June 3, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ah, buckle up, buttercup.
We're driving separately today.
Yes, take your own car.
That's right, I'm about to headout of town.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
We're two best friends andentrepreneurs.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
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 (00:40):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
So on this week's episode ifyou're watching, stephen and I
are in separate places, which iswe'll see how it goes Probably
will turn into a shit show.
I don't know, we're drivingseparate.
Today we are squeezing in thispodcast because we've had such a
(01:05):
busy week in a crazy time.
We've had a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We've had a lot going on.
Dylan and I have been inAtlanta.
Yes, we came back here.
We're getting ready to go backto Atlanta for two days.
We're doing live sales, butthey're super fun.
We are loving doing live sales,but they're super fun.
Like we are loving the livesales, like it's just.
I think it's just more fun whenyou're in a new place, when you
(01:32):
get to take it to the road,yeah, when you're having
different products and and Ithink it's fun for us, um,
because we get to go differentplaces.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know we love a market.
We love that's why we're here.
We really just like shopping.
So that's why we have abusiness that we can shop for
people basically and bring thebest products.
But so it's fun when we get totake it on the road and do the
live sales and I think thatimproves our energy and then the
customers love it becausethey're getting to see different
things and usually when we takeit on the road to do live sales
(02:04):
, we're doing things differentthat we don't normally stock in
the warehouse or something likethat.
So, yeah, y'all went to Atlantathis week Today's Sunday that
we're recording.
So y'all went to Atlanta, yougot back and then tomorrow,
which is Monday, Daniel and Iare headed down to our Florida
cottage, Kind of a last minuteplanned trip a few weeks ago.
(02:25):
My parents are going to be downthere with my niece, so we
thought we would go join themjust for a few days.
We're leaving tomorrow and comeback Thursday and then, while
we're gone, you are going totake the show on the road again
and go back to Atlanta.
It's the Apparel Mart at theAtlanta Market, which has great
accessories, you know.
(02:45):
But I have to say if you haven't, well, first of all, we got a
brand new app for the Nested Fig.
That's what's also been eatingup a lot of our time getting
that launch.
So we launched it this pastFriday.
So if you've had the Nested Figapp and haven't updated yet,
you need to update, you can justgo to your app store.
If you're on Google, you needto update.
(03:07):
You can just go to your appstore.
If you're on Google, you haveto download a new app.
So just search the nested figand it'll be the one that says
like app tile under it, not thecomment sold.
If you're on iPhone or AppleiPad any of those just go to
your app store and update yourapp.
But the last live that y'all didon Thursday oh my gosh, I've
gotten so many messages.
(03:28):
Y'all went to this brand newplace with bags, purses and that
sort of thing.
I have never had so manymessages about.
Please go back there.
So many people ordered duringit but then a lot of people
missed, and because missed itand they were going to watch the
replay, but because it was whenwe were changing over the app,
(03:49):
we had to cut that live sale off.
I've never had so many peoplemessage me and say, please go
back there, I missed all thingsI wanted.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Dylan and I have gotten so many messages, so we
are actually going to go back tothat warehouse that is not at
the market.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That is a warehouse outside of it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
No, it'll be on Tuesday the 10th.
Okay, Tuesday June 10th, wewill be back at that place.
That's awesome, but coming upthis week.
We'll be in Atlanta Thursdayand Friday of this week and
we'll be doing some other funlives yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So y'all are really taking it on the road Week after
week after week.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Take it on the road baby.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I was here.
I didn't go.
Well, you know, we don't alwayshave to be live together either
.
It's fun for a variety but Iwas here getting everything
ready this past week for the appto launch and trying to get all
that under control.
And you kept it going so andeveryone absolutely loved it.
And, speaking of the new app, Iwill put down in the show notes
whether you're listening orwatching in our online community
(04:58):
.
I'll put the link to the appdown there and you can just
click and update that way too ifyou need to.
But the app so far we're onSunday has gone smoother than I
thought it would go.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I mean now.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It seems like we've done a couple of test live sales
and now it seems to be that thequestions are more just the
customer not know something's ina different place.
They're like, oh, how do I findthis or do this?
So it's so far has gone muchsmoother.
I was holding.
I've lost sleep and hours overthis because I've been the one
(05:36):
you know, I'm the technical one.
I've been the one that hasgotten all of this set up.
Stephen, well, I did show you aglimpse of it, but he really
didn't see it until it actuallywent live.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I surprised myself, though.
I surprised myself that Ipicked up on it as quickly as I
did.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, and so I was like, oh my gosh, if this
doesn't go smooth, he's going tobe like what the hell have you
done?
What is going on?
Not that he would you know bemad or blame me, or anything.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But I hate technological change.
Yeah, that's the best word.
I don't mind change, it's thetechnological change.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And that was the other thing.
You know, stephen runs the livesales typically from.
He's doing the messages,putting up the products, putting
out fires, answering thecustomer and I'm the one in
front of the camera and I haveto say, both sides of it is
equally challenging and it'swhatever you get in the routine
(06:39):
in.
So sometimes when we switch offand I have to do what Stephen
normally does, I'm like I don'tknow how to do this.
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well, it's just a lot Once you're in a routine.
At first it's overwhelmingbecause you're like oh, I got to
look at this, I got to look atthis, I got to look at when.
When you get used to it, it'snot, it's not that hard and the
hard part about me in front ofthe camera is I want to be
reading.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The comments that you're normally used to doing.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It's hard for me to break that.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, so I'm glad it seems to have gone smooth, and
so grab our app.
If you haven't grabbed it, wehave some fun things coming up.
Oh, we have new things likeloyalty program in our app where
you can earn points.
Uh, we have different shipping.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
it's just a whole new experience and I'm excited and
I love points I think that Ithink people, but people love
getting points, people, and Ithink they're gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
They already love it.
I've had people message meabout that.
So last night I went andupdated and added some new ways
that you could earn points too,because people were already
messaging like, well, I want,what else can I do?
I mean I'm like, okay, okay,we'll give you some more points
if you need, if you need morepoints ways to earn, so that's
awesome.
(07:59):
So this week, like I mentioned,I'm going to the Beach Cottage,
where you haven't even beendown there in a while.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's two years in July, so yeah, I mean we need to
plan a trip.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And you're not going this year because it's booked,
and then y'all are going toHawaii.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So we're booking a trip now for the 4th.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Oh yeah, we talked about that on the last podcast.
Have you decided where you'regoing?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well, I had my heart set on Amelia Island, so we're
going to book Amelia Island forthe 4th next year.
The Ritz-Carlton was booked andwe both decided the reason we
love a Billy Island is going tothat Ritz Carlton.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, so you're liking it and worth going if
we're not staying there Likethere were.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
there was place available at Fairfield and
Courtyard, but it's just not thesame.
I mean not that there'sanything wrong with those hotels
, but if you want a vacationmode it's not the same.
In a spa and all the bougiethings that y'all really want in
life Food room service.
(09:15):
So then I looked at ReynoldsPlantation on Lake Oconee in
Georgia.
They had blocked out usingpoints, so we can't go there.
Probably can't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Did they not all block out their points for
holidays?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Just some, and it was like $1,400 a night and I
pulled that up.
Dylan said oh hell, I'm noteven going to ask if we're going
there.
I said that's right, we're not.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What's the place that you gave us a gift card that
we've never gone to?
Is it in North Carolina orVirginia?
That's good massage.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh, the Grove Park Inn.
We could do that, but we kindof got it narrowed down.
We found a property that welike in Key West, so now that we
can stay for free.
And so now it's coming down towe're going to do Key West or
(10:23):
Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Go to Key West because I'm going Key West or
Las Vegas.
Go to Key West because I wantto go to Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Come on, y'all don't want to go to Las Vegas for
Fourth of July.
It's going to be crazy Partypeople.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's going to be super busy.
Well, it's going to be worsethan.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Key West no, because that's a more limited crowd down
there Maybe.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I really want to go to.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Las Vegas, but it's fine, you can go without me.
I'll be able to use some moneyto put on something.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And let Dylan record it.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Let Dylan record it from yonder way See if I were in
anything.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Wouldn't that be hilarious if you won like $5,000
in Florida.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It would be.
Yeah that would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We would need him to record it, because if I hit that
on yours, I'd probably say oh,that was mine.
No you wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
No, I wouldn't.
I trust you.
No, you would be.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Unfortunately, I'm too honest.
It would bother me.
I'd be like okay, I lied, it'syour money.
Our new segment Southernisms.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You are sticking with this segment.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It is a public service.
I mean, if you look at how manypeople are moving into South
Carolina and it's a double-edgedsword for me because you know
I'm in real estate- and we havestores, so we love new customers
.
It really helps.
It helps our business in manyways.
But the traffic it is helps.
It helps our business in manyways.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
But the traffic it is crazy and I know this doesn't
pertain If you don't live herein Greenville, where we live
specifically, you're likewhatever, but living here you
know.
I moved here in 2005 to thearea and been in Greenville
since.
We in like 2000 difference inthe traffic I feel like every
(12:31):
about six months.
You know you go your sameroutine every day and I feel
like about every six months I'mlike, oh my gosh, the traffic's
worse than it was.
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
How it's bizarre.
Yeah, it's so weird to mebecause I moved here in 1995.
And traffic was bad on one road, one road in Greenville, and it
was only bad during holidaysand certain times of the day.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Mainly rush hour.
We never even had like rushhour traffic until Never you
were noticed.
I mean traffic would be heavy,but it wasn't like
bumper-to-bumper rush hour untillike maybe like three years ago
, I really noticed like, oh,this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So we have a lot of people moving here.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
And it's good for the here, and I don't blame them
because it's a great place to be.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So come on down.
It's a great city.
We're adjusting to the trafficand we're extra nice here.
We'll let you in.
Yeah, go ahead, you can get in.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
See, we're nice like that, come on.
Come on, hey, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
This little segment is important.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Don Come on hey how you doing this little segment is
important.
Don't come moving down here andhonking your damn horn, though.
If you are moving here, do nothonk your damn horn if you come
from up north somewhere or abigger city.
We don't do that.
You wave people in, you stop.
You let them in.
Hey, thank, you If someone letsyou in, say thank you and you
(14:12):
go don't honk your horn.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So this is a really important segment when you look
at how many people are moving inhere.
And this, this one came.
I was watching, you know, oninstagram, of course and I
watched this comedian talkingand I was like, oh, this is
funny, it was, it was about theSouth.
So I said, oh, I've got to tuneinto this.
(14:36):
They're either making fun ortelling truth.
And she, she was telling sometruths.
And one thing that she broughtup and I had not thought about
this in a minute, but I do thinkabout it every time, I think,
because I am really bad aboutnot going to church, because my
(14:59):
church is 45 minutes away andpeople say, well, get a new
church.
Well, I've gone there for 52years, so it's a little hard,
and so, you know, I'll set myclothes out at night and I'll
say, ok, I'm going to churchtomorrow, and it doesn't happen.
But when I think about thatnight, when I'm like, oh, I'm
(15:22):
going to go to church and Ithink about it, my brain still
takes me to that same pew.
Oh, yeah.
Your family sits in the samespot, yeah, forever Ever.
One thing you do not do Is sitin someone else's spot.
(15:42):
No, you do not do that.
No, when you are visiting achurch, you take your ass and
sit in the back till you learn,learn where you can be, but some
people like sitting in the back.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You have to go in my church.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
It wasn't really that way, and we were always oh we
did?
We sat toward the back on theright side we did too.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Right there we set like three, three or four pews
from the back.
Yeah, on the right side, that'swhat I mean and I mean
sometimes we would.
You might have to shift down.
You know, someone comes in andthrows a kink and things, so you
might have to shift downtowards the middle or towards
the right side of the pew or theleft side of the pew.
(16:27):
You know some rando will comein and you know there's those
people that like to move around.
How you doing.
I want to sit here with you.
No, no.
Climb your seat and go sit yourass over there every week and
see.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You know, since my mom and my grandmother died, I'm
like who's taking over ourseats?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I know there's been vacancies.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That's going to be awkward.
When I walk in there and I'mlike why the hell are you
sitting in my seat?
Why are you in my seat?
Hopefully we paid for that pewor something.
I'm sure there's a littleplaque on there that we did, I
hope, because it's going to makeit less awkward when I throw
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their ass out.
So I mean, she said that and Ithought about it and I was like
that is so true and I have, youknow, and one of the things that
I want to do this year or visit, there's a couple of churches
in Greenville that are very LGBTfriendly and it's kind of
(17:40):
comical because I grew upMethodist and in my in, you know
, it's never been a big issue.
I grew up in a more of aliberal church and here, one of
the churches that peopleliterally for 20 years have been
and listen, I will visit anychurch.
(18:03):
I don't care.
I don't get caught up in that,but I giggle because my
grandmother did and I could justsee her face.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You know I grew up Baptist, I'm Baptist.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, and it's fine.
I mean it doesn't bother me,but I know when, like my cousins
or something, they move someand they would have to go to
another church.
And they would go to anotherdenomination and my grandmother
always says stuff like that'snot who we are, yeah, you're
(18:47):
like it's it's.
At least they're going tochurch, right, shut up.
Yeah, it's funny.
So when they were talking aboutthe church pew, I just giggled
because that is so true.
Even when I went to, uh, mydad's family Baptist.
So when I would go to churchwith my dad's parents, they had
(19:10):
their pew.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Everybody has their pew.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Wherever you go.
So another one of my favoritesayings, and I had to look it up
because I was like what thehell does this mean?
Does it really mean anything?
And I've always said it.
Well, he was drunk as CooterBrown and I thought, well, who?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
the hell is Cooter Brown.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, so I looked it up and it goes back.
If it's true, it could just bemade up, but I mean my whole
thing.
My grandparents said that.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's been around forever.
It goes back to the Civil Wardays when, evidently, cooter
Brown lived on the Mason Dixonline and the story is that he
had family on both sides of theline.
He had family fighting on bothsides of the deal.
What the old wives tell is thathe just got drunk and stayed
drunk for the whole war becausehe had family on both sides.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
He couldn't pick sides and was just a hot mess.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah so drunk, as Cooter Brown Coo'd and pissed
off.
Yeah so bronch is cooter brown.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And then another one, which I've always said.
This one Ooh, you live in Highon the Hog, yeah, high on the
Hog.
And that one makes sense to mebecause every year we would kill
one or two hogs, mm-hmm.
Well, you are so damn country,you are so damn country.
(20:54):
Did y'all not ever do that?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
No, no, I was not that country.
I never slaughtered anything,nothing.
I mean, the closest we had tothat was my brothers are hunters
and maybe like a deer, likethey would go deer hunting and
then they would, but they wouldget it processed and then you
(21:17):
know, but deer are so gamey.
My mom would use the meat likeshe would use the, like the
ground meat.
Can't call it ground beef, Iguess Ground deer as like taco
for tacos, because once youseasoned it you couldn't tell
the difference, or somethinglike that.
But anyway, you real countrywhen you're out there killing a
(21:39):
hog Well a lot of families.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
we ate the meat.
But a lot of families sold it.
So you know, once you killed ahog you had a lot of extra money
evidently back in the day.
So that's where that sayingcame from.
We had not to interrupt, but wedidn't Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
sorry, no, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
My idea, my reality of living.
How on the hog was me and mycousin Susan literally got paid
$5 for cleaning up the outdoorkitchen after killing a hog.
Do you know what that was like?
It was like you had slaughteredsomething.
(22:29):
It looked like a mass killingin there.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I cannot imagine Prissy Stephen, prissy Country
Boy Stephen, out there cleaningthat up, because nowadays you
would be like mm-mm, mm-mm,mm-mm.
Girl.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
No, I wouldn't do it for 500.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You wouldn't do that for 5,000.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I don't know, 5,000.
I could probably.
I could probably stomach itagain.
Yeah, yeah, that was so.
That was our living home.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I was going to say a second ago, shout out.
The other day I was at theoutlet store.
A second ago, shout out.
The other day, I was at theoutlet store.
We had a big sale and two girlscame in, two ladies, uh, and
they were hoping to see you orso, to tell you, hey, they work
in six mile, like in your areayeah, and they're like we've
gathered.
(23:23):
Steven is from like the six milekind of area and I was like,
yes, I can't remember theirnames right now, but I know they
listen, so shout out to them.
Thanks for coming to the.
To the outlet store.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
We had some other followers that came in from a.
Two were from Aiken and one wasfrom Knoxville, but originally
from Aiken for a girl's weekend,and they came over to the sale
and they were super sweet andtheir names escaped me.
(23:56):
I could tell you what theybought, but I can't remember
their names.
Isn't that terrible, Isn't thatterrible?
But we see so many names allthe time, it's hard.
I know they were super sweet.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
That is funny.
It's hard.
I know they were super sweet.
That is funny, like when we seepeople and you know we see so
many different names but wedon't see faces, like the people
on the other side see our face,so they immediately recognize
us and I'm like now who?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
and they're like oh, I'm that one, so I'm like that's
what one of the ladies wassaying.
She said said I feel like we'refriends because I watch y'all
and listen to your podcast.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
And I was like yeah, I said we are friends.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I just don't know your face, Because everyone
knows so much about us.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
It's really funny when we meet people like that
and they say that, but they'relike, oh, I love so-and-so, or I
know you don't like this, or Iknow you like this or whatever,
and it's like, oh my gosh,people know more about us than
we.
It feels like on our side,until we meet someone and
(25:08):
they're like telling us, like myfavorite thing is when you were
talking about blah, blah, blahor you did this, and I'm like,
oh my gosh, people do listen.
Like people, people listen.
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Uh and we were talking.
We were talking yesterday abouthow I never listened to the
podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I've never listened to one of our podcasts.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I never talked about it, which just I don't listen to
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I've never listened to one of our podcasts.
I never will.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
We've talked about it , which just blows my mind, and
I don't listen to any podcast.
But, I don't want any, honestly.
I just don't want anything tohave any influence on me.
I just want to be real, genuineand be myself, and I feel like
sometimes you get in your ownhead.
I just want to be real, genuineand and be myself, and and I
feel like sometimes you get inyour own head.
(25:52):
Yeah, if you start watching toomuch or listening too much, you
know, I mean I'm never going tobe um, whoever doing whatever
podcast, it's not going tohappen.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
So um, okay.
So I saw this thing and I haveto ask you this it was a good
thought-provoking question on afun level what is something you
secretly judge people on?
Like?
If you see something, you knowit could be something petty, it
(26:28):
could be like like okay for me.
One of the things that came tomy mind is if I see someone's
like social media Okay, before Isay this, I don't, I mean I
know because of what we do If wego to someone's house, they
(26:49):
feel like we're judging theirdecor, like I mean people will
say, oh, I had to clean it upbecause you were coming over, or
like I had to get thingstogether because I know, you
know, your house looks so goodor whatever.
Honestly, I do not pay anyattention Like it's your house I
really like, unless your houseis nasty or something like I
(27:10):
don't look at your decor.
It doesn't.
I don't know, it really justdoesn't cross my mind.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
If someone asks a question, I will get in that
mindset, but honestly I'm notworking.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And if I just walk into your house, I honestly
don't notice.
I mean, if I'm just walking into say hey, how's it going, or
whatever, I really don't notice,unless, like you said, I'm
going over there and like comesee our remodel or come tell me
what to do in here, then I startlike looking around and like
(27:53):
noticing.
With that said, though, the onething that I secretly judge
people on is, like social media,like their um, maybe their
profile picture of what's in thebackground, like I always look
at it like if you, if it looksdirty in the background, or if
it's like a mirror picture andyou have toothpaste splattered
on your mirror.
You know what I'm talking about.
That, yeah, that is my onething I will judge you on.
(28:17):
I do judge that.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I do judge that nastiness like, because if
you'll put that in a picture,that's my thought that it's like
a character thing.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Or like a like character thing, if you took a
picture and thought, oh, thislooks good and there's just
almost like trash behind you orthe mirror is dirty.
Or if you do it in the bathroom, people will take mirror selfie
pictures and it's toothpaste,and then I can see the
reflection of your bathroom inthe back and there's dirty
(28:50):
clothes pil piled up and stufflike that.
I judge you because I'm like,if you took this picture and
didn't notice all of that andthought this is how I want to
present myself, what, what is itreally like?
So that's that.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I feel like that.
I feel like that's normal judgy.
I don't feel like that's pettyjudge.
Okay, I feel like that's normal.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But, as I was saying, it could be anything.
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Maybe other people don't have that.
I literally have friends thatsay I mean people I've known for
a long time that, like you, cannever come to my house.
No, you can never come to myhouse.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I'm not paying attention to your house.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I could care less what you do.
You boo, I don't care, likethat.
That's weird, is there?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
something you secretly judge people on Could
be anything.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Gosh, I feel like a bad person, though, putting it
out there One of the pettiest.
Okay, this is very, very petty.
Well, there's two things on men, and there's one thing on men
and one thing on women, and thisis so petty.
Tell us no one's listening,it's just me, I know, it's just
(30:15):
us.
With men, when they wear anobvious belt, say you're dressed
up and.
I'm not talking about somebodythat's poor or pitiful.
I'm saying it.
A person that puts themselvestogether that they have the
(30:36):
means to do it is what I'mspeaking of, and they wear black
shoes and a brown belt Drivesme crazy Like a mismatch.
Coordinate If I wear a pair ofnatural suede shoes you know
that are, just I don't wear.
I I've have had those belts,but they don't hold up, so I
(30:59):
wear like a chocolate belt.
So you're in the same colorfamily warm, warm colors, and I
get, everybody doesn't have allthese belts, but if you wear a
pair of blue shoes, coordinateit with a black belt, so it's
the same, cool or warm whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
So blue or gray or black shoes, wear a black belt
If you're doing something that'smore warm browns, camels sand.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
If you can't match the same color, yeah, but if you
wear them all the time.
You just need to go ahead andget another belt.
So that's one thing with womenwhat I judge, and this is so bad
Eye makeup, See I noticenothing like that like, like
(31:55):
eyeliner and stuff.
It drives me crazy and my mymind, my brain does work in
artistic, very artistic color.
That's the way my brain'sprogrammed, and this like people
that will like wear a brightblue eyeliner with their, and
I'm like with what, what, whatare you doing?
(32:17):
like they'll have like greeneyes or something.
But I mean, I don't know thatwherever a blue eyeliner should
be used.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
But you know, I had a lot of employees, someone is
listening today and they have ona blue eyeliner.
Change it.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I've been being honest.
I feel bad, but you know I hadan employee and she was a very
sweet girl and I walked into therestaurant one day and I swear
she looked like a clown.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
I feel like some people intentionally make their
makeup look more artsy and funversus natural and whatever they
do, but this girl wasn't, andnormally you know it's none of
my business.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I'm just telling you what I secretly judge people on.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I wouldn't say anything.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
But, this particular day.
She asked me, she asked you.
Yeah, don't ask me Because Idon't lie.
And she said how do you like myeye makeup?
And I said well, said well, Imean it was bright blue eye line
(33:34):
.
I said it's horrible, it'shorrible.
And she said these people havebeen coming through the drive
through telling me that it lookspretty.
And I said, honey, they feelbad for you, they're.
And I said, honey, they feelbad for you, I'm just serious.
I was like they don't mean thatand I think you're a beautiful
(33:58):
person and I want to tell youthe truth.
And you know, she looked at meand she said I really appreciate
that.
I said you're beautiful and youdon't need to wear that.
And she never wore it again.
Well, so you have I mean, Ididn't say it in a mean way.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I didn't make fun of her.
I just said it's awful, You'revery pretty girl, I didn't say
it in a mean way, it's awful.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
It's awful, it's bad.
But you know I I mean, I'm sureI do things people don't like
too, and that's fine, and.
But you said what we secretly.
You know I don't go aroundtaking everybody's inventory I
just do it in my head.
Yeah, okay, but I'm critical ofmyself like that too.
(34:48):
I'm like, oh, what are youwearing that for?
But other than that, I meanother than nasty people, and I
don't mean again, I'm not sayingthat's not a secret thing,
that's not secretly judging.
No, no, I'm not saying poor,pitiful or homeless.
I'm not saying that I have abig heart.
(35:08):
I feel sorry for those people.
I'm talking people that chooseto be that way I find repulsive.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I forgot.
I wanted to mention this at thebeginning of the podcast, but
your family got out of prisonthis week the Chrisleys.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
So I don't think we talked about this on here.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
We've never talked about it.
Steven gets compared to ToddChrisley all the time and I have
to say, your mannerisms, yourlook.
I feel like y'all used to looka little more like really,
really alike.
Y'all still kind of look alike,but I think y'all are related
somehow.
Because y'all are from the samearea.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, just less than 20 miles apart, I think your
daddy his mama.
You know my dad could havehappened.
So the weird thing is is,before I knew who he was, I had
(36:29):
people on social media asking meif we were related yeah and I
was like I don't even know whothat is and they're like well,
and they weren't being likesarcastic or anything, they were
being serious and I was who isthis guy?
And I I watched it and I waslike I don't think we look alike
(36:53):
, but I guess you could see.
You know, dark blonde hair, youknow.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
No, y'all look kind of alike and your mannerisms in
person, If you are around you,are very similar, like
ironically beardly similar, Likeironically weirdly similar.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Walking.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, yes, Walking the things.
Y'all say the laugh it's veryweird.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Well, they're out, they're out, and I won't.
So they have a new TV show andbut it hadn't started yet.
No, but they picked up filming.
They had stopped filming andthen, when they were released
from prison, they startedfilming.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
They said like that night, that day, like when they
yeah, like immediately yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Their reunion was all on this going to be on this I'm
interested in knowing, becausethey say, listen, I don't know
anything about it, and they maybe innocent, they may be guilty,
I don't know, yeah, but I'minterested to see what comes out
of it.
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
It will be interesting.
And I've heard things and like,again, I'm not getting
political and I don't knowenough to speak on it, don't you
know whatever?
I don't either, and there's twosides to every story.
But it does seem like maybeit's been presented like there
was some unfair bias or whateverand it kind of goes back to
(38:34):
like the Martha Stewart.
I feel like, kind of feel likewhere, um, maybe things were a
little more, uh, not exaggerated, but like harder because of it
being a public thing and likeyou know, I don't know, I
(38:55):
definitely.
I definitely think that I'm notsaying that there wasn't a crime
or wasn't whatever, but withsomeone else that was like just
you know, not in the public eyehave gotten the same treatment
or the same time, sort of thing.
And, like we all know, withMartha Stewart, which she, what
happened to her happens everyday.
So you took the fall for it.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Well, in Martha Stewart what she did honestly.
I mean, her first career was astockbroker, so she knew she
didn't do anything wrong.
The stockbroker is who didwrong.
I mean, if I called you todayand said you're going to lose
(39:33):
$100,000 and it was a minimalamount for Martha Stewart- yeah,
that's the other crazy thing.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
It was like $200,000.
Why wasn't that like a fee or afine for her, like, go to?
Court and pay a fine, becauseyou did this.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
She spends $200,000 on paintings.
I'm sure I mean that's nothingfor her.
So I mean seriously, and mything was, if the Chrisleys are
guilty of whatever of something,rather than putting them in
prison for all that time, letthem be working and paying
restitution.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
That's always what kills me.
When it's especially like afinancial crime and people have
gone to jail and stuff, it'slike why not just make them work
and pay?
It would be a better system.
It would be a better?
Uh, it would be more fitting.
Yeah, it's crazy Dangerous.
Yeah, it'd be very interestingto see.
(40:39):
Uh, what comes.
I can't wait to see the showmyself too, and it's probably
going to be one of those thingswhether you like them or don't
like them, or think they'reguilty or not guilty or whatever
side like them, or thinkthey're guilty or not guilty or
whatever side For them, it'sprobably just going to make them
that much more popular if theywork it right, kind of like
Martha Stewart Sucks that shehad to go through that for her,
(41:01):
but it probably made her in thelong run more money and made her
more relevant and stay in thepublic longer than if that
hadn't happened.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Oh, she tripled her net worth while she was in
prison.
That's crazy.
I mean it dropped so much, butshe did triple it.
Oh my gosh.
And then it's just beenbuilding, and building, and
building since then, mm-hmm.
And then it's just beenbuilding and building and
building since then.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Well, it's time I feel like we need to pull over
separately, since we're drivingseparately and I got to get the
show on the road.
I got some things to do beforeI can get out of town tomorrow.
We got a live sale tonight.
I got to do some trainingvideos for the warehouse, but I
can't wait to see how this withus being works.
(41:51):
We may not have to be togetheragain.
No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
We'll be back together.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
We'll be back together.
But we also wanted to test thisout because we really want to
see if we can mount these andhave two separate recordings
when we are on a road trip.
So we want to see the quality,know the recording and the mics
and all that.
So we'll see how it turns outyeah, or we can.
If we can do it when we're onthe road that's what I'm saying,
(42:19):
like yeah, we're on the road,oh, or like at market or
something we could just set itup, yeah, yeah yeah, hotel
without having to take you knowall of the crazy equipment and
stuff like that so far as we gotthrough it.
So I think we're going to pullthis baby over.
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(42:42):
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Stephen's going to be taking itback on the road this week and
(43:26):
next week with live sales andback to that purse where we got
the bags and purses the most.
I think comments ever will benext week.
You said June 10th.
For that one, can you believeit's June already.
That's crazy.
This year has just gone, it hasflown by All right.
(43:46):
Bye y'all, we'll see you nextweek, bye.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Thanks guys.
Alright y'all, we'll see younext week.
Bye, thanks guys.
Ah, buckle up, buttercup.
We're driving separately today.
Yes, take your own car.
That's right, I'm about to headout of town.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
We're two best friends andentrepreneurs.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
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 (00:40):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
So on this week's episode ifyou're watching, stephen and I
are in separate places, which iswe'll see how it goes Probably
will turn into a shit show.
I don't know, we're drivingseparate.
Today we are squeezing in thispodcast because we've had such a
(01:05):
busy week in a crazy time.
We've had a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We've had a lot going on.
Dylan and I have been inAtlanta.
Yes, we came back here.
We're getting ready to go backto Atlanta for two days.
We're doing live sales, butthey're super fun.
We are loving doing live sales,but they're super fun.
Like we are loving the livesales, like it's just.
I think it's just more fun whenyou're in a new place, when you
(01:32):
get to take it to the road,yeah, when you're having
different products and and Ithink it's fun for us, um,
because we get to go differentplaces.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know we love a market.
We love that's why we're here.
We really just like shopping.
So that's why we have abusiness that we can shop for
people basically and bring thebest products.
But so it's fun when we get totake it on the road and do the
live sales and I think thatimproves our energy and then the
customers love it becausethey're getting to see different
things and usually when we takeit on the road to do live sales
(02:04):
, we're doing things differentthat we don't normally stock in
the warehouse or something likethat.
So, yeah, y'all went to Atlantathis week Today's Sunday that
we're recording.
So y'all went to Atlanta, yougot back and then tomorrow,
which is Monday, Daniel and Iare headed down to our Florida
cottage, Kind of a last minuteplanned trip a few weeks ago.
(02:25):
My parents are going to be downthere with my niece, so we
thought we would go join themjust for a few days.
We're leaving tomorrow and comeback Thursday and then, while
we're gone, you are going totake the show on the road again
and go back to Atlanta.
It's the Apparel Mart at theAtlanta Market, which has great
accessories, you know.
(02:45):
But I have to say if you haven't, well, first of all, we got a
brand new app for the Nested Fig.
That's what's also been eatingup a lot of our time getting
that launch.
So we launched it this pastFriday.
So if you've had the Nested Figapp and haven't updated yet,
you need to update, you can justgo to your app store.
If you're on Google, you needto update.
(03:07):
You can just go to your appstore.
If you're on Google, you haveto download a new app.
So just search the nested figand it'll be the one that says
like app tile under it, not thecomment sold.
If you're on iPhone or AppleiPad any of those just go to
your app store and update yourapp.
But the last live that y'all didon Thursday oh my gosh, I've
gotten so many messages.
(03:28):
Y'all went to this brand newplace with bags, purses and that
sort of thing.
I have never had so manymessages about.
Please go back there.
So many people ordered duringit but then a lot of people
missed, and because missed itand they were going to watch the
replay, but because it was whenwe were changing over the app,
(03:49):
we had to cut that live sale off.
I've never had so many peoplemessage me and say, please go
back there, I missed all thingsI wanted.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Dylan and I have gotten so many messages, so we
are actually going to go back tothat warehouse that is not at
the market.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That is a warehouse outside of it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
No, it'll be on Tuesday the 10th.
Okay, Tuesday June 10th, wewill be back at that place.
That's awesome, but coming upthis week.
We'll be in Atlanta Thursdayand Friday of this week and
we'll be doing some other funlives yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So y'all are really taking it on the road Week after
week after week.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Take it on the road baby.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I was here.
I didn't go.
Well, you know, we don't alwayshave to be live together either
.
It's fun for a variety but Iwas here getting everything
ready this past week for the appto launch and trying to get all
that under control.
And you kept it going so andeveryone absolutely loved it.
And, speaking of the new app, Iwill put down in the show notes
whether you're listening orwatching in our online community
(04:58):
.
I'll put the link to the appdown there and you can just
click and update that way too ifyou need to.
But the app so far we're onSunday has gone smoother than I
thought it would go.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I mean now.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It seems like we've done a couple of test live sales
and now it seems to be that thequestions are more just the
customer not know something's ina different place.
They're like, oh, how do I findthis or do this?
So it's so far has gone muchsmoother.
I was holding.
I've lost sleep and hours overthis because I've been the one
(05:36):
you know, I'm the technical one.
I've been the one that hasgotten all of this set up.
Stephen, well, I did show you aglimpse of it, but he really
didn't see it until it actuallywent live.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I surprised myself, though.
I surprised myself that Ipicked up on it as quickly as I
did.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, and so I was like, oh my gosh, if this
doesn't go smooth, he's going tobe like what the hell have you
done?
What is going on?
Not that he would you know bemad or blame me, or anything.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But I hate technological change.
Yeah, that's the best word.
I don't mind change, it's thetechnological change.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And that was the other thing.
You know, stephen runs the livesales typically from.
He's doing the messages,putting up the products, putting
out fires, answering thecustomer and I'm the one in
front of the camera and I haveto say, both sides of it is
equally challenging and it'swhatever you get in the routine
(06:39):
in.
So sometimes when we switch offand I have to do what Stephen
normally does, I'm like I don'tknow how to do this.
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well, it's just a lot Once you're in a routine.
At first it's overwhelmingbecause you're like oh, I got to
look at this, I got to look atthis, I got to look at when.
When you get used to it, it'snot, it's not that hard and the
hard part about me in front ofthe camera is I want to be
reading.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The comments that you're normally used to doing.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It's hard for me to break that.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, so I'm glad it seems to have gone smooth, and
so grab our app.
If you haven't grabbed it, wehave some fun things coming up.
Oh, we have new things likeloyalty program in our app where
you can earn points.
Uh, we have different shipping.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
it's just a whole new experience and I'm excited and
I love points I think that Ithink people, but people love
getting points, people, and Ithink they're gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
They already love it.
I've had people message meabout that.
So last night I went andupdated and added some new ways
that you could earn points too,because people were already
messaging like, well, I want,what else can I do?
I mean I'm like, okay, okay,we'll give you some more points
if you need, if you need morepoints ways to earn, so that's
awesome.
(07:59):
So this week, like I mentioned,I'm going to the Beach Cottage,
where you haven't even beendown there in a while.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's two years in July, so yeah, I mean we need to
plan a trip.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And you're not going this year because it's booked,
and then y'all are going toHawaii.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So we're booking a trip now for the 4th.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Oh yeah, we talked about that on the last podcast.
Have you decided where you'regoing?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well, I had my heart set on Amelia Island, so we're
going to book Amelia Island forthe 4th next year.
The Ritz-Carlton was booked andwe both decided the reason we
love a Billy Island is going tothat Ritz Carlton.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, so you're liking it and worth going if
we're not staying there Likethere were.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
there was place available at Fairfield and
Courtyard, but it's just not thesame.
I mean not that there'sanything wrong with those hotels
, but if you want a vacationmode it's not the same.
In a spa and all the bougiethings that y'all really want in
life Food room service.
(09:15):
So then I looked at ReynoldsPlantation on Lake Oconee in
Georgia.
They had blocked out usingpoints, so we can't go there.
Probably can't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Did they not all block out their points for
holidays?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Just some, and it was like $1,400 a night and I
pulled that up.
Dylan said oh hell, I'm noteven going to ask if we're going
there.
I said that's right, we're not.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What's the place that you gave us a gift card that
we've never gone to?
Is it in North Carolina orVirginia?
That's good massage.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh, the Grove Park Inn.
We could do that, but we kindof got it narrowed down.
We found a property that welike in Key West, so now that we
can stay for free.
And so now it's coming down towe're going to do Key West or
(10:23):
Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Go to Key West because I'm going Key West or
Las Vegas.
Go to Key West because I wantto go to Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Come on, y'all don't want to go to Las Vegas for
Fourth of July.
It's going to be crazy Partypeople.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's going to be super busy.
Well, it's going to be worsethan.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Key West no, because that's a more limited crowd down
there Maybe.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I really want to go to.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Las Vegas, but it's fine, you can go without me.
I'll be able to use some moneyto put on something.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And let Dylan record it.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Let Dylan record it from yonder way See if I were in
anything.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Wouldn't that be hilarious if you won like $5,000
in Florida.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It would be.
Yeah that would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We would need him to record it, because if I hit that
on yours, I'd probably say oh,that was mine.
No you wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
No, I wouldn't.
I trust you.
No, you would be.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Unfortunately, I'm too honest.
It would bother me.
I'd be like okay, I lied, it'syour money.
Our new segment Southernisms.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You are sticking with this segment.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It is a public service.
I mean, if you look at how manypeople are moving into South
Carolina and it's a double-edgedsword for me because you know
I'm in real estate- and we havestores, so we love new customers
.
It really helps.
It helps our business in manyways.
But the traffic it is helps.
It helps our business in manyways.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
But the traffic it is crazy and I know this doesn't
pertain If you don't live herein Greenville, where we live
specifically, you're likewhatever, but living here you
know.
I moved here in 2005 to thearea and been in Greenville
since.
We in like 2000 difference inthe traffic I feel like every
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about six months.
You know you go your sameroutine every day and I feel
like about every six months I'mlike, oh my gosh, the traffic's
worse than it was.
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
How it's bizarre.
Yeah, it's so weird to mebecause I moved here in 1995.
And traffic was bad on one road, one road in Greenville, and it
was only bad during holidaysand certain times of the day.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Mainly rush hour.
We never even had like rushhour traffic until Never you
were noticed.
I mean traffic would be heavy,but it wasn't like
bumper-to-bumper rush hour untillike maybe like three years ago
, I really noticed like, oh,this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So we have a lot of people moving here.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
And it's good for the here, and I don't blame them
because it's a great place to be.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So come on down.
It's a great city.
We're adjusting to the trafficand we're extra nice here.
We'll let you in.
Yeah, go ahead, you can get in.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
See, we're nice like that, come on.
Come on, hey, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
This little segment is important.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Don Come on hey how you doing this little segment is
important.
Don't come moving down here andhonking your damn horn, though.
If you are moving here, do nothonk your damn horn if you come
from up north somewhere or abigger city.
We don't do that.
You wave people in, you stop.
You let them in.
Hey, thank, you If someone letsyou in, say thank you and you
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go don't honk your horn.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So this is a really important segment when you look
at how many people are moving inhere.
And this, this one came.
I was watching, you know, oninstagram, of course and I
watched this comedian talkingand I was like, oh, this is
funny, it was, it was about theSouth.
So I said, oh, I've got to tuneinto this.
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They're either making fun ortelling truth.
And she, she was telling sometruths.
And one thing that she broughtup and I had not thought about
this in a minute, but I do thinkabout it every time, I think,
because I am really bad aboutnot going to church, because my
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church is 45 minutes away andpeople say, well, get a new
church.
Well, I've gone there for 52years, so it's a little hard,
and so, you know, I'll set myclothes out at night and I'll
say, ok, I'm going to churchtomorrow, and it doesn't happen.
But when I think about thatnight, when I'm like, oh, I'm
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going to go to church and Ithink about it, my brain still
takes me to that same pew.
Oh, yeah.
Your family sits in the samespot, yeah, forever Ever.
One thing you do not do Is sitin someone else's spot.
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No, you do not do that.
No, when you are visiting achurch, you take your ass and
sit in the back till you learn,learn where you can be, but some
people like sitting in the back.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You have to go in my church.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
It wasn't really that way, and we were always oh we
did?
We sat toward the back on theright side we did too.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Right there we set like three, three or four pews
from the back.
Yeah, on the right side, that'swhat I mean and I mean
sometimes we would.
You might have to shift down.
You know, someone comes in andthrows a kink and things, so you
might have to shift downtowards the middle or towards
the right side of the pew or theleft side of the pew.
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You know some rando will comein and you know there's those
people that like to move around.
How you doing.
I want to sit here with you.
No, no.
Climb your seat and go sit yourass over there every week and
see.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You know, since my mom and my grandmother died, I'm
like who's taking over ourseats?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I know there's been vacancies.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That's going to be awkward.
When I walk in there and I'mlike why the hell are you
sitting in my seat?
Why are you in my seat?
Hopefully we paid for that pewor something.
I'm sure there's a littleplaque on there that we did, I
hope, because it's going to makeit less awkward when I throw
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their ass out.
So I mean, she said that and Ithought about it and I was like
that is so true and I have, youknow, and one of the things that
I want to do this year or visit, there's a couple of churches
in Greenville that are very LGBTfriendly and it's kind of
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comical because I grew upMethodist and in my in, you know
, it's never been a big issue.
I grew up in a more of aliberal church and here, one of
the churches that peopleliterally for 20 years have been
and listen, I will visit anychurch.
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I don't care.
I don't get caught up in that,but I giggle because my
grandmother did and I could justsee her face.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You know I grew up Baptist, I'm Baptist.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, and it's fine.
I mean it doesn't bother me,but I know when, like my cousins
or something, they move someand they would have to go to
another church.
And they would go to anotherdenomination and my grandmother
always says stuff like that'snot who we are, yeah, you're
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like it's it's.
At least they're going tochurch, right, shut up.
Yeah, it's funny.
So when they were talking aboutthe church pew, I just giggled
because that is so true.
Even when I went to, uh, mydad's family Baptist.
So when I would go to churchwith my dad's parents, they had
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their pew.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Everybody has their pew.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Wherever you go.
So another one of my favoritesayings, and I had to look it up
because I was like what thehell does this mean?
Does it really mean anything?
And I've always said it.
Well, he was drunk as CooterBrown and I thought, well, who?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
the hell is Cooter Brown.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, so I looked it up and it goes back.
If it's true, it could just bemade up, but I mean my whole
thing.
My grandparents said that.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's been around forever.
It goes back to the Civil Wardays when, evidently, cooter
Brown lived on the Mason Dixonline and the story is that he
had family on both sides of theline.
He had family fighting on bothsides of the deal.
What the old wives tell is thathe just got drunk and stayed
drunk for the whole war becausehe had family on both sides.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
He couldn't pick sides and was just a hot mess.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah so drunk, as Cooter Brown Coo'd and pissed
off.
Yeah so bronch is cooter brown.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And then another one, which I've always said.
This one Ooh, you live in Highon the Hog, yeah, high on the
Hog.
And that one makes sense to mebecause every year we would kill
one or two hogs, mm-hmm.
Well, you are so damn country,you are so damn country.
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Did y'all not ever do that?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
No, no, I was not that country.
I never slaughtered anything,nothing.
I mean, the closest we had tothat was my brothers are hunters
and maybe like a deer, likethey would go deer hunting and
then they would, but they wouldget it processed and then you
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know, but deer are so gamey.
My mom would use the meat likeshe would use the, like the
ground meat.
Can't call it ground beef, Iguess Ground deer as like taco
for tacos, because once youseasoned it you couldn't tell
the difference, or somethinglike that.
But anyway, you real countrywhen you're out there killing a
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hog Well a lot of families.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
we ate the meat.
But a lot of families sold it.
So you know, once you killed ahog you had a lot of extra money
evidently back in the day.
So that's where that sayingcame from.
We had not to interrupt, but wedidn't Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
sorry, no, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
My idea, my reality of living.
How on the hog was me and mycousin Susan literally got paid
$5 for cleaning up the outdoorkitchen after killing a hog.
Do you know what that was like?
It was like you had slaughteredsomething.
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It looked like a mass killingin there.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I cannot imagine Prissy Stephen, prissy Country
Boy Stephen, out there cleaningthat up, because nowadays you
would be like mm-mm, mm-mm,mm-mm.
Girl.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
No, I wouldn't do it for 500.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You wouldn't do that for 5,000.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I don't know, 5,000.
I could probably.
I could probably stomach itagain.
Yeah, yeah, that was so.
That was our living home.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I was going to say a second ago, shout out.
The other day I was at theoutlet store.
A second ago, shout out.
The other day, I was at theoutlet store.
We had a big sale and two girlscame in, two ladies, uh, and
they were hoping to see you orso, to tell you, hey, they work
in six mile, like in your areayeah, and they're like we've
gathered.
(23:23):
Steven is from like the six milekind of area and I was like,
yes, I can't remember theirnames right now, but I know they
listen, so shout out to them.
Thanks for coming to the.
To the outlet store.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
We had some other followers that came in from a.
Two were from Aiken and one wasfrom Knoxville, but originally
from Aiken for a girl's weekend,and they came over to the sale
and they were super sweet andtheir names escaped me.
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I could tell you what theybought, but I can't remember
their names.
Isn't that terrible, Isn't thatterrible?
But we see so many names allthe time, it's hard.
I know they were super sweet.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
That is funny.
It's hard.
I know they were super sweet.
That is funny, like when we seepeople and you know we see so
many different names but wedon't see faces, like the people
on the other side see our face,so they immediately recognize
us and I'm like now who?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
and they're like oh, I'm that one, so I'm like that's
what one of the ladies wassaying.
She said said I feel like we'refriends because I watch y'all
and listen to your podcast.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
And I was like yeah, I said we are friends.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I just don't know your face, Because everyone
knows so much about us.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
It's really funny when we meet people like that
and they say that, but they'relike, oh, I love so-and-so, or I
know you don't like this, or Iknow you like this or whatever,
and it's like, oh my gosh,people know more about us than
we.
It feels like on our side,until we meet someone and
(25:08):
they're like telling us, like myfavorite thing is when you were
talking about blah, blah, blahor you did this, and I'm like,
oh my gosh, people do listen.
Like people, people listen.
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Uh and we were talking.
We were talking yesterday abouthow I never listened to the
podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I've never listened to one of our podcasts.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I never talked about it, which just I don't listen to
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I've never listened to one of our podcasts.
I never will.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
We've talked about it , which just blows my mind, and
I don't listen to any podcast.
But, I don't want any, honestly.
I just don't want anything tohave any influence on me.
I just want to be real, genuineand be myself, and I feel like
sometimes you get in your ownhead.
I just want to be real, genuineand and be myself, and and I
feel like sometimes you get inyour own head.
(25:52):
Yeah, if you start watching toomuch or listening too much, you
know, I mean I'm never going tobe um, whoever doing whatever
podcast, it's not going tohappen.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
So um, okay.
So I saw this thing and I haveto ask you this it was a good
thought-provoking question on afun level what is something you
secretly judge people on?
Like?
If you see something, you knowit could be something petty, it
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could be like like okay for me.
One of the things that came tomy mind is if I see someone's
like social media Okay, before Isay this, I don't, I mean I
know because of what we do If wego to someone's house, they
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feel like we're judging theirdecor, like I mean people will
say, oh, I had to clean it upbecause you were coming over, or
like I had to get thingstogether because I know, you
know, your house looks so goodor whatever.
Honestly, I do not pay anyattention Like it's your house I
really like, unless your houseis nasty or something like I
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don't look at your decor.
It doesn't.
I don't know, it really justdoesn't cross my mind.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
If someone asks a question, I will get in that
mindset, but honestly I'm notworking.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And if I just walk into your house, I honestly
don't notice.
I mean, if I'm just walking into say hey, how's it going, or
whatever, I really don't notice,unless, like you said, I'm
going over there and like comesee our remodel or come tell me
what to do in here, then I startlike looking around and like
(27:53):
noticing.
With that said, though, the onething that I secretly judge
people on is, like social media,like their um, maybe their
profile picture of what's in thebackground, like I always look
at it like if you, if it looksdirty in the background, or if
it's like a mirror picture andyou have toothpaste splattered
on your mirror.
You know what I'm talking about.
That, yeah, that is my onething I will judge you on.
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I do judge that.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I do judge that nastiness like, because if
you'll put that in a picture,that's my thought that it's like
a character thing.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Or like a like character thing, if you took a
picture and thought, oh, thislooks good and there's just
almost like trash behind you orthe mirror is dirty.
Or if you do it in the bathroom, people will take mirror selfie
pictures and it's toothpaste,and then I can see the
reflection of your bathroom inthe back and there's dirty
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clothes pil piled up and stufflike that.
I judge you because I'm like,if you took this picture and
didn't notice all of that andthought this is how I want to
present myself, what, what is itreally like?
So that's that.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I feel like that.
I feel like that's normal judgy.
I don't feel like that's pettyjudge.
Okay, I feel like that's normal.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But, as I was saying, it could be anything.
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Maybe other people don't have that.
I literally have friends thatsay I mean people I've known for
a long time that, like you, cannever come to my house.
No, you can never come to myhouse.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I'm not paying attention to your house.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I could care less what you do.
You boo, I don't care, likethat.
That's weird, is there?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
something you secretly judge people on Could
be anything.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Gosh, I feel like a bad person, though, putting it
out there One of the pettiest.
Okay, this is very, very petty.
Well, there's two things on men, and there's one thing on men
and one thing on women, and thisis so petty.
Tell us no one's listening,it's just me, I know, it's just
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us.
With men, when they wear anobvious belt, say you're dressed
up and.
I'm not talking about somebodythat's poor or pitiful.
I'm saying it.
A person that puts themselvestogether that they have the
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means to do it is what I'mspeaking of, and they wear black
shoes and a brown belt Drivesme crazy Like a mismatch.
Coordinate If I wear a pair ofnatural suede shoes you know
that are, just I don't wear.
I I've have had those belts,but they don't hold up, so I
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wear like a chocolate belt.
So you're in the same colorfamily warm, warm colors, and I
get, everybody doesn't have allthese belts, but if you wear a
pair of blue shoes, coordinateit with a black belt, so it's
the same, cool or warm whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
So blue or gray or black shoes, wear a black belt
If you're doing something that'smore warm browns, camels sand.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
If you can't match the same color, yeah, but if you
wear them all the time.
You just need to go ahead andget another belt.
So that's one thing with womenwhat I judge, and this is so bad
Eye makeup, See I noticenothing like that like, like
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eyeliner and stuff.
It drives me crazy and my mymind, my brain does work in
artistic, very artistic color.
That's the way my brain'sprogrammed, and this like people
that will like wear a brightblue eyeliner with their, and
I'm like with what, what, whatare you doing?
(32:17):
like they'll have like greeneyes or something.
But I mean, I don't know thatwherever a blue eyeliner should
be used.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
But you know, I had a lot of employees, someone is
listening today and they have ona blue eyeliner.
Change it.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I've been being honest.
I feel bad, but you know I hadan employee and she was a very
sweet girl and I walked into therestaurant one day and I swear
she looked like a clown.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
I feel like some people intentionally make their
makeup look more artsy and funversus natural and whatever they
do, but this girl wasn't, andnormally you know it's none of
my business.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I'm just telling you what I secretly judge people on.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I wouldn't say anything.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
But, this particular day.
She asked me, she asked you.
Yeah, don't ask me Because Idon't lie.
And she said how do you like myeye makeup?
And I said well, said well, Imean it was bright blue eye line
(33:34):
.
I said it's horrible, it'shorrible.
And she said these people havebeen coming through the drive
through telling me that it lookspretty.
And I said, honey, they feelbad for you, they're.
And I said, honey, they feelbad for you, I'm just serious.
I was like they don't mean thatand I think you're a beautiful
(33:58):
person and I want to tell youthe truth.
And you know, she looked at meand she said I really appreciate
that.
I said you're beautiful and youdon't need to wear that.
And she never wore it again.
Well, so you have I mean, Ididn't say it in a mean way.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I didn't make fun of her.
I just said it's awful, You'revery pretty girl, I didn't say
it in a mean way, it's awful.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
It's awful, it's bad.
But you know I I mean, I'm sureI do things people don't like
too, and that's fine, and.
But you said what we secretly.
You know I don't go aroundtaking everybody's inventory I
just do it in my head.
Yeah, okay, but I'm critical ofmyself like that too.
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I'm like, oh, what are youwearing that for?
But other than that, I meanother than nasty people, and I
don't mean again, I'm not sayingthat's not a secret thing,
that's not secretly judging.
No, no, I'm not saying poor,pitiful or homeless.
I'm not saying that I have abig heart.
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I feel sorry for those people.
I'm talking people that chooseto be that way I find repulsive.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I forgot.
I wanted to mention this at thebeginning of the podcast, but
your family got out of prisonthis week the Chrisleys.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
So I don't think we talked about this on here.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
We've never talked about it.
Steven gets compared to ToddChrisley all the time and I have
to say, your mannerisms, yourlook.
I feel like y'all used to looka little more like really,
really alike.
Y'all still kind of look alike,but I think y'all are related
somehow.
Because y'all are from the samearea.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, just less than 20 miles apart, I think your
daddy his mama.
You know my dad could havehappened.
So the weird thing is is,before I knew who he was, I had
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people on social media asking meif we were related yeah and I
was like I don't even know whothat is and they're like well,
and they weren't being likesarcastic or anything, they were
being serious and I was who isthis guy?
And I I watched it and I waslike I don't think we look alike
(36:53):
, but I guess you could see.
You know, dark blonde hair, youknow.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
No, y'all look kind of alike and your mannerisms in
person, If you are around you,are very similar, like
ironically beardly similar, Likeironically weirdly similar.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Walking.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, yes, Walking the things.
Y'all say the laugh it's veryweird.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Well, they're out, they're out, and I won't.
So they have a new TV show andbut it hadn't started yet.
No, but they picked up filming.
They had stopped filming andthen, when they were released
from prison, they startedfilming.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
They said like that night, that day, like when they
yeah, like immediately yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Their reunion was all on this going to be on this I'm
interested in knowing, becausethey say, listen, I don't know
anything about it, and they maybe innocent, they may be guilty,
I don't know, yeah, but I'minterested to see what comes out
of it.
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
It will be interesting.
And I've heard things and like,again, I'm not getting
political and I don't knowenough to speak on it, don't you
know whatever?
I don't either, and there's twosides to every story.
But it does seem like maybeit's been presented like there
was some unfair bias or whateverand it kind of goes back to
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like the Martha Stewart.
I feel like, kind of feel likewhere, um, maybe things were a
little more, uh, not exaggerated, but like harder because of it
being a public thing and likeyou know, I don't know, I
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definitely.
I definitely think that I'm notsaying that there wasn't a crime
or wasn't whatever, but withsomeone else that was like just
you know, not in the public eyehave gotten the same treatment
or the same time, sort of thing.
And, like we all know, withMartha Stewart, which she, what
happened to her happens everyday.
So you took the fall for it.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Well, in Martha Stewart what she did honestly.
I mean, her first career was astockbroker, so she knew she
didn't do anything wrong.
The stockbroker is who didwrong.
I mean, if I called you todayand said you're going to lose
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$100,000 and it was a minimalamount for Martha Stewart- yeah,
that's the other crazy thing.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
It was like $200,000.
Why wasn't that like a fee or afine for her, like, go to?
Court and pay a fine, becauseyou did this.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
She spends $200,000 on paintings.
I'm sure I mean that's nothingfor her.
So I mean seriously, and mything was, if the Chrisleys are
guilty of whatever of something,rather than putting them in
prison for all that time, letthem be working and paying
restitution.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
That's always what kills me.
When it's especially like afinancial crime and people have
gone to jail and stuff, it'slike why not just make them work
and pay?
It would be a better system.
It would be a better?
Uh, it would be more fitting.
Yeah, it's crazy Dangerous.
Yeah, it'd be very interestingto see.
(40:39):
Uh, what comes.
I can't wait to see the showmyself too, and it's probably
going to be one of those thingswhether you like them or don't
like them, or think they'reguilty or not guilty or whatever
side like them, or thinkthey're guilty or not guilty or
whatever side For them, it'sprobably just going to make them
that much more popular if theywork it right, kind of like
Martha Stewart Sucks that shehad to go through that for her,
(41:01):
but it probably made her in thelong run more money and made her
more relevant and stay in thepublic longer than if that
hadn't happened.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Oh, she tripled her net worth while she was in
prison.
That's crazy.
I mean it dropped so much, butshe did triple it.
Oh my gosh.
And then it's just beenbuilding, and building, and
building since then, mm-hmm.
And then it's just beenbuilding and building and
building since then.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Well, it's time I feel like we need to pull over
separately, since we're drivingseparately and I got to get the
show on the road.
I got some things to do beforeI can get out of town tomorrow.
We got a live sale tonight.
I got to do some trainingvideos for the warehouse, but I
can't wait to see how this withus being works.
(41:51):
We may not have to be togetheragain.
No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
We'll be back together.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
We'll be back together.
But we also wanted to test thisout because we really want to
see if we can mount these andhave two separate recordings
when we are on a road trip.
So we want to see the quality,know the recording and the mics
and all that.
So we'll see how it turns outyeah, or we can.
If we can do it when we're onthe road that's what I'm saying,
(42:19):
like yeah, we're on the road,oh, or like at market or
something we could just set itup, yeah, yeah yeah, hotel
without having to take you knowall of the crazy equipment and
stuff like that so far as we gotthrough it.
So I think we're going to pullthis baby over.
Remember, you can listen to ourpodcast anywhere for free.
You can listen on our website,whosedrivingpodcastcom.
(42:42):
You can listen on there forfree as well.
It doesn't matter where youlisten to it, but also on there
whosedrivingpodcastcom is whereyou can join the online
community.
I had someone message me andsaid I went to the website but
it was trying to make me log into the community and I just
wanted to listen.
If you scroll down the page,you can listen for free right
(43:04):
there.
If you want to watch the podcast, then you need to join the
online community there atwhosedrivingpodcastcom.
Remember to leave us a reviewwherever you're listening, share
us with your friends and makesure you have the new version of
the Nested Dig app and we'regoing to see you there and
Stephen's going to be taking itback on the road this week and
(43:26):
next week with live sales andback to that purse where we got
the bags and purses the most.
I think comments ever will benext week.
You said June 10th.
For that one, can you believeit's June already.
That's crazy.
This year has just gone, it hasflown by All right.
(43:46):
Bye y'all, we'll see you nextweek, bye.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Thanks guys.
Alright y'all, we'll see younext week.
Bye, thanks guys.
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