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S1:E17 Prized Possessions + More

• Jeremy Rice • Season 1 • Episode 17

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Does the idea of your most prized possession seem trivial to you?  When we first discussed the topic as a possibility for this podcast, it seemed so, at least to Jeremy.  At first, we had ideas of what was the important, but after a little deeper thinking, we were surprised by the things that meant so much to us.  This podcast is our discussion of the prized possession after figuring out what was REALLY special to us.  Reach out to us on our hotline below and let us know what your prized possession in, and if you took it for granted along the way.

From the podcast:
Do you see a dog and a girl in this piece of art

Jeremy's Cookbook from his Granny, recipe

Jeremy's Wedding Ring

Dwayne's photo of Betsy (coming)

Dwayne's photo of Ian (coming)

Stuart's Mom's Dress (coming)

Stuart's Dad

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stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Okay, here we are. Week 87.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Week 87,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

let's see how many more we can piss off or gain on this podcast.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

How many we can lose before next week? so earlier in the week, Dwayne had sent me an email saying like, why don't we talk about our, prized possessions? And it was just like a one sentence. email and I was like, okay. Well, you know, I don't even know what, like, I know what I think my prize positions were, but I was like, this doesn't seem I really, it was, it was a big, so, In trying to get preparation for this, I thought, you know, why don't I look up some stuff, so that it makes it a little bit more interesting. there's a lot of videos and a lot of and this is a very commonly discussed topic. so I started reading and I thought this is, this is actually interesting because I guess everybody does have something that they treasure, like it's their, at least one thing, usually it's more than one thing. but I was like, Oh. I don't know. Hehehehe

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

on TV running back in the house. It's like, oh, they're going to save the cat. No, they're going to save their granny's lum lum vase or something like that. I had to save it. So, you know, people cherish stuff. It's like, no, that was a real bad idea. Let it burn,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Right. Hehehehe Oh, the

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

well, you know, we can, we can skip Dwayne's because his is a piece of artwork that was painted on a Tuesday at five 30 sunset on the beach.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Hehehehe Dwight, we were.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Wounded. So randomly. So randomly what's her, what's her new employee's name

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

John, John,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

know.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

John, okay,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

John, you know his name.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

no, no, no, I really don't. I know Tracy.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I don't know, I meant. Yeah, uh huh.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Who's Tracy?

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

We have had these discussions. Where the hell have you all been?

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Not listening to you. Well, you know that one time we had the meeting and I asked you something and I said, what do you think and you said? Well, I wasn't saying I'm like, well, what the hell we had this meeting for the last 30 minutes And you said to me

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

He zoned out.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

just talk and I just tune you out

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

But it wasn't even a meeting. It was just like legitimately, Oh, this is her husband. And then there's responses of like, Oh, okay. Yeah. Like, y'all both literally responded! It's, it's,

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

alright, what? Mm

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Delaware Volkswagen,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

hmm. Mm hmm. Mm hmm.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

considering. I don't know where I'm at half the time. That's pretty good. Anyway, he's

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

She let, she let us use her dumpster.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

she said she is

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

She did. She did.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Laura,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

you're not talking about her ass, by the way.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

No,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

talking about her ass.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

no.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Oh, see, I don't even know what that means. I mean, you

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Oh,

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

this one means dumpster means booty. I'm

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

a dumpster truck? Yeah,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Let's, let's, we're not going to go down that road. Even though we are an explicit podcast, we're not going to go down that road because there are way too many interpretations of that.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

want to know. Okay. I don't know any of

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I'm giggling thinking about one anyway.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, Laura, um, sales rep was the other day and um, I was showing her something online and I walked back there and there's this guy back there and I said, know, I was like, I, who the fuck are you? He said, well, I'm your new employee. And I'm like, oh, okay. Moved on. I was like, I know who you are. there was just this random person back there just doing stuff and I'm like, I don't know who you are, but okay.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, for what it's worth, that's often how.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

very nice and the long story is the reason I even bring him up was this morning He said, you know, you got a bunch of art and special orders from people and I said, yeah Yeah, Stuart told me thank you for letting me know though. But thank you and He said yeah, there's some pretty pictures and it reminds me of where I grew up and landscapes and stuff and I'm like, oh You mean it matters to you what your pictures are? I Well, I thought, mm hmm, mm hmm.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mm hmm.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

this up. I was like, look, somebody actually does get it. They do get it.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mm hmm. Well, we just got back from our my husband's family trip to Key West and we were um, I guess

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

of your mother in law posting.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yeah, you saw you saw hers because she posted I don't I didn't take any pictures I think it took like two pictures the entire time.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, I noticed because every picture that I saw you in you had an extreme constipated look on

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Oh

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

No, no, no, no, no. You did, you looked very relaxed. You looked like you were having a good time.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, my father and I wanted to spend an evening at, um, I guess, I think they call it Mallory Square. It's where you watch the sunset go down in Key West.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mm

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

so we're there and they have like, you know, street vendors. And I turn around and here's, here's a person selling her artwork and it's all sunsets. And I was like, they're beautiful. was, I wonder when this was? Oh, this was on Monday. July. like a is such a Hmm.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

But I feel like I've touched your heart and inspired you.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, you

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

you buy one? Were they bad? Were they

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

No, they weren't bad.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

He didn't buy a sunset photo because it was not tan and gray.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yeah,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

cloudy days.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

There you go. It's

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

want doom and gloom.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

true. Yeah, there you go.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

not to get off because we'll get onto subject here, but so one of the big pieces of art that we got, um, yesterday was out on the floor and I went out to go look at it. This is beautiful. And one of the girls goes, yeah, don't you see the girl and the dog? I went. There's no girl and dog in

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

No.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

yeah,

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Okay,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

there's a girl. I'm gonna post the picture. Uh, I think it was Joe and maybe Michelle. I think I don't

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

yeah.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

it?

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I'll put it down in the show notes So people can click on it so they can see whether they see a girl and a dog But I was like, I don't know what you're on. I want some but is no, this is all color and texture. There are no figures in this,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

And that, that came about because the, someone inquired about that specific piece of art because it was in an ad that Jeremy just put in and it was on our order and she called and said, Oh my gosh, I really love this. So we told her it was here and she said, well, can you open it and take a picture?

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yeah,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

We opened it,

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

well, oh well.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

we took a picture of it, sent it to this individual, and she called back and said, Well, the one in the magazine shows more of the dog than the girl, and I don't really see that in this one. And I

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

What?

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

was looking at it with Sabrina, and I was like, Do you see a fucking dog? Because if you do, I need whatever that lady has. Because, I don't see any figures

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

So,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

all in this piece of art.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

is this is a mass produced, pretty, right?

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mm hmm. Yeah, hand done.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

piece of art. It is, it, is it hand done? Is it, is it hand, uh,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mm

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

That one, that one is a hand done one. Yeah.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mm hmm.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

so then I have to shut up because then it can be slightly, somebody,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yeah, it's gonna be a little bit No, I

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

It, it, uh.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

not an exact copy. You saw the one in the end.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yeah, there's no,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yeah.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

It's the same

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

There's no dog and little girl playing.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Okay,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I mean You've seen paintings where like they've hidden like a figure in it, right? There is no hidden figure in this thing You I mean,

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

okay, whatever.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

All right. So,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

So.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

there's,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yes.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

just dealing with the public and retail and, uh, oh my God, what, what do people see sometimes? I don't know what, what they're cracking. Let me tell you what I had to do yesterday. One of the things was, uh, is I had to meet somebody to do something, but I had to go to the mall because I need, um, some shorts and, apparently I like short shorts. I don't know, uh, but I really have a long torso and I have short legs. So therefore, if I get regular shorts, they're hanging down past my knees and it just looks like a fool. So I need 7 inch rise as opposed to like most are 9 inch rise or 7 inch is not. Super short, but that's what it is. I literally into about 7 stores for just 2 pair of khaki 7 inch shorts. They did not exist. And I'm like, I now know why everybody buys everything on the internet. Because

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Go to,

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

literally one pair to buy.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

go to Target.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I went to Macy's and Dillard's and H& M and JCPenney's and there was others. I can't remember. Uh, I can't go to holsters cause I'm too fat, too old, but, uh, I went to multiple places, not one pair. So I came back home, sat on the computer and ordered them from Belk or something like that. Isn't that crazy?

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well. Wow.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

your new shorts will be a new prized possession or maybe this piece of art. It may be your new possession. I don't know either one, but if they aren't, it'll be okay. Um, so when I was looking, To be prepared for this, of course, one of my favorite places to go to find anything is Reddit because that's where the world's best and worst people go, right? And so basically somebody just left a prompt of like, tell me about your, most prized possession. And so the first, I've got three that I thought were kind of funny. one was my black bra. It makes my boobs look real good. And I thought this is, this is her process. You know, I know she's just being funny. And then there was a sweet one that I can identify with. The letters my husband and I wrote to each other three years before we met in person. I thought, oh, okay, that's sweet. I don't know why it took three years. Catfish? I don't, I don't know. Maybe this is the time before the computers, this is the one that I was laughing at when you got on this morning, Dwayne. It says, I wish I could say one of my sentimental knickknacks wasting away in my desk, but in reality, my most prized possession is my computer. And if somebody hurt my computer, Genitalia burn the open wound with an iron and force feed crispy bits of their ballsack flesh to them at knife point

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Wow. Not moanin

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

No, um, yeah the computer's nice bits replaceable so I don't I don't um, i don't get it But I just thought that was kind of funny. they had to be british because when they But how it's phrased sounds very British to me, but you know, um, but okay. So also in think

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I, I see that as a disturbed, it's more than funny. I was like, Hmm, okay.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, I think it's a funny sense of humor, I mean, I don't think Well, no, there is something that I don't have that my mother has that I would probably cut a bitch over And we'll get to that one. But um You know, I don't know if you all remember this customer. Her name was Mona. This was

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

on the roosters?

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

no, no, not her. Um, no Mona was like, it was Mona before house existed. We all, there's a reason why her name sticks out to me. Well, she called and she said, I need some flower arrangements made for the house. Um, can you come to the house and come and look? And so I was like, yeah. So I went out to her house. It was a big, uh, big house. And she was like, you know, things just don't matter to me. She was like, we moved here after. After we lived in Virginia and our house burned down and she wasn't, I lost everything. And she was like, Stuff is just stuff. Nothing's really important. So I was thinking about her going into this because

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mm-Hmm.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

she had thought was her prize position when she lost it she had let that kind of go and wasn't devastated by it. Um, but I thought, oh, that's a, that is a whole other like level of, you know, prize position.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mm-Hmm.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

to that is she wanted like eight flower arrangements in her dining room and I said, baby, this isn't a floral showcase. We don't need to do that. Let's make you one. Um, So, but you know, but um, do one of you, so I've got a few things, but I don't, I don't know if you want, like, we'll go one at a time or how we go, how we get there. How would you all like to go?

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Stewie.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

something? See, I don't know. I don't even know if he knew what we were going to talk about. So

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

No, I, I did. I was, yeah, it was a, it was a text message. He had, or no, you did email it. You did email it. Um, I mean, so are we talking about just like what you just said about Reddit? Like if you have to save something, you're going to save something or just something that you don't want to do without.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, I think it would be do without, um, or like, I don't, don't take the Reddit examples. I think it's too literal of what we're kind of looking for. Okay. For example, for me, Granny, before she passed away. Handwrote all of her signature dishes that we loved and wrote a recipe, wrote a, uh, book. Is that

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yeah.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

called? I

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Wow.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

know why that sounds wrong to me this morning. Um, but, um, she wrote all of them down. And so I have all of them in her handwriting. And the ironic thing is like, it's not like a nice, like leather band. Like, you know, it's not like what you would think when somebody's trying to make like an heirloom. It is literally a mini mouse. Disney themed cookbook.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, because she thought you would like that. Yeah.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, she made one for my sister and I both. And so they're both identical. So I don't know if this was granny's way of being like, Hey. Hey, girl. Hey, I know you're gay. Um, or this is what they had at the Walmart or Kmart when she went shopping and she just bought two.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

closer.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

That's what I probably think is closer. Um, but like, for me, I would be devastated if I lost that. So, like, I know I need to go. I mean, having her handwriting, like, that's really important to me. But I need to take pictures of the recipes, God forbid something ever happened to it, so I still have a digital file of those, but for me, that is something that takes me back to every meal that she ever fixed for us, every meal that means home to me, the, um, Dressing that she made every Thanksgiving that she patted together her hands and left her little finger marks in it. Like all that's in there. And so like that is a way for me to still feel really super connected to her having that, because I can still interact with her that way. And then with that said, I have all of her, every Sunday she, uh, made, uh, tea and I have her tea pitcher. I have the bowl. She always put green beans in. I have her country hand plate. Like these, some of these things are just like, she always put these things in those.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Did you leave anything for any of the other family? Or you

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, you know, let's, this is the fight. So when granny died, I don't know, Uh, I think mom was kind of in a haze, I guess we'll say it that way, because we'd already lost my grandfather. We lost my dad and then it was granny. And so there was mom was all that was left. And so, so I think she was Just going through the,

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

numb.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

she was numb. Right. she had, um, remodeled her kitchen or she was in the middle of, I can't remember, but, but I asked her, like, do you want any of this? And she's like, no, there's a few things that I want. But, um, and it was very few, like, I mean, it was like two things she's like, but I don't need all this. And I'm like, you don't want any and so I asked my sister I was like, you know, I don't want to take all this Do you want it? She's like, well, I don't have a place to put it I said we don't have a place to put it now But hopefully someday you're gonna have a place to put it and she was like, no, I don't So I took everything I have the rolling pin that made every biscuit I ever made eight I mean

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

asking for it back, are they? Are

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

the butter But it was always there but the one thing that mom did take was my grandfather made my granny a Biscuit cutter and it wasn't a fancy biscuit. It was literally a tin can or aluminum can that cut the end off and it was just a flat thing. And that's what she cut every biscuit I've ever eaten. Yeah. mom's like, that's the only thing she's like, I remember her using that as when I was a child. And, I said, okay, I was like, well, mom, you take that. I was like, Then I get it like it's mine back off So things like that. Stuart, I guess like in my mind, but I think it could be anything that you don't want to lose or Miss

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, um, I guess, that sounds so weird,

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

What's a chastity belt?

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

oh god, oh jesus,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I, I, you know what? If you've

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

well,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

save it. I don't know.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I, you know, I, I do not have one of those, uh, the instant thing that pop, popped into my head would be, I would take my dad. Because he's in a box on the mantle, you know? I mean, and it's just really, I know it's, it's very, uh, pretty blue stained glass box. I know. And it's like, you know, it's like, Oh, there he is. Say hi to Bill. And then I actually have, um, two things of, of my mother's that was actually a dress that she wore on New Year's Eve. Before she died, because, you know, New Year's Eve is always in January and she died in March. And there's a picture of her in this dress. And so when, whenever she passed away, I kept it. And it literally just hangs in the closet. It's just there. But it's beaded in a sequence.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

He did it.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I do. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! But it's like, that was like her last party. So that was her party dress and she had it on and she was like, I don't care if I'm sick or not, I'm having going to this party. And so they did. Um, so yeah, I mean, those are two very, very sentimental things. Um, but like possessions that I've acquired, there are two pieces. of art that I would probably cut someone's head off if, if they went missing. Um, yeah, that's kind of, I'm sure there's a few other things, but those are the things that instantly pop into my head.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

well, it's so funny, you know, so far we are relating to things it's, it goes back to loss that you've lost the people that are the most important things in your life for both yourself, Stuart and Jeremy. And those are attachments that in a way still keep you connected to them, right? not the thing necessarily. It's the memory attached to the thing, right? He's like, you don't care truthfully about using the rolling pin, but it's like, you knew that her hands touched that rolling pin and the

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Right.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

that you ate from that rolling pin is that memory attached to it. And so with both of yours, it really is attached to, um,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yeah. Well, and, and one of the,

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

them in your heart.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

right. And one of the pieces of art is actually art that I made and it's, it's a shadow box and it's probably about 27, 28 inches wide and about. Three feet tall, and it's all parts or things we found in walls of one of the first houses that Dad and I renovated. And I kept them all, and put them all in a shadow box. And then there is one thing in there, it's just a little piece of plywood. It's like a two by two square piece of plywood that my dad wrote the word KEEP on.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Hmm. Hmm.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Maybe that was his spacer for space and stuff. I have no idea why. But it's in there. So, and that's one thing that I would probably be devastated if it was gone. Because, you know, we have since sold that property, and that was in the property, and the people really wanted it, that bought the property. I said, no, I'll burn the house down and not sell it to you. I'm taking this. So, nope. Sorry. Sorry. So, yeah. So, yeah, there's that.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I've said this one before and I just can't understand why I'm so fixated on it, but in a way I do understand it. a picture of Ian,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yes, that you told them to go take to the tree take to the tree if the house is burning down

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Exactly, and for some reason, that's just burnt into my mind. That's just, it's a moment in time that's just stopped. And every time I see that, I think of that moment in life, and um, and I'm not, waiting for that life because I'm happy where I'm at. But I just really do stop there and it goes back to that one thing. But the other thing, and this is random, I'm not sure if I'd burn the house down or I'm going to go fight somebody over it. Well, I'm going to share this, that, um, I really have. Nothing from my grandparents or great grandparents or on both sides. They're, they were all incredibly impoverished. Uh, and one of them on my mom's side, her parents, um, you know, my mom's that was 12 kids, so they sure didn't have any money to go buy sit abouts. Right. And they also lived in and moved multiple times. Um, but they lived in a flood zone. So many times what little positions they have got washed away. there are literally maybe two, three pictures that mom has of her family. My dad has one photograph. Think about that. Just a photograph. I'm not talking about the clock that's sitting on the mantel. I'm not talking about the vintage silver. No, I'm talking about, there's not a letter. There's not a letter, a notebook, there's nothing. These people literally could not exist if they didn't exist in our hearts, right? Because

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mm-Hmm?

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

that you, you, you, they live on in essence through stuff, right? Because there's a memory attached to it. with that, I don't have stuff, and it goes back to understanding who I am as a person. love stuff, right? And, right, I do. And it

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mm-Hmm.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

back to because all the stuff that I have, 92 percent of it is I know when I bought it, where I bought it. How I acquired it, how I got it, where it came from, and everything has a story. And that story is, Kathy and I clearly understand that the, the aesthetic that we've established, uh, and it's a very common thing. Um, our kids don't want it. They don't want any of our crap. Right. And that's true with like Jeremy, with your mom, she didn't want her parents crap, right? You just, you just don't want it. But with that said, um, We, we run into things like, well, they don't want our crap, but the things that we have, it's not for them. If they want it and they figure it out when we're dead and gone, how important this was to us or the stories that that's on them to figure it out. That's not my job to them, to get them to understand it, it's, for us, when we look at these things, they're, they tell the story. Now, if we lost them, it, it's not, it's, it's just like with your, customer who lost, you know, in the house and the fire. It's not something I'm just going to, my heart's gonna be broken over, but I do look at this thing and this thing has a story behind it and so therefore. These things have a story to me personally once it's said and done. So one of the things that also, it's another picture, is when Kathy, I bet she was no more than 16, 17 years old, she got a new bedroom set of furniture and I was in college at the time and, 18, 20 years old, whatever, uh, went to this antique store in, uh, Piteville and I bought her this antique chair. And gave it to her that goes in her bedroom. Okay. I still have that chair and it's it's in my office sit in it. Uh, often believe it or not. No, no, no, not a lot. Actually just moved it back to the former living room about 2 months ago. We shifted things and it goes back to people shopping your own house. Use what you love. So this chair is we've had for 40 years roughly. I love that chair with everything. But the day I bought the chair, there was this little silver picture frame. and it's, uh, has a picture of this classic lady that's black and white picture of her. And in the back of it's written in pencil, the date. And I can't remember this. I'm going to say it's 1938 and her name was Betsy. Right. And I looked at that I said, as I was buying the chair and I thought to myself, why is she not with the family that. Loved her. Why, why is she not, is she not sitting in your shelf with her family? And I had to buy that picture. I had to buy that picture frame. And so that picture frame, with Betsy in it, is mixed in with all the pictures of our kids and my parents and all that kind of stuff and somebody invariably will come in and say, well, no, who is that? And I'll say, oh, it's just a beautiful friend of ours. Her name's Betsy.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yeah.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

You gave Betsy a family yeah

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mm-Hmm.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Betsy's got a family and it goes back to, um, seem like a thing, but that thing has a story and a history that gives you joy once it's all said and done. Am I going to worry that Betsy, you know, I can't get it out of the house? No. But would I love to have Betsy in my life, the rest of my life? Absolutely. Because I feel like, um, she's lived on.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yeah, she's been there. Yeah, she's been part of your story.

dwayne_1_06-13-2024_090906:

to, it goes back to, it goes back to both of you. It's like, there's a sense of loss and you're trying to make sure that, that, that thing is still remembered, right? That's really what it is,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Well, you know, in preparation for this, I also read a study, and just so you know, we are far, far better beyond most of the men that took this quiz. So, they polled, a bunch of people. This, of course, I only did this in England, so it's not as fair, it wasn't here, but, um, it was just from a couple years ago, and they asked them what their number one thing was. Things were late and they divided the answers up between men and women and women, there were commonalities and then there were some exceptions a lot of them had things like, you know, family pictures of maybe deceased, you know, families or things with things like that, the home, a pit, um, uh, jewelry, family, airlines, like stuff like that. And then the one that I really thought really stuck out. For the women's, uh, was kids' artwork And I thought, Lord, just let that burn. Just let it burn, let it burn, let it go.'cause that's just awful. Um, this I know a lot of parents, there's, it's interesting, there's like two camps. There's the,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Liz, well, you know,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

you know,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Allie, Allie loves making things and artwork and stickers and tape and glue and cutting and whatever, and there's a lot of it, a lot of it.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

all,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

you can't keep it all. So it's like, I have to selectively choose which ones are there and then the other ones disappear into the art world.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

You know, I just thought of an, an electronic alternative. They have those little picture frames that where you can upload pictures to and you know, it rotates through.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

hmm.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

That's what you do. That that's take a picture of it then like, just delete it or however you wanna do it. That's fun. Well, so that was the, the standout from the, the women's, I thought that was very interesting. The men, however, their cars. Their computer. So we're going to assume that one who was going to do fancy brittle bits or whatever it was, uh, British male, their CD collection.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Oh, get Spotify.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

and then the last thing, which I don't understand why they answered it or why they said it was their internet. And I was like,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Hmm.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

So what immediately, what it made me think of was, there was a Broadway musical years ago called Avenue Q and there

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Oh, God.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

that was in it.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Yeah,

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

he had this whole song that the internet was for porn. Like

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

right.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

that's, that's the whole song. And so as soon as I saw internet, I was like, for porn,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Right.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

in the musical. I was like, this is so awful. Um, my other. Okay, when I was younger, I marched, um, drum corps, and so, um, I was gone for like May to the very beginning of August, and, um, while I was gone, my mother and my grandmother would write me letters every week. Um, and so I'd get, they could mail it to wherever we were. And, um, I I've kept all of those letters. I kept all those cards. And at some point it clicked that, you know, also parents, grandparents are always going to be here. And so I've kept every birthday card, Christmas card, one of those. I have, they're all just like stacked together. They're all put together in there to have, cause I thought, you know, eventually I'm not going to be able to have these signatures and these, you know, Merry Christmas and all that. So I've. Purposely kept that but this is not a thing But it's probably one of the things that i'm most thankful for and I cherish the most of my life So I I know I you all know that I see 11 11 I see it a lot like I see at least usually one every day and I don't understand why but i've always taken that as a sign that I'm where I'm supposed to be, that I'm okay. know, you know, however you want to interpret it. It's just, you have your numbers, uh, Dwayne, I know you've got a number that you see all the time and you sometimes you get shocked and scared. You have my eight through five

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Mine.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

um, see, there we go. And, um,

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

every morning.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

when my dad was very ill and in the hospital that when he was dying, um, my aunt was there. And so we were talking about this and that and, I just happened to mention to her the 1111, and you know, dad was laying there. He wasn't really involved, but I, I, I'm just. I know that he was there. He was listening, you know, you know, all those kinds of things. I told her, and I said, I've just always taken that as, Oh, actually no, he was kind of, he was cognizant and he, and he acknowledged whatever I was saying, well, so then when he passed away, 11, 11, then took on a new meaning because he was part of that now too. And so when my dad died, I inherited this horrible Cluster ring that his dad had. It was so ugly. It was just, it wasn't my style at all. He told me my entire life. He's like, you're going to get this when I die. And I'm like, thank you. and so he passed away and mom's like, well, here's, here's the ring. And I'm like, well, I don't want this, you know, silly thing. But that was the year that Jeremy and I got married and I was like, well, maybe I'll take this ring and I'll use the diamonds in it and the, in the gold and do my ring. And so it was the day that I was supposed to leave to go to the place to go get, uh, to go meet with him, to talk about getting the ring made. And I was sick to my stomach because I thought with dad. be okay with this because he loved this ring. Like it was so important to him. And I was like, would he be like, I'm just sick to my stomach. I'm like anxious. Like, do I do this? Do I go? And then I go to pick up my keys and I'm like, I don't know, maybe I shouldn't do this. And then I look up and it's 11, 11. And I was like, okay. All right, dad, I hear you. It's all, it's all okay. Right. um, so then I went and, um, the project number or whatever, whatever the receipt number, not the receipt number, but the, um, I guess he numbered every item or every thing that he made. Cause he made a custom jewelry. My item was number 1111. And I was like, okay. I know that this is okay. And then on Jeremy never sees it, by the way, I see it all the time. I mean, it's just, it's, it's ridiculous. And well, no, he's not. Well, I always say I'm the, well, that's, there's, we, um, uh, that's my mother in law for people who are wondering who Beverly is. Um, And so it's the day of our wedding. We get up, we go help, and then we leave. And Jeremy and I had driven separate because we had to deliver something. And way home in the, I just happened to look down it was 11, 11. And we got home and Jeremy gets home and he pulls in and he goes, I saw it. saw 11, 11 today. And I was like, okay. It's a good day. It's a, it's a good day. And then the only other one that I've seen that, well, I know it's just, it's just like, you know, it's so nice to feel like, you know, you know, that they're still here. the other time was, and I didn't mean to like take over about this, but when I was in Denver and I was working on the, uh, the house out there I needed to get two chairs and she was coming in that day and I had not been able to find chairs anywhere. Like I, the perfect size chairs and I had been to every furniture store I could find, I finally go to the last one and I pull up and I'm like, Lord, I was like, dad, I need some help. Like, just please help me. I've got to find these chairs. So I go in They are sitting right at the front door. They're right there. And I was like, Oh my God. I was like, that is it. I was like, thank you. I got back in the car, started the car and looked up and it was 1111 and I broke down and had the biggest fit in this, in this parking lot and I was like, thank you. So that's one of my prized, like most, I'm going to call it a possession. That's one of the things that I don't take for granted at all. So that's, that's my, that's my. That's my big one, even though it's not something that is, um, something that's super important to me. Yeah, it's, it's, it's a lot of things. All of them. Wow. Wow. There are a

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I was gonna say, there's a lot. Whew.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Lord. Well, think it's wonderful. Well, you know, I I think, um, what am I trying to think that people understand? Well, I think that prized possessions are something that we, that we all had that we just didn't, don't, don't acknowledge or really take a second to, think about. But it was something that now that I've gotten into it is there, there, there are things that bring us joy and that's really our whole catalyst anyway. Like that's the whole thing that we're about bringing joy to people's lives. Uh, in different ways and, um, whether they're on display or they're in a shelf or on a clock. Um, or in your heart. Um, we all have them and we all have them in a special place. And it's actually really nice to share them. I'm really glad we did that today. Cause I think that that that's fun. Well, um, if again, you want to see some of the, um, my gran's cookbook and whatever else we've mentioned, I'll put it on the show notes. You can see it there. You can text us at, or call us at our hotline and you can give us an idea for a future podcast episode. And, um, at 1 859 351 1758. Um, and then if you haven't downloaded our mobile app, make sure you download that. It's down in the show notes below too, because we're going to get back and doing our live sales and it's going to be lots of fun.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Whoa.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Cause you know, lots of new stuff is coming in and it's lots of exciting things. We'll just keep it going.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Great. I mean, it's sleeveless with the matching, it's sleeveless with the matching jacket.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Oh, okay.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

So do I need to wear that? Do I need to wear that holding my dad? I mean, because the colors compliment, the colors compliment. So gosh. Gosh.

jeremy_1_06-13-2024_090906:

I can't wait to see it, and I know the listeners can't either. So, see y'all later.

stuart_1_06-13-2024_090906:

Alright, bye.

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