It all started in 2017 when Joe was scrolling through twitter and saw a picture of Ry posted to his feed. He knew he had to direct message her with the most "dad joke" in his arsenal. To his dismay - she turned him down due to having a boyfriend... Fast forward to months later where Ry and her then parter were actively breaking up via phone call and Joe got spidey senses it was finally his time to shine. He send a second direct message to the extent of "you are your boyfriend break up yet?". Ry responded "give me 20 minutes".