June 17, 2025 • 49 mins
Ever wondered what happens when two best friends drive separately but record together? Buckle up for a journey through health procedures, design trends, and Southern traditions that'll make you laugh, cringe, and maybe even book that medical appointment you've been avoiding.
If you haven't updated your app or maybe you're new and hadn't gotten the app yet, go to your app store. Doesn't matter Android or Apple, just search The Nested Fig, update your app or download the new one.
Don't forget to join our online community at WhosDrivingPodcast.com
Join the conversation by calling their hotline at 864-982-5029 with your own stories or topic suggestions, and experience the authentic charm of two best friends who truly never know who's driving or where they're headed.
Look For The Water Bottle! Tap Here For Hidrate Spark water bottle.
Visit www.WesleyTurnerLiving.com to find so much more about all the things we do!
Follow Steven on Instagram at @Keepinupwithsteven and follow Wesley on Instagram at @WesleyTurnerLiving. Shop our online store at TheNestedFig.Com Find The Nested Fig on Instagram at @TheNestedFig
We mentioned The Nested Fig App in this episode. You can Tap Here to get our app and join our live sales
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Who's driving?
Ain't nobody driving Separately, but we're here, we're driving
separately.
I've been in the office.
You and I have a packed week.
I feel like it's getting busierand busier.
In the summertime it's supposedto be a little bit slower, but
it's time for another episode ofwho'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, girl, what you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I've been in my office all day.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Steven is in a mood I had to like come on, girl,
let's do this Listen it's one ofthose times.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
If I could reach through my computer and grab
this woman on the other end inIndiana, I would probably be in
jail right now if I could get myhands on her.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It's one of those times I'm glad I'm in my own.
We're driving separately.
I'm pulling out of it now I'mpulling out of it now.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's one of those moves when you really want to
slap the hell out of somebody,but you can't.
It makes you real frustrated.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's where I was.
This will loosen you up havinga fun little chat.
So what have you been?
Working on so everyone knows,so they can sympathize with you.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I've been doing our workers' comp insurance audit,
so anybody out there.
That has to do anybody that'sin business for themselves or
works for a company and they'rein administration.
You know about workers' compaudits.
You have to do them every yearevery year yeah, every year, and
(02:09):
it should be very simple, clean, clean, cut, streamlined.
And this one auditing companyjust keeps making it more and
more and more complicated.
I like it doesn't need to becomplicated.
It's really not complicated.
Here's what we paid out.
(02:30):
Here's their jobs.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
The employees what do ?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
we owe you.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well hopefully your mood gets a little better.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's just the way it is.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was in McDonald's North Carolina and South
Carolina McDonald's owners areself-insured, so I really liked
that.
It was very clean, cut and easyand you got dividends back when
you didn't have any accidentsand expenses.
(03:06):
Oh, that's cool, yeah, so I got.
Even after I got out ofMcDonald's, I got rebate checks
for seven years.
Oh dang.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I mean, some of them were in the thousands, but I had
no.
I think I had one worker's compin all my years.
Well, it is such a pain.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I used to do all of that and then I said I'm not
doing this.
Well, it was so.
The company, the insurance thatwe have, makes it complicated,
and so I would usually call ourinsurance rep and say if you
want this policy, then you needto fill out this report for me,
and I would send all theinformation.
And they did.
But then the owner of theinsurance, our person, left, and
(03:50):
so now we're on our own, andthen I was like you got to take
this over because I ain't doingit.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
But it's all good, I got it done.
That's good Much happier now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So last week, when we left off let's see where were
we leaving off oh, you weregoing to Atlanta, which you did,
did some live sales.
Oh, your colonoscopy is whatyou were left off with.
So let's talk about thecolonoscopy, the good old
roto-rootering.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, I forgot.
Okay.
And you said you know I'll tellyou.
And you told me.
Wesley said when I was going in, he said I'm so glad you're
having it done because you willtell me exactly what's what.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well, I feel like all of us, you will tell the truth
and you know how it was.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It was fine, and you know people talk about the prep.
None of that bothered me, itwasn't that bad, I don't.
I usually only eat really onemeal a day.
I might banana popsicles andlime jello, which I like, and it
(05:07):
was fine and everything wasfine.
The only thing was I'm not ahuge salty person and I guess
the magnesium and sodium,whatever, whatever, in that
mixture that you drink was likethe best way I can describe it.
(05:30):
It's like drinking ocean water,even mixing it with something.
But you know I just killed.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
That's not.
That's not the worst, though,either.
I mean, it's not like it was.
Uh, you know, uh, I don't knowsome kind of Putrid taste.
Yeah, it was just salty, itwasn't like a rurk taste.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, but so I mixed it up the day before I had to take
five Dulcolax pills at noon.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah.
And then about two hours laterthat hit, so that was okay so
when you're going through the uh, the process, the prep process,
yeah, which you know, you gotta, you're, you're, you're getting
everything out, you're flushingeverything out.
Is that like, and you take likethose pills and you have to do
this drink or whatever does ithit?
(06:20):
Are you in like cramping painor is it just like, oh, I got to
go to the bathroom, no, it'slike I got to go to the bathroom
and it's not that big of a deal.
So it wasn't torment, you werejust going to the bathroom.
A lot, and.
(06:41):
I thought, so you know it waslike the first time after the
Dulcolax was like a normalMovement Extreme coffee poop.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You know it was.
It was it was.
I drank three cups of coffeepoop.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And everyone can relate to that.
You know everyone, everybodyeverybody can.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So I was like, well dang, I don't know how much
could be left.
And so then I killed that drink.
Like I drank that in like 20minutes the mixture.
I had to do that at five, thefirst one at five, and after I
did that, let me get rid of that.
After I did that, like before Ifinished it in that 20 minutes,
I was like, ooh, I gotta go tothe bathroom.
It was, honestly, it was kindof clear after all that when
(07:26):
they say clear, it's really itlooks like urine.
It has a yellow hue to it.
So I did that.
I was completely done, going tothe bathroom within two hours.
Okay, so I slept.
I slept normal.
I set my alarm to get up at sixbecause I had my colonoscopy
(07:50):
was at one, got up at six, I didthat drink again it did the
same thing, but quicker.
Yeah, and it was just a paleyellow, and then I went Okay,
yellow.
And then I went okay and myonly only issue with the whole
thing was really not related toanything.
(08:10):
It was just I have horribleanxiety, so it wasn't even the
procedure.
It was like my mind was the OCD.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I had OCD and health anxiety.
I was going to say healthanxiety because anything related
to it.
You just start spiraling.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I can't shut it off.
Yeah, and you know.
So, you get there, Got there.
Everyone was really nice.
I checked in.
Dylan got to go back with me,so I went in, went in the room I
had to undress completely,panties and all.
(08:52):
I left my socks on and they hadheated blankets.
So I said I need two please.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I explained to the nurse.
I said I have severe healthanxiety so I need the doctor.
I want to talk to the doctorprior to and immediately after
when I'm awake, where we'regoing to have a big issue.
I mean, I was very nice andthey were the best.
(09:29):
Like I can't even tell you ifyou live in the upstate South
Carolina area and you're goingto.
You know, please go get acolonoscopy.
Even if you have terriblehealth anxiety like me, it's
good to go get it.
It's good to know Colon canceris the most curable cancer and
preventable that there is.
(09:50):
So just go do yourself a favorand go go do it and get it over
with and you'll feel so muchbetter about it.
But it's.
I went to Dr Lizardo atGreenville Gastroenterology and
he was phenomenal.
The nurses were phenomenal.
They had great personalities.
(10:12):
I mean it couldn't have been abetter experience.
He went through it with me.
He got me calmed down.
He was like I think you're fine, let's just get through the
procedure.
I woke up, it was great sleep.
And he was like I think you'refine, let's just get through the
procedure.
Yeah, I woke up, it was greatsleep.
That propofol is.
I wish he could come here likeonce a week and just give me
(10:35):
propofol to sleep for like onehour a week and I would be a
much happier person.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Okay, Michael Jackson .
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I see how it happened .
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I see how it happened , I see how it happened.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But I woke up and it was funny, Dylan was there and I
woke up.
I was like this and all of asudden I woke up.
He said I was like Iseverything okay?
Is everything okay?
You were immediately.
I didn't miss a beat.
I was true to myself.
(11:09):
So I had two small polyps, onetwo millimeter, one five
millimeter.
I have some diverticula thatwere not severe, not infected.
He said overall my colon,everything looked great and like
(11:29):
.
He brought the photos in to seeme and I don't like gross
things and I was like no, Idon't want to see that, but you
like sending gross stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
You send me gross stuff all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
But you know, that's after I've seen it.
And so Dylan looked at it andhe was like, steven, it's
nothing, it's you can.
I was like, let me see, yeah,and it wasn't.
It wasn't anything, it justlooked like my gums inside my
mouth and um, so it was a.
It was really a greatexperience.
(12:02):
You know, I I never felt likeI'd been violated or anything.
I will say this, and I'm gladone of the nurses told me
because when I got home I didbleed some, I guess, from
removing the polyps.
Yeah, the nurses was in, was inher early thirties and she had
(12:24):
had, she had had it done and shewas like you're going to feel a
little weird in like where he'dremoved them.
So don't get alarmed.
And then till they heal over.
Yeah, it was like it was liketwo days.
I could tell they did something, but it didn't hurt, if that
makes sense.
I could just tell something wasgoing on and and then it was
(12:48):
fine.
But I knew um, a friend of minehad had it when she had a lot
of polyps removed and she wassick for like a week, just
really uncomfortable, and I waslike but I see why, now I see
where she was where she wascoming from now, but it wasn't
bad at all and he said I couldcome back in probably 10 years.
(13:13):
And I'm like, no, we're gonna dothis every three to five, just
stay on top of it he's like okayI figure, if it's, if I do
sooner than later, I won't be asanxious about it, right,
because you know they grow sosmall.
Yeah, yeah, so that was it.
(13:34):
Well, that's good, it was an.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
A-plus experience and you're telling everybody,
because you know there's peoplelistening that hadn't had it
done and they're way past theirtime and people who've been
putting it off.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yes, please go do it.
You'll feel so much betterabout it afterwards and you'll
know I mean it's good to know ifyou have any diverticula in
your colon.
You know that way, if you doget sick or something comes up,
you know that's there and youcan address it.
(14:10):
But you know there's somepeople that just don't.
My dad is in his mid-70s.
He's never had one, which iscrazy to me.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, some people just don't do it, refuse to do
it.
Well, I'm glad everythingturned out and we're not having
to, you know, talk you off theledge.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, I agree.
I'm glad it's over with and itwasn't bad at all.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So coming up this week, speaking of being busy,
and this is why we have a quickturnaround in today's Monday
when we're recording this.
This comes out tomorrow, whichis Tuesday, Wednesday we are
going to the Dallas market.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yes.
I'm looking forward to it youready for another trip?
Yeah, this is my favorite giftmarket.
Is my favorite gift market Imean High Point is extra special
because that's my first love isthe furniture and design and
all that.
But for gift market, dallas ismy favorite just because it has
(15:18):
those things that Atlantadoesn't it's like a open-air
mall with a big atrium, yeah, solast, year.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Last June was our first time going to the Dallas
market, because Atlanta is twohours from here.
We can be from our doors in ashowroom in like two hours.
Two hours and 15 minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Which is great.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And Atlanta is the largest market to go to.
So if you are a small businessowner, which is great, you're
going to get the most bang foryour buck and you're going to
get to see a lot more varietyand vendors than Dallas, correct
, but Dallas, like Stephen wassaying, is so much it's nicer,
the people are nicer.
It's more.
(16:17):
I don't know even how toexplain it.
You got to go to both if youhaven't gone there.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
To me, the best way I can describe it is going to go
to both.
It's just you haven't gonethere it.
To me, it the best way I candescribe it is going to the mall
in 1985 or coffee and food andbistro tables, and it's just
more comfortable yeah, they haveatriums where you can see that
it's daylight.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
They have a koi pond and fountains.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Atlanta.
You feel like you're locked upin a high-rise building Office
building when you can't seeanything which you are you?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
are, you might see something.
When you're walking to theescalator or some showrooms, you
might can go what's out thatwindow or something.
I go look, it's been rainingfor all day.
We had no clue.
Yeah, and Atlanta is just, theyused to be very.
(17:15):
They were there for thebusiness owners, they were
putting on events, they had food, they had parades.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
They had celebrities things going on, and now it's
like just come if you want to.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
We're going to open the door for you.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
There's no we have some sandwiches from yesterday,
if you want to buy it.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, it's just weird how it's not as set up.
But anyway, maybe they'll getit figured out one day.
When I started going to marketback in the day they like out in
front of the buildings theywere passing out free goodie
bags.
They had like people on steel,I mean it was like a circus out
front.
You could register for freethings and then every showroom
(18:04):
had amazing food.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Uh, it was an event, even.
It was an event ago, even 15years ago.
It was, it was, it was morelike that.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Now it's like but dallas was closer to that they
were having giveaway likeannouncements, like come to this
place, we're giving away thisor we're doing that.
I don't know.
It wasn't much nicer feel.
But we're going on Wednesdayand the goal is to knock out a
couple of our big orders that wedo in Atlanta just to give us
(18:36):
some more time.
We always seem to run out oftime, so we'll get some of our
big vendors knocked out and dosome live sales.
So if you don't have the NestedFig app we talk about it every
week I feel like you need to getthe Nested Fig app.
You can go to our website,thenestedfigcom.
It's always in the show noteson the website.
Or even if you're justlistening on Spotify, you can
(18:58):
scroll up and see the show notesand there's a link there.
But if you go to our website,when you're on our website, at
the top it says like downloadour app.
It's kind of posted all overthe website.
You can get our app and join uslive, because we have no idea
what times we'll be live, butwe're going to be there
Wednesday afternoon.
We're going to be thereThursday, friday and all day
Saturday.
We get back home I think it'sat like 12.05 am on Sunday
(19:23):
morning.
So I can't believe it's alreadymarket season again for the
summer market.
I mean, we've been going tomarket for the small shows and
to do live sales and stuff, butthis is when we're going to
actually start shopping forspring of 2026.
So we'll be ordering springEaster anything that we need for
(19:45):
early 2026.
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It is.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But I'm excited to go to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Me too, me too.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
So I was scrolling on the gram and I read and I
thought, oh my gosh, this istrue, a trend going on in home
design and decor, and I hadn'treally thought about it until.
I read this and they wereshowing photos and whatnot and
(20:20):
they were saying the look isintentional clutter.
And they were saying the lookis intentional clutter, like
you're instead of your.
You know, we've kind of we kindof went through that whole
minimalist phase and this isyour, your maximalist kind of
intentional clutter.
And I got to thinking about ityou know that that's a good way
(20:42):
to describe it and I like someintentional clutter.
I decided that I like it.
I like intentional cluttercontained in a specific area,
like on a buffet.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, intentional clutter feels warm, it feels
cozy is what it does.
It feels homey, so that's whyit's appealing to most people.
I've never heard it definedthat way, but that is a good way
to define it.
But that's like showing offyour collections, but not making
them look junky.
It's clean, it's styled.
(21:20):
But it's intentionally, yeah,but put together and contain.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
that is a good way you have, if you have a, if you
have a collection of whatevermilk glass um right, silver
jadeite you actually you have acollection of jadeite, what
pottery, whatever.
It looks nicer if you candisplay it all together in one
(21:46):
collection rather than having itstrewn over throughout your
whole home.
And I kind of put that in theintentional clutter and I'm like
.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, I like intentional clutter.
Who would be really good, whois really good at defining this?
Look, if you want to go see, itis Deb and the Nail.
She does it so well becauseshe'll have like a collection of
bowls or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Cream layer.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah yeah, she styles it really well together.
So if you want to go, what thehell is intentional clutter?
What are you even talking about?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Go check out Deb and the Nelle on Instagram and see
their have them back on, and itlooks really great when you do
it correctly.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, it does, because what it does is it takes
a lot of individual items andit makes a eye-stopping mess
when you group them all together.
I mean, it's basically what wedo in our retail stores when
we're styling something.
You know this is the hardestthing Steven and I have had to
(22:56):
teach over our years of havingthe retail stores is grouping
everything that's alike together.
Pile it together if you need to, don't have it strewn
throughout the store Employees.
And you know, specifically atour home store we get a lot of
home designers, decorators,interior designers and that sort
(23:16):
of thing and they always wantto merchandise a store the way
they would design a home, whichis totally different when you're
doing individual items.
So to have that intentionalclutter kind of plays off the
merchandising where we groupeverything together, you turn
some pieces on their sides, youstack them inside of each other.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, so I've been working on the table in our
foyer to create some intentionalclutter there, and I have not.
I told you I was working on itand I have not completely
figured it out, but I'm buying,I know the look I'm going for, I
(24:00):
know what I'm using, but I'vejust started collecting.
You got to collect all thepieces and then do it.
And then I decided I was layingin bed the other night and I was
like I need a center point andI was like I'm going to do I
haven't done this in a minute Iwant to go to the garden store
(24:27):
and I'm going to do anarrangement.
I need to do, I need to make areel out of this.
I'm going to do an arrangementas you would do a floral
arrangement, but I'm just goingto use dried mushrooms, pods and
feathers.
Not flowers, no greenery, justdifferent things to make an
(24:48):
arrangement.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
So very natural kind of masculine.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yes, yes, and then I want to use old silver.
But God, I just got to complainfor a minute.
We went when Dylan and I werein Atlanta the last time we ran
in my favorite antique store forabout 20 minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
The antiques are having their moment and they
have gone up.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Well, dylan was like Stephen.
Here's a silver trophy vase,which is, you know, I want one
or two of those.
I was like $289.
$1,100.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I need excuse me, where's the plate?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I need the plated silver.
You need the plastic.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I was like good gracious.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think we'll start seeing more reproductions of
things like that in antiquestyle coming.
You know it takes a while totrickle in, but I think antiques
we talked about it are reallyhaving their moment of coming
back.
I mean, antiques never,obviously go out of style.
It just depends on whether youwant that look.
But then you know, a newgeneration discovers it and they
(26:03):
think it's something new andit's not.
They don't think it's somethingnew.
I hate when people say thatlike, oh, we've been doing this
for years.
They know it's been around foryears, but now it's what they
want too.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
so then it makes more people want it, but I think
it's cool for them yeah, um, Ihate when people like.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Like on instagram.
I posted a couple of weeks agoabout you know, I antique the
mirror behind me, the um window,with the mirror paint behind me
, and some lady and she sells.
She sells antiques.
Oh, heifer.
And she was like this isnothing new.
I've been doing this for 20years.
I'm like I didn't.
(26:41):
I didn't say look what Iinvented.
It's just showing you had tolearn it 20 years ago from
somewhere.
Did you pull it out of your ass?
No, did you learn that?
No, I just rolled my eyes.
I've learned just to.
I don't give people the time ofday I wanted to be like.
And yeah, people's beenreselling antiques for hundreds
(27:03):
of years.
It's called selling products.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
And honey, if you've been doing it for years, you
should be a pro at it.
Why don't you have a reel onthere doing?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
it.
Yeah, I mean it's so funnyAnytime you do something that's
like a tutorial, like that orcooking, and they're like I've
had this recipe and I'm like Ididn't say I invented the damn
brownie, I'm just showing youand then someone else is always
learning something.
I mean there's tons of things,recipes out there that I'd love
(27:32):
to know how to cook or do it.
It just trips me up.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
People cannot help themselves to say something
negative or hurt or just be ugly.
That's why I am so thankful,even when I want to do it and I
want to say things a lot oftimes, especially when people
are telling people to do thingsincorrectly.
I want to say no, no, no, but Iam not the Instagram police.
(28:02):
I'm not.
You know, you do you and youknow they'll figure out that
they, you know, shouldn't usescotch tape as a flower frog I
don't need to go on there andcorrect you.
I just don't, I will not do itRight.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I know I will not do it Right.
I know I do the same thing.
I do have the urge sometimesand then I'm like scroll away,
scroll away.
And then if I have that urgemultiple times, I don't know
we're off on it.
You got me off on a tangent.
If I have that urge multipletimes with the same person, I
just don't follow them.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's exactly what you should do.
You never want to look at themagain.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
They're not for me, and that's okay, the same way,
people don't follow me all thetime.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
That comedian, shelly Belly.
I don't know what her name isShelly, something or another, I
do not know why.
I cannot stand her.
I hate her voice, I hate herlaugh.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
What if she's listening to our podcast?
She might be a fan.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I've always wanted to tell her that I can't stand you
.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I can't stand you, and that is okay, shelly, if you
are listening, that is fine,because you know what.
Not everybody has to likeeverybody.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
There's plenty of people that don't like you.
One of my favorite comedians.
You can't stand.
It's just the way it is.
That's why there's chocolate,vanilla and strawberries.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Who's your favorite comedian?
That I can't stand.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
One of Fortune, one of Fortune theme stirrer.
Oh God See, I love her, but shecomes across more sincere to me
and genuine.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
There is nothing I guess I can relate.
There is nothing funny abouther.
From head to toe Boy, nothing.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I like her.
It's okay.
That is okay.
Chocolate and vanilla Chocolateand vanilla.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
It's true, it is true .
Yesterday I spent the whole dayinstalling.
You'll be so happy and I kindof told you about it.
But it gets to something.
I want to talk about A wholehome water filtration system.
So we've been here on the farmfor nine years now.
Right, it's been nine years.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I've been smelling your water for nine years.
His water smells like somebodyfarted.
I'm always like there's just alot of sulfur in the water.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Evidently yes, and it's come and gone, and we had
like a little filter that waslike this big under the house
that we wouldn't change for likea year at a time.
Then we had a thing attachmenton the well pump that was
supposed to help with that.
I don't know, anyway, but itseems to be working.
I just got it installedyesterday.
It was very easy to install.
Seems to be working great.
(31:03):
So we'll see when you're here.
I'll let you drink some waterfrom the tap when you get here
and tell me what you think nexttime, but I haven't smelled it
and I went upstairs.
You know I'm more used to itthan you are.
You know you come in and turnon the faucet and you're like,
oh my gosh.
And I'm like I don't smell it.
But I can when I go upstairs tolike one of our upstairs guest
(31:27):
bathrooms, I think because thesulfur gases probably go up, get
trapped or whatever.
So when you first turn it on ifyou haven't turned on the
shower, you know in a while youcan usually smell it, and so I
did that today and I didn'tsmell it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So, and that happens in our condos at Hilton.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Head.
Yeah, I have never noticed itin the Florida house.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I've never noticed it in Florida, but it must be a
lot of sulfur around in thisstate.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It is, I guess.
Yeah, and you know the um, ourcleaning lady told us one time
at Hilton headlight you got tobe careful that it doesn't sit
there too long because it willget trapped or something like in
your hot water heater.
So ever told you that like andthey have to, like I don't know
drain it and kind of get it out.
If it so they're, like, ifyou're not booked for a long
(32:19):
time, you should really turnyour hot water heater off.
I guess it's the heating of itup or something.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But so what I do is like if I go there in early
spring, when there haven't beena lot of rentals in the winter,
I just I drain the tank, I justturn all the hot water, pull all
the hot water out and it getsrid of it.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, that's a good thing to do, but so I told you
this yesterday that I had donethis and we were talking about
it in the live sale last night,which you love to make fun of
our water, as you just did, andthat sort of thing.
But you brought up and I knowwe talked about it on here one
time before, but it was likeyear one episode early on the
(33:00):
whale story with the mouse and Ithink it just needs to be
retold.
This is why he hates whale wateror anything like that.
In our defense, before we domove on, we do have bottled
water and, like our refrigeratorwaters, filtered, we get water
delivery all of this time, so wehaven't been consuming it.
(33:24):
We use it to cook, but you'reboiling it sort of thing.
Now Daniel will.
He'll get a glass of waterright out of the sink and I'm
like it tastes like pennies tome it wouldn't bother him, it
never has, never will, butanyway.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
He could eat roadkill and it wouldn't make him sick.
He has a stomach.
I've always said he has astomach of steel.
He really does.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
He really does, but when we were moving to the farm,
stephen was like oh my gosh,you got well water, get it
tested.
Let me tell you about my wellexperience.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
So I grew up my whole family on both sides.
You know we were out in thecountry, not like Piedmont
country where Wesley lives.
It was the damn country and allwe had was we had well water
and spring water.
That was it when I was a kidand spring water.
(34:21):
That's the best water ever, andI inherited that spring, by the
way.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
So I am yes our pond is spring fed.
I guess we could have tappedinto that at some point, but
it's out in the flower field.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Yeah, that's way, way better water, but anyway.
So I was at my aunt's house andyou know they had a new
refrigerator.
This would have been in theearly mid 80s.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
And you know you could.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
That was very new.
It had the water that came out,you know, in the door.
Of the refrigerator yes, waterthat came out, you know, in the
door of the refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yes, we got, I got water and I was like this smells
, like it smelled bad, and I waslike that's gross.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So me and my cousin realized it didn't smell.
Wesley, are you there?
I, I'm here, you just went away.
It smelled so bad that, but werealized that if we mixed it
with like grape Kool-Aid, wedidn't notice it.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You covered the smell up with the grape Kool-Aid.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
So we could drink the grape Kool-Aid and it didn't
smell.
Didn't taste didn't smell.
So this went on for a week orso and they actually got a whale
person out there and there wasa big filled rat floating in the
whale.
We'd been drinking rat juice.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
That is so gross.
That is so gross.
How did y'all not get somethingis the crazy thing.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I don't know.
I was just thinking about thatyesterday because an article
popped up about Gene Hackman'swife and how she died from that
virus, from that rodent,presumably a rat.
And I'm like I drank rat juice,dead rat juice and it didn't
(36:24):
hurt me.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Like how are we not dead?
I do not know, because that wasobviously floating right there
in the water.
I mean, if you smelled it youknow the bacteria and rot was
coming.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Okay, okay Enough.
You went just a little too farthere.
Oh my gosh.
So, I've got some newSouthernisms.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Oh good, you, just you know you have really
committed to this bit.
I say that every week, butlet's go it's very, it's very,
very important.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
You know, yeah, uh huh, we've got a lot of people
coming into South Carolina.
They need to know these thingsthey do so um?
I'll tell you.
First are two sayings.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I love a good Southern saying.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
When somebody's upset , sometimes you might hear
they're having a dying duck fit.
Did you grow up saying that?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Yeah, just a dying duck fit.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah, she had a dying duck fit over that I haven't
heard that in a while.
I guess ducks have a fit whenthey're dying.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Can you Google that?
Oh no, you're on your phone, Ican't Google either.
Well, we'll have to Google fornext time.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah, and then the other is.
Now I have said, I do say thisone wouldn't hit a lick at a
snake.
So lazy he's so lazy, hewouldn't hit a lick at a snake.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I'm not familiar.
That one doesn't sound asfamiliar.
He wouldn't hit a lick, I feellike.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Wouldn't hit a lick at a snake Like too lazy to even
kill a snake.
Wouldn't hit a lick at a snakeLike too lazy to even kill a
snake.
The other thing, you know one,I've really always said he's so
lazy, he wouldn't work in a piefactory tasting pies.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Now, that is a good one, that's true.
Well okay, Go ahead.
No go ahead, no go ahead,Because it's going to.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
One other thing this is a Southernism.
It's a food, because you knowwe've got to cover some food
products.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Always.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
And you and I have never talked about this, but we
had this in the summertime justabout every meal at my grandma's
house.
My grandma made this every day,at least at one meal, but
usually two meals.
She made milk gravy three timesa day.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Oh really.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yes, for breakfast she would take the sausage
grease and make milk gravy fromthat.
At lunch she might take thesausage grease and make milk
gravy from that.
At lunch she might make it fromchicken chicken grease.
You know we had milk gravythree times a day.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
We did not have that much gravy.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Oh, every meal, every meal.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Now my grandmother, bobby.
She would make biscuits andgravy with the white gravy.
Yeah, that's milk gravy Withthe little sausage chopped up in
it, and some good homemadebiscuits.
She would make that I mean, weweren't really there for
breakfast a lot, but she wouldmake that.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Well, you know, I told you one of my grandfather's
romantic and his so romanticproposal was I need you.
If we're going to get married,you have to promise me that
you'll make three hot meals aday and fresh bread.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
We talked about that on the last show.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Yeah, so romantic.
But my grandmother made.
We had milk gravy for everymeal and for lunch and dinner,
which we called it dinner andsupper.
Dinner was lunch and supper wasdinner Really.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Yeah, that's a Southern thing Well supper was
always dinner, the nighttimemeal for us and lunch we called
lunch dinner.
We just called lunch lunch.
We didn't call it dinner.
Dinner and supper meant thesame thing and were
interchangeable, but both meantthe nighttime meal.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
in my growing up meant the nighttime meal in my
growing up.
But you know, my grandparentshad enormous, enormous gardens.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
What'd you fix them for?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah, and we had different fields, for I mean,
for different things.
It was I don't really seepeople doing that anymore but we
had a field with strawberries.
We had a field for justwatermelons and cantaloupe, and
(41:28):
then we had a garden that hadeverything, you know, your whole
beans and squash and cucumbersand all of that, squash and
cucumbers and all of that.
So we had just tons of freshvegetables and melons.
So we would have twice a day,grandma would cut up a
(41:50):
cantaloupe and we had cantaloupewith milk gravy over it.
Gross, no, delicious, no,delicious, no, mm-hmm Delicious.
It's your sweet.
Yes, I know it sounds crazy, itdoes?
Speaker 1 (42:10):
That makes me want to gag.
I just think about those twotextures together the slimy
cantaloupe with some gravy ontop.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
It's really the only way I like cantaloupe.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Mm-mm, there's something.
I really that's something.
I don't know Something wrongthere Y'all, if you're listening
and you eat cantaloupe withgravy.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
let me know it is good.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
No, no one else out there does that.
You are not going to convinceme that other people?
I have never heard of that inmy life, never seen that no one
else does that.
That cannot be a thing.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
I'm just telling you, my mother's family did not do
that.
But my dad's family If you'reout there and do that.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
I need to hear about it.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
I need to know.
It's a.
Thing.
It is really really good.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
That is so gross.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
It's got me like we got to talking about it
yesterday.
We didn't have milk gravyyesterday.
Anyway, uh, at lunch at myaunt's house, but she had
forgotten to take the cantaloupeoh wait, is that what you did?
yeah yeah, and for father's dayso we got to talking about
(43:33):
cantaloupe and I was like I lovecantaloupe with milk gravy.
I mean that was just a thing,no it is so good.
So yesterday I got to thinkingI need to make some milk gravy
just to eat cantaloupe.
Don't, nobody do that.
Yes, they do.
(43:53):
In the South they do.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
What I was going to say a minute ago is what are
Northern sayings Like?
We have Southernisms.
What's Northernisms?
Is that a thing Do?
Speaker 2 (44:13):
they have their own Yankee-ty things up there, you
guys.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
I don't know Well besides that, like do they have
phrases?
I don't know Well besides that,do they have phrases North?
If you live up there or insomewhere else out west midwest,
let us know.
I don't know a hotline number.
It's down below in the comments, but I'm not in the podcast
room, so I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Here's another food thing.
My family did not do this, butI know people that eat this in
the South, but I think I mightlike it.
I would try it.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (44:48):
I love mayonnaise, duke's mayonnaise, and in the
South, by the way, if you are inthe South, there's only one
mayonnaise.
There's only one, and it isDuke's.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
It's only one mayonnaise there's only one, and
it is Duke's.
I think that's a perfectmayonnaise South Carolina thing.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
It may be a South Carolina thing because that's
where it started, but it's thebest mayonnaise.
It's the perfect little lemonbite to it.
It's not sweet at all.
I do not like a sweetmayonnaise but some people put
mayonnaise like in their pintobeans like a spoonful of
mayonnaise.
(45:27):
I guess, I guess it would be.
I've never done that, but Iguess it would be like sour
cream.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
So if you think about it, give it a little twang.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I could see that being kind of
tasty.
I would try it I don't know.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
I'm not a big pinto bean person either.
I love they're too like dry,like they're too.
I don't know like I like blackbeans, the pintos are a little
too.
I don't know I like black beans.
The Pintos are a little toopulpy for me.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
They're good, I need to put me on a pot of beans.
I love, love to make Pintos.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
When's the last time you made Pintos?
He's going gonna be like I didit last few months ago, you
ain't made no pintos.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
It's been a year, but now when I do it I make a ton,
so you're kind of pintoed outfor a while that'd be something
good to have after yourcolonoscopy and clean out.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Just go ahead and get you some pinto beans.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Well, I'll cook mine forever.
You know, I make soup beans.
It's not just old, dry beans, Imake soup beans with onions and
garlic and pepper and then,like, use chicken stock.
I like them to have flavor.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
I don't know, I like black beans and that's.
I mean I like other green beansand stuff like.
Don't know, I like black beans,nuts.
I mean I like other green beansand stuff like that, but just
not a pinto.
It's too meaty there.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
I don't like black-eyed peas.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Oh see, I like black-eyed peas.
See, that's kind of to me likepinto beans, but smaller, like
same texture.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Black-eyed peas are grainy, see, I feel like p cut
peas are grainy, see, I feellike pink beans are grainy like
that they're good for you,though.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
It's time to pull this baby over, cause I am
sweating out here.
I shouldn't have sat outside,it is nice and hot, it's like 68
in here.
I'm comfy.
Granny's got her shawl on overthere.
That's right, all warm, and I'mabout to head over to the
warehouse.
I have been putting some thingsin a little sizzling summer
(47:50):
sale collection.
So if you have the Nessie BigApp or go to our website, we do
have some great things on sale.
I'm going around the warehouseeach day and things that we only
have like one or two of,because you know we're starting
to get in things on sale.
I'm going around the warehouseeach day and things that we only
have like one or two of,because you know we're starting
to get in our holiday stuff.
I am throwing in a little youknow sale, but no, we're not
getting it back this year again.
So it's a great time to takeadvantage of some good deals
(48:10):
over there.
So check out the app or thewebsite.
So I'm going to go do thatMight do a little live sale.
Go, do that Might do a littlelive sale.
Try to get to the gym today,see, I can work all that in, and
then Wednesday we'll be headedto Dallas.
So make sure all week long ifyou're listening this on Tuesday
or maybe Wednesday Wednesdaythrough Saturday, we'll be at
(48:32):
the Dallas market, as a reminder.
So join our live sales.
Make sure you have yournotifications turned on so you
know when we go live.
Remember, you can watch thispodcast.
I hope it recorded everything.
If not, it'll be the voice ofit but you can watch at
whosedrivingpodcastcom.
You can listen for free.
Anywhere you listen to podcastsSpotify, apple Podcasts,
(48:54):
anywhere like that you canlisten for free.
Or you can listen for free onour website at
whosedrivingpodcastcom.
But if you want to watch, youcan listen for free.
Or you can listen for free onour website at
whosdrivingpodcastcom.
But if you want to watch, youhave to join the community and
give us a little extra supportthat way.
But anything else, before wewrap it up, that's it.
All right, that's it, we'll seeyou next week, right back here,
(49:14):
we might should record a podcastwhile we're in Dallas.
That could be fun too.
Towards the end, we should dothat.
We should All right Bye y'all.
Who's driving?
Ain't nobody driving Separately, but we're here, we're driving
separately.
I've been in the office.
You and I have a packed week.
I feel like it's getting busierand busier.
In the summertime it's supposedto be a little bit slower, but
it's time for another episode ofwho'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, girl, what you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I've been in my office all day.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Steven is in a mood I had to like come on, girl,
let's do this Listen it's one ofthose times.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
If I could reach through my computer and grab
this woman on the other end inIndiana, I would probably be in
jail right now if I could get myhands on her.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It's one of those times I'm glad I'm in my own.
We're driving separately.
I'm pulling out of it now I'mpulling out of it now.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's one of those moves when you really want to
slap the hell out of somebody,but you can't.
It makes you real frustrated.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's where I was.
This will loosen you up havinga fun little chat.
So what have you been?
Working on so everyone knows,so they can sympathize with you.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I've been doing our workers' comp insurance audit,
so anybody out there.
That has to do anybody that'sin business for themselves or
works for a company and they'rein administration.
You know about workers' compaudits.
You have to do them every yearevery year yeah, every year, and
(02:09):
it should be very simple, clean, clean, cut, streamlined.
And this one auditing companyjust keeps making it more and
more and more complicated.
I like it doesn't need to becomplicated.
It's really not complicated.
Here's what we paid out.
(02:30):
Here's their jobs.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
The employees what do ?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
we owe you.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well hopefully your mood gets a little better.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's just the way it is.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was in McDonald's North Carolina and South
Carolina McDonald's owners areself-insured, so I really liked
that.
It was very clean, cut and easyand you got dividends back when
you didn't have any accidentsand expenses.
(03:06):
Oh, that's cool, yeah, so I got.
Even after I got out ofMcDonald's, I got rebate checks
for seven years.
Oh dang.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I mean, some of them were in the thousands, but I had
no.
I think I had one worker's compin all my years.
Well, it is such a pain.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I used to do all of that and then I said I'm not
doing this.
Well, it was so.
The company, the insurance thatwe have, makes it complicated,
and so I would usually call ourinsurance rep and say if you
want this policy, then you needto fill out this report for me,
and I would send all theinformation.
And they did.
But then the owner of theinsurance, our person, left, and
(03:50):
so now we're on our own, andthen I was like you got to take
this over because I ain't doingit.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
But it's all good, I got it done.
That's good Much happier now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So last week, when we left off let's see where were
we leaving off oh, you weregoing to Atlanta, which you did,
did some live sales.
Oh, your colonoscopy is whatyou were left off with.
So let's talk about thecolonoscopy, the good old
roto-rootering.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, I forgot.
Okay.
And you said you know I'll tellyou.
And you told me.
Wesley said when I was going in, he said I'm so glad you're
having it done because you willtell me exactly what's what.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well, I feel like all of us, you will tell the truth
and you know how it was.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It was fine, and you know people talk about the prep.
None of that bothered me, itwasn't that bad, I don't.
I usually only eat really onemeal a day.
I might banana popsicles andlime jello, which I like, and it
(05:07):
was fine and everything wasfine.
The only thing was I'm not ahuge salty person and I guess
the magnesium and sodium,whatever, whatever, in that
mixture that you drink was likethe best way I can describe it.
(05:30):
It's like drinking ocean water,even mixing it with something.
But you know I just killed.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
That's not.
That's not the worst, though,either.
I mean, it's not like it was.
Uh, you know, uh, I don't knowsome kind of Putrid taste.
Yeah, it was just salty, itwasn't like a rurk taste.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, but so I mixed it up the day before I had to take
five Dulcolax pills at noon.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah.
And then about two hours laterthat hit, so that was okay so
when you're going through the uh, the process, the prep process,
yeah, which you know, you gotta, you're, you're, you're getting
everything out, you're flushingeverything out.
Is that like, and you take likethose pills and you have to do
this drink or whatever does ithit?
(06:20):
Are you in like cramping painor is it just like, oh, I got to
go to the bathroom, no, it'slike I got to go to the bathroom
and it's not that big of a deal.
So it wasn't torment, you werejust going to the bathroom.
A lot, and.
(06:41):
I thought, so you know it waslike the first time after the
Dulcolax was like a normalMovement Extreme coffee poop.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You know it was.
It was it was.
I drank three cups of coffeepoop.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And everyone can relate to that.
You know everyone, everybodyeverybody can.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So I was like, well dang, I don't know how much
could be left.
And so then I killed that drink.
Like I drank that in like 20minutes the mixture.
I had to do that at five, thefirst one at five, and after I
did that, let me get rid of that.
After I did that, like before Ifinished it in that 20 minutes,
I was like, ooh, I gotta go tothe bathroom.
It was, honestly, it was kindof clear after all that when
(07:26):
they say clear, it's really itlooks like urine.
It has a yellow hue to it.
So I did that.
I was completely done, going tothe bathroom within two hours.
Okay, so I slept.
I slept normal.
I set my alarm to get up at sixbecause I had my colonoscopy
(07:50):
was at one, got up at six, I didthat drink again it did the
same thing, but quicker.
Yeah, and it was just a paleyellow, and then I went Okay,
yellow.
And then I went okay and myonly only issue with the whole
thing was really not related toanything.
(08:10):
It was just I have horribleanxiety, so it wasn't even the
procedure.
It was like my mind was the OCD.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I had OCD and health anxiety.
I was going to say healthanxiety because anything related
to it.
You just start spiraling.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I can't shut it off.
Yeah, and you know.
So, you get there, Got there.
Everyone was really nice.
I checked in.
Dylan got to go back with me,so I went in, went in the room I
had to undress completely,panties and all.
(08:52):
I left my socks on and they hadheated blankets.
So I said I need two please.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I explained to the nurse.
I said I have severe healthanxiety so I need the doctor.
I want to talk to the doctorprior to and immediately after
when I'm awake, where we'regoing to have a big issue.
I mean, I was very nice andthey were the best.
(09:29):
Like I can't even tell you ifyou live in the upstate South
Carolina area and you're goingto.
You know, please go get acolonoscopy.
Even if you have terriblehealth anxiety like me, it's
good to go get it.
It's good to know Colon canceris the most curable cancer and
preventable that there is.
(09:50):
So just go do yourself a favorand go go do it and get it over
with and you'll feel so muchbetter about it.
But it's.
I went to Dr Lizardo atGreenville Gastroenterology and
he was phenomenal.
The nurses were phenomenal.
They had great personalities.
(10:12):
I mean it couldn't have been abetter experience.
He went through it with me.
He got me calmed down.
He was like I think you're fine, let's just get through the
procedure.
I woke up, it was great sleep.
And he was like I think you'refine, let's just get through the
procedure.
Yeah, I woke up, it was greatsleep.
That propofol is.
I wish he could come here likeonce a week and just give me
(10:35):
propofol to sleep for like onehour a week and I would be a
much happier person.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Okay, Michael Jackson .
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I see how it happened .
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I see how it happened , I see how it happened.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But I woke up and it was funny, Dylan was there and I
woke up.
I was like this and all of asudden I woke up.
He said I was like Iseverything okay?
Is everything okay?
You were immediately.
I didn't miss a beat.
I was true to myself.
(11:09):
So I had two small polyps, onetwo millimeter, one five
millimeter.
I have some diverticula thatwere not severe, not infected.
He said overall my colon,everything looked great and like
(11:29):
.
He brought the photos in to seeme and I don't like gross
things and I was like no, Idon't want to see that, but you
like sending gross stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
You send me gross stuff all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
But you know, that's after I've seen it.
And so Dylan looked at it andhe was like, steven, it's
nothing, it's you can.
I was like, let me see, yeah,and it wasn't.
It wasn't anything, it justlooked like my gums inside my
mouth and um, so it was a.
It was really a greatexperience.
(12:02):
You know, I I never felt likeI'd been violated or anything.
I will say this, and I'm gladone of the nurses told me
because when I got home I didbleed some, I guess, from
removing the polyps.
Yeah, the nurses was in, was inher early thirties and she had
(12:24):
had, she had had it done and shewas like you're going to feel a
little weird in like where he'dremoved them.
So don't get alarmed.
And then till they heal over.
Yeah, it was like it was liketwo days.
I could tell they did something, but it didn't hurt, if that
makes sense.
I could just tell something wasgoing on and and then it was
(12:48):
fine.
But I knew um, a friend of minehad had it when she had a lot
of polyps removed and she wassick for like a week, just
really uncomfortable, and I waslike but I see why, now I see
where she was where she wascoming from now, but it wasn't
bad at all and he said I couldcome back in probably 10 years.
(13:13):
And I'm like, no, we're gonna dothis every three to five, just
stay on top of it he's like okayI figure, if it's, if I do
sooner than later, I won't be asanxious about it, right,
because you know they grow sosmall.
Yeah, yeah, so that was it.
(13:34):
Well, that's good, it was an.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
A-plus experience and you're telling everybody,
because you know there's peoplelistening that hadn't had it
done and they're way past theirtime and people who've been
putting it off.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yes, please go do it.
You'll feel so much betterabout it afterwards and you'll
know I mean it's good to know ifyou have any diverticula in
your colon.
You know that way, if you doget sick or something comes up,
you know that's there and youcan address it.
(14:10):
But you know there's somepeople that just don't.
My dad is in his mid-70s.
He's never had one, which iscrazy to me.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, some people just don't do it, refuse to do
it.
Well, I'm glad everythingturned out and we're not having
to, you know, talk you off theledge.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, I agree.
I'm glad it's over with and itwasn't bad at all.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So coming up this week, speaking of being busy,
and this is why we have a quickturnaround in today's Monday
when we're recording this.
This comes out tomorrow, whichis Tuesday, Wednesday we are
going to the Dallas market.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yes.
I'm looking forward to it youready for another trip?
Yeah, this is my favorite giftmarket.
Is my favorite gift market Imean High Point is extra special
because that's my first love isthe furniture and design and
all that.
But for gift market, dallas ismy favorite just because it has
(15:18):
those things that Atlantadoesn't it's like a open-air
mall with a big atrium, yeah, solast, year.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Last June was our first time going to the Dallas
market, because Atlanta is twohours from here.
We can be from our doors in ashowroom in like two hours.
Two hours and 15 minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Which is great.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And Atlanta is the largest market to go to.
So if you are a small businessowner, which is great, you're
going to get the most bang foryour buck and you're going to
get to see a lot more varietyand vendors than Dallas, correct
, but Dallas, like Stephen wassaying, is so much it's nicer,
the people are nicer.
It's more.
(16:17):
I don't know even how toexplain it.
You got to go to both if youhaven't gone there.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
To me, the best way I can describe it is going to go
to both.
It's just you haven't gonethere it.
To me, it the best way I candescribe it is going to the mall
in 1985 or coffee and food andbistro tables, and it's just
more comfortable yeah, they haveatriums where you can see that
it's daylight.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
They have a koi pond and fountains.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Atlanta.
You feel like you're locked upin a high-rise building Office
building when you can't seeanything which you are you?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
are, you might see something.
When you're walking to theescalator or some showrooms, you
might can go what's out thatwindow or something.
I go look, it's been rainingfor all day.
We had no clue.
Yeah, and Atlanta is just, theyused to be very.
(17:15):
They were there for thebusiness owners, they were
putting on events, they had food, they had parades.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
They had celebrities things going on, and now it's
like just come if you want to.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
We're going to open the door for you.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
There's no we have some sandwiches from yesterday,
if you want to buy it.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, it's just weird how it's not as set up.
But anyway, maybe they'll getit figured out one day.
When I started going to marketback in the day they like out in
front of the buildings theywere passing out free goodie
bags.
They had like people on steel,I mean it was like a circus out
front.
You could register for freethings and then every showroom
(18:04):
had amazing food.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Uh, it was an event, even.
It was an event ago, even 15years ago.
It was, it was, it was morelike that.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Now it's like but dallas was closer to that they
were having giveaway likeannouncements, like come to this
place, we're giving away thisor we're doing that.
I don't know.
It wasn't much nicer feel.
But we're going on Wednesdayand the goal is to knock out a
couple of our big orders that wedo in Atlanta just to give us
(18:36):
some more time.
We always seem to run out oftime, so we'll get some of our
big vendors knocked out and dosome live sales.
So if you don't have the NestedFig app we talk about it every
week I feel like you need to getthe Nested Fig app.
You can go to our website,thenestedfigcom.
It's always in the show noteson the website.
Or even if you're justlistening on Spotify, you can
(18:58):
scroll up and see the show notesand there's a link there.
But if you go to our website,when you're on our website, at
the top it says like downloadour app.
It's kind of posted all overthe website.
You can get our app and join uslive, because we have no idea
what times we'll be live, butwe're going to be there
Wednesday afternoon.
We're going to be thereThursday, friday and all day
Saturday.
We get back home I think it'sat like 12.05 am on Sunday
(19:23):
morning.
So I can't believe it's alreadymarket season again for the
summer market.
I mean, we've been going tomarket for the small shows and
to do live sales and stuff, butthis is when we're going to
actually start shopping forspring of 2026.
So we'll be ordering springEaster anything that we need for
(19:45):
early 2026.
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It is.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But I'm excited to go to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Me too, me too.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
So I was scrolling on the gram and I read and I
thought, oh my gosh, this istrue, a trend going on in home
design and decor, and I hadn'treally thought about it until.
I read this and they wereshowing photos and whatnot and
(20:20):
they were saying the look isintentional clutter.
And they were saying the lookis intentional clutter, like
you're instead of your.
You know, we've kind of we kindof went through that whole
minimalist phase and this isyour, your maximalist kind of
intentional clutter.
And I got to thinking about ityou know that that's a good way
(20:42):
to describe it and I like someintentional clutter.
I decided that I like it.
I like intentional cluttercontained in a specific area,
like on a buffet.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, intentional clutter feels warm, it feels
cozy is what it does.
It feels homey, so that's whyit's appealing to most people.
I've never heard it definedthat way, but that is a good way
to define it.
But that's like showing offyour collections, but not making
them look junky.
It's clean, it's styled.
(21:20):
But it's intentionally, yeah,but put together and contain.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
that is a good way you have, if you have a, if you
have a collection of whatevermilk glass um right, silver
jadeite you actually you have acollection of jadeite, what
pottery, whatever.
It looks nicer if you candisplay it all together in one
(21:46):
collection rather than having itstrewn over throughout your
whole home.
And I kind of put that in theintentional clutter and I'm like
.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, I like intentional clutter.
Who would be really good, whois really good at defining this?
Look, if you want to go see, itis Deb and the Nail.
She does it so well becauseshe'll have like a collection of
bowls or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Cream layer.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah yeah, she styles it really well together.
So if you want to go, what thehell is intentional clutter?
What are you even talking about?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Go check out Deb and the Nelle on Instagram and see
their have them back on, and itlooks really great when you do
it correctly.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, it does, because what it does is it takes
a lot of individual items andit makes a eye-stopping mess
when you group them all together.
I mean, it's basically what wedo in our retail stores when
we're styling something.
You know this is the hardestthing Steven and I have had to
(22:56):
teach over our years of havingthe retail stores is grouping
everything that's alike together.
Pile it together if you need to, don't have it strewn
throughout the store Employees.
And you know, specifically atour home store we get a lot of
home designers, decorators,interior designers and that sort
(23:16):
of thing and they always wantto merchandise a store the way
they would design a home, whichis totally different when you're
doing individual items.
So to have that intentionalclutter kind of plays off the
merchandising where we groupeverything together, you turn
some pieces on their sides, youstack them inside of each other.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, so I've been working on the table in our
foyer to create some intentionalclutter there, and I have not.
I told you I was working on itand I have not completely
figured it out, but I'm buying,I know the look I'm going for, I
(24:00):
know what I'm using, but I'vejust started collecting.
You got to collect all thepieces and then do it.
And then I decided I was layingin bed the other night and I was
like I need a center point andI was like I'm going to do I
haven't done this in a minute Iwant to go to the garden store
(24:27):
and I'm going to do anarrangement.
I need to do, I need to make areel out of this.
I'm going to do an arrangementas you would do a floral
arrangement, but I'm just goingto use dried mushrooms, pods and
feathers.
Not flowers, no greenery, justdifferent things to make an
(24:48):
arrangement.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
So very natural kind of masculine.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yes, yes, and then I want to use old silver.
But God, I just got to complainfor a minute.
We went when Dylan and I werein Atlanta the last time we ran
in my favorite antique store forabout 20 minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
The antiques are having their moment and they
have gone up.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Well, dylan was like Stephen.
Here's a silver trophy vase,which is, you know, I want one
or two of those.
I was like $289.
$1,100.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I need excuse me, where's the plate?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I need the plated silver.
You need the plastic.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I was like good gracious.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think we'll start seeing more reproductions of
things like that in antiquestyle coming.
You know it takes a while totrickle in, but I think antiques
we talked about it are reallyhaving their moment of coming
back.
I mean, antiques never,obviously go out of style.
It just depends on whether youwant that look.
But then you know, a newgeneration discovers it and they
(26:03):
think it's something new andit's not.
They don't think it's somethingnew.
I hate when people say thatlike, oh, we've been doing this
for years.
They know it's been around foryears, but now it's what they
want too.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
so then it makes more people want it, but I think
it's cool for them yeah, um, Ihate when people like.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Like on instagram.
I posted a couple of weeks agoabout you know, I antique the
mirror behind me, the um window,with the mirror paint behind me
, and some lady and she sells.
She sells antiques.
Oh, heifer.
And she was like this isnothing new.
I've been doing this for 20years.
I'm like I didn't.
(26:41):
I didn't say look what Iinvented.
It's just showing you had tolearn it 20 years ago from
somewhere.
Did you pull it out of your ass?
No, did you learn that?
No, I just rolled my eyes.
I've learned just to.
I don't give people the time ofday I wanted to be like.
And yeah, people's beenreselling antiques for hundreds
(27:03):
of years.
It's called selling products.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
And honey, if you've been doing it for years, you
should be a pro at it.
Why don't you have a reel onthere doing?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
it.
Yeah, I mean it's so funnyAnytime you do something that's
like a tutorial, like that orcooking, and they're like I've
had this recipe and I'm like Ididn't say I invented the damn
brownie, I'm just showing youand then someone else is always
learning something.
I mean there's tons of things,recipes out there that I'd love
(27:32):
to know how to cook or do it.
It just trips me up.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
People cannot help themselves to say something
negative or hurt or just be ugly.
That's why I am so thankful,even when I want to do it and I
want to say things a lot oftimes, especially when people
are telling people to do thingsincorrectly.
I want to say no, no, no, but Iam not the Instagram police.
(28:02):
I'm not.
You know, you do you and youknow they'll figure out that
they, you know, shouldn't usescotch tape as a flower frog I
don't need to go on there andcorrect you.
I just don't, I will not do itRight.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I know I will not do it Right.
I know I do the same thing.
I do have the urge sometimesand then I'm like scroll away,
scroll away.
And then if I have that urgemultiple times, I don't know
we're off on it.
You got me off on a tangent.
If I have that urge multipletimes with the same person, I
just don't follow them.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's exactly what you should do.
You never want to look at themagain.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
They're not for me, and that's okay, the same way,
people don't follow me all thetime.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
That comedian, shelly Belly.
I don't know what her name isShelly, something or another, I
do not know why.
I cannot stand her.
I hate her voice, I hate herlaugh.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
What if she's listening to our podcast?
She might be a fan.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I've always wanted to tell her that I can't stand you
.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I can't stand you, and that is okay, shelly, if you
are listening, that is fine,because you know what.
Not everybody has to likeeverybody.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
There's plenty of people that don't like you.
One of my favorite comedians.
You can't stand.
It's just the way it is.
That's why there's chocolate,vanilla and strawberries.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Who's your favorite comedian?
That I can't stand.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
One of Fortune, one of Fortune theme stirrer.
Oh God See, I love her, but shecomes across more sincere to me
and genuine.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
There is nothing I guess I can relate.
There is nothing funny abouther.
From head to toe Boy, nothing.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I like her.
It's okay.
That is okay.
Chocolate and vanilla Chocolateand vanilla.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
It's true, it is true .
Yesterday I spent the whole dayinstalling.
You'll be so happy and I kindof told you about it.
But it gets to something.
I want to talk about A wholehome water filtration system.
So we've been here on the farmfor nine years now.
Right, it's been nine years.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I've been smelling your water for nine years.
His water smells like somebodyfarted.
I'm always like there's just alot of sulfur in the water.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Evidently yes, and it's come and gone, and we had
like a little filter that waslike this big under the house
that we wouldn't change for likea year at a time.
Then we had a thing attachmenton the well pump that was
supposed to help with that.
I don't know, anyway, but itseems to be working.
I just got it installedyesterday.
It was very easy to install.
Seems to be working great.
(31:03):
So we'll see when you're here.
I'll let you drink some waterfrom the tap when you get here
and tell me what you think nexttime, but I haven't smelled it
and I went upstairs.
You know I'm more used to itthan you are.
You know you come in and turnon the faucet and you're like,
oh my gosh.
And I'm like I don't smell it.
But I can when I go upstairs tolike one of our upstairs guest
(31:27):
bathrooms, I think because thesulfur gases probably go up, get
trapped or whatever.
So when you first turn it on ifyou haven't turned on the
shower, you know in a while youcan usually smell it, and so I
did that today and I didn'tsmell it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So, and that happens in our condos at Hilton.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Head.
Yeah, I have never noticed itin the Florida house.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I've never noticed it in Florida, but it must be a
lot of sulfur around in thisstate.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It is, I guess.
Yeah, and you know the um, ourcleaning lady told us one time
at Hilton headlight you got tobe careful that it doesn't sit
there too long because it willget trapped or something like in
your hot water heater.
So ever told you that like andthey have to, like I don't know
drain it and kind of get it out.
If it so they're, like, ifyou're not booked for a long
(32:19):
time, you should really turnyour hot water heater off.
I guess it's the heating of itup or something.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But so what I do is like if I go there in early
spring, when there haven't beena lot of rentals in the winter,
I just I drain the tank, I justturn all the hot water, pull all
the hot water out and it getsrid of it.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, that's a good thing to do, but so I told you
this yesterday that I had donethis and we were talking about
it in the live sale last night,which you love to make fun of
our water, as you just did, andthat sort of thing.
But you brought up and I knowwe talked about it on here one
time before, but it was likeyear one episode early on the
(33:00):
whale story with the mouse and Ithink it just needs to be
retold.
This is why he hates whale wateror anything like that.
In our defense, before we domove on, we do have bottled
water and, like our refrigeratorwaters, filtered, we get water
delivery all of this time, so wehaven't been consuming it.
(33:24):
We use it to cook, but you'reboiling it sort of thing.
Now Daniel will.
He'll get a glass of waterright out of the sink and I'm
like it tastes like pennies tome it wouldn't bother him, it
never has, never will, butanyway.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
He could eat roadkill and it wouldn't make him sick.
He has a stomach.
I've always said he has astomach of steel.
He really does.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
He really does, but when we were moving to the farm,
stephen was like oh my gosh,you got well water, get it
tested.
Let me tell you about my wellexperience.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
So I grew up my whole family on both sides.
You know we were out in thecountry, not like Piedmont
country where Wesley lives.
It was the damn country and allwe had was we had well water
and spring water.
That was it when I was a kidand spring water.
(34:21):
That's the best water ever, andI inherited that spring, by the
way.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
So I am yes our pond is spring fed.
I guess we could have tappedinto that at some point, but
it's out in the flower field.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Yeah, that's way, way better water, but anyway.
So I was at my aunt's house andyou know they had a new
refrigerator.
This would have been in theearly mid 80s.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
And you know you could.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
That was very new.
It had the water that came out,you know, in the door.
Of the refrigerator yes, waterthat came out, you know, in the
door of the refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yes, we got, I got water and I was like this smells
, like it smelled bad, and I waslike that's gross.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So me and my cousin realized it didn't smell.
Wesley, are you there?
I, I'm here, you just went away.
It smelled so bad that, but werealized that if we mixed it
with like grape Kool-Aid, wedidn't notice it.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You covered the smell up with the grape Kool-Aid.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
So we could drink the grape Kool-Aid and it didn't
smell.
Didn't taste didn't smell.
So this went on for a week orso and they actually got a whale
person out there and there wasa big filled rat floating in the
whale.
We'd been drinking rat juice.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
That is so gross.
That is so gross.
How did y'all not get somethingis the crazy thing.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I don't know.
I was just thinking about thatyesterday because an article
popped up about Gene Hackman'swife and how she died from that
virus, from that rodent,presumably a rat.
And I'm like I drank rat juice,dead rat juice and it didn't
(36:24):
hurt me.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Like how are we not dead?
I do not know, because that wasobviously floating right there
in the water.
I mean, if you smelled it youknow the bacteria and rot was
coming.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Okay, okay Enough.
You went just a little too farthere.
Oh my gosh.
So, I've got some newSouthernisms.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Oh good, you, just you know you have really
committed to this bit.
I say that every week, butlet's go it's very, it's very,
very important.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
You know, yeah, uh huh, we've got a lot of people
coming into South Carolina.
They need to know these thingsthey do so um?
I'll tell you.
First are two sayings.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I love a good Southern saying.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
When somebody's upset , sometimes you might hear
they're having a dying duck fit.
Did you grow up saying that?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Yeah, just a dying duck fit.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah, she had a dying duck fit over that I haven't
heard that in a while.
I guess ducks have a fit whenthey're dying.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Can you Google that?
Oh no, you're on your phone, Ican't Google either.
Well, we'll have to Google fornext time.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah, and then the other is.
Now I have said, I do say thisone wouldn't hit a lick at a
snake.
So lazy he's so lazy, hewouldn't hit a lick at a snake.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I'm not familiar.
That one doesn't sound asfamiliar.
He wouldn't hit a lick, I feellike.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Wouldn't hit a lick at a snake Like too lazy to even
kill a snake.
Wouldn't hit a lick at a snakeLike too lazy to even kill a
snake.
The other thing, you know one,I've really always said he's so
lazy, he wouldn't work in a piefactory tasting pies.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Now, that is a good one, that's true.
Well okay, Go ahead.
No go ahead, no go ahead,Because it's going to.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
One other thing this is a Southernism.
It's a food, because you knowwe've got to cover some food
products.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Always.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
And you and I have never talked about this, but we
had this in the summertime justabout every meal at my grandma's
house.
My grandma made this every day,at least at one meal, but
usually two meals.
She made milk gravy three timesa day.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Oh really.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yes, for breakfast she would take the sausage
grease and make milk gravy fromthat.
At lunch she might take thesausage grease and make milk
gravy from that.
At lunch she might make it fromchicken chicken grease.
You know we had milk gravythree times a day.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
We did not have that much gravy.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Oh, every meal, every meal.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Now my grandmother, bobby.
She would make biscuits andgravy with the white gravy.
Yeah, that's milk gravy Withthe little sausage chopped up in
it, and some good homemadebiscuits.
She would make that I mean, weweren't really there for
breakfast a lot, but she wouldmake that.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Well, you know, I told you one of my grandfather's
romantic and his so romanticproposal was I need you.
If we're going to get married,you have to promise me that
you'll make three hot meals aday and fresh bread.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
We talked about that on the last show.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Yeah, so romantic.
But my grandmother made.
We had milk gravy for everymeal and for lunch and dinner,
which we called it dinner andsupper.
Dinner was lunch and supper wasdinner Really.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Yeah, that's a Southern thing Well supper was
always dinner, the nighttimemeal for us and lunch we called
lunch dinner.
We just called lunch lunch.
We didn't call it dinner.
Dinner and supper meant thesame thing and were
interchangeable, but both meantthe nighttime meal.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
in my growing up meant the nighttime meal in my
growing up.
But you know, my grandparentshad enormous, enormous gardens.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
What'd you fix them for?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah, and we had different fields, for I mean,
for different things.
It was I don't really seepeople doing that anymore but we
had a field with strawberries.
We had a field for justwatermelons and cantaloupe, and
(41:28):
then we had a garden that hadeverything, you know, your whole
beans and squash and cucumbersand all of that, squash and
cucumbers and all of that.
So we had just tons of freshvegetables and melons.
So we would have twice a day,grandma would cut up a
(41:50):
cantaloupe and we had cantaloupewith milk gravy over it.
Gross, no, delicious, no,delicious, no, mm-hmm Delicious.
It's your sweet.
Yes, I know it sounds crazy, itdoes?
Speaker 1 (42:10):
That makes me want to gag.
I just think about those twotextures together the slimy
cantaloupe with some gravy ontop.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
It's really the only way I like cantaloupe.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Mm-mm, there's something.
I really that's something.
I don't know Something wrongthere Y'all, if you're listening
and you eat cantaloupe withgravy.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
let me know it is good.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
No, no one else out there does that.
You are not going to convinceme that other people?
I have never heard of that inmy life, never seen that no one
else does that.
That cannot be a thing.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
I'm just telling you, my mother's family did not do
that.
But my dad's family If you'reout there and do that.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
I need to hear about it.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
I need to know.
It's a.
Thing.
It is really really good.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
That is so gross.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
It's got me like we got to talking about it
yesterday.
We didn't have milk gravyyesterday.
Anyway, uh, at lunch at myaunt's house, but she had
forgotten to take the cantaloupeoh wait, is that what you did?
yeah yeah, and for father's dayso we got to talking about
(43:33):
cantaloupe and I was like I lovecantaloupe with milk gravy.
I mean that was just a thing,no it is so good.
So yesterday I got to thinkingI need to make some milk gravy
just to eat cantaloupe.
Don't, nobody do that.
Yes, they do.
(43:53):
In the South they do.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
What I was going to say a minute ago is what are
Northern sayings Like?
We have Southernisms.
What's Northernisms?
Is that a thing Do?
Speaker 2 (44:13):
they have their own Yankee-ty things up there, you
guys.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
I don't know Well besides that, like do they have
phrases?
I don't know Well besides that,do they have phrases North?
If you live up there or insomewhere else out west midwest,
let us know.
I don't know a hotline number.
It's down below in the comments, but I'm not in the podcast
room, so I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Here's another food thing.
My family did not do this, butI know people that eat this in
the South, but I think I mightlike it.
I would try it.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (44:48):
I love mayonnaise, duke's mayonnaise, and in the
South, by the way, if you are inthe South, there's only one
mayonnaise.
There's only one, and it isDuke's.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
It's only one mayonnaise there's only one, and
it is Duke's.
I think that's a perfectmayonnaise South Carolina thing.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
It may be a South Carolina thing because that's
where it started, but it's thebest mayonnaise.
It's the perfect little lemonbite to it.
It's not sweet at all.
I do not like a sweetmayonnaise but some people put
mayonnaise like in their pintobeans like a spoonful of
mayonnaise.
(45:27):
I guess, I guess it would be.
I've never done that, but Iguess it would be like sour
cream.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
So if you think about it, give it a little twang.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I could see that being kind of
tasty.
I would try it I don't know.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
I'm not a big pinto bean person either.
I love they're too like dry,like they're too.
I don't know like I like blackbeans, the pintos are a little
too.
I don't know I like black beans.
The Pintos are a little toopulpy for me.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
They're good, I need to put me on a pot of beans.
I love, love to make Pintos.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
When's the last time you made Pintos?
He's going gonna be like I didit last few months ago, you
ain't made no pintos.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
It's been a year, but now when I do it I make a ton,
so you're kind of pintoed outfor a while that'd be something
good to have after yourcolonoscopy and clean out.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Just go ahead and get you some pinto beans.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Well, I'll cook mine forever.
You know, I make soup beans.
It's not just old, dry beans, Imake soup beans with onions and
garlic and pepper and then,like, use chicken stock.
I like them to have flavor.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
I don't know, I like black beans and that's.
I mean I like other green beansand stuff like.
Don't know, I like black beans,nuts.
I mean I like other green beansand stuff like that, but just
not a pinto.
It's too meaty there.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
I don't like black-eyed peas.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Oh see, I like black-eyed peas.
See, that's kind of to me likepinto beans, but smaller, like
same texture.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Black-eyed peas are grainy, see, I feel like p cut
peas are grainy, see, I feellike pink beans are grainy like
that they're good for you,though.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
It's time to pull this baby over, cause I am
sweating out here.
I shouldn't have sat outside,it is nice and hot, it's like 68
in here.
I'm comfy.
Granny's got her shawl on overthere.
That's right, all warm, and I'mabout to head over to the
warehouse.
I have been putting some thingsin a little sizzling summer
(47:50):
sale collection.
So if you have the Nessie BigApp or go to our website, we do
have some great things on sale.
I'm going around the warehouseeach day and things that we only
have like one or two of,because you know we're starting
to get in things on sale.
I'm going around the warehouseeach day and things that we only
have like one or two of,because you know we're starting
to get in our holiday stuff.
I am throwing in a little youknow sale, but no, we're not
getting it back this year again.
So it's a great time to takeadvantage of some good deals
(48:10):
over there.
So check out the app or thewebsite.
So I'm going to go do thatMight do a little live sale.
Go, do that Might do a littlelive sale.
Try to get to the gym today,see, I can work all that in, and
then Wednesday we'll be headedto Dallas.
So make sure all week long ifyou're listening this on Tuesday
or maybe Wednesday Wednesdaythrough Saturday, we'll be at
(48:32):
the Dallas market, as a reminder.
So join our live sales.
Make sure you have yournotifications turned on so you
know when we go live.
Remember, you can watch thispodcast.
I hope it recorded everything.
If not, it'll be the voice ofit but you can watch at
whosedrivingpodcastcom.
You can listen for free.
Anywhere you listen to podcastsSpotify, apple Podcasts,
(48:54):
anywhere like that you canlisten for free.
Or you can listen for free onour website at
whosedrivingpodcastcom.
But if you want to watch, youcan listen for free.
Or you can listen for free onour website at
whosdrivingpodcastcom.
But if you want to watch, youhave to join the community and
give us a little extra supportthat way.
But anything else, before wewrap it up, that's it.
All right, that's it, we'll seeyou next week, right back here,
(49:14):
we might should record a podcastwhile we're in Dallas.
That could be fun too.
Towards the end, we should dothat.
We should All right Bye y'all.
Popular Podcasts
Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club
Welcome to Bookmarked by Reese’s Book Club — the podcast where great stories, bold women, and irresistible conversations collide! Hosted by award-winning journalist Danielle Robay, each week new episodes balance thoughtful literary insight with the fervor of buzzy book trends, pop culture and more. Bookmarked brings together celebrities, tastemakers, influencers and authors from Reese's Book Club and beyond to share stories that transcend the page. Pull up a chair. You’re not just listening — you’re part of the conversation.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com