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Who's Driving: Back From Miami S3 E9
Steven is back from a birthday vacation to Miami, we're diving straight into hilarious tales of road rage and near-disasters! When one of us admits to screaming and flipping off another driver,
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I tell you, I didn't know if we were going to get live today or not.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm here and look who's back. I'm back. It's time for another episode of who's Driving. So you made it back from your little birthday vacation.
Speaker 1:Yes, you already said that was a really good, that was a really good decision to do that trip.
Speaker 2:You said you wish you had made it a little longer I do, and that's funny that.
Speaker 1:but you know, the next time I'll be like oh, I'm glad it wasn't any longer.
Speaker 2:You know, it just depends on where you are.
Speaker 1:You know I hadn't been to Miami in so long. I you know. I didn't know if I was. I had such a horrible time the first time with the food poisoning? I just didn't know. But we had a really good time.
Speaker 2:And so you made it back without any drama, no food poisoning, no real incidences or anything.
Speaker 1:No, any good stories I didn't poop my pants. I didn't have a car accident, nothing, oh dang. Oh, I did have a road rage incident, oh. Yes, so while we were there, the Miami Tennis Open was going on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um miami tennis open was going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, um dylan is a tennis player and he loves going to tennis matches and that crap, but you didn't know this was going on. He headed down there well, he said that I knew, and he told me and I said, oh well, we're not doing that. But if I, I don't recall but that- does sound like something I would have said I think that sounds but, we.
Speaker 1:He told me when we got there and I was like, oh, we'll get a ticket, you know, it was like 40 minutes away, yeah, and I was like it's fine, you know, it was up near closer to fort lauderdale I was like it's fine, I'll drive you.
Speaker 1:Um, I didn't want. I wanted him to take advantage of that opportunity, so I drove him up there. Lots of traffic, was it the Hard Rock? Whatever it's called? Something, something, yeah something, where the Dolphins play, and so traffic was crazy and it was crowded, of course. So then I had to coordinate with him. Sorry to pick him up. Yeah Well, I was. I rented a Mustang convertible while I had the top up, because it was too noisy driving on that freeway.
Speaker 2:I know, you know that's the thing with convertibles they seem like the fun thing to have. You know, I had the thing with convertibles they seem like the fun thing to have. You know, I had a Mini Cooper convertible and it seems dreamy to have that. Sorry, you can drive those with the top down about eight days a year.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And then it's annoying because it's I mean, it's good Like we would. How much damn water are you going to drink?
Speaker 1:A lot. I've got this allergy call from this yellow dander outside.
Speaker 2:I mean that bottle is going to light up and blow up. You're drinking so much water, it stays lit.
Speaker 1:And one of our, one of my followers, sent me a message and and it made me laugh out loud and it said you can tell when someone has really bonded with their water bottle. Yeah, and I have.
Speaker 2:He has this water bottle I love, I've got to order another one for myself. I love these water bottles. So funny story. I like to make fun of it, but it is a great thing.
Speaker 1:Dylan's mother was asking something one of my Christmas presents and he said go ahead and get him a backup water bottle. Yeah, that's really. I'm going to continue that, because these Hydrate Spark is what they're called. If you're in the members only community, I have it linked over on the site you need one, but Hydrate Spark needs to listen to me on one thing we need a handle on this puppy. I think they have those now.
Speaker 2:They have new styles when I was linking them and you can buy the replacement bottom part in case you know how you drop it and it breaks or something if you drop it Really.
Speaker 1:So I don't have to buy the whole bottle. I don't think so, because I drop them, I mean, and they are made really well.
Speaker 2:They really are.
Speaker 1:I knock the hell out of them and I you know. We have concrete floors at home and this one has bounced across the concrete multiple times and it's still working.
Speaker 2:But one day it's gonna be all she wrote you know, what's funny is I still have mine and I think it may work, but I'm like, oh, it's probably got water sitting in it from a year ago. I just need a new one you know what?
Speaker 1:I'm saying just get a new one um but in the app I just love how it like, it just reminds me when I think I'm drinking a lot of water and I I'm, I'm not, I'm lying to myself, and it just says you're a liar, drink some more water, and um, and I need that, but anyway, back to the uh convertible.
Speaker 2:You can uh, it seems dreamy to have that but then you can only put the top down like eight days a year, especially around here, because when it's this time of year when it's really nice you got the pollen to deal with then in the summertime you think it's going to be nice put the top down. No, it is hot as hell when you have the top down it is you stop at a red light and you're sweating.
Speaker 1:I use mine as a convertible. More in the fall and then the fall in early spring. That About eight or ten days a year.
Speaker 2:It's great, maybe on vacation at the beach or if you're in the mountains, but it's too hot, because we would do that in Hilton Head and I'd be like, oh, we got to pull over and put the top back up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's too much. And my neighbor just got a convertible for her 80th birthday and I told her I was like, girl, don't put the top down until about 1st of May. She was like why? I was like you will never get all the pollen out of your car, that's right. And I'm so allergic I was like don't put the top down.
Speaker 2:She was like I never thought about it. I was like you will.
Speaker 1:You do it one time and you're getting all that green out of the little crevices in your faux leather. The other thing is if you want a convertible. This is just my two cents. I've had two convertibles. I've had one. Soft top in my current mercedes is a hard top. I just totally recommend a hard top. Yeah, because the truth of the matter is you drive it most of the time with the top up and a hard top is like you're just driving a coupe car.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because mine was a soft top and it's louder and hot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you had a road rage incident, I guess.
Speaker 1:So I went to pick him up in this um elderly man which was probably my age, um was very. He was in this mercedes suv and he was very aggressive you know that type you can see, just on my ass and whipping over and I'm like you need to calm down. Here we are, you know, at this busy ass stadium, at this tennis you run somebody over, probably like an Uber driver.
Speaker 2:He got.
Speaker 1:No, he was snooty, snoot, snoot, like those tennis people, I'm just kidding snoot, snoot, like those tennis people, I'm just kidding. And so I flipped him off and was screaming and you know inappropriate things and then he flew around me doing that and he was doing it. Yeah, dylan was like you have got to stop doing this stuff, you're going to get shot. Yeah, people just shoot you now.
Speaker 2:And he's right, it's true or right, or they're recording it and you end up on like going viral on tiktok. I'm fine with that because I can see me opening the app up and scrolling through, and there's your dumb ass flipping someone off yes, and I'm okay with that If they push me to that point.
Speaker 1:you deserve it.
Speaker 2:No, have you ever watched on? Do you scroll TikTok?
Speaker 1:much.
Speaker 2:I know we send each other, but I don't know if you like, and then the ones that crash into people after they do, oh yeah. After the road rage no, but like people who do wrong things and there's these people on Tik TOK that find them like, just from like one little background, they do the whole story, like they find the person that did something wrong and they tell where they work and where they live and all that'd be you and they will dig into your history and those skeletons, dig baby.
Speaker 1:Dig there ain't. There, ain't nothing. I'm not going down with you dig there, ain't nothing.
Speaker 2:I'm not going down with you.
Speaker 1:There ain't nothing that is that entertaining or anything else. I've lived a pretty boring life.
Speaker 2:I'm going to open up the app and you're going to be on there and that's going to be the end of us. We're going to get canceled.
Speaker 1:It could happen.
Speaker 2:Get canceled because of your dumb ass.
Speaker 1:You know I remain to be one of the most overinsured people I know, just because I know one day I'm going to snap.
Speaker 2:You kind of taught me that when I was setting up business insurance and stuff You're like go ahead. He said you need a couple of umbrella policies because you need layers.
Speaker 1:Yeah because there's going to be the day when you just slap these living shit out of somebody and not necessarily employ. I mean, it could just be anybody, anybody.
Speaker 2:And I'm like I just I need that, yeah, the insurance person has said something before Like do you need all of this? Yeah, and we're like I just I need that, yeah. The insurance person has said something before Like do you need all of this? Yeah.
Speaker 1:And we're like, yeah, it's worth it.
Speaker 2:It's worth it.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, when I own McDonald's, I know you love it when I bring that up. But you know I've gotten several messages that that is people's favorite topic on here. Ok, but anyway Doesn't have to be every episode but I really so. One of the great things was is the package insurance. It was ridiculously expensive but you had so much insurance, like I always the insurance you could get through mcdonald's as well, no, it was for mcdonald.
Speaker 1:It was three big insurance companies, you know, because that's what? Well, no, it was for McDonald's. It was three big insurance companies, you know, across the country.
Speaker 2:But that's what I'm saying. But it was bundled for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you had like I had like $37 million. Oh, you could almost run someone up and just do a little payout Zoom, zoom, yeah, that was. And so when I sold I was like, oh, you know, I need to get some, get some.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know, if you're listening, since we're talking about this, we've talked about this before and especially if you have a business, even if you don't have rage issues like I, do need to make sure that you have the right amount of liability on your car, because if you don't have, if it's an insurance gap, if you don't have the right amount of liability on your car, your, your package insurance cannot kick in.
Speaker 2:So you always want to double check that yeah, yeah, yeah, you have to up your car insurance to make sure there's not a gap. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had to up your car insurance To make sure there's not a gap. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had to do that on my like. They were like, oh, you got to up this so that this will be effective, or whatever.
Speaker 1:So I was scrolling through Instagram. Mm-hmm, and you know very few things make me feel old. Oh, I really don't feel old. I feel like I'm 28. Mm-hmm, and don't feel old. I feel like I'm 28, um, and you don't look a day over 55. Well, thank you, that's an improvement. Um, I was what I was scrolling through and there was a post that said I am this old, and it was the smoking sections in high school oh yeah, I saw that post like someone was out. I think I sent it to you.
Speaker 2:Oh, did you and I was like oh my god, you remember smoking sections yeah, do you?
Speaker 1:no, they didn't have that no, they didn't have that. When I was there, you I mean people snuck around and oh no, no, no, we had um, we had multiple sections at daniel high school. You could smoke, the students could smoke. Was it legal then? Yeah, oh yeah, you could smoke out toward the football stadium.
Speaker 2:How old do you have to be to smoke? 18?.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know then everybody smoked.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying, Like. I guess it was more enforced when I was Our principal smoked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, our principal smoked, and I can remember her standing outside on the front sidewalk and smoking, walking around, I guess thinking clearing her head you know.
Speaker 2:I'm sure she wanted to kill smoke.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she would smoke, yeah, and she would even smoke with students at times, but it was just a different. I was like that is, I had forgotten about it. Yeah, I was like that is, I had forgotten about it. And then, you know, when I went to work at McDonald's in 88, everybody smoked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you said Everybody. Keep their ashtray at the end of the.
Speaker 1:And in the morning, at breakfast, you could not see. I'm not kidding, you could not see from one end of the lobby to the other.
Speaker 2:It was just a haze, all the old people sitting there having their breakfast and coffee and smoking it up it's crazy, and it's crazy how it's changed. You know, since daniel and I got together in 2008, um, it was still like a lot of restaurants in the city of greenville still had smoking sections and you could still smoke in the restaurant. And then since then it's, you know, there's no smoking in restaurants and that sort of thing. Public areas like that. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's yeah and it's not. You know, and I'm not listen, I'm not chastising any smokers or anything, it was just it's crazy how it's changed. Yeah, or you know, it's just so different, yeah, and honestly, I mean I remember it but I don't even. I have no recollection of even judging those people.
Speaker 2:Well, it was the norm, then you wouldn't judge them. It's not like now.
Speaker 1:It was just like oh, I don't smoke.
Speaker 2:Everyone smokes.
Speaker 1:I didn't smoke, but it wasn't like it is now. Like now, you know, people are like, oh, they're smoking, they're smoking. And listen, I don't love smoke in my face or anything, but I'm just going to tell you, if you're not blowing it right in my face, I know it's not good. I mean, for goodness sakes, my mother died with lung cancer. I'm not a proponent of it, but I'm not like one of those people oh, I smell cigarette smoke. I'm not one of those, but I mean I one of those people oh, I smell cigarette smoke. I'm not one of those, yeah, but I mean I don't love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, I don't know. Some people like the smell of it. I don't love the smell of it and I don't want to smell like it.
Speaker 1:I love the smell of tobacco.
Speaker 2:I don't want to go somewhere as me, not a smoker like to a restaurant and come out smelling like smoke. So I don't. I do agree that you shouldn't be smoking where, like you, don't have an option to well, and you know in all, fairness we didn't know what we know now.
Speaker 2:Yeah I mean. But who wants to go to a restaurant knowing it or harmless, harmful, or harmless, and come out smelling like cigarette smokes? Because the smoke, because the table next to you is like smoking it up or something, I don't know. Like you said, it's a different time. I saw one similar to that, a post on whatever social media, talking about making me feel old, which you know it's my birthday time right now. I just had it. When this comes out, um, but it was all the like sitcom parents I can't remember if it was moms and dads or just a mom, whatever, but their ages when they were on the sitcom. And they look old, they look like old people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and now I'm older than all of them. The Golden Girls, when they were on air, when they started, were all under 50.
Speaker 2:Crazy. They were like Old women, I know, but you know I can't remember the examples, but say the home alone mom when she was 42 or something. I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm two years older than her.
Speaker 1:That seemed younger to me, but when you get into like the Aunt Bees from Andy Griffith and you start really looking at ages, it's like what in the hell? Yeah, that is true. But, I remember, like my grandparents being listen, my grandparents were attractive people. I'm not knocking them, but I remember when they were my age and they seemed like really old.
Speaker 2:Well, that's how it is. When you're a kid To you kids that are, you know, seven or eight, you seem old, like really old. Well, that's how it is when you're a kid To you kids that are, you know, seven or eight, you seem old, like really old, like grandpa old. That's how it works. Don't ever ask a kid how old do you think I am?
Speaker 1:No, you don't ask a kid or a drunk Anything unless you want the absolute truth. Don't ask, that's right. Don't ask, they will tell oh my God, it's true, so anyway.
Speaker 2:So, speaking of my birthday Joy, You're going to be 40, 44.
Speaker 1:44. You don't look a day over 48. My birthday is.
Speaker 2:March 30th, 44. 44.
Speaker 1:You don't look a day over 48. My birthday is March 30th.
Speaker 2:And when this comes out on April Fool's Day, I'll be 44.
Speaker 1:So we're going to be in Atlanta at the Atlanta market.
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Speaker 2:Especially like I start really really using it this time of year. I use it all the time, but this time of year when I'm going to put on my self-tanner, my fake tan, because my legs get a little ashy and dry, and stuff like that. That exfoliating soap is so good.
Speaker 1:And she has an exfoliating soap with grits and sugar on one side and the other side is smooth, so you can exfoliate your arms and legs and whatnot, but when you get to your Netherlands you can use the soft soap Right, because you don't want to scrub off your.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, no, no to scrub off your.
Speaker 1:No, we do not need sandpaper down there.
Speaker 2:It's also good, like I use it almost as a I don't know like utilitarian type, like if I've been painting or something like I was painting the room the other day, you know you get paint on you. You use that gritty side. It is so good.
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Speaker 2:Yeah, so I think you can just search for it. You can put it in the show notes. Yeah, I'll put it in there, a link to it. So get your soaps. Anyway, she sent me for my birthday a National Day calendar. You know we've talked about that and I don't know if this has everything or not, but I mean it looks official. It does have a lot of stuff, so I thought we would talk about this week's official day.
Speaker 2:I don't see my name on here, but that's fine. Well, first of all, there are month-long celebrations, observances, observations, whatever, and then there's daily things. So let's start with the monthly For the month of April. In case anyone wants to celebrate, celebrate good times, come on. It is soft pretzel month.
Speaker 1:I love a soft pretzel and mustard, I love mustard.
Speaker 2:I got some. At the grocery store the other day. They had these tubs of pretzels. They were really good. I'll have to get us some. It's garden month, so that's a good thing to celebrate.
Speaker 1:Humor month Is this March or April. This is April, okay, humor month.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm all about that. Jazz appreciation month, month of hope that's good. I need hope. We all need hope. Scottish American heritage month I'm not Scottish Pickleball month. We need to take up pickleball. I feel like it's a basic thing we should do in life.
Speaker 1:Listen, but your husband is not a tennis player. Do you know what he'll do to me?
Speaker 2:Well, you didn't say we were inviting Dylan Me and you can go.
Speaker 1:We need to go learn.
Speaker 2:We need to go learn Whip some ass.
Speaker 1:We'll trip and break the ankle on the first.
Speaker 2:It's volunteer month, that's good. Afternoon tea month I don't like tea. Daniel's drinks tea sometimes. It's really good for you Teas. But you know they're not all tea like TT, they're like herbs, herbs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's can be good, I I just don't I don't they all taste watered down and plain? I don't want anything. With a floral Brunch month, I could do brunch. I want bacon.
Speaker 2:Okay, so this week that's your month-long celebration, so I want to hear about your celebrations. Okay, today, which is April April 1st, is obviously April Fool's Day. I don't even know what that one is, so I'm not going to read it, because it's letters for something. One cent day, wait, are they doing away with pennies? I thought that was a thing, not that long ago.
Speaker 1:How do you do away with pennies?
Speaker 2:Well, you know, Canada doesn't have pennies. I think the plan is to do away with pennies.
Speaker 1:You. I think the plan is to do away with pennies. You would just round everything to the nearest spot. I think they cost more than they're worth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were saying they cost more to make than they're worth. It costs a lot of money, but really I'm fine getting rid of pennies. Who needs pennies?
Speaker 1:I have like 10 million.
Speaker 2:But you don't need them. No, I don't need them. I think that's the thing. People keep pennies so they have to keep making them because they're not in circulation. I'd say just round it up to the. I say go to the quarter. I mean we're already in the digital age. Let's start at a quarter for change that's pushing it.
Speaker 2:Why? What's the difference? Whatever, oh my gosh, it is sour dough bread day on april 1st and my workshop is hopefully coming out this week, but very soon. What a quink dink um, take down tobacco day of action.
Speaker 1:take down tobacco day of action I guess that's smoking us non-smoking take down tobacco Day of action. I guess that's the Smoking, non-smoking, take down tobacco.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so is that like a we're going to protest tobacco, I guess? Library workers day, you go librarians.
Speaker 1:Are they still librarians Speaking of digital, I mean, are they still?
Speaker 2:I know a few and they're really boring people.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to, If you're if you are listening and you're a librarian and you're fun and I mean I'm sure you're out there. But if you're a librarian and you're fun and quirky, let us know. Yeah, call us on our hotline. Tell them that number because you're blocking it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I am, it's my big head blocking it. 864-982-5029. Call us on our hotline, leave us a voicemail or text us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you're a fun librarian, let me know.
Speaker 2:I feel like there's got to be some librarians that are nerdy, booky, boring, and then there's probably some that are artsy.
Speaker 1:I just have never. Well, I do know one librarian that I went to high school with. I do like her. She's fun, she's normal.
Speaker 2:They get so damn serious about their books and reading.
Speaker 1:You know they typically don't like me because I don't read. You know, it kind of goes against the grain, I guess.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I get it. I mean, if I were a librarian, I wouldn't like me either.
Speaker 2:Well, most people probably don't like you, but somebody does. Okay, I'll hit some highlights for the rest of the week. Wednesday the 2nd is Ferret Day. Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. Ferret Day World Autism Awareness Day, that's important. That's a good one Yep Walking Day and Library Outreach Day. Okay, this is all library week. Thursday is Burrito Day.
Speaker 1:Thursday we'll have burritos and Chocolate Moose Day. Oh, so I'm going to have a burrito and a chocolate mousse pie on Thursday and world party day. Let's have a party.
Speaker 2:Let's have a party with burritos and chocolate mousse.
Speaker 1:I like these kind of days.
Speaker 2:We do national cheesecake day. Oh, look that up. Friday is chicken cordordon. Bleu Day Hug a News Person Day. Jeep 4x4 Day oh God, lisa at the warehouse, she'll be all over that.
Speaker 1:Oh, she will be, I bet she's going to need that off. We need to text her and see if she's going to be off Free bird.
Speaker 2:We'll have to text Lisa and say girl, you going to be next Friday off? Yeah, it's National Jeep Day. Yeah, and it's school librarian day, so there must be a librarian theme this week and walk around things day. Now, what do you normally do? I always walk around things.
Speaker 1:There's a national poop day I just when is national cheesecake day? Because I'm gonna celebrate that that july 30th.
Speaker 2:here's one we will not be celebrating. What, on saturday, is national gold star? Well, I guess our yeah, I'm at Gold Star. Yeah, our hubs need to celebrate us. Yeah, I'm a Gold Star. I think I'll even know you're going to celebrate me. Yeah, I'm a Gold Star, me too Okay, definitely a Gold Star. A lot of Gold Star in some way, but I don't know, what um?
Speaker 2:so yeah, that's some highlights for the rest of the week you could do, you could celebrate something every day yeah, I mean, there's not a day in this calendar that doesn't have something on it, but look, there's a few days that only have like a couple of things on it.
Speaker 1:So that's where we're gonna work our ourself in july 30th we're that's gonna be national cheesecake day needs to be celebrated big okay, we should.
Speaker 2:Um, let's go to cheesecake.
Speaker 1:Back in the middle of the day and there is not a national poop your pants day oh, there's not.
Speaker 2:No, we should do that in honor of you. We should, for National Cheesecake Day, go to Cheesecake Factory and record our podcast there while sampling as many cheesecakes as we can.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, there's a new cheesecake restaurant downtown oh, we could go there.
Speaker 2:We need to get the microphone out and go on some walks downtown and interview people too.
Speaker 1:Listen, let me tell you this wonderful opportunities down there, because you know they're eating on the street, drinking, you know yeah yeah, the tables. There's so many opportunities down there I can't even tell you. We walk down there and I'm like, yeah, opportunities everywhere, endless. Ok, so another thing and this came from Facebook, not Instagram and Instagram. I've seen it on Instagram and I don't know if we've ever talked about this.
Speaker 1:Do you not think these bachelor and bachelorette part like weekend? Do you not think that's gotten a little crazy? Because now it's not like. You know, when I was in college for a bachelor party, you know I went on them and you just went, you know, to a nudie bar and, you know, went out for the night, went out for the night and you ended up at a nudie bar. And then they pull the the groom on the stage and do nasty stuff to him in a chair.
Speaker 2:That was it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now, and I think, and then I think the females just had a shower or something. I mean they hung out girls night yeah.
Speaker 2:Now, and I think the females just had a shower or something. I mean they hung out girls' night.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and now it's like whole damn weekends. Well, I don't get it.
Speaker 2:It's all kind of dumb to me and I didn't do any of that. I have never been to a bachelor party.
Speaker 1:It's so boring. Because that's why I didn't go, because I was like oh, and if you're having to celebrate or say goodbye to your single life, that much should you get me be marrying that person.
Speaker 2:I know, I don't know well, now it's become an excuse to have, like a guys or girls drunken weekend drunken weekend getaway vacation and now they go to like an island.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's big that I like, but why wouldn't you do that with your future spouse? Like I would want to spend that time and money yeah. I just think differently.
Speaker 2:I do too.
Speaker 1:Like I would or I would rather buy something new, furniture or a TV.
Speaker 2:Well, I, feel like Daniel and I talk about this all the time and you and I've talked about it randomly, but weddings have gotten so out of hand and the amount of money that people spend on weddings and I'm thankful it supports our businesses in different ways.
Speaker 1:So you know what.
Speaker 2:Spend, baby, spend Bigger the better, but I just sit back and I think all that wasted money on a weekend, I mean the cost of these weddings nowadays is more than I mean you can you can't buy a house because that's gone up too but a really really, really, really, really, really substantial down payment. I mean people are spending like a hundred thousand dollars and stuff easily.
Speaker 1:I have been to one wedding, I mean one that was excessive and I it was family, so I know it was over 250 000 hell I listen. You can buy a rental condo for 250 000 and make money and money and let me repeat, not only was this 250 000, it was at the breakers in palm beach and it rained, so they spent all that money. It was supposed to be outdoor on the water, it rained, we were we. They had ended up having the ceremony in a ball room.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was, could have been anywhere. Was the?
Speaker 1:biggest waste of money and like they spent money and listen, you do you. If that's the way you what you want to do, I don't give a damn if you go out there and burn your money.
Speaker 2:I'm talking about me right, I would have such a problem if I had a kid and had the and they're like oh like and they gave away.
Speaker 1:Um, you know, everybody's little gift is a guest. All the guests got uh good dive, uh chocolates that were shaped like seashells and I'm like I mean excessive. And then the room it was so expensive. I mean it's a thousand dollars a night.
Speaker 2:That's crazy it just gets stupid. You know, daniel and I went to las vegas and got married, as you know because you were there and we still, randomly, we talked about it and we're like that was the best.
Speaker 1:Thing and who suggested that you did.
Speaker 2:You know, we were engaged for like two years and we kept putting off the wedding because locally we felt so much pressure, like we would run into people and they're like, oh, we can't wait to come to your wedding. Well, first of all, you weren't invited. You weren't, you were never going to be on the list.
Speaker 1:But they no offense to anybody.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:It's just not.
Speaker 2:Right Possible list. But they no offense to anybody, it's just not right possible. And then, yeah, because everyone wanted to come, and then it would be like, oh, I just know it's gonna be so amazing because we owned a garden shop and you know flower farm, and this was at the beginning of the flower farm and all that. But they just had this expectation that we were gonna just be this botanical wonderland.
Speaker 1:And there is. You know, dylan and I have not officially gotten married yet. We are, in every sense of the word, on paper, but no ceremony yet. But also people just want to go to gay weddings because they know it's going to be good. Yeah, they know the gays are gonna do it right. So, and the gays will do it right. But I can tell you I ain't spending my money on that for you to come to that so so we went to vegas and spent like five grand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was the best time.
Speaker 2:It was perfect that was kind of our quote honeymoon and wedding all in one place. We got married at Caesars Palace, in the garden. So it was still a little our pictures are in like a little garden set. It was hot as three hails. If you do decide to do this and go to Vegas and get married in the Caesars Palace garden, make sure it's not 102 degrees. Oh my gosh, so it is. It was really cute Like a little garden setting. It's like walled off in a little part, probably by the pool.
Speaker 1:And the officiant looked like Wayne Newton. Oh, he did Just like the blue black hair. I mean, I think he was probably intentionally trying to look like Wayne Newton.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the you know it was supposed to look like an old garden.
Speaker 1:So they had concrete benches out there and my ass print in sweat was right there. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It was 102. It was in September, september 18th, and even my cousin remember Kristen, and when everyone got up their ass, prints were on the concrete, because it was like sitting on a hot stone. We were baking, yeah, baked.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It was big sweat prints.
Speaker 1:It was just like a piece of bacon.
Speaker 2:We had little succulent little boutonniereses and it was so simple and stress-free and the best thing. And then we went to dinner that night.
Speaker 1:It was fun.
Speaker 2:It wasn't like ugh yeah. And everyone got to do what they wanted to.
Speaker 1:the whole time I felt like most weddings are like stuffy and overdone, and that was it and we love it.
Speaker 2:We're like that's the way we would do it over and over. We said that this morning Something randomly came up. I was like you want to go to Vegas Get married. I don't know how it came up, but it was funny.
Speaker 1:I just think I mean, why waste money on something? So?
Speaker 2:I really want you and Dylan to do something. We need an excuse to go somewhere when y'all get married.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it would be and it will be. I mean, I might even wear shorts.
Speaker 2:I have to be able to wear jeans and yeah it would be.
Speaker 1:It would be super casual and because that's the way I want it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that was the best thing. But I can't believe how much people do spend on weddings and, like you said, that's their money and their prerogative. But like just looking back and I know there's all this build-up especially, I feel like more for the girl, um you know, getting married and that sort of thing, and then like a week later it's done. I mean one day. One day, but like a week later, it starts to become a distant memory and you could have had that money.
Speaker 1:Huge down payment on a home yeah. Or invest on a second property, or go buy a new car or put it in your retirement, Mm-hmm. And I mean, if you're a big, if you're majorly social person and a party person, then I guess it you know, I guess, yeah, I mean whatever, yeah. Whatever turns your crank crank. Whatever blows up your skirt, uh-huh it's true.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, what else you got today not? A damn thing you were telling me something before we started.
Speaker 1:Oh, gosh, you're not supposed to bring that up. I wasn't. No, that really makes me seem like a sociopath.
Speaker 2:I thought this was going to be a topic so I didn't know, we were just small talk.
Speaker 1:And he was like you know something, that just Dylan buys all the groceries. I do not like supermarkets. I like supermarkets. I don't like the people in the supermarkets. I want to crash into them. Yeah, and you know there's always somebody to irritate me, just all up in the way, slow, slow.
Speaker 2:Taking up the whole aisle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just frustrating. So he does all of that and he's very good at it and he enjoys it.
Speaker 2:I mean, daniel enjoys going to the grocery store. You know, for a long time I literally tried to avoid that. We lived this sounds horrible, but it's not. You would get it but you don't. But whatever, we lived downtown and I would go to the grocery store and you know, you just want to run in and get something and I would see all these people that I knew and they want to talk and chat and this and that and it would be.
Speaker 2:You know it would take. You know, sometimes you just don't want to say hey or whatever. It became an ordeal to go grocery shopping.
Speaker 1:Well, I try to go where people don't know me. If I do and listen, I love our customers. But there's, yeah, but it's a time and a place, and sometimes you just want to go in looking like hell Right, and you don't want to see anybody. Or you know you're going in and getting a six-pack of redneck beer and you don't want. You know I mean whatever it is there you know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but now if you see me out, please say hello. Yeah, it's not that we don't. We avoid the places. We avoid the places when we don't want to be said hello to. Yeah, if we're there, you can say hello to us, um, but uh. So he did the grocery shopping forever. He loves it, but now we're out here in the country no one does.
Speaker 2:No one out here knows me well, so dylan um, he loves mandarin oranges and the good thing is the grocery stores out here that one stays open. There's one like two-tenths of a mile from our house to 11. In the city they all close at 9. So I go grocery shopping at like 10 o'clock I'm like, hey, I'm going to run up here and get some, you know that's the unfortunate thing of COVID too is all the 24-hour, All the 24, because I would do that too, because then you know that was good.
Speaker 1:Well, he, I love bananas. I try to eat a banana every day. Yeah, you know, I'm almost a monkey. I love bananas. Um, I love banana anything, and bananas are really good for you. I love banana ice cream and banana with a little peanut butter that protein ice cream? Uh well, we're not talking about that chunky monkey.
Speaker 2:But I?
Speaker 1:But you know it drives me crazy, are those? And this is what we were talking about, and I'm really not a sociopath, but they put those big blue stickers on my bananas.
Speaker 2:He's trying to downplay it. Let me tell you the punchline here I cannot.
Speaker 1:It drives me crazy.
Speaker 2:He has to take all the stickers off of any produce when they come in the house. It doesn't look so like a bell pepper. Gotta come off. I was like oh we probably just chop it up right into our dinner.
Speaker 1:It just ideally. I wish you know, I don't know. I really I wish you know, I don't know. I feel like I want to pretend like, oh, I just skipped through some market in Hawaii and all of it just came off of a tree and I think the stickers are tacky and it makes it just seem like it just came in on a truck, yeah, like it did which it did, so oh so it's aesthetics.
Speaker 1:I don't know if Dylan, if we've talked about it, I know he has seen me taking off stickers because it is a priority in my home. But does he just think you're?
Speaker 2:doing that.
Speaker 1:The reason I brought it up. I noticed this morning my bananas. There's no stickers on my bananas. Yeah, and I'm like did he take, if he took those stickers off of my bananas? This takes our relationship to a whole new level. I mean there is a level of respect.
Speaker 2:We need to call him and find out, Say I noticed that.
Speaker 1:I'll call him right now.
Speaker 2:Wait are you connected to this.
Speaker 1:No, but, no, no, but it's fine.
Speaker 2:Okay, well you put him on speakerphone and put him up here. I want to hear how he answers to hey baby.
Speaker 1:Speakerphone getting close. I hope it's not bad.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 1:He better answer. It makes me mad. Hey Hi, you're live on the podcast, so don't say anything ugly. It makes me mad when he does it. Hey, hi, you're live on the podcast, so don't say anything ugly, oh Lord. But I had to ask you a question. What the hell is he doing? What?
Speaker 2:are you doing Opening waters? Speaking of grocery shopping.
Speaker 1:I'll stop. Question I noticed that there were no blue stickers on the bananas. Did you take the stickers off the bananas? No, there are stickers. I'm looking at them right now. You just didn't flip the bananas over. Oh, and you're home already. I'm going to take them off right now.
Speaker 2:He's going to take them off right now.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have to have a conference with you while you're not still working.
Speaker 2:It's 3.46 on a Friday.
Speaker 1:It's fine, I'm kidding. You're going to have to work your ass off this next week, so enjoy it.
Speaker 2:So he was telling, telling, we were talking.
Speaker 1:I was talking about. I was saying how I'm OCD over the fruit having stickers and wondered if you, we can role play. I can say you took those off because you normally beat my ass if I leave. No, I said if you took those off it was going to put our relationship at a whole new level. But luckily we're not there yet, honey. So if you want to take those stickers off the bananas, that would be great yeah.
Speaker 2:They're off now, that's funny.
Speaker 1:I glanced at them. They were a little green, so I didn't have my banana this morning. But I was like, huh, oh, you're going to have to do better. He take the stickers off. I'm like this is Just add that to my ever-growing list of things to do around here. Alright, talk to you around here, mm. Hmm, all right, talk to you later. Okay, bye, that's funny Boy. He just got busted.
Speaker 2:He's supposed to be at work and maybe he was just dropping some things off. I'm going to start I'm the one I'm going to start keeping track. Keep it. Do it oh you're going to have to write him up.
Speaker 1:Oh, I will write him. I'll enjoy it.
Speaker 2:You might have to fire him. That's going to be awkward.
Speaker 1:Wouldn't that be awkward. No, I'm not going to fire him because we got to have him for.
Speaker 2:Right, so I need to give a shout out to my in-laws. So both of them, today is Terry's last day.
Speaker 1:She's retiring, terry is retired, now what?
Speaker 2:Daniel's dad just retired, like a month ago.
Speaker 1:Now, Terry and Bobby, what are y'all going to do? You can't listen. You need to get a hobby job, a hobby job, a hobby job get a hobby job, a hobby job, a hobby job, a hobby job Something that you've always wanted to do.
Speaker 2:Well, I think when they retire they kind of want to not do anything for a while.
Speaker 1:You know I tried that. Let me just tell you, I would have been. I would be in jail, I would be poor in jail, jail or dead, if I stayed retired. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2:I and listen. You had a, you had a little break.
Speaker 1:I took a little a six month break. I took a little break, but I'm going to tell you and listen. You, do you, if you, some people do, retirement really really well, yeah, but isn't?
Speaker 2:that a huge accomplishment to make it there and retire.
Speaker 1:It is huge.
Speaker 2:I'm like they're having a retirement party on Thursday and then she's going to have a new grandbaby, like any day.
Speaker 1:Well, see, that's going to keep her busy and there is a decompression time.
Speaker 2:We talked to her the other day and she's like we were joking and we're like are you just goofing off? Now she's like, no, I'm trying to finish up this stuff. I'm like I would have been like I have been here for X number of years. I ain't doing shit. This last week Y'all need to give me a party and I ain't doing nothing.
Speaker 1:My restaurants were under contract for like five months.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because they were like we have things planned.
Speaker 1:We have. Yeah, the owner that bought my restaurants went to Europe every month for a week and they had already planned out like five months of European trips and they were going to have to postpone that for a minute, you know, when they bought my stores. So they were like, well, can we go under contract and you operate them for five months? Well, I was making a ton of money. I was like hells, yeah. But let me tell you, you talking about autopilot, yeah, do you?
Speaker 2:you probably didn't show up, but once a month for five months customer complaint.
Speaker 1:I don't give a damn.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I can't imagine staying at a job like no one, especially retirement.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's not like she needs a I had to care about certain things, you know, because it affected your money. But the other stuff, no, I wouldn't be good but working for someone in retirement is she sad at all?
Speaker 1:I don't think so not like not attached to any of the people. I don't think so. I mean, would you be? You know, I don't know how I, I it, my, my mind works so different. Yeah, um, I don't. I was like sad. I was sad after the fact, but it was so different. Mcdonald's was like a cult, and not in a bad way, it was just a way of life for 30 years for me, and I guess everybody's job's like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're dedicated to it. You show up, you go there every day and then you just wake up and don't, and you just don't, and you just don't. And you've survived and gotten to retire and they had three boys boys, which reminds me of a funny story. Oh god, I need to ask them all. All of daniel's family listens and we're gonna get disowned.
Speaker 1:I don't know well I mean, you're the one I listen. I ain't saying nothing, but I, bobby and terry, I think y'all should do something. Maybe come out here and help daniel on flower farm. Yeah, come on out. What's something you've always wanted to do.
Speaker 2:I know, but one time I'm not going to name which brother. This is a funny story. I'm going to get in trouble. I'm going to tell it anyway One time. One of the brother. I'm going to have to get the full details. I'm going to ask, but one of the brothers, one of the three kids, their room connected to like the attic, I think, is how this went. I don't know if it connected or maybe they had like they have like a bonus room that was outside of the room.
Speaker 1:Anyway, one of the kids went into the attic late one night to take a little puffy puff on some grass Weed.
Speaker 2:Weed Marijuana and fell through the ceiling in their master bedroom.
Speaker 1:I don't know if they landed in the bed or just feet went through. Listen, I know two. I know Daniel and I know one of his brothers I don't know the youngest. I'm not naming which one and I can say the two brothers that I know it's a damn toss up. It could have been either. It could have been either one. What I would pay for is I would pay for a video of that happening.
Speaker 2:Can you imagine sleeping in bed? I'm going to have to ask the full story. I need the whole story, and you know which one you are. I'm going to see him this week. I'm going to ask about it.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I wonder, like when that happened, do you have like joint in hand? Can you smell?
Speaker 2:Don't you think maybe it had already kind of kicked in and that's lost a little balance and that's why you fell through the?
Speaker 1:ceiling. That is so something that would have happened to me Trying to sneak around.
Speaker 2:See, that's why.
Speaker 1:I didn't do shit like that.
Speaker 2:I think there was a window in the attic or something. So they were trying to, like you know, walk across and then blow it out. Blow it out the the window see, I didn't do.
Speaker 1:I did not do that in high school because I was so scared of my parents, um, but I wish I had, if I could.
Speaker 1:No, if I could turn if I could turn back time, I would have. Now I drank enough beer to float a battleship, yeah, and liquor, and I mean I had fun, especially in high school because it was really easy. And yeah, especially back in your day, yeah, it was different, it's more relaxed, it was different. But you know, drugs things were safer then, yeah. So if I could go back, I would have totally been a pothead.
Speaker 2:No, you wouldn't. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean yeah. In fact, if I do retire, if I ever do get to the point where I say I really want to be retired and I don't have to do anything all day long, I'm going to be a pothead, maybe that's their plan. Maybe Terry and Bobby are going to be like burnouts.
Speaker 2:Maybe that would be funny, that would be funny like burnouts.
Speaker 1:Maybe that would be funny. That would be funny. They're really buttoned up academic professional types.
Speaker 2:That's what makes it even funnier about one of their kids falling through smoking weed is. They're very professional and buttoned up.
Speaker 1:I promise you they weren't dropping through ceilings.
Speaker 2:I promise you they did not respond well to that I'm going to have that aspect, but congratulations for retiring and surviving three grown kids now. And you know all of that because, oh my goodness, that needs to be.
Speaker 1:I feel like when it comes out which brother it was, I think we need to talk about it on this. I think we need to call him and talk about it on this podcast. Like how did this happen?
Speaker 2:But yeah, I may have to just get the details though, because he may not want to know. You know, professionally and stuff.
Speaker 1:I mean it's 2025. Everybody has a past. Come on.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I just can't imagine. You know you think you're sneaking around, going to take a little puff or two and then crash through the ceiling on your parents, you know, above their bed. I would have jumped out the attic window, that would have done it, that's what I would have done.
Speaker 1:So a friend of mine had a worker over and it was a McDonald's owner and he had a worker that we both used and the worker was telling me about this and if you knew this owner.
Speaker 1:Picture me times a thousand. This is how buttoned up and in anal, this mcdonald's owner was very persnickety man. The guy was working upstairs and he just crashed through the ceiling and and and my friend was sitting in his chair and he looked at me. He was like hello, and I was like that is all he said. It's like yeah. He just looked up and said well, hello. He didn't like oh my gosh, because I would have been like what? Yeah, no, he's like well, hello, I. And I. I can't imagine that terry and bobby were like well, hello, no, I'm sure they're. Like we're're going to kill you. I would have. I know what a mess I know.
Speaker 1:And I would have probably had a heart attack.
Speaker 2:That too, I'm going to get the scoop. We're going to have to do a follow up.
Speaker 1:Definitely they're probably going to be like never mention us again. When is Terry's last?
Speaker 2:official day. Today, April 1st, In retirement party on April 3rd Thursday.
Speaker 1:That is really exciting, isn't it? I mean, it really is a huge accomplishment. That is, I remember when my mom retired and I went to her retirement party and I was like, I mean, I don't think. I really thought about it.
Speaker 2:So my dad's still working, he's in his mid-70s.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, both of us will still be working. Yeah, my dad's not that side of my family.
Speaker 2:They work, work, work. I will be up in the middle of something I don't know, probably still trying to do a damn live sale or something.
Speaker 1:Listen do not be surprised if I'm still around 80 years old. You drive into a Starbucks and there's the and I'm I'm making your coffee. I might be driving a Bentley out there in the parking lot, but I'll be serving your coffee and I'll be like I'm. I'm building some more retirement.
Speaker 2:I hope you are doing that. Some more retirement. I hope you are doing that. And they're like are you that guy that used to be on who's Driving podcast and y'all had the nest. What happened to all that? Was it? Don't you always wonder, like, how's it going to end? How's this like? Where's it going? You know we keep moving things forward and it's like where, where, when, where?
Speaker 1:I mean I don't know, I guess at the graveyard, you know, I mean because where does it?
Speaker 2:or does someone offer us a lot of money and we sell it, and then it wouldn't take?
Speaker 1:much I mean.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying I I mean there Because our personalities are to keep working. But then, like when we go to the vacation house and we're in Florida, I'm like I don't know, I could get used to this.
Speaker 1:And then I'm like, oh, I yeah, I mean it was nice being in Florida and I love going to Hawaii and stuff like that. I just, I just I just I don't know, I guess it's an ADD thing I just like, but we can do something smaller Like we.
Speaker 2:Could you know if we I think we'll end up doing a wholesale company.
Speaker 1:Yeah, who knows?
Speaker 2:what we'll end up doing. I don't know. You never know what's in the. We might be the next. I don't know. I mean Pier 1, back in the day, when it was good. You know, sell it off, yeah, make millions.
Speaker 1:I mean wholesaling is something that really interests me. Yeah, I mean I'm talking like creating behind it, like going to China, the product development yeah, the product development and designing, because we know we've been doing this for so long and we know there are some specific items we're not going to say on this podcast, because we may do it one day that are very, very sought after and the money is insane.
Speaker 2:But there's a miss in the market.
Speaker 1:There is a miss.
Speaker 2:There's a void that we need to deal yeah, so. It's true. Well, speaking of work, I got to get to work.
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