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The conversation takes an unexpected turn when recounting sleeping through an entire hotel evacuation in Atlanta. While hundreds of guests stood shivering outside the Marriott Marquis for three hours during a middle-of-the-night emergency, these two slept peacefully through blaring alarms, only to be confused when awakened by the "all clear" announcement at 4:30 AM.
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Wake up, wake up. It is. Oh my gosh, oh my god y'all. I'm here, I'm here. We almost need a boat, but I'm here. It has rained so much.
Speaker 2:There were so many wrecks on my way here.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you made it, I am too. It's time for another episode of who's Driving. Welcome to who's Driving. I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2:And I'm Stephen Merck. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
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.
Speaker 1:You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride. Oh, so you made it Mm-hmm. So if you're watching in our members-only community, I'm practically— this is one of the days before the video we would have been. I would have been here with like my hair sticking up and whatever.
Speaker 1:So I'm practically in pajamas, although I don't wear pajamas. We need to talk about that. But anyway, steven, yesterday was like I'll come out. I have an appointment. I'll come out to your house. I have an appointment. I'll come out to your house. I have an appointment at 1130. I'll come out to your house, probably around one-ish whenever I'm done he calls me at 1128. Hey, are you ready? Hell, no, I'm not ready.
Speaker 2:Well, you know things, I was early you know it, just it worked out that way and if you notice, I'm missing something today.
Speaker 1:Your water bottle, which this is bad timing to be missing the water bottle because I want to do something fun with the water bottle.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 1:Where's the damn water bottle we?
Speaker 2:did a live last night, you said, oh, I need you to help me real quick. So I sat my water bottle down on a table in the warehouse.
Speaker 1:My gosh. So you've been without your water bottle for like 14 hours now. It's been horrible, did you sleep?
Speaker 2:well without it. Last night I almost got my spare out and loaded it and I was like, no, that's crazy. I can go a few hours without your water bottle, so, but I had to go buy water. Oh my, so weird.
Speaker 1:Gosh, this is oh, my gosh, y'all this is oh. Now we get to hear you slurp yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's not, and it's not being measured.
Speaker 1:How can I tell that I've got my water? Well, that bottle is how many ounces? It is 23 ounces. So, just add that to your total when you go back and get your water bottle I need like four of those a day.
Speaker 1:So, speaking of water bottles, this is a good time to bring it up. So I wanted to do something fun for the month of April and I thought, since we recently launched our members only community at whosedrivingpodcastcom, that's where you can go. You can always go there and listen for free as well. If you scroll down, there's a player, you can listen for free. You can go back and listen to any of the previous episodes we should advertise okay in the month of May episodes, we should.
Speaker 2:We should advertise Okay In the month of May, one of those days. We're going to do it naked. There you go.
Speaker 1:You never know when, no, but anyway go to the members only community.
Speaker 1:You can listen for free or you can join the community, and that's where you can watch us, and we from time to time put up polls or clips that we talk about or whatever it is, and that's where you can support us, and we from time to time put up polls or clips that we talk about or whatever it is, and that's where you can support us. Now that we pay for all this additional equipment and editing stuff as well. It isn't cheap, but we're addicted to it. I know, I know, so we love doing it.
Speaker 1:So, anyway, I have two things for the month of April. One, if you haven't joined our members only community yet, if you join in the month of April, you can use the coupon code April when you go to join and you'll get two months for half price. So you, you know, you get two months so you can go back and watch previous episodes you missed, you can see what it's all about and, of course, you'll want to stay.
Speaker 2:I'm not getting naked for half price. I'm just gonna go ahead and put that out there. You're gonna have to, we'll have to push. It had to be in may it had to be yeah, well, they get two months.
Speaker 1:If they sign up in april, they'd get april and may into june yeah well that'd be. You'll have your summer bod by then, yeah yeah, um, I've already got the six pack.
Speaker 1:I'll have a keg by then so, again, if you go to who's driving podcastcom you can find it in the show notes below, if you're listening uh, and sign up in the month of april. Anytime in the month of April you can use the code APRIL and get two months 50% off of the membership price. And then also in the first week of May, we are going to select anyone that is a member. We're going to randomly select if you're a current member, the first week in May when we're going to give one member a water bottle like yours Hydrate, spark, hydrate, spark you.
Speaker 2:I just can't say enough. I thought that would be fun, since we talk about the water all the time now, well, and I drive Wesley crazy with the water bottle, I drive everybody crazy with the water bottle.
Speaker 1:But the water bottle is actually great, as much as it drives me crazy. What drives me crazy? Well, first of all, I turned you on to the water bottle. You did. I was like you need one of these.
Speaker 2:You did like over four years ago and I need to get myself another one. I think I'm on my fifth bottle Because I've broken them.
Speaker 1:Yes, Well, now you can order the parts like I told you that Because I've broken them.
Speaker 2:Yes, well, now you can order the parts like I told you. That's much better.
Speaker 1:What drives me crazy about the water bottle is not the water bottle or that you're drinking water. He likes to put ice in his water bottle. I like my water cold In his metal water bottle and that's fine, but he likes to shake it, so it's constantly this irritating.
Speaker 2:Yeah, shake, shake, shake, that's where the water bottle comes in. For me, it's great. The water bottle is so so good, though I mean.
Speaker 1:It really is good because it's you know we all need more water. I need to lose weight and I'm about to get back on the water. The water really helps you if you're trying to. I I feel like just balance out your body and lose weight, and it lights up and tells you. Well, first there's an app that tracks how much water you've had in a day, so you can go on there, you can set your water goal and then it tells you. But it lights up and blinks if you haven't had water in a while, like as as a reminder, and it makes it a game.
Speaker 2:And you realize for me, when you get it you realize how little water you're actually drinking compared to what you need to be drinking.
Speaker 1:Right when you first get it. It's crazy, y'all. Yeah, I mean, it's like you think you've had a lot of water.
Speaker 2:And you need more. So, yeah, you need more. So, yeah, it's been really good for me, but I'm just addicted to it, yeah.
Speaker 1:So last week we went since our last podcast, we went to Atlanta, we did, we had a little fun. Well, it was my birthday. Yeah, it was your birthday. We then last Sunday was my birthday oh, not this past, but anyway. Stephen treated me as we talked on Instagram. We drove to Atlanta on my birthday and he treated me to a nice dinner at Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 2:But let me say I said we can go anywhere you want to go, but we were limited because it was.
Speaker 1:Sunday night yeah, and the timing and whatever, we were going to go to a fun place, which we did end up going Cafe Intermezzo in. Atlanta, if you're ever there, my favorite place. I saw you little bitches went back after I left market.
Speaker 2:We did Without me. You know, we got there and Dylan was like I could tell by his face, I know him. He was like hmm, Like what's this, and I could tell the menu he didn't like anything. And I said you know? He said hmm, it just doesn't look that good. I was like well, I'm getting this.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:This was really good you can sit there and whatever. And he got it. He was like OK, it was really good.
Speaker 1:I was like I don't play when it comes to food, it's always good, it's off, and I can't believe that because the atmosphere is always great too. It's like a little European.
Speaker 2:Oh, we love, love. The atmosphere is on point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so it has. It's known for like it's desserts, but it also has all these drinks, and coffee drinks alcohol drinks food.
Speaker 1:It's really good. So if you're ever in Atlanta, go check it out, but anyway. So we were going down and we were going to go there. I was like we'll just go there and have dinner and dessert. Well, we were halfway to go there. I was like we'll just go there and have dinner and dessert. Well, we were halfway to Atlanta and then Steven was like, well, should we go ahead and eat and then just go there for dessert? And that's how we ended up at Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 2:Which was actually good. It was good, and you still got Cafe Intermezzo. So then we left Cracker.
Speaker 1:Barrel and I was like I'm too full to go have dessert. So I'm too full to go have dessert. So then the next night was my real birthday. We made it.
Speaker 2:We made it fun.
Speaker 1:So we went to Atlanta, went to the market and had several good meals while we were there.
Speaker 2:We actually did this time. We need to start getting out more, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we did live sales and then I had to leave to come back and we went to Daniel's mom's retirement party and hung out with them. But anyway, what memory I had that I don't think we've talked about on the podcast before, so I put it in my notes was because when we go to market in Atlanta which we're there all the time, we stay, if we can, at the Marriott Marquis. I don't know why, it just feels like our home away from home, because you know pattern. But I forgot about I don't think we've ever talked about the time that Stephen and I were at Market. We used to share a room. Yeah, back in the day when we were, you know, just starting out broke, we used to share a room at Market and one day we were at one one market. We were staying there and all of a sudden it was like yeah, it was like you may return to your room now and it was like 4, 30 in the morning we were like what?
Speaker 1:the, and it woke us up. I was like what? Did that just say, and Stephen's like you may return to your room now.
Speaker 2:We were like what is that about? And we were like who knows? We went back to sleep. We were like that's weird.
Speaker 1:So we went back to sleep, and then the next day we went to market.
Speaker 2:And we felt great. We had a great night's sleep.
Speaker 1:Rested ready to go Just shopping through market, and then people kept saying I'm just exhausted, I'm exhausted.
Speaker 2:And we were like why? Why are you so tired?
Speaker 1:And finally we talked to someone and they were like where are you staying? And we're like oh, where are you staying? And we're like oh, the Marriott Marquis. And they're like oh, are you not exhausted? And we're like no, why so?
Speaker 2:evidently there had been an alarm that went off and everyone had to. The hotel was evacuated.
Speaker 1:Yeah, evacuate the hotel, not these two dumbasses.
Speaker 2:For three hours in January in the cold In the middleuate, the hotel, not these two dumbasses For three hours in January in the cold.
Speaker 1:In the middle of the night.
Speaker 2:It really is good that we slept through it, because I wouldn't have gone out there in that cold weather.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Can you imagine how pissed you would have been. No, I would have been like. It is not a fire.
Speaker 1:So everyone evacuated, evidently, except for us. I'm sure there were some other people who didn't. I mean, surely we weren't the only two dumbasses that just slept. We had to have slept through I don't even know what kind of alarm, because it was loud them just coming back to tell us. It was like an alarm that went off to tell us we could go back to the room.
Speaker 2:I mean it had to be massive to empty that whole 47 floor hotel. I mean it had to be insane, yeah, Because that you may return to your room was very loud.
Speaker 1:I guess we slept through the first one. I mean, obviously we did, and so everyone had exited. The building stood out on the street in downtown Atlanta like in the middle of the night Around one something, and then they got to go back to their room at like 4 or 4.30.
Speaker 2:But you know you hadn't got to sleep good then and you really didn't have time. You know the reps had to be there at like 8. Yeah, I would have been. I would would have been like I ain't working today I'm glad I slept right through it.
Speaker 1:I guess we could have died. I mean, obviously wasn't our time and nothing was wrong, nothing was wrong. I don't know what it was even for, but I don't know. I just thought that was funny because we were there and our franchise owners from Savannah were there and they were on the 47th floor this time we were there like last week, and they were just saying, oh my gosh, can you imagine if something, if there was an emergency, and you had to walk down 47?
Speaker 1:And we were like, well, yeah, we were like, well, just don't do it. As you know, it's an emergency, just sleep through it, it'll be fine. So we were like we did that and slept right through it, which was just crazy, but you know we're still here to talk about it, I guess. So there's that. People were in their pajamas. Yeah, they were just in their pajamas. Pajamas, pajamas.
Speaker 2:I say pajamas, pajamas, pajamas, pajamas, pajamas, pajamas.
Speaker 1:Pajamas. I say pajamas.
Speaker 2:Sleeping in your pajamas. Jammies Pajamas, I say pajamas Sleeping in your pajamas, jammies pajamas. Huh, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Speaking of that, do you sleep? You sleep in like pajamas, pajamas pajamas In in the winter.
Speaker 2:I will Like in a shirt shorts and pants and I have, I have sets, you know shorts and shirt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's one thing I don't. I never sleep in pajamas. I keep my underwear on. The older I get, the older I get I mean I can't stand being like clothes, like touch, like bound up with yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then I flip around and they're twisted and just yeah, it doesn't work most of the time but you always have your like sleep shirt or something like I like to be, you know, and I've got to have my blanket this is a funny thing speaking of blankets.
Speaker 1:So I have talked about, I think here on the podcast before, how when I travel anywhere, I always take my pillow with me and Stephen's like. That is so dumb. Why do you need to take your pillow with you when you're just going? You know they have pillows and I'm like, but that's the most comfortable part of sleeping is the right pillow. They're too flat, I don't like. If they're too spongy, I cannot stand if they're that poly-filled.
Speaker 1:I get it and it slides around and it just feels gross to me he would make fun of me. Well, now, in the last year, he has started taking his blankie with him.
Speaker 2:It helps me sleep, it helps me rest.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I sleep so good now that I bring my blanket with me and I'm like, well, he made fun of me for taking a pillow. It's the best blanket.
Speaker 2:I've had it for like 25 years. Dylan hates it, does he? He's like why do you have to take that blanket? I'm like it's just.
Speaker 1:Well, one day he'll find his comfort.
Speaker 2:item Wait till we go to Hawaii and we have that blanket, just in a whole bag.
Speaker 1:I cram my pillow. I will take something out to make my pillow fit that thing. I know how to roll it up, it's just this flat mashed ass pillow 's not, it's a down pillow, it's flat. It is not litter. It is not flat is a flitter.
Speaker 2:It is not. How flat is a flitter? What is a flitter? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Flat is a fritter flitter I've never heard of that flat Flat as a fritter Fritter Flitter, flitter, fritter Fritter Flat as a fritter.
Speaker 2:I guess it's flat as a fritter. I guess maybe a pie.
Speaker 1:We need to look up the saying and see what it actually is. I saw a saying the other day and I was like huh, it's one of those like what is the real saying?
Speaker 2:And I can't remember what it is. It's flat as a flitter.
Speaker 1:I was right, okay, southern southern american coquillette is meaning extremely flat, with flitter referring to a fritter or pancake.
Speaker 2:So I was right, it's's both. But it's flat as a flitter, but it really refers to a fritter.
Speaker 1:Or a pancake Flat as a flitter. Huh, you never heard that, you didn't grow up saying that, yeah, flat as a flitter.
Speaker 2:Flat as a flitter. That tire was flat as a flitter, huh. I guess I never thought about what it meant though well you know, if you dig into all the little southern sayings, you'll fight. I mean, there's no telling what they mean.
Speaker 1:I know sometimes it's scary. I'm like what does this really mean? I saw something on social media and good news we are going to be long-term friends. How do you know? Because there is a study that finds that friends who playfully insult each other and tease each other are 300% more likely to remain friends and they're more honest and more loyal. I believe that. So, as much shit as you give, give each other.
Speaker 2:I believe that I think, I think it's about being genuine and and having fun, not being mean.
Speaker 1:So the lighthearted teasing reflects a strong bond built on trust and mutual understanding. It signals comfort in the friendship where neither takes offense.
Speaker 2:Because we all have something that's, you know, an insecurity about ourselves.
Speaker 1:We're not going to talk about it.
Speaker 2:No, we're not going to talk about it, but the funny thing is is I'm pretty sure we've talked about mine. It was something I never noticed and I don't think anyone we can talk about mine. I don't think anyone else notices. But the funny thing is is I can playfully make fun of it. But I'm like it's kind of crazy because I never even noticed it till you pointed it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so mine is.
Speaker 2:One time I said to you I got to say this first. One time I said to you actually I never noticed. I never noticed it till you pointed it out and I don't think anyone else ever notices it. And you said just as sincerely. You said I think that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
Speaker 1:It is because I said it and you're like what? I've never noticed, that or whatever. And you're like no one would ever Like he was very genuine, Like no one would ever notice that it wasn't like I was yeah, you know, like the elephant in the room no, and I was like that is like the nicest you've ever been to me, because steven is the friend who will pick out something about you or something he will hone in on something.
Speaker 2:Playfully and talk about it.
Speaker 1:Not mean, not mean, but he will talk about it and he had never pointed out. So one day we were, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Talking about shirts, I said I think I said you need to get this shirt. Yeah, these shirts are really good. I think they were online. I was like these shirts are really good and you should order these shirts, um, and you said well, I have to be. You know, I have to be careful about shirts because you know my hump. And I was like what?
Speaker 2:and you said you know my hump and I was like I am so lost right now, like I sincerely do not know what you're talking about and and it was like you were talking he's yeah, my, you know the big hump and I'm like I, I just don't know my neck hump.
Speaker 1:My neck is not flat. That's the only. That is my one insecurity. It just like oh, first of all, I know personally, uh, well, I know I don't have great posture and that's where it began from, but you know how some people just have a perfectly straight neck and back and it just and mine has a stand up straight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mine is. Mine has a little. No, you know. Now you see it over all over social media. Like these roles and stuff to like help your, because more people are getting them from being on their phone or computers and looking to like help your because more people are getting them from being on their phone or computers and looking down and keeping your neck forward.
Speaker 1:But my hump, that's my hump, my hump, I was at market the other day and I walked by, I think like a showroom window and I could see in my shirt was you know, if they're too low cut in the back, it just accentuates my hump. I was like, oh God, my hump is so big.
Speaker 2:I went through a drive-thru the other day, dylan and I did, coming back from market. I know where we went through McDonald's on our way back from Atlanta. The guy that was at the presentation window was like seven feet tall. He bent over. I was watching on the front counter so I was looking at him from a side profile and he his waist. He bent at a 90 degree angle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just like his neck was sticking up. I wanted to take a picture and send it to you. It was the most bizarre thing I've ever seen and I thought, oh my gosh, I wonder if he has the hump. Yeah, so I watched. No, he didn't.
Speaker 1:He was just very flexible.
Speaker 2:He was just like a snake. That is funny. But he was so tall I was like gosh he's going to have. I was thinking you know 52 years old.
Speaker 1:I was like you know at 52 years old, I was like he's going to have back problems. He's going to have, yeah, bending. That would be the bad thing about being excessively tall, you know, like when you start getting like over 6'5 or something up there.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm 5'11 and my back is busted. But I'm just saying Can you imagine being 6'7?
Speaker 1:is, yeah, busted. But I'm just saying imagine being six one, but yeah, six, seven or seven feet, because you have to bend to go through everything, through every door, you know you start getting stuck. Maybe maybe they don't have back trouble because they have to use it more often. Like they have to bend to go through everything. They're in their head sideways, it's true, that's very. I can't imagine getting in the shower you know I'll, I'll shout you would be like. Well, you would have to have it custom, yeah, but that costs a little money.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I mean just saying eventually when you got there, but you know well when you, you would have it damaged by the time you were 30. So it wouldn't really matter.
Speaker 1:I wish I was like two inches taller.
Speaker 2:I don't. I'm good being my I'm good 5'11".
Speaker 1:I'm really fine with my height, but it would be cool to be like 5'11 is really good for me.
Speaker 2:I'm at technically 5'11 and a half, but I don't ever say that, yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 1:That sounds like you're five. Two trying to stretch five. I'm five two and a half, I bet dylan. You know he's a little shorter he says whatever in three quarters they do.
Speaker 2:If you're, if you're a guy and you are under, I think, five, nine, you break it down to the Centimeter, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know exactly how tall does he say he is?
Speaker 2:I don't even, honestly, I don't even know, I really don't pay attention to it.
Speaker 1:I know, I know he's sad and I don't pay attention either. I really don't, but I bet he says three quarters.
Speaker 2:But you know half of my family's short, half of my family's taller, Like me and taller yeah. And then half of my family are stumpy. That's funny, my mother was tiny, yeah, yeah, and my dad is only 5'9".
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:So I, but my dad's side of the family had tall.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's kind of how mine is. My dad's side has taller Well, it's mixed. My mom's side most of them are, you know, shorter, smaller, but my aunt, she's tall. She's probably the tallest in the family on that side.
Speaker 2:Yeah, your grandmother wasn't short, though. Yeah, was she.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was probably like 5'4".
Speaker 2:Was she? Yeah, I know she had those tiny little feet, because she was a foot model. I mean, she always had on high heels, so she probably. Yeah, I guess I didn't notice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I think my mom's like 5'4". But anyway, yeah, when you get, especially for a guy, when you get under a certain size, they do break it down to 5'7 and 3 quarters and some guys have that little man syndrome.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's a real thing it is a thing, and the funny thing is, short guys that are confident are unstoppable Right. So much better. Yeah, to own it. Yeah, own it. Joke about it, move on, move on. Yeah, no, those others you can't change it.
Speaker 1:Well, those short men, syndrome ones they're. I mean, they're angry. Yeah, like you can't do a thing and you can just beat them down because you know they're they. I mean, when you know a short man has that syndrome, you know, they're just not confident you know.
Speaker 2:And so then they try to be cocky and you just, I don't like that, you can just look at them and yeah, I worked for one that had little man syndrome and I'm not being ugly to anybody. Listen, I don't care what. Listen, my husband is, I don't know, 5'1".
Speaker 1:Well, you don't have to have an attitude about it. Your husband is not 5'1". I'm kidding, he snuck that in there.
Speaker 2:No, but you don't have to be angry about it, no and honestly, dylan, I think it's five, seven, yeah, and that's fine you know it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:He might be like five four, he's not five, four, he's five, six or five seven. I might have to, I might have to measure him, I don't. I feel like he has told me like, oh, I'm whatever and I'm like I don't know. You might add it a little there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I guess people do that. I don't know, I don't know either. It's kind of funny.
Speaker 1:The funny is I don't think about it Like you don't. I don't know, it's not something you think about, but that's so funny. It's not something you think about, but that's so funny, doesn't bother me. So yeah, so we're going to be friends because you like to make fun of me playfully. And more than about my hump, it's about everything, basically.
Speaker 2:Well, you terrorize me, and that's why we're not going to be friends.
Speaker 1:Oh, is there a fine line there.
Speaker 2:No, I can take it. I'm pretty it. I'm pretty tough, I'm pretty resilient. Are you?
Speaker 1:I don't really terrorize you. I know the things that you're most sensitive about. Do you like my?
Speaker 2:jacket.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You got a new one, I did.
Speaker 1:What? What is this Wait? This is called.
Speaker 2:Is this a rain? Hold on, it is rain and it, oh, it's a brand called Save the Duck. Save the Duck. I don't know what that is, but I found it and it felt like cloth.
Speaker 1:Where did you find this?
Speaker 2:I found this in Clemson. I went to Clemson, you know, several weeks ago. Oh so, like from a boutique, yeah, from a boutique men's store, I don't know why I gotta turn this way to feel it.
Speaker 1:It's like I can't See. It feels good. So is it like a rain jacket?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a rain jacket, so I don't know if you remember I had a black one that was a? Um, it was a good jacket. It was nice. It was a North Face. It was a nice, typical, normal rain jacket. Uh-huh, it was torture for me.
Speaker 1:It was A jacket was torture.
Speaker 2:It was like wearing a sweatsuit. It was like plastic. You know it was one of those plasticky, yeah and Well, those get hot. Did it get hot? It just I felt so gross wearing that. I felt like I was sweating, that's what.
Speaker 2:I cannot take that and literally I had it on and it was raining somewhere and I took it off and I was. I looked at it and I thought you're not going with me, I would rather be wet. And I was thinking you know someone will get that, that will appreciate it, it won't bother them. Yeah, it drives me crazy, so I have done without. I was like I, so you just left your jacket somewhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did, you just took it off when you were out in the rain, and I would do that with if I had on shoes. I've been in new york city one time and so and a lady just had on heels. Yeah, that hurt her. She just literally took them off and left them on the sidewalk and kept walking. She's like I'm done with these little bitches. Yeah, just so, I mean I would do that too.
Speaker 1:Okay, I was like, nope, I am which I wouldn't want barefoot in new york, but anyway, yeah, I, I just thought I cannot wear this thing I do hate like a weather jacket like that, like a rain jacket that traps in and it feels like it gets humid underneath it and sticky and just ugh. It is just just gross feeling I would do the same.
Speaker 2:I mean I would just.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I would have left it. I would have just taken it off and been like well, I mean, you might as well give it.
Speaker 2:I mean, I was thinking well, someone, someone to take it, yeah I mean I wouldn't throw it away. I mean, obviously they don't bother most people. So when did you get this one? Just a few weeks ago I was like I don't and I honestly had forgotten about it. But then I would go when it was raining like today, cats and dogs and I was like, oh, I need a rain jacket.
Speaker 2:And I was like I don't have one, yeah, so I was like I don't have one. Yeah, so I was. I went this is a funny story. So I, my financial advisor, is in Clemson and I had a meeting my annual meeting with him and I was like I want to go downtown Clemson and have lunch and walk around, and then there was this store, mh Frank, downtown. It's a men's boutique and it's fancy and I couldn't afford to shop there when I was in school, oh, back in the day. I mean, I couldn't even afford a pair of socks there.
Speaker 1:You were like.
Speaker 2:I want to go in there.
Speaker 1:You're like I just got my financials. I'm good, I'm in there, Let me go in there. My financials, I'm good, I'm in there, let me go in there.
Speaker 2:The funny thing is from in 30 years. I was like there's not really anything I want in here. Yeah, you know it's a beautiful store, but I was like I don't need anything. And so I was walking by and then I saw these and I was like what Wait a minute?
Speaker 1:I need a rain jacket.
Speaker 2:They caught my eye so I said I think I need that, so I bought it well, that's good.
Speaker 1:And now, and you're happy with, I'm very happy with it.
Speaker 2:I'm not sweating.
Speaker 1:You don't have to leave it somewhere not sweating in it. It some way not sweating in it, that's good. I have a little um, a little follow-up from our last podcast when I was talking about one of the siblings in daniel's family had fallen through the ceiling with the, you know, the weed. So if you missed that in the previous episode, oh you know, I saw the family, so I got the scoop. Okay, so I have some corrections to make in my story, but also I think there's to me there's a part that's even funnier.
Speaker 1:So the brother, one of the brothers was, so it wasn't in the middle of the night, so the parents, I think, were out or something. They weren't there and he had, you know, partaked in the grass and was looking for a place to store his stash is what it was. And so he, there was a, a closet that you could open up and it didn't have any floor. It had, like the AC unit or whatever, right, and no flooring. And he stepped into that closet and stepped through, which went, you know it did go through the master bedroom.
Speaker 2:Oh, it would have been better at night but they were sleeping. But that would have been better at night If they were sleeping, but that would have given them a heart attack.
Speaker 1:It would have. But now, to me the funnier part is, I guess they came home and he played it off like oh, I was just looking in the closet, blah, blah blah. They didn't know until the story on the podcast that he had been smoking weed.
Speaker 2:So we outed him.
Speaker 1:We outed him. I mean they were like, well, we knew he was up to something, no good or whatever, but they didn't actually know that it was. Oh, you're welcome.
Speaker 2:We're happy to help.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I guess I thought it was known from the whole family. But I guess maybe the other brother had told us like hey, this story or whatever. We just assumed everyone knew they were laughing about it.
Speaker 2:You can laugh when it's years later.
Speaker 1:Yeah, years later, and everyone's successful and on their own.
Speaker 2:I guess you can laugh about it.
Speaker 1:But I was like, well, that makes it even funnier now that we just added him on the podcast. Well, but no one, you know no one was offended by the story. So I get to stay in the family. That's good, yeah, but I thought that was just funny there.
Speaker 2:That's funny, that is crazy, I got to check our hotline.
Speaker 1:Do you have any funny like incidences like that? Maybe your parents didn't, you know, know about until years later, or maybe it had something to do with weed. Let us know. On our hotline it's 864-982-5029. I actually forgot to check the hotline before we started this one, because we use the same phone that you call as our recording phone and I have to like reposition and everything, so I didn't check the hotline.
Speaker 2:So my mom was. My mom smoked in high school.
Speaker 1:It was the 60s. I mean, come on.
Speaker 2:And she would raise the window and blow out the window. Yeah, ok, so she had hidden window. Yeah, okay, so she had hidden her cigarettes and matches in something under her bed. Yeah, and she went to get them and my grandmother had found them.
Speaker 1:Did she leave a note?
Speaker 2:She wrote her because, you know, my grandmother was like your mom's mom Passive, aggressive, yeah, very passive. I found these. What will I find next? Oh my God, that's funny.
Speaker 1:Oh, I bet your mom was sweating. I think it made her mad. Just that note, yeah, just like that is funny, yeah.
Speaker 2:My mom was like yeah, my mom was like, yeah, just knock the hell out of me.
Speaker 1:Whatever, stop yeah the note just irritated her. Yeah, my mamaw, who you know has my dad's mom she used to smoke and I guess she thought no one knew. I mean she never did it publicly. I mean as my whole life I never saw her smoke a cigarette, but I can remember her buying them, like being with her at the grocery store and her buying them, but it was always very sneakily, like sneakily yeah, sneakily, sneakily yeah.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Hooked on Phonics. Sneakily is the word of the day.
Speaker 1:Okay, Sneaky, but she would discreetly buy them at the grocery store. But she I never from the time I was a little kid to a grown adult saw her smoke a cigarette. But she would go in her bathroom that was off of her bedroom and raise the window and smoke and blow it out the window so everybody knew it was everyone knew. I mean, you could go in the bathroom after her and it smelled like Lysol and cigarettes.
Speaker 2:So funny. My mom's mom yeah, she smoked in the 70s. But then when it became you know, passe, you know that you don't smoke yeah, my whole family quit once. You know, once the news was out this is really bad for you, my whole family that smoked quit, yeah. And so she, she pretended like she did, but she never did. Oh, she pretended like she quit, yes, and we found out about this later and so there was.
Speaker 1:I wonder if that's like, what? Like? I wonder if my mamaw, like when I wasn't there, the grand like if it was just her and my granddaddy at home, did she? I think she still went in the bathroom and smoked she would smoke in front of me and my mom.
Speaker 2:But that was it because she said we didn't judge. She said everybody judges me, but she would keep a butt under a cushion on the back porch and she would smoke on that. She would say she was taking scraps to the edge of the yard. She'd be out there smoking, take a few puffs. Well, in her life you know, she was almost 90 when she died.
Speaker 2:And you know, and in her last few years my crazy aunt was not wanting to let her smoke and I'm like, if you're like 89 years, smoke, do what you want. Yeah, at that point, Buy them for her and do what you want. Yeah, she was like I thought it was just, I thought that was a mean. My mom and I both I was like that's just being mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, why are you going to try to make someone quit at that stage? Eat what you want, I mean, if they're not wanting to smoke what you want, yeah, whatever that may be. Yeah, Whatever. But now, as an adult, I just wonder did my mama, did she like if no one was there, you know, go out on the back porch and smoke?
Speaker 2:But I think she probably just smoked from the bathroom and she probably was hiding it partially from your granddaddy.
Speaker 1:But I wonder, I mean he always he would chew tobacco? Yeah, but no, but my grandmother did just he would chew tobacco.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but no. But my grandmother did just because she felt guilty. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I don't know. I need to ask an aunt or a cousin. Crazy, it's funny, though, that you know. They thought you didn't know, or whatever. Oh my goodness. Well, I think we got to wrap up this episode, Are you?
Speaker 2:done. Yeah, let Well, I think we got to wrap up this episode, are you done?
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