Nikki: So many things could go wrong, but I'm so happy that I get to do this with you. I think this is super exciting. We've discussed this multiple times. We've been told to do this so many times. And I think that regardless of what happens, we can roll with it. Roll with the punches, you know? Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I agree. It's definitely, you know, the sentiments are definitely shared. It's we can talk until the cows come home about a variety of different things. It's honestly refreshing to have met someone that matches not necessarily like matches my interests, but ex also expands them. I think that that right there is is grounds for a great friendship. yeah. Nikki: Exactly. I'm so excited to do this journey with you, Danny. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: thank you. I ag I agree. It's it's gonna be nice to do it with you also. Nikki: And I would love for, you know, the listeners to learn a little bit about you. I know so much about you already, so I think it's only fair that they get to have a little sneak peek of who you are and your backstory Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Okay. Nikki: of whatever obviously you're comfortable sharing, of course. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah, of course. listen, I'm an open book and and folks will will come to realize that very fast. but for those that are just meeting me for the first time, my name's Danny. I am British by birth, American Nikki: Mm-hmm. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: by accent. I moved to the States about ten years ago and I spent some time in Florida, locate relo sorry, relocated to Boston. about four years ago and I've been here ever since. I typically in my spare time love to I feel like I'm doing like a like an infomercial for Love Island. Like this is what I like to do in my spare time. But no I exactly world peace but exactly. Nikki: Long walks on the beach Mamosas a little Shirley Temple occasionally Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: No, but I yeah I I in my spare time I love to bake. I love to cook. Nikki: Martha Stewart. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I I p you know, if the shoe fits. But no, I I love to spend time in the kitchen when I'm not gaming. But I honestly I think my two great passions right now are my gaming and baking. If I'm not if I'm not in one room, I'm in the other. Nikki: Yes, I'm I always get so jealous every time you're like, I made this I'm like, little Shafid. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Girl, and sometimes sometimes it ne sometimes it never works out. It's you know, there's I made a tarima sou like two weeks ago and I forgot to put sugar in the cream. So it was basically espresso sponge cake with no sweetness. It was awful. I threw like an it's Nikki: Ooh delicious. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: so like I don't know if you've ever made tourimas sou, but you have to well, you typically put mascapone cheese in it. That stuff is expensive. It's like $15 a box. Nikki: my gosh. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. And it's just it's basically like cream cheese. But Nikki: That's crazy. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: yeah, that's that's me. That's me, honestly, in a nutshell. I I come from a big family back home in England, but I'm the only one on this side of the pond, and I refuse to I've refused to go back. This is definitely my home away from homes, but You know, there there's definitely some of my heart is still in England, for sure. Nikki: Of course. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: What about you, friend? Tell us a bit tell us some more about you. Nikki: Okay, let's see. I'm Nikki, born and raised in Michigan. I've been here my whole life. I am married to my wonderful wife Sarah. We are gonna be celebrating seven years next month. I like gaming, big huge passion of mine. I love music and I'm very family oriented. I come from a big family, lots of nieces, nephews, siblings. So, you know, I have a big family and I always love spending time with them and my free time and stuff like that. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: That's awesome. I love that you come from a big family as well. It's it's definitely a shared a shared love, that's for sure. Nikki: Yes, except I'm the baby, so you know. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I'll meet it. No way. I'm only just learning this about you. I'm I'm the baby too. Yeah. through Nikki: really? Yeah, but you're like the baby by like what a minute. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Wow, wow, ow. Nikki: you're y're not the baby, are you? You just gaslit me. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, listen, it's actually six minutes. I'm the youngest out of a set of twins. So, you know, I I'm still the baby. I might be a big baby, you know, a th what is it, a three hundred month-old baby, but Nikki: No. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I'm still the baby, okay. Nikki: I didn't even know there was that big of a time difference between you and your brother. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah, yeah, it's I guess I didn't wanna come out and well, that's the iron irony of that is crazy. Nikki: Took you a long time to do that still. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Mm-hmm. Girl. Nikki: Yeah, I'm see I'm the baby by five years. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Mm-hmm. Nikki: So my sister was like, you bitch when I came around Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: my gosh. Nikki: because she had the baby for so long. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: But I took it over and I wear the title. Hey Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Hey. I I love that and I like I love that you're you're super close with your mom too. That's Nikki: I'm such a mama's girl. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: yeah. It's so like I feel like there are definitely Mamas girls out there, but I don't know, like just like hearing about your dynamic with your mom is it's definitely heartwarming for sure. Nikki: Yeah, I'm sure sometimes it's hard for you though, like with the homesick, you know? 'Cause I know you were Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. I mean for s for sure. Nikki: super close to your mom also. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: yeah, yeah. Thick as thieves the two of us, but it's honestly I d if I didn't make the move, I don't think I would be in the right frame of mind. It's my so my family live all together. Well that no, they're not in a cold or anything or a compound. Nikki: Yeah. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Whoa. I I just realized what I said. But they they all live in, I wanna say Two to three minute walking distance from one another. That that is too much Nikki: wow. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: family. Yes. Like when I even even when I moved out for the first time, I moved into a di I moved into the city next door. Because I literally I was like, get Nikki: You said I look, I love you, but from a distance. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: me into different postal code. Like, no. and then even even after that, a after that lease was up, I you moved even further. Because I was like, I need some separation, and then look at me now. I I took it Nikki: I think you took yeah, like you can't get any farther. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: to an extreme of yeah. No, exactly. Well, there's always Australia, but you know. Nikki: I was gonna say isn't that like a yeah that's that who knows, that could be your next plan. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: hell no. Snakes, spiders? Nikki: Scary pig animals. my gosh. That's Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: But I mean Australian men. Anyway, we're I'm getting sidetracked. I do apologize. Nikki: what this is all about is us being a little sidetracky. We'll We'll Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I love that. Nikki: always try to get back on topic, we promise. But Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yes. Nikki: we can't promise it won't be like a roller coaster getting there. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Exactly. You know, sometimes it's Nikki: Yeah. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: a short path to getting back on track and sometimes it's the yellow brick road. You never know. Nikki: Yeah, 'cause you know, we talk about one thing that can lead to another and another and another and then we're like, shit, what were we talking about? But we'll try to Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yes. I think Nikki: remember. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: that's I think though, I think that makes us the best people s specifically for this podcast though. Because yes, it's got a structure to it, but at the same time it's so it's basically two friends exp pardon this expression, but two friends shooting the shit. That's all it is. And we Nikki: Exactly. Yes. With a ton of shared interest. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Exactly. Well, and that's the thing. There there are so many shared interests. It is expansive. Nikki: Yeah, and we're hoping to obviously share the interest with the people who are gonna be listening because, you know, we have a wide variety. Then hopefully we share those interests with you guys too. So should we tell them how we met in our first impressions of each other? Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: after you Nikki: Okay. So for anybody who doesn't know Danny, he is a Twitch streamer. And he was playing Warzone. And my wife and I were looking for more people to game with. So she went on there, she was searching, she found him, and she was like, this guy's really funny. You should check out his stream. And I was like, Okay. So I went in there. I didn't talk. I was just watching, observing, watching him play. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Little stalker. Nikki: Yes. Then she started talking to him. He invited us to play and she's like, Will you come play? Absolutely not. Nope. No, thank you. I don't want new friends. I'm okay. And and here Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Ha ha ha. Nikki: we are. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. That was a destined Nikki: Here we are. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: memory. A year. Nikki: yeah, it's been a year. It's crazy. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Wow. Nikki: Over a year now, yeah. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: You know, in s in some countries I I would have got less for murder. Nikki: That's crazy. That's crazy. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. But no, I I I gone kind of back to you know, inviting you both to to game. I Okay, so promise you'll love me after this, okay? No, my honestly, Nikki: I yeah, yeah, I'll love you still. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I I had a greater impression of your wife Sarah, and I th the only reason I say that I'm not saying the w yours wasn't great, but more so the introduction with Sarah was more detailed I guess and then I kind of got to know you after and Nikki: Yeah. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: then I was like my god that is Danny but as a female and I was like I was just Nikki: a hundred percent like crazy. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: uncanny yeah and it's I think anybody that you know going back to you know coming from England anybody that can match another person's banter that right there is the foundation of a great friendship Nikki: I think so too. Like I'm so introverted when I first meet anybody for the first time. Like I'm very quiet and it takes a while for like my true like sense of humor and my voice to come out. So Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: it was weird for the first couple days of knowing you and Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: then boom I'm on and I'm like we're the same person. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: Same person, different fonts. Like we are Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: That's for sure. Nikki: we are so similar. It's crazy. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: To like the point where w we say the same thing at the same time constantly, finish each other's sentences, like we can just joke around, we and we've I only went a couple days this like whole friendship without talking, which I love. Because we've never met in person. We will. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. No. Nikki: We're you know, we're planning a trip to see you. So I can't wait to see the dynamic in person too. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I honestly I don't think it's gonna change. I I know some people go from like virtual friendship to like IRL friendship, but you know, going back to you and e well, my connection with you as well as Sarah, you you know, I I don't look at you as just friends. Like they're you know, you're people that I've confined in from time to time. You know, you're people that you're my people. That's that's how I feel, it's like family. Nikki: Yes, a hundred percent. I feel like this is so much deeper than just an online gaming friend. Like I think we have like a true connection. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: And I I like I said I can't wait to meet you in person and terrorize a town with our personalities. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Nope. Nope. No pressure. Okay, friend, I have a I have a couple of questions for you. Well, Nikki: no. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I you know, they're th they're designed to to let people know more about you. I I think you know, it's one thing of us being able to describe who we are, what we do, but I I really want people to get a sense of our personality. So these are definitely personality questions. Nikki: I love that. Okay. I'm nervous, but I love it. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: You're gonna be absolutely fine. So, my first question What is something you've done that deserves a respectfully what the fuck? Nikki: Cool. I feel like I've done so much in my life that deserves that. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Just be careful. Statute of limitations is not completely up. I joke, I joke. Nikki: I was a terrorizer for a teenager. So I think my whole teenage hood could be like respectfully what the fuck. from 13 Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Okay, it's such Nikki: to 20. I was Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Damn. Nikki: I was something. I was something. I you know. so I would say my whole like teenage hood probably deserves that. And I think just you know, you just all those hormones, you it's it's just it does it's crazy. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: It is. I'm listen, I don't have as many hormones as you had. But I I ha I have an older sister and seeing her as a teenager, I mean granted I was a younger kid at the time, but she was unruly. I have no idea how my mom even like she raised what four kids and well, three kids and an animal. Nikki: Are you the animal? okay. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: No, that's my sister. In this context. In this context. Nikki: I don't yes I question how my mom did it too 'cause her oldest well my oldest sibling is is my brother, and then she had four girls. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: wow. Nikki: So how she remained sane going through teenage stage four separate times. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Or any of you like really close in age, because it's almost like Nikki: Yes, every all my four older ones are close and then I think I was the oopsie that came five years later. Yeah. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: gosh. You were the b they listen, there's that saying they always save the best to last. Nikki: So I told my mom, I said, You finally got and you stopped. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Ex yeah, exa exactly. She was like, you know what? I cooked with this one. Yep. Nikki: Yeah, this one's it. This one even though she thought I was a boy till like damn near the day I was born, she she nailed it. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I love that. That's that's phenomenal. Okay. Are you ready for my next one? Nikki: Yeah. Well I w I wanna know it's your w what the fuck moment is. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: gosh. Okay. Let's think. What's the what's where what? So when I've really been like respectfully what the fuck? Nikki: Was it when you went to Benedorm? 'Cause I feel like that deserves one. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: my god. I didn't even think about Venadorm. But the fact that you just brought it up. That is so that is such a great topic. Because honestly, as a teenager, I mean, I was I'll say I was confused as hell. I I thought I knew who I was, then I didn't because I was a completely different person. But then I just remember going to Benadorm on a family vacation and Nikki: Family vacation is so crazy. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Just I just it's such a bizarre concept. And I just r remember my brother, so I my older brother at the time. Well, he's still alive. let me just point that out. Sorry about that. yeah, no, he he wanted to go and see this performer at a local bar, and it was like so a lot of people Nikki: Name dropper. Name dropper so they can Google it. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: A lot of people, if you don't already know who this person is, just know that it's a family business and if you don't get one, you'll get another in one generation, but their stage name is Sticky Vicky. my god. I just just let just let that mole over. Like sticky Vicky. What what kind of performer could this be? Yeah, yeah. You you guessed it, yeah. so this performer is known for inserting objects into Nikki: I feel like that's let the let them have the imagination or Google it, you know? Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: That's I like that. I like yeah, because honestly I'm not in the I don't want to be in the business of of dishing out drama. just No, Nikki: Yeah, I was gonna say you can't traumatize them episode one. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: no, but honestly if if you're in Benadorm and and you see this performer there, it's it's something, that's for sure. But honestly, I that I think that in especially my teenager years, I that was definitely the moment where I like, respectfully, what the fuck? I was just so bewildered. I I even remember they had vodka Red Bulls. Okay, vodka Red Bulls, $2.50. And it was a buy one, get one. When I tell Nikki: It seems expensive. never mind. Okay. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: you the measurement of vodka, they like Europe has it down. They have it down. I thought the Brits know how to drink. No. Europe has it's ten times over. but I just remember granted I was a teenager, fake ID in Spain, but we don't go there. Nikki: Let's go. We love that for you, you little criminal. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. And I you know, my my two brothers were more interested in the girls and I was interested in the drinks. That was that was it was a time. But honestly I got a great tan. I clearly made some memories that I thought I'd suppressed. But Nikki: You're welcome. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: yeah, thank you so much for that. All right, my okay, my next question. What is your biggest hear me out? Nikki: my gosh. So I'm not gonna get super controversial in our first episode, so Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Okay. Nikki: well you disagree with this, so Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Okay. Nikki: my biggest hear me out is Bailey Sarian because I know you disagree with it fullheartedly. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Okay, I do, but one thing I will say, she is extremely pretty, without a doubt. I just have my reason. Nikki: You just roasted me the other day about it. So that's gonna Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: be my non controversial Hear Me Out because I love Mason Bailey Sarian. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Okay. Okay. I mean, it's great content creator for sure. Nikki: What is your hear me out? Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: god. You're gonna judge me so hard. Nikki: probably. I love judging you. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Okay, do you wanna know like what my like kind of first hear me out was? Okay, Nikki: Yes. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: because I think that's like the biggest. Remember the power buff girls? Nikki: It please don't tell me it's Mojo Jojo. Okay. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's the it's the father. Nikki: my gosh. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I don't know what it is. Okay. I just r remember watching Powerpuff Girls and being like, okay, Blossom's Q. And the other two, I can't remember their names because they're Yep. Mm-hmm. Nikki: Buttercup and my gosh Plus There's not a yellow one, it's green Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: What is her name? Is it the yellow one? Nikki: green, red and blue. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Blossom buttercup. Let's call her Lily. it's not her name. But yeah. I just remember like watching them and just being like and then I saw the like the father and I was just like, that's like he knows how to look after like three kids like that. That is a man. Nikki: Bubbles. Her name's Bubbles. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Well, we were we were so far off. We would have never got that. Nikki: Nope. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: God, they'd that'd be like nineteen episodes in and we'd be sat here be like, we're still thinking of the name. Nikki: Yeah, just drop it in episode nineteen. my gosh, her name was Bubbles Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah, exactly. The episode title this week is Bubbles, and we're not just chatting them. Okay. Nikki: To be fair, growing up as a very young, confused child, Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: my hear me out was Bar Simpson. So I can't judge you too hard. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Okay, okay, that's I s I see, I see. Do you d this is so random, it just popped into my brain though. But do you know the voice of Bart Simpson is a woman? Nikki: Yeah, that's he that's probably why I I c was confused as a child. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I d I think that's it. But it's so crazy because like just listening, you would like I Nikki: Yeah. It's Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: personally didn't think, that's female. I just thought it was, you know, somebody that smoked 40 a day. Anyway. Nikki: Ha ha Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Okay, next question. This is the final question. Nikki: Wait, so wait, you wait, you what was your second hear me out? 'Cause that was your original one you said. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah, that was my that was my earliest. Nikki: what about now? What's your current hear me out? Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: that's like Barack Obama. Nikki: that's not a hear me out. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: No, I see, I that's what I thought. And that's that's why I pivoted from the f like that was gonna be my first option, but I don't know. Listen, a man Nikki: Even as a even as a Lodala bean. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: A man that believes that human rights apply to every human, that's attractive as shit. I'm just gonna say it. Like Nikki: Yeah, Barack is handsome. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: he is like an a Michelle. my god. Gorgeous. Nikki: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Like that power couple, absolute power couple. Love them. Nikki: Yes. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Okay. My next question for you, and I guess my final question is if you could name something that you wish you learned earlier in life, what would that be? Nikki: Ooh. I think I would have loved to learn more languages. I know I can still do it, but as a child to let every child knew that I could understand them. I think that would have been so exciting. learning Spanish or ASL Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: and letting other kids know like, hey, you're not alone, I can talk to you or I can sign to you. I think it would have been so cool. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: Because there is You know, we're a melting pot and for people to feel included would have been so nice. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. That's that's really I think that's testament to to you though. There's not many people that would go out of their way to to learn another language. Especially when they feel like, you know, there's only one language. But we won't get into that. I Yeah. Nikki: Not not on this episode at least. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I see what you did there. I see what you did. I love that. No, that's a great response. And, you know, touching upon what you said as well, there are there are kids out there that Sometimes they just need somebody to talk to. I honestly Nikki: Mm-hmm. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: like child like childhood in its in itself is hard enough. And Nikki: Yes. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: to have to do that with a language barrier, I c I can't even imagine what that must be like. Nikki: Yeah, I mean I could yeah, like at least you know you could have had friends you could have been friends with so many different people and included them all. If I w Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: like I could have got to learn those other languages. I wish it was something that was more taught at Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: like like ASL especially, 'cause like I feel like Spanish is in most American schools. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: I would have loved for there to be other languages also. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. I I definitely feel like they have to expand what language really means because touching upon what you said earlier, ASL. Honestly, why is that not a univ that why is that not taught universally? That's it's like it's ba it's English. It's English but in Nikki: Mm-hmm. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: a format that is adapted to for people to be able you know, it's an accessible language. Nikki: Yeah. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Wild. Nikki: Yeah, I think that when I was in high school, like they offered French, but that was nothing I was ever Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: intrigued on really taking. But ASL Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: You don't wanna you don't wanna get involved in your French roots? Nikki: No, my French teacher, shout out to her, was a real bitch. she she I forgot your name. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: nice. Shout out to her. Nikki: she was also my English teacher. And she Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: wow. Nikki: was something else, that woman. She would smell your water bottles to make sure it was water, not alcohol. You couldn't chew gum in her class. shout out to her. I Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: What? Nikki: wish I remembered your name, but I remember you inside. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Okay, but respectfully what the fuck? Yeah, like hello. That's Nikki: What the fuck? Yeah. Can Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: wow. Nikki: So what about you? What was something that young Danny would have loved to learn? Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Ooh, that's a tough one. And I don't want to go too emotional on this for sure. But I I think this is something that everybody needs to hear, whether they're prepared for it or not. But pretty often as a child I sought validation through people's opinions. So for me it was seeking, you know, a lot of, you know, who I am is based on who who I am is based on what people praise me for. And I think as an adult, realizing that your life is your own, you get one chance to do this, you're in the driver's seat. And you know, if you think about it as a of a train, if people don't want to be on your train, let them get off at the next stop. You're still going forward. Nikki: Mm-hmm. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: They're just not gonna be in part that part of that chapter. And I think that's one of the the the biggest things I had to learn as an ear, you know, as an early early adult in the late end of my teenage years into my twenties. And then you know, more so We're not gonna talk about how old I am, but now I, you know, it's definitely something I like to think that I weave into. There's definitely some aspects that are just rooted there and I need to address them. But there I feel like I've definitely done a good job of of showing, you know, the younger Danny that your identity is not what people say it is. It's what you make it. Nikki: Yeah. I think you're a great leader too, like obviously I didn't know young Danny, but Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: I appreciate that friend. Yeah. Nikki: just from what you're saying, I definitely can see growth from what you're saying to now. Is I Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: think it's very hard as a child though not to be a follower. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yes. Nikki: I think it's very important to instill that very young, like be a leader, do these things, you know, never Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: follow anybody, but most of us are just like, friends. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah, well, exactly. Well, and that's that's the thing. Like y if you take that risk of not doing what everybody else is, you run the the risk of going against the grain. And that is Nikki: Mm-hmm. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: if anything, that people will just tear people apart for that. Nikki: Yeah, it's hard. It's har I'm so happy Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: It is. Nikki: I'm not in school anymore. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: me too. Like honestly, that was another thing. Like, if something I could have learned earlier is enjoy your enjoy your time at school because once life takes over, life takes over, friend. 1000%. Without a doubt. Nikki: I feel like I prefer adulthood than d h school days. Even with like I don't know. I hated high school. And I feel like Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Nikki: so many people that's like their glory days. I hated high school. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Yeah. Oof. It's I you know, high school it's either it's for you or it's not. I don't think there's Nikki: Yeah. You're either in or you're out. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: exactly. it sounds like we were both out Nikki: Ye y I wasn't out, but I was out. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Girl, me either. Again, going back to that very confused teenager. Nikki: Thank you so much for those fun questions. You know, that was that was a nice little input into our brains. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: No, most most definitely, most definitely. Nikki: So I think this is a good time, you know, to start wrapping up our first one. We can go into some of the topics we will love to dive into on this podcast and conversations that we will be having. So some of the ones you guys can look forward to is we're gonna do some Reddit stories, Am I the Asshole? Just some crazy stories from on there. We're gonna touch in on gaming. Me and Danny are very big gamers, so we'll be touching on on you know, new games that are dropping or games that we're addicted to. And then we're also big true crime people. So we'll, you know, sometimes talk about the cases that are eating us up or things that are big in the media right then and we'll kind of, you know, chit-chat about it, our opinions on it and things like that. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: And for those that are interested in a little bit more of a I guess relaxed approach, we have dating and red flags. So I definitely, you know, make sure you tune in for that for the craziness that goes on in the dating world, if anybody is interested. Any absurd hypotheticals. We love to spitball different ideas against one another, and of course, all hypotheticals. Nikki: Mm-hmm. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: And I you know It's I think growing up as an as an in individual with brothers and sisters is one thing, but I will be sharing with my twin what it is like to grow up as a twin. Nikki: That one's gonna be so exciting. I'm very excited about that one. Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: And if you enjoyed today's episode, join us for much, much more on respectfully Nikki: What the fuck? Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Have a great week and until next time, friends. Stay safe. Stay sane. Nikki: And we will see you later. Bye! Danny and Nikki , Ep1 Pt2: Bye.