names, it is still We are both
named Bowie and we are brothers and that was the name of our
(04:47):
business. Yes, and anyway, the two of you.
We had a fairly popular blog about filmmaking and
photography. Yes, so she said.
Like we should hang out with them.
We'll at least learn something. And I was like, yeah, sure.
I've heard of the Bui brothers and I, That's the first thing I
remember is like, we were talking to LON and Vu and I
said, oh, I love all this stuff that you've done.
(05:09):
And Vu said, what have you seen?And I said lots.
Also. Who asks that food?
That's what do. You mean if someone says like,
oh, I love all the things that you do.
I don't think I said, what have you seen?
I'm like, oh, what things like, what things did you love?
And I was like because. The thing is, at the time my
brother and I, we had we had these diverging paths.
(05:31):
We photographed a lot of people who were in film and we filmed a
lot of people who are in photography.
So wedding photographers and other photographers would hire
us to film things for them. And these people who were at the
time making Internet content, this wasn't quite YouTube yet,
(05:54):
right? Like YouTube was growing and was
already a thing, but like a lot of people were trying to.
It was called new media. Anyway, we're not getting into
this, but like the these kind ofInternet video star type people
would hire us to photograph them, OK.
Right. So you wanted to know what I
liked And I was like, I was just.
Trying to figure out like, well,yeah, what do you like?
(06:15):
And you said all of it. And they were like, oh, you
don't. Know I didn't.
I couldn't. Mean.
Something I knew. Our stuff.
Yes. But anyway, we spent a lot of
time together, became fast friends.
You, me, LON. Yes and like stayed connected
after the workshop those becausewe.
Saw each other not too long after at a a wedding Expo.
(06:35):
But you also both got me on Twitter.
Yes, I'm doing like a rest in peace sort of thing.
And it, yeah, we became fast friends.
We stayed friends over the years.
I would do work for another friend of yours in LA and yeah
when I. And you put together a workshop
(06:56):
in your hometown? Yes, in.
Florida. Came into a workshop and gave a
workshop. It was much better.
Photography. Lighting.
Yes, it was much better than theoriginal workshop.
And also your I attended one of your workshops in Las Vegas.
Yeah, and his brother Lawn made me cry because he was like, why
do you whiten the eyes so much? So, okay, this is very 2010.
(07:18):
Wasn't meant to be hard, crazy criticism.
But like you really wanted the eyes to be white.
But it like I have a photo that I edited of myself.
Okay, it was 10 years ago and myeyes were like bright like the
sun. My teeth were.
So it was like before filters. It was like before filters on
(07:40):
Instagram. It was like, like somehow.
Don't be, because then you had. To adjust it yourself.
Yes, and maybe, you know, it waseasy to go too far.
Yes. So even through all of that, we
stayed friends. We did.
The two of you were the ones whorecommended that I play
Minecraft. When I started making videos and
when I got my job at Mojang, then I was like, oh, I don't.
(08:04):
The first thing I was supposed to do was plan a big event and I
was like, I don't know how to dothat.
And it wasn't what you were hired to do.
Yes, it was not so. But my dad was like, doesn't
your friend Vu know how to do that?
And I was like, he does, he does.
So I hired you, yes. And you were really good at it.
(08:24):
The team kept wanting to hire you, wanting to hire you, wanted
to hire you. You worked on the 1st event,
then you came back for the second event, and at the second
event you asked me to go on a date.
I did. I did I.
Took in Las Vegas, which I don'tknow like that represents our
love story. It would just happen to be where
the conference was that was. Like our second time seeing each
(08:46):
other in Vegas. Yeah, actually I third because
during the planning we were there.
So we had. Lots of Vegas.
I don't, yeah. I don't think that's
representative of who. We are.
We have to go back. No, really.
Probably not. Long lost memories.
So you took me to Les Cirque. Les Cirque.
At the Bellagio. Fancy restaurant.
There were monkeys on the plate.And then you just like, we went
(09:11):
on a date and then I never got rid of you again.
And so we count our first date as our anniversary because I
don't have an. I was just like, oh, this thing.
But we. Knew each other really well.
It wasn't like first date get toknow each other.
It was like first date hey. We really, Why don't we know
like each other? Yeah, it was a Why don't we do
this? Yeah, yeah.
And then you claim. Yes, OK, so then I moved to
(09:33):
Sweden the December 28th, which was a very funny day.
We'll do an episode about Lydia baby.
Lydia goes to Sweden the first time as a extra.
Episode. Yes, and I moved and the company
kept asking you to come work full time.
You came to visit me and then you just never left.
(09:56):
That is how I I don't believe ifwe ever discussed that you would
live in my apartment forever andnever leave.
I don't know. 13 years later I am.
I'm currently blinking to say help so I.
Remember exactly how I were. Discussing.
It but I don't recall that I just showed up one day and never
(10:18):
left you. Came to visit, you were like we
had been started dating and you were like I'm going to come to
visit and then you never left. And I had a full job.
Well, yeah, but you, you just never left though the apartment.
We lived together. I had signed a contract.
Again, This is why. This is why 13 years later you
can't get rid of him. It just is what it is.
(10:40):
So OK, we've been through this 13 years, yes.
And what like when Lydia said hey, let's do this episode and
talk about like how we met. And I'm like, oh, we could talk
about all the watches we've given to each other.
And she said no because. It's too many.
So what we're going to focus on is our 10 year anniversary.
Yes, so three years ago. Which is also the most
complicated gifts we've ever given each other.
(11:04):
Yeah, but not watch complicated.Time.
No, no. Very simple watches, but just
the time and the effort. Well, yours especially.
So mine. I it was like right around the
time our anniversary was right around the time when you wanted
the Palagos FXD. Yes, the first one that MN 20.
(11:26):
Well, OK, first of all, I guess I'll say Vu pitched to me right
before our anniversary in November.
I'll just be fair about it. Right before our anniversary, Vu
was like, what if we get matching yellow?
O PS Yes. And I was like the I hate that
yellow and I'll never own it andI would never buy it.
That is exactly like it sounds like Lydia is exactly.
(11:50):
But I that's I was like I. Believe the word did come out of
her mouth and she was like this idea is terrible.
Obviously this has been 10 yearsof a mistake.
I think you need to find a. Relief horrible.
Like why would you pitch? This idea to me yellow I hate
yellow you. Know I don't like yellow.
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You know I wouldn't want a yellow.
Why? Why would you?
So then I was like, look, listen, Watches and Wonders is
coming up. We're now like getting very deep
into watches. We'll wait.
We'll pick something new. We'll pick something new, yeah.
That is what you said. That is what I said.
Meanwhile, that next watches andwonders was when the yellow
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Rolex or Perpetual got discontinued.
Yes, yes. Later on I did get one because I
decided I did love it, but Boo does not have one because it is
because I ran Anniversary Watch.OK, wait, this is love.
OK. So then whenever the Pologos FXD
was announced, there was the MN 21 and I was like I want to have
(12:53):
that one. For you 21.
Yeah. But that was the year of our
anniversary, the 10 year. So I was like, OK.
It was announced like right around our anniversary and they
they the first models came out in like end of November, early
December and it was like confusing about what was going
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to exist because the backs that MN 21.
But it was coming out in 22. No, they were coming out in 21,
but they were like, but there's going to be very few that say
21. It's limited production.
So if you want one that says 21,you get you get a pounce.
Yeah. And so I pounced and also was
like, please, it's for. Food.
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It's for our 10 year anniversary.
And it has the MN 21. So then luckily Neiman's did let
me have the one for you. And you were so happy.
I don't remember like how I gaveit to you or like anything.
I just you had it so. I don't remember the gift.
Part. It must have been really
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romantic. Incredibly romantic.
But anyway, so I got them in 21.So then it was like, okay, well,
now the stage is set for a return gift, you know, and that
would that would that would be able to live up to the
specialness of what, especially at the time the brand new
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titanium FXDMN 21 was it was a special watch.
It was not a limited edition watch, but the fact that it's at
MN 21 on the back, it's like it had the year of our anniversary
right on it. Exactly.
That was a big deal. Then I had to live up to that,
and for over a year I agonized and pitched things and tried to
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figure out what. Most of them were met with the
same bit. I don't like yellow kind of vibe
because that's me. So you got your anniversary
watch in 2022? I got mine in 2023, the 10 year.
Yes, and the The thing is so when the BB 54 was announced.
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Tutor. Yes, the tutor 'cause we did
want it to because we thought. OK, let, let's let it be two
tutors. It's not going to be two FX D's.
Let's let that. Then finally I was like, OK,
this is it. Hmm.
This is a perfect size. Yeah.
It's a great watch for your lifestyle, for everything about
like the adventure side of you. It felt like it fit perfectly.
(15:29):
It had a rubber strap, it had a metal strap.
It had like versatility, it had vintage charm and it felt like
the perfect size. And so I was like, OK, this is
it. I have found it.
I have found the watch. Let's do this.
I'm going to get you the BB 54. And you said, Nah, I'm going to
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buy that watch for myself because it's probably not a
forever watch. Yeah, and but also part of the
problem is that just prior in December 22, I bought my
Explorer 1. Which is true.
And so then I was like, it's toosimilar.
(16:09):
Which it's not. Yes, overtime my I have, I you
have. Changed my time.
But I was like, it's too similarof what you would do in it.
And so I was like, no, I'm goingto buy it myself.
I'm going to buy on the rubber strap and I and I don't want a
bracelet. On the rubber strap said buy it
on the bracelet and you're like,but my explorer.
(16:31):
Yes. So then I got it on the rubber
strap. I'm wearing it right now for
love. And then I was immediately like
I wore it a little while and then I thought this is actually
a perfect watch it it matches meso well in MyHeritage style,
like all of my clothes. It just looks better on me than
the Explorer. Actually it was like the
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opposite of what I thought this watch was.
My explorer 1 killer like it just like no since.
You got it. You stopped wearing the Explorer
1. Yeah, it just doesn't.
And I think that's a beautiful watch, but it this one is just
so much more low key. It's brushed it.
Yeah, it's I love it so much. So then later you I was like, I
want the bracelet. And then Boo was like, could I
(17:15):
just buy this watch from you andgive it to you for our
anniversary? And then I was like, yes.
So then I took the watch this. This tell to it.
This might be. This might be too deep of like
how weirdos we both are. I think we're letting.
I guess anyone who listens knows.
Yeah, so I held on to this watchfor like 6 months, yes.
(17:39):
Which was a great decision. It was because the my point was
like, I wasn't just going to hand you some money and just be
like gift complete. But I would had to say.
Miss the watch and I had to return it to you in a state
different from how you gave it to me.
So I designed myself and got an engraving done on the back of
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it. Yes.
And on the back it says team. We have talked about this on the
podcast before. It says team established 2011
and when I've been away, this isthe watch I now bring.
I look at the team most nights. When I had dinner at the tutor
table, I was like, look at the back, you know, because I said I
was just like a big fan girl. I don't know why you sounded.
(18:23):
Like that, I don't know, like a like a Muppet.
I was like, look at the back anyway.
And yeah, I just love it so, so much.
And so now we both have 2011 on the back of our watches.
Yes, mine was engraved directly by tutor.
Wow, is that better or? I don't know why you designed.
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You designed mine. I.
Did very. Happy.
With it I think it works. I think it cancels each other
out. Love is nothing if not canceling
each other out. Yeah, so it took three years 2.
Two years. To give you your gift and and
that is now complete. Yes.
And now hopefully, you know, since we're at 13, maybe we
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start thinking about 15 next year so that we do.
We do. 15 yeah, all five OK, I like it.
I like it. OK, but anyway if.
You have ideas, Send them our way so we don't have to give
them like multiple years later. No, I don't even know what I
would like in two years, though our style has been evolving.
We'll do an episode about that for sure.
(19:31):
But. The evolution of.
What we like, but that'll say happy birthday and it's bye bye
song. Day, Happy birthday.
Happy anniversary. Bye, bye, bye.
Welcome to this Watch LIVE. Hi, I'm Lydia Winters.
And I'm Boo Boo. And happy anniversary, Lydia.
Happy anniversary. No.
Now, to be clear, this is not our podcast's anniversary.
No, that would be January 1st, 2025.
No this. Is our anniversary.
This is our 13th anniversary. That feels like a long time
(00:29):
lucky I'm questioning all my life.
Oh, oh, lucky number 13. Yeah, lucky number 13, we made
it. 13 years we have made it someone wrote consecutive, which
I I think that's an amazing question for and like that was
a, that's a really funny question and I was like, that's
awesome, yes. We'll do a few years here, a few
(00:51):
years there. Eventually it'll add up.
It's pretty awesome. So November 22nd should be very
easy for us to remember because it's 1122, right?
Very easy to remember. Yeah.
And somehow. No.
I was like, wait, what day is it?
Third wait, when is that thing happening?
So yes. It was actually 11/22/11.
(01:13):
Yeah, it was a great number. Yeah, We just can't always
remember it. Yeah, 11/22/11 in the way that
Americans write dates here it's 221111 so.
OK, but 11 and 11 equal 20 22 soeither way it still works.
There you go. So 2222.
What? Never mind.
(01:33):
Well, OK, so a lot of people. Yes, many times. 1,000,000
Millions of millions of our listeners have asked us like
over the course of the many times we've said, hey, ask us
anything. We've gotten the question of
like, how did you meet? You know, how did this even
(01:55):
happen? Yes.
And and often like how to watch his tie into that.
And so we thought we could try. On this episode.
On this episode to to tell that story a little.
Bit, yes, yes. So we met in 2010.
Yeah, 2000, February 2010. At a photography workshop where
(02:17):
I was invited by the woman who was running the workshop because
she hadn't sold all the seats. Yep.
And so she was like, hey, come up from for Florida and like
attend for free. Yes, so I did that.
Yeah. You drove up from South Florida
to Jacksonville, where this workshop was.
And my brother and I at the time, we, we were doing various
(02:41):
types of filmmaking. And she had reached out to us
and asked, will you film my workshop?
I I will pay you to film my workshop so I can make DVDs out
of it. Yes, this this tells you 2010
workshop on DVD. People were still selling that
wasn't that. Long.
(03:01):
Ago. But anyway.
So anyway, this was a all women workshop.
Which made it weird that she hired two men to come and film
the workshop. Agree and these two boisterous
men, which is like if you imagine.
Friendly. And then his brother LON.
They are quite you. You are.
(03:22):
You are unmissable in a really great way.
Especially together. Yes, together.
Sometimes I'm like, it's so loud, white ears.
So many people think you and I are loud together.
That is true, they do. Next time they they you don't
even know if LON was. Into watches.
(03:44):
LON and Boo are the four they the two of them like they're yes
and so and also they're super friendly and outgoing and and
lovely. The workshop was the workshop
was pretty bad. It was horrible.
So these poor women, because Lydia was at least lucky, like
(04:05):
she was just spending her time. Yeah, and money on hotel and
yeah, you know, driving. But you didn't.
Pay her no for the work. And LON and I, well, we were
getting paid to be there, right?But unfortunately for a lot of
the attendees, they had paid thinking they were going to
learn a bunch of stuff. And they realized, I think
fairly quickly everyone realizedlike, wow, we're not learning
(04:26):
too much here. However, your roommate.
Yes, roommate in, in the, in theworkshop.
Yeah. Because you were paired off.
Yes. And so she was like, hey, the
guys who are filming those are the Bowie brothers, which was
your name? Well, I mean it is still both of
your. Names, it is still We are both
named Bowie and we are brothers and that was the name of our
(04:47):
business. Yes, and anyway, the two of you.
We had a fairly popular blog about filmmaking and
photography. Yes, so she said.
Like we should hang out with them.
We'll at least learn something. And I was like, yeah, sure.
I've heard of the Bui brothers and I, That's the first thing I
remember is like, we were talking to LON and Vu and I
said, oh, I love all this stuff that you've done.
(05:09):
And Vu said, what have you seen?And I said lots.
Also. Who asks that food?
That's what do. You mean if someone says like,
oh, I love all the things that you do.
I don't think I said, what have you seen?
I'm like, oh, what things like, what things did you love?
And I was like because. The thing is, at the time my
brother and I, we had we had these diverging paths.
(05:31):
We photographed a lot of people who were in film and we filmed a
lot of people who are in photography.
So wedding photographers and other photographers would hire
us to film things for them. And these people who were at the
time making Internet content, this wasn't quite YouTube yet,
(05:54):
right? Like YouTube was growing and was
already a thing, but like a lot of people were trying to.
It was called new media. Anyway, we're not getting into
this, but like the these kind ofInternet video star type people
would hire us to photograph them, OK.
Right. So you wanted to know what I
liked And I was like, I was just.
Trying to figure out like, well,yeah, what do you like?
(06:15):
And you said all of it. And they were like, oh, you
don't. Know I didn't.
I couldn't. Mean.
Something I knew. Our stuff.
Yes. But anyway, we spent a lot of
time together, became fast friends.
You, me, LON. Yes and like stayed connected
after the workshop those becausewe.
Saw each other not too long after at a a wedding Expo.
(06:35):
But you also both got me on Twitter.
Yes, I'm doing like a rest in peace sort of thing.
And it, yeah, we became fast friends.
We stayed friends over the years.
I would do work for another friend of yours in LA and yeah
when I. And you put together a workshop
(06:56):
in your hometown? Yes, in.
Florida. Came into a workshop and gave a
workshop. It was much better.
Photography. Lighting.
Yes, it was much better than theoriginal workshop.
And also your I attended one of your workshops in Las Vegas.
Yeah, and his brother Lawn made me cry because he was like, why
do you whiten the eyes so much? So, okay, this is very 2010.
(07:18):
Wasn't meant to be hard, crazy criticism.
But like you really wanted the eyes to be white.
But it like I have a photo that I edited of myself.
Okay, it was 10 years ago and myeyes were like bright like the
sun. My teeth were.
So it was like before filters. It was like before filters on
(07:40):
Instagram. It was like, like somehow.
Don't be, because then you had. To adjust it yourself.
Yes, and maybe, you know, it waseasy to go too far.
Yes. So even through all of that, we
stayed friends. We did.
The two of you were the ones whorecommended that I play
Minecraft. When I started making videos and
when I got my job at Mojang, then I was like, oh, I don't.
(08:04):
The first thing I was supposed to do was plan a big event and I
was like, I don't know how to dothat.
And it wasn't what you were hired to do.
Yes, it was not so. But my dad was like, doesn't
your friend Vu know how to do that?
And I was like, he does, he does.
So I hired you, yes. And you were really good at it.
(08:24):
The team kept wanting to hire you, wanting to hire you, wanted
to hire you. You worked on the 1st event,
then you came back for the second event, and at the second
event you asked me to go on a date.
I did. I did I.
Took in Las Vegas, which I don'tknow like that represents our
love story. It would just happen to be where
the conference was that was. Like our second time seeing each
(08:46):
other in Vegas. Yeah, actually I third because
during the planning we were there.
So we had. Lots of Vegas.
I don't, yeah. I don't think that's
representative of who. We are.
We have to go back. No, really.
Probably not. Long lost memories.
So you took me to Les Cirque. Les Cirque.
At the Bellagio. Fancy restaurant.
There were monkeys on the plate.And then you just like, we went
(09:11):
on a date and then I never got rid of you again.
And so we count our first date as our anniversary because I
don't have an. I was just like, oh, this thing.
But we. Knew each other really well.
It wasn't like first date get toknow each other.
It was like first date hey. We really, Why don't we know
like each other? Yeah, it was a Why don't we do
this? Yeah, yeah.
And then you claim. Yes, OK, so then I moved to
(09:33):
Sweden the December 28th, which was a very funny day.
We'll do an episode about Lydia baby.
Lydia goes to Sweden the first time as a extra.
Episode. Yes, and I moved and the company
kept asking you to come work full time.
You came to visit me and then you just never left.
(09:56):
That is how I I don't believe ifwe ever discussed that you would
live in my apartment forever andnever leave.
I don't know. 13 years later I am.
I'm currently blinking to say help so I.
Remember exactly how I were. Discussing.
It but I don't recall that I just showed up one day and never
(10:18):
left you. Came to visit, you were like we
had been started dating and you were like I'm going to come to
visit and then you never left. And I had a full job.
Well, yeah, but you, you just never left though the apartment.
We lived together. I had signed a contract.
Again, This is why. This is why 13 years later you
can't get rid of him. It just is what it is.
(10:40):
So OK, we've been through this 13 years, yes.
And what like when Lydia said hey, let's do this episode and
talk about like how we met. And I'm like, oh, we could talk
about all the watches we've given to each other.
And she said no because. It's too many.
So what we're going to focus on is our 10 year anniversary.
Yes, so three years ago. Which is also the most
complicated gifts we've ever given each other.
(11:04):
Yeah, but not watch complicated.Time.
No, no. Very simple watches, but just
the time and the effort. Well, yours especially.
So mine. I it was like right around the
time our anniversary was right around the time when you wanted
the Palagos FXD. Yes, the first one that MN 20.
(11:26):
Well, OK, first of all, I guess I'll say Vu pitched to me right
before our anniversary in November.
I'll just be fair about it. Right before our anniversary, Vu
was like, what if we get matching yellow?
O PS Yes. And I was like the I hate that
yellow and I'll never own it andI would never buy it.
That is exactly like it sounds like Lydia is exactly.
(11:50):
But I that's I was like I. Believe the word did come out of
her mouth and she was like this idea is terrible.
Obviously this has been 10 yearsof a mistake.
I think you need to find a. Relief horrible.
Like why would you pitch? This idea to me yellow I hate
yellow you. Know I don't like yellow.
(12:11):
You know I wouldn't want a yellow.
Why? Why would you?
So then I was like, look, listen, Watches and Wonders is
coming up. We're now like getting very deep
into watches. We'll wait.
We'll pick something new. We'll pick something new, yeah.
That is what you said. That is what I said.
Meanwhile, that next watches andwonders was when the yellow
(12:32):
Rolex or Perpetual got discontinued.
Yes, yes. Later on I did get one because I
decided I did love it, but Boo does not have one because it is
because I ran Anniversary Watch.OK, wait, this is love.
OK. So then whenever the Pologos FXD
was announced, there was the MN 21 and I was like I want to have
(12:53):
that one. For you 21.
Yeah. But that was the year of our
anniversary, the 10 year. So I was like, OK.
It was announced like right around our anniversary and they
they the first models came out in like end of November, early
December and it was like confusing about what was going
(13:15):
to exist because the backs that MN 21.
But it was coming out in 22. No, they were coming out in 21,
but they were like, but there's going to be very few that say
21. It's limited production.
So if you want one that says 21,you get you get a pounce.
Yeah. And so I pounced and also was
like, please, it's for. Food.
(13:37):
It's for our 10 year anniversary.
And it has the MN 21. So then luckily Neiman's did let
me have the one for you. And you were so happy.
I don't remember like how I gaveit to you or like anything.
I just you had it so. I don't remember the gift.
Part. It must have been really
(13:58):
romantic. Incredibly romantic.
But anyway, so I got them in 21.So then it was like, okay, well,
now the stage is set for a return gift, you know, and that
would that would that would be able to live up to the
specialness of what, especially at the time the brand new
(14:21):
titanium FXDMN 21 was it was a special watch.
It was not a limited edition watch, but the fact that it's at
MN 21 on the back, it's like it had the year of our anniversary
right on it. Exactly.
That was a big deal. Then I had to live up to that,
and for over a year I agonized and pitched things and tried to
(14:46):
figure out what. Most of them were met with the
same bit. I don't like yellow kind of vibe
because that's me. So you got your anniversary
watch in 2022? I got mine in 2023, the 10 year.
Yes, and the The thing is so when the BB 54 was announced.
(15:08):
Tutor. Yes, the tutor 'cause we did
want it to because we thought. OK, let, let's let it be two
tutors. It's not going to be two FX D's.
Let's let that. Then finally I was like, OK,
this is it. Hmm.
This is a perfect size. Yeah.
It's a great watch for your lifestyle, for everything about
like the adventure side of you. It felt like it fit perfectly.
(15:29):
It had a rubber strap, it had a metal strap.
It had like versatility, it had vintage charm and it felt like
the perfect size. And so I was like, OK, this is
it. I have found it.
I have found the watch. Let's do this.
I'm going to get you the BB 54. And you said, Nah, I'm going to
(15:49):
buy that watch for myself because it's probably not a
forever watch. Yeah, and but also part of the
problem is that just prior in December 22, I bought my
Explorer 1. Which is true.
And so then I was like, it's toosimilar.
(16:09):
Which it's not. Yes, overtime my I have, I you
have. Changed my time.
But I was like, it's too similarof what you would do in it.
And so I was like, no, I'm goingto buy it myself.
I'm going to buy on the rubber strap and I and I don't want a
bracelet. On the rubber strap said buy it
on the bracelet and you're like,but my explorer.
(16:31):
Yes. So then I got it on the rubber
strap. I'm wearing it right now for
love. And then I was immediately like
I wore it a little while and then I thought this is actually
a perfect watch it it matches meso well in MyHeritage style,
like all of my clothes. It just looks better on me than
the Explorer. Actually it was like the
(16:52):
opposite of what I thought this watch was.
My explorer 1 killer like it just like no since.
You got it. You stopped wearing the Explorer
1. Yeah, it just doesn't.
And I think that's a beautiful watch, but it this one is just
so much more low key. It's brushed it.
Yeah, it's I love it so much. So then later you I was like, I
want the bracelet. And then Boo was like, could I
(17:15):
just buy this watch from you andgive it to you for our
anniversary? And then I was like, yes.
So then I took the watch this. This tell to it.
This might be. This might be too deep of like
how weirdos we both are. I think we're letting.
I guess anyone who listens knows.
Yeah, so I held on to this watchfor like 6 months, yes.
(17:39):
Which was a great decision. It was because the my point was
like, I wasn't just going to hand you some money and just be
like gift complete. But I would had to say.
Miss the watch and I had to return it to you in a state
different from how you gave it to me.
So I designed myself and got an engraving done on the back of
(18:01):
it. Yes.
And on the back it says team. We have talked about this on the
podcast before. It says team established 2011
and when I've been away, this isthe watch I now bring.
I look at the team most nights. When I had dinner at the tutor
table, I was like, look at the back, you know, because I said I
was just like a big fan girl. I don't know why you sounded.
(18:23):
Like that, I don't know, like a like a Muppet.
I was like, look at the back anyway.
And yeah, I just love it so, so much.
And so now we both have 2011 on the back of our watches.
Yes, mine was engraved directly by tutor.
Wow, is that better or? I don't know why you designed.
(18:45):
You designed mine. I.
Did very. Happy.
With it I think it works. I think it cancels each other
out. Love is nothing if not canceling
each other out. Yeah, so it took three years 2.
Two years. To give you your gift and and
that is now complete. Yes.
And now hopefully, you know, since we're at 13, maybe we
(19:07):
start thinking about 15 next year so that we do.
We do. 15 yeah, all five OK, I like it.
I like it. OK, but anyway if.
You have ideas, Send them our way so we don't have to give
them like multiple years later. No, I don't even know what I
would like in two years, though our style has been evolving.
We'll do an episode about that for sure.
(19:31):
But. The evolution of.
What we like, but that'll say happy birthday and it's bye bye
song. Day, Happy birthday.
Happy anniversary. Bye, bye, bye.
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