00:00So my wife, before we met, was, and I've told this story before, but I saw her, she was on a reality show called The Real World, and I had seen her on the show, so I wasn't necessarily like someone who watched that all the time, but I'd have it on, and I saw her, and I was just like struck by her, and I was like, she was just like in this kitchen, and she was laughing with people, and she was just so beautiful, and it was just like a light, just like a beam of light, and I was like, where's this person in my life?
00:26Because I was dating at the time, and unsuccessfully, and not like finding my person, and anyway, like two years later, we were introduced, and I was like, it was just such a surreal sort of full circle moment, but so, you know, fell madly in love, had three children, have had a beautiful, extraordinary journey together, and have a lot more to come.
00:52I'll plug, we have a podcast that's coming out soon, that's going to be really incredible, and I'm so proud of it, so, but she, yeah, so I think because she was on reality TV, it definitely shaped the way I see reality TV,
01:09and I had some, you know, I had some peripheral understanding from knowing some other people, but knowing her unique experience of being on one of those shows, and what it's like, how, what it feels like to have the cameras following you,
01:21what's done around you to make a show like that work, and come together, and I guess I have, you know, I have zero judgment, I guess, about any of it, and even what people do on any of those shows,
01:35because, you know, there's something so, you know, they're trying to be real, right, they're trying to capture people just being themselves, but obviously, there's cameras following you everywhere,
01:48and there's pressure, there's pressure, because people are going to see what you're doing, and so, I don't watch a ton of reality TV, but I would say that being married to Kelly,
01:57and knowing now, what her experience was, which was, you know, good and bad, you know, some beautiful things came out of it, some really complicated things, too,
02:07but I think on the whole, I just, I suppose I just can appreciate the kind of, the complicated nature of it, and that even someone who thinks,
02:18I want in there, you get there, and oftentimes, it's not what you expected, and then you're forced to, in real time, on camera,
02:26that millions of people are going to see, you know, figure it out, and so she, in her experience, wind up, like, hiding a lot of the time,
02:35just because she, I think, recognized, you know, she wasn't willing to compromise her life, and, you know, do things that were outside of who she was,
02:45and, you know, you know, have her family have to sort of deal with all those kinds of things, and so, her experience was very unique,
02:53and that she was very protective of herself, but in, when she's ever, you know, people come up to her all the time,
02:59and they're like, you were the real one, you know, you were the, the real one on the real world, ironically,
03:04because she is just, you know, it's impossible for her not to be authentic, she's the most authentic person I'll ever know,
03:09and, but yeah, I feel like it was, it was definitely an eye-opening thing, because it's easy to, you know,
03:18make presumptions about people's experience on those shows, and I think from being with Kelly, you know,
03:24I don't do that at all, really, anymore, if I ever did, but yeah, she's just the least judgmental human
03:34I've ever known, and that applies to her experience with that show, her perception of people in all these shows,
03:40and I'm hoping that's rubbed off on me, too.
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