be Meg Ryan.

Which was interesting because Meg Ryan was my celebrity crush my entire life.

But, so...

Anyway, I started like asking around, trying to figure out who she was.

And when I finally made the connection to, oh, yeah, I know her.

She has a boyfriend.

And it was like, oh, OK.

All that matters is like, this is what matters.

The original

plan was for it to begin airing right after the actual fire happened.

And HGTV was gracious enough to say, okay, we're going to push this to the end of season...

What season is Hometown? Whatever season of Hometown was airing.

The irony of it is that the... fire delaying the show made the show better, but it still doesn't help the fact that the fire

And it's

funny.

So a lot of in the quote unquote TV world, The talent is what they call us, those in front of the camera.

Mm-hmm

... um, but you know, like for our parents growing up, they talk about, you know, they just, they didn't know any better.

They didn't know any different.

And Erin's mom tells story, like, stereotypes exist for a reason, and Erin's mom talks about she would get a new pair of shoes for school, and by the end of school, by the summertime, those shoes were done, and she just went barefoot all summer.

And my dad tells the same story, and my mom.

And, um, so it's...

And then also, for the rest of the world, we feel like Mississippi is the Delta, like when people talk about Mississippi.

Mm-hmm

Newer, newer style.

Yeah.

His was, uh, his was like a '21 model.

Um, so same GT3 just like this, but his was a convertible.

And, uh, when we got there to race, I had not thought.

I was like, "Oh, shoot, if this, if this thing's a manual, I won't be able to clutch it." And so I asked like, "Is it automatic or a manual?" And they were like, "Well, it's automatic, but you can flip it and do the paddles." And I was like, "Okay." 'Cause I can't clutch a Porsche.

Um, but I was talking to somebody recently about this.

So that's gonna be-

Every page of the yearbook, he's there.

But, um, but I had just noticed Erin.

She was walking across the student union and they caught my attention, and, um, I was like, "Wow, that girl's really striking," and I was very interested in her.

And I knew her roommate.

I didn't know that it was her roommate, but she was sitting with this girl, and I knew the girl she was sitting with.

I walk into McDonald's, this is my opportunity to walk over and speak to this girl that I've been admiring from a distance.

So I walk across the room, and I'd never, like...

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