Who's Driving- How Steven & Dyland Ended Up At The Laundromat S4E8

We catch up on birthdays, and we relive a Miami to Key West road trip that somehow includes a minivan obsession, a THC drink mistake, and a full-blown panic with a laundromat heat treatment plan.

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Transcript

Birthday Banter And Catching Up

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Well, here we go, a day late and a dollar short. But jump in, it's time for another episode of Who's Driving. Welcome to Who's Driving? I'm Wesley Turner. And I'm Steven Murray. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs. Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship, and business.

SPEAKER_04 0:23

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

SPEAKER_03 0:29

Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media, and all things home and garden.

SPEAKER_04 0:37

Buckle up and enjoy the ride.

SPEAKER_05 0:39

You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride.

SPEAKER_03 0:44

Well, it ain't me, because I drove to Key West and back. Oh, we got it. We got so much catching up to do. But okay, first of all, we're a day late on the podcast episode because I forgot the dang memory card. But it kind of worked out because yesterday was my birthday.

SPEAKER_05 1:05

I know. So he forgot the memory card on his 45th birthday.

SPEAKER_03 1:10

That's right. We were gonna record and it was gonna be my birthday.

SPEAKER_05 1:14

You're such a baby. 45. That's not a baby. To be 45 again.

SPEAKER_03 1:19

You're only 50. You just turned 53 while you were on eight years. Vacation.

SPEAKER_05 1:25

You know, you don't realize, listen, we're both we're both we're both young and even younger at heart. I mean, I'm about 17 mentally. But um I do not feel 53 whatsoever. Um but sometimes when I see people.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

Does everybody do that where you think, well, I don't look like them? Because we No, I know I don't. But some people, even my age, I'm like, damn. Like, hmm. But then I'm like, okay, I think we don't have kids. And I think some people live rougher like they do, drinking and still partying or did it too long.

SPEAKER_05 2:16

Yeah. And I think, in all fairness, um, we have worked very, very hard. Um, McDonald's did take a lot out of me, but McDonald's gave me a lot too. So I, you know, that probably balanced out. But I think life just is harder for some people. Like I look at some people I went to high school with, I'm like, damn, they look rough. And then some look really good. Yeah. But usually the ones that look really good haven't smoked, haven't drank themselves to death, have taken you know, they've got a nice hair family themselves. Yes, they've got a nor a good family life, husband, children, you know.

SPEAKER_03 2:59

They weren't the trash running around drinking and smoking. Doing drugs. It is true. Like it does age you. Well, and I feel like for me, I mean, I feel like I look okay for 45. You don't look a day over 48.

SPEAKER_05 3:17

I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you right there, you do not look a day over 48 on m on a good day.

Aging Fears And Sunscreen Regrets

SPEAKER_01 3:25

But you're such an ass.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

But see, I do regret now, you know, I have a horticulture degree and I worked in at garden centers until I had my own store. But even that started at 30. But for the majority, right after college, I worked at a garden center as a manager and was outside every day most of the day. And I can feel those, you know, little sunspots on my face. And I've got a few on my face. And of course, that's getting ready to get lasered away. I know. So I thought about, you know, I want to get, I went to a local place that was having a grand opening for, you know, skincare and stuff. And they have like a cool, um, they call it, I gotta look at it, like a cool laser. And then my mom went somewhere, different state, and she called me and she's like, I think I'm gonna get this done, and I think it's the same thing. Um, that's what they recommended for her. But anyway, um, it's like a cool laser, and I thought about maybe you're gonna be headed to Atlanta in a couple of weeks. And I was like, I wonder if I could get it done while you're gone because you'll be doing live sale, so I won't have to be on the camera. Do it on Monday. Yeah, I won't have to be on the camera necessarily because I don't want my face slothing off on live sale cameras. That's not that bad.

SPEAKER_05 4:47

You know, my mother was uh very religious about her face and keeping all of that done. And honestly, her her her skin looked great till she died. And um, and she used to tell me, even in my in my 30s, she was like, you need to start doing, you need, you know, pills and you know, now's the time. Mm-hmm. Should have listened. Every damn thing she ever said has bit me in my ass if I didn't do it.

SPEAKER_03 5:18

I know. So I kinda, you know, um, I kinda I do regret now not wearing I didn't wear sunscreen when I was working at the garden center because I was in and out. I mean, it wasn't like I was laying out in the sun, but you were. I was just walking around in the sun every day. Now I kind of regret that, but that's okay, you know, it's one of those things. We couldn't be too pretty.

SPEAKER_05 5:41

I mean, I know we gotta just be too bad.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

I know we gotta leave a little something for everybody else.

SPEAKER_05 5:46

Yeah, I mean, if I was too damn pretty and had a great ass, it would just be too much. Right. So I get plastic surgery and I wear uh unpadded ass. I mean, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 6:03

You are crazy. Um yes.

The Minivan That Won Them Over

SPEAKER_03 6:08

So, oh, I went we went to Florida. Yeah, we gotta talk it. We got to catch up. Okay, you we haven't you went to Florida for it seems like two weeks. It was close, it ended up being close to 10 days.

SPEAKER_05 6:20

I was longer than gone from work, like 12.

SPEAKER_03 6:24

Uh-huh. 13-ish. No. Okay, 12. It was 12. Okay. Um go ahead. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:33

You're counting in your head. Yeah. Um, no, it was that's the longest I have ever been gone from work in my life. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Seriously.

SPEAKER_03 6:45

You think? What about when y'all went to Hawaii? Mm-mm. It wasn't that long. We just that's when we kind of stupid.

SPEAKER_05 6:53

Yeah, that was stupid. I'm never doing that again. When we go to Hawaii, that needs to be longer. Yeah. You didn't go long enough back then. I didn't go long enough.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

This was good. I was ready to be back in. We have so much to digest. Oh, it was it was okay. We got start to finish. Okay, first of all, you ended up driving. Rented a minivan because there was the airport whole situation. You know what? You called that because it was at its peak worse. I think it's calmed down now. When we but it was at its peak worse when you would have been flying there and back. Like that whole period. I was sending you. I was like, look at this, aren't you glad? So you drove down. It was a good decision.

SPEAKER_05 7:36

Yeah. It was we drove, we rented a van. Dylan made so many faces at me. I said, Oh, I'm renting renting a car. Right. Normally we rent a car, and it is a nice fun car. Oh, he didn't know you were renting. Oh, I broke it to him before. But you know, normally we'll rent convertible or you know, uh something nice. And I said, Oh, I rented a minivan.

SPEAKER_03 8:06

This Chrysler Pacifica.

SPEAKER_05 8:10

Pacifica. It was literally like I just shit on his plate when I said I rented a minivan. You should have seen the face.

SPEAKER_03 8:19

Dylan had a lot of first on this trip. Yes. Works as hard.

SPEAKER_05 8:24

He's in counseling.

SPEAKER_03 8:26

Dylan may never go back.

SPEAKER_05 8:29

So I will say after we spent approximately 27 hours in that van. Right. And we both love it.

SPEAKER_03 8:42

Okay. Well, we talked about this. I swear we talked about it on a podcast. We had to rent a van one time before. Were we going to the Hot Point furniture market? I don't remember. And I ended up with the Chrysler van. And I when we came back, I was like, I think I want to get a van because I need my truck. I'm usually hauling products for work, the warehouse. And so mine doesn't fit that much stuff. If it can't fit in the back of the truck, the back seat of my truck, it's just a nightmare. The doors don't open. That's a whole different story. But anyway, nothing fits stuff like a van. Yeah. So I was like, oh, I think I could literally I could sport this minivan. I could get it in black, you can get it blacked out, you can get black rims, and it looks sporty. But anyway, so this was like last year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 9:33

Long story short, I rented one. Dylan looked up the reviews on all the comp ones, and we've got criteria. Mainly the seats have to lay flat. Yeah. And this Pacifica met that requirement. And we're we're getting one.

SPEAKER_03 9:51

We're getting the company's the company is getting one. In 2025. Yes. 2026. The end of the year. The end of the year. We're getting us a van. Um we're taking up donations.

SPEAKER_05 10:08

Seriously. Could you please? We're gonna open up a GoFundMe for our Pacifica van.

SPEAKER_03 10:16

No, look, we could put on our website. No, we would never save the money, it'd be gone. We could put a van fund on there, and you could just it could be like five dollars, and you could just buy as many five dollars contributions if you wanted to. Wouldn't that be nice? But anyway, so the van is really nice. So Dylan had his van experience. My back did not hurt because you know that I have a I have a bad back. And you can spread out in it.

SPEAKER_05 10:43

It was just nice. We could fit the stuff stuff in it.

SPEAKER_03 10:48

You just toss it in there because it doesn't you got plenty of room.

SPEAKER_05 10:52

And it wasn't like having one of our cars like, oh, you gotta worry about this thing or person parking it and it violet. None of that. Yeah. Didn't worry about any of it. And guess what? Nothing got scratched, stinged, or damaged. It was fine.

SPEAKER_03 11:09

I d speaking of the van, I did mean to tell you this. We do need to get one this year because did you know that's the only vehicle Chrysler makes now? Is the is the two models of the van.

SPEAKER_05 11:20

Like there's no crazy.

SPEAKER_03 11:22

So I'm like, are they gonna go away? I mean, I want one before they go away.

SPEAKER_05 11:26

Yeah, it it it scores. I mean, all of the vans have I really, I mean, in my mind, I thought, oh, I want the Toyota or the Honda. Right. You know, Japanese, it you know, lasts longer.

SPEAKER_03 11:42

And Honda is like the you know And those would all we would take those would drive good, but the the problem the problem is the problem is the seats. For us, we want it as a functional company van to the Pacifica ranks highest basically across the world.

SPEAKER_05 12:03

Oh, does it? For luxury, for luxury, the drive, yeah, everything.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

Well, the biggest thing is the seats flip down into the floor. You don't have to remove them.

SPEAKER_05 12:16

And we have to remember we're not buying it to haul our chairins around. We're buying it to haul rugs and chairs, purses and jewelry. Yes, yes. It's not about, you know, yeah, the name. It has to be functional. So anyway, the drive was great. Um you drove down there. That was now that's the farthest. Is that the right word? Further. Further. Farthest. Fartherest. I think it's fartherest. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:48

I've driven. Yeah. Fartherest. Fartherest. Yeah. I've driven. Let me look those. Far no, farther. It doesn't sound right, but that's it. I gotta look it up. Farthest you've driven ever, because you drove all the way to the keys in the inn. But you drove from here. Wait, did y'all spend the night? Oh, y'all ended up the first night there. Y'all stayed in Fort Lauderdale. I mean, you could have gone ahead and made it to Miami at that point, but you didn't have a hotel room.

SPEAKER_05 13:18

It is not correct.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

What is the word?

SPEAKER_05 13:22

Um Farthest. Farthest. Farthest. Oh my god. It's base farthest is basically a double superlative, like saying most best. Yeah, farthest. Farthest. Farthest. Farthest. That's the word. Yeah. I was like, it doesn't sound right, man. Didn't sound right. Anyway, that's the longest damn way I've ever driven. And um, but we stopped in Fort Lauderdale. Yep. The night before. Night before, and we were an hour out of Miami, which was great. Then um we we got up and we had breakfast at the Denny's. Mmm. Really weird. So Denny's headquarters is here in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Uh-huh. But there's no like no Denny's here. Yeah. Like they've all gone. But they're everywhere in southern Florida. That's random. So it's really weird. But it is weird. Um, so we went to Denny's. I was like, let's go to Denny's. And um we drove down and we got to the Let's go to Denny's.

SPEAKER_03 14:30

Yeah, I was like, I can eat eggs.

SPEAKER_05 14:32

Uh-huh. Um we got down there, everything was good. Um weather went uh rained. It did rain the first night, the first day. It was not only did it rain, it blew sideways rain.

SPEAKER_03 14:48

Cold ass rain. Oh, so I didn't hear that. Because you I talked to y'all on the way down there the first day that you left. It was a Tuesday, and then my parents were coming into town, and I didn't talk to you until I think Saturday when they left, is when I entered. We kind of stayed in because it was talking to you because I was like, I don't want to bother him on vacation anyway. We stayed in bed. It was like raining sideways. Yeah. Which is fine because all y'all were going to be able to do it was good. Relax anyway.

SPEAKER_05 15:18

It was it was good, it worked out. And um the next day we, you know, we got out and started doing our thing.

Miami Plans Art District And Tennis

SPEAKER_05 15:26

And you know, we have our places we like to eat and like what we like to do. Because y'all had stayed there last year.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 15:32

And then Dylan went. And it was the Marriott Vacation Club for Marriott owners. Okay. So it's a nice place right on South Beach. We're giving out the name, even that. Well, it's not their fault. Yeah. It's very nice. Mm-hmm. Um, and they do really nice things, like they provide bikes so you can bike, and they have um happy hour with free cocktails and free ice cream and you know, lots of little yeah, yeah. Lots of little things, salsa dancing, and you know, there's always things for owners to do every day.

SPEAKER_03 16:12

So while y'all were there, what did all did y'all do in Miami? I mean, Dylan it went to the Miami Open, right?

SPEAKER_05 16:19

He went to the Miami Open. I went to uh uh what is it called? Wynwood. It's uh like it's kind of an industrial area that where they've like spray painted where they shouldn't on buildings and tagged buildings with graffiti, but then like the city embraced it. This is my all my perception. Yeah, I may be completely wrong, but it appears that the city just kind of embraced it and made it like the art district. So it's all art studios, and they've taken the graffiti and it's like murals.

SPEAKER_03 16:59

It's really cool.

SPEAKER_05 17:00

So it's probably an area that kind of went down, and then arts moved in, but they just kept the Yeah, and it's it's very cool, lots of cool coffee shops and restaurants, Starbucks and art booths and this and that. Well, I knew that would not interest Dylan. And um so I just went and walked around and honestly, is I love art. I appreciated it, but none of it was like my style. So it wasn't even a temptation for me. But fun to see. It was fun to see.

Hard Rock Traffic And Road Rage

SPEAKER_05 17:32

So then I went and picked him up, um, got into a road raid incident at the uh Hard Rock Coliseum.

SPEAKER_03 17:42

Didn't this happen last year when you went there? Remember you were flipping someone off last year when you went there? Did happen. Yeah, it did. Because you were you started in the Mercedes. You didn't tell me, but you I you briefly told me you got in an incident, and I was thinking, and I didn't blurt it out because you we moved on, but you got in this you got in a road rage there last year.

SPEAKER_05 18:05

That was an entitled man in a big Mercedes, and I had to flip him off. Uh-huh. And well, I I not only flipped him off, I gave him a very descriptive uh definition of what I was doing for him.

SPEAKER_03 18:23

Have you seen on um like TikTok? I'll have to send you one, where this sort of thing happens where someone's in a road rage, but they're videoing them, but then it goes viral and they find them and they report like their work, and they would be like, This was Steven Mert, he's owner of like the nested fig. And all that's what's gonna happen to us. It may you're gonna be out there acting a damn fool, flipping someone off.

SPEAKER_05 18:51

I was I was the one mistreated. Oh uh oh. That man kept tailgating me and I couldn't go anywhere. So what happened was this was another, I was innocent. So that was last year.

SPEAKER_03 19:06

Now we're on to this year. We're in this year, due to that.

SPEAKER_05 19:09

I mean, my minivan. Well, it took me, it the maps took me the opposite direction for some reason. It was very, very, very busy. Like we were there on a Friday. He went Monday last year. We were there on a Friday. Oh my God.

SPEAKER_03 19:27

Well, okay, I feel like next year, if he goes to this, he needs to Uber. Not even, it doesn't have to be all the way back, but maybe Uber like a mile away. Yeah. Y'all need a designated safe pickup luggage. Maybe someone with more, you know, knowledge of the area and more directionally smart. We're not very directionally. But here's what they did.

SPEAKER_05 19:57

They were it they were idiots there. So we were at the Hard Rock Stadium, and it's like eight lanes that runs all the way around the stadium. Right. Okay, that's well and good. I knew it's very confusing, but I knew basically I'm going in a circle. He just has to find me. Right. Like I was finding landmarks saying he was like, I'm here, I'm okay, I'm right here. Right. I see this, I can't get to you, so you're just gonna have, but traffic was not as you know, was just a gridlock. I was like, so just walk over here.

SPEAKER_02 20:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 20:32

So he did, that was fine. Well, the idiots that were running the place there, they were allowing all the Ubers to do a U-turn in front of eight lanes of traffic. So it was it had basically shut down all the traffic, and then they were turning into traffic. I'd never seen anything like it. Like it was the dumbest shit I'd ever seen in my life. But I'm like, well, there's nothing I can do but sit here. Yeah. This stupid, stupid woman, her car, the hood of her car was right at my head, at the door at my door. Yeah. Where she was, I don't know what she thought I was magically going to lift and fly out of there. I don't know. Yeah. She just, I mean, we were not moving.

SPEAKER_03 21:29

She was making a U-turn and is she.

SPEAKER_05 21:32

She was just trying to move over. She didn't know what was going on. Okay. And so she's But y'all are just lying up. We're sitting there. There's nothing we can do. And she is just laying on her horn. And it is right in my ear.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

Uh huh. And see, we're from the South in Greenville. And if you move here to Greenville, South Carolina, don't leave your horn back in your state. Don't blow that damn horn.

SPEAKER_05 21:58

Exactly. So So I glanced at her like shut the hell up. Right. And then I turned and she blew the horn again. And I told Dylan I can hear you. I said, if she blows that damn horn one more time, it's gonna get bad. And he said, Oh my God, you're gonna get us killed. And Dylan hates any confrontation. He does not like confrontation, and I embarrass him. And I'll be damned if she didn't lay on that horn one more time. So I let the window down in the van. I put her in part. And half of my body is leaning out of this minivan.

SPEAKER_03 22:52

Okay, see this is over the hood of her car. This is the TikTok where they're going.

SPEAKER_05 22:59

We found him. That's okay. Please, please tag me. So my body is half out of the minivan. I'm over the hood of her car and I'm pointing at her and I'm saying, Don't you blow that damn horn one more time? And I said it just like that, and I said, Don't do it. Yeah. And then so she is explaining to me, this crazy loon, why she needed to blow the horn. She starts talking to me, and I said, Don't do it. So I get back in the car and I let the window up. And Dylan said, You need to calm down. You're gonna get shot. And I said, Well, I've got a pew pew too, so let's go at it. It's gonna be like the wild, wild west out here. Oh but guess what? She didn't blow that damn horn one more time. And it's a good thing because she would have went home with no horn. I doubt she would have had a steering wheel. Oh my god. But I mean, it's bad enough like when it's behind you, right, around you, but it was like right in my face. Like, I mean, it literally was hurting my ears. Yeah. So we made it out of there, and everything was fine. And um, he had a great time. He actually it became a cloud. It that day we were like, well, it looks like it's moving out. It was raining that morning um in Miami. Uh-huh. But as we moved to Fort Lauderdale, it had kind of cleared. So it was clear. And um, I said, Well, I think you're good. Because we were gonna like, he could, we got insurance so he could move his ticket.

SPEAKER_02 25:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:02

And he does something, I don't know. He hops from court to court to court to see what he wants. So everything got postponed a little. Needless to say, um, I invested a lot in the open this year because when I picked him up, he said, Oh, I had to get this towel for this, I had to buy this bag for this, I had to buy this umbrella for this. I said, Oh my God. He had a little merch. Yeah. I said, How much? Well, it was this was only $30. This was only $60. This was, I said, You just spent like three million dollars. So it was funny, but he had a really good time. So I'm glad he enjoyed that. It's not um, I do want to go to the US Open and I might go to that, but I just can't get into it. It's so boring to me.

SPEAKER_03 25:59

Tennis person at all. I would just like to point out though, going back to these road rage incidents, that's two years, two things, and you're the common denominator. I just I just I'm not no pointing fingers or anything.

SPEAKER_05 26:16

These tennis people are very angry, is what I've determined. Aggressive. Yes. And like this lady, the man last year was just a big snooty person tailgating me for some angry reason. I don't know, he was just angry. This lady was just an idiot. Yeah, but nobody really scary. I was scary. I'm this scary, crazy redneck. Oh my god. But that was really fun.

SPEAKER_03 26:45

But the big story comes. Hold on. Before you get to are you talking about the checking out? Okay, before you get to that story, let's talk about because you messaged me and I feel like I need to do a PSA, or we talked

THC Drinks Gone Wrong PSA

SPEAKER_03 27:03

about it. And I don't know if you did this in Key West or Florida, but you tried the THC drinks. Don't do it, y'all. No, no, hold on. Where was this?

SPEAKER_05 27:13

Miami, Miami, don't do it.

SPEAKER_03 27:15

Steven calls this is after his trip. He's like, he's like, I tried the THC drink. I cannot do those. And he's like, I had three sips, and I was messed up. And I said, What are you talking about? And he's like, I just I literally had three, you know, sips, drinks of it, and I was just out of it. And I said, You should hear Dylan.

SPEAKER_05 27:44

He you need to ask Dylan about it, the experience, and what and and and have him mock me walking. Because I don't really recall this, but he said, you know, when I walk, I walk like I'm climbing a mountain. Yeah, you your arms are going, you are I'm going somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 28:04

With purpose.

SPEAKER_05 28:05

With purpose. And if you're gonna walk around me, near me, or with me, you're gonna walk like we're going somewhere. We don't drag our feet. We get in there and we walk. We don't do the Yeah, I'm like one of those old ladies that walks in the mall. I mean, that's my normal walk. Power walk. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 28:26

Well, evidently my arms just became Jell-Jell-O. He said my arms were hanging, and I walk I weave to one side of the sidewalk to the other, to the other. And I remember I wasn't talking because if I get really high or something like that, I don't talk at all. Yeah. And I remember that.

SPEAKER_03 28:53

But I it was just not good for me. Okay, so I said, okay, we gotta, we gotta assess the situation because this doesn't sound right. I don't remember the name of it. Yeah, it doesn't sound right. So I was like, where did you get this? Like, did you get this from someone or the liquor store? And you're like, no, I got it from the liquor store, which is where I got mine. Okay, so we're going through the things because I wanted to make sure you got a legit or whatever. Well, it turns out Steven couldn't remember exactly the discussion, and he had gotten sixty milligram cans of the drink. Six zero. We had 10 1-0 milligrams. But you think that made a big difference? Hell yes, that made a big difference. That's six times the amount of THC in there. The few times I've tried these gummy or something, you always do this.

SPEAKER_05 29:55

It sounds very weak.

SPEAKER_03 29:57

Yeah. He's like, Oh, I thought y'all got 50, so I got 60. And I was like, no, we got 10. So if this is something you are trying and you are um new to it, maybe go with 10. But one time I went with Steven, I'm I know we have told this story too, but I went, we were in Florida. I guess it was when we just bought the beach cottage. And we did. It was just me and you, me and you. I think Daniel had been there and he had left and I stayed and you came and this whole thing. Just you and I. I don't know, but we were at our beach cottage. But we went to a shop and he, it was like the um the synthetic, yeah. Synthetic uh THC, I guess Delta eight, delta nine, one of those, whatever. Well, anyway, he was getting this gummy, and the girl told him, do not eat this whole thing. Like, do not. This has however many mil, it was probably 60 milligrams in it, or 50 or something. Well, Steven decides to have two or whatever. What did you have?

SPEAKER_05 31:13

You had the whole one and a half because it didn't seem that strong to me.

SPEAKER_03 31:18

He always does this. That it was terrible. Doesn't it just did that just didn't sound right, is what he'll say. Like even with this, 10 milligrams, that just didn't sound right. I got 60. The time in Florida when we were there, it took you two days to recover. Oh my God. It was horrible. It was horrible. I was oh my god. Anyway. So I felt like we needed to talk about that in case you have the Stevens syndrome where more is better. It's not.

SPEAKER_05 31:53

More is not not better, and more is not always more.

SPEAKER_03 31:57

Yeah. So you don't want to start with 60. We had 10. Um, and like, you know, you could have had two drinks, you know, like you could have gotten the 10. And if you're like, uh it's not strong enough, you could have had another drink, which would have been 20. But you started with 60 and you turned into a zombie. Zombie. So it was awful. Did y'all how long did it take for the 60 to kick in? Was it like pretty quick? No, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_05 32:26

We went because I would think it would still take the time to like I felt completely normal, yes. And then um we found this. Um, it wasn't rebag, but it was like a rebag place. Um, it's called something else that we had seen on Instagram. Uh-huh. Um it's like a I think it's a local Miami thing, but it's um it's a pond. Yeah. But for a luxury. It was really cool.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:57

So um Dylan was like, oh my gosh, that's from Instagram. We got to go in there. Yeah. So we went in there, they had the men's.

SPEAKER_03 33:06

You'd already had the drink.

SPEAKER_05 33:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 33:08

So we're in there and they had a lot of cool things. Like they had the big men's Air Mez carry bag. That man was trying to sell it to me. I wasn't buying it. It was $17,000. $17,000. $17,000. And you couldn't touch it without a glove on. I said, well, hellfire. I mean, I said I said, it's beautiful. It's beautiful, but I thought there is no way in hell I'm paying. Anyway, I was in there and it hit me. And I was like, oh shit. You're like, I got to go. I was like, ooh. You know, it w it was, I said, ooh, I don't I I think that's getting to me. My feet felt like my feet felt really heavy. Yeah. Like concrete. Like when I was walking. Yeah. Oh my God. Wasn't a good thing. Because you had overdone it.

SPEAKER_03 34:18

But anyway.

SPEAKER_05 34:18

I did too much, and you know how I am. Like my my in my inner addict comes out like that. So, you know, and I don't, I rarely have a drink anymore. Really didn't drink for a year and a half. Yeah. But we're like, I'm, I'm all of a sudden, I'm like, oh, let's stop over here. I think I want some champagne. Dylan's like, champagne. Was this after the THC?

SPEAKER_03 34:43

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_05 34:45

Oh, I was, I you were on. You know, uh-huh. You know how I am. Uh-huh. Like, you've been with me enough to know what when you flip that switch. Uh-huh. So you were on. Party Steven is in the house. I would have been so irritated. And Dylan was like, no. Yeah. He was not having it. So needless to say, I slip it off. Everything was fine. Um we and I found I found with my low carb, low sugar diet now that I do, um, Pinot Grigio is my drink of choice. Okay. So I can have a little wine. Um, so I did have a couple glasses of that. Mm-hmm. And uh it takes very little now. When you go without any for a year and a half, yeah, you can get your party on real quick.

SPEAKER_03 35:47

So but that's how I've been my whole life. But anyway.

SPEAKER_05 35:50

Yeah. Yeah. Well, and it's I kind of kind of works out good. It's much cheaper. Yep. Of course, Dylan did bring it up to me. I had we ate, I forget where we ate, and I had two glasses of Pinot Grigio, and he was like, You know that wine was like ten dollars a glass. And you're like, Yes. I was like, oh my gosh, was it? I mean, you forget when you haven't drank in so long. How much that adds on to something. Yeah. Yeah, but it was fine. It was just kind of funny. It was like, mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So great time in Miami. Really, really good time. We did not go to Ball Harbor shops. We did not, we went to our um, our bougie high-end outlets. Mm-hmm. And everything is so much like we're both now, like, we don't even want to go like to the boutique stores because first of all, these look just like the boutique stores. The store themselves are set up the same. Same exact way. You get the same treatment. Oh, okay. You get, you know, they would you like a drink? Would you same way? But the prices are not stupid. They're just slightly ridiculous, but not stupid. Okay. They're at least 50% less. That's a lot. That is. Yeah. So we had a good time there. We had a nice meal there. We saw a lot of fun things. We didn't go crazy shopping. We got a few little things. Had a great trip. And then it's time to check

The Bed Bug Discovery At Checkout

SPEAKER_05 37:30

out. This is where the fun begins. We're getting ready to get in the van to head to the state parks and work our way to Key West. This is another first for Dylan here. So we're packing up and Dylan finds a bug on the chair.

SPEAKER_03 37:52

Was the bug alive or dead?

SPEAKER_05 37:54

It was alive. Okay. Well, I'm like, you know, I am petrified of a snake and not very fond of an iguana or lizard. Other than that, I'm like, I mean, I don't want a spider on me or a bug, but I'm not like freak out. He's freaking out.

unknown 38:15

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_05 38:16

And I'm like, oh good gracious, what is it? Well, he's over there taking pictures of the bug, putting it in chat GPT. It comes back, it's a bed bug. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 38:33

A freaking bed bug. And to those of you who are listening, y'all know Steven by now. His house, what it looks like. If you don't, you can go look at his Instagram. I mean. He is very particular. Very clean. Very clean. Very particular, even about the way that your clothes get washed, dried. It is. We both Dylan and I both are. We have we're very particular. Denim does not get washed and dried except for once every two to three years. Well, it doesn't get dried. Ever. But anyway, go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 39:14

So I'm like, oh my God. It's just one. Well, I ripped that place apart like I was looking for cocaine. I ripped, and it was a, it is a, first of all, it was the Marriott Vacation Club. I'm not angry at them whatsoever. It was because we've stayed there before. It is so nice. It was immaculately clean, neat. Thank God. It was everything was like very new. Yeah. Because I ripped the bed apart, I ripped the sofa apart. I ripped everything you could rip apart in there. I could not find another bug, a poop spot, blood, nothing. But I was still wrecked. So I get down to downstairs.

SPEAKER_03 40:09

Spoiler alert. He is still wrecked to this day, even after being home. Yes. I'm still even yesterday. You're like, do you think we're gonna get bed bugs in our house?

SPEAKER_05 40:19

Well, when y'all hear everything we did, but anyway, I go, I I get management and I'm like, listen, I I am absolutely about to have a nervous breakdown. I have this, I just found this bug. I have a picture. Yeah. This, I said, I've never seen one, but Chat GPT says this is a bed bug. Yeah. And she said, Oh my God, it looks like a bed bug. Yeah. And I said, Well, we can just dispose of all of our, you know, and we had all of our luggage, we had Gucci bags, we had all this stuff. I said, all of this can just be thrown away.

unknown 41:02

What?

SPEAKER_05 41:03

No idea. And poor Dylan is looking like he's gonna cry because like almost all of his clothes were in that. I said, I I don't, I don't, I don't want any of it. We'll we'll and she's like, No, no, no, sir. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh my gosh, no, like she's looking like I'm crazy, and I'm like, we can get more. And she's like, let's just calm down. I know you're freaked out. I said, to say the least, I was very nice, yeah, because I know just from being in the restaurant business, I know shit happened. Right, right. And I know it wasn't a nasty place because we'd stayed there before. I know, and you see all those people from all over the world there. I'm like, shit. Well, she was wonderful. And they called Ecolab out to do an inspection. I said, Well, I'm gonna get on the road. Can you call me when Ecolab gets here? Yeah so we can see because we're checking out to go to Sea West. And I want to know what the state of the situation. Is there an infestation? Is it not an infestation? Is it, you know, I I didn't see it, but I'm not a bug expert. And she said, absolutely. She called me when Ecolab was there. Ecolab did not find another bug, an egg, or they used the lights, they didn't find anything, which made me feel a little bit better. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 42:42

Maybe y'all brought the bug there to begin with.

SPEAKER_05 42:45

Mm-hmm. So uh I, you know, while we're in the car, we're figuring out what we're supposed to do.

SPEAKER_03 42:54

I know that day was ruined.

SPEAKER_05 42:56

Runt.

SPEAKER_03 42:57

No, it was rent. It was rent. That is true. It was a ruin. It weren't. It was rent. That day was rent. That was the whole you were looking forward to driving to Key West. And I he wanted to drive down there so he could stop on the way. And I know because I know how you are now. Like you are still, it's still on your mind. So I can't imagine at the front of the story getting the car.

SPEAKER_05 43:25

I didn't think about it too much. Uh-huh. Because it just sends me.

SPEAKER_03 43:29

Because I know you were in the van going, do you think we brought them in the van? Are they in our bag? Or we do we have them on.

SPEAKER_05 43:35

Well, honey, we didn't go to we went to Walmart and Target. We

Laundromat Heat Treatment And Steaming

SPEAKER_05 43:41

bought everything you can imagine. We bought bed bug spray. We bought a steamer that will burn the hell out of you. This steamer is Satan himself. It's Satan's breath. Um So we roll our happy ass onto Key West. I find the first laundromat.

SPEAKER_03 44:08

Did y'all even stop along the way like you wanted to? We did. Okay. How was that? A dis damn disappointment.

SPEAKER_05 44:14

But it was also, may have been a frame of mind. But it wasn't what I wanted. You know, it was just a hard day, okay? And so we have all of our stuff, and you know, we had dy. You know, not to sound, I'm not trying to be snooty or anything, but we had a lot of nice clothes with us.

SPEAKER_03 44:42

Okay, here comes Dylan's other first of the trip. Yes. This is even this is the funniest part to me.

SPEAKER_05 44:49

So what we figure out, and we get this from the lady and Ecolab. We have to go to a laundromat and basically set fire to everything we have. So I grew up poor. It wasn't my first time at the rodeo. Okay. I knew what I was going. I knew what I was walking into. Right. At a laundromat. Hell yeah. I mean, let's face it, you're not gonna run into the Kardashians at a laundromat.

SPEAKER_00 45:29

Well, God.

SPEAKER_05 45:31

And it is what it is. I was just there to set fire to everything I own and leave. And we walk in, and Dylan walks in and he turns around and he looks at me. And he says, I think we need to find another one. This is this is horrible. And I I And you're like I can't be in here. You know, and it was 280 degrees in there with fans running because that's the way they are.

SPEAKER_03 46:02

Yeah, you never have a cool laundromat.

SPEAKER_05 46:05

The doors are propped open, you know, you got fans, some flies, you know, the whole asbestos tile on the floor from 1970. You know, some booze, uh Boone's Farm wine bottle in the trash, you know. Right. And I'm like, Dylan, this is a laundromat. There are not fancy laundrom. We're not gonna go to a laundromat where we're gonna like sit in leather club chairs and and have a glass of wine. Right. It it ain't the way it is. Right. Like this is it.

SPEAKER_03 46:47

Lord, I hope he never ends up poor.

SPEAKER_05 46:50

Oh, bless his heart. So he is making the biggest face that likes he smells shit the whole time. He gets Clorox wipes and sanitizes, you know how they have the folding tables? He wouldn't even put his bags on the table till he sanitized it. Then we put our clothes in one table.

SPEAKER_03 47:16

Can you imagine? Listen though, we gotta go to the other people sitting in the laundromat. Can you imagine these two bougie bitches rolling up to the laundromat with I know you came out with your Louie and your Gucci Louie bag and your Gucci bag and your Louis backpack and a Gucci backpack? Because you had to bring everything in there. And I was trying to be so nice to everybody. I was you two should have paid for everybody's laundry that day.

SPEAKER_05 47:54

I should have. I've been like, hey, and they didn't, I don't know what country they were from. They didn't speak not one lick of English, and I was like, hey, can I share with you? And they were very smiling and looking, and I was like, Oh my god, they think I don't know what they think. And I was trying not to be obvious Dylan, I swear, never changed his facial expression. It was like this, and bless his heart, he had sweat, you could see sweat running down his neck, his nose. Because it was pot in there, and you're and then he really ticked me off in the middle. He said, This is just ruined this trip. Because we're in the laundromat. Right. So we put those clothes in the dryer. Okay, I have not been to a laundromat in a very long time. Thank thankfully. Do you have any recollection of how hot those dryers get?

SPEAKER_03 48:59

Yes, they're actually really good. I always say whenever we need a new washer and dryer, I want to get one like the laundromat has, even if I have to scan my credit card at my house.

SPEAKER_05 49:13

Oh no, they're not on that level. No, it's quarters. But it's not good for your clothes.

SPEAKER_03 49:19

Like, but I could dry some shit so fast.

SPEAKER_05 49:22

I think, honestly, I mean, we had to do what we had to do. I think it honestly damaged a lot of my clothes. Because it got so I'm I'm not kidding.

SPEAKER_01 49:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 49:34

Our shoes, I had to put the shoes in there too. They and it shrunk our shoes. Our shoes, you we walk with a gimp now because our toes won't straighten out. The shoes got so hot, I had to drop them in the floor because the rubber was it was just so hot. And what'd you put it on? The hottest setting? Yeah. I put it on the hottest. I thought they were like gonna melt. Yeah, it was insane. So I packed we pack that shit as fast. So well, while that's in there burning, yeah. We take the steamer. We had no water, there was no bathroom in the place, but I had bottled water. Yeah. So we were using that. We steamed every bag we had inside and out. Zippers, you know. Because you're the goal is to heat it up to kill any eggs. That's what that's the main thing, a steamer. Yeah. So we steam every that takes forever. So we did that, and then we pulled all the stuff out, folded it. And Dylan like takes hours to do his. His are perfect. Yeah, and you're like, this shit in the bag, and let's go. I'm like, let's get the hell out of here. So we drive. So from there, probably it's an hour and a half. Or no, maybe an hour between leaving there, getting checked into our hotel, opening our bags, getting what we need out to go have dinner. Our clothes were still steamy hot.

SPEAKER_03 51:19

That's crazy. Not kidding. Well, that should have done the job of so that should have killed the worry of something because But then you oh, then I bought bed bug spray.

SPEAKER_05 51:31

I soaked that minivan twice. Front to back. Front to back. I was like, if there's a bug in here, it is dead.

SPEAKER_01 51:46

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 51:47

So we did all of that. Then when we got home, we immediately washed everything, dried everything again, extended period. Then we uh steamed our bags again. Yeah. And then we um then we did all new bedding just so we could make sure nothing.

SPEAKER_03 52:12

Y'all are crazy.

SPEAKER_05 52:14

And then and then Dylan was paranoid, so then he steamed the whole mattress. Oh my gosh. We've sta I it listen, if a bug is alive in our home at this point, it deserves to be meant. You know what? I'm just gonna scooch on over and let and welcome them. Oh my gosh, that is so crazy.

SPEAKER_03 52:36

But it was nerve rolling going to it was laundry. Oh my gosh. Okay, so then when y'all got to.

SPEAKER_05 52:45

Oh, he I was getting so mad at him in the laundromat. Yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 52:50

But y'all don't really get mad at each other.

SPEAKER_05 52:52

Never.

SPEAKER_03 52:53

We never fight. Y'all don't even really have spats.

SPEAKER_05 52:58

But I had to say that day, I had to say, shut up. This is the way it is. Uh-huh. We are not, the Ritz Carlton does not have a laundromat. Right. Let's just be thankful we don't have to use this every day. And then while we're in the laundromat, I forgot to tell you this. One of these people that were not from the United States, I don't know where they were from, spoke no English. I tried to be very nice. Bless his heart. I think he put like um dishwasher detergent in the machine. Like Dawn or something? Yes. Oh Lord. So all the whole one half of the laundromat where our stuff was was all suds.

SPEAKER_03 53:51

Oh my was it just coming out of the washer?

SPEAKER_05 53:54

Just suddenly Oh, it was like some. I mean, it was unbelievable. And I'm slipping in a slide, must face it. That's whatn't the nicest tile in there, you know. In McDonald's, you learn crazy things and always had to you have to have a skid resistance on tile. And that grease gets on it. They needed in laundromats because situations like that, it was slick as owl's grease in there.

SPEAKER_00 54:22

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 54:23

But it would other than that, we honestly had a very good time. Yeah. That was our one little blip. But you know what you and I have talked about, and what Dylan and I have talked about as much as we travel, especially for markets and anywhere.

SPEAKER_03 54:41

But it is shocking we haven't picked up one of those damn bugs and brought them off. And you probably have, and it just died and it wasn't an issue. It's not like I mean, I get they gotta start somewhere, but the chances of I mean, if they had found the infestation in the like if they'd been like, oh, we came and there were shigs under the mattress or something, that would be a whole different, but just to see one and then no other trace, I wouldn't have done any of that. I've been like, well.

SPEAKER_05 55:08

We're gonna hope Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 55:11

We'll watch it when it gets home.

SPEAKER_05 55:12

You'd have been like, it's fine.

SPEAKER_03 55:14

That's the way that's your but honestly, and I And I would have been like, you know what? If there are eggs in our laundry, we will see them before we get back home because it's gonna be another few days. It's fine, it's fine.

SPEAKER_05 55:28

And that's what honestly I envy about you because you're that you're it's fine, it's fine, it's fine until it's not.

SPEAKER_03 55:37

Then you deal with it.

SPEAKER_05 55:38

Why deal with it when it's fine? I know. I have a nervous breakdown at the beginning. Yeah, but you know, it's just the way I'm wired. Oh my god. Just the bugs. Like I I can handle a bug, I can handle a bite on me.

SPEAKER_03 55:55

It's taking that in my home that just Oh, and then you said, um, so well, okay, first of all, so then y'all made it to Key West and y'all just spent two days there, two nights

Key West Redemption And The Long Drive Home

SPEAKER_03 56:08

there. So you had two days to worry about bed bucks, and would y'all walk around? Do you have any like key lime pie or anything like that while you were there? Was it better this time since it wasn't eight million degrees? So nice. Because last time you went, it was in the summer.

SPEAKER_05 56:23

I I thought last time, last July 4th, we were there. I I literally thought one day, I said, I'm about to spontaneously combust. I mean, I I I was on a golf cart and I said, Dylan, if you don't get off this golf cart right now and get me a cup of ice and some water, I think I'm going to explode. Yeah. Like I thought my I I I bet you my body temperature was like 110.

SPEAKER_03 56:57

That is crazy. That was last July.

SPEAKER_05 57:00

Horrible. And I said, I never want to be back. I I never want to be back here again.

SPEAKER_02 57:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 57:07

And then I was like, and everybody was like, Well, you're here like the worst time. Like this is this is our off, this is our dead season. And I was like, oh, well, yeah, so then we went and it was wonderful. It was in the 70s. Got a little redemption. Yeah, it was it was really nice. I mean, it was perfect, perfect weather, shorts, and you know, just like you want it.

SPEAKER_03 57:35

So then y'all left there and you drove all the way back in one day. How long was that? How long did it take? Because I know you had to stop.

SPEAKER_05 57:44

It would not have been very long. I counted up, we were in the car 17 hours, but the problem was, and you know, I don't poke around. I I get on it. The problem was the construction. I was like, oh my word. I mean, it was one construct, you know, because that that slows you down. Each one like is an hour.

SPEAKER_02 58:08

Right.

SPEAKER_05 58:08

And it was like multiple times. Yeah, because you were coming. Especially, of course, in South Carolina, you're gonna have every road is under construction here. And I was like, oh my word. But you know, it was kind of like the the normal time would have been to stop like when we were in just crossing over into Georgia.

SPEAKER_02 58:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 58:33

And I'm like, well, I mean, we're almost to Savannah, Brunswick. Yeah. And then when you're into Savannah, I'm like, well, we're only three and a half. So but then you don't add in the construction time. We all got home. Traffic wasn't bad, it was just construction.

SPEAKER_03 58:49

Now, did you let Dylan drive at all, or did you drive the whole time?

SPEAKER_05 58:53

I drove the whole time.

SPEAKER_03 58:54

I figured. I figured. Which I like to drive. Yeah. I mean, that wasn't So then you got back home, everything's fine. You had a birthday while you were there too.

SPEAKER_01 59:04

So far.

SPEAKER_03 59:05

Dylan did come in. He had been playing tennis and he had some bumps on his Yes, he had a heat rash, so he thought we had a massive breakout of bugs.

SPEAKER_05 59:14

And they had been biting him. So we had to put that in chat GPT, which I was like, that is a heat rash. Yeah. Because it came, it was like around his cap. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 59:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 59:26

I was like, that's from the heat.

SPEAKER_03 59:28

Oh, Lord.

SPEAKER_05 59:29

Okay, well, I'm glad y'all made it back. Um I But if y'all are listening, hey, so actually after talking to people, a friend was saying that they had a bed bug breakout in one of their rentals.

SPEAKER_03 59:45

Oh, God, that would suck. That would suck. And you know, I mean, you you know, we have, you know, exterminators. Is that what you call it? Exterminators? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 59:58

They're not looking for bed bugs.

SPEAKER_03 59:59

They're not looking for it, but at least it's getting treated. But you never know that could happen at any time. I mean, because people traveling on planes and that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:08

I am shocked we have not had a bed bug problem at one of the pro none. Well, let's not jinx it. We've had five at one time total of five rentals between us.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:20

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:21

And knock on wood. It's true. Nothing yet. Well, guess what? It makes you the whole experience made me want to never go anywhere again.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:32

But it a fade. It will. Well, we gotta pull this baby over. Oh my goodness. That was quite the ride I have been on with you. And I feel like there was something else that was a first for Dylan. I'll have to replay what what all y'all told me about your trip. But Well, that was enough. That was enough. I'm glad you're back, though. I am too. And happy late birthday. Happy birthday to me.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:56

It was really New Year's. It was really a nice. I've never taken that long. Yeah. Even though I act like I was gone for a month.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:05

But 12 days for me is a it's a lot the way we're so in our business and that sort of thing. It is a lot. It was a lot for me. That's why I love going to the beach cottage in Florida and staying for like 12 days. And you're always like, I don't know if I'd like being gone that long. And I'm like, Oh, I do.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:21

Yeah. Now, I mean, when you travel a long way like to Hawaii, that was stupid. I would next time we go to Hawaii, I'm going for two weeks. Because I'm like next time you go to Hawaii, I'm going with you.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:34

But you gotta stay for Yeah. Because the first time we went, we stayed how long? 10 days. 10 or 12. 10 days. I think 12 days is good. Yeah. All right. We're gonna pull this baby over.

Live Sale Plug And Farewell

SPEAKER_03 1:01:47

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