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Game Day Living Room Setup: Modern Ideas for the Big Game · Seated with Furniture Row

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  Hi, and welcome to the Seated podcast with Furniture Row.
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  I'm Jessa, creative director and design extraordinaire, and I'm
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  Barb, interior designer and buyer.
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  Welcome to the Seated with Furniture Row podcast.
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  We're at a different location today with a different cohost.
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  This is Brad. He has been with the company for
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  a long time and we're talking with him about his expertise on
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  game day spaces because this time of year that we're filming
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  is arguably one of the most important times for your couch.
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  And it is the big game of the year in February, which for
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  legal reasons, we cannot mention by name, but you know what we're
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  talking about the bowl of soup, the big, the big bowl of soup.
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  So welcome, Brad, and thanks for being on the podcast today.
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  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, well, I don't know how
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  many podcasts you've been on, so let's just kind of get into it
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  with some fun, some fun rapid fire questions around around the
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  big game. Are you a potato chips or
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  pretzels person? Definitely potato chips.
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  Yeah, I'm with you, Coker Pepsi. Pepsi.
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  OK, commercials are big game. Big game.
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  Wings or pizza? Wings.
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  And then do you root for the favorite or the underdog to win
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  typically? I'd say the underdog generally.
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  Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you.
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  Well, yeah, I think I am totally on the same page as you.
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  Do you? What do you typically do for the
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  big game? A big game you got to have you
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  got to have a party, you know, you got it you talked about your
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  your living spaces the biggest time of year for your for to
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  entertain and to to just have people over.
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  So definitely make a lot of food, have a lot of people over,
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  you know, sometimes, well, a lot of times the prep is longer than
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  the actual game lasts, so. That's the true for like any
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  time you entertain, though I feel like the prep is always
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  longer than the party itself. But yeah, it's winter, so people
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  want a reason to get together and usually there's a good turn
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  out because people are like, we got to go somewhere.
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  Oh, absolutely. I don't think you can have too
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  many people. Yeah, in my opinion.
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  I agree. I agree.
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  Well, especially since, I mean, OK, I feel like you do have to
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  set up your space, though, if you're going to have a lot of
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  people. There's going to be like some
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  people who really want to watch the game and other people who
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  are like, I got to catch up with my friends.
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  And you can't have those people, you know, conflicting with each
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  other or else people get upset. Yeah, and I'll add a third level
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  to that because you've got the people that really want to watch
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  the game. Maybe the people are just there
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  for the commercials, but then you also have the kids.
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  Oh yeah. So sometimes you have to have
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  three different spaces. Three different zones, yes.
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  How do you usually make that happen?
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  We'll do, you know, we'll do a setup upstairs with the, with
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  the sectional and you know, different areas for food and
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  snacks. And then we have a basement area
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  as well. So you've got sometimes you have
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  it where the two teams are divided.
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  If you have sports fans for for each team that's in it, or maybe
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  fans that just have one team in it and they're in the basement
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  and they're hardcore watching the game.
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  And then you've got the, the, the separate section upstairs
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  that is, you know, just chatting it up about everything but
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  football really locked in on the commercials and, and, or just
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  just hanging out and, and catching up on life.
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  So. Yeah, yeah, I for me, I am
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  definitely the person that I'm here.
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  This is the marketing. And unless my team, my Wisconsin
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  team, is in the, I'm typically not as focused on the game.
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  Like, and you're talking about the big game, I assume the big
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  game. The big game.
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  The big. Game.
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  Yes. Yeah, the big game of marketing.
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  Is what it? Is yeah, so they are.
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  The commercials are just the most interesting thing to me and
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  I want to be able to hear them. And it's hard because people are
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  talking so much that it's hard to hear it.
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  Or maybe the the like sound isn't loud enough in the room
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  and people are talking. So that's always one of my
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  things. So I like that separate.
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  So I'm the same way, except on the game, You know, the game's
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  got to be loud enough and you know, something big's happening.
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  I don't want anybody talking to me.
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  But what specifically are you looking for when it comes to
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  these commercials? Like what?
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  What? Where is society today, You
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  know, what do people care about? And how are brands shifting to
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  speak to people and get people's attention?
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  Because getting people's attention is so difficult that
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  you have to be pretty clever, either through comedy or just
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  like a really bizarre visual. So just seeing where we're at as
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  a society, I kind of like gotcha through commercials.
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  And then, of course, the halftime show, Yeah, is also a
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  great. Well, very interesting, I've
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  never looked at it that way. Yeah, yeah.
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  So, and then, yeah, the game is great.
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  It's fun, fun times. But I, I'm a social, I like the
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  environment of football. So that's why I feel like it's
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  helpful for you to be here. Do you have any like game
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  rituals that you do for your team to win?
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  Like, are you superstitious? Absolutely, yeah, 100%.
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  You'll notice a couple jerseys on the back of these sofas here
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  and you know, my family knows that as long as my team is in
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  the playoffs and it doesn't matter if it's baseball or
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  football or hockey, the jerseys are going to be on the back of
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  the sofa and they don't leave until the team loses.
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  So yeah, that just has to happen.
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  Yeah, that's that's important. And I think maybe you've helped
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  a lot of teams win that way. I know that I have, yeah.
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  It's 100% on me. Well, they should really be
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  writing you a thank you card then.
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  No, people think I'm crazy and that, you know, the jerseys as
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  people sit, they start, you know, falling off and
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  everything, but we get them right back up there so.
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  Yeah, we got to. Yeah, we got to get them back up
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  there. So what do you think the most
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  drastic changes have been in entertainment spaces lately?
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  Like, there's a lot of new tech out there.
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  It's not what it used to be. Yes, you know, you know, I
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  mentioned that I have sectionals both upstairs and downstairs,
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  but you know, you don't just have these these sofas that that
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  recline should we put coolers in in now?
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  But you also have the immersive sound, which I think is probably
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  the biggest evolvement right now is just having, you know, not
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  just the motion, but the sound in the sofas, the vibration, you
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  know, turning up the the bass and the treble.
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  I mean, it's, it's really incredible what is all included
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  in in living spaces now, so. Yeah, 'cause it used to just be
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  the big entertainment wall with all of the, you know, sound
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  devices that were hard to turn on.
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  And then it was really intimidating for me as just
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  growing up and as somebody that's not an expert here.
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  I don't want to blow out any speakers.
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  I don't know what remote goes where.
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  And now I really like that the sound is incorporated in a lot
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  of the furniture because it takes the headache away.
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  But also like if I'm going to watch football and I'm going to
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  spend time on that, I want to watch it.
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  Like I want to be in it. I want to be invested.
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  And like I've said, that's hard for me to do, but if I can feel
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  it, like feel the tackles and feel the sound going on, I'll be
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  there, you know, So that's, that's what's cool.
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  Yeah, you mentioned that the entertainment centers, the areas
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  and dealing with all the chords and really kind of an eyesore
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  and now everything's hidden and it's still all there provided
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  for you is really incredible. Right, which is nice because I
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  think it's always been hard to balance aesthetics with comfort.
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  And you know, if we get this really intense recliner that has
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  storage and a cooler and things like that, typically it's not
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  very aesthetically pleasing. And you know, a lot of design
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  forward people don't even want their TV to be showing.
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  They have, you know, those TV's that look like an art canvas
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  when it's not being used. So having things just really
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  built in allows for the aesthetic too and the and the
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  experience. So.
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  Yeah. The other thing that that I'll
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  mention, you know, my wife in particular doesn't want to have
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  furniture that looks like it's reclining.
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  Yeah. Like doesn't, doesn't want it to
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  look like it is a reclining piece.
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  And, you know, that's also an evolution of these, these sets
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  that look like a stationary piece.
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  Yeah. And whether they just kick back
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  by by pushing on the back or they do have, you know, a hidden
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  component. Yeah.
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  Little button. So that that is also.
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  Yeah, a really good feature of these.
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  Yeah, like what we're sitting in, I don't even know.
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  Oh, the buttons are pretty slim, but it's nice that it reclines
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  and it's not it it's comfortable, but it doesn't look
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  comfortable, if that makes sense.
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  It it looks comfortable but it's not like ratty or or or like
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  overly. Yeah, over the top.
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  Yeah, over the top. It's definitely style focus.
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  So I think that's interesting for people that are big hosts or
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  really enjoy their entertainment space to kind of just know what
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  the technological advancements are here, like how to step up
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  your game, no pun intended, with hosting and in their space.
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  So that's that's kind of cool to me.
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  So do you have an idea of, like you said, there's not too many
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  people. Yeah, but like how many people
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  would be too many, do you think like.
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  Must be, you know, I think that you could have, you know, a few
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  families upstairs, which, you know, let's just call it four or
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  five in a family. So 15 or 20 upstairs, 15 or 20
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  downstairs. And I, I think it just creates,
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  even if you aren't a fan of, of the team that's in the big game,
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  it's like just creating action and, and, and fun and
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  conversation, like you said. And I think it, it makes the
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  game fun for everybody. Yeah.
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  Whether your team is in it or not.
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  Yeah. Kids running all over the place,
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  great food. You know, everybody generally
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  brings something right to, to pass and to share.
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  Yeah, I just, I think it it brings everybody together.
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  I think the day after the big game should be a national
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  holiday. I think that it should really.
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  I mean, that's, that's be real here.
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  Let's be real. That's how I feel about.
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  Yeah, we gotta clean up Sunday. Now.
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  We gotta regroup here. But yeah, it just brings
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  everybody together and and everybody is, is happy.
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  So yeah, well, that's that's good to have these days.
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  Heartwarming. I agree.
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  And if you're in like a little, if you don't have multi levels,
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  you can also create different spaces within the same level.
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  Like maybe you have an area in the kitchen and then you have
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  modular seating in the living room.
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  So people can sit in different little clusters.
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  Because if you have a bunch of people together, you know, like
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  you're saying, there's some people who are going to want to
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  chat and other people who are going to want to like watch and
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  pay attention. So if you have some people on a
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  love seat and some people on a sofa and another person sitting
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  in like a recliner, then it's a little bit more divided up
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  instead of people sitting in a line on a sectional.
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  I think it can be kind of nice. Well, and, and we divide our,
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  our area for any game, you know, sliding a sofa table behind the
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  sofa and having a few stools at it, maybe having, you know, just
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  a couple chairs with a, with an end table for a little sitting
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  area for someone else down in the basement.
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  Having the poker table set up off to the side.
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  So three or four people want to just huddle around there and not
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  even watch the game. Yeah, not that's not important
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  at all. What's important is just that
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  everyone's together and hanging out.
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  Exactly, and I like what you said about sofa tables because
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  you want to have some snacks close to where you're sitting
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  and watching. So you don't like get up to grab
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  something and then miss something important, whether
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  it's the game or the commercials.
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  So you could put snacks on the sofa table behind the sofas and
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  people could just grab whatever they need.
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  Absolutely. So that's kind of fun and
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  everybody's going to bring something.
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  So you need a lot of space to put things.
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  But yeah, you can. You can have a big reclining
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  area plus a little table with chairs, you know, for people to
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  kind of just be divided up and have all sorts of different
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  setups. What do you think the best seat
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  in the house is? Well, for me, I think everybody
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  in my family knows that we've got the sectional with the
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  chaise that comes off OK and that is for me.
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  Get me set up on the chaise feed up, you know, drink on the on
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  the end table, snacks on the coffee table.
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  You know, I don't want to move from that spot.
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  As long as the game's on, I will.
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  I will host and entertain before the game, after the game.
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  And from that space, maybe, you know, people know that you're
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  there and that's where to find you.
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  But maybe don't don't find you. You're going to be, you're going
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  to be on the chase well. Especially if my team's in it
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  and things aren't going well. Yeah, don't find me.
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  Got to focus here. But yeah, that is my favorite
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  seat in the house, that Chase lounge.
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  Got to be with the jerseys, got to be on the chaise, got to make
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  sure the jerseys are in place. Things got to go well, I get it.
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  But I'm I'm a fan of that too. I think my favorite is like like
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  A2 seater sofa with a chaise because then you can sit or one
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  person can be laying down this way and another person can be
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  laying down on the chaise or by this way.
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  I'm across the sofa and down the shades.
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  So. Yeah, exactly.
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  And that's a great way to to have multiple comfort options in
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  a smaller space as well if you need to.
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  But yeah, well, now that we kind of got some of the best seats in
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  the house and our game day routines established, let's take
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  a halftime break and look at some of the things we were
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  talking about just to give people some creative ideas here,
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  how to set up their space. Great.
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  Welcome back from halftime, that little halftime excursion we
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  went on. Yeah, I'm pretty comfortable
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  here in this new space. It's a lot more design focused,
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  but you wouldn't know it's actually sound.
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  Will play through this as well. So I'll have to show you that.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Yeah, actually, where I told you I was more of a chip guy.
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  Where'd the chips go? Yeah, wow.
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  I think I got. It yeah, we can't.
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  We can't continue without the chips.
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  I know it's important. There we go.
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  Yeah. I just had to keep you on your
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  toes. OK?
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  Yeah, you got to. You can't have clutter.
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  So I thought, let's store them for when they're really
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  important. Not just for blankets.
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  Yeah, not just for blankets, could be for chips.
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  It's for whatever people need it for.
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  So in this case, potato chips. But yeah, I guess, yeah.
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  So this is the compose and it's just a lot more style focused
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  rather than, you know, chunky reclining.
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  So this is great for me in my opinion, for an actual living
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  room space because throughout the year it can look really
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  style focused, but then it actually plays music and I'll
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  show you that aspect. And you can actually feel, feel
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  it coming through the sofa. So I think that's pretty cool.
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  But but yeah, so you could actually feel the game, feel
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  every tackle and not compromise your style.
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  Which, yeah, or in your case, put it on for the halftime show.
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  Yeah, put it on for the halftime show.
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  Really feel the bass, really feel the music.
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  It's like you're there, we got your jerseys too.
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  We didn't move without those. So that's we've got everything.
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  We've got everything we need. Speaking of halftime, what are
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  your favorite things you look forward to during the halftime
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  show? Like what's important to you
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  with the? Halftime show, you know, Bad
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  Bunny this year, Not necessarily my thing, but halftime's a good,
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  good time to get up, fill the fill the bowls of chips, fill,
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  you know, get refreshments for people.
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  I can be more of a host. Yeah.
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  During the halftime show. You're not so locked into the
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  game. Yeah, go around, get, get into
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  people's conversations if they'd like, and just interact and
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  mingle a little bit more during halftime for me.
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  What about you? Halftime.
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  I want a really good sound experience, so this setup is
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  awesome because you can actually hear in surround sound what's
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  going on during halftime. Or the commercials for that
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  matter. But I remember last year I was
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  at a friend's house and they set up like a big speaker in the
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  kitchen. And then they had ATV set up in
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  the kitchen and they just like turned off all the lights and it
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  was just halftime. You know, it was like a, it was
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  like a concert, which I love. And I just, I like the theatrics
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  of it. I'm the person that watches the
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  Thanksgiving Day parade, the halftime show.
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  Like, I want to know like, who are they going to bring in as a
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  guest? Like, what setup are they going
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  to have to represent their style music?
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  And so to me, it's like, yeah, I get more excited about some
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  halftime performers than others. Like the Lady Gaga one totally
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  stands out to me as one of the best because, I mean, she was
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  flying through the air. She was glitter.
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  You know, I just loved that one. But it every year I love seeing
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  what different performers do. The one last year Kendrick Lamar
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  was awesome, especially with that great sound setup that we
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  had. So I'm a I'm a big halftime
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  person. Big halftime person.
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  But yeah, it is kind of interesting though, that this is
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  white. What do you think about white
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  furniture? Well, I do have 4 kids, so
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  white. White does scare me for sure.
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  But I think more and more with the performance fabrics.
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  I mean even at Furniture Row we have cleaning products that we
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  have that we sell that will take anything out of white.
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  So I think overall, yes, it would be a little bit scary with
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  the kids eating, spilling drinks on it, whatever the case may be.
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  But doesn't seem like your best friend with wings potentially
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  just be like wiping. The wing fingers.
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  Yeah, wing fingers might end up creating.
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  I mean, a lot of people are are painting furniture now or
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  drawing on furniture or I the trend I think is maybe like an
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  artist draws on leather and you buy it, but you could add to it
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  if you want. It's a really unique trend, so
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  you could play the end of that. But also with white, you can
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  change the style of your room just by adding different color
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  pillows. Yeah, or artwork.
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  Because it is so neutral, it really opens you up to to design
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  your room how you want. So I could see that as a
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  positive for sure. Yeah, for sure.
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  And yeah, like you're saying, I think white is so popular when
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  we go to markets and see furniture for living rooms, it
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  is everywhere. And so it's hard to avoid and it
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  looks great and it brings like that visual attention and pop of
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  non colored pop of brightness into your space.
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  So people want it. But the good news is that it is
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  performance fabric. So things come out a lot easier
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  in a lot. I would look for making sure you
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  have performance fabric if you're getting a white sofa
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  yeah, which there's so many options out there for it now.
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  Fabric technology has come so far and it's easy to clean.
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  Just keep you know, I would just like keep permanent markers away
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  if you can maybe just like set everyone up for success here.
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  But if there's a mistake, then we're all good because it's not
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  going. To run, yeah, See, I think in
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  our house we have the jar of permanent markers sitting on the
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  coffee table at all times because there's nothing but
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  artwork going on. So yeah, hard to avoid, but at
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  least you can clean it if you need to so.
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  Yeah, that's very true. That's very true.
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  Do you have any pet peeves that you have for?
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  From a. Hosting Perspective Hosting a
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  game day watch party. Nothing's really jumping out,
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  you know, I think we've talked about it a lot.
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  I think naturally kind of the groups divide and you've set.
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  Things up? Well, to eliminate the pet
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  peeves. And I think that's important to
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  just have a comfortable inviting space when, when you know you're
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  going to have company, whether it's for the big game or
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  something else, just creating comfort, creating a space that
• 26:37
  people want to come to and they want to come back for the the
• 26:40
  next year. And I think if you set it up
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  right and you have different areas of of sitting and
• 26:48
  conversating, I think you're in in pretty good shape.
• 26:50
  You're in good shape. Yeah.
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  I, I think a lot of people should consider, especially if
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  they're hosting, just upping their game in their hosting
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  spaces to watch just because if somebody's going to come to your
• 27:05
  house to watch this game, you want to feel like they are
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  stoked. Like, Oh my gosh, I chose the
• 27:11
  right house to be at and this is the party to be invited to.
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  And I think you can create a lot of welcoming experiences.
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  I was reading an article on like welcoming people to your house
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  rather than trying to impress them.
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  Because if people feel like everything is so pristine,
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  they're not going to be able to just like relax and sit down
• 27:35
  where they want to sit down or have like that space that's away
• 27:38
  from everybody else if they need to answer a call or, you know,
• 27:41
  just feeling like they have what they need at their fingertips,
• 27:44
  whether it be cup holders or storage spaces.
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  So Chameleon furniture is really cool in that sense, like that
• 27:52
  coffee table that has storage. You know, there's if the pillows
• 27:57
  are getting in the way of enough people being able to sit down,
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  you can put them in the storage container or that is the coffee
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  table without bulky issues. The other cool thing is if you
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  have sofas or chairs that have wide enough arms that almost
• 28:18
  functions as another seat, you know, especially if somebody's
• 28:21
  not there for the long haul, they just want to be like, OK,
• 28:24
  who's winning? You know you can just sit.
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  I saw you doing that on the walkthrough.
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  Yeah, yeah, cuz it's like, could I actually sit here comfortably,
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  like as a stool? So that's kind of a cool thing
• 28:37
  to think about. But yeah, just, I mean, this
• 28:41
  looks super fashionable, but it's immersive and the sound
• 28:45
  comes through and then the remote, I lose everything.
• 28:49
  So it's nice that it kind of clicks on to, yeah.
• 28:52
  Just magnets to the side. Yeah, otherwise I would lose it
• 28:56
  for sure. Yeah, I don't know.
• 28:59
  For me, I think the most important thing with pet peeves,
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  the things that bother me are like I said, I want a nerd out
• 29:12
  marketing and just know what's going on in the commercials.
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  And if everybody's talking or they're like, okay, it's a break
• 29:19
  from the game and it gets really loud and I can't hear what's
• 29:22
  going on in the commercial. It's like, okay, I'm going to
• 29:25
  have to look this up later and see, but I like being involved
• 29:29
  in the conversation and having an idea of what's going on
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  there. So every year I watch the Super
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  Bowl, I'm like, I gotta find like my marketing nerd friends
• 29:40
  to watch this with because we're just gonna.
• 29:42
  Yeah. And I think you nailed it with
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  the separate TV that was in a specific room for the halftime
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  show, setting up different areas.
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  I said mine were upstairs and in the basement, but it doesn't
• 29:54
  have to be that. Yeah, it can be all on the.
• 29:56
  Yeah, it can be all on the same floor.
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  Yeah. But if you are going to have
• 29:59
  ATV, make sure that you you bring in some other chairs,
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  whether it's a couple sitting chairs or recliners or something
• 30:06
  to make it cozy and comfortable that, oh, I can be off to the
• 30:09
  side watching a separate TV for my, you know, specific
• 30:15
  commercials or the game or whatever, right.
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  And I'm still going to feel comfortable.
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  And it'll probably create a separate space where others are
• 30:24
  going to join you. Yeah, for sure.
• 30:27
  Well, in some parts of the US you can have an outdoor set up.
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  I know in the fall my friends always have an outdoor TV on
• 30:36
  their patio. And this time of year it could
• 30:38
  get kind of dicey depending on where you live.
• 30:40
  But you could have a fire pit or heaters and then an outdoor TV
• 30:45
  and people could be like bundled and it could, it would feel like
• 30:49
  a tailgating experience and with like.
• 30:52
  You're at the game. Yeah, like you're at the game,
• 30:55
  you know, pretend like you're at the Super Bowl in Wisconsin.
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  I would just be amazed by how people would tailgate and it'd
• 31:02
  be like -20 and they'd be out there just grilling, eating
• 31:07
  brats. And I'm like, that is
• 31:08
  commitment. And I kind of like that aspect
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  of just people having a shared thing that they're rallying
• 31:18
  around and being committed to it.
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  That's something I like about football.
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  Commitment. Yeah, absolutely.
• 31:24
  Yeah, you're like with the jerseys.
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  I'm sure people have other. Have you heard of any other
• 31:31
  superstitious things? I know this is yours.
• 31:34
  Yeah, you know, not, you know, not shaving the beard.
• 31:37
  Oh yeah. Not changing the socks, which is
• 31:39
  a kind of a gross one. Yeah, like never washing them.
• 31:42
  Yeah, that that doesn't work for me.
• 31:44
  Yeah, the jersey seems pretty tame.
• 31:47
  Yeah, if you're if you're putting it up against not
• 31:50
  washing your socks. I feel like I heard of somebody.
• 31:52
  They were like my team scored, or maybe like their husband was
• 31:57
  on a team, but they were like, I was crouched down grabbing the
• 32:00
  laundry basket next to the sofa and he scored.
• 32:04
  And so now I crouched down next to the sofa with the laundry
• 32:09
  basket like, well, that can't be.
• 32:11
  Well, I think a big one is where you were sitting at the time the
• 32:14
  touchdown was scored or if there was an interception, you got to
• 32:18
  switch positions. But it's like we're all lined up
• 32:22
  in the exact same spot. That is a real thing.
• 32:24
  Yeah, Jimmy, you got to sit over there.
• 32:27
  That is your seat if you. Don't sit there.
• 32:29
  They're going to lose. Yeah.
• 32:31
  So it is funny how superstitious people get and that we all kind
• 32:37
  of have that in common a little bit.
• 32:39
  I haven't really met anybody that's like, I'm just not
• 32:42
  superstitious at all. I feel like we all kind of yeah,
• 32:46
  lock a little. Well, fan stands for phonetic.
• 32:49
  Fanatic. So.
• 32:51
  Oh, I never thought about that. Yeah.
• 32:53
  That is sad. We're all a little crazy.
• 32:56
  I think so. I know I am, But try to keep it
• 33:00
  pretty normal around most people.
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  It's hard. It's hard some days, but but
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  yeah, we're all fanatics for something.
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  Well, I am just really excited that we got to sit down.
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  I think it's been fun because you are more of a sports fan and
• 33:19
  I am more of a style person, so I needed your perspective here.
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  I was not going to be able to to really talk about hosting a
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  game, watching experience, and I've learned a lot.
• 33:31
  Well I appreciate you having me, this was fun.
• 33:33
  It was fun, I guess. Final closing things.
• 33:37
  Let's do another rapid fire. OK, questioning.
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  Let's do it on hosting preferences.
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  Do you prefer fabric or leather? I'm fine with either, but I'm
• 33:51
  going to go leather. OK, immersive or not?
• 33:55
  Immersive. Easy.
• 33:57
  It just really UPS the game sectional or sofa.
• 34:01
  Sectional. Oh yeah, with your.
• 34:03
  Yeah, I have two sections. Yeah, Yeah.
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  Well, that's fun. I, I think I'm a, I'm a fabric
• 34:12
  person just because it feels cozier, but I, I should be
• 34:16
  convinced that leather can be cozy too.
• 34:19
  Oh. Yeah, we have leather upstairs,
• 34:21
  fabric downstairs. Little bit of both.
• 34:24
  It looks so nice. Yeah, and the leather ends up
• 34:26
  changing temperature to your body, so it's they're both cozy.
• 34:31
  Yeah, I'm really bad at rapid fire because I always want to be
• 34:34
  like, yeah, you know, and like join in on the conversation.
• 34:38
  So it's never really that rapid with me.
• 34:40
  But anyway, thank you for being. Here again.
• 34:43
  Absolutely yeah. For everyone watching, let us
• 34:47
  know what your game day superstitions are.
• 34:51
  Comment on the video and if anything, if you have any
• 34:55
  questions, make sure to follow us on the socials because we'll
• 35:02
  just keep putting out more helpful information and guides
• 35:06
  on how to set up your living room.
• 35:08
  And if you're watching today, there's a lot of great examples
• 35:14
  of different sofa and sectional and seating setups that you can
• 35:19
  do to inspire yourself. If you can go back and watch,
• 35:23
  that'll be helpful. But otherwise, if you're just
• 35:26
  listening, know that you can check back in on socials and
• 35:29
  know what the best setups are and get inspired.
• 35:34
  So bye everyone.