November 25, 2025 • 38 mins
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I'm rolling in today because Italked to you like a little over
an hour ago.
It's like I'll be there right atthis time.
Oh, I was only 15 minutes late,so I'm very proud of myself.
You are not mad.
I had not even started cursingyou at the lab breath.
(01:26):
Yeah, that's on time for me.
Yeah.
But if you've been watching ourlive sales last week, I know a
lot of you do, but if you don't,you should.
That's true.
You should.
Um, Mr.
Kitty, we've talked about Mr.
Kitty on here that likes to ridearound.
Mr.
Kitty went on a new ride thisweek.
(01:46):
Mm-hmm.
You got cat hair off all overyou.
Spoiler alert, I found the damncat.
Found the damn cat, so let'smove on.
No.
So I didn't even tell you, Ithink I've since told you this.
So back up, like two weeks ago,the cat.
We have this cat, if you don'tknow, Mr.
Kitty.
He's still a kitten, I guess.
(02:06):
I mean, I got him in July, andhe was little then, but you
know, so he's he's a teenager,maybe.
He has been fixed.
It's not a fixed thing.
What he's done this his wholelife, and it's actually where an
employee found him up in theircar.
So that's where she found him?
Yes.
That's where this has been goingon since it's a genetic issue.
(02:28):
Yes.
Probably how we got to herhouse.
So anyway, this cat a few timestook a ride, and you know, I
happened to find it.
Came here to the warehouse.
One time Steven saw it jump outat the gas station down from our
house.
It was in Steven's car.
A week later, I found it therebecause I kept circling around,
checking it out.
So I finally put an air tag onit.
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So the air tags work becauseI'll usually check at home and
be like, oh, he's there, or youknow, but sometimes you're in a
damn hurry.
You just gotta go.
So one time I was on my way hereand I was like, oh, it didn't
say cat is no longer with you.
Because I have it set, so when Iget so many, how it's just
natural.
My iPad pops up on my cars whenI leave.
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AirPad left behind.
iPad.
Yeah, iPad left behind.
I'm like, good.
I meant for it too.
Yeah, that's how my AirPods dothat too.
And I'm like, good.
So the cat will do that.
So I know by the time I get tothe main highway, it'll say
airpods left behind, cat leftbehind.
I'm like, I'm good to go.
Well, this one day it didn't,and I was like, cat's with me,
got to turn around, blah, blah,blah, blah.
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Well, a couple of weeks ago,Daniel went to a flower farmer
meeting.
We were here, and I don't knowwhat made me, I remembered when
I was leaving here like thatnight, I remembered that
Daniel's van was parked next toour garage, which he normally
parks out further away, so it'snot a cat issue because he's
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near the flower workshop.
So I was like, let me see wherethe cat is.
And it was going down the road.
Luckily, Daniel was on his wayback.
And but he had gone all the wayacross town, went to a flower
flower farmer meeting, was therefor three hours.
The cat stayed in up inunderneath his car and then was
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riding back.
I was like, Are you at thisplace?
He's like, Yeah, how'd you know?
I was like, the cat's with you.
Well, last Tuesday, um, Danielwent to take the cat, the dog to
get groom, Charlie, and it'sdown the street from our garden
shop.
And then he went from there toHarris Teeter, then Harris
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Teeter to the garden store, madethis whole round.
Well, that night, I don't thinkI noticed, yeah, the next night,
or maybe it was that same night,I was like, oh, where's the cat?
I didn't see it tonight.
Because normally when we gethome from doing lives, because
we were doing them all day, noone has fed him.
I intentionally don't leave foodout for him, so that if I'm
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getting in my car, I'll shakethe bag and feed him, or if I
get home anyway.
It was like 11:30 at night, andI was like, let me track the
cat.
Well, the cat was at HarrisTeeter parking lot.
This was Tuesday a week ago.
Today is Sunday.
So yeah.
Um, or five days ago.
Tuesday, five days ago.
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So then I was like, it's 11:30at night.
That is 15 miles from my house.
I am not going to get this damncat.
Like, no, it is too late.
So then I was doing stuff, andthen I didn't go to bed till
like two.
I was like, let me see where thecat is.
And it was like on a differentstreet, across the road, kind of
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like different neighborhood.
And I was like, well, he's stillmoving.
And then the next day, Danielcame in for lunch or whatever,
and I was like, Oh, you took thecat with you yesterday.
And he's like, Oh my gosh, whereis it?
So it ended up randomly.
Then I looked at it, you know,the air tag, it was like three
houses behind the garden store.
I was like, How did it make?
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Because I was probably like ahalf a mile from there, or maybe
across a four-lane highway.
Yeah.
But it made it.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Anyway, so ever since TuesdayWednesday, it has been at this
house three houses behind thegarden store.
Well, we were doing fig dayslast week, so we were here all
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day long.
And by the time I left, 11o'clock at night, I'm like, I'm
not going to get the cat.
So I'm like, I'll you didn'twant to knock on someone's door.
Yeah.
Because I thought someone hadpicked up the cat and had it in
their house.
That's what I thought.
Well, today I went there justwhile I was really going to the
garden store, and I was like,well, let me circle around, see
if I can find the cat.
So I went and knocked on thedoor, and I was like, the guy
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came and I was like, this isreally weird.
But have you seen a white andgray cat?
He was like, No, I mean, Ihaven't, but we do have stray
cats around here, and there's astorm drain, and I see cats come
in and out of there, and I waslike, Well, that's probably
where he would be, you know.
So I he went back in because Iwas like, okay.
He did get my number.
(07:03):
He's like, if I see it, I'lltext you it over.
So I was like, let me see.
Well, it popped up on my phonethat he was nearby and I could
do the sound.
Well, between these two houses,it was, I guess, the kind of a
little ditch that drains to thestorm drain.
So it's really grown up, youknow, privet and stuff like
that.
And so I hit it and I could hearding ding ding ding ding ding.
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And I was like, oh, the cat's,he must be dead in this little
thicket here.
Because he hadn't moved, he'salways been at the same spot.
And I was like, Mr.
Kitty.
And as soon as I did that, he'slike, Meow! And here he came,
just trotting out of the stuff.
Damnedest thing.
You know, I've never known a catto do this.
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I know.
So Mr.
Kitty went back home to thefarm, and that's why I was a few
minutes late.
Long story long.
I've never known a cat to dothis.
I've known a cat to get in theengine in the winter.
For warmth.
For warmth, but just to keepriding.
And he like knows cars.
Like he's gotten in my car.
He's gotten in my car.
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Daniels.
Daniels.
So I mean, this cat knows.
Like.
Yeah.
And like in Daniels, he gets inall of them.
He gets up in the back, not inthe engine part.
He gets up in the back usually.
And I guess there's littleplaces.
I don't know.
He just rides along.
I don't know.
Mr.
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Kitty needs to learn a lesson.
He does have a bummed legthough, like something scratched
it or it's a little raw in alittle spot, and he was kind of
limping.
And I was like, you deserve alimp for at least a week or two.
And he didn't look endangered.
There was no bones or blood oranything like that.
It was just.
His leg was a little hurting, soI was like, but Mr.
Kitty's back home for today.
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I don't know.
I don't.
Stephen said, please don't getthat cat.
This is it.
Don't go get it.
We're done.
So I think the next time I'm outthere, I'm taking the air tag
off and I'm throwing it out thewindow.
On the way.
Uh-huh.
On my way home.
I feel like I need there needsto be an intervention.
I mean, this is like at leastthe fifth time that the cat has
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gone somewhere and I've had togo get it.
Um, but anyway, so that's theupdate on Mr.
Kitty.
It's Thanksgiving week.
Can you believe it'sThanksgiving already?
Thanksgiving this Thursday.
You got plans?
We are going um to Dylan'sgrandmother's.
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He's big nanny.
That'd be nice.
That'd be nice.
I am taking pecan pies from ourmix that we sell.
Oh yeah.
From San Saba.
Mm-hmm.
So if you don't buy it from us,which you should, you can get it
from William Sonoma for more.
But you can go there and get it.
You can go spend more if youwant.
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So you're taking that, and soyou're going there, and y'all
are just high get fat and happyand fat and happy.
And then Friday back to worklike normal.
We're doing so this year, Danielis staying home.
Because you know, he's beengoing up to his aunt and uncle's
house.
Um, and um this year he'sstaying home.
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So we're gonna, I don't knowwhat we're I guess I'll cook
Thanksgiving something.
Or I'll order something.
Where can you get goodThanksgiving to go?
I need it cooked.
You know, last year I cookedmyself Thanksgiving.
I did the whole spread.
Well, no me, because I wasn'tthere that, but I can't remember
what I did.
Is there somewhere we can orderit good?
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I think um you can get sidesfrom place halls.
Oh, really?
That's good.
Because you know, you can docracker barrel, but I want
something a little better thanthat.
I can't remember.
I might have to look back at myreel that I did.
I think I posted a reel or mystories and see what I did last
year.
I think eventually what I wouldlike to get back doing when
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business permits um with us.
I don't know how that wouldwork.
But I would like to get back todoing trips on Thanksgiving.
Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
I know.
You're in the wrong industry.
I know, but once you retire, youcan do trips.
Well, I'm not gonna retire.
You can do trips for Christmas,you can do trips for Fourth of
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July, but you can't ever do atrip on Thanksgiving.
I know.
That's why I don't go to see myfamily in Tennessee.
I just I just acknowledge.
No, I know.
I'm saying it's just the waythat work in this business does
not work at all.
Um But I did like doing thatback in the day.
In the restaurant business, youcould do that.
Yeah.
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Yes, so that's what we'll be athome.
I hope y'all have a goodThanksgiving.
So I was on social media.
What is your favorite?
No, we're rushing.
Am I favorite thing to eat atThanksgiving?
Oh, okay.
If there's a really good bakedmac and cheese, or, you know,
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like a good one, I love that.
Um maybe like a hash browncasserole.
You know, all those casserolesare so good.
Starches, starches.
One of my favorite things iswhich I'm very, very, very
picky, is dressing.
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But I like the dressing the waythat my grandmother made it.
I'm okay on dressing.
It is not my favorite becausemost people's aren't that good
or something.
I don't know.
I mean most people can't makeit.
It's fine.
I've never gone anywhere andit's bad per se, but dressing
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doesn't just hit me that way.
I love it, but it's I like itwhere you cut it into squares.
Oh, thick and yes.
Yeah.
That good southern, verysouthern country.
It's like all the sides, Ithink.
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All the casseroles.
I mean, I love all of that.
I hate turkey.
Yeah.
My mother hated turkey.
I hate turkey.
It's just pointless.
Y'all, it does not taste.
Get you a good ham.
You will get it.
It's good if you get a deepfried one.
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Yeah, but I mean, that ain'teven a turkey at that point.
You know, it is if it's deepfried, but yeah, get a ham.
I mean, I think a ham is waybetter.
Way better.
Um, I'm trying to think.
Last year I do remember I got agreen bean casserole and it was
gross.
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I'm picky on my green beancasserole.
You have to, here's I'm gonnahelp y'all.
Daniel saw what he was someonewas talking about a green bean
casserole.
I think it was on TikTok.
They put onion rings on top oftheir green bean casserole.
Fried onion rings.
Well, I always mom mom my momalways ate funions.
Oh, funions.
(14:18):
Most people put the the deepfried onions.
Onion, yeah.
And but the trick to a good,people are like, it doesn't make
a difference.
Beans are beans, they're not.
They're not.
The trick to a really good greenbean casserole is to use the
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French style green beans.
You cannot use anything else.
Has to be French.
Let me note that.
French.
Yes.
Green beans.
Yes.
Sounds bougie like you.
They're not I don't know whatthey are.
They look kind of slivered tome.
They're thinner, right?
They're they look like they'vebeen cut to me.
(14:59):
I really don't know what theyare.
Yeah.
Let's see.
What is a French French stylegreen beans.
What is French style greenbeans?
Um comes right up.
French style green beans aretypically either thinly sliced
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lengthwise or or are long,slender green beans called
caricots.
Yes.
So it is.
They are they are sliced, like Isaid.
Oh no, I was right.
But for I guess there's not, Iguess, you know, that it allows
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more of that soup and all thatgoody goody to be, you know,
it's not as much bean per bite.
Yeah.
Makes a difference.
And they cook better.
That's what it is.
Well, that's what we'll bedoing.
Um, okay, so I saw on socialmedia something.
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So, you know, we loveSouthernisms.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So this was, I don't know whatWisconsin would be.
So this is gonna be aWisconsinism.
Because I had never heard this.
So Yankeeism.
Yankee.
But I don't know.
So now I want to know.
So it was a post of a girl.
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She was walking around, I thinkasking everyone in her company,
what do you call, and it's whatwe would call a water fountain.
You know, that's on the wall,like in your school.
Water fountain in the business,you push the button, water.
They all the Wisconsin all thepeople that were from Wisconsin
called them bubblers.
Bubblers?
Yeah.
Bubblers.
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She's like, what do you callthis?
And if they were, and she'd putwhere they were from.
If they were from Wisconsin,they called them bubbler.
A bubbler?
A bubbler?
Hmm.
So what do you call the thing onthe water the thing on the wall
that dispenses water like youhad in school where you can lean
over and drink from it?
Is it a bubbler?
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That's the dumbest thing I'veever heard.
I thought so too.
That sounds like something thatwould be in England.
A bubbler?
You know, in England andAustralia, things are Yeah.
Different names, but a bubbler.
And I was like, I could I justcouldn't even see, I guess
because the water kinda bubblesout and I don't know.
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I I couldn't make my brain go,oh, I can see that.
You know?
Water dispenser.
I'd have been like, okay.
Proper ass bitches up there.
Water.
Yeah.
Water dispensary.
Yeah.
Yeah, but that is a bubbler.
A bubbler.
That is weird.
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I have a, this is a random, um.
We used to do these.
What do you call it?
Like a puzzle?
A brain teaser?
What do you call that?
A um I don't know.
Quit trying to figure it out.
No, what do you call it?
We used to always do these.
A not a puzzle, not a brainteaser, a oh my gosh.
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This is our holiday brain.
Um a riddle?
Riddle.
Is that what we called?
Yeah.
Riddle.
Whatever.
I got one for you.
What gets wetter as it dries?
What gets wetter as it dries?
As it dries.
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I thought you would get this oneright off the bat.
What gets wetter as it dries?
If you're listening, scream itout to yourself when you know.
Umbrella?
No.
That could be kinda what getswetter.
Well, I guess an umbrelladoesn't dry.
You're kinda on the right theright thing there.
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What gets wetter as it dries?
No.
A towel.
A towel.
A towel.
I thought a towel, but what thatmakes sense.
Yeah, as you dry your body off,as it's drying the act of
drying, it's absorbingingredients.
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Yeah.
There you go.
Mm-hmm.
Um do you got anything in yournotes or am I caring this
podcast?
I don't have a damn thing.
Nothing?
I guess that's it.
We'll see you.
No, I have a new ick.
A new social media ick has beendelivered and dropped in my lap,
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and we got to talk about it.
What is it?
I sent it to you.
Don't even remember.
Oh, yes, I do.
People using.
And if you have this up in yourhouse, I am telling you.
You tacky.
90% it looks wrong.
And I want you to send me apicture if you think yours looks
right, and we will we will letyou know.
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Otherwise, I want you to takethis shit down, okay?
But the new Instagram ick isthese people using these shower
rods, these cheap white, ormaybe even gold shower rods,
plastic coated, just pinchingrods to put in their doorways to
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loop their garland around.
Just don't.
Just don't.
You don't need that there ifyou're gonna do it like that.
And they're doing it, I thinkthere's so many things that are
wrong about it.
It could be right if you wereusing the rod all the way up
against your door frame, andyou're like, I don't want to put
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nails, and you put it up there,and then you use that.
Completely hide it, too.
Yes, to make it look like it'sgoing over the door.
Yeah, as a mechanic, amechanism.
You could tie to it, you couldwire to it, you could make it
look like the garlands.
But these people are wrappingthem, man.
They're proud of it.
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And they'll have it in hugedoorways because there's so many
open floor plans now.
And it won't even be like it'dbe just like what?
Eight feet.
Eight feet tall.
And then there's opening aboveit.
And they don't even wrap it.
Right.
You can see the damn cur thedamn shower rod in there.
It is tacky.
That's the only thing.
And then why don't you, ifyou're gonna do it, they don't,
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they'll just go right across.
They don't do anything down thesides to frame it.
Bless you, sorry.
Frame it in or nothing.
I'm like, who puts this up andthinks it looks good?
That's the only thing.
You sent me that.
That is the only thing that hasbeen bothersome with I've seen
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with people's ChristmasChristmas decor this year.
But it's early.
It is early.
There'll be some other screw up.
But just don't.
Like if you're if it don't tryto make something happen that
you can't make happen.
Right.
Because save the save the time.
You and I talked about this.
I remember when you sent itbecause I said, you know, mine
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are 16 feet.
Your door opens.
Oh, well, some of them are no,they're not 16, but they're 14
feet.
Yeah.
Or 13 feet.
And I said, Well, I could seeusing that as a mechanic if I
wanted to do a lavish garland.
At the same time Because youwouldn't know.
You wouldn't know it was there.
Right.
If you use it up there and hideit properly.
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As if it was the door frame.
Like you had it, you know,screwed up there.
Yeah.
But like if you came to my houseand I had that floating at eight
feet and all that, and be like,what the hell is this?
It looks stupid.
What is this?
That's what I would say.
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Let's do it at your house.
We'll talk about it how ugly itis.
We can do that.
It just has come outimmediately.
But I'm like, why?
Why?
There's plenty of other thingsto decorate.
Decorate a table, your mantle.
There's plenty of places to puta garland.
Your staircase.
Windows.
Yeah.
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Why you gotta try to get acheap-looking shower rod?
And like I said, I could see ifyou did it like at your front
door or even a door that's aregular size opening, and you
put it all the way up againstthe top, but you're like, I
don't want to drill, I don'twant to attach anything, and you
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use it as a bar to attach stuffto, and it's completely hitting.
It doesn't match as a mechanic,but that's what people don't do.
They just and they go, I mean,they're they're at Walmart
getting their shower curtainrod, and they walk over there
and get that$9.99 garland thatyou need about 75 packs of to
make it look like anything.
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They get two packs, and you cansee yeah, it's just bad.
The other thing that is on trendfor Christmas that I've noticed,
I like it when done correctly.
But that's a big win.
A win is the um the tablepedestals for your tree.
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That can be good.
That can be good, but it needsto be It's gotta be in scale.
And it's gotta be right.
All you want are the legs.
Yeah.
Like this much for your like afoot for the base and then if
that.
Yeah.
But you don't take it up threefeet and then put your it looks
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stupid.
Yeah, they're doing it tableheight and then putting their
tree in there.
No, no, no, no, no.
If that looks dumb.
Don't you agree?
I do.
But evidently that's but nowI've seen people that do it the
way we're talking about, andthen it's cute.
It's gotta be the scale of thetree, too.
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You can't have a little ass treeon this big ass base.
Yeah.
You're right.
I forgot about that one.
I'm gonna put it.
I mean, it does look good ifit's done correctly.
Let's call out some people onsocial media that haven't done
it right.
Like this ugly thing.
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Look, let's see how this does.
Well, see, that would be fine ifyou cut it right there.
But they didn't.
Maybe she did.
MB, I think, did one.
SPEAKER_01 (25:44):
And a Christmas tree didn't hold it.
SPEAKER_00 (25:47):
Hers look good.
Yeah, hers is really short.
And it's a scale.
Yeah.
It's actually beautiful tablebase.
See, that's how you do it.
The right way.
She did do it right.
That looks good.
It does.
But not when it's uh four feetoff the damn floor.
Look.
(26:07):
Looks like it's sitting on atable.
Yeah, look, she's just takingdummy is taking the table top
off.
She thinks she's done.
SPEAKER_01 (26:17):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00 (26:19):
Drilling a hole down the center, and you know that
tree's gonna be leaning.
That dumbass took a blower justto blow off the sawdust.
And then she's got this littleThat tree is from the dang.
Mm-mm.
And look, you see, there you gofrom beauty done beautifully,
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correctly, to all wrongly tojust wrong.
Run it.
Run it.
That is crazy.
That is um one that I've beenseeing.
And you know they got thosetrees in there and they're just
wobbly as hell.
Didn't do it right.
You know, if they look likethat, they are just just wrong.
(27:03):
Mm-hmm.
So wrong.
All right.
So, anyway, now that we'veknocked those people down.
We should call.
I wish there were phone numberson there so we could call and
say Houser Treaty.
Why'd you do that?
Why'd you do that?
Let's talk about your design.
We're the design police.
In today's design police We needa TV show on Bramo called the
(27:25):
Design Police.
We just roll up the people.
We do need, you know how theyhad fashion police and they
would talk about everyone'soutfits?
We need that for decor.
We could pop up the reel on thescreen and we can analyze how
they did it wrong.
We're we're very good at that.
Well, I've always said I think Ineeded to have a business where
(27:49):
I just drove throughneighborhoods and like had a
little form that I fill out onwhat's wrong with their house,
how they can improve the curbappeal, paint choices,
everything.
Just drop it off.
Have the paint samples there.
Like you pick through yourSherlin Williams samples, you
(28:11):
attach it to the sheet.
Here's my recommended for yourdoor and shutters.
Here's what you need to paintyour porch.
I mean, like my cousin's house,very pretty home, very nice
neighborhood, across the streetis an idiot.
Now their door is likefluorescent.
(28:31):
Yeah.
And I'm like, I could look atthat every day.
I would have to go over and belike, uh-uh.
Well, you did do that in yourold neighborhood.
Oh, I did.
I forgot about that.
Oh my God.
We talked about that before.
You did that.
I forgot about I took them paintsamples.
Yes! I don't know why this is atotally new idea.
(28:55):
You've done this.
You've lived it.
But see, nowadays we'd be theperfect time for a business like
this because with AI and stuff,you could take a photo of their
house with and then have it putin the colors you recommend.
Print that out on the sheet,too.
They had bought the house that Iowned.
So they bought the house from menext door to me.
(29:17):
Yeah.
So they were, you know, first ofall, you're you bought my house,
and you're gonna mess up with dochanging.
Your old house.
Yeah.
And the house you had flipped.
Yeah.
And so I pull in the driveway.
I almost turned the car over.
It they had painted this door.
(29:38):
They were trying to do a Tiffanyblue.
Mm-hmm.
And it was it was what was itlike baby blue, powder blue,
tropical flores.
Tropical looking.
It was horrible.
I mean, it was so bad.
And I was like, oh my gosh.
(30:00):
We cannot leave this door thisway.
I cannot look at this, and youhave ruined my Monet.
And so we picked out paint.
We got that thing repainted.
We you picked out paint.
I instructed.
And you went over there, youwent, knocked on their door, and
(30:20):
said, This isn't working.
You got to redo this.
Here are the choices.
Yes.
I know.
Yes.
But that was a service I wasoffering.
A free service.
And it was free to theneighborhood.
Yeah.
You were just like.
I was keeping them in line.
Yeah.
(30:41):
Keeping them from embarrassingthemselves.
This is the whole reason.
So he moved out of theneighborhood, not because of
that.
But he's at the meal now, youknow, which is a community, I
guess you would say.
Yeah.
Um thing.
So that's why he had to get hisass on the board at the at the
home at the mobs, so that hecould control the call.
(31:02):
The first thing was they'regonna be doing some painting.
I got to get on the board.
That's what you said.
You said they're gonna, there'ssome painting projects coming
up, and I got to get on theboard.
He's on the board, all right.
Listen.
Sorry, y'all.
I'm eating a ginger snap.
Times are rough.
So good.
Um find them at thenasyfig.com.
(31:25):
Yeah.
Fancy pants.
We um I mean, I don't know alot.
I don't there's I don't knowanything about engineering.
Right.
I don't know anything aboutelectrical work, plumbing.
I mean, I know little would bedangerous, but would I have good
taste?
So let's just listen to that.
Right.
It's a talent.
(31:46):
Right.
It is.
And somebody some people listen,if y'all know if y'all are out
there and you're like, I don'tlike your damn taste.
I think your taste is tacky.
That's okay.
You're just one of those thatdoesn't have good taste.
That's pretty.
Um, I mean, you know, I alwaystry to consider.
(32:11):
And sometimes there's not a goodanswer for a problem.
He tries to listen to otherpeople's suggestions, but in the
end.
Okay, here was one situation atat the mill.
So that mill was built in 1895.
Right.
That brick was hand poured onsite.
Yes.
There's no brick like thatanywhere in this world.
(32:33):
Right.
And right there.
We had an issue where we hadinterior brick on the exterior
of the building.
We had to do something to seal.
Yeah.
And the most cost-effectiveoption was something that had
would be had basically a paint.
Yeah.
(32:53):
A water sealant paint.
Still extremely expensive.
They came to me and they weregoing.
I mean, they I listen, I amgiving that board, I was not on
that board at that time.
I am giving them, I was off ofit for three years.
I am giving them props.
(33:14):
Those people all on that boardwere smart enough to know, hmm,
maybe we need to ask Stevenabout this.
Uh-huh.
I mean, that takes Okay, butsee, here's the other side of
that.
Stephen feels like they valuedyour opinion.
Like, oh my God, Stephen is thething.
(33:35):
They probably didn't want tohear me bitch.
Yes, that's the truth.
See, Stephen thinks, oh, I'm theone because they know I have
good taste, a good eye for decorand color.
They came and consulted me.
But really, behind the scenes,it was like, we need to go ask
Steven Mert because we don'twant to have to listen to him.
(33:56):
Y'all know how he will act ifthis doesn't look right.
Either way, it was a gooddecision.
Okay.
And so, you know, and they werevery, very nice.
They were like, we have somepeople that wanting this, some
people wanting this.
And I was like, and they were,you know, and I was like, well,
where are we leaning?
(34:16):
And they said, Well, we're allthinking we want to match the
paint to this brick.
Oh, like color match the brickto the oh hell no.
I said, it cannot be done.
Right.
(34:37):
That ship has sailed.
Well, and brick has tones andtextures and it's a hundred and
what, a hundred and thirty yearsold.
And if you tried to color matchit, you're matching one pigment.
Yeah, it's gonna be tacky.
It's gonna look like there wasgraffiti there, and y'all had to
like covered it up.
(34:57):
Yeah.
So I chose like an Urbanebronze.
Yeah.
And I'm like, that will go away.
Yeah.
And at first, you know, andthere were people that didn't
like it.
But of course.
At first, but it doesn't takeaway from the building.
Yeah.
I wanted something to just It'sjust that you don't even notice
it.
Disappears.
And I don't know if you've evennoticed it since we I don't
(35:20):
know.
You do not know.
I noticed it because you pointedout, like, look how good this
looks, because it's just onesection, one big wall section.
It does look really good.
But then when you drive up, youdon't notice no one else would
even notice that's even there.
No.
I mean, I of course I wanted totake it to a next level and do,
and I still would like to, but Ijust I I don't know.
(35:42):
And I'm not smart enough to knowon the construction side.
I feel like it's probably not agood idea.
But I thought it would have beencool to take like um stainless
wire, like roping wire and likegrow, right?
Like Confederate jack, but itwould have been beautiful.
It would have been beautiful.
(36:02):
But you don't want to be.
It's not always best for thebuilding.
Yeah, you don't want anything onthe building, and then when that
paint does chip off eventually,you have to take the vine down
and start over and all that.
That's right.
So that's if you need advice,just call Stephen or me.
We're happy to give it to you.
(36:23):
We need to call Bravo.
We've got to we've got to dothat.
Do we have any Bravo connectionsout there?
Does anyone have a connection toget us somewhere?
You're gonna have to pause thatright now and we'll flood this
place.
Well, I say it's time to wrapthis up anyway.
Do you have anything else?
Can you wait two minutes?
Yeah, I can wait two minutes.
(36:44):
Are you gonna cut that out, Ihope?
No.
Oh my gosh.
This is the way we roll.
I don't we barely have time todo a podcast.
You think I got time to do that?
We cut them out last season.
You think I got time to editthis?
Last Christmas season we didn'tdo them.
No, we did podcasts all the wayup through mid-December.
Did we?
Yeah.
You keep thinking that.
We stopped mid-December, so weonly have a few more coming up,
(37:06):
probably like three weeks.
And then we'll stop and we don'tdo podcasts again until we get
back from Atlanta Market in lateJanuary.
So it's like a month.
Five weeks, I think is what itnormally is.
Anyway, we do have to pull thisbaby over tonight.
I know it's kind of a shorterone, but something's better than
nothing, right?
Right.
Steven has to pull this babyover and take a little potty
(37:27):
break, and then we have a livesell today because it's the
holiday season and it's Sundaynight.
It's the holiday season.
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(38:10):
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Bye.
Bye, y'all.
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I'm a little light.
A little light, a little lost.
A little light, a little lost,and a food light because we
didn't even do a podcast lastweek.
But it's time for anotherepisode of Who's Driving?
Welcome to Foos Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner and I'mStephen Murray with Two Best
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These are the stories we shareand topics we discuss Two Best
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All we know is it's always a funride.
Sorry, y'all.
We have been so damn busy.
That's just an excuse.
It is an excuse.
It is an excuse, but it's alsothe truth.
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I'm rolling in today because Italked to you like a little over
an hour ago.
It's like I'll be there right atthis time.
Oh, I was only 15 minutes late,so I'm very proud of myself.
You are not mad.
I had not even started cursingyou at the lab breath.
(01:26):
Yeah, that's on time for me.
Yeah.
But if you've been watching ourlive sales last week, I know a
lot of you do, but if you don't,you should.
That's true.
You should.
Um, Mr.
Kitty, we've talked about Mr.
Kitty on here that likes to ridearound.
Mr.
Kitty went on a new ride thisweek.
(01:46):
Mm-hmm.
You got cat hair off all overyou.
Spoiler alert, I found the damncat.
Found the damn cat, so let'smove on.
No.
So I didn't even tell you, Ithink I've since told you this.
So back up, like two weeks ago,the cat.
We have this cat, if you don'tknow, Mr.
Kitty.
He's still a kitten, I guess.
(02:06):
I mean, I got him in July, andhe was little then, but you
know, so he's he's a teenager,maybe.
He has been fixed.
It's not a fixed thing.
What he's done this his wholelife, and it's actually where an
employee found him up in theircar.
So that's where she found him?
Yes.
That's where this has been goingon since it's a genetic issue.
(02:28):
Yes.
Probably how we got to herhouse.
So anyway, this cat a few timestook a ride, and you know, I
happened to find it.
Came here to the warehouse.
One time Steven saw it jump outat the gas station down from our
house.
It was in Steven's car.
A week later, I found it therebecause I kept circling around,
checking it out.
So I finally put an air tag onit.
(02:49):
So the air tags work becauseI'll usually check at home and
be like, oh, he's there, or youknow, but sometimes you're in a
damn hurry.
You just gotta go.
So one time I was on my way hereand I was like, oh, it didn't
say cat is no longer with you.
Because I have it set, so when Iget so many, how it's just
natural.
My iPad pops up on my cars whenI leave.
(03:12):
AirPad left behind.
iPad.
Yeah, iPad left behind.
I'm like, good.
I meant for it too.
Yeah, that's how my AirPods dothat too.
And I'm like, good.
So the cat will do that.
So I know by the time I get tothe main highway, it'll say
airpods left behind, cat leftbehind.
I'm like, I'm good to go.
Well, this one day it didn't,and I was like, cat's with me,
got to turn around, blah, blah,blah, blah.
(03:33):
Well, a couple of weeks ago,Daniel went to a flower farmer
meeting.
We were here, and I don't knowwhat made me, I remembered when
I was leaving here like thatnight, I remembered that
Daniel's van was parked next toour garage, which he normally
parks out further away, so it'snot a cat issue because he's
(03:53):
near the flower workshop.
So I was like, let me see wherethe cat is.
And it was going down the road.
Luckily, Daniel was on his wayback.
And but he had gone all the wayacross town, went to a flower
flower farmer meeting, was therefor three hours.
The cat stayed in up inunderneath his car and then was
(04:14):
riding back.
I was like, Are you at thisplace?
He's like, Yeah, how'd you know?
I was like, the cat's with you.
Well, last Tuesday, um, Danielwent to take the cat, the dog to
get groom, Charlie, and it'sdown the street from our garden
shop.
And then he went from there toHarris Teeter, then Harris
(04:35):
Teeter to the garden store, madethis whole round.
Well, that night, I don't thinkI noticed, yeah, the next night,
or maybe it was that same night,I was like, oh, where's the cat?
I didn't see it tonight.
Because normally when we gethome from doing lives, because
we were doing them all day, noone has fed him.
I intentionally don't leave foodout for him, so that if I'm
(04:56):
getting in my car, I'll shakethe bag and feed him, or if I
get home anyway.
It was like 11:30 at night, andI was like, let me track the
cat.
Well, the cat was at HarrisTeeter parking lot.
This was Tuesday a week ago.
Today is Sunday.
So yeah.
Um, or five days ago.
Tuesday, five days ago.
(05:16):
So then I was like, it's 11:30at night.
That is 15 miles from my house.
I am not going to get this damncat.
Like, no, it is too late.
So then I was doing stuff, andthen I didn't go to bed till
like two.
I was like, let me see where thecat is.
And it was like on a differentstreet, across the road, kind of
(05:37):
like different neighborhood.
And I was like, well, he's stillmoving.
And then the next day, Danielcame in for lunch or whatever,
and I was like, Oh, you took thecat with you yesterday.
And he's like, Oh my gosh, whereis it?
So it ended up randomly.
Then I looked at it, you know,the air tag, it was like three
houses behind the garden store.
I was like, How did it make?
(05:58):
Because I was probably like ahalf a mile from there, or maybe
across a four-lane highway.
Yeah.
But it made it.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Anyway, so ever since TuesdayWednesday, it has been at this
house three houses behind thegarden store.
Well, we were doing fig dayslast week, so we were here all
(06:19):
day long.
And by the time I left, 11o'clock at night, I'm like, I'm
not going to get the cat.
So I'm like, I'll you didn'twant to knock on someone's door.
Yeah.
Because I thought someone hadpicked up the cat and had it in
their house.
That's what I thought.
Well, today I went there justwhile I was really going to the
garden store, and I was like,well, let me circle around, see
if I can find the cat.
So I went and knocked on thedoor, and I was like, the guy
(06:42):
came and I was like, this isreally weird.
But have you seen a white andgray cat?
He was like, No, I mean, Ihaven't, but we do have stray
cats around here, and there's astorm drain, and I see cats come
in and out of there, and I waslike, Well, that's probably
where he would be, you know.
So I he went back in because Iwas like, okay.
He did get my number.
(07:03):
He's like, if I see it, I'lltext you it over.
So I was like, let me see.
Well, it popped up on my phonethat he was nearby and I could
do the sound.
Well, between these two houses,it was, I guess, the kind of a
little ditch that drains to thestorm drain.
So it's really grown up, youknow, privet and stuff like
that.
And so I hit it and I could hearding ding ding ding ding ding.
(07:23):
And I was like, oh, the cat's,he must be dead in this little
thicket here.
Because he hadn't moved, he'salways been at the same spot.
And I was like, Mr.
Kitty.
And as soon as I did that, he'slike, Meow! And here he came,
just trotting out of the stuff.
Damnedest thing.
You know, I've never known a catto do this.
(07:46):
I know.
So Mr.
Kitty went back home to thefarm, and that's why I was a few
minutes late.
Long story long.
I've never known a cat to dothis.
I've known a cat to get in theengine in the winter.
For warmth.
For warmth, but just to keepriding.
And he like knows cars.
Like he's gotten in my car.
He's gotten in my car.
(08:07):
Daniels.
Daniels.
So I mean, this cat knows.
Like.
Yeah.
And like in Daniels, he gets inall of them.
He gets up in the back, not inthe engine part.
He gets up in the back usually.
And I guess there's littleplaces.
I don't know.
He just rides along.
I don't know.
Mr.
(08:28):
Kitty needs to learn a lesson.
He does have a bummed legthough, like something scratched
it or it's a little raw in alittle spot, and he was kind of
limping.
And I was like, you deserve alimp for at least a week or two.
And he didn't look endangered.
There was no bones or blood oranything like that.
It was just.
His leg was a little hurting, soI was like, but Mr.
Kitty's back home for today.
(08:50):
I don't know.
I don't.
Stephen said, please don't getthat cat.
This is it.
Don't go get it.
We're done.
So I think the next time I'm outthere, I'm taking the air tag
off and I'm throwing it out thewindow.
On the way.
Uh-huh.
On my way home.
I feel like I need there needsto be an intervention.
I mean, this is like at leastthe fifth time that the cat has
(09:11):
gone somewhere and I've had togo get it.
Um, but anyway, so that's theupdate on Mr.
Kitty.
It's Thanksgiving week.
Can you believe it'sThanksgiving already?
Thanksgiving this Thursday.
You got plans?
We are going um to Dylan'sgrandmother's.
(09:34):
He's big nanny.
That'd be nice.
That'd be nice.
I am taking pecan pies from ourmix that we sell.
Oh yeah.
From San Saba.
Mm-hmm.
So if you don't buy it from us,which you should, you can get it
from William Sonoma for more.
But you can go there and get it.
You can go spend more if youwant.
(09:56):
So you're taking that, and soyou're going there, and y'all
are just high get fat and happyand fat and happy.
And then Friday back to worklike normal.
We're doing so this year, Danielis staying home.
Because you know, he's beengoing up to his aunt and uncle's
house.
Um, and um this year he'sstaying home.
(10:20):
So we're gonna, I don't knowwhat we're I guess I'll cook
Thanksgiving something.
Or I'll order something.
Where can you get goodThanksgiving to go?
I need it cooked.
You know, last year I cookedmyself Thanksgiving.
I did the whole spread.
Well, no me, because I wasn'tthere that, but I can't remember
what I did.
Is there somewhere we can orderit good?
(10:40):
I think um you can get sidesfrom place halls.
Oh, really?
That's good.
Because you know, you can docracker barrel, but I want
something a little better thanthat.
I can't remember.
I might have to look back at myreel that I did.
I think I posted a reel or mystories and see what I did last
year.
I think eventually what I wouldlike to get back doing when
(11:02):
business permits um with us.
I don't know how that wouldwork.
But I would like to get back todoing trips on Thanksgiving.
Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
I know.
You're in the wrong industry.
I know, but once you retire, youcan do trips.
Well, I'm not gonna retire.
You can do trips for Christmas,you can do trips for Fourth of
(11:27):
July, but you can't ever do atrip on Thanksgiving.
I know.
That's why I don't go to see myfamily in Tennessee.
I just I just acknowledge.
No, I know.
I'm saying it's just the waythat work in this business does
not work at all.
Um But I did like doing thatback in the day.
In the restaurant business, youcould do that.
Yeah.
(11:48):
Yes, so that's what we'll be athome.
I hope y'all have a goodThanksgiving.
So I was on social media.
What is your favorite?
No, we're rushing.
Am I favorite thing to eat atThanksgiving?
Oh, okay.
If there's a really good bakedmac and cheese, or, you know,
(12:12):
like a good one, I love that.
Um maybe like a hash browncasserole.
You know, all those casserolesare so good.
Starches, starches.
One of my favorite things iswhich I'm very, very, very
picky, is dressing.
(12:33):
But I like the dressing the waythat my grandmother made it.
I'm okay on dressing.
It is not my favorite becausemost people's aren't that good
or something.
I don't know.
I mean most people can't makeit.
It's fine.
I've never gone anywhere andit's bad per se, but dressing
(12:55):
doesn't just hit me that way.
I love it, but it's I like itwhere you cut it into squares.
Oh, thick and yes.
Yeah.
That good southern, verysouthern country.
It's like all the sides, Ithink.
(13:16):
All the casseroles.
I mean, I love all of that.
I hate turkey.
Yeah.
My mother hated turkey.
I hate turkey.
It's just pointless.
Y'all, it does not taste.
Get you a good ham.
You will get it.
It's good if you get a deepfried one.
(13:36):
Yeah, but I mean, that ain'teven a turkey at that point.
You know, it is if it's deepfried, but yeah, get a ham.
I mean, I think a ham is waybetter.
Way better.
Um, I'm trying to think.
Last year I do remember I got agreen bean casserole and it was
gross.
(13:57):
I'm picky on my green beancasserole.
You have to, here's I'm gonnahelp y'all.
Daniel saw what he was someonewas talking about a green bean
casserole.
I think it was on TikTok.
They put onion rings on top oftheir green bean casserole.
Fried onion rings.
Well, I always mom mom my momalways ate funions.
Oh, funions.
(14:18):
Most people put the the deepfried onions.
Onion, yeah.
And but the trick to a good,people are like, it doesn't make
a difference.
Beans are beans, they're not.
They're not.
The trick to a really good greenbean casserole is to use the
(14:38):
French style green beans.
You cannot use anything else.
Has to be French.
Let me note that.
French.
Yes.
Green beans.
Yes.
Sounds bougie like you.
They're not I don't know whatthey are.
They look kind of slivered tome.
They're thinner, right?
They're they look like they'vebeen cut to me.
(14:59):
I really don't know what theyare.
Yeah.
Let's see.
What is a French French stylegreen beans.
What is French style greenbeans?
Um comes right up.
French style green beans aretypically either thinly sliced
(15:21):
lengthwise or or are long,slender green beans called
caricots.
Yes.
So it is.
They are they are sliced, like Isaid.
Oh no, I was right.
But for I guess there's not, Iguess, you know, that it allows
(15:42):
more of that soup and all thatgoody goody to be, you know,
it's not as much bean per bite.
Yeah.
Makes a difference.
And they cook better.
That's what it is.
Well, that's what we'll bedoing.
Um, okay, so I saw on socialmedia something.
(16:03):
So, you know, we loveSouthernisms.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So this was, I don't know whatWisconsin would be.
So this is gonna be aWisconsinism.
Because I had never heard this.
So Yankeeism.
Yankee.
But I don't know.
So now I want to know.
So it was a post of a girl.
(16:23):
She was walking around, I thinkasking everyone in her company,
what do you call, and it's whatwe would call a water fountain.
You know, that's on the wall,like in your school.
Water fountain in the business,you push the button, water.
They all the Wisconsin all thepeople that were from Wisconsin
called them bubblers.
Bubblers?
Yeah.
Bubblers.
(16:44):
She's like, what do you callthis?
And if they were, and she'd putwhere they were from.
If they were from Wisconsin,they called them bubbler.
A bubbler?
A bubbler?
Hmm.
So what do you call the thing onthe water the thing on the wall
that dispenses water like youhad in school where you can lean
over and drink from it?
Is it a bubbler?
(17:04):
That's the dumbest thing I'veever heard.
I thought so too.
That sounds like something thatwould be in England.
A bubbler?
You know, in England andAustralia, things are Yeah.
Different names, but a bubbler.
And I was like, I could I justcouldn't even see, I guess
because the water kinda bubblesout and I don't know.
(17:27):
I I couldn't make my brain go,oh, I can see that.
You know?
Water dispenser.
I'd have been like, okay.
Proper ass bitches up there.
Water.
Yeah.
Water dispensary.
Yeah.
Yeah, but that is a bubbler.
A bubbler.
That is weird.
(17:48):
I have a, this is a random, um.
We used to do these.
What do you call it?
Like a puzzle?
A brain teaser?
What do you call that?
A um I don't know.
Quit trying to figure it out.
No, what do you call it?
We used to always do these.
A not a puzzle, not a brainteaser, a oh my gosh.
(18:16):
This is our holiday brain.
Um a riddle?
Riddle.
Is that what we called?
Yeah.
Riddle.
Whatever.
I got one for you.
What gets wetter as it dries?
What gets wetter as it dries?
As it dries.
(18:36):
I thought you would get this oneright off the bat.
What gets wetter as it dries?
If you're listening, scream itout to yourself when you know.
Umbrella?
No.
That could be kinda what getswetter.
Well, I guess an umbrelladoesn't dry.
You're kinda on the right theright thing there.
(19:03):
What gets wetter as it dries?
No.
A towel.
A towel.
A towel.
I thought a towel, but what thatmakes sense.
Yeah, as you dry your body off,as it's drying the act of
drying, it's absorbingingredients.
(19:28):
Yeah.
There you go.
Mm-hmm.
Um do you got anything in yournotes or am I caring this
podcast?
I don't have a damn thing.
Nothing?
I guess that's it.
We'll see you.
No, I have a new ick.
A new social media ick has beendelivered and dropped in my lap,
(19:52):
and we got to talk about it.
What is it?
I sent it to you.
Don't even remember.
Oh, yes, I do.
People using.
And if you have this up in yourhouse, I am telling you.
You tacky.
90% it looks wrong.
And I want you to send me apicture if you think yours looks
right, and we will we will letyou know.
(20:13):
Otherwise, I want you to takethis shit down, okay?
But the new Instagram ick isthese people using these shower
rods, these cheap white, ormaybe even gold shower rods,
plastic coated, just pinchingrods to put in their doorways to
(20:34):
loop their garland around.
Just don't.
Just don't.
You don't need that there ifyou're gonna do it like that.
And they're doing it, I thinkthere's so many things that are
wrong about it.
It could be right if you wereusing the rod all the way up
against your door frame, andyou're like, I don't want to put
(20:55):
nails, and you put it up there,and then you use that.
Completely hide it, too.
Yes, to make it look like it'sgoing over the door.
Yeah, as a mechanic, amechanism.
You could tie to it, you couldwire to it, you could make it
look like the garlands.
But these people are wrappingthem, man.
They're proud of it.
(21:15):
And they'll have it in hugedoorways because there's so many
open floor plans now.
And it won't even be like it'dbe just like what?
Eight feet.
Eight feet tall.
And then there's opening aboveit.
And they don't even wrap it.
Right.
You can see the damn cur thedamn shower rod in there.
It is tacky.
That's the only thing.
And then why don't you, ifyou're gonna do it, they don't,
(21:38):
they'll just go right across.
They don't do anything down thesides to frame it.
Bless you, sorry.
Frame it in or nothing.
I'm like, who puts this up andthinks it looks good?
That's the only thing.
You sent me that.
That is the only thing that hasbeen bothersome with I've seen
(21:58):
with people's ChristmasChristmas decor this year.
But it's early.
It is early.
There'll be some other screw up.
But just don't.
Like if you're if it don't tryto make something happen that
you can't make happen.
Right.
Because save the save the time.
You and I talked about this.
I remember when you sent itbecause I said, you know, mine
(22:19):
are 16 feet.
Your door opens.
Oh, well, some of them are no,they're not 16, but they're 14
feet.
Yeah.
Or 13 feet.
And I said, Well, I could seeusing that as a mechanic if I
wanted to do a lavish garland.
At the same time Because youwouldn't know.
You wouldn't know it was there.
Right.
If you use it up there and hideit properly.
(22:41):
As if it was the door frame.
Like you had it, you know,screwed up there.
Yeah.
But like if you came to my houseand I had that floating at eight
feet and all that, and be like,what the hell is this?
It looks stupid.
What is this?
That's what I would say.
(23:02):
Let's do it at your house.
We'll talk about it how ugly itis.
We can do that.
It just has come outimmediately.
But I'm like, why?
Why?
There's plenty of other thingsto decorate.
Decorate a table, your mantle.
There's plenty of places to puta garland.
Your staircase.
Windows.
Yeah.
(23:22):
Why you gotta try to get acheap-looking shower rod?
And like I said, I could see ifyou did it like at your front
door or even a door that's aregular size opening, and you
put it all the way up againstthe top, but you're like, I
don't want to drill, I don'twant to attach anything, and you
(23:44):
use it as a bar to attach stuffto, and it's completely hitting.
It doesn't match as a mechanic,but that's what people don't do.
They just and they go, I mean,they're they're at Walmart
getting their shower curtainrod, and they walk over there
and get that$9.99 garland thatyou need about 75 packs of to
make it look like anything.
(24:05):
They get two packs, and you cansee yeah, it's just bad.
The other thing that is on trendfor Christmas that I've noticed,
I like it when done correctly.
But that's a big win.
A win is the um the tablepedestals for your tree.
(24:29):
That can be good.
That can be good, but it needsto be It's gotta be in scale.
And it's gotta be right.
All you want are the legs.
Yeah.
Like this much for your like afoot for the base and then if
that.
Yeah.
But you don't take it up threefeet and then put your it looks
(24:50):
stupid.
Yeah, they're doing it tableheight and then putting their
tree in there.
No, no, no, no, no.
If that looks dumb.
Don't you agree?
I do.
But evidently that's but nowI've seen people that do it the
way we're talking about, andthen it's cute.
It's gotta be the scale of thetree, too.
(25:10):
You can't have a little ass treeon this big ass base.
Yeah.
You're right.
I forgot about that one.
I'm gonna put it.
I mean, it does look good ifit's done correctly.
Let's call out some people onsocial media that haven't done
it right.
Like this ugly thing.
(25:32):
Look, let's see how this does.
Well, see, that would be fine ifyou cut it right there.
But they didn't.
Maybe she did.
MB, I think, did one.
SPEAKER_01 (25:44):
And a Christmas tree didn't hold it.
SPEAKER_00 (25:47):
Hers look good.
Yeah, hers is really short.
And it's a scale.
Yeah.
It's actually beautiful tablebase.
See, that's how you do it.
The right way.
She did do it right.
That looks good.
It does.
But not when it's uh four feetoff the damn floor.
Look.
(26:07):
Looks like it's sitting on atable.
Yeah, look, she's just takingdummy is taking the table top
off.
She thinks she's done.
SPEAKER_01 (26:17):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00 (26:19):
Drilling a hole down the center, and you know that
tree's gonna be leaning.
That dumbass took a blower justto blow off the sawdust.
And then she's got this littleThat tree is from the dang.
Mm-mm.
And look, you see, there you gofrom beauty done beautifully,
(26:40):
correctly, to all wrongly tojust wrong.
Run it.
Run it.
That is crazy.
That is um one that I've beenseeing.
And you know they got thosetrees in there and they're just
wobbly as hell.
Didn't do it right.
You know, if they look likethat, they are just just wrong.
(27:03):
Mm-hmm.
So wrong.
All right.
So, anyway, now that we'veknocked those people down.
We should call.
I wish there were phone numberson there so we could call and
say Houser Treaty.
Why'd you do that?
Why'd you do that?
Let's talk about your design.
We're the design police.
In today's design police We needa TV show on Bramo called the
(27:25):
Design Police.
We just roll up the people.
We do need, you know how theyhad fashion police and they
would talk about everyone'soutfits?
We need that for decor.
We could pop up the reel on thescreen and we can analyze how
they did it wrong.
We're we're very good at that.
Well, I've always said I think Ineeded to have a business where
(27:49):
I just drove throughneighborhoods and like had a
little form that I fill out onwhat's wrong with their house,
how they can improve the curbappeal, paint choices,
everything.
Just drop it off.
Have the paint samples there.
Like you pick through yourSherlin Williams samples, you
(28:11):
attach it to the sheet.
Here's my recommended for yourdoor and shutters.
Here's what you need to paintyour porch.
I mean, like my cousin's house,very pretty home, very nice
neighborhood, across the streetis an idiot.
Now their door is likefluorescent.
(28:31):
Yeah.
And I'm like, I could look atthat every day.
I would have to go over and belike, uh-uh.
Well, you did do that in yourold neighborhood.
Oh, I did.
I forgot about that.
Oh my God.
We talked about that before.
You did that.
I forgot about I took them paintsamples.
Yes! I don't know why this is atotally new idea.
(28:55):
You've done this.
You've lived it.
But see, nowadays we'd be theperfect time for a business like
this because with AI and stuff,you could take a photo of their
house with and then have it putin the colors you recommend.
Print that out on the sheet,too.
They had bought the house that Iowned.
So they bought the house from menext door to me.
(29:17):
Yeah.
So they were, you know, first ofall, you're you bought my house,
and you're gonna mess up with dochanging.
Your old house.
Yeah.
And the house you had flipped.
Yeah.
And so I pull in the driveway.
I almost turned the car over.
It they had painted this door.
(29:38):
They were trying to do a Tiffanyblue.
Mm-hmm.
And it was it was what was itlike baby blue, powder blue,
tropical flores.
Tropical looking.
It was horrible.
I mean, it was so bad.
And I was like, oh my gosh.
(30:00):
We cannot leave this door thisway.
I cannot look at this, and youhave ruined my Monet.
And so we picked out paint.
We got that thing repainted.
We you picked out paint.
I instructed.
And you went over there, youwent, knocked on their door, and
(30:20):
said, This isn't working.
You got to redo this.
Here are the choices.
Yes.
I know.
Yes.
But that was a service I wasoffering.
A free service.
And it was free to theneighborhood.
Yeah.
You were just like.
I was keeping them in line.
Yeah.
(30:41):
Keeping them from embarrassingthemselves.
This is the whole reason.
So he moved out of theneighborhood, not because of
that.
But he's at the meal now, youknow, which is a community, I
guess you would say.
Yeah.
Um thing.
So that's why he had to get hisass on the board at the at the
home at the mobs, so that hecould control the call.
(31:02):
The first thing was they'regonna be doing some painting.
I got to get on the board.
That's what you said.
You said they're gonna, there'ssome painting projects coming
up, and I got to get on theboard.
He's on the board, all right.
Listen.
Sorry, y'all.
I'm eating a ginger snap.
Times are rough.
So good.
Um find them at thenasyfig.com.
(31:25):
Yeah.
Fancy pants.
We um I mean, I don't know alot.
I don't there's I don't knowanything about engineering.
Right.
I don't know anything aboutelectrical work, plumbing.
I mean, I know little would bedangerous, but would I have good
taste?
So let's just listen to that.
Right.
It's a talent.
(31:46):
Right.
It is.
And somebody some people listen,if y'all know if y'all are out
there and you're like, I don'tlike your damn taste.
I think your taste is tacky.
That's okay.
You're just one of those thatdoesn't have good taste.
That's pretty.
Um, I mean, you know, I alwaystry to consider.
(32:11):
And sometimes there's not a goodanswer for a problem.
He tries to listen to otherpeople's suggestions, but in the
end.
Okay, here was one situation atat the mill.
So that mill was built in 1895.
Right.
That brick was hand poured onsite.
Yes.
There's no brick like thatanywhere in this world.
(32:33):
Right.
And right there.
We had an issue where we hadinterior brick on the exterior
of the building.
We had to do something to seal.
Yeah.
And the most cost-effectiveoption was something that had
would be had basically a paint.
Yeah.
(32:53):
A water sealant paint.
Still extremely expensive.
They came to me and they weregoing.
I mean, they I listen, I amgiving that board, I was not on
that board at that time.
I am giving them, I was off ofit for three years.
I am giving them props.
(33:14):
Those people all on that boardwere smart enough to know, hmm,
maybe we need to ask Stevenabout this.
Uh-huh.
I mean, that takes Okay, butsee, here's the other side of
that.
Stephen feels like they valuedyour opinion.
Like, oh my God, Stephen is thething.
(33:35):
They probably didn't want tohear me bitch.
Yes, that's the truth.
See, Stephen thinks, oh, I'm theone because they know I have
good taste, a good eye for decorand color.
They came and consulted me.
But really, behind the scenes,it was like, we need to go ask
Steven Mert because we don'twant to have to listen to him.
(33:56):
Y'all know how he will act ifthis doesn't look right.
Either way, it was a gooddecision.
Okay.
And so, you know, and they werevery, very nice.
They were like, we have somepeople that wanting this, some
people wanting this.
And I was like, and they were,you know, and I was like, well,
where are we leaning?
(34:16):
And they said, Well, we're allthinking we want to match the
paint to this brick.
Oh, like color match the brickto the oh hell no.
I said, it cannot be done.
Right.
(34:37):
That ship has sailed.
Well, and brick has tones andtextures and it's a hundred and
what, a hundred and thirty yearsold.
And if you tried to color matchit, you're matching one pigment.
Yeah, it's gonna be tacky.
It's gonna look like there wasgraffiti there, and y'all had to
like covered it up.
(34:57):
Yeah.
So I chose like an Urbanebronze.
Yeah.
And I'm like, that will go away.
Yeah.
And at first, you know, andthere were people that didn't
like it.
But of course.
At first, but it doesn't takeaway from the building.
Yeah.
I wanted something to just It'sjust that you don't even notice
it.
Disappears.
And I don't know if you've evennoticed it since we I don't
(35:20):
know.
You do not know.
I noticed it because you pointedout, like, look how good this
looks, because it's just onesection, one big wall section.
It does look really good.
But then when you drive up, youdon't notice no one else would
even notice that's even there.
No.
I mean, I of course I wanted totake it to a next level and do,
and I still would like to, but Ijust I I don't know.
(35:42):
And I'm not smart enough to knowon the construction side.
I feel like it's probably not agood idea.
But I thought it would have beencool to take like um stainless
wire, like roping wire and likegrow, right?
Like Confederate jack, but itwould have been beautiful.
It would have been beautiful.
(36:02):
But you don't want to be.
It's not always best for thebuilding.
Yeah, you don't want anything onthe building, and then when that
paint does chip off eventually,you have to take the vine down
and start over and all that.
That's right.
So that's if you need advice,just call Stephen or me.
We're happy to give it to you.
(36:23):
We need to call Bravo.
We've got to we've got to dothat.
Do we have any Bravo connectionsout there?
Does anyone have a connection toget us somewhere?
You're gonna have to pause thatright now and we'll flood this
place.
Well, I say it's time to wrapthis up anyway.
Do you have anything else?
Can you wait two minutes?
Yeah, I can wait two minutes.
(36:44):
Are you gonna cut that out, Ihope?
No.
Oh my gosh.
This is the way we roll.
I don't we barely have time todo a podcast.
You think I got time to do that?
We cut them out last season.
You think I got time to editthis?
Last Christmas season we didn'tdo them.
No, we did podcasts all the wayup through mid-December.
Did we?
Yeah.
You keep thinking that.
We stopped mid-December, so weonly have a few more coming up,
(37:06):
probably like three weeks.
And then we'll stop and we don'tdo podcasts again until we get
back from Atlanta Market in lateJanuary.
So it's like a month.
Five weeks, I think is what itnormally is.
Anyway, we do have to pull thisbaby over tonight.
I know it's kind of a shorterone, but something's better than
nothing, right?
Right.
Steven has to pull this babyover and take a little potty
(37:27):
break, and then we have a livesell today because it's the
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