S1 Episode 13- Cyrus Bringardner

kicking off Autism Awareness/ Acceptance Month we will have our first guest for this special month aired on 4/1 This week, we are joined by our incredible special guest, Cyrus Bringardner—an adult on the spectrum who shares his joy, personality, and love for The Wiggles! 💛💜❤️💙  Cyrus kicks things off by showing us one of his favorite dances (you don’t want to miss it! 🕺), and then we sit down for a heartfelt and fun conversation where we get to know him, his passions, and his unique perspective on life. This episode is full of smiles, authenticity, and a reminder to celebrate every individual exactly as they are. 🌈 

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:09

Alright, well, hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of Mom's Raising the Spectrum. We have a fun guest with us today. Virtually joining us is Cyrus. And uh I met Cyrus through our love of the wiggles. So introduce yourself, bud.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

I am Cyrus and I love the wiggles very much when I was a little kid. I even saw them in April. I even saw them in April of 2006 before Greg left, a few months before Greg left.

SPEAKER_05 0:41

Yeah. I just recently saw the wiggles and met them with my kiddo. They're amazing. And so, you know a few people I know. So we kind of have a lot of mutual friends.

SPEAKER_02 0:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 0:57

And so glad to have you here with us.

SPEAKER_02 1:00

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 1:01

And you're gonna teach us uh wiggles dance. All right, which one are you gonna teach us today?

SPEAKER_01 1:07

We're doing wake up, Jeff.

SPEAKER_05 1:09

All right, and MJ's over there in purple, so she's gonna be Jeff the purple wiggle.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

Yeah. All right, here we go, guys. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:19

And I we're in yellow because I liked Emma with my favorite.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

All right, let's all right, let's do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

Wake up, Jeff. Wake up, Jeff.

SPEAKER_05 1:29

Wake up, Jeff!

SPEAKER_02 1:31

Wake up, Jeff. Wake up, Jeff.

SPEAKER_05 1:35

And you sleep, MJ, you get to sleep. Are you teaching us the moves? Are you playing it?

SPEAKER_04 1:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:48

Wait. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

Wake up the Jeff. Wait up the Jeff.

SPEAKER_05 1:56

Right? Left? Are you hearing it?

SPEAKER_01 2:03

Yeah, we can hear it.

SPEAKER_05 2:06

Yeah. Turn it up a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 2:10

I can I can't Wake up, Jeff. Wake up, Jeff. Wake up, Jeff. Wake up, Jeff.

SPEAKER_04 2:31

You're a good singer, bro. Wake up, Jeff! Wake up! Woo!

SPEAKER_05 2:45

That was a good Now we can do it.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

Yeah, finally.

SPEAKER_05 2:51

Hot potato.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

I'm not that good at hot potato yet.

SPEAKER_05 2:55

No.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

No.

SPEAKER_05 2:56

How does it go? Hot potato, hot potato. Cold spaghetti, cold spaghetti. What's the next one? Mashana.

SPEAKER_02 3:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:07

Was it mashed banana?

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:11

And then what's after that?

SPEAKER_01 3:15

That's it, there's no three.

unknown 3:16

That's it.

SPEAKER_05 3:17

Hot potato, hot potato. Here, I'll play it. Ready?

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:24

I have a feeling Jackson's gonna come join us because he's gonna hear it.

SPEAKER_06 3:29

Special guest appearance.

SPEAKER_05 3:32

Hot potato. And we gotta do the OG wiggles because Cyrus likes the OG wiggles. He's teaching me all about the old, the originals, because Jackson grew up with like the newer ones. Oh, yeah, that's yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

I'm Greg, I'm Murray, I'm Anthony, and I'm Jeff. And this is our friend, John the Cook. Hi, everybody. What have you got here, John? I've got some coals we can. Oh, we'll eat spaghetti and mashed bananas. Oh, we were doing course. And these are hot potatoes. Hot potatoes. Oh, you're right. It's very hot. So let's think that's all about hot potatoes. Oh and banana! Make sure you watch out for Captain Philasaur because he loves eating everybody's food.

SPEAKER_03 4:31

Hot potato, hot potato! Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato, hot potato, potato, potato, potato, potato. Potato.

SPEAKER_05 5:45

He's like, Oh the wiggle. What's another good one? Fruit salad?

SPEAKER_01 5:51

I'm not a big fruit salad.

SPEAKER_05 5:53

No, okay. Can you say hi? Hi. Hi. Cyrus, good job. Okay. Is there any other ones you want to do, bud?

SPEAKER_01 6:07

No.

SPEAKER_05 6:08

No?

SPEAKER_01 6:08

No.

SPEAKER_05 6:09

You want to play the Barbie song though for us so we can hear it? I don't think I've heard it yet.

SPEAKER_02 6:13

No.

SPEAKER_05 6:14

No? You're good?

SPEAKER_02 6:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 6:16

Okay. Well, then let me get a chair. I gotta work out.

SPEAKER_06 6:23

That was a workout. That was fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:25

And I thought a boyfriend was gonna propose to you the same day as the gender thing. Like I thought I'd down to one knee, but I didn't know if he was feeling it or not.

SPEAKER_04 6:34

That'd be a lot of action.

SPEAKER_05 6:49

Alrighty. There we go. Now I can sit. Alright, bud, so I'm worn out. Tell us uh when did you first discover the wiggles?

SPEAKER_01 7:06

I think when I was a little kid.

SPEAKER_05 7:08

Yeah, do you remember like the first song that you heard?

SPEAKER_01 7:12

No, no.

SPEAKER_05 7:13

No. Do you have a favorite or do you just like I like them all? They're all so good, huh?

SPEAKER_01 7:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:20

Name off some ones that you love. Just start, just start naming them.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

I think we're I I like Wake Up Jeff. I like every song that they've made.

SPEAKER_05 7:31

Yeah. Can you move your camera over just a little? Perfect. There we go. We can see your smiling face. I like um what is one? Uh you like the OG wiggle, so let's see. I like Amy.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

Your hair looks so pretty. Like your hair looks so different.

SPEAKER_05 7:58

Oh, I it's all curly today.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

I can nobody tell us, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:04

Let's see. Uh well, let's see. You saw the wiggles, what'd you say, in 2006?

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Yes, before Greg left. It was April.

SPEAKER_05 8:17

Right before Greg left?

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Greg left in November of that year, but he left Turing in August.

SPEAKER_05 8:25

And that was why tell us because he had like a heart condition, right?

SPEAKER_01 8:29

He was orthostatic intolerance.

SPEAKER_05 8:31

Yeah. Um, so you said you don't have a favorite wiggle?

SPEAKER_01 8:37

No.

SPEAKER_05 8:38

No? Do you think Greg do you lean more towards Greg though?

SPEAKER_01 8:42

Yeah.

unknown 8:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

He had the heart attack. I've been following it up with him since.

SPEAKER_05 8:46

Yeah. He still does a little bit of stuff here and there, huh?

SPEAKER_01 8:51

He just finished he we could have just added him on there. We could he could. He just did a tour of any the musical.

SPEAKER_05 9:00

Oh, he did? I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

Yeah, in in the Australian production.

SPEAKER_05 9:04

Oh, wow. Good for him. So you still follow along?

SPEAKER_01 9:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 9:10

With them?

SPEAKER_01 9:10

I'm kind of upset that MJ hasn't followed them since then.

SPEAKER_05 9:13

That he what?

SPEAKER_01 9:14

I'm kind of mad that MJ doesn't know who they are.

SPEAKER_06 9:17

Yeah. I know. I know the old school, the OG wiggles.

SPEAKER_05 9:22

Yeah, I'll I'll say a lot of 90 people are age too. They don't know the newer one.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

Something like that. Yeah. Like early 2000s.

SPEAKER_05 9:32

I love that Captain Feathersword has still been there all this time. I'm a little sad I didn't get to meet. We didn't get to meet him. We only met the Wiggles.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

Huh? You only met the did you meet you thought did you see all eight?

SPEAKER_05 9:50

Or what or yeah, all eight. Yeah. Yeah. I was really hoping to meet Captain Feathersword, but at least we met Anthony.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

Jackson really like I can't believe that he's still there. He's like in the third he's like in the 60s now.

SPEAKER_05 10:03

I know. Good for him, huh?

SPEAKER_01 10:05

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:06

He must love what he does.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:09

I think he really does. He it brings a lot of people joy, right? Yeah.

unknown 10:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:15

Kai hasn't gotten into the wiggles yet.

SPEAKER_05 10:20

Is he musical or not really?

SPEAKER_06 10:22

He loves music and singing and everything.

SPEAKER_05 10:25

Yeah, well, that's good.

SPEAKER_06 10:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:28

Do you want to um MJ, do you want to ask Cyrus the other Wiggles questions we have?

SPEAKER_06 10:34

Oh, let's see. What makes the wiggles so special to you?

SPEAKER_01 10:39

I think it's because of their c songs.

SPEAKER_05 10:43

Yeah. Do the songs um, they're just fun and they make you happy.

SPEAKER_02 10:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:49

Yeah. Do um do you feel like because I know the wiggles have helped Jackson with his um autism. Do you feel like they've helped you growing up?

SPEAKER_02 11:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:02

Yeah. It's I told them that when I met them. I told them that Jackson is Amy.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

Your mom went with you guys. Your mom went with you, right?

SPEAKER_05 11:13

Huh?

SPEAKER_01 11:13

Your mom went with you guys, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I saw that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:17

And I told them, I said, you have helped him, who is on the spectrum. And I told them, I said, I know they've you guys have helped so many kids and adults on the spectrum, and they were just so happy to hear that. So um know that they love that they're um making such a good impact on individuals like you and Jackson and everyone who loves them.

SPEAKER_06 11:45

Yeah, it's good they're so colorful too, because like all the prime, well, not all the primaries, but the bold colors.

SPEAKER_01 11:52

Yeah, especially green, like he changed to blue because he didn't want to clash with Dorothy.

SPEAKER_05 11:57

Oh, right. That's right. Because it yeah, and then um yeah, it would look just like Dorothy, and Dorothy's been around for a long time, she's the dinosaur.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

Mari was Mari was the one that originally made up the the character.

SPEAKER_05 12:15

Oh, really? I didn't know that. When did Wags the dog come in?

SPEAKER_01 12:21

I have no clue. I think I think Jeff made him or something.

SPEAKER_05 12:24

Yeah, I love it. So it's like Wags the Dog, Henry the Octopus, Dorothy the Dinosaur, and Captain Feather Sword. They have some new ones now, but I don't know who they are.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

Yeah, and Evie just got engaged to one of the dancers. What was that? One of the yellow wiggles. Her name is Evie. She just got engaged to Zayn.

SPEAKER_05 12:49

Yes, yes, I saw that. I think he's like a new character.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

I think it is a new one.

SPEAKER_05 12:57

Yeah. I love that. I hope things work out great for them. All right. Well, we have a few questions we want to talk to you about just to get to know you a little bit better. Is that all right if we have questions with you?

SPEAKER_02 13:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:15

Awesome. All right, MJ. I'll let you go right ahead.

SPEAKER_06 13:21

All right, Cyrus. So growing up, what were some challenges that you faced?

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Social skills, I think, is one. Uh talking too loud. I do that because I'm excited a lot.

SPEAKER_05 13:34

Yeah. Um, it's a good it's a good thing, but sometimes it can be hard, huh? For people to understand.

SPEAKER_02 13:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:41

Yeah. I love your excitement.

SPEAKER_02 13:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:45

You bring so much joy. And I can't help but smile.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

MJ. I'll tell you a funny story about the ball. The first, the first, the first thing to write that the first was Amy at the principal. That was the only person I first saw. The only person I first saw.

SPEAKER_05 14:00

Yeah, I was standing there with my friend Sam. And you know Sam, right?

SPEAKER_01 14:05

Do I? He's in the citizens program, I think.

SPEAKER_05 14:08

Yeah. Well, I was standing in there with my friend Sam, and all of a sudden I hear, I was like, we were messaging him. I'm like, hey, I'm here. And then all of a sudden I hear Amy, and I'm like, I know who that is.

SPEAKER_06 14:27

Finally.

SPEAKER_05 14:28

It's been like two years in the making, huh?

SPEAKER_01 14:31

But you know what's terrible? Amen. I come to the friendship walk.

SPEAKER_05 14:35

I know. I won't be able to make it again. It's always so close to my birthday, and I always have stuff going on. Hopefully, it's not gonna be too hot for you out there.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Well, I hope so. It's it's in Tempe now.

SPEAKER_05 14:49

It's in Tempe. Is it at Tempe Beach Park?

SPEAKER_01 14:52

It was at Kowanis. Now it's at Market Panisa High School.

SPEAKER_05 14:55

Oh, gotcha. Okay. So um what was school like? Did you go to school here in Arizona?

SPEAKER_01 15:03

Yes, I did. Yeah. Every teacher was wonderful.

SPEAKER_05 15:06

Yeah, that's good. Did you go to um like elementary?

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Yeah. That I went to. I went I meant all over the Kigley district.

SPEAKER_05 15:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:16

And did you have a favorite um like class to take?

SPEAKER_01 15:24

I think like unified sports. I would always do unified sports over there.

SPEAKER_05 15:28

Yeah. Yeah. Did you like science, math, anything like that?

SPEAKER_01 15:32

Yeah. No.

SPEAKER_05 15:33

No. Yeah, me either. Did you go to like the dances and stuff? I feel like I could see you going to like school dances, getting your groove on.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

Not much, no.

SPEAKER_05 15:48

No. They're probably loud and too too much, huh?

SPEAKER_01 15:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:57

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

At the end of the night, Amy's car had a flat tire, and I felt so bad that I I felt so bad for her. Yeah. Well, I felt so bad that she had a flat tire at the end of her night.

SPEAKER_05 16:11

Yeah, I don't think I told you this.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

A flat tire.

SPEAKER_05 16:15

Yeah. Well, me and Sam were over at the Rabian Horse Show, and uh, as soon as we got, and it was at the same place at Westworld, but it's just in two different buildings. So I drove from one building to another. And then we get out, and Sam's like, Amy, I think you have a flat tire.

SPEAKER_07 16:34

Oh man.

SPEAKER_05 16:35

So I called up Triple A, and uh I was like, well, I'm going into a dance, so I'm gonna go have fun while I wait for Triple A to get here. Right, right. You never know how long it'll be.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

It's kind of hard for MJ to go to these things because it's it's it's it's part up for Alex.

SPEAKER_05 16:51

Yeah. Maybe, yeah, maybe next year, MJ, we can um go together. And it's so I'm gonna try and bring Jackson. And if if Kai likes you know music and dancing, there was little kids there too.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

It was so yeah, there's always little kids with these things.

SPEAKER_05 17:08

Yeah, it's so cool to see individuals. Um so for those who are listening, we're talking about the best buddies program. They have a best buddies ball, and wires loves it.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

Yeah. They have a business program I do, which I'm not paired yet. I'm not paired yet, so I have to wait until uh I'm paired up.

SPEAKER_05 17:32

And so, oh yeah, so the best buddies, they um they pair you with like a buddy, right?

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Yeah, you're paired up with a buddy that you have to hang out like once a month.

SPEAKER_05 17:44

Yeah. And so you're so they have like an athletic program and you'll get paired with somebody, and then what will you do?

SPEAKER_01 17:52

So I don't know if I told you this yet, but they have a but but they have a travel program where you go on cruises every year.

SPEAKER_05 17:58

A cruise?

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Yeah, they just did their first one.

SPEAKER_05 18:02

Oh my gosh, where did they go?

SPEAKER_01 18:04

I think about no, it was it was the Bahamas. Oh that would be nice, huh? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:11

Man, I would like to go on a cruise. Maybe I should join to be a buddy and and be your buddy, and we can go on a cruise. Yeah, I know. I know it's probably pretty expensive, I would imagine.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

Yeah, oh yeah, it is expensive.

SPEAKER_05 18:27

Yeah, that'd be fun though.

SPEAKER_01 18:29

Oh, yeah, it would.

SPEAKER_05 18:30

Yeah. All right, well, um, we'll go on to some more questions.

SPEAKER_06 18:38

MJ, go ahead. All right, so as an adult now, what are some challenges that you still face?

SPEAKER_01 18:49

Oh, Amy, did you ever watch oh okay. What was the there was a movie with Steve Irwin. That's like my if I had to pick a favorite movie, that's my favorite one.

SPEAKER_05 18:58

Oh, the uh a favorite like movie or wiggles?

SPEAKER_01 19:02

That's my favorite one.

SPEAKER_05 19:03

The wiggle the wiggles video?

SPEAKER_01 19:05

Yeah, that's like my favorite. I think that one. And I love Amy, he died four years after that was released because of a stingray attack.

SPEAKER_05 19:15

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

It was because of the stingray attack.

SPEAKER_05 19:19

Yeah, I love that. Uh the wiggles. Are you talking about the one with uh like Emma and them? They did one with him too, right?

SPEAKER_01 19:28

No, Greg Murray, Jeff, and Anthony did one with Steve Irvin.

SPEAKER_05 19:32

Oh, and then the and then they did the wig the ones with Emma and um did they do it maybe with Ben, they did a duet. They did they did it with the mom and son, right? And the kids? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 19:49

I wonder if they will do another one again now that Robert is all grown up.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

That's exactly what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_06 19:57

Yeah. Well, I'm glad we got down to a favorite.

SPEAKER_05 20:03

Yeah, that's a good one. I always I almost forget about that one.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

Even though it's been dead for like it's been dead for like almost 20 years.

SPEAKER_06 20:12

Yeah. Has it been that long? Yeah. It doesn't feel like it's been that long. I know.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

Okay, Amy, can I say one thing about your life right now? I am so sorry that you don't see your brother because I feel bad for you every single day.

SPEAKER_05 20:31

Aww.

SPEAKER_01 20:31

Thank you for every single day. I feel bad for you. And you're bad for every I feel bad every single day. And I want to talk about it now because I feel so bad that people are estranged from somebody.

SPEAKER_05 20:41

Like that's we feel bad. It's a hard part of life, but you know, sometimes we just go through life and just hope that things will change better. I appreciate it. That means a lot to me.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

Yeah. And you know, your parents a lot too. Like that's like the best part.

SPEAKER_05 21:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:04

Family is important, right?

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 21:08

Yeah. And speaking of family, you said you your dad, you you're there with your dad?

SPEAKER_01 21:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:14

Did he record a skitting or groove on?

SPEAKER_01 21:16

No, he was he went upstairs.

SPEAKER_05 21:18

Oh. What are some fun things you and your dad like to do together?

SPEAKER_01 21:27

If you talk about me and my grandfather, we used to go to sports bars and watch the Green Bay Packers a lot if they weren't on television.

SPEAKER_04 21:34

You're a Packers fan? You mean the closer of a buddy?

SPEAKER_01 21:38

Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:42

Me too.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

Excuse me. I thought you were a buckey. No, that's your husband.

SPEAKER_05 21:47

Um, no, buckeyes. Yeah, we're buckeyes. That's college football. But NFL, I like I like the Packers. When I was since I was little, I don't know why, but maybe. Huh?

SPEAKER_01 22:01

Have you been to Wisconsin? My grandpa bills from there.

SPEAKER_05 22:04

Yeah. So I lived in Wisconsin for a year and a half.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

Was it because your dad had a new job or something?

SPEAKER_05 22:11

My husband.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 22:13

Yeah, so we lived there for a little while. And then when I was found out I was pregnant with Jackson, we decided to back here.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 22:21

And guess what? The company I worked for, they were like, You haven't been to Lambo Field? And I was like, No, I didn't get a chance to go while I was here. The CEO gave me um a pair of some season tickets he had. Got to go to a game before I moved back. So I got to go to Lambeau Field. It's pretty cool. It's a go pack go, right?

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Yes. So you're not a sports person.

SPEAKER_05 22:53

You're a sports person. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

No, I'm talking about I'm asking MJC's a sports person because it every time I talk to him, it's like, uh, he looks like he's not a sports person. I could already tell by now.

SPEAKER_06 23:03

Oh, I'm like a sports. I can't play this right.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

But Allen doesn't like sports. The only sport he likes is baseball, and baseball starts tonight.

SPEAKER_05 23:12

Oh, it does start tonight. Yeah. Do you like do you have a favorite baseball team?

SPEAKER_01 23:17

Not really. I'm not a big baseball person. No football? If I had to pick one, it would be the Cleveland Indians.

SPEAKER_05 23:22

Oh, good. Good choice. Okay. No, the D-Backs?

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Not the D-Backs, no.

SPEAKER_05 23:29

Aww. You know, um, the D-Backs have uh autism night. We're probably gonna go.

SPEAKER_07 23:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:37

It's gonna, yeah, they'd like to do this thing. Hopefully this year, Jackson will be able to participate where they have. I thought it's been last year.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

I saw some post about last year that he participated in it.

SPEAKER_05 23:48

We went, but he wasn't able he wasn't able to um walk. Uh they do like this thing where you can walk the field before the game starts, and he just Oh yeah. He wasn't in a place where he could do that. So I'm hoping this year he can.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

Amy, so Mark's the only child? Mark's like the only kid? Yeah. Oh my gosh, that's insane.

SPEAKER_05 24:08

I know.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Oh, Amy, do you know what the good news is? He has your aunts and uncles that are uncle figures. Is that right?

SPEAKER_06 24:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

That's good. Gemini, siblings, MJ? Are you the only child?

SPEAKER_06 24:19

Oh, I'm the oldest of six. Oh my god. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:25

Big family.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

That's insane.

SPEAKER_05 24:28

Do you have siblings?

SPEAKER_01 24:30

I have a sibling, yes.

SPEAKER_05 24:31

Yeah? Sister or brother?

SPEAKER_01 24:34

Sister. My dad has four.

SPEAKER_05 24:36

Aww.

SPEAKER_01 24:37

No, no, no. My dad has three, but a step sibling too.

SPEAKER_05 24:41

Oh, gotcha. Uh is your sister here in Arizona?

SPEAKER_01 24:44

Yes, he lives with my mother. I live with my dad now.

SPEAKER_05 24:48

Do you get to see her?

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Oh, yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_05 24:51

Yeah? Oh, good. What kind what's what are some things you guys do together?

SPEAKER_01 24:58

Oh, Amy, that's why my my mom's parents just left. So they were down here because Amy, so it was oh no, my mom is a seven-year cancer survivor for seven years.

SPEAKER_05 25:10

That's right. You did tell me that. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Did you go to the cola guard? Wow. My mom, my mom is always over there. Like it's always in two. My grandparents were here for that.

SPEAKER_05 25:22

Yeah. Oh, what a strong woman.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:25

That's amazing. Good for her.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

I should have just had my mom on here, but she went to Zumba.

SPEAKER_05 25:30

Oh, Zumba, good for her. Woohoo! Yeah, she's a that's where you get your moves from, huh?

SPEAKER_01 25:36

No, no, no. I get it for my I get it for my grandfather.

SPEAKER_05 25:40

Yeah, your mom's staff?

SPEAKER_01 25:42

My dad's stepdad.

SPEAKER_05 25:44

Oh, okay. Well, okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:46

Just seems like the moves are in the family, huh?

SPEAKER_01 25:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:51

So tell us, Cyrus, you work. Where do you work?

SPEAKER_01 25:54

I work at a fries store. And um, and I work I work at a fries store.

SPEAKER_05 25:59

I love fries. They're a great organization. How long have you worked there?

SPEAKER_01 26:06

For like three years.

SPEAKER_05 26:07

How long? Two years?

SPEAKER_01 26:09

Three.

SPEAKER_05 26:09

Oh, three?

SPEAKER_01 26:10

Amy, so the one that I worked at was Pyrrhon Baseline. Guess what happened to it? It closed down because it wasn't making enough money. So I'm at the new one in Power and Elliott.

SPEAKER_05 26:21

Oh, wow. Okay. So you live you live out in Mesa?

SPEAKER_01 26:25

I live in Gilbert.

SPEAKER_05 26:26

Gilbert? Okay. Yeah. My my aunt's a uh supervisor at one in Scottsdale. And I know that they just yeah, they're very inclusive with their employees, and they um I've heard they do a great job of um giving opportunities to everyone. You like working there?

SPEAKER_02 26:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 26:46

Go ahead. What's your favorite thing about the job?

SPEAKER_01 26:51

I I I think it's the I think it I think it's the co-workers.

SPEAKER_05 26:54

Oh, that's good. You got a good group?

SPEAKER_01 26:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 26:59

That that makes work enjoyable when you have a good team with you, huh?

SPEAKER_02 27:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 27:05

Feels like a second home. Yeah, I mean, you're there probably there a lot. Do you work full-time?

SPEAKER_01 27:10

I work part-time, 20 hours a week.

SPEAKER_05 27:12

Oh, that's still a good amount.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 27:16

Yeah, that's you work uh during the day?

SPEAKER_01 27:19

Yes, always during the day.

SPEAKER_05 27:21

Yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Oh, oh, Amy, did Amy, did I probably went to Vegas for my 21st birthday?

SPEAKER_05 27:27

You went to Vegas on your 21st birthday? Woo-hoo! What did you do? What'd you go see? Did you see any shows?

SPEAKER_01 27:36

No. Well, I know that Penn and Taylor are are out there 24-7.

SPEAKER_05 27:40

Oh, yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 27:43

What do you do at Fry's? Are you do you know?

SPEAKER_01 27:46

I work at the courtesy clerk, so like back in groceries, getting carts from the parking lot. That's the hardest part because you have to you have to be out there for like an amount of time to do cards, but it's hot. Yeah, oh, that's yeah.

SPEAKER_05 27:58

Oh, well, good, good for you, but that's that's a hard that's hard work.

SPEAKER_01 28:03

Yeah. Okay, and what do you like about the pageant stuff? Like, like, is it the people? Is it is it the directors? Like, what do you like about being the Packers? No, the pageant stuff. Like you do all the time. What's like your favorite thing to do over there? The what? Like, like I I saw that you were passionate the pageants? Yeah, what do you like about that?

SPEAKER_05 28:23

Um, I love meeting all the different women and ladies that I have met through the years, and then being able to um use the crown and sash as like a like a platform to talk about you know um things that are important to me. And I feel like it just brings more attention to things, and um what I say, my favorite part is meeting so many wonderful people along the way. Yeah, you're you're like me. We like to meet people and talk to people, huh? Yeah, yeah. MJ, you're you you're you're a people person.

SPEAKER_06 29:05

Oh, yeah. I'm like the social butterfly floating around. I talk to everyone.

SPEAKER_05 29:10

Yeah, it's we're both Aries. We're her and I, our birthdays are really close and they're coming.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 29:18

Yeah. You want to hear something cool, Cyrus? We both went to the same high school.

SPEAKER_01 29:23

So your high school three. Oh my gosh, I went to high school three first.

SPEAKER_05 29:30

We weren't together. We didn't we weren't in the same grade, but we were um a couple years apart and didn't right, right, right. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Small world.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

Oh, world.

SPEAKER_06 29:42

Yeah. And have you worked anywhere else besides Fry's?

SPEAKER_01 29:47

No.

SPEAKER_05 29:48

Oh, so that was your first job and been there since?

SPEAKER_01 29:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 29:52

Yeah. How did you get that job? Through Best Buddies?

SPEAKER_01 29:55

Yeah, through the jobs program. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 29:57

Oh, cool. Awesome. Well, let's yeah, let's talk a little bit more about Best Buddies. So um tell us a little bit more about that program and what it's like when you have a buddy, what do you guys do?

SPEAKER_01 30:12

I was in high school, so it would it always does help me.

SPEAKER_05 30:15

Don't say you've been in it since high school.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 30:18

Oh wow. Nice. And how did you get introduced to best buddies?

SPEAKER_01 30:22

I think it was my mother.

SPEAKER_05 30:24

Oh good. Oh, and you had the same buddy, or do you have you had different buddies?

SPEAKER_01 30:31

Different buddies.

SPEAKER_05 30:32

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:33

And so your buddy. Yeah. So Air Inclusion. I've told Amy about this. So he said, Sandler, so I tried to get Amy to go to the Easter one. Remember Amy, the Easter egg hunt they would they did one year? Oh yeah. And so I might go to that, but it gets full quick.

SPEAKER_05 30:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:54

I go to events as much as possible so they don't get full.

SPEAKER_05 30:57

Yeah. I'm gonna go to, I'm gonna, um, and MJ's gonna join me a little bit later, but we're gonna be at one in Goodyear um for the autism society. We're gonna go to that one.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Well, that's why the Easter, that's right.

SPEAKER_05 31:11

It's so hard when Easter falls around my birthday. It's so hard because I'm so busy.

SPEAKER_01 31:17

It's kind of hard for you, isn't it?

SPEAKER_05 31:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 31:20

Yeah. One of these days I need to get you to come to play pickleball. Have you played pickleball?

SPEAKER_01 31:26

I just did, in fact, with air inclusion.

SPEAKER_05 31:29

Yeah, did you like it? It's fun.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

It's kind of tough at first, but yeah. It's kind of tough at first.

SPEAKER_05 31:34

You know, and I wanted to play just to hit the ball around. I don't like keeping score.

SPEAKER_02 31:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 31:39

I'm like, I just want to hit it around.

unknown 31:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:42

And I actually have yet to play. Oh, right. Yeah. The ball is soft enough. Maybe if I don't move too much. Oh, you know.

unknown 31:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:54

Well, just have someone behind me that can hit it.

SPEAKER_05 31:59

Yeah. So, Cyrus, what are just some things you and your buddy do together?

SPEAKER_01 32:04

I'm not paired up at the moment. No. But but my favorite event has to be the Friendship Walk. So many people. Oh, Amy, did I tell you that I I I met a family last year who had um autism, the whole family. The mother, the father, the kids.

SPEAKER_05 32:21

That's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:23

I love that.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:26

Someone saying hello again.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

You can see his head there.

SPEAKER_05 32:36

He looked at you, Cyrus. Like sneaky. So how long have you been going to the friendship walk?

SPEAKER_01 32:50

This is my seventh. This is my seventh walk.

SPEAKER_06 32:53

Oh wow. You've been going for a long time. How many years?

SPEAKER_04 33:01

Seven years.

SPEAKER_05 33:02

Seven years? Wow. That's a long time. Okay, I will try and make sure I can come next year. This this year I'm judging a um a pageant thing. I'm judging a pageant and it's gonna be at the exact day and exact time. I'm like, oh do you know where it's at?

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Where?

SPEAKER_05 33:27

The my pageant?

SPEAKER_01 33:28

Yeah, do you know where it's at?

SPEAKER_05 33:30

Somewhere in Phoenix.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

Oh, MJ. Every picture I see of Amy, I feel like he's beautiful because he is.

SPEAKER_04 33:37

Yeah. Oh, you're supposed to be.

SPEAKER_06 33:38

I love seeing what dress she's gonna be in next. It's like my favorite part. Oh, what dress am I gonna be in? Yeah. It's like little girls playing dress up.

SPEAKER_05 33:48

I'm like, oh my god, I like that one. I'm trying to get MJ after she has her baby and she recovers. Maybe one day she can do a pageant too.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

What's your due date?

SPEAKER_05 33:58

June 29th.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

Oh my god. That's 21 days after my birthday. Cool, your birthday's coming up. Yeah, the 8th. Like I said, Amy, if if I'm doing something, I'll invite you guys. If you can, so yeah. Please invite us if you do something for your birthday. If you go out to dinner, I'll keep you guys posted.

SPEAKER_05 34:16

If MJ's not like too miserable or having her baby.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

Yeah, if if he's not miserable, I'll just invite you and Marker.

SPEAKER_05 34:24

Yeah, and then I'll I'll video chat with MJ.

SPEAKER_01 34:27

I want I'm trying to I'm trying to see if my uncle can come too.

SPEAKER_05 34:31

Yeah. What do you want to do?

SPEAKER_01 34:35

I have no idea. I have no clue.

SPEAKER_05 34:38

No. Well, maybe we can think of something.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 34:43

All right. Well, let's go into some more. Uh you mentioned that you participate in track.

SPEAKER_01 34:53

Oh yes. So I just track is hard for me because I don't like to run.

SPEAKER_05 34:58

You don't like I don't like to run either. It's good for you, but it's not.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

Oh yeah, I know. I like to walk, and that's like the I like to walk. That's like the only thing I exercise I like to do.

SPEAKER_05 35:09

Yeah. Uh what what organization do you do track with?

SPEAKER_01 35:13

AR Inclusion.

SPEAKER_05 35:14

AR Inclusion. Okay. That's what I was wondering. You mentioned then.

SPEAKER_01 35:18

Okay, they're doing a camp up in Lakeside. In in May, they're doing a camp up in Lakeside.

SPEAKER_05 35:25

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06 35:26

You'll have to tell us about that.

SPEAKER_01 35:28

Maybe I don't know. I don't know much details.

SPEAKER_06 35:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 35:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:31

And you're going to that to the camp?

SPEAKER_01 35:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:35

Nice. How long have you been doing track for?

SPEAKER_01 35:40

Just I think for like two weeks. I mean, I just started.

SPEAKER_05 35:43

Oh, you just started? Oh, good for you. Getting out of your comfort zone if you don't like to run.

SPEAKER_06 35:51

It's a way to change the uh the tables, you know.

unknown 35:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:56

Is it outside or is it in?

SPEAKER_01 35:58

Oh, you're outside.

SPEAKER_05 35:59

Oh! It's too it's hot already for that.

SPEAKER_01 36:04

It's six o'clock at night. Oh, that's good.

SPEAKER_06 36:06

So the sun's going down. Well, at least it looks nice in the sky.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 36:11

Yeah. It's not that cool.

unknown 36:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 36:20

It's still kind of hot everywhere.

SPEAKER_05 36:22

Yeah. It's it's maybe a degree or two cooler out where I'm at.

unknown 36:27

No.

SPEAKER_01 36:27

The only thing I feel bad for you, I feel bad for you, Mark, on this one.

SPEAKER_05 36:30

Why?

SPEAKER_01 36:32

I feel bad for both of you on that. On what? Your father-in-law passing away. I feel bad for you and Mark.

SPEAKER_05 36:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

Because it looked like you had a great relationship.

SPEAKER_05 36:42

Yeah, it was hard. But we know he's with us all the time.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

Amy and Amy. What did you guys get engaged like a year later after you guys met? Uh you got married in 2021. I know that.

SPEAKER_05 36:57

We got married in 2021. Oh, what do you need? He needs something for me. So MJ, I'll go ahead and let you ask some questions. Jackson needs something for me.

SPEAKER_01 37:07

Yeah. Go ahead, Amy. Don't take too long.

SPEAKER_06 37:09

I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_01 37:11

Don't take too long.

SPEAKER_06 37:13

And what other sports have you played or do you like to play?

SPEAKER_01 37:17

Football, I've played basketball.

SPEAKER_06 37:20

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 37:21

MJ, I'll tell you the only sport I wouldn't play. Hockey. Too rough. I like hockey all the time. It's not.

SPEAKER_06 37:31

Yeah, but it does get kind of physical out there. And I don't like the cold, so I don't know if I could handle being on the ice like that.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

And guess what? The coyotes aren't in Arizona anymore.

SPEAKER_06 37:46

I know. It was so sad.

SPEAKER_01 37:47

I was so angry when I heard that. I was so upset. I've only been to one game.

SPEAKER_06 37:52

Yeah, I don't think I've been to a game, but maybe if they come back, then Amy, we were just talking about the coyotes being done up here.

SPEAKER_05 38:03

I know. I'm so sad. Did they go to like Columbia? Utah? Huh?

SPEAKER_01 38:09

They went to Utah.

SPEAKER_05 38:10

Utah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 38:12

I know. I kind of enjoyed hockey a little bit. Do you like hockey?

SPEAKER_01 38:17

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_05 38:18

Aw, so you really miss them. I remembered. So Cyrus, if you grew up here and MJ, you did too. So you guys remember was it the Roadrunners? Yeah. I was like, I remember something to do with them and like this reading program, and I get like free tickets to go see them and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 38:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 38:40

Do you like basketball? Oh, yes. Yeah, do you like the Suns?

SPEAKER_01 38:48

There's no way in heck they're gonna get the playoffs this year. I could guys watch the Suns, do you, Mark? What was that? Do you and Mark watch the Suns a lot?

SPEAKER_05 38:57

Yeah, I always root for the Suns. I've loved the Suns since I was little. And I always hope I thought we were gonna get there one year and we didn't.

SPEAKER_01 39:07

Oh, MJ. I told Amy that Mark looks handsomer than I do. That's what I told her, and she was like, absolutely not. You're handsome as him.

SPEAKER_06 39:16

Yes, everyone's only as handsome and beautiful. Yes.

SPEAKER_05 39:23

Well, I didn't get a chance to get to it this year, but I'm hoping maybe next year during April, we can try because I know there's like this thing where you can get organizations and you can like high-fi the sons players when they come out.

SPEAKER_02 39:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:41

So next year I want to try and do something with like an organization for autism where we have individuals on spectrum that get to high-fi the the players.

SPEAKER_01 39:50

So yeah, I'm like, that would be cool. I've done that before. We had like we had like Sun's place come to the best place in Elephants and Phoenix, and um I we raised ten thousand dollars for their foundation.

SPEAKER_05 40:01

Wow, that's pretty neat.

SPEAKER_01 40:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 40:05

Wow. They you know, um, we went last year uh sometime and they have a cool sensory room.

SPEAKER_01 40:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 40:15

Have you been in this?

SPEAKER_01 40:16

Not really, no.

SPEAKER_05 40:18

Yeah, but yeah, the arena. They developed a lot of these arenas are now having sensory rooms.

SPEAKER_02 40:24

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 40:26

Do you feel like Cyrus, if you go have if you go to any of those big games that you get overwhelmed?

SPEAKER_01 40:33

Oh, what's big games? The basketball game? Yeah, because it's too loud and a bunch of people and stuff.

SPEAKER_05 40:37

A lot of yeah, a lot going on.

SPEAKER_01 40:40

Oh, Amy, I forgot to mention my mom did a did a Zumba dance for the Mercury.

SPEAKER_05 40:47

Oh, how fun! Yep. I did you get to watch her?

SPEAKER_01 40:53

Oh, yeah, I was there.

SPEAKER_05 40:54

Oh, good. I bet you were proud of her, huh?

SPEAKER_01 40:59

Probably not. I'm kidding, I'm proud of her.

SPEAKER_05 41:06

Oh, you cracked me up. All right. Well, we probably got about another 15 minutes or so. So we're gonna um ask you a few more questions and then we'll close it out. All right.

SPEAKER_01 41:22

I'm glad we're friends, you guys. I'm glad you I'm I I was nervous the first time. You know what? I was I wasn't nervous at first.

SPEAKER_05 41:28

You are you are remarkable, bud. I'm always so proud of you and all the things that you do, and yeah. Um, we just appreciate you coming on to our podcast.

SPEAKER_01 41:43

So if when he gets eight, when he turns 18, he could do the program.

SPEAKER_05 41:48

Yeah, I'm excited for him to have like you and Yaya. Like, I'm so excited for him to have like guys like you to look up to, you know?

SPEAKER_02 41:58

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 41:59

Hi, Bud. He's back again. All right, well, let's uh let's ask you a few more questions and we'll get wrapped up. Yeah, you saying hi.

SPEAKER_01 42:13

You say how's it going?

SPEAKER_05 42:19

Hi Cyrus, say hi Cyrus. Say hi Cyrus. No, you're not gonna say hi.

SPEAKER_01 42:28

Come on, Jackson. I'm your bud. Come on, dude. Come on now.

SPEAKER_05 42:33

Yeah, I'll get him to say it one of these days. Say, hi Cyrus. Yeah, all right. Well, uh MJ, I'll go ahead and let you ask uh the next question.

SPEAKER_06 42:50

All right, so when it comes to the autism community, what are some changes that you would like to see happen?

SPEAKER_01 42:58

I would like to see more living programs. Like, like so Best Bites just did a living program too, and they're doing it all over. I'm like, I hope they have one in Arizona. Like they hope I hope they have one here, but it takes but it takes years to fund that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_05 43:14

Yeah, that's the hard part is funding, right? For things that we need.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 43:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:20

Well, I also have the call the Best Bites conference in July have to go to also.

SPEAKER_05 43:24

Yeah.

unknown 43:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 43:26

And what are some goals and dreams that you have for your future?

SPEAKER_01 43:31

Maybe interview some celebrities.

SPEAKER_05 43:35

I'm sorry, he's loud. What was that?

SPEAKER_01 43:38

Maybe uh maybe interview some celebrities. He's been a big inspiration. I don't think Amy has seen the picture of me dressing up like him before.

SPEAKER_05 43:54

Yeah. Drew Carrie. Yeah. I know you really like watching your prices, right?

SPEAKER_01 44:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 44:00

Yeah. He seems like he'd be a cool dude.

SPEAKER_01 44:05

I'm gonna interview Ted Danton also. Who? I want to interview Ted Danton Also.

SPEAKER_05 44:11

Who's that?

SPEAKER_01 44:13

The guy that did.

SPEAKER_05 44:14

Oh yeah, okay. Duh. I know who that is. It took me a moment.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

Oh yeah. Maybe you've never seen Cheers. It was out in 1982 and then it ended in 8093. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 44:26

Well, if we ever maybe can try and interview somebody on our podcast, we'll make sure you come on.

unknown 44:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:36

Absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_05 44:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 44:40

For sure. And if you could give encouragement to other adults on the spectrum, what would you want them to hear?

SPEAKER_01 44:48

I would say just I would just I would just say be yourself and try and try to be your best self.

unknown 44:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 44:55

That's so good. Yeah I love that. Because you are your authentic self, and yeah, that's most important because you just bring so much joy being your authentic self, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:08

Well, guys, I really appreciate you guys letting me be on here today. I really appreciate the yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_05 45:15

Yeah. Well, what makes you um if you uh how do I want to word this? What are you most proud of about what you've done with your life and what you're doing? Because you deserve a lot of praise.

SPEAKER_01 45:29

That's funny to change that. Like they've always have loved me ever since I was in high school.

SPEAKER_05 45:35

Oh, yeah. Oh, that's beautiful. I love that. Oh bah! Great answer. Yeah, he's gonna start dancing.

SPEAKER_02 45:46

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 45:48

So my dad's the answer.

SPEAKER_06 45:53

Oh, thank you. Thank you being so open with us and sharing. Yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 45:58

Yeah, thank you guys very much.

SPEAKER_06 45:59

Yes, it was it was amazing, it was a joy. Yeah. Well, bud, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_02 46:06

Of course, of course.

SPEAKER_05 46:08

You know, we can't wait to maybe do something together in person. Yeah, yeah, that way you two can officially meet, and then maybe one day you can meet our kiddos, right?

SPEAKER_01 46:19

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 46:21

For sure.

SPEAKER_01 46:21

Well, guys, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_05 46:23

You're welcome. Anything else that you want to say before we go?

SPEAKER_01 46:28

Not really. No, not even thank you.

SPEAKER_05 46:30

Just wiggle.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

Yeah. I'll see you guys later. Thank you guys.

SPEAKER_05 46:36

Thank you. All right, Cyrus Buddy. Have a good night.

SPEAKER_06 46:43

Oh, he's so much fun, isn't he? Yes, he's he's amazing. You just can't spectrum.

SPEAKER_05 46:50

You just can't help but smile, and his joy is just like when I was at the best buddies vault, and he was just saying hi to so many people and just so welcoming and loving on you know everybody, you know. It's just it goes to show like he doesn't see the like the differences in people, he just just loves and exactly.

SPEAKER_06 47:17

Yeah, my cheeks hurt. I know, right? Oh man, I know the workout.

SPEAKER_05 47:26

Yeah, yeah, he's something else. I he I'm just so happy that uh you know he's in my life and and brings so much joy. And I I love that you know, I have someone to talk to the wiggles about.

SPEAKER_06 47:44

Of course, of course. I cannot wait to see who else on the spectrum we get to talk about and talk to and just some.

SPEAKER_05 47:52

Wait till Yaya comes on, he knows a lot about the wiggles too. So I know maybe we'll have to do something with the wiggles and have them too. I don't know. Who knows?

SPEAKER_06 48:02

Hey, that would be fun. Then we can all wear different colors.

SPEAKER_05 48:05

I know, we can have a wiggle. Maybe we should see if we can help Cyrus plan a wiggle birthday party.

SPEAKER_06 48:12

Yes, that would be awesome. Yeah, like that. I think he would appreciate that.

SPEAKER_05 48:18

I know, and you know the wiggles are going on tour again and they're not coming here, and we're all bummed. I know, I know. I wish he could meet the wiggles, he would love it. Yeah, all right. Well, we'll wrap it up. All right, have a good night, MJ. Thanks, everyone. Bye. We would like to give a shout out to our graphic design sponsor, MySpot Design. Do you need a standout graphic design or seamless website solutions for your brand? MySpot specializes in custom logos, promo materials, plus professional website design and ongoing maintenance. Elevate your online presence today. Reach out at contact at myspot.design or go to myspot.design for more info. Thank you so much, owner Lindsay, for helping us out. We appreciate you.