Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:10] Speaker B: Welcome back to the she Said podcast with amy and Lisa. Number 47 have.
[00:00:16] Speaker A: I feel like I don't have anything off the top of my head.
[00:00:18] Speaker B: So this is like, wow, that's unusual for you.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: I know, I know. I've been working and put a house under contract.
I don't know, last night, maybe around midnight.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: So, yeah, I want to talk about that because when you texted me this morning and said that, I'm like, how are you selling a house at midnight, man? Does that work?
[00:00:36] Speaker A: Just keep working until you have it done.
[00:00:39] Speaker B: So they agree?
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I have clients that'll. Yes.
I don't stop at 5 o'.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: Clock.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: I mean, I. And some. Some realtors do. They're like seven o'.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: Clock.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: And, you know, kudos to them. But sometimes time is of the essence.
And, you know, if there's multiple offer situations, I mean, you want a realtor who is willing to push through and to get it done.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: So they text you at midnight or how does that work?
[00:01:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I've had lots of people text me at midnight.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: So they just decided, yes, let's do it. We want it.
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you just got to work with people's schedules. I mean, because people travel, they're in different time zones. I mean, this person left for work, they had to go out of town. I mean, it's just. I've done it at all hours.
I was literally walking into the hospital because I had a C section. And so I knew, you know, what was happening. And I won't ever forget because this was with Rocky when I was walking in. I was negotiating an offer and had to do it from my hospital bed. And I was there in the hospital for four and a half days or so, four or five days. And back then we faxed everything, and I was having a fax and documents from the nurse's station. Just didn't quit. I mean, it's. But again, you would risk the. You know, risk losing something, right?
You just got to do it.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: I don't know the world of real estate except buying my house one, you know, for one time. But so midnight, they text you and say, yes, we want it. Yeah, let's go. And then what do you do? Say?
[00:02:06] Speaker A: I would say, okay, well, let me then. I mean, if you guys are up for it, I'm up for it. I'll send over the documents for your final signature so we can have it in the inbox. But, you know, if it's writing an offer. So it's in the inbox of the Other realtor, you know, by 6:00am or maybe whenever they start their day.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: You were doing all that at midnight last night?
[00:02:24] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. That's like not uncommon for me to do stuff like that. Absolutely.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: You just email it.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: You. Yeah, you. We put it through a program that's electronic signatures. Okay. And so we can easily. I've sold houses to people who are sitting on a beach and they've signed on the dotted line from the beach and get it to all the places it needs to go.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: So what if you were sleeping when that came through?
[00:02:46] Speaker A: Well, I was. Already knew it was going to happen.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: You were negotiating, whatever.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it was already in. In play. So. Yeah. You just, you, you work it out and hope the other realtor communicates the same way. Now, it isn't always at midnight, but I'm just saying, like, things have to do, present themselves. I'm going to do what it takes.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And I mean, I do the same thing with my business, but I don't have to have signatures at midnight, but I do get texts from clients and you just do whatever people always surpr by that. I was like, you gotta do. I mean, you do what you have to do for your clients.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: Yeah. I always want to be available. I mean, that's. I am there. I'm. I am their point of contact and I'm. I'm there to make sure that they feel good. To the best of my ability. They don't feel the problems that I feel. I handle them before they get to them.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: To the best of my ability. And there's things that I work through that they really have no idea about.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: But I don't want them to be stressed.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: Well, and you're probably their safe space because you're the comfort of the unknown that comes with buying a house.
[00:03:49] Speaker A: That is my goal.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: So totally makes sense.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: So I enjoy it. I love it. Every contract I still get, I still get like I did the first year. I will always be excited about it.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I do the same thing with my clients. I, I go above and beyond to make sure that they get business because it just makes you feel good and it's fun to see their business grow. And so you just do what you do and yes, make sure they're very well taken care of and it's all working.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: And let me tell you something. Rocky having had watched me this his whole life, I mean, he was with me in car seats and he was such a magnet.
Even as a baby, he was always just with me and knew the business of customer Service and to watch him as a sales rep with this new F5 roofing and guttering, and that's a locally owned business.
I could not be more proud of how personable he is with people. His follow through, his drive to want to do well at sales.
This is like he's always said, mom, this is what I prayed for. And I am so excited for him, so truly. Call Rocky if anybody has a roofing need or gutters or even siding during this time frame, especially Rocky's. At 918955, 15.95. I'm gonna give a plug for my son, so he will take good care of you.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: But they do mimic what they see in their parents, and so I do think that's a. A great lesson. I. I have a friend that lives in Nashville and she's an avid reader and she reads all the time. She's. I mean, it's just constant. One book after another. Loves to read. And her kids, which are young, I think her oldest is maybe nine maybe. Yeah, maybe seven and nine or five and eight or something, they love to read because they see their mom reading all the time. And so when they go on road trips, the kids are in the backseat reading books. And I just think it's. They follow what they see.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: They do. And like, you know, like Ty, he is my reader and my writer.
I'm a writer. I love to write, always have.
And I say that to my third grade teacher, Mrs. Mitchell. I'll never forget her. And every week we had to memorize a poem and recite it in front of the class, which is. That's getting over a big speaking hurdle at that age.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: And we had to write a story. She would give us the line that we're supposed to build our topic off of. And then we would read our one page story to our class. And I do think that was like a monumental point in my life to teach me how to. Now, my husband, he reads. So Ty sees him read a lot. I write, he reads. And Ty has really got that niche. That kid can write like nobody's business. But he had a teacher who really nurtured that in, in first grade. And he has just always been a great writer.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: It's.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: It's pretty incredible to see.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: Yeah. I do think they. They watch what, what you do from the time they're teeny tiny and mimic, you know, what they see. And it's a great way to get them to be, yes. Upstanding citizens. Which. That doesn't always happen.
[00:06:46] Speaker A: No. It's unfortunate.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: It really is.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: And that brings me to a topic that was interesting because I mess. There's a. Have you seen this Will Wit. He has an Instagram page and he goes to school board meetings and presents some of the books that are meant. They're in children's libraries. They're in some of the school libraries.
I can assure you at Lincoln Christian they were not in the library there. And they are the most graphic, horrifying, sexual.
Like they. They would make a predator blush. Honestly. Like, it's just weird material.
And I know, you know, people get really upset about the book banning stuff. And I do feel like there should be more of a grace. It doesn't have to be black or white. Like, it has to be either we ban them or we don't. Like, content really needs to be considered. Well, I messaged somebody that I just. We have very different views, but we're always very respectful of each other. We've known each other for a very long time. And I was like, you just want to reach out and just ask her, like, what. Where's the thought process on thinking that this material right here, like, what good is that for any. Bad. I mean, for any. It is so dark.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: It.
[00:07:52] Speaker A: You feel it on you.
It's very, very sad. But.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: And.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: And she was just like, well, I've just never. I've just always been avid of. I think the librarians do a great job going through books. I'm thinking, okay, not this book. And that children should be able to make. Everyone should be able to make their own choice. Or as a parent, I should be able to make the choice. Like, the problem is not every kid has parents. They do not have people who love citing them. They just don't.
And if this is what they're picking up, man, we've lost them so much more than.
It just is so much deeper than that.
[00:08:24] Speaker B: It's. It's.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: I don't know. People are so in that I don't want to be told what to do. So they're not going to do it. And that. Man, I get it. But there's a thing of like, you got to protect people from darkness, right?
[00:08:33] Speaker B: I have a friend that works and. Or worked in a public library. Sorry, school library. She ended up quitting because of fighting constantly to keep those books out of the library. And they fought her and fought her and fought her to keep them in that she finally had no other choice but to walk away because she just couldn't live with herself knowing that those were the books that were. Children are reading in A library, literally, that is.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: That's. It's really bad. And here, in a second, I'm going to come up with that name of that Instagram because just so people can go, look at this guy. He's a school teacher, no kids, and he's like, I've got to fight this for when I do have kids. I mean, that's his whole thing.
So here in a minute, I'll probably interrupt and when I. I'm pulling through his stuff here so I can come up with the name.
But it's a great Instagram page and well worth knowing about, because honestly, people do not. I don't think they know how bad these books really are.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: Oh, I'm sure they don't.
[00:09:32] Speaker A: They're more worried about the Scarlet Letter or something getting banned. Like, no, it is so much deeper and dark. Deeper like they are telling kids how to rape each other.
[00:09:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:41] Speaker A: In these books. It's awful.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: I just don't understand that we've gotten to this place in our life that it's. That stuff's okay with people.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: No, no.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: So. Especially poor, innocent children.
[00:09:53] Speaker A: Yeah. It's very terrifying.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: I'm working on my, you know, AI class or workshop is really what it is. And I'm. I gotta tell you, you know, back in 2010, when I saw social media, when the business pages launched and I just saw it taking off, I knew that we needed to learn social media marketing, that it was not going anywhere. I said that all the time. So I started putting curriculum together and started teaching social media marketing. I taught so many businesses across Tulsa. And it's just funny that the things I heard back in 2010, like, people were afraid of it, they didn't understand it, they didn't know how it would tie back into their marketing. They were confused by it. Some people didn't want their company associated with it. Like, all that same stuff I'm now hearing 16 years later about AI.
And so the fact that I was able to teach that new technology back then, and I'm getting to do a new technology, I never thought I would be teaching another technology. Of course, back then I never would have imagined AI, but it's so fun that it's kind of come full circle and I'm doing the very same same thing again, teaching it to businesses that don't understand it, don't know how that's going to impact their business, don't, you know, a little bit afraid of it because they're not sure how it works. And then you see all these, you know, crazy Videos that obviously look fake because of AI and people are seeing all that stuff. They, that's what they associate AI with is these changing their hair color and it's so much bigger than that. I mean it's. And the beautiful thing about this versus social media, social media business pages was obviously I was teaching business owners and business marketing people AI is for everybody. No matter how old you are, if you are a retired person that is just running a household or trying to maintain your household, it can help with your budget, it can help with designing, you know, your flower beds or your raised garden. My favorite part. Yeah, there's so many things so it's even, it's even more fun and exciting for me now because it's not just the business side, it's actually just training, teaching you AI for life. It's not about AI for marketing or AI for business, it's AI for life.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: Well and if people understand prompts like I had made a little graph the other day. It was something I wanted to use to keep track of like a peptide calendar and like when you would start one stop one da da da and for a daily use and. And so I just kind of grafted on paper, look what I was kind of wanting. And so I took a picture of it and I was like can you recreate this for me in a PDF and and it did. I didn't have to know how to do Excel or you know, whatever. I mean it. So it could be very helpful to and elderly people if that's what they want to do. Like my mom always kept a great birthday list and anniversary list of every kid grandkid in law we had everyone's was on this list. But you could easily go through and just read out all your family members birth dates and anniversaries and say okay, now put this in a PDF and it'll do it for you. Right. People whose maybe hands don't work that great.
[00:12:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
So I mean everybody can use it and I think that everybody can benefit from it. But I also think that they're, you know, I always say AI is only as smart as you teach it to be because you have to teach it to be smart for you versus how it's smart for me. And I think that's what people are missing when they see. You know, I've gotten some feedback from people saying, you know, my clients are now using it to create graphics and it's a disaster because I mean we've seen graphics it creates. It can if you guide it strategically and you tell it Exactly. It'll create beautiful graphics, but if you don't guide it right, it creates cartoonish looking. It reminds me of clipart back in the day when people were trying to design their own graphics and it was all clip art because no one knew the graphic software.
And I find it ironic that the. The gold standard of graphic design software was Adobe Illustrator and The initials were A.I. oh, so funny now that A.I. is designing graphics when that was the gold standard for graphics. But anyway, I'm excited because I think that I'm teaching it kind of the way I did social media. They're going to be small workshops, probably no more than six people at one time, because that way you can focus one on one with each person, as opposed to. I've tried the big classroom style where you have 250 people in the room. Nobody learns anything from that because will they bring a laptop or laptop in their phones, however they. Whatever they're comfortable with.
And they're going to get prompts. They're going to walk away with a complete handbook that gives them all sorts of the prompts that you have to use, because that's the key, is prompting it the right way to do what you need. And the truth is, AI agrees with you.
I mean, we talked about last week, you got in a fight with AI, but it also typically did because it
[00:14:40] Speaker A: wanted to act like it was too human for me and. Right. She was like. Or she. Or he. Whatever the crap it is.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: Right.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: It was like, well, you know, oh, that's how I feel too. It was kind of along that thing, and I was like, whoa, what's. I'm like, I want to make something really clear here. You were not a. A feeler. You're not a human. I don't ever want you to try to make me feel like you're human and that boundary's not been crossed again.
[00:15:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:02] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I can say that. Yeah, it does. Learn what your preference is. And I'm no longer, you know, Lieutenant Dangle. Whatever it was, it was calling me for weeks. I mean, it was honestly like a dangle schmeier. It was something so weird that makes me laugh so much, calling me this.
My name is Amy.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: I wish I could go back and
[00:15:21] Speaker A: I probably could find the conversation that's hilarious. Like, who did this? Who renamed me to Dangle? Or whatever it was.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: But the crazy thing about AI is that you can ask it something and it'll give you an answer, and then you can write back and say, well, I don't agree with that. That's actually not because it answers how it thinks you want to hear it. And then you can say well though now I. You can come into it the back way and it'll change this answer to fit what it thinks you want to
[00:15:50] Speaker A: hear it really if anything.
[00:15:53] Speaker B: Huh.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: It will teach you to be a more thorough writer or.
Because there was a program Ty.
Yeah. I don't even know where Ty found it. He'd sit there on the. In the kitchen computer so I could see the whole thing. Well it was an AI deal and it was where he was going in and prop. The AI would come to him like say was a hotel management and they got a complaint from a customer. It was all different kinds of things. And Ty, his job was to respond back as a professional and how to handle a problem.
Which was really a great lesson. I mean and he really loved doing it. He would just. It was just as going back and forth of problem solving, customer service. Which really, I think that is something you cannot lose that. You know, we can't let AI take over so much that we lose that personal relationship. And I think in the end the people who have personal relationship abilities, they're going to win.
[00:16:47] Speaker B: Yeah. But I do think people are going that step further and becoming personally connected to their AI which is a tiny bit scary because you have to have that, you have to have that dividing that you know that this is not a real life person. This is actually a computer generated response to what you're asking it. And I. But I do think if you can be taught how to do it correctly, it's not going to cross that. That line.
[00:17:13] Speaker A: Right.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: And so I think that's what I'm most excited about is showing people that no matter who you are, whether you're, you know, 90 years old, you could learn to do this. So that can actually benefit you.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: And it's so much more than the silly graphics that we're seeing all over social media that people are using. I saw something yesterday where this lady was digging up a flower bed and so she's. That looks normal. Although I'm sure it was AI too. But she's digging up and then she puts a cartons in the. Where she dug out and then filled that with dirt and then watered it or put seeds. She was putting flower seeds and then all of a sudden, you know, it shows the flowers growing and which is AI you know. Right. All the comments were like that's fake. That's AI. And people are getting irritated with the fake.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: They are.
[00:18:03] Speaker B: And I just, I, I think it's
[00:18:05] Speaker A: ironic how it roll out when all of this other stuff was coming out because like Epstein files and all that because then they can claim oh, everything, oh, that picture's been doctored and it's fake. I just find that how it all fell into one time frame.
[00:18:18] Speaker B: But you think about like I've been using chat GPT for probably three years, you know, so it's been around a while. Just now it's really taken off and so anyway, I'm excited, I'm excited that they're, that people are really interested in attending and I do think it's going to be. They're going to walk away with some really great information that can. No matter what you're doing in life, whether you're business owner or you're, you're a stay at home person or you are retired and you're really not in the workforce anymore, but you still have a house, you're still managing your life or your calendars or your. Yeah, there's so many things it can do.
[00:18:52] Speaker A: So I found that page. It's Instagram.
I'm sure he's on Facebook too, but it's called the Will Wit W I L L W I T T again I feel like knowledge is power and I, I don't try to turn a blind eye to what, what are other people seeing and thinking. And it is okay to have friends that don't agree with you. I, I do feel like on every level you should, you could find something similar with everybody. There's no use in burning bridges just because you don't agree. I, I truly believe that. I mean you can keep a certain distance to protect yourself, but you don't need to get sideways.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: It's crazy how much that happens. So it's, it is very sad.
[00:19:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:30] Speaker B: So sad is that it runs friendships, but it sure does.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: Crazy. Well, my dad had outpatient a minor surgery last week. But it's really funny because we went to the, the day before and he had to have an EKG and you know, do the blood work. Not the day before. It was a few days before when he was getting, finishing up with his ekg. The lady said, lisa, you can go in here and sit with the nurse, the nurse practitioner. She's going to walk through all the questions. You might as well go ahead and have a seat and then he'll be in after he finishes his ekg. And so I sat down and I was kind of behind. They had two guest chairs and one was kind of behind the monitor and then his chair was going to be so she could see him. And she peeked around the computer at me. She goes, man, your dad is healthy. I said, he really is. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, he's really healthy. She goes, He's 90. And I said, yes. And she goes, he's got the heart and lungs of, like, a teenager.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: And she goes, I really don't see it much. He doesn't smoke, does he?
[00:20:26] Speaker B: No, he's. He smoked when he was, like, 18, 19, like, for five years when he was in his teens. And he, you know, never drank. Just not that. He just. His lifestyle was always not that, but it was just so funny. She goes. And then she just went down the list of all the things he's had done in his life. And she goes, and then you smoked for five years. And it's just crazy what's out there medically on. I mean, you can. There's a software that they can all go to that shows every. If you've ever told somebody your medical history that, you know, obviously he told somebody at some point that he had smoked for five years.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: Except those hospitals can't find that DNR that you gave him a month before.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: Right.
[00:21:02] Speaker A: Like, oh, you lost that.
[00:21:04] Speaker B: It's crazy. But she. And he is. I just think about how healthy he is and how. How well he's doing at 90. I'm so fortunate for that because, I mean, he really is. And he. His lifestyle and, you know, he probably eats probably, you know, probably not the healthiest food. He's by himself now that my mom's gone, and so he probably doesn't eat the healthiest, but he's also. Now. She said, well, except for cancer. And I said, well, yeah, but that was in 2010. He had his last chemo, and that's 16 years, so stage four twice, and he's 16 years. But I do think it's how you take care of yourself. And I mean, it is.
Your lifestyle sure plays into it.
[00:21:43] Speaker A: Yes, I totally agree.
Speaking of, like, health, it was just today, I did see this lady. I've always wanted to buy her face exercising program, but I'm like, I'm not gonna get suckered. But I do know it works because I've mentioned this.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: Exercising.
[00:21:59] Speaker A: Yeah. So I remember being at a salon show, I mean, 25 years ago, truly. And I remember watching this massage therapist, esthetician, actually, who focused on face massage. Like, he had rubber gloves on, and he went inside the cheeks and all that.
[00:22:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: And to watch this woman's lips transform before my very eyes. I never would have believed that if I didn't see it. And he was like, people don't realize how much this is just muscles that have tightened up from drinking out of a straw or smoking a cigarette or whatever. It can all be be plumped back up by massage. Well, this lady on Instagram focuses on all this stuff and really, like, you know, my neck is my boy. If there's one thing I'm so paranoid about, it's my neck from my surgery cutting through that muscle. It just has. My neck has aged so much faster than the rest of me, and it is my biggest issue. So I'm just curious if that would work for that. However, she said that somebody said something about hyaluronic acid on your face and it being so good, you know, to plump it. And she said, yes, but aloe vera, straight off the plant is really even more moisturizing and just has more benefits. So I'm like going rolling aloe vera looking for an aloe vera plant. Yeah.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: Where do you buy those now? I've done.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: I'm getting on Marketplace is what I would do. There's great plants you can get on Marketplace. People sell their starts to all kinds of stuff. Interesting. Like I said, that's how I started my zinnias. I went to a Facebook Marketplace ad and they're. They were great.
[00:23:30] Speaker B: So where do you meet them to
[00:23:31] Speaker A: get it so you don't get murdered person? Well, I know that. I mean, I go always go to look at their friends, their profile and all that. And generally there's, you know, there's seven degrees of sure. You know, there's always connecting somehow.
[00:23:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Because I bought a laptop, I bought a MacBook through somebody on Marketplace and saved me a ton of money. Chat helped me do all the research on the best one to get, helped me make sure the price was good. And sure enough, this person, we had like three mutual friends. So I called this person. I'm like, is this a. Are we. Am I good? And they're. Oh, my gosh. They're like, this is the best family ever. I'm like, done. I mean, save me probably 600 bucks.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm always afraid of that. But, yeah, you have to do your research, I guess, on who you're buying from for sure.
[00:24:13] Speaker A: For sure.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: So aloe vera. So have you looked to see if you found one or can you find one?
[00:24:19] Speaker A: No, but I know I'll be able to.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: I mean, you used to see aloe vera plants all the time. I haven't seen one in years.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: And my mom had the biggest plant. I don't know where it went. Oh, yeah, there's tons of it on here, so. Yeah.
[00:24:32] Speaker B: How funny.
[00:24:33] Speaker A: It's going to be better than what you get at Lowe's or somewhere like that, in my opinion.
[00:24:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I would imagine. I'd never gone to Marketplace ever, and.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Are you kidding?
[00:24:41] Speaker B: No. Oh, I sold it. I sold a conference room table on there years ago. I hated that conference room table. And I've had it since I started the business in 2013, and I hated it. And I was like, I'm getting rid of this thing. And so I. I did put on Marketplace and had a. I think they were like a construction company or something that had been looking for one. And they did buy it and that. I was downtown and they just came and picked it up at the office. But I've never gone out there. I have a friend that buys on sales all the time, but I've never. I've never even been out on there except to add my table.
[00:25:15] Speaker A: Oh, goodness gracious. You are missing out. Because, I mean, I have clients who are moving, you know, obviously all the time, and they got a part with their furniture.
[00:25:26] Speaker B: Yes. I mean, I'm bad about that. I should probably do that. I mean, I'm changing furniture all the time.
[00:25:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I mean, they. People who've only lived in a house until they get transferred and the furniture is only six months old.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: Right.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: Brand new stuff. Yeah. No, you're missing out.
[00:25:41] Speaker B: I know that even Han, you know, appliance warehouse, they. One of my clients, they'll get people all the time that say, you know, do you have used appliances? Which obviously they don't sell used, but they do have the outlet. But they'll always say, oh, we have a. We want to do a trade in. Well, they don't do trade in. And the guys will tell them, the salespeople go, put it on Marketplace. Yeah, that's the best place to sell it.
[00:26:03] Speaker A: And I'm like, well, even when I've had to have stuff picked up, like, we had a exterior storm shelter and I really didn't want it. It was just kind of an eyesore in my backyard. And I just was never. I grew up going underground. I just never felt good about being in. And so. But it was going to be a fortune.
We would had to get a backhoe and get everything, I mean, to get it out of there. So I put it on Marketplace. I was like, free to anyone who can bring the equipment, it's yours. These guys, I'm Telling you, they came, they worked their butts off all day long getting that out of there. But they wanted it. It was completely steel and. But it was worth it to them. And I. I didn't have to pay anybody. And they hauled it off. I mean, they had a huge flatbed trailer. I think it was heavy. Done. Got it out. I've put broken washers on there. And people will come get it for parts. They'll do the. I'm like, you do the lifting, right?
[00:26:53] Speaker B: Yeah. They have to do it. Yeah. I probably need to think about that because, you know, I switch out furniture all the time in my house. I'm always looking for something new. And then I. I'll tend to. I'm not even going to say what I do with it. Mainly. Mostly it's bad.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:05] Speaker B: I'll have it picked up and taken to the trash.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
[00:27:09] Speaker B: Yeah. To me, it's too much of a hassle to do it the other way. You're gonna have to teach me.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Because that's. It's crazy that I get rid of some really great stuff. Well.
[00:27:17] Speaker A: But then I end up holding on to things for too long because I'm like, oh, I'll put that on Marketplace. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, I don't have any more room.
[00:27:24] Speaker B: My friend who listens to this podcast sells and buys all the time on Marketplace. And we will meet for lunch and she'll have to get up because someone's meeting her there to pick up. She's selling something or. She was at my house a couple weekends ago for a brunch and she had to go outside because she had somebody meeting her.
[00:27:42] Speaker A: My sister's a pro at it.
[00:27:43] Speaker B: That's so funny.
[00:27:44] Speaker A: I mean, it's crazy.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: Especially teachers.
[00:27:47] Speaker A: I'll tell you, if you're a teacher or a homeschool teacher, anything like that, the amount of school supplies that you can get and I don't. I mean, textbooks, sure. Classroom stuff. People who are donating entire massive book collections, like Scholastic books that they had for a classroom, and they're getting out of teaching, and it's insane what people can. What you just name and we're gonna find it.
[00:28:09] Speaker B: That's nuts. I need to look into that because I sure haven't done it enough. And then speaking of the opposite of that, I went into West Elm yesterday at Utica, which I don't go in there very often. It's just ridiculously expensive. I'm just blown away, like, literally.
[00:28:25] Speaker A: Well, it isn't stuff that, like, I'M like, you can get that at home goods or.
[00:28:29] Speaker B: Yeah. For half the price or even more than half the price.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: They had a little tiny pot with a fake flower in it that didn't even look that real. Yeah. And I've bought very similar at home goods that actually look like real plants. And this one for this little fake. I mean, literally maybe 6 inches high, including the pot, was $49.
[00:28:54] Speaker A: Stupid.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: You can buy the same better out at home goods for $6. I'm like, no wonder your store has. I was only one in the store.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. That's why I'm like, I don't know how.
[00:29:04] Speaker B: I don't know how they stay in business.
No, I mean, at that price for those little things.
[00:29:08] Speaker A: I've never been, like, blown away.
[00:29:11] Speaker B: No, me either. I don't know why I went in there. I think I was just like, oh, let's see what they have. Because sometimes they have, you know, they do have a sale price that sometimes it's good at 50 off and it's still not great. But you're like, okay, I feel a little better because it's at least a sale, but yeah, it's.
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Well, then they, like, want your phone number. Oh, yeah. At checkout.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: Yeah, that was funny. Yesterday, she said I was paying cash. I bought one little thing, four napkin rings. Because I'm always looking for stuff like that for my seat at the table. I walk up to the counter, I'm paying cash. I'm getting in my bag to get my money out. And she goes, can I have your phone number? And there were two of them standing there. One lady that had been very nice to me, you know, talking to me as I was walking to the store, and I was like, no, but thank you. And the amount of shock thickness that
[00:29:56] Speaker A: went in the air.
[00:29:56] Speaker B: Yeah. The one girl just be. I mean, did an about face and walked away. And then the girl that was waiting on me was just. Didn't know what to do. At that point.
[00:30:04] Speaker A: She glitched.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:05] Speaker A: She was like, dirt.
[00:30:08] Speaker B: And then, you know, was not very friendly to me after that, who had been overly, like, too friendly to me. When I walked up, it was almost like, okay, calm down. It's just four little napkin rings. And then the lady that walked away when I said no was so rude to me when I left, I was like, so that.
[00:30:24] Speaker A: Like all that, you know, I've been suckered into the phone number thing on. But there's been times where I'm like, no, I'm good. And maybe it's Because I'm paying cash for a little something or whatever. But I'm convinced that is just another way for them to track you in the future. Like it's. But they get you with the points. I'm like, I don't come in here enough to even. I don't even know where my points are from.
Wherever. I'm like, I don't want all the.
[00:30:47] Speaker B: I don't.
[00:30:47] Speaker A: I don't want all this stuff because
[00:30:49] Speaker B: all you're going to get is advertisement. They're going to text you advertising, which drives me insane. You can email me announcements about sales, but you text me. And it's. It's a whole different animal to me. But yeah, I mean, I just don't. I've been in the store. It's probably been two years since I've been in there and it'll probably be another two years before I go back. So why give you my number? I'm not. I don't care about yourself.
[00:31:11] Speaker A: Text messages do you have on your phone?
My friends always get me on this. They're always like, oh, my God. I'm like, it's. But it's ads and stuff.
[00:31:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, I have 322.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: Oh, take a stab at mine.
[00:31:24] Speaker B: 4,000.
[00:31:26] Speaker A: 2,400 unopened text messages.
[00:31:29] Speaker B: But I delete them.
[00:31:30] Speaker A: I don't.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: Wow. I delete them because I can't stand that.
[00:31:34] Speaker A: I need to. But it's so overwhelming now that I'm like, I don't even know where to start. Nutena night. And I'll get there at 2030.
Finally, I'll believe I do that when
[00:31:44] Speaker B: I sitting in the waiting room at the surgery with my dad, I'll just sit there and delete them. But I have 3,017 unread emails.
[00:31:51] Speaker A: Oh, I'm like at 26, 000. Like, it's not even stupid.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: Well, see, I can't do that because my email software, because I go through a company, because it's my, you know, E squared, they will shut me down if it reaches like there's only I only, you know, there's a max. And if I get too high, then I. Then I can't get emails anymore. So I have to go through and delete them. But so that one. That number stays higher. But now I've always. I've deleted my texts. I can't stand those. Because what happens, which I think happens to you often, is you have all those ads in your tag. Pushes through, pushes the real ones down. And then you don't see my text messages until five days later.
[00:32:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:30] Speaker B: But I like them. Delete it.
[00:32:32] Speaker A: I put them up as a bubble at that time of our transaction period so I don't lose their communication. So they're always right at the top.
[00:32:40] Speaker B: We'll do that with mine. Maybe yours.
[00:32:43] Speaker A: Yes. I need to add Geo that there.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: Put me in a bubble at the top of your text, but it does. It buries your. Your text that you do want to see because there's just so much noise above it.
[00:32:53] Speaker A: Noise is right.
[00:32:54] Speaker B: So I have to go through and delete it.
[00:32:56] Speaker A: Well, so we didn't have much to talk about. I felt like today and then here.
[00:32:59] Speaker B: We're way over time. Yeah.
[00:33:00] Speaker A: Are you serious?
[00:33:01] Speaker B: Yeah. We're five minutes over.
[00:33:02] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:33:02] Speaker B: Almost six. Okay. Well, you guys, we love that you listen to us.
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[00:33:16] Speaker B: Send us stuff.
[00:33:17] Speaker A: We're going to consider.
Oh, yeah.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: We're going to start bringing guests on.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: So, like maybe once a month. So may have to be a random draw. I don't know. But if you have an interest in that. And we want conversation. We don't want just like. It's not going to be like, I'm here to push my business.
[00:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah. We're not promoting your business.
[00:33:35] Speaker A: We just want conversation topic, you know,
[00:33:38] Speaker B: same format that we have now.
[00:33:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Very Wing it because.
[00:33:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:42] Speaker A: It's all about what it is.
[00:33:43] Speaker B: All right, well, we'll talk to you next week.
[00:33:45] Speaker A: Bye.
