A Contagious Smile Podcast
"A Contagious Smile" is a transformative platform embracing special needs families and domestic violence survivors. We illuminate the journeys of extraordinary individuals who've triumphed over adversity and aspire to ignite your own inner light. Through candid stories, we showcase how they conquered challenges and emerged stronger. Our podcast features insightful interviews with experts, offering resources that empower and uplift. Let us guide you in rediscovering your inner light – because every smile narrates a tale of resilience. It's time to share your story and rekindle your spirit.
A Contagious Smile Podcast
Tragedy and Triumph: School Shooting Reflections, Protective Parenthood, and Inspiring Guest Story
https://acontagioussmile.sellfy.store/Have you ever wondered what drives the relentless surge in school shootings, and why effective measures still seem out of reach? Join us as we share our raw emotions and personal experiences with gun safety, reflecting on the tragic case of an 18-year-old Waffle House employee and the baffling assassination attempts on former President Trump. We confront these pressing issues head-on, blending serious discourse with personal reflections to shed light on a world that often feels incomprehensible.
In a more lighthearted segment, we dive into the joys and challenges of parenthood. From the quirky nickname "my little squiggly" to humorous family debates over video games like Fallout, we explore the protective instincts of a father towards his daughter, Faith. You'll laugh along with us as we recount awkward Austin Powers-inspired family moments, and the mother's comical struggle against her daughter's obsession with horror movies. This chapter showcases the warmth and complexity of our family life, where love and laughter often prevail over chaos.
Finally, we bring you the heartwarming story of Debbie, our upcoming guest, whose journey from personal tragedy to helping others is nothing short of inspiring. Plus, don’t miss our exciting Freebie Friday initiative, where you can snag some awesome downloadable gifts! We also share our plans for a couple's tattoo that symbolizes our bond, and highlight touching encounters with celebrities like Jeff Oxford and Malcolm Goodwin. Their support underscores the power of storytelling and the impact it has on all of us. Tune in for a compelling mix of serious discussion, heartfelt stories, and a sprinkle of humor.
howdy y'all. Welcome to another episode of continue to smile unstoppable with myself, michael, and lovely and awesome, awesome sauce, victoria.
Speaker 2:Hi, victoria just recently got out of the shower, so she's got a wet head and she looks amazing, oh my god, he's only doing this because I have a headache and he knows that he's just in a mess talking. That's what my husband does.
Speaker 1:No, our daughter messes with us.
Speaker 2:No, she messes with you. She messes with you. So I went and did a little digging and found out that one of our strongest, most amazing love episodes is where you and I talk about what I learned in the abuse and our marriage. So, from bad ugly to happily ever after, basically was our strongest two podcasts ever.
Speaker 1:Okay, so. So if y'all don't know what she's talking about, you have to go back and look at amongst 300 podcasts and what was the?
Speaker 2:title of it. One of them was about our soulmationship, which was a word that he came up with and talking about our relationship. And how did you come up with soulmationship?
Speaker 1:I don't really remember man anything past breakfast? I don't remember man Anything past breakfast. I don't remember, I'm old.
Speaker 2:You remember a lot of things. There are a lot of things you remember. Let's talk about all of this garbage going on in the world. There are daily school shootings, which is, I mean, it's horrifying. It's terrifying to know what is going on. Our kids are not even safe.
Speaker 1:Okay, wait, wait. Now let me ask you. We come from law enforcement background. We have one child here who just became an adult, at the age of 18. But between my wife and I we have had over 20-something guns here in the house for years and we have taught our daughter how to shoot safely, starting with a BB gun, a pellet gun, yeah, how to Plus knives and Shoot safely Throwing stars, starting with a BB gun, a pellet gun. And not once has she decided to take a firearm of ours and walk into a mall or kindergarten, whatever.
Speaker 2:Well, thank God, our kid hates the mall.
Speaker 1:She did that for me, so you know, I don't, I don't know. Do I blame the parents? Sometimes?
Speaker 2:I blame video games.
Speaker 1:We know.
Speaker 2:Well, seriously, because when we had Frogger and Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, this shit wasn't happening. You're talking 80s Fine but, we didn't have anybody going into school with guns in the 80s or the 90s.
Speaker 1:That way you recall.
Speaker 2:We didn't have school shootings every day. Do you know that since 2024, January 1, now, you have to take out winter holiday, summer break? You?
Speaker 1:know the teacher knocked my foot into the wall.
Speaker 2:We're off of school today.
Speaker 1:Did you mean Christmas?
Speaker 2:No, I'm talking about since January 1 of 2024. Okay, I mean school is out for like, oh, I hit my pinky toe, we're off school today. Like the days off are just ridiculous now. So they have winter break, they have fall break, they have spring break, they have summer All this right. So take into consideration all the days that they weren't credit right and there's already been over 225 school shootings during the calendar year of 2024.
Speaker 1:That's great. So, as I was saying, I don't you know, my wife may be different here I don't understand how we, as adults, as a government, as school, how we are still allowing this to happen. You know, part of our state lottery is supposed to go into school, education, funding, whatever. And you would think, okay, we've had one school shooting, let's nip it in the bud. And this is mandatory across all boards. Okay, whether you know the kids have to go through multiple metal detectors, whether there's multiple canine um going throughout the school, going throughout the classroom, something has to change, other than what? Whatever the hell they're not doing because evidently that's working right.
Speaker 1:Right, right. So something has to change.
Speaker 2:But then and you're forgiving me because I don't remember where it transpired but then there were two adults that worked in the school that came in with weapons they were knives last week, I mean. So this is just mind blowing, you know. And then we just heard about a Waffle House employee 18 years young I can't say 18 years old, 18 years young who was shot twice because the patron was upset that it was taking too long for his food. I mean, it makes you feel like you can't even go anywhere, right? Because then, you know, in some ways somebody kills somebody over too much mayonnaise on their bread. You know, it's like what is going on with these people that think that they can just do this and get away with it.
Speaker 2:I am not someone believe it or not. I think most people probably won't believe this. I'm not someone who really believes or follows politics very well, even though I'm very quick to vocalize about certain things, but I don't recall a standing president or a former president ever having assassination attempts once they're out of the presidency. I don't recall a former president ever having their life threatened. Oh wow, oh yeah. It's always while they're in the office, right? So now they're saying that trump's had a second attempt while he was on the golf course. Today they did um apprehend the suspect, but he was playing golf in florida and there was attack on him. He didn't get hit. But I mean, this is just insane, like they're doing everything they can to make sure he can't get back in office.
Speaker 2:Why, you know, I came up with a phrase today that I said to make sure he can't get back in office. Why I came up with a phrase today that I said to my husband. He was like wow, that's a pretty powerful thing. If people think you're lying, why do they want to silence you? If they make you out to be a liar, why are they confronting you about it? If you're telling somebody something that's absolutely not true? You know it's, it's strong.
Speaker 2:Um, nart nart has been out now a week. I yeah, that's been a big relief that it's out and a lot of people have reached out to me and told me that they've been reading it. And you know dana, who does the Nart Nart, who's there, help me. I'm gasping for air series with me who? Her book Choking on Shame just came out. I get it tomorrow. I'm so super excited because she has written Gasping for Air, which is one of my top 10 favorite books I've ever read. And she and I are like soul sisters. We were both the black sheep and we both went through all these traumatic events. And she read, uh, the book and she told me she's like, even though I know you and I know what you've been through and I read all this, seeing it black and white is 10 times more powerful to really see you.
Speaker 2:You know not, and she's like, not that anybody would ever doubt you but to like really having your hand and look and go oh my God, now I'm really looking at this is such a powerful thing. And the black sheep is the one that's picked on because they feel like they can be the one that's manipulated the most. But we're also the one who is silenced because we know the truth, but that we are made to look like everybody out there on the outside world. The narcissist tries to project us as we're crazy and we have all these. You know horrible things about us and we're just worthless. And you know, like mine used to say, I put my phone number on bathroom walls and bus stations and there's an email in there where he wrote my best friend saying that exact same verbiage to my best friend. And it's just, it's really sad. I mean, it's really, really sad that some people are so miserable and unhappy within themselves they want to make others the same.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry you had to go through that most of your life.
Speaker 2:But you can give a better insight vision of it as a man, because you have been through it yourself and you've also seen the true colors of my narcissistic numbers.
Speaker 1:But I won't, because we've already rehashed that.
Speaker 2:So the thing, is that you can, after going through literal hell for all this time, you can find your soulmationship.
Speaker 1:I absolutely love my wife. She's been through hell. She has scars. Yeah, she has mental and physical scars. Do I love her more? Yes, I do. Would I give her up? Absolutely not. Would I trade her for another uh batch of women for a billion dollars? No, I will not. I love her and her little fate, who is a pain in my butt sometimes. Call her, don't do it. I love her to death. That's your daughter. She's our little prankster.
Speaker 2:But if somebody asked you about your relationship and somebody say whomever would be listening.
Speaker 1:You know this relationship, even though we've been, let's say, married here Careful, right at four years.
Speaker 1:But we've known each other, but we've been sort of kind of together, known each other for 25 years. It's by far the you know. It supersedes everything I've been through, you know. So, yes, right, everything I've been through you know. So yes, but and I'm not just saying that because I'm now 50 over the heel, 50 the heel, um, and it's not like a last ditch effort sort of thing so I'm not a midlife crisis. No, you're not a corvette. Let's not go there. That's not good, okay, However I love that little laugh.
Speaker 2:However, if you could say something to you, know somebody who might be listening. Tell me about your relationship with Faith.
Speaker 1:Oh, that is 100%. My little squiggly. Okay, people won't know what that means If they picture a little squiggly, what's a squealie Left inside of a female. That's the one.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's so sexy.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's the one that penetrated the egg and that's what I get my little faith in there. So, yes, that's my little squealie, that's my daughter Period.
Speaker 2:And how protective of you are, you of her.
Speaker 1:Oh you're going down, son. Do you even think about touching my daughter? Yeah, there ain't a hole deep enough.
Speaker 2:That's a very strong thing. It's a very, very strong statement. Just wait and find out.
Speaker 1:That's all I'm going to say. Got to watch out for the silent ones, the quiet ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anything else you want to say on that? No I didn't think so. He's got an aura about him tonight. That's a little different. I'm still trying to figure it out. Like I got out of the bath I was in a hot bath and I get out and he's all like sexified. I was laying on the bed. Yeah, during this pose it's like, well, austin Powers kind of thing, if you hadn't seen me.
Speaker 1:I was trying that very pose. I was like God, this is so uncomfortable. You know you're laying on your side, your head propped up, and your your one knee is bent up in the air, and then your arm is resting on your hip. I'm like you know she's going to laugh her butt off when she comes out. I was like I can't do this.
Speaker 2:And he had like changed the sheets on the bed, he stripped the bed, he cleaned the bed.
Speaker 1:Because I'm not doing laundry today.
Speaker 2:Our dogs like to get up there and he put new sheets on and then he's like laid out. I open the door, I'm like what'd you do? What are you doing? Because there's never an easy answer. And then I realized you taught my daughter a video game today oh, that's right, I did and I hate it, let me tell you.
Speaker 2:Uh, so my husband decides he's gonna take one of his man's out, right, and so I go and I'm checking on my little baby and I go down there and I can't even try to explain. She's sitting there with her little legs crossed with her little knee up in the air.
Speaker 2:She does, and she's just swinging that other leg back and forth, back and forth, just swing it and because this is unfiltered like she's playing this game. You know, it's bad enough when I am with my husband at 4 am and I'm down there spending time with him and he's playing this stupid, freaking Fortnite.
Speaker 1:It's Fortnite right, no, what Mid-Eagle Dynasty, whatever, oh, you're talking about.
Speaker 2:Fallout, fallout, fallout. Okay, so it is bad enough and I'm like this thing is violent, it's just horrific and you know people can go after me for that all they want.
Speaker 1:But it is.
Speaker 2:You can't deny that it is full of violence.
Speaker 1:It's just whatever. It doesn't cause me to go out on killing spree.
Speaker 2:Okay, but you're not 18 or 15 either.
Speaker 1:Okay, my daughter is Anyway, and she's not either.
Speaker 2:So she, I sit down next to her and she's like Mom, I love you. And I'm like, wait. And she says that I know something has happened. And she's like I love you, yeah, what? And then all of a sudden she's like watch this, and I'm what. And she is like look, look, look, he's not the only amputated one, look. And she's like cutting off somebody's arm and she's like see, mom, you're not the only one, and there's Spoogey stuff everywhere. Spoogey, yes. And I'm like where did you get this, dad, what, what? And she's like watch, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Like it's just. And I'm like I'm going to have a conversation with your father.
Speaker 2:And then she's like get back here, you asshole. Where did you go? And she's trying to find somebody. And she and she's trying to find somebody and she's stepping over them and she's like Mom, watch, I'm going to blow them up. And I'm like wait a minute, hold on. I'm like this is very violent. She's like oh, calm down, mom, it's fine. No, it's not calm down, mom, it's not fine. And she was like I said, you know that I'm very much against video games. And she goes well, that's okay, you can go back to the office.
Speaker 1:Oh, she didn't.
Speaker 2:Wait what she's like. I didn't mean it. I'm sorry, I love you. I was like, um, no, this is why mom hates video games. And so then my husband arrives from his second nap of the day and comes downstairs and he's like, and I literally just put my head on stucco and just and like I can't do this and she's like look what I can do, look what I can do.
Speaker 1:And you're like, oh you need to get this and then get all the ammo and hoard, all the ammo and do this and this.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, sarcastically stating, very sarcastically stating, why don't you get another controller and the two of you play together? Oh, we can't do that, we need another system and play simultaneously on two different systems. I'm like, oh well, why don't you just hosey on out there and go get it? Why don't you just go on and go get another system? Because you know how much I love video games, right, let's just go get one. And they're looking at me like is she serious, is she not serious? What's the deal here? And for a moment I even looked them up and said oh look, we've got you there. Let's just do that, right, because we know how much I love this. And I said why don't y'all just vote another night of the week? Because they have movie nights and I love their movie nights, right?
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, you do.
Speaker 2:I do because I work while y'all are having movies and they love horror movies and nothing. No movie scares the bejeebies out of her Like nothing, it doesn't matter. You know, I've tried to go behind her and scare her. Nothing, that's the best you got, Mom, because it didn't work. Like horror movies don't bother her at all. She's had through all what ten of Saul's Saul, yeah, Whatever they are, and she just nothing, Nothing.
Speaker 2:You took me to see Saul on one of our dates, back in like 1810. Hee-haw, Not hee-haw, Saul, and like we're sitting there and I'm watching them, like cut body parts off, and literally I'm sitting there with you and I can't stand these movies and you're like this is awesome, this is fantastic, and I'm like, do I like him as much? Like sit here and watch this and deal with this and and then drive like forever home. This is gross. But my daughter, oh, she loves them, loves horror movies, and it's his fault. That little squiggly part came from you, Damn right. I mean, you know, midnight they're down there eating these roasted potatoes that my husband made in the crock pot and she's had like three bowls.
Speaker 1:That was awesome.
Speaker 2:And she's just sitting there and you could swear that she's like a little dude. She's a tomboy and a half little dude because she just sits there and she's like, oh, watching scary movies, doing all these things. Mom, she goes to me and she goes. Mom, I want to start learning how to do throwing stars. Can I borrow yours? Will you teach me? Will I teach you how to throw? No, not, not, no, not right now, right now. But, mom, it's very important, I'm gonna protect myself.
Speaker 2:Um, really well, the other day, when we had to deal with a crazy motorcyclist who was in the parking lot of the hospital while we were trying to go to her appointment, I had to keep her in the vehicle because while this guy, who is mad because we had the right of way, he had yields on coming traffic, wanted to cut just not me but other people in front of me off, he starts getting really rude and disrespectful, trying to get me out of the car. And here's our Faye saying I'm going to break your hip, I'm going to get out and break your hip and I'm trying to keep her in the car. Right, who says that?
Speaker 1:your hip and I'm trying to keep her in the car Right.
Speaker 2:Who says that Faith and she was like you. Better be glad. You're across the street from an emergency room, you know. And she's sitting there in the vehicle. She takes her seatbelt off, she's cracking her knuckles, she puts her hair up Because she actually had it down, so she puts it up.
Speaker 1:She's thinking technically.
Speaker 2:And she's good, she's, she's thinking technically and she's like I'm gonna grab your hip and the only thing that's gonna save you is that the er is right there and see. Okay, but I'm sitting there that's awesome. She's got it all planned out hmm, yeah, she doesn't need that mindset in today's world.
Speaker 1:She really doesn't like, she doesn't, she doesn't like she doesn't need to fly off the cuff and just act. She was trying to do trying to get out of the car. No, she rationalized it out. No, I do this, this and this, and then, when the casualty is on the ground, I can convert his body over to here, michael this is what she was saying.
Speaker 2:This is what she was saying as I was trying to hold the door shut and she was trying to get out. Is I was trying to hold the door shut as she was trying to get out, like she's trying to get out of the car going. I'm Uncle Seafeld. At the same time I'm going to break his blanket hip. And it was not. It ended with ING and it rhymed with luck and I'm going to get out and I'm cracking up. You mess with my mom crack crack, crack.
Speaker 1:Is that anything like Camelot camel?
Speaker 2:somebody called her camel toe hair, her favorite word. Somebody called her camel toe hair and the answer uh not, you are uh, uh uh, you did see the video where she said I'm going to reduce the population.
Speaker 1:Is that the one I saw about the, the whites paying the African Americans money for being slaves, something?
Speaker 2:like that. She said we need to work on electric cars and we need to. So she's going to start a genocide, and we need to, you know. So she's going to start a genocide and we need to lower our population.
Speaker 2:And then the guy who ever posted it said all I would like to say is your life should have swallowed and I lost it. I'm sure it's not going to be up there long, but I'm not giving an explanation because I'm not getting banned, but I'm just saying it was pretty funny. I mean, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 1:No, y'all, we really do try to stay out of politics because I don't know if my wife and I could change anything. You know we're going to vote. Of course we were. Y'all know that we're side with Trump and hopefully he'll win and start making drastic changes. You know, back to you know, man, food, gas, just anything, oh expensive you know the housing market. You know we plan on moving at some point to our last forever home and you know we don't want the damn interest rate to be 15, you know.
Speaker 2:And it's going to be fenced in by electric wiring percent you know. And it's going to be fenced in by electric wiring. He thinks I'm kidding. I mean really, you know what happens if we go to martial law I mean think, about that, you know, I mean that's, that's scary. Yeah, it's a very scary thing. And what I don't understand is everybody has a right to their own thing. Everybody has a right to their own view, even if it's the wrong one.
Speaker 2:But for people you know, even if you have the wrong view, let's look at it this way. You know, let's say we have $5 in our wallet. Well, you know, a gallon of gas is 429 or whatever the average gallon is, and that's been that way since biden's been in. But when trump was here it was like 209 or 220, something like that. Okay, but I don't care if you're a democrat, you're a liberal, you're a republican, you're other whatever. And let's just look at this this way. You have a $5 bill and you need to get gas. Are you going to get one gallon or are you going to get two gallons? So you get twice for your money. You know, regardless. But that's when Trump was in office. You know, it's based upon the man and the fact that it's what's coming out of it, right, I mean? And people are like well, you know he, he's done all these horrible things you know, she has a history?
Speaker 2:yeah, she has a history, you know. I saw another meme over there that was like yeah, you know it's about the bread, but you know, prostitutes all spread their legs red and I didn't know she was prostitute. I don't know that she ever won the prostitute. I never heard that she was prostituted. I don't know that she ever was a prostitute. I never heard that she was prostituted. I heard she was a dancer. But I'm not speculating, I'm not saying I mean Montel Williams would know, because he dated her, and so did the mayor of San Francisco.
Speaker 2:My name is Mary, it's a true fact. He was married, yeah. So, anyway, to hear that and you know what, and she jumps all over trump about him, have him having an extramarital affair. Well, what's good for the goose is good for the sister. Sorry, but you know, yeah, trump had an extramarital affair on the mafia and they had a kid. Well, she was the other woman to the mayor of san Francisco and that she doesn't want brought to fruition. But I mean, how can you throw that when you can't say anything? Right, you know you can't change it, but who is she? I mean, she's had no military record.
Speaker 2:I saw her salute the other day and I almost peed on myself because there's some sloppy saluting and I think hers is like one of the worst and you see her walk by and she barely does this half-ass saluting. But how many times have you seen Trump who, like when the Marine loses his hat it's windy out or whatever he stops, gets down, picks it up and puts it on him, you know, and thanks him and they always say, oh, he's horrible.
Speaker 2:He's mean, he's all these. Well, you know they can say that about most people, but at the end of the day, yes, he's done some horrible things Trump has, but he's also done some amazing things in office. He really has, and we need to get this country back together quickly because it's becoming divided and not in a good way my husband has. I'm telling you I can't read him right now. I can't.
Speaker 1:He's just so like so we're up here in our tiny little office talking to millions of folks right now and I have eyes for my wife and I always look at my wife right in her eyes a lot of times. I look at her lips and I read her mouth and all this words coming out of her mouth because I understand the words that come out of your mouth and we hold hand and get it. Okay, they got it. And you know, I just stare at her, you know, and this is our time, you know? Aww, oh, I love you. I love you too.
Speaker 2:So so questions that could be asked. So people love our soul. Nations have been our story and you stated earlier in another podcast that you don't mean well at first sight, no, um actually play that podcast, you can have lust at first sight when did you know you loved me back then, oh gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I have no. When did you know you loved me back then? Oh gosh, I don't know. I have no clue. Do you remember when you told me you remember, of course I do. And you told us, of course so.
Speaker 2:Do you remember when you told me for the first time no, you remember for us.
Speaker 2:Right, you were in the car on the way to a call, according to you, you and you and you're gonna question my memory. No, yeah, and you had your Mountain Dew on the light bar and you hit the brakes hard when you said don't go anywhere, I'll be right back, I love you. And then you getting out and you slammed on the brakes, the Mountain Dew went everywhere and you're like, did I just say? And I'm like y'all, I'm, it's about damn time.
Speaker 1:Yep, that was only what. Six months or four years, oh years.
Speaker 2:We were years in, years, yeah, years in Only man to ever break my heart, shatter it and mend it. You did mend it, you did mend it, you better be mended.
Speaker 1:You did, I put a lot of time in you, woman. You put a lot of time in you, woman. You put a lot of what in me?
Speaker 2:Time, oh, time, time. But you've always been very protective of me. Damn right, because you're mine I still want to know what happened in court? I don't rightly know that Ask one of your hypnosis friends to come on to show her hypnotizing.
Speaker 1:But if you could, say something to him now. What would you say?
Speaker 2:Um, not much you did state to him, not much you said about my ex. He told him that he would hurt me. No, it's not your ex.
Speaker 1:You have no ownership.
Speaker 2:No, my nothing. You told him that if he ever hurt me, you would be who he had to deal with. Hmm, I hated you.
Speaker 1:Anyway, don't you want to move on? Go ahead. Got any good interviews coming up this week.
Speaker 2:Dana and I are still working on our series.
Speaker 1:Okay, we can talk about our freebie Friday Y'all please go check out that series it hasn't been released yet. We'll see Put it in a good plug. Yes, we'll go check out her website, right.
Speaker 2:Dana's amazing Her book just came out.
Speaker 1:Who's got the TV show Debbie Debbie?
Speaker 2:Debbie has a TV show. She is actually going to be our Freebie Friday guest for the week.
Speaker 1:Do you want to explain our Freebie?
Speaker 2:Friday on our website.
Speaker 1:No, because I don't recall.
Speaker 2:So our website is agontagioussmileselfiecom and you can go on there and there's so many amazing things journals, books, workbooks I'm going to make sure to put the link for the store in the show notes and you can go in and find all sorts of things that help. And if you use the promo code WELCOME, you get 20% off everything Not one thing everything. So we're doing something called Freebie Friday. We're going to start doing something for every day of the week, because I only work 20 hours a day and I'm determined to try to do a little more because I'm lazy, and so we'll have a guest person every week and they can offer a free download of their choosing, as long as I approve it, and then you get to go and download and learn about our guests of the week for free, and they will also offer some sort of promo code or discount of their services for you as well.
Speaker 2:And Dana is an amazing person. I see it's late at night. I met Demi. They're both amazing people. You're right, there's a lot of these people. Demi's an amazing person. I see it's late at night. I met debbie. They're both amazing people. You're right, there's a lot of these people. Uh, debbie's an amazing person.
Speaker 2:She has a tv show that you and I've both been on, um. I've been on it a couple other times. Other than that, she is a wonderful human being who lost her son, alex um, to mental illness, and she helps other people and she also coaches and she's just a wonderful person to know and she does all sorts of amazing things, and so she's putting together a free, downloadable friday freebie gift for all of our listeners and you can go check that out. But if you're interested in being our guest of the week, then email myself, victoria, at a contagious smellcom, and tell us why you want to be in the spotlight for everyone. That's awesome. So that's coming up. That'll be this week, this friday's, and let's see what else. We are going to go get another tattoo. My husband and I together and I'm super excited because this was my husband's idea was to get a. You sure it wasn't my idea. Yes, you wanted to get a couple's tattoo.
Speaker 1:Couple's tattoo With our names on it. No, no.
Speaker 2:And it was, and only is, something for him and I and he basically came up with it and I'm super excited because it's so him and I. It's got to explain what it is.
Speaker 1:And it's going to hurt like this.
Speaker 2:Puss, they do not hurt.
Speaker 1:Well then, that artist was extremely hard.
Speaker 2:Well, Faith sat there like a pro, it didn't even flinch, and when it was over she's like that felt so good, You're the top.
Speaker 1:I'm like yep, she's at it. She's gonna keep coming back and wanting more.
Speaker 2:So describe.
Speaker 1:I don't know, Jeff, if you're listening, you know.
Speaker 2:I'm kidding buddy what? Yeah, it's all fans. I mean I need to be concerned. I mean you could have cuffed him at one point. No, I'm just asking. I know somebody who had their first dream over you no, okay, can we move on? So describe what our couple tattoo will look like.
Speaker 1:It's simply, it's not simple. Outline silhouette, so to speak, myself holding my wife's face from behind. I mean looking down at her and you know, just a good, solid embrace. And yeah, you're forgetting one of the most important parts of it.
Speaker 2:I'm kissing your head. You're holding my face with your hand of it.
Speaker 1:I'm kissing your head.
Speaker 2:You're holding my face with your hand.
Speaker 1:I just said, I'm holding your face.
Speaker 2:You said, you're holding me in an embrace. Yes, I'm holding your face.
Speaker 1:And so this is going to be our couple tattoo. It'll look all right, it's just some sample, but it'll look awesome. It's just some, something simple, but it'll look awesome. Excuse me, I'm not big into tattoos, but my wife is. I wasn't Probably 300 tattoos on her. How many do you have? Well, less than 35. Okay.
Speaker 2:Wow, but I didn't have any when we dated.
Speaker 1:I didn't have any when we got married and now I have two, you're being honest, two, two, no, no, no, that's one.
Speaker 2:No, then I have over 300. You want to take Like that. You have two tattoos, you have two and I didn't have any. But as I have said so many times to so many amazing people that I've spoken with, that I don't want to look down and see anything that was put on me. I didn't want there. So I have told my story by putting things on top of the scars so that I didn't have to look at them and if you think about it most people say I'm broken and I'm worthless or whatever, but if you look at a stained glass window.
Speaker 2:They're beautiful, beautiful, right, they're absolutely stunning. But you know what? They're all pieced together by broken pieces. So you have, your pieces are broken. You put back together and look how beautiful a stained glass window is.
Speaker 2:So I don't want to hear that garbage that. You know nobody's broken. They're even Humpty, Dumpty got put back together again. So I put the journey that Faith and I had been through on me and then I even had one for him on my leg, sitting on the boardwalk waiting on him to come back, and so I don't even want to hear it. It's covering stars. I'd much rather look at them than anything I don't want. So there's a difference. And you know what.
Speaker 2:I have no issue with tattoos. I anything I don't want. So there's a difference. And you know what I'm not. I have no issue with tattoos I don't but I'm not the person that would ever get like a skull tattoo, you know, and if you have it on, you have more power to you. That's your choice, but it's just not something I myself would do personally. But you know, every one of my tattoos have a meaning and a story behind them. So if you pointed to one and said, what is this, I could tell you and it would leave you with a great feeling. So mine are very meaningful.
Speaker 1:And that makes you so much more amazing Whatever? Than some skull tattoo with a dagger piercing it.
Speaker 2:Let's just hope Faith doesn't go down that road.
Speaker 1:Yes, she did, though she took it like a champ.
Speaker 2:Sat there and didn't bat an eye.
Speaker 1:She was better about it than you. Oh yeah, I will tell you, I was screaming like a girl.
Speaker 2:You were screaming like a girl, but I did see some pollen in your eyes and then we had to go feed him after because I'm light headed. So, yeah, no, not so much. And Face BFF is coming much. And Faith BFF is coming. Her BFF is coming back and we love her. Abby's awesome, we love her. She's been on Teen Talk. She's gonna come back again. And between her and Faith they pranked the bejeebies out of my husband, which I love. And, by the way, your dad told the girls to take the top off of your beer, discard the beer, fill it with piss and put the top back on it and then walk in and say I opened the beer for you and hand to you.
Speaker 1:Oh hell no.
Speaker 2:Dad, you're fired, and that is why Faith has this determination of doing that to your beer. And I was like Dad is not drinking pee. Well, it's not you. Dad kisses me, so no, he's not drinking pee, but it's disgusting. They did take your beer refrigerator shut, which I thought was pretty classic. Yeah, that was pretty classic. Yeah, that was pretty fun. They're great. They have so much fun together. I love the two of them together and Abby's fun.
Speaker 1:She's awesome. Yeah, we had some good pictures last time we were here. Yes, so y'all, as my wife's already mentioned, go on Amazon and pick up her two books, one of her two books, two of her two books, two of her two books.
Speaker 2:There's more than two.
Speaker 1:Who kicked first and Nar Nar who's there? Go pick those up right now. Type in Victoria Curate and get those books. Grab them up, do it, do it, do it.
Speaker 2:Before we go, pick up your Redneck Dictionary that Faith bought you over there and pick a word right there. Younger, she got him a redneck dictionary. Pick a word. I'll get a word. I'll read it and you tell me what it means here, because you don't got your four eyes on. Don't leave open air here. Let me see it and I'll read it. You're reading way too much open air, but you talk. But let me, I'll read it to you and you tell me the definition cause are you learning some new vocabulary? Uh, oh, it's a little concerning. I'm trying to get your word here. Well, pick a page. I did oh good grief, and you a word here. Well, pick a page. I did oh good grief, and pick a word Out loud. Pick a word. You don't have to memorize it.
Speaker 1:I can't read it. I need my glasses on.
Speaker 2:Go ahead, thank you. All right, let's pick, oh my God, species. What is species? You tell me it's a conditional expression involving concern about being witnessed or discovered Feces, guts together. Do you know what is going to hit the fan? What Like what?
Speaker 1:Like if he sees us together. Say that again If he sees us together, oh my Lord.
Speaker 2:Okay, do that again if he sees us together. Oh my lord, okay, mistrust an appeal to convince a female of one's honesty. Mistrust me on this, I can fix your car.
Speaker 1:What this is Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary you can't read it right, it's the first word.
Speaker 2:This is Jeff Boxworth in Redneck Dictionary. You can't read it right. It's the first word. You want my glasses here. Maybe they'll help you. These are the strongest sunglasses. It's number one.
Speaker 1:Holy crap, I can't.
Speaker 2:It says mistrust, I can't. It says mistrust.
Speaker 1:I can't read that shit.
Speaker 2:That's nice. Airtime is not supposed to be empty. And you're still doing it.
Speaker 1:Alright, there it is Debate Debate To include two Debate.
Speaker 2:Debate To include two people into a conversation, a discussion on other sides, no.
Speaker 1:Like are we going to use the red wigglers or the night crawlers for debate? What? Or we go fishing.
Speaker 2:So it's the bait, no, the bait, the bait, no the bait. What when we go fishing? So it's the bait, no the bait, the bait, no the bait, the. That's what I said the bait.
Speaker 1:No, you said duh Like duh Right, Just like Camilla says duh.
Speaker 2:Don't etiquette yourself. Did you say etiquette?
Speaker 1:Is that a real word? I don't know.
Speaker 2:But I'm getting it.
Speaker 1:Jeff put that down, buddy Etiquette he's a sweetheart.
Speaker 2:And how would you know, because Faith and I have practiced with him, is that right? We have pictures. Was he at Wal-Mart?
Speaker 1:No, he seems like a Wal-Mart guy.
Speaker 2:No, he's not no, I can't say why. Because he goes there every week for Bible study? Why? Because he goes there every week for Bible study At the restaurant. His whole group meets there every week To eat breakfast. Yeah, and they have a private room in the back and they sit there and have Bible study and he always comes early and he's always very friendly with everybody.
Speaker 2:And I told you a story and she said oh, I laugh and say your jokes all the time and he goes, really, and I took pictures of them together and that's all the pictures. He goes, let me hear. So she goes, okay. And so she says, uh, he goes. She said to him, tell me a joke. And so jeff oxford told her a joke and she looked at him with the straightest face and he goes. You think that's funny. And she goes. People pay to see you and he hadn't been like five or six, no, she had to be about six at this time. And he goes yeah, people pay to see me and I go all over the world traveling and she goes and you get money and he goes. Yes, so he goes. But you say my line all the time. You say I'm funny, and she goes uh-huh, he goes. Well, I'm funny. And she goes uh-huh, he goes, well, let me hear it. And she goes. Here's your sign. And I went that's not, that's not him. And he goes.
Speaker 1:Well, that's my partner, that's Bill, and she goes oh so he's the funny one oh lord, he was such a gentleman about it.
Speaker 2:He was as nice as he could be, so she told him a joke and she goes now. You laughed at my joke and he goes.
Speaker 2:Well, it was funny and she goes if you use it, you have to pay me, oh, and he was so taken by her and she told him a little bit about our history and, um, he told her what I thought was amazing, and if he has listening, which I don't know but, jeff, I have to say to you, with the utmost respect you probably I don't know if you remember this or not, but you said something to her that will stay with me forever because she tried to explain to you that a lot of people have a hard time articulating what she says, and without missing a beat. He looked at her in the face and he said darling, let me tell you something. People say I talk weird and nobody understands me, but I got every word you say and it was so sweet of this man to just, I mean, without missing a beat. He made that statement to her that, like you know, everybody has an accent and nobody understood him when he talks.
Speaker 2:And she's beautiful, and she told him that she was going back in the hospital and he said can I come see you? And she said only if you promise not to make me laugh, which I don't think I need to worry about. Wow, and he was such a stand-up, nice guy and then any other time we saw him there which I think was only two other times he always said good morning, faith, how are you nice to see you? And she goes you have any good jokes this time and he's like I still work and she's like you can hire me. But he was so nice I mean down to earth, neighbor next door, nice you would never expect him to be jeff oxford, right, and so he's listening, by any grace. Thank you so much for your hospitality and your just being who you were to her, to our daughter, which really is amazing hey, you never know, uh it, it could get around to him because, didn't one of the fans of malcolm goodwin?
Speaker 2:malcolm goodwin got, I have no idea. He reached out to us and said that somebody that I had worked with one-on-one had reached out to him telling him about me and how I helped save her life. I was helping her get out of the situation and even if I know who it was, I can't say because I'm very strict on the confidentiality thing, but I racked my brain and I literally don't know who it could have been. I really don't. And he said a video saying you now have a fan in me. Personally, I want to thank you for doing what you do.
Speaker 2:And then he reached out and sent another one to faith on her birthday because I guess he does listen, because he actually in his two videos was disclosing things that you don't hear unless you listen to our shows. And he's like, you have a fan in me and I listen, and what an amazing person. And I was so touched by that because you know, you think about the humiliation of telling your story but then if it helps one person, that makes a huge difference. But then, like, Dermot Moroney asked her to be his Valentine and I was like, and anybody who's our age is like Dermot Moroney asked her to be his valentine and I was like, and anybody who's our age is like Dermot Moroney is up Because you know he used to be one of the Folks are still trying to Google Michael Goodwin right now.
Speaker 2:He's on the Reacher, he's Breakout King's iZombie, but then you have Dermot Moroney who was my best friend's play and all sorts of other movies A lot. He was in the movie with Jane Fonda's niece, point of no Return, and she was in so many movies. And then Faith was like ecstatic because she found out that he was, or is now going to be on one of her favorite shows in the fall Chicago Fire, oh Lord, and so she's like yeah, so she's all excited he is coming on that show. We just got another video from Chyna Phillips Baldwin who is the lead singer of Wilson Phillips, and she's just as sweet as she can be.
Speaker 2:We've been blessed with a lot of amazing people listening Bellamy Young, who was of Scandals, the President's Wife and of Prodigal Son, one of my favorite shows. She's reached out. The list goes on and on. It's people thanking us for what we do. The one that really got me was Aram from the Blacklist, who I just think he is top of the art, sweet, but was the gentleman from the Closer and Major Crimes and he sent a wonderfully sweet message and it was just as nice as he could be reaching out. Um, then the guy west from hardcore pawn reached out and congratulated me on my book, which was awesome, and I'm not name dropping, I'm just saying that you never know who's listening.
Speaker 2:You know you never know who's listening. And these are people who, like mama june, reached out and wished fave a happy birthday and, um, abby lee miller, and you know. And these are people that she grew up watching on television, right and so when you have no idea and you know what's so funny is f? Faith will tell you time and time again I don't care, they're celebrities, they put their pants on, just like I do, and you know. If she's five minutes late, then you know what she's like. So what? The fact she interviewed Abigail Hawk from Blue Bloods in the ICU and Abigail was one of the nicest ladies, she's so sweet, I mean, just as sweet as she could be, you know. And then there's Faith in the bed, all hooked up to everything, refusing to reschedule, and she goes. I'm gonna laugh again. It was just the cutest little thing.
Speaker 1:And even though she's an adult you know, she looks a lot better. Oh, you admitted it, she's an adult now.
Speaker 2:There's a flat Ow. She's an adult. Now there's a flat Ow. She is so cute and the way she, you know, pronounces everything she's adorable and she's like hello Abigail, it's because she's mine, I'm sorry what?
Speaker 2:She's got me, but she has a vocabulary. Ha ha ha, she does. So we have a lot of exciting things coming up. We're also gonna do a lot in october for domestic violence awareness. So if you have anything to do in that wheelhouse, reach out to me and let me know, because we are going to try to do some major helping and movements and things of that nature for this cause in October and what else.
Speaker 1:I don't really know, ma'am. I'm going to try to start selling these two books here and get those out.
Speaker 2:And since my husband can't stop me from saying this, we're going to start our next series here very soon and we're trying to think of a title for it. And I'll tell you what if you guys who are listening come up with a title and want to send me some suggestions of titles, if it is the title we choose, I will give you a $50 gift card for our store that you can get anything you want out of our store for $50. If we end up using your title for the name of our new series that's coming and it's going to be between my loving soulmate and our daughter and it's going to be the two of them in the series, oh Lord, it's going to be hilarious because you're going to get to see the real two of them go at it and it's priceless. So come up and help me, come up with a title for the series and if we use that title, we will give you a $50 gift card to our store.
Speaker 1:I got it. Don't blow smoke up my bunghole and I wear my $50.
Speaker 2:I will not use that name, that title Too long.
Speaker 1:She tried to say the lesbian and the slut that was our suggestion.
Speaker 2:But since Dad's with him before and he is no longer a slut, we can't call him that. So we can't call him Thanks, we call him a reform slut.
Speaker 1:Thanks, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2:She said you laid more pipe than BP On that note, look at the time she did. She said Look at the time, go ahead, take us out, yeah.
Speaker 1:Mr Reform here would like to thank you for listening to another unstoppable with Victoria and myself. Y'all continue to listen, appreciate you sharing. We need to get back up in that top 1% where we're at. Victoria and myself. Y'all continue to listen, appreciate you sharing. We need to get back up in that top 1% where we're at. So we appreciate y'all sharing. And y'all go pick up Victoria's books. She's written like 41 of them. Those two books, it really was a lot, and anybody that's a survivor will know and empathize and sympathize with Chris Royce. So go to Amazon, pick him up and look up her name Victoria Chure. Her books are who Keeps First and Narthar, who's there. Thank y'all for listening. Bye now.
