Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet - 137: Reviews of Car Rentals

Episode Date: July 14, 2021

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Starting point is 00:02:00 Sounding good to me. Yep. Welcome to the show. This week, we have a theme that was sent in by Claire and it's car rentals. And I had a challenge from Natalie that was to find positive common sense media reviews of a song or piece of media with heavy sexual themes or blatant references to drugs or drinking. Right up your alley. Right up my alley. I have to say that was a fun one uh so do we have anything to say i guess not really i have nothing to say but reviews i'm excited we have some new
Starting point is 00:02:33 patrons who are listening to our hour-long bonus episode that was a disaster for me but people are enjoying it i had a great i'm glad'm glad. Good. I'm glad. I'm going to get started with an email. This is from Zane, who has been very helpful in the past. Love a good Zane email. Love a good Zane. Yeah, I guess I love Zane too. I was just saying I love a good Zane email. I just wanted to one-up you and say I just personally love Zane.
Starting point is 00:03:01 Okay. Well, I appreciate Zane's art. So that's more important. here is an example of said art this is a review of rusty car rentals in cleveland ohio which why why and it's funny because oh so zane sent a few okay and the other one was called rent a wreck and i'm like why would you name yourself i mean it must be like this is that's their thing it's like called rent a wreck and i'm like why would you name yourself i mean it must be like this is that's their thing it's like you rent a very like banged up lemon i guess so maybe that's the thing in cleveland i mean sounds like a very cleveland thing maybe is it the rust belt maybe
Starting point is 00:03:35 that's why christina don't ask me about the rust belt probably i bet we're in no we're not in the rust we're not in the rust belt so yeah we're in the breadbasket that's what i was trying to say but breast belt belt is probably northern ohio michigan cleveland detroit buffalo pittsburgh oh buffalo that makes it pittsburgh that makes sense okay so you know what uh that's my guess okay according to this map we're also in it so well you know what i'd rather did you find that and then didn't tell me that i'd rather be in the bread basket that's what i remember hearing as a child why would we be in the bread basket that's what people so we grow like soy here what do we grow here we could grow bread we could yeah climate wise i feel like bread is very much attitude not ohio thing
Starting point is 00:04:21 wheat stop you don't see many wheat fields. I just don't want the tweets, okay? What about corn? What about it, Christina? Corn bread. We're in the corn basket. Oh, the corn bread. Never mind.
Starting point is 00:04:35 We're in the corn basket. Never mind. We are in the bread basket, but it's all corn bread. We are in the cornucopia. Oh my gosh, there it is. Okay. Anyway, shall we? Rusty car rentals. I don don't know i know how we got there
Starting point is 00:04:48 but i don't like that we did this is a one star review by uh i'm gonna say last name stevens okay because that's relevant um you know i'm gonna do a full name um carlisle stevens okay you came up with that really fast that was pretty good huh yeah it was uh carlisle stevens okay you came up with that really fast that was pretty good huh yeah it was uh carlisle stevens one star the workers have bad attitudes end of review but there's more here's the response from owner all caps okay so prepare yourselves the only stevens that we have had contact with in the past three months does not have your first name. However, that Stevens showed up after 5 p.m. wanting a vehicle. We close at 5, aside from taking our last customer at 4.45 p.m.
Starting point is 00:05:38 When I told her that we were closed and that everything was shut down, gates even closed, only one was unlocked, being the one we were walking out of at the time, she got upset and expressed that to me. She said that she thought that it was bad customer service because we were closed and not going to open and start everything back up to rent her a vehicle. I said that I apologized and I am sorry that she felt that way. I explained that she can see we are all walking out the door, that everything was already shut down, the computers were off, and everyone was clocked out. She then threatened to slap me, also continuing to threaten and
Starting point is 00:06:14 badmouth me as she walked back to her ride. If this was not you, I am sorry you feel this way, and please explain what your experience was so that we can better our services. End of review. Okay. It was all caps, too.
Starting point is 00:06:28 So it's very aggressive. Like, if this was you, blah, blah, blah. But then it doesn't remove the caps. It stays caps and yells like, but if this is not you, tell me what we did wrong. And I sincerely apologize. Because I am so sorry. He failed to mention that. She did tell him her name was Carlisle. And he just didn't pick up on it. But, okay. I forgot. guys because i am so sorry uh he failed to mention that she did tell him her name was carlisle and
Starting point is 00:06:45 he just didn't pick up on pick up on but okay i forgot i love how i picked a first name thinking that because i remember they had mentioned the first name because i knew the review was stevens and they're like oh like but your name wasn't your first name wasn't this or was but i i couldn't let you leave carlis on the cutting room floor. And also, what I do wonder is, how did they know this person's last name was Steven if they just got into an altercation at the gate? Do you know what I mean? If they weren't even a customer. No, I bet what they did was call ahead or something. Oh, they had a reservation.
Starting point is 00:07:19 They probably had a reservation and showed up late. I assume. Because that seems to be a running uh theme a trend here among car i i've learned a lot about the issues with renting cars there's a lot of issues i've learned i am uh i am not better off for it because i'm not planning on renting a car anytime soon but i've rented quite a few cars in my day uh mostly when we go on tour and while yes our bad experiences nothing super interesting i guess um so i feel like this is i don't know where i'm going with this yeah i don't know except that i also don't have anything to add um for my own personal experience thank god
Starting point is 00:08:00 we're all pretty relieved like where is this going i think everyone was waiting for my personal experience with rental cars so this is an email from grace he sent in a few links and i picked this one um it is a review of rental car spot and it is by mark five stars oh this is a i'm just starting with theemption. I'm sorry. I clearly did not... By the way, and I bet our listeners notice this, I have so many five-star reviews sprinkled in among my one stars. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:08:36 I never just end on five-star reviews, so don't worry. I usually do, so I just forgot to put this one at the end. No, I'd never do that. So don't apologize to me. Great. Because that would mean that I was supposed to have been apologizing to you this whole time. Great, I'll take it back. So this is a five-star review.
Starting point is 00:08:51 I didn't rent a car, but it looked like the people who did were happy. Oh, that's so nice. Yeah, so, you know. I like that. I feel like that's the full opposite of every other review I've read today. That was like nothing good ever happened. I'm kind of glad we got a little nice taste of that because sometimes we get into these one-star reviews and you start thinking, wow, there is no hope. There's no hope left.
Starting point is 00:09:16 There's nothing positive that could come out of this. And then we don't have a redemption those days. And here you said, hey, look, there is hope. But let me tell you all the terrible stuff as well yeah not quash it because they at least in the back of their mind they can always say you know what it was that glistening hope at the beginning hope of those happy people renting i wonder if mark was just like binocularing through the windows like how do they know that all these people are so happy even though he's not renting a car it was like a full-on rental place
Starting point is 00:09:44 like i don't know if he's just it was a google review yeah it must have been in the area for maybe something else because then he just happened to peek at their little faces a lot of the reviews i read just like um yeah a lot of people wants to know what i think i don't have any need for for a honda right now but i can go do a little peekery. I like that because they probably, you know, I wonder if that means, so it could mean a couple of things, but maybe it means they went into the, to the area, noticed all these happy people and thought, wow, that is so amazing. And they just noticed it right away. And then later when they had the opportunity to share, when Google said, how was your experience there? They said, actually, it was great because of this,
Starting point is 00:10:24 because of the happy people renting cars or google notified them and they're like huh let me try to think and then they worked backwards and they thought okay what was it like and they actually sat down did took the time to think about what it was like outside of that rental car agency looking in no regression hypno regression yeah yeah meditation really thought back about all those smiling faces we're offering those uh to our patrons now that's right um it's my voice yeah it's very those are a thousand dollars a month they're very calming and very soothing yep you're welcome um it's if you want to forget everything we say on the regular episodes it's actually pretty helpful um we do them every week every week a thousand dollars a
Starting point is 00:11:07 pop man that sounds pretty good uh seriously y'all if you're interested in that um i will do it i don't know what it entails but that sounds worth it to me go to a hypnotherapy course we will do our research uh anyway uh let's move on to a review sent in by samantha of a thrifty car rental um in cambridge massachusetts this is by bob one star i was not explained how the tolls work in massachusetts therefore i just got fifty dollars fee plus fine after one month if the employee would avoid making jokes about pasta, I am Italian. Sorry, I did not
Starting point is 00:11:50 expect that. That was like so out of left field. I was like, oh boo hoo. We're going to complain about tolls. Rigatoni, what are you talking about? Apparently this person let it slip that they're Italian and the employee thought that
Starting point is 00:12:06 it's an appropriate time to make pasta jokes and they never even stood a chance their last name is pasta like no but something italian i have their last name i don't know this doesn't look i don't know italian but i wouldn't look at this name and be like there's pasta i don't know okay but anyway if the employee would avoid making jokes about pasta i am italian and explain properly how things work to a foreigner would be definitely better end of review oh he's a foreigner he couldn't help he had probably an accent or a passport or something and he just didn't even have a choice but to admit that he was from a different country. Yep. And the person, instead of just explaining something, decided to throw in some pasta jokes.
Starting point is 00:12:48 Listen, I bet some people would appreciate. Well, no. No. No. Probably not. No. If I'm frustrated about tolls and fees and I don't understand something. And you're in a foreign country.
Starting point is 00:12:58 And I'm in a foreign country and they're like, hamburgers. I'd be like, please, please just talk to me. You eat the McDonald's. I would would smile i would nod my head and i'd be like uh-huh and i'd take it and i would not write a one-star review but i would probably complain about it to people close to me it's pretty random but pretty funny for me and nobody else like not anybody in that scenario but i'm glad he wrote it down because I wish he would have told me the joke. I know. I bet it was pretty good. I bet it was pretty good.
Starting point is 00:13:29 If only I could reply. Okay. So here's a weird one that I found. And this is a one-star review of the national car rental at CVG Airport. This is a one-star review by Lou. That's in Cincinnati. Oh, sorry. Cincinnati's CVG Airport. rental at cvg airport this is a one-star review by lou that's a in cincinnati oh sorry cincinnati's cvg airport northern kentucky international airport the manager denied me a truck rental because quote others need it more he did not believe that i had a wife
Starting point is 00:13:58 sorry oh yeah nerd you're married please as if oh where's she from canada uh-huh pasta yeah it probably goes to a different school huh yeah she goes to a different school show me your myspace never seen a geek like you get married there's no way only i just did a lot of projecting or something i don't know where that came from trucks for their wives like even that alone makes no like why why there's more there's okay okay i stopped the sentence early because i got i got surprised by my own sentence that i literally read like an hour before we recorded i somehow i prepare and then i'm not prepared the manager denied me a truck rental because quote others need it more he did not believe that i had a wife two kids and a
Starting point is 00:14:51 dog i rented okay i know i know you didn't get much farther before i interrupted but um does does this probably not believe any of it like they're all made up like this is some dog or is it just specifically like okay like yeah you have a wife but there's no way she'd have kids with you or is it like okay you have a family but there's no way you look responsible enough to handle a dog or i don't know where you don't look like a dog owner to me what here would be you know what what's what is that tipping point of going from believable to not i wonder if he said like i have a wife to carry around in this truck and he's like or whatever you do in a truck and he's like i don't know about that he's like fine
Starting point is 00:15:36 fine i don't have a wife but i have two kids and it's like i don't know and he's like okay i at least have a dog me again like this guy's like this guy's like... He really knows me. Calling all my bluffs. He can read me like the back of his hand. Okay. I rented a full-size SUV in Detroit, Michigan, and returned it in Cincinnati, Ohio, wanting to get a different SUV, but are on gas. He did not even clean my truck, but pulled it right into the SUV lane and said, No, SUVs are... I'm not even there yet, but I remember what's coming
Starting point is 00:16:07 and it makes me laugh. And said, no SUVs are available and they are based off need. Proceeded to follow me inside and make sure to tell the clerk not to rent an SUV to me because I didn't need it. Oh my gosh. Why? This is bizarre. I just don't know. When was this written?
Starting point is 00:16:27 2019, January of 2019. Because right now, maybe they're with a shortage of rental cars. Yeah. 2019, I feel like it was the opposite, probably. This one guy is just so hellbent on not letting him have a truck or an SUV. Unless there's something I'm missing here that someone will tweet at us. I do not understand why they would be denied a truck
Starting point is 00:16:49 because... Because others need it more? That seems like a weird reasoning. If you're like, somebody already booked it, okay, that's one thing. Well, maybe this person said, well, with your family and dog, we'll give you an SUV. And the guy said, no, I need a truck. You know, I don't know. Nobody said he didn't give me an SUV either. Oh, he said that? Sorry, I missed that part. Yeah, I need a truck. You know, I don't know. No, but he said he didn't give me an SUV either.
Starting point is 00:17:05 Oh, he said that? Sorry, I missed that part. Yeah, he wanted a truck. I'm so focused on the truck. I know, he wanted a truck. He said, no, other people need it more. And then he said, okay, well, I brought my SUV. Can I get one better on gas?
Starting point is 00:17:15 And he says, no, because you do not need it. And then he followed him inside and told the guy not to rent him a SUV. This is so bizarre. I do not understand what's happening. My SUV was originally set up for a round trip to be him a SUV. This is so bizarre. I do not understand what's happening. My SUV was originally set up for a round trip to be returned to Detroit, so he was not even expecting my truck at that location
Starting point is 00:17:30 to not rent me one of the eight SUVs sitting there. I will never rent from National again. Luckily, Quicken Loans gives me discounts on other companies as well. Very horrible experience and almost felt threatened by the way he was just following me around, even to the counter, until we left. This was also around Christmas time. Talk about a real grinch wait okay wait wait maybe more details unless i'm misunderstanding did this person have a rental car that they brought there and wanted to
Starting point is 00:17:56 change it uh he said um i rented a full-size suv detroit returned it in cincinnati wanting to get a different suv better on gas oh so they were gonna like swap it out yes and instead the employee said no just basically take that one back oh probably yeah so this person had to drive the same car so i don't know i'm not not saying that makes it okay any of this but i guess i couldn't see why like they didn't i don't know if they have if that car has been fine they just want one better for gas but then why would they want a truck which is listen from what i understand probably worse from gas and less space i just love that the big issue is that he didn't believe that i had a wife that's i think that's the thing that's kind of getting my it's just that's the
Starting point is 00:18:40 big the big news for me that's this enterprise or this national or whatever it is. Beautiful stuff. Beautiful stuff. I'm on to my own research. So here is a review of Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Cincinnati, Ohio. This is by David One Star. This experience was so bad I left without renting a car. In addition to not having any stock of cars or parking or good signage directing you to the correct location, the customer service was
Starting point is 00:19:10 jaw-droppingly bad. I guess they figure that because they have a captive audience at the convention center, they don't have to be professional or extend basic human dignity to customers. Paula, the agent on duty, was incredibly rude and the most condescending person I have met in Cincinnati. To put that in perspective, my family lives in Cincinnati and I went to high school here. And everyone was, my family is very condescending. Yeah, trust me, I know a few people. Avoid at all costs. And if you meet Paula, just walk away. avoid at all costs and if you meet paula just walk away and review uh hi sorry what's your name uh i'm paula i'm the manager here oh uh talk to the hand paula i'm done with you explicit orders david david david on your google review says i need to walk away right now he warned me
Starting point is 00:20:01 oh my gosh so i'm meeting his warning yeah i did like that very specific because usually they say to exaggerate they'll say most uh condescending person i've ever met in my life which you can take as yeah slightly this is a little more specific where they actually probably mean it yeah they like geo tagged where they meant like there's a there's like a specific range they actually have on their notes app a rating of each person they've met in terms of condescension level oh my gosh and this is the highest rating uh he's ever given anyone at least in the cincinnati subfolder there's an ohio folder and then all the cities he's been to no no there's a rust belt folder's a Rust Belt folder. The Rust. Yeah, well, that's above Ohio. I hadn't gotten there yet.
Starting point is 00:20:46 And then the bread basket. Yeah. So. This is the most condescending person I've met in the Rust Belt. And my family lives there. I went to high school in the bread basket. And let me tell you, Paula is next level. Wow.
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Starting point is 00:21:43 And teaming up. Or face extinction. Godzilla Kong. the new empire now playing only in theaters um i have a review here from paula oh wait is that we just said yes okay sorry the person's last name is p and i she looks like paula so it just kind of went with it so i'm just going to keep it um and this is of enterprise in florence kentucky one star car is filthy and the driver's door is literally falling off the hinges there's ketchup or blood all over the overhead light controls and fingernails or toenails in the floorboard the oil change alert is on the staff was rude and couldn't even find the keys to the car.
Starting point is 00:22:27 End of review. Wow. In the floorboards? Floorboards. What kind of car is this? Is it like the wood paneling turned into... I don't know. Isn't that what you call it?
Starting point is 00:22:36 The floorboard? I don't know. Maybe. When I think floorboards, I think wood, like in a house. No, no, like the floorboard, like the carpeted floorboard. Maybe. Okay, maybe I'm just being hung up on the wrong thing here and not the fingernails toenails and blood yeah i like that she specified ketchup or
Starting point is 00:22:52 blood very different things but then fingernails or toenails which like it doesn't to me it doesn't matter which they're both pretty pretty gnarly yeah those i i i don't know i'd like to think i'd be able to tell the difference between both ketchup and blood and fingernails and toenails. No. But maybe I'm wrong. You don't think I could? I don't think you would want to even look that closely.
Starting point is 00:23:13 Well, no. Ideally, I wouldn't be in the position where I'd have to. Yeah, but if you were. Well, then again, they don't have to either. They don't have to look closely and say that. So I guess it makes sense why they would. The ketchup or blood, I'm like, honestly, honestly at first i thought of course it's ketchup and then i heard fingernails and toenails and went oh god it could really be blood all over the place yeah i could have had a hang
Starting point is 00:23:33 nail like oh no oh stop out of control now for some reason that's when it's too far that took it too far okay i just wanted to check an out control hangnail all over the floorboards. I like that she also said in the floorboard. In the floorboards. Just like stuck like little spears. Some sort of like ghost or something down there, you know? The ghost of hangnails past. Onto toenails.
Starting point is 00:23:57 It's disgusting. Anyway, that one just grossed me out. Yeah, grossed me out too. Thank you. My next one is of Hertz here in Cincinnati. This is a one-star review by Nick. Scheduled to pick up my rental car at 9 a.m. and showed up around 10 a.m. because I didn't really know it would matter if I was an hour late. Well, I showed up and they told me there was no car and they marked me as a no-show. They refused
Starting point is 00:24:23 to let me get any rental car and put me on a waiting list but never called back later telling me they had a car very poor customer service and made me two hours late on a trip i was planning to go to chicago end of review oh no how dare they make you late when you're late this is so wild this was i cannot believe this was a one-star review this was so frustrating to read how can you say oh my reservation is at nine i didn't think it would be a big deal that i show up an hour late and especially when i feel like people like this tend to be like they didn't tell me it would be an issue and it's like they shouldn't have to tell you it'd be an issue if you're there after you closed or after you made a reservation i feel like this
Starting point is 00:25:05 is very this is just common sense friend just you they say nine o'clock you show up at nine o'clock if you showed up at 905 and complained i would maybe i wouldn't have included this yeah if this person that said oh i showed up at 905 and they gave my car away i'd be like oh that's kind of that kind of sucks like you're running a little late but that sounds like paul is if you're an hour late and other people want cars yeah what are they're not gonna wait for you what they're a business don't show up or call ridiculous yeah it's ridiculous yeah oh especially that i don't know like if they had said oh i tried calling and pushing it back an hour and they said they couldn't do it like i that also wouldn't be a review i'd include because you know that going to suck. But in this case,
Starting point is 00:25:46 saying poor customer service because they made you late for your trip when you yourself were an hour late, I don't like it. We don't feel sorry for you. No, Nick. Even though you missed your bachelor party in Chicago. I'm sorry. Unfortunately, it sounds like you didn't learn anything from it.
Starting point is 00:26:00 Worst of all. Actually, yeah. I feel like if I had a friend who was like, man, I had the worst experience at the rental car place. I showed up really late and then they didn't have a car for me. I'd be like, and what else? Toenails? Toenails.
Starting point is 00:26:16 Fingernails? Blood? Ketchup? Anything? Maybe all of the above. Nope. So I have this next one. It's from Ashley.
Starting point is 00:26:29 And it is a review of a rental car place in Alexandria, Virginia. And it is a verified reviewer. I'm just going to read it and we can discuss. I don't give stars. I pray I have one, but I'm really upset. What what are you doing you've withdrawn money from the card again my brother we gave you the card when you're bored you withdraw where the deposit is where all the money is withdrawn what is this delete my information god damn it you didn't leave money on your card you take the information and use the card i will give give you such rudeness. I rented a car. Such a thing didn't come to me during the car because I do not speak English. So that's when I was like, oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:27:10 English is a second language. But also, this seems like more erudite and like well-written than like 99% of reviews. But I don't know what's going on. It doesn't make any sense. And we've said this before about other reviews. It does sound like an AI wrote this. Yes! Doesn't it? and we've said this before about other reviews it does sound like an ai wrote this it sounds like they took complaints from karen and put it into some sort of software and try to make something sensible like i'm really upset what are you doing god damn it it's like when
Starting point is 00:27:38 you look at i don't know if you've seen those weird images that you that you can google and there are these weird edits where you can vaguely see something that you think is a real thing but there aren't any real things in the image and so it's just it's like that it like fucks with your brain yeah it's really uncomfortable because you're looking at this but you can't figure out why you're uncomfortable because but the reality is there's nothing real in this image it's something it's so unnerving so that's how i feel about this review it sounds like a a bad complaint but if you try to actually think about it if you put try to put your finger on it you can't really nail down any like real information okay i'll finish this up real quick what is this delete my information
Starting point is 00:28:24 god damn it you didn't leave money on your card you take the information and use the card i will give you such rudeness i rented a car such a thing didn't come to me during the car because i do not speak english you received a deposit of 250 you received another 150 and i still delivered the car 15 days it was another company and then um so it says verified reviewer it says um their first name is turkish okay so like maybe but also they try to put it in google translate oh maybe that could be it um i just it started off so powerfully with i don't give stars i pray i have one yeah yeah i read that and I heard that and I thought, oh gosh. I feel like the earth like shifted under my feet.
Starting point is 00:29:10 You know what it sounds like? And I hope this doesn't sound mean because, you know, it seems like English is not their first language, but this sounds like something that I would say while sleepwalking or sleep talking. Yes, it's like close enough to like some sort of narrative but then it's like off yes kilter a little bit yeah yeah yeah yeah because even without the english whole thing being an element like even i can understand most sentences i just can't piece together what exactly is going on here exactly um so anyway that's that i just was like weirdly troubled by
Starting point is 00:29:43 that one yeah it does remind me of what you were saying. Kind of like that unsettling, like unnerving feeling of something is off. That one is sitting very heavily inside of me right now. Yeah. I'm sorry about that. I wonder if reading that aloud was a mistake. I mean, I don't wonder. I know that it was.
Starting point is 00:30:02 So if that answers your question, the consequences will catch up with us soon, I feel. God, it's like one of those horror movies where I've watched some video and now someone's going to come kill me. You know how boring of a horror movie that would be? These podcasters, you read a review. Their audio show. And now something's out to get them. That is the most ridiculous concept. But it's ours, y'all, so don't steal it.
Starting point is 00:30:25 Okay. My next one is a five-star review of Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Cincinnati. This is by Carol. Friendly gods, natured, experienced staff love the car. End of review. What? Friendly gods? Friendly gods. Do you think that's the first time no offense but do you think this is the first time that a rental car employee has been called has been
Starting point is 00:30:53 portrayed as godlike i feel like they get a lot of shit i don't mean that like that i believe that but i feel like they get a lot of shit yeah do you do you want me to ruin the magic what i think actually was meant to be yeah so it does say that but there's no punctuation so i took the liberty of adding my own so friendly gods comma natured they're trying to say good natured but they didn't put any commas so it should read friendly good natured experienced staff love the car but i said friendly but friendly gods and i read that and i i honestly it wasn't until i was sitting here looking at it again i thought oh good nature honestly it's kind of amazing because when you read friendly gods the earth shifted back yes it was sort of like when i read this one the earth
Starting point is 00:31:41 uncomfortably tilted and then you read that one and it kind of righted itself. So I think you fixed my hex. All is right in the universe. Thank goodness. Thank you. And my favorite part, I'm not going to read the owner response, but despite the friendly gods, whatever, the owner said, thanks so much, Carol, for your positive review. That's honestly one of my favorite things when you can definitely tell that their review didn't make any sense, but it was clearly positive. And they're like, we're so happy you enjoyed whatever you're saying.
Starting point is 00:32:10 We're just happy you had a good time. Okay, so this is actually my last one. And the focal point of this is the business owner response. So I'm only going to read part of the actual review because it isn't completely relevant. But I'll give you a taste of it. And then I'll read you the business owner's response. This is a two-star review by Alexandria. And that's the actual name that was on there because it's important.
Starting point is 00:32:39 Alexandria says, I'm not sure if this is an issue with over-the-phone booking or the branch itself. I rented a car for one day. It was around $30. Okay. Okay. mount on a card i really wish i would have known before arriving to expect such a high charge on my car needless to say i won't be coming back okay now this is a business owner's response to alexandria okay we'd be happy to look into this alfalfa oh my god and i love what i love i love is that you left things out of the so it was a longer review and they put so much effort into it whatever you say okay alfalfa we're on it it's so dismissive it's like when people intentionally call somebody by the wrong name sure sure alfalfa whatever you say i just stared at that for a minute and i was like how how alfalfa what oh no alexandria i'm sorry that sounds it's not like they have a weird name or anything you know or like an unusual spelling and also i feel that that is not what
Starting point is 00:34:00 autocorrect would normally do i mean maybe even maybe even if Alexandria, which is absolutely in the iPhone dictionary. Right, right, right. Why of all things would it change it to Alfalfa? Also, it's a capital A Alfalfa, if that tells you anything. It tells me everything, honestly. That tells me a lot and makes it so much worse. It's a dog and they accidentally autocorrected. Siri was like, I know who you're talking about.
Starting point is 00:34:26 It's your dog. Alexandria didn't complain. Your dog is complaining about their experience at the rental store. You often tell your dog you'd be happy to look into their complaints. So I guess that's what's happening right now. So anyway, poor Alexandria. Honestly, it was
Starting point is 00:34:42 like four paragraphs of very legitimate complaints. So I almost missed it. And then I saw... Oh no, that's so sad. way out poor alexandria honestly it was like four paragraphs of like very legitimate complaints so i almost like missed it and then i saw oh no that's so sad that's pretty funny though so anyway that was my last one okay i have two more um these are somewhat related because i i did my favorite thing and went to the app store oh yes okay so this first one is of turo would you like to tell the people about turo just what it is yes don't don't tell me how you feel about it i don't give a shit it doesn't matter i won't uh it's a long story and we don't want to talk about it so uh oh really oh never mind yeah uh it's fine all's good we're fine everything's fine and everybody is fine it's all taken care of
Starting point is 00:35:21 sponsor us what turo sponsor us nope uh they're not going to okay so i don't know what's happening but anyway okay um renee and i booked a car on toro toro in la and it was a great time the end of the story okay so it's a rent i i'm sorry it's like a private rental so it's like it's like um instead of you rent a it's similar to airbnb but for cars so you rent someone's car that they already own and they say oh i'll put it on this app so and it goes through this turo company that um you pay through the app and it pays and um the a lot of people especially in la use it as like a small business so they will because a lot of them have very nice cars they'll
Starting point is 00:36:05 buy like luxury cars and rent them out right so anyway so here is a review of the turo app um is it by reneed no it is thank god this is by william one star i have worked in law enforcement for a while now and it's been my job to know what drugs are that got me by surprise upon my very first rental i found marijuana in the car and reported it i parked the car and did not drive it anymore as i did not know what else was in there after almost a week and four different people i've been told that i don't know what i'm talking about and it's only a cigarette i was also informed that they don't have phone lines to actually talk to someone.
Starting point is 00:36:48 And when I requested a supervisor, I was told my chat with the person I was talking to was unproductive and had my chat forcefully ended for the second time in 20 minutes. I would never recommend. End of review. Do we say where this was? No, which is what I'm very curious about.
Starting point is 00:37:04 Right, because in california that's not illegal yeah so i mean it's probably legal to put it in someone else's i i actually don't know i actually don't know that is i don't think possession in your own car is illegal anymore i don't know why it would be because possession isn't legal isn't illegal at all right i guess i just mean like if someone else is renting it i don't know where the rules come in like i was like about to google this person because they put their full name but then i realized that they probably were on vacation or something so never mind that wouldn't make sense so maybe yeah that's my first thought was maybe even if it was most likely like no no one just like i don't
Starting point is 00:37:40 know like i i would find it very hard to believe that someone's just gonna be like oh yeah just gonna leave my weed in the car oh maybe never mind as i'm saying it i'm like yeah that sounds exactly like something like something someone would do but the fact that multiple people were like this is a cigarette that does not weed like they might have been like uh they rolled their they roll their own cigarettes which is what i assume is happening and the fact that this guy says his job is to know what drugs look like. I rolled my eyes quite a bit. I was like, that's your job? That shouldn't be your job. Especially when you consider the track record of American law enforcement.
Starting point is 00:38:13 What? What is it? It's real good. They're so good about drugs. And never mind. I'm going to stop. They're really good about drugs? They're good about drugs.
Starting point is 00:38:24 Yeah. So that's pretty wild. I mean, can you imagine, though, if you did leave your weed in the car and then you got never mind i'm gonna stop they're really good about drugs they're good about drugs yeah so that's pretty wild i mean i can you imagine though if you did leave your weed in the car and then you got a call being like oh hi i'm renting your car i'm a police officer and i just found weed like what a horrible horrible coincidence yep uh that's bad luck bad luck for you um so they they sorry so just to clarify they reviewed the app yes okay okay because because turo was telling them no this wasn't me too that's a funny cigarette yeah it's just a funny cigarette um and so yeah so i don't know yeah that's a good one that was thank you uh then the next one is is a review in the final one.
Starting point is 00:39:06 This is of Get Around. It's similar to Zipcar, I believe, where they have different cars. We did that once. Did we? From D.C. to Cincinnati. It was a nightmare. I got the flu. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:39:15 I got swine flu. That was a trip, huh? Yeah, and we had that stranger. We had a stranger in the car, and I got swine flu. It was a terrible weekend. Anyway. Okay. This is... Oh, shit. shit yeah this review is about someone who was in a car with two sheep for siblings one of whom had a literal
Starting point is 00:39:35 fucking virus that was uh taking over the country and sad you actually have some yes i had swine flu it was it was there's a running joke in my eighth grade class that i had bird flu and people started calling me a pelican did you no of course not i was just out sick for like a couple days so in religion class i came back and they all called me a pelican and then i was also they called me a traitor for other reasons like i i left a group i had a crush on someone in a different group so i left this group of guys to be in a group with a girl that i crush on so they called me a traitor and a pelican so then they started calling me traitor palomicus was my nickname and that was my first um my first uh
Starting point is 00:40:22 xbox live gamer tag was Traitor Palomicus. I never understood that. There you go. It's amazing how weird things can pop up. We talk about way too much stuff from our childhood, but that is something that I've never mentioned. Never ever heard about this. Traitor Palomicus.
Starting point is 00:40:39 Wow, what a wild tale you just weaved for us. Thank you. Anyway, so unlike Turo, which you get someone else's car, this is one where you get... The company has a fleet of cars. Yeah. And then you go and then you can just pop in one if it's in your area. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:57 So... Kind of like a bird... Bird scooters, but for cars. Not a pelican, but like a lime or a bird. This is a one-star review by sam of get around and for context uh in order to get verified on the app to continue you need to log into facebook oh facebook verification is required okay who uses facebook in 2021 besides nazis and russian spies it isn't 2010 anymore ask me for
Starting point is 00:41:26 a pic of me with my photo id like turo you nerds and a review yeah and then the developer they said yeah we're working on that because that was not the only person i imagine so i mean i get why people would be turned off by that because like in reality, really, who does use Facebook? I mean, I know people do, but it's not like the main. I personally think nowadays to get a car, it shouldn't be the main verification point. If I'm using Facebook for verification, it's for something like, I don't know, Farmville app. I don't know. So, you know, something silly that I don't care about.
Starting point is 00:42:04 But if I'm putting, yeah, I don't know. It just something silly that i don't care about but if i'm putting yeah i don't know it just seems like a bizarre requirement um and also what do you say nazis russian spies and that's it and also you know words oh didn't say that i know but grandma also yeah like boomers use facebook very true more often now yeah so it does it is a very very strange policy and i believe very outdated i don't think like most nowadays i think it's usually geared toward younger students and things who need um students and things students and people who need to drive somewhere off campus or whatever to drive somewhere yeah that's what it's not a lot of times russian spies don't need to drive somewhere oh true they have jets all right but interestingly
Starting point is 00:42:47 enough they are required to enter their facebook information to get to get into the jet um so here we go it's my challenge now it is your challenge now last thing i had was alfalfa so let's go now my challenge was from natalie and it was to find positive common sense media reviews of a song or piece of media with heavy sexual themes or blatant references to drugs or drinking so uh i have an email here from fiona and i realized in the last episode i pronounced her name as fiona but it's fiona with an a so i apologize about that you just assume they made a typo no i just didn't read it spell your own name i just didn't read it correctly but it was my fault wholeheartedly so no one was doubting questioning oh right okay don't worry it was my
Starting point is 00:43:37 fault in probably every way so yeah you're probably not wrong this is a five-star view of the TV show Breaking Bad. I enjoy. On Common Sense Media. That show. By a child. That is something I don't enjoy. Oh, wait. It's not by a child.
Starting point is 00:43:54 Sorry. It's by Joan, who is the parent of a child. Okay. Because you can either write reviews as a parent. Yes, I have seen that. It makes me feel a little better that this isn't by a child. So, Fiona sent this in and thought it was noteworthy. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:44:08 The heading of the title is Little Sexual Content, and it's a five-star, so positive, review. Breaking Bad is a great show, but it has some drawbacks. I'm fine if my 15-year-old child is exposed to violence because it is something that I know he will not do. But I don't want him watching sex due to religious reasons. Breaking Bad has only shown nudity once. It was only for a few seconds. Breaking Bad has fixed this mistake and has not shown any more nudity.
Starting point is 00:44:38 There is an average of one sex scene per season. I feel that teens are mature enough to know not to copy anything bad they see on TV. This title contains positive messages, positive role models. That's the one I'm going to say. I am questioning all of this review. Violence
Starting point is 00:44:56 and scariness, language, consumerism, sexy stuff. End of review. I love how it said, oh, they fixed their mistake. It was as if Vince Gilligan after after the first season, thought, you know what? She called Vince up. Vince thought, yeah, way too much nudity. This is so inappropriate.
Starting point is 00:45:13 And he said, Joan, I know what you're going to say. And I want to apologize ahead before we even get this conversation going. You are so right, Joan. You were right, and I recognized it too late. The network. The network needed it. Joan, you know recognized it too late. The network. The network needed it. It's a network. Joan, you know it's not me.
Starting point is 00:45:30 AMC requires one sex scene a season. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Not much else I can do. This is the most back-ass review. I mean, I am blown away. That's what Fiona said. She was like, it's really wild when people are like i like the sex would be so out of like out of the question for my teenager to watch like even just nudity or like you know whatever but violence it's not
Starting point is 00:45:54 just any violence not just i'm not going to spoil anything because i think anyone who hasn't seen it i highly at least recommend trying yeah um i one of my favorite shows of all time i've watched it many times through um but the violence isn't just simple like kind of shoot them up like a video game type it's it's it's brutal it can be it can be very psychological messed up stuff it's not the worst for that but it's but the fact that you can brush that off and say oh three seconds of nudity. It makes no sense. Well, I know my kids not going to do drugs and murder somebody, but they might try to have sex. I think the only nudity that I can think of is Walter's bare ass in a supermarket at one
Starting point is 00:46:35 point, which I guess would be a spoiler, but that out of context makes no sense. That's too far. You're going too far. I mean, that's it. That's it. Right? I can't think of anything. I guess there were sexual scenes, but.
Starting point is 00:46:47 But she's saying it's five stars because there's barely any sexual content. Which is so, makes no sense. She's very pleased because due to religious reasons, you're allowed to watch people making meth and shooting and dismembering each other. To be fair, the Bible is pretty brutal and God is. That's right. God was, especially in that Old Testament. Maybe this is the first time, but it was's right. God was... Especially in that Old Testament.
Starting point is 00:47:05 Maybe this is the first time, but it was also pretty... God was pretty spiteful and brutal. I will say that. So maybe... But it's not without its own sexual stuff, right? And I guess maybe not as much as the brutality. But it's very sexually strict, I think, in some way. I mean, only for specific people, not for like men with power.
Starting point is 00:47:24 Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. Anyway. Oh my god. Bible analysis. We're so bad at it, too. All you want to hear. Yeah, we don't know what we're talking about, but we talk anyway because that's our job. Best Western made booking our family beach vacation a breeze.
Starting point is 00:47:41 And it felt a little like... Life's a trip. Make the most of it at Best Western so here is the next review this is so then I had to go on my own venture out to my own and think of like what would people review
Starting point is 00:48:16 on here that could that I would look at and be surprised that somebody gave it a positive review on Common Sense Media first thing I looked up
Starting point is 00:48:23 was Bachelor in Paradise which is a very raunchy reality show where the characters of Bachelor and Bachelorette series come on and then they bring like other random folks, put them on an island and raunchiness ensues. So this is a five star review written by me away that this is on Common Sense. Right. But I guess that's kind of the point to keep people informed about everything oh anyway i guess so this is a five-star view it's written by parent patrol 101 oh no oh no could you imagine if mom was a parent like this parent patrol no i couldn't i think our lives would be very different yes uh this is a five star view. And Parent Patrol says this is acceptable for ages 10 and up.
Starting point is 00:49:09 What? Okay. Never mind. Maybe mom is like Parent Patrol. The title is fantastic. Oh, my. Wow. Okay.
Starting point is 00:49:19 Sorry. I thought it was going to go the other way. So I was like, oh, man, it's very strict parent here. It's going to be like really like bashing this biblically or something but oh no this is not never mind yeah it also would be weird the challenge is positive reviews oh my gosh duh of really wrong same thing with last week's episode i keep fucking up the positive negative reviews i'm sorry the challenge is to find positive reviews of things that have blatant sexual overtones. Ignore me. You're right. You're right. So Parent Patrol 101 gave a five star, said 10 plus, wrote fantastic. And the review says, my daughter and I always watch it together and it really helps for
Starting point is 00:49:54 bonding. This title contains drinking, drugs and smoking. End of review. Not even sexy stuff. Not even sexy stuff. Of all titles, I think Breaking Bad, I do not think contains sexy stuff personally i will say that okay at least for at least for bachelor in paradise they didn't say positive role model oh yeah we didn't even talk about that part i really don't think there are too many
Starting point is 00:50:18 redeeming characters in breaking bad that you should look up to. No, or in... Everyone has some sort of flaw, which I think is part of the point. Or in Bachelor in Paradise. Same with Bachelor in Paradise, so at least Parent Patrol got that one right. I don't know. I was thinking about this today because I was cussing a lot. I was at lunch with Liz, and I cuss a lot sometimes, especially when I get heated. We've never noticed. Liz and I had a huge fight.
Starting point is 00:50:44 No! Stop it. Have you met Liz? I can We've never noticed. Liz and I had a huge fight. No. Stop it. Have you met Liz? I can't fight with Liz. Liz wouldn't let that happen. So anyway, no, I was just talking about something passionately. So I said like, fuck, like 20. No, I said shit a bunch.
Starting point is 00:50:57 And I was like, oh, no, there are kids over there. And then 10 seconds later, I was saying fuck a bunch of times. And I was like, oh, shit. And see, I just did it again. And I kept doing that um but i was thinking i was like i wonder how those parents feel about their kids hearing cussing you know like probably not great no probably not great which is why i was trying to be respectful uh they weren't that close so i don't think they actually heard me but i was still trying to be at least aware of that i don't think it would like super bother me i know it would super bother dad or somebody like they just were not.
Starting point is 00:51:25 They weren't giving me any looks, which is good. But anyway, anyway, the point that I was trying to say is I don't know. Like, I don't want to judge like parents for stuff like Bachelor in Paradise. Like if they're watching with their 10 year old to me, I'm like, what? But at the same time, I'd rather than be like that than say be like the other reviewer or like the bible says they can't have any sexual content but i'm gonna show them drugs whatever violence and chop people up and call these breaking bad characters good role models yeah so i mean i'm definitely not judging i i just thought this was quite an experiment to find
Starting point is 00:52:01 the opposite of what you usually find. So I'm definitely not judging. However, I had to, I have to admit something. Oh, no. Don't tell me you've let my nibbling in the womb watch Bachelor in Paradise already. Well, that ship sailed a long time ago. Gio's looking at me funny. I think you made Gio watch it.
Starting point is 00:52:23 Gio, have you been watching Bachelor in Paradise? in paradise traumatized he looks oh no um no i uh i did something bad don't don't tell me you went to a cruise forum no that was not the challenge that was not the challenge no it's almost worse it was still on common sense media naughty no but i sexy stuff in that show i've reached a point where both my browser and my incognito browser said you have no more reviews available paid you sent money to common sense media christina i think that's a good idea no i don't i think that's great here's the thing finally i feel like you've been holding out on them for so long and trying to skirt their rules it's a and you've you've got a lot of content from them here's the thing i blame you because you gave me a challenge to find common sense media reviews you can only look at three on a free account
Starting point is 00:53:17 okay and i was like what what do i do and then i was like well let me just see how much it is and it's three dollars they call it donation a month the person who suggested this challenge works at common sense share common sense media shareholder yeah yeah we struck a deal natalie is the shareholder let's just say natalie and i struck a deal um you get a dollar 50 welcome to the show christina welcome to the show that's all we have to say we did it we did it natalie was like how do we do this like i it's been so long just exploiting our services holding out on us and i was like i've got the greatest i had to do it and guess what a whole world was open up to me really i didn't have to like sit there and debate media premium yeah it's called
Starting point is 00:54:03 plus i didn't have to sit there and pick which santa claus movie to look at and hope they were good and then not be allowed to look at any others true just you know what i mean true so anyway once the entire world was open up for me and you're about to have a kit so this is very important for you yeah they were like how old is your child and i was like um i don't want it i don't want them to ask me that anymore. I wonder if you say not yet born. They're like, what the fuck is this weirdo doing? What is she doing?
Starting point is 00:54:29 What is the point? There's weirder people. I promise you. Yeah, we've met them already. Christina, we've, we've heard from them.
Starting point is 00:54:36 Good. I'm glad I'm not up in their echelon yet. So the next thing I did was look up Grand Theft Auto. Cause you know, that's the one I think of when it's like parents usually are against their kids playing our mother for example our mother for example and kids really want to play it and um so i found a really interesting phenomenon i'm pretty sure some children are posing as adults and writing reviews yes and pretending so i think i've seen those similar ones where they're doing that
Starting point is 00:55:05 to say like oh yeah any kid can have it at this age i was like a little suspicious and then i read some and i went oh my god like they can't really think they're fooling me here right and they'll they'll sign it with the full name of like obviously their parent and it'll be like signed like john smith and it's like oh my god this child is literally And it's like, oh, my God, this child is literally. So it's like to them, it's some sort of when they have to get home and get a signature. Yes. They're forging the signature. They do that online to get people to get their parents to buy them. I have this one.
Starting point is 00:55:37 It's written by adult. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And it says Grand Theft Auto uh acceptable for ages 12 and up and this is the title as a 12 year old sorry who wanted to play i have to say i disagree even well it's in there maybe here maybe i'll be convinced though maybe hear out this adult and his very many good points okay great game misjudged by many people at first glance Great game, misjudged by many people at first glance.
Starting point is 00:56:09 At first, I thought getting my son Grand Theft Auto was a terrible idea. After all, it is an extremely violent game that turns you children into murderers, right? Wrong. I decided to give my 12-year-old son a chance at getting the game, so I made him create a presentation on why getting Grand Theft Auto was a good idea. He put hard work into his presentation, and he proved how the game was given a very bad reputation. First, the game allows for endless possibilities. The game offers a huge, fully explorable map which you can explore by air, sea, and land. Now you might be thinking, what about nudity and violence?
Starting point is 00:56:43 And that is a great question, as that is what I was thinking as well. After watching my son play the game a bit, I found that most of the violence and nudity is completely optional for your child to experience. If you trust your child enough not to enter adult areas and purposely get into super violent interactions, you will be fine. Overall, Grand Theft Auto is a game that can be trusted around good children who know what's best. End of review. Oh my goodness. I just like that's the thing where they're like, see mom, people on the internet think
Starting point is 00:57:13 it's just fine. Yeah, they wouldn't. That is literally, and you know what they probably did was probably, they're probably, because this seems fairly well written. Definitely too well written to be a 12 year old. But what I'm thinking is it's maybe a 14 15 year old uh below someone below 17 or 18 or whatever who wants the game and chose a lower age to convince their parents like look this 12 year old's playing like i can handle if this this guy's 12 year old can handle it he made a powerpoint i don't have to make a
Starting point is 00:57:42 powerpoint because i'm not 12 but a 12 year old made a PowerPoint. I don't have to make a PowerPoint because I'm not 12. But a 12-year-old made a PowerPoint and his dad says it's really good. And now this one, so that one I was like, well, I could see it being written by a child. Not necessarily. This one is so wildly misspelled that I'm like, there is no freaking
Starting point is 00:57:59 way, no freaking way this is a grown-up. I'm sorry. I'm ready for it. I'm excited excited it's just ridiculous okay this is written by adult the title is grand theft auto 5 is actually not that bad for a kid who is 10 okay it depends on your child everyone is different like my boys they grew up watching shows with me like the big bang theory which has a lot of things I know some parents would never let their child see, so they're fine. If you actually look at the reviews, nudity only shows up two times and in cutscenes,
Starting point is 00:58:32 and cutscenes can be skipped. Same with most of cussing, drugs, and alcohol. If your kid won't go to school and tell everyone, hey, I play Grand Theft Auto V, you're fine. And if they don't go to bed with nightmares, places like the strip club players are never required to go there not even for a side mission so trust your child and think if you were a kid maybe 10 or 13 and your cushions or parents played it i think they meant cousins i hope so
Starting point is 00:58:56 wouldn't you want to up play it as long as your child can handle it it's perfectly fine for them to play it here's what i did with my kids who have been asking me ever since you got the game for myself i made a list of all the bad things in grand theft auto 5 and sat down with each of my boys septically i asked them to put a check next to something they would be fine with if they have half over the check marks filled, then I would talk to them about any concerns I had or they had. Sorry. Okay. So just to clarify. Yeah, please.
Starting point is 00:59:30 Because what the hell is happening? If this is a father or a parent or if not, basically they're saying this parent made a checklist of all of the bad things in Grand Theft Auto. Nudity. Violence. Strip clubs. The sex workers. said drugs and said i asked them to put a check next to something they would be fine with what does that even mean yeah if your kid put a fine next to heroin and sex workers i'd be like maybe we should discuss this
Starting point is 00:59:58 further but okay uh a check next to something they would be fine with if they have over half the check marks filled then I would talk to them about any concerns I had or they had and if they still want to play it then if they seem okay with it let them do the first two or three missions with you watching them then talk with them again if they're okay it's fine if they play Grand Theft Auto 5 and don't forget to tell
Starting point is 01:00:18 them to keep quiet about them being able to play it with people like teachers grandmas and priests oh so okay also most of this was one sentence almost every word was misspelled uh this child by saying make sure they keep quiet believes that that's the only like if they say something they'll be in big trouble right get arrested or something or uh child services will come don't tell a priest probably that's yeah that's just good advice in general don't talk to a priest about grand theft auto also a priest
Starting point is 01:00:49 doesn't want to know about your video game habits like they're not really interested um and then uh wow that was something so i i feel like i know the challenge was positive review but i mean sort of what it is right like oh Like positive reviews of questionable, quote unquote. But also, oh, also with that, I feel like maybe this child pitched this exact idea with the check marks to their own parents, then wrote this whole thing up, showed it to their parents and said, look, someone else is doing it. And it's an adult. And this adult said that it worked great, and as long as I don't tell Father Jones, then it's fine. Or Grandma. Don't tell Grandma either.
Starting point is 01:01:34 But yeah, and I'm not saying adults don't misspell things. We obviously on this show know that's not true. It's just the cadence. Like, if I could show you all the way this is written, it's bananas. I like the storyline better that this is a child posing as an adult. And the desperation in it, the desperation about this to convince people makes me think, why? Why would a parent even bother? Like if a parent was finally convinced by their child to buy the game they'll be like okay like fine
Starting point is 01:02:07 i give in yeah you're right their next thing isn't to go to common sense media and convince all the other parents other parents that it's a good idea to buy their child to do a check mark thing unless they feel really guilty about it and they say it's a guilt thing well it's because they told the priest the priest was got involved said you need to do 10 hail marys and a common sense review damn don't tell that priest because you're gonna be praying for a long time you're gonna need to buy a premium account get a plus it's gonna be bad and it's gonna be three dollars a month that you weren't spending before that's actually just me complaining now um so now this i don't think is kind of in the challenge. But since you broke the last challenge, I'm just going to kind of go off the rails here.
Starting point is 01:02:49 Thank you. Well, you were planning this before you knew that I broke the last challenge, right? Yeah, but I already completed the challenge. This is just bonus content. Okay, fair. This is a review of Jackass. Oh. I don't know if it's a movie.
Starting point is 01:03:02 I'm assuming it's a movie. Because wasn't that a TV show too? Yeah. I don't know if it's a movie i'm assuming it's a movie um because wasn't that tv show too yeah i don't know if it's the movie or tv show but uh this is written by a teen 13 years old uh who gave it three stars and the title is when did boys become bad okay okay that is the last thing i expected this review this path This path is the last one I expected, but I'm ready for it. Just buckle up. Okay, I'm sorry. This isn't much of a review, but look at all the descriptions for the jackass things on this website. Meaning Common Sense Media.
Starting point is 01:03:35 They all say something about it's all a bunch of immature boys. Or no wonder there aren't any women on here. The basic anti-male stuff. I'm a guy. No shit, by the way. You didn't have to tell me that. The basic anti-male stuff. I'm a guy, and I actually take great offense
Starting point is 01:03:55 to the amount of anti-male sexism in today's world. Oh my god, this teenager needs a wake-up call. Thirteen. Yikes. Who is... I mean, I had some shit i said some shitty stuff i know i definitely wouldn't go on common sense media and complain about sexism against men but yeah i if you did i was actually right upside the head i was a little shit and
Starting point is 01:04:17 in some of my views for sure yeah i used to be somewhat of a nice guy kind of person like back in the day. What does that mean? Nice guy is like, oh, I got friend zoned. Oh, oh, oh, oh. I wasn't like, I don't think I was ever mean or cruel to anyone. I just want to explain to our listeners that you're not saying I was a nice child. You're saying there was like a whole. Oh, no. Yeah, no.
Starting point is 01:04:39 I was the kind of guy that would say I'm a nice guy. Right, right, right, right, right. When I wasn't. Now that I am a really nice guy, I'm not going to say that. I'm no longer a nice guy, if that makes sense. They don't call me the bad boy of podcasting for nothing. You know what? You're completely right.
Starting point is 01:04:54 You've changed your entire persona. Please don't call me the nice guy of podcasting. That would be bad. Okay. The basic anti-male stuff. I'm a guy and I actually take great offense to the amount of anti-male sexism in today's world. For example, try to find one commercial where the guy or dad isn't portrayed as a lazy bum, slob, loser, or just a clueless guy. The guys in commercials are always clueless.
Starting point is 01:05:19 It's insulting. We do more than drink beer. End of review. You're 13. You're literally 13. What are you talking about? I mean, the thing is, they're halfway to a good point. Like the stereotypical gender roles are bullshit, but to make it into a sexism against males
Starting point is 01:05:39 argument, come on. Yeah. Like the whole like the guy drinks beer and the the wife is in the kitchen those commercials like that's yes that is not good but not because it's sexist against yeah yeah that's not the major problem that's not it that's not it that's not it friend you missed the miss you're you're maybe on your way a little bit but but then you went backwards pretty far he's pretty hard into the anti-male sexism like the fact that he even used the phrase you're right you're right anti-male sexism in today's world it means he's either picked this up somewhere or he's done a lot of thinking and that's where he's landed tv are you watching i mean i guess you're watching jackass um but what tv are you watching that has those kinds
Starting point is 01:06:19 of commercials i'm trying to think i i don't know i think he's probably just regurgitating some shitty herd somewhere like true anyway okay so now this is the last one i have and it's it's just totally not the challenge it's a review of party rock anthem by lmfao because that was one of the suggestions that um was sent in by nicole who said like hey that was one of the i'm sorry natalie nicole geez natalie um of our show Natalie Natalie's gonna void your plus subscription oh no I picked the wrong shareholder so here is
Starting point is 01:06:54 a review of Party Rock Anthem it's a negative review I just couldn't not include it it's by a teen 17 years old and says the song is only appropriate for ages 18 and up and it's a one-star review and the title is cocky sons of guns. Jeez.
Starting point is 01:07:11 And here's the review. Those hip-hop rockers are so annoying that I just want them out of my sight once and for all. End of review. Why are they in your eyeline here? This title contains sexy stuff, drinking drugs and smoking. Where are you looking? Get them out of my sight.
Starting point is 01:07:29 One cent for all. So that's that. What if they're their neighbors? Get them out of my sight. I'm so sick of just trying to walk the dog or mow the lawn. What if their grandma just loves that music video and plays it all day? And she's like, grandma, get them out of my sight. These wannabe, what are you called hip-hop rockers these hip-hop rockers need to get
Starting point is 01:07:50 wait what does lmfao stand for let's loving my friends and family loving loving my friends and others sorry that was lmf lmf my bad lm alfalfa um yeah so that's what i got for you today wonderful um and we already announced our theme and challenge for the next two episodes but we can just say those one more time real quick right yeah but don't i is it too late now to send them in it might be too late okay well then you'll just see them if you want on our twitter but twitter.com slash beach to sandy but um it's probably for the best we don't try to regurgitate speaking of regurgitating as you said that my eyes grew wide i'm like he's already closed his computer i know we said them an hour ago but it feels like a lifetime ago yeah we've already forgotten so thank you everybody though thanks for listening um we
Starting point is 01:08:38 will see you next week with a theme that i've already forgotten and i can't wait to talk to you then. Bye, everybody.

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