Who's Driving
Who's Driving with Wesley Turner & Steven Merck is all about the entertaining stories we share and brainstorming topics we discuss as two best friends would on a long road trip. Come along for the ride as we check in with friends & offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media, and all things Home and Garden.
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Who's Driving - Fourth of July & Childhood Dreams S2E23
We kick off this episode of Who's Driving with remembering the excitement of childhood dreams and young adult aspirations. As we share warm wishes for a fantastic summer and Fourth of July, we invite you to leave a review and share your thoughts via our hotline. Buckle up; you never know where our journey will take you, but it’s always an entertaining ride!
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Girl, you ready? Can you hear that what I hear? Fireworks. Fourth of July, baby. It is the middle of summertime and 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.
Speaker 1:We're two best friends and entrepreneurs 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. God, you know what, though? I think back to being a kid, and to me, when 4th of July rolled around, summer was like over. I felt like, oh, we're going back to school.
Speaker 2:It won't be long.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you're really it's kind of, I feel, like kids just getting out, but by 4th of July you have what like four weeks left. I mean here in Greenville County they're going back the first week in August, so it is like one month left. I hated school.
Speaker 2:I know I hated it too. It's a good thing. Homeschooling wasn't a thing back then.
Speaker 1:It was kind of a thing very rare when I was growing up in my mom and I still laugh about it to this day because she, we, you know one time I was like, oh, just homeschool me or whatever. And we would laugh like, can you imagine what those lessons would be like and where you would be like we would never get anything done.
Speaker 2:Oh, with my mommy. Oh, I would have been really good at something, but I wouldn't have been. I couldn't have passed any tests.
Speaker 1:We would be good. Real world, Real world, we would be good. But God, it does feel like that when Fourth of July gets here, as a kid.
Speaker 2:summer's almost over, but you know we got a lot of heat ahead of us a kid, summer's almost over, but you know we got a lot of heat ahead of us and this might sound bad, and this isn't anything to do with the holiday itself and what it stands for or anything. I'm just not a fan of the 4th of July. I know some people love it. I guess it's because I'm not a heat, I'm not a hot weather person.
Speaker 1:We never do anything specific for 4th of July. We'll be. You know they love how we say July, july instead of July. Yeah, july, july, 4th of July. Most people say July July, july, july, july.
Speaker 2:July sounds July. July sounds like another word to me.
Speaker 1:It's supposed to be Julyuly july, yeah uh, so anyway so we'll be at the beach with, uh, daniel's family for fourth of july and that's fun, but we don't do anything. I guess fourth of july specific regularly, like we don't. I don't know what. What do people do? I guess the beach is kind of something.
Speaker 2:Most people do the beach.
Speaker 1:I mean, we're not buying fireworks and shooting them off or anything like that. But we might go and see them at the beach.
Speaker 1:I don't know. It's one of those. I like 4th of July because for us in retail world it is like a mid-year break, because, let's face it, unless someone makes us stop working, we're pretty much always working or thinking about working. But when there's a holiday, when I know it's 4th of July, there is no business to be had in retail world. When you have a home decor and a guard shop, the stores closed. You know it's like my mind can shut off for that day. Yeah, now the next day I'm like damn, we gotta make up those sales now. What can we do?
Speaker 2:you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:you're right back to it but for that one day it's a mid-year break of like. I know it's like. I know everyone else is doing the same thing. Everyone else is on a vacation. If you're not going on a vacation, you're doing a stay-at-home, you're having family time or things are closed. It's just like a shutdown. I don't know.
Speaker 2:And I guess this week we'll be in Amelia Island. I'm sure we'll go watch the fireworks somewhere on the island and yeah and I'm sure the ritz has something oh, you won't go.
Speaker 1:You don't even like to be hot. I don't know why you didn't go north. You should have gone to michigan well, dylan likes the beach. Stephen does not Look at you. Compromise.
Speaker 2:No, I like going and I like the pool. I'll lay out at the pool and have my little drinkies. Under an umbrella In a cabana, but I do not care about being in the sand, and I don't think the beach is there On that coast Is that pretty? So there's nothing that's going to drag me into that.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you'll just be about I'm not a sand person Right. You know I too do not like the sand, but I've I hated it more, but once we've gotten our beach condo in Hilton Head and then our house in Florida, now it doesn't bother me near as much as it used to and I think probably being an adult and knowing like, okay, make sure you wash the sand off really good, so there is none in your house helps.
Speaker 2:I don't mind the sand in Florida.
Speaker 1:The sand in Florida is so fine it's not annoying.
Speaker 2:It's more dusty. I don't mind it.
Speaker 1:The sand in Hilton Head is more like play sand and chunky.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I actually go on the beach in our house in Florida. Yeah, and I like it. We've talked about it.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have a riddle for you. Okay, I feel like this is an easy one, but it was cute. I start with the letter E, I end with the letter E and I have a letter inside me. What am I? Start with the letter E? I end with the letter E and I have a letter inside me. What am I Start with the letter E, end with the letter E and I have a letter inside me. What am I? Dude?
Speaker 2:Start with the letter E. I end with the letter E.
Speaker 1:I feel like this is so easy for you.
Speaker 2:Inside of you, I mean An envelope.
Speaker 1:Yes, you got it. That is correct. It that is correct, that is correct that one was cute that that's what I thought. I saw that when I was like that's a cute one, not as hard. I mean I didn't get it, but did you not? When you read well, I read it and I didn't really try to figure it out, um, long enough, I just saw it and then I was like what is that? And then I looked at the answer and I was like oh yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're like oh yeah, I get it now.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just saying I didn't try that hard to get it. So, yes, you're correct. Oh, my goodness, so yeah. So the thing, though, with Fourth of July week is the fireworks in our dogs. Charlie hates the firework. He gets so nervous and I hate having to deal with that, but you know what fixes? That is our twine CBD product. Yes, so I mean, I know this is like two, two days before or whatever it is before, um, uh, 4th of July, but if you ever have that problem with your dogs being stressed with anything like thunder or fireworks, or just they're a stressed dog, you need to try our twine CBD products for pets that we have online at the Nestefic.
Speaker 2:And you can't overdose them either. People worry about that and I've had friends call me and you're not going there. You know they might sleep a little but you're not going to.
Speaker 1:No, I've overdosed. I guess you could say not overdose, but I've given Charlie a lot more than needed for when I knew it was going to be intense. And and even the you know the owners of the company are like you're not going to overdose him it just gets him a little more relaxed. But it's CBD, so you're not going to overdose him.
Speaker 2:I wish it worked for me like that, but it just doesn't.
Speaker 1:Well, maybe you need to take more and more.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. I take my sleep at night and it works wonderful. I'm saying I wish I reacted like the dogs do. Oh yeah, well, you need some THC for that. The CBD, though.
Speaker 1:the CBD sleep gummies are amazing, they really are.
Speaker 2:I take one every night and I sleep so well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they really do, really do help. I was out shopping the other day. I was at Sam's. This is not a like oh, I was buying office stuff.
Speaker 2:I knew well I knew that you never go shopping.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wasn't out shopping for pleasure.
Speaker 1:I mean I got a watermelon, I'm just saying I wasn't like it's somewhere fancy.
Speaker 1:But I was in Sam's shopping and I was walking through and I had this memory that hit me when I was in there of going to Sam's with my mom because they always had office, so that's where they would get office things and we would get food and stuff there too.
Speaker 1:But I can remember it's just so funny going there as a kid and thinking, ooh, when I'm an adult I can't wait to come in here and buy like a bulk pack of full-size KitKat or full-size Reese's. You know, that was like as a kid, like the jackpot, like, ooh, one day I'm going to come in here and I'm going to buy myself that. And I was walking by it and I just laughed at myself because I was like now I mean I would buy, you know, a candy bar, but I don't need a bulk pack like my dream was as a kid of candy bars. And it made me start thinking about places you would go as a kid, or not even as a kid, maybe, as you were graduating college and just getting started, you know, independently in life or whatever.
Speaker 1:And you think, one day, when I get to this level. I'm going to do this because you and I have talked multiple times about being a kid or being younger.
Speaker 2:Young and mainly mine was like eight, 17 to 25. That was my want phase.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like really want, want.
Speaker 1:I can't remember the one that I'm going to mention. I would have been a kid with you, know mom, my mom, but both you, and a kid with you, know, my mom, but both you and I. This is the gayest thing ever.
Speaker 2:It is so gay, this is so gay, and we can say it because we're gay.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It is so gay and our parents should have known. I mean my gosh.
Speaker 1:But we, you and I, have talked about this multiple times how we would go back in the day to the mall and when we would walk into Bombay, bombay.
Speaker 2:Bombay Furniture.
Speaker 1:And they had all of that cherry everything it was not even real wood, was it not? No, it was pressed.
Speaker 2:I mean it wasn't real wood but it looks so. No, it was pressed. I mean it wasn't real, but it looked so pretty it did. And remember the green, the green. The desk lamp had the green glass shape. Oh yeah, I still like those, the real ones.
Speaker 1:Remember I think I got my mom like one of those clocks there when I was a kid, the gold clocks with the glass dome, and they had something spun under it or something it was a cloche. It was a cloche with a clock.
Speaker 2:That goes to my love for cloches, to this day, I guess you know, we love a cloche, but I thought you know, and that was, we were poor as dirt, but to me Bombay was like. It was like to me walking into Bombay as a kid teenager. However, the hell I was, I don't remember was equivalent to like walking into like Bergdorf Goodman. Oh yeah, I mean it was that it felt that high end to me. Yeah, like the writing desk goes one day.
Speaker 1:One day when I grow up, I'm gonna I'm gonna have all of this yeah, and I wouldn't have that because I can remember well, now it's a whole different style that they don't even have bombay, do they?
Speaker 2:they might make that. The company is still around, is it, but not like it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah so I can remember going there because my mom was always, but always was really fun and we would always go. She would take me and my cousin, who's like a sister um, we would always do black friday shopping. We would get up, you know, back in. That was probably in the 90s um, not probably. It was in the 90s when all of Black Friday was at its height. I can remember we got up and got to Target one year and stood in line and they gave away gift bags and good gift bags. There was good stuff in it back in the day. So we would always make a big day out of Black Friday.
Speaker 1:But I can remember I'd always be like, okay, we would save our Christmas money and my mom would start, like months ahead, like Black Friday, you know, getting us to do chores and would give us a few dollars or whatever you know, and I would save my Christmas money because we would go do all of our Christmas shopping on Black Friday and I can remember like, oh, I got to save money because I got to get my mom something from Bombay Like that was the big, like save up, that's so funny, isn't that funny? And we've talked you and I both have talked about it.
Speaker 2:Does she still have the Bombay clock?
Speaker 1:I bet she does Probably somewhere, I don't know. We have to find out.
Speaker 2:Rhonda, do you have the?
Speaker 1:Bombay clock.
Speaker 2:The clock under the cloche.
Speaker 1:Under the gold, shiny gold, under the glass cloche, and I feel like she oh, when I make it I'm going to go get this kind of thing. That's funny to you now. So our hotline is 864-982-5029. Because I want to hear what you're. I think everyone has that, because that's what, and no matter what level you're on, it's all relative. It's all relative, because you always have that. I think that's what gives us, as humans, the drive Most of us Now there's some that just don't give a damn. If you look around, yeah.
Speaker 2:In the early 90s. I can remember going to Atlanta, yeah, and going to Lenox Mall.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And there was a store there in all the malls. It was a. It was a cheap mall store yeah I don't know if you would remember it was called structure yeah, that well, you know.
Speaker 1:Structure clothing. Yeah, that is now. Um, oh my gosh, what's the name? Keep going and I'll think of it I, so I really liked those clothes.
Speaker 2:It was just a a cheap mall store, from what I remember, but you know, when you have no money it might as well, you know, be Chanel. So I can remember and I bought an outfit or two and I can remember thinking, gosh, one day I just want to be able to come to the mall and just get whatever I want.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, okay, I had a totally slipped my mind. So structure is now express, express men is structure. Oh, it's the same company. They got bought out or switched their name.
Speaker 2:Well that it's funny that I thought like I was like oh, these closers so nice, and listen, I'm not being it's all relative. But you know, now I'm like, oh, these clothes are so nice, and listen, I'm not being it's all relative. But you know, now I'm like what was wrong with just Levi's and a T-shirt?
Speaker 1:Because it was a brand or it was a name and it was popular. It was very popular Some of my best clothes actually came from Structure and I think, if I don't still have a shirt from Structure.
Speaker 1:I just got rid of it in 2024. It was even just like a waffle long sleeve t-shirt, but it was the best and it fit the best and I probably had that shirt. I don't even know when Structure went out, but I probably had that shirt since 2000 or something. I don't know. But I finally it started to kind of get holes in the seam so I was like, let it go Wesley.
Speaker 2:I mean I just can. I mean I can vividly remember walking through the mall and going. Man, if I just had.
Speaker 1:X number of dollars but you know what Now?
Speaker 2:I mean, you do it now. But, now I do it with.
Speaker 1:It's always just the next level Level. That's what I'm saying. It's all relative to wherever you are in life. You're always wanting or aspiring to get more or get to that next level.
Speaker 2:And I honestly, like I've told you I can go now and I'm very picky, yeah, Because I don't.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I don't even buy anything it's kind of like how I was in sam's the other day. I'm walking right by the candy. Could I afford to buy the bulk candy now? Yes, without even thinking about it? Um, but then it's not as a appetizing because it's not a desire anymore. And b like well, I don't need a whole box of whatever, and it's kind of this candy, and it's the same thing with material things, clothing or whatever You're like. Can I buy that watch or that bag or those clothes? Yeah, but I don't need it.
Speaker 2:I don't need it.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like also going into a candy store as an adult. Same situation, also going into a candy store as an adult. Same situation as a kid the dream would be to go into a candy store and bag up whatever you want, and then as an adult, you're like I'm not going to eat all that, it's just not appetizing have you ever noticed?
Speaker 2:I've always collected watches. I have so many watches. I have Mickey Mouse watches. I have Clemson University watches.
Speaker 1:I have.
Speaker 2:McDonald's watches. I have Clemson University watches, I have McDonald's watches, I have M&M watches, you name it. I have watches, but and then probably around 30 is when I started getting you know your nicer, the nicer watches, trying to show out.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just kidding. I know you like watches, trying to show out.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just like. I know you like watches and but you know I was thinking to myself the other day. I go back the past 20 years and I love all of my watches because you know, it's just something I love. I love a timepiece and but the problem is I get a new one and I love it so much I don't want to quit wearing it, if you've noticed like this watch I have on yeah, I do not.
Speaker 2:I rarely put on any of my other watches, so I'm thinking. I was thinking to myself the other day why can I not just trade that watch in like you trade a car in? Why do I have the need to keep well, well, we've gotten into an argument, not an argument.
Speaker 1:We've never really gotten into arguments. We've gotten into deep discussion. No, let me back up. We've never had a fight. I have scolded you about this whole what you're talking about before, and I'm glad you just admitted what you said, like oh, why can't I get rid of these watches? Because what he'll do is, when he finds a new watch that he likes, he will justify it because they're expensive watches nowadays with. But I can sell this and make money today. That's all he's like.
Speaker 2:I got a good deal on it I can sell it and make money today, it's true.
Speaker 1:And then I'm like yes, you could, but you're not going to. So it doesn't matter if you could or couldn't, because you're not not going to and you're like no, but I mean I may and I'm like no, you are not going to and. But you always justify it. That is always your and I'm like. My thing is which I have said to you.
Speaker 1:Don't justify it, just say I wanted to watch but because you will spend days talking about like oh, they said this price and I looked it up and I could get it and I'm like enjoy that you made the purchase and you could.
Speaker 2:But that's not the way I'm wired.
Speaker 1:You always need a justification of why you deserve that. And I'm like no, stephen, you get up, you work, you make money. I believe you have the right to spend your money however you want. If you want to spend it on a watch, spend it on a watch. What does it matter? Why do you have to justify it? I think it.
Speaker 2:You know, and you and I have to talk about this and I make fun of myself.
Speaker 2:But I mean, I'm this way at Walmart too. You know, we've talked about this, that I will go and you'll have a cart, I'll have a cart, I'll put stuff in your cart, I'll put stuff in my cart, but by the time we get to the counter, my cart's empty, your cart's full. I think it's the frugal, the poor kid in the back of my mind, that I have to justify everything. I do that with a car, I do that with everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything. That's the one thing that.
Speaker 2:I just wish.
Speaker 1:I've helped you get out of some of that, because I'm like don't, don't. Because I feel like for me, you're not enjoying the purchase and what you were able to spend your money on by taking away. You're trying to justify why you deserved it or why you got it, and I'm like no, let that go, just enjoy it like be excited look at this watch I got myself and, honestly, look at this car I got it ruined. Like that's what I'm saying you let it ruin my the happiness the happiness of buying it.
Speaker 2:It does, but at least I buy things now.
Speaker 1:That's true. How?
Speaker 2:many years did I not buy anything.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I mean it was ridiculous. I wore clothes that didn't fit and had them paper clipped Right. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:I don't know if we've told that story on here when we first met I can't know if we've told that story on here when we first, when we first met I can't remember if we've told it or not I lost like 30 pounds when steven and I were first becoming friends and had met. He had lost and was in the process and he ended up losing like 30 pounds and he would stop by the retail store yall, this is too embarrassing to even tell, but he would come by the retail store to hang out and he would have on. I was like Steven girl, come on. I lost 30 pounds.
Speaker 1:That's when I knew I was going to be your friend, I was like I got to help you out here. He would have on. He had lost 30 pounds, which you just said. He would have on underwear like your boxers. You would have on shorts, like workout shorts, athletic shorts, athletic shorts. And then he would have on sweatpants over that, and then his pants, his blue jeans, it's true, to make them fit. And I'm like Stephen, what the hell are you doing? And he was like, oh, these are good, I paid a lot of money.
Speaker 1:I paid a lot of money for these pants I'm like. Well then, be fat.
Speaker 2:And I'll probably gain the weight back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'm like you have done all of this Y'all. I went as like Stephen. It looks like you're walking around with a diaper on. Yeah, it was ridiculous. What are you doing? Go get yourself some new clothes. I said you've lost the weight, Now it's time to reward yourself. And it wasn't like you couldn't afford the clothes.
Speaker 2:No, you weren't in a hardship at this point.
Speaker 1:You were just like. Well, I paid a lot for these jeans and I just need to wear them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that's so embarrassing that I did that. It is, it is so true though.
Speaker 1:You wouldn't really spend money when I first met you. On anything, you would talk about it and I'd be like Stephen, go buy this.
Speaker 2:You deserve it.
Speaker 1:Look, you've got, I wouldn't yeah.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't buy anything. And then I kind of you have really helped me in that area and I needed help in that area.
Speaker 1:And then he would get it and I'd be like, look, you are still living and didn't even miss it. My saying to you used to be you got like your one Big Mac away from being on Food Stamp. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I would say I could be.
Speaker 1:Yep, and I'm like I could be yeah, and I'm like bet you're not.
Speaker 2:The funny thing is that was 15 years ago and before I lost that weight I wore a size 36. Jean, oh shit, yeah, really, I wore a size 36. I have never been back that size.
Speaker 1:And that's been a long time.
Speaker 2:And now my heavy weight. I'm in size 33s but I just catch it. I monitor it more because you know, the older you get, you have to watch. You don't want to go back there and end up in that situation.
Speaker 1:I will never, I just will not forget that. Oh my gosh, I would be like what are you wearing?
Speaker 2:I wish I had pictures of me in those pants, just to say what in the hell was I doing?
Speaker 1:And how did I wear all?
Speaker 2:that I don't know, that's what I would be, but I'm so hot natured I don't know how I even stood, all that oh my gosh, it's like I think we've told that story too.
Speaker 1:When you first got, you owned your McDonald's restaurant, your first one, and this was all right around the same time.
Speaker 2:I guess, when you.
Speaker 1:When I first met you, we opened in August of 2009, a garden store. When did you get your restaurant? Okay so wow, I thought you were a brand new owner so you don't like a couple year? And a half. Okay. Well, he got a new car like a bmw was that your car?
Speaker 2:it was used. It was used. It was used.
Speaker 1:It was new to me, yeah which is good, because that's what I will be getting is a used new car, but but anyway, you also had your mom's or your old.
Speaker 2:My mom's old 1991.
Speaker 1:Honda Civic, which was this was 2009. And he would well. First of all, you would load up your push mower and go mow your own grass at the restaurant because you wanted it to save the money.
Speaker 2:Well, I didn't have any money. I couldn't afford to pay anyone.
Speaker 1:That was true, he got his BMW and then he went and drove the BMW by his restaurant for his employees to see he was embarrassed. He's like I can't, I only drive this car to my restaurant. I was like I only drive this car to my restaurant. I was like why? Like you're working, you own the place, you're making money. Like you can spend your money how you want.
Speaker 2:You know it didn't. I did that. You know I did that for several years, yeah, and finally one of my restaurant managers said to me and she had worked for me for 20 years, you know, um and she said why, why don't you drive this? And I said, well, I just feel like I. You know, I don't want to ever look flashy to employees you know, showing out yeah, they live.
Speaker 2:They live a harder life and you know, I just didn't want to be that person and she. Let me tell you something these people think you are a billionaire, no matter what you drive here, because you own McDonald's and she said so just driving this makes you look like a stupid billionaire. Yeah, and it really dawned on me at that time. I think she's probably right. Yeah, they think, they think.
Speaker 1:Because you're the owner.
Speaker 2:That I have all this money Right and it doesn't really like driving up in a new BMW or Mercedes, really doesn't make a difference. Well, it's what they expect. They expect. Yeah, so driving up in the 1991 Honda Civic just made me look really cheap, I guess, and dumb.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's funny, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2:So that's when I kind of quit doing it, yeah.
Speaker 1:But that was years, years. Remember you went and painted your own McDonald's.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:I did that too, okay, oh, we just walking down memory lane, okay. So I want to hear what is your like? I mentioned earlier things in your life, and maybe it's right now like you're trying to get to a certain level, like you're just like, if I can get to this level to buy whatever it is what is it? So let us know in. Let us know by texting or calling and leaving a voicemail. Our hotline is 864-982-5029.
Speaker 2:What is that for you? I'm just curious.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a good question, like what?
Speaker 2:right now.
Speaker 1:Right right now would you be like, if you have x amount of dollars, this is what I would do if I had x amount of dollars, probably, like I still want because I haven't finished getting my pilot's license, but like that in a small plane, that's something. That's like I'm like, oh, I want to get a small plane, sort of thing. That I feel like is like you know there, but then I probably, if I can get to that level, I probably will get the plane. Yeah, I mean, I'm talking small, like uh, seth, like yeah which is just like an expensive car.
Speaker 2:I'm not talking about 1.5 million dollars, right right right right and I guess my thing is, I guess like my next goal, and I mean I guess I could do it now. But you know how I am so anyway my next thing would be I want, like a, some acreage, like in the mountains right with a cabin.
Speaker 1:it is a difference when you're like, oh I, I could do it now. Could you do it now? Yes, but it goes back to what we're saying. But is it worth you doing it now, or is it something you want to spend your money on now?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It isn't enough for me to want to take away from what you have to do that.
Speaker 2:So if you're like, oh, if I could come up with a little more, that won't take away from this, then whatever you know, if I worked on All you, got to do is buy it in Airbnb, and then you're good to go. I know You're going to pay for it.
Speaker 1:That's the problem with everything. Yeah, I know we turn it all into a business and got to make money off of. It is what we end up doing. I'm trying to think what else I mean. Fortunately, you know we have made it to this level and I think it's very fortunate because we're very blessed and you know the good thing is, you know, with our farm and stuff we happened to, it was all just, you know, we were blessed and stumbled upon it because and lucky, yeah, lucky, that's what I'm saying, because we ended up.
Speaker 1:you know we got a really good deal on our house in Greenville when we were living downtown. We bought it right as it was coming out of, you know, the market crash or whatever, and we got a good deal on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you bought in like a ickick ick area and it was like the perfect time right, we just have that was just luck, it literally turned over and so then we were able to make enough money off of that to really, you know, step it up to the farm and even the farm, we got an amazing deal on like a you know it needed a lot of sweat equity and we are still doing that, but that was our.
Speaker 1:you know we were able to get to that level. But then on the other side, what I'm saying is we're blessed with all of that but some of the not. I want to say some of the fun, but like some of the um, um, you know the feeling of things being out of hand as far as like in your home, like furniture and stuff, because we're in the business of getting, you know, home decor and stuff. That's not something I desire anymore. I don't go like going back to Bombay. I don't go like, oh, I need this nice furniture because we can get it from markets ourselves. So that's not something that's no longer. Because we can get it from markets ourselves. So that's not something that's no longer.
Speaker 1:So I think that's why I'm going back to like the airplane being something that would be my goal now is because that's something we're not like connected to in any way and that seems kind of unobtainable, even though it's not. I mean, you can find a plane and buy it and people bomb for less than a car, but anyway, that's where. That's where we are, that's where I am. I'm trying to think what else would be my, because, see, I don't really like Neither Daniel and I like. Jewelry is not really our thing. I'm not a big jewelry person.
Speaker 1:Shoes aren't really our thing.
Speaker 2:I love some shoes.
Speaker 1:Watches aren't. I have all that.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying, yeah, and I've gotten all that kind of stuff right and honest, and I don't you know, I've had all the cars, I've had all that, I've had all the stuff right. I think my next big purchase will be um more of a serenity place to go, but like a homestead or a compound, yeah, or uh something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm trying to convince him to buy a compound that we can all live on.
Speaker 2:Well, there's one here that we are drooling for.
Speaker 1:I think this is when I really need to push you to buy this property.
Speaker 2:I try not to bring it up around you. I'm always like shh, don't tell him. Well, and it's something I really love, love, and it's something I really want.
Speaker 1:I know. So, but we'll see. It's an ideal piece of property. It has multiple places or where you could have houses.
Speaker 2:Multiple homes already.
Speaker 1:So I want you to buy it. I want us to live on the property. We can use our current farm. Daniel can still farm here. We can either Airbnb the house we can do so many things with our current house no, I haven't ruled that out. I think we need to make this happen. We need to live in a little compound.
Speaker 2:I think it's great. I don't love where the property is in general. I didn't love where our farm was located but I love it now but when you move there, it's your place, and and where it is is not horrible by any mean, um no, you're just, it's just an area you haven't lived in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a like, it's kind of like, oh, it's kind of like.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's kind of if it were like in Greenville County, like down the street here, I would probably have already bought it. Yeah, if it was in between my house and your house, right where you're already familiar, we would already be there, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's true. It's just because it's out on you and loop, yeah, your bubble. Your bubble would change.
Speaker 2:Speaking of bubbles.
Speaker 1:Speaking of bubbles, it's time to bust it and those fireworks. We're going to wrap this one up. We're out of time this week. We hope you're having a great summer, a great 4th of July week, and guess what? We'll be back next week, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll be here.
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