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Who's Driving- Back From Vacay S3E25
We're back from our vacations with stories to share - Steven visited Hawaii's Garden Island Kauai while Wesley relaxed at the Florida beach house, both encountering unexpected adventures along the way.
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We're back. Look who's here the two of us. We are recording separately, but we're back together. I guess it's time for another episode. We're in the same city. Yeah, 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, friendships and businesses.
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 where we're headed.
Speaker 1:All we know is it's always a fun ride. So this week we got some catching up to do, because the last few episodes we pre-recorded a couple of them, and I've been in Florida, you've been in Hawaii. How are you? How are you?
Speaker 2:Hawaii. Or, as Dylan likes to torture me and say, kauai, and I'm like it's not Kauai, it's Kauai, kauai. So the whole trip, he would say. Because he knew that bothered me, he would say Kauai, yeah, I was like okay.
Speaker 1:Let's move on Catching up to do and this is the first time I'm literally seeing you we just signed on. We were trying to catch up a little bit Talked a couple of times I tried not to bother you too much when you were.
Speaker 2:I've been half-dead y'all and, if you can look, I shouldn't brag about this, but I laughed at it in the bathroom. My beard is now like 98 gray. Like you can't hardly see it, it's white, yeah I haven't grown my lord, I haven't.
Speaker 1:I shave every day and I haven't skipped the day. I normally do in years and I know mine would be like completely white at this point. It's just, it's white, but I haven't skipped a day in years and I know mine would be like completely white.
Speaker 2:At this point it's white, but I haven't shaved since Friday because, quite honestly, I've been half dead. We got on a plane in Kauai at 9 40 PM Friday night yes, pacific time. We didn't get home until 7pm Saturday evening. That's crazy.
Speaker 1:And a six hour time change.
Speaker 2:Yes, Dylan has just been hopping around like a little bunny rabbit and he's like what's wrong? Are you sick? What's wrong? I'm like, no, I am jet lagged, I am old. I said when. I was your age I could go to Hawaii, fly, unpack, get my life together. I was at work the next day.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Now, from here forward, when I go to Europe or I go to Hawaii, I've got to build in five days of either recruitment at home. I told him yesterday. I said, I think I may need to go to the hospital and just get some kind of an IV.
Speaker 1:You should go to the place I. I go to the restore, restore.
Speaker 2:I should have gone and got today I should have done that today, but um you got home saturday night yeah you recovered sunday partially, and today is monday.
Speaker 1:It's Monday. We are recording this. I think this is the most last minute we've ever recorded an episode. It's 9 pm Monday and this comes out at 6 am on Tuesday. So this is a quick turnaround and if you're not watching us and you don't know or didn't pick up on it, we're in two different locations. Stephen's at home, I'm at home, but it's the only way we could get together because you're leaving tomorrow morning. I don't know why you thought that was a great idea to schedule that. I'm glad you scheduled it before you went on vacation.
Speaker 2:So now you're obligated to get up and go because otherwise Well, it, honestly, is a blessing, like I didn't, I was just scheduling it because I was like, okay, I've got to have something that makes me get back to it. But with the Atlanta, with our Atlanta live schedule, it just really honestly, had had I known, it would have been great to have gone today. But you don't know what you don't know, sometimes you just have to roll with it. So we're going to be in Atlanta tomorrow, we're shooting to be live at 5.30 pm, we're doing jewelry tomorrow night and we're doing handbags on Wednesday. Thursday is to be determined, and I think we're going to hit another warehouse on Thursday if everything lines up. If not, we'll do some other stuff at market. And Friday I'm not sure if we're going to have anything to do or not, and I'm okay with that. Actually, that's fun though.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of jealous that y'all are getting to go and I'm not going to market, but then I'm also Well, you can go with us.
Speaker 2:I'm kind of jealous that y'all are getting to go and I'm not going to market, but then I'm also. Well, you can go with us. I know You've got your own crap to get done.
Speaker 1:Right, I'm working on decorating so it works and it's nice that y'all can go and do it. But you know I love going to the market. Yeah, I wish the market was like 45 minutes from my house, because I would just live there and work there. So, yeah, today.
Speaker 2:I was like okay, stephen, you got to get your ass up, you've got to water the plants, you've got to get stuff done. I had not checked the mail. That's a massive thing, as you know, when you're gone for like 10 days. That was an hour's job. I was like I can't go to Atlanta and not get all these things done. But I did and I feel better.
Speaker 1:Well, my problem is I went to the beach house we'll talk about our vacations but I was gone for almost two weeks. But I did a little, the minimum everyday, like check a few emails. I would scroll through, see if I saw anything important and then just move on. But so I got back on Thursday morning about well, I got in bed at 4 am and then so when I got up on Thursday because originally I wasn't supposed to come back until Thursday night I was like, well, I might as well just ease into it. And then when I got up on Friday, I'm like you know what? I just need a fresh start on Monday. So I've just been kicking everything down the road, all of my responsibilities to this week. I just finished out another week of vacation.
Speaker 1:I feel like not that we're ever on vacation, as you know. I mean we are, but you know there's always stuff to do, so we do that. But Vacation, as you know, I mean we are, but you know there's always stuff to do, so we do that. But let's talk about your vacation, let's talk about Hawaii. How was it? Because yours was much more exciting. Well, I went to the Florida house. It was great. We can talk about that, but let's talk about you first, okay.
Speaker 2:It was really good. We did fly first class. I used points for most and I paid the difference and honestly I'm so glad that I did that. I've never in my life paid for first class and. I paid very little I mean like $2,000, but it was so worth it just with my bad back because it is hurting some today just from all the travel. So that was good, we had no issues with the flight.
Speaker 1:The food was good.
Speaker 2:All that was so smooth, so good. All that was so smooth, so good. The weird thing, the unlucky thing, is we had the pods from Atlanta to Los Angeles, where you know made the complete bed, yeah, but from Los Angeles to Hawaii, which would have been the nicest to have had the beds, we didn't have the beds.
Speaker 1:And I think you had a bigger, bigger space.
Speaker 2:We had. We, yeah, we were still in first class, but I think and I was telling Dylan I had not been to that Island in 27 years, which is seems so crazy to me and we went to the. We went to the exact resort, the first place I ever went in Hawaii, 27 or 28 years ago, I can't remember exactly. But when I went back then the large jets could not fly into that island, so you had to fly into Honolulu and take a little huddle jumper over to that island. But now they're taking bigger jets. But I told Dylan, because we flew back out of Hawaii on that same jet, I think that's the largest one they can get safely and out.
Speaker 2:I was like that's the logical, because if they could, they would fly a bigger one in. But yeah, the the flight attendant said, yeah, you'll be on. I said we have the pods on the way back to sleep and he was like, no, you'll be on this exact plane. I was like, oh that was interesting, yeah, um the island.
Speaker 2:The island did not. It was not really different than what I remembered. It's, it's filled, it's filled in. There's been some growth, but it's still. It's still not like even Maui, you know, there's no, it's just not as commercial. There's a few McDonaldcdonald's and you know.
Speaker 1:But yes, so we went to maui in 2021. All of us did together and when we were there, you were saying we needed to go to this island, or this is the one you wanted to go to next, because you'd been there years ago and it was the more still tropical, less developed if you wanted, like a true kind of tropical. It's called the.
Speaker 2:Garden Islands. Okay, yeah, and so we a few funny things. Is I don't know if you remember like with Maui, there's a lot of chickens even on Maui but, Kauai is covered. There's chickens everywhere.
Speaker 2:That's funny when you go to the supermarket there's chickens and chicks, and at the pool at the resort there's chickens and little chicks. And so, you know, I'm like what in the hell is with the chickens? Like. So I had to ask. You know, I'm not against chickens, it's fine. I just found it very interesting. Chickens have always been an issue in Hawaii. Years ago they brought in there's no predators to kill the chickens. I'm thinking in my mind well, why don't we have chickens just wandering around? That would be kind of cool. We should just all get chickens and just let them loose. Well, we have so many predators here, you know, we have the fox and coyotes and and snakes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all the different predators that Hawaii doesn't have yeah. So the chickens went crazy. Well, some idiot at some point decided that the chickens were such a problem they brought in a mongoose to get rid of. Why would you bring in a rodent to?
Speaker 1:get rid of.
Speaker 2:So now the mongoose are on all of the islands except for Kauai. So that's why there's so many chickens and there's an old yeah, there's an old wives tale that they brought them to. They brought them to the island of Kauai, but the guy pulling them off the boat one of them bit the guy on his hand, so he threw the cage in the water and drowned them. That's why they're not infested with mongoose. I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 1:Interesting.
Speaker 2:Many, many, many years ago. This is a funny.
Speaker 1:Before you do that, I meant to ask you this Did Key West have a lot of chickens? Because didn't they used to have?
Speaker 2:chickens running around. Yes, yes, they have tons of chickens too. It's the same thing. There's no predators to take them out, all right.
Speaker 1:You just didn't mention those yeah.
Speaker 2:Personally I liked it. It was like six mile south carolina meets hawaii.
Speaker 1:But why not let the chickens run wild? Because I mean, those are good food source too.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know what I'm saying why would you bring in a damn mongoose? That's like oh you know, we're having problem, let's bring in some rattlesnakes.
Speaker 1:I mean yeah, I thought that was really bizarre.
Speaker 2:So Dylan has heard me talk about. My first trip to Hawaii was that island and this was my previous life, and we rented a white Jeep. I still this is etched. So Dylan has heard this horror story. Well, you know I grew up with terms of endearment. You know when Jack Nicholson takes the Corvette onto the beach and you know you're driving on the beach and it's just super cool. I always thought, oh, that would be cool to drive on the beach, Fantasy. Yeah, we go to the Nepali coast, which is very, very remote. It was more remote then than it is now. It's still very remote. We had to drive five and a half miles on a dirt, rock, horrible, horrible road, Like you think you're going to just die before you get there. So I did this like 27 years ago and I thought it was a good idea to, because there's nothing out there. There's nothing out there, no. Cell phone cover, nothing out there.
Speaker 2:There's nothing out there, no cell phone cover Nothing, nothing, you and the ocean and the mountains. So I drive the Jeep. I decide it's going to be so fun to drive it on this beach because there's no people, it's completely safe.
Speaker 1:This is 20 something years ago, mm, hmm, mm hmm, safe?
Speaker 2:This is 20 something years ago. I drive the Jeep onto the beach and it just it's like I'm in quick sand. It's in the evening and then the water is coming up. It's already under the Jeep, getting ready to wash the Jeep into the Pacific. I was freaking out.
Speaker 1:Because at the time.
Speaker 2:First of all, I don't want to pay for any vehicle to be floating in the middle of the ocean, but 27 years ago I could not afford to drown a Jeep. It was a big deal to drown a jeep. It was a big deal. I was freaking out. There were these people that lived in the bushes right on the beach. They had dreadlocks. They came out. He was wearing just a loincloth, she was wearing just a loincloth, nothing on top. They smell. I can't even tell you how they smell I love them to this day.
Speaker 2:So they came up and they were like, oh don't stress, guys here, let's just let the air out of the tires and then to drive right out. So we let most of the air out of the four tires and it just drove right out.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:It's a story, it's something you never get out of your mind. So Dylan's heard this story before. We're driving out there, and Dylan is, by nature, a scary cat I'm not, I am. Oh, that looks cool, let's go in my mind. I still think I'm like 28. Clearly I'm not. So we go out through there and it's rough. It is rough, it's more rough than I even remembered what Dylan said. Cars are turning around, but you know, not us.
Speaker 1:We're going for it no we're going for it.
Speaker 2:It'll be fine, that's what I kept saying. It's fine, he said, but things happen with you. I was like they do, but this has already happened out here, so we're good.
Speaker 2:This has already been a disaster. It won't be this time. Yeah, he's like I don't know, steven, I'm afraid we're gonna blow a tire, because those rocks were huge. They were so big you had to dodge them like you couldn't even go over them in the jeep still tore plugs out of the wheel, the wheels, I mean just chunks of rubber. So we, we get out there and we get like to the first place where you can see the sand and the ocean, and he's like, okay, we're here, just pull in. And I'm like no, this it this dead end, this dead ends at the mountain range.
Speaker 2:We're not there yet he's like oh my gosh, we keep going further. Then we get to another place where people have stopped. He's like okay, this is good. Then there's this little pig trail of another.
Speaker 2:I'm like no, we've got to go that way because it's going to take us to the edge. No, we've got to go that way because it's going to take us to the edge. I mean my goal was to go to the edge, I wanted to go as far as man could go. At this point he says I have just about had enough, you're gonna ruin this day. I mean he was. That was Dylan's mad. I mean he was mad, I was laughing and I was like it's going to be fine.
Speaker 2:And he is blowed up like a bullfrog. It ended up being beautiful and great and he said it was totally worth it. He apologized.
Speaker 1:Y'all made it all the way out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they've got fancy now. Now they have bathrooms and outdoor showers out there. There's still people that live out there. It was so weird to be on the beach and our footprints and no one else's yeah, so that was. That was really cool. We actually, um, that was one of our favorite, one of our favorite things. And then we, um, we did the helicopter tour, which I've never done that in a while.
Speaker 1:Tell us about that, because we were wondering if you were going to survive or not, but obviously you did.
Speaker 2:I had concerns. So you know I had to go through a whole checklist. Is it FAA certified? You know I had to do all my things.
Speaker 1:How long has the?
Speaker 2:pilot been flying? Has the company ever had any incidents? And they have not, that's good.
Speaker 2:I thought that was all valid. I mean, if they've had like eight incidents, then it's not the company for me. So here was the thing that made me nervous. So we got on there and I'm like, okay, I feel good. There were two bigger people, a couple. They were, let's just say, big, bald, young couple. So they had those two in the back, which we lucked up because we were smaller than them. So me and Dylan and the pilot were in the front together.
Speaker 1:Y'all had to distribute the weight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the guy and girl were in the back, which is great because we had the best view, so that was good. But then something I had not thought about until we're on here, and then the pilot is discussing it and I'm like, oh my gosh. He's like should anyone get sick? We have barf bags. And I'm like, hmm, and I was thinking to myself, if one of these fools throw up on me.
Speaker 2:Or if I have to smell, throw up, I'm going to throw up. Right, this is going to be so bad. So I'm like, please let them be not wusses or get motion sick. They ended up being very nice couple and we were not. We were handling it all very well. So when we got into the mountains he was like, okay, y'all seem like y'all are good. I'm going to do some crazy stuff with y'all. Y'all seem like y'all are good. So I'm going to do some some crazy stuff with y'all. If y'all are good. And we were all like, thumbs up, let's do it. So he took us into the Canyon and we did, we did like an ass. Yeah, went on our side and then came back. It was so beautiful. It was so beautiful, it was so cool. So I you know I can't wait to do it on the other islands because I've been so reluctant before.
Speaker 1:So now.
Speaker 2:I feel better. I feel much better about that. That was. Our favorite thing was probably that road to Nepali and that helicopter tour. Yeah, it was worth.
Speaker 1:How long was your tour?
Speaker 2:We were 45 minutes.
Speaker 1:That's a good tour, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:We went all over the island and we did it on Monday. So we got there Thursday. We did it on Monday. So we got there Thursday. We did it on Monday. So we saw some things we'd already seen, and then we saw things we wanted to see.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's good.
Speaker 2:And then we got to see things that you can't see Right. So probably when we go back to that island, we will not do the helicopter tour, we'll do the boat tour on that one to see it from that perspective. But I do recommend when you go to Hawaii, you do a boat tour or a helicopter tour. After doing that, you know, when we went in 2021, we were in the middle of COVID.
Speaker 1:We didn't do.
Speaker 2:There were no restaurants.
Speaker 1:You couldn't do a lot of the things that we liked and wanted to do, because when we went in 2021, we got there and it opened and then they ended up closing it down again after we left for a short time. Like we had this small window that it just happened, that it worked out. Isn't that crazy to think back about now? Everything was closed down and everything.
Speaker 2:It's crazy. So, like the food I was telling Dylan, this time I was like you know, it's something we took, always took for granted before and now just going and having you know our choice, our choice of places to eat and enjoy the food, and no mask and not that stress, no, from when we went last time. So the only crazy thing that happened is, you know, I do think I'm like 29. Sometimes I think I'm 19. It just depends on the day.
Speaker 1:Or if you're today, you feel like you're 60.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:From the time change 60.
Speaker 2:Yeah but yeah but normally I think I'm like 19, right, yeah, that's, my mind is like 19 and my body is not. So we go to this, this place called secret speech, and the was like it's a little hike and I was like I mean, I like to hike, I like to hike. Well, I didn't have the good, my good old trusty water bottle. So I never drink enough water If I don't have my bottle just the way it is.
Speaker 2:I can't stand the tap water in Hawaii, so I was. I knew I was dehydrated, we had already talked about that, but I wasn't thinking and, like idiots, we took one little bitty, one of those little bitty bottles they give you on the airplane.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, it's all we have left is water.
Speaker 2:So we hiked down. It was literally like a mile downhill, like a 70 degree incline.
Speaker 1:That is crazy.
Speaker 2:Well, down it was fine Because, you know, in Maui I messed up my ITL band going down, right Well.
Speaker 2:So I was a little nervous this time because I was like, oh my gosh, but I had just had a massage and he worked on my ITL band. So I'm like, well, hopefully that doesn't mess my ITL band up. So I went down fine, walked on the beach for a couple miles probably, went back and went to go back up. So it was like 90 degrees. I was super dehydrated. I was very dehydrated, very tired, and it was in the afternoon. I tell you I thought the last time Dylan's standing right over here laughing at me telling this, the last time I remember being this miserable was I was another idiot, tom. I was in Arizona and decided to hike Camelback Mountain.
Speaker 2:If you're listening to this podcast. Do not do that, unless you are like a triathlete. Do not do it. It is a bad idea. So we're going up and I mean there's old people going past me, but I mean it was not, and I had on flip flops and was carrying a bag.
Speaker 1:That's the other thing I saw in some of y'all's videos. Y'all were hiking around in damn flip flops and you got these weak ankles already. I know it was a bad idea Last time you hiked you hurt your foot ankles already.
Speaker 2:I know it was a bad idea and I carried shoes. I carried shoes to hike in, but then I was like, oh, it'll be fine. See, that's what I tell myself.
Speaker 1:That's where you go wrong.
Speaker 2:When we get halfway up I'm like I gotta stop, I gotta stop. So we stop and I'm like, oh my gosh, am I like having a heart attack or it's something seriously wrong with me? Then we get to the top, where it's like just a slight incline, normal walking, and I was just I could barely go. And I said, dylan, I need you to go get the Jeep and pull it down as close as you can I need. He said I'm not leaving you Because he said I was wide as a sheet. And he said I'm not leaving you.
Speaker 2:And I was like go get the Jeep. And he was like no, I'm not. And then finally I was like go get the jeep. And he was like no, I'm not. And then finally I was screaming go get the jeep. And he got the jeep and I was like okay, if my I knew enough, if my body did not get itself together really quick, there was a problem. Yeah, but I got in the Jeep in the air conditioning, drank a bottle of water and I was completely back to normal in 10 minutes. Okay.
Speaker 2:So I was like, okay, decent recovery time, that's a good recovery time. Yes, I put it, I put it into to ask Fred and chat GPT holding this whole the circumstances. He was like it was funny. He was like, wow, that is a hike that would be strenuous for a 25 year old, let alone a 52 year old, and a 10 minute recovery time is actually pretty impressive. So I was like, okay, he was like, if you know, if, if it had gone, if you had, if I had like a heart issue or something, I would have had pain and I wouldn't have recovered as quick. But I had pain. I was just, honestly, I think it was 100 percent dehydration, which is so crazy. It's so important to stay hydrated yeah, that was the craziest lettuce now and vinegar and protein shakes. Because every night Duke's restaurant was right beside us, right beside our resort, and so, no matter what we had for dinner, we went down and had hula pie every night.
Speaker 1:It was so good, it's so good.
Speaker 2:You introduced us to that it was so good it was and I was. The thing about Hawaii is and I've been more times than I deserve and I'm, I'm so, so grateful. But every time I go. Every time I go, it's never long enough. I never want to come back, which I mean that's a good thing. Obviously, I love Hawaii. I think my blood pressure drops at least 10 points.
Speaker 1:When you get there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is. It is just a different. They're on a different schedule.
Speaker 1:The.
Speaker 2:Hawaiians are on a totally different schedule. They are not. And listen, I am not judging them and I'm jealous of them. Right, right, they do not get in a hurry they do not drive in a hurry they do not get. They don't get worked up for nothing and and you know, I was the funny thing, I was talking to a friend of mine about that yesterday and when she and her husband go, they always spend two weeks. I think we're going to do two weeks from here forward.
Speaker 1:I told you that's what you need to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but she was telling me that they looked into it and, out of all of the states in the United States, they have the longest longevity lifespan are in Hawaii. I think it's their diet and the lack of stress.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was funny. When I was there I was asking one of the ladies at the resort about the tsunami Because so many people had reached out, and I was like tsunami, blah, blah, blah, yeah. And she said, oh God, it was terrifying. I was like, really, she's like the resort evacuated. I was like, oh, she said the only people like you could be on the fourth floor or higher, but below four you had to evacuate.
Speaker 1:But see, I would have just left, because who wants to be on the fourth floor and the bottom one's washed out. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:I looked and I was like where do you go? I was like, okay, worst case scenario, if we're ever there and we get a tsunami warning alert, whatever, the best thing to do is just pack food and water in your Jeep and drive into the mountains and park. Yeah, hang out and sleep in the jeep. Yeah, I mean it's not worth risking your life, right, and you're, you know you'll be fine.
Speaker 1:You'll be fine up there.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it was a, it was a, it was a great time. I can't wait to go back. I think the next time we're going to do Oahu a different island, because I've only flown into Oahu and never explored Oahu I want to do Oahu and then the next time the big island of Hawaii. Yeah, but yeah, it was good and you had some events during your little vacation in Florida.
Speaker 1:I had a great stay in Florida. It was a lot of fun. Oh my God, you have to tell my secrets. They're not secrets, no. So we went to Florida. So Daniel and I went to I didn't even mention it on Instagram or anything what you're talking about. I didn't even mention it on Instagram, or anything what you're talking about. So we went to our Florida cottage, which is very nice, by the way, since you haven't been in two years now, right?
Speaker 2:I know, it was two years, I know. Two years this July that you went, so anyway, I know I'm going to plan a trip there too.
Speaker 1:It's very well kept and good to go. So in case, you're wondering it's all good.
Speaker 1:So ours was a little not discombobulated, but anyway, going into it, daniel had been offered to go to California. So we always booked the cottage for not quite two weeks, like a little over a week and a half the cottage for not quite two weeks, like a little over a week and a half. So we left on Sunday and then the following Sunday Daniel was leaving to go to California because he got invited to go to some trial gardens with some like seed companies and stuff like that. So we had already booked our vacation and that opportunity came up and he was like, do you mind if I go? And I was like, no, it's fine. I was like, but I'm staying there, or whatever. So that was good. So the last few days I was there by myself, but in the middle of our trip, since she brought it, I had to go to the emergency room or the emergency. Well, it was like the emergency room, but it wasn't like a big hospital, or whatever.
Speaker 2:Well, it was like the emergency room, but it wasn't like a big hospital or whatever, because I had this knot come up in my growing ear, growing Kind of like top of leg.
Speaker 1:Because you had let Dr Merck see it, so it came up like July. It was when we were leaving the beach from Daniel's family. Like the day we were leaving, I noticed this like knot. It was like a knot under my skin at the top of my leg, that where it bends or whatever.
Speaker 2:I told you. I told you about going down to that Myrtle Beach, getting in that nasty water. I told you you don't need to be doing that down there.
Speaker 1:So, anyway, this knot had come up, but it had been fine. It was tender the first day or two, but nothing had changed. It was just there. I thought it was a hernia and I made you feel it too and you were like, yeah, that was probably a hernia, because before then I had been working out a lot and doing the stair master and I've been doing something else as well Helping Daniel too.
Speaker 1:And then helping Daniel and we'd been moving some furniture and I just thought and it hadn't gone down so I just thought, oh, it's just this or whatever. Well, we get to Florida and it was fine and somehow I like, literally, was like, oh, that bump. I don't even know how it came up, but I was like that bump is still there. I made Daniel like fill it or whatever. I was like I think I aggravated it last week because we were gotten this big piece of furniture from the vintage shop and we were trying to move it. That's a whole nother story I'm not talking about, but anyway, I was like I think I aggravated it last week, but it's fine. The next day I got up and my whole like leg area right, like where the bend is, I guess that's your groin was red and I was like, oh, my gosh. Well, you know, never Google it, because it was like could be a hernia the circulation, that's what you yell at me about, google, I know.
Speaker 2:It could be a medical emergency, you know, and I was like we were getting ready to go. Yeah, you found out you were dying right then and there yeah, right then.
Speaker 1:So then we were getting ready to go to the beach and I walked in there. I was like we're going to have to cancel our beach day. I got to go to the emergency room and get this in there. I was like we're going to have to cancel our beach day. I got to go to the emergency room and get this checked out.
Speaker 2:I'm so glad you didn't tell me until afterwards, because I would have been Googling it going oh my god.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I went very nice. I had a little CAT scan. It wasn't a hernia, um. So they gave me like antibiotics and then, um, I guess it was an infection or something. He said it could be just like a lymph node that's gotten, you know, gotten infected or whatever. So, um, I was on antibiotics the rest of the trip, which also made me feel wacky and weird. So I was on those for a few days and then Daniel left and then when he left I was like I had a great time, like I wasn't, because people were like is it weird being there by yourself? Or you know, like on a vacation I actually enjoyed it, like obviously I love him being there, or whatever but because this, you've gone to Vegas by yourself and I, yeah, I like, I enjoy being by myself.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I'm with my best friends, me myself, and I, me too.
Speaker 1:The problem was I was a little medicated and crazy by myself one day and I was like oh my God, am I dying? Is this a tumor?
Speaker 2:Like what is this.
Speaker 1:It wasn't the next day, I was fine and it was, it was all good.
Speaker 2:So the funny thing is this made me think of it, talking about dirty myrtle um, I was.
Speaker 2:We were in hawaii yeah and I don't remember where we were. Oh, we were at a pizza restaurant, a local pizza place which was really good. It was called the Brick Oven Phenomenal. If you have to go there, if you go to Kauai, it's just a small mom and pop, mostly local, excellent pizza.
Speaker 2:And the guy was like where are y'all from? And the guy was like where y'all from? And you know, we said south carolina and he said, oh, yeah, I've heard about myrtle beach there. I was like I, I was like really, you live here and you're talking about myrtle beach. And he was like well, yeah, that's just one place South Carolina is known for. I said, well, don't ever go there from here. It's not that bad. I'm just saying going from even California beaches or Hawaii, from the West Coast in the Pacific, to Myrtle beach is going to be a level of disappointment I can't even explain to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I said our beaches are not like these, right, they're not like these Cause, honestly, the best and I think you would agree, the closest beaches in, in my opinion, are in the Gulf.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those are like where we were.
Speaker 2:Miramar Beach yeah. Yeah, those are gorgeous through beaches, but you know, key West is the same way. But Key West is the same way. Like Dylan, I had to explain to him when we were at Key West. I was like Key West is an island, but it's not beach, it's a lot more. It's like, you know, the one beach they have is like ugh, I wouldn't even go. You know every place has its thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know every place has its thing, yeah, so I guess when I I mean talking about maybe when I was on vacation with Daniel's family and was in the water, maybe I got an infection, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Did you get in the? Yeah? Yeah, and you can. That can happen. Did you get in the hot tub? No, Anywhere.
Speaker 1:I think I didn't or that or a pool. I was only in the ocean.
Speaker 2:I mean it could have been, but who knows, I mean anything, or it could have been something else.
Speaker 1:But I will tell you what I was going to go back to. So I went to the. You know it was like a standalone kind of like emergency room. It wasn't just like the the doctor, you know. Like I mean it was a full like emergency room, but it wasn't like a big hospital anyway. Anyway, so when I was in there you know nowadays everything's electronic as far as like your results or whatever. So like I got it popped up on my phone like a text message like your chart has been updated, or whatever, so then I could see like the results. So I didn't know any. I can't, you know, I don't know what they mean, but if you put them into chat GPT it reads them for you and summarizes it so I had to tell you that so that you could put your your cause.
Speaker 1:I know how you are, you have medical anxiety, so you can always put your results in there and it will put it into you know everyday terms and summarize it for you. So before they even came in I was like okay, I think I'm okay.
Speaker 2:Well, it's funny, you mentioned that I was putting I've had. I have a dry cough every now and then.
Speaker 1:Just like that. Yeah, and I was like okay, this is starting to bother me, is this your new thing since you got your colon checked out? It's been taken care of.
Speaker 2:So I said, okay, this is bothersome. You know, my mother died from lung cancer, so this is concerning. Maybe I need to go get an x-ray, which I get chest x-rays, and I had one like four and a half years ago and it was clear, everything was good.
Speaker 2:So I put it in the chat, gpt, that you know I never have it at night, never, never cough. And and he said, oh, it sounds like acid reflux and if you're a coffee drinker and you're drinking a lot of coffee, you're making it worse. So I took and I have prescription acid reflux medicine that I don't take because I thought I didn't need it, right? So I took that, quit drinking coffee and it's fine. So at least I know now I'm not I mean, I'm not saying I'm going to quit drinking- coffee.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to go, going to quit drinking coffee. I wanted to know so it stopped.
Speaker 1:He could have coffee and then have a Tums afterwards.
Speaker 2:He said I usually drink coffee on an empty stomach. He said that's a really bad idea to eat something and then have your coffee and it will help. So yeah, chat GPT, let me tell you we used to spend the whole time on vacation asking all kinds of questions.
Speaker 1:It is great for asking stuff like that it was so interesting.
Speaker 2:Like Dylan and I had a lot of fun for asking stuff like that. It was so interesting, dylan and I had a lot of fun. I noticed I did not text you not one time, and that's very unusual for me to go anywhere and not text you. A specimen of a plant. I did not, we used, we did it. We used Fred on chat GPT. But it was so like I never stopped being amazed at how the plants that grow in Hawaii versus the plants we have in our store.
Speaker 1:It's the same plants. Are the same plants, or the same plants and how they grow?
Speaker 2:Completely different.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's so bizarre Like I never knew that a fishtail palm that's what it's called right, yeah, yeah, produces all of these beautiful berries. Well, first it looks like beads yeah, it's not even berries. Then it turns to a green berry, and then it turns to these really pretty purple berries.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They're huge. So we were reading that you can eat them but they're not good. But birds like them, Okay. So that was interesting. And also the excuse me, the Monstera fruit. Oh yeah, I did not eat any. Dylan was like I'd love to find one, but I think you'd have to be there for a few weeks and really search for Monstera fruit, because you have to wait until it's literally starting to come apart the green outer shell, but it's supposed to taste something between passion fruit and pineapple. I don't, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I thought that was, I thought it was just real interesting and I thought it was very interesting. The plants that didn't thrive, that I would have thought would thrive more on that island I noticed orchids.
Speaker 2:you don't see as many orchids there. I think it's too wet. It's the second wettest place on earth. Yes, that probably is too wet. Orchids were not, as you didn't see those as much as you did on Maui. The other thing that you saw a lot of but they were straight from the nursery were anthuriums. Anthuriums do not grow as well, I think, because it's too wet. Yeah, because you know they wouldn't like it too wet either.
Speaker 1:But a lot of bromeliads were growing there, but was just interesting to see the difference.
Speaker 2:yeah, and the things that we sell in our store, but there they're in nature yeah, and dylan was always amazing but the big pothos going up the trees, he was like, because you know how the leaves start to split, yeah, and he was. He was like no, that's, that's not Pothos, that's uh, that's uh, swiss cheese. Or I was like that is Pothos, yeah and um. So it was interesting to just see. We enjoyed all that, especially since you know he he wasn't working in the stores when we went to maui. So he, he knows he's, he's a sponge and he absorbs all that information, so he knows all those plants. So it was fun saying, okay, what is this?
Speaker 2:what you know it's amazing how much he knows Mm-hmm and the Mimosa trees are so pretty.
Speaker 1:Mimosa, mimosa, mimosa, yeah, mimosa.
Speaker 2:You know, they're bastards here.
Speaker 1:You know that's my most hated tree.
Speaker 2:They are so pretty. It is a pretty tree, but I don't, my mom, I don't know where they need to be.
Speaker 1:My mom always loved mimosas and I've always, I've always, hated them. They're so messy and they pop up and I think maybe I got a spanking with the stem of one before. I don't know, I'm just kidding and you know, you know our last house and we built that outdoor patio and fireplace or whatever and it had a huge mimosa over it and Daniel was like it's so pretty because they're so fern like, but then all year long I mean there is not a time of year it is not dropping something, whether it's a leaf a pod a flower something.
Speaker 2:The flowers are so pretty yeah I mean they are. Yeah, I don't know if that's a tree that should be out on maybe the edge of edge of your yard to see it. You'd probably enjoy the flowers more. I like a lot of things on the outer edge.
Speaker 1:When we were, like I mentioned, when we were in Florida, daniel the last few days went to California to the trial garden. So you know he was sending, talking about plants and stuff, but he was sending me photos and stuff like that, but he had to leave the. He was meeting someone. So they were riding together, they flew into LAX and then they were driving part of the way trial guard and then they were leaving from San Francisco, but anyway. So he had planned out this whole trip or whatever, and he was meeting people so he needed to get there at a certain time. So he was having to leave our cottage. The Uber was needing to pick him up, at like 5 am, I believe, because you know it's like a 45-minute thing.
Speaker 1:Maybe it was a little earlier, I don't know. He had to get up at like 3, needless to say, and he was like, oh, it'd be good. You know, at least the morning flights are usually never delayed. Blah, blah, blah. He got up that morning at three and he was getting ready and his flight was delayed by like four hours and so he's like oh, my gosh, this isn't going to work because I got to meet, you know, whatever.
Speaker 1:So, like at three in the morning, we're trying to figure out this whole situation.
Speaker 1:He's on the phone with Amex, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:So finally, long story short, he rebooked I'm getting to this because this is something that would happen to me and you.
Speaker 1:He ends up canceling that whole ticket or whatever and rebooks with Delta or whatever, because they had a flight all the time lined up. He got that booked and then, like soon as he got it booked, like 10 minutes later, he got a notification that that one was delayed by a few hours as well, and so it ended up being this whole hot dang mess of getting there, but he got there. It ended up being this whole hot dang mess of getting there, but he got there. It ended up working out and he got there a couple hours later and you know they were waiting on him and stuff like that, but it ended up. The reason why it was delayed is I guess there were four I think is what he said four crews for different, you know, airlines or whatever that were supposed to leave in the morning, and I guess they were all staying at the same hotel and a fire alarm had gone off, which we talked about, how we slept through the fire alarm or whatever.
Speaker 1:But, since their time had been interrupted, it had to reset their clock. You know what I'm saying. You know because they have to be, their downtime.
Speaker 1:Their downtime had gotten interrupted by this fire alarm, so it had reset and caused this delay because they didn't have another crew to cover it. It was a whole mess, but we got there and I was like that is something. When you were talking about your flights went smooth. It made me think about that. But how we talked about we slept through the fire alarm before. But who would have thought that would have been the cause of the delay? Because he was on and on. You know, I'm never on the first flight out, I'm usually on the last flight out of the day. Well, that's when it can go really wrong, that's when it gets. Well, that's what he has said. You know, those last flights that you like to take always get delayed because it's the end of the day and things happen throughout the day. Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:Well, when it gets delayed, you're stuck for an extra day. That's the bad thing. Yeah, that is the bad thing. But you know what we did that getting out of Hawaii, and it was fine we were on the last flight and he was like that on the way back.
Speaker 1:He was on a red eye and flew. I'm surprised. Well, y'all flew through Washington on the way back Seattle or Seattle, and he came back a few days early, but he didn't leave San Francisco until like 11.50 at night or something and flew red-eye to Atlanta.
Speaker 2:It was funny. When I was at the airport in Kauai they had the agricultural scanner set up before you go to the airline and I was telling the girl at the airline. I said, gosh, it's been a long time since I've been here, but the last time y'all had folding tables and you opened up everybody's suitcase and went through everything right there in front of everybody. She started laughing. She said it has been a long time. I was like that's how it. She started laughing. She said it has been a long time. I was like that's how it was last time. I said so now y'all are all fancy, you can just put it she said yeah, she said that took forever and I guess it did.
Speaker 1:Well, all right, it's time to pull this baby over. I'm glad you survived your helicopter tour and we're back from vacation. So for us I've been saying like on Instagram this officially kicks off our holiday season. For us, we're rolling into the fall season now and then straight into Christmas season. Next thing, you know, it'll be the end of the year. I mean, we got a lot to do, a lot to go going on. You're going to be in Atlanta this week. So if you are listening in your current, make sure you're following Stephen and Dylan and have the Nested Fig app and watch the live sales. And of course, I'm going to be doing some decorating and getting some videos together for fall. We got tons of fall and holiday arriving this week at the warehouse.
Speaker 2:So lots of fun things to come, so I hope you will be live, if you're listening. We'll be live on Tuesday at 5 30 PM Eastern standard time and then we'll be live on Wednesday at 1 PM Eastern standard time. Tuesday we're doing jewelry and on Wednesday we're doing bags, and I don't know what the hell we're doing on Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 1:Thursday, Friday to be determined but you can watch this and we'll be telling you what's going on. Well, glad to be back from vacation, though I did get rested up and ready to hit the season. It's fun though.
Speaker 2:It took me a minute, but I'm good.
Speaker 1:It's fun because you know for us we'll have, you know, this couple of months while we're going September, october, november, huge push. So the next 12 weeks or so is a huge busy time for us and then we get to have another little break or so right after the holiday season. But this is going to wrap it up. Remember you can listen wherever you're getting a podcast. Wherever you can get a podcast, you can listen. Or you can join our members only community at whososedrivingpodcastcom. That's where you can go and watch us.
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Speaker 1:So I'll see you, like this weekend or sometime. Bye, y'all, bye.