S3:E11 More Than Just Things

I just got back from a family trip to a place where I have not really been since I was a kid. And let me tell you, rock candy, pecan rolls, more fudge than any reasonable adult should eat in one weekend, and I was not reasonable. But beyond eating all of the things that I shouldn't have, we also did a little bit of shopping, and I had a little moment that spoke back to when I was a kid, and it made me start thinking about what we do, how the pieces in your home just aren't pretty things on a shelf: a bowl, a pitcher, handful of seashells in a jar. They can take you right back to a place, a person, maybe the last Thanksgiving that everybody got along. All of that matters because a home full of things that mean something to you beats a perfectly styled one every time. 

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Jeremy 0:05

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to The Boys. I just got back from a family trip to a place where I have not really been since I was a kid. And let me tell you, rock candy, pecan rolls, more fudge than any reasonable adult should eat in one weekend, and I was not reasonable. But beyond eating all of the things that I shouldn't have, we also did a little bit of shopping, and I had a little moment that spoke back to when I was a kid, and it made me start thinking about what we do, how the pieces in your home just aren't pretty things on a shelf: a bowl, a pitcher, handful of seashells in a jar. They can take you right back to a place, a person, maybe the last Thanksgiving that everybody got along. All of that matters because a home full of things that mean something to you beats a perfectly styled one every time. Let's get into it Well, good morning, guys. Did, uh, Stuart, do you have an update for us with your little puppy dog? 'Cause I want you to tell the story about what you've had going on this week with the dog.

Stuart 2:11

She was high Huh. Yeah, that's it. She, uh, so a couple months ago, she had this episode where she slept literally two days, peed on herself. I was like, "Lord, we're gonna have to put her down. This is the time. This is it." I made Allie say goodbye to her. I did. And I was like, "Tomorrow morning we're going to the vet," 'cause, you know, it was a Saturday and a Sunday. And she wakes up Monday morning like, "I'm hungry. Let's go out. Let's run. Let's go play. I wanna eat. Let's go." Like nothing had ever happened. So I was like, "Huh, okay. Well, we'll s- see how this goes." next weekend she did it again, but only for one day. Woke up on Monday ready to roll. So, you know, it's been, I don't know, three months, three and a half months. And, um, on Sunday night, this past Sunday, you know, she ate. We went out for the last time of the night. She came back in, and she immediately wanted to go to bed, like immediately. So she sits at the bed. When she's ready, if we're not ready, when she's ready, she sits in the bedroom and goes,

Jeremy 3:33

Just so you know, I make the same noise when I'm ready to go to bed.

Stuart 3:35

I might be fighting for real yeah, 'cause she wants to go to bed. And she can't jump in the bed 'cause she's, you know, she's little. She's nine

Jeremy 3:40

Hmm, yes, she's tiny

Stuart 3:41

I picked her up, put her in there, and she promptly just went to sleep, like, within five minutes. Just So, you know, th- wake up. I wake up the next morning. She was still in the same spot. I thought, "What in the world is going on with her again?" And, uh, I touched her and she's kinda cold. I went, "Oh, God, she's dead." So I just left her there. I got the other dog out and fed her, her outside, made my coffee, went back in, touched her again. She didn't move. So I wake Jeremy up and I was like, I don't know if Isabelle's dead or not." like, "What? Where is she?" I said, "Right there. She hasn't moved." So he, like, looked at her and she kinda went He goes, "Well, she's breathing." So I still had to get Ally ready for school, so I went up and got her ready for school. Told her that Jeremy was gonna take her to school because I had to take Isabelle to the doctor, and she said, "Oh, no. Is she gonna die like Lizzy?" I said, "I don't know." And she goes, "Well, I'm gonna go see if she wakes up." Of course, she goes down there and kinda shakes her, and Isabelle opens one eye and looks at her, and just stays there. I'm like, "What in the world?" So they go to school. I go to the vet. I kinda, you know, wake her up enough to go to the vet. Of course, she peed on herself again. Now, listen, she's 14 years old, but she has never does that.

Jeremy 5:12

Mm-hmm.

Stuart 5:13

So take her to the vet and they look at her. You know, it was early. It was before the vet gets there, so the vet tech was there, and it's a vet tech. Uh, they've ha- been Isabelle's vet since she was three months old, so they know her in and out. And, she goes, "Hmm, hmm. I think I know what it is, but I'm gonna wait for the doctor to get in." I was like, "Okay." So I left her there. About 8:30, doctor calls me. And he goes, "Well, so what I think I'm gonna do with the girl here is hook her up to IV fluids and just flush out her system." He goes, "I'll, I'll put a catheter in, flush her out, because she needs to get rid of whatever's in her." He goes, "'Cause, you know, she's feeling real good right now I said, "Hold on." I said, "I was prepared for you to call me to tell me, like, these are the final days." And he went, "Oh, no." He goes, "You know she is stronger than any dog I've ever known." He goes, he goes, "She has just gotten into something, and we're gonna flush it out." And I said, "Is she high?" And he kinda laughed. He went, "Yeah, she is. She is on a real good trip right now." And apparently there's this little mushroom and some certain mosses that are growing right now in our area that dogs are loving to eat when they find them. Well, larger dogs who have more body weight, it might give them upset stomach for a little bit, in a couple hours they're done. Little nine-pound dogs who ingest in the Land of Oz basically puts them in a coma, which is why she peed on herself, 'cause she's too fucking lazy to get up 'cause she was flying high So they kept her all day. He goes, "Of course, if anything changes, you know." He goes, "But I'm 99% positive this is what's going on." I was like, "Okay. Well, I'll go pick her up at 4:30." She was happy. She was like, "Oh, yeah, yeah." I said, "Has she eaten today?" He's like, "No, but I bet she's real hungry." As soon as we got home, she was like, "Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum." mean, ate and whatever. So basically, the moral of this story is I sent my nine-pound dog for a $600, detox because she's an addict. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And so now we're on Thursday, and she's fine. She's fine. Nothing ever happened

Dwayne 7:50

Bless its heart

Jeremy 7:51

No, we're little babies. Bless it. Well Well, um, what I actually wanted to talk about this week was, um, last week I was on vacation with my husband's family, and we went to Pigeon Forge. And the first part of this is I need to apologize to Pigeon Forge a little bit because my family used to take us there a lot as a child. And we went for a long time, and then we did not go for a long time. And then I did go back with some friends, and it had changed a lot. And I had turned it into this place that no one should ever go, in my mind. This is what I'm like, "This is why I go there. This is awful." You know, whatever. Well, we went and I had a lovely time, so I have to apologize to the Pigeon Forge area that we didn't do anything really touristy, but it was a nice little place with, you know...

Stuart 8:40

little

Jeremy 8:40

It was nice to go.

Stuart 8:41

though.

Jeremy 8:42

So,

Stuart 8:43

Yeah. It's, it's, it's beautiful. The thing is, people,

Dwayne 8:46

um, well here

Stuart 8:47

well here it's like,

Dwayne 8:48

you

Stuart 8:48

"Oh, you went to Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge," and they just turn their nose up.

Dwayne 8:51

And it's like,

Stuart 8:52

And it's like, well, there are parts of it you should turn your

Jeremy 8:57

Mm-hmm.

Stuart 8:58

up. And the better life is there, and the Bubba XXXXXXXX

Dwayne 9:03

are

Stuart 9:03

are there, which is- Oh, wow

Dwayne 9:04

to edit that out, by the way. Uh, right? But they're there, right? But what also is there is Mother Nature and beauty, uh, So you just have to look for it and plan it out, because you really can go there to get recharged. And if anybody

Stuart 9:22

If anybody knows anything about that area, just say something. Well- Any number of times, there's nothing there that's what I was gonna say. To get recharged, you actually have to enjoy their nature, not the Apple Barn

Dwayne 9:22

about, um, that area, just say the Chimneys, go to the Chimneys in the summertime. There's nothing better Exact- that's exactly right, right? That's exactly right. You get it. Uh, going shopping at the outlet mall every day is probably not ideal,

Stuart 9:43

No. Take a hike, sit on a tree, something

Dwayne 9:47

What, what's the little town? Gatlinburg is the little town, right?

Jeremy 9:50

Like the city. Mm-hmm. The city. Mm-hmm

Dwayne 9:52

city. It's where you park and you walk. Even that can get on your nerves about 30 minutes into it. But if you go there, and if you, if that was the only vacation you got as a kid, right,

Jeremy 10:02

Mm-hmm

Dwayne 10:03

for us, know, getting the $14, $14 caramel-infused apple with things on it tastes real good. Now, I was bitter that it was $14, by the way. Are you hearing that? For a caramel apple with on it and whatever. But the memories were there. The memories were

Jeremy 10:25

Mm-hmm.

Dwayne 10:26

So you c- you can, you can seek, you can find good everywhere if

Jeremy 10:31

Mm-hmm.

Dwayne 10:31

allow yourself to look

Jeremy 10:33

Yeah. Well, that you kind of touched on the, uh, the racism kind of part that I had experienced the previous trip that I'd had there. I just-- It was, it was so, um, it was so disgusting, and it really turned me off. I, I just didn't wanna go, ever go back because of what the amount that I experienced while I was down there. And, um, I will say that it, it was different this time. Like, I-- you didn't see that as prevalent?

Stuart 10:57

like that. Yeah. They, they cleaned it up and they wiped it down.

Dwayne 10:59

it down. It's still

Stuart 11:00

It's still there,

Jeremy 11:01

Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely

Dwayne 11:02

wasn't

Stuart 11:03

wasn't, it, and it wasn't shop flags

Dwayne 11:05

I

Stuart 11:05

or I mean, flags in the shop

Jeremy 11:07

Mm-hmm. Yeah

Stuart 11:08

like four or five years ago. I don't know when it stupid

Jeremy 11:11

I did not see those as, but there was a lot of Second Amendment, uh, merchandise that was, uh, everywhere. And I didn't take a picture, and I regret doing it, but it was

Dwayne 11:19

Amendment?

Jeremy 11:20

the, right to bear guns.

Dwayne 11:21

Okay.

Jeremy 11:22

the, um, the, the shirt that I, that I wanted to, to take a pic...

Dwayne 11:26

a gun?

Jeremy 11:27

I do not, no. But, I mean, I, we have family that do

Stuart 11:31

I will neither confirm nor deny that statement

Dwayne 11:35

I'm sure he does 'cause

Jeremy 11:36

Oh, sir

Dwayne 11:37

he's a queer that loves to kill, so

Jeremy 11:39

Oh my Well,

Dwayne 11:43

you dead

Jeremy 11:44

Come in my

Stuart 11:44

Tara

Jeremy 11:45

Well, that's right. Don't, you know... Um, like I've got other things. I don't have the guns, but I can, I can get you. Um, and it's not our little kitty cat. Um

Dwayne 11:55

is it

Stuart 11:55

It is too much eff-

Dwayne 11:57

and

Stuart 11:57

listen, it's too much effort to stab people. Just shoot them, be done with it

Dwayne 12:01

Yeah. I will just,

Jeremy 12:02

Do we?

Dwayne 12:03

with you, Stuart. You, you, you and my Tara, you dead,

Jeremy 12:07

sorry, we got a gate...

Stuart 12:08

for a reason.

Jeremy 12:09

Well, that's true. The, the shirt that I wish I would have taken a picture of, and I can't remember exactly what it said, but it said something about the Second Amendment, and the word amendment was spelled incorrectly. And I thought that that was very telling. I just thought it was very funny. Um, but the bigger point of what I wanted to talk about this trip was, you know, as we w- used to go as kids, we always stopped at Stuckey's, in Corbin. That was the exit on the way down on I-75, which was about halfway between where my parents lived and there. And we would always stop there, and I would always get rock candy. My grandfather would always get like a pecan log. My mom would get some, like, divinity candy that they had there. Like, there were just things that we had a routine, right? Like, this is what we always did. So when we were down there this time, we went to Dollywood, which I had not been since I was... Mom doesn't remember when we went, but I've only been once. And she said, "I don't think Whitney was old enough to remember it." Well, I'm only two years older than Whitney, so that tells you I was around five maybe. We're gonna go with that. And that would be right about the time it opened.

Dwayne 13:10

Like 40 years ago, kids, if you do

Jeremy 13:12

yeah, yeah. And so it's been a very long time since I've been there. Um, but I enjoyed myself. I thought it was beautiful. It was amazing what they had done there, all those kind of things. But we were checking out, and so my, our, we have a little niece, uh, who's three. And so I got her a little Dolly T-shirt, and I got her a little Book of Many Colors book so I can read, you know, read that to her. And then as I'm going to check out, I'm going through the aisle and I look down and I see rock candy, and I immediately am transported back. And then, um, I picked it up and then I look down and I see peanut butter fudge or chocolate peanut butter fudge, which is,

Stuart 13:44

is

Jeremy 13:45

mom always used to get.

Stuart 13:45

used to get.

Jeremy 13:46

Picked that up,

Stuart 13:47

up,

Jeremy 13:47

turned, here's the pecan log, here's the divinity roll. Like all of these moments. So I've picked up all of them and I'm taking them back to my mom when I go see her this weekend just to have like a little memory trip, right?

Stuart 13:59

trip,"

Jeremy 14:00

those are like the, the, the things I remember on the way too.

Stuart 14:03

too.

Jeremy 14:03

But the other thing that always stood, stood out to me when we would go there, Mom and Dad would want to go eat at The Mill, which was a restaurant down on some kinda like little river, creek something. I don't know. It's, it-- I don't know if it's a river or if it's a creek. It's, it's not huge, but it's there and it's been there forever. Um, and so when we would go there, we would go shopping and there's some little shops that are

Stuart 14:21

that are all

Jeremy 14:21

all around it, and there's one that's a pottery store.

Stuart 14:24

store.

Jeremy 14:24

And it had pottery that people there in the Pigeon

Stuart 14:27

in the

Jeremy 14:27

Forge Pottery actually made. They make it there and then, and then they have a kiln and they do it all and they glaze it. Well, I loved it as a child. I just thought every piece was so beautiful.

Stuart 14:36

piece was so

Jeremy 14:37

I just, I loved how different they were and the glazing and

Stuart 14:39

and

Jeremy 14:40

just, I was always in love with it. And when I say we went every year, we probably went

Stuart 14:44

went

Jeremy 14:45

between my- third, third, fourth birthday to my

Stuart 14:50

my

Jeremy 14:51

20th birthday. We went every year, and then the years that we didn't go, we went to Florida, which was maybe like three. So we went probably 17 times. Okay? And we always stayed in the same hotel. Papa and Granny lived way out in the country, and so to stay on the main drag there in Pigeon Forge, they could sit out and watch the traffic drive by, and that was them being in the city, right? So that was like that, they liked to watch the cars.

Dwayne 15:12

I get it. I

Stuart 15:13

it.

Dwayne 15:13

Yeah

Jeremy 15:13

So, um, but going to this pottery place, we'd walk around and I would alway- I would just, I would love everything and I'd want to buy it. And I, of course, was a kid, had no money to buy anything. And, uh, my mama was like, "I am not buying you a $35 bowl

Stuart 15:28

'cause you gonna break it. And you won't

Jeremy 15:29

it. You ain't gonna use it." Um, and she was right. She had every right to say that 'cause one, we didn't have the money, and two, that I would've totally ruined it.

Stuart 15:37

it.

Jeremy 15:37

Um, but when we were down there this trip, I went back and that same store was still there. And so I went in and I was just like... It took me back

Stuart 15:45

that same bowl, and it was a Tuesday at 5:00, wasn't it?

Jeremy 15:48

No, no,

Stuart 15:49

It was the same one.

Jeremy 15:50

it w-- no, it wasn't the same bowl. But there were, uh, uh-- but they had a lot of the, uh, a lot of potter- just interesting, beautiful pottery pieces as I walked around. And it took me back immediately as I was a, a, a kid, but this time I was an adult, and I had a-adult money, and I was able to buy my bowls. And so I was able to get some to have for my kitchen. And what made me think the other day was, as I was walking back by them, was it instantly took me back to all those memories, again, back as a kid, to this trip, you know, reconnecting with all of that. And it made me kind of rethink what we do, that we get so caught up in that it's just product or it's just things to make your house pretty. But items or arrangements or whatever it is can capture moments of time that help you remember to go back to those things. So whether it's the last Thanksgiving that everybody got along, right? Or like, like those kinds of things, like, th-those elements can automate-automatically take you back. And I just thought, you know, it's, it's interesting that we have those little

Stuart 16:50

little

Jeremy 16:50

points. And so I wanted to know if you all had anything that was like that, um, in your home or that you love, or if you've ever had any stories from customers where you've done things and it takes them back.

Dwayne 16:59

Well, I can tell you the easy one. I didn't tell you this because I know we always want to make this authentic as we talk about it.

Jeremy 17:05

Mm-hmm

Dwayne 17:06

But you were telling me about buying the, the pottery at

Stuart 17:08

But you were telling me about on the pottery

Dwayne 17:08

the shop next to the mill. Randomly, Kathy and I usually go to Gatlinburg, uh, Pigeon Forge area January, February, you know, for a long weekend or something like that. And there's this beautiful, uh, little cabins you stay at. It's called, um, the Buckhorn, Buckhorn Inn. Well, well, anyway, uh, it's not like

Stuart 17:26

Not like a cabin cabin, just like a

Dwayne 17:28

vintage

Stuart 17:29

vintage style

Dwayne 17:30

It's... Anyway, it's very quaint. Uh, and they have a, um,

Stuart 17:34

and they have a, a, they serve a meal,

Dwayne 17:36

the,

Stuart 17:36

at the, the main house. It's, it's a bed and breakfast,

Dwayne 17:39

they

Stuart 17:39

but they also have peripheral houses

Dwayne 17:40

houses

Stuart 17:42

really is what they are, little small hou-houses. Weren't you- Anyway, so it's a different version

Dwayne 17:45

a different version of Gatlinburg than what l- a lot of people think. It's, it's

Stuart 17:49

Lovely. And it feels like old school, right?

Dwayne 17:51

So

Stuart 17:51

So

Dwayne 17:52

we

Stuart 17:52

we had, we had

Dwayne 17:53

dinner,

Stuart 17:54

dinner, whatever it was,

Dwayne 17:55

at

Stuart 17:55

at the mall, and we went to a

Dwayne 17:56

went to the pottery

Stuart 17:57

store,

Dwayne 17:58

on

Stuart 17:58

and on our coffee table,

Dwayne 17:59

there was

Stuart 18:00

there was a gift that was given to us.

Dwayne 18:01

a pretty

Stuart 18:02

It's pretty substantial. It's

Dwayne 18:03

probably

Stuart 18:03

eighteen inches

Dwayne 18:03

inches round, this

Stuart 18:05

It's this beautifully handmade bowl,

Dwayne 18:08

That's

Stuart 18:08

it's the colors of our house that came from, uh,

Dwayne 18:12

Asheville, right,

Stuart 18:14

right?

Jeremy 18:14

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm

Dwayne 18:15

it was a gift. It's a, a, a, a cousin of, of Kathy stayed with us, and she gifted it to us. So we've added pieces as we find

Stuart 18:22

Find them to their collection.

Dwayne 18:24

we

Stuart 18:24

And we bought Jeremy

Dwayne 18:25

of

Stuart 18:25

one of the small glazed blue brown bowls

Dwayne 18:29

of the

Stuart 18:29

from the color

Dwayne 18:29

remember you seeing that a

Jeremy 18:30

Mm-hmm.

Dwayne 18:31

and we add it to the

Stuart 18:32

The collection

Dwayne 18:32

me

Stuart 18:33

that Peter told me about, but

Dwayne 18:34

same

Stuart 18:34

same scenario, didn't have any money, grew up in a trailer park

Dwayne 18:37

home."

Stuart 18:37

home and

Dwayne 18:38

actually, we didn't stay in, um, the hotel. We literally stayed in a pop-up tent in, um, uh, a campground. We didn't

Stuart 18:46

We didn't even have the

Dwayne 18:48

Yeah. And there's still the story to this day. Uh, we

Stuart 18:52

we went with,

Dwayne 18:53

Homer and

Stuart 18:54

and Jetty,

Dwayne 18:55

which

Stuart 18:55

which were older,

Dwayne 18:56

um, friends of my

Stuart 18:58

of my parents, and then their

Dwayne 19:00

son and

Stuart 19:01

and daughter and their children, which were about my mom's,

Dwayne 19:04

dad's age. And I

Stuart 19:06

I just remember this day.

Dwayne 19:08

It's

Stuart 19:08

It's like

Dwayne 19:09

she

Stuart 19:09

she said, "Yeah." Mom said, "We were staying in that tent." And I said, "Bill,

Dwayne 19:13

Bill,

Stuart 19:14

Bill,

Dwayne 19:14

can't

Stuart 19:15

can't sleep in this

Dwayne 19:16

sleeping on a

Stuart 19:16

on a rock." "Well, hell, Sandy,

Dwayne 19:18

go

Stuart 19:18

go back to sleep. It's two o'clock. Go to bed."

Dwayne 19:21

Now, they have told that story 400 times. She said, "That man wouldn't listen to me." She said, "I slept on a rock at my head

Stuart 19:27

We stayed all night long in that tent that night. And that's just one of the memories Wow. And he just sang

Dwayne 19:27

night long in that tent that night." And that's just one of the memories that you have. Now, you think that you could get me to stay in a tent now in this lifetime, right? But it was a kid, right? It was a kid and those beautiful memories, and I remember that was a... They used to do, I'm not sure if they still do, helicopter rides. Uh, I'm not sure.

Jeremy 19:49

Yeah, I don't, I don't know if they still do 'em or not, but I remember they did do 'em.

Dwayne 19:52

Stuart?

Stuart 19:53

Yeah. Yeah, I think they do because who was just telling me about that they, it was like a six-hour wait to do them, and you had to sign up and then come back later. So apparently they're still popular and very unsafe. But

Dwayne 20:09

Well, I could just say as a kid I did that with, with Jetty and Dad. Um, I can say that, so that's it. But that bowl, it goes back to we bought that bowl, as that memory to add to our collection, but it also, for me, it was very important to have it because of what you just said, your whole memory to that, tied to that area. Now

Jeremy 20:29

Mm-hmm.

Dwayne 20:30

that are memories, but in particular we have that strong of a connection of going there, and even the pottery place, and even buying a bowl. I didn't

Jeremy 20:39

Mm-hmm. Mm-mm. Mm-mm.

Dwayne 20:42

pretty cool. Yeah, yeah. There's a, there's a thread there. There's a whole lot that like about you that we're different, uh, but there's a lot that we are. What you got for us,

Stuart 20:52

Well, I think, I think my, uh, youth vacation story is a little different but still relates back to why I, when I travel now, I like to not cheap it out when I travel. Because, okay, so even in the '70s, you know, Suburbans were very expensive vehicles, even in the '70s. we always, we always had a Suburban. I never thought anything of it 'cause I didn't know, I was a kid. However, back then, when you bought a Suburban, besides the front two seats, the other seats were optional that you could add to the vehicle Mm-hmm, 'cause it was supposed to be basically a covered truck you could use to transport things. Well, my dad, and both of y'all know Daddy Bill, he was cheap and did not buy the backseats. when we went on vacation, me and my brother each got those folding lounge chairs. You know the ones that fold into three?

Jeremy 21:55

Mm-hmm

Stuart 21:56

They, like, fold into three, and we had those, uh, 'cause there was also not seatbelt laws then either, so we didn't have to have that on

Dwayne 22:03

How old are you?

Stuart 22:05

Yes. So we each had one of those folding lounge chairs in the back. You know, they were like vinyl. I think mine was yellow and my brother's was blue.

Dwayne 22:18

I

Stuart 22:18

Mm-hmm. But you know what happens when you slam on the brakes in a vehicle? You fold up in that fucking chair That's what happens. So, um, yeah, I don't like to be folded in a chair when I go on vacation.

Dwayne 22:39

Yeah. Oh, sweet Daddy Bill. Sweet Daddy Bill.

Stuart 22:43

I think eventually

Dwayne 22:44

something, did you buy something when you were on vacation or didn't

Stuart 22:48

Yes.

Dwayne 22:48

crave it or want it?

Stuart 22:50

Well, so what first started, we were at, um, it was part of Disney, but it was the nature part. What's that called? Like the safari. I don't even know if it exists

Jeremy 23:01

Animal Kingdom?

Stuart 23:02

That, no.

Jeremy 23:03

I don't know. I don't know

Stuart 23:06

That's where I started collecting elephants, little elephant statues.

Jeremy 23:11

Mm-hmm.

Stuart 23:11

there was this one, it was bejeweled and I loved it. It was probably about three inches by three inches. And

Dwayne 23:20

Did

Stuart 23:21

that...

Dwayne 23:21

"Heck no, get

Stuart 23:23

He, no, he's just like, "I don't know why you need a shiny piece of jewelry." I said, "It's not jewelry. I can set it in my room." So that's what started, and then I collected elephants up until like I was 25. anytime I traveled, I would find one and look at one. And anytime...

Dwayne 23:41

40 years ago?

Stuart 23:42

I did. Uh, I did. One, because I can't stand a curio cabinet, so they're all in a box now. But yeah, I mean, and I'll still, even to this day, I'll still look and be like, "Oh look, it's an elephant." And I re- I don't buy, I don't buy them anymore, but I'm just like, "Oh, yeah." And I remember that first one from way back then, so yeah

Dwayne 24:07

You know, I, I, as you tell this, it reminds me of why I hate both of you, because it goes back to s- a serious little dig, uh, was one of the places that Kathy and I have landed on loving is, uh, uh, Siesta Key, and we went to a farmers market a couple years ago and bought this, a little original piece of art. And I always wanna know the story of did it and where you did it, and, uh, so I met her, and she was a lovely artist, and, yeah, I painted it on a Tuesday, and it's at Turtle Bay or Turtle Beach," or whatever it was, and it did this and all. And I just loved it because it... She's like, "Yeah, I was walking through the sand, and I saw a glimmer s- of seashell, and I painted it, and you see the seashell."

Stuart 24:49

instantly she just whipped out a brush and painted it right there.

Dwayne 24:53

did.

Stuart 24:53

She had it right in her muumuu.

Dwayne 24:55

to me.

Stuart 24:56

She did.

Dwayne 24:57

I'm

Stuart 24:57

She lied to you

Jeremy 24:59

Well, here's, here's the funny thing. In all of the world, you would be the one person to find the artist who was actually sincere and actually did do what they said. And I'm not calling artists...

Dwayne 25:10

her.

Jeremy 25:10

I, I'm not, I'm not calling people, liars and, and trying to sell their stuff. But you would find the one person who gave a damn, who cared on that day, and bought the one piece that they did know. The rest of us would all end up buying some shit that they ended up importing in from China and threw some slack on

Stuart 25:27

John and Luke's slack on

Dwayne 25:27

I really do believe her. I do. I really do.

Jeremy 25:30

Well, I hope it's real. I hope it's true

Dwayne 25:34

Well, if it's not, I'm gonna hold onto it

Jeremy 25:36

Yeah. You know, it's okay. It connects you

Stuart 25:39

Yeah, it does

Dwayne 25:40

you know what I always do. We, um, when the kids were young, you're talking about, uh, collecting. It's like, uh, we started collecting seashells. Well, everybody collects seashells.

Jeremy 25:50

Mm-hmm.

Dwayne 25:51

here's where it's different. I saw an interview with this lady, and she traveled around the world, and she had these little,

Stuart 25:56

Little tiny,

Dwayne 25:57

don't

Stuart 25:58

I don't know, three-inch little bottles, little,

Dwayne 26:00

or,

Stuart 26:00

or six-inch bottles

Dwayne 26:01

they were. They had a cork on it, and she collected sand for every

Stuart 26:06

they

Dwayne 26:06

that she went that

Stuart 26:06

were. They had a cork on it, and she collected sand for every place that she went that had sand, right? And we went here and there, and pink to orange to brown to black to...

Dwayne 26:13

black to

Stuart 26:14

I

Dwayne 26:14

of, you

Stuart 26:15

was, you know, you don't think about sand being that diverse. And she labeled all of them, and it really made this interesting display,

Dwayne 26:22

but it

Stuart 26:22

but it also told a story. And so I started thinking about it.

Dwayne 26:24

don't

Stuart 26:25

I don't need to just kind of have the seashells in a bag. We need to collect the seashells, and the seashells need to tell a story like she did.

Dwayne 26:31

So we

Stuart 26:32

we collected seashells, and like

Dwayne 26:34

the

Stuart 26:34

the goal this year would be

Dwayne 26:35

try to

Stuart 26:36

try to find all black seashells,

Dwayne 26:38

right?

Stuart 26:39

right?

Dwayne 26:39

And

Stuart 26:40

And that's what we did. And, you know, it's because you can find a lot of seashells, but make

Dwayne 26:45

But then

Stuart 26:45

But then I'd always write on a piece of paper the year that we did it, where we found them on vacation, and it's in it.

Dwayne 26:52

then

Stuart 26:52

then on top of that, 'cause I don't need another thing,

Dwayne 26:55

like if

Stuart 26:55

like if we would go antiquing or we would go to another little shop or something, we would buy like a little glass bowl,

Dwayne 27:02

and the

Stuart 27:02

and the glass bowl would then have a piece of paper in it with the black seashells in it.

Dwayne 27:05

then

Stuart 27:06

then we've collected and curated, and it told two stories at once.

Dwayne 27:09

And so

Stuart 27:11

not only does

Dwayne 27:12

the

Stuart 27:12

the seashell tell a story, but the vessel, the container that it's

Dwayne 27:16

that sounds like a whole

Stuart 27:16

in. I know that sounds like a whole lot of hokey, but

Dwayne 27:17

you

Stuart 27:18

if you don't need anything, you better make double use of

Jeremy 27:21

Mm-hmm.

Dwayne 27:21

And we

Stuart 27:22

we literally, I have them on the bookcase, and

Dwayne 27:24

I'll

Stuart 27:24

I'll bring them out in, in July usually and place a few of them around at the coffee table. And it's that every time I look at those seashells,

Dwayne 27:32

um, I

Stuart 27:33

I love them, and they have memories attached to

Dwayne 27:35

But

Stuart 27:35

them. But like it's a bowl of seashells, but I'll dump it out and like, "Oh, look, that was when we went to such and such beach

Dwayne 27:41

12

Stuart 27:41

12 years ago." So even if you collect something,

Dwayne 27:44

you know,

Stuart 27:44

you know, it's almost like,

Dwayne 27:45

what

Stuart 27:46

what is it? Uh, Swedish Death Cleaning, put a name on it.

Dwayne 27:49

Buy

Stuart 27:49

Buy something. If you love it, you can't remember

Dwayne 27:51

put a

Stuart 27:52

it, put a piece of paper on it on the bottom or put the television

Dwayne 27:54

so that you're like, "I don't

Stuart 27:55

on

Dwayne 27:55

that came from." So

Stuart 27:56

there so when your bad-ass children are throwing stuff away or

Dwayne 28:00

in

Stuart 28:00

it's in a yard sale for fifty cents,

Dwayne 28:03

look at it

Stuart 28:03

look

Dwayne 28:03

"Oh, look, it rem- it had a,

Stuart 28:05

at it and go, "Oh, look, it were-- it had a, had a purpose or it had-- or somebody loved

Jeremy 28:08

You know

Stuart 28:09

ask, they'll ask a dollar then.

Dwayne 28:11

ask a dollar, yeah.

Jeremy 28:13

As you're telling us, I was at a client's house the other night and we were working on some bookcases, and I'm not gonna give any more details because I don't want anybody to be able to figure out who it was. But, um, we wanted sh- they wanted to update these bookcases, and she wanted to repl- replace all of these,

Stuart 28:27

All of these,

Jeremy 28:27

picture frames 'cause the picture frames that they had were all very dated. And so as I'm going through in these guest rooms, taking these, these things out, out, out of the shelf, there are, I have at least five if not six like

Stuart 28:42

them to take these things off, out of the shelf, there are... I have at least five, if not six, like

Jeremy 28:43

oyster shells that have had Modge Podge and some like scene like decoupaged on

Stuart 28:46

and some like scene like Decoupaged on the

Jeremy 28:48

of them and all these shelves. And I'm like, "Where did,

Stuart 28:52

did,

Jeremy 28:52

what, what..." And again, I'm, I told her, I was like, "I'm not trying, I'm not making fun of this. I'm just taking this off the shelf to get a clean canvas and to start over.

Stuart 29:00

Is

Jeremy 29:00

Is any of this important or are any of these parts of the story that you need to have, you know, you wanna have around you?" She goes, "Oh, no." She goes, "Those have all been gifts from clients." She goes, she goes, "I don't really understand it." She goes, "Some of them evidently-- Some of these women just go to the beach over the summer and they just sit there and decoupage these damn things all summer long, and they just come back and bring us all some."

Stuart 29:18

in the trash can. Well, no, I still did decoupage a lot

Jeremy 29:22

So as you're collecting your shells the other night, we were pulling them to put them in the trash can.

Dwayne 29:28

Well, I also didn't take a positive amount of wooden picture frames,

Jeremy 29:30

Yeah.

Dwayne 29:30

you go

Jeremy 29:31

that's true. That's true.

Stuart 29:33

We

Jeremy 29:33

Okay.

Stuart 29:34

next week

Jeremy 29:35

We are going to market next week to figure out spring for 2027

Stuart 29:39

So you know what that means. Car podcasts, our

Jeremy 29:44

podcast.

Stuart 29:45

to

Jeremy 29:46

I've got some, uh, things that y'all, uh, I haven't told y'all yet that we've got that we're gonna have to tape and do while we're gone. Yeah. So it'll be fun.

Dwayne 29:53

Oh,

Stuart 29:54

Okay

Dwayne 29:54

so

Jeremy 29:54

so with today's podcast, if you've got a container at home, it's some, it's some kind of sorts. And this is why I buy things that I can use at the house. That's our rule. We try not to, like, buy stuff just to sit on a shelf. Like, we try to u- buy things that actu- we'll use, so I'll actually touch it and use it. So if you've got a, the perfect container from your grandmother or you collected when you went to some place, bring it in. We can make you something beautiful in it so you can have it out all the time so you can see it, or you can always shop online at housefull.com. But

Dwayne 30:20

Wait a minute. Is today's podcast like a big giant infomercial to

Jeremy 30:25

No, but my put-- no, I didn't me- I d- that was not the intention. No, my, that was not my intention. Well, no.

Stuart 30:33

you by Dollywood

Jeremy 30:34

That

Dwayne 30:36

Oh my

Jeremy 30:37

was and rock candy. No, it wasn't that, 'cause like, you know, when I have the bowls, I can't put anything in. But, like, I thought of... W- w- what made me think of that was I have a, a pitcher from Granny that she always put her tea in when she served on Sundays. And like, um, I was also thinking about that, um, that crock that, uh, oh, Kim's friend Anne brought in, that Toi did that beautiful fern arrangement in, and it was, uh, it was something that she had that was a memory that we were able then to turn it into something that she could have out all the time, and then she would love it. So that's, that's what it was. It wasn't me trying to be Ron, Ron

Dwayne 31:11

Well, now I

Jeremy 31:11

w- Ron Popeil.

Dwayne 31:12

because I called you out

Jeremy 31:13

Yeah, that's it. Ron

Dwayne 31:14

you were

Stuart 31:14

Ron Popeil

Jeremy 31:15

Popeil. Yes, I was trying to be nice. I wasn't trying to be Ron Popeil and schlep a food dehydrator.

Stuart 31:21

mm-hmm, or the ShamWow Or the ShamWow. That was

Jeremy 31:22

Or the ShamWow. That wasn't what I was trying to do

Dwayne 31:25

Can I, can I stop you right there very quickly?

Jeremy 31:27

Mm-hmm.

Dwayne 31:27

Uh, those who are not local probably haven't heard it, but Mingy Beef Jerky, which is a client of mine, Mingy Beef Jerky legitimately started because of Ron Popeil and his dri- the thing that dried fruit and

Stuart 31:41

Fruit and meat.

Dwayne 31:41

That's

Stuart 31:42

That's the first, how they first started making

Dwayne 31:44

jerky,

Stuart 31:45

is

Dwayne 31:45

is one of

Stuart 31:45

one of those

Dwayne 31:46

dad

Stuart 31:46

and their dad experimented with it. Huh. True story. Wow,

Jeremy 31:49

Hmm. Mm-hmm.

Dwayne 31:52

is good beef jerky

Jeremy 31:53

Mm-hmm

Stuart 31:53

don't bring stuff in for us?

Dwayne 31:56

I've got bags of it at home I'll bring to you.

Jeremy 31:58

Oh my God. Oh my God. He's been holding out. I do too.

Stuart 32:02

And Jeremy loves jerky too. Yeah.

Jeremy 32:04

Yeah, no, I love it

Dwayne 32:05

what, what is it when you, uh, do a tour, uh, and they sent back with Kathy bunches of stuff after the tour? So

Jeremy 32:13

didn't even know they gave tours

Dwayne 32:15

But, well, they only did it for her because of me. Thank you.

Jeremy 32:17

Oh, okay. All right. Yeah.

Dwayne 32:19

yeah. So

Jeremy 32:20

Oh.

Dwayne 32:20

who- listening audience, don't ask, you won't get it.

Jeremy 32:25

All right. Well, everybody, thanks for listening, and we will be back next week from on the road.

Stuart 32:31

Woo.

Jeremy 32:31

talk to you then.

Dwayne 32:32

Oof

Jeremy 32:32

All right, bye