It's Not Just Us - How We Met

we're back five weeks in a row yep you take charge of this one i'm excited about this one what are we talking about well the last video we asked people what they want to hear and i was expecting the response of the story of how we first met which is one of my favorites they do want to hear that yeah we got some requests so let's dive right in all right you start well i was at a point in my life where i thought you know what i'm good i don't need anybody i don't need a date i'm probably not going to get married so it's cool i'm fine all my friends were getting married at that time and i was just in this space where i'm just gonna focus on my business focus on me yada yada and uh so i was up at my parents ranch in the center of florida for thanksgiving weekend so i was up there hanging out with them and my dad got a call from our mutual friend david rutherford and he said hey i'm coming up and i want to sight in my rifle and i'm bringing a friend with me is that okay and that was me and i'm getting there i was the friend and so my dad hung up the phone i said dad what's going on he's like oh david's coming up and we're going to do some shooting and he's bringing a friend i was like oh okay cool well i want to go shooting so the car pulls up you get out of the car with david and i thought oh my god that's that's my guy you me and uh anyway so we went shooting that day hold on i'll pick up there all right go ahead so yeah dave dave asked me to go up he's like hey we're going to go to this these people's branch he's like i think you might want to meet you know there's always some people around that are you know dave's a networker yeah you know and uh so i was like all right might be good for business this is this is like way way early days this is 2016 my business yeah and uh 16. this is before i realized i'm not a networker so we go up and uh i don't say anything and we get there you know and i'm like where the hell are we man like i saw a little out of my league here and um then you come walking out and now he goes and let me go back for just a second so right at this point in time dave was going through a pretty nasty divorce and so you walk out and he's like what do you think of that girl over there and i s all the way up into our wedding i thought that he meant for him and i was like man i was i was like yeah i would go after that if i was you and uh or i may not have said if i was you but he was like all right and just kind of looked at me and that was it so i thought we were there i was like i was like oh did i get pulled into this to be a wingman like two hours away two hour drive away and and uh so you can pick up now so you got out of the car i knew right then the minute i saw you you're you're the one you're the one that's meant for me you're my person and uh you obviously had no idea and um so anyways we proceeded to go out to the gun range now my dad was there too and uh we were all having a good time at least i don't know what you were doing like because you were so so quiet and i kept coming up to you being like hey so what do you do and where do you live and you weren't even looking in my direction and so i'm thinking all right this guy's got a girlfriend i respect that i'm just gonna like pull back a little bit then we go to lunch right there after we go shooting and i like never share my food and uh so i get this big plate of tater tots and so i was like hey sean do you want some tots so you then got some of my tater tots you were sitting like at the opposite end of the table from me again not looking in my direction at all so anyways those were some good tots but uh well one what like i said i didn't say anything because i didn't want to appear like i was hitting on you when i thought we were there for dave to hit on you and i was like thinking this whole time i was like well this is going to be awkward her dad's right there and you know i was like i don't know how this is going to go but all right so i didn't want to appear you know to be you know hitting on you one day i thought i thought we were there so dave could talk to you and then when you ask what i do i didn't want to say i'm a firearms instructor i mean there's a uh there's a stigma behind that and that's just something i never really got over and that's what i was doing at the time so then well i'll go ahead okay so then going we go to the pistol range after lunch yeah and at this point in my life too i'd been shooting and all kinds of things with my dad a lot and i was you know i was not a newbie around guns by any means i wasn't a pro either still not so anyways we're at the gun range and suddenly i'm like oh how do you shoot this thing and you know just playing completely dumb and that's finally how you were able to like start talking to me so i knew like okay you can talk because at this point you just were so quiet so um so anyway so we're having fun then at the pistol range and um but again i'm still thinking this guy's got to have a girlfriend i mean you just didn't seem interested at all and uh so then that night right after you left i got a friend request on facebook and a notification that you were following me on instagram so of course i start stalking your instagram looking for the lucky girl the girlfriend and i don't see anybody so i was like all right this is like free game here so um then you proceed to like send me some messages over like the next i don't know two or three months you started sending me some messages about like oh a realtor like i don't know got in trouble and they should have had their gun on them or something like that and um and then you had told me when we were at the pistol range you said oh i should really get a glock and so i was like oh okay yeah and then i had a big closing because i was in real estate at the time so i had a big closing and there was this little gun shop right there in boca where you had been living and i have been living gunshine arms sunshine arms right there in boca still there still there there should be a plaque there now yeah there should be because i had a big closing and i said you know what i'm gonna go treat myself to a gun and get that glock so um i go in there and you're sitting in there and i'm all gussied up for my closing and so i'm like got high heels on a nice dress and when you had met me i was just in jeans cowboy boots and like i think a hat or something so i thought oh my gosh sean doesn't even recognize me so i'm walking in there and i'm like hi sean and nothing like nothing you didn't say anything to me we were both in shock so because at that point dave i think i had mentioned to dave i was like well i've been kind of talking to katie and he was like dude you know he was like good and i was like that doesn't i was like you're not i don't want to step on anybody's toes and he's like no no you know by all means and i was like all right we might go you know we might go on a date or something and he was like good i'm happy to hear that and uh so then i started i was when you walked into nick's shop yeah i was sitting there talking with nick nick's the owner of gunshine arms and and i was like yeah i went up to this place you know i met this girl i kind of like her and i told her to get a glock and i told her to come here so i don't know maybe she wind up coming here and buying a glock from here i don't know and uh i think i can't remember if you had shopped there before or your dad shot there before and he was like oh yeah i know i know him and i was like oh okay and uh and dude right then you walked in the door so i was like we were both like holy like we were literally just talking about you you walk in the door we're both like meanwhile i'm thinking you don't recognize me or maybe i just didn't make an impression whatsoever on you and i'm thinking oh my god this guy like he's not even acknowledging me so i ordered my glock from nick and then i'm like okay bye sean nice to meet you yeah and uh and then oh and then finally to like see if you were interested i said something about one of my friends wanting private lessons a girl that i had worked with and um i said she needs private gun lessons and you said oh kl this is via um instagram no facebook messaging this is what we were back in the days of facebook facebook messaging and uh facebook was a thing and you said oh i'll be sure to give her the special treatment and i said well don't give her too much special treatment i'll get jealous and i guess that was your window of opportunity to then ask me out finally yeah i was a little slow at that time i was going through some things i know you were you know i just gotten out of the agency i wasn't in the greatest headspace but um i thought dave was after you my best friend you know one of my best friends and uh yeah we'll tell them about our first date then well let's talk about the first date on another one oh but i will say after our first date because i had also i'm just gonna be honest south florida oh it's rough one time i heard somebody's tell me everybody in south florida is full of and they were almost right except you and uh thanks babe yeah you know and so i i i didn't have a lot of confidence in anybody or anything at that time and then and then i realized you were sober and that was a huge plus i wasn't not even close but uh but you were and i was like oh okay well that's that's cool i thought it was cool and um and i was going through some real bad anxiety at the time and we were at dinner and i had mentioned i was trying to clean it up a little bit because you know i may have had a problem with cocaine and just about everything you can get your hands on but uh and definitely with alcohol and when you had mentioned we were having to talk about sobriety and i said you know i was like one of the things that i hate it when people ask is what are your hobbies because i was like i have no hobbies other than getting shit-faced every single night and and and partying and i'm trying to come out of that but that's i was like my hobbies are basically i go to work i work my ass off that's when i was at the agency and then then i drink so i work hard play hard that's that is it and i was like now i'm not at the agency so i have no hobbies and um and nothing really that i'm proud of to talk about right and uh and i was like how long did it take you to find hobbies after you gave up drinking and and uh you had like a very real answer you know and and that's when i was like oh this is like an actual real person i just met not you know and uh and then i'll never forget that i'll never forget the restaurant yeah do you remember i remember the restaurant what's it called oh the name of the restaurant yeah hold on i i could tell you where it is i could get there right now but thai spice yes fort lauderdale yes that's right they do have some damn good pad thai they do but i wasn't there for the bad time yeah but we'll go we'll do the first aid we'll do the first aid later but yeah that's how we met we met on a gun range yep in the middle of nowhere florida with my dad and your best friend dave yeah damn that's where it all started yep that's where the first videos were made too that's right same exact place you knew we were gonna get married i knew it yep i knew it damn i knew you were my guy i love you i love you too babe well hey if you guys have any more ideas leave them down in the comments yeah shoot us a like leave us a comment subscribe hit the bell all that good stuff and uh i know we said we were gonna have the audio up and running but we didn't get to it no maybe next week it's all good but anyways we love you guys thank you for all the support and uh i guess we'll see you next week yep new topic

Channel: Vigilance Elite

Views: 90,128

Keywords: vigilance elite, shawn ryan podcast, it's not just us, shawn and katie, how we met, it's not just us - how we met, married couple, marraige, marriage podcast, family, relationship goals, marriage, katie and shawn, katie jean, shawn ryan and katie, katie and shawn ryan, how shawn ryan and katie met

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Length: 15min 52sec (952 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 03 2022