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Who's Driving- What's The Phrase S3 E30
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I don't know, just don't mess with nothing. Guess what? It's time for another episode of who's Driving, and you can tell he's got a little attitude. I don't have an attitude yet. Buckle up and let's go. Welcome to who's Driving. I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 1:And I'm Stephen Merck. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2:Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship and business.
Speaker 1:These are the stories we share and topics we discuss, as two best friends would on a long road trip.
Speaker 2: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 1:Buckle up and enjoy the ride. You never know who's driving, or?
Speaker 2:where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride. So we're back for another fun filled family drive. Yes, happy, happy, what you got going on this week. Anything exciting? No, just work. This week we're getting ready for dinner in the Dahlia's. We got two weekends of dinner in the Dahlia's Yay, coming up. I am really excited and it looks like the weather is supposed to be very nice, good, so we're excited about that no hurricanes.
Speaker 2:Oh, y'all know last year was a disaster. It was a shit show it was, but it turned out great in the end. Yeah, in the end, for the dinner and the dahlias, what you've been up to. The other day I went to, you know, our friend central. This is zion. Well, that's her name anymore. But central. I don't know what her name is on Instagram anymore. Catherine, her name's Central, yeah, but I don't know her Instagram handle anymore because she updated it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe I don't know, I'll have to look it up. But anyway, her and some friends opened a store against the grain and then they also have a little plant shop. They did this whole meal thing. So I went over there and saw them the other day. They'd ordered some stuff wholesale from us, so I dropped that off.
Speaker 2:But when I was there, walked in and there the Pickens girls were there, the ones that you've never met, the ones that I told you I saw at the outlet store the last time. Oh, I haven't met them, you haven't met them. But I thought how funny is that? Because I mean, it's not like I'm at Central Store, I mean that was my second time going there since they've been open and I walked in and then there they were, and then so I had just gotten there and I did, I did talk to him. I mean I said hey, or whatever. But I'm also giving him a shout out, because then, when I was on my way home, I was like, oh, I hope I gave them enough time. Like you know, I was just getting there and I was like, oh, hey, how's it going? And then I was, I don't know, got interrupted or something.
Speaker 1:But anyway, hey, girls, hey yes, I used to get off the school bus there where at the roller mill, at the roller mill.
Speaker 2:So if you're in the upstate you need to go on over to central south carolina and go to the roller mill and check out their um setup there. They have on I don't know exactly what days I think thursday, friday, saturday, maybe wednesday, I don't know. They have a food truck. That's there those three days. I mean they're open seven days a week. Then they have like a tap truck, that's there. They have their plant shop, a bakery um and their little like merkin not little that's a mercantile store there, um. So it's a whole little little setup. If you, if you over there in the area, go check them out for sure we need to have them on and, like um, ask them all about business stuff and what they've done so far. I I walked in and I was there. It's like I'm here for your graded visit and I'm inspecting. So no, it was fun.
Speaker 1:I even bought a little plant how funny is that I need to go down there you do?
Speaker 2:they've been asking, I was like he's a coming. He's a coming, it's it.
Speaker 1:You know when it's, you know when you go. How can I word this correctly? I just have to be in the right frame of mind all the way around to go like backtrack into my history, into your past. Yeah, does it. You know like you are when you go to Covington, because you get it in your head, not that you don't. I love it, I love it, you love it, we all love it but it's like you. You really I don't, I don't know how to pass trauma or something, I guess I guess, I guess I'm not like that you are you are like that.
Speaker 1:You are like that, You're just saying that because your family listens.
Speaker 2:Yeah you are like that, you're like I'm going home.
Speaker 1:No, it is something, I'm being serious, it's something not a bad thing, it's not like oh, I hate going there, it's not bad at all yeah, it is like you have to be Well in my mindset.
Speaker 2:I'm like that to go anywhere, I mean, unless it's to the beach, Even that sometimes. I mean I love going to our beach cottage, I love it and that's when we go, and we'll even stay there for two weeks. But the build-up for me to leave to go anywhere is tough. These days. Well, yeah, you know, because there's so much prep and stuff like that and it's like ugh. But then when I get there, you know love it.
Speaker 1:It's like God I got to bathe, I got to brush my butt, I got to brush my teeth.
Speaker 2:It's just all this stuff, all this stuff. I know that you got to do so. Yes, so Dinner in the Dahlias is coming up this week. I think there might be like one ticket or two tickets left to the October day, whatever day that is. Oh, I thought it was sold out, I think. Well, I guess I should look before I say that October 4th. Well, see, here's the thing. Daniel kept adding tickets, basically.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing I just told someone we were sold out.
Speaker 2:Let me look on his website and see if it's sold out and you get on here and say that, well, I don't know now that I say it.
Speaker 2:So what happened is Daniel had in his mind that he wanted it at like 75 people max. And I was like well, last year we had like 90 something. We originally had like 130 last year, but then the hurricane, so some people couldn't make it because they were coming from out of town, and so we had like 90 something people last year. And he's like I'm just going, which was great. But I don't know why in his mind he even from last year, I think next year I'm just going to do 75 and we're going to do two dinners and I was like okay, that's what, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 2:Well then, you know, when the tickets sold out, he kept adding and people kept saying like, oh, I need the September date, not the October date, sort of thing. Well, with the rentals they kind of just to take advantage, you need to match them up. You know, like if you add 10 extra people on in September, you need to add 10 extra tickets in october because we're already renting the things. So then we ended up with, I think, when he finally um, yeah, there's, there's a couple of tickets. I can't tell how many, but I think there's only two left. If someone wants to come last minute local um, so that upped the number in the October one. So we have like 90-something people to come into each dinner and Stephen has to come to both of them. He's like I'm coming out there to dinner twice. I'm like, yes, you are, we got lots of people coming from out of town.
Speaker 2:Lots of our friends, some that listen here. No Brooks coming from.
Speaker 1:New York, new York. Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing them.
Speaker 2:I need to add name tags to our list of things we need, because I don't think we did that last year. We need name tags and where they're from.
Speaker 1:I'm going to put a name. I we need name tags and where they're from. I'm going to put a name. I'm changing my name. What is your name? I haven't decided, but I'm going to put a name and where I'm from and that's going to be my personality for the night.
Speaker 2:Oh Lord, lord, Wanda, we're going to call you.
Speaker 1:Wanda. I mean, I don't know where I'm going to be from. Okay, wanda.
Speaker 2:We're going to call you Wanda.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know where I'm going to be from. Okay, I'm going to have a whole story though.
Speaker 2:Wanda from Pickens. Wanda from Pickens, that's where you're going to be from. So I was scrolling through social media I think this one was on TikTok and I saw this guy pop up and he was telling me phrases that we say wrong, and there were a couple you say a lot wrong. I say a whole lot wrong. You know this is pretty much an ongoing situation. We know that.
Speaker 1:But these were a couple One thing you said, like let me coming down the pike. What did you think that was Pipe.
Speaker 2:That was one of his too. It's coming down the pike P-I-K-E, Not pipe P-I-P-E.
Speaker 1:See, I thought I didn't know. I never noticed, when you said that, that you were saying pipe. I thought you were saying pike, yeah, I don't remember, but coming down the pike it's pike like the trail.
Speaker 2:Yes, but pipe like a pipe sounds more realistic. Pipe coming down the pipe, like what's funneling down through the pipe. Here comes the water, here comes the shit. Whatever's coming through the pipe. I don the water. Here comes the shit. Whatever's coming through the pipe, I don't know. So it was phrases like that and some of these I didn't know, and I'm going to start with one that I probably should know.
Speaker 1:Okay. Ask me first See if I get it right.
Speaker 2:Okay, if you are at a casino, you're playing poker and you're counting the cards, you're a card Shark. No, it's card sharp S-H-A-R-P. Really Not shark, really.
Speaker 1:Really Huh, huh. Right, I mean, I've never said that in my life, but yeah, but we all know the phrase, but card sharp. Huh Right, I mean, I've never said that in my life, but yeah but we all know the phrase, but card sharp.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, I failed that one, okay, so let's go to the next, okay.
Speaker 1:I feel like we're on the Hollywood pyramid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's see If you are eager to do something. You're like ready to go Whore. What Did you say? Whore, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, how does that? I don't know. I'm disappointed. I'm pretending like I'm a Hollywood.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's do it Sound it out. What's the do you do phrases? How many words Is that that one?
Speaker 1:No, it's just one that you describe, and then you can't say what it is and they have to guess it Okay.
Speaker 2:So if you're eager to do something, he is blank Kind of has like a horse, meaning like you're ready to go to get it done.
Speaker 1:Galloping get it done.
Speaker 2:No, it's a common phrase, gosh, I can't tell you anything Kind of. Has a horse meaning? Eager to get it done, ready to go? You are just, let's get it done. You're just come on, come on, I don't know You're going to have to tell me this Something at the bit, chomping at the bit. Okay, yes, it's not chomping, it's champing.
Speaker 1:Champing At the bit. Nobody says that.
Speaker 2:Everybody says I'm chomping at the bit.
Speaker 1:Right, okay, it's technically champing at the bit. Okay, that one's wrong. I beg your pardon, okay.
Speaker 2:Next one if you, your stomach's growling Diarrhea, that's when it's bubbling. Okay, if it's ground to run. This is a game I didn't know we needed, but we're gonna. This is gonna be a new segment. No, your stomach is. You're hungry, you have? What's that sensation you have? Oh God, if you're hungry, starving to death, yeah, but how would you? Oh, I'm having my blood sugar's low I'm having.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm hungry. I'm having hunger pains, yes, but it's not hunger pains, it's hunger pangs. P-a-n-g-s Pangs yeah, it's not pain like hunger pain, it's P-A-N-G-S Pangs. Huh, I never heard of that. Well, that was a fun news, that's it.
Speaker 1:It was three of them.
Speaker 2:I could have gotten more but I was like those were three that I didn't, because everyone calls it hunger pains, it's not chomping at the bit. But then Card Sharp really surprised me. I need to look up.
Speaker 1:Hollywood Pyramid. We're going to start doing this.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh, I don't think right now is the time to look it up.
Speaker 1:No, it is. Is it Hollywood Pyramid? I may be saying that wrong.
Speaker 2:Pyramid. Yeah, it may not be Hollywood, but it's something Pyramid, pyramid skiing. No, I'm just kidding. Oh, my goodness, what's going on this week in the calendar? Today it will be. Will it be the 23rd? Is that what tomorrow's date is? Tuesday the 23rd.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was, it was the $100,000 pyramid.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was, it was the $100,000 pyramid Tuesday today, when this comes out, snack Stick Day.
Speaker 1:What the hell? Sunday was National Wife Day.
Speaker 2:It was. It says it right here Wife Appreciation Day.
Speaker 1:Wife Appreciation Day. How many of y'all got flowers or chocolates or cards or love letters?
Speaker 2:Who even knew that was a day that should be every day, unless you're just a shitty wife.
Speaker 1:I mean they're out there, oh gosh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, how come we don't know about Wife Appreciation Day?
Speaker 1:I mean that could be like Mother's Day. We could make a lot of money off that. We need to start promoting that.
Speaker 2:We need to promote that In right here in October.
Speaker 1:No, it wouldn't be, or September, because it's a man's shopping holiday.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, because the women aren't going to come in and buy that. See Mother's Day. The women come in and buy for their mothers, the husband's mothers, the grandmother.
Speaker 1:We need mother-in-law appreciate, but that don't work either, because they don't like their mother-in-law. No, I can't do mother-in-law, nobody likes their mother-in-law.
Speaker 2:I mean a lot of people do sorry, terry. Terry, I love you. You just work that in whenever you can.
Speaker 1:I thought it was funny I thought it was funny. Terry, I thought it was funny. Terry's going to throw me down in the dirt.
Speaker 2:I think, this weekend, because they're coming to this one and then my mom's coming to the next one and then, like we said, we have people coming from out of town. I think we should break out the microphone and record people for a podcast segment and we could interview.
Speaker 1:You could interview Terry and say Terry, when did you know that Wesley really did not care for you? Was it early on or was it more?
Speaker 2:Terry knows that's a lie. That is a lie. Oh goodness, you try to get me into trouble.
Speaker 1:No, I mean you do you like Terry and I like Dylan's mom? I mean I kind of I just say whatever.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:I probably offend her a lot.
Speaker 2:Probably.
Speaker 1:I'm sure you do.
Speaker 2:I was going to say you offend most people. But somehow you do it in a way that they're not offended. You offend them without them being offended. I don't know how you get away with it.
Speaker 1:You do it and laugh or something, and people, just play it off you know a restaurant owner in downtown Greenville just told me that this past weekend what. That I have an art for telling somebody to F off and they don't even know what hit them. Yeah, you do.
Speaker 2:It is an art that you don't even realize you're doing and you have a way with saying very what would probably offend people or be inappropriate. You have a way of saying it and people aren't offended, but if other people said it to them, they would be offended.
Speaker 1:Well, when I had McDonald's, that's what my cashiers and stuff would always say they would say if I said that to that customer, we would have gotten 800 complaints. Right, you say it and they laugh, right, but you know what would drive me crazy? Okay, y'all listen. This is important. This is a PSA, this is not for McDonald's, this is for anywhere. Oh God, step on up. Get your money ready. Get your car ready. Get your money ready. Get your car ready. Get your app ready. Don't be one of those.
Speaker 2:I know I really try to do that and sometimes I'll go through like Starbucks with the app or whatever and I'll get to the window. I've been in line for five minutes, that's the problem, and I don't have my app ready. I'm like I know you get so damn tired of waiting on people pulling out this app and whatever. But sometimes ADD people I mean it'd be different if I had cash, because I would just have that sitting there. But with an app like a Starbucks app, for example, I pull around, there's three cars in front of me. Well, by the time I've done scroll TikTok for 10 minutes.
Speaker 1:I will say this. I will say this. I will say this about starbucks app. Sometimes it's shitty and you try to be ready and and it won't let you right. I tell them when I get up there I try to be ready, but this piece of shit won't let me right and they laugh and they're like we get it. Yeah, like I. I don't mean to hold you drive-thru up.
Speaker 2:And so what I'll do is I'll open up my app, I'll hit scan or whatever, so it's there, and then I'll just go to another app. Well, it has cleaned out, shut down, restart. Might as well write them a check at this point.
Speaker 1:You got to start all over again. It's just. But yeah, people would get up and it would drive.
Speaker 2:You're like you've been in. You've been because you got that. You know that timer counting down. You're like you've been in line for two minutes and you didn't have your money, or?
Speaker 1:you just realized your damn purse was in the trunk of your car and you got to park and get out. Like it's a whole thing, like I've had crazy women get out of their car to dig their purse out of the trunk.
Speaker 2:Well, why are they going to be crazy?
Speaker 1:And then, the car just go rolling and hit the curb.
Speaker 2:Oh, they left it in drive and everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just screw the whole thing up. I've had them digging in their purse and just drive right into the building. I mean, come in. If you're like that, go inside.
Speaker 2:Not to be Debbie Downer, but didn't you have someone die in the drive-thru, die in the drive-thru. Didn't someone like die in the drive-thru or have a heart attack or something.
Speaker 1:No, she was on drugs. Well, it was kind of sad she had gotten out of the hospital and, which was crazy, her husband let her drive home um was he in the car? With no she was on some kind of very strong medication. She went through the speaker and then she swung way out. This was at moonville, right, this one right here and then, all of a sudden, I was in the office. I didn't see any of it, but then the whole building shook she crashed into it crashed into the building, yeah, and I was like what in the hell?
Speaker 1:and she was like it was. She was like a drunk person. I thought she was drunk and I was like call 911. And come to find out. The police got there, Everybody got there, had to call her husband and I felt bad for her.
Speaker 2:I'm like, so she was on like prescription drug. Like, not a drug, she was a nice lady.
Speaker 1:I mean she was just out of it, but yeah, I've had everything happen. And then I had a one girl. She meant to press the brake and she hit the accelerator and literally drove her lexus into the dining room. And somebody I watched the camera. This is not funny, but I mean the god was watching out for this man at the. He was sitting at the booth with his back to the wall and this lexus comes crashing through, you know, and it wasn't slow. I mean, this is pretty fast, do you know? He managed to stand up and run with it.
Speaker 2:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:And did not get hurt.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, if that had been me, he would have fumbled right out of the booth and been under the car.
Speaker 2:I would have been. Under the car, I'd have been changing the oil for sure.
Speaker 1:And I watched it. I mean I was so impressed because most, let me tell you, most people would have been in the floor, call 9-1-1. I'm hurt, you know, get to get some money. And he, he just went with it. He was like I'm good I watched on camera and I was like that's just that's unbelievable, that is crazy unbelievable. Yeah, so you know, don't dig in your damn pocketbook so get your money ready, is what you say yeah, get your money ready. Get your card ready, pay for, use a card to in a drive-thru.
Speaker 2:It's so much easier the only reason I use the starbucks app is because they can't ask you for a tip because if you get, points, the points. You know that's a whole, nother.
Speaker 1:But they cut that down. Hell, you have to go there 58 times to did they fire their um person again, the new one?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't know they're, they're, they've screwed that up.
Speaker 1:You've got to go go there. You've got to spend like $10,000 to get a cup of coffee.
Speaker 2:Well, see they get you hooked in collecting those points. That's what I'm going to do to our customers. You know we have our point system for oh they can't figure that out. I made it as simple as I can. How do you do that I can, and they still can't figure it out, and I just ain't worried about it, but I might start making it more and more points.
Speaker 2:I know Stephen was so excited because he is such a point person. It is simplified now. If you shop at the Nested Fig on the app or website, once you do the initial three things, you get bonus points in your birthday. But then you get a point per like dollar or something, and you just collect them and, however many it is, gets you ten dollars off. It's simple now, but and it was- I do.
Speaker 1:I get so excited. Dylan and I were flying to wait. Where were we flying to? Oh, we were flying to key west and um, we were checking in at the counter and she said, oh, American Express, they have a new American Express. It's the I don't know which one it is.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm sure you signed up for it because you get an extra point.
Speaker 1:It's this purple card. I don't know what it is A purple card?
Speaker 2:Oh, it's purple. This is a Delta SkyMiles card. Yeah, we're getting into all the lounges.
Speaker 1:You spend $6,000 and you get 100,000 miles plus a free first class ticket. I was like hell yes. And Dylan was like what are you doing? We do not need another. I said, we need another card, I need those points, I need that ticket.
Speaker 2:Can I just have that card? I'll get need those points. I need that ticket. Can I just have that card? No, I'll get you some points.
Speaker 1:I will have you so many points on there and they all know members since 1991.
Speaker 2:I'll get you so many points on there.
Speaker 1:I'm good, everybody can go first class. I'm with you First class, but no, I got the points and but then they kind of get you because you're like now I gotta spend six thousand dollars you know, the whole thing is set up to kind of get you oh, I know, and I had told you fall for points and like you are getting something free, free, free and I told dylan he saw, but you got to spend $6,000.
Speaker 1:I said it's fine, I'll put something for the business on my card and pay me back. Yeah, and I'll get the points. It didn't work that way. I just said I'll just buy this.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, but I got the points and I got a plane ticket. But yeah, where are you going?
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:I don't know Dylan's going to be sitting back in coach. He'll be in coach.
Speaker 1:He'll be traveling like my pet dog. I'm going to have him in a dog carrier and you're going to be up in first class. He would probably throw me from the airplane.
Speaker 2:I would. That is something you would probably do, though.
Speaker 1:No, it is not, but first class is more important. For me, though, and you. We have long legs, that's true.
Speaker 2:Bunched up back there in the back. It's rough these days.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't be able to walk for three weeks.
Speaker 2:I know, I mean that's the truth. I haven't been able to walk. My back has been I haven't been able to walk for three weeks. I know, I mean, that's the truth. I haven't been able to walk for it. My back has been on the edge for three weeks.
Speaker 1:You've got to go to my car.
Speaker 2:I need to go to a chiropractor and get it popped. I also need to go. I've decided I need to do it this week. I need to go get a vitamin IV. I feel like it's a combination of. I need to be flushed out and hydrated. I probably need some vitamins Loosen up my muscles.
Speaker 1:You're pushing 50 is what it is.
Speaker 2:I'm not pushing 50. I'm 44. You'll be 45. If I'm pushing 50, you're pushing 60.
Speaker 1:No, I'm in my early 50s, You're mid 40s. In my early 50s, you're mid-40s.
Speaker 2:I am mid-40s.
Speaker 1:I'm still early 50s, it's okay, I look good.
Speaker 2:I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1:It's better than Alternative it's true.
Speaker 2:I will say I think I talked to you about this. I heard a thing last year. I heard it several times and I was say I think I talked to you about this. I heard a thing like last year. I heard it several times and I was like whatever it could have been an ad, I don't know where I heard it, but it says that your body rapidly ages two times in your life and it's 44 and then 60, something Like they've studied and it like kind of you're aging. I will say this year at 44, and I'm not saying I feel bad or anything, but I definitely feel and feel like I look older than I did you do.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, not in a bad way, but you've gone through the next.
Speaker 2:I've already gone through them, right, and you do that same thing, like I feel, like for men, when you get into we were talking about it the other day from someone who hadn't seen me in a long time, but like from your. You know your early 30s 29, 30, I feel like in your mid 30s, like 35, 36, you go through and you don't look like that college still kind of baby face useful look you kind of.
Speaker 2:There's like a period in there where you kind of age and now I feel like at at 44, I feel like my neck looks and it's not. Listen, it's not bad, I'm not. I'm not saying anything about my look, but it's different than it was two years ago, like it's a little looser. You get that angle it was bad two years ago, any angle when you're over 40 or like 30s, but it just looks, I don't know, different.
Speaker 1:No, it does, and you know, you know that's. The question I have is like at what point do I fix it like I'm not?
Speaker 2:do I keep mine I am.
Speaker 1:I'm, I'm going to fix mine, but I'm going and listen. I I'm not one of those people. I'm not gonna lie about it, I'm not gonna hide it right, I'm not one of those people. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm not going to hide it. I'm not going to do any of that. I'm going to put it out there. Hell yes, I got a facelift and it's the way it is. But I'm going to do the lower. I'm going to do the deep planing and lower facelift.
Speaker 2:But I just don't know. You're not going to be able to lie anyway, because your fair skin and your scarring, you're going to look like you have a mask on because it's going to look like you've got a line all the way around your face.
Speaker 1:Well, it'll be right here. It'll be in my ears and I don't know what you won't see your ears, so it's fine.
Speaker 2:I would rather have a scar around my ears than um, but you know, but I feel like this year is the first year like there is a difference, like, oh, not just up until this point. I feel like I can look at pictures and go, oh yeah, you look older, yeah, you look older. Like there hasn't been a change whatever. But like this year, I feel like it wrapped, like it like I read last year, like there's a rapid change where it's all of a sudden like a difference.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've just kind of drawn up. You're such an asshole no, I mean age. Aging happens and I'm thankful to age.
Speaker 2:Only thing I want to do. I mean, I'm not saying I would never have a facelift or stuff done. You know I get Botox, whatever but I do want I think I'm going to do it in January I want some type of face like I don't know what yet I haven't talked to anybody Peel or laser or something, laser or you know I should have listened to my mother.
Speaker 1:My mother was religious about having, uh, chemical pills, yeah. And when I turned 30 she said then you need to start getting a pill once a year at 30, yeah, and I would not do it.
Speaker 1:So I actually went for a consult last year about getting a facelift and she said you're not ready yet, you don't have enough, you don't have enough sagging bag yet, but you're pre-facelift. So, um, and I probably will start this in January. We're going to, I'm going to get my face lasered so it will clean up my face and and hopefully build some collagen back before my face.
Speaker 2:I want to do something like that, Just cause I have a couple of spots that are like sunspots. You know, I worked outside my whole twenties with no sunscreen. Ever anything Wasn't worried about it then. So I just want a little bit of that cleaned up, if it's possible. Shut your ass. He is over here looking at me and trying not to take the road. There's so many funny things I could say there are.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to be mean like you are. I'm not mean. No, it was funny because what you were referring to is one of a McDonald's owner that you met years ago. He watched one of our live sales and he said God, wesley has aged. And I said and I was like, no, he hasn't. And then I added it up and it had been like 10 years, it had been 10 or 11 years since he'd seen me and there's been a lot of stress, a lot of employees, but you think about that that's a long time.
Speaker 1:And I told him. I said, well, you know, it's been over 10 years, I guess he has. Yeah, and he laughed. He was like from the last time he doesn't look bad, but it's just Right from the last time he saw me Because you wouldn't have had gray hair. No, and in all fairness, the last time you saw him he was in his 60s and he's almost 80 now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so he's aged Right Like he's almost 80 now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he's aged Right. Like you would be like.
Speaker 2:Ooh, you know, he still looks great for his age, so I'm not talking bad but I need to go back and try to find some photos of you early on because I don't feel like you've aged that much, but I know you have really in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1:I've aged.
Speaker 2:Now that I look at you.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just kidding, I've aged. No, I have, we're all aging, but you still look good. I was blessed with good genetics as far as like skin, and I do have that you know, I typically don't have wrinkly skin, that's true, but that's just a, that's nothing I've done. I mean, I've tried to do things, but that was truly genetic, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm going to have really wrinkly skin when I get older.
Speaker 1:You either. I think you either do or you don't. One of my grandmothers, my dad's's mother.
Speaker 2:She had the most wrinkly skin I've ever seen, that's how my on my mom's side, like her dad's side, they're like that her neck was just and she wasn't a big lady.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a genetic thing.
Speaker 1:It was like something I've never seen before. It was like just fat and she wasn't fat. Yeah, I mean, it was just all these amelian wrinkles, deep yeah.
Speaker 2:Deep. Yeah, that's how my mom's side is going to be, and I feel like that Look, because when you look at my skin, how it looks a little. Like that. I'm like, oh, I'm going to get that deep, but that's fine.
Speaker 1:It's fine.
Speaker 2:I mean every Listen.
Speaker 1:I just hope I'm still having fun. Yeah, I can have fun wrinkly and can still get around.
Speaker 2:Get what? Get around. Oh, I thought you said aroused. I was like whoa, we're going somewhere different and that too Around, still get around.
Speaker 1:But you know one thing that's helped me, that give a little extra pep in my step, is my new ass.
Speaker 2:Have we talked about your new ass on there?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but y'all, it is good. I need to give a shout out to Rounder Bum, If any guys out there that's listening to this, if you've seen Rounder Bum on social media order it. And you can order whatever type of underwear you're comfortable wearing normally normally.
Speaker 1:Um, I years ago had padded ass underwear and it was. I got boxer briefs and I don't think they fit well for for my ass, so I got uh, that was years ago, years ago. So I got briefs, this time with the ass built in, and i'm'm telling you I just when I walk down the street now I'm like he just gives you a little extra pep. Just a little like look at that ass. It don't matter if it's real or not.
Speaker 2:That is so funny. So, just like Steven said, he would tell you he's getting a facelift. He got these new panties that has his padded ass built in and he has showed it off to everybody.
Speaker 1:I'm like look at my ass If you're on the live sale.
Speaker 2:you've seen it, yeah. It's there and you truly are wearing them. I think we need to reach out to Rounder Bomb and get us something. We need to promote it. You had them on yesterday and we were talking about it not just you and I, because we were at the warehouse but I was like I need some that start right above the knee, like that suck in my thunder thighs and saddlebags they make that and then have a little padding in the back.
Speaker 1:And you can get the rounder bum with padding in the front for you. I don't need that. I'm okay there, thankfully, but um, yeah, I said god, that would be like if you had to order it for your ass and your front.
Speaker 2:What just don't you. You're in bad shape. Yeah, I mean, if there's one thing I mean, I'd rather have to order it for the back side than the front side, so I'm thankful.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, Mm-hmm. Yeah, I've even had straight guys touch my ass because they're like, I'm like it's fake.
Speaker 2:I need to look them up, because I haven't looked them up yet, but I'm going to need some, because I haven't looked them up yet, but I'm going to need some.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you see me out, just check out my ass, and it is not one of our reps. Thought I had been doing squats and I laughed. I said that's cute and I was like no, phil he was like oh my gosh. He was like that is really your under. I said, it's my underwear. That is really your under. I said it's my underwear.
Speaker 2:Can you make sure you have these on for the dinner and the dahlias?
Speaker 1:I'm going to wear Daisy Dukes. With my rounder bum it is going to look like I got a badonkadonk. Okay, you do that.
Speaker 2:Now, do all of their things have um, you're a medium, no, but do all of their things have the padded? Oh, some of them are butt lifting, dylan has?
Speaker 1:dylan has an ass like a caboose, he's got a dump truck, so he got a lift.
Speaker 2:Okay, but some are lifting and some are padded. I'm looking at at this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you lifted mine, my legs would be. I would be walking on my knees. There is nothing to lift, so I just did the padded. I need to order more.
Speaker 2:When you do padded, I need to click on one. Can you get different levels of padding? No, or is?
Speaker 1:it, just one, not to my knowledge. Okay, they're not a bad price. They're not hot. See, I've had that comment. Are they hot? Do they feel hot, sweaty? Your butt does not sweat. They do not feel hot. They do not feel any different than any of my other panties you have trunks.
Speaker 2:What do you have?
Speaker 1:I did briefs. I like the trunks. Well, I mean, you should get what you normally wear, excuse me so you'll be more comfortable, mm-hmm. Okay, and I'm a brief boy, so I got briefs and I think they sit. I like the briefs because I think they sit really nicely. Okay, and even I've had women inquire about it. They do not make it for women, which is crazy. Rounder bum, come on. You got to make it for the ladies too. But if you're a lady that's lacking some ass, you should try the briefs and get them in, like in the small or medium, however size you are, and see how they fit Okay.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get some and we're going to see about this. What else do they have Clothing? I will say they do fill it out and make things 's like a padded bra there's no different.
Speaker 1:And it's such a small pad, like it doesn't. I was like I hope. I was like this shit ain't gonna work this ain't enough.
Speaker 2:Well, it's probably the shape, the cut, and where.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's just that little bit.
Speaker 2:So when you're sitting, you have them on today? Mm-hmm, when you're sitting here, does it feel like you're sitting on anything? Mm-mm, Okay, mm-mm.
Speaker 1:No, it doesn't do anything. It doesn't even. It doesn't even mute your farts, None of it. It's just like regular.
Speaker 2:They have shapewear. I need that too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to order that too.
Speaker 2:Slim, fit and lift boxer. I'm going to have to sign off. We're going to have to wrap this up.
Speaker 1:You're going to get a girdle like my great grandmother, my great grandmother, my great grandmother. Her name was Ludi Uh-huh. I'm named after her. Her name was Ludi Stevens and let me tell you, honey, you did not catch her at the church house without her girdle on.
Speaker 2:I wonder if, like one of these light compression tank. I can't stand the feel of a tank top, though they I don't do well with compression. I bought um what is that stuff?
Speaker 1:What's that stuff that everybody wears? Spanx, spanx. I bought the Spanx for men, um, mainly for, like, uh, when I wear suits. I just wanted my shirts to look super neat. They hurt my back. I don't know why it always I have severe lower back pain with it.
Speaker 2:I need something posture correcting, but I want it. Surely there's something like a t-shirt level, not something I told you.
Speaker 1:I watched that where I there's something like a t-shirt level, not something I told you. I watched that where I could hit you with a 2x4 in the back and that fixes it. It was videos. They screamed it hurt, but they said it fixed it.
Speaker 2:No, they did not. That is a lie.
Speaker 1:They would whack it and go. They'd go. They were fixed.
Speaker 2:I need something that just pulls it back a little bit. Just a little bit pulls it back. You know they have things like tech, things like you can put on your back and then it vibrates when you're slouching. I'm like the battery would be dead. It'd be like oh okay, let me pull it back.
Speaker 1:I tried to sit up. That was one of my mom's pet peeves.
Speaker 2:She would always say sit up, sit up straight sit up straight.
Speaker 1:We don't slouch at the table. Well, you don't, but I do. I think I probably sit there.
Speaker 2:That's probably one time I got hit in the mouth. Probably Do you have anything else for us today. Did you bring anything to the table? Any stories you got, any southernisms? Nothing.
Speaker 1:I'm about to pull this baby over. Well, you need to calm yourself down. Well then, you need to get in here. I do have. Drive us on home A southernism.
Speaker 2:Do tell um so I messaged.
Speaker 1:I messaged family and I said what is something um? I think here, what I said um, what are some crazy redneck southern sayings or something we did growing up? Just, I needed a different perspective.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do tell.
Speaker 1:Well, I think we talked about this already. Finer than frog hair.
Speaker 2:We did. Yeah, that's what they do, and Stephen uses that one all the time.
Speaker 1:I do say finer than frog hair Someone had emailed.
Speaker 2:Hold on before, because I just saw this today and actually shout out Sherry, sherry Knoll. She sent us the nicest email to the warehouse, because, you know, usually it's people bitching, complaining about something we did wrong, we put their tape on crooked or something I don't know. I'm just kidding, we actually have good customers. But she sent a very complimentary email about how she's been ordering for a while and everything's good all the way. I know that Wes and Steven are the faces voice of the Nested Fig family, but how good we are at hiring good workers all the way to the packers anyway in here. She was wrapping up, though, and said, um, wish I was a spit away. She said there's a southernism for you spit away, I heard that a spit away.
Speaker 1:So it's close spit away. So one thing she texted me back and she said you haven't talked about. That I haven't talked about on the podcast is chickens, and we've talked about chickens, chicken shit. I don't know if we. She asked if if I ever talked about how we had to kill the chickens.
Speaker 2:No, I guess that was minor. In your butchering day department you talked about hogs, but I don't think you talked about butchering chickens. Before I went vegetarian, I was thinking about raising chickens and butchering them and then I was like well, I could raise them and take them to get butchered, but that's hard to find we talked about that you and I talked about that.
Speaker 1:That way it would be better quality.
Speaker 2:Right, that's my thing with meat is not eating meat. Although I have to say, after having you know Ruby the pig, I don't know that I can eat pork ever again, but chicken I mean, I don't know that I can eat pork ever again, but chicken I mean I don't have a problem. Eating meat is my point for the animal point I just there's so much crap in the meat that you buy. But anyway, that's here, nor there. Anyway, go ahead. Yeah, we used to have chickens.
Speaker 1:We had egg-laying chickens.
Speaker 2:And we had dinner chickens.
Speaker 1:So dinner chickens, you know you didn't get attached to. They were never as pretty, anyway, they were all about fattening them up.
Speaker 2:And you know how we.
Speaker 1:I'm very weak, like. I don't like blood, I don't like gross, I don't like any of that. Why am I that way? Because I grew up.
Speaker 2:Well see, when you were a kid, you didn't know any different.
Speaker 1:It was like the Texas chainsaw massacre, where, when I grew up and now I would be.
Speaker 2:But see, you didn't know any different. That's what you were used to then. And then you grew up and you step back and you were like what the hell were we doing? You know, step back and you were like what the hell were we doing? You know, it's like how we used to run around the yard and look for snakes and well we would ring their heads off.
Speaker 1:You would just grab one and ring you just grab it and do it like that and then the body would go flying off and then it would run around for a few couple minutes, and then it would just fall over.
Speaker 2:That is that is so bad. I mean it's not, I mean it's whatever, but I'm just like I cannot imagine doing that I couldn't do it now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I guess if I were on an island and I was starving, yeah, I could do it.
Speaker 2:I would not but that's where the saying running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
Speaker 1:It literally runs around. Just it doesn't make a noise because it doesn't, oh my God, but it does.
Speaker 2:That is so.
Speaker 1:If our listeners are out there, they've probably they've experienced that if they've had chickens, no they probably haven't, and not that many people have chickens.
Speaker 2:Do you know how disconnected the world is from their food at this point? Like people would ask me like we had chickens even when we lived in the city. Well, how do you get eggs if you don't have a rooster? Well, honey, the egg's not the baby, it's an egg. You know how you have an egg if you're a woman. Your chickens have eggs, it has to have a rooster to be fertilized, that they have to sit on to have a chick.
Speaker 1:You have to sit on it or you have to put it in an inkabaker.
Speaker 2:But there's still an egg that comes. It should be inca baker. I just can't imagine I can't imagine doing that.
Speaker 1:Now, I mean, can you imagine if I said, if you were like what are you doing?
Speaker 2:I'm like oh, I just killed three chickens I had a mean chicken even here and I was gonna kill it, and then I couldn't do it. I was like I'll just smack it really hard. You know, take a shovel and chop its head off. I couldn't bring myself to do it, so I just threw it outside.
Speaker 1:The chicken can't let a fox, yeah, and I was like something to get you in a few days, you little asshole.
Speaker 2:He was mean just.
Speaker 1:I don't like those mean ones that flog.
Speaker 2:Our neighbor downtown. This is funny downtown we lived in a cute little bungalow so cute, the lot was literally a postage stamp and we had a neighbor next door to us and theirs was the same way and we had chickens and she had chickens or whatever. We had bees. We probably I don't know I had a mini farm right there, but she was.
Speaker 2:And you were, literally your backyard backed up to a four lane interstate, yeah, so anyway, and she did the same thing and we had our garden, she had her garden, but she had a rooster like a chicken and it ended up being a rooster and I think it ended up being mean too, because we didn't mind the roosters or whatever. And she said that she went out there and she was going to butcher the chicken or whatever. She was laughing. So she was like you know, I guess she's maybe done it before, I don't know, but she's like I was going to butcher this chicken. And so she said she grabbed it up and she was like you know, she still had to talk herself into it Like OK, I can do this.
Speaker 2:And she said so she finally did it and she went to chop its head off in her whatever. She was chopping it off with hatchet or whatever. It was dull and it just bounced off the chicken's neck after talking to talking herself into doing it. It just bounced off and the chicken just squawked, and herself into doing it. It just bounced off and the chicken just squawked and she said she just let it go. And she was like I can't do this there. Um, I was like that's what would happen to me. I would get the car okay, I'm gonna do it and then go to kill it and it just bounced right off its neck seems like I remember that happening to me too.
Speaker 1:I just don't know how I? I don't know.
Speaker 2:How in the hell have we driven down this path to talking about butchering?
Speaker 1:chickens. Well, I reached out to a family member and that's what I got.
Speaker 2:That's what they were telling you.
Speaker 1:That's what I got.
Speaker 2:I mean, I had chickens and stuff growing up. We never butchered any of them or anything.
Speaker 1:In later years. No, I mean I had pigeons. I have had every pet. I have had rabbits in the house, I've had pigeons. I've had cockatiels, Cockatoos, I've had finches. I've had pigeons. I've had cockatiels, cockatoos, I've had finches. I've had a pet goat. I think I've had every pet. The only thing I have not had is like a raccoon. I never had any like major wild.
Speaker 2:I would love a raccoon, like a baby. You know, I had this squirrel.
Speaker 1:I know they're so cute, but you would have to get it as a baby, right, as a raccoon, like a baby. You know, I had this squirrel. They're really cute. I know they're so cute, but you would have to get it as a baby, right, as a baby baby, I know, but that's one I've never had.
Speaker 2:You know, I've had squirrel two now.
Speaker 1:I've never. I never had a squirrel, but somebody when we used to camp and somebody at the campground had a pet squirrel and I was just absolutely in love with it. But my grandparents were like you ain't having no squirrel. I'm nasty that is funny.
Speaker 2:I love my wife.
Speaker 1:They're not nasty if they're in the house. No. I need, you need another squirrel, I know that would I need.
Speaker 2:You need another squirrel, I know that would be fun and I need another pig, a cute little pig that was. I'll get back around to that one day, but I want it I'll do. I will do it a little bit different. In the training department, I mean, ruby was great, but you know, ruby lived in our closets, our master closet, but that wasn't bad, was it? It wasn't bad. The only thing, the only reason it was bad, is because they are very like. That was her home, so she was trained to go to our closet. She would stay in there, whatever, anything like that. But then if she went in there, like in the morning, she wanted out of the closet. So you had like she was ready to go out of the closet. And if we went on trips or something like, we kind of had to have someone come stay at the house Because she was used to her closet, because she was used to her closet. So I would have.
Speaker 1:Great train them.
Speaker 2:Well, even that, or I would have like a little outside area built for her where they go every day, like a cute little shed barn, like off the patio, that, but not that that she could go to, like when we're gone or something, I don't know. That's the only thing. The only thing I didn't. We just don't have a good place in our house that separates, because our whole bottom floor is open.
Speaker 1:And if you have a pet pig, here's the thing Dylan's sister had one Now we do have.
Speaker 2:How I've divided off the garage and finished what's supposed to be our mudroom, I guess she could, technically, that could be her home now. Yeah, and then she would be out of the house and could come right in there. That's what I would do now.
Speaker 1:So Dylan's sister got one Mm-hmm and his name was Peanut Mm-hmm. You have to be very, very disciplined with pigs, because they have no off switch on eating Right. So you have to measure their food or they get obese.
Speaker 2:Right, and you have to have one that's genetically going to be smaller.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, because if you keep feeding, feeding, feeding, feeding, that thing ain't going to be small Mm-mm.
Speaker 2:Mm-mm, it's going to be big. See I could do it in the garage now or the mud room, Cause I could set up even under, Daniel, if you're listening. No, but you know, like under the staircase that could be a little pig. I could clean out that closet, put a little, um, cute little, what do you call it? Dutch door in there.
Speaker 1:I loved Ruby and she was so, so smart. I loved Ruby and she was so, so smart. I mean, that's the only pet I've ever agreed to pet sit.
Speaker 2:But she was so smart. Very smart.
Speaker 1:But you know she would wake up and if she was in a bitch mood, you knew it. She was like bitchy yeah.
Speaker 2:She would have bitchy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she would have an attitude and then sometimes Because I would call you earlier in the day and you'd be like she's awful today she's in a bitch mood. And so the week before she died I was pig sitting and I came out here and I guess she was pissed that you had left. And I came in and she was awful to me. She was so hateful and I thought you know, heifer, I'm leaving. She would not have anything to do with me. So hateful and I thought you know, heifer, I'm leaving.
Speaker 1:She would not have anything to do with me, which it wasn't normal, yeah. So I was like have at it, sister, I'm leaving.
Speaker 2:I mean, and I'm having all these conversations with her.
Speaker 1:And so then I came back the next day and I guess she had cooled down and she couldn't have been down Mm-hmm, and she couldn't have been sweeter, couldn't get enough of you yeah, she was just, and I'm like well, you like me now how the attitude has changed. Yeah but no, I mean, they're smarter than dogs, I mean they really are.
Speaker 2:Maybe one day I'll get another one, but see also then going to Florida for two weeks. We can't take a pig to the Florida cottage.
Speaker 1:No, Pete, I mean it just wouldn't be.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And the thing is, people have asked, but don't they stink?
Speaker 2:No, they don't stink, they do not sweat. And she was.
Speaker 1:They don't stink, they don't sweat their poop don't stink, they don't sweat, their poop don't stink and their pee don't stink and she was litter box trained, so that part was good, she could poop right next to you and you never knew it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it wasn't like a dog, it wasn't like definitely not like a cat and as long as you keep the litter box clean, you know, if you let it sit there long enough, the pee's going to smell, but not initially. It wasn't bad and she was trained she would go to the closet.
Speaker 1:I never knew of her having an accident. No, she's better than these dogs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was she was good, so that's the only thing there's. Just, you know you can't board a pig, so you got to have someone come check on her. So that's the only things that keeps me from getting another one. All right, anything else, I'm ready to pull this baby over. We got some work to do. Like always, are you done?
Speaker 1:She made some good bacon.
Speaker 2:No, she did not. That is me. I can't even believe You're an ass.
Speaker 1:No, I love that. I couldn't have eaten that bacon, poor Ruby.
Speaker 2:It's a sweet thing. Alright, let's pull this baby over. We'll see you next week. Remember to leave us a review wherever you're listening to the podcast. As long as it's good, that's right. Bye, y'all Bye.