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Fire up the sleigh. Ho ho ho. We're slides out at 25 and let's go. I'm about hoed out. It's time for another episode of Who's Driving. Welcome to Who's Driving? I'm Wesley Turner. And I'm Stephen Murray.
SPEAKER_01:We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
SPEAKER_00:Who'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 home and garden.
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. So in last minute fashion, we're coming to you from the nested big warehouse on a janky iPhone. So, yeah, it ain't perfect sound, but just deal with this. The last one of the C roll with it. Roll with it. Let's roll into 2026 and we're starting. I know. This is our last episode of 2025, and we will be back sometime in the new year, whenever we feel like it. No, we'll be back. Yeah, usually it's the last week in January, just depending on how things fall. And I meant to look at the calendar, but I didn't do that today. But we're, you know, next week is Christmas, then it's New Year's. Then we vacation for a minute. You're going on a vacation for a minute. You are too. It's my mountains. That's New Year's. My I canceled my whole Hawaii, my Florida trip, and I'm still pissed about it. Yeah, but you're going to spend it with your And I need to unblock it so someone can book it.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. Send out a special. Yes.
SPEAKER_00:If you want to go to Florida for New Year's to Miramar Beach or Cottage, reach out to me and we'll give you a good last minute rate on that.
SPEAKER_01:We'll give you a real good. We'll give you a New Year's special.
SPEAKER_00:Because I have it blocked. Normally, Daniel and I go for about 12, 13 days, almost two weeks in January. And then we go back in February, right after Valentine's Day, or somewhere right around there. But so I'm going home to see my parents and my niece and all that. And then they're going, my mom, you know, they have a cabin which I haven't been to in years. I haven't been there in like two years, I think. It's been like three or more since I've been there. Because it would be you've been there since. Yeah. Yeah, I've been there since you've been.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I want to go. I love that cabin, but every damn time, every damn time I'm like, oh, I want to go. It it's booked.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, we need to schedule a weekend there.
SPEAKER_01:I know, but then when we schedule things, we're like, do we really want to go?
SPEAKER_00:I know. It's true.
SPEAKER_01:It's like we just need to block it out for two months besides.
SPEAKER_00:Well, you know, my mom was like, well, why don't y'all come to the mountains first before going to Florida? And I was like, okay, thinking like how I was thinking.
SPEAKER_01:You thought market would be like the 20th.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. So, and I thought they were going sooner, but the way that it's landing with New Year's, it's like in the middle of when we would be in Florida. And so then if we go there for New Year's when they're getting there, and then go to Florida, we would only have like four days. And which is listen, I would take that too. But the problem is it backs right up to market. Like I couldn't extend it any. So it'd be like it'd be going there, like going home for Christmas to Memphis, then going to the mountains. Then if we were to go to Florida, then it would be market. Like I would be home one day. Like we would get back on Friday and leave on Sunday to go to market, and then we're gone for 10 days. So like literally, I would leave on Monday, this coming Monday, and really not be back home until the end of January.
SPEAKER_01:And I was like, Well, literally, literally, we're going to New York on the 2nd. We're flying back on the 8th. Oh, and then we leave on the 11th.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So I'm going to be home.
SPEAKER_00:So actually two days and then so I've given up our January Florida trip, which actually, now that I've, you know, come to terms with it, I'm excited. Well, we will have a few days. I'm going to do some good spring cleaning in the house. You're excited about it. I really am. No, I really am. You're not. No, I really am. Now you are so bitter about it.
SPEAKER_01:No, it's funny because you complain and then you're kind of invent. Yeah. Well, you do the same thing. Oh, it's, oh, this root canal's gonna be great. But it's fine. I mean, it is hard to squeeze it all in. And now, I'm like, do we fly back on the 7th? Because I have not booked. Oh, I haven't booked or flight.
SPEAKER_00:I need to do that. I booked mine today to Memphis, which leaves all the. Is it expensive? What do you consider expensive? That's why I was in the shower. It was like five, it was right under 600. It's not bad. But Memphis is out of the way. New York should be cheap. Easier. I was in the shower. Today is Monday, though, of what? 14th, 15th, whatever we are. 15th. It's my aunt's birthday. Shout out to Granny Renee.
SPEAKER_01:Granny Renee! Granny Renee. Oh, it's her 70th!
SPEAKER_00:Happy 70th birthday, Granny Renee. Oh my goodness. She's not 70, and she but I guess she isn't. She's a granny. She is a granny. But that kills her when Stevie says that. It's an inside joke from the lifestyle.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. But um today's. I'm just listening to this right now and laughing. Laughing. Her oldest daughter is loving that we're calling her Granny Blair. Right.
SPEAKER_00:Um, Granny Blair, Granny today. Granny Blair. Um she'll be texting us next week.
SPEAKER_01:Yo, quit saying that. I'm 32.
SPEAKER_00:Plus 30. I don't know how old she is, but anyway. Anyway, so today's Monday. This episode will come out on December 16th. And then, but so one week from today is when I leave. So I was in the shower today, and Daniel's like, wait, when are you leaving? And I was like, Well, I'm planning to leave next Monday. He's like, Well, have you booked your flight or anything? I said, No, I won't do that. He said, It's gonna be so expensive. And I said, Well, what's expensive to you? Because he said, Well, over$500. I was like, Yeah, well, it was only a little over. It was under$600. It is not what it is. It is what it is. I mean, I could have driven. Drive. Driven. You could have driven. You could. I could drive. Yeah. Could have whatever. But that waste, because it's nine hours. And so that's a whole day on each side that it takes off. So I I was like, I really wanted to fly. So that's what I'm doing. That's what I'm doing. Fly back and eat. So, yes. So that's our end of year plan. So I'm going home and I'll be there Monday and I come back the day after Christmas. Then I'll be home for a weekend. And we haven't decided when we're going to the mountains, but we're going to be there for New Year's. I mean, we're driving. It's only three hours from here. So we're driving. So we'll be there for New Year's and then come back, and I'll have like a whole week to do some fun things around the house. Like take down my Christmas decor. Normally I take my Christmas decor down like this weekend before I leave town. And I don't know if I'm gonna do that or wait. I don't know. We're gonna sell it off, too. So I gotta decide what we're doing. Who wants our trees?
SPEAKER_01:Not the tree, just the decor. Just well, guess what I meant? The decor off our tree. In a live sale. You know what? I'm a little jelly in.
SPEAKER_00:Do tell.
SPEAKER_01:I love jelly. I I love a live tree.
SPEAKER_02:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01:There is no, we do it way too.
SPEAKER_00:Why don't you do a smaller live tree like in your entry?
SPEAKER_01:With the radcoat. That would be really that's a good idea. Because I could do a small one that wouldn't be so intrusive. Yeah. And keep the needles right there at the door.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Did you drive it? From that dice. Right there in the entry. That's what you need to do. Yeah. That would be great.
SPEAKER_01:And you could smell it. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00:So, what do y'all have planned for the holiday? What's your plan for the rest of the year? So mine was going to Memphis, coming back, going to the mountains, coming back, then I'll have a week, and then we're going to market. So remember to join us mid-January. We'll be live every day in the Nested Fig app from market. And you'll get to pre-order what we're seeing at the Atlanta market.
SPEAKER_01:Well, uh, with me. Those of you that know me, I'm a I love to buy gifts. I love, I love it.
SPEAKER_00:Allegedly.
SPEAKER_01:I haven't bought shit.
SPEAKER_00:You haven't bought anything? This is I never Well, I just started shopping yesterday. Look, I have my bags that are there. Also, that I got a ship back home, so I'm running out of time on that.
SPEAKER_01:I've never been this uh late, but we you and I have worked a lot. We have. I'm proud of us. I am too. And I'm surprised I hadn't like had a fallout collapse.
SPEAKER_00:But we've been live every day except for Thanksgiving Day. Since we've done at minimum one live per day since October. Since the first of October without missing a day. That's a lot. That's a lot of steam in that.
SPEAKER_01:That's a lot of work.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:In little play. But um I'm we're taking off Friday and Saturday. Oh, yeah. And uh, we're going to um this big um barn in Concord, North Carolina. If you live in North Carolina, you probably know about it. Some kind of antique barn. That'd be fun. Yeah, just to see that. And I I I've read they have a cute downtown, allegedly. And then we're going into Charlotte. We're gonna spend the night, and then Saturday we're going shopping at South Park Mall. Uh, that'd be fun.
SPEAKER_00:So you'll get a lot of that'd make you fun and festive.
SPEAKER_01:I feel like that'd get me in the spirit, and you know. That'd be I feel like that's a good way to uh set it up. Maybe that's gonna be the new tradition.
SPEAKER_00:Don't worry about it until you should get your photo with Santa, like sitting his lap at the mall.
SPEAKER_02:I should do that. I've never done that.
SPEAKER_01:I didn't I didn't do that as a kid because we couldn't afford it. True story. I do remember my cousin dressed up as Santa Claus. It was at Sky City when I was a kid. That was always Santa I got to sit in.
SPEAKER_00:That is too funny. While we're gone, like I said, I don't know the exact date when the episode 2026 will be season four of our podcast. I cannot, we've never committed or stuck with anything other than our businesses. That's the only thing we've ever stuck with, which we say that all the time. We surprise ourselves is what is ourselves. Yeah, but I'm those things. Something that doesn't make us money.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I mean they don't make it. Hello, we're looking for a sponsorship if you're out there.
SPEAKER_00:2026 is our year, man. Help us we're poor. Um, but that'll be season four. But I don't know the exact date to tell because my phone is recording this. But I think while we're gone, or maybe the week we're back, two big birthdays. We have Daniel, my hubby wubby, is turning 40, and Steven's man is turning 30.
SPEAKER_01:Where we are just almost the same age. I'm gonna I'm gonna be turning 40, and he's turning 30.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, Grandpa Mark, come here. Um Listen and their birthdays are two days apart. Is it only two? Because Daniel's is the 23rd. No, I'm sorry. Yeah. Dylan's is the 25th.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. Two days apart in ten years. Here's the funny thing is Daniel is one, two, three. Yeah. My birthday is three, two, one. That is right.
SPEAKER_00:That's how I've always remembered his. Yeah. Three, two. His is the opposite. Yeah, one day he was like, my birthday's one, two, three, January 23rd. And you were like, wait, mine's three, two, one. So that's crazy. And then my so and then mine's the 30th. So however many days we're right there. Nine. Nine days after you is my birthday. I'll be 45. You do not look a day over 49.
SPEAKER_01:Thanks. I'm gonna tell you that.
SPEAKER_00:You don't look a minute over 49. I appreciate that. And you know what? You're the kind of friend that will always let me know. I'm gonna get a I wanna get, maybe I could schedule this during my staycation. I want to get a pill or a laser or something. I would just save it up for cuts.
SPEAKER_01:I think it's gonna take a night. I think a night's a complete tear down and rebuild.
SPEAKER_00:I think it needs to be a just give it up. Well, maybe I can work on the spots and then I can work on the wrinkles.
SPEAKER_01:Well, my um my plastic surgeon said I need to get laser treatment. Um, she said I am pre-facelift. Pre-facelift. I'm like, well, damn. I'm like, let's get let's get post.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly. I'm ready to be post-facelift. So another funny thing that we've talked about throughout the season is Seven Brew. Y'all know I love to pick on those bitches because they aggravate me when I go through the drive-thru. You know, if you haven't listened, brief story. When you go to Seven Brew, they're very intrusive with their questions. Seven Brew Coffee. Where have you been? Well, where are you going after this? What have you been doing? Yeah, it's not like doing that. Hey, how are you? How's it going today? You know, that's normal retail thing. Oh, hope you're having a great day. Thank you. Come again, whatever. Normal retail. They have trained their people to be so invasive. Well, we have a new Starbucks in our town that's close to our retail stores that just opened. Well, now when you drive through that Starbucks, they do the same thing. And it is so freaking annoying. Just say, hey, how's it going? Oh, great. Hope your day's good. Yeah, you too. Just a minute, we'll have that ready for you. That is all we need. You know, it's better than just like, eh. Kiss my ass. Right. Anything. I mean, okay. So they do this. So now I won't go to that new Starbucks. Stephen and go through there, and then every time I ask him, I'm like, They quit doing that. Well, they've learned you because Steven says, uh-uh, I'm on the phone. I've been on the phone with you, and you're like, I'm on the phone. And I'm like, oh, they've learned. So I went to the Starbucks over here by the warehouse, and there is one of the girls there regularly. She's waited on us forever. Yeah. And so the other day, she was there and I said, I have a question for you. I said, are they training you all at Starbucks? I said, we have a new Starbucks, blah blah blah. I told her situation. I said, I can't stand, and this is why I don't go to Seven Brew. Um, these invasive, intrusive, I guess is the word, not invasive. I guess either one. Invasive. Intrusive.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's intrusive. Invasive would be maybe if she was reaching in your pants.
SPEAKER_00:Cutting. Whatever, intrusive. Um, so anyway, she said, oh my gosh. She's like, I've been here for a while. She's like, yes, they are training that. It's called Customer Connect. And they mandate or at or train you and tell you you're supposed to ask two, a minimum of two questions to the customer. And they feel like that's what it takes to connect the customer and then bring them back. And I said, Well, I hate that, so don't do that to me. She's like, I don't do that. And she's like, and I know people who are regulars, like, you know, we have the natural interaction. There is no why do I need to, you know, do this or whatever?
SPEAKER_01:Um I'm trying to sit here and think when you're talking about this, not interrupt. Yeah. But in the 90s, McDonald's went through this thing. Oh, I know what it was called. I just thought of it. I'm sorry. I had to, I had to interrupt to tell you. It was called customer enhancement.
SPEAKER_00:You're going with your story, then I'll tell you what. Customer enhancement. Well, that's it. So she said, yes, this is the thing. She said, you know, I don't like doing it. And I said, well, the and the awkward thing is at the Starbucks close to our store, I said, it's not even natural. Like the girl will stand there and like hesitate. I've had like three of them do that. And and they're waiting for it, and then they'll be like, so it's like they're working up the nerve, I guess, because they're newer to or whatever. And I'm like, it is so annoying. And she's like, yeah, like customers. Oh, I give them their, I give them their money's worth. Yes, Steven will. But she said they used to have, she's like, our store doesn't have it anymore, or whatever, but they had a list of questions you could ask printed off at the register that you could choose from to ask the customers for like conversation starters or whatever. And I'm like, people are in the damn drop-through. They're not looking for a conversation. I'm trying to give them their coffee and shut the hell up.
SPEAKER_01:I'm trying to think back, because you know, it's been a few years since I recovered.
SPEAKER_00:I just thought it was interesting because we talked about it.
SPEAKER_01:All of these companies go through, you know, they'll change officers of the company and somebody go to some kind of bullshit training and think. Um, you know, that's the new thing. Can we just train to be a good customer service person now? I'm gonna Google McDonald's customer enhancement program of the 90s. I remember uh what did they make y'all do? Well, there was one thing I thought was so stupid. The the dumbest thing was um Okay, here it was. McDonald's 90s customer. Enhancement focused on value, which is true. Extra value meals, customization made for you, arch deluxe. Oh, I forgot about the arch deluxe. Okay, it's talking more about operations than the biggest thing that I remember was we had this is so stupid. So they wanted somebody just in the lobby area all the time, like greeting customers. Almost like a hostess. Yeah, which I get that because I like that in my I had that in my restaurants. But they did other duties. But in the 90s, we went through this bullshit where you had these McDonald's umbrellas. So if it was raining, I was supposed to go up to you and walk you to your car.
SPEAKER_00:That's not my work at all. Excuse me, can I walk you out under this umbrella? Uh-uh.
SPEAKER_01:Can I tell you how many times Steven did that? None. None. Who the hell you can do it? It was so awkward. No, I don't give it. Can I have the umbrella? Right. Exactly.
SPEAKER_00:I'll bring it back through the drive-thru.
SPEAKER_01:I don't want you walking me to my car. I mean, to me. That could have been a good way to pick up some mints'. It was just out, but it was so out of touch. Poor women. Yeah. You know, that's the way I see this with Starbucks. Yes. And that is when they if for me Donaldson.
SPEAKER_00:I'm super surprised. Sorry to cut you off, but how you're saying it's out of touch. The new generation can barely even talk. They can only text. They don't like to talk to anybody anyway. They can't. They're struggling with that.
SPEAKER_01:I know. Making connections, but that's not the way to do it. Like it's not.
SPEAKER_00:But I guess they're trying to battle that with from the from the employee side. But I'm saying even the customers that are that generation would not want that interaction either. I mean, I don't want it, and I'm from all of the generation now.
SPEAKER_01:I feel like thing this is just my opinion. I feel like for McDonald's, you know, the people sitting in Chicago, the officers of the company, and for Starbucks, the officers sitting in Seattle. To me, that is that that those people, it just is a great example of how out of touch they are with their business. Right. And and reality. Right. And the way people are. Right. Because it's and and honestly, I'm going to say that.
SPEAKER_00:The McDonald's is on the other end. They don't even have they don't even have employees anymore if you go in. Oh no. There's not even No, if you want to rob a McDonald's, there ain't nothing to rob.
SPEAKER_01:Uh-uh. You got it. Yeah. Or or a a board. But yeah, it's I just, I think it's very, very bizarre. And the same thing goes, and I've always said this, I know everybody loves Chick-fil-A. But that it's my pleasure. That is so programmed fake to me.
SPEAKER_00:It is, but at least there's a standard, and that's not annoying. I do agree with you. That is so calculated.
SPEAKER_01:It is it annoyed. Like, just be nice. Right. And you know, that was, you know, and when when I started at McDonald's in the 80s, it was they wanted you to be like a robot. Welcome to McDonald's. Can I please take your order? Would you like an apple pie with that? And I'm like, oh my God. Yeah, that's and like I knew from being 15 years old working in the drive-thru how I set I hated asking somebody if they want an F and Apple pie. And so I worked my way around that. How can you suggestive sale without asking about the apple pie all the time? Oh, I want a quarter pounder and a medium diet coke. Oh, would you like fries with that? That's relative, that's relative to the meal. To the meal. Yeah. And then when we started large sizing it, then I started giving away the apple pie. Would you like a free, would you like to large size that and get a free apple pie? Right. That yeah. And see, when what I found for employees, if you're giving something free or you're giving something to a customer, it creates more energy, positive energy. Instead of asking them for something. So I feel like if Starbucks would say, Hey, would you like a free whatever today?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:To create more, like they could put that money that they're spending on those training materials into saying, hey, would you like to try our new free um croissant? You know, have minis or something. Yeah. That would create more converse, natural conversation. Just my opinion. I just think it's all now that I think about that.
SPEAKER_00:What can we do at the nested thing? Would you like I'm gonna have to put that down. Upgrade.
SPEAKER_01:You're buying a sofa. Would you like uh two pillows for the price of one?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Would you like a free chair? We've done that. Well, we've done buy one, get one 50% off. Yeah. Which is, I mean, hell, that's almost Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know. I just thought it was interesting though with the Starbucks that it was indeed a calculator training.
SPEAKER_01:But you know, I think it's just somebody in Seattle going these days.
SPEAKER_00:I feel like, okay, what you need to do is you need to train your managers the standard of expectation and customer service, and let them train the other people what the store wants from them, expects from them, and then let it naturally happen. Like you can't just open the window and say here, like they do at McDonald's sometimes. Like, let that be a manager training. Like give the managers really, really good training. If you're struggling with someone who does this, this is some ways to suggest to get them out of their shelf.
SPEAKER_01:That was another that was another McDonald's thing. We went, I could this third empowerment. Yeah. That so what we did was during that Empower somebody. I was um this was later in my career, and and it was kind of what you're saying, but it was done in the box form. Empowerment, empower your crew, like giving free desserts and and stuff like that, which I do believe in that, actually. Yeah. Because that that is kind of what Starbucks to do. I feel like Starbucks used to be like that. They used to be Well, I think, and I don't know this. I think I would guess uh they're struggling just with today's workforce. Yeah. You know, I mean, because it's getting worse. Yeah. I mean, you got some odd, weird, strange person, you know, that probably doesn't even talk to their parents.
SPEAKER_00:Right. They just text all the time. Yeah. And now you gotta try to get them to talk, and if you talk to them the wrong way, they cry that they were harassed, and then it's a whole thing.
SPEAKER_01:Well, Dylan was in management with Starbucks. This is not pink on Starbucks, but this he would have employees, kid you not, he would tell me every day. Well, so-and-so called in. Um, and I was like, why? Well, she just needed an emotional health day.
SPEAKER_00:I need an emotional health day too. I need an emotional health month. I mean But see, that's the problem, and there is a fine line because there are some, you know, there's mental health issues that need to be addressed. Absolutely. But there's also that fine line of sometimes it's called get your ass up and power through. And toughen up buttercup.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So that's the struggle. And I mean, I know there's all types of scale. Listen, I have spent, I spent how many years?
SPEAKER_01:30 years in a in a psych psychiatrist chair. And and I thought you were gonna say a psych ward. I'm like, what I mean I probably needed to go there too. And I, you know, I still take my my little green and orange pills every day, but I don't I don't know. I think in case you need to double up. I'm just gonna say but I mean, if I didn't work all the days, honestly.
SPEAKER_00:But you didn't feel like it. You would never work. I mean, you would, but like But I wouldn't be where I am in life. Right. You gotta power through sometimes. You do get to the other side. To yeah, to grow.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And to help you. Um So don't call us and text us. We know people have to do that. Well, you can. We're on the break for the next month. Yeah. I'm just kidding. And you know what? My mother, my mother was bipolar. I don't I and I know the struggles, I live the struggles, and I am a struggle. I am a I am on the struggle bus. Okay. We don't know what the hell just happened.
SPEAKER_00:Everything just shut down like uh but so we don't know where Steven left off. We just looked up in the phone and was turned off. So anyway, so anyway. You gotta get up and keep going. But anyway. So um Well, what else do you have for me before we wrap up this year in? I sent you this that you didn't watch.
SPEAKER_01:Let's think about this. I'm gonna turn this up just so y'all can hear it. This is so I don't know if I've told you this. This is a whole thing going on across the country.
SPEAKER_02:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01:So HOA board meetings, a lot of them are be are videotaping. Oh, yeah. And putting it out there, putting it on YouTube for residents to watch. Okay. I will never do that. I think it's absurd. If you care that much, bring your ass to a meeting. And I'm not doing it. Okay. I think that's crazy. I think that's crazy in and of itself. You're gonna have to move out of your loft in the next five years because I just can't get along. So there are a lot of videos on Instagram of HOA meetings.
SPEAKER_00:H-O-A meetings. So listen to this nut job.
SPEAKER_01:She listens. If you're on here, please message us. Just the block. Wait, hold on. Well, this isn't the preference. Hold on, let me start it over.
SPEAKER_03:I'm not trying to be difficult, but my neighbor uses dryer sheets. And the fragrance travels. Pretty block. I have fragrance sensitivity. This isn't the preference, it's difficult. I'm just asking if we can restrict sensitive dryer products. I'm not trying to be difficult, but my neighbor uses dryer sheets. And the fragrance travels.
SPEAKER_00:This heifer wants to limit. So um I'm sure you could hear that hopefully, but if not, she wants to eliminate scented laundry product products because her neighbor uses scented dryer sheets and it permeates the block. And she has sensitivity. Right there is why my ass is on the farm. Right there. Right there. That heifer right there, that is why I'm on a farm. Don't mm-mm.
SPEAKER_01:Can you imagine? No, ma'am. But you know, it's not always subdivisions, you know, in my old house. I had crazy, some crazy neighbors that moved in, remember? Yeah, but there wasn't a HOA. No, but they came to my house. They also walked their ass back home after they got cussed out, too. Exactly.
SPEAKER_00:That's a whole different situation. I just don't even. I can you I wonder what the outcome was. Well, surely they were like, sit down, honey.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, it just all depends on how many crazy people you get on a board that would pass such. Yeah, because if they're all like, yeah, we agree.
SPEAKER_00:We agree. Let's just go uncented. Oh my god. If someone sent out a thing and said, you can't use that anything, I would punch them in the face. I want to go punch her in the face.
SPEAKER_01:I don't even know her. Well, we have in in in my my building, and I think some people listen to this podcast, and I hope you're one of them. Um we have three nut jobs. Oh. And um, we have 104 units in the bill. The meal is in, you know, it's enormous for property. Yeah. Um, and we have some really, really, really good neighbors and great, nice people. Yeah. But all it takes we have three. Oh, and if they team up together. And they have.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, good.
SPEAKER_01:They found each other. They found their tribe. Yeah. But uh-uh. Uh-uh. I mean, it you know, I have no tolerance for that stupid shit. And you know, at some point, I will say this, not toward any demographic or anything, because we're all getting there, and the older I get, the less tolerant I am at everything. But at some point you just need to go where you can live.
SPEAKER_00:Be your own.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah. Like me. I'm on the farm. That may be on a farm. Yeah. In the woods. Exactly. Don't come bother me. It may be at a retirement home with you, a whole bunch of other people that bitch about nonsense. Right. Nobody cares about. Right. So I really want their asses to move right on down to Swanskate.
SPEAKER_00:The retirement. Why don't you start passing out your real real estate card?
SPEAKER_01:Well, I'd say I don't even want to work with them, though. That's the thing. I don't even, I don't even want to take their money.
SPEAKER_00:That's how much. Well, maybe somebody that you're like, you know, a realtor friend, you could say, hey, we need, you know, you should suggest selling their place for them.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I have suggested, I'm like, do you think they're not I've asked for people that are friendly with them? I'm like, you know, I think Swanskate would be a good fit for them. But they're like, they're not moving.
SPEAKER_00:Oh no, they're there to stay. They'll be hobbling along in the in the hallway.
SPEAKER_01:But you know, a few, one that was a real pain in the ass. Uh-huh. She finally, she finally hit so many walls. She just fell and moved. Oh, she sold and moved? Well, that's good, yeah. You just gotta keep So I'm like, no. Right now. No. No. No. No.
SPEAKER_00:No. Would you like to call any of them out while you're on here?
SPEAKER_01:They know who they are.
SPEAKER_00:You better get your place ready. It's a good time to do some spring cleaning and get it ready to put on the market. I hear spring's the best time to sell your money.
SPEAKER_01:One of the bitches is our cust a customer. And I'm like, I I don't even want you, I don't even want your money as a customer. I mean, you are so bad. You are so bad. Too funny. That's yeah, they're like, I'm like, they're like, so and so came in the store today. I was like, you're like, I need to make sure I'm not dancing. You're like, please don't let me.
SPEAKER_00:That is too funny.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I've even quit speaking. You know how you say hey to people that you don't even like? Yeah. I don't even do that anymore. I'm like, Yeah, just fall down.
SPEAKER_00:That is so why I could not. I just we've never lived, and that's been my goal to never live where there's an HOA. Like, you know, before, like when I had my first house that wasn't in an HOA. When we moved to Greenville, none of them were in HOA. The house before this was, I was like, I can't do that. I would rather live in a charming house, like we did before our house now, charming street, charming small house. What it was our house, like 1,200 square feet. I would rather do that than live in a neighborhood with more amenities in a HOA. Because I can't abide by the rules.
SPEAKER_01:I would get in so much trouble. I do love where I live. And I do, like I said, there's only pain-to-hang-in-the-asses. Well, but look, no, it would irritate me. You got the people at the end of the street, they they bother me. So when you look at it like that, they bother me. You know what I mean? Like there's always gonna be someone that bothers you. In my old house, I mean, there was that he put the agony that didn't keep their yard up. That drove me crazy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but that's a different irritant than like someone telling you what to do. You know what I'm saying? I guess, but I mean they're not telling me what to do. Because you're on the board. I'm just saying, in general, there's only so many board spots. I hope one of these nut jobs gets on the board with you. I hope.
SPEAKER_01:One they're wanting to.
SPEAKER_00:Okay. And so I've already said I'm out.
SPEAKER_01:I'm out.
SPEAKER_00:Steven's way or he's taking his toys and going home. Bingo.
SPEAKER_01:Bingo. I you think I'm gonna no. And I also threw this in, and don't even communicate with me. You can s email my attorney. Yeah. Because I don't I I'm not even talking to you. I said that. That's funny. I said it.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I'm not, I'm not, listen, when it comes to the first board election or transition or two years. Oh, so you're safe for two years unless someone drops off. I'm gonna run those bitches off.
SPEAKER_01:You got two years. No, and when I moved there, my I hadn't issued, I had a run in, and I got this email from the board telling me I couldn't have my guy wash my cars in the parking lot. Oh yeah. And I was like, What? This is nuts. So I called. My attorney, and I was like, I'm not familiar with this, but you know, it I asked if I could do this. I was told I could. Yeah, I know that you can't do car repairs on the property, you know, right? You can't have them up on blocks in the parking lot. I get that. And he said to me, it was very good advice. He said, Okay, these people are gonna be a problem if you do not let them know you're not gonna, you're not putting up with bullshit. There's always gonna be something. They're just gonna be picking, picking, yes, picking. So he said, Keep your mouth shut. I know you want to cuss them out. I said, I do, because he knows me, he's known me for 30 years. He said, Keep your mouth shut. You email them back, and you just say, Thank you very much. My legal counsel will be in touch within 14 days. Yeah. And that's what I did. And I met I haven't had a problem in 10 years. You hadn't heard anything. Uh the only thing I got back was, Mr. Merck, you can have your cars washed from your board. Uh well, there you go. They didn't want to deal with any legal enforcement. Well, there you go. But I mean, I was like, okay. There we go. I've never done anything like that, but I was. And then he was like, I'm running for the gate. I'm for me.
SPEAKER_00:Running for it. Next, she'll be the president on there.
SPEAKER_01:No, I don't have time for that. I'm I'm vice chair now. That's how you're good enough. Second place. I like second place.
SPEAKER_00:Second place. We're number two. We're always number two. Just good enough.
SPEAKER_01:I live great in numbers in the second place. Right. Comfortable space for me. Well, that's true.
SPEAKER_00:All right. Well, I think it's time to pull this baby over. We got to do a live sale tonight. We'll be doing live sales as long as we can throughout the season. We got some year-in sales, so make sure you're checking the nested fig out for all that's going on. We'll be back in the new year. I'm sure we'll have something new and exciting. Make sure you keep notes this time. Over our break. I need a read. We're gonna have a lot of notes.
SPEAKER_01:I should take the microphone to New York's. You should. That might get me killed.
SPEAKER_00:No, you did last time with the singing cowboy. We need I need the microphone. You need the microphone, Bob. And we need to bring it out at market. Yeah. We keep saying we're going to and we don't. We just did something. Need the microphone in New York.
SPEAKER_01:I think I need to say what what kind of underwear are you wearing right now?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Come up with something to ask everybody. If you're wearing navy blue underwear right now, you win a prize. What color? I have to see. Are you gonna just ask like hot guys this?
SPEAKER_01:Okay. That would be neat. You have um hot pink underwear. You win a gift card. And I have like Starbucks.
SPEAKER_00:Give my gift cards to the Neste P. Yeah, they're online. Online at the Neste P. All right, let's pull this sleigh over. It's time to wrap up 2025 for the podcast. End of season three. Like I said, we'll be back at the end of January or at the latest first of February, depending on where the week, what Tuesday falls there. Um so again, you can go back. If you missed us that much, you can go back and listen to old podcasts and hang out with us and you know, check in on us on Instagram, Wesley Turner Living, and keeping up with Steven. No G. No G on the keeping. It's all in the show notes below. Um, and we'll see you in the new year. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year, safe and happy. Are you making thanks to everyone for um supporting us this season?
SPEAKER_01:Are you making a resolution?
SPEAKER_00:No. I really don't do resolution. My resolution is to keep going about we are we talked about a word. You know how people have words like grace or whatever? And I thought of one. I was gonna joke with you the other day. Bullshit. Yeah, yours is bullshit. Mine is bullshit. Um, I forgot what it was, but anyway. I'm sick of your bullshit.
SPEAKER_01:I'm gonna give you some bullshit.
SPEAKER_00:That's it.
SPEAKER_01:This is all bullshit. It's all bullshit. Merry Christmas, happy new year. Thank you guys for another great year.
SPEAKER_00:We'll see you for season four, baby. Bye, y'all. Leave us a review, but only if it's a good one. No bullshit. Bye.