S2:E5 15 Years!

It's hard to believe, but we're celebrating 15 years of House being around!  This fun and spirited episode looks back and discusses some of what it took to get here, and the people along the way!  

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Episode Transcript

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (00:00):
This morning I am a little, am out of

(00:02):
sorts.
Like I am just all over theplace, and I think for many
reasons, but one of the reasonsis because I think that my
pantyhose are too dark for mydress.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (00:14):
I think it's because you watched
White Lotus.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (00:17):
No.
Do you, um, uh, well that couldbe part of, do y'all, did you
ever watch designing women?
Okay, well there's the famous

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (00:25):
Do you not know?
We are designing women.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (00:27):
Well,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2025 (00:29):
I know.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (00:29):
well,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (00:30):
We do know

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (00:31):
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (00:32):
well, in the, Abbott Banister episode,
which is the one where Juliagets her head stuck in the
staircase, there's the partwhere, her sister Suzanne goes
home and gets her dress to bringback, change her into it for the
governor's ball, and she putsthese.
Pantyhose on her while herhead's still stuck in the
staircase.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (00:47):
Oh my God.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (00:48):
and she gets'em on and she goes, yo,
you're, you know, you're alldone.
She goes, mm, I think thosepantyhose are too dark for the
dress.
And Julia says something aboutall the people being there and
she's like, I would hate forthem to say, excuse me.
Do you see that woman with herhead stuck in the banister?
Yes.
You mean that woman that thegovernor just stepped over?
Don't you think her pantyhoseare a little too dark for her
dress.
that's what I feel like thismorning because the only socks I

(01:10):
could find that didn't, thatweren't stretched out or had
holes in them were black.
And I have white tennis shoes onand I just, I just feel like I'm
so out of sorts today.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (01:19):
Wow.
Wow.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (02:26):
Today what I thought we would discuss
is something that we've beenkind of celebrating for, uh,
what's all, it's, it startedthis month, but, um, it's 15
years of our little retailbusiness being in, um, in
business, being open.
And I just think that'sridiculous and crazy and.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (02:44):
Anybody have a comment on anything at
this point, or we're just movingforward?

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (02:48):
I mean, hallelujah.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (02:52):
Oh, I meant 15 or 16.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (02:53):
Oh,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2025 (02:53):
I was like, okay.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (02:55):
well it's technically 16 when we

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (02:57):
it,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (02:57):
but 15 for brick and mortar.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (02:59):
oh

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (02:59):
There you go.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (03:00):
there

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (03:00):
So there's, there's been this,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2025 (03:02):
I had to bring it up.
I just had to.
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (03:04):
this running conversation or question
of whether the store was open orhas been open for 15 or 16, and.
So,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (03:12):
Okay.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (03:14):
um, what I had to remind Stuart was
that before the store opened, wedid a bunch of work getting paid
for different, um, installationsand all kinds of stuff, um, to
raise money for this business.
And that happened in 2009, butwe were.
Laid off in 2010, and I knowthis because I have Facebook
posts from 2009 of me sitting inthis small town festival that

(03:38):
they have here in a field nextto some Podunk gas station.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (03:45):
I'm

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (03:45):
Not,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (03:46):
Diane.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25 (03:46):
shell.
Not a Shell station, not a bp,but like I, I mean, I wouldn't
have been surprised if it wascalled buford's.
Like I, I would, unless thesepeople were nice, don't get me
wrong, but we were set up in afield because that town had, um,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (04:02):
know what you are selling.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (04:03):
yeah, Uhhuh and, uh, it's, it, there's
an event that they have that'scalled Court Days

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110 (04:09):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (04:09):
it's like, it's a big festival and
all these vendors come in andthey sell all kinds of handmade

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (04:13):
Stop right there.
Let's do advertising court days.
Mount Sterling, Kentucky.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110 (04:19):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (04:19):
'em on the map.
The who's, don't know this, butgo to court days in Mount
Sterling, Kentucky.
People, well, not the audiencemembers in, uh, Taiwan.
May not.
So if they're gonna fly over,they wanna experience.
The thing need to do is courtdays.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25 (04:30):
don't,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (04:31):
Oh.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (04:31):
go

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (04:32):
Oh.
Oh no, that's hateful.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03- (04:33):
Thailand or Taiwan and go there.
No, please don't.
So my friend Diane, she wouldset up there and she, she's a
hustler, right?
She likes to like go to yardsales and she

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (04:44):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (04:45):
buy stores out and she'd sell it.
And she was too cheap to get abooth in court dates.
Now I can't imagine how much itwould've cost to get a, a booth
in the actual downtown.
So instead she would set up atthis.
field next to a gas station, andthis is all I knew.
And she's like, why don't youcome?
She goes, you can sit it and youcan sit there and sell.
This is back when that, uh, decomesh was.

(05:07):
Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110 (05:08):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (05:08):
was really popular.
And, uh, it wasn't necessarilysomething that we wanted to
carry in the store, although Ithink we did carry bits and
pieces of it.
But it was one of those thingswhere know, know the audience,
know the crowd, and havesomething that you can sell to
the people.
And, um, and that's not tryingto dog it.
I just don't want, it's just notmy taste.
Right.
Whatever.
You, you love it.

(05:29):
Love it.
Just, I don't want it on mydoor.
And, um.
So I'm sitting there and thishappens in like October, and so
the weather in October, younever know what it's gonna be.
Whether it's gonna be reallyhot, really cool, wet snow, you
just never know.
Well, I just remember it beingfoggy and very damp and that
meant that the, the field thenbecame a gigantic thing of mud

(05:52):
mud up to my knees.
Me sitting in the middle of thisfield schlepping this mesh for
five or$10 a roll.
It was literally my hell onearth.
And I did this for two days andI

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (06:06):
How much did you sell?
Did you do okay with it?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (06:08):
I don't remember.
It was so long ago.
I mean, if, if, if I wouldn'thave sold one role, I might have
burnt the whole thing down.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (06:14):
uh.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (06:16):
I don't know.
I know we sold stuff and the,again, the people were lovely.
They were very lovely.
it is one of those situationswhere I said to myself, I will
never do this again.
I'm done.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (06:28):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-2 (06:28):
Dealing with, I think I called her when
I was telling you this the otherday, Dwayne, I think I
mentioned, I called the nameYolanda, but what I probably

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (06:35):
Yes.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25 (06:35):
called the, the, the woman that we had
to deal with was like, probablyher name was like Buffy or
Princess or Bumper.
Like I feel like that's probablywho we had to deal with.
But I equate her to, when we,when I taught Colorguard, you
know, you just kinda learn theparents and how to deal with
them.
And there were ones that, theone classification that I called
them, country frying pan mamas.

(06:57):
So cast Iron Mamas and like youdon't mess with them.
We ain't making them mad Theygonna bring you biscuits and
gravy.
And then the second thing is ifyou piss'em off, they're gonna
hit you over the head with thatcast iron pan.
So that's who I was dealingwith.
And that happened

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (07:11):
Was there one that was now, is that
the Yolanda was mean to you thatwas fighting you over a price
or?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (07:16):
yeah, yeah.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (07:18):
it was$2

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (07:20):
I think it was more$2, but still,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (07:22):
but

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (07:22):
I listen, these people were
selling pocket knives for 25cents.
This was not the market that Iwanted to be in,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (07:28):
Mm.
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (07:31):
but that happened in

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (07:32):
Well,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (07:32):
I know we opened in 2010.
So, but the storefront

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (07:35):
why do you lead off with this story?
What's, what's your point oftoday's podcast?
What are you trying to do forthe peoples?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (07:40):
have worked hard.
We have worked hard.
The,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (07:45):
it a reminiscent kind of day of
what it took to build theempire?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (07:48):
I think it can be a little bit of
reminiscent, but also I want tolike really celebrate because.
That's really what I want to dois really celebrate.
'cause I think, um, been veryfortunate in our time as working
together for over 20 years now,that we have people that are in
our lives today, that were inour lives 20 years ago, 21

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (08:09):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (08:10):
Um, we have people who are working
at the store that we knew beforewe opened, uh, that are, that
are there in the store now.
And so, you know, we didn't gethere on our own.
By any

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (08:21):
No, no, no.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (08:23):
we've gotten really lucky.
Um, and so for me this is just acelebration of a place that
where we can go, where we'rejoyful, um, that brings us joy
and that brings joy to otherpeople.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (08:38):
we're

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (08:38):
But

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (08:39):
the beach.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (08:40):
we, lord, I gotta get a

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (08:43):
I'd be okay with that.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (08:44):
Yeah, I'm fine with that

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (08:45):
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (08:46):
Um, but I'm happy to tell stories,
but first of all, we need tothank the, all of the sweet
ladies at the store.
They all surprised us with a 15year celebration this week or

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (08:55):
Yes.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (08:56):
Um, didn't tell any

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (08:57):
Shrimp.
Shrimp, shrimp.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (09:00):
had shrimp.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (09:03):
um,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (09:03):
of good food.
I quickly realized I am a,smorgasborg of finger food party
stuff.
'cause everything I looked at, Iwas like, well God, I want that.
I want that.
I want that.
I want that.
I want that.
I want that.
I want that.
And I did.
I partook of it all.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (09:18):
It

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (09:18):
It was good.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (09:19):
yeah, so Stuart and Dwayne had gone to
go do a TV spot.
I was running a little late, soI show up to the store and I
walk in and there's balloons andstreamers and Mylar Fringe.
And I was like, what is going?
And then I quickly realized whatthey were doing.
Um, and it was

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (09:37):
Sausage balls and those,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (09:39):
Bour

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (09:40):
What is what?
What is,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (09:41):
Mm

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (09:43):
well I like that.
What's that thing that Johnkeeps bringing in?
That was from, um,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03 (09:48):
remember.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (09:49):
s.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11 (09:49):
Pierogi.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (09:50):
is it?

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (09:50):
A.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03 (09:50):
Pierogis?
We'll have to post.
We gotta post that because it, Ithink it's a,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (09:55):
and a blanket, but it's sausage and
cheese.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (09:57):
is good, isn't it?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (09:58):
It's

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (09:59):
is good.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03- (09:59):
blanket.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (10:00):
It

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (10:00):
Well, it's on next level.
Pig and blanket, lemme tell you.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (10:04):
'em anytime that we have some kind
of like

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (10:05):
Well, I love'em.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03 (10:07):
literally a glorified big ass wiener
wrapped up in a blanket

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (10:13):
a blanket.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (10:13):
with some cheese and, but

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (10:16):
You are not selling this.
They are, yeah.
Sell it.
They're good.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (10:20):
You can only eat like he, I think
they, I dunno if

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (10:22):
He got some hat.
'cause they're huge.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03 (10:25):
delicious

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (10:26):
What was the bacon thing?
Did it have like a, a water?

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (10:29):
bacon and a watercress.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (10:31):
Cow.
I've never had that before.
Truthfully, that real good,right?
Okay.
I'm making people hungry and I'mhungry now.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (10:38):
It

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (10:38):
Real good.
But that was a, it was a verysweet,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25 (10:41):
sweet.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (10:42):
moment.
And uh,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (10:44):
They were special hats that they had
made.
Like they just didn't

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (10:46):
yeah,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25 (10:46):
stuff, bought it from a store.
Like they actually put a lot ofeffort into it.
And it's just, um,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (10:51):
no, it's not like when my birthdays,
my mom would put together

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (10:53):
I mean,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03- (10:53):
Pitiful.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (10:54):
just went to McDonald's.
You think there was a decorationfor mine?

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (10:58):
No.
No, I really don't.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (11:01):
I mean, I'm

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (11:01):
I'm with you.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (11:02):
that big of a deal to me.
But, you know, the biggestbirthday party I remember was
having a Pizza Hut.
And I had a cow cake.
Was a sheet cake, but it had acow on it, and I don't remember,
I.
Our friends, we were on theacademic team and there was like
a stuffed animal.
One of our friends, he actuallyraised cattle.
Um, and so I don't, we called itBessie, if I remember correctly.

(11:22):
And it was like a little mascotfor the academic team, was this
little stuffed cow.
You know, we were young, youknow, I don't know.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (11:30):
Okay.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (11:30):
I dunno.
I know we were nerds, but it wasfine.
And so that was the theme of thebirthday cake.
So that's the only birthday thatI remember growing up was.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (11:39):
Well, they got this one, right?
It was a nice,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (11:41):
one right.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (11:42):
they got this one right?
It was an, an incrediblesurprise.
But it also tells you theblessings of people who, um,
were surrounded by that.
Uh, they get it.
They get it.
They get it,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (11:53):
And

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (11:53):
okay?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (11:54):
Kim did a really good job of
videoing a lot of it and hasmade some

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (11:58):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-2 (11:58):
videos.
I'll be sure to link those down.
Belows, if you've not, if youdon't follow us on Instagram or
Facebook first,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (12:04):
Okay, so

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (12:05):
us

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25 (12:05):
Jeremy sold his soul selling this mesh
ribbon stuff out in a, in afield.
What did you do, Stuart, to sellyour soul to make this empire
happen?
Come on, gimme a specific,gimme, gimme one.
You got one.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-2 (12:18):
selling his body, I'm not sure.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (12:19):
I know.
And there was one

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2025 (12:21):
I don't know if I'd say short of,
I don't know,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (12:25):
You're welcome.
For

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2025 (12:26):
I just remember.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110 (12:27):
Dwayne.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (12:28):
Thank you.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (12:29):
It cost a lot.
I still remember that day.
No.
Um,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25 (12:35):
Bless.
Bless it.
Scarred.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (12:37):
I don't know.
There's so many.
Um hmm.
Well, I think, way back, I, Idon't know if it was me actually
doing something or me just goingalong with it, but, very first
market, um.
Where we spent a whole lot ofmoney we didn't have.

(12:58):
And I about threw up in the backof the car on the way back home
realizing, oh shit,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (13:06):
Yeah, I know that.
I know that's true.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (13:08):
are we going to pay for this?
But we did in our, in our littletiny weedy building, we made it
work.
But um,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (13:17):
Yeah.
Speaking of,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (13:18):
it was a lot.
That was, I think the same year.
Was that the god darn year?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (13:25):
no, I think that that,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (13:26):
that like a year after?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (13:28):
was before.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (13:29):
shaved his

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (13:30):
That was back when we worked at
another business because, uh, wewere staying at the Omni at that
time.
And we've never stayed at thaton, on our, only because I know
that's where we always stayed.
And you know, except for thatone time that we did stay at the
other, um, where he did shavehis head,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (13:47):
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (13:47):
we say,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (13:51):
Yeah.
Okay.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (13:53):
um.
Speaking of that first building,a lot of people, like if they
followed us later on, they haveno idea.
And we've talked about like ournew beginning, our beginnings in
that little six, 600.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (14:04):
of that, right?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (14:04):
I do, I found it this week of our
little 600 square foot building.
And I'll post the link down inthe show notes below too, so you
can see.
Um, now listen, you can't be toojudgemental because we're really
spoiled now with technology andhow good cameras are.
So you have to remember thatthis was.
The beginning of 2010 when wewere painting this, or was it
2010?

(14:25):
Yeah, 2010 we were painting thisbuilding, so I'm sure it was a
iPhone then.
But if it was 16 years ago, itmight've been the first, the
first one.
the video's not very good, but,um,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (14:36):
a GoPro back then.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (14:38):
Lord, it, it was rough.
I was,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (14:40):
to hold it.
Nothing.
No.
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (14:43):
but uh, I think Dwayne, I think one
of your favorite memories ofwhen opening that store was.
Uh, her little sweet friend Toi.
mentioned that

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (14:52):
Oh yeah, yeah.
There's, there's two memoriesthere that she made us cookies
and they had their little logoon it, their little tag on it
that were very well done.
But I just drive up and, uh,wherever I've been, and she's
out there painting our frontdoor, and, uh, that's what true
friendship is literally paintingthe front door to make sure that

(15:14):
we get open.
And, how sweet is that?
And so when Stuart and I cameback in, the first face that I
saw and I honed in on was Toi.
And what I said to all thepeople that were there last week
when we had our celebration was.
You were the face that was thereat the beginning and you're the
face there, there today.

(15:35):
And that says something aboutyour, uh, friendship and, um,
love for us.
And I appreciate that and Ireally did mean that because,
uh, what a blessing to havethat.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-2 (15:45):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (15:46):
And the other one that that always
stands out is when we were inthe very first location in this
hallway that was a really,probably three feet wide, you
were looking at this littleglass door, and I keep seeing,
uh, Nancy k uh, out, out thefront door.
I see her little face and she'salways been always there.
But I, I was like, what ablessing.
Again, these people were

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (16:07):
see

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (16:07):
with.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (16:07):
front window.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (16:09):
Yeah, she's said a little tiny short
little thing.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, her claim to fame is she'sborn on the 4th of July and her
dad, she was an army brat.
And, uh, wherever they werestationed, the fireworks, her
dad would say, uh, the fireworkswere for her.
That that was her, her day forher birthday, they were
celebrating her birthday, and Ialways thought that was so

(16:29):
sweet.
But, uh.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (16:30):
that is sweet, but can you imagine
the time that she finds out thatthey're not for her and, and how
they've lied

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (16:37):
I, you know, I think she's
probably, I don't think sheknows.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (16:43):
Well,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (16:43):
don't

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (16:44):
that's

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (16:44):
met Nancy.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (16:45):
partly true.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (16:46):
You know,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (16:47):
yeah, yeah.
I just don't think she knows.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (16:49):
it's like our

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (16:49):
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (16:50):
told her daughter that Walt Disney
World was not a real place.
It was.
It was just a place made for tv

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (16:56):
was just

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (16:56):
Oh, that's cruel.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (16:58):
never go

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (16:58):
I.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110 (16:59):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25 (17:01):
Funny, funny, cruel, but funny.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (17:05):
Well, it's funny speaking of Nancy,
one of the other videos.
So, you know, after we were inthat first location for a year,
um, and my, one of my favoritestories of, you know, when we
got the first place it was 600square feet,$600 a month rent.
I remember saying, what if wedon't make$600 a in a month?
Stuart was like, if we don'tmake$600 a day, we're screwed.

(17:27):
And I'm like, oh, okay.
Okay.
And then when we moved down justa little bit's when we doubled
in space, so we were what, 1200square feet?
Um, we did a moving video forthat and, and I'll put these
links down'cause they're reallyfun and you'll see how baby-ish
we were the Lord, it was so longago.
but Nancy and her daughter,Sarah were in one of the videos

(17:48):
helping us paint.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (17:49):
Love it.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (17:50):
it's just like, you know, these
people that have been aroundthat it really is like a family
that we've had for all theseyears.
and try to be, uh, not take,take things for granted.
And this is one of the things Iknow, like on my giant Jay,
whenever that is, hopefullymany, many, many moons from now.
but I'm gonna look back and I'mgonna be so thankful and, and
think about all the, thewonderful moments and all the

(18:11):
people.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (18:12):
Well, IR as now you're starting to
talk, like with the firstlocation, it was so small, there
was no storage.
And remember getting shipmentsand having to open them in the
back door because there's there,there's no place to open it
inside.
Right?
And thankfully, God shined onus.
And, uh, many, many, manybeautiful days.

(18:34):
And I remember having to openstuff in the rain.
Isn't that funny?
Like how you, how, how?
He took care of us and it was,um, I don't ever remember
getting big shipments in it,being on a blustery, rainy,
snowy day.
I'm sure there was.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (18:48):
oh

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (18:49):
do you?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (18:50):
uh,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (18:51):
Yeah.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (18:51):
was

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (18:51):
I mean, oh.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (18:52):
we have 22 boxes.
Which for which for that storewas a huge shipment

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (18:59):
Yeah.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (19:00):
to open

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25 (19:00):
That's true.
We probably weren't getting 18pallets like we get there.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (19:05):
Right,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (19:06):
It's.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (19:07):
It's like, I'll just put six of'em
over there.
We'll get to'em.
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (19:11):
You know,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (19:11):
was, it had to be open

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-2 (19:12):
another

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (19:13):
Do you remember you bought the tent
and we we did a, we did hands-onclasses in, in the back of it.
Outside.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (19:20):
we bought that

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (19:21):
Yeah.
Look, we did what we, and it wasfun, right?
It wasn't, it wasn't bad.
It was just creative.
And we're literally sitting inan industrial, I.
A shipyard of crap and stuff,but

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (19:31):
Oh,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (19:32):
here we are sch slipping our flowers
and people showed up and supportus and we've made it work, and
it was fun.
I don't remember it being anegative at all.
I

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (19:38):
the building we were in was next to
an hvac, mechanical, property.
Right?
That was the guy that actuallyowned our, the space that we
rented from.
That was actually what hisbusiness was.
And between our building and hisbuilding right next door that
kind of housed his office andthings like that, there was a
driveway.
And that driveway between thetwo buildings went back to where

(20:00):
their forklifts would go andwould load, like heavy, make
heavy, like.
Ducted work and all this stuffback there.
And here we are with, with thisrough tin that I'm sure had more
holes in it that did havefabric.
The shield just from the sun.
And we back there with all the,the, our wooden church seats.
I don't know where we got thosefrom.
I don't know where we boughtthose.
We still have'em to this day.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1 (20:19):
Bryant's.
They were, they

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (20:21):
Oh, they were, they were close.
They were selling William.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (20:23):
and I got'em for a dollar a chair.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (20:25):
We put those back there and we'd be
teaching a seminar, talking topeople, and here comes this
forklift just blowing by BurningRoad.
Oh

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (20:40):
Okay,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (20:41):
we

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (20:41):
now we're moving on.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (20:42):
Yeah.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (20:43):
we're moving on up.
Wheezy, we've moved into now thefront of Cowgirl's attic, if
anybody can remember that one.
A lot of people forget aboutthat one too.
Right?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-2 (20:52):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (20:53):
the, the standouts for me are, but I
did love it.
We had a bird birdcage with thegolden girls.
Birds in little finches.
Is that where they finch,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (21:03):
No,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (21:03):
where birds that were.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (21:04):
yet.
Yeah, we didn't have that yet.
We had bird cages, but we didn'thave'em with birds in them.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (21:08):
We didn't, we didn't have livestock
until we moved to Walton Avenue.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (21:13):
Oh.
Hmm.
Well, okay, well then anotherstory is, uh, bless her heart.
Uh, is well, okay, is cowgirl,um.
There was these little frozenmeals called mama mic's that
cost a dollar.
And sometimes when retail, youdon't get to go out and have
lunch.
So I remember I put'em back inthe freezer and then they'd be
gone.

(21:33):
And I know that Stuart didn'teat it, I know Jeremy didn't eat
it, Cow girl would take my mymama mic's and eat them.
She would steal my meals and eatthem.
But then the other was findingout, um, Stuart can be, uh,
frugal.
That's why we've built theempire here.
Uh, but he will pay for a meal.
He'll, he'll buy some goodbourbon and he'll buy the best

(21:56):
toilet paper in the world.
So if you use our potty, youwill get charm, inized.
And so Charmin is the thing.
So even then, we were living onpennies a day.
We had good toilet paper andcowgirl.
I do believe she helped herselfto some of the, the toilet paper
and took it home.
I don't know why.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (22:14):
a doubt.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (22:15):
With a doubt.
So I found it be peculiar.
I mean, she owns the building,right?
We're renting from her,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (22:21):
Right.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (22:21):
she's like, I'll take this.
I'll take this toilet paper.
I'm like, really?
Really?

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (22:26):
Yeah,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (22:26):
Oh well.
But she was a peculiar littlebird.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (22:31):
You know, when we doubled in space,
it felt like we had so muchroom.
I mean, it was, you know,everything was wide opening
except for those like two frontbays.
Whereas that front, the

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (22:40):
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (22:40):
we had were small.
Every room we had was small.
Right?
It didn't matter what you put inthere, it was tight.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (22:44):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (23:09):
It was the first time she'd ever
found us.
She's like, is something goingon?
We're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (23:15):
Yeah.
Their hears is Love us.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (23:16):
was, and

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (23:19):
Well, um, the,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03 (23:20):
obsession with, uh, large cash wraps.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (23:24):
Uh.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (23:24):
oh, yeah, yeah,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (23:25):
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (23:26):
we

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (23:26):
yeah, yeah, yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-2 (23:27):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (23:29):
working out.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (23:30):
could get behind a cash ramp.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-2 (23:31):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (23:31):
Well, I love that one room where we,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (23:33):
stands

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (23:34):
we took pages of books'cause we had
no money.
Plus it was an aesthetic backthen too.
And we decoupaged the wallswith, book pages.
Right.
It was a fun room.
Right.
I think it was a, a fun littleaesthetic and.
You know, we're, Stuart and I, Iguess we all did it together.
I'm not sure how, how thathappened, but, um, got in
trouble with the, uh, a retiredlibrarian.

(23:55):
'cause apparently one of thebooks that we destroyed and, and
Depa was little women.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (24:01):
Oh,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (24:01):
And so she saw that, remember that?
And she was, oh, she was justnot having that.
And I was like, I, I don't know.
We said or did.
I was like, well, I did sitthere and do it on purpose.
It's just a book.
Right.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (24:16):
Well,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (24:16):
When I said that

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (24:17):
It was an old book.
It

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (24:17):
it was Yeah, yeah, yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03- (24:18):
heirloom or like

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25 (24:20):
Right, right.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-2 (24:21):
edition or anything like

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (24:22):
No,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (24:23):
Digest

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-2 (24:23):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25 (24:24):
that's exactly what they were.
I mean, they were, we boughtthese books for a quarter.
Right.
But she was, and I just remembersaying, well.
Lord, she just, I like, I didn'tdo this on purpose.
If you want, you know, if I wantyou want the book, I'll take it
back off the the wall and giveit to you.
But it was a fun room.
I just remember that being kindof a fun, fun aesthetic.
But, uh, anyway, good times.

(24:44):
Good times.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (24:45):
the, the street from the
International Book Project, so Ialso think we got a lot of,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (24:49):
Yes, yes.
Yeah, I forgot about that.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (24:51):
Book

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (24:51):
Yep.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (24:52):
would come over and they liked the

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (24:54):
Oh,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (24:54):
the feel of it.
But then when they was, whenthey saw, I mean, I can't even
say that I knew it was littlewomen till after until somebody
pointed it out.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (25:02):
No, I didn't.
No, I was, it wasn't done onpurpose.
I wanna go back to our, our,let's go, let's go back up to,
um, 15 steps away from our firstlocation.
Literally, they were beside eachother, right?
They were how far away?
Um,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (25:15):
feet, I think.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (25:15):
Yeah,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (25:16):
160 feet.
Right.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (25:19):
Six,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25 (25:19):
Again, we didn't.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110 (25:20):
spaces.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (25:21):
Six parking spaces away.
I'm going back to the first onejust because, uh, we had to have
a van to deliver stuff, soStuart bought

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (25:29):
Oh,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (25:29):
van.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (25:30):
yes.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (25:30):
Yeah.
Tell, tell the audience what youbought for us Stuart, and how
much it cost.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (25:34):
one of, uh, uh, my very good friends
owned a, um, or still owns aflooring store.
Her father sold me one of theircarpet vans, and if you know
what a carpet van is, it'sbasically a white van that has
like five extra feet added ontothe back of it welded on, so it

(25:54):
hangs way far over those tires.
And he sold it to us for verycheap because he said we knew we
were getting started.
So that's what we drove.
And we actually used it asstorage too for a while.
Remember there was a hole in thefloorboard of the passenger

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (26:11):
That's,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (26:12):
I

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25 (26:12):
that's what sticks out.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (26:13):
piece of wood.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (26:14):
Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (26:15):
that piece of wood's

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (26:16):
at

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (26:16):
wet.
I

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (26:17):
At your foot.
Yeah.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (26:19):
You'll be like Fred Flintstone if you
take that piece of board off thefloor.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (26:22):
Well,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (26:22):
well, the reason it stood out is it,
does it, it we had, we had thisvan with a floor, the hole in
the floorboard that stood out.
But also, uh, reason I tell thisstory is how kind, uh, Gordon
was to us and took care.
He really is.
And he offered us storage forfree.
Look, there are people, there'sluck, there's kindness.
People offered us things.

(26:43):
And so one of my, um.
Loyalties in life is rerecalling those things and
people in our lives.
And so they own a, a retailstore that's carpeting.
It's like, it's not that I don'tthink there's other carpeting
places out there and don't do agood job, but it's because
Gordon took care of us.
And when I have an opportunityto go get carpeting and tile and

(27:06):
floor.
That's where I go because you,you know what, uh, that's what
you do when people, when you,they pick you up when you're,
when you need it the most.
Right?
And we've had that time, aftertime after time that, you know,
you go back and say thank you inthat way.
And what it goes back to is, isa segue in that there was, um, a

(27:26):
mechanic across the street fromus.
Again, you have to understandthat we we're the very
industrial road, right?

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (27:31):
Yeah.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (27:31):
And it was, uh, named, Charlie's
right.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_ (27:33):
Charlie's.
Yeah, Charlie.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (27:35):
And so, uh, Jimmy, who owned
Charlie's.
So Charlie was the uncle, andthey originally from, Palestine.
And, it was Charlie's but.
Now Jimmy's running this place,and as I get into the
conversation, he was helping us,I think, on the van that was on
his deathbed, and he was takingcare of it and charging us very,

(27:56):
very little or doing somethingfor us.
Phenomenal, nominal, if itdidn't even.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (28:01):
four bolts in to hold it back
together.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (28:03):
Yeah, I mean, he, he took a, again,
another person that took usunder our wings and was kind to
us that, uh, started talking tohim.
And he's then shared the storyof learning English when he
moved to the States and he livedin Detroit and he learned to
speak English, watching, um, thelong ranger.
Isn't it funny?

(28:24):
But, and I said, well, that's sofunny.
I said, in, in Lexington it'sbecome more and more diverse.
But at that time, in the, whatwas this, the eighties when we
opened, not even when we opened.
Um, anyway,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (28:35):
2010.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (28:37):
you had a business way before that,
but not.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (28:39):
The,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (28:39):
you

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2025 (28:40):
I don't, I.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (28:41):
in 1990.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (28:42):
There's a lot of blurs here.
Anyway,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (28:44):
Oh,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (28:45):
anyway, I didn't know a lot of people
from Palestine and I said, well,I've worked with a lady and her
name is Rema and a decorate forher.
Well, Rema is the sister of,Jimmy.
And I was like, how random wasthat?
And how he then took us underhis wing and took care of us was
very, very kind.
And so I still go to thatmechanic and I still, and now,,

(29:06):
Chris's son has taken over thedealership or the, the
mechanical, what is it called?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (29:13):
The, the, the shop.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (29:15):
The shop Thank you words.
Uh, and I, I still use him.
A mechanic.
Thank you.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (29:22):
Here

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2025 (29:22):
I still use them because of that
loyalty, that kindness that hisdad extended to us 15 years ago.
And again, it goes back to, youknow, we've had people put their
hand out and it's just thisrecurring theme of helping us,
um, when they didn't have to andthey did.
Right.
It really is that situation.
So, good story.

(29:43):
Good story.
Where are we now?
What, what business have wemoved to?
Are we now, are we moving up to,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (29:48):
moving

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (29:48):
we moving to Walton?

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (29:50):
Yeah.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2025 (29:51):
I have on a Pinterest board, I
call that Pinterest board ofideas of what I wanted the store
to look like.
I call it

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110 (29:58):
Wheezy.
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25 (30:00):
moving on up.
And, uhStuartrt, yet again, uh,was a visionary.
And so this was an up and comingindustrial area that have just
been.
Developed and he said, I thinkwe can move here.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (30:15):
a

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (30:16):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he believed it.
He saw, he had the vision, andI'm like, okay, if you think
it's good.
Okay.
Right.
I don't know what else.
I don't know if Jeremy pushedback or question it, but I'm
like, okay.
Right.
It felt, it felt okay, didn'tit?
It felt okay.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (30:31):
Yeah.
We were moving to the 02, whichis like the higher end zip code
in our little area

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (30:36):
it's like rodeo Drive

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (30:38):
Yes.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (30:39):
We were moving to the other side of
the, the train tracks, which wasthe right

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (30:42):
It literally, literally,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (30:44):
of the tracks.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (30:45):
um.
But a fun, fun place that garagedoor loved open, you know, had,
you know, this hasn't had, whenwe were there, this massive
garage door has, uh, a bigpicture window if you, if you
will.
It had a side door, but thisgarage door was our picture
window and we could open it upin the spring and, uh, fall when

(31:06):
Kentucky's so beautiful.
And I just loved that littlefeel, that vibe of, uh, being
able to push that button andopen that garage door.
And I do remember.
The day that we left that, uh, Ionly can see Jeremy's face.
I don't know sure it was thereor not, but I remember we did a
little videotape of us pushingthe button the last time and
closing

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (31:25):
I

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (31:25):
that.
Do you remember that?
Yeah.
That was, that was a pivotalmoment because I felt like
leaving that location was alittle tough.
'cause I really loved beingthere.
Uh, it was time, you know,because of.
Rent increases and we were

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (31:40):
Double

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (31:41):
outta room.
Yeah, yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (31:43):
Yeah.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (31:43):
right.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (31:44):
And we needed more room.
So it was, uh, it was a, a footon our, our kind of butt kind of
pushing us.
But yeah, dubbing doubling ourrent.
And that was just, um.
It just wasn't reasonable.
It just wasn't gonna happen.
But I do love that now.
It was always tight.
We having the parking there,always struggling with parking,
always struggling with parking.

(32:04):
I just remember it being such anightmare, that part of the
puzzle.
Um, I don't know if, guys, I'vetold you this story.
But after we moved to our fourthlocation that we're in right
now, which is, you know, much,much, much bigger.
I have this lady that comes inand she says, now she puts me on
the spot, which I don't know whyyou do.
She's, you don't remember me, doyou?
And I'm not gonna lie to you.

(32:25):
And it's like, Nope, nope.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110 (32:26):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (32:27):
nope.
So she turns around, she kind ofsticks her butt up in the air.
In retail, you see a lot ofthings and you experience a lot
of unusual things, but you don'tusually get somebody turn around
and kind of stick their booty upin the air, do you?
That's just not

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (32:39):
no, not the norm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (32:40):
and I not norm, not the norm.
So I said, uh, why did you dothat?
She said, well, since you didn'trecognize my face, I thought
you'd recognize my ass.
And I was like, oh, okay.
Again, I don't understand whyyou said it.
And she said, well, the otherstore was so small and every
time I was getting something, itwas shoved under her table
shoved.
And she said My ass was up inthe air all the time.

(33:02):
So I thought she just, I waslike, wow.
Okay.
No.
No, I didn't.
No, it's a true story.
True story.
And it makes sense.
'cause you know, we did havestuff just shoved everywhere in
the, in the Walton, uh, avenue.
But I was like, well, sherehearsed and was prepared for
that conversation.

squadcaster-h80d_1_ (33:18):
hysterical.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (33:19):
uh, the other one, Jeremy was at
your birthday, but it was a, youknow, a beautiful day.
I think it was your birthday.
Anyway, the garage door is openfor sure, and let's say it was
about two o'clock and I had notbeen at the store that day.
And I come in and I walk in.
Through the garage door that'sopen, beautiful day, that day.
And I think there was this soundand I was like, what in the

(33:43):
world?
And he was coming from the back,back of the store, from our
kitchen.
And I go back there and thereyou are with Suzanne Linda and
yourself and the ladies hadbought you, um, what is it, a
Dai Green machine or a.
Or Margarita machine for hisbirthday, and they were making
margaritas.
Now, there was nobody out front,they weren't paying attention.

(34:05):
Nobody was still in the store,but they were back there and
they were half sloshed.
And I was like, what are y'alldoing?
It's my birthday.
And they were like, Hey, youwant one?
It's like, yeah, no, I'll goback out front and watch the
store while you get drunk atwork.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (34:18):
I

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (34:19):
True story.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03- (34:19):
machine, by the way.
And it's at

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (34:20):
Of course you do.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (34:21):
above the, the fridge.
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (34:24):
We gotta break that thing out,
don't we?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03 (34:25):
Sabrina's always ready to use it.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (34:27):
is.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (34:28):
she's

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (34:29):
I'd know if I'd known you had one of
those, I wouldn't have broughtmy ninja.
That's what she said the otherday,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (34:33):
oh, that's right.
'cause she did bring that withthe, when, when she made her
bullfrogs.
Yeah.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (34:37):
Yeah.
Oh.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (34:41):
Oh, yay, yay.
Nothing like a gr, a drunk, uh,business partner in employees.
It's great.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (34:47):
you know, there's, I know that there
are many people that, uh, havecame and been part of, uh, our.
Journey story or our company orbusiness, whatever you, you
know, whatever you wanna callit, along the line.
But I, and some of them have,have gone either, uh, they moved
away or death or, you know,things like that.
But we have so many peoplewho've been with us for so long.

(35:10):
I am the only word and it's notthe right word, but the word
that comes to me is humbling inthe sense that, um.
You know, Kim did this video ofus, like if we had anything to
say.
And one of this is just a, apersonal view of like, part of
our, our journey on this planetis, you know, finding our

(35:30):
people, finding our, our tribe.
Um, and we have been soridiculously fortunate in
finding our

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (35:40):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (35:42):
that, that may sound really, that
phrase may sound really weird.
'cause if you've never.
your people or you found themand then, and you've had to move
on and, and you feel kinda lost.
that's the one thing that sincethis whole thing started, never
felt lost.
And, uh, it's, it's always beenthe right home.
And

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (36:02):
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (36:03):
I'm, I'm

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (36:03):
there's Judy Cox, Wilma, Cheney, Kate, I
never know hundred percent hername.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (36:09):
Tti, which is now Cini,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (36:12):
the only

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (36:13):
Oh Lord.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (36:14):
went from a maiden name.
That was incredibly difficult toa married name.
That's even harder.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2025 (36:18):
I was like, dunno what to say that
one.
Oh gosh.
What's uh, name dropping?
Those were

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (36:25):
Well,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (36:25):
instant flashes and

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (36:27):
to.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (36:27):
yeah, of course.
Toi.
Um.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (36:29):
we could go on forever.
I mean, there's, there's, Imean, Linda, well, Linda Gilker
was, you know, in our lives

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (36:35):
Oh yeah.
Shout out to Linda Gilker.
Oh my gosh.
Absolutely.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (36:38):
Yeah.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (36:39):
Yes, she did, didn't she?

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110 (36:41):
myself.
See,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (36:42):
did.
I forgot about that.
Yes, I forgot about that.
That's funny.
That's funny.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (36:47):
Yeah.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (36:48):
was in the auction item He was
offering up design services, um,because of the, the organization
was very dear to his heart andthis lovely lady, uh, Linda
Gilker, they were moving here,building a house and she bought
him and his services and theyhave been together ever since.
That's a great story.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (37:04):
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (37:05):
Uh uh.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (37:06):
mine is, mine's with, uh.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110 (37:08):
almost.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (37:09):
Oh gosh.
Yeah.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (37:10):
the whole

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (37:11):
Yeah.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (37:11):
Well,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (37:12):
yep, yep.
Yep.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (37:13):
when we were at Walton.
Yeah, I think, yeah, I thinkthat we were around a couple
years before she came.
I.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (37:18):
So, do you know this story with her?
That there was this lady thatcame in and she wanted to, have
a job to make flowerarrangements.
I was like, I ain't got nomoney.
I'll make flower arrangements.
Jerry, make flower arrangements.
Well, you gott got no money,right?
So, but she came back and shewas somewhat persistent and it's
like two or three times.
So I was like, okay.
Yeah, somewhat persistent.
Yeah, pushy.

(37:39):
And so I finally, I finally tookher name and number and I put it
in my phone.
Well, I am not good with names.
That's a, a, a real flaw withme.
So I knew I was not gonna everremember her name, so I put her
in my phone under florals.
Right.
It's a true story.
And so I was like, well, ifanybody, so when somebody, you

(38:00):
said, uh, Stuart, well we, wemight need help making flower
arrangements.
I said, well, I've got thislady, well, what's her name?
They're like, I don't know.
I.
But I got her my phone florals.
So for only, only the last twoor three years, so for like 12
plus years, she actuallytechnically still in there, but
under, under that, it comes up.

(38:22):
Not Joanna, it comes up underfloral.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (38:25):
Oh, I had no idea.
That's hysterical.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25 (38:28):
That's hysterical, isn't it?
She, and what an i, what animpact she's made on her lives.
But yeah, uh, it's an employeewith no name and an awful.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (38:37):
Yeah.
I, I have people like that in myphone still, like, well, Billy
and Lisa, when Lisa calls ortexts, it's Lisa, Billy's
girlfriend.
That's what it says in my phone.
'cause I could never rememberher last name and they've been
married for 12 years.
But

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (38:52):
Oh, that's funny.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110 (38:53):
Billy's girlfriend.
So, yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (38:56):
Well, I think, um, this has probably
have been enough of us goingdown memory lane,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (39:01):
we didn't talk about our new
location for two minutes.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (39:03):
Well, what do you wanna say about it?

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (39:06):
Uh, well this is the one where I
thought Stuart actually justbatshit lost his mind on this
one.
And because, uh.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (39:13):
Mm.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (39:13):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Look at that.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (39:15):
real judgy.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (39:17):
I,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (39:17):
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25 (39:18):
didn't think so.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (39:19):
Yeah.
No.
Well, you didn't.
I did on this one.
I, you know what?
And to be it fair, I didn'twanna move from the other
location that was,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (39:25):
that.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (39:26):
was more, not about this one, it was
more, I didn't wanna move fromthe other one.
'cause I love, you know

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2025 (39:31):
I don't

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (39:32):
how I told you I love.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (39:32):
to.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (39:33):
Yeah, but I had a tough time with that
one, but it wasn't a choice.
We had to do something.
Right.
But, you know, just because youhave to do something doesn't
mean you want to do it.
Uh, but uh, it goes back to,actually, it's a Linda, Linda
Gilker and Ray Gilker storyabout, we had just moved in and
and it flooded.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (39:53):
Oh

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (39:54):
Do you remember that one?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (39:55):
We moved in May.
Um,'cause I was on vacation.
That's the only reason I knowthat, um, I, we were in May and
that happened the week beforeChristmas in July

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (40:05):
Okay.
Okay.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (40:06):
we had, we just, we had barely
started.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (40:09):
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (40:10):
And, um, it, we came as heavy
downpour and the, uh, the drainin the back was clogged.
We were not aware of that,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (40:17):
The

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (40:18):
uh, in the, in the city drain and it
just poured and where we are,the water just came through and
then it came in the back garagedoor and it just rushed up.
Dwayne and I were there, we werealmost getting

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (40:28):
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (40:28):
close

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (40:29):
we had

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (40:30):
and,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (40:30):
two inches of water in

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (40:31):
and Dwayne's like, oh, I think this
is gonna be a problem.
This is gonna be a problem.
And he is like, we need to goback here and look.
And I go back and look at, herecomes the water.
It's like you're on the Titanic,it's rushing in the side of the
door.
I thought, oh God, we're goingdown.
um, yeah, no, so we, of coursethe floor is not level.
Um,'cause I guess the floorsjust aren't, and so in different
areas it was anywhere between,you know, less than an inch to

(40:52):
an inch and a half.
would say thick.
I.
With

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (40:55):
But within,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (40:56):
Yeah.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (40:57):
uh, no time.
I don't know how they knew.
Uh, Linda, and, Ray were therewith, mops and Shop vx and
Carrie, was here.
I, I can't remember other

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (41:06):
hay

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (41:06):
who was

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (41:07):
Hayden was here.
Brown was

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (41:10):
yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (41:10):
Yeah.
We, that's

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (41:11):
I

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (41:12):
See?

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (41:13):
was here as well.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (41:14):
Uhhuh

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (41:15):
yeah.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (41:16):
'cause she was just

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (41:16):
Yep.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (41:17):
by and then all of a sudden it
happened and she didn't wannaget her pearls wet, so then she
started mopping.
So

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (41:23):
But that happened right before we
closed, like, we'll say like 4,4 15, something like that.
Like, I just remember it wasclose to the time and I wanna
think by like 6 30, 7 o'clock,we had that place dry,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (41:35):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (41:36):
you

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (41:36):
was amazing.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25 (41:37):
square feet.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_11010 (41:39):
Yeah.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (41:39):
you know, I can't remember how many
damn, uh,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (41:42):
Oh,

squadcaster-h80d_1_03- (41:43):
Swiffer, uh,'cause after mopping it all
up, then you know, it's alldirty.
So then you have to like cleanit with and

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (41:48):
it

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (41:48):
oh my Lord.
We bought every store out thatwe could, could that was just
trying to clean.
yeah.
And those people, all thosepeople are still around.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (41:56):
They are still

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (41:57):
Yeah.
Lovely people.
People.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (42:00):
How long have we been here so far in
this location?

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (42:04):
Six years.
This, well, it'll be seven inApril,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25 (42:09):
Seven.
Yeah.
And it just seems like a, ohLord, here we go again.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (42:14):
No, no, no.
I'm just trying.
Is it?
I thought it was more than that.
I thought it would be eight.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (42:19):
I think.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (42:20):
Oh, we moved in.
Dad died in

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (42:23):
Is this based on your open date or
his open date?

squadcaster-h80d_1_03- (42:26):
asshole.
Dad died in two.
Dad died in 2018 and he got tovisit the store once that
spring, so it would've been.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (42:35):
So this is year seven.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (42:37):
yeah.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (42:38):
will be year seven.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (42:40):
Okay.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (42:42):
Okay.
Well it's been more than tworight?

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (42:44):
Next week.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (42:45):
Next week.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_1101 (42:45):
years.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (42:47):
you know what, what just thought of
is when you said that about yourdad, then I, I pivoted to, in my
head about, Jeremy, your, yourgranny that you love so much
and, she would always, bring inpeanut butter roll and peanut
butter fudge for us, when shewas able for years and years and
years and years for us to, forour open houses to, to feed us.

(43:07):
And

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (43:08):
tasty

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (43:08):
tell you.
Give out tasty treat.
Oh Lord, yeah.
So what people may not know,again, it bases on much of what
we try to do is based on loveand memories and family.
Tell'em the story of about thethe peanut butter fudge recipe.
That what you do for people buystuff online.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (43:28):
Well,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (43:29):
this.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (43:29):
know, um, people always loved granny's
fudge and they would always comein.
And so she died I guess in, thespring.
And so that Christmas in July,that summer was the first, uh,
time that we had had an eventwhen she wasn't around.
And I remember people coming inand asking for her fudge, and I
remember that.
I would be like, oh, she's dead.

(43:50):
Like it was, well, you know, youtry to find the, you have to
deal with the humor when youcan.
Right?
So, um, and of course thentheir, their faces would be kind
of horrid and that would kindashut'em down from asking
anymore.
But then when it came toChristmas, um.
That Christmas season, Ithought, you know, granny loved,
like her joy in life was foodfor feeding people.
Like that was her, like nothingmade her happier than at

(44:13):
Christmas with a house that was,you know, 1200 square feet with.
people in it.
Um, this is what brought herjoy, right?
Feeding them all, you know,country hym and Turkey and the
dressing and all of it.
And, um, while it was mypersonal hell, I knew it was
what brought her joy.
And so that's always whatbrought me joy, um, was knowing

(44:33):
that she was doing what shewanted.
And so I wanted to honor her.
And so when it came toChristmas, I thought it's a
shame for her.
Peanut butter fudge to endbecause it was really a really
simple recipe and it's kind offoolproof and all that.
And I thought, well, I willstart including that recipe in
with online order.
So when we get to November, Ihave the cards printed up and on
the front of the card it has thestory about granny and how she

(44:56):
would make, peanut butter fudgefall of her special events.
And so this was just my way ofhonoring her and continuing her
legacy of, you know.
Bringing food, bringing sweetsto, to every around.
So that's included in all of ourholiday orders.
And then we have'em in the storeso people can have'em.
'cause people still ask about,they always talk about granny's
fudge.
So, um, I know that's one of thethings that she's, she enjoys a

(45:18):
lot up there, uh,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-2 (45:20):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25 (45:22):
butter fudge continue on.
So Sweet Granny,

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-2 (45:25):
Love it.
Yeah.
Sweet stories, good life builton love, family, friendship, uh,
and, um,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (45:34):
bit of

squadcaster-ga1j_1_0 (45:34):
apparently sailing your body.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25 (45:36):
Right.
Put

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-20 (45:38):
Oh.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-20 (45:38):
out there, find your people, and
when all else fails, sell yourbody.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25- (45:42):
Yeah,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (45:44):
It

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (45:44):
Do what you, it works

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25-202 (45:45):
it works.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-202 (45:46):
As always, everybody, thank you for
listening to this week'sepisode.
We'll be back next week with thefun new one.
If you have not downloaded ourHouseFloral shopping app, be
sure to do that.
The links are down in the notesbelow.
Um, we will see you all againsoon.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (46:00):
And I am gonna end it with one thing
that

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25- (46:02):
Yeah,

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (46:02):
the, all the girls after our little
party, I sent them a very, athank you for 15 years and I
said, here's the 15 more,however, I'll be retired.

squadcaster-ga1j_1_03-25 (46:12):
Click, click, click.

squadcaster-h80d_1_03-25-2 (46:15):
well till then, you can find us here
every week.
We'll see y'all next week.
Bye.

stuart_1_03-25-2025_110109 (46:19):
Bye.