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Who's Driving- The Chicken Floated, the Cat Ubered, and Marriott Said “Good Luck” S3 E32
We share the chaos and charm of two farm dinners—one drenched mid-course and saved in the barn, the other a flawless do-over—then pivot to a late-night hotel scare in Atlanta, roof insurance headaches, internet “icks,” and the saga of a cat that won’t stop hitching rides.
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Get your ass in here and buckle up. We need some. It's time for another episode of Foos Driving. Welcome to Who's Driving? I'm Leslie Carter. And I'm Steven Murphy with Two Best Friends and Entrepreneurs. Food's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship, and business.
SPEAKER_01:These are the stories we share and topics we discuss as two best friends would on a long road trip.
SPEAKER_00: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 coming fun.
SPEAKER_01:Buckle up and enjoy the ride. You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
SPEAKER_00:All we know is it's always a fun ride. Oh, we are back at it. We left you hanging last week, right? We did. Life just got in the way. It was it was a thing. I am not situated. Hold up. Okay, I'm I'm here. Me, me, me, me, me, me. Uh so let's see. Last week we had to skip our podcast episode. It just got too busy. It just got out of control. My mom and my niece were here. We were at market. It was too much. We were going to market. We were going to Pigeonforged Dollywood and didn't have time to record, didn't have time to edit. I was stressed. I was like, we just got to skip it.
SPEAKER_01:We were war slap out. Burning the candle at both ends.
SPEAKER_00:And it met in the middle.
SPEAKER_01:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00:Uh, so we got to back it up though, because when we left off, uh, it was the we recorded the Friday before the first dinner in the dahlias. We did. Because we had to pre-record, came out that Tuesday between the two. So let's back this baby up to them because a lot has happened since then. So we have had our two dinner in the dahlias. They were amazing. Went great. Except for no, it did all go great.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, hell no. I forgot the first time. Oh, it it went great except for the chicken floating in the rain. You already forgot. You already put it out of your memory. Yeah, I did. I blocked it's blocks, not forgotten. Yeah. No, it was it went really well. And on it, there was nothing we could do to plan, you know, and it looked like it was going to miss us. And like you and I were talking and giving our um opinions, whether Daniel wants them or not, we give them. But I just felt like we needed to go as normal. And then if it came a cloud and rain, then we we would run and deal with it.
SPEAKER_00:That's what we did. So yeah. So a couple of episodes ago, we talked about getting ready for it. And I was like, oh, the weather looks great. Then the last episode, which we pre-recorded the day before the actual first dinner in the dahlias, I was like, I don't know, there's a chance of rain. Well, we got up, got ready that day, was getting everything together, and it was partly cloudy, sunny. So we were like, okay, it's gonna be great. So we waited to the very last moment that we could to get the tables ready. So Dylan and Steven were here sweating, hauling chairs and sweating.
SPEAKER_01:I had in my fake ass and sweating and hauling chairs, but we got it done.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So at the last moment, we were like, okay, it may or may not rain. So we are gonna go with it's not going to, we're gonna set it up so that the presentation is there, everyone gets the vibes and the feel and that sort of thing. Friday, Daniel had cleaned out our barn, which is right next to the flower um field and the dinner in the dahlia.
SPEAKER_01:So which is an airplane hanger. It's not a rusty barn. It's just a huge covered airplane hanger. Right. It's not like it's some cow shit barn. Right, right, right. Let's get that straight. It sounds a little bad.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, scoop the shit out of the barn. No, it wasn't like that. Um, but anyway, so we went ahead and had it like normal, and it was going great. It was a little cloudy, which made it just the right temperature. Everyone got here and got to have their appetizers and their drinks. We did a little speech and a farm tour that they harvested their flowers. Everyone was loving it. We sat down, we got through the salad, and as soon as about a fourth of the mane came out, the bottom fell out of.
SPEAKER_01:But I'd see, I was at one end, you were at one end, and I told my people, okay, let's just remain calm. It's maybe just a little scattered shower, it's just gonna move over us. Yeah, and it got harder and harder, and I said, The hell with it. Get your plate.
SPEAKER_00:So we were like, grab your plate, grab your chair, and go to the barn, which was right there. And then, which for the guests, they all seemed to love it. I think part of the experience added to the experience, and they didn't get as wet as like Daniel and I did, because Daniel and I, and uh, some of the servers and I don't know, some of Daniel's family, they were all here. Thank you, by the way, to his entire family for helping out. Um, and we all and his dad and just grabbed the tables and we so we were running in and out of the rain, and there were you know, all these tables to move under under the barn. And so we were soaking wet by the um time it was done. But the guests weren't that wet, they were fine, they were like you were they went.
SPEAKER_01:I was I was very impressed with how they rolled with it.
SPEAKER_00:Me too, and they did get like 90% of the experience out of it. It wasn't raining.
SPEAKER_01:And and I want to commend you. You did very well. Listen, we is with with Dylan's um Dylan, with Daniel's mom being here, you did so well.
SPEAKER_00:You're such a bitch. Terry knows. Okay, Terry knows that's Daniel's mom, my mother-in-law, who's Steven just my own, it's my ongoing joke. I love it. And um, I love Terry. I love all of Daniel's family, but Steven loves to terrorize. But he went up to her at the party and was like, I'm so glad Wesley let you come. But she laughed. She laughed.
SPEAKER_01:She rolls with the joke. It is it is funny, it is really funny. She's like, she's like, I know he does, I know it's not true, but my friends probably don't. Right. It's so funny, but his whole family was here, and yeah, and it was I I had never in 16 years, I had never met his youngest brother.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, you have so it was nice meeting for his wife. Yeah, very nice. Yes, they're all very nice and great family. I'm lucky to have them. Well, even his extended family, they're all super, super nice people.
SPEAKER_01:They really like I haven't met one person in his family. I'm like, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:No, they're all good. And so then which is more than I can say for mom. Um, and then uh the next weekend, we had our second round. So we got a do-over and it was perfect. It was perfect, much better. Everything I worked that whole week, I had it down to a science. When Steven got here, you didn't even really have to do anything.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I had threatened you. I was like, I we're coming in from a market week. Yeah, I better not have to haul too much shit on the back. I had all the flowers done, the tables done. We really didn't do anything.
SPEAKER_00:We even sat and talked for like an hour or stood and talked. We really didn't do anything. It was yeah, it was great. And my mom and niece came to that one. I wish we had invited Daniel's parents back, but they bailed on us. I think they didn't help again. No, I'm just kidding. I don't believe it. Something that came up and they um couldn't come back.
SPEAKER_01:I don't blame you because I wish they did a lot of work.
SPEAKER_00:They did, but I wish like my mom and niece could have been here when his family was there, but it didn't work out because my niece was it was her she's in school and it was her fault um break. So that's the weekend my mom had to come. So anyway, it and that one went great. We met so many people from all over. That's what is really amazing.
SPEAKER_01:Um, and I was yeah, like I mean, there's so many people that came like uh Bonnie came all the way from Houston.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, we had like Houston, Minneapolis, Florida. Um Delita came from Georgia. Yep, Georgia. We had a lot of Georgia people. Um where's the Masters? Augusta, Georgia, some I think West Virginia or Virginia, one of the Virginias. Um Deanna from Hickory. I mean Brooke from New York City. From New York City. New York City. She came to the farm. Um Brook Farmhouse. I hate it 1820. 1820. Is that her farmhouse 1820? Farmhouse something. Draw a blank at the numbers every time.
SPEAKER_01:I hate they couldn't stay longer because like we didn't, we were not Dylan and I were not able to get to all had been in. Well, and they didn't come in town till later, so we couldn't extend the hospitality they extended to us. But maybe next time next time.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, farmhouse 1820. I was right. Shout out Brooke. Follow her on Instagram, Farmhouse. I love watching her stories though, because she lives um outside. Did we have her on here or no? A long time ago? No, I can't remember. Anyway, yeah, I think we've talked to her before. We did because she commutes like an hour, yeah. Or two each way by train an hour in. So, but so she lives in a cool old farmhouse, but then she works in the city, so so you get to see both things if you don't follow her. But anyway, um, and then there were these ladies from and they were so fun. So I try to walk up and down the table when we're having the dinner and talk to everyone and carry on or whatever. Daniel always gets tied down or something, and he's like, I'm so glad you do that. Um next time I'm gonna grab him and make him walk up and down the table with me. But they these ladies were having a good old time, and I gotta see if you know where this um is. Uh Watery. Watery? Do you know where Watery, South Carolina? Uh-huh. I've seen it on the roadside. Well, some I guess Watery there is she's part of the chain of lakes for um, I don't know. Where were you this weekend? You were talking about the lakes in the community you went through? Oh, um Glennville. It might be part of the I don't know. No, that's North Carolina. Oh, hell, I don't know what I'm talking about. But anyway, um there said they're gonna invite us to the lake. And they seem like they would be a really fun time. They live off of Highway 601. Oh, down Norman, Lake Norman. Is it part of the chain they were saying of Lake Norman? Like, I don't know, I guess it spills on down. Who knows? It was a lot of fun though. So it was so much so cool just to meet everyone.
SPEAKER_01:There ain't big lakes here. They live on a pond. Yeah, I mean, it's a little bit bigger than a pond.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know what they were telling me, but it they they seem like they'd be a good time to go visit. Um, so yeah, so thanks to everyone who came. And if you're listening, survive the rain with your chicken floating in your plate. Um, but it no, it it did all work out, and that was great. So moving on from the dinner in the dahlias, the uh distracted looking at watery, watery, uh-huh. Uh moving on from that, uh, because I don't think anything else happened. It was good, it was great. Nothing, no one got drunk and fell down in the you know, flowers and we almost got murdered in Atlanta. Oh, yeah, we got to get to that story. Tell tell us that story. Okay, the funny, the funniest thing is um if you are watching this podcast, I don't know what is going on with my nose, but it is like tingling.
SPEAKER_01:Well, and the eight GAC people are here doing maintenance and it is sweltering.
SPEAKER_00:It's like 76 in here, and we got lights on us now. Steven's glistening.
SPEAKER_01:It's my glisten. I am generally not a scared person. No, you're yeah, you're not. I'm not a scaredy cat, um, which I probably should be many, many, many times over, but I'm not. So back up.
SPEAKER_00:So between actually you've gone to Atlanta two times since we've had podcast, once the week between uh the two dinner and the dahlias, and then once last week, um my mom was in town, and you're like, hey, they got in a bunch of new bags when you were from the week before we sell some more. And I said, That's perfect, because that gives me time with my mom and niece, and you went back to Atlanta. Yeah. So the first trip went amazing. They all went amazing. But last trip, you couldn't stay at your normal.
SPEAKER_01:No, we normally stay. I mean, first of all, let's face it, downtown Atlanta is, you know, not the safest place to be, period. But we're very used to that environment. And, you know, the Marriott Marquee is fairly safe-ish.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I feel like it's safe because once you're in there, you're in there. Once you're in all your essentials, you don't have to leave.
SPEAKER_01:So I went on the app to book us a room. At the Marriott, where you normally stay.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. Marquee.
SPEAKER_01:Um, because this trip we just stayed, we were there two days and just one night. Yeah. The last time we were there all week. Right. And I said, you know, well, so I went on the app and it was like$1,700. Hell no. We ain't got a lot of people. I looked at all the hotels around market and it was uh it was just outrageous. And I said, Well, I'm not paying that.
SPEAKER_00:So I went and I still think you need to buy us a place down there and we could just solve this problem.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's a conversation. Um, so I went I I looked in Buckhead because I was like, We're gonna be kind of close to Buckhead the night before from that warehouse. So I was like, okay. So I booked a Fairfield Inn. I'm like, okay, but that means how bad can that be? Yeah. Well, we got there and there was a sign outside and it said, park at your own risk.
SPEAKER_00:And I thought But I feel like that's common anywhere now when you go.
SPEAKER_01:And in Atlanta, it is, even in Midtown. So I'm like, okay. Well, Dylan was like, I don't know about this. You know, when we pulled in, he's a scaredy cat by nature. He said, I don't know about it. He's been protected. I don't know about this. And I was like, Oh, it'll be fine. So we check in, we go to bed. It was it was not the best Marriott property. Yeah, it was not even at the Fairfield level, it was not what it should be. But neither here nor there. We're you know, I'm like, we're here, it's just one night. 1 30 in the morning, I wake up and I can hear the key card and I hear the door unlock to our room. Like, yeah. And then then I could hear, and then they were like hitting it, like bam, bam. Yeah. I completely jumped out of bed and ran for the door. And I don't know what Dylan thought I was gonna do. Don't open it. And I yelled some choice words, you know, what the blankety blank blank. And I wish you would have opened it though, just to see who it was. Well, the problem is I don't know who it was. Right. You know, I don't know. But then I got to thinking, gosh, it's just all sketchy. Like I did not want to call the front desk because what if it was the front desk people? Right. Because they had a key. They had a key. So how was the key programmed to your room? And it wasn't like somebody was checking in at 1 35 a.m. Yeah, it was very, very unsettling.
SPEAKER_00:And because if they were checking in, they would have said, Oh my gosh, they gave me the wrong.
SPEAKER_01:Oh sorry. Yeah. So you yelled at what I'm saying. And they screwed away. It was multiple people, and that's all I know. Because you know, I wasn't gonna, I did not have my peace with me. But it does make you think, you know, when you're traveling like that, because I mean someone, if like Dylan is really bad about not putting that safety latch.
SPEAKER_00:That's what I was gonna say. I told you, like, a lot of times I don't even put the safety latch on. I just I just don't even think about someone, and I know it happens and I see social media stuff and like people, but I like get in bed and I'm like, I don't know. It's fine. But in my defense, I usually do that like at the Marriott, which I don't know if that's any better, but it does all open into one big like corridor. Corridor. So I feel like I mean, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:But yeah, yeah, I was like it totally derailed. I'm sure it was it was unsettling. The what was unsettling is if that latch hadn't been on there, they would have been in the room. And who knows what they would have been taking your shit, and maybe y'all. Or maybe me. I mean, if they had kidnapped me, they would have never brought me back.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my gosh, I know that would have been crazy. That is scary, that's very scary, though, for something like that to happen. Because you normally, I feel like feel I normally feel safe in a hotel unless it's a super, super sketchy.
SPEAKER_01:I have traveled literally all over the freaking world, and I've never had an issue like that. I mean, I have had ick places like you have put us in places where I felt a little uncomfortable for my safety. Yeah. Someone knocking on the door. That's what I was saying. Hello?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, come on in. You're fine. I was like, is someone knocking or not?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I think I just said I didn't want to keep knocking.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, you're fine.
SPEAKER_01:You're on our podcast. Say hello.
SPEAKER_00:What's your name?
SPEAKER_02:Aaron.
SPEAKER_00:Aaron's Aaron. Aaron, if you can get that air on for Steven over here, he is sweating. I'm melting.
SPEAKER_02:I'm getting up. Oh gosh, that's funny.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so literally, so the um H VAC guys here doing the maintenance and thank God he's poking around trying to find something wrong.
SPEAKER_00:You know, exactly.
SPEAKER_01:You know they do that. They're like, you know, when they go out, like Tom or Bradley one, they're like, okay, we need to you need to find like four things wrong today. So we need to pay pay make payroll. You're trying to find things wrong, aren't you?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Oh god.
SPEAKER_00:Um so I'm kidding. Yeah. Um, I don't know though. I mean, I'm we have great service people, not that, but Steven and I think I've we maybe even talked about it on here before, but I've had house before this and I never got it serviced, and the AC worked forever. But you know what it is?
SPEAKER_01:And then they're not made. Right. The quality has gone. It's just like refrigerators, cars, you name it. Right. It is not built to last. Gone to shit.
SPEAKER_00:Gone to hell in a hand. But we moved here. When we moved to this house, we have three AC units, and none of them worked when we did. And we still have the same AC service. He came the day we closed and like and got us one unit, like, piece together. He's like, I don't know how long this will last, but here is something because it was the summertime and it was like a hundred degrees.
SPEAKER_01:But you don't spend all your money on this big farm and it needed to work.
SPEAKER_00:We had to put in a uh window unit in one of the rooms so we could sleep at night, and then we had to replace the units like one at a time for three years. So like one of them didn't even work. It did, yes, it was a lot of money. But anyway, um, so you survived your stay in in Atlanta. I did, and we don't have any conclusion to the story except for you screamed at them every day.
SPEAKER_01:I did email um Marriott and asked them to look at the cameras, and they have not gotten back to me. They ain't gonna get back to that. No, they don't should have called someone, they didn't care.
SPEAKER_00:You should have called the Popo and demanded them to look at the city. Somebody tried to get me.
SPEAKER_01:Somebody tried to get me. So speaking of things that don't last and don't don't, you know, that wear out, and you know, everybody that listens knows I'm in real estate. Um there's something new in the real estate world that just blows my mind. It does and it doesn't. What is it? So since Helene, do tell, they paid out insurance companies paid out a lot of money. Right. And the roof.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they don't insure roofs anymore. Or like you have to have a new roof and they'll only insure it for so long.
SPEAKER_01:If it's over 10 years old before you close on your house, you need to check with your insurance company. I would recommend checking with them before you go under contract and say, hey, this roof is in great shape. It's 12 years old. I mean, it could be 15. If it's a 30-year roof, it's fine. Right. But just get confirmation that they will insure you. Yeah. And I get it. I do, I I understand it and I don't understand it. But my thing is just, you know, raise the rates or do an exemption.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know what you do, but it just Well, I think there needs to be like a writer for a roof, or there needs to be, Daniel and I were actually talking about this the other day because you've we've you've talked about it, and basically, like they won't insure your roof or whatever. And I kind of my thing is okay, for example, our house is however many years old, 28, 9, whatever years old. It's the original roof, it's fine. But if something happens to it, I feel like it needs to be the level of what happened to it. Because we've had people that have come by and been like, oh, there's been a hail storm in your area, we can get you a new roof or whatever. And there's not enough damage or anything to do that. So I really don't think the insurance should pay for that. But then if your roof gets blown off from said hurricane or crazy storm, then they should pay for it.
SPEAKER_01:And then, but maybe what they should do instead of replacing the whole thing with hell damage, and I know you can't say we will allot you X thousand dollars. Well, you have this much, we'll give you$5,000 toward a new roof. Right. But it's a one-time deal. Maybe you know I don't know what the answer is. I'm not an insurance person, but I'm just telling all my clients now, just be aware. Like if you decided to sell the farm right now, I would tell you we had to put a new roof on it. Right. I would know we got to put a new roof before we list it to make nobody's gonna insure it at 28 years old. Right. Even though it does not leak, it looks good. There's nothing wrong with it. Which I don't jinx I don't want to know. Or knock on wood. God, do you know how expensive roofs are now?
SPEAKER_00:It's everything. And the good thing is, ours, um they the person who built our house, the origin we're the third owner of this house. The people who built, had the house built, the first family and lived here, he owned a roofing company or worked for, I think he owned a roofing company. And so he did a really good job. He did a really high-end roof on it. And we've been told that by other people that, like, oh, this is a really, really good roof. So next time it'll be tar paper.
SPEAKER_01:You know, I okay, I know someone that put a roof on in the past in the past few weeks. I'm not gonna get into too much detail because I don't want to tell anybody's business. Do you know how much it was?
SPEAKER_00:How big was the house? Bigger than this. So I I know my size. So I'm guessing it was fifty thousand dollars. Dang, did they put on a special? Special.
SPEAKER_01:It was special, it was special, but I'm like, damn. I mean, I'd have been like, can we just get some we may have to move just about I mean that was a that was an exceptionally special roof, but I'm like Is there a lot of roof? Roof? Roof roof, roof, roof. I used to say roof, roof, but I say roof. Roof means like a dog. Rough roof. That's like a Yankee says it. Roof. Roof. Roof. Roof. Roof. It's on the roof of the It's on the roof of the house. You know, some of my cha my language changed because of McDonald's. And it's probably because I'd had to talk with so many people from Chicagoland. Yeah. And so I say things that like somebody from Chicago would say, I feel like sometimes. I think roof might be one. I'm looking to see. We always had conversations about.
SPEAKER_00:Um I didn't say. I guess roof is correct. Roof like proof. Um roof? Roof. Roof roof. And roof rhyming with roof. Um it's regional dialects.
SPEAKER_01:Well, my dialects are all confused anyway.
SPEAKER_00:Um in some parts of the United States, pronounce roof to sound like roof, particularly in the upper Midwest, New England, and the Rocky Mountain region. But roof like proof. Roof. Roof.
SPEAKER_01:So um I have a new ick. Yeah. And I'm anxious to see if you have discovered this ick. Because it just started. Oh, let's see. It I just found it. I just wanted to vomit. And I was like, I'm gonna watch this throughout to see what they do with this. Yeah. So they were making a pumpkin pie. Okay. I'm down for a pumpkin pie. Love it. With a fresh pumpkin, which is great. Well, they cut the bottom off of the pumpkin about you know, two inches, and then they they scooped it out. So you just got a pumpkin.
SPEAKER_00:They're not using that as like the crust or something.
SPEAKER_01:Just let me finish. Uh-huh. They've got this. It's just the dumbest thing I've ever seen. So they mix their pumpkin pie, you know, their eggs and their nutmeg and their filling. Then they put pie shell down on top of this pumpkin bottom. That they're gonna bake and turn into baked it. And it made me mad because, like you said, the pumpkin's gonna turn to mush. It's just a damn mess. They they they just wasted a damn pie. What are you even supposed to do with the bottom? And then then I said, the best way to make a pumpkin says who? I mean, it didn't it didn't even make sense because like you put the crust in there that that pumpkin is not and then that crust isn't is gonna be soft and gooey because it's absorbing the moisture and the steam from the pumpkin peanut.
SPEAKER_00:You know that's just a damn mess. Did they wash their pie shell in a bathtub before they put it in the pumpkin?
SPEAKER_01:There's just so many things I see, and I'm like, I I want to hear more about this story. You know, I mean. Well, why did somebody think that was a good idea? Because you're gonna have to put it like you can't even take that pie off of a cookie sheet. Right. Because it's just gonna be a floppy and I'm not even sure.
SPEAKER_00:So they use the pumpkin as as the dish, basically, that they then cooked. That is hilarious. I mean it was the dumbest. It was it was so dumb. That's dumb. That is dumb. I haven't seen that one yet. Hopefully. I don't know. I haven't seen as many icks on my Instagram. I don't know if we've gotten out of this doing dumb shit. Like if the reality or if I have gotten rid of the people who do the dumb shit.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I've seen a few of the let's scrub our pumpkins.
SPEAKER_00:I haven't even seen that many of those this year.
SPEAKER_01:I've only seen it twice. So maybe they're listening to us. Well, maybe someone said you're gonna rot your pumpkin.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Like maybe. I don't know. I don't know either. That's crazy. Um, speaking though, uh, this isn't an ick or anything, but I learned something. What you know, sometimes you just see something and you learn. And I'm like, huh, never knew that. Do you know what paprika is?
SPEAKER_01:No, but I love paprika.
SPEAKER_00:I hope it's not the gross. It's not gross, but do you know you don't know what it comes from? I'd never thought about it either. I'm like, is is it a an herb or a tree that's ground up or something? No, you know what it is? Paprika is just um red bell peppers. Red peppers that have been like dried dried and ground up. Really? They may be roasted before and then yeah. I was like, oh, I thought this was a good thing. I mean, you can't have a deviled egg without some paprika on it. And I put paprika on, oh, I was making that squash, cutting it and baking it. Oh, so good. And then adding that on top just because I just like the flavor. It's made from ground dried red peppers, ranging from sweet to hot varieties. Isn't that crazy? I thought it was some kind of special almost like a cinnamon, like uh, I don't know. Came from the paprika tree or bush or something. I had no idea. So that was that was my thing. Oh, oh, oh, we haven't talked about we haven't talked about the biggest news in the family twice now. We had we got updates on Mr. Kitty. Oh my Lord. Okay. That just makes me mad. So I told the story on here a few weeks ago about Mr. Kitty. Y'all all know how we got Mr. Kitty up. Employee gave him to us, and he went missing for a week. Steven and I were coming out of the warehouse. I was like, there's our cat that's been missing. And the cat had evidently gotten up in my car, ridden with me to the warehouse, jumped out, stayed there a week, found him, brought him back home. Okay. That's that was the last story. Well, over the last couple since we've been on here like since last time. Dahlia's days. Well, from dinner and the dahlias. But before that, the week before that, oh yeah. It was the week between dinner, the two dinner and the dahlias. Um, I noticed the cat one night was not here. And he's always here and he comes to my voice. I don't know why he, I mean, I've just um the one that holds him and pets him and try and they get him tamer and that sort of thing. So he does come to me when he hears my voice. So I got home. It was a Tuesday night. He wasn't here. And I was like, okay, well, maybe he's just out doing something. The next day, all day, he wasn't outside. So I'm like, okay, the cat has gone again. So the only thing was the day that he left, which would have been Tuesday, I went from here and I went and got Botox before going to the warehouse. So that was like from here, what is that? Probably like to the malls, like 15, 20 miles to the mall. And then from there to our warehouse is probably like five miles or so. Yeah, at least. And I was like, oh my gosh, he is gone. I guess he jumped out. He probably jumped out at the Botox place, doctor, whatever. So I was at the warehouse and I was there late and I was like, well, when I leave here, I'm gonna drive by the Botox doctor and see if I see him in the parking lot or something. I don't know. Well, before I did that, I walked outside and I was like, well, let me just make sure he didn't ride all the way here. Walked around the corner from the warehouse, pulled out my phone, and I did show it on Instagram. He was there on the dumpster, Mr. Kitty, right there, eating a little snack from the waffle house, I guess, or maybe the chicken wing place. I don't know. So I got Mr. Kitty, brought him home. That's when you were in Atlanta and you call me and you're like, you mean to tell me that damn cat took a ride again? And I said, I've never seen a cat do this over and over again. Right. So I brought the cat back home. That was like Thursday night. Well, you come to dinner in the dahlias on park in front of the garage on Saturday, and Steven goes to leave, and I'm like, hold up, wait a minute. We got to make sure Mr. Kitty isn't in your car or whatever. I blew the horn. Steven blew the horn. We shut the doors. I called the cat. He wasn't any, he didn't come, wasn't anywhere to be found. But see, my family was here. Daniel's outside. So I was like, you just go ahead and go. So Steven and Dylan leave, and then like, I don't know, 20 minutes later, Steven calls me. Well, your damn cat's at the QT. And I was like, what are you talking about? Your cat's at the QT. Come get it.
SPEAKER_01:So Dylan, I I got out to pee. And Dylan got an ice cream. Well, I got back in the car, and I guess all this moving and kind of alerted him we're stopped somewhere. Well, then right as Dylan came out, he jumped, and then I saw him running. Yeah. And but Dylan saw him jumping out of from under the car, the engine. Yeah. And he he bounced.
SPEAKER_00:Like we couldn't. He's a fast little rider. I mean, he was gone like and he's really good at hiding too. Even like around. I'm like, where are you? Where do you come from? So he and you went. And he was yeah. So Steven calls, he's like, Your damn cats at the QT. He thought I was lying. And I said, No, he's not. He's like, Yeah, he is. I shouldn't have said anything.
SPEAKER_01:I should have just let it have ended.
SPEAKER_00:So me and Daniel and my mom and my niece, we all get in the truck. We go down to the QT, and I'm here, Mr. Giddy, giddy, giddy. And I'm like, y'all be quiet because he won't come to anyone but me. He didn't come. I was like, it's fine. So for the next week, literally every couple of days, it was kind of funny. Okay. So that happened on Saturday. So then on Sunday, I can't remember what we did on Sunday with my mom. I don't know, but we drove by there again. We were leaving the farm and drove by there and was like, hey, kitty, whatever. Didn't find the cat. Then on Monday, we went to Pigeon Forge. And so we drove through there on the way out because I passed this gas station anywhere I have to go.
SPEAKER_01:It's right beside one of my old McDonald's, right there. Drive by it all the time.
SPEAKER_00:And so no matter where I go, I passed this gas station. So I just would drive through the parking lot. So we were headed to Pigeon Forge. And I was like, oh Lord, if we find the cat, we got to turn around, even though it's just a few miles. But didn't find the cat. So we were gone Monday, Tuesday night. We came back through. I don't know. One of the days in the middle of the week, we were back, and my mom and my niece were in the car, and we're like, let's just ride through and see if we see the cat. So we rode through and we didn't see the cat. And my niece, she's six, and she goes, It's okay. I don't even really like cats anyway. She was not at all concerned about the cat at all. And so it was just so cute. She was just like, it's okay. It'll be, he'll be fine, is what she said. I don't even really like cats anyway. We were laughing. So then I don't know if I went through there the next day, but on Saturday, so this was one week after um He hitched a ride with you. He hitched a ride. I was coming back from the warehouse. It was late. I mean, like 10 or something. It was later at night. I was like, well, let me just circle through for the fun of it. Because it became one of these, like, I'm gonna find the cat a game. Like the cat's there, I'm gonna find it, or whatever. And I was like, eventually he'll be comfortable enough. Maybe I'll, you know, see him or whatever. Well, there he was, laid up by the fence, just in the grass. And I was pulled up. Was I talking to you? Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_01:You were talking to Daniel, I think.
SPEAKER_00:No, I was talking to you. Uh, because I said, Oh no, I'll call you back, or whatever. I was like, there's the damn cat. And so I pulled up and I was like, Hey, Mr. Kitty, and here he came over.
SPEAKER_01:We need to change his name to damn it.
unknown:Damn it.
SPEAKER_00:So Mr. Kitty has returned to the farm. And yesterday, which was Sunday, I was going to the warehouse, couldn't find him, so I took Daniel's van because I was like, I had seen him 30 minutes before get in my truck because I figured out what he's doing is he stays in our garage, which I'm not parking in because he's in there or whatever. And but our garage has a dog door or a cat door. So he comes in and out. Well, what he's doing is like if we go outside or something, the dogs will run out with us. And the dogs, when he sees them, he bolts and jumps up in my truck, like underneath it. And so he's doing it to get away from them. And I saw him do that and like 30 minutes before I was leaving for the warehouse. But then I came back inside and I was getting ready. So then I was leaving and I was like, where's the cat? And I'm trying to like crawl up under my truck, put my phone camera up under there. I couldn't find him. So I took Daniel's van. That was last night. So I got home, Mr. Kitty was here. So today just arrived as Steven was getting here. I now have an air tag and a cat collar. Did you put it on him? I haven't put it on him yet. Because I currently have him locked in the garage, like supposed to be our mud room area. Because the AC guys here that parked where you parked. Oh, yeah. Well, I parked out at the workshop. This time. But the AC guys parked where you parked for dinner in the downdoors. I would have been in it. So I was like, let me go round up the cat and put lock him up somewhere. So when we're done with the podcast, I'm gonna put the collar on him. It's active and reading.
SPEAKER_01:Be very careful when you walk up in there because you're probably gonna slide up in some cat shit.
SPEAKER_00:Hopefully, he's only been in there like an hour, so maybe he'll be fine. I don't know. Oh my gosh. I just have never had a cat. And I know cats do this, and like a lot of people, you know, I'm sorry, but some of you cat people are just cray, cray. I'm not gonna say crazy, but overly concerned, I guess is what we'll say. Well, I have cat people in my family, and they're and I like all if you know me, I like all animals. Hell, I like cats. That's why I was like, yeah, we'll take the cat. We already have two cats. All of our cats live outside, they're fine. We always get a cat as a kitten when it's been abandoned to someone. We bring it inside and raise it until it, you know, it gets comfortable and used to going in and out. Then we'll get to where it just goes out and then it lives outside. Like we don't keep litter boxes once they're grown or anything like that. They might come in and sleep the night, but they don't use the bathroom in the house or whatever. This cat, I've never had one that's like gotten up in cars so much that I don't know, it's different. But everyone's like, oh, it's trying to find a woman. Well, it's not, it's a kitten and it's fixed. Um, you need to, it just needs to be an inside cat. And I'm like, no, it's a feral cat. It needs to be outside and it's shit all over the house. So it's not coming inside. Um it comes inside, it's gonna be a dead cat. Yeah. I mean, like last night I brought him in for five minutes and like held him and pet him and stuff like that. Then he has to go. Then he has to go back outside. Um, what else do people? Oh, he's trying to get warm. Well, it ain't even been cold yet. It's like 80 something degrees here today.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I said that too, though. You know, we had some cold nights.
SPEAKER_00:But that ain't when he went missing. It's been hot. But anyway. Then I said I was ordering the air tag and a collar, and then everyone's like, make sure it's a breakaway collar. And I'm like, listen, there is only so much I can do for this kitty.
SPEAKER_01:Well, if he can't if he hitches a ride with me, I'll tell you about eight weeks later.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I'm gonna be able to track him now. Be like, where is my just back over? Oops, you would know.
SPEAKER_01:Found your cat. He's flat. No. No, I'm I'm an animal lover. I mean, I talk big, but I have a I have a weakness for the little it it became one of those things, though.
SPEAKER_00:I was like, well, this cat's gonna be fine. He's been fixed, and he evidently has some street smarts. If he can hitch these rods and not get killed and survive, I'm like, he'll be fine if I don't find him, but it became a I want to find the cat just for the plot line at this point. He that little cat is like a badass.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I mean, he is if he were a person, he would be maybe we need to call him Mr. Bad. He's a badass. No, or badass. Badass. I mean, he would be he would be one one tough cookie if he were an adult. He would probably be hopping on trains and riding them wherever.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, just it's funny that I've just never had one do that. But anyway, so that's this that's the storyline of Mr. Kitty, and we'll see where he goes from.
SPEAKER_01:I just can't believe that somebody on, you know, it's nobody's got him. He won't go to anybody.
SPEAKER_00:No, he won't go to anybody else. Okay, I saw moving on from Mr. Kitty, then we gotta wrap this baby up. But another saying that I think I've been saying wrong, but now I'm not sure if I've said it wrong or not. Say it the way you say it. Well, I mean, it's I'm gonna give you the hint and then hopefully you'll say like if something is how do you say this, like mind-blowing kinda, or um like a lot of commotion, it's nerve racking. Yes. I think I say nerve wrecking instead of nerve racking. Like it's nerve nerve wracking. No, it's racking. That is just nerve wracking. Nerve wracking is the correct saying, but I think I say nerve wrecking. You probably do.
SPEAKER_01:You think? Probably, probably a lot wrong.
SPEAKER_00:That's true. Hell, I've said a lot wrong all day long, every day. Nerve wracking, nerve wracking. Maybe I say nerve wracking. That's what I'm saying. I can't remember how I say it. You read that and it's confused you. You'll notice the next time you say it. Nerve wracking. Nerve wracking.
SPEAKER_01:I bet I say racking. I've never noticed you say that wrong. Do I ever say that? I don't, I don't think. I've never noticed you saying. I mean, I've noticed you saying I ate instead of I ate. No, I do not. I ate. No, I don't say that one.
SPEAKER_00:I'm kidding. I seen that. I seen that. I don't say that either. Oh. No, no, no, no. All right. You got anything else for us before we wrap this baby up and pull it over? No, that's it. Okay, so hopefully next week we're back on track and have another episode. We should be. We got a busy week coming up. So if you are listening in real time, um, such as Tuesday, I think that'd be October 15th when this comes out. I think is the day. But um this week, this current week. On October 13th. 14th. 14th is tomorrow. Okay. On October 14th, 15th, 16th, whatever, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of this week, we are doing um, we're doing live sales every day inside the nested fig out. We just launched our Christmas collection, and we actually have like 24 more palettes of Christmas arriving this week. So we are um having three live sales a day, one-ish, four-ish, and eight-ish p.m. on each day, Eastern time, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, inside the Nested Fig App. So come join us. We're launching our Christmas. Well, it's already launched, but we're going to be showing you tons of Christmas for three days inside the Nested Fig App. If you don't have our app yet, go to your app store for your phone, tablet, Android, or Apple. We are there. Search the Nested Fig. You can also find it in the comments of the show notes down below. What have you got for me? So I have to say, I have to say this because it just popped up on my phone.
SPEAKER_01:You'll probably heard it. I had to look at it. So um in the news here in the upstate. Oh, we're just gonna continue on now. Well, I just have to tell I have to tell them this.
SPEAKER_00:Um in the news in the upstate of South Carolina.
SPEAKER_01:Uh-huh. Not here, but in Union. Yeah. It's kind of where's kind of out there. Out toward Newberry, towards Columbia? Yeah. Okay, so we don't claim that area, but anyway. No. Uh two girls set a dog on fire. Oh my god. Well, they were arrested. But here, okay, here is what I think. Okay, this is I need to be a judge. Oh, no, you don't.
SPEAKER_00:Because you don't need to be a judge, and I don't need to be a police officer.
SPEAKER_01:I think those two women, if it's true, if found guilty, I say we set them on fire and let them run run for it. See how they how they like it. Isn't that horrible? That is crazy. I mean, as much as I cuss that damn cat for catching rides all over the place, how could any human I I I don't even know?
SPEAKER_00:What is wrong with you to think like, oh, let's see what happens, or like it's disgusting. Yeah, there's something bad wrong with you.
SPEAKER_01:There are people I would rather set on fire than an animal. That is true.
SPEAKER_00:Well, that is true. Leave it right there, leave it hanging.
SPEAKER_01:But yeah, isn't that just disturbing? Very much so. They have there, they they have mental problems. They need to be in a mental hospital. But that's it. After they get their ass beat. Seriously.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I'm glad you um Yeah, I ended it up on that uplifting note. Yeah, I'm glad you could throw that right in there for us. So we'll have to follow it. Maybe they'll maybe they'll have oh no, I did want to follow up on another story um on a good note, but I don't have the full facts, but I'm gonna give you the rundown. Remember on the last episode, the girl that was getting money for the house? Remember that or whatever? Yes. So, okay, good and bad news. One, the house went under contract. She didn't get it. But two, she raised all the money, like 170. So she can buy her another she can buy the house. So as of right now, it's still under contract. The dad has reached out to the person that is buying the house. And again, I haven't watched it in the last few days, so there could be new developments because it could have fallen through and she can still have it. But if not, she they did talk to the guy who's buying it, and it's like not gonna be his forever home, maybe like a few years, and then he's has said that you know he'll give them first dibs on getting the house. On getting the house or whatever, so it's not a you know, permanent no. I mean, she's only 14. And how great is that? I know, but he raised all the money. But then you know what also irritates me. And if anyone here sent her money and you did this, I don't like you. So then the dad was saying, so they raised all the money, and I think when they raised the money amount of the house, they turned it off, like they tried to stop, you know, like accepting stuff or whatever. But they're putting it, and he has been in accounting or whatever, and he's like, I'm setting it up, it's all going to her, it'll be there when the house becomes available. If this one doesn't become available, then she'll have it to buy put towards a house or whatever. So it's gonna be her money, it's gonna go for a house. Some people ask for their donation back.
SPEAKER_01:I was like, that just you know, that goes that's right up there with setting somebody on fire. I mean, why would you do that? Right.
SPEAKER_00:Why why? Okay, first of all, I don't even know why. That is like Okay, because here's my thing. I think I've talked about this before. This is my kind of charity that I like to donate to. I will randomly see someone like this, and I'm like, oh, that touches me. I'm gonna send them whatever it is, um, because I know it's going directly to that person. But when I make that decision, I go in my brain, I'm like, well, if they don't use it for this, I I mean, that's on them. I don't give it with the stipulation. I'm giving you the donation. If you take it and do whatever, then that's on you. That's fine. That would you just like homeless people. That was your opportunity.
SPEAKER_01:I have people chastise you never have, by the way. Yeah, chastise me for giving homeless people money. Right. Well, they're just gonna use it for drugs and alcohol, and my response is always the same. Well, if I were homeless, I would use it for drugs and alcohol too. Right.
SPEAKER_00:It's and you probably would too. So shut up. Right. Steven does like to give homeless people. I can't help it money. I can't help it.
SPEAKER_01:And it it, you know, and I listen, if they need to, if they can buy a pint, buy a pint. If they can buy Big Mac, buy whatever they need to get through the day. That's right. All I'm doing. Right. And I that's why that little girl, that's horrible. I wonder, surely, I hope not that many people ask for their money. I'm sure not. I mean, hopefully not, but did they return it to the people that I asked?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, the dad said, if you want your money back, you can message us and we'll, you know, give it back. But I'm like, I would. You're an asshole if you did it.
SPEAKER_01:You're an asshole. And I would be.
SPEAKER_00:And if you're listening and you did that and you donated and won it back, you need to du you need to donate double to make me happy back to her. That's the only way you can erase it. No. Oh my gosh, because you should be donating without stipulation. Stipulations. All right, we're gonna pull this baby over. Remember to leave us a review wherever you're listening to the podcast, but only if it's a good one. Yes. Right? Also, remember you can join our online community at who's drivingpodcast.com or you can watch the episode. I scratched my nose through the entire episode. I don't know why it's itching. It's like itching like a like um twitch on my kind of bizarre. I'm like, why is my nose itching? It wasn't doing that until I sat down. But anyway, you can join the online community there at whosdrivingpodcast.com, or you can also listen for free there uh if you just want a website to go to. But you can listen to our podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google, wherever everywhere. Just find it. If you can find Taylor Swift on there, you can find us. And we're better. Uh about that. All right. Bye, y'all.