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Testing, testing. Are you here? I reckon I am. Let's do it. I'm here and ready to roll. It's time for another episode of who's Driving. Welcome to who's Driving. I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2:And I'm Stephen Merck. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1:Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship and business.
Speaker 2:These are the stories we share and topics we discuss, as two best friends would on a long road trip.
Speaker 1:Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media and all things home and garden.
Speaker 2:Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1:You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride and we have a busy week. We have a busy month coming up. We have a busy rest of the year I know I was looking at the calendar and this is the time of year when we're kind of heading into summer not kind of we are heading into summer, but then our schedules start getting like stacked up from the get-go oh, when you look at it on a piece of paper.
Speaker 1:I try not to do that too often Because it's Because it becomes a little overwhelming. Yeah, it does. Daniel and I are heading to the beach for just a few days. Our Hilton Head condo someone canceled Because we weren't. I think we may have talked about it on here, I don't remember, but we weren. We can't.
Speaker 1:Because, it was booked and then when it wasn't booked, it wasn't booked the whole rest of the year. But when it wasn't booked we were either gone somewhere else or it was like the week of Christmas open house or something random like that, I mean.
Speaker 2:I haven't been there in, I haven't been down there and been in my condo and going on two years.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, because you were going more than we were which we haven't been since.
Speaker 2:It's been last June when we went, but we've been busy, yeah, I mean in all fairness, but thankfully my family goes a lot, yeah, and so they are there and we have good you know we have good company, we do Company and we have good.
Speaker 1:You know we have good cleaning, we do Company. And she'll let us know if something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but my family's there this week, so bless their hearts. I had to give them a full list of things to do.
Speaker 1:Are they there next week?
Speaker 2:No, no, they're leaving, but you know, I just had to. I'd hate to do that to them when they're at the beach. But they're getting a good deal of nothing to go there, so they can do a little sweat equity. They don't mind at all. I just hate to be like well here's a list. I do feel bad about that Because unfortunately they are. You know they are more like the owner, but you know it's fine. My nephews have been going there Basically most of their life now.
Speaker 1:Yes, because you've owned it.
Speaker 2:And I will that to them. So I feel like it's partially theirs.
Speaker 1:They can do a little work. Maintenance nothing wrong with that. So I feel like it's partially theirs. They can do a little work Right, maintenance Nothing wrong with that?
Speaker 2:Right, I feel like you know it's going to be theirs. Let them have a little skin in the game.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:And they do enjoy it and they help. They all help me out so much.
Speaker 1:But don't you think that has to sound so weird to people who don't have? You know, Airbnbs and that sort of thing. You've talked all about that, but like that you haven't gone in two years and used to when we first owned it, if we hadn't been in like six months in your mind, you're like, what is it gonna be like? Is it gonna be just what you know torn up, or whatever? And then, once you get used to it and the idea cause we don't live in the same city.
Speaker 1:Um. Once you get used to them being distant, it becomes normal, it does. It does, but to say out loud like, oh, I have this place and I haven't been there, you know, in two years, because you know, before we owned it and when we were buying them, because we both bought at the exact same time we were like oh, we'll go down to Hilton Head all the time, like during the summer, da-da-da-da-da, and then you end up, and even with hurricanes.
Speaker 2:It's funny. Like our first tropical storm, you and I happened to be there together. We were working, yeah, first tropical storm. That event made me realize that I don't ever want to be there during a hurricane. Yeah, because I was like when is the water going to stop Right? Like, do you remember it was all the way up to our boardwalk, like when you walked on the boardwalk, you were walking on water too. Yeah, and the waves were so huge. You know, that was the time our beach really got washed away. Yeah, it wasn't even a hurricane.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:So we were there for that, and that's when I realized my ass is hitting the road. When they're, if I'm ever there and they call for hurricane, yeah, then the first real hurricane, if you you remember, and it was not good and, um, I had damage, you didn't? We had some water leak you had water.
Speaker 2:I mean from, yeah, from the ceiling but because it blew in under, like it blew through the wall, yeah, the the our building is stucco, yeah. And the wind? The power of the wind was penetrated, blowing the moisture Through the damn walls. I'd never heard of such.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we were like we got to go see what's happened and we had one day to do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one, well it was pretty bad. It was bad, I mean, and I guess we would do that again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we would, because you got to. When you're away from it and you hear that a hurricane has hit and things are messed up, there's flooding you have to go physically see it to assess what has happened. Yeah, so that was crazy. It was a little scary, but we couldn't get there for a while because they closed H. Yeah, so that was crazy, but it was a little scary there for a while because they closed hilton head only has one, one way in and one way out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, way, and they had it shut down for a few days, yeah, a few days, and then you could only get in if you were a property owner yeah, and that's when we got in.
Speaker 1:There were tons of trees down and then, oh, it was crazy it's probably about time for another one there, oh you've been.
Speaker 2:You've been on a kick talking about hurricanes in our properties.
Speaker 1:Well, okay. Well, here's what happened. We bought Hilton Head and they had not had hurricanes in a while In years. In the first, like three years, there was like tropical storm, hurricane, hurricane. So now I said, well, we bought and we've had it a couple of years and there hasn't been a hurricane, so it's probably about time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I said it'll probably wipe that one off the map because I hate the way that Florida and if you live in Florida you know this but Florida does a lot of stuff stupid- Back ass, backwards, stupid. So when you buy a home there. You, you say you buy a home there and you pay a million dollars for it. Yeah, and say the lot is worth 450 000, which is often the case, or more. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Especially if you're you know the closer to the ocean, the more valuable. So then you can only insure your home for $550,000, which?
Speaker 1:How do they come up with that number?
Speaker 2:Hell, if I know. Yeah, I mean they told us which I dealt with that part, you didn't. Yeah, I mean they told us which I dealt with that part, you didn't. Yeah, I didn't deal with the insurance part. They told me basically, and I think for us our lot is worth $400-some-thousand for the piece, that tiny piece of land. The property it's worth $400-some-thousand, worth 400 and something thousand dollars, and I was like well in south carolina, you know, if you pay a million dollars for something you can insure it for one million dollars.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can even insure it for more. Yes, because amounts.
Speaker 2:But you can't go crazy, because then they start looking at you like what are you going to burn it down?
Speaker 1:no, yeah, but when we bought our house here, we got a really good deal. It needed a lot of work and whatever. And they were like okay, your insurance is like what we paid. And I was like no, we can't rebuild our house for that, based on the size and this sort of thing, because we got such a good deal and we upped our insurance.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I did that too because, because mine I got a good deal on my place and I was like, well, if something catastrophic happened I could not. I think they had me. Um, I think they had my insurance on replacing the condo for like four hundred thousand dollars, $400,000. And I was like that's not even possible because, like, my bathrooms were 70,000 and my kitchen would be at least a hundred thousand. I mean, when you start adding up closets and and so what I did was basically double that. But also I did what I didn't know, and I don't know if you know this or not, but like because I was telling the insurance agent you know I have sub-zero, I have decor, you know I have expensive appliances that would add up to a hundred thousand, because you bougie no, but you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he said and I did not know this and I read it too after that it that they will pay for that under personal property oh yeah, so there's limits on that too. I mean, you have to see what your limits are on that too, yeah so it's crazy, it's complicated, but yeah, as I said in florida, basically, if, if our house got washed away, we would have a lot and we would literally have a lot of money to rebuild, but we would still have to come out of pocket.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Cause you couldn't rebuild for the exact same amount, which is crazy. Cause then that's like well, how?
Speaker 2:would they do that?
Speaker 1:I mean it's just whack. But also the amount the insurance has gone up over the years.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh, it's tripled, yeah, and the taxes in Florida have tripled.
Speaker 1:It's crazy.
Speaker 2:So if you're thinking of buying in Florida, it's a beautiful, beautiful state, but just do your due diligence.
Speaker 1:And the good thing is, like we've talked about with Airbnbs, we're still making money off the Airbnb, but you have to know to cover all of that going into it Sort of thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just weird having properties and not going there. But we're headed down to Hilton Head was my point. And looking at the calendar, then we're just going a few days, Like someone just had it. I think. We're going three nights and we'll be back at the end of the week. Then we're just back for a few days and then you and I I think the next thing after that are going to go to the Dallas market.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm excited. Is that the next in the lineup? Yes, we've never been to the Dallas market.
Speaker 1:I know. So our big market is Atlanta, which is always in July, and Dallas is a smaller version of the Atlanta market and we've never gone there because we're just two hours from Atlanta and Atlanta is the Atlanta market and we've never gone there because we're just two hours from Atlanta and Atlanta's the larger one. So it's kind of like why bother? In the past but we've always talked about like we want to go there because there are a few different vendors that may be from the West Coast that don't come to the Atlanta market, or just smaller vendors in general and that sort of thing. But normally the way the market schedule works out it's like Dallas and then it's like the day it ends it's Atlanta market starts, or they flip them every other year. I think is how it works. So then it may be Atlanta and then the day Atlanta ends, dallas starts. But this year I don't know why. I just realized that Dallas and Atlanta are split up.
Speaker 2:I think they may have grown a brain.
Speaker 1:You know, because we would go if they're split up like this.
Speaker 2:Well, we just don't have time to do all the work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the problem. So Dallas is mid-June 19, around there, and then Atlanta is mid-July, so we have a nice little distance.
Speaker 2:I hope they keep it this way, because we really need to do those two markets.
Speaker 1:So we decided we're going to head down to Dallas over.
Speaker 2:We're going to shop for three days.
Speaker 1:We're going to shop for three days and knock out some of the things that you know, just whatever we can get a jumpstart on for Atlanta.
Speaker 2:We're not going to do live sales, we're just going to focus on shop, shop, shop, shop shop.
Speaker 1:Right, and then that will give us time to do more live sales at the Atlanta market and make sure we can get through everything, because the more our business grows every year when we go we're getting like down to the last day and we're like, oh my gosh, we're still rushed. We stayed the whole time but we're still rushed. So we thought this is just.
Speaker 2:You know take a little pressure off and we'll get to see something different. And we have other irons in the fire that we really haven't told people about. Right, that's where hold.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're holding off on that yeah, that's a different story piece of the puzzle too. Yeah, um there that we'll talk about that in the upcoming episode. Yeah, when it's time yeah, so then we get back from Dallas. We're just going like three or four nights, so we want three shopping days. Then we get back and then, like the next weekend, you are headed to New York City. Yes, you and Dylan.
Speaker 2:And my nephew. Yeah, so my nephew, bryce the youngest, just graduated from high school and he and his brother, you know their parents, have truly shared them with me since they were brought into the world and I dearly love them. And I said what do you want for graduation?
Speaker 2:and I was, you know, because that's one of the things they get, what they want, right, you know that's a milestone yeah, and you know I was thinking money watch, yeah, expensive wallet, you know, yeah, no, he said I want a trip with you, yeah which was so sweet, yes, and so cool because you'll get to enjoy the gift too yes, and his brother would rather, would probably.
Speaker 2:I don't know this for a fact, but I would say his brother would probably definitely just want the money. Yeah, and we're so busy and we have so much going on. So, like the week before graduation, I said so are you sure you want money or do you want trip? Yeah, and then I told him he could choose wherever he wanted to go. Yeah, I said not Hawaii, because that's too far.
Speaker 2:I don't have time for that right now, and I named off a ton of different ideas and he chose New York City, so we're going to New York.
Speaker 1:So that'll be fun. And I'm excited to hear from you. I know we've talked about this in a live sale. I'm excited to hear from you what you. We've talked about this in a live sale. I'm excited to hear from you what you, because you'll tell me the truth, what you experience when you're in new york city, because you and I used to go and four times a year. We were going like four times a year just fun weekend trips, because it's so easy to get there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were buying um for the stores as well while we were there. But we would also make it a fun little trip. But then, you know, covid happened and we haven't been since then.
Speaker 2:And there's so much negativity around it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then you're like but is that the realistic version, or is it just here and there, whatever?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:So I want to hear your version.
Speaker 2:Some of our customers some of our really, really good customers, um, go to new york frequently shopping, yeah, and they've told me it's absolutely normal there and their response was everywhere you would stay and you would go. 100% normal, yeah. But and then I also have friends that relocated from there to here and they're like hell, no Right.
Speaker 1:So I think but it's different when you live there versus you visit there.
Speaker 2:I think you're more critical when you live there, right right, than when you visit there. I feel like we're even more critical of Greenville than other people because we know Well, you know the ins and outs. Yeah, we know what we don't love and we know what we really love. Yeah, and fortunately, 99% of it we love, love, love. But there's always the 1%.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I can't wait to hear, because I know you'll be going where we normally go and you'll be able to say like, oh my gosh, it's a shit show or or.
Speaker 2:We need to go back. Yeah, you wouldn't notice the thing. It's still fun, you know, because it was so fun to walk like the high line. Well, we only when Wesley and I went Wesley and I mostly did New York by ourselves because we were buying yeah, and we have a rule and I'm abiding by that. This time we only walked, no cabs, no Ubers, no subway. We walked it, and so in a weekend every time because I tracked it we walked between 31 and 33 miles for a weekend.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because we would walk all the way from Times Square, all the way down.
Speaker 2:All the way to the Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and back and around. Yeah, it was so much fun. It was so much fun, so I loved doing that.
Speaker 2:I looked at it as and we could eat what we wanted. We were burning all of our calories and it was just a little adventure.
Speaker 1:We walked through random neighborhoods.
Speaker 2:We did it at like 3 in the morning one time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Now that probably wasn't the most.
Speaker 2:That probably wasn't smart.
Speaker 1:Safest thing, but there wasn't. Even we weren't bothered by anyone.
Speaker 2:No, On Fifth Avenue there was a man urinating on the sidewalk one time. Yeah, but he didn't care no and I mean it was fine on, it didn't bother me.
Speaker 1:We saw someone walking down the street naked. Naked and he had a little pouch on the front. It didn't even have a string around like it wasn't like even a string it was like a pouch that cinched around everything yeah, his junk yeah my mom was with us then. Yes, he just came walking right by your mom.
Speaker 2:I know, and we I videoed him. I have him on video. Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 1:I was like you know, he didn't care. He didn't care, obviously.
Speaker 2:I mean he was an older guy but he had a great body on him. He did, I mean.
Speaker 1:Whatever?
Speaker 2:Whatever?
Speaker 1:floats your boat when you get back from New York City.
Speaker 2:To go to the beach with his parents, so you and I won't see each other for a hot minute.
Speaker 1:So then we're going down to Litchfield. His parents own a place there, and so we're going to go visit his family.
Speaker 2:for a little summer vacay.
Speaker 1:So we'll be there through the 4th of.
Speaker 2:July, and then on the 3rd, Dylan and I are going to Florida. We're going to pamper ourselves at the Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island. Isn't that nice.
Speaker 1:So yeah, you get back from New York City and I think the day you get back we leave and then you're going to be here for like two days and then y'all are going to Florida, to Amelia Island, while Daniel and I are still in Litchfield.
Speaker 2:And Dylan has never been to Amelia Island and I have not been to Amelia Island in I know over 10 years, Maybe longer have I been, since we.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I've never been.
Speaker 2:It's been over 10 years.
Speaker 1:We had smaller regional McDonald's owner meetings there and that's how I like discovered it I was like I feel like you have done that since, because it's a really cool place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, y'all would like it.
Speaker 1:We should probably do that sometime okay, and then once you get back from that and I'm back from litchfield we take a deep breath. We're here for, I think, a full week and a half maybe, and then we go to the Atlanta market For 11 days. Yeah, so then we'll be at the Atlanta market, and I just love going to the market.
Speaker 2:I know and doing the live sales Hearing all that makes me want to crawl in bed. Cover up.
Speaker 1:I know right. And so then we get back from the Atlanta market and I think I'm back like a week, week and a half, and then we're going to the Florida house and you haven't decided when you're coming or not coming or what for that, but Daniel and I are going to the Florida house for that's like the first week in August.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we'll probably do that, but we'll probably do something else too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we might go here and then there yeah, we don't want y'all there the whole time well, we don't, we get we don't want to be there the whole time. I know you don't want to be there. I mean, I do love it yes, you do love it but you don't like to stay anywhere I don't like to be anywhere for more than like three or four days, unless I'm in Hawaii.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if I'm like in an exotic place like that, I love it, I'm all about it, but there, but it's also just different when you own the place and you I feel like as much as I love it, I feel like it's truly not a vacation, let's say we we go and we enjoy it, just like see.
Speaker 1:It's truly not a vacation.
Speaker 2:See, we go and we enjoy it. But see, I look at everything like, oh my God, this needs to be done. That's just the way my brain.
Speaker 1:But we do that. Well, see, the difference is, we actually do the work when we're there and you don't like Well.
Speaker 2:I'm not even there long enough to do it you don't do the work.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying that in a bad, that sounded like whoo, that sounded bitchy. That did sound bitchy, didn't it? No, I mean, that's not your nature. Daniel likes to get things. He'll make a checklist and like okay, we got to wash the back porch, we got to paint the porch.
Speaker 2:We got to whatever. I did this stuff when we bought it Right and when we bought the condos, and I do that like I'll touch up the paint, I'll do those things there, but I'm not a. Mr Fix-It.
Speaker 1:Right, you're not a big project person. No, you'll make a list, then call someone yeah.
Speaker 2:Whereas we'll write the check.
Speaker 1:Yeah, whereas we're like, okay, we'll do this. So that's why we've gotten on the schedule. We'll go for like almost two weeks, like 12 days or whatever, and so when we're there, we'll spend okay, we're going to spend a couple of days fixing things, and then we're going to enjoy our time here, and so for us it does feel like a vacation, but at the same time it feels so comfortable like it's our own home. We'll also like, okay, today we got to do computer work, like we got to focus, so we'll work, fix things, things and have beach days all yeah blended together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, um, I want to go, but I like I enjoy it for a minute in the in the summer yeah, but the other thing is you don't like to go on the beach.
Speaker 1:As far as that's not as relaxing to you, you'll go walk on the beach, but like we'll go literally just sit on the beach for no like six hours.
Speaker 2:When dylan and I took his parents down, they like literally spent the day on the beach. Yeah, and that's not you, hell no I get you don't like to sweat?
Speaker 1:yeah, because you get hot immediately and I sweat I sweat, you have to admit I am.
Speaker 2:I sweat like a whore in church. I mean, don't say that.
Speaker 1:Well, that's just a saying, isn't it?
Speaker 2:I don't know I sweat a lot.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And I enjoy and I go down there some, but I want to be in the water.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But you know and I'm also bad down there too, because, like last time when we were there with his parents, I was like, oh my God, there's a little sandbar like way out there. I didn't realize it was as far as it was. Those sandbars look like oh, they're close?
Speaker 1:They're not, and you have to be really careful there because there's currents and you have to be really careful there because there's currents and you really have to be a really, really proficient swimmer.
Speaker 2:I'm a good swimmer but I'm not great. Yeah, so I Dylan's smarter than I am. Dylan was like I'm not going, but me and his sister we said, well, we're going to swim out there. Yeah, and we did. And then I was so exhausted like swimming out there wasn't so bad. But then I realized how far we were probably a mile, but it's from the way too far, way too far.
Speaker 1:It was stupid well, first of all, you don't want to get caught up in a riptide. Second of all, that's, that's where the sharks that's shark level out. There. You're too far out.
Speaker 2:And I'm terrified of sharks.
Speaker 1:I don't even but it didn't look in.
Speaker 2:All I know it was stupid, I'm not going to do it again, yeah, but it looked like oh, it's just right over there. Yeah, that's how you drown.
Speaker 1:And coming back Because you're fighting the current.
Speaker 2:I was so freaking tired Like me and her.
Speaker 2:Both were. And she was at that time she was 17 years old, maybe 16. She was. I'm like you know, I'm 50. Like I should be my old ass should be tired. But no, it was just stupid and we went way too far. But I'm like that's how. And it made me think of it yesterday because Bryce is down at the Hilton Head condo and he sent me a photo. There was a fire on Hilton Head. I don't know what happened, I don't have any details. I just saw the smoke. He sent it to me and I said what's up with the jet ski in the truck? He was like, oh, somebody got so far out there they're having to do a rescue. And I'm like, oh my gosh, that would be me so embarrassing.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, can you imagine I'd?
Speaker 1:be like let him go. You, gosh, can you imagine I'd be like let him go? You probably would.
Speaker 2:Let him go.
Speaker 1:This is going to answer a lot of financial problems right here, not true? I'm kidding. Oh my goodness God it'd be. Oh gosh, either situation.
Speaker 2:It would. Just it was stupid of me. And it was even more stupid of me to do that with a teenager. I should have been the bigger adult. Dylan was big. Dylan is I, my personality. I'm like 19 or 20 at times, yes, and Dylan is like 63 and dylan was like I'm not going and I don't think y'all should go. I don't think this is a good idea right I'm like it's fine, and there we went.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I had a riddle for you we got on this, all this tangent, and I didn't even give a riddle well, hold on.
Speaker 1:So then we august.
Speaker 2:By mid-august we're kind of settled back in, and that's when we start our holiday season yeah, there's no rest and then there's no I mean that is, but we're going on trip, so there's rest we are going on trip and it will be a blast, and and we are going to florida in august. So, uh, don't message.
Speaker 1:And saying you own a place in Florida and you don't go.
Speaker 2:I do, I love it. I just don't like to be there for an extended period of time, but that's not there.
Speaker 1:That's anywhere. That's anywhere. You don't like to be gone.
Speaker 2:I don't like. I'm a homebody.
Speaker 2:But see, I think that's why we like going there, because it feels like home, because we've spent so much time there, so it's like oh, we're going to our home, and so we get settled in it is homey too, because we'll cook and every like we don't when it's just daniel and I like we don't go out to eat every night, we'll cook and I've gotten used to everything, like I know where the car wash is, because you know down there I have to wash my car like every other day because of that beach. So that OCD, that you know, that salt coming right off the ocean Right.
Speaker 1:You know we started recording this podcast. It's been over a year now that we started doing that. We do it at my house here on the farm. Before that, before the podcast, which we had lived here like seven years. At that point you probably had only come out to our house like 10 times in seven years because you don't want to get your car dirty, that's not true, it is true, he will try.
Speaker 2:I figured out how it works. I just go really slow.
Speaker 1:Because we have a gravel driveway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, not a driveway, it's the road out to the farm. Yes, it's gravel, which is, I mean, who does that? That's barbaric in itself, but I have figured it out. If it has rained a little bit, that's wonderful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because there's no dust.
Speaker 2:And if it's dry I just go really slow.
Speaker 1:You go really slow, no matter what. I can see you coming down the driveway for like I'm like oh, I got 15 minutes, I'm not going to get my car dirty.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He is going like, I think, slower than the car would idle and go on its own.
Speaker 2:I go very slow, I can't stand all that dust and I just giggle every time because I'm like and you get your cars washed regularly.
Speaker 1:Once a week, yeah, um is it. Once a week you get them washed once a week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, seven to ten days, if it depending the only thing that delays its rain yeah, anyway that is my listen.
Speaker 1:I don't really go to starbucks and I feel like you try to like maybe schedule coming out here around like, oh, I just got my car washed yesterday, I'm not going out there no, I gave up on that like the last time I just had my car washed, but honestly I've I have mastered the drive okay
Speaker 1:so that doesn't really play into it like my but it took you the routine of coming out for the podcast to do that you can admit before you would think in your head I ain't going out there, dusty mess, see it would keep you even listen.
Speaker 2:Listen, guys, I know y'all are out there listening. Listen. This is barbaric having gravel out here my, even my family out in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1:We did break out the concrete would you like to pay to pay hell? No, do you know how much that would cost to yourself oh my gosh, that would be.
Speaker 2:That would be over a hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, it's going to remain gravel. Seriously, even if I lived here, that shit would be gravel.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of money.
Speaker 2:It's going to be gravel. That would be a lot of money, All right so continue on with your riddle now. I have to find it now. You have a riddle for me. Yes, yes, well, you know. I bank a lot, but they've gotten stupid at the bank. They haven't been good lately.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've been talking about the stupid bank ones.
Speaker 2:What gets wet while drying.
Speaker 1:What gets wet while drying Gets wet while drying.
Speaker 2:It's a tricky one, isn't it? It's tricky.
Speaker 1:It is very tricky what gets wet while drying? I have no idea, I don't even have a thought Like, I'm not even processing, like this.
Speaker 2:Nope A towel oh.
Speaker 1:That was kind of good. That was a good one. What gets wet while drying Didn't say while it's drying, yeah, a towel.
Speaker 2:It just said while drying, see, that's what you have to with these riddles. It didn't say while it's drying, yeah, a towel. It just said while drying, see, that's what you have to with these riddles. You have to really hone in on that.
Speaker 1:It didn't say because when I first read it I was like what the hell? Well, I have a riddle for you and it's kind of similar, but I feel like this one's easy.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I feel like I got you.
Speaker 2:I usually get the hard ones and I don't get the easy.
Speaker 1:Let's see, take off my skin. I won't cry, but you will. What am I Take?
Speaker 2:off my skin.
Speaker 1:I won't cry, but you will.
Speaker 2:What am I?
Speaker 1:Take off my skin. I won't cry, but you will. What am I? I?
Speaker 2:thought you would An onion.
Speaker 1:Yes, you're correct, I thought you would have gotten it right.
Speaker 2:I thought I was like onion, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's it. So you're so much better at these.
Speaker 2:No, I've got. I promise you. It's the stupid ones at the bank that got my brain Going yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, don't you think, if you do a lot of riddles, you kind of learn the thought process behind them, like you said, you kind of learn like, okay, dissect this part and in like that one, like um.
Speaker 2:What was the one I said to you? How was it written um?
Speaker 1:about drying. Yeah, but it was the way it was written. Yeah, what flip through your notepad over here? What?
Speaker 2:gets wet while drying. So the trick to that one was it didn't say what gets wet while it is drying, right, it just said while drying. So it's the act of drying yes.
Speaker 1:But it's getting wet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So I think it's the thoughts on that. So I mentioned graduation. I have to touch on this. Yeah, so dylan's uh baby sister um, I'm sure she would love me calling her baby sister, but well, that's his younger sister, yes, just graduated from high school. And my nephew, bryce, just graduated from high school.
Speaker 1:You had a whole weekend of graduation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was very busy and they went to two different high schools, you know, an hour apart. I do not do graduations, I only do funerals, graduations, weddings, anything. If it's something I absolutely have to do. Yeah, and it's no offense to anybody. I just I have trouble with funerals period since my mother passed away. So I only attend a funeral if I absolutely have to be there and you know, it's just something I just don't do and that's probably a bad thing. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm not any better. But yeah but so I haven't been to a graduation since my own. Okay, well, let me tell you. Let me the last graduation I'm trying to make sure I'm not lying, but I'm 99.9% sure the last graduation I went to with my own from college Okay.
Speaker 2:When I graduated, which was eight years before you, you either just were a normal graduate or you were an honor graduate. Period yeah, period, nothing else, simple, yeah. And, in all fairness, the majority were just normal graduates. And then there was a small amount of honors. Is that how it was with you? Yeah, just cut and dry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cut and dry, except for in college. I'm talking high school.
Speaker 2:Okay, high school College had like some the cum laude yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:So Cum laude, cum quid.
Speaker 2:Whatever?
Speaker 1:I don't even know, I don't even know, I don't even know I obviously was not in that group.
Speaker 2:Well, I was, but. But it was in college. No, not in college. High school I was honors, yeah. But let's face it, clemson if I said that on here, clemson would probably come and rip mine off the wall. Yeah, so we go to Dylan's sister's graduation. It was at first, it was first. Okay, and I'm sitting there.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:There was a block and it was the size of a note card, almost of all the things, all the little superlatives you could have, oh my gosh. And I'm like what in the world? Now there's a sash for this, there's a sash for that, there's a cord for this, a cord for that. You know, now you get cords for doing these things, like when I graduated, you only got that if you worked your butt off and graduated with honors. Now you can get those for lots of different things, which I guess is fine.
Speaker 2:But there's like five or six different honors levels. Yeah, and I thought, oh my Lord.
Speaker 1:And then Bryce's was the same way. It makes it complicated, but second of all that goes back to calling this was the same way. It makes it complicated, but second of all that goes back to calling anybody out specifically Everybody gets a trophy. Yeah, everybody gets a trophy. Everybody needs their ego fluffed some way or whatever. And oh, you can get it by being in this club or that club. Everyone wants recognition for I don't know getting up in the morning.
Speaker 2:I guess it's fine. It just blew my mind, I guess. What bothered me? It bothered me because the majority had sashes and cords at both schools.
Speaker 1:See, I wouldn't have had anything because I'd have been like I'm not Okay. My personality though.
Speaker 2:But it made me feel bad for the people that didn't okay, so well, let's give them something that's the way.
Speaker 1:That's how you end up that's how it's ended up, with the majority having but I'm not sash or a cord, because it was like well, these people got, well, let's do something. If you're in a group, you get but see, and then it just gets bigger and bigger, and it's not special to anyone.
Speaker 2:It's not special anymore and like when I was in school, I feel like that was special and the majority didn't have it Right. So I feel like no one felt bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. You either worked hard and got it or you didn't. But you didn't, but the majority didn't, right? So it wasn't a big deal. You know, it was like, well, whatever, yeah. And now I'm like oh my word, I mean, this was like complicated yeah I mean, I couldn't even keep up with who got what and that, yeah, it was just, but you know it was excessive.
Speaker 2:And then there was one at, uh, daniel High School, where my nephew graduated, and Daniel High School is maybe what? Two miles from the Clemson University campus. So Daniel High School is a great high school on its own, but it is heavily influenced in benefits from Clemson University. It is heavily influenced in benefits from Clemson University, and there were stuff in there that I didn't even. I still don't know what it was Like. One girl one girl out of 200, I think 249 students got something and I have a feeling. I have a feeling she might already have one college degree or something.
Speaker 2:I'm not joking, it was something really special. But I'm like and I guess they should be recognized.
Speaker 1:But the real special one should be. But it's when you're like oh, they were in this club and that club and this little thing and that little thing.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean okay, you know we're probably going to get attacked for having this conversation.
Speaker 1:Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2:I just feel like it was.
Speaker 1:I just feel like there's this society where everyone wants to be recognized for something and everyone's a winner, but when life slaps you in the face, it's not that way in the real world.
Speaker 2:The one thing they did that I really did like at both schools is they recognized all the students that had joined the military.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And they didn't do that when I was in school. I think, they did that when I was in school. I thought that was really nice, because you know they're taking a different path and there's nothing wrong with that, but it's so honorable that they're doing that. So I thought that was pretty cool. But gosh, it was just complicated. Yeah, I mean it was more complicated than when I graduated from college. I mean cum laude, whatever it is, I'm like whoo Well, I have moving on from that.
Speaker 1:I have a follow-up. I don't know when we mentioned this, but in the last few episodes somehow, I think we talked about your shoes and we brought up penny loafers.
Speaker 2:With pennies in them. Yes, so I randomly must have been after that. I don't know, and I don't wear pennies in my shoes now, but I did in the 80s I said are those penny loafers?
Speaker 1:Because they're still around or whatever.
Speaker 1:So I looked up what is a penny loafer and how did that get started, the history of it. So the penny loafer I just wrote a real brief thing on it. But it started in the 1930s with the penny loafers and it was very popular with the norwegian farmers, originally because they could slip them on and off I don't know how. And then they ventured over here. But the penny in the loafer started because that was your emergency phone money to make phone calls that's where you could keep your money, isn't that funny?
Speaker 1:yeah, so that's how it started. And then it became a.
Speaker 2:You know, just in the 80s I had obviously in the 80s it wasn't no for your emergency phone money, but that's how it started, with the penny in the loafer but now, when I had a fashion thing, I wore them in the early 80s.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and even in the early 80s you put a penny in there right, that was the thing in the 80s to put the penny in there, that's funny. Now people will wear that style shoe, but they don't put a.
Speaker 2:Well, what in the hell A penny ain't going to do nothing for you now? I know right, I guess there's no need You'd have to wedge a $100 bill in there and that won't do much.
Speaker 1:It's just funny, though, how that? But in the 80s that's what I was saying last time I remember, like my brothers I don't know if I ever had, but I remember them having the penny, yeah, it would have probably been at their age more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially your oldest.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was kind of fading out by you, so I just thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2:It's kind of sad that a penny would do something for you.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm Back then.
Speaker 2:I know that was their emergency phone.
Speaker 1:Money for a pay phone.
Speaker 2:Wow, you know it's very rare. When is the last time you saw a pay phone?
Speaker 1:Oh, they're like obsolete now.
Speaker 2:Are there any left? Yeah, I ran into one somewhere and I was like look, there's a pay phone. You didn't take a picture and post it. No, that's like seeing a dinosaur. I know.
Speaker 1:And at this point, though, why wouldn't they just be free? Can we not just get some free phones in case your cell phone goes dead, Like why are you? Because you don't pay long distance and stuff anymore.
Speaker 2:A funny thing is is and I know I'm not supposed to bring up mcdonald's, but I will since it's about, uh, pay phones is. When I became an owner, until I left, that was a requirement you had to have a pay phone on your property oh really yeah, for emergencies, so people could use it yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:I mean, why not just come inside and say I have an emergency, can I use your phone?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just a different. I mean, I'm just saying, but now they're I know they're all gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they wouldn't have them. I mean, everyone has a cell phone now, so if there's an emergency you can use someone's phone, or Isn't that funny? That is funny how it's changed and how quickly like in the moment it doesn't feel like it changes so quick, but then when you look back you're like, oh, that changed so quick. I mean, growing up, payphones were everywhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we made money on those payphones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wonder when that really stopped, probably like the early 2000s, well, I mean, we didn't even have iPhones until like 2008.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, no, no, so probably it stopped, like in the last 15 years. I mean they were already dwindling. They were dwindling, but like McDonald's just got rid of them.
Speaker 1:really in the past 10 years, yeah, that is just crazy to think about, like businesses, yeah, like Walmart, mcdonald's.
Speaker 2:I mean not just businesses, just got rid of them, right. But I mean not just businesses, just got rid of them, right. But I remember, you know, they used to be here and there along the street.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, you would pull over. Oh, I got a page. I got to stop. Yes, I was going to say my stepdad is a doctor and we live growing up they still do but we lived an hour away from the hospital, like he practices in Memphis, and the hospital was in Memphis and we lived out an hour. And I remember well, I remember when he got his cell phone, we got it at the fair in Memphis, like the big fair, you know, they had like the Coliseum and they would have like booths, kiosks, all kinds of things and you could get your phone. And that's where they got the first brick phone. It was that gray brick phone, the huge one, yeah, but before that he would stop on the way like to memphis or back or home and use a payphone to call. Probably got paged. Yeah, if he got paged, or if he was like, hey, I'm stopping at the store, do you need anything? Whatever? And that's why Memphis has never been the safest, we'll put it that way.
Speaker 1:But I want to go, so bad you need to get a cell phone, so you're not pulling over at random gas stations.
Speaker 2:Right and whatever. Oh, I can only imagine I mean first of all y'all if you're from Memphis. I have been wanting to go to Memphis for 15 years and Wesley completely discourages me. But from everything you have told me about Memphis, it probably wouldn't be the smartest thing to stop in your Mercedes or BMW and be on the pay phone.
Speaker 1:No, it would not, because your parents will not even get.
Speaker 2:They will not get gas. No, in memphis they will not go to the mall. But the first time I realized there may be some truth in what you said is, you know, when your mom used to visit a lot um, over the years, you know, I, she and I would usually spend the day together and go shopping and stuff. And so we were going shopping. I was like, oh, where do you want to go? And she said I really need to go to jc penny to get some something basic ass like towels or something. And I said, I mean, I said no offense, but you can do that at home.
Speaker 2:She's like, oh no, I can't, we can't go to the mall yeah, and I was like oh yeah, never thought about it that way, but it must. I would hate to live in a place like that I know it's crazy.
Speaker 1:I'm always like y'all need to move, like you don't understand the other side, but they've been there for so long and I.
Speaker 2:I love the story the first time you took, daniel to Memphis and there was a car beside you at the traffic light.
Speaker 1:Yes. So we I took Daniel to Memphis you know, to my family and we were all. We live outside of Memphis 45 minutes. And then you know, and it's safe there. Yeah, it's safe, it's a country, town or whatever. But we're going to Memphis and there's an area we were going through and my mom's like, okay, make sure the doors are locked, don't point at anybody or don't make eye contact when we stop at a red light. We're just going to zip on through because you got to go through this. We were going to downtown Memphis. We pull up Literally that comes out of her mouth and two minutes later we stop at a red light and next to us pulls up this car and it had legit bullet holes all the way down the side of this car. And Daniel's like pointing look, that car is all like shot up or something. There's bullet holes. And my mom's like put your hand down, don't look.
Speaker 2:I just told you don't look, that is so funny, but that's that would be a normal reaction from somebody here in greenville yes, because it's not normal to see bullet holes.
Speaker 1:My mom's like yes, it's normal, just don't't look.
Speaker 2:I mean I would have probably done that Like oh my God, look, it was a drive-by, yeah.
Speaker 1:All the way down the car, Just bullet holes. Oh gosh, oh my goodness, it's crazy there. But yes, that was one of the first times.
Speaker 2:I just want to go Okay, several things, because I've had friends go and Friends go and I really I'm going to plan it and I'm going to go with you sometime, okay, and I can fly back.
Speaker 1:No, you can go, you can stay.
Speaker 2:I don't want to be there all that time, but I would love to go and see Graceland, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:But your mother said it's not in a great area now.
Speaker 2:No, they're supposed to have great food and music.
Speaker 1:In Memphis Mm-hmm area.
Speaker 2:Now no, they're supposed to have great food and music in memphis? Yeah, they do. I mean sure if you want to go.
Speaker 1:It's just the reason I would never want to live in that area, even where your parents live, is they get the worst of the all the weather oh yeah the ice, the tornadoes, yeah, it's the, the heat, because they're right by the, I guess they're right by by the mississippi river, um, you know, on that part of tennessee and I guess I don't know if the river makes things blow up, you know, weather-wise, like crossing, because it comes, you know, east to west or whatever west to east, um, I don't know, but they do get the worst. I feel like they get the extreme in all the seasons, the ice storms are horrible yeah, but we'll venture on to Memphis sometime.
Speaker 2:I think it would be really good and we could take people along with us on Instagram.
Speaker 1:Yeah we'll do that.
Speaker 2:I probably shouldn't go look at this Shut up car on Instagram? Probably not. I might get us.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. And it's so crazy because memphis is in a great location and it could be something and it's like I mean my whole life growing up.
Speaker 1:It's like it'll be bad and then they're gonna turn it around and they get it moving in the right direction and then it resets right back and there's a beautiful, there's always like corruption going on and just different things that just I mean, if you go to memphis now they don't even have the last time I was there like they've cut out all the funding for like any beautification or anything like that in the city, are you? I mean, you're driving down the interstate and there's just trash everywhere because there's no cleanup crews or anything that's terrible.
Speaker 2:That's sad, but now there's a university there that is very beautiful.
Speaker 1:Rhodes College.
Speaker 2:Rhodes, rhodes College, and a friend of mine's child was looking to go to Rhodes.
Speaker 1:I would never send my kid.
Speaker 2:Well, and she had me talk to you about Rhodes and you were like it's a great school, it's beautiful, but he would never, ever, ever be able to leave the campus.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean who wants to go to college and be like on campus? I mean it would not be safe to just like go get fast food because it's in the middle of the area.
Speaker 2:No, you don't want to, yeah, anyway, yeah, it is crazy, but we'll take you on a little trip sometime. I want to go.
Speaker 1:I want to go see where Elvis you can go to the Peabody Hotel, which is a famous hotel that has the ducks. They keep the ducks on the roof and they bring them down in the elevator and they go get in the fountain in the lobby. Keep them on the roof yeah, they have like a whole duck. I mean it's like a. You can go up there like a rooftop, yeah, where they have their that's really cool.
Speaker 2:I assume that would be in a nicer area. No, it's not.
Speaker 1:It's not is there not a?
Speaker 2:nice area like a, we have augusta road not really there are.
Speaker 1:There's like german town and stuff, but it's kind of spreading out everywhere. I mean now, like you know there's, you know my mom. Their office is supposed to be in the nice part of town, but you know, her purse has gotten stolen a few times.
Speaker 2:No, I think like four there.
Speaker 1:So you know, I guess, Well, I guess it's nice compared to the. Well, I guess it's nice compared to the. Well, I asked your mom. I asked your mom one time.
Speaker 2:This was funny. I asked your mom one time because she she buys just trendy bags and a lot of times we pick up bags for her at market or wherever we are, purses. Purses, yeah, and I'm like why don't you, you know, have a Louis Vuitton or Chanel bag?
Speaker 1:And she just busted out laughing.
Speaker 2:She said I gave up on that years ago. They've been stolen so many times. I'm not going to carry that yeah.
Speaker 1:And I'm like that's sad yeah.
Speaker 2:She's like yeah, she's like no? She said I mean, and when her bag was stolen it was in the office under the desk around the reception area. I mean they went in and looked and got it.
Speaker 1:It's crazy. Well, I think we're pulling up to our final destination, but it isn't in Memphis.
Speaker 2:We're going to get attacked by listeners in Memphis.
Speaker 1:If you're in Memphis, let us know. Am I out of touch or am I telling the truth?
Speaker 2:Because you've been gone for a long time.
Speaker 1:My parents still live there. I still see the stories and you go there once or twice a year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Let us know on our hotline, which is 864-982-5029. And you can find it in the show notes below. Someone messaged me and said you said the hotline number too quick from one of the episodes. It is in the caption below. So wherever you're listening to your podcast, it gives a caption of what the podcast is about that episode and I always put the hotline number in there and the links to whatever we talk about, like our Instagram or the Nest Fig or Airbnb or whatever. You can find all of that there. So if I say something too quick, but it's 864-982-5029.
Speaker 2:That was fast.
Speaker 1:Text or call us Let us know what you think about the graduations and are we going to get feedback from that? We might get in trouble because we said everyone gets a trophy. I don't know, maybe a hot topic.
Speaker 2:And maybe it's a good thing. I'm not an educator. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:And let us know if you've been to Memphis in your experience or if you live in Memphis in your experience in your experience or if you live in Memphis, in your experience.
Speaker 2:Everybody I know, I will say this that have visited Memphis never gives me the feedback. So I'm wondering if it's like New York City? You know where. When you're from there or live there, you're more critical of it versus tourists. But also tourists don't know everything that happens day to day every day.
Speaker 1:If they made it out without getting robbed, they probably had a great experience.
Speaker 2:So let us know if you want to call BS on Wesley's take.
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