S2:Ep20 Welcome, But You Gotta Leave

 Well, friends, we are back on the road. Yes. Once again, you are joining us from a very glamorous recording studio known as a rental car on I65. And before we get started, full disclosure, there may have been.. okay, there definitely was a tiny audio hiccup. Thanks to my fat fingers and this blasted phone. Well, I'll explain it when it happens, so you kinda get a full picture there. 

But nonetheless, Jeremy had just rolled back in fresh off of vacation. So naturally his mind was still in relaxed mode and was also still thinking about the ways that I might've been comfortable slash uncomfortable in different spaces. So this had me thinking when we have people over at the house, what ways do we go about making our home more comfortable and welcoming for them?

So today we are sharing some of our favorite ways to help guests feel right at home in our home. So they're comfortable, happy, but they won't stay too long. They'll get on back, . , So buckle back up. Ignore the background road noise and well again, my fat fingers and let's hit the road together again.

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When I mentioned that we were gonna start doing the podcast, did you all ever think we were gonna do'em on the road like this? Nope. Well, it's a better sound studio than what we have at home doing the podcast on the road. This is fun. It helps pass the time. So is it a road cast, maybe. Road cast podcast? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Buckle up bitches. Here we go. Well tell the people where we're headed to. Now, well, I'm still driving. Still driving. Weeks and weeks later. There's that. Yes, Stewart always drives. We've covered driver. Good. Driver. Driver. He's a great driver. Driver. He's a great driver. And I'm in the front seat in Twas in the back and he hasn't fallen asleep yet, so I did once for a little bit. Yeah, A little bit, yeah. Oh, did it? Alright. Well there's no, I, I may fall asleep. I have just gotten back from a, uh. Little European jaunt that we did with some friends that had a wonderful time. That's the only reason that we're in this podcast. So he could talk about his vacation.'cause he's rambled on now for two hours that we've already talked about. Two hours. We're gonna talked about it again. I thought we should just taped it the first time. Oh, now I'm have to hear it about it again. And he said, well, what did you do while being gone for vacation for two weeks? And I was like, well, I worked on a blow up swimming pool out in Palomar. Uh, but other than that, I have nothing. So he's talking about it. So he went to a place called. Edinburg. Oh my god, ed. Oh my God. Right. Just stops. Like, how, how about Jeremy tell his vacation story? Okay, well I just don't want him to say edburg another time. Well, don't worry'cause I'm not gonna say that because that's not how you say it. But we, uh, went with some friends and had a wonderful time visiting a, a few places. And one of the places we went to, was in Denmark and it was never on my radar. And you know, we're passing the little windmills. It's so appropriate'cause they have them. Oh yeah. All over there., But. We went to Copenhagen. Oh wait, you said we're passing windmills. We're on our way to Chicago. Oh. Oh, we never said that. Sorry. We never said where we were going. We're on our way to Chicago to go meet with a company that we work with, um, to go see their product line for Christmas 2026. So we can come up with what we're doing for the 20th year. This is the 20th year. Year 20th year. Yeah, our 20th year working with them. So that's why we're in the car going past just south of Chicago. Past the windmill fields. Past the windmill. Yeah. So we're in, we're in Indiana somewhere. Um. But we were in Copenhagen, which was never on my list of cities to go. We were planning on going to Amsterdam and they were having their pride festival the week that we were supposed to be there. And we knew that it was just gonna be just a hot mess and we didn't wanna do it. So we thought, where's another easy place that we can get to from London? Um, and so I went to copay, and I have to tell you, this is one of the places that if it's not on your list to go, that it, like it needs to be on your places to go because it's such a fast. Place it's flat. Um, everyone speaks English. Um, and it's beautiful. The culture there is wonderful. There's no crime. Um, or there's, their crime rate is like, we'll just say this. People left their houses unlocked. People didn't lock up their bikes. I mean, it was, you know, all these multiple things, but it is. Just a beautiful, beautiful city surround. They have these canals that go in and around them, and I'm telling you, this is a place that I thought I'm not gonna enjoy going. There we're, it was just gonna be an easy little stop. It was beautiful. Um, and I can't say enough good things about Copenhagen, so if you've never been, put it on your list. Um, and it's real easy if you're going to London. Uh, we always try to tell people it's so easy to get to London and then it's very inexpensive. Have to get from there to other cities. Um,'cause you know, there's so much closer, right? So, um, but you need to put on your list. I wore, I took my Dr. Shoal shoes that I've discussed on here before. Um, did wonderfully. I will link those back again down to the show notes because they were so comfortable. And then I was telling you all about my bag that I got this little old duffle bag. Yeah. He's talking about this suitcase on rambling forever. All he end result was people is just so he can get a dig in on his, Jeremy, his husband. Because his backpack wasn't useful. And I like you spent 10 minutes talking about this suitcase so you could be hateful to your poor Jeremy. I think that's all it was about. I wasn't hateful. All I was saying is he couldn't find anything in the backpack. And if he'd had this back, it'd be much easier. But I, it's if you're doing any traveling or you like to do like two or three days, are you getting paid to this? No. No, no, no, no, no. I'm just telling you, I saw my, one of my friends had one of these bags. It is like, it was the answer to my prayers. It was so, so good. A suitcase was an answer to, it wasn't a suitcase. You prayed about a suitcase. Listen, the people like to know when things change your life for the better. Okay. They did right. It may not be a pretty fast look. I also say to it, Stewart may be going rear end a Honda Santa Fe in front of us. I think that's kind of ugly. Just It's ugly. Yeah. Sidetrack. I just looked at it. That is a, an ugly butted car. There you go. Not a pretty. Okay. Talk about the suitcases. Change your life. Just, I'm, I'm not gonna talk you more about it, but it was, it's called Half day. I, there'll be a link. Be a link. I'll there, but you just have to go. But just I, if you haven't. Traveled outta the country. I know that it's expensive and it, it can be. Um, there, there's lots of challenges, especially if you've got people you're taking care of or things like that. But if you can get out of the, in our little small area and you just see the world, every time I come back, a better person. Okay, but tell the people you splurged. Oh, we're not discussing about how much the air, air, no, no, no. I don't wanna tell him a price. Okay. I'm not tacky like you. Oh my God. Away. Well, and then I was convinced, well maybe if you just get a good one the first time, you wouldn't keep throwing'em away. So we bought four pillows, and I'm not gonna say how much,'cause it was embarrassing that we even bought'em, but let me tell you, I have slept so good on those pillows in those six months that we've, well then you have to put a link to, it's because people know,'cause I'm curious to know what it is. Okay. I, I will. So when you say varis, it's like a hundred dollars a pillow? No. What we got two different versions of, of appears. What? Know what the expensive pillows are. Well then they're all king size. Okay. So we got two that are a little bit more firm and they were$325 a pillow. Oh Lord. Yeah. Where are you getting your money from? And then where are you getting this? So Trump, we got a very. Feathery version that was about 180 a pillow. Oh Lord. Even that I can't even feed my baby sausage. I swear to God, if you are out there selling your body on the streets, I'll get you now. But here, these are on your, your bed, right? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Oh, you're not sharing with the guests? No. The old ones I couldn't sleep on are in the guest room. Duly noted. I will say to you, that is more than I would've had. I told you you did. Okay, but we're going to, there might be somebody that's, their neck is Macy and they need this, right? They're from Macy's, so I did use some like star money and stuff, but I, I'm telling you. And you know, they're like, of course, you know, blah, blah, blah. You can bring it back in 90 days. I'm like, well, I'll be bringing this shit back in 90 days. Uhuh, I probably want some more. I mean, they're really good pills, huh? Okay. Okay, so I'm curious. I am a stomach sleeper, so I. I like a pillow that I can like maneuver and so I don't like a super firm one. We have a, like a memory foam mattress, so you know, it kind of holds and goes to your shape or whatever, but I sleep on my stomach, so I like to, or my side sleeper tee, so mine's kinda like in between. I don't want it super soft. But we do that, that's one of the things that we do in our, our guest rooms as well, is make sure we've got mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Um, multiple pillows as options because there's just nothing, it can't get, well, my personal, my neck is half broken. I don't know what I did to a thousand years ago, but Kathy found one's made out like memory foam. And if you look at this thing, it looks like some origami folded looking thing out. And I've got it right beside me in the car because I cannot sleep without this pillow.'cause it basically, once you put your head down there, it, it just. Makes it sit there and you can't move like an egg crate. It is, it really is. It is the best thing. It was just Amazon, like 50 bucks or something like that. But it really, and I've went through this this first second, and this might be the third iteration of one, but it has changed my life. People I'm telling you. So if you have a bad neck and you, you don't know this, this cradles your neck and it's got, it ain't$325. I do worse though. I told you. I know, I know. Look, okay. So we've got good pills for each of us. Our. Our guests with finding out they're getting second hand pillows is what we, well, they're still Ralph Lauren. Okay. There go. So it's not like they're horrible pillows. I don't know where ours are, but we definitely have like a firm and a soft there that they can pick from to make sense. Mm-hmm. So now, mm-hmm. I, I always sleep hot, so I need a fan on. Mm-hmm. And I need a sound of a fan. Mm-hmm. So like in the, in the guest room, I will have like a sound machine box? No, actually I'll actually have like a little, uh, little fan that sits over in the corner if they want a fan on, for a hearing. So I'm thinking of, of me, and, uh. So, do you have a TV in your guest room? We do not. Uh, yes. Yes you do, Jeremy. You do, don't we? We do not. We don't either. I, I wonder if we should have one. Uh, but I, I, as a guest, I actually,'cause we always go to sleep with the TV on, uh, so I wonder if we should put a tv. How about this, Lisa, in the audience, you need to tell us. Should we have a TV in the guest room? We're like, nah, don't worry about it. This is a big deal. Well, and I think ours, like in other guest rooms, I have not, but this particular house, that guest room was our bedroom for a while while we were doing a renovation and we just kind of left the TV in there. Right. I don't know if anybody actually uses it. Of course, when they go up and that side of the house, I'll just say goodnight. I'll see you for coffee in the morning. I don't go back over there. You know, I would probably like to have a TV if I were a guest. I'd like to have one even though we don't do it. Okay, so. Next detail. We don't, we don't have one. Only in the, in the sense that like we know a lot of our friends that come and stay with us, they, um, also always bring their laptops or their iPads and they watch whatever on Netflix, like on that. Now, we do have a friend who sleeps with the TV on and he just wants that noise. I, he brings his iPad, then he falls asleep, I guess. But, um. Most of the time people are down and then they just go upstairs when they wanna go upstairs. I don't, don't know what they're doing up there. No, I don't care. They can do whatever they want. Hell don't know. Aren't you the one though that used to have like a little tray of snacks for you? Yeah. There's snacks up there. Yeah. I, I hate you. That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard. Why do you want people eating in your bedroom? There has, there it's, there's not a a, a TV meal up there. It's like little bags of, there's bags of nuts and biscoff cookies and. And, uh, where'd you get this idea from? The Delta Lounge? Okay. Well, you know, it, it, um, it's just nice to have something there. What actually, you know what, does anybody ever eat them? Mm-hmm. Yeah, they do. Okay. Yeah. And our friend, like we have friends in Columbus that when we go up and stay with them, they also have snacks and bottles of water and things like that there. And, we'll, if I wake up and I'm hungry,'cause you're, you go upstairs and then you might get a little Na naish naish na, what's the word, NAS Naasha. Want a noch, I want a no. You want a noch? I want a noch. Um, but then also my husband's diabetic, so sometimes his, you know, his sugar will go really low in the middle of the night. Does he holler at my sugar's? Sugar's low sugar, high? Well, I mean, he didn't wake me up. He just takes care of it, but so we always try to make sure we have something sweet. Does he ever holler at you, just sugar, and you think he's talking to you? No. No, he'd probably yell hat assholes. Oh, wow. Depends on what day. Um, but so like, we always try to have something there, so I always try to have something sweet and something salty and some good little test things. But, you know, I, I always, if somebody has it, I'll always try something. And we also have a coffee machine upstairs. Really? Yeah. I would appreciate that. We have a, a little, like a little pix single. So your fridge can't even make it to the kitchen. Huh? Well, here's the deal. Our, the way our house is set up, our bedroom is on the first floor as is, is everything else. And the only thing that's upstairs are two guest rooms and, uh, a bath. And so if they were to wake up, and some of them are early birds and they get up much earlier than I do if they want some coffee, I don't wanna make them feel like they have to come to the front downstairs and all the way to the kitchen to get it. So we have little, um, I just knock on your door and wake you up to make coffee. Well, no, they know they, they're welcome to anything. I mean, if they want to, we, I think I've mentioned all. Here before Jeremy has, I don't know how many, like coffee machines. We have one Keurig and then an espresso. And then I don't, I don't drink coffee, so I don't get it. But, um, there's, there's multiple options. But again, we do it upstairs just because it's, you know, it's just easy for them to get, then they can eat and snack and, okay. Don't have to worry about anything else. Well, you know, my mama would never let me have food or drinks in the bedroom, so I can think that's my phobia. Right. Maybe I, if somebody's hungry, I don't want'em to go hungry. And I also don't want'em make it feel like they have to come downstairs. I know a detail. I always try to make sure that there's a phone charger in the room in a and a cape or the mm-hmm. Cord. Mm-hmm. In case somebody can't find it, they don't have one. I always try to make sure there's one that's laying on the nightstand that's a little detailed. Mm-hmm. That, um, everybody's always needed to charge their phone. I'm like, there's one laying there just in case you need it. And we got the little, um, little octopus one. Uh, it's a little linen covered. It looks like a little, well, it's about the shape of a dollar bill, I guess, but it's kind of oval and you just set your phone on it and it charges Hmm. Like so you don't have to have to plug it up. Really? Mm-hmm. So, and it, and you can do like, where'd you get that thing from? I have, or offline somewhere. Huh? Offline somewhere. I don't remember the name of it. If I can figure it out, I'll put it in the show notes. Well, you can't tell all your secrets. Well, no, I mean, it's not a secret. We're trying to help people, like make it much more, uh, you know, cozy. But then we also have like extra toothbrushes and. So, because you never, you always forget something. The only thing I don't have is like a hairspray. Alright? Who's the one you all, well, you, you've forgotten your deodorant. You've forgotten your saving cream. Mm-hmm. Socks preparation each once. What else you forgotten? Every time we go to Atlanta, he's forgotten something. Cables, he forgot his, uh, charging cables once it happens. Now Stewart's never forgotten anything. He always has that plus Oxycontin and Band-Aids. I mean, if I ask him for something, he's got it. Uh. Um, do you all I don't do, I think Martha Stewart did this thing a long time ago where she had like little, she folded up robes and she had house shoes and ta like, do y'all do any like thing like that? No, no. That's goofy. I, for me it feels a little too much. But if you have that, I think that's wonderful. Now listen, I did think about trying to do some like, um, house shoes to have up there just so if people wanted to walk around,'cause both of the rugs that we have upstairs in the guest rooms, you know what my guest would say? Hey. Lady forgot her house shoes in my room. I put'em over in the corner. Well, and sometimes I don't wanna see cousin Eddie down his robe right in my breakfast room. Yeah. The, the robe I, I've never done that. But the house shoes again, just'cause we have the sisal rugs and if you're going barefoot, sometimes if there are people aren't used to that, they might, uh, might, could be uncomfortable. Although they could get a pedicure out of it, you know. There you go. That's the way I look at it. Um, and then we always, we have a hair dryer upstairs. Make sure that, because it never fails. Yeah. I don't have hair though. You don't? Well, you do. You just shape what you have left. Well, it just looks like an old man ring, so I have to sha it off. Oh Lord. These people in front of me are about to kill me. Well, at least it's not that horrific. I'm gonna pull a towanda up on this expedition. They should. Jesus. Um, you know what, the one thing we don't have is a sound machine. I think we might need to do that. We do have a sound machine. Um, actually an alley's room in particular. And then actually at the, the lake, we have a sound machine of both bedrooms because they're, we, we haven't in hours because listen, it's the best sleep of my life. That blackout curtains. Honey, listen, if you, if you don't have blackout curtains in there, just go ahead and do it. Yeah. They don't have to be expensive. Buy the ones off Amazon, whatever. Uh,'cause it does make such a difference, especially when you're sleeping in a place that you're not used to. Well, the other thing is to make sure, you know,'cause we're not too far away from fall hitting, even though it's. 90 degrees right now that you might have a, uh, a thinner summer blanket on your bed. Uh, he's gonna drive it. Sorry, that was me veering off the road. Oh, we're head mercy. We're not going be fine. But, uh, you know, when it starts getting cooler to switch it out or add to it to get a softer. Thicker fuzzier, uh, blanket or an extra quilt, uh, that's easy access in the bedroom, uh, for those little nippy cool nights. Mm-hmm. Do you all have, um, I am not a ceiling fan person in any room of the house, unless it's like a, like a functional. Thing, right? Like I, I need to have one in our sunroom because I need the air to circulate and I have to have one in the bedroom because I sleep pot as well. So we have that up in the guest room. They don't bother me. If you get hot, you turn that fan on. But I do, I like layers of bedding. I personally don't sleep with it. But like on our guest rooms upstairs, we have a nice, uh, they're good sheets. They're not like bowling brands, they're not like super expensive sheets, but they were good soft sheets. And then I did get a real nice, uh, there's like a waffle quilt that goes, that goes on it, and then a, a real soft duvet. So there's that, like those multiple layers where they can kind of throw off and throw on. I need that weight as hot as I am. I really, I need the weight. See Jeremy, I bought Jeremy one of those, um, weighted blankets. They have like the little glass beads in them or whatever. Yeah. Because he had mentioned about wanting to try them and I got the smallest size I could get.'cause I thought if he thinks he's gonna put this whole thing on this thing, I thought I am gonna bake to death. So we got it and he put it on the bed and only takes it, covers his half of the bed, and he was like, uh, it's not the right size. I'm like, oh no, this is the perfect size, right? This is for you. This is your size. I don't need this. But he does love the weighted blanket and our, uh, comforter, it's a duvet. It's actually called the comb inducer. Fiber fell and it's, it's all a down feather and stuff. It's heavy. It's real heavy. And I do like that quite a bit. But I sleep hot too. But Do you have to hot? Do you have to sleep with one foot out? Mm-hmm. I have to have my, my one, my one foot has to breathe. It's my temperature control. Yeah. Is that what it is? Mm-hmm. I didn't know that. Usually I have one shoulder out, uh, on my pillow. Hmm. I got a leg out because I can't put my feet out'cause the boogeyman might get it from under the bed. Um, and by boogeyman I mean a 6-year-old little curly headed princess who comes down to my room at 4:00 AM who did it three nights last week, is scared the living shit out of me because she stands right next to the bed and puts her nose right up to my nose. Daddy, daddy. And then I. SWAT at her because it scares me.'cause I'm asleep. So I take her upstairs and Daddy, why did you hit me? I'm like, I didn't hit you. I swatted because you scared the crap outta me. And she goes, and you always pee when you do that.'cause I take her upstairs. Oh. And I'm like, get in bed. I have to go to the bathroom. I said, daddy's prostate's old. We'll be woken up at 4:00 AM with some whispering Angel ghost voice in your face in 160 year old me old house scare. Yeah, it does scare the piss out you every now and then. So funny. Mm-hmm. Now don't wake me up. Uh, speaking of, speaking of blankets, oh, one of the things that they had in Copenhagen was that when you slipped, there were two duvets, one for each person. So they were only like half size. Huh. So they, it's evidently very common, uh, in Europe and certain places in like Iceland and there. So you like, you're not stealing somebody else's blanket. I loved it. Huh? Now the problem was they were too small. Um,'cause I'm just tall and I guess I'm taller than I don't know. But I need, but I did like that, that little girl, what do they have in Ed Burr? They just had one big, one, big two value. Okay. Now we know. Mm-hmm. But yeah. Let's see, what else Do we have? Anything else? Oh, you mentioned, I wanna know if any listeners have bowl and branch sheets. We do. You do? Mm-hmm. Oh, I love them. Yeah, I love them. Oh yeah. Yeah. And they just get softer the more you wash'em. Yeah. The unfortunate part, it's if there's another brand out there that y'all love just as much as Boll and Branch, tell me about'em. Because I know part of like their wonderfulness is just the, the experience of opening them up and all that kind of, but they really are really good. This is not sponsored by them. My God. Um, but no, I love my bowl brand. Soon it will be though. Hey, hey, hey. Bring it. No, I love it. Now we, unfortunately, we've been through several sets of them because somehow I toss and turn all night and I end up ripping them. Um, but you know, I don't know. But now they've made it to where you can just buy like the fitted sheet, whereas before you had to buy the set. Oh, you have to buy the whole set in. So, but no, I love mine. Mm-hmm. I giggle when I get into bed. I'm so happy. Everything's. I'm the craziest person ever. He is like, you're the only person I've ever known that got that giggled when they got into bed. I'm like, well, I hope you don't know that many people that got into bed with you to giggle. My bed's my happy place. Okay, well, I hope our listeners have gained a little bit of fun information of maybe something fun to do to welcome your guests into your home. What do you think? Maybe we'll see. Oh, were you talking to me? Yeah. Anybody? I thought you were. Wrapping it up and I'm breathing the adult Lions den exit over here, the Adult Superstore Exit two 40 in case you're wondering next to, uh, cow Milking Farm. What's this called? Ferro. I don't even wanna say the name of it. Oh, it was not, yeah, we stopped there once. It wasn't very good. Um, oh, if there's anything else that our listeners do that they. You do to welcome their guests, make them feel more comfortable, we'd love to hear about it. So please be sure you can email us down at the, show notes below or you can call our hotline, which is also down in the show notes'cause I don't have the phone number memorized yet. Um, we can call us there and tell us. And um, until next week, we will see you all then. Thanks. Bye bye.