Good evening and welcome to another episode of a Contagious Smile Unstoppable.

This is take two.

Even though we are unscripted, I just have to put out there that my husband had a moment, if you will.

He had a brain fart.

And so even though we're unscripted, we just had to scratch it and start over again.

A man moment.

Yeah.

So lots happened today.

What's happening today?

Focus.

Well, let's start with what's coming out in March.

Oh, that would be a new book.

No.

A new magazine.

We are on the cover of Podcasters International magazine.

That'll probably be interesting.

And we also get a four-page spread inside.

As well as we are the cover.

Another magazine.

Yes.

It's featuring a contagious smile.

And Victoria Cure.

That's C-U-O-R-E Cure.

Which is great if you want to go to the website victoriacure.com.

Right.

VictoriaCure.com is up and running and it has multiple books on there.

Including our newest release today.

We have a book out today, which is amazing.

So I'm very proud of my wife, y'all.

Any of you husbands out there, you know, are not proud of your wife.

I'm very proud of mine and uh let y'all know that.

So if any of the mothers out there listening, especially mine, I'm very proud of my wife.

I love my wife to pieces.

You don't call your mother your mom.

Oh.

Anyway, my wife, I think she's up to like 46 books now.

Well, here's a few little tidbits.

Number one, healing from narcissistic abuse, a thousand and one questions, to help you on your journey of healing is the go-to book for like the book of you know what to expect when you're expecting when you're pregnant.

This is the one for healing from narcissistic abuse.

I will tell you, it is eight times harder to do one of these books than to write a book cover to cover, because the alignment, and everybody knows that like grammatically, it's not my strongest, the grammar is not my strongest suit.

We know this, but it's the information within that is what matters.

So, like lining up all the lines for people to write their answers in, and then the numbers, and then the questions, and there's a thousand and one.

So please, I know there's some oops and boops and you know, things in there that maybe aren't lined up a hundred percent.

So please forgive me for that.

It's all about the content.

Thank you.

Because this was really hard, but it's so it really helps you see who you were, who you are, and help you get to where you want to be.

And it it is amazing.

I'm really proud of this book.

And then, yes, we're gonna be on March cover for Podcast International magazine.

Also got noticed that I had another article come out in a magazine today for another magazine that I write with.

And oh, of course you did.

I love getting my husband's reaction like this.

I have just finished and am in the editing process of my next book called Breaking the Cycle.

Right now it's over 500 pages, so I might have to trim it a little bit.

And it's how you can help break the cycle from your generational trauma so that you don't bring it on to your kids.

Because my husband and I have what are you laughing at?

My husband is literally about to piss himself.

And here I am thinking, all the only thing you do all day is sit on your ass.

And yet you're up here writing 500-page books like nothing.

Well, that's not all I do all day.

I do talk to patients and talk to and help survivors.

We with the exception of your very first book, Who Kicked First, a memoir.

The other 45 or 46 books that you've written have been within the last five years.

I would say maybe not that many.

I think maybe five or so came in between that period.

You had you had all the content written down?

No.

Well that's what I'm saying.

I'd say in the last seven or eight years, yeah.

Other than Dean Coots.

I don't know.

James Patterson can put a book out quicker.

James Patterson is quick.

He's always on somebody's subtitle somewhere.

I think you're up there, you're on par with them fellas.

I wish.

I know you like James Patterson.

I love James Patterson.

And you took his master class.

I did.

I also took Stephen Voss, who I think is, or Chris Voss.

Chris Voss.

Chris Voss.

I'm sorry.

He's gonna get you.

Yeah, I'm sure.

I mean, that was just I love Chris Voss.

I think he's amazing.

Yeah, he's phenomenal.

Yeah.

I love so much about how James Patterson writes.

He doesn't use a computer, he writes everything down by hand.

Does it do it one-handed?

I don't know.

I do know he laughs when he talks about how like he'll be in a restaurant and he'll write ideas for a book on a on a paper napkin.

And his wife's like, Really?

And then he, you know, turns everything over, I guess, to his assistant or his editor, and then they write it all out, and then they show him what needs to be edited, and he only wants to see those lines, and that's it.

Wow.

I mean, I think that's phenomenal.

Like, how awesome is that?

You complain when I edit you.

But that's because that's the only way I can get you to even look at my and like really read.

You don't want to read a 500-page book anymore.

I don't want to read about the past.

But these are books on how to help people break the cycle.

You and I both broke the cycle of generational trauma.

We have not, you know, traumatized our kids, except you prank them all, but it's so imperative that they learn how people learn how to break that cycle, not to let those people have that control over you anymore.

I mean, do you want to turn out like your mama dad?

No, that was quick.

You know what?

Maybe that's why, Victoria, that I don't like to watch all the cop shows that y'all watch.

You know, because we lived it.

I I don't I did 13 and a half years in law enforcement.

I don't want to see that shit again.

I I I I lived it, I worked it.

Well, in all fairness, I would say I support the blacklist because who doesn't?

And it's James Spader and Aram Moshbai Amir.

Sorry.

I love Amir.

He's a buddy.

He always reaches out to us and gives us the best videos, and he he is just give up in Broadway.

Yeah, I'm hoping he said he was gonna try and come on a podcast, which I would love.

But he'll probably send us tickets and we'll have to fly out, drive out there.

Right.

But then things like okay, Law and Order, SVU.

Like I know you make comments like that, but Mariska Harkate actually commented years and years ago how she loved Who Kicked First.

And so it's kind of you know, I don't watch as many as I used to.

I used to be really about it, but now I'm really more into medical shows.

Like I love the pit.

I think it's a phenomenal.

It's so realistic.

It's much more realistic because there's not the drama that like Gray's Anatomy and all that have.

It's not like who's sleeping with who in the call on call room or whatever.

It is hand on.

Like, I watched last night's episode while you were snoring, and out of nowhere, I'm gonna try and keep this clean, all of a sudden they're showing an appendage of male anatomy, and he might have taken a couple of pills, literally.

And how yeah, and how you reduce it, right?

And so I wasn't expecting them to actually show it, but they did, and then we're like, wow, okay.

But no, I like a lot more of the medical stuff than I do the law enforcement and whatever than the law enforcement stuff anymore.

Except like the blacklist we always have to show.

I mean, huge support for that.

Yes.

Well, I mean, if Marissa, Marissa, you know, if she said the most good, the most good, y'all go buy it.

Who kicked first?

Look it up on Amazon, or jump over to the new webpage, Victoria Cure.com.

That's Victoria Cure C-U-O-R-E.

Yay!

And we are getting a new member to our family.

Oh Lord.

Yeah, I want to get another.

Exciting.

We're getting a puppy.

I'm so excited.

Because let's just be real, Stucco, my service dog, who is the best, and you've admitted is the sweetest.

Yeah, but he's getting old.

Shut the front door, don't say that.

He is not getting old.

Get ready to retire.

Shut up.

He you just don't like it because we'll be in bed, and my husband tries to lean over and oh my god.

And Stucco will shove him out of the way and push him away.

Like last night you tried to kiss me, and Stucco like literally put his little head in between us.

My mom.

My mom.

It's phenomenal.

I love it.

So I woke up this morning, not by choice, y'all, but about 3 16 in the morning.

He is kicking the shit out of my back.

But he never does this to me.

He's having a dream.

He's never done this to me.

And his legs were right there on the middle of my back, and he just.

That is a massage.

Man, I jumped up screaming, what the heck is Oh, I know how that goes.

Oh, really?

Yeah, when you jump up because you were expecting, yeah, I get that.

No, but Stucco is c turning four next month and shut up.

And so we have a dear friend who his two AKC Goldens got together and did a little chicky chicky wow-wah and got pregnant.

And so they are the white golden retrievers.

Well, like we look at Stucco, he's red, right?

Because there's normally golden retriever, and they're more of a yellow-brown color.

And so these are cream or white, whatever.

And we're gonna get a girl, and we're gonna let her get older, and then let her have some puppies, and uh that way in a few years I can keep the legend of Stucco.

But I don't think we're going back into breeding like we were before.

No, we might have one litter a year or something like that.

We were breeding y'all at the time about what two years ago, two and a half?

Three.

We had five female dogs and two studs.

And it was there was a handful to take care of why is it gotta be a handful?

38 puppies.

Oh, but puppy love.

Oh, oh yeah.

Oh my god, you just sit down and it's like all the puppies all over you, and they're just like, oh, they're just who can't be happy with a puppy?

I mean, seriously.

It was fun to rotate the puppies in a house, excuse me, to get them used to us, and so and I always had one in the office, and they would sit on my lap while I was working, and then when they're little yaps, they're so cute.

During the summertime, I'd get out there in their little pool with them, and and I'd take a bath and playing with them.

Yeah, you're due for another bath here soon.

Thanks, love.

Yeah, you're welcome.

Absolutely.

So we are trying, as y'all know, from day one.

I started a contagious smile back in some support.

2006, right here, buddy.

In 2006, I started a contagious smile at the request of the chief of one of the medical groups that was helping Faith at the time, and it just went from there.

And then we started podcasting, and we were, you know, in the top global 1%, and we were getting millions of downloads and things of that nature.

But we have done this out of our own pocket from inception, and it is expensive.

I mean, I have talked to, I can't even tell you how many other individuals that spend thousands and thousands and thousands, if not tens of thousands, depending on who they are, a month on advertising and all of that.

And we don't do that because we pay it forward and we help establish, you know, women and children into a new safe environment.

We help them get back on their feet, we help, you know, make sure that these special needs families get the medical care that they rightfully deserve.

And so it's really hard.

So we're hoping that we can get our followers up even more on the social media and we can start hoping to generate like some more monetary growth that way because we don't want to stop what we're doing.

That's right.

So let me let me put it this way if y'all don't want to hear me begging for money and get on the website, contact us, tell me how to monetize this.

Also, you could go on our academy.

We have an academy.

It's it was actually awarded that's a challenge.

What's a challenge?

You can go on the academy.

Most classes are free, and some are very low cost.

We had been awarded first ever trauma-informed academy internationally, and best trauma platform internationally by Evergreen, which is huge, and then Women's Weekly has awarded up best of review.

Is I mean, we've gotten all these international awards for the academy, and there is even a little thing on there, it says buy me a coffee.

And what that does is that provides the opportunity to donate, and we can continue because even that platform alone running that is several hundred a month just to run that.

And we're trying to provide low cost, if not free, to everyone out there.

I mean, like almost most of the classes are free, but that's what helps pay that cost, which is desperately needed, especially now that my husband lost his job for taking care of his dad.

So we really need some assistance on that end.

Yep.

So it's nice every once in a while to get uh an email or video phone call from folks like Malcolm Goodwin.

Yes, from iZombie and from Reacher and Breakout Kings.

He was so good, Breakout Kings.

Solomon Reacher.

He's the uh detective.

Yeah, you need to see Breakout Kings.

It's kind of a function.

From one of his friends, yeah.

Now, how awesome is that, y'all?

He reached out to us because he heard from a friend of his that I helped save her life.

Now that's that just I mean, that that makes it all worthwhile right there.

100%.

Um, so yeah.

And he said, I'm gonna listen to all your shows, and you've got a fan in me now.

And then we've had Bellamy Young from Prodigal Sun and from Scandal, who doesn't love her.

She's phenomenal.

And let's see, China Phillips.

We're just name dropping here.

Okay.

Hello.

Lou Diamond Phillips.

We've had Lou Diamond Phillips that came across at dinner.

You weren't that I was flabbergasted, y'all.

I'm like, who is who are you, woman?

Lou Diamond is calling my wife.

You know, I watched Lou Diamond Phillips growing up in Young Guns, you know.

Sorry, Lou, I've never seen that movie.

I I'm trying to get her to watch it, but um I don't have time to watch TV.

I really don't.

You don't.

Yeah, uh 28 hours used to be your 1500 book.

Whatever.

Whatever.

Oh, I have to say, and I'm so sorry.

Oh, David Arquette has Scott Hamilton.

Oh I used to watch him skate with my grandparents, which was amazing.

David Arquette.

Who is the guy who wished you a happy birthday after I put out that it was your birthday?

He was the he was in the scary movies.

That's why I can't place him.

Shorter guy, black hair.

Oh my god, that's horrible.

He wished you a happy birthday.

Oh wow.

He's gonna kill me.

Probably.

And he was like, happy 50th, I'm gonna reach out to you on your 60th.

Oh, I could see his face, but I can't.

It starts with A, don't it?

A B.

Oh my gosh.

But we also have to say who else?

John Cusack.

Huh?

John Cusack also reached out.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah, and said he would invite us.

Right.

And then Tyler Perry has Who Kick First right now.

I would love to meet him.

I'm telling you, I really would.

I just think he's a phenomenal human being, number one.

But I also know, and I'm not gonna share a story because I don't know how many people know it.

Tyler has a backstory, and I would love to meet him.

What an honor that would be.

And I'm telling you, even before the whole domestic violence court trial, Johnny Depp was still one of my top because that man takes Captain Jack with him everywhere he goes, and he just shows up at kids' hospitals.

I'm telling you, I would piss my pants if I was at the hospital with Faith and upwatch Johnny Depp.

I'd be like, hey, I'm your sister.

Hi, hi, I'm Captain Jane.

I'm Captain Jane Sparrow.

Like, because he goes and he openly states that he feels guilty that he gets such satisfaction from meeting and spending time with these kids when he wants to do it to help the kids.

And in turn, he gets such satisfaction out of just seeing their smile.

And then, you know, normally my husband will tell you, I have videos or music playing in the background while I'm working.

I had the trial on with him and his ex Amber Heard.

And he and then I ended up stopping and watching a little bit of it.

And that man has been through hell.

Like Johnny Depp went through hell.

And his disposition, his demeanor, everything that he went through, you know, he couldn't even look at her.

No, no.

I think he said, I will not, you will not see these eyes.

Look at you again.

But no, it wasn't just that.

I mean, when she was testifying about like him deprecating himself.

Himself.

No, he he supposedly did on their bed.

Oh no, she, I was under the impression she it did.

It came back that she did.

But like, or the fact she cut his finger off, or you know, all of the things, he you could see the pain in his eyes.

And my heart just broke for him because for him to come out publicly as a man, he I mean, I I hope and pray he hears this.

First of all, he's not a coward, he is a hero in so many people's eyes, including my own, because as a man, he stepped forward and said, This can happen to me too.

This can happen to me as a man.

And you know it's not a publicity start.

Oh, God, no.

And you know, he lost his contract to do a ton of movies because of this.

And people who signed him as their spokesperson walked away from him.

And he openly admitted, Yes, I shoved her off of me because she was hurting me.

And then they turned that around.

Oh, you assaulted her and you did this.

He has every right to defend himself, and he didn't hurt her, he shoved her off of him and said, You need to leave, you need to go away.

But the pain in his eyes.

His face, you could see his body language, his body language, you could see how he was.

He was hurting so badly, and my heart just broke for him.

But I'm so proud of him.

And I know, like in the scheme of things, I'm nobody, but uh when you look thank you, thank you.

But Johnny Depp is an absolute flipping hero to the special needs community, to the domestic violence community.

For him to not only uh take it to court but to publicly allow that to go on television as a man, you know.

So many people like, I'm taking his man card.

Oh my god, he he just got the value size man card because he showed that men are also victims, right?

And he showed with grace and gratitude every time he came in, he shook the officers' hands and thanked them for doing their job.

He said hello to everybody, he was so nice to every single person, right?

But you could see the pain in his face, you could see the pain in his eyes.

And I mean, like, I I'm just so proud of him for what he did in that court trial and everything he stood up for.

He he won before even the first day of court because he did what you know he thought was right.

So I'll get off my soapbox of Johnny Depp now.

But like seriously, I'm so impressed by him.

So, as y'all figured out, that my one of my wife's wish list is Johnny Depp to be on the show and James Spader.

And of course, you know, we've got uh her book, Who Kicked First, over to Tyler Perry, and uh it went from his desk to his hand uh here recently.

So if anyone out there can make that happen, James Spader, Johnny Depp, y'all are welcome.

Keanu Reeves.

I mean, he has a what a story he has.

I know that would be yours.

He has such a story, too.

You know, he lost the love of his life, dog, John Wick.

Okay, this isn't funny though.

I'm serious.

He lost his girlfriend at the time.

They were pregnant, he lost a child, he lost his sister.

He gives most of all of his royalties from I believe it's the Matrix series to finding a cure for what killed his sister.

And he rides the subway.

He doesn't, you know, he rides this, he rides the subway.

I would, you know, you're sitting on the New York subway train and all of a sudden here's Keanu Reeves.

I'd be like, hi, you know, he gets up and lets women sit down in his seat.

He is so humble and so real, you know.

I mean, he knows where he came from.

You know, another one I would have loved to talk to is Robin Williams.

Like he did an interview just 20 hours before he died saying people who are hurting so bad on the inside don't want others to feel what we feel.

So that's why we try so hard to make them laugh.

And, you know, he only hired homeless people and they were only allowed to eat the food services.

He's like, all of us make a paycheck, we can afford a sandwich.

This is for them.

And he would give them the clothes and stuff from the movie shoot so that they would have clothes and stuff.

And I mean, that is an honorable, honest person, you know.

I mean, there's not a lot of these people out there anymore at all.

You know, and you know what?

Money doesn't keep you warm at night, money doesn't make the world go round.

Yes, you need it to pay your bills and survive, but you know, like people who have millions and millions of dollars, and then they say, Oh, I'm broke, I'm going bankrupt or whatever.

How is that possible?

How can you, you know, like what I understand is law enforcement, firefighters, you know, they don't make enough money, you know, at all.

At all.

But then you have these athletes who put, you know, yeah, they put their life on the line.

People say, well, they could get a concussion.

Well, an officer could get shot, a firefighter could get burned, and they're getting, you know,$100 million.

They're getting whatever, insanely amount of money.

And I'm not saying they don't deserve it, they're great at their game, but isn't that a little outrageous when you have fire and law enforcement officers who have no idea on the call that they're going on if they're gonna go home afterwards every time they go on a call?

Is that you know, fully engulfed home going to take them when they go in there?

Is that call you're going on because you hear that there's a you know dispute going on?

Is that gonna take you home from away from your family?

You don't know.

And I don't think it's fair.

I don't think you know that we are adequately paying those that deserve it the right amount of money.

Yeah, we went over left field on that one.

Probably.

We went from Johnny Depp.

Well, Johnny Depp donates a ton of his money.

No, that we didn't really go to left field, we kind of went center because we were talking about Keanu Reeves and how he donates.

And so that's kind of where it came from.

Like he's doing, you know, right.

Like he's not, he's like, I'm never gonna spend$500 million in my lifetime.

So let me try to help people with cancer find the cure.

You know, let me do the honorable thing.

Johnny Depp is dirty rich, you know, and he goes in there and wants nothing but the smile from the the kids.

I mean that in the nicest way, like you know, he's got a ton of money, but he walks into a hospital unannounced because he doesn't want that.

He just wants to see the kids and the their faces, and that's that's somebody with a really good heart, and that's hard to find these days, seriously.

So an Adam Sandler moment, who to me is another another humble fella, walking around, you know, like he normally dresses, sweatshirt, jeans, or you know, shorts and a and a t-shirt.

His daughter had down dressed and walked into an expensive boutique, I guess, boutique for handbags, and she was humiliated by the saleswoman like a pretty woman moment.

Because the way she was dressed or was not dressed, if you will.

And her daughter was embarrassed and got on the phone with dad.

Eight minutes later, dad shows up, right, in his normal attire.

I didn't hear about any of this.

And you know, ask what what happened, what's going on.

Well, she was looking at like, I don't know,$12,000 purse, right?

Who would spend that much money on a purse?

Oh, never mind.

Go ahead.

And so Dad said basically gave gave him the finger and said, I'll buy every color of that purse that you have right now.

Just to show you it's not about how you look.

Oh, yeah, people prejudge.

So$312,000 later, and it went viral.

I mean, he just blew up everywhere.

What kind of dad is that?

Right.

Didn't didn't get a fight with him, you know, didn't argue with him, didn't say, you know, hey, this is what I can do because I have it, but this is what I'm gonna do for my daughter.

She wanted a purse, she can have it.

In every color.

Yeah.

But see, that's just what that people so often prejudge you by your appearance, right?

Like I am always, you know, first of all, I'm normally sitting in the office working, or I'm at a doctor's appointment, or I'm on the alert table.

And so a lot of times I like to wear like jogging pants and a uh sweatshirt or a pullover hoodie or whatever.

And people prejudge me right off the bat.

And the thing is, is that often, yes, my husband's been trying to break my habit of this.

I will put my amputated limb inside the pouch of my pocket on my sweatshirt, and I hide it because people stare and people give me horrific looks, like I'm a freak, right?

And people just stare.

And I never want our daughter, I don't want faith to feel uncomfortable.

And so I have scars all over me.

There's not a place of me you look that I don't have scars.

And I understand that that's a whole different body dysphoria topic, but I dress this way, and you know, people look at me and prejudge me, but you wouldn't know by looking at me that we are who we are, right?

Because we're so humble about it.

And like people know us everywhere we go, everywhere we go.

My husband's like, Are you kidding?

Everywhere we go, people come up, hey Victoria, and they come up and hug me.

And she, you know, no matter who it is, I always talk to him.

How's the family?

How are you?

And it it's I love it because people come up and they feel comfortable enough to talk to me, but so many people will judge you because of how you're dressed.

But you know what?

Most people don't know is that I'm pre-oping and post-opping from some surgery.

That's basically, I mean, I think you'd agree with that, for the last like, I don't know, 15 years.

Let's just do the last five years.

I'm either pre-oping for an upcoming surgery or I'm post-op from a surgery.

Like, you know, I will, I will walk up this last surgery I had.

I had stitches all over my back, I look like a railroad track, and I had open incisions, and I even had an infection, and people would come up and hug me.

Hey, how are you?

And I wasn't gonna tell them, you know, whatever, but I dress comfortably.

But society is so based upon materialistic things.

So if you're dressed comfortably, they prejudge you for that very reason.

And that's so wrong.

Like, that's why, you know, hats off to Adam Sandler, you know, for dressing, even though every time you mention his name, I think of Big Daddy, because he's you two are like so like when we had puppies.

If the puppy made a mess, he would just cover it with newspaper.

And I'm like, no, we need to clean that up.

And he's like, let's just put newspaper over it.

You know, that's that's my husband.

Yep.

Well, that's a lot we talked about.

What else we got on our plate today?

Well, my husband has promised me 90 days of podcasting twice weekly.

I did.

Now they're they're gonna expect it.

Well, then you have to deliver it.

But they love you and we know.

Oh my god, so many people tell you they love the chemistry that you and I have, they love the camaraderie, they love our comical sense, they love how we joke around.

Even the celebrities have reached out and said they love hearing you.

So don't, don't, don't, don't do that.

No, no, no, no.

You just need to suck it up, Buttercup.

Yep.

Yep.

So y'all be sure to check out victoriacure.com.

Go to our official main website also, a contagious smile.com, and jump on the uh Academy and get yourself some classes up under your belt, the free ones, or if you want to pay.

We won't turn that Nick one dime away.

And pass it on to somebody who absolutely needs it, y'all.

I mean, that's that's what this is about.

There's last count we did, and we haven't done it in a few years.

It was uh 40 million listeners out there, 40 million dedicated listeners.

I think we had 500 million downloads last year.

528 million downloads.

Okay, that's that's a big number, y'all.

So we're getting out there, and we appreciate y'all passing it on to someone who absolutely needs it.

There's a plethora of resources on the main webpage.

When's the last time you were on the main webpage?

Contagious spawn.com.

Yeah, when's the last time you were on?

I was just on there.

I was looking you up.

Right, when?

Like three hours ago before I had to go out to 15 different stores.

Oh, let's see.

I had to go to I can't wait for this.

Fire.

Careful, be careful.

Picked up some dinner.

Because your daughter wanted to go to get coffee, and then after getting coffee, you decide that you don't just want Starbucks, you want because this being a little this is being a little bit of a pain.

Instead of having Starbucks coffee, which is where you went to take her, you wanted Dunkin' Donuts coffee.

So instead of just getting Starbucks coffee, so don't be like, I ran around all of these places because I had to go.

You decided to go and get Dunkin' Donuts.

You decided you wanted Dunkin' Donuts coffee, you decided because Firehouse is one of your favorites, so you went and got that.

So let's re-live this for just a moment that you weren't doing the runaround for everybody else because you could have very easily had a cup of mud from Starbucks.

It tastes different, and I prefer the more simple.

And I have to say, I want to say don't forget, I did stop at Goodwill.

Oh, that's right.

So I want to say I love my husband, did a dedication piece and got a tattoo for him and I, and it is beautiful.

And of course, you know, now that you've said this, I you know what, I'm so glad I just said that because this tattoo was done by our friend and it's amazing.

And my husband kisses me, as he has for 25 years, with his hands on my face, and he's holding my face, and it's sweet and loving, and then he kisses me on the forehead all the time.

And the only other person who's ever done that is my grandfather, and so it was very meaningful.

So he got the tattoo of him kissing me on the forehead with him holding my face, and it's a beautiful dedication.

I love it, love it, love it.

And of course, what does my husband say when he sees it?

Oh my god, you got me with a double chin.

That is what he says.

I got a double chin, and I got little pokey things coming out of my chin.

That's a goatee, number one.

Number two, you can put a picture up on the website so people can see it.

Okay, but you're like, I instead of seeing the piece itself, and you don't mention that your hands are fat, you just mention that you have a double chin.

That's all you see.

But yet when you take a picture of me with you or with Faith or with the dogs, I'm like, ooh, I don't want to see that picture.

You are like, oh, all you see is yourself and you don't like what you look like in pictures.

But isn't that being a little hypocritical?

No.

Yes, it is double chin.

It absolutely is.

Okay.

Crickets.

Whatever.

He hates it when I'm right.

But you should be used to it by now.

Seriously?

Yeah.

You should.

Don't text that to me, and then everybody hears your crazy, crazy text message on my phone.

I gotta change that.

Because it's it's kind of annoying.

I need to change the passcode.

That's not it.

Oh my god.

Shut up.

Hey, by the way, in case you didn't hear it on one of our previous podcasts, obviously she's in the room, A-L-E-X-A.

But if God forbid you need to reach out for 911 and you are unable to reach to your phone or someone else is not there, or you are in immediate danger, you can ask A L E X A, and she will call for you.

As we found out.

My husband A L E X A likes to mess around with my husband by making fun of him and playing around.

And she says that he has.

Hey, maybe we'll get her in the conversation in a minute.

Yeah, it's pretty fun.

There's copyrights and all that trademark shit.

And and so no, so at the end, I was kidding, and I said, Hey L E X A, Michael just tapped me on the back and she was like calling 911.

I was like, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

My husband would never hit me or hurt me, but it was hilarious.

And he's like, She just doesn't like me.

And her response was, Well, you need, you know, to be a little more in tune with your emotions, Michael.

Oh, it's downright hilarious.

It was hilarious.

It was hilarious.

So now you get to hear us twice as much, and it's very exciting.

That's not true.

I wouldn't have we would not have the following and the downloads if it was if that was the case.

So why can't you double chin?

Just admit that.

Are you serious?

Hey, you're the one who climbs my skillet when I say I don't like my picture.

So you don't like that because you're like, oh, he gave me a double chin.

Uh-huh.

Hypocritical.

So go check out victoriacurie.com.

My husband doesn't want his own website.

He just I'll have one soon enough, y'all.

Um I'll set it up tonight if you want it.

No, we're we're gonna be featuring some new bracelets and cuffs that we're making.

Engraving, they're gorgeous.

Engravings.

We're learning that talent, hobby, skill, whatever you want to call it.

Rub it in that you need two hands to do it.

Why don't you?

I didn't that's that's not what I said.

You don't have to.

You just can't do it one-handed.

Our daughter has also participated, and she made my wife her very own and first bracelet.

What is that next to the microphone?

No, no, that thing.

This thing?

Yeah, it's us.

Oh, it's the one I got you back in our 20s.

Back in our 20s.

A hundred years ago when I was a cop and you were you were my instructor.

Yes, I dated my instructor.

Hop for teacher.

That's all yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

Oh no, no, take us out.

No, I brought us in.

You take us out.

You have to do it.

Bye guys.

No, go ahead.

Ladies and gentlemen, good night, y'all, from a contagious smile.

Thank y'all for listening and sharing.

And get on the air and pick up a class, pick up a book.

Did you say class?

Class.

Hey, don't make fun of my speech impediment.

I have a medical condition, okay?

I do too.

It's called I'm Married.

We'll see y'all again shortly.