Reece & Will: Newlywed life, 300% pay increase, and accidentally finding fame

- She came to Dallas to be a DCC. She didn't come to be a Netflix star. It just came with it. - That's crazy. - That surrounded the whole dream. - We've really, really struggled with juggling this new reality of life. And because that was our first year of marriage, it was just like a lot thrown at once. - It wasn't good. It felt more like a business partnership. - Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're the most followed cheerleader of the Dallas Cowboys ever, right? - That is the statistic, but I never want people to think like, oh, Reese thinks that she's all of that. From the articles I saw, it was a 400% increase of what you get paid. - That's insane. The media will always kind of like, enhance things to solve with it. - Today on Unplanned, we sat down with Reese and her husband, Will, from the hit Netflix TV show, "America's Sweet Hearts." You guys are gonna love this episode. We talked to them about everything from their newlywed life, how much the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders actually get paid, to what it's like becoming famous on accident, and so much more, all on today's episode. - Reese and Will, welcome to Unplanned. We are so honored to have you back on the show and Will. Well, this is your premiere. This is your premiere on "America's Love." - All right. - On planned debut, how are you feeling today Will? - I'm feeling great. - I feel like we're giving the people what they want, honestly, like I feel like we wanted more Will, more Reese together, like I think your guys' relationship is so sweet. - And you've been married for over a year now? - Yeah. - So basically marriage, I see. - How is marriage treating you guys? - It's awesome. - It is. - It's honestly such a blessing. I feel like often, you know, a lot of people will say, when you get married, like your life is kind of over your bound of that person, like obviously. Like yeah, you are, but there is this sweetness too. I get to go home to my best friend every day. I can't wait to share everything that happened or talk about struggles and everything. It's just such a blessing. And I get to have like a sleepover with my best friend every single day. - Right. - And I feel like if hour on this, like I was on the show last year, we'd be talking completely different. - Yeah. - Like cause it was like what, four or five months that we had been married when y'all had her last time. - Yeah. - And like completely different. - Really, like in one way. - Figuring out how to navigate life. Because like the show came out and y'all pretty much like hopped on and got her on the show. I was gone for a bachelor trip. - Yeah. - And we've just figured out how to navigate it. A lot better than when it first happened. - Because that was probably a shocking thing to like wake up to one day is like you're famous. Like you're, were you guys married when she became famous? - Yeah. - Okay, you were married when the show came out. - The show just, like right on, oops sorry. Right on our two month anniversary. - Two month, two months. So it was like two months and within those two months, I'm trying out again. There's obviously busy schedules. We went on our honeymoon and then it was like fast paced into summer and then wake up. And it's like, oh wow, people know who we are and no more about ourselves than I think we know. So that was just kind of like a big shock to us and like figuring out honestly, this time last year there was so, so many nuances of life and it was kind of this toss up between like, okay what was our reality completely as different today? And we just are now established and that we have like a new reality which is crazy. - Well how did that affect you? 'Cause I feel like you're probably like so stoked for you, so happy for her, so like so many things are changing but it also must be like scary too when, I mean there's like a lot of tension on you too, right? So I mean how did that all affect you personally? - The show dropped on Thursday. I took her out Saturday 'cause I was like, oh this is big. 'Cause she saw like the first two or three episodes and kind of like shut down and didn't tell me like anything about it. Like she watched it with the team, like maybe a week before it came out and like I didn't realize how big it was. - I kind of like gave them a preface. I was like and we didn't really know how much our filming would have been put into the show because it was brand new for everyone. And I remember coming home that night that we watched the first two episodes and I was pretty quiet but I was like well, I don't think you know how much actually are the coverage of us that's actually in the series. And we was like it's gonna be fine. Like we're gonna navigate it, it's gonna be fine. Like it's probably not as much as what you're thinking. I was like okay, I'm just gonna be quiet now, you know? And then when Will got to watch it, he was like oh, okay. - So Saturday after Thursday I took her out and we went out to like two places and I think maybe 10 people recognized her. I was like oh shoot, this is like a big thing. You're like getting, you're taking pictures, people are shopping, you're asking for a selfie, yeah. - Which was honestly like, I mean I think my job has helped with like taking pictures and all of that but when people know you too, it's very different because when you're trying to navigate like our marriage and keeping that like intentional intimate like between us and it's like well people now know so much more about that side of things and so you're like whoa, this is just a big shock. - Yeah, I mean it was sweet and it was really cool but the more of a pattern of going out to get groceries or the mall or just like shopping, like it was just so random, like I don't know. - It definitely like fires up that like protective instinct. - Yeah. - Because like I'm very, very observant when we go out and like we're walking and I'm like like just looking and I notice someone over here like that's, and I'm being a kid. - I'm more like, whoa. - I was like, hey just letting you know, there might be someone coming up and then like five seconds later. - It's a girl. - Goodness gracious watch out. - They are shameless. (laughing) But they're sweet, I love them. - They are, they're awesome, they're awesome. - Navigating this whole thing is like I never want someone's interaction with me to be anything that's different than what they see in the show and like I hope that people see me. Like there's no different race on screen than off screen. And so I just hope that every interaction that I have with someone, it's genuine, it's authentic and people see me for me and nothing different. But I love it. I love when, you know, 'cause I've been in those shoes of being girl-ing over someone, even though like that's a weird concept that I'm the one that's being fanned over, that's just weird. But I've been in those shoes and I always want girls to come up and like share the same experience that I've had with I've seen someone on the street. - Well what did you mean by seeing Reese shut down after the show launched? - So she watched the show and I asked, like how it was. And like she like literally was curled up in the bed and not really talking about it. Like not wanting to talk about it. She was like this is gonna be big. And that's pretty much like I could tell there was like a lot of anxiety with it. - I'm a people pleaser and I think knowing that I had like a few more weeks before this dropped, that people were going to see so much, like truly my whole like rookie experience and our, you know, navigating, trying to plan a wedding and all of that was going to be filmed. I think to me, when I do get overwhelmed or anxious or worried, I do shut down. I do have to like contemplate and like meditate on things and think about it. I think that was like my shutting down almost of like, oh my gosh, like what are people gonna think about our experience and my journey? - Was there fear in there as well? Or was it more just like so much information overload that you didn't really know what to think? - I think it was like a mixture of both. I will say one thing that like really made me anxious and worried the most was I'd only seen two episodes and with the exposure already on those two episodes, I was like, oh my gosh, we have five more episodes to go. Like what else are they gonna show? And you know, honestly, I think we love the producers, we love the directors, we love the integrity and like how much they went up hold like this iconic standard and brand. Like had full trust within that, but I just was so worried about what was going to be interpreted. I just, my prayer was like, I hope that people, like every intention is the same. That whole thing. And so I was just like, oh, what else is gonna be shown in those five episodes? I think that's what I was most worried about, the unknown. - And like a lot of time had passed at that point and they probably recorded so many hours. They're like, what could you piece together? Like what moment, what weird glance? Like, I don't, you're like, I really don't remember yesterday. Like what could have happened in that span of time? I can imagine that's there's some anticipation building there. Did you end up watching the rest of the five episodes together or? - We did. - I watched the first two when it dropped. - Yeah. - And then? - Okay, so I do remember this guys. I keep hitting this. - Oh, you're good. - I do remember this. It did drop on a Thursday. And that was the first day of training camp. And so my mental focus was like, I've got to be focused on training camp. I want to make sure like nothing is interfering with that. And so we watched it on Saturday purposefully because we didn't have practice then. And we watched, I guess the remaining five? Netflix actually came and filmed us watching two or three of the episodes. - But then we still watched them together. - Yeah, yeah, we watched them together. - Yeah, but we had to wait. - We had to wait to watch those to get Netflix wanted our reaction. - Not all five though. But we did watch the rest. And I think we were like, okay, let's just take a breath. Let's just take a breath. Let's take a breath, we're so good. - Was there anything that was in the episode? so that you were maybe uncomfortable with or realized, oh wow, that was vulnerable. And I shared that and people are watching this on Netflix. - Honestly, no. I think that I mean, I'm so grateful that they honestly like highlighted all of us in like such a sweet way. I know that there was a lot of vulnerability and that's what we wanted to show. It's like, you know, we're not only these girls that you know, dance and have side hustles and those things. It's like we wanted to show like what goes on behind the scenes and like peeling back those layers because we wanted to be as authentic and as relatable as possible. So I don't think that there was ever like a time where I was worried about anything that I said or anything like that. I just hope that, I know I did share my testimony and that's like already kind of like a very heavy weighted thing, but I was like, you know what? This is the way that the Lord's gonna use me then I'm just gonna trust that He has a plan and I'm just gonna walk within that. And hopefully it produces fruit. - I want to talk a lot more about the show and I want to talk about like being a Dallas cowboy cheerleader as well 'cause that's such a big deal. But I think something that so many people are wondering is you've shared about your love story on the show. So people know about you guys. But like what's the pieces of it that people maybe don't know about you? - I know last year we really, really struggled with like juggling this new reality of life. And because that was our first year of marriage, it was just like a lot thrown out once. And you wanna? - It felt more like a, when everything happened and everything started settling down a little bit, it felt more like a business partnership. - Weird. - And it was, it wasn't good. I was working from seven to four. I'd come home, it'd be like a 45 minute to an hour drive and then I'd start working on like content stuff for her. Like answering emails and stuff like that or picking up what I left for him then I went to practice. - So like the hour that we had, when I got home before she left for practice, it was like all business and it wasn't like, - That's sad. - Hi wife, like anything like that. - Yeah. - And then when I would come home from practice, it was like, you know, late. - 10 o'clock. - I'm exhausted by that point. - Go to bed. - Yeah, and that's it. And so I think like trying to, I mean obviously every marriage is different, but when you have your friends who are newlyweds and you're like, well, our life doesn't look like theirs and it's not supposed to. I felt like there was literally no similarity. And so we felt like it was like, we'll say kind of this business partnership and I was like, meh, like something has to give and I don't even know if until like after season we really like changed around things. I know I stopped working at my flower shop that I was working at, which was really sad, but like they are such a sweet community that they really understood everything. And I needed to prioritize one like my faith and I knew that that was like all jumbled up within my priorities and then also like our marriage. And that to me, like we were, someone explained it best to me, but kind of like these sailboats that just crossed at night. And we needed to change that. - I commend you guys for your vulnerability on that because while your life looks probably different than a lot of newlyweds in their 20s with like everything going on, I think that's a sentiment that a lot of people feel because like a lot of people like a married in their 20s, your 20s are usually your hustling years. Like you're working really hard, you're building things, you don't necessarily have a set routine, you're kind of like doing everything all at once. And then to introduce a marriage into that, it can feel like, like you said, like ships were moving, we're all like on different paths altogether. But working on like that unity and that oneness, what were some tools that you maybe learn from mentors or that you like picked up along the way that that worked for you guys to kind of rebuild that and bring you closer together, even the midst of such a chaotic life? - I'll say personally, I, everything was just all jumbled. I felt like there was no order or structure. And like I'm a very structured person and I need that for me. And so I had a few friends who really encouraged me to speak to a counselor and just like have therapy and to walk through some things, like have someone who has no strings attached who is truly like wanting to help. And you know, kind of, I'm gonna not quote John Deloney, but I feel like listening to John Deloney has helped us like with communication and asking questions, just like hearing how he asked questions has helped, which I'll let you touch on him in a little bit. But I think that me personally, we're super fans. - We love you so much. We love you so much, we love you so much. - John Deloney, I am, if you're listening, we just really, really am grateful for you. (laughing) You're constantly in our car. - We'll have to face time and after this now. - Literally. - Oh my gosh, that's so cool. But personally, that's something I needed to work on because my mind, there was just so much happening. And a lot of attacks I felt like from the enemy, just with everything that was going on. So I needed to work on that in myself. And I think that translated and helped within our marriage with communication because when I would come home and I'm just so stressed, like I said, I'm a shut down type person. I just need to think about it and then I get overwhelmed. Where Will is like, "Ah, here I'm trying to help." But I didn't know how to communicate that. So I think one, like talking to someone and getting the help that I needed helped our marriage. - I know Abby and I being newlyweds and having, yeah, social media videos go viral. It's like on one hand, oh man, we should keep making these videos because like, this is an opportunity that I never thought a million years I'd have to, you know, there's just so many cool creative opportunities and you know, building wealth for your future family, your kids, like it can change like generations, right? But then on the other hand, it's like, your marriage is so sacred and so important and you can't just like trade your marriage for money. Like it's stupid, right? Like you can't put a value on that. So I guess like, yeah, how did you find yourself out of that? 'Cause it seems like you're probably in a place now where you feel maybe you have a lot more balance when it comes to like business and marriage and hopefully it doesn't feel like your business partners. - Right, right. Well, I just think it was like so new that we didn't have anything like marriage was set. And then like, this came in and it was like, okay, let's just start doing this. And then we were like, okay, this isn't working. Let's go back to the drawing boards and that's when Reese kind of stepped away from the flower shop, she actually signed on to an agency and that took the like me pushing her to do stuff like out and like someone else was telling her what to do. - Okay, so the signing with the agency was definitely positively influenced by Matt Howard, just as well. He was like, girl, you need help. - She literally called me. - She said, I called, what is it? Matt told me I need a sign with the agency, we really need to probably reach back out to some of the emails that people have sent because we actually really do need help so thank you Matt. - Of course, well remember I was talking to you when we, this was in your apartment. - In the same engine for like a year there. - Yeah, we were like, we're in your apartment, we were just like, we're holding the microphones in our hands filming this first podcast episode. And when you told me that Will was like essentially managing your brand collaborations, I'm like, you need management. - I'm so glad that someone else was able to take that off your plate Will and hopefully, you know, brought you guys some like peace. - Yes, that's a hard dynamic to have in a marriage. You're like, I don't wanna be your secretary, you're like, you're a manager essentially. - And you also like, that was such a quick change. Like you had no idea how to value the wolves. - How to value Reese's brand partnerships. And I'm sure. - We haven't talked to you, like this is our first time being in person since that time of year ago but you probably saw an uptake of revenue too when you had outside management telling you what your videos were worth. 'Cause you were the first deal that her agency got. It was like probably three or four of the ones that I got and I was like okay, you're telling me. - I was under valuing her like massive growth. - And he felt so bad about it. I was like, will we literally, I don't know what we're doing. - I don't know what I'm doing, we don't know what we're doing. - But we went through the same thing. 'Cause I was like, brand would come to us and be like, yeah, maybe like a couple hundred dollars or something. I just had no idea. - No dude, our first one was $15 for that song. - No, we did a brand deal for $15 at one point. But no, it's just like, they come in and go like-- - That's what it says. - Souls. - Apparently. - Yeah, so it's good to have someone that knows what that's been doing that side of business for a long time to represent you. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's awesome. - And they already have partnerships with the brands, like with other clients and stuff that they've-- - That's our job. - Yeah, 100%. - I think it's really admirable the way that, like when we were talking about this, you said you saw personal counseling and like, I think that we've seen that even in our own marriage. Like, there's a lot you can do as a couple, but it starts with like you as an individual to showing up for that marriage and like, you know, that Matt and I, well, I just like, even we just had a recent loss that was terrible. In that moment, I was like, Matt can't be everything for me in this time. and so take. making that time to do individual therapy. I just think that is really admirable that you bring that up as like, okay, this is a step and then it's also a good thing to point out like in a marriage, it's like we're two individuals that have to be whole to show up together and to make like one unit. And I think that was really cool and awesome. I'm curious, I wanna know like what's the fun part of marriage? Like what's the like, what's your favorite date night? What's your favorite, I don't know, do you have like a fun tradition you do? Like, I wanna know. You go, I'll think about some things. Oh, did I just put you on this one? I like to cook, I love cooking. Oh, let's go. See me and Will, we have so much in common. Will is chef, for sure. I am so grateful, very, very grateful. But now most of it is like, so back in September of last year, I posted like a kind of like a parody, like I'm cooking for, I'm Reese Weaver's husband, I'm cooking for Reese and it kind of blew up. So I just kept going along with that. I come back from practice and I see my tripod and my selfie light on his phone and he's by the oven. And I'm like, I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, posted a TikTok. I'm like, you have one video on your TikTok and you are posting it. He's like, yeah, it'll be fun. That's so cute. So I kind of like made it as like satire and it kind of blew up and then I just kept doing it. But I love cooking and I love cooking for her. So that's like, I guess a fun thing. Like a, I guess, not really tradition. Yeah. No, that's a fun thing. Yeah, yeah. So do you cook every night? Just about, yeah. Yeah. We're saving money. Yeah, I know, I'm a nice person. I don't know. Is that the apartment that we were at? We visited a year ago or he goes in a new place. We're actually in a new place. And we are renting this sweet home that's like on the outskirts of where we were. But it's so nice. We have a dog now, so we have a vacuum. Yeah, it's like-- And we have a backyard, so I have grills. Oh, yeah, so we have grills. What do you like grills? Everything. I like the grill salmon. Do you grill salmon? I love the grill. Most of the time I see it. OK. OK. Yeah. That sounds fancy. And it's insane. It's wow. It's insane. I've done a couple brisket. I'm in Texas, so I've got a big brisket. You have a smoker? You have a smoker, yeah. I have a green egg. No way. Our grill actually has a smoker feature. I've never used it in my-- Never used it in my-- What kind of y'all have? We have a lifetime hybrid grill smoker thing. And lifetime even sent me the chips to use in the smoker. I still haven't used them in my years. I don't think the chips made the move with this. Yeah, I know. I was like, he's never going to use it. Yeah, maybe Abby got rid of the chips. You got rid of my smoker chips? I don't know. They might be in the garage still. Oh my gosh. That's funny. Wait, I want to hear about the dog. We have gone back and forth so much recently about a dog. But we're kind of intimidated. It feels like a bigger hurdle than a kid. Like, I'm like a dog can't travel with us. But we can just take our kids with us. You know what? I don't know. We've been traveling a lot with Ruby. We don't have kids either. Yeah, we don't. Yeah, you're right. She's road tripping with Ruby. Road tripping. She is honestly got so lucky, but she is the best traveler, the best dog traveler, for sure. Wait, what kind of dog is she? A doodle. She is a red lab. Oh. She's an English lab, so she's a little bit stalkier, a little chunkier. Oh. She's got like that, like the yellow labs, but like a burnt color. Oh. Like a red. Pretty like title is a Fox red English lab. Oh, okay. It's what they call, like, Fox red. How did this happen? Was it something you were like, it was a spur of the moment? You just got a dog or were you thinking about it? We definitely are two dog lovers, like as soon as we got married, we're like, so dog. When are we going to get that? Ah. But us being in like a one bed, one bath, when we were younger or younger, when we just got married, like, we knew that we wanted to like a big dog, it was just going to be hard living in an apartment. We wanted a yard for training, like potty breaks, all the things. And also like the fact of like us only seeing each other a little bit, and then Reese working, coming home, and then Reese going back to work again, when Reese decided to like do content full time and be home, that's when we kind of decided like, okay, we have Tom to like pour into the dog and not just like put it in a cage and stuff like that. And then about that time we were like, okay, let's find a place where we can have a backyard. And then that's when things started, kind of started moving on getting the house and then getting Ruby. We got, we moved into the house on January 3rd, and then we picked up Ruby on January 28th. No. So we had a few weeks without a dog, but- She like moved in with this country. What was the puppy stage like? She was awesome. Really? Yeah. Puppies, like there's a lot, but so fun, and they're so cute, so sweet, it's so fun to see them like grow and learn and like adopt to things, but I mean, she was a really great puppy too. I think the only night she like kind of like whimpered the whole night was the first night. Aww. I will. The first two weeks are a little potting and stuff like that. Potting and stuff like that. But like y'all know, you know, you wake up, eat baby, put them down, like change diapers, all those things, but I think like, I don't know, we have an experience that life, but I think that the potty breaks and all of that is, you know, we took stages, it was also like our first kid. Not this crediting kids at all, not this crediting kids at all, but they can't immediately run out of the gates. But this is true. No. Puppies, like no. Ready to go. Yeah. She was, when she was disobedient, she was running around, but she got out of it. She was in the mouth all the things. Do you guys see children in the future? I saw a lot of people asking questions about that in my, I put out like a question box upon Instagram. So you said, "Absolutely." Oh yeah. No, absolutely. I think, you know, it's funny. I was just in my friends wedding this past weekend, like we talk about a lot of my, a lot of the bridesmaids were talking about how post college you have no idea what's in store, but like when you were in high school college, you're like, "Okay, what's the next four years?" Or five years look like. And it's like, "Oh, what's this? It's this." And then post college, you're like, "What is my next five years?" Like, "What does that look like?" And I feel like we're in the stage, you're like, "Wait, our next five years could be, you know, kids." And I think that's such a sweet, like, I don't know, something to look forward to. And that's another thing. We wanted like to have a dog before kids, they can kind of grow up together. We see the videos of like the older dog, like that's the kid laying on it. But it would be really sweet for like our kids to have like a puppy too. Like that'd be fun. Yeah. So I think multiple dogs in the future and definitely- She wants one of each color a lap. That's a lot. But how many dogs is that? How many colors are there? Well, there's silver too. I have a chocolate lab at home in Florida and I just like, she's my pride and joy and I just can't think about getting another chocolate lab in a while, but maybe, maybe a black lab next? Oh, okay. Yeah. We got a dog. I think so. Maybe. Almost. Howling cows. Yes. We want land one day to you. But the kids are like a five-year, like, you're kind of like the next five years, you're just going to be dog parents and, you know? Maybe. Yeah. We don't really know. Yeah. Honestly, as you all know, it's day by day. Yeah. We literally don't know what tomorrow is going to bring. So maybe five, ten years, we'll see, but ten years seems like a lot. Maybe like five, eight. Is there one of you in particular that has more of like that, quote unquote, baby fever? You were that way, Will. Yeah. That's always so interesting to me because like Abby wanted babies like day one that we were made. Yeah. Before we even dating, she wanted babies. So it's like, it's like, it's always day going to high school. We've got to wait so long. Talk to me about that. We both went to college. We went to Alabama. Yes. Roll top. Yeah. We went to college during COVID. My grandpa told me, because I got stuck in rent when COVID happened and school got canceled, everything went remote. Right? Okay. My grandpa told me it was like, Hey, school's going to get canceled again. Don't get rent just like commute, which it's about an hour drive from my small town to Tuscaloosa. Okay. And I was like, Okay, let's do that. I ended up having schedule where I had classes all Thursday and Tuesday. So there's two days and I was commuting Taylor and Lindley are mentors. They were like, Hey, just come and stay with us on Monday night and Wednesday night so you don't have to drive from Morris before your classes. Shout out Morris, Alabama. Mm-hm. Older and old. Nice. And I started living with them. And then the next semester I had classes every single day because that's just the way the schedule worked out. Wow. So I started living with them and they got pregnant. They had Beckett who was still born and that's part, I think you talked about it on the last podcast about Beckett's Blessing Box and it's just really near and dear to our hearts. But then they had Riker and then they had twins and we kind of lived with them or I lived with them throughout pretty much all their pregnancy. It was awesome. It was so much fun and went to school with kids like yeah, that's so sweet. Yeah. And I was watching. had cravings. I would like drive to the gas station to get Cajun ball peanuts and stuff like that. It's awesome. Funny how like Bingground kids just makes you want to have them because that's a similar thing for me. We used to live in Hawaii and there's a lot. We accidentally moved five minutes away from the LDS Mormon temple in Hawaii and we have a lot of LDS friends, a lot of friends from Utah and you know it's like a stereotype but like Mormon's have a lot of kids and we're always around their kids and becoming friends with these people and I'm like man they're just like they're so fun and happy and it's just so fun to have like a big family and so then like sure enough that one of our you know towards the end of living in Hawaii is when we got pregnant and start our family. That's awesome. That's sweet though. You know he's going to take very good care of you whenever that comes. Oh really? Oh anything she wants. I'm cooking it for you. Oh man look you got a dream husband right here. I know no I really really do so so bless. What a cool experience too like for you like being in the stage of like college but getting to like look to them like just like it's like I feel like a lot of times we look at our parents who are like you know a generation ahead but to be able to look at just peek over the fence like then right then the very next stage that was first of all really awesome of them to like have you but then also I'm sure it was such a blessing for them too to have you there. I didn't tell I have to do this but we usually don't do segments on our podcast but I kind of want to try out a segment with you guys because like you're basically newlyweds you've been married just over a year. Yeah. I have some like rapid fire newlywed questions for you. I think you get the kind of fun. They're PG. Okay. These are clean. We talked about who cooks the most but like who who cleans? Who's the cleaner in the relationship? I would probably say me. I feel like we have our own roles. Okay. Like taking out the trash from one. No that's taking out the trash. Best of the jar Russian dishes right. Laundry just depends. I try to stay away from her like DCC laundry and stuff. I don't want to mess that up. Okay. I probably clean the most like I'm a constant like how's the couch. How's the countertop like my island. I'm like is more like less cleaning more putting stuff away. Okay. Because like I leave stuff out a lot and I'm also a messy cook y'all. Oh yeah. The best ones are. Who talks to the neighbors? Who's the chatty Kathy that likes to get in long combos with like the neighbors across the street. I really know. I feel maybe could we don't really know our neighbors. I know our neighbors. I guess I'm the only person to ever talk to our neighbors. So that's probably me. It's okay. We're we've been in our neighborhood for a year and I still am working on learning all of our neighbors. So hey it's all right. That talks to every neighbor. I love that. I think if we're out though both of us it could be like oh I'm waiting for Will. He's chatting up or oh I'm waiting for Reece like she's chatting to her or whatever. Who's the impulse shopper? Anybody like have a quick like oh I want that. It's situational. What do you mean by that? Like tonight we're throwing a dancing with a stars party and there's been like eight things show up at the department. I was the impulse shopper like for sure for sure but like for that like it just got to like hunting season just came in and I bought like a couple things for hunting. So it's just a situation. It's like Will did you spend $5,000 on shotguns? I don't know like you know what Amazon comes in and it's like oh for I have like both recent Will like our names on it but his will just be Will. Yeah. So she knows like okay this is Will's. He's got some stuff coming in. Oh it's just Will's. I'm very very impulsive it's a gift. Okay. Yeah. That's me. Like if it's a gift I'll like just immediately get it. Like I've gotten her like three or four Christmas gifts already. And then I just we just ordered my sisters uh Christmas gifts. It's hilarious. Um that's fun. Yeah. Who handles who handles the finances? Will. Okay. I like it. That's a blue job. Who's the handyman? Who fixes the things around the house? Okay. Not surprised. When you mentioned hunting I'm like this guy probably knows how he doesn't call plumber if the if there's a plumbing issue. Yeah actually. No if there's like a serious plumbing issue. I will but like I can I can work my way out of the drain. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of things. Abbie's dad and I are both not that way. So we just we just call someone to fix it. But I know growing up with my dad like that. I was literally like I got to marry someone who knows how to do some of this stuff. But you're married to Tik Toker. You're married to Tik Toker, gosh dang it. Yeah. Go spend on me. Who has better fashion sense? Oh. I've been getting better. I guess. I guess. I feel like some of my friends. I'm like wow like I'm so inspired. Like how do you just do all that but out of us do that would be me. I think but do you buy wheels close? No. No. No. Will will buys his own clothes and mostly Alabama stuff. I'm pretty sure you're pretty much privileged because I feel like the long ribbon married the more I've been like let me just take care of this. I think like when it comes to shopping and like gift giving I'll I have my own taste and I think that kind of probably. I get to hit. But really I need help. Yeah. Like this is cute. I think one of the first like weddings we went to. I had a brown belt and black shoes and she's like oh no absolutely not. So uh. Blavy. Blavy happens sometimes with him. Who's more likely to forget an anniversary or like a birthday or something like that. That's also more of like a question for a couple that's been together for a decade. I feel like you don't forget that stuff when you're doing that. Yeah. We know things now. I probably mean. The other day we actually both just missed our like anniversary kind of dating anniversary. But technically it was never like a solid anniversary because I asked her to be my girlfriend like four or five times and she said no every single time. Wait. What? Yes. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. I didn't know this story. Yes. Because people know this that you that you turned will down four or five times. Um some people probably know I never dated anyone. So I was like oh I don't know like I'm nervous kind of thing. And then actually Taylor are mentor announced it to church. He was like and we've got Reese here. I got Will's girlfriend in the back. Yeah. I was like oh. I guess we're boyfriend and girlfriend. Because like we were at we were hanging out at Taylor and Linley's house. Okay. So Reese would get done with a bamin dance team practice at like nine o'clock. Come over. We'd watch the office or something on. Try to watch Harry Potter and I was like you can't give me into this benign. Now I just finished Harry Potter. I like it now. We need to read books or sophomore year. I was like can't. This is not for me. This is not for me. But Taylor and Linley uh like so we had their living room, their room and then the room that I stayed in and uh um they were always asking she said yes because they knew like I was asking. I was telling them everything and uh like Wednesday night Taylor's like I got you dog. I got you dog. So uh like October 14th uh he announced her as my girlfriend and she looked over at me and uh and I was like oh we're boyfriend girlfriend. I was like I don't know. If you want to I mean I've asked you several times so I guess that's sweet. That October 14th was our like anniversary date. Until we now just missed it so. And was it and so was it like then when you started dating that you guys decided your wedding was going to be on 420? Is that when? She told me the wedding date and uh so I proposed you were on tax day. That's so random. That's funny. I graduated in December of 22 and she was in like the peak of their UDA dance season so she had practice. Like she came to my graduation and then immediately had to go. Her whole family was here. My whole family was here. I was like hey I'm proposing on this date because the weekend prior was it was um uh final four if Alabama went to it she would have been going. Everything revolves around everything. Everything revolves around. She would have been going to the final four with the dance team if they made it and then uh it was tax weekend and then the next weekend was Easter so it was like the sweet spot. Nice um so I proposed on the 15th and then a couple weeks months later she was like hey uh we're getting married on 420 and I was like okay and she was like why are you laughing? I was like you don't know about 420? I was like 420 24 it's cute. She was like okay do you want to tell you what that means? I didn't realize that so you picked out the date because then you thought it was cute having no idea that it was. Well no it was also the only weekend. The only weekend available at that venue. I still don't take it. Yeah but with our time and schedule it went down. Also at this point she didn't know that she was going to be going into her second year on the team. Okay okay she planned out a time now for her first season and then she made it and then that was also the sweet spot like if she makes a team or if she doesn't make the team and she wants to challenge you again. Yeah April's kind of busy so I feel like we need to go like middle. So yeah this wasn't rapid fire so we had to explain all that. No you're good. No I I got derailed because I heard you know you try to ask her out four times and she turned you down so that's five. Let me know that persistence. Well yeah I think that's just a testament to your persistence, right? Like you didn't give up. Perseverance. Perseverance. It's technically She never said yes to marrying me either. Oh my gosh. When I proposed, she just did. I never heard of verbal, yes. I said thank you after I'm out. It was cool. It was cool. It is a cue. We didn't even kiss. We were literally just hogged, and I said thank you. I didn't know, I was like, how do you do this? Did you become overprotective when you found out she was going to be like a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader? Was that ever like a thing? Maybe overprotective is not the right word. Sounds negative. Yeah, it's almost just like, or yeah, protective. I would say so. Bamboo dance team, and like being like part of like the Alabama Spirit Squad's one thing, and like you have like 100,000 people watching you at Bryant and Danny Stadium. But I feel like here, because she didn't know that Netflix was going to be filming when she was trying out. But like obviously, before she tried out, we were watching the CMT one. So there's like another show that they didn't come making a team into like the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders have always just been so iconic. And they've been like the public eye, like for a long time. So like there's going to be a bigger scale than Alabama that's going to recognize and know me. And then Netflix was like an international scale. And you're like, whoa. It turned my like protective instincts on, I would say. And then when Netflix dropped, it was even more so. I should have asked this question earlier, I've been wondering it, like you not knowing how they were going to piece together all the footage they had, especially in season one. Did it ever cause any kind of like awkwardness amongst you and the other team players not knowing that you were going to be such a focus of season one and like such a like main character of the show, did it ever make things awkward or tense amongst you and the other girls? I know like filming wise throughout before they even dropped the docky series. No one knew really like the intentions. Like no one knew really who was going to be highlighted. Like obviously in the back of your mind, you're thinking like, oh, well, they're going to like follow a few people. But this was so new to us and new to our organization and our program that no one really knew how this is going to be drawn or pictured. And so I think everyone that were being filmed kind of thought like everyone's getting equally in the amount of like film coverage and then it'll go into the hands of editors and they'll figure it out then. So not like the filming process before everything aired. Afterwards, I'm so grateful for the sweetest teammates who are so supportive. And I think everyone was more willing to help me navigate through it all even though like they probably couldn't understand maybe to the scale of what I was experiencing, but they could empathize and like try to help. And so I think like there wasn't this like awkwardness, but it was more, I don't know, maybe just like trying out for the team you already kind of thought in the back of your mind. Like you're promoting a brand and like marketing for it and being an ambassador that now it just like the scale went up 10 notches of marketing and putting people in different rooms and putting people at different tables, if that makes sense. And so I think everyone was understanding, but for me as a people pleaser, it did cause this anxiety of like, what do my teammates think, are they okay? Like I don't want them to ever think like I now think I'm all this, like that's another case. And so I think like one, it came out of like personal conviction for making sure I was intentional with my teammates and showing up for them and showing that like I'm not anything different, you know, I'm trying to navigate this. And I think that they could see that I trust that like my friends were just trying to be as supportive as possible. And you're so humble. So I know you would like never voice this yourself, but you, I feel like are essentially the face of the team now. Like if you look at the show, right? Like season one blew up. Like everyone was watching the show. I remember when we interviewed you a year ago. I was so excited for you guys because it was just like everything was exploding and you're following was growing and I just in preparation for this interview looked at your Instagram and I'm like holy crap, you would hit a million followers on Instagram, which is like a really big achievement. So I correct me if I'm wrong, but I like you're the most followed cheerleader of the Dallas Cowboys ever, right? Is there is there another cheerleader from the team that's ever had that many that large of a following? I mean, I think like all of us right now are everyone is following and I mean obviously as a little girl, they can look up and be like, Oh my gosh, I look like so. And so like I'm going to follow her and like we share same similarities and stuff like that. So I think we're all growing naturally. But I would say that that is the statistic. But it is just kind of like super surreal because I never want people to think like, Oh, Reese things that she's all that. Like that's not the case. I just hope that you know what I'm sharing across the board is like the same Reese you would have seen before all of this and the same Reese you're seeing now. The reason that you are, excuse me, like my throat's getting weird, like I think the reason I think the reason like that people like you guys and like you is because of that very reason, because I think they can tell that you have these like high high morals and that you have this humility to you to where they want to follow you and they want to like cheer for you and they want to see you succeed. And they're stoked that you are at a million followers on Instagram because that like in a way that that shows them that anybody can do anything, you know, that there's that like the little guy that the person that's doing the right thing, the person that is like being good to people and yeah, has this high moral standard can succeed. Like I think that gets people fired up. Yeah, and while we're gassing Reese and I think of like one word when it comes to you and you two together is like it's so refreshing because I think that in media today, it's it's easy for negativity or something that's shocking or flashy or self-absorbed like like all of that tends to like perform right, but to see like a role model like you get this platform is so refreshing like it's like you you are someone that we want to see more of we want our like children like younger girls to like look up to and it's like it's really I'm proud of America, honestly, for giving a pop to someone like you because it is so good to see and like it just I it's an inspiration. I think your marriage is so sweet to the way that will just like once to see you thrive and like props you up and it's just like the biggest true leader even on season two when you're in the stands, I was like please show more will like it's so sweet. Yeah, were you guys surprised that there wasn't more coverage of you in season two because I think Abby and I were shocked. We were expecting to see your mom was shocked. My mom was disappointed with Netflix. She wanted me because I was like I still need to see. What did my mom say? She was like they did not show enough race. I don't think I was shocked. I mean I I know that every season is going to be different and they're going to I mean, my thing too was like one trying to just like understand my head around like that they wanted to follow me like that's just a silly crazy concept, but I have 35 other girls and teammates that are so cool and have such great stories that I was excited for because I was like the world needs to see my teammates and how cool they are and my friends and you know everybody works and sacrifices. They're really entire lives to make this team and like those stories need to be shown. So I'm grateful and excited that they they did that was really happy with like the outcome in that way. It was a big deal. When when season two ended that they gave you guys a big salary race. I think we talked about last podcast, you know, what you get paid. If if the numbers were legit and then I I said 75,000 a year and then you were like actually that's not what we get paid. But you guys from from the articles I saw it was a 400% increase of what you get paid like what? That's insane. That must be amazing. Like talk to me about that's a big deal. Yeah, so I will say that I think the media will always kind of like enhance things. But I will say that like we are so grateful with the outcome. I think like this truly our whole like motive and goal with this is like we didn't want to just do this for ourselves. We wanted to do this for so many women across like corporate America. Yeah, obviously for other NFL teams too to feel inspired to you know recognize and see the cheerleaders for who they are. I mean like again, they sacrifice so much. And we do carry a lot and juggle a lot like whenever you see a team at a pep roller or something, you're going to bring your cheerleaders like yeah, these these women and men do go to two appearances and it's like you're talking to a five-year-old and then you're talking to an 80 year old in a retirement home. And it's having to you know adapt and be on 24/7 like there's so much more than what we do than just dance on the sidelines. And so I think that we wanted to really push that and encourage other people to get behind us and support us with that. So is the salary increase not 400%? It's it's definitely it's more like 300% I really don't know all the behind the scenes on and how it all works out. But what I can say is that it has been such an improvement and a very big increase than what we have seen in the past. - Okay. - They've changed the structure of how they pay around. So we'll see at the end of the year like obviously how the percentage increases. - Oh, so you haven't seen it all commit, like you don't actually know the full number. - When we do get paid, obviously it is a significant increase, but like the avenues of how it's being drawn out, like I don't, I mean, I'm not really behind those, or in those conversations. - Yeah, you're not quite sure the bottom line is. - Yeah, yeah. - Help me understand because yeah, I was reading different articles about it and I didn't know what was true, what wasn't true. And obviously I want to be respectful of like what you can and can't say. So if I'm overstepping, let me know. But it seemed like you guys used to get paid 200 a game in US dollars and then they increased it to 400 a game and then am I speaking gibberish to us? - To be honest, I really don't know who they are. (laughing) I honestly can't speak too much about it. I will say that in purpose, but. - Yeah, yeah, respect that. - But I will say like games are now, like the hourly pay is completely different. - Okay. - And so like games are like a huge improvement to what they were in the past. - Nice. - I will say a lot of the girls that led this had more years on the team. So they saw improvement every single year, whereas I only saw two years. If really, even if that, like, which is showing like all the totals and stuff. But the girls that really led this were like our leaders that were fifth years and fourth years. And girls that have been on the team for a lot longer than I have. And they've seen more in history in that time span. And so I just kind of was like, man, I'm on board with this. This seems so encouraging and hopefully this is gonna inspire so many other generations to come. But I will say this is just like a stepping stone. I think that there's always more work to do. But I think like this is like such a great step in the right direction. - Yeah, no, that's really cool to see. I think everybody was stoked to see that you guys got a salary increase. Except I will say, I got in like a, in an argument with the family member this summer. 'Cause someone, I think someone was like, I don't know, like, is that, and now I almost feel like they're overpaying, then I'm like, overpaying, then I'm like, do you know what the athletes on the field get paid? I'm like, these are athletes, I'm okay. Maybe you could say, I guess you could say that the actual players in the football game are, quote unquote, from a capitalistic business standpoint more valuable than the cheerleaders, fine. But like, but I was like going to bat for you guys. So I'm like, they can make a bat. - Yeah, they deserve every bit of the salary increase that you guys got, so. - Well, I will say, if you put it into perspective, what our whole motive was, is if the water boy, and really like, people that are on the sidelines, like doing more of those type of jobs are getting paid way more than the cheerleaders are, and we made me sit down like two, three times in the game, and that's like one example, but I mean, there's so much that we do throughout our season, and even in the off season, after football, we are doing so much more of shows, appearances, events, like so much more to keep like the cowboys in the eye, and not just in season. - There really is no off season. - There's really no off season. So I think like when we brought that to the drawing board, it was like, yeah, this needs to happen, so. - That's what I was telling my family member, 'cause they were like, well, they're working the games, and it's not like a full-time job, and I'm like, full-time job, they have to do all this physical training to be able to do the thunderstruck dance, and then there's all the different specialty things that you guys do that's kind of like saying, oh, a football player in the NFL doesn't deserve a full-time salary because they're not working full-time, and it's like, what about all the stuff they do off the field? You know? - Right. - Like, they only work on Sundays. - Yeah, exactly. - And I'm like, no, they're. - But they're training, yeah. - You need to pay people what they're worth, and when you have this, you know, multi-billion dollar franchise, the Dallas Cowboys, I think it's silly that in the past, the cheerleaders weren't paid enough to pay their bills, people had to get additional jobs. So I'm stoked you saw a pancreas. I'm curious though, what's your take on this, do you? You're kind of quiet there for a little bit. - I have a lot of different takes, but I'm gonna respectfully declare it, yeah, sure. - You're kind of pleased about it. - I am the biggest Reese fan, and that's all that matters. - It was a big topic of season two was the pay. If there was ever like a time where you felt like you had to pick a side, like amongst the team, like, do I join these efforts, or do I just like stay quiet? Or was it just easier to not feel like you had to be in the middle 'cause you were only like in your second, or second year at that point? - Yeah, so I felt more of that middle area, but also we had so much support that it was like, we can do this, I mean, so many new eyes, and we brought a whole different audience to our team and our program into the Dallas Cowboys in general after the show came out, and I was like, if there's a time to do this, it's now, and I think that that was really encouraging, and I really wanted to be a part of history being made, and then also too, I mean, I was living it out. I mean, I was experiencing these things, and I was like, you know what? It would be nice to be a part of something that's gonna change not only my trajectory, I guess financially, but also to support my teammates in that way, and the women that have come before us, and the women that are gonna come after us. But I did feel like, I couldn't say much 'cause I wasn't in my tenure as much as other girls, but I had just finished my rookie season. So it was also like, well, I'm still in Cloud 10, and I am still to this day. But it was like, I was still in this middle situation, so I wanted to respect the leaders that were really putting a lot on the line of going into those meetings and talking about these issues, whereas I also still wanted to respect, I am only a second year. I just started my second season. I just finished my rookie season. So I thought I was kind of like, in the middle, I wanted to respect both sides and be kind of like the middle man. - Yeah, I remain neutral. - I remain neutral. I am ready for anything. I'm going this side. - I'm going this side. - You're like, I'm suddenly expecting an increase, and I will cheer you on. - Yes, yes, that's kind of like how I was. And I would say like our class too was the same way. We were just like, we'll go with anything, just let us know what we need to do, but also like, we did just finish our rookie season. - Yeah, yeah. - What do people get wrong about the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders? - Maybe this is a little bit more like, I have a personal standpoint, but I would say that from what I have learned out of this experience with the exposure of what our team has experienced over the past two years with the show being out. People, and this might just be generally across the board, but people have so many assumptions about who you are, like your beliefs, your morals. Like if you believe in this, then you probably X, Y, and Z believe in these things. And it's like, you don't really know all the sides to the story, and I think that I've seen that, with being more in the public eye, people getting into your DMs, and sending more negativity and hateful comments, it's like all this is assumptions, and you're just assuming that I am this because I believe this, or because I do this, or because I say this. And I think our whole team is experiencing that, and I think that's actually a really heavy topic, and that we have had to go through this season with the exposure. Obviously more eyes, more people, more opinions, how we navigate what the outsiders say. Obviously, we want to respect people's opinions because they have the right to them, but also we are human beings that have standards, morals, like all these things, but you also don't know all sides to the story. And so I think that's something that, is probably a misconception amongst our team, and something that I have personally experienced this year. - Like are you saying, almost putting you in a box as far as like religious beliefs, or like political beliefs, or just like where people kind of see a little snippet of you online or in the show, and then they think they know who you are and everything about you. - I would say like across the board, like anything, every angle, any, I mean, it could be as minor as like a, I love to do florals. And so like doing like, I do like this little series called Floral Fridays that I post, and it could be as simple as that, where like someone comes in and it's like, well, she just only does this thing because of X, Y, and Z, of like her political standpoint, her religious beliefs, or what she said. And it's like, that's really not the case. Like, I don't know, it's just like silly things like that. And I don't let those things affect me, but I do think that some come out of very strong side, and they do kind of pierce right through us. And then, you know, it's kind of like a rabbit hole effect. Everything just kind of leads to one thing. - How could someone send a negative DM to you guys? I don't understand that. - I don't know, on the Floral Fridays. - Yeah, on the Floral Fridays, come on. - Floral Fridays, guys, it's just flowers. - Just flowers, just flowers. - Hey, if you're sending a negative DM to Will or Reese, you got to rethink your life, okay? You're picking on the wrong people, all right? - That's funny. I'm curious, there's not a lot of, are there, well, I guess I'll ask you this, Are there a lot of teammates that are married? of them. Oh there are. I would say like either serious relationships engaged. We have a lot of girls that are engaged. We're like a handful that are married. So I feel like maybe in general we have a lot of girls that are in relationships and have spouses. But then we also have a lot of girls that are single. So helping some girls out there. We have very high standards though which are set in place for a reason on purpose for a purpose. So um yeah it's a picture of both I would say. Okay status. It must be fun. Like having a group of girls like everyone can kind of like look you can look to your single friends and be like oh this is like a really special thing about your stage of life you're in right now that you don't even realize is like unique or special. And they can look up to you and be like man like that season of life looks so fun. Yeah and but do you find that being married with a bunch of girls in the team not being married that it causes like it makes it hard on your friendships with them. Sometimes um you know there's times where like some girls might want to like do this and I'm like well I haven't seen Will a lot like I want to be intentional with us and like in our kind of just like moral code it comes faith and then marriage and like that tops anything else. And so I feel like when it comes time to like oh well I have this week and free I want to spend it with Will and be intentional and like growing and strengthening our marriage. And so I do think that sometimes like there comes times where I'm like ugh this is hard like I have to balance but I also want to be an intentional friend and like show up for my friends. So it's just balancing like you know oh if there's like a birthday like we're going to go and celebrate that girl's birthday and like usually they open it up for boy friends and fiancees and husbands to come. So I think it's like I don't know sometimes I feel that pressure I probably put it on myself but um yeah we're also also busy so I think everyone understands like our side. I will say if there is like a relationship like that like or like a couple that wants to hang out or more apt to hang out with like them and like a group date rather than like your like reach just going out with someone. Group days are so fun. Isn't it fun having like married couple friends when you're married and you can just chill. I love that. Talk about marriage. Yeah and then you're like wait you guys fight about the toothpaste too. It's like oh my gosh. What are we fighting about toothpaste. We've never fought about toothpaste. But it just kind of like it just puts things into perspective and you're like ah like we're all humans. Yeah and we're not alone. That's the thing. Well talk to me about what it's like to be the husband of a DCC. DC what do I want to say? Of a DCC. You guys? Yeah. What is it like? That's it. What does it like? We say it again. We question leave. You ask the question. You're like laughing. You say it again. Well what's it like being a husband of a DCC? It's really cool. It's so good like so cool to be able to like go and support her and like see her dream come to fruition and then do it every Sunday or Thursday or Monday. Let me cry. I'm so sweet. I'm crying. It's okay. It's okay. But like she's been working for this since she was like three years old. She didn't know that this was the goal that she was pushing for. But when she started dance and like we came out to Dallas in 2020 when Alabama played Notre Dame and she walked into Jerry World and she was like I'm going to try out for the Dallas Cowboys and like I was like okay let's do it and like we weren't engaged or anything. We were just dating at that time and as we kept dating and got engaged like the dream became reality and it was just really really cool because it was her dream for such a long time and then like seeing it and not just seeing it but being in the middle of it and like seeing the good and the bad about it because I mean everybody's going to have dreams and like there's good parts to the dream and there's also probably some bad parts to the dream too. Struggle is responsibility sacrifice is all those things. Like and most people just see like the Instagram side of the dream. But seeing the background and like actually the like the push that they have to they have to make and the struggles that go with it and like the anxiety and fears that come with it too. Like we said earlier she came to Dallas to be a DCC she didn't come to be a Netflix star yeah it just came with it and that fear and anxiety just like like surrounded the whole dream man and like we've been working through it and it's been it's been really cool to push through it. I'm curious how you and Chris you've said yourself you struggle with people pleasing and I'm sure that combined with a lot of people looking at you in your life and your decisions. I'm curious about how you encourage her in those moments like what has worked for us. I've kind of learned how to ask the right questions. We've been whenever like we can tell that like things might be like bottling up we go on walks and just talk and like leave our phones and just talk and that's the like we unplug from everything like she might be like oh this was really really hard this week but really it's something much deeper and like I've been able to kind of navigate in how to ask her the right questions. What's an example of a question that you might ask to like figure out the route or figure out like how you can best show up for your wife. It might be a week where she has like three or four things that she's got a post content with us and then she's got practice every single night and then something that she just got booked on for DCC and I'm not be like are you feeling spread too thin are you just tired and then like maybe it's like she was booked on something for New York and she feels guilty because it's another opportunity for her that someone else didn't get the opportunity for. Because she is in like like you said like she's very humble she's never going to say it like she's the face of DCC in her eyes as well so she is going to get pulled in many many different directions for DCC and being a third year a fifth year might not get the same opportunities and they've been here long and she feels that guilt deep down and being able to ask the questions around the surface level things of just like being spread too thin and don't have time for this this week that's the route of it which is feeling guilty and like I don't want to like just talk about like your guilt and anxiety or anything like that but like that's just like one example. Yeah like trying to ask I guess really like the right questions or like trying to ask multiple questions and so we get to like the route of it yeah. I think that's great I think sometimes like husbands from talking to like our other friends that are married to like husbands tendencies seem to seem to be like the fixer like they have what's that like sketch that they have like the wife I don't like this sketch I will say. Yeah one of our like face women just look dumb but like a wife has a nail in her head and she's like I just have this like headache and I think it's because of the nail in your head she's like why do you never let me just I'm talking about how I feel and like the husband just wants to fix it. There is a nail in your forehead and it's dumb it's a dumb picture but I do think it grows on a thing that happens across a lot of marriages where husbands so like love the idea of a simple fix like a quick like like just patch up the surface level of this and just like find that that's a solution now we can just move on whereas like there usually is like you're saying a deeper rooted yeah issue going on like maybe even all the way like to the heart level like that's that's just brewing and so I think it's true that you're like being intentional about like okay no even though my tendency may feel like to just want to you know put a bandaid on like let's carry on like to just ask more questions and to just really just giving her a space that's safe to talk about it okay other question people are wanting to know are you guys planning on staying in Texas long term is this your forever home that's a good question our forever home I think it's going to be Alabama oh yeah go back to Alabama one day so yeah but you're not even from Alabama originally right no I just like fell in love with one like our college town like and I know that sounds so so like because I feel like a lot of families like don't go back to their college town and like no I love our college town yeah but it's so special and you know like I said like his family is there it's a lot closer for my family to drive and also like our mentors are there like a church home there's just like so much community that's already built there and like yeah we do love Dallas like there's still so much to do out here which is great but I think what we've really messaged is that like atmosphere of just community is there land around there too there is so I think like that's another thing is like I think like our lives will look the same but we can go home to like a place that's different like peaceful and quiet like it would be like like out here there's such like a lifestyle creep that - Everybody is like- - People are fancy and Dallas. - I will say. - I will say. - I'm not that lazy, I'm just lazy. And I hate that we've even like in some ways fallen into that. Like, I don't know, like when we used to live in Hawaii, people, I would go to the grocery store with no shirt on and my swim trunks were in flip flops. - That's so cool. - Like, I love that. - Like, that is, I hate that it has to wear a shirt now. - Yeah, and now I have to wear a shirt to the grocery store. Can you believe that? Like, how are you? - No, but I get what you're saying. (laughing) I definitely get what you're saying. - So yeah, sorry, interrupted. But it sounds like there's some keeping up with the Jones isn't Dallas and in Alabama, you don't feel in as much. - Yeah, it's like very, very materialistic out here. And like, we want land and animals, which I guess land is part of like - That's prancing. - Being materialistic. - That is, it is. - But it's also something like, you can like- - It would be generational too. - Yeah. - I think what's so special will actually propose to me on his grandfather's land. And I think it'd be so fun to like plant like hydrangeas there or like something and like have like, you know, generational, like something where like if our kids, like if we have a son and wants to like propose in the same area he did like to us, like I don't know, I'd just be really cool to like keep that and just make it like, I'm just something that we can work on and invest in and all that. - Are you a big, are you big in the hydrangeas? - I love hydrangeas, I just love flowers in general but we'll propose with hydrangeas around- - And then she loved hydrangeas and then my grandmother also loved hydrangeas? - They also do really well in Alabama, so I'm like, - No way. - So sweet, I want to be this week grandmother that has like hydrangeas everywhere. - That was my great grandpa's farm in Illinois. Like we go out and visit and my mom's a huge fan of them because of like my grandpa would plant them everywhere. What color, what color, where do you use blue? - Blue, blue, blue. - That's, they were blue, oh my God, 'cause they, don't they, don't they like take up the color based off of the base of the soil? 'Cause they were like right next to this super old shed that my uncle wanted to like tear down. My grandpa was like, absolutely not like this shed just bit in the family. And like, I don't know if it was like the stuff coming off the shed, but they were like, bright blue hydrangeas. - We had to keep them for the hydrangeas. - They're cool flowers aren't they? - They are, they are. - Okay, we talked about a lot today, but I know, I feel like the question everyone's dying to know is, is there gonna be a season three? I feel like you can't even answer that, so I don't even know why I'm asking it, but like, what do we know about that? - No, it's already public knowledge out of there. There will be a season three, yeah. But actually, I will say that they, when did they-- - They announced it right around, in August, right around-- - Wow. - But it was like, one little video, so-- - Yeah, yeah. - A lot of people asked that question. No, a lot of people asked that question, but I'm like, well, it's already out, but I don't know how much, like we've talked about it. - You heard it right here, exclusive on the Slame hot cat. Season three of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is coming back. By the way, what's the official title of this show, 'cause I keep calling it Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, is it America's Sweet Hearts? - It's America's Sweet Hearts, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. - That's the like, the full name. - The full thing. - What's, is there like a shortened version that people will say? - Probably just like America's Sweet Hearts. - America's Sweet Hearts, okay. - Do you intend to go many more years on the team? - I really don't know the answer to that question, 'cause I feel like every day is like always new, there's always so much, and also we are such, like we are so busy right now. So like, I mean, I would love to go as long as I can, but also like, it is just so, so busy. So I really just like don't know the answer to that right now. I'm just like trying to be present and enjoy every single second like that I can because it does go by so fast. - Because earlier in the conversation, we talked about like traditions. - Yeah. - And like, she's working on Thanksgiving. Last year she was working right around Christmas. Like we just can't, like, it's hard to make the traditions when you don't know what's gonna be going on. So it's like, they sacrifice a lot, like to be able to do this in the time that they do. So it depends on what decision she wants to do. I think that's also like why it's probably to take a year and it's such a, it's evolving so rapidly even since your first season's like, well, you don't know what it's gonna look like a couple of years from now. And a year it also was a long time at this age. Like, in about two years ago, I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm completely different person. Like I think about things differently. - We did a podcast earlier today when we, and a question we forgot to ask, the couple that we, we- - Is it what we're gonna end on really? - Yeah, we're gonna end on this. - Press it too sweet. - Press it in Brianna. Go check that episode out if you guys haven't seen it yet. - But, do you guys fart in front of each other? Is that something that you have? - Oh, we were talking about that, yeah, absolutely. - We were, what was that? There was something wrong. - We were driving back from Alabama Sunday, and we had Deloni's questions for humans. - Oh, thank you. - On a scale of like one to ten. - I can't remember the question. - Or something like that. - On a scale of not comfortable or like extremely comfortable. - How comfortable are you to fart in front of? - I feel like, you're like, extremely comfortable. - Yes, you're comfortable. - Yeah. - Okay, number two, is that something that you do in private, or is that like okay to, in front of each other? - Oh no, I don't do it in public. I try not to. - No, no, no, no, no, no, wait, what were we talking about? - No, it's front of your stuff. - It's front of us. - Like if you're in the bathroom together and you're getting ready, like will you just, will you go number two, like by your spouse, do you have to close the door? - Oh, so it was a sore subject. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's sore. - Not so easy to say. - I'm so sorry. - Close to it. - But last year when you all interviewed us at the, or interviewed her at our apartment, like there was one toilet. And, oh my gosh. - Like she was in there getting ready for practice. And I couldn't afford it. - Somebody said, I'm so sorry. (laughing) - I gotta get another mirror. - Yeah, get another mirror. - Yeah. - Right, that's so funny, 'cause maybe that's like a year-threasing. - Yeah, no, no. - Or maybe once you've kids together, you're like, there's certainly nothing to hide around. But I swear, I love a little privacy, but I swear every time I have to go number two, Matt has something he has to say. And it's just like, right there. I'm like, you know what, we don't have to get used to this. We don't have to live like this. - Popping each other's pimples. Is that something that you guys partake in? - No. - She's never done that. Abby is a huge fan of that. And it's weird. - I'm sorry, you don't really. - I try to get her to stop. Okay, I'm a huge fan of like popping her back. Like, I like pick her up. - And like, crack her back. - Oh, my bad. - That's one thing. - Okay, I feel like I'm a coward. - And not to be, not to be TMI. - I agree, it's gross, and I can't look at it every, like, I'm like-- - I swear every time she goes to pop my pimples, it's like, we're about to do stuff that only married couples do. I guess other people, I guess I'm married people do it too. But like, we're about to freaking get it on. It's like, can I pop it? - I'm really close to you. - I'm really close to you and on my face for this. - And a lot of things are made aware to me of them. (laughing) That's TMI. - She's like, you have a black head in between your eyebrows and I'm like, great, can we just leave it? (laughing) - No, no popping pimples here. I'm like, ugh. Okay, well, at least you have some boundaries. - Yeah, well, hey, I'm glad that you guys at least farted for me to show it. That's awesome. Good for you guys. - It's human, right? - Yeah. - Anything else that we have to, we've talked for so long. - Yeah, oh my heck. - Anything that you're dying for the world to know. - We are expecting-- - What? - What are we-- - This episode would be really great. - Yes, this is gonna be amazing. - I was gonna just say, this is probably more of the sentimental side, but we are just human beings trying to figure it out, and life is always throwing something at us, but I think what's so special is we could go into so many outlets. My brain is like, okay, stick to one reason. Truly, I'm so grateful to have my biggest cheerleader, no pun intended, but just to find someone that truly is for you and is gonna support you no matter what, like the ups and downs. Like, I'm so grateful for that, and I know everybody deserves like to have like your cheerleader too. So, so grateful for that, but also to like, we're two human beings just trying to figure it out, and we're gonna fail a lot, but I think what's so special is we have like our teamwork and our partnership. - I love that. - America's favorite cheerleader and her cheerleader. - Yes! - The biggest cheerleader. - That's good. - Together. Well, thanks guys so much for being here, and this was really special. I was looking forward to this conversation a lot, so I appreciate you taking the time. - Guys, go follow Reese and Will on Instagram, TikTok, all the socials, hopefully next time we have you on, you'll be at two million. We'll see. - Well, I don't know about that. We'll see, Sam comfortable right where we're at. Yeah, we good.