Welcome And Suite Walkthrough

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Welcome back to another episode of Just an Epic Life. And today Nick and I are recording from the JW Marriott Desert Ridge here in Phoenix, Arizona. We booked this, I booked this a while ago. So it got some really good pricing. And then we used one of our suite nights to upgrade to this beautiful room. It's a corner suite. This room is huge. It's just under 900 square feet. We're going to take you on a quick tour.

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Uh so 900 square feet, how much was our first apartment?

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Okay, so our first apartment was just under 600 square feet. I think like 55, 594 or something like this.

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And this is like bedroom, living room, bathroom, kitchen, dining room.

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Yeah. A huge closet. So uh our entrance, the like there's a grand entrance. So you've got your, you know. See, he's really here. Uh, your front door here, and then you we just walked from the living room. I don't know what this space is, but this is where we call it the foyer.

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We unloaded our singing room because the acoustics are so they are.

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Uh great uh closet.

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Um for our listening only audience, you have to imagine.

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Yeah. Huge double sing vanity bathtub, huge shower, toilet room. Toilet closet is what I call it in reality.

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Dude, that our shower at home is like this big.

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This big and probably one square less. Yeah, no joke. Uh huge king um primary room, we'll call it, with like a little couchy thingy. Um, my favorite part about this whole place is the balcony because that's just always see you there. Yeah, I'll see you there.

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I'm going out on this side of the balcony.

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I wonder how these mics hold up.

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For a listening only audience, gotta check it on YouTube.

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Yeah, so here it's a double patio. We have the adult-only pool right out here, the golf. Um, and then if we keep going this way, we've got the pool out here. Very public pool. It's very full today. Because it's a hundred and something here in Phoenix.

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There's a whole lot of people down there.

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There is a whole lot of people down there.

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We'll go down there soon.

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So you've also got the golf course, uh, mountain views. I mean, really, the property is beautiful. It's beautiful.

unknown 2:16

Cool.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

This is our second time staying here. We stayed here earlier this year because we needed to use a free reward night with Marriott for one of our credit cards. So uh Nick believes that this room is about 200 square feet bigger than the one that we were in the last time, which is cool. Uh yeah, really great. There's two TVs and uh the couch, which I love because then when we watch TV later on tonight, it'll be it'll be great. It'll be great. So there's our suite. We had to walk, we did have quite the trek, though, I will say. And apparently we have to go back to the beginning to get bracelets for the pool, and uh even though we can access it right here. So it's okay.

unknown 2:55

Yeah.

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We opted for the South Park.

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We did. Uh that was we didn't want to pay the extra$21 for us to valet.

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$29 for South Park. And uh it makes me think of South Park. South Park. Uh, and 20 bucks more for the valet. And I'm like, we can use that 20 bucks somewhere else.

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Yeah. Uh we did do a triple.

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It was a different it was a decent walk. Like it was a four or five minute walk.

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Yeah.

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I'm glad I dropped you with the suitcase. That was good.

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We did book with a triple A rate, uh, and we have$50 in resort credit because the triple A rate. So uh I mean, it's just over$300 for this property, and I would call that great.

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I got the comfy seat.

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I wanted to do that too, but I didn't know how it was.

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Do you want this chair?

SPEAKER_03 3:38

No, I'm good.

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Are you sure?

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Yeah. So I told Nick we had to talk about like how we stay in hotel rooms now that are bigger than the first apartment that we had.

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So many rooms are.

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So many.

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Not not that the hotel rooms are huge, but because our apartment was so humble. It was on a college campus.

SPEAKER_03 3:54

Yeah, it was on a college campus, yeah, for sure. Are you just making sure we still look good?

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Yeah, I'm just getting us zoomed in for our video audience.

SPEAKER_03 4:02

Well, I don't know why they want to watch us because we don't do anything entertaining.

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Oh, but I can do a song and dance.

The Noise Canceling Mic Surprise

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Okay.

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Uh, fun fact, I haven't told you this yet. Uh-oh. So I was looking at uh a new gimbal for my video content. And uh there's this new gimbal that has this cable that goes to a the the brand that I'm loyal to for microphones and the gimbal. Uh it the mini series, and I'm like, ooh, I should buy this new gimbal, I should buy this new microphone, and then I I start searching, you know, noise. Does this new microphone have noise canceling? Uh and then I discovered that the microphones that we currently have also have noise canceling, and I have not activated that feature before.

SPEAKER_03 4:47

Oh, like these ones?

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Yeah. So that might have been really good on the when we were in the airport two weeks ago.

SPEAKER_03 4:53

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

That could have been helpful. And when we were in the car, that could have been so I guess I shouldn't apologize to you.

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Yeah.

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I should apologize to our viewers.

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Wait, so would that knock out the that is a great question.

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Now the good news is that microphone is far away from your earrings.

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Okay, so they probably which by the way, I have yet to hear the dingle, the dingling of my earrings in an episode, but maybe I'm not paying attention.

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So, viewers, I apologize for not discovering that if you press the power button and it turns it yellow, that's in.

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Noise canceling. Noise canceling.

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So noise isolation or whatever. It's that way. Yeah. Oops.

SPEAKER_03 5:29

Yeah. So we're here actually because Liliana is at cheer camp somewhere on the property. And uh tomorrow she does some kind of performance, and we came so that we could wake up here.

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Uh we don't need to.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

Yeah, we didn't need to, but it's a 35-minute drive. It's an excuse to have a date. We didn't stay at the resort last year.

SPEAKER_02 5:49

No, we stayed in Tempe and then drove to the Arizona Grand.

SPEAKER_03 5:54

Oh, that's why Emily and Robert stayed with us. I was trying to figure out why we didn't.

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We wanted to have a date experience, so we were choosing between dating downtown or dating in Tempe.

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Yeah.

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Because we we where we live, usually when we go on a date, we have a cocktail or two. I don't want to drive home after a cocktail. Well, I can drive home after a cocktail. I don't if I choose to have a second cocktail, I don't want to think about 30-minute drive, 45-minute trivium. So the idea for us of doing a date is if we choose to have a second cocktail, we're just walking back or ubering back. Do you need me to fade?

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Oh my gosh, it's so hand me a pillow and I can't.

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No, it's fine.

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No, no, no, no. It's fine. Stop doing that.

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So yeah, we dated today. We went to lunch.

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Yeah, we did. We went to line a place we've never been. We hadn't been. And actually, it was quite delightful. It was delicious.

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Yeah. I hope that the uh microphone just picked up your stomach rumbling.

SPEAKER_03 6:47

My stomach rumbled? Just a little. I didn't hear it. Are you sure it was mine and not yours?

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No.

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That reminds me. It probably was mine, because I I didn't hear it. And when we walk next to each other, I can hear your footsteps, but you can't hear mine.

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Okay.

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Yeah. Like when we're walking in the morning, your your feet squeak.

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I don't know.

The Worst Bug House Encounter

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I don't either, but then they do it. Okay, can we talk about the house yesterday? Just we have to do it for a minute because so I've been in real estate 16 years. Okay. And um I've probably figured I figured yesterday that I have probably seen somewhere upwards of 7,000 homes, maybe more. And that I mean, in in my career.

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That's conservative.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

And uh there are few homes that I've seen that I would call bug houses. I can remember the first one that I walked in and I was oblivious until they started dropping from the ceiling. And then my dad moved the curtains and they came out of there and I lost my mind. Um, but something I've recently learned that you taught me is bug smell. And there's a smell to them. And it wasn't until we bought a house three months ago, two months ago, that um the woman was talking to us about her kitchen and she opened a drawer and I saw a bug crawling on the side of the drawer. So you pulled the drawer and it was on the side, and then it crawled into the drawer. And I looked at my husband.

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Naturally, where the flat wire is, the forks you would put in your mouth.

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Please.

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Sorry.

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Okay. So I immediately look at Nick and I'm like, oh my God. And he goes, I could smell it. So I have this thing where I see bugs and I curl my toes. Like I like for somehow I'm gonna protect myself by curling my toes. So, anyways, suddenly I could smell what he was talking about. So yesterday we go to this house, he has this acquisition appointment.

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Flippers, you know what the smell is.

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I well, yeah, realtors, you should learn what it is now. So since we've been flipping, I have seen more bug houses than ever before. But that's probably because now we're putting ourselves in those opportunities, right? So we get to the property, and I'm not in my daughter dad stuff, I'm in wife stuff. So he doesn't introduce me as daughter dad. And we're standing there with a woman who is like cleaning out stuff, and I have my ears plugged because I come walking up the walkway. There's another hearing me somewhere, and that sound, the sound of if you have one of these, like my in-laws have one of these, they didn't always have one of these, but it's a thing that makes a very high-pitched sound to make cats not come near your house. So I come walking up the driveway and I heard it, and I was like, ugh. So I immediately plugged my ears, and he's like, he gives me the look like you're being so rude. And I'm like, that sound, and he goes, Is it the cat thing? And I'm like, Yeah, it's right over there. Well, A, it's the neighbor's house because who has the cats?

SPEAKER_02 9:42

The woman who we're talking to.

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We're talking to the woman who's the problem. So um, so I'm standing there like this with finally with one.

SPEAKER_02 9:50

This woman already told me that she was evicted because of the cats and how she treats the cats, and not in a malicious way, but in a way that welcomes the cats and feeds the cats. Oh gosh, and which is fine, that's great. Uh, but there are rules and regulations when you live in a community like a mobile home park. Uh, and you are allowed to have pets as long as they meet the uh requirements, which is usually one or two pets. When she is feeding all of the communities and feral feral, wild, not belonging to anyone's pets, technically that that goes above and beyond the pet limit. And what made it more of a nuisance to the neighbors was she was not picking up the cat feces. That's a fancy word for poop. Uh so she's telling me you had already left at this point.

SPEAKER_03 10:43

Uh wait, wait, then don't go into it yet. So I've got a finger in my ear, and Nick is standing probably five, six feet from me, where she's like dumping stuff into the trash, and I've got the finger in my ear, and I hear him say, Okay, well, let me go in and check it out. And suddenly, just when he says that I can smell bugs, and I I'm in open-toed shoes, and I hate bugs. I can't, I just can't. Like, I literally, like when we walk through a property and I'm supposed to say what we're gonna do to it, if bugs are there, I can't I can't even be there, can't function. So he says, Okay, I'm gonna go in. I said, I'm not going. And I turn around and walk out. And I think, oh my god, he's supposed to hang out with me the rest of the day. How many bugs are gonna be on him? So, what happens next for me is I get in the car, I turn the car on, and and five minutes later, I see him quickly come around to the side of the car and he looks at me. Like, for our viewers, it was hilarious. Like his eyes are literally bugging out of his head, and all the windows are up because it's 150,000 degrees outside.

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And I think it might have been 114.

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I was waving my finger, like, don't you dare come in this car. I'm like, you need to get naked. And he's like, What am I gonna wear? So he did bring an extra shirt. So off the shirt comes. I'm like, you need to scuff your shoes and stomp around and all this other stuff. And so then he gets in the car and he tells me it's the worst he's ever seen. And I guess before he walks in, she's like, Oh, don't mind, there's a few bugs.

SPEAKER_02 12:10

She didn't say the word fume. Oh, she didn't. She said, Oh, be careful, there are bugs. Okay, so going back, sorry, rewind now. I didn't smell the bugs because I was standing next to the woman who is dumping all of this stuff into this large trash can. And the smell of cat poop is huge. Feces, feces, feces is it's and I believe it's because they are cleaning it out uh of places. And you saw.

SPEAKER_03 12:39

Oh yeah, her son. So when I get in the car, I see her son come out the back door with two tidy cat tubs, whatever, and I they were caked in either um cobwebs or the entire surface of the inside of the home is caked in stuff.

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Oh and when I say stuff, I mean it But you didn't go in the whole way, thank goodness. Correct. It was a cocktail of stuff.

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Okay. For those with crazy stomachs who might stop listening to the case.

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Oh no, we're entertaining, don't worry. Uh so I don't, I I just go, this is a cat problem. And she already disclosed to me on the phone that she was evicted because of the cats.

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I literally itched for like an hour and I couldn't help it. Everything, my whole body, my head, everything.

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The woman is telling me about when she was in front of the judge, and she uh she's saying, There's a tree in the back of my yard. There's birds in that tree and they poop on that tree. Do they want me to go up in the tree and clean up the poop there? Because the cats were pooping in the yard and she wasn't cleaning up the cat poop. And the judge is saying, You need to clean up the poop in your yard. Do you want me to climb a tree? And I'm just like, I'm smiling.

SPEAKER_03 13:50

You gotta be kidding me. She said that?

SPEAKER_02 13:51

That's what she said to the judge. And the judge was getting upset with her and saying, no, no, no, no, no. Like, and and she she the judge did not rule in her favor.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

Oh, rightfully so. Uh yeah, so that was so you didn't make an offer on this home because you think it would be exponentially more than what we could potentially make. And you even said to me the community is probably going to take the home back and pull it out.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

That like there is no value in that home. There's no and I I recognize some people just need a roof over their heads and a lock on the door. When I walked in, a split second after she said she said, Be careful, there are bugs. I walk in and immediately there's just the the little bugs that are crawling, and I'm just like, okay, I I want to make sure I do not react in a way that is offensive to another human being. Uh, I'm going to walk in, I'm going to glance around and see if this fits within our buy box. Because if it smells like cat pee, it's for me. Because most buyers will say no to a home that has a stench of cat urine. But I know that a cat stench, depending on the square feet of the home, it just requires a certain amount of money to just uh treat the areas, seal the areas, replace some things, and then you can't even tell. So when we do our job really well, we can reset a home, but it costs money. So it you know, that's why that there's there's a deal to be had. This was not cat pee. This was cat pee, cat feces, and not just the roaches crawling everywhere, but big old spiders. Big old spiders just crawling around, and the lights aren't working in the kitchen and living room. Well, I let me say that differently. The lights weren't on, and I was not going to touch the light switch.

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Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

Because the the the walls, the surface, it's all caked with cobwebs, cockroach poop, cat poop, cat pee, cat fur. It's just it is it was quite possibly the most offensive environment I've ever stood in. And I have my flashlight and I'm walking, watching where I step to make sure that these I'm not getting guessed. And I'm just like, keep it together, Nick. Keep it together, keep it together. And I'm looking around and I'm just going, No, I already know that this rehab would cost$65,000 to get it to a uh a place that uh that would be magazine worthy. I would do I would make it magazine worthy for$65,000. Uh now you would say you don't need to make it$65,000, you don't need to make it magazine worthy. Yeah, but if I'm redoing every single surface anyway, you would have to, yeah. It would maybe sixty thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

Yeah, you'd have to take down everything.

SPEAKER_02 16:53

But yeah, this is ripping out so much stuff.

SPEAKER_03 16:55

Yeah, because the bug guts are everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 16:57

Every single cat, but every single place where there might be a little bit of cockroach poop. I mean, just yeah, that would have been a$65,000 rehab. That home on the market after being completely done, probably$60,000,$65,000. There's no profit to be had even with investing a 45-day flip. So I knew within five seconds I was not buying a home. But I knew that if I walked out after five seconds, that would be offensive. So I walked around for about 45 seconds, maybe 60 seconds, and then I thought to myself, that's enough time. And and she she had already told me it needs work. So I walked out and I said, It needs a match. You're right. Can't see I I said, You are right. It does need work. Uh, it's a little more work that than I can do, so at this point I can't I can't provide you with an offer. Thank you so much for your time. And she thanked me and I said, Have a blessed day. Because she's she's in a tough situation. Yeah, she's been faced with an eviction, she's figuring out her next transition. She's in high emotion. So I just thought I'd lead with grace, lead with kindness. Uh, and then I came to you and everybody's like, ooh.

Real Estate And High Emotions

SPEAKER_03 18:08

Yes, so buzzing. No. Oh. Uh, yeah, so we the lesson we learned was to have an extra set of clothes and shoes.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

That is correct.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

And a garbage bag moving forward. Um, yeah, I feel like high emotions seems to be, it's funny because I think you're dealing with a lot of people right now that are living inside of high emotions, and that that's a place I live most of the time.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

Yeah, as a realtor, you are a consultant in all phases of life.

SPEAKER_03 18:37

Oh my gosh. In fact, I just had a realtor, another realtor, say to me, I am not a therapist. I am not a punching bag, which I'm not. I'm not a punching bag.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

And you're not a therapist.

SPEAKER_03 18:48

And I'm not a therapist. And yes, you so many people, like um, Nick Nick is purchasing a home right now from somebody who's going through a divorce. And I feel like that has been like my client this year. Like, I cannot believe how many people going through a divorce I've had the opportunity to get to work with this year, such that as they come to me and they decide if they're interviewing me or not, I tell them that I have experience working with people going through divorce because it is significantly different than working with a solo person, an uh a married couple or partnership or anything like that. And even when the divorce is amicable, or they think it is in that moment, buying and selling real estate is emotional for people. And so what turns to be amicable at one moment, depending on what emotions happen through the transaction or the journey, changes quickly. And you're dealing with this, I mean, you're dealing with these right now, and we're we're reading, you know, we're I'm currently in a phase of listening to Mel Robbins and all of her let them theory. And so now I'm just looking at everybody like an eight-year-old.

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Mel Robbins, you're awesome.

SPEAKER_03 19:57

Yeah, totally awesome. Yeah, I love it. So, yeah, so your people, when you're when he's whining and complaining about, oh, well, she's what he doesn't like this one person.

SPEAKER_02 20:09

And and let's let's change that. When we f our first two conversations, she came across extremely negatively. And I immediately interpreted that as she's just a negative person.

SPEAKER_03 20:20

No, she's going through a drastic high emotion. Yeah, like I it's funny because you know, Tara has been through divorce, right? And so she has helped teach us like what that looks like. Like, not only do you go through the loss of the relationship, you go through the loss of what you thought your life was gonna be like.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Yeah, your morning division, yeah, not happening.

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And so this person is going through all that. So when he was having his moment, I'm like, hey, look, she's going through all of these things, and you're not. So yeah, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 20:50

And ever since that conversation, I've treated every single interaction in it with a much different perspective, and it's it's led to extremely positive communication. And you said today it must feel nice for her to have another adult that is on her side. Yeah, or at least supportive.

SPEAKER_03 21:09

Even if it's not that you're on her side, she messaged you and she said he was being a prick. And I feel like I don't like that word, but I can only imagine like who else does she get to say that to?

SPEAKER_02 21:22

Because she says there's their child, there's and three days ago I I was referring, I didn't know his name yet. And I didn't want to say your soon-to-be ex-husband. I didn't want to say the guy you're both you're divorcing. So I said, the gentleman.

SPEAKER_03 21:34

Yeah.

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And she replied with the gentleman.

unknown 21:37

Ha!

SPEAKER_02 21:38

And like like in in like quotation marks. And I replied with, I didn't know what to say. So thanks, thanks for the laugh out loud. And then today she when she was referring to him, she said the gentleman is being a priest.

SPEAKER_03 21:51

Okay, that is why it's because you read that text message to me and because I referred to him as a gentleman.

SPEAKER_02 21:55

And she she meant that in a sarcastic Yeah. So the gentleman is being a brick.

Kids Wins Cheer Trust And DECA

SPEAKER_03 22:02

But also, that may help her, right? Like the fact that you use a very general sexy term. Like it's it's it's like more syllable, it's distinguished, right? The word gel gentleman. And so because she clearly doesn't think that about him. And so she her typing it, I can I can just imagine for a moment that she's like, F him, gentlemen, right? Because she's like, he's not a gentleman, he's a prick. Like I can hear the, I can see the eight-year-old tantrum, right? Like, this is all the things that I see now, is like how we're all eight-year-olds, and it's funny because I was yelling at my dad in the office because he hasn't, he didn't do his job. And I and it was Thursday, and he's like, I'm gonna go home. And I'm like, Have you done this yet? I told you on Monday I needed you to do this. And he just looks at me, like he looks at me sometimes, which is like I'm looking at my five-year-old daughter who's throwing a tantrum, and I see that he's looking at me like that. I'm like, I realize that you're just looking at your five-year-old daughter, but do your darn job. Which is funny, which is funny, yeah. So uh Liliana's cheer stuff. We're already getting videos of some of the stuff she's doing. Some scary stuff. There's some stuff. She that that girl, we we need to bring her on here to do an episode about trust because the one, the one stunt, so she's she's a flyer on the on the spirit line.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

Not just a flyer, she's a featured flyer.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

Yeah, well, there I just think they're just throwing her all around. She's like a little ragdoll, and she but a ragdoll that is very like tight, like she's she's but not in but in a relax like when when like she's supposed to be.

SPEAKER_02 23:42

They posted videos of her having successful stunts and unsuccessful stunts.

SPEAKER_03 23:47

Oh yeah, there's one where she totally falls, but she didn't talk about her.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

Unsuccessful stunts is when we get to see the true trust.

SPEAKER_03 23:54

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:55

Oh, I don't know that one. There's no flailing of of body parts because that can cause a concussion. And the elbow on the top of the head, you're gonna hurt your teammate.

SPEAKER_03 24:03

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:04

She she falls in a smart way.

SPEAKER_03 24:07

Yeah, she falls trusting that they're going to catch her.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

She just knows that they're going to catch her. And there was one video where they're doing this cool stunt, and then you know, and then her back spot literally pulls her feet that way she comes down face first and they catch her, and like Yeah, face first.

SPEAKER_03 24:22

Like the trust she must have. Forget the fall trust game. Like, this is like a I'm just gonna hope here you go, and fall.

SPEAKER_02 24:29

Yeah, but just staying in her proper position that way she's catchable.

SPEAKER_03 24:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

She's a little rock star.

SPEAKER_03 24:36

Yeah, she is. She uh she far surpasses I mean what a skill, right? Like to have trust like that and uh yeah, to trust somebody, not just somebody, multiple somebodies, who quite frankly, like she's known some of these girls a year, but only a year. And part of me goes, I don't know that I'd fall into you. What if I broke you?

unknown 25:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:05

And Isaiah just had a very successful week. Oh my gosh. He got to hang out with uh the amazing leaders from the entire country and Canada, and like because Isaiah, he's a state officer for the organization for DECA.

SPEAKER_03 25:21

Uh so which I didn't realize it was an organization until today. I said it was a club, and he's like, it's not a club, it's an organization.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

Apparently, there are 400,000 people that are enrolled, like a part of DECA every year.

SPEAKER_03 25:32

Well, he talked about the CEO of DECA, and I was like, why does a club need a CEO? No, he got to talk with the CEO yesterday. It's not a club, mom. It's an organization. I'm like, like that is like a paradigm shift. And also, like, so many things I didn't say out loud, but I'm still simmering on like how brilliant this is. Like, did someone wake up one day and say, Hey, because I started thinking about now, I don't know much about sororities or fraternities at all. And yet I immediately had a thought of this is like a high school sorority. Because what I do know about fraternities and sororities is that they have the networking and the relationship building and stuff like that. And I was like, gosh, this is just so cool.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

And he gets to be he he was included in a photo, not photo, a video shoot for like a welcome, like in is it like an enrollment video, or like maybe it's I think it's just like a promo video. It's a promo video for DECA to get people excited, to get people engaged, to have them participate. And he was invited to be in the the video shoot, I think along with like 11 other people. And like that gets shown to all the DECA people, so he's gonna have 400,000 views or more. Or or more.

SPEAKER_03 26:43

Because we're gonna share the crap out of it.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

We've never had something with that many views. Like, how cool is that? We had that one pre-Hurricane video that had 215,000 views. That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 26:54

That is cool.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

But Isaiah's gonna blow us out of the water with that.

SPEAKER_03 26:57

Yeah, I love all of that.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

I like having kids that are more successful than us.

SPEAKER_03 27:00

That's so fun. Well, I mean, we'll do a whole nother episode with him later, but like when we look back at that freshman kid who was so ticked, he was so ticked off we sent him to the high school we sent him to because all of his friends were going to a different high school. And his first semester, and maybe even his whole first year, was was a journey. Was a journey. And now this kid, like the conversation was, I'm not sure I want to run for. I guess there's like a position he can hold after he graduates high school.

SPEAKER_02 27:30

And so I'm like vice president of the Western United States.

SPEAKER_03 27:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I said, You're 100% gonna do that. Because even a year ago, he was like, I'm I'm I'm gonna run for state office. And then I think like some kind of angst or anxiety or something set in, and he was like, I'm not gonna run for that. I'm like, uh no, no. So then you and I were like, right, this is when the fine line between making your kid do it, and then they like are like F you, I'm not gonna do anything you say, and encouraging, like influencing them in such a manner in which they want to do it. So I do think it was one of the first times that I said to Isaiah, no, no, we're not saying no yet. Like, we're we're not saying no. Like, because all I heard about for months was, I'm gonna run for state office, I'm gonna run for state office, and then it was I'm not gonna run. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we're gonna simmer on that some more.

unknown 28:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:22

So cool stuff, really cool stuff happening with our kids. And uh our parenting and us learning as parents, because nobody wrote a book for us to read. So well, there's plenty of books to read, but they there's not one for Isaiah and there's not one for Liliana.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

The first parenting book I ever read, I think it was called uh Now I Know Why Tigers Eat Their Young. Or something like that. I had to read I had to read that for childhood psychology in college.

SPEAKER_03 28:53

That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

Yeah.

unknown 28:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:55

Well, I want to get to the property and enjoy the rest of it. Oh yeah. Is there anything else you want to cover?

SPEAKER_02 28:59

No, I'm good.

SPEAKER_03 29:00

Awesome. Well then, hey, thanks for hanging out with us.

SPEAKER_02 29:03

Yeah. And uh, if you're uh listening on Spotify or Amazon Music or any of or Apple Podcasts, whatever your podcast provider is, uh you can find this video uh just the first three minutes in case you want to see the walkthrough of the suite here at the JW Desert Ridge.

SPEAKER_03 29:20

Desert Ridge? Yeah, yeah, share it with a friend if it if it spoke to you or if you laughed with us or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

And or in case you're an Arizona person and you want to explore a staycation, we like the property.

SPEAKER_03 29:32

Yeah, we totally dig it.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

So until next time.

SPEAKER_03 29:36

Enjoy an epic life.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

Outro music. No? Okay.

SPEAKER_03 29:42

Not necessary.

SPEAKER_02 29:43

See ya.