S2:E18 Roadtrip to Market! Literally!

 Alright, y'all, this episode is a little different because we are not at home. We're actually recording this one from the car driving down I 75 on the way to market in Atlanta. Yep. We are literally taking the podcast on the road. We're heading down to by spring for 2026, if you can believe it. And I figured well this is the perfect time to bring you all along, so the sound might be a little bumpier than usual.

But you'll get a real behind the scenes look at what market's like from the passenger seat in part one recorded. On the way down, I'll talk about how we prepare for the trip, what we're hoping to find, testing out a new shoe that might have been a bad idea, and why we weren't entirely sure if Dwayne was even gonna make it into market.

And then on part two, recorded. On the way back you'll hear about the new fines, some new ribbon vendors that we're really excited about a lamp company that we haven't bought from in years because they got a second chance from Stewart. He was very kind and updates on shoes, the food, and most importantly Dwayne, he did get into the show.

So buckle up literally and come along for the ride. This is our market Road trip Recap.

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Alright, y'all, this episode is a little different because we are not at home. We're actually recording this one from the car driving down I 75 on the way to market in Atlanta. Yep. We are literally taking the podcast on the road. We're heading down to by spring for 2026, if you can believe it. And I figured well this is the perfect time to bring you all along, so the sound might be a little bumpier than usual. But you'll get a real behind the scenes look at what market's like from the passenger seat in part one recorded. On the way down, I'll talk about how we prepare for the trip, what we're hoping to find, testing out a new shoe that might have been a bad idea, and why we weren't entirely sure if Dwayne was even gonna make it into market. And then on part two, recorded. On the way back you'll hear about the new fines, some new ribbon vendors that we're really excited about a lamp company that we haven't bought from in years because they got a second chance from Stewart. He was very kind and updates on shoes, the food, and most importantly Dwayne, he did get into the show. So buckle up literally and come along for the ride. This is our market Road trip Recap. Okay, so here we are. What is this market number? Seven hundred and twenty seven seven hundred sixty five. We are on our way to Atlanta and we are buying spring and maybe some everyday, I don't know. We'll see how this goes there. Yeah, so I had one of the girls ask yesterday if we, we were, if I was excited to go to market and to see all the new stuff, and I looked at her and I went, I breathed like. Heavy. And I said, I guess I was just really tiring. That's the one thing that we always tell people and they don't believe is how exhausting it is. I mean, don't you think like, I I'm so exhausted. It's work by the time you get to the hotel room at night. So I'm, I'm gonna interject here. And he said, we're on our way to market. We are not walking down the fucking sidewalk. I'm driving on the interstate with the fuzzy caterpillar clipped to my, uh, seatbelt, trying to pay attention. While Dwayne's in the back half asleep and we're gonna do a podcast. That's where we are. Look, I'm not feeling good in this car. We've got a rental car. It's a poor person car. Oh my gosh. It is motion sickness back here. I'm sitting on what feels like maybe no cushion. I, I don't know. I don't know what brand this car is, but it is not comfortable. There is not a lot of cushion for sure. There is not a lot of cushion in this car and I am just seasick. And then Stuart got in. I don't know. People know this, but Stuart got, uh, the world's most expensive, uh, Mercedes station wagon a few weeks ago, and he gets in and he touches the plastic steering wheel, this car, and he goes, oh, and his defense, he said, it's so hard. The steering wheel. And he's right. It is, it is not something I'd want to drive with. It is like something on my green machine when I. Was little, so hopefully we're gonna make it, we are gonna make it not hopefully we are, we are on our way to the big Atlanta to go by and we found out that we had a hard time getting, um, hotel rooms, which is not highly unusual, but it, when we booked it, it was really unusual for like, two months ago and we were like, we can't figure out why we can't get in. So we're getting, getting there a day later than when we usually go. We usually go down the day before it starts, and I found out that. There was a Beyonce concert, her last one in Atlanta was last night. And, um, major League Baseball had their home run derby in Atlanta. So hopefully all these people have gotten out and we'll go, but this is the normal, uh, how we go. Stuart drives always, always, always, Dwayne, you want, you want me to drive Dwayne? And then we get there and they're like, why are you so tired? I'm like, well, shit, I've had to pay attention the last six hours and pay attention more. Dwayne is not allowed to drive in. In the city. Ever, ever, ever. And I'm always happy to drive, but we're not sure Dwayne knows what city we're going to. Mm-hmm. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, we are currently crossing over into the Georgia State. Wait, wait. That's the weirdest way to say that. We just crossed the Georgia State line. I don't know. I feel like I'm reporting for NPR with this little microphone. This is weird. All it is. These are, these are weird.'cause those other ones are, so they're big and we have headphones, so who knows what this is gonna sound like, but hopefully we can fix this and post for y'all. Okay, so this is, um, so what are, what are we going to look at? What, what are you all hoping to see at market, this weekend? No. Tariffs. No. Well, I hate, I hate to tell you. That's good. They're, they're, they've just raised the prices. They're not doing surcharges anymore. They've just added to the price. But no, we gotta look for rabbits and Easter. That's probably springtime spring, springtime spring's, what's on my radar the most? Yeah, that's what we're looking for. Yeah, that's, that's, uh, that's depending, um, how many nests and. Eggs and baskets and Reese and ferns that we need to buy. You know, now that you say that Nest have been really hard to find the last couple of years. Like they're there, but they're either astronomical or they're the size of dinner plates, so we've gotta find some small ones. Yeah, so all new spring flowers, I, and I've looked at previews, um, from a couple of companies and I see there there's gonna be lots of new pretty flowers, lots of new, pretty tulips. Um, lots of new daffodils. I'm really excited to see those'cause I love daffodils. Um, and they have gotten onto the sash craves. Um, that's a good thing. There's lots sash as in like, so, you know, uh, for the 4th of July we have the, uh, the, the banner ones. Well, there's a lot more of the kind that DW Twain's had some made for the store that are, that we've had like monogrammed or, uh, there's a lot of those. That I saw from Raz, um, that are already have like, may have some designs on who knows if they're gonna be any good when you see'em in person, right?'cause when you see'em photographed, that'd be stupid. Um, but there's gonna be a lot of, I think there's gonna be a lot of fabric. I think there's gonna be a lot of ribbon choices. I think there's gonna be a lot more. And one of the new, um, we haven't even talked about this so y'all don't even know it, but one of the ribbon companies, has moved into a newer show. And expanded. So hopefully we'll be even, we'll be able to find some new newer ribbon aside from, um, the good companies we've had before because yeah, I'm ready for some new choices in ribbon. Some, some new pretty stuff. Yeah. Um, I have not seen any, any new trends coming for spring. I still have seen color. Right. Um, so more bunnies. More bunnies. More bunnies. I think that there's a large population, not a large, a good population of people. Who would say that you can never have enough bunnies. But, you know, I don't know. The, the one thing that I'm afraid that we're gonna see are those damn highland cows. Oh God, yes. Rich. I still don't understand, but I've learned that our, my, those were, those were even at the airport gift shop. Oh, you're kidding. This past week when I was there at the airport Island cows. Well, our, my, uh, our little niece who's just. Well, she's two, right over two years. She's obsessed with highland cows. So she, um, I don't know where she saw a steer, but now that she saw a picture of a Highland cow, she's like all over it. So, I don't know. I guess they're cute. I don't know. Um, is there anything you're hoping to see or be inspired from? No, I've been looking at the numbers. You gave me a printout of what we bought for flowers last year. Yeah. And, um, looking at what we got right and what we got wrong from, um, the past. And it's like, I'm gonna get a lot more white tulips, um, because we even the, uh, the, I don't salmon, uh, peachy colored tulips. Mm-hmm. We just did not, I mean, even though we got a lot, we need to order a lot more of those and then I'll dial backs and stuff. So, is this true? We'll go see that, uh, the floral. Company, the first thing when we get to Atlanta today, first thing. Mm-hmm. First thing. So we'll, uh, we'll, we'll be in Atlanta in the Mar probably by one 30 today. Now one of the things that, uh, I don't know what, in what world he's thinking we're gonna be the, there. Dwayne doesn't know where we're going. Say we're in Georgia, but we got time. Okay. Well, we'll be there three o'clock. Whatever time. It's, so one of the things though is you, you're supposed to get pre-registered and you know, you can. Scan and get badged and all this kind of stuff when we're in the car like 45 minutes ago. And then dumb and dumber up there and the front started talking about it. And you know, I don't do anything. I don't get the room, I don't get the car, I don't get the, Jeremy gets some food reservations. I just show up and they put me in a hallway and I just point at stuff, right? Because I don't know, literally I've done, this is my 67000th trip, and this will be much easier when he's in a wheelchair because then he can hold. Our bag and our coats. Well, I did remind, uh, Stuart,'cause Jeremy's not quite there. Oh. We're closer to a 75 than we are to 25. That is true. So, uh, I'm not sure how much longer we got to in this, but um, regardless, the other two I think are registered and they'll allow to do is go and get their badges. Well, they went to try to figure out why mine wasn't registered and Jeremy kept insisting that, uh, did you have another different email? I'm like, no, no. Well come to find out it's the right email. I just don't exist. So if anybody's ever heard of the company, JSDD, as in Dwayne is Design, you know me well, it's JSN. Now, you know, what does that mean? Jeremy, Stuart, Nora. Nora is rich, who works three times out of the year, but yet D doesn't exist. So now we're gonna have to stand in line and try to figure out how to get me registered, even though I've been here 65 times in the under the same company name for. 20 years, I'm gonna have to go and say, I am really legitimate. Let me in the building, give me a badge. We'll see how this turns out. And Jeremy, what did you say I had to do to get this to happen? You're gonna have to be real nice to somebody who's, because it's not gonna be their fault, they're gonna have to help you. We'll just see. I don't know. You may get in, you may not. We'll get you we'll sneaky in the back end we'll get, that's just another goofiness of like, how do I not exist? I mean, come on. I know I don't exist in these two dumb. Numbers up here world, but there you go. Wow. Yeah. Thanks. You know I'm driving. I can just off the cliff, please don't send this up a cliff. I don't feel good. This car has too much motion. I don't care what you do at this point. Oh my God. Oh lord. I need some Dr. Thing back here in this Volkswagen, or whatever thing you've got. Alright, so let's talk about being prepared to go to market. So we've done this, obviously we're not prepared. I can't even get in the building. You're not prepared for that, which is not unusual in any. But there are other things that we've learned along the way that we've all that we have to have. So we have a little rolly bag. Now, a lot of companies will still, once you place their order, they'll want to like email you the order.'cause they don't wanna deal with paper. But we like to have paper copies. Yeah, I love paper because we can look back at it when we get back to the room and whatever. So we have our little rollie bag. Well, he gets the paper and prints it out and he looks at the number and he said, what have you done? Right. Every time we're done, we're done. We're done. We're done. That's it. Bye. Well, that's a lot more than last year. Yeah. This, it's always, what did we, what did we double up on? Well, who are we gonna cut? Sorry. You can't go to that company. You spin it over this one Now Stuart is bitter. Oh is, and he'll hang on to stuff. So there are companies we walk past, there are companies that walk past their, this is true is this is true. These are showrooms. Yeah. This part is true. That are good and they have good product. Price. Great price, baby. Absolutely. The worst customer service ever, which I'm the one who has to deal with it. Right. Well, that's not my problem. So you signed up for that part of it.'cause you don't wanna deal with the people out front. Okay. That's not true, but, okay. Oh, oh, okay. People, you can chime in on that one. It's like, do you wanna deal with me or Stuart? Out front. There you go. Thank you. Oh, okay. So what's that company? You won't let us go in? Well, I'm not gonna say their name. Oh, I will say it if I can remember it, but I can't remember it. So I can say, see, you can't even remember. Well, let me tell you. You go in and there are companies you order with and they recognize you and they say, here's you a Coca-Cola, how you would like to scan your own product. We'll take care of you. You are wonderful. You're in and out, and they love you and they take care of you and they're so grateful. Easy. That is not true with this company. You walk in and say. Have you ever shopped here for before? Yes, we have. We shopped here for the 20 years. Well, we can't find you in the system. We gotta put you in the system again. Well, how come? Can you give us your credit card? No, we haven't terms, well, what do you mean terms? We don't do terms. It's your new account. We're not a new account. We've shopped with you before. We don't show you records. How can you not show records when we have product that we've bought from you? So I get the fact that that's only happened about 12 times. And Stuart finally says, I'm done with this. I don want the crap. We're walking at the door, but. And I walk past it and all the pretty shuns bobbles I look at and I say, look what the people would love to have all these pretty shun, yes wing, but you can't get it because they won't take our order. And then I say, the people can find it at another store'cause it won't be at ours. I think one time, one thing, one time he finally caved and he was like, all right, fine. And then we asked for somebody to write our order. And then we were waiting for like 20 minutes and we were like, eh, okay, we're leaving. Yeah, forget it. Yeah. That kinda lost So. They're dead to me. Dead to me. Yeah. It's cute stuff, but, oh, well, too bad. There's other cute stuff. Um, so we have a roll cart that we put all of our orders in, and then in the roll cart, Stuart is always prepared. He has his, you may have heard us talk about all three. Now let's, let's clarify. Roll cart. This isn't what ma'am all takes to the grocery store. This is like a little briefcase on wheels. Yeah. A briefcase on wheels. Now what you understand, his is small and reasonable, right? It is, let's say 12 by 24. Yes. File folder maybe. Well, a file folder. Size of a file folder. Not big. I'd say like 12. There are people, women who are carting around the size of a, a steamer trunk on wheels. That's true. In the hallway. That is true. What, what are you doing with the steamer trunk? You, how are you getting it up here? Why are you taking it home? I mean, they might have, this is not a cash and carry market. This is like you look at it. I want this. I'll order it and you'll get it from China in six to 12 months. You're not walking out the door with anything today, right? No, but yet they'll have these suitcases that a small, I'm gonna say midget. I'm sorry. Oh, a small person. A small person. Small person could be inside of, they're that big. There is no reason to have these suitcases. What Stuart has is reasonable size and, what do you call it? Uh, rolling RiteAid, I call it Rite Aid. Right. Because I always,'cause he literally, I, I don't understand it. He is the best mother I've ever had. There are apples in there. There's granola in there. There's Valium in there. There's Tylenol there. There's three extra ink pins in there. I think theres bandaids, there's There are bandaid. There's hot for Jeremy's knees. Yeah. Yes. Mm-hmm. If I need it or want it or feel it, it's something that's coming out the front or the back. He's got a cure fry. I do. And some chewing gum and a bag of M and MSM he had three years ago. Oh, nice. All those are new, so we've got that. But we do have to battle people down the hallway with like the hulking bags. Those are those big rolly bags with the big, yeah. The Hulk bag. That's the new version. It's the, it's the worst. Like don't, just don't, don't, it's, it's very problematic. You don't need a wardrobe check. You know what, I actually, you know, what I see is the worst thing in market. I, the PI loathe the people that walk around with a notepad mm-hmm. And notes and they're taking notes in showrooms and writing stuff. Yeah. What to buy. You people don't under. Listening to this, it's never been to market this size of building and floor and much stuff. You can't ever see this in the next 80 years, right? Right. You can't. You just can't. So if you think that you need to walk around and look at it and dream of it and write notes down and come back and find it, you're not gonna do it. Right. You better order it and hope to pray to God that you can find your car when you get done by the end of the day. Right. So I see mostly sweet to mure Amish women, Mennonites, Mennonites. Taking orders and writing on stuff. And I'm like, why are you doing this lady? But I don't acosta because they don't like people. And uh, so I just say, don't, don't. If you like it and you want to buy it, you better get it right then and right there'cause you're never going find it again. Which is why I get printouts put it on order. A lot of'em have pictures. Yeah. When you get back home and think about it, you're like, I don't want that call and cancel it. Is that what happened to that half that stuff I order? No, they back ordered it. On people I've been lied to many times. So we have the bag. The other important thing that is you, you have to have, are comfortable shoes. Yes.'cause you're on your feet. So it's 11 and a half million square feet. Not that you cover it all, you can cover most of it, but Lord. Um, so I am trying out a new pair of shoes, um, for this market. It may not been the smartest move I'm trying it out for today. I saw it on TikTok. This guy got them and they are. Not a brand that I thought that I would be ordering, but I'm gonna try today. Today's gonna be the shortest day walking around the Mars. I thought I'd try to see how it goes. Why can't you not say the brand of TikTok? I am, I'm going to. Okay. I'm gonna tell you they are. Are you ready for it? Dne? Yeah. They're Dr. Shoals. Those are these Doctor Shaws. They're cute. Good looking, right? Yeah. So somebody, you look like Sporty Spice. They do. They kind of, you know, they, they're not, they're, they're cute. I don't know. So if, if they're good, I'll, I'll put the link out there so you can see it.'cause, uh. Um, we'll see. We'll see how this goes. I don't know. Usually I wear my, he's got use a link on, I wanted to tell him to put my link on. I, I've got these shoes I actually got for Christmas, and I'm telling you, other than maybe five days out of the, this entire year, I've wore these shoes every single day, and it's a brand only online. It's called Thursday, like Thursday Boot Company or something like that. I have to tell you, these are the most comfortable shoes and they're made outta genuine leather. You are like, well, no, this is like a baseball glove. More you wear them, the more they fit your feet, the more soft they become. So there's my, there's my plug for Thursday, uh, shoes. I, I've got the tennis shoes, but they make boots and stuff like that. Very, very comfortable. Now. Stuart, what do you got up on there, honey? I have on, uh, linen, linen, sketcher, slide ons. Oh, no, no, no. And they have memory foam inside them. What brand is it? Sketcher. Are those the one where Martha did the commercial, where she slid her shoes, her feet. Yes. Yes. And they are comfortable. Well, I don't care. You should, you should take those shoes off and burn them. Oh, God. Sketchers Lord. You, you do know who, who, uh, yes. Howie Mandel is, right? Yes. Are we really gonna go back through this story? Well, I'm go through that story because Hallie Mandell is a liar and he now sells shoes. And you know what I'm talking about? People? He was a brand ambassador and lied about it to get free or half price shoes. I was like, you do not lie to get half price shoes. Nelly's a brand ambassador. Poo P on Sketchers. Listen, I have plenty. With Minnie A wait for a free drink. So take your shoes, Hal. Well, we might have to do that on this trip too, just so we can afford the food. Lord God, you wanna talk about the food and market? Uh uh. We can. Well, we're also trying out a new restaurant tonight, so hopefully, well, let's talk about the bad part of the food and market. Oh, okay. Go ahead. Well, it's awful. Well, okay, preface. It's better than it used to be. Preface that once you go in these buildings, you ain't coming out till the end of the day. Yeah, you're like a little hamster in a tunnel. Yeah. So if you go out, it's get, you don't come out for leisurely long lunch? No. Oh wait. You sit in the hallway? In the floor? Mm-hmm. People step over you'cause there's not enough chairs. And you're sitting there eating a Chick-fil-A sandwich, the Devil Chicken. And that Chick-fil-A sandwich is, you paid, I don't know,$12 for that sandwich. I have no idea. I think they're eight 50. Eight 50 for the sandwich. Just the sandwich. For just the sandwich. And you getting a french fries. You getting into those nasty chips. You, they don't, they, they don't carry french fries.'cause know they won't no fries. They won't, you know? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Look. Or I've just about refuse to go there. They have the BA Hog, the Baja Fresh. It's Baja death. My God. Let me tell you, every time I've eaten that at 12 o'clock at night, it comes knocking back on my door. It is, it is generic Chipotle. Oh my God, you've so bad. It upsets my stomach. I don't know what they put in this. What the spice is. It is not good people. If, if you've ever had a bad experience in Chipotle, or actually, you know what, we're not, I'm not even the big names. If you've ever had a bad experience, it's just like a really less than mediocre Mexican restaurant. It's worse, it's worse, it's worse than, it's so bad. And uh, there you go. And then you get to pay three times the normal price of what, uh, lunch is. Yeah. To have this bad experience of sitting in the floor or having, uh. Of diarrhea at 12 o'clock at night, but a positive that Dwayne does not partake in usually about four o'clock. Yeah. Most the showrooms open a bar. Yeah. Well that's possible for you'cause you drink, you're a slush. I don't drink. They they get you through the last two hours. Yeah. It doesn't get me anything. It just gets you half drunk. Well, maybe you should drink. Well, maybe you should not. My top. All right. Okay. Now look, it is tomorrow. We've, we've spent a bunch of, bunch of, bunch, bunch of money and now it's, uh, 1207. And then all of a sudden Stuart becomes Roseanne, he becomes hangry. And I was like, can we look at this? I'm not looking at anything else until I get something to eat. Well, I was like, you might as well feed him. Now I go on record to say I have a healthy stash of blubber to live off of for days on end. This little one up front, he has nothing. He's all muscle. He has no reserve, so we gotta feed him every couple hours or he does. Does. Not go well and I get to buy nothing, absolutely nothing until he gets fed again. That's, it's very true. Well, this is true, but this was the lesson we learned 20 years ago. Yeah. So we know it gets to about 1130. We gotta start talking about lunch. So how about this? We'll wrap up here. We'll just, we'll finish here and then we will come back and you'll hear the recap. We will let you know how the shoes went. We will tell you about the new restaurant, if it was any good. And we will tell you about all the new and wonderful things. You about my bowel movement at midnight. Oh my God. Okay. We can only hope. Alright, we'll be back in a second.