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Home Sweet Home · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with IR Radio. Hello everyone, welcome to a special edition
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Speaker 1: of Well Help by Second Dating with Help with a
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Speaker 1: crossover Almost famis. So there is four hosts on this podcast.
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Speaker 1: It is myself, Ashley Liken, Eddie Hello, Um, Ben Higgins,
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Speaker 1: my husband Jared Haven, and his partner, his par co host,
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Speaker 1: the Legend Dean Ungler. And today we're gonna be talking
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Speaker 1: all about like home stuff. It's a special episode because
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Speaker 1: we have a very special sponsor in Gap Home. Um,
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about, you know, buying houses, remodeling, decorating,
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Speaker 1: all the things because it's kind of relevant in all
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Speaker 1: of our lives right now. Hello boys, Hello girl, I
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Speaker 1: am a man. She just threw up so much macaroni
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Speaker 1: and she's like two pounds worth. I'm not joking. You
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Speaker 1: didn't even see the bag. I did not see the bag,
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Speaker 1: but I heard about what happened afterwards. I gotta recap.
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Speaker 1: Not good, not good. That's okay. We're doing better. We're
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Speaker 1: doing better. How are you guys doing? Ben? How are
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Speaker 1: you doing, Buddy? I'm doing well. Um. I'm happy to
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Speaker 1: be here with you guys. This is uh, this is
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Speaker 1: a little bit of unfamiliar territory with me. I just
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Speaker 1: want to make sure that I hold up to the
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Speaker 1: standards of help. I suck at dating during this show.
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Speaker 1: It's tough, but I think I think you can do it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. You think he's got what it takes. Listen,
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Speaker 1: It's not gonna be easy, but Ben is the kind
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Speaker 1: of guy that's gonna put the work in I think
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Speaker 1: to to really just be on our on our level. So, guys,
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Speaker 1: I have to admit something to you right now. I
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Speaker 1: blew my knee out two days ago, and so I'm
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Speaker 1: currently in at frustrated state in my life because I
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Speaker 1: think it's finally hit me that basketball and I may
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Speaker 1: need to be retired, which which really hurts my feelings.
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Speaker 1: You could be the prototypical guy that just sits on
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Speaker 1: the outside of the three point line, and just like
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Speaker 1: I'm open, I'm open, baby, You're like Bill Murray from
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Speaker 1: Space Jam. That's what your future with a knee brace
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Speaker 1: and elbow pads and a headband. That's my dream, um
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Speaker 1: and probably a helmet and justin case you never in
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Speaker 1: case the uh, I was playing basketball. I went to
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Speaker 1: a gathering of of people in business and pastors in
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Speaker 1: San Diego, and Uh, in the afternoon, they were like,
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Speaker 1: let's play some basketball. So I got down there. They
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Speaker 1: were playing a little more intense than I thought, so
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Speaker 1: I had to pick up the level of intensity myself.
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Speaker 1: Grabbed a rebound. It just like makes me sweat telling this.
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Speaker 1: Actually grabbed a rebound, dribble down the floor the court
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Speaker 1: and a guy step in front of me. So I
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Speaker 1: went with the I was dripping with my left tand
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Speaker 1: went with the left handed pushed to the side, so
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Speaker 1: I cut hard on the right, kind of like a
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Speaker 1: nice euro step in the middle of the court, and uh,
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Speaker 1: the knee just popped and it dislocated to the side.
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Speaker 1: It was hanging and so now you know, I already
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Speaker 1: had tore my a c l and I've never got
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Speaker 1: it fixed. So I tore something else in there. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what it is. But when I stand up
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Speaker 1: and I just let it hang it, I can feel
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Speaker 1: it separate. Good Lord, Yeah, that's pretty good stuff. So
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Speaker 1: how do we make this full circle? Ben, We'll be
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Speaker 1: on the couch for the foreseeable future having his knee up.
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Speaker 1: Make sure he's resting. And speaking of couches, were represent
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Speaker 1: would they sponsor this podcast? Of course, is gap Home,
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Speaker 1: American style for modern living. Actually knows a thing about
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Speaker 1: two about modern living. She's a big modern girl, so
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Speaker 1: am I. Yeah, we like modern things. We don't like
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Speaker 1: that modern like you and I like modern, but not
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Speaker 1: like really really modern. Dean, is the is the van modern?
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Speaker 1: Would you say that's like a modern style? I I
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Speaker 1: wasn't ready for us to shift away from this Ben's
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Speaker 1: knee conversation. I gotta go back to this for a second.
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Speaker 1: So Ben, why are you not recording from like the
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Speaker 1: inside of an m r I machine at the moment?
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Speaker 1: Like why are you at home? Why are you not
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Speaker 1: in surgery on your knee? What's going on? A few
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Speaker 1: things going through my head, Dean, thanks for asking. Um.
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Speaker 1: One is i have my golf club championship this weekend,
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Speaker 1: so I'm trying everyone, So I'm trying to pit. I
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Speaker 1: get it. I can to wrap it tight, put a
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Speaker 1: brace on it, and go tiger this thing to the end.
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Speaker 1: The second thing is I'm really concerned boys and girls
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Speaker 1: for a November wedding. Um, And if I went in
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Speaker 1: to get a m. I even though I don't have
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Speaker 1: to schedule my surgery, I'm assuming they're going to push
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Speaker 1: for that, and I just don't know when now in
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Speaker 1: my life i'll be able to do that, which means
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Speaker 1: ski season is done, which means I'm laid up for
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Speaker 1: a few months. And so I'm mostly today in a
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Speaker 1: in a in a time of contemplation. I already kind
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Speaker 1: of was in a mental fragility state. I had moved
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Speaker 1: past that. I'm getting a lot of clarity in life.
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Speaker 1: So now I'm just kind of bummed today. Um, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of sad. I don't you know how it is Dean,
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Speaker 1: you had a big injury, kind of change his life
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Speaker 1: a lot, and I'm just sad. Well, I'm no medical expert,
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Speaker 1: but I am pretty sure that if your knee is
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Speaker 1: separating when you stand up straight, um, you probably need
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Speaker 1: to have some sort of medical like professional medical attention
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Speaker 1: on that knee. Um. But yeah, yeah, I mean I
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Speaker 1: it's I don't end your situation, man, that stinks. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the wedding, you'll definitely be walking by then. If you
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Speaker 1: get your surgery, and like the next that's gonna ask
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Speaker 1: you potentially not be able to walk down the aisle
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Speaker 1: if you have surgery soon, I mean like after the
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Speaker 1: golf championship obviously. Yeah, there's always a cane, which I
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Speaker 1: think is a solid move. Like I think that I
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Speaker 1: don't hate that idea at all. Walking down the aisle
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Speaker 1: with a cane would be pretty awesome. Ben. This really
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Speaker 1: like ties into the fact that you still want to
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Speaker 1: be the host of the older person's Bacheler. Guys know
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Speaker 1: that I'm really throwing my name out there in a
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Speaker 1: very like non quiet way, like, Hey, I'm here, and
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Speaker 1: I I would love I feel like a cane can
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Speaker 1: only help your chances there exactly. All right, Well, you guys,
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Speaker 1: we are here to talk about home stuff. We have
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Speaker 1: Ari lion Dyke coming on to not only talk home
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Speaker 1: stuff because he is a realtor, but also talk about
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Speaker 1: his two newborn twins and how Lauren's doing. She was
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Speaker 1: just recently in the hospital. And then we have some
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Speaker 1: HDTV favorites, Chris Lambton and his wife Peyton Lambton, who
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Speaker 1: have a weird bachelor story. They are a bachelor couple,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of people don't know about it. Um, Okay,
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Speaker 1: so let's go around the circle here and like talk
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Speaker 1: about like what you're currently like, what your current living
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Speaker 1: situation is. I think, uh, I can start here just
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Speaker 1: to kick us off, and then Dan can goes. So. UM,
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Speaker 1: I bought a house that Dean's been to, I know,
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Speaker 1: in downtown Denver, like uh eight years ago and so
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Speaker 1: it's a small little house. And so Jessica and I
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Speaker 1: when she moved out here, decided, Hey, we're gonna start
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Speaker 1: planning for a future and we're just looking at homes.
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Speaker 1: Found the home that we love in Golden Colorado. Um
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Speaker 1: and so so where I'm currently sitting right now. But
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Speaker 1: the house was pretty much redone. However, we had like
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Speaker 1: a few small projects that we want to work on.
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Speaker 1: One was a back deck, uh that we soon found
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Speaker 1: out was going to be astronomically expensive during this time
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Speaker 1: of COVID because lumber is expensive. So we kind of
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Speaker 1: paused that, but we did this side that we uh,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do our master bathroom and uh. And if
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Speaker 1: you fall along with Jessica's Instagram or mine at times,
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Speaker 1: you can see this journey unfold. We started in February.
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Speaker 1: We have great people working on the house. UM. I
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Speaker 1: hope they listen to this podcast. They are insanely slow.
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Speaker 1: Um it is. Uh. We're like seven months in and
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Speaker 1: I had demoed the whole thing myself, and so I
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Speaker 1: kind of cleaned it out for him, got everything out
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Speaker 1: of there, got the plumbing all capped off, and then thought, Okay,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna come in. And they told us a month
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Speaker 1: long project to do the tile and paint and put
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Speaker 1: the flooring down. This is why I don't want to
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Speaker 1: buy an older house and remodel. We're at months seven
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Speaker 1: and uh, and we're still going. Now it's getting closer.
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Speaker 1: There's a tub in, now, there's a shower, and we'll
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Speaker 1: do the big reveal here soon because I know everybody
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Speaker 1: really cares about that. Um, it's really pretty. I like it.
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Speaker 1: Jessica has been then, uh decorating this house uh with uh,
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Speaker 1: with a couple of interior designers. UH. And it's coming together.
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Speaker 1: Here's the problem, and I'll stop here and everybody. I
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Speaker 1: think people out there can relate. So our bathroom. You know,
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Speaker 1: they're cutting tile, they're moving tile. I have random people
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Speaker 1: in and out out of this house at all times
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Speaker 1: of the day. It's where I'm working from now and uh,
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Speaker 1: and there's dust everywhere, and you just can't keep up
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Speaker 1: with it, Like it's just everywhere, and so we haven't
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Speaker 1: like hung pictures or anything because everything here is getting dusty.
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Speaker 1: So the walls are still pretty barren. But we're in it,
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Speaker 1: like we are full on making a home for ourselves,
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Speaker 1: so uh that we're prepped and ready to go. That's
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Speaker 1: where we're at. So we're kind of in this whole
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Speaker 1: remodeling stage and we need furniture. We need um all
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Speaker 1: the stuff that you'd have in a house. And it's
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Speaker 1: a lot bigger. It's like four times as big as
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Speaker 1: my house in Denver. So like I think I filled
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Speaker 1: one room here with like furniture. Hey Ben, fun fun fact,
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Speaker 1: your guys, interior decorator is the same one as mine Kalin's.
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Speaker 1: Aren't they awesome? The interior decorator has been incredible. So
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Speaker 1: I haven't really worked very much with them. That's kind
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Speaker 1: of been like Kalen's thing, um, but yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: they seem pretty good. I think it's funny because Calin
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Speaker 1: always wants to have control over everything that that we're
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Speaker 1: putting into our house. So like the interior decorator will
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Speaker 1: come with like three really good ideas and she'll like
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Speaker 1: use those ideas to like put her like make her
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Speaker 1: own thing out of it. You know, she just like
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Speaker 1: kind of needs like a launching pad. But now she's
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Speaker 1: been great. And it's funny too, because, um, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: our houses will look very similar decorated at least just
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Speaker 1: because we have the same interior decorator. But um, is
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Speaker 1: it I've got a really awkward question to ask you.
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Speaker 1: Can I ask it? Yeah, definitely too late. You have
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Speaker 1: to ask it now. Curiosity will be the best of us.
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Speaker 1: So I know you're in this house now in Golden
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Speaker 1: But before you got that house, was it weird living
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Speaker 1: in the house with Jess and Denver she never lived there. Oh,
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Speaker 1: she didn't live there. It was weird. That's a good question.
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Speaker 1: That's a fair question. Uh. I knew like pretty quickly,
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Speaker 1: like because there's like you know, Lauren lived there. Um
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Speaker 1: there was random stuff like that was like I like
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Speaker 1: I had not even noticed that was not mine that
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Speaker 1: was sitting around or like even old pictures that had
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Speaker 1: been thrown in like one of the like um shelvy
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Speaker 1: like in in like storage that like I just had
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Speaker 1: no clue of um and so, and it like had
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Speaker 1: a lot of memories and I know Jessica Like it
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Speaker 1: was just like it was very clear to me and her, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: we needed something new because this has too much history
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Speaker 1: in it and has too many stories. There's a show
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Speaker 1: filmed from it like there, we needed something new. So
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Speaker 1: it wasn't even a hard decision, uh for us to
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Speaker 1: to to move out the sad thing because I hope
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Speaker 1: Jessica doesn't mind me sharing this. UM is up here.
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Speaker 1: I moved a lot of stuff up here. And the
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Speaker 1: other day she she's so sweet. I mean, I just
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Speaker 1: love that girl. And she was sitting at the kitchen table.
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Speaker 1: She goes, can I ask you a question? I said yeah,
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Speaker 1: And she pulls out some like old pictures and uh
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Speaker 1: and says that was like from like it was like
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Speaker 1: from a show that we did, Um was it Happily
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Speaker 1: ever after? A question Mark? UM? But there's like pictures,
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Speaker 1: like promo pictures of it. And she's like, were you
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Speaker 1: holding onto these like for a reason? Because I just
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Speaker 1: want to know why. And I was like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: I had no clue, Like where did you find these?
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Speaker 1: She was like, they're in the TV stand. I was
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Speaker 1: looking for the chord for the TV. I saw him
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Speaker 1: and she was just like I could just see in
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Speaker 1: her face like were you holding on these was like
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Speaker 1: I'm not at all, Like please just like do what
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Speaker 1: you need with these things. And so you know, this
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Speaker 1: just feels like a new spot for us. And there's
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Speaker 1: still those things. So yes, we in short, we moved
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Speaker 1: out because it would have been weird. Did you guys
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Speaker 1: throw out those pictures? Yes? Yes, but I did, Uh
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Speaker 1: I did. Uh. They were in nice picture frames, so
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Speaker 1: we kept the picture frames through money, that's valuable. But
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Speaker 1: the picture you needed to save you got a budget. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're they're not here any longer. Um, we we got
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Speaker 1: rid of those. Also, just to elaverybody who know that's listening,
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Speaker 1: Kate Susanna and her husband Michael are the two doing
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Speaker 1: Dina and I's house. Is if you're ever interested in
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Speaker 1: a in a decorator, how do you have the same
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Speaker 1: decorator in different states? Virtual? It's all virtual. Virtual. I
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Speaker 1: think I think Klin saw Jess's like in spowboard or
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Speaker 1: something like that, and she was curious as she reached
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Speaker 1: out to Jess right and Jess got him in touch
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Speaker 1: or something like that, and it's it's crazy. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure everyone here can attest, like I'm probably the
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Speaker 1: one that can test the least, honestly, Like how much
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Speaker 1: uh like nuance and like little design pieces just go
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Speaker 1: into a house before it really starts to feel more
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Speaker 1: comfortable and like a home. Right, Like as a guy
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Speaker 1: growing up, I would always just throw a couple of
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Speaker 1: posters on the wall, make sure there's a big TV
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Speaker 1: in the living room, and be done with it. But
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Speaker 1: like the way that Calin has been able to decorate
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Speaker 1: the house that we live in now, and like the
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Speaker 1: you know, the house that we share in Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: in her apartment before that, they really like the little
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Speaker 1: things make such a big difference and stuff that I
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Speaker 1: would never even consider. Have you had many decisions like
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Speaker 1: or is it do you think it's Is it mostly
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Speaker 1: Kalin who's decorating this house? Or are you putting your
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Speaker 1: input in? Dan Um? I mean I put my input
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Speaker 1: in definitely. I Like I'll pick up little trinkets on
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Speaker 1: my travels, Like in Mexico I found like a sweet
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Speaker 1: obsidian horse head uh, And I was like, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I spent way too much money on It's like this
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Speaker 1: would be really cool, like a good centerpiece I got
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Speaker 1: like this big chunk of wood. Um, like the backyard design,
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Speaker 1: I've got a big part in. I'm sure Kalin's thrilled.
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Speaker 1: The only thing Dean brings to the table. Hey, I
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Speaker 1: got you a horsehead and a piece of wood. Dude,
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Speaker 1: the horse that is sweet. I'll send you guys a
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Speaker 1: picture of the horsehead. But I really like any she's
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Speaker 1: She says she really likes it too, so I guess
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Speaker 1: I don't. And it matches her aesthetic really well, So
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Speaker 1: I'm keeping all that in mind. But but no, she's
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Speaker 1: like read on the closets and everything on her own
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Speaker 1: accord um, and she's mostly doing everything else. But I'll
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Speaker 1: time and when I can. Her big thing is like, well,
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Speaker 1: I guess my big thing is like I'd rather build
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Speaker 1: something than like spend five x the amount of money
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Speaker 1: on like a pre fab preconstructed like bedframe or something
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Speaker 1: like that. So there's like issues where I'll start a
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Speaker 1: project to get like the way done with it and
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Speaker 1: then like not touch it for a while. So there's
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Speaker 1: like a bit of a mess in the house in places.
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Speaker 1: But um, that's like probably our biggest current issue. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to the life of living with somebody. Well, Hey, um,
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Speaker 1: we do have some experts coming on the podcast is
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Speaker 1: actually mentioned the beginning are Lion Dyke, who's realtor who
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Speaker 1: flips homes, who understands the market, especially in his area
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Speaker 1: of Scottsdale. And then uh, Peyton Lambert coming on here, Um,
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Speaker 1: some just h G TV stars. They're actually in the
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Speaker 1: waiting room, so let's bring them on. Hey, welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the almost famous help by suck At Dating Joint podcast,
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Speaker 1: which is currently being you know, obviously dominated by suck
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Speaker 1: Army because as Dean and I know, we're both awesome.
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Speaker 1: But we have some very special guests who are currently
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Speaker 1: on the line. You know that from HDTV, but they're
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Speaker 1: also a bachelor couple. It is Chris and Peyton Lambton,
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Speaker 1: Chris and Payton, how are you? We're doing great? How
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Speaker 1: are you guys? Good? Yea you guys? How does it
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Speaker 1: feel to be a bachelor couple? And honestly, like you've
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Speaker 1: met in the two thousands, tens and yet I don't
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Speaker 1: know that people consider you a bachelor couple because you've
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Speaker 1: met in a very unconventional way, and give us a
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Speaker 1: little bit of background how you met, because honestly, I
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Speaker 1: didn't know that you guys were from the Bachelor franchise. Yes,
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Speaker 1: So we met in North Carolina at Jimmy V golf tournament.
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Speaker 1: Jesse Beck, who was on my season of The Bachelor
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Speaker 1: Pad was on Christmas season of Bachelorette, And it was
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Speaker 1: one of those things like Jesse and I became friends
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Speaker 1: and he's like, Yo, you gotta meet my friend Chris.
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Speaker 1: We'll all be friends. And then he and I met
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Speaker 1: and we got engaged and got married. So its history.
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Speaker 1: That's incredible. Yeah, So you got married in what year,
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Speaker 1: two thousand twelve? All right, and then, uh, your lives
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Speaker 1: kind of like skyrocketed, right, You're you're you're known then,
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Speaker 1: uh for your ability to make a house a home
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Speaker 1: and the two of you have been working on this,
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Speaker 1: like within that world for for how long? So we
16:43
Speaker 1: are first show on h G t V was called
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Speaker 1: Going Yard and we had that in in literally two
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Speaker 1: thousand and twelves and two thousand and twelve, we've got
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Speaker 1: our first show. We got married, we moved in together.
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Speaker 1: I mean a lot happened that year for us. Uh,
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Speaker 1: And it was cool though, like h G t V
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Speaker 1: reached out to him because that him and in the office,
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Speaker 1: we're Big Bachelor fans. They saw that he was a landscaper.
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Speaker 1: They're like, we should have this guy in. And then
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Speaker 1: I like conveniently made myself available when they came to
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Speaker 1: shoot him. Yeah, she like snuggled right up and she
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Speaker 1: had her Southern accent, you know, beautiful, and she they
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Speaker 1: were like, oh, you guys, we should do the show
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Speaker 1: with both you guys together. You know, it worked out
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Speaker 1: well for me because I'm like, all right, I can
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Speaker 1: dig a hole, I can plan something, I can't make
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Speaker 1: anything beautiful, you know. That's what she comes in with,
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Speaker 1: like the pills, the rugs, making everything like tie together.
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Speaker 1: So it was it was perfect. And so I'm curious
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Speaker 1: what you guys think about um working together. Now. I
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Speaker 1: know you guys are married, you have kids together, you
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Speaker 1: work together, Ashley is pregnant. You know, a lot of
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Speaker 1: the things that we do in terms of work, we
17:46
Speaker 1: do together. So how do you balance that? How do
17:49
Speaker 1: you balance your life between family, work, spending quality time together?
17:53
Speaker 1: Because I know there's a big difference between spending time
17:55
Speaker 1: with one another and spending quality time together, So how
17:57
Speaker 1: do you balance that? Well, First, congratulations to you guys,
18:01
Speaker 1: this is really exciting time I'm over the moon for
18:05
Speaker 1: you to experience this next phase of life. Well, thank you,
18:09
Speaker 1: that's why the growth right now. No, you look amazing, UM,
18:15
Speaker 1: so balanced, Like, yeah, you know you're together all the time. Um,
18:20
Speaker 1: I think working together, Chris and I learned very quickly
18:23
Speaker 1: to stay in our lanes. Um. You know, he does
18:27
Speaker 1: what he does very well. I do what I do
18:29
Speaker 1: very well. And uh we try not to cross over
18:32
Speaker 1: that line um and offer unsolicited advice. Um. But then,
18:38
Speaker 1: but now, like when you throw kids in the next
18:40
Speaker 1: and like Joe, that's a great questions because we're together
18:43
Speaker 1: a lot with the kids a lot. But then you
18:44
Speaker 1: still have to, like now especially you have to like
18:46
Speaker 1: make time for like a date night or to get
18:48
Speaker 1: out together because you need that alone time to you know,
18:52
Speaker 1: connect and be be with each other and not talk
18:54
Speaker 1: about work or your kids. Yeah. I guess that's one thing.
18:57
Speaker 1: I'm your whole life is about working kids. Well, I
19:01
Speaker 1: guess that's what fair point. That's one thing I'm nervous
19:05
Speaker 1: about because there's other things that I want to still
19:08
Speaker 1: be able to do as well. I want to hang
19:09
Speaker 1: out with my friends or go golfing. But you know,
19:12
Speaker 1: with with having a child, that's really going to change
19:14
Speaker 1: our lives. And you know, we're gonna put so much
19:16
Speaker 1: of our effort into our our family and our work
19:20
Speaker 1: and then and also our relationship. I I you know,
19:24
Speaker 1: Ashley and I spent so much time together, but a
19:26
Speaker 1: lot of it, as she said, is talking about work.
19:28
Speaker 1: And I know once a kid comes, it will be
19:30
Speaker 1: talking about the kid and not so much us anymore.
19:33
Speaker 1: So that's why I was asking you too, how do
19:36
Speaker 1: you how do you balance that? Because I guess in
19:38
Speaker 1: my mind, you know, when we spend so much time together,
19:42
Speaker 1: a lot of it isn't quality time. And I think
19:44
Speaker 1: she gets frustrated with me because whenever I get a
19:46
Speaker 1: free moment, I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna go golf with
19:48
Speaker 1: my friends, and she's like, yeah, but we haven't gone
19:50
Speaker 1: on a date. And I'm like, well, we spent the
19:52
Speaker 1: past three days straight together and she's like, yeah, but
19:55
Speaker 1: that's not quality time. That was you know, we were
19:57
Speaker 1: doing work things, and and so I no, I wanted
20:00
Speaker 1: to get your piece of advice and tell me what
20:02
Speaker 1: to do. But I think even when we work together,
20:05
Speaker 1: it's it's quality time together. Because a lot of couples
20:08
Speaker 1: don't get to work together, you know, like some couples, like,
20:11
Speaker 1: you know, I might work nine to five and then
20:12
Speaker 1: she might work nights, and then you know, you would
20:14
Speaker 1: just be like two ships crossing the night. That's what
20:16
Speaker 1: my parents were like growing up because my mom worked nights,
20:18
Speaker 1: my dad worked days, so they barely saw each other.
20:20
Speaker 1: So I think, even you know, today we're working together
20:24
Speaker 1: setting stuff up. It was work, but it was almost
20:27
Speaker 1: like quality time because we were away from the kids.
20:29
Speaker 1: We have to hang out. We had like a lunch
20:31
Speaker 1: on the go together. So even though it's not like
20:35
Speaker 1: what a typical date night, quality time together is, I
20:39
Speaker 1: still cherish it because it's even we're getting the chance
20:42
Speaker 1: to work together that a lot of couples don't get
20:44
Speaker 1: that chance, and you know, we're we're fortunate to be
20:47
Speaker 1: able to do that. I feel yeah, And I mean
20:48
Speaker 1: it's just like you're entering this different pace of life
20:51
Speaker 1: and I think you just have to embrace it and
20:53
Speaker 1: accept it that, yeah, things are gonna be different, and
20:57
Speaker 1: your relationship is going to be different, your relationship your
21:00
Speaker 1: kids is gonna be like this whole new experience that
21:04
Speaker 1: you don't know what's to come. But I think that
21:06
Speaker 1: if you guys, can always make sure that you are
21:09
Speaker 1: connecting with one another because those for a few months
21:12
Speaker 1: with a newborn, like you know you're gonna be sleep deprived.
21:15
Speaker 1: Just just make sure you're like still seeing each other. Well,
21:19
Speaker 1: one thing too, that all four of these hosts have
21:22
Speaker 1: in common is we're all in a fairly large transition
21:26
Speaker 1: phases in our life. We're starting to become adults and
21:28
Speaker 1: act serious about life. And we've don't do it. No, no,
21:33
Speaker 1: we're you know, just just my best not to being
21:37
Speaker 1: doing the best job right now. And I'm proud of
21:39
Speaker 1: him for it. But we uh, we're moving into new homes. Uh,
21:43
Speaker 1: we're starting to set up homes. I don't know if
21:46
Speaker 1: COVID had a little bit to do that with that.
21:48
Speaker 1: We're like, hey, let's just like start to settle down,
21:50
Speaker 1: put roofs of our heads, build a home for our families.
21:54
Speaker 1: But uh, during the pandemic, we saw some problem I mean,
21:58
Speaker 1: I'm assuming we saw some themes change in terms of
22:02
Speaker 1: decorating and outdoor spaces for all of us. If you
22:05
Speaker 1: give us some advice or some like trends as we
22:08
Speaker 1: start to develop our homes, what kind of trends are
22:10
Speaker 1: you are you seeing Um, Yeah, I mean I think
22:14
Speaker 1: that you have to look at your outdoor space is
22:16
Speaker 1: another room of your house. And through the pandemic, a
22:19
Speaker 1: lot of people realize that you have to extend beyond
22:24
Speaker 1: the inside of your house. Um to make more livable space.
22:28
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't have big houses, but you
22:30
Speaker 1: may have a yard, you may have a deck, You
22:32
Speaker 1: have somewhere to go outside, So use it and use
22:36
Speaker 1: it how you want to. You know, it's like you
22:38
Speaker 1: can see trends and you can see pinterest in HDTV
22:42
Speaker 1: and what all these people are doing. But if that's
22:43
Speaker 1: not what you want to do, and that's not what
22:45
Speaker 1: your life encompasses, then you know, just sit back and
22:49
Speaker 1: and figure out how you want to use that space.
22:52
Speaker 1: Do you want to eat outside, do you want to
22:54
Speaker 1: entertain outside, do you want to play games outside? It's
22:57
Speaker 1: kind of you have to tailor it to what your
22:59
Speaker 1: interests are. And I've seen during the pandemic is that
23:03
Speaker 1: you know, patios, fire pits, outdoor kitchens. I mean, people
23:08
Speaker 1: can't get enough them in their backyard. People entertained be
23:11
Speaker 1: outside so they can still have friends come over, you know,
23:14
Speaker 1: social distance or whatever you need to do in the backyard,
23:16
Speaker 1: but it's a lot easier. And then people who have
23:18
Speaker 1: kids like we do, like if other people the kids
23:21
Speaker 1: come over, the last thing I want is a lot
23:22
Speaker 1: of kids running around my house destroying stuff. So everyone
23:26
Speaker 1: to the back, get them off your lawn. Yeah yeah,
23:29
Speaker 1: in the backyard the lawn, ye know. Yeah. So we
23:34
Speaker 1: have we have a big patio with like we have
23:37
Speaker 1: like an oversized like dining room tables. We can sit
23:39
Speaker 1: outside enjoy it out there. Um a lot of raised
23:42
Speaker 1: planters and vegetable gardens because now people like to have
23:45
Speaker 1: their own place to grow their own flowers and veggies
23:47
Speaker 1: in the backyard. So you've seen a lot that people
23:50
Speaker 1: have turned their backyards into kind of like an oasis
23:52
Speaker 1: where they can sit out there entertaining, have dinner, and
23:55
Speaker 1: then after we'd sit by a fire pit, have a
23:56
Speaker 1: glass of wine. I've got a question kind of for
23:58
Speaker 1: everyone when it comes to uh more so like budgeting.
24:01
Speaker 1: So like Caitlin and I we bought our house, but
24:04
Speaker 1: what I didn't realize was that was the first of
24:07
Speaker 1: many big expenses that we're still to come with the house. Like,
24:10
Speaker 1: how do you guys all feel about uh, Like, let's
24:13
Speaker 1: say there's a certain upgrade you want to get and
24:14
Speaker 1: it's like fifty grand, but you could do like a
24:16
Speaker 1: smaller version of it for like thirty grand, but you'd
24:19
Speaker 1: be less happy with it. Caitlin and I are constantly
24:21
Speaker 1: having the conversation of should we get what we want
24:23
Speaker 1: and just pay the extra money for it, or should
24:25
Speaker 1: we be a little bit more frugal and still be
24:27
Speaker 1: happy with like a smaller version of that finished product.
24:30
Speaker 1: How do you guys all stand with that kind of
24:31
Speaker 1: like conversation. I feel like, do what you really want
24:36
Speaker 1: the first time around, because you're going to end up
24:38
Speaker 1: doing it again. You spend thirty dollars on something that
24:42
Speaker 1: you're like me, then you're gonna want to replace it
24:45
Speaker 1: and you're gonna end up spending more than the original
24:47
Speaker 1: fifty grand. So like, even if you have to space
24:51
Speaker 1: these things out, like, don't pull the trigger on something
24:53
Speaker 1: unless you're all in. We can I answer that we have,
24:57
Speaker 1: Like just can I because we were consider instantly getting uh,
25:02
Speaker 1: like we we just didn't see things the same way.
25:04
Speaker 1: Jessica is a lot more frugal than I am, and
25:06
Speaker 1: I'm pretty frugal, but she like sees the number and
25:09
Speaker 1: says us just not do it like, that's kind of
25:11
Speaker 1: her first punse I'm like, well, that's not fully fair.
25:14
Speaker 1: We we have to do something. So what we've done
25:17
Speaker 1: is we've designed are like dream home idea for the
25:21
Speaker 1: home that we're currently in, and we might not do
25:24
Speaker 1: it all at once, but we take steps to get there.
25:28
Speaker 1: So like if we're like, hey, one day we want
25:30
Speaker 1: to have a backyard with a waterfall and climbing Jim, okay, well,
25:34
Speaker 1: how do we start that process and not do it
25:36
Speaker 1: all at once so that it spreads out over time
25:39
Speaker 1: and so it's less money up front. But we're not
25:41
Speaker 1: like changing anything as we go, We're just stepping towards
25:46
Speaker 1: it slowly. Yeah, that makes sense. My My biggest thing
25:50
Speaker 1: was I really so we just had like a big
25:52
Speaker 1: empty dirt lot in our backyard and I was like
25:54
Speaker 1: to to Kayla, and I told her I wanted a
25:57
Speaker 1: putting green with a chipping green, the lazy river like
26:01
Speaker 1: surrounding it, like floating around it. It sounds like I thought,
26:05
Speaker 1: it sounds like we we got a quote for it
26:10
Speaker 1: and it was like double what we had wanted to
26:13
Speaker 1: pay for our backyard renovation. Um. Anyways, long story short,
26:16
Speaker 1: I think what we kind of did, was like we
26:18
Speaker 1: settled for like a small putting green to the side
26:20
Speaker 1: and then like a pool over in there, so like
26:21
Speaker 1: we kind of compromise. But I guess to whatever everyone's
26:24
Speaker 1: point is, Like, I hope that we're not going to
26:26
Speaker 1: come back in four years and I'm gonna be dreaming
26:28
Speaker 1: of a of a chipping green with a lazy river
26:30
Speaker 1: around it, you know, But I don't know. I guess
26:32
Speaker 1: time will tell. In that case, I got an answer
26:34
Speaker 1: for you that Peyton and Chris can probably help you with.
26:38
Speaker 1: What you need to do is get on a television
26:39
Speaker 1: show and you need to get the support of a
26:42
Speaker 1: show to help you. Yes, you still have to pay
26:45
Speaker 1: for it, but there's just you know, there's some benefits there.
26:47
Speaker 1: So Dean, I feel like that's kind of the cell
26:49
Speaker 1: and in the strategy that we need to start taking here. Hey,
26:52
Speaker 1: if there's any TV host, Chris Peyton, you guys more
26:55
Speaker 1: than welcome to come and renovate our backyard for us. Uh,
26:58
Speaker 1: We're definitely came to that idea. It's just a matter
27:00
Speaker 1: of putting ourselves in that position. You can title the
27:03
Speaker 1: episode Happily ever After with a lazy river. Um, but
27:09
Speaker 1: I wanted a dean who's more frugal. You're Kalin. Oh,
27:12
Speaker 1: I'm way more frugal than she is. A question. Oh,
27:15
Speaker 1: he wants to put a lazy river with like a
27:18
Speaker 1: mini golf course in his backyard. But if it weren't
27:20
Speaker 1: for Calin, he would live out the van permanently. Yeah. No,
27:24
Speaker 1: And Calin is frugal, but she she likes nice things
27:27
Speaker 1: and she's not willing to skimp when it comes to
27:29
Speaker 1: those nice things. She's got like her, she's got her
27:31
Speaker 1: standards too. Like when we first moved into the house,
27:33
Speaker 1: are master closet. It's like this big walking closet and
27:36
Speaker 1: it was just like bare bones, basic, and she like
27:38
Speaker 1: first thing, she's like, we're renovating this, and she just
27:40
Speaker 1: spent a bunch of money to renovate it, and saying
27:42
Speaker 1: with the two Ben's uh master bathroom redesigned to She's like,
27:47
Speaker 1: we have to redesign the master bathroom, which is like
27:50
Speaker 1: a no. It's just so crazy how quickly it adds up.
27:52
Speaker 1: So if it weren't for me, kind of like reining
27:54
Speaker 1: her back in, I think that she would already have
27:56
Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff done. And I'm sure eventually
27:59
Speaker 1: it will all get on because she'll get her way
28:01
Speaker 1: no matter what. But I'm trying to, like, you know,
28:03
Speaker 1: rand her back in a little bit with a lot
28:05
Speaker 1: of that stuff. I mean, when you renovate a bathroom,
28:08
Speaker 1: that comes back like threefold. So that's that's a really
28:11
Speaker 1: good question. And the same of the closet. Like if
28:13
Speaker 1: someone's gonna buy a high end home, they want to
28:14
Speaker 1: trick out walking closets. So that's that's good as well.
28:18
Speaker 1: You guys want to hear something crazy. Yeah, when we uh,
28:22
Speaker 1: when we got this house. It's a great house in
28:24
Speaker 1: a gray area in a great neighborhood, but it was
28:26
Speaker 1: built and uh in the bathroom was the only thing
28:30
Speaker 1: that the previous homeowner had not done yet because she
28:34
Speaker 1: was knowing she wanted to sell, and she's like, I'll
28:35
Speaker 1: just let the next people choose what they want. And
28:37
Speaker 1: here it had carpet from thirty years ago throughout the
28:40
Speaker 1: whole bathroom. And so when I tore it up, oh yeah,
28:44
Speaker 1: not like and I'm not saying just at certain areas.
28:48
Speaker 1: It was by the shower, by the toilet, and so
28:51
Speaker 1: when I tore it up, there was pieces of previous
28:54
Speaker 1: homeowners that I shared with them that I I don't
28:57
Speaker 1: want to do again. Um, all right, paying Chris, we
29:00
Speaker 1: gotta let you go here. Last question for you, any advice,
29:04
Speaker 1: um for current homeowners as they enter into this season
29:07
Speaker 1: of life where uh things are getting redone, people are
29:12
Speaker 1: spending more times in their home. And then also if
29:15
Speaker 1: you don't mind closing that thought with where can people
29:17
Speaker 1: continue to watch you find you, support you, um that
29:20
Speaker 1: are fans of you and excited to hear you on
29:22
Speaker 1: this podcast. So for me, I think as soon as
29:28
Speaker 1: you start, you want to invest in quality materials that
29:30
Speaker 1: will last. I've seen a lot of homeowners uh buy
29:34
Speaker 1: some cheap deca materials or put in cheap stones or
29:38
Speaker 1: cheap lighting, and because they want to save money, but
29:41
Speaker 1: the long run, they're gonna have to tear it out,
29:43
Speaker 1: redo it, pay for it twice, you know. So save up,
29:48
Speaker 1: do it right the first time, build off an area
29:51
Speaker 1: and keep building into your backyard or in your home
29:54
Speaker 1: the same way. UM. So don't don't skimp because it'll
29:58
Speaker 1: it'll come back to bite you in the Yeah. And
30:01
Speaker 1: I think always get multiple quotes, like always ask around
30:04
Speaker 1: to get multiple quotes. You've got one quote that's super
30:07
Speaker 1: high and another quote that's super low. There's something wrong there,
30:10
Speaker 1: so you know, do your due diligence and find out
30:13
Speaker 1: why why there's such a big difference. But and then
30:16
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30:39
Speaker 1: are great, uh continuous for you all, and make sure
30:42
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30:45
Speaker 1: thanks for your advice. We'll continue to watch you as
30:47
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32:04
Speaker 1: a buddy? I am good. It is uh, it is
32:08
Speaker 1: chaos over here at our house. As you know, we
32:10
Speaker 1: have the twins. They're nine weeks old, and um yeah,
32:14
Speaker 1: we're surviving. But we've turned a corner. I feel like
32:18
Speaker 1: we are getting the hang of it. Every day is
32:19
Speaker 1: getting a little bit easier. So it is it's going good.
32:23
Speaker 1: Like give us like a non sugarcoated version of what
32:26
Speaker 1: a day in your life looks like right now, because
32:27
Speaker 1: I'm like that it's just like so intimidating to me.
32:31
Speaker 1: I thought of having two newborns and then a two
32:33
Speaker 1: year old. Well, I mean, I have you know, when
32:37
Speaker 1: we have a Lessie, she's too and she's two and
32:40
Speaker 1: two and a half months old, so she's a bundle
32:43
Speaker 1: of energy. And then the twins are just kind of
32:45
Speaker 1: unpredictable there. We try to keep them on the same
32:47
Speaker 1: schedule less sometimes one's like fussy and crying and then
32:51
Speaker 1: the other one sleeping. Sometimes they're both crying. Like honestly,
32:55
Speaker 1: the nights were just terrible for the first six to
33:00
Speaker 1: seven weeks and now finally the last two nights they
33:03
Speaker 1: slept through the night, both of them, and we feel
33:06
Speaker 1: like new new parents completely, just because we have so
33:09
Speaker 1: much more energy. And but yeah, how's Lauren doing. How's
33:13
Speaker 1: she feeling. She's good, she's um, you know, getting back
33:16
Speaker 1: to working out a little bit, and I think she's
33:18
Speaker 1: making some time for herself lately. And um, yeah, luckily
33:22
Speaker 1: we obviously both work from home, so that makes things
33:25
Speaker 1: a little bit easier. But it is what I think
33:28
Speaker 1: with twins more than anything, Uh, you need to both
33:32
Speaker 1: be on the same page and dive in and make
33:36
Speaker 1: it the priority. Otherwise it's just, yeah, it's just too difficult.
33:41
Speaker 1: So thankfully we have like a good thing going. I
33:43
Speaker 1: think we have a good balance as far as um
33:47
Speaker 1: helping each other out. Like if one of us is
33:48
Speaker 1: having a really tough day, the other one tends to
33:51
Speaker 1: step in and and be a little bit more proactive,
33:54
Speaker 1: um and vice versa. So we've been it's been really great.
33:58
Speaker 1: I think I already know the answer this question. But
34:01
Speaker 1: judging by your answers already, do you think your life
34:04
Speaker 1: you're in Lord's life changed more after having your first
34:08
Speaker 1: child or after having the twins? Um, that's actually a
34:13
Speaker 1: good question. I would say probably more after the first
34:17
Speaker 1: because we're already parenting a lessie. It's harder. It's definitely harder,
34:22
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. But um, you know when you
34:26
Speaker 1: go from not having kids and like traveling, well now
34:29
Speaker 1: no one's traveling, but you know, I guess pre COVID
34:32
Speaker 1: traveling and sort of being very spontaneous and you know,
34:35
Speaker 1: being out and about all the time, to having kids,
34:38
Speaker 1: it's just it's just a totally different lifestyle. Um. Now
34:41
Speaker 1: we're used to that, but the twins add like another
34:45
Speaker 1: layer on top of that, and our day is really structured,
34:48
Speaker 1: because if it's not structured, it just like doesn't run
34:52
Speaker 1: smoothly at all. So we we are like if I
34:55
Speaker 1: get to get out for like fifteen minutes twenty minutes,
34:58
Speaker 1: or get to work out in like you of like
35:00
Speaker 1: you're like so happy that you accomplished that in itself,
35:04
Speaker 1: which is nuts, alright, question for you. Obviously we're here
35:08
Speaker 1: today to talk about like homes and renovating homes and
35:12
Speaker 1: exploring the real estate market. You're deep into this and
35:16
Speaker 1: you have been for a while. In fact, even as
35:17
Speaker 1: the Bachelery. I think you told me when we were
35:19
Speaker 1: in Mexico together, you went right back to work pretty
35:21
Speaker 1: quickly because you love your job. What kind of trends
35:25
Speaker 1: are you seeing, especially in your area, which is a
35:28
Speaker 1: hot market right now, like one of the hottest for
35:31
Speaker 1: new homeowners of all levels, like luxury homes but also
35:34
Speaker 1: just your you know, just your nice like first home
35:37
Speaker 1: kind of buys. Yeah. I think right now the inventory
35:40
Speaker 1: um is picking up a little bit. I think we're
35:42
Speaker 1: seeing a little bit I wouldn't say it slow down,
35:45
Speaker 1: but more of a plateau in the market um. Whereas
35:48
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago it was a frenzy. You know,
35:50
Speaker 1: if you had a buyer, it was so hard to
35:52
Speaker 1: find a house. Now, I think it's a little it's
35:55
Speaker 1: leveled out a little bit. I wouldn't say it's slowing down,
35:57
Speaker 1: but at least we're kind of catching our breath. And
36:01
Speaker 1: for us in the Phoenix market, we have a ton
36:03
Speaker 1: of people moving here from California, UM, Oregon, Gosh, Texas,
36:08
Speaker 1: kind of everywhere. We're the fifth largest city in the US,
36:11
Speaker 1: so we're and we're growing really quickly. So for US
36:14
Speaker 1: UM the market is still really hot, but I wouldn't
36:17
Speaker 1: say it's as insane as a few months ago. Soon
36:20
Speaker 1: because we feel like we don't have a lot of
36:21
Speaker 1: space right now, should be like wait till next summer. Yeah, okay,
36:28
Speaker 1: that's the kicker. So yeah, no one has a No
36:31
Speaker 1: one has a crystal ball, right, you know. I think
36:33
Speaker 1: before the election, I told all my friends and I
36:36
Speaker 1: sold a lot of property myself. I was like, we
36:38
Speaker 1: gotta get out because the market is going to slow
36:40
Speaker 1: down after the election. But now, interestingly enough, the government
36:44
Speaker 1: has printed so much money that inflation is going to
36:47
Speaker 1: start rising, and the only way to curb inflation is
36:50
Speaker 1: to have UH assets such as real estate. The real
36:54
Speaker 1: estate inflation will follow the inflation rate of the dollar,
36:58
Speaker 1: so you're seeing a lot of wealthy people their money
37:00
Speaker 1: into real estate right now. Um, because that's the only
37:03
Speaker 1: way to protect your money. If your money is sitting
37:05
Speaker 1: in the bank account right now, it's becoming worth less
37:08
Speaker 1: and less. So you're seeing a lot of people throw
37:11
Speaker 1: their money into real estate. Um. And the interest rate
37:14
Speaker 1: they're so good right now. So if I were you,
37:16
Speaker 1: I would buy, like today, let's buy the property. Now.
37:20
Speaker 1: We're laughing at each other because that was probably the
37:22
Speaker 1: best advice we've gotten from anyone. Yeah, I'm not talking.
37:24
Speaker 1: That was the best advice literally, Ashley and I when
37:27
Speaker 1: you when you were speaking actually and I looked at
37:29
Speaker 1: internal like, uh, we've we've been We need to really
37:33
Speaker 1: change our thought process. Yeah, Hey, why did I think
37:37
Speaker 1: you guys already owned a house because we put a
37:40
Speaker 1: reservation on land. Yeah, because we do want to build
37:42
Speaker 1: one day and we think it's the perfect lot, but
37:45
Speaker 1: it maybe like five years in the future, just because
37:48
Speaker 1: like everything right now, like we have so much going on.
37:51
Speaker 1: We seem to people that would like own a house,
37:54
Speaker 1: you know, married kids, like they obviously owned something. Nope,
37:57
Speaker 1: not yet saying it's time to buy like three houses, Yeah,
38:02
Speaker 1: ere we go or a lot of vans. You know,
38:05
Speaker 1: I don't know. Are you in your van right now?
38:07
Speaker 1: That's that's where I am. The The thing about the
38:10
Speaker 1: van is, uh, while it is technically probably still a
38:13
Speaker 1: depreciating asset, I don't get any land with it. So
38:16
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a lose lose in that sense.
38:17
Speaker 1: But that is what it is. All the land, when
38:20
Speaker 1: you drive around, all the all the blm land belongs
38:24
Speaker 1: to me whenever. I'm honest. That's pretty nice, I suppose,
38:27
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't know if it was
38:29
Speaker 1: the best investment. Well it was, it was, but not
38:31
Speaker 1: for not for inflationary reasons, I guess. Well, is that
38:34
Speaker 1: one of the reasons that you guys bought your house
38:36
Speaker 1: in Hawaii? And how often do you expect to be
38:39
Speaker 1: able to get out there? So I think we'll probably
38:42
Speaker 1: head there for the summers. So when Lorda and I
38:44
Speaker 1: got together, she's like, I'm gonna move to Arizona for you,
38:47
Speaker 1: but just know that eventually down the line, I'm gonna
38:51
Speaker 1: need something near the water. She's like, I grew up
38:54
Speaker 1: in Virginia Beach and I like to be by the ocean.
38:57
Speaker 1: So that was sort of a uh like one of
39:01
Speaker 1: the boxes I had to check. You know. So we
39:04
Speaker 1: fell in love with this house in Hawaii because we
39:06
Speaker 1: got married on Maui. Um. And I actually have an
39:10
Speaker 1: investment friend who leases it eight months a year, so
39:13
Speaker 1: it cash you know, it cash flows itself. UM. So
39:18
Speaker 1: first and foremost, I think it was a good investment.
39:20
Speaker 1: And then the bonus is obviously using it during the
39:23
Speaker 1: summer months to get out of the heat for Arizona.
39:27
Speaker 1: Very smart. All right, well, let's dig in a little
39:29
Speaker 1: bit back to uh to the family questions, um, because
39:33
Speaker 1: obviously Jared nationally are entering into that season of life
39:36
Speaker 1: behave ari um that as people look for their homes,
39:41
Speaker 1: do you believe it's healthy for kids to have their
39:43
Speaker 1: own rooms if possible? I mean, every family is different.
39:47
Speaker 1: You know, our twins share a room and I'm sure
39:50
Speaker 1: they will share room for a really long time, or
39:52
Speaker 1: maybe a lessie in Senta will share room the girls,
39:55
Speaker 1: and I think that's Um. It all depends on your situation.
39:59
Speaker 1: And before you go, I do want to ask you, Uh.
40:01
Speaker 1: First of all, I want to congratulate you on your
40:03
Speaker 1: beautiful wife and your beauty family. Uh. It's exciting times
40:07
Speaker 1: for you guys. And I want to ask you something
40:09
Speaker 1: that definitely nobody else has ever asked you before in
40:12
Speaker 1: the history of your relationship with Lauren your family. Are
40:16
Speaker 1: you gonna guys? Are you guys gonna have more kids?
40:18
Speaker 1: I know you've never gotten this question before, but I figured, Hey,
40:21
Speaker 1: if you know, somebody's got to ask it. Yeah, I
40:24
Speaker 1: would say right now, it's a no, you know, because
40:28
Speaker 1: we're in just in the thick of it. We're in
40:30
Speaker 1: that newborn fog. It's tough. Every day is hard. And
40:34
Speaker 1: I always threatened Lauren with a vassect to me, like
40:37
Speaker 1: every day it's a weird threat. Mari, Like, that's a
40:42
Speaker 1: really odd You're really losing on that end of the threat.
40:45
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm gonna cut out, I'm gonna cut it open.
40:48
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go through pain for this. It's it's an
40:50
Speaker 1: interesting tactic. It's almost a threat to yourself. Feels hurtful.
40:56
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can't. Even My buddy Troy did it.
40:58
Speaker 1: He documented the whole thing on well, didn't really like
41:01
Speaker 1: to show everything, but he like went through the whole
41:03
Speaker 1: I don't even know um, but he was very open
41:06
Speaker 1: about it. He said it wasn't a big of a deal.
41:08
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think whenever you have a baby,
41:11
Speaker 1: you have to wait like at least six to eight
41:13
Speaker 1: months after that baby is born to be able to
41:17
Speaker 1: decide because I feel like you have amnesia when it
41:21
Speaker 1: comes to, uh, you know, having kids in the newborn phase,
41:24
Speaker 1: and then once you're out of that phase, like, oh
41:26
Speaker 1: that wasn't so bad. Um, So once we're out of
41:30
Speaker 1: the newborn phase, I will will make a decision as
41:32
Speaker 1: a family. And right now, as of now, I think
41:35
Speaker 1: we're good with three. Well, final question for you or
41:39
Speaker 1: just final thing. We got word that you're joining forces
41:43
Speaker 1: with tarik el Musa. What's going on there? Are It
41:46
Speaker 1: seems like a big deal. Yeah. So a lot of
41:50
Speaker 1: you guys probably know Tark from the show Flip or Flop. Um.
41:54
Speaker 1: I actually met his ex Christina and we got in
41:58
Speaker 1: Tark and I got to talking and we're joining forces.
42:01
Speaker 1: We're starting a group at the XP Realty So I'm
42:04
Speaker 1: moving brokerages from remaxed e XP. I'm really excited about it.
42:08
Speaker 1: It's the fastest growing brokerage right now in the country. Uh.
42:12
Speaker 1: It is an insane platform. It's basically a profit sharing
42:16
Speaker 1: brokerage where instead of giving back to those brick and
42:19
Speaker 1: mortar brokerages that you see. Typically you're you know your
42:23
Speaker 1: coal bankers, your remax is uh, they profit share with
42:27
Speaker 1: all their agents, so if you're a producing agent, you
42:30
Speaker 1: make all that commission split back and then some. UM.
42:34
Speaker 1: So it's really interesting and we're gonna be doing a
42:35
Speaker 1: lot of webinars. We're gonna be a lot of coaching.
42:38
Speaker 1: So if you guys want to join us, email me
42:41
Speaker 1: at Ari at realty by are dot com. Um, I'll
42:45
Speaker 1: give you more info for it. But I think it's
42:46
Speaker 1: gonna be really cool because it's not just an Arizona
42:48
Speaker 1: based team. It's gonna be a nationwide and even international
42:52
Speaker 1: team of realtors, all working towards the same goal making
42:55
Speaker 1: that money and obviously having fun along the way. Well are,
42:59
Speaker 1: but we let you go. I got one more question
43:02
Speaker 1: for you, because this is this podcast is sponsored by
43:04
Speaker 1: gap Home. Who does the decorating in your house and
43:07
Speaker 1: what's the compromise situation there? Lauren does decorating. Um, she
43:14
Speaker 1: she has a really good eye for it. She did
43:16
Speaker 1: all the decor for the twins room. Our rental houses
43:20
Speaker 1: are flips. I think that is something that she brings
43:24
Speaker 1: to the table and really elevates us as a as
43:27
Speaker 1: a team together. So she definitely has the eye and
43:30
Speaker 1: I'm more of the numbers guy and selling and buying
43:34
Speaker 1: side of things. Well, all right, thanks again for joining
43:36
Speaker 1: us man, We really appreciate it. Please give our best
43:39
Speaker 1: to Lauren. Uh and we wish you guys nothing but
43:41
Speaker 1: the best and have fun uh in your travels. Sounds good, guys, yep,
43:46
Speaker 1: good luck with everything, Ashley. Thanks all right, team, we
43:51
Speaker 1: did do this thing with four hosts, and just kudos
43:54
Speaker 1: to all of you for doing a great job. We
43:56
Speaker 1: have some great guests in this podcast. But before we go,
43:59
Speaker 1: I know that all of us, as we've mentioned many
44:01
Speaker 1: times throughout the last hour, are either redecorating our homes,
44:05
Speaker 1: buying new homes, starting to decorate homes, moving into these homes,
44:09
Speaker 1: and part of that is making sure that you have
44:11
Speaker 1: like the essential products that will make this house feel
44:14
Speaker 1: like a home. Doan, Let's start with you, Uh, all
44:17
Speaker 1: of us are fans of gap at home. You ordered
44:21
Speaker 1: some products through them. Why did you order them? And
44:23
Speaker 1: what did you order? Yeah? Well, Uh, there's one thing
44:27
Speaker 1: I've noticed in our house that you can never have
44:29
Speaker 1: too many of, and that is bath towels. I don't
44:32
Speaker 1: know why, but it whenever you need one the most,
44:36
Speaker 1: it's always hard to find. And so I made sure
44:39
Speaker 1: to order a bunch of extra bath towels for Kaitlin
44:41
Speaker 1: and I for our house in Las Vegas. That way,
44:43
Speaker 1: we're never in the predicament where you get out of
44:44
Speaker 1: a you know, a nice hot shower and you you
44:46
Speaker 1: don't know where the talent is. So we also got
44:49
Speaker 1: some kitchen sets because I personally like to take my
44:53
Speaker 1: time to run the dishwasher, and so you know, we
44:55
Speaker 1: don't want to be running low on anything in the kitchen.
44:58
Speaker 1: So we're set in the kitchen, in the bathroom, and
45:00
Speaker 1: that was kind of like the most important thing for
45:02
Speaker 1: me to get squared away. How many times do you
45:04
Speaker 1: use a towel before you wash it? Because Ashley and
45:07
Speaker 1: I had this conversation last week, and I want to know.
45:11
Speaker 1: I am sure you guys think my number is clearly high.
45:14
Speaker 1: I would probably use a towel um three to five
45:18
Speaker 1: times before what no, two to two to four times
45:21
Speaker 1: before washing it. Maybe maybe I am wrong, never mind,
45:25
Speaker 1: but I will I will say I so like I
45:29
Speaker 1: have my specific twe's Kalin has her towels, and I'll
45:33
Speaker 1: probably like use my tawel twice, throw it in the hamper,
45:36
Speaker 1: and then use her towel twice, so she like might
45:38
Speaker 1: we might be using that one like four times because
45:40
Speaker 1: I don't even know if she knows that I'm using
45:41
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Um, but yeah, I would say
45:43
Speaker 1: I would say no more than five guys just pause here,
45:46
Speaker 1: time out. Am I crazy? But like, I don't know
45:51
Speaker 1: if i'd be like down for Jessica to use my towel.
45:54
Speaker 1: I love that girl, and like, but like that towel
45:58
Speaker 1: is my towel, Ashley, and or can you answer this
46:00
Speaker 1: for us? If Ashley, if Jared used your towel, would
46:04
Speaker 1: you be a little bit like step off my hairy
46:08
Speaker 1: body all over it. I'm sure I've used this towel before.
46:11
Speaker 1: It's like not a big deal. It's just usually he
46:13
Speaker 1: leaves it really wet, Like it'll be damn what you're
46:16
Speaker 1: the one who leaves it wet. You get out literally,
46:19
Speaker 1: I get out of the shower, and we have a
46:21
Speaker 1: little math called like the mac gets what not the
46:23
Speaker 1: towel howel does not soaked? It's like you took it
46:27
Speaker 1: and okay, listen, He's referring to the fact that since
46:31
Speaker 1: I've been pregnant, I've been keeping the shower door open,
46:35
Speaker 1: and because I like having a lot of air everywhere.
46:38
Speaker 1: Has nothing to do with how wet I get the
46:40
Speaker 1: towel that I dry my body on. It's your even
46:46
Speaker 1: your mom. When I talked about this on Instagram, Mom
46:50
Speaker 1: was like, good, No, your mom is like, that is true.
46:53
Speaker 1: He does keep his He gets it from his father.
46:55
Speaker 1: Because I have no idea why friend's towels always so
46:58
Speaker 1: so yes, it at it. Yeah, I'm sorry you talked
47:03
Speaker 1: to my mom about my tollowing habits. She just responded,
47:06
Speaker 1: she fell passionately about this. You posted about this a
47:08
Speaker 1: couple of months ago. How did I see this? Help
47:11
Speaker 1: me understand how this could? How could how could a
47:13
Speaker 1: towel get more wet when it's like you're you're just
47:16
Speaker 1: drawing off a body, so get more wet than a
47:18
Speaker 1: regular That's a good point, Dean Ashley. I don't know
47:22
Speaker 1: what you do with your towel to make it so wet.
47:24
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you overuse the same area so many times.
47:27
Speaker 1: You need to like disperse the drawing through different parts.
47:29
Speaker 1: Another really funny thing Jared's has always been Oh my god,
47:32
Speaker 1: this is so funny. When we first started living together,
47:36
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know what the hell he's
47:37
Speaker 1: doing in the bathroom after a shower, because he would
47:40
Speaker 1: dry his body off like as if we were as
47:43
Speaker 1: if it were the car wash. Yer, okay, dry getting
47:48
Speaker 1: out of the shower, and he liked with like huff
47:51
Speaker 1: and puff. He'd like, well, let's were at to put
47:55
Speaker 1: up the explicit warning on the podcast. What is he doing?
47:59
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, something vigorously. And see I knew as
48:03
Speaker 1: soon as she said that everybody's going to have their
48:05
Speaker 1: heads in the gutter. Well because I'm self conscious about
48:08
Speaker 1: it and insecure about it. So now I take my
48:10
Speaker 1: time drying myself, even though I like to get in
48:13
Speaker 1: you know, once I'm out of the shower, like the
48:16
Speaker 1: door opens up, I started getting cold. I'm like, I'm
48:18
Speaker 1: not comfortable anymore. Alright, long are your guys showers? Because Jared,
48:22
Speaker 1: if he has it too, like, if he has the
48:25
Speaker 1: time time to do it, he can be in there
48:28
Speaker 1: for an entire thirty minutes. That's a long time. I
48:31
Speaker 1: would say ten to ten minutes. This is actually a
48:34
Speaker 1: a Dean lesson for me. Dean told me that I'm
48:38
Speaker 1: into water conservation right now, especially if in Colorado. Dean
48:41
Speaker 1: had has told me a few things in my life,
48:43
Speaker 1: and I love friends who will grab me by the
48:45
Speaker 1: collar and tell me when I'm wrong. One was I
48:48
Speaker 1: was using a plastic water bottle at the airport. Dean said, hey, Ben,
48:51
Speaker 1: as a friend, would you please switch to something usable?
48:54
Speaker 1: And ever since then I have Uh. Dean's also told me,
48:58
Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about many times out to wear underwear.
49:01
Speaker 1: That was a big mistake on Dean's park because I
49:03
Speaker 1: didn't work out very well for me. I'd no longer
49:05
Speaker 1: use dryer sheets because of Dean. I pulled away from that.
49:09
Speaker 1: So I do listen to him. I don't know if
49:11
Speaker 1: he listens to me. Ever, Hey, back to the back
49:14
Speaker 1: to the question though, um, because you do have to
49:16
Speaker 1: go Jared Nashley, what did you order from gap at Home?
49:19
Speaker 1: We ordered a couple of different things. I really wanted
49:21
Speaker 1: this Gap Home sixteen piece round black stoneware dinner set.
49:25
Speaker 1: That's a mouthful, but I love I love mugs. I
49:27
Speaker 1: don't know why, very odd so many mugs, I know,
49:31
Speaker 1: but that's why I always want to buy more. So
49:32
Speaker 1: I was really looking at that, but instead we got
49:34
Speaker 1: the Gap Home washed, frayed edged, organic cotton quilt. And
49:38
Speaker 1: why do you think I got that? Because it's very
49:40
Speaker 1: beautiful and you love blankets, and it's white and it
49:42
Speaker 1: matches our color scheme. Yeah, and are duve right now?
49:47
Speaker 1: It's two years old or whatnot. And like a month
49:50
Speaker 1: into having it, our dog ate a hole into it.
49:52
Speaker 1: Then we put a patch over it. It does not
49:55
Speaker 1: the classic. It's like torn up because Lois has just
49:59
Speaker 1: bites everything. And we also got the Gap Home. What
50:02
Speaker 1: is that towel set? Gray mill Millnage, Milage. Well, the
50:07
Speaker 1: reason we had to get the towel set, even though
50:10
Speaker 1: it was on our wedding registry and we got some
50:12
Speaker 1: really nice towels is because something on what I use
50:16
Speaker 1: in my face totally ruined those towels towels. They look
50:20
Speaker 1: like they're seventy four years old. But anyway, so we
50:24
Speaker 1: got a brand new set. They're gray, they're really cozy,
50:27
Speaker 1: very cozy. As Dean says, you can never have enough towels. Well,
50:31
Speaker 1: team I uh, I did a couple of things. One
50:34
Speaker 1: is we're really making the basement of this home the
50:37
Speaker 1: place that we want to be um and uh, it's
50:40
Speaker 1: cool down there. It's nice, it's comfy. And so we
50:42
Speaker 1: got a big old couch because the thing we splurged on.
50:45
Speaker 1: So I got some throw pillows for that couch. Um,
50:48
Speaker 1: some nice blue throw pillows. Um, they're gonna be super comfy.
50:51
Speaker 1: I office. I also loaded up on some towels because
50:54
Speaker 1: the thing is, we have a we have a lot
50:56
Speaker 1: of guests that come through Denver, a lot of people
50:59
Speaker 1: moving through and um, in a lot of the towels.
51:03
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I don't know when
51:04
Speaker 1: it's appropriate to throw away a towel quite honestly. I
51:07
Speaker 1: have towels from when I was like five years old.
51:09
Speaker 1: It has been Higgins on it or saw Shark swim team. Well,
51:13
Speaker 1: you can't throw that out. You can't throw it out.
51:16
Speaker 1: I have beach towels from kindergarten, you know the Aladdin
51:18
Speaker 1: and yeah, so like there's just not a need to
51:21
Speaker 1: throw them out. But you do want your guests to
51:23
Speaker 1: have nice, fluffy, comfortable towels. So I want with some
51:25
Speaker 1: towels to They're really gonna add to the home. I'm
51:28
Speaker 1: pumped about it here. Okay, I have one thing that
51:31
Speaker 1: I really want for this house, guys, and let's end
51:33
Speaker 1: this podcast was saying one thing that you really know
51:36
Speaker 1: right now you need for your new home that you
51:38
Speaker 1: don't currently have. I need this, and if somebody could
51:41
Speaker 1: point me in the right direction, I need one of
51:42
Speaker 1: those tub things that go across the tub so you
51:45
Speaker 1: can like sit a computer on it, or candles or like, um,
51:50
Speaker 1: a coffee cup. I can't find those anywhere, So somebody
51:53
Speaker 1: knows where on Amazon? Without that way, I don't. I've
51:56
Speaker 1: never bought anything on Amazon, quite honestly, so I'm about
51:59
Speaker 1: to I'm about to start one of those They're nice.
52:02
Speaker 1: You've never bought anything on Amazon, anything off Amazon? No,
52:05
Speaker 1: I just I usually like to go to the store.
52:07
Speaker 1: And so I'm I'm making a switch in my life.
52:09
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start buying things on Amazon because everybody tells
52:12
Speaker 1: me to. Well, Ben, Hey, we've got one of those
52:15
Speaker 1: bathtub things, so if you ever want to come over
52:16
Speaker 1: and take a bath at our house, you can definitely
52:18
Speaker 1: borrow ours. Um. The one thing that I need for
52:21
Speaker 1: our house is so Kalin is responsible for decorating the house.
52:27
Speaker 1: She gave me one room to decorate myself. It's essentially
52:29
Speaker 1: like my my man cave more or less, you know, um,
52:33
Speaker 1: and what I really just need in there is just
52:36
Speaker 1: a like a decision because like I have all these
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Speaker 1: ideas and I know what it kind of like what
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Speaker 1: I want to do here and there, but I don't
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Speaker 1: know if there's gonna be like flow, and I really
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Speaker 1: just need to decide. So like it's not really like
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Speaker 1: an actual product that I need. It's more of just
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Speaker 1: like a you know, make up your mind sort of thing.
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Speaker 1: But that's that's that's all I really need to think. Ashley,
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Speaker 1: Jared and where the opposite. We need a whole other
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Speaker 1: room for a nursery. Everybody's like, oh yeah, you uh
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Speaker 1: to like that great nursery. I'm like, that's just very
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Speaker 1: stressful for me because we do not have a location
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Speaker 1: for first of all, that's not how everybody sounds. Secondly,
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Speaker 1: we do need more room. We have an apartment right now,
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, adding another human being that's a lot. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: We'll be back next time. Okay, Ashley and Jared and Dean,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna follow our lead now since Jared took the
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