Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 101 Hype House Stars Alex Warren and Kouvr Annon

Episode Date: February 2, 2022

In this episode, Shawn and Andrew sit down with Alex Warren and Kouvr Annon! Alex discusses how he went from living in his car to a TikTok star, with over 14 million followers on the platform. We also chat about what it's like having a relationship in the public eye, who said 'I love you' first, and the boundaries they set when working with each other. You won't want to miss this one! Check out Alex's song 'Remember Me Happy' ▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PePIoe9eYI Alex's Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/alexwaarren/ Alex's YouTube ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2Pm1JoWF3chsVOR9e1hbQ Alex's TikTok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@alexwaarren?lang=en Kouvr's Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/k0uvr/ Kouvr's YouTube ▶ https://www.youtube.com/c/Kouvr Kouvr's TikTok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@k0uvr?lang=en We are sponsored by these companies that we love. Check them out below:  Better Help ▶ Our Couple things listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/EASTFAM. HOP WTR ▶ Go now to hopwtr.com and use promocode EASTFAM If you haven’t yet, please rate Couple Things and subscribe to hear more. Follow us on Instagram to keep the conversation going at https://www.instagram.com/couplething... And if you have suggestions/recommendations for the show, send us your ideas in a video format – we might just choose yours! Email us at [e-mail]. Subscribe for more! http://bit.ly/3rnOdNo Follow Our Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/couplethingspod/ Follow My Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Twitter ▶ http://www.twitter.com/ShawnJohnson Snapchat! ▶ @ShawneyJ Follow AndrewsTwitter ▶ http://www.twitter.com/AndrewDEast Follow My Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/AndrewDEast Snapchat! ▶ @AndrewDEast See more at couplethingspod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There you are, pushing your newborn baby in a stroller through the park. The first time out of the house in weeks. You have your Starbucks, venty, because, you know, sleep deprivation. You meet your best friend. She asks you how it's going. You immediately begin to laugh. Then cry. Then laugh cry? That's totally normal, right? She smiles. You hug. There's no one else you'd rather share this with.

You know, three and a half hour sleep is more than enough. Starbucks, it's never just coffee. I'm going to agree with Cover making power plays. As a girl, there is definitely a difference between love you and I love you. No, I'm with Alex. It's just one word and the word is one letter. And it means a lot. It holds a lot of weight. It does.

Is there a rule book I'm not reading? It was insane in like a six month span how fast our lives changed. And from there it was like it was still the same adventure. What's up, everybody. Welcome back to a couple things with Sean and Andrew. A podcast all about couples. And the things they go through. Today we have Alex Warren and Kover Anon. Yes. And I will say I was beyond pleasantly surprised.

Yes. So Kover and Alex are young, about 21. Very. But they have a lifetime's worth of experience. Yes. They have done everything as far as they've been in debt. They have been homeless. They've bounced around from friends' houses and friends' couches to friends' floors. They've lived in cars. And now they are very, very successful YouTubers.

And they have a Netflix special, all about the hype house, which Alex helped form and create. And they shared some really helpful things. So they are dating, hopefully soon to be engaged. You'll hear our take on that. But we enjoyed our time with them. And if you want to find out more about Alex and Kover, we'll link their information down below. And be sure to check out their Netflix special called Hype House on Netflix. You can check that out.

We're also in the middle of tour. So we're a little flustered. It's because we have a short couple hour window here in Nashville. And we're very excited to see more of you. We have two more stops on our tour. Seeing your faces has been so much fun. Yes. So thank you to everyone who made the sacrifice to come join us.

Without further ado, we bring you Alex Warren and Kover Anon. All right, Alex and Kover, pleasure to meet you. I hope you guys are warmed up now after having done Good Morning America. You're now on our show, which maybe the peak of your interview, you know, history here. So thank you for joining us. Thank you. Actually, I got two hours of sleep, so I'm running pretty well right now. Oh, no.

Dang. That is rough. Are you into caffeine at all? or oh yeah i drink i drink like 500 to 600 milligrams of caffeine today it's bad oh that's a lot i'm not i was just say i feel like the mom and me just cringe and i'm like we should drink water yeah we should drink water yeah cova are you on the same sleep schedule here with the two hours uh no i actually fell asleep while he was staying up so that he could be awake for good morning america um wow i can't not sleep yeah i have to get a full eight hours of sleep

in order to be a sane human being. I'm the same way, which is really tricky when you have children. So how many children do you guys have? We have two. Oh, wow. We have three Australian Shepherds, so it's the same thing. Same. Exactly the same.

And a couple cats, too. You guys have your hands for it. We got a zoo going on over here. Yeah. This is our first conversation with adults in quite some time, though. So if we're awkward, then that's why we usually are talking to babies. Well, I can start throwing a tantrum to make you more comfortable. Perfect. Also, Kover, I just have to say, I am obsessed with your name.

Really? Thank you. If we have another child, I might have to ask if I could use it. It's a beautiful name. No, it is so weird because I get so many comments being like, I just had a baby and I named my baby after you. And I'm like, seriously? Um, okay. Interesting. Interesting. I did mean it a little jokingly of like, it is unique to you. And I think it is absolutely beautiful. But that would be strange to have someone be like, I named my child. You just said you were joking. I get so many.

I was a joking about loving it. It was like a backhanded compliment. Oh, just joking, by the way. You know what I mean? It's not that cool. We alter it a little bit.

It's like Clover. But I get so many comments. And then I go and I like investigate and I go on their Instagram page and they post their baby. And their baby has my name. And I'm over. That is strange. I will say with our daughter, we named her Drew.

That's cute though. And someone kind of in a close circle to a certain. extent had a daughter a year later and named her Drew and I was like it's it's a pretty unique name for a girl so don't take all the credit for freaking cover's a way more unique I know but I'm saying it feels strange to see someone with your name what is the or no it definitely does where did it come from where did your name come from um my mom made it up is what she told me love that she had like a list of these really really really strange and weird names um And Cobra was just the one that's stuck for her.

I think it's great. Love that. It is a unique arrangement of vowels and consonants. So she did a good job. Okay. Alex and Cover, we always do this is our guess. I want to know how you met. Also, forgive me, but you guys are 21.

Yes. Okay. And you guys have been together for how many years? Three. Three years. Wow. Okay, so how did you meet? We met over Snapchat, which is funny.

I, um, it's, it's so bizarre. Uh, I had a friend that I kind of grew up with and she moved to Hawaii. And, like a couple months later, I saw in her story, um, a girl, which was cover. And I was like, holy crap, this girl's so pretty. And then the next day goes by and she posts another photo of her, like, waking up, like, just like a photo of her. It's probably the ugliest photo I ever seen. Like waking up like that. I like slid up and I was like, she's so attractive. Like, she's so beautiful. Can I ever snap that?

and from there we started talking and she was in hawaii and i was in carlsbad which is san diego if you guys are from the area um after like three or four months of going back and forth i was like oh come move in with me and she moved out here love that oh wait very fast yeah you told each other i love you before or after you moved in i did it was a joke she said all right the first night we talked it was a joke it's terrible to say, I love you as a joke. I said love you. Like, say, like, love you.

Yeah, there's a difference. There's a difference. Thank you. Yes. So the first night we ever talked, she goes, love you. The first night. We talked for four hours. We talked for four hours on the phone, and she goes, love you.

And I go, ah, and I hang up. And that was, that was the first time. That was a first phone call. I, I'm going to agree with Tover, though. Power place. As a girl, there is definitely a difference between love you and I love you. No, I'm with Alex. It's just one word and the word is one letter.

And it means a lot. It holds a lot of weight. It does. Is there a rule book I'm not reading? I am with you on this, Alex. Yeah, I'm with you. But the first I love you technically was then the second day. No, no, it wasn't.

I'm making jokes like. I will say I distinctly like relate to this because I distinctly remember when we were dating. distinctly distinctly Yeah I remember Oh, you've been together Oh, we've been together for nine years

Wow Long time Married almost six years It gets like you guys are what Year three You can probably hit a rocky patch Here in the next one or two years But then it gets better

And it's like wow this is really great Like I get us And then you have kids And life gets crazy But I remember when we're dating Him saying like Love you or something And I was like

No I didn't No it can't count It can't count You get so mad at me. If I say love you, she stands there and waits. I'm like, let's just say, let's say we had a dog that needed to go to the pet hospital where we had like, we were 45 minutes late for a meeting and she was out the door. And if it was like, love you, and she just would stand by the door and goes, let's try that again.

Okay, let's run that back. I'm like, what? That's great. That's good communication. I will say, though, there's a difference because as girls, like with my girlfriends, I'm like, love you, love you, love you, love you. Like, I'll tell all my girlfriends, love you. I was my husband and I was like, love you. yeah

Alex be on the lookout though Sean just started doing this to me where she'll like have tallied up days that I haven't said something the way she wanted so she'd be like you know you've been three days without you telling me I love you first I'm like oh wow I should do that with kisses

but it's like if I don't wake her up with a kiss I've kind of the last week I'm like I kissed you once you were up she's like but my butt didn't leave the bed yet and it's like it's a whole thing There's a lot of nuances and red tape we got to navigate. I feel like I'm looking at an older alternate reality version of us. You are.

Just give it eight more years. Sean moved in or she moved to Nashville, which is where I was, like pretty soon after. So I feel like the stories are somewhat parallel. But I'm curious, though, you two, unlike both of us per se, Sean was in the public eye by the age of 12.

But you could too have done your whole thing in the public eye. which, you know, being in the hype house, being big on social media, it's so many kids' dreams. Yeah. But how has it been from a relationship standpoint as you guys have navigated that world? It's definitely very bizarre. I think that it's, we're kind of putting, especially with the reality show, we're putting the good and the bad. And, you know, people love to judge. So it's kind of like every couple has an argument, but the way I painted our social media, like our relationship on social media was this.

perfect little relationship. And then, you know, obviously we have arguments and I can be a dick sometimes and, you know, she'll have her moments. Love you. We just kind of, we kind of, I thought it was really good to be authentic and genuine on the show. And it was a year ago. And but it's really interesting. And I really like it and hate it at the same time because something should definitely be private. And that's what I've learned. And some things definitely should be shared. So it's definitely like a navigating a learning curve it's hard to find a good balance I think because like everything you do

is just put out there no matter what sorry just for the record Alex you did just say only love you and not I love you so I oh my gosh that wasn't worth interrupting cover for but continue sorry add that one to the tally cover question for you there though we have learned the same thing

and putting your relationship on social media and for the public to judge and critique and we've learned the hard way where our boundaries lie of like what is safe to post and talk about and what is not because guys and girls can operate so differently within relationships how did having your relationship on a reality television show being scripted and edited or not scripted per se but edited by other people and then judged by the world how did that affect you in the relationship and what boundaries did you have to put in place and say these topics are off a

but these we can talk about these pictures we can share and these we can't we didn't really put any boundaries in place it's just more of like common like commonality between us so I would like I know that Alex wouldn't want me to post this so I'm not going to post this and vice versa but definitely having someone else edit all the footage and then upload it for the entire world was a trip I don't know like throughout filming the show it It felt like it was going to be way different than it actually was. And I kind of did you dirty. I kind of did you dirty. No, no. I did myself dirty. At the same time, though, I was like, if we're going to be honest on the show, we're going to be honest. And in those interviews, where they just pop you up on the screen, we did about 50 of those in a bus in 90 degree weather with no air conditioning.

So I was already upset at that point. yeah i feel like they put us in an environment to be uncomfortable so that they could just get us to be angry always and i was upset and they're like just tell us what you're mad about like tell us everything like answer all these questions and you can leave and i was like okay fine i'll just answer all the questions and get me out of here but yeah it was very it was very interesting and all the feedback on it was definitely interesting today's episode is brought to you by better help these past few years i feel like it's safe to say have been extremely hard for so many people.

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slash y annex this episode is brought to you by defender with its 626 horsepower twin turbo v8 engine the defender octa is taking on the decar rally the ultimate offroad challenge learn more at land rover.ca how does feedback comments DMs take talk viewers, followers, affect your guys' relationship? Not at all. I don't read them. Yeah, not at all. For real?

Yeah, we've gone through everything. I mean, we've slept in the car together. We've been negative in both our accounts, not knowing what we're going to do for dinner. Like, we've been, we've slept on countertops. We've slept on floors. We've, like, in trap houses. We've done it all. Which was the most comfortable of all of those?

The countertops. I like the floor. Sure. Okay. Oh, no, I like the car. see I like the floor more I feel like no but it was kind of like we've we've gone through it all and you know we've worked so hard and went through a lot of things as a couple to the point where it's like I feel like we've done more than half the married couples so it's like for us I think honestly it's what I've learned with this job is the internet will only judge what you put out or what other people put out for you so it's kind of like we have even though we had reality show and cameras on us all the time it wasn't still truly fully us and it wasn't still truly fully us and it's And it's really cool to have each other and really, because we always have had each other. We've always had each other's backs.

So it's really, it's really nice because no matter what happens on the internet, I know that at the end of the day, I'm going to go into our bedroom, cuddle up with our dogs, get some hot cocoa, watch a TV, and feel safe. Well, hot cocoa. After a full day of 600 milligrams of caffeine, that is, that's quite the decathlon. He's also lactose intolerant, so. Having done more, as you say, than most, sorry than half married couples what are the conversations around marriage since you have been dated

for three years you've been through it all as you say i'm i'm curious genuinely yeah no i mean a year ago when when the show came out that was the kind of the biggest like for us we needed we needed a character development we needed something along that line because honestly we're a go happy a happy go lucky couple and you know the biggest thing and the hardest hitting thing to the entire of our relationship even like the third day of talking like i said we were talking about marriage. So it's, it's constant, yes, you know, you said if we were to get married, where would you want to get married?

Don't you miss. So the biggest thing for me is, is with, it's all me. I'm the problem. I'm 100% the problem. If I got down on one knee right now, she'd say yes. It's more of, for me, I'm kind of getting over the childhood phase and the immaturity phase. And, you know, a lot of people were like, oh, just propose. you know, get engaged and you can just be engaged for three years. And I'm like, I don't want to do

like that. I want to, I want to propose and know that I'm ready to get married tomorrow. And it has nothing to do with like, it has nothing to just sitting there and like holding out and more entirely of wanting to be the best father. And when I was raised by my dad, he was pretty much just like, you know, don't get married until you're ready to have kids next day. And it's like, be the best father you could be and be around and be the best husband. And, you know, I had a very big immaturity phase and I had a big, you know, wanting to have the dream childhood I never had. And I'm finally slowing down. And, you know, in the next, you know, two years or so, I think I'll be ready. So, yeah, not to apply pressure. I, I, no, no, no, no. So I think Sean and I got married when

were 23, 24. I read a book called The Meaning of Marriage, which I know we have, you know. He gave me this book three months into dating. But it's shaped for me, again, not prescribes. describing this for you, but I have grown to really fully appreciate the unique relationship that like a marriage presents from a commitment standpoint, from like a contract standpoint legally. It's like it is really cool. Obviously we're in a different phase of life too with kids. So like the setup is different. But I, you know, I like listening to the self-motivation, self-improvement podcast, reading the books.

but I don't think there's anything out there that can help develop you or mature you the way marriage can. So that's my that's my hype speech for marriage in case you want. I've got a little hype. I've got a little hype speech and then I have more questions. So then you guys can roll your eyes and just be like, stop talking. Totally understand what you're saying. And we were in the same boat because I felt like people were pressuring us to get married.

And then the world was also saying your life is over when you get married. They're like, oh, you're not going to get to go hook up with people or whatever. Which was a huge bummer for Sean because she was just. Absolutely not. But society has their views on marriage. And your buddies and like everybody and social media, they're always like, oh, your life is over. Because like you can no longer be a kid and like have your freedom. I think the coolest thing that happened when we got married is it was like the biggest breath of fresh air.

Because even when you're dating, there's like this there's this sense of like I have to try I have to try so hard to impress him to feel like maybe I could be enough for someone to keep me does that make sense that sounds dramatic and you find your person and you still kind of feel that a little bit and when you get engaged you still kind of feel like that a little bit and then when you get married it's like ah

they actually wanted to keep me and we actually we didn't have kids for three years so then Sean just completely stopped trying to impress me Thanks, oh my gosh, moving on. I'm kidding. Anyways, needless to say, we think marriage is the coolest thing ever. Yeah, we have it all the time. Yeah, we love it.

I have a question for Alex. Okay. No, you got it, you got it, dude. So I wouldn't talk about, you talk about your childhood. Yes. You started living on your own when? Like, right, maybe two weeks before I turned 18. And you have an incredible story.

And I would say it can be tragic. It can be, you know, for the world to depict. But you grew up. at a very young age and you were thrown into very hard things in life very young and even talking to you you do not neither of you sound like 21 year olds you sound more mature than some people we've had on the show in a beautiful way like you've you've lived a life already yeah in meeting cover and cover i want you to answer this too you guys jumped into a life that a lot of people will never live living out of cars living on floors, on countertops,

jumping from friend's houses to friends' houses and whatever. How did, like, how did you manage that? Kover, when you met him and you saw this life, what attracted you to that? Yeah, what attracted you to sleeping in a car? Honestly, I feel like it was just the spontaneity of things. Because, like, I'm from Hawaii, and I lived on an island for 18 years,

and my family was never very well off. so that we could take trips and go places. So I was kind of like stuck there. And I wanted a change. And no matter what that change brought, I was going to go with it. And so moving out here, he was like,

I remember the first time, he was like, okay, we're going to sleep at my friend Patrick's house tonight. And after I pick you up from the airport, and I was like, okay, cool. And then he picked me up, and he was like,

actually, I think we're going to need to sleep at a motel because Patrick's mom doesn't want me there. And I was like, like, okay, that's totally fine. And I think that it was just like everything was so new and I had never felt like I lived life because I kept doing the same thing. I had the same routine, the same places that I went. So I was really ready to change it up no matter what that meant. It was kind of an adventure, like an adventure today. As weird as it sounds because you don't know what you're going to eat or where you're going to sleep or and that's like the most stressful part of your life. And

kind of fast forwarding going from there to where we are now it kind of makes any problem seems so small and so overcomable if that's not even a word but you know what i'm saying it's like it's very much like everything that you know normal people kind of freak out about we've kind of like learned it's like not a big deal like we've we've overcame way more crazy crazier stuff so it's kind of it's really cool that we lived that way for four months or something like that and you know after that it was like a blink of an eye like we were negative on our big accounts and you know the YouTube stuff started picking up and everything went so fast it went really fast it was kind of like I was filming these videos for so long and then you know

they started taking off and like after a month it was like okay we got two grand like crazy that was like that was winning the lottery for us off of one month of bad sense and then another month happens like holy crap it's four and then another month it's like oh my god it's six and it kept going up in two and then five and then 10 and it was like it was insane like a six month span how fast our lives changed. And from there, it was like, it was still the same adventure. And it was the same adventure together. We went through it.

It's not like I was already, like, doing well. And she came in and was like, oh, no, this is going to be a great. Like, we did it together. We went through the struggle together. And it was like, it made me feel safe because I was doing it alone for a week. And I hated it. And she was like, yeah, let's do it. And I was like, holy shit.

I got a partner in crime. I'm only asking this because you speak about it pretty open. But so Sean and I do what you guys do probably worse to some extent. But yeah, like we make videos together. Sure. But we're married. So like the whole financial breakdown, it's like it all goes into one pot. But how do you guys with different channels, different accounts managed?

Like, is there, it's like a, hey, 50, 50. I don't know if it's sensitive, but. It depends. I think a lot. She makes more money than I do. And she likes to make it. She makes. She likes to make it very known.

Only when you meet. No, she's like, I asked her. I was like, I said, why don't you work more? Because then you'd make five times the amount of make. And she goes, I want to give you a chance to catch out. Oh, wow. Wow. We have this competitive banter that is just so fun with it.

Because for us, obviously, like I said, you know, we came from nothing. And now to where we are, it's very, very cool in the situation where I'm. But when it comes to like paying Bill, or we split like the house. We're buying another house. So she's going to buy a house in Hawaii and I'm buying a house here. And we thought it'd just be fine if we go half on the house here and half on the house there. Since that, evidently we're going to get married in the next. Like, I'm not, I don't want to get together with anyone else. So it's pretty. I would hope not. But no, so yeah, we just kind of go haves these on most of the big things. And then the smaller

things, like a dinner or whatever, it's kind of like, oh, I pay for this. one so you'll pay for that one then blah blah but unless it's a date then i obviously will pay but if you're talking about money coming in um that's just ours yeah we keep everything i think even when we do get i'm i'm a type of person that likes to save everything like i don't spend anything he buys the cars and everything so i would not like it to go into that i was listening to your interview with harry jowls is all right yeah and you said this is a quote you said you're stupid with money very i i want to connect after just because that i mean like you can spend it on whatever you want but as long as you know what's happening with it i think it makes a big difference i would yeah i

took on a i took on a financial firm that handles on the money now gotcha they're called a nksfb great but they are they they don't let me get my money anymore okay i hear you're a big car guy you can buy cars and you can buy houses i said he's a car guy i know by the beautiful The crystal blue one. Oh, thank you. It was a gorgeous. I got really lucky. When I first bought all those cars, the market went up.

And so, you know, I've made a profit on all the cars right now. I'm looking very well on it. But I got very lucky. At the time, it was a very dumb decision. Alex, your YouTube geek. You've been making videos for, what, 11, 10 and 11 years. I've been making them since 2011. Yeah, I'm a geek as well.

It's like a positive. He lives for it, you know. I love the algorithm. and analytics. Yeah. How was it, though, having been in that world, uh, doing the Netflix show? Like, are you into it from a, from a whole lifestyle perspective, from a, you know, from an interesting content perspective, even financially what, like, I was, I was obsessed

with it because it was like, um, I was always curious on how the shows were filmed. Um, so for me, it was like, you know, kind of seeing like, oh, wow, this is so similar to like how I set up shots or the gaffing and the, um, he had so much fun until they told him what to do. Yeah, when they started telling what to do is sad because I was like, I want to hang out with the gaffers and the guy in the film crew. And I want to learn what lens and what aperture they're shooting in. And instead, I have to, you know, sit and talk about drama.

Like, I was, if you ask anyone on set, it was like me, I was always going out of my way to talk with the film crew about what camera, what handheld cameras they were using and what, um, if they shoot in V-log and what, what they used to edit and it was like i think it got annoying for them because it was every single day i was like what's up david what camera you're working on today and he's like the c 200 and i go wow not the c 300 no it's just like i would i would give them shit because i knew what i was talking about yeah like who is this fucking asshole okay question for your lifestyle and moving forward you guys have talked about marriage so you're alluding there is a future long term so thinking

long term you guys have come from adversity you've lived adversity together with your long term future what lessons from the adversity from the hard times do you want to in a weird way I would say like never forget because you live a very successful life now and are there are there aspects that you always want to hang on to I guess I think for me it's It's like we, when we were together in the beginning, we came from, like, so little. Like, we had absolutely nothing that all of this that we have now is just extra. And as long as, like, I remember that, like, we were together before anything started. And that's fine.

Like, we don't need all this. Like, it's just a perk. It's just extra things that not everyone needs. And so, like, if those things go away, I'm like, I feel. it would be fine. Yeah, like for me, it's like if all the cars, and even though I'm obsessed with the cars and all that stuff, if the cars went away, the motorcycles, the everything, and it just came down to me and Cobra in a guest bedroom again, or our own bedroom with our dogs. I don't, I don't think we needed anything more, which is the coolest part is like everything,

like she said, it's just extra. Like we don't really, you know, as much as we love it and we're so thankful for it, we don't, it doesn't make us anymore. So it's kind of like, you know, we've gone through it all. We've owned all the cool things and all that stuff. And, you know, we're such a privileged position to say we've been able to and do that, but we've done realized also that it's nothing that we need. Like, I'm cool with a minivan and a fucking, sorry, I'm part of my life. I would love to see Alex in a grand minivan. Yeah, it'd be, it'd be decked out. I'm not going to have, it's going to have custom wheels. I don't know if you feel this way, but sorry, doing doing what we do making videos

producing videos for lack of a better word ourselves has unlocked this like weird confidence or like peace with say Sean and I were going to lose everything it's like oh

well I like making videos more anyway and this would be an interesting video like if we went broke it's like you do everything from a storyline perspective and I don't know if that's healthy or not but like still it's like oh interesting you know it's all interesting it's not good or bad it's just interesting i yeah we always joke like if you were involved in like a home invasion robbery instead of like depending on the

house i'd be the one filming it oh so it's like i'm like oh no look at this guy on my couch instead of like hey what are you doing here which is i don't know i i think honest to god it for me it's more of like my you know how you like walk around you're always like for us we grew up and we're like oh if we had a reality show it'd go crazy because like our friend group is so insane and it's kind of like we have that and so now that's how i kind of start my vlogs off is just creating memories and showing our future like kids and family and all that crazy stuff so it's kind of it's cool for us to you know it does lose a bit of humanity for me because i don't treat situations normally that i would if i wasn't filming and it is i don't know

if it's healthy. I don't know if it's either, yeah. I'm not questioning it right now. Okay. Remember me happy. Yes. Beautiful song. Thank you. Dope title.

What was the inspiration? My mom's death. I think all of my songs are kind of about either dead people or a sad shit. And it's really interesting because that's like my coping mechanism. It's like his version of therapy. Yeah. He refuses to go to. You just write a song.

Yeah. So I just write really sad. things and I enjoy it so much and I kind of like when I you know play something on the piano or I play something on the guitar and and writing about how I feel opposed to talking to someone about it for me is kind of like very very healthy in my in my eyes because I don't know I don't want to say healthy in the general public I'd say healthy for me in my mental health we all have our own ways so and it's cool because people can resonate with the songs it's like even like a lot of people thought one more i loved you my first song which is about my dad dying everyone thought one

where i love you was about a breakup and it was like like they applied it to themselves of a breakup and losing like a loved one in that sense opposed to you know passing away and it's really cool how when i put this out it could help someone for a completely different reason so i have a question you don't have to answer it sure but i would love to know your favorite memory of your mom? My favorite memory of my mom would have to be, we used to watch Seinfeld all the time. Like so my mom, you know, really battled with addiction. And her biggest, her biggest thing was like, kind of like trying to mask how she felt with alcohol. But there'd be those like, you know, once in a blue moon moments where, you know, you knew she was sober. Like there was no way she could

have been drunk. And I think my favorite memory of her was just kind of like all of us having like she was trying to be a family. And you know, like it was kind of like, you know, if I win the lottery, I'll go and we'll all do this. And it was it was kind of like I had my mom, opposed to like historically with our relationship as very much a bully and a very, you know, abusive, rude person. But she had her moments. She had her moments where it was kind of like, oh, shit, you might be a mom. It was cool. I like that. Today's video is sponsored by Hopwater. I want to tell you all about hop water because you know I love my beverages.

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Scotia Bank. You're richer than you think. Cove, are you dropping any singles soon? Fuck no. She can say. I don't know why. I bet you could sing, cover. That's your, that's your, like, realm of it.

I remember when I first told you I was doing music. You're like, what about me? I'm like, you do it too. I never said what about me. I'm just saying. I was, you guys seem to have different versions of reality. It's like the 34 times where she's. Oh, the time I have for you.

Yeah. I just love this question. Just going to throw it out there. What's your biggest argument that you've ever had? I'm just going to. Ooh. See, here's the thing. we don't have very many arguments.

It's very rare. And when we do, it's, we are so competitive with each other. Keep in mind, we both played volleyball in high school and we both were Laveros. So we'll do volleyball games and, like, compete. And then now we've been doing a lot of bowling and everything we do together. We, okay, I get it. You beat me last night, the night before. We're very competitive and we, that's just something we do.

And so when it comes to arguments, we will go, we will try and win. They'll last like four hours. interesting but but keep mind it's like did you leave the cereal out and she'll say no and then i'll bring up something else just like yeah we kind of like i'll provoke it and then she'll provoke it and it's the dumbest arguments in the world but they get to the point where it's like this same exact style of an argument where it's like did you cheat on me it's like crazy we get we get heated over cereal so it's really funny in my mind my no but i think the biggest argument we've never had you don't have to answer it you really don't know i can't i'm just going to say this he

likes to ask this question and i will tell you from history from the all the couples we've it never ends well yeah so yeah because you guys will think of it you guys will be here and you're like oh and then when we go off air you're going to be like let's talk about this again remember and it just it just starts stirring and brewing and all of a sudden you're back in it so yeah You're trying to get some season two content. Exactly. With that, I do want to say, you guys are adorable and awesome. And I don't mean adorable in like a young sense, but you guys are awesome.

And something that I think is really cool. We get to see the dynamics of relationships a lot. We've gotten to interview a lot of people from every age in Walk of Life up until like 80s, which has been really cool. Maybe even early 90s. Early 90s. I feel like it's pretty old. Yeah.

And something that I will say. we haven't seen a lot of that I see in you guys is you guys genuinely seem like friends which is really it's really fun to watch you guys seem to like each other and love each other he gets mad because I'm like you're my best friend and like as he should be that's awesome and so he had a concert and I

posted something on my story and I was like so proud of my best friend and he got mad he's like I'm just your best friend that was a joke I was like that is How is it a title for me. Well, it's adorable to witness. I'm a comedian. I, uh, it's cool to sit here and talk to you guys who have, you know, every reason to not have the approach or perspective to life that you do have. Um, and really, honestly, every reason to not be together in a lot in a lot of senses.

Sean and I sometimes will just sit back and like ask ourselves, hey, what do we have to do to not end up like, you know, our peers, which is whatever percent divorce rate and, you know, all these whatever drug addictions. It's like, how do we not end up like that? And you guys are really going against the grain in a lot of different senses. So. But you've gone through so much that to see that you're still together is really cool. It's beautiful. What's really cool is we're both very similar. And I think that's where a lot of our arguments happen and a lot of our, you know, love has happened. And it's kind of like for me and her, like, we don't drink. we don't smoke we don't do any of that stuff so for it we're always coherent to like have a

conversation if anything really bothers us and you know none of us desire to party i want to film and she wants to you know crochet and and hang out with the dogs and you know it's it's a very simple and you see it on social media you're like holy crap it must be so fun to to do all this things and it's like we spend probably 80% of our time just together watching tv or we binge watch shows we eat something called hurricane popcorn which is just seaweed it's like Hawaiian popcorn and there's nothing really that like we disagree on which is so cool and so it's non-exciting which is kind of exciting you know it's it's very it's very much like the only thing we really disagree on it's like what to eat yeah she was she a lot of rice because Hawaii yeah me I don't have a fast metabolism so like I'll out

out down all that shit and then I'll have like a big belly And I'm like, it's not fun. It's not fun for me. Sounds great. I'm curious if you could each answer this, and we'll close here. Given the position you're in, a lot of people aspire to be in your shoes. Sure. You have so many lessons to give.

But from a relationship standpoint, what would be one piece of advice that you'd give to your peers? I think I'll go first because I have the biggest issues. My biggest thing is stubbornness. I think honestly with our competitive drive, like I will, you know, in the moment of an argument or in the moment of kind of like, I'm very logical and I don't sometimes factor in like emotion to a lot of our arguments. I'm kind of just so hoaxed on winning that I lose sight of, I lose sight of what the main objective was and what we were even arguing about. And I think the biggest thing is like a relationship is a compromise and trust. And if you aren't compromising, then it's like you kind of, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're. you're in a relationship to trust each other and to be together and to, you know, understand

what they like and, you know, if it's something that you can adapt to or if it's something you can't and that's how you figure out if you're meant to be together. And for me, I've learned that everything that she's ever had a problem with or anything she had an issue with or everything she loves that I may not fully love, I'll give it a chance and I'll compromise and, you know, I end up loving and half the things she likes and hating half the thing she hates. And it's, It's really cool to, it's really cool to, like, understand it, I guess, because I've never really compromised for a relationship, and that's why they all failed. And, you know, with her, it just felt easy. It felt like when we first started talking, it felt like I've known her forever. So it was

really cool to, like, I didn't even know her. I didn't even meet her. We were four months long distance. And it was like, I only met her once out of that. And it was, it was something where it was like I felt like I had spent my entire life with her. So it's really cool. And I think that you know if you can say the same thing about your your partner i think you're you're looking pretty good you have to say yeah good luck to happen that one yeah it has to be as good or better i'm a very like emotional person and um not everyone that i've met likes to hear emotions and likes to hear how you're feeling and so for a long time i really kept that in and i've recently been working on allowing myself to tell him how I feel and to not be like if something bothers me to not

keep it in because then I think about it and then it leads into an argument 20 minutes later when it's like on my brain. And so like I think just being open and honest about how you feel is a really important thing because if you don't like I used to hold things in for months and months and months and months and then there would be one thing where I would just snap and so I feel like if instead of snapping if you just talk about them even though they might not go like the other night we got into like a little mini

argument like two nights ago um coffee it was about coffee I was about coffee I mean it's about you going to get coffee

oh do you know what I'm talking about are you about coffee they're so dumb but I felt like if I wouldn't have told them out it felt about it that it just would have bugged me for like oh the entire week and so i entertain the coffee argument too it's fun i hear you wow uh i like you guys um rooting for you and congrats on

everything for those listening who have not watched the hype house on netflix check it out and also listen to remember me happy by alex warren Alex scover thanks so much for the time it was a real Pleasure. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.