October 2, 2024 • 42 mins
What do tips for making faux flowers look as realistic as possible in your home, chimpanzees, and a fraudulent sweatshirt have in common? This podcast episode! Amazing but true! The Boys step you through the first 10 tips (out of 30) that they have for making faux flowers look as realistic as possible in your home, while also weaving in and out of side tangents, that all prove to be interesting and memorable!~ Lots of laughter in this episdoe!
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stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (00:00):
What are we talking about today?
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (00:01):
Oh, God, live real life.
Walk away from that microphone.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (00:05):
you can back up a little bit because
I don't, I don't know where it'staking you in Stuart, but it was
really loud and I thought I'lljust edit it and post, but you
know, technically,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (00:18):
that way.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (00:21):
yeah, but I think you're
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (00:21):
if I turn it down, is that better?
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (00:23):
That's better.
Yeah, that's
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (00:25):
sure.
You know, we'll see if myeardrums lasted through.
It's fine.
Just, just, just remember that
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (00:30):
Are you saying his voice makes your
eardrums bleed?
Is
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (00:34):
No, no, God, no, no.
The funny thing is, is becausehe has such a low, like register
in his voice,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (00:41):
Uh huh.
Uh huh.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (00:42):
so well.
And I think I've mentioned thisto you, Dwayne, that
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (00:45):
And I'm just like this! Hello!
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (00:47):
it doesn't, it doesn't pick any of
that up and, So then when hegets really animated, because
you know, we all are not flatpeople, right?
For example, when he sayssomething and he raises his
volume, it about blows me out ofmy seat.
And I have to, when I'm, whenI'm editing, it doesn't do it
here, but when I'm editing it,I'm like, Oh God.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (01:05):
Sorry.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (01:06):
So no, don't apologize.
Listen, I am an amateur audiomixer designer, whatever the
hell this is.
And we're just lucky that itdoesn't come 1980s AOL sign up
dial tone.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (01:20):
Bing, bing, boom.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (01:33):
Well, so today, what this started from
was I had, uh, someone email inasking she, she used to hate
flow.
Flow.
She used to hate fo flowers,because she thought like many.
Of we'll say younger crowd thatfaux flowers always meant like
what the grannies had, like, andI always, associated with, like,
(01:54):
if it looks like it was on theset of mama's family, which I
guess I'm probably talking tothe wrong crowd if they don't
know who mama's family is, um,then get rid of it.
Right.
Cause that's, there's so muchbetter stuff out there.
And so then I remember that wehad written a blog a while back
and we say, we, it was reallyme, but you know, whatever we
all, we all, we all work onthis.
Um, but we have a blog that was30.
(02:16):
Designer tips for making stemsand arrangements look more
realistic in your home.
And I don't, I realized, I don'tthink I ever discussed this with
you all, like what I wentthrough and I put it on here.
And I thought that these wouldbe interesting for us to discuss
because, um, some of them are sosimple, but they're like, you
know, we have horror stories,right?
So that was the thought.
(02:36):
Okay.
So I will read them.
Um, since I have them in frontof me and I know you don't, um,
number one, don't buy junk, Ithink you keep remembering that
this is all trying to make themfeel the most realistic in your
home is so that it says wesound, uh, we know that sounds
obvious.
But sadly, it's worth stating ifyou buy junk flowers and upset
(02:59):
with the arrangement becausethey look like junk, we need to
have a little conversation andthen it goes on to talk about
how it doesn't look like mama'sfamily anymore.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (03:10):
Well, it just goes back to you get
what you pay for, right?
You get what you pay for, andthere's some of these box
stores, that sell actuallyoverpriced junk, and they jack
the price up, and then they putit half price, and it's still
overpriced, and it's still ugly.
So, I think that's why we'rehaving success is, We have the
ability to choose silk flowersthat look real and it's out
(03:33):
there, guys.
They just want to buy thecheapest crap and make the most
markup is all they're doing.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (03:38):
uh, you know, a dollar and 2 faux
grass look great in a fish tank,but not in your dining room
table.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (03:48):
Well, I will remind you, Jeremy does
have I got frustrated with youmultiple times because of what
you, your pickiness, Jeremy, ofputting stuff online.
Right.
And now I get it.
I read the reviews and I get thecomments and it's a little,
little different how you do theapproach.
(04:10):
And, uh, so tell me, tell mewhat you're looking for when you
put online because you have alittle different approach than,
than what I was used to.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (04:17):
Well, yeah, I'm going to interrupt
just a second because it's thesame quality as what we have in
the store.
But I think there's a lot moredifferent things that we don't
have in the store.
Some things overlap, so I thinkhe's done a great job of
targeting who's buying online,quite honestly.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (04:37):
Agree.
Agree.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12- (04:38):
listen, it's all an experiment in,
testing everything out under thesun.
well, you know, there are thingsthat we see in, or there's stems
that we know that come in and weknow that using them and mixing
them in a, an arrangement, somethings look better in an
arrangement than they doindividually.
Right.
So like we've had some.
(05:01):
Dark red burgundy berries beforethat always come to mind that if
you look at the stem of them,and we don't carry these online,
but, uh, if you looked at thestem of them in the store, you'd
go, well, those look prettyplastic.
Those, those, those aren't thebest thing.
Right.
And then you mix them in with anarrangement.
And then for some reason, ittotally changes the look and the
(05:23):
feel of them.
And you go, Oh God, I lovethose.
Right.
So there's those.
I know that.
When people open a box, theydon't have it mixed together.
Right?
So anything that I look at andsay, well, I know this will be
good mixed in.
I don't even try to test thewater with.
So I always try to think I wantto have things that when people
open, they are thrilled whenthey see it.
(05:45):
And there's no question.
If somebody picks up, comes intothe store and picks up
something, this is like what,you know, a lot of people talk
about buying clothing when theygo into a store.
Um, yeah.
Like they want to touch it.
They want to feel it.
Well, people would love to touchand feel this stuff too, but
they don't have the ability todo that.
So I have to make sure that thevisual representation, the look
of it and the quality of it,like it's not going to break on
(06:06):
the way there, the stems aregoing to be in, you know, all
those kinds of things.
So.
I really, what I always try toput myself in is if I were to
order this and it come in, Ooh,and I have an example again of
this last night.
Oh, I am so mad.
Oh, okay.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (06:21):
uh oh.
Uh
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (06:23):
Oh, I should have ran downstairs to
get it.
So, um, so
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (06:26):
beep.
Forewarning! Rant of Jeremy.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (06:29):
Rant and this probably so expletive
field.
Oh, I'm so fucking pissed.
Okay, so, you know, we lost oursweet little Gracie a few weeks
ago And so shortly after thatlike within days, I was targeted
with this ad for thesesweatshirts.
And you uploaded a picture ofyour animal and they then
embroidered Embroidered rememberthat word the pet on the left
(06:51):
chest Um, their face, they tookthem and then they converted it
into some kind of embroideryfile and then they did that.
And then you could also chooseto have something embroidered on
the sleeve.
So Jeremy was having a reallyhard time with our loss of
Gracie.
And, so I thought, you know,this is a sweet little thing
that I can do.
They just has a little thing youcan wear around.
Right.
So I ordered it.
(07:11):
What came in yesterday?
I opened up this bag.
It is the color of thesweatshirt that I ordered.
It is in a screen printedversion of some cat that is not
Gracie.
Screen printed, not embroidered.
And then it does have the texton the sleeve that was also
supposed to be embroidered, butscreen printed.
(07:36):
And it is the size that mightfit Allie.
For a reference everybody, Allieis five years old, my husband is
forty.
Uh, or forty one.
Um, yeah.
I was so this, I look, I getthis.
Okay.
So this is why I get so paranoidabout trying to put the quality
on that I feel confident inbecause I have been burned so
(07:58):
many fucking times orderingthings and then it's the whole,
what I ordered, what I got.
And then I can't go back andfind where in the hell I ordered
it from.
Cause you know, some random sitethat you only order from once
you can't ever find again toeven like go to the credit card
company and say, Hey, this isbull and then the credit card
company was like, well, is itbull?
And then you have to, it's awhole dance.
It's just, it's.
(08:19):
So my goal getting back to thesubject is to not do that to our
customers.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (08:24):
Well, they'll get your money one time.
Right?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (08:27):
Yeah.
I'll never
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (08:27):
going to get it never again.
Where with what you've createdis repeat customer after repeat
customer after repeat customer.
This is my second order, mythird order.
Um, if you recall, what's thethe customers that made the most
orders, Jeremy, has placed themost
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (08:47):
Um, probably if I had to guess her
name, Cindy, um,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (08:52):
out, Cindy.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (08:53):
so shout out Cindy.
And I was, I was trying to look,cause I was going to tell you
how many she's plays, um, andshe has been making stuff.
That's all I, but, um, you know,we do handle the orders.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (09:04):
You know that our house is way too
full with our crap.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (09:07):
Yeah.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (09:09):
And is she, she's somewhere in the
United States,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (09:12):
Yes, she's, she's in California.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (09:14):
so she's not in Kentucky.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (09:16):
Oh Lord.
No, no, this is shipping acrossthe country.
Um, but you know, the names docome across and you do, you see
them time and time again, timeagain.
And so, you know, I see themwhen they come through and so we
always communicate.
And, um, okay.
Are you ready?
80 orders.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (09:31):
Yeah.
Wow.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (09:33):
Does Cindy listen to our podcast?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (09:35):
I don't know.
You know what, the next timeshe, she just had an order went
out, I think yesterday or theday before.
So I'll send her a note and makesure she listens.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (09:42):
Yeah.
Shout out, Cindy.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (09:43):
um, but thanks Cindy.
So, yeah, so, I mean, that'swhat I don't want for us to
happen with customers.
So that's why I'm always really,I don't, I mean, I'll use the
word anal, but I just, I don'twant to risk it because.
The reviews are everything.
Um, cause the social proof.
So,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (09:59):
your reviews are through the roof.
They're through the roof.
And there was, there was one Iread, and I mean, you have like
five, One stars, but one ofthem, I don't know how she said
it, but I was like, if I couldcome through the computer and
rip your throat out, bitch, Iwould because
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (10:18):
Well, listen,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (10:19):
the word subpar or something.
I was like, you're just a foolbecause we don't do
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (10:26):
I, I, I I'm empathetic to probably
a fault.
Um, but I always try to think,you know, look, I've had bad
days.
I know I've given bad reviews tothings.
I really didn't mean just to getmy things out.
So we have so few of them thatI'm not that worried
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (10:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (10:41):
Uh, but we try to show up and do it
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (10:43):
She's an outlier.
It's just like, I was like, ooh,I don't knock you.
Go away.
Bye.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (10:48):
Yeah.
My, my favorite ones are the,when we get the one star review
and then their comment is, Ithought this was real.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091 (10:56):
Thought it was a what?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (10:57):
They thought it was real.
So then they got it.
No, I'm not joking.
No.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (11:02):
Well, that's a moron.
I don't know what to say.
I mean, it's fake, artificialeverywhere, right?
who who buys one flower that'sreal at the time?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (11:15):
Uh,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091 (11:16):
foolish
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (11:17):
would be, you would, no, I won't say
foolish.
I just don't know what they'redoing with it, but you'd be
surprised.
I mean, people order just one,you know, whatever makes,
whatever brings you joy
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (11:24):
No, I can.
I, no, no, no, no.
You heard me wrong.
I can understand Ordering onefaux flower, right?
'cause you're finishedsomething.
What are you going to do withone?
If you are on this website andyou thought you were
disappointed that you got one,you're ordering one real flower
and it comes fo.
It's like
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (11:40):
No,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (11:40):
you are ordering a one single red
rose online.
You are like, you the cheapestperson I've met, bro.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (11:49):
This is also a public service
announcement that the word F A UX is pronounced foe that I have
learned throws people that a lotof people pronounce it Fox.
And you go on, you know, I amnot, I'm not, I'm not trying not
to make fun of people.
I'm trying, I'm just trying toeducate the peoples,
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091 (12:09):
valence and not a valance.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (12:14):
Okay, so we're going to, is it herb or
herb?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (12:17):
Well, it depends on where it depends
on where you're from.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (12:20):
Okay, so that was one of those tomato,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (12:21):
My, my favorite was, uh, Eddie
Izzard said, um, he was talkingabout the words, you know,
aluminum, aluminum.
And then, cause he was English.
And then he said, and you allsay herb and we say herb because
there's a fucking H in it.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (12:36):
true, true enough.
Okay, so what's our next one?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (12:39):
All right.
Number two is, um, know whatreal flowers look like.
And so I know that sounds again,really simple, but if you're
going out, you know, you can seesome really bad fake
interpretations of flowers.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09 (12:54):
Electric blue roses do not grow in
nature.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (12:57):
and this isn't even talking about
color.
This is just talking about like,um, like details, right?
Like sometimes it's just so faroff, like a sunflower that they
make that, you know, it has a,that pitted center, right?
It's all textural and stuff.
Well, if that is made
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (13:16):
Smooth brown plastic, which I've
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (13:18):
Yeah, that's, that, that, that's a
dead giveaway, right?
That's, and again, this all goesback to trying to find realistic
interpretations, right?
Trying to make it feel the mostrealistic.
Okay.
So knowing what real stems kindof look like, if you're thinking
you're looking for something,look some pictures up first
before you look and then you'llsee, um,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (13:36):
and one of the things we, well, I'm
gonna say this.
One of the things that we,because we used to do weddings
and events and things like that,and we were very accustomed to
working with real flowers.
When we were in the realm ofbuying faux flowers, because it
was in our mindset what theyshould look like, it was easier
for us to pick them out.
(13:56):
And it's like, you guys pick outthe best looking, uh, faux
flowers.
And I'm like, yeah, we'll justpick them that look like.
Real ones and that's all you gotto do
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (14:07):
Um, number three, now this is, okay,
so it says, unless you live inthe tropics, don't use tropical
flowers and listen, we're nottalking about orchids.
Okay, we're talking about, andagain, this is supposed to be
realistic.
And if you're going to leavethis up for six months in your
house, you're bird of paradise.
Does it make sense?
(14:28):
Now, if you're just needsomething for a sweet memory of
where you used to be in thetropics, if this is for you,
that's great.
But if you're trying to convincesomebody that these are real,
probably not the best way toapproach it.
So if you use flowers grown inyour area, it's much more easy
to convince.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (14:46):
that one's on the fence for me a
little bit.
Uh, I get what the concept is.
Um, generally, I'm always goingto go.
I want flowers that representthe region that you're from.
Right?
Because in other words, I don'tthink if you live in Florida,
you should have, uh.
Magnolia is everywhere, right?
You well, I guess you cantechnically, uh, but it's
(15:07):
orchid.
Yeah, you technically can see.
It doesn't seem like you wouldwant to do traditional like what
we do traditional fussy flowersWith lots of colors and things
like that, right, but it's moretropical based But the same
instant I wouldn't necessarilythink that I don't want to walk
in and see a tropical basedfloral faux floral arrangement
in somebody's house in lexingtonevery single day because it
(15:28):
doesn't look like that's whatyou could be in your gardens I
always want the
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (15:31):
what, yeah, that's what
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (15:32):
You go, whatever, whatever is at
your disposal that you cut fromthat's local is what you've
sourced into your house.
That really is, that's a goodway to say it, isn't it?
What's
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (15:43):
Isn't that what it said?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (15:44):
That's what he just said, Dwayne.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (15:46):
Isn't that what it was?
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (15:48):
yeah, I'm so
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (15:49):
It wasn't, don't use it.
It's whatever is locally in yourarea.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (15:52):
Okay.
Wow.
It took me a minute to getthere.
Well, you'll just edit that outand make
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (15:58):
No! Ha ha ha ha ha! Alright, so this
is when I know that we all threeare always very, Are you done?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (16:08):
We got two more.
We got Two more?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (16:10):
Two more?
We're just on number four! Um,geez louise.
Alright, uh, number four.
This is one that we all, um,we're always very focused on.
Buy artificial flowers that comein the same ish, quote unquote,
colors if they come in nature.
Going back to electric blueroses or electric blue or
(16:33):
turquoise magnolias.
These do not exist in real life.
There is, there is nothing worsethan a blue poinsettia.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (16:46):
Preach it brother.
Preach it.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (16:47):
I mean, you know, or a purple
magnolia.
I mean, come on.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091 (16:52):
happen.
Doesn't happen.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (16:54):
mean, you know, there are tones of,
you know, you've got theJapanese magnolia that are that
really pretty pinky purple colorand you've got like, there are
those kinds of elements that areout there.
But here's the tip that thereis, is if you're trying to add
blues or purples to something,instead of trying to add a
flower, now look, you can dohydrangeas that are purple.
Well, those are obviously blue.
Those are easy ways to get itin.
(17:16):
Um, but the other way that Ithink is probably even the
easier way to get these colorsin is to use a berry.
Cause there's so
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (17:23):
I'm on the floor and he's like, you
don't have a lot of blueflowers.
No, no, we
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091 (17:29):
Neither does Jesus.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (17:30):
got
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (17:32):
Ha ha ha ha ha
dwayne_1_09-12-202 (17:37):
blueberries.
I got you some blue hydrangeas.
I got you some blueberriesbecause that's about all that's
blue out there that's real and Iam not, we are not going to have
some fake flower that's fakeblue in here just because you
wanted to match your grannyhouse, right?
It ain't gonna happen.
Just not gonna happen.
Anyway, so preach it.
Yeah, thank you, Jesus.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (18:00):
I mean, in my mind, it always goes
back to, and I didn't know thisexists, but after I learned that
this exists, this is always whatI kind of think of is that the
people that had back in the daywhen you could get the toilet
paper that was pink and blue andyellow, and it
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (18:11):
yeah, Charmin had those, yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (18:13):
mean, I don't know what, what
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (18:14):
It was.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (18:15):
was a sermon.
Um, but like, it's that liketried to.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (18:18):
Stop there.
Stop there.
Stop there.
What the world needs to know isStuart can have a frugality to
him.
Okay, but the thing, the twothings that he does not
compromise on, well threethings, good alcohols, good
foods, and good toilet papers.
If you're going to use ourrestroom, your little tushy is
(18:39):
going to touch some Charminevery time you're in here.
Full disclosure, so there yougo.
Now go, Jeremy.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (18:44):
All three of those things play
together very nicely.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (18:51):
Oh, let's see.
Um, number six, massing out oneflower is a foolproof way to
arrange that appears morerealistic.
And we've said this time andtime again, if you just mass out
one thing, it looks like, youknow, just cut and gathered.
It doesn't have to be a fixedfussy arrangement.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (19:06):
Get your bundle.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (19:08):
Yeah.
Get your bundle, plop them.
Number seven, when it comes toarranging the flowers, we want
them to look like you've clippedthem from the garden and brought
them in.
Um, so complex.
Designs, unless for a specialoccasion can read very
artificial, very easily.
Um, and I think this goes backto, um, I don't know if I put
this on, if this is another one,but the other thing that I
(19:29):
always think of with this is,um, when the real housewives of
Beverly Hills came on and likethese, you know, it was
ridiculous, um, but I, you know,back in the day, I used to watch
it.
I
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (19:43):
So why do you watch that trash?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (19:44):
I don't, watch it now.
This was like probably back whenit first came out.
So it was probably
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (19:48):
Oh my God.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12- (19:49):
college or right out of college?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09 (19:51):
Speaking of trash, we are watching the
series called Monkey Love.
Lord, it is, it is horrible.
And I just sit there, I'm like,I feel more stupid every episode
I watch, but I have to keepwatching them.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (20:03):
I don't, I don't even know, can
you give us a
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (20:05):
It's kind of like, it's kind of like
Tiger King, except this woman,well a few women, have
chimpanzees.
That they have raised and theycall them their children.
And then these chimpanzees get.
Older as, as they do and age.
And then they have to keep themin their house.
(20:27):
One of them killed one of theirfriends, ripped her face off.
And, uh, this is like in 2003,this chimpanzee ripped her
friend's face off because it gotmad and of course I had to shoot
it, put it down.
And then there's this otherchimpanzee that this crazy,
crazy woman has, and she's beenhiding this chimpanzee from PETA
(20:47):
because PETA has been trying toget it to take it to a
sanctuary.
It's crazy.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (20:55):
don't know what my face looks like
because I don't have my
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (20:57):
I know.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (20:59):
we're both in shock of like, this is
real.
This is
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (21:02):
Yeah.
Well, you said trash TV and it,I instantly went there.
So
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (21:06):
Yeah.
Okay.
No, stay away from monkey love.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (21:09):
it's if you don't want to think, go
ahead and turn that on.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (21:13):
Oh, that's, see that's, I've turned
on Hallmark, Lord.
I can't, I, how's, how, well Idon't even get feel, I just kind
of look at it and I'm numb bythe end of the night, but.
Um, how's the, how, ripped offthe face?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (21:31):
yes.
Cause they,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (21:32):
Aren't you stuck at that?
I was like, oh, oh
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (21:34):
And it's still alive?
She still has this
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (21:37):
no, they shot it.
They shot it on site.
They put it down and there'sactually an interview with
Oprah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (21:43):
Yeah, I remember
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (21:44):
and Oprah asked her, to lift her
veil so the public could seeripped nose off her eyeballs
out.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (21:50):
Yeah, I've, I've watched it.
I remember that.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (21:53):
Mm
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (21:53):
You know what the failure of this
was?
The woman that had the Chi Z,the, the owner, they shoulda
shot her
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (22:00):
and they should have because a year
later, she went and boughtanother underground
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091 (22:07):
Mm-Hmm.
Mm-Hmm.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (22:09):
Oh God,
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (22:09):
A little
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (22:10):
you know, here's
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (22:11):
people buy these things for, I think,
well, cause this one lady usedto have them take him to the
little kids birthday parties, ofcourse, when they were babies
and you had to pay 3, 000 tohave this monkey birthday party
and this little chimpanzeerunning around well, but then
she bred them and sold thesebabies for 40 and 50, 000
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (22:31):
Oh my Lord.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (22:32):
buy them.
So who knows, who knows who haschimpanzee hiding in their
basement?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (22:39):
Well, I mean, this has got, this has
gone way off topic,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (22:43):
Yeah, way off topic tangent.
I never thought we were, youknow, okay.
well, let's let's move on pastmonkey.
Love.
I don't want no more.
Yeah.
I thought monkey love wassomething sexual, but it's not,
but I'm glad.
Yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (22:55):
Well, um, real quickly, you know, our
friend Esther did, wasintroduced to someone's monkey
in the basement and the, and themonkey kept throwing shit at
her.
Yeah.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (23:03):
Yeah,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (23:03):
We can't do what he
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (23:05):
went to a consult.
She went to a consultation andthe guy's like, oh, I need to
take you to the basement.
She thought, Lord, I'm gonna getkilled today.
But no, there's this chimpanzeedown there.
Throwing poop at her.
He had chimpanzee in hisbasement.
Yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12- (23:20):
listen, um, I understand the love of
animals.
I do.
I understand how you can getattached, but oh lord.
Oh god.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (23:29):
You know,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (23:30):
All right, well, if y'all have a
monkey or you had an interactionwith one, reach out to our
hotline because I want to knowabout it.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (23:38):
I'm going to say, I don't want to
know.
I
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (23:40):
we won't share your location, but
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (23:42):
No, we won't.
We won't share you with PETA.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (23:45):
Oof.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (23:45):
will.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (23:47):
All
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (23:47):
you.
I will share.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (23:49):
Number eight.
Number eight.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2 (23:50):
Number eight, realistic faux flowers
have a range of colors and notjust one color.
And that is very true.
Because if you look at a flowerthat's out in the yard, um, I
mean, unless you're looking likea, let's say like a white, um,
sun patient or for example, thatare really, really like just
intense, you know, bright openwhite, you know, there's always
(24:13):
shades of color to them, right?
Like there's some pedals, maybea little bit darker, a little
lighter versus if you get some,it looks like it's been painted
with spray paint.
It's a dead giveaway that it'snot.
Real.
And so that's always why when,when we look for like
hydrangeas, for example, there'sa lot of depth of color in those
because they have a lot of depthand color in real life.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (24:30):
well, that's the 1st 1 side range is
you mix some white ones togetherwith some green ones together.
I've even taken the whitehydrangea and the blue
hydrangea.
Cut the blue hydrangea apart 20percent of it and tucked it on
the edge of the white hydrangeato you know Like a white
hydrangea starting to turn acolor And because we may not be
(24:51):
able to buy that or they don'tmake it so we manipulate Mixing
the two flowers.
You're basically making your ownflower in a way Uh, and it works
and it's that that but it's thatrange of color with hydrangeas.
That's so important to mixtogether
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (25:06):
Range of color.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (25:08):
Range of color,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (25:10):
Um, number nine, if you aren't going
to change out
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (25:13):
okay, I got to stop you again.
You know, what just felt like,uh, this Saturday night live
range of color, you know, it wasgoes back to sweaty ball.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (25:22):
Some
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (25:22):
That's how you said it.
That's
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (25:25):
sweaty balls.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (25:26):
you said it.
I was like, it just felt likegood time sweaty ball.
So
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (25:32):
Okay.
I was like, I don't know how yougot there, but
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (25:34):
I know just edit that out.
That's just how you deliveredit.
It just made me
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (25:37):
are your, how are your muffins?
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (25:39):
Yes, we'll edit this part out.
But that's what
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (25:44):
that's the fun
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (25:45):
funny.
Yeah, yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (25:48):
nine, if you aren't going to change
the arrangement out seasonallyand no shame, if you don't buy
flowers that you can get in realflowers.
In the grocery store year round.
And I think that's probably,that's a good tip, right?
And she's like, you can alwaysget a hydrangea.
You can always get tulips.
You can always get roses.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (26:06):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I never thought of that.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (26:09):
you know, and again, this is again,
if you're trying to convincepeople that it's a real
arrangement, right?
I keep going back to thatbecause if you know, an example
of this is like a beautiful pinkpeony.
If.
Pennies bring you joy and youwant to see them all the time.
You get yourself a pink penny inOctober, right?
(26:30):
I think we just, uh, yesterdaywhen I
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (26:33):
your house, inside your
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (26:34):
your house.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (26:36):
Well, there's a reason behind this,
Jeremy.
The house on XXXXXXXXXXX Drive,um, please take down your
forsythia wreath, uh, inJanuary.
Please.
Okay.
The forsythia is frozen.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (26:51):
It is dead.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (26:53):
Dead.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (26:54):
It's in hibernation.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (26:55):
Yeah, I was like, I just want to just
rip that off that door.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (26:59):
a house that's not that one, but
they leave their forsythiawreath up on their door year
round.
And you know, if that makes themhappy, I get it.
Cause it makes me happy.
But, um,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (27:10):
does not make me happy.
It makes me irritated.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (27:12):
rip
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (27:13):
Yes, it does.
It does.
It does.
I always go back to, I'd ratherhave nothing.
Right?
Don't buy a wreath from us.
Don't buy a basket and thinkthat you should leave it up 24
hours a day, seven days a week,three or six days a year.
It's seasonal.
It's seasonal, people.
I can make you one that laststhree or four months, right?
(27:34):
But I can't make it last 12months.
I just can't.
It doesn't happen.
Sometimes if, if you don't wantto switch it out, it's okay for
your door to be naked as opposedto being ugly or wrong.
Okay.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (27:48):
well, you know what, what made me
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (27:50):
I think I just lost two of our
listeners.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (27:53):
God, now we're at eight, uh, 18, um,
one of the, uh, one of thethings that, as I was reading
this, I was thinking about, uh,when I was helping pack orders
on Tuesday that I bet we shippedout, no joke, a hundred pennies.
Pink, pink, pink and whitepanties.
Um, but I know one, one of thecustomers, I know they were
(28:15):
working on a wedding and I don'tremember what the other one was,
but I was like, yeah, you knowwhat?
This brings you joy.
And this is inside your house.
You, you do it.
But if you were trying to dosomething that feels realistic,
when people come over that youwant to convince them that these
are real and that they don'tthink, oh, this is just
something else, keep it to whatyou can get.
It's just easier to do it thatway.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (28:32):
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (28:34):
Um, number 10.
Oh, okay.
Uh, you may be tempted to buyflowers and bushes because they
are less expensive, but that'snot the only adjective to
describe them.
Um, then what's bolded in thisone is, people use silk flower
bushes for cemeteries.
(28:55):
For a reason they are cheap.
The color shows from a distanceand no one gets up close with
them.
Cause they're just trash.
I added that last part.
Um, now I'm not going to saythat every flower bush is trash.
Cause I don't believe that as ageneral rule rule.
I think it's probably fairlyfair to say 90 percent of
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (29:19):
Fair.
There's a few.
You're right.
No, that's fair.
But most are
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (29:21):
we, we even have some white
hydrangea bushes that we use,um, that we can use to make
arrangements and it's just areally great basic hydrangea.
Um, and we have them indifferent
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (29:32):
The, the key to that is we cut them
apart.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2 (29:35):
Right.
And so the point
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (29:36):
don't just stick a bush of geranium on
your kitchen table.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (29:43):
so, and what
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (29:44):
Well see that's one of those.
I do stick a a a a red drainthat we sell in my pots out
front that supplement mygeraniums that are not doing
good at this summer and theylook pretty good.
Right.
But now on my kitchen table's adifferent store'cause it's in my
face.
Right.
So in a way it's outside.
It's like my funeral,
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091 (30:00):
Outside they grow in the
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (30:01):
Right.
Yeah.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (30:02):
do not.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (30:03):
He's got his funeral flowers outside.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (30:06):
On my front porch.
I have a window box.
Oh, that's really high up thereand it's really difficult to
water.
And asparagus, fern, springrock, and that, and those red
geraniums are in that window boxand it looks good people.
Now, I'm not going to tell everyneighbor in every world that
it's my fake flowers becausethey don't need to know.
But truthfully, now people doknow the tens of tens of
(30:26):
listeners that my window box.
On the tall one is fake, but itlooks good.
It looks good.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (30:34):
Now there are some times where a
bush can make sense.
So obviously if it's, if itlooks, if the flowers are good,
but one of the issues a lot oftimes with the bush is that
usually the stems of the flowersare just like a really thin
coated
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (30:50):
Yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (30:51):
metal wire, right?
Like there's no detail.
Details.
So that's obviously a really,um, Easy giveaway that it's, you
know, junk.
And then a
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (31:00):
Well, I am with Jeremy.
I mean with Stuart rather thatif it's at your face, it's very
close.
Usually Bush is a bad idea.
You can tell it right.
You can hide it in different,but if it's really close to your
face, it's usually a bad idea.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (31:12):
Yeah.
The only other exception I thinkof is that if you're doing
something where you're likemassing out of flowers, let's
say you're cutting the stem offthe bush and then you're just
mounding all these headstogether to make like a, a bowl
or, or cover a figure orsomething I see, I can see using
that, but still I would have to.
You can't use, just say you canuse every bush to do that.
(31:34):
Cause they're just, you know,it's again, there's a reason why
the people use them incemeteries, because they're
inexpensive and somebody ripsthem right off, you know, it's,
it stinks, but it's not that bigof a pain in the butt.
Yeah.
All right.
So there's the, there's 10,we'll leave it there.
There's, there's 30.
So we'll do some more episodesof this, but I think that out of
that, there's 10 really good,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091 (31:55):
Useful, useful
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (31:56):
are simple, but things that you
wouldn't have thought about orthings that may be like, oh
yeah, you know what you, that isright.
And I just thought that's reallyuseful to share.
Um, I
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (32:04):
of the things that you said, um, to
me a few weeks ago, and I don'tknow if it's on podcast, I think
it's just in the store, and itwas, and I've used this and I
went, huh.
So it goes back to these thingsabout common sense.
And you're like, oh, I didn'tsee it.
See that lens.
It's like, you know, if you havea wreath and you put the bow at
the top, it makes the wreathsmaller.
You put it at the bottom, itmakes the wreath bigger.
And it was like this, this like,light bulb went, huh, I never
(32:29):
thought of it that way.
And lord if I have not used thatand told everybody and said
every customer now,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (32:35):
You know, I don't know where I
learned that about where youplace the bow.
I I'm sure it was some videothat I saw somewhere.
I mean, that's just how weconsume so much stuff now.
Um, but I was like, Oh, Oh, andit really does make a
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (32:49):
Yeah,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (32:49):
of where you want to pull your
focus.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (32:51):
and there's nothing wrong with
either one it's just Just pointout the, this, this concept.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, I get it.
I get it.
I really just never saw itthrough that lens.
But anyway, there you go.
So thank you, Jeremy,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2 (33:03):
You're
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (33:04):
and the interwebs for teaching us
one thing good.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (33:07):
I'm doing my job.
So to end this episode, and Idid not give you all a heads up
about this.
I wanted to go back to somethingthat we started.
Way back, probably like in thesecond episode, and I don't know
how many times we've done itsince, but something that has
brought you joy recently, sincewe're always trying to, like,
bring joy to other people.
And so I'm going to give you asecond to think.
(33:29):
For yours.
Cause I can, I have mine ready.
Two things.
Okay.
Okay.
I, you know, me, I can neverjust do one.
Um, the amount of people thathave reached out, sent me
sympathy cards, sent me.
Sympathy messages, um, who havecome to give me a hug at the
store, uh, over the sweet lossof our little sweet Gracie, um,
(33:52):
has really been, appreciated andtouching and, people who have
lost a pet, um, That they've hadfor a very long time.
There's like a weird littleconnection.
Um, and you can, you just seethe people through a different,
I guess we'll say it that waybecause we have another lady at
(34:13):
the store who just lost a petthis week.
Um, and so there's just like, Idon't know.
It's different when you, I don'tknow.
It's just, it's, you see, yousee it through a different lens.
And so I'm just saying, thankyou.
Thank you for all the kinds ofwords and all the kind of
thoughts and all that.
And so I'm just not, I'm nottrying to milk it or make it any
longer.
But I just want to say, thankyou.
That's all I want to do.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for your compassionand your heart.
Um,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (34:33):
in whatever form it is.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (34:34):
Yes.
Um, the other thing is, is atsome point when I was editing
the, podcast at the very end, ifpeople listen through the end of
the music, when the music goesoff, I've started adding a
little, um, It's just a littlebit of a soundbite of the three
of us laughing from somethingone of us said.
I can't even remember what itwas.
so if you haven't listened, I'lllet through the music to the
(34:56):
end.
please do to hear the laughbecause I, it is my fav, one of
my favorite points of editingevery episode is editing and
making sure everything's thereand then putting that laugh on
the end and it just brings me somuch joy.
Every
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (35:08):
Love it.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (35:09):
every time.
So if you haven't listened,listen, it'll make you smile.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (35:13):
Mr.
Hurt, what you got, brother?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (35:15):
Well, know, I was just on vacation.
That's always joyous, but, butit was, um, a different type of
vacation because I went withfriends that I have had for 30
years and we have never gone onvacation together.
(35:38):
And it was, Us four and ourspouses and just one night we
all just sat there and justlooked around and I was like,
can you believe we've known eachother for 30 years this year?
And then like that realizationhit and it's like, Oh shit,
we've been through a lot ofstuff, but that made you feel
good because those people werestill there.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (36:01):
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
It's everything, isn't it?
It's everything.
So I'm going to ask you aquestion.
Are you aware that you sent me avideo?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (36:15):
I was aware that, um, my Jeremy
sent you a video.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (36:19):
Not me, not me.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (36:21):
well, I didn't get it, so you, you had
to send it to me.
And so the, what it is, is we,uh, Joe and, uh, Kim made this
dress for him.
It's called Autumn Joy, andwe're bringing in, and anyway,
so Stuart made a reference tothis in the video, and was in
the ocean, the Bahamas, and hehad seaweed on his head, and I
watched it and I went, huh,okay.
(36:43):
And then I thought for a second,well, he's just being joy
filled.
And I said, can I post this?
And he said, sure.
And I went, oh, and then Ithought, you know, I'm not going
to post this.
I'm just not sure about this onebecause what came across was,
uh, He's drunk at 10 o'clock inthe morning, or he's gay at 10
(37:05):
o'clock in the morning, or he'sdrunk and real gay this morning.
And I thought, I'm not going topost this one.
I just don't know if the worldis really prepared to see this.
Now he's fully clothed, there'snothing like that, I'm just not
sure if, uh, this one doesn'tfeel right.
I'm not sure if he would want meto share this one.
Now, now the world needs to seeit probably.
Uh, but it's really funny.
It's really, really funny,right?
(37:25):
So, I was like, oh, I was like,huh.
I'll leave
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (37:30):
comes to me and says, did you see this
video?
I was like, oh yeah, Jeremy sentit to me.
It was hysterical.
And he goes, is he drunk?
And I think it was like, and hegoes, I was going to post it.
Then I thought it's like, 11, Ithink we got it like around 1130
or something like that.
Yeah.
And he was like, and this islike 1130, so could he be drunk
at 1130 in the morning?
(37:50):
And I'm like, well, I mean, whatI was thinking in my head was,
well, I've been to plenty ofbrunches where I'm chipped
nonetheless at the beach at
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (37:58):
We did have morning.
Mimosas.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (38:00):
And, um,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09 (38:01):
obvious.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (38:02):
and I thought, I thought before I
could even think, well, yeah,no, I've, I've totally been
toasted at 11 o'clock in themorning at a brunch
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (38:09):
See, I don't drink,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (38:10):
and it's like, you know, one needs
to be drunk this early in themorning and I'm like, Oh yeah,
nobody, nobody.
Oh Lord.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (38:21):
love it.
Okay, my joys.
Actually, one was a sweetsurprise, and Carol, a long time
client of mine, came in, andshe's a little bit older, and
she is from One of the upperstates, and so she's a little
more, reserved in her approach.
So when this hillbilly enteredher life about 15 years ago, she
(38:43):
just didn't quite know what todo with me.
Right.
Because she has a, stiff upperlip kind of personnel, not
unapproachable, but, you know,she was just a little more
reserved in her demeanor and, mejust kind of just being me and
obnoxious and things.
Uh, but we have found Tonavigate our relationship, and I
(39:03):
think she's just the kindestperson in the world.
And I think she kind of gets metoo now.
Right?
And so she brought in a book theother day, and with a sweet
little message, and it was aphotography book about
Appalachia.
And again, when she met me, shedidn't know that I was a crazy
ass hillbilly.
Right?\ And my love ofAppalachia.
(39:24):
And that's the reason I commenton the book.
Well, this is, again, Probably10 years ago.
She said, you commented on thisbook and how beautiful it was
and I wanted you to have it.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (39:34):
Was it the book by JD Vance?
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (39:37):
No, it was not.
It was not.
Yes, it was not.
And I thought, how beautiful wasthat, that somebody heard this
and remembered it and kept it intheir heart for 10 years, right?
So I go back to the gifts andthings that you do don't have to
(39:58):
be expensive.
Right?
It just has to be thought field.
And that's a life lesson that itis as simple as just sending a
text to somebody.
Right?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (40:09):
hmm.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (40:10):
I'm thinking of you, or, you helped
me last week, Jeremy, and I hadthese little tea towels that
were, very economical.
And I sent them to my sweetdaughter in Northern Kentucky.
Didn't have to be expensive.
It was just, I'm thinking ofyou.
It's those little acts that meanso much.
And the other one was, and Iposted this on social media,
that our sweet Amy, again,longtime customer and, I worked
(40:33):
with her in her first house andthe first husband and, that,
well, she kept the house and gotrid of the husband, uh, and I
didn't, I didn't care for himvery much.
So with that said, she has a newfeller in her life and she's to
be married this coming weekend.
And she's adopted a little babydog and a new feller, Amy
doesn't have children, but newfeller has.
(40:54):
teenagers.
And so, this new mom to be hashad to figure out how to
navigate all these things inlife.
Uh, so with that said, her lifehas changed in a beautiful,
beautiful way.
And she came in and she told methat she just turned in her
badge at work.
And after 23 years, that lastFriday was her last day of work.
(41:18):
And the first place she wantedto come was come to this house
and shop.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (41:22):
hmm.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (41:23):
How beautiful is that?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (41:24):
hmm.
Love that.
Happy place.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (41:27):
Happy place, happy place.
We are, we are her happy place.
And, uh, just also to tell youout there, um, for you childless
cat ladies, there is hope.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (41:41):
Yeah.
Taytay says so.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (41:43):
Yeah, they say, yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (41:45):
Lord.
Okay.
Well, as always, thank you allfor listening.
I think today was a fun andinformative podcast.
We will be back with another newepisode next Wednesday.
If you haven't downloaded ourmobile shopping app, please do
it's HouseFloral all in word inyour app store for both Android
or iPhone.
And we're continuing to do ourlive sales last night.
We actually did one from mypersonal home showing some fall
(42:08):
stuff and it was fun.
And we had lots of people joinedfrom all over the country.
and if you have a monkey in yourlife and you want to tell us
about it, or if you have ahorror story, please also, or
anything else, you know, Ilisten, we'll listen, we'll
listen to it.
Um, you can use our hotline 859412 1572.
And aside from that, we'll seeyou next week.
All right.
Thanks guys.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (42:29):
Thank you guys.
What are we talking about today?
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (00:01):
Oh, God, live real life.
Walk away from that microphone.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (00:05):
you can back up a little bit because
I don't, I don't know where it'staking you in Stuart, but it was
really loud and I thought I'lljust edit it and post, but you
know, technically,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (00:18):
that way.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (00:21):
yeah, but I think you're
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (00:21):
if I turn it down, is that better?
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (00:23):
That's better.
Yeah, that's
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (00:25):
sure.
You know, we'll see if myeardrums lasted through.
It's fine.
Just, just, just remember that
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (00:30):
Are you saying his voice makes your
eardrums bleed?
Is
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (00:34):
No, no, God, no, no.
The funny thing is, is becausehe has such a low, like register
in his voice,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (00:41):
Uh huh.
Uh huh.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (00:42):
so well.
And I think I've mentioned thisto you, Dwayne, that
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (00:45):
And I'm just like this! Hello!
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (00:47):
it doesn't, it doesn't pick any of
that up and, So then when hegets really animated, because
you know, we all are not flatpeople, right?
For example, when he sayssomething and he raises his
volume, it about blows me out ofmy seat.
And I have to, when I'm, whenI'm editing, it doesn't do it
here, but when I'm editing it,I'm like, Oh God.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (01:05):
Sorry.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (01:06):
So no, don't apologize.
Listen, I am an amateur audiomixer designer, whatever the
hell this is.
And we're just lucky that itdoesn't come 1980s AOL sign up
dial tone.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (01:20):
Bing, bing, boom.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (01:33):
Well, so today, what this started from
was I had, uh, someone email inasking she, she used to hate
flow.
Flow.
She used to hate fo flowers,because she thought like many.
Of we'll say younger crowd thatfaux flowers always meant like
what the grannies had, like, andI always, associated with, like,
(01:54):
if it looks like it was on theset of mama's family, which I
guess I'm probably talking tothe wrong crowd if they don't
know who mama's family is, um,then get rid of it.
Right.
Cause that's, there's so muchbetter stuff out there.
And so then I remember that wehad written a blog a while back
and we say, we, it was reallyme, but you know, whatever we
all, we all, we all work onthis.
Um, but we have a blog that was30.
(02:16):
Designer tips for making stemsand arrangements look more
realistic in your home.
And I don't, I realized, I don'tthink I ever discussed this with
you all, like what I wentthrough and I put it on here.
And I thought that these wouldbe interesting for us to discuss
because, um, some of them are sosimple, but they're like, you
know, we have horror stories,right?
So that was the thought.
(02:36):
Okay.
So I will read them.
Um, since I have them in frontof me and I know you don't, um,
number one, don't buy junk, Ithink you keep remembering that
this is all trying to make themfeel the most realistic in your
home is so that it says wesound, uh, we know that sounds
obvious.
But sadly, it's worth stating ifyou buy junk flowers and upset
(02:59):
with the arrangement becausethey look like junk, we need to
have a little conversation andthen it goes on to talk about
how it doesn't look like mama'sfamily anymore.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (03:10):
Well, it just goes back to you get
what you pay for, right?
You get what you pay for, andthere's some of these box
stores, that sell actuallyoverpriced junk, and they jack
the price up, and then they putit half price, and it's still
overpriced, and it's still ugly.
So, I think that's why we'rehaving success is, We have the
ability to choose silk flowersthat look real and it's out
(03:33):
there, guys.
They just want to buy thecheapest crap and make the most
markup is all they're doing.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (03:38):
uh, you know, a dollar and 2 faux
grass look great in a fish tank,but not in your dining room
table.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (03:48):
Well, I will remind you, Jeremy does
have I got frustrated with youmultiple times because of what
you, your pickiness, Jeremy, ofputting stuff online.
Right.
And now I get it.
I read the reviews and I get thecomments and it's a little,
little different how you do theapproach.
(04:10):
And, uh, so tell me, tell mewhat you're looking for when you
put online because you have alittle different approach than,
than what I was used to.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (04:17):
Well, yeah, I'm going to interrupt
just a second because it's thesame quality as what we have in
the store.
But I think there's a lot moredifferent things that we don't
have in the store.
Some things overlap, so I thinkhe's done a great job of
targeting who's buying online,quite honestly.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (04:37):
Agree.
Agree.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12- (04:38):
listen, it's all an experiment in,
testing everything out under thesun.
well, you know, there are thingsthat we see in, or there's stems
that we know that come in and weknow that using them and mixing
them in a, an arrangement, somethings look better in an
arrangement than they doindividually.
Right.
So like we've had some.
(05:01):
Dark red burgundy berries beforethat always come to mind that if
you look at the stem of them,and we don't carry these online,
but, uh, if you looked at thestem of them in the store, you'd
go, well, those look prettyplastic.
Those, those, those aren't thebest thing.
Right.
And then you mix them in with anarrangement.
And then for some reason, ittotally changes the look and the
(05:23):
feel of them.
And you go, Oh God, I lovethose.
Right.
So there's those.
I know that.
When people open a box, theydon't have it mixed together.
Right?
So anything that I look at andsay, well, I know this will be
good mixed in.
I don't even try to test thewater with.
So I always try to think I wantto have things that when people
open, they are thrilled whenthey see it.
(05:45):
And there's no question.
If somebody picks up, comes intothe store and picks up
something, this is like what,you know, a lot of people talk
about buying clothing when theygo into a store.
Um, yeah.
Like they want to touch it.
They want to feel it.
Well, people would love to touchand feel this stuff too, but
they don't have the ability todo that.
So I have to make sure that thevisual representation, the look
of it and the quality of it,like it's not going to break on
(06:06):
the way there, the stems aregoing to be in, you know, all
those kinds of things.
So.
I really, what I always try toput myself in is if I were to
order this and it come in, Ooh,and I have an example again of
this last night.
Oh, I am so mad.
Oh, okay.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (06:21):
uh oh.
Uh
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (06:23):
Oh, I should have ran downstairs to
get it.
So, um, so
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (06:26):
beep.
Forewarning! Rant of Jeremy.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (06:29):
Rant and this probably so expletive
field.
Oh, I'm so fucking pissed.
Okay, so, you know, we lost oursweet little Gracie a few weeks
ago And so shortly after thatlike within days, I was targeted
with this ad for thesesweatshirts.
And you uploaded a picture ofyour animal and they then
embroidered Embroidered rememberthat word the pet on the left
(06:51):
chest Um, their face, they tookthem and then they converted it
into some kind of embroideryfile and then they did that.
And then you could also chooseto have something embroidered on
the sleeve.
So Jeremy was having a reallyhard time with our loss of
Gracie.
And, so I thought, you know,this is a sweet little thing
that I can do.
They just has a little thing youcan wear around.
Right.
So I ordered it.
(07:11):
What came in yesterday?
I opened up this bag.
It is the color of thesweatshirt that I ordered.
It is in a screen printedversion of some cat that is not
Gracie.
Screen printed, not embroidered.
And then it does have the texton the sleeve that was also
supposed to be embroidered, butscreen printed.
(07:36):
And it is the size that mightfit Allie.
For a reference everybody, Allieis five years old, my husband is
forty.
Uh, or forty one.
Um, yeah.
I was so this, I look, I getthis.
Okay.
So this is why I get so paranoidabout trying to put the quality
on that I feel confident inbecause I have been burned so
(07:58):
many fucking times orderingthings and then it's the whole,
what I ordered, what I got.
And then I can't go back andfind where in the hell I ordered
it from.
Cause you know, some random sitethat you only order from once
you can't ever find again toeven like go to the credit card
company and say, Hey, this isbull and then the credit card
company was like, well, is itbull?
And then you have to, it's awhole dance.
It's just, it's.
(08:19):
So my goal getting back to thesubject is to not do that to our
customers.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (08:24):
Well, they'll get your money one time.
Right?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (08:27):
Yeah.
I'll never
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (08:27):
going to get it never again.
Where with what you've createdis repeat customer after repeat
customer after repeat customer.
This is my second order, mythird order.
Um, if you recall, what's thethe customers that made the most
orders, Jeremy, has placed themost
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (08:47):
Um, probably if I had to guess her
name, Cindy, um,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (08:52):
out, Cindy.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (08:53):
so shout out Cindy.
And I was, I was trying to look,cause I was going to tell you
how many she's plays, um, andshe has been making stuff.
That's all I, but, um, you know,we do handle the orders.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (09:04):
You know that our house is way too
full with our crap.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (09:07):
Yeah.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (09:09):
And is she, she's somewhere in the
United States,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (09:12):
Yes, she's, she's in California.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (09:14):
so she's not in Kentucky.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (09:16):
Oh Lord.
No, no, this is shipping acrossthe country.
Um, but you know, the names docome across and you do, you see
them time and time again, timeagain.
And so, you know, I see themwhen they come through and so we
always communicate.
And, um, okay.
Are you ready?
80 orders.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (09:31):
Yeah.
Wow.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (09:33):
Does Cindy listen to our podcast?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (09:35):
I don't know.
You know what, the next timeshe, she just had an order went
out, I think yesterday or theday before.
So I'll send her a note and makesure she listens.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (09:42):
Yeah.
Shout out, Cindy.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (09:43):
um, but thanks Cindy.
So, yeah, so, I mean, that'swhat I don't want for us to
happen with customers.
So that's why I'm always really,I don't, I mean, I'll use the
word anal, but I just, I don'twant to risk it because.
The reviews are everything.
Um, cause the social proof.
So,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (09:59):
your reviews are through the roof.
They're through the roof.
And there was, there was one Iread, and I mean, you have like
five, One stars, but one ofthem, I don't know how she said
it, but I was like, if I couldcome through the computer and
rip your throat out, bitch, Iwould because
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (10:18):
Well, listen,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (10:19):
the word subpar or something.
I was like, you're just a foolbecause we don't do
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (10:26):
I, I, I I'm empathetic to probably
a fault.
Um, but I always try to think,you know, look, I've had bad
days.
I know I've given bad reviews tothings.
I really didn't mean just to getmy things out.
So we have so few of them thatI'm not that worried
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (10:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (10:41):
Uh, but we try to show up and do it
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (10:43):
She's an outlier.
It's just like, I was like, ooh,I don't knock you.
Go away.
Bye.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (10:48):
Yeah.
My, my favorite ones are the,when we get the one star review
and then their comment is, Ithought this was real.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091 (10:56):
Thought it was a what?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (10:57):
They thought it was real.
So then they got it.
No, I'm not joking.
No.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (11:02):
Well, that's a moron.
I don't know what to say.
I mean, it's fake, artificialeverywhere, right?
who who buys one flower that'sreal at the time?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (11:15):
Uh,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091 (11:16):
foolish
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (11:17):
would be, you would, no, I won't say
foolish.
I just don't know what they'redoing with it, but you'd be
surprised.
I mean, people order just one,you know, whatever makes,
whatever brings you joy
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (11:24):
No, I can.
I, no, no, no, no.
You heard me wrong.
I can understand Ordering onefaux flower, right?
'cause you're finishedsomething.
What are you going to do withone?
If you are on this website andyou thought you were
disappointed that you got one,you're ordering one real flower
and it comes fo.
It's like
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (11:40):
No,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (11:40):
you are ordering a one single red
rose online.
You are like, you the cheapestperson I've met, bro.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (11:49):
This is also a public service
announcement that the word F A UX is pronounced foe that I have
learned throws people that a lotof people pronounce it Fox.
And you go on, you know, I amnot, I'm not, I'm not trying not
to make fun of people.
I'm trying, I'm just trying toeducate the peoples,
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091 (12:09):
valence and not a valance.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (12:14):
Okay, so we're going to, is it herb or
herb?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (12:17):
Well, it depends on where it depends
on where you're from.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (12:20):
Okay, so that was one of those tomato,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (12:21):
My, my favorite was, uh, Eddie
Izzard said, um, he was talkingabout the words, you know,
aluminum, aluminum.
And then, cause he was English.
And then he said, and you allsay herb and we say herb because
there's a fucking H in it.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (12:36):
true, true enough.
Okay, so what's our next one?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (12:39):
All right.
Number two is, um, know whatreal flowers look like.
And so I know that sounds again,really simple, but if you're
going out, you know, you can seesome really bad fake
interpretations of flowers.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09 (12:54):
Electric blue roses do not grow in
nature.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (12:57):
and this isn't even talking about
color.
This is just talking about like,um, like details, right?
Like sometimes it's just so faroff, like a sunflower that they
make that, you know, it has a,that pitted center, right?
It's all textural and stuff.
Well, if that is made
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (13:16):
Smooth brown plastic, which I've
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (13:18):
Yeah, that's, that, that, that's a
dead giveaway, right?
That's, and again, this all goesback to trying to find realistic
interpretations, right?
Trying to make it feel the mostrealistic.
Okay.
So knowing what real stems kindof look like, if you're thinking
you're looking for something,look some pictures up first
before you look and then you'llsee, um,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (13:36):
and one of the things we, well, I'm
gonna say this.
One of the things that we,because we used to do weddings
and events and things like that,and we were very accustomed to
working with real flowers.
When we were in the realm ofbuying faux flowers, because it
was in our mindset what theyshould look like, it was easier
for us to pick them out.
(13:56):
And it's like, you guys pick outthe best looking, uh, faux
flowers.
And I'm like, yeah, we'll justpick them that look like.
Real ones and that's all you gotto do
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (14:07):
Um, number three, now this is, okay,
so it says, unless you live inthe tropics, don't use tropical
flowers and listen, we're nottalking about orchids.
Okay, we're talking about, andagain, this is supposed to be
realistic.
And if you're going to leavethis up for six months in your
house, you're bird of paradise.
Does it make sense?
(14:28):
Now, if you're just needsomething for a sweet memory of
where you used to be in thetropics, if this is for you,
that's great.
But if you're trying to convincesomebody that these are real,
probably not the best way toapproach it.
So if you use flowers grown inyour area, it's much more easy
to convince.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (14:46):
that one's on the fence for me a
little bit.
Uh, I get what the concept is.
Um, generally, I'm always goingto go.
I want flowers that representthe region that you're from.
Right?
Because in other words, I don'tthink if you live in Florida,
you should have, uh.
Magnolia is everywhere, right?
You well, I guess you cantechnically, uh, but it's
(15:07):
orchid.
Yeah, you technically can see.
It doesn't seem like you wouldwant to do traditional like what
we do traditional fussy flowersWith lots of colors and things
like that, right, but it's moretropical based But the same
instant I wouldn't necessarilythink that I don't want to walk
in and see a tropical basedfloral faux floral arrangement
in somebody's house in lexingtonevery single day because it
(15:28):
doesn't look like that's whatyou could be in your gardens I
always want the
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (15:31):
what, yeah, that's what
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (15:32):
You go, whatever, whatever is at
your disposal that you cut fromthat's local is what you've
sourced into your house.
That really is, that's a goodway to say it, isn't it?
What's
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (15:43):
Isn't that what it said?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (15:44):
That's what he just said, Dwayne.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (15:46):
Isn't that what it was?
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (15:48):
yeah, I'm so
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (15:49):
It wasn't, don't use it.
It's whatever is locally in yourarea.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (15:52):
Okay.
Wow.
It took me a minute to getthere.
Well, you'll just edit that outand make
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (15:58):
No! Ha ha ha ha ha! Alright, so this
is when I know that we all threeare always very, Are you done?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (16:08):
We got two more.
We got Two more?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (16:10):
Two more?
We're just on number four! Um,geez louise.
Alright, uh, number four.
This is one that we all, um,we're always very focused on.
Buy artificial flowers that comein the same ish, quote unquote,
colors if they come in nature.
Going back to electric blueroses or electric blue or
(16:33):
turquoise magnolias.
These do not exist in real life.
There is, there is nothing worsethan a blue poinsettia.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (16:46):
Preach it brother.
Preach it.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (16:47):
I mean, you know, or a purple
magnolia.
I mean, come on.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091 (16:52):
happen.
Doesn't happen.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (16:54):
mean, you know, there are tones of,
you know, you've got theJapanese magnolia that are that
really pretty pinky purple colorand you've got like, there are
those kinds of elements that areout there.
But here's the tip that thereis, is if you're trying to add
blues or purples to something,instead of trying to add a
flower, now look, you can dohydrangeas that are purple.
Well, those are obviously blue.
Those are easy ways to get itin.
(17:16):
Um, but the other way that Ithink is probably even the
easier way to get these colorsin is to use a berry.
Cause there's so
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (17:23):
I'm on the floor and he's like, you
don't have a lot of blueflowers.
No, no, we
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091 (17:29):
Neither does Jesus.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (17:30):
got
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (17:32):
Ha ha ha ha ha
dwayne_1_09-12-202 (17:37):
blueberries.
I got you some blue hydrangeas.
I got you some blueberriesbecause that's about all that's
blue out there that's real and Iam not, we are not going to have
some fake flower that's fakeblue in here just because you
wanted to match your grannyhouse, right?
It ain't gonna happen.
Just not gonna happen.
Anyway, so preach it.
Yeah, thank you, Jesus.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (18:00):
I mean, in my mind, it always goes
back to, and I didn't know thisexists, but after I learned that
this exists, this is always whatI kind of think of is that the
people that had back in the daywhen you could get the toilet
paper that was pink and blue andyellow, and it
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (18:11):
yeah, Charmin had those, yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (18:13):
mean, I don't know what, what
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (18:14):
It was.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (18:15):
was a sermon.
Um, but like, it's that liketried to.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (18:18):
Stop there.
Stop there.
Stop there.
What the world needs to know isStuart can have a frugality to
him.
Okay, but the thing, the twothings that he does not
compromise on, well threethings, good alcohols, good
foods, and good toilet papers.
If you're going to use ourrestroom, your little tushy is
(18:39):
going to touch some Charminevery time you're in here.
Full disclosure, so there yougo.
Now go, Jeremy.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (18:44):
All three of those things play
together very nicely.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (18:51):
Oh, let's see.
Um, number six, massing out oneflower is a foolproof way to
arrange that appears morerealistic.
And we've said this time andtime again, if you just mass out
one thing, it looks like, youknow, just cut and gathered.
It doesn't have to be a fixedfussy arrangement.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (19:06):
Get your bundle.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (19:08):
Yeah.
Get your bundle, plop them.
Number seven, when it comes toarranging the flowers, we want
them to look like you've clippedthem from the garden and brought
them in.
Um, so complex.
Designs, unless for a specialoccasion can read very
artificial, very easily.
Um, and I think this goes backto, um, I don't know if I put
this on, if this is another one,but the other thing that I
(19:29):
always think of with this is,um, when the real housewives of
Beverly Hills came on and likethese, you know, it was
ridiculous, um, but I, you know,back in the day, I used to watch
it.
I
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (19:43):
So why do you watch that trash?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (19:44):
I don't, watch it now.
This was like probably back whenit first came out.
So it was probably
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (19:48):
Oh my God.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12- (19:49):
college or right out of college?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09 (19:51):
Speaking of trash, we are watching the
series called Monkey Love.
Lord, it is, it is horrible.
And I just sit there, I'm like,I feel more stupid every episode
I watch, but I have to keepwatching them.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (20:03):
I don't, I don't even know, can
you give us a
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (20:05):
It's kind of like, it's kind of like
Tiger King, except this woman,well a few women, have
chimpanzees.
That they have raised and theycall them their children.
And then these chimpanzees get.
Older as, as they do and age.
And then they have to keep themin their house.
(20:27):
One of them killed one of theirfriends, ripped her face off.
And, uh, this is like in 2003,this chimpanzee ripped her
friend's face off because it gotmad and of course I had to shoot
it, put it down.
And then there's this otherchimpanzee that this crazy,
crazy woman has, and she's beenhiding this chimpanzee from PETA
(20:47):
because PETA has been trying toget it to take it to a
sanctuary.
It's crazy.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (20:55):
don't know what my face looks like
because I don't have my
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (20:57):
I know.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (20:59):
we're both in shock of like, this is
real.
This is
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (21:02):
Yeah.
Well, you said trash TV and it,I instantly went there.
So
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (21:06):
Yeah.
Okay.
No, stay away from monkey love.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (21:09):
it's if you don't want to think, go
ahead and turn that on.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (21:13):
Oh, that's, see that's, I've turned
on Hallmark, Lord.
I can't, I, how's, how, well Idon't even get feel, I just kind
of look at it and I'm numb bythe end of the night, but.
Um, how's the, how, ripped offthe face?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (21:31):
yes.
Cause they,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (21:32):
Aren't you stuck at that?
I was like, oh, oh
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (21:34):
And it's still alive?
She still has this
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (21:37):
no, they shot it.
They shot it on site.
They put it down and there'sactually an interview with
Oprah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (21:43):
Yeah, I remember
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (21:44):
and Oprah asked her, to lift her
veil so the public could seeripped nose off her eyeballs
out.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (21:50):
Yeah, I've, I've watched it.
I remember that.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (21:53):
Mm
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (21:53):
You know what the failure of this
was?
The woman that had the Chi Z,the, the owner, they shoulda
shot her
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (22:00):
and they should have because a year
later, she went and boughtanother underground
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091 (22:07):
Mm-Hmm.
Mm-Hmm.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (22:09):
Oh God,
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (22:09):
A little
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (22:10):
you know, here's
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (22:11):
people buy these things for, I think,
well, cause this one lady usedto have them take him to the
little kids birthday parties, ofcourse, when they were babies
and you had to pay 3, 000 tohave this monkey birthday party
and this little chimpanzeerunning around well, but then
she bred them and sold thesebabies for 40 and 50, 000
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (22:31):
Oh my Lord.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (22:32):
buy them.
So who knows, who knows who haschimpanzee hiding in their
basement?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (22:39):
Well, I mean, this has got, this has
gone way off topic,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (22:43):
Yeah, way off topic tangent.
I never thought we were, youknow, okay.
well, let's let's move on pastmonkey.
Love.
I don't want no more.
Yeah.
I thought monkey love wassomething sexual, but it's not,
but I'm glad.
Yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (22:55):
Well, um, real quickly, you know, our
friend Esther did, wasintroduced to someone's monkey
in the basement and the, and themonkey kept throwing shit at
her.
Yeah.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (23:03):
Yeah,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (23:03):
We can't do what he
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (23:05):
went to a consult.
She went to a consultation andthe guy's like, oh, I need to
take you to the basement.
She thought, Lord, I'm gonna getkilled today.
But no, there's this chimpanzeedown there.
Throwing poop at her.
He had chimpanzee in hisbasement.
Yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12- (23:20):
listen, um, I understand the love of
animals.
I do.
I understand how you can getattached, but oh lord.
Oh god.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (23:29):
You know,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (23:30):
All right, well, if y'all have a
monkey or you had an interactionwith one, reach out to our
hotline because I want to knowabout it.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (23:38):
I'm going to say, I don't want to
know.
I
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (23:40):
we won't share your location, but
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (23:42):
No, we won't.
We won't share you with PETA.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (23:45):
Oof.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (23:45):
will.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (23:47):
All
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (23:47):
you.
I will share.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (23:49):
Number eight.
Number eight.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2 (23:50):
Number eight, realistic faux flowers
have a range of colors and notjust one color.
And that is very true.
Because if you look at a flowerthat's out in the yard, um, I
mean, unless you're looking likea, let's say like a white, um,
sun patient or for example, thatare really, really like just
intense, you know, bright openwhite, you know, there's always
(24:13):
shades of color to them, right?
Like there's some pedals, maybea little bit darker, a little
lighter versus if you get some,it looks like it's been painted
with spray paint.
It's a dead giveaway that it'snot.
Real.
And so that's always why when,when we look for like
hydrangeas, for example, there'sa lot of depth of color in those
because they have a lot of depthand color in real life.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (24:30):
well, that's the 1st 1 side range is
you mix some white ones togetherwith some green ones together.
I've even taken the whitehydrangea and the blue
hydrangea.
Cut the blue hydrangea apart 20percent of it and tucked it on
the edge of the white hydrangeato you know Like a white
hydrangea starting to turn acolor And because we may not be
(24:51):
able to buy that or they don'tmake it so we manipulate Mixing
the two flowers.
You're basically making your ownflower in a way Uh, and it works
and it's that that but it's thatrange of color with hydrangeas.
That's so important to mixtogether
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (25:06):
Range of color.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (25:08):
Range of color,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (25:10):
Um, number nine, if you aren't going
to change out
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (25:13):
okay, I got to stop you again.
You know, what just felt like,uh, this Saturday night live
range of color, you know, it wasgoes back to sweaty ball.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (25:22):
Some
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (25:22):
That's how you said it.
That's
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (25:25):
sweaty balls.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (25:26):
you said it.
I was like, it just felt likegood time sweaty ball.
So
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (25:32):
Okay.
I was like, I don't know how yougot there, but
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (25:34):
I know just edit that out.
That's just how you deliveredit.
It just made me
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (25:37):
are your, how are your muffins?
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (25:39):
Yes, we'll edit this part out.
But that's what
stuart_1_09-12-2024_0916 (25:44):
that's the fun
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (25:45):
funny.
Yeah, yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (25:48):
nine, if you aren't going to change
the arrangement out seasonallyand no shame, if you don't buy
flowers that you can get in realflowers.
In the grocery store year round.
And I think that's probably,that's a good tip, right?
And she's like, you can alwaysget a hydrangea.
You can always get tulips.
You can always get roses.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (26:06):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I never thought of that.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (26:09):
you know, and again, this is again,
if you're trying to convincepeople that it's a real
arrangement, right?
I keep going back to thatbecause if you know, an example
of this is like a beautiful pinkpeony.
If.
Pennies bring you joy and youwant to see them all the time.
You get yourself a pink penny inOctober, right?
(26:30):
I think we just, uh, yesterdaywhen I
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (26:33):
your house, inside your
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (26:34):
your house.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (26:36):
Well, there's a reason behind this,
Jeremy.
The house on XXXXXXXXXXX Drive,um, please take down your
forsythia wreath, uh, inJanuary.
Please.
Okay.
The forsythia is frozen.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (26:51):
It is dead.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (26:53):
Dead.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (26:54):
It's in hibernation.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (26:55):
Yeah, I was like, I just want to just
rip that off that door.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_0 (26:59):
a house that's not that one, but
they leave their forsythiawreath up on their door year
round.
And you know, if that makes themhappy, I get it.
Cause it makes me happy.
But, um,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (27:10):
does not make me happy.
It makes me irritated.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (27:12):
rip
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (27:13):
Yes, it does.
It does.
It does.
I always go back to, I'd ratherhave nothing.
Right?
Don't buy a wreath from us.
Don't buy a basket and thinkthat you should leave it up 24
hours a day, seven days a week,three or six days a year.
It's seasonal.
It's seasonal, people.
I can make you one that laststhree or four months, right?
(27:34):
But I can't make it last 12months.
I just can't.
It doesn't happen.
Sometimes if, if you don't wantto switch it out, it's okay for
your door to be naked as opposedto being ugly or wrong.
Okay.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (27:48):
well, you know what, what made me
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (27:50):
I think I just lost two of our
listeners.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (27:53):
God, now we're at eight, uh, 18, um,
one of the, uh, one of thethings that, as I was reading
this, I was thinking about, uh,when I was helping pack orders
on Tuesday that I bet we shippedout, no joke, a hundred pennies.
Pink, pink, pink and whitepanties.
Um, but I know one, one of thecustomers, I know they were
(28:15):
working on a wedding and I don'tremember what the other one was,
but I was like, yeah, you knowwhat?
This brings you joy.
And this is inside your house.
You, you do it.
But if you were trying to dosomething that feels realistic,
when people come over that youwant to convince them that these
are real and that they don'tthink, oh, this is just
something else, keep it to whatyou can get.
It's just easier to do it thatway.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (28:32):
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (28:34):
Um, number 10.
Oh, okay.
Uh, you may be tempted to buyflowers and bushes because they
are less expensive, but that'snot the only adjective to
describe them.
Um, then what's bolded in thisone is, people use silk flower
bushes for cemeteries.
(28:55):
For a reason they are cheap.
The color shows from a distanceand no one gets up close with
them.
Cause they're just trash.
I added that last part.
Um, now I'm not going to saythat every flower bush is trash.
Cause I don't believe that as ageneral rule rule.
I think it's probably fairlyfair to say 90 percent of
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (29:19):
Fair.
There's a few.
You're right.
No, that's fair.
But most are
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (29:21):
we, we even have some white
hydrangea bushes that we use,um, that we can use to make
arrangements and it's just areally great basic hydrangea.
Um, and we have them indifferent
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (29:32):
The, the key to that is we cut them
apart.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2 (29:35):
Right.
And so the point
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (29:36):
don't just stick a bush of geranium on
your kitchen table.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (29:43):
so, and what
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (29:44):
Well see that's one of those.
I do stick a a a a red drainthat we sell in my pots out
front that supplement mygeraniums that are not doing
good at this summer and theylook pretty good.
Right.
But now on my kitchen table's adifferent store'cause it's in my
face.
Right.
So in a way it's outside.
It's like my funeral,
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091 (30:00):
Outside they grow in the
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_0916 (30:01):
Right.
Yeah.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (30:02):
do not.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (30:03):
He's got his funeral flowers outside.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (30:06):
On my front porch.
I have a window box.
Oh, that's really high up thereand it's really difficult to
water.
And asparagus, fern, springrock, and that, and those red
geraniums are in that window boxand it looks good people.
Now, I'm not going to tell everyneighbor in every world that
it's my fake flowers becausethey don't need to know.
But truthfully, now people doknow the tens of tens of
(30:26):
listeners that my window box.
On the tall one is fake, but itlooks good.
It looks good.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (30:34):
Now there are some times where a
bush can make sense.
So obviously if it's, if itlooks, if the flowers are good,
but one of the issues a lot oftimes with the bush is that
usually the stems of the flowersare just like a really thin
coated
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (30:50):
Yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (30:51):
metal wire, right?
Like there's no detail.
Details.
So that's obviously a really,um, Easy giveaway that it's, you
know, junk.
And then a
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (31:00):
Well, I am with Jeremy.
I mean with Stuart rather thatif it's at your face, it's very
close.
Usually Bush is a bad idea.
You can tell it right.
You can hide it in different,but if it's really close to your
face, it's usually a bad idea.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (31:12):
Yeah.
The only other exception I thinkof is that if you're doing
something where you're likemassing out of flowers, let's
say you're cutting the stem offthe bush and then you're just
mounding all these headstogether to make like a, a bowl
or, or cover a figure orsomething I see, I can see using
that, but still I would have to.
You can't use, just say you canuse every bush to do that.
(31:34):
Cause they're just, you know,it's again, there's a reason why
the people use them incemeteries, because they're
inexpensive and somebody ripsthem right off, you know, it's,
it stinks, but it's not that bigof a pain in the butt.
Yeah.
All right.
So there's the, there's 10,we'll leave it there.
There's, there's 30.
So we'll do some more episodesof this, but I think that out of
that, there's 10 really good,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091 (31:55):
Useful, useful
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (31:56):
are simple, but things that you
wouldn't have thought about orthings that may be like, oh
yeah, you know what you, that isright.
And I just thought that's reallyuseful to share.
Um, I
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (32:04):
of the things that you said, um, to
me a few weeks ago, and I don'tknow if it's on podcast, I think
it's just in the store, and itwas, and I've used this and I
went, huh.
So it goes back to these thingsabout common sense.
And you're like, oh, I didn'tsee it.
See that lens.
It's like, you know, if you havea wreath and you put the bow at
the top, it makes the wreathsmaller.
You put it at the bottom, itmakes the wreath bigger.
And it was like this, this like,light bulb went, huh, I never
(32:29):
thought of it that way.
And lord if I have not used thatand told everybody and said
every customer now,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (32:35):
You know, I don't know where I
learned that about where youplace the bow.
I I'm sure it was some videothat I saw somewhere.
I mean, that's just how weconsume so much stuff now.
Um, but I was like, Oh, Oh, andit really does make a
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (32:49):
Yeah,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024_ (32:49):
of where you want to pull your
focus.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (32:51):
and there's nothing wrong with
either one it's just Just pointout the, this, this concept.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, I get it.
I get it.
I really just never saw itthrough that lens.
But anyway, there you go.
So thank you, Jeremy,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2 (33:03):
You're
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (33:04):
and the interwebs for teaching us
one thing good.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (33:07):
I'm doing my job.
So to end this episode, and Idid not give you all a heads up
about this.
I wanted to go back to somethingthat we started.
Way back, probably like in thesecond episode, and I don't know
how many times we've done itsince, but something that has
brought you joy recently, sincewe're always trying to, like,
bring joy to other people.
And so I'm going to give you asecond to think.
(33:29):
For yours.
Cause I can, I have mine ready.
Two things.
Okay.
Okay.
I, you know, me, I can neverjust do one.
Um, the amount of people thathave reached out, sent me
sympathy cards, sent me.
Sympathy messages, um, who havecome to give me a hug at the
store, uh, over the sweet lossof our little sweet Gracie, um,
(33:52):
has really been, appreciated andtouching and, people who have
lost a pet, um, That they've hadfor a very long time.
There's like a weird littleconnection.
Um, and you can, you just seethe people through a different,
I guess we'll say it that waybecause we have another lady at
(34:13):
the store who just lost a petthis week.
Um, and so there's just like, Idon't know.
It's different when you, I don'tknow.
It's just, it's, you see, yousee it through a different lens.
And so I'm just saying, thankyou.
Thank you for all the kinds ofwords and all the kind of
thoughts and all that.
And so I'm just not, I'm nottrying to milk it or make it any
longer.
But I just want to say, thankyou.
That's all I want to do.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for your compassionand your heart.
Um,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (34:33):
in whatever form it is.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (34:34):
Yes.
Um, the other thing is, is atsome point when I was editing
the, podcast at the very end, ifpeople listen through the end of
the music, when the music goesoff, I've started adding a
little, um, It's just a littlebit of a soundbite of the three
of us laughing from somethingone of us said.
I can't even remember what itwas.
so if you haven't listened, I'lllet through the music to the
(34:56):
end.
please do to hear the laughbecause I, it is my fav, one of
my favorite points of editingevery episode is editing and
making sure everything's thereand then putting that laugh on
the end and it just brings me somuch joy.
Every
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (35:08):
Love it.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (35:09):
every time.
So if you haven't listened,listen, it'll make you smile.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (35:13):
Mr.
Hurt, what you got, brother?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (35:15):
Well, know, I was just on vacation.
That's always joyous, but, butit was, um, a different type of
vacation because I went withfriends that I have had for 30
years and we have never gone onvacation together.
(35:38):
And it was, Us four and ourspouses and just one night we
all just sat there and justlooked around and I was like,
can you believe we've known eachother for 30 years this year?
And then like that realizationhit and it's like, Oh shit,
we've been through a lot ofstuff, but that made you feel
good because those people werestill there.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (36:01):
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
It's everything, isn't it?
It's everything.
So I'm going to ask you aquestion.
Are you aware that you sent me avideo?
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (36:15):
I was aware that, um, my Jeremy
sent you a video.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (36:19):
Not me, not me.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (36:21):
well, I didn't get it, so you, you had
to send it to me.
And so the, what it is, is we,uh, Joe and, uh, Kim made this
dress for him.
It's called Autumn Joy, andwe're bringing in, and anyway,
so Stuart made a reference tothis in the video, and was in
the ocean, the Bahamas, and hehad seaweed on his head, and I
watched it and I went, huh,okay.
(36:43):
And then I thought for a second,well, he's just being joy
filled.
And I said, can I post this?
And he said, sure.
And I went, oh, and then Ithought, you know, I'm not going
to post this.
I'm just not sure about this onebecause what came across was,
uh, He's drunk at 10 o'clock inthe morning, or he's gay at 10
(37:05):
o'clock in the morning, or he'sdrunk and real gay this morning.
And I thought, I'm not going topost this one.
I just don't know if the worldis really prepared to see this.
Now he's fully clothed, there'snothing like that, I'm just not
sure if, uh, this one doesn'tfeel right.
I'm not sure if he would want meto share this one.
Now, now the world needs to seeit probably.
Uh, but it's really funny.
It's really, really funny,right?
(37:25):
So, I was like, oh, I was like,huh.
I'll leave
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (37:30):
comes to me and says, did you see this
video?
I was like, oh yeah, Jeremy sentit to me.
It was hysterical.
And he goes, is he drunk?
And I think it was like, and hegoes, I was going to post it.
Then I thought it's like, 11, Ithink we got it like around 1130
or something like that.
Yeah.
And he was like, and this islike 1130, so could he be drunk
at 1130 in the morning?
(37:50):
And I'm like, well, I mean, whatI was thinking in my head was,
well, I've been to plenty ofbrunches where I'm chipped
nonetheless at the beach at
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (37:58):
We did have morning.
Mimosas.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (38:00):
And, um,
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09 (38:01):
obvious.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (38:02):
and I thought, I thought before I
could even think, well, yeah,no, I've, I've totally been
toasted at 11 o'clock in themorning at a brunch
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (38:09):
See, I don't drink,
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-2024 (38:10):
and it's like, you know, one needs
to be drunk this early in themorning and I'm like, Oh yeah,
nobody, nobody.
Oh Lord.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (38:21):
love it.
Okay, my joys.
Actually, one was a sweetsurprise, and Carol, a long time
client of mine, came in, andshe's a little bit older, and
she is from One of the upperstates, and so she's a little
more, reserved in her approach.
So when this hillbilly enteredher life about 15 years ago, she
(38:43):
just didn't quite know what todo with me.
Right.
Because she has a, stiff upperlip kind of personnel, not
unapproachable, but, you know,she was just a little more
reserved in her demeanor and, mejust kind of just being me and
obnoxious and things.
Uh, but we have found Tonavigate our relationship, and I
(39:03):
think she's just the kindestperson in the world.
And I think she kind of gets metoo now.
Right?
And so she brought in a book theother day, and with a sweet
little message, and it was aphotography book about
Appalachia.
And again, when she met me, shedidn't know that I was a crazy
ass hillbilly.
Right?\ And my love ofAppalachia.
(39:24):
And that's the reason I commenton the book.
Well, this is, again, Probably10 years ago.
She said, you commented on thisbook and how beautiful it was
and I wanted you to have it.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_091635 (39:34):
Was it the book by JD Vance?
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (39:37):
No, it was not.
It was not.
Yes, it was not.
And I thought, how beautiful wasthat, that somebody heard this
and remembered it and kept it intheir heart for 10 years, right?
So I go back to the gifts andthings that you do don't have to
(39:58):
be expensive.
Right?
It just has to be thought field.
And that's a life lesson that itis as simple as just sending a
text to somebody.
Right?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (40:09):
hmm.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (40:10):
I'm thinking of you, or, you helped
me last week, Jeremy, and I hadthese little tea towels that
were, very economical.
And I sent them to my sweetdaughter in Northern Kentucky.
Didn't have to be expensive.
It was just, I'm thinking ofyou.
It's those little acts that meanso much.
And the other one was, and Iposted this on social media,
that our sweet Amy, again,longtime customer and, I worked
(40:33):
with her in her first house andthe first husband and, that,
well, she kept the house and gotrid of the husband, uh, and I
didn't, I didn't care for himvery much.
So with that said, she has a newfeller in her life and she's to
be married this coming weekend.
And she's adopted a little babydog and a new feller, Amy
doesn't have children, but newfeller has.
(40:54):
teenagers.
And so, this new mom to be hashad to figure out how to
navigate all these things inlife.
Uh, so with that said, her lifehas changed in a beautiful,
beautiful way.
And she came in and she told methat she just turned in her
badge at work.
And after 23 years, that lastFriday was her last day of work.
(41:18):
And the first place she wantedto come was come to this house
and shop.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (41:22):
hmm.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_091637 (41:23):
How beautiful is that?
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-202 (41:24):
hmm.
Love that.
Happy place.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (41:27):
Happy place, happy place.
We are, we are her happy place.
And, uh, just also to tell youout there, um, for you childless
cat ladies, there is hope.
stuart_1_09-12-2024_09163 (41:41):
Yeah.
Taytay says so.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (41:43):
Yeah, they say, yeah.
jeremy-host606_1_09-12-20 (41:45):
Lord.
Okay.
Well, as always, thank you allfor listening.
I think today was a fun andinformative podcast.
We will be back with another newepisode next Wednesday.
If you haven't downloaded ourmobile shopping app, please do
it's HouseFloral all in word inyour app store for both Android
or iPhone.
And we're continuing to do ourlive sales last night.
We actually did one from mypersonal home showing some fall
(42:08):
stuff and it was fun.
And we had lots of people joinedfrom all over the country.
and if you have a monkey in yourlife and you want to tell us
about it, or if you have ahorror story, please also, or
anything else, you know, Ilisten, we'll listen, we'll
listen to it.
Um, you can use our hotline 859412 1572.
And aside from that, we'll seeyou next week.
All right.
Thanks guys.
dwayne_1_09-12-2024_09163 (42:29):
Thank you guys.
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