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So one thing about dias is that they're going to take the
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Centros de Mesa. We all know that brother.
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It's me. I'm Tia fuck me.
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Is that person that like whores the Centro when they get to
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the party? I'm like,
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I'm like this, I'm like es es,
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if I'm the first one to get to the table,
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that's, that's my fucking centro de Mesa.
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If another Senora tries to take it,
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I'm throwing hands. I am throwing hands.
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Ile de Circo. Por ta Mieno,
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Senora. Yeah. Yaso Senora and no respecting the se the
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elders because now I'm an elder.
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I really feel like that about this.
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Well, actually, I mean,
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sometimes you may be able to take them,
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you know, these days most centerpieces are rented from a party
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rental business which means that if your tia are already plotting and
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it's your party, your tab is going to be more expensive
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than you thought because they're rental because they're gonna charge you.
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I actually think my mom took a rental like it looks like
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nice. How could you?
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it looks, I'm like this is too nice to be given
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away. It's like heavy and shit like it's crazy.
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I, I always ask sometimes,
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well, not always but I ask because I'm like,
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oh give me, I'm like,
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we got a pro joining us to break down this whole Cento
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de mesa universe, the etiquette,
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the pricing, the whole drama behind it.
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Javier Navarro from Js Timeless pieces joining us Javier,
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Yeah, I can hear you.
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OK, welcome to the party.
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Jenny is a big centro de Mesa fanatic enemy number one right
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there jokes. But yeah,
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but we wanted to obviously pick your brain and learn more about
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that whole industry and just first off,
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what kind of services does your company provide?
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Yeah, so we're very,
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very niche company in the sense that we focus on candelabras.
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So our candelabras are all crystal.
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people, most of the time ask for led candles in them
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and some people want real flame candles and it's really cool
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because a lot of people,
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they see them and they're like,
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I don't even have to get flowers.
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Now. I could just get the,
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you know, this is Mao de me and I'm like,
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yeah, it it works out.
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They're also just like really,
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really tall pieces and you put them in the middle of the
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table and people are just like,
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Exactly. I'm sure like,
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I got a couple stories about that for sure.
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We wanted to ask you what happens when you receive less
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props than you rent out.
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Yeah. So the way that we handle that is,
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we, we create an invoice right at the beginning and we
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always count how many things that we're dropping off to begin with
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And so then when we get it all back and we
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count it again, we basically hold the person who's liable
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for it, the person who rented it,
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right? But it also depends on like so many factors,
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right? Like if it's a random little,
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you know, piece of glass like me,
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Like I don't, we'll be OK and that's how we
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try to keep our customers cool,
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speaking of taking little things.
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Have you ever taken any centerpieces yourself?
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Any centros? No pressure.
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Yeah. You know what?
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I'm very Mexican and I've been to a lot of parties in
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my lifetime in my 29 years of life.
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and I learned from some of the best,
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you know, my tia and,
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and my parents and I,
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I'm, I guess I'm trying to like go on a tangent
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so I don't tell you exactly what I took.
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But it was a lantern and I swear it was really,
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really cool. And back then it seemed like a good idea
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But I felt bad after,
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I probably should have asked first.
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like, whole secret component to it,
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And it's like, as soon as you get to the party
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it's like you have your eye on it already,
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my grandma would always be like that was mine.
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Yeah. Yeah. So actually you had this question,
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do you wanna ask her?
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I I thought that was really like interesting.
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What would a centerpiece like this cost?
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Like if someone takes this,
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this, this is the centerpiece that my mom took that.
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I I feel like it was a rental.
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To be honest, I don't wanna cover you,
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I don't wanna cover you,
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you know, so we'll move it around.
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But what would something like this cost?
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Can we get an appraisal here?
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I I would probably price something like that around 40 bucks are
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those fake flowers? Yeah.
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Fake dude. This is an old ass centerpiece like it's but
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look, but look how long it lasted,
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that's the thing is like all you need is that and you're
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done, it's timeless because this was back when I was a
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little little girl. Yeah.
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Hey, but those are coming back,
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those are coming back back.
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See everything comes back as trends.
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Well, Javier, I mean,
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We really appreciate your expertise and you just educating us on
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centerpiece etiquette because I I'm crazy when it comes to those.
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Yeah, hopefully we can be in touch because for my
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daughter about this. So apparently we have to get her baptized
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The mom's already talking about it.
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So if we need to say I know who to hit up
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hit me up. I got you.
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You could probably find me on Instagram.
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My my user name is Js Timeless Pieces.
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and it's basically Javier's Timeless Pieces,
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you can give us a follow,
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you can message us there and we'll be happy to give you
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a quote. We'll be happy to work with you anywhere
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in Southern California. We'll,
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we'll be there. Beautiful.
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Thank you. We'll see you at a party,
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the center. Thank you so much.
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this is heavy duty shit right here.
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That, that shit was a rental.
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Martha has no chill.
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