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Uh-oh, we're back. How's it going? We're at a warehouse. We're at the warehouse today. If you're watching this, 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. So you know what. It is summertime and it has heated up.
Speaker 1:It is hot it is hot as hell today, so I keep saying it feels extra hot because we haven't been preheated this year, like we went from a very mild spring overall to a hot, hot, hot summer. So if you're listening, we are makeshift doing this episode from our warehouse. This is the moment Stephen and I could, you know, squeeze in and record, so if the audio's not exactly perfect this week, it'll be better.
Speaker 1:Also, we're about to take a little summer hiatus for a couple of weeks. We'll talk about that as well. But we just got back from the Dallas market. It was lots of fun.
Speaker 2:And Dylan and I are leaving in the morning. Tuesday. When this comes out We'll be in Atlanta back at market.
Speaker 1:It's Monday at like five o'clock we're recording yeah, this is due in a few hours, you know last minute on our homework here. But it's just the way it works, because we just got back from Dallas. We had a lot of fun, so we went to Dallas market. We love Dallas market. I think we've talked about that. It's just. It's a more laid back feeling. If you're a small business and you go to the Atlanta market and you've never gone to the Dallas market, I would recommend it if you can probably do both. Atlanta's the bigger market, has more vendors, has more vendors. So if you can only pick one and you're looking for the best variety, then I would do Atlanta.
Speaker 2:If you're clothing boutique, gift and clothing boutique, I honestly think it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, if you're clothing, then Dallas would be great, but on the way out there. So I set up our flights and we never really fly Southwest. I kind of told this in a story on Instagram. We never really fly Southwest just because it's never really convenient. I don't know why it used to be convenient back in the day, but for us, coming from Greenville, greenville, the times never match up.
Speaker 1:But for one odd reason, this time, headed to Dallas, we were on Southwest and then headed back, we were on American. So, with us not flying that very often, it was a little different. But I did do the little upgrade where we were like fourth and you don't have an assigned seat if you've never flown Southwest and we were fourth and fifth in line, so we had the pick, but we had a layover in Nashville and Southwest will do it different. I think they're the only ones that still do it this way. I mean maybe some of the other like affordable or supposed to be, you know value lines to it this way, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But our flight landed in Nashville, but we had. So we had a layover technically, but we did not get off the plane. We were just picking up more people, but some people got off because Nashville was their stop and then some of us were continuing on to Dallas and we were just told to stay on the plane and Stephen was like I would have never known that if you hadn't told me it wasn't on the ticket and it's not very clear. I just happened to be reading our itinerary and I was like, oh, we don't have to change planes. It just says, like I don't even know what it said, I haven't done that in like years and years and years, Like 25 years. I feel like that used to be an older model where you would do that. So, anyway, we did that. We held our spot, blah blah, blah, blah blah. Well, everyone goes to get on and it's a full flight going to Dallas. We had one extra person on the flight, one dumbass, so we had someone standing but in all fairness.
Speaker 2:I can see how I mean, of course I called her a dumbass.
Speaker 1:You would have been the dumbass.
Speaker 2:You would have been the dumbass Because you could not tell the way.
Speaker 1:Yeah it was very Now hers.
Speaker 2:You should have seen. Hers should have been a little more obvious.
Speaker 1:Well, what ended up happening? After delaying us for over an hour and trying to figure out who was the wrong person? This is why they should have signed seats and they wouldn't have had this problem, whatever. So there was a lady on our flight who was going to Dallas. So this is where it got tricky. She was going to Dallas, but she was not going to Dallas on the flight that we were going to Dallas on, so she actually had a layover, like she should have deboarded, gone to a different plane, got on, whatever. So that ended up being the problem, cause I was sitting there going. How is there one extra person? Well, they were going. How was there one extra person too? Cause they were like we have this list and this list and they match and they're supposed to be this number. There should be one extra seat and we got this person standing up. It was a whole shit show. So that's how we would run an airline.
Speaker 1:Like just we don't need a sign. We got to go, Just stand up. So, anyway, we got to Dallas. It was a lot of fun. We found lots of great things there, but we really booked Dallas as our last minute fill in because we wanted to knock out some orders before we went to Atlanta, because we continue to run out of time when we're at the markets and we wanted to do live sales for those really fun fill-in items. So it was a great y'all. If you were watching the live sales, they ate it up. I mean we are selling everything.
Speaker 1:now we are we are from home decor to hearts, bras and panties are next.
Speaker 1:That's the one thing we haven't tackled right. We have home decor and then these lot sales. Everyone's been loving the jewelry and purses and bags and we even did body care, which was great and that led into makeup that this line had and y'all were eating it up. So we'll keep doing it. It's fun for us to get to do a variety. That's why we like going to markets and doing live sales. We get to do things that we don't stop, Because what we try to stock in the warehouse we try to keep in line with our retail stores, so we all kind of have similar inventory and can pull from the warehouse when we need to restock the retail stores.
Speaker 2:But it's fun to go do different things, so I have something funny to talk about. Okay, you tell us. So, evidently, I think this is all over the country. I tried to look it up but it was being difficult. But there's a group, facebook group, here in Greenville, uh-huh.
Speaker 1:And it's called Fickle. I've heard of Fickle, it's where.
Speaker 2:But you have to be accepted or something you have to be accepted. It's a Greenville Fickle group. Okay, it's all women. So do they have? They sell their shoes, clothes, belts, accessories, whatever on there? Okay, it's bougie women, for the most part, okay.
Speaker 1:It's bougie women for the most part. Okay, and are they, is it? Well, you're not a member of this, You've infiltrated it. You have a mole in this group. I have a mole, Okay, so are they only selling like designer things, or can?
Speaker 2:they sell whatever. They can sell whatever, but it's mostly because it's bougie.
Speaker 1:It's mostly designer. You would be a member of this group if you were a woman in Greenville.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and I would be the mole, but I'm just glad that I have a mole and I am privy to these messages y'all. You know, as a man, men are not catty typically.
Speaker 1:Well, women are catty with each other. There's nothing worse than to. I mean we have catty. It's crazy Okay we can talk about this because we employ like 90% women and we have been in business since I've been in. Well, you've been in business longer than me because you're older than me. You're in your 50s now. You're early mid-50s, this is true, but 2009 is when I opened the garden shop. Women women are catty with each other.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not with us. They like us?
Speaker 1:No, they love us. Do you know that?
Speaker 1:I know this is off track but, I remember being on vacation and I had two women at the garden shop and one of them. They didn't like each other and they worked in the same department. One of them went and changed while I was out of town, went and changed the other person's schedule, marked them, said they were off a day because they wanted to and put themselves on there. Then they're calling and fighting. They just there's some women's story. So these, these women host, I mean y'all are amazing women, yeah, but y'all a little catty, and that y'all are catty with each other, yeah, and it's fun to watch.
Speaker 1:So, speaking of having a lot of women employees, we always probably shouldn't talk about this, because we have employees, but if you're listening you'll know we have our employees at each store and we call it our employee ecosystem. And if you throw one different little kink in there, or if one person comes in, that's new and they're not sure about on the outside. For us it is so funny to watch the dynamic and like there's true, like with chickens pecking orders, they'll team up on one and just peck on them. Peck and complain, peck and complain. If that person leaves one of them that they're already friends with, they turn on that person then. So then they start pecking on them anyway. Well, this is with fickle. Okay. So fickle, back to fickle.
Speaker 2:It is the same thing, so it is so funny to me. I have never had a look into an all-women's group until now. Okay, so my mole has let me in on this group Such passive aggression they have. Here's the highlights Okay. These women on here and I'm not going to call out specific names what if they're listening?
Speaker 1:What if they're listening?
Speaker 2:You made me laugh, thank you.
Speaker 1:Okay, we're using this for comedy purposes only.
Speaker 2:They boast about their size, Like if they're double zero or a two. Yeah, I'm just. You know, I am so tiny, oh. And then the other thing is my boobs are just so big.
Speaker 1:Oh, wouldn't fit or something Wouldn't fit. Do you have some of these folks? Is that what you, I do?
Speaker 2:Okay, let's hear it, let's read us some. Here's one Worn, twice size, small, amazing dress. I wore this when I was nine months pregnant and tried to once after, but it is too big on me.
Speaker 1:No shit. Wait, you thought it was still going to fit after being nine months pregnant, but she's small. Yeah, she's small, oh my gosh. Okay. Okay, here's a thing I like. This. We're going to do it. This is going to be my new stagnant Weekly readings from Thickle. Okay, here's a bell.
Speaker 2:It's a great bell. I have this bell in the men's system. Of course you do, bougie, US size 6. And then in the comments she put I'm not going to lie, this bell is making me regret meeting my goal weight.
Speaker 1:It is so cute is what she says.
Speaker 2:So you know it's this way. I'm smaller than you, but you can buy my belt, big girl yeah.
Speaker 1:How crazy. Who says not going to say you don't?
Speaker 2:need to say any of that we get it. It doesn't fit you, or maybe you just don't like it. Maybe it didn't look good on you, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Okay, I wonder, if they do this like okay, I'm going to read into the psychology behind this Did she really just need the money for the belt and trying to make herself feel better? Like you know some of them, it's like do you know what I'm saying? You know some. I don't want you to know really why I'm getting rid of the belt. Really I need the money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I need the money because I got that credit card bill coming in where I bought that new handbag. Yeah, okay, you got more. Hey, here's another dress, size 00. Runs very roomy, runs very roomy. I think it runs like a two, a zero two. I'm a two in the top half. This means I'm tiny but I have big boobs. Oh my gosh, that is hilarious. Okay, here's the next one Amazing dress.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, I already did that. Oh, that was the nine month pregnant dress.
Speaker 2:Here's another one. Super cute dress, size small, bought on here. Wore it once. It's just too tight in the chest. I thought men were the only ones that wanted to talk about how large their endowments are. I'm seeing this whole new style of women.
Speaker 1:You it bitty titty. People can have my dress.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's what she said you itty bitty, titty women with fat asses can have this because my chest is too big. Here's another one. Went to wear this for the first time and I cannot get it to snap at the boob and stay cool.
Speaker 1:I love your reading your voice for them too. She's just too big. Her boobs are too big. I'm just too big.
Speaker 2:That is hilarious. So I'm going to sell my pants. I have these button fly jeans but I can't get them to close. They're just too big. They just won't button in their crotch. They won't button in their crotch, Runs large. So my mole in the group sends me these. And it started out just between us and I said you know, this really needs to be on the podcast. And she totally agreed.
Speaker 1:So if y'all have fickle where you are, let us know, and if you have funny listings, send us the screenshot. Is it the same, are they? Just so big in the chest Aggressive and send us the screenshots of any funny listings. That's what we need.
Speaker 2:I wish these were not Greenville people so we could talk about them.
Speaker 1:You can't post it to the community.
Speaker 2:And you know what? What If that's what they like doing you do you boo it's just funny.
Speaker 1:How does that make you feel better? But you know it does. It's just funny. How does that make you feel better, but you know it does. It's funny Because why can't you just list it Cute dress, certain, certain brand size runs true to size X amount of dollars, exactly. Why do you got to say great condition? Why do you got to put the personal touch?
Speaker 2:It makes them feel better. But see the coming from a very intelligent, confident person, empowered woman, which my friend is. It just is hilarious to her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she reads through the listings too and is laughing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's just like. She's just, you know, very confident.
Speaker 1:Well, don't tell they'll be kicking people out when the word gets out. They'll be trying to find out who the mole is. They'll never know who the mole is. That's funny. You would never guess that is. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:That is funny. This kind of ties in, but you know, we were just talking about this the other day and what were we talking about?
Speaker 1:I don't even want to know.
Speaker 2:Like these, these fake people that that act like they're friends with people and it is so bizarre to me.
Speaker 1:Well, it goes back to the employees. Like I was just saying, they'll peck on one. This group is friends here, these, however many people, and they'll pick one to peck on. And when that weak person is gone from the group, then the people that they were all tight with gets remixed and they start pecking on one of them, right, and then they think they're all best friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I want to say to you know, you see it in groups of people. Yeah, and listen, I'm going to tell you one thing I can say about me. I am real. Yeah, the bitch is what you get.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:If you are in my circle, you know I've got you, yeah, and if you don't, you don't. But I'm not going to say it is not in me. And it just amazes me and I see these people chasing after these other people that don't even like them. They don't like them and I'm like I want to say they talk about you, yeah, you think that's your friend that you're chasing after.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm going to say this and I know you don't want me to, but I'm going to say it. We have had employees. I ain't going to say this and I know you don't want me to, but I'm going to say it. We have had employees. I ain't going to get into any names, because we own. We have three locations, so it's a mix, and I know some of our employees listen, and you probably do it, so look at yourself in the mirror. We have had employees that talk about another employee. They don't like them, they want them fired. They don't do this, they don't do that, they can't stand them. They need to go. They're not good at this. Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:And then they leave. Like that person leaves and they're besties, and then they're besties. Well, this person that was getting talked about and picked on by this person is now besties with that person and we're like. They don't even like you we had to listen for two years about how they didn't like you, won't work with you, don't put me on the shift with that person, it's true. And then they're friends. We don't do that, but that goes back to being the caddy and the whole.
Speaker 2:But it's amazing, you can sit back and watch. It just gives me great insight on the way people are.
Speaker 1:See, that's why I only have a handful of friends, because I'm not playing the caddy game Like you. When you pissed me off, I call you and tell you I'm like you really pissed me off about this, and that's never happened actually.
Speaker 2:No, not really.
Speaker 1:But I would, you would, you would, you would go, that's right. Well, I've said no. You really made me mad about this, or you?
Speaker 2:hurt my feelings about this or you're wrong about it.
Speaker 1:I've told you stuff like that yeah, but nothing major yeah.
Speaker 2:It wasn't a.
Speaker 1:No, not like that, but I'm just saying it starts with the little stuff. It and I just wouldn't I'm not going to go down that it is hilarious to watch because we've seen it so many times Over the years, over the years with them, even in.
Speaker 2:McDonald's. Let me tell you, it's the same thing. I've had people oh, I hate this person. I don't want that person in my store. I don't want them working for me. They're awful.
Speaker 1:They do that, so do you think it comes down to a jealousy thing in the moment when they're talking about that person and they see they're gone For some?
Speaker 2:it is jealousy, yeah, for some it's jealousy, for some it's just they don't like them, but why do they end up being friends or thinking they're friends?
Speaker 2:I can't get that far up my ass, but I'm not. It's just bizarre to me, because that's one thing. I am so and that's. I wish I had a little bit of the bullshitting in me, but it's not. I didn't get the chain. No, you're a. I struggled, even in McDonald's. That was my struggle. Like I could not have climbed the corporate ladder, like I couldn't have gone that route In corporate, corporate, in the corporate world, because I just, you know, one time the vice president was visiting me at one of my restaurants.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and this was right after we started. I say we McDonald's started the 1-800 number and then mystery shop program and my field rep was there. But then the vice president was there. Well, he made the mistake of asking me Stephen, I would like your opinion on the 1-800 number and the Mystery Shop program. Now, mind you, my numbers were good on both. I had no issue personal. But he asked my opinion. Don't ask if you don't want to know, Don't ask if you don't want me to tell. So I said, see, I see value in the Mystery Shop program as long as everyone takes it for what it is. But the 1-800 number, that is absolute bullshit. That is a waste of time and money for everybody, because that is the most ridiculous stuff I've ever heard in my life and it is a waste of everybody's time. He was like, okay, well, thank you for your feedback, because they had to have people answering that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they just sent it to the store level.
Speaker 2:It came to the owner.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm like okay, well, I've got to go to the bank, so I'm leaving and I get in my car and I leave and my field rep calls me and says what in the hell were you thinking? Talking to the vice president of the company, like that. I said what are you talking about? And he said you just stood right there in his face and told him that you thought the 800 number was bullshit.
Speaker 1:And it is.
Speaker 2:That was fine. And I said he was all bent about it and I said, listen, I will tell you, I will tell him, I will tell everybody. Do not ask my opinion if you do not want a candid answer, because I'm going to give it to you. And I hung up and it was never mentioned since.
Speaker 1:I was like well, he asked you. It wasn't like you. I mean, why ask if you don't want to know Exactly?
Speaker 2:And I wanted to get it across how strongly I felt. That's why I said it was bullshit.
Speaker 1:A couple of weeks ago we went to I forgot to mention this for you we went to the Florida house. You know our Florida house and I think someone just canceled a week. If you need a place to go in July I got to double check that it might have rebooked, I don't know. Anyway, daniel and I was with my family down at the Florida house in Miramar Beach, florida, with my niece there. She's so cute, she is, is so cute. So my mom had told her on the way down there we were all on the phone like an ice cream truck comes by, which it does the never budding thing, and those come by with ice cream on the beach. So she's, you know that's fun for a six year old. So we did so.
Speaker 1:The ice cream truck came by before Daniel and I got there, or cause they were there a few days earlier, so they got that from them. So we were on the beach. And they come by with ice cream, so they come by pulling. It's just like a wagon with a big cooler on it. They'll have like their ice cream on there. So we were getting ready to leave the beach and here comes the guy pulling that. So my mom's mom's, like you know, do you want some ice cream or whatever? My niece, of course, was like yes, and my mom's like, well, get me an ice cream sandwich. And she got a cone like dum-dum is that what you call them? Whatever those cones are that we've had forever, with the little nuts on top know how much, and these were like not anything. It's like what you would go to sam's and buy in a box. They were $10 a piece, do you know?
Speaker 1:how much those two cost total.
Speaker 2:Captive audience baby $25.
Speaker 1:I told Daniel I was like your ass is going to be down here pulling a cooler before you know it.
Speaker 2:A lot of money Captive audience.
Speaker 1:But okay, then what we realize. Also, I don't know that it's totally legal that they're selling on the beach like this, because two days later another guy came by and he had like a banner on his he had like two pool noodles and a banner with ice cream, but it was the same setup, same cart, big cooler.
Speaker 2:Well, I actually funny you bring this up. I have investigated this. Okay, Ironically, you have to get a business license to do that.
Speaker 1:Well see, in Florida, the only thing I don't know maybe is where our beach is. It's private beaches Like South Carolina. You don't have private beaches.
Speaker 2:Well, they may have stumbled in on our work.
Speaker 1:You have private beaches and there's public on each side. I don't know how it works. Well, like the next day after the ice cream incident, this other guy comes by and we're like oh hell, no, we're not getting ice cream today. We ain't got no $25. You ain't getting it today. No $25 for you today. You ain't getting it today.
Speaker 1:So we're watching and I go up there to see if he's charging the same amount, because I was like how's this work? You know the entrepreneur in me, I was like I gotta investigate this. His were. I think they were like a dollar cheaper, but it was still, you know whatever. So we're standing there and I'm watching and all these people come up, probably like 10 people. So think how much money he's making right then, well, all of a sudden, in the middle of it, he pulls his pool noodles off and he rolls up his banner and he puts it under someone's chair. Then he takes the cooler and sets it beside a chair, just like an empty chair, and then he runs off and then, like a minute later, the beach patrol police come by or whatever, and then, when they're gone, he came back, set it all back up.
Speaker 1:So I guess, he had an informant saying you know, the patrol's coming, and so I was like sneaky, sneaky here, but the people just stood there. He came back, he took their money and they got their ice cream and he left. They didn't care. They didn't care. I wouldn't have cared either, but it was funny to watch.
Speaker 2:I was making that money off that.
Speaker 1:I know I'm like he just made, because that ice cream, you know, is literally a couple of dollars of that. It's not that.
Speaker 2:Maybe a dollar.
Speaker 1:Nowadays it might be a little more. It was just your basic ice cream sandwich, the Dum Dum thing or whatever it's called Snickers ice cream bar.
Speaker 2:You know the typical, I mean with $25, you could have gotten like at least three boxes of those.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:But you know, when you got a six-year-old one ice cream, it don't really matter.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Well, the thing is she's really good and if we'd have been like, ah, never mind, she would have been okay with it, she totally would. But she had already opened hers while we were getting my mom's and was eating it Like, did the asshole? So the guy and this, the guy we bought from was like a younger guy. My mom handed me some cash, like ten dollars, you know, which wasn't enough, and so I was like, oh, do you take venmo? Because we'd walked, you know, just a distance from the. He's like oh yeah, and so he pulled up his venmo and then I'm like scanning it to pay him and he's like tips are appreciated. Thought like like hell you're getting a tip.
Speaker 1:That was funny. I was like not when you're charging $25 for it Crazy, I know so I might be hustling. If you see me on the beach in August when we're down there we're down there for, like you know, two weeks I might be hustling. I need to take a cooler and a cart and put my sign up. Dylan's dad has one.
Speaker 2:Oh good.
Speaker 1:I can have Daniel pull it up and down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was crazy. So we need to talk about Southernisms. I got you on a food one and you know he had to learn. People do eat cantaloupe and gravy.
Speaker 1:Yes, somebody messaged and said they eat cantaloupe and gravy Milk gravy. That is nasty, nasty, nasty. What is wrong with you? It's good, it's damn good, no.
Speaker 2:So here is another thing we did and this may not be a Southern thing, but I think it is. Yeah. So in the summer my grandfather grew I don't know how many acres of watermelons. I love watermelons, that was our thing. We would get one and put it in the old refrigerator on the back porch to get it chilled, and then we would put newspaper down. We had a specific table outside For watermelon. We put newspaper down and that's where we put our watermelon out, so it wouldn't make a mess, and we put salt on it.
Speaker 1:I love salt on my watermelon. I don't do it because I'm like I don't need to do that, but it is good. It is good. Yeah, Do you do salt on? I've only done it on watermelon, watermelon's the only thing.
Speaker 2:you do that on.
Speaker 1:I saw a girl on TikTok last night. She was doing a watermelon. She called it a flight. So she had like sticks of watermelon and was putting different things that people had told her that they eat watermelon with Speaking of this, and, of course, salt, I feel like a lot of people do salt, or that's a known thing. One of them was mustard. She said that one was actually good. I had seen this one but hadn't tried it yet. Cinnamon, because it brings out some kind of flavor they say. I can see that I can't remember the other ones. One was like feta cheese, which I don't.
Speaker 2:That is good, feta cheese is something Feta cheese and balsamic vinegar.
Speaker 1:That's. I think that's what it was. Yeah, delicious, I can't remember. There were like two or three others. The mustard I don't quite get. Yeah, the mustard was the most, and I love mustard and I love watermelon, but I don't so, and I love watermelon, but I don't so. Do you eat salt or anything funky on your melons? Let us know. You can let us know in our hotline, which will be in the comments below, but we can't remember the number. We're not recording at home, we're at the warehouse.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we don't have the number. I have no idea what the number is. If you held a gun to my head I'd be like 864. Something the other saying is and my dad says this all of, and I say it too, but my dad says it all the time Fair to Midland.
Speaker 1:Fair to Midland. What is that how you doing? I'm fair to.
Speaker 2:Midland.
Speaker 1:Never heard that. What is Midland?
Speaker 2:I don't know what Midland is, but that's what we would say Fair to Midland. I had forgotten about it, but then I saw it on a window. Fair to Midland, fair to Midland. I can't make that one.
Speaker 1:Let me see where it comes from Fair to Midland.
Speaker 2:I mean fair, I mean it means so-so You're doing okay, yeah, like I'm doing fine. Where?
Speaker 1:does the?
Speaker 2:But fair. I understand I'm doing fair, but Midland to Midland. Fair to Midland come from Fair to Midland. It originates from the grading of agricultural goods, particularly cotton, in the 19th century, and it signified an average acceptable quality, neither excellent nor poor. Acceptable quality neither excellent nor poor. The phrase evolved into common usage to describe anything of moderate quality or a state of being okay.
Speaker 1:So, just like it was a cotton grading, midland, midland was the cotton grading. Well, listen, we love to educate around.
Speaker 2:And that makes sense that my dad would say that because his parents in the early days were cotton farmers. Yeah, who knew.
Speaker 1:Now we do this kind of goes along with your. Well, maybe not. This is just a general thing, but we're going to move on into it unless you have something else about Southern over there. Okay. So I saw a debate on TikTok again and the debate was, for example, it was about cakes and the debate was let's say, you have a vanilla cake and it's iced with chocolate icing. Do you call that a chocolate cake or a vanilla?
Speaker 2:cake. That's a vanilla cake with chocolate frosting?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but like what kind of cake are we having? Don't say what you would call it.
Speaker 2:I mean, I guess you would call it a chocolate cake, but it's really not a chocolate cake.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see, I would call it vanilla cake. That was the debate. Like which one do you go? With what the frosting is, or with the like? If you have a chocolate cake, I know what the cake is.
Speaker 2:But if it's not cut, I would say it's chocolate. If it's cut, I would say it's a yellow cake.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but let's say you made it so you know what it is, and you're taking this over to someone.
Speaker 2:You're like I made you a vanilla cake or I made you a chocolate cake, vanilla cake, okay, you go buy the cake.
Speaker 1:That was the debate. I don't know, it seems to be a big debate. The cake, because if it's chocolate with vanilla icing, is it a vanilla cake or a chocolate cake? Chocolate, yeah, see, I go by what the core cake is too. The icing, because you could have a vanilla cake.
Speaker 2:Who cares? Just call it cake.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but if you've got to go, what kind of cake is this? It's a cake.
Speaker 2:Just got a cake. Just eat it, because you can have vanilla with umpteen different icings on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I just go with vanilla. I wish I had some cake. I know I could eat a cake, birthday cake. You know what cake we need to get ourselves for summertime? What? The pink lemonade cake.
Speaker 1:We should just get one and two forks, that's like 10 pounds a piece, though Might be worth it. I don't know. Okay, let's talk about. We got a lot coming up. Before we sign off, we're going to take a little hiatus and we're going to tell you why. So this week let's talk about some things. That's going on for the rest of the summer.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll tell you talked about points. You know, we're giving points on our app now and I last minute decided we weren't going to be here for July 4th Because we always say Because you need to go somewhere, because there's nothing to do?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I was like, where are we going to go? Well, last minute everything's booked Everywhere we wanted to go. So I was like, well, where else can we go? So we're going to Key West. Yay, we booked one of the Marriott autograph collection hotels. It looks okay, but anyway. So that was free and booked our airfare there and back With points $22.80.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, hell yeah. That's the way to do it.
Speaker 2:It is that makes me that is the way to do it.
Speaker 1:So okay. So this is I don't know what. Tomorrow's date is the 20-something third 24th. So this will be our last episode until new episode, until July, june 29th. So this will be our last episode until new episode, until July, june 29th. Sorry, june 29th.
Speaker 1:We will come back with new episodes, but I am going to post some of our favorites from the past. I think it's good enough time to do some recaps. So if you joined us and hadn't listened to all of our episodes, I'm going to post some of the fun ones. But next week is 4th of July and I will be gone. I'm leaving on Saturday. We'll be gone Saturday to Saturday and 4th of July week. So we ain't recording then because Stephen's leaving tomorrow to go to Atlanta and you'll only be back like we'd only have one opportunity to record and I'm leaving and I'm not gonna have time to edit posts and all that. But anyway, so that's next week. The following week, stephen will be gone because he's going at the end, towards the end of next week for 4th of July. So you'll be gone that week. The following week after that, the next two after that, we will be at the Atlanta market. So we'll be back on June 29th with brand new episodes. I know you're going to miss us, but listen to the replays. We'll be back and we'll have fun things to talk about as we talk about the Atlanta Market and the trends we're seeing.
Speaker 1:So when we go to the what we did on vacation, what we did on vacation when we go to the Atlanta Market a couple of things I want you to know about that so you can be aware of. We're going around the 13th of I don't have the calendar in front of me but around the 13th, 14th of July. So we'll be shopping for 2026, spring 2026. So we'll tell you trends we're seeing for that. But while we're there, we are going to do live sales every day from the Atlanta Market and we are going to have a huge giveaway if you shop with us while we're at market, you're going to have to watch the live sales. I'm not giving it away yet, but we did this last year. We went. We set a goal when we went to market. We wanted to do $100,000 in live sales when we were at market for a week. So we did that, thanks to everyone shopping, and last year we gave away $50 account credits. Isn't that what we did last year, so this year we're going to do something similar, but we got a prize in there Even better, even better. So we'll talk about that when we're at market.
Speaker 1:So make sure you mark your calendars. You'll keep up with us on Instagram, wesley Turner Livin and you'll see us at market and we'll give you all those details. Another thing I wanted to mention is, just so you're aware, we are doing Dinner in the Dahlias, again at the Flower Farm, so at Petal Pickers doing Dinner in the Dahlias, again at the Flower Farm, so at Petal Pickers and Daniel is going to put those tickets on sale, I think, the week after 4th of July. So that will be while we're on our hiatus. So just mark your calendars or get on his email list at PetalPickerscom, because he's going to do two dates this year. So many people have been asking us about this. So two dates for Dinner in the Dahlias. It's going to be the last Saturday in September, the first Saturday in October. So if you have been wanting tickets, make sure you're on that list, or wanting information so that you don't miss out on that. So those are a couple of things that are going to be going on while we are on our little break that I don't want you to miss out on. So make sure you join us in Atlanta for the live sales.
Speaker 1:Make sure you have dinner in the dahlias if you're wanting to come. If you don't know what dinner in the dahlias is, you're going to watch Daniel at Petal Pickers and I'll tell you all about it too. So much fun. You get to come to our farm and have a dinner. It's a farm to table dinner in the flower field. You get to start with drinks. You get a farm tour. You get to harvest your own flowers and dahlias to take home with you. Then we have appetizers. You get to have dinner, and it's so much fun. Last year everyone loved it and so we're going to do it again this year and can't wait. So that's all things that are coming up, but I guess this is going to wrap this baby up our first half of the year in season three and we'll be back again on June 29th.
Speaker 1:But each week I will post something, a fun episode that you may have missed out on. So make sure you're still listening. Give you some kind of entertainment while you're laid up on the beach and we're at Marfin, and maybe they missed one and maybe they did All right, that's it. Thanks for being here. We appreciate you. Remember, you can listen anywhere for free where you get your podcast. Just search who's Driving If you want to watch the episode. Make sure you join our online community at whosedrivingpodcastcom. It is a like continue to the community or join the community. You can join our community and you can watch episodes. We started that this year in case you're new here, so you could go back. I think this would be like our 21st, 21st, 21st episode this year. You can go back and watch all of those on the break and get called up if you want to see the shenanigans, but that's it. We'll see you in a few weeks. Two weeks, no, it's like four weeks, three weeks, four weeks. We'll see you soon, june 29th.
Speaker 2:No July 29th.
Speaker 1:It is July 29th. Damn. Tomorrow is like June 24th. Oh well, it's in there. July 29th is when we'll be back, so we'll see you in like it's like four weeks, we'll see. They're going to be confused as hell now. They'll be like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:Well, we'll see you there.
Speaker 1:Bye y'all.