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The conversation takes an unexpected turn when recounting sleeping through an entire hotel evacuation in Atlanta. While hundreds of guests stood shivering outside the Marriott Marquis for three hours during a middle-of-the-night emergency, these two slept peacefully through blaring alarms, only to be confused when awakened by the "all clear" announcement at 4:30 AM.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake up, wake up.
It is.
Oh my gosh, oh my god y'all.
I'm here, I'm here.
We almost need a boat, but I'mhere.
It has rained so much.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
There were so many wrecks on my way here.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I'm glad you made it, I am too.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
We're two best friends andentrepreneurs.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
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 (00:46):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
Oh, so you made it Mm-hmm.
So if you're watching in ourmembers-only community, I'm
practically— this is one of thedays before the video we would
have been.
I would have been here withlike my hair sticking up and
(01:10):
whatever.
So I'm practically in pajamas,although I don't wear pajamas.
We need to talk about that.
But anyway, steven, yesterdaywas like I'll come out.
I have an appointment.
I'll come out to your house.
I have an appointment.
I'll come out to your house.
I have an appointment at 1130.
I'll come out to your house,probably around one-ish whenever
I'm done he calls me at 1128.
(01:31):
Hey, are you ready?
Hell, no, I'm not ready.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, you know things , I was early you know it, just
it worked out that way and ifyou notice, I'm missing
something today.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Your water bottle, which this is bad timing to be
missing the water bottle becauseI want to do something fun with
the water bottle.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh, I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Where's the damn water bottle we?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
did a live last night , you said, oh, I need you to
help me real quick.
So I sat my water bottle downon a table in the warehouse.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
My gosh.
So you've been without yourwater bottle for like 14 hours
now.
It's been horrible, did yousleep?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
well without it.
Last night I almost got myspare out and loaded it and I
was like, no, that's crazy.
I can go a few hours withoutyour water bottle, so, but I had
to go buy water.
Oh my, so weird.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Gosh, this is oh, my gosh, y'all this is oh.
Now we get to hear you slurpyeah.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And it's not, and it's not being measured.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
How can I tell that I've got my water?
Well, that bottle is how manyounces?
It is 23 ounces.
So, just add that to your totalwhen you go back and get your
water bottle I need like four ofthose a day.
So, speaking of water bottles,this is a good time to bring it
up.
So I wanted to do something funfor the month of April and I
thought, since we recentlylaunched our members only
(03:10):
community atwhosedrivingpodcastcom, that's
where you can go.
You can always go there andlisten for free as well.
If you scroll down, there's aplayer, you can listen for free.
You can go back and listen toany of the previous episodes we
should advertise okay in themonth of May episodes, we should
.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
We should advertise Okay In the month of May, one of
those days.
We're going to do it naked.
There you go.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You never know when, no, but anyway go to the members
only community.
You can listen for free or youcan join the community, and
that's where you can watch us,and we from time to time put up
polls or clips that we talkabout or whatever it is, and
that's where you can support us,and we from time to time put up
polls or clips that we talkabout or whatever it is, and
that's where you can support us.
Now that we pay for all thisadditional equipment and editing
(03:52):
stuff as well.
It isn't cheap, but we'readdicted to it.
I know, I know, so we lovedoing it.
So, anyway, I have two thingsfor the month of April.
One, if you haven't joined ourmembers only community yet, if
you join in the month of April,you can use the coupon code
(04:12):
April when you go to join andyou'll get two months for half
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So you, you know, you get twomonths so you can go back and
watch previous episodes youmissed, you can see what it's
all about and, of course, you'llwant to stay.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I'm not getting naked for half price.
I'm just gonna go ahead and putthat out there.
You're gonna have to, we'llhave to push.
It had to be in may it had tobe yeah, well, they get two
months.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
If they sign up in april, they'd get april and may
into june yeah well that'd be.
You'll have your summer bod bythen, yeah yeah, um, I've
already got the six pack.
I'll have a keg by then so,again, if you go to who's
(04:54):
driving podcastcom you can findit in the show notes below, if
you're listening uh, and sign upin the month of april.
Anytime in the month of Aprilyou can use the code APRIL and
get two months 50% off of themembership price.
And then also in the first weekof May, we are going to select
(05:15):
anyone that is a member.
We're going to randomly selectif you're a current member, the
first week in May when we'regoing to give one member a water
bottle like yours Hydrate,spark, hydrate, spark you.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I just can't say enough.
I thought that would be fun,since we talk about the water
all the time now, well, and Idrive Wesley crazy with the
water bottle, I drive everybodycrazy with the water bottle.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
But the water bottle is actually great, as much as it
drives me crazy.
What drives me crazy?
Well, first of all, I turnedyou on to the water bottle.
You did.
I was like you need one ofthese.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You did like over four years ago and I need to get
myself another one.
I think I'm on my fifth bottleBecause I've broken them.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yes, Well, now you can order the parts like I told
you that Because I've brokenthem.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yes, well, now you can order the parts like I told
you.
That's much better.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
What drives me crazy about the water bottle is not
the water bottle or that you'redrinking water.
He likes to put ice in hiswater bottle.
I like my water cold In hismetal water bottle and that's
fine, but he likes to shake it,so it's constantly this
irritating.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, shake, shake, shake, that's where the water
bottle comes in.
For me, it's great.
The water bottle is so so good,though I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It really is good because it's you know we all
need more water.
I need to lose weight and I'mabout to get back on the water.
The water really helps you ifyou're trying to.
I I feel like just balance outyour body and lose weight, and
it lights up and tells you.
Well, first there's an app thattracks how much water you've
had in a day, so you can go onthere, you can set your water
(06:57):
goal and then it tells you.
But it lights up and blinks ifyou haven't had water in a while
, like as as a reminder, and itmakes it a game.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And you realize for me, when you get it you realize
how little water you're actuallydrinking compared to what you
need to be drinking.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Right when you first get it.
It's crazy, y'all.
Yeah, I mean, it's like youthink you've had a lot of water.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And you need more.
So, yeah, you need more.
So, yeah, it's been really goodfor me, but I'm just addicted
to it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So last week we went since our last podcast, we went
to Atlanta, we did, we had alittle fun.
Well, it was my birthday.
Yeah, it was your birthday.
We then last Sunday was mybirthday oh, not this past, but
anyway.
Stephen treated me as we talkedon Instagram.
We drove to Atlanta on mybirthday and he treated me to a
(07:56):
nice dinner at Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But let me say I said we can go anywhere you want to
go, but we were limited becauseit was.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Sunday night yeah, and the timing and whatever, we
were going to go to a fun place,which we did end up going Cafe
Intermezzo in.
Atlanta, if you're ever there,my favorite place.
I saw you little bitches wentback after I left market.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We did Without me.
You know, we got there andDylan was like I could tell by
his face, I know him.
He was like hmm, Like what'sthis, and I could tell the menu
he didn't like anything.
And I said you know?
He said hmm, it just doesn'tlook that good.
I was like well, I'm gettingthis.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
This was really good you can sit there and whatever.
And he got it.
He was like OK, it was reallygood.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I was like I don't play when it comes to food, it's
always good, it's off, and Ican't believe that because the
atmosphere is always great too.
It's like a little European.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh, we love, love.
The atmosphere is on point.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, and so it has.
It's known for like it'sdesserts, but it also has all
these drinks, and coffee drinksalcohol drinks food.
It's really good.
So if you're ever in Atlanta,go check it out, but anyway.
So we were going down and wewere going to go there.
I was like we'll just go thereand have dinner and dessert.
Well, we were halfway to gothere.
(09:25):
I was like we'll just go thereand have dinner and dessert.
Well, we were halfway toAtlanta and then Steven was like
, well, should we go ahead andeat and then just go there for
dessert?
And that's how we ended up atCracker Barrel.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Which was actually good.
It was good, and you still gotCafe Intermezzo.
So then we left Cracker.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Barrel and I was like I'm too full to go have dessert
.
So I'm too full to go havedessert.
So then the next night was myreal birthday.
We made it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We made it fun.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So we went to Atlanta , went to the market and had
several good meals while we werethere.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We actually did this time.
We need to start getting outmore, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, but we did live sales and then I had to leave
to come back and we went toDaniel's mom's retirement party
and hung out with them.
But anyway, what memory I hadthat I don't think we've talked
about on the podcast before, soI put it in my notes was because
when we go to market in Atlantawhich we're there all the time,
(10:18):
we stay, if we can, at theMarriott Marquis.
I don't know why, it just feelslike our home away from home,
because you know pattern.
But I forgot about I don'tthink we've ever talked about
the time that Stephen and I wereat Market.
We used to share a room.
Yeah, back in the day when wewere, you know, just starting
(10:38):
out broke, we used to share aroom at Market and one day we
were at one one market.
We were staying there and allof a sudden it was like yeah, it
was like you may return to yourroom now and it was like 4, 30
(10:59):
in the morning we were like what?
the, and it woke us up.
I was like what?
Did that just say, andStephen's like you may return to
your room now.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
We were like what is that about?
And we were like who knows?
We went back to sleep.
We were like that's weird.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So we went back to sleep, and then the next day we
went to market.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And we felt great.
We had a great night's sleep.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Rested ready to go Just shopping through market,
and then people kept saying I'mjust exhausted, I'm exhausted.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And we were like why?
Why are you so tired?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And finally we talked to someone and they were like
where are you staying?
And we're like oh, where areyou staying?
And we're like oh, the MarriottMarquis.
And they're like oh, are younot exhausted?
And we're like no, why so?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
evidently there had been an alarm that went off and
everyone had to.
The hotel was evacuated.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, evacuate the hotel, not these two dumbasses.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
For three hours in January in the cold In the
middleuate, the hotel, not thesetwo dumbasses For three hours
in January in the cold.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
In the middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
It really is good that we slept through it,
because I wouldn't have gone outthere in that cold weather.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Can you imagine how pissed you would have been.
No, I would have been like.
It is not a fire.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So everyone evacuated , evidently, except for us.
I'm sure there were some otherpeople who didn't.
I mean, surely we weren't theonly two dumbasses that just
slept.
We had to have slept through Idon't even know what kind of
alarm, because it was loud themjust coming back to tell us.
It was like an alarm that wentoff to tell us we could go back
to the room.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I mean it had to be massive to empty that whole 47
floor hotel.
I mean it had to be insane,yeah, Because that you may
return to your room was veryloud.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I guess we slept through the first one.
I mean, obviously we did, andso everyone had exited.
The building stood out on thestreet in downtown Atlanta like
in the middle of the nightAround one something, and then
they got to go back to theirroom at like 4 or 4.30.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But you know you hadn't got to sleep good then
and you really didn't have time.
You know the reps had to bethere at like 8.
Yeah, I would have been.
I would would have been like Iain't working today I'm glad I
slept right through it.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I guess we could have died.
I mean, obviously wasn't ourtime and nothing was wrong,
nothing was wrong.
I don't know what it was evenfor, but I don't know.
I just thought that was funnybecause we were there and our
franchise owners from Savannahwere there and they were on the
47th floor this time we werethere like last week, and they
(13:51):
were just saying, oh my gosh,can you imagine if something, if
there was an emergency, and youhad to walk down 47?
And we were like, well, yeah, wewere like, well, just don't do
it.
As you know, it's an emergency,just sleep through it, it'll be
fine.
So we were like we did that andslept right through it, which
was just crazy, but you knowwe're still here to talk about
(14:14):
it, I guess.
So there's that.
People were in their pajamas.
Yeah, they were just in theirpajamas.
Pajamas, pajamas.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I say pajamas, pajamas, pajamas, pajamas,
pajamas, pajamas.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Pajamas.
I say pajamas.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Sleeping in your pajamas.
Jammies Pajamas, I say pajamasSleeping in your pajamas,
jammies pajamas.
Huh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Speaking of that, do you sleep?
You sleep in like pajamas,pajamas pajamas In in the winter
.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I will Like in a shirt shorts and pants and I
have, I have sets, you knowshorts and shirt.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, that's one thing I don't.
I never sleep in pajamas.
I keep my underwear on.
The older I get, the older Iget I mean I can't stand being
like clothes, like touch, likebound up with yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And then I flip around and they're twisted and
just yeah, it doesn't work mostof the time but you always have
your like sleep shirt orsomething like I like to be, you
know, and I've got to have myblanket this is a funny thing
speaking of blankets.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
So I have talked about, I think here on the
podcast before, how when Itravel anywhere, I always take
my pillow with me and Stephen'slike.
That is so dumb.
Why do you need to take yourpillow with you when you're just
going?
You know they have pillows andI'm like, but that's the most
(15:47):
comfortable part of sleeping isthe right pillow.
They're too flat, I don't like.
If they're too spongy, I cannotstand if they're that
poly-filled.
I get it and it slides aroundand it just feels gross to me he
would make fun of me.
Well, now, in the last year, hehas started taking his blankie
(16:10):
with him.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It helps me sleep, it helps me rest.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh my gosh, I sleep so good now that I bring my
blanket with me and I'm like,well, he made fun of me for
taking a pillow.
It's the best blanket.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I've had it for like 25 years.
Dylan hates it, does he?
He's like why do you have totake that blanket?
I'm like it's just.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well, one day he'll find his comfort.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
item Wait till we go to Hawaii and we have that
blanket, just in a whole bag.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I cram my pillow.
I will take something out tomake my pillow fit that thing.
I know how to roll it up, it'sjust this flat mashed ass pillow
's not, it's a down pillow,it's flat.
It is not litter.
It is not flat is a flitter.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It is not.
How flat is a flitter?
What is a flitter?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Flat is a fritter flitter I've never heard of that
flat Flat as a fritter FritterFlitter, flitter, fritter
Fritter Flat as a fritter.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I guess it's flat as a fritter.
I guess maybe a pie.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
We need to look up the saying and see what it
actually is.
I saw a saying the other dayand I was like huh, it's one of
those like what is the realsaying?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
And I can't remember what it is.
It's flat as a flitter.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I was right, okay, southern southern american
coquillette is meaning extremelyflat, with flitter referring to
a fritter or pancake.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So I was right, it's's both.
But it's flat as a flitter, butit really refers to a fritter.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Or a pancake Flat as a flitter.
Huh, you never heard that, youdidn't grow up saying that, yeah
, flat as a flitter.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Flat as a flitter.
That tire was flat as a flitter, huh.
I guess I never thought aboutwhat it meant though well you
know, if you dig into all thelittle southern sayings, you'll
fight.
I mean, there's no telling whatthey mean.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I know sometimes it's scary.
I'm like what does this reallymean?
I saw something on social mediaand good news we are going to
be long-term friends.
How do you know?
Because there is a study thatfinds that friends who playfully
(18:43):
insult each other and teaseeach other are 300% more likely
to remain friends and they'remore honest and more loyal.
I believe that.
So, as much shit as you give,give each other.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I believe that I think, I think it's about being
genuine and and having fun, notbeing mean.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So the lighthearted teasing reflects a strong bond
built on trust and mutualunderstanding.
It signals comfort in thefriendship where neither takes
offense.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Because we all have something that's, you know, an
insecurity about ourselves.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
We're not going to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
No, we're not going to talk about it, but the funny
thing is is I'm pretty surewe've talked about mine.
It was something I nevernoticed and I don't think anyone
we can talk about mine.
I don't think anyone elsenotices.
But the funny thing is is I canplayfully make fun of it.
(19:52):
But I'm like it's kind of crazybecause I never even noticed it
till you pointed it out.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, so mine is.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
One time I said to you I got to say this first.
One time I said to you actuallyI never noticed.
I never noticed it till youpointed it out and I don't think
anyone else ever notices it.
And you said just as sincerely.
You said I think that's thenicest thing you've ever said to
me.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It is because I said it and you're like what?
I've never noticed, that orwhatever.
And you're like no one wouldever Like he was very genuine,
Like no one would ever noticethat it wasn't like I was yeah,
you know, like the elephant inthe room no, and I was like that
(20:40):
is like the nicest you've everbeen to me, because steven is
the friend who will pick outsomething about you or something
he will hone in on something.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Playfully and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Not mean, not mean, but he will talk about it and he
had never pointed out.
So one day we were, I don'tknow.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Talking about shirts, I said I think I said you need
to get this shirt.
Yeah, these shirts are reallygood.
I think they were online.
I was like these shirts arereally good and you should order
these shirts, um, and you saidwell, I have to be.
You know, I have to be carefulabout shirts because you know my
(21:25):
hump.
And I was like what?
and you said you know my humpand I was like I am so lost
right now, like I sincerely donot know what you're talking
(21:51):
about and and it was like youwere talking he's yeah, my, you
know the big hump and I'm like I, I just don't know my neck hump
.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
My neck is not flat.
That's the only.
That is my one insecurity.
It just like oh, first of all,I know personally, uh, well, I
know I don't have great postureand that's where it began from,
but you know how some peoplejust have a perfectly straight
neck and back and it just andmine has a stand up straight.
(22:24):
Yeah, mine is.
Mine has a little.
No, you know.
Now you see it over all oversocial media.
Like these roles and stuff tolike help your, because more
people are getting them frombeing on their phone or
computers and looking to likehelp your because more people
are getting them from being ontheir phone or computers and
looking down and keeping yourneck forward.
But my hump, that's my hump, myhump, I was at market the other
(22:45):
day and I walked by, I thinklike a showroom window and I
could see in my shirt was youknow, if they're too low cut in
the back, it just accentuates myhump.
I was like, oh God, my hump isso big.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I went through a drive-thru the other day, dylan
and I did, coming back frommarket.
I know where we went throughMcDonald's on our way back from
Atlanta.
The guy that was at thepresentation window was like
seven feet tall.
He bent over.
I was watching on the frontcounter so I was looking at him
(23:20):
from a side profile and he hiswaist.
He bent at a 90 degree angle.
Yeah, just like his neck wassticking up.
I wanted to take a picture andsend it to you.
It was the most bizarre thingI've ever seen and I thought, oh
my gosh, I wonder if he has thehump.
Yeah, so I watched.
(23:41):
No, he didn't.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
He was just very flexible.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
He was just like a snake.
That is funny.
But he was so tall I was likegosh he's going to have.
I was thinking you know 52years old.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I was like you know at 52 years old, I was like he's
going to have back problems.
He's going to have, yeah,bending.
That would be the bad thingabout being excessively tall,
you know, like when you startgetting like over 6'5 or
something up there.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, I'm 5'11 and my back is busted.
But I'm just saying Can youimagine being 6'7?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
is, yeah, busted.
But I'm just saying imaginebeing six one, but yeah, six,
seven or seven feet, because youhave to bend to go through
everything, through every door,you know you start getting stuck
.
Maybe maybe they don't haveback trouble because they have
to use it more often.
Like they have to bend to gothrough everything.
They're in their head sideways,it's true, that's very.
I can't imagine getting in theshower you know I'll, I'll shout
you would be like.
Well, you would have to have itcustom, yeah, but that costs a
(24:39):
little money.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well, yeah, I mean just saying eventually when you
got there, but you know wellwhen you, you would have it
damaged by the time you were 30.
So it wouldn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I wish I was like two inches taller.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I don't.
I'm good being my I'm good5'11".
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I'm really fine with my height, but it would be cool
to be like 5'11 is really goodfor me.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I'm at technically 5'11 and a half, but I don't
ever say that, yeah, don't dothat.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That sounds like you're five.
Two trying to stretch five.
I'm five two and a half, I betdylan.
You know he's a little shorterhe says whatever in three
quarters they do.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
If you're, if you're a guy and you are under, I think
, five, nine, you break it downto the Centimeter, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You know exactly how tall does he say he is?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I don't even, honestly, I don't even know, I
really don't pay attention to it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I know, I know he's sad and I don't pay attention
either.
I really don't, but I bet hesays three quarters.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
But you know half of my family's short, half of my
family's taller, Like me andtaller yeah.
And then half of my family arestumpy.
That's funny, my mother wastiny, yeah, yeah, and my dad is
only 5'9".
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So I, but my dad's side of the family had tall.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, that's kind of how mine is.
My dad's side has taller Well,it's mixed.
My mom's side most of them are,you know, shorter, smaller, but
my aunt, she's tall.
She's probably the tallest inthe family on that side.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah, your grandmother wasn't short, though
.
Yeah, was she.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, she was probably like 5'4".
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Was she?
Yeah, I know she had those tinylittle feet, because she was a
foot model.
I mean, she always had on highheels, so she probably.
Yeah, I guess I didn't notice.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, because I think my mom's like 5'4".
But anyway, yeah, when you get,especially for a guy, when you
get under a certain size, theydo break it down to 5'7 and 3
quarters and some guys have thatlittle man syndrome.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Oh yeah, that's a real thing it is a thing, and
the funny thing is, short guysthat are confident are
unstoppable Right.
So much better.
Yeah, to own it.
Yeah, own it.
Joke about it, move on, move on.
Yeah, no, those others youcan't change it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Well, those short men , syndrome ones they're.
I mean, they're angry.
Yeah, like you can't do a thingand you can just beat them down
because you know they're they.
I mean, when you know a shortman has that syndrome, you know,
they're just not confident youknow.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
And so then they try to be cocky and you just, I
don't like that, you can justlook at them and yeah, I worked
for one that had little mansyndrome and I'm not being ugly
to anybody.
Listen, I don't care what.
Listen, my husband is, I don'tknow, 5'1".
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Well, you don't have to have an attitude about it.
Your husband is not 5'1".
I'm kidding, he snuck that inthere.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
No, but you don't have to be angry about it, no
and honestly, dylan, I thinkit's five, seven, yeah, and
that's fine you know it doesn'tmatter.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
He might be like five four, he's not five, four, he's
five, six or five seven.
I might have to, I might haveto measure him, I don't.
I feel like he has told me like, oh, I'm whatever and I'm like
I don't know.
You might add it a little there.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, I mean, I guess people do that.
I don't know, I don't knoweither.
It's kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
The funny is I don't think about it Like you don't.
I don't know, it's notsomething you think about, but
that's so funny.
It's not something you thinkabout, but that's so funny,
doesn't bother me.
So yeah, so we're going to befriends because you like to make
fun of me playfully.
And more than about my hump,it's about everything, basically
.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Well, you terrorize me, and that's why we're not
going to be friends.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Oh, is there a fine line there.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
No, I can take it.
I'm pretty it.
I'm pretty tough, I'm prettyresilient.
Are you?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I don't really terrorize you.
I know the things that you'remost sensitive about.
Do you like my?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
jacket.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
You got a new one, I did.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
What?
What is this Wait?
This is called.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Is this a rain?
Hold on, it is rain and it, oh,it's a brand called Save the
Duck.
Save the Duck.
I don't know what that is, butI found it and it felt like
(29:52):
cloth.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Where did you find this?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I found this in Clemson.
I went to Clemson, you know,several weeks ago.
Oh so, like from a boutique,yeah, from a boutique men's
store, I don't know why I gottaturn this way to feel it.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
It's like I can't See .
It feels good.
So is it like a rain jacket?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, it's a rain jacket, so I don't know if you
remember I had a black one thatwas a?
Um, it was a good jacket.
It was nice.
It was a North Face.
It was a nice, typical, normalrain jacket.
Uh-huh, it was torture for me.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
It was A jacket was torture.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
It was like wearing a sweatsuit.
It was like plastic.
You know it was one of thoseplasticky, yeah and Well, those
get hot.
Did it get hot?
It just I felt so gross wearingthat.
I felt like I was sweating,that's what.
(30:55):
I cannot take that and literallyI had it on and it was raining
somewhere and I took it off andI was.
I looked at it and I thoughtyou're not going with me, I
would rather be wet.
And I was thinking you knowsomeone will get that, that will
appreciate it, it won't botherthem.
(31:16):
Yeah, it drives me crazy, so Ihave done without.
I was like I, so you just leftyour jacket somewhere.
Yeah, I did, you just took itoff when you were out in the
rain, and I would do that withif I had on shoes.
I've been in new york city onetime and so and a lady just had
on heels.
Yeah, that hurt her.
She just literally took themoff and left them on the
(31:38):
sidewalk and kept walking.
She's like I'm done with theselittle bitches.
Yeah, just so, I mean I woulddo that too.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Okay, I was like, nope, I am which I wouldn't want
barefoot in new york, butanyway, yeah, I, I just thought
I cannot wear this thing I dohate like a weather jacket like
that, like a rain jacket thattraps in and it feels like it
gets humid underneath it andsticky and just ugh.
It is just just gross feeling Iwould do the same.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I mean I would just.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I don't know if I would have left it.
I would have just taken it offand been like well, I mean, you
might as well give it.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I mean, I was thinking well, someone, someone
to take it, yeah I mean Iwouldn't throw it away.
I mean, obviously they don'tbother most people.
So when did you get this one?
Just a few weeks ago I was likeI don't and I honestly had
forgotten about it.
But then I would go when it wasraining like today, cats and
(32:35):
dogs and I was like, oh, I needa rain jacket.
And I was like I don't have one,yeah, so I was like I don't
have one.
Yeah, so I was.
I went this is a funny story.
So I, my financial advisor, isin Clemson and I had a meeting
my annual meeting with him and Iwas like I want to go downtown
Clemson and have lunch and walkaround, and then there was this
(32:59):
store, mh Frank, downtown.
It's a men's boutique and it'sfancy and I couldn't afford to
shop there when I was in school,oh, back in the day.
I mean, I couldn't even afforda pair of socks there.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
You were like.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I want to go in there .
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You're like I just got my financials.
I'm good, I'm in there, Let mego in there.
My financials, I'm good, I'm inthere, let me go in there.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
The funny thing is from in 30 years.
I was like there's not reallyanything I want in here.
Yeah, you know it's a beautifulstore, but I was like I don't
need anything.
And so I was walking by andthen I saw these and I was like
what Wait a minute?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I need a rain jacket.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
They caught my eye so I said I think I need that, so
I bought it well, that's good.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
And now, and you're happy with, I'm very happy with
it.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I'm not sweating.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
You don't have to leave it somewhere not sweating
in it.
It some way not sweating in it,that's good.
I have a little um, a littlefollow-up from our last podcast
when I was talking about one ofthe siblings in daniel's family
had fallen through the ceilingwith the, you know, the weed.
(34:19):
So if you missed that in theprevious episode, oh you know, I
saw the family, so I got thescoop.
Okay, so I have somecorrections to make in my story,
but also I think there's to methere's a part that's even
funnier.
So the brother, one of thebrothers was, so it wasn't in
(34:41):
the middle of the night, so theparents, I think, were out or
something.
They weren't there and he had,you know, partaked in the grass
and was looking for a place tostore his stash is what it was.
And so he, there was a, acloset that you could open up
(35:07):
and it didn't have any floor.
It had, like the AC unit orwhatever, right, and no flooring
.
And he stepped into that closetand stepped through, which went
, you know it did go through themaster bedroom.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Oh, it would have been better at night but they
were sleeping.
But that would have been betterat night If they were sleeping,
but that would have given thema heart attack.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It would have.
But now, to me the funnier partis, I guess they came home and
he played it off like oh, I wasjust looking in the closet, blah
, blah blah.
They didn't know until thestory on the podcast that he had
been smoking weed.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
So we outed him.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
We outed him.
I mean they were like, well, weknew he was up to something, no
good or whatever, but theydidn't actually know that it was
.
Oh, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
We're happy to help.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, so I guess I thought it was known from the
whole family.
But I guess maybe the otherbrother had told us like hey,
this story or whatever.
We just assumed everyone knewthey were laughing about it.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
You can laugh when it's years later.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yeah, years later, and everyone's successful and on
their own.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I guess you can laugh about it.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
But I was like, well, that makes it even funnier now
that we just added him on thepodcast.
Well, but no one, you know noone was offended by the story.
So I get to stay in the family.
That's good, yeah, but Ithought that was just funny
there.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
That's funny, that is crazy, I got to check our
hotline.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Do you have any funny like incidences like that?
Maybe your parents didn't, youknow, know about until years
later, or maybe it had somethingto do with weed.
Let us know.
On our hotline it's864-982-5029.
I actually forgot to check thehotline before we started this
one, because we use the samephone that you call as our
(37:05):
recording phone and I have tolike reposition and everything,
so I didn't check the hotline.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
So my mom was.
My mom smoked in high school.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
It was the 60s.
I mean, come on.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
And she would raise the window and blow out the
window.
Yeah, ok, so she had hiddenwindow.
Yeah, okay, so she had hiddenher cigarettes and matches in
something under her bed.
Yeah, and she went to get themand my grandmother had found
(37:37):
them.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Did she leave a note?
Speaker 2 (37:39):
She wrote her because , you know, my grandmother was
like your mom's mom Passive,aggressive, yeah, very passive.
I found these.
What will I find next?
Oh my God, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Oh, I bet your mom was sweating.
I think it made her mad.
Just that note, yeah, just likethat is funny, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
My mom was like yeah, my mom was like, yeah, just
knock the hell out of me.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Whatever, stop yeah the note just irritated her.
Yeah, my mamaw, who you knowhas my dad's mom she used to
smoke and I guess she thought noone knew.
I mean she never did itpublicly.
I mean as my whole life I neversaw her smoke a cigarette, but
(38:30):
I can remember her buying them,like being with her at the
grocery store and her buyingthem, but it was always very
sneakily, like sneakily yeah,sneakily, sneakily yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Welcome to Hooked on Phonics.
Sneakily is the word of the day.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Okay, Sneaky, but she would discreetly buy them at
the grocery store.
But she I never from the time Iwas a little kid to a grown
adult saw her smoke a cigarette.
But she would go in herbathroom that was off of her
bedroom and raise the window andsmoke and blow it out the
(39:14):
window so everybody knew it waseveryone knew.
I mean, you could go in thebathroom after her and it
smelled like Lysol andcigarettes.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
So funny.
My mom's mom yeah, she smokedin the 70s.
But then when it became youknow, passe, you know that you
don't smoke yeah, my wholefamily quit once.
You know, once the news was outthis is really bad for you, my
whole family that smoked quit,yeah.
(39:48):
And so she, she pretended likeshe did, but she never did.
Oh, she pretended like she quit, yes, and we found out about
this later and so there was.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I wonder if that's like, what?
Like?
I wonder if my mamaw, like whenI wasn't there, the grand like
if it was just her and mygranddaddy at home, did she?
I think she still went in thebathroom and smoked she would
smoke in front of me and my mom.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
But that was it because she said we didn't judge
.
She said everybody judges me,but she would keep a butt under
a cushion on the back porch andshe would smoke on that.
She would say she was takingscraps to the edge of the yard.
She'd be out there smoking,take a few puffs.
(40:36):
Well, in her life you know, shewas almost 90 when she died.
And you know, and in her lastfew years my crazy aunt was not
wanting to let her smoke and I'mlike, if you're like 89 years,
smoke, do what you want.
(40:57):
Yeah, at that point, Buy themfor her and do what you want.
Yeah, she was like I thought itwas just, I thought that was a
mean.
My mom and I both I was likethat's just being mean.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah, I mean, why are you going to try to make
someone quit at that stage?
Eat what you want, I mean, ifthey're not wanting to smoke
what you want, yeah, whateverthat may be.
Yeah, Whatever.
But now, as an adult, I justwonder did my mama, did she like
if no one was there, you know,go out on the back porch and
(41:29):
smoke?
Speaker 2 (41:32):
But I think she probably just smoked from the
bathroom and she probably washiding it partially from your
granddaddy.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
But I wonder, I mean he always he would chew tobacco?
Yeah, but no, but mygrandmother did just he would
chew tobacco.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Yeah, but no.
But my grandmother did justbecause she felt guilty.
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I don't know.
I don't know.
I need to ask an aunt or acousin.
Crazy, it's funny, though, thatyou know.
They thought you didn't know,or whatever.
Oh my goodness.
Well, I think we got to wrap upthis episode, Are you?
Speaker 2 (42:00):
done.
Yeah, let Well, I think we gotto wrap up this episode, are you
done?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, let's pull it out.
We're going to pull this babyover.
Remember, our hotline again is864-982-5029.
It's always down in the shownotes.
Whether you're listening orwatching, you can text or call
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And in May we're going toselect one current member to get
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Steven's favorite water bottle.
You too can have the favoritewater bottle.
It's great, all right, andwe'll see you next time.
Bye, guys.
Wake up, wake up.
It is.
Oh my gosh, oh my god y'all.
I'm here, I'm here.
We almost need a boat, but I'mhere.
It has rained so much.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
There were so many wrecks on my way here.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I'm glad you made it, I am too.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
We're two best friends andentrepreneurs.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
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Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer
a wide range of informativetopics centered around running
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Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
Oh, so you made it Mm-hmm.
So if you're watching in ourmembers-only community, I'm
practically— this is one of thedays before the video we would
have been.
I would have been here withlike my hair sticking up and
(01:10):
whatever.
So I'm practically in pajamas,although I don't wear pajamas.
We need to talk about that.
But anyway, steven, yesterdaywas like I'll come out.
I have an appointment.
I'll come out to your house.
I have an appointment.
I'll come out to your house.
I have an appointment at 1130.
I'll come out to your house,probably around one-ish whenever
I'm done he calls me at 1128.
(01:31):
Hey, are you ready?
Hell, no, I'm not ready.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, you know things , I was early you know it, just
it worked out that way and ifyou notice, I'm missing
something today.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Your water bottle, which this is bad timing to be
missing the water bottle becauseI want to do something fun with
the water bottle.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh, I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Where's the damn water bottle we?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
did a live last night , you said, oh, I need you to
help me real quick.
So I sat my water bottle downon a table in the warehouse.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
My gosh.
So you've been without yourwater bottle for like 14 hours
now.
It's been horrible, did yousleep?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
well without it.
Last night I almost got myspare out and loaded it and I
was like, no, that's crazy.
I can go a few hours withoutyour water bottle, so, but I had
to go buy water.
Oh my, so weird.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Gosh, this is oh, my gosh, y'all this is oh.
Now we get to hear you slurpyeah.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And it's not, and it's not being measured.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
How can I tell that I've got my water?
Well, that bottle is how manyounces?
It is 23 ounces.
So, just add that to your totalwhen you go back and get your
water bottle I need like four ofthose a day.
So, speaking of water bottles,this is a good time to bring it
up.
So I wanted to do something funfor the month of April and I
thought, since we recentlylaunched our members only
(03:10):
community atwhosedrivingpodcastcom, that's
where you can go.
You can always go there andlisten for free as well.
If you scroll down, there's aplayer, you can listen for free.
You can go back and listen toany of the previous episodes we
should advertise okay in themonth of May episodes, we should
.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
We should advertise Okay In the month of May, one of
those days.
We're going to do it naked.
There you go.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You never know when, no, but anyway go to the members
only community.
You can listen for free or youcan join the community, and
that's where you can watch us,and we from time to time put up
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that's where you can support us,and we from time to time put up
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that's where you can support us.
Now that we pay for all thisadditional equipment and editing
(03:52):
stuff as well.
It isn't cheap, but we'readdicted to it.
I know, I know, so we lovedoing it.
So, anyway, I have two thingsfor the month of April.
One, if you haven't joined ourmembers only community yet, if
you join in the month of April,you can use the coupon code
(04:12):
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So you, you know, you get twomonths so you can go back and
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Speaker 2 (04:25):
I'm not getting naked for half price.
I'm just gonna go ahead and putthat out there.
You're gonna have to, we'llhave to push.
It had to be in may it had tobe yeah, well, they get two
months.
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If they sign up in april, they'd get april and may
into june yeah well that'd be.
You'll have your summer bod bythen, yeah yeah, um, I've
already got the six pack.
I'll have a keg by then so,again, if you go to who's
(04:54):
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And then also in the first weekof May, we are going to select
(05:15):
anyone that is a member.
We're going to randomly selectif you're a current member, the
first week in May when we'regoing to give one member a water
bottle like yours Hydrate,spark, hydrate, spark you.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I just can't say enough.
I thought that would be fun,since we talk about the water
all the time now, well, and Idrive Wesley crazy with the
water bottle, I drive everybodycrazy with the water bottle.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
But the water bottle is actually great, as much as it
drives me crazy.
What drives me crazy?
Well, first of all, I turnedyou on to the water bottle.
You did.
I was like you need one ofthese.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You did like over four years ago and I need to get
myself another one.
I think I'm on my fifth bottleBecause I've broken them.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yes, Well, now you can order the parts like I told
you that Because I've brokenthem.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yes, well, now you can order the parts like I told
you.
That's much better.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
What drives me crazy about the water bottle is not
the water bottle or that you'redrinking water.
He likes to put ice in hiswater bottle.
I like my water cold In hismetal water bottle and that's
fine, but he likes to shake it,so it's constantly this
irritating.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, shake, shake, shake, that's where the water
bottle comes in.
For me, it's great.
The water bottle is so so good,though I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It really is good because it's you know we all
need more water.
I need to lose weight and I'mabout to get back on the water.
The water really helps you ifyou're trying to.
I I feel like just balance outyour body and lose weight, and
it lights up and tells you.
Well, first there's an app thattracks how much water you've
had in a day, so you can go onthere, you can set your water
(06:57):
goal and then it tells you.
But it lights up and blinks ifyou haven't had water in a while
, like as as a reminder, and itmakes it a game.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And you realize for me, when you get it you realize
how little water you're actuallydrinking compared to what you
need to be drinking.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Right when you first get it.
It's crazy, y'all.
Yeah, I mean, it's like youthink you've had a lot of water.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And you need more.
So, yeah, you need more.
So, yeah, it's been really goodfor me, but I'm just addicted
to it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So last week we went since our last podcast, we went
to Atlanta, we did, we had alittle fun.
Well, it was my birthday.
Yeah, it was your birthday.
We then last Sunday was mybirthday oh, not this past, but
anyway.
Stephen treated me as we talkedon Instagram.
We drove to Atlanta on mybirthday and he treated me to a
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nice dinner at Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But let me say I said we can go anywhere you want to
go, but we were limited becauseit was.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Sunday night yeah, and the timing and whatever, we
were going to go to a fun place,which we did end up going Cafe
Intermezzo in.
Atlanta, if you're ever there,my favorite place.
I saw you little bitches wentback after I left market.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We did Without me.
You know, we got there andDylan was like I could tell by
his face, I know him.
He was like hmm, Like what'sthis, and I could tell the menu
he didn't like anything.
And I said you know?
He said hmm, it just doesn'tlook that good.
I was like well, I'm gettingthis.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
This was really good you can sit there and whatever.
And he got it.
He was like OK, it was reallygood.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I was like I don't play when it comes to food, it's
always good, it's off, and Ican't believe that because the
atmosphere is always great too.
It's like a little European.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh, we love, love.
The atmosphere is on point.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, and so it has.
It's known for like it'sdesserts, but it also has all
these drinks, and coffee drinksalcohol drinks food.
It's really good.
So if you're ever in Atlanta,go check it out, but anyway.
So we were going down and wewere going to go there.
I was like we'll just go thereand have dinner and dessert.
Well, we were halfway to gothere.
(09:25):
I was like we'll just go thereand have dinner and dessert.
Well, we were halfway toAtlanta and then Steven was like
, well, should we go ahead andeat and then just go there for
dessert?
And that's how we ended up atCracker Barrel.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Which was actually good.
It was good, and you still gotCafe Intermezzo.
So then we left Cracker.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Barrel and I was like I'm too full to go have dessert
.
So I'm too full to go havedessert.
So then the next night was myreal birthday.
We made it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We made it fun.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So we went to Atlanta , went to the market and had
several good meals while we werethere.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We actually did this time.
We need to start getting outmore, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, but we did live sales and then I had to leave
to come back and we went toDaniel's mom's retirement party
and hung out with them.
But anyway, what memory I hadthat I don't think we've talked
about on the podcast before, soI put it in my notes was because
when we go to market in Atlantawhich we're there all the time,
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we stay, if we can, at theMarriott Marquis.
I don't know why, it just feelslike our home away from home,
because you know pattern.
But I forgot about I don'tthink we've ever talked about
the time that Stephen and I wereat Market.
We used to share a room.
Yeah, back in the day when wewere, you know, just starting
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out broke, we used to share aroom at Market and one day we
were at one one market.
We were staying there and allof a sudden it was like yeah, it
was like you may return to yourroom now and it was like 4, 30
(10:59):
in the morning we were like what?
the, and it woke us up.
I was like what?
Did that just say, andStephen's like you may return to
your room now.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
We were like what is that about?
And we were like who knows?
We went back to sleep.
We were like that's weird.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So we went back to sleep, and then the next day we
went to market.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And we felt great.
We had a great night's sleep.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Rested ready to go Just shopping through market,
and then people kept saying I'mjust exhausted, I'm exhausted.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And we were like why?
Why are you so tired?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And finally we talked to someone and they were like
where are you staying?
And we're like oh, where areyou staying?
And we're like oh, the MarriottMarquis.
And they're like oh, are younot exhausted?
And we're like no, why so?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
evidently there had been an alarm that went off and
everyone had to.
The hotel was evacuated.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, evacuate the hotel, not these two dumbasses.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
For three hours in January in the cold In the
middleuate, the hotel, not thesetwo dumbasses For three hours
in January in the cold.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
In the middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
It really is good that we slept through it,
because I wouldn't have gone outthere in that cold weather.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Can you imagine how pissed you would have been.
No, I would have been like.
It is not a fire.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So everyone evacuated , evidently, except for us.
I'm sure there were some otherpeople who didn't.
I mean, surely we weren't theonly two dumbasses that just
slept.
We had to have slept through Idon't even know what kind of
alarm, because it was loud themjust coming back to tell us.
It was like an alarm that wentoff to tell us we could go back
to the room.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I mean it had to be massive to empty that whole 47
floor hotel.
I mean it had to be insane,yeah, Because that you may
return to your room was veryloud.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I guess we slept through the first one.
I mean, obviously we did, andso everyone had exited.
The building stood out on thestreet in downtown Atlanta like
in the middle of the nightAround one something, and then
they got to go back to theirroom at like 4 or 4.30.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But you know you hadn't got to sleep good then
and you really didn't have time.
You know the reps had to bethere at like 8.
Yeah, I would have been.
I would would have been like Iain't working today I'm glad I
slept right through it.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I guess we could have died.
I mean, obviously wasn't ourtime and nothing was wrong,
nothing was wrong.
I don't know what it was evenfor, but I don't know.
I just thought that was funnybecause we were there and our
franchise owners from Savannahwere there and they were on the
47th floor this time we werethere like last week, and they
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were just saying, oh my gosh,can you imagine if something, if
there was an emergency, and youhad to walk down 47?
And we were like, well, yeah, wewere like, well, just don't do
it.
As you know, it's an emergency,just sleep through it, it'll be
fine.
So we were like we did that andslept right through it, which
was just crazy, but you knowwe're still here to talk about
(14:14):
it, I guess.
So there's that.
People were in their pajamas.
Yeah, they were just in theirpajamas.
Pajamas, pajamas.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I say pajamas, pajamas, pajamas, pajamas,
pajamas, pajamas.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Pajamas.
I say pajamas.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Sleeping in your pajamas.
Jammies Pajamas, I say pajamasSleeping in your pajamas,
jammies pajamas.
Huh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Speaking of that, do you sleep?
You sleep in like pajamas,pajamas pajamas In in the winter
.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I will Like in a shirt shorts and pants and I
have, I have sets, you knowshorts and shirt.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, that's one thing I don't.
I never sleep in pajamas.
I keep my underwear on.
The older I get, the older Iget I mean I can't stand being
like clothes, like touch, likebound up with yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And then I flip around and they're twisted and
just yeah, it doesn't work mostof the time but you always have
your like sleep shirt orsomething like I like to be, you
know, and I've got to have myblanket this is a funny thing
speaking of blankets.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
So I have talked about, I think here on the
podcast before, how when Itravel anywhere, I always take
my pillow with me and Stephen'slike.
That is so dumb.
Why do you need to take yourpillow with you when you're just
going?
You know they have pillows andI'm like, but that's the most
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comfortable part of sleeping isthe right pillow.
They're too flat, I don't like.
If they're too spongy, I cannotstand if they're that
poly-filled.
I get it and it slides aroundand it just feels gross to me he
would make fun of me.
Well, now, in the last year, hehas started taking his blankie
(16:10):
with him.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It helps me sleep, it helps me rest.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh my gosh, I sleep so good now that I bring my
blanket with me and I'm like,well, he made fun of me for
taking a pillow.
It's the best blanket.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I've had it for like 25 years.
Dylan hates it, does he?
He's like why do you have totake that blanket?
I'm like it's just.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well, one day he'll find his comfort.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
item Wait till we go to Hawaii and we have that
blanket, just in a whole bag.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I cram my pillow.
I will take something out tomake my pillow fit that thing.
I know how to roll it up, it'sjust this flat mashed ass pillow
's not, it's a down pillow,it's flat.
It is not litter.
It is not flat is a flitter.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It is not.
How flat is a flitter?
What is a flitter?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Flat is a fritter flitter I've never heard of that
flat Flat as a fritter FritterFlitter, flitter, fritter
Fritter Flat as a fritter.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I guess it's flat as a fritter.
I guess maybe a pie.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
We need to look up the saying and see what it
actually is.
I saw a saying the other dayand I was like huh, it's one of
those like what is the realsaying?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
And I can't remember what it is.
It's flat as a flitter.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I was right, okay, southern southern american
coquillette is meaning extremelyflat, with flitter referring to
a fritter or pancake.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So I was right, it's's both.
But it's flat as a flitter, butit really refers to a fritter.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Or a pancake Flat as a flitter.
Huh, you never heard that, youdidn't grow up saying that, yeah
, flat as a flitter.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Flat as a flitter.
That tire was flat as a flitter, huh.
I guess I never thought aboutwhat it meant though well you
know, if you dig into all thelittle southern sayings, you'll
fight.
I mean, there's no telling whatthey mean.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I know sometimes it's scary.
I'm like what does this reallymean?
I saw something on social mediaand good news we are going to
be long-term friends.
How do you know?
Because there is a study thatfinds that friends who playfully
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insult each other and teaseeach other are 300% more likely
to remain friends and they'remore honest and more loyal.
I believe that.
So, as much shit as you give,give each other.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I believe that I think, I think it's about being
genuine and and having fun, notbeing mean.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So the lighthearted teasing reflects a strong bond
built on trust and mutualunderstanding.
It signals comfort in thefriendship where neither takes
offense.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Because we all have something that's, you know, an
insecurity about ourselves.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
We're not going to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
No, we're not going to talk about it, but the funny
thing is is I'm pretty surewe've talked about mine.
It was something I nevernoticed and I don't think anyone
we can talk about mine.
I don't think anyone elsenotices.
But the funny thing is is I canplayfully make fun of it.
(19:52):
But I'm like it's kind of crazybecause I never even noticed it
till you pointed it out.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, so mine is.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
One time I said to you I got to say this first.
One time I said to you actuallyI never noticed.
I never noticed it till youpointed it out and I don't think
anyone else ever notices it.
And you said just as sincerely.
You said I think that's thenicest thing you've ever said to
me.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It is because I said it and you're like what?
I've never noticed, that orwhatever.
And you're like no one wouldever Like he was very genuine,
Like no one would ever noticethat it wasn't like I was yeah,
you know, like the elephant inthe room no, and I was like that
(20:40):
is like the nicest you've everbeen to me, because steven is
the friend who will pick outsomething about you or something
he will hone in on something.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Playfully and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Not mean, not mean, but he will talk about it and he
had never pointed out.
So one day we were, I don'tknow.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Talking about shirts, I said I think I said you need
to get this shirt.
Yeah, these shirts are reallygood.
I think they were online.
I was like these shirts arereally good and you should order
these shirts, um, and you saidwell, I have to be.
You know, I have to be carefulabout shirts because you know my
(21:25):
hump.
And I was like what?
and you said you know my humpand I was like I am so lost
right now, like I sincerely donot know what you're talking
(21:51):
about and and it was like youwere talking he's yeah, my, you
know the big hump and I'm like I, I just don't know my neck hump
.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
My neck is not flat.
That's the only.
That is my one insecurity.
It just like oh, first of all,I know personally, uh, well, I
know I don't have great postureand that's where it began from,
but you know how some peoplejust have a perfectly straight
neck and back and it just andmine has a stand up straight.
(22:24):
Yeah, mine is.
Mine has a little.
No, you know.
Now you see it over all oversocial media.
Like these roles and stuff tolike help your, because more
people are getting them frombeing on their phone or
computers and looking to likehelp your because more people
are getting them from being ontheir phone or computers and
looking down and keeping yourneck forward.
But my hump, that's my hump, myhump, I was at market the other
(22:45):
day and I walked by, I thinklike a showroom window and I
could see in my shirt was youknow, if they're too low cut in
the back, it just accentuates myhump.
I was like, oh God, my hump isso big.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I went through a drive-thru the other day, dylan
and I did, coming back frommarket.
I know where we went throughMcDonald's on our way back from
Atlanta.
The guy that was at thepresentation window was like
seven feet tall.
He bent over.
I was watching on the frontcounter so I was looking at him
(23:20):
from a side profile and he hiswaist.
He bent at a 90 degree angle.
Yeah, just like his neck wassticking up.
I wanted to take a picture andsend it to you.
It was the most bizarre thingI've ever seen and I thought, oh
my gosh, I wonder if he has thehump.
Yeah, so I watched.
(23:41):
No, he didn't.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
He was just very flexible.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
He was just like a snake.
That is funny.
But he was so tall I was likegosh he's going to have.
I was thinking you know 52years old.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I was like you know at 52 years old, I was like he's
going to have back problems.
He's going to have, yeah,bending.
That would be the bad thingabout being excessively tall,
you know, like when you startgetting like over 6'5 or
something up there.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, I'm 5'11 and my back is busted.
But I'm just saying Can youimagine being 6'7?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
is, yeah, busted.
But I'm just saying imaginebeing six one, but yeah, six,
seven or seven feet, because youhave to bend to go through
everything, through every door,you know you start getting stuck
.
Maybe maybe they don't haveback trouble because they have
to use it more often.
Like they have to bend to gothrough everything.
They're in their head sideways,it's true, that's very.
I can't imagine getting in theshower you know I'll, I'll shout
you would be like.
Well, you would have to have itcustom, yeah, but that costs a
(24:39):
little money.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well, yeah, I mean just saying eventually when you
got there, but you know wellwhen you, you would have it
damaged by the time you were 30.
So it wouldn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I wish I was like two inches taller.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I don't.
I'm good being my I'm good5'11".
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I'm really fine with my height, but it would be cool
to be like 5'11 is really goodfor me.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I'm at technically 5'11 and a half, but I don't
ever say that, yeah, don't dothat.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That sounds like you're five.
Two trying to stretch five.
I'm five two and a half, I betdylan.
You know he's a little shorterhe says whatever in three
quarters they do.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
If you're, if you're a guy and you are under, I think
, five, nine, you break it downto the Centimeter, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You know exactly how tall does he say he is?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I don't even, honestly, I don't even know, I
really don't pay attention to it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I know, I know he's sad and I don't pay attention
either.
I really don't, but I bet hesays three quarters.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
But you know half of my family's short, half of my
family's taller, Like me andtaller yeah.
And then half of my family arestumpy.
That's funny, my mother wastiny, yeah, yeah, and my dad is
only 5'9".
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So I, but my dad's side of the family had tall.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, that's kind of how mine is.
My dad's side has taller Well,it's mixed.
My mom's side most of them are,you know, shorter, smaller, but
my aunt, she's tall.
She's probably the tallest inthe family on that side.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah, your grandmother wasn't short, though
.
Yeah, was she.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, she was probably like 5'4".
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Was she?
Yeah, I know she had those tinylittle feet, because she was a
foot model.
I mean, she always had on highheels, so she probably.
Yeah, I guess I didn't notice.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, because I think my mom's like 5'4".
But anyway, yeah, when you get,especially for a guy, when you
get under a certain size, theydo break it down to 5'7 and 3
quarters and some guys have thatlittle man syndrome.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Oh yeah, that's a real thing it is a thing, and
the funny thing is, short guysthat are confident are
unstoppable Right.
So much better.
Yeah, to own it.
Yeah, own it.
Joke about it, move on, move on.
Yeah, no, those others youcan't change it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Well, those short men , syndrome ones they're.
I mean, they're angry.
Yeah, like you can't do a thingand you can just beat them down
because you know they're they.
I mean, when you know a shortman has that syndrome, you know,
they're just not confident youknow.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
And so then they try to be cocky and you just, I
don't like that, you can justlook at them and yeah, I worked
for one that had little mansyndrome and I'm not being ugly
to anybody.
Listen, I don't care what.
Listen, my husband is, I don'tknow, 5'1".
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Well, you don't have to have an attitude about it.
Your husband is not 5'1".
I'm kidding, he snuck that inthere.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
No, but you don't have to be angry about it, no
and honestly, dylan, I thinkit's five, seven, yeah, and
that's fine you know it doesn'tmatter.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
He might be like five four, he's not five, four, he's
five, six or five seven.
I might have to, I might haveto measure him, I don't.
I feel like he has told me like, oh, I'm whatever and I'm like
I don't know.
You might add it a little there.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, I mean, I guess people do that.
I don't know, I don't knoweither.
It's kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
The funny is I don't think about it Like you don't.
I don't know, it's notsomething you think about, but
that's so funny.
It's not something you thinkabout, but that's so funny,
doesn't bother me.
So yeah, so we're going to befriends because you like to make
fun of me playfully.
And more than about my hump,it's about everything, basically
.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Well, you terrorize me, and that's why we're not
going to be friends.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Oh, is there a fine line there.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
No, I can take it.
I'm pretty it.
I'm pretty tough, I'm prettyresilient.
Are you?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I don't really terrorize you.
I know the things that you'remost sensitive about.
Do you like my?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
jacket.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
You got a new one, I did.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
What?
What is this Wait?
This is called.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Is this a rain?
Hold on, it is rain and it, oh,it's a brand called Save the
Duck.
Save the Duck.
I don't know what that is, butI found it and it felt like
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cloth.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Where did you find this?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I found this in Clemson.
I went to Clemson, you know,several weeks ago.
Oh so, like from a boutique,yeah, from a boutique men's
store, I don't know why I gottaturn this way to feel it.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
It's like I can't See .
It feels good.
So is it like a rain jacket?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, it's a rain jacket, so I don't know if you
remember I had a black one thatwas a?
Um, it was a good jacket.
It was nice.
It was a North Face.
It was a nice, typical, normalrain jacket.
Uh-huh, it was torture for me.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
It was A jacket was torture.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
It was like wearing a sweatsuit.
It was like plastic.
You know it was one of thoseplasticky, yeah and Well, those
get hot.
Did it get hot?
It just I felt so gross wearingthat.
I felt like I was sweating,that's what.
(30:55):
I cannot take that and literallyI had it on and it was raining
somewhere and I took it off andI was.
I looked at it and I thoughtyou're not going with me, I
would rather be wet.
And I was thinking you knowsomeone will get that, that will
appreciate it, it won't botherthem.
(31:16):
Yeah, it drives me crazy, so Ihave done without.
I was like I, so you just leftyour jacket somewhere.
Yeah, I did, you just took itoff when you were out in the
rain, and I would do that withif I had on shoes.
I've been in new york city onetime and so and a lady just had
on heels.
Yeah, that hurt her.
She just literally took themoff and left them on the
(31:38):
sidewalk and kept walking.
She's like I'm done with theselittle bitches.
Yeah, just so, I mean I woulddo that too.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Okay, I was like, nope, I am which I wouldn't want
barefoot in new york, butanyway, yeah, I, I just thought
I cannot wear this thing I dohate like a weather jacket like
that, like a rain jacket thattraps in and it feels like it
gets humid underneath it andsticky and just ugh.
It is just just gross feeling Iwould do the same.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I mean I would just.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I don't know if I would have left it.
I would have just taken it offand been like well, I mean, you
might as well give it.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I mean, I was thinking well, someone, someone
to take it, yeah I mean Iwouldn't throw it away.
I mean, obviously they don'tbother most people.
So when did you get this one?
Just a few weeks ago I was likeI don't and I honestly had
forgotten about it.
But then I would go when it wasraining like today, cats and
(32:35):
dogs and I was like, oh, I needa rain jacket.
And I was like I don't have one,yeah, so I was like I don't
have one.
Yeah, so I was.
I went this is a funny story.
So I, my financial advisor, isin Clemson and I had a meeting
my annual meeting with him and Iwas like I want to go downtown
Clemson and have lunch and walkaround, and then there was this
(32:59):
store, mh Frank, downtown.
It's a men's boutique and it'sfancy and I couldn't afford to
shop there when I was in school,oh, back in the day.
I mean, I couldn't even afforda pair of socks there.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
You were like.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I want to go in there .
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You're like I just got my financials.
I'm good, I'm in there, Let mego in there.
My financials, I'm good, I'm inthere, let me go in there.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
The funny thing is from in 30 years.
I was like there's not reallyanything I want in here.
Yeah, you know it's a beautifulstore, but I was like I don't
need anything.
And so I was walking by andthen I saw these and I was like
what Wait a minute?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I need a rain jacket.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
They caught my eye so I said I think I need that, so
I bought it well, that's good.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
And now, and you're happy with, I'm very happy with
it.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I'm not sweating.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
You don't have to leave it somewhere not sweating
in it.
It some way not sweating in it,that's good.
I have a little um, a littlefollow-up from our last podcast
when I was talking about one ofthe siblings in daniel's family
had fallen through the ceilingwith the, you know, the weed.
(34:19):
So if you missed that in theprevious episode, oh you know, I
saw the family, so I got thescoop.
Okay, so I have somecorrections to make in my story,
but also I think there's to methere's a part that's even
funnier.
So the brother, one of thebrothers was, so it wasn't in
(34:41):
the middle of the night, so theparents, I think, were out or
something.
They weren't there and he had,you know, partaked in the grass
and was looking for a place tostore his stash is what it was.
And so he, there was a, acloset that you could open up
(35:07):
and it didn't have any floor.
It had, like the AC unit orwhatever, right, and no flooring
.
And he stepped into that closetand stepped through, which went
, you know it did go through themaster bedroom.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Oh, it would have been better at night but they
were sleeping.
But that would have been betterat night If they were sleeping,
but that would have given thema heart attack.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It would have.
But now, to me the funnier partis, I guess they came home and
he played it off like oh, I wasjust looking in the closet, blah
, blah blah.
They didn't know until thestory on the podcast that he had
been smoking weed.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
So we outed him.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
We outed him.
I mean they were like, well, weknew he was up to something, no
good or whatever, but theydidn't actually know that it was
.
Oh, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
We're happy to help.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, so I guess I thought it was known from the
whole family.
But I guess maybe the otherbrother had told us like hey,
this story or whatever.
We just assumed everyone knewthey were laughing about it.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
You can laugh when it's years later.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yeah, years later, and everyone's successful and on
their own.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I guess you can laugh about it.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
But I was like, well, that makes it even funnier now
that we just added him on thepodcast.
Well, but no one, you know noone was offended by the story.
So I get to stay in the family.
That's good, yeah, but Ithought that was just funny
there.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
That's funny, that is crazy, I got to check our
hotline.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Do you have any funny like incidences like that?
Maybe your parents didn't, youknow, know about until years
later, or maybe it had somethingto do with weed.
Let us know.
On our hotline it's864-982-5029.
I actually forgot to check thehotline before we started this
one, because we use the samephone that you call as our
(37:05):
recording phone and I have tolike reposition and everything,
so I didn't check the hotline.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
So my mom was.
My mom smoked in high school.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
It was the 60s.
I mean, come on.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
And she would raise the window and blow out the
window.
Yeah, ok, so she had hiddenwindow.
Yeah, okay, so she had hiddenher cigarettes and matches in
something under her bed.
Yeah, and she went to get themand my grandmother had found
(37:37):
them.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Did she leave a note?
Speaker 2 (37:39):
She wrote her because , you know, my grandmother was
like your mom's mom Passive,aggressive, yeah, very passive.
I found these.
What will I find next?
Oh my God, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Oh, I bet your mom was sweating.
I think it made her mad.
Just that note, yeah, just likethat is funny, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
My mom was like yeah, my mom was like, yeah, just
knock the hell out of me.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Whatever, stop yeah the note just irritated her.
Yeah, my mamaw, who you knowhas my dad's mom she used to
smoke and I guess she thought noone knew.
I mean she never did itpublicly.
I mean as my whole life I neversaw her smoke a cigarette, but
(38:30):
I can remember her buying them,like being with her at the
grocery store and her buyingthem, but it was always very
sneakily, like sneakily yeah,sneakily, sneakily yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Welcome to Hooked on Phonics.
Sneakily is the word of the day.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Okay, Sneaky, but she would discreetly buy them at
the grocery store.
But she I never from the time Iwas a little kid to a grown
adult saw her smoke a cigarette.
But she would go in herbathroom that was off of her
bedroom and raise the window andsmoke and blow it out the
(39:14):
window so everybody knew it waseveryone knew.
I mean, you could go in thebathroom after her and it
smelled like Lysol andcigarettes.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
So funny.
My mom's mom yeah, she smokedin the 70s.
But then when it became youknow, passe, you know that you
don't smoke yeah, my wholefamily quit once.
You know, once the news was outthis is really bad for you, my
whole family that smoked quit,yeah.
(39:48):
And so she, she pretended likeshe did, but she never did.
Oh, she pretended like she quit, yes, and we found out about
this later and so there was.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I wonder if that's like, what?
Like?
I wonder if my mamaw, like whenI wasn't there, the grand like
if it was just her and mygranddaddy at home, did she?
I think she still went in thebathroom and smoked she would
smoke in front of me and my mom.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
But that was it because she said we didn't judge
.
She said everybody judges me,but she would keep a butt under
a cushion on the back porch andshe would smoke on that.
She would say she was takingscraps to the edge of the yard.
She'd be out there smoking,take a few puffs.
(40:36):
Well, in her life you know, shewas almost 90 when she died.
And you know, and in her lastfew years my crazy aunt was not
wanting to let her smoke and I'mlike, if you're like 89 years,
smoke, do what you want.
(40:57):
Yeah, at that point, Buy themfor her and do what you want.
Yeah, she was like I thought itwas just, I thought that was a
mean.
My mom and I both I was likethat's just being mean.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah, I mean, why are you going to try to make
someone quit at that stage?
Eat what you want, I mean, ifthey're not wanting to smoke
what you want, yeah, whateverthat may be.
Yeah, Whatever.
But now, as an adult, I justwonder did my mama, did she like
if no one was there, you know,go out on the back porch and
(41:29):
smoke?
Speaker 2 (41:32):
But I think she probably just smoked from the
bathroom and she probably washiding it partially from your
granddaddy.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
But I wonder, I mean he always he would chew tobacco?
Yeah, but no, but mygrandmother did just he would
chew tobacco.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Yeah, but no.
But my grandmother did justbecause she felt guilty.
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I don't know.
I don't know.
I need to ask an aunt or acousin.
Crazy, it's funny, though, thatyou know.
They thought you didn't know,or whatever.
Oh my goodness.
Well, I think we got to wrap upthis episode, Are you?
Speaker 2 (42:00):
done.
Yeah, let Well, I think we gotto wrap up this episode, are you
done?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, let's pull it out.
We're going to pull this babyover.
Remember, our hotline again is864-982-5029.
It's always down in the shownotes.
Whether you're listening orwatching, you can text or call
us and if you have a topic youwould like for us to you know,
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