Who's Driving
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Oh, it's time. Get in here. I'm running late. We had a goat.
Speaker 2:And I'm burning, slap up.
Speaker 1:So I had to go pick up the goat from the vet. We'll talk about that. We're going to talk about it, but 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 who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendships and businesses. 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. You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
Speaker 1:All we know is it's always a fun ride and on this week's episode we're going to do some Q&A. It's been a while since we've done like a question and answer roundup, so it's going to be a mixed bag of things. I have some very random questions that I got asked on Instagram when I put up a little box, so we'll just kind of go through some of those as we go along here. So the goat the goat I know I posted this on Instagram and she's going to be fine.
Speaker 1:This happened before and it didn't go so well, but this time I think I called it quick enough. She ended up having a. It's kind of like kidney stones that they can develop, and I had to take her to the vet and $500 later I could have bought five new goats.
Speaker 2:More than that you know. Okay, I'm going to say say that you know I'm an animal lover, right?
Speaker 1:I mean, I love animals, but oh, don't push the buttons, but uh-huh for a farm animal.
Speaker 2:I mean, where do you draw the line?
Speaker 1:I know. Well, it's true. I mean, here's the thing If she was down and out, then it would have probably been a different story. Yeah, but just knowing, oh, there's this issue, I can't, what do?
Speaker 2:you do.
Speaker 1:Wait until they get worse. I know, I know.
Speaker 2:And here's the thing. Here's the thing. If you put me here and little Felicia looked in my face, I would have been getting a checkbook out.
Speaker 1:I would have done the same thing.
Speaker 2:But logically, that's the emotional, because that's what I would have done, that's what my mother would have done. But you know, growing up around farming and all the animals, you know we just didn't do that. But you know that's probably why I was traumatized half my life too, true, true, I will say the vet. So you know, there's not many vets that specialize in farm animals anymore, you know large animals so bizarre.
Speaker 1:I know this one when I dropped her off busy, busy, busy.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess so Busy busy, busy.
Speaker 1:I'm like they were smart. They were smart.
Speaker 2:I have a friend that's a large or an acquaintance, so I bet he may work there.
Speaker 1:I don't know. The thing is okay. So this isn't our first rodeo and I'm wondering if it's a genetic thing. I don't know.
Speaker 1:So one time when we first got the goats. I originally started with three goats and it was they're all three from the same family. Two were, I think, brother, sister, and then one was, I mean, maybe half sister or something or whatever, from the same farm. Uh, but within the first year the boy goat to get these stones is very common for a boy goat and it's, you know, usually doesn't end well because they can't pass them, whereas females can usually pass them easier.
Speaker 2:Pass them same as humans yeah, so know.
Speaker 1:This happened the first time Daniel and I we were new to the farm. I mean, I think we had been here maybe six or eight months, I don't know. It was the summertime and we were headed out of town on a cruise and my mom and aunt were coming into town to house sit and the day that we were supposed to leave or maybe it was the day before we were supposed to leave I remember and I was out of town too. Yeah, it was something weird.
Speaker 2:I was somewhere else because I couldn't yeah, I could not help make the situation a little more sane.
Speaker 1:And at the time we went to a different vet because we weren't familiar and it ended up so that gave us some medicine and shots and my mom and aunt had to go get the goat and then they brought it here. Then the goat got worse and you know, we were on a cruise and back then this was like 17, 2017. There were. You couldn't really get in touch with each other when you're on a ship. Now I think you can. You know you can text and Wi-Fi and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:She was able to get in touch with me, but she didn't like my solution.
Speaker 1:I know. So they took this damn goat. I mean, I know they did the best that they could do. They had to make the decision. And have a soft heart, and they didn't grow up on a farm or anything, but they took that goat and it got sent to like UGA in Georgia to this special care. Thing.
Speaker 2:And that goat was like $3,000.
Speaker 1:And then I don't remember.
Speaker 2:I think your mom paid for it, though, because she felt bad.
Speaker 1:I think so I'm sure, which was really nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you know, I have to be honest. I mean, I'm sitting here but my mother would have done the same thing. My mother would have been like we can't let the goat die.
Speaker 1:I would have been like let's let the goat go For that price, but you know it's so hard, I know, I know.
Speaker 1:And then they couldn't get in touch. You know they didn't want to. You know I get it. So I had to go to UGA pick up the goat and then sometime later it got the same thing. I can't remember if it was. I think it may have been like months later. Did it die then? Yeah, but then at that time they had to put it down when I took it to the vet, because its kidneys had shut down or something. Anyway, you know. So not everything is always perfect on the farm when it comes to animals.
Speaker 1:But the thing that I hate is, as we're recording this episode, we're also supposed to be heading on another trip to Florida, and now I'm like the scope. But the goat is fine, it's fine. They gave it medicine, they said it's kidneys were okay, so I have some antibiotics to give it in the ends the day that we're supposed to leave. So surely all of that will, you know, just work itself out, it'll be fine. If not you'll be out here I won't be for long.
Speaker 2:We're leaving. We're leaving in like 10 days.
Speaker 1:I know, but you'll have to come out and you know, check on the well, that's going to be a.
Speaker 2:That's going to be a whole different.
Speaker 1:Don't send it to UGA, it won't be at.
Speaker 2:UGA yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2:It'll be in heaven. Oh Lord Well you know, when I was a kid and I can make fun of myself I was so tenderhearted, right. I mean I always loved animals and I didn't, you know. For a long time I did not understand. I thought all the animals on the farm were pets right?
Speaker 1:well, they are on my farm, but that's, we ate them, right? We don't do that here on this part.
Speaker 2:It devastated me like I could not. I would have to go in the house cover my ears up. I could not, like I had to. Completely. I couldn't be out there till it was not. It was no longer recognizable yeah as whatever pet it was. Yeah, it was traumatic for me, yeah, but but it's the way it is.
Speaker 1:It's that you know also being in to knowing where your food comes from. It is and you know, that's why you know, I don't know. It's just, it is, it's hard, it's hard.
Speaker 2:But you know, I'm also the person like, logically, I'm like you know what you should do, put you know what an animal needs to be put out of its misery. And I would do that if there was no helping. Right, and I would do that if there was no helping. But I mean, I'm so soft hearted, even if I passed a sick cat on the road I would probably load it up. I know, I hope I don't.
Speaker 1:The thing is, I recognized it. It must have been like immediately. And I was like, oh crap, this goat's going to you know. And it was in the evening. And I was like, well, tomorrow morning I'll check on it and whatever, and take it to the vet. It was still fine. It wasn't like in major pain, it wasn't suffering, it wasn't like shutting down or anything. I have to say, though, when I went back to pick up the goat, they had it in a little, you know, it was like in a barn stall thing, and I went around the corner and I was like, hey, girl, are you ready to go home? And that goat was like jumped up, like it recognized me. The goat recognized that the tech was worth.
Speaker 2:That was worth 500. Yeah, it was excited to see me like a dog would be okay, and so then I was like okay, you can't complain about the 500 anymore because that's sweet. It was, it was very sweet, but I mean but it does recognize it, but but now I'm going to tell you the rest of my family, like if I told my dad that story like Wesley he would say what in the hell's wrong with that boy?
Speaker 1:Well, first of all, they didn't tell me how much it was going to be, but it's better, not, I know. I mean, if it would have required like surgery and they would have said you know, we can do this, but it may come back.
Speaker 2:And it's only 50-50. Yeah. Well it's not fair to put the animal through that Right. If it's not really can fix it.
Speaker 1:Anyway, that's where we are with the goat. And hopefully the goat is just fine.
Speaker 2:Well, they are so sweet and cute and they do come up to even they're like sweet and cute and they do come up to eat.
Speaker 1:They're like little puppy dogs. Yeah, they are sweet. Oh, I don't know. Okay, so, going back to, you said something that made me think of this, but making fun of ourselves or something, I don't know, but we can make fun of me for a minute. We like to make fun of you about, you know, crapping your pants or something. We can make fun of me the way that I talk. So a few weeks ago, way before I went to, before we went to market, I went and got a vitamin IV drip thing, you know vitamin IV and I was sitting there in the little you know it's not really a waiting room, but whatever reception area and talking to the girl and we were all just chit chattingting and there were two of the employees there and one of the girls started making fun. I don't know how it came up, but she was making fun of this other girl because she says for mrs, like the woman mrs yeah, she says mrsizras.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's so, redneck.
Speaker 1:I used to say that not until then, so I sympathize that's a country thing. I sympathized with the girl. I was like, girl, I used to say that too, and she was like see, people do say that and I forgot that that's something that I used to say it until they were talking about it. But why is? Is there an R in there? Why?
Speaker 2:is it not? Did we Google that?
Speaker 1:No, you can Google it, but MRS is a kid in probably, I don't know, probably until college or something. It was Miseriz to me, miseriz, so-and-so Miseriz.
Speaker 2:Smith Miseriz, that's true, and I've heard that.
Speaker 1:But why is it, mrs? Why wouldn't they abbreviate it like MSS or something? I don't know? It drives me crazy. But that sparked a little when we were there. I was like I used to say that and I had forgotten about it.
Speaker 2:The abbreviation Mrs is derived from the title Mistress, which accounts for that confusing extra letter. Mistress is the counterpart of Master, which you guessed. It is an abbreviation for Mr Huh.
Speaker 1:Mr is an abbreviation of Master Mm-hmm. Huh Well that doesn't sound correct.
Speaker 2:It sounds weird, but that's what I'm reading.
Speaker 1:Huh, and so Mistress, but that mistress means Mrs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to read this from Reader's Digest. See what it says.
Speaker 1:Is that because you were a Mrs before you got? No, Because if you're a mistress, oh my goodness See we, just we're teaching you all kinds of things. Does anyone out there say miseries? Let us know on the hotline 864-982-5029.
Speaker 2:Reader's Digest says the same thing. In previous centuries the word mistress was the polite way to address all women. Mistress, mm-hmm, huh, that's too funny. Originally MR was abbreviated for master and soon became mister. Okay, so mister, I guess came from mistress that's. I don't know, that seems like a damn waste. But I will say Misres, misres. I know I can't think of who, but somebody in my family said misres. I know I've heard it. I know I've heard it?
Speaker 1:I know I've heard it. So, mrs Mrs, Miss.
Speaker 2:Miss is for a single lady.
Speaker 1:Mrs is for a married lady.
Speaker 2:Misres sounds better, but mistress, I mean, it sounds like you're calling them a slut.
Speaker 1:I know that's why I'm like that doesn't really make sense.
Speaker 2:I'll be calling lots of people Mrs.
Speaker 1:Oh, I have a riddle for you.
Speaker 2:Oh, I've got one for you too.
Speaker 1:Oh good, let's see what you got. Do you want me to go first? You want to go first? You go first. Okay, once you know it exists, it no longer exists. What am I? Once you know it exists, it no longer exists, what am I? Come on you got this one. Who's out there listening?
Speaker 2:Who exists?
Speaker 1:Once you know it exists, it no longer exists. What am I? Mm-hmm, I don't know.
Speaker 2:A surprise, oh yeah, that's true, yeah. That makes sense.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I've got your horn.
Speaker 1:Yorn Talking about a word. Yorn, yorn.
Speaker 2:Did you?
Speaker 1:get it from down yonder. I did.
Speaker 2:Okay, why is Europe like a frying pan?
Speaker 1:Why is Europe like frying Ding ding, ding, ding ding? Oh my gosh, I got to get into that, okay. Why is Europe like a frying pan?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I have no like my brain's not connecting.
Speaker 2:Because it has grease on the bottom.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, that is. Oh my gosh, that's funny.
Speaker 2:It's corny. That was corny, but that's funny.
Speaker 1:I could not make my brain think of any connections there.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I have something to talk about.
Speaker 1:Oh good, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2:And it's just bizarre and I know I think people talk about things just to talk about something.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you know I've never been a huge Olympic watcher.
Speaker 1:Oh, we love watching the Olympics.
Speaker 2:I mean, I watch it every now and then it's just not something. I, the hot guys. But so the swimsuit? Well, that's funny. That's what we're going to talk about. Okay, is all of the controversy over?
Speaker 1:What is it over?
Speaker 2:I haven't seen the controversy. Well, it is the Dutch swimmer Arno Kaminga. Mm-hmm in his revealing trunks. I don't what is so revealing about those.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's not, that's nothing you got to. Look, that's what I think. That's okay. That's like a speed swimmer. So he has on the long trunks.
Speaker 2:I know, but that's.
Speaker 1:They're just kind of skin tone, so it kind of that's nothing. You need to look up, jules, I've got him too, jules, I think he's a French French. You want to talk about revealing.
Speaker 2:You want to talk about a good time? His barely fits in the trunk.
Speaker 1:I know and you can see it, I know. I mean, why would that one be controversial?
Speaker 2:That's my point Like why are they so? But if you read the comments it's hysterical because all the women are like looks fine to me. Well, there's no, it looks good, that one doesn't even show anything.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's not.
Speaker 2:I don't think so either.
Speaker 1:I think it's kind of clear. You go to the divers, where they have on the skimpy trunks and you can see it all. But you know, it just is beyond me why they. I mean, I'm not complaining. I read some of the comments. I'm not complaining on any of them.
Speaker 2:And some people were like I think they should all wear black. I'm like, who gives a crap? I don't care if they get out there naked Rude. I think it's weird.
Speaker 1:And I saw one speaking of of controversy and I get it in like different things, but the one I saw was talking about how the girl, the ladies, females, um on the gymnastics you know they have to wear.
Speaker 1:It's basically like a leotard a leotard, okay, and the guys have like long suits on and how like that's kind of not fair. But I'm like, yeah, but then look, if you look across the sports like the girls in those leotards is nothing compared to the men diver in those skimpy little and they wear what's appropriate for the sport.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's a reason behind it all. Yeah, you know. Anyway, that was.
Speaker 1:And you know the swimmers. I love watching the Olympics. I love watching the.
Speaker 2:Olympics, the swimmers have to be so tight and so skimpy so it doesn't slow them down, right? I mean, it's all about speed in the water.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially the speed swimmers, the ones that are racing, and I don't know what the divers' excuses are.
Speaker 2:Well, they have to be very tight.
Speaker 1:Oh, they're tight, but anyway, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I thought that was just like who sits around. Honestly, if you sit around and watch it like you, you're just sitting around to watch for who has the biggest bulge or who's the sexiest. No, that is not no.
Speaker 1:I get. Daniel and I both get caught up in and we don't watch TV that much at all. Like I haven't watched TV in probably like a year, but, like with the Olympics, I watch the Olympics and I watch Big Brother.
Speaker 2:And that's pretty much it. But what I'm saying is, who sits around analyzing? Well, I just think that's it.
Speaker 1:I know that's what I was going to say. I mean, I don't really do that and it's so quick and like, whatever we watch it for, we get caught up in like, oh what is this team? You get invested if you follow it. We just watch the highlights, the primetime highlights too. We're not watching the whole thing.
Speaker 2:I'm like who has that much time?
Speaker 1:Oh, people do B do bored people just well, I mean, they listen to our podcast too.
Speaker 2:Who has that much time? Seriously, I'll turn us off in a heartbeat. I know I would shut up, what the hell. But y'all keep listening, y'all coming back. We appreciate you. We're glad you're here appreciate it.
Speaker 1:Do you want to answer some questions little?
Speaker 2:questions and little questions and roundup. Let's do it.
Speaker 1:All right, like I said, question roundup, I guess is what it's saying. These are completely all over the place, so we'll just see where we go with them. Okay, all right, this one's a recap first, but I got it over and over, so I know we have new people. Is how did you and Steven meet? So we've told it several times. If you want the full story, go back and listen to episode one of this podcast. Season one episode one. We talk about how we met, how we all came to be.
Speaker 2:Basically, he opened Roots, the first garden store at the end of the street, at the end of my neighborhood.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's how we met.
Speaker 1:And Stephen started coming in as a customer, and then he wanted to hang out and I was like well, if you're going to hang out, you got to help me with this display.
Speaker 2:I just bought my first McDonald's.
Speaker 1:I was broke, it was a little outlet Started teaching you how to do arrangements, and then I did like weddings and I made you my bitch.
Speaker 2:And you were broke too. I was broke, so I worked for free yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, you worked for free for like 10 years, I really did, but that was a good internship for you.
Speaker 2:Well, you knew I was vested.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's true, so that was a good internship for you. Well, you knew I was vested. Yeah, it's true. So that was true. You did work for like 10 years as just a good friend.
Speaker 2:And the funny thing is like so much of it can be taught and then so much of it can't be taught.
Speaker 1:It's so funny yeah.
Speaker 2:Some of it's experience. But if you don't have the talent to put the textures, the art of it can't be taught Right.
Speaker 1:The arrangement, yeah, yeah, and even display sometimes. But specifically arrangement yeah, because you have to be able to. You would put something together and I could say, okay, good structure, form, but you put too many bold plants together.
Speaker 2:So it looks harsh.
Speaker 1:So take out this, soften it up and you go. Oh, you could see it. You can recognize the correction, and that's how you learn.
Speaker 2:It's like designing anything. It's art.
Speaker 1:It is. It really is an art. But that's the short of how we met. But if you want to hear the whole story to how we came to be now, you can go back to season one, episode one of the podcast. We should probably re-air that at some point. Just, you know, catch people up, okay. So along the same lines, prying people always want to know this question, or some form of this question Did you and Stephen ever consider dating? You are just the best duo ever Never.
Speaker 2:No, I would say, compare it to this have you ever thought of dating your sibling? I mean? That's true, I don't have a sibling, but that's the only way I can think of it First of all, Daniel and I were already together.
Speaker 1:So there's that that wasn't an option, but we didn't connect in that way. You know, you just meet people and connect in different ways you know you're going to be friends yeah friends forever and our personalities, although they're fun together, would not be good romantic partners.
Speaker 2:I personally would have never gambled on a relationship that probably would have been short-lived, in ruin of friendship.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Even if it had happened, I probably wouldn't have gone there, because I would have said I don't want yeah.
Speaker 1:But we're not compatible in that form.
Speaker 2:No, we're both too bitchy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're too. Yeah, we would have never worked out in any kind of relationship other than being friends. And he's slobby, that is not true. That is not true. Yeah, but we get that one a lot about us. Did we not ever date, or whatever? And it's like nope, we're just. It keeps the energy fun between us as friends.
Speaker 2:Because there's nothing there. No, and we're not a foursome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've been through that one before. We're not a throuple, we haven't been a throuple, we're not a foursome.
Speaker 2:We don't swap partners, believe it or not. We don't do any of that.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, it's funny the perception people come up with, or whatever. Okay, let's switch gears to a pretty random one, and I probably should have. Well, I probably should have thought about this in advance and told you about it in advance, but I didn't. Someone asked top five things we should have in our house, and it can be decor, it can be a gadget, a tool, like anything. What should they have in their house. Yeah, like what is your top five must-haves in a house, or?
Speaker 2:something. Oh gosh, that one is hard, I know. I mean, I would say a coffee table book. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1:Mine is a really good coffee maker. We spent a lot of money. We're a coffee maker, we have a Jura. Is that how you?
Speaker 2:say it, and you bought me one for Christmas and I gave you one for Christmas and that was like game changer.
Speaker 1:If you like coffee, you think why is this expensive-ass coffee maker going to be any different?
Speaker 2:But it is, it is, it's really good, really worth it. It takes you to a street in Italy. Yeah, I don't know why it really does.
Speaker 1:It comes out creamy. You can make lots of drinks.
Speaker 2:It has the natural crema from the coffee on there and it's just luxurious. Well, what I would say to add on to it if you're asking what I would put money in for?
Speaker 1:must-haves, right like must-have Betting. Oh betting, got to have good betting.
Speaker 2:I'm sure I used to be cheap with everything in my life Right, pretty much. And then I found really nice betting. And I'm going to warn you if you haven't upgraded to really nice betting, make sure you're ready to stay on that path. If you do it, because it's a game changer, right, no going back. And somebody told me once you know, spend money on nice luxurious bedding because you're laying there, right, you know, eight to ten hours a day, right, or at least six, and underwear, oh yeah, good underwear.
Speaker 2:And I wear good underwear too, okay, well, but that's not an issue.
Speaker 1:Betting is that's a good? Point and that was the first thing. I think I've talked about this before Betting when I graduated college and got my first real job, when I got my first paycheck maybe the second one first one probably had to go to the deposit on the you know apartment, but when I got my first paycheck, that I was like, oh, I got extra money I went and bought all very good high-end bedding.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I would cut meals out for that. I would cut meals out for that.
Speaker 1:I hate getting in bedding and it's like that I don't know it's like plastic feeling.
Speaker 2:I guess satin and it wrinkles Cheap that is the worst, and it doesn't like good bedding Like Dylan has had like, since we've been together five years. Oh, my gosh Five years this week.
Speaker 1:Oh, congratulations Five years.
Speaker 2:That is crazy. That's a lot of Steven.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, I know that's a lot of.
Speaker 2:Steven, but the first time I replaced bedding, because you have to replace it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I ordered it and he saw the packing slip and he said oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, why did you spend that on sheets? And I said Well, that's what they cost.
Speaker 2:And see what really sucks is. We used to carry high-end bedding and so we really got addicted to high-end bedding when we got it wholesale Right. Well, now we don't carry it. We just don't have enough real estate in the stores to carry that. So we cut out bedding and so I could go to market and get a designer discount. But my gosh, who has time for all that Right? And you know when I need it? I need it yesterday, so I just go on and pay retail.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's just not cheap, it's not, it it lasts.
Speaker 1:Um what brands do you have a couple of brands that you like best? Um, I like, um john robshaw yes, and the one we used to say yeah, john robshaw's one of my favorites, and uh, uh, what is it?
Speaker 2:anna selke? Yeah, that's, I'm not. I may not be saying that right, I can't remember if that's her, it's anna's s-i-l-k-e um that one yeah but I mean uh, there's a, there's a um beautiful bedding store in charlotte with some good, I mean, I was expensive, we still have.
Speaker 1:John Robshaw on our guest room upstairs sheets and we had company. Last week A flower farmer came and stayed with us and she was like, oh my gosh, I want to take your bed home. They're the best sheets.
Speaker 2:I mean, I still buy. I've mixed it up, but I still buy John Robshaw, like I'm just, you know, I just swear by those, yeah.
Speaker 1:What else other than good sheets, good coffee?
Speaker 2:maker For me. Okay, this is, you're going to attack me if I tell this, but if I bought a new, if I built a new home, one thing I would have to have is a, well, two things.
Speaker 1:Well, that's good.
Speaker 2:I would have to have a Sub-Zero refrigerator.
Speaker 1:You think it makes a big difference.
Speaker 2:I do. I didn't believe it.
Speaker 1:I did not believe it Because your condo when you bought it had Sub-Zero.
Speaker 2:I didn't believe it and I had to investigate it. I went and actually talked to the rep and I said tell me why. And it's just, it keeps your food fresher and colder. Everything's better that, and I love. I have an undercounter ice machine that is also sub-Zero Right. I don't care if I move into a one-bedroom shack.
Speaker 1:You're going to have a separate ice maker.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, that is a must for me. Like now like since I've had it and. I know that sounds y'all. I know that that sounds awful, but what I did was I don't have one in my refrigerator.
Speaker 1:No, because they that that sounds awful. But what I did was I don't have one in my refrigerator because they break ice maker.
Speaker 2:Yeah they even on a sub-zero. There you're gonna have issues with that we haven't had ice since we um.
Speaker 1:We bought a new refrigerator, a samsung I can't live without it we had we uh bought new appliances when we moved here eight years ago and about six months after we moved here, in our brand new Samsung refrigerator, the ice maker stopped working and it's been that way ever since. We don't ever drink.
Speaker 2:The next thing I would say and you would agree with this and you made me do this I think everybody needs a Nest thermostat, and that's not bougie. That's not bougie. I think everybody needs a Nest thermostat, yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's not bougie. That's not bougie. You had bougie the coffee maker, even though I have that too. I know the Sub-Zero is expensive, but I'm telling you, and the sheets too are expensive. So when you Google them, because you're going to, unless you use them, they're about $ bucks for a set of sheets. But I will tell you they will last they do last so much longer and you'll then cheap sheets and you'll sleep I know. It's. There's a difference.
Speaker 1:Okay, the Nest thermostat is a great one and, along those lines, is a gadget I like I can't remember the brand, but we have all smart lock on our house where we put in a pin code or whatever and you can unlock it from your app, and I really like those, like if I was. I guess that I don't know if that's a must have, that's a necessity, but it is a game changer because we don't have any keys.
Speaker 2:Well, I just think that the Nest thermostat is a big difference, because when you're away you can just save a lot of money.
Speaker 1:Right, you can and you love to you check your Nest thermostat on your app like five times Well have you ever noticed, like when we're on a trip, like the day before we leave?
Speaker 2:Have you ever noticed I'm on my Nest making sure that it is turned down to 68 degrees, like it can warm up when I'm not there. It can be 72.
Speaker 1:But you do have to turn yours down like the day before, because you have all that brick and it radiates. It takes a while to cool your place back down.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. So our loft is like 3,000 square feet with 16 foot ceilings. So if you break that down to a normal house it's between four and five thousand square feet to cool right and and it is just like a brick oven right to you know, and it's 24 inches thick walls and they, when that brick gets hot us it takes a like, if you let it won't get too warm it takes two days, yeah, to cool back down and I have a great because it radiates.
Speaker 1:My thing is and I think I've said this on the podcast before if I were building a house, one of the things that I would still put in the house that people I feel like have stopped doing is the central vac. We have a central vac system that came with our house. Absolutely love it. If I were building a house, if I were building a one bedroom house, I would still want to put that in.
Speaker 2:So you and I have had this conversation many times about your central vac. Yeah, I love it. Times about your central vac, yeah, I do not get it. Okay here. Okay, here's my mind, here's where I'm coming from. To me, it's one extra hole, something in the wall or the floor yeah, and I just see it as parts. I would rather have three dyson spread out.
Speaker 1:You don't have to dump it as often. It goes into one bin in your garage. It works great.
Speaker 2:But you've got all that. You've got a whole closet of tubes.
Speaker 1:No, you don't. You have one long tube with a handle on it and you just pull it out and you can vacuum the hole downstairs without.
Speaker 2:I can vacuum the hole downstairs without having to move from plugging it in see, that's just funny, though how like, because I've never had one and and like that's the last thing I would want and then we have other, like a small vacuum cleaner too, for like um, you know, just just general, but it's so convenient, like when I'm like I got to clean the house or whatever.
Speaker 1:If the dogs get it really messy, I always get that out Because it just. I don't know why I love it so much, but I do, and I mean, gosh, we sound so snooty saying this.
Speaker 2:But here's another thing If I were building a house, what I would tell someone is put in, and as a realtor, I'll tell you this, and you don't have to go the most expensive, because there's some that are insane Faucets.
Speaker 1:Good faucets.
Speaker 2:And toilets do not get the cheapest.
Speaker 1:They break, they do, it's true, they break.
Speaker 2:They don't last. And you know, when I redid my bathrooms almost three years ago Isn't that crazy? It seems like last week, and I had picked out very expensive faucets and my plumber was nice enough to come to me and say, okay, this company has been sold. They're crap now, even though they're very expensive. Yeah, and I trusted him. I said you see the look I'm going for? Right, because he was there. I wasn't. I said we got to have something in stock. Right, because I had planned this out to the. You know how I stockpiled everything. Well, it was difficult during that time, so I let him pick it out. It looked amazing. Can't really tell the difference. Yeah, and he was like this will last.
Speaker 1:Okay, so good fault.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I know that's so random, but you know I went in a house Wednesday. I was showing a house, yeah, and you know my clients actually said how cheap the faucets and everything were. Oh, really Like you feel yeah, it just feels cheap.
Speaker 1:It's true. You can feel the difference if you know what you're looking for. Yeah, yeah, it is true. I would say, if you're just starting a home and you're trying to figure out what to invest, then your major furniture pieces a good sofa that sits well. There is a big difference.
Speaker 1:We've sold all ranges of sofas in our career as having a furniture home store and there is a big difference in the quality and how it will sit and how it will wear in a good sofa versus you know, and if you're using it a lot.
Speaker 2:It depends on the purpose.
Speaker 1:If it's in a formal living room.
Speaker 2:you're never going to sit on it Right.
Speaker 1:You can buy for the look Right, or if it's in a bedroom as an accent piece of furniture. You know you could buy for the look and not, you know, for the function.
Speaker 2:And my main thing if I were building a house, what I would put the I would buy the very best and put the most money in is my HVAC system. That's true.
Speaker 1:That is true.
Speaker 2:That was the first thing I did. Daniel and I have talked about that.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, when we moved into the farm, we have three units and none of them worked when we moved in here, so we had a good HVAC guy that got them all giffing along. I think we had to replace one immediately, and then the next year we had to replace one, and then the next year we had to replace the third. Like every year for three years we replaced them, which probably means they'll all go out back to back years as well. But we'll face that Hopefully we'll get good life out of them. But that's one thing we talked about. I was like we're going to have good air and heat and we've talked I think talked about this on a podcast before. I'm going to be comfortable. If we can't afford to heat and cool and be comfortable, then we need to move to a smaller place. I'm not going to not be comfortable in that form.
Speaker 1:So getting a good HVAC unit that'd probably be my number one.
Speaker 2:That was the first thing I changed when I bought my loft because, like I said, if you equate it down to a normal house, it's between 4,000 and 5,000 square foot house.
Speaker 1:Right when you're talking about the volume.
Speaker 2:The volume of the space Right and it had, I think, a two and a half ton unit.
Speaker 1:Oh, that ain't nothing.
Speaker 2:And I was sweating and hot, and when I'm hot and sweating I'm mad Angry and I said no, no and no, and so I had a new unit put in. It's enormous.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we had to do an expansion on the duct work because the unit was so much. I think it's four and a half ton. So that baby is like. It is like a jet engine. It's cooling things off.
Speaker 1:It's like a refrigerator. That's the best for that. I know when I had my house before back in the day I had a house before I was in Greenville and it was a small little house and they had renovated it. This husband and wife had renovated it but their plans were to build on to the house and so they had put in a large enough unit to accommodate the addition they were going to put on, but they never put it on. That thing was like a jet engine when it turned on it would heat the entire house in like five minutes like no joke and cool it down I was like yes, it was probably.
Speaker 1:Probably was wearing on the unit. I'm sure it didn't have the duck work like you're talking about yeah, it's not good to do too big, but yeah, but it sounded like it was loud when it came on, but it didn't sound but like a minute or two, because it would heat the whole house, or yeah, in just a few minutes I'm just, you know, every time I show a house or look at a house, that's what I look at.
Speaker 2:I look at heating and air. That's one of my first things. And I'm like, yeah, the other thing, oh, this is in and this is more talking. If you're building a house, but what I'm telling you is for resale too, not just your comfort. Yeah, but don't put fiberglass tubs in, yeah.
Speaker 1:Get you a cast iron Anymore, but they do builder grade ones do. But you can tell the difference In the warmth too.
Speaker 2:If you take a bath and that is the first thing I look at when I walk into a bathroom I tap on the tub and see if it's thin. Because then I can tell you can remodel, you can.
Speaker 1:Right, we need to remodel our upstairs bathrooms. We've never, eight years later, haven't done that, and both of them have their showers. They're not tubs, but they're fiberglass showers. And I'm like we need to get those out too.
Speaker 2:I just I like the I guess it's you know my favorite world substantialness of it Just something heavy and Right, it's going gonna be there. It that's kind of wild, I guess.
Speaker 1:So you get tired of it and have to tear it out anyway yeah, that's one thing. Talking about building stuff, I hate when people are like I'm building this, uh, so I don't ever have to change it. You know like people think they're gonna build things classic it's gonna be just the way it is it's just the way we want it, and it's gonna stay in style for it.
Speaker 2:It's not just and it's going to be just the way we want it and it's going to stay in style forever.
Speaker 1:It's not Just do what you want to do, Because no matter how classic it is today, in 20 years it's going to look outdated and 20 years ago classic.
Speaker 2:Unless you buy old. But it's still like with old Even well, I mean even then Fixtures change and faucets change.
Speaker 1:Tile changes, you know.
Speaker 2:And like people hate it when I say this, but it's the truth. And they're like well, you know, my kitchen still looks great. It's 20 years old.
Speaker 1:I'm like no, it doesn't.
Speaker 2:It's outdated, yeah, like you can't when you go to sell it Right. If your kitchen or your bathroom is more than 10 years old, you cannot put updated Right Because it isn't Right. It still may be a gourmet.
Speaker 1:Right, and it may look good to you, it may look good and it may look good to everybody else. But styles they tweak just enough, even if it's the same tile. It's the way it's and, if you can like, it for 15 or 20 years.
Speaker 2:That's great Because you've just saved yourself remodel. You know another remodel, right, if you stay in that home, like my kitchen, I love our kitchen. I really love our kitchen. It's the next on the list because not because I don't love it, I just know that that's the next thing that needs to change. If we were to sell right, that needs to be updated now, of course, like the, the appliances, like the sub-zero refrigerator and the cooler and the uh ice maker, all that would just I would reuse it's fine. Yeah, I would upgrade. My plan is to do the La Cornue French range that you're never going to use, but it will look good.
Speaker 1:It's true, Bougie.
Speaker 2:And a nice hood, but not really changing anything else.
Speaker 1:But okay, here's my question to you. But okay, here's my question to you Adding that expensive appliance for an oven range or whatever? Because that's what? $20, $30?.
Speaker 2:It's no more than my range, Like if I replaced my range now. It's about the same price but a little more, Not much Actually. So if I replace, they don't make the decor anymore, which is what I have, which is comparable to Wolf, and the La Cornue is like maybe $500 cheaper than the Wolf.
Speaker 1:So to me that's not exorbitant. Okay, that's not that crazy yeah.
Speaker 2:No, no, it's like $12,000, $13,000. Yeah, I mean it's still a lot, but you're going to spend a lot. I mean hell, everything's expensive.
Speaker 1:Well, but I'm just. I was going to say for resale value would it add that much value? But for that price it would.
Speaker 2:Like that's what I was saying. I would not put that in my condo at Hilton Hand Right.
Speaker 1:That's too funny. Okay, so we're running out of time here. We're going to continue this question and answer in a part two for next week. What do you say?
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's do that. Let's wrap up this episode. We can't cut it short this episode.
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