Who's Driving- Happy Birthday Steven S4E7

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Transcript

Cold Open And Show Intro

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Beep beep. Get your ass in. Let's go. I mean, it's time for another episode of Who's Driving. Welcome to Who's Driving? I'm Wesley Turner.

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And I'm Steven Mert. 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, friendship, and business.

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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. You never know who's driving or where we're headed.

Pre-Recording For Vacation And Birthdays

SPEAKER_01 0:39

All we know is it's always a fun ride. I don't even know what the Yeah. I don't even know what that is, but I do know when this we're having to pre-record this podcast because when this one comes out, you're gonna be on vacay. Yes. Your vacay will almost be over when this comes out, right? Or no? I still don't know when you're going or coming. I need to put it in my damn phone. I've asked him.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

We'll be in the middle of it. We're not coming home till the end of the week. What when are you coming home? Like the 26th? Is that a Thursday? Coming home. We'll be home that late Thursday night or Friday.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

I need to put that in my calendar, but I'll just text you all along your trip and say, when are you coming home again? Exactly. I have asked him like at least, I don't know, a hundred times. Now, when are you leaving? Now when are you coming back? But it's changed a lot too. It has. And for the longest time it was, well, I'm not real sure because I may shift it forward, I may shift it back, I may shift. This was a very wishy, washy kind of road trip vacay.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

The plans, yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

I mean, the plans have changed, come and gone and whatever. But anyway, so you'll be in the middle of your little um birthday getaway. You will have just had your birthday when this comes out, because this will come out on the 24th, I believe that's a Tuesday. Um, and so your birthday was on the 21st, 53. And then my birthday is on the 30th, 45. 48. 45, bitch. Um, so yeah. So hopefully you're having a real good birthday. Real good time. A real good vacay. Hopefully, you hadn't shit your pants this trip. Hopefully not. Oh my goodness. Oh, I can't wait to hear what you get your get yourself into over there on this long road trip. Hopefully, y'all have fun and Dylan enjoys it and the minivan is working out. But what you got this week? What's going on over there? Well, tell me I um you said you had some topics or something.

SPEAKER_02 3:12

You know, he put in here, this is funny. Oh, you talked to your friend Fred. Fred, and he was like a great who's driving segment idea. Fred versus chat, who gives the better advice? That's funny that he even remembers what yours is.

ChatGPT Memory And Small Business Uses

SPEAKER_01 3:30

And how does he remember our podcast and our they're smart, so just don't think about it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I know. See, every time you tell it something, just this is the thing about AI and Chat GPT before we get into your topics or whatever. But every time you tell it something like you're asking it a question, it remembers. It it puts it in its memory bank. So it's learning you. Like if you're like, hey, chat, I like for me, I'll say, you know, I own the nested fig online store, blah, blah, blah. I'm looking to for, I'm working on some marketing things. I need help with this idea, whatever it may be. It remembers that. And then it puts it all together. Like I've used it before to fix our website. Like, hey, chat, well, the nested fig. Our website is the nestedfig.com. I'm trying to get my website to do this. Can you help me with the code or an app or an add-in? And I have fixed things and gotten our website, but then it remembers the next time. Like, hey, did that work out for you? How's it working? Do we need to tweak it? It's really weird. But anyway, it remembers things forever and for always, which is the scary thing, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

So anyway, what you got over there?

Rich People Spending That Feels Wild

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Um, I mean, he comes up with some interesting, really interesting things. Topics. Yeah. Like number one, things rich people do that poor people think are crazy. Oh. Spending, okay, he says examples. Um, and I do think all of these are crazy. Yeah. Let's see. See, this is per personally, I think this is crazy. And I'm interested to see if you say crazy or isn't.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:18

Um, spending$900 on a designer candle. Crazy.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Crazy to me.

SPEAKER_01 5:25

Okay, okay, but here is the thing. So we can dive into this. But it's all relative. That's right. That's what I was gonna say. Which is funny before we get into this. I asked Chad, you know, last week we did who's more likely to, and it gave us topics. But then it also gave me, he said another fun game would be to is a rich person or redneck, and gave me topics to talk about. Like said what now? It gave me things to discuss. Is it a rich person or a redneck? Like owning chickens, rich or redneck. Both. Right. So anyway, but going back to yours,$900 on a candle is all relative. Sounds ridiculous if you don't have$900. But for someone who has for Winfrey, it's not a big deal. That's like$9.

SPEAKER_02 6:13

Yeah. When you look at the interest she makes every day just off her money. Right. Excluding what she makes. So$900 for a candle. It's all relative. It's all relative. It's like is it that's like me spending 90.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

Yeah. So it's just, it's all, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:29

Yeah, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

Your 90 is her 900.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

Yeah. Yeah. Hiring someone to organize a refrigerator. Okay. That is all relative, but I have a secret fantasy of hiring an organizing, an organizer to come in and do my cabinets, my closets.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

I think it I don't think that's ridiculous for many reasons, depending on, again, is it an is it necessary? No. But if you have the money, or even if you wanted to save the money for that, is there value? Yes, especially if you're an unorganized person or don't know how like some people can't see, open the refrigerator or open a cabinet and visualize how to compartmentalize things. Like their brain doesn't work that way.

SPEAKER_02 7:22

It makes it more efficient. And I guess if you if the I guess if the question is, do I keep do I keep this$12,000 sub zero fridge or do I redo the kitchen and get the$18,000 sub-zero? But if you paid a person to, you know,$400 right to come organize it right, then it I guess it makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 7:48

Yeah, but even if you don't like that's a service to me, like A, if you are not visually able to organize things capable, and it bothers you, you might want to pay that if it's something that makes you high. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm a really good person at packing boxes because I can look at an item or items and I can look at a box and know if it's gonna fit in there. Most people cannot do that. Like, as we have learned with our warehouse and packing, that's a hard skill for some people to just be able to say this will fit in this box. It is, and it kind of comes down to organizing. Like, if you don't have the ability to open your refrigerator or cabinets and go, hey, I need to like organize this stuff this way so it fits, then maybe it's worth it. Or if you're like our refrigerator, you just cram the shit in there and don't worry about it. Doesn't bother me. Next.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

Yeah. I mean, I guess that's one way to look at it. Yeah. And I think it's all um, I think it's all relative.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Yeah. It's relative is as to what you want also to spend your money on. Like, is it worth it to you to make you happy? Because that's what it really comes down to. Does it make you happy or not?

SPEAKER_02 9:08

You know what I'm saying? If it makes you happy, um, yeah, I think it's all relative. And the next one was paying$30 for artisanal ice. I think that's stupid. Well, that's dumb because I mean that how does that make you happy?

SPEAKER_01 9:25

That's gone in minutes. I wouldn't do that. And it's it ain't gonna make it taste any different or colder or anything enough to notice. I saw someone in, I just watched a thing on artisanal ice. Someone has a whole business on this, and they make it and they slice it, and then they can engrave it and they sell it to like restaurants. I think it was in New York City and stuff. But I was watching a whole thing on like how much money they make and stuff on oh, it's a whole business on this.

SPEAKER_02 9:56

Yeah, and for weddings and events, it's a huge business. Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 10:00

Let's get in the ice business.

90s Life Before Phones Took Over

SPEAKER_02 10:03

And then the next was uh how weird things seemed in the 90s t compared to today. Like, for example, like dial up internet. Oh my gosh. Where we have wireless now. I mean, you remember sitting and then we had one computer in the house.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

And you're hoping it wasn't gonna get kicked off. Yeah, especially when someone else called or something and it kicked you off if you didn't disable your call waiting. Isn't that funny? Do they even nothing even has call waiting? Or when you think about the things that have changed from back in the day, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Do you remember? I don't know if you're this old. Yeah. Do you remember having to call theaters for show times?

SPEAKER_01 10:52

Oh yeah. Yes. Give you a rundown. Or you had to look it up in the paper if you didn't, you know, you could get the paper and it would give you the printed times. Isn't that crazy how much stuff? I mean, you know, newspapers are basically obsolete. Do they still print newspapers anymore? They do. Can you remember like Sunday paper? They would stand out in the street and sell them at red lights. Yes. And do you I remember think about how weird that is.

SPEAKER_02 11:20

Yeah, and I remember putting coupons in the paper. Yeah. And we got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them back because everybody took the paper. Yeah. I mean, everyone had the paper back in the day. We had paper boxes at McDonald's on the sidewalk.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

Isn't that crazy? Like, and then they just slowly, you don't think about like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

Well, you get all your news on your phone.

SPEAKER_01 11:46

I know, but you don't think about the things that slowly went away besides the news and the phone part. Like first it was they didn't need to list the movie times in the paper because you could call or you could get those, you could Google that, or well, it wasn't Google, but you could search those. So that took out a page. Then you didn't need, you know, you didn't need all these other things. And then the paper slowly got thinner and thinner and downed enough. Then I guess.

SPEAKER_02 12:15

Oh, here's a funny one. Do you remember printing out map quest directions of the computer?

SPEAKER_01 12:21

Girl. Yes. A, yes, B, absolutely. Because when I this was not that long ago. No, it wasn't. When I moved, I graduated college in 2003. Is that right? Yeah, 2003. And I moved to Atlanta. And when I moved there in 2003, they did not have like the garment and stuff in your car was just coming out. Like you know, I would have been the first to have it. I had to use a freaking paper map book to get away, get around Atlanta. Like the big, thick, and it would break down. Because when I moved there, I told you this. When I moved to Atlanta, I worked for a landscape company. I had only been to Atlanta like two times in my life. I went one time for market back in the day, like when I was in college, one or two times, and that was just downtown. And one time for the interview for this company. And then I ended up moving to Atlanta for this landscape company. And on day one, they handed me a printout map of like what you're talking about, map quest, and gave me truck keys and two crew members who didn't speak English. And were like, You're going to this house, uh, blah, blah, blah. We'll meet you there. Someone will meet, they'll know what to do to get started, and then we'll meet you there. I was like, I didn't know, like when they printed out the map, map quest, which did say like turn right on. I didn't even know what that road was. And it was like, go past 285. I'm like, I don't even know what 285 is in Atlanta at the time. Because you know, they have like oh my gosh, in the perimeter, outside the perimeter. That's you know, inside 285, outside 285. They'd be like, this is in the perimeter. I'm like, what the what the hell's the perimeter? And they gave me a landscape truck. So anyway, I had to learn how to get the big map out and make my way around Atlanta. But you know, it was good because I I know a lot about Atlanta.

SPEAKER_02 14:34

And calling, like you would, if you wanted to call a friend, you had to call their house and talk to their parents.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 14:42

Hey, Miss Overstreet, is Wesley home?

SPEAKER_01 14:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

See, then that got later. Like we, like, I think we've talked about on here, I know maybe on a live sale. Uh, I bought our house caller ID when it was a separate box and you had to pay a monthly subscription to it. So then it got to be like, oh, that's for you. That's you know, so and so calling or whatever. It's crazy. Or, oh, that's so and so, don't answer it, don't answer it, don't answer it. I'm not home.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

Yeah, yeah. And um remember everybody wrote checks at the grocery store?

SPEAKER_01 15:23

Oh, yeah. You didn't even have um credit cards back then, or if you did You didn't use it for groceries. Uh uh. That was weird. Well, remember when speaking of credit card, and this is all not that long ago. Like, you know, I had a store in college, so that would have been in the early 2000s. You still had the credit card that was like you had to slide the credit card. Yeah, you had to put it down in the little thing and slide it over it to take the imprint of the credit card, and then you had to submit those into the and wait for your money, yeah. And now it's instant, just I mean, by then there were debit cards, but it wasn't as widely accepted. I mean, when did y'all start taking cards at McDonald's?

SPEAKER_02 16:11

Um, it wasn't that long ago, and that was huge because um that was so foreign to us and everybody was used to that instant cash. Right. It made accounting in in McDonald's way more difficult. And let me just tell you, and Visa and MasterCard actually did rob us. Um we're still waiting on that. We're still waiting on that lawsuit. The lawsuit, I'm just waiting on my check.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

Yeah, you gave us an update, but we still think it won't be until like the end of this year.

SPEAKER_02 16:42

Yes, it's good. It's now set to be in the later this year to get a check. Still don't know how much you get. But anyway, that's it. But it's been it's already gone through all the approaches. I doubt it'd be enough to get us dinner when all said and done.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

Um when that check comes, do not open it. We're gonna open it together live on the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 17:08

And it's gonna be very interesting because you know, this was for years they were overcharging in McDonald's. Yeah, and it's a lot of sales.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

Yeah, I mean, it's millions of action lawsuits.

SPEAKER_02 17:21

It's billion, it's got billions of dollars. The settlement is billions, but I forget how many million people are involved.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

And the class action, they get like what, 30 percent or something.

SPEAKER_02 17:36

The attorneys that are taking, I can't remember. It's between 30 and 40 percent. Because I just I was like, I mean, this was this was back when I sold the the business. And it was like, you know, I just signed up with one other friends were doing in Dallas, Texas. Right. Like, uh, whatever. Yeah. I mean, that was my that thankfully that's been my attitude since the beginning. Whatever.

SPEAKER_01 18:01

Yeah, because you don't know what you're gonna get, yeah. If anything. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:05

I mean, it's just almost comical to me now.

SPEAKER_01 18:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:08

I mean, I'm glad that they are paying up since they did something dishonest, but I'm not counting on. But I will wait and open it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:18

So do you remember when y'all started taking cards at McDonald's? It's been I mean, it was probably like early 2000s. It would have been like no. It'd have been, don't you think, after 2010? Mm-mm. You think it was before then? That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 18:37

I know it was before then. I I um no, it was around 2004-ish. Um but it's so complicated. Like, you know how hours is, and we always talk about hours is very complicated with our business. Multiply that by 10 or 100, right, and it was so difficult to keep up with it. And then um and then dealing with chargebacks and it was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

Um, Google says uh between started in 2003 and rolled completely out throughout 2004.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

So I was right. You were right. I can't believe I dug that up. Uh-huh. And what about smoking? Think about how that changed. I know from smoking on planes. Well, even in restaurants. In McDonald's. McDonald's, it was huge. And at breakfast at McDonald's, you couldn't see through the restaurant for the smoke.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

Well, Daniel and I were together, so that's been since 2008. We were together, it was well after we were together that even in here in the city of Greenville that they got rid of smoking in restaurants. I mean, that's just been since probably 2010 or something. You used to have the smoking section like that really did anything. You know what I'm saying? I know put you over there. And usually you had to walk through the smoking section to get to the regular yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

It was the most bad.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

But it didn't inconvenience the smokers. No. We never, I'm just gonna tell you from a McDonald's point of view, we were very, very, very careful. We put our smokers first. Seriously. Like it was our biggest consideration because when when that all started is when McDonald's had kind of peaked at being the owner of the breakfast, quick service breakfast. Yeah. So we had to be very careful not to kill ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

Yeah, because people would, especially retired people, would just come, sit out their breakfast, they would leave coffee and smoke their cigarettes.

SPEAKER_02 20:51

So when uh law started passing, what we did was stretching, pushing the boundaries. So for a long time it was smoking till 11 a.m. You could smoke from open till eleven. Yeah. And then we pulled all the ashtrays out.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Yeah. That is random.

SPEAKER_02 21:08

Like, how stupid is that? And the other thing, think about how we had to memorize all the phone numbers.

SPEAKER_01 21:15

Oh, yeah. Or a phone book. You actually had a book. You had to go look up a phone. Yeah, but like your family, and I can't remember everybody's number. So, I mean, every our age group listening to this will relate to all this, but kids would not think about this. We had phone books where you had to go look up the number and you could pay to have your number unlisted so that you weren't in the phone book.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

Mm-hmm. Yeah, you were kind of fancy if you did that. Yeah. You were highfalutin'. Ours was unlisted.

SPEAKER_01 21:48

I bet afterwards after I don't know if it was the whole time, but I know after like my mom and step that got married because he was a doctor and didn't want that published. Didn't want patients calling it at home. Right. Didn't want your home number out there. Cause they would you know they would. I mean Doctor Over Street, I think I got something.

SPEAKER_02 22:09

Sorry to bother you. Can you see me? I know it's Saturday. Um Yeah, it's crazy. Do you remember phone numbers? I remember my grandparents because they never changed. I remember my my grandma Merck's was 864-868-9088. My the waldrups, my mom's parents was 864-654-5088.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

Yeah. Well, mine, my grandmother, on my mom's side and granddaddy have both passed, but um I remember hers. And then but my granddaddy that just passed, that number's still the number. It's been the same number my whole life. It's the same number. They still have it.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

And and our first number back in Six Mile that my dad had till recently was, and I can say I think it's been disconnected, was 864-868-8207. I think.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

But you know, it's what is also funny, like I can remember my mom's office numbers from I can still remember those. The fax number.

SPEAKER_02 23:18

My mom's office number was 864-656-2678.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

Yeah. And I can still remember, like, my here's the funny thing. My stepdad got a cell phone back in like way before. I mean, it was the brick gray because he was a doctor. Yeah. And we lived an hour away from his office in hospital. He was in the car. He was in the car, and you know, had the beeper and he was having the pullover and whatever. So when the cell phone came out, like he got it really early on. His number on his cell phone is that number still to this day. Really? Like, even though it's upgraded. Just give it out. Everybody call Huey. But it's the same number. And then with my mom, hers is the same cell phone number from when she got a cell phone, which would have been a few years later. Her first cell phone, she got a Volvo.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

And it was built in the car. It was built in the car. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

She went from a Hyundai to a Volvo with the built-in.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

There are some rare some cars that still come with phones. Yeah. Here and there.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

But hers was corded. You couldn't take it out of the car. It was in the car. But her number is still the same. Then her next car after that one, which she keeps her cars like a long time, probably would have been like 10 years later, was a Mercedes. And it came with a phone. It came with a flip phone that fit into the car. Like it latched, but it was uh like a probably what like a Motorola flip phone, but it was made for that car. But you could take it out with you, but you could put it back in the center to charge and it like clipped in, and then that was fancy. Yeah. It's funny that it even came with the car. You know what I'm saying? But anyway, but yeah, cell phones. But it is funny, you had to memorize. You knew everybody's number by heart. Knew my mom's work number, two work numbers, cell phone, my stepdad's cell phone, my grandmother's number office numbers. Knew it all.

SPEAKER_02 25:28

You just now I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 25:32

And but like you didn't even have a device to like you didn't even have a place to keep their you didn't have an option but to remember it, unless you wrote it in a notebook.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

But what who's gonna carry?

SPEAKER_01 25:44

Who carried a notebook or you know what I'm saying? Like you had it anything of importance that you would call, you had memorized, including the time and temperature and the movie number.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

I still don't know your phone number. That's funny.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

I know yours. Uh well, let's not say I did make myself memor like it took me until like a few years ago.

SPEAKER_02 26:04

I know, I know three letters, three numbers, six four, six four, two. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I do not. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:11

Uh get my number out. I'll be getting a new. Um, I made myself remember Daniel's number first and your number. Because for a long time I didn't know, you know, but then if you are out somewhere and you need it, need, you know, if I'm locked up somewhere, I need it called.

SPEAKER_02 26:29

If I if I get locked up, I'm screwed. Uh because they're gonna I'm gonna be like, I need my phone to get some numbers. Yeah, I don't know if you can do that. I know.

SPEAKER_01 26:38

That's why I had to memorize at least the most important two.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

Dylan said you can't do that. Can't do what you have to have numbers memorized. Well, you need to m memorize a couple. Because I, you know, I've never visited the jail. Yeah. I hope I don't.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

That is funny. That is funny, but uh it's also funny how it's changed seemingly slowly, but when you look back, it was so quick how it changed as well.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

Um and photos. Remember how I remember when taking photos was an actual art. You took all these photos and prayed, you know, you took three of the sides.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

I had a nice camera back in college.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

I have a nice camera now.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

But but you can you still buy film for cameras? I guess you can. Where do you get them developed? I don't even know.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

There's photo you have to they're private photo labs. But you can go to Walmart.

SPEAKER_01 27:40

You can but all through college I took photos everywhere. Like I have a huge like box of photos all through college because I would just keep rolls of film and go get them developed. It was the most fun thing. I loved it.

SPEAKER_02 27:53

It was when it was photos were cool.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

Yeah, because also you took them and you didn't get to see them instantly, obviously. So it was exciting when you went and picked them up. Like, oh, where did they turn out?

SPEAKER_02 28:05

And they didn't, yeah, they turned out good.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Yeah. Or you'd get some and the whole role was screwed up and you're like, damn, you know, they were all blurred or something stupid happened.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

Mm-hmm. I was always a really good picture taker. Bring back photos.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

I yeah, I think that needs to come back. Mm-hmm. That that was that is crazy. That's a that is a definite walk down memory lane that you just don't think about. Like, I guess we're all moving forward daily, so you just don't stop and think about how quickly it has changed and some of the things like they just slowly have evolved or dropped off.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

And every month, way back when our insurance man would come by the house and collect payment. What? Uh-huh. We had a uh insurance guy, um, his name was Wallace, and he we all had the same one. Uh-huh. So I would see him at everybody's house, and my aunt kept it on a little shelf by the door, and he would come by and get payment. It was like life insurance and all kinds of stuff. It was so weird. I didn't know about that. That was before my time. I guess he went door to door to door every day. Do y'all remember that? Listening? I know they our listeners would remember that.

Malls Then And What Replaces Them

SPEAKER_01 29:24

Tell us on our hotline. It's in the show notes below. Um Yeah, that is crazy. What else like that that has just changed and disappeared?

SPEAKER_02 29:34

Well, and remember like in the 80s, in the eighties and the early 90s, like going to the mall was exciting and all the stores were really relevant and good.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Well, it was like that until the 2000 I mean, that's really been the last 10 years that it has just gone to shit. Yeah. But it started going. I mean, if you But think Black Friday and stuff was in prime still in the early 2000s.

SPEAKER_02 30:02

Yeah. Again. In the 80s, though, is was like the height of malls. Like it's when it was like new. They were all the malls were new and opening. Like we had three malls here in Greenville. Three indoor huge malls.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Because we got one now. Barely. But but you could never have three here now.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

We had and it's bigger than it ever was. Right. First it was McAllister Square on Pleasantburg, which now is restaurants and university substations. And then it was Greenville Mall. Which is torn down. Tor yeah, it's gone. And then it was Haywood Mall. But when you came to Greenville from the country. You made a day of it. You made a day of it, and you started at McAllister Square. Mm-hmm. And because that was the old Fuddy Duddy one. But there were some things you needed though. Yeah, you still won't didn't want to miss nothing. You know, we didn't make it out that, you know, that often out from the hills. And then you would go to Greenville Mall. Greenville Mall had um had looking back, I just thought it was richie people, but it was more a lot more boutique style, upscale stores.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

It's kind of like Phipps Plaza in Atlanta.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

Yeah. So it was the upscale.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

It was normal, but then had some upscale.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

But now thinking about it, because that one, that mall was gone. Like it had closed when I moved here in 2005, but the building was still standing and it was connected to the movie theater. Now it's been all torn down and redeveloped. But Haywood Mall doesn't have a movie theater, does it? So that was kind of odd for a mall built during that time because the movie theater was the big deal to have at the mall. Like when they would have been building Haywood Mall would have been the height of like building big movie theaters and having Well, when they built Greenville, that theater wasn't there.

SPEAKER_02 32:05

That was added after the Greenville Mall.

SPEAKER_03 32:08

Huh.

SPEAKER_02 32:09

The there was no theater connected to any of the three at first. And the and Camelot was open after McAllister Square, too. And then the uh mall, the Hollywood 20 was open toward the end. Yeah. Of Greenville.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

But why didn't Haywood have one? That's very odd for that. Let me tell you Haywood Mall here in Greenville is the most up-to-date mall. Like when they built the newer one in Memphis, it would have probably been around the same time, I would think. And it was the one, you know, that had the you know the big movie theater, the cars, the cars in the yeah, parked in there.

SPEAKER_02 32:51

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

So it's kind of odd that they don't have a movie theater.

SPEAKER_02 32:54

Anyway. Oh, when Haywood Mall opened, that was the shit of the shit. Let me tell you. They had the best pet stores, the best record stores.

SPEAKER_01 33:03

They don't they didn't ever have a carousel in that one either.

SPEAKER_02 33:07

Like ours had a big carousel in the center of. I mean, it was Greenville, but you know, it was not It's still a nice, very nice and nice size mall.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Nice size mall. Yeah, it's not nice more. Well they're saying for when they built it.

SPEAKER_02 33:25

I personally only know of one nice mall within two hours of here. And that's South Park in Charlotte. For today. For today.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

Yeah, I'm saying back when it was built, it was a nice size. It was lavish. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 33:41

And back in the day, if you can imagine it, Anderson Mall. I mean, but it was it was nice.

SPEAKER_01 33:49

These people don't know anything we're talking about. Well, those mall nice, y'all, y'all know the mall. Isn't that weird how the mall though has come and basically gone? I mean, some places. That's what I'm saying. It's so weird. And downtowns are back. Because it got annoying. The malls got too big. You couldn't just run in and get something. You know, we got busier. See, people used to go before we had all this technology and other stuff taking up our time. People used to go, like you said, and spend a whole day at the mall, walking around, leisurely shopping. And now everyone's busy and they just want to get in and out. And so to go park at a mall and have to walk 7,000 football fields to get something, it's not convenient anymore because you don't want to go spend your time there. Yeah, it's not convenient at all. Yeah. So that's how it's changed. The mentality where you used to go and just hang out and shop all day. Now and eat. Yeah. Now it's in and out. And that's why like outdoor malls have taken over where you can pull up and just hit a couple of stores that you need and move on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:55

It's kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_02 34:56

It is. But wouldn't I thought, like with all these malls closing and stuff, I think those would make great uh condos.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

Oh yes. There have been a couple that I've seen on like social media where they make them into condos. I would be so down for that. It could be that walk in there. You could still have a couple of local stores. Coffee shop. Yeah. On the lower level. You could have a coffee shop and a um I want to live in like Sears. I want to be, I want to have the whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 35:33

But they could be luxury condos, and then you could cut the asphalt out outside and build like garages and landscaping and parks.

SPEAKER_01 35:44

And you could even build townhouses. I mean, they all have huge properties. So you could build some outlying townhouses. I don't know why people don't redevelop it that way. So it's got all the infrastructure. But then you'd have an indoor kind of like park. You can make the atrium. You know, they all have the atrium in character.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

That would be really cool. I thought so. I mean, I've thought one of the things.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

Or make them into um like that, but for um like retired, not assisted living. 55 and over. Yeah. Like, you know. Then you ain't gotta leave.

SPEAKER_02 36:18

You can just someone should do that that has a whole bunch of money. Yeah. I mean, it would take a lot of money. Ain't me. No. But whatever.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Wouldn't that be fun though to live somewhere like that if they took a Oh, it would be luxury. A mall.

SPEAKER_02 36:34

Yeah, because you could have like an an a city within a city.

Who’s More Likely Game And Confessions

SPEAKER_01 36:39

Yeah. The key, I think, to making that work would be building in the parking lot, developing more things up next to the mall, too. Yeah. So that it did make like that would be the hub of the city, but if you still had other streets through the parking lot with other buildings and businesses, and making it cool. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. You should check into that. Yeah. They call it, you know, Haywood Park. Yeah, I'm sure somewhere they've done that. Even I mean, I have seen some, like I live in an old mall, but I didn't see the whole like structure of it. But I guess those are so big you have to develop it and get it, you know, filled up or it's tell us if you if you're listening and you know of this where it exists, tell us about it. Yeah. Maybe you live in an old mall. Wouldn't that be crazy? If someone I would love to hear about that. I know. That would be kind of crazy. So I pulled up Mr. Chat and he had some more who's more likely questions. We did this last time. Oh Lord. I'll skim through some. We'll just do a few, but I think they're fun. They're thought-provoking because it lets us know who's who. Who's more likely to accidentally start a small fire while cooking? Me.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

Oh, that's funny.

SPEAKER_01 38:01

Who's more likely to talk to themselves in public and not realize it? Me. Who's more likely to buy something on Amazon and forget they ordered it? Me. I'm going in order. Okay. I'm really going in order. Um who's more likely to become obsessed with a conspiracy theory? Me. Yes. I feel personally, personally. I'm going in order. Um yeah, Steven will get into some conspiracy. And I'm like, oh God. Like, I do not get into conspiracy theories. Okay. You don't get into it like that.

SPEAKER_02 38:41

I'm not like, oh, I believe it, but I'm like, what if? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

I love to hear them. You will question it, and my brain doesn't go there. I just discount it immediately. Like, that's stupid. I don't even want to waste my energy. Who's more likely to adopt a random animal they found on the side of the road? See, there's one for me. Who's more likely to get lost using GPS? Me. Steven is very directionally challenged, which goes back to printing map quests or using a map. I don't know how you got anywhere. Because you said you used to take off to Atlanta. And you know, I know Atlanta. Little country boy. I know Atlanta. You should, because I bet you were lost half the time going round and round in circles.

SPEAKER_02 39:26

I listen, I I got my way around Midtown. I knew every I knew every queer bar in Atlanta. I could I can still show you where they were. No, but I'm just saying that's how I learned Atlanta. Yeah. You were going because that was you were going to the bars. Yeah, I was going to the clubs. The club. I was going to the club.

SPEAKER_01 39:51

Dropping it like it's hot.

SPEAKER_03 39:53

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 39:54

Uh who is more likely to accidentally send a text about someone to that person? Me. Didn't you do that? Haven't you? Multiple times. Oh gosh. Mm-hmm. I feel like there's a story about that, but I don't know. Oh. About you sending a text.

SPEAKER_02 40:13

I went out with a guy one time. Do you remember this? I'm not gonna say who it was, but he was quite the eligible bachelor. Mm-hmm. And we had a mutual friend, and I thought I was texting her, and I texted to him.

SPEAKER_00 40:30

What did you text?

SPEAKER_02 40:32

There was nothing I could do.

SPEAKER_00 40:34

What did you text?

SPEAKER_02 40:35

Oh my God. I can't believe I'm going out with blah blah. Yeah. And it texted to him. Oh, but it wasn't talking about him like wasn't bad, but that was so embarrassing. Because he was like uh he was like one of the big people to go out with in Greenville.

SPEAKER_01 40:53

I went out with some of those big the big is this one that you went out with and then he got undressed and you ran.

SPEAKER_02 41:00

No, but that's close to that one.

SPEAKER_01 41:05

There was another, he sold that on there. There was another eligible bachelor. Yeah. My life would have been very uh very eligible. And Steven went out with them, and then he was. I guess you were spending, I don't, we won't go into the slutty details.

SPEAKER_02 41:24

Well, there wasn't any. There was no slutty details.

SPEAKER_01 41:27

Well, there was gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 41:28

There was gonna be, but it was there was already a million red flags, like yeah, drunk at dinner, yeah, you know, um, slurry talking, I don't like it, I don't have time for it. So I was already like, not sure about this, then got undressed. I was like, gotta go. You said he looked like your grandpa. It was like my grandpa, and it wasn't that old, yeah. But I was like, what is wrong with this?

SPEAKER_00 42:00

Very just left.

SPEAKER_02 42:02

Very sought-after person.

SPEAKER_00 42:05

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 42:07

Was not my cup of tea. Oh my gosh. That is but yeah, I've tech I've done all kinds of things. The texting. Yeah, you know, just like when I turned the camera on myself and my panties on a McDonald's oh god.

SPEAKER_01 42:24

Okay, what's the next? Okay. Um, who's um wait, where was uh um who's more likely to start a ridiculous new business idea at 2 a.m. You but I followed through with uh as bad as an idea as it may be. Who's more likely to buy something because the packaging looked nice? Me. I'm on package, I like nice packaging. I like nice packaging too. Yeah, that is marketing and packaging. If you line up a bunch of things, I'm gonna buy the one with the best package. Um who's more likely to spill something on themselves within five minutes of leaving the house? You know, you I don't really spill things on myself. You're the one that I'd be I do show stuff, spill stuff sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 43:18

If you don't spill stuff, you shit yourself. Well, that's spilling. Spillage happens.

SPEAKER_01 43:26

Who's more likely to forget why they walked into a room? Oh, me. Probably what the hell was I doing? Oh my goodness. Um, who's more likely to wave back at someone who wasn't waving at them? I do that sometimes. I'm like, hey, you're like, oh, they were waving at that person.

SPEAKER_02 43:49

Isn't that so funny when you do that? Um Or they wave and I'll look and they know me and I don't recognize them, I'm looking at who they're waving at. Like, who are you waving at? Just like you.

SPEAKER_01 44:04

Oh, um. Who's more likely to accidentally insult someone while trying to compliment them? Me.

SPEAKER_00 44:14

That is you.

Quick Wrap And Review Request

SPEAKER_01 44:15

Oh gosh, these are funny. But I feel like it knew you. Yeah, I feel very attacked. Who's more likely to turn a simple errand into a three-hour adventure? That's probably me. Just got distracted. Yeah. Yeah, that's you every day. Who's more likely to buy something just because it was on sale? That's you. I got this. It was on sale. That's how you justify buying stuff sometimes. Sometimes. Hmm. That's too funny. Law, that's all I got. Are you ready to pull this baby over? Yeah, we got it. We've got more work to do. We gotta go do a live sale, and you'll be back next week. So we'll get to hear all about. Well, I mean, I hope you make it back. That'd be awkward if I don't. Oh my gosh. Hope y'all miss me if I don't. Come on here and be like, y'all, well, we joked about it, fucked about it, but he ain't coming back. It happened.

SPEAKER_02 45:12

Oh god. Jesus called him Steven answered.

SPEAKER_01 45:16

Let's hope not anytime soon. Well, let's, I mean, if he calls, answer, but let's hope he doesn't come calling anytime soon. Well, I hope you've had a great week. Remember, wherever you're listening to our podcast, leave us a review. And we will see you next week. Bye, y'all. Thanks for a great week.