May 6, 2025 • 48 mins
The hosts discuss their recent experience at the High Point Furniture Market and share the emerging design trends they observed, focusing on earthy tones, mixing antiques with modern pieces, and the return of patterns in upholstery.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm here, Buckle up and get in baby.
This is going to be a fast ride.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Uh-huh, you late today too, but I'm going to let
it slide.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It has been quite the week Coming up.
In this episode we're going totalk about the High Point
Furniture Market, though, andthe trends we saw.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving Beep, beep,
beep, beep.
So I'm here I don't actuallyknow how I'm here, but I am here
(00:29):
, and we got another busy weekcoming up.
So, since last week, in thelast week we went to the High
Point Furniture Market, had alot of fun, saw a lot of great
things, ordered a lot of greatthings, and your granddad died,
yes.
So then my granddad passed away.
He was 95, lived a great fulllife, and you know what's
(00:52):
impressive?
I hope I got his genetics.
I just really hope.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I think you did.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I hope so, because he was sharp as a tack, which I'm
not sharp as a tack as we start,so that could be where it goes
wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That could be bad.
Yeah, you could linger a longtime.
You're not going to know beansand peas.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
He was still running his plumbing business, yeah, and
that sort of thing and keepingthe family in check.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yes, I mean he could get everybody in check.
From what I understand, yeahabsolutely For sure.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
But such a great man and it was funny going back to
the funeral, you know, andhearing the stories and how they
were saying like he could still, because he had the plumbing
business, his whole you knowadult life or whatever, and we
live in a small town, covington,tennessee, and how to this day
he could remember where everypipe was like, if he had
(01:48):
installed it or something.
If you called him he'd be likeoh, it's in this wall over here
or it's over you know this manyfeet in the ground over here.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Like he could still but I can kind of see that
because, like when you do things, I'm very you're talking about
me.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I could remember, like when you do something like
I could go to my, my house Ihaven't been in for 10 years and
I could tell you exactly wherethings are, because I was there,
either did it or instructedsomeone to do it, um, but think
of doing that for like, yearsand years and years.
Yeah, but I think your mindwould just be no, yeah, you
(02:27):
would kind of just.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I guess so.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But was it a celebration?
It was very good.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It was good.
So I was at the High PointFurniture Market and then my
grandfather passed away.
I was back for two days.
Then I flew home and I was onlythere for Two days, two and a
half days or whatever.
Well, last night, well, I wassupposed to get home at 945 and
I didn't get home until 2 ambecause of travel delays with
(02:55):
storms and that sort of thing.
And this is the one time.
I do not remember any othertime in my life that Daniel has
actually taken me to the airport, no matter how long I'm usually
gone a day or 10,.
I will take my own car and parkand pay the parking.
Oh yeah, he took you.
(03:16):
So he took me to the airportbecause he was like I might need
your truck because I have thehitch on it.
I might need the trailer whileyou're gone or I might get some
mulch or something like that.
I'll just take you.
And I was like OK.
And I was like, and I get backat nine forty five at night.
He's like that's not too late,you know, because he's not a
night owl like me.
Well, he had to keep staying upand up to come pick me up at
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the airport, but he was a goodsport about it.
So I'm a little dragon today.
Dragon, A dragon.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
A dragon today.
Well, no, getting back to thefuneral I was hoping because he
was 95.
I mean, he lived a great life.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Great life.
So it was a good celebration.
And my aunts you know, my dadhas passed away, so my aunts
planned everything and it wentso well and they did it all in
one day, instead of having likea visitation one night and then
having to go back the next day.
But it was a long day becauseit started at 10 and didn't get
(04:18):
done until like 8 at night bythe time.
Wow, it was like familyvisitation and then everyone and
the funeral and it rainedreally bad that day and they
thought they weren't going to beable to have the graveside, but
then at the last minute itstopped raining but it was muddy
, but it all worked out.
But it was a lot of, you know,my other cousins some of them
(04:39):
told stories and it was it wasnice, it was great stories and
it was, it was nice, it wasgreat.
Yeah, did you tell a story?
I did not tell a story.
I, I, the, the, the malegrandchildren were all
pallbearers and then the girlsall read something or told
stories oh, that was nice.
Everyone had a part okay yeah,so I wasn't in the storytelling
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department.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oddly, I've met most, most of that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, and it was good .
Also, this is the first timeI've seen all of my cousins.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, we did Clay's wedding in New York City.
You and I did.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, and so I saw all of my cousins.
I forget how many of us thereare All at one time.
It's probably been like 15years since all of us have been
together.
Yeah, it was kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, it was crazy.
But and then when Clay gotmarried in New York is when I
met your Aunt, betsy.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Mm, hmm.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And I met your cousin Liz, yes, and your cousin Kim,
yes, and I remember we went toSerendipity.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
We did, and that was my first time going to New York
City.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yes, have we told the story?
Yeah, I think we have.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So my first time going to New York City I was
doing my cousin Clay.
He'd asked me he was gettingmarried, asked me to do the
flowers for it, and so I waslike, okay, I'll, you know, yes,
I'll do the flowers.
And I still own McDonald's,then and I, you know, was doing
everything at the store andgoing to drive them up there.
And I was going to drive themby myself.
(06:09):
I can't remember Daniel wasdoing something and I don't know
.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Originally I was going by myself, and then
Stephen, was like, and I hadsaid do you want me to go?
And you're like no, I'll befine.
Yeah, I was like OK, well, Imean I need to work anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, I was like, okay, well, I mean I needed work
anyway, yeah.
And then, like the day beforeLast minute, I was like I think
you need to come into this Morefor the flower situation than
the New York situation yeah, notthe New York, you weren't
scared.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I drove us through New York City like a cab driver
like a pro After I drove us 12hours to New York.
You take it in the city, but wedid good, it was fine.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
We drove the van to serendipity, didn't we?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
The Ronald McDonald van the white Ronald McDonald
van.
We talked about this because Ialmost got arrested.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
This is when we were on the way back, when Stephen
was hauling ass in Maryland.
If you're going throughMaryland, I guess that was on 95
.
Don't speed, because that'swhen Steven was pushed up
against the back of the vangetting frisked.
I was going 92 miles an hourthough.
Yeah, speaking of gettingfrisked and spread against the
(07:19):
back of the van, I have noticedsomething what?
Every time I travel, likeflying, when I walk through the,
you know the body scan there'salways.
I get flagged and there'salways a box over my crotch area
.
And they always have to frisk me.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Must be zipper.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That's what I'm like.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh you wear, but no, you wear zipper.
That's what I'm like.
Oh you wear, but no, you wearzipper.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh well, I wear.
We talked about that in lastweek's episode.
I'll do either button or zipper, but they're just normal pants.
Why wouldn't everybody getflagged?
I don't know, it happened onthe way there, on the way back.
Different pants, and it'shappened.
It happened at Christmas when Iwent.
I flew home, no-transcript,something, I don't know what,
(08:31):
but anyway I'm gonna have towatch that closely and determine
what it is.
So last week's episode wetalked about button or zipper,
and also your webcast debacle.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Embarrassing.
That was a debacle.
Yes, I've had many messages.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Our hotline blew up with both of those topics.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
So everyone knows about your it's so funny.
Everyone knows about yourwebcam and everyone has opinions
on button or zipper too.
Someone asked me on the hotlineso what is your?
Oh, the other thing we got wasbreeders we talked about
breeders.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Our listeners didn't know they were breeders.
Yes, a lot of people messaged,said I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
We were called breeders so I learned something
new.
We were called breeders so Ilearned something new.
But someone asked me on thehotline, saying they I'm
assuming this was a female theirco-worker came out of the
restroom or had been in therestroom, and she noticed that
his zipper was still down andpart of his boxers were pulled
(09:41):
through, you know, were stickingout, and so she wanted to know
what was our thoughts.
Should she have said somethingto him, yes, or just ignored it?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
No, always say something.
Just say check your fly.
Yeah, that's all you need tosay.
Yeah, you know, don't let thehorse out of the stable.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I mean whatever it is , I would just say yeah, like
you just simple, of the stable,I mean whatever it is.
But yeah, I would just say,yeah, like you just simple,
check your fly.
Yeah, hey, you may want tocheck your fly and then keep
walking or something and let himdie in embarrassment, but I was
like I would say something forthat.
Yeah, although it's awkward,I'm pretty good about telling
people if they have stuff intheir teeth.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, I'm pretty good about telling people if they
have stuff in their teeth.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, I do that.
I check your teeth because Idon't want to look at it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You got something really gross hanging right in
there, right there in the middle.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I don't mind telling, but I don't know, zipper, yeah,
I would tell people becauseit's just, I mean, it's not a
big deal.
It's not a big deal at all, notat all what you got over there
we got to talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We've got, you know, days of the week, some
Southern-isms.
You know we have that segment.
Oh, stephen's keeping.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
We're not letting it go.
Oh, you're not going to let itgo, okay, no it's very important
.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
This is a PSA for our listeners.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
If you visit the South.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
They're learning so much, or move here, you need to
know this.
Yeah, so if you're in the South, especially the country, we do
not have power bills or electricbills?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh, we have your light bill, the light bill, but
you got to say bill.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Light bill, light bill yeah, light bill Light
bills do.
My light bill went up.
I got to go pay the light bill,light bill.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, light bill, light bills do.
My light bill went up.
I got to go pay the light bill.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And if you think about it.
So I had this discussion withanother friend about light bill,
because she still says lightbill and I said you know, it
makes sense because when peoplefirst had power, that was what
they associated with the powerwas the lights Right, so it was
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the light bill and that's whatmy grandparents always called it
.
Close that door.
That light bill is going to beoutrageous.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Let us know in the comments or on our hotline what
you call it.
Is it light bill, or is itelectric bill or power bill?
I say power bill, I think I sayelectric.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I say power.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, we talked about this before and I say electric
and I think, because here oursis Duke electric, so I think I
just say electric bill, I justsay power bill, I just say
Powerbill.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You got that Powerbill's due.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Oh Lord, it's true.
What other Southernism have yougot?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
This is an obvious one, but one we really haven't
discussed, and it needs to be.
Is y'all?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Oh, y'all, but y'all.
Now I feel like has trickledall the way up.
Yeah, other people say y'all,but y'all, now I feel like has
trickled all the way up.
Yeah, other people say y'all.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Not the North, they don't.
They say you guys.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, some of them say y'all.
Now I've noticed like they'llsay y'all, but I don't
understand Very few Y'all istotally fine, because it is you
all, y'all.
It's a hyphen word.
Yeah, fine, because it is youall, y'all.
Hyphen word yeah.
Hyphenated word y'all, y'all.
You all is y'all and you all isplural yeah, so don't say y'all
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or whatever people.
Sometimes people will messy'all's yeah, y'all's dogs are
out.
Yeah, it's not y'all's it'sy'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, no
y'all's it's y'all's, y'all.
Y'all, y'all, no, y'all's,y'all's is like possessive yeah.
But, somehow they'll do it someway, like meaning like I don't
know I'll have to listen to itin a sentence and I'm like
that's not right.
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It's y'all, which is you all,which is more than one.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Mm-hmm, hey y'all, hey y'all, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Hey y'all.
Sometimes you say guys, though,and it bothers me.
You'll say like guys listen,and it bothers me.
I do, yeah, you say it on thepodcast some, and I'm like it
bothers me Because I feel likeguys Is a what do you call it?
Like a Gender Like guys, likemale, uh, uh, and you'll say it
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no, guys is just like gender,like guys like male Uh-uh, and
you'll say it like no Guys isjust like everybody.
No See, I don't like it, I don'ttake it that way and I'm like
ugh, it bothers me for somereason, but we've never
addressed that.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, I mean, I don't say hey, gals, but I say guys,
like it's like fraternity.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Fraternity can include sororities.
No, yeah, and you know why thatbothers me too, because, like I
said, I feel like guys isreferring to males in my mind
and you'll say, now, listen,guys.
Is usually you say y'all forother things but you'll say now,
now, guys, I'm telling youwhatever.
But I hate when I have joinedall randomly for research
purposes or sometimes I justlike watching people, we'll
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watch other people's live sales,and when they the whole time
and it could be like a homedecor one or whatever they refer
to their audience as like comeon, girls, come on, you know.
And it's Like come on, girls,come on, you know.
And it's hey, ladies, welcomein.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
No, I don't do that because we have men and women,
but guys is inclusive.
Well, how do you feel aboutthat, ladies?
I mean, but guess what?
It's not going to change.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
No, I know, but I just want to know how other
people interpret that.
Yeah, I think, but I just wantto know how other people
interpret that, yeah, call us orput it in the comments.
If you're part of the community, our hotline is 864-982-5029.
When you hear guys, do youthink that is male or do you
think that is just a generalpeople term?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well, you know where I got that.
Really, I was thinking when didthat start?
It would have been atMcDonald's.
Yeah, I would walk in and sayhey guys, how's everybody doing?
Yeah, as just hey guys.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Hey everyone.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, as a people general, it's everyone to me.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
That's where you say hey y'all or hey you all.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You know why I don't do that.
There was an owner inleadership.
I won't call her name.
She's from the South and youknow, I do think other than
being naked on a webcast.
I think there has to be somelevel of professionalism and
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decorum when you're in aleadership position and decorum
when you're in a leadershipposition, and I just wanted to
slap her all the time becausewhen she would walk up to the
podium to speak, it was realexaggerated.
You know these types and shewould get up there and say, hey,
y'all.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That would drive me crazy it wasn't cute, it was
exaggerated.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
We know you're from the South, not everybody.
It was a very diverse group ofpeople.
But I'm like calm down, justsay how's everybody doing
Something.
But it was so hey y'all.
And I'm like, calm down, justsay how's everybody doing
Something.
But it was so hey y'all.
And I thought it was just me.
And finally, one of my goodfriends, he said you know that
shit really irritates me.
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It was my friend John.
He's like I just don't likethat.
I'm like yeah, I don't either,yeah.
So I think that's why I'vealways kind of gone with hey
guys, because I don't want to beexaggerating.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But then you just slide into your southern way on
everything else, but anyway.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Oh, listen, I'm as country, as grits.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
And tell us, do you say y'all where you?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
live yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
If you're from up north, do you say y'all?
Or out west or northeast?
Do you say y'all where you?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
live.
Yeah, if you're from up north,do you say y'all?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Or out west or northeast, do you say y'all?
I want to know because I thinkit's now trickled throughout.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'm trying to think Like my ex's family.
They were all like Californiaand New York and stuff.
None of them said y'all becauseI stuck out like a sore thumb.
I guess it just depends.
Well, okay, here is our lastSouthernism, and this is a good
one.
This is one of my dad'sfavorite things to say he's as
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worthless as tits on a bull.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It's true, worthless as a tit Is tits on a bull,
meaning you ain't getting nomilk From that name producing
you ain't worth nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
That's when you are just Sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Worthless as tits on a bull.
I've heard that my whole life,not about me.
I've heard that saying yeah,yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It is yeah.
So you know, if you come hereto the South and someone says
you're as worthless as tits on abull, that's not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Not a good thing, not a good thing, yeah, not a good
thing, not a good thing.
Well, and we've talked, I'msure, about but it's all known
now about bless your heart.
I mean, that's a Southern.
Bless your heart, that's notmeant as a like, it means you're
an idiot.
Yeah, that's, that's a Southernway of saying oh, you dumb ass,
bless your heart.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
She Southern way of saying oh you dumbass, bless
your heart.
She just, I don't know, blessher heart, she's dumb Right.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh my goodness, that is too funny.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Especially if you're at church.
Bless her heart, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's where you have to be polite and say the things
.
For sure, for sure, what elseyou got over there before we get
into the High Point FurnitureMarket, that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That's all I got.
That's all I have, guys.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Speaking of our schedule being busy though, so
we were at the High PointFurniture Market back for a few
days, then I flew home toTennessee.
I'm back today, and thentomorrow, which is Monday, we're
heading to the Atlanta market.
It's there they have a small,like they call it, cash and
carry show there.
It's mainly where vendors areswitching out their showrooms
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for the summer market.
So any samples that maybethey're not continuing on with.
What are we looking at?
The water in the pond just wentreally weird.
I just saw it from my window,my view.
I thought something was landingin it.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I thought something was getting ready to come.
Get us the way you were looking.
I'm like should I run?
I was like gawking.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It went like that I thought something had landed in
it, but it wasn't.
I guess wind caught the watch,I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I got distracted, Sorry y'all.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Anyway, sorry, guys, cash and Carrie, they're
switching out their samples orthings that you know they're not
continuing for the next season,whatever, and vendors, you can
go there and buy those, butwe're going there to do live
sales.
So if you're listeninglistening on Tuesday and
(21:12):
Wednesday when this comes outmake sure you join us inside the
Nested Fig app.
If you don't have our app yet,what the hell are you waiting on
?
You need it.
Go to your app store, searchthe nested fig and you can watch
us there.
I mean, if you like our podcastand you're not watching the
live sales, then you are reallymissing out, because they're a
real shit show it's a, it's a,it's a live shit show right and
you never know what's gonna behappening there.
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Um.
So, anyway, that's what we gotcoming up this week.
But let's head on to the HighPoint Furniture Market.
It was fast and furious there.
I felt like it was a reallygood one.
It was a hustle and a bustle,yeah and it was busy, it was
busy.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And if there was one word if I had to describe, if
somebody said trends in one wordwhat it would be would say
greens, greens, which has beentrending more and more.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I would say one word, that would encompass everything
.
I would say earthy would be myone word.
Yeah, so every color tone isgoing and I feel like maybe
we've talked about this, butearthy, muddy, colors muddy,
which is that's my a lot morecolor.
I mean, I feel like we've beenon this.
(22:24):
You know we've been going upthis roller coaster.
We've been on the part, that'slike for the last two years, but
now we are at the top androlling through.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Even purples eggplants, it doesn't matter
what color, but earthy.
Earthy jewel tones Moody.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
But green would be the dominant of the dominant.
Any tone of green still on theearthy side, but any tone of
green in anything.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It's crazy.
And I love green.
Green, I mean, I love all ofthis this is a trend that I am.
You are back on trend, baby.
I am back on lots of antiquesmixed with more transitional and
contemporary pieces, which isme.
I did that when it wasn't instyle, so I'm back but that
never goes out of style.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
This is the funny thing I do feel like this is
your core style and the funnything is, if you go to your
previous house or your condo now, it's reflected in that and
everyone always thinks it's coolbecause it looks cool.
Yeah, but now everyone is gonnatry to be like you, because it
(23:44):
is on yeah, because I'm on trend.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Baby you are finally.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I've been, I've waited for this day, but mixing
in the antiques, which is always, you know, popular to do.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Very Ralph Lauren, the whole thing.
If you think of Ralph Lauren,you buy a Ralph Lauren coffee
table book.
That is.
That is the trend, that isdefinitely, and you know, in
home decor and clothing andeverything.
Ralph Lauren is never not, it'salways a classic.
(24:17):
Yeah, it's always good, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
You can never go wrong.
The biggest other trend isseeing, like in upholstery, lots
of print pattern, a lot more,which when we started, I would
say really in home decor youknow circa 13, 13, 14, um, big
prints were popular then.
Then it kind of went toeverything was solid or solid
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with like a texture into it,like a it would have a, a
different weave or somethinginto it, but it wasn't a print
like, it wasn't a floral printor something like that.
And now those are back in plaids, oh my gosh, and I mean I love
which we've been seeing in ourstore, you know, over the last
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six or eight months anytime weget a plaid chair or anything
plaid in, it goes out the doorwithin days.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Um, so even the customer level is already
gravitating towards the placeand Greenville's always behind
Tom and I feel like Greenvilleis with it.
With it right now.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Well, because it's very traditional, Traditional
and homey.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It suits that's a southern word it suits, it suits
means uh, it, it works, itworks, it suits that suits you
it?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
does you think that's a southern thing?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
see, I think it is, but tell us it.
Do you say that up north or outwest it?
Suits that that's.
You know that color suits youyeah I think that's a southern
thing too, you do, oh lord, Imean, we've got them, we've got,
they're endless we got allkinds, so yeah, but prints and
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we're starting to even seeprints again on sofas.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
You know, if you're really willing to commit, you
could do some prints on sofas.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
That's a commitment, I did it in 1999, and I'm not
doing it again.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It just depends on how long you want.
You know you could probably dothat and it would be good for
seven years.
Typically Trends you know bigtrends usually last that long
I'm so tired of it, but for me Ialways like to do a solid sofa
and then a fun print on a chair.
If I'm going to do a print, orif you're going to do a print on
a sofa.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Do a smaller print, not the big, bold.
Not the big because you justget tired of it sooner.
If you're going to do big andbold, do it on a chair.
It's cheaper.
To switch out if you just haveto have it on a piece of
upholstery would be my advice.
But you know, then again, ifyou don't have a budget and
money is no object, I say slap aprint on your sofa and when you
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of it, haul it out and get youa new one.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's right I mean, it does just depend on what you
want to do, or pass it down, orwhatever.
It just depends on you, don'tmind honestly, it depends on
your budget and if you like tochange up more, yeah but or you
know, if you have kids and youwant to do a print because you
know that sofa's gonna be wornout in five to seven years
anyway, you know it.
Did you know?
Judge by the life of what youknow that sofa's going to be
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worn out in five to seven yearsanyway.
You know, judge by the life ofwhat you think a sofa that
you're going to keep is.
But I just love doing it on achair because it's like a pot in
a rug.
I just like my sofas more solid, which I need new.
I need all new upholstery.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Well, you need to learn to take care of yours too,
but I've had mine, for we'vebeen here nine years.
I know, but I've had my sofasnow.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I'm on my second set.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I'm on my second set, yeah, but I'm not ready for a
third.
Yeah, you will be, I will be.
I mean, I've been looking atfabrics but honestly, I love
that frame.
Yeah, I love that Madeline byrow frame.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
The problem is he doesn't sit on the damn thing,
so nothing happens to it.
He'll say that's a lie, we'llsit out, you do not sit on it
occasionally every day actuallyjust about every day when we say
sit on his sofa.
This is light, proper sitting.
They're not lounging andthey're watching the tv.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You're not we do that sometimes, but I like my chair,
yeah, and I am so excited andyou don't have pets that get on.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
You know, the biggest problem I made and I knew when
I did it and steven kind oftaught I'm blaming you kind of
taught me into it.
It'll be fine.
Whatever, I need an attachedback sofa because the dogs will
get up on the.
You know, whatever pillow is upthere, if it's a cushion and it
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sinks down and then you cannever you got to fluff it daily.
It's training issues, it is,but anyway I want them to be at
home.
So I need a new sofa, two ofthem.
Well, I I'll slide them into ourup all street order and he'll
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never know.
He'll be like where'd thesecome from?
Oh, I'll know, just take it outof my paycheck we're not like
that.
We get what we need when wewant it we don't, um okay, so
anyway, back to high point.
Uh, prints on sofas are superpopular.
(29:53):
Yes, it prints.
Prints on anything, prints onanything.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Prints on top of prints.
Mm-hmm Vintage fabric print.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yes, they're doing a lot of that block print.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Block print.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I guess that's what you call it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You know I'm going to say something.
That's one thing I'm not a hugefan of.
You're not Mm-mm.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well, the block print print.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I feel like that is popular and they've chosen and
they've brought back fromprevious.
It's a little country to me itdoes.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It goes a little country which kind of goes on
trend with the cottage look, butto me it's that more country
cottage look.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah look.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
But to me it's that more country cottage look.
Yeah, and the cottage look thatI like is the more refined
transitional cottage look, andso we haven't ordered any of
those style fabrics.
They just look like you wouldhave those short little kitchen
window drapes with the print.
It just doesn't read right.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I don't.
Now we do have a designer thatworks for us and she's used the
block print with, like a RalphLauren plaid Mm-hmm, and it
actually pulls.
You know, it pulls off withthat because it has that whole
Ralph Lauren look.
It gives it more of a vintagelook than a country look.
(31:14):
Yeah, but on its own I'm not afan.
Yeah, I went and looked at them.
It's too faded, it's just too.
I don't know just not just notyour thing.
That's okay, it's not my thing,that's okay.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
You don't have to be on, you won't see you won't.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You will not see a block print pillow in my home,
but I mean I in the right place.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I think they're nice about a year from now, he'll
think it's the coolest thingisn't that funny though, how
some things do?
You're like I'm not sure aboutthat, and then, once you see
them more and see it used,different, you're like, oh, I
like it.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It's kind of well, that's how I'm always like that
with cars.
I'm like oh yeah, they ruinthis one and then, after, after
a couple years, I'm like'm likewell.
I mean.
I guess, I like it now.
Yeah, I guess, when you don'thave a choice, you know you're
limited, like if you want todrive this kind, this type of
car, and that's the new one.
(32:10):
But you know, I, I loved,always drove BMWs, and I mean
for years and years and years,and my favorite car ever was my
BMW X5.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
And they changed the body style and I was like, nope,
Not doing it.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Mm-mm Hadn't gone back.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Mm-mm, mm-mm.
I'm liking them a little bitmore now.
They're not as bulbous, mm-hmm,but yeah, I'm like that with
some stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
But I was really like that.
You know, when we first startedum and gold was coming back, I
was like no, no gold.
And then that.
Then it grew on me because youknow, gold in the 90s if you
were around in the 90s, um, gold, brassy, bright gold was the
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trend that yellow cheap cheapgold and so then everything had
transitioned away from that.
And then when we back again inlike 13, 14, when we were really
getting into the furniture,home decor, gold started coming
back and I was was like, oh no,but now it's a pretty gold and I
love it.
I mean everything.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
And very little is silver.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, and you know silver will come back around in
that nickel, but I was never afan of that.
I always did the bronze insteadof Bronze or black, yeah,
instead of the.
I never went towards the silverand the nickel, no it just it
reads harsh to me Cold, yes,cold.
That's a good word, no matterwhat it's in it, just reads but
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maybe at least we'll stick withlike the antique brass.
Yeah, stick around.
Yeah, oh, I'm sure to besomething new.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
And I am glad that we mix metals now.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
That is true Mixing metals, and you were touching on
the antiques Antiques mixed inwith your furniture, like you
can have very transitional andthen an antique piece mix in
there for that statement piece,which I love that look too, me
too, because it really when youdo that it highlights the
antique piece.
When you have a bunch ofantiques it feels busy.
(34:19):
You know it can to the eyevisually, but when you mix it in
with like a clean piece, orsomething.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
It's very curated, it's very purposeful.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
If you get too many.
It looks like you just cleanedout your grandparents' houses
and threw it all together.
Right, we don't want that.
I like the curated look, but Ido love just an old piece thrown
in the mix.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
And see your place works, because your condo itself
has a different feel of beingmore lofty, industrial, and then
you can throw in the antiqueplaces.
Yeah, it's a weird mix.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I mean, our loft is a weird mix because it is, you
know, 150 years old.
It's industrial, but it's alsogot the old world the old.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I think we need to schedule a home tour.
We should do that.
We should just do our own hometour of your place.
Let's do it.
We'll sell tickets.
It benefits us, so it's nottowards anything all of the
proceeds go to us, yeah.
We should do a home tour.
(35:31):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
That would be fun.
It's funny, like that buildingin general.
It is so funny to me.
I can be somewhere and they askmy address.
I mean, it can be so random,like the doctor's office, what's
your address?
They're like, oh, do you livein that building, in that old
mill?
(35:53):
And I'm like, yeah, I've alwayswanted to go in there.
Yeah, I just, I've alwayswanted to.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Well, it's so well done, it's crazy though.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
How many people haven't been in there that
really just want to go in andsee what they're like?
Yeah, I mean I would want to.
If I'd never been in, we couldhave them lined up.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I got to think of a good price too, because it would
be a little.
But you know you could have itthis weekend because your home
is always ready, it is, it'sready, it's ready, so it
wouldn't take much effort.
I could print some tickets.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
We need to throw some cameras up just in case
somebody tries to stealsomething we can have.
That would make for great,great publicity.
If somebody stole something, itwould.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
We could have like cards and y'all could read off
of the history of certain piecesand, like you, could even make
up stuff.
This was my great, great andlisten.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
It's really funny how , um, for whatever reason,
people assume that everything wehave in there is like really
really expensive and super highend oh yeah, it's just because
it reads that way it's like,like my favorite things in,
there are things I found at ayard sale or a junk store I mean
(37:18):
, literally, I am that person.
If I really like something andit's at a yard sale, I'm gonna
buy it.
I may paint it, I may change itup, but I'm gonna get it like
it doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And occasionally he'll be like, oh, it doesn't
fit, here you go.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I have a few pieces in my storage, yeah, that I
can't part with, but I'm willingto.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
I have these damn trunks throughout my house now
that.
I let them round up Becausethere's one.
The one in the laundry room isso out of place, but Stephen's
like here.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
when he moved from his house he was like, well, I
can, we can't let it go.
I mean, we can put it instorage.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
You can take these, but you can never get rid of
them, and so now I'm stuck withpieces of furniture, but they
are so great.
They are great For storage.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
And you know, and I'll tell you something, One
thing that is crazy is, sinceall this trend has changed the
price of the large antiquepieces.
Oh, just in the last ninemonths.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Or let's say a year ago, the antiques at the
furniture markets are justseeing antiques in general
Because you know, last year wetalked about this antiques being
mixed in and even some vendorswere starting to do
reproductions of antiques togive you that.
Look the price of them from ayear ago, the true antiques to
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this.
It is crazy.
They know, hey, this is ourtime to shine, we're in demand
and the price is going way up.
Oh, it is crazy.
Way up on that.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Yeah, I mean it is, and you know you can't really
argue like what some things are,just that much, but it's like
dang, that is a lot of money, itis true.
I mean, yeah, but if you wantit, you, you want it if you're
willing to pay but you know thatseveral years ago, like the
(39:14):
huge pieces, the big frencharmoires and and those pieces,
the price went way down.
Yeah, because I felt like.
I feel like they were so bigpeople didn't know how to use
them, what to do with them, andnow they have shot up.
You know, some of those piecesare $20,000, $30,000 for one
(39:38):
piece.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, the other thing I think we should touch on
because this was a couple ofepisodes ago and people said we
got a lot of feedback was aboutthe tariffs.
Again, we talked about tariffsa few, two I think that would
have been two episodes agoNothing political, but we were
just talking about how it'saffecting our business or not,
or whatever, how it works.
(39:59):
There wasn't as much tarifftalk at market as I thought
there would be.
I don't know if they were likejust don't mention it.
I thought when we would getthere more of the vendors and
some of them did, I know I hadat least three say you know, if
you order this, that was part oftheir sales tactic If you order
(40:19):
, if you get your order in by, Ithink, like May 1st or May 15th
, then it's at this currentprice.
After that we don't know what'sgoing to happen.
But there was no, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Know what I said with that, yeah well, we don't know,
so we're going to leave it atthat I'm not taking it sooner
than I need it.
Yeah, I'm not doing it right.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
If it's 10 more, it's 10 more yeah, and so that's
what I did, and I'm not becauseI was doing some orders and I
was like, well, we don't need itnow, so we'll just deal with
that then and then.
But you know, okay, so Ihaven't even talked to you about
this.
But I have a vendor who hasmessaged and I feel like they're
trying to pressure, like takethis now, or there's going to be
(41:00):
whatever, and I think I'm justgoing to cancel the order just
because I'm like I just didn'tlike the way who is it Write it
down.
I just didn't like the way thatit read and I was just like I
don't know.
It felt a little demanding morethan helpful sort of thing.
(41:22):
But that's one of our big ones,yeah, and I was just like I
don't know, but we only have acouple of.
It is a big vendor.
We only have a couple of summerorders with them and then it'll
be holiday and we'll see whathappens by then.
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Well, they can come across.
I feel like that vendor inparticular, and let me be
tactful about this, let me betactful about this Depending on
the country, culture, theculture of that country, they
can come across, sometimes wrong, yeah, and I don't know, or
(42:00):
harsh.
I don't know that it's meantthat way, but it sure can come
across that way, right, but sofar.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Abrupt.
Yeah, so far, though, I don'tthink we've had any tariffs yet
that I know of vendors that arecoming in, but I do think this
week we're going to start seeingthat, like some people have
said, oh, if it hasn't hasn'tchanged by this week, um, so
we'll keep talking, you know,talking about it because I think
it's um, you, I think it's coolto see again on your part as
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the consumer, how, what you hearand how long it takes.
Now we are in home decor andseasonal, so it's not, you know,
it's not hitting us as fast assomething that is, you know,
turning a lot quicker.
You know, maybe car parts thatare coming in every day or
whatever, because you know wetalked about it the whole, or
(42:54):
the manufacturer, vendor,whoever, whichever person is
paying for it as it comes intothe US.
They don't pay until it'sactually here, and it can take
four months for things to leave,say, china, and get here.
So it doesn't matter what hashappened in between that time.
It matters what is in place theday that it lands, the day that
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it is received at the port, iswhat the vendor will pay in a
tariff.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
And it should be what they're passing on, unless
they're being shady.
Yeah, you know you're alwaysgoing to have that small, small
number of people that are goingto try to take advantage.
But if you know, if you knowyour business, you're going to
say, hey, wait a minute.
Yeah, and like we talked about,it.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
It does get bits of.
It gets divided up or absorbedalong the way.
The manufacturer will do some,the vendor will do some.
You know it goes throughseveral hands, so it gets
absorbed along the way.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
And there may be only 20% of one product that, say,
is from China.
So there's only 20% of that oneproduct affected by a certain
tariff, and if the rest is herein the United States, your cost
may only go up 5%, right.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Yeah.
So what do you say like, asvendors may get a certain amount
, even it could be multipleitems, but say we're buying from
X vendor, they may only getEven it could be multiple items,
but say we're buying from Xvendor, they may only get, let's
even say, 50% of theirinventory from China, which has
the highest tariffs, and thenthey get the other 50% from
other countries that may onlyhave a 10%.
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So they look at their wholeinventory and then say to us we
might get a 5%, which isn't hugein that instance.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
It's an increase, but it's not horrible.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Right, so that's how it works.
It's not as like ah, but it canbe.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
So we're watching it.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
We are watching it day by day, what will happen,
and I think, like we said in thefirst time we were talking
about it, the bigger thing thatI'm watching more is not I'm not
as concerned about the tariffsas I am the consumer response,
and it's more.
It's more the consumer responseto media because it gets people
(45:25):
like, oh my gosh, what's goingto happen?
Oh, I don't need to do this, oh, I'm going to do this.
That is more of what I'mwatching than the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
We have to stay the course all of us as consumers
and keep everything going, butit's definitely a fluid
situation, definitely.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
We'll keep it going.
I think for us in our industry,in our business, the best thing
is it's right now, because thisis kind of our steady season,
more than our holiday season.
So we'll see how it plays outcloser to midsummer when we're
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starting to get our holidaydecor and stuff like that We've
already taken delivery of someof our holiday decor because
they were like we don't knowwhat's going to happen if you
take it now.
It's at this price.
So we're like, okay, we'll dothat.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
So we've gotten some of our holiday decor, but just
for that purpose, we couldalready be selling Christmas.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
In fall, isn't?
Speaker 2 (46:22):
that crazy, we should just roll on into it.
I mean it's crazy how you knowit's so planned.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
As a consumer.
You just don't realize how farin advance.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
You're working on things and that sort of thing,
it's true.
Well, I want to remind youwe're going to wrap this one up
because we got things to do, wegot to get ready to leave go to.
Atlanta.
I've been home since I don'tknow less than have.
I even been home 12 hours,maybe 14 hours now, something
(46:57):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Uh-huh, you late today too, but I'm going to let
it slide.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It has been quite the week Coming up.
In this episode we're going totalk about the High Point
Furniture Market, though, andthe trends we saw.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving Beep, beep,
beep, beep.
So I'm here I don't actuallyknow how I'm here, but I am here
(00:29):
, and we got another busy weekcoming up.
So, since last week, in thelast week we went to the High
Point Furniture Market, had alot of fun, saw a lot of great
things, ordered a lot of greatthings, and your granddad died,
yes.
So then my granddad passed away.
He was 95, lived a great fulllife, and you know what's
(00:52):
impressive?
I hope I got his genetics.
I just really hope.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I think you did.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I hope so, because he was sharp as a tack, which I'm
not sharp as a tack as we start,so that could be where it goes
wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That could be bad.
Yeah, you could linger a longtime.
You're not going to know beansand peas.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
He was still running his plumbing business, yeah, and
that sort of thing and keepingthe family in check.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yes, I mean he could get everybody in check.
From what I understand, yeahabsolutely For sure.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
But such a great man and it was funny going back to
the funeral, you know, andhearing the stories and how they
were saying like he could still, because he had the plumbing
business, his whole you knowadult life or whatever, and we
live in a small town, covington,tennessee, and how to this day
he could remember where everypipe was like, if he had
(01:48):
installed it or something.
If you called him he'd be likeoh, it's in this wall over here
or it's over you know this manyfeet in the ground over here.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Like he could still but I can kind of see that
because, like when you do things, I'm very you're talking about
me.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I could remember, like when you do something like
I could go to my, my house Ihaven't been in for 10 years and
I could tell you exactly wherethings are, because I was there,
either did it or instructedsomeone to do it, um, but think
of doing that for like, yearsand years and years.
Yeah, but I think your mindwould just be no, yeah, you
(02:27):
would kind of just.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I guess so.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But was it a celebration?
It was very good.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It was good.
So I was at the High PointFurniture Market and then my
grandfather passed away.
I was back for two days.
Then I flew home and I was onlythere for Two days, two and a
half days or whatever.
Well, last night, well, I wassupposed to get home at 945 and
I didn't get home until 2 ambecause of travel delays with
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storms and that sort of thing.
And this is the one time.
I do not remember any othertime in my life that Daniel has
actually taken me to the airport, no matter how long I'm usually
gone a day or 10,.
I will take my own car and parkand pay the parking.
Oh yeah, he took you.
(03:16):
So he took me to the airportbecause he was like I might need
your truck because I have thehitch on it.
I might need the trailer whileyou're gone or I might get some
mulch or something like that.
I'll just take you.
And I was like OK.
And I was like, and I get backat nine forty five at night.
He's like that's not too late,you know, because he's not a
night owl like me.
Well, he had to keep staying upand up to come pick me up at
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the airport, but he was a goodsport about it.
So I'm a little dragon today.
Dragon, A dragon.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
A dragon today.
Well, no, getting back to thefuneral I was hoping because he
was 95.
I mean, he lived a great life.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Great life.
So it was a good celebration.
And my aunts you know, my dadhas passed away, so my aunts
planned everything and it wentso well and they did it all in
one day, instead of having likea visitation one night and then
having to go back the next day.
But it was a long day becauseit started at 10 and didn't get
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done until like 8 at night bythe time.
Wow, it was like familyvisitation and then everyone and
the funeral and it rainedreally bad that day and they
thought they weren't going to beable to have the graveside, but
then at the last minute itstopped raining but it was muddy
, but it all worked out.
But it was a lot of, you know,my other cousins some of them
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told stories and it was it wasnice, it was great stories and
it was, it was nice, it wasgreat.
Yeah, did you tell a story?
I did not tell a story.
I, I, the, the, the malegrandchildren were all
pallbearers and then the girlsall read something or told
stories oh, that was nice.
Everyone had a part okay yeah,so I wasn't in the storytelling
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department.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oddly, I've met most, most of that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, and it was good .
Also, this is the first timeI've seen all of my cousins.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, we did Clay's wedding in New York City.
You and I did.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, and so I saw all of my cousins.
I forget how many of us thereare All at one time.
It's probably been like 15years since all of us have been
together.
Yeah, it was kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, it was crazy.
But and then when Clay gotmarried in New York is when I
met your Aunt, betsy.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Mm, hmm.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And I met your cousin Liz, yes, and your cousin Kim,
yes, and I remember we went toSerendipity.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
We did, and that was my first time going to New York
City.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yes, have we told the story?
Yeah, I think we have.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So my first time going to New York City I was
doing my cousin Clay.
He'd asked me he was gettingmarried, asked me to do the
flowers for it, and so I waslike, okay, I'll, you know, yes,
I'll do the flowers.
And I still own McDonald's,then and I, you know, was doing
everything at the store andgoing to drive them up there.
And I was going to drive themby myself.
(06:09):
I can't remember Daniel wasdoing something and I don't know
.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Originally I was going by myself, and then
Stephen, was like, and I hadsaid do you want me to go?
And you're like no, I'll befine.
Yeah, I was like OK, well, Imean I need to work anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, I was like, okay, well, I mean I needed work
anyway, yeah.
And then, like the day beforeLast minute, I was like I think
you need to come into this Morefor the flower situation than
the New York situation yeah, notthe New York, you weren't
scared.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I drove us through New York City like a cab driver
like a pro After I drove us 12hours to New York.
You take it in the city, but wedid good, it was fine.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
We drove the van to serendipity, didn't we?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
The Ronald McDonald van the white Ronald McDonald
van.
We talked about this because Ialmost got arrested.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
This is when we were on the way back, when Stephen
was hauling ass in Maryland.
If you're going throughMaryland, I guess that was on 95
.
Don't speed, because that'swhen Steven was pushed up
against the back of the vangetting frisked.
I was going 92 miles an hourthough.
Yeah, speaking of gettingfrisked and spread against the
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back of the van, I have noticedsomething what?
Every time I travel, likeflying, when I walk through the,
you know the body scan there'salways.
I get flagged and there'salways a box over my crotch area
.
And they always have to frisk me.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Must be zipper.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That's what I'm like.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh you wear, but no, you wear zipper.
That's what I'm like.
Oh you wear, but no, you wearzipper.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh well, I wear.
We talked about that in lastweek's episode.
I'll do either button or zipper, but they're just normal pants.
Why wouldn't everybody getflagged?
I don't know, it happened onthe way there, on the way back.
Different pants, and it'shappened.
It happened at Christmas when Iwent.
I flew home, no-transcript,something, I don't know what,
(08:31):
but anyway I'm gonna have towatch that closely and determine
what it is.
So last week's episode wetalked about button or zipper,
and also your webcast debacle.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Embarrassing.
That was a debacle.
Yes, I've had many messages.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Our hotline blew up with both of those topics.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
So everyone knows about your it's so funny.
Everyone knows about yourwebcam and everyone has opinions
on button or zipper too.
Someone asked me on the hotlineso what is your?
Oh, the other thing we got wasbreeders we talked about
breeders.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Our listeners didn't know they were breeders.
Yes, a lot of people messaged,said I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
We were called breeders so I learned something
new.
We were called breeders so Ilearned something new.
But someone asked me on thehotline, saying they I'm
assuming this was a female theirco-worker came out of the
restroom or had been in therestroom, and she noticed that
his zipper was still down andpart of his boxers were pulled
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through, you know, were stickingout, and so she wanted to know
what was our thoughts.
Should she have said somethingto him, yes, or just ignored it?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
No, always say something.
Just say check your fly.
Yeah, that's all you need tosay.
Yeah, you know, don't let thehorse out of the stable.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I mean whatever it is , I would just say yeah, like
you just simple, of the stable,I mean whatever it is.
But yeah, I would just say,yeah, like you just simple,
check your fly.
Yeah, hey, you may want tocheck your fly and then keep
walking or something and let himdie in embarrassment, but I was
like I would say something forthat.
Yeah, although it's awkward,I'm pretty good about telling
people if they have stuff intheir teeth.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, I'm pretty good about telling people if they
have stuff in their teeth.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, I do that.
I check your teeth because Idon't want to look at it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You got something really gross hanging right in
there, right there in the middle.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I don't mind telling, but I don't know, zipper, yeah,
I would tell people becauseit's just, I mean, it's not a
big deal.
It's not a big deal at all, notat all what you got over there
we got to talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We've got, you know, days of the week, some
Southern-isms.
You know we have that segment.
Oh, stephen's keeping.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
We're not letting it go.
Oh, you're not going to let itgo, okay, no it's very important
.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
This is a PSA for our listeners.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
If you visit the South.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
They're learning so much, or move here, you need to
know this.
Yeah, so if you're in the South, especially the country, we do
not have power bills or electricbills?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh, we have your light bill, the light bill, but
you got to say bill.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Light bill, light bill yeah, light bill Light
bills do.
My light bill went up.
I got to go pay the light bill,light bill.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, light bill, light bills do.
My light bill went up.
I got to go pay the light bill.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And if you think about it.
So I had this discussion withanother friend about light bill,
because she still says lightbill and I said you know, it
makes sense because when peoplefirst had power, that was what
they associated with the powerwas the lights Right, so it was
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the light bill and that's whatmy grandparents always called it
.
Close that door.
That light bill is going to beoutrageous.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Let us know in the comments or on our hotline what
you call it.
Is it light bill, or is itelectric bill or power bill?
I say power bill, I think I sayelectric.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I say power.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, we talked about this before and I say electric
and I think, because here oursis Duke electric, so I think I
just say electric bill, I justsay power bill, I just say
Powerbill.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You got that Powerbill's due.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Oh Lord, it's true.
What other Southernism have yougot?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
This is an obvious one, but one we really haven't
discussed, and it needs to be.
Is y'all?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Oh, y'all, but y'all.
Now I feel like has trickledall the way up.
Yeah, other people say y'all,but y'all, now I feel like has
trickled all the way up.
Yeah, other people say y'all.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Not the North, they don't.
They say you guys.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, some of them say y'all.
Now I've noticed like they'llsay y'all, but I don't
understand Very few Y'all istotally fine, because it is you
all, y'all.
It's a hyphen word.
Yeah, fine, because it is youall, y'all.
Hyphen word yeah.
Hyphenated word y'all, y'all.
You all is y'all and you all isplural yeah, so don't say y'all
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or whatever people.
Sometimes people will messy'all's yeah, y'all's dogs are
out.
Yeah, it's not y'all's it'sy'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, no
y'all's it's y'all's, y'all.
Y'all, y'all, no, y'all's,y'all's is like possessive yeah.
But, somehow they'll do it someway, like meaning like I don't
know I'll have to listen to itin a sentence and I'm like
that's not right.
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It's y'all, which is you all,which is more than one.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Mm-hmm, hey y'all, hey y'all, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Hey y'all.
Sometimes you say guys, though,and it bothers me.
You'll say like guys listen,and it bothers me.
I do, yeah, you say it on thepodcast some, and I'm like it
bothers me Because I feel likeguys Is a what do you call it?
Like a Gender Like guys, likemale, uh, uh, and you'll say it
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no, guys is just like gender,like guys like male Uh-uh, and
you'll say it like no Guys isjust like everybody.
No See, I don't like it, I don'ttake it that way and I'm like
ugh, it bothers me for somereason, but we've never
addressed that.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, I mean, I don't say hey, gals, but I say guys,
like it's like fraternity.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Fraternity can include sororities.
No, yeah, and you know why thatbothers me too, because, like I
said, I feel like guys isreferring to males in my mind
and you'll say, now, listen,guys.
Is usually you say y'all forother things but you'll say now,
now, guys, I'm telling youwhatever.
But I hate when I have joinedall randomly for research
purposes or sometimes I justlike watching people, we'll
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watch other people's live sales,and when they the whole time
and it could be like a homedecor one or whatever they refer
to their audience as like comeon, girls, come on, you know.
And it's Like come on, girls,come on, you know.
And it's hey, ladies, welcomein.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
No, I don't do that because we have men and women,
but guys is inclusive.
Well, how do you feel aboutthat, ladies?
I mean, but guess what?
It's not going to change.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
No, I know, but I just want to know how other
people interpret that.
Yeah, I think, but I just wantto know how other people
interpret that, yeah, call us orput it in the comments.
If you're part of the community, our hotline is 864-982-5029.
When you hear guys, do youthink that is male or do you
think that is just a generalpeople term?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well, you know where I got that.
Really, I was thinking when didthat start?
It would have been atMcDonald's.
Yeah, I would walk in and sayhey guys, how's everybody doing?
Yeah, as just hey guys.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Hey everyone.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, as a people general, it's everyone to me.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
That's where you say hey y'all or hey you all.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You know why I don't do that.
There was an owner inleadership.
I won't call her name.
She's from the South and youknow, I do think other than
being naked on a webcast.
I think there has to be somelevel of professionalism and
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decorum when you're in aleadership position and decorum
when you're in a leadershipposition, and I just wanted to
slap her all the time becausewhen she would walk up to the
podium to speak, it was realexaggerated.
You know these types and shewould get up there and say, hey,
y'all.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That would drive me crazy it wasn't cute, it was
exaggerated.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
We know you're from the South, not everybody.
It was a very diverse group ofpeople.
But I'm like calm down, justsay how's everybody doing
Something.
But it was so hey y'all.
And I'm like, calm down, justsay how's everybody doing
Something.
But it was so hey y'all.
And I thought it was just me.
And finally, one of my goodfriends, he said you know that
shit really irritates me.
(17:07):
It was my friend John.
He's like I just don't likethat.
I'm like yeah, I don't either,yeah.
So I think that's why I'vealways kind of gone with hey
guys, because I don't want to beexaggerating.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But then you just slide into your southern way on
everything else, but anyway.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Oh, listen, I'm as country, as grits.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
And tell us, do you say y'all where you?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
live yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
If you're from up north, do you say y'all?
Or out west or northeast?
Do you say y'all where you?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
live.
Yeah, if you're from up north,do you say y'all?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Or out west or northeast, do you say y'all?
I want to know because I thinkit's now trickled throughout.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'm trying to think Like my ex's family.
They were all like Californiaand New York and stuff.
None of them said y'all becauseI stuck out like a sore thumb.
I guess it just depends.
Well, okay, here is our lastSouthernism, and this is a good
one.
This is one of my dad'sfavorite things to say he's as
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worthless as tits on a bull.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It's true, worthless as a tit Is tits on a bull,
meaning you ain't getting nomilk From that name producing
you ain't worth nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
That's when you are just Sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Worthless as tits on a bull.
I've heard that my whole life,not about me.
I've heard that saying yeah,yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It is yeah.
So you know, if you come hereto the South and someone says
you're as worthless as tits on abull, that's not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Not a good thing, not a good thing, yeah, not a good
thing, not a good thing.
Well, and we've talked, I'msure, about but it's all known
now about bless your heart.
I mean, that's a Southern.
Bless your heart, that's notmeant as a like, it means you're
an idiot.
Yeah, that's, that's a Southernway of saying oh, you dumb ass,
bless your heart.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
She Southern way of saying oh you dumbass, bless
your heart.
She just, I don't know, blessher heart, she's dumb Right.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh my goodness, that is too funny.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Especially if you're at church.
Bless her heart, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's where you have to be polite and say the things
.
For sure, for sure, what elseyou got over there before we get
into the High Point FurnitureMarket, that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That's all I got.
That's all I have, guys.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Speaking of our schedule being busy though, so
we were at the High PointFurniture Market back for a few
days, then I flew home toTennessee.
I'm back today, and thentomorrow, which is Monday, we're
heading to the Atlanta market.
It's there they have a small,like they call it, cash and
carry show there.
It's mainly where vendors areswitching out their showrooms
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for the summer market.
So any samples that maybethey're not continuing on with.
What are we looking at?
The water in the pond just wentreally weird.
I just saw it from my window,my view.
I thought something was landingin it.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I thought something was getting ready to come.
Get us the way you were looking.
I'm like should I run?
I was like gawking.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It went like that I thought something had landed in
it, but it wasn't.
I guess wind caught the watch,I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I got distracted, Sorry y'all.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Anyway, sorry, guys, cash and Carrie, they're
switching out their samples orthings that you know they're not
continuing for the next season,whatever, and vendors, you can
go there and buy those, butwe're going there to do live
sales.
So if you're listeninglistening on Tuesday and
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Wednesday when this comes outmake sure you join us inside the
Nested Fig app.
If you don't have our app yet,what the hell are you waiting on
?
You need it.
Go to your app store, searchthe nested fig and you can watch
us there.
I mean, if you like our podcastand you're not watching the
live sales, then you are reallymissing out, because they're a
real shit show it's a, it's a,it's a live shit show right and
you never know what's gonna behappening there.
(21:35):
Um.
So, anyway, that's what we gotcoming up this week.
But let's head on to the HighPoint Furniture Market.
It was fast and furious there.
I felt like it was a reallygood one.
It was a hustle and a bustle,yeah and it was busy, it was
busy.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And if there was one word if I had to describe, if
somebody said trends in one wordwhat it would be would say
greens, greens, which has beentrending more and more.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I would say one word, that would encompass everything
.
I would say earthy would be myone word.
Yeah, so every color tone isgoing and I feel like maybe
we've talked about this, butearthy, muddy, colors muddy,
which is that's my a lot morecolor.
I mean, I feel like we've beenon this.
(22:24):
You know we've been going upthis roller coaster.
We've been on the part, that'slike for the last two years, but
now we are at the top androlling through.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Even purples eggplants, it doesn't matter
what color, but earthy.
Earthy jewel tones Moody.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
But green would be the dominant of the dominant.
Any tone of green still on theearthy side, but any tone of
green in anything.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It's crazy.
And I love green.
Green, I mean, I love all ofthis this is a trend that I am.
You are back on trend, baby.
I am back on lots of antiquesmixed with more transitional and
contemporary pieces, which isme.
I did that when it wasn't instyle, so I'm back but that
never goes out of style.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
This is the funny thing I do feel like this is
your core style and the funnything is, if you go to your
previous house or your condo now, it's reflected in that and
everyone always thinks it's coolbecause it looks cool.
Yeah, but now everyone is gonnatry to be like you, because it
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is on yeah, because I'm on trend.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Baby you are finally.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I've been, I've waited for this day, but mixing
in the antiques, which is always, you know, popular to do.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Very Ralph Lauren, the whole thing.
If you think of Ralph Lauren,you buy a Ralph Lauren coffee
table book.
That is.
That is the trend, that isdefinitely, and you know, in
home decor and clothing andeverything.
Ralph Lauren is never not, it'salways a classic.
(24:17):
Yeah, it's always good, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
You can never go wrong.
The biggest other trend isseeing, like in upholstery, lots
of print pattern, a lot more,which when we started, I would
say really in home decor youknow circa 13, 13, 14, um, big
prints were popular then.
Then it kind of went toeverything was solid or solid
(24:45):
with like a texture into it,like a it would have a, a
different weave or somethinginto it, but it wasn't a print
like, it wasn't a floral printor something like that.
And now those are back in plaids, oh my gosh, and I mean I love
which we've been seeing in ourstore, you know, over the last
(25:05):
six or eight months anytime weget a plaid chair or anything
plaid in, it goes out the doorwithin days.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Um, so even the customer level is already
gravitating towards the placeand Greenville's always behind
Tom and I feel like Greenvilleis with it.
With it right now.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Well, because it's very traditional, Traditional
and homey.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It suits that's a southern word it suits, it suits
means uh, it, it works, itworks, it suits that suits you
it?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
does you think that's a southern thing?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
see, I think it is, but tell us it.
Do you say that up north or outwest it?
Suits that that's.
You know that color suits youyeah I think that's a southern
thing too, you do, oh lord, Imean, we've got them, we've got,
they're endless we got allkinds, so yeah, but prints and
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we're starting to even seeprints again on sofas.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
You know, if you're really willing to commit, you
could do some prints on sofas.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
That's a commitment, I did it in 1999, and I'm not
doing it again.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It just depends on how long you want.
You know you could probably dothat and it would be good for
seven years.
Typically Trends you know bigtrends usually last that long
I'm so tired of it, but for me Ialways like to do a solid sofa
and then a fun print on a chair.
If I'm going to do a print, orif you're going to do a print on
a sofa.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Do a smaller print, not the big, bold.
Not the big because you justget tired of it sooner.
If you're going to do big andbold, do it on a chair.
It's cheaper.
To switch out if you just haveto have it on a piece of
upholstery would be my advice.
But you know, then again, ifyou don't have a budget and
money is no object, I say slap aprint on your sofa and when you
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of it, haul it out and get youa new one.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's right I mean, it does just depend on what you
want to do, or pass it down, orwhatever.
It just depends on you, don'tmind honestly, it depends on
your budget and if you like tochange up more, yeah but or you
know, if you have kids and youwant to do a print because you
know that sofa's gonna be wornout in five to seven years
anyway, you know it.
Did you know?
Judge by the life of what youknow that sofa's going to be
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worn out in five to seven yearsanyway.
You know, judge by the life ofwhat you think a sofa that
you're going to keep is.
But I just love doing it on achair because it's like a pot in
a rug.
I just like my sofas more solid, which I need new.
I need all new upholstery.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Well, you need to learn to take care of yours too,
but I've had mine, for we'vebeen here nine years.
I know, but I've had my sofasnow.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I'm on my second set.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I'm on my second set, yeah, but I'm not ready for a
third.
Yeah, you will be, I will be.
I mean, I've been looking atfabrics but honestly, I love
that frame.
Yeah, I love that Madeline byrow frame.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
The problem is he doesn't sit on the damn thing,
so nothing happens to it.
He'll say that's a lie, we'llsit out, you do not sit on it
occasionally every day actuallyjust about every day when we say
sit on his sofa.
This is light, proper sitting.
They're not lounging andthey're watching the tv.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You're not we do that sometimes, but I like my chair,
yeah, and I am so excited andyou don't have pets that get on.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
You know, the biggest problem I made and I knew when
I did it and steven kind oftaught I'm blaming you kind of
taught me into it.
It'll be fine.
Whatever, I need an attachedback sofa because the dogs will
get up on the.
You know, whatever pillow is upthere, if it's a cushion and it
(29:08):
sinks down and then you cannever you got to fluff it daily.
It's training issues, it is,but anyway I want them to be at
home.
So I need a new sofa, two ofthem.
Well, I I'll slide them into ourup all street order and he'll
(29:30):
never know.
He'll be like where'd thesecome from?
Oh, I'll know, just take it outof my paycheck we're not like
that.
We get what we need when wewant it we don't, um okay, so
anyway, back to high point.
Uh, prints on sofas are superpopular.
(29:53):
Yes, it prints.
Prints on anything, prints onanything.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Prints on top of prints.
Mm-hmm Vintage fabric print.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yes, they're doing a lot of that block print.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Block print.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I guess that's what you call it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You know I'm going to say something.
That's one thing I'm not a hugefan of.
You're not Mm-mm.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well, the block print print.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I feel like that is popular and they've chosen and
they've brought back fromprevious.
It's a little country to me itdoes.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It goes a little country which kind of goes on
trend with the cottage look, butto me it's that more country
cottage look.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah look.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
But to me it's that more country cottage look.
Yeah, and the cottage look thatI like is the more refined
transitional cottage look, andso we haven't ordered any of
those style fabrics.
They just look like you wouldhave those short little kitchen
window drapes with the print.
It just doesn't read right.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I don't.
Now we do have a designer thatworks for us and she's used the
block print with, like a RalphLauren plaid Mm-hmm, and it
actually pulls.
You know, it pulls off withthat because it has that whole
Ralph Lauren look.
It gives it more of a vintagelook than a country look.
(31:14):
Yeah, but on its own I'm not afan.
Yeah, I went and looked at them.
It's too faded, it's just too.
I don't know just not just notyour thing.
That's okay, it's not my thing,that's okay.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
You don't have to be on, you won't see you won't.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You will not see a block print pillow in my home,
but I mean I in the right place.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I think they're nice about a year from now, he'll
think it's the coolest thingisn't that funny though, how
some things do?
You're like I'm not sure aboutthat, and then, once you see
them more and see it used,different, you're like, oh, I
like it.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It's kind of well, that's how I'm always like that
with cars.
I'm like oh yeah, they ruinthis one and then, after, after
a couple years, I'm like'm likewell.
I mean.
I guess, I like it now.
Yeah, I guess, when you don'thave a choice, you know you're
limited, like if you want todrive this kind, this type of
car, and that's the new one.
(32:10):
But you know, I, I loved,always drove BMWs, and I mean
for years and years and years,and my favorite car ever was my
BMW X5.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
And they changed the body style and I was like, nope,
Not doing it.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Mm-mm Hadn't gone back.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Mm-mm, mm-mm.
I'm liking them a little bitmore now.
They're not as bulbous, mm-hmm,but yeah, I'm like that with
some stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
But I was really like that.
You know, when we first startedum and gold was coming back, I
was like no, no gold.
And then that.
Then it grew on me because youknow, gold in the 90s if you
were around in the 90s, um, gold, brassy, bright gold was the
(33:01):
trend that yellow cheap cheapgold and so then everything had
transitioned away from that.
And then when we back again inlike 13, 14, when we were really
getting into the furniture,home decor, gold started coming
back and I was was like, oh no,but now it's a pretty gold and I
love it.
I mean everything.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
And very little is silver.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, and you know silver will come back around in
that nickel, but I was never afan of that.
I always did the bronze insteadof Bronze or black, yeah,
instead of the.
I never went towards the silverand the nickel, no it just it
reads harsh to me Cold, yes,cold.
That's a good word, no matterwhat it's in it, just reads but
(33:47):
maybe at least we'll stick withlike the antique brass.
Yeah, stick around.
Yeah, oh, I'm sure to besomething new.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
And I am glad that we mix metals now.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
That is true Mixing metals, and you were touching on
the antiques Antiques mixed inwith your furniture, like you
can have very transitional andthen an antique piece mix in
there for that statement piece,which I love that look too, me
too, because it really when youdo that it highlights the
antique piece.
When you have a bunch ofantiques it feels busy.
(34:19):
You know it can to the eyevisually, but when you mix it in
with like a clean piece, orsomething.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
It's very curated, it's very purposeful.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
If you get too many.
It looks like you just cleanedout your grandparents' houses
and threw it all together.
Right, we don't want that.
I like the curated look, but Ido love just an old piece thrown
in the mix.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
And see your place works, because your condo itself
has a different feel of beingmore lofty, industrial, and then
you can throw in the antiqueplaces.
Yeah, it's a weird mix.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I mean, our loft is a weird mix because it is, you
know, 150 years old.
It's industrial, but it's alsogot the old world the old.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I think we need to schedule a home tour.
We should do that.
We should just do our own hometour of your place.
Let's do it.
We'll sell tickets.
It benefits us, so it's nottowards anything all of the
proceeds go to us, yeah.
We should do a home tour.
(35:31):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
That would be fun.
It's funny, like that buildingin general.
It is so funny to me.
I can be somewhere and they askmy address.
I mean, it can be so random,like the doctor's office, what's
your address?
They're like, oh, do you livein that building, in that old
mill?
(35:53):
And I'm like, yeah, I've alwayswanted to go in there.
Yeah, I just, I've alwayswanted to.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Well, it's so well done, it's crazy though.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
How many people haven't been in there that
really just want to go in andsee what they're like?
Yeah, I mean I would want to.
If I'd never been in, we couldhave them lined up.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I got to think of a good price too, because it would
be a little.
But you know you could have itthis weekend because your home
is always ready, it is, it'sready, it's ready, so it
wouldn't take much effort.
I could print some tickets.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
We need to throw some cameras up just in case
somebody tries to stealsomething we can have.
That would make for great,great publicity.
If somebody stole something, itwould.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
We could have like cards and y'all could read off
of the history of certain piecesand, like you, could even make
up stuff.
This was my great, great andlisten.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
It's really funny how , um, for whatever reason,
people assume that everything wehave in there is like really
really expensive and super highend oh yeah, it's just because
it reads that way it's like,like my favorite things in,
there are things I found at ayard sale or a junk store I mean
(37:18):
, literally, I am that person.
If I really like something andit's at a yard sale, I'm gonna
buy it.
I may paint it, I may change itup, but I'm gonna get it like
it doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And occasionally he'll be like, oh, it doesn't
fit, here you go.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I have a few pieces in my storage, yeah, that I
can't part with, but I'm willingto.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
I have these damn trunks throughout my house now
that.
I let them round up Becausethere's one.
The one in the laundry room isso out of place, but Stephen's
like here.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
when he moved from his house he was like, well, I
can, we can't let it go.
I mean, we can put it instorage.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
You can take these, but you can never get rid of
them, and so now I'm stuck withpieces of furniture, but they
are so great.
They are great For storage.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
And you know, and I'll tell you something, One
thing that is crazy is, sinceall this trend has changed the
price of the large antiquepieces.
Oh, just in the last ninemonths.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Or let's say a year ago, the antiques at the
furniture markets are justseeing antiques in general
Because you know, last year wetalked about this antiques being
mixed in and even some vendorswere starting to do
reproductions of antiques togive you that.
Look the price of them from ayear ago, the true antiques to
(38:42):
this.
It is crazy.
They know, hey, this is ourtime to shine, we're in demand
and the price is going way up.
Oh, it is crazy.
Way up on that.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Yeah, I mean it is, and you know you can't really
argue like what some things are,just that much, but it's like
dang, that is a lot of money, itis true.
I mean, yeah, but if you wantit, you, you want it if you're
willing to pay but you know thatseveral years ago, like the
(39:14):
huge pieces, the big frencharmoires and and those pieces,
the price went way down.
Yeah, because I felt like.
I feel like they were so bigpeople didn't know how to use
them, what to do with them, andnow they have shot up.
You know, some of those piecesare $20,000, $30,000 for one
(39:38):
piece.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, the other thing I think we should touch on
because this was a couple ofepisodes ago and people said we
got a lot of feedback was aboutthe tariffs.
Again, we talked about tariffsa few, two I think that would
have been two episodes agoNothing political, but we were
just talking about how it'saffecting our business or not,
or whatever, how it works.
(39:59):
There wasn't as much tarifftalk at market as I thought
there would be.
I don't know if they were likejust don't mention it.
I thought when we would getthere more of the vendors and
some of them did, I know I hadat least three say you know, if
you order this, that was part oftheir sales tactic If you order
(40:19):
, if you get your order in by, Ithink, like May 1st or May 15th
, then it's at this currentprice.
After that we don't know what'sgoing to happen.
But there was no, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Know what I said with that, yeah well, we don't know,
so we're going to leave it atthat I'm not taking it sooner
than I need it.
Yeah, I'm not doing it right.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
If it's 10 more, it's 10 more yeah, and so that's
what I did, and I'm not becauseI was doing some orders and I
was like, well, we don't need itnow, so we'll just deal with
that then and then.
But you know, okay, so Ihaven't even talked to you about
this.
But I have a vendor who hasmessaged and I feel like they're
trying to pressure, like takethis now, or there's going to be
(41:00):
whatever, and I think I'm justgoing to cancel the order just
because I'm like I just didn'tlike the way who is it Write it
down.
I just didn't like the way thatit read and I was just like I
don't know.
It felt a little demanding morethan helpful sort of thing.
(41:22):
But that's one of our big ones,yeah, and I was just like I
don't know, but we only have acouple of.
It is a big vendor.
We only have a couple of summerorders with them and then it'll
be holiday and we'll see whathappens by then.
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Well, they can come across.
I feel like that vendor inparticular, and let me be
tactful about this, let me betactful about this Depending on
the country, culture, theculture of that country, they
can come across, sometimes wrong, yeah, and I don't know, or
(42:00):
harsh.
I don't know that it's meantthat way, but it sure can come
across that way, right, but sofar.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Abrupt.
Yeah, so far, though, I don'tthink we've had any tariffs yet
that I know of vendors that arecoming in, but I do think this
week we're going to start seeingthat, like some people have
said, oh, if it hasn't hasn'tchanged by this week, um, so
we'll keep talking, you know,talking about it because I think
it's um, you, I think it's coolto see again on your part as
(42:31):
the consumer, how, what you hearand how long it takes.
Now we are in home decor andseasonal, so it's not, you know,
it's not hitting us as fast assomething that is, you know,
turning a lot quicker.
You know, maybe car parts thatare coming in every day or
whatever, because you know wetalked about it the whole, or
(42:54):
the manufacturer, vendor,whoever, whichever person is
paying for it as it comes intothe US.
They don't pay until it'sactually here, and it can take
four months for things to leave,say, china, and get here.
So it doesn't matter what hashappened in between that time.
It matters what is in place theday that it lands, the day that
(43:16):
it is received at the port, iswhat the vendor will pay in a
tariff.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
And it should be what they're passing on, unless
they're being shady.
Yeah, you know you're alwaysgoing to have that small, small
number of people that are goingto try to take advantage.
But if you know, if you knowyour business, you're going to
say, hey, wait a minute.
Yeah, and like we talked about,it.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
It does get bits of.
It gets divided up or absorbedalong the way.
The manufacturer will do some,the vendor will do some.
You know it goes throughseveral hands, so it gets
absorbed along the way.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
And there may be only 20% of one product that, say,
is from China.
So there's only 20% of that oneproduct affected by a certain
tariff, and if the rest is herein the United States, your cost
may only go up 5%, right.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Yeah.
So what do you say like, asvendors may get a certain amount
, even it could be multipleitems, but say we're buying from
X vendor, they may only getEven it could be multiple items,
but say we're buying from Xvendor, they may only get, let's
even say, 50% of theirinventory from China, which has
the highest tariffs, and thenthey get the other 50% from
other countries that may onlyhave a 10%.
(44:42):
So they look at their wholeinventory and then say to us we
might get a 5%, which isn't hugein that instance.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
It's an increase, but it's not horrible.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Right, so that's how it works.
It's not as like ah, but it canbe.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
So we're watching it.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
We are watching it day by day, what will happen,
and I think, like we said in thefirst time we were talking
about it, the bigger thing thatI'm watching more is not I'm not
as concerned about the tariffsas I am the consumer response,
and it's more.
It's more the consumer responseto media because it gets people
(45:25):
like, oh my gosh, what's goingto happen?
Oh, I don't need to do this, oh, I'm going to do this.
That is more of what I'mwatching than the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
We have to stay the course all of us as consumers
and keep everything going, butit's definitely a fluid
situation, definitely.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
We'll keep it going.
I think for us in our industry,in our business, the best thing
is it's right now, because thisis kind of our steady season,
more than our holiday season.
So we'll see how it plays outcloser to midsummer when we're
(46:05):
starting to get our holidaydecor and stuff like that We've
already taken delivery of someof our holiday decor because
they were like we don't knowwhat's going to happen if you
take it now.
It's at this price.
So we're like, okay, we'll dothat.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
So we've gotten some of our holiday decor, but just
for that purpose, we couldalready be selling Christmas.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
In fall, isn't?
Speaker 2 (46:22):
that crazy, we should just roll on into it.
I mean it's crazy how you knowit's so planned.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
As a consumer.
You just don't realize how farin advance.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
You're working on things and that sort of thing,
it's true.
Well, I want to remind youwe're going to wrap this one up
because we got things to do, wegot to get ready to leave go to.
Atlanta.
I've been home since I don'tknow less than have.
I even been home 12 hours,maybe 14 hours now, something
(46:57):
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Let's head on out.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
I've got to get ready to go to Atlanta.
I'm going in the morning, I'mgoing in the evening because I
need a little bit of a recoverytime but I'll meet you there.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
it'll be fun and we've got a live sale tonight,
which is Sunday.
And then remember to downloadthe Nested Fig app because we'll
be live in Atlanta on Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday and then
we'll be live back at the NestedFig Warehouse on Thursday.
Busy week coming up.
Hope you have a great one andwe'll see you next time.
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Speaker 2 (48:25):
Bye, I said it again.
Thanks guys.
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