EP 49 - Home Sweet Home

What actually makes a house feel like a home?

This week on Unapologetically Us The Podcast, David and Jenn dive into the little things that make us feel comfortable, from personal touches around the house to why one of them would choose a hotel over an Airbnb every single time. Along the way, the conversation takes plenty of unexpected turns, including trashy nightclubs, celebrity assistants, stinky dog feet, rewards programs, neighborhood pet drama, and what everyday items are actually worth paying more for.

If you've ever debated Airbnb vs. hotels, wondered what makes a place truly feel like home, or just enjoy two friends going completely off the rails, this episode is for you.

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unknown 0:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:01

I forgot what we were talking about. I mean, I know what we were talking about, but how did we get to the tablecloth situation?

SPEAKER_03 0:21

Hey everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Unapologetically Us, the podcast. I am Jen.

SPEAKER_01 0:27

And I'm David. Fuck off.

SPEAKER_03 0:31

So that's a lot. Like that is it is a lot.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_03 0:35

Unapo unapologetic. Like, that's like 18 syllables. Like, who did this name?

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Um, thanks, Eden.

SPEAKER_03 0:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

Um, so so okay. We know that I do work in the in real estate, and I kind of have a question for you. And this is it's not it's real estate related, but it's not like actual real estate, by the way. Just just go with it.

SPEAKER_03 1:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

So if you are not for you, because I know you're never gonna move. We've we've established this.

SPEAKER_03 1:11

I mean, I may move, I'm just not selling this house.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

Well, right. Okay. Okay. So, yeah, if you move out to your land that you wanna be in the middle of zero, um, I can't do that anyway. You could. I mean, I could, but I'm not.

SPEAKER_03 1:24

I mean, you basically work from home now as it is, kind of. Not really. As a real attorney, you do.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

Well, it's yeah. Anyway. Yes. So my question to you is because and and the reason I'm asking this is because as I work with people, it's always different. I just want to see what your thought is. Um, so what in your opinion makes a house so when in real estate, we always say like you're selling a house.

SPEAKER_03 1:50

What makes your house your home?

SPEAKER_01 1:52

Yeah. So to you, what is it? To like what makes a house a home for you?

SPEAKER_03 1:58

Like me being able to do the things that I want that makes me feel comfortable. Like the if you look at my wall.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

Which wall?

SPEAKER_03 2:05

My palette wall.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:07

Like, that makes it a home for me. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

You know So the personal touches.

SPEAKER_03 2:10

Personal touches, yes. So, like, Joe blow off the street is probably if I go to sell this house, I'm not taking that down.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

No, right.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

You're gonna buy it as is, you know?

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:20

So and some people may like it and some people may not. And that's something that I will have to deal with when that time comes. Um for a buyer or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 2:28

Right.

SPEAKER_03 2:29

But yes, personal touches, um what else would it be?

SPEAKER_01 2:36

So for me, it's got really nothing to do with the building, okay, um, you know, at all. The structure. It's me having like my personal belongings. Uh like, you know, like if I have I mean, if we're gonna talk about like kitchen, have my my kitchen stuff. Like, I you know what I mean? Like, that's one reason I I I do not like Airbnbs. Like, you're using other people's shit. Like, it weirds me out. I want to be in my own house, like, with my stuff. Like, I I took care of it, I know how it's taken care of. That's why, like, every time that we try to go out of town, I'm like, mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 3:19

Okay, so let me let me ask you, hotel.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

I would rather be in a hotel than an Airbnb.

SPEAKER_03 3:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

But that's to me what makes a house a home. It's my belongings, like my towels, my clothes.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

Yeah, you've always been one about the towels.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

But like, even if in general.

SPEAKER_03 3:34

Even if you were to like my cups, wash those things when you got there. Like to, like if you're there for a week and you're like, this is an ick that I have.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_03 3:46

Even if you bring your own soap that you know that is soap, you just think somebody has just butthole the rim and like that.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

It's it I I don't know what it is, it's a mental thing for me, I think. Um button.

SPEAKER_03 3:58

So let me ask you so the Keyes trip when we were in the Airbnb for a week, were you like completely uncomfortable the whole time?

SPEAKER_01 4:05

100%. Like you had creepy crawlies or no, I just I felt completely out of sorts the entire time.

SPEAKER_03 4:11

You didn't know where everything was, or it's partly that.

SPEAKER_01 4:14

Okay. Um I'm in somebody else's house. Like they have a mortgage on it. Like, you know, I mean, I know hotels, like, there's probably a mortgage on the building, but it's I don't know, it's just different. So, yeah, that's what it is for me. What it what like what is it for you guys?

SPEAKER_03 4:32

Like, oh, I'll I'd I'd rather Airbnb than than hotel all day because I for for one of the things that the Miami hotel with Jess, yeah, you know, I mean we got in late, we drove after work because we were getting on the boat the next day.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Right.

SPEAKER_03 4:48

And the people next to us were partying till three, four o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Maybe so.

SPEAKER_03 4:53

And I'm just like, in an Airbnb situation like that, that would not happen. Like there would be no interruptions.

SPEAKER_01 5:01

But it was just that was just for the night, right? So it was here's the other thing. You got to be a big thing.

SPEAKER_03 5:05

But you also have to remember, I worked all day and just drove us five hours.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Right. But I don't give a shit about that. The reason not I mean, even if that was the one, the driver, like it doesn't matter. But now we've got to wake up in an Airbnb. We have to start laundry.

SPEAKER_03 5:19

Well, well, none of I I want to Airbnbs also have a minimum stay.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Okay, but so we're probably not gonna be doing it for a night.

SPEAKER_03 5:28

Right.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

But but at the end of my trip, I don't fucking want to be bothered with laundry. I don't, I just want to leave. Like, you fucking do it. This is your fucking house, not mine.

SPEAKER_03 5:40

That has been a um Like I don't want to do any of that. There has been a constant, not constant, but there this has kind of been a topic that I have seen in uh a few TikToks on my algorithm or whatever, and and people are like, why am I washing all of this shit when you have a cleaning fee attached to it?

SPEAKER_01 5:59

Right.

SPEAKER_03 5:59

You know?

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

Um so that's uh one thing that a lot of people are talking about is like if you want me to wash all the towels, wash all the sheets, make the bed, why am I paying $500 for a cleaning fee after a week for them to come in?

SPEAKER_01 6:14

For them to come in. Well, because we have to take out the trash.

SPEAKER_03 6:16

Right. But if you look at like a maid service, right? And that's basically what it is. It's a maid service that comes in.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

Um they're doing service less. They're cleaning the bathrooms, wiping the counters, vacuuming. No, they're not.

SPEAKER_03 6:34

No, they're not.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

That floor in that Airbnb was fucking nasty. And when I went to Clearwater and we stayed in an Airbnb, that floor was fucking nasty too. Like, I mean, my feet were black.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

And I'm like, mm-hmm, no, this is disgusting.

SPEAKER_03 6:48

Like, so anyway, the cleaning fee type situation is like either I'm gonna pay the cleaning fee of $500 and you get to fucking do everything, or you need to give me a discounted cleaning fee for them to come in and wipe everything down and do a maid service type situation.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:04

Um, because made services are what, like $200 a right, but you're not gonna negotiate that.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

That's their flat fee. Correct.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

But it's like, are you are you you pocketing the cleaning fee money, bro? Like, what what what are we doing here?

SPEAKER_01 7:16

Yes, they're pocketing that. That that's how it happens. Right. Like, they charge a fee to you, you don't know what their fee is. Right. So, you know, yeah. And yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

So I can understand the hotel situation from that aspect of it.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

Right.

SPEAKER_03 7:36

But if I'm going to be in a place for an extended period of time, I would much rather have a whole house than to be slammed in a room with two or three other people. Um not I. Not I said the fan.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

Not I. Um, but and and I know we segued into this topic, but I mean that, but these are the the reasons why, like, that's what makes me feel comfortable. It, you know, that so to you, for instance, you know, being able to put your personal touches around. Um, so Carrie had some friends one time that came in to town and there was an empty picture frame that they found, like in the Airbnb. So Shut up, people they they they all I and they tagged me in it, but because I I had I was with them, but not for they had gone to the beach um and I had to work. So they had I I don't know if they had somebody or what, but they have a picture of them. They're all in the uh standing like in the edge of the water, you know, just like their feet. And then they put it in the picture frame. They had it printed out.

SPEAKER_03 8:45

That's kind of cool. Yeah. Um I wouldn't I would never think of things like that.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

I don't know who thought of it or or whatever. I'm sure well, I mean, I'm sure I can figure it out, but um, but yeah, so that was funny. Um, I mean, I guess you could do that in Airbnb, make it feel like your own. I don't know. I just can't. But yeah. So nothing else makes anything feel like you can you're you would be okay. Like you're you're fine just using other people's stuff.

SPEAKER_03 9:15

Yeah. I mean, I'm I'm not wearing like their their drawers or anything, my God.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

I mean Yeah, please don't be wearing random drawers you might find in a drawer somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 9:25

Oh, these look comfortable. Let's put these on.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

Yeah, no, don't do that.

SPEAKER_03 9:29

Yeah, no. I'm completely okay with that. Um I didn't have any issues. I mean, I'm the floor was disgusting, but and I do make it through it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

I mean, you've seen I've I've survived.

SPEAKER_03 9:43

Can we put Jess and Alyssa up in like an attic room?

SPEAKER_01 9:47

It was it w it was on the same floor as me. Like it just so happened to have a slanted ceiling. Um that particular room. Um because my room didn't have one and neither did Heather's. So um, but yeah. So I was just curious to see what actually made a house feel like a home to you. Um because I knew me, I'm that's not necessarily what makes a house a home for most people, but for me it is.

SPEAKER_03 10:16

Yeah, it's it's the personal personal touches. So I have a would you rather? Oh god. And it's a and it's a it's a deep one. So we may A deep one? I I looked up ones that we can have like full-blown conversations about. Would you rather fulfill your biggest wish or resolve your deepest regret?

SPEAKER_01 10:42

Jesus Christ. Um, I don't even know. I don't know what my biggest wish would be.

SPEAKER_03 10:52

Really?

SPEAKER_01 10:53

No.

SPEAKER_03 10:58

Well, obviously you know what your deepest regret is.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

What?

SPEAKER_03 11:03

If you just said, I don't even know what my biggest wish was, obviously you have a deep regret. Oh David's perfect. I know.

SPEAKER_01 11:14

I just I I don't I don't I don't I don't know. I just never thought of it.

SPEAKER_03 11:19

Do you want to you wanna bookmark this one and you can think about it over the week or you know, Sunday morning at 8 30 when you're like, I don't have anything to fucking talk about?

SPEAKER_01 11:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

Um we'll bookmark that one. I have two others.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

Okay, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:35

Okay. Would you rather work as a bouncer at a trashy nightclub?

SPEAKER_01 11:40

Oh, I mean, aren't they all?

SPEAKER_03 11:42

Or be the personal assistant to a high maintenance celebrity.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

Oh God.

SPEAKER_03 11:51

I would be the bouncer.

SPEAKER_01 11:53

See, I don't bye.

SPEAKER_03 11:55

Oh, see you later.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

I don't thanks for camera time. I don't, I don't probably I'm probably gonna go with the assistant to the celebrity.

SPEAKER_03 12:12

One, because she'll probably love some drama. But there is drama in the trashy nightclub.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

Yeah, there's gonna be drama no matter what where you what you choose.

SPEAKER_03 12:23

I just don't think I could deal with a high maintenance person. Like that's not me. I don't consider myself high maintenance. Um No.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

I mean we there's certain things that we kind of expect in in s in certain situations, but that's not high maintenance.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

That's but think about what we expect.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

High expectations and high high expectations and high maintenance are two different things.

SPEAKER_03 12:47

Of course they are. But like high expectations of certain things, but amplify that every fucking day.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

Yeah, yeah. I think I could probably figure out how to deal with that better.

SPEAKER_03 13:00

Like think have you liked devil's work Yeah Yes You know Could you work for Miranda Priestley?

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Like uh not initially, but I would I would have to.

SPEAKER_03 13:13

Could you deal with somebody throwing all of their shit on your desk every fucking day? And just that's just blatant disrespect in my eyes.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

I I could. And the reason is is because you know me well enough, you know it will eventually I would figure out how to address it, how to deal with it, and stop it. Like, that's just me.

SPEAKER_03 13:35

Um Do tell.

SPEAKER_01 13:38

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 13:39

But how would you even address that? Well Knowing who they are, who you work for, why you're there, and it's pretty much a fucking internship in the first place anyway. Right, right, right. And you don't get paid enough for that shit.

SPEAKER_01 13:51

No, but but we're we're talking about the movie, for instance. We're talking and we were talking about being their assistant, so it's the same thing on the. But it's not. I'm getting a paycheck. An internship typically isn't an she wasn't an intern.

SPEAKER_03 14:07

Right.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

She was it she was paid. She was paid, but so as long as I'm getting paid, that shit, you put it right there, it'll be right there when you when you leave. Like, that's not my problem. Like, look, there's gonna be a lot of pushes and pulls in in that relationship, but it eventually would work its way out. And maybe in the beginning, I would like, okay, and I would just do whatever, and then it would get old and I would stop it.

SPEAKER_03 14:34

If I were to ever go to David's house or place of employment and slam my coat down on a desk, not his, his assistant, he would probably chew my ass out up and down.

SPEAKER_01 14:52

Um I'd probably just let it just sit right there. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:07

So you would go high maintenance celeb.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

Yeah, I would.

SPEAKER_03 15:11

Why would you not go as the bouncer out?

SPEAKER_01 15:13

Well, first of all, okay, so let's not look at how we are now, but like, yeah. No, but not I'm not saying that the other one they're both gonna kind of have this, but being a bouncer is only this. So What do you think? There's like no no climbing the ladder? Oh no, not that at all. But my point is like being a bouncer, you don't even go to work until like 11 o' 10 o'clock at night.

SPEAKER_03 15:41

Jesus good lord.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

It's no, I'm just saying, I mean, you have to live a night life, like you know, and I wouldn't want to do that as my job.

SPEAKER_03 15:51

It's the job. It's not the time of day or whatever. But but no doing the job.

SPEAKER_01 15:57

I wouldn't want to do that. I would not want to do that. You're dealing with drunks, like I deal with that at the Jaguar game. Like, I don't need to, like, it's not fun. It's not fun.

SPEAKER_03 16:09

One of me and David's biggest pet peeves when we work events actually two. One, leaving leaving your drink on the table and just walking away. And we don't notice it until like five, ten minutes later, and we're like, what the fuck is this?

SPEAKER_02 16:25

Right.

SPEAKER_03 16:26

Where did this come from? And then the other is smoking cigarettes right in front of our face over the table.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:34

Now, mind you, we are former smokers.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

Right. Um But former smokers are the worst ones to smoke around. They really are, because look, I can smell it from a mile away and I'm like, I hate it when I can smell it coming through my car. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

That and the weeds. But whenever I first that and the weeds.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Yeah. But whenever I first quit smoking, I was like, if I would smell like a cigarette, it was okay. I was like, oh my god, thank God. Right. Now 10 years later, I am ready to kill somebody. Like.

SPEAKER_03 17:04

Or even it's just, it's you got an ash this fucking long. Right. And you're leaning over the table with it hanging out and you're doing your whole thing. And we're David and I are both one, we side-eye each other. And then we focus in on that ash. And I'm like, if that motherfucker falls.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

Like, you better get ready to blow.

SPEAKER_03 17:26

Because it's it's it would burn a hole in the tablecloth. And those tablecloths are whatever. And oh my god, if we were to burn a tablecloth.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

Yeah, let's not do that. But yeah, no. Um.

unknown 17:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

I forgot what we were talking about. I mean, I know what we were talking about, but how did we get to the tablecloth situation?

SPEAKER_03 17:52

Night working something. I don't even know. See, this is why the show did so so well.

SPEAKER_01 18:01

Um I I don't even have any idea.

SPEAKER_03 18:09

How the fuck did we get out of here? I don't even know. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

We'll have to watch back.

SPEAKER_03 18:13

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

We've never completely lost it.

SPEAKER_03 18:16

No, we didn't.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

I mean clearly we did clearly now.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

We're talking about smoking.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

Why were we talking about smoking?

SPEAKER_03 18:24

Pet peeves.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

We're talking about people. I fuck, I don't know. Okay, anyway.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

Last one. Would you rather smell like feet or eggs?

SPEAKER_01 18:39

Okay. Um I can't I guess I have a dumb question. I don't know what feet. I guess it's not a question. I don't really know what feet corn chips. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 18:52

We'll just go with the dog. Dog feet. Dog feet or we know somebody's feet who smells like buttery popcorn. Just stinky feet.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

But yeah, I mean I I don't know. I just I've never smelled it. Oh, I'm so sorry. We're not talking about it.

SPEAKER_03 19:07

We offended you.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

Um or eggs?

SPEAKER_03 19:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:13

That's a tough one.

SPEAKER_03 19:14

I know.

SPEAKER_01 19:15

Because neither one of them smell good.

SPEAKER_03 19:17

No.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

Eggs smell just like a fart all the time.

SPEAKER_03 19:21

All the time. But stinky Frito feet over here.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Yeah, that's not any better. Um, I guess I would have to go with feet.

SPEAKER_03 19:30

I'm going with feet as well. I would have to go with feet. I don't think I could go around smelling like eggs.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

Yeah, because eggs, that is a very um pretty that's a pretty powerful, powerful smell. Is it pungent? Very, I think. And I think I feel like it it can linger sometimes.

SPEAKER_03 19:48

And could you imagine your what do they call it? Your after your after waft? Like when you walk by.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

Like you're gone, and then they're like did did did Josie just walk by? Right. No, that's disgusting.

SPEAKER_03 20:07

Yeah, I'm going with feet too.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

Um yeah, I would have to go with feet.

SPEAKER_03 20:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

There's no yeah, no.

SPEAKER_03 20:13

As long as they're the Frito-smelling ones.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

I mean, I don't know that.

SPEAKER_03 20:17

And I think that's just because I'm nose blinder.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

I mean, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 20:22

There are some days, man. Let me tell you with this fucking knock. It is like she has walked around with bags of Fritos on her feet, like a shoes. Like, it's weird. It's I don't know. How? Why? I don't know. But there are days where I'm like I've never.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

None of my dogs have ever smelled that bad where I could smell.

SPEAKER_03 20:42

It's on some days. I said.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

I understand that. I'm just saying. Like, I don't recall ever a day Excuse me. You okay? That No. Yeah. That's it. I could I didn't yawn, I burped.

SPEAKER_03 20:56

I know. But you're making faces.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

How does my burp make you yawn?

SPEAKER_03 20:59

Well, you're making faces. Like that what that doesn't even know.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

That's not a thing.

SPEAKER_03 21:04

Well, neither is yawning and it being um I almost said addictive, but uh not addictive.

SPEAKER_01 21:11

It's you're um what is it called? It's connected. It the people are connected, is what connected? Like there's a connection, that's what I've heard.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

No, it's not no, that's not it at all.

SPEAKER_01 21:25

It's um You have a fucking computer sitting on your lap. Google it.

SPEAKER_03 21:30

I'm not Googling it, because we're gonna figure this out.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

We're not.

SPEAKER_03 21:33

We're gonna be here for an hour and a half. When you see somebody else do it, it's um You're mimicking them? No. It's not addictive. It's does it start with an A?

SPEAKER_00 21:49

I don't even know what word you're talking about.

SPEAKER_03 21:52

God dang it!

SPEAKER_00 21:54

Like, what are we doing here?

SPEAKER_03 21:57

By the way, just kind of going off a little bit. Last week, cows can still swim.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

So, but I'll okay, so um but back to I've never had an animal's feet that I could smell unless I didn't stick their feet contagious!

SPEAKER_03 22:17

It's contagious watching somebody on is contagious because that makes you do it. Addictive, you fucking idiot. You're a moron.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

You're a moron. No, you're you're the moron.

SPEAKER_03 22:28

You're the one that said it. No, you what? I did not. You said it further than A. Whatever.

SPEAKER_01 22:35

Right?

SPEAKER_03 22:36

No. Yes. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

But yeah, it is contagious. But if you don't look at them.

SPEAKER_03 22:41

It's addictive.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

But if you don't look at them, you don't know.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

You're making the yawny face.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

But I didn't.

SPEAKER_03 22:48

I'm just saying, you were making the No, a yawn would be like not. Anyway, so there will be days where if she goes out and and bakes her little piggies out in the summer, like mom will let her lay out in the in the yard, you can smell her little piggies. Today not so much. She just had um gross. She had a spa day yesterday, so she's very clean.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

She should have no smelling no. Give it until tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 23:21

Yeah. Poor Shannon.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

Um in your opinion, what would you you know everybody these days because of pri the cost of anything has gone up, right? So we're we're all not dumb to that. But what would you willingly what are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 23:48

Nothing.

SPEAKER_01 23:49

It's not contagious. That's so dumb.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

Go! I'm trying to hold you on in.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

Jesus Christ. What would you um what do you think is worth paying more for? And it could be anything. It could be a mattress, it could be shoes, it could be attire, toilet paper, vacuum, luggage, internet.

SPEAKER_03 24:18

More than what I'm paying for now?

SPEAKER_01 24:20

What would you pay, if it was $100, what would you pay $200 for the same item for?

SPEAKER_03 24:29

Probably a mattress.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

I mean, obviously, that was just an example. That's not, I'm not saying you're gonna find a mattress for $200. I'm just saying typically it would cost $100, but you're gonna pay more. What do you think is worth paying more for?

SPEAKER_03 24:49

Electricity.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

Just because we feel like we're in a heat in a heat wave.

SPEAKER_03 24:56

Dude, it's so bad. I actually noticed um the other day, it was like I think we were at 110.

unknown 25:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:03

And my it didn't get down in this house to it only got down to 78. Like it can only do so much.

SPEAKER_01 25:10

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03 25:11

So yeah. It I think I've been told that the swing is 30 degrees, so that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

Um, but yeah, I mean, it was it was on the whole afternoon I got home just to keep it at 78. So I am very afraid of next month's bill.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

Right.

SPEAKER_03 25:31

But I am comfortable.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Yeah. Um for me, it would probably be probably shoes.

SPEAKER_03 25:42

That was gonna be my next.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

I would say shoes, and and it's more so recently since I started going to the gym. You got bad feet? That well, no, but I feel like I want to protect them a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 25:58

Um so I've just now realized that I have to go to a wide. And even with that, I still have issues with my what? My big toes.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

You need a double wide?

SPEAKER_03 26:11

No, I don't think there is a double wide.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

I think there is.

SPEAKER_03 26:13

No, there's no. There's not, it doesn't say double wide.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

Well, they might call it something else.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

Can I get those a double wide?

SPEAKER_01 26:22

I'm not saying that we're talking about mobile homes.

SPEAKER_03 26:25

No.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

I'm just saying in general, like I have moved over to wide. Uh does that help?

SPEAKER_03 26:33

I think so. It doesn't smash your toes together.

SPEAKER_01 26:37

But there's a a pair of shoes that they're gym shoes uh that I want to explore a little bit, but they have a pretty wide toe box.

SPEAKER_03 26:45

So I was God, when when I moved over to a wide and I had worn them for a while, and then looking at the shoes that I used to wear, I'm like, Jesus. I felt like the little Chinese children bind the feet. Because I'm like, there's no way. How how is anybody wearing those?

SPEAKER_01 27:04

Um, so okay, we we just had a work event uh and it was just for the leadership team. So it was really cool. They took us to like this game show battle room place, um, which we should get a group together to do. That would be fun. And then um we walked like across the street and we went to lunch. Um, but they had told us to, because we didn't have any idea what was going on. Wow. Shut up. Wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 27:35

I don't understand why I do that in here.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

I don't know either. So, but um I'll see if I can't capture that and show you. Um, I'm not sure though. So, um, but all we were told, we didn't have any idea what we were doing. We have an that was our supposed to be our all-day like manager meeting with all the department heads, everybody. Um, and so they told us to wear a company shirt, and then we had gotten the same shoes for was this the like the awards, yeah, the blue shoes. And so I tried on a bigger size, and they were too big, but the toe box is so narrow. Do you have and I'm like, oh my god, it kills my feet by the end of the day. Yeah. And and you know, and we had to we didn't we were just told to wear them. We thought we were just gonna be where we were, making some videos, and then you know, whatever. We didn't realize we were going off, um, which is fine, but I'm like, oh, my feet hurt.

SPEAKER_03 28:39

So we're talking about money and and the shoes and stuff. Um could you imagine if we still lived in a time where we didn't have shoes?

SPEAKER_01 28:51

I mean, if that was the norm, I would probably be very okay with it.

SPEAKER_03 28:58

We would have to be.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

No, I mean could you imagine? But in today, like if it was normal today, I would truly be happy with it. Jen, I mean, how many times have we recorded this podcast and I'm not in a pair of flip-flops? I don't like to wear shoes.

SPEAKER_03 29:13

Okay, but these are still considered shoes.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

They are. But if I could go barefoot, I would love it.

SPEAKER_03 29:18

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

Not have to worry about it. I mean, I would still go, you know, get a pedicure.

SPEAKER_03 29:27

I would hope so. You'd have to get it every week.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

No.

SPEAKER_03 29:30

If you were barefoot? No. Could you imagine the calluses that you do you know how often I lay on my couch?

SPEAKER_01 29:36

Like, like, my feet aren't touching the ground all the time. You still would have to work. No, I know. I know. Yeah. Um, but no, I I think I would I I enjoy being shoeless.

SPEAKER_03 29:49

I do too, in my home. Well, yeah, but and then walking from here to there.

SPEAKER_01 29:54

Okay, so I was gonna say, do you go outside? Um, typically, if I go outside, now I'm in the process of getting my back porch like actually cleaned. What um well, I've told you I need to borrow your truck a couple of times. Are you taking it this weekend?

SPEAKER_03 30:10

Yes.

unknown 30:10

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

Um, so anyway, um, yeah. So whenever I finally get that clean, I'll go on my back patio. It hasn't been cleaned in years. So this patio stuff that I'm trying to get out of there is so dusty and nasty that I've cleaned everything around it.

SPEAKER_03 30:29

Hold. How long have you lived there?

SPEAKER_01 30:31

Many years.

SPEAKER_03 30:33

Fifteen?

SPEAKER_01 30:34

If not longer.

SPEAKER_03 30:36

Never been touched.

SPEAKER_01 30:37

Oh, that's a lie. Oh, that's 100% a lie. Really? It just hasn't been cleaned in the last five years. It hasn't been touched in five years. So all of that furniture is dry rotted and like if you you move it, then it falls like flakes of it, like fall apart because it's that that PVC? It well kind of, but it's it's supposed to look like that woven stuff, but not wicker. Um, but it's the the long, the skinny, flat pieces, you know? So kind of I guess wicker-ish, but not really. Um, and so yeah, and the couch comes into two pieces, and that is just nasty. So, um, yeah, I need to get all of that put in a bulk. Somebody's bulk trash. So, anyway, but when that's finally fully clean, I will go out there barefoot, but I don't go out my front usually out because like to run to the car? Yeah, no, because well, you gotta remember I live in a townhome, so I don't know. I just uh people walk like in front of my house all the time, they'd be dropping shit. Like, I don't know, I'm not gonna step on something if I'm not paying attention. I just don't trust people.

SPEAKER_03 31:53

Let me just tell you something.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

I hope my neighbors don't watch this.

SPEAKER_03 31:56

I I I'm pretty sure that this was on one of our trips, and David about lost his shit.

SPEAKER_01 32:02

Oh god, what doing what?

SPEAKER_03 32:05

He pulled the ring camera up because somebody had walked in front and then their their dog Oh yeah. I guess kicked like I he didn't poop.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

Oh, it did, it shit. Right there, it's it shit on my bush. It sat on my bush and took a shit. And the and then, you know, when dogs go to the bathroom, some of them they kick afterwards. Well, then it kicked the mulch all up against my front door and everything, and they never cleaned it. And so I was waiting for them to come back. Now we were gone, so it's not like I could do anything about it at the time.

SPEAKER_03 32:43

Why didn't you yell at them through the the ring camera?

SPEAKER_01 32:46

Because I had looked at the I didn't get it. It was the notification, it was just a notification that it had happened. So I was gonna post it on our neighborhood page, be like, Look, clean your dog stuff, like you know, um, but I couldn't post a video, so I had to take screenshots, and then I posted it in there as pictures.

SPEAKER_03 33:07

Did you find the culprit?

SPEAKER_01 33:08

Yes, the lady lost her ever-loving mind. Um, she was like, take that down right now, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, absolutely not. Said, you can come and clean your mess, and then I'll be happy to take it down.

SPEAKER_02 33:21

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

Um, come to find out, yep, she works in the same industry as me. So um, I know of her. Never met her. Um, but anyway, I don't think she lives there anymore. Um, they never came and cleaned it up.

SPEAKER_03 33:35

Here's the question, though. You're mad that somebody put your shit out on the page and said, Hey, whoever this, please clean up my entryway.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:48

Because there was dirt and mulch everywhere. Like you could tell, like, a dog had done the kick thing. Um how can you be mad?

SPEAKER_01 33:58

Mm-hmm. Because she's an entitled bitch. Thank you. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

Um, how can you be mad and and and demand it to be taken down?

SPEAKER_01 34:12

I demand my porch to be cleaned up. So here we are.

SPEAKER_03 34:16

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

Guess what? I can clean my porch and I can take down your photo. But if I clean my porch, I won't be taking down your photo. So it's still there today.

SPEAKER_03 34:26

Oh, it's still up?

SPEAKER_01 34:27

Yeah, but we don't we no longer have the that service. So um we switch management companies. So it is there wherever that lives, but we don't have access to that anymore.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

So oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

But yeah, so no, I for many reasons I don't walk out my front door with no shoes on. Um, but like here I would. You live in a single family home, people don't just randomly be in your driveway with their dogs shitting in your concrete um and kicking mulch everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 35:01

Have you ever had one drop a hot one like right there on the sidewalk?

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Um, I I've had dogs of my own that have shit on my sidewalk, and I'm like, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 35:11

But you cleaned it up.

SPEAKER_01 35:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:13

You're a responsible neighbor.

SPEAKER_01 35:15

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 35:16

Unlike this lady who let their dog shit in your book.

SPEAKER_01 35:18

And mind you, they live on the other side of the whole fucking place. So, like, you're out for a long ass walk and you didn't bring a bag.

SPEAKER_03 35:26

Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:29

Come on, get your fucking life together. Yeah, I will say this. What? Because I won't agree with you. I'm sure.

SPEAKER_03 35:35

You might.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

I doubt it. Let's see.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

If Remy shits in somebody else's like yard, okay, I will clean it up.

SPEAKER_01 35:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 35:42

If I'm on the main drag, no.

SPEAKER_01 35:46

Um I can somewhat under. I have the burps today. Oh, there we go. I can somewhat understand that. Um, but if I had a bag with me, I would absolutely pick it up.

SPEAKER_03 36:04

Okay. So, in this situation, because this is what this dog loves to do.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

Your dog?

SPEAKER_03 36:10

Yes. We get a quarter mile down the road until the main drag. Okay. She gets so excited to cross the street because she knows she's going on a long, long walk.

SPEAKER_01 36:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 36:17

So excited she takes the massive crap right there.

SPEAKER_01 36:20

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 36:21

Now, I would have a bag. I would pick that up. I'm not carrying a five-pound bag of dog shit for the next mile. I will leave it right there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

And then pick it up on the way back.

SPEAKER_03 36:34

Pick it up on the way back. Yeah. And then tie it to her harness so that she can do consequences. Why don't you just carry it back? But I mean. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:44

But I would do that.

SPEAKER_03 36:46

But there have been times where if I know I'm taking her on a walk, where it's a double one.

SPEAKER_01 36:51

I'll let her go. Like a double one.

SPEAKER_03 36:53

And she fucking shits up there.

SPEAKER_01 36:55

I'm like, where did that come from? It's just like your your parents' cat that you were telling me about just now. You know what I mean? Like it's the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 37:03

Wait, I got another deposit.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

Yeah. So um, so they were telling me today that they their new kitten that they have over there. Um, when you're cleaning out the litter box, the cat will run into the litter box and take another shit while you're cleaning it.

SPEAKER_03 37:16

While you're cleaning it.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

So, but it's the same, it's the same concept. She gets so excited and worked up that it comes. Yeah. So note to self, bring three bags.

SPEAKER_03 37:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:26

Every time. Because, I mean, obviously, I and is it's not like there's nothing to say that it's like you're supposed to, right? That's just like a common sense thing.

SPEAKER_03 37:41

Out there?

SPEAKER_01 37:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:41

I mean, you're supposed to pick clean up after your animal.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

I know, but like you're never gonna get in trouble.

SPEAKER_03 37:46

Right. There's nobody policing the area.

SPEAKER_01 37:49

A dog ship police.

SPEAKER_03 37:50

It's literally right in front of like one of the switch stations for the electric company.

SPEAKER_01 37:54

Yo, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah. I mean, I would if I had a bag, I would absolutely pick it up. And if that became a common occurrence, I would probably make sure I brought extra bags.

SPEAKER_03 38:08

Sometimes she's excited to get out the door.

SPEAKER_01 38:11

Yeah. Well, you as the parent should prepare.

SPEAKER_03 38:15

Yes, I know.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

Prepare her diaper bag for her long walk.

SPEAKER_03 38:22

Um look through this again. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 38:28

Oh my lord.

SPEAKER_03 38:29

Yeah, my brain is just not fucking working today. Um you are a rewards program snob.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 38:42

You have to have the app and the rewards program for everything.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 38:49

Taco Bell, McDonald's, uh, Zach's.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

Most of the time it just happens it it's part of your account.

SPEAKER_03 38:56

What account? I don't have a McDonald's account.

SPEAKER_01 38:59

Oh, I do.

SPEAKER_03 39:00

I know you do.

SPEAKER_01 39:01

Because I I if I only so I do I do have rewards for the places that I order food on a regular basis, but I didn't sign up for a rewards account there. I created in the account.

SPEAKER_03 39:16

Well, that's what it is. It's a rewards.

SPEAKER_01 39:18

Some you do have to actually do another step and join a rewards program.

SPEAKER_03 39:23

If that's the case, probably not gonna do that. Do you feel that you would lose your absolute shit if every single one of those places would take away their rewards program?

SPEAKER_01 39:37

No.

SPEAKER_03 39:38

Why?

SPEAKER_01 39:41

What do you I mean? It's just a benefit. It's not that's not why I go there.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

It's not?

SPEAKER_01 39:49

No.

SPEAKER_03 39:50

There have been times, and correct me if I am wrong.

SPEAKER_01 39:53

I will.

SPEAKER_03 39:54

We know. If we go, if I'm like, hey, let's go get something to eat, and you're like, oh, let's go to Taco Bell, I have a free taco.

SPEAKER_01 40:02

Uh no, I it never crosses my mind. Ever. Ever.

SPEAKER_03 40:07

Is it because you always have items?

SPEAKER_01 40:09

No.

SPEAKER_03 40:10

Rewards to use.

SPEAKER_01 40:11

The only place that I used any rewards is McDonald's and Chick-fil-A.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

You have you've gotten free stuff at Taco Bell when we've gone to Taco. No, we haven't. We just went a couple of times.

SPEAKER_01 40:20

I do not. No. I have never used a reward there because honestly, I can't figure it out.

SPEAKER_03 40:27

I could have sworn that we were there.

SPEAKER_01 40:30

Never.

SPEAKER_03 40:30

And I got a free item and you got a free item because of it.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

It uh no, I don't I don't recall it.

SPEAKER_03 40:39

Wait, you would get rewards from Chick-fil-A?

SPEAKER_01 40:42

Yeah. Jen, there was a story where this principal was, or somebody, I think it was the school system, I don't know for sure, but he would go to Chick-fil-A every single day and he never cashed in a point. And he was able to have a Chick-fil-A party for his entire school for free because he had millions of points or something. And I don't know if it was a school, it could have been like, I don't know, a fire department or I don't, it was somebody. It was something.

SPEAKER_03 41:15

But do you feel that like the rewards programs are like you've already paid into it? Like it's not really like a rewards program.

SPEAKER_01 41:25

Like I mean, yeah, I mean you do, but it's just Jen. Okay, first of all. First of all. It's none of this is no different than how we cruise.

SPEAKER_03 41:45

I understand that, but I'm talking it's something more that we use every single day. Like, for instance, I go to Duncan a lot.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Okay. Um I haven't been there in years.

SPEAKER_03 41:55

I which is strange, but that's odd.

SPEAKER_01 41:58

I haven't. Anyway.

SPEAKER_03 41:59

So my points are up there, you know? But it's like you get a free coffee or whatever. So it's like I use those things when I'm like, I don't, I I I don't feel like spending ten dollars, so I'm gonna I'm gonna use it.

SPEAKER_01 42:13

I mean, if I have it available and and it's easy to see, like, so and that's the other thing. So, like the McDonald's app, for instance, if I order breakfast there, I'm like, there's just a little button and it'll show you what you have, whatever. And I'm like, oh, okay, we'll use that today. Now, Chick-fil-A, when you go to check out, it's underneath the item in red, it says that you have a reward. Do you want to redeem that on this particular item?

SPEAKER_02 42:40

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

So therefore, I'm not buying a meal anymore. I'm buying like hash browns and a drink because I got the wrap for free or whatever. Right. So, but that they make that easy. Taco Bell, I don't even know how that works. Zaxby's I've never ordered online. Wendy's, I've never ordered online. Like, I have apps on my phone so I can look at the menus. So you you But I don't really, the only places I use rewards is those two places.

SPEAKER_03 43:06

I just don't know if like reward programs are whether you use them or not, the prices are the same. Right.

SPEAKER_01 43:15

But it's just like I don't I don't even know like how to even like talk about this because it's well clearly because I don't I don't know where you're what are you trying to get at?

SPEAKER_03 43:25

I'm just trying to say, like go.

SPEAKER_01 43:27

I don't need you to s to sniff me or anything.

SPEAKER_03 43:29

Look at Win Dixie, right? Okay, you're you pay in, you you buy your groceries, right? Some of them you get 8% cash back or whatever, like a credit card does. Okay. And then you can use that money on your next shopping trip. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 43:41

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 43:42

So it's money that's being done. Where uh for me, I can't wrap my mind around the here's a free sandwich, but instead of paying seven dollars, you pay two dollars because like you have to go to the grocery store where you don't have to go to McDonald's, any of those places.

SPEAKER_01 44:04

Right, but you do, so they reward you.

SPEAKER_03 44:07

I don't, I don't, I don't know, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 44:10

You've lost your mind.

SPEAKER_03 44:11

I have. Today I have.

SPEAKER_01 44:13

You've lost your mind. Yeah. I don't, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:15

I just would you be upset if rewards programs, if everybody pulled their rewards programs.

SPEAKER_01 44:22

No. Now, if Royal Caribbean did, I'd be pissed. Um but yeah, no, I no. Because that's not why I'm going.

SPEAKER_03 44:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:34

I go because it's convenient or quick enough.

SPEAKER_03 44:38

So do you ever choose where you're gonna go based on your rewards that you have available?

SPEAKER_01 44:43

No, if I know I'm gonna go somewhere, I might look to see if there is a reward.

SPEAKER_03 44:47

I got one of those.

SPEAKER_01 44:48

Yeah, but I've already decided where I'm going. Okay. I'm not basing where I go on what I have available. Excuse us.

SPEAKER_03 44:56

Pardon.

SPEAKER_01 44:57

You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 44:58

So I get okay.

SPEAKER_01 45:01

You get it? Yeah. You get it?

SPEAKER_03 45:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:04

Are you sure? Fucking trying to make me sound like a cheap fucking ass. Hey, I know that there are dates where I look here, you got coupons on your calendar or c counter, don't you? I'm sure there's a coupon over there somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 45:19

I actually use my coupons the other day. Do you know the last time I've clipped a coupon? I didn't clip the coupon, my mom did. Well, exactly. But do you think you like you'd like this place?

SPEAKER_01 45:30

Jen, it would sit on my counter till I have to throw it away.

SPEAKER_03 45:34

Coupons are different than rewards programs.

SPEAKER_01 45:37

But you use them the same to save money.

unknown 45:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:43

You use them and save money. I don't.

SPEAKER_03 45:47

Do you just, well, willy-nilly, I'm gonna pay for this.

SPEAKER_01 45:50

Yep. May not be able to pay the light bill, but got my bubble cheeseburger.

SPEAKER_03 45:58

Well, guys, uh we honestly just hit a year.

SPEAKER_01 46:02

Um Yeah, it was just a year, what last week?

SPEAKER_03 46:04

On the ninth? On the ninth, we hit a year. So thank you to everybody for still following along and commenting and sharing.

SPEAKER_01 46:11

Um keep doing that, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 46:13

We are behind a few weeks. As we noticed, we took what five weeks off, it looked like.

SPEAKER_01 46:19

Oh, in the year?

SPEAKER_03 46:20

In the year. Not bad. No, not bad for our first one.

SPEAKER_01 46:23

And it'll probably continue to happen from time to time. So just bear with it.

SPEAKER_03 46:27

Yeah. Um, otherwise, uh, catch you next week.

SPEAKER_01 46:31

Yeah. Peace out.