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Who's Driving- We Are BACK! Season 4 E1

• Wesley Turner • Season 4 • Episode 1

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We are back with Season 4. Jump in buckle up and let's catch up after our holiday break. 

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Hop in and buckle up. It's 2026, baby, and it's season four. 2026. Season four. It's time for an episode of Who's Driving? Welcome to Who's Driving? I'm Wesley Turner. And I'm Steven Murphy. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs. Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship, and businesses.

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These are the stories we share and topics we discuss as two best friends would on a long road trip.

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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.

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Buckle up and enjoy the ride.

SPEAKER_00

You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride. And we're back. Okay, so we're here. Do you remember how to do this? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It's been crazy though. I mean, since we stopped recording, which is what we do every year because we do get so crazy for holidays. Um, and we are a couple of weeks late getting started back.

SPEAKER_00

It has already been a hectic or busy new year, busier than normal. I'm not on my normal new year. Like we usually, I feel like, get to take it a little easy in January.

SPEAKER_01

But we're we've been working it.

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And that didn't happen this year. So we gotta throw this baby in reverse, rewind, and pick up, even though it's although it's February. Well, we got delayed with some ice storm, then a snowstorm and a shit storm and all of that. Yes, and just a a mess and a gum. Which we can get to, but let's rewind back to the holidays and tell everyone how was your holiday? What happened? Let's do a little recap. Oh my God, that seems like 28 years ago.

SPEAKER_01

Um, we had a great Christmas. Um I have never been so behind and so ill prepared for Christmas in my life.

SPEAKER_00

And look, it still came and went and worked out just fine.

SPEAKER_01

It worked out fine, but it was a shit show getting it, getting everything together, you know. Right. Um, because literally I didn't have anything bought. I had like one week to make Christmas happen. Not decorating, all that was done. I'm talking gift buying and all of that. So um, you know, Dylan was a huge help. I utilized him, you know, for gift cards and buying packaging and you know, and I just wrapped, wrapped, wrapped.

SPEAKER_00

And we made it happen. You did. I I'm just now thinking back though. I don't I I guess you haven't gotten to my gift yet. You're still you're still a little behind.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Yours, there was a delay. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was I'm I'm waiting for it to come out. Right. Yeah, yeah. Me too. Me too. Okay, good. It'll be here for your birthday. I hope it's great. Oh my gosh. And then Dylan, so it was all ex you know, it was an exciting year, because his birthday's January 25th. Yeah. And then he was turning 30. Right. The big 3-0. Right. So, um, you know, we had I felt like we had to do Christmas, and then I had to do something special for his birthday. So we really had a whole, honestly, a month-long celebration for his birthday, which is great, which is fine. But it was busy.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And so then we had a good Christmas as well. And let's see, what happened? Nothing too eventful. I went home to my parents' house, came back. Um, and well, here, we'll get to January, but I think we should talk about at the beginning of the episode that we're switching some things up. So we're back for season four. And this season we are going back to doing like we did previous seasons, season one and two. We're not gonna have a video version of the podcast. So you can still go to who's drivingpodcast.com and that'll be the website, and you can listen for free. And I hope to put up some like polls and some interactive things there along the way. But we're not gonna have the video version of this.

SPEAKER_01

And we honestly felt like the video version um kind of inhibited us being our natural selves.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I do. So we were always, well, one, we didn't have any guest on last year because the dynamic changes with the video and even the editing and the setup and the microphones and all that. And so it wasn't easy to like just call and have someone on or even have Daniel or Dylan on because it was like, well, now we need an extra camera and that changes the editing. So it we know we stuck with it for the whole season and then just it never felt as good on my side and being able to have people on. It just didn't well, I really went down with it to begin with mess with our setup. Yeah, a lot of people asked for it, and then uh, you know, a lot of people did sign up, but then as I looked at it, some people still just listened and didn't watch the video. And so I'm just like, for the extra money, and the editing was like double the work for me. Like it would take it would add on a lot of time for editing and getting it posted and all of that. So I was like, you know what? This is something that, and we always talk about it. We do things that we enjoy in the podcast, we truly do enjoy it, but it's gotta be something that works into, you know, our lifestyle and being busy and that sort of thing. And it just didn't feel right um doing the video. So that's basically why we're going back there. Cause I was like, I just can't, it just like we said, didn't feel right having people on because it wasn't easy to call them. I feel like you couldn't do things on the whim like we do a lot of times because we're like, oh, we gotta, you know, have the camera on this. Oh, we have to have a shower. Yeah. Or yeah, we have to have a shower, that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_01

And it is hard with our work schedule. It was hard to make it, make it right, be camera ready, because like today we've been working in the warehouse. We're dirty. Right. Uh it you know, it's just hard. And this is easier, and this is more real, and this is more who we are.

SPEAKER_00

Right. And what we set out for it to be so anyway, so that's the no video version, but you can listen anywhere, obviously, that you've been listening. None of that's changing. And I think it will really make the podcast better. Because if you want to see us, watch our live sales. We tell stories on there, other than selling things. We we tell a lot of funny things on there too. So if you need the video version, then get the nested fig out. We're live pretty much now, every day. We're live in there at some point. So if you need to see us, you can see us there. And I like I like the dynamic on my side of having the live sales and that being the video part because those are also interactive. So if you have questions or you can throw in your comments. And like I said, it's if you haven't watched a live sale, and now we get to do live auctions, um, it's very interactive. And people come there, even if they're not shopping that particular day, they come there to hang out and chat, and it's a lot of fun. So we'll keep the video part to the live sales, and we'll keep the podcast as you can listen, and you can listen for free and that sort of thing, and um, all of that. So, anyway, that's that's so that's the why. That's the why. Um, all right, so now back to Christmas. Our Christmas was good, it was quick. I went home to Tennessee, and then came back and y'all went to New York City. Yes.

SPEAKER_01

So, you know, since Dylan's birthday was in January, and it was a big birthday, he doesn't get this control from from here forward, he's screwed. I told him, I'm like, You're good for 10 years. No. So I he wanted to go to New York City to go to the diamond district, and you know, he follows a lot of people in there, and it is an interesting place to go. So I'm like, okay, that's fine. Um, and he had never been to New York in the winter, so I was like, Oh boy, you don't really know what you're in for. But I have to say, it was a very, very, very mild week that we were there.

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Which isn't that good because, like, right now, or the last two weeks, they had that huge snowstorm. There's snow mounded up everywhere. Have you seen those videos? Awful, awful. What if y'all would have been when it was like that?

SPEAKER_01

Awful. Well, and that's what was in my mind because you know, I have I've spent a lot of time in New York City, and I have had a couple of um challenging New York experiences. It wasn't bad, but you know, I did my luck, I did get snowed in for a week in a blizzard, and there were no planes going in or out. There were no cabs, you couldn't even walk down the sidewalk without being blown over, literally. So in my mind, I was like, oh my god, what if we go into that? But we didn't. It was mild. When did we go? And I was there and it snowed. In March.

SPEAKER_00

Was that me, you, and Daniel?

SPEAKER_01

No, it was me and you. Me and you.

SPEAKER_00

Daniel wasn't there at that time.

SPEAKER_01

Uh uh-uh. We had to go buy snow gear.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, because I have the Ug boots. Because it just randomly snowed. And it was a lot, like a good amount.

SPEAKER_01

It was a nice snow.

SPEAKER_00

Where were we? Was that when we were just shopping frequent trips for jewelry and stuff?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we were shopping.

SPEAKER_00

We need to do that again.

SPEAKER_01

That was uh that was okay. That was an okay situation. That is kind of what I expected in January. Right. Um, but I mentally prepared for a blizzard because you never know. Um, but it was very mild. And thank God. See what, and those of you listening that are in New York, you know what I'm talking about. What makes New York unbearable in January and February is the wind. Yes. If it's not windy, it's fine. And it was so mild. I mean, it was cold.

SPEAKER_00

But mild. But I mean not bearable.

SPEAKER_01

The wind wasn't blowing at, you know, 90 miles an hour, freezing to the, you know, we could walk, we were bundled up, but it was enjoyable.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Well, and that's the thing. When we go to New York City or y'all go to New York City or we go together, we walk everywhere, like miles and miles and miles a day. That's the rule. It's the it's Steven's rule. We don't take a taxi anywhere if we can help it, and we don't take the subway or anything like that. We walk. I mean, and we've walked like 15 miles in a day before there.

SPEAKER_01

And it was funny because I was like, Dylan, Dylan is not a walker like I am, even though he's a lot more athletic than I am, he's not a big walker. So finally I said, We're gonna walk, we're gonna walk very far, and if we just, you know, if you just don't want to walk back, we will Uber back or get in a cab. And he was like, Hell no. I would rather walk than get in a cab or Uber in this city in January because we're gonna we'll pick up COVID or the flu. Yeah. So I laughed. I was like, Walk it. Walk it is.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I like it because when we've gone and done that and we walk, we walk somewhere and then we walk back a different route, and you're seeing so much, you know, of the city and stuff.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah, we had a great time. We got to see Brooke, our friend from Farmhouse 1820, that uh she lives two hours outside of the city, and she stayed over after work and had dinner with us. Because she works in the city, right? That was really fun, and we had a really nice time with her. We actually tried some new restaurants and did some um new, you know, exploring around the city because we're kind of done, you know, we're not into the sightseeing anymore like that. And we did go to see um one Broadway show. Oh my god, what did we see?

SPEAKER_00

Um I said I liked it. I liked it. You were like, you gotta go see it, and I had never heard of it. Um oh my gosh. Oh, the great gats beat the great gats.

SPEAKER_01

It was really good. Dylan wanted to see that, and I poked around and I got great seats at like a ridiculous pro great price. So we went to see that. That was really fun.

SPEAKER_00

And y'all also really committed to New York City because y'all stayed a week. A week, which is not normal. Like normally you'll go to like three, four, five days, but y'all went a week. But that gave y'all some downtime too.

SPEAKER_01

It did, it did, and we flew in on the second because my goal, you know, we could have gone on the 30th or the 31st, but uh I don't we don't like huge crowds like that. So our goal was we'll fly in on the second because all of the New Year's the New Year's people will be gone. Right. And it would be slower. Well, we were mistaken. We should have flown in like two days later to miss the crowd because the huge crowd stayed for the weekend. I didn't think through that.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_01

But it was a great time to go. So if you want to go to New York and you want to see all of the Christmas and the lights and get all the feels without the crowds, go like on the January 3rd or 4th, and because they'll start taking everything down like this 5th or 6th. But you can get to see all the windows, all the decorations, the tree at Rockefeller. You get the Christmas experience. It was like Christmas for us. Yeah. And it was really a good time to go.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01

Especially since it was mild and wasn't like we had snow flurries one day, and that was it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And um, you know, we had we had a lot of fun and we tried um a new Parisian uh restaurant there for breakfast. Oh my gosh, it was so good. I mean, we tried a lot of good things, and of course, we did we're not fancy restaurant people. We did go to a few nicer restaurants, but you know, in the winter, it's hard. You can't be too pretty going out. Yeah, because you gotta bundle bundle up and yeah, you look like an Eskimo. Which was fine by me. And y'all went to you actually went to and met your parents at the cabin in Tennessee.

SPEAKER_00

In Pigeon Forge. So, you know, we I think I talked about this before we left off. Normally we go to the beach cottage in Florida for New Year's, and then we go back in February. But this year we went met my for New Year's, we went and met my parents um and my niece at the cabin in Pigeon Forge, which was really fun. But we only stayed, I can't remember now, three or four days. It wasn't crazy long. Um there and we were there for New Year's and everything. And my niece is well, she just turned seven this week. Um she's so cute and so fun. And so it was fun to hang out with them. And I hadn't been there actually in I looked when I was there. It had been like almost two years or something since I had been there to the cabin and everything. Um, and so it was fun.

SPEAKER_01

I have to be honest, I'm a little jelly of Lane because my nephews are now grown. Right. And, you know, they are oh my gosh, they're gonna be 20 and 25.

SPEAKER_00

That's crazy. Because they were so young when we when I first met you.

SPEAKER_01

And they were my they were my holiday joy. Yeah. And now it's just it's not as much fun. I mean, I still make their stockings, but they're not they're not as much fun.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, she's at that really fun age.

SPEAKER_01

And yeah, Christmas is exciting, yeah, magical.

SPEAKER_00

And then when we went to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg and stuff, and we did um, I can't even remember what we did each day, but one day we went snow tubing with with her, but they have an indoor snow tubing, so it was really easy. You know what I'm saying? Like, and you just buy tickets for like, I don't know, I think we did an hour, I don't know how long, I think it was an hour, but you just do it over and over and over. And she loved that, it was so much fun. Um we saw the fireworks, you know, just different things. So it was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I mean, children is what makes it so magical and so fun. And then when you don't have that, I'm like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So it it was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01

But my oldest nephew's married now, so maybe they'll have a kid. Well, not quite ready for a baby. But maybe in three or four years, yes, uh, I can start over and spoil another one. I love kids, so it just to me that makes it so fun.

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Yeah. And then I came, so we got back from that, like I said, I think we were gone like maybe we got there the 30th and came back on the second, so however many days that is. And then I kind of just came right back to work because, you know, it was like doing some stuff here, taking down Christmas. Oh, what really got me started was we got the auction feature on our app. So this was a big new upgrade to our app. And it's something that the comp I I had saw that they were developing this and they were doing it as like a test type thing. Well, I had been messaging the company that does our app saying, like, I want this, like, I want to be the next person. So we're like the second person in their app development that has this um feature, but with that, there were like issues or bugs or whatever. So it was like, so when we got the feature, I just kind of came back to work and started doing live sales while you were gone with auctions. And we were kind of like every day working on okay, what's not working right, what is working right, giving them feedback, them, you know. So that threw me right back into work, which I like um right after getting back for that, which was so different because in years past, I'm like technically pretty much off from Christmas until we go to market. So it just made the year start off different. Um love the auction.

SPEAKER_01

It stressed me out when I was in New York. Yeah. Because, you know, I I had to, you know, check it out, and I was like, oh my God, what's he doing? What's going on? When you don't know, um, you know, it just makes you wonder.

SPEAKER_00

The you know, the customers and the viewers are loving the auction. So it added a new fun element for us. So I really got in thrown into that, and then you got back like what Friday, and then we or did you get back Thursday night? Thursday night. And then Sunday we went to market, like and we were there 10 days because we extended it a day, or did we end up being there eleven?

SPEAKER_01

Eleven. It was not very good planning on my part because I had two days to do laundry, get caught up, get past see you did the schedule that I normally do every year when we go to Florida. Yeah, and it because I normally come back on a Thursday and we go to I need a little more cushion and I it it market has never been that early, so I didn't even think about it. Yeah, and I didn't even look at it, and then I was like, ooh. But it was fine. I was like, oh my god, I'm gonna be like dead exhausted because New York was we were busy.

SPEAKER_00

I was just like, please don't come back with the flu or the covet or anything and be sick the week ago.

SPEAKER_01

We tried so we we tried to be so careful. We uh we actually got out the mask for the plane. You know, we wore the mask on the plane. I'm like, you know, this probably doesn't work. I don't know if it works or not, but I just am gonna feel guilty if I don't try to try something.

SPEAKER_00

That's how so when we you know we were in Pigeon Forge and it was crowded, especially like New Year's Eve and stuff like that. But we got back, like I said, on the so I had like a full week, but that from that week that I was back and I only came to the warehouse. I was like, I cannot get sick because what if we both get sick? Because I was like, you probably had the higher chance. I'm getting sick and market is so important. One of us has to be, you know, good. So that week between there, I would only come to the warehouse and usually like after they were close. Like I'll had like no contacts.

SPEAKER_01

I was like, well, and we were very careful because you know what works more than anything, what is best is hand washing. Getting drunk. Hand washing and sanitizing. I thought like hand sanitizer. Drinking alcohol. No. So we kept sanitizing. We went through so much. My hands were so dry. Yeah, and dry and dry. And and it was um it was really fun, but we didn't get it. That's good. Yep. And we and we did that at market too.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So then coming on along, we went straight to the Atlanta market where I just said we were there for like 10 days or so.

SPEAKER_01

Um And that was really fun too.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it was a lot of fun. It was way hectic this time, not hectic, busy this time. I think we tried to work in even more live sales than we normally do. Well, the problem is that's not really a problem, as we've started doing live sales at market with vendors, like a lot of people used to tell us no. Like we don't want to do that during market. And then slowly, as we've either asked them repeatedly or we've done it with different vendors, now they're asking us to come to, like, oh, are y'all gonna come do a live sale with us when you're here? So it keeps building the amount of vendors that want us to do it. And of course, we're there, like, well, yeah, because you know, the viewers and customers like it and they're getting to shop market, and then we, you know, obviously like selling stuff while we're at market. And so we've added so many live sales, then it also makes the time for shopping so much shorter because you don't realize how much time it takes. We've said this before, to set up a live sale, even at market. Like, even like if you're shopping on one side of market and you're like, oh, we got a live at 11. Well, you gotta stop like an hour ahead of time because you gotta, it's gonna take you 30 minutes to walk there, and then you gotta get set up, and then you gotta relocate, you know, find the items in the showroom.

SPEAKER_01

But here's the thing in my opinion, it was not the lives and it was not our schedule. Uh this was the busiest January market I have ever been to in 17 years. It was a very big market. Without a doubt, I uh you know, I'm not going to try to be an economist on here um and predict anything because it would probably be wrong like most people. But if I were judging the economy based on market attendance for January, I would say, wow, it's gonna be things are gonna be really good. It was so busy.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and I would really, and the vendors were like, oh my gosh, this is the best market we've had in years. And you know, you and I both love that sort of thing, like the the business side. And I just want to, I want to know why. I want to interview because is it just because last July the market was actually very slow? So are people like, did they sell through? And they're like, oh my gosh, I gotta go to market. Are they hopeful? Is their business that good? Is it a combination? Like, like you said, like what does it really indicate? I think people for the last year have bought probably more conservatively because of all of the turbulence with tariffs and that sort of thing, um, you know, that affect all aspects of business. I so maybe they were like, okay, well, we got through that, we understand that, we've, you know, we're still going. And maybe they were just like, let me get back to normal. I don't know. I don't know. I just would love to know. Cause it was the literally, I've been going to market now since I was 18. And I'm now almost 30 years.

SPEAKER_01

And I've been going 17 years.

SPEAKER_00

Not quite 30 years. I'm only gonna be 14 years old. 27.

SPEAKER_01

27 years. You've been going 10 years longer than I am.

SPEAKER_00

But it's literally like the busiest market I can remember in the last like for sure 15 years.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, and it 17 for sure, because that was the during recession. Oh, yeah, was back in the yeah, it's it's been probably the busiest in the last 20 years for sure.

SPEAKER_00

It's crazy. It was so we ended up when we were there. I I wish I'd had the facts, but we did like I can't remember how many lives, almost 30. 28 lives while we were there.

SPEAKER_01

I forgot the number of orders and we did like a hundred and ten thousand dollars in live sales. Yeah, so it was amazing. In thousands of orders, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

It's so it's so crazy that we can go there and do that now. Um, just the live sales just changed the dynamic of everything. Oh, yeah. It's so crazy. Um, so we went and did that, and that was all good. And then let's see, we got back and we didn't really do any.

SPEAKER_01

So Daniel's 40th birthday is on January 23rd.

SPEAKER_00

So, and Dylan's is on the 25th.

SPEAKER_01

Mm-hmm. Um So that Friday was Daniel's birthday. So we we went to uh Hall's Chop House, had a nice dinner for both of their birthdays. That was nice. It was yummy.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, Daniel turned 40. That was yeah, so he's now in the 40 club, and I'll be 45 in March. Um I know you're almost 50. I'm not almost 50. If I'm almost 50, you're almost 60. You know what?

SPEAKER_01

It does not matter to me.

SPEAKER_00

Uh which is fine. If I if I feel like this at 50, 60 or 70, I'm fine with it. So um, so I guess we went to dinner on Friday night, Daniel's birthday. Did we actually go? Was his birthday on Friday? Did we go on Daniel's birthday? Okay, okay. Um, so then was Saturday when the ice storm came? Yeah. Oh, that's right. Uh yeah, because we got reservations last minute. You were able, we were able to change.

SPEAKER_01

I couldn't get, yeah. If at first it was just un, you know, it I didn't mean for it this way be this way, but for dinner was just gonna be Dylan and I because I couldn't get reservations. And then that Friday earlier, and I said, you know, I bet people are gonna be canceling. Because there's ice storm. I bet they're not gonna be coming to Greenville for the weekend. And I called, and what do you know?

SPEAKER_00

What do you know?

SPEAKER_01

I was able to get it, and they had all kinds of options. Right. So that's and then funny thing, it was Dylan's birthday, so I was like, oh my god, just you know, have PTSD from Helene and no power for 11 days. And I was like, are we gonna be without power? So I pro just with being taking precautions, booked us at the Grand Bohemian, because I was like, Well, it's his 30th birthday. I might as well do something fun.

SPEAKER_00

Especially if the power was gonna go.

SPEAKER_01

Right. And then the power wasn't off, and Dylan was like, Well, I don't want to leave home and go down there and pay all this money to sit in a hotel room and nothing is open downtown. I'm like, You're right.

SPEAKER_00

So on that Saturday, we got an ice storm, and it was really icy in um, but it didn't get as bad as they had predicted that it might, thankfully, because it was still, I mean, you know, we were closed down for days, and that's why the podcast we didn't get back on. We had planned like the last week of January um or the first week of February, but that weekend that we would have recorded and been ready was this ice storm. Well, you know, when you're in the south, like we are here, they start janking up things three days at least three days before it messes up all your traffic and all the business, and then you're preparing and all of this stuff. And then we had the ice storm, which it, you know, we did need to prepare because it iced, but wasn't too bad. Then you'll not have to go knock the ice off the high tunnels and the greenhouses and stuff like that. But luckily, we never lost power. It ended up not being as bad. So, like you said, you had booked that, which would have been great if the power had gone out. Y'all would have had a little retreat there. Would have been fun. But you didn't end up going because the power didn't go out. So we got through that. That was on it came in on Saturday. His birth Dylan's birthday was on Sunday, and it kind of we got the stores reopened Monday at noon, right? Is that when we got it? Well, hell, next the next Saturday, here came the snowstorm.

SPEAKER_01

We opened, did we open at noon on Monday or Tuesday? I can't remember. I think it was Tuesday.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. Well, we got back open, and then the same next the very next Saturday, starting in the morning, we got a damn snowstorm.

SPEAKER_01

It literally screwed our business for two weeks.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And so then we were closed Saturday, Sunday, and got open noon on that Monday. Was that this past Monday? Mm-hmm. Oh, it seems like a year ago. Cause what the that's what I was telling someone. Oh, we went to Daniel's family's um, I think it's his dad's birthday and great aunt, and I was just talking, we were just talking, and I was like, I think it was there. But I was like, you just can't enjoy when you're a business owner like this snow days, like you could, you know, because we were first of all worried about is the power gonna go out? And Daniel has all of his tulips and stuff being forced in the greenhouse, like, you know, we had the generators ready. Um, and then it was icing. So is that the ice is very heavy. So is it gonna collapse the greenhouses and high tunnels? And so, like, we were worried that whole thing. And then when you're shut down as a business, you're like, when are we gonna get open? When are we gonna get open? Are we gonna open tomorrow? You know, so we were back on that train and then we got open and it was like, whoa, everything's good. And then here came the snowstorm, and it's exact exact same thoughts, but at least with the snowstorm, we weren't as worried about the power going out and that sort of thing. And so we had a nice little like half a day, I think. We didn't worry about it as much. I don't know. Well, and then we got back open this past Monday, right?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, all right, and it late, but you know, even that screwed up Monday, like in South Carolina, weather like that just screws up the days of in the in days before and just wipes out so much time.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And so other than that, I think that catches you up to date on kind of where we've been, like life things going on. Um, I know in the live sales, people have asked, and we told the stories on here about Mr. Kitty, though. And if you're following along, Mr. Kitty is still at the farm. He hasn't taken any trips lately, so we're we're good. People even on Instagram messaged me just to check in with this cat. And if you don't know, we told it in previous episodes, but we got this cat. It liked to get up in the cars and take rides places, and it's been kind of all over the city, and we'd have to go find it. But he has stayed put since his last um time. So Mr. Kitty is good.

SPEAKER_01

So I've never seen a cat do like that. I've never seen an animal other than a homing pigeon do like that cat. Right. Never.

SPEAKER_00

It it's crazy. He's it's button.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, I would have left that damn cat somewhere a long time ago. Uh no, you would have.

SPEAKER_00

You told me just leave it, it's fine. But he's so sweet now. And he but now he's gotten bigger, I think, and he knock on wood hasn't been getting even in the car.

SPEAKER_01

Like is he friendlier?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, he's friendly now. Well, that was a job. It was.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, that cat was a pain in the ass.

SPEAKER_00

I really worked worked on that one. Um, so that's kind of where where we are. Yeah. And kind of caught up on just general life stuff. In this winter starting our Steven started his diet. I've kind of started a diet. I've only lost a pound and a half, but I've started.

SPEAKER_01

Here's what I'm doing. I'm not really dieting. I have just changed the way I'm eating so that I can make more of a lifestyle change. Right. And I've lost 16 pounds. And you look good. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00

I mean I know that's what in the past, Daniel and I've done. And Daniel's done the same thing. He's he's ahead of me. You know, you get you get on track, then you fall off track, especially in the wintertime. And I'm off track right, but I'm getting on the track. But that's what we've always done. We haven't really dieted. It's just like we review, like, okay, what do I need to make sure I cut out? Like I told you, like, you know, I always my go-to things are like, okay, I'm gonna cut out cheese. I'm gonna cut out anything fried, I'm gonna, you know, that sort of thing. And if you just make a few simple changes without like having to restrict your whole entire diet, it really does, you know, start to come off and that sort of thing. But I um I haven't uh I know I've started last week I started going to the gym a lot and stuff. I'm I'm getting there. But you know, it's hard for us. You started doing good um because you went to New York City and you were walking a lot, and that kind of set you off. But I was at home, and then like when we go to market, it's hard to be because we have to eat out, and you know, eating out just isn't the same. And we did really good.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know how I listen, I have never been that disciplined at market.

SPEAKER_00

Me either, and I'm still pissed about it. That's why I've been a little more resistant to it because I was good. I drank a like a protein drink in the room before I left in the morning. We did not eat the bowls of candy they had out and around. We ate good at dinner. I came home and weighed the exact same.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I was like there's there's this whole theory about travel weight and how your body reacts to travel and cortisol. I mean, there's this whole thing when you read on it. And I'm just not sure it's possible to really lose weight when you're traveling. So it's really lucky, you're lucky if you just stay the same. That's true. Because there is a I mean, there's a whole kind of thing, you know, you don't poop as much, you don't I mean it's it's true. Amen. You don't you don't you're not sleeping as well because you're not in your bed, and I mean there's this all this it is true, this stuff that affects your weight and your your whole metabolism. So yeah. So it's just hard. I don't know how people that travel every week how they are not huge.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I know. Maybe you adjust to that lifestyle, you know. After a while, maybe you adjust to being you know, interrupting.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know, you know, because Dylan and I are going, we we've been going to market except for November, December. We go like a week a month. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So um not this week, but next week will be our first week at market together. The week of the 16th. And we're doing live sales all week. So I am I'm interested to see how we do with uh traveling for the whole week. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And the key for me is starting the day outright, eating a lot of protein for breakfast. And it's usually Greek yogurt, but um, you know, hopefully the hotel will have a nice breakfast. Yeah. I don't, you know, I'm kind of I normally we normally always stay at the Marriott Marquee in downtown, but that Tuesday night was eleven hundred dollars a night, and then that Wednesday was like eight fifty.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know, we're too cheap for that.

SPEAKER_01

I said, I don't think so. So I kept digging in the Bonvoy app, and then somehow, some way, I got rooms at like the Ritz Carlton for like$249 a night. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00

I They must be having a big convention there.

SPEAKER_01

I yeah, I guess, but how did I find that? Like it was it was weird how I found it, but I got it. It's locked in, but I don't know what their breakfast situation I know we'll get a free breakfast, but you know, when you're used, I'm used to some eggs, you'll be fine. I'm used to the Marriott though. Because we've got the Starbucks, we've got our coffee, you know, so that's gonna throw me off.

SPEAKER_00

But it'll be fine. That'd be fun. It'll be fun. The week of the 16th, which that's when Daniel and I will be in Florida at the Gotta.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. So if you're listening and you uh follow our live sales, that's gonna be a fun, busy week of live sales in Atlanta. When we do live sales at America's Mart in Atlanta, but we also are going out to outlying warehouses and doing live sales there as well. So it's it's it's different. Yeah, so mix-up.

SPEAKER_00

It's a lot and it's a lot of fun. It is. And if you don't have our app yet, what you're waiting on. It's uh it's tagged in the caption below in the show notes of the podcast. Wherever you're listening to it, you can always hit to say like the description or whatever. I always have it tagged there. Or you can just search the nested fig in your app store for your phone, tablet, Android, or Apple. We are there and you can watch us live. Um, what else? Do you have any New Year's goals? We don't we talked about that. I don't set New Year's resolutions, do you?

SPEAKER_01

No, I don't have um I don't have any New Year's resolutions, mainly just tightening down on spending because we have spent a lot personally for the past few years. So I'm like, okay, we need to tighten down and you know, just um save a little more. Yeah, be a little bit more mindful. Okay, not crazy, not crazy, still have to live. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Uh-huh. And then you go to New York City and buy you some treats. No. What about do y'all watch the Olympics just started? Do you watch any of that?

SPEAKER_01

I mean, uh I will watch it every now and then. Yeah. But it's not something I do like religiously.

SPEAKER_00

You know, I haven't watched TV really in years. I used to love watching the Olympics, but I don't know if I'll get into them this year or not.

SPEAKER_01

I, you know, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. It's not it's if if if I do, it's just because, oh, let me watch this for a minute.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

But then I'm like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I used to get into it, but I just I just I just randomly stopped watching TV, not intentionally. But I know you're a TV person, so I was asking. Yeah. Like you watch TV, like you have it on in your bedroom all the way. At night. So I just I'm not a daytime. Yeah. No. And and you really just have it on a I feel like a lot of times for just noise, more than you're like you don't really are or maybe you do, maybe I don't know. Are you invested in shows? Like, do you watch, do you keep up with you don't you just always have on like true crime or whatever? Like you don't you don't follow like any sitcoms or like binge watch any uh sometimes we'll watch netf some Netflix series, but that's two or three times a year.

SPEAKER_01

Most of the time I'm on Instagram, Facebook, scrolls.

SPEAKER_00

That's why I didn't know if y'all like really got invested.

SPEAKER_01

Dylan is always watching some kind of series. Oh, is he? Well, he's either watching a series or tennis or tennis. And you love it. Uh, uh I you know, here's the thing racket sports are so healthy for you. And I wish I wish that I played, but I don't.

SPEAKER_00

I still think we need to go learn to play pickleball.

SPEAKER_01

I th I think so. I think so. You know, and Dylan and I are going to Uh, Miami in March, the end of March, and I guess this is our annual thing. We're going to the Miami Open, and then I guess in the fall, I guess we will go to New York and we're gonna go to the U.S. Open. Oh. Well, I told him last year we would do the U.S. Open. Uh-huh. So I guess we'll go to New York and do the U.S. Open. That sounds fun.

SPEAKER_00

Let me know when I should book my hotel. I mean, I'm not going to the U.S. Open, but I'll go to New York.

SPEAKER_01

I'm not going to I you know, depending on the ticket, I know. I'm not going to the Miami Open because it's just too hot there.

SPEAKER_00

You're just gonna let him go by himself again.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, well, I take him. I know and pick him up.

SPEAKER_00

But is that fun? Does he like being there by himself?

SPEAKER_01

I mean he doesn't care. He doesn't. As long as he's got tenants, he does not care. Yeah. He is like all into it. Yeah. And you know, listen, I am happy we can go. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I don't know. I can see you up there in the stamp. Maybe you maybe you need to go to this Miami Open. When is the Miami Open? March. In March. Into March. It can't be that. It won't be that hot then. No, you just have to wear sunscreen. But maybe you should go, and maybe if you really went and watched it in person, you would like it a lot better. You might get into it. I mean, maybe. And I think we need to learn pickleball. I think there's a pickleball like facility that's opened here or ne or about to open. We need to go take some classes, and that can also be an extra workout for us is playing pickleball. Because I bet I could beat you.

SPEAKER_01

It's what all the old people are doing.

SPEAKER_00

Not all. It's not all old.

SPEAKER_01

Not all.

SPEAKER_00

And we're old. So we need to play pickleball. I mean, I'm I'm all about it.

SPEAKER_01

I'm all about it. And oh, one thing pickleball or mahjong. So oh God, not mahjong. I can't stand it. I think um and one thing I'm doing, and I'm planning, um, I'm planning it, you know, because of my schedule and everything else. So this time next year, I will be getting m my first facelift. Oh, yeah, you see. And I'm not, um, you know, I'm not one of those people. I'm not gonna pretend like I'm not, or I didn't, or anything.

SPEAKER_00

I know, we're gonna start a countdown. Yeah. 90 days until Steven's face.

SPEAKER_01

And we're going, you're gonna see pictures of me. Oh my god. And I'm not, okay, I'm not doing a full, full facelift. I'm doing a lower facelift.

SPEAKER_00

So well, that you know what? That just signed the podcast up for at least the season. We're in season four now. We gotta go.

SPEAKER_01

We gotta hit four and a half.

SPEAKER_00

Well, at least get four and a half because that's some good content there. Because I gotta, we gotta get through the full healing process to see if you love it or don't.

SPEAKER_01

I do dread it. I do dread it, but I'm at the point where I was like when I had my hair transplant. I want it so bad I really don't care about the pain. Yeah. Or discomfort. I'm like, I know it won't, it'll be short-lived. I'd be glad when it's over. So I'm doing the lower facelift with deep planing. Um I just want to look like I'm rested. You were probably I'll probably I I scar for a long time and then it tak it goes away, but it takes forever. So people are gonna see the scars anyway. And I don't care. I don't care. So it's funny, people are always like, Oh are you gonna and I was like, I am telling whatever. I don't I I could care less. You know, if you and I don't I don't wanna look 20, I don't want to look 30, I'm not trying to look that age, I just want to look the best at 53 I can.

SPEAKER_00

Right. And the end. Yeah. Um, yeah, you've always said you're gonna tell everyone, and there's no need to hate it.

SPEAKER_01

Uh next February, I'm scheduling. I just feel like that's a good time for the business.

SPEAKER_00

It is. We're getting into the year. Like right now would be a great time. You need to have it the week after Valentine's Day.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. And uh, because I think I just need five or six days and I'll be good. That was my main because I had my hair transplant in December. That was a little inconvenience with Christmas. Right. So I thought, and January's really busy, so February was my choice. Yeah. February is good. I'm not doing surgery, elective surgeries in hot weather. Yeah, nothing good gonna come of that.

SPEAKER_00

Or you could do it right before like Daniel Dylan's birthday, like around the 20th.

SPEAKER_01

Mm-mm. D C uh January's too busy. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Uh that's why I chose it getting back into the new year and everything.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and then you know, it'll be the new meeting for my birthday in March.

SPEAKER_00

So we have the one year countdown starting now to Stephen. Took me a minute to commit to it.

SPEAKER_01

Cause you know, I was like, oh and then I was like, okay, I gotta do it.

SPEAKER_00

You know what's funny? You've been talking about doing that you would do or you're gonna do. You've even thought about doing it before, a facelift. But knowing you as your friend, I can tell just the way you've started talking about it in the last three months, like you're gonna do it next year. Like I can tell your mind. You know that before it was like, I'm gonna get a, I'm probably gonna get a facelift like next year, or I'm gonna probably get one when I'm like 50, or I'm probably gonna get one, but then in the last three months, I can tell you've already made up your mind and you're reminding yourself every day, like, oh, I'm getting a facelift next March. Oh, I have to have to do that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I have to do no next February, 12 months. I have to do that with myself, and that's what I did with my teeth, that's what I did with my hair transplant. It's just I gotta do it. It's just and you know, my teeth are the next thing, because you know, listen, if y'all think about getting braces or invisible or anything, don't um I did that, it it works and then it doesn't, and it's expensive and it's painful. So what you know, what I did was I did I crowned my teeth. Well, they don't really tell you when you do that. That's good for about 20 years, and then that starts looking a little and you gotta get them redone. So I I'm you know, I'm I'm buying time on that to take me to the funeral home. I figure the next time I get them done, I'm good to the uh I'll be good to the grave, you know? So if you wait, you think you're gonna wait till you're like, you know 56, 57, I'm good after the I mean you hit 80, who gives a shit? If your teeth are yeah.

SPEAKER_00

My trouble is is I grind say that now, but then you'll be 80 before you know it, and you'll be getting your teeth done. I know. It's just like everything's upkeep.

SPEAKER_01

But you know what? You just gotta keep going and be happy and thankful you're on this side of the grass and keep on moving. But yeah, I will uh I will tell you everything there you want to know about the uh the facelift and how it goes. You're gonna see it all. Wesley will um Wesley will doc Wesley and and Dylan will document every um last detail of it. I can assure you of that.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, we will. I'm gonna get, I haven't even told you this, but I you know, we went to um an opening the other night for a med spa, is that what you call it? Um, and they had the reps there, not just from the place, but from you know, the vendors or whatever. And I'm gonna get they have a cool, cool laser, I think's what they call it for my face. So I'm gonna do that.

SPEAKER_01

They're gonna I'm starting that too. That will be done all this year. I'm doing um laser treatments. Yeah, and it's um getting me prepped for my face.

SPEAKER_00

So that's what they were like looking at because you know, I have a couple of sunspots or H spots or whatever you want to call them, but really it's from the sun from working out the garden center forever not wearing. Um, and so that's what they recommended. So when I was there, they did a little sample on my hand so you can feel what it was like or whatever. And it wasn't it no, it was tingly. And then that night when I got home, I was like, oh, this does kind of feel like uncomfortable or whatever. I was like, oh, how would this because it's on the back of your hand, which I guess would be similar to your face, but I didn't do anything. I didn't, it wasn't enough to think about, but I was just like, oh, I can feel it. Then the next day I woke up and it was there was no pain or anything. And they showed me pictures of like day one, day two. So I really want to have that done like soon. Cause you need to do it before you don't need to do it when it's like summertime and you're in the sun as much, which I'm not in the sun.

SPEAKER_01

Will it do anything for all your wrinkles, like all this around here that help all that? Yeah. Yes. And the black eyes and stuff will do anything.

SPEAKER_00

Listen, bitch. There's only so much I can do. I'm so cute. I want to start with the um this laser, which they do do under your eyes, but then there are some other treatments I could do under there. But we're gonna start with this.

SPEAKER_01

You may disagree with me and tell me, because you know, I have some I have some wrinkles around my eyes. But that might be no for a man on a man anyway. Yeah. I I'm very reluctant to do anything to mess with my eyes because I've seen so many bad facelips.

SPEAKER_00

I don't really want to do any like stretching of my eyes or anything like that, but I would do some. They had something, um, I forget the name of it now, and it's not a like a filler, but something I'm not doing any fillers that you can do under your eyes and your whole face that regenerates, that helps regenerate collagen. So you're gonna see, I mean, it's not some, it's not the same as getting a facelift. But there are there's improvements. So I would do something like that, but I don't want any fillers and I don't want any stretching. That was my number one thing. My eyes. I in my But I'll do the Botox and I'll do laser.

SPEAKER_01

My plastic surgeon here, she's in Greenville, and when I have it done, I'll tell you all the information. I really, really, really she did my hair transplant. I really, really like her. She's a board certified plastic surgeon. She does my Botox. And what I like about her is she keeps it very, very, very natural. She uses no fillers. She personally doesn't like that look, so she doesn't do that look.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And um, I really was, I had not seen her work as a you know, as a from a facelift standpoint. Yeah. And then coincidentally, a friend of mine had a facelift. I did not know that my doctor was doing it. And I was just blown away at how great she looked. And so it kind of confirmed, okay, that I need to stick with my person. Right. Because I'm comfortable with her, I trust her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And um, you know, she's cut on me before, so well, I can't wait because so it gives us something to look forward to. One year encounting to the facelift of Steven. It's gonna be on here and be like, oh girl, you you oozing over here out of this scar.

SPEAKER_01

I can just hear you now telling Dylan, get no get all this, get in the because she um, you know, she let my mom come into the shirt into the surgical room. Yeah, and I did your hair. I put a stop to that real quick. Because I knew my mother, my mother would be going, Oh, God, oh, are you okay, honey? Oh, and I was like, no, no, and no, because I was wake. That took eight and a half hours. Yeah. And I was awake for that. I will never be awake for any cosmetic surgery ever again. And um, so that is a no-no, but I don't care if I don't care if Dylan was in there. Yeah. Well, if I'm out.

SPEAKER_00

You're gonna he if he can get in there or get any video or any content, we want it all for sure.

SPEAKER_01

It's gonna be you're you look awful. Yeah. You do, but it's okay. It's all right. It's all right. But we're I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be back at it. And you know, we just had to get back on the horse and here we are.

SPEAKER_00

Well, we meant to come back sooner, but like I said, well, we intentionally weren't gonna be back until the last week of August. Um August. Hell last week of January. Um, so we're only like what, a week or two behind. But we got the snowstorm got us thrown off. So we are back. I think that kind of catches you up on the everyday. Um, we'll get into next week. Uh, we got to talk about market trends and that sort of thing. In Christmas 2026.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. We've got a lot to talk about on the next podcast.

SPEAKER_00

And so we will um talk about that. Oh, we had another like scandal here. We got to talk about that too. We got we had a little, we had a the that was what delayed us last week was we had a little scandal in the business. Juicy juicy. We did. Stephen almost had to kick someone's ass. I was gonna pull hair and he was gonna throw punches, but it worked. Well, it worked, it's it's settled. Yeah. But anyway, we'll talk about that. So we got lots of things to talk about um coming up, but we wanted to uh get back for season four, episode one. Remember, there's no video version, but you can still go to the who's driving podcast.com. Um, if you need to listen to any of the past episodes or anything like that, it's all there. Um, and we'll be telling you more like what to find on there and everything like that. But we're gonna pull this baby over for this week and we'll see you back here. Remember, anywhere you're listening to our podcast, leave us a review. Only if it's good. Amen. Only if it's good. If it's not good, if you are like, you know what, I just cannot stand y'all, and I hate your podcast. Don't listen. Don't listen. Just turn it off. You don't need to leave a review. No review needed. But it truly does help us if you'll leave us a review wherever you're listening to the podcast. And even if you've done one before, you may can do one again. Um, uh, you know, a fresh one or something.

SPEAKER_01

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SPEAKER_00

And share us with your friends. But that's it for this week, and we'll see you next time. Bye, guys.