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Who's Driving: Awkward Moments and Cringey Confessions S3 E7
Best friends and entrepreneurs Wesley Turner and Steven Merck take on life's awkward moments day (March 18th) with brutal honesty and laugh-out-loud humor. Their genuine friendship shines through as they share embarrassing stories that most people would take to their graves.
The conversation begins with a discovery of bizarre "national days" – from National Toilet Paper Day to National Awkward Moments Day – which perfectly sets up their storytelling session. Steven recounts what might be his most mortifying experience: the time he quite literally couldn't hold it while driving to an important business meeting, resulting in a desperate hotel check-in just to shower and change.
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I'm here. It's time. Welcome to who's Driving. I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2:And I'm Stephen Merck. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1:Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship and business.
Speaker 2:These are the stories we share and topics we discuss, as two best friends would on a long road trip.
Speaker 1:Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media and all things home and garden.
Speaker 2:Buckle up and enjoy the ride. You never know who's driving, or?
Speaker 1:where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride. Bring Blue in last night.
Speaker 2:Well, it really did like um. Well, yesterday and it was so funny I had dylan drove the mercedes on um what is today, on friday, yeah, and I said do not let the top down on the car, because I just can tell the pollen is getting ready to pour in. He thought I was crazy and yesterday it was like poof.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, and the storms that rolled through.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, it washed it away, but the pollen was like everywhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did you wake up? Could you hear the storms last night? I?
Speaker 2:heard nothing.
Speaker 1:You have that thick brick wall.
Speaker 2:24 inches, that's a lot of brick. Yeah, I didn't hear anything and I had taken my CBD gummy. Yeah, the best.
Speaker 1:So yeah, did you hear it? I did, I did twice. Daniel didn't hear anything and he's the weather person. Daniel tells me the weather more than the weatherman.
Speaker 2:Oh, I need my doodle pad. And I can't do this without it.
Speaker 1:And he tells me like, oh, the storms are going to rock. I wouldn't know anything, I don't ever look at the weather but he tells me because you know he's in tune with the farming and he's like it's going to come in overnight. Well, I don't, you know, I didn't think anything about it and then bam, it was one big bolt that hit somewhere.
Speaker 2:From like two to five. They said it was going to be really bad.
Speaker 1:And then one other time I heard it, but I got up in the middle of it and just looked out the window and it was the storm and it was fine.
Speaker 2:Well, yesterday we did gather the chairs around the pool, and it's fine. Well, yesterday we did gather the um chairs around the pool and flipped them over, and you know, just cause I was like I don't, I don't want everything you know tossed in the pool, break the pool coat. You know, I just know how. If you don't do it, it's fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I was sitting here. Those who yeah, so I was sitting here. Those who are just listening can't see me, but I was like looking around real quick and I was like where's my phone? It's recording us, so I'm losing my mind. Yeah, you had to prepare, but the reason why I was looking for my phone, I meant to look it up. But a few episodes back we talked about every day. There's something every day now, like a National Balloon Day, national, whatever day. Oh, yeah, there's all these days. We want our own day, by the way. Yeah, national Pain in the Ass.
Speaker 2:Day. Is there a National Toilet Paper Day, I mean.
Speaker 1:So that's what I was going to Google something. But I saw and I didn't Google it to confirm, but I believe it because it was from a vendor it's National Sauce Month and I feel like that is Daniel's element.
Speaker 2:And I just made a joke that there's national days for everything. And I said National Toilet Paper Day. Yeah, yeah, it's August 26th, that's a real thing.
Speaker 1:We need to put that in our calendar.
Speaker 2:What in the hell?
Speaker 1:Okay, I think we need to get a calendar with all the national days the National Toilet Paper Day and we need to talk about them each week in our podcast so we know what's coming up. That week, Like this week, we can celebrate National Cupcake Day on whatever day that is, let's see what is coming up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so give us a rundown of maybe what's coming up this week, because that would be good to know. We need to know what days we're missing out on. You know, I find out about them usually when it's too late and it's like certain ones will pop up and be big, like National Daughters Day or National Sons Day.
Speaker 2:Okay, we are tomorrow where the 16th we're recording today is the 16th. And today is National Panda Day.
Speaker 1:National Panda Day.
Speaker 2:Tomorrow is the 17th. That's obviously St Paddy's Day. Can't share that with anything. March 20th, hey, I wonder if this is all of them.
Speaker 1:You know there's got to be a whole. There's something every day.
Speaker 2:National. What should I Google?
Speaker 1:National Days in March, yeah, I know there's got to be a holiday, there's something every day National.
Speaker 2:What should I Google? National days in March. Yeah, I think there's a calendar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I had looked it up National holiday, and let's not forget that March 21st this coming.
Speaker 2:Friday.
Speaker 1:That's a national holiday. That is National steven's birthday, that's right. Steven's birthday's coming up this week, that's right, followed by my birthday is march 30th. What day is my birthday on? I don't I.
Speaker 2:Thursday or a Sunday.
Speaker 1:A Sunday Mine's on Sunday, okay, okay. Well, I won't be doing anything. We'll do a live sale on my birthday. I'm going to be 44 and you're going to be 52. Two 52. Coming right up. Yeah, we got to find out. All the national days.
Speaker 2:Okay, tuesday, the 18th, is Awkward Moments Day.
Speaker 1:Awkward Moments.
Speaker 2:So what do you?
Speaker 1:do Post your most awkward moment.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Let me click on that and see Awkward Moments Day. Yes, there's a whole day dedicated to embarrassing your awkward moments in life. National Awkward Day Moments March 18th every year.
Speaker 1:Hmm, have you had an?
Speaker 2:Oh, I do that every day. It's National Awkward Day for me.
Speaker 1:What is your most awkward or embarrassing thing that's happened? We have one that I still you won't let me tell.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh One day we're going to tell Wednesday is a good one. I love Wednesdays, national let's laugh day. National let's laugh day.
Speaker 1:Well, you can laugh on Tuesday. Maybe you're listening to this on Wednesday, maybe we can give you a few laughs.
Speaker 2:Thursday is the international Day of Happiness. I like that too, I do too.
Speaker 1:See, we need a calendar. We need a full calendar, because I know something every day.
Speaker 2:So Friday has a lot of national days. National Fragrance Day that's good for my birthday, I love smelly goods. National Flower Day.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's good for our stores.
Speaker 2:World Poetry Day. We don't care about poetry we don't read. Hickory, dickory Dock.
Speaker 1:No, I'm kidding, I'm not going to finish that. Where are we going with that?
Speaker 2:This is a good one. World Down Syndrome Day that's a good one.
Speaker 1:That's a good awareness day.
Speaker 2:International Day of Forest. That's a good. 21st is also National Common Courtesy Day. I like that. We all need a little more common courtesy. It's also National French Bread Day.
Speaker 1:Oh good, I'll bake some bread. World Puppetry Day Okay, that's getting a little niche.
Speaker 2:World Water Day. I don't even know what the hell that is. Water Day, no, no, no, no, no, that's the 22nd, and Saturday, the 22nd, is national goof off day well, I think I'll be observing that sunday, the 23rd is national puppy day. Puppy, we all need a puppy. Let's pet a puppy. Monday, the 24th is National Cocktail Day.
Speaker 1:Oh, thought we were going somewhere different there.
Speaker 2:Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm, but it's crazy how many days.
Speaker 1:Well, let's get back to awkward day, awkwardness, mm-hmm. Do you have a really awkward moment? See, the thing is, when something awkward has happened to you or embarrassing someone else kind of has to know about it. To pull it out of you. You kind of it gets deleted in your brain, block it out, like it really needs me to say. Do you remember?
Speaker 2:I think one of the biggest, most awkward, embarrassing, crazy days was when and I think we've told it on here, I'm sure you have, because you love to tell this story is when I had gotten a new car. I'd gotten a new Mercedes, but I didn't drive it, often in the car Didn't update and where I was going for a I was going to a meeting when you shit yourself. Yeah, I was going, we told that, we that was probably the most awkward, because how do you check into the hotel when you shit?
Speaker 1:yourself. Yeah, that's funny that if you miss that, that was we told that one along.
Speaker 2:It was horrible.
Speaker 1:I pulled that one out. So Steven was going to a McDonald's meeting for like a regional meeting, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a um.
Speaker 1:it was one of our leadership meetings and his car hadn't updated and his maps had him going in circles and he the coffee kicked in and he shit himself.
Speaker 2:I drank a huge coffee. I stopped at McDonald's. I don't even know where I stopped. I stopped in Blacksburg, South Carolina, the loves travel, and I got the biggest coffee that McDonald's had at the time. I can't remember how many ounces, I want to say 20 ounces. I drank that whole coffee going up 85. And you know, I didn't get that rumble until I got off of 85. And you know, and it said 10 minutes to the hotel, You're like I'm fine, that's fine. I mean I could make it.
Speaker 1:Turns out he didn't Spoiler alert. It was bad.
Speaker 2:It's a wonder I did not total that car. I drove into that McDonald's and I was going because I went to a McDonald's before I pooped my pants and I promise you, I was going 70 miles an hour in that parking lot and I slung that car in. I ran in and that stall was locked and it just let loose. I couldn't hold it anymore, was all she wrote. God, that was a bad situation.
Speaker 1:That is awkward, because then you had to check into a hotel just to shower. Get yourself back together.
Speaker 2:And I was late. Everybody was texting me and I finally said, listen, I just shit myself, just calm down.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I mean, and I still yeah, that is funny. Oh my gosh, mine is still, and we've told this on the podcast too, I think when it just popped in my mind. Awkward moment was when I was going to do the Garden Club talk. I told this and I went to someone's home a very nice home and I was carrying a bag of soil and the bottom fell out of it onto their very nice rug in their dining room. And it was a very nice home, very nice. That was probably one of my most awkward. Did I still like get secondhand embarrassment to this day? You know they don't think anything about it, but oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:You know they wanted to kill you, I'm sure, oh, it's okay, I don't even know who it was. Now I would have said, oh, it's okay, I don't even know who it was. Now I would have said, oh my gosh, that is too funny. Speaking of awkward, though, right before we were starting the podcast, we were just I was setting up everything and Steven's like you remember so-and-so, and I was like, yeah, that you dated. And I was like, be careful, they may listen. No, I'm not going to say anything about him, except for he said, oh yeah, he tooted in front of me and that's why I broke up with him.
Speaker 2:No, I said he farted in front of me. Okay, but here's the thing. You know it happens. It's a bodily fart. I get it, I get it and I'm not opposed. Listen, we all fart. It's a bodily fun. I get it, I get it and I'm not opposed. Listen, we all fart.
Speaker 1:It is a fact. Why do we always end up on stories?
Speaker 2:But there there is a span of time when you're dating someone that no one farts. It never happens, it doesn't happen. Not only did he fart, he giggled and I was like done, that's funny, done Gross. I mean, if you'll do that early on, what will you do two years in, or five years? It's just going to eat no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it's funny because Stephen was in the dating circuit for quite a while. Ten years, was it 13 years, 13 years so he had his relationship of 12 years and then it was 13 years, and then he settled down with Dylan.
Speaker 2:Dylan, really Dylan does not appreciate how picky and crazy I am.
Speaker 1:No, he really doesn't.
Speaker 2:He doesn't know what it took to make that cut.
Speaker 1:No, he really doesn't. He'll never understand. But that's okay, it's okay, so Stephen was in the dating circuit for quite a while 13 years and he dated, I mean.
Speaker 2:Oh, serial, dater, Serial. I had dates every week.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, going to dinner, I got a date.
Speaker 2:Got a date, got a date, got a date. Hayden, hayden, it's usually a different one every week. Hayden.
Speaker 1:He would break up with people. I really like him and it would be the funniest little thing like the farting and he'd be like he's a good person and everything. And we talked about you know, touching your car windows or something like that.
Speaker 2:It could be feet and it was funny. We met Dylan and I had dinner downtown Greenville last night and we met friends out at Hall's Chop House and we were talking and I was laughing about one of my dating stories. Even Dylan died laughing at this one. So I dated a guy here in Greenville, a very prominent guy, a very, very well-established guy, and he checked so many boxes On paper. On paper he had, you know, he had the nice Mercedes, beautiful home, you know, had one of those very important jobs at the hospital and you know, I mean I thought OK and he dressed.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, he dressed so well, just goes to show you all that doesn't matter, mm, hmm, mm, hmm, because he, you know, and a nice guy too Dressed so well, just goes to show you all that doesn't matter. Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm.
Speaker 2:Because he, you know, and a nice guy too, I really like him. But he took his clothes off and he looked so handsome in clothes. Yeah, he really did. And you know, it wasn't hanky-panky or anything, it was literally going to bed. It was the first time I stayed there, there wasn't any of that.
Speaker 1:And took his clothes off. I don't believe that for a second, but we'll let you go with that version of the story.
Speaker 2:He looked like my grandfather standing there, like my grandfather that had been locked in a basement for six months.
Speaker 1:And so what? It was? Just like Just bad Droopy.
Speaker 2:Just looked like a little old man. Yeah, and I mean not to be mean or anything, but it was just my gut reaction. I was like, oh my God, I got to get out of here, I have to get out of here, yeah. So literally I am gathering my stuff and like, oh my gosh, I have to go home, Like I all. Oh, you left. Yes, I could not stay there one more second.
Speaker 1:I was terrorized. You didn't want any of the hanky-panky to happen? Nothing to do with it. You just left him high and dry.
Speaker 2:I was nice. I mean, I guess I said something like, oh my gosh, I've got to let the dog out, or dogs, just like all of a sudden. Yeah, I guess you just got to let the dog out or dogs like all of a sudden.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess I was like did you ever talk to him after that? Like friendly yeah yeah, I mean, you didn't like the next day, just say like this ain't gonna work, you know.
Speaker 2:Thankfully I never, you know I did. I was like oh my gosh, you know, it was one of those things, don't let me have surgery and have to run into him. Oh yeah, that would have just been. That would have been.
Speaker 1:I would have just been like you know, and I wish I could remember some of the other reasons that you broke up with people, because Well, I didn't break up, I just did not continue.
Speaker 2:You ghosted them. Another one that I went out with that I really liked he was. He had been married and we kind of knew each other when he was married, if you know what I mean Very, very, very handsome man. He was another farter.
Speaker 1:That just did it for you Off the list.
Speaker 2:If you're gonna do that, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Just don't. And then there was the infamous little guy. Hey, little guy.
Speaker 2:Oh, that was bad, that was bad. And remember the guy I left at the blockhouse having dinner Because he kept telling me he didn't know. I think he thought I was like a cashier at McDonald's, which there's nothing wrong with. I was a cashier at McDonald's, which there's nothing wrong with. I was a cashier at McDonald's at one time, but he assumed, I think, because of my age that he was better than you.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh, he was trying to impress you.
Speaker 2:He was better and richer, and you, I mean. He trust me. This guy thought he was king of the hill, he was king of the pile of shit in my book and I left him sitting at the blockhouse, which is a restaurant.
Speaker 1:So you just left him. Sure did you said you went to the bathroom and just got in your car. Oh, that is funny. Do you, listening or watching? Have any really awkward dating stories you want to share with us Because we would love to hear them? Or just awkward?
Speaker 2:moments. It doesn't have to be dating. Maybe you dumped potting soil on someone's $20,000 rug, like Wesley did 864-982-5029.
Speaker 1:Call and leave us a voicemail so we can play it or text us. We might call you. I would love to hear some and if you're watching us, you can leave it down in the comments. I would love to hear some awkward moments. You've had a lot.
Speaker 2:It always happens, you know, and we're leaving for my birthday's Friday. We're leaving for Miami at 7 seven. Our flight leaves at 7 30 in the morning. That was the latest I could get and not get there at night. Um, so I'm anxious to see what will I mean? I'm sure I will. There's no telling what will. Everything happens to me in something crazy. We're having dinner at the Versace mansion. I'm sure I'll break something, yeah.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so you had told us the last time you're going to Miami and staying in South Beach.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And you said that he hasn't been in over 25 years.
Speaker 2:I don't remember, because he got food poisoning the last time he was there. It was horrible, horrible.
Speaker 1:See, there's another story Awkward, so hopefully this is the redemption. I hope so because I think it's a great city.
Speaker 2:It's a great place.
Speaker 1:But he had another awkward one. I don't know if it's awkward or just experience vacationing, that you have got to move past, and I don't think we've ever talked about this, but it kind of affects our business. So Stephen had a bad experience with mangoes, and so now, anytime like if I have something that's mango-scented or has mango fruit in it he's like no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:That was over 25 years ago too, but it was traumatic.
Speaker 1:Tell us your mango To this day. He will not have anything to do with anything If it's got the word mango he ain't doing nothing with it.
Speaker 2:Nope, what happened? So went on a cruise. I don't remember exactly, Well I do. We flew into San Juan. It was a great cruise. They no longer do this and I don't know why, but it went from San Juan to South America, to Venezuela. It was a great cruise, but for whatever reason it doesn't exist anymore. Someone told me I didn't look it up.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, they have to change it up. And there's, you know, like I think they just stopped doing cruises from Charleston there's contracts and they lose contracts.
Speaker 2:And change it up Well it was fantastic and you know me, I have to be very active. I do not do well just sitting. So for me to do a cruise there, I had to do every every. There was a million stops on this. Like we stopped, probably 10 different islands, yeah, and I and I had to do stuff. Oh, he was, um, I would. I can't sit on a boat. Yeah, yeah, I had to do stuff. So um did stuff everywhere. It all was great. I loved it. Um went to the island of Grenada, which I love, and, just FYI, like 95, 95 of the spices we use in this country come from grenada oh, and when you got.
Speaker 2:Need someone to fact check that please, when you got off the boat you could smell like the cinnamon trees. It was like amazing. And it looked. Getting off the boat, it looked. It reminded me of the coast of Italy, the way the homes were stacked up, the you know, the mountain going down to the water. It was beautiful. So I signed us up for this excursion, where we were going on a hike for the day to a— and I have photos. I need to show you photos of this and you did a hike and a swim in this swimming hole with these beautiful waterfalls. It sounds wonderful, doesn't it? It does, yes, it does. And lunch was included.
Speaker 1:So you just do a little hike to this gorgeous.
Speaker 2:Well, not yet. A hike through a gorgeous rainforest Sounds great doesn't it?
Speaker 1:You end up at a watering hole, you have lunch, you splash around.
Speaker 2:Well, first of all, the lunch. You're going to enjoy this. The lunch was fish tacos. I don't eat fish. I was like, oh hell.
Speaker 1:Do you not eat?
Speaker 2:any kind of fish, really Filet of fish at McDonald's.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, at McDonald's I'll eat like fish sticks?
Speaker 2:Oh gosh, I don't eat quality fish. I don't enjoy it. You don't like salmon?
Speaker 1:Mm-mm, yeah, mm-mm Okay.
Speaker 2:I don't, and so that was all fine. I'm like well, you know when in Rome that's my problem. So I didn't get all bent, Met some really nice people, but we're hiking Mm-hmm, and the hike was through a mango orchard.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:It wasn't an orchard per se, it was a grove. It was a grove because it was natural, it wasn't planted and it was very wet because you're in a, you know, a tropical, so picture. It's wet, it was very muddy, and then mangoes had fallen off of the trees and rotted. And you were just and they were rotten mangoes mashed into this mud that smelled like horse shit. So it was mango, horse shit mud and I had to walk, were y'all on horses or just walking.
Speaker 2:Oh no, we were on foot. Oh yeah, so you're stomping through.
Speaker 1:What kind of shoes did you have? I know you were not prepared for a hike.
Speaker 2:I know it was bad and thankfully I didn't have any money back then so there wouldn't have been any major losses there. But I was like, oh my God, and I gagged, and I gagged, I get that, I gagged, I get that. I will never forget that smell. And then I was traumatized. And you know it's all a setup. I'm sure they were the sweetest, cutest little children. Their parents would just turn them loose in the woods and they had the grossest, nastiest bucket of water and they would come and try to wash your feet for a dollar. Oh my gosh, you know I love. That broke my heart. So I gave them like a $20 bill and she looked at me like I had given her like $10,000. And she just ran away. I was like honey, you don't have to wash my feet. I was thinking I don't want you washing my feet in that. Then we get. So I'm just nasty, disgusted, emotionally traumatized by this child washing feet. It was just not a good day.
Speaker 2:So we get down to this watering hole. Uh-huh, it looked like a cesspool and I didn't realize it at the time. But I'm nasty, I'm like I'm getting in that water. If there had been piranhas in there. I was washing myself off and people are jumping off. So I'm like you know what the hell? At this point, this has just been horrible, yeah. So I'm like you know what the hell? At this point, this has just been horrible. So I'm just getting in. Yeah, I got in and you know this was pre-digital cameras, so you know, and I'm a huge picture person, so I was taking all these photos and we got home and I would always get them developed first thing. Yeah, I looked at that water and I'm just thankful I didn't get like typhoid fever.
Speaker 1:It looked like sewage, oh my so many people were in it, in it, yeah, and you know, cruise after cruise, and, and you could see the water splashing up.
Speaker 2:You know, normally it looks blue clear, Just brown Gross.
Speaker 1:Well, maybe that's why the cruise doesn't go there anymore.
Speaker 2:I like Grenada. I would love to go back to Grenada. It was very interesting to me Really, the island yeah.
Speaker 1:We need to go on a cruise. I wouldn't go on that, hike. Daniel and I said that the other day. We're like we we need to go on a cruise. I wouldn't go on that, hike. Yeah, Daniel and I said that the other day. We're like we all need to go on a cruise. But see you and Dylan, they get bored really easy.
Speaker 2:No, I would like a cruise as long as there's stops.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, there's always stops, but you know they're not the best stop. I mean, like Daniel and I love a cruise because it's like a fun, relaxing vacation that you don't have to plan or do anything, but yet there's also some entertainment. But we don't do like, unless it's a really good stop, we may not even get off the boat.
Speaker 2:No, I'm getting off the boat because usually there's. You know, Aruba is a good one because they have casinos and there's. I mean, I don't necessarily do an outing, but I want to go gamble and go to the beach and yeah things like that. I don't have to be, you know on and you know a planned outing per se. Yeah, but I do like I don't want to sit on the boat.
Speaker 2:The whole time and when I'm on the boat I stay busy too like I like to play bingo. Bingo's fun on the boat. I stay busy too Like I like to play bingo. Bingo's fun on the cruise.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, there's always fun, stupid fun things to do we love a cruise? Yeah, I just love a cruise, though, because it's like thinkless, you don't have to plan anything.
Speaker 2:And it's fun to do and hang out.
Speaker 1:But that's why I didn't know if y'all would. Y Y'all aren't very good at lounging. Y'all get bored. I do especially and it's just the ADD in me and see, I can lay by the pool all day, walk around the ship, do the bingo, do whatever sort of thing I get depressed.
Speaker 2:You get like Dylan. It says you it is. He always says you are so weird, Like going on vacation. I've never seen anyone. If I just take three days and I'm not working, I'm depressed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't really get depressed or whatever, but I can feel my energy go down. If I come down too much and you know I'm not keeping myself busy then I just get very lethargic and I'm like then it's hard to gear back up, but I can do it on vacation, I don't know. It's a different mindset where you're like laid up Y'all gotta have something, but that's not everyone vacations differently and y'all are going to Hawaii, but your birthday let's talk about that 52, how's it going to feel?
Speaker 2:Fine, listen, I'm just thankful to be another, you know, on this side of the grass another year. Age does not bother me.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's good. And now that you're getting closer to your trip, which I guess we'll have to talk about in like two weeks after you get back what plant you? You're having dinner at the the versace, mansion versace and man john.
Speaker 2:Well, that's how, that's what's the net, that's the name.
Speaker 1:Sounds very basic thing to do Really.
Speaker 2:I'm just kidding. No, I went there right after he was murdered but they had not obviously opened up the mansion. I really don't want to eat there, I just want to see inside. And it's a hotel and a restaurant. Yeah, I want to see it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a very fun thing, and then y'all will have some great shopping. I'm sure my birthday's right after yours. I'm sure you're going to buy me something fabulous, what amazing. I can't wait.
Speaker 2:I cannot wait to see what you bring me back from Miami.
Speaker 1:A big, nothing. I haven't.
Speaker 2:Honestly, it's been so long since I've been there I really don't know what to expect. I mean, I remember all the people really pretty men, really pretty women, everyone's perfect um, and then there's gonna be you too right, right. I mean, I remember thinking when I was. I remember thinking when I was young and cute damn this.
Speaker 1:Uh, this really knocks you back probably won't be the same now that you're older and you go and you'll be like I don't give a shit whatever I just remembered something moving on anything else about your birthday.
Speaker 2:No, I called um, so we're using our um marriott ownership points oh you know, he got conned into his um where we're going to another. Yeah, we're going to another meeting there oh my god, you do not need, I'm not buying. No, need, I'm not buying. No, no, no, no, I'm not buying, I don't need it.
Speaker 1:What are you?
Speaker 2:going to a meeting for Because I get points. Just to go to the meeting, I get freebies.
Speaker 1:But you're not good at saying no for this kind of thing.
Speaker 2:Well, here's the thing. This is how you got yourself in this situation to begin with. For him to be so smart and business oriented. No, no, no. I. I want more. I want 10 000 or 1 000 more marriott ownership points, but I don't want them now. Why do you want them? And in order for us to take the vacations in the future, I need a thousand more.
Speaker 1:But you can pay some out of pocket.
Speaker 2:I can't. But it doesn't make sense to do it this year, because I have more than enough to cover. More than enough to cover. I won't need to do that until 27. But my thing is is if I go to a meeting every vacation between now and then, I'll end up with over 100,000 Bonvoy points.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but okay, here's the thing You're not going to end up using all of these points, like you think you are. You're going to end up oh, I can't get away this time, and then they'll just carry over and you won't need the extra points.
Speaker 2:No, well, you can carry them over and you can rent them. You can rent them out too, but no, I'm not.
Speaker 1:I have I'm not even. But listen, I'm not going to complain when I'm on vacation with you.
Speaker 2:I am not. I'm not even taking the checkbook. It is not even an option. And even Dylan was like why are we going? And an option, okay.
Speaker 1:And even dylan was like why are we going?
Speaker 2:and I was like 30 000 bonvoy points he's like, okay, well, we can sit through a two-hour thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, and it's fine, but I call, they called me you should ask them if they have like a um, an affiliate program or like. Could you be some type of like? Can you advertise that? Can you promote it? Can you get a little kickback if you talk about it? Ask them, if there's a little something there, you can do a whole presentation.
Speaker 2:Well, it was funny, the lady called me.
Speaker 1:Someone else might be interested in talking to you as much as I like to make fun about it about how it's really working.
Speaker 2:Well, there's pros and cons and I always, I always, you know point that out. In the end, you know, for an accountant or an engineer, you know folks out there. They really want to know the bottom line, right, you know. And the bottom line of the vacation points is you're basically prepaying for your vacations at a 30% discount, if you really do the math.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So you get a little savings, but you're prepaying and you're kind of locked in.
Speaker 2:It's all how you manage it too. Yeah, like you can manage it to where it really benefits you. And if you know you're not going to take a trip or you don't want to take a trip and you rent it out, you're, you know, you're even in better shape. I don't want a lot because I owned, you know, in my prior life I owned at four specific properties in Hawaii Tom's Shares, tom's Shares through Marriott. I owned at four specific properties in Hawaii Timeshares, timeshares through Marriott and I do not want to get into that again because the fees were so much and I owned too much, it was impossible to take the vacations, because I ended up with like eight weeks a year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which you just couldn't eat. I gave it away. Do so. This new method is more like you're pre-paying for points that you then exchange for trips, uh, so you're not really paying monthly, uh, maintenance fees annually.
Speaker 2:You do pay. You do have a deed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you do pay that annually and it's about for me hours are like $2,700 a year. Okay, which isn't you know. I'd calculate all of that in and it works. And then if, like, say, I didn't, we said we couldn't go on a trip in 2027 or 2028. You can push those points back for a year and then at that point, if you even don't want to do that, if you're like I just don't even want to deal with it, you can convert them over to Monvoy points. That's not the best management of your points. You lose a little bit of money like that, so it's not really something I would do. That's why I told you you know, we're going to, the four of us are going to take a trip in, I think we said, june, sometime of next year, 26. Yeah, and in that way, because I've kind of saved those points aside so that we can actually stay in like two different cities and okay, in spain we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1:Uh well, I think we have a few minutes. I got one more story. I remembered that you were supposed to tell we started talking about this. It's a sore subject, so we'll finish off on this one, but I think he's recovered by now. Speaking of awkward, are we like?
Speaker 2:is this like traumatized Stephen Day? This is my birthday week.
Speaker 1:Well, it's going back to awkward stories and awkward moments, for sure.
Speaker 2:I mean, maybe we could pull up some childhood humiliation stories. Okay, Do you have some? Probably if I sit here and think about it.
Speaker 1:Well, stephen, we started talking about this. If you watch our live sales you may have caught it and we were like we got to save it for podcasts to talk about. We have to tell about how you royally screwed up on payroll.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, I'm still a little pissed off at this. See, I told you he's still a little traumatized about this Because, okay, if you really know me, I double, triple, quadruple, check everything to the point where it drives people crazy, not this time nope. So uh, we had an employee I will refer to as criminal, okay we had criminal.
Speaker 2:And she. I put her in the payroll system and I did. I really don't know what I did, but somehow I put her in at a salary of $30,000 a year. Yep a year, yeah, and we ended up paying her her salary for half a year, plus all of the hours she worked. Yeah, and the heifer did not even tell us. I really think I am going to take legal action because I have to. I have three years.
Speaker 1:At least a year now.
Speaker 2:I don't remember when, a year now, but Stephen was devastated when dad, I mean figured this out.
Speaker 1:It's so much money you weren't even upset I was like it's gone. Obviously, we're okay, it's gone. It we're okay, it's gone, it's going to be fine. But the back story more than that.
Speaker 2:The funnier thing is is Dylan found it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dylan was with you, who had never even looked at payroll, never seen the payroll, and you were like, oh, I got to stop by the retail store and I got to submit payroll.
Speaker 2:He was looking over my shoulder.
Speaker 1:Thank God, yes, and caught it. But the bigger thing is this criminal, as we shall call, only worked like two days a week.
Speaker 2:At most.
Speaker 1:So yeah at most. So yeah at most. So maybe was getting like 12 hours a week or because she would usually maybe work a saturday and a sunday four hours on a sunday eight hour day, yeah, if that.
Speaker 1:So 12 hours or whatever. And then was getting a paycheck for a lot over,000. For like that amount of money. And then I mean it was obvious, right, that's what was funny. I kept saying, oh my gosh, like how did she not know? And then they were trying to play it off and give the benefit of the doubt, like well, maybe because she does work another job, blah, blah, blah, because she does work another job, blah, blah, blah. And I was like no, you're getting a direct deposit from the nested fig where you work. And you see, oh, I'm getting over, you know $1,000 or whatever it would be. And I worked one day this week because she was getting the salary and her hours.
Speaker 2:And you know, and I had to look it up, so you know it's gonna involve me some time and trouble, but you know I am gonna go, I'm, you know I'm, I'm in a better state of mind, so I am gonna go after her legally because it is fraud. Yeah, and after you know, doing a little research, it is fraud. You have to pay the money back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, and you should have said something. It wasn't like you know. I could have understood if you called it and it was off by like $50 a paycheck or $100 a paycheck because you may just go, oh, like. Someone may not calculate that, I can understand that. But if you were supposed to get, say, 10 hours, maybe you were in your check was going to get, you know, $200 because this is your side job and you got $1,200.
Speaker 2:You know if this person had made an effort and was like even making an effort, I mean by giving us $100 a month effort, just a little effort, you know, because I was, I'm partial, you know it was my mistake. But when you don't, when you don't tell them, it's just like if the bank makes an error like that, that is fraud, that is bank fraud and they're gonna get, they're gonna get their money. So, uh, we can get our money right. So you know, we may. Just you know she may be paying out of her paycheck, we just may have to have it so then, what did she do?
Speaker 1:I don't even know how it was. This was was a big deal y'all. This was Stephen couldn't talk about it. I was wrecked, he was wrecked.
Speaker 2:In my professional work history, that is the biggest mistake I've ever made.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how did it end? She just stopped showing up because you had talked to her and she acted surprised.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then she sent me a text, which I have, saying she was going to pay it back. She would have it paid back this date, that she understood that was fraud and she apologized. I mean, I've got listen, I have my ducks in a row for her little ass. Yeah, so you know.
Speaker 1:That sounds like a fun thing to do this summer.
Speaker 2:I think it's going to be a good thing Late spring, yeah, yeah, and my thing is is wrong, is wrong. And if you try to do the right thing and I gave her the opportunity to do the right thing, I even said you know what, you don't even have to pay it all back. You can keep one third of it because I want to own that as my mistake, right? So I mean, I'm giving you $5,000. Yeah, as a gift. Yeah, pay me the rest back, right, and you don't even make an effort. Yeah, so I have. No, I don't feel bad garnishing, having her wages garnished.
Speaker 1:And, like you said, even if she would pay $10 a week, you would have been like, well, she's doing something, we'll be getting $10 forever. Yeah, but we brought that up. I don't know how that came up in the live sale.
Speaker 2:And came up in the live sale and people were like, I want to know, I want to know, and I was like, well, save it for the podcast. That was my, that was my big, that was my big mistake.
Speaker 1:He was so distraught. Oh, I was just glad it wasn't me you were.
Speaker 2:you were shocked.
Speaker 1:It wasn't you, you were like I'm surprised I hadn't done that yeah.
Speaker 2:I was just like well, I'm glad that went to me and the way that the payroll system works, it's easy to see. Yeah, it's easy to see how that can happen. Yeah, I just look every time now.
Speaker 1:Occasionally, Daniel will be like have you checked payroll lately? And I'm like it's good. Yeah, I mean it might happen somewhere else, but it won't happen on payroll again.
Speaker 2:Nope, there's one thing I can guarantee you that will never happen again.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness, it's a good laugh for me at this point. I know you still are like distraught about it on some level, but for me I'm like.
Speaker 2:Well, I've just never made mistakes like that, and especially with money, because I've always double checked, triple checked, triple checked everything.
Speaker 1:And well, that's definitely another awkward moment. We've had an episode full of awkward moments, so make sure you call or text us and tell us your awkward moments.
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Speaker 2:it yes, and I've had enough torture.
Speaker 1:You've had enough torture. Well, I'll see what I can do on the next episode. How about that? Bye y'all, have a great week.
Speaker 2:Thanks guys.