I DM’d My Celebrity Crush… Then Married Him at 20 (Ep. 1)

To be completely honest, I was not looking for a boyfriend at the time. Like, obviously I thought you were cute, but I wasn't like intentionally like, I'm going to make this guy my boyfriend, but you know. So is that why you DM'd me four times? I know somebody said to you that they were concerned about me being a catfish. Really? One of our managers was like, you should have checked, he's not a catfish. Yeah, that's hilarious. It's normal to have a celebrity crush. The fact that you categorize me as celebrity right now is super weird because like even now, I wouldn't even say CC. It's just the phrase. It's the phrase, yeah, yeah. All right, fine, I was your celebrity crush, babe, whatever. I mean, technically you weren't, but we don't need to go into that. All right. But wait, what? That's what this whole thing is about. No, I know. I know, I know, I know. Oh, technically you had your other boyfriends. You know, Harry Styles, whatever. Justin Bieber. Whatever. Just that first day, she told her mom that she was going to marry me. I did. There was just something. That's bonkers. I know, even thinking back to it now, me being 19, meeting you for the first time, I texted my mom. I said, I'm going to marry this boy. Welcome to So Far, So Good. Where we all get to do life together. And so far, it's going so good. It's official, guys. The first podcast, episode one, episode one. Wow. That's amazing. This has been a long time coming. This has been. Yeah. Why a podcast and why now? You know what I mean? That was a question for you, by the way. I was just trying to give you a softball to, you know. Why a podcast? I think you and I have been wanting to do a podcast for a really long time. It's been almost two years at this point that we've been talking about it. I'm not going to say we're the first couple to do a podcast. Guys, we're doing something revolutionary. We're starting a podcast. No one's ever done this before. But it has definitely been a long time coming. But we didn't want to just have a podcast, have a podcast. We really wanted to be intentional and have a reason of what we want to talk about, what we want to bring. Yeah. And at this point in our lives, like, I don't know, moving to Nashville and everything like that, there's a part of our lives that being community is something that we really wanted to dive into. And I think that really is reflecting in what we're doing for our work and our content. And we felt a podcast where we all get to do life together and feel like we're more connected than just a really high edited vlog or anything like that was a good medium to be to kind of like facilitate that growth in making it really feel like there's a community amongst the kind of content that we're making. So this is going to be fun. It's going to be laid back. But also we have some ideas to incorporate you guys into this podcast. So I don't know. I think it'll just be an opportunity for us all to connect on a deeper level. And we're so excited. So why so far, so good? I don't know. Life is never. Well, I do know. I'm about to tell you life. When you're going through life, you're never at the finish line. Like everything is a work in progress. And I think so far, so good. Really, that just that phrase really encapsulates like an optimistic outlook on life that is a continual journey of like development and bettering yourself and just doing right by others and all those types of things. And we just wanted to kind of like package that into a phrase. And so far, so good was like the perfect phrase to make that to make that happen. I think it's also interesting because with social media, you can look at people like content creators like they have this perfect life or like, you know, they get to choose what they show, et cetera, et cetera. This podcast is going to be much more like raw. And I think open and honest. So we're not going to sit here and pretend like we have everything, you know, everything figured out. You know, we're on this journey with everyone else. And so far, it's going so good. I love it. Welcome to so far, so good. Well, we can go in a little bit more. And if you saw like one of our previous blogs where we were talking about like getting the podcast ready and setting things up and stuff like that, us personally, we're at a point in our, I guess, career and our lives as well, where our career and our personal lives are so meshed together with vlogging that we're at a point now as parents and having a child and probably more down the line, how are we going to? The question we were asking ourselves is like, how are we going to actually keep some like intimacy in our personal life and keep like privacy with our children and stuff like that while still keeping connection? And I guess like connection to. Yeah, yeah. But then like I guess like intimacy with our audience as well, because we used to not use you. We filmed we have filmed over the past six, seven years at this point. So much of our life and been so open with it that we have such a strong connection with you guys. And we wanted to try and figure out a way to maintain that while also still maintaining just some privacy in our life out of respect for our own family and our daughter. So that's where this podcast kind of came from, a way to connect on a deeper level, more intimate level with each other, you guys, while still kind of like being respectful of of the different things that we have going on in our life. It's going to be really fun. So we want to start off with this segment called So Good or No Good. Yes. And this really comes from my love of pop culture. And my love of being homeschooled and oblivious to it, I guess. Yeah. Thanks, babe. So this is something that we do in our day to day home married life where I'm just feeling gave in on like what I have seen, like what is going on? Who's dating her? Like what is happening? I just love a bit of pop culture. And so example. Selena Haley drama, you know what I mean? That's old news at this point. But if the podcast I started by then just would have filled me in on that because I had no idea that that was going on. Right. Because I'm just living in my blissfully ignorant bubble in which I have no idea what's happening and it's great. And then just fills me in on what I need to know. It's beautiful. So, so good or no good. There's going to be times where there's a so good and this is an amazing thing. And then there might be no good where it's like, oh, I can't believe this is happening. Yeah. You know? So I have one so good and one no good today. And we're going doubles today. It's a good way to start off the pot, I think. Go both. Yeah. OK, so this is the so good. And this is just really quick. Yeah. I thought it was really sweet. Adam Sandler is celebrating 20 years being married to his wife, Jackie. Really? And he did a nice Instagram post. Happy 20th, my sweet Jackie. Your idea was the best gift of my life. What? 20 years. I think that's really admirable. Wow. And what a G. He's such a legend, to be honest. Just like he makes great movies. He's hilarious. He's like a family man, wears whatever clothes he wants, doesn't really care about fashion. And because of that, he's a whole fashion trend now. You know what I mean? Totally. Like I know that that's going on because my sister's like, look at my Adam Sandler outfit or whatever. What is it called? Sandler shorts. You know, where you wear a really baggy shirt. Anyway, whatever it's he's an inspiration to us all. Are you ready for the no good? Yeah. Give it to me. I don't know if you have read or seen anything about this. I'm just going to read an article title. OK. All right. I'm nervous now. Why am I nervous? This is weird. Mark Zuckerberg accepts Elon Musk's cage fight challenge. Did you hear anything about this? Why is this in the no good section? This is amazing news. What? OK, so it starts because Mark Zuckerberg, or I guess Meta, have announced that they're coming out with like Twitter's rival. Oh, what? Wait, isn't that just Facebook? No, it's going to be like a Twitter. Why? I don't know. It's this new thing. OK, whatever. I haven't looked into it. Clearly, that's the point of this. So Elon Musk responds to a tweet about it, and he says, I'm up for a cage match if he is, lol. And then Mark Zuckerberg posts this screenshot of the tweet on Instagram, of course, because he's not going to tweet. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's hilarious. So he goes on Instagram story. What a move. And he says, send me location. Wow. Now, I didn't know this, but Zuckerberg. Oh, I think I know what you're going to say. Zuckerberg does jujitsu. Yes. Yeah, I've I've heard that. And he recently won like his first tournament. He won. Yeah. Wow. Anyway, I just thought that was the image in my head of like them two fighting. Anyway, it's getting like a lot of press, obviously. That's pretty good. OK, but what are the chances that it actually happens is the thing like they're going full YouTuber here and it's like, we're going to do a boxing match, you know, 10 percent, 10 percent. I'm going to say I would normally I'd probably say 10 percent, but I'm going to say I'm going to go with 25 percent because Elon Musk is he just seems to like if he says something, he just ends up doing it. You know what I mean? He's a he's very much a man of his word. I just can't picture Mark Zuckerberg. Like Elon Musk probably has his whole, you know, team of minions and assistants or whatever, like booking the venue right now because of that response from Zuckerberg. Oh, my gosh, that would be the biggest fight in history. That would be I would pay so much money to watch that. That would be so funny. But honestly, Zucky Wucky would probably win because of his jujitsu experience. I'm going to be honest, as a former wrestler, when you're when you're grappling with someone who has no experience, it's not that fair, to be honest. Well, I was reading somewhere else that Elon Musk does has have some experience, too. Oh, wow. These people really went in. All right. So if you're watching this on YouTube and you're able to comment, comment who you think is going to win the match, who would win a match between Zuckerberg and Elon Musk? I will say that I was like, see, there's so much press about this that there was even like their stats like that, you know, height, weight, etc. Elon is taller and heavier. Oh, yeah. He would he would tower over him. There could be a world, a scenario where they get to the floor and Elon just lays on top of him and makes him tap out just because he can like put his belly over Mark's face. And then there's nothing. It's like a paper bag over your face. Like there's nothing you can do about it. You know what I mean? That probably should be his technique going into the match. So there you go. Thank you. So good. Good for the day. Thank you for filling me in. I feel I feel educated now. I feel like I'm more on the know. I appreciate it. My homeschool brain is very stimulated right now. So today we wanted to do a deep dive into. How I deemed my celebrity crush and married him. Oh, what? What? So I feel like there's something I don't know. I think a lot of people know this story, maybe not to the depths that we're going to go into. But if you don't know, if you are new, this is my husband, Gabriel. He started out on Vine and YouTube and Instagram. You know, that was already your full time job. I was doing social media stuff at the time. 2013, I started Vine. Wow. July 2013, I started Vine. Ten years ago. Ten years ago. That is bonkers. Oh, my gosh. I'm getting old. I was 18 years old then. I'm 28 years old. Gabe's having a bit of a crisis right now. Oh, my gosh. Let's stop this podcast. So over the course of growing on Vine, then starting YouTube videos and all that sort of stuff, I grew a following. And what was that? I had like a few hundred thousand subscribers, a few hundred thousand Instagram followers and stuff like that at that point. Yeah. And Jess took notice. So I didn't have Vine or like I, you know, I didn't use Vine. But it's funny. I actually have seen Gabe's Vines before on Tumblr. I think I like saw some of your stuff. So I did recognize you. Yeah, my stuff was getting around. But we have a friend. His name is Jaco, and he was like an Aussie content creator back then, too. And so I saw through Jaco's Snapchat. I saw Gabriel. They were together in L.A. And that is how I first saw Gabe. I then went to your Instagram. And did a little stalk, obviously. And you were posting a lot of like, like not feet, not feet content. What? But like shoe. Like I'm. What? I can. This is so weird, Jess. Like. Oh, oh, artsy. Your shoes with like some autumn leaves. And the caption was like a Bible verse. Yeah, I was trying to be artsy. And it's when you did the feed and have to break up like one of your a post of your face or of yourself with a post of like something else. Yeah, it was it was a filler pic. Yeah. Anyway, he gave you would do a lot of those with like Bible verses. And I think your I think your Instagram bio was love God, love people. Maybe. Did you ever have a bio like that? Yeah, it was a love Jesus, love people. I think it was back then. So I knew that you were a Christian at the time. I was a uni student. I had a YouTube channel on the side just for fun. But a translation for people who don't know what uni is college. So, you know, it's not like I was another established YouTuber DMing an established YouTuber. OK, but this was a thing is she also had a following, though, like you had 10K on Instagram and 30K on your YouTube channel. So I was like, OK, hold on, you're jumping. OK, all right. All right. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Long story short, I saw his Instagram, obviously thought he was very cute. Christian guy, obviously, to be completely honest, I was not looking for a boyfriend at the time. Like I was not thinking that. Obviously, I thought you were cute, but I wasn't like like intentionally like I'm going to make this guy my boyfriend, you know. So is that why you DM me four times? OK, so sorry, I'm skipping steps, but I had to. I had a trip planned out to L.A. I was taking a solo trip, my first trip to America, which was always like a dream of mine. And you were really. Yeah, I didn't I guess I didn't know a lot of people in L.A. Even like people I followed. So I really like with pure intentions. Decided to message Gabe on Instagram. And my trip was three weeks, I think, three weeks long. And I wanted to visit churches in L.A. I wanted to like know which ones to visit. So I messaged Gabe and I I was just trying to get across like, hey, I'm not weird. You should answer my message, please. She pulled the Christian card. What church do you go to? But I guess I was thinking it like through an established YouTuber. Like, how can I make it make you see my message and think like, oh, she's weird or like whatever. I'm not going to respond. I need to make it normal. And I guess everything I was saying, I was like, that's too long. That's too wordy. And so I thought I was deleting the messages, but. I guess two of them deleted out of the four. And then so Gabe read two messages. Yeah, I was like, she's kind of desperate, but she's hard. So I'll respond anyway. So that was basically it from my side. I was reaching out, wanting to find a church. Obviously, it would have been exciting if you responded because you were cute. Christian YouTuber like that's cool. I was excited. But I guess we can go into your side about your memories of the whole thing and what you thought. Yeah, at that point in time, I was home back in Florida and I just got my wisdom teeth pulled out and I was like dead on the couch for a week. And I usually didn't scroll through my DMs a ton. But every now and then I'd go in just to see if, I don't know, someone hit you up or whatever. And I went in and I saw this message from Jess. And I was like, oh, that's that's cool. She's asked me about church and whatever. She sent two, kind of desperate, but she's a Christian. So that's, I don't even know, whatever. That's gotta count for something. So then I go on her page and I start scrolling. And my first impression was actually like, oh, she has a great voice because you had a bunch of singing videos. And I was like, man, she sings so well. Well, after I saw pictures of you and I was like, dang, she's super pretty. But then my first impression outside of just that was that you had a great voice. And then I was like, okay, is this a catfish? Like, is she a catfish? Is she just posting other people's stuff? But you had like 10,000 followers. A catfish account probably wouldn't have that. And you were posting videos. And it was connected to your YouTube channel, which you were posting YouTube videos. And everyone who you were tagging and posting photos with, it was all like accurate information of like, oh, you tagged your mom. And it wasn't like your mom, and then you go to her page, and then she's posting a photo with you. And then it links to another account, which is your real account. It was all like. You really did a deep dive. Yeah, the spider web was connected. I did my homework. So we DMed back and forth for a little bit. And I don't know. I just like didn't have, like I was interested, obviously. But I didn't, you never know how those things are gonna turn out. It's like she's on the other side of the planet. But I'm just so curious, like, have you ever done that before? Have you ever met up with a girl that you've DMed? No, no, I didn't meet up with a girl I DMed. Unless, no, it would have been, I don't think through DMs. It would have been someone who was like, oh, we're gonna film a video or something. Yeah. So wasn't that weird to be like, okay, I'm just gonna keep talking, maybe we should meet up? I don't know. Well, we had already talked on the phone before then. I got you on the phone. Which was so weird, by the way. Because I was like, I need to hear her voice. I need to make sure she's not a weirdo. I need to have a good conversation with her before I'm just like. Hey, we should FaceTime. And I was like, FaceTime? Who FaceTimes? Everyone.