Scuba Steve (16:55)
I came to be. So I was the shorthand version of it. I was in LA working with Ryan Seacrest, and one day I was at an event called Wango Tango, which is. It was local, but it was the first year it was national. And so one of my other jobs, I guess going back to the last question, not a show, but one of my other jobs is I go and do all our company's tentpole events. So, like, Alter Ego is just there recently for. In la, it's like the rock show. We go to Country Fest because of where I'm at now. I do Fiesta Latina in Miami, which is like the. The Latin pop big show. We do the festival in Vegas. What else is there? There's the iHeart awards that come up every year in LA. So I also am part of that broadcast team where we do the behind the scenes interviews and put that whole thing together. And so I was at Wango Tango and doing that. It was the first year it was a national show, so I was working there and working with Seacrest, and I was talking to some people that I work with in management at Premier, and I was like, hey, you know, just. I think I'm, you know, I want another. I'm looking for something else in the company. Like, I love this job. Working with Ryan's freaking amazing. It's. It's so surreal to have to have Ryan Seacrest know who I am and, like, talk to me like, oh, my God, this is freaking Ryan. It's Ryan Seacrest. But then eventually becomes like, he just. He's just Ryan. But it's still a little bit in your back of my, like, oh, my God, this is Ryan Seacrest talking to me right now. So I didn't. I didn't want to think, like, I was ungrateful for the opportunity, but I was like, I want, like, more responsibility. I wanted. I wanted, like, the next step. I've always, always been that way in my career of, like, I want more. I want more. I want to keep moving up the ladder and. And do whatever. And then also, I just had our first kid and we're living in LA and we live in a townhouse in the Valley and there's no yard. And I feel, like, guilty, you know, raising my kid without some sort of space. And I knew I wanted more kids. And I know I couldn't afford more kids in LA just because the cost of living was so high. I got paid nice. I had a good salary. My wife had a good salary. She was working. The toughest part was she just got a cool job because I told her she left finance. And I was like, you should. We live in la, dude. Get, like, a fun entertainment job. You know, we live here. I don't know how long we're gonna live here for, but get, like, a cool, fun job. And so she went and applied for a job at Universal, and she worked with the executive that handled toys and branding, which is, like, the coolest one. So it's all, like. She got a lot of, like, the prototype toys of when they were coming out with Drastic. This is back when Jurassic World was about to come out. So she'd come home with all these cool prototyp toys, and. And she got to work on the Universal a lot, her boss. It was, like, a really cool experience. And I felt bad because, like, four or five months into it, I was like, hey, so you know how we talked about, like, getting a new job or a different job? She's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, well, I. I think I got it. And it's in Nashville. And she's like, oh, my God, Nashville. So we have to move. And I was like, yeah. And she just got this job, and she liked her boss and her boss loved her. And I felt bad. I was like, but I have to take it, though, because I know you see you like this, and you seem really happy. And she's like, no, no, no, no. She's like, we want to build a family and do more. Let's go for it. And even in that moment, they were like, it was either New York or Nashville. And I was. I'll take whatever. But New York would have maybe not been the best because it wouldn't have checked the family box. You're in the city, I guess, unless we moved to Jersey or something. But I would have made it work. But then Nashville just seemed, I guess, made more sense for us. And I was like, let's explore the Nashville one. Like, all right, cool. Sweet. And they're like, it's for a guy named Bobby Bones. I'm like, I don't. Yeah, I don't really know. I was like, I just want to move somewhere. And they're all, right, cool, whatever. So then I came out here, and I think you were here, right? Yeah. And I came out here that one time. Yeah. Well, I first met them, I Met somebody somewhere. I forget where. I think it was Bobby somewhere. And then I came out here and met you guys. And then I hung out for like a day or two, and then I flew out. And then. Then I saw Bobby. That festival of 2019 in September. He goes, I guess we're dating now. I was like, what? And I was like. And then I was like, oh, I guess. And then he was like, yeah, I think it's gonna happen. I was like, all right, cool. Sweet. And then I was like, all right, this is great. It was nice to me. He's like, we should follow each other.
