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Who's Driving - What's Dylan Doing Here S2Ep16
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Well, hello.
Speaker 2:Hello Get in.
Speaker 1:I've got a hitchhiker in here.
Speaker 3:I'm here, look at that A hitchhiker riding along. This week we have Dylan joining us. Hey, hey, Welcome to the ride.
Speaker 1:We've got to hurry, we've got to make this quick. He's on payroll now. He's got work to do. That's right.
Speaker 3:We've got one hour. It's time for another episode who's Driving? Welcome to who's Driving. I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 1:And I'm Stephen Merck. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
Speaker 3:Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship and business.
Speaker 1:These are the stories we share and topics we discuss, as two best friends would on a long road trip.
Speaker 3: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 1:Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 3:You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride and on this week's episode we do have Dylan joining us. Dylan is Steven's man, if you don't know, Dylan also just joined us at the Nested Fig Family is our social media. What did you call yourself? Vp of social media.
Speaker 1:No, he's changed it. He's director of marketing. Director of marketing yes, okay, well, that's good.
Speaker 3:That's good, but no, you just completed your first week.
Speaker 1:Have y'all had any?
Speaker 3:fights at home, yet about it no. You've been on time it seems like yeah, yeah yeah so that's good so we're off to a good start, but we'll get all in he hadn't got cussed out yet.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's good he's been. He's actually. I've been very impressed so far yeah, which I knew. I knew, listen, I would not have agreed to it if I didn't know he would be in such an episode. Well, me either.
Speaker 3:And you hit the ground running because it was.
Speaker 1:Mother's Day week.
Speaker 3:We were like you got to promote, you got to promote, we got to get this out there.
Speaker 1:It's a good time though.
Speaker 3:It was, threw you right into it. But before we get to that, I'm going to pick up with a question from the question box last week we left off with. This was just one completely random one In there. Someone asked me they're from Australia. They said what do you think of Aussies and the rumors about our dangerous wildlife? So what's like your perception of Aussies? Because mine, well, first of all, I don't think about the dangerous wildlife. I mean, is that a perception?
Speaker 1:I think of really big spiders, you do well, I was gonna say that, but I had friends that actually moved there and lived there for two years, yeah. So I kind of got what's real and what's not. So that really changed my perception because they didn't run into anything weird. They didn't run into the huge spiders. I think that's like one place, like one time of the year where all those cobwebs are, and I would just never go there.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, I just think, when I hear things like that, that it's just exact. I mean, that would exaggerate it that would be like oh flor, florida is just covered in alligators.
Speaker 1:Or sharks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's, shark attacks all the time it's like, no, that's not so.
Speaker 1:I've never had that I never, I just thought Australia was cool. Well, people say that about Hilton Head with alligators.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like, oh, I don't want to go there. Well, I mean, they're not walking the beach waiting to eat you.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:You, you right, you just can't go swimming through a marsh, right? Yeah, that's the same thing. Yeah, I don't. I don't really think that, um, but, like I said, I asked lots of questions when I had friends that live there and, um, I think the one thing that I was surprised at is, um, it's a much more laid-back life, yeah, out there, and which I think is cool.
Speaker 3:I just think of it as being kind of like not remote, like that they don't have anything, but for us it's just so far away. Kind of more laid back, cool people.
Speaker 1:And where they were living they had to walk some like to markets and stuff like that. I was surprised at that, but I guess it depends on where you live.
Speaker 3:I would love to have because I have a lot of different followers on Instagram from all across the world. Ask them what is their perception of us in the United States. I mean, I've seen things like that on social media before, but it would be good to address some of that.
Speaker 1:The US is so new, we're so spoiled, all that's true, I don't know what they would say I don't know. I mean, I think, what their perception would be.
Speaker 3:It's so funny. I have watched some on social media like TikTok, of like some British people that have moved here or just different, and they've presented it in a positive thing, like things that I had in my mind, but things that are actually really cool about living in the US that they don't have, or whatever. And then I'm always like, oh, they don't have that Like they think that's cool or whatever. So I'm like eh, but I was just wondering what your impression of. Aussies were.
Speaker 2:I don't really. I get like surfer vibes.
Speaker 3:You think they're all surfers?
Speaker 1:No, Well, that would be like thinking the whole United States is surfers because we have them in Huntington Beach, california. Yeah, but I get it what you're saying.
Speaker 3:Yeah, people think tan Aussie.
Speaker 2:Blonde beach hair yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, aussie tanning products.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I guess that's true. I don't know. I just think there are more people over there just like us.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I have something else that you know we talk about, and I haven't even told you this, I just wrote it down while you were saying that. I don't think I told you this, but you know we talk a lot about owning Airbnbs or vacation homes. Did I tell you about my parents' cabin getting inspected? Oh my gosh, it was this whole ordeal in the last week and I don't know why I forgot to tell you. So I think it's worth talking about because it's something that you can run into, inspected for by who?
Speaker 3:The fire inspectors. So they started in. You know they're in Pigeon Forge or whatever, so it's a whole new thing or whatever, and they changed their codes or whatever. So they have like, if you have a second home, like an Airbnb, that's on a rental program, it has to be inspected, just like our businesses do, by the fire marshal or whatever. Is this in Tennessee? Yeah, this is in Pigeon Forge.
Speaker 3:I don't know if it's the whole whatever, but in Pigeon Forge area they now come inspect your property and so you have to have fire extinguishers, just like we have to have in a commercial place. You have to have smoke detectors that are in sync with each other, so if one goes off. They all go off sort of thing which you know. You can buy those now. You just have to sync them up carbon monoxide stuff like that and then like up there, like one of the newer rules is you can't have a grill like you can't have it on a deck wood, wood deck and you can't have anything combustible like trees or shrubs within 10 feet of it, so it has to be like situated.
Speaker 3:They're doing that because of all the forest fires Because you know they've had forest fires and stuff like that, so, but there was a major problem with the cabin because they changed the rules. I mean, obviously the cabin was built and built to code and pass, but one of the rooms in the cabin doesn't have a window. You know, it's two stories and one of them you go upstairs and it's like a locked area.
Speaker 3:But the window in that room opens to the downstairs. There's no outside window. So they said you have to put a window in this room or you can't rent it out anymore, like no one can sleep in this room without because there's no emergency access to outside.
Speaker 1:So how are you?
Speaker 3:going to put a window. So it happened that my parents were going there. They're there right now and they were there all week and they call you know someone that has done, you know, repairs for railings and all that. And they came in like put one in.
Speaker 1:I haven't seen a picture.
Speaker 3:Did? She said it looks good. They did like a little, not like a dog, not a dog house, but kind of like a, not a pitched one, but like a, you know, just a little roof over, kind of. I don't know, I haven't seen it yet, but I was like that's a crazy thing, because she was like calling me, like oh my gosh, what do I do? Because the fire marshal was like only gave them like 15 days to get it corrected. So there's something that's their first, like major, you know little, run in Because my mom's like oh my gosh, it's rented. And then, if we can't get it done in time, and then you know what are you going to say? They did say you could close off that room and no one can stay there, but then you'd have to call your guest and say sure that it's a two-bedroom now, not a three-bedroom, we'll give you this right yeah, so anyway, but they got it all worked out.
Speaker 3:That was luck. I know it was that's crazy. It was crazy, so I was like you just never know when the rules can change and that's ridiculous, I mean.
Speaker 1:I mean it's not, but in a way it is.
Speaker 3:I can see the point of having to access the window to access the outside sort of situation.
Speaker 1:The door, I mean. You're right there in a whole wall of windows like six feet from you.
Speaker 3:You can, I know, but I guess, if you're trapped in that room or something, I don't know. But anyway, I would just thought, since that was the code, I mean it originally passed, you know.
Speaker 1:That's my bedroom. That is when you go. That is your bedroom. That's the only room.
Speaker 3:There's no window in there.
Speaker 1:That's the only room I've ever slept in, and I picked it because there was no window.
Speaker 3:Yes, if Daniel and I are there visiting and you're not there or whatever like with my parents, that's our room too, because and you're not there or whatever, like with my parents, that's our room too, because you close it, it's completely 100% dark.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love it. We're sleeping in there.
Speaker 3:Shit, real shit. It's true, but it's crazy. Just with the rules changing, you would think there would have been a little bit longer.
Speaker 1:Did they know they?
Speaker 2:were coming or they just no, they just come and inspect or whatever.
Speaker 3:I guess they're inspecting them all and then they'll come every like probably every I don't know how often year something. Make sure, just like they do at the commercial properties. But anyway, I thought that was interesting and I forgot to tell you. But they got it all fixed and it wasn't even the guy came out. I mean, it's so different than it would have been here. Because I was like, oh my gosh, how much is that going to cost to cut a hole, put in a window, put a little roof over?
Speaker 1:it. See, there's no drywall or any of that, it's logs.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then they actually the guy, came and did some other things too, like they're probably going to, you know, get you on this stuff eventually Maybe not this time around, but maybe next year Like an extra support under the hot tub and some footings on posts for railing, secured some other things, and it was like $6,000.
Speaker 1:That's not bad, considering what it could have been.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because I was thinking like $20,000. Yeah, I mean I got what.
Speaker 1:My quote to get my bedroom painted was like six thousand dollars, but but you know, you and I picked that place out, yeah, 15 years ago. Right, they bought it furnished and it was such a good deal. It's probably worth four times oh yeah paid, oh yeah, so putting a little bit of money is not yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean, there's always upkeep. We need to go. We haven't been. We all have to plan a trip. Yeah Well, see, now that you're on our time.
Speaker 1:On our schedule.
Speaker 3:On our schedule. It'll be easier, it is.
Speaker 1:It's a great little cabin.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we have to go up there.
Speaker 1:And the thing is you don't have to go and do like Dollywood and stuff. You can go. We've done the whitewater rafting and there's so much other stuff to do up there. Yeah, you know you don't have to do the real commercial.
Speaker 3:I love it all. I mean, I go there and I'm like I'm going there to be a tourist, I'm going there to see everything.
Speaker 1:I like Dollywood. I like Dollywood when it's not hot. I sweat. I just don't want to get miserably hot. We went for July 4th and it was 200 degrees.
Speaker 3:It was miserable.
Speaker 1:I want to do early spring, fall or a cool day.
Speaker 3:Fall days are always good, so we're all going to have to plan a trip then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because Dylan and I haven't been. I don't even remember the last time I've been.
Speaker 3:Well, it stays booked, so much, but we'll have to pick a weekend. Maybe, there's a weekend in June or something.
Speaker 1:It books up so fast. Yeah, that was a great investment.
Speaker 3:And if you're looking to stay in the Pigeon Forge area, I'll put the link to the Airbnb down below.
Speaker 1:And if not, you can put our other Airbnbs in the link too.
Speaker 3:If you would rather go to Hilton Head, I'll link those, and if you would like to venture on down to Miramar Beach, next to Destin in Florida, then I will put the link to those too, and if you think we need to buy one in another city, just let us know what that is.
Speaker 1:We might just do that.
Speaker 3:I feel like it's about time we need another one. We need another something.
Speaker 1:Well. I think it needs to be on an island. It needs to be something I mean, I like on being different. But, my Lord, we've got to go to Hilton Head. I don't even know if ours is still there.
Speaker 3:So I looked at going to Hilton Head just yesterday and ours is booked like completely booked, except for, like this week, three days all the way until, like I don't know, there might be some days open that also go along with when we're maybe at High Point or something. Like it would literally be like November before we can get there yeah, let's just go now I know it's true. It's open literally like today through wednesday or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah or thursday. Ours is too.
Speaker 3:That's the same days I was, oh my gosh, because usually Daniel and I go, we've been going every year in like June just for like three days or something, just to check on it. But we haven't been since last June and now I'm like I don't remember when we've been.
Speaker 2:It's been over a year, isn't?
Speaker 3:that crazy. I know that sounds so crazy to people.
Speaker 1:It's worrisome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, daniel's parents actually were just at ours a couple of weeks ago for the golf tournament that they have there. Is that what you call it, a golf tournament? Uh-huh, I don't know anything about golf you know there's that famous one.
Speaker 1:It's a little white ball. I know that, but is it?
Speaker 3:I was like is it a tournament, Is it a festival?
Speaker 2:No, it's a tournament.
Speaker 3:Was tournament? Was it the masters? Yeah, the masters, that's what it was. I was like you know, they have that big tournament down there. Um, they were there for that and they said it was all good and we have good, you know, cleaners and they do maintenance stuff. So I had it deep cleaned and I did that too, but that it does. After a while of not actually being there and physically seeing it, you're like, hmm, what is it going to look like?
Speaker 2:There's always little things to touch up the wall.
Speaker 3:Do we need new umbrella?
Speaker 1:and chairs. You know we do, I'm sure. So one thing we're going to do in January or February probably February because we'll probably be in Florida for part of January we're going to repaint the whole thing.
Speaker 3:Oh, you are.
Speaker 1:Because it's been a minute Repaint and I think we're going to go ahead and redo the hall bathroom. It may be the kitchen.
Speaker 3:Well, when you repaint, we need to get ours repainted too. Yeah, I have a great guy down there now Maybe we can get like a two-for-one deal or something. Well, he's very reasonable and he did.
Speaker 1:He's the one that did it.
Speaker 3:I remember when we bought those, we bought them for so cheap, and when we got them painted, it was so cheap and at the time we were like oh I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the work was oh, I don't know either. We had to clean it up it was so bad. It was like he just came in and he slammed everything around. I was like oh yeah, but we made it work.
Speaker 3:Well, that's good. So what else you got anything.
Speaker 1:Well, today is Monday. After Mother's Day, dylan and I went Saturday night with some friends to Artisphere. It's an art festival in downtown Greenville and if you're not from Greenville and you're listening and you really love art and you ever want to come visit Greenville, it's a great weekend to do that. It's always Mother's Day weekend, always, always, always. And it's in the top 10 art festivals in the United States and there's over 600 of them, so you're talking in the top 60 art festivals in the country. Oh, that's cool. It is cool.
Speaker 2:But, and it started to get busier and busier from COVID Since COVID, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:And we try to support artists and all that. We have just missed out. The past three years we have not.
Speaker 3:Did you buy anything?
Speaker 1:No, we haven't in the past three years. We try to buy something every year to support the festival and support the people. But you know, something has to speak to you. I mean you're not going to buy a piece of art. That just you know, and I appreciate all of it, Right. But nothing just jumped out at us like, oh, we need that. We found a few things we liked, but nothing like we loved. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, greenville in general has a lot of really good downtown festivals, not just art, but they do have the art festivals and they have really good festivals, but I never go to any of them.
Speaker 1:This is the only one we go to. This is the only one we go to every year, and way back when I was in McDonald's I sponsored Kids Fear, which I enjoyed, and I guess that's where I got really into it was after doing that, because I was there for all day, every day, for the whole festival. So I'm like I enjoy going all day, every day, for the whole festival. So I'm like I enjoy going. But the one thing you know, and we have a, we do it the same because it's Mother's Day weekend.
Speaker 3:So we're always busy, we're always busy. And you're always like I gotta leave. Yeah, I don't time on Saturday because we're going to Artisphere.
Speaker 1:It ends at eight.
Speaker 3:It ends at eight, but that's all you need and we close at 6. And you're like a mile from there.
Speaker 1:We go for two hours. We walk through it, up through it and down you know, up and down We've seen it all and it's not. You know you're not dying of a heat stroke, right, and you're not starving to death Because, you know, in all of the great restaurants which I love, all the downtown restaurants not all of them, a lot of them have street tents and stuff with the food?
Speaker 1:No, I eat that. I just can't do it. I cannot do it If you have cooked it right there on the sidewalk and it's nothing against any of those restaurants If you're listening and you own or manage. We love all the restaurants downtown and we support them, but I'm not supporting them on the sidewalk, I don't care who it is.
Speaker 3:But we've talked about that. You and I are weird about food. Daniel would sample from every single one of them, up one side, down the other.
Speaker 1:It wouldn't matter if they cooked it in the lid of a trash, can no? He would be like, oh, it'll be fine, yeah Well.
Speaker 2:I watched this girl. She got a piece of pizza and she walked around and people were just bumping into her hand and hitting the crust.
Speaker 3:And I'm just not eating that because those people are breathing all over that pizza.
Speaker 1:And the friends we went with are always starving. Oh my gosh, Blood sugar is always bottoming out.
Speaker 3:They have tapeworms or something, because they're not big people no. These people, Stephen and I both know them. They are always hungry, always eating, Eating, eating, eating. And they're small people, yeah, and they finish one meal and they're talking about where they're going to get the next one.
Speaker 1:Oh, within 90 minutes, Within 90 minutes, Getting hungry and I see I eat like once a day. I have horrible eating habits.
Speaker 3:Right we both do.
Speaker 1:You don't have to call in and tell us that we are aware, but we can go on a piece of pizza for two days.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean you and I. That's the way you and I are wired. Yeah, we go to Dylan, cannot we go to market? And when we walk in there, we don't stop and eat. All day Ain't no thought of food. And we see these people and they sit down.
Speaker 1:Eat a salad and they have a whole lunch hour they eat a salad Eat a salad and they have a whole lunch hour they eat a salad. You know it takes time to eat a salad. It's not like they get a wrap and walk around. No, they get a salad.
Speaker 3:They get a drink. They get them some dessert Casual hour.
Speaker 1:And then what really blows me away are the ones that even go through orders when they're there and they're like do we want to change this from six to four? I'm like just change it to nothing, get out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean it's just, and you know we joke with, you know we're free.
Speaker 2:I mean we go all day without eating, until that night I think you all look at it as time You're like, oh, we have to stop to eat.
Speaker 3:So you're just like I could do something for the hour, right? Yeah, it ain't that important, you are not gonna starve to death.
Speaker 1:I've just learned to plan ahead exactly learn to plan, but with, with these friends, I'm just telling you, and we love them and we love doing. They know we talk about it they know, they know and like now, if we go even to charlotte or atlanta, two hours away, I literally I pack some um breakfast bars or something just to throw at them, like you have to, just like throw it at them like like circus animals like here, just eat this.
Speaker 1:Well, we I think we can make it 30 more miles just eat this, and I like going with them because I know I won't starve you will you will eat. You will get food.
Speaker 3:That is so funny because we're so different, like I don't want, and when I'm on a road trip, I mean, unless it's like eight hours, okay, we can stop one time for mean, unless it's like eight hours, okay, we can stop one time for some food if it's like eight hours, but if it's two hours up the road, we're not stopping. I mean, you have to be about to pee yourself or something.
Speaker 1:We will only stop if it was like purposeful schedule. Hey, we're hungry, we're going to go ahead and get on the road to go to Hilton Hand. We will grab a filet of fish at McDonald's in Newberry. That's the eating. But we have never stopped at a restaurant.
Speaker 3:No, these friends, you're not making it two hours without stopping and eating.
Speaker 1:No, we have literally and I hope they listen to this because they're going to laugh so hard and again, they are small people. If you saw how they ate you would think they were very large people. They're not, no, and their children are not. They're not. But we literally went to Atlanta once. I mean I could say this because we've been everywhere, so I could. There's 10,000. But the first time we went to Atlanta we literally went to Starbucks and we got a breakfast sandwich and coffee. Yeah, leaving Greenville.
Speaker 3:So you're like, okay, got that taken care of two hours down the road.
Speaker 1:Two hours We'll be in Atlanta. Yeah, we literally are crossing into Georgia, so an hour away. Yeah, I mean I'm thinking we're going to have to get something for lunch and I started laughing. I'm like, are you kidding me? You just took the last bite of your breakfast sandwich. Yeah, I mean we got to think about lunch and I was like we're never gonna get back home like we're gonna have to.
Speaker 3:You're gonna have to lunch and an in-between snack and a dinner all before you get back home, just trying to make it to one little oh, we couldn't even leave the antique mall.
Speaker 1:We had to get food there.
Speaker 3:But for some people and I think they're like this, but you would think they would put it on pause for a day trip or something I feel like. Food and eating is an experience for some people. It is for them and it is for them.
Speaker 1:They like the experience, experience and she's a phenomenal cook and I think that's where it starts, like she's a, she's a great cook, but can't you?
Speaker 3:park that to the side, like hey, we're going to atlanta today we got to get some things done.
Speaker 1:Grab a snack and their kids their kids are the same like they have. It's like in their dna what's for dinner? Yeah, what's for dinner?
Speaker 2:what snack?
Speaker 1:I'm hungry, oh my god, I need. I'm gonna grab a snack. If it's gonna be an hour for dinner, like if you say we're gonna eat an hour and a half, I'm like okay right around the corner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no like last night we called it was like what seven and seven and they were going to grill at eight and they were all eating chips and dip. Yeah, they're like, don't fill up, we're grilling in an hour. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, and you know I did a lot of design work for them and we went to market and we were walking around and she said we were going somewhere and I could tell she's getting a little edgy. Do you need to stop? You need food, don't you? And she's oh, no, I'll be fine with that. That aggressive, I'll be fine.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh, no, I'll be fine, yeah yeah so I was like we gotta get to a food truck right now it literally.
Speaker 1:We made it to a hot dog stand. I was like, let's get a hot dog, let's take a pause, and she was good. But now I think she legitimately like I jokingly said it because, owning McDonald's and being in McDonald's for 30 years, you would have these people and I'm not saying this in a mean or ugly way, but they were always always very large people and their blood sugar was always low. Ooh, I got to eat. My blood sugar's low and I'm like, and you know, the first time it happens, you're like oh, they have a blood glucose issue so let me get you ice cream, whatever.
Speaker 1:I don't want you to fall out. Well hell, that went on for 30 years. It didn't matter what restaurant you were at. There was somebody that had, so I have made a joke of it yeah, in our stores, because they'll be like what's for lunch? I'm like, oh, is your blood sugar low? Yeah, but this friend of ours, she legitimately has low glucose so hers does, but he is just hungry. I don't know where it goes so back to this.
Speaker 3:Got started about y'all going to artist sphere. So you, you don't eat off the street hell no, not eating and I think honestly that's why I don't go to any of the festivals, because most of them are food. I mean, there's always going to be the. It's very heavy because Greenville has a great restaurant, local restaurant foodie kind of situation going on and so all the festivals are. You can get tickets and sample different but I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1:It's tempting because all of my favorite restaurants have tents out there with my favorite food from those restaurants. But part of it is not the food or cleanliness or anything like that. Well, most of it, most of it is the fact that I want to sit down and enjoy it and you don't want other people bumping into you and breathing on you. That's not fun for me, like carrying it and trying to eat, going down the street, eat and walk.
Speaker 2:That's not fun for me like carrying it and trying to eat, going down the street and walk.
Speaker 3:That's not, it's hot, but I will say it is still good advertising for the restaurants, even to people like us who won't stop and eat because I'm like, oh, I want to go there and get that it does look good.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, it is good. Oh, I forgot about them, yeah, or something like that. But you know because it has even brought it, you know things that we hadn't been to a place in a year or something. And Sassafras was there, I think a couple years ago, and I was like we haven't been to Sassafras in a while. So where did we end up going? Yeah, sassafras.
Speaker 1:Right, so it's good, it's great advertising if you're weirdos like us and don't eat it, exactly I mean. I think it's still great marketing. And when I own McDonald's and I sponsor Kids Fear, guess what I had out there? I had our smoothie machine out there and was giving smoothies away.
Speaker 2:I remember you remember, I remember.
Speaker 1:You heard me complain about that for years.
Speaker 3:Yes, Speaking of food, though Dylan over here recently left Aldi to come work for us. We're going to get into that, but you were a manager at Aldi. How long were you there? A couple of years.
Speaker 2:Two damn long Two years and ten months.
Speaker 1:Does it seem?
Speaker 2:like that long, yeah it does. Well the more I think about it. Yes, it felt that long, but the time did go by very fast.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So I have a question. I've never sat down and really talked to you about Aldi or whatever, because Daniel shops, he loves Aldi.
Speaker 1:I've only been to Aldi one time in my life.
Speaker 3:I used to see Daniel a good bit. It's not bougie enough for you, no.
Speaker 1:Well, part of that's true, because guess what? I'm not bagging my own stuff, okay.
Speaker 3:Yes, mister. Well, you barely go to the grocery store anyway. Yeah, he doesn't set up a grocery store.
Speaker 2:I hate it.
Speaker 3:He's never gone to a grocery store unless he's had to you don't do it much either. I do Not much. I don't do the full grocery shopping, daniel, always says that I run in for specific things. Daniel loves to go to the grocery store. He'll say I'm going grocery shopping today and he may go to three different grocery stores before he gets home. He'll go to Aldi and get stuff and favorites.
Speaker 2:It's kind of therapeutic just to walk around and see what you want. When we were working there, I hated it.
Speaker 3:He'll go up and down all the aisles and it goes back to. I Don't work in there, I hated it. Yeah, he'll go up and down all the aisles, it goes back to. I guess food is just not that important to us. But so now that you're gone, we need some secrets about Aldi. I mean, the food is good. We love the food.
Speaker 1:And the prices are great. And the prices are good, yeah, it's just Don't get their Doritos.
Speaker 2:No, that's the one thing we don't like.
Speaker 3:Is their Doritos. It is.
Speaker 2:They taste awful. They're like cardboard with a little seasoning.
Speaker 1:With a little taste of a sour foot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's just gross. That's the only.
Speaker 1:That's the only item I don't eat from Aldi.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But we love their pop tarts that's like our one go-to.
Speaker 2:Their pop tarts are so much better than kelly hogs.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, we get a lot of things from there. Um, and daniel, like I say, he'll go there specifically to buy certain things because we like it even, um, better than that well, this, I mean, it's a great alternative.
Speaker 2:You know, I used to tell customers when they come in they they would come in looking for just specific things and I would always tell them you know, this is a great option. You can get some things here and then you get your basic. You know, maybe your more name brand items from other places Right, but Aldi is just so different and see.
Speaker 3:But OK, see, that's the problem why I don't go to places like that and why I don't do the grocery shopping. If I'm doing the grocery shopping, I'm going to one place, one and done baby. But that's also why I don't like going to Trader Joe's Whole Foods, fresh Market, all these, because you can't get all of those have their own things but you can't go get everything you need at one of those.
Speaker 2:Well, that's a great question for the viewers. Do y'all shop at one place or do you go to multiples to get everything?
Speaker 1:Yeah, how do you do your grocery shopping. My family's always gone to multiple, really. Yeah, mine didn't, we would never have done that my mom didn't, but the whole rest of my family.
Speaker 3:Let us know. What do you do? Do you make a day of grocery shopping? Or maybe they break it up and like, oh, at the beginning of the week I go to say Aldi and get the things I know they're going to have, and then at the end of the week I go to Publix because I know they're going to have the other stuff. How do you do that? Let us know on our hotline number. Our number is in the show notes below, but it's 864-982-5029.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I've ever told this Send us a text or leave us a voicemail. I think there's a reason I don't like grocery shopping. I don't know if I've told this on here. What is your reason? This is serious.
Speaker 3:This is emotional scarring.
Speaker 1:It's a child, so we didn't have a lot of money and back when you'd have to put something back in the checkout line.
Speaker 1:Well, see, in those days you couldn't use charge card. No, it was cash or check. Yeah, and you may have been that way when your mom was single. Yeah, I mean, that's happened to everyone. No, it was us every damn time, and it was. I was was just always. And this is so. And because my mom worked so hard she worked three jobs, she did everything she could do and she provided very well for us yeah, I never went without anything and I managed to dress really cute. Yeah, but money was very tight and so it was just humiliating to me putting stuff back and my mom would always but it's no big deal, Not now, but I'm telling you one thing you need to know.
Speaker 3:As a kid, you perceived it as a big deal.
Speaker 1:It was emotionally scarring for me and I always felt so sorry for my mother. And so I'm just saying, if I'm ever in a checkout line and somebody does not have money for their, I'm buying all their groceries.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 1:I've always said that because, thank the Lord, I've never had to put any had to put anything back. I've had not had money or left my, forgot my card or something like that has happened, but I've never been in that position when you literally can't afford it. Yes, and so if somebody is in that position, they're getting treated.
Speaker 3:I just can't, but I feel like everyone's probably been in that not everyone but majority at some point, and it happens more frequently.
Speaker 1:Well, everybody you know, listen, I'm not sitting here, poor me crying over me. Everybody has something that is scarring.
Speaker 3:But you would think at this point in your life you would be like, oh, I can go to the grocery store and get anything and it not be.
Speaker 1:I think I just hated it from that point on. And it just is a source of anxiety for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he never likes to go. It's always me.
Speaker 3:So back to Aldi, though. Yes, so one fun fact that you had talked about before and I can't remember the details so you can tell it again is the cashiers only have Everything is timed, it's timed you can tell it again is the cashiers only have Everything is timed. It's timed Because they work as few people as possible. That's their whole model.
Speaker 2:Efficiency.
Speaker 1:Efficiency yes, it's discount groceries.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but it's not really discounted. I mean it is discounted, but their model is they sell it for cheaper because they have lowered their overhead cost.
Speaker 1:Your customers are going to do part of the work, and then your employees are going to work a lot harder, right.
Speaker 3:But they only have. I mean they're timed on checking people out. What's the time you?
Speaker 2:get written up if you're not ringing. 45 seconds a minute, 45?, 45 items per minute.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're written up Really 45 items per minute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, get written up Really 40?
Speaker 3:And how often is that checked? Is that like a week? Like do they average that out?
Speaker 2:You get checked every day. So see, every cashier has their own till.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And when you come in for your shift you grab your till, you drop in, you start ringing and then, before you leave, you have to balance that till right. Part of balancing that till it gives you all your kpis so if you're not ringing at that certain percentage. What happened today?
Speaker 1:yeah tomorrow.
Speaker 2:I need to see it higher or we're gonna have to put you on a on a warning and that's the way mcdonald's was like.
Speaker 1:That's the way it's supposed to be well, that.
Speaker 3:Stop that shit. Because that doesn't happen. They try to be like oh, we got to get our drive-thru time up. Listen, it might be a rule that's in place, but nothing happens there, you can park the McDonald's to the side.
Speaker 1:No, but I'm saying, if you're troubleshooting, like if you're serious, like when I would have an issue If you want to troubleshoot it and improve it. It is time from where you place your order to where you pay your cash, where you pay your cash, where you pick up your food.
Speaker 3:That's all good in theory, so you can figure out what's wrong. That's good in theory.
Speaker 2:To the side because it stops timing the second you drive off that little spot.
Speaker 1:No, no, right, if you put it on hold, it doesn't no.
Speaker 3:Okay, we'll back to that in a second. First of all, that's BS and McDonald's may have that in place where you can use that as a report to correct things, but that is not those people. Do not get in trouble for that, Not now, no.
Speaker 1:No used to yes, so back to Aldi they get in trouble for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've had people like so at Aldi. When you get hired, you have 90 days to prove you can do the job and if you are not meeting certain KPIs whether it's ringing the curbside metrics, pallet times, doing truck if you do not meet those numbers within 90 days, you're out.
Speaker 1:What you're saying about McDonald's is true now. It used to be very. But even with Aldi there's ways to cheat, especially where you pick it Curbside. They cheat on that. People find ways to cheat out.
Speaker 3:Well, they're always going to. But I'm saying, okay, mcdonald's is down to the individual owner and how they're going to run their store and how they're going to enforce it. And if you go to any McDonald's around the country, 99.9999% do not follow that because it is slow ass service and everyone knows that, so don't try to be like oh, mcdonald's is sitting this one out over here, sir don't try to be like we do that too it depends on which ones you go to yeah, mine were.
Speaker 3:Yours are different and you've been retired from mcdonald's for like nine years now so give it.
Speaker 1:Mister, you used to time my drive-thrus for me and you know mine were different.
Speaker 3:Yes, but you can't time in on this report. You go to the others and you're right.
Speaker 1:And even like the last week.
Speaker 3:That's a tool that's in place.
Speaker 1:That is a tool.
Speaker 3:Yes, but that is not enforced by anyone at McDonald's, but it is enforced at every Aldi.
Speaker 2:And I'm sure everyone listening you know if you go to an Aldi you only see three people total working Right it was like that, every single day, I mean, but some of it's unrealistic what Aldi expects of their employees. It's very. It causes a lot of burnout, A lot of turnover. Our turnover for our store for the better part of those two years that I was there was over 100%. I mean sometimes we were 110, 115% turnover rate, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:But okay, playing devil's advocate when you say that that's really not horrible for that industry, like if somebody else hears that they're going to be like, well, that's kind of industry standard for that turnover. But to your, what your point is is, if you just had like one more person, you could probably take that 110, 120% turnover and drop it to 80, which is a lot of money in training.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, we just need. They just needed one more person total on each day part. There were some days where I would go into open. I have to throw a truck, I will when the store opens. One person goes to register, one person goes to curbside, so then all that's left on the floor is the manager on duty. So there would be days where I would throw eight pallets of produce, three pallets of freezer and finish up seven or eight pallets of grocery and that is just, it's just too much for one person. And then on top of that I had my admin managerial task I had to do. I had to count stuff every day, I had to rotate stuff every day. I mean, it was just a lot.
Speaker 3:But for Aldi they've learned that they're going to have that kind of turnover and they're going to work you and work it out and then someone else is going to be in line. But that's how they keep their.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yep, and the only reason I would not shop there is the same reason I hate shopping at Sam's anywhere like that Costco Sam's or anything. I don't like having all that stuff in it not bagged, but you can bag it yourself. Yeah.
Speaker 3:But you're not doing that. I mean.
Speaker 1:I would just rather pay $10 more for my groceries and go to Publix.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Well, on that note, one little tip don't use the curbside at Aldi. Just come here shop it yourself.
Speaker 3:So I didn't even know. Aldi offered curbside. Some stores have it, mine had it Okay, so why not use it?
Speaker 2:Well, because they use it, because they're wanting people to use that service and they want us to pick stuff that we would buy. But, because everything's timed. We don't have the time to, you know, pick some of those requests.
Speaker 3:You're not shopping casually.
Speaker 2:Like, if you wanted milk the furthest out date, well, we don't have the time to climb back in that cooler and get your furthest date out for the milk.
Speaker 3:So you're just saying you're going to pick it?
Speaker 2:We're going to grab whatever is right there up front, because you're timed so it. We're going to grab whatever is right there up front Because you're timed.
Speaker 3:So that's a little different than, say, like other places, because I think some of the places now, like I don't know, but I think Walmart for sure, they pay for the service, but you also, they have their own stock just for, like curbside or whatever. So they're pulling and they're supposed to be pulling.
Speaker 1:But you're paying for it, so you're going to get a little better service.
Speaker 2:Well and that's the whole reason it was built was for people to have confidence that you're going to pick the freshest stuff, the best looking stuff, the furthest out date, but it all the you know, with them timing us and same kind of thing. When your shift would end, you would be able to view how fast you were shopping In order to meet those times. We didn't have time to to pick the best looking stuff, you just got whatever was right up front and we had to keep it moving and how is it?
Speaker 1:y'all cheat on curbside. There's a way y'all cheat you can pause.
Speaker 2:Um, it uses instacart. If anyone uses instacart, you know what the interface looks like, so you can hit the x in the corner and go back to your dashboard. So we would look through an order and see what the next items are.
Speaker 3:Remember those X out and then go pick those. Go pick those, then go back into it, because it's only timing you when you're in it.
Speaker 2:You're timed. Yeah how fast you scan an item. So you scan this one, then that one, then that one. Look at your next five or six. Memorize them x yeah you know, they find a short hole for everything.
Speaker 1:Talking about mcdonald's like if I can remember mcdonald's. I can remember fussing about drive-through times, yeah, and then their outlet was like knock them all off and then work off receipts. Well, you didn't do a damn thing for the customer. Yeah, no, you're doing it.
Speaker 3:so I shut up. Right, exactly, and that goes back to what Dylan was going to say If they pull forward, that's why they'll have you pull, go ahead and pull forward and we'll bring it out to you.
Speaker 3:They'll print the receipt right. And I haven't been in a while, but right across from the warehouse, or old one, was a burger king and every time I would go there it didn't matter if someone was in front of me, if I was the only one in line, it didn't matter. When I got up to the window they'd be like pull over to the front and we'll bring it out to you.
Speaker 1:And sometimes I would go and there would be like six cars pulled over to the front and I always said I know what y'all are doing, trying to keep your times up, you know well, and when he told me that about instacart, I was like damn they, you're just like, it's all the same, everybody's gonna find a little loophole, right, it's true.
Speaker 2:You have to to keep your supervisor off your back.
Speaker 1:Well, that's, that's, that's sad though that you know, because I mean you were fast, yeah, and for you not to be able to do it, I'm like, is it even possible?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I constantly had the best KPIs from whether it was ring speed, pallet times or curbside, all of my metrics were number one. But it's very hard to get people to want to work that hard.
Speaker 3:And to keep up the pace and that sort of thing, day after day.
Speaker 1:And it takes everybody in the store doing their job to be able to do that. Oh yeah, To keep it all running together.
Speaker 3:Everyone's got to work together, and that's where the problem can come in. I would think, though, did people. I mean just knowing our retail stores and warehouse, and we've had a ton of employees, knowing how I always joke there's an ecosystem to each location and workforce, and there's a pecking order, and who's on top and who everyone hates, and they're going to peck on that person, no matter what there's always going to be a hated person.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would think there, where you're running on a skeleton crew, that there would be a lot of drama with employees, because if someone's not pulling their weight, then it's a lot of extra weight for someone else to oh yeah, and there was no performance-based pay.
Speaker 2:Everybody was at the same rate, based off of tenure and your position. Oh so you could have somebody that's worked for three years exactly but one is super slow and sucks and one is the best employee ever. They make the same amount of money. So you know that.
Speaker 3:That's not right. Yeah, that would cause a lot of drama right there. Because I'd be like I'm going to be in that cooler, whipping your ass.
Speaker 2:I don't need to go faster, and what made it worse was you couldn't put whoever was the worst. You couldn't put them on curbside or you couldn't put them on register, because then that brings the whole store's numbers down. So then whoever sucks normally ended up having the easier shift because they just had to stock stuff throughout the day, while the ones that are actually good workers- are having to work the hardest.
Speaker 1:It's the way it always is. It's always like that. But you know what? I ain't got to the way it always is. It's true, it's always like that.
Speaker 2:But you know what? I ain't got to worry about it no more. That's interesting.
Speaker 1:I am so happy that Aldi is in the rearview mirror, just for your life. Yes, but you still will shop there I will.
Speaker 2:There's some things that I really like there and you really can save a lot of money if you know what to look for. If you have families, they do mark their meat down it has to be within a certain date, bread has to be at a certain date, but they do mark stuff down. So if you know how to shop there and know what to look for, you really can save a lot of money.
Speaker 3:We love the food. There are things that I just like. Well, that's good. So now that you've closed that chapter, you've moved on to the good old Nested Pig family.
Speaker 1:You're in the family business.
Speaker 3:You're in the family business, which you've done a great job this past week. Thank you For your first weekend. So if you missed us talking about last week, stephen, oh my gosh, dylan, good lord, it's like my mom going down the name of kids. She's going to call my name eventually, right? Dylan joined to run our social media for the garden store, the home store and the warehouse so that we can offer better content, because that's we talked about it one area that we've really been lacking in. But fun little fact, you were like an influencer social media person way back before this existed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like 15, 12, 15 years ago now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you were in what? High school, middle school, high school, yeah.
Speaker 2:I was like a sophomore in high school when I started.
Speaker 3:And you were doing it on. Twitter back then Twitter.
Speaker 2:Instagram was around, but it wasn't nothing like it is today. But Twitter came around, you know, and I always dressed real nice.
Speaker 3:Imagine that. I know Shocker Boozy. Every now and then Boozy found booie over here.
Speaker 1:I'll still find something in the closet or a drawer or somewhere now and I'm like, what the hell? Where did this come from? He was like, oh, they sent me that for free to promote that All those years when he was in high school.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was a big deal. Listen, I had 75,000 followers on there, 75.4 to be exact.
Speaker 3:Which was big, that was huge. Having big followings on social media wasn't really a thing.
Speaker 2:back, then, yeah, and my engagement rate at that point, when it was really popular, I was at like an 80% engagement rate. It was high, which is amazing. I was at like an 80% engagement rate.
Speaker 1:It was high which is amazing. The people that were doing it and that were on there. Since there wasn't as many, it was just like Over the top.
Speaker 2:Over the top. Well, and I started. I didn't show my face in anything. So, everything was neck down. You were showing your outfits, showing my outfits. If I was out and about downtown my outfits if I was out and about downtown.
Speaker 1:It created that mystery, like somebody else used to, with not showing my face, right.
Speaker 2:And I didn't show my face until I really got up to like 20 or 30,000 followers. But it was funny because I had gotten to like 10,000 followers on my own. And then there was another account called Classy by Choice or something. Mine was called Preppy State of Mind yeah, and my at name was Bowtie Life, but this other Twitter they had 200,000 followers at the time and that was like over a million today.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that would be, and the guy that owned that account like over a million today?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would be, and the guy that owned that account just didn't want to do anything, so I started writing tweets for him.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And he would retweet my tweets and so I would get basically free followers just from writing tweets for him. And I mean, it was like simple stuff like Chick-fil-a is bay yeah like a picture of a chick-fil-a cup at the time yeah you know that was all the rage back then.
Speaker 3:Teenagers, all that fun stuff um it means what you're doing for us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pretty much um, and it just eventually took off and I started getting clothes sent to me to wear. I got several belts. Companies would send hats. They'd pay me to retweet their tweets and I would leave them up only for like 24 hours and if they wanted an additional 24 hours it was an additional fee. I mean, I really worked it and then, as time went on, twitter kind of faded and then I graduated high school. I didn't have the time to do it anymore, but I remember saying back then and you sold it.
Speaker 2:I did. Yeah, I sold it for like $3,200, $3,400.
Speaker 1:Which wasn't a lot of money, but it was then. It was to me, but it was when you're in college when you're 18. But you're not, and back then and you weren't thinking how you could transfer that over to Instagram, and I mean, it just wasn't known, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean. And but it's funny about that, cause I back then had always said man, I wish I could do this as a job, like just do social media as a job would be so fun. And all my friends thought I was crazy. They were like, no, you need to go and be a doctor or a pharmacist I wanted to be at the time. Yeah, um and 10. What is it now, longer than 10 years now later yeah, I am. That's what I'm doing. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 3:you just never know.
Speaker 1:And you're just naturally very talented at it you're just well.
Speaker 2:You have to enjoy doing it because it really is a job. Like people you know, they they think you're just playing around with a camera all day.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Well, we were talking about that. I feel like we've talked about that on podcasts before how people there's this perception that influencers it's not a real job and like what you're doing for us is a little bit different because you're managing social media. Different because you're managing social media, so you're not the direct influencer but kind of are, but not directly, because you're working for a brand and promoting a brand as a social media manager. So you're getting paid from us, which is different than an influencer that just works for brands. You know, trying to get their own deals and that sort of thing, Both of them. It's a lot of work, Like even we were talking at the end of the week last week.
Speaker 3:You know, trying to get their own deals and that sort of thing, Both of them, it's a lot of work, Like even we were talking at the end of the week last week. You know how long it takes if you just want to post, even for me to make a simple flower arranging reel, how long that takes, and it can be a 45 second story or reel. And it took like by the time we pulled the items together. I made the arrangement, we did the edit, I posted it, wrote the caption.
Speaker 1:It's like two or three hours just for that one little piece of content, and well one thing I think that has made um dylan more, even more, exceptional at it and a lot of people don't know this, most people wouldn't is his parents owned a portrait company.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so he's good at photography and video.
Speaker 1:He's literally been around it his entire life. He was around video you know photography video since he was a toddler and now I'm like do our employees listen to this podcast?
Speaker 3:I don't. Maybe they haven't listened to this part, but now because our employees have posted on social media. You know that, but you know they did what they could.
Speaker 3:They've done what they could, but they don't take it serious and it's not their main job it's not their main job and also it's different because we have you and we've sat down and given like, hey, these are some ideas of what we want to see. Right, so you're making like a vision or a story or something come together, but now the employees will still throw a post in and I'm like you can just tell it's different yeah, I'm like can but it it really not. It makes such a difference like taking taking photos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, photos, especially if people are in it. I mean, dylan is way better than his dad now yeah because he's just dylan is more interested in it, I think, than his dad really was, I think it was more.
Speaker 2:My dad did school photography, so it's a different style. Yeah, it's just like different not as artistic.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like learning a technique. Yeah, just like flower arranging techniques and how styles change.
Speaker 1:But I think that's why he's, I think, just being around. At a young age, I've never seen so many photographs in my life for one family that that I had never in my life when you go to their houses. Well, no no, when they they it is, but everywhere when they own their commercial buildings like they had one building, that was it was photo bins of photos, really and it was a camera in our face from like when we were born born up until just a few years ago, when he sold.
Speaker 1:I mean, I've never seen that many photos he has. I would say, without exaggerating, there's over a million photos of just you. Probably somewhere on a server, somewhere Different CDs I mean I get because it's when it's their business and they had all the equipment.
Speaker 2:They still have old what were they called Flash drives?
Speaker 1:Yeah, flash drives or no, floppy.
Speaker 3:Floppy disks.
Speaker 2:Yes, floppy disks yeah way back, you know. I think one reason I'm able to make y'all's vision of how y'all want it to look look, make y'all's vision of how y'all want it to look look as good as it does, is because I know y'all. I know what y'all like, I know the look of what y'all want it to look like. I mean cause you have a certain style you want to convey across the social medias.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 2:I know that through knowing y'all so I'm able to make that vision come to life.
Speaker 1:And it's just funny Like we were at his parents yesterday and like he like gifts, like for mother's day, since he was a kid, is always circled around photography. Oh yeah, he would do like different collages and it was all photography, like it's literally been their life. Right, because that's, you know, that's what they, that was their business like us, right, you know?
Speaker 3:and furniture and home decor and flowers, it's right, you live what you do yeah, so that's good, yeah, so I'm excited and first week down is good, um so hopefully it was good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was great, it was good.
Speaker 3:No, it's funny because you came on and like immediately started posting stuff and I was like, oh, I love it. Even daniel was like, oh, my gosh, this is gonna be so amazing to have. And then, like I don't know, day two or three or something, I saw something pop up and then I was like, I, no deal, let me.
Speaker 1:I'm hoping, hoping Dylan didn't do this, and then we got a text. I didn't do this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, I texted y'all immediately.
Speaker 3:I was like that was not me and I was like, ah, but at the same time we don't want to like inhibit employees.
Speaker 2:No, no, no no.
Speaker 3:It's funny the difference there's still a place for all of them, but you can also do stuff with them and you've already at the home store, like y'all worked on some stuff together and I was like, oh, I love this. And you're like they actually did that, we just you know.
Speaker 1:In all fairness with employees, that's not their job Right and it's not their primary responsibility.
Speaker 3:But it also shows, is my point.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh, I agree, but I'm just saying, you know, they don't have eight hours a day to make it all look, yeah, and that's just the crazy thing I still.
Speaker 3:If people could just really see what it takes to get everything posted.
Speaker 1:Well, a friend of ours came in to buy Mother's Day flowers on. Saturday and I said Dylan was there or no Friday, sorry. And I said you know he had not met Dylan and I introduced him and he owns a marketing company and he was like people just do not understand what, how difficult that job is and how important it is, right, yeah.
Speaker 3:Especially nowadays, like we talked about last week, because a lot of advertising isn't effective for small businesses anymore. You know, like local newspaper, local magazines, you know things like that are not effective for small businesses, and so you got to put it into the social media. So, we're excited and, speaking of that, it's time to pull this baby over because you got some more work to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got to get to work.
Speaker 3:You got to get to work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got to get to work. I had a nice little break.
Speaker 1:I don't want to have to write you up today.
Speaker 3:I need to see some more posts this afternoon and we need to get this going Right. Well, that's going to wrap up this week's episode. Remember to check out the show notes below for links that we mentioned and our hotline number, which is 864-982-5029. That'll be in the show notes. Text us. Sound like I said Texas. Text us or leave us a voicemail.
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Speaker 3:Remember to leave us a review wherever you're listening to your podcast. I mean, this may not be the one you know it's going to be like those time things oh, at McDonald's we do that too. Oh, ever Ain't nobody. Nothing is fast about McDonald's.
Speaker 1:They look at that number and say it used to be. Never, it used to be.
Speaker 3:Maybe at your Mine were Allegedly you used to be. Maybe at your Mine were.
Speaker 1:Allegedly you used to time for me.
Speaker 3:You know it was true, but you know the one across from our retail stores.
Speaker 1:Ain't never been right.
Speaker 3:I literally stopped eating at McDonald's because that well, first of all, it would take so long and then, second of all, that's a whole different story you would get.
Speaker 1:What you get is what I said I'll be like I'm gonna go order a number whatever, but I'll take whatever they give me, because it would always be and the bad thing is is I lived across the street in that neighborhood for 21 years and people would come to me and complain it wasn't your mcdonald's and I felt horrible and I would always keep coupons to give to neighbors Like they would literally. My neighbor's parents were visiting and bought the kids yeah, McDonald's food and came over to tell me how bad their experience was.
Speaker 2:And I was like that one ain't mine. I'm like I'm so sorry, so I'm like here's have free breakfast on me.
Speaker 1:Just don't go to that one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, don't go to that one. They even tore that one down a few years ago, rebuilt it and it's still left closed for six months.
Speaker 1:So I said this is smart, this is. This is the reset, this is the way it needs to happen.
Speaker 3:It's still a rock. It's just that one is so wrong and they obviously don't listen to those percentages or whatever y'all think you have in place. All right, we got to go, let's get out of here. Bye y'all, see you next week. Bye, thank you.