 If you've been listening to my podcast, The James Swannick Show, you would have heard me talk about two famous characters, Darren and Mary, who live in my apartment building. We are Darren and Mary, they live in the apartment building. I'm always referencing Darren and Mary in my apartment building. But actually, it's James that lives in our apartment building. It's kind of like Melrose Place. Because if you listen to the episode where he talks about how he got in his apartment building, we are the catalysts. That is true. So I wanted to introduce you to the famous Darren and Mary, whose names I mentioned at least once a week. So the Mary from his apartment building was not his apartment building. That's right. On his way. So we'll go ladies first. Mary, what's your story? Tell us your story. I live in his apartment complex, just like Melrose Place. What's your background? Where are you from? How long have you been living in LA? What do you do? I'm originally from Oklahoma City, raised in San Diego. I lived out in LA. And I know James for five years. Nice. How did we first meet? I was seeing Patrick St. already dancing. How are we dancing? We somehow congregated and started dancing before we realized Darren knew you. Show me your dance moves. Dance monkey dance! I think that was alright. What was I dancing more to the point? Here we go. We got the cameras here. We got the paparazzi here. James loves to dance. I'll tell you how you dance. How was I dancing? James is dancing like an alcoholic, despite not being drunk. That is true. That was true. I was drinking like I was drunk even though I wasn't drinking. He had me fooled for the longest time. I thought this like no drinking thing was a new thing. I think you had said that after you had met me on St. Patrick's Day that we'd been having a cool song. He had a beer. But now he just acted like he had a beer. She said your friend was hammered. And I was like no, he doesn't drink. Because you were like literally, we didn't even know each other. We were like twirling and dancing. Which proves that he can have fun, not on drinks. But I also know that he can have fun drinking as well. But here's the thing, I haven't drank for over a month. You haven't drunk in over a month? Yes. Wow, that's amazing. So you didn't take the official 30 day no alcohol challenge but you did? No, it just slowly phased out of my life. I don't know how it happened but I think I like my mornings a little bit too much. So was it a conscious decision not to drink for a while and it just turned into 30 days? Or did you say I'm just going to not drink for 30 days? I think it's over 30 days now this morning. I just don't really enjoy it anymore. There you go. It's because you have been an inspiration to us on this. Because we've seen your journey very closely and the way you're inspiring other people. But between that listening to podcasts like Ty's, yours, Entrepreneur on Fire. Like Ty. Other podcasts like that. That's all about optimal living. We listen to Brian Johnson. We joined the gym. We joined the gym. Which we say. I know you joined my gym. You joined my gym. Yes. We're about to get on Ty's Snapchat here. We joined your gym. And we started listening to Ty's. There you go. We got bad light here. Yeah it isn't. It's not bad light. It's not bad light. We're even doing Darren and Mary here. It's not good selfie lights. It's not good Snapchat lights. We have a talker. Do you need one of those lights? We have a talker. Talker alert. I'm the Gemini and I'm the S. Talker alert. Anyway, we stopped drinking so much. It's cool because we're eating out. He used to make fun of me before joining the gym. And now we've joined a gym. Do you want to know the funny thing? I've been sleeping in a little bit lately. Maybe like 7. I haven't been going to the gym until a little bit later. And I actually got up really early. Well not really early. I got up about 5.55. About a week and a half ago. And it was dark. It was still dark. And I was sitting on my sofa. And I stood up to go on stretch. And I saw both of you walking to the gym at about 6.30, 6.35 in the morning. And I went, times have changed. Times have changed. I used to be the one walking out of the gym complex at 6.30 in the morning. And now I'm looking at Dara and Mary. And I'm the one who's feeling like shameful because I'm not working out. I'm not in the gym. There they are going, oh, I'm not in the gym. That's what happens when you inspire and then don't listen to your advice. I remember a Facebook post I put when I started the gym saying something like there's nothing I hate more than techno in the morning. Because that was how much I detested the gym. Have you seen this progress in this man? Has he shown you that James wanted no alcohol? Look at my body. Like photos. I don't think there's any of that. There's nothing like that going on. But it is harder to get up when it's dark when you wake up. It's so much harder when it's dark. And it's cold. You just want to stay in there, huh? Yeah. All right, there you go. So we didn't ask Dara, what's your story? What's your background? My story is from London, England. I moved to LA 10 years ago, dude. 10 years ago? 10 years. 10 years. That's crazy. It is crazy. You and I met at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. Yeah, probably, yeah. On the dance floor? No, we were sharing a house, weren't we? Yeah, we shared a house with a few people there. I think it was 2007. Yeah, probably was. And then we kind of hung out in LA. And yeah, so we've known one another since 2007. It's almost 10 years. Yeah. And you've been, you're now an actor and a producer and a director, amongst other things. Yeah, I was in a work of film and then I run web companies. Yes. So I have a couple of web companies, one called Stuck for Staff, which is a staffing company. And a new one called We Rehearse, which is an actors video chat website. Yeah, nice one. So Dara is certainly very entrepreneurial as well. Any advice for someone watching about moving overseas, living in another country? Like Mary was from Oklahoma City. She's moved to Los Angeles. I'm Australian, moved to LA. Dara, you've come from London over to Los Angeles. Any advice on living in a different country around the world? My advice would be do it if you really want to, but do it for lifestyle, not just for job, because you do have to live here. A lot of people come to LA because of the career opportunities, which I think is great, especially in the film and TV thing. But I think it's important to love the place as well, so make sure you love where you live. My second thing would say when you move somewhere like new, like LA, live in the centre. For me, that means West Hollywood, Beverly Hills here. West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, where we are now. But anywhere that you move, live in the centre and then say yes to everything. Then you can decide. Dara, will you go and get me a cookie from the table? No. No James, no. That's when you don't follow your own advice. Because James, you taught me to delegate. I can't be the delegated team. He has these raging moments where he's super healthy, and then you go out with him to the event and know how four desserts back to back. I already had four. I already got into that. I already got into the table, don't worry about that. I'm sure I caught you with a pizza in less than a week ago, so no, you're not allowed to have dessert. All right, don't listen at least. There's another important lesson. Have an accountability. See, that makes him human. He's just like you. Trying to do the right thing. So there you go. There's the world-famous Dara and Mary from my apartment building. When you hear me, you prefer to them. Now you can finally put face to the name. 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