LET'S DIG | Pierre & Danilee Aristil
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LET'S DIG | Pierre & Danilee Aristil
Our Story | Part 1 | From College Chaos to Lasting Love: Unveiling 17 Years of Falling in Love
Ever stumbled upon a love story that felt like it was scripted in the stars? We're peeling back the curtain on our own, which kicked off with a chaotic meeting at Bible College. It's a tale laced with affectionate nicknames and a humor-filled debate on past fashion faux pas, but don't be fooled – it's these eclectic moments that have woven the rich tapestry of our nearly two-decade-long marriage.
Strap in for a journey to Canal Winchester, Ohio, where a bass guitar and 50 Cent track set the stage for a spring formal invite that turned our world upside down. Our podcast navigates through the noise of shared music passions and the distinctive Bible college culture, where the concept of a 'ring by spring' looms large. You'll be privy to the candid moments that spun our friendship into a connection much deeper, peppered with tales of thrift store date nights and the challenges of nurturing a budding romance amidst life's unpredictable rhythms.
Join us as we unfold the lessons learned from 17 years of love, laughter, and everything in between. From navigating the early stages of dating to recognizing when a relationship is divinely intended, we're laying it all out. There's wisdom to be shared, laughter to be had, and maybe – just maybe – a few notes on love that could ignite your own story. So tune in, share your thoughts, and let's keep this conversation, one that's been growing stronger over the years, going.
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Today may be a little challenging because we have very different perspectives of this topic, and that is how we met and how we started talking, and I remember you being in the back of this big auditorium that we used to go to school at. You had your fro, you had your Tim's on and you had no facial hair, it was just straight baby face I had facial hair. You didn't have. You had, like your sideburns, but that was it.
Speaker 1:No, I've always had facial hair, Basically if you just flip what's on his beard up to his head, like that's what it looked like.
Speaker 2:That's not true. That's not true. I had facial hair like little pencil mustache.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, you did, and then the way I used to do my facial hair.
Speaker 2:I used to do like the facial, like the little pencil thing right here, so I had a few different ways. So I would either do like straight, super sharp Listen, this is how we did it in the 90s and the early 2000s 90s.
Speaker 1:You're literally talking about 2000 and 70s, 2008.
Speaker 2:And that's why I said in the 2000s.
Speaker 1:You're a decade off.
Speaker 2:Remember I used to watch Ice God. Okay, so imagine what like? Not a little bow out, but like Mario, like what we used to look, like like B2K right, we had the little fro little blowout on the side, you pat it down. You'd wear the do rag so that it'd get all right, and then the facial hair. It was super sharp. Okay anyway, people on Spotify. Apple can't even see us right now, but I had little pencil, little little black hair going down my chin right there to a little pencil little mustache.
Speaker 1:Anyways, I remember you saying like Yo, what's up, shorty? Like we had already met once or twice. But you used to call me shorty and I turned around and looked at you and I was like oh no, or little mama, I don't remember which one it was, either one. I told you verbatim that's such a cute nickname. If you keep calling me that I might have to marry you.
Speaker 2:So I just want to say for the record, that is not the story on how we met. You've kind of just went. You kind of just went two, three weeks in. The first time we ever met was in the coffee shop.
Speaker 1:Yes, I remember the coffee shop and then I gave you a ride home, you and your friend, and I asked a bunch of questions.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's where the story needs to start because, people are like shorty little mama. Oh yeah, you guys already had sparks. No, the the.
Speaker 1:We didn't have sparks for a while. Oh, we tell it in the story about how we met again, I would like to rewind. Today's going to be a challenging one because we have very different viewpoints of how this story unfolded.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, this is not a viewpoint. Mine is going to be all facts and only facts, whatever.
Speaker 1:Anyways, okay, the very first time I met you was in the coffee shop. Your friend, your roommate, asked me to drive you guys home. I was busy yelling and screaming jiggle them keys.
Speaker 2:Now let's pause right there. Now I'm going to insert my perspective. I'm sitting. So for those of you that know me, I'm I'm super introvert, quiet. I'm to myself, Like if you talk to me I'm going to talk back to you, but I'm typically not the first one to talk. That just be by nature. Now, for those of you that know me at church, things like that you say, oh, Pierre, so outgoing? Not really true. I just know that I'm called into ministry and I do enjoy serving people. So because of that, I work hard to be outgoing, or I work hard to be or to show my extrovert side and we all have that in us but by nature to myself, introvert. So I'm sitting there at the little coffee bar there at our Bible college that we went to, that we met in Columbus, Ohio, or canal Winchester, Ohio.
Speaker 1:Can now Winchester. I forgot about it. I told you and Reynoldsburg.
Speaker 2:I told you, boy, I'm going to have the actual facts and we'll find out.
Speaker 2:So it was canal, winchester, ohio, at the Bible college. This was after a day of chapel and things like that. And you said Tim's and I did not wear Tim's because those were only on dress down days. We wore suit and dresses all day long. So I was actually wearing like a three piece suit. If what I probably may have had is probably like a shirt, tie, a zip up on the bottom and then a jacket, blazer on the top, you know really slim, slim pants, dress pants, argyle socks and little like you know square toe shoes. There it goes, that making sense. And then with my little pencil glasses, I had like little glasses on and little fro, I'm sitting there drinking my water.
Speaker 2:And all of a sudden I hear all this ruckus in the lobby like, ah, what's up?
Speaker 1:I'm Adrienne Cooley Ba ba, ba, ba ba, and I'm just sitting there.
Speaker 2:Some of my Deannity Kane fans, they know, they know Yo and I'm just sitting there just drinking my little water, just like this, and I'm like, oh my God, somebody in this room is so loud, they're so annoying and I feel like they want attention and I'm not giving it to them.
Speaker 1:They want attention. The wild thing is I was doing none of that, for you None of that for attention. And now my I was just super comfortable, knew all the people I was loving life.
Speaker 2:So my buddy, who's sitting next to me, he hears you and he engages.
Speaker 1:I hate that so many people are like oh, I thought I heard you Like that's a common phrase in my life, so my friend, who's my roommate, engages in this stampede, engages, and so now he's like, oh, that's my girl.
Speaker 2:So he gives a yo, danny, what up, that's my girl. And I'm just sitting there and I'm like I'm not even gonna turn around because whoever this is, nope, I'm just sitting there. I'm just like, oh my gosh, you're so loud. And all of a sudden I can hear him say yo, you got me my homeboy Pete, you got me my homeboy. And I'm like, oh right, so he's like yo, pete. So I get off the bar stool and I sit, I turn around and there you are. So now you come up to me, right, and he's like he puts you like yo, pete, this my home girl, danny Lee. I say, oh, nice to meet you. And of course Danny is like, hey, what's up? Oh, where you from? I ask him and then all of a sudden you know, we said goodbye he goes back through her, through her stampede, she does her rounds through the whole, through the whole lobby, all that stuff. I'm like nice to meet you, but my head thing, I'm like man, that girl is so loud, cool, 15, 20 minutes later go by me and my homeboy was sitting there and I'm like yo, how are we gonna get back to the crib?
Speaker 2:Cause we didn't have a car. So he's like yo, actually, my home girl, danny Lee, she has a car. I'm gonna go ask her. I was like, okay, cool, so I'm just sitting there. He comes back. He's like yo, yo, she's gonna take us back to the crib. Okay, danny Lee's over here knocking over the microphone. All right, I'm just continuing with your like do you need a tech guy? Is it working?
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm good, there you go, sorry. So yo he's like all right, cool, she's gonna give us a ride. So we go out. She's loud, she. Her keys are loud, her bag is loud, Her flip flops are loud, cause back then you used to wear really everyone wore high heels and they would have sandals and flip flops so that they can take off the heels.
Speaker 1:Cause our feet would be tied.
Speaker 2:Oh, I told you I was gonna have all the facts.
Speaker 1:Oh, my word. You're just at the very beginning. This is the first interaction. We got a long way to go, Mariah how much time do you guys have? While you guys are watching this video. We're never gonna make our goal, I know this is struggling.
Speaker 2:We should have talked about this. This might have to be part one.
Speaker 1:part two I think so.
Speaker 2:So this is the first day we meet. You know, it's January, canal, winchester, ohio, 2007. It's cold, there's like snow and slush outside, things like that. So you know, so there's all that. So we're walking out to her car. She's like bro, she opens up her trunk cause I put my bass guitar or something like that in your trunk, her trunk, jesus Father.
Speaker 1:God, I literally don't remember Father. I don't remember this part.
Speaker 2:God, creating her a clean trunk, a clean heart.
Speaker 1:Oh man. So I throw my bass Probably looks literally like what my car trunk looks like right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, basically my bass couldn't fit in your trunk right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it can't cause all my hair stuff.
Speaker 2:We put her stuff in it.
Speaker 2:So she gets in the car. She's talking oh my God, today, today, today we're talking about oh my oh. And then and my friend he's engaging I get in the back Whoa, you guys heard this motorcycle. Okay, you guys know we live in the city so there's always going to be noise, sirens and stuff like that. Sometimes we're going to stop for it, sometimes we're not going to stop for it. Today was this guy who just drove by our condo wanted to. He really wanted to be heard. So we get in Danny Lee's car, guys, and when I tell you I've prayed so hard in that moment for my life, it was crazy. I prayed so hard for my life. I knew God was coming that day.
Speaker 2:Bro, she's driving. She's listening to like 50 Cent and Eminem, Like we just came out of church class. Her music is so loud. He's in the front talking there like bumping. Yeah, yeah, all that, that, that, that, that that you know in the club, listening to Chingie, all this stuff. She's like yeah, turn up. She's talking loud. She's driving like a madman and I'm in the back seat. She's like so, pierre, so is it Pete? Is it Pierre? Like what do you call it by. I said Pete, pierre, peter, it does PeeDee, pete, and he and my boy. He's like, yeah, that's my boy Pete, that's my boy Pete. Yes, I'm saying.
Speaker 2:He's like okay, so where you from, Florida, you know all this stuff. Okay, how old are you? 18. Oh okay, did you first semester? Yep, she's just asking me all these questions how do you like it? I'm like, how do you like the code? And I'm just like it's good, fine, it's a little chilly, yeah, uh-uh brought me in a club in the back.
Speaker 1:One word answers every time he just would not open up for nothing.
Speaker 2:And I remember thinking I hate her and that was day one. That's all I got. That's how we met.
Speaker 1:Oh, my word so is that.
Speaker 2:Is that is that correct, or?
Speaker 1:that one is correct. That one is correct. And then it progressed. It just became I would need someone to play keys. So then I started asking you to play for me. You'd play piano while I sang right like school stuff or whatever, so I would start picking you up. Then we had a spring formal dance and I told you you were taking me, not because I had any feelings for you or like to or whatever, but at that point I just knew I'd have fun with you, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I was like hey, by the way, you're taking me to spring formal because I wasn't interested in anybody else. So I wasn't like hoping that somebody asked me like there was no, no guys there that I liked, and so I was like I just want to go with someone I'm going to have fun with and it won't feel awkward. So I'm going to tell Pierre like hey, you're taking me to spring formal For sure.
Speaker 2:Well, and obviously I'm going to say this right now, you and I give stories very differently.
Speaker 1:I, because you need to rewind again.
Speaker 2:We, because you just fast forwarded to April in 207. Well, I'm just saying we don't have all day we do this is Spotify, apple and YouTube and Google and our heart radio in the red, where ever you go, wherever everybody else is.
Speaker 1:We are on I heart radio.
Speaker 2:I know, that's why I said that, and desert and all the other weird ones.
Speaker 1:Random ones of who? Is on there.
Speaker 2:And yeah, it's crazy. Anyways, subscribe. Yeah, it was an interesting few months because you know, from there we'd see each other here and there. You know, hey, what's up. You know small talk here and there, like you know. And yeah, like we weren't like crushing on each other. I actually had a girlfriend at the time. My, like, my high school girlfriend was still my girlfriend. We were still together kind of do long, long distance. You know we would call after nine o'clock when the minutes were free, all that stuff, you know. But she was still. She was her senior year in high school, my first year in college, so her and I were still long distance. It was hard. Obviously we're not seeing each other. So I'm in college now and so now I'm at Bible college, you know where, you know you see all these girls. You see everyone's dressed to the tee. It's Sunday's best, every single day, every day.
Speaker 2:It's Sunday's best. Every single day, and in Bible college and ministry school, these girls are fighting to get a ring by spring.
Speaker 1:It's true. You're literally looking for your partner to go into ministry of what God has called you to do. You're going to build that with and you're going to find that man at Bible college.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it was. So you know it's Bible college. They had all kinds of rules for Bible college students. You know I have my thoughts towards the rules. It's it's it doesn't work. It's, you know, the world, the more rules people just, you know, people were, you know, still living crazy lives. I mean, people were getting kicked out. Still, this is Bible ministry.
Speaker 2:You know people were hiding and sneaking things like that. Like there was there wasn't real accountability, so everybody was dating around, hanging out things like that. But you and I we were anytime we were with each other, it was in group settings. I was part of the band, you were part of the worship team and things like that. So, yeah, like you know, every on, like there'll be sometimes where Danily had to like lead worship early mornings for prayers, and so she knew that I played keys as well, so she had a car, so she would just pick me up, like it'd be like once or twice a week or something like that, and so it'd be in a car together driving to the Bible college. You know talking, and it wasn't a long drive, I mean 10 minute drive, you know what.
Speaker 2:I mean Super short and we're just talking here and there, but it was straight, just work, class, classroom, worship, what songs do you want to do? Okay, that's kind of cool, kind of getting to know you weren't crushing on me, I wasn't crushing on you, I wasn't even looking at nobody because I had a girlfriend, right, Right. And then fast forward a few, several weeks where you know we're doing that more and more still, hanging out in group settings, things, things like that. And I think it was one night you came over to because I, because we lived off campus, all of us lived off campus, so I lived off campus with, like with my roommates, my cousins and we, you guys, you came over to like hang out or something like that.
Speaker 2:I think you was working at Sticking Shake or something random. You brought like milkshakes or something, right, and me and my boys were sword fighting with long story. We had these, these. We're fighting like sword fighting, playing around um, bible college students. But Dan Lee was there, she had a good time hanging out and I think if that was a night where you kind of noticed your boy, it literally changed.
Speaker 1:I was looking at you you were being a sword fighter, whatever, um, and I saw your face differently, like out of nowhere. I just I saw your face differently and I was like, oh, he's actually really handsome, yeah. But it even that. It wasn't like oh, I think I like him, it was just like oh, my gosh, my friend this whole time, my friend I'm hanging out with and having a blast and just laughing with all the time. He's actually really cute.
Speaker 2:So by this point it's probably like March or so, so this is like three months after we've met, and so there we started getting really like cool with each other, like fun, like having a good time. That's when I started calling you like little mama.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That was. We became playful and just like what's up, little mama, you know, stuff like that Like she wasn't as annoying still annoying but as she wasn't as annoying, and I started calling you little mama, things like that, and shorty, and yeah and shorty. Yeah, right, started calling you little mama shorty because you was obviously short and you know, and all that stuff. But the next month, april, comes by and that's where we had like our spring formal. Right, it's like the prom for college students. It's like the prom. Everybody's trying to figure out who they're going to go with, things like that.
Speaker 2:April it's weird because it's my birthday, but I have a girlfriend. Still, I'll go from back at home, so I still. Again, I wasn't like trying to pursue any girls because I had a girl long distance and we, we just hang in, talking and things like that. And one time one day, dan and Lee comes to me and say you can take me to spring formal and I was like, okay, I'm gonna pause right there and say ladies, don't get so upset, don't be so mad when we say this, but sometimes for guys it's easier when you just come up to us. It was just like, yeah, cool, fine, yeah, sure, you know.
Speaker 1:Wait, you don't have the facts.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:You literally told me I'll get back to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, here's why I was gonna get back to you, and this is where you're.
Speaker 1:You just said right now, like you're not doing a good job keeping facts. I said, hey, you're gonna take me spring for a moment. You said I'll think about it, I'll get back to you. Yeah, but that was because you had a girlfriend at home, so that's. I had no idea.
Speaker 2:Yes, and here's why you didn't have an idea, because we were just friends. We were just friends. They never came up. My girlfriend's long distance Right. She's in high school still my first year of college and we were talking and texting all the time.
Speaker 1:Sure, and I had no. We were literally just friends.
Speaker 2:There was never a time where it was like fully platonic. Yeah, yeah, there was never a time. So that's why I say I'd get back to you, because actually, honorable thing, hey, your boy. I called my girlfriend and was telling her about it. It was actually my birthday night, april 5th. You guys better mark your freaking calendars, all right?
Speaker 1:Oh my word, you mark your. You're still aggressive.
Speaker 2:I have birthday issues.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's also another episode.
Speaker 2:Yo, that's a whole other episode. I have birthday issues. You guys know what I'm gonna say real quick. I share birthdays with my dad. My dad had the same exact birthday. I have his name and all that stuff, and in the Haitian culture they do not celebrate children's birthdays. So my whole entire life I never had a birthday, never had a birthday party. And my dad they threw him banquets and big concerts and big galas. And Dan Lee shout out to my wife, first person to ever throw me a birthday party while I was an adult in my 20s, and so, because of that, birthdays are a hard topic. But we're gonna talk about that because we talked about it in therapy and I still haven't made it through that.
Speaker 2:But, that's okay.
Speaker 1:That's okay. That was a really hard rabbit trail. I need you to just come back to talk about.
Speaker 2:Us. Anyways, I was telling my girlfriend that you asked me and there's a spring formal and there's a girl, she's just my friend, her name is Dan Lee, she just wants me to take. Well, my girlfriend didn't take it right, it was just. It got into a big fight, argue and she broke up with me.
Speaker 1:It's crazy.
Speaker 2:On my birthday, over the phone broke up with me, dang, and it was like that's crazy, so I don't know if I ever told you this. So the next day I said Okay, I'll take you.
Speaker 2:I'll take you, let's go. And that was April 2007. We went to the spring formal. But here's what's crazy. At that moment, once my girlfriend broke up with me, I'm like all right, cool. First of all, I'm just turned 19. I just turned 19. You were a child, I was a child. And then my boyfriend said don't come for me. He said, oh my God, it's best to be here. It was a relaxed chill. All right, I was just man. These sirens are going off right now. I was just 19. And so for me, what time is it right now? We got to see, because we also got to go to church tonight. Let's wait for these sirens to finish what they're doing. Right now they're hot and heavy. Right now, it's always when we're recording, there we go. I was just 19. So to me I'm like okay, great free agent, so perfect, because I had my eyes on a few girls anyways.
Speaker 1:Which was not me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, daniel Lee actually.
Speaker 1:To be clear.
Speaker 2:So we're going to put that in there. I did have my eyes on a few girls Now that I was a free agent and Daniel Lee didn't make the cut.
Speaker 1:We were just friends.
Speaker 2:Because we were just friends. But I still said we're going to still take her. There was another girl that I actually did want to take. We're not going to mention her name, we're not going to mention, we're not going to describe her because I don't know if she listened to our podcast.
Speaker 1:Listen, you'd be surprised who is listening, so we're not going to go there.
Speaker 2:So there was another girl, Baba Kaza, I wanted to take. There was another one too. There was a few of them and I was like man, but anyways, but Daniel Lee and I was cool and we did have a good time. But anyways, Daniel Lee and I was really cool, we did have a good time and we had fun. And we had fun, like we went there and we had a good time and from there it was a good night. We hung out with chill, we didn't do nothing stupid.
Speaker 2:We didn't do nothing, old first kids or anything like that Nothing.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like that. I had started to like you a little bit, but like nothing, crazy Matter of fact, I drove.
Speaker 2:I borrowed another girl's car. That was my friend that was there. She was when they came up to Baba Kaza with me. I borrowed her car to pick it, because you're not going to pick me up on this event this night.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you didn't let me do that, you picked me up. But also, the friend who introduced us was in the backseat. He is in the backseat too. We all took a picture together.
Speaker 2:But that was one of the first signs of that Like, trust me, like I'm going to get us there, like I'm going to, I got this. You're not going to pick me up. I didn't have a car, but I'm like I knew how to get from point A to point B, like we're going to have a good time, and that's always been my nature.
Speaker 1:And you remember the dress I found. I found it like a clearance place and I had a friend who, like, did some different pinning on the bottom, but then you took the wrap and you made it your tie. I did.
Speaker 2:And he had like this super fat clock I did, and that suit I got it from Goodwill. Yo, we're going to post a picture of that first date because that's our first official date, but more like as friends, yeah, more as friends, like man, honestly, like we had a good time and it was still. Is that I? And I'm just going to put this out right now? This is just this, just I'm just going to say this I'm a free agent, she's a free agent. So, long story, really short. From there we hung out more and more than I don't know when we just started kissing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know when that happened either, but you just liked kissing, though Cause I found out that you don't.
Speaker 2:you don't want me to tell you a story. I found out that back then, no, I did kiss a couple of times I did kiss boys.
Speaker 1:Anyways. But then this is when it became okay. So this is when it did become. I was working at Steak and Shake shout out to y'all in the Midwest who know what Steak and Shake is and I would use my milkshakes that I got on the end of my shift, because you'd get like a free milkshake at the end of your shift. I would use that and I would get the biggest milkshake, knowing I will never finish it, knowing I don't wanna finish it and I couldn't finish it. And then I'd call you on my way home and be like ugh, I have this giant milkshake that I just won't be able to finish. You want me to bring it by for you, like you can just finish it.
Speaker 2:And you'd be like I was like, yeah sure, yeah sure. So I hung up with the other girl and I'm playing.
Speaker 1:You probably did, jerk, I probably did. That's a whole different thing.
Speaker 2:That's a whole. I hung up and I was like hey, and we'll talk about this a whole nother day, because I know people think about that when it comes to dating. I'm like yo, we weren't dating, we're friends, like my options are open. So I was talking to a few girls and I know that's debatable because girls-.
Speaker 1:That's a double standard, because girls do not function that way. Girls do not function that way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know you guys don't function that way. You guys just imagine your whole life with the person, and the person is like oh snap. You tried your first name with my last name?
Speaker 1:Yep, sure did. What's wrong with y'all? Signed my name a million times.
Speaker 2:Okay, we didn't do that, we just imagined. I said, what the few y'all? We're just trying to figure out who's the one, who's the best fit. Who's the best fit? You know what I mean. And so, anyway, she started coming over and she would bring over the milkshake. We would just hang outside, and that had to have been one of the first times, like we just kissed. Something like that. I don't even know when or how. I don't know if you went in or I went in for the kiss?
Speaker 1:I have no idea.
Speaker 2:I have no idea, but by this time it's like May or so, April, May, it was pretty. From that point it was pretty quick, you know what I mean. And then we would start hanging out and I remember one day you had to move. I remember one time one of your homeboys came and he was pissed because your car died in front of our townhouse and he was angry that you was even hanging out with me. And I remember you were even embarrassed to even let people know that you liked me.
Speaker 1:OK, I thought you were going to talk about when I was dropping on the cuss words about that friend he was mad I was hanging out with him.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, boy, Dan Lee had it.
Speaker 1:Because I was mad that he is not going to be controlling.
Speaker 2:So I dropped all the bombs. Should I say Dan Lee had a potty mouth or has a potty mouth? How do you want me to accept that?
Speaker 1:It's a work in progress, the Lord is working on me and I'm constantly working on it. But in Bible college and I was so mad at that friend that I was like he can't control me. Who is he? I think he is. And I was dropping a bunch of cuss words and you said later on you told me that it was so ugly that I was cussing that you were like I'll never call her again.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I told I confronted Dan Lee because I was like I like for you to be talking like that, using language like that, first of all not cool, not cute, unattractive, and I'm like I don't even want to talk to you knowing that that's how you talk. I was very upfront and I had nothing to lose telling you something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:And then from there we just started hanging out more and things like that. But I think from then, since we started kissing privately and stuff like that, we in public would be like hey, what's up high five. Side hug, church hug, and so I mean one time you had to move so I helped you move. And my homeboy helped us move too, and Dan Lee made me this uncooked pizza.
Speaker 1:I don't like crispy things y'all, so I didn't overcook the pizza, but apparently I didn't cook at all.
Speaker 2:I came over to help her move, and because I helped to move, she was like hey, I'm going to make you. I got some pizza, I'll make you pizza.
Speaker 1:It was like a frozen pizza.
Speaker 2:This girl puts a pizza in the oven and, like, two minutes later she taken it out, and so I'm like you're so dramatic, it wasn't seven minutes later, it wasn't well done Whatever. It wasn't well done. It wasn't done. You don't even need to use the word well, that mug wasn't done. You can see the whole shape of the cheese, like the actual form of the cheese, the shreds of the cheese in the middle of the pizza, and I could pull the cheese and the pepperoni apart. Very well, that mug ain't done. You're so dramatic.
Speaker 1:Anyways.
Speaker 2:That pizza was not done. So, anyways, we're just hanging out. I'm hanging out with her. She makes me this pizza. I had to pray so that I didn't catch like some type of crazy bug or something like that. Anyway, so we're eating this pizza and my friend, he tells me later on, when we went back to the house. He told me he's like bro, if I didn't know better, like you guys gave all vibes, like you guys are like into each other, and I was like, yeah, I don't know. I was like I mean, yeah, you know, you never know, bro, you never know, you know us boys like we try to like, like you know what I mean. And I mean from there. I mean that was just our relationship for weeks, for months.
Speaker 2:I think we're going to have to cut this episode half or we just keep talking. And yeah, I know we got to go. I don't know why we started recording right now. We literally got to go to church. But it's crazy, man, because I think about that season of us just hanging out and guys and girls, the difference from what we have. And I think the biggest challenge there was like you had your mind and your eyes on me and you didn't want anyone to know because you had gotten out of a bad relationship. You got, you were in some sticky situations.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I got hurt, for sure you got hurt from people that you trust.
Speaker 2:Yep, you know, that's a whole nother conversation for a whole nother day we got to even talk about, we want to talk about some of that stuff, you know. And then, and because of that, the people that you trusted you weren't ready to tell them that you had feelings towards me and I was on a different spectrum to where I was like I don't even know, because she's cool, she's cute, but there's some other ones too. I remember I was telling, like one of my boys back in Florida I was sending him pictures of like all the girls that like could be potential ones. Like I had one of you, I had one of the other one or one of the other girl. I was like what you think? And I remember him saying, like he told me which one he voted towards too, like straight up voting on girls.
Speaker 1:You guys are so sick, men, boys, whatever.
Speaker 2:Come on, I was 19. At that point you're boys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you boys are dumb.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it was crazy. No-transcript.
Speaker 1:It's crazy to think of all of that and then to be sitting here in our home Just celebrating 14 years of marriage, two kids in Serving at the church together, like doing our podcast, like all the things, all the lives that we've been through together Like we were just babies.
Speaker 2:It was just babies. I want to do another. Let's do another conversation, more like a part two of like how did we, how did we become the one?
Speaker 1:But how did we know?
Speaker 2:like how did we know? Because we went from that. Yeah here we are, 17 years later, in love, still in love, two kids later. Sex is better now than it's ever been. Yeah, like we're enjoying our lives. We've lived in six different states between the two of us. Yeah and there's young couples listening to this, like yo Listening to.
Speaker 2:They know yeah, listening to the top of that story, you're like, how did they get from that to this? So we're let's, let's do a part two Okay, where we just kind of just break it down of, like, when things started to turn, because we remember that story sure what happened that summer and what happened that fall?
Speaker 1:in those conversations. Well, it's a whole another story.
Speaker 2:So yeah, hey, listen, make sure you guys to subscribe.
Speaker 1:Whoa slow down, sub Subscribe that's how you say.
Speaker 2:You guys know I'm French, so I'll be struggling with these words. Make sure you guys subscribe. Part two is gonna be a game changer. I think it's gonna open up some eyes. I think it's gonna give you guys Really good insight on just how do you know when it's God, cuz you've met people, we've all met people, we've all had relationships with people, and sometimes it could be a good relationship. But, man, it's different when it's a God relationship hundred telling you and that's our story.
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