SPEAKER_01 0:00

Oh yeah, you know, I was thinking about this, Allie. I know I you like little words of wisdom every once in a while. And I was thinking about this one, the one the uh meme that Tiffany wrote me read me yesterday. What is it? As we were driving back. You know, butt plugs are fun until you fart and blow the cat off the bed. Hell right. So that's a butt rocket. Three, three, eight, six Astor. They said it's been five minutes since we've heard Mega Hito. Hang on, where's uh the this? Mega Hito.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

Things feel like 103 today.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

God, it's gonna be staggering.

SPEAKER_00 0:27

Speaking of hot, 2642. Yes. No. 2642. We didn't engage. You gave me a one-word answer. A whole sentence in one word. No. No. We did 2642. We did engagement photos yesterday in the heat. Our photographer was a real trooper. I would have rescheduled.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

Yes. Because I I was sweating standing.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

Yes. And I sweat- Literally, I walked down to my deck. I'm like, Yes, I sweat in two places, my face and my grab.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

I do the second time.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

So if you ever see me at the gym, or if I just left the gym and I go to Wegman's and look down first and you'll see where she's sweating the most. Exactly. Jesus. I didn't pee myself, I promise you. I also just read this just this morning. People are paying more for weddings. Did you see this? No. Couples are spending significantly more. They say costs jumped 8.5% from a year ago. They anchored.

SPEAKER_01 1:21

This makes sense. Everything's more expensive.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

Right. They said it's overall higher inflation. New tariff policies are pushing up the cost of imported items like flowers and cocoa. Yeah. Two big things that you always have at a wedding. And it says uh a major generational shift is also occurring as Gen Z weddings have tripled since 2019, while millennial weddings are dropping by about.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

So wait, the Gen Zers are getting married. Yes. But nobody's having kids. Have you noticed we're at the lowest uh birth rate in the US in forever? I mean it's been a long time.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Yeah, and that's that's okay. Maybe you'll decide to have them later, or maybe not at all. Either way.

SPEAKER_01 1:56

Well, there is truth to the fact. You know what? There's time for that later.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

Also, millennial weddings, um, of course.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

I mean, let me be living proof of that. I'm 55 with a 12 and a seven-year-old and a 25-year-old.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

Uh, talk about tired. Yes, hey, do you want to be tired later? I am exhausted. Live Scott's life. But of course, millennial weddings are dropping because they're getting older or they've already been married once. Yeah, that's true, too. And when it comes to because I'm an elder millennial, I wouldn't do a big wedding anymore.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

No. No.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Not even a minute.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

And honestly, I'm betting if you were married once and then, you know, you were getting ready for the second, you don't have to. Everybody thought like you you had to get married. I don't really. I don't have an interest. No. Or I don't have an interest in saying it's not that I don't have dedication to the person I'm with. I don't have the interest in going down that whole path again and everything that goes with it. It's like you reach a point you're like, we're good. Yeah, we're doing it. We're we're we're fine. We're day-to-day living it.

SPEAKER_00 2:52

Scott and I are different, but yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

So um uh, well, you probably would like the one. Yes. Yeah absolutely. But I'm just saying if it was beyond that. You had the one, you divorced, you did, you know, it's sort of like, why? Yeah. All right, I have to share this with you too. I had mentioned a few seconds ago how I stepped into the Arby's time machine. Let me just tell you, I have discovered Dansville. And this is I'm not digging on Dansville. Dansville is a slice right out of 1991.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

Yes, I have been in Dansville a lot more than I have ever been in Dansville because Zach is from right outside of Dansville. He's uh from Aution. And so I was in Dansville last weekend actually, having dinner there, which they do have a place, they do have a place that is not nostalgic, but you're right, a lot of other things are.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

It just has stopped somewhere, you know, and and I'm betting it's a bit of an older uh community because I can tell you that yesterday at the Arby's, I literally sat with the nursing home. Uh-huh. But damn was it good. Anyway, that being said, we said, all right, you know, Tiffany goes, a couple down the road, there's a store I've been meaning to check out. What is it? And I'm like, oh, all right. It's in Dansville. In Dansville. Right. And uh I go, okay, what is it? Have you been to the Ocean State Job? What? Ocean State Job Lot. Open State Job Lot. No. Okay. Let me explain exactly what it is. It's the worst title for the store, but it is an Ollie's that is super clean and super organized.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

Is it in that plaza?

SPEAKER_01 4:24

Yep. The plaza that also looks like it was built in 1990? Yup.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Okay, wait, hold on.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Ocean State Lot. Went there yesterday, got lost in this store because I mean, and and and I want anybody that's ever been in an Ollie's or a big lots, you know. There's always treasures, but it's a little chaotic. Uh-huh. This place was the most organized. This was controlled chaos at its finest. And you have to go check this store out.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Okay, so can I get like a weed whacker and some face wash and a tent for your deck.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

You know, one of those, one of those canopy type things. You can get those. Sure. We're actually gonna be need some pool supplies. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

We are going to be in Dansville tomorrow morning because we're stopping in Dansville. I wonder what time they open. Hold on, I got it right here. This is so funny.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Well, you have to go check this this store out. I think, I think it's connected. I could be wrong. I think it's connected to the Ollie's people.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

It looks like it. This this very much. This font looks like Ollie's font.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

It's very well organized.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

If it's not connected to Ollie's, like as far as it's the same owner, then they must be brothers. Oh, they gotta be. Right. You know, it's like George and Michael. So why we're George and Michael. George owns Ollie's and then Michael owns that the Ocean State job lot.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

It's the worst name for a place, but you you can get it all. Now, wait till I tell you what happens. This is so in line. What did you buy? With oh, I mean, a couple metal metal pans for the next time I make a brisket, some shaving cream, and uh dog treats. Awesome! Which is exactly what I would have bought at Ollie.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

I can also get an adjustable calf stretcher. I'm looking at the wall.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

Yes, you should. New sales today, by the way, the guy told me. So anyway. Yes, tell me. As we're there, and I didn't pick up on this, Tiffany did. I didn't pick up on this till we were walking to the car. So two owls over, they uh were checking other people out, and you hear this sound on the cash register, and it didn't register in my brain. And I explained to her why. And she goes, Did you hear that sound? And I'm like, What? That's the sound. Someone wrote a check and it was going through the cash register. The old you know, who takes a check anymore? It's a sound that you don't because even Wegmans, if for the five people that write a check a week there, that I don't even know. It doesn't make the sound anymore. This was like that old 19. This is why I said Dansville is stepping into it, it's like walking out of a time machine, and you're like suddenly back to 1990. It's the wildest experience.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

Do you remember this is something if you're really young, you're gonna be like, first of all, what's a check?

SPEAKER_01 7:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

And secondly, it's this little piece of paper that that has your makes the cashier's eyes roll. Well, and then it has your bank account number on it. Yeah. Like, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 7:13

And routing number. Yeah. So I can take all your cash.

SPEAKER_00 7:16

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is this sounds like a scammer on a scammeroonie.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

So this thing, as it goes through in the old and it sounded the old way, the, you know, the whole thing. She pointed it out to me. She goes, that woman wrote a check. I go, oh my God, I was so used to that sound years ago. Right. It didn't even register in my brain. But I'm like, whoa.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

Back in the day, they're also in that machine. Sometimes it would even write the name of the store and the amount for you. All you had to do was give them the check, and it would be like, you know, Ocean State job lot or whatever. And it'd be like, Ocean State Job Lot, $98.02.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

And you yeah. And you got two cartfuls.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

Right. Because, and I think that they probably were so sick of Granny writing checks, and it was taking 19 years. Yeah. So they're like, We'll do it.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

We'll do it.

SPEAKER_00 8:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

By the way, the cashier, hilarious there. Yesterday, uh, as we were checking out, he goes, uh uh, he goes, it's gonna take a couple seconds to load here where you put your credit card. He goes, Man, great store, great deals. Still operating on Windows 98. No.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

We were Oh my gosh. We were laughing.

SPEAKER_01 8:25

I mean, the guy was great.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

Okay, now I have to stop there. Yeah, because we're going we're going tomorrow morning before we go to East Aurora. Oh. We're gonna stop at his mom's house and they open at nine. And I kind of just wanna even do a walkthrough. Yeah, exactly. Ellie, I kid you not. Why is Zach never told me about this?

SPEAKER_01 8:40

I give you props to Dansville because we have a slice of 1990s living in our backyard. It is the wildest thing.

SPEAKER_00 8:48

From Arby's to Ocean State job lock.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

You could walk it.