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Buckle up and hop on in. We finally circled back around. We're back in the studio. Hopefully it sounds better. Looks better. All I know is it's time for another episode of who's Driving. Welcome to who's Driving. I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2:And I'm Stephen Merck. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1:Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship and business.
Speaker 2:These are the stories we share and topics we discuss, as two best friends would on a long road trip.
Speaker 1:Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media and all things home and garden.
Speaker 2:Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1:You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride.
Speaker 2:That's right, we're here, hey, buttercup.
Speaker 1:How's it going? What's up? I just said I wish we should have just did the podcast today, of just getting ready for the podcast. It's always some type of shit show, I don't know. No one touches anything from week to week and, for whatever reason, there's always a problem getting started.
Speaker 2:Always.
Speaker 1:There, I forgot to tell you. Can you scoot? Scooch a little closer to me so you'll be centered, so we can pretend we put something, I don't know whatever.
Speaker 2:Let me straighten.
Speaker 1:Get your ass over here. I've got my ass in today.
Speaker 2:I have to scoot an extra.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, let's see You're over there scrolling a lot today. I feel like you're a little bit distracted and he's also a little aggressive today, so he may throw me out of this car. I don't know. I could tell he was in a mood today, not in a bad mood, not in a bad. I didn't say bad, I said aggressive. You're a little aggressive, like you could slap somebody or something. Or road rage yeah, yeah, exactly, I could see you Speaking of that.
Speaker 1:I love funny road rage issues, funny ones, not you know nothing criminal, but I was watching one. It popped up on social media. There was this motorcycle, this big guy on this motorcycle, and he was road raging. It was like at a red light. So he went to pass this car. They were stopped at a red light. So he went to pass this car and they were stopped at the red light. But I guess he was gonna turn right and go and the car was going straight. So he went by the car and he went to kick the car like sidekick it and it knocked him over and his boot came off.
Speaker 2:It didn't hurt him, but I was like that is karma I don't wish anyone hurt, but if you do something like that, right, that's what was funny, that is karma. I don't wish anyone hurt, but if you do something like that, right, that's what was funny, that's what I'm saying it was funny.
Speaker 1:No one was hurt. He was just gonna kick the side of their car, but it knocked him over and he had a, like you know, big, nice motorcycle years ago, a guy on a motorcycle was some redneck, of course, no.
Speaker 2:No. Came down our street and my dog was you know, loved to chase a car and she started chasing the motorcycle and he went to kick her uh and default over and he wrecked and like knocked some of his out, which I was so happy he did oh my. God, I seriously. It was bad. An ambulance had to get him but he killed my dog. He hit her when he went to kick her.
Speaker 1:So I mean, I was young but I was like that was a curveball in the store. I was like I hope he dies.
Speaker 2:My mother was like honey, we don't. And I'm like well, that was just mean. He was being mean to an animal. I know she shouldn't have been chasing, but she wasn't Right. Come on now. She was 12 inches tall. Yeah, what an ass.
Speaker 1:I know, jerk, poor dog. Speaking of pets, I do have a funny story you know, about this.
Speaker 1:So if you've been here and listened because I think we talked about it on the podcast and I know I've showed in my stories a few weeks months ago, back in July, right after July, july, right after 4th of July, we got a new kitten. One of our employees lives out in the country and a cat showed up and she was like, will you take this cat? It was a little baby kitten and I was like sure we'll take it. It's been a few years since we've gotten the new one. We just have two hanging around the farm that are ours, that we claim, and there's wild cats that come around that also eat our food and stuff like that, but we don't care because they keep things. So it's like it's a fine time to get a kitten. We don't have much going on. Kittens are easy.
Speaker 2:it's not in our house or anything well, you tried that, but then it shit the whole house well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1:It wasn't intended to be in the house, but it was so little. We always start them in the house, even even the other one, because that's so much fun I know it's not fun, but it the last few have not been bad.
Speaker 1:And then you know, once they're old enough, then we just they hang out on the porch and then they'll hang out in the garage and then they move on to the farm and one lives in the workshop it. They take up homes wherever they decide on the farm. So this kitten showed up. It was pretty skittish, feral I guess, you would say, and I had to go to market with you and so we had it for about a week and in that week time it became a lot more coming around, friendlier, was getting used to things. It was in our house, it would hide all day. Well, I left for market and left the cat with Daniel and the shit hit the fan literally. So I don't know. This cat, I guess, has bonded with me, like it responds to me.
Speaker 2:It ain't bonded too much.
Speaker 1:Not too much, but more than anything. And so I don't know if leaving disrupted it or whatever. But while I was gone to market, all of a sudden Daniel like after a couple of days, the cat was staying upstairs, where we don't really go or whatever, and it was hiding out, but it would come down to eat, use the litter box, blah, blah, blah. Well, anyway, long story short, this cat Daniel came upstairs while I was gone and the cat had started shitting all over the guest room Like it was a disaster. So he had to spend like four hours cleaning everything, soaking all the comforter, you know, because we don't do, we don't do that kind of thing.
Speaker 1:Stephen likes to make fun of us and living in the country and whatever, but we don't, we clean, we clean. So he was like, okay, this cat has got to go and Daniel hasn't grown up with like a lot of pets and stuff and not no cats. And I was like it's fine. I said just put it in our garage because I'm gone anyway and it's really big enough and it has a cat. It has a dog door, cat door. I said it will just hang out in there, put its litter box and just feed it every day it will be fine. Like it's so skittish it's not even going to go anywhere until I get back or whatever.
Speaker 1:And so it's been living in our garage ever since mid-July and it's gotten slowly where it's coming out at a hangout and it goes back in there at night. You know there's, you know how a garage is, it sleeps wherever and all that Well. So the cat's been here. Well, about a week ago I was like, oh, I just call him Mr Cause it's a boy cat. I'm like Mr Kitty's gone. I told Daniel cause we had just I have been going out and I will feed it, and every time I feed it I try to hold it for at least like five minutes. I'll flip it over on its back, get it more comfortable fine.
Speaker 2:Well, one day I didn't see it and I was like, oh, it's just out somewhere. Next day I was like, well, I didn't see it yesterday and I hadn't seen it today, so Thought of Fox or Cody.
Speaker 1:Well, I just put out more food and then I didn't even think anything about it. Then a couple of more days went on and I told Daniel. I was like Mr Kitty's been gone for like a few days now. I guess something got it. And then yesterday I had even said to Daniel I was like I just can't believe the little cat's gone. So it's been gone for like a week and you hadn't mentioned any of that to me.
Speaker 1:No, because I kind of thought, well, is it coming back? Did it find a place on the farm? Is it gone? Gone, you know, did something get it? But I even said to Daniel I was like I really can't believe something got it because it wasn't going out anywhere and we don't have and it was probably so spry like little and fast Right.
Speaker 1:And we don't have predators right next to our house. I could see if it went out in the woods or something like that, but kind of right by our house I don't ever see signs of anything really. So I was like that's really odd, because cats are pretty, you know, I don't know with it, so anyway that was the cat, and they can climb a tree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I had literally said that yesterday, wouldn't you know? Last night, which was Sunday, stephen and I were doing a live sale over at the warehouse and we came out, we were getting in our cars, which is probably 15 miles from here.
Speaker 1:it's like seven, yeah, like 17 miles okay, 17 miles it takes me like 20 minutes, and so we were standing out about to get in our cars and just talking like, oh, that was good, see you tomorrow, blah, blah, we're gonna record podcast. And I see this cat, like our warehouse also sits off of a main road and there's a building, a strip mall, that sits not directly in front of us but way close to the road.
Speaker 2:Now, you said there's that cat and I'm like what in? The hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1:I think there's that cat, yeah, and he's like what are you talking?
Speaker 2:about. I think there's that cat, yeah, and he's like what are you talking about?
Speaker 1:And I said I don't know if I've told you, but our little cat's been missing. And I said I swear it just ran in front of that strip mall, like the one in front of us, like it was kind of the side, and I just saw it like jut in front of that and both of us were like oh, it rode over in the truck, yeah. So, steve, I was like you can go ahead and go home. I'm going to walk around and see if I can find this cat.
Speaker 2:Well, I knew I would scare it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Stephen leaves and I walk around this other strip mall and then there's an old changing place and there's a Waffle House and I was like I don't see it anywhere. So I made the rounds I didn't see it and I got back in my truck and I was like, well, I'll just drive around as I'm leaving. Well, there was the cat poking its head out of a storm drain or whatever you know how, like there's a sidewalk and I pulled up and I was like Mr Kitty and it started meowing.
Speaker 1:Well then it ran into the storm train. You know so I'm the storm drain. You know so I'm out there, probably looking like a fool, with my flashlight on my phone. Trying to get this cat out of the storm drain took me like five minutes, but it was our cat. It had ridden to the warehouse, I guess up in the truck underneath it somehow. I guess it had probably gotten spooked and ran up under my truck. And then I jumped in and went to the warehouse.
Speaker 2:Well, you remember the story I told on here, because the crazy lady that lives in the town homes next door to the meal yeah, I mean, this is a nut. She's a nut. I hope she listens to this. You're a nut. See, I told you I'm a little aggressive today.
Speaker 1:You are aggressive.
Speaker 2:It was like around Christmas. Yeah, she was driving me crazy, because she woke up and, for whatever reason, thought she owned Meal's Meal Right and started taping Because she was next door to the meal, wasn't even a meal owner, no, no, she was not an owner there and started taping her cat, her missing cat, and you know I'm an animal lover and I you know I am a nice person so I kind of just you. I was like okay, well, I get it, she wants her cat yeah oh my gosh, it went on and on and on.
Speaker 2:We had to say, hey, stop putting. I mean she came over and taped on our doors. I mean it was excessive, yeah, and like, how are you even getting in, like you nut. So come to find out, the cat turned up.
Speaker 2:So they had guests on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve the cat crawled up into the engine somewhere warm and had ridden almost two hours away, almost to Atlanta, and they didn't know like their family had never seen their cat. And then just through conversations, like six weeks later, and they didn't know like their family had never seen their cat, yeah. And then just through conversations, like six weeks later, oh, we had this cat take up here after Christmas. And they were like, oh well, send me a picture. And she's like, oh, my gosh, that's my cat. It rode two hours. That's crazy. So I mean, it rode two hours.
Speaker 1:That's crazy. So I mean, now I got to find out, figure out how to leave and make sure the cat's not in my truck, because I don't. Also, I don't park in the. I haven't been parking in the garage with the cat there, I park outside of it.
Speaker 2:But I'm thinking it was outside, maybe toot the horn a few times before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you think it would jump down and run out.
Speaker 2:I don't know here, kitty, kitty, I mean hopefully it won't get into the fan and have cat soup out there. I would be so mortified, but you know if you grow up in the country. That's a thing.
Speaker 1:Well, I called Daniel on the way home and I said, hey, I'm on the way home from the warehouse. I said guess who's with me? He was like huh. I was like Mr Kitty, I found the little kitty and he was like what? So I was telling him the story and he was so baffled by like what do you mean? It rode in the truck, like in the bed, and I was like no, like cats will get up in your car or truck. There's compartments they'll ride on. No way, I've never heard of that. I was like you are so city sometimes. Yeah, yeah, that's a thing, yeah, and especially like when it gets cold, sometimes they'll do it for the warmth or something like that. And I've heard it more with like kittens. Maybe they get smarter.
Speaker 2:Well and see we had had a few cooler nights, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking what happened? Is it got spooked? Probably the dogs ran out or something and then it ran under my car and jumped up in there because they couldn't get to it. I'm glad it didn't get hurt.
Speaker 2:I know I'm glad it didn't get ran over on that four lane highway. I know I'm just like that's, it's so baffling to me Was it hungry when it got home?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean like normal hungry, but it wasn't like crazy. But you know we're right by a Waffle House. And a chicken wang place it was out there having some wang, it was probably happier than it is now.
Speaker 2:That cat's going to be like. I got to get back out there.
Speaker 1:It's going to be like hey, can I ride with you? I need a snack. Oh my gosh, I know. I was just so like. It was just so funny, Like what's the chances of walking out? At the exact moment it just happened to cross right in and it wasn't even right in front of us. I mean, that's probably what, like I don't know, a couple of hundred feet away, I mean a long distance, I just saw this flash of a cat and I was like I think that's our cat, but I don't know. Yeah, it was hanging out at the Waffle House in the Wang Place, so it was probably having some good meals. Maybe we should just take it to the warehouse and let it be a warehouse kitty inside.
Speaker 2:No. It can hang out in the warehouse? No, that's all we need. Is it peeing on boxes and stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh, that cat would get shipped to somebody. It'd be like, oh, your cat showed up in my box or something crazy like that. But anyway, I was just like this is bad. I've never had that sort of thing happen because I was like well, Kitty's gone.
Speaker 2:Well see, I would have thought, well, something got it, Because you do have a fox every now and then. Yeah, I mean, that's what I figured.
Speaker 1:I was like well, I guess something really did get it. Maybe it was wandering off at night further than I thought, or something. What about the meal? You have an update on the fire situation.
Speaker 2:Insurance is. You know, everyone's insurance is working on everything and we've had one, two, three, we've had four people had to move out, dang.
Speaker 1:Until it gets fixed yeah. Just damages, but you said they were already starting to rip out the walls in the hallways. Yeah, yeah, is that a mess?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a mess, but it hasn't been that bad that's good it hasn't been that bad for us and so we're just taking our shoes off at the door, you know, just because of sheetrock dust. Oh yeah, we don't want to dust stuff in there, nothing like that, that, but I do. I still feel bad for all the people that it affected, but it could have been so much worse.
Speaker 1:Well, moving on from that, I want to know, because you gave me a little teaser before we sat down. You said I have an update on the Visa MasterCard situation which, if you haven't been here for this way back, this has been going on for years but we talked about it on the podcast.
Speaker 1:I know at least one or two times. Visa MasterCard was charging a lot of I think everybody businesses. There was a miscalculation, something, something on the credit card processing fee. They were charging merchants and it wasn't just McDonald's, it was a lot of merchants. It wasn't calculated right to the agreement that you know you sign up if you don't know. When you're a business owner like to accept Visa, mastercard, american Express, discover, they each set their own. They take a percentage from the business, so it could be 3%, 2.75%, there's all these things, and if you're a big company like McDonald's, you can even negotiate. You know those percentages and that sort of thing. So there has been this class action lawsuit going on, for, I mean, you have been talking about this for Eight years Okay, eight years and even though Steven has though, stephen has sold his McDonald's and moved on, you were an owner at the time.
Speaker 1:So you're in this class action lawsuit that we keep laughing about because some people think they're going to get lots of money and then Stephen said it's going to be pennies.
Speaker 2:I'm like you know I've laughed about it. I'm like I'm not gonna be and I know they, I know that they, they took I mean I ran the reports. They took thousands and thousands of dollars for me.
Speaker 1:But I'm not stupid, I'm not gonna get it back yeah, I think we talked about splitting it on the podcast. I have to go back. No, I'm serious. I think we talked about splitting it on the podcast. I have to go back. No, I'm serious. I think we said we need to split the check when it comes in.
Speaker 2:I'm going to open the check here on the podcast.
Speaker 1:Okay, so tell us the update.
Speaker 2:It just says it's from the attorney. Hope you've had a wonderful summer Update on the settlement. All the appellate courts they've ran up through all of that. They have to pay and it's billions of dollars. And then it says refund timing Based on our experience, we anticipate the claims administrator to take at least 18 months from February 2025. Oh, good Lord.
Speaker 1:To complete their review, I don't know if you'll be opening that check on this podcast or not, because I don't know if I'll be here in 18 months here in 18 months.
Speaker 2:We currently estimate final refunds to be issued in the second half of 2026. And it you know, refund amount blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:Which you don't know until you get the check, because they'll do it on a case-by-case.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't know what it is, and that firm in Texas is taking because you had to sign up with a firm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you had to sign up with the class action so they're going to get their percentage.
Speaker 2:Listen, I wasn't even going to do it.
Speaker 1:Well, I got the. I could have signed up for it because I had the store, but I was like I'm not signing up For me, that would be nothing, I'm not signing.
Speaker 2:For me that would be nothing, I'm not gonna do it. And um, then they, the attorney, contacted me, I guess because of through mcdonald's, and I was like it literally was an online form and I had to submit my sales. It was literally took me 20 minutes. I was like, well, I mean, it really is my money.
Speaker 1:Well, first of all, if they're getting sued and they did the wrong thing, they should have to refund anybody who had a merchant agreement at the time. It should be an automatic.
Speaker 2:It should be an automatic. You shouldn't have to give 30% to a law firm. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And my thing is and if you do, that's fine, but I feel like it should be they represent everyone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just think it's so and I guess the reason you had to sign up because you have to provide your sales information and you have to waive that you can't turn around and sue separately and it's all Rules and regulations.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had one owner say this could be a lot of money. I had two and I said, yeah, it could be, but it ain't going to be. I will not get enough to buy me a pair of shoes. That was my first comment. Now my opinion is I don't think I'll get enough to buy me lunch. I think it will seriously be like $30.82. Yeah, and you know what? That's fine, it's $30 more than I had.
Speaker 1:And it was mine.
Speaker 2:You know who's going to make out? Is that attorney, all these attorneys, yeah, I mean they're going to make millions.
Speaker 1:That's what they live for. I mean, that's their business, which you know. What Good for them you go girls.
Speaker 2:I'm a little shocked though that Visa MasterCard would. I'm a shocked that that would happen.
Speaker 1:I am, but you know, I mean, I'm not defending anyone. It could have been a mis. It could have been a mis, it could have been a clerical error.
Speaker 2:It could have been a data entry person keying something like instead of 2.03, they could have accidentally put 2.05.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or 3.0 or whatever.
Speaker 2:I mean it could have been that simple.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I don't know. It's one of those things. Oh well, I thought you had a money number update I was I thought I was buying me something.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's gonna be a starbucks. I mean it would be so fun, it would be so fun and so funny if it were like really something big. But it won't be.
Speaker 1:I mean it can't be that big, but I want you to open it and see.
Speaker 2:It'd be for a good laugh. Well, it's going to be hysterical if it's like $1.87. Yeah, that's going to be even. Oh my gosh, I think I may even frame it. I might not even cash that. Yeah, that's just too good to Won my class action. I won it, you know. The funny thing is, you know, you, you nor I. We've never sued anyone in our life, right, um, but there are those people. There's those people, that that's their mentality yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, I had one lady one time here in in the in the Moonfield McDonald's. She obviously didn't know who I was, but I was sitting at a table doing office work Cause that's what I would do Go to McDonald's, to McDonald's and she literally laid down in the floor and then did this oh, like she had fallen.
Speaker 1:Yes, I love those on social media too. You know there's cameras everywhere.
Speaker 2:Well, I didn't have this was before digital was affordable and I had not put cameras in yet I did right after. Yeah, do you know that heifer got like a lot of not like? She's not like independently wealthy now, but she got thousands and I was like I was sitting there Right, she laid in the floor Right and nothing. Now you're not going to get away with it.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, I had the lady I forgot at Roots that sued me for that went on forever too. Oh, fat ass Still a customer too. How do you come back in and show your face? She sued.
Speaker 2:Thankfully I had insurance, but it wasn't truly, it wasn't even on the business, because her fat ass was in the parking lot.
Speaker 1:Yes, but she had been in the store.
Speaker 2:I mean it really was bogus.
Speaker 1:She was in our store but was outside in the parking lot for a multi-store unit. So it was in the parking lot, wasn't in the store.
Speaker 2:Was it ice.
Speaker 1:She said she tripped on or something. It wasn't even that icy and maybe she did, I don't even know. But she tried to milk that for years and years. And here's the thing she was too greedy because the insurance company was just going to do a payout.
Speaker 1:You know, there's like a base automatic, like like hey, just a settlement for like it was a lot, like I was surprised because my insurance was going to pay and the building insurance was going to pay. So she would have probably gotten I'm guesstimating, but I think just from mine was like 20,000 and probably something equal from them or maybe not, but whatever she would have just gotten. But she something equal from them or maybe not, but whatever she would have just gotten. But she was saying she was trying to sue for, like I don't know, 200,000 or whatever that her knee, blah, blah, blah. Well, you know, you don't play with the insurance company. If you're going to do that, if you're listening and you're in something like this, take the payout, because they got the money to go on.
Speaker 1:So they dug deep. She had already okay. So she was saying it hurt her knee and she was going to have to have knee surgery. She had been in a marathon and damaged her knee and already had pre-existing knee problems. She had already been told by a doctor that she was going to have to have knee surgery replaced.
Speaker 2:A marathon. She had been some kind of I don't know, Was she chasing a?
Speaker 1:donut truck. I don't know, but there was some kind of thing like that. I mean, I guess she was younger at one time and maybe a little more fit, I don't know, or maybe all that weight just blew her knees out, I don't know. Anyway, she ended up getting nothing Like nothing. It went on for like five years and then she got nothing because it was all pre-existing and wasn't due to the yeah, I had one in McDonald's.
Speaker 2:She'll probably come in and fall next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably.
Speaker 2:That's fine, we got cameras.
Speaker 1:But how are you going to show back up and act like I mean, because I had to go like to a lawyer's office and give reports and provide all this stuff, and it was on, and on, and on and on. And then you go show up. Hey, I brought my containers.
Speaker 2:There's this one family. I do not remember their name, but they this was my last lawsuit, um, I had I had a lot. I could write a book on lawsuits. Um, they claimed that they were taking their kid to camp and they got sausage biscuits. Okay, there's a lot going on here with I remember you talked about this they got the kid got salmonella.
Speaker 2:Okay, that can happen from cross contamination, but just so you know, there are specific hours that it takes to start getting sick and one person doesn't get salmonella it does not work that way, because it's going to be contaminated, because when it's cross-contamination, like in the breakfast, from a piece of chicken on a chicken biscuit. You're going to have multiple people. Well, and see, these crooked people don't realize that all that food is fake.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just kidding. There ain't no chicken juice there anyway.
Speaker 2:Yes, there is, don't make me don't go there. But they don't realize, like all of your local health departments track that.
Speaker 1:Right, that's a big deal, yeah, yeah. Well, that's how they get recalls and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know Well, they never called to complain to anyone at the restaurant. They had no receipt. So have they ever been?
Speaker 1:We don't know.
Speaker 2:They finally called the health department at some point. The health department said there have been zero cases. Yeah, zero, so nothing added up. But yet they still sued me.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And I was like okay, so I knew it was bogus and my attorney hired an epidemiologist from UNC. Chapel Hill and they were like ain't possible Like this did not happen If this happened. This did not happen this way. So I said, okay, I'm going to sue them. And I said, and my attorney was like okay, they have a car, a truck, a small brick house and a camper. There ain't nothing to get. And I said, well, I don't have a small brick house.
Speaker 1:I don't have a camper.
Speaker 2:And I don't have a truck.
Speaker 1:You could use all three.
Speaker 2:I could use all three, and you know, and he laughed. You know, my attorney was in Charleston. He laughed. He was like I hear you, but seriously, these people have nothing. So I just let it go on and on and on and eventually I had to settle because it was holding up the, it was holding up the sale of my business, yeah. So I was like but, yeah, they'll do any.
Speaker 2:These people will do anything. It's the same people that you get in a bump up and they're fine, and all of a sudden they're on a stretcher oh my goodness, that is crazy oh and funny story. When I sold the business, the new owner, I went with him to open, to change utilities and open bank accounts.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And the lady that sued me waited on us at the bank. She was a local banker.
Speaker 1:You know, that's the way it goes.
Speaker 2:I'm like, okay, this crook is taking people's money.
Speaker 1:One thing I want to mention really quickly, moving on from that, or unless you got something else, is because I got distracted, because my ADD kicked in over here. I was over your story. Well, first of all, I saw my calendar here for National Day, which we haven't mentioned this in forever, but it made me think today, when this podcast comes out, tuesday, september 16th. So if you happen to be one who listens regularly and on time because I know a lot of people they binge listen episodes, but in real time this week 16th, 17th and 18th Tuesday, wednesday, thursday remember we are doing sneak peek week inside the Nested Fig app. So three times a day on these three days so around 1 pm, 4 pm and 8 pm Eastern we'll be live inside the Nested Fig app and we are going to be showing sneak peeks of Christmas. We got such good Christmas this year. I'm so excited with what we've gotten we showing sneak peeks of Christmas. We got such good Christmas this year.
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Speaker 1:I, tuesday, the 16th, there's cinnamon raisin bread day, guacamole day, mayflower day, play-doh day and the worst day of all Well, I guess, depending on maybe your dynamic is different Step family day.
Speaker 2:We got 17th is apple dumpling, tomorrow step family day. Well, I like my stepmom, do you?
Speaker 1:yeah, she's sweet. That's not what you said that's a lie I've had some bad ones.
Speaker 2:The 18th, is Cheeseburger Day. Oh, I like that day. We should celebrate that one.
Speaker 1:Did I say the 17th was Apple Dumpling Day? Oh, we can celebrate that one too. Some hungry people up on here. The 19th is Butterscotch Pudding Day. That is so dumb and Talk.
Speaker 2:Like a Pirate Day. Oy, mate, that is so stupid.
Speaker 1:The 20th is Care for Kids Day, so only care for your kids on the 20th and then screw it the rest of the time. This is so dumb. Okay, hmm, okay. What else you got for us Southernisms? Are you Southernism? You know you were supposed to have these segments.
Speaker 2:I always have.
Speaker 1:Oh good, Do you got something yeah?
Speaker 2:So I say I've said, but I use both of these. The first one is I swanny.
Speaker 1:Didn't we talk about I swanny?
Speaker 2:I don't know if we've talked about. I don't remember.
Speaker 1:I think I talked about.
Speaker 2:I swanny. Do you know what I swanny? Do you know what swanny is?
Speaker 1:It's like I swear.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you're not swearing, oh.
Speaker 1:I swanny Well, I swear yeah, so you're not swearing.
Speaker 2:Oh, I swanny, well. I swanny, well, I swanny I didn't see you coming up the driveway. Yeah, the other, as I know we haven't had talked about this one is what in the Sam Hill?
Speaker 1:Or I thought it was hail no, what in the Sam? Hail no yeah.
Speaker 2:No, it was Hale. What in the Sam Hale? No, no, it isn't. What in the Sam Hill? Where do you come up with it? I thought it was Sam Hale.
Speaker 1:That's what it says. What in the Sam Hill Often short ended for what shortened to what in the Sam Hale? No, it's Sam what shortened to what in the Sam hell.
Speaker 2:No, it's Sam. The original is what in the Sam hill and it came from a man that was named Sam hill that cursed all the time. So rather than cursing like saying what in the blankety blank, people would say what in the Sam hill. So if you're moving to the South and somebody says what in the blankety blank, people would say what in the Sam Hill. So if you're moving to the south and somebody says what in the Sam Hill, it means what in the blankety blank?
Speaker 1:Well, sam Hill is a thing, it talks about it. It's just got from Sam Hill to Sam Hill.
Speaker 2:I say Sam Hill, I say it correctly.
Speaker 1:What in the Sam Hill?
Speaker 2:What in Sam's Hill have you got in your hands? Because, sam Hill, that doesn't even make sense, because you're putting a bad word in with something and the whole purpose of saying Sam Hill is not to say a bad word. So how does that make sense? I don't know. That's like saying what in Sam shit. I mean, you're saying what in Sam Hill, so you're not using bad language. Well, I mean, it's got to be very confusing if you're from up north and move to the south.
Speaker 1:Oh, I thought you were going to say to be in my head.
Speaker 2:Well and to be in your head.
Speaker 1:But, sam Hill, there is a whole thing. It's right here Google it.
Speaker 2:That is for dumb people that don't know how it originally came about and the purpose of it. It's for dumb Dumb. It says in there.
Speaker 1:dumb people say what in the Sam hell, oh my gosh. Well, what else you got?
Speaker 2:That's it of Southernisms. One thing I've been seeing pop up on Instagram lately and it's funny. I don't really know why and I never liked this as a kid, but I really want to try it to see, to confirm, because my taste, my taste buds, have significantly changed since I was a kid. Like things I would not eat as a kid I will eat now. Yeah, um, certain things I'm just never gonna try because it was just such a horrible thing like liver. I'm not gonna eat liver, I'm never trying it again. And but pear salad, did you ever eat that? I tried it, I think, one time in my life at like a church potluck.
Speaker 1:I'm sure we all have.
Speaker 2:We talked about that not that long ago, half a pear with a dip of mayonnaise, cheddar cheese and a maraschino cherry Gross as hell.
Speaker 1:Oh no, we were talking about it. I tasted it one time and I think I spit it out. Someone brought it up when I was going through I'm pretty sure we talked about it messages because they said that's what they would do when they couldn't have the cantaloupe and gravy that you brought up, which gagged me.
Speaker 2:You know, that's a big thing now.
Speaker 1:But it's not a big thing, let's not get carried away.
Speaker 2:Dozens of people reached out Well we'll leave that there.
Speaker 1:But anyway they were saying, if they couldn't have that, the cantaloupe and gravy. I don't know why that makes me gag a little bit.
Speaker 2:It is so good, just this slimy texture of cantaloupe and then wet gravy on it.
Speaker 1:Hot oh, and hot yeah, it's hot gravy.
Speaker 2:It's hot gravy. Well, what did you think you were putting cold gravy? Who eats cold?
Speaker 1:gravy. Who eats cantaloupe and gravy? You're putting hot gravy on cantaloupe.
Speaker 2:What you do is you put the cantaloupe in your plate and you put the gravy in you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you got cold cantaloupe? Yes, because you ain't eating a cantaloupe hot or room temp. So you have cold cantaloupe because it's a melon and you're putting hot ass gravy on it.
Speaker 2:Like white gravy, milk gravy.
Speaker 1:I thought it would be cold on top of that.
Speaker 2:Why would you eat that?
Speaker 1:That is so gross. Oh, that's gross.
Speaker 2:That's where we draw the line. Y'all, I want y'all to all send messages again and say, oh, we love that Because I had so many people reach out to me which they sent it into the hotline. Oh, yes, we eat that.
Speaker 1:That is a Southern delicacy I love we draw the line at the gravy being cold. It's so good.
Speaker 2:Actually I don't even like melon without gravy. I haven't had it in so long. If I went to a restaurant and they had cantaloupe with milk gravy, I would order it. It is so good. It's like you're sweet and salty. You're hot and cold. It's just good. It's like you're sweet and salty, You're hot and cold. It's just good If you ate it you would like it.
Speaker 1:No, you would Just like. I'm not going to like the pear salad either, or whatever they call it. It's half pears. I can picture it. It had to be from church, you know the church potluck.
Speaker 2:It had to be, but I thought it was awful and it's mayonnaise.
Speaker 1:It's a Dollop of mayonnaise Because you take out the center of the pear or the pit, so it makes a little bowl in there you put the mayonnaise there, Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:Top it with shredded cheddar cheese oh yeah, that's what it was shredded. And then you put a maraschino cherry on top. That just seems so gross. I hated it as a kid, but would I like it now Because I like pears, I like cheddar cheese, I like maraschino cherries, I like mayonnaise.
Speaker 1:Well, I like cantaloupe and I like gravy, but I'm not eating white gravy on.
Speaker 2:You do not know what you're missing with that.
Speaker 1:You really do not. I mean it is. I would say, we would try it, but you can't make white gravy, so who can make us? I guess I could look up. I can make white gravy. You ain't ever cooked no damn white gravy.
Speaker 2:Yes, I have, oh, yes. White gravy is not hard. I'm up in the kitchen all the time. I can cook it. I don't Mm-hmm, you just cook, you just put your flour in there after you fry your chicken. Mm-hmm. I think that that's the best gravy, with cantaloupe, personally, but you could use sausage gravy. I can't have any meat in it, though. Well, you have to use your drippings from the meat. We can use some meat. It's not the same, it's just the. It's basically there's no meat in it.
Speaker 1:It's just the it's basically. There's no meat in it.
Speaker 2:It's just the bread and you put your, you get your roux, you cook your flour and then you gradually add your milk and it thickens up. And then you got your gravy? It's not hard. But if you want some nasty gravy, don't cook your flour, and then you end up with it tastes like raw flour, oh gross. So you can always tell somebody that doesn't know how to cook that try to make gravy, because they just throw all that in there. They don't cook their flour and make their roux.
Speaker 1:They just dump it all together, dump it all in there, and then it tastes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we don't want no bad gravy. I don't know if I'm really a gravy fan, though I mean I like I don't know. I don't know. My grandmother used to make that kind of gravy for breakfast, on biscuits, you know, with the sausage. Old Bobby, that was so good, see, I don't think I really loved it then as a kid. I mean, maybe I did smothered on the biscuits and stuff. I can remember it, but it kind of makes me a little gaggy, so I'm not sure if I liked it or didn't like it.
Speaker 2:I'm very choosy about gravy too.
Speaker 1:I know my brothers loved it.
Speaker 2:I don't like a lot of grease in my gravy. Like I like it, more flour milk creamier. Yeah, I tell you who has some gross-ass gravy.
Speaker 1:Oh, do tell.
Speaker 2:The Marriott Marquis in Atlanta.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, that's probably from a bag mix or something.
Speaker 2:It's like dog food Gross it is. So I look at it and I'm like what are you? You're not gravy, it's like leftover bacon and grease with a little flour thrown in it.
Speaker 1:It just looks disgusting. Here's two Southernisms that I'm reading through that I've heard. He hasn't got the sense. God gave a goose.
Speaker 2:I've never used that. You never used that one.
Speaker 1:Mm-mm, I mean that means they're dumb. Basically, what about the porch light's on, but no one's home?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think that's really a Southern thing, though. Now I love one of my dad's favorites that he still says all the time, like if somebody's ugly, he'll. He'll say, because my dad, every sentence contains something I need to start jotting them down. He'll say that woman's, that woman is so ugly she could burn a blister on a mule's ass through a brick wall that makes no sense, but that's funny burn a blister on a mule's ass through a brick wall yeah, and.
Speaker 1:I say that too, don't you say? Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's like. Oh my goodness, that's another.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:There are so many, I mean I really want to write them all down, some of the stuff that my grandparents would say I guess.
Speaker 1:so, god, you need to write them down before you forget them.
Speaker 2:I had a great aunt. That was a great, great lady, great lady. She raised 13 kids. She was a wonderful woman. But, she always would crack me up and of course I never said anything. But she would say it got cold. Last night I had to kiver my maters up. Kiver instead of cover she didn't say cover, she said kiver, mm-hmm, and I was like as a kid.
Speaker 2:I didn't know what that was. The first time I heard her say that I was like kiver the maters. I'm like, okay, that's tomatoes, mm-hmm. So I kept my mouth shut, which is, you know, I knew better than to say anything. But when we left I was like Grandma what? Does kiver mean? She said oh, that means cover. And I was like well, it didn't sound like it. She said kiver, and she's like well, son, that's just the way she talks. Oh my gosh, that's crazy kiver. And then still older.
Speaker 1:A lot of older people say and my dad says this change hadn't had it.
Speaker 2:I'm like are you gonna do this for me?
Speaker 1:what son, I just hadn't had a change, or light bub instead of light bulb bub, my grandmother said bubs, christmas bubs, yeah, just totally leaves out the L.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, l Bubs, light bub needs changed. The other thing I have an aunt that says this Instead of milk she says milk Milk. There's like M-Y-I-L-K. Milk, milk Milk. Get the Milk Milk, get the milk, milk Milk. Okay, milk Milk, it is. Oh, my goodness, yeah, I thought I could write a whole book on that kind of stuff, and just stuff we ate.
Speaker 1:I had a coffee while we were doing the podcast and I kind of feel aggressive. Now I'm going to match your mood because I really just want to slap the shit out of you about this cantaloupe and gravy.
Speaker 2:I don't know why I think you should, because I could really use to just beat the shit out of you. It makes me aggressive, it is so I mean, I'm not joking.
Speaker 1:I know, and we're not getting back on it I believe you. I mean, obviously you're not the only person, so I don't believe you and you know I'm a picky eater. I'm just even more baffled that it's hot.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, did you think you were going to put it in the fridge? Let it cool down, pull it out and put gravy? I mean, what did you think it was? That's disgusting.
Speaker 1:No, that's not any more than I give up Pull this bitch over. It's just, I'm out of here.
Speaker 2:It's the sweet, sweet and salty. That's all it is.
Speaker 1:Is your cantaloupe cubed and just in the gravy, or do you take like a half?
Speaker 2:No, you do a slice and you put the slices on your plate and you pour the gravy over it and then you cut it up as you go. You want as much gravy on that piece as you can get. Makes me want it right now.
Speaker 1:I just want to throw up in this floor. It's one of those things. It's even more baffling because I had it pictured one way. It's already bad and I had it pictured bad. Cantaloupe and gravy is disgusting. But I did have it pictured cold and now it somehow got worse.
Speaker 2:It's hot gravy. You know what Dylan was telling me and you know every family has, I think their different little things and I guess we're going to beat this dead horse His family has, you know, grit. We all eat grit, grits is Southern, we don't eat grits. Yeah, 99% of all Southern people eat grits, and if you know how to cook grits, they're amazing. You don't use the ones in a little packet. You make good grits ground I think grit stone ground.
Speaker 1:I know that is a southern thing, but I think it's way more popular here in south carolina than like other places I really do and with like shrimp and grits. I ain't ever heard of that until I moved to South.
Speaker 2:Carolina shrimp and grits is a low country thing.
Speaker 1:I think grits in general is more. I'm not saying it's not a southern thing. There's grit meals and stuff like that and I'm not saying it's not a southern thing, but I feel like it's more, like it may be a North Carolina, tennessee, south Carolina, this sort of region thing, but I feel like it's more like East. Tennessee, south Carolina like this sort of region.
Speaker 2:I grew up. I like my grits with cheese and a lot of black pepper and butter. Dylan grew up and he always. They put great jelly in their grits. That seems so weird to me because the way I grew up if you wanted a sweet something, you had cream of wheat and you would put sugar in your cream of wheat or your oatmeal, but grits was always savory. So I tried it one day and put some grape jelly in there and it wasn't bad. It was different, but it wasn't bad, just a different taste. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So grits are consumed most heavily in the American grits belt, a region that stretches from southern Virginia and then it goes down, so like down into Texas, but South Carolina, which has, and that's where three-quarters of all grits is sold, and South Carolina has declared grits its official state food. Yeah, I'm telling you it's way more popular. East Tennessee, so I guess. Virginia, the East Coast, I'm telling you it's way more popular. East Tennessee, so I guess. Virginia and down Southern East Coast. Yeah, then it was Grits are great.
Speaker 2:So, when you're going to come here. Any breakfast restaurant you go to, there's going to be grits on the menu.
Speaker 1:It's true. And they're good I have. I mean, I've never seen so many grit options until moving here. Seriously, like it is a much more common thing than other southern places.
Speaker 2:I guess I never thought about it because I've always lived in South Carolina, and I always I mean even years ago. Mcdonald's sold grits, Mm-hmm, and let me tell you, when we did it you had to let your old lady biscuit maker make them, or they wasn't fit to eat.
Speaker 1:That's why they ain't on the menu anymore, because they wasn't.
Speaker 2:yeah you got somebody that don't know how to make grits. That's true, you can get nasty quick.
Speaker 1:It is true. All right, let's pull this baby over. That's all the fun I can have this week. We got to move on. We got things to do. We got to get ready for our live sales, got to go by both retail stores. We got to be aggressive and get shit done. Everyone join us today, be aggressive and get shit done. Everyone join us today, be aggressive and get stuff done. We're going to sign off, but remember, you can watch our podcast at whosedrivingpodcastcom. You can join our online community there and watch the podcast and comment and have all kinds of fun. If you don't want to join the online community, you can still go to whosedrivingpodcastcom and listen to episodes for free. Of course you can listen anywhere. You get your podcasts. But remember, number one share us with your friends. And number two leave us a review, but only if it's good. If you don't like this, just don't listen to us. Don't bother leaving us a review, but that's it and we will see you next week. Thanks, guys.