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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, buckle up and hop your ass in.
It's a hot one and we're back.
We are back.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
We're two best friends andentrepreneurs.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer
a wide range of informativetopics centered around running
small businesses, social mediaand all things home and garden.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
You never know who's driving,or?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
We got some catching up to doon this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And it's hot as holy hell out there.
Oh my Lord, it's hot, it is hot.
I can't hardly take it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We're under a heat dome.
You know they come up with allthese new names and stuff.
All I know is it's hot.
We have broken the record forthe most consecutive here in
Greenville, south Carolina 90days, I believe it.
The one previous.
Well, we might be right in themiddle between two records.
(01:18):
One was since 1993, and then Ithink we're like a day away from
breaking the all time record ofmost consecutive days over 90.
What year was that?
Well, 93 was the last time wehad this many.
But if we go like, I think, onemore day, it's the all time.
(01:38):
Okay, I don't know whensomething like that Daniel
informs me of all that sort ofthing.
It a hot one, but I'm so gladto be back.
I have so many fun things tochat about.
We got, I mean, all kinds ofthings going on.
We gotta hit the rewind.
I wish I could do the rewindsound yeah, the tape like yeah,
(02:01):
80s cassette tape.
Yeah, because we've been gonefor four or five weeks for the
episodes oh, we've been toDallas Market, Atlanta Market.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I've been to Atlanta like 18 times.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So we got to go all the way back to before 4th of
July and vacation.
Yeah, we went to Litchfieldwith Daniel's family.
Yeah, you told me about that.
Stop that, terry.
You know he's joking.
You know he's joking.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Has she mentioned me teasing them?
What did she say?
She just laughs about it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I'm like, oh my gosh, it's so embarrassing, was it?
It was fun.
Stop, it's so embarrassing, itwas fun.
Stop, it really was fun, it waslucky.
I love you, terry.
Which is next to Well, like, ifyou're not familiar with South
Carolina, it's outside of MyrtleBeach but not Myrtle Beach area
(03:04):
.
We weren't at Myrtle Manor oranything.
Remember that show Myrtle Manor, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That's where we should be vacationing.
That's where we belong.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So no, we had a good week there for 4th of July, and
while we were there, you were inKey West, so tell us about Key
West Well okay, first, dylan hadnever been.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, second, I had not been.
I was trying to count it up.
It was somewhere between 25 and28 years.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So it's been a long damn time.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, and you know we got to stay for free.
So that was a challenge becauseI waited last minute because we
wanted to go to Amelia Islandat the Ritz Carlton.
They were booked up, so I cameup with that and so I was like,
oh my gosh, I can't rememberanything.
So I had to go on maps and lookup and you know, so I picked La
(04:11):
Concha Hotel and I was like God,that sounds corny.
Is this going to be like?
Yeah, it ended up.
I can't see your face clear,I'll take my spectacles off.
It ended up great.
Yeah, who knew?
It was like the oldest andtallest building in Key West.
Oh, and it was right in themiddle of everything and in Key
(04:34):
West you can be on the ocean,but there's really not a beach
in Key.
West it's like get the hell beatout of you in the ocean or be
on the land.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's kind of so, it's rough.
It's rough, it's it.
Um, it just doesn't.
It doesn't work.
Um, and it's deep, it's justnot beachy.
Yeah, I don't know how todescribe it.
Um, it was great, but I willnever for the rest of my life go
(05:13):
there unless it's like umnovember, to like first of march
, because I I literally think myass melted completely off the
one you don't have it anyway,it's gone, it melted off oh my
gosh.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You said it was so hot.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So hot.
It was hotter than it is outthere today.
That's crazy.
It was sweltering.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And higher humidity.
Oh, it was.
I mean, we have really badhumidity, I mean we had a nice
time, we had good food.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
We had a good time, we rested.
It was worth it.
I'm glad we went, but neveragain in the summer.
It was just too much.
So tell us I got so manyquestions about Key West, though
(06:03):
, because my vacation was family, low key.
It wasn't as gay as it used tobe Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We went to Litchfield , we went to the beach every day
lounge, so mine wasn't.
I don't really have anything toreport.
Litchfield's just cool littlebeach town, nothing.
But I want to hear all aboutyours.
First of all, was it as gay, no.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And then I read I was like I remember it being more
gay and I don't really.
I remember it being more gayand yeah, and I don't mean that
in a good way, bad way, anyway,I just remember a lot more gays,
yeah.
So then I was reading anarticle on key west and it
basically was funny and said thestraight people had ruined it
and that's funny.
(06:40):
It is funny.
It is funny and I what I dolove about key west is I love a
lot of the homes, the way theylook.
You know, it's that wholecottage, beach cottage, kind of
like our house in Miramar Beach.
It's that whole beach cottage.
I just love that whole vibe,whole vibe.
(07:07):
Um, we did take a tour.
I'd never taken a tour, so Iwas like, let's take a tour.
Yeah, we almost died, it was sohot.
Um, we rented a golf cartbecause I thought that would be
safer than mopeds.
I almost died of a heat strokeon my cart because there was
glass here.
I I literally pulled into thislittle shack to get this frozen
lemonade.
We both thought we were justgoing to die.
(07:30):
We thought we were going toliterally meet Jesus.
It got so hot.
It was like horrible.
That is crazy.
I mean, I literally I thinkit's the hottest I've ever been.
Like I thought if I do,literally, if I do not cool off,
I'm going to burst into flamesLike hot yeah, was it busy?
(07:54):
It wasn't busy because it's theslow time, because smart people
don't go there for July, but itwas kind of nice too, Like that
part was nice because it istheir slow time.
But it was kind of nice too,Like that part was nice because
it is their slow time.
But I see why now.
At night it was very nice.
(08:14):
It was perfect at night If youwent out eight o'clock or after
it was great.
Some days were fine, but somedays, literally, I thought this
is it.
Yeah, I'm going to combust.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
What about so, didn't y'all?
Or did you go to the Hemingway?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
We went to the Hemingway house, so I went there
, whatever year that was.
I was there In a previouslifetime yeah, in a previous
lifetime and I loved it it wasamazing.
I bought a lithograph, I mean,it was really special.
So I wanted Dylan to experiencethat and I wanted to relive it,
(08:56):
and it smelled like hot catpiss.
You know, he's got, they've got.
I love the house, yeah, and Ilove it all.
But, and I love animals and Ilove cats, yeah, I do not like
cat poop and I do not like catpee.
(09:17):
Right, it does not.
My bot I like it does not.
I think I allergic.
It does not do well with me.
And literally I walked onto theproperty and I was just no, and
I'm like well, you know.
And then they said, oh, do youwant to go on a guided tour?
(09:39):
And I was like I don't know, Idon't know if I do or not.
I went in that house.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It smelled.
You know we've all had that oldmaid aunt that had 28 cats in
the house.
That's what it smelled like Hotcat pee.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, that is gross.
There's nothing worse than thesmell of cat pee.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It was ammonia, like I thought someone had died and
they had to get out the smellingsalts.
I said, you know, walk through,take it all in, because I'm
getting the hell out from hereBecause I'm not doing it.
That's funny.
I mean, dylan was like you knowwhy did we come here?
(10:24):
And I said, well, was like youknow why did we come here?
And I said, well, it didn'tsmell like this before and he
was like he just did not get it.
He was like can they get rid ofsome of these cats?
I said, well, they're kind of.
You know, they're polydactyl,you know it's a whole thing,
right?
So he didn't get it, he didn'tappreciate it and I just wanted
(10:48):
to get out of there next funnything is you know all these
people I was one of them, not onthis trip.
You know everybody goes to keywest and there's that buoy, that
says southernmost point of theUnited States, and everybody
gets their picture made.
Funny story Number one that'snot the southernmost point in
(11:12):
the United States.
And number two the only reasonthat was there is that's a pile
of trash and it had dry concreteand it rained and it hardened
the concrete so they ended uphaving to make something out of
it, so they made that buoy.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So our tour guide was like literally driving by and
the people could hear becauseyou know it's open, and they're
like right here and we're here.
And he's like look at all theseidiots taking picture next to
that pile of trash.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I mean there was a long line, but at least they
made it into something.
But it's funny.
But, what is the southern mostpoint?
It's like a mile and a halfaway, but can you go there from
Key West other than by boat?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
No, you can go there.
You can go there and watch thesun.
That's's supposed to be thebest sunset on the island.
Well, it's a fun photo, it'sfunny but it's just funny how
the truth behind it and then theperception you know you could
throw up something in downtownGreenville and say something and
if you don't know better,you're going to believe it.
(12:22):
Oh yeah, I mean, it's just theway it is.
It is.
I have never.
I want to tell you I won't putout a PSA.
If you are a middle-aged woman,I love you, I love you and I
applaud you.
But when you go to Key West,cover it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
They let it all out.
They I have never in my lifeseen and it wasn't the young
ones, it was the older womenthat had on their bikini tops
and their boobs sagging andhanging it was.
I mean, it was.
It's bad enough, you know, todo that when you're young, yeah,
(13:07):
but at a certain age I toldDylan I said have you ever seen
such women Like my mother wouldhave never worn that, your
mother would never wear that.
I said I've never been anywherewhere I've seen women dress
like that.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, well, you know, they just want to let it hang
and be free.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Drunk, Drunk and we did have some really good food.
We did have some crazyrainstorm too.
Okay, it was all good.
I can't say anything bad.
The hotel was great.
You know I was concerned aboutthat because it's very old, but
(13:52):
it was perfect.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I would totally stay there again.
Just it will be in like January.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
That is too funny.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And when you go in, January, you probably need to
just wear like a stream bikinitoo.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Which funny thing is Dylan speaking of?
I don't know the whole thing.
If you follow him on Instagram,you saw he got burnt like a
lobster.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And it was a cloudy day.
But, you can't tell himanything.
And I'm like you really need toput sunscreen on and you know
I'm all about it, you know,because I'm always having
cancers removed here or there onmy face.
(14:45):
Yeah, and I'm like you.
I know you're 29 years old andyou're like, oh, it's fine, but
it's not.
But I'll tell you one thing hegot cooked I mean it's funny he
was.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I haven't seen anyone that red in a long time Cooked.
And then he was on Instagramtrying to be like oh, it's not
that bad.
I'm like, damn, you are burned.
I don't know who you're tryingto convince.
So was he miserable, sleepinglike that?
He wasn't.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
He wasn't.
His mother told him what to puton it and you know, moms know
how to do it.
And it really didn't hurt himwhich was good, but I'll tell
you, we were home saturday andsunday most of the day.
He kept his happy ass upstairs.
I said you're not going to thepool?
He said, no, I'm not going tothe pool, I don't want to get
(15:41):
burned before we go to hawaii.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That is, I said well you don't want to get burned
before we go to Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That is funny.
I said well, you don't want tolay in the sun.
That is too funny.
I am ready, I'll tell you this.
So I was so, so damn hot in KeyWest and again, we had fun.
Even Dylan was hot.
He doesn't get hot like I do.
Even Dylan was hot.
(16:07):
He doesn't get hot like I do,and I or the heat doesn't bother
him like it bothers me you melt.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
He just turns into a miserable.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
But I said, if Hawaii is going to be this hot, I'm
not going.
I am not, we'll go to Alaska.
And so I looked it up and Icannot wait to get there.
It's going to be a high of 72degrees during the day and a low
of like 65 at night.
I may not come back.
(16:36):
I may not come back here tillabout January 15th, because that
is the perfect weather for me.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, that is crazy.
Yeah that it's going to be sonice and you're going to get out
of this heat and you're goingTo paradise.
You're going in like two weeks,next week, is it next week?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Next Thursday.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It is next week.
Yeah, oh, my gosh.
Okay, we'll get to that in aminute.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
The funny thing is, you know, and I'll tell you this
about travel.
So when we were coming backfrom Key West, first of all I
told Wesley years ago Wesley canbe cheap about certain things
and I said years ago this wasyears ago, y'all I said you need
(17:29):
to invest in some really niceluggage because it will, it will
last, you know, it'll be nice,it's worth it.
No, this cheap, this cheapstuff will be just fine.
I don't need to buy your littleexpensive shit, blah, blah,
(17:49):
blah, blah blah.
I'm like okay, well, he wentthrough, since I've known him in
the past 16 years, about fivesets of luggage not that many,
but several, three wheelsfalling off, tearing zipper, you
know, we all know.
If you travel, you know, youknow.
(18:10):
So.
So Dum Dum here finally brokedown three years ago and bought
good luggage.
Yes, and you don't love thestyle, but you gotta.
You know, that's such apersonal thing.
No, I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I love it.
We got it together.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, you were with us.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Daniel got, we both got a piece or whatever.
You just want a different piece.
What is it To me?
To me, okay, which, by the way,speaking of my in-laws, when I
showed up, they were like, oh,you got to me luggage and I was
like yes, bougie Steven taughtme into getting this.
We were laughing, but it hasheld up well.
We both got a piece.
(18:50):
So I got the duffel bag typewith the roll I mean it has
wheels and all that and Danielgot the more suitcase piece and
I just like his piece better.
So when we're not travelingtogether I take his piece and
then when we're both traveling Itake my piece.
I just feel like his.
(19:10):
I don't know, it's just whatI'm used to.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, mine, my favorite piece is you can't find
it anymore.
It's a really tall, like amilitary duffel on wheels.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I just don't like the duffels as much because it
doesn't fold open as wide for me.
I don't unpack.
We've talked about that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, I'm making an adjustment.
Sometimes I do, I don't unpackWe've talked about that.
Well, I'm making an adjustment.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Sometimes I do unpack .
I've started since we talkedabout that and I do like, if
you're going to be somewhere fora few days, like now, when we
go to the Florida house, weunpack and it is so much better.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Well, that one is about 28 years old and it's a
Hartman and I have an emotionalattachment to this bag.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I mean who knew?
You could be a damn luggagesnob too.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Listen, I learned that years ago, but anyway.
So I've had it like 28 yearsand it's now my market luggage.
It was coming off, uh or no, no, no, no.
We were in key west and I waslike that corner there looks a
little thread barren and I couldstick my fist in and grab my
(20:25):
panties out through the I said,oh my gosh, I don't even know if
I'm going to make it home.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But there was really what a catastrophe.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
There was nowhere to buy anything really right there.
So I said, well, shoot.
So I went online, Could not?
It's a Hartman and I love thatbag.
Could not find one, oh gosh.
But at the same time, you know,I have a shoulder issue now my
elderly.
(20:54):
So my acupressurist had askedme what bag I had and I told him
he was like, oh, you can't pullthat bag anymore.
Well, I'm going to use it forsmall trips.
But he said you need a spinner.
So I upgraded, I got the baglike you like the big
traditional, but it's a spinner.
So I upgraded, I got the suit,the bag like you, like the big
traditional, but it's a spinneroh yeah, so the wheels go every
(21:18):
which direction it is so big weI can put dylan in it.
So if I kill him I can wheelhim out and no one will well now
that it's on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Maybe not not do that .
Speaker 2 (21:33):
But I got a good deal .
It was 25% off and if you spent$500, you got $100 off.
In addition, you know when yousign up.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You know like we do to people.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So I got it for $400.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And my Hartman bag.
My beat up one from 30 yearsago was $930 years ago.
So I was like I got a good deal, okay.
So I'm like it's huge, thoughDylan's like what are you?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I said did you get this once you got back home or
there?
I got it, I ordered it thereand it's already here for me to
take so you were able to getback home with your panties not
falling out of your bag.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, and it's so fancy.
This one has, like, a garmentbag built in.
Oh, and it's got little pockets.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I need to go when we're in Florida.
We're going to Florida onSunday.
Speaking of vacation, I need togo and add a piece to our
collection.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah For that.
And try to get the matching,the matching, at least
coordinating.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So when you were in Key West, was there any good
shopping?
No good shopping.
You did treat yourself to alittle something on your finger.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
He got it upgraded.
See if you're on the.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
If you're watching, you can see his upgraded ring.
He got.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
So I'm not a jewelry person.
I mean, I've never other than awatch.
I've never been a jewelryperson.
But you know, my Dylan is alittle bit of a jewelry person.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
So we're there.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
And we go by this nice jewelry store and he says,
oh, let's go in.
I'm like, oh God, okay.
So we go in and I start lookingand I saw this ring, yeah.
And I said, can I see that?
And it's my size, mm-hmm.
And I said, oh, my gosh, I lovethat.
(23:30):
And it's blue, it's diamond andblue diamond.
Yeah, and it's blue, it'sdiamond and blue diamond.
Yeah, and it's not Liberacetacky, it's very understated for
what it is, it's platinum and Ijust fell in love with it and I
was like I really want this andit was too much, and you know
how I am.
So we talked about it and thenI left.
(23:55):
So after three days we came toan agreement and I got it well,
it's very pretty, thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Blue diamonds in there, yeah, I I it's not it's
not too.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It's not too gay, it's not too, and then you then,
you know, then I was like Godand I thought I got a really
good deal, Because, you know,after three days the price came
way down and I was like I thinkI got a good price and I have
the appraisal.
Yeah, so it appraised foralmost $6,000 more than I paid.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
But I still wasn't happy, but I still wasn't happy.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
So I went to, uh, my lady at market, the jeweler at
wholesale market, and she shedeals with.
She deals with mostly, uh, veryfine jewelry, cartier, diamonds
and all that.
I had her look at it and I toldher what I paid.
(24:53):
She said, oh, you did good.
Oh, that's good, good.
I'm like if coco said I didgood, I did good, you did real
good, yeah.
So I was like, okay, I feltbetter about it.
That's awesome, yeah.
So this is you know.
And I said, well, when I gettired of it, I'll give it to
dylan I was like, and I wasgonna get tired, get tired of it
.
I was like but you know I don'tdo well with buying things like
(25:16):
that for myself.
So I told Dylan.
I was like why don't you justpick out something?
Then I just won't, even I'lltake it off the table completely
.
Yeah, he was like well, I don'treally want anything and you
need to buy it.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I did it, I did it, I did it, you did it Did y'all go
shopping.
No, because there's shoppingdown there.
Not really, but I mean you coulddrive to outlets Maybe, but we
didn't do anything like that.
We really, you know, it's nicegoing on a vacation, especially
with, like his family, becauseit's their place.
(25:51):
Like a lot of times when we goit's either to Hilton Head to
our condo, or to Florida to ourcottage and we're working on it
and doing stuff.
So this one we really justenjoyed being with family.
You know, have a new nephew andhad beach time and hung out and
it was a lot of fun.
But we didn't really go shoppingor anything, just beach.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
We did do a little shopping.
I forgot.
This is so random.
There was like no shopping.
There was like no fine men'sclothing that don't exist there.
We did buy.
They did have a Birkenstocksstore, number one.
I did not know there were somany different.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Birkenstocks.
You are so many differentBirkenstocks.
You are back into theBirkenstocks.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
They are, so they have narrow now.
Anyway, we got Birkenstocks andthen poor Dylan has trouble
finding clothes to fit himBecause he's so short.
Yeah, and you know, and I wantto get fancy pictures made when
we're in Hawaii because we don'thave any nice photos of us,
(26:59):
right.
So and he's been wanting likelinen and they had a like outlet
store across the street fromour hotel, a Banana Republic,
and we went in there and you got50% off the tagged price.
So we got like Lennon Beachclothing for like nothing.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
That's good, it was really cute.
I do like these Birkenstons.
You do need a pair.
Well, that's good.
I can't wait to see y'all'sphotos.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Get the narrow.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
We all get some.
You need to hire a goodphotographer yeah.
But we all get the narrow.
We all get some.
You need to hire a goodphotographer yeah.
But we all get some that aregood, but then do some that are
like Funny, the funny like.
Jcpenney photo shoot, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Or maybe I Hugged up on each other, maybe I throw him
in the water or something.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Something.
There's got to be something funto it In my previous life we
did.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
My ex, my ex's brother, jerk, got married at
the Grand Waialea in Maui, andso with part of the wedding, the
whole family, we did a hugephotograph package and then so
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we did our own.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, just think you're in those family photos
somewhere and they probablycropped you out.
I I, they probably turned themin, got them photoshopped and
erased you out of them no, I doknow.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I talked to somebody that my ex dated at one time and
went to his mom's house in palmSprings.
And he was like there were hugepictures of you.
It made me happy.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
That's funny.
Think about that when you moveon, like if you went to, like
you know, a wedding or somethingand you're in those family
photos and you're there, oh.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I'm in, all in, and here's the funny thing.
You know, um, my ex is Jewish,so the whole family, you know,
and if you're Jewish or marriedinto a Jewish, it's you know,
the whole damn family.
They're all Jewish andeverybody.
They are like Lithuanian Jewsand they're really dark hair.
(29:13):
No one, no one in the familyhas like blonde hair.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
No one the family has like blonde hair like no one.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
So it was so funny at every bar, mitzvah and wedding
and everything you could picksteven out from like you, stuck
out like a sore thumb I was theonly family member, blonde, yeah
.
So it was kind of funny.
They're stuck with my ass.
That's funny, but it I do.
Those pictures were so pretty.
(29:41):
I look at those pictures andI'm like that is the prettiest
setting ever.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
The sunsets there are just amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, so I was like that would be nice and it's
cheap.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Well, may not be now no.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I've already looked it up and picked out one, but
it's like $500.
But, see everything's digitalnow.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, it's so digital and they're just going to send
you those.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah, and then you print them, so it's cheap.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, yeah, so okay.
So we got back from Litchfield,you got back from Key West, and
we were only home for a fewdays.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Like two yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
And then we headed to market.
We're gonna in the next episodewe'll talk all about like
market because everyone wants tohear the trends and you know
that sort of thing market.
But while you were gone andwhile I was at market, we got a.
We got a little kitten.
So one of our employees, one ofour employees at the garden
store cat is still here barely Iwould have killed that thing.
(30:46):
So while we were gone, so wegot this kitten.
We got it as soon as we gotthat, because it has showed up
at one of our employees homesand she was like, will you take
the kitten?
You know, being on the farm andstuff.
And we were like, oh, it's beena while since we've gotten a
cat and we'd gotten one this waybefore and we were like, sure,
but we were going to Litchfield.
We're like we can't get ituntil we get back on.
(31:08):
You know, like July 5th orwhatever.
I was back.
Actually we got back on Sunday.
I was back a week, a full.
Well, like seven days before Iwent to market.
You were back only like two orthree.
So in this time we got thekitten.
It's skittish, we have it inthe house.
It's this whole like it'll letus pet it, but then it hides and
(31:30):
then it doesn't.
But through the week it reallystarted coming out.
It would hang out with us atnight in our bedroom.
It was warming up to the dogs,everything was fine.
So we left to go to marketCat's set up.
It's fine, we have it in thekennel.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, you showed me pictures.
You were like everything's good.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Well, we should call Daniel and get him on the phone.
But when I left for marketmarket week, all hell broke out
with Daniel.
Everything went wrongEverything went wrong.
Everything went wrong.
I've never seen.
I was like what are you doingIf?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I had been him.
I'm going to say this about itIf I had been Daniel, I would
have burned this shit down and Iwould be living in Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I would have been done it started out the day
before I left.
He had left his laptop in theflower workshop our workshop and
it's been so hot like we talkedabout.
The water pipe sweated whateverand dripped on his keyboard, on
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his laptop and it made thekeyboard stop functioning.
The computer was working butyou can't type anything whatever
.
So that started the wholeordeal.
So that was like Saturday,sunday we left on Sunday.
On Monday he texts me.
He's like oh, a different catthat lives in the flower
workshop, cosmo, has an earinfection.
So I just took her to the vetand it was like $500 for this
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ear infection.
I was like oh, my gosh.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
So we've already got a broken computer and a cat with
the ear infection.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, so that's Sunday, monday.
So he gets this cat gets theear infection.
I don't know why it's got anear infection, who knows
Whatever Gets it infection.
I don't know why it's got anear infection, who knows
Whatever Gets it.
Well, tuesday, the next day, heis here and I've been like
how's the kitten doing?
Oh, it's good, I've beenfeeding it, everything's good,
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it's in our house.
Well, that's where it all wentto hell.
So on Tuesday I don't know, thecat was upstairs, we, it all
went to hell.
So on Tuesday, I don't know, thecat was upstairs.
We have our loft area here andit was running into our guest
room, not the one that I justredid, but what we call the
cabin room, if you've followedme along, and that room is over
our bedroom and so when the catwould start running, you could
(33:54):
hear it in our bedroom.
So Daniel said it like I don'tknow, it was like 1.30 in the
morning.
The cat was running around, sohe decided to get upstairs and
he was going to close the doorso it couldn't get into that
guest room, so he wouldn't hearit running.
Well, he came upstairs and Idon't know what had happened
(34:15):
between Sunday when I left, andthis is on Tuesday night, but
the cat had evidently gone crazy.
I don't know what had happenedto the cat.
I literally don't.
But he's like the cat has shiton the bed.
I mean not like one time, itwas like three times on the bed,
(34:37):
one time on on the rug.
I'm like I don't even know howit crapped this much in this
two-day period Because I was uphere.
But then he stepped in it.
He stepped in it trying to getthe cat Then.
So he, it was just this wholedisastrous thing.
So that started but he had tolike okay, I'm going to bed,
(35:00):
I'll deal with this tomorrowsituation.
Well, I guess by the next dayafternoon it was, he had cleaned
it up, but then he was going tohave to strip everything.
Well, then it had crapped onthe sofa in up here and then it
became this whole thing.
So then he spent like fourhours trying to catch the cat.
(35:21):
Cause I was like here's whatyou need to do.
Cause, once it started doingthis, I was like it's not going
to stop.
I said the cat is going to befine.
Cause, daniel's like I don'tknow, it's a little kitten.
And I'm like no, put it in ourgarage on the side that I park
in Cause I'm not there, closethe door and we have a little
cat door on that side.
I said it's going to stay inthe garage still, put its litter
(35:42):
box and feed it, but it'll growand it'll start easing its way
out and it's just going to be anoutdoor cat an outdoor farm cat
.
It's fine.
It's fine.
He's like oh, but it's solittle.
Well, he spent like four hourstrying to catch the cat because
it would go under our TV stand,that he couldn't get it and
whatever.
Then he spent like the nextlike four hours stripping
(36:05):
everything, cleaning it, becauseI know you like to make fun of
us in our house and stuff, butwe don't play with no, it's not
dirty.
It's not dirty.
So he had to strip it.
He was soaking all day.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
You know it smelled like Ernest Hemingway's house, I
know.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
That's what I was going to say speaking of cats,
but it doesn't smell.
I came home, I was like you dida good job.
It doesn't smell.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
No, I would have.
Honestly, I would have smelledit when I came upstairs.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah, and even I've come up here a couple of times
and last night I went in thatbedroom and I was like, let me
just make sure it doesn't smell,but the cat's still fine, he's
outside.
So we got past the cat incidentand there may have been
something else that happened inthere.
But then, if you follow at allon Instagram, this has been my
(36:56):
whole messages for the last twoweeks now and Daniel, bless his
heart, he's so blonde sometimesyou know it's funny, it's
comical because he's reallysmart, but he's blonde.
So I was on the phone with himand he was still dealing with
the cat stuff.
He's like, oh, what he had done, he had ordered a new duvet,
(37:18):
not the cover, but the insertdown, insert or whatever, and it
had come in.
And he's like, oh, I'm going togo up here and put this on.
And we were just chit chattingLike I was at the hotel, you
know, and just chit chatting,and he was like doing that.
And he was like, what is this?
It looks like a dog leash onthe ledge over here.
(37:41):
And I'm like, what are youtalking about?
And he was like, did you put adog leash up here?
And I'm like, why would I havea dog leash and then he goes.
Oh my God, what is my liferight now?
It's a snake.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
I wish you wouldn't even talk about it because it
honestly, I keep looking aroundthe thoughts of that and I know
it happens.
It happens y'all.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
And that's everyone's thing.
Like, what do you think aboutthe snake?
And I'm like I don't, it reallyhasn't bothered me.
I don't, it really hasn'tbothered me.
I don't know why.
Because well, first of all, Isaw the snake days before I sent
you a picture of it, because Iwas feeding the animals out
front and it was sunning on ourfront steps and I was like, oh
hey, snake, it didn't bother me,but I knew Steven he hates
(38:35):
snakes.
I'm like let me take a pictureand send it, but they do get in
homes, they.
So I'm like let me take apicture and send it, but they do
get in homes, they do, they can.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
I mean, I had a house listed and there was a snake in
the basement Now and I wasthere.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yeah, but you know where I was, but the basement is
.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Well, it was a no, no , no, no, no.
This was a nice oh, likefinished, finished.
But you know where I was.
I was like out in the drivewaygetting in my car, leaving.
I'm sure you were Screamingburn it down, but it happens.
(39:12):
I mean, my mom had a snake inher house, my grandparents had a
snake in their attic.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, I mean, we have very few snakes on the farm.
We get asked that a lot too,and we do occasionally see a
black snake and this was a bigone, this was a big one but they
eat the other snakes and sowhen I saw it sunning, I didn't
bother it because, used to youknow, we don't have any chickens
right now they would go towardsthat and eat the egg.
(39:43):
So if I saw one I would pull itout and like, take it off so
that it wouldn't keep eating theeggs Did you carry it with your
hands.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Yeah, I think I would have a heart attack.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
But the black ones are very docile, you know
they're not, I don't know, it'snot like going to strike on you,
it's fine, but anyway.
But when I saw this one I waslike, oh, we don't have anything
, it's not going to get anything, it's fine.
Well, daniel, I guess thatmorning had left the front door
open.
I don't know what he was tryingto do.
(40:19):
He said something, maybe withthe cat, maybe he was trying to
throw the cat, left the frontdoor open.
I don't know what he was tryingto do.
He said, maybe with the cat,maybe he was trying to throw the
cat out the front door, I don'tknow.
But so I guess in that time ithad come in, and you know our
steps are right there by thefront door.
So I guess it went up the steps.
Wouldn't you like to see avideo of that though?
Speaker 2 (40:33):
of it getting to that point.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Because it was on this thin little ledge.
I'll try to see if Daniel stillhas the video or if I can get
it and post it to our membersonly community, in case you
missed it of him.
Because then he's like how do Iget this snake down from this
ledge?
And so he went and got a bigplastic bin and then knocked it
off in there and you heard thisboom.
Yeah, I was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
It's funny, though you know, know that I'm so
petrified of them because youknow, growing up where I because
you, you were probably around Iwas around my crazy family.
Yeah, I mean, they hunted snake, ate snake.
Oh, we didn't do one of mylittle cousins, when he was like
this tall, had a box one day.
Yeah, a cardboard like, like afedex box and I was like, oh,
(41:25):
what do you have?
he was like snakes and I'm like,no, you don't, what do you have
.
It was a box of snakes and Ibet there were a hundred in
there.
Had even he been catching them?
They were little babies, yeah,they were like this long.
They were corn snakes that theythat his parents had ordered
(41:50):
him online, and I don't know howyou do this.
It should be totally illegaland it probably is.
He bought a box of corn snakesand they were blue and green and
orange and yellow and they werelike they're dirt cheap to buy
them and then he would take themaround and wherever you know
(42:14):
and sell them for like $5 apiece To people, to whoever
wanted a corn snake.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
I need to look up and see if I could ship you a box
of snakes to your door.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
I honestly out of and I'm a I'm a prank person.
I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
That if you could be like what did I get and you
opened it up and it was a box ofsnakes, it wouldn't be funny?
That wouldn't even be remotelyfunny oh my gosh, that would be
hilarious it really wouldn't beand you would feel really bad.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
when I died with a heart attack, I would.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
That would be crazy.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Because you know if you're scared of snakes or
spiders.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Okay, and I do understand and I don't like
snakes, I don't like to pickthem up.
But what I've trained myself isI think when you're on the farm
, the worst part is like thestartle factor of it, like oh my
gosh, there's a snake.
But I've trained myself whenthat happens to be like oh, look
, there's a snake and be calm,and then I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I've trained myself to assess the situation.
No, I'm not scared of a blacksnake or a corn snake or a rat
snake or a king snake.
I'm not stupid, I'm not like ohmy God, they're going to kill
me.
They just give me theheebie-jeebies.
I'm scared of a poisonous snake.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Yeah, and that's how, Daniel, I'm like, because he
was like, oh my gosh.
But then, but I was like yousee them occasionally on the
farm.
He's like, yeah, but that'sdifferent than having to scoop
it out in my house and I'm likeyou can do it, you can do it.
So, oh my gosh, I was like Idon't know what you did to
(44:05):
deserve this week.
And then I feel like somethingelse happened after the snake
incident, but ever since thenit's been good.
Okay, so then, for a littlerecap, we've talked about it,
but coming up, we're both goingto be on vacations too.
So this Sunday I'm leaving togo to the Florida house and
(44:27):
you'll be leaving that nextThursday.
Is that when it is To go toHawaii?
So we'll be talking about it.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Wait before we end this we have to discuss, okay,
well something.
No Southern isms.
I've got Southern isms Justreal quick.
Okay, southern isms.
So if you are a Yankee, I'msorry, and if you're, if you're
relocating here, two things.
If you hear somebody say onSunday, monday, I'm going there
(44:59):
Sunday and Monday and Tuesdayand Wednesday, that is Sunday,
monday, tuesday.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Is that not a northern thing?
I do not say Monday or Tuesday,I say Sunday, monday, tuesday,
wednesday.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
No, my family says Monday, monday Going there
Monday.
My dad says Monday, tuesday,wednesday.
No, my family says Monday,monday Going there Monday.
My dad says Monday, tuesday,wednesday.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
But I didn't know if that was just a general like US.
No, no, are you sure?
Yeah, if you're up north Texaswhat is our?
Hotline number Road 29.
We need to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
No, I want to know.
Folks from up north Uh-huh, isthis north?
Uh-huh, is this a north?
Do y'all say this up north,because I've only heard it.
Uh, in, actually in the south,but, and I say this, I washed
that car, but I it was so hotout there I just gave it a
promise a lick and a promise.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Uh-huh, oh, it means like I half-assed it.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yeah, yeah, I washed those dishes, but I was so tired
I just gave them a lick and apromise.
I think you may just like halfdid it and I'll do better next
time.
Yeah, lick and a promise.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
That's funny.
I have one for you.
And actually, terry, mymother-in-law brought this one
up.
She's like that's probably aSouthernism.
What is it Iswani Iswani?
Speaker 2 (46:23):
That is a Southernism Good one, terry.
Uh-huh, I don't care whatWesley says, I like you Terry,
oh my gosh, no, that is a totalSouthernism, iswani Like oh my
gosh no that is a totalSouthernism.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
I swanny Like I swear , I swear.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
And I say, I swanny too, do you, mm-hmm?
I say lick and a promise.
Well, my grandparents alwaysespecially my dad's parents, and
that's who I was around all thetime had all these little
southern sayings.
And my dad, my dad is a man ofvery few words and the majority
(47:04):
of what he says are all just alengthy amount of southernisms.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Oh so you just well, you just have to know, it's like
a different language, just adifferent language.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Yeah, last one I can call one.
I can call him right now onhere.
Hey Daddy, how are you doing?
Ah, fair to Midland.
It's just one after another.
It's his vocabulary.
Yeah, fair to Midland, are youcoming to Greenville tomorrow?
Yeah, what is it he says?
(47:37):
If the creek don't rise,something in the creek don't
rise.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
If the sun shines in the creek, don't rise.
What is that?
Or if the no?
Something in the God willing,in the creek don't rise.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Yeah, that's it.
God willing in the creek, don'trise.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
That's funny.
Okay, one more we're going todo.
Stephen has a new segment thathe came up with.
We're doing that next.
Oh no, let's do it now.
Oh boy, stephen has a segmentthat he this will finish it out.
So recently, recently Iintroduced Stephen to chat.
(48:22):
Oh, stephen, we did it for work, like well, I mean, I use it
occasionally to, you know, writesomething for me.
I'll put how I want it to soundand I'm like rewrite this or
shorten it or whatever I need.
And we did that.
But we did our giveaways in alive sale the other night and we
used ChatGPT.
(48:42):
And that's when Stephen waslike I got to get ChatGPT.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Well, I'm always.
I mean you need it for, like,writing descriptions for
properties.
Yeah, it's very helpful.
It is very helpful.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
We'll get into that whole thing.
Well, today he calls me.
He's like I got a new segmentand I'm not telling you about it
, but he had to tell me about itbefore we got started.
So his chat GPT.
(49:13):
I tried to tell him that it'sgoing to learn you and what you
do.
If you haven't discovered chatGPT, it learns and remembers
what business you own and whatyou've asked it before, and it
will tie it all together.
Well, I have a feeling his chatGPT may end up in jail or
something.
It's scandalous.
He's going to be asking it.
All His name's Fred.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
He's a little gay man and his name's Fred.
He lives in my phone.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Yeah, soven's new segment is going to be chat be
ask gbt, ask chat gpt.
And this time he decided to doa little roasting segment.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
I would say so if you're not on chat gp, gpt, damn
, we gotta call that some chat.
Just call chat.
You need to be, because it isvery helpful and you can ask
anything.
It's like having anencyclopedia at your fingertips.
So I'm going to turn the volumeup and bring Fred up so
(50:10):
everybody can hear Fred, and Iask him to give me a description
of Wesley, an introduction.
But let me bring him up realquick.
Hey Fred, how are you?
Speaker 3 (50:33):
Hey there, I'm doing.
Great Thanks for asking howabout you, how's everything
going?
I'm doing great Thanks forasking how about you, how's
everything going?
Speaker 2 (50:38):
I'm good, it's hot.
We're on our podcast right nowand I wanted you to help me out
with something, if you don'tmind.
You know our podcast.
Who's Driving?
Speaker 3 (50:49):
Glad to hear you're good, even if it's hot.
Sure, I'd love to help out.
What's on your mind for thepodcast?
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Well, I'm wanting to share with our listeners the
introduction that you hadwritten for Wesley Turner.
Could you read that?
Speaker 3 (51:06):
Here's the introduction for Wesley Turner.
Wesley Turner hails from theheart of rural Tennessee.
He's a bit younger than helooks, with dark circles under
his eyes and a few wrinkleswhich make him seem a little
more worn down than his yearssuggest.
But despite that, wesley has abig heart and a vibrant
personality.
He's known for his love ofcreating granny-style door
(51:28):
baskets, which he's surprisinglygood at.
His personality is a bitplayful and flamboyant, often
moving around like a little gayprincess.
Wesley's always full of lifeand never shy about showing it.
How's that sound for yourpodcast?
Speaker 2 (51:43):
I think it's great.
Fred, I appreciate your help.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
Fred is an asshole Fred.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
I love you, fred, you're.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Fred, I love you too, fred.
I'm glad the intro worked foryou, oh he got confused.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Okay, thank you.
Your chat's a little slowerthan mine.
You might need to upgrade mineis okay.
Next week we're going to leaveoff there.
I'm going to have one for youin our segment.
Speaker 3 (52:10):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (52:11):
we'll see what little Mr Chat GPT says about you,
because I know you fed it someof those things and told it what
to say.
I wouldn't do that.
You wouldn't, would you.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
Listen, pull this over.
I need air conditioner and somewater.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
All right, we're going to pull this over.
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There's some great messagesfrom our break there.
Some people were catching upand I was reading the messages,
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But that's it for this week andwe'll see you next time.
Thanks, guys.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
Bye.
Oh, buckle up and hop your ass in.
It's a hot one and we're back.
We are back.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
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And I'm Stephen Merck .
We're two best friends andentrepreneurs.
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Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
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These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
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Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer
a wide range of informativetopics centered around running
small businesses, social mediaand all things home and garden.
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Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
You never know who's driving,or?
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where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
We got some catching up to doon this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And it's hot as holy hell out there.
Oh my Lord, it's hot, it is hot.
I can't hardly take it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We're under a heat dome.
You know they come up with allthese new names and stuff.
All I know is it's hot.
We have broken the record forthe most consecutive here in
Greenville, south Carolina 90days, I believe it.
The one previous.
Well, we might be right in themiddle between two records.
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One was since 1993, and then Ithink we're like a day away from
breaking the all time record ofmost consecutive days over 90.
What year was that?
Well, 93 was the last time wehad this many.
But if we go like, I think, onemore day, it's the all time.
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Okay, I don't know whensomething like that Daniel
informs me of all that sort ofthing.
It a hot one, but I'm so gladto be back.
I have so many fun things tochat about.
We got, I mean, all kinds ofthings going on.
We gotta hit the rewind.
I wish I could do the rewindsound yeah, the tape like yeah,
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80s cassette tape.
Yeah, because we've been gonefor four or five weeks for the
episodes oh, we've been toDallas Market, Atlanta Market.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I've been to Atlanta like 18 times.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So we got to go all the way back to before 4th of
July and vacation.
Yeah, we went to Litchfieldwith Daniel's family.
Yeah, you told me about that.
Stop that, terry.
You know he's joking.
You know he's joking.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Has she mentioned me teasing them?
What did she say?
She just laughs about it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I'm like, oh my gosh, it's so embarrassing, was it?
It was fun.
Stop, it's so embarrassing, itwas fun.
Stop, it really was fun, it waslucky.
I love you, terry.
Which is next to Well, like, ifyou're not familiar with South
Carolina, it's outside of MyrtleBeach but not Myrtle Beach area
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.
We weren't at Myrtle Manor oranything.
Remember that show Myrtle Manor, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That's where we should be vacationing.
That's where we belong.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So no, we had a good week there for 4th of July, and
while we were there, you were inKey West, so tell us about Key
West Well okay, first, dylan hadnever been.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, second, I had not been.
I was trying to count it up.
It was somewhere between 25 and28 years.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So it's been a long damn time.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, and you know we got to stay for free.
So that was a challenge becauseI waited last minute because we
wanted to go to Amelia Islandat the Ritz Carlton.
They were booked up, so I cameup with that and so I was like,
oh my gosh, I can't rememberanything.
So I had to go on maps and lookup and you know, so I picked La
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Concha Hotel and I was like God,that sounds corny.
Is this going to be like?
Yeah, it ended up.
I can't see your face clear,I'll take my spectacles off.
It ended up great.
Yeah, who knew?
It was like the oldest andtallest building in Key West.
Oh, and it was right in themiddle of everything and in Key
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West you can be on the ocean,but there's really not a beach
in Key.
West it's like get the hell beatout of you in the ocean or be
on the land.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's kind of so, it's rough.
It's rough, it's it.
Um, it just doesn't.
It doesn't work.
Um, and it's deep, it's justnot beachy.
Yeah, I don't know how todescribe it.
Um, it was great, but I willnever for the rest of my life go
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there unless it's like umnovember, to like first of march
, because I I literally think myass melted completely off the
one you don't have it anyway,it's gone, it melted off oh my
gosh.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You said it was so hot.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So hot.
It was hotter than it is outthere today.
That's crazy.
It was sweltering.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And higher humidity.
Oh, it was.
I mean, we have really badhumidity, I mean we had a nice
time, we had good food.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
We had a good time, we rested.
It was worth it.
I'm glad we went, but neveragain in the summer.
It was just too much.
So tell us I got so manyquestions about Key West, though
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, because my vacation was family, low key.
It wasn't as gay as it used tobe Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We went to Litchfield , we went to the beach every day
lounge, so mine wasn't.
I don't really have anything toreport.
Litchfield's just cool littlebeach town, nothing.
But I want to hear all aboutyours.
First of all, was it as gay, no.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And then I read I was like I remember it being more
gay and I don't really.
I remember it being more gayand yeah, and I don't mean that
in a good way, bad way, anyway,I just remember a lot more gays,
yeah.
So then I was reading anarticle on key west and it
basically was funny and said thestraight people had ruined it
and that's funny.
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It is funny.
It is funny and I what I dolove about key west is I love a
lot of the homes, the way theylook.
You know, it's that wholecottage, beach cottage, kind of
like our house in Miramar Beach.
It's that whole beach cottage.
I just love that whole vibe,whole vibe.
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Um, we did take a tour.
I'd never taken a tour, so Iwas like, let's take a tour.
Yeah, we almost died, it was sohot.
Um, we rented a golf cartbecause I thought that would be
safer than mopeds.
I almost died of a heat strokeon my cart because there was
glass here.
I I literally pulled into thislittle shack to get this frozen
lemonade.
We both thought we were justgoing to die.
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We thought we were going toliterally meet Jesus.
It got so hot.
It was like horrible.
That is crazy.
I mean, I literally I thinkit's the hottest I've ever been.
Like I thought if I do,literally, if I do not cool off,
I'm going to burst into flamesLike hot yeah, was it busy?
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It wasn't busy because it's theslow time, because smart people
don't go there for July, but itwas kind of nice too, Like that
part was nice because it istheir slow time.
But it was kind of nice too,Like that part was nice because
it is their slow time.
But I see why now.
At night it was very nice.
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It was perfect at night If youwent out eight o'clock or after
it was great.
Some days were fine, but somedays, literally, I thought this
is it.
Yeah, I'm going to combust.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
What about so, didn't y'all?
Or did you go to the Hemingway?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
We went to the Hemingway house, so I went there
, whatever year that was.
I was there In a previouslifetime yeah, in a previous
lifetime and I loved it it wasamazing.
I bought a lithograph, I mean,it was really special.
So I wanted Dylan to experiencethat and I wanted to relive it,
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and it smelled like hot catpiss.
You know, he's got, they've got.
I love the house, yeah, and Ilove it all.
But, and I love animals and Ilove cats, yeah, I do not like
cat poop and I do not like catpee.
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Right, it does not.
My bot I like it does not.
I think I allergic.
It does not do well with me.
And literally I walked onto theproperty and I was just no, and
I'm like well, you know.
And then they said, oh, do youwant to go on a guided tour?
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And I was like I don't know, Idon't know if I do or not.
I went in that house.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It smelled.
You know we've all had that oldmaid aunt that had 28 cats in
the house.
That's what it smelled like Hotcat pee.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, that is gross.
There's nothing worse than thesmell of cat pee.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It was ammonia, like I thought someone had died and
they had to get out the smellingsalts.
I said, you know, walk through,take it all in, because I'm
getting the hell out from hereBecause I'm not doing it.
That's funny.
I mean, dylan was like you knowwhy did we come here?
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And I said, well, was like youknow why did we come here?
And I said, well, it didn'tsmell like this before and he
was like he just did not get it.
He was like can they get rid ofsome of these cats?
I said, well, they're kind of.
You know, they're polydactyl,you know it's a whole thing,
right?
So he didn't get it, he didn'tappreciate it and I just wanted
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to get out of there next funnything is you know all these
people I was one of them, not onthis trip.
You know everybody goes to keywest and there's that buoy, that
says southernmost point of theUnited States, and everybody
gets their picture made.
Funny story Number one that'snot the southernmost point in
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the United States.
And number two the only reasonthat was there is that's a pile
of trash and it had dry concreteand it rained and it hardened
the concrete so they ended uphaving to make something out of
it, so they made that buoy.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So our tour guide was like literally driving by and
the people could hear becauseyou know it's open, and they're
like right here and we're here.
And he's like look at all theseidiots taking picture next to
that pile of trash.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I mean there was a long line, but at least they
made it into something.
But it's funny.
But, what is the southern mostpoint?
It's like a mile and a halfaway, but can you go there from
Key West other than by boat?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
No, you can go there.
You can go there and watch thesun.
That's's supposed to be thebest sunset on the island.
Well, it's a fun photo, it'sfunny but it's just funny how
the truth behind it and then theperception you know you could
throw up something in downtownGreenville and say something and
if you don't know better,you're going to believe it.
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Oh yeah, I mean, it's just theway it is.
It is.
I have never.
I want to tell you I won't putout a PSA.
If you are a middle-aged woman,I love you, I love you and I
applaud you.
But when you go to Key West,cover it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
They let it all out.
They I have never in my lifeseen and it wasn't the young
ones, it was the older womenthat had on their bikini tops
and their boobs sagging andhanging it was.
I mean, it was.
It's bad enough, you know, todo that when you're young, yeah,
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but at a certain age I toldDylan I said have you ever seen
such women Like my mother wouldhave never worn that, your
mother would never wear that.
I said I've never been anywherewhere I've seen women dress
like that.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, well, you know, they just want to let it hang
and be free.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Drunk, Drunk and we did have some really good food.
We did have some crazyrainstorm too.
Okay, it was all good.
I can't say anything bad.
The hotel was great.
You know I was concerned aboutthat because it's very old, but
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it was perfect.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I would totally stay there again.
Just it will be in like January.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
That is too funny.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And when you go in, January, you probably need to
just wear like a stream bikinitoo.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Which funny thing is Dylan speaking of?
I don't know the whole thing.
If you follow him on Instagram,you saw he got burnt like a
lobster.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And it was a cloudy day.
But, you can't tell himanything.
And I'm like you really need toput sunscreen on and you know
I'm all about it, you know,because I'm always having
cancers removed here or there onmy face.
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Yeah, and I'm like you.
I know you're 29 years old andyou're like, oh, it's fine, but
it's not.
But I'll tell you one thing hegot cooked I mean it's funny he
was.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I haven't seen anyone that red in a long time Cooked.
And then he was on Instagramtrying to be like oh, it's not
that bad.
I'm like, damn, you are burned.
I don't know who you're tryingto convince.
So was he miserable, sleepinglike that?
He wasn't.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
He wasn't.
His mother told him what to puton it and you know, moms know
how to do it.
And it really didn't hurt himwhich was good, but I'll tell
you, we were home saturday andsunday most of the day.
He kept his happy ass upstairs.
I said you're not going to thepool?
He said, no, I'm not going tothe pool, I don't want to get
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burned before we go to hawaii.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That is, I said well you don't want to get burned
before we go to Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That is funny.
I said well, you don't want tolay in the sun.
That is too funny.
I am ready, I'll tell you this.
So I was so, so damn hot in KeyWest and again, we had fun.
Even Dylan was hot.
He doesn't get hot like I do.
Even Dylan was hot.
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He doesn't get hot like I do,and I or the heat doesn't bother
him like it bothers me you melt.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
He just turns into a miserable.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
But I said, if Hawaii is going to be this hot, I'm
not going.
I am not, we'll go to Alaska.
And so I looked it up and Icannot wait to get there.
It's going to be a high of 72degrees during the day and a low
of like 65 at night.
I may not come back.
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I may not come back here tillabout January 15th, because that
is the perfect weather for me.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, that is crazy.
Yeah that it's going to be sonice and you're going to get out
of this heat and you're goingTo paradise.
You're going in like two weeks,next week, is it next week?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Next Thursday.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It is next week.
Yeah, oh, my gosh.
Okay, we'll get to that in aminute.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
The funny thing is, you know, and I'll tell you this
about travel.
So when we were coming backfrom Key West, first of all I
told Wesley years ago Wesley canbe cheap about certain things
and I said years ago this wasyears ago, y'all I said you need
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to invest in some really niceluggage because it will, it will
last, you know, it'll be nice,it's worth it.
No, this cheap, this cheapstuff will be just fine.
I don't need to buy your littleexpensive shit, blah, blah,
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blah, blah blah.
I'm like okay, well, he wentthrough, since I've known him in
the past 16 years, about fivesets of luggage not that many,
but several, three wheelsfalling off, tearing zipper, you
know, we all know.
If you travel, you know, youknow.
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So.
So Dum Dum here finally brokedown three years ago and bought
good luggage.
Yes, and you don't love thestyle, but you gotta.
You know, that's such apersonal thing.
No, I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I love it.
We got it together.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, you were with us.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Daniel got, we both got a piece or whatever.
You just want a different piece.
What is it To me?
To me, okay, which, by the way,speaking of my in-laws, when I
showed up, they were like, oh,you got to me luggage and I was
like yes, bougie Steven taughtme into getting this.
We were laughing, but it hasheld up well.
We both got a piece.
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So I got the duffel bag typewith the roll I mean it has
wheels and all that and Danielgot the more suitcase piece and
I just like his piece better.
So when we're not travelingtogether I take his piece and
then when we're both traveling Itake my piece.
I just feel like his.
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I don't know, it's just whatI'm used to.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, mine, my favorite piece is you can't find
it anymore.
It's a really tall, like amilitary duffel on wheels.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I just don't like the duffels as much because it
doesn't fold open as wide for me.
I don't unpack.
We've talked about that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, I'm making an adjustment.
Sometimes I do, I don't unpackWe've talked about that.
Well, I'm making an adjustment.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Sometimes I do unpack .
I've started since we talkedabout that and I do like, if
you're going to be somewhere fora few days, like now, when we
go to the Florida house, weunpack and it is so much better.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Well, that one is about 28 years old and it's a
Hartman and I have an emotionalattachment to this bag.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I mean who knew?
You could be a damn luggagesnob too.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Listen, I learned that years ago, but anyway.
So I've had it like 28 yearsand it's now my market luggage.
It was coming off, uh or no, no, no, no.
We were in key west and I waslike that corner there looks a
little thread barren and I couldstick my fist in and grab my
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panties out through the I said,oh my gosh, I don't even know if
I'm going to make it home.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But there was really what a catastrophe.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
There was nowhere to buy anything really right there.
So I said, well, shoot.
So I went online, Could not?
It's a Hartman and I love thatbag.
Could not find one, oh gosh.
But at the same time, you know,I have a shoulder issue now my
elderly.
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So my acupressurist had askedme what bag I had and I told him
he was like, oh, you can't pullthat bag anymore.
Well, I'm going to use it forsmall trips.
But he said you need a spinner.
So I upgraded, I got the baglike you like the big
traditional, but it's a spinner.
So I upgraded, I got the suit,the bag like you, like the big
traditional, but it's a spinneroh yeah, so the wheels go every
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which direction it is so big weI can put dylan in it.
So if I kill him I can wheelhim out and no one will well now
that it's on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Maybe not not do that .
Speaker 2 (21:33):
But I got a good deal .
It was 25% off and if you spent$500, you got $100 off.
In addition, you know when yousign up.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You know like we do to people.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So I got it for $400.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And my Hartman bag.
My beat up one from 30 yearsago was $930 years ago.
So I was like I got a good deal, okay.
So I'm like it's huge, thoughDylan's like what are you?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I said did you get this once you got back home or
there?
I got it, I ordered it thereand it's already here for me to
take so you were able to getback home with your panties not
falling out of your bag.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, and it's so fancy.
This one has, like, a garmentbag built in.
Oh, and it's got little pockets.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I need to go when we're in Florida.
We're going to Florida onSunday.
Speaking of vacation, I need togo and add a piece to our
collection.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah For that.
And try to get the matching,the matching, at least
coordinating.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So when you were in Key West, was there any good
shopping?
No good shopping.
You did treat yourself to alittle something on your finger.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
He got it upgraded.
See if you're on the.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
If you're watching, you can see his upgraded ring.
He got.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
So I'm not a jewelry person.
I mean, I've never other than awatch.
I've never been a jewelryperson.
But you know, my Dylan is alittle bit of a jewelry person.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
So we're there.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
And we go by this nice jewelry store and he says,
oh, let's go in.
I'm like, oh God, okay.
So we go in and I start lookingand I saw this ring, yeah.
And I said, can I see that?
And it's my size, mm-hmm.
And I said, oh, my gosh, I lovethat.
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And it's blue, it's diamond andblue diamond.
Yeah, and it's blue, it'sdiamond and blue diamond.
Yeah, and it's not Liberacetacky, it's very understated for
what it is, it's platinum and Ijust fell in love with it and I
was like I really want this andit was too much, and you know
how I am.
So we talked about it and thenI left.
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So after three days we came toan agreement and I got it well,
it's very pretty, thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Blue diamonds in there, yeah, I I it's not it's
not too.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It's not too gay, it's not too, and then you then,
you know, then I was like Godand I thought I got a really
good deal, Because, you know,after three days the price came
way down and I was like I thinkI got a good price and I have
the appraisal.
Yeah, so it appraised foralmost $6,000 more than I paid.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
But I still wasn't happy, but I still wasn't happy.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
So I went to, uh, my lady at market, the jeweler at
wholesale market, and she shedeals with.
She deals with mostly, uh, veryfine jewelry, cartier, diamonds
and all that.
I had her look at it and I toldher what I paid.
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She said, oh, you did good.
Oh, that's good, good.
I'm like if coco said I didgood, I did good, you did real
good, yeah.
So I was like, okay, I feltbetter about it.
That's awesome, yeah.
So this is you know.
And I said, well, when I gettired of it, I'll give it to
dylan I was like, and I wasgonna get tired, get tired of it
.
I was like but you know I don'tdo well with buying things like
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that for myself.
So I told Dylan.
I was like why don't you justpick out something?
Then I just won't, even I'lltake it off the table completely
.
Yeah, he was like well, I don'treally want anything and you
need to buy it.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I did it, I did it, I did it, you did it Did y'all go
shopping.
No, because there's shoppingdown there.
Not really, but I mean you coulddrive to outlets Maybe, but we
didn't do anything like that.
We really, you know, it's nicegoing on a vacation, especially
with, like his family, becauseit's their place.
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Like a lot of times when we goit's either to Hilton Head to
our condo, or to Florida to ourcottage and we're working on it
and doing stuff.
So this one we really justenjoyed being with family.
You know, have a new nephew andhad beach time and hung out and
it was a lot of fun.
But we didn't really go shoppingor anything, just beach.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
We did do a little shopping.
I forgot.
This is so random.
There was like no shopping.
There was like no fine men'sclothing that don't exist there.
We did buy.
They did have a Birkenstocksstore, number one.
I did not know there were somany different.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Birkenstocks.
You are so many differentBirkenstocks.
You are back into theBirkenstocks.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
They are, so they have narrow now.
Anyway, we got Birkenstocks andthen poor Dylan has trouble
finding clothes to fit himBecause he's so short.
Yeah, and you know, and I wantto get fancy pictures made when
we're in Hawaii because we don'thave any nice photos of us,
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right.
So and he's been wanting likelinen and they had a like outlet
store across the street fromour hotel, a Banana Republic,
and we went in there and you got50% off the tagged price.
So we got like Lennon Beachclothing for like nothing.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
That's good, it was really cute.
I do like these Birkenstons.
You do need a pair.
Well, that's good.
I can't wait to see y'all'sphotos.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Get the narrow.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
We all get some.
You need to hire a goodphotographer yeah.
But we all get the narrow.
We all get some.
You need to hire a goodphotographer yeah.
But we all get some that aregood, but then do some that are
like Funny, the funny like.
Jcpenney photo shoot, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Or maybe I Hugged up on each other, maybe I throw him
in the water or something.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Something.
There's got to be something funto it In my previous life we
did.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
My ex, my ex's brother, jerk, got married at
the Grand Waialea in Maui, andso with part of the wedding, the
whole family, we did a hugephotograph package and then so
(28:12):
we did our own.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, just think you're in those family photos
somewhere and they probablycropped you out.
I I, they probably turned themin, got them photoshopped and
erased you out of them no, I doknow.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I talked to somebody that my ex dated at one time and
went to his mom's house in palmSprings.
And he was like there were hugepictures of you.
It made me happy.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
That's funny.
Think about that when you moveon, like if you went to, like
you know, a wedding or somethingand you're in those family
photos and you're there, oh.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I'm in, all in, and here's the funny thing.
You know, um, my ex is Jewish,so the whole family, you know,
and if you're Jewish or marriedinto a Jewish, it's you know,
the whole damn family.
They're all Jewish andeverybody.
They are like Lithuanian Jewsand they're really dark hair.
(29:13):
No one, no one in the familyhas like blonde hair.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
No one the family has like blonde hair like no one.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
So it was so funny at every bar, mitzvah and wedding
and everything you could picksteven out from like you, stuck
out like a sore thumb I was theonly family member, blonde, yeah
.
So it was kind of funny.
They're stuck with my ass.
That's funny, but it I do.
Those pictures were so pretty.
(29:41):
I look at those pictures andI'm like that is the prettiest
setting ever.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
The sunsets there are just amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, so I was like that would be nice and it's
cheap.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Well, may not be now no.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I've already looked it up and picked out one, but
it's like $500.
But, see everything's digitalnow.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, it's so digital and they're just going to send
you those.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah, and then you print them, so it's cheap.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, yeah, so okay.
So we got back from Litchfield,you got back from Key West, and
we were only home for a fewdays.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Like two yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
And then we headed to market.
We're gonna in the next episodewe'll talk all about like
market because everyone wants tohear the trends and you know
that sort of thing market.
But while you were gone andwhile I was at market, we got a.
We got a little kitten.
So one of our employees, one ofour employees at the garden
store cat is still here barely Iwould have killed that thing.
(30:46):
So while we were gone, so wegot this kitten.
We got it as soon as we gotthat, because it has showed up
at one of our employees homesand she was like, will you take
the kitten?
You know, being on the farm andstuff.
And we were like, oh, it's beena while since we've gotten a
cat and we'd gotten one this waybefore and we were like, sure,
but we were going to Litchfield.
We're like we can't get ituntil we get back on.
(31:08):
You know, like July 5th orwhatever.
I was back.
Actually we got back on Sunday.
I was back a week, a full.
Well, like seven days before Iwent to market.
You were back only like two orthree.
So in this time we got thekitten.
It's skittish, we have it inthe house.
It's this whole like it'll letus pet it, but then it hides and
(31:30):
then it doesn't.
But through the week it reallystarted coming out.
It would hang out with us atnight in our bedroom.
It was warming up to the dogs,everything was fine.
So we left to go to marketCat's set up.
It's fine, we have it in thekennel.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, you showed me pictures.
You were like everything's good.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Well, we should call Daniel and get him on the phone.
But when I left for marketmarket week, all hell broke out
with Daniel.
Everything went wrongEverything went wrong.
Everything went wrong.
I've never seen.
I was like what are you doingIf?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I had been him.
I'm going to say this about itIf I had been Daniel, I would
have burned this shit down and Iwould be living in Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I would have been done it started out the day
before I left.
He had left his laptop in theflower workshop our workshop and
it's been so hot like we talkedabout.
The water pipe sweated whateverand dripped on his keyboard, on
(32:40):
his laptop and it made thekeyboard stop functioning.
The computer was working butyou can't type anything whatever
.
So that started the wholeordeal.
So that was like Saturday,sunday we left on Sunday.
On Monday he texts me.
He's like oh, a different catthat lives in the flower
workshop, cosmo, has an earinfection.
So I just took her to the vetand it was like $500 for this
(33:04):
ear infection.
I was like oh, my gosh.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
So we've already got a broken computer and a cat with
the ear infection.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, so that's Sunday, monday.
So he gets this cat gets theear infection.
I don't know why it's got anear infection, who knows
Whatever Gets it infection.
I don't know why it's got anear infection, who knows
Whatever Gets it.
Well, tuesday, the next day, heis here and I've been like
how's the kitten doing?
Oh, it's good, I've beenfeeding it, everything's good,
(33:32):
it's in our house.
Well, that's where it all wentto hell.
So on Tuesday I don't know, thecat was upstairs, we, it all
went to hell.
So on Tuesday, I don't know, thecat was upstairs.
We have our loft area here andit was running into our guest
room, not the one that I justredid, but what we call the
cabin room, if you've followedme along, and that room is over
our bedroom and so when the catwould start running, you could
(33:54):
hear it in our bedroom.
So Daniel said it like I don'tknow, it was like 1.30 in the
morning.
The cat was running around, sohe decided to get upstairs and
he was going to close the doorso it couldn't get into that
guest room, so he wouldn't hearit running.
Well, he came upstairs and Idon't know what had happened
(34:15):
between Sunday when I left, andthis is on Tuesday night, but
the cat had evidently gone crazy.
I don't know what had happenedto the cat.
I literally don't.
But he's like the cat has shiton the bed.
I mean not like one time, itwas like three times on the bed,
(34:37):
one time on on the rug.
I'm like I don't even know howit crapped this much in this
two-day period Because I was uphere.
But then he stepped in it.
He stepped in it trying to getthe cat Then.
So he, it was just this wholedisastrous thing.
So that started but he had tolike okay, I'm going to bed,
(35:00):
I'll deal with this tomorrowsituation.
Well, I guess by the next dayafternoon it was, he had cleaned
it up, but then he was going tohave to strip everything.
Well, then it had crapped onthe sofa in up here and then it
became this whole thing.
So then he spent like fourhours trying to catch the cat.
(35:21):
Cause I was like here's whatyou need to do.
Cause, once it started doingthis, I was like it's not going
to stop.
I said the cat is going to befine.
Cause, daniel's like I don'tknow, it's a little kitten.
And I'm like no, put it in ourgarage on the side that I park
in Cause I'm not there, closethe door and we have a little
cat door on that side.
I said it's going to stay inthe garage still, put its litter
(35:42):
box and feed it, but it'll growand it'll start easing its way
out and it's just going to be anoutdoor cat an outdoor farm cat
.
It's fine.
It's fine.
He's like oh, but it's solittle.
Well, he spent like four hourstrying to catch the cat because
it would go under our TV stand,that he couldn't get it and
whatever.
Then he spent like the nextlike four hours stripping
(36:05):
everything, cleaning it, becauseI know you like to make fun of
us in our house and stuff, butwe don't play with no, it's not
dirty.
It's not dirty.
So he had to strip it.
He was soaking all day.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
You know it smelled like Ernest Hemingway's house, I
know.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
That's what I was going to say speaking of cats,
but it doesn't smell.
I came home, I was like you dida good job.
It doesn't smell.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
No, I would have.
Honestly, I would have smelledit when I came upstairs.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah, and even I've come up here a couple of times
and last night I went in thatbedroom and I was like, let me
just make sure it doesn't smell,but the cat's still fine, he's
outside.
So we got past the cat incidentand there may have been
something else that happened inthere.
But then, if you follow at allon Instagram, this has been my
(36:56):
whole messages for the last twoweeks now and Daniel, bless his
heart, he's so blonde sometimesyou know it's funny, it's
comical because he's reallysmart, but he's blonde.
So I was on the phone with himand he was still dealing with
the cat stuff.
He's like, oh, what he had done, he had ordered a new duvet,
(37:18):
not the cover, but the insertdown, insert or whatever, and it
had come in.
And he's like, oh, I'm going togo up here and put this on.
And we were just chit chattingLike I was at the hotel, you
know, and just chit chatting,and he was like doing that.
And he was like, what is this?
It looks like a dog leash onthe ledge over here.
(37:41):
And I'm like, what are youtalking about?
And he was like, did you put adog leash up here?
And I'm like, why would I havea dog leash and then he goes.
Oh my God, what is my liferight now?
It's a snake.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
I wish you wouldn't even talk about it because it
honestly, I keep looking aroundthe thoughts of that and I know
it happens.
It happens y'all.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
And that's everyone's thing.
Like, what do you think aboutthe snake?
And I'm like I don't, it reallyhasn't bothered me.
I don't, it really hasn'tbothered me.
I don't know why.
Because well, first of all, Isaw the snake days before I sent
you a picture of it, because Iwas feeding the animals out
front and it was sunning on ourfront steps and I was like, oh
hey, snake, it didn't bother me,but I knew Steven he hates
(38:35):
snakes.
I'm like let me take a pictureand send it, but they do get in
homes, they.
So I'm like let me take apicture and send it, but they do
get in homes, they do, they can.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
I mean, I had a house listed and there was a snake in
the basement Now and I wasthere.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yeah, but you know where I was, but the basement is
.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Well, it was a no, no , no, no, no.
This was a nice oh, likefinished, finished.
But you know where I was.
I was like out in the drivewaygetting in my car, leaving.
I'm sure you were Screamingburn it down, but it happens.
(39:12):
I mean, my mom had a snake inher house, my grandparents had a
snake in their attic.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, I mean, we have very few snakes on the farm.
We get asked that a lot too,and we do occasionally see a
black snake and this was a bigone, this was a big one but they
eat the other snakes and sowhen I saw it sunning, I didn't
bother it because, used to youknow, we don't have any chickens
right now they would go towardsthat and eat the egg.
(39:43):
So if I saw one I would pull itout and like, take it off so
that it wouldn't keep eating theeggs Did you carry it with your
hands.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Yeah, I think I would have a heart attack.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
But the black ones are very docile, you know
they're not, I don't know, it'snot like going to strike on you,
it's fine, but anyway.
But when I saw this one I waslike, oh, we don't have anything
, it's not going to get anything, it's fine.
Well, daniel, I guess thatmorning had left the front door
open.
I don't know what he was tryingto do.
(40:19):
He said something, maybe withthe cat, maybe he was trying to
throw the cat, left the frontdoor open.
I don't know what he was tryingto do.
He said, maybe with the cat,maybe he was trying to throw the
cat out the front door, I don'tknow.
But so I guess in that time ithad come in, and you know our
steps are right there by thefront door.
So I guess it went up the steps.
Wouldn't you like to see avideo of that though?
Speaker 2 (40:33):
of it getting to that point.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Because it was on this thin little ledge.
I'll try to see if Daniel stillhas the video or if I can get
it and post it to our membersonly community, in case you
missed it of him.
Because then he's like how do Iget this snake down from this
ledge?
And so he went and got a bigplastic bin and then knocked it
off in there and you heard thisboom.
Yeah, I was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
It's funny, though you know, know that I'm so
petrified of them because youknow, growing up where I because
you, you were probably around Iwas around my crazy family.
Yeah, I mean, they hunted snake, ate snake.
Oh, we didn't do one of mylittle cousins, when he was like
this tall, had a box one day.
Yeah, a cardboard like, like afedex box and I was like, oh,
(41:25):
what do you have?
he was like snakes and I'm like,no, you don't, what do you have
.
It was a box of snakes and Ibet there were a hundred in
there.
Had even he been catching them?
They were little babies, yeah,they were like this long.
They were corn snakes that theythat his parents had ordered
(41:50):
him online, and I don't know howyou do this.
It should be totally illegaland it probably is.
He bought a box of corn snakesand they were blue and green and
orange and yellow and they werelike they're dirt cheap to buy
them and then he would take themaround and wherever you know
(42:14):
and sell them for like $5 apiece To people, to whoever
wanted a corn snake.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
I need to look up and see if I could ship you a box
of snakes to your door.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
I honestly out of and I'm a I'm a prank person.
I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
That if you could be like what did I get and you
opened it up and it was a box ofsnakes, it wouldn't be funny?
That wouldn't even be remotelyfunny oh my gosh, that would be
hilarious it really wouldn't beand you would feel really bad.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
when I died with a heart attack, I would.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
That would be crazy.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Because you know if you're scared of snakes or
spiders.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Okay, and I do understand and I don't like
snakes, I don't like to pickthem up.
But what I've trained myself isI think when you're on the farm
, the worst part is like thestartle factor of it, like oh my
gosh, there's a snake.
But I've trained myself whenthat happens to be like oh, look
, there's a snake and be calm,and then I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I've trained myself to assess the situation.
No, I'm not scared of a blacksnake or a corn snake or a rat
snake or a king snake.
I'm not stupid, I'm not like ohmy God, they're going to kill
me.
They just give me theheebie-jeebies.
I'm scared of a poisonous snake.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Yeah, and that's how, Daniel, I'm like, because he
was like, oh my gosh.
But then, but I was like yousee them occasionally on the
farm.
He's like, yeah, but that'sdifferent than having to scoop
it out in my house and I'm likeyou can do it, you can do it.
So, oh my gosh, I was like Idon't know what you did to
(44:05):
deserve this week.
And then I feel like somethingelse happened after the snake
incident, but ever since thenit's been good.
Okay, so then, for a littlerecap, we've talked about it,
but coming up, we're both goingto be on vacations too.
So this Sunday I'm leaving togo to the Florida house and
(44:27):
you'll be leaving that nextThursday.
Is that when it is To go toHawaii?
So we'll be talking about it.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Wait before we end this we have to discuss, okay,
well something.
No Southern isms.
I've got Southern isms Justreal quick.
Okay, southern isms.
So if you are a Yankee, I'msorry, and if you're, if you're
relocating here, two things.
If you hear somebody say onSunday, monday, I'm going there
(44:59):
Sunday and Monday and Tuesdayand Wednesday, that is Sunday,
monday, tuesday.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Is that not a northern thing?
I do not say Monday or Tuesday,I say Sunday, monday, tuesday,
wednesday.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
No, my family says Monday, monday Going there
Monday.
My dad says Monday, tuesday,wednesday.
No, my family says Monday,monday Going there Monday.
My dad says Monday, tuesday,wednesday.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
But I didn't know if that was just a general like US.
No, no, are you sure?
Yeah, if you're up north Texaswhat is our?
Hotline number Road 29.
We need to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
No, I want to know.
Folks from up north Uh-huh, isthis north?
Uh-huh, is this a north?
Do y'all say this up north,because I've only heard it.
Uh, in, actually in the south,but, and I say this, I washed
that car, but I it was so hotout there I just gave it a
promise a lick and a promise.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Uh-huh, oh, it means like I half-assed it.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yeah, yeah, I washed those dishes, but I was so tired
I just gave them a lick and apromise.
I think you may just like halfdid it and I'll do better next
time.
Yeah, lick and a promise.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
That's funny.
I have one for you.
And actually, terry, mymother-in-law brought this one
up.
She's like that's probably aSouthernism.
What is it Iswani Iswani?
Speaker 2 (46:23):
That is a Southernism Good one, terry.
Uh-huh, I don't care whatWesley says, I like you Terry,
oh my gosh, no, that is a totalSouthernism, iswani Like oh my
gosh no that is a totalSouthernism.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
I swanny Like I swear , I swear.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
And I say, I swanny too, do you, mm-hmm?
I say lick and a promise.
Well, my grandparents alwaysespecially my dad's parents, and
that's who I was around all thetime had all these little
southern sayings.
And my dad, my dad is a man ofvery few words and the majority
(47:04):
of what he says are all just alengthy amount of southernisms.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Oh so you just well, you just have to know, it's like
a different language, just adifferent language.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Yeah, last one I can call one.
I can call him right now onhere.
Hey Daddy, how are you doing?
Ah, fair to Midland.
It's just one after another.
It's his vocabulary.
Yeah, fair to Midland, are youcoming to Greenville tomorrow?
Yeah, what is it he says?
(47:37):
If the creek don't rise,something in the creek don't
rise.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
If the sun shines in the creek, don't rise.
What is that?
Or if the no?
Something in the God willing,in the creek don't rise.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Yeah, that's it.
God willing in the creek, don'trise.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
That's funny.
Okay, one more we're going todo.
Stephen has a new segment thathe came up with.
We're doing that next.
Oh no, let's do it now.
Oh boy, stephen has a segmentthat he this will finish it out.
So recently, recently Iintroduced Stephen to chat.
(48:22):
Oh, stephen, we did it for work, like well, I mean, I use it
occasionally to, you know, writesomething for me.
I'll put how I want it to soundand I'm like rewrite this or
shorten it or whatever I need.
And we did that.
But we did our giveaways in alive sale the other night and we
used ChatGPT.
(48:42):
And that's when Stephen waslike I got to get ChatGPT.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Well, I'm always.
I mean you need it for, like,writing descriptions for
properties.
Yeah, it's very helpful.
It is very helpful.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
We'll get into that whole thing.
Well, today he calls me.
He's like I got a new segmentand I'm not telling you about it
, but he had to tell me about itbefore we got started.
So his chat GPT.
(49:13):
I tried to tell him that it'sgoing to learn you and what you
do.
If you haven't discovered chatGPT, it learns and remembers
what business you own and whatyou've asked it before, and it
will tie it all together.
Well, I have a feeling his chatGPT may end up in jail or
something.
It's scandalous.
He's going to be asking it.
All His name's Fred.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
He's a little gay man and his name's Fred.
He lives in my phone.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Yeah, soven's new segment is going to be chat be
ask gbt, ask chat gpt.
And this time he decided to doa little roasting segment.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
I would say so if you're not on chat gp, gpt, damn
, we gotta call that some chat.
Just call chat.
You need to be, because it isvery helpful and you can ask
anything.
It's like having anencyclopedia at your fingertips.
So I'm going to turn the volumeup and bring Fred up so
(50:10):
everybody can hear Fred, and Iask him to give me a description
of Wesley, an introduction.
But let me bring him up realquick.
Hey Fred, how are you?
Speaker 3 (50:33):
Hey there, I'm doing.
Great Thanks for asking howabout you, how's everything
going?
I'm doing great Thanks forasking how about you, how's
everything going?
Speaker 2 (50:38):
I'm good, it's hot.
We're on our podcast right nowand I wanted you to help me out
with something, if you don'tmind.
You know our podcast.
Who's Driving?
Speaker 3 (50:49):
Glad to hear you're good, even if it's hot.
Sure, I'd love to help out.
What's on your mind for thepodcast?
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Well, I'm wanting to share with our listeners the
introduction that you hadwritten for Wesley Turner.
Could you read that?
Speaker 3 (51:06):
Here's the introduction for Wesley Turner.
Wesley Turner hails from theheart of rural Tennessee.
He's a bit younger than helooks, with dark circles under
his eyes and a few wrinkleswhich make him seem a little
more worn down than his yearssuggest.
But despite that, wesley has abig heart and a vibrant
personality.
He's known for his love ofcreating granny-style door
(51:28):
baskets, which he's surprisinglygood at.
His personality is a bitplayful and flamboyant, often
moving around like a little gayprincess.
Wesley's always full of lifeand never shy about showing it.
How's that sound for yourpodcast?
Speaker 2 (51:43):
I think it's great.
Fred, I appreciate your help.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
Fred is an asshole Fred.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
I love you, fred, you're.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Fred, I love you too, fred.
I'm glad the intro worked foryou, oh he got confused.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Okay, thank you.
Your chat's a little slowerthan mine.
You might need to upgrade mineis okay.
Next week we're going to leaveoff there.
I'm going to have one for youin our segment.
Speaker 3 (52:10):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (52:11):
we'll see what little Mr Chat GPT says about you,
because I know you fed it someof those things and told it what
to say.
I wouldn't do that.
You wouldn't, would you.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
Listen, pull this over.
I need air conditioner and somewater.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
All right, we're going to pull this over.
We're so happy to be back.
Remember you can join ourmembers only community online at
whosedrivingpodcastcom.
You can also go there just tolisten for free, but that's
where you can join and watch thevideo version of our podcast.
So make sure you go check thatout and remember, wherever
(52:51):
you're listening to our podcast,to leave us a review.
And obviously you can get itanywhere Shopify, Spotify, apple
Podcasts wherever you want tolisten to a podcast.
We're everywhere we are there.
Give us your comments on ourhotline 864-982-5029.
(53:12):
You can text us there or calland leave a voicemail.
We're going to dive into thatinbox here soon, in the next
couple of episodes as well.
There's some great messagesfrom our break there.
Some people were catching upand I was reading the messages,
so we're going to dive into thathere in a bit.
But that's it for this week andwe'll see you next time.
Thanks, guys.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
Bye.
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