By Into More
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“I have grown the most I’ve ever grown in life with you.”
Transcript provided by YouTube:
00:00
– Where did you guys first meet?
00:01
On Grindr – On Grindr.
00:03
– [Zed] You was down the street, like, 200 feet away.
00:06
– It was a little more.
00:07
– You thought I was a catfish.
00:09
– I thought you weren’t real.
00:10
– I was like, just come through! See for yourself!
00:13
And we just clicked instantly at the door,
00:15
and then the rest is history, you feel me?
00:16
– Yeah, we making it together.
00:18
– Yeah, baby.
00:21
– How long have you been together?
00:23
Three years? – Yup, yup.
00:25
– Feel like 30 though. – Feel like 30 years.
00:27
– I want 30 more. – Oh shit!
00:29
– Or 40. – Oh shit!
00:30
(both laugh)
00:31
What’s your first memory of each other?
00:33
That movie night.
00:34
– [Ray] I don’t remember that. (laughs)
00:35
– I actually forgot it,
00:36
’cause I don’t remember what movie we watched.
00:38
– Was it the free movie? – It was free.
00:40
See, you remember it was a free movie!
00:41
– I love some free stuff. (both laugh)
00:43
What was your first impression of each other?
00:46
Oh, that’s intense.
00:48
Okay, my first impression of you was,
00:50
“Oh my God.” Like, “Oh, I need to level up!”
00:53
Like, look at this freaking king!
00:55
This is like God in front of me!
00:57
– I was like, “This dude crazy.
01:00
Like, he’s super handsome, super cool.”
01:02
You had your swag, and we just vibed instantly.
01:05
– Do you remember your first kiss?
01:07
– Yeah, in the shower!
01:08
– The golden shower! – The golden shower?
01:10
– The godly shower.
01:11
– It wasn’t a golden shower, but it was a golden shower.
01:13
– It was a dirty shower! (Zed laughs)
01:15
– [Ray] It was golden because you was in there!
01:17
– It was the heavenly shower,
01:18
– ‘Cause God was,
01:19
he literally like he was peeing down on us!
01:21
When did you first realize you love each other?
01:24
– You had said it first.
01:25
– No, – Yeah.
01:27
Yeah, you did. – I did?
01:28
– The way you said it sounded almost like a breakup.
01:30
You was like, all messed up with your feelings and stuff.
01:32
– [Ray] Yeah, I’m like, “Why do I love this dude?
01:34
Like, I love him?”
01:35
– [Zed] And then, like, I thought we was gon’ break up
01:37
and he was like, “Yeah, but I love you and shit,”
01:39
and I’m like, “Aight, cool!”
01:41
– What’s the best thing about each other.
01:43
You’re creative out of this world.
01:46
– Aww. – You think so big,
01:47
and I’m like, bub, we do not have the budget for that.
01:49
(Zed laughs) Like, you gon’ have to
01:50
bring them back to a zero.
01:52
You on 35, like,
01:54
– I be having big ideas, but, you know,
01:56
you be making sure we make ’em happen, you know what I mean?
01:59
So, it needs that ying to my yang.
02:01
– Yeah.
02:02
– What are you most attracted to in each other?
02:04
Everything.
02:05
I mean, you’re super handsome, you’re sexy,
02:07
fine, smart, creative.
02:10
Everything, baby!
02:10
– Same here.
02:11
Like, obviously, look at you. Everybody know that.
02:14
But you mine, so don’t know that.
02:16
– I’m all yours, baby. – You feel me?
02:17
‘Cause I’ma step, but I’m just saying, like,
02:20
you everything. (Zed laughs)
02:22
What’s the best gift you received from each other?
02:25
Oh, it’s so simple.
02:26
I remember, on my birthday,
02:27
you got a picture of us together on a cake.
02:29
– Yeah.
02:30
– ‘Cause I never had a birthday growing up.
02:31
Like, it wasn’t nothing we’d really done.
02:33
– [Zed] And the best gift that I got from you
02:34
was that bench press, you know?
02:36
I love working out. I’m not going to lie.
02:39
– [Ray] What’s one word
02:40
that best describes your relationship?
02:42
Ooh. I’m thinking it gotta be a big word!
02:45
– A rollercoaster! – Rollercoaster?
02:47
(both laughing)
02:49
Oh, a rollercoaster beautiful though!
02:50
– I love the thrill.
02:51
– [Ray] I love, like, (gasping)
02:54
It keeps you going!
02:55
– Keep you going, though.
02:55
– [Ray] What do you appreciate most about each other?
02:59
I just appreciate you being here.
03:00
Like, honestly, because I have grown
03:03
the most I ever grown in life with you.
03:05
– [Zed] With you, like, I feel like
03:06
I came more into the man that I was meant to be,
03:09
you know what I mean?
03:10
I feel like I’ve found myself,
03:11
I found my grounds,
03:12
and you allow me to like, just be myself a little more.
03:15
You pushed me to be myself, and that’s good,
03:17
so I’m in a good place, and I’m happy.
03:20
– Same.
03:20
– [Zed] What is something you say too much to each other?
03:23
– Clean up. (laughs)
03:25
– Pick them clothes up!
03:26
– I’ve been OCD lately.
03:27
I’m like, I love cleaning this.
03:28
– I’m glad you picked that trait up.
03:30
I’m wondering where’d you get that from.
03:32
– From you! – Oh, okay.
03:33
What’s something you don’t say enough of to each other?
03:37
– I appreciate you, baby.
03:38
– Yeah. I appreciate you, baby.
03:40
– [Zed] I’m so glad you’re in my life.
03:41
– I appreciate you, baby.
03:42
And I’m elated you in my life.
03:45
– Amen.
03:45
– [Ray] Is there an adventure you want to go on together?
03:48
– Yes. – Yes!
03:49
Adventure next is,
03:50
– I want us to go to Africa.
03:52
Like, do safari or something like that.
03:53
What do we dream of together?
03:55
– Just being ourselves and just enjoying this life
03:58
and not letting nothing come in between us
04:01
and what we built together.
04:02
What’s something you couldn’t have done without each other?
04:05
– Being this open and honest with myself.
04:07
– What would you do without each other?
04:09
This life without you would be like, so messed up.
04:13
I’d be all over the place without you,
04:15
because you, like, in the center of my life!
04:18
– Do you see yourselves getting married?
04:20
Ah, ah,
04:21
we’re not gon’ give y’all all the tea.
04:23
That’s all I can say.
04:24
– Do you see yourselves growing old together?
04:26
Man, old? We’re gon’ be lost together!
04:29
– You stupid. Nah, nah.
04:30
– But it’s gon’ be me and you! – We gon’ be good.
04:32
– Keep riding this ride ’til the wheels fall off,
04:35
and then we gon’ buy some more wheels if they fall off,
04:37
and keep riding it, you feel me?
04:39
– Is there anything else you’d like to say to each other?
04:42
Bae, I love you.
04:44
– Bae, I love you. – Let’s do this.
04:46
Would you like to kiss each other?
04:48
That’s all we do.
04:49
– [Ray] All the time! – [Zed] All the time.
04:51
Come on, give me another one.
04:52
– [Zed] (kisses) There you go.
04:53
♪ If loving you is wrong ♪
04:56
♪ I don’t wanna be right ♪
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