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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yo yo yo, girl, you ready to buckle up?
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 (00:17):
Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
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 (00:36):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride, and if you could see
your face when I did that.
But also guess what?
What?
This is our 100th episode ofwho's Driving.
That's crazy, isn't?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
that crazy.
I can't believe we've stuckwith this this long.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I know, and we're just winging it like we do all
the time, so I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We're just winging it like we do all the time, so I
don't even know.
Well, you know I was talkingwith someone that follows our
podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Oh, okay, did they have great things to say.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes, oh good.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Good good.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, yeah, she still has her teeth, so that should
tell.
And I was telling her.
You know the fact that I'venever listened to another
podcast, yeah, and I don'tlisten to ours, I think it would
ruin it.
And you know what she agreed.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
She was like I get that, but no, not really.
I listen to ours and I laughsometimes.
Well, I have to listen to thewhole thing back again and make
sure, well, we didn't saysomething too inappropriate.
Which have you had to cut?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
anything I've said out.
No, I really don't.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I listen to it every week to edit it, but really it's
more about I'll take out if wedo a weird pause or you might
have to get up and go to thebathroom, or you know know.
Yeah, but it just I mightramble and say the same thing
over again, so I cut it out.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But usually I don't even do that.
Well, you've had to cut it outwhen you said like bad things
about, like your in-laws.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You're such a?
I have not.
You are such a bitch.
You keep saying that they'regoing to believe it.
They will not.
It's a joke, oh my gosh.
Shout out in-laws, terry andBobby, the whole family.
How are they enjoyingretirement?
Good, they've been on.
They're in the middle of a Idon't know, at least two-week
(02:39):
vacation.
They went to Europe and they'reon a Viking cruise and I don't
know they went a few days ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So they're on a Viking cruise and I don't know
they went a few days ahead, sothey're like celebrating yeah
this is their big retirementtrip, so they've been gone.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
it seems like a long time, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I think it's just a little over two weeks.
If I ever do retire, I mean I'mYou're never going to retire or
I'll just fall over dead in oneof the stores.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We are going to be just how my granddad was.
I mean, he worked up to thevery last day, I hope.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, I hope that's how it is, because I do enjoy it
.
You know, but you never know.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And I mean I used to say We'll still be trying to
make a dollar.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I used to say I was going to drop dead behind the
front counter at a McDonald's.
But I mean, I guess that couldstill happen.
I could go back to work forMcDonald's or buy one.
Did I tell you what Dylan said?
I don't know if I did so.
A McDonald's here in Greenvillethere was a forced sale.
(03:48):
I won't get into A forced sale,not a forced sale, no, a forced
sale.
And I knew about it.
Dylan said why don't you calland see if you can buy that one
again?
And I said let me think aboutthat Hell.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
No, Okay, two things here question and comment.
The thing is, Dylan wasn'taround during the McDonald's
days.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
He doesn't know how hard it is.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
He knows the afterlife of McDonald's and
where it got you, but he doesn'tknow the life of McDonald's and
what it took, and he would notbe very happy if you had a
McDonald's again.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He needs to just enjoy the afterlife.
He doesn't know he would be inthat drive-thru, right.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But also the question is would you ever consider
reentering the McDonald's lifelike that?
I mean, it's not a problem ifyou're like, yeah, I kind of
miss it, kind of not, I don'tknow Like, do you think you
could throw yourself back intothat and buy one?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It would be difficult , not because I love it, but I
love it 20 years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Right, because a lot of the business has changed.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So I I think I would struggle with it in many ways.
I think I would struggle fromjust the energy standpoint
because I am older now.
I think I would definitelystruggle with how the company,
the direction you know I'm 80sMcDonald's Right.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Which is funny.
Daniel and I were talking aboutthis just last night.
I was in the drive-thru, I wasgetting a salad at Zaxby's no
chicken and we were talking Idon't know how it came up, we
have a new one here down thestreet from us and I was like
isn't it funny?
The new Zaxby's or at least inour area look farmhouse-y, like
(05:54):
they're white, they look like akind of they're modeled after
farmhouse.
Look, and I said how funnythat's going to be.
You know, in five, ten yearsit's going to look outdated.
And it got us on the subject ofhow fast food places used to
have their own identity.
Like you can see a Pizza Hutbuilding from 1985, and you know
(06:19):
that was a Pizza Hut building.
It did not match any normal.
Well, funny you bring this up.
Yes, you're right, look.
And the same thing withMcDonald's.
The same thing with the TacoBell, kfc Long John Silver's.
You could take that building,paint it completely white or
black and plop it in somewhereand you would be able to
(06:41):
identify the building and how.
Now they've all.
They just look mediocre andthey've lost their identity.
And it got us specificallytalking about mcdonald's and how
mcdonald's had everything.
They were marketing geniuses,whoever happened to do it, and
they let it all go.
(07:03):
There is no like I used to.
Your kids wanted to go thereand so, like, take us to
mcdonald's because they wantedto play.
Like you had that audience, youhad the characters that were
fun, you had happy meals, orhappy meals, even a thing, you
got a toy.
(07:23):
Now they're just blah.
You know what I'm saying?
And the building's gray.
It is just as boring as hell.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So what is the draw?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
because it ain't the food.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
What you said, what you just said, is one of my
biggest issues with thedirection of the company and the
reason I say that is notbecause I want it I know things
evolve and updated but just andI had this feeling because we
started removing the redMansford roofs when I was in the
(08:00):
system and I held out on that.
You know, I had um, I only hadone that didn't have the
manseford roof and I was hopingthat someone was going to wake
up and say, oh, why are welosing our identity?
yeah, it, you know, because itkind of went with our Happy Meal
(08:22):
boxes, right.
And then you know, and ithappened slowly over time, you
know, and it all, it's mainlybecause you know everything in
the United States is solitigious and everything started
happening with food andcalories and marketing to
(08:44):
children, which is, I mean, thedumbest thing in the world.
I mean McDonald's had the bestcommercials.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But what they should have done is maybe fix the food
and not the marketing theyshould have fixed.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But a burger is a burger and a fry is a fry.
But you know, we did that.
I mean, we did that with appleslices and all that was fine and
the yogurt and all that.
I didn't have a problem withthat.
But then the Happy Mealsstarted getting crappy.
We went from having the besttoys.
I mean, it's just to me, itjust got stupid.
(09:18):
And I think McDonald'scorporate and I would say this
to the CEO of McDonald's youknow, I think McDonald's just
bowed down too quickly.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean, are you that out of touch, though, with your
customers, Like what sets youapart from anything else?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Because, like I said, you're not going there, You're
not like oh let's go toMcDonald's Like if I'm like I
want a burger, like if I want orI want nuggets or.
I mean that is still, I meanbeing honest, that is.
And if I don't feel well,that's what I want.
(10:02):
I want McDonald's, so I.
And if I don't feel well,that's what I want.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I want McDonald's.
So I mean you have those peoplethat are your McDonald's.
I mean I agree with thatbecause they're still in
business.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I mean they're still doing well, but there could be a
huge more amount when you hadthe whole package of the
marketing.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, and then your kids and what goes along with
that.
Let's go to McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You know you can take them there.
They can be entertained for anhour 30 minutes in the play
thing.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And I think one of the biggest mistakes was
removing Ronald McDonald fromthe local markets.
Yeah, a huge, huge mistake.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, I think Ronald died because he's not part of
anything Huge mistake?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Is he even on the?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
bag anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I don't think he's like in anything.
Yeah, they've brought back someof the promoting, but you know
we went from having like 80Ronalds worldwide down to and he
was a good community outreachpart of the program.
(11:08):
Here's the thing Ronald wasnever allowed to talk about food
.
He was never allowed to promotethe food.
All he was was a clown and itjust set it apart and it and you
know it just set it apart andit also, I think, brought
(11:28):
attention to the charity part ofMcDonald's.
I just think it was an enormousmistake on McDonald's.
Now you go to England, you goto England or you go to Europe,
go to Spain or whatever.
You're not going to see thedrastic changes in McDonald's as
(11:49):
you do in the United States.
You're going to see cool playplaces, you're going to see a
lot more normal, because theydon't have that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah.
The craziness in the US.
Yeah, that's just interesting.
Well, like I mentioned, this isour 100th episode, so I quickly
looked through some of theheadlines from our previous
episodes Funny thing is they allhave something to do with you.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I thought these were highlights, because you make fun
of me.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So I thought we could relive some of these funny ones
.
No, these are not.
Here we go.
These are not as personal orwhatever, and for me a lot of
them have to do with McDonald's.
But one of them I saw theheadline that makes me laugh
every time is when I think itwas a customer came in.
You were working at McDonald'sand said I bumped your car.
(12:43):
Do you remember that?
I'm still scarred?
You were working at McDonald'sand said I bumped your car, do
you?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
remember this I'm still scarred.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I just bumped.
Well, she came in, she didn'tknow it was my car, that's right
.
And she came in, described thecar and I was like, oh, that's
my car.
And she said, well, I bumped itand I was like, oh, oh you
bumped it.
How'd you bump it?
Well, I was pulling in, Ibumped it and I went out and
(13:11):
there were my car parts.
Were on the ground I saidbumped.
Bumped, I mean she ran it over.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I mean, she ran it over and we all know if you've
listened for a while.
We all know Stephen now and howparticular you are.
Is that a good word?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I was in high school then, and I was I'm sure you
were even more.
I was a little worse becausethat was my one and only asset.
That Honda CRX was the onlyasset.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh, and then I know you hated it after it got fixed.
It was just.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Hated it after it got fixed.
Are you kidding?
No, did it not get fixed.
It went straight to thedealership and I got a new car.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
There was no fixing it.
See, I knew, I knew it.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I knew, I knew it, I was, so I was just like this is
never going to be right, it'sjust got to go.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh my gosh, and it was such like looking back.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I wish my parents had been like no we're fixing it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
There would have been no.
Handling you, your parents werelike ugh, whatever.
No, handling you, your parentswere like whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, that's what they were like they should have
put their foot down and said no,we're not.
We're getting this car fixedbecause it was a great car.
It was like one of the bestcars I've ever had, did you get
the same car, or would you getafter that?
No, that was a Honda CRX and wetraded it in and I got a hotter
(14:54):
car.
I got a red Mazda RX-7.
It was hot, mm, and it was fast.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh Lord, another episode title I saw.
That made me think, or maybe Ijust thought of this, but I know
we've told it is the girllicking the side of the cup at
McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Do you have any positive happy stories?
Yeah, that nut, you know, Istill remember her face.
I mean, that's been A long time.
That's been a long, many, many,many years ago.
So she's probably married withchildren.
I hope her children haveterrorized her In some form.
(15:45):
Yes, I hope they have lickedsomething and embarrassed her.
Yeah, she made an ice cream.
I was sitting in the lobby andyou know kind of watching.
She was new and she made theice cream sundae.
And listen, you know you can goanywhere that have a soft serve
(16:07):
machine and I judge you.
I just want you to know, Ijudge everybody at the soft
serve machine.
But, in all fairness, if youdon't know, you don't know.
You know people think when youput soft serve in a cup, you
move the cup.
No, yeah, you leave it.
You do move the cone, but soit's always a mess with new
(16:29):
people.
Well, I'm watching her and youknow, and I'm like oh dear god,
she's putting like four timesthe amount of everything in
there.
So she puts the caramel and it'sjust dripping over the side so
she lifts it up and she said andthen the so she lifted it up.
She didn't get her tongue tothe container because at that
(16:55):
time I had literally jumped whenshe licked her hands.
She licked her hand and then sheheld it up and was about to
lick the side of the sundae cupA customer's A customer's, a
customer's that was standingthere.
I saw this.
You would have been soimpressed with me.
I look like Bo Duke from theDukes of Hazzard.
(17:17):
I ran across the lobby, jumpedthe count, put my hands and
threw my body over the frontcounter.
Yeah, I jumped the count, putmy hands and threw my body over
the front counter and grabbedthe sundae and said no ma'am, no
ma'am.
And I looked at the customer.
I said I would like to make youanother sundae.
(17:37):
And they're like uh-huh, yeah,and I was like you may go.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They were probably also thinking well, now it's
skimpy compared to that one.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well, I made it a little extra.
After that I was like good Lord, I mean yeah, and I was like
you may go home now and you maynot return.
Yeah, because I'm like thatisn't even, that isn't even a.
I mean not aside from theamount, but licking your damn
hands and licking the cup.
(18:09):
That's not a training issue,that's a character.
Yeah, you're just screwed up.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You're never going to get any better than that.
Don't you wish we could findher.
I wish I knew her name andcould find her.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You know she remembers that.
She probably tells the story.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
What McDonald's was this?
What location?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I'm not divulging that.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I just wanted to see if people could find her.
It's fine, it was the EasleyOkay, easley South.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Carolina.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
If you worked in McDonald's and tried to lick the
side of the cup, let us know,in the comments.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, we would love to talk to you.
She would remember me.
I fired you, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh my gosh, One of the other highlights of our
podcast.
This doesn't have anything todo with you and I don't even
know how we got on this on theoriginal.
I need to go back and listen toour podcast.
You know I'll get messages,like someone will say I started
over listening to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I know I'm like God.
They must be bored.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, they love us.
It's funny, I'm telling you.
If you would listen to us,we're kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
sometimes Dylan turns it on sometimes and I'm like
turn it off it's like funny I'mlike I don't like listening to
myself.
Uh, I know I sound like a haybale well you are, mr southern.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
uh, but was the hike hitchhiking episodes?
I don't't know.
That was season one and I stillget messages like funny thing
about hitchhiking or somethinglike that.
I don't even know how.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Funny thing, I still have nightmares from my mother,
from picking up hitchhikers.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Maybe that's how we got on it.
You were talking about your momwould pick up hitchhikers.
I don't know how we got on thetopic.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
My mom was the sweetest, sweetest soul.
You would just have to haveknown her.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You could literally.
You said she would just stopand pick up people.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
She was so, so, so sweet and had such a loving,
loving heart and she would pickup anybody and I would see I
would feel the car.
I would say, no, mama, no,please, please, please, no mama.
And she would say, honey, theylook pitiful.
We got to help them.
(20:36):
Yeah, I'm like they're going tokill us.
I was like no.
So to this day and listen, I'mnot as wonderful as my mother
was, but I try to be a goodhuman being and I do want to
help people, but I ain't doingthat.
(20:57):
The scars run too deep for meto pick up a hitchhiker Like I
would have to like recognizethem, and that's pick up a
hitchhiker like I would have tolike recognize them, and that's
really not a hitchhiker like Iwould have to know them like oh,
they work it, but do you?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
think you could do it in a uber situation like let
let a stranger ride in your carnot your car because you're too
particular, but let's say arental car yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
So here's the funny thing is.
So I have this weird fantasyand I'm going to do it at some
point.
I want to drive for Uber.
And well, this is true.
So my cousin got a new car acouple years ago and she kept
her old car, which was quite,was quite nice, yeah, and she
(21:47):
was selling it very cheap.
And I said, I think I want tobuy it.
I mean, we were having aserious conversation and she's
like, well, okay, but y'all havethree cars, like why do you
want mine?
Yeah, and I said, well, I'vebeen wanting to drive for uber,
(22:09):
like you know, when I'm notworking like it, I think it
would be fun.
At the time, dylan was workinghis job and I was like I could.
And she started laughing and Isaid, no, no, I'm, I'm being
serious.
And she said, oh, my God, youhave lost your mind.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You have lost your mind, I think you need to do it
and sign up and we'll get a car,cause I can't ride in yours.
I mean they could ride in mine,I don't care, but we need like
a minivan or something and I'llride along with you and we can
interview them Like randomquestions.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, and I checked, on that, we can make our own.
But you can't have peopleriding with you.
But it doesn't matter if youget fired.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, if we only make five trips.
But we would be so much funthey wouldn't report us.
I mean, they wouldn't care.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I wouldn't think, but much fun, they wouldn't report
us.
I mean, they wouldn't care.
I wouldn't think, but no, mycousin she was like no,
absolutely not.
You cannot do that.
Oh my gosh, you will get killed.
You can never do that.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
This is, that is crazy do it in the daytime and
you can select who you want topick.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I want to do it like on a friday night.
I want this, I want the stories.
Yeah, that's what wouldinterest me.
I want you know so where areyou headed.
But you know, I'd probably getboring-ass people like me or
something.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Like me when they try to talk to me.
I hate getting in an Uber bymyself, so what are you?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
doing?
I'm going to the U-Hauldealership Last week or the week
before, whenever it was I in anUber by myself.
So what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I'm going to the U-Haul dealership.
Yeah, that's last week or theweek before, whenever it was I
had to take an Uber from ourwarehouse to the rental place
because you were in Atlanta andI was meeting you and I rented a
van because we were bringingsome stuff back anyway.
So I was like I'm not going tobother an employee and I didn't
know which was more awkward forme.
(24:04):
Y'all know me.
Is it more awkward for me toride with the employee and have
to do small talk with them in acar or an Uber driver?
So I picked the Uber driver.
Nothing against our employees,I like them all, but I'm just I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You're not a small talker.
Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, so I small talker.
Yeah, you're not.
Yeah, so I picked the uberyou're not.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Uh, what's going on with your kids?
And tell me about this.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You're just not and the uber driver was trying to
talk like, oh, what are youdoing?
What's you know what's?
He picked me up at thewarehouse.
It says the nested fig.
What's the nested fig?
And I'm like, oh gosh, this is,this is not what I want to talk
about.
But you know, I went along withit and it was fun.
So, yeah, you know, I'm justnot a small talk person like
(24:55):
that and that's why I don't andI've seen people talk about this
on TikTok and I've talked aboutit with you.
I don't know if we've talkedabout it on here, but whatever
the coffee place is by I don'tknow the warehouse down the
street, what is that one called?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
The one we like that has the good pastries.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
No, no, no, that's a local one, the one you drive
through.
Oh, seven Brew, seven Brew.
I will not go there.
Their coffee's fine, it's good.
I'll send Dylan there if he'slike I'm going to get coffee.
They ask the most intrusivequestions when you are in that
drive-thru that I just want torun them all over.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
They haven't done that to me, but I want to go
there.
Where are you coming from?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I mean, it's literal.
What are you doing when youleave here?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I want to go there.
I want them to ask me thosequestions because I've got the
answers for them it drives mecrazy and their menu.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
They don't have a menu where you can see it.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I don't like that.
You have to do a QR code orthey're standing there.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
They walk out to your car like it is a little awkward
.
I don't like anything about it.
I refuse to go there Now I.
I just don't know how thatbecame a model of like.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Here's something that I you know, and I was a big
proponent of this.
I was one of the first peopleto do this, but we had to
because we had so much business.
We didn't have a choice.
Is the people outside?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Taking orders.
So, first of all, when I say wedid it because we had to,
because we had so much business,that's true.
Yeah, we didn't have thecapacity.
Our business has expanded thecapacity of the restaurant.
That's true.
Yeah, we didn't have thecapacity.
Our business has expanded thecapacity of the restaurant At
McDonald's.
Yeah, I was trying to come upwith ways to get more cars
(26:41):
through my drive-thru.
Yeah, so I put them out therejust for peak periods, like when
the drive-thru was stacking up.
So that served a purpose.
But, now like with Chick-fil-A.
I get it when they have highpeak period.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
But they do it all the time it's weird.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yes, it's stupid.
And here's the thing, and thisis what I used to tell
McDonald's owners and stuff thatwould do it.
I'm like, because I starteddoing it, some other people
started and I'm like listen, theonly way this works is if
you're getting more peoplethrough than you can handle and
(27:21):
your people are really on top ofit and you're adding orders to
the screen in the kitchen andyou're getting the food faster.
It's stupid and it doesn't workIf you're paying a person to go
out there to be a speaker post.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Right when it doesn't need to be.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah, you've got.
You've got one or two damnspeakers, you don't need another
.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
And then I go to Chick-fil-A and they have taken
it, and listen, I'm not knockingChick-fil-A and they have taken
it.
And listen, I'm not knockingChick-fil-A.
So y'all don't message saying,well, yes, they have great
employees.
Those owners paid very little.
They're operating partners,they're not owners.
They don't have the debts.
(28:07):
They can pay great people, andthey do.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But I think it's weird and I don't want.
I don't want to talk to themyeah, that's how I am,
especially when it's not busy.
And then they're in your faceand I'm like I don't go there
very often, so I'm like, what doI want?
And I'm trying to sit there anddecide and there's no menu.
And if you're gonna do likechick-fil-a or seven brew, it's
(28:37):
the same model.
You need a min.
Excuse me, goodness, goodness,okay, you need a menu.
Uh, every like carling all theway down to the street.
I don't want to have to scan aQR code that you can't scan
(28:57):
until you're close, and I don'twant someone in my face, because
then I can't make up my mind.
I'm like, well, what do youhave?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
It drives me crazy Anyway got off on a little
tangent.
I don't even know how we got on7Brew and all this.
I don't even know how we got onSeven Brew and all this?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I don't know either.
Oh, small Talk Uber hitchhiking, oh yeah, that is our brand.
We started on hitchhiking.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I'm like we ended up at Seven Brew.
Yeah he talks about Seven Brewall the time.
He is a little obsessed withnot liking those and I do think
people it's weird, it's weirdthose, and I do think people
it's weird.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's weird.
You need to say customerservice.
Hey, how are you today?
I'm great.
What would you like to order?
Oh, thank you.
Pull up to the window and I'llget your order.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Have a great rest of your day.
That's all I need.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I do not need you standing at the window.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
What is that bag you have?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
over there that is exactly.
That would not surprise me atall when I go there, see I want
to leave here and go there youshould when they ask me where
have you been?
I want to say, we just did awhole podcast talking about how
dumb y'all are.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
No, no, no no, no, I think I would come up with
something like I just killed 14people down the road yeah come
in here.
I've been contemplating doingthis, like what.
Like I would want to saysomething outrageous, like why
are you up in my business?
Like where are you going next?
Oh, I'm going to a wild orgydown the street.
(30:23):
I mean just somethingoutlandish.
So they just look at you.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, I don't know, it bothers me.
Moving on from that, I havesome fun statistics here, since
it's our 100th episode.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Okay, which first of?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
all.
We should have backed up andstarted.
I don't even know which youkind of mentioned how we've
stuck with this.
I'm glad we have.
I think it's a therapy sessionfor the two of us.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
It's the only thing I've ever stuck with this long
in my life that didn't make memoney.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That's true, that is true, that is true, that is true
, that is true.
But we've been listened to in91 countries 91 countries.
Isn't that crazy, 91 countries?
91 countries Isn't that crazy,91 countries?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And I still want to know in these countries like are
you military, are you visiting?
How did that come about?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
In some of these we've down at the bottom.
You know we've had like onelistener.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Or whatever.
We're still in 91 countries,that's okay.
Or whatever, we're still in 91countries, that's right, 91
countries.
So yeah, do you think peoplewere traveling or did they just
happen to find?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Or what I'm thinking is maybe you know, because
there's military baseseverywhere, yeah, so maybe
they're military and you knowthey listen to podcasts.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
So the top ones outside of the United States,
canada, no number two is UnitedKingdom.
Oh, number three is Canada.
Number four is Sweden, belgium,germany, denmark, australia,
netherlands, hong Kong, norway,finland and then Switzerland.
(32:14):
I don't know how many I justread off, but that's in order,
isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I like the UK.
I like it over there, yes.
So yeah, there's that I do likeme some England.
I love London.
Oh my gosh, which is you know?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
there's that I do like me some England I love
London, oh my gosh, which is,you know, very interesting.
I don't know, I just loveseeing that I need to see in the
.
Let me go back to locations andlet's do cities.
It's on the last 10 episodes,so we'll just go off those
statistics.
On the last 10 episodes forcities, charlotteotte was number
(32:52):
one.
Atlanta, greenville where's ourlocals been?
Chicago, houston, st louis,dallas, nashville, lexington,
lexington, kentucky and Kentuckyand Indianapolis.
Those are the top.
Oh, now it's switched.
If we do all time, so acrossall episodes, it's Charlotte,
(33:17):
greenville, atlanta, houston,kansas City, missouri, chicago,
dallas, indianapolis, denver andNashville Isn't that
interesting.
Fun little tidbits there.
How about that?
Well, also, I think, since it'sour 100th episode and we didn't
do it last week, we need toannounce the water bottle winner
(33:40):
.
So we scrolled through andrandomly selected one winner who
is a current member in ourwho's Driving podcast community,
Remember if maybe you're newhere you catch this later we
have our website,whosedrivingpodcastcom.
You can go there and join ourmembers-only community so you
(34:03):
can go there and listen for freeto past episodes.
Maybe you want to catch up someof the episodes that we've
talked about if you join later.
Or you can join our onlinecommunity, which started with
season three, and you can watchus there.
So if you want the videoversion, then join the online
community and you know thatsupports us a little bit there,
(34:24):
so you can do that.
But we said that we would giveone current member a hydrate
spark water bottle.
This is the water bottle thatsteven loves.
You know I cleaned mine out andI used it for a few days and
then I set it back down andhadn't been drinking the water
like I should.
Yeah, take a big old gulp.
(34:45):
So the hydrate spark waterbottle is great and you know it.
We talked about it briefly.
It has an app.
It tracks how much water youdrink.
You can set how much you wantto drink, or it recommends based
on your body, your weight andthat sort of thing, um, how much
to drink but anyway best thingever it's always linked down in
(35:07):
the comment or the show notes.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I'm so addicted to it .
I have and look, I have here'stoday.
I've had 49.4 ounces of watertoday.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Oh, look at you go and what's your goal?
90 or 100?
98.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
98.
So you're halfway there.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, you're halfway there.
So, anyway, congratulations toAmber Hall.
Amber is our winner.
We will reach out to you or youcan email me and I will get you
your address and get your waterbottle.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It's the best thing ever.
I'm so addicted, I'm socodependent on this.
I keep a spare one in my pantry.
I know you've told us that aspare one in my pantry.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I know you've told us that you have really latched on
and developed some type of Idon't know if it's an unhealthy
or healthy relationship withthat water bottle.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
It's healthy because I never drink water.
Yeah, y'all, I drink Diet.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Coke.
This is really a miraculousmoment to think about because I
had to stay.
I really stayed on you for along time about drinking Diet
Cokes.
Not that you can't have a DietCoke or a soda or a pop or
whatever you want, it was bad.
But he literally would onlydrink Diet Coke and you were
(36:27):
probably drinking like six oreight a day.
Was it more than that he'ssaying?
Was it more than that he'ssaying?
It was more than that.
It was bad.
And I would be like you needyou got to start drinking water
because I would send you thingsof how, like you know, it can
affect like your body and stuffI was sending articles.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
I'm so thankful I stopped, because I just stopped
like five years ago.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Has it been?
Have you stopped that long?
Maybe yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
It's been five years, but it, you know, I drank.
I even.
I wasn't even drinking coffee.
I mean, I liked coffee, yeah,but I was so addicted to Diet
Coke I would start my morningwith popping a Diet Coke and I
drank eight to ten a day, maybemore, and see, the other problem
(37:24):
was when I owned McDonald's andI would go to the stores and
get.
Everybody knew like I wanted thelarge size extra ice filled up
with Diet Coke, so when I wouldcome through the drive-thru they
would have that for me.
Ready to go.
Ready to go, yeah, and so Ialways had a Diet Coke with me
(37:49):
and I mean, that's where it allstarted and, honestly, what
worries me more than anythingwas all that Diet Coke.
I consume more than McDonald'sfood, you know, because you're
going to always eat food, andit's the amount you know and
it's you know, it was a bit of aproblem.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
It was a bit of a problem.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It was, and now I drink a lot of water and I will
drink a Diet Coke maybe once aweek.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
You think like maybe once a week or market.
You might have a couple more.
It's funny and I think we'vetalked about this before.
I never really drink a soda,but I will at market and I will
when we are like doing Christmasfloor set at the store or
something.
(38:44):
I think it's something about.
I feel like at the stores whenwe're doing a floor set, I feel
like it's something about likedust and stuff and then I feel
like that just good fizz clearsout my yeah, and you know.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
And the caffeine, yeah, but yeah, I mean I don't.
Do you even remember the lasttime you saw me drinking a Diet
Coke?
I mean, sometimes, like when Ihave dinner, I will, but see, I
usually have unsweetened tea orwater with lemon.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I like to go get, because I do sometimes crave
that fizzy feeling.
So I'll get bottled ginger beer.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Well, I found my new thing to try.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
So when you want that fizzy poppy, oh, I've heard
about them, but I haven't triedthem yet In the cola.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
if you don't look at it, it tastes like coke, but it
doesn't have any of thatartificial coloring.
It has nothing.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
It doesn't need the coloring.
Why does it need to be?
Speaker 2 (39:51):
shit brown, I mean.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Why is that even a thing?
Why did they start, I wonderwith?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Why are colors in there.
I don't, I don't know.
I mean, like you said, itdoesn't need it.
Yeah, like, why have it?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
in there.
Yeah, so the poppy I tried.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
I was against trying it.
I tried it over at Tina's houseactually, and she's like don't
look at it.
Do not look at it because yourmind will play a trick on you.
Like it's not really cola and Itasted it.
I was like it is like drinking.
(40:28):
She's like it's just ahealthier version when you need
that little fizzy, and there'sone, evidently, that tastes like
Dr Pepper.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, I've never been a Dr Pepper fan.
I mean that's not Root beer andDr Pepper.
No thanks.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
So, amber, you're going to love this bottle.
I hope you love it as much as Ido.
I'm a little obsessed with it,I guess, and I miss it when we
go out of town because I don'ttake it, because I have to have
my ice and water.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
And Rod y'all if he forgets his water bottle it is,
I just don't have my waterbottle.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Well, dylan has to leave, I don't have my water
bottle.
Well, dylan has to leave, Idon't have my water bottle.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Like, if you leave it at my house, you've left it
here before.
When we're recording podcast,that's when the text and phone.
Don't forget my water bottle.
Are you going to bring me mywater bottle?
I need that water bottle.
I need that water bottle.
I can't go all weekend withoutthe water bottle.
I'm like I am bringing you thewater bottle.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Well, the thing is is without my water bottle, my
water intake goes way down, Waydown.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Can't have you getting back into the Diet Coke?
All right, what about?
We got just a few more minutes?
But what about?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Oh no, we got more than a few because we have not
talked about our new segment.
You're really sticking withthis Southernisms.
We've got to educate peoplethat are moving here.
Do you know how many hundredsof people move here by the day?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Well, they'll learn.
They're coming in unarmed.
Well, they probably aren'tlistening to our southern asses
either.
Well they should.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Okay One.
This first one is you broughtthis up, and the funny thing is
is I say this all the time,several times a week.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Finer than frog hair split four ways and I had never
heard of that until you, and Idon't how did you not hear
you're from?
Tennessee finer than frog hairsplit four ways?
Well, first of all, the frogseven have hair evidently it's
very fine hair.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Okay, and what does that mean?
I'm doing great?
Okay, yeah, I'm wonderful.
How are you doing?
I'm finer than frog hair splitfour ways.
Yeah, that just means you'redoing great.
Okay, what else you got?
(43:07):
So here's another.
Hilla beans oh h of beans.
Oh, hill of beans.
That don't make a hill of beans, I guess it takes a lot of
beans to make a hill.
Let me see what it says on hillof beans.
Yeah, let us know, hill ofbeans.
(43:29):
In the South, a hill of beansis its own measuring stick.
Whether you're talking aboutvolume or value, a hill of beans
isn't worth much.
That means whatever you'retalking about is worth less than
very little.
He ain't going to amount to ahill of beans.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
No, I've heard that Not personally, but I've heard
people say that.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Okay, the next is plum Plum P-L-U-M-B plum.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Well, that refers to like a wall.
Is the wall plum?
Speaker 2 (44:05):
No, he's just plum stupid.
Yeah, I am plum more out.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Well, if y'all are moving here or you're of
northern descent, we use plum alot here.
I am plum more.
I tell you what I am plum wornout.
I am more plum out, that's true.
(44:34):
You may not.
You said that this week.
Yeah, you, you may be not wait,you may be not just truly,
completely, absolutely tired,but plum tired.
Your neighbor may be plum crazythat means over the top crazy.
This is the absolute ofabsolutes.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, I mean it is more than very tired.
Plum, mm-hmm, plum anything.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
That is true.
And you say that one Mm-hmm, Isay plum, I mean literally this
week.
You're like, I was like how's?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
it going Fine.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
I'm plum worn out, or I'm worn plum out.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Oh, here's one that's kind of bad, but I want to tell
y'all oh bad it's kind of uglyoh ugly.
But I'm going to share it withy'all.
Okay, and I don't know ifyou've heard this, and this was
in my small town, so you allknow when you were in High
(45:35):
school.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
There's a back story.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
You know, when you were in high school there were
those girls that were kind ofSlutty.
You know the ones.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
I didn't know them personally.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
But you know the ones that took it to the next level,
Not the ones that took it tothe next level, Not the ones you
know that dated.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
I feel like I'm going to have to edit this out.
I don't know what is coming.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
No, you're not going to have to.
Okay.
So where I come from, when theywould like, those type of girls
would end up marrying.
They might be beautiful, causeyou know everybody was screwing
them, so you know they were, youknow they were pretty, so it
was always funny and they'd say,well, you know, she married
(46:23):
so-and-so, which may have nothave been a great catch.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
The guy yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
And then the other person would go well, you know,
she the guy, yeah.
And then the other person wouldgo well, you know, she played
out.
That's what we would always sayshe played out well, you know,
she played out, meaningeverybody had ran through her,
she just had to settle sheplayed out, she played out.
(46:48):
See, I told you it wasn't that.
So if you're here and you'relike here's, somebody played out
, they wore out.
Yeah, nobody wanted it.
Yeah, it played out, it playedout.
And then the other thing is andWesley, I brought this up to him
before the podcast y'all and hesaid that's a saying.
(47:09):
Everybody says that I'm like no.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Okay, here's the thing.
I know this is a Southern term,I do know this is very Southern
, but I would just think at thispoint it has like infiltrated
the world or the country, mm-mm,mm-mm.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Fixin' to, I am fixin' to whip your ass Fixin'
to, fixing to.
I am fixing to whip your ass,fixing to Uh huh, I am fixing to
make me a glass of tea.
Yeah, do you want?
Speaker 1 (47:37):
one I'm fixing to go to the store.
Y'all don't say that in otherplaces.
No.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Fixing to Not up north.
I mean, have you ever been inNew York City and somebody say
I'm fixing to go.
That's its own place.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
New York City and somebody say I'm fixing to go,
that's its own place.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
I've just, you know, some of the people that I have
met from Ohio or Indiana, theMidwest they ain't as they ain't
proper.
Well, midwest is different andyou'll get some people with,
like very poor grammar and youknow, I seen that.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Instead of I saw that .
Speaker 1 (48:16):
Well, I seen that goes right there with fixin' to,
and maybe they say that there.
I don't know.
That's why I'm just a littlesurprised.
So let us know.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
Fixin' to means I'm getting ready to.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Well, we all know that they never heard it before
in their life.
I'm fixing to, getting ready to.
I'm fixing to.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Yeah, I mean, I heard things.
I heard things and the waypeople talk, I'm like what.
I had an employee one time,true story had an employee one
time and he was talking, talkingto me, and they were green as
gourds more country, more whatis green is gourd.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
See now, that is a country green is gourd, means
you really?
Speaker 2 (49:03):
That means country.
And he said my uncle, my uncle.
And I said my uncle.
I said who.
He said my uncle.
I said I'm sorry, I don't knowmy uncle Because I thought it
(49:29):
was a person, yeah.
And he said you know my uncle.
I said I don't know my uncleCause I thought it was a person,
yeah.
And he said you know my uncle.
I said I don't know my uncle.
I said I don't know Monkle andI said he said you know my uncle
and he said I said your uncle.
(49:51):
I said I thought you were sayingMonkle, he said it is.
Monkle yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
Monkle now.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Monkle.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Monkle, me and my Monkle.
No, me, monkle, monkle, me andmy monkle.
Yeah, me and monkle.
Me and monkle went to the store.
Me and monkle went to the gasstation and got some chips.
Yeah, now here's the next oneMe and monkle fixing to go to
the gas station.
You need anything?
Did you eat yet?
My uncle's a drunk.
Did you eat yet?
Did you eat yet eat yet myuncle's a drunk.
(50:21):
Do you eat yet?
Do you eat yet?
Do you eat yet?
Did you eat yet?
See, that's Southernisms.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Oh no, that's just the bad of the bad.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
Me and my uncle fix and go to the store and get some
food.
Do you eat, yet Use all of themtogether.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
Them.
Ain't no carrots growing rightthere.
S-m-r, s-m-r, o-s-m-r, s-m-r,o-s-m-r.
Yeah, that's just another wholelevel.
And here's another one Will youcarry me over to the warehouse,
carry you Carry?
So a lot of Southern people saycarry, like you're going to
(50:55):
pick them up and literally carrythem.
But they mean will you take ordrive them?
Will you drive me to thewarehouse?
You know they're going to saywill you carry me over there?
Yeah, will you carry me overthere.
(51:15):
Can you imagine living in NewYork your whole life and coming
here and going to Pickens County, where I grew up out in the
country, and hearing what someof these people say I'm rolling
away.
How you doing.
(51:36):
I'm finer than frog.
Hair split four ways my uncle'sover there working on his car.
I mean, you wouldn't know whatthey were saying.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
You want me to carry you over there to see.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
You just plumperty.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
That is so true.
Oh my gosh, it's hilarious.
I mean I forget about some ofthe things that we still need to
take the microphone to thestreets somewhere outside of the
South and interview people andask them if they know these
terms.
Just use it in a sentence andsee if they know what it means.
(52:15):
Do you know?
This isn't a Southern thing.
This is not a Southern thing,but I don't think I mentioned
this, but my mind is still blownaway.
This lady went to I think shewas in Target and she was
looking for a cleaner to clean,like her sofa with, and so she
(52:37):
asked for upholstery cleaner.
This was on like a TikTok orsomething, and then she started
doing a video.
Nobody knew what upholsterymeant.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Didn't we talk about this?
Speaker 1 (52:48):
Did we talk?
Speaker 2 (52:48):
about it?
I don't know.
Upholstery, yeah, and no oneknew.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
No one knew Like all these people she's like do you
know what upholstery means?
And they're like no.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
And I'm people she's like do you know what upholstery
means?
And they're like no, and I'mlike how do you not know?
But upholstery, I mean, that isa thing and I think about it
now.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
Every time we'll send out like a text message for our
local home store.
Let's say we're doing a sale onupholstery and I'm like, do I
say upholstery, am I losingpeople?
Because they don't know what itmeans.
I always say, you know, likewe're having X percent off
upholstery sale.
Come in.
And then I'm like, are therepeople that are like I don't
know what's on sale?
Speaker 2 (53:29):
Should I be?
Speaker 1 (53:30):
saying furniture.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
But what are you supposed to say?
Fabric covered furniture?
Speaker 1 (53:35):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (53:37):
I was blown away.
Are we going to dumb it down Tome that?
Speaker 1 (53:40):
was so like not knowing what I don't know.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
It's funny, oh lord we're having a fabric covered
furniture sale.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
Run on in, come, get your discount here.
Well, let's wrap up thishundredth episode.
I still can't believe.
I don't even know at this pointhow we got to doing a podcast.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
I know I talked about it for a while, like we need.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
We got funny stories.
We need to have a podcastbecause there's things you want
to tell or happen or discussthat you can't on, say,
instagram, because they're justtoo long to talk about.
Yeah, and we kept saying we'regoing to do a podcast and the
name I know we've talked aboutit comes from my mom.
(54:25):
Stephen and I were in the carit was you and me in the car,
right.
Yes, we were in the car and mymom called and we were on the
way back from somewhere I don'tknow and she was telling us this
show that we needed to.
And you have to know my mom,she's kind of like me multiple
stories and can't followsometimes Can be foggy.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
Yeah, in the best of her text messages that can take
you many different places.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
We got to have my mom on the podcast, but she was
telling us this you know she'slike y'all have to watch this.
Yeah, we were like okay'allhave to watch this, yeah.
And then she said and then shesaid who's driving?
Speaker 2 (55:06):
And we were like, okay, we'll look it up what's?
Speaker 1 (55:09):
the rest.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
And she was like no, who's driving?
And we're like okay is that thename.
Speaker 1 (55:17):
So it was literally one of those like for a minute
we were going she, she was goingwho's driving?
And I'm like, okay, we'll lookit up.
It's like continue on with thestory.
And she was like finally likeno, who is driving?
I don't remember which one ofyou are driving and we were like
busted out laughing and we werelike that's the name of our
(55:40):
podcast, yep, who's?
Speaker 2 (55:42):
driving.
But and that's you know, it'sso funny and and you can be that
way too, and I can too a littlebit, but your mom is, her
brains works faster than hermouth.
Speaker 1 (55:56):
Yeah, I guess that's how mine works too.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Mine too, and she is already like four steps ahead.
Speaker 1 (56:03):
Yeah, and you'd like what and when she's telling a
story and I do this too.
I know it drives Daniel crazy,but she'll go off on side
stories and then wraps backaround to the main story, so you
got to follow it.
She's got to be ADD yeah,definitely.
And I do that to Daniel andDthing.
So you got to follow it.
She's got to be ADD yeah,definitely.
And I do that to Daniel in PoorThing he zones out and then
(56:25):
he's like I have no idea whatyou're.
Speaker 2 (56:27):
I don't know what you've talked about or where you
are in the story.
It is an ADD thing and I'm likejust never mind it wasn't
important.
Listen, they're good storieswhen you go in all different
directions different directions,I know, oh, they are Because
it's like our podcast how we gotfrom hitchhiking to Seven Brew.
Yeah, it just goes.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
I mean it just flows, but truly, thank you all for
listening to our podcast.
We have a lot of fun doing iteach week.
We really do and we lovetelling our stories and we need
to get my mom and some guests on.
You know we started out wewould have guests on, but we
started out also we werestructured.
We would record podcasts everyFriday at this time and we could
say we could call someone ortext them and say, hey, do you
(57:08):
want to be on our podcast?
This week?
Speaker 2 (57:09):
We need to do Ronder.
We don't do that anymore.
We got to do Ronder.
That'd be a good one.
We will, we'll get it togetherand do it, yeah, and we've got
some funny stories becauseWesley, you know they have a
cabin in Pigeon Forge, yeah, andWesley has a way of getting out
(57:31):
of doing anything he doesn'tlike or doesn't want to do.
And who likes going to HOAmeetings?
No one.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
You know how I get out of it.
We've talked about this.
This was supposed to be theyear you say no, if I want it,
no, I can't go to that, yeah,but the bad thing is is you say
no, call Steve.
Speaker 2 (57:52):
So we have some funny stories because, I do some of
the HOA meetings with Wesley'smom for a neighborhood that I
don't even own, but we do it andwe've had you know nothing you
do Listen.
Y'all know.
Y'all all know, whenever I gosomewhere, I do something.
(58:12):
There's going to be a storywith Steven.
You put me and Rhonda together.
There's going to be a greatstory.
Speaker 1 (58:20):
My mom always has stories story.
Speaker 2 (58:22):
Always something happens to her at just and I'm
gonna wait till she's on here.
But there's one story um, whenwe, when she and I went to we've
told the unicycle story have wetold that?
Yes, we literally laughed till.
We almost peed our pants yeahand it was the girl you gotta we
(58:44):
gotta ask your mom about ityeah, because she was a um, um
and she was mountain, mountainand healthy she was a big girl
she was a big girl to be on aunicycle At a flea market, at a
flea market in a gravelditched-up place, and I kid you
(59:06):
not, she would go.
We were sitting in the car andthat girl, I'm telling you, she
would be within six inches ofthe ground.
We'd be going, oh, oh, oh, oh,and then she would bring it back
up, and then she'd go the otherway and we'd be going, oh, and
then she would bring it back upand then she'd go the other way.
We go, oh, here it is, here itis, and then she would go down.
(59:28):
I mean it was just, it was likea weeble wobble, I mean, every
way we got.
That was one of the I wish wehad recorded that that is too
funny.
Speaker 1 (59:45):
Yeah, my mom has a lot of stories.
A lot of things happen to mymom, and mostly funny.
Speaker 2 (59:50):
And sometimes it's not.
Speaker 1 (59:52):
Yeah, but it's always a good story.
Oh my gosh, it's just too funny.
We'll have to get her on here.
I don't want to catch her offguard and just call her.
I'm going to have to get her onone day, like okay.
Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
We got to check the mood.
Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
Check the happenings.
Catch her right in the middleof a story.
That would be a good one.
All right, we're going to parkthis baby.
Thank you for 100 episodes.
We're going to keep it going.
Mark this baby.
Thank you for 100 episodes.
We're going to keep it going.
Yeah, I mean, one day we mightstop showing up, but for now,
we're going for 100 more andthen we'll see after that 100
more?
Oh my gosh, that'd be likeanother two years.
(01:00:30):
Yeah, what else do we got to do?
We do one a week.
Oh, nothing, I'm down for it.
Yeah, all right, see, see younext week.
Thanks for being here.
Remember to join ourmembers-only community at
whosedrivingpodcastcom.
Share us with your friends.
We need more listeners.
I'm sure we lose some along theway with our dumb asses.
Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Yeah, and we need some five-star reviews, so don't
forget to leave us the reviews.
Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
And leave us the reviews.
We'll see you next week.
Bye y'all.
Yo yo yo, girl, you ready to buckle up?
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 (00:17):
Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
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 (00:36):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride, and if you could see
your face when I did that.
But also guess what?
What?
This is our 100th episode ofwho's Driving.
That's crazy, isn't?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
that crazy.
I can't believe we've stuckwith this this long.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I know, and we're just winging it like we do all
the time, so I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We're just winging it like we do all the time, so I
don't even know.
Well, you know I was talkingwith someone that follows our
podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Oh, okay, did they have great things to say.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes, oh good.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Good good.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, yeah, she still has her teeth, so that should
tell.
And I was telling her.
You know the fact that I'venever listened to another
podcast, yeah, and I don'tlisten to ours, I think it would
ruin it.
And you know what she agreed.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
She was like I get that, but no, not really.
I listen to ours and I laughsometimes.
Well, I have to listen to thewhole thing back again and make
sure, well, we didn't saysomething too inappropriate.
Which have you had to cut?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
anything I've said out.
No, I really don't.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I listen to it every week to edit it, but really it's
more about I'll take out if wedo a weird pause or you might
have to get up and go to thebathroom, or you know know.
Yeah, but it just I mightramble and say the same thing
over again, so I cut it out.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But usually I don't even do that.
Well, you've had to cut it outwhen you said like bad things
about, like your in-laws.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You're such a?
I have not.
You are such a bitch.
You keep saying that they'regoing to believe it.
They will not.
It's a joke, oh my gosh.
Shout out in-laws, terry andBobby, the whole family.
How are they enjoyingretirement?
Good, they've been on.
They're in the middle of a Idon't know, at least two-week
(02:39):
vacation.
They went to Europe and they'reon a Viking cruise and I don't
know they went a few days ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So they're on a Viking cruise and I don't know
they went a few days ahead, sothey're like celebrating yeah
this is their big retirementtrip, so they've been gone.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
it seems like a long time, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I think it's just a little over two weeks.
If I ever do retire, I mean I'mYou're never going to retire or
I'll just fall over dead in oneof the stores.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We are going to be just how my granddad was.
I mean, he worked up to thevery last day, I hope.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, I hope that's how it is, because I do enjoy it
.
You know, but you never know.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And I mean I used to say We'll still be trying to
make a dollar.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I used to say I was going to drop dead behind the
front counter at a McDonald's.
But I mean, I guess that couldstill happen.
I could go back to work forMcDonald's or buy one.
Did I tell you what Dylan said?
I don't know if I did so.
A McDonald's here in Greenvillethere was a forced sale.
(03:48):
I won't get into A forced sale,not a forced sale, no, a forced
sale.
And I knew about it.
Dylan said why don't you calland see if you can buy that one
again?
And I said let me think aboutthat Hell.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
No, Okay, two things here question and comment.
The thing is, Dylan wasn'taround during the McDonald's
days.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
He doesn't know how hard it is.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
He knows the afterlife of McDonald's and
where it got you, but he doesn'tknow the life of McDonald's and
what it took, and he would notbe very happy if you had a
McDonald's again.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He needs to just enjoy the afterlife.
He doesn't know he would be inthat drive-thru, right.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But also the question is would you ever consider
reentering the McDonald's lifelike that?
I mean, it's not a problem ifyou're like, yeah, I kind of
miss it, kind of not, I don'tknow Like, do you think you
could throw yourself back intothat and buy one?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It would be difficult , not because I love it, but I
love it 20 years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Right, because a lot of the business has changed.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So I I think I would struggle with it in many ways.
I think I would struggle fromjust the energy standpoint
because I am older now.
I think I would definitelystruggle with how the company,
the direction you know I'm 80sMcDonald's Right.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Which is funny.
Daniel and I were talking aboutthis just last night.
I was in the drive-thru, I wasgetting a salad at Zaxby's no
chicken and we were talking Idon't know how it came up, we
have a new one here down thestreet from us and I was like
isn't it funny?
The new Zaxby's or at least inour area look farmhouse-y, like
(05:54):
they're white, they look like akind of they're modeled after
farmhouse.
Look, and I said how funnythat's going to be.
You know, in five, ten yearsit's going to look outdated.
And it got us on the subject ofhow fast food places used to
have their own identity.
Like you can see a Pizza Hutbuilding from 1985, and you know
(06:19):
that was a Pizza Hut building.
It did not match any normal.
Well, funny you bring this up.
Yes, you're right, look.
And the same thing withMcDonald's.
The same thing with the TacoBell, kfc Long John Silver's.
You could take that building,paint it completely white or
black and plop it in somewhereand you would be able to
(06:41):
identify the building and how.
Now they've all.
They just look mediocre andthey've lost their identity.
And it got us specificallytalking about mcdonald's and how
mcdonald's had everything.
They were marketing geniuses,whoever happened to do it, and
they let it all go.
(07:03):
There is no like I used to.
Your kids wanted to go thereand so, like, take us to
mcdonald's because they wantedto play.
Like you had that audience, youhad the characters that were
fun, you had happy meals, orhappy meals, even a thing, you
got a toy.
(07:23):
Now they're just blah.
You know what I'm saying?
And the building's gray.
It is just as boring as hell.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So what is the draw?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
because it ain't the food.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
What you said, what you just said, is one of my
biggest issues with thedirection of the company and the
reason I say that is notbecause I want it I know things
evolve and updated but just andI had this feeling because we
started removing the redMansford roofs when I was in the
(08:00):
system and I held out on that.
You know, I had um, I only hadone that didn't have the
manseford roof and I was hopingthat someone was going to wake
up and say, oh, why are welosing our identity?
yeah, it, you know, because itkind of went with our Happy Meal
(08:22):
boxes, right.
And then you know, and ithappened slowly over time, you
know, and it all, it's mainlybecause you know everything in
the United States is solitigious and everything started
happening with food andcalories and marketing to
(08:44):
children, which is, I mean, thedumbest thing in the world.
I mean McDonald's had the bestcommercials.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But what they should have done is maybe fix the food
and not the marketing theyshould have fixed.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But a burger is a burger and a fry is a fry.
But you know, we did that.
I mean, we did that with appleslices and all that was fine and
the yogurt and all that.
I didn't have a problem withthat.
But then the Happy Mealsstarted getting crappy.
We went from having the besttoys.
I mean, it's just to me, itjust got stupid.
(09:18):
And I think McDonald'scorporate and I would say this
to the CEO of McDonald's youknow, I think McDonald's just
bowed down too quickly.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean, are you that out of touch, though, with your
customers, Like what sets youapart from anything else?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Because, like I said, you're not going there, You're
not like oh let's go toMcDonald's Like if I'm like I
want a burger, like if I want orI want nuggets or.
I mean that is still, I meanbeing honest, that is.
And if I don't feel well,that's what I want.
(10:02):
I want McDonald's, so I.
And if I don't feel well,that's what I want.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I want McDonald's.
So I mean you have those peoplethat are your McDonald's.
I mean I agree with thatbecause they're still in
business.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I mean they're still doing well, but there could be a
huge more amount when you hadthe whole package of the
marketing.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, and then your kids and what goes along with
that.
Let's go to McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You know you can take them there.
They can be entertained for anhour 30 minutes in the play
thing.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And I think one of the biggest mistakes was
removing Ronald McDonald fromthe local markets.
Yeah, a huge, huge mistake.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, I think Ronald died because he's not part of
anything Huge mistake?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Is he even on the?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
bag anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I don't think he's like in anything.
Yeah, they've brought back someof the promoting, but you know
we went from having like 80Ronalds worldwide down to and he
was a good community outreachpart of the program.
(11:08):
Here's the thing Ronald wasnever allowed to talk about food
.
He was never allowed to promotethe food.
All he was was a clown and itjust set it apart and it and you
know it just set it apart andit also, I think, brought
(11:28):
attention to the charity part ofMcDonald's.
I just think it was an enormousmistake on McDonald's.
Now you go to England, you goto England or you go to Europe,
go to Spain or whatever.
You're not going to see thedrastic changes in McDonald's as
(11:49):
you do in the United States.
You're going to see cool playplaces, you're going to see a
lot more normal, because theydon't have that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah.
The craziness in the US.
Yeah, that's just interesting.
Well, like I mentioned, this isour 100th episode, so I quickly
looked through some of theheadlines from our previous
episodes Funny thing is they allhave something to do with you.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I thought these were highlights, because you make fun
of me.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So I thought we could relive some of these funny ones
.
No, these are not.
Here we go.
These are not as personal orwhatever, and for me a lot of
them have to do with McDonald's.
But one of them I saw theheadline that makes me laugh
every time is when I think itwas a customer came in.
You were working at McDonald'sand said I bumped your car.
(12:43):
Do you remember that?
I'm still scarred?
You were working at McDonald'sand said I bumped your car, do
you?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
remember this I'm still scarred.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I just bumped.
Well, she came in, she didn'tknow it was my car, that's right
.
And she came in, described thecar and I was like, oh, that's
my car.
And she said, well, I bumped itand I was like, oh, oh you
bumped it.
How'd you bump it?
Well, I was pulling in, Ibumped it and I went out and
(13:11):
there were my car parts.
Were on the ground I saidbumped.
Bumped, I mean she ran it over.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I mean, she ran it over and we all know if you've
listened for a while.
We all know Stephen now and howparticular you are.
Is that a good word?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I was in high school then, and I was I'm sure you
were even more.
I was a little worse becausethat was my one and only asset.
That Honda CRX was the onlyasset.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh, and then I know you hated it after it got fixed.
It was just.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Hated it after it got fixed.
Are you kidding?
No, did it not get fixed.
It went straight to thedealership and I got a new car.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
There was no fixing it.
See, I knew, I knew it.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I knew, I knew it, I was, so I was just like this is
never going to be right, it'sjust got to go.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh my gosh, and it was such like looking back.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I wish my parents had been like no we're fixing it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
There would have been no.
Handling you, your parents werelike ugh, whatever.
No, handling you, your parentswere like whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, that's what they were like they should have
put their foot down and said no,we're not.
We're getting this car fixedbecause it was a great car.
It was like one of the bestcars I've ever had, did you get
the same car, or would you getafter that?
No, that was a Honda CRX and wetraded it in and I got a hotter
(14:54):
car.
I got a red Mazda RX-7.
It was hot, mm, and it was fast.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh Lord, another episode title I saw.
That made me think, or maybe Ijust thought of this, but I know
we've told it is the girllicking the side of the cup at
McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Do you have any positive happy stories?
Yeah, that nut, you know, Istill remember her face.
I mean, that's been A long time.
That's been a long, many, many,many years ago.
So she's probably married withchildren.
I hope her children haveterrorized her In some form.
(15:45):
Yes, I hope they have lickedsomething and embarrassed her.
Yeah, she made an ice cream.
I was sitting in the lobby andyou know kind of watching.
She was new and she made theice cream sundae.
And listen, you know you can goanywhere that have a soft serve
(16:07):
machine and I judge you.
I just want you to know, Ijudge everybody at the soft
serve machine.
But, in all fairness, if youdon't know, you don't know.
You know people think when youput soft serve in a cup, you
move the cup.
No, yeah, you leave it.
You do move the cone, but soit's always a mess with new
(16:29):
people.
Well, I'm watching her and youknow, and I'm like oh dear god,
she's putting like four timesthe amount of everything in
there.
So she puts the caramel and it'sjust dripping over the side so
she lifts it up and she said andthen the so she lifted it up.
She didn't get her tongue tothe container because at that
(16:55):
time I had literally jumped whenshe licked her hands.
She licked her hand and then sheheld it up and was about to
lick the side of the sundae cupA customer's A customer's, a
customer's that was standingthere.
I saw this.
You would have been soimpressed with me.
I look like Bo Duke from theDukes of Hazzard.
(17:17):
I ran across the lobby, jumpedthe count, put my hands and
threw my body over the frontcounter.
Yeah, I jumped the count, putmy hands and threw my body over
the front counter and grabbedthe sundae and said no ma'am, no
ma'am.
And I looked at the customer.
I said I would like to make youanother sundae.
(17:37):
And they're like uh-huh, yeah,and I was like you may go.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They were probably also thinking well, now it's
skimpy compared to that one.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well, I made it a little extra.
After that I was like good Lord, I mean yeah, and I was like
you may go home now and you maynot return.
Yeah, because I'm like thatisn't even, that isn't even a.
I mean not aside from theamount, but licking your damn
hands and licking the cup.
(18:09):
That's not a training issue,that's a character.
Yeah, you're just screwed up.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You're never going to get any better than that.
Don't you wish we could findher.
I wish I knew her name andcould find her.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You know she remembers that.
She probably tells the story.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
What McDonald's was this?
What location?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I'm not divulging that.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I just wanted to see if people could find her.
It's fine, it was the EasleyOkay, easley South.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Carolina.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
If you worked in McDonald's and tried to lick the
side of the cup, let us know,in the comments.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, we would love to talk to you.
She would remember me.
I fired you, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh my gosh, One of the other highlights of our
podcast.
This doesn't have anything todo with you and I don't even
know how we got on this on theoriginal.
I need to go back and listen toour podcast.
You know I'll get messages,like someone will say I started
over listening to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I know I'm like God.
They must be bored.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, they love us.
It's funny, I'm telling you.
If you would listen to us,we're kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
sometimes Dylan turns it on sometimes and I'm like
turn it off it's like funny I'mlike I don't like listening to
myself.
Uh, I know I sound like a haybale well you are, mr southern.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
uh, but was the hike hitchhiking episodes?
I don't't know.
That was season one and I stillget messages like funny thing
about hitchhiking or somethinglike that.
I don't even know how.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Funny thing, I still have nightmares from my mother,
from picking up hitchhikers.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Maybe that's how we got on it.
You were talking about your momwould pick up hitchhikers.
I don't know how we got on thetopic.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
My mom was the sweetest, sweetest soul.
You would just have to haveknown her.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You could literally.
You said she would just stopand pick up people.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
She was so, so, so sweet and had such a loving,
loving heart and she would pickup anybody and I would see I
would feel the car.
I would say, no, mama, no,please, please, please, no mama.
And she would say, honey, theylook pitiful.
We got to help them.
(20:36):
Yeah, I'm like they're going tokill us.
I was like no.
So to this day and listen, I'mnot as wonderful as my mother
was, but I try to be a goodhuman being and I do want to
help people, but I ain't doingthat.
(20:57):
The scars run too deep for meto pick up a hitchhiker Like I
would have to like recognizethem, and that's pick up a
hitchhiker like I would have tolike recognize them, and that's
really not a hitchhiker like Iwould have to know them like oh,
they work it, but do you?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
think you could do it in a uber situation like let
let a stranger ride in your carnot your car because you're too
particular, but let's say arental car yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
So here's the funny thing is.
So I have this weird fantasyand I'm going to do it at some
point.
I want to drive for Uber.
And well, this is true.
So my cousin got a new car acouple years ago and she kept
her old car, which was quite,was quite nice, yeah, and she
(21:47):
was selling it very cheap.
And I said, I think I want tobuy it.
I mean, we were having aserious conversation and she's
like, well, okay, but y'all havethree cars, like why do you
want mine?
Yeah, and I said, well, I'vebeen wanting to drive for uber,
(22:09):
like you know, when I'm notworking like it, I think it
would be fun.
At the time, dylan was workinghis job and I was like I could.
And she started laughing and Isaid, no, no, I'm, I'm being
serious.
And she said, oh, my God, youhave lost your mind.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You have lost your mind, I think you need to do it
and sign up and we'll get a car,cause I can't ride in yours.
I mean they could ride in mine,I don't care, but we need like
a minivan or something and I'llride along with you and we can
interview them Like randomquestions.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, and I checked, on that, we can make our own.
But you can't have peopleriding with you.
But it doesn't matter if youget fired.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, if we only make five trips.
But we would be so much funthey wouldn't report us.
I mean, they wouldn't care.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I wouldn't think, but much fun, they wouldn't report
us.
I mean, they wouldn't care.
I wouldn't think, but no, mycousin she was like no,
absolutely not.
You cannot do that.
Oh my gosh, you will get killed.
You can never do that.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
This is, that is crazy do it in the daytime and
you can select who you want topick.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I want to do it like on a friday night.
I want this, I want the stories.
Yeah, that's what wouldinterest me.
I want you know so where areyou headed.
But you know, I'd probably getboring-ass people like me or
something.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Like me when they try to talk to me.
I hate getting in an Uber bymyself, so what are you?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
doing?
I'm going to the U-Hauldealership Last week or the week
before, whenever it was I in anUber by myself.
So what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I'm going to the U-Haul dealership.
Yeah, that's last week or theweek before, whenever it was I
had to take an Uber from ourwarehouse to the rental place
because you were in Atlanta andI was meeting you and I rented a
van because we were bringingsome stuff back anyway.
So I was like I'm not going tobother an employee and I didn't
know which was more awkward forme.
(24:04):
Y'all know me.
Is it more awkward for me toride with the employee and have
to do small talk with them in acar or an Uber driver?
So I picked the Uber driver.
Nothing against our employees,I like them all, but I'm just I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You're not a small talker.
Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, so I small talker.
Yeah, you're not.
Yeah, so I picked the uberyou're not.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Uh, what's going on with your kids?
And tell me about this.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You're just not and the uber driver was trying to
talk like, oh, what are youdoing?
What's you know what's?
He picked me up at thewarehouse.
It says the nested fig.
What's the nested fig?
And I'm like, oh gosh, this is,this is not what I want to talk
about.
But you know, I went along withit and it was fun.
So, yeah, you know, I'm justnot a small talk person like
(24:55):
that and that's why I don't andI've seen people talk about this
on TikTok and I've talked aboutit with you.
I don't know if we've talkedabout it on here, but whatever
the coffee place is by I don'tknow the warehouse down the
street, what is that one called?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
The one we like that has the good pastries.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
No, no, no, that's a local one, the one you drive
through.
Oh, seven Brew, seven Brew.
I will not go there.
Their coffee's fine, it's good.
I'll send Dylan there if he'slike I'm going to get coffee.
They ask the most intrusivequestions when you are in that
drive-thru that I just want torun them all over.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
They haven't done that to me, but I want to go
there.
Where are you coming from?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I mean, it's literal.
What are you doing when youleave here?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I want to go there.
I want them to ask me thosequestions because I've got the
answers for them it drives mecrazy and their menu.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
They don't have a menu where you can see it.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I don't like that.
You have to do a QR code orthey're standing there.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
They walk out to your car like it is a little awkward
.
I don't like anything about it.
I refuse to go there Now I.
I just don't know how thatbecame a model of like.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Here's something that I you know, and I was a big
proponent of this.
I was one of the first peopleto do this, but we had to
because we had so much business.
We didn't have a choice.
Is the people outside?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Taking orders.
So, first of all, when I say wedid it because we had to,
because we had so much business,that's true.
Yeah, we didn't have thecapacity.
Our business has expanded thecapacity of the restaurant.
That's true.
Yeah, we didn't have thecapacity.
Our business has expanded thecapacity of the restaurant At
McDonald's.
Yeah, I was trying to come upwith ways to get more cars
(26:41):
through my drive-thru.
Yeah, so I put them out therejust for peak periods, like when
the drive-thru was stacking up.
So that served a purpose.
But, now like with Chick-fil-A.
I get it when they have highpeak period.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
But they do it all the time it's weird.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yes, it's stupid.
And here's the thing, and thisis what I used to tell
McDonald's owners and stuff thatwould do it.
I'm like, because I starteddoing it, some other people
started and I'm like listen, theonly way this works is if
you're getting more peoplethrough than you can handle and
(27:21):
your people are really on top ofit and you're adding orders to
the screen in the kitchen andyou're getting the food faster.
It's stupid and it doesn't workIf you're paying a person to go
out there to be a speaker post.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Right when it doesn't need to be.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah, you've got.
You've got one or two damnspeakers, you don't need another
.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
And then I go to Chick-fil-A and they have taken
it, and listen, I'm not knockingChick-fil-A and they have taken
it.
And listen, I'm not knockingChick-fil-A.
So y'all don't message saying,well, yes, they have great
employees.
Those owners paid very little.
They're operating partners,they're not owners.
They don't have the debts.
(28:07):
They can pay great people, andthey do.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But I think it's weird and I don't want.
I don't want to talk to themyeah, that's how I am,
especially when it's not busy.
And then they're in your faceand I'm like I don't go there
very often, so I'm like, what doI want?
And I'm trying to sit there anddecide and there's no menu.
And if you're gonna do likechick-fil-a or seven brew, it's
(28:37):
the same model.
You need a min.
Excuse me, goodness, goodness,okay, you need a menu.
Uh, every like carling all theway down to the street.
I don't want to have to scan aQR code that you can't scan
(28:57):
until you're close, and I don'twant someone in my face, because
then I can't make up my mind.
I'm like, well, what do youhave?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
It drives me crazy Anyway got off on a little
tangent.
I don't even know how we got on7Brew and all this.
I don't even know how we got onSeven Brew and all this?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I don't know either.
Oh, small Talk Uber hitchhiking, oh yeah, that is our brand.
We started on hitchhiking.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I'm like we ended up at Seven Brew.
Yeah he talks about Seven Brewall the time.
He is a little obsessed withnot liking those and I do think
people it's weird, it's weirdthose, and I do think people
it's weird.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's weird.
You need to say customerservice.
Hey, how are you today?
I'm great.
What would you like to order?
Oh, thank you.
Pull up to the window and I'llget your order.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Have a great rest of your day.
That's all I need.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I do not need you standing at the window.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
What is that bag you have?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
over there that is exactly.
That would not surprise me atall when I go there, see I want
to leave here and go there youshould when they ask me where
have you been?
I want to say, we just did awhole podcast talking about how
dumb y'all are.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
No, no, no no, no, I think I would come up with
something like I just killed 14people down the road yeah come
in here.
I've been contemplating doingthis, like what.
Like I would want to saysomething outrageous, like why
are you up in my business?
Like where are you going next?
Oh, I'm going to a wild orgydown the street.
(30:23):
I mean just somethingoutlandish.
So they just look at you.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, I don't know, it bothers me.
Moving on from that, I havesome fun statistics here, since
it's our 100th episode.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Okay, which first of?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
all.
We should have backed up andstarted.
I don't even know which youkind of mentioned how we've
stuck with this.
I'm glad we have.
I think it's a therapy sessionfor the two of us.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
It's the only thing I've ever stuck with this long
in my life that didn't make memoney.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That's true, that is true, that is true, that is true
, that is true.
But we've been listened to in91 countries 91 countries.
Isn't that crazy, 91 countries?
91 countries Isn't that crazy,91 countries?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And I still want to know in these countries like are
you military, are you visiting?
How did that come about?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
In some of these we've down at the bottom.
You know we've had like onelistener.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Or whatever.
We're still in 91 countries,that's okay.
Or whatever, we're still in 91countries, that's right, 91
countries.
So yeah, do you think peoplewere traveling or did they just
happen to find?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Or what I'm thinking is maybe you know, because
there's military baseseverywhere, yeah, so maybe
they're military and you knowthey listen to podcasts.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
So the top ones outside of the United States,
canada, no number two is UnitedKingdom.
Oh, number three is Canada.
Number four is Sweden, belgium,germany, denmark, australia,
netherlands, hong Kong, norway,finland and then Switzerland.
(32:14):
I don't know how many I justread off, but that's in order,
isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I like the UK.
I like it over there, yes.
So yeah, there's that I do likeme some England.
I love London.
Oh my gosh, which is you know?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
there's that I do like me some England I love
London, oh my gosh, which is,you know, very interesting.
I don't know, I just loveseeing that I need to see in the
.
Let me go back to locations andlet's do cities.
It's on the last 10 episodes,so we'll just go off those
statistics.
On the last 10 episodes forcities, charlotteotte was number
(32:52):
one.
Atlanta, greenville where's ourlocals been?
Chicago, houston, st louis,dallas, nashville, lexington,
lexington, kentucky and Kentuckyand Indianapolis.
Those are the top.
Oh, now it's switched.
If we do all time, so acrossall episodes, it's Charlotte,
(33:17):
greenville, atlanta, houston,kansas City, missouri, chicago,
dallas, indianapolis, denver andNashville Isn't that
interesting.
Fun little tidbits there.
How about that?
Well, also, I think, since it'sour 100th episode and we didn't
do it last week, we need toannounce the water bottle winner
(33:40):
.
So we scrolled through andrandomly selected one winner who
is a current member in ourwho's Driving podcast community,
Remember if maybe you're newhere you catch this later we
have our website,whosedrivingpodcastcom.
You can go there and join ourmembers-only community so you
(34:03):
can go there and listen for freeto past episodes.
Maybe you want to catch up someof the episodes that we've
talked about if you join later.
Or you can join our onlinecommunity, which started with
season three, and you can watchus there.
So if you want the videoversion, then join the online
community and you know thatsupports us a little bit there,
(34:24):
so you can do that.
But we said that we would giveone current member a hydrate
spark water bottle.
This is the water bottle thatsteven loves.
You know I cleaned mine out andI used it for a few days and
then I set it back down andhadn't been drinking the water
like I should.
Yeah, take a big old gulp.
(34:45):
So the hydrate spark waterbottle is great and you know it.
We talked about it briefly.
It has an app.
It tracks how much water youdrink.
You can set how much you wantto drink, or it recommends based
on your body, your weight andthat sort of thing, um, how much
to drink but anyway best thingever it's always linked down in
(35:07):
the comment or the show notes.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I'm so addicted to it .
I have and look, I have here'stoday.
I've had 49.4 ounces of watertoday.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Oh, look at you go and what's your goal?
90 or 100?
98.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
98.
So you're halfway there.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, you're halfway there.
So, anyway, congratulations toAmber Hall.
Amber is our winner.
We will reach out to you or youcan email me and I will get you
your address and get your waterbottle.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It's the best thing ever.
I'm so addicted, I'm socodependent on this.
I keep a spare one in my pantry.
I know you've told us that aspare one in my pantry.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I know you've told us that you have really latched on
and developed some type of Idon't know if it's an unhealthy
or healthy relationship withthat water bottle.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
It's healthy because I never drink water.
Yeah, y'all, I drink Diet.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Coke.
This is really a miraculousmoment to think about because I
had to stay.
I really stayed on you for along time about drinking Diet
Cokes.
Not that you can't have a DietCoke or a soda or a pop or
whatever you want, it was bad.
But he literally would onlydrink Diet Coke and you were
(36:27):
probably drinking like six oreight a day.
Was it more than that he'ssaying?
Was it more than that he'ssaying?
It was more than that.
It was bad.
And I would be like you needyou got to start drinking water
because I would send you thingsof how, like you know, it can
affect like your body and stuffI was sending articles.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
I'm so thankful I stopped, because I just stopped
like five years ago.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Has it been?
Have you stopped that long?
Maybe yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
It's been five years, but it, you know, I drank.
I even.
I wasn't even drinking coffee.
I mean, I liked coffee, yeah,but I was so addicted to Diet
Coke I would start my morningwith popping a Diet Coke and I
drank eight to ten a day, maybemore, and see, the other problem
(37:24):
was when I owned McDonald's andI would go to the stores and
get.
Everybody knew like I wanted thelarge size extra ice filled up
with Diet Coke, so when I wouldcome through the drive-thru they
would have that for me.
Ready to go.
Ready to go, yeah, and so Ialways had a Diet Coke with me
(37:49):
and I mean, that's where it allstarted and, honestly, what
worries me more than anythingwas all that Diet Coke.
I consume more than McDonald'sfood, you know, because you're
going to always eat food, andit's the amount you know and
it's you know, it was a bit of aproblem.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
It was a bit of a problem.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It was, and now I drink a lot of water and I will
drink a Diet Coke maybe once aweek.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
You think like maybe once a week or market.
You might have a couple more.
It's funny and I think we'vetalked about this before.
I never really drink a soda,but I will at market and I will
when we are like doing Christmasfloor set at the store or
something.
(38:44):
I think it's something about.
I feel like at the stores whenwe're doing a floor set, I feel
like it's something about likedust and stuff and then I feel
like that just good fizz clearsout my yeah, and you know.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
And the caffeine, yeah, but yeah, I mean I don't.
Do you even remember the lasttime you saw me drinking a Diet
Coke?
I mean, sometimes, like when Ihave dinner, I will, but see, I
usually have unsweetened tea orwater with lemon.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I like to go get, because I do sometimes crave
that fizzy feeling.
So I'll get bottled ginger beer.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Well, I found my new thing to try.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
So when you want that fizzy poppy, oh, I've heard
about them, but I haven't triedthem yet In the cola.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
if you don't look at it, it tastes like coke, but it
doesn't have any of thatartificial coloring.
It has nothing.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
It doesn't need the coloring.
Why does it need to be?
Speaker 2 (39:51):
shit brown, I mean.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Why is that even a thing?
Why did they start, I wonderwith?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Why are colors in there.
I don't, I don't know.
I mean, like you said, itdoesn't need it.
Yeah, like, why have it?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
in there.
Yeah, so the poppy I tried.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
I was against trying it.
I tried it over at Tina's houseactually, and she's like don't
look at it.
Do not look at it because yourmind will play a trick on you.
Like it's not really cola and Itasted it.
I was like it is like drinking.
(40:28):
She's like it's just ahealthier version when you need
that little fizzy, and there'sone, evidently, that tastes like
Dr Pepper.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, I've never been a Dr Pepper fan.
I mean that's not Root beer andDr Pepper.
No thanks.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
So, amber, you're going to love this bottle.
I hope you love it as much as Ido.
I'm a little obsessed with it,I guess, and I miss it when we
go out of town because I don'ttake it, because I have to have
my ice and water.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
And Rod y'all if he forgets his water bottle it is,
I just don't have my waterbottle.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Well, dylan has to leave, I don't have my water
bottle.
Well, dylan has to leave, Idon't have my water bottle.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Like, if you leave it at my house, you've left it
here before.
When we're recording podcast,that's when the text and phone.
Don't forget my water bottle.
Are you going to bring me mywater bottle?
I need that water bottle.
I need that water bottle.
I can't go all weekend withoutthe water bottle.
I'm like I am bringing you thewater bottle.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Well, the thing is is without my water bottle, my
water intake goes way down, Waydown.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Can't have you getting back into the Diet Coke?
All right, what about?
We got just a few more minutes?
But what about?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Oh no, we got more than a few because we have not
talked about our new segment.
You're really sticking withthis Southernisms.
We've got to educate peoplethat are moving here.
Do you know how many hundredsof people move here by the day?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Well, they'll learn.
They're coming in unarmed.
Well, they probably aren'tlistening to our southern asses
either.
Well they should.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Okay One.
This first one is you broughtthis up, and the funny thing is
is I say this all the time,several times a week.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Finer than frog hair split four ways and I had never
heard of that until you, and Idon't how did you not hear
you're from?
Tennessee finer than frog hairsplit four ways?
Well, first of all, the frogseven have hair evidently it's
very fine hair.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Okay, and what does that mean?
I'm doing great?
Okay, yeah, I'm wonderful.
How are you doing?
I'm finer than frog hair splitfour ways.
Yeah, that just means you'redoing great.
Okay, what else you got?
(43:07):
So here's another.
Hilla beans oh h of beans.
Oh, hill of beans.
That don't make a hill of beans, I guess it takes a lot of
beans to make a hill.
Let me see what it says on hillof beans.
Yeah, let us know, hill ofbeans.
(43:29):
In the South, a hill of beansis its own measuring stick.
Whether you're talking aboutvolume or value, a hill of beans
isn't worth much.
That means whatever you'retalking about is worth less than
very little.
He ain't going to amount to ahill of beans.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
No, I've heard that Not personally, but I've heard
people say that.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Okay, the next is plum Plum P-L-U-M-B plum.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Well, that refers to like a wall.
Is the wall plum?
Speaker 2 (44:05):
No, he's just plum stupid.
Yeah, I am plum more out.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Well, if y'all are moving here or you're of
northern descent, we use plum alot here.
I am plum more.
I tell you what I am plum wornout.
I am more plum out, that's true.
(44:34):
You may not.
You said that this week.
Yeah, you, you may be not wait,you may be not just truly,
completely, absolutely tired,but plum tired.
Your neighbor may be plum crazythat means over the top crazy.
This is the absolute ofabsolutes.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, I mean it is more than very tired.
Plum, mm-hmm, plum anything.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
That is true.
And you say that one Mm-hmm, Isay plum, I mean literally this
week.
You're like, I was like how's?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
it going Fine.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
I'm plum worn out, or I'm worn plum out.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Oh, here's one that's kind of bad, but I want to tell
y'all oh bad it's kind of uglyoh ugly.
But I'm going to share it withy'all.
Okay, and I don't know ifyou've heard this, and this was
in my small town, so you allknow when you were in High
(45:35):
school.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
There's a back story.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
You know, when you were in high school there were
those girls that were kind ofSlutty.
You know the ones.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
I didn't know them personally.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
But you know the ones that took it to the next level,
Not the ones that took it tothe next level, Not the ones you
know that dated.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
I feel like I'm going to have to edit this out.
I don't know what is coming.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
No, you're not going to have to.
Okay.
So where I come from, when theywould like, those type of girls
would end up marrying.
They might be beautiful, causeyou know everybody was screwing
them, so you know they were, youknow they were pretty, so it
was always funny and they'd say,well, you know, she married
(46:23):
so-and-so, which may have nothave been a great catch.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
The guy yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
And then the other person would go well, you know,
she the guy, yeah.
And then the other person wouldgo well, you know, she played
out.
That's what we would always sayshe played out well, you know,
she played out, meaningeverybody had ran through her,
she just had to settle sheplayed out, she played out.
(46:48):
See, I told you it wasn't that.
So if you're here and you'relike here's, somebody played out
, they wore out.
Yeah, nobody wanted it.
Yeah, it played out, it playedout.
And then the other thing is andWesley, I brought this up to him
before the podcast y'all and hesaid that's a saying.
(47:09):
Everybody says that I'm like no.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Okay, here's the thing.
I know this is a Southern term,I do know this is very Southern
, but I would just think at thispoint it has like infiltrated
the world or the country, mm-mm,mm-mm.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Fixin' to, I am fixin' to whip your ass Fixin'
to, fixing to.
I am fixing to whip your ass,fixing to Uh huh, I am fixing to
make me a glass of tea.
Yeah, do you want?
Speaker 1 (47:37):
one I'm fixing to go to the store.
Y'all don't say that in otherplaces.
No.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Fixing to Not up north.
I mean, have you ever been inNew York City and somebody say
I'm fixing to go.
That's its own place.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
New York City and somebody say I'm fixing to go,
that's its own place.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
I've just, you know, some of the people that I have
met from Ohio or Indiana, theMidwest they ain't as they ain't
proper.
Well, midwest is different andyou'll get some people with,
like very poor grammar and youknow, I seen that.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Instead of I saw that .
Speaker 1 (48:16):
Well, I seen that goes right there with fixin' to,
and maybe they say that there.
I don't know.
That's why I'm just a littlesurprised.
So let us know.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
Fixin' to means I'm getting ready to.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Well, we all know that they never heard it before
in their life.
I'm fixing to, getting ready to.
I'm fixing to.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Yeah, I mean, I heard things.
I heard things and the waypeople talk, I'm like what.
I had an employee one time,true story had an employee one
time and he was talking, talkingto me, and they were green as
gourds more country, more whatis green is gourd.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
See now, that is a country green is gourd, means
you really?
Speaker 2 (49:03):
That means country.
And he said my uncle, my uncle.
And I said my uncle.
I said who.
He said my uncle.
I said I'm sorry, I don't knowmy uncle Because I thought it
(49:29):
was a person, yeah.
And he said you know my uncle.
I said I don't know my uncleCause I thought it was a person,
yeah.
And he said you know my uncle.
I said I don't know my uncle.
I said I don't know Monkle andI said he said you know my uncle
and he said I said your uncle.
(49:51):
I said I thought you were sayingMonkle, he said it is.
Monkle yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
Monkle now.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Monkle.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Monkle, me and my Monkle.
No, me, monkle, monkle, me andmy monkle.
Yeah, me and monkle.
Me and monkle went to the store.
Me and monkle went to the gasstation and got some chips.
Yeah, now here's the next oneMe and monkle fixing to go to
the gas station.
You need anything?
Did you eat yet?
My uncle's a drunk.
Did you eat yet?
Did you eat yet eat yet myuncle's a drunk.
(50:21):
Do you eat yet?
Do you eat yet?
Do you eat yet?
Did you eat yet?
See, that's Southernisms.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Oh no, that's just the bad of the bad.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
Me and my uncle fix and go to the store and get some
food.
Do you eat, yet Use all of themtogether.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
Them.
Ain't no carrots growing rightthere.
S-m-r, s-m-r, o-s-m-r, s-m-r,o-s-m-r.
Yeah, that's just another wholelevel.
And here's another one Will youcarry me over to the warehouse,
carry you Carry?
So a lot of Southern people saycarry, like you're going to
(50:55):
pick them up and literally carrythem.
But they mean will you take ordrive them?
Will you drive me to thewarehouse?
You know they're going to saywill you carry me over there?
Yeah, will you carry me overthere.
(51:15):
Can you imagine living in NewYork your whole life and coming
here and going to Pickens County, where I grew up out in the
country, and hearing what someof these people say I'm rolling
away.
How you doing.
(51:36):
I'm finer than frog.
Hair split four ways my uncle'sover there working on his car.
I mean, you wouldn't know whatthey were saying.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
You want me to carry you over there to see.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
You just plumperty.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
That is so true.
Oh my gosh, it's hilarious.
I mean I forget about some ofthe things that we still need to
take the microphone to thestreets somewhere outside of the
South and interview people andask them if they know these
terms.
Just use it in a sentence andsee if they know what it means.
(52:15):
Do you know?
This isn't a Southern thing.
This is not a Southern thing,but I don't think I mentioned
this, but my mind is still blownaway.
This lady went to I think shewas in Target and she was
looking for a cleaner to clean,like her sofa with, and so she
(52:37):
asked for upholstery cleaner.
This was on like a TikTok orsomething, and then she started
doing a video.
Nobody knew what upholsterymeant.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Didn't we talk about this?
Speaker 1 (52:48):
Did we talk?
Speaker 2 (52:48):
about it?
I don't know.
Upholstery, yeah, and no oneknew.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
No one knew Like all these people she's like do you
know what upholstery means?
And they're like no.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
And I'm people she's like do you know what upholstery
means?
And they're like no, and I'mlike how do you not know?
But upholstery, I mean, that isa thing and I think about it
now.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
Every time we'll send out like a text message for our
local home store.
Let's say we're doing a sale onupholstery and I'm like, do I
say upholstery, am I losingpeople?
Because they don't know what itmeans.
I always say, you know, likewe're having X percent off
upholstery sale.
Come in.
And then I'm like, are therepeople that are like I don't
know what's on sale?
Speaker 2 (53:29):
Should I be?
Speaker 1 (53:30):
saying furniture.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
But what are you supposed to say?
Fabric covered furniture?
Speaker 1 (53:35):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (53:37):
I was blown away.
Are we going to dumb it down Tome that?
Speaker 1 (53:40):
was so like not knowing what I don't know.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
It's funny, oh lord we're having a fabric covered
furniture sale.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
Run on in, come, get your discount here.
Well, let's wrap up thishundredth episode.
I still can't believe.
I don't even know at this pointhow we got to doing a podcast.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
I know I talked about it for a while, like we need.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
We got funny stories.
We need to have a podcastbecause there's things you want
to tell or happen or discussthat you can't on, say,
instagram, because they're justtoo long to talk about.
Yeah, and we kept saying we'regoing to do a podcast and the
name I know we've talked aboutit comes from my mom.
(54:25):
Stephen and I were in the carit was you and me in the car,
right.
Yes, we were in the car and mymom called and we were on the
way back from somewhere I don'tknow and she was telling us this
show that we needed to.
And you have to know my mom,she's kind of like me multiple
stories and can't followsometimes Can be foggy.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
Yeah, in the best of her text messages that can take
you many different places.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
We got to have my mom on the podcast, but she was
telling us this you know she'slike y'all have to watch this.
Yeah, we were like okay'allhave to watch this, yeah.
And then she said and then shesaid who's driving?
Speaker 2 (55:06):
And we were like, okay, we'll look it up what's?
Speaker 1 (55:09):
the rest.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
And she was like no, who's driving?
And we're like okay is that thename.
Speaker 1 (55:17):
So it was literally one of those like for a minute
we were going she, she was goingwho's driving?
And I'm like, okay, we'll lookit up.
It's like continue on with thestory.
And she was like finally likeno, who is driving?
I don't remember which one ofyou are driving and we were like
busted out laughing and we werelike that's the name of our
(55:40):
podcast, yep, who's?
Speaker 2 (55:42):
driving.
But and that's you know, it'sso funny and and you can be that
way too, and I can too a littlebit, but your mom is, her
brains works faster than hermouth.
Speaker 1 (55:56):
Yeah, I guess that's how mine works too.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Mine too, and she is already like four steps ahead.
Speaker 1 (56:03):
Yeah, and you'd like what and when she's telling a
story and I do this too.
I know it drives Daniel crazy,but she'll go off on side
stories and then wraps backaround to the main story, so you
got to follow it.
She's got to be ADD yeah,definitely.
And I do that to Daniel andDthing.
So you got to follow it.
She's got to be ADD yeah,definitely.
And I do that to Daniel in PoorThing he zones out and then
(56:25):
he's like I have no idea whatyou're.
Speaker 2 (56:27):
I don't know what you've talked about or where you
are in the story.
It is an ADD thing and I'm likejust never mind it wasn't
important.
Listen, they're good storieswhen you go in all different
directions different directions,I know, oh, they are Because
it's like our podcast how we gotfrom hitchhiking to Seven Brew.
Yeah, it just goes.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
I mean it just flows, but truly, thank you all for
listening to our podcast.
We have a lot of fun doing iteach week.
We really do and we lovetelling our stories and we need
to get my mom and some guests on.
You know we started out wewould have guests on, but we
started out also we werestructured.
We would record podcasts everyFriday at this time and we could
say we could call someone ortext them and say, hey, do you
(57:08):
want to be on our podcast?
This week?
Speaker 2 (57:09):
We need to do Ronder.
We don't do that anymore.
We got to do Ronder.
That'd be a good one.
We will, we'll get it togetherand do it, yeah, and we've got
some funny stories becauseWesley, you know they have a
cabin in Pigeon Forge, yeah, andWesley has a way of getting out
(57:31):
of doing anything he doesn'tlike or doesn't want to do.
And who likes going to HOAmeetings?
No one.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
You know how I get out of it.
We've talked about this.
This was supposed to be theyear you say no, if I want it,
no, I can't go to that, yeah,but the bad thing is is you say
no, call Steve.
Speaker 2 (57:52):
So we have some funny stories because, I do some of
the HOA meetings with Wesley'smom for a neighborhood that I
don't even own, but we do it andwe've had you know nothing you
do Listen.
Y'all know.
Y'all all know, whenever I gosomewhere, I do something.
(58:12):
There's going to be a storywith Steven.
You put me and Rhonda together.
There's going to be a greatstory.
Speaker 1 (58:20):
My mom always has stories story.
Speaker 2 (58:22):
Always something happens to her at just and I'm
gonna wait till she's on here.
But there's one story um, whenwe, when she and I went to we've
told the unicycle story have wetold that?
Yes, we literally laughed till.
We almost peed our pants yeahand it was the girl you gotta we
(58:44):
gotta ask your mom about ityeah, because she was a um, um
and she was mountain, mountainand healthy she was a big girl
she was a big girl to be on aunicycle At a flea market, at a
flea market in a gravelditched-up place, and I kid you
(59:06):
not, she would go.
We were sitting in the car andthat girl, I'm telling you, she
would be within six inches ofthe ground.
We'd be going, oh, oh, oh, oh,and then she would bring it back
up, and then she'd go the otherway and we'd be going, oh, and
then she would bring it back upand then she'd go the other way.
We go, oh, here it is, here itis, and then she would go down.
(59:28):
I mean it was just, it was likea weeble wobble, I mean, every
way we got.
That was one of the I wish wehad recorded that that is too
funny.
Speaker 1 (59:45):
Yeah, my mom has a lot of stories.
A lot of things happen to mymom, and mostly funny.
Speaker 2 (59:50):
And sometimes it's not.
Speaker 1 (59:52):
Yeah, but it's always a good story.
Oh my gosh, it's just too funny.
We'll have to get her on here.
I don't want to catch her offguard and just call her.
I'm going to have to get her onone day, like okay.
Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
We got to check the mood.
Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
Check the happenings.
Catch her right in the middleof a story.
That would be a good one.
All right, we're going to parkthis baby.
Thank you for 100 episodes.
We're going to keep it going.
Mark this baby.
Thank you for 100 episodes.
We're going to keep it going.
Yeah, I mean, one day we mightstop showing up, but for now,
we're going for 100 more andthen we'll see after that 100
more?
Oh my gosh, that'd be likeanother two years.
(01:00:30):
Yeah, what else do we got to do?
We do one a week.
Oh, nothing, I'm down for it.
Yeah, all right, see, see younext week.
Thanks for being here.
Remember to join ourmembers-only community at
whosedrivingpodcastcom.
Share us with your friends.
We need more listeners.
I'm sure we lose some along theway with our dumb asses.
Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Yeah, and we need some five-star reviews, so don't
forget to leave us the reviews.
Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
And leave us the reviews.
We'll see you next week.
Bye y'all.
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