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Hmm, crank this baby up for the third time. 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.
Speaker 1:We're two best friends and entrepreneurs who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship and business.
Speaker 2:These are the stories we share and topics we discuss, as two best friends would on a long road trip.
Speaker 1:Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media and all things home and garden.
Speaker 2:Buckle up and enjoy the ride. You never know who's driving, or?
Speaker 1:where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride. So we've just had. This is our third start to the episode because Stephen's camera quits working on me, but I think we're good now, well, check it before I go any further.
Speaker 2:We're good, I'm more slap out.
Speaker 1:It is recording. We are good. Oh my goodness, that's too funny. Remember? You can watch our podcast at whosedrivingpodcastcom.
Speaker 2:And you never know which day we might be naked.
Speaker 1:I do think one day we should just record like normal but be here in like some kind of costume.
Speaker 2:We'll work on that.
Speaker 1:We're going to do something just to see. Just to see what happens. Okay, so it's today for us is Memorial Day, so this is Memorial Day week. It's the unofficial, official beginning of summer right, mm-hmm. Which? When is the official day of summer? June 20th?
Speaker 2:June 20th, that's a long time, mm-mm, no it's now, it's summertime, but it goes up until September.
Speaker 1:Oh, they need to adjust that a little bit, quite right, yeah but I guess you know the northern people. Someone was telling us last night in the um live cell that they still had forsythia blooming, which ours bloomed in like february, but you don't realize like how cold Like Maine, in those northeastern states.
Speaker 2:Excuse me, Sorry. Those northeastern states get really cold.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's true, but I just feel like by you know we're almost to the first of June that it should be warm, hot by now.
Speaker 2:I feel like May was hotter when I was a kid than it is now.
Speaker 1:Well, I was just going to say we've had a pretty mild May, we've had a really good spring, so I think it's just a one-off, because sometimes I can remember with having the garden shop when we used to have the outdoor plants and stuff and how hot it would be in May sometime.
Speaker 2:Just hasn't been that bad. I mean, knock on wood. I know I'm going to be dying come July and August.
Speaker 1:Well, speaking of summertime, unofficially, I need a pool to get into Well.
Speaker 2:I have one.
Speaker 1:But I need it in my backyard. I need my own pool to get into.
Speaker 2:You know, I can look out my window and see it, but it just doesn't do any good. It doesn't entice me.
Speaker 1:I know You're not a pool person.
Speaker 2:I mean, you're not, I'm more, I love. I love the water. Here's the thing. I don't like a community pool.
Speaker 1:You don't like anything pool related in summertime. You don't like to sweat.
Speaker 2:I do You're?
Speaker 1:too pale to go sit by the pool. Well, you're as pale as I am. I try to keep myself this way. Like I cover up, I wear a long sleeve.
Speaker 2:UZ shirt. When I go to the beach I do enjoy it. I just, you know, I just honestly don't take the time.
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 2:I was thinking the other day how I used to love to water ski and stuff like that, but see, now you would never get in a pond or a lake now. Not a pond.
Speaker 1:Like as a kid, we would have swam in our pond. Oh, I would have too. Like, we have a pond here on the farm right in my front yard, a big pond. Yeah, a very nice size pond. If I would have had that as a kid. We swam in our neighbor's pond. Yes, Like didn't think anything about it. Yes, I would have had that as a kid. We swam in our neighbor's pond. Yes, like didn't think anything about it.
Speaker 2:Yes, I would have too, and you?
Speaker 1:couldn't pay me to jump off in that thing.
Speaker 2:No, I will get. I mean you could pay me. There's like two lakes around here. I will get in, yeah. But I'm like who do I know that has a boat that can pull a skier? Yeah, most people, they're fancy boats, they're not ski boats. I'm not going to go to the expense of renting a boat. I mean I would love to ski again. I mean I know it's probably I'm sure it's like riding a bike.
Speaker 1:You would break something at this point. You'd probably rip off a leg or an ankle. Your ankles are very janky. I was a very good skier though. Well, you were, I was. We was a lot of things that we're not anymore.
Speaker 2:But I mean I would love to try it again. Yeah, I just, I was telling Dylan about it Well, you'd also like to roller skate again. No, I'm not doing that Because I do not want to break a hip. Like I know people my age that have broken, and I'm talking big, strong, muscular, construction-working men that have fallen and broken hips.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, it's not a joke, I don't have time for you to be laid up. Can you imagine me having to prop you up at the warehouse and do a live sale? I would have you in the background.
Speaker 2:I can't imagine going through any. I don't want to break anything. My fear now is like if somebody said like for today, I'd have been like we got to record the podcast. I want to go, I would have gone to ski. But here's my concern now is there's so many people on the lakes? Is the safety of it? Because when I was a kid and skiing, honestly there were not that many people.
Speaker 1:When I was a teenager, it was a country Not that many people had. When I was a teenager, it was a country, yeah there was not that many people had boats, honestly, but I just think about, I can't imagine I mean our pond that I'm looking at right out the window is no different than the ponds that I swam in growing up.
Speaker 2:There's snakes in there.
Speaker 1:It doesn't even bother me that it's like brown water, but it's not.
Speaker 2:How deep is it?
Speaker 1:It's not that deep, maybe when you get way out by the dock. It's probably about six or eight feet deep.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see, if you jumped in you would hit the bottom, you'd feel all the moss growing on the bottom and algae. I mean right now.
Speaker 1:It may be deeper than that, because the pond's full there would be a big catfish? I don't know, but it's funny that we didn't think anything about it as a kid.
Speaker 2:But you know, Clemson has Lake Hartwell and I'm sorry if anyone listening lives on Lake Hartwell.
Speaker 1:It's gross and I can say that it is not gross.
Speaker 2:I grew up on that lake. It is gross. If you grew up on it, you would know I would swim in it and ski and do everything. And it was so funny at the end of the summer because I wore white a lot. I don't know why I thought that was a good idea.
Speaker 1:Of course, it was going to be brown and orange because of our clay soil. Yeah, I was like the thing that I don't like about Lake.
Speaker 2:Hartwell. Oh, it was red. Yeah, it was orange Because of our clay soil. Yeah, I was like, ugh, that's not. The thing that I don't like about Lake Hartwell is Lake Hartwell was built when my mother was a kid. It is just some of the stuff that I know is under there just from my family. They didn't do anything.
Speaker 1:They built this lake. That is huge and if you're not from here, it doesn't mean anything. They built this lake. That is huge and if you're not from here, it doesn't mean anything to you, but it's huge and they just built it in flooded land, like there's barns there's homes, there's barns, there's just under the cars, there's everything you can imagine just under there which is crazy, I don know.
Speaker 2:And there's even bridges, like they, even like, just don't like when they would redo bridges. No, we're not going to haul it off, let's just dump it in the lake. It's just on the bottom.
Speaker 1:I can't imagine it's good for the fishes?
Speaker 2:I guess, I guess. But you know, there's a like Kiwi, north of us. There's a shipwreck at the bottom. Would they import a shipwreck? No, I think it sank. How did a ship get on the lake? I don't know. It's a big boat. I don't know what it is. I don't know the story behind it.
Speaker 1:It ain't connected to the ocean.
Speaker 2:But it's a big, you know some kind of big boat that's been under there for a long time and I think it is like 60, 70 feet below. That's crazy. So if you go up there to learn to scuba dive, you go through that wreckage. That's kind of cool. I couldn't do that either. I would suffocate, I know.
Speaker 1:Well, now that we're kicking off summer, I was looking at the calendar and I got a lot of summer plans. We got a lot going on we always do. But it's one of those times when I've looked at the calendar and I'm like, oh my gosh, like my summer's gone. I mean the fun things, work things, all kinds of things. But next week Daniel and I are going down to our Florida cottage. My parents are going to be there, my niece and so last minute they're going to be there all week. But last minute we decided to book flights and we're going down there just for a few days. We're going to be there I think it's like three nights Monday. We get down there Monday afternoon and we get back Thursday evening. So that's going to be fun, because I actually have never been to our beach cottage with my parents. Daniel's parents came down one time.
Speaker 2:I was there with Dylan's parents. Yeah, I've been there and we've gone together a lot, but I've never been there with my parents.
Speaker 1:My niece is at that perfect age.
Speaker 2:She's six, everything's fun.
Speaker 1:Everything's fun and it's fun to entertain. So we're going to go do that, but anyway, that's next week. But then after that, sometime in the middle of June, we're going to the Dallas market, which we haven't booked our flight there either yet. But you know we're last-minute everything. Travelers, that sort of thing we do need to get that book though. Yeah, so we're going to go to the Dallas market sometime.
Speaker 2:That's my favorite market Other than High Point. It's my number one favorite because of all the design and the furniture and all of that, but my second, my favorite gift market is Dallas, dallas now.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's so. Last June was the first time we went to Dallas. It's so nice, the Atlanta market is bigger. So if you're a small business and you're like which market should I go to Atlanta, you need to go to Atlanta. It's bigger, bigger variety, everything about it.
Speaker 2:But you're in downtown Atlanta and you're in a high-rise building and you feel like you're. It's exhausting.
Speaker 1:I didn't realize how the environment itself is exhausting because it's more Closed in, closed. You don't know what time of day it is, there's no sunlight, that sort of thing. When you go to the Dallas market it is more like a mall, it's like an 80s mall, but massive, massive, um, and it's so. Trees and, yeah, cafes and waterfalls, little fish pond in the middle atrium. It's just so nice. You just feel a whole different environment. But anyway, so that is mid-June, we'll go there. So I'm gone the first week, some in the first week, then some in like the third week, and then the last week of June, which leads into 4th of July, we're going to Daniel's parents' beach place with them. So a little family vacation. You got any 4th of July plans?
Speaker 2:I need to make. You need to make some. I need to make plans to go away. You do, because last year I was like nothing's going on.
Speaker 1:You need to get out of town and get a little summer reset. You think, oh, I'll get something. You're not Something done. You're not Just go ahead and head out of town, it's true, so we'll be gone. That're not Something done. You're not Just go ahead and head out of town, it's true, so we'll be gone. That's the first week of July, and then the middle of July you and I go to the Atlanta market, and that's our biggest, longest market. We'll be there for like 10 days. I'm looking forward to that too. Yeah, I love all the markets. And then we're back for maybe a week and a half, two weeks, uh, and daniel and I go to the florida cottage. That's our end of summer vacation. Every year we'll go for about 12 days. And while we're there mister, yes, you booked a trip to Hawaii, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Hawaii, hawaii. We're going to Kauai this time.
Speaker 1:Okay, so in 2021, you and me and Dylan and Daniel went to Maui. Mm-hmm, that was my first time to Hawaii.
Speaker 2:During COVID it was really nice.
Speaker 1:It was really nice, it was.
Speaker 2:That was a good vacation.
Speaker 1:It's a great, but it does seem like we did that like 10 years ago.
Speaker 2:It's a relaxing vacation.
Speaker 1:Well, and the way we did it and we all travel, kind of the same. We were there, Did we have 10 days there and we did like a relaxing day where we just stayed at the resort, stayed at the pool or did whatever we wanted Adventure day. And then we did an adventure day where we went and did whatever was the issue of the day and then the next day. So it was a good mix, I will say, of like planned adventure day and leaving the resort and just giving ourselves time to lounge and get a massage or enjoy the pool or whatever.
Speaker 2:I love it and I kawaii was the first place I ever went in hawaii in the 90s and it is called the garden isle.
Speaker 1:It's very and this is where you said we need to go next for hawaii, like daniel and I, because we didn't go here.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is a smaller island. It's beautiful. It's mostly rainforest, lots of flowers and green and still waterfalls. Still lots to do and see. It's just smaller.
Speaker 1:And so do y'all have anything planned yet while you're there? Mm-mm, not yet.
Speaker 2:I never do that though.
Speaker 1:I don't like to plan.
Speaker 2:I like to get there and then fill it out. How long are y'all gone? This time, I think nine days Okay.
Speaker 1:So, like eight nights, yeah, nine days, yeah, oh, that's going to be fun. Well then, when we get back from that, then it's just. That kicks off our busy season Work, because it Then it's just that kicks off our busy season, it'll be holidays. It will be official holiday season for us heading into mid-August and September, although we go to market in September and then we have high point in October.
Speaker 2:The next thing you know it's going to be 2026.
Speaker 1:I just stressed myself out. It flies by it does fly by, but it'll be a lot of fun. I saw something. Well, do you have any other trips? No, I just need to get something planned, something little, for fourth of july yeah, y'all really need to do something yeah, you do um, I saw something and I forgot to mention this before the podcast, so I don't know if you've seen it yet or we haven't talked about it, but I just saw. I was at the gym a couple of days ago. I'm down nine pounds.
Speaker 2:Nine, you can't tell, I know right, kidding.
Speaker 1:No, you really can't. You know, I gained like 25 pounds since last, since, like our amsterdam trip, that's when it all went downhill. I went on that, and then we were in the thick of a holiday season and it just added it's easy but anyway, I was at the gym but I saw that mcdonald's is closing all of their Cosmic locations.
Speaker 1:Really, have you seen that? No, well, there's only five locations, but that was new. It's only been like two years ago that they opened that thing. You're surprised, well, okay, okay, I'm not here's. I have a couple of things to say about this. I'm not surprised, first of all, but second of all, I feel like they may be a little bit ahead of their time, because the mix Cosmix was basically like mixed drinks, like not alcohol drinks but, you know drinks, mocktails, mocktails and different drinks and light food from my understanding, but that is a huge thing that's catching on.
Speaker 1:It's like they're calling them like dirty sodas and that sort of thing. And there's a Utah-based company called Swig and they're opening up, like I just saw on social media. They just opened one in Charlotte and the wait was like hours. So it's kind of like how you'd have a coffee shop, but it's a soda shop, but reinvented, where they mix flavors and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's a very European thing, and so I feel like maybe there's something to it and they, I bet I mean obviously they weren't making any money for them to make the decision to close that or whatever.
Speaker 2:Well, in McDonald's, what McDonald's tends to do, what I've seen over the years, I don't know.
Speaker 1:They do get a little ahead of themselves sometimes.
Speaker 2:They do, and it's not all bad. No, but if you know I don't know how many people know this, but like Boston Market was you know that was McDonald's Chipotle.
Speaker 1:Chipotle.
Speaker 2:Was part of. Mcdonald's, you could tell that was McDonald's because they used or, if you're a McDonald's person, because they used the same decor packages before and McDonald's always spins off, but then they sold it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they spin them off Before it got as big as it sold it. Yeah, they spin them off Before it got as big as it is now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they do, they sell them, and so there was probably a three to five year very small window that, for the first time ever McDonald's, you could be a double brandedbranded owner.
Speaker 1:Oh, you could With what.
Speaker 2:You could own like. Whatever another brand you could own, like a Chipotle and a McDonald's, huh, and I mean, personally, I think that would be a little overwhelming. Yeah, you know, I mean that would throw everything off. That would be a little overwhelming. Yeah, you know, I mean that would throw everything off. Mm-hmm, that would be very challenging.
Speaker 1:I never wanted anything like that yeah, to have to switch your brain back and forth.
Speaker 2:There was a pizza, a fast Italian. I'll think of it in a minute. There were several different ones. So no, I'm not surprised. Minute, there was several different ones. So no, I'm not surprised. But I will say mcdonald's is usually on the forefront of doing things because they have so much money right and experience and I mean, and they're, they're, you know, their national office is amazing like swig place or doing um the mixed drinks.
Speaker 1:I feel like, uh, yeah, they were just ahead of it I think it's one of those things that needs to let someone else bring it kind of mainstream and then kind of how didn't they at one time have like mccafes that were just coffee places, did they have those anymore?
Speaker 2:um, I, you know, I don't know. I know they had been phased down. Yeah, the mccafe. So when mcdonald's or when greenville was revitalizing downtown, I mean, hasn't been that long ago? Yeah, like in the last 15 years but I had this great idea that I felt like a m's McCafe. I still think it would do very well down there. With coffee and cheesecakes and you know higher-end desserts. Yeah, it's just a coffee house. Yeah, but at the time, you know, greenville was like no. Well in their defense they have done a great job.
Speaker 1:They've done a great job, so maybe it was just the timing. It was Because they needed to build it up before letting things like that in. Because they didn't want it to become too.
Speaker 2:And the other thing is people didn't know what the McCafe was. Yeah, they didn't really. But I mean, when they were opening the first McCafes, I mean they were doing marble-tiled floors and chandeliers and player pianos. So it was a coffee. It was a very upscale coffee house, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, that's where they went wrong. They just needed to compete with Starbucks and Dunkin'. They didn't need to make it something else.
Speaker 2:You can't. Well, I liked it I liked it. I mean I thought it was fun, but see, you can't. Well, I liked it. I liked it, I mean I thought it was fun.
Speaker 1:But see, you can't. If you're going to do that, then you need to not have it as a McCafe, you need to have it as something different, Because you can't take the McDonald's image and then make it marble and put McCafe on it. It just doesn't go together to me.
Speaker 2:Well, that's true. But you know, I was one of the first to put. I was one of the first to put what am I trying to say? Granite, granite countertops, and I don't know that anybody's put windowsills in their granite besides me. Probably nobody else. Is that stupid Right? But you know, I just looked at the Corian at the time and the Corian like it was hardly any price difference. So I just, you know, I was my normal self and went out on the limb and did that and nobody had done that. The other thing that I did I'm surprised I made it in McDonald's. I'm surprised they didn't kick me out. I took all of the fluorescent lights out and put can lights in.
Speaker 2:And this was before LED or anything. It was kind of unheard of. It was beautiful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nice ambiance.
Speaker 2:It was beautiful yeah.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:But you know it's all changing. I know I mean you go in McDonald's now and I don't. You know all you folks out there listening, you know you go in and they have gone way too simplified with the decor. Well, we talked about that.
Speaker 1:That might have been in the last episode or the one before how the whole they've lost their identity. The outside Gray gray building go inside, it's just like vanilla. Yeah, nothing. Does anyone even go inside anymore? I mean the pee, maybe when you're on a road trip.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do, I do.
Speaker 1:So I haven't mentioned in a while National Day, but I have my calendar in front of me because I was looking at my trips. I'm not going to read all the National Days this week coming up, but there is one. I just don't know what it means.
Speaker 2:I think it's today National Redhead Day.
Speaker 1:It's not on here, it's Memorial.
Speaker 2:Day.
Speaker 1:And then no, it's not. I don't see National Redhead Day on here anywhere. Was it yesterday, but you know this calendar could be missing something. No.
Speaker 2:I saw it online, but you know that might not be true.
Speaker 1:Or it could have just not made it on this calendar. Maybe it wasn't on here I'm sure there's some missing off this calendar but one on the 30th of this week, which is Friday, I do believe. Yes, Friday is hole in my bucket day. Now, what the hell does that mean? Hole in my bucket.
Speaker 1:I just don't even know. I was just reading these and none of them are really any thing. Thursday's paperclip day that's so weird. Flip flop day on Wednesdayflop day on Wednesday, hamburger day on Wednesday, beef burger day on Wednesday and brisket day. So some meat company industry got in on that.
Speaker 2:McDonald's probably did that.
Speaker 1:Probably so. Anyway, I just didn't know what hole in my bucket day meant. So anyway, I just didn't know what hole in my bucket day meant. And then even dumber is on Saturday it is speak in sentences day.
Speaker 2:That's going to be hard for a lot of these young people now because I don't think they can speak. They text so much that just reminded me.
Speaker 1:Did I save? I had something on TikTok. I was watching it last night, but it was talking about the comments were hilarious though it was talking about, have you gone to a? Have you had a Gen Z doctor yet? And the comments I'm going to have to try to find this. They were hilarious of what, like, gen Z doctors will say to you or whatever. Oh yeah, here she is. I'm just going to read from the comments. Oh yeah, here she is. I'm just going to read from the comments. I won't play the real or the well, I guess it's a TikTok, it's not real and this okay. So this is all like Gen Z.
Speaker 1:So this person said I had to get an ultrasound and my Gen Z ultrasound tech was like girl, your uterus is cute, let's see. Gen Z doctor. Someone said I didn't even know those were out, yet they are, let's see.
Speaker 1:I had a Gen Z nurse tell me in the ICU that my pancreas had left the chat Like this is the terminology which it just had me cracking up my first Gen Z doctor. I was telling her how I was anxious and she said she was team live, laugh, lexapro herself. It's just funny, but I guess you know they're supposed to be more in touch and that sort of thing, so I haven't had that experience yet. But that is that's that. I had a Gen Z OBGYN and I told her I got my tubes cut and she said, yes, queen, no more kids. Like that was her response.
Speaker 2:Yes, queen.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. So anyway, when my daughter broke her arm, her Gen Z doc said he wanted some x-rays because one of her bones looked kind of sus. Yeah, I mean cracking up.
Speaker 2:I mean anyway, but how are they going to do when they're not, with other Gen Zs?
Speaker 1:Well, I guess you just adjust. I mean, and maybe if you're older you're going to relate and go to an older doctor. You know, I don't know what the experience will be there.
Speaker 2:Well, my mother always said and I think she said, and this always used to crack me up and she would tell them this she would say I want my OBGYN to come in with some gray hair and a pot belly.
Speaker 1:That's funny. She didn't want some young.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she said I need to see a bald head, gray hair or pot belly.
Speaker 1:That would be awkward. Poor women, they have to go through it. They do In those departments. Women have it rough.
Speaker 2:I don't know how they do it. Women have it rough. I know I don't know how they do it, I really don't. And then they have to. I mean they take the brunt of raising children. I mean, let's face it. I mean, I'm not knocking dads out there. So don't attack me for this.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying and there's a lot of great dads the moms do a lot of the work the day-to-day.
Speaker 2:Some dads do, Some dads stay at home and do, but mostly it's the mom.
Speaker 1:And it's not even sometimes. You have even dads that do you know, pick up the slack. I don't want to say pick up the slack. That's wrong. We don't have kids, so we can't talk like that but they are really in it.
Speaker 2:Involved.
Speaker 1:But then it's still the mom orchestrating it. Yes, like it still even comes down. That's what I mean.
Speaker 2:I'm not knocking any dad.
Speaker 1:Well, there's some loser dads, yeah, but there's some loser moms.
Speaker 2:There are some loser moms. There are some loser moms, but I'm just saying, even when you have a great, great dad, the mom still is I feel like in the thick of it all the time and I mean I know it's exhausting, but I mean they wouldn't have it any other way. That's true. Well, some of them would, and I mean I think it's the way we're built. You know, a mom is naturally like nurturing, right. But now there are some dads that are that way. I do know some.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's some good ones, there's some bad ones on both sides, it's true, but those comments just had me cracking up. I thought there was something else I saved over here on the TikTok world, but who knows what it was. At this point, what about? Have you given up on the Southernism segment?
Speaker 2:for this week.
Speaker 1:No, I haven't. I thought it was the week. Nope, I thought it was the week of you had given up. I thought it was the week of you had given up.
Speaker 2:No, and I came up with something good. So if you're moving here to the South, it doesn't have to just be South Carolina, it's South in general. And someone mentions the commode. Chances are they are not speaking of a piece of furniture, not a case good piece they are never even known, yeah, of a toilet, a toilet I grew up.
Speaker 1:I grew up calling it the commode, the commode but do you think that's a southern thing we need need to know, Did you? Or is that an older thing versus?
Speaker 2:a Southern thing. I think it's a Southern thing because they had up North a lot of people had toilets indoor before we did just because of the environment.
Speaker 1:Hmm, Let us know on our hotline 864-982-5029.
Speaker 2:The commode came from back when they used chamber pots, so they would do their business in the pot, put the lid on it and they would set it inside a commode, which is a piece of furniture, a piece of furniture.
Speaker 1:So it just became the commode. Huh, Isn't it funny how things update and change and like. So can you imagine. But did you go? Well, I guess at the same time you had a chamber pot, you had an outhouse. The chamber pot was for, like, nighttime or something.
Speaker 2:Now one person in my family, when I was a kid, had an outhouse, only one, no two. One in South Carolina, one in North Carolina, functional, that was the bathroom, an outhouse when you were a kid.
Speaker 1:Yes, in the 70s Were they living in a hut. No, a very nice farmhouse. It just didn't have a bathroom In the 70s.
Speaker 2:In the 70s and their stove in the house was wood.
Speaker 1:Wood burning. I mean, I could see that because I feel like some people held on to that longer. It was good, they liked the way it cooked, yeah, sort of thing.
Speaker 2:On fire.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. But the outhouse, I think, would have been the first to go. You know what I'm saying. It grossed me out. I have a question. Okay, did the outhouse move around? Like how did they clean?
Speaker 2:that out. From what I understand, you would move. I don't remember them moving and maybe they did, but I mean it's been a long time ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But that's what they did back in the day is they moved it, filled the hole in it, started over. I have so many questions.
Speaker 1:You know that was some fertile.
Speaker 2:That was some fertile soil around there.
Speaker 1:And I just can't imagine who it smelled and the flies, can you? Imagine, like I can't get into it, what I just can't the funny ones, okay.
Speaker 2:Here were the funny ones, and I don't remember this. They didn't have this, but there were some outhouses that had two places to sit, so like no.
Speaker 1:Yes, like you could sit there together. Yes, no.
Speaker 2:That is a thing I'm telling you?
Speaker 1:no, yeah, like we could have sat there and use it together. We could not.
Speaker 2:How are things going for you no and okay.
Speaker 1:So an outhouse, like when you're normal, wouldn't be just catastrophic. But when you're normal wouldn't be just catastrophic, but when you're normal number two. But you know, after you had your coffee or a good clean out or something, I just can't imagine that in an outhouse. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:Yes, I do, and it was raw wood, you know, it was like it looked like a barn and then you got splinters on there. No, no, this is funny. Both of my family members had just they had gone and bought like white toilet seats that just sat there Because they could have had an indoor toilet. They could have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't. So they just went and got the white toilet seat and just screw it onto the wood.
Speaker 2:Here's the crazy thing is like. This is like literally going back to the mid seventies, but they weren't like real poor or anything, I mean they had a big.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. It wasn't like they were at a campsite, it was a choice. Yeah, that is insane. So I know then some of our listeners have to remember outhouses.
Speaker 2:I want to hear some experiences.
Speaker 1:There has to be good experiences. I want to know In the notes in our community or comments. Put it there or call or text our hotline 864-982-5029. There's got to be. I got to dive into this.
Speaker 2:I distinctly remember thinking are there spiders in here? Yeah, Is there a snake in here? And it was dark. See, there's no light.
Speaker 1:I also can't imagine using a chamber pot, like at night. Oh, I would have missed that.
Speaker 2:That would have been, I would have had that dumped. That would have been a mess, I don't know. That is just. But let me tell you, you know the outhouse you couldn't have too close to the house because of the smell and the flies. So you had to walk a ways, mm-hmm, and it smelled. I mean it was gross.
Speaker 1:That's why I was like did they cover it? Did they layer it? Did they just add lime in? I don't, Did they move it?
Speaker 2:You know I was so young, I don't think I. I know they moved them. That was a strategy of the outhouse. You couldn't just let it pile.
Speaker 1:The 70s just seem way too late to have that as even an option.
Speaker 2:Well, I was asking a friend about it the other day. I was like did y'all? And she said yeah, one family member had an outhouse.
Speaker 1:That just seems like 20 years too late, really about 30 years too late. Well, because I know my grandmother growing up they had outhouses.
Speaker 2:Your mom didn't at all? I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Even when she was little, I don't know, because when she was growing up they lived in the city until she was like in second grade and they built the house that my grandparents lived in. You know they still have, my mom still has. But my grandparents lived in, you know they still have, my mom still has.
Speaker 2:I don't know if my mother did, because my grandparents built their new house like when she was and my mom was born in the mid-50s. Three. That's why.
Speaker 1:I'm like it seems a little like that, seems like that should have ended in like maybe the 40s.
Speaker 2:But I think before they built the new house they had an outhouse. That's just crazy.
Speaker 1:It was a country thing, but that goes to. We're not going to get into it and too graphic or anything. But you and I were literally talking about this. You sent me a was it a reel or something? Or you showed it to me about. It was talking about couples going to the bathroom in front of each other. Oh no, it was a second date. A woman didn't go on a second date, oh my. This is what it was.
Speaker 2:This is bad. So that story, oh my gosh, that was crazy. I remember what it was now.
Speaker 1:It was a I think it was a real or TikTok or something and it was a radio station. We should shout them out because it was their story, but I don't remember they do. They do second date updates and so when people go on a first date and they don't get a second date, they can call in because one party feels like the date went good and they want to know why they didn't get a second.
Speaker 2:Why they didn't. They're not calling or texting.
Speaker 1:They're basically ghosting them. So this was a man and a woman, and the man felt like it was a good time, and he had called the radio station to find out why the woman wouldn't give him a second date.
Speaker 2:And so they called her and she gets into the story about how she was like, oh, I don't want to do this on the radio and they were like, oh, but you know he really wants to know. So she goes in and they go on their date and it goes well, yeah, and they end up hooking up and he stays at her place for the night. So they, you know, they do their business and all that. Okay. So they, you know, they do their business and all that. And the next morning he gets up and he goes to the restroom for a number two and leaves the door opened.
Speaker 1:Yes, Right, so she can right there like she's laying in bed and can see right there.
Speaker 2:She said she could see, hear and smell everything going on in there.
Speaker 1:And funniest part of it was he called it poo-poo.
Speaker 2:So he was on the line. He was just quiet and she didn't know that he was on there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you know she just said he's disgusting, I don't want anything to do with him. You know if he would do that I have to say I totally wait. No, I can say that happened to me one time and you know who it was.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to call it out on here.
Speaker 2:And that was the end. That happened to you. Did I know this? I don't think so, but I still remember it vividly and I remember thinking at that time no done, yeah Gone.
Speaker 1:I mean, daniel and I have been together 16, 17 years I don't know what year we're in right now, I have to do the math but we've never done that. And like if we are even in our house now and like if someone is in like our, we have a? What do you call it?
Speaker 1:when the toilet's in its own room, like water, water closet in our bathroom but like, even if I'm in there getting ready orering, and if he has to go, or it's vice versa, we go to a different bathroom. We've never. It's gross.
Speaker 2:Why would you do that? I don't know. But, I have friends that do. No, I'm talking male, female. They'll just plop down in front of each other yeah they're like they don't care.
Speaker 1:I'm like uh-uh, I need, uh-uh, I would get to the. I would rather. I would rather walk across the stage naked in front of people than have just one person, even Daniel, watch me, or poop, I would too, or poo-poo the poo-poo.
Speaker 2:So the guy gets on the he speaks up on the call and he was like I don't know what the big deal is. We had just been intimate and I was just taking a poo-poo. Yeah, she was like and you call it poo-poo.
Speaker 1:That's like my mom calls that to like little kids.
Speaker 2:You know Poo-poo. Yeah, you gotta go poo-poo.
Speaker 1:But as an adult I don't know, but I cannot imagine, like if someone did that in front of me no ma'am, no sir, no ma'am, I sir, no ma'am.
Speaker 2:I would have been done with him too, and I don't I mean that just because they had been intimate, that's every reason not to do.
Speaker 1:I mean yeah that's just an animal. To me that's work, I mean. And if you do that on the first time, you stay over her what are you gonna be doing when you get real comfortable? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I.
Speaker 1:It would make me wonder well, that's what why she was like she never even offered back. No, she was like no, even after they tried to convince like we'll pay for another day, wasn't she like?
Speaker 2:she was like no, no Even after they tried to convince like we'll pay for another date, she was like no, no, and I think she even said, if it wasn't the act, it's him calling it poo-poo, and I could appreciate that too, that's funny, I didn't know that happened to you, though on a date it did, and you were like who is that comfortable?
Speaker 1:funny, I didn't know that happened to you, though it did, and you were like who is that comfortable? Like, why are you that comfortable in?
Speaker 2:front of someone. Don't ever be that comfortable in front of me.
Speaker 1:I mean no one.
Speaker 2:No, no one.
Speaker 1:I don't want to.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, no. Now, everybody gets sick. If there's this accident, I mean that's a whole it's going to gross me out and I bet I won't feel bad for you and I'm not going to hold it against you.
Speaker 1:That's a whole different thing than just not being able to help it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, if you're sick, you're sick.
Speaker 1:And what is like? Ok, so like that guy went and did that. So I think the problem is why you didn't think that through, like all you had to do is close the door. It's not like she said he used the bathroom at my house.
Speaker 2:He should have went home, and it's like, oh well, he couldn't hold it no like just close the door be discreet and he was offended that she was offended by. Yes, he was offended that she was offended by that. Yes, he was offended that she was offended. I mean who? The hell, I don't know that man. He's into something funky. There's more to that story, you think.
Speaker 1:I think he just said oh, my family grew up very comfortable around each other, so I don't know Well your family's nasty too each other.
Speaker 2:So I don't know. Well, your family's nasty too, and if your mother was, I mean.
Speaker 1:But you know we have people listening right now that it's like oh yeah, me and my spouse it does fine.
Speaker 2:If that's what you do in your house, that's fine, just don't come to mine and do it. But my mom and my dad were very they were very modest when it came to that. My mother would politely tell you that she had never poo-pooed or passed gas in her life. And my dad? I can remember my dad saying you know, that is very private, it was just known. I was always taught that is very private. Yeah, it was just known. Like I was always taught that is private.
Speaker 1:That was private, it's true.
Speaker 2:I mean just weird. It's so weird to me. But I mean, you know, if you listen, if you want to take a dump in front of your neighborhood, I don't care. I just don't want to watch Mm-mm. I don't want to be any part of it. I mean, I hate using public restrooms.
Speaker 1:I just can't believe someone would do that on a date their first date. And last and last, See Decisions and consequences there. Before we wrap this one up, because we're going to make this I don't know if it's short or not, but we got things to do- it's our one vacation day Memorial Day it's not even vacation day holiday, but if you are in the Greenville area starting this Thursday.
Speaker 1:So this is a quick turnaround Thursday, friday, saturday we are having a huge sale at our warehouse. We are having an end of season sale at our outlet store because we're going to go to summer hours for our outlet store for the summer, so we are clearing this baby out. So if you're in the area this week, which is 29th, 30th and 31st of May it is 29th, 30th and 31st of May Come to the Nested Fig Outlet Store, to our warehouse. 1659 Woodruff Road, suite F.
Speaker 2:And we're going to have a big blowout sale Thursday, friday, saturday, 10 to 4 pm, all three days, and Dylan and I will be there on Saturday, so come see us.
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