- Hello.
(laughing)
- I wasn't ready.
I'm ready now.
- Okay, hello.
- Hi!
I might be better to lead.
And what do you want me to say, then?
What exactly do you want me to say there?
Yeah, welcome?
Like, you said it already.
Yeah, you got it, welcome!
I can't, I can't repeat it, it's so stupid.
We wanna share a very special story with you.
Here is a short version of how we met.
- Once upon a time, there was a little girl
living in Southern California,
dribbling basketballs around
and going to the beach a lot.
- You're going way back.
- Oh, is that too far back?
- I think we should start 20-11.
I was living in New York,
and all of a sudden, just one day, out of nowhere,
on my newsfeed on Facebook,
this really gorgeous, big, curly hair,
white teeth, big smile.
I'm thinking, like, who is this person
who looks so cool, who looks so genuine?
Two years later, I'm playing a basketball game
in a gym, upper Manhattan somewhere.
Right in the middle of a game,
by the way, I'm wearing turquoise
little basketball shorts that shrunk
when I was washing them,
so they were tiny and pretty ugly looking,
and I had jogging shoes.
I basically looked not cool.
In comes the big hair, white teeth model chick,
and I'm like, it's her.
- I was on my first European adventure with
one of my best friends, Bly,
and our first stop was in New York.
We were gonna go to New York for a couple days,
visit some friends, and then fly out.
We went to this basketball gym to watch
one of our friends play.
- That's the girl from my Facebook newsfeed.
Oh my God, sub, like, sub ASAP.
I could not focus.
- You had to get subbed out of the game?
- Yeah.
I need to talk to her.
Can I talk to her?
I'm gonna come across as this crazy stalker person.
So I did nothing.
I left the gym and I was like, ugh,
I'm probably not gonna get a second chance to talk to her.
This was like a crazy coincidence.
A few days after Christmas, ding,
a Facebook message, and it's Lauren.
- Turns out one of my best friends from California
went to school with Lisa
and told me that I had to meet up with her
because she was awesome.
- "My name is Lauren."
I'm like, I know very well, thank you.
And, of course, that's not what I said.
I was like, "Oh, yeah, hi."
I had a checklist, I had a checklist on Facebook.
I was like, intelligent, cultivated,
I love culture, I love art, athletic.
- One of your things was broad shoulders.
- Straight teeth, I had a few things.
- Straight teeth, big hands.
- Yeah, diversity.
It's really important in my life.
And, well, and we met.
And you're very cultivated.
- I don't think that was all of those things.
I think you've kinda groomed me in to some of them.
- Sure, but that's okay too.
That's okay too.
You groomed me as well.
Anyways, two weeks later, I'm meeting Lauren
at the Central Station.
- I went through craziness to get there on time,
because one of the things she had said in her chat
was that she was like, "I just really don't appreciate
"when people are late."
I'm like, okay, okay, mental note, never be late
to this woman.
My train is late, so it's not even
anything that I'm doing wrong.
Finally I get to Stockholm Central Station
and she's nowhere to be found.
It was completely empty in Central Station.
It was like midnight.
Oh, God, she's never gonna come.
I look up, and from down, way down far
on the other end of the train station,
I see this gorgeous model woman
with her head wrapped in a black scarf
and this big, furry vest.
- It was a snowstorm.
- Stomping her way towards me.
It seemed like it was such slow motion.
- This is so exaggerated.
- The little furs on her jacket were
bouncing with every step.
Instead of being smooth and being like,
"Hey, oh yeah, it's me, hey."
I went like this.
I was on my phone, I looked up, saw her,
and I went, "Oh my God, it's her and she's here,
"and I, uh."
- I came up to her and I'm like, "Hey, hi,
"great, you're here."
And she says such few words like, "Hey, 'sup?"
- My whole mouth just went completely dry.
That doesn't happen to me.
Like, I'm not familiar with this.
- And that's why she didn't talk.
She had mouth dryness 'cause she was nervous
and so cute.
- What I was most concerned about
was trying to talk, and then to have her hear
that dry mouth sound of when it's like...
(smacking lips)
- And we hit it off right away.
It was like, this is it, this is perfect.
- About one week in, I texted my dad,
and I don't normally text him about
girls, or relationships, or anything like that,
and I said, "What did it feel like when you met mom?"
I think his response back was,
"Um, do we need to talk about something?"
- Peter.
- But then he said, "I was in awe of
"everything that she did.
"She could pick up a pencil and I would be amazed."
And at that moment I was like, okay,
so this is what it's supposed to feel like.
- It took about a week or so until Lauren
really determined, like, this is a woman
that knows what she wants.
If she wants something,
she's really determined to get it.
And it's like, "Lisa, no pressure,
"but at some point, I would love to be able
"to call you my girlfriend.
"Think about it, no rush, but that's what I want."
I was like, what?
It took me 24 hours, 48 hours.
- I was expecting an answer two months from then.
- I knew, I knew.
I was like, this is it.
- And she looked at me straight in the face.
She does not mess around.
She was like, "I need you to consistently be working
"to get a visa for Sweden."
So we thought the process was gonna take
about a year to complete.
It ended up taking...
- Three weeks.
- Yeah, about three weeks from start to finish.
- And, part of the story is that Lauren said what
before you went to Sweden for your first Sweden episode?
- We're on our way to Sweden, on a plane,
going to the air, landing, going on a gay cruise.
I'm gonna meet my wife there.
So, that's pretty, pretty crazy.
- So many things have happened
since that day in January, January 22nd, 20-14.
We started a production company
in film, photography, and music.
It's going really well.
We get to travel a lot together.
I've been involved, producing Button and Bly,
and the world has been our work platform,
so it's been absolutely amazing,
an amazing journey, and it still is.
Now you know the story of how we met,
and wrapping it up.
- We'll see what happens next.
- Cheers! - Cheers.
(speaking in Swedish)
I think it's quite a fairytale.
(gentle piano music)