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0:55Hey, everybody. It's Graham, and it's Friday, which means today we get to bring you another trending clip. This week, Eric's Stone Street. The clip you're about to hear is trending on our Instagram right now. Hope you enjoy. So how about each of your recollections about how you guys met in the first place? Oh. Did you tell the story at all? No, but he's, trust me, he's Captain Research. He knows the story. But I feel like we saved the full story. I don't know if you've ever, have you ever really told the full story to everyone? It's long. We won't bore you with all the details. No. But, I mean, I saw him bond with my patient at work.

1:40And this patient that I had taken care of for 10 plus years felt like my own child. And he could be a difficult patient to bond with. He's nonverbal. And, you know, so, and I watched him go in there and sing and swing from the chandelier with him and engage with him. And it was pretty awesome. Yeah, it was, you know, the charity event we do, Big Slick, with Paul and Rudd and Jason Sudeikis and Rob Briggle and myself. Hugely successful. Very successful. They had asked me to become a host after I'd come a year as a guest. Best decision you ever made? Yeah, well, it really was. It really did turn out to be great in a lot of ways.

2:21It was Adam Scott and I, and Sia's song Swing from a Chandelier was playing, and we were, you know, miming that and swinging. And then it went to commercial on his Pandora subscription. And he, the little guy, had a fit. And so as we're leaving the room, I was like, hey, can I get that guy a Pandora subscription? Because that's a tremendous amount of trauma to put someone through for$58 a year or whatever the subscription fee was. Let's just get him a subscription. And they were like, sure, no problem. And so we took a picture with the nurses, and we left, and that was that. Well, then we go back to Saturday night at the hotel, and Will Forte comes up and says, hey, there's a wedding going down in the lobby of the hotel in the ballroom.

3:07Let's all go down and sing. So we all head down there, and I walk into the room, and there's a girl that's like, Stoney, Stoney. And I knew exactly who she was. I went to college with her. And she said, my niece is getting married. You got to come take a picture with her. And I said, well, we're all going to sing to her right now. So we go in and we sing. And then the wedding party, they start spraying champagne and beer. And it gets crazy. And all of our family and friends are upstairs waiting for us for this barbecue. So we all trail out. Well, the next morning, Sunday morning, I wake up to just getting attacked on Twitter, calling me an ass and a dick.

3:45I wouldn't take a picture with a bride, and this and that. And in the middle of all these tweets to me, there was one that said, yeah, I'm pretty sure the guy that comes and raises millions of dollars for sick kids is the ass here. And I was like, who is this? And I click, I'm like, oh, that's one of the nurses I met yesterday. So as a thank you, I just followed her back, and that was the end of communication. And then we were shooting, I remember what episode we were shooting it was me and my batman costume very flattering uh and the kid's name popped into my head that about the pandora subscription i don't know why it did and i thought you know i wonder if he ever got his subscription i'm like oh i'll direct message that nurse and and ironically he was back in the hospital and my patient that day that he messaged me so i just walked right into his room and asked his dad yeah so crazy didn't they didn't so we got him the pandora for a subscription and then that was in like early September and then I think you came out and we started talking and for three years she commuted back and forth to LA.

4:46So how about the moment for each of you when you realize this is my person? Well, I have a very good friend named Joanna Stein who years ago through all my trials and practice tribulation relationships, She's like, Eric, you need a nurse. Like, she literally said that. Like, you need to find a nurse. What was her reasoning? Because she knows my personality and what it takes to be a nurse. Sympathetic, sympathetic, you know, patient, kind. And I'm, as I've said to many people, I have no problem saying, I'm a lot. Selfishly, I mean, I got the exact right person at the exact right time that I needed someone.

5:35Because just not only because she's in the medical world, but calm, cooling presence. And, you know, I'm at level 10 most of the time. What was the moment where you realized that, oh, this might actually become home? It really wasn't until the pandemic and probably almost, I would say, a year into the pandemic where we realized Hollywood was very different. and it was never probably going to be like normal again, that he needed to go back and base there. I think realizing that so many people were doing the exodus out, and then he could be here and still go back and work when he wanted to work for periods of time, and then we sort of make it fun for the boys, and we're going to go visit L.A.

6:13for a week or so while he's working. What's he like with the twins? Very fun and ornery, and I'm the boring one in the house. He provides all the entertainment. I said it. I mean, they know bedtime, for instance. Like, all right, time to go to bed. He's like, no, it's not. You can stay up till midnight. And then they're like, yeah, Mr. Eric's the best. And then mom, you know, is the boring one. Listen, they're my kids. I don't have my own. So there are things that are very important to me that they learn. They knew my dad and they met him. and it's important to me that they remember him and think of him.

6:54And I try to say that any of my, you know, good qualities come from how I was raised, and I want to pass those on and make sure that they're aware of what it means to be a conscious, giving, nice human being that doesn't take from anyone, right? Ever. So how do you propose? So he had me convinced that, you know, because he's known to torture me. Prank. So he had me convinced that there was this, I don't remember what the company was, wanted to do an ad campaign with the two of us. They were interested in our dynamic and chemistry together to potentially partner for a brand and do like a national thing.

7:33Like, you know, you see actors do what their spouses. So he got me, you know, to actually get ready. And then he said, OK, we have to have this conversation and pretend talk on camera. So we had the camera set up so I wouldn't be suspicious. and then he said, we'll start with the boys in the video and then they'll exit out and then it will be us. I was like, okay. And so I made it seem as though they were in on it and then they do it, they exit frame and then... And then he asked me to marry him and I... All right in front of her. All right in front of her. Cameras right on her. I look like an idiot.

8:05Like it was just, like I should have known. But I did not know. And we had never discussed it. Never? Never. And you guys had been dating for a minute too. Oh yeah, three years. Five years? Five years? I don't know. And then now the question is, my God, are you ever going to get married? Because I've been engaged for so long. And is the plan to still get married at the property? I think, if anything, the party will be here. We may be married by the time we invite people here, but it's always been to build a place to host people. Because so many of our friends, I'm not going to get Sofia Vergara here like three times.

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