June 10, 2025 • 51 mins
Wesley and Steven catch up after separate travels, sharing stories about their live sales business and preparing for a busy week ahead, Including Steven's first colonoscopy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Girl, get in.
I'm coming in hot.
We're on a schedule.
Today.
It's Sunday for us while we'rerecording.
Of course, this doesn't comeout until Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is everything recording over there before we
do this for 20 minutes and haveto redo it it looks like it's
time for another episode ofwho's Driving.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We're two best friends and entrepreneurs who's
Driving is an entertaining lookinto the behind the scenes of
our lives, friendship andbusiness.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
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 (00:45):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
I think we're good to go.
I hit the button.
Look, both of us are on there.
Was that last episode?
No, two episodes ago werecorded, like the beginning,
(01:07):
three times before Camerastaying recording.
Last week we did it separately.
That was fun.
You were at home?
Yeah, I was here, if you werewatching.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Which is good.
You know that, we know we cando it, because vacation and
travel schedules we can make itwork Right.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I know, because we got a lot coming up and,
speaking of a lot, it's a busyweek coming up.
But before we get to thattonight, which is Sunday night,
which will have passed, we'rekind of in a little bit of a
hurry because we're going to doa live sale from my patio.
Yes, got in some new things.
My patio's all set up.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm not looking forward to it.
I'm just going to tell you,because it's a little toasty out
there.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It is a little toasty out there, but I think by the
time we do the live it will havecooled down a little bit.
The sun usually shifts.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, they'll know when I get too hot, because
they'll see my ass leaving.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
No, I tell you, you know, we, dylan and I just went
to the Atlanta market, right, Iwas going to say, speaking of
live sales and busy weeks, y'allwent to the Atlanta market, I
went to Florida, you were inFlorida.
It feels like that's been amonth ago already.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We were.
Yeah, it seems like we weregone.
It seems like that was twoweeks ago and it was like we got
home Two days ago.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
No, yeah, that was two weeks ago and it was like we
got home Two days ago.
No, no, friday night and it'sSunday afternoon, yeah, which is
also I just realized.
I mean, you literally justwalked in my house like five
minutes ago.
This is the first time we'veseen each other since over a
week ago.
Yeah, because we didn't seeeach other in person.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
But we talk every day , yeah, so it feels like you're
there and we're going to be backin Atlanta on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Okay, so I got a lot to work in here.
First of all, tuesday thisTuesday when this podcast is
coming out, y'all are going backto Atlanta to the bag vendor
that's not at market that I haveliterally never had so many
people message me saying theyhave been blowing all of us up,
even Dylan's.
Instagram.
(03:08):
Go back there, go back there.
Some of them have gotten themand they want more.
Well, I knew once they got themthey would want more.
Some people watched the replaybut they couldn't order because
it was literally you had toorder right there and we were
switching apps.
So I'm excited for Tuesday fory'all.
Y'all are going to go.
Do that one.
(03:29):
It's been fun.
Y'all are going and doing yourown lives and I've been doing my
own thing, it was fun, and thenwe do ours together.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It was fun and we really enjoy the Cash and Carrie
lives.
Yeah, it's.
You know, it's just, it's funFunny story.
Nana did not take a sweaterhe's referring to himself Myself
.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Nana gets a little cold in market.
You froze to death, were yournips, cutting glass.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You never know the way it's going to be, you don't?
It varies building to building,floor to floor, and some of
those floors.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It is literally like 60 degrees.
I mean it is.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Creative co-op is like Cold Teeth yeah, you're
going to be chattering yourteeth, yeah, you get so cold.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So I also have to say I'm impressed with you because
we got the new app for thenested fig.
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(04:41):
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But we got a brand new app.
We got it launched.
That was Friday, a week ago,and I was here Friday, saturday,
sunday, we did the Sunday livesale and then I left town and
left you with it and you made itnot only to market and did the
lives, but with the brand newapp and system and I set it all
(05:05):
up myself and you did it, youdidn't even have to call me for
issues well, we had one issue,but that was not related.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh yeah, we had a crash, but that was shopify went
down.
That wasn't related.
Wasn't related I was a littleshocked myself, to tell you the
truth, and I was.
I got to thinking, okay, youknow.
Driving down there, I was likedo I know thinking?
Okay, you know.
Driving down there, I was likedo I know what to do?
And I'm like don't even thinkabout it, just do it.
The best thing is not thinkabout it.
I was telling myself you knowwhat to do, yeah, don't think
(05:37):
about it, right?
So I just got in there and Idid it.
Yeah.
The only time, the only time Igot stressed, which was you're
the same way, but we had um thisone vendor that we have now.
I've now made friends with herbut at first she was angry, yeah
(06:00):
, and she was like no, you're, Imean, they're from New Jersey,
not knocking anybody, but youknow they're a little more
abrupt.
They're a little more abruptand a little scurry.
And she was like you be here atfour and it was like 20 till
(06:21):
four and I had nothing nothingloaded at all.
Yeah, no photos, nothing.
Yeah, that's the only time it'shard, like if she hadn't, if
she had just said you know, getit on there, we would have been
there at four, 15 and it wouldhave gone a lot better.
(06:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But Well, it's so funny because you know it's like
anything new when you'regetting the live sales set up
and I don't think you, listeningin, our customers understand
how much goes into that, likethe sourcing of it and a lot of
times not even the technicalpart, the convincing we have to
(07:04):
do for vendors, because livesales are still relatively new
on the boutique level.
You know there's people who doTikTok lives but they're not
doing them with the vendor,they're doing them in their
house or whatever.
But going to a vendor andsaying, hey, we want to do a
live sale here, sometimes ittakes a little convincing and
(07:25):
then we always get invited back.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So our vendor, list is growing and a lot of them are
like no.
And then we're like do you knowwhat this is?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, and we have to talk them through it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And then we tell them and they're like okay, we can
try that.
And then we do it and they seehow it didn't bother them.
They make money, yeah, andthey're like please come back.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
The next market, yeah , but besides that part of going
into it, there's the technicalside of like a lot of times,
when we're doing the live salesfrom the Atlanta market even you
know, we'll go in July to thebig show where we're there like
10 days, we are shopping andfinding the items for you in
real time.
(08:09):
And so then, like when you wentthis week, you had vendors that
you're like okay, I want to dothis vendor, but you didn't know
the product.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And then you even found new vendors.
I only had three vendors that Iknew we were going to do, yeah,
but had not one damn clue.
Items you what items?
And I wasn't sure that I wasgonna do them, because I wasn't
sure that I was gonna love it,yeah, and if I don't love it,
(08:40):
I'm not doing it.
Right was like you know, it'sgot all those questions Like
cause then I don't love, if Idon't like the people, I'm not
going to do it.
If I don't.
You know, like the, the onelady we worked through and I was
thinking, if this doesn'tchange, if this doesn't change,
(09:01):
we're not going to do thistogether, yeah, if it doesn't
change, we're not going to dothis together, yeah.
And so I went back and I saidthe next day and I said you know
, stephen, you've got you can,you can outsmart these people.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But now they love you .
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So I went, yes, but I went in and I was very kiss ass
nice, that's good.
I pulled out my customerservice friendliness Mm-hmm and
we started talking Mm-hmm, andit was sincere yeah.
I told her that she reminded meof a friend of mine that was a
(09:38):
McDonald's owner which ithappened to be the people that
bought my restaurants when Iretired, so I leave.
You threw out the McDonald'scard and that changed it all I
did and I felt a little smarmydoing that.
And she stopped memid-conversation and said, wait,
(10:00):
you own McDonald's.
And I was like oh yeah, yeahand I tried to keep going.
And she's like, wait, you ownMcDonald's.
And I was like oh, yeah, yeah,and I tried to keep going and
she's like, wait, did you getout?
I was like, yeah, girl.
I was like I was in that 30years, I was, you know, it was
wonderful, I loved it, but itran its course and I moved on.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Stephen does pull out the McDonald's card from time
to time.
I just must say but you know,it's a good thing to have in
your back pocket.
I guess I think I'm going tostart saying I owned McDonald's,
use it.
I own four of them.
I know all the stories, youknow you can sound legit and I
can say and they'll say oh, doyou know?
(10:38):
Oh, I got out before they werethere.
Oh, yeah, I remember them.
We were in the same co-optogether.
You see, you know the lingo.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, I know the lingo I'm gonna start and it was
funny.
So I was like okay, I thinkthis did it.
Dylan just kept his mouthclosed this the whole time.
It was just kind of smiling andthe funny thing is I asked her
the first time we went, when shewas really rushing, and asked
her to take product, to get itonline just out of the showroom
(11:10):
and to come right back.
Yeah, and I've never had anybodydo this.
She said, OK, but theyphotographed every piece that I
was taking out of their showroom.
Oh, to make sure you brought itback.
Ok, after I told her that Iowned mcdonald's, we she just
gave us everything.
She's like, gave us everythingto take out.
(11:32):
No photographs, nothing, yeah,plus, we came back with a whole
bag to do lives whenever it'sconvenient for you know you
gotta that's called networking,right it really is, it's called
networking.
Dylan was like wow, she reallychanged.
(11:53):
I said and I told amanda thatshe was laughing.
She's like yeah, she saidbasically you told her honey, I
don't, I don't need your stuff,I've got better at home.
That's funny.
I said oh God, I said, it makesme feel a little smarmy and I'm
like, hey, you know, whateverit takes is not Right and maybe,
(12:18):
in all fairness, maybe she justneeded to know that I wasn't a
crook.
Yeah, she never met you beforeI'm a legit business person and
I get it.
It's fine.
But yeah, I will use that if Ineed to.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, it's crazy.
But back to, it's impressivethat we are like customers, that
we're shopping for our customerin real time, and there are
vendors that we oh I think wewant to do this vendor and then
we'll get there and be like theydon't have anything.
This time we're not doing itand we're on the hunt for
something else it's not specialenough and listen.
(12:52):
People don't realize in how realtime it is and then you got to
put it.
The technical part is that Iwas getting to.
You have to put it all in thesystem.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
She said you know, they've had people do live sales
.
And they said we have neverseen anyone as efficient and
fast, efficient and organized asyou.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, we've gotten that a few times because we have
really honed in that, becausewe do them during market, when
we're also shopping.
Because we do them duringmarket when we're also shopping
and it's like interrupting,we're having to stop shopping.
So we've made it as efficientas we could Like used to.
When we started out, it wasthis whole ordeal.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
We made it way too complicated.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
We pull out a tripod that collapses down to about a
foot, and a phone, a laptop, putit all in and we're like we're
live and they're like wait, areyou?
And we're like we're live andthey're like wait are?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
you like we're good, I could do a lot.
I'm not kidding, I could do alive snail now in the car, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
We need to do a training.
If anyone we need to do livesale consulting for those who
are interested.
It was funny.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
We were taking this stuff out and I told Dylan I
said we're going to do this,we'll do this one, then we're
going to come back, we're goingto get more and we will just
take it to Hawaii.
We're going to do a live whenwe're in Hawaii.
He's like are you serious?
I'm like, yeah, it's just likeI'll set it up before we go and
(14:38):
it's just going to be an hour.
Yeah, and we can do it like atthe pool.
Yeah, and it will be fun tobring all of our customers along
while we're in Hawaii, andwe'll have fun.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, and the good thing is that with the time
difference there, I forget howmany hours.
It is six hours, so like ifyou're doing one, it's a seven
or eight eastern time it's twoin the afternoon, you're good to
go?
Yeah, it's not like you knowit's your lunchtime or something
, yeah, uh, so, yeah, so I wasimpressed.
I don't know how we got off onall the live sales, but but it
(15:12):
was.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It was very fun and, uh, the good news is is there's
even like more ideas that I gotwhile while we were there and
there's so much unchartedterritory, oh yeah, and I think
it's fun and I think ourcustomers really like us finding
(15:33):
like some of the new.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, all the new stuff and I feel like they
really love the variety.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You know, sometimes we're doing home decor,
sometimes we're doing jewelry,and it's all learning, like we
did moissanite jewelry and ifyou don't know what moissanite
is basically, dylan corrects meon this so he'll be like don't
say that it's lab.
It's real diamonds, lab createddiamonds and moissanite is
(16:05):
right under that.
It's the third level down froma real diamond, but it is
chemically it is so close to adiamond that if you have the
electronic diamond scanner itdoesn't pick up that it's fake.
Oh, really, really, that'scrazy.
(16:26):
So we took our Cartier ringsthat have the Cartier diamonds,
bougie.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Bougie.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We took the Cartier diamond and put it next to the
Moissanite.
We took a photo and then zoomedin.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, and they look the same you cannot tell the
difference.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
And see, I'm a dumbass when it comes to
diamonds you could tell me thisis a fifty thousand dollar, you
know, six carat diamond.
I'm gonna be like, okay, yeah,I mean, unless it looks like a
piece of quartz you found gotout in your driveway, I'm gonna
believe you.
Yeah, but I was.
So I was skeptical aboutmoissanite, um, but then we read
(17:13):
about it, you know, we saw it,and it even comes with like a
certificate it does, it does,and it's set in sterling silver
and the sterling silver doesn'ttarnish because it's rhodium
plated on top of the silver.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So you've got I mean, you've got a nice piece, um, I
call it travel jewelry, I wasgonna say, especially if you're
traveling or if you or maybe youjust want variety of a ring,
yeah, and you don't, and youdon't want to spend thousands of
dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
If you want three different types of diamond
earrings, you're not going to.
Who's going to spend that moneyother than Kim Kardashian on
that kind?
You know?
I mean I, it just has its place, the customers loved it.
I know that, yes, I was shockedhow many people were familiar
with moissanite yeah but youknow I mean that.
(18:06):
I guess that's more of a oh andthey were buying it up.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I know that it's, it is so you have to do that one
again, because you only did afew pieces, like five maybe
seven.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We did four earrings, yeah, and there's probably
40,000.
Four earrings and a couple ofrings, but I didn't have time I
had 30 minutes to get it on, andso we had to do it was a good
trial.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
But there's so much more.
Like the stones, like theearrings.
I kept it basic, and then therewas a lot of different styles.
But then I'm like, well, wecan't do that because it gets
too confusing for the warehouse.
So I figure we can just keepdoing different.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Layer it in.
Layer it in, add some more.
Give people choice.
Well, and on Tuesday, if you'relistening, he'll be back in
Atlanta doing the bags, but sowe went to Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yes, this is going to air Tuesday.
Yes, so we'll be live inAtlanta.
Dylan and I will be around 2.30or 3 pm.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Eastern Hoping for 2.30 Eastern time.
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So we went to Florida this pastweek.
We were only there.
We left on Monday, came back onThursday and it was a great
time.
Sorry you weren't there.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You had to work.
I know I haven't been in twoyears I need to go.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It was so much fun going this time.
This was the first time we'vegone, been down there before and
Daniel's parents came down fora few nights, but this was the
first time going with my parentsand my niece was there and
she's six.
So this time we went as we werevacationing, like as if we were
(19:51):
vacationing.
So it was a lot of fun.
We did, you know, just funthings, and we weren't working
on the house or you knowanything like that.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
This time did you?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
take her to water park.
We did not, I mean, it went byso fast.
But she was very happy at thebeach and she just, it was so
fun.
She loves daniel and they wereplaying and we were at the beach
and the pool and then we wentto eat and it was a lot of fun.
It goes so you know, so quick.
(20:18):
So it was really good.
But on the way down there.
So we flew, we had fromGreenville to Charlotte Wait, on
the way down there, yes,Greenville to Charlotte and then
Charlotte to the Destin Airport, whatever it's called Fort
Walton.
So we made it to Charlotte noproblem On our flight from
(20:42):
Charlotte to Fort Lauderdale youmean Fort Walton, Fort Walton,
Fort Walton, not Fort Lauderdale, Fort Walton, Our plane.
So I don't know, I still don'tknow what happened.
I think he was talking aboutsomething they have to hook up
to at the airport, our plane.
So I don't know, I still don'tknow what happened.
I think he was talking aboutsomething they have to hook up
to at the airport.
Some kind of like power sourcedidn't work, so that bring like
a portable one.
(21:03):
Well then, that portable onedidn't work, so they had to
bring another portable unit.
But when they brought that, oneof the workers hit his head
under the plane, gashed his headopen and we had to wait for,
like, the emergency services tocome get him.
And I mean it was like he'sstill under the plane.
The pilot kept, the captainkept giving updates.
(21:25):
He's like the worker is stillunder the plane.
We're waiting on them to bringhim out from under the plane.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
We were delayed like over an hour.
I would have been like let meoff.
I would have pulled him out ofthe way and said can we get on
with?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
this.
That's what I was like.
I mean, I hate that someone hittheir head but can we not?
Like drag him out from underthe plane and get going.
We were laughing, it was funnyand it was hot.
Part of the power source wasthe AC wouldn't work.
Laughing, it was funny and itwas hot.
Part of the power source wasthe AC wouldn't work.
You and I have been in that.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Okay, I've got to ask because I said I was never
flying into Fort Walton Airportagain.
Was it better it?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
was better.
It was smoother and I didnotice they had all new scanning
machines, so it was better.
So Stephen and I flew into FortWalton when we had bought the
cottage.
You know, we bought it sightunseen, that's a whole nother
story.
And then, once we went undercontract, I was like, do you
(22:24):
want to go down there and lookat this to see if you even like
it?
I don't know how we can get outof it, but you might want to go
.
So we went down there and weflew into Fort Walton.
We were only there like 24hours right.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
When we were there.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It was a cluster, but it was also during COVID it was
during COVID 2021, and theirscanning machine went down is
what it was.
Oh yeah, that's what I noticed.
The baggage scanning machine,like you know, to go through
security, went down and theyonly had one, I guess, at the
time, and it the line was likesomething you would see at like
(23:00):
New York City airport, whensomething happens.
It was wrapped around the door.
I couldn't figure, I couldn'tremember how that ever ended.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
It was wrapped around the whole outside of the damn
airport.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
But how did that end?
Did we get on the flight?
I remember us standing in line.
We couldn't get a rental carbecause they were all gone
already.
Did we just stay there andstand in line for hours and
hours?
Yeah, we did, and get out.
I couldn't remember when I wasthere.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
We met friends.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
We all you know it was fun, it was fun.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You know, after the fact that time it was not fun, I
was not happy and it was likepeak.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
you know travel summer season down there.
It was in July sometime, Idon't remember.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And my thing is I just can't June.
It's just a lot when you're hotand there's no rental car, I
don't mind.
If there's a solution, I candeal with it.
If there is a solution, if I'mlike, okay, well, we can get in
this car and drive home.
We're going to be three hourslate.
Okay, yeah, but we were juststanding there Dead in the water
(24:13):
.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Another big thing this week.
What you want to talk about itSteven's getting a colonoscopy.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I'm getting roto-rooted on Friday.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
His first time, well, for a colonoscopy.
I don't know about roto-rooting.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Oh, I dread it so bad .
I dread the whole thing.
But you know it's one of thosethings you have to do.
You do, you do and it's goingto be fine.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I just want to know from you, because I know people
you know make it funny.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But I'll tell you the truth.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I want to know from you, like you know, because
you're going to go to thebathroom a lot, but I feel like
if you prepare for that, likehey, on this day I'm just this
one I'm gonna be doing yeah, Imean when we get back from
Atlanta on Wednesday, I meanreally I'm out of work from.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Hopefully I'll be coming back.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Sunday Can you go ahead and like juice cleanse the
day before that you're supposedto take all the stuff?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well that they say go eat, because you're not going
to eat Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So what is the what is?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
the procedure.
I have not looked.
I have the bag in the pantry,so you start on.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Thursday.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
You're having the colonoscopy on Friday.
I start Friday, friday.
I don't know where that camefrom.
Friday On Friday.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I don't even say Monday, tuesday, wednesday,
friday, friday I don't knowwhere that came from.
Colonoscopy on Friday, so youhave to prep on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I have to take and I'm shocked.
Okay, for those of you that donot know, I am a huge, huge
vitamin and supplement person.
Love my vitamins and mysupplements.
It's almost comical, but if youknow me, you know I'm all about
(26:15):
it.
Like I have a routine, I takesupplements twice a day.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
He almost took too many.
I did.
Well, you did take too many hewas having negative effects,
maybe for a minute.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You have to be careful, so anyway, I had to
stop.
I had to stop the.
I had to stop.
The last supplements I've hadwere Thursday and I feel like I
am just about to die.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh, you had to stop like a week before All
supplements you stop a weekbefore.
Oh, so you can tell adifference.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No, Mentally I can't.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Not physically.
So it's mental that you can.
You're like, oh, I need.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
The timing is really weird.
So you're supposed to stop allblood thinners, like a week
before.
Well, I mean, I'm not asking, Imean it is what it is, but
steroids thin your blood.
Well, my immune system started.
I have a a huge overactiveimmune system.
(27:18):
Um, so I you know from workingso much in Atlanta, just being
bam, bam, bam bam.
If I don't get enough rest, um,my immune system will just
start going crazy.
So I have to take steroids tocalm it down, Right, and I was
like, oh my gosh, I'm notsupposed to take these.
(27:40):
So I'm like, well, I've got toget it calmed down.
I can't be sick for a week.
Yeah, so I just took them.
I took them yesterday.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Well, Friday, yesterday and today Bloody mess,
and I'm not taking anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Okay, so I'm like that should be fine.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Might be a bloody mess.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah, five days, but then Thursday.
I guess every doctor handles itdifferent, but I take four at
noon on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Is that when it all starts?
That's when you start takingstuff.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, I take four Ducalax pills, oh, and then I
can't remember I think at threeo'clock, two or three o'clock, I
start drinking the Drano.
That really blows it out.
But the hard thing is.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
And here's why you're going to, or anything.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
No, you can drink chicken broth and green jello.
You can eat green jello, drinkchicken broth or vegetable broth
.
Yeah, but I'm just going to.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I'll eat jello.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I don't need it, and the hard thing for me is going
to be not any of that but I haveto get up at five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Friday morning and do it again, oh, and take more
stuff.
What time is your colonoscopy?
It's good noon.
Oh, my gosh, I'm gonna beexhausted.
Yeah, but they put you outright, yeah, yeah, so you'll get
a good nap, you'll sleep,you'll be good by Saturday,
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hopefully.
Yeah, you know a lot of yeah,that 5 am part would be the
worst.
And then do you get any sleep?
Are you getting up and down allnight?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, they say you're just exhausted.
Yeah, and but one friend ofmine had it done.
She had an excessive amount ofpolyps in her colon which they
removed and it was all fine, butshe was in pain.
She was like in the bed for aweek.
I'm like, yeah but you knowit's fine, it's what is you know
(29:50):
as long as, as long as I amcancer free and everything's
good, I'm not going to complain.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You know we wish you the best of luck.
We'll be thinking about you.
Everybody be thinking aboutSteven and we'll get an update
next week with how Do you needme to record it?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, the whole process.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Have you prepped down there?
Have you like I don't know?
Have you done anything downthere?
No, you like I don't know, haveyou done anything down there?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
No, I'm not doing anything down there, but they
did put notes and it said thatyour butt will get raw.
They like have Vaseline andstuff.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I'm like that sounds horrible.
Oh my God, that does I think.
Hmm, I don't know.
You need to clean it up downthere and stuff before you go.
Listen, it's.
I think you should write a notelike on your butt cheek, hey,
y'all.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Welcome, mind the curves.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Oh, my goodness, that is so funny.
I have a little riddle for you.
We haven't done a riddle in along time.
Oh, great Spell, what.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
W-H-A-T.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Spell what again.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
W-h A-T-A-G A-I-N.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Now what does that spell if you remove the W Hat?
You're right, most people sayhut Really, because it tricks
your brain.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What, what, Remove the W.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Most people say hut, but you said hat, you got it
right.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Okay, Today, Southern is us.
Oh God, we're still doing this.
We are and we're going to coversome I think we're out of time.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
We're going to cover some food.
Oh, did you eat yet?
Well, that means, did you eatyet?
Yes, but one food in particular.
If you're from the North, y'all, just do not eat it and you
need to open your mind.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
It's probably something Grits oh grits.
I like grits I love grits.
They don't eat that up North.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Is that just it didn't travel up there?
I mean why?
It's just like oatmeal orsomething.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
They don't eat grits and they don't drink sweet tea.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Oh, Well, I know sweet tea, just because I mean,
I guess that's just, I don'tknow, I don't like sweet tea.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I like unsweetened Sweet tea is way too sweet for
me.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Sweet tea you have to grow up on.
Yeah, if you've grown up on itand then but it's so sweet.
But see, I don't.
I never drink tea anymore.
I haven't.
I don't drink tea ever, butgrowing up we always had a
pitcher of tea.
It's very good for you if it'snot full of sugar.
Ours was full of sugar.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Ours was too, but I order it now at restaurants
unsweetened with lemon.
It's gross, just drink water.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Speaking of that and sweetened, that made me think.
Used to as a kid and I thinkthis is a Southern thing, or
maybe it was just a my householdthing Let me know about this
one.
We used to put a little sugaron our white rice with butter.
We'd have white rice, just apinch of sugar, just the same
way you would do like salt orsomething, just a little
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sprinkle and then butter on it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Did you do that?
Yeah, and also kind of akin tothat is, my grandma Merck made
bread pudding, which I mean notbread rice pudding, which now I
have never had anyone's ricepudding that I really loved.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I don't know that I've ever had, except my grandma
.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Merck's.
Yeah, it was so good.
Mm-hmm, it was so good.
So one of the things, one ofthe 5,000 things I got out of my
grandparents' house.
I was very, very close to mygrandparents and so one thing
that I have is this onecasserole dish.
(34:12):
She made her squash casseroleand or her rice pudding in this
casserole dish.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
So I was there one day and I said I need that yeah,
and she was like really, and Iwas like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah, so I have that yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Um what's your next Southernism?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Biscuits and gravy.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Oh, yeah, biscuits and gravy.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Is that?
That's a southern thing too.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
That is a southern thing, and they're just missing
out on all the stuff they areand funny story.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
This is a true story.
So when my grandfather proposedto my, my grandmother this
would have been in the 1930s.
Yeah, it was so romantic, hisone of his requirements to
marrying her.
I mean she should have.
My grandfather was a great manbut he was a bit of a chauvinist
(35:16):
I guess.
But you know that was probablycommon in the 1930s, in the
South Part of his proposal.
Yeah, you know, I remember mygrandmother telling me this and
I thought I would have ran.
Yeah, Like I would have said,no, thank you was.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
she had to promise that she would make three hot
meals a day and she had to makefresh bread at every meal oh my
god, how romantic I'd have beenlike no, like hell no, so I'd
(35:55):
have been like we're that'sgonna be on a moving scale of
how much you provide you know,that was how he was, and listen
y'all, he mellowed out.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
By the time I was born, he was a cupcake.
I don't think he was anythinglike.
According to my father and myaunts, he was nothing like that
when they were young.
Right, yeah, but yeah, he so myentire life.
You know, as long as mygrandfather was alive.
Things changed when he died,yeah, but while he was alive
(36:27):
there were three hot meals a day.
There was never.
We're just going to have asandwich.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
No, no, no, no, no, no.
It was like full on meal.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yes, three times a day.
And we had biscuits at leastbiscuits three times a day,
cornbread twice a day.
And we had biscuits at leastBiscuits three times a day,
cornbread twice a day.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Okay, but so did she just cook.
I mean, was her whole day justcooking?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Was she just?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
efficient.
I mean how she was efficient.
So before I was born, in theearly years, they were cotton
farmers, yeah, and so she workedthe cotton fields all day.
She had four children at home.
She would literally have a babyand go back to the field.
(37:21):
That's crazy, that is justcrazy.
It's true, yeah, and when I wasa kid their gardens were.
I mean, now I look at it I'mlike holy cow.
I mean it was work but it wasfun for me because that was fun.
But their gardens were likefive to ten acres.
(37:43):
That's crazy.
So it was we would.
I would get up early in themorning and we would go work in
the garden.
I thought it was fun.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
We would hoe the garden.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
But how do you do stuff like that and cook three
meals a day?
She?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
would leave.
How she did it, I don't know.
She would honestly leave thefield and in 30 minutes she had
a whole spread.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
You're like how'd you make all that?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And the thing is is my grandfather did not have a
tractor until I don't know Imight have been 10 years old.
Until then, he used a mule.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
That's even crazier.
Well, that goes to.
We have some we can talk aboutthis right, some friends who his
mom had a menu.
Yes, can we talk about that?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yes, so we have friends we won't say who and
they got married.
This is kind of like mygrandfather's level.
This is the rich city folk inGreenville compared to the
country version yeah, yeah, yeah.
So they get married, and I'veseen this menu by the way they
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get married, and I've seen thismenu by the way they get married
.
They're professional adults,successful professional adults,
not young, and they'rediscussing well, how do you want
to do meals?
What would you like to?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
eat, and this is after they had gotten married.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
After they had gotten married.
They didn't date long, gotmarried, you know.
They knew.
Yeah, you know, let's get to it.
We're, you know, getting longin the tooth.
This is good.
And he responded with.
Well, what my mom did was shecreated a menu for my father and
(39:45):
, on like Sunday, he wouldcircle everything he wanted for
the week and turn it in.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
And then that was his dinner.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah, it was just for dinner, yeah, which I think is
almost genius in a way, becausethen you know what you're
cooking every day.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Yeah, and she could go to the grocery and get it.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
The lady the wife.
So this would have been thepeople we know Parents, Parents.
So the lady the wife wouldpresent a menu and I guess it
was kind of the same menu everyweek sort of thing.
I mean, she would change it up,but it was a printed menu.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Oh, it was a printed menu, but it was a lot.
Picture a meat and three Mm-hmm, a lot of combos, times, three,
yeah.
So like you would pick yourappetizer, so he would circle
like Monday.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Let's say Monday he would circle what he wanted for
an appetizer, what he wanted fora meat, what he wanted for
sides.
And then he'd go to Tuesday andthen go to Tuesday and then so
she knew all the groceries sheneeded to buy and what she was
cooking each day, which honestlysounds kind of like an
efficient way to do it, becauseif you can prep something you
(41:04):
know, while you're cooking thismeal on Monday, well, tomorrow
night we're having this.
Let me go ahead and prep this.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
And actually I don't think you know this, because I
really didn't expect this.
She had a job, oh yeah, and amuch lower paying job.
Like a very respectable andimportant job, yeah, but she had
a lower paying job.
You know, she was married to avery successful man.
(41:31):
She did not have to work by anymeans.
Yeah, she worked.
So I guess she was like if youwant me to cook dinner, I need
to know what we're.
Uh-huh.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah, and it kind of takes the decision-making off of
her.
You know what I'm saying, youknow when you get home?
Well, what do you want?
I don't know Whatever you wantto make, well, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
And there's this back and forth, and she could put
stuff on the menu, she only hasto put what she wants to make
and she might be like oh, I'menergetic tonight, I'm going to
go ahead and prepare this this,this, this and put it in the
freezer and then I know For therest of the week I can go ahead
and prep this.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah, but our friend didn't respond.
The same, no.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
She said well, that is not going to happen, so we
don't need to talk about themenu any longer.
But the funny thing is andwe've discussed this at links,
yeah and um, we've discussed themenu many times and we've
gotten a good laugh and you know, and I helped them move and
(42:34):
found the menu and I had to sitdown and just look through the
menu yeah it just honestly, ifmy grandfather had thought about
it, my, my grandma would havebeen putting a menu on yeah so
he could pick.
That would have been right uphis alley.
But the thing with our friendsthey said we don't know what we
want to eat.
You know, her point was I don'tknow what I want to eat
(42:56):
tomorrow, much less Friday night, like I don't want to pick that
.
And then what if I'm just likeI don't want that?
Speaker 1 (43:06):
But I feel like maybe if you present the menu and
then you circle it and you readit, then you kind of get in your
oh, like Friday night we'regoing to have blah, blah, blah,
like you kind of start to lookforward to it.
I would think.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
And there wasn't like a.
There wasn't like let's skip it, go to dinner one night.
There wasn't that option onthere.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
But do you think if she was like, hey, I'm not
cooking, sorry about the menuwe're going out tonight?
I don't think so.
It just didn't happen at alllike that.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
I don't think so.
I think it would have been aspecial occasion.
I need someone to present me amenu.
I would love to see that.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Daniel, I'm going to need a menu.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
It would be very efficient.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
We'll have to hire a personal chef before there's a
menu.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
But I'm just shocked that they didn't have.
I would have thought, like whenthey first told me this story,
I thought they did a menu for ahousekeeper to have it ready.
That would have made sense tome.
That's the only way I would getgiven the family right.
But no, no, no, no, it was forher to make it To make it.
(44:22):
But can you imagine Dylanhanding me a menu for the week
and said this is what I want fordinner this week?
Hell, I would have been likeI'm not even in town.
That week.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Good luck, I'm not cooking it.
I'm glad you got your menutogether, but you better get in
there and cook it yourself.
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
I have to work up when I cook and I like to cook,
but it isn't anything I love todo.
Yeah, you don't cook at all.
I like to do it, but I make amess, yeah, and I have to really
get it in my head like, okay,I'm going to make this.
Yeah, I do it.
(45:08):
I want it cleaned up over with,done, ready to go.
Yeah, and I I'm actually, youknow, I guess it's cooking is
not hard for me.
My mother was an amazing cook.
Like my mother was one of thosecooks.
My mother was like a MarthaStewart, but I hated cooking
(45:28):
because a lot of times I had tohelp wash dishes.
We didn't have a dishwasher.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
She dirtied Everything, the whole kitchen at
one time.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Everything.
And I would always say like mom.
And I would always say, likeMom, why do you have to use a
different bowl and spoon andladle, and can we not just rinse
something off and reuse it forthe same dish?
And she would just say, oh, bequiet, get out of my kitchen.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
But, she.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
I've never seen anybody just amazing cook, yeah,
and she would drive you in likehelping her.
That's the reason I neverhelped.
I tried to never help herbecause it was she made nothing
out of a like if she made it outof a box, it was out of a box.
(46:21):
We're having hamburger helper.
Yeah, there was no hamburgerhelper.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yeah, there was no disguising.
No, everything was scratch.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
I mean, her soups were like amazing and twice
baked potato, just everythingwas so always so pretty, yeah,
and so I kind of like it.
I like doing it when it'sreally pretty.
I guess I got that part of mymother.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Well, do you have any other Southernisms?
That's it for today.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Just the food.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Okay, well then we're going to move on real quick and
then we got to wrap this babyup, so I got a lot.
You know, we never know how apodcast is going to go and be
perceived and sometimes, youknow, everyone thinks they're
funny and sometimes, you know,everyone thinks they're funny
and I'm like I don't know whatwas funny.
I have to go back and listen tothem.
I got so many messages lastweek and maybe because I posted
(47:10):
a small clip, but you know, Iasked you what you secretly
judge people on and you saidwomen who wear like blue
eyeliner.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Oh my God, Do you know how many messages I've
gotten?
Speaker 1 (47:28):
I have.
Literally that's what I wasliner.
Oh my God, do you know how manymessages I've gotten?
I meant to ask you are yougetting messages on this Cause?
See, we weren't together.
Normally, when I start gettingmessages, I'll be like oh, we
hit something this week.
He'll be like yes, I'm gettingthe messages too, but I forgot
to ask you.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
I'm like and I, you know, yes, I have gotten dozens
and dozens and dozens ofmessages.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Not even that but comments.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
But you know what?
Not one person was offended.
They're like.
You are correct that is what I.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
So I was surprised that someone didn't say I didn't
see any of my messages and Itried to watch.
No one said like well, I loveblue eyeliner.
Or like everyone was like Iagree with Steven, no, blue
eyeliner.
No, do you know the?
Speaker 2 (48:11):
and it's funny that I even know about eyeliner
because I mean, you know, somepeople, even some, some gays,
are into makeup and I don't, Icould care less.
I would never.
You can look at me and tell Idon't put shit on my face, but
(48:31):
when I was a kid or a teenager,a lot of time my mother was
obsessed with her makeup.
My mother was a true toeheadblonde and she had, like, blonde
eyelashes and eyebrows, so shehad to wear, you know, more
makeup, and so many times,because I worked in a town next
(48:57):
door that had a Belk that soldshe wore Lancome makeup, so I
would.
She would always make a listthat I would have to go by and
get Makeup, the Makeup counter.
And you know I said, you knowthis blue's really pretty, and
(49:17):
she was like no, but in the 80sthat would have been the thing.
She wouldn't have done that.
But it was funny because I waslike she sent me to get eyeliner
one day and she said go to thelancome counter and get me the,
(49:39):
the pencil, and it's charcoalgray.
Yeah, I'm like why are youwearing charcoal gray?
She said black is too harsh forme.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
So it was funny.
I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
And I guess you know, depending on your skin tone,
and she would have been a cooltone person, so the gray would
have been better than brown.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
Yeah, there you go, and the more you know, mm-hmm, I
mean heck, yeah.
Well, it's time to pull thisbaby over.
We've got to get ready for ourlives, still In the backyard, on
the patio.
I know I meant to make us someof the drinks, the frozen drinks
(50:26):
.
I even brought it home, but Iforgot to put it in the freezer.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
What a shocker.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
I know we're just going to hang out there and have
fun, but we will see you nextweek.
Remember, you can listenanywhere.
You get a podcast or you can goto whosedrivingpodcastcom and
you can listen for free there,or join our online community.
That's where you can watch us.
Oh, I want to.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
I've got a question.
Okay, do any of you do a menuin your home?
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Oh, hotline number.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
The hotline number is 864-982-5029.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
I forgot to check the hotline.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
like the last two weeks, we'll have to go back and
see what people have said Letus know if you use a menu,
because I honestly kind of likethe idea, text or call us or, if
you're in the community, leaveit in the notes.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
You can leave comments 864-982-5029.
We'll see you next week.
Yep, yep, bye, y'all.
Girl, get in.
I'm coming in hot.
We're on a schedule.
Today.
It's Sunday for us while we'rerecording.
Of course, this doesn't comeout until Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is everything recording over there before we
do this for 20 minutes and haveto redo it it looks like it's
time for another episode ofwho's Driving.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We're two best friends and entrepreneurs who's
Driving is an entertaining lookinto the behind the scenes of
our lives, friendship andbusiness.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
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 (00:45):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
I think we're good to go.
I hit the button.
Look, both of us are on there.
Was that last episode?
No, two episodes ago werecorded, like the beginning,
(01:07):
three times before Camerastaying recording.
Last week we did it separately.
That was fun.
You were at home?
Yeah, I was here, if you werewatching.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Which is good.
You know that, we know we cando it, because vacation and
travel schedules we can make itwork Right.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I know, because we got a lot coming up and,
speaking of a lot, it's a busyweek coming up.
But before we get to thattonight, which is Sunday night,
which will have passed, we'rekind of in a little bit of a
hurry because we're going to doa live sale from my patio.
Yes, got in some new things.
My patio's all set up.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm not looking forward to it.
I'm just going to tell you,because it's a little toasty out
there.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It is a little toasty out there, but I think by the
time we do the live it will havecooled down a little bit.
The sun usually shifts.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, they'll know when I get too hot, because
they'll see my ass leaving.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
No, I tell you, you know, we, dylan and I just went
to the Atlanta market, right, Iwas going to say, speaking of
live sales and busy weeks, y'allwent to the Atlanta market, I
went to Florida, you were inFlorida.
It feels like that's been amonth ago already.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We were.
Yeah, it seems like we weregone.
It seems like that was twoweeks ago and it was like we got
home Two days ago.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
No, yeah, that was two weeks ago and it was like we
got home Two days ago.
No, no, friday night and it'sSunday afternoon, yeah, which is
also I just realized.
I mean, you literally justwalked in my house like five
minutes ago.
This is the first time we'veseen each other since over a
week ago.
Yeah, because we didn't seeeach other in person.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
But we talk every day , yeah, so it feels like you're
there and we're going to be backin Atlanta on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Okay, so I got a lot to work in here.
First of all, tuesday thisTuesday when this podcast is
coming out, y'all are going backto Atlanta to the bag vendor
that's not at market that I haveliterally never had so many
people message me saying theyhave been blowing all of us up,
even Dylan's.
Instagram.
(03:08):
Go back there, go back there.
Some of them have gotten themand they want more.
Well, I knew once they got themthey would want more.
Some people watched the replaybut they couldn't order because
it was literally you had toorder right there and we were
switching apps.
So I'm excited for Tuesday fory'all.
Y'all are going to go.
Do that one.
(03:29):
It's been fun.
Y'all are going and doing yourown lives and I've been doing my
own thing, it was fun, and thenwe do ours together.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It was fun and we really enjoy the Cash and Carrie
lives.
Yeah, it's.
You know, it's just, it's funFunny story.
Nana did not take a sweaterhe's referring to himself Myself
.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Nana gets a little cold in market.
You froze to death, were yournips, cutting glass.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You never know the way it's going to be, you don't?
It varies building to building,floor to floor, and some of
those floors.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It is literally like 60 degrees.
I mean it is.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Creative co-op is like Cold Teeth yeah, you're
going to be chattering yourteeth, yeah, you get so cold.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So I also have to say I'm impressed with you because
we got the new app for thenested fig.
By the way, if you haven'tupdated your app or maybe you're
new and hadn't gotten the appyet go to your app store.
Doesn't matter Android or Apple, just search the nested fig,
update your app or download thenew one.
If you're on an Android device,look for the nested fig and
(04:41):
it'll say app tile under it, butI'll also put the link in the
notes.
But we got a brand new app.
We got it launched.
That was Friday, a week ago,and I was here Friday, saturday,
sunday, we did the Sunday livesale and then I left town and
left you with it and you made itnot only to market and did the
lives, but with the brand newapp and system and I set it all
(05:05):
up myself and you did it, youdidn't even have to call me for
issues well, we had one issue,but that was not related.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh yeah, we had a crash, but that was shopify went
down.
That wasn't related.
Wasn't related I was a littleshocked myself, to tell you the
truth, and I was.
I got to thinking, okay, youknow.
Driving down there, I was likedo I know thinking?
Okay, you know.
Driving down there, I was likedo I know what to do?
And I'm like don't even thinkabout it, just do it.
The best thing is not thinkabout it.
I was telling myself you knowwhat to do, yeah, don't think
(05:37):
about it, right?
So I just got in there and Idid it.
Yeah.
The only time, the only time Igot stressed, which was you're
the same way, but we had um thisone vendor that we have now.
I've now made friends with herbut at first she was angry, yeah
(06:00):
, and she was like no, you're, Imean, they're from New Jersey,
not knocking anybody, but youknow they're a little more
abrupt.
They're a little more abruptand a little scurry.
And she was like you be here atfour and it was like 20 till
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four and I had nothing nothingloaded at all.
Yeah, no photos, nothing.
Yeah, that's the only time it'shard, like if she hadn't, if
she had just said you know, getit on there, we would have been
there at four, 15 and it wouldhave gone a lot better.
(06:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But Well, it's so funny because you know it's like
anything new when you'regetting the live sales set up
and I don't think you, listeningin, our customers understand
how much goes into that, likethe sourcing of it and a lot of
times not even the technicalpart, the convincing we have to
(07:04):
do for vendors, because livesales are still relatively new
on the boutique level.
You know there's people who doTikTok lives but they're not
doing them with the vendor,they're doing them in their
house or whatever.
But going to a vendor andsaying, hey, we want to do a
live sale here, sometimes ittakes a little convincing and
(07:25):
then we always get invited back.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So our vendor, list is growing and a lot of them are
like no.
And then we're like do you knowwhat this is?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, and we have to talk them through it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And then we tell them and they're like okay, we can
try that.
And then we do it and they seehow it didn't bother them.
They make money, yeah, andthey're like please come back.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
The next market, yeah , but besides that part of going
into it, there's the technicalside of like a lot of times,
when we're doing the live salesfrom the Atlanta market even you
know, we'll go in July to thebig show where we're there like
10 days, we are shopping andfinding the items for you in
real time.
(08:09):
And so then, like when you wentthis week, you had vendors that
you're like okay, I want to dothis vendor, but you didn't know
the product.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And then you even found new vendors.
I only had three vendors that Iknew we were going to do, yeah,
but had not one damn clue.
Items you what items?
And I wasn't sure that I wasgonna do them, because I wasn't
sure that I was gonna love it,yeah, and if I don't love it,
(08:40):
I'm not doing it.
Right was like you know, it'sgot all those questions Like
cause then I don't love, if Idon't like the people, I'm not
going to do it.
If I don't.
You know, like the, the onelady we worked through and I was
thinking, if this doesn'tchange, if this doesn't change,
(09:01):
we're not going to do thistogether, yeah, if it doesn't
change, we're not going to dothis together, yeah.
And so I went back and I saidthe next day and I said you know
, stephen, you've got you can,you can outsmart these people.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But now they love you .
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So I went, yes, but I went in and I was very kiss ass
nice, that's good.
I pulled out my customerservice friendliness Mm-hmm and
we started talking Mm-hmm, andit was sincere yeah.
I told her that she reminded meof a friend of mine that was a
(09:38):
McDonald's owner which ithappened to be the people that
bought my restaurants when Iretired, so I leave.
You threw out the McDonald'scard and that changed it all I
did and I felt a little smarmydoing that.
And she stopped memid-conversation and said, wait,
(10:00):
you own McDonald's.
And I was like oh yeah, yeahand I tried to keep going.
And she's like, wait, you ownMcDonald's.
And I was like oh, yeah, yeah,and I tried to keep going and
she's like, wait, did you getout?
I was like, yeah, girl.
I was like I was in that 30years, I was, you know, it was
wonderful, I loved it, but itran its course and I moved on.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Stephen does pull out the McDonald's card from time
to time.
I just must say but you know,it's a good thing to have in
your back pocket.
I guess I think I'm going tostart saying I owned McDonald's,
use it.
I own four of them.
I know all the stories, youknow you can sound legit and I
can say and they'll say oh, doyou know?
(10:38):
Oh, I got out before they werethere.
Oh, yeah, I remember them.
We were in the same co-optogether.
You see, you know the lingo.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, I know the lingo I'm gonna start and it was
funny.
So I was like okay, I thinkthis did it.
Dylan just kept his mouthclosed this the whole time.
It was just kind of smiling andthe funny thing is I asked her
the first time we went, when shewas really rushing, and asked
her to take product, to get itonline just out of the showroom
(11:10):
and to come right back.
Yeah, and I've never had anybodydo this.
She said, OK, but theyphotographed every piece that I
was taking out of their showroom.
Oh, to make sure you brought itback.
Ok, after I told her that Iowned mcdonald's, we she just
gave us everything.
She's like, gave us everythingto take out.
(11:32):
No photographs, nothing, yeah,plus, we came back with a whole
bag to do lives whenever it'sconvenient for you know you
gotta that's called networking,right it really is, it's called
networking.
Dylan was like wow, she reallychanged.
(11:53):
I said and I told amanda thatshe was laughing.
She's like yeah, she saidbasically you told her honey, I
don't, I don't need your stuff,I've got better at home.
That's funny.
I said oh God, I said, it makesme feel a little smarmy and I'm
like, hey, you know, whateverit takes is not Right and maybe,
(12:18):
in all fairness, maybe she justneeded to know that I wasn't a
crook.
Yeah, she never met you beforeI'm a legit business person and
I get it.
It's fine.
But yeah, I will use that if Ineed to.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, it's crazy.
But back to, it's impressivethat we are like customers, that
we're shopping for our customerin real time, and there are
vendors that we oh I think wewant to do this vendor and then
we'll get there and be like theydon't have anything.
This time we're not doing itand we're on the hunt for
something else it's not specialenough and listen.
(12:52):
People don't realize in how realtime it is and then you got to
put it.
The technical part is that Iwas getting to.
You have to put it all in thesystem.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
She said you know, they've had people do live sales
.
And they said we have neverseen anyone as efficient and
fast, efficient and organized asyou.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, we've gotten that a few times because we have
really honed in that, becausewe do them during market, when
we're also shopping.
Because we do them duringmarket when we're also shopping
and it's like interrupting,we're having to stop shopping.
So we've made it as efficientas we could Like used to.
When we started out, it wasthis whole ordeal.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
We made it way too complicated.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
We pull out a tripod that collapses down to about a
foot, and a phone, a laptop, putit all in and we're like we're
live and they're like wait, areyou?
And we're like we're live andthey're like wait are?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
you like we're good, I could do a lot.
I'm not kidding, I could do alive snail now in the car, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
We need to do a training.
If anyone we need to do livesale consulting for those who
are interested.
It was funny.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
We were taking this stuff out and I told Dylan I
said we're going to do this,we'll do this one, then we're
going to come back, we're goingto get more and we will just
take it to Hawaii.
We're going to do a live whenwe're in Hawaii.
He's like are you serious?
I'm like, yeah, it's just likeI'll set it up before we go and
(14:38):
it's just going to be an hour.
Yeah, and we can do it like atthe pool.
Yeah, and it will be fun tobring all of our customers along
while we're in Hawaii, andwe'll have fun.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, and the good thing is that with the time
difference there, I forget howmany hours.
It is six hours, so like ifyou're doing one, it's a seven
or eight eastern time it's twoin the afternoon, you're good to
go?
Yeah, it's not like you knowit's your lunchtime or something
, yeah, uh, so, yeah, so I wasimpressed.
I don't know how we got off onall the live sales, but but it
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was.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It was very fun and, uh, the good news is is there's
even like more ideas that I gotwhile while we were there and
there's so much unchartedterritory, oh yeah, and I think
it's fun and I think ourcustomers really like us finding
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like some of the new.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, all the new stuff and I feel like they
really love the variety.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You know, sometimes we're doing home decor,
sometimes we're doing jewelry,and it's all learning, like we
did moissanite jewelry and ifyou don't know what moissanite
is basically, dylan corrects meon this so he'll be like don't
say that it's lab.
It's real diamonds, lab createddiamonds and moissanite is
(16:05):
right under that.
It's the third level down froma real diamond, but it is
chemically it is so close to adiamond that if you have the
electronic diamond scanner itdoesn't pick up that it's fake.
Oh, really, really, that'scrazy.
(16:26):
So we took our Cartier ringsthat have the Cartier diamonds,
bougie.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Bougie.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We took the Cartier diamond and put it next to the
Moissanite.
We took a photo and then zoomedin.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, and they look the same you cannot tell the
difference.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
And see, I'm a dumbass when it comes to
diamonds you could tell me thisis a fifty thousand dollar, you
know, six carat diamond.
I'm gonna be like, okay, yeah,I mean, unless it looks like a
piece of quartz you found gotout in your driveway, I'm gonna
believe you.
Yeah, but I was.
So I was skeptical aboutmoissanite, um, but then we read
(17:13):
about it, you know, we saw it,and it even comes with like a
certificate it does, it does,and it's set in sterling silver
and the sterling silver doesn'ttarnish because it's rhodium
plated on top of the silver.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So you've got I mean, you've got a nice piece, um, I
call it travel jewelry, I wasgonna say, especially if you're
traveling or if you or maybe youjust want variety of a ring,
yeah, and you don't, and youdon't want to spend thousands of
dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
If you want three different types of diamond
earrings, you're not going to.
Who's going to spend that moneyother than Kim Kardashian on
that kind?
You know?
I mean I, it just has its place, the customers loved it.
I know that, yes, I was shockedhow many people were familiar
with moissanite yeah but youknow I mean that.
(18:06):
I guess that's more of a oh andthey were buying it up.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I know that it's, it is so you have to do that one
again, because you only did afew pieces, like five maybe
seven.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We did four earrings, yeah, and there's probably
40,000.
Four earrings and a couple ofrings, but I didn't have time I
had 30 minutes to get it on, andso we had to do it was a good
trial.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
But there's so much more.
Like the stones, like theearrings.
I kept it basic, and then therewas a lot of different styles.
But then I'm like, well, wecan't do that because it gets
too confusing for the warehouse.
So I figure we can just keepdoing different.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Layer it in.
Layer it in, add some more.
Give people choice.
Well, and on Tuesday, if you'relistening, he'll be back in
Atlanta doing the bags, but sowe went to Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yes, this is going to air Tuesday.
Yes, so we'll be live inAtlanta.
Dylan and I will be around 2.30or 3 pm.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Eastern Hoping for 2.30 Eastern time.
Yeah, all inside the Nested Figapp.
If you don't have the app, seethe notes below.
You can click the link there orjust search the Nested Fig in
your app store.
So we went to Florida this pastweek.
We were only there.
We left on Monday, came back onThursday and it was a great
time.
Sorry you weren't there.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You had to work.
I know I haven't been in twoyears I need to go.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It was so much fun going this time.
This was the first time we'vegone, been down there before and
Daniel's parents came down fora few nights, but this was the
first time going with my parentsand my niece was there and
she's six.
So this time we went as we werevacationing, like as if we were
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vacationing.
So it was a lot of fun.
We did, you know, just funthings, and we weren't working
on the house or you knowanything like that.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
This time did you?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
take her to water park.
We did not, I mean, it went byso fast.
But she was very happy at thebeach and she just, it was so
fun.
She loves daniel and they wereplaying and we were at the beach
and the pool and then we wentto eat and it was a lot of fun.
It goes so you know, so quick.
(20:18):
So it was really good.
But on the way down there.
So we flew, we had fromGreenville to Charlotte Wait, on
the way down there, yes,Greenville to Charlotte and then
Charlotte to the Destin Airport, whatever it's called Fort
Walton.
So we made it to Charlotte noproblem On our flight from
(20:42):
Charlotte to Fort Lauderdale youmean Fort Walton, Fort Walton,
Fort Walton, not Fort Lauderdale, Fort Walton, Our plane.
So I don't know, I still don'tknow what happened.
I think he was talking aboutsomething they have to hook up
to at the airport, our plane.
So I don't know, I still don'tknow what happened.
I think he was talking aboutsomething they have to hook up
to at the airport.
Some kind of like power sourcedidn't work, so that bring like
a portable one.
(21:03):
Well then, that portable onedidn't work, so they had to
bring another portable unit.
But when they brought that, oneof the workers hit his head
under the plane, gashed his headopen and we had to wait for,
like, the emergency services tocome get him.
And I mean it was like he'sstill under the plane.
The pilot kept, the captainkept giving updates.
(21:25):
He's like the worker is stillunder the plane.
We're waiting on them to bringhim out from under the plane.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
We were delayed like over an hour.
I would have been like let meoff.
I would have pulled him out ofthe way and said can we get on
with?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
this.
That's what I was like.
I mean, I hate that someone hittheir head but can we not?
Like drag him out from underthe plane and get going.
We were laughing, it was funnyand it was hot.
Part of the power source wasthe AC wouldn't work.
Laughing, it was funny and itwas hot.
Part of the power source wasthe AC wouldn't work.
You and I have been in that.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Okay, I've got to ask because I said I was never
flying into Fort Walton Airportagain.
Was it better it?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
was better.
It was smoother and I didnotice they had all new scanning
machines, so it was better.
So Stephen and I flew into FortWalton when we had bought the
cottage.
You know, we bought it sightunseen, that's a whole nother
story.
And then, once we went undercontract, I was like, do you
(22:24):
want to go down there and lookat this to see if you even like
it?
I don't know how we can get outof it, but you might want to go
.
So we went down there and weflew into Fort Walton.
We were only there like 24hours right.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
When we were there.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It was a cluster, but it was also during COVID it was
during COVID 2021, and theirscanning machine went down is
what it was.
Oh yeah, that's what I noticed.
The baggage scanning machine,like you know, to go through
security, went down and theyonly had one, I guess, at the
time, and it the line was likesomething you would see at like
(23:00):
New York City airport, whensomething happens.
It was wrapped around the door.
I couldn't figure, I couldn'tremember how that ever ended.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
It was wrapped around the whole outside of the damn
airport.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
But how did that end?
Did we get on the flight?
I remember us standing in line.
We couldn't get a rental carbecause they were all gone
already.
Did we just stay there andstand in line for hours and
hours?
Yeah, we did, and get out.
I couldn't remember when I wasthere.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
We met friends.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
We all you know it was fun, it was fun.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You know, after the fact that time it was not fun, I
was not happy and it was likepeak.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
you know travel summer season down there.
It was in July sometime, Idon't remember.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And my thing is I just can't June.
It's just a lot when you're hotand there's no rental car, I
don't mind.
If there's a solution, I candeal with it.
If there is a solution, if I'mlike, okay, well, we can get in
this car and drive home.
We're going to be three hourslate.
Okay, yeah, but we were juststanding there Dead in the water
(24:13):
.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Another big thing this week.
What you want to talk about itSteven's getting a colonoscopy.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I'm getting roto-rooted on Friday.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
His first time, well, for a colonoscopy.
I don't know about roto-rooting.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Oh, I dread it so bad .
I dread the whole thing.
But you know it's one of thosethings you have to do.
You do, you do and it's goingto be fine.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I just want to know from you, because I know people
you know make it funny.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But I'll tell you the truth.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I want to know from you, like you know, because
you're going to go to thebathroom a lot, but I feel like
if you prepare for that, likehey, on this day I'm just this
one I'm gonna be doing yeah, Imean when we get back from
Atlanta on Wednesday, I meanreally I'm out of work from.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Hopefully I'll be coming back.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Sunday Can you go ahead and like juice cleanse the
day before that you're supposedto take all the stuff?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well that they say go eat, because you're not going
to eat Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So what is the what is?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
the procedure.
I have not looked.
I have the bag in the pantry,so you start on.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Thursday.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
You're having the colonoscopy on Friday.
I start Friday, friday.
I don't know where that camefrom.
Friday On Friday.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I don't even say Monday, tuesday, wednesday,
friday, friday I don't knowwhere that came from.
Colonoscopy on Friday, so youhave to prep on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I have to take and I'm shocked.
Okay, for those of you that donot know, I am a huge, huge
vitamin and supplement person.
Love my vitamins and mysupplements.
It's almost comical, but if youknow me, you know I'm all about
(26:15):
it.
Like I have a routine, I takesupplements twice a day.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
He almost took too many.
I did.
Well, you did take too many hewas having negative effects,
maybe for a minute.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You have to be careful, so anyway, I had to
stop.
I had to stop the.
I had to stop.
The last supplements I've hadwere Thursday and I feel like I
am just about to die.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh, you had to stop like a week before All
supplements you stop a weekbefore.
Oh, so you can tell adifference.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No, Mentally I can't.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Not physically.
So it's mental that you can.
You're like, oh, I need.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
The timing is really weird.
So you're supposed to stop allblood thinners, like a week
before.
Well, I mean, I'm not asking, Imean it is what it is, but
steroids thin your blood.
Well, my immune system started.
I have a a huge overactiveimmune system.
(27:18):
Um, so I you know from workingso much in Atlanta, just being
bam, bam, bam bam.
If I don't get enough rest, um,my immune system will just
start going crazy.
So I have to take steroids tocalm it down, Right, and I was
like, oh my gosh, I'm notsupposed to take these.
(27:40):
So I'm like, well, I've got toget it calmed down.
I can't be sick for a week.
Yeah, so I just took them.
I took them yesterday.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Well, Friday, yesterday and today Bloody mess,
and I'm not taking anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Okay, so I'm like that should be fine.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Might be a bloody mess.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah, five days, but then Thursday.
I guess every doctor handles itdifferent, but I take four at
noon on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Is that when it all starts?
That's when you start takingstuff.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, I take four Ducalax pills, oh, and then I
can't remember I think at threeo'clock, two or three o'clock, I
start drinking the Drano.
That really blows it out.
But the hard thing is.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
And here's why you're going to, or anything.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
No, you can drink chicken broth and green jello.
You can eat green jello, drinkchicken broth or vegetable broth
.
Yeah, but I'm just going to.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I'll eat jello.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I don't need it, and the hard thing for me is going
to be not any of that but I haveto get up at five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Friday morning and do it again, oh, and take more
stuff.
What time is your colonoscopy?
It's good noon.
Oh, my gosh, I'm gonna beexhausted.
Yeah, but they put you outright, yeah, yeah, so you'll get
a good nap, you'll sleep,you'll be good by Saturday,
(29:15):
hopefully.
Yeah, you know a lot of yeah,that 5 am part would be the
worst.
And then do you get any sleep?
Are you getting up and down allnight?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, they say you're just exhausted.
Yeah, and but one friend ofmine had it done.
She had an excessive amount ofpolyps in her colon which they
removed and it was all fine, butshe was in pain.
She was like in the bed for aweek.
I'm like, yeah but you knowit's fine, it's what is you know
(29:50):
as long as, as long as I amcancer free and everything's
good, I'm not going to complain.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You know we wish you the best of luck.
We'll be thinking about you.
Everybody be thinking aboutSteven and we'll get an update
next week with how Do you needme to record it?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, the whole process.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Have you prepped down there?
Have you like I don't know?
Have you done anything downthere?
No, you like I don't know, haveyou done anything down there?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
No, I'm not doing anything down there, but they
did put notes and it said thatyour butt will get raw.
They like have Vaseline andstuff.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I'm like that sounds horrible.
Oh my God, that does I think.
Hmm, I don't know.
You need to clean it up downthere and stuff before you go.
Listen, it's.
I think you should write a notelike on your butt cheek, hey,
y'all.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Welcome, mind the curves.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Oh, my goodness, that is so funny.
I have a little riddle for you.
We haven't done a riddle in along time.
Oh, great Spell, what.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
W-H-A-T.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Spell what again.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
W-h A-T-A-G A-I-N.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Now what does that spell if you remove the W Hat?
You're right, most people sayhut Really, because it tricks
your brain.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What, what, Remove the W.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Most people say hut, but you said hat, you got it
right.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Okay, Today, Southern is us.
Oh God, we're still doing this.
We are and we're going to coversome I think we're out of time.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
We're going to cover some food.
Oh, did you eat yet?
Well, that means, did you eatyet?
Yes, but one food in particular.
If you're from the North, y'all, just do not eat it and you
need to open your mind.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
It's probably something Grits oh grits.
I like grits I love grits.
They don't eat that up North.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Is that just it didn't travel up there?
I mean why?
It's just like oatmeal orsomething.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
They don't eat grits and they don't drink sweet tea.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Oh, Well, I know sweet tea, just because I mean,
I guess that's just, I don'tknow, I don't like sweet tea.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I like unsweetened Sweet tea is way too sweet for
me.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Sweet tea you have to grow up on.
Yeah, if you've grown up on itand then but it's so sweet.
But see, I don't.
I never drink tea anymore.
I haven't.
I don't drink tea ever, butgrowing up we always had a
pitcher of tea.
It's very good for you if it'snot full of sugar.
Ours was full of sugar.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Ours was too, but I order it now at restaurants
unsweetened with lemon.
It's gross, just drink water.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Speaking of that and sweetened, that made me think.
Used to as a kid and I thinkthis is a Southern thing, or
maybe it was just a my householdthing Let me know about this
one.
We used to put a little sugaron our white rice with butter.
We'd have white rice, just apinch of sugar, just the same
way you would do like salt orsomething, just a little
(33:24):
sprinkle and then butter on it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Did you do that?
Yeah, and also kind of akin tothat is, my grandma Merck made
bread pudding, which I mean notbread rice pudding, which now I
have never had anyone's ricepudding that I really loved.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I don't know that I've ever had, except my grandma
.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Merck's.
Yeah, it was so good.
Mm-hmm, it was so good.
So one of the things, one ofthe 5,000 things I got out of my
grandparents' house.
I was very, very close to mygrandparents and so one thing
that I have is this onecasserole dish.
(34:12):
She made her squash casseroleand or her rice pudding in this
casserole dish.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
So I was there one day and I said I need that yeah,
and she was like really, and Iwas like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah, so I have that yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Um what's your next Southernism?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Biscuits and gravy.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Oh, yeah, biscuits and gravy.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Is that?
That's a southern thing too.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
That is a southern thing, and they're just missing
out on all the stuff they areand funny story.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
This is a true story.
So when my grandfather proposedto my, my grandmother this
would have been in the 1930s.
Yeah, it was so romantic, hisone of his requirements to
marrying her.
I mean she should have.
My grandfather was a great manbut he was a bit of a chauvinist
(35:16):
I guess.
But you know that was probablycommon in the 1930s, in the
South Part of his proposal.
Yeah, you know, I remember mygrandmother telling me this and
I thought I would have ran.
Yeah, Like I would have said,no, thank you was.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
she had to promise that she would make three hot
meals a day and she had to makefresh bread at every meal oh my
god, how romantic I'd have beenlike no, like hell no, so I'd
(35:55):
have been like we're that'sgonna be on a moving scale of
how much you provide you know,that was how he was, and listen
y'all, he mellowed out.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
By the time I was born, he was a cupcake.
I don't think he was anythinglike.
According to my father and myaunts, he was nothing like that
when they were young.
Right, yeah, but yeah, he so myentire life.
You know, as long as mygrandfather was alive.
Things changed when he died,yeah, but while he was alive
(36:27):
there were three hot meals a day.
There was never.
We're just going to have asandwich.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
No, no, no, no, no, no.
It was like full on meal.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yes, three times a day.
And we had biscuits at leastbiscuits three times a day,
cornbread twice a day.
And we had biscuits at leastBiscuits three times a day,
cornbread twice a day.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Okay, but so did she just cook.
I mean, was her whole day justcooking?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Was she just?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
efficient.
I mean how she was efficient.
So before I was born, in theearly years, they were cotton
farmers, yeah, and so she workedthe cotton fields all day.
She had four children at home.
She would literally have a babyand go back to the field.
(37:21):
That's crazy, that is justcrazy.
It's true, yeah, and when I wasa kid their gardens were.
I mean, now I look at it I'mlike holy cow.
I mean it was work but it wasfun for me because that was fun.
But their gardens were likefive to ten acres.
(37:43):
That's crazy.
So it was we would.
I would get up early in themorning and we would go work in
the garden.
I thought it was fun.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
We would hoe the garden.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
But how do you do stuff like that and cook three
meals a day?
She?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
would leave.
How she did it, I don't know.
She would honestly leave thefield and in 30 minutes she had
a whole spread.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
You're like how'd you make all that?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And the thing is is my grandfather did not have a
tractor until I don't know Imight have been 10 years old.
Until then, he used a mule.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
That's even crazier.
Well, that goes to.
We have some we can talk aboutthis right, some friends who his
mom had a menu.
Yes, can we talk about that?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yes, so we have friends we won't say who and
they got married.
This is kind of like mygrandfather's level.
This is the rich city folk inGreenville compared to the
country version yeah, yeah, yeah.
So they get married, and I'veseen this menu by the way they
(39:02):
get married, and I've seen thismenu by the way they get married
.
They're professional adults,successful professional adults,
not young, and they'rediscussing well, how do you want
to do meals?
What would you like to?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
eat, and this is after they had gotten married.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
After they had gotten married.
They didn't date long, gotmarried, you know.
They knew.
Yeah, you know, let's get to it.
We're, you know, getting longin the tooth.
This is good.
And he responded with.
Well, what my mom did was shecreated a menu for my father and
(39:45):
, on like Sunday, he wouldcircle everything he wanted for
the week and turn it in.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
And then that was his dinner.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah, it was just for dinner, yeah, which I think is
almost genius in a way, becausethen you know what you're
cooking every day.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Yeah, and she could go to the grocery and get it.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
The lady the wife.
So this would have been thepeople we know Parents, Parents.
So the lady the wife wouldpresent a menu and I guess it
was kind of the same menu everyweek sort of thing.
I mean, she would change it up,but it was a printed menu.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Oh, it was a printed menu, but it was a lot.
Picture a meat and three Mm-hmm, a lot of combos, times, three,
yeah.
So like you would pick yourappetizer, so he would circle
like Monday.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Let's say Monday he would circle what he wanted for
an appetizer, what he wanted fora meat, what he wanted for
sides.
And then he'd go to Tuesday andthen go to Tuesday and then so
she knew all the groceries sheneeded to buy and what she was
cooking each day, which honestlysounds kind of like an
efficient way to do it, becauseif you can prep something you
(41:04):
know, while you're cooking thismeal on Monday, well, tomorrow
night we're having this.
Let me go ahead and prep this.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
And actually I don't think you know this, because I
really didn't expect this.
She had a job, oh yeah, and amuch lower paying job.
Like a very respectable andimportant job, yeah, but she had
a lower paying job.
You know, she was married to avery successful man.
(41:31):
She did not have to work by anymeans.
Yeah, she worked.
So I guess she was like if youwant me to cook dinner, I need
to know what we're.
Uh-huh.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah, and it kind of takes the decision-making off of
her.
You know what I'm saying, youknow when you get home?
Well, what do you want?
I don't know Whatever you wantto make, well, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
And there's this back and forth, and she could put
stuff on the menu, she only hasto put what she wants to make
and she might be like oh, I'menergetic tonight, I'm going to
go ahead and prepare this this,this, this and put it in the
freezer and then I know For therest of the week I can go ahead
and prep this.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah, but our friend didn't respond.
The same, no.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
She said well, that is not going to happen, so we
don't need to talk about themenu any longer.
But the funny thing is andwe've discussed this at links,
yeah and um, we've discussed themenu many times and we've
gotten a good laugh and you know, and I helped them move and
(42:34):
found the menu and I had to sitdown and just look through the
menu yeah it just honestly, ifmy grandfather had thought about
it, my, my grandma would havebeen putting a menu on yeah so
he could pick.
That would have been right uphis alley.
But the thing with our friendsthey said we don't know what we
want to eat.
You know, her point was I don'tknow what I want to eat
(42:56):
tomorrow, much less Friday night, like I don't want to pick that
.
And then what if I'm just likeI don't want that?
Speaker 1 (43:06):
But I feel like maybe if you present the menu and
then you circle it and you readit, then you kind of get in your
oh, like Friday night we'regoing to have blah, blah, blah,
like you kind of start to lookforward to it.
I would think.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
And there wasn't like a.
There wasn't like let's skip it, go to dinner one night.
There wasn't that option onthere.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
But do you think if she was like, hey, I'm not
cooking, sorry about the menuwe're going out tonight?
I don't think so.
It just didn't happen at alllike that.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
I don't think so.
I think it would have been aspecial occasion.
I need someone to present me amenu.
I would love to see that.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Daniel, I'm going to need a menu.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
It would be very efficient.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
We'll have to hire a personal chef before there's a
menu.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
But I'm just shocked that they didn't have.
I would have thought, like whenthey first told me this story,
I thought they did a menu for ahousekeeper to have it ready.
That would have made sense tome.
That's the only way I would getgiven the family right.
But no, no, no, no, it was forher to make it To make it.
(44:22):
But can you imagine Dylanhanding me a menu for the week
and said this is what I want fordinner this week?
Hell, I would have been likeI'm not even in town.
That week.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Good luck, I'm not cooking it.
I'm glad you got your menutogether, but you better get in
there and cook it yourself.
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
I have to work up when I cook and I like to cook,
but it isn't anything I love todo.
Yeah, you don't cook at all.
I like to do it, but I make amess, yeah, and I have to really
get it in my head like, okay,I'm going to make this.
Yeah, I do it.
(45:08):
I want it cleaned up over with,done, ready to go.
Yeah, and I I'm actually, youknow, I guess it's cooking is
not hard for me.
My mother was an amazing cook.
Like my mother was one of thosecooks.
My mother was like a MarthaStewart, but I hated cooking
(45:28):
because a lot of times I had tohelp wash dishes.
We didn't have a dishwasher.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
She dirtied Everything, the whole kitchen at
one time.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Everything.
And I would always say like mom.
And I would always say, likeMom, why do you have to use a
different bowl and spoon andladle, and can we not just rinse
something off and reuse it forthe same dish?
And she would just say, oh, bequiet, get out of my kitchen.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
But, she.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
I've never seen anybody just amazing cook, yeah,
and she would drive you in likehelping her.
That's the reason I neverhelped.
I tried to never help herbecause it was she made nothing
out of a like if she made it outof a box, it was out of a box.
(46:21):
We're having hamburger helper.
Yeah, there was no hamburgerhelper.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yeah, there was no disguising.
No, everything was scratch.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
I mean, her soups were like amazing and twice
baked potato, just everythingwas so always so pretty, yeah,
and so I kind of like it.
I like doing it when it'sreally pretty.
I guess I got that part of mymother.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Well, do you have any other Southernisms?
That's it for today.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Just the food.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Okay, well then we're going to move on real quick and
then we got to wrap this babyup, so I got a lot.
You know, we never know how apodcast is going to go and be
perceived and sometimes, youknow, everyone thinks they're
funny and sometimes, you know,everyone thinks they're funny
and I'm like I don't know whatwas funny.
I have to go back and listen tothem.
I got so many messages lastweek and maybe because I posted
(47:10):
a small clip, but you know, Iasked you what you secretly
judge people on and you saidwomen who wear like blue
eyeliner.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Oh my God, Do you know how many messages I've
gotten?
Speaker 1 (47:28):
I have.
Literally that's what I wasliner.
Oh my God, do you know how manymessages I've gotten?
I meant to ask you are yougetting messages on this Cause?
See, we weren't together.
Normally, when I start gettingmessages, I'll be like oh, we
hit something this week.
He'll be like yes, I'm gettingthe messages too, but I forgot
to ask you.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
I'm like and I, you know, yes, I have gotten dozens
and dozens and dozens ofmessages.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Not even that but comments.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
But you know what?
Not one person was offended.
They're like.
You are correct that is what I.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
So I was surprised that someone didn't say I didn't
see any of my messages and Itried to watch.
No one said like well, I loveblue eyeliner.
Or like everyone was like Iagree with Steven, no, blue
eyeliner.
No, do you know the?
Speaker 2 (48:11):
and it's funny that I even know about eyeliner
because I mean, you know, somepeople, even some, some gays,
are into makeup and I don't, Icould care less.
I would never.
You can look at me and tell Idon't put shit on my face, but
(48:31):
when I was a kid or a teenager,a lot of time my mother was
obsessed with her makeup.
My mother was a true toeheadblonde and she had, like, blonde
eyelashes and eyebrows, so shehad to wear, you know, more
makeup, and so many times,because I worked in a town next
(48:57):
door that had a Belk that soldshe wore Lancome makeup, so I
would.
She would always make a listthat I would have to go by and
get Makeup, the Makeup counter.
And you know I said, you knowthis blue's really pretty, and
(49:17):
she was like no, but in the 80sthat would have been the thing.
She wouldn't have done that.
But it was funny because I waslike she sent me to get eyeliner
one day and she said go to thelancome counter and get me the,
(49:39):
the pencil, and it's charcoalgray.
Yeah, I'm like why are youwearing charcoal gray?
She said black is too harsh forme.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
So it was funny.
I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
And I guess you know, depending on your skin tone,
and she would have been a cooltone person, so the gray would
have been better than brown.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
Yeah, there you go, and the more you know, mm-hmm, I
mean heck, yeah.
Well, it's time to pull thisbaby over.
We've got to get ready for ourlives, still In the backyard, on
the patio.
I know I meant to make us someof the drinks, the frozen drinks
(50:26):
.
I even brought it home, but Iforgot to put it in the freezer.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
What a shocker.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
I know we're just going to hang out there and have
fun, but we will see you nextweek.
Remember, you can listenanywhere.
You get a podcast or you can goto whosedrivingpodcastcom and
you can listen for free there,or join our online community.
That's where you can watch us.
Oh, I want to.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
I've got a question.
Okay, do any of you do a menuin your home?
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Oh, hotline number.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
The hotline number is 864-982-5029.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
I forgot to check the hotline.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
like the last two weeks, we'll have to go back and
see what people have said Letus know if you use a menu,
because I honestly kind of likethe idea, text or call us or, if
you're in the community, leaveit in the notes.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
You can leave comments 864-982-5029.
We'll see you next week.
Yep, yep, bye, y'all.
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