Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 18 Matt Cutshall + Arielle Vandenberg

Episode Date: April 22, 2020

This week, in episode 18 of Couple Things with Shawn + Andrew, we sit down with our new friends, Matt Cutshall and Arielle Vandenberg. Now today, is an episode unlike any other because we sit down, for the first time on Couple Things, with two comedians! These two had us laughing for most of this episode. Both Matt and Arielle are two very accomplished individuals. They produce some of the funniest content out there and both are co-hosts of their new podcast Riled Up! Matt and Arielle walk us through one of the most important pieces of advice I've ever gotten: how to keep a sense of humor in a relationship. This is a fun one, and is guaranteed to make you laugh at least once. Without further ado, Matt and Arielle.  If you want to follow Matt & Arielle, you can find them on instagram as @mattcutshall and @arielle. Also please be sure to give their new podcast, Riled Up, a listen! It won't disappoint! You can find that here!  If you haven't yet, please rate and subscribe to the show to hear more! 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].  We are supported by the following AMAZING companies! Make sure to check them out using our special code & link below!  Zovio! Go to https://www.Ashford.edu/COUPLETHINGS to apply today!  Best Fiends! Download Best Fiends FREE on the Apple App Store or Google Play today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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has four kids but we present i know what's going on we have like a dust storm out there's like a tornado happening in our backyard hold on a second i've never seen 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 a unique episode. We've never done this before, but we have two comedians on the show who are engaged to each other. It's Matt Kutshall and Ariel Vandenberg. Andrew's man crush, my girl crush. I have consumed Matt's digital content. He's one of my favorite creators on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. He's hilarious wherever you watch his stuff. And Ariel actress, comedian. She was on Vine. She is now the co-host with her

fiance Matt on Riled Up, their new podcast. She's also the host of Love Island. I mean, she's just one of the funniest people I've ever met. I remember you talking about Ariel years ago. Yes. And she was your favorite then. She still is your favorite now. But they're both really accomplished. They're both really funny. And we talked to them today about a lot of different things, including what I think is one of the most important aspects of a healthy relationship is actually the number one piece of advice that my grandpa gave me about my marriage. And that was to always keep a sense of humor about things, to not let the little things become big things. You just laugh them off. And so we talk about how they do that. These two have a lot going on. We loved this conversation with

Matt and Ariel. Before we jump into it, if you guys haven't, please subscribe to the show and rate it on whatever platform you're listening to, we hope we deliver a five-star product. So that's great. But thank you for tuning in to this week. And we're excited for this one with Matt and Ariel. Let's go ahead and jump into it. Mel and Ariel, thank you so much for joining it. I'm freaking pumped for this. Yes. So am I. Ariel, I don't know what your first experience was like when you saw Matt, but I'll never forget, last April out in California under a beautiful sunset. There he was on the patio, standing.

just a couple feet from me and I approached Matt and I said hey man I'm a big fan of yours it's good to meet you yeah you're really awkward and I was star struck so I felt like that was a love at first sight moment I don't know what your first meeting was but I actually had to tell him to be cool because he's acting so weird he's like um Ariel babe that's Matt Arielle thought I was gay the first time we met that was my first reaction not quite the same reaction but now hey but bro the feeling is mutual because I saw you as like that man has dropped dead gorgeous and then you coached me and it was like it was slow motion and you're you had the long flowing hair and I was like oh what's happening right here and then boom you cut your hair I did I did yeah this is recent

this is the first thing we've recorded on last night oh what oh my god genius oh my god it looks so good it looks amazing it really does I was like why don't I remember him looking like this at all but whatever he didn't yeah he looks like Joe dirt Bro, first of all, your hair looks amazing like that. A, B, they had like over 20,000 people in their live stream watching her cut his hair. Because I had a freaking cut it. You what? He made me cut it.

I've never cut hair before. And I was like, this is going to be terrible. And she was on FaceTime with one of your friends who cuts hair, I assume, or your stylist. And she was just on FaceTime. She's like, yeah, now go right there to do the edge. And like, she was just following along. and she gave him a whole haircut on like you andrew was randomly trying to shave his legs while we were doing it again matt did you tune in for the whole thing concerning concerning i watch for like

10 minutes i was very intrigued um yeah i was intrigued at how how intrigued people were but i'm curious so now that we've uh confirmed that your first impression of matt is actually true that he was gay given given everything he just revealed about how he feels about me i feel like drop that gorgeous is what was i think you said the same she was right what was it like the first time you two met where where was it when was it walk us give us all the deeds oh we're jumping right in let's go yeah Andrew doesn't waste time what do we like this well simply put man I met at my ex-boyfriend's house which is appropriate okay um no but but we but we just became friends after that so when I met him I was like oh that guy's like so fun and nice and whatever

and he was with a friend like it was just like mutual friends you know friend of a friend and I was like oh that guy's rad and then we didn't see each other for about two years and then he started working at my other my next ex-boyfriend's brother's no store I dated around I was all involved with the exes yeah so so yeah he he started working at this clothing store and then we became besties and now which never works out it did for so long we were best friends for 10 years But see where it ended up. Yes. Totally.

But I guess I would say it did work out. Hey. Here's the thing, though. The thing is, yes, yes, we were best friends for 10 years. It probably took me about five of those years until I started developing feelings for her. Because I feel like for the most part, it usually always goes one way. One person falls for the other person if you're in a relationship with, you know, the opposite sex or the same sex

that you're attracted to, whatever, eventually it's going to happen. Yeah. That's what I think. I agree. Do people listening to this podcast even know what's going on right now? Because I'm Ariel Vandenberg. Oh, we do. We record like all the formal like credentials.

Got it. Before. Geez, what a freaking blast us, Ariel? Like we're the amateurs out here. Jeez. No, I honestly was like, I was like, wait. You're like, did I forget to introduce myself? I think, are people like, who are.

Sorry, let me give the spiel. We do formal intros and we'll give like all of your credentials of where to find you guys. We'll film that afterwards. So then it's not like awkward and we're like, oh, talking about you guys. Unless you bring it up in the middle of the episode. Yeah. And then it's awkward. And then at the end.

Tell them who you are, sweetie. Listen to me. I, I, this is my first quarantine podcast. Okay. Like, no, I'm just kidding. I don't know. I just got here I don't know what's going on yet

It's a great question I would have said the same thing Act like you've been interviewed before Ariel please Act like you've been here Yeah Alright fine Wait okay so how is the quarantine going

Have you guys spent this much time together before You know what I'm going to be honest with you guys Listen This hasn't really affected us Aside from not being able to go to bars And restaurants and like get out of the house But like we already work from home

We write, we write and shoot and produce our videos from home. I edit right in this room. I work out downstairs. So I literally have already been doing this. So, you know, fortunately, it's been very simple for us. But, you know, I think we're 18 days now of not seeing anybody else or doing anything fun. So we're hanging in there. But I will say that we're, you know, like, we're kind of used to it.

Like we're used to being at home and it's, and like, together all the time because we work together. but I but yeah obviously what's happening is horrible and like I'm feeling the weirdness of the world you know what I mean like that's been weird like the fact that I don't know just everything is it's actually kind of it's just sad it's like a weird it's it's a bummer because of what is happening what everyone's going through but you know we are just we're fortunate to have you know like we're podcasting right now I know like we're social distancing by however many miles away and we're still getting and our work done and get to hang out with friends. So, you know, I think that we're just kind of fortunate to be, you know, in the situation that we have each other. Each other. At least. Yeah.

So it seems like you guys spend most of your time together, as do we. How does that work for you? Is that as terrible as it is over here? He's. He's, okay. Wow. Hey, hey, I have a question to you guys. Here's, to be honest, we have a little bit of a schedule.

that kind of like respects each other's alone time. And like, for instance, I usually wake up an hour before her or maybe 30 minutes before her and she'll stay in bed and, like, do emails from her phone and be on her phone. So I have the living room to myself for, like, the first hour of the day. So I get to be by myself and meditate, pray, hang out, just kind of chill and, you know, just relax until I start my day. Then she comes down and we hang out for like a couple hours. But then I can go to, like, this office that I use for, like, my editing.

and then she'll like you know she has her own like office section over here so i feel like we have it kind of figured out and we do respect each other's time and she knows that if i'm somewhere that's not in the living room to kind of just let me be for a little bit i just like leave him alone if he's not like in the common area i'm like oh he's doing shit do you hear that what all right so ariel you said in you said in one of your interviews that uh We collab all day, every day. We actually work a lot together, but you work really well together, which is important because it could go horribly wrong, but it doesn't, which is freaking awesome.

How does your creative process work between each other? Because Sean and I, I feel like we're, I feel like we're like really getting better at it, but it took us a while to kind of understand each other's role. So I'm curious how you guys have figured that out. I can still hear you. so Matt and I are we're so similar to the point that we genuinely do most of the time finish each other's sentences so it's so easy to work together and I can't imagine trying to create and be creative with someone that isn't on the same page as me because that right there like if you're trying to write a script with someone that wants something completely different for the the outcome of the movie, then you're looking at a really hard situation. But fortunately, Matt and I have been so lucky to like honestly just agree on pretty much

anything that when it comes to writing or creativity. Like we, we like the same things, we laugh at the same things, we edit the same way. I am probably the only person, I mean, you can, you can validate this or not, but I'm probably the only other person that can edit his videos and vice versa. Like, no one can edit our style the way we like it besides each other, which is like kind of like, that's like a sign to me. I mean, so I, so I've tried hiring multiple people. I've probably gone through maybe four or five different like production companies and said, hey, you know, I'm not, I don't have the time to edit like I used to. So I've hired people to come shoot and edit.

And I'm not kidding, dude. The numbers significantly decrease on the content that I release. So it's my exact same script, my same crew of actors. but the way they shoot it and edit it just doesn't have the comedic timing or isn't shot the right way that it should be that my audience is used to and I've noticed it affect the numbers significantly by like 50%. So then I just stopped doing that and now we just are kind of back to filming each other and helping each other with edits and whatnot.

So I think that, you know... So that's what I mean by it's just, it's honestly just awesome. Like I've never been on the same page like that with anybody And I think that's truly because we were like real best, best friends when we started dating. Like if we weren't and we were just like we just randomly met and then we started dating, which is obviously how most relationships are. But you're not always exactly on the same page comedically or we've just synced up our humor so much over the last 12 years of knowing each other that it's like it's like undeniable like a connection. I don't know. That's weird for work especially.

And then also love. Which one of you is funnier? Probably me. Ariel's funny. Wow, that was way easier than I was expecting. No, dude, honestly. That was a joke. I'm joking.

You're the funniest person I've ever hung out with in my life. Ariel is clear. I believe that you are clearly funnier than me. Like your facial expressions are funny. Objectively. She is funnier. Thank you. But I also think that like my edge is kind of like,

I can come up with really outrageous ideas. Yes. So I'm like I'm like more of the idea guy and then like I'll think of an idea and be like she's going to kill this and be really hilarious. Honestly that's so true because like sometimes he'll come up with stuff. I'm like why? Where did you? Why did you think of that?

And then like I execute with an idiotic face or line. Yeah. And then it works out like half of my scripts that I come up with don't are not funny if you just read them. They're really not. Yes, they are. Well, they're really funny. I just make them funnier.

She takes it to the next level. But yeah, no, it's like you're, I mean, it's so true. He's such an idea guy and it's actually, we work so well together because he just comes up with scripts and I go, all right, let's go. Like, it's so fun. I'm curious. Does it ever feel like work or is it just fun for you guys? It feels like work. It's so fun.

it's so for me it always feels like work unless we do an improv skit because when you're I feel like when when you have a scripted idea like some kind of sketch most of our most pretty much everything we've done in the last two years has been scripted so he like writes a script or I write a script and then we shoot it you know like professionally on a great camera and everything but when we shoot just on our phones when we have like some silly idea that doesn't feel like work ever like when I'm doing Instagram stories and stuff like that. That's just fun and I want to do that. And then when it's like, you know, we're editing is hard. So that is work. It's brain power. It makes you tired. You're just like, whoa, that was a lot of work.

And do you guys like have schedules throughout the day of when you're going to film and like, like, they plan it out? Yeah, what's working? You know, it's funny. I'm a schedule guy. I want to say, hey. Loves a schedule. I want to have a schedule. for my for my own sanity and I want to say hey can we shoot at one o'clock until three so I can

edit from three until like six and gets out tomorrow but like she wants to kind of like just film organically when we're both like in the mood to film and feeling funny and this and that and I can respect that side of her I've learned to respect that but but I also want her to respect my schedule a little bit too exactly listen to me when I say I'm on your schedule trust me we because like if we're if i'm not then we're not filming anything because he's like i scheduled this from 12 and i'm like all right fine i'll be there um you know i'll be in the living room i mean um but um no he'll like email me and i'm like if you fucking email me i'm breaking up with you like he's like he's like hey so one o'clock tomorrow and i'm like

i'm sitting right next to you you asshole like and her does the same thing he'll text me no I'm not a scheduler and I'm trying to help her with the schedule. So I like try to formally present this to her. So I have a higher chance of success and it just fails horribly. I will schedule the day before and then it'll be like noon the day of filming. He's like actually can we film these four things right now and then push it to six. And then I'm like, no, it's not a schedule. You can't push creativity.

You got to execute when you feel it. Anyways, I ask because do you guys ever find it hard at home to like, turn work off and have just you know you guys time yes you know what I will say we've gotten a lot better at that and I did come from Ariel because I'm a workaholic I'll keep going and going and going and going until you know someone says hey like she she I mean you actually told me like one day like hey listen like let's have some more time for us like I would be I would sit on the couch and not email like let's like get into a show or like i bought scrabble like that sounds fun like some mindless games that we could just like chill on the couch and play and then we don't

finish the game because we want to have a glass of wine now and go talk on the balcony like i felt like we were constantly working because even when we're not working we're working but you know what what i have been doing with this quarantine is like so we've been staying very with filming and editing and podcasting. So every single day we're busy. I'm making myself around 435. I'm making myself just be done with work. When before it was more around 7, 8 o'clock when I was like, okay, I put it in a 12-hour

day. I'm done. I feel like as someone who wants to work hard and make something to myself, I need to work that hard. And I do believe in hard of work. You do have to work hard to get somewhere. But because the quarantine slowing people down, I'm allowing myself to be done around like between four and five, which is nice.

And I've really enjoyed myself. So I have a question. Like having work in a romantic relationship, I feel like inevitably leads to a little bit of stress. But the work that you guys are in is comedy. And the number one rule or sorry, piece of advice that my grandpa had about his marriage was always have a sense of humor. Is it hard to make,

like you guys are two of the funniest people that I, I know. Is it hard to maintain that sense of humor in your personal life? Do you know what I'm saying? Like this is what you guys do. Does it aren't exhausting? But it's also so important in a relationship, you know? Honestly, sometimes like sometimes when we're shooting, we're not even laughing while

we're, while we're shooting videos, but we're laughing when we're done about other shit. Like Matt, okay, just glimpse into like the world of Matt Cutschell real quick. This morning, I was like, just. just upstairs on the phone and I hear him go Hey Siri play where have all the cowboys gone

and in my mind I'm like what a choice and then I hear this is my cows and where have all you know that song yeah

okay no no it's a Dixie Chitts what is it it's Paula Cole it's great

but it's like such a mom song it's like it's our moms listen to a song It's like your mom, it's your mom's favorite song. So like, so I come downstairs and Matt is like literally dancing and then he turns around.

I scare him. He's holding a knife and he almost stabs me. And like that to me is like that happens not not him stabbing me, but like stuff like that where I'm like our normal everyday life is the most fun because we like we are just weird. Like we just dance around and we have fun and we just like make each other laugh all the time. and when we're shooting we go into work mode and we're like oh what's the ISO on the camera oh ISO 500 okay cool

we don't even know what the fuck we're talking about at that point but our everyday life is way more fun than actually like the work that you see but that's fun too I agree with you 100% it's quite the opposite we have our fun when we're not on the camera but we present I know what's going on we have like a dust storm out there's like a tornado

happening in our backyard I've never seen I've never seen this in our backyard before. What is it? Are we good? Literally a cloud of smoke. So we live pretty high, like in the trees-ish. And a cloud of smoke was just swirling behind us.

And so, okay, that's passing. All right, anyway. Is stinky okay? Stinky. Oh, God, there she goes. She's like in the tornado. Dude, we one time, I don't know if you were actually here or if you were outside, which is terrifying but I was on the balcony or I was sitting right where we're sitting right now and I'm I could

hear like I could hear like like all around me and I was like what is that noise like it was like this ticking and like clicking and I'm like what is going on and I my eyes focused in front of me and there was thousands and thousands and thousands upon millions of bees hitting the window in front of me like the biggest swarm of bees I've ever seen in my life it was so scary and so that's what I thought that was because it you because when your eyes don't see the bees it's just a black cloud and it's just a black cloud of bees right that's my actual nightmare I couldn't see like out the window at all and we have a huge window right here and I was like what is happening to my eyeballs and then I focused and I saw there were bees hitting the window and then Matt was outside I was like

oh god he's dead like oh i was down i was way down below he was downstairs but they were like up where i am right now it was i was a rio what did you do with the bees tell me what did i don't tell me you didn't call like a bee uh exterminator did you no no no no well they they just flew it like they were okay andrew is actually a beekeeper oh i i save bees i let them land on me like i love them oh no no no i kill them i'm sorry you killed i married a beekeeper that That made me extract honey on our first day without a suit on, and I murdered them all. I don't like them. If it buzzes, it's dead.

Wow, I love, I think bees are really cute. Stinky eats dead bees, and I love it. I like the stories of them. Yeah, they seem like miraculous creatures, but don't come near me. I don't, by the way, I don't like bees either. I don't kill, I've learned from her to not kill bees, but I'm allergic, so I'm scared to get stung. But, like, I have no problem killing a spider, and she wants to save spiders, too.

I'm out on the spiders are you no I'm not scoop it up with a cup and let it go I'm like I'm not gonna scoop up no no like I respect nature when it's outside like it's outside my house fine sure you can live if you come into my territory you're dead yeah I cup on this spiders and then I take them outside and I put I let them go no this that's actually so sweet of you I couldn't do let me say this about the swarm of bees a swarm of bees is actually the thing you have to least worry about when it comes to bees. They're very docile and they don't attack.

Even though it looks like they're all like... Isn't it because they're following a queen or something? Huh? Something? I should clarify honeybees. So, okay, let's just say these are honeybees. What are they doing? Are they migrating? Are they protecting the queen? What are they doing? Like... They're finding a new

queen. They're finding a new queen? Yeah, they have to find a new queen. So they lost their person. They're leader. Their leader. Yeah. Are you serious? That's the cutest thing I've ever heard. So they're out searching for a queen. They're searching for a leader. Yeah. Don't fact check me on that, but that's my understanding.

He is not always saying. No, no, that's, that is a thing. That happens sometimes, but not all the time. I thought when they lose their queen, they all die. I have a question about sarcasm for you guys, because I feel like, I feel like, I'll change the subject. Just so you don't ask me any more questions that I may or may not know the answer. Andrew believes he doesn't know how to be sarcastic.

No, no, no. Sarcasm, I feel like is, it's like a fine line. Because if you overuse sarcasm, it can be, like, pretty hurtful. I don't know if you guys think about this stuff a lot. But in a relationship, sarcasm cannot be great. But it's also really funny for the person giving it. Or maybe you just don't understand it. Okay, so I don't know about you, but I feel like my favorite part about being home more is I get to read more.

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I don't like Sarkley. I'm not sarcastic, right? We tell jokes and we have fun, but I'm never like, because I feel like a lot of sarcasm can be condescending. I feel like it comes off as condescending. And so I, like, I try not to do that. It's not my thing. I think some people can be sarcastic and kind of do it a little bit better.

I don't know. I don't think we really do that. Hit me with, like, a sarcastic remark. Like, you say, oh, my God, it's like, you say, oh, my God, it's beautiful outside today. And I go, oh, it's beautiful outside today. Like, like, Ariel, that's a real cool shirt you got on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Like she comes in, she goes, I'm like, oh, that's a lot. By the way, that was mean. You're not good at this. Real nice hairstyle, Ariel. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Okay. I'm kidding.

Honestly, like, I thought it was funny. No, no, but you're right. Like, see, that's just like mean. And some people think it's funny. And it's like, that's not. funny but that that right there is okay okay yes okay okay I don't like sarcasm okay now I know what we're talking about here I just don't like it because I actually think that people that that want to be like you know outgoing or funny or like scene and they do that it's

actually just rude and like it seems a little um it because we have some people we we we have some friends who are like that and it just comes off as mean yeah and and like they're funny anyways they don't have to like say something mean to so sarcasm well but i always think sarcasm is like you can say a funny sarcastic remark well here's something sarcastic so if i came home and like there was like blood on the front of my jeep and you're like what happened i'm like uh you know i if i said uh i hit a deer back there was horrible and you're like you hit a deer i was like no it's being sarcastic That would be me telling a joke that doesn't affect you Because I'm not making fun of you

But I'm making a joke out of sarcasm Does that make sense? Yeah Well, why is there blood on your jeep? I just want to know why there's blood on your jeepard Well, I hit someone and I kept going to go Got it But I'm saying I could have said something

Yeah You'd be like, huh Yeah It's not just the average thing to drive home with Well, so then So humor and sarcasm are completely different Well, I don't know why I'm like trying to understand what sarcasm is.

I'm curious what you thought we were talking about. The whole first part of the conversation, Ariel. Oh, now I know what we're talking about. No, humor. I was thinking like, because some people are just like, with their humor, they're mean. But that is, that's being sarcastic. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah. It's like like Andrew said, if you walked into a room and someone goes, oh, cool sweater are you real cool, that's being sarcastic, which is being mean. That's so mean. Yeah. I'm out of it Andrew's mean I just I just mean like

I don't know what where are you going Oh he's going to get one of the busy drinks He's jealous Grab us one too Anyways no I think like Yeah I think like That's just kind of bully bullying Right yeah I agree

Okay so Because You're okay Trying to have everyone understand Because our job as influencers quote unquote is to create content that people like you guys have your category of basically humor that you live within do you guys have to draw boundaries for yourselves of of where your humor lines lie with each other or political situations or do you guys have

boundaries within the content you produce to protect each other or your brand for myself and for I mean, for us both, yes, 100%. We can joke in our living room about whatever in the private of our home because it's not going to offend anybody. And, you know, we're not mean people. Like, we like to just joke about anything and everything. Like, if Matt's, like, Matt will make a joke, like, this sounds bad, but, like, he'll make a joke about, like, what I'm wearing or something, you know.

And, like, I'm not offended by that at all. Like, we do that kind of stuff all the time. Like, he'll be like, oh, you should, uh, you should work out and I'm like you should fuck off you know whatever and like I'm not offended by anything he's like you haven't worked out in a while huh and I'm like you just shut your mouth but like when it comes to shooting yeah like he can say whatever he wants about me or I could say whatever I want about him but when it comes to like political stuff we just don't even touch that because I would never want to offend anybody I know that him and I are so like easy going with pretty much

anything you know someone can tell me their opinions on whatever they want and i respect whoever whatever but um but yeah when it comes like that kind of stuff it's too it's too touchy and people get so weird and i just would never want anyone even if they don't believe the same as me or like i just would never want to offend anyone have you guys have you guys watched uh curb your enthusiasm by a chance a couple episodes not so we we love that show and it's really funny and larry david the creator and writer, he has no intention on offending people but his jokes are so

funny and borderline offensive which is why it's funny. I wish I could do his type of humor on my social media, but if I do people can comment, they'll be offended and they'll probably get me canceled. Do you know what I'm saying? It's just how it is these days.

We have to be careful as influencers who work with Fortune 500 companies and we have to be careful about what we say and the content we put out there and like we try like you know we try not to cuss on our on our channels as well like just you know we try to keep it like pg 13 um so yeah besides a couple of ariel's f bombs like during this she loves sorry i'm kidding it's okay i have a problem but i'm just getting better if this was a couple years ago you you'd be like i you have everything's beat out

we got to end this podcast all right it's weird I have the same part. So within the like boundaries and guidelines of what you guys create, is there anything that you guys to protect each other's relationship? Like don't touch. Don't talk about. We don't want to film that. We keep that like that private.

We just we have certain things like with Drew, with our daughter. Yeah. We have very strict guidelines within our household of what we can and won't film and what we will post. And I don't know. It's a very different genre of content than what you guys do, but I guess it would be overlap. A baby is a little bit different, I guess. I'm just more like about privacy stuff like don't, don't show my license plate. Like, or like, you know, if we're shooting a video and we're in front of my car, like, I'm very like, let's, don't show that kind of stuff and don't show like that.

Like that, yeah, but like other than that, I don't know. What do you think? The bees are back. The bees? I just saw them go by. No way. I just saw swan. I just saw, like, are you serious?

I'm serious. I just saw him go that way. Wait, did the swarm of bees happen like the other day? No, this was like a year ago. We are, our house is surrounded by trees and like nature. So there's constantly stuff going out. Like there's two hawks that live in the tree in the backyard. So, you know, it's quite often that we see that kind of stuff.

Do you let stinky out by herself? No, no. She, no. She makes me stay like within six feet of her. Okay. Yeah. Social distancing. So, no, so I want to answer that question.

that you said about like to keep our relationship sort of private i'm i'm learning i've learned to do that because i'm more like for this for the sake of comedy i don't i personally don't care like make fun of me share my secrets whatever like i don't care but i think that she wants to keep some things a little bit more private like she's like hey not everything should be you know aired out for everyone to see and hear and know about and like laugh along with like let's keep some things private so we've kind of learned those boundaries as well We just talk about him and I go, I don't really want to say that. And there's also, like, it's different for girls, too.

I feel like, I mean, I can only speak to what I think a girl might think about. But, like, I would never want to be like, I look fat today. Like, I would never say that because I would never want to put someone else in a position to, like, feel like, oh, well, maybe I should feel like that then. Like, I don't care how I feel. Like, I would just never put that into the world. And so sometimes if we're doing a comedy skit where, you know, that it calls for something like that. I want to be sensitive towards people that are going to watch that. Even though it shouldn't be, it's a joke.

There was, okay, there was one the other day where, or a couple months ago, where I'm holding stinky up to the wall and saying, and she's like, what are you doing? I was like, well, when stinky dies, I want to hang her on the, I want to put her on the wall here. And like, and that was, that was my joke. And she hated it. She goes, I don't like this. And I was like, just say this because it was part of the script. She's like, I'm not going to say you that. So I'm more like, I'm less sensitive about that kind of stuff because for the sake of

comedy, I'm down to kind of do whatever. But I'm learning what to what to and what to not do with you. Speaking of privacy, I had hard time finding your guys' engagement story. Have you guys talked about that publicly? And if not, are we going to share it here? No, we have not. Okay. We're going to on probably like our, I don't know, fourth or fifth episode of the podcast,

I think that we're actually going to share it. That's awesome. We've kind of, no joke, we were at a party for like Love Island and E.T. was there. And on the spot, E.T. came up and like, hey, we want to interview really quick. And they said, oh, Matt, get in here. So I got in there. And they literally said, so tell us about how'd you do it. Let's see the ring.

How did he pop the question? and then Aria like froze and like looked at me and she goes ah and like it was a bit of a panic because it was like a sacred story that she wanted to kind of hang on to for a little bit yeah it's so um like obviously we show everything off and like and we're talking about like our love all the time but i was like it'd be so cool to like have this story to just have our friends know for a little while like and not have everyone be in on it and then it'll be so fun to bring back all the feelings and talk about it again publicly and have it go out on a podcast and live there forever as opposed to like little snippets of it everywhere you know like it's so much fun so much more fun and it's a sick story it's freaking he killed it like i'm proud of myself i'll just tell you this like i've never been more surprised in my entire life and and it's really hard to surprise me so like this story holds up like it's a fairy tale

story you know we should do honestly after we do our after we tell the world when you want to tell we should go we should go back on the show and tell them because totally i'm excited to tell it it's so fun i mean we're down i planned this for like a year i planned it for a year and there were so many moving pieces it was like it was a lot of work and it was the biggest shock that i've ever seen you know in in someone so it was really fun i'm still blacked out. She actually, no,

she blacked out from this one. Oh, blacked out. I planned our engagement same day. So I don't know if that, yeah. Wait, did you,

did you actually just say this is the day I want to ask her to marry me? Uh, yeah. Wow. But that's also like, awesome,

fairy tale. He got the ring in that day. Oh, but see, we're doing it. We're doing it. And then somehow managed to do it in the middle of a Cubs game.

So. Yeah, it was very, very almost complete opposite of your guys's story um okay so it's gonna you're gonna reveal this on the third episode of your rather new podcast called riled up tell us congratulations by the way so you guys have so much going on you have arreel's uh youtube channel which is hilarious uh the cuties the first episode of that is like my favorite thing ever matt has his youtube channel um the instagram outlets and now you started this new podcast tell us about it in love island i'm sorry

Well, I was going to talk about that. He keeps forgetting about me, but, you know, it's fine. Tell us about the podcast, though. So we just started a podcast. It's called Riled Up with Ariel and Matt. And it's basically just you're going to listen to a fiancéed couple bicker or get riled up about all kinds of different topics. Like we cover everything from relationship advice to her lady boner for Justin Bieber.

we talk about celebrities and news and what's going on in the world and how we feel about certain things and like embarrassing stories we kind of share it all so we want to do this because we've had followers since like the Vine Days back in like 2013

and those people have seen some of our personalities on Instagram stories and you know our personalities and our skits and whatnot this is actually like really revealing who we are as people and how we think So it's kind of, it's just a bit of everything. But, you know, we're both, you know, exciting, funny people.

So it's, it'll be exciting and fun. Excite. We're exciting, funny people. Of all, I mean, you've been on a lot of platforms. So is the media of podcasts exciting for you guys? Yes. It's really fun. I love podcasting.

Like, I had my old show. It was the only child podcast. And I probably did like 25 episodes or something. And I loved doing it. It was just like, it was right before I started Love Island when I stopped doing it because I had to obviously go off and do the show. And then it kind of just went away. But I'm so glad that I'm doing a show now where it's like in the comfort of our own home

and we get to just like talk to each other and answer fun questions. And like it's so, so fun. You guys know. It's awesome. Yes. It's just easy. I mean, I don't want to say it's easy, but it's just so refreshing to be able to sit down and talk to someone. And like you said, you don't have to, like, script it out.

You don't have to worry about it. Yeah. Just so many things. Okay. A couple of questions. You have to go. Who wants to go first? You have to choose before you know. You go first.

To answer? Okay, I'll go. You answer. What's your biggest pet peeve with Matt? With Matt? Probably when he emails me. I can answer this for you. Oh, no.

I got it. You know what it is. You know what it is. When he freaking farts while I'm eating. dinner oh yeah that's nasty oh my god the last thing i truly the last thing i want to think about when i'm eating like mashed potatoes with gravy on them is diarrhea yeah no i get that and his farts aren't like cute and like oh that was cute they're like leave the room the juicy they're like everyone cleared the room ander doesn't even there's no warning he doesn't roll down the windows

anything just a little smirk fumigate this is disgusting Okay, Matt, your biggest pet peeve. Oh, man. That's... By the way, I'm not trying to like... I'm not saying something to not get in trouble. I feel like as of recently in the last couple years,

we've really respected each other to where I don't... There's not that much that annoys me with you. Actually, I got it. Oh, boy. My biggest pet peeve is, is her lack of scheduling. Like we talked about earlier. It's like so boring.

No, no, but that's true. Like I want to say, hey, let's shoot at noon. Let's then let's shoot at noon. And it's usually doesn't land on noon. He gets annoyed at that. So I get annoyed by that. That's my pet peeve. That is he?

So do I. Okay. And then the second part of the question. Matt, you go first this time. What is your favorite thing or what do you love most about Ariel? I love her positivity She's always always in a good mood And she always thinks on the bright side

Thanks, cutie You're welcome And then your turn My turn I like his big huge heart No No truly Probably

Well God there's so many things Well I'll just say a few of them He has the biggest heart and he cares so much about me, but so many people in his life and his family, and he just, like, takes such good care of so many people. And it's just, I don't know, it's really sweet. And then I also love how helpful he is

and how he just, like, takes charge of situations and gets stuff done. It's, like, so, it's incredible because I am not that good at taking charge and just starting something, and he's so good at that. And that can go for anything. that can go for like a conversation we need to have or work or housework or just stuff

and I think that that's like so valuable in our relationship and I don't know you're just Annie's fucking hilarious I'm sorry I cussed I'm sorry I mean I love him so much there's so many like you're you're the best cutie thanks sweetheart okay so how wow that's cute how do you guys feel about the word fiancee I hate it no I'm kidding um You know what, you know what? I'm like in my French. Like, what am I supposed to do here? I don't, I don't like it.

I don't like the word. It's weird. I hated the word. I would rather say my wife or my girlfriend. Same. The fiancee is like, yeah, I feel like the reason is because the second you say fiance, everyone knows you're engaged and they're like, oh, how did it happen? How long have you been engaged?

When's the marriage or like, when's the wedding? And that's a bad thing. They're just nosy. No, you know what's weird is like, I feel you because like I actually. that kind of stuff if I say like oh my fiance like we just got engaged or my fiancee and they say like oh how did he do it I'm like yes I get to tell the story again that's like actually fun for me but what I don't like is being like my my boyfriend my my fiance like I stutter every time because fiancee is such a foreign word to me yeah I've never said my fiancee before this year and so it's so I don't know it's so weird and it's also like I love to put like a little bit of an accent on it and so I'll be like my fiance like say it with like passion um and uh and then it's it also sounds like you're bragging it's like pretentious to me it sounds like you're bragging like oh my fiancee would like and it's like shut up it's just like boyfriend or girlfriend

or wife yeah or you know boyfriend or husband girlfriend or wife that's what I think but then again I'm probably going to look back at this time and be like I wish I said fiance a bit billion more times you said it a billion times i don't miss i don't miss being engaged at all oh my god i don't miss it at all no no no no because i'm saying i'm saying i'm saying marriage is like she's like good okay marriage is so much what are you guys looking forward to with marriage man i mean there's so many things we're saying relationships anymore where engagement in dating is essentially marriage i'm going to be real with you it's like we're married already i know there's like we live live together, we do everything together, we work together, like we're, we're pretty much married.

Yeah. No, no, no, we're not. Okay, why? Here's the thing. So what I think is so freaking cool about, about getting married or when we are married is like we are family, we are, I mean, I feel like he's already my family, but I have like such a small family. I'm an only child.

I like, I don't have, you know, nieces and nephews and brothers and sisters. Like, I don't have that thing. And I can't wait to be married into a family that has that because I love kids and I love, I love, like, I love family. I think it's so important. And, like, going into a family where he has a, he has a twin brother and they have, they're about to have three kids. They have two kids right now. And then his sister has, what, four? Three.

No, there's four. Jen has three kids. Well, yeah, but she has, like, half. She has three total kids My sister has three kids I don't know what else to tell you Doesn't Judah Micah McKenzie

That's three Unless I don't know about one Why am I thinking She's trying to convince me That my sister Has four kids Because McKinsey's boyfriend's always there And I always think that they're

That their brother and sister Until they start making up Oh my god Oops I'm like wait That's a fun fun fan I'm like, no, so like I think that's probably going to be my favorite part is like being able to be like, oh, my, you know, my father-in-law. Like, I love his whole family and like, I think that's, you're going to have, you're actually going to have family. Like, it is true.

Like my brother, that's his family. Like, David Gray and those people, like, they're his actual family now. It's like his other dad. By the way, I have like, like, I have cousins and stuff. But, like, it's just different with it. I like, I like having more family. It's going to be fun. Yeah.

And I'm excited. to just be like that's my dude like that's i mean he already is but it's like now you're stuck what is the this is a closing question what is the best piece of advice that you've heard um or experience that that you would share with people don't do drugs relationship advice relationship got it got it i mean it's still a great one no but honestly my grandma was like you're going to move to l-a well don't get into drugs and i never didn't look at me now best advice i've ever gotten from my grandma i think on a serious note for relationship advice and i have given this to my friends is before getting into relationship learn if

you really love that person learn to respect each other's differences don't try to like change everything about someone like if someone needs to be alone and someone doesn't like alone time understand that person needs to be alone and allow them to have that if one person If she likes to be with just girlfriends on like, you know, a couple days a week, I shouldn't be like, well, why? I don't get it. Like, just say, I understand that she needs that. Whatever it might be, I think people need to learn to actually respect that we are different as people. No one's 100% alike and respect each other's differences, I think.

Agreed. I love that. Yeah. And also, I mean, mine is always just communication. True. You just have to. Don't let a bottle up. Yeah.

You just have to. talk about anything and everything like and if you can't do that with the person that you claim to be in love with then that might not be your person like you have to be able to let stuff out and be able to talk about like pretty much everything I mean yes there I feel like there are things that you save for your girlfriends you know like there's things that you like you know you can like save for certain people but like you got to be able to talk about everything yeah I agree yeah all right well Matt Ariel thank you for your time um for those listening that want to hear their engagement story, we will link the Riled Up podcast in the

show notes down below. Also, if you want to check out Matt's hilarious, it's my favorite Instagram page. We'll link that. And if you want to see how much R.E.L. looks like Justin Bieber when she cross-dresses. It's actually amazing. It's pretty great. But thank you guys for your time. It's always a pleasure. Thanks, guys. You guys are great. Good to talk to you. You know, You know, You know, Thank you.