Valentine’s Day Take It or Leave It - Greatest Hits E124

Rick Denton (01:09)
Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of The Loud Quiet. It is episode 26. We are back. For those of you that are watching, you can see that we are back in the studio. No road trip, thank God, this weekend it was just a chill weekend, which was nice. It's another chance to record here in the studio. It's a chance to thank y'all again for listening. It is encouraging to see your comments, to see what you have shared with us about your emptiness life.

just the encouragement you give for us to keep this thing going. So thank you all for listening and thank you for telling folks about this.

Clancy Denton (01:46)
Yeah. So, all right, I'm going. You didn't like throw it over to me. Okay. I didn't know we were using nonverbal cues now. So yeah. ⁓

Rick Denton (01:52)
I did with my eyes. ⁓

We use that in our level queue all the time.

Clancy Denton (02:01)
This

is great, leave this in because this is a great segue into today is our episode. We were going to talk about Valentine's Day. Love and hearts.

Rick Denton (02:12)
This is so love and hearts though for us.

Clancy Denton (02:15)
Yeah. So yeah, so we thought that we would talk about some past Valentine's Day, what Valentine's Day means to us and songs that were important to us when we were probably in our, well, mostly dating. That was more dating, I think. So yeah, so I thought we'd.

Rick Denton (02:38)
I

mean they carry forward today.

Clancy Denton (02:41)
Yeah,

I thought we would just, you know, and it's interesting. We will we'll get into some. you know, Teagan actually brought up Valentine's Day. I brought them treats when we went out there last weekend and, you know, listening to her memories because where you and I. Here's how I view Valentine's Day. If something happens that weekend or if something showed up that day, OK, great. But it's not an expectation of.

You better get me some flowers and some candy or I'm gonna be really mad at you for the rest of the, you know, we just never really treated it that way.

Rick Denton (03:19)
We

didn't. It's such a dangerous place for the guy to be. You know if something shows up, that's okay, but I don't expect it. It is a very gray area. Sometimes I think the guy, or I mean if the roles are reversed, but for me the guy, it'd almost be easier if it were, no this is what I expect.

Clancy Denton (03:35)
Well, yeah, and I think again, that's where it comes to communication with your spouse, partner, you know, whatever. I mean, we just ask each other, are we doing anything? Do you want anything? Because I don't want to get blindsided that you expected me to like bake some gourmet meal or something on Wednesday night.

Rick Denton (03:58)
If one showed up, I wouldn't have.

Clancy Denton (04:00)
That's not happening. So I have done that in the past. been turned. That's not happening. So, well, yeah. And that's the other thing is that this is such a men's holiday, you know, like, yeah, why? But then I think it has also morphed into the Galentines, which is probably thanks to some, you know, social media and shows and that kind of thing to where girls who

Rick Denton (04:14)
The responsibility all on us.

Clancy Denton (04:30)
may not have boyfriends or husbands at the time, or I've even seen it with my married girlfriends do a Galentine's thing. you know, it's just, it's a high pressure holiday that we don't view it that way.

Rick Denton (04:45)
And that is what 20 or I guess almost 24 years of marriage will do for you, that you can actually have that honest conversation. Sure, if something shows up, but then there's no guilt back and forth.

Clancy Denton (04:55)
And I think we actually, well, we'll get into the, let's do the songs first and then we'll get into the, how we kind of nixed Valentine's day out of our. Okay. So first song, ⁓ some of you will know these. No, I know we should have had like, I don't know how to do like put music on. You'd have to do that in post, but.

Rick Denton (05:08)
Let's do this, let's get to it.

Clancy Denton (05:21)
So yes, this is Donna Lewis, I love you always forever. This was a song I remember you were like, please don't tell anyone that I actually like the song and that we kind of sing it.

Rick Denton (05:33)
It is

such a catchy little pop. is the cotton candy of music. There is nothing behind the song. is not nutritious. I don't even like cotton candy. It's probably a bad example, but there is nothing to it. It is just fluff, but it's fun.

Clancy Denton (05:47)
And it was in that era of a lot of those kind of one hit wonder, you know, those kinds of songs. So moving on, we have air supply making love out of it. think at all, we've already talked about air supply, how much we love them. And yes, this song was blasted all the time in the car.

Rick Denton (06:07)
And so sweet, brought us so close together emotionally from a romantic perspective. It's just...

Clancy Denton (06:14)
Two guys.

Rick Denton (06:16)
in a falsetto voice somehow has brought us to a deeper connection.

Clancy Denton (06:21)
that I always thought in the past they were together, but they're not.

Rick Denton (06:27)
I never thought that. Really? No.

Clancy Denton (06:29)
no. All right. Next up, this is the Celine Dion. It's all coming back to me now.

Rick Denton (06:38)
And this is the one that this song is seven minutes long. think it's somewhere in that neighborhood. And you, you said it there. This was, ⁓ this is a song that I didn't like, or I think, I think I may have said this about the guiltiness around this one more than even the Donna Lewis one, because it's Celine Dion. There's no coolness to this. And then

I come to find out, it's written by Meatloaf. Well, then suddenly I'm on board with this song. And it is, once you know that, and then when you listen to this song, is the more mature version of Dashboard by the Paradise Light, or Paradise by the Dashboard Light. is classic. ⁓

Clancy Denton (07:18)
⁓

I I love this song and her voice and her ballads are just so good. But this one, yes, I remember playing it over and over and over again when you have to hit repeat on your whatever you can see the players.

Rick Denton (07:34)
I

do repeat, it was, and you know, certainly this is somewhat timely that we just watched the Grammys last week where the big reveal was her coming on stage with her, I make it just right, rigid body syndrome. and which is a tragic story of an incredibly talented person who is still, I would imagine, still has all that talent in her, just perhaps can't physically deliver.

Clancy Denton (07:56)
Yeah. So then the last Endless Love by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie. So all of the, you're watching or if you're not watching and you're listening, you can go back and look because the album cover of this one, our song cover is.

Rick Denton (08:16)
That's some good sunglasses and hair right there on Lionel. She looks great, right? she looks just, there's something about the eighties perm look for a guy and then those sunglasses. Okay, so there's a story with this one and there's a reason why this song actually became a little more special than any of us actually anticipated. And it's a mixture of sweetness and humor. We had gone to one of our favorite Italian restaurants in North Dallas at the time. It's when I was living in my apartment in Montfort.

and it's called Natale's, not there anymore, great place. It was one of those that they knew us, we knew them.

Clancy Denton (08:52)
And

⁓ I was an old Italian guy. His mom would sit in the corner. Yeah, I know. I should have gotten my tarot cards read or my fortune read from her at one point. But yeah, yeah. It's small, tiny little place. Yeah.

Rick Denton (08:57)
Do fortune

The classic neighborhood where they certainly knew our name and many times would anticipate our order. Which was absolutely fine. So we were driving home, so that was just a, it's a place that was ⁓ one of warmth for us, one of relationship for us and we're driving back on Beltline for those of you that know Dallas. And this song comes on and suddenly I hear a voice also singing along with this voice.

Clancy Denton (09:15)
you

Rick Denton (09:35)
And we start singing this song back and forth to each other in the car in the most vulnerable, sweet, connected sort of way.

Clancy Denton (09:44)
I think the wine probably had something to do with that.

Rick Denton (09:49)
or the sweet loving feelings that we were having between each But yeah, I mean, we really did. We sang this song back and forth to each other.

Clancy Denton (09:53)
other.

And I think I pulled a hairbrush out of my part, which now I'm thinking I don't ever. Yeah, no, I have. mean, but I don't remember carrying one my part, but I probably did when I was in my 20s. know, but yeah.

Rick Denton (10:03)
Did you, I don't remember that.

Now we can actually look at each other and just go, bum, bum, bum, bum. And right then we know.

Clancy Denton (10:22)
Yeah. And when, you know, the song was on friends to when Phoebe and Chandler singing it. And yeah, it's just it's just a good again, another power ballad. know, with two great voices, you know, the talent pool is just amazing in this song. And also just a sidebar. We just watched if you have Netflix and.

You're of our age or older. The, ⁓ there's a documentary on we are the world. Excellent. Go watch it. Lionel Richie made me and Diane Ross. She's in it too, but very, very good documentary about how that song came together. So anyway, sidebar. ⁓

Rick Denton (11:14)
And so we're talking about this and here it is 20 I am NOT gonna get this right but somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 to 27 years ago and yet this still makes us smile from that moment on Beltline approaching Montfort right as we're singing that in the gold maxima

Clancy Denton (11:28)
Yeah, I guess it would

have been 28 years ago. Yeah. Something. Oh, which when I was going back to the air supply song last year was the 40th anniversary of that song. I didn't.

Rick Denton (11:39)
We should have Let's

follow them like a Grateful Dead tour. Just follow them.

Clancy Denton (11:45)
I still want to see them. I know. So yes. So these were the songs that we really, you know, considered our love songs, I guess, as you would call them.

Rick Denton (11:56)
ton of other ones and even ones that might be considered more cool, There more current, there's probably Depeche Mode and New Order songs and all sorts of stuff, but these have just been cemented both from a humor perspective to a, and I think it's almost in the spectrum. It kind of went from humor to sweet.

Clancy Denton (12:12)
And that's what I did. ended with the super special one, if you want to call it that. yes. So when, you know, going back to Valentine's Day and since that is coming up this week, ⁓ you know, we in our dating, I'm sure we did. I have cards downstairs from Valentine's Day and I'm sure, you know, there were gifts exchanged when we were in the dating phase.

But I know, this is what I remember that killed it for us, at least killed the going out on Valentine's.

Rick Denton (12:51)
We reset

that headline. This killed our relationship. We were over. We're faking it now, no? Killed Valentine's as a scripted, scheduled, on the 14th you will do something romantic come hell or high water.

Clancy Denton (13:05)
Yeah. Do you want to tell her? you want to?

Rick Denton (13:08)
well we made those very different perspectives. ahead.

Clancy Denton (13:11)
well, OK, we loved Houston's. Go to we would go to Houston's frequently. It was right down the street from your apartment. ⁓ So we're like, let's go there on Valentine's night. Big mistake. Huge big mistake.

Rick Denton (13:30)
channel all of Julia Roberts delivery of that line. It is huge.

Clancy Denton (13:35)
Yeah, it was packed.

Rick Denton (13:37)
And we had reservations, we had to. I don't I don't know. It just was one of those of you're thinking, wait, I'm supposed to be romantically connecting with the woman I love and instead I'm standing in a 10 by 10 space, nut to butt with 50 other people sweating and grumpy and loud and hungry and it probably was because they were overwhelmed, not the individual's doing it right. It was.

Clancy Denton (13:57)
The service was awful.

Rick Denton (14:04)
such the opposite of what you would expect an experience to be. I don't remember if it was one of the fixed price menus or not.

Clancy Denton (14:12)
I don't

know, I think it might have been. I think that was another thing that turned us off. We were like, we can't even come here and have what we want.

Rick Denton (14:18)
I

my chicken tenders and fries, which I do a spectacular job of.

Clancy Denton (14:23)
But the one thing that Houston's was known for is if your tea glass was half full, here's your other. ⁓ that's right. what I remember. And I remember we were sitting there going, no one has brought me another glass. Yeah. mean, so that pretty much cemented. I remember we were both like, are never going. And this was before we were even married. We are never going out on Valentine's Day.

Rick Denton (14:36)
class.

Clancy Denton (14:49)
night again, or even now some of the restaurants have pushed it to the weekends, like this year it's on a Wednesday. So they've done the weekend before and some the weekend after. And again, they're doing these price fixed menus. Well, I don't want to go when I have to pick what's on your menu unless it's something that I enjoy. yeah, so I just see. So that's that's

Rick Denton (15:11)
I almost, I've heard it described as, actually I think I'm channeling what folks have said about New Year's, that it's amateur night. I almost feel that way about going out on Valentine's Day, and sorry for those of you that actually love going out on Valentine's I've just insulted all of our listeners.

Clancy Denton (15:25)
Well, and this is just us. That's what I was saying. This is how we treated Valentine's Day and how we treat the holiday itself.

Rick Denton (15:33)
It is the opposite of an event that brings me closer to you, which is in theory the point of a scripted holiday about love. Yeah. So no more dinners for us on Valentine's Day. But what have we done? I mean, we've done things on Valentine's.

Clancy Denton (15:48)
And so yeah, so we did, this was year this.

Rick Denton (15:52)
So for those

that are listening, this is a picture of us at Blue Man Group in Chicago. And that's us wearing clothes in the theater. It is so cold.

Clancy Denton (15:57)
Chicago.

February in Chicago, not a great idea. Love Chicago. I mean, all of our pictures from this trip, all you can see is our eyes, because we were covered and covered. I don't even remember what year this is, but it's ⁓

Rick Denton (16:09)
There's a reason why Valentine's Day

I don't remember the year. What I do remember is torturing that poor duke, so took us about five or six pictures to get this right, either way. But he couldn't talk. They weren't allowed to talk, so we could do whatever we wanted.

Clancy Denton (16:30)
So yeah, so that was, you know, a trip that we did that revolved around that was.

Rick Denton (16:36)
It's fun too. don't know if remember, actually called out my name before the show started. I don't know why, but it was Rick Denton when you stand up. They pretended that you were the VIP and made everybody applaud for you. So I felt very special.

Clancy Denton (16:39)
Do you remember?

They did.

Yeah,

no, that was a fun trip. So.

Rick Denton (16:50)
You were with a VIP. Happy Valentine.

Clancy Denton (16:52)
Thanks.

I think we know who the VIP is. ⁓

Rick Denton (16:57)
You

It is thrown down.

Clancy Denton (17:05)
One thing I will say with Valentine's, because we're about to get into some pictures that are more, I turned the focus more to making the kids feel special on there, you know, and I enjoyed their parties and all that kind of stuff. And I did hear this week ⁓ several on different podcasts, dad saying how they

want to make their daughters feel special on Valentine's Day because that's how they want them to learn that this is how a man is supposed to treat you. I was like, yeah, and you've done a great job of that and we'll get into some of that in a second. yeah, now she's even said, and she's noticed it with her other friends, he didn't open the door for her. That is not, you know, no, she knows. ⁓ so yeah, so that was our trip. So then yes.

Rick Denton (17:48)
Yeah. If the boy didn't open the door for her.

Clancy Denton (18:01)
This was one of Teagan's it's her it for those of you listening We got very creative with her Boxes for Valentine's Day and this was the year she was really into frogs. And so we made a frog Yeah, it's a milk jug and I don't you know what I was trying to think this was before Pinterest was around I'm sure

Rick Denton (18:15)
Is that, that's a milk?

Well then you're just

Clancy Denton (18:24)
Because

I don't know how I, I don't know how I, must have seen this on something, but I really don't think Pinterest, or I was not involved in Pinterest at least during this time.

Rick Denton (18:35)
there's a whole side conversation we'd have about actually having creativity before the social media world just forced it upon us. Look, if this were just authentically organic.

Clancy Denton (18:43)
Yes. I don't know where I saw this in a magazine, something, she actually, and this is better homes. She actually brought this when we were with her last weekend and I gave her something for Valentine's day. she said, mom, I really, the frog Valentine's box that we did. And then I gave her that year, a gigantic frog, you know, Walmart Valentine's. she said,

That was one of my favorite gifts and she said, I guess I was really into frogs I hear. I like, I don't know, guess so.

Rick Denton (19:15)
Look, we're just along for the ride with kids, right?

Clancy Denton (19:18)
So I tried to find her a big frog, but he may be up in the attic. So that was fun. their parties, I was room mom for many, many, many years. So I was always involved in the parties. And I'm glad that they've at least kept that going. So then this is again what killed another.

Rick Denton (19:38)
The couple's

part of Valentine's Day, think is what you're saying. That it translates, so this is daddy daughter dance. This is getting dressed up, you know, she gets to wear the little frilly dress or whatever, you know, the nice dress and Misa, don't eat the cord. Move on. So she's eating, she's eating.

Clancy Denton (20:03)
He's back. eat. Y'all did go to restaurant. is eating.

Rick Denton (20:05)
an

HDMI cable. You know, interesting. and it's a special time. It's one, and of course it ends with butterfly kisses and all that sort of stuff. It's just sweet. And even as she got older, it may not have been as sweet. It just was still a memory. was a moment. And I think even she would say that those were just times to connect and just be ⁓ in that the relationship of the love between a dad and a daughter got to manifest. And I hope that it did show her what it does mean to be loved by someone and how that can be.

I did see actually a picture of somebody that we went out to. ⁓ We would go with other dads and daughters. And ⁓ I saw Eric's picture with Alexi. It wasn't the same year, but I remember going with them once to Randy's Steakhouse. We'd always go to a nice place and have a nice dinner before going. These are great memories. ⁓

Clancy Denton (20:44)
Sure.

Frisco does a really good job of putting this on. mean, this was not a thing when I was younger, but when we moved here, we were like, the daddy daughter dance. And it sells out and it's always the weekend before Valentine's. But yes, she would have fond memories. mean, yeah, we loved, we would go dress shopping and we would do her hair. so yeah, those are good, good, good memories for y'all.

This was another thing as we got older. This one was on Valentine's Day. Sorry. Yes, I know I forget that this is soccer games. When you're on varsity soccer in high school, well, guess all the teams are, it's always Tuesdays and Fridays. So this Valentine's Day, we were at soccer.

Rick Denton (21:28)
Why do couples not do valentine's

We were at soccer and...

Clancy Denton (21:53)
I've spent many of my holidays at soccer mothers day tournaments.

Rick Denton (21:58)
Yeah, so I mean, and I think I'm glad that we had decided early on that Valentine's Day wasn't gonna be the scripted declaration because instead of being bitter about these introductions, we could laugh about them. You we would always joke, we're not gonna do Valentine's, but we didn't mind.

Clancy Denton (22:15)
I

didn't even know it was Valentine's Day. Yeah. Well, okay. But by this point, the kids were not doing parties. They doing. mean, yes, I would get the kids something. But yeah. So yeah. So that was another, you know, stealer of time. But.

Rick Denton (22:30)
do we get it back?

This actually, so this actually was Valentine's Day. this was, Tanner took, Tanner was invited to go visit Arizona State in the Honors College there. And so they're like, all right, well, if they're paying for his ticket, let's all go. He was, he had a girlfriend at the time, so he wanted to go back. So when I say a day trip, we all flew out on the first flight out that morning. He flew back that evening.

Well, Clancy and I decided we're gonna go state or resort. So this is the Weston Kierland up in Scottsdale for those that know the waste management tournament. It's very close to there. And the classic leg pointed at the pool picture. This was a return to couples Valentine's

Clancy Denton (23:15)
Again, yes, we're laying out by the pool. It's February 14th. This is why we love Arizona. Now, this weekend, you're not be able to do that, but this is why we love Arizona. Yes, that bookended our Valentine's.

Rick Denton (23:36)
We stopped doing it because of kids. Now one is going off to college. get to do it because. Actually, yeah, this is because of kids. And we ate in the hotel with hotel reservation. Like we didn't, I don't know. That's the way to do Valentine's.

Clancy Denton (23:42)
Yeah, that was a good

I love, don't think so.

you know, this is also a special trip because it did solidify his decision to go there. And we have obviously had a great time the past four years.

Rick Denton (24:06)
Here's a tip, if you want your kids to go to Arizona, have them visit the school in February.

Clancy Denton (24:12)
Yeah, when all their other friends are visiting places, schlepping through snow.

Rick Denton (24:17)
Boston

College doesn't feel the same on February 14th as ASU or U of A does.

Clancy Denton (24:23)
So yeah, so that was that. And then I just put a couple of pictures, because there were times that I actually, these were both that I showed up to work and you had left, there were.

Rick Denton (24:34)
These are pictures of roses. They were flowers.

Clancy Denton (24:37)
Ashley's office, because I don't have an office, that's where I sit. Yeah, ⁓ yeah, so you, you know, there have been times that.

Rick Denton (24:41)
It would have been odd if I'd left it on the treadmill.

not a good flower giver. This is something that I don't do well at. I just tend to forget about them. And then even I enjoy having flowers in the house. I think they're nice. I'm just, I'm not the greatest of gift givers.

Clancy Denton (25:03)
Well, and I think because there was one point in our relationship that I said I don't want flowers because they just die. And so I think then that you heard, I'm never buying flowers ever again.

Rick Denton (25:15)
Switch

just went off. Flower?

Clancy Denton (25:18)
⁓

And then one day I said, well, it would be nice to get flowers sometimes. ⁓

Rick Denton (25:24)
And I have, it's so rare, I will be the first to admit that I am the worst at this, but I've thrown some flowers your way on rando days. And I think that like it's fall, so let's get a fall decor, that kind of

Clancy Denton (25:36)
I mean, and I see, and I don't, I love fresh flowers, you know, to have around the house and stuff. just don't buy them because yeah, they, you die in a couple of weeks, but, but I do like, it does add, you know, to your house and that kind of thing. So, so yeah.

Rick Denton (25:55)
It is. This is another one that it's hard for me to choose to do on Valentine's Day and not, yes, there's the cost. I get that. I feel like I'm not being authentic if I do this on the day because then I feel like it wasn't me thinking of you. It was me looking at a calendar that forced me to think of you. And that's not necessarily the right view. It's just that's what sticks in my head. So that's why I struggle with this one when it comes to gift giving.

Clancy Denton (26:21)
It again has become a holiday that's so commercialized. mean Kroger has the huge tent out front and it's always again like we talked about men come get your you

Rick Denton (26:31)
I

almost feel embarrassed. Like I feel like, oh, you're the loser that forgot to get them until today, which isn't the case. They're fresh flowers, but it just feels like you're the loser doing the drive-through and that's wrong. just feels...

Clancy Denton (26:43)
That's like all the men at the mall on Christmas Eve to get Christmas gifts. So yeah, so there was a couple of, and then last year you did, you made me a mixed tape on Spotify. So that was sweet. It had songs that ⁓ meant something to us.

Rick Denton (26:47)
I don't that's true anymore, but...

I I included all the ones that we mentioned earlier. I think I did. It was a lot more than that. And that mixed tape, the good thing about Spotify is it's still there. We can listen to it anytime we want. I actually looked for an MP3, like something that was a physical cassette tape that you could load songs on and you would just plug into like Aux. Not an actual cassette tape, but I couldn't find it. business opportunity. If somebody wants to go into business with me creating faux cassette tape.

Clancy Denton (27:34)
I'm just waiting for talking about mixtapes and

everything is going backwards. And so I am so ready to see these kids walking around campus with their Walkmans and their headphones, because they've already started to go back to the big headphones again. And so I call it next year. You think you're going to see.

Rick Denton (28:00)
Some influencer with the crappy little headphones and the yellow wall

Clancy Denton (28:04)
And

it may not be like you just said, it may not be physical tapes that go in there, but maybe your phone goes in there and then you can play your I don't know. I think they're because they're starting to show going backwards to cameras and that kind of thing. So. ⁓

Rick Denton (28:20)
the washed out, well yeah, the camera with the washed out flash photography is so popular now.

Clancy Denton (28:27)
Yeah, so there's Valentine.

Rick Denton (28:28)
That's the evolution of Valentine's. So for those that were looking for Valentine's tips, you may not have gotten them today, but you at least have heard how we've evolved through a Valentine's holiday.

Clancy Denton (28:37)
Or

maybe you can say, you know what Rick and Clancy do? They just don't do it.

Rick Denton (28:42)
Here's your excuse. Well, I heard this on a public

Clancy Denton (28:45)
I don't know, by our age, people are probably already set in what they do, I have tried to tell, know, I mean, I even told Teagan this week, because she was talking about one of her friends whose dad is deployed right now. And, you know, he sent her something to give to her mom. And, you know, I said, yeah, I said, you know, your dad and I just, we don't.

Rick Denton (28:49)
I'm not really learning from others.

Clancy Denton (29:12)
view it as something that we have to do on that day. So I'm trying to let her know that, you know, the guys have a lot of pressure on them. It doesn't always have to be, you know, that way. yeah, so there we go. It's a fun memory lane walking down Valentine's. So we have a couple of kid texts and... ⁓

You brought up waste management because one of ours was at the waste management tournament, this golf tournament this weekend.

Rick Denton (29:44)
And

it's just to sell it for those that can't see it. WMO, right? Just talking about the waste management open. gotta love it. And what a fun experience for those that have, I don't even have a real depth of awareness of golf, but this is the people's tournament. There are a hundred thousand people, maybe 200,000, they don't take attendance. Yeah. And it's, the crazy one where you actually get to cheer and celebrate and boo the players when they do badly. And the players are cool. They know that's what the scene is. The players encourage it.

Clancy Denton (30:01)
And it's in Phoenix.

Rick Denton (30:13)
They're pumping up the crowd. So it's, it's the least golf golf tournament there is. And so he got to.

Clancy Denton (30:20)
Yeah, the decorum is not golf. People are in costumes. mean, there was a guy in a berat swimsuit, which Tanner just, he sent a text saying, sending the berat guy. So he must be sending us a video, but.

Rick Denton (30:22)
This is not

Yeah, so yeah, and for those that don't know the Brat Swimsuit, then you shouldn't know it. But if you do know it, well, then you know.

Clancy Denton (30:41)
So yeah, so he had a great time and I'm so glad that they got to go their senior year and The weather turned off great. It was not so great in the beginning. So it turned off great And then we had some really good Massive from our other child Teagan she said yeah, I think I'm gonna like my new roommate for those of you who have been following us along We have discussed

the situation with Teagan's roommate and how she was not, they were not vibing. So she got to move this weekend, her friends that are awesome helped her move. Her new roommate was gone, but she left her this super sweet note. So.

Rick Denton (31:24)
without knowing who Tegan is. It was titled, Hi New Roommate.

Clancy Denton (31:28)
Because they don't tell Tegan didn't know who she was moving in with this girl didn't know who she was getting

Rick Denton (31:34)
and still went out of her way to write a sweet note to a stranger that's going to essentially come into her space that she's had. And we are so optimistic that that is a sign of the... And we're not even looking for best friends out of here. It's just compatible humans that can enjoy each other's company. But that was just so sweet. And last week you saw or heard Clancy tear up a little bit as we were kind of talking about things and there have been tears talking about the roommates.

There were tears this time when we saw that letter too.

Clancy Denton (32:08)
It was just, yes. We are, yes, we are very thankful to God that hopefully this seems like it's going to be a good situation for her to end her freshman year. so yes, so we are so thankful that we got that text yesterday.

Rick Denton (32:10)
There is some answer to prayer.

And the move didn't seem to be too obvious either, right? She just had to move stuff from across the street, which was great. The room itself looks great, so it's just...

Clancy Denton (32:33)
Yeah, and we were just out there last weekend and we're like, do you need us to come? She's like, no, she's like, I have four people helping me move.

Rick Denton (32:40)
Including two that she told us are quite the organizer. If you're moving, find friends that are organized.

Clancy Denton (32:43)
Yes, so they went, yes.

Yeah. So, that just makes us so happy going into this week and just thankful.

Rick Denton (32:57)
Well, we plan to release this episode a day early, so you already know that if you're listening to this. So I hope that for those of you that are listening on the day of release that you do have a wonderful Valentine's Day, whether you did script something, we're sorry if we just killed your vibe for going out to dinner tonight. And for those that aren't, enjoy that pizza in front of the TV snuggled up with your significant other or whatever the heck you do.

Clancy Denton (33:20)
Yes, yes. Happy Valentine's Day. This has been another episode of The Loud Quiet.

Rick Denton (33:25)
Living with UNDiNest.