Welcome back to another episode of Monday Grub Bag.
Hello everyone.
Today we're making lemonade.
Uh-huh.
Today we're gonna, I'm gonna start making our lemonade while we do Monday Grub Bag questions.
This is definitely the wrong knife.
Just do your best.
Well, it's working.
We don't have a lemon peeler.
No, we don't have a peeler at all.
And if you see me cut my hand off, it'll be more exciting for you.
We're killing two birds with one stone by doing Monday Grab Bag, the series where we
answer all of your most burning up questions about our life and relationship.
Wow, you still managed to get that in.
At the same time as we make lemonade, cause we've been very busy lately.
My parents were visiting from Pennsylvania and we've been doing nonstop activities with them.
Oh, oh, oh.
Did you cut yourself?
No.
Oh my God.
A lemon peel.
My heart just jumped out of my chest.
I hope that that was visible on camera that I just peeled and the lemon peel went down
between my boobs.
That was way better than what I thought happened.
I heard, oh, oh.
Anyway, a lot of our older videos have like gotten into the algorithm again.
So there have been thousands of new people watching our channel.
And as you can imagine, that has led to a lot of comments, questions. Here are a handful.
All right. So the first question that we had selected, how much do you weigh Shane since your wife
carries you around everywhere?
And I would love to know which video you watched that gave you the impression that I carry
Shane around everywhere.
One of our short videos is you putting me in a pool.
Actually, two of them are.
And they're getting like millions of views right now.
They probably think that's your mode of transportation anywhere.
Yeah. So that is not my main mode of transportation.
Normally, I ride on her back.
She gets down all floors.
I lie or sit on her back.
We kind of strap me in like I'm riding an elephant.
And I can steer her, you know, kind of using...
My hair, usually, left or right.
Well, hair, left or right ear I pinch.
And she turns in that direction.
No, I use a wheelchair normally to get around and I weigh probably about 60 pounds, which
makes it easy for Hannah to lift me in and out of my chair, into my bed, into the pool, into the shower.
But that is definitely just a transportation like between two places.
Right.
And not like the store at home.
"Hannah, I would like to go for a walk around the block."
"Will you pick me up please?" (both laugh)
All right, next question.
Next question.
How's that lemonade going?
It's good. I haven't cut myself yet. I accidentally put my completed lemon in.
I'm a little bit...
She's frazzled.
I'm frazzled, everybody.
How did you guys meet? Are you really a couple?
Oh, I'll answer the second half.
Yes, we are really a couple.
That's a great question.
I feel like if we weren't, we might not answer that honestly.
But we actually happen to be a real couple.
We happen to be.
We've been married for over two years.
No. Oh yeah. Oh my God, 2020, you're right.
Wow.
She was about to correct me.
I was about to correct you because you're always wrong, but you were actually right.
And I know that we told the story about how we met many times.
This person probably didn't see that video.
Yeah, we have a full video on how we met.
But the short answer is that we met about almost exactly seven years ago now.
When I saw a documentary on YouTube, a little like 10 minute documentary that one of my
favorite actors, Rainn Wilson from The Office, put on his YouTube channel.
It was a documentary about Shane's life generally.
And he talked about the nonprofit that he ran.
All the very important work I was doing.
All the work he was doing.
Yeah, it's gone downhill from there.
That is so mean.
I felt like we would really, really get along.
I lived in Minnesota.
He lived in Pennsylvania.
There was no chance of us meeting in person.
I emailed him, which was really weird for me to do, like personality-wise.
I've never emailed a stranger.
Yeah, very out of character for Hannah.
Yeah, but I was just like, oh my God, I need to know this person.
I feel like we would get along so well.
And we did.
So we began FaceTiming after we texted for like a day.
We FaceTimed the next day.
And then I visited two months later.
And we have been together as a couple ever since then.
I think some people have the impression that like you reached out to me and that your first
email was like, hello, would you like to get married?
Or, Want to make a YouTube channel?
Wait, actually we'll get to that.
I have another question about that.
But yeah, her first email was very casual.
But when I read it, I was like, oh wow, we do have a lot in common.
Let's talk, you know, for fun.
And then we fell in love.
Yeah, it was very... I mean, there was no chance of us dating.
It was very, very inconvenient that we were dating because we were a thousand miles apart.
Worst two years of our lives being so long-distance.
And best two years.
But you know, the long distance was horrible.
So it was not an ideal situation by any means.
No, but that's how we met.
And we've been living together for like five years now, I think.
Yeah, five years.
Like exactly.
Because you moved in two years exactly after we met.
Yeah.
We live in Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Right now we're out in Los Angeles for a few months.
That's kind of where we're at.
All right. Next question.
Is that girl on drugs?
She is on drugs.
She takes a daily allergy medication.
Zirtech.
Yep.
Otherwise no.
Are the side effects of that mental instability that would cause me to date such a terrible, terrible partner?
Does not like alcohol even.
Like will not have even alcohol.
That's true.
I am truly not intoxicated at any time that you see me.
I do not drink.
She entered into a relationship with me of sound mind and body.
I know.
Even though I was not of sound mind or body.
Isn't that something?
It's crazy.
Why do you look like Stephen Hawking?
Is that aimed at Hannah, I assume?
I'm just confused because you don't at all look like Stephen Hawking.
Like in any way.
Yeah. In a very like, we both use a wheelchair. We both have muscle atrophy.
Oh, that's all there.
Yeah.
You look like the Woody from Toy Story, I feel like.
I do get that a lot.
Or Sid from Toy Story, depending on your haircut. That's beside the point.
And depending on my mood. My feeling. Am I feeling mischievous?
Anyway, Stephen Hawking and I have different disabilities, but they are similar.
Yeah.
He had ALS and I have SMA.
They both cause muscle atrophy and weakness over time.
Yes.
I am a bit smarter than Stephen Hawking was.
I think that's the main difference between you two.
That's the main difference.
He discovered a lot of like space stuff.
I like to focus more on anti-matter.
I would say you're more of like a creative genius.
I think you could put yourself above Stephen Hawking in creativity.
If Stephen Hawking and I both wrote a poem, I think mine might be a little better.
Oh my God.
But rest in peace Stephen Hawking.
And also Shane is joking everybody.
I feel like people are going to be like,
he's so rude to think that he is more creative than Stephen Hawking.
Stephen Hawking is the most brilliant human being.
Yeah. These are jokes. Just so you know.
What I'd like to know is dot dot dot.
How long after they started dating was this account created?
Our YouTube channel.
So as we kind of hinted at,
we began all of our kind of YouTube stuff.
A little bit before we even met.
Hannah... no, I'm kidding. We did not begin...
I had the account created and saved and I was waiting for the correct disabled person to come along.
The perfect victim.
Yeah. I was waiting for the perfect person to exploit.
So I created the account 14 years ago.
You've been waiting for this moment since you were 9.
Anyway, no. The idea to make a YouTube didn't even occur to us until two or three years.
It was two and a half years after we met.
We began our YouTube channel.
And that was very casual.
We had actually made a video of a trip that we did together.
And if you've seen our videos, you know this.
But we made a vlog of a trip that we took together the year before.
Before we even lived together and we didn't post it.
It was a video that we enjoyed making.
We sent it to our parents.
We since have lost it on a computer that crashed.
We have all the footage but not the final editing part.
We could recreate it but it was edited very cutely.
So we just enjoyed making videos.
And then the next year we made another vlog of a road trip and we were like,
why don't we just put this one online so we can send our parents the link easier.
Instead of file dropping this.
And then we just began posting videos that summer.
And it didn't take off.
I have to burp so badly.
Okay, go ahead.
Oh, it backfired, alright.
The channel didn't take off for about six months. And then it did.
Which is honestly very, very quick in terms of typical YouTube channel stuff. But yeah, two years, two and a half years.
We were long distance for those two years.
With some visits in between.
Well, a visit like every month.
Well, yeah, a lot of visits.
A lot of visits.
We couldn't stay away.
It was a very expensive two years.
And then we lived together for a few months.
And then we had the idea, hey, let's like make videos.
Yeah.
So that's how we did it.
Yeah.
If you have not noticed, a lot of the new people watching are beginning at the point of kind of not believing
that we are a real loving couple.
Yeah.
And that's really based on the idea that I use a wheelchair and have a disability that requires care and Hannah is not disabled.
And therefore, why would we be together in these people's minds?
Our channel is intended to show you that our relationship or love or marriage or life is no different, no worse than
any other non disabled relationship.
We hope that you'll take the time to watch all of our videos to learn that for yourself.
And maybe think a little bit differently about disability.
Maybe a little bit more positively.
Yeah, that was a nice speech, Shane.
I would now like a lemon squirted into both of my eyeballs.
To cleanse after that, after reading those comments?
Thank you, everyone.
I feel like I just need to say something about this lemonade though.
I feel like people are going to be like, why are you peeling the lemons? Don't you think?
They might be.
Shouldn't we say something about the lemonade? I feel like we're gonna get comments that are like, what?
I thought it would be funny if we ignored the fact that you're making lemonade the whole time.
Well, but I'm not going to gatekeep the world's best lemonade recipe.
We'll put a link to the recipe, that we've been making a lot recently.
Yes.
It is the most delicious lemonade.
You can make it.
But you have to macerate...
The peels.
The onion, I was going to say, the lemon peels.
And when you don't have a peeler, like my hand is hurting.
This is a very difficult process.
Anyway, we'll link to the recipe if you'd like to make it yourself.
It's very good.
And with that, Monday Grub Bag comes to an end.
We'll be back maybe next Monday, hopefully.
These come out usually every Monday.
Yeah.
Unless we're really busy.
Yes.
But we'll have our next podcast out right here on Wednesday.
Yep.
Okay.
Goodbye.