De-Influenced with Dani + Jordan - Putting My Brother and His Fiancé on the Hot Seat

Episode Date: June 19, 2024

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Oh, and welcome back to your favorite podcast. Deinflints. Guys, we have special guests today. Today on the pod, we have Landon and Liv. Hey, no, that Olivia Austin. Olivia Austin, not to be confused with the other Olivia Austin. Oh, right? Right, the other Olivia Austin is.

Well, tell us about you as Olivia Austin first. How we need to know. why is your Instagram handle Olivia Austin? Yeah, why did you do that? So eager. Because I was just too excited. Yeah, she wanted to lock them in. I had to lock it in.

To be fair, she did that on like our third date, so it was weird. Oh my gosh. I just had to test it out. She's like, surprise. Really, though? Okay, so. Sorry. So Nikki, I think I's either Nikki or Jenny.

We were all sitting there one day in the Divi office and we were talking about how there's an adult actress with the same name Olivia Austin. That's probably not her actual name. When you say adult actress, every time I'm like, adulty. Porn sir. Okay, okay.

If you look on Instagram and type her name in, maybe she's a sexy mama. She's on there. And she's very popular. I've honestly never seen her. That's a good thing. That's good. I've never seen her.

I've never moved right of there. Okay, he's a keeper. That's good. Don't Google. Okay. But anyway, so they just started talking about how they probably could go ahead and secure the name.

And I'm like, yeah, that's awesome if you can do it. And then they're able to reach out to Instagram and do it. But I guess Instagram immediately did it instead of like holding it, holding the name until after we got married. And then so I literally saw it one day, like the next day. And I was just like, oh, okay. Well, anyone who creates content understands it is like impossible to get Instagram handles. So if you have like a slight chance of getting the one that you want, like you take it.

I would do the same thing, except for I didn't change my last name after we got married. True. Still hasn't. Legally. Whoa. Yeah. Oh, you never change it legally? I never changed it.

I'm still, Keely Danielle Austin. She's a hardcore feminist. I had Stuart and I was like, well, you change your last name to my last name? I was like, my last name is better than me. I will say our last name's awesome. It's a strong name. And the water's warm if you want to become an Austin. I tried.

He was very offended. I was very offended. Apparently, like when we got married, there were a lot of like feminists doing that. Really. Yeah, where their husbands were taking their loss. I wasn't trying to be feminist. I was just honestly trying to have like a cute last name. Why don't we compromise and do Jordan Ramirez hyphen Austin?

I know. Oh, yeah. You know, I have a buddy from college. You did that. Him and his wife, they hyphenated. They both have names that are hyphenol. Wow. That's equality right there.

That is true definition of equality. Yeah. Well, you know, I actually really like the last name Ramirez too. So I'll probably change it one day. Sorry, it's a RETA me in this family. We roll our ours. I can't remember ours. Well, we're so excited that y'all are here.

Live, I just want to know. What's our family like? So true. When you come into our family and you like experience this for the first time, what was it like? Well, y'all are obviously very fun and exciting, but also, y'all honestly are all super down to earth and just very welcoming. You don't have to be nice. I know. I'm just like, you're like, you're just got to go to your head.

are though because I feel like you see like on Instagram like all this crazy stuff but then like the first time we met y'all that weekend or I met you guys that weekend in Nashville was just like super laid back and calm but then once we started going on trips that's when stuff got crazy okay what do you mean by crazy like dressing up as umpa lumpas what else have we done your family doesn't do that no oh okay only on Halloween yeah would you say what's the biggest learning curve like hanging out with us like hanging out with us like Like, is it weird like being filmed and being on camera and then my mom is like an inflotter? Yeah, that's got to be odd. I think at first being on camera was like kind of a shock and took me a while to like not try to be perfect or not like be like on or like especially not wearing makeup on camera. I'm like, you know what? Because I'd never really done that. I've been on Instagram and talked on stories. Like I never did that before.

Yeah. Did you follow our family before you met Landon? I mean yes I knew about you before how long probably like in college I didn't even know this yeah I mean you were in college yeah do you remember like the post or I always ask people this I'm like what post did you see that made you follow I'm just curious oh I have no idea did you follow with like the hair loss journey um I think after that after that okay okay She was bald every year of high school. It was just for one year I was bald.

Thank you very much. Did you watch the matchmaker? No. But I had heard of it. And I feel like all of my friends did because when we first started dating, that weekend I was in Nashville. We went on our first date. And then I went on a bachelorette party that weekend. And the girls I had rode in the car with the one driving, she was asking about it and was like, I was so invested.

No way. You never told me that. Yeah, I didn't want to make your head big. Good call, Liv. Good call. What did your friends think about going on a date with Landon if they had already seen the matchmaker? They were just like, how was he? Like, how was he in person?

Did you like him? Like, nothing crazy. They were just asking how he is. Did your friends think it was like a good idea to go on a day with Landon? Yeah. Yeah. So the matchmaker painted him in a good light? My bad board reputation didn't.

I ran that show and I made you a hero. We put like the slomo music. Yeah, he was a hero. He's the most eligible Bachelor in Nashville after that show. Is that right? Yeah. Kind of a badass in certain circles. I feel like that kind of made me nervous to go on a date with you though.

Yeah. Because you're so experienced. What? I'm not experienced. You're so experienced with dating. I was in two online dating shows. How many girlfriends have you had? Yeah, how many?

Not. I don't know. I mean, you could count them. Since you met Liv, the... Just live. When you were just... That's another good. When Landon was out dating,

it was the subject of every conversation in the family. Yeah, right? It took so much heat off of us, your singleness. And so now that you guys are together and happy, the heat's kind of back on us. Like, we get all the opinions again. The way it should be.

I have to say, I have to say, the reason I was so invest in Landon's love life is because I knew I was going to be close with this person. And I don't have like a lot, like I don't have a sister. Like I don't have like cousins my age. So I was like, I got to have a hand in this. So that's why I was so invested.

But I mean, like look what turned out. He found the best one without me. Worth the weight. The winner, I think of the ultimate matchmaker right here. Yeah. Wow. The final rose. You know though?

I feel like you never talk about that. Like if I ever bring it up. It was a dark time. It was like, yeah, no, it was nothing. It was a former life. The matchmaker? Yeah. No, it was fun.

Don't get me wrong, but I don't know. If you want to see it, you can watch it online. It's a show. It's a show. Would you ever have done it a third time? No. No, never. We were like, we felt, we were done.

We were like, it's too much. That's too desperate. We were like, even we didn't want to pay him in that light. The only reason we did it twice is because the first time we did it last minute in Dallas, and I didn't live in Dallas. Yeah. So it didn't make sense. And obviously the girls on it were great.

But what am I going to date some girl who lives half across the country. Yeah. So we did it a year later in Nashville. Well, the point being, we did it again in Nashville so I could meet someone in Nashville. And that was great. She was great, but it didn't work out. You know what's so crazy about filming the second matchmaker?

I was the same week pregnant as I am now. Yeah. But I was so. Are you sure I think you were more pregnant? No. I was like really early and we hadn't told anyone. And that's why this episode is sponsored by Vongesta. Oh.

your new medicine. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Tell them about that because Danny's like out of bed. She's kind of a new human being right now. Yeah. I just always look back and I'm like, was every pregnancy like this?

And I was like, no, I was filming the matchmaker when I was this. I'm like nine weeks pregnant now. Anyway, I've been in bed all week. This is the only reason I've gotten out of bed literally all week. But yesterday I went to the doctor and they prescribed me this medication called Bongesta. And it's basically unisome, like a sleep tablet and be sick. like compounded and it apparently it there's it mess it like there's some

transmitter in your brain that it just like turns off so you don't feel nausea anymore the only downside is you get really sleepy so but we're here I need that for my eyes are like we're here okay so I want to know how did y'all meet like what was your first date well we met on hinge the dating out okay and I sent her a rose. Do you know what that is? Really? We're too old for Hinge. You were Tinder.

You guys are old. Oh, I thought you meant like a physical rose. No, no, no. So they have these virtual roses that you can buy. And I had never sent someone a rose. And I sent her a rose. And what that means is your image and profile goes, it skips the line. And I was the only hinge date she ever went on.

So if I didn't buy that rose, she might have gone on 20 other hinge dates and found someone else. But it was worth the 99 cents. What made you both want to get on Hinge at that time? because you were new to the platform, right? Yeah. Okay, so why was it this season where you were like, you know what, I'm pulling the trigger, I'm getting on Hinge? That's a good question.

I feel like it was a God thing because I feel like I was like not wanting to date for like several months. And then I was like, I'm going to, I want to date and I want to download it because where I was at the time was Evansville, Indiana, which is not a good dating scene. And I also knew I was going to move back to Nashville because for the time being, I was in Evansville for probably like five or six months. but yeah I don't know it just felt like I had prayed about it for months and then I felt like I was just ready to like try to find someone and then like very shortly after I downloaded it is when we met or matched it's pretty awesome because first off I didn't know we matched she said

she lived in Nashville so I didn't tell you I lived in Nashville it said lives in Nashville it was set to Nashville so I asked for her I sent her DM she responded whatever and immediately. I was like, send me your number. I want to call you. So she sent me her number and I called her to ask her out. She's like, oh, I don't live in Nashville. I'm like, well, why are you in the Nashville geolocation hinge? She's like, but I'm a flight attendant. So I come through Nashville from time to time. And so next time I come through, I'd love to go out. So what, a month later, we hadn't really talked. And a friend of mine, I had told these girls that I was friends with about Live, how I thought she was amazing, wanted to take her out. And they asked me, like, whatever happened with that girl?

And I was like, oh, I need to call her. So I called her. She's like, I'll be in Nashville tomorrow. And so we went out. Wow. Wow. How long was your first conversation on the phone? Not very long because I was actually about to get on a flight, I think. Yeah, I was like in the airport. And for nine of those minutes, I thought you lived in Nashville.

So I'm like setting up for the date for the weekend asking what she likes. He's like, oh, I don't live there. Oh, gosh. And to be clear, when he called, you've already disclosed this, when he called, you knew who Landon was. From Instagram, you meant? From Instagram, right? Yeah, did you Google him?

Also, he had a picture of you on it. hinge. Oh. I did. Wow. You got to use whatever advantages you got. You got, that is incredible. That was strategic and so smart and I commend you for that. You have a certain demographic. I don't hate it. Do you still have your hinge profile? No, I deleted it. We got rid of that. You should try to look at it. No, I like delete the account. I am messing around. It's going. It's like Danny, Marty and you. It's like, oh my gosh. Danny. Behold and Sister and has a golden retriever.

Yeah. Oh my God. She's going to be such a good father. Well, they say there's certain things you want on your dating profile. I've heard some things through the grapevine.

You want to have a picture of you with a baby. You want to have a picture of you in a suit and a picture of you in mixed company so girls know you're not intimidating because other girls can tolerate you.

And then girls, for whatever reason, love when you have a picture where you're looking away. So you're just like looking off to this. Stop right now. I'm serious.

I am dying. Are there like services that optimized your dating profile? I was out there for a long time. Okay. It was trial. I reached. I researched this.

You AB tested this. A, B tested all this. Those images in that order work perfectly. Exhibit A. So he calls you and you're like, oh my gosh, that's Danny's brother from the matchmaker. And then you tell your friends. And then were you planning? Like, if he hadn't have followed up, would you have texted him to follow up?

No, because she told me she was going to let me know when she's coming through National next. Well, literally a month later went by, I never heard from her. And I called her. She's like, I'll be there tomorrow. So she was not planning to tell me. So you like, you double called. Oh, I definitely double called.

I probably double-chixed it too. What are you doing? And not to mention the first time I messaged her, it took her three days to respond. Wait, what was that all about? I think because I had never been on Hinge and just, I don't know. The longest three days of my life. You honestly were like technically like my very first date ever.

If you don't consider like the very first date. Sorry. It's the very first date I ever went on because like, I had just never really been on a first date like that. Yeah. Like everyone I'd ever dated, I had met through, like, high school or, like, elementary school and then college. So you didn't do any, like, online dating shows or anything or on Instagram?

No. How many boyfriends did you have before Landon? Two. Two. Two. Okay, so what long-term relationships? What were your exes like? And is, is Landon like your exes?

And what are their names and where they live? I'm kidding. And where is their social security number? No, I think that they're very different from Landon in the best way possible. But they were both very great people. I feel like we had just like, the first one was in high school and we had kind of like grown up as like best friends. And it was kind of just like a best friend's thing and just never like went on from there. Yeah, Liv grew up on a farm in Kentucky.

So there's like a farm hand you fell in love with. What did you do? Like when you were a child, she's like, played outside, me or laying in like, whoa. Like they live on a farm. I'm like, no, I didn't. Growing up, our nature was the hill next to our house. Which is like a plot of grass that had a hill.

We're like, we're going to hang on the hill. We do it every day in the summer, like just on our little hill. You just roll down the hill. It's like two feet. So itchy. I hated it. It was itchy. Okay, go on about the farm.

I did that to you. Yeah, but you had like nature and acres and wildlife. Yeah. So what was your other ex-boyfriend like? he was great too we met in college and very sweet adventurous but it just didn't work out but landon was just like he's a man like lander's a man like just care i get the law gosh now he's a big head up yeah yeah okay we can't make you have a bigger head okay keep going but yeah he's just he was just so much different in many ways like you just have a lot of characteristics that people

I dated in the past didn't have. Are you talking about like, like decisiveness, leadership? Big hands. Like, all the above. I literally can. She says it all the time. She loves my hairy arms. I guess they were hairless.

I don't know what they were. She's like my last boyfriend shaved his whole body. Just like a naked bull rat. Because you're like tall, like dark hair, handsome. Not that the other ones were. But I don't know. Like I feel like you're exactly who I pictured myself being with. But somehow.

Hey, you too. That's so sweet. Winner of the ultimate matchmaker right here. Well, so speaking of which, I want to talk about the age gap. What were your thoughts when you found out? He was, how many years older? Seven, eight years older? Is it nine?

Nine right now. Nine years older. There's a week where it's only eight years. Okay, just a week. Are you all being serious right now? Yeah. Really? It doesn't seem like it.

Guys, this is news to me. You don't know there are nine years apart? No. I always knew that Landon. I don't know. It's worth going. I'm pro nine years, but this is hitting me very hard right now. It's irrelevant to me.

It's irrelevant. The only part where it's a hang up for me is there's some movie references that she has no clue. Like the sixth sense has no clue what happens at the end. Don't spoil it for her. I'm trying to get her to watch it. She's never seen Armageddon. That's crazy. Like there's so many like small cultural musical artists or movies that just pass her writer.

Also, she grew up on a farm. So I don't know about the electricity situation. But a lot of those references she misses. I'm sure any movie. You've never seen it. That is so crazy. Were you intimidated? I don't think so.

No. I don't know why. Like, I could never have dated someone that was like, I would have been so intimidated. Do you know on hinge their age? Yeah. Do you? Mm-hmm. Okay.

So you knew. I could see it. What was your age rate set to then? I think 34 or 35. Wow. So I was 34 at the time. So I was right there. Oh.

I feel like men in their 30s are more mature. Yeah. That's just true. That's true. Yeah. That's facts. So my question for you, Lannon is like,

I mean, we went through a couple relationships. You know, I remember our team one time after the matchmaker was like, oh my gosh, I love this person. They're the one and I go, she's not going to make it to Thanksgiving.

Like I just knew, right? And so I was always wondering like, it was anything wrong with her. It was just the compatibility. It was just the compatibility. Like, you know,

and so, but you are so sure about Live. Yes. What happened? What was like the difference? What was the moment? Was it like right time? Was it finding the perfect person?

Because we would always lecture you and say, hey, the perfect person doesn't exist. We thought you were too picky. Yeah. So what happened? I mean, you've ever heard that expression that guys wait for the, or no, it's girls wait for the right guy,

guys wait for the right time? It's a little bit of that. But I knew when I met Liv, I'd never met anyone like her. And so I was, my mind was in fertile soil to finally meet someone. And then I found this amazing seed right here. And I just knew.

I knew within like an hour on our first date. I was like, oh, this is it, game over. Like I just knew. And like there's a culmination of who she is as a person, her heart, her heart for God. Like she's beautiful and she's funny and fun. And I just enjoy being with her. And like obviously I'd found some of those elements with other people. But I'm thankful I met her now because if I would have met her 10 years ago,

I would have said, oh, there's more out there. And I've been out here. There's not. I've been in the desert for a long time. And I finally found. Were you starting to feel lonely? In my, I mean, I've always been a little lonely. Aren't we all?

He starts crying. Honestly, no. I'm always a twippet, clip it. Yeah. When did you know that Atlanta was the one? I feel the same way. I feel like on our first date, I was like, okay, like, I feel like this is going to go somewhere. Didn't you text your friends?

You just showed me this recently. Yeah, I think I texted my friends like. Yeah, you want to pull the text up? Would you say? No, I probably don't have it anymore. But yeah, I felt like very strong feelings about you. Like nothing went bad about the date. Like I thought it went great.

And then, yeah, I feel like I knew pretty early on. Yeah. Yeah. It just fit. What was your first impression of meeting my parents? Specifically, Tornado. I'm trying to think the first time we met was actually on a vacation. We went to Utah.

And she was just so fun, welcoming, like just normal. Day one, you all, normal day one, y'all doing workouts in the kitchen with like bags of rice. Yeah, we are. Like normal to an extent when it comes to tornado. Yeah. No, it was just super fun. laid back. Okay, the thing about Live and our parents, she loves our parents, which is awesome and a huge blessing, but she really loves our dad and he loves that she loves him. Yes. She's literally said to me and to him that he's the funniest person in our family. Dad is very goofy. I don't know if he's funny. He's just a very goofy guy. He's always been that way, but the reason why you think he's so funny is because

we've heard the jokes 80 million times. And you're hearing them for the first time. And I remember when I was like, the first time I heard his jokes, I was like, oh, it's funny. Then the seventh time I was like, okay, dad. What about that story getting the oil change the other day? You love this. He's just so funny. Like, he just says crazy stuff.

And I'm like, that just happened to you? And he's like, yeah. Like he said, you want to tell a story? Well, she was telling you this story that dad was talking about me and mom were working on some stuff. And dad comes in. He's like, oh, Anna Marie has no idea what I've been doing all day. She's here filming her outfits. And I've been like fighting out here.

So he went to take her car to get an oil change. Have you heard this? No. And so when he gets there, they tell him it's going to be like $100 or whatever, $50. And he said, okay, that's great. I got my Amex. They said, an hour goes by. And they said, I'm sorry, Mr. Ross, when we finished your car, but we can't take credit cards right now.

The machine broke. And he said, okay, well, this is all I have. They're like, well, you need to figure out another way to pay us. And he's like, this is it. Like you said I could use my credit card an hour ago. And now I can't. So dad literally. runs behind the counter, grabs his keys, and runs out the store.

That is, as the employees chase him into the parking lot. And he's like, man, where he's got no idea what I've been doing out here. So he runs in his car and closes the door and drives off as the employees are like running after him. According to him. That is such a false story. He said he left a check on the counter and just bolt it with his keys. Okay, I could see that. Oh, totally.

That's it now, okay, great. Now we're outing our dad as a criminal. It was the minus on Coy. That I could actually see that. Wow. Well, welcome to the family. Well, didn't Jordan take a dance class? Just two.

It's true. I did. He did. What dance class? Four. Four dance. Four hip hop classes. All he learned was the Margarita.

No, all you learned was a side tap. Yes. You know, I was about to be a dad. I was confused. I had an identity crisis. Can I actually tell you the real story? TikTok had just come out. And he was about to be a dad.

But all the TikTok dancers like Addison Ray and all those. So like we're like, you know, we're in the depths of being content creators. Like we have to find our. competitive advantage. And Jordan's like, they have to work to learn how to dance. I truly did. I thought this.

And you know, when TikTok first came out, like, they would put these amazing clip songs with these cool dances. And I was in. I was like, I want to be this. And also on our first day, Jordan always told me that his alter ego would be like a hip hop dancer. I thought he was going to be a beatmaker.

Yeah, that's your DJ. Wasn't it a deep maker? They kind of go hand in hand. Okay. But if I had to choose, I would be a break dancer from step up two is where they take it to the streets. The streets are better. Yes.

Or Stomp the Yard. I've talked about this. This is the two best break dancing movies. If we have that girl from the TikTok cult, I would love to talk to her about how break dance movies are just not seeing the light of day anymore. Yeah. It's a shame.

There's a hole in the market right now. That's a whole in the market for another day. But so he, every Thursday at like noon, he would disappear. And I wouldn't know where he was. and I'm like, this is getting so weird, you know? And so like the third Thursday and I'm like, babe, where have you been? Like you're gone every, like I could, I just knew something's going on. He's like, babe.

I was with Phil. Just watch. I see. Turn down the lights. I really did do that. After the fourth, I go, babe, I really want to shut that. Can I just show you all what he showed me? Like, I'm not kidding you.

I don't know. Phil might not want to share his proprietary moves. That's four lessons in. Stop. He never learned anything past that. Dude, honestly, I like, I cannot believe that I did this. Now, I'm like, I, my mind has almost blocked out that era. Like, I literally found this guy on thumbtack.

He was the only break dancing coach on thumbtack. I go and meet him at this random dance studio in, like, Jadison. Yes. Yes. Yeah, I didn't even go. I didn't even know. And he would just like, like, I cannot believe I did this. He would like literally put on music and he would just be like, there you go. You got it, buddy. He's like, I'm trying to learn for TikTok. I was so committed though. Like I was so committed. I respect that. It's really. It's really cute. That's amazing. That's one thing about Jordan is like he's never embarrassed to do anything. Like I'm like, you did that. And he's like, no. Honestly, this is the first time and a long time I felt embarrassed about that. Like before. I was like, yeah, it didn't work out, but like I tried. So like, did you try? No.

It's so cute. Yeah. But wow. That's so fun. Maybe we should do that. That was hard to go back to. I think your next reel is a solo dance show for a short. Should we reach out to Phil though?

No, Phil's like blown up now. I gave him a lot of SEO tips for his thumbtack. And he literally texted me like a year later. It was like, dude, my business exploded after what you told me about thumbtack. Oh my gosh. That is hilarious. Okay. So moving on, you know, we like to de-influence people on our podcast.

I want to talk more about Live. Where are you from? And we kind of touched on this, but what was your childhood like? I'm from Henderson, Kentucky. It's like border Evansville, Indiana. It's two hours away from Nashville. Okay. And I have a very fun childhood.

I grew up in like a cold sack, not on a farm. It was a farm on a quarter of many acres. did you grow up on? Do you remember? I lived in like a neighborhood. Are you lying this whole time? She didn't actually go up on a farm. I'm trying to tell you guys. Okay, so my grandparents live on a couple acres.

Like, I think around like 20. Okay, yeah. And we had like four-wheelers and... Yeah. You spent time there. Yeah, we always were there. It was like a mile away from a house. But we didn't have like farm animals or anything.

Right. So you had a normal... No. Okay. So did you have, tell us about your siblings. Okay, so I have an older sister, five years older, a younger sister, five years younger, and we're all super close. And, but being five years apart, like we always had separate friend groups, which was really fun, but we would always hang out and we had friends in the neighborhood we would hang out with, just like a very normal childhood, very fun.

Yeah. And, yeah. Are you close with your sisters now? Super close. I feel like we're more close than ever right now. I find that with that age gap, because five years is kind of hard. Like you are going, I'm going into high school, Land's leaving high school. You're going into elementary school, they're leaving, or not elementary, like, whatever it is.

High school, college. But I feel like as you get older, it gets easier. Because when you're five years apart as a kid, there's just like, there's totally different stages. For sure. So that's really sweet. Where did you go to college? Western Kentucky University. It's like an hour.

from Nashville. That's a small school? It's fairly small. Yeah. What did you study? Fashion merchandise. Oh, I don't think I knew that. Yeah.

So what was like your dream as a little girl? What did you want to be? She's like an Amazon influence. Exactly. I'm doing now. I'm not the womb. I wanted to be a veterinarian. And we were just talking about this recently, actually.

Like I loved animals. Like I loved all the neighborhood animals to, like I would watch them and take care of them. even buy toys for them. Like, I loved animals. I always watch, like, Animal Planet. And I got to high school in my freshman year, we were picking out electives. And I was sitting down with my advisor. And she was like, all right, Olivia, like, what do you want to do for electives? What do you want to be when you grow up? And I was like, I really would love to be a veteran here. And she's like, you don't want to do that. Oh, my gosh. She literally said, you really think that you're going to go out on a farm and be with cows and horses. Like, that's what you're going to have to do as a bet.

And I was like, well, yeah. And she's like, okay, you're not. going to want to do that and just like completely like crushed my dream this is a guidance counselor this is my advisor and my homeroom teacher wow i still remember her name i won't say it though oh my gosh so what did she tell you to do i don't even remember i don't even remember what we i think i ended up going with like a marketing class yes which was fine but yeah so then how did you get into being a flight attendant um let's see so right after covid this was probably like I think the beginning of 2021. I just really wanted to travel more. And I remember looking at jobs that you could travel with. And I was like, this is really cool. Like I would love to be a flight

attendant. And I actually looked into it right after college. But whenever I graduated, it was in May. And at the time, like they only would hire, I think, like once in January and like once in middle of the year. And so it was in May. And they weren't hiring again until January, the career I was looking at. So then I kind of just like, I ended up getting a job with Vichy. Oh, that's right. The store Vichy. Yeah. And opening a store in Nashville and helped them open it. Yeah, that store was huge. Yeah. Was that the first brick and mortar that they opened Vichy? It was the third. The third? Okay. Yeah. So they had two in California. They had got it. One in San Francisco, and they let us go out there and like work there for two weeks and like learn everything. Yeah.

And then we opened it up in Nashville and it was like a huge hit. It's still there too. Yeah. But yeah, so then I just, I got that job and, like, ran with that and then just never ended up doing anything with flight attendant. And then 2021, I started looking into it. But at the time, no one was really hiring because it was kind of like still the end of COVID. Yeah. And so finally, I had like the job on Indeed's. I had them, like, marked. So whenever they had pop up, I would get the notification.

And, like, three airlines were hiring. And I applied for all three. And then the first one that got back to me, I went. did the interview and got it and then started wow so um do you like being a fight attendant yes i have loved it there's definitely like some challenges what's the craziest thing you've ever seen we always ask for this i mean of course all the drunk people i'm sure on airplanes do you feel safe on airplanes these days feels like they're falling apart but that might be just twitter i feel yeah i feel pretty safe on the airplanes yeah i feel

like there's like they're always on maintenance if you guys realize like there's so many delays because they're always on maintenance so I feel like they keep them up really well so no I don't feel like I get scared sometimes people are like oh I'm so pissed there's maintenance I'm like no I think it's okay yeah I feel like we should check the parts yeah it's like you want them to do maintenance someone threw up on her someone tried to kiss her someone tried to kiss you we need this story yes a man or woman and I didn't realize that he was very drunk at first like I had kind of like spoken with a little someone was in a seat and then I had to help him figure out his seat and everything. And then like this is during the boarding process.

And then I ended up talking, he was giving me weird looks. And I was like, is everything still okay? And then like I leaned down because he was trying to say something. And then he tried to kiss me. Oh. And I like went back and I was like, okay. And then so I walked and then I walked back up. And I told the other flight attendant.

And then to get someone off the plane, you have to have like everyone in a grant. So the other flight attendants walked over to him. And they could tell he was drinking. He tried to kiss them too. Did he get kicked off? Yeah, he got to move. Forcefully? I think he was really angry about it.

I remember him throwing his hat at one of the flight attendants. Oh, gosh. Yeah, he was angry, but like he wasn't even supposed to be on the plane if he was under the influence. He was just so normal at first. He wasn't like making a big deal or anything. So he's probably on the no-fly list now. Maybe. You have to do something pretty bad.

that's pretty bad. When you get on a no-fly list, is that by airline or is that like federal? I think there's two different lists, but I think it's like by airline. Yeah, I think you're right. I think I might, I'm not positive, but I think I would have had, no, I'm not on one of the list. I think to get him on the list, I would have had to have told the gate agent that I wanted him on the list. Okay. Do you have the authority to do that? That's a lot of power. Yeah. That's crazy. Be nice to your flight attendants. Like a lot of flight attendants will like, especially at the, whenever I first started flying, you had to wear like the masks and stuff.

Yeah. And if like we had to make people wear them and if someone like didn't comply, there were flight attendants that were like so over it, they'd be like, all right, just get the gate agent and have them removed. Yeah. I would see them just people removed so easily. Man, I bet if you were, I mean, I know you were working like off the cusp of COVID, but I bet if you're working 2020, it's probably like a good thing that you didn't go into being

a fight attendant and you went to Vichie. Because you probably would have had some crazy stories. For sure, right? Yes. I feel like people say flying then was so different than what it is now. Wow. What are the dynamics between like the crew of an airplane? Like are you close with all of your flight attendants?

Like are the pilots like nice that like what are the internal dynamics that no one would know? Yeah. So usually when you're getting on a flight, you're like meeting your crew right then and there. Now whenever I was based in Miami, it was like a smaller. Like I think we had like 200 people who worked there. their flight attendant. So you would work with the same people, like, quite a bit of times, like, over and over. But whenever I was based in Atlanta, you could get on and meet your whole crew right then and there. So you're kind of like learning how to work with everyone right then. But it's kind of cool because

if you had a problem with them, then like you might not ever fly with them again. Yeah. And we also have no fly list for flight attendants. So if you don't want to work with someone, you can put them on your no fly list. Oh, I love that. Yeah. That's great. I never did that. I never had problems with anyone. But good. I mean, I wouldn't think you would. I probably would. I would use that. But yeah, and then the pilots, like, they're always pretty nice to the flight attendants and are very helpful, like, always have our backs. Are you still employed by the airline?

I'm currently still employed by them today. I'm not sure how. Yeah, what is your plan for after marriage? So I love flying, but it's just not doable when you're trying to, like, make a family. Not that we're trying to do that right now. But, you know, like, and have a relationship, like a strong relationship, it honestly is hard, especially when you're commuting. Because I was in, whenever we were in Nashville, I was flying out of Nashville,

commuting to Atlanta, and then working from there. So it was just like a ton of traveling. I think it's definitely doable. Like I have a ton of friends in the industry who are married with kids. It's doable, but it's just got to be something you really want to do. Do you have any hacks for or tips? Like when you fly, I don't know why this is, but every time I get off an airplane, I just feel that. Like I feel like it's like the filtered air or is maybe like dehydrated.

The bloating. The bloating. Yes. Do you have any tips that like flight attendants use to feel better when they first land? Good question. Just drink a lot of water. So it's all hydration. Yeah, water.

I always shower. Yeah. I can't like go to bed without showering. Right after. Like I would get off the plane at like 2 a.m. And I'm still going to get in the shower. Yeah. I think part of the reason lived like me on our first date because when she told me she was a flight attendant,

I was talking about the theory of relativity. You've ever seen the movie Interstellar? Yes. And how time moves differently on different planets. When you're on an airplane, to a minute degree, it's doing that. So I told her she was a time traveler. She still doesn't really understand what I'm talking about. I'm still understanding.

She's like, my boyfriend tells me of time travel. When you're flying, because you're moving so fast, time's moving a little bit differently, like a little bit than here on Earth. So, wow. So you're a time traveler. Yeah, and she loved that story. He wouldn't let this concept go. for like a month. She's like, please keep telling me it.

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Yeah. It's like a love-hate relationship. I love that I get to work with Landon. That's been a lot of fun. But sometimes I feel like I'm not as outgoing in London. As this clan, the Austin's, yes. I feel like I'm kind of more like reserved. So I'm trying to like get better about like getting out of my comfort zone.

But it's super fun. Do you feel that way when you're on camera or like in person? You know what I mean? Like are you saying like not outgoing enough for like when you're creating content? Yeah or maybe just like even like if I'm by myself filming something like I would prefer Landon to be with me like having like a dynamic where we're both together. Yeah. Other than like by myself filming myself.

Has it been fun for y'all's relationship to create content together? Totally. Yeah. It's been a lot of fun. We might have butted heads a couple times. It's when we first. started dating and like I would post on Instagram and stuff and she would be in things but I think you were kind of getting used to it and then I remember the first time you filmed yourself I almost had a

tear of joy I was like what is this who's she talking to and I also remember the first time was it in the tart concealer in your car no it was right after we got engaged yeah oh I remember yeah right after we got engaged and Landon was like okay live you should go out and film how you fill in the kitchen and I was like okay I can do it I can do this and then I was out there and then I was like he has to go in the other like the other I had to leave the house I get that I still make Jordan do that just you know she's like can you leave I've been doing this for over 10 years I still do that yeah I'm like I can just fill him like listening to me it's like you're doing great yeah well what's so funny is I don't think a lot of people know that Lannon was the OG content creator of our family that's right

So when I was in college, Landon was creating like vlogs, right? And so he would vlog, do like a daily vlog. He would post his music online. And I remember walking by his bedroom and he would be vlogging or you do like live streams. And I would have such secondhand embarrassment. I wasn't even in the video. And I'd walk by and be like, oh my God, oh my God, cringe, cringe, cringe, because I'm like, this guy, all his friends are online. I'm like, you can get out of the house.

So what if they were? How old were you all during this? I started when I was about 22, 23. I mean, you were early, early. Oh, yeah. Like, I made my first YouTube video in 2007, and YouTube was founded in 2005. And it went viral. It got 800,000 views in one night, which was, like, absurd.

Yeah, the time. It was a cover of John Mayer playing Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonde. Yes. And I hid my face, so everyone thought I was John Mayer, which was, like, the best, like, compliment ever. And so I loved it. And then, fast forward, I did Doritas Crash Super Bowl. which is an online competition. And to promote the competition, I would make YouTube videos.

And one of my videos got featured on the front page of YouTube back when YouTube only had five videos. Like it was like five videos vertically. I remember that. And I was like the third one down. It was a big deal. And it launched like my career on YouTube. So then I was in college and I was studying to be a physical therapist. And Landon's out in L.A.

He's traveling all over the country, doing shows, doing YouTube videos. And then we would go on family vacations or I'd come home for winter break and he would put me in his blogs and he would just do like a daily vlog remember hello there and welcome how'd you get here i don't really know but i'm glad you're here this is my blog yeah but what's cool is we would do like sibling tags or like i remember we went and we tried all the baby food and we went to the grocery store and i'm like 23 you're what how old are you at that time like 30 oh my gosh shut up i was like literally how old was that you're four years younger so 19 so we went to the grocery store to buy all this baby food and i kid you not, these people thought we were young parents because we had so much baby food. I remember

looking at us. And then my favorite video we did, I actually privated a lot of these. We went and blew up fireworks. Remember I had a big bucket full of fireworks? I forgot about that. Like hundreds of dollars worth of fireworks. And we just threw a match and ran away and it exploded. It was awesome. I totally forgot about that. And we just found a random field in the middle of nowhere. Yes. We were getting so much hate for doing that now. I know. Yeah, we used to do the most random things. We had like a burping contest one time. You'd one. But, but, like, no one was doing this in Texas.

None of my friends knew about this. Then there was, like, this little community of girls that Landon knew out in L.A. that were, like, doing this full time. And he was like, you should vlog, like, these girls, like, Miss Glamoazzi, Ingrid Nelson. A Nikki and Blair Fowler. Nikki and Blair Fowler. All those girls. All those girls.

And so, like, I was like, okay, I'm going to give this a shot. But I just, I started making videos, like, in my dorm room, and I just didn't tell anybody. Because I was, like, so embarrassed. Being in a sorority, being in college, like I just could not tell anyone. But it's just so funny because a lot of people don't know. Landon was actually like the OG creator because now I feel like we're always like trying to force him to create content. And then you went down this path of more like music.

Yeah. I was like a musician who marketed himself through making content. And so I would create music videos. I'd do original songs, covers and I would tour. But then every Tuesday I'd release a vlog or like when I was on tour, I'd release a daily vlog, which is essentially like Instagram stories in a long form video on YouTube, horizontal. And it was really fun. And it really helped launch my music career.

But then you took a break from, I would say, creating content. It moved more towards like music videos. Yes. And then I went to the shadows kind of as you guys were taking off. And I just focused on music producing stuff. And I still released music videos, but I quit vlogging. And then I more recently got back into posting. Why did you quit vlogging?

Was it very similar to like why Danny quit? And I have one question too. Why did you not get on Instagram? because I feel like at the time TikTok wasn't a thing YouTube was kind of like people were transitioning from YouTube to Instagram like why didn't you make that transition?

So I remember I did open to Instagram and I would post photos and I'll never forget my proudest moment this is over 10 years ago. Old school Instagram I posted a photo that made it on the popular page or something and I thought I'd made it. But like there were no stories or anything

but I'm like am I going to take a picture of myself every day? Not really. I honestly thought Instagram was for girls. I was like what kind of pictures am I going to post and making music whatever? And so we used to do this thing called like vlog miss or Vala where you would vlog every day of the month. And I would do those. And I remember dreading them by the 30th day, hating my life being like, what am I going to post today in a five to 10 minute video?

Yeah. It was so hard that I grew to hate it. And then I would just make music. And I resented vlogging these long form videos. Stories are so much better because it's a snippet. It's not your whole day. It's so funny when people are to me like, wow, you're just like with your dog all day. And I'm like, no, you saw 30 seconds of my day.

with Marty not knowing that I'm working and making music and making calls. To be fair, those snow cones are amazing. We made snow cones yesterday. It was awesome. So you took a break and now you're back. Does it feel good to be back? I like doing this better because one I have lived to do it with. I've always at my core loved attention.

It's an Austin trait. It's an Austin thing. Which is why I put my life online and then people would watch. I'm like, this is very dating. It's like a drug. And so doing Instagram stories with Live is so fun because it's our life. Yes. We can do it together as opposed to me by myself.

And it enables us to do that in a little bit and then live our lives outside of that as well. I felt that YouTube burnout. I still have PTSD when like sometimes people are like, you need to start a YouTube channel again. I'm like, no. So that camera right there that's filming us, if I grabbed that camera and pointed it at Danny, she'd freeze up. Yeah. If I pointed an iPhone at Danny, she'd be like, hi, I'm a star. Like, it's the craziest PTSD.

It represents like this era in my life that I just hated. Probably unhealth, to be honest. Like, I mean, a lot of those daily vloggers, like, who's still around from that era? I look them up and I don't really want to say any names, but it's changed so much. Yes. Like people who used to kill it on YouTube. I can't think of anyone now who's still killing it from our day. You know what's so crazy is that there's another transition happening.

And I asked you about this before the podcast, but you didn't watch the Kai. I might be saying his name wrong, Kai Sinat live stream. It's so funny. So what's happening now is like these Twitch streamers, it's mostly male, I would say. These Twitch streamers are doing like marathon live streams. So Kai Sinat had a bunch of his friends over and Kevin Hart over. So this is like a normal kid. Kai has, it's they're part of a, it's called Amp House.

Yeah, an Amp House. And they each have like 10 million followers. So it started in gaming and so people would do like film themselves, playing Call of Duty and then like film themselves while they're playing so you could watch their gameplay and their personality like Ninja right and then what it's doing now is it's carrying over to lifestyle so he had this sleepover with Kevin Hart so funny and if you I can't explain it because it won't be as funny but like go to TikTok anyone who's listening to this and type in Kai Sinat Kevin Hart's sleepover it is the funniest moment of the internet I have seen in years

it's a little inappropriate just so you know so funny it is so like wholesome. And so there's this new trend happening where people are now live streaming, right? And so the way they make money through that is they'll have all these people who subscribe and then tune into their live stream. And these kids will watch their live stream for hours. And it feels like you're hanging out with them. 800,000 views. But their viewers have to be kids because who else has the time to walk out always? It's a lot of kids that are probably middle school or high school. But still, you know, and I think that those, that era like the Aidan Ross, the Kaisanaut, they're going to be so burnt out after a couple years,

it's going to be insane. I have to say, like, I think that was one thing that was very hard for me. And probably you too was, our demo was younger. I mean, yours was younger females.

And like, when I'm creating videos in college, my girls that were watching me were like in sixth grade, seventh grade, you know? And so all my friends, like they didn't understand,

like, Danny, why are you making these like really cheesy videos? I'm like, well, my demo's way younger. And I felt like I was always trying to like, be this person that I really wasn't.

And that was just like the YouTube culture of it because it leaned so young. And I feel like when Instagram stories came out, I was like, this is myself. And I just feel like I could be myself and share my current stage of life. And I think that's why there was more like sustainability in it because I wasn't so exhausted.

But I would say like we struggle and I don't know if y'all struggle with this, but like we struggle now with just like this, the internet is so youthful, right? So you have all these TikTokers who are living lives that are totally not lives that we can live anymore because we have two kids. And so there's kind of this pressure that we feel of like,

you know, while these kids are going out and putting firecrackers in the middle of a road and then running away, like we can't do that anymore. And so there's this kind of pressure that we feel. Do you all ever feel the pressure to like keep up with the youth of the internet? No. Really?

I don't think I know what the youth of the internet is doing. Okay, so you're removed from it. Yeah, I feel like we focus so much on what our day-to-day lives are and she's so good at like finding things she likes with outfits and beauty and stuff that she's kind of in and, and then we filmed the little tidbits of our lives with our dogs. And like maybe if we were smarter, we'd keep up with trends and see what's going on.

But we're just so inward facing. And I think that's a way for us to protect ourselves from the fomo of like what everyone else is doing. But it's funny to take a step back. You mentioned Twitch. I've been doing this so long. I remember when it was Justin TV. And there was like no one on there. And I would do live concerts online.

And I would play these shows and people would come watch. And then one day it became Twitch. But it was such a long time ago. And I'll never forget, I wanted to start a website where you could do online concerts. I'm like, this is such a good idea. So I met with a developer, and we tried to make this thing.

And in the process of doing that, we ended up not having funding or be able to do it. But a guy I was Facebook friends with, he would see me do these streams, and he launched like a competitor site to that. Whoa. It was crazy. And I'm like, is it so round?

And I can't say that I inspired him, but I only have 200 Facebook friends and I would post these concerts. And then a year later, he launches this site. And I'm like, I wonder if it sparked something and he was kind of like a sea list celebrity. I don't know. Yeah, yeah.

But, you know, it's funny because I think Joe Rogan's podcast, which is now the biggest podcast in the world, started on Justin TV. It was just a live stream that he would do. Yeah, and he was like back in the day. You were trying to get me on Justin TV. Yeah, it was awesome because back then it was a very cult following. Yeah.

And it wasn't as big as Twitch, but you'd have all these followers and you have thousands of people watching you. And I'd just play songs and they'd take requests. And it was awesome. What are some of the dynamics that have been introduced in Diel's a relationship being a content couple, versus a non-content couple. There's a lot.

Yeah, because we're kind of like... I mean, I think it's interesting because everything we do, you get DMs about it. So things to us that are mundane or just kind of goofy with our dogs hearing people's opinions on that, whether good or bad or interesting. So it makes us have to be careful

about what we say or do online. And I feel like that's kind of interesting because I think this is a world that lives not used to. Because when I met, her, I remember looking at her Instagram and being like, oh, wow, she posts reals and she'll do these cute designs with flowers and stuff, not noticing that she's never talking. She's always just kind of like, just doing these cute little videos, Rishi's mine, and I love it. I'm like, enamored by it. But then when we start dating and we get engaged and we're like, okay, I love to talk.

I love to tell people what's going on. That was a new thing for her and kind of a daunting thing, but she's handled it so well. But I think we both kind of enjoyed pushing those boundaries and saying some things or whatever that you get a little bit of bite back. And that's new. And I'm very, I will say this, very impressed with how you've handled that. Because I thought the first time she got hate, she would shut down and be like, I'm done. But she's like, eats it up. It's the best.

I have noticed that you're way tougher than. Yeah, way tougher. Like, which I would be tougher than me, honestly. Yeah, no, I honestly think Liv is tougher than you. Like, live will get, like, show me a DM and like, Jordan will, I would show you a DM about like the Grinch belly or something. You fold, babe. The Grinch belly was hard. I would sit a certain way and my belly would do the Grinch belly.

It would be the best of us. But Lynn will show me, like, me and DMs. I'm like, how? And she's like, oh, it's funny. They call her a trad wife. You know what that is? Oh, yeah. Of course.

She's a compliment. That's a compliment. That's a compliment. Me too. So what are some of the common narratives that are that pop up with you guys as of late? Like, what are the main themes that you guys are constantly trying to combat? I think that, I mean, I'm not trying to combat it. I think we just lean into it.

But with her outfits and cooking and stuff, they think she's like traditional. And for those who don't know, do they call you domineering then? In controlling? No, I don't think I've heard that, but I have heard like, you gotta get a real job. I was like, I got a job.

What is your job for the people that want to know? So my career has always been a lot, a little bit of a lot of things. I've always been kind of like tornado in that way. So like initially when I graduated college, I leaned heavily into YouTube and music. So I'm doing that. And then I started buying real estate.

I have a bunch of rental properties that I manage. So now, Fortunately, I'm able to live off a lot of the residuals I've done for music, a lot of songs I've created. And my real estate, I manage that, have an Airbnb in Nashville now, long-term rentals that I do as well. And then I'm also, I don't talk about it a lot online, but I do a little bit of sales on the side, 10 hours a week. So kind of like an entrepreneur. Yeah, I've always been a serial entrepreneur. I'm always doing things.

And there's things I even do that I won't go online and talk about, not because they're shading. I feel like I find out a new thing he does, like at least one time. You're very secretive about what you do. will not lie. And he's very, you're very tight with your money. I'm not, but I think that I've always,

I'm always, I've always been very frugal. No, I think I'm just, I'm practical and realistic. He's always like, even when we were kids, okay,

like our parents would, you know, we get allowance or something, like 20 bucks. Because I invest it. Lana would go find a way to invest it. I'd be like, I'm going to the ball.

I try and live, here's my thing, I try and live off the least amount of money I have to invest every cent I make that I can. Do you, that's called, Do you follow the fire mindset?

I've asked you this before. I follow it, but I'm not looking to retire soon, but I want to be in a position where it's like if I want to. So fire is like financially independent, retire early. And it's kind of a lifestyle. A lot of like developers are fire. And what it means is like you take all of your cash and you put it into investable assets and then you can live off of those. Yes. I feel like that's what you do.

Yeah. I'm very much a fire mindset. I'm always like, where's a lot of money? And that's why it's like, you know, I'd be curious like have you decided to retire. So my favorite thing, and this just gets a little businessy, but I can talk about this for hours, but I love passive income. So that's why I love music because you make it once. And then, God willing, you can make money off it forever. Right. And so that's a big part of my pie. And then investing money into real estate's the same way and investing in the market and other things. I like living off money already have.

Yeah. Because your money can make you money. Can you give an example of like, you don't have to use one of your songs, but like let's just say someone has a viral song on Spotify. Like how much money are you really making from one song? That's a great question. So it depends. Every platform pays differently. I've made the most off Spotify, but they're one of the worst payers. So like they pay about four to five grand every million streams. Okay.

And so like I've had a significant amount of streams there, which is nice. But then Apple Music pays double that. Or Amazon pays more than that as well. So you could have a song blow up on Amazon and that does terrible on Spotify and vice versa. So all my songs are on 20 different platforms. And like there was a time. I literally got called by. a label out of Vietnam.

They said I was the third most listened to artist in Ho Chi men in Vietnam for like a year. And I'm like, this is so weird. And it's like you just don't know where these songs are going to go. Wow. You know? So like you're saying people could like you could have made $100,000 off a song that you made five years ago just from like the residual. Yes.

And still. Especially still. Yeah. And it's like forever. It's like it like forever. Yeah. There's actually there's like investment bankers who will come in and try and buy your catalog from you.

And so they'll give you a 5x on what you made over the past year. But you just want to keep the past income. I keep it. Like I've never sold because I'm like, if you want it, there must be value. Are you at a place where you could, you know, this is a complicated question because it depends on y'all's lifestyle expenses and you're about to get married and that will change. You can't be a bachelor anymore. But if you wanted to retire tomorrow, could you do that?

It's to answer that question, it all depends about lifestyle, like you said. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, I'll see this. It's taking a lot of the pressure off. Like I just kind of like work at my own pace. Granted, I'm always working. But God forbid if everything shut down tomorrow, I'd be fine. What do you do with the, like you make sounds of like rain and stuff?

Oh yeah. How do you make money off that? So I have, if you're someone who needs sound, like if you get distracted while you're sleeping, you have a hard time sleeping. I have this thing on Spotify and Amazon and all the stores called rain, diamond sounds. Rain, diamonds sounds. Diamonds with an S. It's rain sounds.

It's white. noise, it's pink noise for babies, it's brown noise. I have it all. You want it? I might use your pink noise. Man, those people that like, because I use this one like white noise for Stella when she, and Stratton, when they're babies, like I always go to the same one. And it probably has like 13 billion. Use mine. Use mine. Rain, if you want to sound, DM me at Atlanta and Austin, I'll make you a sound. So those sounds can go viral. They can. That's not like, like that's a hobby for me, like creating that stuff. And that's something that initially I started making because a buddy turned me onto it. He had a sleep machine.

I like, I like this machine. Let me put it on spot off so I can loop it all night. Yeah, they just loop. Yeah, and it's got this little diamond guy I created it with eyeballs. I'm going to make merch, so I hook you up. Oh, my gosh. What do y'all think you want your lifestyle to look like after you get married? Do you want to live on land?

Do you want to? Where do you want to live? How many kids do you want? Do you want them quickly? Land and I will say before she even answered. were you scared when we told you that we were having three kids? I was like, after all we've been through to this boy. The fear on your face, it was either genuine shock or fear, and I cannot know the difference.

I feel like you were shocked. I was shocked. I was shocked when I looked over, like, words weren't coming out. He was flabbergasted. Like, another? I was like, more, no, I think it's awesome. I think it's very exciting. I don't know what I was thinking in that moment.

I think I was thinking about what I was going to have for lunch, honestly. And I was so caught off guard. I was like, oh, cheeseburger. To me, my theory, this was my theory, is that. that because we announced that we were having three kids, I felt in your mind that you were like, you were like, this is going to make live want to have kids way quicker.

And I think that that was the moment that you got scared. Was it that true? It's so funny because I think y'all are way overthinking this. I literally think I was zoned out. And then I saw it. I was like, oh, wow. That's nice. That's funny.

I think it's awesome. But, uh, well, we also had like teased that we were going to, like, I've always said I want like three or four kids. Yeah, I've always known that. So I don't think it was like a shocker. But I think you're at three now after this pregnancy. After this pregnancy. Although I don't know, Bungesta. Vingesta has been like my saving grace. I could maybe do this. We'll have an ad for Bungesta. Yeah. So what do you all want your lifestyle to look like? I picture us having like some land. How much land? 20 acres. She wants us to get a boat. No, not 20 acres. I want to get a boat too. Yes. I've always pictured my family in a boat like a lake house. Can y'all get a boat? and can we use your boat? No, boats are like the worst investment ever. They say the happiest day of your life is that you get a boat.

And the day you sell your boat. You're selling your boat. We could just get one that we could all fit on. Yeah, we'll let them get it. I don't know. Jordan has this record of like breaking water toys like that. Really? Where you broke the jet ski?

Yeah, I did. Brett, uncle Brett's jet ski. Oh, you broke his jet ski? Yeah, it's embarrassing. And that's hard. I went to shallow waters and it just filled with much. Oh, it's still makes it cringe. Okay.

So you imagine yourself with a boat on acreage, maybe like five acres? Sure. That sounds great. It's good for me. Yeah. Geographically where? Nashville probably. Nashville about a good.

Me too. With all of our family. Like my family's really close. I have family who live in Nashville. A bunch of friends there. We're definitely going to be in Nashville long term. Jordan's begging to go to Nashville. Begging.

Leepers Fort. I love Leepers Fort. Thompson Station, Franklin, all that. Right now we're city folk. not like how you grew up, but one day. Why did y'all move to Dallas? To be closer to you all. It's like, they're like, you told us too.

They're like, you made us. What are you talking about? What's the biggest difference between Dallas and Nashville that you found? I feel just like the size of it. I feel like Dallas just seems so big to me. And maybe it's because I didn't really grow up here, but I just never know where I am when I'm driving. And it just feels so big.

The traffic, the drivers are crazy. Yeah. Yeah. But it's been nice being close to you guys in Tornado and Mark. Yeah. I think the only thing we like about Dallas is that we're close to family. Dude, same. I think everything else we don't like.

That's how I feel about Dallas. I mean, but then there's like, it's like we've been here our whole lives. Dallas really is great. I think it's just like when you've been here forever, you want to experience something else. But like I do think it's a good place to build your business too.

And we have like sports teams and there's always something to do. Like I feel like sometimes we don't. don't really like appreciate that side of Dallas. But I would say like the main reason I don't like it is like the weather. It's so freaking hot. And besides like the events, there's nothing to do like on the weekdays. You know,

when you're with your family and just like wanted to hang. Yeah. So you've liked Dallas. When are you all moving back to Nashville? Maybe. Maybe December? December maybe. Yeah.

We kind of skipped over this. How many kids do you want? Can you all hear of us? stomach girl. No. She grabbed her stomach right when you said, I'm like, oh my gosh. Actually. This is why y'all got changed your name.

It's a shotgun wedding. I really did ask that. Well, actually, sorry, but I could just hear my stomach girl. It's just indigestion. I feel like we want, like, he said the other day at least two kids. At least two. I could picture us having more than that. But I feel like kind of like you, if I'm nauseous, like I do not like being nauseous.

And I feel like that could scare me away from having. Not everyone's like that just so you know. And both of my pregnancies were, well, Stratton, I wasn't nauseous at all. So like every pregnancy is different. Yeah. So don't be scared. Do you think that you'll be kind of like a stay-at-home mom? Yeah.

Yeah. I think all worked still, but I would love to like be very invested in my kids' lives and just. I would like for you not to be flying away when we have kids. That's my goal. Yeah, no, I wouldn't want to do that either. Mom's gone again. Who wants hot dogs for dinner? I don't know.

Hot dogs and stokones, baby. Do you have any more questions before we play a game? No, you can play a game. What's the game? I don't know. It's up seven up. Okay. We're going to list off some scenarios or situations,

and you guys have to decide which of you it describes. Okay. Who is most likely to leave dishes in the sink? Are you reporting? I guess we have to talk. It's up to talk. Landon. Landon.

That's true. Is it common? I do pretty good. I clean them. I clean them every other day. Yeah, I clean them this morning. You did. He did do it this morning.

Who initiated the first kiss? Me, 100%. I went in for it. Wait, what date? On what date? On the third date? The third date. I was opening her corridor and I was like, hey, let me grab.

And it was just like, there was no time for, it just happened. It just happened. Who was most likely to stay on the dance floor all night? Me. Really? Yeah. You were a dancer. Yeah.

Yeah, a break dancer? You wish. You know what? In fifth grade, I was on a hip hop team. Yes. Yes. That's crazy. Man, y'all's kids are going to be talented.

So talented. Our kids can't touch their toes. No. It's hard. Who is most likely to take the dogs out in the middle of the night? Me. What? Me?

No. Yeah. No way. Yeah. No. You're sleeping. Oh, yeah. Why are they going in the middle of the night?

What are we doing that about? Okay. Yeah, me. Okay, business hours is me. This is very telling for your children, just so you know. Yeah. Okay. Who is most likely to order random must-haves on Amazon? Probably me.

Yeah, that's Exhibit A right here. Who is most likely to cry on the wedding day? Me. Are you a crier? Yeah. You are? She's a sweet soul. Oh, we need that in our family too.

Definitely a crier, like at church. If there's like a good song, like, yeah. Like, it's embarrassing, honestly. I hate it. I hate that about me. You're like, live, get it together.

I got it from my dad. He cries over everything. Dad is a sweetheart. That's all the side of the family. They're pretty disconnected from all their emotions. It just depends what time of the month it is. Who is the better cook?

Probably me. We cooked kind of separate because she doesn't eat meat. Yeah. And I can only have so much kale. Okay. Yeah. We cooked separate too

because he only eats meat. And I just like, yeah. Carnivore diet? No, but just a lot of protein. Yeah. Bulking up, you know. Yeah. Tell me my metrics.

Oh, Jordan this morning successfully hit 12.4%. 12.3. 12.3% body fat. Are you trying to drop or get bigger? Down from 18 in January. Really? He's lost 20 pounds since January. Who's laughing about that Grinch belly now?

Yeah. Seriously. Yeah. You guys just motivate me. Yeah. Grinch belly's gone. That is crazy. He's lost 20 pounds since January.

Wow. That's incredible. That's amazing. Who is most likely to panic about their kids wearing sunscreen? Probably Landon. Yeah. It's very fair. I've also had skin cancer as a survivor.

I would say, let's ladder them up. Would you be, like, who's going to be more strict? Probably, probably me. About different things, I feel like. Yeah. Like, you'll make sure their clothes are steamed. and I'll make sure that they're like at school on time. I feel like I'll be pretty strict mom

because I feel like my parents weren't very strict. They weren't, no. Wait, wait, you'll be a strict mom. What about the way you and Marlowe, your dog? Yeah, well, he's perfect, so. That's what you're going to say about your kids too. Let's talk about your dog real quick. I love Marla to death.

You can't call him out like this. He doesn't love me exactly, and she's like, oh, it's just with you for some reason, as he's trying to bite her. He literally bit tornado last week. It's only when you move them. It's only when you move. He doesn't like to be moved when he's sleeping.

Yeah, he bit. Oh, no. Who do you think is more strict between us? I think that it's very similar. It's like you'll be strict about probably their behavior. And then I'm strict about like their schedule. Yeah, I'm definitely becoming like the cool mom though. Yeah, I guess you are.

No, Stella will like like Stella ate cheese. it's this morning for breakfast and like I was like daddy's coming she's like it'll be our secret and I was like okay yeah don't tell him okay who is most likely to fall asleep during a movie live she doesn't watch movies there's only been one movie I've been able to get her to watch and it's disturb you I'm I think it's because Sarah LaBuff was in it but she will not she won't watch movies with me she falls asleep or opens her phone that's so random Why disturb you? And I don't love scary movies, but I do love them at the same time, if that makes sense.

I don't like how they make me feel after because I'll be scared for days after, but they grab my attention where I like, we'll watch it all the way through. And then Landon's like pieced out and won't even be watching it. But I'll be like, no, we have to stay up and watch it. That's why you need to see six cents. You're going to love it. Well, what I've found is like if you're going to have a movie night, you have to start it early. You can't be watching a movie at 9 o'clock at night.

Like, I'm going to fall asleep. Who is the better driver? me definitely landed in you have a Tesla I drive this self I'm legitimately scared when she drives very scared that's what I used to be a speeder I try not to let her drive yeah really yeah I can't see breaking any rules like I probably shouldn't say this but I almost got my license taken away because I had so many tickets at one really I would speed yeah I don't know why

it was always like on the interstate when I was going from like bowling green like from college to my home town. Yeah. I would like just like, because it was only like an hour and a half, but I was like, I bet I can get it down to like an hour. Okay. Have you heard this thing? But now I'm not like that. I'm very safe driver now. Well, I don't know if you saw our video. She gets motion sick when I drive. Yeah. And it's only when I got my Tesla and a lot of people are DMing us articles about how Tesla's are making people motion sick because of the regenerative breaking. And that's my favorite

car I've ever owned and I think I'm like a fan boy now. But when you take your foot off the gas, it immediately breaks. Yes. And you have to be very delicate because it feels like a roller coaster. Yeah, see, I wouldn't like that. I love it. I guess you get used to it, but oh my gosh, like mom driving that thing. Yeah, no. Like, it makes me so car sick.

You know, Miles just got on the, he got the email that he gets to get a cyber truck. Oh, I want that. Really? Yeah. That's so fun. I think he's getting it. I think they're cool. No, I want to give her my Tesla so I can get a cyber truck when we get married, but she doesn't

want it. Well, if you have babies soon, you're not going to build, you're going to need a bigger card than that. That's what I said. I'm going to need to SUV. You and the babies can use the cyber truck. You're the babies. You're the babies. Who is most likely to spill on themselves at dinner?

That's probably me. Probably. You do spill on yourself a lot. That is true. That might be like pretty evil. That's even. That's even, yeah. Who is going to be the fun parent?

Me and Linden. Yeah, we're both fun. Yeah, we'll be fun. Who is most likely to be a PTA parent? What's PTA? I still live. Yeah. Probably me.

What is that? Yeah. teacher organization. Yeah. Parent teacher association. Oh, I mean, I'm good with that. Just so you know I was in the PTA. Are you? Well, no, I was in the pre-PTA. Yeah. When I, after I had Stella, because you can get in the PTA like before your kids are even old enough. It's called, and you basically get together like with your community. It's just like all these moms. But it's just like really to just like hang out. People like moms who's who have like newborns are like already campaigning for the presidential race four years from.

All of these moms that were like trying to like buddy like buddy up with me. So I would vote for them. It was kind of fun. That needs to be a reality show. I know. Do you all feel like this is a Dallas thing though? Or do you feel like this? I've heard from other people who have grown up here that Dallas has gotten very, very bad when it comes to politics.

Sorry. Parent politics within schools, if that makes sense. So not politics within schools, but like it's gotten very difficult to get your kids into schools. Like there's kind of like an in network. And so, yeah, it's pretty tough. I hope it's not like that in Nashville for when we move there. But, you know, you never know. Yeah.

I don't have kids. I don't feel like it would be the same in Nashville. Yeah. I feel like Dallas is just like. Nashville's kind of exploding now, so maybe it will become. There's always going to be elements of that, but Dallas, it's like so ingrained in the culture. But it's just like, luckily, we don't have to worry about this because Danny's going to homeschool our kids. Wow.

We can homeschool our kids together. It's her lot in life, she says. Her, how about you homeschool our kids and we'll have a co-op. I trust you with our children. I probably only do up to like first grade. Yeah. We got to find someone. Well,

how can everyone find you guys on socials? Add Olivia Austin, you know, with the new last name. That's right. Not to be confused with the adult film star. Not to be. Not the same person.

Not the same person. Atlanta Austin. You can find rain diamond sounds on Spotify. That's all I got right now. Just Google us. Thank you guys for coming today. I guess are y'all going to play pickleball? we canceled it.

We canceled it? Yeah. Oh, Mom was so excited. I hurt my finger. Oh, is that a wart? It's a wart. Oh, that's what you've been picking this entire time? No, not picking it.

I just got a thing on it. We're good. You must have just done that because I was wondering what that was to you. Wait, can I see that? It just removes it. It's a patch. I mean, I see it all the time. I probably got this from you.

I know, I don't get them anymore. I haven't had him since like college. She was a very warty child. I was not. I used to get them though. Like this scar. I thought it was chickenpox. Oh my gosh.

Anyway, he won't stop biting at it either I'm not biting it Oh man Landon always was like a picker You always pick things Let's play guitar You know Anyway thank you guys for listening to this episode

Make sure you check out Land and Olivia's channels on Instagram And yeah We'll talk to you later Bye Bye