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Who's Driving- It's Our 100th Episode S3 E16
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Yo yo yo, girl, you ready to buckle up? 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, and if you could see your face when I did that. But also guess what? What? This is our 100th episode of who's Driving. That's crazy, isn't?
Speaker 2:that crazy. I can't believe we've stuck with this this long.
Speaker 1:I know, and we're just winging it like we do all the time, so I don't even know.
Speaker 2:We're just winging it like we do all the time, so I don't even know. Well, you know I was talking with someone that follows our podcast.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, did they have great things to say.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh good.
Speaker 1:Good good.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, she still has her teeth, so that should tell. And I was telling her. You know the fact that I've never listened to another podcast, yeah, and I don't listen to ours, I think it would ruin it. And you know what she agreed.
Speaker 1:She was like I get that, but no, not really. I listen to ours and I laugh sometimes. Well, I have to listen to the whole thing back again and make sure, well, we didn't say something too inappropriate. Which have you had to cut?
Speaker 2:anything I've said out. No, I really don't.
Speaker 1:I listen to it every week to edit it, but really it's more about I'll take out if we do a weird pause or you might have to get up and go to the bathroom, or you know know. Yeah, but it just I might ramble and say the same thing over again, so I cut it out.
Speaker 2:But usually I don't even do that. Well, you've had to cut it out when you said like bad things about, like your in-laws.
Speaker 1:You're such a? I have not. You are such a bitch. You keep saying that they're going to believe it. They will not. It's a joke, oh my gosh. Shout out in-laws, terry and Bobby, the whole family. How are they enjoying retirement? Good, they've been on. They're in the middle of a I don't know, at least two-week vacation. They went to Europe and they're on a Viking cruise and I don't know they went a few days ahead.
Speaker 2:So they're on a Viking cruise and I don't know they went a few days ahead, so they're like celebrating yeah this is their big retirement trip, so they've been gone.
Speaker 1:it seems like a long time, but I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think it's just a little over two weeks. If I ever do retire, I mean I'm You're never going to retire or I'll just fall over dead in one of the stores.
Speaker 1:We are going to be just how my granddad was. I mean, he worked up to the very last day, I hope.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hope that's how it is, because I do enjoy it. You know, but you never know.
Speaker 1:And I mean I used to say We'll still be trying to make a dollar.
Speaker 2:I used to say I was going to drop dead behind the front counter at a McDonald's.
Speaker 2:But I mean, I guess that could still happen. I could go back to work for McDonald's or buy one. Did I tell you what Dylan said? I don't know if I did so. A McDonald's here in Greenville there was a forced sale. I won't get into A forced sale, not a forced sale, no, a forced sale. And I knew about it. Dylan said why don't you call and see if you can buy that one again? And I said let me think about that Hell.
Speaker 1:No, Okay, two things here question and comment. The thing is, Dylan wasn't around during the McDonald's days.
Speaker 2:He doesn't know how hard it is.
Speaker 1:He knows the afterlife of McDonald's and where it got you, but he doesn't know the life of McDonald's and what it took, and he would not be very happy if you had a McDonald's again.
Speaker 2:He needs to just enjoy the afterlife. He doesn't know he would be in that drive-thru, right.
Speaker 1:But also the question is would you ever consider reentering the McDonald's life like that? I mean, it's not a problem if you're like, yeah, I kind of miss it, kind of not, I don't know Like, do you think you could throw yourself back into that and buy one?
Speaker 2:It would be difficult, not because I love it, but I love it 20 years ago.
Speaker 1:Right, because a lot of the business has changed.
Speaker 2:So I I think I would struggle with it in many ways. I think I would struggle from just the energy standpoint because I am older now. I think I would definitely struggle with how the company, the direction you know I'm 80s McDonald's Right.
Speaker 1:Which is funny. Daniel and I were talking about this just last night. I was in the drive-thru, I was getting a salad at Zaxby's no chicken and we were talking I don't know how it came up, we have a new one here down the street from us and I was like isn't it funny? The new Zaxby's or at least in our area look farmhouse-y, like they're white, they look like a kind of they're modeled after farmhouse. Look, and I said how funny that's going to be. You know, in five, ten years it's going to look outdated. And it got us on the subject of how fast food places used to have their own identity. Like you can see a Pizza Hut building from 1985, and you know that was a Pizza Hut building. It did not match any normal. Well, funny you bring this up. Yes, you're right, look. And the same thing with McDonald's. The same thing with the Taco Bell, kfc Long John Silver's.
Speaker 1:You could take that building, paint it completely white or black and plop it in somewhere and you would be able to identify the building and how. Now they've all. They just look mediocre and they've lost their identity. And it got us specifically talking about mcdonald's and how mcdonald's had everything. They were marketing geniuses, whoever happened to do it, and they let it all go.
Speaker 1:There is no like I used to. Your kids wanted to go there and so, like, take us to mcdonald's because they wanted to play. Like you had that audience, you had the characters that were fun, you had happy meals, or happy meals, even a thing, you got a toy. Now they're just blah. You know what I'm saying? And the building's gray. It is just as boring as hell.
Speaker 2:So what is the draw?
Speaker 1:because it ain't the food.
Speaker 2:What you said, what you just said, is one of my biggest issues with the direction of the company and the reason I say that is not because I want it I know things evolve and updated but just and I had this feeling because we started removing the red Mansford roofs when I was in the system and I held out on that. You know, I had um, I only had one that didn't have the manseford roof and I was hoping that someone was going to wake up and say, oh, why are we losing our identity?
Speaker 2:yeah, it, you know, because it kind of went with our Happy Meal boxes, right. And then you know, and it happened slowly over time, you know, and it all, it's mainly because you know everything in the United States is so litigious and everything started happening with food and calories and marketing to children, which is, I mean, the dumbest thing in the world. I mean McDonald's had the best commercials.
Speaker 1:But what they should have done is maybe fix the food and not the marketing they should have fixed.
Speaker 2:But a burger is a burger and a fry is a fry. But you know, we did that. I mean, we did that with apple slices and all that was fine and the yogurt and all that. I didn't have a problem with that. But then the Happy Meals started getting crappy. We went from having the best toys. I mean, it's just to me, it just got stupid. And I think McDonald's corporate and I would say this to the CEO of McDonald's you know, I think McDonald's just bowed down too quickly.
Speaker 1:I mean, are you that out of touch, though, with your customers, Like what sets you apart from anything else?
Speaker 2:Because, like I said, you're not going there, You're not like oh let's go to McDonald's Like if I'm like I want a burger, like if I want or I want nuggets or. I mean that is still, I mean being honest, that is. And if I don't feel well, that's what I want. I want McDonald's, so I. And if I don't feel well, that's what I want.
Speaker 1:I want McDonald's. So I mean you have those people that are your McDonald's. I mean I agree with that because they're still in business.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean they're still doing well, but there could be a huge more amount when you had the whole package of the marketing.
Speaker 2:Well, and then your kids and what goes along with that. Let's go to McDonald's.
Speaker 1:You know you can take them there. They can be entertained for an hour 30 minutes in the play thing.
Speaker 2:And I think one of the biggest mistakes was removing Ronald McDonald from the local markets. Yeah, a huge, huge mistake.
Speaker 1:Well, I think Ronald died because he's not part of anything Huge mistake?
Speaker 2:Is he even on the?
Speaker 1:bag anymore.
Speaker 2:I don't think he's like in anything. Yeah, they've brought back some of the promoting, but you know we went from having like 80 Ronalds worldwide down to and he was a good community outreach part of the program.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing Ronald was never allowed to talk about food. He was never allowed to promote the food. All he was was a clown and it just set it apart and it and you know it just set it apart and it also, I think, brought attention to the charity part of McDonald's. I just think it was an enormous mistake on McDonald's. Now you go to England, you go to England or you go to Europe, go to Spain or whatever. You're not going to see the drastic changes in McDonald's as you do in the United States. You're going to see cool play places, you're going to see a lot more normal, because they don't have that.
Speaker 1:Yeah. The craziness in the US. Yeah, that's just interesting. Well, like I mentioned, this is our 100th episode, so I quickly looked through some of the headlines from our previous episodes Funny thing is they all have something to do with you. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I thought these were highlights, because you make fun of me.
Speaker 1:So I thought we could relive some of these funny ones. No, these are not. Here we go. These are not as personal or whatever, and for me a lot of them have to do with McDonald's. But one of them I saw the headline that makes me laugh every time is when I think it was a customer came in. You were working at McDonald's and said I bumped your car. Do you remember that? I'm still scarred? You were working at McDonald's and said I bumped your car, do you?
Speaker 2:remember this I'm still scarred.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I just bumped. Well, she came in, she didn't know it was my car, that's right. And she came in, described the car and I was like, oh, that's my car. And she said, well, I bumped it and I was like, oh, oh you bumped it. How'd you bump it? Well, I was pulling in, I bumped it and I went out and there were my car parts. Were on the ground I said bumped. Bumped, I mean she ran it over.
Speaker 1:I mean, she ran it over and we all know if you've listened for a while. We all know Stephen now and how particular you are. Is that a good word?
Speaker 2:I was in high school then, and I was I'm sure you were even more. I was a little worse because that was my one and only asset. That Honda CRX was the only asset.
Speaker 1:Oh, and then I know you hated it after it got fixed. It was just.
Speaker 2:Hated it after it got fixed. Are you kidding? No, did it not get fixed. It went straight to the dealership and I got a new car.
Speaker 1:There was no fixing it. See, I knew, I knew it.
Speaker 2:I knew, I knew it, I was, so I was just like this is never going to be right, it's just got to go.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, and it was such like looking back.
Speaker 2:I wish my parents had been like no we're fixing it.
Speaker 1:There would have been no. Handling you, your parents were like ugh, whatever. No, handling you, your parents were like whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what they were like they should have put their foot down and said no, we're not. We're getting this car fixed because it was a great car. It was like one of the best cars I've ever had, did you get the same car, or would you get after that? No, that was a Honda CRX and we traded it in and I got a hotter car. I got a red Mazda RX-7. It was hot, mm, and it was fast.
Speaker 1:Oh Lord, another episode title I saw. That made me think, or maybe I just thought of this, but I know we've told it is the girl licking the side of the cup at McDonald's.
Speaker 2:Do you have any positive happy stories? Yeah, that nut, you know, I still remember her face. I mean, that's been A long time. That's been a long, many, many, many years ago. So she's probably married with children. I hope her children have terrorized her In some form. Yes, I hope they have licked something and embarrassed her. Yeah, she made an ice cream. I was sitting in the lobby and you know kind of watching. She was new and she made the ice cream sundae. And listen, you know you can go anywhere that have a soft serve machine and I judge you. I just want you to know, I judge everybody at the soft serve machine. But, in all fairness, if you don't know, you don't know. You know people think when you put soft serve in a cup, you move the cup. No, yeah, you leave it. You do move the cone, but so it's always a mess with new people. Well, I'm watching her and you know, and I'm like oh dear god, she's putting like four times the amount of everything in there.
Speaker 2:So she puts the caramel and it's just dripping over the side so she lifts it up and she said and then the so she lifted it up. She didn't get her tongue to the container because at that time I had literally jumped when she licked her hands.
Speaker 2:She licked her hand and then she held it up and was about to lick the side of the sundae cup A customer's A customer's, a customer's that was standing there. I saw this. You would have been so impressed with me. I look like Bo Duke from the Dukes of Hazzard. I ran across the lobby, jumped the count, put my hands and threw my body over the front counter. Yeah, I jumped the count, put my hands and threw my body over the front counter and grabbed the sundae and said no ma'am, no ma'am. And I looked at the customer. I said I would like to make you another sundae.
Speaker 2:And they're like uh-huh, yeah, and I was like you may go.
Speaker 1:They were probably also thinking well, now it's skimpy compared to that one.
Speaker 2:Well, I made it a little extra. After that I was like good Lord, I mean yeah, and I was like you may go home now and you may not return. Yeah, because I'm like that isn't even, that isn't even a. I mean not aside from the amount, but licking your damn hands and licking the cup. That's not a training issue, that's a character. Yeah, you're just screwed up.
Speaker 1:You're never going to get any better than that. Don't you wish we could find her. I wish I knew her name and could find her.
Speaker 2:You know she remembers that. She probably tells the story.
Speaker 1:What McDonald's was this? What location?
Speaker 2:I'm not divulging that.
Speaker 1:I just wanted to see if people could find her. It's fine, it was the Easley Okay, easley South.
Speaker 2:Carolina.
Speaker 1:If you worked in McDonald's and tried to lick the side of the cup, let us know, in the comments.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we would love to talk to you. She would remember me. I fired you, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, One of the other highlights of our podcast. This doesn't have anything to do with you and I don't even know how we got on this on the original. I need to go back and listen to our podcast. You know I'll get messages, like someone will say I started over listening to the podcast.
Speaker 2:I know I'm like God. They must be bored.
Speaker 1:No, they love us. It's funny, I'm telling you. If you would listen to us, we're kind of funny.
Speaker 2:sometimes Dylan turns it on sometimes and I'm like turn it off it's like funny I'm like I don't like listening to myself. Uh, I know I sound like a hay bale well you are, mr southern.
Speaker 1:uh, but was the hike hitchhiking episodes? I don't't know. That was season one and I still get messages like funny thing about hitchhiking or something like that. I don't even know how.
Speaker 2:Funny thing, I still have nightmares from my mother, from picking up hitchhikers.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's how we got on it. You were talking about your mom would pick up hitchhikers. I don't know how we got on the topic.
Speaker 2:My mom was the sweetest, sweetest soul. You would just have to have known her.
Speaker 1:You could literally. You said she would just stop and pick up people.
Speaker 2:She was so, so, so sweet and had such a loving, loving heart and she would pick up anybody and I would see I would feel the car. I would say, no, mama, no, please, please, please, no mama. And she would say, honey, they look pitiful. We got to help them. Yeah, I'm like they're going to kill us. I was like no. So to this day and listen, I'm not as wonderful as my mother was, but I try to be a good human being and I do want to help people, but I ain't doing that. The scars run too deep for me to pick up a hitchhiker Like I would have to like recognize them, and that's pick up a hitchhiker like I would have to like recognize them, and that's really not a hitchhiker like I would have to know them like oh, they work it, but do you?
Speaker 1:think you could do it in a uber situation like let let a stranger ride in your car not your car because you're too particular, but let's say a rental car yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:So here's the funny thing is. So I have this weird fantasy and I'm going to do it at some point. I want to drive for Uber. And well, this is true. So my cousin got a new car a couple years ago and she kept her old car, which was quite, was quite nice, yeah, and she was selling it very cheap. And I said, I think I want to buy it. I mean, we were having a serious conversation and she's like, well, okay, but y'all have three cars, like why do you want mine? Yeah, and I said, well, I've been wanting to drive for uber, like you know, when I'm not working like it, I think it would be fun. At the time, dylan was working his job and I was like I could. And she started laughing and I said, no, no, I'm, I'm being serious. And she said, oh, my God, you have lost your mind.
Speaker 1:You have lost your mind, I think you need to do it and sign up and we'll get a car, cause I can't ride in yours. I mean they could ride in mine, I don't care, but we need like a minivan or something and I'll ride along with you and we can interview them Like random questions.
Speaker 2:Well, and I checked, on that, we can make our own. But you can't have people riding with you. But it doesn't matter if you get fired.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if we only make five trips. But we would be so much fun they wouldn't report us. I mean, they wouldn't care.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't think, but much fun, they wouldn't report us. I mean, they wouldn't care. I wouldn't think, but no, my cousin she was like no, absolutely not. You cannot do that. Oh my gosh, you will get killed. You can never do that.
Speaker 1:This is, that is crazy do it in the daytime and you can select who you want to pick.
Speaker 2:I want to do it like on a friday night. I want this, I want the stories. Yeah, that's what would interest me. I want you know so where are you headed. But you know, I'd probably get boring-ass people like me or something.
Speaker 1:Like me when they try to talk to me. I hate getting in an Uber by myself, so what are you?
Speaker 2:doing? I'm going to the U-Haul dealership Last week or the week before, whenever it was I in an Uber by myself. So what are you doing?
Speaker 1:I'm going to the U-Haul dealership. Yeah, that's last week or the week before, whenever it was I had to take an Uber from our warehouse to the rental place because you were in Atlanta and I was meeting you and I rented a van because we were bringing some stuff back anyway. So I was like I'm not going to bother an employee and I didn't know which was more awkward for me. Y'all know me. Is it more awkward for me to ride with the employee and have to do small talk with them in a car or an Uber driver? So I picked the Uber driver. Nothing against our employees, I like them all, but I'm just I don't know.
Speaker 2:You're not a small talker. Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I small talker. Yeah, you're not. Yeah, so I picked the uber you're not.
Speaker 2:Uh, what's going on with your kids? And tell me about this.
Speaker 1:You're just not and the uber driver was trying to talk like, oh, what are you doing? What's you know what's? He picked me up at the warehouse. It says the nested fig. What's the nested fig? And I'm like, oh gosh, this is, this is not what I want to talk about. But you know, I went along with it and it was fun. So, yeah, you know, I'm just not a small talk person like that and that's why I don't and I've seen people talk about this on TikTok and I've talked about it with you. I don't know if we've talked about it on here, but whatever the coffee place is by I don't know the warehouse down the street, what is that one called?
Speaker 2:The one we like that has the good pastries.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, that's a local one, the one you drive through. Oh, seven Brew, seven Brew. I will not go there. Their coffee's fine, it's good. I'll send Dylan there if he's like I'm going to get coffee. They ask the most intrusive questions when you are in that drive-thru that I just want to run them all over.
Speaker 2:They haven't done that to me, but I want to go there. Where are you coming from?
Speaker 1:I mean, it's literal. What are you doing when you leave here?
Speaker 2:I want to go there. I want them to ask me those questions because I've got the answers for them it drives me crazy and their menu.
Speaker 1:They don't have a menu where you can see it.
Speaker 2:I don't like that. You have to do a QR code or they're standing there.
Speaker 1:They walk out to your car like it is a little awkward. I don't like anything about it. I refuse to go there Now I. I just don't know how that became a model of like.
Speaker 2:Here's something that I you know, and I was a big proponent of this. I was one of the first people to do this, but we had to because we had so much business. We didn't have a choice. Is the people outside?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Taking orders. So, first of all, when I say we did it because we had to, because we had so much business, that's true. Yeah, we didn't have the capacity. Our business has expanded the capacity of the restaurant. That's true. Yeah, we didn't have the capacity. Our business has expanded the capacity of the restaurant At McDonald's. Yeah, I was trying to come up with ways to get more cars through my drive-thru. Yeah, so I put them out there just for peak periods, like when the drive-thru was stacking up. So that served a purpose.
Speaker 2:But, now like with Chick-fil-A. I get it when they have high peak period.
Speaker 1:But they do it all the time it's weird.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's stupid. And here's the thing, and this is what I used to tell McDonald's owners and stuff that would do it. I'm like, because I started doing it, some other people started and I'm like listen, the only way this works is if you're getting more people through than you can handle and your people are really on top of it and you're adding orders to the screen in the kitchen and you're getting the food faster. It's stupid and it doesn't work If you're paying a person to go out there to be a speaker post.
Speaker 1:Right when it doesn't need to be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've got. You've got one or two damn speakers, you don't need another.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then I go to Chick-fil-A and they have taken it, and listen, I'm not knocking Chick-fil-A and they have taken it. And listen, I'm not knocking Chick-fil-A. So y'all don't message saying, well, yes, they have great employees. Those owners paid very little. They're operating partners, they're not owners. They don't have the debts. They can pay great people, and they do.
Speaker 1:But I think it's weird and I don't want.
Speaker 1:I don't want to talk to them yeah, that's how I am, especially when it's not busy. And then they're in your face and I'm like I don't go there very often, so I'm like, what do I want? And I'm trying to sit there and decide and there's no menu. And if you're gonna do like chick-fil-a or seven brew, it's the same model. You need a min. Excuse me, goodness, goodness, okay, you need a menu. Uh, every like carling all the way down to the street. I don't want to have to scan a QR code that you can't scan until you're close, and I don't want someone in my face, because then I can't make up my mind. I'm like, well, what do you have?
Speaker 2:It drives me crazy Anyway got off on a little tangent. I don't even know how we got on 7Brew and all this. I don't even know how we got on Seven Brew and all this?
Speaker 1:I don't know either. Oh, small Talk Uber hitchhiking, oh yeah, that is our brand. We started on hitchhiking.
Speaker 2:I'm like we ended up at Seven Brew. Yeah he talks about Seven Brew all the time. He is a little obsessed with not liking those and I do think people it's weird, it's weird those, and I do think people it's weird.
Speaker 1:It's weird. You need to say customer service. Hey, how are you today? I'm great. What would you like to order? Oh, thank you. Pull up to the window and I'll get your order.
Speaker 2:Have a great rest of your day. That's all I need.
Speaker 1:I do not need you standing at the window.
Speaker 2:What is that bag you have?
Speaker 1:over there that is exactly. That would not surprise me at all when I go there, see I want to leave here and go there you should when they ask me where have you been? I want to say, we just did a whole podcast talking about how dumb y'all are.
Speaker 2:No, no, no no, no, I think I would come up with something like I just killed 14 people down the road yeah come in here. I've been contemplating doing this, like what. Like I would want to say something outrageous, like why are you up in my business? Like where are you going next? Oh, I'm going to a wild orgy down the street. I mean just something outlandish. So they just look at you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, it bothers me. Moving on from that, I have some fun statistics here, since it's our 100th episode.
Speaker 2:Okay, which first of?
Speaker 1:all. We should have backed up and started. I don't even know which you kind of mentioned how we've stuck with this. I'm glad we have. I think it's a therapy session for the two of us.
Speaker 2:It's the only thing I've ever stuck with this long in my life that didn't make me money.
Speaker 1:That's true, that is true, that is true, that is true, that is true. But we've been listened to in 91 countries 91 countries. Isn't that crazy, 91 countries? 91 countries Isn't that crazy, 91 countries?
Speaker 2:And I still want to know in these countries like are you military, are you visiting? How did that come about?
Speaker 1:In some of these we've down at the bottom. You know we've had like one listener.
Speaker 2:That's okay.
Speaker 1:Or whatever. We're still in 91 countries, that's okay. Or whatever, we're still in 91 countries, that's right, 91 countries. So yeah, do you think people were traveling or did they just happen to find?
Speaker 2:Or what I'm thinking is maybe you know, because there's military bases everywhere, yeah, so maybe they're military and you know they listen to podcasts.
Speaker 1:So the top ones outside of the United States, canada, no number two is United Kingdom. Oh, number three is Canada. Number four is Sweden, belgium, germany, denmark, australia, netherlands, hong Kong, norway, finland and then Switzerland. I don't know how many I just read off, but that's in order, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2:I like the UK. I like it over there, yes. So yeah, there's that I do like me some England. I love London. Oh my gosh, which is you know?
Speaker 1:there's that I do like me some England I love London, oh my gosh, which is, you know, very interesting. I don't know, I just love seeing that I need to see in the. Let me go back to locations and let's do cities. It's on the last 10 episodes, so we'll just go off those statistics. On the last 10 episodes for cities, charlotteotte was number one. Atlanta, greenville where's our locals been? Chicago, houston, st louis, dallas, nashville, lexington, lexington, kentucky and Kentucky and Indianapolis. Those are the top. Oh, now it's switched. If we do all time, so across all episodes, it's Charlotte, greenville, atlanta, houston, kansas City, missouri, chicago, dallas, indianapolis, denver and Nashville Isn't that interesting.
Speaker 1:Fun little tidbits there. How about that? Well, also, I think, since it's our 100th episode and we didn't do it last week, we need to announce the water bottle winner. So we scrolled through and randomly selected one winner who is a current member in our who's Driving podcast community, Remember if maybe you're new here you catch this later we have our website, whosedrivingpodcastcom. You can go there and join our members-only community so you can go there and listen for free to past episodes. Maybe you want to catch up some of the episodes that we've talked about if you join later. Or you can join our online community, which started with season three, and you can watch us there. So if you want the video version, then join the online community and you know that supports us a little bit there, so you can do that. But we said that we would give one current member a hydrate spark water bottle. This is the water bottle that steven loves.
Speaker 1:You know I cleaned mine out and I used it for a few days and then I set it back down and hadn't been drinking the water like I should. Yeah, take a big old gulp. So the hydrate spark water bottle is great and you know it. We talked about it briefly. It has an app. It tracks how much water you drink. You can set how much you want to drink, or it recommends based on your body, your weight and that sort of thing, um, how much to drink but anyway best thing ever it's always linked down in the comment or the show notes.
Speaker 2:I'm so addicted to it. I have and look, I have here's today. I've had 49.4 ounces of water today.
Speaker 1:Oh, look at you go and what's your goal? 90 or 100? 98.
Speaker 2:98. So you're halfway there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're halfway there. So, anyway, congratulations to Amber Hall. Amber is our winner. We will reach out to you or you can email me and I will get you your address and get your water bottle.
Speaker 2:It's the best thing ever. I'm so addicted, I'm so codependent on this. I keep a spare one in my pantry. I know you've told us that a spare one in my pantry.
Speaker 1:I know you've told us that you have really latched on and developed some type of I don't know if it's an unhealthy or healthy relationship with that water bottle.
Speaker 2:It's healthy because I never drink water. Yeah, y'all, I drink Diet.
Speaker 1:Coke. This is really a miraculous moment to think about because I had to stay. I really stayed on you for a long time about drinking Diet Cokes. Not that you can't have a Diet Coke or a soda or a pop or whatever you want, it was bad. But he literally would only drink Diet Coke and you were probably drinking like six or eight a day. Was it more than that he's saying? Was it more than that he's saying? It was more than that. It was bad. And I would be like you need you got to start drinking water because I would send you things of how, like you know, it can affect like your body and stuff I was sending articles.
Speaker 2:I'm so thankful I stopped, because I just stopped like five years ago.
Speaker 1:Has it been? Have you stopped that long? Maybe yeah.
Speaker 2:It's been five years, but it, you know, I drank. I even. I wasn't even drinking coffee. I mean, I liked coffee, yeah, but I was so addicted to Diet Coke I would start my morning with popping a Diet Coke and I drank eight to ten a day, maybe more, and see, the other problem was when I owned McDonald's and I would go to the stores and get.
Speaker 2:Everybody knew like I wanted the large size extra ice filled up with Diet Coke, so when I would come through the drive-thru they would have that for me. Ready to go. Ready to go, yeah, and so I always had a Diet Coke with me and I mean, that's where it all started and, honestly, what worries me more than anything was all that Diet Coke. I consume more than McDonald's food, you know, because you're going to always eat food, and it's the amount you know and it's you know, it was a bit of a problem.
Speaker 1:It was a bit of a problem.
Speaker 2:It was, and now I drink a lot of water and I will drink a Diet Coke maybe once a week.
Speaker 1:You think like maybe once a week or market. You might have a couple more. It's funny and I think we've talked about this before. I never really drink a soda, but I will at market and I will when we are like doing Christmas floor set at the store or something. I think it's something about. I feel like at the stores when we're doing a floor set, I feel like it's something about like dust and stuff and then I feel like that just good fizz clears out my yeah, and you know.
Speaker 2:And the caffeine, yeah, but yeah, I mean I don't. Do you even remember the last time you saw me drinking a Diet Coke? I mean, sometimes, like when I have dinner, I will, but see, I usually have unsweetened tea or water with lemon.
Speaker 1:I like to go get, because I do sometimes crave that fizzy feeling. So I'll get bottled ginger beer.
Speaker 2:Well, I found my new thing to try.
Speaker 1:So when you want that fizzy poppy, oh, I've heard about them, but I haven't tried them yet In the cola.
Speaker 2:if you don't look at it, it tastes like coke, but it doesn't have any of that artificial coloring. It has nothing.
Speaker 1:It doesn't need the coloring. Why does it need to be?
Speaker 2:shit brown, I mean.
Speaker 1:Why is that even a thing? Why did they start, I wonder with?
Speaker 2:Why are colors in there. I don't, I don't know. I mean, like you said, it doesn't need it. Yeah, like, why have it?
Speaker 1:in there. Yeah, so the poppy I tried.
Speaker 2:I was against trying it. I tried it over at Tina's house actually, and she's like don't look at it. Do not look at it because your mind will play a trick on you. Like it's not really cola and I tasted it. I was like it is like drinking. She's like it's just a healthier version when you need that little fizzy, and there's one, evidently, that tastes like Dr Pepper.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've never been a Dr Pepper fan. I mean that's not Root beer and Dr Pepper. No thanks.
Speaker 2:So, amber, you're going to love this bottle. I hope you love it as much as I do. I'm a little obsessed with it, I guess, and I miss it when we go out of town because I don't take it, because I have to have my ice and water.
Speaker 1:And Rod y'all if he forgets his water bottle it is, I just don't have my water bottle.
Speaker 2:Well, dylan has to leave, I don't have my water bottle. Well, dylan has to leave, I don't have my water bottle.
Speaker 1:Like, if you leave it at my house, you've left it here before. When we're recording podcast, that's when the text and phone. Don't forget my water bottle. Are you going to bring me my water bottle? I need that water bottle. I need that water bottle. I can't go all weekend without the water bottle. I'm like I am bringing you the water bottle.
Speaker 2:Well, the thing is is without my water bottle, my water intake goes way down, Way down.
Speaker 1:Can't have you getting back into the Diet Coke? All right, what about? We got just a few more minutes? But what about?
Speaker 2:Oh no, we got more than a few because we have not talked about our new segment. You're really sticking with this Southernisms. We've got to educate people that are moving here. Do you know how many hundreds of people move here by the day?
Speaker 1:Well, they'll learn. They're coming in unarmed. Well, they probably aren't listening to our southern asses either. Well they should.
Speaker 2:Okay One. This first one is you brought this up, and the funny thing is is I say this all the time, several times a week.
Speaker 1:Finer than frog hair split four ways and I had never heard of that until you, and I don't how did you not hear you're from? Tennessee finer than frog hair split four ways? Well, first of all, the frogs even have hair evidently it's very fine hair.
Speaker 2:Okay, and what does that mean? I'm doing great? Okay, yeah, I'm wonderful. How are you doing? I'm finer than frog hair split four ways. Yeah, that just means you're doing great. Okay, what else you got? So here's another. Hilla beans oh h of beans. Oh, hill of beans. That don't make a hill of beans, I guess it takes a lot of beans to make a hill.
Speaker 2:Let me see what it says on hill of beans. Yeah, let us know, hill of beans. In the South, a hill of beans is its own measuring stick. Whether you're talking about volume or value, a hill of beans isn't worth much. That means whatever you're talking about is worth less than very little. He ain't going to amount to a hill of beans.
Speaker 1:No, I've heard that Not personally, but I've heard people say that.
Speaker 2:Okay, the next is plum Plum P-L-U-M-B plum.
Speaker 1:Well, that refers to like a wall. Is the wall plum?
Speaker 2:No, he's just plum stupid. Yeah, I am plum more out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 2:Well, if y'all are moving here or you're of northern descent, we use plum a lot here. I am plum more. I tell you what I am plum worn out. I am more plum out, that's true. You may not. You said that this week. Yeah, you, you may be not wait, you may be not just truly, completely, absolutely tired, but plum tired. Your neighbor may be plum crazy that means over the top crazy. This is the absolute of absolutes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it is more than very tired. Plum, mm-hmm, plum anything.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:That is true. And you say that one Mm-hmm, I say plum, I mean literally this week. You're like, I was like how's?
Speaker 2:it going Fine.
Speaker 1:I'm plum worn out, or I'm worn plum out.
Speaker 2:Oh, here's one that's kind of bad, but I want to tell y'all oh bad it's kind of ugly oh ugly. But I'm going to share it with y'all. Okay, and I don't know if you've heard this, and this was in my small town, so you all know when you were in High school.
Speaker 1:There's a back story.
Speaker 2:You know, when you were in high school there were those girls that were kind of Slutty. You know the ones.
Speaker 1:I didn't know them personally.
Speaker 2:But you know the ones that took it to the next level, Not the ones that took it to the next level, Not the ones you know that dated.
Speaker 1:I feel like I'm going to have to edit this out. I don't know what is coming.
Speaker 2:No, you're not going to have to. Okay. So where I come from, when they would like, those type of girls would end up marrying. They might be beautiful, cause you know everybody was screwing them, so you know they were, you know they were pretty, so it was always funny and they'd say, well, you know, she married so-and-so, which may have not have been a great catch.
Speaker 1:The guy yeah.
Speaker 2:And then the other person would go well, you know, she the guy, yeah. And then the other person would go well, you know, she played out. That's what we would always say she played out well, you know, she played out, meaning everybody had ran through her, she just had to settle she played out, she played out. See, I told you it wasn't that. So if you're here and you're like here's, somebody played out, they wore out. Yeah, nobody wanted it. Yeah, it played out, it played out.
Speaker 2:And then the other thing is and Wesley, I brought this up to him before the podcast y'all and he said that's a saying. Everybody says that I'm like no.
Speaker 1:Okay, here's the thing. I know this is a Southern term, I do know this is very Southern, but I would just think at this point it has like infiltrated the world or the country, mm-mm, mm-mm.
Speaker 2:Fixin' to, I am fixin' to whip your ass Fixin' to, fixing to. I am fixing to whip your ass, fixing to Uh huh, I am fixing to make me a glass of tea. Yeah, do you want?
Speaker 1:one I'm fixing to go to the store. Y'all don't say that in other places. No.
Speaker 2:Fixing to Not up north. I mean, have you ever been in New York City and somebody say I'm fixing to go. That's its own place.
Speaker 1:New York City and somebody say I'm fixing to go, that's its own place.
Speaker 2:I've just, you know, some of the people that I have met from Ohio or Indiana, the Midwest they ain't as they ain't proper. Well, midwest is different and you'll get some people with, like very poor grammar and you know, I seen that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Instead of I saw that.
Speaker 1:Well, I seen that goes right there with fixin' to, and maybe they say that there. I don't know. That's why I'm just a little surprised. So let us know.
Speaker 2:Fixin' to means I'm getting ready to.
Speaker 1:Well, we all know that they never heard it before in their life. I'm fixing to, getting ready to. I'm fixing to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I heard things. I heard things and the way people talk, I'm like what. I had an employee one time, true story had an employee one time and he was talking, talking to me, and they were green as gourds more country, more what is green is gourd.
Speaker 1:See now, that is a country green is gourd, means you really?
Speaker 2:That means country. And he said my uncle, my uncle. And I said my uncle. I said who. He said my uncle. I said I'm sorry, I don't know my uncle Because I thought it was a person, yeah. And he said you know my uncle. I said I don't know my uncle Cause I thought it was a person, yeah. And he said you know my uncle. I said I don't know my uncle. I said I don't know Monkle and I said he said you know my uncle and he said I said your uncle.
Speaker 2:I said I thought you were saying Monkle, he said it is. Monkle yeah.
Speaker 1:Monkle now.
Speaker 2:Monkle.
Speaker 1:Monkle, me and my Monkle. No, me, monkle, monkle, me and my monkle. Yeah, me and monkle. Me and monkle went to the store. Me and monkle went to the gas station and got some chips. Yeah, now here's the next one Me and monkle fixing to go to the gas station. You need anything? Did you eat yet? My uncle's a drunk. Did you eat yet? Did you eat yet eat yet my uncle's a drunk. Do you eat yet? Do you eat yet? Do you eat yet? Did you eat yet? See, that's Southernisms.
Speaker 2:Oh no, that's just the bad of the bad.
Speaker 1:Me and my uncle fix and go to the store and get some food. Do you eat, yet Use all of them together.
Speaker 2:Them. Ain't no carrots growing right there. S-m-r, s-m-r, o-s-m-r, s-m-r, o-s-m-r. Yeah, that's just another whole level. And here's another one Will you carry me over to the warehouse, carry you Carry? So a lot of Southern people say carry, like you're going to pick them up and literally carry them. But they mean will you take or drive them? Will you drive me to the warehouse? You know they're going to say will you carry me over there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, will you carry me over there. Can you imagine living in New York your whole life and coming here and going to Pickens County, where I grew up out in the country, and hearing what some of these people say I'm rolling away. How you doing. I'm finer than frog. Hair split four ways my uncle's over there working on his car. I mean, you wouldn't know what they were saying.
Speaker 1:You want me to carry you over there to see.
Speaker 2:You just plumperty.
Speaker 1:That is so true. Oh my gosh, it's hilarious.
Speaker 1:I mean I forget about some of the things that we still need to take the microphone to the streets somewhere outside of the South and interview people and ask them if they know these terms. Just use it in a sentence and see if they know what it means. Do you know? This isn't a Southern thing. This is not a Southern thing, but I don't think I mentioned this, but my mind is still blown away. This lady went to I think she was in Target and she was looking for a cleaner to clean, like her sofa with, and so she asked for upholstery cleaner. This was on like a TikTok or something, and then she started doing a video. Nobody knew what upholstery meant.
Speaker 2:Didn't we talk about this?
Speaker 1:Did we talk?
Speaker 2:about it? I don't know. Upholstery, yeah, and no one knew.
Speaker 1:No one knew Like all these people she's like do you know what upholstery means? And they're like no.
Speaker 2:And I'm people she's like do you know what upholstery means? And they're like no, and I'm like how do you not know? But upholstery, I mean, that is a thing and I think about it now.
Speaker 1:Every time we'll send out like a text message for our local home store. Let's say we're doing a sale on upholstery and I'm like, do I say upholstery, am I losing people? Because they don't know what it means. I always say, you know, like we're having X percent off upholstery sale. Come in. And then I'm like, are there people that are like I don't know what's on sale?
Speaker 2:Should I be?
Speaker 1:saying furniture.
Speaker 2:But what are you supposed to say? Fabric covered furniture?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I was blown away. Are we going to dumb it down To me that?
Speaker 1:was so like not knowing what I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's funny, oh lord we're having a fabric covered furniture sale.
Speaker 1:Run on in, come, get your discount here. Well, let's wrap up this hundredth episode. I still can't believe. I don't even know at this point how we got to doing a podcast.
Speaker 2:I know I talked about it for a while, like we need.
Speaker 1:We got funny stories. We need to have a podcast because there's things you want to tell or happen or discuss that you can't on, say, instagram, because they're just too long to talk about. Yeah, and we kept saying we're going to do a podcast and the name I know we've talked about it comes from my mom. Stephen and I were in the car it was you and me in the car, right. Yes, we were in the car and my mom called and we were on the way back from somewhere I don't know and she was telling us this show that we needed to. And you have to know my mom, she's kind of like me multiple stories and can't follow sometimes Can be foggy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in the best of her text messages that can take you many different places.
Speaker 1:We got to have my mom on the podcast, but she was telling us this you know she's like y'all have to watch this. Yeah, we were like okay'all have to watch this, yeah. And then she said and then she said who's driving?
Speaker 2:And we were like, okay, we'll look it up what's?
Speaker 1:the rest.
Speaker 2:And she was like no, who's driving? And we're like okay is that the name.
Speaker 1:So it was literally one of those like for a minute we were going she, she was going who's driving? And I'm like, okay, we'll look it up. It's like continue on with the story. And she was like finally like no, who is driving? I don't remember which one of you are driving and we were like busted out laughing and we were like that's the name of our podcast, yep, who's?
Speaker 2:driving. But and that's you know, it's so funny and and you can be that way too, and I can too a little bit, but your mom is, her brains works faster than her mouth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess that's how mine works too.
Speaker 2:Mine too, and she is already like four steps ahead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you'd like what and when she's telling a story and I do this too. I know it drives Daniel crazy, but she'll go off on side stories and then wraps back around to the main story, so you got to follow it. She's got to be ADD yeah, definitely. And I do that to Daniel andD thing. So you got to follow it. She's got to be ADD yeah, definitely. And I do that to Daniel in Poor Thing he zones out and then he's like I have no idea what you're.
Speaker 2:I don't know what you've talked about or where you are in the story. It is an ADD thing and I'm like just never mind it wasn't important. Listen, they're good stories when you go in all different directions different directions, I know, oh, they are Because it's like our podcast how we got from hitchhiking to Seven Brew. Yeah, it just goes.
Speaker 1:I mean it just flows, but truly, thank you all for listening to our podcast. We have a lot of fun doing it each week. We really do and we love telling our stories and we need to get my mom and some guests on. You know we started out we would have guests on, but we started out also we were structured. We would record podcasts every Friday at this time and we could say we could call someone or text them and say, hey, do you want to be on our podcast? This week?
Speaker 2:We need to do Ronder. We don't do that anymore. We got to do Ronder. That'd be a good one. We will, we'll get it together and do it, yeah, and we've got some funny stories because Wesley, you know they have a cabin in Pigeon Forge, yeah, and Wesley has a way of getting out of doing anything he doesn't like or doesn't want to do. And who likes going to HOA meetings? No one.
Speaker 1:You know how I get out of it. We've talked about this. This was supposed to be the year you say no, if I want it, no, I can't go to that, yeah, but the bad thing is is you say no, call Steve.
Speaker 2:So we have some funny stories because, I do some of the HOA meetings with Wesley's mom for a neighborhood that I don't even own, but we do it and we've had you know nothing you do Listen. Y'all know. Y'all all know, whenever I go somewhere, I do something. There's going to be a story with Steven. You put me and Rhonda together. There's going to be a great story.
Speaker 1:My mom always has stories story.
Speaker 2:Always something happens to her at just and I'm gonna wait till she's on here. But there's one story um, when we, when she and I went to we've told the unicycle story have we told that? Yes, we literally laughed till. We almost peed our pants yeah and it was the girl you gotta we gotta ask your mom about it yeah, because she was a um, um and she was mountain, mountain and healthy she was a big girl she was a big girl to be on a unicycle At a flea market, at a flea market in a gravel ditched-up place, and I kid you not, she would go.
Speaker 2:We were sitting in the car and that girl, I'm telling you, she would be within six inches of the ground. We'd be going, oh, oh, oh, oh, and then she would bring it back up, and then she'd go the other way and we'd be going, oh, and then she would bring it back up and then she'd go the other way. We go, oh, here it is, here it is, and then she would go down. I mean it was just, it was like a weeble wobble, I mean, every way we got. That was one of the I wish we had recorded that that is too funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my mom has a lot of stories. A lot of things happen to my mom, and mostly funny.
Speaker 2:And sometimes it's not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's always a good story. Oh my gosh, it's just too funny. We'll have to get her on here. I don't want to catch her off guard and just call her. I'm going to have to get her on one day, like okay.
Speaker 2:We got to check the mood.
Speaker 1:Check the happenings. Catch her right in the middle of a story. That would be a good one. All right, we're going to park this baby. Thank you for 100 episodes. We're going to keep it going. Mark this baby. Thank you for 100 episodes. We're going to keep it going. Yeah, I mean, one day we might stop showing up, but for now, we're going for 100 more and then we'll see after that 100 more?
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, that'd be like another two years. Yeah, what else do we got to do? We do one a week. Oh, nothing, I'm down for it. Yeah, all right, see, see you next week. Thanks for being here. Remember to join our members-only community at whosedrivingpodcastcom. Share us with your friends. We need more listeners. I'm sure we lose some along the way with our dumb asses.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we need some five-star reviews, so don't forget to leave us the reviews.
Speaker 1:And leave us the reviews. We'll see you next week. Bye y'all.