Season 2 is hitting the ground running and, let me tell you, it's not just the engine that's roaring—it's the laughter, the candid stories, and a dash of tea to keep things spicy.
It's a new year and we are back for season 2 of Who's Driving.
Buckle Up and Hit That Follow Button.
Who's driving with Wesley Turner & Steven Merck will take you on an entertaining ride.
Who's driving is all about the entertaining stories we share & brainstorming topics we discuss as two best friends would on a long road trip. Along the way we will pick up a few friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media, and all things home and garden.
Follow Wesley on Instagram at @Farmshenanigans
Follow Steven on Instagram at @Keepinupwithsteven
Hit us up on Instagram and give our hotline a call at 864-982-5029. Happy listening! And remember to leave us a rating and review.
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Season 2 is hitting the ground running and, let me tell you, it's not just the engine that's roaring—it's the laughter, the candid stories, and a dash of tea to keep things spicy.
It's a new year and we are back for season 2 of Who's Driving.
Buckle Up and Hit That Follow Button.
Who's driving with Wesley Turner & Steven Merck will take you on an entertaining ride.
Who's driving is all about the entertaining stories we share & brainstorming topics we discuss as two best friends would on a long road trip. Along the way we will pick up a few friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media, and all things home and garden.
Follow Wesley on Instagram at @Farmshenanigans
Follow Steven on Instagram at @Keepinupwithsteven
Hit us up on Instagram and give our hotline a call at 864-982-5029. Happy listening! And remember to leave us a rating and review.
We mentioned The Nested Fig App in this episode. You can Tap Here to get our app and join our live sales on Sundays and Thursdays at 8pm est. Use Code Fig10 for 10% Off.
Hey girl, hey, I'm back.
Speaker 2:Hey, I am so ready for 2024.
Speaker 1:It's a new year and it's time for a new episode of who's Driving. Welcome to who's Driving. I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2:And I'm Stephen Merk. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1:Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship and business.
Speaker 2:These are the stories we share and topics we discuss, as two best friends would on a long road trip.
Speaker 1:Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media and all things home and garden.
Speaker 2:Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1:You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride and this is officially Season 2, episode 1. Oh gosh yes. We're starting a new year.
Speaker 2:I feel like we're like some great series on Netflix.
Speaker 1:Is it something they can binge and watch us? Did you have a good Christmas and a happy new year? So we left off right before Christmas. We took like a couple of weeks off right before Christmas and we're just now getting back together. So tell us about it.
Speaker 2:Well, christmas was great. However, it was a little stressful Because, yes, this damn COVID and flu.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So we had COVID and the flu in my family.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, some of you may know I got COVID, Wait. So we saw each other. We left off. Right before Christmas we did a live sale at the warehouse and then I was gone for Christmas and I came back and we saw each other one time between Christmas and New Year's we did a live sale. I had COVID. We stayed away from each other and you didn't get it, and then we were supposed to all go to our Florida house on a vacation. I'm aware and I kind of ruined that for all of us.
Speaker 2:You? Yeah, because I got chased out of my own damn house. But, Leslie, you know, here was my thinking. First of all, Dylan and I had been kind of like you know, we had not made Y'all never really committed and made.
Speaker 2:We did make firm plans. Because I said to you well, I know we're going to go gamble, I know we're going to go to the Florida house and then we may go to Jacksonville and then we may go by the condos in Hilton Head and then work our way home that way. It was kind of a road, you know, a tour. So I felt like, since you had COVID and I had not firmed our plans, it was most fair to let you go and enjoy the Florida house. So I thought we could just rearrange our plans, since we had not firmed anything.
Speaker 2:And we went to New Orleans. It worked out fine yeah, it did.
Speaker 1:But then the then what happened was Daniel got it and he got over it really quickly too. Y'all really missed it by like hours. Like the day before y'all were supposed to come a week later to the Florida house, daniel tested positive. But then the day y'all were on your way back from New Orleans back home, he tested negative. So if you had just waited a few hours you should have just came on anyway, but whatever. So with that, because y'all didn't end up coming to the beach, you and I didn't see each other for like almost three weeks after that. So we just, we just reconnected.
Speaker 2:Reunited and it feels so good.
Speaker 1:So it was weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was weird because normally we are together in Florida for New Years and but it honestly with it worked out all the way around and you know the house isn't going anywhere, hopefully.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we still had fun. It did storm when we were there. Panama City got hit by a tornado.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was so funny because I had several people on Instagram message me and say is your house in Florida okay because of the storms? And I said, well, hell, I guess it is.
Speaker 1:Wesley hadn't called me if the reef is gone.
Speaker 2:So it was kind of nice, cause I did call you the next day. I was like, is our house okay? And you were like yeah, we're good.
Speaker 1:It was wildly windy, but it was good in storming.
Speaker 2:And I will say this Dylan and I both said because two years ago the four of us went to Las Vegas for New Years right, because for 30, 30 years I didn't go anywhere for New Years because of McDonald's. It was month in year in year in it just never happened. So I was like I want to go somewhere. I don't know what in the hell was wrong with me. I don't ever want to go anywhere again other than the Florida house.
Speaker 1:I love going places, like Daniel, and we've gone a couple of times to Vegas.
Speaker 2:It's too many people.
Speaker 1:It is a lot of people, but you just enjoy it for the day. Okay, I'm going to tell you if you're listening out there. If you do want to go somewhere for New Years and have a good time, go to Vegas or New Orleans, because half of the country goes to New Orleans and half goes to Las Vegas.
Speaker 2:So we were watching.
Speaker 1:They had a good time. Yeah, we were watching.
Speaker 1:you know the ball drop and all that in New York City and I'm like I would hate to be in that crowd. But the good thing when you go to Las Vegas you can come in and out and they shut down the whole strip, right, and you have it's a ton of people, but you have a lot of room, you have a lot of access to facilities and when they do the fireworks show at midnight it's from like seven different locations. So no matter where you are on the strip, you can just go outside and see the show and then you can go back in and gamble. They make it really easy.
Speaker 2:But not in New York City. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:You can't even pee, I know that's what you were watching.
Speaker 2:I was like.
Speaker 1:What is that I?
Speaker 2:don't know. I've had friends go and they said it was horrible. Yeah, and also for Thanksgiving, Macy's Day Parade same thing.
Speaker 1:But I'm not giving that kind of crowd back in Well it was so the crowd was so.
Speaker 2:It was worse than Las Vegas in New Orleans.
Speaker 1:I feel like in New Orleans you don't really have Easy access to facilities.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, you don't have the space there that you have in Vegas. Yeah, and it was almost gave me a panic attack. You know, it was just too much. Too much, but it was. It was a great time. It all worked out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so for New Year's, daniel and I both had I think I was just over, was I just over COVID and he still had it.
Speaker 2:I don't know, you were not. You were feeling a little better, and then he got sick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I think I was just over it and he was in the middle of it, so we just laid around and had a good time just at the beach house being lazy. But one exciting bit of information we got, since our last podcast is for last year. So at the end of the year we got a little email, little little podcast roundup and we were in the top 10% of podcasts from our little hosting thing.
Speaker 2:Isn't that crazy, I know I felt I feel like we won a Grammy, or.
Speaker 1:I did too. It popped up and it was all pretty in my email and I was like so we got to think thank our fans for listening and still being here, I know I mean, and the funny thing was is we really didn't know like we got into this really blind Right first of all.
Speaker 2:We didn't know if we would enjoy it. I thought I would. Yeah, we thought you would but we still didn't know but we love it and we didn't know jack squat about it, Right.
Speaker 1:I know is it is crazy because I have. Now that we finished a year and I feel like it's a new year, we're calling this one season two. I have like goals for the podcast and take it to the next level. Some little you know, different structure.
Speaker 2:We think all of you are going to enjoy, by the way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and but just getting that was that little kick. I was like, oh my gosh, because we started it, neither one of us had really listened to a podcast I don't think you would ever listen to. I still don't think you've listened to a podcast.
Speaker 2:I have never listened to a podcast that is so funny. I have crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have listened to some podcasts. You know I don't listen to them regularly, but I have. And it's funny because Steven and I started saying we want to do a podcast two friends, we're on a road trip, the things we talk about in the car, the business things or the social media things, our life things that we talk about in the car and we were like we need to do this in a podcast Because you know we're on instagram but you can only talk so much on there.
Speaker 2:You can only that doesn't really shut like instagram Really doesn't show your whole personnel, right, it's a little snippets.
Speaker 1:And so we were like we're gonna do a podcast. And we said that for like a year we're gonna do a podcast, we're gonna do a podcast. And so then I ordered you know, we need the equipment.
Speaker 2:You know, once you bought this, you know if it, if it invests my money, we're gonna be doing it right.
Speaker 1:So we bought the equipment. We got it. I say, okay, we're gonna do a podcast. And Daniel listens to podcasts all the time because he's out in the field and farming and stuff.
Speaker 1:He listens to podcasts every day, literally every day, a wide variety, and he was like y'all don't even know what you're doing. I said he's like y'all need to listen to some podcasts. And we said, no, we know what we're doing. But here's my reasoning we had a what we wanted hours to be in our brain because we had talked about it and we didn't want it influenced by other.
Speaker 2:Well, and that's the reason to to this day that, uh, sometimes I get tempted to listen to a podcast. My dad listens to some podcast different people but at this point I don't want to listen to A pot, another podcast, because I don't want to judge myself or change.
Speaker 1:How I hear yourself we should be doing that or I should do this to be Steven and Wesley.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like in genuine. Yeah, I want it to be Natural. This is who we are. This is what we're about, right?
Speaker 1:So, uh, I just thought, I think back about it. And we started and now we finished the year at like 38 episodes and like we didn't know what we were doing, but we topped in knew what we wanted to do so, we just did it. Yeah, so our goal we need to be in top five by the end of 2020.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we can you know, we can stick around in the five we like to finish always in second place.
Speaker 1:Second place is Is where we do best, so we don't need to be like top one or anything.
Speaker 2:Top five we always come in and you'll. We always say, oh, we're number two, because anytime we do anything like we've had different little contest within, like the the live cell world and different different things like that we always get second. We're always like number one, number one, number one, number one until like we finish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we finish second.
Speaker 2:So I mean we're just, and I embrace that I know we do, so we're running up.
Speaker 1:We're running up. That's where we second best. That's what we are. I mean, I know we were, we were there's several things that's been like that. Like, like you said, there was a our live cell platform Comment comment sold as the hosting platform. They did a thing, a contest and if you increased your sales so much they had different categories you could win big money, big money. Someone got a.
Speaker 2:A g wagon a g wagon mercedes and we weren't in that category because we were just starting out. We wanted the money.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I think we were gonna get like was it five thousand or ten thousand? It was five or ten thousand, but it was and we were first place first day every day until the last day.
Speaker 2:Second, second we're like that second didn't get a damn thing. No, we didn't get anything, we didn't get even a trophy.
Speaker 1:This is your second. You know, I don't want that anyway, because I don't really. Not everyone gets a trophy. No prize, we embrace. We're number two, yeah but there's been a few things like that. So we always say if you ever hear, say we're, we're always second.
Speaker 2:Our ultimate goal is to be the top two percent.
Speaker 1:That's funny. So yeah, so, coming up this year, we do have a lot of fun things, not just on the podcast. We do have some things we want to have more guests on. We got to get, um, we have people who want to come on, but then sometimes I'm like do we want to let them?
Speaker 2:up? No, we do want to, we do. I mean, in fact, one of our friends, and I won't call her out. She was like Send us a text today. She was like, I just want to be on the damn podcast.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I'm like well, you can be it's not.
Speaker 1:All you got to do is invite yourself.
Speaker 2:It's not that difficult, right.
Speaker 1:We're not really not inviting anybody. We've had people on. The thing is about halfway through the year. I'm proud of us that we stuck with putting out a podcast every week. We really stuck to that. But halfway through the year, with the holiday season, we were really recording just whenever we could fit it in or last minute.
Speaker 2:Whereas the end of third quarter gets crazy.
Speaker 1:When we started, we were recording every friday, and sometimes two, and we had the episodes, you know rolling and we could say hey, do you want to come on and be on our podcast, or we're recording at this time on friday, and so we did have, you know, a few people's space out, so we got to get back to that.
Speaker 2:We're going to have more guests on because I have a lot of people to get back to our schedule and we've got to get ahead. Yes, because and I feel like you especially said- oh. Well, we're ahead. We can take this week off. Yeah and we got to just push each other right.
Speaker 1:So we want to have more guests on. We have a couple new segments we want to introduce, so lots of fun and on a personal side, where we want to travel more personally.
Speaker 2:Personally and of course we'll take you guys with us through instagram.
Speaker 1:So hopefully, you know, I Daniel and I, we got ahead because we didn't want to be the the ones to blame and we got our um passports and Daniel just got them in the mail and Dylan and I have a pass.
Speaker 2:We have passports. Mine is expired.
Speaker 1:So you don't have one.
Speaker 2:Dylan's it is, will expire this year.
Speaker 1:So he doesn't have one.
Speaker 2:Well he has one, his is good. Well, we better renew it because we're gonna travel if it expires within so many months we're going to.
Speaker 1:That's just renew.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you have to because you don't have.
Speaker 1:But anyway we got our passports. I had never had 42. I'm 42 years old, never had a kind of embarrassed for you. I know it's kind of you would think.
Speaker 2:And it's kind of fun like having one, because then you get the little stickers and the stamps from the different countries and uh in mine looks.
Speaker 1:I bet you gotta go somewhere to get them, unless you gotta go to the country to get the here's the funny thing Unless, if you look at my current passport, you would be like oh, he's traveled some.
Speaker 2:No, not enough. Once we were in, um, where were we? Oh, it was my 30th birthday.
Speaker 1:Well damn, that was 20 years, almost 20, 21 years ago it's almost 21 years ago.
Speaker 2:Thank you for pointing that out Leslie Okay okay, appreciate that. Well, we went to war 21 years ago. Okay we were in Spain and it was the day we went to war. We were flying back to the united states and at that time I was not a mcdonald's owner and worked for mcdonald's, so I actually had a schedule somewhat Mm-hmm and needed to be back to work, and all of it happened as we were in the air from Spain to Atlanta.
Speaker 2:And they redirected. They grounded all flights. International flights were grounded and they redirected us, and so I got to spend a day in Italy.
Speaker 1:Well, what is that Nice unexpected?
Speaker 2:surprise, it was very pretty. Yeah, so it's funny like when you look through there and you're like I went to Italy, I'm like, oh yeah, I went for a day, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I've never. I mean, we've gone on lot several cruises. But you can because you leave Birth certificate. You can use your birth certificate, which is not a good thing. If you are going on a cruise, you can use just your birth certificate. The problem is, if you get stuck in the country, you miss the boat, you get sick and you have to get off, and then you're screwed. It's a whole like, really, really.
Speaker 2:So you're risking it.
Speaker 1:I would never do that. So you really need your passport. But you know me, oh, we'll be and we were, so it was good. So we've gone to a lot of other countries that way, but we've never gone to Europe or anywhere like that. So this year the goal is to go to Greece. We were supposed to go last year for Stephen's 50th birthday, but we're going to celebrate his 50. I mean, you're going to be 50 for 10 years, 50 something.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. I'm going to be 50 in March again, oh, again.
Speaker 1:And then in 2025,.
Speaker 2:I'm 49.
Speaker 1:I'm going back? You're going back? Is that when you're going to have your little nip tuck and complete tear down and rebuild.
Speaker 2:I think the nip and tuck is going to happen, I think, in 2020, january 25. And it's fine.
Speaker 1:A complete tear down and rebuild.
Speaker 2:Not, I mean not a massive but I'm getting one. But you know what? I'm not going to be secretive about it.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to be secretive about it. First of all, we see you all the time and you know I'm going to show it. Second of all, you are as pale as Casper the ghost and you're going to see a big red line yes, Highlighter around your head.
Speaker 2:Well, first of all, like most any of you that know me that I had a complete hair transplant 15 years ago, and for what 10 years? You could see a hot pink scar if you lifted my hairline across the back from ear to ear.
Speaker 1:It's going to be a hot pink, red scar all around your ear.
Speaker 2:I'm with that, but here's what we're going to do, mm Detail you are coming along for my surgery and we're going to have it on Instagram. We might have to do this as a pay per view segment, that's fine, but I just I feel like here's my reasoning we're all curious about it, whether we do it or say we don't believe in it or do you need so show it.
Speaker 1:I'm going to show it.
Speaker 2:I mean I'm not going to lie about it. Hell, if one day I have wrinkles, the next day I don't. One day I have a double chin, the next day I don't have a chin at all. I mean, you're going to know something was done and I'm not. You know, I don't care. The only reason I cared when I did my hair transplant I didn't know if that shit was going to work. Yeah, and I didn't want to look like an idiot. So I did not tell everybody that I did a hair transplant because I was like.
Speaker 1:I was like you were just wrapped up in a scarf around your hand.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yes, During Christmas shopping I went and I looked like Jane Fonda, with a bandage, with with blue medicine oozing through. It was awful. People would say you know what happened? What happened to you? And I would say my meth lab blew up in the back of my Ford Explorer. It was terrible. And then they would just be like their speaker yeah, so I'm going to answer any questions about it and I'm going to document it. I'm not going to beat around the bush about it, but I'm not doing it this year.
Speaker 1:You don't need it yet. So what else? We got travel goals we want to do in 2024. We have work goals, work goals.
Speaker 1:The biggest work goal this year is to well survive another year no the biggest work goal is we have to move the warehouse, so our lease is up. We need a larger warehouse and we are still in the middle of I don't know where we are with this warehouse thing. Honestly, we found a space and we've been back and forth. We have a deal, we don't have a deal. I don't know. You tell me I don't know it's complicated. Hopefully we find out soon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was complicated. You know, we just the thing with you and I. I feel like we are so easy to deal with from a business standpoint and personal standpoint. But once our antennas go up or we feel like there's a trust issue, I feel like that's when we're like hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So we catch you in something and it could. So you know, there was a discrepancy between the letter of intent and then when we got the lease. I don't think I've told you this. So now they're saying the agent is saying that, which this bothers me too that they didn't review the lease after it came from the attorney, and the attorney made the mistake and just interpreted it differently, but I want you've got a business owner that didn't catch it, you've got a realtor that didn't catch it and it comes to us.
Speaker 2:Well, that worries me too, I know. So it didn't really help, right? So, anyway, we're in limbo, but you know we live in limbo, yeah, and either way, we're moving.
Speaker 1:We're moving somewhere, somewhere. May not be to the current place that we hope works out, but maybe it will be. We'll let you know. We might be at some airplane hangar somewhere, who knows?
Speaker 1:That's exciting to come up because you know we started we've talked about this before, but we started our own line. We went big online in 2020. We were already shipping in 2019 from basically not basically a literal closet at the retail store and in 2020, with the shutdown, I was like oh, we got some free time, let's open a warehouse. No, no, no, no, no, no no, that's not what was said.
Speaker 2:I would like to. I would like to make this clear, stephen we've got to. We've got to go rent a warehouse. We're going to ship packages Big time. It's going to be so easy. I mean, anybody can pack a box. Those were the famous. And then this idiot said oh yeah, you're right, let's do it. And just let me say we have so much fun.
Speaker 1:The warehouse is the most fun.
Speaker 2:We have so much fun doing everything we do, but everything, nothing is easy and nothing good comes easy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have a lot of good. We have a great business. We have great customers and you all that support us. But it's, it is so funny in your mind we had been in retail for years and years In business, in business, and we were already selling a little bit online. So we were like, well, all we need first of all all we need is a box and a tape gun.
Speaker 1:All we need is a warehouse. This is where we should have stopped right there. All we need is a warehouse. We can stock it. Anybody can pack boxes. It doesn't matter. They're not working with the customer. They can pack boxes.
Speaker 2:Easy peasy.
Speaker 1:Easy peasy, it'll be good. Okay, first problem we run into Did you know? There's like warehouse regulations, like where we are. Well, first of all, when we went to look at warehouses, oh you can't put boxes in this warehouse. Oh, you can't have furniture in this warehouse.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can't put upholstery in here. Oh, you can't stock. You can't stack boxes over six feet tall, but over on that side you can stack them 20 feet to the ceiling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so our current warehouse, if it's I mean, this is so weird to me If it's against the wall, you can stack it all the way to the ceiling. We can have shelves and we can literally go to the ceiling. If it is away from the wall the shelf unit or whatever we can only stack it six feet tall. So random, so random. So we learned right there a lot about warehousing that we just thought we would just rent a warehouse and have our product there and ship it out. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:And the funny thing is is just the processes that we and I will say this, I'm going to say this a lot of our first natural instincts were correct. We have let other people make suggestions that we were like trying to be good bosses Okay, let's try this and do it this way with, in fact, our instincts were correct. But I mean, I feel like we have learned so much in such a short amount of time, because we don't give ourselves credit.
Speaker 1:It has only been three years. We just finished. Well, we didn't even start until June of 2020. It's insane. Yeah, but anyway, yeah, so, anyway. So it is impressive, though we got okay. First of all, we got our first warehouse, and Stephen and I was, you know, I was on it when Stephen's like, yeah, let's do it next day I was like okay, I got warehouses, we're going to go see these.
Speaker 1:Well, we walk into this one and we were like, oh, this is, this is good. We will never fill this up, this is huge. Oh look, I mean, how much stuff we can get in and we can have all these offices, yeah.
Speaker 1:And well, six months in, we were had that one filled up and we're like we got to move. So we literally we got the warehouse in June and then we ended up moving the next March or whatever, and then two years after that warehouse because we kept the first one too. So now, right now we had currently have two warehouses. We were like, oh my gosh, we got, we've outgrown this and gotta, gotta move again. So I thought originally we had a five-year lease, but it turned out we only had a three-year lease, which is up this March. So that's why we will be moving, because we do need a larger space and we'll be all under one roof or house. But anyway, yeah, it's gonna be better.
Speaker 1:That's goals of 2024 and we're doing things our way. That's our new motto. Our way, not your way. So that's exciting. So I did something on Instagram over the holidays and I thought we should address some of these. Moving on past Us, or is there anything you want to talk about me? You need to talk about me. Anything, any therapy you want to get out, we can use this as a no, no session.
Speaker 2:I will say this I and you and I did Christmas late and you hadn't even gotten yours. Actually, you know what your Christmas gift is for me? Oh yeah but you haven't even got it, which is fine, because it's an e gift. Call e gift card which I hate those anyway. Um, the main reason I am really have let go of your COVID and you holding my home, my half, my home, hostage. Uh-huh, you gave me the best Christmas gift I've ever gotten.
Speaker 1:Oh, look at that. You know I come through about every three years.
Speaker 2:This one was like I was shocked. Something you've been wanting it was something I really Wanted to buy for yourself because I can like what people people think I'm real bougie and I do, you are. I mean, but I can be really cheap about certain things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which is?
Speaker 2:really I yeah, it's weird, it just depends on what it is, and most of the time you you curse me, you threaten me bodily harm and make me that is with my money, but this time you. He bought me a fancy fancy, fancy Coffee machine that makes a espresso and all these.
Speaker 1:Yes and I am the cat a lot of coffee it was like we have one and every time you come to our house to do the podcast, always make you coffee and you always are like I need this. It's funny.
Speaker 2:I have you, your house, yeah, and my friend Tina, when I go to her house. Every time I go, it does not matter what time of the day, anytime I go, I'm like, well, you made me a coffee and because it's just so Luxurious oh. You feel like you're. You're sipping a a latte in Italy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know it's, it's the best, it's the best splurge we've ever done. It was that coffee machine.
Speaker 2:I this the best splurge you ever did for me. So well, you're welcome, love it Merry Christmas, okay.
Speaker 1:So on Instagram, right after Christmas I put up a box and I asked was there any holiday drama? You know we all see on social media. I think we even did we talk about this on a podcast about. You know, sometimes you can't get caught up in the pretty perfect family pictures, you know, because behind that there can be a hot mess going on. So I put on Instagram a box and I said was there any family drama during the holidays?
Speaker 2:and I got some good ones so. I have. I had none personally because, I don't do you got if there's, if there's family drama, I'm you're coming up the road.
Speaker 1:Okay. Well, we won't talk about my. I'm gonna talk about other people's family drama. So this one. These are all anonymous, I'm not saying anybody's name, but they put them on my thing. So the first one is listen to this. A family member from this person, a family member, found out they are a dad after a one-night stand Drama. Merry Christmas, so you know could be a good thing.
Speaker 2:Could be a good thing, you know, if they were wanting a child and not taking pre-crop. Maybe it was a good never know.
Speaker 1:This one says my dad told my nephew here's $40 to get a haircut and then maybe you'll get a girlfriend.
Speaker 2:That's something.
Speaker 1:I would do. That is just kind of funny. My brother-in-law thought his mom was loaded. We told him she only has 25,000 in the bank, and it's true. Oh my god, that's a Merry Christmas you shouldn't be.
Speaker 2:You shouldn't be calculating anybody else's damn money. Anyway, you know they were just like what am I gonna get? I know, you know, serves you right, you got some family members.
Speaker 1:Found out. This one says found out. My cousin's baby daddy has been hiding. A whole other family has a two-year-old with her as a whole another family. That's some drama. We don't get that kind of drama in my family we get, we get. Other, we got other. Our drama is on a next level.
Speaker 2:No, we have other families. But hell is right there on the front porch.
Speaker 1:They're sitting at the table. Yeah, that's his fight. My gosh Mmm drama was my husband with bronchitis acted like he was going to die. Academy Award.
Speaker 2:Well, you know us, us men don't do as well with sickness, is not me not me, Mmm.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness. This one says my dad lied to me to say that he couldn't attend our family Christmas party because his wife was having massive no nosebleeds and could possibly die. And then shortly thereafter I see where he posted on his Facebook page pictures of all this food and snacks all over their center Island and counters and how they were ready for guests for a Christmas party. But no one showed up. She said karma clapped back fast. But like did he not think I was going to see those posts? Like people forget and they post stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, you can't lie with social media now.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. No, you can't. Well, you know it is a new year and this is a time of year when you start rethinking things and having goals. Your number one goal needs to be get happy and get toxic people go out of your life. Toxic people it's hard to get rid of them and the aftermath sticks around Mm-hmm of a toxic person, mm-hmm. So like you think, oh, I'm just gonna cut them off and be done, it keeps it's toxic and that's one thing now about you and I.
Speaker 1:That is no we have a Zero tolerance policy.
Speaker 2:I think that's an Aries trait, because we're both Aries, but I mean you, you kiss my ass and goodbye. I mean.
Speaker 1:I don't know if it's a, I don't know if it's like we're just. I mean, I'm very independent, I'm fine, I like people and as long as we, but if you doing me wrong, I don't need you, mm-hmm. I don't want you, I don't need you, I don't. You do not deserve to be in my, and it doesn't matter in my space because we've had said.
Speaker 2:We referenced a couple people in our lives your stepmother and my aunt and. And, without going into that hole, the whole tee of that situation.
Speaker 1:I'll say that for another episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but all I can say is we were really truly wronged by those people. And my thing is is just because you're a relative of mine, that don't mean nothing. If you did that, if you were a friend and did that, we would no longer be friends. So if you do that as a relative, we're no longer. We might be related, but you're not in my life. If you will steal from me and you will treat me poorly, bye.
Speaker 1:Yeah, toxic people gotta go. If you out there, you got toxic people in your life.
Speaker 2:You can't fix some of them.
Speaker 1:You cannot fix them, you cannot change them. They are only gonna drag you down. So you gotta start working on that they will drown you. Back to some more drama. This lady had a candle burning and it caught one of her small flock trees on fire, but there was no damage. That's terrible. Here's one Sister-in-law re-gifted a gift I gave her last year at a party I was at In the same gift bag. That's something you would do? No, it's not.
Speaker 2:It is not Okay, here's my thing. I do not re-gift.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't really think there's anything wrong with re-gifting, I guess, but you might wanna make sure the same person that gave it to you's not at the party, just out of respect. Well, I don't, because then it's kind of saying like I didn't appreciate it yeah but it's not an but. If you don't have a use for it, then pass it on. No.
Speaker 2:I agree, but rather than re-gifting, I just like if it's something, and I think oh. I don't really need this or have a one for it. Wesley would love this. Then I'll just say, hey, I got this Well.
Speaker 1:I have things and we just Daniel and I both grab, you know, one of our little bins and I'm like this would be great in our warehouse sale. I do that too, like I'll just put it in our own warehouse sale. No, someone don't like it.
Speaker 2:I know I was at the warehouse doing our mega bins when you were in Florida. And I ran across some of your Christmas gifts. Yeah, I said where the hell? I was like oh, that's his, that's his discarded Christmas gifts. It was funny.
Speaker 1:I got a good chuckle.
Speaker 2:So I have to throw in something about because you know I make notes on my phone for podcasts and because you just brought up the flock tree catching on fire and I know I know it's in the new year but I just have to bring it up and maybe it's because we're in South Carolina. Maybe other parts already do this, but I saw on Instagram and you can tell us your thoughts. You know, tell us.
Speaker 1:Text or call our hotline number, which we don't know because we're not in our home.
Speaker 2:We can't remember the number.
Speaker 1:We're actually at this moment, we're at the Atlanta market, we are in the Marriott Hotel, it is I don't know what day. It is Tuesday, Wednesday, it is 12 45 AM and we're like let's record our podcast.
Speaker 2:So we're sitting here. I literally roll down the hallway of the Marriott Marquis in my desk chair, in my pajamas, to Wesley's room.
Speaker 1:He's just a few rooms down. I was like bring your chair with you, Can you?
Speaker 2:imagine if security saw somebody in pajamas with a desk chair rolling down the hallway.
Speaker 1:So we can't tell you our hotline number, because I always have it written down on the screen normally, but we're not at home, so it will be in the show notes below, if you want to text us about that or leave us a voicemail.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, I was looking on Instagram, because we're always on Instagram and people were going to like. It appeared to be a tree farm and they would buy their real tree. It looked like a Frazier fur and there was snow, so it was a colder climate wherever it was and they were flocking the trees.
Speaker 1:I've seen that, well, I guess. Well, we don't. I don't know a tree farm, but I've seen that where you, they put them in a little thing and they spray them down. Yeah, they're flocking.
Speaker 2:I've never seen that. So they were like and they were doing them like with white and red and different colors. I haven't seen the colors yet I've never seen that because, like when I was growing up, of course we were poor, but my mother won Christmas and I told you we talked about it on the podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've talked about it on the podcast.
Speaker 2:Tide powder tide and some water and brush it off. So tell us if you get real natural trees and have them flock.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can buy kits like DIY kits to flock your own tree, like, spray it down, get the flock out of here. That's so funny.
Speaker 2:I just it was so interesting to me. Yeah, I just have never seen that in South Carolina.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah I guess, but you know I don't really. Well, we do faux trees now, but I wonder if it's more colder, but we don't really go to a tree farm.
Speaker 2:We did, you know, in our highfalutin days we started going to tree farms.
Speaker 1:Cause there's a lot of tree farms. Well, I mean, we did as a kid, but I'm saying as a adult I haven't. So I don't know if that's a common tree farm thing or maybe that is a Northern tree farm.
Speaker 2:I've never heard of it in South Carolina. I think it's a Northern thing.
Speaker 1:Okay, Well, back to the drama I received on Instagram. This one says my husband bought me a bracelet. He bought me the exact same one last year.
Speaker 2:Well, at least he liked it again this year, right? He sincerely liked it. That's the good news.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, yeah, he liked it. Husband came down with COVID on Friday. The day my 92 year old mother-in-law arrived, I sent her home.
Speaker 2:She wanted it. Well, it was a safety thing and you know she didn't want to deal with her mother-in-law.
Speaker 1:It wasn't a safety thing. I mean it is, but it was. That wasn't the reason behind it. She didn't want to deal with her mother-in-laws, but it was.
Speaker 2:But see, if you like my mother, my mother-in-law, Dylan's mother, if you set the bar really low, day one, it makes it very, it makes it so much easier.
Speaker 1:I said it.
Speaker 2:I was like you know, the first year we were to get. No, like the second year we were together, I started calling her my monster law. Yeah, and you know we have just held fast to that. Yeah, and I was actually. I love her, I sincerely love her, but I don't let her know that. It's kind of fun, that's funny.
Speaker 1:It is. It's fun. That is too funny. Okay, so I'm looking in some of my notes, like over our break I do the same thing now If I think of something I want to talk about, or ask you about.
Speaker 1:I'll put it in my notes now on my phone. So this popped up. I don't know I can't remember now because it's been so long ago, but I remember it popped up somewhere. It was a discussion like on social media and I've been dying to ask you this, but I couldn't ask you because I wanted to ask you on the podcast. Not a big deal, I just want to know what you do.
Speaker 2:Right and it makes it more sincere.
Speaker 1:How many times do you reuse a bath towel?
Speaker 2:Okay, this I'm going to Detail, I'm going to call myself out on this. Yeah, and this is shameful. No, because everybody knows I'm very OCD.
Speaker 1:But I don't even know the answer, so I'm like I know the answer for yours.
Speaker 2:We typically use ours for like seven to 10 minutes. Oh, but we think you're not supposed to do that. That is so gross. So I need to do better with that I think they said.
Speaker 1:like max you want to do is three days. Yes, that is correct Mm-mm-mm.
Speaker 2:But now here's the funny thing. I think the reason I do that is because growing up, my mother was OCD, like that, like the way I grew up, you only used a towel one time. That's the way you are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I only use a towel one time. I get a fresh towel. If I take three showers in a day, I'm using three towels. Every time I get in the shower I'm getting a new towel. Why I don't understand reusing the towel because you hang it up and it may dry, it may be damp, I mean it gets funky. I don't. I just don't get. Why do you go seven to 10 days when you can? There's two of you Now I can understand. Maybe a family and you know whoever washes the clothes is like okay, there's five of us in this house. We can't have five towels a day going. Yeah, I can kind of understand that. But you are bougie and there's just two of you. Why are you reusing your towel like that?
Speaker 2:You know I can't answer it.
Speaker 1:You don't love a fresh smelling soft?
Speaker 2:I do, and you know I use our Tyler Glamour Wash.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think it's honestly just pure trifling laziness. Okay, so I have to do better. And the other thing is I have such sensitive skin. I think I need to do better for that.
Speaker 1:And. Dylan has sensitive skin too, so I am honestly so shocked that you go that long. I truly did not know that. I just learned that.
Speaker 2:I am honestly Of all the things. I'm honestly embarrassed that I even told this, as you should be, I am.
Speaker 1:That should be one of your 2024 goals. It is.
Speaker 2:And it is, it is. And I mean Daniel and I we go through towels.
Speaker 1:I started out the year doing we go through towels like I don't know. That's all we wash is towels.
Speaker 2:And I have. Here's the crazy thing I have a lot of towels.
Speaker 1:Each.
Speaker 2:I have three bathrooms and each bathroom has these gorgeous luxurious towels just for that room. So it's not like I don't have towels and then I have towels for.
Speaker 1:so I'm very white. You have got to be funky some days, just.
Speaker 2:I'm very white, so I use a bronzer from like March through September.
Speaker 1:And then I go my natural way. By the way, I mean, I know you got a white sock, so you can't tell where the sock's stopping.
Speaker 2:It takes a lot of energy doing all that bronzing. So when we do that bronzing, you can't use my fancy white towels, so we have to go to gray towels because I don't want my towels yellow. So I don't know, I've just, I've got to work on it. It's gross, it's nasty, you know I don't. I do wear clean underwear every day, I promise.
Speaker 1:That is so funny. So you need to text us on our hotline number that we don't know. But just check the show notes below. I'll have it down there. Text, or call us and leave us a voicemail and let us know how how long do you go?
Speaker 2:I think that's my only gross thing, don't you?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Probably, I mean, and that's so shocking, that is so shocking.
Speaker 2:It doesn't go with my whole personality.
Speaker 1:I guess you know what it probably goes with is you don't want the mess of the towel. It's easier and cleaner for you visually to hang the towel back up versus having to put the towel in a hamper or something like that.
Speaker 2:That is, that is probably it, lazy Cause the OCD, all jokes aside, the OCD overrides pretty much everything. Yeah.
Speaker 1:That is I. You know you learn things all the time and I thought I knew you pretty well.
Speaker 2:Well, I knew that about you with the towel. Yeah, I knew that because we have shared enough hotel rooms over the years. Yeah, you will not reuse the towel. Mm-hmm, not gonna do it, but I even do it here, that's so great.
Speaker 1:Well, can I borrow some towels?
Speaker 2:Hell. No, get your own.
Speaker 1:There's just a few things that like at our house. One of the things is like our we I think we've talked about this before. There's a few. I guess you would say, oh, I don't know if it's luxury or whatever, but there's a few things I will not give on. One is the temperature of the home. If it's hot outside, I'm going to be cool. If it's cold inside, I'm going to be warm. Like I'm talking. I want to be able to sit in my underwear in my house and not be cold, not like, oh, I need a blanket during the winter, I'm going to keep it nice. I'm going to turn the fireplace on. I'm going to keep it warm.
Speaker 1:If we can't afford to heat our house, we're going to have to get a smaller house. That's what I always tell Daniel. I'm like there's certain luxuries that I'm still going to have, no matter what. You know what level we are in our life. We're just going to adjust to that so we can still have those luxuries. That's kind of like. You know, even when we had our smaller, you know, our house before our current house was only what was it Like? 1,100 square feet was a small, but we still had a cleaning lady who came, the same one that comes now. That was a cleaning lady. That saves the day is a necessity for me. Being comfortable in the home and my towels that's, that's my things. Like I, I, I got to have those. Those are my splurges. That makes me get up and work because I got to pay for those things. I got to have my home. I'm not going to freeze and I'm not going to burn up just to save money. I'm going to have a cleaning lady and I'm going to have a fresh towel.
Speaker 2:One thing that I do, and you've made comments on this. I don't even know if you remember it, but I have in my kitchen a stainless steel trash can. Like you, I think we both have simple human which is common. I don't know what we have, and we have two. You have two, one on each end. I have one, and I buy the, the brand, the name brand trash bag because it fits the can so well and I don't have to see it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, cause you said to me one time well, you can just buy those that are cheaper, yeah, and I'm like no, no, yeah, you buy the ones that are made for like your trash can. I cannot look at a trash bag.
Speaker 1:Hang it over.
Speaker 2:Just will send me over the edge.
Speaker 1:You're so busy, I mean.
Speaker 2:I know that isn't that crazy.
Speaker 1:It's crazy.
Speaker 2:You got anything for me in your notes? I have a small topic. What do you have? This is up there with chopsticks. Oh, a beddy, what is it?
Speaker 1:It's a beddy thing. I'm not folding Fitted sheets. Oh well, we all need those.
Speaker 2:No, not the fitted sheets. The fitted sheets aren't the problem. It's those people that can fold them perfectly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not folding the fitted sheet. I'll wide that shit up like a ball.
Speaker 2:So I was watching on Instagram and this person was folding their fitted sheets and they do it exactly the way I do. They ball it up. But their house was amazingly organized and that's why I was like, ooh, what are they going to do with that? They put it, they wad it up and put it into a box and put it on the shelf and it says king fitted, oh, so you don't have to look at it, you don't have to look at the mass, but you don't have to sit there and go. Are you doing this corner into this corner and you fold it and it looks perfectly. I think, if you can fold a fitted sheet perfectly you're a serial killer.
Speaker 1:You know the type of person we're going to talk about you. Let us know if it's true or not. That folds a fitted sheet. Perfectly, they figured it out, they match it up.
Speaker 2:They wash out their ziplock bags.
Speaker 1:And they're very uptight.
Speaker 2:Very, not OCD, just uptight. Couldn't drive a nail up their butt?
Speaker 1:And you know that that fitted sheets perfectly on the bed and they ain't doing anything in that bed to mess it up.
Speaker 2:And she uses chopsticks very well. I'm talking about Janet that works for us at the guard store. I guarantee you Janet's fitted sheets are just perfect.
Speaker 1:Oh, Janet's fitted sheets are folded.
Speaker 2:Janet listens to this.
Speaker 1:But you know why? Her sheets. We're going to let her slide.
Speaker 2:Military.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to let her slide. Her fitted sheets are folded perfectly because she's from military.
Speaker 2:Yeah, janet, when you listen to this, because you always do text us about the fitted sheets, I bet you fold them perfectly. Yes let us know. I guarantee you, janet is one of our favorite employees and she's so loyal and so amazing.
Speaker 1:Shout out.
Speaker 2:Janet yes, janet is awesome and we love Janet. But Janet, nothing is going to slide past her. That's wrong. Nothing, not a thing. Nope, military, it's done correctly.
Speaker 1:You don't have to worry about it. Uh-uh, yeah, you know her fitted sheets are folded.
Speaker 2:I bet you she can fold a fitted sheet.
Speaker 1:Speaking of Janet, she gave us very nice chopsticks sets for Christmas and now we have to figure out how to use them. I think we need to do like an Instagram live or something like learning how to use the chopsticks.
Speaker 2:Funny. You mentioned that Saturday evening. Dylan said out of the blue, you know what I think, because he was watching something on Instagram. He said since you have such an issue with these beddies and their chopsticks, I think you have to learn to use chopsticks. Yes, I said well, we have them Right. And he was like oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:So we got them out. He was like I said you master it and then you can help me, yeah, and she got me the children's ones to learn. So I'm going to, you know, I'm going to do it my way, I want to do it. I might use two hands?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I think you should learn how to use chopsticks and we'll do a video of you eating. Well, we'll do a challenge. We should both learn and then we should set up a bunch of dishes of different foods. Oh, hell and say who can eat them with chopsticks. I said, who can pick up things with chopsticks.
Speaker 2:Dylan was like. I watched this lady on Instagram and all she uses is chopsticks and she even scrambles her eggs with chopsticks. I said if, if she's a white woman and she is not of Asian descent, somehow I want to hunt her down and kill her. That's not. And he said no, she was Asian.
Speaker 1:I said well, that.
Speaker 2:that doesn't count.
Speaker 1:That's funny, that's a new to our podcast and don't know about the chopsticks. It was some episodes ago, chopstick Betty, that would have been sometime in mid October when we talked about basically, I can't use chopsticks is hard.
Speaker 2:I write weird too. If you know me, I write with his fish.
Speaker 1:It's really weird in general, he's just weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know him, but that's and I don't write like other people write. I write with a fist which and I think it makes it where it's more difficult to use chopsticks. So I like to hate anyone that can use chopsticks. And that's where all that started. Yeah, yeah, but I'm going to learn and Janet showed us. She gave us a little lesson, but Janet's like really good at it yeah, because she live like in Hawaii. Yeah, yeah, so she's.
Speaker 1:She's a lot of Japanese, she's mastered that and how to fold a fish.
Speaker 2:I mean I can't go, I cannot, I cannot go to Asian countries. I don't know how to use them, yet that's necessary.
Speaker 1:I just can't do it. Oh my gosh. Well, I'm so excited to be back on the podcast, so excited for a brand new year. We're going to keep on moving forward. We're going to have a great year.
Speaker 2:We're going to get it done.
Speaker 1:Remember it is time to refresh, get rid of those toxic people in your life. Make yourself happy you only got one life. Clean out your closet. Clean out your closets. Clean out the junk drawer.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We've been doing that at home Refresh. Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2:It's a lot of fun to purge and clean out, it is, it is, and it's kind of good, you know, because after we get to take all of our Christmas out, it looks like we've been robbed at home. But then we come to market and then there's like, oh my gosh, there's all. You see, all these things you want to do and you want to create, and yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 1:Brand new year we're at market scoping out the brand new items and trends and we'll be telling you about that in an upcoming episode. But I think we have reached our destination for tonight.
Speaker 2:I mean, we are out late night tonight. We are, but it's great to be back.
Speaker 1:We went a little after 1 am Hotel room first podcast of the year, but it's perfect. I'm so excited for this. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. Remember to leave us a review, whether it's a star review or written review. Those really help us get noticed, help us get in the. You know our goals to be in the top 5% at the end of 2024. So leave those reviews so that we get found and discovered by other people. Share us with your friends as well. If you enjoy listening to us, hopefully they will too, and we will see you next time.
Speaker 2:See you guys. Bye, happy new year. Happy new year.