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Who's Driving- Pumpkin Chai, Awkward Questions, Holiday Chaos S3 E33
We show up late, sip pumpkin chai, and talk about the fine line between friendly service and intrusive small talk while we sprint through holiday resets, live sales, and big travel plans for family and team milestones. Behind the jokes is a playbook for scaling retail without losing sanity.
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Here we are. Two days late. Dollar short.
SPEAKER_03:Hold on, I'm texting.
SPEAKER_02:Oh no, I'm not rubbing the family. Who the hell does Text and it's time for the episode of Who's Driving? Welcome to Who's Driving? I'm Wesley Turner.
SPEAKER_03:And I'm Stephen Murphy. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
SPEAKER_02:Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendships, and business.
SPEAKER_03:These are the stories we share and topics we discuss. Two best friends would road.
SPEAKER_02: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 cars.
SPEAKER_03:Buckle up and enjoy the ride. You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
SPEAKER_02:All we know is it's always a fun time. I mean, we're only like two days short if you gotta sell a house.
SPEAKER_03:You gotta text someone. Gotta sell a house trying to pay a bill.
SPEAKER_02:So uh we're a couple of days late on this week's episode because again, we just got too busy.
SPEAKER_03:So just be glad we're here because let me tell you, it wasn't looking good.
SPEAKER_02:It really wasn't looking good. I don't even remember where we left off. We are, if it the sound isn't perfect, we are actually at our home store, the Nestific Home, piled up on a sofa. If you're watching in the Who's Driving um community, you can see that. But anyway. Drinking a pumpkin cream, chai, iced. I don't know what the hell this is. It's really good. It is really good. Something you start. Um speaking of this, okay. So I just pulled up. We're at the home store, just got us our iced cream pumpkin chai, I think's what it's called. Um, and there's a new Starbucks down from our store here. And again, you and I went, you and I and Dylan went the other day. Dylan warned us when we were in the car and it happened, but it just happened to me again. So now Starbucks. Starbucks is now training. It's got to be a training. It is definitely a training day because they're all doing it. And I've complained about this about Seven Brew, which is a coffee chain, I don't know where all they are. But when you go to Seven Brew, they ask you invasive questions.
SPEAKER_03:And it's not like it's it's not, it's not like how are you today? Right.
SPEAKER_02:No, it's they start out with, what have you been doing today? Or where have you been? Or where have you been? So where are you going? I will not go to Seven Brew because of this. Because as flamboyantly outwardly as I can be, I'm very uh what's the word I'm looking for? Introverted. Introverted. Um, especially when it comes to personal questions like that. I've gotten much better, but when I just pull up to get coffee, I don't want someone saying, Well, where have you been? And I'm like, Oh, well, I don't know. I don't want to tell you where I've been, you know, sort of thing. So I won't go to Seven Brew. Well, Dylan the other day said, uh, we were going to get coffee because we were here at the home store and we were all together. And he said, Oh, by the way, when I was here the other day, we were actually in the drive-thru and Dylan was driving, and he said, When I was here the other day, they did what you don't like. They started asking me all these questions. And he no longer got that out of his mouth, and the window slid open, and she said, So, where are y'all going after this? That's the kind of question they asked. So I it's not like, hey, how's it going? Hope you've been having a great day, or you know, isn't the weather nice?
SPEAKER_03:It's it's intrusive. It is always one step intrusive. It's intrusive and it's awkward. So she asked us that, and I said, We're going to an orgy.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Stephen said, Oh, we're we're headed out of here going to an orgy. And she was just like, uh you got your Starbucks to take with you.
SPEAKER_03:I was like, Yeah. Yeah. She's like, Well, I hope y'all have fun. I said, Oh, we will. Yeah. Stephen was like, Oh, we will. But if you're gonna ask me weird questions like that, I'm gonna answer you very weird.
SPEAKER_02:And I don't know, I guess from their side, they're trying to say, like, oh, make more of a personal connection. We don't need that. We just need the traditional regular, we need the the bar is real low. Are you having a good day? Yes.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, if you are, right? That's exactly what I hope. Normal, don't be awkward. Yeah, so it was so awkward today, on top of being awkward with the questions. So I pull up and I've we've been through there three times in the last week. So I knew it was gonna happen, but it's a different person every time. So I pulled up, she scanned my little app thing, and so I immediately opened Instagram and like looked down. So I was like, I don't want any questions, you know? So I'm scrolling on Instagram and I could see out of the side of the eye, like it processed, she closed the window. Well, she starts like opening the window, but not all the way, just like cracking it. Like I think she was trying to get the nerve to ask the question that she's been instructed to ask or whatever, and like a good time to do it because I'm looking down, and then she does open the window, and so um, I forgot what her first question was. What have you been doing today? And I said, Oh, just working, you know, just nice and general. Oh, and so then I look back down and I'm scrolling, and it's an awkward pause time, but she's standing there with the window open, looking at me, just straight looking at me while I'm doing this. She goes, Oh, so do you like your work? And I said, Yes, I do. It's like, yeah, fortunately, I really like my work. And then I looked back down, and then I happen to have some Christmas wreaths in the back of my back seat of my truck. And she goes, What's that in the back of your seat? Is that a Christmas tree? And I'm like, Oh my god. I was like, No, those are Christmas wreaths or whatever. She's like, Oh, I love Christmas. And I was like, You mean too? I was like, such a fun holiday, fun and festive. And then I look back down and scroll, and then she's still standing there. I mean, like, we have had enough conversation. No, this was a different girl. So then she's still, I can see on the side of my eyes, she's just staring at me with the window open, and I go back to scrolling for an awkward like 30 seconds. I really, the introvert in me wanted to just hit the gas and say, screw it, and I will go to a different Starbucks and get us drink. So then she goes, Well, have you ever had this drink before? And I was like, uh, actually, no, my friend um told me to get it, and I thought, you know what, I'll just get that too, or whatever. Well, do you like pumpkin? And I'm like, this goes on and on for an awkward amount of time. Right.
SPEAKER_03:Would you like a busted lip?
SPEAKER_02:Leave me alone. That's what I want to say. I think I'm gonna put a sign on my window, like a sticky, and just roll it up that says, leave me alone.
SPEAKER_03:And I'm a pretty friendly, outgoing person. Like you are, you're actually if if I'm not talking to you, you there's a reason. You have you have pushed it too far with me. Yeah, you have done something. And I mean, I'm nice to I I'm talking, I engage people, but make it uh don't make it weird. Right. Like, where have you been?
SPEAKER_02:You gotta let us know on our hotline, which I don't know the number, it'll be down in the comment or in the because I'm not at all. That's one number we can't remember. We can't remember the number. But let us know on the hotline and it'll be down in the show notes wherever you're listening to podcasts. If you hit like episode description, you can see the phone number there, or on our um who's drivingpodcast.com in the community there, you can comment on the episode too. But does this bother you? And are you experiencing this soon?
SPEAKER_03:I've got to think about who somebody overshare. Oh, oh, this is a good overshare. Oh overshare. When I was an owner with McDonald's, a friend of mine worked in the training department, corporate training department, and she worked with this girl, this other woman, grown woman, married with children, grown-ass woman in the training department, and she was like, oh. And she was talking to her, yeah, and they weren't like friends, yeah, they were just colleagues, yeah, like professional colleagues. And this is not in a restaurant, this is at the corporate level. In an office, in an office, professional setting.
SPEAKER_02:Not that the restaurant isn't, but even more so. More so.
SPEAKER_03:And so she just shared that she had a uh yeast infection. Oh my god. And it was really bad. Oh, and just we kept going on and on about her yeast infection. And my friend told me, yeah, I was like, what in the hell? So now to this day, if I see this person on Facebook, I'm like, I don't even think I know her. I'm obviously I know her name. Yeah, but I don't even think of her name. I just want to, I just want to call her yeast. Oh my god. But who, like, I can see sharing that with a friend. Like if I were a female and I was saying, well, yeah, you know, I get it. Because we stare a best friend. Yes. Not a perfect. Not a colleague at work. Yeah. I mean, it's so weird.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, it's like some people don't have those filters.
SPEAKER_03:That's the problem. But she was just like, it was they were talking about it's pretty outside. And she just went on and on about this yeast infection. Gross. I was like, oh.
SPEAKER_02:I mean that's bad. Yeah. So I feel like we went right into the episode. We're late this week, though, because we had so much going on with decorating the retail stores. If you can, if you're watching, we're sitting in our home store, it's decked out for the holidays. Um, so we do very we listen.
SPEAKER_03:We orchestrate at this point. We orchestrate, but back in the day, hit rewind in the beginning. It was literally Wesley and I. Daniel would unload the truck, yeah, and break down boxes. Daniel's not a designer. Yeah, he does not like it, does not, he's just not. Yeah. Um, and but he would always unload the truck. Open the boxes, break the boxes down.
SPEAKER_02:But Wesley and I did the whole store by ourselves. We used to stay till the sun came up, and it wasn't that long ago. I mean, just in the last four years have we transitioned to not doing it all. I mean, before then we had help, but then everyone would leave and we would stay and we all have fun. Yeah. Now they're like, bye, and we're like, bye. We have great people. We do have a great team at both stores. And um, and it changed what the dynamic changed is with our warehouse and our online. When we really got into having a larger warehouse over the last few years, we now send everything to the warehouse, especially for holiday, because it starts coming in the week of Mother's Day or right around there. Um, and so then when it's time, it gets pulled to the store. So, like now, like what I did is I orchestrated like what products are going to what store, pull it off the shelf. Then we have people that get it over here, then our retail stores, they price it, store it for a couple of weeks, and then they pull it all out or whatever. Um, so really the warehouse is when it changed because before the warehouse, things would have to go to each store location. We didn't have, we have very little storage at our stores. And so they it would just have to go into pods um that we would get dropped in the parking lot in like August. And so we would have to, we really didn't know what we had. Whereas now, when it all comes in the warehouse, it's all getting put in put online. We can see pictures of it, so it's easier on us to orchestrate it, and then we tell our retail stores like these are our themes of our trees, and then they take it from there, and they did an amazing job.
SPEAKER_03:They did great. We only fixed a couple of things, which is really good because ironically, did uh Dylan, Wesley and I both hurt our backs the same time this week, the same morning. Yeah, I was like, I can't bend over, I'm not gonna be in this.
SPEAKER_02:Um and that seems to be happening a little more often.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it gets it. I hate to tell you.
SPEAKER_02:No, I know it gets worse, but here's the thing. I'm eight years behind you. Yeah, so in eight years, like I feel like mine is earlier. But mine has been good until I had back trouble years ago, and then it's been better. And then the last six weeks, well, it started going back to pulling Christmas stuff. I was pulling all the Christmas items and setting it down in the aisle at the warehouse for them to bring it over here, and I was lifting, I just I did too much and it irritated it. I can tell it's a muscle, so to like spasm up, and I just haven't been able to have the relief. It's good today. It gets challenging. I know it does. So, and that's why. So this weekend was um the reset. This past weekend was the reset of both retail stores, and that's how we ended up getting behind on the podcast. We were gonna do it on Sunday. We were just like, oh, we'll do it um Sunday evening, but it we just had too many things going on. We were just we were over overzealous, and then coming up this weekend, you are headed to the high point furniture market. Yes, Dylan is going for the first time, and for the first time, I'm sitting it up, which is fine.
SPEAKER_03:Only the second, this is only the second market you've ever missed.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, we missed one day with COVID. Uh-huh. Well, they didn't even have the market, did they? No, no, we had planned to skip it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. We had planned to skip a market, which was a problem. You don't think it will be a problem, but then it it is a problem because you you don't have those orders treated. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Um, but this is the only one that I've skipped. But I decided to because, oh my gosh, it's just so much going on, honestly. And you're the last few, yeah. I'm trying to get a jump on the decorating at my house for holiday season. I did put up my tree today. It is gorgeous. We both got new trees this year. I'm so excited. I didn't realize it was the tree, it's one of the quick connects. You just drop it in there. Oh, it's amazing. It is, it is good. Um, but anyway. So it's much easier. Yeah, I'm trying to get a jump on that. B, um, I the last few years, the last couple of years, I've been ordering more like accessories and getting like live sales and stuff set up at the market. Um, especially with the franchise owner shopping, y'all kind of shop for different things and then I'd shop for different things. But the stuff that I typically shop for, we're good on right now. So I just decided I was like, I can sit this one out and get a jump on my get a reading on Dylan.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know if he is excited. Excited or another market. I think he's excited, but he's like, well, I'm gonna have to work all weekend to get it. Yeah, exactly. This would be his first one. This would be, yeah, so it's it's good for him.
SPEAKER_02:I'm kind of a little, I don't know. Um I feel like I might be a little jelly because you know I love a market. I love a market, but at the same time, I'm excited about getting my house started decorating and stuff too. So I don't know. We'll see. Um I was gonna say something about that. Oh, speaking of um our franchise owners, Tina and I guess Mark. Is Mark going? Tina, Mark are going. Um, they just had their one-year anniversary. One year. So if you don't know, or maybe you're new here, um, we have a franchise store in Savannah, Georgia. So if you're ever in Savannah, Georgia, look up the nested fig home. They just celebrated their one-year anniversary, which is crazy. And it's beautiful. Oh, it is a pretty store. Um, and we haven't, I haven't been down there since a couple of weeks after they opened, I think. We haven't had time. Um, but I see it and like I talked to their store manager today about something, and we talk to the owners all the time. Some people were asking me, like, how does that work or whatever? So, you know, they own the store and um we have approved vendors and they see what products we're ordering. And when we're at market, even the Atlanta market, they'll come and order and they'll see what we're ordering and they try to replicate that and they throw in some of their elements too, or whatever. Um, so we just don't always show that part or talk about that part, I guess is the thing. But yeah, our Savannah store or the Savannah store, you have to check it out if you're ever.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it's a it's a beautiful store. It really is. Yeah, I was telling her, I'm like, okay, when can I go? I think I'm gonna try to go for a long weekend in February. Uh in like December. It's hard because you know, you're buying gifts and you know, you're wanting to go to New York and and then we're working every day. It's true. I mean, so literally we Wesley and I have um about one week, maybe 10 days to prepare for Christmas. Yeah, and that's it. It's crazy how fast it goes. Because literally, like people always ask, well, when are you off? We are not off. Like a ri we do not have an official day off until other than thank we'll be off on Thanksgiving Day, which is really not an odd day off because we're usually prepping for something. So we're really we work until mid-December.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, usually December 15th, and we're like, okay, that's somewhere around there, wherever it falls, we are like, we're dead. We're dead, we're out of steam, that's it. We're done. I can't give it anymore. Yeah, that's we're done. Yeah, everything's on sale. Screw it. We're done. We're done. Um, and then I usually right after that, I only have a couple of days. I end up going home to my parents' house into the sea. And so it's like just runs together, but it is crazy how fast um all of that comes. Uh, so that is the Savannah store. If you're there, make sure you go um check it out. But it's so exciting that you know they've gotten past their uh first year there. I do want to go, I haven't talked about this. I don't think my mom had time to listen to the podcast, but that's okay. So next or just in a few days is my mom's birthday. It's a big birthday. Big two. Um, and so she's always wanted to go to New York City like during the holiday season. New York City. I want to try. We don't have anything planned yet, but I want to try to take like a week. I mean, it's just gonna be like three days or something. Nothing, nothing crazy long. Um, it's not like it's gonna be, you know, going and shopping and buying. She just wants to see the sights and you know, everyone wants to has that has she ever been? Yeah, she's been to New York, so not at Christmas. Well, remember, we went and I got a kidney stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:She's New York City at Christmas. Have you ever been for Christmas? No, I've never been for Christmas. That's why it is magical. And I think like Lane would like it. It's magical. It's something Lane would remember for the rest of her life. Right. Um, you know, we have to do things like take her ice skating and that's the kind of thing I want to go to. And I took my mom. Do it. Oh, yeah. I took my mom and aren't you glad you did that? No, absolutely. So I mean, I took her multiple times. Um, yeah, you never regret that. Yeah. The only thing I regret, you know, I took my mom, my mom to England. I took her a lot of places. Vegas, England, you know, did all that, but I never took her to Hawaii. And that kind of haunts me till this to this day. Yeah. But my intent was to take her. Like we were planning a trip to Greece. My mom was gonna go. Right. But, you know, the time runs out. That's why we have to live today because we don't know what tomorrow will bring. Um, so Dylan is turning the big 3-0 in January, and Daniel will turn the big four-zero in January. So we're gonna do a trip. I think we need to schedule that. Right. Um, we're gonna do a big trip either to uh one of the Hawaiian Islands or we may do uh somewhere in Europe, maybe Spain, yeah, for their big birthdays. But I did want to do something in January, and we're gonna be at market for Dylan and Daniel.
SPEAKER_02:No, it's it is a little earlier. Is it? Yeah. I was looking that up because I was like, I cannot be at market on Daniel's 40th birthday. I thought I thought it was I'll look it up again, but I'm pretty sure it is we get back right before then.
SPEAKER_03:Um but we gotta do a little trip in January. January, we're going to Dylan wanted to go to New York City. Okay. So we are going to be. Well, we'd have to go somewhere else too. The second.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, um, it ends on the 19th in January. So we should be home like the 20th. We'll be home that day, usually. Because we go a couple of days earlier. So because when's Dick Dylan's birthday? The 21st? Uh 25th. 25th. And wait, his is the 25th? And Daniel's is the 23rd? I thought Dylan's was a day or two before. No, okay. So that's good. So we need to do a little something, something for that.
SPEAKER_03:So what Dylan wanna, I know I might, he's never been to New York in January, February, not the winter. Yeah. I was like, I don't think you really know how cold that is. Because, like, it's cold in December. Right. But you feel like you're gonna die in January and February. It's the ice cube. But I decided I know he wants to go there. He wants to go to the diamond district and get him something special for his birthday, and I want that for him. So we're gonna go. And I'm not gonna stress about it. If it's a blizzard, I'm staying.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, but why don't y'all go in December with us and my mom, and you can do all that then? Because that'd be almost less than a month from Red's birthday or right around it, a little over a month, and then we go somewhere different their birthday weeks, like I say Vegas, or we can do that too. Because then he can have nice shopping in Vegas too. We can do that too. Something like that. Yeah, I mean, we can do both.
SPEAKER_03:Y'all got some plans y'all want to plan out? Because I'm thinking if it becomes a snow blizzard, I'm just gonna stay in bed. It doesn't matter. What I'm good. Oh my goodness. I'm good.
SPEAKER_02:I'm fine with being there in the winter. Okay, I have something moving on from that. Um, you know how I saw something on social media and it got my brain spinning. And I want to see, because you're an OCD person. Um we're both ADD, whatever, you're under control. But so I feel like this plays into that. But you know, I talked about before days of the week to me. To me, Monday, Wednesday, Friday are even days in my head. And Tuesday, Thursday are odd days. You said you were opposite, right? Yeah, those are the odd days. No, Tuesday. Monday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday's even. Tuesday, Thursday's odd. In my brain.
SPEAKER_03:No, but the reason, you know, I guess the reason it's odd is it's three. One, two, one, two, three. It's like an odd number. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. That's odd. Tuesday, Thursday's even. And I even thought about that, even is how my brain translated it in college. Because you know, you would have your Monday, Wednesday, Friday classes.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, those are my classes.
SPEAKER_03:Tuesday, Thursday are the back classes.
SPEAKER_02:That's backwards. Okay, that's but that's every person has their own. Because what is an odd or even day? We made that up on our own. You know what I'm saying? We did, and I've thought about it too.
SPEAKER_03:So this kind of well, no, no, because this changes such. I thought too. Um I in my mind, I've associated colors with days of the week. Oh, yeah. I haven't done that. Just weird. Yeah. I mean, I'm and I'm not one of those people that has, you know, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday paint panties and stuff like that. But it's weird how you you visualize things.
SPEAKER_02:So with that, I feel like this is next kin to that. Someone was talking about on, and I could so relate to this, talking on social media about use like saving leftovers and using, say, a Tupperware container, which is a brand. But how to them round-shaped Tupperware or containers are for your soft foods, such as soups, salads, soft things, and your square containers were for hard things like meats, casseroles, that sort of thing. That's kind of true. And I was like, that is true for me. Like I would never put soup in a square or rectangle.
SPEAKER_03:And you know why it is, because you slice the other is in the shape. Yeah. That shape, you know.
SPEAKER_02:You slice a casserole up into squares and scoop it out and put it in there or whatever. A bit of soup. But like you can totally pour it. Splitting whatever is gonna be in around, I guess, because of a bowl. But so why don't they just make all the Tupperware and just a square? Like, you see what I'm saying? That's total like a psychological thing. Oh, it absolutely is. But then some people in the comments are saying no, like they don't they just pull one out and whatever it is, that's it, or whatever it fits in.
SPEAKER_03:No. No, no, no, no, no. Isn't that weird? Yeah, that is weird, but no. Um that's the way I'm gonna be too.
SPEAKER_02:And like you're not gonna like, I know you don't like turkey and I don't eat meat, but like if you slice up turkey at Thanksgiving, you're not gonna put that in a round Tupperware. No, that would just be wrong.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know. That doesn't matter. Isn't that weird? That is weird that it's even wrong. Right. But it's wrong. Yeah, it's just wrong. Some way, somehow, that's just not right. Okay.
SPEAKER_02:So let us know again on the hotline. You have to see it below. Do you agree with this, or are you just willy-nilly putting it in whatever it fits in or whatever you grab?
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. I'm not, I'm not either. I I couldn't do that.
SPEAKER_02:Um, okay, so that was funny. And then the other um debate that I saw um here. Oh my gosh, I was voice texting on my damn phone. Um, so I gotta think. Um Uh a debate is uh does another like psychological psychological does a straw have one hole or two holes? Like what has two ends, one hole. Is that what you that's what I would say too? Yeah. Because a lot of people say, no, it's two holes because you can flip it either way and it's a hole. But to me, it's one continuous hole. Yeah, it's one hole with two ends. Yeah, it's like a pipe. Yeah, that's how I agree. That's how I think. But I guess people think differently um on that. Well, that's weird. When we think about that one, they're wrong. Um, yeah, because I'm like, it's one continuous hole with two ends. But what's the top and the bottom? No, I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_03:Do you have any Southernisms this week? Southernisms. I was listening to one lady. Or did you not bring anything?
SPEAKER_02:Have you ever heard uh wait? What was the one I said in that um someone called me out in a live sale? Um I said something, it was here like last night. I said, and I was like, is that a southernism? And you were like, that's a southernism. What was that? It wasn't willy-nilly, but something um I said just it was something like that. I can't remember what it was now. A good old Southernism. So um the containers and the shapes.
SPEAKER_03:This is, you know, the lady with it was a 91-year-old talking about Southern things. Uh-huh. And one thing she said is uh full of piss and vinegar.
SPEAKER_02:That just means you're like full of crap and sour. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_03:That you're just uh bitter. No. Mean. Mean? Mean and bitter? No, just mean and rambuctious. Yeah, a person who is brimming with aggressive energy, fighting spirit, boy, boisterous enthusiasm. Some days you're full of piss and vinegar.
SPEAKER_02:That that's some days you come in. I think I'm pretty made up of piss and vinegar. I think some days you come in hot and hot and bothered. We both were on Monday. It was almost a bad day. We were both on the side. I could punch somebody some days. Aggressive. Why is that? I wasn't in a bad mood. But I was like, there's just some days you just want to beat the shit out of somebody. I was definitely feeling aggressive on Monday. I was like, calm it down. I don't know what it was. Maybe it's a maybe our cycles have synced down.
SPEAKER_00:I I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Do men have cycles? I think they probably do.
SPEAKER_03:I think so.
SPEAKER_02:I think there's definitely hormone cycles. You can whatever.
SPEAKER_03:But that doesn't well they say, uh, you know, I take melatonin about every night. Do you, Dylan? Uh Daniel does too. And they say doctors say that melatonin can affect your hormone balances. Oh. So I don't know. Maybe that's what's wrong with Daniel Domsky. I don't know. I don't know if that's true. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:But it can disrupt your like hormone. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, and it's not necessarily bad for you.
SPEAKER_02:It just can affect throw it hormones up. Hmm. They don't take anything like that. The only thing I take is our C B D gummies to sleep. But I don't take I don't use the ones with melatonin in them.
SPEAKER_03:I just because I don't have a problem falling asleep, like I've said before. I love it. But now my now I wake up at like 4 45 every morning. Oh my god. Do you fall back? Then you fall back asleep. I I tried. You gotta be up for about because you're in that age. Get up and pee, lay back down and try to fall back asleep. Do you scroll on your phone? Yeah. I mean, it's just awful. 30 minutes. Because when I was younger, I went to bed and I would I could sleep for two days. I know.
SPEAKER_02:Those those types of sleeps get narrower and narrower. Like less and less. Like the other day, I slept like that. Like it was the sleep you have when you were in college and just came home in the middle of the day and was like or whatever, because you wanted to take a nap. I slept like that and I was like, oh, I haven't slept like that in so long. Although I think that's what made me aggressive. I got up and I was like, why am I awake? I don't know. Um, so if you are local, I do want to mention this. If you are local to Greenville, South Carolina, we have a few events coming up for our holiday season for the um Christmas season here locally. So November 6th is uh martinis and mistletoe at our garden store, and that is from 5 to 8. Our garden store is here, the Nessa Fig Garden here on Augusta Road. Um, and that is our kickoff party for the garden store for the holiday season. We'll have some food and drinks, do it accounts, giveaway, all of that kind of fun things. So that is Thursday, November 6th. Then Thursday, November 13th is here at our home store where we are now. Uh, we have candy canes and cocktails, and um, it's from five to eight as well. Food and drinks and similar thing, but you get to see the whole collection, um, Christmas collection here. Uh, and then November 15th and 16th are on weekend, and that's our two-day Christmas open house. So if you can't make it in the evening, you just want to drop in those two days. We have different specials and treats and different things for them.
SPEAKER_03:And we'll probably just, whatever we're doing, we'll probably just run it through the weekend or something like that. Through the weekend. Because when last year, I think we had our cocktails and candy cane or martinis and mistletoe, and we just kept it going. Yeah. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Um, they used to, that's really close together. The two-day open house is also on the Sunday, the 16th, if you're in the area, all of our street has an open house from one to five. We have always done a two-day Christmas open house. Because why wouldn't you? We do, we do double the money is basically it. But also, they're so close together now because we used to have, we always have our um our cocktail ones uh the first two Thursdays in November. And then there used to be a break, and then there was the two-day open house was the weekend before Thanksgiving every year. Well, the street moved theirs up, so that had to move up with that. So it's kind of why it all, it's kind of like, why are you having all that together? But that that's the difference there. So if you're in the area, um, make sure you come see us at our home store and garden store. And if you're not in the area, then remember you need to be shopping with us at the nested fig. If you don't have our app yet, you are missing out. We're doing live sales pretty much every day. We're doing live sales where you can shop our retail stores. You'll be I'll be doing live sales from my home where you can shop um the things that I'm designing with. You'll be able to stop shop Steven's house. We'll be doing live sales from there. So the holiday season is definitely the time you want the app and to watch the live sales.
SPEAKER_03:We're doing a live sale at least once a day.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, because there's so much going on and so many things to show you. Like we've already done two from our home store, and we hadn't even gotten halfway through the store yet. And tonight we're about to go do one at the garden store. Um, so lots of fun, fun things happening um there. Lots of holiday games. Yeah, I mean, I believe it's like the season, holiday season already.
SPEAKER_00:I know.
SPEAKER_02:I can't either. I Daniel and I keep saying that to each other. And I I'm like, I guess we're gonna keep saying that until it's uh it's gonna be gone and we're still gonna say I've noticed a few businesses having uh holiday open houses and different things in October. A lot of that's um growing up, a lot of them did did that. I don't like that. Augusta Road, where we are, was the first one that did it so late, like right up next to Thanksgiving. Um, a lot of businesses do it like end of October. Yeah. But it's kind of I or first of no, I think it's that's why we have our martinis and mistletoe candy canes and cocktails, but at least we wait till November.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I think I just get past. Personally, I feel like people are not gonna let themselves get in the spirit until after Well, I don't know. We got our Christmas out this week and our sales have been they've been shopping. I know, I know, but I'm like, I don't want to go to a holiday party until like the closer.
SPEAKER_02:Right after Halloween. Yes. Then that's your next one. I mean, that's just me, but whatever. Um but yeah, a lot of small businesses in towns will have them or like right around now, end of October. Mm-hmm. God. But you know what if whatever floats your boat. Whatever this doesn't say, whatever floats your boat. That's turns your crank, blows up your skirt. Mm-hmm. That's it. Um dilly dally.
SPEAKER_01:Was that what I said the other day?
SPEAKER_02:Dilly dallying around. Yeah. That might have been the southernism. Dilly dally. I think Yankees probably say that, don't they?
SPEAKER_03:I don't know. Gotta do that. Do any of our Yankees? Do y'all say dilly dally? Dilly Dally? I think that's uh Okay.
SPEAKER_02:Well, we gotta pull this baby over unless you got to do it. We got a lot to do. We got a lot of work. We got all kinds of work to do.
SPEAKER_03:Are we gonna be going through the holidays? Because see, we stopped it last year through holidays. Stopped what? The podcast.
SPEAKER_02:The podcast. We do it up through, I thought we did it, we'll do it through like mid um December, is what we normally do. Through like mid-December, and then we take from December until after we get back from market. I think we cut it off earlier last year. You make you just go like that. We take it through early December, and then we're not back until after we get back from market.
SPEAKER_03:It's like five weeks or something. I have a question for our listeners. Okay. What do you what's your favorite Christmas decor? Do you like traditional red? Do you like gold? Or do you like the woodsy look? Because I'm all into the Ralph Warren.
SPEAKER_02:What is your theme? What is your go-to look for your home? Is what you're asking. It doesn't even have to fall into those. Are you pink and bright colors? Are you all white?
SPEAKER_03:Silver.
SPEAKER_02:Blue and white.
SPEAKER_03:Silver. It's funny to me because I have a friend, and when he was growing up, they always decorated blue lights, green ornaments. That's random.
SPEAKER_02:Who pulled that behind? Is that someone we're gonna have to tow? I think she's okay. We've been having a problem here at the home store, not to call out any neighbors or anything. No, we have a um a restaurant that opened uh a deli that opened, which is very good. It's very good. We like the owners and everything like that. We're very neighborly. I mean, I'm never here, so whatever. But no, but um they went viral on TikTok and randomly for just one sandwich, and all of their patrons have been parking in our parking lot and it's become a really bad issue. So we now have just today's signs are going up. And I hate to be that sore.
SPEAKER_03:I don't want to, we don't want to do that, but we don't have a choice. And they're super nice. We've met with them, they understand. You know, we're not doing it to be assholes by any means, but um we just have to get our customers have to have parking.
SPEAKER_02:So the point of that is Steven's on standby for calling the toy truck at this point. The toy truck is like that. I really do. Um, so hopefully we have a lot of parking here at our home store, our property came with. Um it's all ours, but we're playing nice. So we're only putting signs up in a few so that it reserves parking for our yeah.
SPEAKER_03:We have a lot of parking and we put signs in less than half. Yeah. So hopefully that's much nicer than that.
SPEAKER_02:But when someone's pulling up, I'm like, um, who's that?
SPEAKER_03:Let me get my brass knuckles.
SPEAKER_02:Nah. You did run somebody off.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, several.
SPEAKER_02:I don't like it if you especially if you've got a bad attitude.
SPEAKER_01:That's true.
SPEAKER_02:All right. Speaking of bad attitudes, let's pull this baby over. We'll be back next week. We'll we'll make it work and we'll try to be on time next week. Listen, we're doing the best that we can. We're trying to show beach week. We love doing the podcast, and we hate when we can't do it on our schedule. And I know some of you save them and look forward to them when you're like traveling or on a road trip or something like that. So we hate to disappoint when we can't get one done.
SPEAKER_00:It's hard when we're seven. Unexpectedly. No, we'll tell you when we're taking a few. Seven days a week makes it a little challenging.
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SPEAKER_04:Thanks, Sean.