Our first EVER episode | NearlyWeds Throwback

0:02Hey guys, in this episode today, it's really exciting. We're going to be looking back at our very first episode of our first ever podcast that we did together on Nearlyweds. This is it. Are you ready for this, honey? Oh my God, I'm excited slash nervous. Okay, so while we are away at this moment, we are having a baby, but enjoy our very first episode. Here it is of Nearlyweds.

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2:36Are you ready for this, Eve? I am. You sure? Ready. I tell you what, I'm tired. Are you right? Big old argument, didn't we? I thought you were going to try and imply that we'd had loads of sets. I was like, you're not fooling anyone. Hello, I'm Jamie Leng. Hello, I'm Sophie Hubby. And we met four years ago, and now we are... Getting married. That's right, we are. Well, nearly. Well, nearly.

3:05People say, people say, you get engaged, and it's fireworks. The rest of you get engaged and it's like fueling a steam engine. No, no, no. It's like throwing coal. The best of it was like the engagement. Everyone was like, how was the set? I was like, I don't remember. That's the idea. I do. Oh, Tua. I'm not actually sure if I should say this because it's not PG at all. Then don't say it. This is the first episode. You don't say these things. I know, but I've got to just divulge of it. So everyone then feels sorry about what I've got myself into. This isn't going to be anything really bad, but he just becomes like this glaze behind the eyes.

3:45And it's like a stranger is having sexual intercourse with me. It's because when I have to try and picture someone else's face, it's really hard. I have to glaze over. Oh, no, don't say that. Because I know that boys actually do that. No, they don't. To be fair, I would, because I'm not looking for you. Do you know who I picture sometimes? do you know who it is who megan fox no not megan fox guess again uh oh kylie jenner nope judy dench judy dench yeah yeah why judy dench because lots of reasons you want me to you want to point them out to you yeah go on okay first point she's m and bond yeah okay second point i have a je ne sais for people over 80.

4:35I tickled you that one. There she goes. Actually, me, we're quite sick. And do you know what? And she's a powerful woman. That's what I like. Okay. Who do you picture? Bradley Cooper. You actually do? That is out of nowhere. No, no, no, I don't. That is out of nowhere. I've got to try it though now. What was the time when we were on the flight together? Sophie and I took a flight together and I was engrossed in this amazing film I was watching on the flight. I suddenly get a tap on my shoulder. I was like, what the hell is going on? And she turned to me and you made me take my headphones off and you looked at me and you went, the things I do to Bradley Cooper.

5:11And then turned back and started watching your film again. You disturbed me to basically say that you would sleep with Bradley Cooper. Yeah, but I just felt I needed to tell someone. It was too much. He looked obviously... Use the phone on the flight. Why don't you pick up that phone that no one ever uses? There's a phone and you should have phoned someone. Oh my God, you're definitely one of those people who's like messaged a girl at the front back in the day when you thought you were really famous. You would have been like, yeah, she's sorry. What, messaged someone on the plane? I know you would have.

5:38Oh my God, because when we first got together, now I look back at it, when we were in Cape Town, you arranged to meet up with her. Hostess, is that what you call them? I didn't arrange to meet up with her. So how did that happen? When you're on your like 10th whiskey set on your own, when you're like, you know what, Ashley, shall we meet up when we go to Cape Town? What is my American accent? She like cruised over to Camps Bay. No, I didn't. No, somehow. And you like pretended you'd known her from London, which you hadn't. You'd met her on that flight. She had met me on the flight. That's not lame.

6:09We exchanged numbers on a flight. She was like 50 as well. No, she wasn't. She was in her 20s and she was lovely. She was wonderful. And this is before we got to... Obviously you didn't make the cut because you still can call me back to me.

6:27I want to tell the reason why we had our first fight, because I think everyone's going to be really shocked at this. God, that was really at the front of your head. You were just waiting for the moment to spring that on. I can't wait. Go on, spring it on them, go on. Jamie said to me, unless we have 150 people more, there's no point in even getting married. I said, what? Can't we just get married, you and I? We could elope or go get married at the Chelsea Town Hall. You looked at me as though I had honestly lost my mind. I was like, no, there's no point. what would be the point in that so i took the ring off and i threw it firstly sophie's always said from the beginning this is true sophie never wanted a wedding you never really wanted a wedding no no i did well then don't say these things then because it gets like you said to me you said to me i didn't really want a wedding i don't even want to get married and then you threw the ring and then you picked it up later and you were upset because you thought you had chipped it I know.

7:18I still want to like message the diamond guy. Jamie then showed me copious amounts of YouTubes of diamonds not getting smashed and can never chip. The first one he showed me, the hammer just smashes straight through the diamond. I was like, you frigging liar. I showed her a YouTube video and I said, don't worry, it doesn't smash. And the guy hit it with a hammer and it just disappeared. Perfect. Yeah, but we have, I think the point of these episodes, right, is that everyone goes through these moments. Everyone experiences different things. People think it's honeymoon period the entire time. And actually, it's not honeymoon period the entire time.

7:56Lots of things go on and lots of different things happen, which I think is kind of a great thing to kind of document, right? I think so, yeah. We're having a wedding planner, aren't we? Yes, absolutely. And that was a tricky process. Yeah, that's been actually the most challenging process so far. Well, that's the beginning process. we would love to go with you guys this is going to be so fun i'm so excited and we are so excited it's going to be amazing and it's going to be the best wedding ever just start from the beginning because i think it's important some people uh who decide to get married they they plan the wedding themselves other people um do other ways some people have wedding planners we have decided to go down the route of having a wedding planner.

8:44And we had lots of people that we were chatting to, lots of different people, which is a tough process, right? Which is a really tough process because firstly, where do you start? We actually went through recommendation. We had loads of people recommend people to us. I went and had a meeting with the lovely girls from the wedding edition and they basically a little black book of all the contacts you need for weddings. So we have decided to go with wedding planners. GSP. GSP, our lovely friend Jemima and Emma. And Emma. and their team and their whole team jemima is one of my oldest friends we kissed when we were 14 years old yeah we kissed when we were 14 years old and i walked away and told all my friends i went just kiss that girl that's like don't worry about it anyway i walked back over she was kissing another boy and i was like sorry what the hell and i went well what about me and she went she looked at me and said sorry you were a mistake i can't actually imagine her saying and then we i went home that night with all my boys and we went back to my house and my mom was upstairs and they all tried to make toast and i and i put the the bread under the water and said you can't have any because i was so annoyed because i was so annoyed you did not yeah i did i put it on the tap oh no it's so sweet like this spoiled little ginger boy you know you're part of the gsp family now so i promise you we will make it a great laugh that is so we were really really chuffed you know because you just seem you know great and i just know it's going to be a fun process with the both of you well you know maybe questionable but i'll keep laughing um at your joke yeah but but that's in the contract the moment that i realized that i loved you and thought i could marry this person do not say it was the first moment you realized you loved me we were like two and a half years into our relationship it wasn't the first moment i knew i loved you it was the first moment that i knew that i wanted to marry you was we were swimming uh in the sea you were swimming in the sea.

10:39And I was looking at you and you were swimming in the sea. And I thought, oh, I really love you. And then I suddenly thought, God, if you got eaten by a shark, that would be awful. There was a bit of context to this story because we were in the Maldives and there was a shark that Jamie left me to swim alone with whilst he panicked and swam back to his mummy. No, that's not true. We were snorkeling and a shark swam underneath us. And what did you do? Swam away from it. Leaving me to continue swimming amongst the shark. 100%. You think I'm going to try and save you from a shark? Well, there you go.

11:07You can't love me that much. Sophie, I'm a land mammal. What do you want me to do? Ride it? I'm not. We're either both going to die or one of us is going to. So you thought, oh, do you know what? I'll let her die. But at the same time, I want to marry her. You're like Michael Phelps. You honestly swim off. I am really good at swimming. You're more like a little warthog that's like paddling. There was a shark that swam underneath us. I gasped like that because it was a shark. With your snorkel. With my snorkel. So you took loads of water. So I lost all my breath. And I thought, I can either try and alert you or I can save myself.

11:40And you know what I did? I saved myself. Yes, I saved myself. I swam out to shore and I got on shore and I looked to you and I thought, I really love you. If you get eaten by that shark, I would be really sad. Oh, how kind of he. That then manifested a little bit more into every single night that I couldn't fall asleep was I was thinking about wanting to marry you. And that was the night. So the nights I couldn't sleep, that was always playing in my mind you never can't sleep you always fall straight to sleep so exactly so the nights that i couldn't sleep i was just thinking about marrying you so like what one night in the whole year then i would get this real excitement within me like oh my god how exciting it would be to marry you so yeah so then i went and started looking for rings how did that happen i found a guy who sold diamonds how did you know which one i liked i i don't know because i said i liked hayley beavers you said you liked hayley beavers you must have known why didn't you get me one with three on well because i kind to get i didn't i also chose what i wanted as well it's really guys have a really tricky time with this do you want to explain why we had an argument which one we've had quite a few recently okay with the argument about because i said i i revealed something i shouldn't have done with nit on on private part on the podcast and i wasn't meant to do that well basically we're getting married in spil and i haven't even told my friends that and jamie announced it on his podcast which gets apparently somehow quite a few listeners and i was like perfect didn't fancy didn't fancy letting me know so he suddenly suddenly said why am i getting all these dms about wedding in seville have you told someone i got loads of dms from people being like what time of year are you getting married in seville i'm going to be there this time of year next year i was like well you're not coming i was like what how do you know this i turn to Jamie.

13:33Like, oh yeah, might have discussed it with me. We should probably, we should probably say why we're having it in Seville. I'm not sure you've had so much input in the decision. I've had no input. How many times have you been to Seville again? I went once and I was 21. And you did. And I hung out and had a great time. Drank loads of sangria. Yeah, probably drank some sangria. Stayed in a hostel. Wicked. Yeah, but that's cool. I understand what Seville is like. Because of that, because you stayed in a hostel. What's your connection? My dad lives in Spain. Yeah, okay. Grew up always going to Spain.

14:09I've gone there for all of eternity. All of eternity? All of your 27 years? All of my 27 years. You have not been there for 27 years? Yeah. Since you were a baby? Yeah, since I was a baby. My granddad lived out there. And I always said I was going to get married in the old town in Marbella, actually, in this cathedral. But I know Jamie's, like, liked to think of himself as really, you know. You know? Explain it. He was like, no, we can't get married in Marbella. I never said that. I was like, oh, right, maybe he'll let us have a pass. I never said that once. I never said that once. Actually, we should go.

14:45He snuffed at the idea. Snuffed? Yeah. That's what you did. Snuffed. Until we go and view the venues, you can't send the saves a day because we don't have a week. Like, one of the venues that you love, they're not free on, you know, X and Y. We would have already let you know that because we'll continue the venue research.

15:10Anyway, we then came to the decision. The decision. The decision. Yeah. The decision that we'd get married in Cape Town, got pretty far down the line. And then Jamie last minute was like, do you know what? Seville seems really close to both of her hearts. I was like, definitely doesn't. This is not how I remember this, Sophie. Go on, tell your side of the story. This is not how I remember it this way. Okay, you and I first fell in love in South Africa. Right. Yeah. No. You fell in love with me in South Africa. Okay. All right, okay. You wanted to kiss me in South Africa. Wrong again. Can I tell you the story?

15:46Do you remember the time I got drunk and drank that thing? What happened? Oh my God. Firstly, firstly, just to paint you a bit of story. Can't drink South Korea water. Just to paint you a bit of background story. jamie and i were just mates like platonic mates nada going on it saw no attraction a bit like you see now i can see you look at me just honestly just hating me no i'm joking uh anyway we we get to this like villa we're out there whatever and jamie decides like he has to sleep in my room i was like okay if you want to like this is pretty weird he got so wasted and then middle of the night you know when you're sleeping with a boy you're a bit like this is a bit weird i woke up but like I was wide awake so was he and then I saw him gasping around for water because he was so drunk I saw him stumble over to the plant pot he took the plants out and drank the plant water and then got back into bed and I was like didn't say a peep didn't even turn around because I didn't want the conversation because it was pretty weird he was even staying in my bed I was like fuck just pretend you're asleep see that's where he fell in love I was gasping for water gasping And you also like ran over and opened the windows and like whisked the window open because it was so hot and I got chewed to pieces by mosquitoes.

16:59We woke up the next day and you had mosquito bites all over your face. Open the window in Cape Town, like what are you doing? Sometimes until you're standing in that venue and looking all the way around you and you're, oh my God, this is it. This is the one. Like you feel when you go and look around the house and it's like you can sometimes walk in and out straight away. we always describe it's very similar so we fell in love in cape town and we thought it'd be a great idea to then get married in cape town on new year's eve and then what happened was is we started to plan it and typical me is i then circled back on the idea and actually said no this is not a good idea it's new year's eve it's complicated it's all these different things and actually probably what is a good thing is if we don't go so far away 11 hour flight in cape town and have to ask all our guests to get out there and for new year's eve we do it closer to home in seville where you grew up i did not grow up you did you grew up in seville we went there many times see you just get i can't even speak spanish you can speak spanish no i can't you can you tell this to everyone just because i'm in i have a good accent you think i'm a linguist you think i'm bilingual i am not and he goes to spanish people she's fluent and i'm like no no I'm really not.

18:19Sophie's first kiss when she was it was in Spain from a guy called God who was 40 and drove an Audi TT. Oh god you've got it wrong again his name was Gonzalo and he was 13 and so was I. He was 40 and he drove an Audi TT. That was when I was 17. Get it right. Motherfucker. So basically in principle what we want to do is I mean we want to just get onto the venues then And also kind of behind that to potentially start thinking about save the date sort of styles and things like that.

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22:14every single wedding planner seems to say the same thing which i think is a natural thing which probably true i have no idea they say we only do a few weddings a year and so we got to pay close attention to you don't think that's true i believed it no i think it is true i think it is true but i think i how would you how would a wedding planner do you think sometimes wedding planners say do you know what i don't want to do your wedding and they're like really you don't want to oh my god yeah that must happen right wedding planners must reject we could be rejected do you think they do

22:50okay we're going to take a little break there so because um we should play a little game every single episode oh lovely yeah a very simple game which we like to call reverse mr and mrs do a jingle ding ding ding ding ding ding it's honestly the worst jingle so we're getting married and i think perhaps you don't know everything there is to know about me i think you might be wrong i know more about you than you know about me no way are you joking you are such an open book i think i'm better for clothes but what you are easy to read my friend my lord well then let's play Okay, fine. You want to do this?

23:27Yeah. So, question to you is, if I was going to take a holiday, where would it be? Easy. What would I want to do? Easy. And what food would I bring with me? Easy peasy. Okay. Okay, hang on. Set it up then. Go on, Miss Caboo. I couldn't be clearer. All right, go. Scotland, go walking, and the food you would bring would be hummus and dip. Oh my God, that's the worst answer. I know, and I'm marrying you. That's what I've got in store for me. You think out of anywhere in the world, I would pick to go to Scotland with hummus and dip? Yep, 100%. Are you joking? Quote, unquote, you have said it to me before.

24:08You have got angry with me because I didn't want to do that as my summer holiday. Go camping in Mar, Mull, Mull, where you used to go with your family. You are crazy. Liar then. You think that I would go to Scotland with hummus and dip? Well, where would you go then? I'll tell you right now. I'd go to Utah, to the Grand Canyon. You've never been? Exactly. Fine. That's the whole point of it. You've never been to Utah? And you know what I'd take with me? What? Shepherd's pie. Oh. Why would I take hummus and dip? No, I actually know what you would take. What would I take? Biltong. No, I would take...

24:44Waggy biltong. No, I would take shepherd's pie. All right, my turn. No, no, hang on a second. You can't just... You thought I would go to Scotland to go camping in Scotland. I still do. Oh, my Lord. Yep. All right. Okay, your question. Go. Where would I go? And what would I bring? And what would I... Easy. Right, go on then. Easy. Wait, let me just think of my answer. Yep. Easy. Yep. Peasy. Lemon squeezy. You would go to Mexico, Tulum. And you would like to have a beach holiday where you lie on the beach. And you would like to have tacos. For a holiday or like forever? It's not forever. I'm not going to Utah forever.

25:23Okay, you got it nearly right. I do Tulum. There you go. Told you. And I wasn't, I would bring cereal.

25:34You would bring cereal? Yeah, every sort. What do you mean? Fruit loops, golden graham, cinnamon graham, special K, yeah, yeah, Weetabix, Shreddies. Now I want to go to Tulum and eat loads of cereal. All right. That's it for Reverse Misrimisus. Nowadays, even though traditionally it's a save the date and people don't rsvp i think it's really useful for people to rsvp so that you guys know where you are with numbers yeah and that is very easily done through paperless posts um just because of the way that it works functionally that doesn't mean you have to choose one of the paperless post standard designs like we always upload a bespoke illustration design beautiful save the date done by one of our illustrators I think you're going to be bridescent a little bit No, don't say anything seriously No, I don't, I don't Now I think I've got GSB Do you know what the good thing is?

26:29Because we know Jemima, I definitely won't be I'll like rain it in Because I don't want to like embarrass myself Do you know what I mean? You're going to have to rain it over It's actually a blessing for us all Do you think you're tricky to be with? No No, don't you say it under your breath I am easy Do you know, honestly, do you think you're tricky? Blue sailing. Do you think you're tricky? Yes, probably. Do you think you are? No. Oh, for God's sake. It's like living with a child. What do you mean? I don't know, it's not. You literally walk in and it's like you've had 14 packets of blue Smarties.

27:01And I'm like, what has happened? The cannonball was just watered in. Yeah, that's fun and exciting and different and entertaining. Not when you've had a busy day and you just want to sit down and eat a bowl of pasta or something. There are so many things in that sentence that aren't true. Firstly, the one busy day, bowl of pasta, sit down. like i mean we don't eat standing up so that one is true okay sorry that one is true yeah that is not yeah the rest isn't gluten intolerant and all i do is get facials no you don't honey you have lots you do lots you have busy days all the time yeah anyway um the point of the first episode is to explain to all the listeners who are listening now because there's a few listeners right is that yeah there's a few listeners hey guys hey guys that we are going to be uh documenting this whole process because we thought it'd be a fun idea yeah you look a bit coy about it now well i hope people care well maybe they don't care but maybe they do but i think it's going to be also don't judge us along the way because you know you might see some ugly truths but we are still in love we promise yeah i love you a lot love you too you annoy the hell out of me you annoy me too so we want to bring it back as to about our proposal and how that happened i got all the the diamond sorted and huge silver and gold balloons that i put into the room they're massive but when i got little tea like candles thought i look really smart i wear a suit i then you had a facial before doing don't forget that i had a facial before doing it.

28:32Anna, you got your hair done? I got my hair done as well. Did you think that I would have thought, oh, his skin looks a bit rough. He might say no. I got my hair done. All right, fine. I then light all the tea lights. I put all the balloons in the room and I just sit there and wait. I phone you and what happens? He was like, get there for about four. I was like, you won't wrap until about 5.30. So I was like, I'll get there for 5.30. Get in the car. It's standstill traffic. And I've got wet hair. I've been trackies. My nails aren't done. I look pretty atrocious and james like how far are you i was like oh it's standstill traffic this is death i won't get there till 5 30 so i'm sitting in the hotel room it's boiling the tea lights are blazing in this room there's no air con so i'm like oh my god i go and touch one of the tea lights because you're 45 minutes away and i've got you on find a friend so i'm tracking you and they're roasting hot they're burning the floor so i go to blow because they've just melted the whole candle's just gone it's just melted i didn't realize that happened with the tea light tea light just becomes wax it just becomes wax covered in like a metal foil that starts to crinkle so the whole ground is hot so i go to blow out the tea lights wax goes everywhere the room's boiling i go god go back into the room turn the air con on all the balloons go to the side so this is a complete disaster i look at my phone you're arriving i'm like oh my god so i quickly light all the tea lights get them in the right turn off the air con get the balloons back into the middle and i'm like oh my god i'm really freaking out at this point how nervous shitting myself actually shitting myself for what reason though because did you think i'd say no i knew you'd say yes but why were you so nervous at because it this is for the rest of my life yeah it's really intense it's really intense it's forever yeah it was a big moment and i don't think it still sinks in when you get proposed no we keep saying like oh you owe me money for that and I owe you money for that.

30:21We're together forever. Our monies are each other's money. It's quite scary, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. It's terrifying. Did you just shout it? What have we done? What on earth have we done? It was such a surreal moment. I can't actually put it into words. I just burst into tears. I knocked over the candle myself. Wax went everywhere as well. All over my bags, everything. I dumped my bags and I was like, what's happening? And then I got done on one knee. Yeah, but you opened the ring the wrong way around. and also it had a light in it so when it when he opened like the ring box and obviously i was thinking show me the ring show me the ring show me the ring and it like lit up and i honestly thought the light was the diamond i was like holy fuck uh spoiler it wasn't it was just a little like torch in there can i just ask i want to know everyone else who's been proposed to or gone through this do you have mind blank because i honestly the whole thing's a blur i can't picture it's like i was drunk from yeah i don't remember you going down on one knee i just remember feeling very blurry i think it must mean severe anxiety i don't know a huge amount of adrenaline maybe adrenaline listen whether or not you are going to get proposed or not going to get proposed or going to get married or whatever that proposal moment you can't um replicate it anywhere and That's what was so...

31:38Pretty euphoric.

31:44Biggest surprise of getting engaged for me, how stressful wedding planning is. Oh my God. It is. To anyone who, listen, if you want to get engaged and you're umming and ahhing about it, don't do it. No point. There is no point to it. Well, there is if you want a nice ring on your finger. Okay, so that's the reason that you like it. And what I think from your side, the brilliant thing that you should be doing in the background is getting your lists. You know, you may have all the names. Do you have everyone's emails? Do you have their addresses? Because I presume that you may want to send out for your invite, hard copy.

32:30Yeah. Yeah, that's what we would like to do. Do something fun. Yeah, do something fun with it. I mean, possibly put, you know, sweets. I know something to do with candy. I was going to say, can't you make a shape of you and Sophie, like in your candy kittens or something? Yeah, something like that. There's something like a little pop in the invite, and it's kind of the two of you. I think something like that. I just need to work out what it is. So, yeah, so biggest thing for me is people don't realise how stressful all of this process is, right? It is incredibly stressful getting married, organising it.

33:02I didn't know, like you were saying this to me, like you have to think about lighting. Jamie, honestly, can I tell them the two inputs you've had? Yeah, you can. Actually, you can. And everyone, everyone listening to this, I'm going to write it down and go, that is a freaking good idea. Jamie got really excited, had this fabulous idea that he wanted to have light up electric neon. No. No. You've already got it wrong. Oh, sorry. He wanted to have a golf ball on everyone's seat. No table. Sorry, get it right. On their table at their seat place. No, at their places. So when you go and sit down...

33:40Oh, God, do you want to talk over me the whole time? And he was going to get everyone to tear off into the nighttime sky at like 12 o 'clock midnight. Sorry, low fuzzy hazard. Alert, alert. You've explained this so badly. Oh, God, man. We described this in the last one. I wanted a golf ball in everyone's place. So when the speeches are done, we'd take out the glow-in-the-dark golf ball and everyone teared off into the night. Glow in the dark. Yeah, that was a great one. What was the second one I wanted? Oh, the second one was dodgems. Sorry. Sorry, Grandma, Grandma, Grandma. You can't go in there.

34:14You sit on your own whilst everyone's on the dodgems. What I found out now, just from Sophie, is apparently we have a scent for our wedding. We're going to Jo Malone, and we are going to choose a scent for our wedding. What does that even mean? I don't even know what that means. Well, buckle up. Buckle up? I don't even drive. What do you mean buckle up? You're going to choose the most oody, horrible sound. I can just tell it'll be like walking into Harrods so just quickly so when you get we go to these places we pick a smell and then they spread around the whole room no I think you get like diffusers candles and maybe we leave it on people's like pillows you know they have a candle of Sophie and Jamie's and we could name it and then forever and then when we grow old our house will always smell of that day so it's memories and a wise man told me to say that smell and memory are the biggest connection so smell triggers memories.

35:04Triggers the memory the most. Triggers the memories the most. Which is why if anyone knows me at all I've got an absolutely ridiculous sense of smell and my memory is next to none. It's so true. It's so true. Like it's frightening what I remember. Yeah. A little tip we should leave everyone with before we go about proposals. Get your nails done regularly if you think it's coming up. Get your nails done before the person's going to propose to you. You know every two weeks get them done regularly if you think it's brewing. I would say a little tip for everyone is do it between yourselves. It's a moment between each other.

35:41Don't tell your Botox doctor. I didn't tell my Botox doctor. I don't get Botox. Keep it as a moment between you two. It's a very romantic moment. Everyone, we would love you to join the community. Slide into our DMs. We want to read some funny proposal stories. We want to hear any comments, anything at all. Subscribe to us on Apple iTunes or Spotify and leave a little comment. It helps people know that we are here. Yeah, guys, if you could just write in, give us some tips as well, any of your troubles, any of your worries or your experiences, we'd love to hear them all. If you could write in to Nearly Words podcast, that would be amazing.

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