February 4, 2025 • 62 mins
Join us as we kick off Season 3 of "Who's Driving" with Wesley Turner and Stephen Merck, bringing you a fresh perspective on balancing life, business, and the inevitable chaos of everyday living. This episode features a mix of laughter and insight as we navigate Wesley's Instagram handle makeover, discuss the launch of our new website, and introduce our exciting new video format for storytelling. Get ready to be part of our members-only community, where you can access exclusive content and join us on this exciting journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, here we go.
Are you ready?
I'm ready, Are we?
It's time for Season 3.
Season 3.
Can you believe we're stilldoing this?
No, it is time for anotherseason of who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner and I'mStephen Merck.
(00:20):
We're two best friends andentrepreneurs.
Who's Driving is anentertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
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 (00:42):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
You never know who's driving,or?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
Oh, we are back together again.
It's been weird not recording.
It has been weird.
You know we were supposed torecord last week but you got a
little sick.
I did.
It was only supposed to be afive-week break and here we are
six weeks later.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I just sounded a little Coughing and snotting and
everything.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Are you better now?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm better and I tested for everything, but
nowadays I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Who knows with you.
I know you were just all overthe place, so we got a lot of
catching up to do.
Not only do we have a lot ofcatching up to do, we have a lot
of big announcements.
So, I think we should startwith those, the announcements,
first.
So season three, episode one,here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We have given in to something I don't know if we
should have we held off on itfor two years.
I know and I'm should have weheld off on it for two years, I
know.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And I'm not sure.
I'm not sure how it's going togo or if we should have given in
, but you can now, startingtoday, watch our episode.
So I'm going to give you allthose details.
For all of those.
I want to hear the worldclapping right now.
That's how I hear it in mybrain.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Okay, and I, you know , I've got to say this I don't
listen to podcasts and we knowwe've talked about that yes, um,
but hell.
If you're listening to podcast,why do you want to watch it?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
well, I guess, but I would rather watch it than just
listen to it.
That's true I, I would too,especially knowing your face and
probably my face and the thingsthat are going to happen.
I don't know, but we're excitedabout it.
I guess I'm a little nervousbecause I've had to learn all
new like editing software anduploading and hosting, and I
(02:43):
feel like I've been in a collegeclass the last week.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Y'all better be glad he's techie, because if it were
up to me, it would never bevideo.
Never, never.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So, anyway, okay, so here's the deal.
First of all, I guess, besidesthat you can now watch us, we
now have a website for thepodcast, which we've never had.
That either.
We're finally three years in.
We're getting our shit together, maybe Trying, we're trying,
you know who knows?
So our podcast website iswhosedrivingpodcastcom and that
(03:17):
is where you can go to find thelatest episodes.
You can go there to listen forfree or get to whatever
directory you want to listen toour podcast, and then that is
also where you will go to watchthe podcast if you want to do so
.
So watching the podcast is.
There is a now a members onlycommunity, so you got to go to
(03:43):
the website.
You got to sign up and onceyou're in because that's like
the special club, so that'swhere you'll get access to the
video podcast that you can watchanytime, Plus in there, that's
where I'm going to post.
You know, when we talk aboutpeople, we can post those reels
so they can see what we'rereferencing.
(04:04):
Now I don't know, that might bewhat ends us this year.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It could be, but I think it's kind of a public
service.
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So I thought that way there's visuals, like when
we're talking about, maybe,trends, I can post examples of
trends.
How wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It is or right.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Right or wrong, or when we're talking about
something we saw on Instagramand we want to share that real
there.
I mean it's sharing for them.
You know, Sharing is caring.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Sharing is caring.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Plus, we'll be able to take polls, you know when
we're like tell us if you likethis or your thoughts or your
feedback.
All of that will be inside themembers only community at who's
driving podcastcom.
So if you want to support usand be part of the community and
maybe you don't want to watchthe podcast but you still want
to be able to participate andsee kind of like the visuals of
(04:56):
what we're talking about, all ofthat's at that website.
So it's who's drivingpodcastcom and you can join the
community, I think we shouldcharge for that.
We are charging.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh, we are yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
It's a paid subscription to be part of that.
It's not 99 a month or thepodcast.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Because I didn't even know we were.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, girl, we're charged.
He doesn't know anything.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Let's, let's back it up, listen, I would.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And here's why we're charging for it, because to host
the video version and thedifferent editing it's a lot
more expensive.
And we've talked about we don'thave sponsors, we're not doing
advertisements, we're not doinganything.
So I'm like, if we're going todo this extra step, we have to
break even.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It at least has to pay for itself.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, we have to break even on it, because I'm
not going to pay out of pocketand it's, you know, just to host
the podcast, like we were doingjust the audio version.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It cost us money.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, it probably cost us, I would say, at least
$100 and something a month to dothat.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
At least because I've been doing our tax stuff and
I've seen it.
You've seen the QuickBooks butit's fine tax stuff and I've
seen it, but it's fine.
It's fine Because it'sadvertising and that sort of
thing.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
But the video version costs a substantial amount more
, and then to have the websitefor it to be on.
So, you know, it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And that's fine.
It's a break even.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It'll be fine.
So come sign up.
You know that's probably thecost of a Big Mac these days $
fun yeah.
So come sign up.
You know that's probably thecost of a Big Mac these days
$9.99.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
A meal.
Yeah, it's the damnedest thingI've ever seen, and it's only
$9.99 a month.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You know, a Starbucks coffee is like $8 and something
now.
So you can skip one coffee andgive it to us and support the
podcast.
And it'll also be a communityLike.
You can leave comments back andforth about, like the episodes.
There'll be some special likebehind the scenes so that I
downloaded on my phone.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Will I be able to see this?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
no, no, no, that's just to record okay we had to
use your phone.
We have three phones recordingit's like uh it's.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I don't know where to look.
I know I'm just going to lookat you and pretend they aren't
there, I'm not, I can't look atall this stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Because I don't know, and then it's a new system over
here on my computer.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I mean, there's so much to look at.
There's there and there andthere and there.
I mean I'm like boo.
I just hope we don't get doneand hadn't recorded it If I
short circuit and just startflipping around in my chair,
you'll know what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
We need a fourth camera, like against the back
wall, so you can see the wholemy gosh, but anyway.
So I'm super excited about that, because I'm excited to be able
to, you know, do the video postabout what we're talking about.
Have the visuals to go alongwith it do polls and comments
(07:50):
and some behind the scenes orlike stuff that doesn't make the
right.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Right, I mean we've been talking about this for a
year and a half.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and so it'stime I would.
I was really against it, butnot not against it, like not
wanting to share it with youguys.
I was just against it Like, ohmy gosh, there's that much,
(08:13):
there's another layer on it,yeah, and I'm glad we waited
until now because we've gottenused to doing the podcasting and
I couldn't have handled it.
I would have definitelyshort-circuited and so much more
.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And now, though, I'm like god, you know how many
times we've just I've rolled outof bed, and just I know I was
like well shown up with livesales because I'm on the back
side of the live sales most ofthe time.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, you know I do more live sales than I used to
do, but I'm on the backside.
So if I know I'm going to be onthe backside, I can look like
hell.
Right yeah, and you dosometimes Like if I don't feel
well or I've just been workingat home and I'm like I am not
getting on camera.
Yeah, and today I was like I amnot getting on camera.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And today I was like well, I guess I got to shave.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Got to look good.
Clean up a little, yeah.
So head over there, sign up,join the community and be a part
of it.
Help support us.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And then I feel like it should be like $999 a month.
I'm kidding, we are so notgreedy.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
No, that's not what it's like.
$999 is reasonable.
There's four episodes a monthon average.
You know, so you're breaking itdown to what it's like $5 an
episode.
No, it's like $2.50.
Yeah, yeah, $2.50.
$2.50 an episode?
No, it's like 250.
It's yeah, yeah, 250, twodollars and 50 cents an episode.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I mean, listen, I go through my subscriptions, yeah,
and you know you don't thinkabout, oh, this little app to
watch.
You know, watch this and thisand um news apps and different
things and I'm like, oh my goshsee, I go through and I get rid
of them I do too, or like when Isign up for one.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I'm like okay, which one do I need to get rid of?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
well it adds up.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But uh, luckily, most all of our stuff, all of our
stuff, dylan pays yeah the otherthing that's also different is
we used to have our microphoneson stands like arms and steven
used to sit here and I used tosit there, and so now I already
feel like I'm crouched down,trying to talk like this, which
(10:35):
I don't have to.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's just getting actually, I think this is a
little better for me, is it?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
better, better for you.
I think I feel like I'm likewell, you are.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Oh, that's a whole different story, don't start.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Listen, it's a new year, be nice for at least an
hour.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I have been nice.
I have started this year offvery good.
I have not cussed anyone outyet.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I have not Wait, are you sure I think you did at
market?
Yeah, I mean, I think a coupleof people.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, that was not my fault.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So we recently got back from the Atlanta.
I want to talk about that.
We're going to do all about themarket in the next episode, but
we got some catching up to doin this one.
But before again we get to that, we have other big
announcements Next up.
Today I am changing myInstagram handle.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
We also talked about this a year ago and I'm so glad
you are, because farmshenanigans does not encompass
your Instagram and know it'skind of and nobody can spell
shenanigans, they cannot.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Nobody can spell shenanigans and everyone thinks
it's farmhouse shenanigans andthat's going to be one of those.
What do you call those?
You know, where people rememberthings one way and it never was
like we've talked about that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, and mine too.
I need to change my.
I need to get my ass back onInstagram.
But don't start.
I just call myself out.
But uh, a problem with mine wasthat it is keeping up with
Steven.
No G on keeping, yeah, and Ifeel like I lose a lot of
(12:22):
followers because they searchkeeping.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Right when you're out and about or we're at market
and you're like, oh, follow me.
And you try to explain it, andthen it's a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You don't realize how you're messing something up
until you're using it.
Just like our corporate name.
Yeah, we didn't realize thatwas a mistake.
I mean, you just don't knowtill you know Right and hell.
You know you can go back andchange it, it's true, it's true.
I mean, ain't nothing perfect,and it's something else to crow
about.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I know it's true.
So I do feel like it's time.
I felt like it was time lastyear and then I never really
committed to changing it, andthen there was a lot of
different names I looked at andthen someone would already have
it and that sort of thing.
So, but I'm now ready, I'mdoing it.
I'm doing it today.
So my new Instagram handle willbe Wesley Turner Living.
(13:13):
So it's just simple.
It's nothing earth shattering.
It's what?
Look?
Can you see his face already?
Come on.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
How original Martha.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Stewart, I know right , what about it.
No, I knew you were going tosay that because I've talked
about that with you and I'm likebut the living part, just I
didn't want to do like a lot ofpeople now are just doing like
their name, and I wanted it tohave something that wasn't just
Wesley Turner, that kind oftells what it is.
Because when you see the livingyou know there's like some kind
(13:47):
of lifestyle whatever behind it.
So there's that, and you canmake fun of me.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And actually it's funny you mention that.
So Dylan just told me yesterdayhe has this new idea and plans
and I'm all for it.
I mean hell, I'll pit myselfout however, so he's going to
start a YouTube channel heshould, so I don't know what
(14:15):
that is going.
You know the name of that yet,so I'll announce that when he
gets that together.
So that should be interesting.
He definitely should Somethingelse to annoy me.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, because you love that yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I mean I don't even know what aspects of my life are
out there.
I mean I just assume everythingis out there on social media at
some point.
Yeah, it's just out there.
Yeah, I mean, I was smackinggum intentionally in my living
room in my leather chair,intentionally.
(14:55):
That is not how I chew gum.
You know I chew gum a lot.
Sounds like you're embarrassed.
No, I'm not embarrassed, Idon't care.
It sounds like you'reembarrassed.
No, I'm not embarrassed, Idon't care.
But I was over there going.
That is not how I sit aroundthe house and chew gum.
I was just.
I had just had something to eatand I was just wanting the
(15:18):
freshness of the mint in mymouth because I was just going
to chew it for a few minutes andspit it out, right, and Dylan
felt the need to record that andput that on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So everybody thinks it's.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I'm going no.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Well, you know whether you chew your gum like
that or not, you're always beingannoying.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So maybe so, but I didn't do.
I mean, that is not my norm.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But yeah, no, you don't so wesley turner living is
just simple, I feel like itwill.
You know, it's easy to find thenext problem is.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
The next problem we're gonna find is it's gonna
be wesley.
Yeah, they're gonna put a t init.
Well, I can't help that, I know.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But it's my name, does not have a t in wesley.
People message me on instagramhey, wesley, there's no t, it's
wesley e s, l e, y.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It's wesley and it's not wesley.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
There's no z, there's no t so I can't help if you
can't, can't find it that way,that just.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It amazes me, I mean, how people are with names.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah it is so Wesley Turner Living, just simple.
None of the content is stillgoing to be what we already do.
It's nothing, or?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
shattering data.
Nothing's changing.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It's just.
You know, we talked about it ayear ago when I said I needed to
change.
It is like you said no one canspell farm shenanigans.
And then, when they ask me tospell farm shenanigans, I'm like
you can't spell shenanigans.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You have to write it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I have to write it because it's.
You know, I go especially onthe spot and I'm like
S-H-E-N-A-N-I-G-A-N-S.
And then like I said, a lot ofpeople put farmhouse shenanigans
and then a lot of people thinkit means like farmhouse style
and it's just time for an update, because we've grown, everyone
(17:14):
grows, it's time for a change Iwish.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I could change my own name sometimes.
Oh, I did change your name.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You did so, okay.
The other part of changing myname is something else is
happening today, and I've beentrying to work on this for a
year and a half or two years andI was going to pay someone to
do it and then I never didbecause I knew there would be a
lot of back and forth and Inever had a time to get it done
myself.
But I finally sat down and gotthat done as well.
(17:45):
So now to go along with the newname change Wesley Turner
Living.
Now I have a website and I'mcalling it like a hub was my
vision.
So it's WesleyTurnerLivingcomis the website, and you can go
there anytime and find anythingrelated to us and me and our
(18:09):
business and our businesses soyou can go there when I post
something.
I have blog posts there, becausesometimes you know you do a
post and you want a betterexplanation that you can't do on
social media, so things likethat will be there and guides,
um.
So blog posts.
You can get to the nested figthere.
You can get to our vacationrentals there, because that's
(18:32):
one thing.
The big thing is, you know, Idon't see all the messages on
Instagram and social media andI'll see like weeks later.
Someone was asking for what'sthe link to your Florida house.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
See, I get that one all of the time.
And it's even more difficultbecause Airbnb didn't update and
now so stupid the way theychanged it.
It is harder for us as hosts toaccess that link.
Yeah to share our link it'sburied, so it's very cumbersome.
(19:06):
So it's nice that that's goingto be there, so you can just
send that link to them.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
WesleyTurnerLivingcom , and it's right there, so it
has vacation rental informationthere.
has your condo in Hilton HeadCan rent our condos, or our
house and the Pigeon Forge cabinmy parents' cabin, you know.
House in the pigeon forge umcabin, my parents cabin, you
know we talked about.
I do the airbnb for that aswell.
So all of that is in one place.
That way I can just send.
Like you said, it's hard to getthose links and then sometimes
(19:33):
people will ask me for differentones, so I have to log out of
one account, go to the otheraccount.
Not that I mind, but it's justso much easier.
Yeah, and it's.
It needed its own place.
So, like I said, I said blogposts will be there, the Nested
Fig links will be there,vacation rentals will be there,
our podcast link is there andPedal Pickers the farm.
(19:54):
So when we talk about somethingabout that as well, it's all
there.
One hub the Wesley TurnerLiving Hub right there, so that
we can build on that.
The Wesley Turner Living Hubright there so that we can build
on that.
And I have some fun things thatI want to do with that as well,
as I'm adding more content andthat sort of thing.
So that's the big three thingsName change, video podcast Well,
(20:18):
I guess it's four.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
The podcast has its website, but now we just have to
catch up now.
We have been gone since before.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Christmas.
The week before Christmas wasour last episode.
I feel like that was like twoyears ago it does.
I know I feel kind of weird.
I'm like do we go back and talkabout Christmas and the holiday
and New Year?
I mean, I've been home toTennessee.
We've gone to Florida.
You and I went to Dallas for aday.
We went to the Atlanta marketfor 10 days.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
What else have we done?
How much we've done.
In that, I feel like you didsomething too.
We went to the mountains.
Oh, you went to the mountains.
Um, I mainly just needed torest.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Honestly, yeah, I mean, I mainly just needed to
rest.
Honestly, yeah, you did restand then you got sick one or two
times randomly.
Yeah, just once, just once.
Yeah, it feels like more thanthat, but, like I said,
everything Christmas feels likesix months ago I got like a
sinus infection.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and I didn't get that and thank
goodness I made it through theholidays and got nothing.
Made it through the holidaysand got nothing.
Made it through marketeverything and then I got some.
I just was like coughing anddrainage.
It may have been allergies, Idon't know.
I tested negative foreverything right and uh, and I'm
(21:38):
over it, so and it, and thatwasn't bad.
I just didn't feel good.
I think it may have just been acold, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
So I tried to make some notes along the way to see
if there's and I'm trying toread, if there's anything that
strikes.
But you had a good Christmas,we had a great Christmas.
I had a good Christmas too.
I went home to my parents'house and my niece she's five
she's actually today, which isSunday, february 2nd her
birthday, and so she's turnedsix today, so she was at that
(22:08):
perfect age.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It was just so fun for the holidays.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And I got to spend more time than I normally did.
I went a little longer thistime and it was just so good, so
that was a lot of fun there.
And then came back and we wentto Floridaida for a week.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
How is our house?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
our house is amazing and you know we leave a week
from today to go back.
Um has it been two years is.
The last time you went was withdaniel july.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, july will be two years since I've been, so
it's like a year and a half yearand a half, almost two years
because y'all used to go with usand then y'all been doing your
own thing.
But then you got COVID, so wedidn't go.
Oh yeah, that's when we didn'tgo the last time.
We need to go, I need to blockit.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And then this time you're just like eh, this time,
no, I'm not picking on you.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Well, I gave Dylan last summer the choice I said
you can get a new car, whichhe's always up for that, or we
can buy vacation points throughMarriott and that'll be two
vacations a year forever.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Which do you want?
He got conned into buying somevacation points.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
He decided he wanted the vacation points.
So we bought those and it'sactually kind of good Because it
forces you to.
It makes me book a vacation.
Yeah, like if I know I'm goingto lose weeks, I'm like, oh, we
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got to book.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Which is the thing with us.
You know, we've talked aboutgoing to Greece for your
birthday and we've never plannedit Because there's nothing.
There's always a reason not togo with us and the businesses
and that sort of thing.
So it is good that that forcesyou to go with us and the
businesses and that sort ofthing.
So it's, it is good that thatforces you to go, so because
(24:17):
there's no reason for us reallynot to go.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
No, so we are going, the four of us are going to
Europe, and I'm just going tosay Europe because I have not
booked it.
Wesley has given me hisapproval.
Just book wherever.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
So the four of us are going next June to your 2026.
2026.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
He had to use his points this year on his sale.
Well, here's the thing weweren't invited this year.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Here's the thing, explain, I'm just kidding the.
Here's the thing, explain, I'mjust kidding.
I'm just kidding the negativeabout the points.
There is a negative is you hadto book, you had to plan.
Yeah, or you do it last minuteand you don't plan, right you
know, because somebody willcancel something, will cancel
(25:17):
something.
So what we did was we decidedwe're going on my birthday to
South Beach.
I have not been to South Beach.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
That's this year, that's this year.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
March 21st, we're flying to South Beach for a
vacation.
I have not been to South Beachin at least 25 years and the
last time I was there I said Iwas never going back yeah which
is not fair to south beach.
But I got food poisoning.
Oh my gosh, it was horrible.
(25:43):
I mean, I was so sick and I wasin the most beautiful
ritz-carlton there, right on theocean.
It was great, it was beautiful.
Had to call a doctor in to thehotel.
Seriously, oh, it was bad.
It was so bad.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Was it light?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh, it was Both ends.
Yes, I was so sick.
The sweet Cuban ladies thatworked in the kitchen at the
Ritz Carlton, I guess, knew, Iguess it was all over the hotel.
I was sick.
When you call in a doctor, Iguess it's kind of a big deal, a
big deal.
And they were so sweet to meand they would cut up ginger
(26:33):
root and send to my hotel roomfor me to suck on ginger root
and it helped.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, they say it does With the nausea.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh, it was bad Nausea .
I was like I am never goingback to that place and who knows
where I got the food poisoning.
But I was like, okay, it's been25 years, I can go back, you
can go back, yeah.
So we're excited and we'restaying at a little boutique
hotel right there on Ocean Drive.
Yeah, and we'll give it a goand then It'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, y'all have so much fun.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And then in August we're going to Kauai.
Dylan's never been to thatisland, neither have I.
Well, I was going to book thatfor all of us, but we could only
get a studio.
Oh, only get a studio.
Well, you can go.
Yeah, just had to pay for thehotel.
I have some points.
(27:28):
Yeah, I told you You've got aweek.
I don't know.
But, y'all want to do your ownthing too.
It's fine, it's fine.
It doesn't matter, no, I'm justkidding.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
But then I know Europe will be fun and I think,
Europe is more fun to go likethe four of us, and you're going
to Hawaii, I think, the sametime that we already have
planned to go to the beach house.
It kind of overlaps.
Not that we couldn't give thatup, but it'll be fine.
Y'all get to do your own thing.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
We can't always be together.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
No, Evidently.
I mean everybody wants to bewith me.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I know right, Whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Oh, and then you know , and we don't do politics ever,
yeah, and I never want to, butyou know, we've gone through all
that, through all the changeswith that, oh yeah, and the
fires.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I mean it's just all this crazy.
It's been a crazy month,january.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Lots of crazy changes and everything TikTok went down
.
Tiktok, all this in everythingTikTok went down.
All this crazy stuff Just wentdown and came back.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I mean it is crazy.
So we went to the marketAtlanta market we're going to
talk about that in our nextpodcast but the whole time I was
so nervous Speaking of gettingfood poisoning, of getting sick
there.
We made it through this time ofmarket without getting sick.
It's the first time in a longtime.
(28:58):
But I was so nervous becausethe flu was going around like
crazy and the stomach bug.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
And it's so scary when we're there and we have
friends and reps there andpeople are dropping.
You know, oh, so-and-so, had togo home.
Got the flu.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Got COVID, got the stomach and I'm like and we're
around all these people and it'snot that we don't.
You know everyone gets sick andyou know we're going to get
sick.
It happens, it's life.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It's life.
It's just that we have so muchimportant work to do for those
10 days.
So when we got there, I waslike, okay, let's start with the
most important and work our waybackwards, in case one of us
goes out in the middle of marketCause it could happen, you know
, cause we're there.
So it's not like we're therethree days and now you know
we're there for nine or 10 days,whatever it was.
But we made it through and Iwas.
So now I am trying to.
Now that we're back home, I'mtrying not to go anywhere except
(29:59):
for here in the warehouse,because now I don't want to get
sick, because we're going toFlorida next week and I want to
be like.
This is how I am every January,though in February, but I'm
always like can't do thisbecause I don't want to get sick
, like I want to start workingout again, but I'm like I'm not
going to the gym until I getback from Florida because I
(30:20):
don't want to catch somethingbeing around all those people.
Yeah, that's how I like.
Also, just if I'm gaining fivemore pounds between I said.
When Steven came in, I was likeokay, put your chair low.
We don't want to look too fatin this video podcast.
The way we're sitting, we'vebeen turned.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
But you know, I mean.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I've gained since, like last year, this time like
20 pounds.
20 pounds, that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah, and I feel it, but I'm going to tell you, I'm
going to tell you, the older youget, the harder it is.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I know.
That's why I don't want to gain20, because it's that much
harder to get it off.
But I'll get it off again.
I'm confident I'll start goingto the gym and that sort of
thing Before you know it sixmonths later.
I know you know.
So anyway, there's that.
(31:19):
I have a question, though,about going back to Christmas.
Okay, I saw this duringChristmas on social media.
Someone was asking this and Iwas like I have to ask this to
you too, this, and I was like Ihave to ask this to you too.
So when you go, or with yourfamily growing up, or if you go
there now, or in your experience, or maybe Dylan's family, when
(31:41):
you go to open gifts like oh,it's time to open our gifts,
Does everyone do y'all just likepass out gifts and everyone
opens them at the same time, ordo you do it like Stephen's
going to open his gifts?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
and everyone's watching you.
No, we pass them out andeverybody opens whatever as you
go.
That's the way I like to do it.
That's the way it should bedone.
Yes.
I don't want to be on displayopening gifts.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I saw that and I was like people do that, like I
would, I would leave.
I like, if I, if mygrandparents they did it that
way and I wouldn't, I wouldn'tshow up for the gifts I.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I love giving gifts.
I'm not a good gift receiver.
I'm just not.
It's just, and'm just not.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, it's just and it feels awkward.
Yeah, no matter if it'ssomething you love, it feels
awkward that someone I don'tknow All of gift giving feels
awkward to me.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I don't like.
I don't like getting gifts.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I feel I like getting them.
I mean, if you give mesomething, I like it, but the
act of opening it and it's likeI would just rather give, feel
the pressure to respond acertain way.
Or what if you don't like itbut you got to act like you like
it?
Or what if it's somethingreally nice and you didn't get
them something?
(33:07):
So then you kind of feel it'sjust awkward, but like if I went
somewhere and they did it oneby one, I wouldn't go.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I wouldn't like it, I would not, I would not.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So let us know, you can text our hotline Now the
games are fun.
That's totally different.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
The games are fun yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You can text our hotline we still have that at
864-982-5029 can I see that fromyou?
See it, now that we made864-982-5029 damn girl you're.
Those new contacts did wonders.
He used to not could see itright.
It's like four feet from me andnow you're like 10 feet away.
(33:54):
That's crazy.
Or go to the members onlycommunity of the podcast and
I'll put up a poll, or let usknow in the comments.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I like it being called members only, because in
the 80s, oh God, the membersonly jackets, um, I mean, that
was the shit.
To have a members only jacket,uh huh, that was the.
I remember there was like a twoyear period.
That was the jacket Everyonehad to have.
I think you were too young.
Yeah, that missed you.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I mean, I know what they are but yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I mean you were too young, yeah, that missed you.
I mean I know what they are,but yeah, I mean it was just a
damn windbreaker, but yeah, andif you know, certain colors were
more popular.
I had a black one and then Iwanted a white one because
nobody had white.
Yeah, and why did I want white?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
It just gets so dirty .
But you're OCD and if anybodywas going to have white you were
dirty Just from being at schoolon desk it's nasty, so that
makes me think of the 80s.
Members only Members onlyCommunity.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Members, only you got to be special, special,
exclusive.
Put your credit card number in.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Put your credit card number in and you're a member
only and you can enjoy theexclusive club.
Do you have anything in yournotes?
I took a bunch of notes overthe holidays.
I have some.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
And one thing is just general.
Are you talking general notes?
Yeah, just anything you want totalk about.
Um, just Jen, are you talkinggeneral?
Yeah, just anything you want totalk about.
My thing is and we've you and Ihave talked a little bit about
it is like if you're in business, if you have a small business,
do you, you do you?
(35:46):
Well, right, don't try toemulate someone else or be
someone else.
Like and I'm not saying I'mperfect Right, Because I've
never I mean, I'm far fromperfect, Right.
(36:07):
Own McDonald's and then ourbusiness.
Now, I've never tried to be acompetitor or be anyone else.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Right.
We've always really talkedabout it and I'm a true believer
that small business is acommunity and not a competition.
There is enough room foreveryone.
Do your own you, even if I havea furniture and home decor
store and you have a furniturehome decor store.
There are plenty of variations.
(36:40):
You do you, I do me, andthere's room for everyone.
You'll get the same customersbecause they'll like both.
Maybe Maybe they won't, maybeyour style is different, maybe
that's not, but you ain't got acopy, because if you are having
to look at everyone else to runyour business, then you're not a
business owner.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
You don't need that business because you're not
going to be able to sustain it.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
You're an investor and you probably should do
something else, yeah it's true.
I mean, I don't know how to saythat.
Other than that and that, justI've just noticed.
I've just noticed that in thepast months, of people that just
obviously don't have their ownidentity and they run their
business it's like well, whatare you today?
Oh, oh, I did that, so you'regoing to do that now.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Right Kind of makes me feel sorry for them.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah, we've had that, we've had that.
We've had that in our ownbusiness of people following
just what we do and we're alwaysmoving on to something new by
the time they catch up.
We're like that's all news.
Why are you copying us now?
Oh you have that now.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Good, because we got rid of that Right.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
We don't need that know.
This goes back to againtouching on market and I put up
a box on instagram and one ofthe questions was like how do
you, as a business owner, knowwhat to buy?
Um, you know, you're goingthrough market and there's
everything there and I explainedI don't think you were with me,
but but I've used this analogya lot it's like you're a
(38:12):
restaurant, even a smallbusiness that's doing, say, home
decor and furniture, or likeour garden shop or the nested
fig online.
You think of it as a menu isthe only way I can tell people
when they ask me that, becauseeach restaurant has to have its
menu and a retail store has tohave its categories that it
(38:36):
sells.
I mean there's millions ofthings that we would like to
sell but they don't fit our menu.
It's like you're not going togo to an Italian restaurant and
get sushi.
You're not going to go to ournested pig home and get whatever
it may be.
That doesn't fit.
I mean there's a lot of addressyeah, so that's how, when we go
(38:59):
to market, that we narrow down.
I mean, we get bright eyed andbushy tail.
We love everything.
Not everything, there's someshit there, but we love a lot of
stuff.
And then we're like, oh youknow, it doesn't fit our.
It doesn't fit our menu.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
And the other thing is, from the beginning, you and
I have always it's all becauseyou know I didn't have any money
for most of my life.
You went through every.
We've all gone through that andwe want everyone to be able to
come to the stores and leavewith something.
Right, we've talked about thatthat's important, because you
(39:38):
want everybody to have thatpositive experience.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Right, and that's why we try to find a wide variety
of you know you can come in ouragain home store.
You can buy a sofa table, forexample, for a few hundred
dollars or a few thousanddollars.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Or you can get a $20 candle.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, but I mean, there's a variation.
You can get a $20 candle, andyou can also get a $70 candle.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
You know what I'm saying.
So we try to have the mix, andthat's what you have to do as a
business.
But it is funny to talk about,though, and that's why, on
Instagram, I've gotten a littlebit better about when we're at
market, not laying out exactlywhat we're buying, because I get
messages asking like did youget this, are you getting this?
(40:27):
And for the majority of thepeople they're following along
and they genuinely are just, youknow, looking, they love seeing
it.
So I try to show general whatwe're seeing, but not
specifically what we're buying.
Now because?
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Well, some people are asking because can you help me
run my business?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah.
And then some people are like,well, you're not going to show
that.
I wanted to know if I wanted toorder it, or something like
that.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Do your own legwork.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah, I'm like you come to market and shop.
Yeah, you know, I mean there'speople, there's a lot of people
and I don't mind generally.
You know it depends on who itis.
I'll see people in my messagessaying what vendor is this?
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I want to order for my store or whatever, and we
know when to answer and when notto.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah, and it just depends on the person.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
And the other thing is what people don't realize is
we personally make a hugeinvestment into our business by
going and spending 10 days atmarket.
I mean we are literallyspending at least $10,000 out of
our pocket just in hotels andfood.
(41:41):
Yeah, while we're there, yeah,I mean it is very expensive.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
And we go there and we exhaust ourselves and we shop
every inch of market that wecan, hoping to bring the best of
the best and not only the best,like the different, the best,
the newest, and also we shopvendors.
We'll go like, oh, we love this, but so and so also had this.
Let's go back and see which isthe better price, which is the
(42:08):
best price for the best qualityis what it comes down to.
Then we're like, oh, let's getit from here, not them, or it's
worth paying more because thisis significantly better.
Yeah, like, oh well, it was onlya dollar more over there, but
the quality was so much better,so there's things like that.
But anyway, yeah, that's awhole thing.
It's a whole podcast rightthere, that is a whole podcast.
(42:31):
Getting back, I have a coupleof Christmas kind of PSAs, I
guess you would say.
I want everyone to look aroundRight now.
If you're driving in your caryou can just make a middle note
when you get home.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
But it is February, it's going to be 4th when this
comes out, because it's February2, it's going to be 4th when
this comes out, because it'sFebruary 2nd today.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Look around and look at that old nappy poinsettia
that has two leaves hanging onit.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Throw it away.
It's time, throw it away it wasfunny.
So one of my family memberssent me a photo oh this is funny
of I have been working on theirhouse, um, you know, just
helping, yeah, um, with ourfurniture and it's looking great
(43:26):
, yeah, say.
But in this picture I couldjust see in this, you know it
wasn't, it was just like in thebottom of the photo there was a
poinsettia on its last leg in asaucer and I said throw that
damn thing away.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
It's time.
It's time, it's February.
Throw it away, it's never goingto look it away.
It's never gonna look good,it's never gonna be.
It's probably got spider miteson it right now and they are not
.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
What people don't realize is they are not shrubs
or flowers.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
It is a tree yeah and it, but now they've been bred
so many different ways andhybridized to get this showy,
they're very weak.
They're very weak and they'reonly meant to be a holiday plant
.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Throw it away, they're not going to do anything
.
And if you get one that doeslinger, it's going to get very
leggy because it is a tree.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Yeah, it's going to be lanky and leggy.
Yeah, you're not you ain'tgoing to keep it looking that
good, anyway, throw it away.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Unless you're in Mexico and you can plant it in
your yard.
But they've been like you said,they've been so hybridized.
Is that a word?
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
So they're so weak and they're not even word.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, so they're so weak and they're not even my
next PSA, which is going to hurtsome people's feeling, I know
it will, but take your.
Your Christmas tree, I mean,Still looks like your Christmas
tree if you have hearts all overit.
We've talked about this I know,I'm just telling them Holiday
(45:13):
trees are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Do your hearts on your tablescape.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yeah, why are you going to try to leave up your
flock tree and cover it in somehearts and go, oh look what I
did.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
It looks like a Valentine Christmas tree and
then they're going to make ashamrock tree, and then it's.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Easter.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
And then it's Easter, and then it's well, we're going
to leave it up for the 4th ofJuly.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
And then we're going to do fall.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
It looks dumb.
It looks like you're too lazyand you didn't take your tree
down.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Because my thing is, if you're going to do a
Valentine's tree, then go, getsome.
Like, do something like getsome branches, go out and cut
some big branches, put them in apot and decorate it like a
Valentine's tree.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Yeah, hang some hearts that say be mine.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Then it looks like you did something but your cone
shaped christmas tree looks likea christmas tree, no matter how
much you stuff up in there itdrives me crazy it does.
I just had to get that out,since we're starting a new year,
we're gonna try to help you outthis year.
Get you you looking right.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
So yeah, get off your butts and it's fine, you know,
depending on where you are inthe country, and especially if
you're up north, it is fine toleave like a green, a Christmas
greenery wreath up with berriesor flocked, or especially if
it's snowing where you are, yeah, I think that's really
(46:49):
attractive.
But the Christmassy stuff needsto go Mm-hmm.
Christmas lights need to go,mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Time to go.
We used to have our garland upon our front porch.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
I wasn't going to call you out, but I was like, oh
, I have to admit, it's stillthere, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
So I'm going to talk to myself.
And I have to admit it's stillthere, so I'm going to talk to
myself, and it looks kind of sadit does.
It looks pathetic, but it'sstill there.
We'll get it down.
This week, though, it's beencold and I was like I ain't
worried about it.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
No, it has been really cold.
Yes, not normal.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
I mean, I know it looks out of place.
It's not like ooh, look at myValentine, garland.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
No, because it's a section fallen, it's just a hot
mess.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah, I saw someone else, though, talking about
their.
I think they were doing aValentine tree and with their
hearts, but they are also justusing like pink and what I can't
remember what color red, pinkand white, and it looked like a
Christmas tree Ball ornaments.
They a Christmas tree Ballornaments.
They're Christmas ornaments.
I'm like, just because it's adifferent, those are Christmas
(47:55):
ornaments, those aren't yourValentine ornaments.
Anyway, I'll get off that onetoo, but I'm just trying to help
some people out this year and Ilove when I see it on social
media and then everybody's likeoh, my God, I love your tree.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
That is so creative.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
No, it's not Mm-mm no .
That's lazy, and you will behappier when you get it out.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Yes, and get something new in there.
Go get a faux ficus tree anddecorate it for Valentine's or
something.
Go get your white your branchesand spray paint them white,
like we used to do back in the80s and 90s, and hang your
easter eggs yeah, there'ssomething like that that's fun,
put it in a big urn, but yourcone-shaped tree is is still
(48:40):
your christmas tree.
Yeah, okay, that that was mytwo things.
I've been waiting to get thatoff my chest chest for weeks and
did we, did we did we think.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
See, it's been so long since we've had a podcast I
can't remember.
Did we talk about the pillowsor the pillows?
Speaker 1 (48:59):
using making the bows .
Yes you, you talked everyoneout of that.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Yeah, we don't, we're not doing that.
No, no, no, no.
If you want a bow, make a bow,not with a pillow.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Okay, do we have something to discuss with you?
We have, we got a few.
This can be one more topic hasnothing to do with catching up,
but again in my notes I was.
I can't access mine.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
Yeah, his phone is recording me.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
So there's no access to that, but in my notes.
So I had someone I don't knowhow this came up actually, but I
had someone message me about itand I was like that's not true,
like that can't be true, and Ilooked it up and then I put a
poll up or a box on social mediathis was over the holidays and
I said ask, has anyoneexperienced this?
And I got stories andconfirmation that this happens.
(49:55):
So evidently, I don't know whatgeneration I'm not going to say
, but the current generation ofyounger employees.
They are bringing their parentsto an interview with them and
not like the parents is if youcan see his face, not like the
(50:18):
parents are dropping them offfor the interview and waiting in
the car, like they are comingto the interview, into the
interview with their kid.
What do you have to say aboutthat?
I'm speechless.
Speaker 2 (50:38):
I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
But if you I even screenshotted that's not a word
Screenshot some of the responsesI mean why?
Speaker 2 (50:49):
would and I'm sorry.
I know I have not raisedchildren, so do not message us
saying you haven't.
We know we are not parents.
We have not raised children.
However, I was raised Right andI do know that you're not
raising a child.
(51:09):
You're raising an adult.
Right, and if they are oldenough to be getting a job, even
if they're 15 years old, theyare old enough to do.
You know, role play with themat home, teach them at home how
to behave and conduct themselvesduring an interview Right.
But if you're going with them,you are raising a child, you're
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not raising an adult.
Yeah, and I wouldn't hireanyone.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
I know I can't imagine If I went out to
interview someone, no matterwhich one of our businesses it
was at, and their parent was inthere, I would just say, oh, I'm
sorry I don't have time,Something's come up, no.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
I would just say oh, I'm sorry I don't have time.
Something's come up.
No, I would say, you're nuts iswhat I would say.
This is a problem and this isnot going to work.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
So I found where I screenshot and the funny thing
is a couple of people like thisperson said my daughter, like
people admitted that their kidwould do this.
This person said my daughterwould do it.
Seriously, she's the worst inpublic.
And I'm like, but I mean theparents were saying they
(52:18):
wouldn't do it, but like theirkid would indeed ask them to do
this and I'm like what is that?
Too much screen time growing upso they don't know how to
communicate in person.
I don't know when does thatcome into?
Have you ever had that happen?
Speaker 2 (52:38):
No, even in McDonald's.
No, I had parents.
I had parents come toMcDonald's and talk to me and
say I would really like my childto work here, and and then I
would say we'll bring them infor an interview.
But see, those parents hadenough sense.
They sat in the car and waitedon their kid so that they could
(53:00):
do that on their own.
I mean, who does that?
I know.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
No, I mean, like I said, I could see you driving
them, especially when you canhire younger 15, 16 or whatever
this person said.
We had a teacher interview andhe brought his wife.
We were so confused.
Brought his wife to theinterview.
Now what?
Oh, and then it was a followupup.
(53:33):
No, that's someone different.
There must have been anotherteacher.
Um response, because there'ssomething else about another
teacher.
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
I don't understand.
You know, I guess I'm gettingto that age where I just don't
understand a lot.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
This person said, yes , had this happened, and her dad
answered all the questions andthen called and asked why she
didn't get the job.
Like who are you interviewing?
I this?
Speaker 2 (54:02):
oh Well, you know, dylan was a Starbucks manager
and I learned a lot of thisstuff that I didn't know and
it's just um, I just feel likeour younger generation.
They're just weak, but I thinkthey've been raised to be weak
(54:22):
Not everybody.
Obviously we've got somesensible people, but, um, and I
don't know other companies.
I don't know of another companyother than Starbucks and the
only reason I know that isbecause Dylan was a manager
there.
But they would call in yeah, Imean anybody can there, but they
(54:44):
would call in and said I need,I need to take an emotional
health day.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
Oh yeah, there's a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
If I did that, I would never go to work.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
I'm like, okay, and the thing is, I can see if
something catastrophic happenedin your life.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
Hell yeah, and there's a lot to mental wellness
and stuff, as we know,absolutely, but sometimes for me
I'm just speaking for meeveryone in life struggles on
different days with differentthings or whatever, but getting
up and forcing myself is whatgets me through those moments
(55:28):
and that stuff.
When you don't give, when youdon't, you don't give yourself
the option to just lay in bedall day.
You got to get your ass up.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
We have to compartmentalize things and say,
you know, I always said, if youcan just get to the shower,
right, you can.
You know it's taking that nextstep.
And I mean I, I've had my share.
I feel like I can say what Isaid.
I mean I've had my share ofchallenges with you know,
(55:59):
depression and different thingslike that, and I'm very ADD and
OCD.
I mean legit, but my gosh, youjust have to make yourself
sometimes.
Speaker 1 (56:10):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, and there's a lot you
just have to make yourselfsometimes.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying,and there's a lot, you know,
with depression and I understandthere's a fine line there is.
But, it's thrown around alittle too much sometimes.
Well, yeah, especially whenyou're giving it easy out,
because I feel like part of likeI just said, part of it is
making yourself do it to workthrough it.
(56:31):
You got to work through thesituations, not run from the
situation.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
And you know, and I grew up I've never talked about
this but I mean I could write abook on this.
My mother was bipolar and ifyou live with that, that is a
very difficult, challengingdisease, mental illness and it
(56:58):
really bothers me when peoplethat really don't know how hard
and how challenging a seriousmental health issue is Right you
don't even know how bad it canis Right, like you don't even
know, like how bad it can beRight.
And I guess that's thefrustrating part for me because
I lived with that for 45 yearswatching my mother struggle with
(57:21):
a very serious mental illnessand bless her heart.
You know there were days shedidn't feel like doing lots of
things but I watched her and shedid and there were days she
couldn't, in all fairness, butmy gosh, some of these in their
reasoning was just Wellsometimes everything in a system
(57:48):
like that gets abused.
Speaker 1 (57:49):
It does so, him working at Starbucks being the
manager and that being a companypolicy where you can just call
out for a mental health day.
Then you know, sometimes youjust don't want to go to work,
so you need a mental health day,but that's well and it's like
everything sickly, everythingcan get abused and and I'm not
saying it's not legit sometimes,but it's all that.
Speaker 2 (58:14):
You know there's a line there you have to watch and
I think, as an employer and aparent, you have to watch that
Right, Because it can get crazy.
Speaker 1 (58:24):
So back, though, to people showing up with their
parents for interviews.
We need this in the comments oron the hotline.
Our hotline number again is864-982-5029.
Text or call us on the hotlineor go to the Members Only
(58:46):
community.
Leave it in the notes, Let usknow has this happened?
Speaker 2 (58:49):
We want to hear your stories, If you have if you're
an employer and you've had thathappen, I want to hear about it,
and if you, as a parent, havedone that with your child, I
want to hear about that too.
Speaker 1 (59:03):
Yeah, I want to hear all sides.
I would love to hear someonethat said okay, first of all, I
want to hear from someone thatsays yes, I did this, I took my
parents and I got the job,because I want to know what job
you interviewed for and they letyou do that too.
From the parent, like, oh yeah,I did this with my kid, I
didn't see anything wrong withit.
(59:24):
That's fine.
You know what Do you?
But I want to hear about it.
Speaker 2 (59:27):
Now I will say this.
There's one caveat, because yousaid have you ever had this
happen?
So when I owned McDonald's, Iworked with a state
representative and I employedspecial needs.
Speaker 1 (59:40):
Okay, well, that's a whole different thing.
That is different.
That's a whole different thing.
Speaker 2 (59:44):
But not all the time.
Speaker 1 (59:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (59:47):
There were some individuals that were very
high-functioning, that came ontheir own, but then there were
only a few that you know.
But even then, even in thatsituation, the parent just sat
back and let them, you know,take the lead.
It was more of a security thing, right, you know, take the lead
(01:00:10):
, it was more of a securitything, right?
But?
And there was never a time whenthat happened that I thought it
was inappropriate, you knowcause?
It was like, oh, I get theircoaching, their help, their,
their teaching them, yeah, thatthat makes sense.
Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
That's acceptable, but not yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Yeah, so I don't.
I don't want anybody tomisconstrue Like, if you're a
parent with a special need, Iget that.
That's totally different.
It's different.
Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Yeah, okay, can you believe it?
It's time to wrap up episodeone of season three.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Can you believe we've ?
Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
stuck with this, I know, but I love it, so I think
we're sticking with it.
So again, just a little recap.
My name has changed to WesleyTurner, living on Instagram.
So go over there today and giveme some love, like some posts,
leave some comments so that Idon't get, you know, lost in the
shuffle of changing my name.
(01:01:08):
Go check out our new website,wesleyturnerlivingcom, where you
can get to everything.
Us, I guess we'll say, and fromthere, see, you can just go
right to the podcast as well.
But if you want to go directlyto the podcast, you can go to
whosedrivingpodcastcom andthat's where you can find
everything about the podcast.
(01:01:28):
And remember to join ourmembers only community.
Show your support, it's membersonly.
Leave your comments there, yeah,hopefully it's all smooth and I
don't have to edit this out andsay, oh hell with it, we didn't
.
No, I'm just kidding.
I've been recording littleclips and practicing the editing
and everything, so hopefullythat's me.
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Yeah, and well, now we'll seeyou next week, right?
Yeah, bye y'all.
Okay, bye guys.
Well, here we go.
Are you ready?
I'm ready, Are we?
It's time for Season 3.
Season 3.
Can you believe we're stilldoing this?
No, it is time for anotherseason of who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner and I'mStephen Merck.
(00:20):
We're two best friends andentrepreneurs.
Who's Driving is anentertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
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 (00:42):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
You never know who's driving,or?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
Oh, we are back together again.
It's been weird not recording.
It has been weird.
You know we were supposed torecord last week but you got a
little sick.
I did.
It was only supposed to be afive-week break and here we are
six weeks later.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I just sounded a little Coughing and snotting and
everything.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Are you better now?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm better and I tested for everything, but
nowadays I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Who knows with you.
I know you were just all overthe place, so we got a lot of
catching up to do.
Not only do we have a lot ofcatching up to do, we have a lot
of big announcements.
So, I think we should startwith those, the announcements,
first.
So season three, episode one,here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We have given in to something I don't know if we
should have we held off on itfor two years.
I know and I'm should have weheld off on it for two years, I
know.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And I'm not sure.
I'm not sure how it's going togo or if we should have given in
, but you can now, startingtoday, watch our episode.
So I'm going to give you allthose details.
For all of those.
I want to hear the worldclapping right now.
That's how I hear it in mybrain.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Okay, and I, you know , I've got to say this I don't
listen to podcasts and we knowwe've talked about that yes, um,
but hell.
If you're listening to podcast,why do you want to watch it?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
well, I guess, but I would rather watch it than just
listen to it.
That's true I, I would too,especially knowing your face and
probably my face and the thingsthat are going to happen.
I don't know, but we're excitedabout it.
I guess I'm a little nervousbecause I've had to learn all
new like editing software anduploading and hosting, and I
(02:43):
feel like I've been in a collegeclass the last week.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Y'all better be glad he's techie, because if it were
up to me, it would never bevideo.
Never, never.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So, anyway, okay, so here's the deal.
First of all, I guess, besidesthat you can now watch us, we
now have a website for thepodcast, which we've never had.
That either.
We're finally three years in.
We're getting our shit together, maybe Trying, we're trying,
you know who knows?
So our podcast website iswhosedrivingpodcastcom and that
(03:17):
is where you can go to find thelatest episodes.
You can go there to listen forfree or get to whatever
directory you want to listen toour podcast, and then that is
also where you will go to watchthe podcast if you want to do so
.
So watching the podcast is.
There is a now a members onlycommunity, so you got to go to
(03:43):
the website.
You got to sign up and onceyou're in because that's like
the special club, so that'swhere you'll get access to the
video podcast that you can watchanytime, Plus in there, that's
where I'm going to post.
You know, when we talk aboutpeople, we can post those reels
so they can see what we'rereferencing.
(04:04):
Now I don't know, that might bewhat ends us this year.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It could be, but I think it's kind of a public
service.
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So I thought that way there's visuals, like when
we're talking about, maybe,trends, I can post examples of
trends.
How wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It is or right.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Right or wrong, or when we're talking about
something we saw on Instagramand we want to share that real
there.
I mean it's sharing for them.
You know, Sharing is caring.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Sharing is caring.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Plus, we'll be able to take polls, you know when
we're like tell us if you likethis or your thoughts or your
feedback.
All of that will be inside themembers only community at who's
driving podcastcom.
So if you want to support usand be part of the community and
maybe you don't want to watchthe podcast but you still want
to be able to participate andsee kind of like the visuals of
(04:56):
what we're talking about, all ofthat's at that website.
So it's who's drivingpodcastcom and you can join the
community, I think we shouldcharge for that.
We are charging.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh, we are yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
It's a paid subscription to be part of that.
It's not 99 a month or thepodcast.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Because I didn't even know we were.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, girl, we're charged.
He doesn't know anything.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Let's, let's back it up, listen, I would.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And here's why we're charging for it, because to host
the video version and thedifferent editing it's a lot
more expensive.
And we've talked about we don'thave sponsors, we're not doing
advertisements, we're not doinganything.
So I'm like, if we're going todo this extra step, we have to
break even.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It at least has to pay for itself.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, we have to break even on it, because I'm
not going to pay out of pocketand it's, you know, just to host
the podcast, like we were doingjust the audio version.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It cost us money.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, it probably cost us, I would say, at least
$100 and something a month to dothat.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
At least because I've been doing our tax stuff and
I've seen it.
You've seen the QuickBooks butit's fine tax stuff and I've
seen it, but it's fine.
It's fine Because it'sadvertising and that sort of
thing.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
But the video version costs a substantial amount more
, and then to have the websitefor it to be on.
So, you know, it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And that's fine.
It's a break even.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It'll be fine.
So come sign up.
You know that's probably thecost of a Big Mac these days $
fun yeah.
So come sign up.
You know that's probably thecost of a Big Mac these days
$9.99.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
A meal.
Yeah, it's the damnedest thingI've ever seen, and it's only
$9.99 a month.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You know, a Starbucks coffee is like $8 and something
now.
So you can skip one coffee andgive it to us and support the
podcast.
And it'll also be a communityLike.
You can leave comments back andforth about, like the episodes.
There'll be some special likebehind the scenes so that I
downloaded on my phone.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Will I be able to see this?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
no, no, no, that's just to record okay we had to
use your phone.
We have three phones recordingit's like uh it's.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I don't know where to look.
I know I'm just going to lookat you and pretend they aren't
there, I'm not, I can't look atall this stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Because I don't know, and then it's a new system over
here on my computer.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I mean, there's so much to look at.
There's there and there andthere and there.
I mean I'm like boo.
I just hope we don't get doneand hadn't recorded it If I
short circuit and just startflipping around in my chair,
you'll know what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
We need a fourth camera, like against the back
wall, so you can see the wholemy gosh, but anyway.
So I'm super excited about that, because I'm excited to be able
to, you know, do the video postabout what we're talking about.
Have the visuals to go alongwith it do polls and comments
(07:50):
and some behind the scenes orlike stuff that doesn't make the
right.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Right, I mean we've been talking about this for a
year and a half.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and so it'stime I would.
I was really against it, butnot not against it, like not
wanting to share it with youguys.
I was just against it Like, ohmy gosh, there's that much,
(08:13):
there's another layer on it,yeah, and I'm glad we waited
until now because we've gottenused to doing the podcasting and
I couldn't have handled it.
I would have definitelyshort-circuited and so much more
.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And now, though, I'm like god, you know how many
times we've just I've rolled outof bed, and just I know I was
like well shown up with livesales because I'm on the back
side of the live sales most ofthe time.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, you know I do more live sales than I used to
do, but I'm on the backside.
So if I know I'm going to be onthe backside, I can look like
hell.
Right yeah, and you dosometimes Like if I don't feel
well or I've just been workingat home and I'm like I am not
getting on camera.
Yeah, and today I was like I amnot getting on camera.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And today I was like well, I guess I got to shave.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Got to look good.
Clean up a little, yeah.
So head over there, sign up,join the community and be a part
of it.
Help support us.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And then I feel like it should be like $999 a month.
I'm kidding, we are so notgreedy.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
No, that's not what it's like.
$999 is reasonable.
There's four episodes a monthon average.
You know, so you're breaking itdown to what it's like $5 an
episode.
No, it's like $2.50.
Yeah, yeah, $2.50.
$2.50 an episode?
No, it's like 250.
It's yeah, yeah, 250, twodollars and 50 cents an episode.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I mean, listen, I go through my subscriptions, yeah,
and you know you don't thinkabout, oh, this little app to
watch.
You know, watch this and thisand um news apps and different
things and I'm like, oh my goshsee, I go through and I get rid
of them I do too, or like when Isign up for one.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I'm like okay, which one do I need to get rid of?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
well it adds up.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But uh, luckily, most all of our stuff, all of our
stuff, dylan pays yeah the otherthing that's also different is
we used to have our microphoneson stands like arms and steven
used to sit here and I used tosit there, and so now I already
feel like I'm crouched down,trying to talk like this, which
(10:35):
I don't have to.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's just getting actually, I think this is a
little better for me, is it?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
better, better for you.
I think I feel like I'm likewell, you are.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Oh, that's a whole different story, don't start.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Listen, it's a new year, be nice for at least an
hour.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I have been nice.
I have started this year offvery good.
I have not cussed anyone outyet.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I have not Wait, are you sure I think you did at
market?
Yeah, I mean, I think a coupleof people.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, that was not my fault.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So we recently got back from the Atlanta.
I want to talk about that.
We're going to do all about themarket in the next episode, but
we got some catching up to doin this one.
But before again we get to that, we have other big
announcements Next up.
Today I am changing myInstagram handle.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
We also talked about this a year ago and I'm so glad
you are, because farmshenanigans does not encompass
your Instagram and know it'skind of and nobody can spell
shenanigans, they cannot.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Nobody can spell shenanigans and everyone thinks
it's farmhouse shenanigans andthat's going to be one of those.
What do you call those?
You know, where people rememberthings one way and it never was
like we've talked about that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, and mine too.
I need to change my.
I need to get my ass back onInstagram.
But don't start.
I just call myself out.
But uh, a problem with mine wasthat it is keeping up with
Steven.
No G on keeping, yeah, and Ifeel like I lose a lot of
(12:22):
followers because they searchkeeping.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Right when you're out and about or we're at market
and you're like, oh, follow me.
And you try to explain it, andthen it's a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You don't realize how you're messing something up
until you're using it.
Just like our corporate name.
Yeah, we didn't realize thatwas a mistake.
I mean, you just don't knowtill you know Right and hell.
You know you can go back andchange it, it's true, it's true.
I mean, ain't nothing perfect,and it's something else to crow
about.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I know it's true.
So I do feel like it's time.
I felt like it was time lastyear and then I never really
committed to changing it, andthen there was a lot of
different names I looked at andthen someone would already have
it and that sort of thing.
So, but I'm now ready, I'mdoing it.
I'm doing it today.
So my new Instagram handle willbe Wesley Turner Living.
(13:13):
So it's just simple.
It's nothing earth shattering.
It's what?
Look?
Can you see his face already?
Come on.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
How original Martha.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Stewart, I know right , what about it.
No, I knew you were going tosay that because I've talked
about that with you and I'm likebut the living part, just I
didn't want to do like a lot ofpeople now are just doing like
their name, and I wanted it tohave something that wasn't just
Wesley Turner, that kind oftells what it is.
Because when you see the livingyou know there's like some kind
(13:47):
of lifestyle whatever behind it.
So there's that, and you canmake fun of me.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And actually it's funny you mention that.
So Dylan just told me yesterdayhe has this new idea and plans
and I'm all for it.
I mean hell, I'll pit myselfout however, so he's going to
start a YouTube channel heshould, so I don't know what
(14:15):
that is going.
You know the name of that yet,so I'll announce that when he
gets that together.
So that should be interesting.
He definitely should Somethingelse to annoy me.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, because you love that yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I mean I don't even know what aspects of my life are
out there.
I mean I just assume everythingis out there on social media at
some point.
Yeah, it's just out there.
Yeah, I mean, I was smackinggum intentionally in my living
room in my leather chair,intentionally.
(14:55):
That is not how I chew gum.
You know I chew gum a lot.
Sounds like you're embarrassed.
No, I'm not embarrassed, Idon't care.
It sounds like you'reembarrassed.
No, I'm not embarrassed, Idon't care.
But I was over there going.
That is not how I sit aroundthe house and chew gum.
I was just.
I had just had something to eatand I was just wanting the
(15:18):
freshness of the mint in mymouth because I was just going
to chew it for a few minutes andspit it out, right, and Dylan
felt the need to record that andput that on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So everybody thinks it's.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I'm going no.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Well, you know whether you chew your gum like
that or not, you're always beingannoying.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So maybe so, but I didn't do.
I mean, that is not my norm.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But yeah, no, you don't so wesley turner living is
just simple, I feel like itwill.
You know, it's easy to find thenext problem is.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
The next problem we're gonna find is it's gonna
be wesley.
Yeah, they're gonna put a t init.
Well, I can't help that, I know.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But it's my name, does not have a t in wesley.
People message me on instagramhey, wesley, there's no t, it's
wesley e s, l e, y.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It's wesley and it's not wesley.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
There's no z, there's no t so I can't help if you
can't, can't find it that way,that just.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It amazes me, I mean, how people are with names.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah it is so Wesley Turner Living, just simple.
None of the content is stillgoing to be what we already do.
It's nothing, or?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
shattering data.
Nothing's changing.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It's just.
You know, we talked about it ayear ago when I said I needed to
change.
It is like you said no one canspell farm shenanigans.
And then, when they ask me tospell farm shenanigans, I'm like
you can't spell shenanigans.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You have to write it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I have to write it because it's.
You know, I go especially onthe spot and I'm like
S-H-E-N-A-N-I-G-A-N-S.
And then like I said, a lot ofpeople put farmhouse shenanigans
and then a lot of people thinkit means like farmhouse style
and it's just time for an update, because we've grown, everyone
(17:14):
grows, it's time for a change Iwish.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I could change my own name sometimes.
Oh, I did change your name.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You did so, okay.
The other part of changing myname is something else is
happening today, and I've beentrying to work on this for a
year and a half or two years andI was going to pay someone to
do it and then I never didbecause I knew there would be a
lot of back and forth and Inever had a time to get it done
myself.
But I finally sat down and gotthat done as well.
(17:45):
So now to go along with the newname change Wesley Turner
Living.
Now I have a website and I'mcalling it like a hub was my
vision.
So it's WesleyTurnerLivingcomis the website, and you can go
there anytime and find anythingrelated to us and me and our
(18:09):
business and our businesses soyou can go there when I post
something.
I have blog posts there, becausesometimes you know you do a
post and you want a betterexplanation that you can't do on
social media, so things likethat will be there and guides,
um.
So blog posts.
You can get to the nested figthere.
You can get to our vacationrentals there, because that's
(18:32):
one thing.
The big thing is, you know, Idon't see all the messages on
Instagram and social media andI'll see like weeks later.
Someone was asking for what'sthe link to your Florida house.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
See, I get that one all of the time.
And it's even more difficultbecause Airbnb didn't update and
now so stupid the way theychanged it.
It is harder for us as hosts toaccess that link.
Yeah to share our link it'sburied, so it's very cumbersome.
(19:06):
So it's nice that that's goingto be there, so you can just
send that link to them.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
WesleyTurnerLivingcom , and it's right there, so it
has vacation rental informationthere.
has your condo in Hilton HeadCan rent our condos, or our
house and the Pigeon Forge cabinmy parents' cabin, you know.
House in the pigeon forge umcabin, my parents cabin, you
know we talked about.
I do the airbnb for that aswell.
So all of that is in one place.
That way I can just send.
Like you said, it's hard to getthose links and then sometimes
(19:33):
people will ask me for differentones, so I have to log out of
one account, go to the otheraccount.
Not that I mind, but it's justso much easier.
Yeah, and it's.
It needed its own place.
So, like I said, I said blogposts will be there, the Nested
Fig links will be there,vacation rentals will be there,
our podcast link is there andPedal Pickers the farm.
(19:54):
So when we talk about somethingabout that as well, it's all
there.
One hub the Wesley TurnerLiving Hub right there, so that
we can build on that.
The Wesley Turner Living Hubright there so that we can build
on that.
And I have some fun things thatI want to do with that as well,
as I'm adding more content andthat sort of thing.
So that's the big three thingsName change, video podcast Well,
(20:18):
I guess it's four.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
The podcast has its website, but now we just have to
catch up now.
We have been gone since before.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Christmas.
The week before Christmas wasour last episode.
I feel like that was like twoyears ago it does.
I know I feel kind of weird.
I'm like do we go back and talkabout Christmas and the holiday
and New Year?
I mean, I've been home toTennessee.
We've gone to Florida.
You and I went to Dallas for aday.
We went to the Atlanta marketfor 10 days.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
What else have we done?
How much we've done.
In that, I feel like you didsomething too.
We went to the mountains.
Oh, you went to the mountains.
Um, I mainly just needed torest.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Honestly, yeah, I mean, I mainly just needed to
rest.
Honestly, yeah, you did restand then you got sick one or two
times randomly.
Yeah, just once, just once.
Yeah, it feels like more thanthat, but, like I said,
everything Christmas feels likesix months ago I got like a
sinus infection.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and I didn't get that and thank
goodness I made it through theholidays and got nothing.
Made it through the holidaysand got nothing.
Made it through marketeverything and then I got some.
I just was like coughing anddrainage.
It may have been allergies, Idon't know.
I tested negative foreverything right and uh, and I'm
(21:38):
over it, so and it, and thatwasn't bad.
I just didn't feel good.
I think it may have just been acold, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
So I tried to make some notes along the way to see
if there's and I'm trying toread, if there's anything that
strikes.
But you had a good Christmas,we had a great Christmas.
I had a good Christmas too.
I went home to my parents'house and my niece she's five
she's actually today, which isSunday, february 2nd her
birthday, and so she's turnedsix today, so she was at that
(22:08):
perfect age.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It was just so fun for the holidays.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And I got to spend more time than I normally did.
I went a little longer thistime and it was just so good, so
that was a lot of fun there.
And then came back and we wentto Floridaida for a week.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
How is our house?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
our house is amazing and you know we leave a week
from today to go back.
Um has it been two years is.
The last time you went was withdaniel july.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, july will be two years since I've been, so
it's like a year and a half yearand a half, almost two years
because y'all used to go with usand then y'all been doing your
own thing.
But then you got COVID, so wedidn't go.
Oh yeah, that's when we didn'tgo the last time.
We need to go, I need to blockit.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And then this time you're just like eh, this time,
no, I'm not picking on you.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Well, I gave Dylan last summer the choice I said
you can get a new car, whichhe's always up for that, or we
can buy vacation points throughMarriott and that'll be two
vacations a year forever.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Which do you want?
He got conned into buying somevacation points.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
He decided he wanted the vacation points.
So we bought those and it'sactually kind of good Because it
forces you to.
It makes me book a vacation.
Yeah, like if I know I'm goingto lose weeks, I'm like, oh, we
(23:55):
got to book.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Which is the thing with us.
You know, we've talked aboutgoing to Greece for your
birthday and we've never plannedit Because there's nothing.
There's always a reason not togo with us and the businesses
and that sort of thing.
So it is good that that forcesyou to go with us and the
businesses and that sort ofthing.
So it's, it is good that thatforces you to go, so because
(24:17):
there's no reason for us reallynot to go.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
No, so we are going, the four of us are going to
Europe, and I'm just going tosay Europe because I have not
booked it.
Wesley has given me hisapproval.
Just book wherever.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
So the four of us are going next June to your 2026.
2026.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
He had to use his points this year on his sale.
Well, here's the thing weweren't invited this year.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Here's the thing, explain, I'm just kidding the.
Here's the thing, explain, I'mjust kidding.
I'm just kidding the negativeabout the points.
There is a negative is you hadto book, you had to plan.
Yeah, or you do it last minuteand you don't plan, right you
know, because somebody willcancel something, will cancel
(25:17):
something.
So what we did was we decidedwe're going on my birthday to
South Beach.
I have not been to South Beach.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
That's this year, that's this year.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
March 21st, we're flying to South Beach for a
vacation.
I have not been to South Beachin at least 25 years and the
last time I was there I said Iwas never going back yeah which
is not fair to south beach.
But I got food poisoning.
Oh my gosh, it was horrible.
(25:43):
I mean, I was so sick and I wasin the most beautiful
ritz-carlton there, right on theocean.
It was great, it was beautiful.
Had to call a doctor in to thehotel.
Seriously, oh, it was bad.
It was so bad.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Was it light?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh, it was Both ends.
Yes, I was so sick.
The sweet Cuban ladies thatworked in the kitchen at the
Ritz Carlton, I guess, knew, Iguess it was all over the hotel.
I was sick.
When you call in a doctor, Iguess it's kind of a big deal, a
big deal.
And they were so sweet to meand they would cut up ginger
(26:33):
root and send to my hotel roomfor me to suck on ginger root
and it helped.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, they say it does With the nausea.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh, it was bad Nausea .
I was like I am never goingback to that place and who knows
where I got the food poisoning.
But I was like, okay, it's been25 years, I can go back, you
can go back, yeah.
So we're excited and we'restaying at a little boutique
hotel right there on Ocean Drive.
Yeah, and we'll give it a goand then It'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, y'all have so much fun.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And then in August we're going to Kauai.
Dylan's never been to thatisland, neither have I.
Well, I was going to book thatfor all of us, but we could only
get a studio.
Oh, only get a studio.
Well, you can go.
Yeah, just had to pay for thehotel.
I have some points.
(27:28):
Yeah, I told you You've got aweek.
I don't know.
But, y'all want to do your ownthing too.
It's fine, it's fine.
It doesn't matter, no, I'm justkidding.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
But then I know Europe will be fun and I think,
Europe is more fun to go likethe four of us, and you're going
to Hawaii, I think, the sametime that we already have
planned to go to the beach house.
It kind of overlaps.
Not that we couldn't give thatup, but it'll be fine.
Y'all get to do your own thing.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
We can't always be together.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
No, Evidently.
I mean everybody wants to bewith me.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I know right, Whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Oh, and then you know , and we don't do politics ever,
yeah, and I never want to, butyou know, we've gone through all
that, through all the changeswith that, oh yeah, and the
fires.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I mean it's just all this crazy.
It's been a crazy month,january.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Lots of crazy changes and everything TikTok went down
.
Tiktok, all this in everythingTikTok went down.
All this crazy stuff Just wentdown and came back.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I mean it is crazy.
So we went to the marketAtlanta market we're going to
talk about that in our nextpodcast but the whole time I was
so nervous Speaking of gettingfood poisoning, of getting sick
there.
We made it through this time ofmarket without getting sick.
It's the first time in a longtime.
(28:58):
But I was so nervous becausethe flu was going around like
crazy and the stomach bug.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
And it's so scary when we're there and we have
friends and reps there andpeople are dropping.
You know, oh, so-and-so, had togo home.
Got the flu.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Got COVID, got the stomach and I'm like and we're
around all these people and it'snot that we don't.
You know everyone gets sick andyou know we're going to get
sick.
It happens, it's life.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It's life.
It's just that we have so muchimportant work to do for those
10 days.
So when we got there, I waslike, okay, let's start with the
most important and work our waybackwards, in case one of us
goes out in the middle of marketCause it could happen, you know
, cause we're there.
So it's not like we're therethree days and now you know
we're there for nine or 10 days,whatever it was.
But we made it through and Iwas.
So now I am trying to.
Now that we're back home, I'mtrying not to go anywhere except
(29:59):
for here in the warehouse,because now I don't want to get
sick, because we're going toFlorida next week and I want to
be like.
This is how I am every January,though in February, but I'm
always like can't do thisbecause I don't want to get sick
, like I want to start workingout again, but I'm like I'm not
going to the gym until I getback from Florida because I
(30:20):
don't want to catch somethingbeing around all those people.
Yeah, that's how I like.
Also, just if I'm gaining fivemore pounds between I said.
When Steven came in, I was likeokay, put your chair low.
We don't want to look too fatin this video podcast.
The way we're sitting, we'vebeen turned.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
But you know, I mean.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I've gained since, like last year, this time like
20 pounds.
20 pounds, that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah, and I feel it, but I'm going to tell you, I'm
going to tell you, the older youget, the harder it is.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I know.
That's why I don't want to gain20, because it's that much
harder to get it off.
But I'll get it off again.
I'm confident I'll start goingto the gym and that sort of
thing Before you know it sixmonths later.
I know you know.
So anyway, there's that.
(31:19):
I have a question, though,about going back to Christmas.
Okay, I saw this duringChristmas on social media.
Someone was asking this and Iwas like I have to ask this to
you too, this, and I was like Ihave to ask this to you too.
So when you go, or with yourfamily growing up, or if you go
there now, or in your experience, or maybe Dylan's family, when
(31:41):
you go to open gifts like oh,it's time to open our gifts,
Does everyone do y'all just likepass out gifts and everyone
opens them at the same time, ordo you do it like Stephen's
going to open his gifts?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
and everyone's watching you.
No, we pass them out andeverybody opens whatever as you
go.
That's the way I like to do it.
That's the way it should bedone.
Yes.
I don't want to be on displayopening gifts.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I saw that and I was like people do that, like I
would, I would leave.
I like, if I, if mygrandparents they did it that
way and I wouldn't, I wouldn'tshow up for the gifts I.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I love giving gifts.
I'm not a good gift receiver.
I'm just not.
It's just, and'm just not.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, it's just and it feels awkward.
Yeah, no matter if it'ssomething you love, it feels
awkward that someone I don'tknow All of gift giving feels
awkward to me.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I don't like.
I don't like getting gifts.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I feel I like getting them.
I mean, if you give mesomething, I like it, but the
act of opening it and it's likeI would just rather give, feel
the pressure to respond acertain way.
Or what if you don't like itbut you got to act like you like
it?
Or what if it's somethingreally nice and you didn't get
them something?
(33:07):
So then you kind of feel it'sjust awkward, but like if I went
somewhere and they did it oneby one, I wouldn't go.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I wouldn't like it, I would not, I would not.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So let us know, you can text our hotline Now the
games are fun.
That's totally different.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
The games are fun yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You can text our hotline we still have that at
864-982-5029 can I see that fromyou?
See it, now that we made864-982-5029 damn girl you're.
Those new contacts did wonders.
He used to not could see itright.
It's like four feet from me andnow you're like 10 feet away.
(33:54):
That's crazy.
Or go to the members onlycommunity of the podcast and
I'll put up a poll, or let usknow in the comments.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I like it being called members only, because in
the 80s, oh God, the membersonly jackets, um, I mean, that
was the shit.
To have a members only jacket,uh huh, that was the.
I remember there was like a twoyear period.
That was the jacket Everyonehad to have.
I think you were too young.
Yeah, that missed you.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I mean, I know what they are but yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I mean you were too young, yeah, that missed you.
I mean I know what they are,but yeah, I mean it was just a
damn windbreaker, but yeah, andif you know, certain colors were
more popular.
I had a black one and then Iwanted a white one because
nobody had white.
Yeah, and why did I want white?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
It just gets so dirty .
But you're OCD and if anybodywas going to have white you were
dirty Just from being at schoolon desk it's nasty, so that
makes me think of the 80s.
Members only Members onlyCommunity.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Members, only you got to be special, special,
exclusive.
Put your credit card number in.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Put your credit card number in and you're a member
only and you can enjoy theexclusive club.
Do you have anything in yournotes?
I took a bunch of notes overthe holidays.
I have some.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
And one thing is just general.
Are you talking general notes?
Yeah, just anything you want totalk about.
Um, just Jen, are you talkinggeneral?
Yeah, just anything you want totalk about.
My thing is and we've you and Ihave talked a little bit about
it is like if you're in business, if you have a small business,
do you, you do you?
(35:46):
Well, right, don't try toemulate someone else or be
someone else.
Like and I'm not saying I'mperfect Right, Because I've
never I mean, I'm far fromperfect, Right.
(36:07):
Own McDonald's and then ourbusiness.
Now, I've never tried to be acompetitor or be anyone else.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Right.
We've always really talkedabout it and I'm a true believer
that small business is acommunity and not a competition.
There is enough room foreveryone.
Do your own you, even if I havea furniture and home decor
store and you have a furniturehome decor store.
There are plenty of variations.
(36:40):
You do you, I do me, andthere's room for everyone.
You'll get the same customersbecause they'll like both.
Maybe Maybe they won't, maybeyour style is different, maybe
that's not, but you ain't got acopy, because if you are having
to look at everyone else to runyour business, then you're not a
business owner.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
You don't need that business because you're not
going to be able to sustain it.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
You're an investor and you probably should do
something else, yeah it's true.
I mean, I don't know how to saythat.
Other than that and that, justI've just noticed.
I've just noticed that in thepast months, of people that just
obviously don't have their ownidentity and they run their
business it's like well, whatare you today?
Oh, oh, I did that, so you'regoing to do that now.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Right Kind of makes me feel sorry for them.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah, we've had that, we've had that.
We've had that in our ownbusiness of people following
just what we do and we're alwaysmoving on to something new by
the time they catch up.
We're like that's all news.
Why are you copying us now?
Oh you have that now.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Good, because we got rid of that Right.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
We don't need that know.
This goes back to againtouching on market and I put up
a box on instagram and one ofthe questions was like how do
you, as a business owner, knowwhat to buy?
Um, you know, you're goingthrough market and there's
everything there and I explainedI don't think you were with me,
but but I've used this analogya lot it's like you're a
(38:12):
restaurant, even a smallbusiness that's doing, say, home
decor and furniture, or likeour garden shop or the nested
fig online.
You think of it as a menu isthe only way I can tell people
when they ask me that, becauseeach restaurant has to have its
menu and a retail store has tohave its categories that it
(38:36):
sells.
I mean there's millions ofthings that we would like to
sell but they don't fit our menu.
It's like you're not going togo to an Italian restaurant and
get sushi.
You're not going to go to ournested pig home and get whatever
it may be.
That doesn't fit.
I mean there's a lot of addressyeah, so that's how, when we go
(38:59):
to market, that we narrow down.
I mean, we get bright eyed andbushy tail.
We love everything.
Not everything, there's someshit there, but we love a lot of
stuff.
And then we're like, oh youknow, it doesn't fit our.
It doesn't fit our menu.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
And the other thing is, from the beginning, you and
I have always it's all becauseyou know I didn't have any money
for most of my life.
You went through every.
We've all gone through that andwe want everyone to be able to
come to the stores and leavewith something.
Right, we've talked about thatthat's important, because you
(39:38):
want everybody to have thatpositive experience.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Right, and that's why we try to find a wide variety
of you know you can come in ouragain home store.
You can buy a sofa table, forexample, for a few hundred
dollars or a few thousanddollars.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Or you can get a $20 candle.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, but I mean, there's a variation.
You can get a $20 candle, andyou can also get a $70 candle.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
You know what I'm saying.
So we try to have the mix, andthat's what you have to do as a
business.
But it is funny to talk about,though, and that's why, on
Instagram, I've gotten a littlebit better about when we're at
market, not laying out exactlywhat we're buying, because I get
messages asking like did youget this, are you getting this?
(40:27):
And for the majority of thepeople they're following along
and they genuinely are just, youknow, looking, they love seeing
it.
So I try to show general whatwe're seeing, but not
specifically what we're buying.
Now because?
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Well, some people are asking because can you help me
run my business?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah.
And then some people are like,well, you're not going to show
that.
I wanted to know if I wanted toorder it, or something like
that.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Do your own legwork.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah, I'm like you come to market and shop.
Yeah, you know, I mean there'speople, there's a lot of people
and I don't mind generally.
You know it depends on who itis.
I'll see people in my messagessaying what vendor is this?
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I want to order for my store or whatever, and we
know when to answer and when notto.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah, and it just depends on the person.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
And the other thing is what people don't realize is
we personally make a hugeinvestment into our business by
going and spending 10 days atmarket.
I mean we are literallyspending at least $10,000 out of
our pocket just in hotels andfood.
(41:41):
Yeah, while we're there, yeah,I mean it is very expensive.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
And we go there and we exhaust ourselves and we shop
every inch of market that wecan, hoping to bring the best of
the best and not only the best,like the different, the best,
the newest, and also we shopvendors.
We'll go like, oh, we love this, but so and so also had this.
Let's go back and see which isthe better price, which is the
(42:08):
best price for the best qualityis what it comes down to.
Then we're like, oh, let's getit from here, not them, or it's
worth paying more because thisis significantly better.
Yeah, like, oh well, it was onlya dollar more over there, but
the quality was so much better,so there's things like that.
But anyway, yeah, that's awhole thing.
It's a whole podcast rightthere, that is a whole podcast.
(42:31):
Getting back, I have a coupleof Christmas kind of PSAs, I
guess you would say.
I want everyone to look aroundRight now.
If you're driving in your caryou can just make a middle note
when you get home.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
But it is February, it's going to be 4th when this
comes out, because it's February2, it's going to be 4th when
this comes out, because it'sFebruary 2nd today.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Look around and look at that old nappy poinsettia
that has two leaves hanging onit.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Throw it away.
It's time, throw it away it wasfunny.
So one of my family memberssent me a photo oh this is funny
of I have been working on theirhouse, um, you know, just
helping, yeah, um, with ourfurniture and it's looking great
(43:26):
, yeah, say.
But in this picture I couldjust see in this, you know it
wasn't, it was just like in thebottom of the photo there was a
poinsettia on its last leg in asaucer and I said throw that
damn thing away.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
It's time.
It's time, it's February.
Throw it away, it's never goingto look it away.
It's never gonna look good,it's never gonna be.
It's probably got spider miteson it right now and they are not
.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
What people don't realize is they are not shrubs
or flowers.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
It is a tree yeah and it, but now they've been bred
so many different ways andhybridized to get this showy,
they're very weak.
They're very weak and they'reonly meant to be a holiday plant
.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Throw it away, they're not going to do anything
.
And if you get one that doeslinger, it's going to get very
leggy because it is a tree.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Yeah, it's going to be lanky and leggy.
Yeah, you're not you ain'tgoing to keep it looking that
good, anyway, throw it away.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Unless you're in Mexico and you can plant it in
your yard.
But they've been like you said,they've been so hybridized.
Is that a word?
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
So they're so weak and they're not even word.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, so they're so weak and they're not even my
next PSA, which is going to hurtsome people's feeling, I know
it will, but take your.
Your Christmas tree, I mean,Still looks like your Christmas
tree if you have hearts all overit.
We've talked about this I know,I'm just telling them Holiday
(45:13):
trees are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Do your hearts on your tablescape.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yeah, why are you going to try to leave up your
flock tree and cover it in somehearts and go, oh look what I
did.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
It looks like a Valentine Christmas tree and
then they're going to make ashamrock tree, and then it's.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Easter.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
And then it's Easter, and then it's well, we're going
to leave it up for the 4th ofJuly.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
And then we're going to do fall.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
It looks dumb.
It looks like you're too lazyand you didn't take your tree
down.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Because my thing is, if you're going to do a
Valentine's tree, then go, getsome.
Like, do something like getsome branches, go out and cut
some big branches, put them in apot and decorate it like a
Valentine's tree.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Yeah, hang some hearts that say be mine.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Then it looks like you did something but your cone
shaped christmas tree looks likea christmas tree, no matter how
much you stuff up in there itdrives me crazy it does.
I just had to get that out,since we're starting a new year,
we're gonna try to help you outthis year.
Get you you looking right.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
So yeah, get off your butts and it's fine, you know,
depending on where you are inthe country, and especially if
you're up north, it is fine toleave like a green, a Christmas
greenery wreath up with berriesor flocked, or especially if
it's snowing where you are, yeah, I think that's really
(46:49):
attractive.
But the Christmassy stuff needsto go Mm-hmm.
Christmas lights need to go,mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Time to go.
We used to have our garland upon our front porch.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
I wasn't going to call you out, but I was like, oh
, I have to admit, it's stillthere, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
So I'm going to talk to myself.
And I have to admit it's stillthere, so I'm going to talk to
myself, and it looks kind of sadit does.
It looks pathetic, but it'sstill there.
We'll get it down.
This week, though, it's beencold and I was like I ain't
worried about it.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
No, it has been really cold.
Yes, not normal.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
I mean, I know it looks out of place.
It's not like ooh, look at myValentine, garland.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
No, because it's a section fallen, it's just a hot
mess.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah, I saw someone else, though, talking about
their.
I think they were doing aValentine tree and with their
hearts, but they are also justusing like pink and what I can't
remember what color red, pinkand white, and it looked like a
Christmas tree Ball ornaments.
They a Christmas tree Ballornaments.
They're Christmas ornaments.
I'm like, just because it's adifferent, those are Christmas
(47:55):
ornaments, those aren't yourValentine ornaments.
Anyway, I'll get off that onetoo, but I'm just trying to help
some people out this year and Ilove when I see it on social
media and then everybody's likeoh, my God, I love your tree.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
That is so creative.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
No, it's not Mm-mm no .
That's lazy, and you will behappier when you get it out.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Yes, and get something new in there.
Go get a faux ficus tree anddecorate it for Valentine's or
something.
Go get your white your branchesand spray paint them white,
like we used to do back in the80s and 90s, and hang your
easter eggs yeah, there'ssomething like that that's fun,
put it in a big urn, but yourcone-shaped tree is is still
(48:40):
your christmas tree.
Yeah, okay, that that was mytwo things.
I've been waiting to get thatoff my chest chest for weeks and
did we, did we did we think.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
See, it's been so long since we've had a podcast I
can't remember.
Did we talk about the pillowsor the pillows?
Speaker 1 (48:59):
using making the bows .
Yes you, you talked everyoneout of that.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Yeah, we don't, we're not doing that.
No, no, no, no.
If you want a bow, make a bow,not with a pillow.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Okay, do we have something to discuss with you?
We have, we got a few.
This can be one more topic hasnothing to do with catching up,
but again in my notes I was.
I can't access mine.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
Yeah, his phone is recording me.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
So there's no access to that, but in my notes.
So I had someone I don't knowhow this came up actually, but I
had someone message me about itand I was like that's not true,
like that can't be true, and Ilooked it up and then I put a
poll up or a box on social mediathis was over the holidays and
I said ask, has anyoneexperienced this?
And I got stories andconfirmation that this happens.
(49:55):
So evidently, I don't know whatgeneration I'm not going to say
, but the current generation ofyounger employees.
They are bringing their parentsto an interview with them and
not like the parents is if youcan see his face, not like the
(50:18):
parents are dropping them offfor the interview and waiting in
the car, like they are comingto the interview, into the
interview with their kid.
What do you have to say aboutthat?
I'm speechless.
Speaker 2 (50:38):
I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
But if you I even screenshotted that's not a word
Screenshot some of the responsesI mean why?
Speaker 2 (50:49):
would and I'm sorry.
I know I have not raisedchildren, so do not message us
saying you haven't.
We know we are not parents.
We have not raised children.
However, I was raised Right andI do know that you're not
raising a child.
(51:09):
You're raising an adult.
Right, and if they are oldenough to be getting a job, even
if they're 15 years old, theyare old enough to do.
You know, role play with themat home, teach them at home how
to behave and conduct themselvesduring an interview Right.
But if you're going with them,you are raising a child, you're
(51:32):
not raising an adult.
Yeah, and I wouldn't hireanyone.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
I know I can't imagine If I went out to
interview someone, no matterwhich one of our businesses it
was at, and their parent was inthere, I would just say, oh, I'm
sorry I don't have time,Something's come up, no.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
I would just say oh, I'm sorry I don't have time.
Something's come up.
No, I would say, you're nuts iswhat I would say.
This is a problem and this isnot going to work.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
So I found where I screenshot and the funny thing
is a couple of people like thisperson said my daughter, like
people admitted that their kidwould do this.
This person said my daughterwould do it.
Seriously, she's the worst inpublic.
And I'm like, but I mean theparents were saying they
(52:18):
wouldn't do it, but like theirkid would indeed ask them to do
this and I'm like what is that?
Too much screen time growing upso they don't know how to
communicate in person.
I don't know when does thatcome into?
Have you ever had that happen?
Speaker 2 (52:38):
No, even in McDonald's.
No, I had parents.
I had parents come toMcDonald's and talk to me and
say I would really like my childto work here, and and then I
would say we'll bring them infor an interview.
But see, those parents hadenough sense.
They sat in the car and waitedon their kid so that they could
(53:00):
do that on their own.
I mean, who does that?
I know.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
No, I mean, like I said, I could see you driving
them, especially when you canhire younger 15, 16 or whatever
this person said.
We had a teacher interview andhe brought his wife.
We were so confused.
Brought his wife to theinterview.
Now what?
Oh, and then it was a followupup.
(53:33):
No, that's someone different.
There must have been anotherteacher.
Um response, because there'ssomething else about another
teacher.
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
I don't understand.
You know, I guess I'm gettingto that age where I just don't
understand a lot.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
This person said, yes , had this happened, and her dad
answered all the questions andthen called and asked why she
didn't get the job.
Like who are you interviewing?
I this?
Speaker 2 (54:02):
oh Well, you know, dylan was a Starbucks manager
and I learned a lot of thisstuff that I didn't know and
it's just um, I just feel likeour younger generation.
They're just weak, but I thinkthey've been raised to be weak
(54:22):
Not everybody.
Obviously we've got somesensible people, but, um, and I
don't know other companies.
I don't know of another companyother than Starbucks and the
only reason I know that isbecause Dylan was a manager
there.
But they would call in yeah, Imean anybody can there, but they
(54:44):
would call in and said I need,I need to take an emotional
health day.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
Oh yeah, there's a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
If I did that, I would never go to work.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
I'm like, okay, and the thing is, I can see if
something catastrophic happenedin your life.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
Hell yeah, and there's a lot to mental wellness
and stuff, as we know,absolutely, but sometimes for me
I'm just speaking for meeveryone in life struggles on
different days with differentthings or whatever, but getting
up and forcing myself is whatgets me through those moments
(55:28):
and that stuff.
When you don't give, when youdon't, you don't give yourself
the option to just lay in bedall day.
You got to get your ass up.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
We have to compartmentalize things and say,
you know, I always said, if youcan just get to the shower,
right, you can.
You know it's taking that nextstep.
And I mean I, I've had my share.
I feel like I can say what Isaid.
I mean I've had my share ofchallenges with you know,
(55:59):
depression and different thingslike that, and I'm very ADD and
OCD.
I mean legit, but my gosh, youjust have to make yourself
sometimes.
Speaker 1 (56:10):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, and there's a lot you
just have to make yourselfsometimes.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying,and there's a lot, you know,
with depression and I understandthere's a fine line there is.
But, it's thrown around alittle too much sometimes.
Well, yeah, especially whenyou're giving it easy out,
because I feel like part of likeI just said, part of it is
making yourself do it to workthrough it.
(56:31):
You got to work through thesituations, not run from the
situation.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
And you know, and I grew up I've never talked about
this but I mean I could write abook on this.
My mother was bipolar and ifyou live with that, that is a
very difficult, challengingdisease, mental illness and it
(56:58):
really bothers me when peoplethat really don't know how hard
and how challenging a seriousmental health issue is Right you
don't even know how bad it canis Right, like you don't even
know, like how bad it can beRight.
And I guess that's thefrustrating part for me because
I lived with that for 45 yearswatching my mother struggle with
(57:21):
a very serious mental illnessand bless her heart.
You know there were days shedidn't feel like doing lots of
things but I watched her and shedid and there were days she
couldn't, in all fairness, butmy gosh, some of these in their
reasoning was just Wellsometimes everything in a system
(57:48):
like that gets abused.
Speaker 1 (57:49):
It does so, him working at Starbucks being the
manager and that being a companypolicy where you can just call
out for a mental health day.
Then you know, sometimes youjust don't want to go to work,
so you need a mental health day,but that's well and it's like
everything sickly, everythingcan get abused and and I'm not
saying it's not legit sometimes,but it's all that.
Speaker 2 (58:14):
You know there's a line there you have to watch and
I think, as an employer and aparent, you have to watch that
Right, Because it can get crazy.
Speaker 1 (58:24):
So back, though, to people showing up with their
parents for interviews.
We need this in the comments oron the hotline.
Our hotline number again is864-982-5029.
Text or call us on the hotlineor go to the Members Only
(58:46):
community.
Leave it in the notes, Let usknow has this happened?
Speaker 2 (58:49):
We want to hear your stories, If you have if you're
an employer and you've had thathappen, I want to hear about it,
and if you, as a parent, havedone that with your child, I
want to hear about that too.
Speaker 1 (59:03):
Yeah, I want to hear all sides.
I would love to hear someonethat said okay, first of all, I
want to hear from someone thatsays yes, I did this, I took my
parents and I got the job,because I want to know what job
you interviewed for and they letyou do that too.
From the parent, like, oh yeah,I did this with my kid, I
didn't see anything wrong withit.
(59:24):
That's fine.
You know what Do you?
But I want to hear about it.
Speaker 2 (59:27):
Now I will say this.
There's one caveat, because yousaid have you ever had this
happen?
So when I owned McDonald's, Iworked with a state
representative and I employedspecial needs.
Speaker 1 (59:40):
Okay, well, that's a whole different thing.
That is different.
That's a whole different thing.
Speaker 2 (59:44):
But not all the time.
Speaker 1 (59:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (59:47):
There were some individuals that were very
high-functioning, that came ontheir own, but then there were
only a few that you know.
But even then, even in thatsituation, the parent just sat
back and let them, you know,take the lead.
It was more of a security thing, right, you know, take the lead
(01:00:10):
, it was more of a securitything, right?
But?
And there was never a time whenthat happened that I thought it
was inappropriate, you knowcause?
It was like, oh, I get theircoaching, their help, their,
their teaching them, yeah, thatthat makes sense.
Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
That's acceptable, but not yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Yeah, so I don't.
I don't want anybody tomisconstrue Like, if you're a
parent with a special need, Iget that.
That's totally different.
It's different.
Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Yeah, okay, can you believe it?
It's time to wrap up episodeone of season three.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Can you believe we've ?
Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
stuck with this, I know, but I love it, so I think
we're sticking with it.
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