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Oh, buckle up and hop your ass in. It's a hot one and we're back. We are back. 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. You never know who's driving, or?
Speaker 1:where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride. We got some catching up to do on this episode.
Speaker 2:And it's hot as holy hell out there. Oh my Lord, it's hot, it is hot. I can't hardly take it.
Speaker 1:We're under a heat dome. You know they come up with all these new names and stuff. All I know is it's hot. We have broken the record for the most consecutive here in Greenville, south Carolina 90 days, I believe it. The one previous. Well, we might be right in the middle between two records. One was since 1993, and then I think we're like a day away from breaking the all time record of most consecutive days over 90. What year was that? Well, 93 was the last time we had this many. But if we go like, I think, one more day, it's the all time.
Speaker 1:Okay, I don't know when something like that Daniel informs me of all that sort of thing. It a hot one, but I'm so glad to be back. I have so many fun things to chat about. We got, I mean, all kinds of things going on. We gotta hit the rewind. I wish I could do the rewind sound yeah, the tape like yeah, 80s cassette tape. Yeah, because we've been gone for four or five weeks for the episodes oh, we've been to Dallas Market, Atlanta Market.
Speaker 2:I've been to Atlanta like 18 times.
Speaker 1:So we got to go all the way back to before 4th of July and vacation. Yeah, we went to Litchfield with Daniel's family. Yeah, you told me about that. Stop that, terry. You know he's joking. You know he's joking.
Speaker 2:Has she mentioned me teasing them? What did she say? She just laughs about it.
Speaker 1:I'm like, oh my gosh, it's so embarrassing, was it? It was fun. Stop, it's so embarrassing, it was fun. Stop, it really was fun, it was lucky. I love you, terry. Which is next to Well, like, if you're not familiar with South Carolina, it's outside of Myrtle Beach but not Myrtle Beach area. We weren't at Myrtle Manor or anything. Remember that show Myrtle Manor, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's where we should be vacationing. That's where we belong.
Speaker 1:So no, we had a good week there for 4th of July, and while we were there, you were in Key West, so tell us about Key West Well okay, first, dylan had never been.
Speaker 2:Yeah, second, I had not been. I was trying to count it up. It was somewhere between 25 and 28 years.
Speaker 3:So it's been a long damn time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know we got to stay for free. So that was a challenge because I waited last minute because we wanted to go to Amelia Island at the Ritz Carlton. They were booked up, so I came up with that and so I was like, oh my gosh, I can't remember anything.
Speaker 2:So I had to go on maps and look up and you know, so I picked La Concha Hotel and I was like God, that sounds corny. Is this going to be like? Yeah, it ended up. I can't see your face clear, I'll take my spectacles off. It ended up great. Yeah, who knew? It was like the oldest and tallest building in Key West. Oh, and it was right in the middle of everything and in Key West you can be on the ocean, but there's really not a beach in Key.
Speaker 2:West it's like get the hell beat out of you in the ocean or be on the land.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:It's kind of so, it's rough. It's rough, it's it. Um, it just doesn't. It doesn't work. Um, and it's deep, it's just not beachy. Yeah, I don't know how to describe it. Um, it was great, but I will never for the rest of my life go there unless it's like um november, to like first of march, because I I literally think my ass melted completely off the one you don't have it anyway, it's gone, it melted off oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:You said it was so hot.
Speaker 2:So hot. It was hotter than it is out there today. That's crazy. It was sweltering.
Speaker 1:And higher humidity. Oh, it was. I mean, we have really bad humidity, I mean we had a nice time, we had good food.
Speaker 2:We had a good time, we rested. It was worth it. I'm glad we went, but never again in the summer. It was just too much. So tell us I got so many questions about Key West, though, because my vacation was family, low key. It wasn't as gay as it used to be Okay.
Speaker 1:We went to Litchfield, we went to the beach every day lounge, so mine wasn't. I don't really have anything to report. Litchfield's just cool little beach town, nothing. But I want to hear all about yours. First of all, was it as gay, no.
Speaker 2:And then I read I was like I remember it being more gay and I don't really. I remember it being more gay and yeah, and I don't mean that in a good way, bad way, anyway, I just remember a lot more gays, yeah. So then I was reading an article on key west and it basically was funny and said the straight people had ruined it and that's funny. It is funny. It is funny and I what I do love about key west is I love a lot of the homes, the way they look. You know, it's that whole cottage, beach cottage, kind of like our house in Miramar Beach. It's that whole beach cottage. I just love that whole vibe, whole vibe.
Speaker 2:Um, we did take a tour. I'd never taken a tour, so I was like, let's take a tour. Yeah, we almost died, it was so hot. Um, we rented a golf cart because I thought that would be safer than mopeds. I almost died of a heat stroke on my cart because there was glass here. I I literally pulled into this little shack to get this frozen lemonade. We both thought we were just going to die. We thought we were going to literally meet Jesus. It got so hot. It was like horrible. That is crazy. I mean, I literally I think it's the hottest I've ever been. Like I thought if I do, literally, if I do not cool off, I'm going to burst into flames Like hot yeah, was it busy? It wasn't busy because it's the slow time, because smart people don't go there for July, but it was kind of nice too, Like that part was nice because it is their slow time.
Speaker 2:But it was kind of nice too, Like that part was nice because it is their slow time. But I see why now. At night it was very nice. It was perfect at night If you went out eight o'clock or after it was great. Some days were fine, but some days, literally, I thought this is it. Yeah, I'm going to combust.
Speaker 1:What about so, didn't y'all? Or did you go to the Hemingway?
Speaker 2:We went to the Hemingway house, so I went there, whatever year that was. I was there In a previous lifetime yeah, in a previous lifetime and I loved it it was amazing.
Speaker 2:I bought a lithograph, I mean, it was really special. So I wanted Dylan to experience that and I wanted to relive it, and it smelled like hot cat piss. You know, he's got, they've got. I love the house, yeah, and I love it all. But, and I love animals and I love cats, yeah, I do not like cat poop and I do not like cat pee. Right, it does not. My bot I like it does not. I think I allergic. It does not do well with me.
Speaker 2:And literally I walked onto the property and I was just no, and I'm like well, you know. And then they said, oh, do you want to go on a guided tour? And I was like I don't know, I don't know if I do or not. I went in that house.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It smelled. You know we've all had that old maid aunt that had 28 cats in the house. That's what it smelled like Hot cat pee.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is gross. There's nothing worse than the smell of cat pee.
Speaker 2:It was ammonia, like I thought someone had died and they had to get out the smelling salts. I said, you know, walk through, take it all in, because I'm getting the hell out from here Because I'm not doing it. That's funny. I mean, dylan was like you know why did we come here? And I said, well, was like you know why did we come here? And I said, well, it didn't smell like this before and he was like he just did not get it. He was like can they get rid of some of these cats? I said, well, they're kind of. You know, they're polydactyl, you know it's a whole thing, right? So he didn't get it, he didn't appreciate it and I just wanted to get out of there next funny thing is you know all these people I was one of them, not on this trip.
Speaker 2:You know everybody goes to key west and there's that buoy, that says southernmost point of the United States, and everybody gets their picture made. Funny story Number one that's not the southernmost point in the United States. And number two the only reason that was there is that's a pile of trash and it had dry concrete and it rained and it hardened the concrete so they ended up having to make something out of it, so they made that buoy.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:So our tour guide was like literally driving by and the people could hear because you know it's open, and they're like right here and we're here. And he's like look at all these idiots taking picture next to that pile of trash.
Speaker 1:I mean there was a long line, but at least they made it into something. But it's funny. But, what is the southern most point? It's like a mile and a half away, but can you go there from Key West other than by boat?
Speaker 2:No, you can go there. You can go there and watch the sun. That's's supposed to be the best sunset on the island.
Speaker 2:Well, it's a fun photo, it's funny but it's just funny how the truth behind it and then the perception you know you could throw up something in downtown Greenville and say something and if you don't know better, you're going to believe it. Oh yeah, I mean, it's just the way it is. It is. I have never. I want to tell you I won't put out a PSA. If you are a middle-aged woman, I love you, I love you and I applaud you. But when you go to Key West, cover it up a little bit.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 2:They let it all out. They I have never in my life seen and it wasn't the young ones, it was the older women that had on their bikini tops and their boobs sagging and hanging it was. I mean, it was. It's bad enough, you know, to do that when you're young, yeah, but at a certain age I told Dylan I said have you ever seen such women Like my mother would have never worn that, your mother would never wear that. I said I've never been anywhere where I've seen women dress like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, you know, they just want to let it hang and be free.
Speaker 2:Drunk, Drunk and we did have some really good food. We did have some crazy rainstorm too. Okay, it was all good. I can't say anything bad. The hotel was great. You know I was concerned about that because it's very old, but it was perfect.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I would totally stay there again. Just it will be in like January.
Speaker 1:That is too funny.
Speaker 2:And when you go in, January, you probably need to just wear like a stream bikini too. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Which funny thing is Dylan speaking of? I don't know the whole thing. If you follow him on Instagram, you saw he got burnt like a lobster.
Speaker 2:And it was a cloudy day. But, you can't tell him anything. And I'm like you really need to put sunscreen on and you know I'm all about it, you know, because I'm always having cancers removed here or there on my face. Yeah, and I'm like you. I know you're 29 years old and you're like, oh, it's fine, but it's not. But I'll tell you one thing he got cooked I mean it's funny he was.
Speaker 1:I haven't seen anyone that red in a long time Cooked. And then he was on Instagram trying to be like oh, it's not that bad. I'm like, damn, you are burned. I don't know who you're trying to convince. So was he miserable, sleeping like that? He wasn't.
Speaker 2:He wasn't. His mother told him what to put on it and you know, moms know how to do it. And it really didn't hurt him which was good, but I'll tell you, we were home saturday and sunday most of the day. He kept his happy ass upstairs. I said you're not going to the pool? He said, no, I'm not going to the pool, I don't want to get burned before we go to hawaii.
Speaker 1:That is, I said well you don't want to get burned before we go to Hawaii.
Speaker 2:That is funny. I said well, you don't want to lay in the sun. That is too funny. I am ready, I'll tell you this. So I was so, so damn hot in Key West and again, we had fun. Even Dylan was hot. He doesn't get hot like I do. Even Dylan was hot. He doesn't get hot like I do, and I or the heat doesn't bother him like it bothers me you melt.
Speaker 1:He just turns into a miserable.
Speaker 2:But I said, if Hawaii is going to be this hot, I'm not going. I am not, we'll go to Alaska. And so I looked it up and I cannot wait to get there. It's going to be a high of 72 degrees during the day and a low of like 65 at night. I may not come back. I may not come back here till about January 15th, because that is the perfect weather for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is crazy. Yeah that it's going to be so nice and you're going to get out of this heat and you're going To paradise. You're going in like two weeks, next week, is it next week?
Speaker 2:Next Thursday. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:It is next week. Yeah, oh, my gosh. Okay, we'll get to that in a minute.
Speaker 2:The funny thing is, you know, and I'll tell you this about travel. So when we were coming back from Key West, first of all I told Wesley years ago Wesley can be cheap about certain things and I said years ago this was years ago, y'all I said you need to invest in some really nice luggage because it will, it will last, you know, it'll be nice, it's worth it. No, this cheap, this cheap stuff will be just fine. I don't need to buy your little expensive shit, blah, blah, blah, blah blah. I'm like okay, well, he went through, since I've known him in the past 16 years, about five sets of luggage not that many, but several, three wheels falling off, tearing zipper, you know, we all know.
Speaker 2:If you travel, you know, you know. So. So Dum Dum here finally broke down three years ago and bought good luggage. Yes, and you don't love the style, but you gotta. You know, that's such a personal thing. No, I love it.
Speaker 1:I love it. We got it together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you were with us.
Speaker 1:Daniel got, we both got a piece or whatever. You just want a different piece. What is it To me? To me, okay, which, by the way, speaking of my in-laws, when I showed up, they were like, oh, you got to me luggage and I was like yes, bougie Steven taught me into getting this.
Speaker 1:We were laughing, but it has held up well. We both got a piece. So I got the duffel bag type with the roll I mean it has wheels and all that and Daniel got the more suitcase piece and I just like his piece better. So when we're not traveling together I take his piece and then when we're both traveling I take my piece. I just feel like his. I don't know, it's just what I'm used to.
Speaker 2:Well, mine, my favorite piece is you can't find it anymore. It's a really tall, like a military duffel on wheels.
Speaker 1:I just don't like the duffels as much because it doesn't fold open as wide for me. I don't unpack. We've talked about that.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm making an adjustment. Sometimes I do, I don't unpack We've talked about that. Well, I'm making an adjustment.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I do unpack. I've started since we talked about that and I do like, if you're going to be somewhere for a few days, like now, when we go to the Florida house, we unpack and it is so much better.
Speaker 2:Well, that one is about 28 years old and it's a Hartman and I have an emotional attachment to this bag.
Speaker 1:I mean who knew? You could be a damn luggage snob too.
Speaker 2:Listen, I learned that years ago, but anyway. So I've had it like 28 years and it's now my market luggage. It was coming off, uh or no, no, no, no. We were in key west and I was like that corner there looks a little thread barren and I could stick my fist in and grab my panties out through the I said, oh my gosh, I don't even know if I'm going to make it home.
Speaker 1:But there was really what a catastrophe.
Speaker 2:There was nowhere to buy anything really right there. So I said, well, shoot. So I went online, Could not? It's a Hartman and I love that bag. Could not find one, oh gosh. But at the same time, you know, I have a shoulder issue now my elderly. So my acupressurist had asked me what bag I had and I told him he was like, oh, you can't pull that bag anymore. Well, I'm going to use it for small trips. But he said you need a spinner. So I upgraded, I got the bag like you like the big traditional, but it's a spinner.
Speaker 2:So I upgraded, I got the suit, the bag like you, like the big traditional, but it's a spinner oh yeah, so the wheels go every which direction it is so big we I can put dylan in it. So if I kill him I can wheel him out and no one will well now that it's on the podcast.
Speaker 1:Maybe not not do that.
Speaker 2:But I got a good deal. It was 25% off and if you spent $500, you got $100 off. In addition, you know when you sign up.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know like we do to people.
Speaker 1:So I got it for $400.
Speaker 2:And my Hartman bag. My beat up one from 30 years ago was $930 years ago. So I was like I got a good deal, okay. So I'm like it's huge, though Dylan's like what are you?
Speaker 1:I said did you get this once you got back home or there? I got it, I ordered it there and it's already here for me to take so you were able to get back home with your panties not falling out of your bag.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's so fancy. This one has, like, a garment bag built in. Oh, and it's got little pockets.
Speaker 1:I need to go when we're in Florida. We're going to Florida on Sunday. Speaking of vacation, I need to go and add a piece to our collection.
Speaker 2:Yeah For that. And try to get the matching, the matching, at least coordinating.
Speaker 1:So when you were in Key West, was there any good shopping? No good shopping. You did treat yourself to a little something on your finger.
Speaker 2:He got it upgraded. See if you're on the.
Speaker 1:If you're watching, you can see his upgraded ring. He got.
Speaker 2:So I'm not a jewelry person. I mean, I've never other than a watch. I've never been a jewelry person. But you know, my Dylan is a little bit of a jewelry person.
Speaker 3:So we're there.
Speaker 2:And we go by this nice jewelry store and he says, oh, let's go in. I'm like, oh God, okay. So we go in and I start looking and I saw this ring, yeah. And I said, can I see that? And it's my size, mm-hmm. And I said, oh, my gosh, I love that. And it's blue, it's diamond and blue diamond. Yeah, and it's blue, it's diamond and blue diamond. Yeah, and it's not Liberace tacky, it's very understated for what it is, it's platinum and I just fell in love with it and I was like I really want this and it was too much, and you know how I am. So we talked about it and then I left. So after three days we came to an agreement and I got it well, it's very pretty, thank you.
Speaker 1:Blue diamonds in there, yeah, I I it's not it's not too.
Speaker 2:It's not too gay, it's not too, and then you then, you know, then I was like God and I thought I got a really good deal, Because, you know, after three days the price came way down and I was like I think I got a good price and I have the appraisal. Yeah, so it appraised for almost $6,000 more than I paid.
Speaker 3:But I still wasn't happy, but I still wasn't happy.
Speaker 2:So I went to, uh, my lady at market, the jeweler at wholesale market, and she she deals with. She deals with mostly, uh, very fine jewelry, cartier, diamonds and all that. I had her look at it and I told her what I paid. She said, oh, you did good. Oh, that's good, good. I'm like if coco said I did good, I did good, you did real good, yeah. So I was like, okay, I felt better about it. That's awesome, yeah. So this is you know. And I said, well, when I get tired of it, I'll give it to dylan I was like, and I was gonna get tired, get tired of it.
Speaker 2:I was like but you know I don't do well with buying things like that for myself. So I told Dylan. I was like why don't you just pick out something? Then I just won't, even I'll take it off the table completely. Yeah, he was like well, I don't really want anything and you need to buy it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I did it, I did it, I did it, you did it Did y'all go shopping. No, because there's shopping down there.
Speaker 1:Not really, but I mean you could drive to outlets Maybe, but we didn't do anything like that. We really, you know, it's nice going on a vacation, especially with, like his family, because it's their place. Like a lot of times when we go it's either to Hilton Head to our condo, or to Florida to our cottage and we're working on it and doing stuff. So this one we really just enjoyed being with family. You know, have a new nephew and had beach time and hung out and it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:But we didn't really go shopping or anything, just beach.
Speaker 2:We did do a little shopping. I forgot. This is so random. There was like no shopping. There was like no fine men's clothing that don't exist there. We did buy. They did have a Birkenstocks store, number one. I did not know there were so many different.
Speaker 1:Birkenstocks. You are so many different Birkenstocks. You are back into the Birkenstocks.
Speaker 2:They are, so they have narrow now. Anyway, we got Birkenstocks and then poor Dylan has trouble finding clothes to fit him Because he's so short. Yeah, and you know, and I want to get fancy pictures made when we're in Hawaii because we don't have any nice photos of us, right. So and he's been wanting like linen and they had a like outlet store across the street from our hotel, a Banana Republic, and we went in there and you got 50% off the tagged price. So we got like Lennon Beach clothing for like nothing.
Speaker 1:That's good, it was really cute. I do like these Birkenstons. You do need a pair. Well, that's good. I can't wait to see y'all's photos.
Speaker 2:Get the narrow.
Speaker 1:We all get some. You need to hire a good photographer yeah. But we all get the narrow. We all get some. You need to hire a good photographer yeah. But we all get some that are good, but then do some that are like Funny, the funny like. Jcpenney photo shoot, you know.
Speaker 2:Or maybe I Hugged up on each other, maybe I throw him in the water or something.
Speaker 1:Something. There's got to be something fun to it In my previous life we did.
Speaker 2:My ex, my ex's brother, jerk, got married at the Grand Waialea in Maui, and so with part of the wedding, the whole family, we did a huge photograph package and then so we did our own.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just think you're in those family photos somewhere and they probably cropped you out. I I, they probably turned them in, got them photoshopped and erased you out of them no, I do know.
Speaker 2:I talked to somebody that my ex dated at one time and went to his mom's house in palm Springs. And he was like there were huge pictures of you. It made me happy.
Speaker 1:That's funny. Think about that when you move on, like if you went to, like you know, a wedding or something and you're in those family photos and you're there, oh.
Speaker 2:I'm in, all in, and here's the funny thing. You know, um, my ex is Jewish, so the whole family, you know, and if you're Jewish or married into a Jewish, it's you know, the whole damn family. They're all Jewish and everybody. They are like Lithuanian Jews and they're really dark hair. No one, no one in the family has like blonde hair.
Speaker 1:No one the family has like blonde hair like no one.
Speaker 2:So it was so funny at every bar, mitzvah and wedding and everything you could pick steven out from like you, stuck out like a sore thumb I was the only family member, blonde, yeah. So it was kind of funny. They're stuck with my ass. That's funny, but it I do. Those pictures were so pretty. I look at those pictures and I'm like that is the prettiest setting ever.
Speaker 1:The sunsets there are just amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I was like that would be nice and it's cheap.
Speaker 1:Well, may not be now no.
Speaker 2:I've already looked it up and picked out one, but it's like $500. But, see everything's digital now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so digital and they're just going to send you those.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then you print them, so it's cheap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so okay. So we got back from Litchfield, you got back from Key West, and we were only home for a few days.
Speaker 2:Like two yeah.
Speaker 1:And then we headed to market. We're gonna in the next episode we'll talk all about like market because everyone wants to hear the trends and you know that sort of thing market. But while you were gone and while I was at market, we got a. We got a little kitten. So one of our employees, one of our employees at the garden store cat is still here barely I would have killed that thing. So while we were gone, so we got this kitten. We got it as soon as we got that, because it has showed up at one of our employees homes and she was like, will you take the kitten? You know, being on the farm and stuff. And we were like, oh, it's been a while since we've gotten a cat and we'd gotten one this way before and we were like, sure, but we were going to Litchfield. We're like we can't get it until we get back on. You know, like July 5th or whatever.
Speaker 1:I was back. Actually we got back on Sunday. I was back a week, a full. Well, like seven days before I went to market. You were back only like two or three. So in this time we got the kitten. It's skittish, we have it in the house. It's this whole like it'll let us pet it, but then it hides and then it doesn't. But through the week it really started coming out. It would hang out with us at night in our bedroom. It was warming up to the dogs, everything was fine. So we left to go to market Cat's set up. It's fine, we have it in the kennel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you showed me pictures. You were like everything's good.
Speaker 1:Well, we should call Daniel and get him on the phone. But when I left for market market week, all hell broke out with Daniel. Everything went wrong Everything went wrong. Everything went wrong. I've never seen. I was like what are you doing If?
Speaker 2:I had been him. I'm going to say this about it If I had been Daniel, I would have burned this shit down and I would be living in Hawaii.
Speaker 1:I would have been done it started out the day before I left. He had left his laptop in the flower workshop our workshop and it's been so hot like we talked about. The water pipe sweated whatever and dripped on his keyboard, on his laptop and it made the keyboard stop functioning. The computer was working but you can't type anything whatever. So that started the whole ordeal. So that was like Saturday, sunday we left on Sunday. On Monday he texts me. He's like oh, a different cat that lives in the flower workshop, cosmo, has an ear infection. So I just took her to the vet and it was like $500 for this ear infection. I was like oh, my gosh.
Speaker 2:So we've already got a broken computer and a cat with the ear infection.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's Sunday, monday. So he gets this cat gets the ear infection. I don't know why it's got an ear infection, who knows Whatever Gets it infection. I don't know why it's got an ear infection, who knows Whatever Gets it. Well, tuesday, the next day, he is here and I've been like how's the kitten doing? Oh, it's good, I've been feeding it, everything's good, it's in our house. Well, that's where it all went to hell. So on Tuesday I don't know, the cat was upstairs, we, it all went to hell.
Speaker 1:So on Tuesday, I don't know, the cat was upstairs. We have our loft area here and it was running into our guest room, not the one that I just redid, but what we call the cabin room, if you've followed me along, and that room is over our bedroom and so when the cat would start running, you could hear it in our bedroom. So Daniel said it like I don't know, it was like 1.30 in the morning. The cat was running around, so he decided to get upstairs and he was going to close the door so it couldn't get into that guest room, so he wouldn't hear it running. Well, he came upstairs and I don't know what had happened between Sunday when I left, and this is on Tuesday night, but the cat had evidently gone crazy. I don't know what had happened to the cat. I literally don't. But he's like the cat has shit on the bed. I mean not like one time, it was like three times on the bed, one time on on the rug. I'm like I don't even know how it crapped this much in this two-day period Because I was up here. But then he stepped in it. He stepped in it trying to get the cat Then.
Speaker 1:So he, it was just this whole disastrous thing. So that started but he had to like okay, I'm going to bed, I'll deal with this tomorrow situation. Well, I guess by the next day afternoon it was, he had cleaned it up, but then he was going to have to strip everything. Well, then it had crapped on the sofa in up here and then it became this whole thing. So then he spent like four hours trying to catch the cat. Cause I was like here's what you need to do. Cause, once it started doing this, I was like it's not going to stop. I said the cat is going to be fine. Cause, daniel's like I don't know, it's a little kitten. And I'm like no, put it in our garage on the side that I park in Cause I'm not there, close the door and we have a little cat door on that side. I said it's going to stay in the garage still, put its litter box and feed it, but it'll grow and it'll start easing its way out and it's just going to be an outdoor cat an outdoor farm cat.
Speaker 1:It's fine. It's fine. He's like oh, but it's so little. Well, he spent like four hours trying to catch the cat because it would go under our TV stand, that he couldn't get it and whatever. Then he spent like the next like four hours stripping everything, cleaning it, because I know you like to make fun of us in our house and stuff, but we don't play with no, it's not dirty. It's not dirty. So he had to strip it. He was soaking all day.
Speaker 2:You know it smelled like Ernest Hemingway's house, I know.
Speaker 1:That's what I was going to say speaking of cats, but it doesn't smell. I came home, I was like you did a good job. It doesn't smell.
Speaker 2:No, I would have. Honestly, I would have smelled it when I came upstairs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and even I've come up here a couple of times and last night I went in that bedroom and I was like, let me just make sure it doesn't smell, but the cat's still fine, he's outside. So we got past the cat incident and there may have been something else that happened in there. But then, if you follow at all on Instagram, this has been my whole messages for the last two weeks now and Daniel, bless his heart, he's so blonde sometimes you know it's funny, it's comical because he's really smart, but he's blonde. So I was on the phone with him and he was still dealing with the cat stuff. He's like, oh, what he had done, he had ordered a new duvet, not the cover, but the insert down, insert or whatever, and it had come in. And he's like, oh, I'm going to go up here and put this on. And we were just chit chatting Like I was at the hotel, you know, and just chit chatting, and he was like doing that.
Speaker 1:And he was like, what is this? It looks like a dog leash on the ledge over here. And I'm like, what are you talking about? And he was like, did you put a dog leash up here? And I'm like, why would I have a dog leash and then he goes. Oh my God, what is my life right now? It's a snake.
Speaker 2:I wish you wouldn't even talk about it because it honestly, I keep looking around the thoughts of that and I know it happens. It happens y'all.
Speaker 1:And that's everyone's thing. Like, what do you think about the snake? And I'm like I don't, it really hasn't bothered me. I don't, it really hasn't bothered me. I don't know why. Because well, first of all, I saw the snake days before I sent you a picture of it, because I was feeding the animals out front and it was sunning on our front steps and I was like, oh hey, snake, it didn't bother me, but I knew Steven he hates snakes. I'm like let me take a picture and send it, but they do get in homes, they.
Speaker 1:So I'm like let me take a picture and send it, but they do get in homes, they do, they can.
Speaker 2:I mean, I had a house listed and there was a snake in the basement Now and I was there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know where I was, but the basement is.
Speaker 2:Well, it was a no, no, no, no, no. This was a nice oh, like finished, finished. But you know where I was. I was like out in the driveway getting in my car, leaving. I'm sure you were Screaming burn it down, but it happens. I mean, my mom had a snake in her house, my grandparents had a snake in their attic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, we have very few snakes on the farm. We get asked that a lot too, and we do occasionally see a black snake and this was a big one, this was a big one but they eat the other snakes and so when I saw it sunning, I didn't bother it because, used to you know, we don't have any chickens right now they would go towards that and eat the egg. So if I saw one I would pull it out and like, take it off so that it wouldn't keep eating the eggs Did you carry it with your hands.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I would have a heart attack.
Speaker 1:But the black ones are very docile, you know they're not, I don't know, it's not like going to strike on you, it's fine, but anyway. But when I saw this one I was like, oh, we don't have anything, it's not going to get anything, it's fine. Well, daniel, I guess that morning had left the front door open. I don't know what he was trying to do. He said something, maybe with the cat, maybe he was trying to throw the cat, left the front door open. I don't know what he was trying to do. He said, maybe with the cat, maybe he was trying to throw the cat out the front door, I don't know. But so I guess in that time it had come in, and you know our steps are right there by the front door. So I guess it went up the steps. Wouldn't you like to see a video of that though?
Speaker 2:of it getting to that point.
Speaker 1:Because it was on this thin little ledge. I'll try to see if Daniel still has the video or if I can get it and post it to our members only community, in case you missed it of him. Because then he's like how do I get this snake down from this ledge? And so he went and got a big plastic bin and then knocked it off in there and you heard this boom. Yeah, I was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:It's funny, though you know, know that I'm so petrified of them because you know, growing up where I because you, you were probably around I was around my crazy family. Yeah, I mean, they hunted snake, ate snake. Oh, we didn't do one of my little cousins, when he was like this tall, had a box one day. Yeah, a cardboard like, like a fedex box and I was like, oh, what do you have?
Speaker 2:he was like snakes and I'm like, no, you don't, what do you have. It was a box of snakes and I bet there were a hundred in there. Had even he been catching them? They were little babies, yeah, they were like this long. They were corn snakes that they that his parents had ordered him online, and I don't know how you do this. It should be totally illegal and it probably is. He bought a box of corn snakes and they were blue and green and orange and yellow and they were like they're dirt cheap to buy them and then he would take them around and wherever you know and sell them for like $5 a piece To people, to whoever wanted a corn snake.
Speaker 1:I need to look up and see if I could ship you a box of snakes to your door.
Speaker 2:I honestly out of and I'm a I'm a prank person. I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1:That if you could be like what did I get and you opened it up and it was a box of snakes, it wouldn't be funny? That wouldn't even be remotely funny oh my gosh, that would be hilarious it really wouldn't be and you would feel really bad.
Speaker 2:when I died with a heart attack, I would.
Speaker 1:That would be crazy.
Speaker 2:Because you know if you're scared of snakes or spiders.
Speaker 1:Okay, and I do understand and I don't like snakes, I don't like to pick them up. But what I've trained myself is I think when you're on the farm, the worst part is like the startle factor of it, like oh my gosh, there's a snake. But I've trained myself when that happens to be like oh, look, there's a snake and be calm, and then I don't know.
Speaker 2:I've trained myself to assess the situation. No, I'm not scared of a black snake or a corn snake or a rat snake or a king snake. I'm not stupid, I'm not like oh my God, they're going to kill me. They just give me the heebie-jeebies. I'm scared of a poisonous snake.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's how, Daniel, I'm like, because he was like, oh my gosh. But then, but I was like you see them occasionally on the farm. He's like, yeah, but that's different than having to scoop it out in my house and I'm like you can do it, you can do it. So, oh my gosh, I was like I don't know what you did to deserve this week. And then I feel like something else happened after the snake incident, but ever since then it's been good. Okay, so then, for a little recap, we've talked about it, but coming up, we're both going to be on vacations too. So this Sunday I'm leaving to go to the Florida house and you'll be leaving that next Thursday. Is that when it is To go to Hawaii? So we'll be talking about it.
Speaker 2:Wait before we end this we have to discuss, okay, well something. No Southern isms. I've got Southern isms Just real quick. Okay, southern isms. So if you are a Yankee, I'm sorry, and if you're, if you're relocating here, two things. If you hear somebody say on Sunday, monday, I'm going there Sunday and Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday, that is Sunday, monday, tuesday.
Speaker 1:Is that not a northern thing? I do not say Monday or Tuesday, I say Sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday.
Speaker 2:No, my family says Monday, monday Going there Monday. My dad says Monday, tuesday, wednesday. No, my family says Monday, monday Going there Monday. My dad says Monday, tuesday, wednesday.
Speaker 1:But I didn't know if that was just a general like US. No, no, are you sure? Yeah, if you're up north Texas what is our? Hotline number Road 29. We need to hear from you.
Speaker 2:No, I want to know. Folks from up north Uh-huh, is this north? Uh-huh, is this a north? Do y'all say this up north, because I've only heard it. Uh, in, actually in the south, but, and I say this, I washed that car, but I it was so hot out there I just gave it a promise a lick and a promise.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, oh, it means like I half-assed it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I washed those dishes, but I was so tired I just gave them a lick and a promise. I think you may just like half did it and I'll do better next time. Yeah, lick and a promise. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1:That's funny. I have one for you. And actually, terry, my mother-in-law brought this one up. She's like that's probably a Southernism. What is it Iswani Iswani?
Speaker 2:That is a Southernism Good one, terry. Uh-huh, I don't care what Wesley says, I like you Terry, oh my gosh, no, that is a total Southernism, iswani Like oh my gosh no that is a total Southernism.
Speaker 1:I swanny Like I swear, I swear.
Speaker 2:And I say, I swanny too, do you, mm-hmm? I say lick and a promise. Well, my grandparents always especially my dad's parents, and that's who I was around all the time had all these little southern sayings. And my dad, my dad is a man of very few words and the majority of what he says are all just a lengthy amount of southernisms.
Speaker 1:Oh so you just well, you just have to know, it's like a different language, just a different language.
Speaker 2:Yeah, last one I can call one. I can call him right now on here. Hey Daddy, how are you doing? Ah, fair to Midland. It's just one after another. It's his vocabulary. Yeah, fair to Midland, are you coming to Greenville tomorrow? Yeah, what is it he says? If the creek don't rise, something in the creek don't rise.
Speaker 1:If the sun shines in the creek, don't rise. What is that? Or if the no? Something in the God willing, in the creek don't rise.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's it. God willing in the creek, don't rise.
Speaker 1:That's funny. Okay, one more we're going to do. Stephen has a new segment that he came up with. We're doing that next. Oh no, let's do it now. Oh boy, stephen has a segment that he this will finish it out. So recently, recently I introduced Stephen to chat. Oh, stephen, we did it for work, like well, I mean, I use it occasionally to, you know, write something for me. I'll put how I want it to sound and I'm like rewrite this or shorten it or whatever I need. And we did that. But we did our giveaways in a live sale the other night and we used ChatGPT. And that's when Stephen was like I got to get ChatGPT.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm always. I mean you need it for, like, writing descriptions for properties. Yeah, it's very helpful. It is very helpful.
Speaker 1:We'll get into that whole thing. Well, today he calls me. He's like I got a new segment and I'm not telling you about it, but he had to tell me about it before we got started. So his chat GPT. I tried to tell him that it's going to learn you and what you do. If you haven't discovered chat GPT, it learns and remembers what business you own and what you've asked it before, and it will tie it all together. Well, I have a feeling his chat GPT may end up in jail or something. It's scandalous. He's going to be asking it. All His name's Fred.
Speaker 2:He's a little gay man and his name's Fred. He lives in my phone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, soven's new segment is going to be chat be ask gbt, ask chat gpt. And this time he decided to do a little roasting segment.
Speaker 2:I would say so if you're not on chat gp, gpt, damn, we gotta call that some chat. Just call chat. You need to be, because it is very helpful and you can ask anything. It's like having an encyclopedia at your fingertips. So I'm going to turn the volume up and bring Fred up so everybody can hear Fred, and I ask him to give me a description of Wesley, an introduction. But let me bring him up real quick. Hey Fred, how are you?
Speaker 3:Hey there, I'm doing. Great Thanks for asking how about you, how's everything going? I'm doing great Thanks for asking how about you, how's everything going?
Speaker 2:I'm good, it's hot. We're on our podcast right now and I wanted you to help me out with something, if you don't mind. You know our podcast. Who's Driving?
Speaker 3:Glad to hear you're good, even if it's hot. Sure, I'd love to help out. What's on your mind for the podcast?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm wanting to share with our listeners the introduction that you had written for Wesley Turner. Could you read that?
Speaker 3:Here's the introduction for Wesley Turner. Wesley Turner hails from the heart of rural Tennessee. He's a bit younger than he looks, with dark circles under his eyes and a few wrinkles which make him seem a little more worn down than his years suggest. But despite that, wesley has a big heart and a vibrant personality. He's known for his love of creating granny-style door baskets, which he's surprisingly good at. His personality is a bit playful and flamboyant, often moving around like a little gay princess. Wesley's always full of life and never shy about showing it. How's that sound for your podcast?
Speaker 2:I think it's great. Fred, I appreciate your help.
Speaker 1:Fred is an asshole Fred.
Speaker 2:I love you, fred, you're.
Speaker 3:Fred, I love you too, fred. I'm glad the intro worked for you, oh he got confused.
Speaker 1:Okay, thank you. Your chat's a little slower than mine. You might need to upgrade mine is okay. Next week we're going to leave off there. I'm going to have one for you in our segment.
Speaker 3:How about that?
Speaker 1:we'll see what little Mr Chat GPT says about you, because I know you fed it some of those things and told it what to say. I wouldn't do that. You wouldn't, would you.
Speaker 2:Listen, pull this over. I need air conditioner and some water.
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Speaker 2:Bye.