Episode #65 - Interview with Tracey Creek

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Five, four.
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Hello and welcome to All In Design.
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Goodness.
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I can't even get the things started.
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Yeah, our guest is laughing at me because I started the intro.
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Hello and welcome to All in Design.
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Thank you for listening.
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My name's Chad Moore here with my co-host Mark Griffo.
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Hey everybody.
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And I think I think that's probably the best intro we've had.
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It was that was pretty clean.
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That was clean.
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Yeah.
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So we're off to a smooth start.
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That's the second guest that has started laughing as I started the intro, too.
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I think Liz Hunsinger was the first.
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Liz, yeah, because I don't think Liz expected us to be serious at anything.
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We were laughing and joking throughout the entire like pre-podcast, just you know, talking before we start started recording.
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And then I started into it and it was super serious, and she just died laughing.
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I couldn't help it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm not sure what happened on this one.
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What's great is that the guest, the mystery guest so far, is still laughing.
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Yeah.
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She's probably like, I knew that you guys have done 60 plus of these shows, but now sitting here, it's like real, and we're talking to each other, and there's mics, and we we did a lot of prep work, but here we are.
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And we also covered that I I got zero sleep last night.
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Yeah.
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And then um our guest had just a really great start to the morning, uh, first day of school back with the kids.
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She came in, she's like, uh, several mom fails this morning.
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So uh we're gonna dig it all into that um as we get going.
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So, Mark, if you'd like to introduce who we have.
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Yeah, I will I will I also want to mention we're back in Montgomery.
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We we are back.
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We are back in Montgomery.
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We came all the way back.
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We came all the way back.
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We were here, we were here a couple weeks ago, and we came back again for a second visit.
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Funny enough, uh, the last time we were here, I got no sleep that night either.
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Right.
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Yeah, it's weird.
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I think you're just I think you just have very you get nervous before coming to Montgomery.
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Yeah.
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All right, that said, so we can get her out of her misery in terms of laughing or not, or we can just get her get her rolling.
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I am happy to introduce Tracy Creek.
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She is an interior designer at SSNA Design Collective here in Montgomery.
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So welcome, Tracy.
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We we're glad you're already enjoying yourself.
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So the floor is yours if you want to just say hello to everyone, give them a little potted bio, like where are you from, where'd you go to school, how'd you end up in design, and we'll go from there and then we'll just tell jokes and crazy stories.
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Right.
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Okay.
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Um, from Tuscalisa.
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Rowtid!
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RowTad.
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Yep, born, raised, um, went to school at UA, started in graphic design, changed kind of on a whim to interior design.
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So I was on the six-year program with that change, and yeah, I graduated in 2014.
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Got married like two weeks later.
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Enrolled in full-time at furnishings um at UA.
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At UA two weeks after that.
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And yeah.
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So married two weeks, honeymoon, right back from honeymoon, straight into yep.
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Within a month started full-time.
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I was a student there before, so for three years student intern.
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But yeah.
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Solid.
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Solid.
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You said from Tuscaloosa.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Is that why you went to UA?
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Yeah, my mom worked at UA and um we got half price tuition.
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Oh, yeah.
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That's kind of a hard one to you can't say no to that.
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You can't.
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My wife's from Auburn, went to Auburn, same example.
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Yeah, mom worked at Auburn.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, Aaron, my wife, Tuscaloosa, also went to UA.
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Yeah.
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Didn't get half price tuition though.
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So fail.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, bummer.
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Sorry, Aaron.
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So that's not real relevant?
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No, it's not.
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I just wanted to mention Aaron.
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Hi, honey.
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Carry on, Chad.
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If you guys want to keep the interview going, it'd be great.
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Well, actually, my husband got half price tuition when I was working there, so that was good.
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So he was able to graduate from there because he went back to school, you know.
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To get a graphic design degree?
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What does he do?
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He is in quality at Neptune technology.
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They do water meters.
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Okay.
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Um, so he's in quality control.
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He does like he did do production supervisor, but kind of wanted to get into quality, and yeah.
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So he graduated in operations management.
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Um, but yeah.
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Cool.
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So you were initially thinking about going to graphic graphic design.
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And you have that's what, yeah, I went to Auburn for graphic design.
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I stuck it out though, Tracy.
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Uh yeah, yeah.
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So didn't quit.
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So, Mark, what did you like about it?
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And Tracy, what did you not like about it?
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Yeah, I wasn't gonna change majors, so that may be a better, better thing.
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I didn't have any.
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We actually joked about this on our last podcast about like why applying to different schools.
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And I just was like, well, like I've I applied to UA and UAB and Auburn.
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It's like, well, I'm not gonna stay in Birmingham, and I don't want to go to Alabama, so I'll go to Auburn.
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And Chad's like, well, that was worth you still applying to all three, I guess.
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Yeah, um, since you already knew.
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And then I was there a year, and then I decided craft design.
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I mean, I knew I wanted to go into something design oriented, and then once I was in, I did enjoy it, so I was like, I'll stick it out.
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But I was there for five football seasons.
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Okay.
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So, which my dad gave me a little bit of grief about.
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He made a joke after I got past year four about like, well, you know, and I was like, bro, you were Georgia Tech for six years.
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Yeah, you know.
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So five five football seasons I was there.
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You were UA for six, I guess.
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Yeah, and three of them championship years.
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Yeah, you know, the kids that like we're gonna be like, like had never seen a loss ever in well, no, see, but I grew up in Tuscaloosa, so like so you went through the the the Mike, the Mike years, right?
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Yeah, and then at like what 07, I remember um Kristen Sabin going through our school and looking at it, and she ended up going to ACA, um, one of my friends' schools, and then yeah, so it was crazy.
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Um and then what I started in 08.
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And 09 that's when it was a beautiful year.
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Yeah, that's that was you should have seen the smile on her face.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Because that was the first one, right?
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09?
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That was the first win since was saved.
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You was saved, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay, yeah, whatever.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, moving on.
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So your graphic design.
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Yeah.
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You do that for a year.
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I did it for two years.
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Oh, two years.
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Oh.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Man.
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I loved it.
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I honestly it was not like I didn't love it.
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I just kind of randomly, my friend was like, hey, you should think um interior design for whatever reason.
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And I don't know.
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I was like, huh, that makes sense.
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And then I changed.
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And then you're like, I'm only paying half price anyway.
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I could stay here eight years.
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Yeah.
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Well, because I'm not following her like, I loved it.
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It was great.
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And then my friend just was like, you should do interior design.
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So I said, Yeah, okay.
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The art part of it, but it was digital media.
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It wasn't actually graphic design.
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So I don't know if I actually have like a graphic design program, but it was great.
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I loved it.
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It got the creative part that I really liked.
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I I don't know, just was it too 2D?
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Like, was that part of it?
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Is there just some physicality to interior design in terms of like the space?
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Honestly, we're trying to we're gonna figure this out.
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Yeah, this is very important to us.
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And it was just, I mean, it wasn't more and less almost on a whim.
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Like, I was like, well, you know, that kind of makes sense.
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I've always really enjoyed, you know, that built environment type thing.
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And I mean, not to be cliche, but like, you know, you grow up, you watch like Trade and Spaces, remember that show.
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I knew that crazy show.
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Um, but yeah, like and then you kind of get into it and realize, oh, well, it's actually kind of different than I thought.
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But I I mean I didn't change immediately, but I went ahead and took a class, like the initial class that next fall and enjoyed it and was like, okay, we're doing it, and yeah.
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Before whenever I was like, hey mom, I'm changing my major.
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She's like, uh what?
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She was like not happy.
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But it did work out because I know people who were graphic design majors who had a harder time finding their job and I was kind of lucky in that I mean I think I I kind of had a job uh probably a year before I graduated, like a full time, you know.
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Yeah, which is kind of cool, you know.
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Were you already in were you like uh interning in furnishings before?
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Yeah, I interned for three years.
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Oh, okay.
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So and then rolled into it um full time.
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So you interned for three years.
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So you decided to switch majors and then probably within a year you are already interning with who would be your that's how the math works.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Well, before I just think that's pretty funny.
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That all on the whim.
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All on the whim of the friend.
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Are you still friends with this friend?
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That yeah.
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Okay.
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At first there was a face where I was like, could be a loaded question.
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What friend are you talking about?
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She's an accountant, which is funny, but like she's super artistic and everything and does like beautiful paintings and whatnot.
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But yeah, but we actually she and I and actually a few others met when we were working at the action card office at UA.
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So this is where you get your ID card.
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Okay.
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And so or we work orientations in the card.
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It's called Action Card.
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It was called the Action Card.
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It is cool.
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Yeah.
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I think it is I think that everything's on the phone now, so it's different.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But yeah, we um she and I worked there, and that's why we had met, and it was I don't know.
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Yeah, so I was there for three years before that at Action Card.
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So I don't know.
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I think it was called the Tiger Club card, so I don't know which is better.
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Maybe they're both not great.
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Yeah.
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Tiger Club card.
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As a objective, I I'm not really drawn to either.
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Okay.
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Whatever.
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You went to Vanderbilt.
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The action card.
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Action.
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Woohoo!
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Um, so you uh you had a job immediately.
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So okay, you you graduate and then two weeks later you're married.
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And you obviously met your husband at university.
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No?
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Yes?
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No.
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No, okay.
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She was like, why would you assume that?
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know why I assumed that.
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We um had known each other for years, several years.
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Um I think we met when I was 16.
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And he was maybe 19, so he was already in college.
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But we weren't we didn't date until years after that.
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We both he went to Brent, I went to Holistier, but like um we were like acquaintances, and then I don't know, we started.
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Okay, so he's also from Tuscaloosa.
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Yes, okay.
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Tuscaloosa native, his parents still live there.
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My parents moved with us after the kids, and so um yeah.
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Okay, so you're graduating, you get married two weeks after, and then honeymoon, I guess.
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Yep.
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Okay.
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Where was the honeymoon?
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Hawaii, Maui.
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We my aunt and uncle had a timeshare, so we got to that was fun.
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Right.
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And then you're back, you've got okay, so you've got your job, you start your new job.
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How long were you in the facility?
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Four years.
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Okay.
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And then moved here.
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And then uh so Byron graduated and he got a job in Selma.
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Which was interesting in itself, but it was at a healthcare laundry facility.
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So yeah, that was kind of crazy.
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And then he um That's what they say.
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It's crazy in healthcare laundry.
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Yeah, well, I mean, in Selma.
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Yeah.
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Let's be honest.
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That's all you have to hear, really.
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It's not crazy anywhere else.
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It's pretty crazy.
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So but um a bumper sticker or something.
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Yeah, one in Selma.
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Yeah.
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Well, um, so he had kind of accepted a job there, and then I went looking in Prattville and I actually um like reached out, you know, Mary Catherine Holt.
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She had suggested to like reach out um and kind of do it like old school way, like just call and say, Hey, would y'all want to just meet with me?
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I'm gonna be moving here, and what um, I mean, just would you please meet with me just in case you have anything in the future?
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And I ended up having like four like formal interviews and one or like with four different firms.
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With four different firms.
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Same dude.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then three came up with offers and I went to Cherry McDab for a few years.
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Um, and I did interview, or I'm not I didn't I met with them at SSA, but they did not have a job opportunity at that point.
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And then they had reached out later on, or I had reached out, um actually, and it happened to be like a day after they found out they were gonna get a new position or something, and Carla called, and she was like, Hey, just curious, how how did you hear about this?
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She was like, It's so new, and I was like, uh I just I just had my finger on the pulse of this.
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And um he was, I think, uh, 10 months at the time, and um, yeah, and he was my little Armageddon baby, so it was in 2021.
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Um, yeah.
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My Armageddon baby.
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Yeah, it's just funny.
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It's just funny.
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Oh, is it?
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Oh, I just I've always caught on that.
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I don't know.
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He he's my little Armageddon baby, he is.
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He, I mean, he was born in the middle of the shutter.
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I think of the movie Armageddon.
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So I just have this vision of this kid watching Armageddon.
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Exactly.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That's what happened.
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Yeah, okay, okay, okay.
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But yeah, I mean, he was literally born in the middle of shutdown.
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We were like, oh, I hope Byron can go to the hospital.
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And then it was actually great being on maternity leave during the Armageddon because we couldn't really do anything anyway.
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So it's not a good thing.
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Yeah, it's not like we were missing out on life.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, no.
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So it was um kind of kind of blissful in a way, um, kind of nerve-wracking for the obvious reasons, but yeah, so and then yeah, um, I ended up going to SSA and I've been there for five years and it's been kind of pretty great.
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Kind of pretty great.
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Yeah, I mean, like it was by far the best place I've ever been.
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Like I really I enjoy it there as a whole.
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People are collaborative, people I you know, it's a build people up type environment.
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And for the most part, I mean, nowhere is perfect, but um is it just the one office here in Montgomery?
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Or do they have no we have one in Auburn.
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Okay.
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So um that one I forgot their address, but I'm sure you're familiar with the area.
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But they have a whole bunch of guys in that one.
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It's completely different than when I was in school there.
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I go to Auburn and I'm like, well, I don't know where I am.
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Yeah, I think I told the story, but we toured because my daughter's there, but we're touring my wife had gone to Auburn.
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Group was raised in Auburn, and so we're we're walking around, and the whole time it's just my wife saying, Well, that didn't used to be there.
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And that this was different.
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This is this doesn't look the same way as this.
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I mean it's like UA is totally different from our guy.
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And so I mean it's the whole the whole time she's doing this, and then we end up on this one stretch, and she's like, Okay, wait, no, no, here this looks the same.
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This is except for okay, if you don't there's a there's a there's a building grenade in that was not there, but then that railing wasn't there, but other than that, everything else is exactly the same.
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And I'm like, okay.
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And so then we end up, that was just the two of us, and then we link up with my daughter, and we're walking back, and I was like, just so you know, this is the only spot that's the same.
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And then my wife goes, Well, I mean, this used to be a street.
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It's been closed off for pedestrian traffic.
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I'm like, so it's not the same at all.
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So, anyways, so an aside.
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Accurate, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yup.
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Yeah.
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So um, what kind of work do you all work on?
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We do a lot of DOD work.
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Um, a lot of healthcare is kind of our like bread and butter, but we are kind of branching out into more local territory again.
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And um, but I don't know, we've gotten to do projects kind of everywhere, which is really insane because I'm a homebody and I've gotten to go to Japan three times.
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I mean, that's cool.
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It is cool, and it's not all for Dungeons and Dragons work.
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I know, DMD.
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Yeah.
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So it's um it was So are you a certain class like wizard or what obviously lean into this joke that actually didn't even get right.
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Yeah, and I don't I don't I don't even know if a class wizard makes any sense within that world.
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No, I think it works.
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I think it works for the people who don't know Department of Defense, correct?
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Okay, yeah.
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I hope I'm right.
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Yeah, yes, yes.
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That turns out no, it is Dungeons and Trickets.
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Yeah, Dungeon and Trackets, obviously.
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Yeah.
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Big in Japan.
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Well, of course.
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Which, yes.
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But there's also been like a Chuke hospital project um which we finished design on maybe six months ago, and um I don't know, we kind of we have stuff like national and international, so it's kind of cool.
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It used to be called like a truck, maybe, but it is smack dab in the middle of nowhere.
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And by that I mean it is in the middle of the ocean.
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It takes three days to get there from here.
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I didn't go to that one, but it takes literally um I could go from here to Hawaii, Hawaii to Guam, Guam to the Island Hopper.
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So in three different days to get there and three days to get back.
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And it's a 15-hour difference.
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Who who uses that hospital?
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It'll be the Chukies, the Chuckies.
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Oh, welcome.
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The Chuckese people.
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If I offended any Chuckies.
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They're Chuckese people, so it's kind of cool.
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Were they previously known as the Chuckeys?
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I forget about how I used to pronounce that previously.
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Possibly.
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Okay.
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You know how many people are gonna be grinding.
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The PM on that project would know.
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At least a few.
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They're gonna be like, what?
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The PM on the project would know.
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I I'm not that person, so.
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And so it's is it it's C-H-U-U-K.
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Yes.
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And so is it it's and it's Chuke Island?
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Yeah.
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And there's what, a military base that we have there?
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Mm-mm.
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No.
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No, this one was a little different.
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It wasn't um I'm just trying to for our listeners and myself.
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How do we go from Montgomery to Chook Island in the middle of the Pacific?
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Honestly.
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There's a sorcerer's base.
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Exactly.
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There's a sorcerer's base.
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Yeah.
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I can't wait to get text from Adam and Mickey and be like, you guys completely lost the plot on this one.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Our fault.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You're doing great, Casey.
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Yeah.
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So so, but this was a DOD project, was it not?
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No.
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Oh, it wasn't.
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Oh.
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Again, how did you guys end up on Chook Island?
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Well, I think it just because we've done stuff internationally, maybe it helped.
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I don't know.
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Okay.
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I mean, that's kind of cool.
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Like they're just like they're like Googling, they're like looking for an architecture firm.
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These people do stuff all over the world.
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Yeah.
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Well, yeah.
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I mean, it's kind of cool.
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Um, I think it was kind of like I don't know exactly how that part worked, but I don't really have to either.
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So yeah, right.
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How how do you work on a project that's that far away and is or even like Japan?
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I mean, like, is it just as far?
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So Japan's interesting because it was um a hospital on a base, and it was so you gotta take into account this is so crazy, the way that they maintenance stuff is different.
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So instead of like, you know, popping up a ceiling tile and going to maintenance, you know, getting up on the ladder, going looking kind of through that ceiling tile, turning around, whatever you need to do, just whatever you need to see, you're fine in it.
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They don't do that.
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They actually go like uh on the ceiling, so they have totally different ceiling tiles that are really like screwed into the frame or screwing to screwed into the jit board, okay, which is screwed into the framing above.
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And so they walk on it, they walk on like the plenum in that plenum space.
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And so it's totally different.
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Is this because of earthquakes?
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Possibly, yes.
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Um, but there's also, I mean, it's just a different way of working because there's also, you know, like seismic bracing or seismic.
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stuff you can do to the ceiling tiles, you know, like to the ceiling grid.
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It's not like so yeah, I mean just people, you know, everything is so different in that just the way that everything operates, but it is on a US.
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So there's lots of things we had to kind of like figure out.
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But anyways yeah it was cool though.
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And then Tuke was really it was difficult finding people who would who people who would um service these areas.
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Like it's so remote.
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So you are like remote on top of remote.
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So you have to have people who are going to reserve service these areas.
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We talked to like some metal manufacturers, we talked to you know um signage um we talked to like multiple people and you gotta you kind of are left with what you're left with but I feel like we got some really cool stuff on there.
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It just took you know it took a lot more work than maybe a an a national project something in the US um would do.
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But it was really I mean a good learning experience and it was kind of cool.
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It was like actually not a sprinklered building we had all the waiting areas outside and I don't know how that works but our I made I made a face and she looked at me and she's like I don't know how it works.
00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:35.279
Don't have a follow-up question but our fire protection people are on point and yeah they yeah did all the research and you know that was all approved and everything so um yeah I mean it was really cool.
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Yeah I still I don't understand how that works.
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I'm trying to wrap my head around that exactly yeah I'm gonna have to look up this hospital.
00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:48.559
So we're we've done a hospital now in Chuk and we've done hospitals on US bases in Japan.
00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:58.960
Or is that was that one project your three trips project okay yes and actually I was pregnant for two of those trips oh I assume early because that's a long flight.
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Yeah I was I think 14 weeks and then 20 28 weeks.
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Okay.
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Yeah actually it was yeah the jet lag was better when I was pregnant because I always already had insomnia and then I went like after Heidi wasn't sleeping anyway so it didn't matter.
00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:22.240
That yeah whenever I went after Heidi was one it was much harder and she's my uh my world traveler so I have my Armageddon baby and world traveler.
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Nice yeah but um did you get to see much of Japan like when you were there?
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Oh sweet yeah so we would we'd have to get there like we'd leave I think on a Friday God it's been a minute and then we get there no the time huge time change just bear with me um but we would have like a day where we were trying to get acquainted so like you would kind of get acquainted to the time because it is crazy time difference and we went to like Yokohama and then um we'd be leaving towards the end of the week and again huge time difference.
00:24:58.559 --> 00:25:05.680
You literally are like time traveling uh which is kind of weird and crazy but yeah.
00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:07.200
Well how long would you be there?
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Like a week or something?
00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:12.240
Well yeah it ended up being like nine days each time but yeah that's good.
00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:27.440
Just because you know you have to get there get acquainted and then get everything done for the when you come back after a nine day trip from Japan and you're coming back with your coworkers or your coworkers know you're back in town are they like well Tracy we'll see you at eight in the morning tomorrow.
00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:28.079
No.
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Or do you like get a little like grace period of like oh I'll see you in like four days.
00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:38.319
Yeah I don't know four days but like it's let's let's bring it somewhere in between Mark.
00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:40.480
Yeah yeah let's not be crazy.
00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:59.759
Yeah I mean yes definitely I mean there I guess since COVID like everything's gotten a lot more lax too so like even when we go in I mean it's not like a big deal like you don't have to dress super you know business casual or anything every day.
00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:05.759
Um so I typically just dress up a little nicer whenever we see reps but you dress up for reps?
00:26:05.920 --> 00:29:13.200
Well yeah because that's oh that's funny to me yeah I mean I get it you know you were dressed so well they always look so well Chad Chad looks nice but like I'm like I mean they all do all they do there there's a yeah yeah um you know yeah yeah Bridget we bring Bridget up uh up on every episode just randomly Bridget came in one day and I was working but I'm wearing her workout clothes yeah she is the worst dresser I did I had my leggings on and a spooky season sweatshirt my favorite sweatshirt and it was like January or February and I had forgotten she was coming and I was like oh well she won't care yeah no yeah she won't no so anyways yeah she was hilarious but okay so so now so let's bring it back to the mainland yes okay what other projects do y'all do um well I mean we've had um have you traveled anywhere recently I have not Carla is gonna be going to Hawaii pretty soon um and for those who don't know this is Carla Hall and Carla Hall she's the interior designer I thought you were gonna say where Hawaii was it's north of Chuk by probably a thousand miles I don't know who knows uh who knows really no way to tell yeah nope and is it just the two of y'all interior designers say yes yes yeah and then Auburn's just full of bunch of dudes and architects and engineers I guess yeah they have um an accountant Catherine and then yeah sorry Catherine it's all a whole bunch of guys it's yeah yeah yeah they yeah Chad's looking at his notes no I was just uh I was zoning out button I think zero sleep uh no I I had a question in mind and then it went away and I was like what was I thinking about and then you're like Chad's over there looking for a question Chad's just trying to complete a thought in his head um I was gonna ask about the VA because I think you were you're you guys have a VA project you're working on yeah we have a VA project it's been really kind of very different honestly we've gotten to work more closely with the clients which has been nice and they're they're local which is nice as well and it's kind of cool um I mean first of all like the VA like you're helping people who obviously deserve it right um and so it's kind of cool to be able to like help provide a facility for them and then and in a place that's needed um so they don't have to travel as far and then also like working with the people um with our clients they were wanting to do some murals and so we try to follow like evidence based design type practices right where you have like lots of scenic biophilic imagery for artwork.
00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:32.640
You don't necessarily you know we were not gonna add really as much of the patriotic stuff but they said they did want that and so we've been working through and still kind of going through um that whole process it's a little bit late in the game but we're still kind of going through and figuring that one out.
00:29:32.799 --> 00:30:04.880
But um I think we're gonna try to do it on FRP um panels but it was kind of cool or kind of interesting I guess because we're trying to like integrate these evidence based design with these you know patriotic and like giving odes um to the veterans and so we're trying to like incorporate you know all the different branches of a military and kind of you know maybe have them like overlooking the ocean.
00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:48.559
I don't know like we're just kind of working through that and so we're trying to find this good like balance of it and one of them that we were trying to do something that was like had a American flag drawn in the sand you know for a mural so like maybe in the behavioral health area where it's like very calming and you know so I don't know I just thought it was kind of cool and it's been fun to work with um this very different I mean government entity I guess um and interesting their processes um learning those and so yeah it's been really um is the project is this a V local VA it's uh Dothan.
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.799
Dothan okay and where who are you working with on the artwork?
00:30:53.200 --> 00:31:00.400
How's that um we are working with and is your graphic design background changing.
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:00.960
Okay.
00:31:01.279 --> 00:32:30.480
Well for the neural prompts I actually was going to Shutterstock to try to work with like for the uh maybe national for the like FRP type stuff but um I went on to Shutterstock and they have an AI thing so I was like literally entering prompts like and I worked with one of our um the medical the lead head of medical planning he's a veteran and um I was like okay you know help me out like what is um like this appropriate as that potentially triggering to you like a whole thing right so it's kind of cool like we do have several people who are you know have military backgrounds of you know varying things everything from the National Guard to um I mean army navy air force marines I actually don't think we have air force no Chad wrong yeah and I don't think we have marines so wrong on both accounts I think should have quit while you're ahead sorry I could be incorrect but so yeah hopefully none of those people here I'm incorrect but yeah we have a Navy and army for sure and so it's kind of cool though to be able to like you know talk to him and like kind of understand this a little more and be able to make sure like okay you want like one officer and one enlisted and like so with the different uniforms and everything.
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:37.359
So it's really I don't know it's kind of cool and interesting and it's just something new and so it's nice to you know do things that are different in general.
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:38.000
Right.
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:55.279
And then you have clients that are close by that you can yeah it is it's really nice and I mean I've like dropped off stuff to them before or they've dropped by and it's kind of nice to have that type of a relationship you know instead of a three day trip yeah or even just a phone call.
00:32:55.440 --> 00:33:19.759
I mean it's just it is different being face to face right than it is we do a lot of things virtually some meetings are virtual and so it is nice to be able to you know even if some people are virtual to be able to be like in person in person and have that like you know kind of contact with them and I just think it helps build a rapport a little bit more um but yeah.
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:21.839
Well that's why we're here in Montgomery again.
00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:22.640
That's right.
00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:25.440
Face to face face to face it's way better.
00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:29.839
Yeah but I do think maybe we should do an episode in Japan.
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:35.759
Oh that's a good idea yeah yeah and I kind of want to find Chook Island Chook Island.
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.680
Well you know have you been to Japan?
00:33:38.160 --> 00:34:44.320
I have not I've got a friend I've got a friend who lives there um yeah and he's got an Airbnb so it would be perfect to go visit have heated toilet seats I was not expecting you to say that they have heated toilet seats everywhere I'm not talking about like just in your hotel I'm talking about you just go to a strip mall heated toilet seats full partitions you have the um the little sound machine that has trickling water and they do bathrooms right they do them right what's wrong with us in the US yeah we have we're filthy filthy cold porcelain yeah partitions that are like two feet above the floor yeah have gaps in them they even have like things to put the babies like you have a little thing where you can just if you need to put a kid up um in there you can just put them right there in the stall they'll hang out there yeah it's amazing that's an interesting detail yeah well I mean like there's a little you'd have to look it up I don't know but you can put the babies there and it's like how long can you leave them there?
00:34:44.559 --> 00:35:27.840
I mean doubtful very long yeah no not very long but like I mean I wouldn't think so but I gotta run some errands have a little sign watch after this when I come back yeah don't drown yeah exactly but it's cool like you can just like put them up and you know not stress out as much I mean for a mom that's kind of great you know like okay well do a podcast there in a bathroom yeah um with a baby with the baby with the baby that can be the guest are you just gonna pick up a random baby or how are you gonna do it?
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:43.039
There may be already one in the stall that's what it sounded like there you go that's what I was envisioning you just pop them in there again we lost the plot again the people are recording late in the afternoon there it's getting even longer than since I've slept.
00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:48.559
So yeah the people are the sweetest so that's good.
00:35:48.880 --> 00:36:46.639
Okay so uh we've got sweet people awesome bathrooms what what's something else from Japan I mean architecture in general you get all these beautiful like there was the open air museum which was kind of cool they had like a Picasso exhibit too which was that was awesome um the open air museum had but a whole bunch of um uh statues and everything it was you know just really it was just so different and then um obviously the food was fun pretty good pretty damn good pretty pretty good on the home front and the um like their desserts oh and they were so good and so pretty and perfect and like and tasted delicious and yeah sushi they had just conveyor belt sushi just yeah what is that how do they how do you pay for that is it like they they count your little trays or something on your no you order it from I think you order a order and then they send it to you.
00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:49.840
Sushi's free you get it off the conveyor belt.
00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:52.239
It's a bunch of islands and it's just fish just everywhere.
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:58.079
Yeah yeah yeah like it's so cool and it just like comes out and you pick which one's yours and then you're good.
00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:04.800
Like it'll kind of stop at your you know table and yeah did you eat uh any ramen like I did.
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:05.280
Yeah.
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.559
Did you eat uh ramen the Japanese way?
00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:10.639
Where they eat it like really fast.
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:38.800
I'm gonna offend some Japanese people on here but they'll be like you're you're supposed to go with people where you hear people swear we did get lost and we finally found this place and it took forever because you know obviously and um it was like under a strip mall ish I don't know how to even describe it it's been a few years um but and also I'm just following the leader I'm not directionally uh I'm not directionally capable.
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:41.119
So um I just follow the leader.
00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:41.599
It's okay.
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:45.599
So um didn't even try to drive that one.
00:37:45.760 --> 00:38:07.360
Not not that we drove we walked but like yeah we did go there and I'm well I'm pescatarian vegetarian whatever and I tried to order it vegetarian and with like the even with the was it Google Translate and I just felt miserably and then it had bacon on there so I didn't really get to eat it.
00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:13.840
I wanted to make a joke of like coming out like as a cheeseburger or something like that.
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:18.239
I love it it's like yeah tried to order it this way and then it came out with bacon.
00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:42.079
Yeah yeah yeah yeah I really really tried and I just felt miserably but uh everyone said it was delicious and everyone was like slurping everything I'm sure it was yeah I'm sure it was great yeah yeah I just yeah we'll have to go back it's a gateway meat yeah it's a gateway meet it's a gateway meat yeah there you go all right well now we're now we're now where are we?
00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:43.280
Now we're in Dothan.
00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:49.360
We've gone to Japan now back to Dothan and now let's see let's see where we go from here.
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:57.519
So what is I'm see this is usually your job chat because I'm also trying not to look at my paper.
00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:32.239
Right I'm sleeping we have gone my eyes are drooping the rails you had I will say Tracy No don't say uh this is good uh we get varied quality of question the quality of questionnaires varies answers yeah yeah the answers vary uh in terms of like yours is one of the worst we've got was that where you were going no that's where I'm gonna leave so Chad would like to talk to you about how bad you did on your questionnaire.
00:39:33.360 --> 00:40:52.480
No yours was a really good one because one your personality came out uh uh pretty great because it was like a lot of really thoughtful answers um interspersed with interspersed with just like very quick quips right and so like a good example is like say one of these questions is what tips do you have for listeners who want to improve their space on a limited budget and your response is crap is expensive this deal these days not a freaking clue but then she went on to answer she did and then but then you did go on to answer but I the way my page printed Oh that's great I put a star I put a star next to it because I thought that was hysterical and then turned the page and I was like oh well she still went on yeah and then you had and then you did have some some some two good bullet points and but but but again you're you're you're you're lovely I was really crying you did but it the next bullet point is if I had to take a gander which I don't know if I've ever read that before if I had to take a gander I cannot remember pick one or two areas that would be the most impactful and mean the most to you and spend more money on those areas while being more economical with other places.
00:40:52.719 --> 00:41:13.280
Which we've heard that uh before and that's not to be like we've heard that before but like yeah people have been like okay like I said this is one of the worst like Chad said one of the worst uh and then fresh print always spruces up places and makes them feel new but it's just you it was just there was a lot of this wasn't like full on Haley Treadaway.
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:54.239
Right yeah Haley's was um it's all personality all personality all the time yeah I mean she probably dropped a few f-bombs on hers okay I edited some stuff out oh you did you take f bombs out of this I don't think I dropped I took um other bombs out of there but not not quite as yeah I do I actually have a question we're gonna bounce we're gonna bounce back to to I guess Chook because you mentioned this um oh actually well let me back up because I did love this answer too because we've had we've talked about this before on the show about sustainability yeah and people have a lot of like really good answers and like kind of the ways that they do it.
00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:58.239
Yeah but I just love the answer of like if it doesn't last it's not sustainable.
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:26.559
Yeah right it doesn't matter how green it is that's 100% true oh it's like it could be 100% recyclable but falls as falls apart in three months yeah that makes it well yeah so I I so I I like that and but then you go on eco-friendly materials and you mention uh futrus am I saying that correctly are you familiar with futress I'm not what is what prefab solid surface head walls and nurse stations you bring it again because you get you used it on Chook Island.
00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:29.519
Yeah do they sell it here in the United States?
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:58.320
Yeah so they use they partner with Corian but I think they're trying I don't know if they're partnering anybody else but basically I mean it is completely solid surface so like and it's prefab and it was so cool because what we did is we kind of did the nurse stations how we wanted them, sent it to them and then they did these typical like I don't want to say the modules okay modules that's how what they called them.
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:05.280
And so you can have like the same module in multiple locations and then you can pair it with different modules.
00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:11.840
So like it was so cool because then you'd have like a partial transaction top for one area.
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:27.840
You'd go down to um 88 height for some areas like all of ours were rounded because um we went to HTD a few years ago we did see um got to see a hospital and it was like so beneficial this is track I'm sorry.
00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:40.880
But it was um we got to see a hospital and a lot of their corners that like they were in process of renovating but they had already renovated this area and it's just like two years old and the corners were beaten up to hell and back, you know?
00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:52.559
And so it was really so we kind of you know lessons learned type stuff you try to make things better um and so having rounded corners.
00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:58.559
So we had everything very rounded in the hopes of not having beaten up corners.
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:02.559
And um But the way they did it was just insane.
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:19.679
It was like uh the coolest thing to have these multiple modules so you can like so we had like module one and two on this nurse station, then we had module one and three on this nurse station, module one, two, three on the you know, like it it was just so cool.
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:30.159
And then they had like one or two areas that were like just you know one-offs, but they tried to like repeat it, which was really cool and smart to me, but also it comes their prefab.
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:38.159
So you're hopefully lessening the likelihood of it being a crappy, you know, uh millwork job or something.
00:44:38.239 --> 00:44:45.599
And this is again remote, so we are trying to do everything as you just wanted to get to the site and then they just put it together.
00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:48.000
That's I mean, really, that was our goal.
00:44:48.559 --> 00:45:16.159
So um we had looked at demotables, but they had decided against that, and I think this actually ended up being great because we got to use the head walls, um, which were I mean, again, like kind of floor to ceiling type thing, but um we didn't use them like a whole wall, like we had some bay areas, but we did have well, I guess they kind of were, but um it at each bed.
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:17.920
And it was so cool.
00:45:18.079 --> 00:45:21.760
Um so, anyways, it's a product, very healthcare friendly product.
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:22.880
I totally would recommend it.
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:27.119
They have lots of customization available, but they also help you if you want to be more economic.
00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:29.679
This episode brought to you by Futris.
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:30.480
Yeah.
00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:31.599
How do you Futris?
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:34.480
Futress F-U-T-R-U-S.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:37.760
And they ship to Chook Island.
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So they service Chook.
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:40.639
Yeah.
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I might be saying it wrong because I say a lot of things wrong.
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So there you go.
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:47.119
Yeah.
00:45:48.880 --> 00:45:54.639
I do I do have a question, and this is probably something that our um listeners would be interested to know about.
00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:57.920
But um old lady lady hobbies.
00:45:58.239 --> 00:45:58.559
Oh.
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:01.519
We've jumped around.
00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:01.920
Yeah, yeah.
00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:03.039
We did jump around.
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Yeah, yeah.
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:16.079
So I don't it seems like I'm definitely not the only one, but like they're kind of the bomb, and I just keep getting into more and more of them.
00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:21.840
Um, so I started embroidery shortly after my daughter was born.
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:28.719
And my granny had taught me like years ago, back when I was like probably in middle school, and I hadn't done it in a long time.
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:34.079
And then randomly I was like, I saw something on Instagram, maybe, and I was like, I'm gonna do that.
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:36.880
And then I'm embroidering.
00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:42.480
I mean it's been a I haven't had a project in a month or two, so I'm probably gonna start something out pretty soon.
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:52.559
But um yeah, it's been super fun, and like now I'm like, oh, I want to get into quilting, or you know, like it's you played mahjong too, like no.
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:56.159
I don't and I don't necessarily I'm not super interested in that.
00:46:56.320 --> 00:47:06.320
I really just want to do my art and like you know, and like I well and you mentioned too introvert and mahjong people and well, yeah.
00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:10.320
Well, and then was there I do think there's a lot of people embroidering though.
00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:12.800
There are it is so fun.
00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:22.400
Um, yeah, and then I actually submitted something I'd made for Heidi to like the little Montgomery Art Guild, and so it'll be like a little show and oh cool.
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:25.360
Um and it was accepted, and I was like, oh well that's cool.
00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:25.840
Huh.
00:47:26.079 --> 00:47:26.320
Fun.
00:47:26.480 --> 00:47:28.559
I just like I didn't tell anybody, not even my husband.
00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:30.559
I just like was like what the hell?
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:37.519
Yeah, and I I do want to um I probably should start with this, but we've got at the very end of our question here it says what's missing.
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:38.800
Is there anything you want to talk about?
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:41.519
That's yeah, because I just threw out old lady hobbies.
00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:42.639
Yeah, but you did, yeah.
00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:45.119
There's a segue.
00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:47.519
Yeah, okay, so future's old lady hobbies.
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:58.719
Yeah, that was uh that was part of the thing that she had thrown out there is oh we we could talk about this, but the other part I thought was interesting was momming and how that has impacted your career in a way.
00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:22.800
So again, introvert, um definitely always have been, and especially earlier in my career, um definitely more insecure, and so then I had Saxon and I don't know what happened, but it just I mean I just screw it.
00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:30.239
Yeah, kind of like it was like okay, well, I mean, I was scared to even like ask to take off just to go to a regular doctor's appointment before, you know.
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:32.719
I was like nervous about that, like, do I need to do that?
00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:36.320
I don't, you know, is that oh it's too late.
00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:37.760
I didn't give them enough notice.
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:42.639
And I mean, you know, and now I'm just like, well, I kind of don't have a choice.
00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:44.320
Gotta bring the kid to the doctor.
00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:45.840
They're sick again.
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:50.400
They're you know, they're petri dishes, they got the other one sick.
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:53.920
Oh, they got us sick, you know, we get two weeks type thing.
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:54.719
I mean, I don't know.
00:48:54.880 --> 00:49:03.039
It just and just in general, and my work, I thought I think maybe it just helped with priorities.
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:04.239
I don't know.
00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:06.559
But I've heard other people say the same thing.
00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:12.400
It made them more confident, like after they had kids, which is just the most unexpected thing ever.
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:14.079
I just did not Yeah.
00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:18.079
I mean, most people don't go into having kids like I'm gonna do this so that I can become more confident.
00:49:18.480 --> 00:49:19.360
No, no, no, no, no.
00:49:19.519 --> 00:49:22.639
You're like, oh, I'm probably gonna fail at life, you know.
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:25.280
Am I even responsible enough to have a baby?
00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:26.880
I thought should I take a speech class?
00:49:26.960 --> 00:49:27.760
No, I'm gonna have a kid.
00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:28.480
I'm gonna have a kid.
00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:28.880
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:29.760
Well, exactly.
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:33.679
And I few people have said that you get more confidence when you have a kid.
00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:36.480
Her accountant friend was probably like we should have a friend.
00:49:36.800 --> 00:49:38.639
Yeah, no, she wasn't.
00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:46.559
But I mean, you know, we had like I had when I was at UA, we sat next, uh, sat next to Tyler or near Tyler Savage for a little bit.
00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:50.079
I don't know if y'all remember her, but she had four girls.
00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:52.000
And so like she was a few of them.
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:53.440
Really confident, yeah.
00:49:53.599 --> 00:50:01.039
She was a few of our birth control because she was telling us all the crap she was doing 24-7, and we're like, not doing that.
00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:12.000
And then like, yeah, and then I had Saxon and I'm like, huh, I don't know that anybody should have I how I'm I'm a teenager, aren't I?
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:13.199
Like, I'm not 30.
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:15.840
I shouldn't have been able to have a kid, maybe.
00:50:16.079 --> 00:50:22.559
And then lo and behold, like you go into work and you're like, I mean, I don't know, it just something about priorities.
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:37.039
So even if we're having to work late, like I still go home and do like dinner or whatnot, and then whenever I I can get back in and start working later, whether it's at home or back at work, depending on what's preferential for that time.
00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:38.960
And um, I don't know.
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:52.239
We had a waiter today that basically um yeah, Mark and I went and had lunch uh earlier today, and our our waiter just seemingly disappeared, like just was gone for at least 30 minutes, if not 45.
00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:55.280
Just like dropped off the food, yeah, and then we saw nobody.
00:50:55.440 --> 00:50:59.760
And then finally somebody came to get the plates and we're like, Hey, can we you know get the check?
00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:01.519
You know, if you'll let the our our server know.
00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:02.239
And they're like, Okay.
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:06.960
And then our server did show back up and said, Sorry, I had to go pick up my kid from school.
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:12.400
We're like, oh well, that would explain why we haven't seen 45 minutes.
00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:13.679
You got in a car and drove away.
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Drove away.
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:16.079
We we were very grace.
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We just rolled with it.
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:18.000
Yeah, it happened.
00:51:18.159 --> 00:51:18.880
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:24.239
Like, yeah, yeah, like in the middle of her shift, she's like, I went to school and picked up my second grader.
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:25.599
I mean, you gotta get shit on.
00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:27.199
You gotta do what you gotta do.
00:51:27.679 --> 00:51:28.239
Yeah, yeah.
00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:30.559
I mean, and I we told Tracy this earlier.
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:34.159
I mean, to be fair, we did have our food and drinks, like yeah, yeah, you were good.
00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:40.239
Yeah, she she made we were good, but it was just funny that it didn't the table did not get handed to anybody else at all.
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:41.519
No, yeah, no, not at all.
00:51:41.679 --> 00:51:43.360
She didn't be like, hey, I'm gonna go get the kid.
00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:44.719
Can you keep an eye on them?
00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:46.960
That did not happen.
00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:47.679
Yep.
00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:51.360
Uh we're 52 minutes in.
00:51:51.599 --> 00:51:53.760
Um I still have more Chook Island questions.
00:51:54.239 --> 00:51:54.559
Okay, good.
00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:56.719
Yeah, I've got four Dungeons and Dragons.
00:51:56.880 --> 00:51:57.760
Yeah, okay.
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:08.880
Um, I did want to ask, I feel like you had a good one on the I liked the the technology question.
00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:10.079
Where is it, Chad?
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:11.840
Oh god, I don't know what I said.
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:21.760
Well, no, it was interesting just because the way of where you took the answer is oh, how has technology influenced the field of interior design?
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:28.239
Most people answer that question with, and you actually got to it a little bit later in terms of software.
00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:28.800
Yeah.
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:34.000
You approached it as the way technology is and how you have to think about space.
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:34.960
Yeah.
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:36.880
And I just thought that was interesting.
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:43.440
Like just talking about how so much technology is incorporated in the projects and you just have to have to and it's only increasing.
00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:50.079
It's like you almost have to know what technology is gonna be in what room even before you outfit it.
00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:53.440
Because I mean it affects everything, right?
00:52:54.079 --> 00:52:55.519
In terms of like how they're gonna use the space.
00:52:56.079 --> 00:52:59.440
Yeah, I mean, yeah, are you gonna have one monitor?
00:52:59.519 --> 00:53:00.400
Are you gonna have two?
00:53:00.480 --> 00:53:08.880
Are you gonna have a smart screen, which most a lot of people are doing now, and then there's even what have you seen the um Claris?
00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:12.559
They have the I think it's called the Link L Y N K.
00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:19.760
And it has like the white, the backpane glass board around the have y'all seen it?
00:53:20.079 --> 00:53:20.400
I think so.
00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:25.199
I think I have to around the monitor, and it has like the camera and everything, and it's like the coolest thing.
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:37.360
It's just all integrated, which is really smart to me, because you can still go and like use the marker board without having you know, to have like a marker board kind of I guess more spectacle.
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:39.280
How do you plug something into the monitor?
00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:40.079
Do it?
00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:41.760
How do you plug something into the monitor?
00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:43.840
Oh god, I can't remember.
00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:47.760
I remember because that seems to be like, well, I'll do a presentation.
00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:51.280
You go in and they're like, you can't get the connected to the television.
00:53:52.559 --> 00:54:16.960
Well, okay, so what we do whenever we have teens meetings, um we just have them like or if we have like a rep com or you know an L, we have them com and we have them um uh we have our teams link that we send to our whatever conference room and uh have that person join and then they can share screen.
00:54:17.119 --> 00:54:17.440
Right.
00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:19.760
But not everybody does that, obviously.
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:21.039
There was a way to do it.
00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:22.239
I honestly cannot remember.
00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:23.360
Who's their Claris rep?
00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:24.559
Is it Megan?
00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:26.320
It's not Megan.
00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:30.000
Amber.
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:31.360
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:31.840
Yep.
00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:32.079
Okay.
00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:34.400
Uh I can't remember her last name, Amber.
00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:35.920
She's in Atlanta.
00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:37.440
Yeah, I was gonna say they're out of the way.
00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:39.039
Shout out to Claris.
00:54:39.199 --> 00:54:40.400
Yep, shout out to Claris.
00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:40.719
Yeah.
00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:44.239
If they're listening right now, they're like, this is the time you connect.
00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:52.480
Google it, it's the best product ever.
00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:58.000
Because that's what I would be doing if we got 100%.
00:54:58.320 --> 00:54:58.719
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:00.159
Oh difficult right now.
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:01.440
Yeah, it's not.
00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:02.880
But I haven't used it yet.
00:55:02.960 --> 00:55:03.840
I've tried.
00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:05.280
So I have to get people on board.
00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:06.800
So it's probably super expensive.
00:55:08.320 --> 00:55:09.920
Oh, 100% yes.
00:55:10.639 --> 00:55:11.760
It's completely off.
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:15.519
I don't know if we have any Atlanta lists in this.
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:15.920
It's fine.
00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:17.840
But some people, I mean, you know.
00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:18.320
Yeah.
00:55:18.559 --> 00:55:18.960
Hey.
00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:20.239
It's if it's really cool.
00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:25.280
But if you think about it, like it's just a small chunk of whatever the building costs.
00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:25.679
Right.
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:27.840
Percentage costs at percentage.
00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:30.800
Yeah, you're obviously spending a lot of money already on the building.
00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:39.119
If you're building a building, or if you're purchasing this, you are spending, you know, this is gonna be, you know, points of a percentage, right?
00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:42.400
Like, that's that's what I talk about when people are like they're furniture.
00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:44.239
It's like, think how much you spent on the building.
00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:45.119
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:46.639
You can afford this chair.
00:55:46.960 --> 00:55:47.119
Yeah.
00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:50.000
What is, you know,$2,000 more dollars?
00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:50.159
Right.
00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:50.559
Right.
00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:50.719
Yeah.
00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:52.159
That's I mean, shh.
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:55.280
That sounds like a conversation with my wife.
00:55:56.079 --> 00:55:56.400
All right.
00:55:56.559 --> 00:55:58.480
Well, we're already doing this.
00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:02.400
Why would we not just build a pool?
00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:03.760
Are you guys building a pool?
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:04.880
She wants one so far.
00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:05.599
Does she really?
00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:08.719
Why can't we finish the damn kitchen first?
00:56:11.119 --> 00:56:12.079
Pools are easier to do that.
00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:15.760
I do happy wife, happy life.
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:16.320
I do.
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:17.760
I do go with what she says.
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:20.000
That's why we have two cats and now a house.
00:56:20.159 --> 00:56:20.880
So, you know.
00:56:21.280 --> 00:56:22.000
We have three cats.
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:24.079
Oh, no need to brag, Tracy.
00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:24.480
Yeah.
00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:27.119
I only have two cats and a dog.
00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:28.719
We just got the third.
00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:30.239
She showed up at work.
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:32.159
And then you took her home?
00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:33.280
Yeah.
00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:34.960
She's nodding.
00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:35.440
Yeah.
00:56:35.679 --> 00:56:37.360
She had a collar on, you like cut that all.
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:39.199
Oh, she was a kitten.
00:56:39.599 --> 00:56:52.960
And her name was um, I was like, oh, we can name her um Sherlock if she's a boy, and Shirley if she's a girl, and then I brought her home and Saxon was like, she's gonna be named um what do you say, Rocket Blast.
00:56:55.360 --> 00:57:01.840
And then he just changed it to Sabretooth, and we're like, okay, well, we found out she's a girl already, maybe Sabrina Sabretooth.
00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:03.599
So her name is Sabrina Sabretooth.
00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:04.239
Okay.
00:57:04.559 --> 00:57:05.039
Yeah.
00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:08.159
Does he call her Sabretooth or does he call her or Saber?
00:57:08.559 --> 00:57:09.360
Sabrina.
00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:12.400
He calls her Sabrina Sabretooth or Sabrina.
00:57:12.639 --> 00:57:13.679
I like Rocket Blast.
00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:15.280
Yeah, yeah.
00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:21.440
And then Heidi calls her Brina or Brina Baby or Kitty Baby.
00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:22.719
And yeah.
00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:23.440
Mm-hmm.
00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:23.840
Yeah.
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:26.559
This is what happens with the the pets though, right?
00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:30.960
They just get like you get a name and then they get a nickname and they spread their nicknames.
00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:31.679
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:35.039
I won't reveal all of our cats' nicknames, I promise.
00:57:35.199 --> 00:57:41.280
But the newest one for Ernest is um for whatever reason the other night, uh, it came to me again, there was a reason.
00:57:41.360 --> 00:57:41.599
Yeah.
00:57:41.760 --> 00:57:47.519
But it was like gangster, and I was like, you know, if Ernest was a gangster, like a like a mob nickname, he would be Ernest Allright.
00:57:48.079 --> 00:57:48.719
Yeah.
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:50.320
Chad is like, what?
00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:51.840
Yeah, I don't know what's going on.
00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:52.960
Ernest Alright.
00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:54.719
Well, we have a Rafi cat.
00:57:54.800 --> 00:57:55.199
He's alright.
00:57:56.400 --> 00:57:57.440
Yeah, no, I do.
00:57:57.679 --> 00:58:00.079
And his his name is Rafi, R-A-F-I.
00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:04.159
But for long, his name is Raphael Ulysses.
00:58:04.480 --> 00:58:07.360
Yeah, I'm saying that's his that's his that's his name on his birth certificate.
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:08.000
Okay, gotcha.
00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:08.320
Getcha.
00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:09.199
But no, no, no, no, no.
00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:10.639
Rafi's on his birth certificate.
00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:11.119
Oh.
00:58:11.760 --> 00:58:12.800
This is for long.
00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:24.400
We joked about like earlier before we started recording that no one's ever gotten up during a show to like go to the dad is about the we'll just keep talking, Tracy.
00:58:24.639 --> 00:58:25.360
We'll keep going.
00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:29.840
We'll we'll wrap it now, and then we're just gonna talk about uh pet names.
00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:31.360
Rapid fire?
00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:32.000
Rapid fire.
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:32.960
Rapid fire.
00:58:33.280 --> 00:58:33.519
All right.
00:58:33.840 --> 00:58:37.360
What's your ideal Saturday with nothing planned?
00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:39.599
She's like, I have two kids.
00:58:40.079 --> 00:58:40.400
Three kids.
00:58:40.639 --> 00:58:41.440
She's like, that never happened.
00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:45.119
Um yeah, push the kids off on someone.
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:46.239
Yeah, okay.
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:49.840
Uh do nothing, have like total silence for a while.
00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:55.440
Or hang out with my kids and you know, do art projects.
00:58:55.679 --> 00:58:56.159
There you go.
00:58:56.239 --> 00:58:56.480
See.
00:58:56.719 --> 00:58:57.039
I don't know.
00:58:57.199 --> 00:58:57.840
One or the other.
00:58:58.079 --> 00:58:58.800
One or the other.
00:58:58.960 --> 00:58:59.280
Okay.
00:58:59.760 --> 00:59:01.039
One's more likely than the other.
00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:03.519
Yeah, Chad doesn't like that answer.
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:08.719
Yeah, it's neither one.
00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:10.239
It's fine.
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:12.239
I'll accept it.
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:16.719
If you were a care bear, which one would you be?
00:59:18.480 --> 00:59:19.920
I don't know what their names are.
00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:21.280
I just make up one.
00:59:21.519 --> 00:59:27.840
Um they're all kind of like, you know, they have their their thing on their belly that tells kind of their personality.
00:59:28.159 --> 00:59:29.920
Well, my initials are TLC.
00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:31.440
Can we just TLC bear?
00:59:31.679 --> 00:59:31.840
Really?
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:32.239
Yeah.
00:59:33.119 --> 00:59:33.360
Yeah.
00:59:33.760 --> 00:59:33.920
Okay.
00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:39.039
I think there's a heart care bear.
00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:39.679
There is.
00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:40.480
Yeah.
00:59:41.039 --> 00:59:47.840
Um what are you completely over right now?
00:59:49.119 --> 00:59:50.880
Like, what are you just like you're done with?
00:59:51.199 --> 00:59:51.920
Pokemon.
00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:53.679
Yeah.
00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:54.880
We talked a little bit about it.
00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:56.960
We did it earlier before we started recording.
00:59:57.119 --> 00:59:57.360
Yeah.
00:59:57.599 --> 00:59:58.960
Oh, Pokemon, yeah.
00:59:59.119 --> 00:59:59.920
Everything.
01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:01.360
I don't know.
01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:03.599
Anything related to Pokemon?
01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:05.440
Anything starting with the letter P?
01:00:05.599 --> 01:00:06.960
Anything that's yellow?
01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:08.320
Yeah.
01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:09.840
If it looks like a Pikachu.
01:00:10.719 --> 01:00:10.960
Yeah.
01:00:11.679 --> 01:00:12.400
Or Mewtwo.
01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:15.599
I'm gonna cross out my Pokemon follow-up questions.
01:00:16.719 --> 01:00:18.000
Yeah, I don't know.
01:00:18.239 --> 01:00:18.719
Uh yeah.
01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:19.280
That works.
01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:19.920
Okay, Pokemon.
01:00:20.079 --> 01:00:20.480
Pokemon works.
01:00:21.360 --> 01:00:23.840
What is your guilty snack item?
01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:27.280
Cookies, chocolate chip cookies, if I don't have one a day.
01:00:27.599 --> 01:00:28.800
Oh, one a day?
01:00:29.039 --> 01:00:29.679
Oh yeah.
01:00:29.920 --> 01:00:30.239
Okay.
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:30.639
Yeah.
01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:33.840
I mean, should everybody what type from where?
01:00:33.920 --> 01:00:34.880
Where do you get your chocolates?
01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:36.320
The best ones here now.
01:00:36.719 --> 01:00:39.119
Like if you're having one a day, you have you have thoughts on this.
01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:42.559
I do have thoughts on this because they need to be worth the calories, right?
01:00:42.719 --> 01:00:42.880
Right?
01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:43.039
Yeah.
01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:46.800
So Vintage Cafe has some really good chocolate chip cookies.
01:00:46.960 --> 01:00:52.719
With that said, if we're in Birmingham, I like Church Street Coffee Shop The Breakup Cookie.
01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:53.280
Okay.
01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:57.199
And you can actually buy the frozen ones now here at Rosemont Gardens.
01:00:57.440 --> 01:00:58.719
And they're just as good.
01:00:59.440 --> 01:01:01.599
So these are like legit chocolate chip cookies.
01:01:01.679 --> 01:01:04.480
This is not like you're going to the grocery store and buying chips ahoy.
01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:05.519
Yeah, no.
01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:07.280
Wow, I thought she was gonna hit me.
01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:11.360
Yeah, at this point, mm-mm.
01:01:11.679 --> 01:01:12.559
No more TLC.
01:01:12.719 --> 01:01:15.199
She just is much higher than the keep or elves.
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:16.480
This is another level.
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:16.960
Yeah.
01:01:17.039 --> 01:01:17.199
Yeah.
01:01:17.440 --> 01:01:18.320
I need a good one.
01:01:18.559 --> 01:01:20.079
And I will take them from my kids.
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:22.639
Because they're there occasionally we'll get cookies.
01:01:22.719 --> 01:01:33.199
Uh actually every week my wife, when she gets uh the groceries, show up there'd be desserts, and usually there's some cookies and there's chocolate chip cookies, but they're just like Publix or whatever.
01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:35.119
Basic.
01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:36.000
They're not that good.
01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:39.360
Like I They're okay, they're fine for a chocolate chip cookie, but it's like to the thing.
01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:42.079
Vegan ones are actually better than the other ones.
01:01:42.159 --> 01:01:42.320
Okay.
01:01:42.719 --> 01:01:44.079
Which sounds weird, I promise.
01:01:44.159 --> 01:01:45.760
But they are like Publix brands.
01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:49.679
Publix vegan ones are better than the other ones because the other ones kind of suck.
01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:50.400
Yeah, they do.
01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:54.239
And I eat you might as well get one and be just like, this isn't wasn't worth that.
01:01:54.480 --> 01:01:54.639
No.
01:01:54.800 --> 01:01:54.960
Yeah.
01:01:55.119 --> 01:01:56.079
No, it's not.
01:01:56.400 --> 01:01:57.119
Interesting.
01:01:57.599 --> 01:02:01.920
If y'all are in Birmingham, I'm sure you've you've had breakup cookies, right?
01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:03.760
Y'all will have breakup cookies.
01:02:03.920 --> 01:02:04.320
We will now.
01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:04.800
There you go.
01:02:05.119 --> 01:02:05.599
Yeah, we will.
01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:08.800
We're gonna go over to Church Street and get some breakup cookies.
01:02:09.199 --> 01:02:09.599
Together.
01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:10.159
Together.
01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:10.800
Together.
01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:11.599
Yeah.
01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:13.599
We should do a podcast there.
01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:14.480
Just set up.
01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:15.280
You should.
01:02:15.599 --> 01:02:16.960
Just be like they'd be like, what are y'all doing?
01:02:17.519 --> 01:02:18.320
We're advertising for you.
01:02:18.719 --> 01:02:19.920
We're talking about breakup cookies.
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:21.280
Give it a rest.
01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:21.920
Yeah.
01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:25.760
Uh, what's something you've changed your mind about recently?
01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:29.760
She wasn't gonna do the podcast and then she decided to do it again.
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:30.719
Exactly.
01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:32.000
I don't know.
01:02:32.159 --> 01:02:33.199
That's a weird question.
01:02:33.360 --> 01:02:36.719
Is it what's something I've changed my mind about recently?
01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:41.519
Um honestly, I don't know.
01:02:41.760 --> 01:02:42.719
You are setting your ways.
01:02:42.880 --> 01:02:44.960
No, I mean she's decisive.
01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:51.679
Sometimes, but sometimes no, but lately I feel like I've been more decisive, and sometimes I I don't know.
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:53.199
Change my mind a lot.
01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:53.679
I don't know.
01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:55.840
Did you have to talk yourself into doing this show?
01:02:55.920 --> 01:02:56.719
Like, yeah.
01:02:57.039 --> 01:02:58.719
You were like, ah, like shit, they've asked.
01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:00.239
Right.
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:01.280
I was coming together.
01:03:01.519 --> 01:03:02.079
50-50.
01:03:02.239 --> 01:03:03.360
50-50, you know?
01:03:03.440 --> 01:03:05.679
It's kind of like, okay.
01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:07.920
But then it could be fun.
01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:10.880
And it's, I mean, I I've listened to it, it's fun.
01:03:11.119 --> 01:03:13.039
So are you having fun now?
01:03:13.280 --> 01:03:13.920
Yes.
01:03:16.320 --> 01:03:16.800
Yes.
01:03:17.119 --> 01:03:17.679
As a whole.
01:03:18.800 --> 01:03:19.280
As a whole.
01:03:20.480 --> 01:03:23.679
If I were to range the hour.
01:03:23.840 --> 01:03:24.239
Yeah.
01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:24.880
Yes.
01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:26.079
I would round up.
01:03:26.239 --> 01:03:26.400
Yeah.
01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:27.280
Yeah.
01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:31.679
If you could repeat one day over and over again, what day would it be?
01:03:35.360 --> 01:03:38.719
Um kids' birthday party days.
01:03:39.679 --> 01:03:39.920
Yeah.
01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:46.239
We discussed this a little bit before we started recording, and you your face lit up and you were like, oh, they're so much fun.
01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:46.800
Yeah.
01:03:46.960 --> 01:03:50.079
It's I mean, it's equal to wedding day or more.
01:03:50.639 --> 01:03:59.360
Like, which probably is it the birthday party itself or is it the the the planning and it's the planning, it's the creativity.
01:03:59.519 --> 01:04:05.920
I literally, so their birthdays are in the end of April and early May, so like a week apart.
01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:08.400
And I have to do that.
01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:09.599
And so right now you're doing joint.
01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:10.960
You're doing joint birthday parties.
01:04:12.079 --> 01:04:12.320
Yeah.
01:04:12.639 --> 01:04:23.599
The first one for Heidi, we did a set like uh one Sunday and then the Saturday for prior Saturday for his, but since it was her first.
01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:25.599
But yeah, it is so much fun.
01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:29.519
I get the things together by like January.
01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:39.599
I have a nail down, I have plans, and then I put give everybody task, and then I will redo their task if I need to.
01:04:39.920 --> 01:04:47.039
When you say, let's start with everybody, who who's who's on this list of everybody that has she contacts me.
01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:48.320
Yeah, exactly.
01:04:48.559 --> 01:04:49.760
So that's a long list.
01:04:50.079 --> 01:04:51.119
It it depends.
01:04:51.440 --> 01:05:02.880
So um usually my in-laws come and so I give them tasks, but I give them you know things that they can do that I that I think they will not be listening to this that I think they can do.
01:05:03.119 --> 01:05:03.440
Yeah, okay.
01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:06.880
Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't, and I just pass it on to the other.
01:05:07.039 --> 01:05:10.480
But these aren't important things, these are not these are not critical things.
01:05:10.800 --> 01:05:12.159
Well, they need to happen.
01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:12.719
Okay.
01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:18.400
And then I have Byron kind of complaining about like, like, Tracy, we're not doing this right now.
01:05:18.480 --> 01:05:20.000
Like, yes, you are, yes.
01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:26.880
And then um, my parents, obviously, because you know, big plans, like I embroidered Heidi's little leotard.
01:05:27.039 --> 01:05:33.440
She had it leotard that's a dancing queen, and then it had like little pearls on it, and yeah, I had a lot of fun with that.
01:05:33.599 --> 01:05:48.400
And um, yeah, and Saxon making his like cutting out his whole um Byron's whole uh Starscream thing because this year it was Transformers Transformers and Dancing Queen.
01:05:48.719 --> 01:05:49.119
Yeah.
01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:52.960
So um yeah, I don't know.
01:05:53.039 --> 01:05:53.679
It's fun.
01:05:54.239 --> 01:05:59.519
Do you see that as a a side hustle at some point where you're coordinating these or for other people?
01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:00.480
No.
01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:01.039
Okay.
01:06:02.320 --> 01:06:02.639
No.
01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:04.320
I don't want to work with other people.
01:06:04.559 --> 01:06:17.519
I I'm okay with my ideas and not having to answer to anybody except for I was this thing like creating like a kitten ideas or something like here's a Yeah, see it would, but then She's like, that's not a bad idea, Jack.
01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:23.760
But all the stuff gets torn up after, you know, like if you have a role.
01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:33.519
Like the yeah, because it was the the things that you were telling us before we started recording regarding the transformers and all the little ideas.
01:06:33.679 --> 01:06:33.920
Yeah.
01:06:34.239 --> 01:06:34.880
Those were great.
01:06:35.119 --> 01:06:37.599
And so I was just thinking like you could package it, like these are.
01:06:38.480 --> 01:06:38.800
Yeah.
01:06:39.360 --> 01:06:41.199
And I don't know, maybe that could happen.
01:06:41.360 --> 01:06:44.719
I just would have to like have time to like think about that.
01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:47.039
And when you have kids that age, you have plenty of free time.
01:06:47.360 --> 01:06:47.679
Plenty.
01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:48.400
Oh yeah.
01:06:48.639 --> 01:06:50.960
Abundant, abundant free time.
01:06:51.039 --> 01:06:51.679
So you know.
01:06:52.239 --> 01:06:53.599
Yeah, we're golden on free time.
01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:54.719
So this isn't gonna happen.
01:06:54.880 --> 01:06:55.599
All right, next question.
01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:57.119
Yeah, it's not gonna happen.
01:06:57.599 --> 01:06:59.519
Um I'm gonna take it back to design a little bit.
01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:04.079
So this podcast also is informative to people most of the time.
01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:08.159
Um, so what's something reps should do less of?
01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:14.880
You can name names if you would like to color paint the picture or not.
01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:16.559
Maybe not dress as nice.
01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:18.400
Stop dressing so nice.
01:07:18.480 --> 01:07:21.440
Yeah, stop coming down here to Montgomery and looking so good.
01:07:22.159 --> 01:07:23.840
Don't come down to the gump looking nice.
01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:24.800
Yeah, not a pregnant.
01:07:27.679 --> 01:07:28.000
Yeah.
01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:29.760
Spooky sweater.
01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:31.599
No, I just tend to dress up a little more.
01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:32.239
I don't know.
01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:35.599
Like, for the most part, and this is I don't know.
01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:39.519
I I think most of our reps are really pretty great.
01:07:39.760 --> 01:07:52.960
There's just a select few that maybe aren't the best, but like they really, I mean, as a whole, I feel like like our carpet reps are great, our you know, our flooring reps are great, furniture people.
01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:54.159
I I don't know.
01:07:54.239 --> 01:07:58.880
I just does anyone ever bring you public's chocolate chip cookies?
01:07:59.199 --> 01:08:02.239
We have been brought um many different things.
01:08:02.480 --> 01:08:02.719
Okay.
01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:05.920
I think maybe, which is fine.
01:08:06.239 --> 01:08:07.199
Chad and I want to know.
01:08:07.679 --> 01:08:14.000
I never like uh like six months from now, we want to know what reps bring that bring you chocolate chip cookies.
01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:14.559
Oh, yeah.
01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:17.279
Because that way we'll know who's to the show.
01:08:17.600 --> 01:08:17.920
That's right.
01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:18.800
Oh yeah.
01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:19.279
Yeah, yeah.
01:08:19.439 --> 01:08:21.279
And the good and the good chocolate chip cookies.
01:08:21.439 --> 01:08:25.520
And the good chocolate cookies because I can already tell you, and I won't say.
01:08:25.920 --> 01:08:26.319
Yeah.
01:08:26.720 --> 01:08:30.079
There's at least one rep that's gonna bring you some good chocolate chip cookies.
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:31.199
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:08:31.279 --> 01:08:31.520
I know.
01:08:31.840 --> 01:08:32.159
Guaranteed.
01:08:32.319 --> 01:08:32.479
Yep.
01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:32.880
Guaranteed.
01:08:33.199 --> 01:08:33.359
Okay.
01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:34.720
So yeah.
01:08:35.119 --> 01:08:37.439
What where is your happy place?
01:08:39.119 --> 01:08:45.680
Um yeah, like sitting in my never been, but yeah, no.
01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:52.800
Sitting in my bed listening to a book doing like old lady hobbies and poundry or whatever it is.
01:08:53.119 --> 01:08:53.359
Perfect.
01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:54.000
At the moment.
01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:54.319
Yeah.
01:08:54.560 --> 01:08:54.720
Right.
01:08:54.800 --> 01:08:58.479
So you got you got your book going, you're in a comfortable comfortable place, you're doing your hobbies.
01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:00.960
Yeah, comfy clothes, you know, whole thing.
01:09:01.039 --> 01:09:03.279
I'm just in a no dressed up reps around.
01:09:03.439 --> 01:09:05.039
No, no dress up anybody.
01:09:05.199 --> 01:09:06.640
Hopefully the kids are asleep.
01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:08.000
That would be preferable.
01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:08.560
Yes.
01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:12.399
Um, or I could be like out in the little park doing that, that's fine.
01:09:12.640 --> 01:09:16.880
But yeah, just like nice.
01:09:17.439 --> 01:09:22.720
What's your most used app on your phone that is not email or text?
01:09:26.159 --> 01:09:27.199
Probably Instagram.
01:09:27.760 --> 01:09:28.000
Okay.
01:09:28.319 --> 01:09:30.479
You said that like Yeah, she's got a face.
01:09:31.119 --> 01:09:42.800
Yeah, I try to take like get it off my phone like a few months every year just because it gets too much and I feel like I'm too addicted to it, and then I put it back on, and I really am at that place where I need to take it off again.
01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:52.880
So yeah, I um yeah, I mean, I don't really do, I don't post much on there, I don't do much, but like you just get sucked into the scrolling and the video audio.
01:09:53.600 --> 01:09:55.039
Yeah, it's like addicting.
01:09:55.119 --> 01:09:56.319
So they know what they're doing.
01:09:56.479 --> 01:09:56.800
They do.
01:09:56.960 --> 01:09:57.680
They do.
01:09:58.079 --> 01:09:58.880
Yeah, okay.
01:09:59.039 --> 01:10:06.239
All right, well this episode's not brought to you by Instagram and stuff, but we will post this episode on Instagram.
01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:11.039
Instagram you can better than Facebook, though, let's be honest.
01:10:11.279 --> 01:10:11.600
For real.
01:10:11.680 --> 01:10:12.640
Oh well, way better.
01:10:12.880 --> 01:10:16.560
All right, uh, my final one, you win a hundred thousand dollars.
01:10:17.439 --> 01:10:18.000
And that's it.
01:10:18.079 --> 01:10:19.199
That's that's there's no question.
01:10:19.359 --> 01:10:19.520
No.
01:10:20.319 --> 01:10:22.479
What would you spend the money on?
01:10:25.359 --> 01:10:32.560
Um, I mean she's trying not to be selfish.
01:10:32.880 --> 01:10:34.560
Yeah, like I can tell.
01:10:34.800 --> 01:10:35.439
I can tell.
01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:39.119
We are probably at that point where we're gonna need new cars pretty soon.
01:10:39.520 --> 01:10:42.640
Or, you know, we're pushing 200 on both.
01:10:42.960 --> 01:10:44.159
Dang, way to go.
01:10:44.239 --> 01:10:44.479
Yeah.
01:10:44.640 --> 01:10:45.119
That's impressive.
01:10:45.439 --> 01:10:46.960
Herb the Honda is a beast, man.
01:10:47.279 --> 01:10:48.000
Herb the Honda.
01:10:48.239 --> 01:10:49.119
Herb the Honda.
01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:52.560
Um I don't know.
01:10:52.640 --> 01:10:58.960
I think it'd be cool though to be able to like give back to like everybody.
01:10:59.279 --> 01:10:59.600
I know.
01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:01.039
Time out.
01:11:01.359 --> 01:11:02.319
I do, seriously.
01:11:02.399 --> 01:11:03.199
I thought about it.
01:11:03.359 --> 01:11:08.399
What could you spend a hundred grand on if there was no judgment or repercussions?
01:11:08.479 --> 01:11:11.439
You're just and and everyone else is doing awesome.
01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:12.399
And everyone is doing awesome.
01:11:12.560 --> 01:11:14.079
Okay, everyone else is doing awesome.
01:11:14.399 --> 01:11:15.039
Yeah.
01:11:15.439 --> 01:11:22.239
I mean, probably just I don't know, new cars, payoffs.
01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:23.680
I I don't know.
01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:25.039
She's still being practical.
01:11:25.279 --> 01:11:25.680
She is practical.
01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:28.159
I'm not like I I don't know.
01:11:28.720 --> 01:11:29.439
This is not a bad thing.
01:11:29.760 --> 01:11:31.199
I'm not a big gift person either.
01:11:31.279 --> 01:11:35.600
Like, I just don't really, you know, I'm not great at giving gifts, and I'm not great at same.
01:11:35.680 --> 01:11:37.760
I'm not, I'm not a it's just not my thing.
01:11:37.920 --> 01:11:39.199
It's not my love language.
01:11:39.439 --> 01:11:42.720
I'm more of like acts of service or the other one.
01:11:42.880 --> 01:11:43.840
I can't remember now.
01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:47.199
Uh you would take everyone out to dinner.
01:11:48.079 --> 01:11:48.319
No.
01:11:48.720 --> 01:11:48.880
No.
01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:50.399
No, she's just not anything.
01:11:50.560 --> 01:11:51.680
She was like, Yeah.
01:11:51.840 --> 01:11:52.079
No.
01:11:52.479 --> 01:11:52.800
New cars.
01:11:52.880 --> 01:11:53.439
New cars.
01:11:53.600 --> 01:11:54.640
New cars, new cars.
01:11:54.800 --> 01:11:56.319
Two two nice new cars.
01:11:56.640 --> 01:11:57.119
That would, yeah.
01:11:57.439 --> 01:11:58.800
One wine fuel car.
01:11:59.039 --> 01:11:59.840
Fuel efficient.
01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:00.800
Fuel efficient.
01:12:01.039 --> 01:12:03.119
One fuel efficient new car.
01:12:03.600 --> 01:12:03.840
Two.
01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:04.640
Why not two?
01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:04.960
Yeah.
01:12:05.119 --> 01:12:06.079
Well, no, two would be great.
01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:07.279
Yeah, two fuel efficient.
01:12:07.680 --> 01:12:09.119
I'm just trying to get rid of sport a little bit.
01:12:11.279 --> 01:12:12.159
But they're expensive now.
01:12:13.039 --> 01:12:14.640
You would pay if it was a hundred thousand.
01:12:14.720 --> 01:12:17.520
I mean, even the minivans are expensive.
01:12:17.680 --> 01:12:20.720
They're like pushing what 50k sometimes.
01:12:20.960 --> 01:12:24.159
And but I don't know if they're expensive.
01:12:24.319 --> 01:12:24.560
Yeah.
01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:27.359
So like that doesn't go as far as it used to.
01:12:27.600 --> 01:12:27.920
True.
01:12:28.159 --> 01:12:29.520
Maybe you need to up that number.
01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:34.159
All right.
01:12:35.520 --> 01:12:36.960
You have 300,000.
01:12:37.199 --> 01:12:38.239
There you go.
01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:41.680
What do you know three of that?
01:12:42.079 --> 01:12:45.119
You are forbidden at giving any of it to charity.
01:12:46.159 --> 01:12:46.560
Yeah.
01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:48.800
Even though there are lots of needy people.
01:12:50.159 --> 01:12:50.800
Yeah.
01:12:54.479 --> 01:12:54.960
All right.
01:12:55.520 --> 01:12:58.479
So you have two really nice minimans.
01:12:59.039 --> 01:12:59.520
Well, yeah.
01:12:59.760 --> 01:13:02.319
See the Toyota one is um hybrid.
01:13:02.720 --> 01:13:03.039
Okay.
01:13:03.439 --> 01:13:08.640
So like it's like 35 gas mileage either way, city and highway.
01:13:09.039 --> 01:13:11.279
So that would be the car I would choose for me.
01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:18.000
What's great about I am interrupting because this first time question you've ever asked is it's been great.
01:13:18.159 --> 01:13:19.439
It also bombed.
01:13:20.159 --> 01:13:20.800
It bombed.
01:13:21.039 --> 01:13:23.279
We'll see how it works out next time.
01:13:24.399 --> 01:13:26.319
Well, only because you're so practical and sweet.
01:13:26.399 --> 01:13:35.119
Like you're just like trying to be so and I just want you to know I want to go to Vegas and blow all the money, or I want to like go hella ski in Canada.
01:13:35.760 --> 01:13:38.239
But she's not at that stage of life.
01:13:38.319 --> 01:13:39.680
She's got two young kids.
01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:40.800
Yeah, very responsible for the kids.
01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:44.000
I don't know.
01:13:44.079 --> 01:13:49.760
It would be cool to go to like honestly, we'd be cool to like move somewhere in Europe or some I don't know.
01:13:49.840 --> 01:13:50.880
But there you go.
01:13:51.680 --> 01:13:54.720
I think you I think you could probably buy Chook Island for$100,000.
01:13:55.119 --> 01:13:56.239
Yeah, maybe.
01:13:57.840 --> 01:13:59.760
But yeah, I don't know.
01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:04.479
What if we get because we can track the the the the listener locations.
01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:05.760
See if Chook shows up.
01:14:06.640 --> 01:14:07.600
Yeah, that'd be kind of cool.
01:14:07.760 --> 01:14:08.640
That would be cool.
01:14:08.960 --> 01:14:10.159
Do you know anybody there?
01:14:10.319 --> 01:14:11.199
You can send the link to.
01:14:12.239 --> 01:14:15.279
Just I didn't go there in person.
01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:17.119
I was just virtual on those calls.
01:14:17.199 --> 01:14:19.439
So you don't even know if it exists.
01:14:19.920 --> 01:14:21.199
Supposedly it does.
01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:21.680
Yeah.
01:14:22.239 --> 01:14:24.880
Doesn't have yeah, the hotel's not great.
01:14:26.319 --> 01:14:28.960
Carla went sound for that one, so yeah.
01:14:29.279 --> 01:14:30.880
Well when we have her on.
01:14:31.199 --> 01:14:31.520
Yeah.
01:14:31.680 --> 01:14:31.920
Yeah.
01:14:32.239 --> 01:14:33.279
You'll have to ask her about it.
01:14:33.359 --> 01:14:33.520
Yeah.
01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:34.000
Yes.
01:14:34.159 --> 01:14:34.880
In like a year.
01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:35.199
Yeah.
01:14:35.439 --> 01:14:36.479
And then you come back.
01:14:36.720 --> 01:14:37.039
All right.
01:14:37.119 --> 01:14:39.600
Um you can't come back to the comp before a year.
01:14:40.319 --> 01:14:40.640
Yeah.
01:14:41.439 --> 01:14:44.960
Um, so we usually finish these off with a custom song.
01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:45.520
Okay.
01:14:45.760 --> 01:14:50.479
Um, what genre of music would you prefer pick the song to be in?
01:14:52.319 --> 01:14:52.960
Bluegrass.
01:14:53.199 --> 01:14:53.680
Bluegrass?
01:14:53.920 --> 01:14:54.000
Yeah.
01:14:54.960 --> 01:14:55.680
Are you sure?
01:14:56.000 --> 01:14:56.960
Sure, why not?
01:14:57.199 --> 01:14:58.640
I think it'd be funny.
01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:02.880
I know Mickey's continued he wants what was it?
01:15:03.600 --> 01:15:04.319
Was it opera?
01:15:05.439 --> 01:15:07.199
Maybe it was yeah, opera, maybe.
01:15:07.680 --> 01:15:11.600
I mean I think of like uh church music or it wasn't, I think it was opera.
01:15:12.079 --> 01:15:14.720
You just wanted somebody to pick that or a Gregorian chant.
01:15:16.880 --> 01:15:17.760
Bluegrass.
01:15:17.840 --> 01:15:18.000
Okay.
01:15:18.319 --> 01:15:23.520
And uh what should the um the chorus be?
01:15:24.399 --> 01:15:25.119
What thing?
01:15:25.520 --> 01:15:30.239
No, the like the chorus, the lyric, the chorus line, like the repeating line.
01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:32.399
Some transformers, obviously.
01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:33.359
Oh, of course yeah.
01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:34.560
Transformers.
01:15:35.520 --> 01:15:38.319
Transforming into two practical cars.
01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:48.239
I think you should take a uh do bluegrass, uh, or you should incorporate something from ABBA.
01:15:48.720 --> 01:15:56.399
Some sort of dancing queen, dancing queen, dancing queen, bluegrass, transformers, or just do ABBA transformer.
01:15:56.640 --> 01:15:57.199
Yeah, whichever.
01:15:57.279 --> 01:15:57.760
It doesn't matter.
01:15:58.079 --> 01:15:59.359
A Japanese shout-out.
01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:03.359
So a disco transformer song.
01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:04.479
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:08.720
Okay, well that's really funny, but like But I'm not bluegrass.
01:16:08.960 --> 01:16:10.880
No, I'm sticking with bluegrass.
01:16:11.359 --> 01:16:17.760
We finished a project in at UA, um, like finally got the as built and everything, everything done.
01:16:17.840 --> 01:16:27.760
And the PM, it was um the architect was out of Iowa, the prime on the project, and she sent Carla and me like a song that I guess she did through AI.
01:16:27.840 --> 01:16:28.079
Yeah.
01:16:28.159 --> 01:16:28.560
Mm-hmm.
01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:32.319
About like how she thought the project was and everything.
01:16:32.479 --> 01:16:33.520
It just made me, you know.
01:16:33.840 --> 01:16:34.720
She probably listened to the show.
01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:35.439
She got it.
01:16:35.600 --> 01:16:37.680
She probably listened to the show until she's in Iowa.
01:16:37.840 --> 01:16:38.079
Yeah.
01:16:38.399 --> 01:16:38.720
Yeah.
01:16:38.960 --> 01:16:45.520
I do there's our there's um I've seen some news stories about it where people will take um text messages, like the thread.
01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:46.479
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:16:47.680 --> 01:16:51.680
And turn and just feed that in and have it make a song out of the which is pretty funny.
01:16:51.760 --> 01:16:51.920
Yeah.
01:16:52.560 --> 01:16:52.880
Yeah.
01:16:53.039 --> 01:16:53.279
Yeah.
01:16:53.760 --> 01:16:54.079
All right.
01:16:54.159 --> 01:16:55.760
We got our we got all our song things.
01:16:55.920 --> 01:16:56.560
I think we got it.
01:16:56.640 --> 01:16:57.119
Yeah.
01:16:57.359 --> 01:16:57.760
Great.
01:16:57.920 --> 01:16:59.359
Well, thank you so much for coming on.
01:16:59.600 --> 01:17:00.000
Thank you.
01:17:01.840 --> 01:17:03.439
I hope you had fun for part of it.
01:17:03.680 --> 01:17:04.960
Yes, it was fun.
01:17:05.199 --> 01:17:06.399
You laughed in the beginning.
01:17:06.479 --> 01:17:07.520
You're still laughing now.
01:17:07.920 --> 01:17:08.640
It's more nervous.
01:17:08.720 --> 01:17:09.119
Yeah, I don't know.
01:17:09.199 --> 01:17:10.720
It's it's an awkward laugh.
01:17:10.880 --> 01:17:11.119
Yeah.
01:17:11.199 --> 01:17:12.800
She's like, she's like, I did it.
01:17:12.960 --> 01:17:13.760
She's like, I'm out of here.
01:17:14.720 --> 01:17:14.880
Yeah.
01:17:15.039 --> 01:17:15.279
Yeah.
01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:16.399
Uh thanks, Jesse.
01:17:16.560 --> 01:17:16.880
You were great.
01:17:17.119 --> 01:17:17.279
Thank you.
01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:18.720
All right, thank you.