October 16, 2024 • 48 mins
In this episode, The Boys discuss their anticipation of the Christmas Season and what the holidays are like for them and how they deal and process it all! It's got everything! Fallopian tubes, match box cars, play kitchens and a few other fun stories along the way! And now we're figuring out what songs will tap dance to during our televised Christmas Special!
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dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (00:00):
Let's start with some goofiness.
(00:01):
Again, I'm going to show youthat.
Do you see that picture?
It looks like, uh, maybefallopian tubes or something.
kind of, Okay.
Well, that's the bottom part ofa sink where, you know, you'd
hatch the faucet on top and thisis the under workings of the
sink.
And so, one of my 20 minutes Iwasted yesterday emergency was
(00:24):
with the client.
Who was lovely by the way, andthe plumber, not so much wanting
to know where all the otherpieces were for, to assemble the
sink.
It's a new sink.
And all I did was just pick outthe aesthetics of it.
And I said, I don't supply theguts.
I just supply the aesthetic ofit.
You're the plumber.
(00:45):
And it doesn't come with that.
I said I could have madearrangements if you wanted me to
bring the workings of it.
Most of the time, you know, it'sa remodel.
I do.
So it's already there anyway.
But this was happening to be anew one and it didn't come with
the sink.
And he was just a little snippywith me.
And I said, well, Jerry,brother, It didn't come with it,
obviously it was a breakdown, ofwhich in 30 years, I personally
(01:06):
have never had to find theworkings of a sink for the
plumber.
They either show up with it, orthey go to fucking Lowe's, I
didn't say fucking Barber, yougo to Lowe's and you go buy it.
I don't know what to tell you.
I just don't know what to tellyou.
Anyway, he went and got it, andthe client called, and she said,
I'm sorry, she said, she said,that was, I didn't think that
had anything to do with youeither, and I said, it didn't.
(01:26):
So, moving on.
Bye.
So, that was 20 minutes
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_0 (01:29):
I mean, who knew that a sink had
fallopian tubes?
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (01:33):
There you go.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (01:36):
That's what they look like.
It looks like spaghettijunction.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (01:39):
It does, doesn't it?
It does.
Well, you know, you do have toclean out your plumbing every
once in a while.
There you go.
So boys, I got a little, uh,little, little experiment for us
this morning.
And I'll let Stuart go first,and then Jeremy will answer
(02:00):
second.
You ready?
Okay, first question, Stuart.
You ready?
Best sandwich.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (02:06):
Like ever,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (02:09):
Yeah.
Or the one that you want to goto, or what makes you happy, or
First thing you think of.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (02:15):
I kind of like a prime rib
sandwich, a
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27 (02:20):
Jeremy?
Best sandwich.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (02:21):
Um, it's the Reuben from Selma's
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (02:27):
Okay, Stuart, what's one thing you own
that you really should throwout?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (02:38):
t shirt that says cheerios that
I've had since, uh, college.
That is so thin.
I don't know how it's stayingtogether.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (02:49):
and he still fits in it.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (02:51):
And it still fits in.
That was the other thing thatwas in my head too, yes.
Okay, Mr.
Rice.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (02:56):
Um, I have a, I, I wear undershirts
every day and I have oneundershirt that I don't know.
What happened when I cut it, um,but I cut the sleeves out cause
I'm just hot natured.
And for some reason it isbasically spaghetti straps on
one side.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (03:12):
That's called a wife beater.
Okay, number three, Mr.
Rice, what is the scariestanimal?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (03:19):
Oh, snakes for me.
It doesn't matter what it is.
Yeah.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (03:23):
Don't matter, yeah.
You there?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (03:26):
Me?
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (03:28):
Yeah, are you the same animal or are
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (03:30):
Oh no, honey badger.
Cause they don't give a fuck.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024_ (03:35):
I love it.
I love it.
Okay.
Okay.
Here's an easy one.
Number four.
Apples or oranges?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085 (03:41):
Apples.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (03:44):
Rice?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27- (03:48):
Apples?
No.
Uh, no.
Na neither.
Naves.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (03:52):
Okay.
Well, that's an unacceptableanswer, but we'll go with
oranges then.
It's close.
Okay.
Stuart, have you ever askedanyone for their autograph?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (04:02):
Yes.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (04:04):
And who is it?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (04:06):
Hulk Hogan.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (04:08):
Say it again.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (04:09):
Hulk Hogan.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (04:10):
Oh
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (04:11):
Paul Kogan.
Okay.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (04:13):
Well, I was like 10 and we saw him in
the airport.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (04:15):
on,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-202 (04:16):
knew automatically that this was when
you were young.
I knew.
I knew He
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (04:20):
Well, it could have been last week.
You never know.
Okay, Rice, who's yours?
Did you ever ask for one?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (04:25):
No, I've never, I've never got, no
one.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (04:28):
Okay, fair enough.
Okay, this is a deep one.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (04:30):
Oh,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (04:31):
Okay, Mr.
Hurts.
Yes, what do you think happenswhen we die?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_0859 (04:37):
Funny, as my, as my five and a half
year old believes, as we'retrying to, you know, navigate
all the death things, because,you know, everybody in my
family's dead.
So, We talk about it often thatyou go in a pretty box so people
(04:58):
can say hello when they walkthrough the room,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (05:01):
There you go! Well, that's not too far
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (05:05):
which ironically, when Jeremy was
there last week, he walkedthrough the living room and he
was like, hi, Bill, and justkept on going,
jeremy-host121_1_09 (05:12):
Absolutely.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (05:13):
Love it.
Love it.
That's sweet.
That's sweet, I think,truthfully.
Okay, Mr.
Rice.
Well,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-202 (05:20):
I'll try to make it a quick answer.
Uh, I know that we're not alone,because, similarly to Stuart, we
have lost quite a few members ofour family and, a running theme
through a lot of it, especiallywith my grandfather.
Uh, the day that he died died?
Uh, he looked at me and helooked past me.
I could see that he looked overmy shoulder and he said, he said
(05:43):
hello to me first, and he said,who are all these other people?
And I said, I don't know, butI'm glad they're here.
So,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (05:52):
look at you bringing it down,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (05:54):
no, no.
no.
I'm not trying to bring it up.
I'm just, I just know that, um,yeah.
So I, you know, I'm, I am notni, I'm not naive enough to
think, uh, that I understand howthe world works or how the
universe works.
So, Mm-Hmm.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (06:07):
I, I get it.
No, I, I get you.
Okay, Mr.
Mr.
Rice.
hurt.
Uh, what's your most used app onyour phone?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (06:19):
um, honestly, probably, probably a
Facebook app, but then one thatactually I should use the second
most is it's a pro care app,which is, you know, It basically
tracks Allie throughout the dayat school.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (06:38):
Like a lifeline thing.
Well, you should just be atschool though.
Uh,
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (06:43):
Well, she is, but they still track it.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (06:47):
That's odd, I think.
Okay, Mr.
Rice,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (06:50):
Sadly, TikTok.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (06:56):
uh, one older, elderly.
Okay, you get one, now you don'thave to listen to it all the
time, but it can be on occasion,or if you can listen, if you
want to, right?
You get one song to listen tofor the rest of your life.
What is it?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (07:15):
Well, I'm really bad at knowing names
of songs.
I'm, listen, if we, if you evergo on a game show, I'm not the
person that you want to callabout name of a song or a singer
or the lyrics.
I'm not.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (07:24):
Kathie Lee.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_0 (07:25):
I make, I make up my own lyrics
and all the, all the stuff.
And I just sing along with themelody.
Uh,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (07:32):
Okay, we'll make it easier.
What one artist would you liketo listen to?
That's the only artist you everget to listen to the rest of
your life.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (07:39):
Okay.
So, well, okay.
So I'm trying to thinkpragmatically, right?
So like very, so like there aremany artists that I enjoy.
I'm thinking if I have to listento this the rest of my life, I
have to have, um, it either hasto get me going or I can get
emote, like get, get, getconnected with, right.
So I have to pick one of two,one Brandi Carlile, who I just
(08:01):
adore and I'm just amazed by herridiculous voice.
Um, but that'd probably be like,if I was like, like on, if I was
going to sit on the edge.
The rest of my life.
Emotional because it can be,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024_ (08:13):
I love this, if, easier than if
he'd be on the edge, please.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (08:16):
the other one I think would be do,
you know, you know, would be DuaLipa and not that I'm a gigantic
fan of Dua Lipa, but when wewere, um, A couple of summers
ago or a summer ago when we wereworking outside in the backyard,
Jeremy took out the speaker andhe was playing her newest album
and every song was a bop.
(08:38):
And I just wanted to dance toevery one of them.
And I thought I could, I couldlisten to this all day long.
So
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (08:43):
She's a happy.
little, she's a little popqueen, happy little thing.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (08:46):
happy\
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (08:47):
I mean, I don't know that I'd want
to listen to it every day.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (08:52):
You don't have to, but if you get to
turn on the music, it'sGroundhog Day.
This is who you, the song youlisten to or the artist you
listen
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (08:59):
Like I love imagine dragons.
Like there's not one song oftheirs that I dislike.
So.
It would be that, probably.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (09:10):
They know judging.
Well, a little bit, but not muchjudging.
Uh,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (09:13):
What's yours, Dwight?
I think I know, but what's
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (09:15):
Janet Jackson.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (09:17):
Dream, dream.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (09:19):
well, and now Fleetwood Mac.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (09:23):
Oh,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (09:24):
Ah, classic in every single way.
So, it's not a person, it's agroup.
So, I don't know.
Is that fair?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (09:30):
that's
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (09:30):
can I, can I be fair.
Is that fair?
Okay.
Okay.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_0 (09:35):
I could do it if I could wear her,
her sarong or her, her thingevery day.
If I could say in the wind withher poncho, I
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (09:41):
Oh, it's a mess.
Okay.
I'm just going to ask Stuartthis question.
Okay.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (09:46):
Okay.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (09:49):
I'm listening.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (09:51):
Then, I had to think about it.
I had to
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (09:52):
Oh, oh, I thought you were going
through a list.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (09:56):
Yeah, no, it was a mental list in my
head.
Uh, what number am I thinkingof?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_0859 (10:02):
Three, three, three.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (10:04):
56.
Uh, now, here's the last thing.
This might take just a thought.
We'll start with Stuart.
Describe the rest of your lifein five words.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (10:17):
I need more than five.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (10:20):
That's all you get.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (10:21):
Well,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (10:21):
I'll give you seven.
He's long winded.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (10:26):
so it's deep.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (10:29):
Okay, here we go.
Well, you get this whole thingacross your tattoo.
There's something about birdsand flying and life and it's
like a whole verse on your body.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (10:38):
I'm not writing my resume.
I'm writing my obituary
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (10:41):
Lords, tell us what you mean by this.
Wow.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085 (10:47):
because
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (10:48):
You ever heard of deep, deep
thoughts?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (10:50):
I've worked hard enough.
I don't need a resume to get ajob, but I do need to leave a
legacy.
I
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (10:57):
That's a good one.
It's a good one.
That's, that's beautiful.
That's beautiful.
Okay.
Rice, Raceroni.
Can you follow up better withthat one?
That's pretty good.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (11:06):
Um, I think, well, it's going to be,
yeah, I think I can do it infour words.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (11:13):
Okay.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (11:14):
Oh, what a ride or it's going to be
fun.
Yeah.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27 (11:21):
Listen, the audience, we got to know the
boys a little bit more.
Fascinating.
I got to know them a little bitmore.
This is, this has been fun.
Okay.
Now let's get to the real thing.
What are we talking about today,uh, moderator?
What are
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (11:31):
even know.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (11:33):
Today we are, if you, whether you can
believe it or not, we are goingto start discussing, and we'll
all take a little breath beforethis, Christmas.
Because it, uh, for us anyway,especially, it is, it is here.
It is, it's our time.
(11:53):
Um, when we start thinking aboutit and which is, this is insane
to even think about that thereare other, um, people that we
know in the industry or otherstores, they're actually
starting their Christmas.
Extravaganza in October, like4th, 3rd, 4th, 5th.
Now?
Listen, I love Christmas.
I mean, I do, I do, I do loveit.
Um, a lot of, a lot of ourfriends will say, um, you just
(12:18):
have, you have to hate Christmasand my response is no, I don't
hate Christmas.
Christmas is different to methan it is to them.
Right.
So for me, I know that it's alot of work.
A lot of exhaustion.
And just keep going until it'sover.
Right?
Um, but that's also why we putours up really early compared to
what probably we normally woulddo.
(12:40):
Just because if I, if we don't,I'm not home and I'll get to
enjoy it.
Um, but, I do, I think we justenjoy it differently.
Like, would I love to, like, goshop, well, probably not.
But, I was going to say, What Iwas going to say, Jeremy said to
me one time, he was like, Youknow, you're not home and we
can't go, like, Christmasshopping together.
And I'm like, yeah, that soundslike hell to me.
(13:04):
You know, not, it has nothing todo with him, but that whole,
like, um, all I can see is thatscene from, the Griswolds from a
Christmas vacation where thewhole family goes Christmas
shopping.
And they leave Clark in theattic and I'm just thinking,
Lord, that has to be a horribletime, just absolutely horrible.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (13:22):
You're just going to be Clark in the
attic.
Don't you really?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (13:24):
yeah, I'm fine with that.
I mean, yeah, tur, turban,poncho, and
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085 (13:31):
putting on a turban and a fur, fur wrap.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (13:36):
Uh, you know, you said something
during this and I, we go thecomplete opposite.
Uh, of course yours is adifferent schedule because
you're going a lot, but you saidthat you put yours up earlier so
you can enjoy it.
We put ours up late so we canenjoy it.
That, um, I, and I do loveChristmas.
The but is for some reason Ireally don't want much.
(13:57):
I mean, I have to do a littlebit, I have to do a little bit,
but I don't want much Christmasup in the house until after I
eat that turkey.
Lot of times we used to put theChristmas tree up, which were
exhausted, but when the kidswere young, uh, we put the
Christmas tree up, Thanksgivingnight after everybody left.
So imagine doing Thanksgivingdinner, cleaning up and all
(14:18):
this, because it's usually atour house and then put the
Christmas tree up that night.
The other part of that layer is,uh, my lovely bride in that, um,
our Christmas tree is acollection of memorabilia.
It is pretty and it's got somebig ornaments on it and it's got
a big hat on.
It's got some ribbon on it.
So it looks, you know,decoratory, right?
(14:40):
But it doesn't have what we dohere so much of the picks and
the greens and big giant flowerarrangement.
It really is a memory tree.
And so, With that said, as youknow, you're unboxing these
boxes and she'll slowly unwrapit and she'll go.
Now, do you remember thisornament when we bought, we were
in San Francisco and we wrotethe cable car and then we went
(15:01):
to, um, the beach and I got thisornament and you remember, you
know, you've got this.
paper turkey ornament with itshead falling off that this was a
little baby Ian's hand when hewas five years old and I'm like
I remember all of these but wecannot talk about 247 ornaments
and lament over every single oneof them or we'll never get done
(15:25):
right let's do the tree andlet's go back and then have
memories about them because Igot to go to bed because
tomorrow is a busy day retail atthe store Right.
So that's, but, um, that's whatwe've landed on is doing it the
night of, or even a couple ofdays after, um, Thanksgiving.
I, cause I just really can'thandle it.
(15:47):
And the, um, what the guys knowis I typically, I will, um, take
off, uh, right after, uh,Christmas that week of the last
week of the year, typically.
And part of that is that'sactually my Christmas for me.
That's when I sit and look atthe tree.
That's when I really enjoyChristmas, and I get up early,
(16:09):
and I'll go to bed late, andI'll have that, I'll have that
tree on all week long, andthat's when I really ultimately
enjoy Christmas, is the dayafter Christmas, or is my
Christmas.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-202 (16:21):
When do you put yours
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (16:22):
got, Stuart?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (16:24):
Well, growing up much like you did
with your family, we always putit up right after Thanksgiving
dinner.
Let's just kind of win it.
That's when it happened.
So, um, you know, through theyears I kept that a little bit,
but then, you know, as westarted traveling and for work
(16:46):
and getting things in, then it'ssometimes it got up before I
started traveling.
Sometimes it got up in betweentrips back and forth.
Um, now that I, you know, havea, a small little person, it's a
little bit more important forher to get.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (17:08):
It changes everything,
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (17:09):
Yeah.
And it's, um, honestly, it's thelast thing I want to look at,
but I also know that it's thefirst thing she wants to look
at.
So that's why we just kind of,we get it up.
And I think last year, last yearwas so weird because I was in
(17:31):
between two houses, but we hadChristmas trees at both houses
and we did it like right beforeHalloween.
And then to see it.
you know, through the durationand then got to pick one.
And, um, I know her papa'shouse.
She has a little tree in herroom that she gets to decorate.
So she asked if she could haveone in her room at my house to
(17:53):
do that as well.
And I was like, sure, fine.
So this year she has to pick outher own little tree.
I'm telling what that will looklike, but
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (18:02):
Don't, and don't, don't worry
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (18:03):
yeah, and it doesn't, yeah, it, yeah,
it's just like, just let herpick out what she likes and
that's what makes her happy.
So, so, yeah, just kind of allover the place.
Really?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (18:13):
So for us, we've always had
Christmas as.
Part of Thanksgiving.
It wasn't anything different tome or had to wait until after.
And then the other thing thatkind of changed it was in our
friend group, we, my husband andI would host our friends giving,
if you will.
So we all, and we'd call itRetox by the way, this is my
(18:34):
favorite thing is because a lotof our families didn't drink, so
everybody would go home andspend Thanksgiving with their
family in a very dry, um,Stressful time.
And so then we'd all gettogether the Saturday after
that.
And then we'd have it at ourhouse and there would be plenty
of cocktails and lots of goodfood.
And so we'd call it Retox.
So you detoxed with the family.
We retoxed with the friends.
(18:55):
Um, so we wouldn't a lot oftimes because we were busy,
people wouldn't come back overthe house.
So we wanted our house done bythen.
So it was always done byThanksgiving.
Um, So we do it, I mean, it'sprobably the first or second
week of November.
Now one year, if y'all know thatthe video that I did teaching
how to do the mantle garland, ornot the mantle garland, the
stairwell garland, I had to dothat at some time in October.
(19:19):
So here it is, Halloween, andwe're opening the door, handing
out candy.
And all these people would, I'dopen the door and they'd look in
and our, our stairwell was allready for Christmas, lights
twinkling away, and they'd justbe like, Trick or, uh, treat.
I'm like, here's your candy,leave.
(19:41):
ha
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (19:42):
You gave them a full bar of candy,
so they couldn't say
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (19:46):
but we do so much.
I think it's also the reason whyI feel like I have to do so much
or we have to start so earlybecause, you know, we only do
one tree in the sunroom, um, butit's done up.
Then we have another tree in theliving room with a mantle and
then the big stereo garland andthen the outside.
That's the one thing I'm tryingto like.
Every year I look at, I look atwhen it's still warm outside or
(20:10):
not frigid.
Let's just say not even cool.
Let's just say just like decentand it's dry and I say hey, hun
We don't have anything going onthis weekend before the
craziness starts.
Why don't we just go ahead andput lights in the bushes?
We don't have to plug them inbut let's get them on the bushes
So we don't have to do it whenit's 10 degrees outside and it's
(20:30):
wet.
Mmm.
I just think it'll look tackyevery Year, so I'm determined to
try to get them on earlybecause, you know, I was like,
we don't have, we're not gonnaput the garland up on, we don't
put the garland up on the frontdoor until I usually, I'll put
it up on Christmas orThanksgiving.
Um, but I'm like, uh, we don't,if you can put it when it's
(20:51):
nice, that way you should do it.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (20:53):
and I don't understand why this is a
conversation.
It's just, you just go do it ordo it because you can't see it.
You
jeremy-host121_1_09-27- (20:58):
There's so, there's so much we, it's,
there's so much, it's hard to doit by yourself.
I mean, we like every box would,we, their lawn is lit.
We have to wait until after it'sdone being mowed for
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (21:07):
you do half of it.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (21:09):
That's why I said, let's just do the
bushes.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (21:11):
and do half of it when it's not
warm.
I don't know
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_0 (21:13):
I have, I begged,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (21:15):
this, right?
He's like, okay, then i'm goingout and i'll do four bushes
today Well, it's pretty at leastthe four is done.
I don't have to be out in thecold.
But hey, that's just me beingsmart uh
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (21:26):
do y'all do, do y'all do stuff
outside or do all the mostlyinterior stuff?
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (21:30):
Uh, most of the interior.
Um, I did the spotlights andreese on the windows and big
pots and call it.
I used to put lights on theshrubs.
Forget that.
I'm done.
I don't like to do it outside.
You know, I've done thatsubdivision, which is not a
complaint for about 30 years.
I get used to two of them.
I got enough of that.
I'm done with that.
So I love it.
I am done with that
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (21:50):
just reads on the gate really because
then you can't really see
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (21:54):
Yeah.
You're going back off road.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (21:56):
terror is real, real big.
Uh, so we'd take a lot of work.
You just write a little less ismore kind of thing.
Here is big.
You know, about, uh, Little BabyGirl.
It is, when I was much younger,I don't know if I was hungry, or
I probably just needed themoney, truthfully.
We, you know, we wouldn't,wasn't rolling in it.
Uh, I did a lot of houses atChristmas time, and it was
(22:21):
exhausting, right?
I think we all did, truthfully.
I'm not sure.
I think we've all kind of walkedaway from that, for the most
part, because we are older.
And because the store becomesmuch busier and we've learned
that if we're not here andengaged primarily, it usually
doesn't go well, um, all thosethings, right?
And you all travel a lot.
So there's lots of reasons.
(22:41):
But one of the things thathappened, um, was probably Ian
was about seven years old and,Basically, it goes something
like, how come we don't getChristmas like everybody else
does?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-202 (22:54):
hmm.
Mm hmm.
Okay.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (22:58):
it hits
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (22:59):
was, yeah, that was not a great
feeling.
And I was like, okay, then, uh,I didn't get this right.
So we said that, so I went backand I revisited.
I thought, okay, we can't dothis ever again.
This is, this is not good.
My career choice should not havean impact on my family at the
holidays, right?
And that's what was happening.
(23:20):
And, uh, so I went back and Ireached out to all my clients
and said, look, this is what'shappening.
I will figure this out, butyou've got to give me a
commitment.
You got to give me commitment tothe date, the week, you know, I
gave lots of things and I did itin the summertime.
Uh, but you got to give me ananswer by, uh, Let's say mid
(23:40):
September or end of September,right, plan it out.
And everybody responded.
They came back and said, this isthe date, and so I was able to
kind of put the scheduletogether to where it was doable,
and I was able to be home and,and, and, you know, be normal,
live, except for one person.
Well, I may go out of town to myfamily, uh, or well, I haven't
(24:06):
committed, they may come hereand well, I may not decorate
this year.
Well,
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (24:10):
gonna miss
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (24:11):
not decorate it.
Well, you must.
And I said, I hear you.
I said, but if I don't have adate.
By I think it was mid September.
I said, I can't do it.
I mean, I just I'm just can't doit.
And that they came and go wentand now we're November the 1st.
Well, I've decided I will be intown and the family's coming and
(24:32):
they do.
I'd need to do this.
And it's like, and the answerwas no.
No, and that was not receivedwell.
And there was guilt and waslike, I've been your customer
for 20 years or 10 years.
How long ago I did so long timeago.
So 10 years then.
I've always, always you need tohelp me.
(24:53):
And I was like, no, if you'llrevert back to I made this and I
am not doing this to bedifficult.
I'm doing this because I neednormalcy in my life.
I need a boundary, but moreimportantly, I need to make sure
that my children are not feelingneglected.
And that's more important thanyou or anybody or anything else.
I just, I don't know what elseto tell you.
(25:13):
Right.
And needless to say, she was notpleased with me.
Fast forward.
The very first person that goton the books the next year was
that person.
Now that isn't, I told you somoment, but it did.
Paint a lesson to me, uh, hold,stick to your guns.
Don't, don't just say, okay, andthat's not easy for me to do.
(25:36):
Um, but it also is setboundaries, but also set your
priorities.
What that, whatever thatpriority is, you know, it can be
anything in life, but if you,you give people enough warning
or enough information and theychoose not to be respectful
enough of your time.
Right, then they don'tnecessarily have to be in your
(25:57):
life and that was something along time ago.
And this is not ugliness.
This is really just settingboundaries.
And again, I'm not great at it,but I've gotten better and
better and better at it onceit's all said and done.
And I think ultimately peoplerespect that because then you're
not over promising somethingthat you can't do because you
know what your schedule is.
And so that was something thatreally came from a badness that
(26:17):
turned into good.
Ultimately, once it's said anddone for me, at least.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (26:21):
Yeah.
I, you know, we're recordingthis the day after Hoda,
announced that she's gonna beleaving the Today Show.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (26:27):
Oh, did she announce that today?
jeremy-host121_1_09- (26:29):
yesterday.
She announced that yesterday.
Um, and so she's still, she'llbe there until after the
beginning of the year, I thinkshe said.
Um, but what, you know, whatshe, and all this all goes back
to, um.
Evaluating your time, right?
Evaluating what's important toyou.
And basically what she said toher was that, you know, she just
had her 60th birthday and therewere lots of factors that were
(26:51):
part of this, but for her, shefelt like she was on top of the
wave.
That's what, how she phrases.
She said she was on top of thewave.
Like it was never going to getbetter than this.
And that she always looks at isas your life as a, as a pie.
And she was like, you know, I'vegot my kids later in life.
And so I always kind of look athow much, what, what size a
piece of pie I have left andwhat that means with my kids.
(27:13):
And so she's
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (27:14):
We also have to acknowledge
Stuart's also in this phase oflife.
So he's, his pie's slowlydwindling.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (27:20):
Yeah.
Oh.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (27:23):
Um, but it, it.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (27:25):
left
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (27:26):
No, I got some ready whip over here.
I'll give you some.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085 (27:30):
Mm-Hmm.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (27:31):
you go.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (27:31):
Um, but, uh, you know, I respect her
so much.
I've always loved her becauseshe's such a seems like such a
bright light.
Um, but you know, you need totake care of you and you take
care of the people that areclosest to you and do that.
And so I think that's why allthree of us, especially the
holiday time, as far as likeour, Cause much like you used
to, or Dwayne, like when webought this house, like, you
(27:52):
know, listen, I took every jobthat every person that needed
something done because Idesperately needed the money.
So we'd have the down payment toput on the house and, and do all
that kind of stuff.
And, you know, now the situationis a little different, um,
thankfully, um, but I'm tired.
And, uh, I only have so much ofme to give and I'm a lot more
(28:14):
protective of that now than I amback
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (28:17):
hmm.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (28:20):
and it doesn't mean that I don't
love my people.
Yeah.
I mean, I mean, I love every oneof them, but I just don't have
time for, I just don't have thetime to commit to, to you, to
give what you need.
So
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (28:32):
of that.
I really do.
I mean, there's Um, those are inyour corner get it.
They they they understand I meani've just days ago somebody I
was at their house and she saidYou need to stop you've had a
long day.
You need to go home to yourfamily and I was like, well,
thank you But there ain't nobodyhome to go home to tonight
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (28:50):
Oh God.
All my babies are gone,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (28:55):
join.
Dwayne, Dwayne said that he did,I know the third tree or like
family ornaments.
What do y'all do at the house?
No, I know this is firstChristmas at the new house.
So I know it's going to change alittle bit, but how do you all
handle Christmas?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (29:07):
There is.
To what I would call formaltrees, you know, designer trees.
Um, last year,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024_ (29:18):
I stop you there?
Um, let's tell the story firstof how blessed you are to
actually have a tree.
Because there were years on topof years that I kept stealing
and selling Stuart's trees outof his house.
Would you like
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08 (29:32):
multiple years in a row.
He would knew I would have thisexact tree that one customer or
here and there wanted that exacttree.
And he'd be like, Ooh, is thatin your living room?
Yeah, can my customer buy it?
So I would be treeless and haveto get a different one.
Well then ironically, somebodyelse wanted that one as well.
So Duane just kept selling thetrees out of my living room.
(29:56):
Um,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (29:57):
Saved you a lot
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (29:57):
Is, is that worse?
Is that him doing that?
Was that worse than me sellingthe swags that you made to put
on your mama's grave?
What?
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (30:06):
Oh, I didn't know this.
I did not know this.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (30:08):
my God.
This is so long
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (30:10):
did not
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (30:10):
back in the day at the other place
that we used to work together,they were hanging on the wall,
ready to go done.
And I guess I didn't put a nameon them.
I thought I had talked aboutwhere they were going to go
multiple times, but Jeremy justsold them.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (30:27):
Well, there was this
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (30:28):
mama had no swag, no Christmas shoes
for mama that year.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (30:33):
Oh, no.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (30:35):
We There had been issues of
arrangements being made with nonames on them.
And so, it had been very pointedthat if an arrangement doesn't
have a name on it, You know, wehad a very short selling season.
If there's not a name on it,sell it.
And so,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (30:54):
Sounds like, oh boy, he's trying to
make a
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_0 (30:55):
I don't remember.
No, I didn't know.
Then I felt horrible afterwards.
I thought, poor mama.
By the way, Stuart's mama justhad a birthday, isn't that
right?
Not too long
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (31:03):
She, yes.
Uh, yeah, it would, it was, itwould have been Monday, the
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (31:07):
Happy birthday, mama.
Happy birthday.
Happy belated birthday.
Okay, I'm sorry.
You go back.
How do you, how do you
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (31:16):
Well, so last year, uh, Like I said, I
did have a tree at, at the lakehouse.
And that one was more of aalley.
You can put on it what you wantto put on it.
So it was little things she madefrom school.
And it was like, if we were attarget and she saw, you know,
mermaid ornament or something.
So that one just kinda, thatkind of started, I guess, a
(31:39):
little memory tree for her.
I don't know if she rememberswhat's on it.
She probably does.
Cause she remembers everything.
She's like an elephant.
So, um, we'll get those thingsout and that can go into her,
her bedroom this year, you know?
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (31:59):
You got a, you got a fancy tree and
a fancy tree and the beginningsof a family tree.
Is that what I'm
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (32:04):
yeah, and there's one ornament that I
always put out that I've hadSince 1984 because it's dated
1984 and it's this littleConvertible car with Santa Claus
in it and some packages on theback and that was the first
(32:25):
ornament that my parents got forme And it was the Hallmark car
collection, basically.
And I don't know if that's whenit started or if it started
before that.
I don't know, but that's thefirst one I remember.
And then every year since then,I got a Hallmark car.
Ornament up until my
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (32:48):
And those that don't know, Stuart is
a car fiend.
He gets a new car every twoyears or something.
I can't even turn around.
It's like, he gets more cars andshoes than anybody I've ever
seen in my life.
I can't keep up with it.
Jeremy and I keep cars for five,ten, twelve years.
He's got twenty two cars sinceI've known him.
So, I think it started with thatlittle endeavor there.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (33:08):
and it is, you know, and, and I got
one of those every year up untilmy mom died.
And then, um, I actually had afriend from high school whose
mother knew that, you know, I'min my late twenties and early
thirties at that point.
And, uh, then at Christmas, Iwould get a random box from
(33:29):
Donna That was her name.
was the Hallmark car ornamentthat she, she sent them to me.
Cause she knew my mom wouldalways give me one.
And then Donna passed away aboutfive years ago, maybe, maybe
six.
And, um, One of her daughters,who was my friend in high
(33:52):
school, sends me a Hallmark carornament.
So,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (33:57):
Are you serious?
How
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (33:58):
so that was, that's pretty cool.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (34:00):
Wow.
That is amazing.
No, that's amazing.
That's love.
That's love.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (34:07):
But I don't have a tree for those,
but I probably need a tree forall of those.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (34:11):
Sounds like you do, uh, you know,
you're all working harder We getwe'll get one tree up and i'm
done.
You all got you said you had twotrees, right?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (34:18):
Two, two, for
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (34:19):
yeah,
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (34:20):
Yeah.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (34:21):
and I have to, ours are both, ours
are both decorator.
We don't have any family
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (34:26):
Yeah, well, one tree and that's what
we wanted to, of course, it hasalso always say, um, our tree
cries a little, um, when I putthat last ornament on it because
it's so much on there.
You don't know.
Is there a tree under it?
I mean, it's probably 1001 onthis tree because it takes 2
days for truthfully put thisthing up.
It's got too much crap on it,but she's shaking rattles.
(34:47):
Like, is there a tree under allthat?
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
So, so Stuart, so Jeremy, youmight be in a little different
vein.
You just said this, Stuart,well, I'll say it this way.
Is those card ornaments yourfavorite ornament or do you have
a favorite ornament?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (35:07):
That, that very first one, it's my
favorite one.
Cause that's the one I always
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (35:11):
I, that's all you remember.
So I thought, I thought you weregoing to repeat that and say
that.
So that my favorite ornament isan old teal colored iPhone,
really real iPhone.
That's a Christmas ornament.
And so how in the world, whatdoes that mean?
So this is a story aboutforgiveness and it'll be okay,
(35:34):
right?
So I always get emotionalbecause I always say it'll be
fine.
Don't worry about it.
So, Ian was probably I don'tknow, 12 years old, and we were,
winter break, fall break, and wewere on a vacation, and we were
going to fly out later that day,and I wanted to get my feet in
the ocean one last time, and Isaid, buddy, let's go get in the
(35:55):
water, let's go in the water,let's go in the water, and he
was sitting on the side at thebeach and didn't want to get in.
Finally, me badgering him,imagine, and he, runs and jumps
and gets in the water and we'rejust having the best time.
All of a sudden he gives thiscrazy shocked look and I
instantly thought he gotjellyfish stung is what I
thought.
No, he jumped in the water withhis iPhone in his pocket.
(36:19):
And of course you know thatwhole thing about go
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (36:21):
is a long time ago.
Yeah, this is before they werewaterproof.
Yeah.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (36:26):
Yeah, yeah, oh, no, well, I mean, he
ends 24, so 12, 12, 12 yearsago, prior for range, right?
And so we get, you know, go tothe little grocery and get a bag
of rice, because that's how youfix iPhones, you know?
That iPhone never came back,right?
So, sweet mama Kathy rememberedthis and she kept it.
And, um, of course, he wasbeating himself up.
(36:47):
He, he said, I can't believe Idid this.
He was just, I said, no, youwouldn't have done this if I
hadn't encouraged you.
And I said, I wanted you to endhere with me.
And I said, but the other thingis.
It was an accident.
It was truly an accident.
You didn't do anything onpurpose, right?
And I said, but you wouldn'thave done it if I hadn't
bothered you, but it was anaccident.
So she took that iPhone and shebrought it out the night of, you
(37:12):
know, we're putting Christmas upfor the 4, 000 stories, and she
had bedazzled it with little,little, um, beads on it, and it
says, um, we heart you.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (37:22):
Lord.
That's when she was in her craftroom phase, wasn't
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (37:25):
That's right.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (37:26):
was in her craft room phase.
And I thought how, what abeautiful gesture that was to
think about saving this, turningwhat was really ugly and really
bad and a really hurtful moment.
And it hurt him so bad and itmade him beat up on himself to
take this and turn it intosomething good.
So I will gladly get that tealcolored phone out with this
(37:50):
bedazzled I heart you everyyear.
And I'll just lay it in the backof the branch and I go, yeah,
everything will be okay.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (38:00):
We, we, we don't have, uh, like a,
like all, all of our ornaments,I love, I guess there's, there's
not like a special thing.
And mom had, you know, shedidn't buy a bunch of new stuff.
So a lot of those were likeolder ornaments.
Um, but none of them reallystick out in the memory.
But the one thing that doesstick out to me that's, that is
a favorite of mine, and it'sonly because it's granny's Papa
(38:24):
Granny's, was that she, grannyalways decorated their tree and
red and green and silver.
That was the only color she everused.
That was just like whatChristmas meant to her.
And she would use, sometimesshe'd use multicolored,
sometimes she'd use whitelights, but um, that was how she
decorated the tree.
And so for me, anytime I seethat, like that's where we spent
Christmas.
And that was, it just alwaysfelt like that was Christmas
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (38:46):
No, you have some figures.
That's hers.
That's
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (38:48):
Oh Lord.
Yes.
So, so granny, so when Papapassed away, Um, you know, that
was the first like family death.
Right.
And so, you know, it kind ofchanges dynamics in a lot of
different ways and it makespeople think about things.
And so granny, uh, was veryadamant of like, you know, if
(39:09):
there's something you all want,when I, when I'm, when I pass,
you know, let me know what itis.
And I was like, granny, there's,Like, I'm not worried about that
course.
This was a long time ago, and Isaid, however, I was like,
there's one thing that I just,they make me smile.
Are these little choir figures
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (39:29):
The little
jeremy-host121_1_09-27- (39:29):
little, little, They're these little,
little angels.
Boys in choir robe singing witha little thing.
And she'd had them for as longas I could remember.
Like they've always been thereand they were always in their
bedroom and they were always onthe TV stand.
And so I didn't know what thestory about them were, but I
knew she always had them.
And so to me, they're always,again, something special that I
(39:51):
associate with Christmas.
So she, so one Christmas shegoes, Oh, this brings up a
question I want to ask afterthis.
Um, uh, She wrapped, she wrappedthem up and gave them to me for
Christmas and as I'm openingthem up, I see them and then I'm
like, Oh, I was like, Granny,thank you.
You know, I was so excitedbecause then we came home and
put them down and then, um, Ihappened to pay more attention
(40:12):
to them when I got them home andthen I realized they were from
Walmart.
So like, they were, like,They're no family heirlooms.
They're nothing, you know, like,that she's got from her
grandmother's grandmother orsomething.
They're from Walmart.
So every year, I'll put thelittle choir boys out in her wet
(40:33):
bar and then she had littlethings that she put in the
kitchen, uh, like, uh, trivetsor little things that she
crocheted and, um, stuff likethat.
And I'll use those in thekitchen at Christmas time too,
but, um, what was the, and I'mgoing to use the best or most
memorable Christmas gift youever got because I have a great,
uh, I have a good story and Ican tell mine if you want, while
(40:54):
you're thinking.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (40:55):
No, I got it.
It was, um, a sled that webought at, um, what's, what's
one of the old fashionedhardware stores that was
nationwide,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-202 (41:10):
True value
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (41:11):
true value, true value.
It was a true value inRogersville, Tennessee.
And, um, my, my dad and I wentto there in Rogersville,
Tennessee, is, um, probably anhour outside of Knoxville.
My grandparents, lived, nearthere.
So that's the reason that, so inthat area, a little, little
(41:33):
farming community, and, we wentthere and he actually was
Christmas because he let me pickout, and because, They had a
couple of choices and I justremember he let me pick this one
out.
And the reason this is soimportant is we, those who don't
know, I am a hillbilly and Igrew up in the Eastern Kentucky
in a mobile home, in a trailer.
(41:55):
Right in the back of a hauler.
True story.
But what that got is, rememberwhen it used to snow, feet, some
feets of snow?
It really did snow a lot when Iwas a kid, right?
I remember there was one winter,I was seventh or eighth grade
and, we didn't go school for, Ithink it was three weeks, they
would, we had that much snow.
True story.
(42:15):
Yeah, no, true story.
So, with that said, if you livein the back of Holler, you have
a mountain, right?
It's sledding.
And I was the only child, and Ihad to occupy my time, so that
sled got heavy, heavy use.
And, that's the one I rememberbecause it, that one gave me a
lot of joy.
Uh, and I just, I just remembergoing with dad to pick it out
(42:35):
too.
But, uh, my sled, I loved mysled.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (42:42):
Well, of course, mine reverts back to
cars once again.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27 (42:48):
There's a
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (42:48):
A specific car and a specific
brand that Now you can hardlyfind them and it was a brand
called pocket cars and they'remade by Tomica.
So any viewers can send those into 1 industry, Lexington,
Kentucky 40515.
Um, it'd be greatly appreciated.
(43:11):
Uh, but it was a Navy blueCadillac Fleetwood.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (43:19):
Ooh.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (43:20):
are all like pocket car.
They're all matchbox car sizes,but this particular brand was
called pocket cars.
And
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (43:27):
Was it like a better brand or more
well done
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (43:30):
I guess a term today would be
they're more bougie because theydid like Cadillacs and Volvos
and Volkswagens.
And, you know, of course in thegenre of that time, because
that's what car existed backthen.
I still have that car and it isin the nightstand in my room to
(43:56):
this day and has been on
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (43:59):
you're just a, you know, stop right
there.
You come across as such agoonter sometimes, right?
But my god, you are the mostsentimental fool i've ever met
in my life You just live yourlife with your little heart.
I just love
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (44:14):
I mean, every now and then people
get to see it.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024_ (44:17):
I love it.
You've got a good heart.
You have a good heart
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (44:22):
Um, for For me, it was, you know,
Jeremy and I had been togetherfor a long time and we had
bought house that we're in now,it had been our plan to, to
renovate the kitchen for sometime.
And so it was actually like,okay, we are doing this.
It's planned.
We're.
We know that we're starting thisin like March or April.
And so when it came toChristmas, you know, we're
(44:43):
adults, we, you know, we makeour own money with, if there's
something we need, we'll buy it.
So, you know, it's, you alwayshear people say, once you get
become an adult, it's hardsometimes for Christmas gifts.
And so of course, you know, thefamily's like, what do you want?
What do you need?
What do you want?
And I was like, we don't needanything.
We need a new kitchen.
Right.
So that's what we did.
I was like, we want to redo ourkitchen.
I was like, so you don't need togive us anything if you want to,
(45:04):
you know, if you want to givesome money for that, whatever,
that's fine, but you don't needto give us anything else.
So of course, nobody in ourfamily listens, which I'm sure
is the same with every familythat's out there.
And, So that Christmas, we wentdown and they, we opened up some
gifts and then my mom pulls upthis big Christmas, this big
gift and brings it over to meand sits on the floor.
(45:27):
And I'm like, what in the worldis this?
Cause you know, at this point ofour age, we don't get big
Christmas, like big boxes,right?
Unless it's like, you know,you're getting like a mixer or
something else, something likethat.
And, I started to unwrap it.
They had bought us a toy playkitchen, like one that like
Allie would use and they had putit together and they had put
(45:48):
money all inside.
So in the frying pan, there weremoney and all the little
measuring cups, there was money.
And it was the sweetest andcutest gift ever.
and I thought it was so funny.
I said, well, you said youneeded a new kitchen.
And I thought that washysterical.
I don't know who, I said to thisday, I don't know who thought of
that.
but then we donated the kitchento a kid's charity and then we
went from there, but that helpedand the fun,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (46:08):
Wow.
Yeah, that's a good story.
You know, what I think we'velearned from this is how we're
telling the world how we figuredout how to navigate Christmas
and we've all relativelyunscathed, but it all hangs on
to beautiful memories that, uh,you've just are obligated to
(46:28):
create, right?
It's, it's not about the stuff.
It's about the memories attachedto, you know, Stuart's favorite
thing is a glorified matchbook.
That's when it says it's notstamped.
That's what is in thisnightstand.
That's what's important.
It's the memory attached tothat.
And that's what we got to keeplearning, uh, is, is, the action
(46:49):
of reaching out to people,checking on them.
Um, you know, I'll tell thestory.
I recently, I did a designproject about five years ago,
and there was a coffee tablebook, and it was beautiful
photographs of Appalachia, and Icommented on, you know this
story?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (47:06):
You just told this in the last
podcast,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (47:09):
Oh, well, we're
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (47:10):
Well, great.
So thank you.
That wraps up for today.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (47:13):
Yeah, that wraps it.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (47:14):
I mean, Lord have mercy.
I'm going to leave us with this
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (47:19):
it's touched my heart.
Yes.
What's
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (47:21):
this podcast
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (47:22):
What have we learned?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (47:23):
what the hell are we going to talk
about for our Christmas special?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (47:30):
Well, I'm gonna get out my tap
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (47:32):
want to talk about a book that a
client gave me that was a giftthat just touched my
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (47:36):
At the end of the stairwell painted
on a Tuesday.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (47:41):
Well.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (47:42):
I'm consistent, right?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (47:43):
We'll, we'll try to figure the, the,
our Christmas special out beforewe come back, as always,
everybody, thanks for listeningnew podcast drop every
Wednesday, if you haven'tdownloaded our house floral app,
be sure you do to participate inour fun live sales that we have
every Wednesday.
And between now and then we willsee you here.
Thanks guys.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (48:06):
let me tell you a story about
something.
Somebody gave me a book.
Let's start with some goofiness.
(00:01):
Again, I'm going to show youthat.
Do you see that picture?
It looks like, uh, maybefallopian tubes or something.
kind of, Okay.
Well, that's the bottom part ofa sink where, you know, you'd
hatch the faucet on top and thisis the under workings of the
sink.
And so, one of my 20 minutes Iwasted yesterday emergency was
(00:24):
with the client.
Who was lovely by the way, andthe plumber, not so much wanting
to know where all the otherpieces were for, to assemble the
sink.
It's a new sink.
And all I did was just pick outthe aesthetics of it.
And I said, I don't supply theguts.
I just supply the aesthetic ofit.
You're the plumber.
(00:45):
And it doesn't come with that.
I said I could have madearrangements if you wanted me to
bring the workings of it.
Most of the time, you know, it'sa remodel.
I do.
So it's already there anyway.
But this was happening to be anew one and it didn't come with
the sink.
And he was just a little snippywith me.
And I said, well, Jerry,brother, It didn't come with it,
obviously it was a breakdown, ofwhich in 30 years, I personally
(01:06):
have never had to find theworkings of a sink for the
plumber.
They either show up with it, orthey go to fucking Lowe's, I
didn't say fucking Barber, yougo to Lowe's and you go buy it.
I don't know what to tell you.
I just don't know what to tellyou.
Anyway, he went and got it, andthe client called, and she said,
I'm sorry, she said, she said,that was, I didn't think that
had anything to do with youeither, and I said, it didn't.
(01:26):
So, moving on.
Bye.
So, that was 20 minutes
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_0 (01:29):
I mean, who knew that a sink had
fallopian tubes?
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (01:33):
There you go.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (01:36):
That's what they look like.
It looks like spaghettijunction.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (01:39):
It does, doesn't it?
It does.
Well, you know, you do have toclean out your plumbing every
once in a while.
There you go.
So boys, I got a little, uh,little, little experiment for us
this morning.
And I'll let Stuart go first,and then Jeremy will answer
(02:00):
second.
You ready?
Okay, first question, Stuart.
You ready?
Best sandwich.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (02:06):
Like ever,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (02:09):
Yeah.
Or the one that you want to goto, or what makes you happy, or
First thing you think of.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (02:15):
I kind of like a prime rib
sandwich, a
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27 (02:20):
Jeremy?
Best sandwich.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (02:21):
Um, it's the Reuben from Selma's
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (02:27):
Okay, Stuart, what's one thing you own
that you really should throwout?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (02:38):
t shirt that says cheerios that
I've had since, uh, college.
That is so thin.
I don't know how it's stayingtogether.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (02:49):
and he still fits in it.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (02:51):
And it still fits in.
That was the other thing thatwas in my head too, yes.
Okay, Mr.
Rice.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (02:56):
Um, I have a, I, I wear undershirts
every day and I have oneundershirt that I don't know.
What happened when I cut it, um,but I cut the sleeves out cause
I'm just hot natured.
And for some reason it isbasically spaghetti straps on
one side.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (03:12):
That's called a wife beater.
Okay, number three, Mr.
Rice, what is the scariestanimal?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (03:19):
Oh, snakes for me.
It doesn't matter what it is.
Yeah.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (03:23):
Don't matter, yeah.
You there?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (03:26):
Me?
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (03:28):
Yeah, are you the same animal or are
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (03:30):
Oh no, honey badger.
Cause they don't give a fuck.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024_ (03:35):
I love it.
I love it.
Okay.
Okay.
Here's an easy one.
Number four.
Apples or oranges?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085 (03:41):
Apples.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (03:44):
Rice?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27- (03:48):
Apples?
No.
Uh, no.
Na neither.
Naves.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (03:52):
Okay.
Well, that's an unacceptableanswer, but we'll go with
oranges then.
It's close.
Okay.
Stuart, have you ever askedanyone for their autograph?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (04:02):
Yes.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (04:04):
And who is it?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (04:06):
Hulk Hogan.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (04:08):
Say it again.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (04:09):
Hulk Hogan.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (04:10):
Oh
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (04:11):
Paul Kogan.
Okay.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (04:13):
Well, I was like 10 and we saw him in
the airport.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (04:15):
on,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-202 (04:16):
knew automatically that this was when
you were young.
I knew.
I knew He
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (04:20):
Well, it could have been last week.
You never know.
Okay, Rice, who's yours?
Did you ever ask for one?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (04:25):
No, I've never, I've never got, no
one.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (04:28):
Okay, fair enough.
Okay, this is a deep one.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (04:30):
Oh,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (04:31):
Okay, Mr.
Hurts.
Yes, what do you think happenswhen we die?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_0859 (04:37):
Funny, as my, as my five and a half
year old believes, as we'retrying to, you know, navigate
all the death things, because,you know, everybody in my
family's dead.
So, We talk about it often thatyou go in a pretty box so people
(04:58):
can say hello when they walkthrough the room,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (05:01):
There you go! Well, that's not too far
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (05:05):
which ironically, when Jeremy was
there last week, he walkedthrough the living room and he
was like, hi, Bill, and justkept on going,
jeremy-host121_1_09 (05:12):
Absolutely.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (05:13):
Love it.
Love it.
That's sweet.
That's sweet, I think,truthfully.
Okay, Mr.
Rice.
Well,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-202 (05:20):
I'll try to make it a quick answer.
Uh, I know that we're not alone,because, similarly to Stuart, we
have lost quite a few members ofour family and, a running theme
through a lot of it, especiallywith my grandfather.
Uh, the day that he died died?
Uh, he looked at me and helooked past me.
I could see that he looked overmy shoulder and he said, he said
(05:43):
hello to me first, and he said,who are all these other people?
And I said, I don't know, butI'm glad they're here.
So,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (05:52):
look at you bringing it down,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (05:54):
no, no.
no.
I'm not trying to bring it up.
I'm just, I just know that, um,yeah.
So I, you know, I'm, I am notni, I'm not naive enough to
think, uh, that I understand howthe world works or how the
universe works.
So, Mm-Hmm.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (06:07):
I, I get it.
No, I, I get you.
Okay, Mr.
Mr.
Rice.
hurt.
Uh, what's your most used app onyour phone?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (06:19):
um, honestly, probably, probably a
Facebook app, but then one thatactually I should use the second
most is it's a pro care app,which is, you know, It basically
tracks Allie throughout the dayat school.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (06:38):
Like a lifeline thing.
Well, you should just be atschool though.
Uh,
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (06:43):
Well, she is, but they still track it.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (06:47):
That's odd, I think.
Okay, Mr.
Rice,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (06:50):
Sadly, TikTok.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (06:56):
uh, one older, elderly.
Okay, you get one, now you don'thave to listen to it all the
time, but it can be on occasion,or if you can listen, if you
want to, right?
You get one song to listen tofor the rest of your life.
What is it?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (07:15):
Well, I'm really bad at knowing names
of songs.
I'm, listen, if we, if you evergo on a game show, I'm not the
person that you want to callabout name of a song or a singer
or the lyrics.
I'm not.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (07:24):
Kathie Lee.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_0 (07:25):
I make, I make up my own lyrics
and all the, all the stuff.
And I just sing along with themelody.
Uh,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (07:32):
Okay, we'll make it easier.
What one artist would you liketo listen to?
That's the only artist you everget to listen to the rest of
your life.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (07:39):
Okay.
So, well, okay.
So I'm trying to thinkpragmatically, right?
So like very, so like there aremany artists that I enjoy.
I'm thinking if I have to listento this the rest of my life, I
have to have, um, it either hasto get me going or I can get
emote, like get, get, getconnected with, right.
So I have to pick one of two,one Brandi Carlile, who I just
(08:01):
adore and I'm just amazed by herridiculous voice.
Um, but that'd probably be like,if I was like, like on, if I was
going to sit on the edge.
The rest of my life.
Emotional because it can be,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024_ (08:13):
I love this, if, easier than if
he'd be on the edge, please.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (08:16):
the other one I think would be do,
you know, you know, would be DuaLipa and not that I'm a gigantic
fan of Dua Lipa, but when wewere, um, A couple of summers
ago or a summer ago when we wereworking outside in the backyard,
Jeremy took out the speaker andhe was playing her newest album
and every song was a bop.
(08:38):
And I just wanted to dance toevery one of them.
And I thought I could, I couldlisten to this all day long.
So
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (08:43):
She's a happy.
little, she's a little popqueen, happy little thing.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (08:46):
happy\
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (08:47):
I mean, I don't know that I'd want
to listen to it every day.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (08:52):
You don't have to, but if you get to
turn on the music, it'sGroundhog Day.
This is who you, the song youlisten to or the artist you
listen
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (08:59):
Like I love imagine dragons.
Like there's not one song oftheirs that I dislike.
So.
It would be that, probably.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (09:10):
They know judging.
Well, a little bit, but not muchjudging.
Uh,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (09:13):
What's yours, Dwight?
I think I know, but what's
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (09:15):
Janet Jackson.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (09:17):
Dream, dream.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (09:19):
well, and now Fleetwood Mac.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (09:23):
Oh,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (09:24):
Ah, classic in every single way.
So, it's not a person, it's agroup.
So, I don't know.
Is that fair?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (09:30):
that's
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (09:30):
can I, can I be fair.
Is that fair?
Okay.
Okay.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_0 (09:35):
I could do it if I could wear her,
her sarong or her, her thingevery day.
If I could say in the wind withher poncho, I
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (09:41):
Oh, it's a mess.
Okay.
I'm just going to ask Stuartthis question.
Okay.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (09:46):
Okay.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (09:49):
I'm listening.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (09:51):
Then, I had to think about it.
I had to
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (09:52):
Oh, oh, I thought you were going
through a list.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (09:56):
Yeah, no, it was a mental list in my
head.
Uh, what number am I thinkingof?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_0859 (10:02):
Three, three, three.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (10:04):
56.
Uh, now, here's the last thing.
This might take just a thought.
We'll start with Stuart.
Describe the rest of your lifein five words.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (10:17):
I need more than five.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (10:20):
That's all you get.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (10:21):
Well,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (10:21):
I'll give you seven.
He's long winded.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (10:26):
so it's deep.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (10:29):
Okay, here we go.
Well, you get this whole thingacross your tattoo.
There's something about birdsand flying and life and it's
like a whole verse on your body.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (10:38):
I'm not writing my resume.
I'm writing my obituary
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (10:41):
Lords, tell us what you mean by this.
Wow.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085 (10:47):
because
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (10:48):
You ever heard of deep, deep
thoughts?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (10:50):
I've worked hard enough.
I don't need a resume to get ajob, but I do need to leave a
legacy.
I
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (10:57):
That's a good one.
It's a good one.
That's, that's beautiful.
That's beautiful.
Okay.
Rice, Raceroni.
Can you follow up better withthat one?
That's pretty good.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (11:06):
Um, I think, well, it's going to be,
yeah, I think I can do it infour words.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (11:13):
Okay.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (11:14):
Oh, what a ride or it's going to be
fun.
Yeah.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27 (11:21):
Listen, the audience, we got to know the
boys a little bit more.
Fascinating.
I got to know them a little bitmore.
This is, this has been fun.
Okay.
Now let's get to the real thing.
What are we talking about today,uh, moderator?
What are
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (11:31):
even know.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (11:33):
Today we are, if you, whether you can
believe it or not, we are goingto start discussing, and we'll
all take a little breath beforethis, Christmas.
Because it, uh, for us anyway,especially, it is, it is here.
It is, it's our time.
(11:53):
Um, when we start thinking aboutit and which is, this is insane
to even think about that thereare other, um, people that we
know in the industry or otherstores, they're actually
starting their Christmas.
Extravaganza in October, like4th, 3rd, 4th, 5th.
Now?
Listen, I love Christmas.
I mean, I do, I do, I do loveit.
Um, a lot of, a lot of ourfriends will say, um, you just
(12:18):
have, you have to hate Christmasand my response is no, I don't
hate Christmas.
Christmas is different to methan it is to them.
Right.
So for me, I know that it's alot of work.
A lot of exhaustion.
And just keep going until it'sover.
Right?
Um, but that's also why we putours up really early compared to
what probably we normally woulddo.
(12:40):
Just because if I, if we don't,I'm not home and I'll get to
enjoy it.
Um, but, I do, I think we justenjoy it differently.
Like, would I love to, like, goshop, well, probably not.
But, I was going to say, What Iwas going to say, Jeremy said to
me one time, he was like, Youknow, you're not home and we
can't go, like, Christmasshopping together.
And I'm like, yeah, that soundslike hell to me.
(13:04):
You know, not, it has nothing todo with him, but that whole,
like, um, all I can see is thatscene from, the Griswolds from a
Christmas vacation where thewhole family goes Christmas
shopping.
And they leave Clark in theattic and I'm just thinking,
Lord, that has to be a horribletime, just absolutely horrible.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (13:22):
You're just going to be Clark in the
attic.
Don't you really?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (13:24):
yeah, I'm fine with that.
I mean, yeah, tur, turban,poncho, and
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085 (13:31):
putting on a turban and a fur, fur wrap.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (13:36):
Uh, you know, you said something
during this and I, we go thecomplete opposite.
Uh, of course yours is adifferent schedule because
you're going a lot, but you saidthat you put yours up earlier so
you can enjoy it.
We put ours up late so we canenjoy it.
That, um, I, and I do loveChristmas.
The but is for some reason Ireally don't want much.
(13:57):
I mean, I have to do a littlebit, I have to do a little bit,
but I don't want much Christmasup in the house until after I
eat that turkey.
Lot of times we used to put theChristmas tree up, which were
exhausted, but when the kidswere young, uh, we put the
Christmas tree up, Thanksgivingnight after everybody left.
So imagine doing Thanksgivingdinner, cleaning up and all
(14:18):
this, because it's usually atour house and then put the
Christmas tree up that night.
The other part of that layer is,uh, my lovely bride in that, um,
our Christmas tree is acollection of memorabilia.
It is pretty and it's got somebig ornaments on it and it's got
a big hat on.
It's got some ribbon on it.
So it looks, you know,decoratory, right?
(14:40):
But it doesn't have what we dohere so much of the picks and
the greens and big giant flowerarrangement.
It really is a memory tree.
And so, With that said, as youknow, you're unboxing these
boxes and she'll slowly unwrapit and she'll go.
Now, do you remember thisornament when we bought, we were
in San Francisco and we wrotethe cable car and then we went
(15:01):
to, um, the beach and I got thisornament and you remember, you
know, you've got this.
paper turkey ornament with itshead falling off that this was a
little baby Ian's hand when hewas five years old and I'm like
I remember all of these but wecannot talk about 247 ornaments
and lament over every single oneof them or we'll never get done
(15:25):
right let's do the tree andlet's go back and then have
memories about them because Igot to go to bed because
tomorrow is a busy day retail atthe store Right.
So that's, but, um, that's whatwe've landed on is doing it the
night of, or even a couple ofdays after, um, Thanksgiving.
I, cause I just really can'thandle it.
(15:47):
And the, um, what the guys knowis I typically, I will, um, take
off, uh, right after, uh,Christmas that week of the last
week of the year, typically.
And part of that is that'sactually my Christmas for me.
That's when I sit and look atthe tree.
That's when I really enjoyChristmas, and I get up early,
(16:09):
and I'll go to bed late, andI'll have that, I'll have that
tree on all week long, andthat's when I really ultimately
enjoy Christmas, is the dayafter Christmas, or is my
Christmas.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-202 (16:21):
When do you put yours
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (16:22):
got, Stuart?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (16:24):
Well, growing up much like you did
with your family, we always putit up right after Thanksgiving
dinner.
Let's just kind of win it.
That's when it happened.
So, um, you know, through theyears I kept that a little bit,
but then, you know, as westarted traveling and for work
(16:46):
and getting things in, then it'ssometimes it got up before I
started traveling.
Sometimes it got up in betweentrips back and forth.
Um, now that I, you know, havea, a small little person, it's a
little bit more important forher to get.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (17:08):
It changes everything,
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (17:09):
Yeah.
And it's, um, honestly, it's thelast thing I want to look at,
but I also know that it's thefirst thing she wants to look
at.
So that's why we just kind of,we get it up.
And I think last year, last yearwas so weird because I was in
(17:31):
between two houses, but we hadChristmas trees at both houses
and we did it like right beforeHalloween.
And then to see it.
you know, through the durationand then got to pick one.
And, um, I know her papa'shouse.
She has a little tree in herroom that she gets to decorate.
So she asked if she could haveone in her room at my house to
(17:53):
do that as well.
And I was like, sure, fine.
So this year she has to pick outher own little tree.
I'm telling what that will looklike, but
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (18:02):
Don't, and don't, don't worry
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (18:03):
yeah, and it doesn't, yeah, it, yeah,
it's just like, just let herpick out what she likes and
that's what makes her happy.
So, so, yeah, just kind of allover the place.
Really?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (18:13):
So for us, we've always had
Christmas as.
Part of Thanksgiving.
It wasn't anything different tome or had to wait until after.
And then the other thing thatkind of changed it was in our
friend group, we, my husband andI would host our friends giving,
if you will.
So we all, and we'd call itRetox by the way, this is my
(18:34):
favorite thing is because a lotof our families didn't drink, so
everybody would go home andspend Thanksgiving with their
family in a very dry, um,Stressful time.
And so then we'd all gettogether the Saturday after
that.
And then we'd have it at ourhouse and there would be plenty
of cocktails and lots of goodfood.
And so we'd call it Retox.
So you detoxed with the family.
We retoxed with the friends.
(18:55):
Um, so we wouldn't a lot oftimes because we were busy,
people wouldn't come back overthe house.
So we wanted our house done bythen.
So it was always done byThanksgiving.
Um, So we do it, I mean, it'sprobably the first or second
week of November.
Now one year, if y'all know thatthe video that I did teaching
how to do the mantle garland, ornot the mantle garland, the
stairwell garland, I had to dothat at some time in October.
(19:19):
So here it is, Halloween, andwe're opening the door, handing
out candy.
And all these people would, I'dopen the door and they'd look in
and our, our stairwell was allready for Christmas, lights
twinkling away, and they'd justbe like, Trick or, uh, treat.
I'm like, here's your candy,leave.
(19:41):
ha
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (19:42):
You gave them a full bar of candy,
so they couldn't say
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (19:46):
but we do so much.
I think it's also the reason whyI feel like I have to do so much
or we have to start so earlybecause, you know, we only do
one tree in the sunroom, um, butit's done up.
Then we have another tree in theliving room with a mantle and
then the big stereo garland andthen the outside.
That's the one thing I'm tryingto like.
Every year I look at, I look atwhen it's still warm outside or
(20:10):
not frigid.
Let's just say not even cool.
Let's just say just like decentand it's dry and I say hey, hun
We don't have anything going onthis weekend before the
craziness starts.
Why don't we just go ahead andput lights in the bushes?
We don't have to plug them inbut let's get them on the bushes
So we don't have to do it whenit's 10 degrees outside and it's
(20:30):
wet.
Mmm.
I just think it'll look tackyevery Year, so I'm determined to
try to get them on earlybecause, you know, I was like,
we don't have, we're not gonnaput the garland up on, we don't
put the garland up on the frontdoor until I usually, I'll put
it up on Christmas orThanksgiving.
Um, but I'm like, uh, we don't,if you can put it when it's
(20:51):
nice, that way you should do it.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (20:53):
and I don't understand why this is a
conversation.
It's just, you just go do it ordo it because you can't see it.
You
jeremy-host121_1_09-27- (20:58):
There's so, there's so much we, it's,
there's so much, it's hard to doit by yourself.
I mean, we like every box would,we, their lawn is lit.
We have to wait until after it'sdone being mowed for
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (21:07):
you do half of it.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (21:09):
That's why I said, let's just do the
bushes.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (21:11):
and do half of it when it's not
warm.
I don't know
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_0 (21:13):
I have, I begged,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (21:15):
this, right?
He's like, okay, then i'm goingout and i'll do four bushes
today Well, it's pretty at leastthe four is done.
I don't have to be out in thecold.
But hey, that's just me beingsmart uh
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (21:26):
do y'all do, do y'all do stuff
outside or do all the mostlyinterior stuff?
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (21:30):
Uh, most of the interior.
Um, I did the spotlights andreese on the windows and big
pots and call it.
I used to put lights on theshrubs.
Forget that.
I'm done.
I don't like to do it outside.
You know, I've done thatsubdivision, which is not a
complaint for about 30 years.
I get used to two of them.
I got enough of that.
I'm done with that.
So I love it.
I am done with that
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (21:50):
just reads on the gate really because
then you can't really see
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (21:54):
Yeah.
You're going back off road.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (21:56):
terror is real, real big.
Uh, so we'd take a lot of work.
You just write a little less ismore kind of thing.
Here is big.
You know, about, uh, Little BabyGirl.
It is, when I was much younger,I don't know if I was hungry, or
I probably just needed themoney, truthfully.
We, you know, we wouldn't,wasn't rolling in it.
Uh, I did a lot of houses atChristmas time, and it was
(22:21):
exhausting, right?
I think we all did, truthfully.
I'm not sure.
I think we've all kind of walkedaway from that, for the most
part, because we are older.
And because the store becomesmuch busier and we've learned
that if we're not here andengaged primarily, it usually
doesn't go well, um, all thosethings, right?
And you all travel a lot.
So there's lots of reasons.
(22:41):
But one of the things thathappened, um, was probably Ian
was about seven years old and,Basically, it goes something
like, how come we don't getChristmas like everybody else
does?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-202 (22:54):
hmm.
Mm hmm.
Okay.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (22:58):
it hits
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (22:59):
was, yeah, that was not a great
feeling.
And I was like, okay, then, uh,I didn't get this right.
So we said that, so I went backand I revisited.
I thought, okay, we can't dothis ever again.
This is, this is not good.
My career choice should not havean impact on my family at the
holidays, right?
And that's what was happening.
(23:20):
And, uh, so I went back and Ireached out to all my clients
and said, look, this is what'shappening.
I will figure this out, butyou've got to give me a
commitment.
You got to give me commitment tothe date, the week, you know, I
gave lots of things and I did itin the summertime.
Uh, but you got to give me ananswer by, uh, Let's say mid
(23:40):
September or end of September,right, plan it out.
And everybody responded.
They came back and said, this isthe date, and so I was able to
kind of put the scheduletogether to where it was doable,
and I was able to be home and,and, and, you know, be normal,
live, except for one person.
Well, I may go out of town to myfamily, uh, or well, I haven't
(24:06):
committed, they may come hereand well, I may not decorate
this year.
Well,
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (24:10):
gonna miss
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (24:11):
not decorate it.
Well, you must.
And I said, I hear you.
I said, but if I don't have adate.
By I think it was mid September.
I said, I can't do it.
I mean, I just I'm just can't doit.
And that they came and go wentand now we're November the 1st.
Well, I've decided I will be intown and the family's coming and
(24:32):
they do.
I'd need to do this.
And it's like, and the answerwas no.
No, and that was not receivedwell.
And there was guilt and waslike, I've been your customer
for 20 years or 10 years.
How long ago I did so long timeago.
So 10 years then.
I've always, always you need tohelp me.
(24:53):
And I was like, no, if you'llrevert back to I made this and I
am not doing this to bedifficult.
I'm doing this because I neednormalcy in my life.
I need a boundary, but moreimportantly, I need to make sure
that my children are not feelingneglected.
And that's more important thanyou or anybody or anything else.
I just, I don't know what elseto tell you.
(25:13):
Right.
And needless to say, she was notpleased with me.
Fast forward.
The very first person that goton the books the next year was
that person.
Now that isn't, I told you somoment, but it did.
Paint a lesson to me, uh, hold,stick to your guns.
Don't, don't just say, okay, andthat's not easy for me to do.
(25:36):
Um, but it also is setboundaries, but also set your
priorities.
What that, whatever thatpriority is, you know, it can be
anything in life, but if you,you give people enough warning
or enough information and theychoose not to be respectful
enough of your time.
Right, then they don'tnecessarily have to be in your
(25:57):
life and that was something along time ago.
And this is not ugliness.
This is really just settingboundaries.
And again, I'm not great at it,but I've gotten better and
better and better at it onceit's all said and done.
And I think ultimately peoplerespect that because then you're
not over promising somethingthat you can't do because you
know what your schedule is.
And so that was something thatreally came from a badness that
(26:17):
turned into good.
Ultimately, once it's said anddone for me, at least.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (26:21):
Yeah.
I, you know, we're recordingthis the day after Hoda,
announced that she's gonna beleaving the Today Show.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (26:27):
Oh, did she announce that today?
jeremy-host121_1_09- (26:29):
yesterday.
She announced that yesterday.
Um, and so she's still, she'llbe there until after the
beginning of the year, I thinkshe said.
Um, but what, you know, whatshe, and all this all goes back
to, um.
Evaluating your time, right?
Evaluating what's important toyou.
And basically what she said toher was that, you know, she just
had her 60th birthday and therewere lots of factors that were
(26:51):
part of this, but for her, shefelt like she was on top of the
wave.
That's what, how she phrases.
She said she was on top of thewave.
Like it was never going to getbetter than this.
And that she always looks at isas your life as a, as a pie.
And she was like, you know, I'vegot my kids later in life.
And so I always kind of look athow much, what, what size a
piece of pie I have left andwhat that means with my kids.
(27:13):
And so she's
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (27:14):
We also have to acknowledge
Stuart's also in this phase oflife.
So he's, his pie's slowlydwindling.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (27:20):
Yeah.
Oh.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (27:23):
Um, but it, it.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (27:25):
left
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (27:26):
No, I got some ready whip over here.
I'll give you some.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085 (27:30):
Mm-Hmm.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (27:31):
you go.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (27:31):
Um, but, uh, you know, I respect her
so much.
I've always loved her becauseshe's such a seems like such a
bright light.
Um, but you know, you need totake care of you and you take
care of the people that areclosest to you and do that.
And so I think that's why allthree of us, especially the
holiday time, as far as likeour, Cause much like you used
to, or Dwayne, like when webought this house, like, you
(27:52):
know, listen, I took every jobthat every person that needed
something done because Idesperately needed the money.
So we'd have the down payment toput on the house and, and do all
that kind of stuff.
And, you know, now the situationis a little different, um,
thankfully, um, but I'm tired.
And, uh, I only have so much ofme to give and I'm a lot more
(28:14):
protective of that now than I amback
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (28:17):
hmm.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (28:20):
and it doesn't mean that I don't
love my people.
Yeah.
I mean, I mean, I love every oneof them, but I just don't have
time for, I just don't have thetime to commit to, to you, to
give what you need.
So
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (28:32):
of that.
I really do.
I mean, there's Um, those are inyour corner get it.
They they they understand I meani've just days ago somebody I
was at their house and she saidYou need to stop you've had a
long day.
You need to go home to yourfamily and I was like, well,
thank you But there ain't nobodyhome to go home to tonight
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (28:50):
Oh God.
All my babies are gone,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (28:55):
join.
Dwayne, Dwayne said that he did,I know the third tree or like
family ornaments.
What do y'all do at the house?
No, I know this is firstChristmas at the new house.
So I know it's going to change alittle bit, but how do you all
handle Christmas?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (29:07):
There is.
To what I would call formaltrees, you know, designer trees.
Um, last year,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024_ (29:18):
I stop you there?
Um, let's tell the story firstof how blessed you are to
actually have a tree.
Because there were years on topof years that I kept stealing
and selling Stuart's trees outof his house.
Would you like
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08 (29:32):
multiple years in a row.
He would knew I would have thisexact tree that one customer or
here and there wanted that exacttree.
And he'd be like, Ooh, is thatin your living room?
Yeah, can my customer buy it?
So I would be treeless and haveto get a different one.
Well then ironically, somebodyelse wanted that one as well.
So Duane just kept selling thetrees out of my living room.
(29:56):
Um,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (29:57):
Saved you a lot
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (29:57):
Is, is that worse?
Is that him doing that?
Was that worse than me sellingthe swags that you made to put
on your mama's grave?
What?
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (30:06):
Oh, I didn't know this.
I did not know this.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (30:08):
my God.
This is so long
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (30:10):
did not
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (30:10):
back in the day at the other place
that we used to work together,they were hanging on the wall,
ready to go done.
And I guess I didn't put a nameon them.
I thought I had talked aboutwhere they were going to go
multiple times, but Jeremy justsold them.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (30:27):
Well, there was this
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (30:28):
mama had no swag, no Christmas shoes
for mama that year.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (30:33):
Oh, no.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (30:35):
We There had been issues of
arrangements being made with nonames on them.
And so, it had been very pointedthat if an arrangement doesn't
have a name on it, You know, wehad a very short selling season.
If there's not a name on it,sell it.
And so,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (30:54):
Sounds like, oh boy, he's trying to
make a
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_0 (30:55):
I don't remember.
No, I didn't know.
Then I felt horrible afterwards.
I thought, poor mama.
By the way, Stuart's mama justhad a birthday, isn't that
right?
Not too long
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (31:03):
She, yes.
Uh, yeah, it would, it was, itwould have been Monday, the
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (31:07):
Happy birthday, mama.
Happy birthday.
Happy belated birthday.
Okay, I'm sorry.
You go back.
How do you, how do you
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (31:16):
Well, so last year, uh, Like I said, I
did have a tree at, at the lakehouse.
And that one was more of aalley.
You can put on it what you wantto put on it.
So it was little things she madefrom school.
And it was like, if we were attarget and she saw, you know,
mermaid ornament or something.
So that one just kinda, thatkind of started, I guess, a
(31:39):
little memory tree for her.
I don't know if she rememberswhat's on it.
She probably does.
Cause she remembers everything.
She's like an elephant.
So, um, we'll get those thingsout and that can go into her,
her bedroom this year, you know?
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (31:59):
You got a, you got a fancy tree and
a fancy tree and the beginningsof a family tree.
Is that what I'm
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (32:04):
yeah, and there's one ornament that I
always put out that I've hadSince 1984 because it's dated
1984 and it's this littleConvertible car with Santa Claus
in it and some packages on theback and that was the first
(32:25):
ornament that my parents got forme And it was the Hallmark car
collection, basically.
And I don't know if that's whenit started or if it started
before that.
I don't know, but that's thefirst one I remember.
And then every year since then,I got a Hallmark car.
Ornament up until my
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (32:48):
And those that don't know, Stuart is
a car fiend.
He gets a new car every twoyears or something.
I can't even turn around.
It's like, he gets more cars andshoes than anybody I've ever
seen in my life.
I can't keep up with it.
Jeremy and I keep cars for five,ten, twelve years.
He's got twenty two cars sinceI've known him.
So, I think it started with thatlittle endeavor there.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (33:08):
and it is, you know, and, and I got
one of those every year up untilmy mom died.
And then, um, I actually had afriend from high school whose
mother knew that, you know, I'min my late twenties and early
thirties at that point.
And, uh, then at Christmas, Iwould get a random box from
(33:29):
Donna That was her name.
was the Hallmark car ornamentthat she, she sent them to me.
Cause she knew my mom wouldalways give me one.
And then Donna passed away aboutfive years ago, maybe, maybe
six.
And, um, One of her daughters,who was my friend in high
(33:52):
school, sends me a Hallmark carornament.
So,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (33:57):
Are you serious?
How
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (33:58):
so that was, that's pretty cool.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (34:00):
Wow.
That is amazing.
No, that's amazing.
That's love.
That's love.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (34:07):
But I don't have a tree for those,
but I probably need a tree forall of those.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (34:11):
Sounds like you do, uh, you know,
you're all working harder We getwe'll get one tree up and i'm
done.
You all got you said you had twotrees, right?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (34:18):
Two, two, for
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (34:19):
yeah,
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (34:20):
Yeah.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (34:21):
and I have to, ours are both, ours
are both decorator.
We don't have any family
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (34:26):
Yeah, well, one tree and that's what
we wanted to, of course, it hasalso always say, um, our tree
cries a little, um, when I putthat last ornament on it because
it's so much on there.
You don't know.
Is there a tree under it?
I mean, it's probably 1001 onthis tree because it takes 2
days for truthfully put thisthing up.
It's got too much crap on it,but she's shaking rattles.
(34:47):
Like, is there a tree under allthat?
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
So, so Stuart, so Jeremy, youmight be in a little different
vein.
You just said this, Stuart,well, I'll say it this way.
Is those card ornaments yourfavorite ornament or do you have
a favorite ornament?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (35:07):
That, that very first one, it's my
favorite one.
Cause that's the one I always
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024 (35:11):
I, that's all you remember.
So I thought, I thought you weregoing to repeat that and say
that.
So that my favorite ornament isan old teal colored iPhone,
really real iPhone.
That's a Christmas ornament.
And so how in the world, whatdoes that mean?
So this is a story aboutforgiveness and it'll be okay,
(35:34):
right?
So I always get emotionalbecause I always say it'll be
fine.
Don't worry about it.
So, Ian was probably I don'tknow, 12 years old, and we were,
winter break, fall break, and wewere on a vacation, and we were
going to fly out later that day,and I wanted to get my feet in
the ocean one last time, and Isaid, buddy, let's go get in the
(35:55):
water, let's go in the water,let's go in the water, and he
was sitting on the side at thebeach and didn't want to get in.
Finally, me badgering him,imagine, and he, runs and jumps
and gets in the water and we'rejust having the best time.
All of a sudden he gives thiscrazy shocked look and I
instantly thought he gotjellyfish stung is what I
thought.
No, he jumped in the water withhis iPhone in his pocket.
(36:19):
And of course you know thatwhole thing about go
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (36:21):
is a long time ago.
Yeah, this is before they werewaterproof.
Yeah.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (36:26):
Yeah, yeah, oh, no, well, I mean, he
ends 24, so 12, 12, 12 yearsago, prior for range, right?
And so we get, you know, go tothe little grocery and get a bag
of rice, because that's how youfix iPhones, you know?
That iPhone never came back,right?
So, sweet mama Kathy rememberedthis and she kept it.
And, um, of course, he wasbeating himself up.
(36:47):
He, he said, I can't believe Idid this.
He was just, I said, no, youwouldn't have done this if I
hadn't encouraged you.
And I said, I wanted you to endhere with me.
And I said, but the other thingis.
It was an accident.
It was truly an accident.
You didn't do anything onpurpose, right?
And I said, but you wouldn'thave done it if I hadn't
bothered you, but it was anaccident.
So she took that iPhone and shebrought it out the night of, you
(37:12):
know, we're putting Christmas upfor the 4, 000 stories, and she
had bedazzled it with little,little, um, beads on it, and it
says, um, we heart you.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (37:22):
Lord.
That's when she was in her craftroom phase, wasn't
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (37:25):
That's right.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (37:26):
was in her craft room phase.
And I thought how, what abeautiful gesture that was to
think about saving this, turningwhat was really ugly and really
bad and a really hurtful moment.
And it hurt him so bad and itmade him beat up on himself to
take this and turn it intosomething good.
So I will gladly get that tealcolored phone out with this
(37:50):
bedazzled I heart you everyyear.
And I'll just lay it in the backof the branch and I go, yeah,
everything will be okay.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (38:00):
We, we, we don't have, uh, like a,
like all, all of our ornaments,I love, I guess there's, there's
not like a special thing.
And mom had, you know, shedidn't buy a bunch of new stuff.
So a lot of those were likeolder ornaments.
Um, but none of them reallystick out in the memory.
But the one thing that doesstick out to me that's, that is
a favorite of mine, and it'sonly because it's granny's Papa
(38:24):
Granny's, was that she, grannyalways decorated their tree and
red and green and silver.
That was the only color she everused.
That was just like whatChristmas meant to her.
And she would use, sometimesshe'd use multicolored,
sometimes she'd use whitelights, but um, that was how she
decorated the tree.
And so for me, anytime I seethat, like that's where we spent
Christmas.
And that was, it just alwaysfelt like that was Christmas
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (38:46):
No, you have some figures.
That's hers.
That's
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024_ (38:48):
Oh Lord.
Yes.
So, so granny, so when Papapassed away, Um, you know, that
was the first like family death.
Right.
And so, you know, it kind ofchanges dynamics in a lot of
different ways and it makespeople think about things.
And so granny, uh, was veryadamant of like, you know, if
(39:09):
there's something you all want,when I, when I'm, when I pass,
you know, let me know what itis.
And I was like, granny, there's,Like, I'm not worried about that
course.
This was a long time ago, and Isaid, however, I was like,
there's one thing that I just,they make me smile.
Are these little choir figures
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (39:29):
The little
jeremy-host121_1_09-27- (39:29):
little, little, They're these little,
little angels.
Boys in choir robe singing witha little thing.
And she'd had them for as longas I could remember.
Like they've always been thereand they were always in their
bedroom and they were always onthe TV stand.
And so I didn't know what thestory about them were, but I
knew she always had them.
And so to me, they're always,again, something special that I
(39:51):
associate with Christmas.
So she, so one Christmas shegoes, Oh, this brings up a
question I want to ask afterthis.
Um, uh, She wrapped, she wrappedthem up and gave them to me for
Christmas and as I'm openingthem up, I see them and then I'm
like, Oh, I was like, Granny,thank you.
You know, I was so excitedbecause then we came home and
put them down and then, um, Ihappened to pay more attention
(40:12):
to them when I got them home andthen I realized they were from
Walmart.
So like, they were, like,They're no family heirlooms.
They're nothing, you know, like,that she's got from her
grandmother's grandmother orsomething.
They're from Walmart.
So every year, I'll put thelittle choir boys out in her wet
(40:33):
bar and then she had littlethings that she put in the
kitchen, uh, like, uh, trivetsor little things that she
crocheted and, um, stuff likethat.
And I'll use those in thekitchen at Christmas time too,
but, um, what was the, and I'mgoing to use the best or most
memorable Christmas gift youever got because I have a great,
uh, I have a good story and Ican tell mine if you want, while
(40:54):
you're thinking.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (40:55):
No, I got it.
It was, um, a sled that webought at, um, what's, what's
one of the old fashionedhardware stores that was
nationwide,
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-202 (41:10):
True value
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (41:11):
true value, true value.
It was a true value inRogersville, Tennessee.
And, um, my, my dad and I wentto there in Rogersville,
Tennessee, is, um, probably anhour outside of Knoxville.
My grandparents, lived, nearthere.
So that's the reason that, so inthat area, a little, little
(41:33):
farming community, and, we wentthere and he actually was
Christmas because he let me pickout, and because, They had a
couple of choices and I justremember he let me pick this one
out.
And the reason this is soimportant is we, those who don't
know, I am a hillbilly and Igrew up in the Eastern Kentucky
in a mobile home, in a trailer.
(41:55):
Right in the back of a hauler.
True story.
But what that got is, rememberwhen it used to snow, feet, some
feets of snow?
It really did snow a lot when Iwas a kid, right?
I remember there was one winter,I was seventh or eighth grade
and, we didn't go school for, Ithink it was three weeks, they
would, we had that much snow.
True story.
(42:15):
Yeah, no, true story.
So, with that said, if you livein the back of Holler, you have
a mountain, right?
It's sledding.
And I was the only child, and Ihad to occupy my time, so that
sled got heavy, heavy use.
And, that's the one I rememberbecause it, that one gave me a
lot of joy.
Uh, and I just, I just remembergoing with dad to pick it out
(42:35):
too.
But, uh, my sled, I loved mysled.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (42:42):
Well, of course, mine reverts back to
cars once again.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27 (42:48):
There's a
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (42:48):
A specific car and a specific
brand that Now you can hardlyfind them and it was a brand
called pocket cars and they'remade by Tomica.
So any viewers can send those into 1 industry, Lexington,
Kentucky 40515.
Um, it'd be greatly appreciated.
(43:11):
Uh, but it was a Navy blueCadillac Fleetwood.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (43:19):
Ooh.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (43:20):
are all like pocket car.
They're all matchbox car sizes,but this particular brand was
called pocket cars.
And
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (43:27):
Was it like a better brand or more
well done
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (43:30):
I guess a term today would be
they're more bougie because theydid like Cadillacs and Volvos
and Volkswagens.
And, you know, of course in thegenre of that time, because
that's what car existed backthen.
I still have that car and it isin the nightstand in my room to
(43:56):
this day and has been on
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27- (43:59):
you're just a, you know, stop right
there.
You come across as such agoonter sometimes, right?
But my god, you are the mostsentimental fool i've ever met
in my life You just live yourlife with your little heart.
I just love
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (44:14):
I mean, every now and then people
get to see it.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2024_ (44:17):
I love it.
You've got a good heart.
You have a good heart
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (44:22):
Um, for For me, it was, you know,
Jeremy and I had been togetherfor a long time and we had
bought house that we're in now,it had been our plan to, to
renovate the kitchen for sometime.
And so it was actually like,okay, we are doing this.
It's planned.
We're.
We know that we're starting thisin like March or April.
And so when it came toChristmas, you know, we're
(44:43):
adults, we, you know, we makeour own money with, if there's
something we need, we'll buy it.
So, you know, it's, you alwayshear people say, once you get
become an adult, it's hardsometimes for Christmas gifts.
And so of course, you know, thefamily's like, what do you want?
What do you need?
What do you want?
And I was like, we don't needanything.
We need a new kitchen.
Right.
So that's what we did.
I was like, we want to redo ourkitchen.
I was like, so you don't need togive us anything if you want to,
(45:04):
you know, if you want to givesome money for that, whatever,
that's fine, but you don't needto give us anything else.
So of course, nobody in ourfamily listens, which I'm sure
is the same with every familythat's out there.
And, So that Christmas, we wentdown and they, we opened up some
gifts and then my mom pulls upthis big Christmas, this big
gift and brings it over to meand sits on the floor.
(45:27):
And I'm like, what in the worldis this?
Cause you know, at this point ofour age, we don't get big
Christmas, like big boxes,right?
Unless it's like, you know,you're getting like a mixer or
something else, something likethat.
And, I started to unwrap it.
They had bought us a toy playkitchen, like one that like
Allie would use and they had putit together and they had put
(45:48):
money all inside.
So in the frying pan, there weremoney and all the little
measuring cups, there was money.
And it was the sweetest andcutest gift ever.
and I thought it was so funny.
I said, well, you said youneeded a new kitchen.
And I thought that washysterical.
I don't know who, I said to thisday, I don't know who thought of
that.
but then we donated the kitchento a kid's charity and then we
went from there, but that helpedand the fun,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (46:08):
Wow.
Yeah, that's a good story.
You know, what I think we'velearned from this is how we're
telling the world how we figuredout how to navigate Christmas
and we've all relativelyunscathed, but it all hangs on
to beautiful memories that, uh,you've just are obligated to
(46:28):
create, right?
It's, it's not about the stuff.
It's about the memories attachedto, you know, Stuart's favorite
thing is a glorified matchbook.
That's when it says it's notstamped.
That's what is in thisnightstand.
That's what's important.
It's the memory attached tothat.
And that's what we got to keeplearning, uh, is, is, the action
(46:49):
of reaching out to people,checking on them.
Um, you know, I'll tell thestory.
I recently, I did a designproject about five years ago,
and there was a coffee tablebook, and it was beautiful
photographs of Appalachia, and Icommented on, you know this
story?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2024 (47:06):
You just told this in the last
podcast,
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (47:09):
Oh, well, we're
stuart_1_09-27-2024_08590 (47:10):
Well, great.
So thank you.
That wraps up for today.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-2 (47:13):
Yeah, that wraps it.
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (47:14):
I mean, Lord have mercy.
I'm going to leave us with this
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (47:19):
it's touched my heart.
Yes.
What's
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (47:21):
this podcast
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (47:22):
What have we learned?
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (47:23):
what the hell are we going to talk
about for our Christmas special?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (47:30):
Well, I'm gonna get out my tap
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-20 (47:32):
want to talk about a book that a
client gave me that was a giftthat just touched my
stuart_1_09-27-2024_085908 (47:36):
At the end of the stairwell painted
on a Tuesday.
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-20 (47:41):
Well.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (47:42):
I'm consistent, right?
jeremy-host121_1_09-27-2 (47:43):
We'll, we'll try to figure the, the,
our Christmas special out beforewe come back, as always,
everybody, thanks for listeningnew podcast drop every
Wednesday, if you haven'tdownloaded our house floral app,
be sure you do to participate inour fun live sales that we have
every Wednesday.
And between now and then we willsee you here.
Thanks guys.
dwayne-guest157_1_09-27-202 (48:06):
let me tell you a story about
something.
Somebody gave me a book.
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