Who's Driving- The Beard Ick S4E12

We go from petty pet peeves to real retail planning, mixing blunt grooming opinions with the behind-the-scenes work of keeping a home and garden business fresh. Along the way, we swap family stories, Southern sayings, and the kind of awkward text and social moments that somehow always happen at the worst time.

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Transcript

Welcome And Road Trip Vibes

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Alright, it's time we're back. Ming girls are here. Buckle up, jump in, join the party. It's time for another episode of Who's Driving? Welcome to Who's Driving. I'm Wesley Turner. And I'm Steven Murray.

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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. Buckle up and enjoy the ride. You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride. Oh. Can I just be a passenger princess this week? You are a passenger princess. Maybe I need to like even just take a nap over here. Oh, I don't think so. Talk to yourself amongst yourselves.

SPEAKER_04 0:58

Well, I do that all the time anyway.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

Oh my gosh. So last week I was I was holding my breath a little bit about last week's podcast because I felt like we were mean girls last week. Yeah, I felt a little mean, but you know the sad thing. We were we were honest. We were honest, but I didn't get any um I didn't get any negative messages. If I did, I missed everyone thinks it. We just said it.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

Well, I I have kind of a topic to continue on being a mean. Oh gosh. But okay, I feel like we've picked on the ladies before, like talking about their leggings and that sort of thing. Oh, we're gonna pick on men. We're gonna pick on men.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

Okay.

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Something that drives it's an ick and it drives me crazy.

SPEAKER_04 1:45

Oh, I got a lot of those. What what's yours?

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Men and their scruffy, scraggly ass facial hair.

SPEAKER_04 1:55

Oh, the ones that look like they have the mange, it's just clumps.

SPEAKER_02 2:00

Grow a beard. Don't don't grow it. And if it won't fill in within seven business days, you can't grow a beard. And some men can't. No. They're mangy. They're they're splotchy. And then the ones who grow a beard, and you know, it probably took them about three months to grow it. And then they don't maintain it. Like their necks all growing out and sprawling out. No one wants to see that. Your wife don't want to see it. It looks like I hate to say this.

SPEAKER_04 2:36

It looks like hair growing. It looks like it looks like you've got your ball hair growing on your face. I I mean, I'm just gonna go ahead and say it.

SPEAKER_02 2:48

But yes, if you look around, if you can't have a nice, clean, trimmed beard, and you and if you're not going to maintain it, that means trimming it up every few days. Shave the shit off. Nobody wants to look at you. I don't it does look like that. Is it like I don't know, does it look like a hairy butt crack or your ball sack? But we have a I you know, here's a fun fact.

SPEAKER_04 3:14

I don't know if I've ever told you this. So I don't know if people really know. I'm a blonde, blonde. I was a toe head, blonde, blonde. I don't have a lot of body hair, true blonde. And I did not shave every day until I was like 23.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

I didn't well, it probably just blended in and didn't grow that fast.

SPEAKER_04 3:38

It didn't. It didn't. And I I could not have grown a beard in my 20s at all. No way. Yeah. Now my beard is white. White but white but thick.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

Yeah. Like now I could grow But it's still not like see, like you, for example. Could you grow it? Yes. Should you grow it? No. It's never gonna be pretty. Like Daniel, my hubby, he grows a pretty beard. His is full.

SPEAKER_04 4:08

It's well he has olive skin. Like he has darker skin by nature. And I don't I think it looks like my dad has my dad has dark, dark skin. Yeah, dark olive. Um a lot darker than Daniel's. And my dad has had a beard my entire life, and he wears it very well, but he keeps it close crop. Now it's white, right? Which looks also looks very nice because he's got those ice blue eyes. It it looks really good. But you know, with me, I like it for a few days and then I just feel like I look like a homeless person.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Mine grows in and would be fine. I can't stand for my hair to grow more than two days. It itches, I don't like it. Now it's white, it it doesn't look good on me. So you're not gonna see mine. You're not gonna see me with the beard. I mine's so white, I just look dirty. If you're out there and your husband grows a nappy ass beard and you want us to tell him for you, let us know. We can. We'll call. We'll be nice. We'll be we'll just say, hey, someone needs to tell you you shouldn't, you shouldn't have that.

SPEAKER_04 5:23

I like a beard if it's very clean, but you gotta know how to wear it. I'm just telling you. Like my dad, my dad's always been able to wear a beard. Didn't matter what decade it was, it he it always sometimes you have to change the way you trim it. But he's also never let his neck be messy ever.

SPEAKER_02 5:47

See, when you have a messy neck in your beard, it just looks it looks dirty. You look dirty. We have a saying, like when we judge people, like we'll be like, oh, look at him. You know his butt stinks. That's when I see that I'm like, oh, his butt stinks. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:05

Okay, I think that went too far.

SPEAKER_02 6:07

Oh well, it's the truth.

SPEAKER_04 6:09

It is the truth. But yeah, I mean I don't even I think trying to think, do I like blondes with beards? I mean, I guess as long as they wear it right.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

I don't know. Is there I'll have to look up some blondes with beards. I'm gonna have to Google blondes with beards. But yeah, usually it stands out more on someone with darker and like darker skin and darker hair because it more highlights it than looks nappy. You know what I'm saying? I don't know. Blondes with beards. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You're gonna be like, no, now that I see that.

SPEAKER_04 6:48

I was watching um Judge Judy. I watched these little clippets on social media.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 6:55

And this um this girl was on there on Judge Judy and she was young, young, and she had a mustache. Like you can expect that, you know, you might notice that like when women are well, several things. It when a woman's pregnant and their hormones go crazy, sometimes they grow facial hair or or menopause. But this girl was young, but I think she was like um she had dark hair and dark features. I was like, God wax up. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

Yeah, I'm Googling picture blondes with beards, and it's really not that attractive on blonde people. It doesn't unless you're like a dirty blonde with you know darker.

SPEAKER_04 7:37

But that's really more light brown. Mm-hmm. It's true.

SPEAKER_02 7:42

I don't know. That was just somebody else to pick on, was the the guys this time because we've picked on other people. So clean your beards up. No one wants to see you walking around looking like that, looking all dirty and nappy, because it it doesn't look good. It doesn't do nothing for you.

SPEAKER_04 7:57

And ladies, keep yours cleaned up too.

Grandma’s Makeup Counter Truths

SPEAKER_00 8:02

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

You know, my grandmother owned Meryl Norman. Merle. It's not Meryl. It's Merle Norman. Meryl Norman. Merle Norman. And she always um would keep like electric razor there and clean up ladies' faces if they came in and needed a little cleanup.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

She would tell you and she would do it right there.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

Let me clean that up for you. Because your makeup doesn't go on good.

SPEAKER_04 8:30

You know, if you your grandmother was she was something else. She was. That is I mean, I found her so entertaining. Yeah. She's very now my grandmother, my grandmother, my mother's mother was exactly the same way. When it's your grandmother, they're a lot less entertaining. But when it's someone else's grandmother, it's it's a lot more fun. I mean, she was she was a firecracker.

SPEAKER_02 9:01

Mm-hmm. She was Miss Sassy Pants.

SPEAKER_04 9:04

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

For sure.

SPEAKER_04 9:06

I can't imagine when she was young how she was. I bet she told it how it was.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

I'll tell you that. She had the look, you know, that look she would give you.

SPEAKER_04 9:22

I'll never forget. Um in your and your cousin Kristen, she listens to this podcast, so she'll hear it. Um she just had a birthday too. Happy birthday, girl. When her sister got married and we were doing that wedding, I sat with Miss Bobby. And I mean, it was a beautiful wedding. Yeah. And I thought everybody looked gorgeous and everything looked fine to me, but I also am not a makeup artist. Mm-hmm. And I cr she said, for we were sitting there and it was quiet, you know, people weren't. She said, I don't know who did this eye makeup, but it's wrong. Talking about for the wedding party. Well, we'll talk about it later, Miss Bobby. She said, mm. Those eyelashes. She was critiquing everybody. I thought it was so hilarious. And you know, she was a beautiful lady. I mean, she was in her mid-80s then, and she looked amazing.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:31

I mean, there wasn't anything out of place.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

She was good, but she's gonna talk about your makeup if you did it wrong.

SPEAKER_04 10:39

I bet she gave your mom a hell all the time. Oh, yeah, she did. Your mom said if she didn't have makeup on, I think your mom had told me one time if she went, because you know, your mom's like us. She's gonna be out working doing 10,000 things, and if her makeup, she didn't put makeup on or something, your grandmother would always say something. Oh, I'm sure you need some makeup on.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

I'm sure. Oh my gosh. That is too funny.

SPEAKER_04 11:08

That's where Kristen gets her her her makeup, and that's where because Kristen does her makeup beautifully.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_04 11:16

So I bet that's where she got that from.

Atlanta Market Plans And Store Reset

SPEAKER_02 11:19

Oh, for sure. Absolutely. Um, so what do you got coming up? So next week, this this comes out on Tuesday, but next week, you are headed back Sunday. On Sunday, yeah, you are headed back to the Atlanta market for a little market week. You're gonna be live inside the nested big app every day. So this is it ended up weird just with Mother's Day, and we got a lot going on, but you're going on Sunday.

SPEAKER_04 11:50

Never done this before.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

So you're gonna be live Sunday. I don't even know your schedule. You're gonna be live Sunday afternoon from the bag warehouse.

SPEAKER_04 11:58

We're gonna be we're starting at the bag warehouse on Sunday. Okay. We'll be doing jewelry on Monday. Mm-hmm. Um, Tuesday and Wednesday. I do not have the tournament finalized, and Thursday we'll be back at the bag warehouse.

SPEAKER_00 12:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 12:16

Um I was coming home Wednesday night, um, but things change. We've we're s we set we're selling uh original artwork at the home store now.

SPEAKER_02 12:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:27

And all of it sold. So I gotta go get more.

SPEAKER_02 12:30

Right. So you're gonna drop by this art dealer.

SPEAKER_04 12:33

Uh-huh. We yeah, we have an art dealer outside of Atlanta. I want to stop there, buy some art, and um then come home. So you got a fun week next week. I'm gonna have one day of rest, and then you and I are starting to do redo the home store.

SPEAKER_02 12:49

So while he's gone, so this is our home store. We moved to its current location seven years ago. We opened like the week of July 4th. Then we opened like the 5th or the sixth, right after whatever the Monday was seven years ago. Right up, maybe it was whenever we opened right around 4th of July. So we've been in business. The home store was our second store. You know, we had the garden store first, started that in 2009. Daniel and I did, and then Steven came along, and then we opened the home store 2013. 2013. So this is its 13th year, which is crazy. And seventh in this location, right? And seventh in its current location. So we moved the summer of 2019, right before, you know, COVID. And we're bored.

SPEAKER_04 13:39

We're bored with it.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

Like so we need it needs a facelift. Yeah. So we're he's saying we're bored with it. Not with the store, but the look. So we decided a few months ago that Memorial Day weekend, we are revamping the home store. It's time. So we're gonna we're redoing, we're we brought in or we're bringing in a bunch of new lines, gifts, candles, soaps, kitchen items, furniture items. Um, we were just like, we need to pour some attention and give it a, you know, a seven-year makeover. Not that we're not constantly doing things, but what we did is we planned out a weekend so that we can knock out projects, paint some wall, display walls that you know, we've had a hundred thousand nails in over the last seven years. Just give it a good look.

SPEAKER_04 14:29

And um and I feel like COVID, not I guess not in all bad, because unfortunately, unfortunately, COVID was not bad for our business. COVID was actually good for our business. Um, home home decor implants did very well because people were trapped at home. Yeah. But it also was such a crazy busy time. Like we could not plan. Um, it was it was weird. We've never been in that position before, obviously, because we've never had a pandemic, but we could not plan looks. We were flying by the seat of our pants. It was for years.

SPEAKER_02 15:14

I mean, yeah, it really is, I would say, just in the last year. It is really just gotten back on track after COVID as far as as far as the supply from vendors and customer flow. I mean, because there was this hyper period with co I mean, there was the COVID initial period, which here in South Carolina, we only shut down for like a week and a half, two weeks. And then luckily, when we did that, when COVID started, I told Steven, I was like, the one thing we have to do is keep stuff coming in because these shutdowns are going to interrupt the supply chain. So we were very ahead of the game. I don't know how we thought through this because it's not always how we are. But we did very good at pre, we just kept, even when we were shut down, when we reopened, we just kept ordering like it was normal. And so that sustained us. And we just had this hyper period because people changed their focus during COVID. You know, they weren't spending the money to go on vacation because you couldn't really go anywhere. So they were focused on their homes. And it was really, really good to us um in home decor and garden.

SPEAKER_04 16:33

But then But it wasn't a time where you we couldn't really add new lines.

SPEAKER_02 16:38

Yeah, you couldn't get anything new. You couldn't plan it because we might order, you know, 10 things and get four things. We might order it.

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We might get it 15 months later.

Memorial Day Traditions And Lake Crowds

SPEAKER_02 16:51

Yeah. Some things might come, you know, normal when we order. Oh, we'll get this in a couple of weeks. And then literally, some things didn't come for two years. We'd be like, where did this come from? They'd be like, Oh, you ordered it in 2020. And we didn't even want it anymore. Yeah. But they had ordered it and they would just send it to us. So it was a very chaotic time, but good, retail-wise. But then you had to go through the readjustment period. Like we had to, like, okay, supplies getting back on hand, you know, the customer load is returning to normal, whatever that is. And so there was that adjustment period. And like now, um, you know, the housing market affects the home decor because it's like if people aren't moving, they're not buying as much, they're more redoing. It just changed the whole flow. But anyway, it's all gotten over the last, I would say, really the last year, um, it has gotten, okay, this is the this is what normal is now. And vendors have gotten, you know, you order something, it comes like it used to back in 2019. You order it, you know when it's coming, you order it, it does come, it's it's all on track. So we decided it's time to remake over make over the store and give it a new just full reset. Reset from product lines and that sort of thing. So I don't even know how I got off on this. The point is, while you're gone next week in Atlanta, I'm gonna be here prepping for that because we're doing some installing some wallpaper, which I'm gonna do that. Painting. I'm not painting, but I'll get the paint. I am not painting. That is not my thing. Um, so we'll definitely bring you along for that. And if you are listening in current time, um, you know, I know some people listen like weeks later or whatever, but this week, starting on Wednesday, we are gonna go over to the home store and we're gonna be live from there in the nested fig app. So if you don't have our app yet, I don't know what how many times I have to tell you, but maybe you're new, get the app. You can find it in the show notes, and you can also just search the nested fig in your app store. But we're gonna be live and we're gonna do auctions there, and we're gonna just fill up bins of stuff that um, you know, like accessory stuff and stuff that we just wanna clear out from there. So you can grab some good deals and get some different, different things from from the home school. You're gonna get a lot of good good deals. Mm-hmm. So we're gonna start that on Wednesday. And if you're local, we're gonna do like a tag sale. Yeah. Starting Wednesday or Thursday. Starting Thursday, the tag sale, and that will go through Memorial Day weekend. But we're gonna be closed Sunday before Memorial Day and Memorial Day so that we can do our reset. God, that was just a whole little business meeting. Thanks for listening. I'm glad I got my plans all planned out now. Mm-hmm. Speaking of Memorial Day, because we always tend to end up working on our holidays. I what do people do for Memorial Day?

SPEAKER_04 20:05

My family has never ever done anything for Memorial Day.

SPEAKER_02 20:09

Oh, really? They just I don't think we never did anything growing, like, no, we never did anything. We just hung out. Happy Memorial Day. Yeah. I think it was the first, like for us growing up, school usually got out right before Memorial Day. Like we usually got out the week headed to like the Wednesday before Memorial Day.

SPEAKER_04 20:33

But you know, there's families that do like big things on Memorial Day weekend. Like they plan big extended family things. Really? Yeah. I have friends that their family, like uh one friend, they they always the whole damn family. I don't mean like mom and daddy and the kids. Mama, daddy, and the kids. I mean the whole family goes like on a camping trip. I mean, it sounds miserable to me. I'm not going anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

I mean, I think people use that as uh cookouts if you well, especially in the south. I feel like that's when you always had your pool open if you had a pool. So people would have cookouts, little pool party. And like here in South Carolina, because we have lakes near us, it was always a big lake weekend.

SPEAKER_04 21:25

I have done the lake before, but I see I don't like that because it's too damn busy. And I don't want to ski. Well, I'm not gonna get it.

SPEAKER_02 21:33

Everyone is as negative and crotchety as you are.

SPEAKER_04 21:36

But I'm just saying I'm not going, I'm not gonna be boating on a hot a packed holiday. I my fat ass is not getting out there in that water trying to ski when I might get ran over by a boat.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

Well, a lot of other people do. They go out there, they're like, Let's dive off in the middle of it.

SPEAKER_04 21:55

I know, but I would rather wait until Christmas. No, a Monday. Or a Tuesday when nobody's out there and I can ski. You know? I'm like, cause the last time I did that at Kiwi, I was like, I'm not skiing.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Like it's too busy. It does get crazy busy.

SPEAKER_04 22:14

I'm not doing that.

SPEAKER_02 22:16

We always had like family more gatherings like that. I always think of that as more 4th of July than Memorial Day. July. July. I love saying July.

SPEAKER_04 22:29

Some people yeah. I mean, I feel like we need to come up with we need we need to come up with something to do on Memorial Day because we always take on a project.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

I know. It's when we get ourselves in trouble. We always do stores.

SPEAKER_04 22:44

Yeah, we can do something. Well, we can close and get this done.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

That and Fourth of July. We always do that. Fourth of July. Uh-huh. July.

SPEAKER_04 22:56

I didn't lie to you. Um, I yeah. And I mean, I think it was no, it wasn't this late. It wasn't Memorial Day that we painted the floors at the old garden store.

SPEAKER_02 23:11

No, we did that when the during COVID. COVID shutdown. That would have been in March. Yeah, that was a good time. Yeah. When we had the COVID shutdown, we were like, oh, this is a good time to revamp the garden store. We painted the whole store and the floor.

unknown 23:27

Oh, God.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

Someone needs to come get us. Uh-huh. Just at least this store is smaller now. If we Yeah. So we did that. When we opened the, like I going back to the home store, we opened the whole 4th of July we were working. We always are working in holiday. It's crazy. And I used to love Halloween, but damn, we're always doing the Christmas floor sets for Halloween.

Southernisms And Outhouse Reality

SPEAKER_04 23:56

Yeah, just weren't it.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

Just you have not, since this is season four, you have not brought back Southernisms this year.

SPEAKER_04 24:10

Southernisms. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

We haven't brought that back. We haven't done a southernism. We haven't done a riddle like we used to. Oh my gosh. We gotta talk about Southernisms. I haven't picked on you near enough this season, I feel like. Well, you you shit yourself a lot this year already.

SPEAKER_04 24:31

Well we kind of talked about You can't wait until you absolutely just shit yourself somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

Oh, I I have laughed with you so much about it. It is gonna happen to me, and it's probably I'm probably gonna be on a stage somewhere when it happens. It's gonna be in the most like can't I like on an airplane or something is where it's it's gonna happen where it's just like oh my god, he shit himself and there's nothing to do, nothing.

SPEAKER_04 25:01

Like, remember, remember that poor old man when we were in the casino? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

And they were I think we talked about that.

SPEAKER_04 25:10

That I felt so bad.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

We went one time for was that Daniel's birthday or something? We went to Cherokee Casino. Why are we always talking about shitting yourself? I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 25:21

Could you like to talk about it?

SPEAKER_02 25:22

Anyway, well, you brought it up, so I gotta tell it while you're looking for your southernism. We went, long story short, we got on the elevator with these two women. They had to be from the low country, Charleston. I mean, they were as southern.

SPEAKER_04 25:36

Oh god, this is how they talked, y'all.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

Yeah, like Paula Dean with a thicker accent. They said, oh Lord, he's gonna shit himself. And this old man got on and was asking, did we know where the bathroom was? And we were like, no, like we just had gotten, like, we weren't familiar with the place at all. And you could just hear the rumble happening in the elevator, and these two women just started yelling, Oh Lord, he just shit himself. Get me out of here. That's not how it's gonna happen to me, too. That's that is how it's gonna happen. But I don't laugh at you about it. I know it's not that, but it's a good story after you get through it. It's it's I mean, it's already happened, you might as well tell it, right?

SPEAKER_04 26:32

There there are some um there are some good ones. Some good what? Southern sayings.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

Oh, oh, southern sayings. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 26:43

Like, are we talking like now this is something that my family always said, Lord will and in the creek don't rise. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:51

Lord willing, I'll see you in the morning if Lord willing in the creek don't rise. Mm-hmm. When I worked at the gas station, Faye, who smoked the Virginia Slim 100s and would have them s dangling out of the side of her mouth, and the ash would be as long as the cigarette, I'd be like, Faye, I see you tomorrow. Guy willing in the sun. Or wait. Lord willing in the creek don't rise. Yeah. Lord willing in the creek don't rise. Ooh. Ooh, what was that? Lord. Got some feedback there. Yeah, she would always um say that. Oh Lord. That was the days of the This is a good one.

SPEAKER_04 27:28

Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Have you heard that?

SPEAKER_00 27:34

No.

SPEAKER_04 27:35

Yeah, I've I've heard that one.

SPEAKER_02 27:38

Mm-mm. That is funny. That would make you nervous, I guess. Rocking chairs and a kitty cat. Mm-hmm. What else you got over there in your southernisms?

SPEAKER_04 27:52

This is funny. I've never heard this. If brains were gasoline, he couldn't power a fleas motorcycle around a Cheerio. Who the hell made that up? I don't know. That's that's not very an old Southern saying.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

I don't I think a southernism is like jeet yet.

SPEAKER_04 28:14

Oh, here's a I've heard my whole life. Uh-huh. You've got champagne taste on a beer budget. Yep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:24

Or ain't got a pot to piss in. Or a window to throw it out of. That's right. Ain't got a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. Do you know what that went back to? I guess I'm chamber pots.

SPEAKER_04 28:36

That makes sense. They didn't have a you didn't have a chamber pot. A chamber pot with at one time was a luxury to pee in at night.

SPEAKER_02 28:44

It was a lo it's just a pot to piss in.

SPEAKER_04 28:47

Yeah, but not a lot of people couldn't afford a chamber pot. They had to just walk to the outhouse.

SPEAKER_02 28:54

You I would just keep a freaking kitchen pot.

SPEAKER_04 28:59

I mean not to go to the bathroom in. They use chamber pots for poopy too.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

But I mean, I wouldn't use it in the kitchen. I'm saying if you can't afford one, I would find some kind of makeshift pot to go in.

SPEAKER_05 29:13

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 29:13

Anyway. And then a window to throw it out of. They didn't have couldn't everybody didn't have glass windows to, you know, to open. Bless your heart. I mean, I'm way too young for that. That we didn't, we we did not have.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

Can you imagine? Can you imagine having to do that? I can't even imagine. I mean, besides that, but like if your bathroom was an outhouse. Like you said you remember family members with outhouses. They didn't have an indoor toilet. No. What do you what does it mean?

SPEAKER_04 29:51

I had an aunt and uncle that didn't have their stove in their kitchen. I mean, I remember it with fire. It was wood. Wood burning. Yeah, it wasn't electric, it wasn't gas, it was wood. But that was some good food made on that wood stove. I guess so.

SPEAKER_02 30:11

But what were you gonna say about I can't imagine having to go out besides of it being I got so many questions about it, first of all. But anyway, I can't imagine having in the middle of the night you gotta run out there and go to the bathroom. Or when it's cold or when it's raining. I just don't I mean, I know people did it. I know that. I know it.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

And they had the two-seater ones. So like sisters could go together. No. Yes. Are you done yet? I mean, can you imagine me go in? Can you imagine me and you sitting there taking a dump beside each other in an outhouse? I cannot imagine. No.

SPEAKER_02 30:59

I'm sure surely they just pee pee'd. I don't know. I can't the things that go on behind those closed doors with me, I can't imagine. Or think when you got like a stomach virus and you out there in the outhouse. But think about how many times coming out of both ends.

SPEAKER_04 31:18

Yeah. How I mean like you do good to make it to the bathroom in the house sometimes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

Oh, that just stresses me out. I just I don't know. I just and I know people did it. I'm thankful that was way before my time.

SPEAKER_04 31:33

We're so I mean and I would I would I would guess I'm sure there's there there's remote, nice places that don't have plumbing. You know, some there's some islands and different things that don't. But see, I would be I was always scared. I used the out house, but I was so terrified of getting bit by a snake or a spider.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

Pshew.

SPEAKER_04 32:02

Just nasty. Good grace. And you know, back then they just would pick up the house and move it.

SPEAKER_02 32:09

That was my other question. Did they just pick it up and move it occasionally? Did they dig a pit under there?

SPEAKER_04 32:15

Often. But yeah. There was a pit dug under there. They would you would clean that out for a while, but then eventually you would just fill it in and move it to a new place.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Imagine going there and lie and having you weren't flies. You weren't sitting around reading the nothing. That I just I anyway, no one wants to think about that. But we can all appreciate it.

SPEAKER_04 32:51

No, it wasn't. And and just not have you know, having electric stoves and now gas ranges, I mean, and not having to chop wood. Like I mean, can you imagine having to cook and having to go get wood and fire up the stove before you even cooked? And then you know, there were people that used their fireplaces and they would, you know, hang cast iron pots and cook beans or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 33:23

But times were simpler back then. So I mean they were like you were more at home that because jobs, I mean, but you know what I'm saying? Like, so I guess you kept the wood going all day.

SPEAKER_04 33:37

Like you really didn't but now when I was a kid, most of my family used wood heat.

SPEAKER_02 33:43

Yeah. Did y'all no? You're you're younger though. But like my grandparents always had a wood stove. Wood stove. Yeah, they did. They had a um wood stove. I don't think they had like central air heat until much like I mean like I was I don't know how old, but I mean I was a kid. Right. They always had a big um wood oven and my granddaddy chopped the wood and stuff. Wood burning stove that would heat the whole house. Yeah. But n us as a kid, we always had regular heat, central air and heat.

SPEAKER_04 34:17

We had wood we had a wood stove when I was a kid.

SPEAKER_02 34:22

I mean, I like a wood stove. I love a wood-burning fireplace, but I don't know. I mean, no, I don't because it's it's dirty heat. Well, it and it dries you out, but it's something uh it's it's nice. It's warmer, it's a g it's a good feel. I love a fireplace, but you're right, it does burn dirtier.

A Dreamy Plantation Listing Distraction

SPEAKER_04 34:42

Yeah, I mean it it will smoke up your house. That's what I don't like. It's just not clean. It ain't clean. Um so there's this plantation in Fountain Inn here. I am just looking at it.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

Is it for sale?

SPEAKER_04 35:01

It is for sale. It is called Magnolia Plantation.

SPEAKER_02 35:05

Oh, do I need to look at it?

SPEAKER_04 35:07

Mm-hmm. Y'all need to check this out. This is beautiful. Magnolia Hall Plantation.

SPEAKER_02 35:15

If you want to make an offer, call Steven. You're like Stephen Merck, your local realtor. He will look out for you. Um look at it. Let me look at this in the middle. Oh, this looks pretty. Oh, how much is this listed for? This is not what I was thinking is a plantation.

SPEAKER_04 35:35

It's new.

SPEAKER_02 35:37

It's not let me go back and go back and look.

SPEAKER_04 35:40

It is a plantation home. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

This has been for sale for a long time. This has been, I mean, they may have taken it off, but and put it back. Yeah, this was for sale. I've looked at this house many times before. This was for sale back, I think, when we were looking at our farm 10 years ago.

SPEAKER_04 35:58

You were thinking of buying it.

SPEAKER_02 35:59

No, I was no. It was probably a lot cheaper than 10 years ago. Because it is stunning and the property. And if not then the property's beautiful. It was for sale like since it's not quite a while ago.

SPEAKER_04 36:16

I mean, it's not my personal style of the home, but it's this is so beautiful. I mean, I would love to live there. What's it called if they want to Google it?

SPEAKER_02 36:26

Maybe someone's moving to the Magnolia Hall Plantation. Okay, and in Fountain in South Carolina, which is a suburb of Greenville. I mean, it is stunning.

Who’s More Likely Rapid Fire

SPEAKER_04 36:44

I'm trying to click on it.

SPEAKER_02 36:46

I have some who's more likely to questions between me and you. Like, who's more likely? Remember, we've done this before. Oh, Lord. Mm-hmm. I know. They're not I didn't give any um, they're not like these are gonna be skewed. No, they're not skew skewed. Who's more likely to judge a restaurant by the lighting?

SPEAKER_04 37:10

Me.

SPEAKER_02 37:12

Who's more likely to pretend they understand wine? Understand what? Wine. Like when someone's talking about either one of us.

SPEAKER_04 37:21

I don't know shit about it.

SPEAKER_02 37:22

Yeah, and I'm like, I don't know. I don't even try to go, uh-huh. I'm like, I don't know. No, that's not us. Who's more likely to complain about hotel pillows? You. I mean, I'm bad or your worst. I travel with my own pillow now. I take it wherever we go. Because if the pillow's not right, I can't sleep. I can see. Oh, and you're dramatic about it. Oh, well, sometimes they're just I just calling it more.

SPEAKER_04 37:53

I if as long as I can have it.

SPEAKER_02 37:56

If they're flat, it's the feel. If they're they feel like poly feel that's balled up in there, and I just can't uh I can't sleep on it. It's bad. Um that is one of my things. Mm.

SPEAKER_00 38:09

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 38:11

Uh who's more likely to buy imported olive oil for the aesthetic? Me. That's funny.

SPEAKER_00 38:19

That was just a random question, but it is funny.

Screenshot Fails And Edited Text Drama

SPEAKER_02 38:23

Um, who's more likely to accidentally send a screenshot to the person it's about? Me. I think you've done something like that before. I have. Oh, so that is embarrassing.

SPEAKER_04 38:39

Y'all know y'all have all done that, been like, can't believe she wore that dress to church today. And you know you sent it straight to her. And then oh god. She looked like a pure T S.

SPEAKER_02 38:52

And if you don't know this, when you like now, this is a misleading fact. Now you can delete if someone hasn't seen something before, or you can edit it, but if you edit it, they can see what the previous edit was.

SPEAKER_04 39:12

You can click on it, they can press on it and see what you deleted.

SPEAKER_02 39:16

Right. If someone says, now I don't know about if it's deleted, but if it's edited, if it says this message was edited, if you tap on that edited part, it shows you what the original was and what they edited it to. And this happened to D. I think we talked about this last year, last summer. This happened to Daniel. One of his employees was talking about, just made a what they thought was funny comment, but very inappropriate, or whatever, in a group text that they didn't realize Daniel was on. And then they edited it, but he didn't know that. And then the other employee was like, Uh, I don't know how it came to be, but anyway, you could tap on it and see what they said. And he had to end he ended up having to fire because it was very inappropriate and it was on the group text with all the other employees. It was it was kind of awkward. I forgot what he said.

SPEAKER_04 40:13

Well, yeah, and he wasn't really offended, but the other employees were.

SPEAKER_02 40:17

Yeah, the other employees were offended. It was just turned into a whole thing. So yeah, if it had just if the employee had just accidentally sent it directly to him, he would have said something but let it go. But then it offended other employees, even though it was about him. It was just kind of a whole thing. But anyway, so yeah, there's that. Um yeah, that is oh awkward when you do that too. Um who's more likely? Oh lord. Who's more likely to answer the phone what now? That's how you answer the phone. What? What now? That you answer the phone like that on.

SPEAKER_04 41:00

Pretty much it to it and everyone.

SPEAKER_02 41:03

Or yeah. No, you your normal answer to everyone. If you call Steven, he answers, yeah. But like if I call him in the morning or afternoon, he'll say yeah. And then if I call them, like we have a whole conversation, I'll call him back like an hour later. What now?

SPEAKER_04 41:22

That's what I'd say. What now? Yeah, damn, yeah, yeah. That's my exact what now? Damn. Yeah. Oh gosh, that is so funny. My dad, so I'm really bad about doing that. And my dad, um my dad called me one day and I said, What? And he said, Nothing, asshole. Yeah. And he got balanced.

Accidental “Hola” And Speak Mexican

SPEAKER_02 41:49

I started laughing. I was like, I have to this reminded me. I have a really awkward, I forgot to tell you this. At high point, I had the most awkward moments. What? So I've gotten in the habit of saying, like, if someone, like you may call me, and I don't know why, but like you may call me and say, if, or you'll say hello, and I'll say hola or whatever. So, or like anyone might just say, like someone to say hello, and I'll just say hola. Well, I did this at I was walking up to order coffee at high point. And it was a Hispanic person? No, it was an Asian person. But I think they thought I thought they were Hispanic, but I didn't. It's just it becomes I've just started doing this. I don't know, they'll like, hello. I like, I'll do it at the most random places, and they'll be like, oh, they'll be like, hey, and I'll be like, Ola, can I get? And it's not anything, but she gave me the most like eat shit and die look when I said that. Oh my goodness. And I didn't even, it just came out like I wasn't even thinking about it because had I done it to a Hispanic person, which wouldn't think anything about it, they might start speaking to me in Spanish, and I'd be like, Oh, I don't know Spanish.

SPEAKER_04 43:14

Like so funny. One time I hired a guy which we're still friends, um, loved loved him to death, and he was um he is, he's Middle Eastern, and I hired him during I don't remember one of the wars. Yeah. One of the wars, and people were uh being very sensitive slash ugly. I guess it was maybe right after nine eleven.

SPEAKER_00 43:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:44

And so very sweet kid, and I said to him, you know, if you ever have any problems with any customers, anything negative, just let me know and I will handle it.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:56

Because he worked the drive through in the front counter. Mm-hmm. And you know what he said to me? And it was so hilarious. He's like, because this store, this restaurant was out in the country. And he was like out by my house.

SPEAKER_02 44:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:10

He was like, oh, don't worry about it. Don't even worry about it. They're so dumb here. They think I'm a Mexican. And I said, I laughed. I was like, no, I'm being serious. I don't want you to be mistreated by anybody. You come get me. He was like, I'm telling you. They don't know the months later, months later, I'm working on paperwork in the lobby, and he's cleaning the lobby. And he I see him out inside the play place cleaning. And there's um a family out there, and he comes over and he walks in and he's laughing. And I said, What was what are you laughing at? And he was like, What that lady just said to me, and I go, Oh gosh, what did she say? And she was with her children, and I guess her children were learning Spanish. Oh, so she was at school, and she said to her kid, Speak Mexican to him, honey. Speak Mexican. And we like he told me this.

SPEAKER_00 45:19

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 45:20

I literally was like laying almost in the floor laughing. Like he and I were falling out laughing because he had told me that's what they were gonna think. Right. That he was um Hispanic. But when that when she said speak Mexican to him, honey, we were laughing. That is hilarious. I'm like, you were right, you were right. That is too funny. So I ever and then you know, if I see him now, I'm like, speak Mexican to me. That is too funny. And you know, at least he had a great sense of humor about it, and and it didn't matter. He was not offended, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:04

You have any other fun projects coming up? What you working on? That we got the store, we got Atlanta Market, we talked about both of those.

SPEAKER_04 46:12

Really, really, really need um this summer. I really need to finish my office at home. Oh. I you know, I think I'm just going to do a gallery wall behind my desk.

SPEAKER_01 46:27

Because, you know, I've been wanting to do built-in and just like this.

SPEAKER_04 46:33

I think I just need to do that for the time being and figure out. Yeah. Well, you ain't never in there.

SPEAKER_02 46:38

Just throw some I'm actually in there. Yeah, you do go in there. But I mean, it's not a thing. You don't need built-in. I don't. You're not storing anything. I don't.

SPEAKER_04 46:47

I mean, but I could it would be nice, but I just it it's so expensive. Like to have I had it quoted. Yeah. It's that's like ten thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_02 46:59

Yeah, we need to just to have that. You can put that towards your kitchen renovation one day.

SPEAKER_04 47:03

Yeah, I just don't know that it's worth I mean I could pay you to come slap something up there.

SPEAKER_02 47:11

No. Mm-hmm. I need to fin I gotta finish our upstairs like bathroom and stuff. I have a new vanity, but I really want to get I want to get the shower redone. You know, we got we did bust out all of our projects, not all of our projects. We did really good about redoing our house when we moved in about 10 years ago. But about year three, we quit. And there are just things that still need to be done, but it we'll get to it eventually, I guess. Uh you know, I repainted the guest bedroom last year, which looks good, but I just never moved to always something to do. I need to move to the bathroom now next to it. Always something to do. All right, let's pull this baby over. We gotta get ready for a live sale. We're supposed to be live now. It's eight o'clock. Eight o'clock on a Monday. Oh my goodness. It pulled together. You need to buy me dinner if it's eight o'clock. We gotta go. We'll see you next week. Remember. Set your reminders for Steven to be in Atlanta next week. And join us this week if you happen to be listening. We're gonna do live auctions from the home store starting on Wednesday night. All right, remember to leave us a review wherever you're listening. Share us with your friends, and we'll be back next week. Thanks, y'all. Oh, we won't be able to think we can get another one. I don't know. All right, maybe we'll see you next week. Bye, y'all.