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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hmm, crank this baby up for the third time.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
Speaker 1 (00:13):
We're two best friends and entrepreneurs who's
Driving is an entertaining lookinto the behind the scenes of
our lives, friendship andbusiness.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
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 (00:35):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
You never know who's driving,or?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
So we've just had.
This is our third start to theepisode because Stephen's camera
quits working on me, but Ithink we're good now, well,
check it before I go any further.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We're good, I'm more slap out.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It is recording.
We are good.
Oh my goodness, that's toofunny.
Remember?
You can watch our podcast atwhosedrivingpodcastcom.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And you never know which day we might be naked.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I do think one day we should just record like normal
but be here in like some kind ofcostume.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
We'll work on that.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
We're going to do something just to see.
Just to see what happens.
Okay, so it's today for us isMemorial Day, so this is
Memorial Day week.
It's the unofficial, officialbeginning of summer right,
mm-hmm.
Which?
When is the official day ofsummer?
June 20th?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
June 20th, that's a long time, mm-mm, no it's now,
it's summertime, but it goes upuntil September.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh, they need to adjust that a little bit, quite
right, yeah but I guess you knowthe northern people.
Someone was telling us lastnight in the um live cell that
they still had forsythiablooming, which ours bloomed in
like february, but you don'trealize like how cold Like Maine
, in those northeastern states.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Excuse me, Sorry.
Those northeastern states getreally cold.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, it's true, but I just feel like by you know
we're almost to the first ofJune that it should be warm, hot
by now.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I feel like May was hotter when I was a kid than it
is now.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, I was just going to say we've had a pretty
mild May, we've had a reallygood spring, so I think it's
just a one-off, becausesometimes I can remember with
having the garden shop when weused to have the outdoor plants
and stuff and how hot it wouldbe in May sometime.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Just hasn't been that bad.
I mean, knock on wood.
I know I'm going to be dyingcome July and August.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, speaking of summertime, unofficially, I need
a pool to get into Well.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I have one.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
But I need it in my backyard.
I need my own pool to get into.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know, I can look out my window and see it, but it
just doesn't do any good.
It doesn't entice me.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I know You're not a pool person.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I mean, you're not, I'm more, I love.
I love the water.
Here's the thing.
I don't like a community pool.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You don't like anything pool related in
summertime.
You don't like to sweat.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I do You're?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
too pale to go sit by the pool.
Well, you're as pale as I am.
I try to keep myself this way.
Like I cover up, I wear a longsleeve.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
UZ shirt.
When I go to the beach I doenjoy it.
I just, you know, I justhonestly don't take the time.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I was thinking the other day how I used to love to
water ski and stuff like that,but see, now you would never get
in a pond or a lake now.
Not a pond.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Like as a kid, we would have swam in our pond.
Oh, I would have too.
Like, we have a pond here onthe farm right in my front yard,
a big pond.
Yeah, a very nice size pond.
If I would have had that as akid.
We swam in our neighbor's pond.
Yes, Like didn't think anythingabout it.
Yes, I would have had that as akid.
We swam in our neighbor's pond.
Yes, like didn't think anythingabout it.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes, I would have too , and you?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
couldn't pay me to jump off in that thing.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
No, I will get.
I mean you could pay me.
There's like two lakes aroundhere.
I will get in, yeah.
But I'm like who do I know thathas a boat that can pull a
skier?
Yeah, most people, they'refancy boats, they're not ski
boats.
I'm not going to go to theexpense of renting a boat.
I mean I would love to skiagain.
(04:52):
I mean I know it's probably I'msure it's like riding a bike.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You would break something at this point.
You'd probably rip off a leg oran ankle.
Your ankles are very janky.
I was a very good skier though.
Well, you were, I was.
We was a lot of things thatwe're not anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
But I mean I would love to try it again.
Yeah, I just, I was tellingDylan about it Well, you'd also
like to roller skate again.
No, I'm not doing that BecauseI do not want to break a hip.
Like I know people my age thathave broken, and I'm talking big
, strong, muscular,construction-working men that
(05:36):
have fallen and broken hips.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, I mean, it's not a joke, I don't have time
for you to be laid up.
Can you imagine me having toprop you up at the warehouse and
do a live sale?
I would have you in thebackground.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I can't imagine going through any.
I don't want to break anything.
My fear now is like if somebodysaid like for today, I'd have
been like we got to record thepodcast.
I want to go, I would have goneto ski.
But here's my concern now isthere's so many people on the
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lakes?
Is the safety of it?
Because when I was a kid andskiing, honestly there were not
that many people.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
When I was a teenager , it was a country Not that many
people had.
When I was a teenager, it was acountry, yeah there was not
that many people had boats,honestly, but I just think about
, I can't imagine I mean ourpond that I'm looking at right
out the window is no differentthan the ponds that I swam in
growing up.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
There's snakes in there.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It doesn't even bother me that it's like brown
water, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
How deep is it?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It's not that deep, maybe when you get way out by
the dock.
It's probably about six oreight feet deep.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, see, if you jumped in you would hit the
bottom, you'd feel all the mossgrowing on the bottom and algae.
I mean right now.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It may be deeper than that, because the pond's full
there would be a big catfish?
I don't know, but it's funnythat we didn't think anything
about it as a kid.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But you know, Clemson has Lake Hartwell and I'm sorry
if anyone listening lives onLake Hartwell.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's gross and I can say that it is not gross.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I grew up on that lake.
It is gross.
If you grew up on it, you wouldknow I would swim in it and ski
and do everything.
And it was so funny at the endof the summer because I wore
white a lot.
I don't know why I thought thatwas a good idea.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Of course, it was going to be brown and orange
because of our clay soil.
Yeah, I was like the thing thatI don't like about Lake.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Hartwell.
Oh, it was red.
Yeah, it was orange Because ofour clay soil.
Yeah, I was like, ugh, that'snot.
The thing that I don't likeabout Lake Hartwell is Lake
Hartwell was built when mymother was a kid.
It is just some of the stuffthat I know is under there just
from my family.
They didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
They built this lake.
That is huge and if you're notfrom here, it doesn't mean
anything.
They built this lake.
That is huge and if you're notfrom here, it doesn't mean
anything to you, but it's hugeand they just built it in
flooded land, like there's barnsthere's homes, there's barns,
there's just under the cars,there's everything you can
imagine just under there whichis crazy, I don know.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And there's even bridges, like they, even like,
just don't like when they wouldredo bridges.
No, we're not going to haul itoff, let's just dump it in the
lake.
It's just on the bottom.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I can't imagine it's good for the fishes?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I guess, I guess.
But you know, there's a likeKiwi, north of us.
There's a shipwreck at thebottom.
Would they import a shipwreck?
No, I think it sank.
How did a ship get on the lake?
I don't know.
It's a big boat.
I don't know what it is.
(08:57):
I don't know the story behindit.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It ain't connected to the ocean.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But it's a big, you know some kind of big boat
that's been under there for along time and I think it is like
60, 70 feet below.
That's crazy.
So if you go up there to learnto scuba dive, you go through
that wreckage.
That's kind of cool.
(09:23):
I couldn't do that either.
I would suffocate, I know.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Well, now that we're kicking off summer, I was
looking at the calendar and Igot a lot of summer plans.
We got a lot going on we alwaysdo.
But it's one of those timeswhen I've looked at the calendar
and I'm like, oh my gosh, likemy summer's gone.
I mean the fun things, workthings, all kinds of things.
But next week Daniel and I aregoing down to our Florida
(09:50):
cottage.
My parents are going to bethere, my niece and so last
minute they're going to be thereall week.
But last minute we decided tobook flights and we're going
down there just for a few days.
We're going to be there I thinkit's like three nights Monday.
We get down there Mondayafternoon and we get back
Thursday evening.
So that's going to be fun,because I actually have never
(10:10):
been to our beach cottage withmy parents.
Daniel's parents came down onetime.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I was there with Dylan's parents.
Yeah, I've been there and we'vegone together a lot, but I've
never been there with my parents.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
My niece is at that perfect age.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
She's six, everything's fun.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Everything's fun and it's fun to entertain.
So we're going to go do that,but anyway, that's next week.
But then after that, sometimein the middle of June, we're
going to the Dallas market,which we haven't booked our
flight there either yet.
But you know we're last-minuteeverything.
Travelers, that sort of thingwe do need to get that book
though.
Yeah, so we're going to go tothe Dallas market sometime.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
That's my favorite market Other than High Point.
It's my number one favoritebecause of all the design and
the furniture and all of that,but my second, my favorite gift
market is Dallas, dallas now.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh, it's so.
Last June was the first time wewent to Dallas.
It's so nice, the Atlantamarket is bigger.
So if you're a small businessand you're like which market
should I go to Atlanta, you needto go to Atlanta.
It's bigger, bigger variety,everything about it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But you're in downtown Atlanta and you're in a
high-rise building and you feellike you're.
It's exhausting.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I didn't realize how the environment itself is
exhausting because it's moreClosed in, closed.
You don't know what time of dayit is, there's no sunlight,
that sort of thing.
When you go to the Dallasmarket it is more like a mall,
it's like an 80s mall, butmassive, massive, um, and it's
so.
Trees and, yeah, cafes andwaterfalls, little fish pond in
(11:56):
the middle atrium.
It's just so nice.
You just feel a whole differentenvironment.
But anyway, so that is mid-June, we'll go there.
So I'm gone the first week,some in the first week, then
some in like the third week, andthen the last week of June,
which leads into 4th of July,we're going to Daniel's parents'
(12:19):
beach place with them.
So a little family vacation.
You got any 4th of July plans?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I need to make.
You need to make some.
I need to make plans to go away.
You do, because last year I waslike nothing's going on.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
You need to get out of town and get a little summer
reset.
You think, oh, I'll getsomething.
You're not Something done.
You're not Just go ahead andhead out of town, it's true, so
we'll be gone.
That're not Something done.
You're not Just go ahead andhead out of town, it's true, so
we'll be gone.
That's the first week of July,and then the middle of July you
and I go to the Atlanta market,and that's our biggest, longest
market.
(12:54):
We'll be there for like 10 days.
I'm looking forward to that too.
Yeah, I love all the markets.
And then we're back for maybe aweek and a half, two weeks, uh,
and daniel and I go to theflorida cottage.
That's our end of summervacation.
Every year we'll go for about12 days.
And while we're there mister,yes, you booked a trip to Hawaii
(13:23):
, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Hawaii, hawaii.
We're going to Kauai this time.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Okay, so in 2021, you and me and Dylan and Daniel
went to Maui.
Mm-hmm, that was my first timeto Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
During COVID it was really nice.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It was really nice, it was.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That was a good vacation.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's a great, but it does seem like we did that like
10 years ago.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's a relaxing vacation.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Well, and the way we did it and we all travel, kind
of the same.
We were there, Did we have 10days there and we did like a
relaxing day where we juststayed at the resort, stayed at
the pool or did whatever wewanted Adventure day.
And then we did an adventureday where we went and did
(14:11):
whatever was the issue of theday and then the next day.
So it was a good mix, I willsay, of like planned adventure
day and leaving the resort andjust giving ourselves time to
lounge and get a massage orenjoy the pool or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I love it and I kawaii was the first place I
ever went in hawaii in the 90sand it is called the garden isle
.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's very and this is where you said we need to go
next for hawaii, like daniel andI, because we didn't go here.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yes, it is a smaller island.
It's beautiful.
It's mostly rainforest, lots offlowers and green and still
waterfalls.
Still lots to do and see.
It's just smaller.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And so do y'all have anything planned yet while
you're there?
Mm-mm, not yet.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I never do that though.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I don't like to plan.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I like to get there and then fill it out.
How long are y'all gone?
This time, I think nine daysOkay.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So, like eight nights , yeah, nine days, yeah, oh,
that's going to be fun.
Well then, when we get backfrom that, then it's just.
That kicks off our busy seasonWork, because it Then it's just
that kicks off our busy season,it'll be holidays.
It will be official holidayseason for us heading into
mid-August and September,although we go to market in
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September and then we have highpoint in October.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
The next thing you know it's going to be 2026.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I just stressed myself out.
It flies by it does fly by, butit'll be a lot of fun.
I saw something.
Well, do you have any othertrips?
No, I just need to getsomething planned, something
little, for fourth of july yeah,y'all really need to do
something yeah, you do um, I sawsomething and I forgot to
(16:03):
mention this before the podcast,so I don't know if you've seen
it yet or we haven't talkedabout it, but I just saw.
I was at the gym a couple ofdays ago.
I'm down nine pounds.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Nine, you can't tell, I know right, kidding.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No, you really can't.
You know, I gained like 25pounds since last, since, like
our amsterdam trip, that's whenit all went downhill.
I went on that, and then wewere in the thick of a holiday
season and it just added it'seasy but anyway, I was at the
gym but I saw that mcdonald's isclosing all of their Cosmic
(16:45):
locations.
Really, have you seen that?
No, well, there's only fivelocations, but that was new.
It's only been like two yearsago that they opened that thing.
You're surprised, well, okay,okay, I'm not here's.
I have a couple of things tosay about this.
I'm not surprised, first of all, but second of all, I feel like
(17:10):
they may be a little bit aheadof their time, because the mix
Cosmix was basically like mixeddrinks, like not alcohol drinks
but, you know drinks, mocktails,mocktails and different drinks
and light food from myunderstanding, but that is a
huge thing that's catching on.
(17:32):
It's like they're calling themlike dirty sodas and that sort
of thing.
And there's a Utah-basedcompany called Swig and they're
opening up, like I just saw onsocial media.
They just opened one inCharlotte and the wait was like
hours.
So it's kind of like how you'dhave a coffee shop, but it's a
soda shop, but reinvented, wherethey mix flavors and stuff like
(17:54):
that.
Yeah, I think it's a veryEuropean thing, and so I feel
like maybe there's something toit and they, I bet I mean
obviously they weren't makingany money for them to make the
decision to close that orwhatever.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Well, in McDonald's, what McDonald's tends to do,
what I've seen over the years, Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
They do get a little ahead of themselves sometimes.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
They do, and it's not all bad.
No, but if you know I don'tknow how many people know this,
but like Boston Market was youknow that was McDonald's
Chipotle.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Chipotle.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Was part of.
Mcdonald's, you could tell thatwas McDonald's because they
used or, if you're a McDonald'sperson, because they used the
same decor packages before andMcDonald's always spins off, but
then they sold it.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, they spin them off Before it got as big as it
sold it.
Yeah, they spin them off Beforeit got as big as it is now.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, they do, they sell them, and so there was
probably a three to five yearvery small window that, for the
first time ever McDonald's, youcould be a double brandedbranded
owner.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Oh, you could With what.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You could own like.
Whatever another brand youcould own, like a Chipotle and a
McDonald's, huh, and I mean,personally, I think that would
be a little overwhelming.
Yeah, you know, I mean thatwould throw everything off.
That would be a littleoverwhelming.
Yeah, you know, I mean thatwould throw everything off.
Mm-hmm, that would be verychallenging.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I never wanted anything like that yeah, to have
to switch your brain back andforth.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
There was a pizza, a fast Italian.
I'll think of it in a minute.
There were several differentones.
So no, I'm not surprised.
Minute, there was severaldifferent ones.
So no, I'm not surprised.
But I will say mcdonald's isusually on the forefront of
doing things because they haveso much money right and
experience and I mean, andthey're, they're, you know,
(20:01):
their national office is amazinglike swig place or doing um the
mixed drinks.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I feel like, uh, yeah , they were just ahead of it I
think it's one of those thingsthat needs to let someone else
bring it kind of mainstream andthen kind of how didn't they at
one time have like mccafes thatwere just coffee places, did
they have those anymore?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
um, I, you know, I don't know.
I know they had been phaseddown.
Yeah, the mccafe.
So when mcdonald's or whengreenville was revitalizing
downtown, I mean, hasn't beenthat long ago?
Yeah, like in the last 15 yearsbut I had this great idea that
I felt like a m's McCafe.
(20:46):
I still think it would do verywell down there.
With coffee and cheesecakes andyou know higher-end desserts.
Yeah, it's just a coffee house.
Yeah, but at the time, you know, greenville was like no.
Well in their defense they havedone a great job.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They've done a great job, so maybe it was just the
timing.
It was Because they needed tobuild it up before letting
things like that in.
Because they didn't want it tobecome too.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And the other thing is people didn't know what the
McCafe was.
Yeah, they didn't really.
But I mean, when they wereopening the first McCafes, I
mean they were doingmarble-tiled floors and
chandeliers and player pianos.
So it was a coffee.
It was a very upscale coffeehouse, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well, that's where they went wrong.
They just needed to competewith Starbucks and Dunkin'.
They didn't need to make itsomething else.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You can't.
Well, I liked it I liked it.
I mean I thought it was fun,but see, you can't.
Well, I liked it.
I liked it, I mean I thought itwas fun.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
But see, you can't.
If you're going to do that,then you need to not have it as
a McCafe, you need to have it assomething different, Because
you can't take the McDonald'simage and then make it marble
and put McCafe on it.
It just doesn't go together tome.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well, that's true.
But you know, I was one of thefirst to put.
I was one of the first to putwhat am I trying to say?
Granite, granite countertops,and I don't know that anybody's
put windowsills in their granitebesides me.
Probably nobody else.
Is that stupid Right?
But you know, I just looked atthe Corian at the time and the
(22:32):
Corian like it was hardly anyprice difference.
So I just, you know, I was mynormal self and went out on the
limb and did that and nobody haddone that.
The other thing that I did I'msurprised I made it in
McDonald's.
I'm surprised they didn't kickme out.
I took all of the fluorescentlights out and put can lights in
(22:56):
.
And this was before LED oranything.
It was kind of unheard of.
It was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, nice ambiance.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It was beautiful yeah .
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
But you know it's all changing.
I know I mean you go inMcDonald's now and I don't.
You know all you folks outthere listening, you know you go
in and they have gone way toosimplified with the decor.
Well, we talked about that.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
That might have been in the last episode or the one
before how the whole they'velost their identity.
The outside Gray gray buildinggo inside, it's just like
vanilla.
Yeah, nothing.
Does anyone even go insideanymore?
I mean the pee, maybe whenyou're on a road trip.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, I do, I do.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
So I haven't mentioned in a while National
Day, but I have my calendar infront of me because I was
looking at my trips.
I'm not going to read all theNational Days this week coming
up, but there is one.
I just don't know what it means.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I think it's today National Redhead Day.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It's not on here, it's Memorial.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Day.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
And then no, it's not .
I don't see National RedheadDay on here anywhere.
Was it yesterday, but you knowthis calendar could be missing
something.
No.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I saw it online, but you know that might not be true.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Or it could have just not made it on this calendar.
Maybe it wasn't on here I'msure there's some missing off
this calendar but one on the30th of this week, which is
Friday, I do believe.
Yes, Friday is hole in mybucket day.
Now, what the hell does thatmean?
Hole in my bucket.
(24:37):
I just don't even know.
I was just reading these andnone of them are really any
thing.
Thursday's paperclip day that'sso weird.
Flip flop day on Wednesdayflopday on Wednesday, hamburger day
on Wednesday, beef burger day onWednesday and brisket day.
So some meat company industrygot in on that.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
McDonald's probably did that.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Probably so.
Anyway, I just didn't know whathole in my bucket day meant.
So anyway, I just didn't knowwhat hole in my bucket day meant
.
And then even dumber is onSaturday it is speak in
sentences day.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
That's going to be hard for a lot of these young
people now because I don't thinkthey can speak.
They text so much that justreminded me.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Did I save?
I had something on TikTok.
I was watching it last night,but it was talking about the
comments were hilarious thoughit was talking about, have you
gone to a?
Have you had a Gen Z doctor yet?
And the comments I'm going tohave to try to find this.
(25:51):
They were hilarious of what,like, gen Z doctors will say to
you or whatever.
Oh yeah, here she is.
I'm just going to read from thecomments.
Oh yeah, here she is.
I'm just going to read from thecomments.
I won't play the real or thewell, I guess it's a TikTok,
(26:14):
it's not real and this okay.
So this is all like Gen Z.
So this person said I had to getan ultrasound and my Gen Z
(26:36):
ultrasound tech was like girl,your uterus is cute, let's see.
Gen Z doctor.
Someone said I didn't even knowthose were out, yet they are,
let's see.
I had a Gen Z nurse tell me inthe ICU that my pancreas had
left the chat Like this is theterminology which it just had me
(27:02):
cracking up my first Gen Zdoctor.
I was telling her how I wasanxious and she said she was
team live, laugh, lexaproherself.
It's just funny, but I guessyou know they're supposed to be
more in touch and that sort ofthing, so I haven't had that
experience yet.
But that is that's that.
(27:23):
I had a Gen Z OBGYN and I toldher I got my tubes cut and she
said, yes, queen, no more kids.
Like that was her response.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yes, queen.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Oh my gosh.
So anyway, when my daughterbroke her arm, her Gen Z doc
said he wanted some x-raysbecause one of her bones looked
kind of sus.
Yeah, I mean cracking up.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I mean anyway, but how are they going to do when
they're not, with other Gen Zs?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Well, I guess you just adjust.
I mean, and maybe if you'reolder you're going to relate and
go to an older doctor.
You know, I don't know what theexperience will be there.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Well, my mother always said and I think she said
, and this always used to crackme up and she would tell them
this she would say I want myOBGYN to come in with some gray
hair and a pot belly.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's funny.
She didn't want some young.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, she said I need to see a bald head, gray hair
or pot belly.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
That would be awkward .
Poor women, they have to gothrough it.
They do In those departments.
Women have it rough.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I don't know how they do it.
Women have it rough.
I know I don't know how they doit, I really don't.
And then they have to.
I mean they take the brunt ofraising children.
I mean, let's face it.
I mean, I'm not knocking dadsout there.
So don't attack me for this.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I'm just saying and there's a lot of great dads the
moms do a lot of the work theday-to-day.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Some dads do, Some dads stay at home and do, but
mostly it's the mom.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And it's not even sometimes.
You have even dads that do youknow, pick up the slack.
I don't want to say pick up theslack.
That's wrong.
We don't have kids, so we can'ttalk like that but they are
really in it.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Involved.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
But then it's still the mom orchestrating it.
Yes, like it still even comesdown.
That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I'm not knocking any dad.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Well, there's some loser dads, yeah, but there's
some loser moms.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
There are some loser moms.
There are some loser moms, butI'm just saying, even when you
have a great, great dad, the momstill is I feel like in the
thick of it all the time and Imean I know it's exhausting, but
I mean they wouldn't have itany other way.
That's true.
Well, some of them would, and Imean I think it's the way we're
built.
You know, a mom is naturallylike nurturing, right.
But now there are some dadsthat are that way.
I do know some.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, there's some good ones, there's some bad ones
on both sides, it's true, butthose comments just had me
cracking up.
I thought there was somethingelse I saved over here on the
TikTok world, but who knows whatit was.
At this point, what about?
Have you given up on theSouthernism segment?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
for this week.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
No, I haven't.
I thought it was the week.
Nope, I thought it was the weekof you had given up.
I thought it was the week ofyou had given up.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
No, and I came up with something good.
So if you're moving here to theSouth, it doesn't have to just
be South Carolina, it's South ingeneral.
And someone mentions thecommode.
Chances are they are notspeaking of a piece of furniture
(31:10):
, not a case good piece they arenever even known, yeah, of a
toilet, a toilet I grew up.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I grew up calling it the commode, the commode but do
you think that's a southernthing we need need to know, Did
you?
Or is that an older thingversus?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
a Southern thing.
I think it's a Southern thingbecause they had up North a lot
of people had toilets indoorbefore we did just because of
the environment.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Hmm, Let us know on our hotline 864-982-5029.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
The commode came from back when they used chamber
pots, so they would do theirbusiness in the pot, put the lid
on it and they would set itinside a commode, which is a
piece of furniture, a piece offurniture.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
So it just became the commode.
Huh, Isn't it funny how thingsupdate and change and like.
So can you imagine.
But did you go?
Well, I guess at the same timeyou had a chamber pot, you had
an outhouse.
The chamber pot was for, like,nighttime or something.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Now one person in my family, when I was a kid, had an
outhouse, only one, no two.
One in South Carolina, one inNorth Carolina, functional, that
was the bathroom, an outhousewhen you were a kid.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yes, in the 70s Were they living in a hut.
No, a very nice farmhouse.
It just didn't have a bathroomIn the 70s.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
In the 70s and their stove in the house was wood.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Wood burning.
I mean, I could see thatbecause I feel like some people
held on to that longer.
It was good, they liked the wayit cooked, yeah, sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
On fire.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, yeah.
But the outhouse, I think,would have been the first to go.
You know what I'm saying.
It grossed me out.
I have a question.
Okay, did the outhouse movearound?
Like how did they clean?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
that out.
From what I understand, youwould move.
I don't remember them movingand maybe they did, but I mean
it's been a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
But that's what they did back in the day is they
moved it, filled the hole in it,started over.
I have so many questions.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
You know that was some fertile.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
That was some fertile soil around there.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
And I just can't imagine who it smelled and the
flies, can you?
Imagine, like I can't get intoit, what I just can't the funny
ones, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Here were the funny ones, and I don't remember this.
They didn't have this, butthere were some outhouses that
had two places to sit, so likeno.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yes, like you could sit there together.
Yes, no.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
That is a thing I'm telling you?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
no, yeah, like we could have sat there and use it
together.
We could not.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
How are things going for you no and okay.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
So an outhouse, like when you're normal, wouldn't be
just catastrophic.
But when you're normal wouldn'tbe just catastrophic, but when
you're normal number two.
But you know, after you hadyour coffee or a good clean out
or something, I just can'timagine that in an outhouse.
(35:01):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yes, I do, and it was raw wood, you know, it was like
it looked like a barn and thenyou got splinters on there.
No, no, this is funny.
Both of my family members hadjust they had gone and bought
like white toilet seats thatjust sat there Because they
could have had an indoor toilet.
(35:27):
They could have.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, I don't.
So they just went and got thewhite toilet seat and just screw
it onto the wood.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Here's the crazy thing is like.
This is like literally goingback to the mid seventies, but
they weren't like real poor oranything, I mean they had a big.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
That's what I'm saying.
It wasn't like they were at acampsite, it was a choice.
Yeah, that is insane.
So I know then some of ourlisteners have to remember
outhouses.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I want to hear some experiences.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
There has to be good experiences.
I want to know In the notes inour community or comments.
Put it there or call or textour hotline 864-982-5029.
There's got to be.
I got to dive into this.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I distinctly remember thinking are there spiders in
here?
Yeah, Is there a snake in here?
And it was dark.
See, there's no light.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
I also can't imagine using a chamber pot, like at
night.
Oh, I would have missed that.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
That would have been, I would have had that dumped.
That would have been a mess, Idon't know.
That is just.
But let me tell you, you knowthe outhouse you couldn't have
too close to the house becauseof the smell and the flies.
(36:56):
So you had to walk a ways,mm-hmm, and it smelled.
I mean it was gross.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
That's why I was like did they cover it?
Did they layer it?
Did they just add lime in?
I don't, Did they move it?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
You know I was so young, I don't think I.
I know they moved them.
That was a strategy of theouthouse.
You couldn't just let it pile.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
The 70s just seem way too late to have that as even
an option.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Well, I was asking a friend about it the other day.
I was like did y'all?
And she said yeah, one familymember had an outhouse.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That just seems like 20 years too late, really about
30 years too late.
Well, because I know mygrandmother growing up they had
outhouses.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Your mom didn't at all?
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Even when she was little, I don't know, because
when she was growing up theylived in the city until she was
like in second grade and theybuilt the house that my
grandparents lived in.
You know they still have, mymom still has.
But my grandparents lived in,you know they still have, my mom
still has.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I don't know if my mother did, because my
grandparents built their newhouse like when she was and my
mom was born in the mid-50s.
Three.
That's why.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
I'm like it seems a little like that, seems like
that should have ended in likemaybe the 40s.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
But I think before they built the new house they
had an outhouse.
That's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
It was a country thing, but that goes to.
We're not going to get into itand too graphic or anything.
But you and I were literallytalking about this.
You sent me a was it a reel orsomething?
Or you showed it to me about.
It was talking about couplesgoing to the bathroom in front
of each other.
Oh no, it was a second date.
(38:55):
A woman didn't go on a seconddate, oh my.
This is what it was.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
This is bad.
So that story, oh my gosh, thatwas crazy.
I remember what it was now.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
It was a I think it was a real or TikTok or
something and it was a radiostation.
We should shout them outbecause it was their story, but
I don't remember they do.
They do second date updates andso when people go on a first
date and they don't get a seconddate, they can call in because
one party feels like the datewent good and they want to know
(39:28):
why they didn't get a second.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Why they didn't.
They're not calling or texting.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
They're basically ghosting them.
So this was a man and a woman,and the man felt like it was a
good time, and he had called theradio station to find out why
the woman wouldn't give him asecond date.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
And so they called her and she gets into the story
about how she was like, oh, Idon't want to do this on the
radio and they were like, oh,but you know he really wants to
know.
So she goes in and they go ontheir date and it goes well,
yeah, and they end up hooking upand he stays at her place for
(40:07):
the night.
So they, you know, they dotheir business and all that.
Okay.
So they, you know, they dotheir business and all that.
And the next morning he gets upand he goes to the restroom for
a number two and leaves thedoor opened.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Yes, Right, so she can right there like she's
laying in bed and can see rightthere.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
She said she could see, hear and smell everything
going on in there.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
And funniest part of it was he called it poo-poo.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
So he was on the line .
He was just quiet and shedidn't know that he was on there
.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
And you know she just said he's disgusting, I don't
want anything to do with him.
You know if he would do that Ihave to say I totally wait.
No, I can say that happened tome one time and you know who it
was.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
I'm not going to call it out on here.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
And that was the end.
That happened to you.
Did I know this?
I don't think so, but I stillremember it vividly and I
remember thinking at that timeno done, yeah Gone.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
I mean, daniel and I have been together 16, 17 years
I don't know what year we're inright now, I have to do the math
but we've never done that.
And like if we are even in ourhouse now and like if someone is
in like our, we have a?
What do you call it?
when the toilet's in its ownroom, like water, water closet
(41:49):
in our bathroom but like, evenif I'm in there getting ready
orering, and if he has to go, orit's vice versa, we go to a
different bathroom.
We've never.
It's gross.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Why would you do that ?
I don't know.
But, I have friends that do.
No, I'm talking male, female.
They'll just plop down in frontof each other yeah they're like
they don't care.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
I'm like uh-uh, I need, uh-uh, I would get to the.
I would rather.
I would rather walk across thestage naked in front of people
than have just one person, evenDaniel, watch me, or poop, I
(42:36):
would too, or poo-poo thepoo-poo.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
So the guy gets on the he speaks up on the call and
he was like I don't know whatthe big deal is.
We had just been intimate and Iwas just taking a poo-poo.
Yeah, she was like and you callit poo-poo.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
That's like my mom calls that to like little kids.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
You know Poo-poo.
Yeah, you gotta go poo-poo.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
But as an adult I don't know, but I cannot imagine
, like if someone did that infront of me no ma'am, no sir, no
ma'am, I sir, no ma'am.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
I would have been done with him too, and I don't I
mean that just because they hadbeen intimate, that's every
reason not to do.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
I mean yeah that's just an animal.
To me that's work, I mean.
And if you do that on the firsttime, you stay over her what
are you gonna be doing when youget real comfortable?
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
I.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
It would make me wonder well, that's what why she
was like she never even offeredback.
No, she was like no, even afterthey tried to convince like
we'll pay for another day,wasn't she like?
Speaker 2 (43:52):
she was like no, no Even after they tried to
convince like we'll pay foranother date, she was like no,
no, and I think she even said,if it wasn't the act, it's him
calling it poo-poo, and I couldappreciate that too, that's
funny, I didn't know thathappened to you, though on a
date it did, and you were likewho is that comfortable?
Speaker 1 (44:11):
funny, I didn't know that happened to you, though it
did, and you were like who isthat comfortable?
Like, why are you thatcomfortable in?
Speaker 2 (44:19):
front of someone.
Don't ever be that comfortablein front of me.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
I mean no one.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
No, no one.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Now, everybody gets sick.
If there's this accident, Imean that's a whole it's going
to gross me out and I bet Iwon't feel bad for you and I'm
not going to hold it against you.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
That's a whole different thing than just not
being able to help it.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Yeah, I mean, if you're sick, you're sick.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
And what is like?
Ok, so like that guy went anddid that.
So I think the problem is whyyou didn't think that through,
like all you had to do is closethe door.
It's not like she said he usedthe bathroom at my house.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
He should have went home, and it's like, oh well, he
couldn't hold it no like justclose the door be discreet and
he was offended that she wasoffended by.
Yes, he was offended that shewas offended by that.
Yes, he was offended that shewas offended.
I mean who?
The hell, I don't know that man.
He's into something funky.
(45:22):
There's more to that story, youthink.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
I think he just said oh, my family grew up very
comfortable around each other,so I don't know Well your
family's nasty too each other.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
So I don't know.
Well, your family's nasty too,and if your mother was, I mean.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
But you know we have people listening right now that
it's like oh yeah, me and myspouse it does fine.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
If that's what you do in your house, that's fine,
just don't come to mine and doit.
But my mom and my dad were verythey were very modest when it
came to that.
My mother would politely tellyou that she had never poo-pooed
or passed gas in her life.
And my dad?
(46:05):
I can remember my dad sayingyou know, that is very private,
it was just known.
I was always taught that isvery private.
Yeah, it was just known.
Like I was always taught thatis private.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
That was private, it's true.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
I mean just weird.
It's so weird to me.
But I mean, you know, if youlisten, if you want to take a
dump in front of yourneighborhood, I don't care.
I just don't want to watchMm-mm.
I don't want to be any part ofit.
I mean, I hate using publicrestrooms.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
I just can't believe someone would do that on a date
their first date.
And last and last, SeeDecisions and consequences there
.
Before we wrap this one up,because we're going to make this
I don't know if it's short ornot, but we got things to do-
it's our one vacation dayMemorial Day it's not even
(46:58):
vacation day holiday, but if youare in the Greenville area
starting this Thursday.
So this is a quick turnaroundThursday, friday, saturday we
are having a huge sale at ourwarehouse.
We are having an end of seasonsale at our outlet store because
we're going to go to summerhours for our outlet store for
(47:20):
the summer, so we are clearingthis baby out.
So if you're in the area thisweek, which is 29th, 30th and
31st of May it is 29th, 30th and31st of May Come to the Nested
Fig Outlet Store, to ourwarehouse.
1659 Woodruff Road, suite F.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
And we're going to have a big blowout sale Thursday
, friday, saturday, 10 to 4 pm,all three days, and Dylan and I
will be there on Saturday, socome see us.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
And spread the word.
We're going to clear it outbefore we start our summer.
Make sure you come check it out, and we're going to wrap this
baby up.
Remember to join us in ourpodcast community.
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That's where you can watch thevideo of us doing the podcast,
(48:14):
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Thanks, guys, bye y'all.
Hmm, crank this baby up for the third time.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
Speaker 1 (00:13):
We're two best friends and entrepreneurs who's
Driving is an entertaining lookinto the behind the scenes of
our lives, friendship andbusiness.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
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
small businesses, social mediaand all things home and garden.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
You never know who's driving,or?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
So we've just had.
This is our third start to theepisode because Stephen's camera
quits working on me, but Ithink we're good now, well,
check it before I go any further.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We're good, I'm more slap out.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It is recording.
We are good.
Oh my goodness, that's toofunny.
Remember?
You can watch our podcast atwhosedrivingpodcastcom.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And you never know which day we might be naked.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I do think one day we should just record like normal
but be here in like some kind ofcostume.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
We'll work on that.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
We're going to do something just to see.
Just to see what happens.
Okay, so it's today for us isMemorial Day, so this is
Memorial Day week.
It's the unofficial, officialbeginning of summer right,
mm-hmm.
Which?
When is the official day ofsummer?
June 20th?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
June 20th, that's a long time, mm-mm, no it's now,
it's summertime, but it goes upuntil September.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh, they need to adjust that a little bit, quite
right, yeah but I guess you knowthe northern people.
Someone was telling us lastnight in the um live cell that
they still had forsythiablooming, which ours bloomed in
like february, but you don'trealize like how cold Like Maine
, in those northeastern states.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Excuse me, Sorry.
Those northeastern states getreally cold.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, it's true, but I just feel like by you know
we're almost to the first ofJune that it should be warm, hot
by now.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I feel like May was hotter when I was a kid than it
is now.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, I was just going to say we've had a pretty
mild May, we've had a reallygood spring, so I think it's
just a one-off, becausesometimes I can remember with
having the garden shop when weused to have the outdoor plants
and stuff and how hot it wouldbe in May sometime.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Just hasn't been that bad.
I mean, knock on wood.
I know I'm going to be dyingcome July and August.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, speaking of summertime, unofficially, I need
a pool to get into Well.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I have one.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
But I need it in my backyard.
I need my own pool to get into.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know, I can look out my window and see it, but it
just doesn't do any good.
It doesn't entice me.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I know You're not a pool person.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I mean, you're not, I'm more, I love.
I love the water.
Here's the thing.
I don't like a community pool.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You don't like anything pool related in
summertime.
You don't like to sweat.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I do You're?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
too pale to go sit by the pool.
Well, you're as pale as I am.
I try to keep myself this way.
Like I cover up, I wear a longsleeve.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
UZ shirt.
When I go to the beach I doenjoy it.
I just, you know, I justhonestly don't take the time.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I was thinking the other day how I used to love to
water ski and stuff like that,but see, now you would never get
in a pond or a lake now.
Not a pond.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Like as a kid, we would have swam in our pond.
Oh, I would have too.
Like, we have a pond here onthe farm right in my front yard,
a big pond.
Yeah, a very nice size pond.
If I would have had that as akid.
We swam in our neighbor's pond.
Yes, Like didn't think anythingabout it.
Yes, I would have had that as akid.
We swam in our neighbor's pond.
Yes, like didn't think anythingabout it.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes, I would have too , and you?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
couldn't pay me to jump off in that thing.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
No, I will get.
I mean you could pay me.
There's like two lakes aroundhere.
I will get in, yeah.
But I'm like who do I know thathas a boat that can pull a
skier?
Yeah, most people, they'refancy boats, they're not ski
boats.
I'm not going to go to theexpense of renting a boat.
I mean I would love to skiagain.
(04:52):
I mean I know it's probably I'msure it's like riding a bike.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You would break something at this point.
You'd probably rip off a leg oran ankle.
Your ankles are very janky.
I was a very good skier though.
Well, you were, I was.
We was a lot of things thatwe're not anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
But I mean I would love to try it again.
Yeah, I just, I was tellingDylan about it Well, you'd also
like to roller skate again.
No, I'm not doing that BecauseI do not want to break a hip.
Like I know people my age thathave broken, and I'm talking big
, strong, muscular,construction-working men that
(05:36):
have fallen and broken hips.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, I mean, it's not a joke, I don't have time
for you to be laid up.
Can you imagine me having toprop you up at the warehouse and
do a live sale?
I would have you in thebackground.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I can't imagine going through any.
I don't want to break anything.
My fear now is like if somebodysaid like for today, I'd have
been like we got to record thepodcast.
I want to go, I would have goneto ski.
But here's my concern now isthere's so many people on the
(06:11):
lakes?
Is the safety of it?
Because when I was a kid andskiing, honestly there were not
that many people.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
When I was a teenager , it was a country Not that many
people had.
When I was a teenager, it was acountry, yeah there was not
that many people had boats,honestly, but I just think about
, I can't imagine I mean ourpond that I'm looking at right
out the window is no differentthan the ponds that I swam in
growing up.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
There's snakes in there.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It doesn't even bother me that it's like brown
water, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
How deep is it?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It's not that deep, maybe when you get way out by
the dock.
It's probably about six oreight feet deep.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, see, if you jumped in you would hit the
bottom, you'd feel all the mossgrowing on the bottom and algae.
I mean right now.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It may be deeper than that, because the pond's full
there would be a big catfish?
I don't know, but it's funnythat we didn't think anything
about it as a kid.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But you know, Clemson has Lake Hartwell and I'm sorry
if anyone listening lives onLake Hartwell.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's gross and I can say that it is not gross.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I grew up on that lake.
It is gross.
If you grew up on it, you wouldknow I would swim in it and ski
and do everything.
And it was so funny at the endof the summer because I wore
white a lot.
I don't know why I thought thatwas a good idea.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Of course, it was going to be brown and orange
because of our clay soil.
Yeah, I was like the thing thatI don't like about Lake.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Hartwell.
Oh, it was red.
Yeah, it was orange Because ofour clay soil.
Yeah, I was like, ugh, that'snot.
The thing that I don't likeabout Lake Hartwell is Lake
Hartwell was built when mymother was a kid.
It is just some of the stuffthat I know is under there just
from my family.
They didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
They built this lake.
That is huge and if you're notfrom here, it doesn't mean
anything.
They built this lake.
That is huge and if you're notfrom here, it doesn't mean
anything to you, but it's hugeand they just built it in
flooded land, like there's barnsthere's homes, there's barns,
there's just under the cars,there's everything you can
imagine just under there whichis crazy, I don know.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And there's even bridges, like they, even like,
just don't like when they wouldredo bridges.
No, we're not going to haul itoff, let's just dump it in the
lake.
It's just on the bottom.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I can't imagine it's good for the fishes?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I guess, I guess.
But you know, there's a likeKiwi, north of us.
There's a shipwreck at thebottom.
Would they import a shipwreck?
No, I think it sank.
How did a ship get on the lake?
I don't know.
It's a big boat.
I don't know what it is.
(08:57):
I don't know the story behindit.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It ain't connected to the ocean.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But it's a big, you know some kind of big boat
that's been under there for along time and I think it is like
60, 70 feet below.
That's crazy.
So if you go up there to learnto scuba dive, you go through
that wreckage.
That's kind of cool.
(09:23):
I couldn't do that either.
I would suffocate, I know.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Well, now that we're kicking off summer, I was
looking at the calendar and Igot a lot of summer plans.
We got a lot going on we alwaysdo.
But it's one of those timeswhen I've looked at the calendar
and I'm like, oh my gosh, likemy summer's gone.
I mean the fun things, workthings, all kinds of things.
But next week Daniel and I aregoing down to our Florida
(09:50):
cottage.
My parents are going to bethere, my niece and so last
minute they're going to be thereall week.
But last minute we decided tobook flights and we're going
down there just for a few days.
We're going to be there I thinkit's like three nights Monday.
We get down there Mondayafternoon and we get back
Thursday evening.
So that's going to be fun,because I actually have never
(10:10):
been to our beach cottage withmy parents.
Daniel's parents came down onetime.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I was there with Dylan's parents.
Yeah, I've been there and we'vegone together a lot, but I've
never been there with my parents.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
My niece is at that perfect age.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
She's six, everything's fun.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Everything's fun and it's fun to entertain.
So we're going to go do that,but anyway, that's next week.
But then after that, sometimein the middle of June, we're
going to the Dallas market,which we haven't booked our
flight there either yet.
But you know we're last-minuteeverything.
Travelers, that sort of thingwe do need to get that book
though.
Yeah, so we're going to go tothe Dallas market sometime.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
That's my favorite market Other than High Point.
It's my number one favoritebecause of all the design and
the furniture and all of that,but my second, my favorite gift
market is Dallas, dallas now.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh, it's so.
Last June was the first time wewent to Dallas.
It's so nice, the Atlantamarket is bigger.
So if you're a small businessand you're like which market
should I go to Atlanta, you needto go to Atlanta.
It's bigger, bigger variety,everything about it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But you're in downtown Atlanta and you're in a
high-rise building and you feellike you're.
It's exhausting.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I didn't realize how the environment itself is
exhausting because it's moreClosed in, closed.
You don't know what time of dayit is, there's no sunlight,
that sort of thing.
When you go to the Dallasmarket it is more like a mall,
it's like an 80s mall, butmassive, massive, um, and it's
so.
Trees and, yeah, cafes andwaterfalls, little fish pond in
(11:56):
the middle atrium.
It's just so nice.
You just feel a whole differentenvironment.
But anyway, so that is mid-June, we'll go there.
So I'm gone the first week,some in the first week, then
some in like the third week, andthen the last week of June,
which leads into 4th of July,we're going to Daniel's parents'
(12:19):
beach place with them.
So a little family vacation.
You got any 4th of July plans?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I need to make.
You need to make some.
I need to make plans to go away.
You do, because last year I waslike nothing's going on.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
You need to get out of town and get a little summer
reset.
You think, oh, I'll getsomething.
You're not Something done.
You're not Just go ahead andhead out of town, it's true, so
we'll be gone.
That're not Something done.
You're not Just go ahead andhead out of town, it's true, so
we'll be gone.
That's the first week of July,and then the middle of July you
and I go to the Atlanta market,and that's our biggest, longest
market.
(12:54):
We'll be there for like 10 days.
I'm looking forward to that too.
Yeah, I love all the markets.
And then we're back for maybe aweek and a half, two weeks, uh,
and daniel and I go to theflorida cottage.
That's our end of summervacation.
Every year we'll go for about12 days.
And while we're there mister,yes, you booked a trip to Hawaii
(13:23):
, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Hawaii, hawaii.
We're going to Kauai this time.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Okay, so in 2021, you and me and Dylan and Daniel
went to Maui.
Mm-hmm, that was my first timeto Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
During COVID it was really nice.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It was really nice, it was.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That was a good vacation.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's a great, but it does seem like we did that like
10 years ago.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's a relaxing vacation.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Well, and the way we did it and we all travel, kind
of the same.
We were there, Did we have 10days there and we did like a
relaxing day where we juststayed at the resort, stayed at
the pool or did whatever wewanted Adventure day.
And then we did an adventureday where we went and did
(14:11):
whatever was the issue of theday and then the next day.
So it was a good mix, I willsay, of like planned adventure
day and leaving the resort andjust giving ourselves time to
lounge and get a massage orenjoy the pool or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I love it and I kawaii was the first place I
ever went in hawaii in the 90sand it is called the garden isle
.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's very and this is where you said we need to go
next for hawaii, like daniel andI, because we didn't go here.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yes, it is a smaller island.
It's beautiful.
It's mostly rainforest, lots offlowers and green and still
waterfalls.
Still lots to do and see.
It's just smaller.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And so do y'all have anything planned yet while
you're there?
Mm-mm, not yet.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I never do that though.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I don't like to plan.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I like to get there and then fill it out.
How long are y'all gone?
This time, I think nine daysOkay.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So, like eight nights , yeah, nine days, yeah, oh,
that's going to be fun.
Well then, when we get backfrom that, then it's just.
That kicks off our busy seasonWork, because it Then it's just
that kicks off our busy season,it'll be holidays.
It will be official holidayseason for us heading into
mid-August and September,although we go to market in
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September and then we have highpoint in October.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
The next thing you know it's going to be 2026.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I just stressed myself out.
It flies by it does fly by, butit'll be a lot of fun.
I saw something.
Well, do you have any othertrips?
No, I just need to getsomething planned, something
little, for fourth of july yeah,y'all really need to do
something yeah, you do um, I sawsomething and I forgot to
(16:03):
mention this before the podcast,so I don't know if you've seen
it yet or we haven't talkedabout it, but I just saw.
I was at the gym a couple ofdays ago.
I'm down nine pounds.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Nine, you can't tell, I know right, kidding.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No, you really can't.
You know, I gained like 25pounds since last, since, like
our amsterdam trip, that's whenit all went downhill.
I went on that, and then wewere in the thick of a holiday
season and it just added it'seasy but anyway, I was at the
gym but I saw that mcdonald's isclosing all of their Cosmic
(16:45):
locations.
Really, have you seen that?
No, well, there's only fivelocations, but that was new.
It's only been like two yearsago that they opened that thing.
You're surprised, well, okay,okay, I'm not here's.
I have a couple of things tosay about this.
I'm not surprised, first of all, but second of all, I feel like
(17:10):
they may be a little bit aheadof their time, because the mix
Cosmix was basically like mixeddrinks, like not alcohol drinks
but, you know drinks, mocktails,mocktails and different drinks
and light food from myunderstanding, but that is a
huge thing that's catching on.
(17:32):
It's like they're calling themlike dirty sodas and that sort
of thing.
And there's a Utah-basedcompany called Swig and they're
opening up, like I just saw onsocial media.
They just opened one inCharlotte and the wait was like
hours.
So it's kind of like how you'dhave a coffee shop, but it's a
soda shop, but reinvented, wherethey mix flavors and stuff like
(17:54):
that.
Yeah, I think it's a veryEuropean thing, and so I feel
like maybe there's something toit and they, I bet I mean
obviously they weren't makingany money for them to make the
decision to close that orwhatever.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Well, in McDonald's, what McDonald's tends to do,
what I've seen over the years, Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
They do get a little ahead of themselves sometimes.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
They do, and it's not all bad.
No, but if you know I don'tknow how many people know this,
but like Boston Market was youknow that was McDonald's
Chipotle.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Chipotle.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Was part of.
Mcdonald's, you could tell thatwas McDonald's because they
used or, if you're a McDonald'sperson, because they used the
same decor packages before andMcDonald's always spins off, but
then they sold it.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, they spin them off Before it got as big as it
sold it.
Yeah, they spin them off Beforeit got as big as it is now.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, they do, they sell them, and so there was
probably a three to five yearvery small window that, for the
first time ever McDonald's, youcould be a double brandedbranded
owner.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Oh, you could With what.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You could own like.
Whatever another brand youcould own, like a Chipotle and a
McDonald's, huh, and I mean,personally, I think that would
be a little overwhelming.
Yeah, you know, I mean thatwould throw everything off.
That would be a littleoverwhelming.
Yeah, you know, I mean thatwould throw everything off.
Mm-hmm, that would be verychallenging.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I never wanted anything like that yeah, to have
to switch your brain back andforth.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
There was a pizza, a fast Italian.
I'll think of it in a minute.
There were several differentones.
So no, I'm not surprised.
Minute, there was severaldifferent ones.
So no, I'm not surprised.
But I will say mcdonald's isusually on the forefront of
doing things because they haveso much money right and
experience and I mean, andthey're, they're, you know,
(20:01):
their national office is amazinglike swig place or doing um the
mixed drinks.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I feel like, uh, yeah , they were just ahead of it I
think it's one of those thingsthat needs to let someone else
bring it kind of mainstream andthen kind of how didn't they at
one time have like mccafes thatwere just coffee places, did
they have those anymore?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
um, I, you know, I don't know.
I know they had been phaseddown.
Yeah, the mccafe.
So when mcdonald's or whengreenville was revitalizing
downtown, I mean, hasn't beenthat long ago?
Yeah, like in the last 15 yearsbut I had this great idea that
I felt like a m's McCafe.
(20:46):
I still think it would do verywell down there.
With coffee and cheesecakes andyou know higher-end desserts.
Yeah, it's just a coffee house.
Yeah, but at the time, you know, greenville was like no.
Well in their defense they havedone a great job.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They've done a great job, so maybe it was just the
timing.
It was Because they needed tobuild it up before letting
things like that in.
Because they didn't want it tobecome too.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And the other thing is people didn't know what the
McCafe was.
Yeah, they didn't really.
But I mean, when they wereopening the first McCafes, I
mean they were doingmarble-tiled floors and
chandeliers and player pianos.
So it was a coffee.
It was a very upscale coffeehouse, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well, that's where they went wrong.
They just needed to competewith Starbucks and Dunkin'.
They didn't need to make itsomething else.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You can't.
Well, I liked it I liked it.
I mean I thought it was fun,but see, you can't.
Well, I liked it.
I liked it, I mean I thought itwas fun.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
But see, you can't.
If you're going to do that,then you need to not have it as
a McCafe, you need to have it assomething different, Because
you can't take the McDonald'simage and then make it marble
and put McCafe on it.
It just doesn't go together tome.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well, that's true.
But you know, I was one of thefirst to put.
I was one of the first to putwhat am I trying to say?
Granite, granite countertops,and I don't know that anybody's
put windowsills in their granitebesides me.
Probably nobody else.
Is that stupid Right?
But you know, I just looked atthe Corian at the time and the
(22:32):
Corian like it was hardly anyprice difference.
So I just, you know, I was mynormal self and went out on the
limb and did that and nobody haddone that.
The other thing that I did I'msurprised I made it in
McDonald's.
I'm surprised they didn't kickme out.
I took all of the fluorescentlights out and put can lights in
(22:56):
.
And this was before LED oranything.
It was kind of unheard of.
It was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, nice ambiance.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It was beautiful yeah .
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
But you know it's all changing.
I know I mean you go inMcDonald's now and I don't.
You know all you folks outthere listening, you know you go
in and they have gone way toosimplified with the decor.
Well, we talked about that.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
That might have been in the last episode or the one
before how the whole they'velost their identity.
The outside Gray gray buildinggo inside, it's just like
vanilla.
Yeah, nothing.
Does anyone even go insideanymore?
I mean the pee, maybe whenyou're on a road trip.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, I do, I do.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
So I haven't mentioned in a while National
Day, but I have my calendar infront of me because I was
looking at my trips.
I'm not going to read all theNational Days this week coming
up, but there is one.
I just don't know what it means.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I think it's today National Redhead Day.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It's not on here, it's Memorial.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Day.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
And then no, it's not .
I don't see National RedheadDay on here anywhere.
Was it yesterday, but you knowthis calendar could be missing
something.
No.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I saw it online, but you know that might not be true.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Or it could have just not made it on this calendar.
Maybe it wasn't on here I'msure there's some missing off
this calendar but one on the30th of this week, which is
Friday, I do believe.
Yes, Friday is hole in mybucket day.
Now, what the hell does thatmean?
Hole in my bucket.
(24:37):
I just don't even know.
I was just reading these andnone of them are really any
thing.
Thursday's paperclip day that'sso weird.
Flip flop day on Wednesdayflopday on Wednesday, hamburger day
on Wednesday, beef burger day onWednesday and brisket day.
So some meat company industrygot in on that.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
McDonald's probably did that.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Probably so.
Anyway, I just didn't know whathole in my bucket day meant.
So anyway, I just didn't knowwhat hole in my bucket day meant
.
And then even dumber is onSaturday it is speak in
sentences day.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
That's going to be hard for a lot of these young
people now because I don't thinkthey can speak.
They text so much that justreminded me.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Did I save?
I had something on TikTok.
I was watching it last night,but it was talking about the
comments were hilarious thoughit was talking about, have you
gone to a?
Have you had a Gen Z doctor yet?
And the comments I'm going tohave to try to find this.
(25:51):
They were hilarious of what,like, gen Z doctors will say to
you or whatever.
Oh yeah, here she is.
I'm just going to read from thecomments.
Oh yeah, here she is.
I'm just going to read from thecomments.
I won't play the real or thewell, I guess it's a TikTok,
(26:14):
it's not real and this okay.
So this is all like Gen Z.
So this person said I had to getan ultrasound and my Gen Z
(26:36):
ultrasound tech was like girl,your uterus is cute, let's see.
Gen Z doctor.
Someone said I didn't even knowthose were out, yet they are,
let's see.
I had a Gen Z nurse tell me inthe ICU that my pancreas had
left the chat Like this is theterminology which it just had me
(27:02):
cracking up my first Gen Zdoctor.
I was telling her how I wasanxious and she said she was
team live, laugh, lexaproherself.
It's just funny, but I guessyou know they're supposed to be
more in touch and that sort ofthing, so I haven't had that
experience yet.
But that is that's that.
(27:23):
I had a Gen Z OBGYN and I toldher I got my tubes cut and she
said, yes, queen, no more kids.
Like that was her response.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yes, queen.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Oh my gosh.
So anyway, when my daughterbroke her arm, her Gen Z doc
said he wanted some x-raysbecause one of her bones looked
kind of sus.
Yeah, I mean cracking up.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I mean anyway, but how are they going to do when
they're not, with other Gen Zs?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Well, I guess you just adjust.
I mean, and maybe if you'reolder you're going to relate and
go to an older doctor.
You know, I don't know what theexperience will be there.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Well, my mother always said and I think she said
, and this always used to crackme up and she would tell them
this she would say I want myOBGYN to come in with some gray
hair and a pot belly.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's funny.
She didn't want some young.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, she said I need to see a bald head, gray hair
or pot belly.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
That would be awkward .
Poor women, they have to gothrough it.
They do In those departments.
Women have it rough.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I don't know how they do it.
Women have it rough.
I know I don't know how they doit, I really don't.
And then they have to.
I mean they take the brunt ofraising children.
I mean, let's face it.
I mean, I'm not knocking dadsout there.
So don't attack me for this.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I'm just saying and there's a lot of great dads the
moms do a lot of the work theday-to-day.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Some dads do, Some dads stay at home and do, but
mostly it's the mom.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And it's not even sometimes.
You have even dads that do youknow, pick up the slack.
I don't want to say pick up theslack.
That's wrong.
We don't have kids, so we can'ttalk like that but they are
really in it.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Involved.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
But then it's still the mom orchestrating it.
Yes, like it still even comesdown.
That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I'm not knocking any dad.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Well, there's some loser dads, yeah, but there's
some loser moms.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
There are some loser moms.
There are some loser moms, butI'm just saying, even when you
have a great, great dad, the momstill is I feel like in the
thick of it all the time and Imean I know it's exhausting, but
I mean they wouldn't have itany other way.
That's true.
Well, some of them would, and Imean I think it's the way we're
built.
You know, a mom is naturallylike nurturing, right.
But now there are some dadsthat are that way.
I do know some.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, there's some good ones, there's some bad ones
on both sides, it's true, butthose comments just had me
cracking up.
I thought there was somethingelse I saved over here on the
TikTok world, but who knows whatit was.
At this point, what about?
Have you given up on theSouthernism segment?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
for this week.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
No, I haven't.
I thought it was the week.
Nope, I thought it was the weekof you had given up.
I thought it was the week ofyou had given up.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
No, and I came up with something good.
So if you're moving here to theSouth, it doesn't have to just
be South Carolina, it's South ingeneral.
And someone mentions thecommode.
Chances are they are notspeaking of a piece of furniture
(31:10):
, not a case good piece they arenever even known, yeah, of a
toilet, a toilet I grew up.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I grew up calling it the commode, the commode but do
you think that's a southernthing we need need to know, Did
you?
Or is that an older thingversus?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
a Southern thing.
I think it's a Southern thingbecause they had up North a lot
of people had toilets indoorbefore we did just because of
the environment.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Hmm, Let us know on our hotline 864-982-5029.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
The commode came from back when they used chamber
pots, so they would do theirbusiness in the pot, put the lid
on it and they would set itinside a commode, which is a
piece of furniture, a piece offurniture.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
So it just became the commode.
Huh, Isn't it funny how thingsupdate and change and like.
So can you imagine.
But did you go?
Well, I guess at the same timeyou had a chamber pot, you had
an outhouse.
The chamber pot was for, like,nighttime or something.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Now one person in my family, when I was a kid, had an
outhouse, only one, no two.
One in South Carolina, one inNorth Carolina, functional, that
was the bathroom, an outhousewhen you were a kid.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yes, in the 70s Were they living in a hut.
No, a very nice farmhouse.
It just didn't have a bathroomIn the 70s.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
In the 70s and their stove in the house was wood.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Wood burning.
I mean, I could see thatbecause I feel like some people
held on to that longer.
It was good, they liked the wayit cooked, yeah, sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
On fire.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, yeah.
But the outhouse, I think,would have been the first to go.
You know what I'm saying.
It grossed me out.
I have a question.
Okay, did the outhouse movearound?
Like how did they clean?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
that out.
From what I understand, youwould move.
I don't remember them movingand maybe they did, but I mean
it's been a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
But that's what they did back in the day is they
moved it, filled the hole in it,started over.
I have so many questions.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
You know that was some fertile.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
That was some fertile soil around there.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
And I just can't imagine who it smelled and the
flies, can you?
Imagine, like I can't get intoit, what I just can't the funny
ones, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Here were the funny ones, and I don't remember this.
They didn't have this, butthere were some outhouses that
had two places to sit, so likeno.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yes, like you could sit there together.
Yes, no.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
That is a thing I'm telling you?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
no, yeah, like we could have sat there and use it
together.
We could not.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
How are things going for you no and okay.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
So an outhouse, like when you're normal, wouldn't be
just catastrophic.
But when you're normal wouldn'tbe just catastrophic, but when
you're normal number two.
But you know, after you hadyour coffee or a good clean out
or something, I just can'timagine that in an outhouse.
(35:01):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yes, I do, and it was raw wood, you know, it was like
it looked like a barn and thenyou got splinters on there.
No, no, this is funny.
Both of my family members hadjust they had gone and bought
like white toilet seats thatjust sat there Because they
could have had an indoor toilet.
(35:27):
They could have.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, I don't.
So they just went and got thewhite toilet seat and just screw
it onto the wood.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Here's the crazy thing is like.
This is like literally goingback to the mid seventies, but
they weren't like real poor oranything, I mean they had a big.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
That's what I'm saying.
It wasn't like they were at acampsite, it was a choice.
Yeah, that is insane.
So I know then some of ourlisteners have to remember
outhouses.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I want to hear some experiences.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
There has to be good experiences.
I want to know In the notes inour community or comments.
Put it there or call or textour hotline 864-982-5029.
There's got to be.
I got to dive into this.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I distinctly remember thinking are there spiders in
here?
Yeah, Is there a snake in here?
And it was dark.
See, there's no light.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
I also can't imagine using a chamber pot, like at
night.
Oh, I would have missed that.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
That would have been, I would have had that dumped.
That would have been a mess, Idon't know.
That is just.
But let me tell you, you knowthe outhouse you couldn't have
too close to the house becauseof the smell and the flies.
(36:56):
So you had to walk a ways,mm-hmm, and it smelled.
I mean it was gross.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
That's why I was like did they cover it?
Did they layer it?
Did they just add lime in?
I don't, Did they move it?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
You know I was so young, I don't think I.
I know they moved them.
That was a strategy of theouthouse.
You couldn't just let it pile.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
The 70s just seem way too late to have that as even
an option.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Well, I was asking a friend about it the other day.
I was like did y'all?
And she said yeah, one familymember had an outhouse.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That just seems like 20 years too late, really about
30 years too late.
Well, because I know mygrandmother growing up they had
outhouses.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Your mom didn't at all?
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Even when she was little, I don't know, because
when she was growing up theylived in the city until she was
like in second grade and theybuilt the house that my
grandparents lived in.
You know they still have, mymom still has.
But my grandparents lived in,you know they still have, my mom
still has.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I don't know if my mother did, because my
grandparents built their newhouse like when she was and my
mom was born in the mid-50s.
Three.
That's why.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
I'm like it seems a little like that, seems like
that should have ended in likemaybe the 40s.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
But I think before they built the new house they
had an outhouse.
That's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
It was a country thing, but that goes to.
We're not going to get into itand too graphic or anything.
But you and I were literallytalking about this.
You sent me a was it a reel orsomething?
Or you showed it to me about.
It was talking about couplesgoing to the bathroom in front
of each other.
Oh no, it was a second date.
(38:55):
A woman didn't go on a seconddate, oh my.
This is what it was.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
This is bad.
So that story, oh my gosh, thatwas crazy.
I remember what it was now.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
It was a I think it was a real or TikTok or
something and it was a radiostation.
We should shout them outbecause it was their story, but
I don't remember they do.
They do second date updates andso when people go on a first
date and they don't get a seconddate, they can call in because
one party feels like the datewent good and they want to know
(39:28):
why they didn't get a second.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Why they didn't.
They're not calling or texting.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
They're basically ghosting them.
So this was a man and a woman,and the man felt like it was a
good time, and he had called theradio station to find out why
the woman wouldn't give him asecond date.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
And so they called her and she gets into the story
about how she was like, oh, Idon't want to do this on the
radio and they were like, oh,but you know he really wants to
know.
So she goes in and they go ontheir date and it goes well,
yeah, and they end up hooking upand he stays at her place for
(40:07):
the night.
So they, you know, they dotheir business and all that.
Okay.
So they, you know, they dotheir business and all that.
And the next morning he gets upand he goes to the restroom for
a number two and leaves thedoor opened.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Yes, Right, so she can right there like she's
laying in bed and can see rightthere.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
She said she could see, hear and smell everything
going on in there.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
And funniest part of it was he called it poo-poo.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
So he was on the line .
He was just quiet and shedidn't know that he was on there
.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
And you know she just said he's disgusting, I don't
want anything to do with him.
You know if he would do that Ihave to say I totally wait.
No, I can say that happened tome one time and you know who it
was.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
I'm not going to call it out on here.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
And that was the end.
That happened to you.
Did I know this?
I don't think so, but I stillremember it vividly and I
remember thinking at that timeno done, yeah Gone.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
I mean, daniel and I have been together 16, 17 years
I don't know what year we're inright now, I have to do the math
but we've never done that.
And like if we are even in ourhouse now and like if someone is
in like our, we have a?
What do you call it?
when the toilet's in its ownroom, like water, water closet
(41:49):
in our bathroom but like, evenif I'm in there getting ready
orering, and if he has to go, orit's vice versa, we go to a
different bathroom.
We've never.
It's gross.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Why would you do that ?
I don't know.
But, I have friends that do.
No, I'm talking male, female.
They'll just plop down in frontof each other yeah they're like
they don't care.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
I'm like uh-uh, I need, uh-uh, I would get to the.
I would rather.
I would rather walk across thestage naked in front of people
than have just one person, evenDaniel, watch me, or poop, I
(42:36):
would too, or poo-poo thepoo-poo.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
So the guy gets on the he speaks up on the call and
he was like I don't know whatthe big deal is.
We had just been intimate and Iwas just taking a poo-poo.
Yeah, she was like and you callit poo-poo.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
That's like my mom calls that to like little kids.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
You know Poo-poo.
Yeah, you gotta go poo-poo.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
But as an adult I don't know, but I cannot imagine
, like if someone did that infront of me no ma'am, no sir, no
ma'am, I sir, no ma'am.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
I would have been done with him too, and I don't I
mean that just because they hadbeen intimate, that's every
reason not to do.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
I mean yeah that's just an animal.
To me that's work, I mean.
And if you do that on the firsttime, you stay over her what
are you gonna be doing when youget real comfortable?
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
I.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
It would make me wonder well, that's what why she
was like she never even offeredback.
No, she was like no, even afterthey tried to convince like
we'll pay for another day,wasn't she like?
Speaker 2 (43:52):
she was like no, no Even after they tried to
convince like we'll pay foranother date, she was like no,
no, and I think she even said,if it wasn't the act, it's him
calling it poo-poo, and I couldappreciate that too, that's
funny, I didn't know thathappened to you, though on a
date it did, and you were likewho is that comfortable?
Speaker 1 (44:11):
funny, I didn't know that happened to you, though it
did, and you were like who isthat comfortable?
Like, why are you thatcomfortable in?
Speaker 2 (44:19):
front of someone.
Don't ever be that comfortablein front of me.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
I mean no one.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
No, no one.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Now, everybody gets sick.
If there's this accident, Imean that's a whole it's going
to gross me out and I bet Iwon't feel bad for you and I'm
not going to hold it against you.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
That's a whole different thing than just not
being able to help it.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Yeah, I mean, if you're sick, you're sick.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
And what is like?
Ok, so like that guy went anddid that.
So I think the problem is whyyou didn't think that through,
like all you had to do is closethe door.
It's not like she said he usedthe bathroom at my house.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
He should have went home, and it's like, oh well, he
couldn't hold it no like justclose the door be discreet and
he was offended that she wasoffended by.
Yes, he was offended that shewas offended by that.
Yes, he was offended that shewas offended.
I mean who?
The hell, I don't know that man.
He's into something funky.
(45:22):
There's more to that story, youthink.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
I think he just said oh, my family grew up very
comfortable around each other,so I don't know Well your
family's nasty too each other.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
So I don't know.
Well, your family's nasty too,and if your mother was, I mean.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
But you know we have people listening right now that
it's like oh yeah, me and myspouse it does fine.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
If that's what you do in your house, that's fine,
just don't come to mine and doit.
But my mom and my dad were verythey were very modest when it
came to that.
My mother would politely tellyou that she had never poo-pooed
or passed gas in her life.
And my dad?
(46:05):
I can remember my dad sayingyou know, that is very private,
it was just known.
I was always taught that isvery private.
Yeah, it was just known.
Like I was always taught thatis private.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
That was private, it's true.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
I mean just weird.
It's so weird to me.
But I mean, you know, if youlisten, if you want to take a
dump in front of yourneighborhood, I don't care.
I just don't want to watchMm-mm.
I don't want to be any part ofit.
I mean, I hate using publicrestrooms.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
I just can't believe someone would do that on a date
their first date.
And last and last, SeeDecisions and consequences there
.
Before we wrap this one up,because we're going to make this
I don't know if it's short ornot, but we got things to do-
it's our one vacation dayMemorial Day it's not even
(46:58):
vacation day holiday, but if youare in the Greenville area
starting this Thursday.
So this is a quick turnaroundThursday, friday, saturday we
are having a huge sale at ourwarehouse.
We are having an end of seasonsale at our outlet store because
we're going to go to summerhours for our outlet store for
(47:20):
the summer, so we are clearingthis baby out.
So if you're in the area thisweek, which is 29th, 30th and
31st of May it is 29th, 30th and31st of May Come to the Nested
Fig Outlet Store, to ourwarehouse.
1659 Woodruff Road, suite F.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
And we're going to have a big blowout sale Thursday
, friday, saturday, 10 to 4 pm,all three days, and Dylan and I
will be there on Saturday, socome see us.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
And spread the word.
We're going to clear it outbefore we start our summer.
Make sure you come check it out, and we're going to wrap this
baby up.
Remember to join us in ourpodcast community.
Whosdrivingpodcastcom is thewebsite.
That's where you can watch thevideo of us doing the podcast,
(48:14):
the video version.
You can watch us do this, yes,or you can listen there as well,
for free, or listen anywhereyou get your podcast for free
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week.
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