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Come on, you've held us up long enough. We got a lot going on around here.
Speaker 2:It is a hustle and a bustle here today it is, but guess what? It's time for another episode of 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 2: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 2: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. Buckle up and enjoy the ride. You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride. I mean, have you ever seen all the action around here today?
Speaker 1:No, I'm just happy these filthy windows are getting cleaned up in here.
Speaker 2:We have treated ourselves and we're getting our windows clean. We have done so many little projects I mean little to some big to other projects in the last month. So we got our gutters. Some of our gutters were kind of questionable, let's just leave it at that so we got those reinstalled, basically, and I mean they fixed them. They just needed new hangers and we got they came back out and caulked all the seams and then we got some kind of leaf, you know, leaf guard, guard, something, something. There's all different kind of brands on there that you can get. We got that and today we got our house washed. Not too long ago. Today we are getting the windows washed and we have lived here eight years and we've never had our windows cleaned.
Speaker 1:And that is so wrong and so gross Because you know we've talked about it. Oh, this is yes, windows are one of my OCD things. Right and all that. I think that's from McDonald's, let me tell you.
Speaker 2:Well, we talked about in the last episode fingering your windows in the car.
Speaker 1:And here's the thing If you've got glass on your front door, back door, whatever, if it's dirty, I'm just going to put it out there. If it is dirty to me, the whole house is filthy.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's how I feel. So that's your first impression is windows.
Speaker 1:First impression is windows, windows, like if I go to a drive-thru and the ledge, the window ledge, is dirty, the window's dirty. I know that store is not clean and it's true.
Speaker 2:You know well similar to that. Well, I'll get into that in a second, but I just have to comment. If you haven't treated yourself to getting your windows clean, I do highly recommend it. We might get a sunburn.
Speaker 1:Look how pretty it is. It is so pretty. It's like being able to see.
Speaker 2:I know it's like when you clean your sunglasses or I mean, I don't wear regular glasses, but I guess, it's good.
Speaker 2:It reminds me of when I got my new contacts and I could see again it is a nice little treat but we have so many windows and our house is so tall on the back, like it's something we haven't been able to do ourselves. I mean, I've wiped down inside windows and I've wiped down the lower windows I have, but it is a very nice tree. I must say I'm so happy to see them. And these people, they're only charging us, I think Daniel said right around $500.
Speaker 1:And we have a I got their card, Did you? Because mine are so tall you know my windows are huge and I don't mind paying more for that. I mean it requires ladders and all that. The problem is with living in the old mill is it is a big deal for me to get my windows cleaned on the outside you know through the HOA, because I have to have scaffolding over people's patios and the HOA pays for it, but they only pay for it every three years. That's not enough for me.
Speaker 2:So can these people do it not through the?
Speaker 1:HOA and they can just come clean your particular window. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:So it makes me happy. I'm going to say it's a nice treat and I know $500 isn't nothing, but I was kind of surprised.
Speaker 1:I paid more at my house downtown for my windows to be clean eight years ago than what you're paying, and that was this house is double the size.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I'm just surprised. I was happily surprised, because I was happily shocked by the gutter repair. I mean, I thought that would have been something not as expensive.
Speaker 1:And the other thing you know you guys listening know I'm a picky pain in the ass, but these window guys don't know it and they're doing a really good job. I hate shitty window cleaners.
Speaker 2:Because it's almost worse if you get them cleaned and then there's streaks or smud and that stands out.
Speaker 1:They're doing them right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because when you do windows correctly, you take a brush and you scrub and wash the windows, then you rinse the windows and then you squeegee the windows they're doing that.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's very nice, it really I was impressed.
Speaker 2:Immediately I said I need your card um, but going back to, what triggered a thought was you were saying, like the window ledge being dirty if you go to a drive-thru, so kind of. The similar basis, I guess is that is what made me stop going to Chipotle is when they would drag my little dish through their nasty line of where they've spilled beans and cheese and all that stuff on their vine. I was like, if you're not wiping down this, you know what I'm saying, because they have your little bowl and they're pushing it down the line and they're just spooning all that stuff on there and it's dripping all on that line. And I went in there one time.
Speaker 2:I went in there one time and it was so much stuff, and they pushed my bowl through there and I said you know what? That really grosses me out and I'm going to leave now. And I left. I didn't even get my food.
Speaker 1:Well, because, and I don't know if I don't know if our listeners you know it, but McDonald's started Chipotle and, and so I had never been until you know that came about, obviously, and I think it existed, but it was much smaller. Mcdonald's bought it and grew it to what it is today, and but they've sold it off they spun it off many years ago. Um, and even being a part of m's, I've never cared for it, yeah, ever. And you know they had that huge outbreak of salmonella, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, originally I really liked it. It was a quick go-to, I honestly liked it. But then it just every time I went in there it got worse and the service got worse and I thought, well, maybe this is just this location, nope. Went to another one in town Same thing. Went to one out of town Same thing. But the last time I walked out because they drug my bowl through the river of ick, I was like I'm not going back. And I haven't been back. That's probably been a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1:I think I have only eaten at Chipotle in my life three or four times.
Speaker 2:There's a big social media thing about it right now. I mean and I don't know if it just happens to be on my page, but I don't think it would but it's all about the portion controls. The portions had gotten so small. That was another reason the last time, but that was like two years ago. But they're saying people are filming now showing how small the portions are and there's a little bit of a boycott.
Speaker 1:And I have an opinion on that. Don't keep your prices the same and shrink your portions. Increase your prices.
Speaker 2:Or offer another size, maybe. Maybe you should offer a small, a you know, offer a small and a large. A small bowl, large bowl. If you need to do that, that's the wrong way to do it yeah, it's way.
Speaker 1:It's way better to me to say this is the portion we've always had. This is the price. With a quality product, we had to increase our price and go up on it. Because otherwise it seems shady, it seems like they're trying to cheat you. Right, I agree, I don't know how we got on food, but you know what?
Speaker 2:Speaking of food, this is a good little topic. We're going to go with this because this is another random thought that I had and it pertains to food. So Daniel and I, a couple of weeks ago, went down to our Hilton Head last minute. So we were eating at a restaurant and I'm vegetarian and Daniel was, but now he eats meat. But I'll eat shrimp, I will eat shrimp. So we were eating and I don't know what you know came up with the menu ordering, or whatever scallop, which I don't like scallops, scallops, but it's a textured thing for me. I don't like scallops. But all of a sudden, something I had never, ever thought about in my life, because I don't eat scallops, I know what they are and I've seen them served and I've tried to choke one down before.
Speaker 2:But do you know what a scallop looks like in the wild? Have you ever thought about what a scallop looks?
Speaker 1:like. It looks like an eyeball to me on the plate.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh, but you know a shrimp, you know what that looks like or you know what. I'm saying and all a sudden I was like what does a scallop look like? How do those grow? I don't think I've ever seen it I know it's in a shell, almost like a clamp, like a.
Speaker 1:It's in a fan shaped shell and it's a big, it's a muscle.
Speaker 2:That's why it crunches and they can have up to like 200 eyeballs.
Speaker 1:So it is eyeball, hey, so, so in my brain I'm not wrong.
Speaker 2:Evidently not. I think the eyeballs line the outer edge of the shell. But I was just like how have I never thought about what does a scallop look like? You know? You know what you know. Salmon looks like a fish, you know.
Speaker 1:I was just. You know what lobster is, you know?
Speaker 2:You know what a cow looks like for those of you who eat that, or a pig. Yeah, but I was just like, what does a scallop look like, anyway, and I had to look it up, google it, and I'm 43 years old, so did you know what a scallop looked like out there? I didn't.
Speaker 1:I know I had no idea.
Speaker 2:And this kind of puts me on a different subject as where does food come from? Like, I feel like there's a disconnect nowadays with food and where your food comes from. And I know that can get so deep, but it made me laugh because you know, we have had in the past chickens. Currently we do not have any, but it was always so funny and people will still ask this or whatever. But how many people would ask like, oh, you have chickens. And I'd be like yeah, and they would be like, do you have a rooster? And I was like I mean, we did. Or sometimes, when we lived in the city, I be like no, and they were like, oh, so you don't get eggs? And I'm like no, we get eggs. You know that disconnect of I know the egg is not the bait, like the woman chicken has eggs, just like a woman, a woman, woman, yeah, a human woman has eggs.
Speaker 1:Um, and that sort of disconnect of like it's just the way, the difference of how people grow up, yeah, and I've always taken you know, growing up in the country and on a farm, I always knew way more than I ever wanted to know yes, about the birds, but it's so funny one time. This was probably 25 years ago. Yeah, it was 25 years ago. Damn, I'm getting old.
Speaker 1:I was in New York City and I was in Central Park and there was all of this promotion and signage that they were having a petting zoo. Yeah, and I thought how cool is that? And you know I love animals, right? So I have to go stroll by the petting zoo.
Speaker 2:Right, right here in Central Park. Central Park Well where are you petting a dog?
Speaker 1:I was never so disappointed in my entire life. They literally had like a cow, just like a A goat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean things that I've seen, like eight million things to you would be like humming like a dog or a cat yeah everyone else I'm like it was just so basic.
Speaker 1:And you know me, I said to someone well, where in the hell are the exotic?
Speaker 2:animals. You wanted the camel, a zebra, a bird, something exotic, emu ostrich ostrich kangaroo. None of that.
Speaker 1:It was like a chicken, it was.
Speaker 2:I said so I said to someone.
Speaker 1:What in the hell is all this about? Like where.
Speaker 2:And they're like. But if you live in New York City, you don't see them and you don't see any of that it was cool and I didn't think about it until then.
Speaker 1:and someone said well, think about children that live in the city all the time are not around that yeah, they've never kind of made me sad for them to tell you the truth yeah, it is crazy because, you know, I grew up in the country, so I
Speaker 2:was around everything too, which also talking about, um, talking about where food comes from, and like how you don't have to have a rooster to have an egg from a chicken is, I wonder, made me think I was thinking through where things come from like that. How many people don't know that milk from a cow that female cow has to have had a baby for it to start producing milk. You don't just have milk cows that just grow up and produce milk, like that cow has to have a baby, and then they just continue.
Speaker 1:Start the hormones and start milking it.
Speaker 2:And they start milking it, just like how a woman can pump and keep their milk going or that sort of thing can pump and keep their milk going or that sort of thing, and I think with I'm not 100% sure, but I think with milk cows they have to be bred like once a year to keep it going.
Speaker 1:I don't think it's an indefinite thing. You know, I don't remember. I don't remember. I don't think it's once a year, but maybe it should be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't remember that I don't know that part, but I know they have to have had a baby. That is correct To bring them in.
Speaker 1:But you know women are the same, like I had a neighbor and I can say this because they don't live in this country anymore, so I can tell this story Maybe they're listening to it because I couldn't really stand them. They were what I call. They are what I consider weirdos. And, uh, the reason I call them weirdos is, um, they and I'm all about being healthy. You know, I've been on a healthy kick and losing weight and exercise. I love all that but they irritated me. Um, they, their lawnmower didn't have an engine. It was one that just went through the car and didn't cut a damn thing.
Speaker 2:You just like manually pushed it. The manual, yeah.
Speaker 1:And they wouldn't turn the air conditioning on and they opened their windows. All that's fine, but then they had real attitudes about it. But yet they worked for bmw. So they would come speeding down the road that I lived on in their uh big bmw's and they didn't believe they were, uh, water conservationists. Oh so you know how my yard was, my yard at my old house I love to garden as far as plants and it was like a jungle and I was always out working in my yard and watering. Do you know that woman and I'm getting into the milk in a minute that damn woman had the nerve to walk up to my house, which I think I was five houses up the street from her, and she came onto my property and asked me don't you think your yard has had enough water from the rain?
Speaker 2:No, and you were like no.
Speaker 1:It was not a good day for her. It was a bad day, so I'm just painting the picture of her. She was a nut job, and so they have two children, which she and you know to each their own. She had them at home. My grandmother had her kids at home too.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:So I'm like okay, well, you know that's natural, but you know I'm like damn, anything can happen. You know childbirth's major. If I were a woman and I had a baby, I would want to like be in the biggest hospital there is, and it would be a big deal. And there would be no more um hats off to every woman out there. Um so in conversation she was talking about nursing. She was, uh, pro-nursing, I'm pro-nursing too. I, my mother did not nurse me. I think that's my problem and I'm serious I'm serious with that.
Speaker 1:Her oldest was six years old.
Speaker 2:And still laughing on yes. Okay, now that's a little long, but you know what? I'm not a mom To each their own, you know.
Speaker 1:I didn't open my mouth.
Speaker 2:You nurse. If you don't, you don't, you do whatever works for you.
Speaker 1:I wish my mother and my mother agreed before she passed. You know, I think it makes it helps the baby's immune system. I was very sick as a child.
Speaker 2:Well, you had so many problems. You were, you were.
Speaker 1:As my grandmother would say, I was Bless her heart. I love my grandmother.
Speaker 2:You've said it on here before. Yeah, she said it just sounds horrible when it comes out of your mouth.
Speaker 1:I know she said bless your heart, you were almost a miscarriage. And I'm like Mama, I can't believe you said that to me. But she did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you were just sickly Well, and then you know Cluffy.
Speaker 1:Just messed up. Pigeon-chested yeah, just messed up. Gay yeah, no, I'm just kidding. Buck teeth yeah, just messed up. But now see, I thought, like I come from the country, Ain't nobody got time to be nursing a baby for six years. But to each their own. But for me that is not a memory I ever wanted, Right.
Speaker 2:But the other thing is and again, I'm not a woman and they have teeth by then, I mean long by then.
Speaker 1:And I'm not a woman but God.
Speaker 2:that would drive me crazy, just like being tied down to that and someone I'm surprised her milk kept going for so long.
Speaker 1:Evidently that was my point, evidently as long now. But see she had had a child in between.
Speaker 2:So it restarted it. They were both latched on. Yeah, oh honey, I mean I don't listen, Don't attack me y'all.
Speaker 1:I don't care what you do. You can nurse till they're 25.
Speaker 2:It does not matter to me and I don't care if you are sitting on the sidewalk nursing.
Speaker 1:None of that bothers me. Why is?
Speaker 2:that a big deal, whip it out.
Speaker 1:That does not bother me. No, whip it out. Let them latch on. It is natural.
Speaker 2:People get caught, I'm like who cares? You're not sucking on the tit.
Speaker 1:I think it's a good thing that they're nursing.
Speaker 2:And it saves money.
Speaker 1:I think it makes the baby healthier. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 2:But you know, in the early 70s, and then some people can't nurse, it just doesn't happen anymore.
Speaker 1:Some people can't.
Speaker 2:And some choose not to, and that's fine, yeah, some people can't Like.
Speaker 1:I've had family members that could not, yeah, and they didn't know, they couldn't figure out why their baby wasn't gaining weight and you know all of this. And it was just their milk wasn't right. It's very complicated to me, but I'll tell you this to this day and I think I've probably said it on here before, because I have milk cows and to this day I don't think I have had a glass of whole milk. I don't think I've had a glass of any milk since I was a child, since I milked a cow.
Speaker 2:Really Like just drink a glass of milk.
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 2:I don't often I do. Sometimes I mean, we'll keep milk. Well, we get like almond milk and stuff too.
Speaker 1:That's different.
Speaker 2:That's not milk, I don't. But I'm saying occasionally for certain recipes or even sometimes for my coffee, I'll get whole milk or I'll just get. Well, I do get reduced fat or something, but sometimes, maybe three times a year, I'm like, hmm, a good glass of milk and cookies, really good.
Speaker 1:No, never.
Speaker 2:I don't regularly.
Speaker 1:I use almond milk or soy milk, oatmeal, oatmeal Anything other than cow's milk. Now, obviously, if I'm making something and it calls for milk, I use milk.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying. I'm not against it like that. No, I'm not against it.
Speaker 1:But after milking a cow. But, after milking a cow.
Speaker 2:So you're getting ready, ready to go to New York City on a trip. I am.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited.
Speaker 2:So we got to talk about this and then we're going to have to talk when you get back, because I want, while you're there, I want you to scope it out, okay, and first of all, we have a listener, brooke.
Speaker 1:Yes, In New York City.
Speaker 2:And she's been so sweet about giving me tips on everything. I was watching her stories today actually and she was walking to work and she was doing a tour like video stories and I was like, oh, I've been there, I could feel myself there because we've been there, like I could feel myself there because we've been there so many times. But I want to have, when you get back, I want to have her on because she lives there. She lives outside of the city but she works in the middle of the city and, from what I've gathered, like her husband works on Broadway or something with Broadway and then so I want to have her take on New York City and I want to have your take on New York City. So, while you're there and it can be good, bad, ugly, excellent, whatever I want to know, like what you see. Because we talked about this, you and I used to go to New York City like four times a year, sometimes just like a quick weekend trip.
Speaker 1:We would walk everywhere, the best time 31 to 33 miles a weekend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we would just have the best time and I'm ready to do it again. But then you hear people like, oh, it's awful, it's gone down. I've had people go that say you wouldn't notice anything different.
Speaker 1:So I've had both ways and the only negative take and I want her take the funny thing is for me shout out brooke, yes, brooke, thank you. She is so sweet, she's so nice, she's given me like I have probably been to new york now in my life 40 times at least a lot yeah and the funny thing is everything she has given me are different things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I mean, it's ever so changing and it's a huge city, right, but the only negative that I hear from New York is media. Number one, yeah, and number two are people that live there yeah, and number two are people that live there yeah. But that's why I want the perspective.
Speaker 2:That's why I want the two perspectives, because she lives outside the city but is there every day and you're going to visit and haven't visited and I want to see how they mesh up, because it's one thing if you live. Okay. We have some other listeners that live in New York City and they're like, oh, it's trash now or whatever. They live outside the city as well, but you know that's different when you're not there every day and it's different from a vacation or tourist standpoint.
Speaker 1:So it'd be very interesting to see and I'm taking the microphone. I'm going to do street interviews, so that brings up a great question what questions should I be asking?
Speaker 2:Oh, we'll need to make a list To text us. That would be a good text in because you have time. Yes To text in our hotline 864-982-5029. 864-982-5029 will be in the show notes below. Hex us a list of questions you would like Stephen to ask on the streets when he walks up. I think you should ask do you live here or are you visiting, and then go from there as to some of the questions too. But there's got to be some fun questions.
Speaker 1:Well, and the funny thing is, dylan and I are going because my nephew Bryce graduated from high school and my nephews are spoiled and he listens to this so he knows you know you are. And so I said what do you want for graduation? And he said I want a trip to New York. He's been to New York before, but it's not with me because I'm you know, I'm the cool uncle. Yeah right, I am, and he. His one request is that I take the microphone.
Speaker 2:Oh good, Isn't that funny? That is funny. And then Dylan's going to be there so he can video it. Yes, and we can bring it back and compile it. So have you seen the new portal in New York City? Isn't that in New York City? It's the portal. Have you seen this? You haven't heard about this. It's like an art installation. You know how they'll have things. It's called the portal and it's a live. I can't remember what it looks like. I think it's round screen with live view into. I think it's Dublin, like you can see in real time people like in this living in Dublin.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it's in the public area there and your public area.
Speaker 1:They're looking at me and I'm looking at them. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2:It's like a window to the other side of the world or whatever, so you got to go by there. I think it's called the portal the other side of the world, or whatever, so you got to go by there.
Speaker 1:I think it's called the portal um, that's cool.
Speaker 2:And it opened and then I saw I think it had to temporarily close. I think there was like some inappropriate things going going on or something I don't know. Um, but it was that's really cool see, look here it is. Here's a of it, if you haven't looked it up. See, that's here looking in. Isn't that cool? I think that's the coolest thing.
Speaker 1:I love that, so I want you to go there.
Speaker 2:I don't know where it is, but it's in New York City.
Speaker 1:We're going to the only thing we have planned, planned is it's hold on.
Speaker 2:just so I tell you, it's in the iconic Flatiron Plaza in the heart of Manhattan.
Speaker 1:Flatiron Plaza yeah.
Speaker 2:So you'll have to just look up the portal and you can find it.
Speaker 1:We're going to see the Michael Jackson musical, which Brooke said it is phenomenal. And I've only heard great things about it.
Speaker 2:Well, that's cool. Yeah, I've heard great things about that as well.
Speaker 1:So I'm not really big into the sleepy shows. I have probably seen 25 of the top Broadway shows and you know I appreciate the art, so don't attack me for that. I appreciate the acting, I appreciate the art, but I'm so ADD I have to be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have to be very stimulated.
Speaker 1:Like I liked Katy Perry when we saw her in Las Vegas, because of the theatrics, all the theatrics. Yeah, I enjoyed the Lion King. I've seen the Lion King like three times. That's very artsy I saw. I mean I enjoyed.
Speaker 2:I like the one. What's the one with the red boots? What Gosh, because that was very fascinating.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we saw that. What is it? Kinky Boots.
Speaker 2:Kinky Boots. Kinky Boots was great. Yeah, you like that type of where it's quick moving, abba.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw one called Buddy in. London and it was the buddy holly show and it was a musical from like the 50s. Yeah, it never came to new york, unfortunately. That one was phenomenal, but we my mother was with us in london and we had to go see phantom of the opera and it was horrible. Like it was horrible, like it was awful, and I was like snoring. My mother got mad. I could see that it was not good at all.
Speaker 2:So I got distracted on my phone talking about the portal so it did temporarily close down because of people flashing, and so now they have. I guess you know we had to screw it up. Now they have security there or something.
Speaker 1:Oh, I think that's funny.
Speaker 2:Who cares? Who cares? Oh, that is funny.
Speaker 1:They were inappropriate people flashing body parts, doing drugs on camera and trolling viewers on the other side, the doing drugs, is probably not that cool to do, well, and I mean you have to be careful flashing, I mean there's children around and that sort of thing too.
Speaker 2:But I want you to go to the portal. Okay, I'm going to the portal and I can't wait for you to get back so I can hear how this New York trip goes, because you're going to be our Guinea pig yeah, our guinea pig, our travel extraordinaire, our reporter from the street yes. So don't come back saying no, it was fine, no, I want detail.
Speaker 1:Well, dylan and I have never been to new york together, because the five years, the five years in my life that I have not gone to new york, these are the only five. For, like the past 30 years, I've gone to new york multiple times a year, except the last five, yeah, since covid. Since covid, and that's when dylan and I've been together, right, so he has never been with me.
Speaker 2:He's been the last time. Was it the last time that we went to New York City all together and my mom went 2019.
Speaker 1:Was that the last time? Was that the?
Speaker 2:time I got a kidney stone.
Speaker 1:Because it was so hot, you got dehydrated.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was our last day there because, just like Stephen said, we walked everywhere. My mom was with, it was me and Daniel, my mom and Stephen, and we were on the last day there. It was crazy hot, crazy hot, and we were walking everywhere and my back started hurting and I was like, oh my gosh, did I sleep wrong or whatever? Oh my gosh, did I sleep wrong, or whatever? I ended up having a kidney stone, the worst pain ever that I've ever had. And it wasn't even a crazy. I mean, it was a nice size one, but it wasn't anything crazy. I just had the you were able to pass it. I was able to pass it, but oh my God, the pain. I had to go to the emergency room in New York City. I mean, we were walking around like wasting time about to head to the airport and I could not even do that. That was the craziest thing.
Speaker 1:You and I both have a very high tolerance for pain.
Speaker 2:I think Like discomfort and pain, but I could tell we happened to stop because we'd walked through like Central Park and we stopped at. It was a Starbucks, right, and it didn't start raining. Did it start raining Starbucks?
Speaker 1:right, and then it started raining.
Speaker 2:Did it start raining or was it just hot? It was hot and I was like, oh, okay, it's getting better if I just sit here. And then it would come in waves. And they were like, well, do you need to go to the hospital? And finally I was Daniel, went and asked like where's the nearest hospital? And it was happened to be across the street, literally across the street. We didn't really know it and you just walked.
Speaker 2:I knew he was really sick because when we went he just literally walked in front of traffic yeah, I just was like, oh my gosh, that's the hospital door, I can see right there and I just like ran myself over. No, crosswalk.
Speaker 1:No, no, you didn't run. You walked across the highway in new york I I was like I think we're gonna get ran over. I would have at that moment.
Speaker 2:I would have been fine with that, just I that's what you said.
Speaker 1:You just like um it.
Speaker 2:Just put me out it was crazy. Yeah, I knock on wood, I've never, but my dad gets them yeah, so I hope that I don't.
Speaker 1:Hopefully I don't get any more. So, yeah, guys, please send questions for me to ask in in new york city, and not any that are gonna get me beat up or arrested or anything like that. Like what are some fun questions yeah, some funny things that you want me to, that you want to know yeah, if they live there.
Speaker 2:I want to know, like, what do you do? Yeah, or a living, yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 1:I would love to do like that guy does and say how much do you pay for rent? Can I see your place?
Speaker 2:yeah, would that not be awesome? It would be. But I think those are staged. I think they know that he's they have to do. Random people aren't just letting.
Speaker 1:Because if someone asked me that, I would be like None of your business.
Speaker 2:and no, you're not coming to my house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wouldn't. I feel like that you sidetracked this whole conversation, but to avoid your riddle, oh you didn't even tell me you had a riddle. I feel like that.
Speaker 2:Oh well, let's riddle it up. You know you can work a riddle in anywhere in our conversation, Okay, Well, I like this one.
Speaker 1:What?
Speaker 2:is it? I don't have one for you this week?
Speaker 1:It's okay, I'm good at it, so it's not as fun.
Speaker 2:You like the blank stare Okay.
Speaker 1:This is a lengthy one.
Speaker 2:Oh see, when they're lengthy, I can't follow. My brain cuts off halfway through, that's not our problem.
Speaker 1:A woman shoots her husband, then she holds him underwater for five minutes, finally she hangs him, but five minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
Speaker 2:Okay, First just tell me the steps that she does. She shoots her husband Okay.
Speaker 1:Then she holds him underwater, uh-huh, finally she hangs him. But, five minutes later they both go out and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. Okay.
Speaker 2:She, hmm, she is something not I'm going to say like video, video, video video shoot, shoot camera, something camera related. She, she took a picture. You're smiling, am I right? You're on the right path? Okay, she took a picture. You're smiling, am I right? You're on the right path? Okay, she's a photographer, so she took a picture.
Speaker 1:She developed it, oh, developed it, and then hung it up to dry.
Speaker 2:You did good, oh there we go you did good.
Speaker 1:Okay, see, we've been working on, I've been working on this with him and it's all about dissecting the riddle. Yeah, because the answer is in there.
Speaker 2:Right, because she shoots him, but he's obviously not dead.
Speaker 1:Right, so how she holds him underwater for five minutes.
Speaker 2:But see, that gets a little too, because you don't do that nowadays, you don't really develop.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, that way, the people that are really photographers for the art of it do that Uh-huh no.
Speaker 2:They do, but I was okay. I'm getting a little better.
Speaker 1:I feel like.
Speaker 2:I need another one.
Speaker 1:I'm on a roll.
Speaker 2:You're getting better.
Speaker 1:I'm a little impressed, I guess. So Do you take some ADD medication or something?
Speaker 2:No, I need some, but no, all right. So what else you got so after New?
Speaker 1:York City. You have a quick turnaround. Yes, so literally we fly home on Monday the 1st.
Speaker 2:Oh, we'll be gone. You'll be gone. Daniel and I are going to Litchfield.
Speaker 1:So you'll do a live on.
Speaker 2:Sunday the 31st, yes, and then we're leaving. I think I'm going to do the live early in Sunday and then we're going to go to Litchfield.
Speaker 1:So then I'm flying in on Monday the 1st to Greenville. I'm going to do a live at the warehouse. On Tuesday the 2nd, the second, the second and then Wednesday the third, we're leaving for Amelia Island in Florida.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I've never been there. Do you have anything planned?
Speaker 1:We'll get the scoop when you get back, but I just Nothing planned.
Speaker 2:You just have a, you're going there and you have a hotel, but no plans when you're there. So that's where we're going to leave off with that. You're going to have to get back to it.
Speaker 1:It's a sleepy and I'm sure some of our listeners have been to Amelia Island. It's right past the Georgia-Florida line and it's off the coast of Jacksonville.
Speaker 2:Oh, I thought it was way south. No, no, I don't even know where it is.
Speaker 1:Evidently it's a very small, sleepy quaint island. It's very quiet.
Speaker 2:Well, if you have been there recently and there's something they should do also text us or call and leave a voicemail on our hotline 864-982-5029.
Speaker 1:I haven't been there in years. I've only stayed. When I have been there, I've only stayed at the Ritz-Carlton Resort, and that's where we're staying this time, just because that's all I know, because you're bougie. No, that's all I know, bougie, but I am excited. I think it'll be fun.
Speaker 2:You know Dylan's never been there I have to say going back to New York City. So, Brooke, our listener, and Our new friend. Friend and who follows on Instagram and she was trying to get in touch with you in messages, but I think they weren't popping up on yours. Yeah, they had no mind and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm sorry I missed this, but she had sent voicemails. Tell Stephen they should do this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she told me she was messaging.
Speaker 2:She even said in her voice one of her messages I know Stephen and Dylan are bougie and I really think they would like to do some blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was busting out laughing because she called you bougie. That's funny, because I've done it on here. I know we're really no you really are, bougie.
Speaker 1:That's funny Because I've done it on here, I know we're really.
Speaker 2:No, you really are bougie. Don't say, you're not bougie, you're bougie.
Speaker 1:It's okay, it's mine. I guess it's my norm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're bougie, you like I do.
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:Nice things in certain areas.
Speaker 1:I do A nice hotel.
Speaker 2:You don't have to have bougie food, mm-mm, mm-mm, you like nice?
Speaker 1:clothes. I only like nice hotels really when I'm vacationing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, we have stayed, we y'all we have stayed.
Speaker 1:He has put. He's crossed the line with me a few times with these cheap hotels. And listen, I'm very, very frugal. I do not like wasting money. When we're working, we're working.
Speaker 2:We've only stayed in cheap hotels, like when we're working for a market. It's been more okay we've traveled like road trips, but we don't have a plan. So we just end up staying at an interstate Holiday Inn Express.
Speaker 1:There was one that we stayed in in Greensboro, north Carolina, for the High.
Speaker 2:Point Furniture Market. I feared for my life.
Speaker 1:That one was the one too far.
Speaker 2:That was our first couple of years of going to the High Point. Furniture Market and we didn't know the areas where the book, because that market is so crazy and you got to stay way out from it typically. And it was just, you know it was supposed to be like a I don't know, you know, just a regular interstate. You know comfort in or whatever, I don't even know. I'm not dissing any um chain or anything I don't remember, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah but it was the hotel next to it was the one that was, like you know, the doors opened outside, I guess a motel.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:A very active.
Speaker 1:It was sketchy Motel. Yeah, I but no, when we're working. Honestly, I find we in Atlanta we do. We do stay in a decent hotel just mainly for the convenience.
Speaker 2:Convenience and it's where we all stay, but no, but like we've ended up in um some kind of questionable ones, like when we're traveling and didn't have a plan and we're like, okay, we got to stop somewhere, but we don't you know well, that's happened to me many times.
Speaker 1:Even alone, I'm like how did I end up here? So yeah, but so I'm not boozy like that. If I'm trapped just on the road traveling for work, I'm gonna pull up with your louis vuitton bag, though I might, but I ain't gonna be paying no big expensive price uh-huh, steven used to laugh at me when we would go to market back in the day I will put my clothes in whatever I.
Speaker 2:I would literally get out and have them in a shopping bag or whatever. Not that bad, I would have something, but Stephen would always.
Speaker 1:No, you carry them in a bag one time Like a shopping bag.
Speaker 2:That was just the extra stuff. I was like Stephen gets out with his Louis luggage and whatever. And here I am with a paper bag and I'm like Stephen gets out with his Louis luggage and whatever, and here I am with a paper bag and I'm like I'm good and he's like you are embarrassing.
Speaker 1:I have worked on you, though, because do you remember years ago, when you finally bought some luggage and it was the cheapest of the cheap, of the cheap, and I was like, wesley, you really need to buy, like some hartman or to me, um, you know? So he was like, ah, this would be fine. So you went through about three or four cheap ass sets of luggage. I mean, yeah, go on one trip.
Speaker 2:And show up, the wheels would be off my luggage. I'd be like damn, it's a new bag and you would just laugh it literally y'all.
Speaker 1:It literally took me about 14 years and finally he was like yeah, I guess you're right, he bought him a really nice set.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got Daniel and myself. Really pretty set to me, me yeah um, but yeah I would have like a bag that was like new. You know, I may have gone somewhere one time and we would get somewhere and here it'd come out from you know the, the conveyor belt at the airport and there wouldn't be any damn wheels on it left and steven would just laugh when you travel.
Speaker 2:When you travel, that's the one thing you learn, especially when you start traveling internationally, is don't scrimp on the luggage, because your shit will be all over the place yeah, I mean one bag came out ripped like that it had gotten cut through the back like luckily it was on, I think, think the pockets or something, but it was just ripped and hanging Like you had ripped the pocket off of a pair of blue jeans or something. It was just that pocket hanging there.
Speaker 1:I would. You know I pay good money for luggage because of that Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:I know you learned your lesson. I've had mine for 30 years. That's what he has to tell me every time my Hartman is like 20.
Speaker 1:It's at least 25 years old. It's still great and I've been expecting it to die. So, like eight years ago, I bought new and you still have it. It's still going. I'm like I don't. I mean, I think that thing, I can probably be buried in that thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, we got off on the most random things this week, but our time is up and we got to go. I think we're going to wrap up this episode. Thanks for just hanging out and listening to us chat and remember to listen, Listen. I said that the other time. Remember to leave us a review wherever you are listening. I guess I'm going to start screwing up the end now. Well, they're used to it.
Speaker 1:I mean, this is what a road trip is with us.
Speaker 2:You never know where you're going to go or where we're headed.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's it in the beginning, all right, so leave us a review. Wherever you're listening to our podcast, share us with your friends as well. Remember our hotline number is down below, or let me tell you one more time it's 864-982-5029. Text or call us. Questions Stephen should ask on the streets in New York City, as well as anything else, that we may need and anything about Amelia Island that we should know about.
Speaker 1:that we need to check out.
Speaker 2:Absolutely Love to hear and we'll see you next week. Thanks, guys.