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Who's Driving- Awe Poop It Happens S4 E5

• Wesley Turner • Season 4 • Episode 5

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We swap alcohol for THC drinks, revisit the scrappy years of our shop and wedding work, and spill a chaotic market story that proves humor keeps us moving. 

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Road Trip Vibes And Banter

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Let's go, Coco. Buckle up, bitches. Oh, it's time for another episode of Who's Driving. Welcome to Who's Driving. I'm Wesley Carter.

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And I'm Steven Merck. We're Two Best Friends and Entrepreneurs.

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Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendships, 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 party.

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Buckle up and enjoy the ride.

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You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride. We are back for another fun filled ride. We need a hitchhiker. We gotta get some hitchhikers to come along with us. I'm tired of hearing all that.

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Well, I really liked what one of our listeners had um sent, and I think it might have been an autocorrect. And she was referring to our podcast and referred it to who's drinking.

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Yeah, instead of who's driving. I kind of like that. I know. We're like, oh, who's drinking?

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Who's drinking?

THC Drinks Vs Alcohol

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Speaking of who's drinking and driving. Right. Who's drinking, who's driving? Um speaking of drinking, we haven't talked about this. What? You need to get, I need to bring you one. If we didn't have to stay here, we're at the warehouse recording. We could I could bring us each one. But when we were in Florida, we got the THC drinks. You can get them at the liquor store.

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So word on the street. You told me about those now. They're pulling them.

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Well, they're going to because that was yeah, well, there's a that's what's up for debate because it's Oh Lord, that's all in that bill. It's in the bill, in whatever bill. But um that affects um hemp and everything. So I don't know how it's. But it's a drink with THC. See, it has no alcohol in it. Or the one that I got has no alcohol. Can you get one like sugar-free? I'm sure. I will go. I let me do some research and I will find you one. Sugar-free man.

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So it's basically instead of an edible, it's a drinkable.

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Yes. Yes, yes. And it was good. Is it like brownies? Um is it that feeling? Yes, conda. It's a they I mean, I'm not condoning or whatever. I had just never tried to be kind of I'm condoning. And it's funny, someone, an employee had told us about them or whatever. I'm not gonna get into names, but an employee had said, have you ever tried that? I'm like, what are you talking about? And she's like, I had never, but you can get them at like the liquor store and whatever. So when we were in Florida, we were the liquor store was next to the grocery store, and we were just like, now would be a good time to just try that.

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So it was it was and the funny thing is, is I okay, I do not drink alcohol. I have not drank in almost two years. Right. Um, but I I would drink that before I would alcohol because personally, this is just my belief. I'm not saying it's accurate, so don't send in and you're wrong, you're wrong, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's a gateway. Okay. Um, but personally, I feel better about ingesting THC into my body than I do alcohol. Yeah. Just, I mean, that's just my personal feeling. So it would be kind of cool to have that. Obviously, you wouldn't drink or you wouldn't drive after drinking that. Right, right. You would treat it as an as an alcohol. Right. But if it's the feeling of like an animal, I love it.

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Because we were at um, you know, the beach cottage, and our neighbors that own their beach cottage were there, and they're so much fun. And they were like, come over, we'll play cards tonight, and da-da-da. So we're like, we'll get these. And then I was like, is this the wrong thing to do? Like when you're at someone's house, which was just next door, and have never done it before. Maybe. But uh, it was worth the risk. And it was a good I don't drink either. I mean, I will have a random drink, but usually not because now I'm like, I mean, I'm not gonna drink enough to get it's calories, and then yeah, I'm not I'd rather have a dessert. Me too. You know what I'm saying? I only am gonna drink when I'm out at a restaurant, maybe having dinner or something. You know, I might get a margarita at the Mexican restaurant or something like that. But then I'm like, mm, I'd rather just save that and go home and eat candy. I don't know.

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My drug, my drug is sugar.

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And right. And I've never liked the feeling of being buzzed. I don't know.

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I don't like the I've never I've never seen you drunk.

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Yeah. Ever. Yeah. I don't think it's I don't think it's. I never liked it not having the feeling of control. But now the THC is just a more and a little, you know, I love it all. I get a little giggly. I love it all. So we were there. We actually got it. The liquor store was next to the grocery, like connected with um oh gosh, what is the one? It doesn't matter. We have food line. Wend Dixie or whatever, which Daniel's like, I don't know. Wendixie inverse. That's a nice one. But it's a nice one down there. It is nice. And I forget the lady's name that was helping us, like in the liquor store. You know, she was in her 50s and just she was like, we were like, have you ever had these? And she's like, Oh yeah. So she started telling us all about them. So it was good. We had like the 10 milligram. I guess you can get, you know, hype. She's like, Well, I like the 20 milligram ones, but I would start with the 10. You can have two. And I was like, okay. So and then she was like, some brands, I can't remember which brand we got. I picked up one brand. She's like, uh, I wouldn't get that one. I mean, she's like, it's all the same, but you can taste it a lot more in that one. Like kind of uh didn't bother me. Like a kind of weed taste or whatever. Um, so she's like, get this one. And it was good, you know, it was like passion fruit or something like that. But well, I so I think she's I want to try them.

Beach Cottage Cards And Sobriety Choices

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Yeah. I know I do want to try that. And you know, I I don't want first of all, I don't want to smoke anything. Um period. I don't, I've never smoked cigarettes. I don't like smoking marijuana because it's not pleasant. It burns my throat, you know, when I have, when I was younger. Right. So that doesn't appeal to me. Um and if I smoke it, I'm worthless. I would be, I'm a worthless bum. I st I would stay in bed for three days. So that's a that's not an option for me. Right. And um, but with and I can't be I can't be a drunk. I would have been a drunk, but uh it makes me feel like crap the next day.

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Other thing with drinking, I do not want any type of hangover makes me feel bad. Hell no, I'm not doing it. And nothing can get in the way of me being productive. That cost me money. Nope. So the first time you know I ever experienced marijuana gardening of such was on my front porch. Was this influence over here was like you just gotta try.

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You were 30. It was time.

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I was 30. Dang, that was 15 years ago.

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It was time. Oh my god I would he said he never did it, guys.

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I just had to say Stephen said, Okay, you're gonna do it on the front porch. That's when we lived next door for a short time. We lived next door to Stephen.

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There's no telling what my neighbors saw.

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I know. I guess we lived there for like a year or maybe a little over a year next door to you.

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Stephen.

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Your neighbors saw all kinds of stuff. Steven used to um just leave his windows open, walk around the house in his underwear. Your neighbors could see him.

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Yeah, I carried the the trash to the street in his underwear. In my underwear, and they would stop and say, Can you put some clothes on? I'm like, I will when I get ready to go to work, but I'm not yet. And I mean the neighbors would just they just got I mean, I lived there 21 years. Yeah, they saw me, they they probably saw me naked. Probably because see the front door was all glass and I didn't cover that up.

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No, it was listening you never knew what you were gonna see when you looked over there.

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You try hard enough, you're gonna see like when they built the townhomes beside the mill, the developer went to Clemson, and so I whether he wanted me to have input or not, I had lots of input on those. And um I s he said that he was gonna live there. And I was like, okay. I said, well, just you need to know I have seven windows of those huge windows on this one side.

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Uh-huh.

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And there's no window coverings. And there's not gonna be. There's not gonna be, and I walk around naked. So I'm just gonna go ahead and let you know that.

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Yeah, so pick your unit accordingly.

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He said, I will I will pick across the way. Yeah. I said, okay. Just letting you know. Yeah. That's funny. The funny thing is I the fur one of the first people that lived there was a young, I don't know, maybe 30s, young professional.

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Yeah.

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He he would get out of the shower and come out naked.

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Well, what is supposed to do?

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Everybody could just some people don't. They're not as fun. Oh.

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I walk, well, I'm everywhere naked on the farm.

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I mean, it's convenient.

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Oh my gosh. I mean, you know what, whatever. But Steven, when he when we lived next door to him, uh he wasn't in any relationship or seeing anybody. And he would just, he was bacheloring it up, and he never had food or anything in his house. No food, not even none. For like months at a time.

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No, I went to the neighbor, I had keys to the neighbors' houses.

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Or to our house, and he would just come in and open our what y'all got in here today. Yeah. Can you get some more of that?

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It was next time. It was really good when um before Ashley and Ryan moved in when Scott and Marsha lived next door.

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Before the assholes moved in? Mm-hmm.

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Well, they're bet they're it's just him.

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Nah, he they're an asshole.

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But when Scott and Marsha live there, Marsha is a good cook.

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Uh-huh.

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And they would go, you know, on trips and so nice. She's so nice. And she always kept MMs in the in the pantry. And so I always had a key to their house.

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Yeah.

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And I was hungry. And I would go get their snacks and eat them. And she she never complained. She never said, um, did you still are stuck? I think if I went to in her house, in her new house now, and stuff was missing from the pantry, she would probably text me and say, Have you been by our house? Yeah. That's funny. That's the kind of neighbors I like.

Neighbors, Naked Windows, And Old Stories

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That reminds me, I kind of I pulled up some, because I was thinking today, I just asked ChatGPT, I was like, What are some interview questions to ask your best friend? I haven't even told you this. So I have a little list here or whatever. And I haven't even read them. Like, I literally just did it while we were talking. But speaking of Marcia, who was your neighbor, I remember when Daniel and I first opened the garden store. She came in to buy you an arrangement, just a little happy little something. With my cat died. Because your cat had died. Yes. And I remember like, oh, my neighbor. And like we were new, like I had, you know, we had lived around the area, but I didn't know the people in the area. I mean, I'd worked at a garden center that wasn't far away. So uh some of the clientele I knew and recognized from my previous job, but then a lot I didn't. So she was like, My neighbor's cat died, and I wanted to take them a little something, da-da-da-da-da. And then I didn't realize that was you for like years. You were like, Remember when you Marsha got this for me for when my cat died or whatever? So one of the questions is what was the first thing you thought about me when we met? Like, do you remember? Because you remember Marsha got that and said, Oh, this plant store opened, which you thought was a weed store. A weed store, because it was called Roots, even though it was when we first met.

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What did I think? Um, I thought you were really nice. Yeah, my first thought was very nice, young, um, hard worker. Everything I like in a person.

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Yeah, that's why you kept coming around.

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Yeah, fun, so creative.

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So, Steven, if you don't know, he just started, he lived down the street, like a block from the store, and he just started stopping. He picked Wesley. Yeah, he just picked me like a stray cat and just started hanging out. And Daniel and I worked at the store together. I mean, at the time it was just me and Daniel. I don't think we had anybody else yet, like our first like employee or whatever. Um, and so Steven would start stopping in every day like five, five thirty. We closed at six, like after your work on his way home, he would just come in. And I remember thinking, like, why is he stopping here? You were like, he must want me. No, I really didn't think that. I just wasn't hadn't hit on you or no. No, nothing hit on me. I was just like, This is weird. Why is he stopping here every day? Because you were the first and only like adult friend. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I had moved to Greenville where I I didn't know anybody, you know. And um I mean, I had met Daniel or whatever, but and he had some friends from college, like random, but like you were the first person that like came around and like really turned it into a friendship. That's why they're still only because there ain't room for anybody else.

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You have to remember well, you had to go the extra mile with you. That's true. It had to it had to be I had to make it very convenient.

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That is true.

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Well, the in the I remember the first kind of nice friend thing I did is after we met, it was like the first of the year. No, it was in December. It was before Christmas.

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Was it?

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I don't exactly because y'all were trying to make the gingerbread store look like and it kept falling off.

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Yeah, it looked we just had to glue it. It was so cute. That got us a lot of attention, but we just had to re-glue it to the building every day. It was a damn mess. But the customers didn't know that until it like, you know, a piece of icing fell off on the car or something.

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But um you had mentioned the when your birthday was and I brought a McDonald's birthday.

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A Ronald McDonald birthday cake. I remember that.

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That was the first like friendly, nice thing I'd ever.

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Yeah. And then I think Daniel was more weird. It like because Daniel's five years younger than me, so that makes him 14 years younger than you. And he's like, What's this old man doing coming by? No, I'm just kidding. He was like, Why is he coming by? But it I mean, it wasn't anything. It was innocent. Yeah, it wasn't anything to it. And then we became besties because Steven, he did have to go the extra mile. He would it was very one-sided and I mean, kind of still it is.

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No, no, it was but it was it here's the thing. I I was broke. I just bought my first McDonald's, and you were broke, but it was a creative outlet for me. Yeah. So you would come by and help. Because a lot of the stuff, it and stuff, we did things that I really wouldn't wouldn't buy and do myself. Yeah. You know, it was it was doing different things. Yeah. And I mean, and I just things I had never done before, like a casket spray and weddings, and I never experienced in the training. Yeah, in the training was just do it.

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Listen, I taught you really well and you are great now. But it was just anything, that's the way you learn. It is just do it. And then I tell you what's wrong with it. Or like, oh, this is what I would have done next time. Like, there's just you either have the the know-how structurally, and you just need to fine-tune. Like with arrangements, a lot of times it's mixing textures. Like, don't put all harsh leaf plants together. You know, it's the same as decorating a house. Right.

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And it's the same as painting, doing a painting. It it's all an art. Yeah. And you either it is true. You either get it or you don't. Yeah, and then you can get tips that help tweak and improve. Yeah, and there's always little things we've learned. We've learned from employees too.

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Yeah, I'm like, oh, that's a good way to do that. You did how did you do that?

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That I yeah, still like to this day, I see things and I'm like, well, I'm still in that.

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Uh-huh. But so Steven started coming by and he would hang out, and then I was like, Well, if you're here, you need to help me do this display. I gotta redo this display.

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And then it was back in the beginning. Then it was like, um, we got to work tonight. I'm like, damn, I ain't getting paid.

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I know, but I I was there. He became so dependable. I'd be like, Steven, I got this wedding I have to work on. Can you will you help me? Yeah, that'd be fun. And we made it fun. We it was we have had so much fun working over.

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One time he did this wedding, y'all. I am not kidding. And um, you know, I started, I guess I pulled I pulled out of my poor, my, my poor days quicker than you just because of the business. Right. It was a obviously a different business. And so I am working my ass off on a wedding. And y'all, when we do a wedding, I'm just gonna tell you, first of all, if we ever do another wedding, you gotta be really rich to afford it.

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You're gonna need a loan.

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Yeah.

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No matter how rich you are, you're still gonna need a lot of loan.

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But but when we do a wedding or we do any event, we put our heart and our soul into it. And it's gonna be damn good. We had worked our asses off. I mean, watch the sun come up all night long. Literally, had to spend hours taking this up into the damn mountains. Yes, to the venue, and it was exhausting. And I said, I hope you're making like thousands on this. And you were like, I think I netted$500. Yes. I wanted to beat your ass. I was like, I would have given you$500 just to we could have just not done this. This is so true.

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But building the business, you had to do those things. It was part of building the business, and the budget for the bride wasn't enough for me. It we were still a newer business, and I was like happy to get it. Happy to get it, but it wasn't really about the money. I was thinking, okay, if I do what's in the budget, it's gonna be a little skimpy. And if people they don't know me as a business, are they gonna think I designed like this? Is it gonna be on me instead of on the bride?

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Yes, it would be.

How Our Friendship Became Work

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So I decided I had to like the money that I would have made, I bought more flowers. And if you paid me, you would have gone in the hole. Yes. Realistically. Yes. So I was like, okay, I just gotta, I'm only gonna break even, make five hundred dollars, but at least it's gonna look good. So people are gonna say who did the flowers. And I was looking at it as advertising.

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It was, and it was the right thing to do. Yeah. Um, but at the time it was five. I wanted to kill you at the time, but it was the right thing to do. Even then, I was like, it's the right. But we were there hanging the cross. It was at Pretty Place, this um beautiful wedding venue. And there's a cross overlooking the mountain. It is gorgeous, it is gorgeous, and we're up there wiring this thing in a cross that I did.

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Me, I assigned Stephen, okay, so we had there's a cross at Pretty Place that overlooks the mountains. Huge. When you're sitting, the cross looks like it's floating, kind of because it's you're overlooking the cliff of the mountain. So I had a, I guess it would have been about, you think it was five feet, maybe four feet. Maybe on the frame, but then probably about five feet once it was filled in. Um, cross, like a foam plastic. Plastic base foam, wet foam cross that we added greenery and flowers to, and it fit in the center of the cross that was there. So Steven was, you know, interning, apprenticing. And I said, okay, you get the cross. You just do it. Make it wispy. Just make it wispy, make it airy, make it beautiful. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm like, here's the cross. It's got the foam in here. It is wet. Just do it. All you gotta do is stick the stems in here. Figure it out. And it was beautiful.

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While I was working on like table arrangements, it was a beautiful, if I do say so myself. But it was. But it weighed 500 pounds if it weighed one. Yes, it was wet, and then the flowers were hot. Oh my gosh. It was crazy. And we were having to tie that thing on the cross, and then the water was running down my arm to my armpit all the way down my body. And it just was just one of those moments like if a bee had stung me or a mosquito had bit me, I would have probably jumped off the cliff. And the bride, which is very sweet, if she listens to this podcast, it was nothing against her whatsoever.

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But I was up on the ladder, I was up on the ladder tying it while trying to hold it and wire it to the crawl to the cross that's there. Steven is down, you know, standing there with his arms, probably on his tiptoes, holding it up as much as he can, trying to release from the weight with the water running down his hand.

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And the bride is there saying, Oh my god, Wesley, you just did amazing. Oh my god, I love it. Oh my god, Wesley, you're oh my gosh.

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I said if she's so talented, Wesley, you did amazing.

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I said, if she says that one more damn time, I'm gonna throw your ass off this clean off.

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And I was just like, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, which is what it took. But that was funny. That's when on the way back, Steven was like, I hope to hell you made a couple to few thousand dollars off this. I said, I think I made about 500. And he was just like, What? Oh my goodness. That see, we had some, but look how much you learned. You could do that. That's the way you have to learn. He would come help me with store displays too, and I would be like, No, you gotta do it like this. And but you learn.

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And some of the stuff is funny. The some of the stuff that I hated. Mm-hmm. Um, I was like, why do you have this is so tacky? And now I go to market and I'm like, we gotta get this.

The Mountain Wedding That Paid $500

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Because it's not, it's how you use it. Right. I can remember at the time we talked about it. Like we had picks and little ladybugs that the ladybug display pushed me over the edge. We had pots that had ladybugs on them, or a planter that was a ladybug, and then we had picks that were a ladybug. Like we had a whole little ladybug. Struggled with things that are themed and that I personally wouldn't have in my home. I struggled with it. And then he was like, I you can't be selling this. And then when he came back two days later, I'm like, we gotta redo that ladybug display, it all sold. And he's like, I damn it. He's like, next time I went to market, I was like, we gotta get used to Ladybugs.

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That was funny. Yeah.

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So now to this day when we're at market, I'm like, I know I know this isn't your thing, but thank ladybugs. And he's like, I got it. Like, I'll take 48.

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Yep.

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There's a time and a place for it.

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There it is.

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Mm-hmm. Oh, I don't know if I told you this today. So I um I'm doing work at my godmother's home. A lot of work. Um you know, new roof, all new landscaping. Um and so I I call this company because they came recommended from a neighbor. I don't know the I don't know the guys. Yeah. I just uh they they came highly recommended and quite honestly my go-to person had kind of disappointed me. So I called them and I was like, okay, you know, I'd already had this thing, you know, they don't need to know anything about McDonald's or what what we what we did or anything like that. And I'm like, well, the house is bad enough. Like seeing this 20,000 square foot house is bad enough. Yeah. And I kid you not. I was in the driveway and I wait, I shake their hands first thing. He says, Oh, y'all are the McDonald's people. Oh my gosh.

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You're like, yeah. Yeah. Words.

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He said, You used to wait on me. Oh, that's kind of remembered him. Yeah. And uh, it was just funny because like for 15 minutes we had to talk about McDonald's. Right. Why we got out, when we got out, what's happened to the restaurants, and I'm like, and I'm sitting here, been out of it eight years, and I'm like, they're telling me how horrible, you know, whatever McDonald's it is, you run into people, then they tell you how horrible it is. You have to hear that, live through that, which I do feel bad, and I'm like, I get it, I understand. I've been there, I'm so sorry. Things change, you know, and the whole thing, you know, the other thing they brought up was they hate not having somebody to wait on them.

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Oh.

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Kiosk. Yes. People don't like it. No, not in the south. I'm telling you, for the south anyway, people want to walk in and hear, hey, how are you? Yeah.

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What can I get for you? Right. But doesn't I mean to me that goes a the same reason I won't go to anywhere like Walmart. I never I never go to Walmart. Like we will go to Walmart.

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Have to. It's a have to thing.

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Like if we're here and have to go for batteries, I've gone, but I don't really go to Walmart. I haven't been to Walmart uh in like years, other than when we were in Florida, we needed supplies, we got there late at night, we went to Walmart. It's a nicer Walmart. Yeah. Right very random. But I am not going to Walmart because you got to check yourself out, which I think they're reversing that, I've heard.

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I don't work there.

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And I tell them I don't want to I'm not doing that.

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I don't like it. No, I don't like doing it anywhere.

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It's very like I don't know how some people just Dylan loves it. Which is so odd. I mean, it because we ring up people at our own store. I mean it's so different.

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And it's weird because we're not we didn't design this like it's weird.

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But and it's also weird to me, you would think knowing what I've bitched about on here and people starting small talk, you think I would like just going through that because then no one's talking to you. No, I want to be way I want to be, hey, how's it going? Do you find everything okay? Yeah. Thanks.

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Like well, my dad will not. And so he went to Home Depot or Lowe's, I don't remember. But if they won't wait on him, and you know, he usually has his arms full because you know, he's a man. Yeah, you know, he just drops it all in the floor and leaves.

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That's what I would do.

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That's catch me on the right day. He's like if you don't want to wait on me here, you can keep it.

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If you are going to make us wait on ourselves, there should be a discount at the register. At the register, there should be a discount for ringing yourself up. If you give me a discount, if you say you can go over here and ring yourself up and get 10% off, or you can go over here and someone to ring you up and pay regular price, then I may go to ring myself up. There's an incentive there. But other than that, no, I'm I don't like doing it. Um, but anyway, so that's that's crazy. I hate it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

I I really hate it. You know who's gotten really, really bad about it and not staffing is CVS.

SPEAKER_02

Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. On their front end. Those people will be back there stocking the shelf somewhere. Look at you. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04

They're not waiting on you.

SPEAKER_02

I think they're told that. Steven was just texting. Store manager. I'm looking at my phone because I was looking at notes and I saw. So the store manager at the garden store said, We have a big wasp nest on the facing the side of the store. We sprayed three others today, but this is going up in a hole in the building. Do we have any pest maintenance plan? I'm going to check in the morning. If not active, I'll spray. And Steven said, We are pest control. Let me know if I need to spray.

SPEAKER_01

That is so funny.

SPEAKER_02

But you're not wrong. We are pest control. I will be right there. Calling them to spray. Um, that is too funny. So I asked, uh, I asked, well, hold on. I asked for another game, but I just remembered we had something to talk about. What? We went to market this past week and we did live sales. We did live sales. It was their little mini market, you know. So we had to go get our live sale in, which was a lot of fun. We did a lot of things. If you don't have the Nested Fig app yet, I don't know what the hell you're waiting on, but you need the app. Just go to your app store, search the Nesty Fig. You can get our free app and you can watch us when we're live if you want to see more of our crazy asses. But speaking of asses, there was an incident. Wesley accidentally duped his pants. Nope. Yes. Nope, it wasn't Wesley. I, Steven was like, I'm getting up. I'm gonna go get me some breakfast and I'm gonna head on over to the market, which this one was great because we didn't have we were doing lives and we did place some orders, but it wasn't like it's not like when it was convenient. Yeah. We filled in orders between lives, and so it was really get there at our own time, our own pace, sort of situation, versus January when we were.

Customer Taste, Ladybugs, And Merchandising

SPEAKER_04

Well, since I've been on my dieting, I started December 26th. You lost 19 pounds. 19 pounds. I am hang I'm almost at 20. But I'm not yet, so I can't say I found all 19. And I so I'm trying to eat when I'm at home, my breakfast is Greek yogurt.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

But when we're at the Marriott, we get free break breakfast. So I'm like, okay, so it's there, so I go have eggs and bacon. Yeah just to get food in the house. Because we don't yeah, we don't eat like during the day. So um, and w you know, I let Wesley take his time and I do my thing.

SPEAKER_02

Because you were getting some of the lights ready and pulling lights.

SPEAKER_04

I had other things to do that I didn't need him. Yeah. But I was sitting there actually doing work, I had my laptop and everything. I'm sitting there doing work. Well, I really not paying attention, but I'm drinking coffee. I am drinking coffee, and I don't ever because we both have juras. Yeah. So I drink two cups max. Right. That's it a day. Well, I sat there and drank a whole pot of coffee. And their coffee is a little strong. So good kind. I had my fake butt in. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02

This is important. Which we've talked about. Have we talked about the fake butt? We talked about it. I know we have in live sales.

SPEAKER_04

It's rounder bum if you go online. And if you have a flat ass, um, order you a rounder bum because it works. Your butt will look good.

SPEAKER_02

So Steve needed to fill out his pants that day. He's wearing his custom jeans and needed a little more. I had on cream.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, let's get this picture this. I had on cream, custom made jeans. Uh-huh. Let's just say they're not cheap. Right. Cream. Cream. Steven never should have cream paint pants. I know. White. And I bought white. I know. Why did I buy white? I don't know. You're feeling a knee way. So I walk, I go to market, and I'm like, hmm. You know, you get that little, hmm. I think I might need to go to potty.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. And so the rounder bum, let's get back to those, are padded underwear. Like they're very nice. They're made into the underwear.

SPEAKER_04

Like you've got pads on your ass.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_04

I was like, hmm. I think I need to go to potty.

SPEAKER_02

I feel a little rumble.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. And and I went, mmm. I'm gonna go. So I start walking fast to get to the bathroom. I go and it's out of order. Oh, I didn't hear that part. So I turn around to go the other direction, and you know, on that back side of building three. It's a little trek. Circle, and there's it's a circle, and you're going like a halfway around, basically. And walking and trying to get there, I thought I had a little toot. It was not a toot. And so you shit your pants. I did. I did. At Mark. I did.

SPEAKER_02

But he called me.

SPEAKER_04

Well, I luckily it did not. It was very contained. It was just a small amount. It was very contained.

SPEAKER_02

It wasn't a full blowout.

McDonald’s Past And Service Culture

SPEAKER_04

No. It was contained, but you know, you don't know that. Yeah. You don't know that. You feel like holy shit. And so the situation was contained, and thankfully I did not ruin my pants. Because I I don't know. I mean, I would have left market. I would have been like, we got to get this washed out. Right. So yeah, I called, but then I've got cream, cream-colored jeans on. No way. With no panties.

SPEAKER_02

So Steven's calling. I'm calling. I'm like, listen. Bring me some panties. He's like, listen, we have a look, we had a little incident. And I need you, I just, I just listen, I need you to do me a favor. Just look in your bag. I'm sure you got some. Bring me some extra underwear.

SPEAKER_04

I would not wear anyone else's panties, but you know, I was just in a situation. They were clean. They were clean.

SPEAKER_02

It was fine. Nothing. Oh gosh. I was rolling laughing though. Well, I'm glad it was funny to you. But you were like, oh my gosh, it was like a centimeter from seeping out from under. And then he was like, I had to throw away my damn panties that cost so much money.

SPEAKER_01

He's like, I had to throw away my fake ass.

SPEAKER_04

So I was telling another friend that, and she said, Well, you could wash them out. I was like, I'm at market. I'm not carrying shitty panties around with me. No. Yeah. I'm just throwing them away. Right. We will we will make the money up today for new panties.

SPEAKER_02

For new panties. I need to order you some for your birthday.

SPEAKER_04

It was horrible. So I just put into I've got to change the subject because it's time.

SPEAKER_02

So listen, if anyone shits themselves today, or if you're having a quote, shitty day, it's happened to Stevenson.

SPEAKER_04

I can't wait till Wesley does.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, oh, listen, I know I'm gonna shit my pants sometime, and it is gonna be in the most like I just hope it's probably gonna be on like an airplane or something. It's gonna be bad because you've laughed at me. I know I have laughed at you too much.

SPEAKER_04

But you know, once you're over 40, y'all, you know you can't trust a fart. It's just the truth. But I put into chat GPT, which I call Fred. Yes. I'm like, what are some good podcast topics? Yes. The funny thing is, um, Steven, since you and Wesley already have that playful who's driving vibe going on. Wow. I mean he's such a smart.

SPEAKER_01

He does.

SPEAKER_04

And there's some good topics.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, are there?

SPEAKER_04

First one is the small luxury that makes you feel rich.

SPEAKER_02

That's a good one. My um Jura coffee maker.

SPEAKER_04

Jura. I would agree with that. I feel like I am worth a billion dollars in the morning. When I when I when I and I put I I got those pretty little white Williams Sonoma mugs, coffee mugs, and I just feel like for a split second, I feel like I'm in Italy in Milan having a little coffee. Then I realize I'm my ass is sitting in Greenville, South Carolina, and it's on with the day. And you might shit yourself today, but that's it could happen. Um what here's a good one. Uh-huh. What is your most useless talent?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, useless talent. I mean, I'm pretty useful. I don't know what a useless talent is.

SPEAKER_04

This girl that I went to high school with. Oh God.

SPEAKER_02

She had a useless talent. I know.

SPEAKER_04

She could suck air in her butt and fart it back out. So she could toot on demand.

SPEAKER_02

She could suck it in and blow it out. I'm thinking about that and I'm like, what does that say about your I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

Is that a thing? I'm just gonna put it out there. I tried for a long time. I don't know how you do that.

SPEAKER_02

She could. That's a useless talent. Yes. Do you have a useless talent? I don't think I have a useless talent. I try to make all of my stuff be productive.

SPEAKER_04

And I was gonna say my sarcasm. But see, my sarcasm is very useful.

SPEAKER_02

Very useful. It's gotten us an in and out of situations.

SPEAKER_04

Here's another one. The most overrated things in modern life.

SPEAKER_02

Most overrated.

SPEAKER_04

As in um restaurants, trends, tech, wellness, fads, etc.

SPEAKER_02

Hmm. Mo wait, most overrated? Trends, yeah. Trends, most overrated things in life. Uh most overrated things in life.

SPEAKER_04

I don't know. I mean I mean, you can't say cell phone because we're all addicted to that.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, I guess the most overrated thing in life would be trends would be designer, you know, bags and stuff. I mean, really it is overrated. It's overrated. What do you like? I mean, you like them. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying, like, but if you stop and think about it, it's just uh just the bag. Just the stuff.

SPEAKER_04

Um The one Oh, this is a good one. Okay. The one meal that you could eat for the rest of your life. Oh. Well, if you could have to be healthy, I mean just like something you love.

SPEAKER_02

I don't say pizza.

SPEAKER_04

Mine.

SPEAKER_02

Which is so basic.

SPEAKER_04

But if if I had to, or grilled cheese. The good country kind, not fancy, good you know, the plastic cheese.

Self-Checkout, Staffing, And Store Life

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah. That's kind of close to a pizza. Yeah. I mean, is it would be I think pizza would be. I mean, as long as it's something I'm not gonna get tired of. Like, oh, what is a good satisfying meal pizza?

SPEAKER_04

Uh oh, here's a good one. Things people pretend to like. Oh, I got this. I got as in like wine knowledge, art museums, fitness trends, uh-huh. Um vegans. They don't like it. You can't no, you cannot tell me. Okay, vegetarians, one thing. Yeah, you can you cannot prove me wrong on this. No person that is vegan enjoys it. You cannot go without cheese that long and tell me you're happy.

SPEAKER_02

Jeez.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I think but okay, here's what I do though. When I think about that, I try to think back like, okay, before I was vegetarian, I couldn't imagine not be not like, oh same concept towards a vegetarian. But so once you get used to it, maybe.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

I kinda agree with you though. It's kind of one of those things. Like, I don't know. I do need the cheese and it may be museums.

SPEAKER_04

Like I'm a huge, huge art lover. I mean, I don't know that you get many more any more art crazy than me. Do you?

SPEAKER_02

No, but you and I have the same vibe about maybe Daniel does too. But like if we were to go to a museum, we're gonna walk through the museum and go, oh, look, look, look, look. We are not perusing and reading every plaque. We're not reading any plaques.

SPEAKER_04

Maybe one. Like, oh. Or if something I'm really love and I want to learn more about the artist, I would, but that's not all of them aren't gonna be my thing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

But we're more well for me, I'm more visual and it's like cool going. Like if you were like, we're going to the Louvre, is that what it's called? In wherever. In Paris. Paris. I'd be like, okay, but I'm going there and be like, oh, there's the Louvre. Let's go in. Oh, look at the cool stuff in here.

SPEAKER_04

I was that way with Grand Canyon.

SPEAKER_02

I was like, okay, here it is. Okay, bye. That's what I was gonna say. When I've gone with you, and I think the reason we've traveled so well together and done so many road trips that I think are crazy fun is like, for example, when we went to New York City the first time, just me and you, because I gave you going to do a wedding. We talked about that and you got pulled over. But anyway, you got a 12-hour trip. Steven's like, I've been here. We I literally had like 24 hours and I saw the whole city. He'd be like, Okay, walk. We are going here. We're gonna walk by. Look, there is this. I'd be like, Oh, that's cool. All right, let's keep going. We're gonna walk down to the battery. Look, there's Statue of Liberty. Oh, that's so cool. All right, let's go.

SPEAKER_04

You let you left and you had seen everything and eaten at some iconic places.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, you in 24 hours. Yes. But it was my kind of trip. I don't need to go over to the Statue of Liberty, I just needed to see it. Yeah, that's all I needed.

SPEAKER_04

That's that's how I am. We don't need to, I don't need to hike, I don't need to ride a mule down into the damn Grand Canyon. It's really pretty, it's really cool. I've ridden a mule, I don't want to ride it in the Grand Canyon.

SPEAKER_02

Uh I mean I would do a tour. I have no desire to go see the Grand Canyon.

Market Live Sales And The App Plug

SPEAKER_04

It's really beautiful. But it's just like it's a really long day. Like to go. I just don't know. It's just a lot of the same thing. Yeah. That's why I'm like, I don't it's it's gullies in the ground. It's it is. I don't know. I'm just it is beautiful. Okay, this is a good one. The best advice you ever got and the worst. Oh. I know one piece that was one of the best pieces of its advice I ever got. What was that? Only acquire things that you love for you because you are the only person that cares what you have.

SPEAKER_02

Right. Don't do it for anybody else because no one else really cares about what you have. No.

SPEAKER_04

Do not buy a house to impress people, cars, clothes, anything. You always buy what you like for you and only you because no one gives a shit.

SPEAKER_02

It is true. And that pressure that you put on yourself, no one cares. Mm-mm. No one cares that you're trying to work extra hard to get that step up in a car.

SPEAKER_04

Nobody gives a damn. Mm-mm. They don't. Mm-mm. So do it for you. Yeah. If you love it, yeah, go for it. Exactly. If you don't don't. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And you've always been that way.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I've always been yeah. I'm I'm that way. I don't I've never really tried to impress anybody. I don't know. That is a w that is I we need to talk about that. That is a good character thing. Well, it can be bad too, but that I have. It can be very bad. Because I'm like, I'm I don't care. Stephen be like, we're going to you it you got it. This person is important. You gotta be no I'm like, mm, whatever. I don't care. He's like, no, we don't know. You gotta care a little bit. You gotta care a little bit. I'm like, okay, I'll care a little bit. Care a little bit.

SPEAKER_04

Care a little bit.

SPEAKER_02

No, I do.

SPEAKER_04

No, no, I like to look nice and all that and put my best foot.

SPEAKER_02

You do, but that is you. You do that for you because it makes you feel good. You don't do it to try to impress anybody. Oh, hell no. Like all the bougie things that you do, and how you don't do that to impress anybody.

SPEAKER_04

Oh god, no. And do because a lot of the stuff, a lot of the nice things that I like, and this is a fun fact about me that you that most people won't know. If you see me in person, you will 99% of the time you can't see a label on me anywhere because I do not like I do not like labels on my clothes.

SPEAKER_02

Sometimes you just in your Lulu lemons and But I don't like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Some people won't the label showing.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. And I don't. It's true.

SPEAKER_04

I don't like that.

The Cream-Jeans Market Disaster

SPEAKER_02

Do you have any like worse piece of advice? I don't really think I don't really listen to stupid people. I was like, I really don't I guess get advice from people.

SPEAKER_04

I learned at a young age, because I was I was young in McDonald's. I you know, I guess successful in McDonald's at a young age. And for whatever reason, I was drawn to all the old men.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

And that was that was the majority of them. Um not drawn in the drawn to them. Not drawn to them. I wanted to learn and be friends with them. Well, one of my best friends is 80 years old. And um another one just passed away. I mean, I loved talking to the old people, and I was like, I will learn from these people more than I will, like these young, these younger people. I knew I knew enough to talk to the old people. They always know they've been around longer.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, they have experience. They've seen the ups, they've seen the downs, they've seen the in-between, all the fun things. So Well, do you have anything else? Are you done with chat over there? I mean, it's crazy. Well, there's a few more if you want me to read them. Read one more, and then we're gonna wrap this baby up. Um, we gotta pull this thing over.

SPEAKER_04

What would your 18-year-old self think of you now?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, he would be proud of me. He'd be like, Oh, damn, I'm doing that. Yeah, it does happen.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, yeah. I would be proud of you. My 18-year-old self, as poor as I was at 18 and pitiful and insecure and all that. Um, my 18-year-old self would be pretty damn impressed.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that is crazy when you think back like that.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, I would uh Because it's all relative, you know. That's what I always say. You know, when you think about um money and what you've done and success and all those things that society puts labels on. Yeah. When you're 18, it is very different than when you're 50. Right. And so I discount greatly everything I've done. My 50 year old. Yeah, I discount everything. Right.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I don't want a big deal. Well, I think that's one of my life lessons is some things aren't that big of a deal if you just work. You got to put the work in. But things that seem impossible, truly impossible, if you work towards it, you can make them happen. I I mean, I had like looking at 18, no idea how I would have my own store one day. Hell, when I was, I've said this before, one of my toughest birthday, my birthday's coming up this month, by the way. Was 20, was 28 because I was working at the garden at a garden center. I was a manager, so it wasn't like I was just, you know, I was a manager there, but I wanted to have my own business. And I felt like this is impossible. How am I gonna get enough money together to get my own business? And I was like, I'm almost 30. Not that 30 is that old, but I just thought I wanted I had goals to, you know, buy by the time I was 30 to have my own business and be on my way or whatever, which is also most people would probably not even start their own business till they're 40 or 38 or whatever.

SPEAKER_04

People would want a house by then.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. So it was just one of those things I put on myself. But at 28, when I was on my birthday, turning 28, I'm like, oh, I'm almost 30. Like, this is what I'm gonna do, be the manager at this garden center, blah, blah, blah. And then later that year, I had no plans for my birthday to open, you know, a store. And then literally later that year, open the store. So that's how fast things can change and you can figure it out or make things happen or well, just like owning McDonald's.

SPEAKER_04

And I know um I feel like that's the that is the number one question that people talk about. Everybody I run into, that's what they want to talk about, you know, another the podcast is McDonald's. Right. And I think what it is is that was um that's such an iconic American thing that everybody you know has always looked at and seen. And just owning that, you know, I wanted to own that at 15 and just coming from where I had been. Right. And that's why I truly believe in you will things to happen because no no one could tell me I wasn't gonna own McDonald's.

SPEAKER_02

Right. So how old were you when you actually ended up becoming an owner? 33. Wow. Which is very young to become a owner for McDonald's.

SPEAKER_04

Oh yeah. So very young. Well, most are I would say average is 50, 55. Yeah. So I was like baby. Yeah, that's cool.

ChatGPT Prompts: Little Luxuries

SPEAKER_02

So you too can make it happen out there, and it's never too late, no matter what your you know, goals are. We gotta pull this baby over, though. It's time to uh wrap this week's episode up. Remember to leave us a review wherever you're listening. Leave us a review. Only if it's good. That's right. Five stars or nothing. Five stars or don't listen. Um, but it does help us and remember to share us with your friends. You can go to who's drivingpodcast.com. You can listen to us episodes there as well. And that's also you can get to my hub for Wesley Turner Living. If you need to check my blog, Wesley TurnerLiving.com. If you're looking for vacation rentals, you can find that on the hub at Wesley TurnerLiving.com, which you can get to all of that on who's drivingpodcast.com. So check that out as well, and we'll see you next week. Bye y'all.