S3:E13 Driving Home Telling Stories

 Well, we are back this week with our return trip from market for spring 2027, and, you know, we really do record this podcast in the car, and I don't edit them until after we've been back home for a few days. And today, as I was listening to it, I thought, "Lord, we don't ever need to do this again," because all three of us are so tired. You can hear it in our voices. But we did do it. We did do it for you all, and in this episode, we are talking about the things that we found, things that we're excited about 2027, some things that we thought that we might see or hoped to see, and we did see, some of our struggles, of course. A funny story about a restaurant not working out for Dwayne, and even funnier, it was a week of confessionals. You've, you've gotta stick around to hear some of the things that our sales reps told us. It was an odd week. It's never happened like this before. Well, let's get to it, and let's hear all the fun things that are coming for 2027

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Well, we are back this week with our return trip from market for spring 2027, and, you know, we really do record this podcast in the car, and I don't edit them until after we've been back home for a few days. And today, as I was listening to it, I thought, "Lord, we don't ever need to do this again," because all three of us are so tired. You can hear it in our voices. But we did do it. We did do it for you all, and in this episode, we are talking about the things that we found, things that we're excited about 2027, some things that we thought that we might see or hoped to see, and we did see, some of our struggles, of course. A funny story about a restaurant not working out for Dwayne, and even funnier, it was a week of confessionals. You've, you've gotta stick around to hear some of the things that our sales reps told us. It was an odd week. It's never happened like this before. Well, let's get to it, and let's hear all the fun things that are coming for 2027

Speaker 2 2:00

Oh, you started.

Speaker 2:01

Well, yeah, I'm starting. I did start recording. Oh. Yes. Well, you can tell we're days into this. So market Well, market is not over. We're done with market. Done.

Speaker 2 2:12

Done.

Speaker 2:14

Heading home- Yeah thank the sweet Lord.

Speaker 2 2:17

I'm still driving.

Speaker 2:18

He's... Stuart's still driving.

Speaker 2 2:19

And I'm still riding.

Speaker 2:21

I just had a little, um, we had a little snack. We stopped at some brand of gas station that I don't really know of. Um, they had the slowest pump on the earth.

Speaker 3 2:34

12 minutes. Wiggles Waggle's, hey? Something.

Speaker 2:35

I don't know. I don't know. It was something. Um, and I got me a nice little- What was the- Lunchable. I got me a little lunch. I got me a charcuterie board. I got me charcuterie.

Speaker 2 2:43

Charcuterie.

Speaker 2:44

Um, so we are on our way home, and we have spring 2027 in the books. Well, who... God only knows what they're gonna send to us, but- Yeah how do, how do we feel? How do we feel about what we found, what we saw?

Speaker 2 2:57

Well- Dwayne? I wanna hear from Stuart. I wanna hear what he thinks. I did not throw one tantrum this entire market.

Speaker 3:04

No, but, like, hold on. You need to give yourself- Hold on. Okay, for listening audience, he- Oh, I'm

Speaker 2 3:08

playing.

Speaker 3:10

Well, uh, yes, but you, like, that speaks into, like, this bigger, like, misnomer of your personality. Uh, now has he thrown some fits in the time pe- Yeah. Has Dwayne? Yes. Have I? Not this angelic angel. I'm sure I have. But, um, no, they, market has become so easy anymore. I think we- we're all three just getting too old to give a damn.

Speaker 3 3:32

Well, I will argue with you and say no one said I didn't throw a tantrum at the market.

Speaker 3:40

Did you not?

Speaker 3 3:41

Uh, not really. I'm not remembering

Speaker 3:43

tantrums.

Speaker 3 3:45

No. I've seen- Displeasure- No over a half cooked omelet was about the biggest thing of the, of the week. Yes.

Speaker 3:49

Lord

Speaker 3 3:50

have mercy. But I didn't even say anything that morning much. All I really... Much.

Speaker 3:55

I mean, the people can't see my rolling eyes.

Speaker 3 3:59

Okay. All I did was just suggest that we mitigate the issue and not go there the next day. That's really... And the next morning, we had a, a, a lovely breakfast, and my, breakfast was phenomenal actually. So I- I'm glad that, uh, I'm glad it worked out. But anyway, so no fits, have been thrown. So what, what did you like and what did you not like that you found this time, Stuart?

Speaker 2 4:24

Well, I think our, home decor things and container things I think we did really good on-

Speaker 3 4:29

Mm-hmm

Speaker 2 4:29

this time.

Speaker 3 4:30

Yep.

Speaker 2 4:31

Which usually containers we struggle with, 'cause either they got too expensive or the company's not there anymore, or we can't find any we like. And I think we did good.

Speaker 4 4:43

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 4:43

We found some bargains, but basically, I think-

Speaker 4 4:46

Mm-hmm

Speaker 3 4:47

some real bargains, and I loved it. Great porcelain, foot baths at incredible value. Very pleased. And that's... Look, one company can make or break something, right?

Speaker 4:56

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 4:57

And that's true when it came to the containers, and, uh, they, th- this one company we work with, they, the buyer, the owner of the company, he stepped it up and did a good job.

Speaker 5:07

Mm-hmm. Uh, for flowers, I think they did create a bunch of new flowers. We did get some new ones with that was, uh, I'm excited for. I thought Raz, which, you know, I don't think it's a very common company that a lot of people know of, I thought that they had some really cute takes on some spring stuff. I think the, Well, it's always been this way. When you go and you, you go look at things, th- there's, you find really good deals or, like, really great price points. Then you find things that are like, okay, normal. And then I think that there's like, what the hell were these bitches thinking? Like, you know, there's that, that really extreme. A lot of times there's a lot of that middle, or okay in the middle, But this time it seemed like there were huge swings from, "Oh, this is cheap," to, "Oh my God, how expensive can this be?"

Speaker 2 5:58

Right.

Speaker 5:59

Like, you even said it yesterday, Dwayne, when we were with Carissa.

Speaker 4 6:02

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 6:02

That, that one specific company that they... But I felt like, felt like that overall, even, like, when we were, uh, with Amy yesterday with the little pink leopard stuff and all that. It was just, it was like, oh, Lord. Like, it, it... I don't know if they're trying to, like, widen their offerings and price... I don't, I don't know, but.

Speaker 3 6:24

Yeah. And particularly with, Amy and her company, some of the collection's beautifully done, but it, it would, warrant designer price points, and that's not what that company-

Speaker 4 6:34

Yeah

Speaker 3 6:35

represents, right? When you have a- Yeah, they're middle

Speaker 4 6:37

America

Speaker 3 6:37

a little piece of art that's $45, not $245. Mm-hmm. You know, it's hard to understand how you're mixing in $150 vase, right? It just was off. Now, generally,, I think that company did very, very well. I think they just keep getting better and better. Probably not their strongest year this year, but pretty good. And the vibe that they have is colorful. It's chinoiserie, pink, green, happy, right?

Speaker 7:06

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 7:06

Um, that... And, and of course, you know I love that and all over it, and our audience- Lots

Speaker 7:11

of, lots of happy this year. Lots of happy

Speaker 3 7:12

lots of happy there. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. You know, across the board, there's a lot of color. Uh, there were years and years and years that was not true. And, uh, how many gray Christmas trees does somebody want, really?

Speaker 2 7:23

Right.

Speaker 3 7:23

Uh, but anything that was leopard in every form. That whole what tropical kind of Miami kind of thing kept popping up everywhere. Everywhere. Yeah. And, you know, we b- we sample a little bit of it, but I'm not gonna go too heavy into it 'cause it's not traditional enough for our audience. Uh, but there's, there's fun little things here or there that you can work, work into it. Um, one fun spin was taking, uh Tortoise shell and, you know, chocolatey brown kind of colors and mixing it in with, uh, pastel pinks- Mm-hmm and hot pinks. I thought that was a really fun take on it.

Speaker 2 8:01

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 8:02

It's almost how you take masculine and feminine and mix it together, and boy, did they pull it off. And I thought, you know, we bought some stuff from that collection, and I thought it was a fun look, an, an unexpected look once it's all said and done.

Speaker 8:15

Um, I'm very excited about, we, we did a little social post about it. We're very excited about the ribbon selections that we've got coming for spring. I think we did a really good job with, with East- or with spring and Easter ribbon. Very excited about that. Lots of fun patterns and colors. A lot more summer options.

Speaker 3 8:39

Yeah, we, we purposely went there with the, the, the effort of let's get ribbon for spring, but also, uh, dra- drag it out s- because we need to think outside the box, and we need, uh, you know, summer door decorations we just never had enough of. And I think like you said, we did a, a good job finding, wreaths and backgrounds and pre-made wreaths that we can add to it and add bows to it. Um, I kind of w- I kept calling it the wrong thing. I keep calling it paisley, but it's... What is it? Like, block prints- Mm-hmm is what you call it. Mm-hmm. And a kind of colonial kind of feel to it.

Speaker 9:15

Yeah. We, we... And you know what? That's what I was gonna say. We talked about this on the way down, right? Yep. Right. That that was one... And Dwayne was on it, that we saw it. It was there. It was history. It, it was, it was interpretated. Interpretated. It was inter- Interpretated. Interpretated. Wait, hold on. What was your new word yesterday, Dwayne?

Speaker 3 9:31

Uh, idealate.

Speaker 9:32

No.

Speaker 3 9:32

I- idealate. Ide-

Speaker 9:33

No. Oh. Ideate it. Ideate it.

Speaker 3 9:35

Ideate it. Ideate.

Speaker 9:36

My

Speaker 3 9:36

God. Well, I know another word.

Speaker 9:37

I know. I was hoping you'd get it right. Well,

Speaker 3 9:39

okay. 12 more times, and I'll get it. Ideate.

Speaker 9:41

Uh, but so, uh, you know, it was definitely present, and, you know, you had said, which I'm sure is where, you know, like, the, the trend came from, but they, they were becoming increasingly popular prints in a lot of, women's dresses, and it was very- Ooh.

Speaker 2 9:58

And we saw those everywhere.

Speaker 9:59

Yeah, they were everywhere too. So it was, it's interesting to see how kind of like, you know, like you start wearing it, and then you start putting it in the house, right? Which is- Yeah kind of how it always goes. But there was a lot of fun, uh, ones of, ones of those. We did have a little bit of a hiccup with dinner one night. Um, Dwayne, w- we talked I think on the way down that we were gonna get to go to his, uh, Big Kahuna, this horrible bar food- restaurant that is just a-okay. It's fine. Um, which you may only have two servers for the entire restaurant. Um, we walked down the hill. We were so excited to get there and- it was closed with a sign on the door that they were closed due to mechanical- Due to mechanical issues circumstances or something. So even though Dwayne has waited a couple years, few years to get to go, he was not able to go, but we did make the positive out of the negative. We then ended up at the little, sushi, Chinese, Japanese, uh, 'cause they serve it all. Yeah, all of it. They're like a lot of the, you know... They didn't have hibachi, but they had pad Thai, they had sushi, they had, bibimbap. They had, they had all that, all the ac- different Asian kinds of dishes, called Pacific Rim, that's been there as long as I can remember, and it was very good. It

Speaker 3 11:20

was good.

Speaker 11:20

And I think we were all very happy with dinner last night. Yeah. No,

Speaker 3 11:22

I think that, uh, hiccup turned into a, a very good thing, so I'm not disappointed at all. I probably, if I spoke my truth, uh, I think it probably worked out for the much better personally. I think it

Speaker 11:33

did too. So if you're like us and have been going there for four trillion years, and you see this little Pacific Rim that's across the street from Morton's, and you think, "Well, that little hole in the wall, it can't be good," it turns

Speaker 2 11:43

out- It was good

Speaker 11:44

it was good.

Speaker 2 11:45

It was crowded.

Speaker 11:46

It was, yeah. No, they had... We had to sit outside 'cause there were no more reservations. But it was fine. It was all good. We saw, um, uh... What did we not see? What do

Speaker 2 11:58

you mean?

Speaker 11:58

I don't know. I was like- As far as

Speaker 2 11:59

stuff.

Speaker 12:00

Uh...

Speaker 3 12:01

Well, we're stuck on lamps. We couldn't find lamps.

Speaker 12:03

Lights. Yeah, and, you know, we-

Speaker 3 12:04

We found some, but not enough, and- And furniture you know, we stood there for 10 minutes r- at the end of the day saying, "Who can we go look at? What can we do?" And we end up leaving because there's nothing to find and nothing to buy that's not astronomical or very, very, very poorly done. Uh, so- Yeah,

Speaker 12:22

or very modern and not us.

Speaker 3 12:23

Very modern, right, right. So, um-

Speaker 12:25

Yeah, it's, um- I

Speaker 3 12:26

mean, they're out there, but it's a price point that our customers are unwilling to pay for.

Speaker 12:30

Yeah. Um- We,

Speaker 3 12:31

I

Speaker 12:31

think we talked about this on the way back from market in January. It

Speaker 3 12:35

w- yes, it's, there's a common theme here, right?

Speaker 2 12:37

That

Speaker 12:37

it, you know, at that point we had to go back to a c- a, a company and, you know, they, the, the prices were still higher than what we wanted, but we kind of just felt like we had to do it. Uh, and, and we've, they've done okay in the store. Um, but yeah, and, you know, we've talked to, we talked to, um, our vendors and, you know, they were very happy to let us know that a lot of their products had come down in price because the whole tariff thing, you know, where they, those have loosened. Of course, you know, they're trying to be reapplied in different ways. so the prices of those had, had come down. Of course, now they're facing the shipping and freight costs with it, so they're not so they're not getting a break there now because how much it costs to get- Now the

Speaker 2 13:17

gas is expensive.

Speaker 13:18

Yeah, now the gas is expensive, really expensive. And then we talked to a lot of other c- uh, stores or people there that their spring had been really good, and then May and June come and it has just been dead, so they're just really hoping the rest of the year goes... So I guess if you are a store owner and you've, experienced the same thing, don't feel like you're alone, 'cause you're not.

Speaker 2 13:41

We're still on trend.

Speaker 13:42

We're s- we're still on trend. Um, we saw a lot of people who listen to us.

Speaker 2 13:49

We did. So-

Speaker 3 13:50

Yeah, you know, I said, you know, we got our tens and tens of listeners, for the podcast. All 10

Speaker 2 13:55

of them were at market.

Speaker 3 13:55

All 10 of them were at market. There you go.

Speaker 13:59

Um, yeah, so that was fun. We saw s- a customer that buys from us, who lives in, oh, I think it's Pennsylvania. Was it Pennsylvania?

Speaker 2 14:08

It was Pennsylvania,

Speaker 14:09

yeah. She was... She had gone to- She flew in for one day She flew in for one day. Can you imagine? One day. Um- Oh,

Speaker 2 14:14

she's flying back in those storms today. It's gonna be awful.

Speaker 14:17

Oh, I thought she was going back last night. I really think she said- Oh, was it? she flew in today and she was flying back home tonight.

Speaker 2 14:21

Oh, God.

Speaker 14:22

So that was yesterday. Um- I think

Speaker 2 14:24

we should beat the storm then.

Speaker 14:25

And then we chatted with some people who, are in different, like, aspects of the industry, and they said that they would love to be on our podcast. So that would be exciting. Also learned something. Michael from Craftex in Texas, in a previous podcast... So this, I'm... I have to share this knowledge, because I feel like this is too much to gatekeep. When we were doing, uh... I mentioned in a podcast previously that we'd used some, um, eucalyptus, and that smell was on my hands and I just could not get it off. And he mentioned that the old florist trick to do it is to rub mayonnaise on your hands.

Speaker 2 14:58

Not Miracle Whip.

Speaker 14:59

Not Miracle Whip. Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise. And rub it all over your hands, and then wash your hands after that, and it gets the smell off. My world is rocked. I love it. So... That was very exciting. And then Dwayne also got accosted by somebody yesterday. I don't remember.

Speaker 3 15:14

I don't remember this one.

Speaker 15:15

I don't... Well, so it was in the hotel before we left, before I could joined you all.

Speaker 3 15:20

Tell me more, cousin.

Speaker 15:21

I remember you all-

Speaker 2 15:22

It was me.

Speaker 15:23

Oh, was that you?

Speaker 2 15:24

Yeah.

Speaker 15:24

Oh.

Speaker 2 15:25

I came out of the tower-

Speaker 15:26

Lord, have

Speaker 2 15:26

mercy and this lady came up. Okay. "What are you..." Running up, "You're one of the house boys." I said, "Yes, ma'am, I am." She goes, "Where's the other people?" I said, "They're in their own towers." Literally. I said, "We don't sleep together." "They are all in different spots in this hotel." Oh. "We meet down in the lobby." And she said, Do you know if John Mark's here today?" I said, "I don't know. We had time with him

Speaker 15:51

yesterday." Mercy. Yeah, so we went and saw John Mark. We got some ribbon for him for spring. Um, ooh, we picked up a new candle company.

Speaker 4 16:03

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 16:03

Uh, I'm ve- very excited about, but I spent a little bit more money than we meant, I meant to, and I'm gonna take total blame for this. But if you've listened to the podcast and you listened to when we went to Miami and I found this

Speaker 3 16:15

candle- Do, do, do, do, do. At this point in the podcast, this is an advertisement.

Speaker 2 16:20

Right.

Speaker 16:22

Uh, it, when we went to, uh, we were in Miami and stopped by this little s- store, and there was this candle that I just fell in love with. Hunted them down. They were at market. We met the two, guys that are the owners, and we ordered my favorite scent, and then there was another really good one that I think is gonna be really well-loved, and then a couple of fun, um, Christmas scents. Uh, one of them called... Was it Motherfirker? Mother-

Speaker 2 16:50

Motherfirker.

Speaker 16:51

Motherfirker. Mo- Mo- So-

Speaker 2 16:52

Furker

Speaker 16:52

Furker.

Speaker 2 16:53

Like a tree.

Speaker 16:54

Like a fir tree. Fur. So they made a joke. So they ha- they have a, a storefront- Um, as well as, like, producing these candles. And they test the candles in their store to see how, like, th- they sell, the scents and stuff before. And so they were wanting to come up with, a, you know, a pine scent. And you know, it's all out there, and so many people have that. And they were like, "Well, what are we gonna call it?" And they were like, "Well, there's already so many, you know, fucking pine candles out there. Let's just call it Motherfurkin Candle." And they did it as a joke. He said they put 10 on the floor and sold them within the first 10 minutes. And so they knew that it, it was a hit. So, um, so we ordered some of those. So it's just a fun, fun little candle. But they're- And it

Speaker 2 17:39

smells good.

Speaker 17:39

And it smells good. So it's, uh, uh... They're... The scents are a little more complex, which I think we, we've been looking for. Uh, because we are three picky bitches when it comes to candles. Dwayne doesn't like anything smoky.

Speaker 2 17:53

Mm, and I love smoky.

Speaker 17:54

Whereas I do, too. Um, for o- overall, we don't really care for floral. I c- I, uh... Overall. Also, like, like- Right there, there, there can be aspects of it. Dwayne, if anything smells the slightest bit, bit soapy or powdery, he's out, which I kind of understand that. Although he says sometimes things smell soapy, and I don't smell it. I don't know. I don't know what that means. But, um, but we're th- Well, so all three of us are very- Well,

Speaker 3 18:24

I'm happy- hyper, uh, angst against, uh, uh, cilantro, too. You know, that kind of-

Speaker 18:31

Yeah you

Speaker 3 18:31

know, people taste soapy. It's like that. I'm somehow very sensitive to that-

Speaker 18:35

Uh

Speaker 3 18:35

smell taste.

Speaker 18:36

So we were in one of our showrooms, and our sales rep, was like, "Okay, you need to smell these candles. We've got three new scents over here. You've gotta smell. You're gonna love them. Your customers are gonna love them." We went over, and we smelled. And I bet there were 12? Yeah. Would you say, Dwayne, you were over there? Yep, yep, yep, yep. 12 to 15 candles. Went down the row, smelled every one of them, and they all smelled like trash. No, they didn't smell like trash. They smelled like food or- I don't know. Yeah. They just smelled really common. Flat. Flat and just... I don't know. You know, listen, you know when you go to a candle and they say that it smells like birthday cake? I know I don't need to smell it.

Speaker 4 19:17

Right.

Speaker 19:17

Because I know it's gonna smell like a really bad, cheap toy for a child that now is supposed to be burning. Like, it's g- it's supposed to smell like a birthday cake, right? It's just, I know it's gonna smell bad. All of these were that. Like, they can call it whatever they wanna call it, it still smells bad. Like, I do not need the smell of a cinnamon roll, but, like, not the real cinnamon roll, like a manufactured bad-

Speaker 3 19:44

Right

Speaker 19:44

take on it with- we did, I think we did good with the art. That art will be hitting in September. Is that right? Sometimes we've gone and it's been challenging to find things that feel new, 'cause we've just seen it or it's been out there, we've done things like it. But I liked, I think I liked every piece of art that we ordered. Yeah.

Speaker 2 20:03

Yeah, I have too actually. Yeah, felt good about it.

Speaker 20:05

Uh, yeah, there's, you, it's sad to say that sometimes you don't feel like that when you leave, 'cause you wanna be excited about it all. Um, but you have to take in so much,

Speaker 2 20:15

this was almost like, It's sales rep confession week two.

Speaker 20:18

Lord-

Speaker 2 20:19

Oh if that's

Speaker 20:20

not the gospel.

Speaker 2 20:20

Oh, you, yes. Every sales rep-

Speaker 3 20:22

The oddest

Speaker 2 20:23

week revealed a secret from their past.

Speaker 20:27

And we will not mention names.

Speaker 2 20:28

No, just, uh- Gary just like in general conversation.

Speaker 20:33

Like,

Speaker 2 20:34

you know, one just remembers doing cocaine on a Monday and not having another bump till Thursday at work and-

Speaker 20:40

Not eating, yeah

Speaker 2 20:40

not eating.

Speaker 20:41

Those were the days that you didn't have to work. Those

Speaker 2 20:42

were the days.

Speaker 20:43

Good, that

Speaker 2 20:43

you- Do a bump and go to work.

Speaker 3 20:44

Well, you said you're not gonna mention names. I am.

Speaker 2 20:46

I didn't know. Yeah, me too. No,

Speaker 3 20:48

no,

Speaker 20:48

no,

Speaker 2 20:49

no.

Speaker 3 20:50

Larry.

Speaker 2 20:51

And one of them was-

Speaker 3 20:52

Larry, the sales rep

Speaker 20:53

he, that's not his

Speaker 3 20:54

name. Okay. Well, see, I've already forgot. I, I was ordering something, and I said, "Larry, Larry, are you listening to me? Pay attention to me." And I said, "I feel like you're on drugs over there." And he said, "Well..." You know, this man is tall and gangly and a wallflower and a quiet man. Very

Speaker 21:12

friendly.

Speaker 3 21:13

Oh, the- Very friendly kindest

Speaker 21:14

man. And you say gangly. He's not gangly. He's just thin. He's just normal.

Speaker 3 21:19

Well, I'm, I'm not normal. So anybody that's little thin like that's normal weight is gangly to me, right? He don't look like the typical American anymore that's been eating sugar all day long, like me. Okay? So with that said- I said, "Feel like you're on drugs over there." And he said, "Well..." And he's 60-something, I'd say, right? 65? Yeah.

Speaker 21:38

I think

Speaker 3 21:39

so, yeah. Yeah, 60, 65. Uh, he said, "Well, I was on drugs from 14 to 23." Mm-hmm.

Speaker 21:44

Yeah, yep.

Speaker 3 21:45

And then you tell the rest of the story is, of his confessional.

Speaker 21:48

I don't remember

Speaker 3 21:49

what it was. Well, where, where he grew up and, uh, he-

Speaker 21:52

I don't, I don't think I remember this I don't remember any of this.

Speaker 3 21:53

Oh, well, okay. You tell. So he grew up in New Orleans, uh- Oh, yeah and that was just part of his world. Uh, and you know, that w- that he was... So long story on that one is I said to him, "Well, I think you've been on drugs, off drugs for a while, but I still think it's in your system, so you need to pay attention today, okay?" And that was it. And he's so nice. He is.

Speaker 2 22:14

Yes,

Speaker 22:15

he is.

Speaker 2 22:16

And then we found out another one was probably the mule selling it all. Yeah.

Speaker 22:19

Oh, yeah. Well, he was the kingpin. He was probably- Yes was the bar of his senior high school- as a senior. And I

Speaker 3 22:24

think that's, quote, what he said.

Speaker 22:27

Yeah, he said- Yeah he, he was the El Chapo of, uh... Uh-huh, 'cause I think he... Yeah, uh-huh. Yeah. Uh, now it was of, I believe, the marijuana, if I had to, if I had to guess, in the Georgias, uh, Tennessee, wherever he's from. Uh, but yeah. And then we had another interesting story with, with another-

Speaker 3 22:46

Which was the, the, but most bizarre of them all

Speaker 22:48

the, and we'll, we're, we'll save you the, the, the gist of it, but she basically, they interacted with some new customers that they'd never met at another market. Um, and- the woman, there were two women, and one was, you know, tall and beautiful and, Cindy Crawford-esque, and then the other one was not.

Speaker 2 23:10

Short and dumpy.

Speaker 23:11

Short and frumpy, from what I understand. And-

Speaker 2 23:14

Who was also a medium

Speaker 23:16

who was also a medium, that's right. She also had psychic abilities. Mm-hmm. And were very woo-woo. And- evidently there were no band, boundaries there, and so, and when they finished with them, they, she, she was like, "You know," she goes, "I know some days are hard." She goes, "I'm gonna give you something." She's like, "Some days, I know people are mean, and they just treat you like a dick. They're just mean and hateful, and it's just hard." She's like, "So I'm gonna give you something, and so when you're having one of those down days, I just, I, you use this on that down day." Well, she's telling the story. And so because of the rest of the stories we've heard on this- Yeah I'm assuming she handed her a joint, a packet of molly- Probably gummies, something like something, right? So she has her husband go get her wallet, and so I'm like, Lord, she has brought the drug paraphernalia into the market. And so she gets in her bag. It's in her wallet. She gets it out, and she's telling us the story, and she's holding it really close in her hand, and she's talking to Dwayne. She's like, "Now I'm gonna put it in your hand. Don't look at it yet, but I'm gonna give it to you." She's like, "Now when you have a bad day, I want you to, to think about these." And so she just puts it in his hand, and then he opens it up.

Speaker 2 24:29

Turn it over. It's

Speaker 24:31

a dick- And it's, and it's a little dickasaurus. It's, it's a, it's a little plastic shape of a penis-

Speaker 2 24:40

With legs and a tail

Speaker 24:41

with legs, with a dinosaur tail on the end of it, and it's called a dickasaurus. Evidently she gave her two of them.

Speaker 2 24:49

And a green one and a white.

Speaker 24:54

So-

Speaker 3 24:54

Didn't see that coming.

Speaker 24:55

I didn't either, so, but I do love this little idea of you just dropping a little ray of sunshine to anybody. So I do think it takes a specific kind of person to spread dickasaurauses around, but-

Speaker 2 25:07

Well, it does.

Speaker 25:08

But, you know, she is a medium, so maybe she tapped into something I don't understand. I don't know.

Speaker 2 25:14

Well, you know, the person telling us did smile the whole time.

Speaker 25:18

She

Speaker 2 25:18

did. So-

Speaker 25:19

It did bring her joy.

Speaker 2 25:20

It did. It worked.

Speaker 25:24

So overall, very good market. Excited. New things are coming. Trying to get ready to end. And as soon as we get back, we're back to the grind. I hope that you're having a wonderful day, and if not, I just want you to either think about a bump of cocaine, not doing it, but think about it- or a little dickasaurus. And that'll get you some joy to get you through your day. All right, we'll be back next week.

Speaker 4 25:51

All right. Bye. Bye.