Step into an unconventional love story as we, a former firefighter and a former news anchor, share how a light-hearted bet led us on a first date to a bowling alley and the Golden Arches of McDonald's. An unexpected twist? A sweet but hilarious beginning. Get ready to chuckle and sigh as we relive our journey from strangers to engaged couple.
But, our love story doesn't stop there. Brace yourselves as we discuss our transition from a quiet RV life to the clamor of city living. Can you imagine trading an RV for an apartment just a few days into a relationship? It wasn't all roses, and you'll hear about our struggles, the pressure from family and friends, and the joy of finding someone who's not just kind but also generous.
We also delve into how we balance our diverse backgrounds and roles, a conversation that's bound to get you thinking about your own relationships. From firefighting to owning a business, and news anchoring to producing, our backgrounds couldn't be more different. Yet, here we are, navigating it all with a dose of laughter, love, and plenty of heartwarming moments.
Tune in, and you might just pick up a thing or two!
Feel free to watch this podcast on YouTube! https://youtu.be/NFgtr3tIuJMhttps://youtu.be/glwC5jZm0FA?si=DAEEw7FBsf7gWq0S
Step into an unconventional love story as we, a former firefighter and a former news anchor, share how a light-hearted bet led us on a first date to a bowling alley and the Golden Arches of McDonald's. An unexpected twist? A sweet but hilarious beginning. Get ready to chuckle and sigh as we relive our journey from strangers to engaged couple.
But, our love story doesn't stop there. Brace yourselves as we discuss our transition from a quiet RV life to the clamor of city living. Can you imagine trading an RV for an apartment just a few days into a relationship? It wasn't all roses, and you'll hear about our struggles, the pressure from family and friends, and the joy of finding someone who's not just kind but also generous.
We also delve into how we balance our diverse backgrounds and roles, a conversation that's bound to get you thinking about your own relationships. From firefighting to owning a business, and news anchoring to producing, our backgrounds couldn't be more different. Yet, here we are, navigating it all with a dose of laughter, love, and plenty of heartwarming moments.
Tune in, and you might just pick up a thing or two!
Feel free to watch this podcast on YouTube! https://youtu.be/NFgtr3tIuJMhttps://youtu.be/glwC5jZm0FA?si=DAEEw7FBsf7gWq0S
Welcome everybody to the no niche needed podcast. This is officially episode one episode one. Yeah, the first one in the trailer, we, we, we teased that we are an engaged couple. Yep, we're getting married next month. Yep, and we've been together for how long?
Speaker 1:
five plus years five plus years five plus years and we have quite the story to tell. Heck of a story to tell everybody, that we, that we tell our story to how we met and then how we proposed, or how you proposed. No we but um, everybody always says wow, that could be.
Speaker 2:
How I proposed, how you proposed.
Speaker 1:
I was trying to say something else. You're gonna get a lot of that in this podcast. Anyway, everybody says that our story is something that could be turned into like a movie.
Speaker 2:
Oh yeah, For sure be written into it and they say it all the time like that our background, I mean anytime that somebody's like yeah, so how'd you two meet? Yeah, I'm like here's the story, here's the story. It's an interesting one, it really is.
Speaker 1:
I mean, I really like the way that you tell it.
Speaker 2:
So, yeah, I mean, you're a news anchor and I was a firefighter and long story short, that the fire station we watched the news every morning, the morning news specifically, and and the town we're in we go through news anchors Like toilet paper. Basically, they just come in and come out because they Realized they're gonna move on to bigger, better things. And so this beautiful one came on TV and her name was Haley Klosson, on channel yeah whatever 13.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and 20. What was it 25? 13 was Houston. I was also on.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, houston is yeah so, anyways, one of the guys at the station that had bet me that I couldn't get you on a date, and so I kind of did a deep dive on Haley Klosson and her social media and Found her on Instagram, reached out to her, slid into her DMs, as the kids would say. Oh yeah and the first thing I said you what?
Speaker 1:
Oh, the pickup line. Yeah, you have a beautiful voice. Yeah, I'd love to hear it in person sometime.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and how, what, what went on in your head when you heard? Well, at first I was freaked out.
Speaker 1:
Who is this? Because the message but it got you thinking would have been Like just delete, or like not even accept this request. Yeah but, then I clicked into your profile. You were private, so the only thing I could see was your profile picture and you had a very cute profile picture, so I was like do you remember what was it all? I definitely don't you were in your, in your firefighter t-shirt, oh, okay, in the navy blue t-shirt and you had a little um what's that called the cross?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, the multi-scrass, the multi-scrass.
Speaker 1:
Yes, yes. So you had that on your t-shirt and I was like, wow, this guy is really cute. And I'd like to preface this by saying I had just moved to this town, like literally I had not been here, I had not been here for maybe two weeks.
Speaker 1:
Yeah and this guy slides into my DMs. He's cute. But when I had moved here I was just like I want to have fun, I want to go out and meet people. I don't want to, you know, get tied down by anybody, I just want to have fun. Mm-hmm. And then you came along and the rest is history, because our first date Was at the bowling alley in this little town and then McDonald's and then McDonald's, and that was not Chance's choice.
Speaker 1:
I would just like to say chance is a very I try to be classy. You're a classy. But not no, you're a classy person. I'm just saying there wasn't a lot to choose from in this town. There's an olive garden and I think that's the. That's as fancy as it got in that town.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
So I had just said you know it was a long day at work I've got a, we've got this big news party coming up tonight and we're gonna go to the bar and have fun. So let's just eat something before we go. And that was McDonald's and I love McDonald's big, big Mac girl over here. So that's what we did. We went through the drive-thru, met up at a co-worker's apartment, pre-gamed at the apartment, yeah, headed on over to the bar, which was a very interesting place for the second part of a first date.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
I Was not very smart, I got drunk.
Speaker 2:
Debated.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, this is not yeah, not my finest moment, not, probably not. Not the greatest first impression.
Speaker 2:
Yeah but I took you home, yeah, to your apartment, and laid you in bed, and then I it was very classy Chance is a big gentleman, so he literally-. Shivalry is not dead.
Speaker 1:
It's not.
Speaker 2:
It is not dead.
Speaker 1:
He laid me down in my bed and he fell asleep on the couch outside of my bedroom.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and I stayed there just to make sure that I was okay.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and it was very, very sweet.
Speaker 2:
I woke up. I don't know if I made you breakfast or we got breakfast, but-.
Speaker 1:
I don't remember, but all I know is that you didn't leave my apartment for like three days.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, then I just stayed there.
Speaker 1:
Yes. So for those of you who don't know Chance, before we got together, Chance lived in an RV, Mm-hmm, Out in the middle of nowhere in Texas.
Speaker 2:
B-F-E.
Speaker 1:
He lived close to a friend that had some property nearby and he had this really cute little dog, this little chocolate lab named Rocky.
Speaker 2:
I liked my setup at the time until you came along and showed me what the city was.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, he had told me that he hadn't ever experienced a city, and the town that we were living in I would not describe as a city. This would be-.
Speaker 2:
But it was a city for-.
Speaker 1:
This was the lowest tier city that I would have ever lived in, so I was just like this is a city, because to me this is B-F-E.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
And he's like no, the fact that you can go down the street and get groceries without having to drive an hour is so crazy Door-dash food. Door-dash, you can get delivered.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
Oh, wow, that's just like a luxury. I was like, okay, this guy's weird, but it's fine.
Speaker 2:
Ended up slowly bringing a bag over, and then his two bags, and then three bags, and about three months go by and I had not left her apartment at all period.
Speaker 2:
I mean, I just I never did. And so I was like you know what, maybe I should just sell ERV. And what was going through my head wasn't just like oh, I'm gonna marry this girl right now and we're gonna be together forever. But it was also the fact that, like you, showed me a new life too. You know, like I didn't want to just live in an RV next to my friend and just have that kind of life, like I was, like I'd like to come to the city right and be able to get groceries without it being a two-day excursion.
Speaker 1:
Right.
Speaker 2:
And so, anyways, we ended up selling the RV and I moved in with you full time. I would say you know about three, four months into the relationship, but realistically I moved in on like day three.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that was when you were just you were hooked.
Speaker 2:
I had I had a couple bags in my toothbrushes and that's all I needed.
Speaker 1:
What was going through your head at the time? Did you know that you were going to marry me that early?
Speaker 2:
on. Well, I don't know if you remember, but we started looking your rings at like four or five months in.
Speaker 1:
We did. We had gone to the to the Galleria in Houston. Yeah, and we were looking at those jewelry stores.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
And I had never-. No, I'm not gonna lie, I had done that with one past boyfriend.
Speaker 2:
Right.
Speaker 1:
But it had never. You know that that's a story for another day, right? We'll have a podcast talking about our exes and all that relationship. But this was the first time that it was like you were interested in it.
Speaker 2:
Mm-hmm, and it was-. I've always been interested in your things, though. Like that's the cool thing about both of us and that's another thing we get into is like we have shared interests. Yeah.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and ladies listening to this podcast who are single and are in the dating game. Chance has a lot, a lot of green flags. Very like slim to know red flags. No, I don't even think you have any red flags.
Speaker 2:
Wow.
Speaker 1:
I mean like genuinely, can you think of any red flags that you might pose, cause I I don't in the five plus years we've been together there there's never been anything where I'm like, oh, deal breaker. Oh, maybe maybe early on, when you were like I don't think I want to leave Texas.
Speaker 2:
Oh yeah, I was very like secluded and my and my mindset in general too, like I didn't I didn't have big picture mindset.
Speaker 1:
Right, so I but that changed pretty quickly with you. Exactly so I am from Los Angeles, california.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and I'm from a very small town outside of Dallas, texas.
Speaker 1:
And I'm a big dreamer. I always wanted more, so that's yeah, those are the red flags.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
Um, but for the ladies listening that are single, I mean just kind of listen to the way that Chance talks. Like, in all honesty, some of my friends like they always just tell me like he's just he is a green flag, yeah, like there's nothing.
Speaker 2:
And that's it. It's funny, you know you say that too, because that's everything that my friends have ever said is just the fact that, like no one's ever found a red flag with you Well, okay, one for you was the opposite. Right Was like so my family's very secluded, you know. They want my wife to want to live in Texas and stay here forever, and I feel like that's probably the only flaw or whatever that anybody's ever had with you. Other than that, it's the fact that you're extremely kind, like you put everybody you know before yourself, and everyone sees that constantly, and so for the men out there, looking for a good woman.
Speaker 2:
That's what you need to look for, you know? I mean I've got so many friends that always are just bragging about the fact I game a lot and so like hey, leo, come in and she'll just bring me food and I'll be like hey and I FaceTime with my friends while I'm gaming. They're like, Well, how do I get someone just to just to bring me food while I'm gaming?
Speaker 1:
Like there's no and it's not because I have to.
Speaker 2:
Hey, you just do.
Speaker 1:
And and but. That's what chance does for me too.
Speaker 2:
It's like we have very. We both do that for each other.
Speaker 1:
It's not the old fashioned way of. Oh, the woman does everything and the man just works, like we genuinely do.
Speaker 2:
I literally cooked all three meals yesterday.
Speaker 1:
Chance is the one who does more of the you know what society would say are the feminine roles you like to clean you like to cook. We just have a good balance and I think it's a very good balance.
Speaker 2:
It's very, very good.
Speaker 1:
Just with the way things are now in society. It's so nice to just be able to and our relationship like that.
Speaker 2:
Our current status is so balanced, but it's our background that's so balanced to in such different ways of the whole point of no niche needed, of the fact that you come from various different backgrounds of you know what are your different things Like?
Speaker 1:
what so? I? I was a singer. I wanted to be a singer for so long. Uh, I went into marketing, I was a news anchor, uh, now I'm working in a producer role, um, but just a lot of different things that I didn't have. Just one thing that I loved, and that was because growing up it was nailed into my like, drilled into my head, um, that you just have to, you know, work really hard at one thing.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
Really good at one thing and I from the beginning was like no, I like doing all these different things. Yeah, I am the jack of all trades.
Speaker 2:
Right.
Speaker 1:
Master of none which is fine, but I mean I've been able to apply every skill that I've learned from all these different things into anything I do.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and that that's the same. You know, for me, the, the firefighter, has always been my consistent thing, right For the longest time. But on the side of being firefighter, you know, I went through all kinds of different adventures career, career jumps, real estate, lawn company, pressure washing hand-in-hand and we're going to dive into that in the next episode.
Speaker 1:
All career is the next episode.
Speaker 2:
The whole next episode is what we're going to talk about the fact of how diverse our backgrounds are and how we've both coped with it. I think we might even break into some areas that are like whoa, I didn't know that bothered you, you know whatever, okay, now I'm interested to hear it. But yeah, so that's that's us, that is us. That's why this is no niche needed. That's who we are that's.
Speaker 1:
uh, we really we're really fun to each other. We're very lucky.
