Self-service laundry

Let's get started with this episode of the Small Stones Podcast.

We're joined today by Leonard and Carole Brown, owners of Pops Coin Laundry.

Welcome to Small Stones Podcast, Leonard and Carol.

Thank you.

You both when you were starting your business, you both had full time jobs.

And although in education, and although Leonard kind of worked some other places, neither of you had owned a business before.

So what inspired you to open pops coin laundry?

Well, I'll start.

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No, I know, right? I guess you could.

Well, I don't want to give too much free promotion.

But TikTok, it's called Laundromat Money.

Laundromat.

Laundromat.

Pronounce Laundromat.

I don't know why.

You and the Lisp thing earlier got me going.

No.

And then where do you go when your clothes are covered in blood? Laundromat.

Of course.

Of course.

Where else? Laundromat seems important.

Art meets a little girl who looks as sadistic as he is.

Her face is painted a little bit like his.

Like, I'm much more of a metaphor person.

Like, I just feel something about that for me, and I was looking before we came on, like I love this in the poem As for the Heart, "Now she mostly mutters to herself, though occasionally there's some clanging, a tinny sound like the radiator in a Southie triple-decker, fractious as a pair of cowboy boots in a Laundromat's dryer." You just keep stacking it.

I mean, some people would say, like, boots in a dryer.

I think it's also, like, bringing the world into the poem.

I was listening to a laundromat podcast yesterday.

This woman, Jamie Sewell, who I met at the Wash, Dry, Fold conference that was just last week.

She is a woman that owns Laundromat University.

She owns a laundromat as well.

And she's just really cool.

I think it'd be amazing, Sam, but you could get 20% down on other things.

Like, I saw a Washeteria in New Braunfels that it was coin only and no TVs.

I was like, "Oh, maybe Sam could buy that." [laughs]

You should have.

They do TVs at your Washeteria?

There is a TV, yes.

You have to pay for it? Like, uh-

And that's how you escape the system, Sam.

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Subject: Laundromat.

User: Porgar ninety-nine Tory.

Posted: August sixteenth, nineteen ninety-nine.

The washateria across the street from our school had an arcade, so that was pretty crazy.

The washateria?

Washateria.

Washateria.

The lavateria.

What does that mean? Laundry mat?

There you go.

Where you go wash your clothes and dry it.