We're flipping the script and diving into a mixed bag of anecdotes, riddles, and fun facts that make every day an adventure. From embracing high maintenance luxury items to contemplating the wacky encounters at quick-service restaurants, we're proving that there's never a dull moment in our world. Whether it's a thought-provoking insight or a side-splitting story, you're in for an episode that's as entertaining as it is enlightening.
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.
Follow Steven on Instagram at @Keepinupwithsteven and follow Wesley on Instagram at @Farmshenanigans. Shop our online store at TheNestedFig.Com Use Coupon Code Fig10 for 10% Off Your Purchase. Find The Nested Fig on Instagram at @TheNestedFig
We're flipping the script and diving into a mixed bag of anecdotes, riddles, and fun facts that make every day an adventure. From embracing high maintenance luxury items to contemplating the wacky encounters at quick-service restaurants, we're proving that there's never a dull moment in our world. Whether it's a thought-provoking insight or a side-splitting story, you're in for an episode that's as entertaining as it is enlightening.
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.
Follow Steven on Instagram at @Keepinupwithsteven and follow Wesley on Instagram at @Farmshenanigans. Shop our online store at TheNestedFig.Com Use Coupon Code Fig10 for 10% Off Your Purchase. Find The Nested Fig on Instagram at @TheNestedFig
Look who's back. Woohoo, it's been a while since I've seen you it has.
Speaker 2:I needed a break from nothing.
Speaker 1:We'll jump in and let's go. It's time for another episode of who's Driving. Welcome to who's Driving.
Speaker 2:I'm Wesley Turner 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 and good 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 week we don't know who's driving or where we're headed.
Speaker 2:No, we're kind of on cruise control.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just hang out with us. We have no idea what we're about to talk about. It could go anywhere. That's the way it rolls around here.
Speaker 2:I mean it could go around a dark curve or down a bumpy road.
Speaker 1:I don't know, you just never know, right into the ditch, but what I do know is we have to talk about something. What that I saw this morning, two hours ago, on social media. That I think is a complete scam. First of all, what? Or maybe I should congratulate you. I saw, I know what you're talking about. You posted that for your side hustle job as a realtor, if you don't know.
Speaker 1:Stephen is also a realtor as a side hustle. You're the top 7% worldwide, worldwide, yeah, with your company, yes, which is? Is it a Coldwell?
Speaker 2:Banker.
Speaker 1:Okay, coldwell, banker King.
Speaker 2:Well, coldwell Banker, oh, coldwell Banker, yeah, they're franchises, just like McDonald's. So it was Coldwell Banker Worldwide's top 7%, so I was curious too. So, first of all, there's several things. Well, first of all, this is a scam.
Speaker 1:Why there is no way you're top 7%. I'm not discounting. First of all, congratulations, congratulations on your efforts and abilities and all of it, but how the hell are you in the top 7%.
Speaker 2:I thought the same thing. Well, first of all I mean I'm good, but second, I roll.
Speaker 1:First of all, you can't see it but big. I roll, but yeah.
Speaker 2:I thought the same thing last night and I Googled yeah, how many agents are there worldwide? Yeah, there's not as many as you think in Coldwell Banker. I think Coldwell Banker is the largest in the world. Yeah, but there's a little over 100,000 people.
Speaker 1:That's a lot, so top 7% is the top 7,000.
Speaker 2:But you have to. What you don't realize is the Greenville, South Carolina Coldwell Banker came franchise. I can't say that they're still number one, but I know for five years that I've been with the company, they were the number one in the nation, the number one brokerage. That's a good thing to see there. Well, but think about Greenville, Think about Greenville's growth, Think about our average home prices.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but do they not have that franchise in like California?
Speaker 2:They do. But you've got to remember you've got the people, like our agent that sold us the house that I got, referred to Mike in Florida. You know, I think he does a crazy amount, like upwards of 100 million a year, so he's going to be in the top 2%. But, yeah, the average agent.
Speaker 1:There must be a lot of agents that don't do anything, that are active agents but don't really do it. I mean because the average is a side hustle for you. You do not put at listen people. He puts zero effort.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't say zero, because I mean Mike, the president of the company, could be listening to this.
Speaker 1:That's okay. You are in the top 7. They can't complain. No you're in the top 7%. You do zero effort and if you're a realtor out there and you are in the 90%, you just put in negative effort. I guess.
Speaker 2:The average real estate agent only makes less than $30,000 a year.
Speaker 1:But okay, and I'm not discounting or I'm not getting into that, because really being a real estate agent is your own business. You have to work it yourself and work for what works for your business, correct and there's all types of levels.
Speaker 2:Some people are moms and they work at it full time. But full time for them, they can only do so much.
Speaker 1:Right, you can work it however you want, but the opportunity is there. Just like with any business, the opportunity is there and you can decide how hard you want to go at it or not. But what I'm saying is you put out of a 1 to 10 in effort level, you're like at a 2. As far as pushing, your business Correct. You are fully committed and you do an amazing job with your clients.
Speaker 2:You've been 10% in with clients, but here's the thing.
Speaker 1:But you're not out there. Have you even done an open house or anything?
Speaker 2:Yes, I did an open house one four months ago.
Speaker 1:Okay, for yourself, for myself, Okay, but you don't go to try to get clients.
Speaker 2:You don't. I did when I first started. First of all, we had to go back to when I started. I was like who? I even said in my interview with them I don't even know who's going to buy for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you would say that to me All I've ever sold is Big Mac, yeah, and they were like, they laughed and they were like you're going to be good, yeah, you're going to be fine. Not like good, you're going to be fine, yeah. And I was like I don't know. Well, and I was very eager, so I did all of the things that you need to do For like six months.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did Well, for probably a year I did phone duty, I did stuff you'd probably didn't see, but listen, working in the galleries, you know doing that.
Speaker 1:He only did that because he was new to the job and he felt that he had to, so that they may be, him Like oh, I got to do phone, but here's the thing.
Speaker 2:It's with real estate and sales, like in general.
Speaker 1:it's your sphere of influence, the people that you know right, and it's all about networking and connections that you've made along the way, idiot.
Speaker 2:And I know a lot of people and I can't go without saying I have an amazing assistant that works with me and, on this, in all the effort no, she we have in, she's a licensed agent. She just works under my license. She is awesome and she has a huge sphere of people that she knows.
Speaker 1:So you all get to pull from both.
Speaker 2:We pull from both, and the good thing about using us is what I always say you're getting two for the price of one. You're paying no more and you're getting two. Licensed agent.
Speaker 1:Right, but only one of them is working for you?
Speaker 2:No, that's not true. No, you are very hard.
Speaker 1:When you have your clients witnessed it, you work very, very hard.
Speaker 2:Well, I take it very personal in Syria yeah.
Speaker 1:And but he's not going to let you buy an ugly house or a bad house.
Speaker 2:If you buy an ugly one, it's got to have a lot of upside potential. Yeah and no, I just really care, yeah In that. And the other thing is I've always loved houses and homes and it kind of goes it meshes with my life on what I love. Yeah, I love my friends, the selling, the investment, everything kind of meshes together and I really really enjoy that part. Right. And the other thing is in people wonder how I do it. I have a very high average sale.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's not as many houses as some people, because I have friends that do probably 20 tons more homes, but their average home price, yes. And on the flip side of that I've had people say well, I didn't, you know, I called you but I know you probably don't do homes in this price range. I'm like absolutely I do. Yeah, I will help anybody. Nothing is a great, nothing can be a greater honor than to help somebody buy their first home. So I've literally sold from a hundred thousand dollar home up to two and a half million.
Speaker 2:Right, Honestly, the hundred thousand from an emotional feel good side is far more rewarding because you made that's that person's first step in the home ownership Right and you make such a difference. So I'm very passionate about it, but no, I do not beat the bushes. And the difference is, you know, I've said to you, if I had gotten into real estate when I was young and hungry, in my 20s, right when I started, you know, into the management part of McDonald's and climbing my way to be an owner, I think I would be insanely successful in the real estate market. Mm, hmm, and the truth of the matter is I love what I do. I'm very passionate about real estate, passionate about homes and investments in general.
Speaker 1:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 2:But the simple fact is is I have other things going on in my life now. You know, we have our Airbnb business, we have two storefronts, we have an online business, we have a podcast and I have a life Right. And you know, I put in relentless hours and effort into McDonald's for 30 years and I don't have to do that anymore. Yeah, so I enjoy it and I do very well.
Speaker 1:I'm just impressed, I must say.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you, congratulations, but I feel like it's a scam.
Speaker 1:I would have said did he make this himself? But I'm like, well, he can't do that.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not going to break the law. No, and it's staggering because I had the same the first time I got into the top 20%. Literally, you know me. Yeah, one of my friends was the vice president of the company and I literally was like, is this a bunch of shit? Yeah, I literally said that to her. Like is this, what is this? And she's like no, I don't think you understand. Yeah, I'm like, the average agent does not do this. Yeah, think it's. It looks weird to us because we're naturally you know, we're naturally just genetically go-getters and it's not. We're not really competitive because we're not gonna compete with anybody.
Speaker 1:We're competing with ourselves.
Speaker 2:Yes, so I think it's what took me a little while to realize is everybody is not like us and everybody has different circumstances. You know, and I've had challenges. You know, in the seven years I've been an agent, you know, and you've had to put it kind of on the. When my mother was sick it got put on the back burner. Yeah, I still managed. I think I sold two houses when my mom was sick.
Speaker 1:How I did that I have no idea, because I was insane, but I just think it's always funny, or like because I've worked with you we were together all the time and said the real estate part is kind of like your side hustle, not like I said, you're very good at it.
Speaker 2:And I don't pay for marketing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't pay for marketing.
Speaker 2:I don't buy leads.
Speaker 1:You do that very basic, but you'll be like, well, I don't have any houses coming up.
Speaker 2:I guess this is good.
Speaker 1:You'll be like I guess I'm done with real estate. And then the next day, oh, I had two people call me. I gotta go. Do you mind if I go this day? I got two listings. I gotta get going. I'm like, oh my God, such a roller coaster.
Speaker 2:Here is what I have been fiercely, fiercely protective of since I started is when I started I said I'm only gonna work with nice, respectful people and I'm not working with assholes, and I'm just not. I'm not doing it. So my clients are truly awesome people that I enjoy talking to, spending time with and working with. So it's not an annoyance to me, it's something I really enjoy and it doesn't even feel like work to me and I could see my last phase of life if I don't just kill over one day, but I could see even doing it even more because I really love it. It's just the problem is is I'm ADD and I love so much and I truly love everything I do.
Speaker 1:Right, well, that's how we both are, that's why, we have multiple stores and online because we have to be. We have to. What keeps us going is the pressure of continuing to go If we just had one store we'd be like, yeah, that's fine, we would never do it.
Speaker 2:No, when I had one McDonald's just one, because I had one for five years- Well, that's why you came and worked.
Speaker 1:I was bored. Yeah, that's why you came and worked at the garden store with me and would do events and stuff it wasn't, I could afford more McDonald's.
Speaker 2:after two and a half three years there wasn't anything to buy. And I was like oh, my God.
Speaker 1:Well, remember you were up for buying a few at different times and it didn't happen.
Speaker 2:And I was upset. We were at market one time and one deal fell through and that was a lot of money. If you remember, that one was like $9 million that I was borrowing and it didn't happen because the owner the other owner decided to go with another owner. Yeah, but everything works out the way it's supposed to. I ended up getting a much better deal on a different patch of restaurants. It just all.
Speaker 2:Everything works the way it's supposed to work but yeah, with one store and just like when you just had roots Right. When you're ADD, I can't describe it. It just like once you've mastered it Right, it gets very miserable.
Speaker 1:There was no challenge, and it's not even that it gets mundane or boring, it almost becomes not painful. But you know what I'm saying Because it's like, oh, I gotta do this again. Like you said, there's no challenge, so it becomes, I don't know, like homework or something I have to be challenged.
Speaker 1:And that's why doing the garden store and doing weddings and stuff like that, the struggle that would come. For me, the part I hated the most, is like the yes, the reception flowers, and it's like, oh, you got 24 tables. The fun part is coming up with that initial design. Oh, you get it. And then you're like well, now I gotta do this 23 more times. Awful, awful. That is awful. Each one has to be creative for me to love it. But when you're doing an event like that, they have to match and be the same so you're not recreating over and over.
Speaker 2:And that's when it would be like oh my God, that's when it became visible and honestly, you know, our local customers, our family, our employees everybody would be like, yeah, they're not here a lot in the stores and we love to be in the stores and we're in the stores when people are in the stores Because mainly because we're doing other things. But the other thing is our management philosophy is back up and let people do their jobs. We do not micromanage. You do your jobs. We give you room to do your job and make a decision and do it and do it well, and there's no need to be in there micromanaging and all up in your business. We've been there, we've done that and we trust that you're gonna do what we heard you to do, Cause we have some amazing people. Yeah, we do and you know that, and I love the spontaneity of like this podcast.
Speaker 2:I love it, because every podcast is different and also our live sales.
Speaker 1:I love those because my favorite thing.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it like.
Speaker 1:I can be having it's because every live sale it goes back to the same thing we were just talking about is different. You don't know what you're walking into. We know we're walking into a live sale, but the products are different. How the customers are gonna respond are different. Yeah, we don't know what we're gonna sell.
Speaker 2:Like I can wake up and I can be like we've got like four live sales today, Cause we some days we do, and I'm like, oh, but after that first one it changes. I feed off of it. I don't. We're obviously something's wrong with this, but-.
Speaker 1:Well, and I've been loving. So we speaking of live sales and if you haven't joined us yet or maybe you're new here and just stumbled across our podcast we have an online store we're sorry, toon out out, no, just kidding. We have an online store called the NestaFigs Home Decor and Garden Decor and that sort of thing, and we have an app called the NestaFig. If you don't have the app yet, just search the NestaFig in your app store, but I'll put it in the show notes as well. But we do live sales inside of our app, which are the most fun. So, most recently, because we are transitioning, in the process of moving our warehouse, packing our warehouse. We haven't started moving shit, but we're getting there. We've been doing something different than before where we're doing unboxings. We're like, as the merchandise is coming into the warehouse, we are literally opening it live For the first time, for the first time in the live sale. I've been loving those because I don't know what's coming up Like. I literally don't know what's in the box.
Speaker 1:I mean, and sometimes I can, as I'm doing it can read like it might say what the item name is.
Speaker 2:So I'll have like, oh, it is it is kind of like Christmas Cause I you know when I did a couple when you were in Florida and I stayed here, and it is a little bit like Christmas even for us. And that might be what you know if you're listening and you do watch our lives. That is truly not staged, because we don't even preload the items, we just literally punch in that number on the box. So, like Wesley said, it does give us a hint sometimes of what's going on in there, but then sometimes it's really different than what you think it is going to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then sometimes it doesn't say on the outside of the box, but it just has the item-. And sometimes I'm like I do not remember ordering this but I'm glad I still love it, right, and that's the other thing. I mean, we pick out all the merchandise that comes to our stores and online and we pick that out at market and that sort of thing. So it's not like we've never seen it, but it's a surprise going oh it's here, or whatever it says.
Speaker 2:I don't remember this but I really love it. And we don't just walk through market and say I want 48 of this, 24 of this. We, both Wesley and one of us, will pick the item up because we have bought. We've paid a lot of money for Styrofoam before and we are not doing that. That's why you know so many people compliment us on our quality of our faux plants and flowers and different things, and it's just because we are so OCD about touching it, filling it, picking it up.
Speaker 1:Right, and speaking of market, this podcast is coming out on March 5th, tuesday, march 5th. If you happen to listen to this, on the first couple of days we're going to be at market on March 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th. It's a little mini market, so make sure you're following along my page on Instagram, farm Shenane again, and on the Nesta Fig app, because we are going to be there and we're going to be doing live sales every day from the showrooms so you'll get to see first, look at some of the new product and get to order it and that sort of thing. So just keep that in mind, if you happen to listen, and they're fun During those days. Yeah, we have lots of fun and, like I said, every live sale is different because sometimes, like you know, I could be in a different mood. Sometimes I'm wacky, sometimes I'm spacey, sometimes, sometimes you're just a plain idiot. Sometimes they tell me I'm sassy, I don't get it, no, and sometimes the customers are the same way. Sometimes the customers are like in a mood nationwide.
Speaker 2:Nation At the same time Wide. It is really weird and we truly have the best customers. So we're not talking bad about anybody, we're just talking about.
Speaker 1:How it can change the dynamic of the live sales. And that's what makes them all good?
Speaker 2:It's so. We have learned so much about people and their shopping habits and their patterns and time of day, so much. And I mean somebody with. I was talking to someone yesterday about it and she said y'all just got it. Y'all have just got it figured out, y'all have just figured it out. And I said you know, I know it may seem that way, right, but the truth is we truly learn something new every life, yeah, every life sale. We learn something new, either with something we need to improve or just something about customers in general, or or shopping patterns. It's, it's a whole. That is a whole phenomenon. Right, it really is going to be case. I'm serious. This is what we do is going to be a case study in a MBA, no, an MBA class.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because the dynamic and the the psychology behind it.
Speaker 2:And just, I feel like the whole the whole world is going to more online, automated but yet personal shopping. Right, and it's very interesting because I'm not a huge online shopper for shoes and clothes and stuff but if someone you know from the designers that I like to wear, if I could watch a live sale and see them wearing stuff and different shoes and I would it would be terrible.
Speaker 1:You know what I have just now thought about. So, really, the live sales started. Well, honestly, it started with Lulu Roe.
Speaker 2:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 1:People doing live sales on Facebook.
Speaker 2:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 1:And that collapsed. You know we weren't. We had nothing to do with that, but everyone knows I mean, if you watch there's a documentary, there's a whole story so those boutiques then started sourcing their own things. So live sales like we do are very popular among boutiques like clothing boutique, women, women clothing boutiques, and there's very few that do it for home decor like we do, which I don't. If you're a small business, do it.
Speaker 1:do it. You need to do it. It's just a way to connect and I know people are scared of the camera and what I'm going to look like. Just do it. You talk to your customers every day. Just do it. But we've talked about that.
Speaker 2:And the truth is, the only person that really cares what you look like and sound like is you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but what I was just now thinking about, as you were saying, that is, I don't know any men's clothing boutiques.
Speaker 2:that are doing live sales. Nothing Should we do it.
Speaker 1:I would love it. You should, we should.
Speaker 2:We should do it.
Speaker 1:But we'd have to get another audience too.
Speaker 2:We would, we would, it would be very complicated.
Speaker 1:But see, clothes aren't my thing. I mean, I'll model them for you.
Speaker 2:You want to pick them out.
Speaker 1:But that's not my thing to pick out. Listen, let me tell y'all something.
Speaker 2:Let me tell y'all something about this guy here. You know, I love him like my sister.
Speaker 1:He's basically my sister.
Speaker 2:But I am addicted to clothing, anything pretty. I love shoes and clothes and anything like that. Wesley would go naked if he wouldn't get arrested. He does not. That is not his thing. And you know what? I completely respect it, I get it. I wish it wasn't not mine, and there's been different times over the years. We've been somewhere shopping. He's not cheap, he's not cheap at all. He just doesn't give a shit. So we have shopped. I mean, I have drug him to some place, some nice places to shop, like Berkdorf Goodman in New York.
Speaker 2:We have shopped. You have shopped at some bougie ass places.
Speaker 1:Yeah because, I got a bougie ass friend over here and he has bought, y'all he has bought.
Speaker 2:We have bought expensive jeans, custom jeans. We've got an expensive sport coats, loafers One pair of loafers that I loved and I was like, well, you need them. I wanted them because we wear the same size. I was like, but you need them and this outfit is great. You can just throw it on and you're good to go, Like this, can this? You can dress it up, dress it down, go out for drinks, pretend like you, like people. And do you know?
Speaker 2:I was like he was moving when you moved to this house and I was like and his old house was very, very, very, very, very small and I was like you've never worn those shoes and you had them like three or four years. I was like I'm just going to take the shoes and you were like what shoes? Like you'd never heard of them and I'm describing, you were like. I have a vague recollection of that. I found those shoes. I still do. They were crumbled. They were suede, nice suede drivers, they were designer. They were crumpled, had just. I think they had even gotten wet at some point. They were just wrung, Okay, Wurnt.
Speaker 2:So that's when I threw in the towel that day. I said you know, I'm not even going. He can just do his thing and I love you for who you are, you love me for who I am. But that was the moment I realized you can't push yourself or your agenda on other people.
Speaker 1:Okay, but here's the thing, the other side of that. I like nice things, you do I will go like you said and I will buy them.
Speaker 2:I did get you into golden goose.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I was going to say that, so I will buy them, golden goose, for example. But here's the thing I am going to buy them and I am going to wear them, me too. And yes, but you, ms Priss, will say these are my like. Today it's raining outside. You would not wear. You have taken off your shoes and walked barefoot through a parking lot because you didn't want to get your shoes wet to protect them, Amen.
Speaker 2:yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1:No, you don't, I'm going to pay the money and I'm going to put those damn shoes on my feet and if it's raining I'm going to stomp through the mud puddle of rain, just like I would if I had on a $20 pair.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I would go barefoot down 85 before I ruined a pair of my nice shoes. And like it's raining cats and dogs today, If you look at the shoes, I've got my oldest pair of golden goose tennis shoes on that are like the extra distressed and worn because you can't tell when they get. When you wear them in the rain they still look good and they're not.
Speaker 1:I still wear my things, but I'm going to use them.
Speaker 2:I'm going to use them.
Speaker 1:I know you will. It doesn't matter to me if they cost $50 or $700. I'm going to utilize what they are meant to be, and you and I are just different in that way all the way around.
Speaker 2:I have always been a person in an all fairness. I grew up with a lot less than you did. I mean true, it is true, and I'm not saying you're not appreciative or anything, but I have always like fiercely taking care of everything I have Cars, shoes, clothes, anything in the house I don't see it that way of not taking care of it or not appreciating. You just see it as using it.
Speaker 1:Yes, I'm using it. Why am I going to buy a pair of shoes and then not wear them? Like you will not wear some because they're your prize possession. You will wear them to special events, but no, I'm going to put them on and just walk around the house and them, if I want to Like, I'm going to wear them, and that's like golden goose. I love golden goose because they're artsy, fartsy enough for me.
Speaker 1:They fit my personality, especially with, you know, wearing, like we've talked about, our uniform, black, alive, and they're not pristine, and then they're not pristine and but they give a little flair, little funky flair. They definitely match my personality. They are expensive. I paid, you know, up to I don't know $700 or something. But I'm going to use those shoes and I'm going to walk through chicken shit if I have to just like I was.
Speaker 2:Oh, you do, you do. We have been out there because when y'all, when I come over and you see me out in the pasture here with these animals, I am not wearing really nice shoes, I am, I'm not going to do it and I'll look over at him and he's got on a pair of $700 shoes. But I in that part of that's my OCD in me and I kind of envy that but I'm that way with everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like you are, which is a good thing. But see, I think we look at it, just like you said, two different ways. Like you look at it as respecting the item, taking care of it.
Speaker 2:But then sometimes I just wish I didn't, because I end up keeping some things longer than I should Right, because I should have just ruined it, enjoyed them and ruined it, and then moved on, and then moved on.
Speaker 1:That's how I do it.
Speaker 2:But I think that part of that comes from my grandparents. You know how they used to put plastic on the sofa. I do not do that, I'm surprised?
Speaker 1:honestly, I do not do that.
Speaker 2:But you know, I'm just careful with stuff. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not. It's just different personality.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:But I'm just going to, I guess. Okay, here's what I'm trying to think of. It's because I'm trying to. I don't want it to sound like again I'm not appreciating the item, especially paying money for it, and I know that's a lot to pay for stuff.
Speaker 1:I'm just, I feel like I'm enjoying the item I'm using the item and I'm enjoying it and I'm not worried about oh, it might get a little dirt on it or whatever I'm going to enjoy it into. I mean, I will keep my shoes into the soul's fall off and I have enjoyed them. And then I move on but say and I get devastated. You're like worried about it and worried about it getting wet, and I'm like gosh, I'm better than I used to be.
Speaker 2:Can I get this?
Speaker 1:stain out.
Speaker 2:I had on a pair of my I wore I'll never. This was funny. I was proud of myself, though. I had on a pair of like Saint Laurent boots and I was driving my little car, my sports car, and I guess it hit something black under there because you know you're sitting down and I got the toe black on the toe of my suede boots. But you know I was like you know, it's just character, that's right. And the damn things aren't as comfortable as they should be anyway, so wear them out. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:I mean that's I mean? See, I just look at it as enjoying the item that I paid a lot of money.
Speaker 2:I've gotten wiser too, as I get older and nothing's gonna last forever.
Speaker 1:No, enjoy the hell out of it and then move on and that that is so true.
Speaker 2:But now, like, if I find a shirt or something that I really, really love, I just go ahead and buy like six Same color, yeah, same everything, and then I just wear the hell out of it. So if you see me and it looks like I wear the same thing every day, I promise you I'm wearing fresh laundered clothes, but except for my denim I don't want to wash my denim a lot, yeah but I just buy like four or six, sometimes eight, of the same thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I wear the hell out of it.
Speaker 1:Well, that's the good way to do it. I have a riddle for you, move. Oh lord, I just look down. I saved this. I guess it's a riddle. I don't know what you would call these little things. I'm gonna start throwing these in there, okay, every time. So how do you spell river?
Speaker 2:R I V E R.
Speaker 1:Okay, and what does water flow through?
Speaker 2:a river right.
Speaker 1:Put a D in front of it driver. Yes, you got it right, it's not D River. Yeah or dripper, you are good with these okay, so this is a funny story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is why I'm good with these Mm-hmm. I've cheated oh Not intentionally very organically. So one of my banks is our bank.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we use that in the last one. You go there every time to see their riddles. Every week I go. Yeah, you said that in the last.
Speaker 2:It, it, it tunes your brain and that challenge like I will try to figure it out before I ask them for the answer Okay. And sometimes I come up with an answer and they're like, damn, that's a good one Okay.
Speaker 1:I got another one for you. Okay, you have to be very fast, no thinking Mm-hmm. Okay, how do you spell fort Fort f o r t. How do you now spell fort three times?
Speaker 2:f o r, tf o r, t, f o r t.
Speaker 1:Spell fort one times f o r t. Now say fort three times for fort fort. What do you eat? Cereal with fork.
Speaker 2:Good. That's a funny one, that's a good one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you eat it with the spain. Yeah, isn't that funny how that that is funny, gets it in that rhythm. Oh my gosh, I also have you really did get me.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't know. That that's how I know I'm way too smart for that, but you really got me, gets your brain in that pattern.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have another thing I was thinking about. I Seriously think for the betterment of our podcast. I was thinking the other day because I really love the segment where we take it to the streets and you interview people. Yeah, we started that at market.
Speaker 2:I will have to do that. Yeah, we're gonna do that next week.
Speaker 1:I think you need another side hustle and I think you should sign up to be like I don't know. I think it should be like shipped, like a grocery delivery service. Okay, and content for content, because you you can select which jobs you want, so you could just take one every now and then, or maybe pick a day of the week you want to take jobs and then I think you should show up delivering the groceries and pull out the microphone and then ask them why they bought certain things.
Speaker 2:I Kind of like it, but that doesn't matter. I'll get fired, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:I mean, we just need to do it like two or three times, because then it'll be old. Yeah, like you just need to. That would be fun, you know. Or like you show up and you're like Do you really think you need these Oreos? Like, what made you think you needed these Oreos? Or whatever it is, Mm-hmm or why did you get this? Or I noticed you got.
Speaker 2:I noticed you got some tux himmler wait. Well, you know, I don't think we've ever discussed this on the podcast, but I have. Maybe we have.
Speaker 1:I have this fascination With wanting to do jobs like oh me too Uber or Any of those, then you all not talk about it all the time, like we even talked about, like we'll go into the grocery store and they'll be like they'll put out like a kiosk for like hiring Cashiers and we're like we should apply to be a cashier Just to work for like a week or two until we get fired, like to do the things or to see you know cuz you know we've been in our professional careers now or whatever you want to call it, just to be like, oh, I gotta go do my cashier job, just for the hell of it.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, just to say no, I so my cousin Susan, got a new car and they were not gonna give her but like $500 for her old. When she's like your mom she drives them to, yeah, we'll fall off which is what you should that car to be your Uber car, ask her. So this was the thing. I was like what do you want for it, cuz it's a nice car.
Speaker 2:Yeah it's still a very nice car. I mean it was tricked out, leather, yeah, really nice. I mean I'm not driving one of my cars for Uber, but no, I would buy a car. So I said, well, I would. This was a few months ago when she got her Lexus. I said, well, I would be interested in buying your car. And she's like, why, why would you want to buy my car? Y'all have three cars. Like, yeah, why? I was like, well, I would really love to drive for uber. Yeah, and she said and Dylan was in the kitchen when I'm having this conversation on speaker Uh-huh. And she says, absolutely not this is.
Speaker 2:First of all, you do not need. You do not need a job right. Second of all, you do not have time for a job and third of all, that's really dangerous and no, I want. And I said but it would be so Interesting it would be.
Speaker 1:I think you should do it. We can use my car if you want to.
Speaker 2:I mean just temporarily.
Speaker 1:It's temporarily you have to do the registration and get it off, but I'll ride with you. You can't.
Speaker 2:That was my other thing how they gonna know of course I'll get fired, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, again, we just need to do it for like a week. Yeah, I'll ride with you in the front. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, if they don't they show up.
Speaker 1:We'll just pick random people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and if they're firing me, I mean yeah, that would be funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that would be funny.
Speaker 2:But I've never been fired. That would be kind of fun. Yeah, I've never been fired either. Oh no, they never.
Speaker 1:But that would be so much fun to see the different people and stuff.
Speaker 2:So I just think it would be so fascinating, mm-hmm, like I mean, I've watched videos like snippets where people have their cameras in their car and they're driving for uber and they get this crazy lunatic. Yeah, just jerk in there and I'm like I would pull that thing over so quick and say get your. I mean.
Speaker 1:I've had speed. I've never had it happen with uber, but speaking of like not riding along when I've gotten like, you know, the meal wins when we're you know, atlanta or wherever, whenever warehouse sometimes I've had a. I've had it be two people before. Well, that might be fun for them and be I've had it not even be the person that was pictured like. I'm assuming it's like a wife or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's kind of weird ever.
Speaker 1:You didn't tell me that that would wreck my nerves.
Speaker 2:I could have been eating anything.
Speaker 1:Well, as long as the food they now they seal it up.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, with that sticker. Sticker what you did. Yeah, it is really sealed up. Yeah, just like that bottle of Tylenol.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I love how you say that.
Speaker 2:Tylenol, that's what my grandmother said yeah, that's too funny. Okay, I think we should get jobs.
Speaker 1:We should get jobs.
Speaker 2:We need to do it like in the summer, in July, when we're not busy, not as busy, but this would be like we need to get. We can get mic'd up, we can have a mic and no one would know.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then we can we can let them know. Hey, we're recording too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, everywhere we go. Yeah For safety and security.
Speaker 1:It may or may not be published somewhere, but when you like to ask some people like what do you do for a living? How did you get into that? But see, I don't know if it'd be more fun for someone riding along or with their groceries. I think your groceries tell a lot about you.
Speaker 2:It does. But you know I did that a lot with McDonald's. Yeah, Like working in McDonald's and even as an owner they would come through you can learn a lot about people, what they eat and like their habits and their cars. Like the drive-through, you can see down in their cars. Oh yeah, oh, I could tell you some stories with that, but I mean literally, like one of my restaurants was near a strip club.
Speaker 1:Oh, mm-hmm, like, did you get lots of dollars?
Speaker 2:Tons two. Well, inflation is two dollar bills now. Okay, and I didn't know why. I said, why do the bank ask me? Because my bank was in a different town, over from your restaurant, from my restaurant, and so I would go there and they would. I would have like on a Monday after the weekend, like tons of two dollar bills, like hundreds of dollars in two dollar bills, yeah, and those ladies would be counted and say we've never seen anybody with two dollar bills and I'm like, well, you know why? And they're like no, and I'm like, well, that was in somebody's G-string.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Or in their crack, whatever they were. Like you're a kid, I'm like mm-mm. No, welcome to my world, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:At strip clubs.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Bringing in the two dollar bills.
Speaker 2:I've had two. Oh, this happened at three restaurants. Had a. Had different men that would come through pleasuring themselves.
Speaker 1:Ugh In the drive-thru. In the drive-thru.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, that's weird, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:It's really weird yeah.
Speaker 2:Were you there? I've been there. Yeah, I've been there at different times. I mean, that is a very, very common thing.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Yes, in quick service restaurants, that that is a fetish.
Speaker 1:They just have it flopped out just to like show it off.
Speaker 2:Mm-mm. No, they were very excited to see me. If you don't want to.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:No, it's a fetish, evidently, for some people. So, and it would be, it would not be the guys you would think, it would be, mm-hmm, they would be very business, clean cut. Yeah. And like with one, I was just like, oh my God, because I, I mean that, put me at liability, right, you coming through my restaurant with kids working and it's just weird, yeah.
Speaker 2:So with one guy I just said they, you know, they told me at the cashier's window what he was doing, mm-hmm. And I said I've got this. Yeah. So I pulled everybody back, I went to the window and I was like hey, we're, we're cooking your fries. If you'll just pull up and park and I'll bring it right out to you shortly. Well, he saw, I knew what was going on, so I parked him so I could get his tag number, yeah. And then I just went out there and I just bent down beside his car and I just said listen, buddy, we both know what you're doing. Yeah, I have your tag number. I don't want to cause you problems, but don't ever come on my property again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did you take him as food too?
Speaker 2:I did.
Speaker 1:I gave him his food.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he said I completely understand, Thank you. And then it was done. Yeah, but then I've I mean I've done everything. I've called the police file report. They don't do anything.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And but I just can't. I couldn't have that with any, but any. I mean, it's just weird. And one guy was a deacon in one of the churches and he would do it with his wife in the car, did she? She knew, yes was very weird. The police, we call the police. They went, they did nothing. They came back, they went to his house and talked to him and I was like, well, he's on trespass notice.
Speaker 2:He can never come back here again, because he was doing it with my girl, my teenage girls and my teenage guys and I just said I can't have this Right. They did nothing to him. That's crazy, Like I would think you would go to?
Speaker 1:I mean, I would think so too, but is that because there wasn't any video proof?
Speaker 2:Probably.
Speaker 1:Probably, I mean, if you have like video of it happening.
Speaker 2:Now, I did have.
Speaker 1:Because really in that situation I would think it would be hard unless you have some kind of proof that it's like. Well, no, it wasn't like his word, your word.
Speaker 2:Well, I did have an employee take it into her own hands. Not yet, but the situation Not not yet but the situation into her own hands. Yeah, and she handled it in.
Speaker 1:I see, handled it All right.
Speaker 2:She handled it, but it could have been a huge lawsuit for me, yeah, but it wasn't, so it was funny. She poured coffee in his lap. Oh, looked straight out the pot. Mmm, so that was over a hundred degrees.
Speaker 1:You know that was.
Speaker 2:You know that took the high, all right, and I was like, oh my God that's a lawsuit. Yeah, mm-mm, never heard a thing.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean what if you're breaking the law? I?
Speaker 2:mean you're exposing yourself. What are you really going to say? She poured coffee on me when. I was showing her my penis, but I love her with McDonald's, I mean you never know so yeah, I mean, there's some cooks out there. I didn't know that. Have we never talked about that? No, I don't think so I could tell you all kinds of things. Yeah, women would come through with. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Did you ever have any women show Uh-huh, show off. Mm-hmm, they're breast. They just have them hanging out, mm-hmm, oh my gosh, mm-hmm. That's so like it's. I just don't know, you know, because I'm not a pre-dish or anything like that, but it's so unexpected, it's so out of you know, it's like it's one thing if that's like at the club.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it would be different if but I'm like I wouldn't be as offended by it if it was just me. Yeah, because I know I can handle situations Right, and you throw it at me, I got this. Yeah, but it you got it all right. It scared me when it was employees, right, and they were fearful and they didn't know how to react. Right, I didn't like that. But I'm just like gosh, there's so many, there's so many avenues you can go down for your little fetishes and there's something else, right, that would do nothing for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nothing. No, and I would be too nervous in that it would be weird. Yeah, that's just not. I don't know.
Speaker 2:But I mean, you know the whole thing with men exposing themselves. My mother, you know, was a long distance runner, and twice, and my mother was really cute, especially when she was, you know, in her 20s and 30s, and she had, she had a man do that twice and my mother was very witty and very smart and good on her toes. So she one guy came out into the road, he let, he got out of his car and he had his car parked where she could see his tag and came into the road and had his pants down and he was happy to see her.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So my mother was thinking quick, and so she was like oh my gosh she was kind of in front of her. So she put her hand over her mouth and pointed and laughed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because she thought she would embarrass me. Hey, little guy.
Speaker 2:Well, she kind of tried that because she told me she thought it would embarrass him and he would run to his car Right. No no no, he chased her.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:And she ran.
Speaker 2:She ended up running to one of the parsnages where the minister live and they call the police and everything he was doing it all over Clemson, you know, college town, that happens too. But I was like what do people get out of that? Yeah, Like it was just weird. And see, I hated my mom. My mom was really cute, she was super cute and people thought she was my sister.
Speaker 2:And when you're in high school, when you're in middle school and high school, and people think it's your mom and your mom's hot, you hate it. So she would wear running shorts you know how they're cut up and she would wear a running bra and I was like mom, so I kept saying you're going to be murdered or raped and it's embarrassing and blah, blah, blah. You know how I am. And she came home one day. The police brought her home. She's like well, you almost got your wish. And I was like, oh my God. She was like come on, we have to go to the police station. We had to go and yeah, it was crazy, that is crazy and there's all kinds of weirdos and I'm pretty open-minded, you know, you do you in your house and when you're coming out there's some, you know. But if you have some kind of weird fetish, call and let us know.
Speaker 1:What's your weird fetish? We will not tell. Say your name, but we want to know what it is. Now call us on our hotline a 6498252029. Of course it's down in the show notes below. Have you ever experienced something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, If someone's done that to you because it's, I would imagine, being a woman that it would be could be very scary Right In a serious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you don't know what their intent is. And that guy chasing. Yeah, I mean, that's different than just watching.
Speaker 2:I mean little did he know my mom would have kicked his ass. That is crazy, but it was just scary because you wonder are they going to come back Right? Are they going to have a gun, a knife? Yeah, it's wacky.
Speaker 1:I learned something. I mean, this podcast is all.
Speaker 2:I don't know where we're going. We're going everywhere. I don't know where we've gone. We've gone around the world.
Speaker 1:I said we didn't know where we were going, but I was looking. I do make notes. We talked about occasionally of something, but you know what I learned this week? What A fun little fact. I didn't know this and this again is so off the wall. But did you know 50% of the sugar consumed in the US is from sugar beet, not sugar cane? Where did you know that was a thing I had never heard. That Is that new? I don't think so. I don't know. I didn't know it came from a beat.
Speaker 2:I hate beats, that's a fun fact Sugar beet yeah, I hate it.
Speaker 1:And 50% of it comes from sugar beets, not sugar cane. Huh, huh, that's what I did.
Speaker 2:I never knew, I thought that was a fun little, but you know, you say we're entertaining and we're teaching you something new. I know you said we've been all over the place, but this is what our car rides are.
Speaker 1:This is exactly like a car ride. This is exactly, so I probably would have cussed a little bit more and talked about a few more people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but these are our car rides. I mean, it's that random stuff.
Speaker 1:I'd have been like. Let me tell you what I know about this employee, which reminds me of something about an employee.
Speaker 2:Ooh, yeah, anyway, I can't wait to hear this.
Speaker 1:I think we're pulling up to our pit stop. Are you ready to get out?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I need to TT yeah.
Speaker 1:It's time to pull this baby over and wrap this up. That's going to wrap up this week's episode of who's Driving. Remember to leave us a review and a rating. Come on, people, leave us a review and a rating Come on, we need it. Ever you're listening to your podcast, it doesn't matter Right now. Stop, go to the main thing. Say rate this podcast and give us a good rating. No, we have great ratings.
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