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 Hey listeners, welcome back and today we are back in our normal places recording this podcast stitched together with wifi. Maybe a Coke Zero and wait. Mabel, stop. That is not a toy. Okay. As I was saying, we're recording remotely today, which means you get the full unfiltered behind the scenes experience complete with our kitten Mabel, who has decided that everything on my desk is now a part of her personal playground.

Notes, toy microphone cord. Absolute favorite toy. My sanity hanging on by a thread. But honestly, that kind of perfectly sums up what we're talking about today, getting back in what's going on in projects in real life, how they don't always move in a straight line. We get things done like they're supposed to be, but the most important thing is to remember.

Every step forward counts. And if you're listening along while working on your own space, we hope that this gives you a little extra push. One idea. One decision, one small win at a time. Alright, before Mabel unplugs something, let's get to the podcast. 

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Hey listeners, welcome back and today we are back in our normal places recording this podcast stitched together with wifi. Maybe a Coke Zero and wait. Mabel, stop. That is not a toy. Okay. As I was saying, we're recording remotely today, which means you get the full unfiltered behind the scenes experience complete with our kitten Mabel, who has decided that everything on my desk is now a part of her personal playground. Notes, toy microphone cord. Absolute favorite toy. My sanity hanging on by a thread. But honestly, that kind of perfectly sums up what we're talking about today, getting back in what's going on in projects in real life, how they don't always move in a straight line. We get things done like they're supposed to be, but the most important thing is to remember. Every step forward counts. And if you're listening along while working on your own space, we hope that this gives you a little extra push. One idea. One decision, one small win at a time. Alright, before Mabel unplugs something, let's get to the podcast. I.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:08

I'm

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:08

Well, that's what look, well, that's what he said.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:12

I didn't hear that. I don't.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 2:14

my gosh.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:15

He said he gotta leave by 11 and he goes, we're tight, but good. I said like a Friday night whore.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:21

Oh my God.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 2:23

Oh my God. And you've been saving that for a while. Yeah.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:27

I have.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 2:28

hilarious. Well, this is a good way to start the podcast. Oh.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:33

Well, welcome back Season three.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:36

Season three,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:37

three

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:38

year 47.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:41

Okay, so you all

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:42

Oh,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:44

and

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:44

cat just ran.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:45

and Mabel here, all right, I'll, I'll post the video on mine so I can see how pretty, she's now big. She's getting but she's bad. She

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:55

Hmm.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 2:55

so bad. She is a kitten. It's been 20 years since we've had a kitten. And there's, look, look, she's got found the cord. There's not a cord. There's not, there's nothing that she won't play with. It's all a toy. It's all, I swear to God, if

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 3:09

Hm, Lord,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 3:11

don't don't need any, what was that

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 3:14

it's it's low voltage. It won't hurt her.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 3:17

just say hi. Well say hi to everybody. Okay. Um, so you might hear me yell at her. I'll try not to. Okay. You gotta be good now.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 3:24

stands out about this podcast, people have asked, are you ever gonna do another podcast? Where are y'all? And I'm like, I don't think we realized that we were gonna take, I don't know, 4, 5, 6 months hiatus, whatever it's been. Uh, I'm like, where, what are we doing? It has just been insane

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 3:41

Mm-hmm.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 3:42

I still feel like I'm rushed to today to even sit down and do this, but, uh, it's what have y'all been working on? What, why, why, why are, why are we getting, why's it taking so long to be able to sit down and do this?

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 3:53

cause people are stupid.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 3:54

I know Stuart's like, Lord, his world's upside

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 3:57

well, we, we addressed it a little bit in that, in, we had, well, in September, I mean,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 4:02

don't

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:03

way back when in the, in,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:04

Well, Lord.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:06

we kind of addressed it a little bit in our, podcast that we did in the car on the way to market. But we had, all three of us had, Vacations back to back. And we had guests scheduled every one of the guests had to cancel. And so then the next thing you know that got us to the end of October, well, October, you know, our, our lives blow up. So

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:28

Right.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:29

that's what started. And then since we've been back since market, it is just been like, holy hell,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:34

we have paid our bills.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:35

our bills.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 4:36

Uh, well that's good.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:38

Well,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 4:38

had

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:38

rephrase that.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 4:39

so we

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:39

that.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 4:40

him over with a

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:41

Somebody plowed into me

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:44

proud.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:44

still,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 4:45

you.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:46

that I'm still, well, you said I had a car wreck. I was innocent.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 4:50

Okay,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:51

Sitting at a stoplight. I got hit by a semi head on

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:54

Yeah,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:55

We are

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 4:55

let's

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 4:56

a semi.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 4:57

been an ordeal and, uh, those who are listeners who work for the insurance, companies out there and not. Personally pointing the finger, but let's just say with Stuart's uh, it has been unpleasant. Is that fair, Stuart? They

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:15

Oh yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:16

This company has not

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 5:17

they're supposed to

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:17

to do

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:19

I think it's more, more mental trauma, which if they keep on, I'm gonna say that happened as a result of the wreck.'cause I mean

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:28

with, with at this point,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:29

stupid,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:30

don't think that's that far off.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:32

so, so short recap, basically$30,000 in damage to my vehicle. Uh, and they still would not total it out.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 5:39

that costs that much.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:40

That much.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:41

Mercedes.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 5:43

Oh, excuse.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:46

But anyway, um, yes, actually I had an email, uh, early this morning with they finally found the at-fault party's insurance carrier.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:58

oh my

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 5:59

Finally, from January,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 6:01

talking months.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:03

what, what,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:04

the back, the backstory on this is the semi

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:07

14th.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:08

the, the, the, uh, the driver was from somewhere else. The company was outta Canada. The driver was like contract or so, so, you know, nobody

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:17

Yeah,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:18

responsibility or

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:19

right.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:19

were gonna pay for

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:20

Well finally someone did

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:21

did.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:22

and they got my verbal statement and I said, so we need to talk about diminished value for my car. And he said, well, I'll direct you to Vanessa'cause she handles those. So me and Vanessa had a conversation this morning, so,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:33

Oh, good.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 6:34

you

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:34

so we'll see.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 6:37

Oh, it's a work

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:38

I'll see what her answer is.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 6:40

Gotcha. Fair enough.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:44

No, uh, you know, it's a pain in the ass. I wasn't hurt.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:47

I wasn't hurt.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 6:47

That's the main thing. My child wasn't in the car. That's another main thing. We can always buy a new car. It's just a pain in the butt. So there we are. Moving on.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 6:56

so I'm gonna ask this. You have enough money to buy a new Mercedes, is that what you're saying?

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:03

If insurance pays me, I will.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 7:06

Okay. There you go. Okay.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:09

Jeremy's been loving on his cat for the last five minutes. His paws are up in the air. Look, look, he's so happy.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:17

I love her so much. She's such a bad bitch.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 7:19

not, not,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:19

Not mine. Yeah.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 7:21

Yeah.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:23

Uh, well, so

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:25

well,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:26

see. In the world, um, the store,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:28

door,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:29

uh, is.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:30

uh, is

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:31

crazy, I think, oh my God, that cat.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 7:33

We're doing

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:34

So we all can see each other. We are all in different locations, but we can see each other in this cat. Every now and then a paw comes up on the screen like, re, I'm gonna play with this straw.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 7:46

it's either hold, no, she can't see the screen. It's either hold her or she's gonna chew on every cable that she can get ahold of. So, and if I, and if I kick her out of the room, she'll just meow.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 8:00

and that's why you don't

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:01

have a real child

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 8:02

right there.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:03

Umhummm

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 8:03

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:04

mmmhmm you gotta let him cry sometimes. Right? Right. Dwayne, you just gotta let him cry sometimes.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 8:12

Let him cry.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:12

Mm-hmm. Self-soothing.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:15

so spring, so we, you know, we just had our spring open house and it was, it seemed crazy out front. Is that

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:23

It was very crazy. It was very cra which is a, it was a very good, crazy.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:27

crazy, yeah, it was very thankful for that. But I think.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 8:31

and people, what people are like, what's crazy mean? But that means it was just really

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:35

Really busy,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:37

intense. Yeah. Intense.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:39

honestly I think it was because February, February was just such a shit.'cause you know, we had all that bad weather and nobody wanted to get out and nobody wanted to do anything. And then March came and we had be beautiful weather and they said, hell, I'm gonna spend some money.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:53

Yep. They were happy to get out.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:55

thankfully they did.'cause we, we

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:57

Hmm.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 8:57

of bills to pay, so I'm glad they did, but.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 9:01

Some of'em from Christmas that somebody forgot to give me. Mm-hmm.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 9:06

I'm sorry.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 9:06

I'm sorry.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 9:07

Mm-hmm. No, it wasn't, it wasn't you this time,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 9:09

at it. Oh, this time.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 9:11

God.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 9:12

you go. Uh, are y'all working on any design stuff? I don't think Jeremy. Well, Jeremy's doing a little bit. You're always on the online stuff, so you don't know if you have any time anymore to even decorate

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 9:23

I am, no, I, I'm trying and listen, I gotta tell you, the pe, the customers that I still have, and I'll say it that way. Um. have been so patient with me. Thank God. No, I mean, just, you know, all of my, I I, you know, it just takes forever to get anything done. And then I just got a text last night or yesterday that the, we we're doing some customer owned material for a bed and the material got to Bernhardt, and they were like, oh, it's wrinkled. We can't use this. Well, they said they don't steam it, so I don't, I don't know. I, that's something I gotta deal with today. It's just, it's just like Jesus cannot, can this just not go smooth? Can something just not go smooth? Um, but yeah, no, it's, I, I have am still dealing with customers. I think I even said this in the fall, that, um, everybody thank God has been like on the, they're not in a big hurry to get anything done and just kind of taking a little bit by little bit. And so everybody's still good. Yeah.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 10:23

I'm, I'm doing something kind of.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 10:25

Guys came in the other day and dropped off his container to, for me to fill it up with our faux orchid. Which they're very good. People go online, house floral.com. Uh, the forks are very good and they're bargained, right? So I'm filling his, foot bath up and, uh, unbeknownst to me, you know, I'm writing up, put his name on there and everything. And, uh, he told Jeremy and I kind of walked in on it, that he put his name on the bottom of it with a piece of tape. Uh, and what did he say to you why he did this, or what

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 10:53

I said, well, well, he knows what it's like there. So he, when he came in, he was like, oh, I dropped that container off to do some work. I said, did you put your name on it? He goes, oh yeah, I put a piece of, uh, masking tape on the bottom of it with my name on it. I said, oh, like a casserole dish when you take it to the church picnic, the potluck. always why. I remember my granny would always stick her name on everything, but he is like, yeah.'cause he goes, I know how it is around here. It'll end up missing. I was like, yep.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 11:18

Was that Jonathan's brother?

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 11:19

at that time

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 11:20

Yeah.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 11:20

I was slightly offended by that, and I was like, and this is what, it really happens to her. I said, I have never lost anybody's uh, containers. Right? And then

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 11:30

No, you said I've never, you said I've never lost anything, is what you said.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 11:35

And what did you say to me?

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 11:37

What about Chloe?

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 11:39

My child and I was like,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 11:41

Yeah.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 11:42

I did lose her once in the Walmarts. Yeah. Oh, well I thought, well, I have to walk away from that and own it, so there you go.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 11:52

I, I will say, uh, you asked about projects. Uh, I'm working on a new project, um, something I've never done before, and it's kind of fun. We're doing a home spa gym for someone in their basement, which is actually kind of cool. I mean, we're doing a sauna, a cold plunge, a workout area, a weight bar. That I'm, I'm coining that phrase a weight bar.'cause it's basically a fancy weight bar.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 12:24

A weight bar.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 12:25

So it has

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 12:26

has,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 12:27

a little refrigerator with cooled towels in it. And the shelving, it's basically bougie shelving to hold all your hand weights and your bottled water. And your cold towels. Yeah. Yeah.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 12:41

Somebody's committed to being pretty in exercise.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 12:45

Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 12:45

just, I'm happy for him, Lord. No. Listen, if I wanna build anything, it's gonna be a massage room in my house where somebody can come rub my fat ass all day.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 12:54

Oh, we not,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 12:55

that sounds like fun. Um.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 12:57

yeah. It is pretty fun.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 12:58

It's pretty.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 12:59

And it's a couple I've known for quite a while. So, um, I actually originally started,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 13:06

I'm gonna tell you, mine's, mine's a, AM I'm working on. It's like, oh God. So this, um, customer, they, there's a, this dream house that they've always wanted, and it was a physician that built the house, so it was very well built and it's just been sitting there for

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 13:21

I.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 13:21

and like in the state situation. So they put it up for auction and she bought it. Course she hasn't sold her other house because she had to buy this at auction. And then asks me in and literally taking out, there's like a, a double-sided fireplace right in the middle of the room and it's massive taking the fireplace out, and that means the roof is going and she's building a porch and new kitchen. Literally, it's a complete interior gut and she has never really remodeled anything. And she started getting

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 13:54

Oh.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 13:55

and literally started freaking out. said, oh my God, I can't believe this is this expensive. I'm like, yeah. And her, her husband is doing a lot of the work himself. Right. that's, I mean, I can imagine paying somebody to do it, but just the materials alone and how expensive windows are and, and doors are, and kitchen cabinetry is and stuff, she's just freaking out. So. said, when did it get this expensive? And I said, well, COVID and I, I'm telling this for all those listeners that it's always been pretty expensive, but after

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 14:30

After.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 14:31

the cost of materials and even labor for whatever reason, to get people to do stuff, the rules have changed. I don't know if you'll agree, you can chime in on this one, but for me, it feels like everything has gotten. I wanna almost say twice as expensive the rules have changed and then we kick in, you know, variances of tariffs and the issue of getting wood from Canada and it's added more expense to it. Um, but just. She's figuring out how to make it happen. But she was genuinely shocked when the numbers came in. And, you know, you can get one bid and it goes expensive, but when you get five different bids from, know, about different projects, the the, the writing is on the wall, like, yeah, no, nobody's trying to rip you off. This is just what it is now. This is the new normal. So if you're gonna do remodel and you better do your due diligence and get some numbers together before you commit, because you are really gonna get surprised, I'm afraid. fair?

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 15:26

Yeah, there's, yeah, and I think it's trade specific on some things. We're,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 15:33

we're, um,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 15:35

remodeling a sprawling ranch right now and gutters. It needs new gutters and, our gutter quotes. Have been anywhere from$5,200 to$9,700. That's a huge range.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 15:54

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 15:55

And it's like, it's the same gutter

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 15:57

gutter

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 15:57

from the same supply house. So it's like, well, who's, who's really ripping you off and who's actually doing it? Or quality good on one and not the other, you know? So.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 16:10

I think there's another part that goes into this too, is speaking how she's so surprised, especially since she's not been someone who's ever done a remodel or done anything like that before. It's the curse of HGTV and it's show them showing, oh, I'm, I spent$10,000 and updated this entire house. It's not realistic. Right?

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 16:31

that watches those shows. Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 16:33

Yeah. And so I.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 16:34

I know that she's told me she's watched these shows, and there you go. I didn't think

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 16:37

Right, so.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 16:38

Yeah.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 16:38

Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 16:39

and we've, we've discussed before how the numbers that are shared are often incredibly unrealistic and either are just material and don't include the labor, which we know that that's a huge expense and all this'cause you have to have somebody knows what they're doing.'cause if you don't, that's when it's a disaster

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 16:55

top of

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 16:55

and sheet material.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 16:56

Right,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 16:57

Um. So when they go in, they say, oh, I did a whole kitchen for$10,000 worth of cabinets. You know, I remember way back it being, you know, 16, 17, watching it and being like, oh God, that's so much money. And it is, I, you know, I, I am not. I'm not naive to say that$10,000 is not a lot of money,'cause that is a lot of money. But when you're looking at cabinetry that you're gonna touch and open and pull and shut and every day hundreds of times, and you're gonna have kids bump into'em and you're gonna, they're gonna get wet and they're gonna get that is not for an entire kitchen. That is not. Gonna be like something that lasts. And so I do think that, that, we still walk into that a lot with, with clients if they've never done this before, that there's that. And then,, the other element, especially right now. With the increase of cost is freight. And Stuart kind of touched on that a little bit, but you know, we just got a a, a letter dropped off Friday for the people that do the rugs, the, they're at the store. So this is just like one thing, right? That we have, a commercial company that brings rugs at, that, drops'em off at the front door so people

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 18:02

Like walk, like walk-off mats so our floor doesn't get dirty. Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 18:06

their, clean their clean their shoes and stuff. And, um. They basically just dropped off a letter, Hey, we're having to raise our prices 20%, for the next little foreseeable part because of all of their machines are ran on gas, all of their heat, all their washers, all their heaters and everything. And like gas is just so expensive right now. So, you know, that's also gonna affect transportation of stuff like the freight of getting it from point A to point B. So,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 18:32

Right.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 18:33

yeah, it's, it's none of it's cheap. Mm-hmm. Merry Christmas.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 18:38

um. on, now I'm gonna say this, it's um, made, which is literally perfection and the doors are inset and anybody doesn't know what that means, could look it up, but you got overlay and inset in set's. More expensive way to go. It's a really large kitchen and beautiful detail. But the cabinetry alone,$65,000. Now that's not appliances, that's not ripping it out. That's not labor, that's not lighting, that's not countertops. Right. The cabinetry$65,000

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 19:12

you say it was a big kitchen? I can't remember.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 19:14

Yeah, it's a big kitchen. It is a big kitchen.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 19:15

Yeah, it's.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 19:17

Uh, yeah. Yeah. And there's, uh, gonna say this, we're doing a lot of drawers'cause it's very specific how she wants this done.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 19:26

Uh,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 19:27

drawers,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 19:28

oh my God,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 19:30

Y

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 19:30

Lord.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 19:31

yeah,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 19:32

Well, there's, there's$26,000.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 19:35

Right, right, right.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 19:37

Woo.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 19:38

y you know, I say that and that, that's, that's, it's like when we both got the numbers and I was like, Ooh, yikes. But, uh, it is what it is. Um, and we're doing it and she's moving forward. Now you found, uh, actually one of our neighbors, Stuart. For a project you're working on and his cabinetry, the last kitchen that you showed me that you're working on it, um, how much did that cost for that kitchen? Because it was, I think, reasonable, wasn't it? Ush o

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:03

Which color? What color was it?

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:05

color was?

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:06

The kitchen.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 20:07

of, um, brown colored, um, the house that's in the Bedford stone, um, the, the modern

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:14

Um,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:15

Um.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:16

that one, uh, was about 26,000.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 20:21

Yeah. So, and

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:22

Yeah.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 20:23

So it's

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:24

It's a big kitchen.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 20:24

65,000, this is bougie on top of bou, on top of bougie kind of stuff, right?

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:29

Right, right.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 20:30

but you're not going to get a whole kitchen for$10,000. So,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:33

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:34

No,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 20:34

you point that

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:34

no.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 20:35

that that might be disillusioned, um, what you say. So.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 20:40

Okay.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 20:41

I, I, I don't want to dismiss that. You can't do design and you can't get good design, uh, and do it economically, but you're probably gonna have to do a lot of the work yourself and, um, you know, you're gonna have to shop it pretty hard at this point. Um, the one place I keep, and this is not a, a plug, but a floor and decor. I have found to be a good place. That seems to try pretty hard and as far as tile seems to be offering fair pricing on stuff that I've worked on, you might be. Um, and it's a national company. I think, uh, I've been pleased with some of the price points with that once it's said and done. Uh, but that's, that's one of my few little ACEs in the hole, uh, that I've found lately. That's fair Price.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 21:26

I've not been in there when we were in Denver and I was working on the house there. We got some stuff from them, but that was, you know, four years ago. So I don't know anything. I haven't been into the one here.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 21:34

Okay.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 21:35

I mean I think they do have good selections. It's, um, some things that I've looked at there, they haven't had enough stock of,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 21:42

are

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 21:42

so it would have to come from either Louisville or Cincinnati, which normally is fine, but then it's a different lot number, so you have to make sure you get everything from the same lot.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 21:51

Yeah, there's,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 21:51

So it's the same color. Yeah. But no, overall.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 21:55

to

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 21:55

Overall good. Yeah.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 21:57

Yeah, yeah. No, there's, there's work involved with that one. What else? You

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 22:02

Um.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 22:03

What else is who, what are you working on? we've talked about this. I will say if you, people now say to you about paint color to me about paint color in utter bitter disdain. I don't want any gray. I mean, they're just ugly about it. I'm like, well, I wasn't gonna give you gray unless you wanted gray, right? I only did it. You know, I want one of those designers just go out there and paint every house gray, just'cause that's what people wanted. I gave it to you because that's what, you know, what was the right aesthetic? So don't, don't, don't bastardize and don't, uh, burger gray up because some houses need to have gray in it, right? So don't, don't go the

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 22:44

Sir.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 22:45

But, um, the, the thing is nobody wants gray anymore. And I'm like, okay. So every shade of beige neutral something. Uh, so I've been working with, uh, uh, and I'm gonna say it's gray, but there's a color called pale oak, which is kind of a. Gray tan to me, uh,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 23:04

Yeah.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 23:04

pretty color. Y'all know that one. Um, sh what was another one I looked at the other day? Anyway, um, have y'all been picking out colors for anybody and kind of seeing that that's kind of a. Pointed conversation that color, what people are looking to do or remodel, update, change, what kind of colors they're looking for. For the walls, it's been neutral. Neutral, neutral, neutral. Even though all over the internet you're seeing dark colors and saturated and that kind of stuff. What are you thinking,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 23:31

Chalky neutrals meaning, um, well, just what it means, chalky neutrals. It can still be a color, but it's, um, not necessarily muted. It almost looks like it has chalk dust on it. That's, I don't know how to describe it. You know,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 23:51

Yeah, I,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 23:52

I.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 23:52

haven't done many paint color because most of our paintings for most of the projects had that already happened. But I did one of the last ones. She said, I, I really don't wanna do gray. I want to do something different. And this happened because gray was literally everywhere. Everywhere. know there's trend. Like this is how the trends go. Everybody like does it and then everybody gets tired of it and it dates it and it makes it look really, you know, you can tell like when it was done. Now listen, my living room is still currently gray. And it's the color that we painted it when we moved into this house 14 years ago. Um, really want to change it. But my hiccup is I want to, like, when we went to,, Scotland last fall, I just loved everything that we went into. It was just if it just felt so good. And so I really want to redo some of the, the living room. And so I wanna do like a, make it a little darker, a little moodier, a little. More comfort, even though we don't spend much time in there, and dealing like a deep colored grass cloth wall with beautiful plaid draperies and just, we just, mm, I just wanna do it right. And then I, I have myself talked into it. Then I talk myself out of it. Then I tell toy about it at work, and then she's like, oh, you've gotta do it. Jeremy's said, good, I'd just be beautiful. And then I'm talked back into it, and then I'm walking out of the, the living room into the hallway. And then I notice the floor. The wood floor color and I'm like, yeah, I can't do it.'cause it's the wood floor color's that awful color that I wish we would've different done different, you know, way back when. But at this point I'm not redoing the floors. So,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 25:32

Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 25:32

but yeah, no, so that was a long, so, so look, we just say, hey, gray's still, you know, gray's not bad. I just like you said, but you know, I have heard people saying they didn't want to have gray or they wanted a lot more color. I think we've seen that with even like the stuff that people bought at the store. Um, people are

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 25:49

Yeah,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 25:49

to art, art with a lot more color in it, to pillows with a lot of color in it.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 25:54

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 25:55

I, I will say our vibrant art sells faster than our neutral art now, which used to not be the case.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 26:02

Mm-hmm.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 26:03

Yeah, that's total,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 26:04

Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 26:05

which is, you know,'cause I will always do, I will, like, I always love neutral art and then I'll like one little bright piece of art. But

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 26:15

Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 26:15

dunno.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 26:15

you, you're just one little

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 26:16

Yeah, I'm, am I,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 26:18

Oh.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 26:19

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 26:19

you know, I bought Jeremy, about to lose his mind with me because I bought, in the fall, I bought this, original oil painting. And it's small. I mean, it's only like, don't know, like 12 by maybe 13, 14, something like that. So it's not huge. But it's a local artist here, and I bought it in midway in one of the little shops over there. And it was so pretty, but it was not cheap, but it was beautiful. And like it grabbed me the second I saw it and I said, I gotta have it. I gotta have it. I gotta have it. And then the other night I couldn't sleep and I was up scrolling on TikTok and I found this artist out of new, he was from New York and now he's living in Michigan with his parents. I guess, I don't know what happened, but he had to leave the city, but he misses the city. And so what he does, he paints the city and he does these really interesting, I don't remember what his name is. I'll put'em down on the show notes. These interesting paintings, and they're kind of like. I can't if he calls'em condensation art or what, but it's like you're looking through a glass window and like where it's rained outside, so there's like a little bit of like there's a little fog on the window and you can kind of see. Anyway, they're really, really quite beautiful and interesting. They're, they're interesting. Now, do I want one of the big ass pieces? No., But he did do some a, some water droplets on a wet, on a window. Love it. It was framed really cute and like a little piece of acrylic. Well, I bought it too, and so it's not big again, like eight by eight. And so I told Jeremy and I was like, oh, hey, I, I bought this in the middle of the night. I was like, I was toing and God knows what I bought. Um, he's like, where are you gonna put it? I don't know. I'll find a place. It's not huge. It's like eight by eight, you know, it's, it's tiny, you know. He's like, what's your deal with buying all this original art? Now he was not being hateful, but he just knows that I can get on kicks sometimes.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 27:55

Sure

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 27:56

I was like.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 27:56

hateful.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 27:58

Well that's because that's how I'm, I'm inflecting it now, but he, he, he didn't do that. He,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 28:02

your deal, people

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 28:04

yeah. That's how, that's how I remember him saying it, but I know it's not how you said it. He's like, uh, okay.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 28:10

person.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 28:10

Oh, absolutely.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 28:12

you have conversation, it is always from your Jeremy. It's more about slop, bitter disdain, but never anger.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 28:21

That's right.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 28:23

Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 28:26

But so the reason why I mention that is because the art had a little bit more color in that it's green,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 28:32

There

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 28:33

but I'm still, I just,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 28:34

Oh.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 28:34

I just like neutral. I can't help it.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 28:36

So, you know, one of the things this conversation me, and I'm just screaming at both of you, is we had a podcast and it talked about,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 28:46

Oh

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 28:46

we

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 28:46

God.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 28:46

art. Yeah. And I said, well, I leave walls empty because I wanted the, the clients to find those last pieces. And you're both like, no, no. We just find stuff and fill it up. But yet you too. Jeremy and Stuart love original art. So they're not, they're, they're, they're not doing for you clients, what they do with them

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:10

No, no, no. Those are my walls. Those are my walls. You couldn't figure out what to put on your walls. That's why you called me and I put some shit on them.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:19

That's,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 29:20

that right?

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:21

That's right. That's right.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:22

that's right. No, I, uh, no, the, the, the part about See, you just like to twist the narrative to,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:30

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:30

your, uh, to,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:32

Mm-hmm.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 29:32

tell the narrative how you think it's appropriate,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:34

No, both of us have said we like original art and there's a time and a place it, we don't always are, we're not always able to find that. But if the, the customer has hired us to finish the room, I'm gonna finish the room. Right. Like, I'm not gonna be like, oh, find you something here when you get, you know, if it takes you five years, like,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:50

A lot of people don't,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:52

it.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:52

and a lot of people don't wanna pay for original art.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:55

yeah,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 29:56

I'm like, well, okay, this is$6,000. I'm like, oh, can you find, can you find something from Uttermost? Yeah. 1299, you know.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 30:05

You know?

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 30:07

Is that right?

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 30:11

Yeah. my problem is the original art that I really fall in love with it. I think it's just like stunning as it's always, it's very expensive.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 30:19

Yeah,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 30:19

I can buy are

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 30:20

it is,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 30:21

and I wanna support the artist. I do. I like, I, there's, it's important to do that. Um, but I still gotta be able to eat. So,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 30:30

yes. But as I recall, it was painted on a Tuesday at Sunset, 5:00 PM

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 30:39

You make fun of me, you people. fine. I bought a piece and they've made fun of me ever since.'cause she told me the story. They said she was lying to

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 30:47

Mm-hmm. Full

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 30:48

lying.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 30:49

Full of shit.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 30:51

Well, one of the things pivots to is, um, you know, I think we all have a good heart. You may not like what the heart says sometimes, but generally it's a pretty good heart. Right? the reason I say that is whenever we have our, uh, open house events, we try to open the door and we give a space, a table in the area to local artists or personalities or whatever, but usually artists, uh, to give them a chance to highlight them. And one of the, one of the things, I mean, he said, why do you do that? And I was like, well. 20 years ago, somebody opened their, their door for us and their heart for us, and gave us an opportunity and gave us a chance. And I think it's, um, your responsibility to lift other people up. We've, we have this common thread, but we've had some wonderful artists here. Uh, really would say, uh, I'm not sure how much you interacted with, but little Liz Ware, and we can. Show, no, her kind of, uh, she does animals right? And um, these great little pictures that are very economical, but you share your picture of your dog, your cat, your goat, whatever it is, and she will paint a picture of that little creature in the most charming of ways. And so she is one of those artists that you can have local art and it's just a beautiful little. Moment. And you know, a lot of people have used her, like they've lost a little dog and they have a picture and they want to, um, keep the memory of a little Fifi alive and, you know, it's just a little shelf sitter. But I love that, that she's one of those that's attainable local, original art, uh, that has a, um, a goodness all involved with it.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 32:34

Well, you know, we, I discussed this before last year, after we got back from a trip that I'd done some painting. and it made me want to like start painting again.'cause I used to do that. I say this to my husband the other night. I'm like, by the way, I think I'm, you know, I said this before, but I really feel like I want to get back into this. And he was like, when you say back into. did you do it? Because keep on, we've been together 25 years and I'm like, oh, it was before I met you. Like, and I'm like, I didn't, you know, paint everything, but I like it did. I loved. And so we're getting ready to take another trip and I think I'm gonna try to do another one of these little painting things and I think when I get back I wanna do it again.'cause I love that. I want, and so I've mentioned it before. I'll have some of my little art there in the store maybe, but, um, not that anything's gonna be fancy or, you know, amazing or anything like that. Come back, you know, we'll see my Uglies original. will be original.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 33:26

will be original. Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 33:30

So I don't know. Do you, do y'all have any hobbies that you used to do that you miss?

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 33:34

Uh, I don't know if it's a hobby. Um, I know all, you know this about me, but. I play with Matchbox cars still.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 33:44

Well that's fine.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 33:47

Oh yeah. I mean, I love it,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 33:49

love it. Let's see. There we go.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 33:51

so I like it more that Ally likes playing with them too.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 33:56

and, and garden'cause I feel like that and plant trees. And I love to see things grow. Uh, what I've realized, I have a. Done anything like that for long because when we plan built a house, you know, but now things are mature and it's time to change and add to it. I'm like starting to dig a hole and I'm like, oh God, I've gotten really old and really fat. I'm gonna have to hire somebody to plant that tree. It's like, oh, I'm not 35 anymore. You know? So

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 34:23

Oh.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 34:24

a check. Yeah.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 34:26

Yeah,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 34:27

I'm really surprised that you don't have a hobby that you like something. Yeah. mean, you've always been busy, so I guess maybe that's why you don't,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 34:36

Uh, oh God. This is the hokey, my hobby is my work.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 34:43

oh God.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 34:44

I know, I

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 34:45

is why you're gonna have an early death. Unfortunately. You'll think

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 34:47

I know.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 34:47

yourself to

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 34:48

Uh.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 34:48

the opposite because I, I love what I do and, uh, um. That is my joy and time after time, after time, literally, I was having a conversation with Darrell yesterday who was a, uh, a, a a gentleman, a a client and, and his family. They're opening, um, shout out, uh, hotel Thoroughbred, downtown Paris, Kentucky, a little boutique, um, hotel, and Daryl is mid seventies. He wouldn't look. It doesn't act it, and his love is. Now because in work and, and Darryl's one of those, he can build anything, fix anything, dream, anything. And so he hires he me, uh, it's like, you need to do this color, this one. And he makes it happen right in the hotel and he's on properties. But sad as it is for some, it's like sometimes your work is your hobby. Right. And that's true for me because I, I love what I do and so it, it feels me. It feels my creativity, it feels my thought processes. And, um, I don't have time for a hobby because in a way my work. Is my hobby, which is kind of hokey, but that's the truth really. Once it's all said and done, because, um, all I do is set and dream of how to make something more interesting and prettier. Like Kathy and I are our, our daughter's getting married this summer and she's getting married on the farm at our house. Well, now my attention's turning into outside. To get some more landscaping done. And you know, I've got this hostas that we started the kids and I dug the these two hostas up from a friend's house and now there's hundreds of'em and there's this beautiful shaded gar hosta garden that the kids and I helped create. Well now I want to add lime lives or green hydrangeas in this whole white, green kind of shaded area. And I'm just dreaming of that. And you know, my. Finished the basement of my house a couple years ago. My parents, well, it's a fairly steep incline'cause it's a walkout basement. Well. I, I need steps, right? They're elderly and so do I do regular concrete steps or something, Boer. And of course, you know, I'm wanting the, something

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:05

Hmm.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 37:06

I just got the quote back for four foot wide, 16 or 19 of them, limestone steps and

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:14

Mm-hmm.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 37:15

meander just a little bit. Oh God.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:17

Yeah, that'd be pretty. So this is a lesson of why you should learn to knit.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:23

see, I, you know, we used to crochet way, way back in the day. Right. I think that I, that, I don't know if I just feel like I gotta do something just to like put my brain, but I've thought about going back and crocheting again.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:34

I did just finish a cross stitch for Allie. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I started, well,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:41

on.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:42

on.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:42

We're talking about the cry.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 37:43

that's a

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:43

Yeah,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 37:44

hobby

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:44

took me 10 months.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:45

10 minutes.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 37:45

and

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:46

It is,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 37:46

Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 37:47

So let's talk about all the crosses just reminds me of us sitting at market. We're, oh Lord. Okay. I will tell the story then we'll let the people go. In Atlanta, uh, this January we were at breakfast and we, we're eating at a hotel that Stuart and I stayed a lot. Uh, when we go down in, for work in December and.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:04

yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:04

we know a lot of the servers and so, so they always take care of us. They're very nice. So we're sitting there and we look over and at this table of, were there eight,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:12

Yeah. Six or eight. Six or eight. Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:14

all approximately 30 years old.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:18

Yeah. 35. 30. 35. Yeah.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:22

Um, all white women, and I'm not judging, I'm not, I'm not judging the white women. I'm just trying to paint you a picture. Okay. They're all sitting around this big ass round table and, they all have their cross stitch out and they're all cross stitching, they're just sitting there forever and they're just talking cross stitch. And then here's the thing, the,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:40

Oh my God. Yeah,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:42

have, okay, they're in a restaurant. In

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:45

in a hotel.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:46

In a hotel, they're in a restaurant. In the hotel, they, have Starbucks door dashed to them in,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:57

Rude.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 38:58

and I, I couldn't see them. Stuart couldn't see them, but they were all in Dwayne's line of sight and it was the only thing he could pay attention to. He's like, believe these bitches are stitch. at it. Now she's getting out another cross stitch. Look at that. All the thread that now there's door dashing. It was hysterical,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 39:15

It was funny

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 39:17

E each toast and get the hell out, right? there taking a table up, taking time. Cross stitching

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 39:26

during market,

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 39:27

in the

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 39:28

during market.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 39:29

while you're supposed to be, uh, working, and then you are taking up someone's table and then bringing out somebody else's food. In just the audacity and the privilege I saw sitting at that table, I just literally just wanting to smack and there you go.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 39:47

now, now because how life is what it is, we're now gonna find out that these people all did these cross stitches and then they donated them and they were auctioned off for some item to raise money for like, you know, needy

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 39:57

Oh, they were probably,

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 39:58

go. That's

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 39:58

they were probably stitching each other's locks of hair for some cancer, baby. And now I feel bad.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 40:05

well,

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 40:06

No, I don't feel bad. It was awful.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 40:08

better about it. It just as a point of like, I don't care. It was just ridiculous to have to watch this, that transpire. Just that was just painful.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 40:17

Well, until next week.

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 40:19

I really like people, but that made me not like those people. So

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 40:24

Well, with that said, until next week, get out your cross stitch, get out your art, get out your paint. Get out your matchbox cars

dwayne-guest54_1_03-24-2026_094700 40:31

your

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 40:31

at home. At

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 40:32

home.

squadcaster-5j3b_1_03-24-2026_095455 40:33

with a cup of coffee, and we will see you all next week. Bye.

stuart_1_03-24-2026_095455 40:38

Bye.