Episode 22 - Spilling the Kentucky Tea with David Taylor

[00:00:01] Speaker A: Over the river and through the woods. [00:00:02] Speaker B: Look out, Louisville. [00:00:04] Speaker A: This is always be a big deal podcast. [00:00:35] Speaker C: And now please welcome your host, Clay. [00:00:39] Speaker A: Phoenix. [00:00:42] Speaker C: And Jessica Vendetta. [00:00:46] Speaker A: Don't you dare. [00:00:47] Speaker B: Good morning. [00:00:53] Speaker A: Oh, my God. You get on my nerves. [00:00:56] Speaker B: So what's new? [00:00:57] Speaker A: A lot. Are you gonna spill the tea? [00:00:59] Speaker B: The tea on what? [00:01:00] Speaker A: On Kentucky. [00:01:01] Speaker B: I mean, there's different things that we could talk about and discuss. It depends on how deep you want to go into it, but just do it work. And getting promoted to assistant manager, going back to full time, doing hair, only cutting hair. Coming up on my two year anniversary of your diagnosis. [00:01:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:01:20] Speaker B: And continuously dealing with that. And Pride's coming up. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Well, we know Pride's coming up. We talked about that a few times. [00:01:28] Speaker B: Lots of different events happening all over the state, all over the US. [00:01:34] Speaker A: How is that deep? How is that deep? How is pride deep? You just went from. You just went, like, deterred. Like, you went, like skurch. [00:01:43] Speaker B: Just throwing out different things. [00:01:45] Speaker A: So talk. Talk about your deep stuff. That's what I want to know. [00:01:48] Speaker B: You know, those. [00:01:49] Speaker A: I know, but the listeners don't know. [00:01:51] Speaker B: About that, and that's okay. [00:01:52] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Our little secret. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:54] Speaker A: Do you want to spill the tea on Kentucky? [00:01:56] Speaker B: Do you want to? [00:01:57] Speaker A: I mean, that's fine. I want to do it when you're on, not when I'm by myself with Jessica. [00:02:02] Speaker B: So you've hit one with Wawa? [00:02:04] Speaker A: Yes, I did. My wawa versary was May 11. Yeah, May 11. [00:02:09] Speaker B: And a few months ago, you were. [00:02:12] Speaker A: I was approached by my original GM and asked if I would like to go to the new market in Kentucky. [00:02:19] Speaker B: Of course, there's a process. [00:02:20] Speaker A: Yes, and I. [00:02:22] Speaker B: Interview process that you went through. [00:02:24] Speaker A: Yes. But for starters, before I went through the interview process, I talked to you and ab about it and made sure that it was okay and that we. We all agreed to do it. And before I went through the interview process. So I went through the interview process. [00:02:43] Speaker B: And waited a grueling two weeks. [00:02:45] Speaker A: Yeah, two and a half weeks. [00:02:46] Speaker B: Cause it was. [00:02:47] Speaker A: It was. It was like a Wednesday when I found out. So it was two and a half weeks. [00:02:51] Speaker B: Well, it would have been two weeks, but you missed the first call. [00:02:53] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. That's true. It would have been two weeks, but I missed the first call. But anyway, so I called Cheryl back, and Cheryl said that I got the job and I would be migrating to Kentucky. [00:03:07] Speaker B: To Louisville. Bluegrass. [00:03:09] Speaker A: Yes. So as of March 2025, I should be moving to Kentucky. Louisville, Kentucky. [00:03:17] Speaker B: Yes. [00:03:18] Speaker A: And shortly after, Ab and David will be coming out to join me. There's a logistics, things behind it. Like Ab stone school. AB has to finish school, so therefore, you and her will have to stay up here until she's done for a few months. [00:03:32] Speaker B: But there's other logistics to discuss and talk about with school, et cetera. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Well, yeah, I mean, school like. I mean, I agree with you. I think that she should graduate from Harvard. [00:03:44] Speaker B: Then she would have to continue, I know, to the end of 12th grade, according to the email I received this morning from her teacher. [00:03:50] Speaker A: Okay, it's something we're gonna have to figure out. I mean, it's not ideal, but I mean, we've been through a lot, so, I mean, we can get through this. I mean, it's still gonna be a battle on the other end. [00:04:01] Speaker B: It will be, but ultimately, someone is old enough to decide and make their own decision as well. [00:04:07] Speaker A: Well, yeah, I mean, at that point she would be, but. So that means you and I will have to do long distance for a while. [00:04:15] Speaker B: It'll be fine. [00:04:16] Speaker A: I mean, I know it'll be fine. It's just gonna be different. It's always be a big deal. Podcast with Clay Phoenix and Jessica Vendetta. 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They just raised cigarette tax. [00:05:47] Speaker B: Car vehicle registration is going up. [00:05:50] Speaker A: It'll just be a little mid eastern living. So we'll be like halfway bicoastal. So I'll be in the middle of the United States and you'll be on the east end of the United States, but I'll be far enough west that you can say that we're living bi coastal, even though I'm not living near a coast except for the coast of a pond. [00:06:06] Speaker B: Why? You have the Ohio river that runs through Ohio. But AB is kind of excited because, like, she discovered and found out that Louisville is. Is like, horse capital of the world. [00:06:17] Speaker A: She's already asked if we can buy. [00:06:18] Speaker B: A farm so she can get a horse. [00:06:21] Speaker A: Two horses. You have to get two horses. You can't just get one because then it'll be lonely. [00:06:25] Speaker B: So each horse needs an acre. So there needs to be a minimum of two acres of field for the horse. Probably another acre for stall and stable, probably at least two for hounds. So we're looking at possibly searching for five to six acre piece of property that we can slap a trailer on. [00:06:44] Speaker A: And maybe we can get chickens. A trailer. Really? And then we can get chickens and we can bring eggs back to Maryland and throw them at Cassandra store, our lovely upstairs neighbor. But it'll be fresh eggs, right? Yeah. Homegrown. Not like those amish market brown eggs that she bought. Organic, free range. Organic, free range. [00:07:09] Speaker B: So, like, is it even. Okay to even announce and say that we're moving to Kentucky because of wawa? [00:07:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I can say that I'm moving. It's okay for, like, I can post it on socials and stuff like that because I got the official announcement that I got the job before this, and. [00:07:29] Speaker B: I thought you couldn't officially announce anything on where they're opening. [00:07:33] Speaker A: I can't give locations. I can't give addresses, but I can say that they're opening stores in Kentucky just like I can say they're opening stores in central Pa. South central Pa. But I can't. [00:07:45] Speaker B: Making their official announcement next week. [00:07:47] Speaker A: Yes. Well, technically. So the south central Pa one, I can say because they broke ground once they break ground in Kentucky, I can say the location of it, but before that, I can't say the location until they break ground. [00:08:00] Speaker B: So all we know right now is that our plan is to move to Kentucky, to the Louisville, Louisville area of Kentucky next summer to start a new chapter and journey in a new location. [00:08:12] Speaker A: Yes. [00:08:12] Speaker B: So that's kind of exciting. [00:08:17] Speaker A: I'm very, like, proud of how far I've went. I mean, I've had my challenges, like, my own personal challenges, mentally and stuff, but I'm very proud of how far I've went with the company and I've accompanied the things I've accomplished. [00:08:31] Speaker B: I think just the fact, too, of living in the same state for pretty much more than half of your life, but always having the thought of what it would be like to live in another state besides just traveling there. [00:08:41] Speaker A: Yeah. And I think, like, you've you were born and raised in Maryland? I was born in Maryland and raised in Pennsylvania. So, like, I live in. In Maryland until I was six years old. So I knew what it was like to live in Maryland a little bit and then moved to Pa. And so I got accustomed to Pa living in PA from six years old till I was 31. When I moved back to Maryland, the shock of everything being more expensive here and the cost of living being higher was just crazy. I mean, we have a two bedroom, two bathroom apartment, condo, sorry, bougie, Maryland. [00:09:15] Speaker B: Condo, luxury apartment, as they call it. [00:09:18] Speaker A: But in Pennsylvania, I paid $1,000 a month and had a whole entire house with a basement and three bedrooms, and it was only one bathroom. [00:09:26] Speaker B: But I mean, even when I had my house, the mortgage was half the cost of this place. Yes, the square footage is the same. [00:09:33] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's just crazy. [00:09:35] Speaker B: But even looking up, when we've done a little research for some of the areas around Louisville that you can get the same amount of space or more space for way less a month, especially if you're renting even some of the regular properties that we've looked at, you can get acres and a three bedroom house, et cetera, and be less than 200,000 to buy compared to 3400,000 it would be here. [00:10:00] Speaker A: And that's another thing that, like, is confusing. Like, do we buy? Do we rent with everything going on? Like, what's the best option? [00:10:06] Speaker B: Which I have to weigh it out and figure it out what it's gonna be like next year. [00:10:10] Speaker A: Yeah, it's still gonna be fun. It's gonna be adventurous. [00:10:15] Speaker B: But there is some really cool, interesting things that we have discovered in Louisville already. [00:10:20] Speaker A: Yes, of course. [00:10:22] Speaker B: The Kentucky Derby is there. And they have the Kentucky Derby museums, which ab is going to be excited about that I'm excited about. I have to get, like, fancy derby hats and, like, go to the Kentucky Derby. They have a zoo. [00:10:35] Speaker A: They have a zoo. What fucking state in the United States does not have a zoo? Please tell me that. [00:10:41] Speaker B: I don't know. Let's look it up. Is there a state that does not have a zoom? [00:10:46] Speaker A: Is there a state that doesn't have a zoo? [00:10:48] Speaker B: So while you're looking that up, the Louisville slugger, the Bat Louisville Slugger baseball batswer museum is there because that's where it was created. You have Kentucky bourbon whiskey. The Noah's art place we discovered is there in Kentucky also. There's lots of different caverns, caves that you can explore, even have one cave I forgot the name of it. But you can actually go on a boat in, like, canoes and, like, go through underground. [00:11:18] Speaker A: Yeah, the caverns. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:20] Speaker A: And then there's that Waverly Hill place that I've been researching to talk about on the podcast. [00:11:25] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. It used to be a hospital for tuberculosis. It was like a whole compound. Yeah, the death chute thing was interesting, but then it became a sane asylum. [00:11:35] Speaker A: I don't want to give. I don't want to give too much away. It's going to be a whole episode. You can join me for that episode. [00:11:40] Speaker B: Okay. [00:11:40] Speaker A: We'll learn all about it. [00:11:41] Speaker B: 502. [00:11:46] Speaker A: The answer to the question, is there any states without zoos? Yes. New Hampshire, Vermont, and Wyoming. [00:11:53] Speaker B: There you go. There are states that do not have a zoo. Yeah, there's lots of different things that we've checked out and discovered about Louisville, Kentucky. [00:12:04] Speaker A: I think it's kind of, like, branched out to the rest of the world, too. The United States is so interesting. When you start to look at each state and the declaration of the states and all that kind of stuff, it's kind of like, especially for me, it's kind of, like, started to spread out. Like, I think I know more about, like, the state of Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee. Like, it all kind of, like, snowballed. [00:12:27] Speaker B: Well, considering we were watching the one video on how Kentucky and West Virginia were actually one state. [00:12:32] Speaker A: Yes. And then Tennessee and North Carolina were one state. [00:12:35] Speaker B: They were all connected together, and then. [00:12:37] Speaker A: They had broken apart from each other. As far as, like, living wise, do you think that you're gonna be okay in Kentucky, or is it gonna be different for you for a while? [00:12:44] Speaker B: Probably be different for a while. Cause it'd be more exciting. Like, we're gonna find new things that we're gonna want to go see and check out and do when we're not working. [00:12:52] Speaker A: No, I just mean, like, so, like, you're so used to assholes. No, not necessarily. You're just so used to things being so close to you. Like, you grew up in Joppa. [00:13:02] Speaker B: Oh, in Bel Air. [00:13:03] Speaker A: Well, Bel Air, Joppa, whatever. It's still the same place. [00:13:06] Speaker B: Like, there's Hartford county. Basically. [00:13:08] Speaker A: Everything is very close until you get to the top, like Pilesville and stuff. Things are a little farther away. But. [00:13:14] Speaker B: Well, back in the day, though, things in Bel Air area were not that close. Like, you just had the town of Bel Air and then you. The outskirts of it. Like, where I grew up in, which is now Creswell or Bell camp Riverside area, there was nothing out there. [00:13:28] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:28] Speaker B: So over the years, everything has been so built up and so compacted. [00:13:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:33] Speaker B: I don't know. I guess the older you get sometimes you kind of want, like, an easier, more simple life. [00:13:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:38] Speaker B: Like when you're driving down a road, like, you know, you want to be able to see, even if there's a pond or a lake or something that you want to look at or mountains that you want to see. Instead, you're like, oh, they're building another hotel. They're building another housing development. We don't need any more houses. Oh, there's another pizza shop coming. Or this is coming. Like, they're constantly building so much crap around and redoing roads and everything else. Like, where's the quiet? [00:14:03] Speaker A: This is always be a big deal podcast with Clay Phoenix and Jessica Vandenberg. [00:14:09] Speaker D: It's time we talk about Netflix's baby reindeer problem, which, if you haven't seen yet, baby Reindeer is the seven episode autobiographical comedy drama thriller series written by and starring comedian Richard Gadd. Since its release three weeks ago, the show's generated an unusual amount of drama and controversy because aside from some minor details, details and names, pretty much all the major events actually happen to Gat, who plays himself in the show. Driving the plot are two crimes that he fell victim to in his twenties. First, he was relentlessly stalked for years by a woman fictionalized in the show as Martha, whos played by Jessica Gunning. And second, he was raped by another character. And while theyre likely thrilled about this surprise success, all the attention has fueled unwanted speculation about the identities of the real people behind the characters, which has naturally led to Internet detectives hunting for clues online and some claiming they found the real Martha, though its never officially been confirmed. Also, others believe that gads rapist is the actor, writer, and director Sean Foley, whom they say resembles the character on the show. The big thing there is that both Gad and Gunning have shot down speculation and discouraged viewers from trying to identify the character. [00:15:06] Speaker A: It's always be a big deal. Podcasts with Clay Phoenix and Jessica Vendetta. [00:15:11] Speaker B: Well, this one, Maryland was like in the top. I think they were like at 10th place or 9th place for being the most expensive state. But now, when I recently looked it up, we're 6th. So Maryland is the 6th most expensive state in the US. [00:15:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Time to roll. Pack it up, haul it out. [00:15:27] Speaker A: I can definitely see that. [00:15:28] Speaker B: And they want to know why people. [00:15:29] Speaker A: Struggle over the river and through the woods. [00:15:31] Speaker B: Look out, Louisville. [00:15:33] Speaker A: All right, friends, so you heard it here first. We are moving to Louisville, Kentucky in 2025. We'll keep you posted. That's the tea, hunty. [00:15:41] Speaker B: All right, now, now. [00:15:42] Speaker A: And let's just hope it's sweet cause David does not like unsweetened tea. [00:15:46] Speaker B: Oh, you gonna get some sweet tea down there? [00:15:48] Speaker A: Sweet tea. Thank you for listening to always be a big deal podcast. 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