Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet - 127: Nurseries Plants Garden Centers Seeds? and Seeds Germination Germination! Etsy Etsy Etsy Plant Sellers Plant Sales

Episode Date: May 5, 2021

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And my name is Alex. Hello, my name is Christine. This week on Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet, we are covering the theme of nurseries, plants, garden centers, seeds, and seeds germination. Germination! Etsy, Etsy, centers, seeds, and seeds germination. Germination! Etsy, Etsy, Etsy, plant sellers, plant sales. And we can't wait. We can't wait, and I'm sure you can't wait either. I know this is a really popular topic among podcasts, so we're probably not the only one. But I was actually very pleased that some people wrote down the actual full length of what we were saying.

Yeah, because we aren't always so good with our words. pleased that some people wrote down the actual full length of what we were saying yeah um because we don't aren't always so good with our words you just said that perfectly on point uh kira wrote in and said the subject was nursery parentheses not the child kind so it says nursery not the child kind greenhouse etsy garden centers reviews so who knows which one of these is actually correct but the correct one is the title of the episode whatever you see there uh julia whose review i'm going to read in a little bit actually recommended we name it botanic panic um which is pretty good too botanic panic that is also pretty good so that is definitely how i feel that's how i feel most days i didn't know there was a word for it but here we are so in any case um oh also i guess i should announce now that um

i'm having a baby oh yeah it feels so weird that we haven't talked about it on here and the reason why is because you kind of got very close to me not that you would have let that something like that slip but there are times when I could tell you could have... Complained? What? No, thrown it in there. There were times when... And if you listen to a few episodes before this, there are some moments that you kind of hint at it. Okay.

Some people have said, because I posted about it on Instagram, check it out. And I also made a really insane film noir video. Don't even worry about it. But somebody commented, I knew it. Nobody drinks only Gatorade for months on end without a reason. And I was like, I do talk a lot about Gatorade. That's funny. And in both podcasts, I've talked about Gatorade to like an uncomfortable degree.

So, yep, the cat is out of the bag. Is that correct? Yeah, I think that's correct. I'm just going to go with it. Okay. It's exciting. I mean, obviously, the whole thing is exciting. And now I'm excited that people know about it, too. Because people are giving me attention for it for some reason.

I know people are very excited for you and for Funkle m and and even for blaze which i don't really get i bet blaze is the one receiving the fewest number of messages even though he's the father it's true like i'm probably getting more like oh it's so excited for you than he's gonna be an uncle um even geo's getting some like he's gonna be a big brother i'm like he already has two cat siblings but yeah um in any case i'm already an uncle i have three that's right nephews for nephews for nephews so thank you everybody if you saw that and commented i saw all their comments and messages so thank you so much um i didn't have a chance to respond everybody but i appreciate your kindness i'm personally very excited to complain openly now because i've been having to bite my tongue and it's really difficult for me to complain only to you

and to the people in my close circles and not outwardly complain on the airwaves so here we are and now i can complain about you and be like oh she won't stop complaining to me because i keep saying like oh she won't stop complaining to me my friends are like about what i'm like nothing i can't tell you yet oh she's the worst though trust me much gatorade it's disgusting whenever we record she's a p like 10 times they're like why it's true actually because of her gatorade consumption it's better than when i was puking 10 times. At least I'm not doing that. That was a brief phase for, I'm not saying for you, but for our show, since we only record once a week.

Well, it was in your mind, but you didn't know for a while because you were in LA and I wanted to wait till you got here. Yes. So there was like a month there where I was just- Bliss for me. For you. Ignorance. Far away ignorance anyway so i didn't mean for this to go on so long but i just wanted to let everyone in on the

the hoopla yeah the gossip train that's a that's a big one i have some even bigger news than yeah pregnancy yeah um i'm no go ahead. I'm back on Tinder. Why are you announcing that? That's my segue into my own announcement of our new human seeking human episode

where I talk about that. Oh, okay. because now i have a co-host on there okay that is a bigger announcement you're right her name is liz i can actually say her name now your new co-host yeah i treated it like she was like some secret agent or something and kept it a weird secret until now but anyway that episode came right i should have just um so this is more important my mouth shut i really should have just let you had your moment i don't know why i'm trying to overshadow you over here i'm sick of it honestly i know no wonder you complain to your friends a lot um yes so go listen to human seeking human very exciting stuff but there's nothing i can send

people to do go look at my instagram yeah go look at her instagram photo and watch that video it's actually really really good really well done i appreciate that it was in the haze of my gatorade drunkenness that i made that um go look her up on youtube that's their instagram x teen sheifer is her name thank you alex and i appreciate that uh should we do our episode yeah let's just go into the episode now who you i guess you start i'm gonna drink my gatorade over here and uh okay let's see so plant stuff here is a review of sunset boulevard nursery in los angeles this is by edward one star poor customer service i walked around for 10 to 15 minutes looking for an item to treat my plants.

Not one time did the five to six employees sitting on the inside ask if I needed help until one of the bottles lid popped off and splashed in my face. Then I got assistance from the worker. I asked him who was the manager because I had not received any assistance nor has anyone asked me if I needed help. instead of helping me the worker proceeded to say if i wasn't on the phone i would be assisted end of review i'm just picturing a guy with like uh some sort of fertilizer all over his face like talking to a mop like who's the manager it exploded on me um also i just wish i could see the be a fly on the wall of this garden center where these five employees are sitting around and they see they're like

nobody wants to help the guy they're ignoring him and then he'd like somehow to get attention i assume like dumps liquid on his head and they're like all right which one of us has to get up now one of us has to go talk to him before he does it again waste more product yeah we're gonna get in trouble um i i do like this though especially because he walks in on the phone he's on the phone that's probably complaining about wait who got to be on the phone and hear this happen exactly the explosion of the liquid fertilizer i don't know what is liquid at a garden center i don't i don't probably nothing that should be on your face that's my that's my view most likely not no um but yeah i i did not yeah what when i'm on the phone in the store that's a sign like don't leave me alone do

not interrupt my phone call and they don't people don't because why that's so little known fact that is probably not little known but it probably very well known about me is that sometimes i pretend to be on the phone so that people don't talk to me exactly because i'm too awkward for it you can't win with this guy like he probably would have left a one-star review if they interrupted his phone call to help that help he was probably talk to text writing his Yelp review. True. That's probably why he was on the phone. True. Oh, my goodness. I just love everything about this Three Stooges situation that seems to have happened in this.

I do wish I could have seen it. You're right. I bet it was pretty entertaining. Nothing's funnier than an angry person who something ridiculous happens to them. What does that remind you of? Dad? What's that movie? Sorry mind take that out no that movie big fat liar and like paul giamatti gets like blue all over his face oh oh yeah big fat liar with uh frankie muniz yes yes yes yes oh yeah amanda binds something yeah when Amanda Bynes. Yeah, when something comical...

Sandra Oh's in that? What? This is a really odd assortment of characters. When something slapstick happens to somebody who's very angry, there's something very amusing about that. Just like break the tension, you know? Okay, so I have an email here from Kira. By the way, so many people emailed in for this thing yes which i was surprised by because it just doesn't seem something like people would have

a personal connection to yeah no you're right no i agree into it people were very into this maybe it's because we gave them 11 themes to choose from but kira wrote in she her thank you kira and wrote a nice email and this is a review of tara water down which is i guess a nursery in ontario this is a one-star view by ray they have finally done it they have turned my wife and i off as they priced themselves way out of our league maybe they're trying to make up for the lack of customers because of COVID-19, but we can't afford to overpay anymore. If you're rich and you don't care to overpay

for their products, they will love you! Question mark? End of review. They were finally turned off. Wow. I just love they've finally done it. They went up scent by scent. My wife had been turned on this whole

time and we finally get up to this store and we're turned off our doctor couldn't help us there's nothing more we could do we tried dumping fertilizer on her and it still didn't work uh i do love that like they finally did it like it's been a mission for all these years right every scent that they increased prices they were like waiting with bated breath and ray walked in and they were like damn it still haven't done it one of these days the formula will be correct and we'll never see ray again pricing formula just turn off this couple they get so turned on it makes everyone else uncomfortable it's about time we figure out a way to get them out of here. It's about time. And their first thought was, hmm, are they rich?

Hmm. No. What's their price point? What's their budget for petunias? Okay, this next one is of Midtown Garden Center in Miami, Florida. One star review by Roger. This is not a Roger review review let me change that i was already picturing roger my head so i'm glad you're changing i'm like which review is this let's go with a

riley this is a riley okay no because i like there are rileys that i know that i like this not okay this is a bad Riley. Here we go, one star review. Is it Riley spelled? Because I'm like, shit. Is it Riley spelled R-Y-L-E-I-G-H with an accent somewhere? With an accent, yes, okay. Came in with the full intention to buy a really cute succulent. Their plants are adorable and have a vast selection. I just so happened to have gone with my cousin,

and as it was the first time i've ever gone i had my camera and decided to take shots of the plants and my cousin nothing serious we had a karen staring at us and making us feel totally uncomfortable to then finally get her employee to tell us that they charge for photo shoots we politely understood and left as their karen kept watching us from a distance. Awkward experience, and we'll never go back. Make sure to leave your iPhone in the car because photos are illegal, clearly.

End of review. Oh. My. God. When you say that you're feeling uncomfortable, like someone has to ask someone to tell you to stop because they're uncomfortable with what you're doing. And then your response is, oh, they're making me uncomfortable by looking at me doing this thing that I shouldn't be doing. It's very illegal activity. I'm a little confused.

Okay. Because they said, didn't they? Did they or did they not say they took their camera? Yeah, I had my camera, which means that it wasn't just their phone. It implies it's not an iphone so at the end when they try to minimize the impact of what they did by saying don't bring your iphone that's misleading because i'm sure many people in fact probably most people have their iphones or similar product when they're in the store and karen's probably not uh shooing them out but um

yeah so if you but if you go in with a camera and you're literally taking photos of each other. That implies you have a professional camera. Like a because nowadays it's not just like a handheld digital Sony. It's like a real camera. They literally say they charge for photo shoots. So they probably have people all the time. This is Miami. Like I wouldn't be surprised.

You know Miami. You know I do. I mean it's like kind of where I thrive. That's where you went to prom and had your photo shoot. I don't know why that You know Miami. I do. I mean, it's kind of where I thrive. That's where you went to prom and had your photo shoot. I don't know why that came to mind. Yeah. When I was in high school, I had some in Cincinnati. I knew someone who invited me to a prom in Miami.

It's possible. Actually, it's not. Is it? It's not. I just am so, I think it's so sus that they say, don't bring your iPhone. But then they all very clearly said they brought their camera and we're taking photos of their cousin. Yeah. You big fat liar.

Isn't that the movie? Paul Giamatti. Look at me go. Not to harp on this one too much. I know we're like going all over like with this one. But I came in with the full intention to buy a really cute succulent. Like I was about to spend $6. That's a good point. On to buy a really cute succulent. Like, I was about to spend $6 on a cute, really cute succulent.

That I don't ever have to water. Okay. I'm amazed, by the way, at how many people talking about garden centers or nurseries bragged about how much money they spent there or were planning to spend there. I don't know if you encounter that, but almost every negative review is like and i was gonna spend 103 dollars anyway okay so this is a review sent in by julia she her thank you who said who's the one who suggested uh botanic panic okay and also said if you're vaccinated which we are yeah uh she could say hi fives guys mod squad, Mod Squad, or J&J Bays. Okay, excuse me? Listen, Julia Lakes rhymes. I want the Fizer one. What was it?

Fize guys. Oh, that's me. I like that. Me too. So she also sent in a review of Star Nursery in Las Vegas. So one star review. Bye, Dawn. I bought a apricot tree and it died within three months due high heat the staff at star

nursery said their return period is 39 days that's a bullshit that's the bullshit i will never buy from you period end of review there are a few things that stuck out to me here a uh the tree died within three months it's your fault okay if it dies within three months due to high heat i totally agree i like if you're saying like it died the next day i'd be like okay i don't know much about plants but i don't think it should should do that yeah but if you had something for three months and then it died like and he even said for it died of high heat. Yeah. So maybe heat it. I don't know. Stop putting it on the heater and maybe it'll survive next time.

Also, love that their return period is 39 days, which means that the person probably sat there with a calendar going, how many days has it been? I'm sorry. Yesterday was actually the cutoff because we have a policy. 39 days. No no more no less the people who had the fucking return policy is wrong or the complaining about the return policies i'm like on live plants i couldn't exactly like i could what do you expect them to do like no matter what you know how much money they would lose if they just gave you a new plant every time every person who killed a plant holy shit shit. A.k.a. me, brought in a plant,

I would be living large if I got a replacement every time I killed a plant. Exactly. Also, I think- I'd have a never-ending supply because I just keep killing them within the time period. And honestly, it's kind of sad.

So I feel like they would be responsible for just like this mass murder of all these little plants if they just kept giving them away to people who were clearly, like me, who are clearly irresponsible. They'd be complicit. who are clearly irresponsible they'd be complicit you're right they'd be complicit yeah agreed so they just need to keep charging me and i will just keep paying them and so the circle goes uh circle of plant death let's let that continue here's a review of uh

my mo garden center m-i-m-o uh it's in miami so that's why i said my uh before you ask so miami florida's again i wasn't gonna ask i was just gonna correct you but i'm glad that uh uh this is one star by winnie my boyfriend recommended this spot that was nearby where we currently live yesterday i came to this location and had a lady help me out with what i needed she's was nice and i went ahead and gave her 20% of a tip as a nice gesture. I come in today because the plants I got were too big for the project I'm currently working on, so I wanted her recommendation of what I could do. I came with my partner and let's just say we had terrible feedback.

She made us feel extremely uncomfortable for even coming to ask for help. We explained the situation and she said, We don't do any returns or exchanges. Mind you, it had been not even one day and the plants were in perfect condition, untouched. She proceeded to say, I can separate the plants and put them on smaller plants, but this is a favor, I'm doing it. No one else would do it for you. I leave at 3pm, so I can do it for you. She was so bothered to do such a small favor that took more than 3 minutes to put on a smaller pot.

So unfortunate to know that their employees don't practice good customer service. This was the first and last time I will be coming to this place. There are many other great locations where the staff enjoys helping all customers that walk in and are happy to help. Extremely disappointed. End of review. Was she making a diorama? Yeah, I don't know. I know this seemed very unclear, but I'm going to try to break it down for us.

Okay. So Winnie comes in, buys a plant for a project gave a nice tip which apparently means you're allowed any whatever you want after that to be clear is it a tip or is it like a hey wear sunscreen like 20 yeah 20 okay so a monetary so well maybe it was only 20 of a actual worded tip where they would say she forgot the last half and they forgot 80 of it so they just gave gave a bit and said oh you feel figure out the rest anyway so then problem is the plants were too big for the project the diorama whatever yes for the diorama and because they don't have a return policy or anything, they said, we can't take these back.

And so, Winnie's like, well, they're perfect exactly how I bought them yesterday. So, therefore, you should take them back. But whatever. Also, I gave you a tip, which I don't think is a thing that you do at a home garden center. I saw in multiple reviews that people gave tips. Okay, maybe I'm just the ignorant one. So, yeah, we got to go back and tip some people i think i think i had the wrong high school job if i didn't know that you could get tipped at a garden center um yeah you don't know enough you would you know talk

about being complicit talk about killing all the place you're right i would be i would be business uh repaying them for all the damage i'd done so then the employee offered to take their own time to like for free separate the plant i think or into different pots so they worded it super wrong repot it into like smaller pots and inform them like this is this is a favor like i'm doing this out of the kindness of my heart probably because of the tip or something or because i didn't want because i really want your diorama to win first place in the science fair these are a world of their own yeah people plant people suck sometimes okay there are probably so many very positive ones but the negatives were so exhausting why they are

they're weirdly exhausting and weirdly i hate this word braggadocious. Yes. Just that's the only word that comes to mind. And I'd say like get a hobby instead of writing these reviews, but like that literally is about their hobbies. Your hobby, exactly. Okay, so I have a review here. It's just by Google user. It was sent in by Amanda and it's of Mission Hills Nursery in San Diego, California. This place, BTW, has great reviews from what I can tell, except Google user, who's a mission hills nursery in san diego california this place btw has great reviews from what i can tell except google user who's a local guide with 146 reviews did not

appreciate this place i never went here so appeal only applies do you know what that means okay i was like maybe a p p e a l yeah okay i never went here so appeal only applies who of all of you wait hold on who of all you like a cast like who casts the first stone among you without sin who among you is yeah it sounds like a my god, that's the rest of the parable. That's 80% we were missing. Oh, okay, now it all makes sense. Now the diorama, A+. Who of all you wants to buy from a nursery? By the way, when I make that, it's a quote.

Yes. Quote, unquote. Yeah, you're telling them because I can see you doing it. I'm telling you, but actually I'm telling them. I'm just staring at you. Okay. you're telling them because i can see you doing it i'm telling you but actually i'm telling them i'm just staring at you okay who of all you wants to buy from a nursery that has been visited by chickens a nursery that has literally been attacked by at least one chicken eating one of the plants at least i was like at least i was like edge of my seat at least how many chickens at least a single chicken went in and attacked.

Also, I love that it doesn't say O-N-E. It says like at least one digit. I don't know why it's funnier that way, but it's just like the numeral one. All consumers are warned in advance to fully inspect their selected plant before final selection and actual purchase. End of review. Keep in mind, this person's never been there. Yeah, wow. Was there a news article about, like, local chicken attacks local nursery?

Like, what? At least one chicken has ravaged at least one plant. Amanda wrote in the email that this place is known for having, like, chickens on the property. Okay. Who are, apparently, it's a good thing. They help fertilize the plants. It's organic, whatever. Like, she said it's a good thing they help fertilize the plants it's organic whatever like she said it's part of what they did it's not like this you know rabid chicken appeared and

destroyed the place it's like part of their aesthetic part of their i'm sure they don't say aesthetic but part of their i don't know business it's just part of it so it probably also is part of the aesthetic also the aesthetic uh it is san diego yeah i was gonna say it sounds about right um but so this google user has never been there would like to warn all consumers warning everyone uh who of all you wants to buy a plant ravaged by chickens um and it's just weird because you're like this plant was attacked one plant has been has literally by the way been attacked which you haven't even been there how do you know that you're right it would only be like if it were in the yahoo news page eight or something yeah of the yahoo news um it's like what what kind of freaking

like google alerts do they have set up to get news like this it's just the phrase at least one chicken but they missed a lot of it because they wrote one as a digital digit instead of like the word most journalists wouldn't do that no it's not ap format just saying just saying love that um okay i have another one from uh my mo garden center uh this is by paul i'm gonna read this in a chronologically because there was an update after an owner response so i'll read original review owner response then the final update by love saga yes so this is a one-star saga there's the original review from december 2020 mixed feelings about this place live Live nearby, walking distance. And while I like supporting local, I also expect a level of customer-centric behaviors I wouldn't get at Home Depot

at half the cost. Two specific comments. At premium pricing already, passing on a credit card fee is just awful. So petty. Didn't even realize until I looked at the receipt. Come on, guys, who does that? Second, the refund replace policy needs a review. You're selling plants. Some won't work out. Again, take a customer first approach to how you deal with it. I genuinely want this place to succeed, but management needs a bit of a refresher on what makes for a great customer experience. Aside from just a pretty storefront, and it is a nice little setup they have end of review oh boy super condescending yes super arrogant yes not nice i i did not like it here is the owner's response mike oh what did i say oh yeah a dick. You got his name wrong.

Paul, first off, I feel for you. Hold on. So this was December 2020. This is so bad. Paul, first off, I feel for you if you have to spend your New Year's Eve evening leaving reviews like this. Paul, are you okay? That was pretty harsh. We are not Home Depot,

and I'm not going to get into the multiple things that differentiate us from them, aside from the fact that we actually care about our product and customers. But at the same token, we are not Home Depot. We are a small business and cannot even compare to the monster-sized company that is Home Depot. So if you want to put us at that level, I'd say go to Home Depot.

They can afford to guarantee their plants. Regarding the credit card fee, pay closer attention to your receipts moving forward. Everyone is doing it, especially small businesses. We, unlike Home Depot, work hard at handpicking as much of our plant material as we can to find the best product for our customers. We pour love and sweat into what we do because we care about it, and I believe that shows. So, in conclusion, please have yourself a very happy new year, and feel free to come back, but leave the petty remarks in 2020, or you can also go to Home Depot, smiley face.

End of response. Oh my god. This is why I hate when people send me smiley faces, because it always rings to me like they're judging me. And I probably deserve it. Wow. New Year's Eve, Paul. What did he have to say about that? Here's an update. January

2021. Oh no. Is it January 1st? It doesn't say. From three stars, left a very fair slash trying to be helpful review to one star. Be more like Home Depot? That's not helpful.

It was not helpful at all. No, it wasn't. It was not nice. It was rude and it was not helpful. Like telling someone, like, get rid of your credit card fees. By the way, that is really standard in small businesses. For someone who claims to be so supportive of small business. And then here we go.

A business owner should never attack a customer or try to get personal. Makes you look very condescending. While on the same breath saying she values customers. I wish this place best of luck, but I guess I'll stick with Summer Day Nursery. And yes, Home Depot on occasion. But thanks for making me feel bad about that. Ha ha. End of that. Ha ha. End of review.

Ha ha ha ha. Like, so you do feel bad about it, and yet you're still going to go. Okay. I mean, they didn't even make you feel bad. They just said, like, if that's what you want, go to Home Depot. True. They didn't say you're a dick for going to Home Depot. And laid out the facts.

Like, hello, they are a huge corporation. And also, the person, the owner response even said, hey, they can afford to guarantee their plants. So, okay, if that's what you want. Exactly. They can afford it. So, if you are feeling guilty, my friend, maybe you should look inward, my friend. Maybe you should, on New Year's Eve, take a journal, write a little something. I mean, wow.

Do some reflection. They did some writing on New Year's something. I mean, wow. Do some reflection. They did some writing on New Year's Eve. They did, yeah. Not the nicest. No, not really the nicest, nor the most introspective. But, you know, what can you do? Mike, I mean, Paul. You can be better, Paul.

Paul, try, try. So this is an email from Aaron, who wrote, Hi, ex-sibs. Which sounds a little bit like we're former siblings, but it's the letter X. Aaron sent two reviews and it's of a place called, oh, geez, P-H-E-L-A-N, Phelan. Phelan? None of it sounds right. I should have looked that up. Phelan. Duh. Okay, that's like the only sensible one. Phelan sounds right. Let's go with that. Okay, let's do Phelan.

So, Aaron sent two reviews of Phelan Gardens in Colorado Springs. Here's one by TexMex. One star. I was outside looking for a tree when an extremely rude and sarcastic employee with multicolored hair told me I had to wear a mask. Outside. I used to get all of my trees here, but I will no longer be supporting a business that tells me I have to wear a mask outside. And then I see this same employee telling someone else that they need to wear a mask outside as well. This other person was expressing that they have a medical condition and can't wear a mask. The employee said, we all need to wear masks to protect each other.

Since when have you cared about protecting me? I'm so sick of business owners telling me we're trying to protect you by enforcing masks. You could have cared less about me before this whole plant-demic started. Is that plant with a T? Plant. Which-

So, blaming the- maybe the nurseries are at fault? The plant nurseries? Now I'm loving this from plant-demic to plant-demic, right? Yeah, it's evolved. It's the garden center's fault now. Before this whole plant-demic started. Anyways, he then said, well, you can leave if you're not going to wear a mask out here, so I gladly left.

And to top it off, you have the audacity to fly an american flag in front of your business yep this is america home of the free and overview what what the fuck um the most un-american thing you can do is not care about the health and safety of your fellow americans pretty american to me well okay at this rate you're right no but and yes outside yes if you're on their property if you're if you're shopping among other customers and employees and being close to them yes even if the risk is smaller when you're outside it doesn't mean you should yeah because i was at a garden center as you know with francisco recently and we were outside looking at plants and it was a tight it was tight quarters walking through those

trees and plants with other people with shopping carts like you're not out in the wilderness you're still in a yeah and also it's plant demic so it must come from plants so it's plant demic which means there are some deeper things to um to worry about than we all thought so i also love there's the classic like oh they were telling someone else who had a medical condition to wear a mask that's how bad it was at first i was like yeah they're being consistent why are you upset about it oh because they're doing the whole medical exemption bullshit okay because i was like wouldn't you complain if like i expected to hear, but I saw someone else not wearing a mask and they didn't get asked to leave. Right, that would be worthy of, like, irritation.

Instead, I'm like, oh, this is a positive thing because the employee is now being consistent, asking someone else to do the same thing. Good for them. It's not just me they're targeting. This multicolored hair individual. This multicolored, that's enough. This is going gonna text me fucking review geo made doggy friend and then uh emoji of a uh exclamation point and then wrote i repeat he and an australian shepherd became friends oh cute update pup date update everybody um can i

read the another review from there please because they Because they're related, I believe. Is it the other? Is it the exempt person? It literally might be. I was going to say the reviews are related not to people, but now that I think about it, it's entirely possible that both are related. This is a review by Paula, one star. I was so excited to look at this place until it wasn't an exciting experience anymore. We were approached outside and told we had to wear a mask outside. I find it absurd that we are required to wear a mask while outside. I enjoy the freedom of

breathing fresh air. As I was leaving, I saw a gentleman on a ladder without a mask, so I questioned why he didn't have to wear one, and he was inside the store. They said that the management was okay with him not wearing one. This place sure does have some awful double standards and employees. Especially the male that has unnatural colored hair. He is loud and rude. I highly recommend taking your business

elsewhere. I refuse to support a business that doesn't allow its customers to breath the god-given fresh air. Yikes. I had planned on spending a decent amount of money here their loss no definitely their loss but paula i'm sure that they're mourning i think they gained quite a bit from you no longer being on the premises yeah you can tell yourself they're having a funeral but for your for your customer the thing is like what what more can you say about this like they're just

it's just so at this rate these are just people are just never gonna be now these are just becoming cliche at this point um if they were not flying an american flag they'd find a reason to be mad that they're not flying an american flag but they are flying american flag but they don't deserve to be flying an american flag it's like wow we really have a lot of high and confusing standards don't we yeah so that's that uh you know the masquerades are getting just you know to kind of all blend together but um i just if i worked in retail if i ever have another retail job uh i will not be coloring my hair any sort of specific color or wearing any sort of showing tattoo showing like i will be so nondescript because i am not about to be targeted on yelp

literally targeted by these freaking scary it's scary it's scary these people i feel like i know this guy this multi-colored hair guy i know he's loud he uh has his priorities in the right place he's he's gorgeous and amazing. He's science-minded. Are you talking about me, by the way? Because I have multi-different colored hair. You're talking about you, if that's what you're asking. Yeah.

That does remind me of something else I saw on the internet. That's kind of relevant. What? The whole flag thing. So it's an Ikea. So Ikea, some years ago, i don't know when this was uh they had a post on facebook and it said uh hey jacksonville we can't wait to open our doors to you and your family because they had the ikea jacksonville opening up that year and someone

commented in the picture they had the american flag the swedish flag and the ikea building in the background i could say the ikea flag i was like what is that and then someone commented the american flag is supposed to be flown higher than any other country's flag here and ikea replied and said our flags are flown according to the united states code g when flags of two or more nations are displayed they are to be flown from separate staffs of the same height the flags should be according to the United States Code. G. When flags of two or more nations are displayed, they are to be flown from separate staffs of the same height. The flag should be of approximately equal size. International usage forbids the display of the flag of one nation above that of another nation in time of peace. Title IV, United States Code, Chapter 1, Section 7,

Position and Manner of Display, Sub display sub point g what end of response can you imagine being that one employees like i've been waiting for this moment i've been waiting to i was the flag code guy and i never get any recognition now is my time to shine baby i found this through like uh because i had remembered it but then it was on reddit posted by eden blade 47 then top comment said they probably get that comment regularly judging from how comprehensive the answer was because truly like they i feel like every ikea has the same flag thing with the swedish flag and the american flag yeah i mean find something better to complain about people geez okay oh i think it's your turn oh Oh, yes, it is.

My next one is of Able Nursery and Landscape in Bloomington, Indiana. This is by Kyle, one star. Terrible service, and I couldn't believe the junk they were trying to sell me. Paid $100 for a tree

and went to pick it up, and the little snotty blonde girl at the desk was no help when I tried to come up with an alternative. They brought this tree out that had busted limbs all over and was roped up like some three-year-old was working there i asked the guy for a different tree and he said that was not possible in a thousand acre nursery i asked to pay more for a larger tree and the little girl at the counter couldn't figure out how to add the price on in the system she's three years old what do you expect from a three-year-old geez

so at first she said no until i said just make it a refund then the larger tree was for sale again and i could pay cash if i wanted then the guy tells me all those trees are sold out after they already said we could have one i could see hundreds of of them. That was all I could stand, so I told them just give me my money back and forget the whole deal. The snotty little blonde girl at the desk said she would put it back on my card, which still has not showed up yet. Whoever owns or operates Abel's Nursery should clean house on your employees, or I don't know, maybe that was you. Regardless, your business practices are terrible, and I'll make sure and flood social media with terrible reviews, and also, if i don't know maybe that was you regardless your business practices are terrible and i'll make sure and flood social media with terrible reviews and also if i don't see that money back in my account it will cost your business more than just the hundred bucks

thanks for nothing end of review it will cost me a call to amex who will then remove the car charge and that's about as far as i can go then i'm gonna move on then i'm gonna forget about it and find another snotty nose brett to complain about first of all i don't know what the hell even happened here neither do i to be totally honest they bought a tree but they weren't happy with it so they wanted a refund they got their refund but it hasn't come in yet but then they're like i want a different tree and they're like well those are all sold out well and they're like but there are hundreds of them how could they all be sold out they're like nope there's none back don't look back here there's none back there a thousand acre nursery and they're all sold out blah blah blah um and then yeah it sounds like um an

exhausting life to lead you know just being upset at everything yeah man just uh just buy a tree or don't and just live your life you know what i mean live your life just you do you with who you want to do you with you know so true amen forget like where i heard that but it's always sounded wise wise man that's for sure multi-colored hair i think um okay so all i have left are redemptions okay i've got one more bad one one more redemption okay so the redemption the first redemption i have isn't really that positive yeah yeah this was sent in by finn he uses they them pronouns thank you finn and it's actually of a farm supply store and i think this wasn't meant to be sent in specifically for the theme. Oh, okay.

But it just happened to kind of fit. I like it. So it's more of a farm supply store than a garden center. But I figure with all the topics we threw in. I mean, we haven't done anything but like plant nurseries. That's true. So I'll mix it up a bit. Yeah, please do.

Okay. This is a review by Mark. It's a five-star review of D&B Supply. Dave and Buster's? Dave and Buster's Farm Supplies for their rural locations, I guess. River is helpful and friendly. The other woman stalking the chicken seeds was too pretty to look at for long without seeming obvious. The forgettable one who wears her

mask on her chin isn't trying to learn about the things and stuff and i've seen really creepy yeah um i'm the forgettable one in case anybody forgot my new plan to never wear anything specific or descriptive ever um yikes i want to be the not the forgettable one actually is what it's called which is my god the weirdly rudest thing you can say about a person yeah why would you do this why would you even bring them up um why is this a thing that's happening so the one woman was too pretty to look at for long because you're seeming if the person staring at someone who they're they think is attractive feels like it's too obvious it is far too obvious like if the person staring at someone who they think is attractive feels like it's too obvious, it is far too obvious. Like if the person staring is like, I can tell this is going on too long.

Yeah, this person's already very uncomfortable, I imagine. And then the forgettable one isn't trying to learn about the things and stuff. Yeah. Can you imagine not trying to learn about the things and stuff? Can you imagine how forgettable you must be that even the things you're trying to learn about aren't even rememberable? Things anyone knows about. And then there was a response from owner. Whoa, no.

From TNP Supply. Thank you, Mark, for shopping with us. Very much appreciated. Excuse me. End of response. I'd be like, boss? Boss man? Boss lady?

Boss person? I quit. Yeah. If somebody insults, everybody who works there. And then the owner's like, thanks so much. We love your business. Please come back. We want to see you.

We miss you already. We miss you so much. You haven't stared long enough. It wasn't obvious enough. Oh, no. it wasn't obvious enough oh no uh my next one this is from erica she her who used what i think is going to be our title nurseries plants garden center seeds and seeds germination germination etsy etsy etsy plant sellers plant sales um here we go this is a review of gullo's garden center which is a place in hamburg new york gulla gulla island uh this one's quite the uh quite the journey so here we go this is a review by life's good

one star just have that in the back of your head this whole time you will have at some point forget this person's goes by life's good this is one of the rare times i'm assuming you're not making up a name you're actually using the name this is very relevant because it makes no sense here we go and there's a lot of caps okay i'm gonna try to make it clear when it's caps i'm sure i'll follow avoid this place at all cost they do not back their merchandise and less is rude and arrogant. I bought a lavender plant that was not quite two weeks old. I watered it every day, twice a day.

I am not a novice gardener. My entire yard is plants and trees. No grass. Sorry. Can you imagine being the neighbor and like, oh my God, what is wrong with their lawn? There's no grass. It's just lavender and like, I don't know. But like a bunch of like dirt spots, like it's not even like all covered. It's like dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, like a single like really tree that's like dying and then... They just weed all the grass.

Spent about $400, have all receipts to prove it, in the past two months, and all my other plants are thriving. Other than the roses I bought there that came home with me that had black spot, but as I said, I'm no novice, so I wasn't afraid of it, even though they were still selling them at full price. And not planted yet. Had back surgery, and help is coming this weekend. What? Christina, I don't know. I know. Oh, it's the Percocosa oh it's honestly though i think it might be the pain meds but also like wait what happened to the lavender i don't know i don't know i guess we might find out i don't remember any of this but

two times a day every day sounds like a lot of water but again maybe that's correct behavior i don't know all i wanted was a replacement no money on top of it i was about to spend at least 103.99 what was in my buggy as my husband went to get a new lavender but then came out to tell me about less and his behavior issues my husband said they don't need our business and need to go out of business bottom line don't bother with this place your money is better spent at gardenville bloom they have top quality plants and a lot of unique stuff much better prices and they stand behind their products ask for brian he's excellent and knows his plant and what he's talking about this less is just a lazy old man looking to collect a check this man lost a lot of money over

a $10 hey i actually read a press release um from gullows and they said we're going out of business we are $103.99 short of what we needed to pay our rent. Yeah, that was on Yahoo News page 8. That's what I thought. I've seen that. That's so sad, actually. Poor Lus is really like... Devastating. I will be spreading this message via internet

as well as word of mouth. Not via internet. Of all places. No! To any and all who are will to listen, I will do everything in my power to get the word out so people don't get ripped off and we can get businesses like Gullo's to dry up

so that the places like Gardenville Bloom keep up with the public needs and care about what people want and spend their hard-earned money on, not just sitting around waiting to collect a check. Less needs to be put out to pasture. This is so bizarre. Ah!

I just laughed too hard. Wait, what? This is like, it gets so personal. Oh my god, is that her backyard? Is that what she means by there's no grass, it's just mounds of dirt? Where she puts people to pasture, wink wink? Les, say away.

Fuck. Les needs to be put out to pasture and make room for those who care about the customer i really hope his ten dollars was worth all the money he lost out on today anyone wants to see my receipts to prove what i spent at this place feel free to contact me i'll be happy to provide them to show just what a fool less really is i'm now making it my life's mission to put him in the unemployment line oh my god this can't be real forget about threats old man in the dark of night forget about me shoveling dirt over your cold dead body

forget about threats old man worry about your business now I've never had to return a plant like this before and I could see it if I were in there trying to do so a lot or even more than one but for you treat us that badly and act so arrogant no way I will now commit to make sure people are

aware of your rude arrogant behavior and that as much business is redirected elsewhere be it family friend or stranger count on it end of review i think it's really telling that she said a friend instead of friends yep my friend is not going there anymore his name is my husband and he's not going there because of less's behavior problems. That's in her. Put him out the pasture. Why? Why is this her life goal? Get a hobby.

You have a hobby. Do your hobby. Do your hobby and leave Les alone. This is so threatening and so personal and so scary. And uses their name. I kind of wish I could meet this person so I could be like, so I could something like vaguely insulting about her gardening skills and see

what happens because i feel like she's ready to blow any moment oh my god no this is this was unhinged this review was quite unhinged but what happens if you make this your life's mission like she's clearly very legitimately angry yeah and then nothing happens because nobody cares like does she just refresh her yahoo inbox waiting for somebody to say i'd like proofs of your receipts what does she do what no one's gonna respond and then what gonna fester and die or is she just gonna like find a new hobby a new anger yeah i'm yeah i'm not sure i'm not sure so all of this energy i bet all of this energy though will go on to move on to another small business like if if if no one cares about the flower thing then they'll find like a new life's good remember that's the name of the reviewer i know it was easy

to forget life's good we'll find another uh small business to try to ruin i do love that she really thinks less than his ten dollars are out to get her and um that he's really concerned about that at least 103.99 entitlement i hate that and then we have obviously we get it so much but when people say oh well you lost out on so much money because you wouldn't give me 10 free that's like why would they give you like hand you a 10 bill so you'll spend 104 like yeah if they have by a hundred dollars for exactly ah ah that's right gosh real monsters writing yelp reviews ah real karens wow that's cool okay i kind of just hated that a lot, and I have an actual headache from it. It was long.

It was long and painful. So my final redemption, which you'll be pleased to hear is a real redemption, is from Flanfo. Oh, hi, Flanfo. Is that how you say that? Well, that's how I say it, but yes. Flanfo and Sadberry. Sadberry, of course. Okay, sure, of course.

Who says? They're members of the. Okay, sure, of course. Who says? They're members of the Hogpen, if anyone's curious. My Hogpen on Twitch.tv. Not anyone else's Hogpen. His Hogpen, to be clear. No. While looking up planting instructions for my packet of Thai sweet basil seeds, I found this amazing five-star review. This is a review by Ari called Green Curried Socks.

Yes, I am such a fan of Thai green curry. I would eat green curried anything, maybe even green curried socks, if provided in a pair. We all know how annoying a single curried sock can be. So these are reviews of seeds, am I right? Okay, I right okay just wanted like i needed to take a moment of thai sweet basil seeds oh my god green curry makes everything better but there's a note that i noticed missing in my own cooking when i tried to replicate my favorite dish at home

what's missing it was a great excuse to go back to the restaurant again and in these viral times get more carryout for scientific research. I discovered the missing ingredient is this, Thai basil. With its notes of clove and anise, it's much different than Italian or sweet basil and unavailable at my local grocery. One packet is enough for successive sewings even for the most rabid Thai cuisine fan but I have found that this herb dries fairly well it thrives in a phoenix sun even in a limited area and even the flower

buds are delicious in my dishes this really does sound like a green eggs and ham rip off at this point green curry socks and the flower buds are delicious in my dishes I have not yet served or eaten green curried socks, but I don't doubt that Thai basil can only improve such a totally tempting idea.

Oh, no. Smiley face. End of review. Hey, you know what? They're not wrong. I think it would improve it. Would it make it from inedible to edible? No.

Improve is an extremely relative term in this case um why socks i really committed to the idea of socks i don't know i think that someone did that like someone said because i've seen people eat things like on the internet they'll say if this happens i'll eat my socks or if this happens i'll eat my hat yeah and so they'll actually prepare it and cook it wait for real yes and people do not do that you're not supposed to have put it's a it's an idiom socks into your body you don't actually kill two birds with a stone please no do not or eat a sock or eat a hat exactly just don't do it two birds with one seed also maybe don't do that because they could use more than one seat we give them their own seats also then they'll have maybe some uh inappropriate mouth touching

we can't have that with our birds that can set oh no so true so true you don't need a lady in the tramp bird style you know no i kind of want to see it now though okay you can follow the idiom of your choice but i'm just gonna not, just don't put socks in your system. Just put them on the outside. Also, not in your cookware, because if I'm coming over, I'd rather not know that you put socks into this walk. Please. Yeah, fair. No socks in your walk.

That's my new poem, my new children's book. Please don't. Green curried socks in your walk. That's my new poem. My new children's book. Please don't. Green curried socks in my green curried walk. Oh, so there's a reason some people do this. Because if I'm being told not to do something, that means that someone has done it for a reason. So maybe I should check it out. Someone's crossed a line.

Yeah. So you are going to be complicit in all those children trying to put socks in walks. Well, no one should be eating green ham. And Dr. Seuss did just fine for himself until the ham wasn't green was it green eggs and ham sounds pretty green to me i thought the eggs were green nobody should eat those either okay i mean i'm not potato potato all right i don't know what to tell you i think you're right i think the ham was also green but don't do anything that we talk about. All right. Fine. End of story. Do you have any more?

You have more stories? Yeah. I don't want any more stories. Do you have any more reviews? I have some good stock ones, but yeah, I do have one more five star redemption here. This is sent in by Aaron, who says, Hi, Alex and Christine. My brother introduced me to your podcast last year. I've been listening to it since. Was so excited to hear you're doing garden center slash nursery

since I started working at one last August. Oh, hell yeah. Are you having an aneurysm so far listening to all these? Because I feel like you'd be stressed out. This is of Stadler Nurseries in Frederick, Maryland. Haven't we been there? Frederick, Maryland? Yeah.

Frederick Douglas. Hang on. Christina, I do not know. This does not look familiar. Okay, I think I made it up. Okay. Oh, my God. No, no, no, no, no.

Christina. What? Yeah, remember you insisted we go to the national museum of civil war medicine you had i thought you were serious for a second i was like oh we did go i knew it the national war medicine oh my god actually i'm gonna send you a screenshot of what it looks like is it weird that i actually really really do want to go there this picture i'm sending texting you right now might convince you otherwise but oh no oh no why does the guy who's actually visiting the museum look kind of like ben franklin hiding in a parka trying to blend in with modern day society oh anyway anyway off the bifocal

okay i'm sorry go ahead i know nothing about frederick maryland to be clear yeah jeez here's a this is a five-star review of stadler nurseries frederick maryland and uh yeah this is this is of uh aaron's co-worker about aaron's co-worker oh this is a five star by cory took my daughter there for her seventh birthday to get a plant present had a huge list of wants and desires because seven year old and molly was an absolute clutch pointing us in the right direction and getting the perfect plant that met nearly every checkbox the little one wanted. Talked us through multiple options, helped find an elusive pot and platter that had to be just right. Again, because seven-year-old.

Molly was so helpful and thoughtful, explaining each plant, how to care, what would be best for our situation, and was able to get the perfect plant gift on this amazing Saturday. Facilities were amazing, staff was so helpful, and took time to explain quite a few things i will be coming back for any of our other plant needs end of review oh my god is that what parenting is like i hope my child uh i hope i molly are you able to babysit because i don't think i can pull this off to make a seven-year-old so happy. Just drop her off at the, like, that's what this person should be doing.

Drop her. Well, I'll drop her off at the Civil War Medicine Museum. Oh, of course. That makes more sense. And then Molly can pick her up. That makes more sense. Wow. That's so cute.

Isn't it sweet? I love this. Because it indicates to me that nowadays, like, you can, I don't know. Tell me what it indicates to you. Because to me can i don't know tell me what it indicates because to me it's like when i was seven like no one was going i mean maybe they were and i just didn't know but i feel like kids our age weren't like we were all going to like chucky cheese and eating like dirty pizza nowadays kids are like i'd like a new plant to take care of it just seems so different from what i remember as a kid i was pumped when i got my spider plant gift though

yeah that's true were you i feel like you weren't happy about it at first and then you were happy maybe yeah first because then i thought then someone told me that you can use the spider plant to create more spider plants and i was like oh a business let me make money from this like entrepreneur uh no because i got it like a big bird chair and i remember you were not happy that you didn't get a toy or something you got a plant but now you clearly have grown much appreciation for a said spider plant and yeah someone gifted me a plant today oh my god best present ever best present ever i'm just so happy that like seven-year-olds are into it you know it makes me so happy and that the parent is like you know um let's have

the best birthday ever and just go to the plant store precious precious indeed man just the little things you know oh i know all right time for my challenge yes you said this was difficult so i struggled like crazy i i don't think i found whatever we'll do we'll just let me show you what i have y'all can be the judge y'all can flame me or something on the internet no if you didn't like it but john and specifically katie you have my permission because katie she her is the one who suggested this looking for an ice cube tray exactly maker so found review the challenge is to find reviews where people complained about not getting an item related to the item they actually bought but definitely weren't actually supposed to get with the item they bought. So for example,

the example given was a review of an ice cube tray that didn't come with ice. Right. Which I still think was, well, which was most likely a joke review. Right. And yeah, I struggled to even find those.

So this was tough. This was tough. But I thought I'd at least stick with something similar to our theme so maybe you cannot get too mad at me because my first one is of blom terra pot planter 24 inch living green on amazon uh so it's a planter pot i literally went to buy look at snake plants yesterday yeah and i almost bought one and then I realized it was a pot, like a planter. I did not have a snake plant in it. So I'm just now realizing I fully fell into this trap.

Oh, yeah. Lots of people fell into all sorts of things like this. Here is a three-star review by Ronald. I may be a layman about planting, but somehow I thought it would come with the saucer. To me, that's like selling a hammer with no handle. End of review. Which I don't know much about plants, but I do not think that analogy lines up. It doesn't.

I don't know much about plants or tools, but somehow it still doesn't line up. Yeah, I think at least a pot without the bottom saucer you can still use as a pot. A hammer, you can't use it as a hammer if it doesn't have a hammer. In fact, it is not a hammer if it doesn't have 80% of the hammer. But a planter pot is still a planter pot even if you don't put it on a saucer. Yeah, the analogy doesn't quite fly in my opinion. In my humble but honorable opinion. So honorable.

And I would like to make it clear that in the description it said, Recommended accessories, parentheses, sold separately, and then listed out a couple of options for saucers. So it literally said, this is not part of. It is very clearly not. The problem is some of the pictures, when you go through all of the pictures, they'll have different types of pots within saucers. So I could see why you buy it. but the original first picture does not have one like the main picture so uh

let's see what else do i have i have a review of a racing wheel for nintendo wii it is you put the little wii mote into the racing wheel and it so when you play mario kart yeah uh here's a one-star review this is stupid i thought it would come with a stand i am sending it back then now i wonder why it costs so less end of review wait wait hold on why would it come with this there's no reason like literally looked at pictures looked in the description there was nothing about a stand come with a wee car either looked at pictures, looked in the description. There was nothing about a stand. It didn't come with a Wii car either. Like, they didn't even, like, in the picture, Wii car.

Like, what do you mean, a stand? I think so, like, the wheel, you put it on a stand? I don't know. It's not anything. Like, I, yeah, I don't know. And the picture was just, like, floating there with the Wiimote in it. Like, it was just. Just floating.

So, it was actually, yeah, this actually kind of fits. Sorry. yeah this actually kind of fits oh sorry i like doubted myself coming in these are both very much it does make sense yeah um and what's funny about all these is a lot of these are products that aren't being sold anymore like this is so old this nintendo wheel like the we no one buys this shit and it's like not even available for purchase if they put a stand they might still be in it today true maybe the they learned their lesson and the ones that they built for the uh switch have a stand they have a big pole that you attach to oh well here's another review of something else it's marvel avengers titan hero series hawkeye 12 inch figure it's a 12 inch tall uh action figure of hawkeye from the marvel the avengers or whatever

it goes through the description of everything that's included and then here's a four star review by lionel great toy but somehow i thought it would come with arrows at least fake ones attached to his back only shoulder and hip joints bend no elbow or knee movement but it was cheap i paid eight dollars for this so it's all good no arrows no bowstring still good end of review i am so over it and i'm not still thinking about it every time i glance at it on my bookshelf those last three were like in all caps, like no arrow, no bowstring,

which is probably kind of helpful for people to see. Probably a too long, don't, didn't read situation. Yeah, true. But yeah, in the thing it says it includes a bow,

but there's no string in the picture and there are no arrows for the bow and arrow thing. No. Well, what would you do with it? Would they think that actually shoots the arrows? I think it's bow and arrow thing. Well, what would you do with it? Would you think that actually shoots the arrows? I think it's just a looks thing, I assume. Which, I don't know. I guess it could make sense that it would come with it.

So maybe this doesn't totally fit. But hey, I like that they gave a positive review still and just made it clear what it doesn't come with so other people can read it yeah i like that they've moved on you know and they don't still think about it all the time and uh mull it over and while they can't sleep at night yeah yeah uh here is one this is of an of action village 20 ounce co2 tank so it is a tank we're meant for co2 no i figured that part out yeah one star review don't buy this it's ass i thought it would come with air it's just a waste of money end of review what so with air they wanted it pre-filled which when i googled mailing full co2 tanks it was like yeah you got a call from the fbi being like what are you doing i was like gotta like mail it like hazmat like because it's hazardous it's dangerous yeah no shit um combustible and because people were talking about those um the small ones for uh for soda spray

soda stream sorry those co2 cans because someone said they had some full ones you know like i don't know how to mail it and i don't know what to do and that people were like find people locally yeah but from probably from the whoever's selling those has some sort of proper yeah the proper labeling the prop they've already gone through and like probably have a relationship with whoever they're mailing it through. Because, yeah, you're not supposed to just mail CO2 tanks that are full of CO2. If you're not allowed to mail perfume

and batteries, you probably aren't allowed to mail a canister of CO2. So I guess that is a really ridiculous thought. And it is it does not say that it's full. It says it's meant to be refilled, like a refillable tank for CO2. Which makes perfect sense.

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. So that's it. Oh, no, I've got one more, but that's it for the CO2 tank. I love it. This is my final one. This is of a Whirlpool egg container, bin 4378484.

So it's one of those plastic things for the fridge. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 437-8484. So it's one of those plastic things for the fridge. It's a bin. I think it's like a full bin, like a pretty big one, but it has an insert that has an egg for it. Every time I watch one of these home organization shows, I'm like, I want to be the kind of person that is so organized. I transfer all of my food into pretty containers. It's never going to happen.

No, I struggle to put my folded clothes from my laundry basket into my dresser i'm amazed you even fold the clothes i don't get that far but i did that this week and i washed my sheets and everything okay sounds terrible that i'm like you should no it doesn't complimenting myself in this but i did all that remember that time i ate a pringle off the floor and uh it was the least worst time we had right true end of discussion never mind that proves my point yeah our standards are pretty low i did my washed dried and put my sheets on all in my comforter cover and my pillowcases all of it in the same day and i like before i went back to sleep i like to remind you folks he's living at our parents right now no no i'm saying that because i'm sorry that sounded bad but it's it's because like you have to use our the laundry machine we grew up with our mother using we're like you know i feel

like sometimes you can regress back into that like mom do my laundry okay maybe i did but i feel like it's it's a weird it's a less normal thing to be doing all your household chores in your childhood. Yeah. I don't pay for the detergent or the electricity, though. Okay, fair point. I just pay some rent each month. You have to walk all the way to the basement, though. I do have to walk in that scary-ass basement.

Yeah, it is frightening. It was unplugged yesterday, or the last time I went to do it. Don't you love when that happens? And I was like, why is this unplugged? And so I was nervous to plug it in only was like why is this unplugged and so i was nervous to plug it in only because i thought there might be a reason for it so i went out and i asked him i said you i was like oh is there a reason he apologized which i was like don't apologize he's like yeah i was cutting my hair down there okay now i'm even more scared of the

washing machine so he could plug in his thing for cutting his haircut. Why am I asking a question? Usually he unplugs things to save electricity. I'm amazed it was for other purposes. They also have that tube for the dryer that goes outside, but they take it out of that tube. No, they don't. He puts an insulated square up to keep cold air from coming through the cracks between like the tube and like the outer tube i thought you were about to say when he cuts his hair he

put he attaches it to that tube so i literally thought you were telling me that once he cuts his hair he detaches the tube and puts it again onto his like hair cutting thing and i was like that is disgusting no it is not like that don't worry i think he just did it down there because there's that like really big like sink thing yes there is that's like that heavy duty wash basin and he just probably cuts his hair over that why is that an ew whatever basin is so haunted and scary it is scary down there if i heard like i'd be like oh my god yeah yeah chains, yeah. Chainsaw ghost. Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, Whirlpool Egg Container.

Bin 437-8484. Whirlpool Egg Container. Well, I don't have that many reviews, so it's nice that we're filling the time with our bullshit, right? This is a five-star review. I can't believe you have to buy this separately. Perfect. I like the lid. Never had an egg container with a lid before i was amazed

when my new refrigerator arrived without an egg container the dealer who handled my purchase responded promptly and the new egg container arrived as advertised the dealer what like behind alley where's you promised me an egg container i paid up front what are you talking about your dealer the egg container dealer yeah this i i. What are you talking about, your dealer? The egg container dealer. Yeah, I've never known someone who had this much experience with egg containers. Think about what's-her-face who didn't even get an ice maker with her fridge in 2021, God forbid. R.I.P. What's-her-face, yeah.

Bless you. How great is she? I'm so sorry. What is her name? Katie. Katie, thank you. Katie, I'm sorry. I knew that was your name no you um katie i love you uh okay but like why would it come with it i've never known a fridge to come with i mean i know my dealer isn't top notch but my fridge dealer get a new

get a new fridge dealer what the hell have i been doing oh my god i'm trying to think what the vegan equivalent of that is because we have like that there's like that just egg stuff so it would be like maybe a just just egg tap would be disgusting next to the ice maker it would just like filter out fake egg oh yes gross okay well never mind gross um yeah i've never i feel like that of course to me it's like of course that would be something you'd buy separately and i always saw those that people had and i was like that seems like a ridiculous thing to own and like unnecessary like i if if i had that i'd be like cool look at me but i wouldn't like go out of my way to buy one i mean i might on an amazon spree back when i drank before you know there was a child that i had to deal with but uh

sorry i don't know where i was going with that that's another thing if you listen back to the last like month few months of episodes my i trail off so often in my thoughts that it got to a point where alexander would just kind of like recognize it and i would start my sentence over without any comment because like clearly my brain is not functioning at high capacity anyway point being and i don't want to lie and say i would never buy an egg container because it does sound like something i would stupidly buy thinking i would use it i had a conversation with my friend chris um who doesn't listen so i don't know why i'm using his name as if he's gonna care who the hell's chris he's not important because he doesn't listen to our show oh um i want to talk about simon again simon is important when i first moved into my new apartment i brought up

needing an ice cube tray just like katie needed something like that and he said oh i really like this one and he linked me one it was like the oxo brand oxo oxo is it whatever and it had a like a fitted thing over it the slidey thing it doesn't slide it like kind of it's like a flap it's more of a flap and it covers it so it doesn't spill and it doesn't spill and you can keep it in your freezer sideways so i would put it in sideways just out of the way it's barely in there and it worked like a charm every single time yes absolutely and but at the time i was like this is ridiculous why would i spend this much on an ice cube tray when i can literally just use a normal ice cube tray and buy it for like two bucks and then i

bought it and i loved it and now it's somewhere in my boxes and all mom has i'm very grateful to be living there but all they have are those freaking like ones shaped like a dinosaur and they're like all rubbery and they're really gross because finds them and fishes them from the bottom of the freezer but she was like oh we have another one and she whipped it out and it was the cubes were like white and i'm like what is that she was like i think it's milk i'm like why she's like i don't know i don't remember doing this so lord knows how long these milk frozen milk cubes have been in our freezer like this reusable plastic yeah those reusable and they think they're very sanitary they're not and they but instead of putting them in a container they

toss them in the freezer with like the blackened bananas and the fish or whatever's in there or anything and then francisca goes i say oh do you have ice cubes because they don't keep some of the With like the blackened bananas and the fish or whatever's in there. They have no covering or anything. And then Francisca goes, I say, oh, do you have ice cubes? Because they don't keep some of the like sparkling waters in the fridge. And Francisca goes and starts fishing around with her hands and pulls out milky ice cubes covered in banana juice. Because they fall out. And then like that's how they grab their ice cubes. It's pretty gross.

It's not pretty anyway. Man, you guys must think we live in a hovel or something. I missed that ice cube tray. Didn't take it with you? I did. It's in my boxes. I have all these kitchen boxes and I've kept them. I don't need the stuff that's in there.

I bet it misses you too. What? I bet it misses you too. You think? I used it a lot. I don't like coffee hot, so I use those a lot. Well, thanks for listening to our podcast. Oh, yeah.

Do you have any more? Are we recording something? That's right. Sorry, for listening to our podcast do you have any more are we recording something that's right um sorry what is that it that you have yeah that was good i don't know what you're talking about you accomplished the goal oh what was that what's the goal oh yeah yeah okay i did i don't know why i felt so bad about it it just i always do coming in for challenges okay well i already have theme ready for you already have a theme ready for you. I have a challenge ready for you. Yeah. What? Okay, great.

Well, see, I feel like I'm just giving you the toss-ups that I find, because this one seems kind of easy, but we'll see. Okay, let's do it. This is from Amanda, who wants us to find reviews of world's largest attractions or landmarks, such as the world's largest ketchup bottle or the world's tallest thermometer. So, we are meant to find reviews of those so i bet you some people have some fun ones um i have some in mind already to look up i'm very excited about it yes i am as well that sounds great thanks amanda uh your challenge

is maybe a little too easy but i'm sure you can find some good stuff uh this is from elisa uh she her find reviews of someone who claims to be in or used to be in the industry so if they're like i was like if they're complaining about food they'll be like i was a chef for this many years oh god those are do tend to be the most obnoxious or something with i don't know if you find like a review of a movie or something like as an actor i think this i'm not a novice lavender gardener exactly yeah i'm excited well thanks for listening to the three of us talk today and uh super excited to finally outnumber the other host on this podcast otherwise we'll see you next week meet you at the world's tallest golf tee which i have been to oh nice i haven't been to that one well we will see you next week meet you at the world's tallest golf tee which i have been to oh nice i haven't been to that one well we will tell you all about it next week can't wait to hear about

it Bye.