Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet - 166: Reviews of Phone Repair Shops

Episode Date: February 2, 2022

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recorded the young sheldon bit no No, I didn't record it. And that's why I'm pretty disappointed in myself. Oh, good. I didn't capture the essence of what the show is really about, which is just a fan page for Young Sheldon. That's troubling. I love that little guy. I do, too.

You just said I watch it every weeknight. I know. It was a whole bit. And it was funny. I promise everybody. But then they missed it. They missed out on it, and now you're trying to bring them in as if they belong. It's just as funny, just like when you describe an improv show after the fact. It's just as funny to describe the joke to your audience. Who would do that in a podcast episode? Who would do that in the last episode? I don't know.

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Go ahead. So this week we are reading reviews of Shein products. Oh. Do you not have that? I have iPhone repair locations. Did I miss one? I skipped one. Are you kidding me? Did I skip one? No. I forgot iPhone repair.. Did I miss one? I skipped one. Are you kidding me? Did I skip one?

No. I forgot iPhone repair. Wait, shit, Christina. This is a disaster. Wait, then I have the wrong challenge in everything. So we both did a challenge. We did complete. Wait, no.

Christina, I remember researching. I'm like, damn, I thought I just did a challenge. How is it me again? Are you sure it's you? It could very well be me. No, you're right. No, you're 100% right. I just listened to the last episode where we...

This is what happens when we try to get too far ahead and we think that we've got it handled. I'm so upset at myself. Okay. Well, this is awkward. Now what do we do? Let me get some reviews quick. Let's see how long it takes. Okay, excellent. Please hold. we do i let me get some reviews quick let's see how long it takes okay excellent uh please please

hold and we're back oh wow look at that those are some technical difficulties i wouldn't even worry about it i don't know if technical difficulties is the right way to put what happened here um i can't believe this happened i can't believe it hadn't happened yet but i'm also surprised it happened at all i feel like we blame things on mental issues a lot so maybe let's go with technical oh good point mental difficulties technical difficulties difficulties just plain old difficulties but believe it or not the theme is actually iphone repair locations i have no idea what the challenge is. I'm in a haze. I'm prepared for the next two episodes. I know you are.

You did way more research. Like I got ready thinking I would be ready anyway. So yeah, but I'm ready now. I do have reviews for iPhone repair locations. Okay. Yes. So iPhone repair locations. This was sent in by Olena.

And as I was going through our inbox, Elliot, they them also suggested it a few months ago. So it's a double whammy. Double whammy. Thanks, you two. Yeah. So do you, I guess I'll go first. Okay. So this is from Elliot, actually, who suggested the topic as well. And this is of the Apple store in Birmingham, Alabama. It's called Apple The Summit. I think that's like the shopping center or something. I know. I don't totally get it, but I'm pretty sure that's what's going on. And this is a one-star review by Ellen. I walked into your store on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018 to purchase a new Mac desktop computer to

replace my nearly 10-year-old one. I entered the store and observed that it was bustling and fairly busy, so I was prepared for a bit of a wait. What I was not prepared for was that I would not be greeted and, in fact, would be completely ignored. After a couple of minutes, as I studied the store... Wait, sorry. Truly, how can you prepare for that anyway? To be ignored? For such a terrible thing to happen.

How can you possibly be prepared for an employee to be ignored for such a terrible thing to happen possibly be prepared for you're right it's one of those things not acknowledge you where you try but then when it hits it's like there's nothing you could have done to really emotionally mentally spiritually ready especially at the summit especially at the summit after a couple of minutes as i studied the store i began to seek out an employee who was not busy at the moment. Several passed right by me, staring at them as they walked by. I was becoming frustrated as I tried to make eye contact with employees and was ignored again and again. Finally, instead of leaving furiously, I determined to make my grievance known.

Okay, this sounds like a ghost. I know. No one notices you and then you're like, I must make my grievance known okay this is sounds like a ghost i know no one notices you and then you're like i must make my grievance known to the people and you know what happens a light flickers dimly and nobody notices is that what it's like being a ghost probably um i know this is like an old meme but the the joke of like uh listening to podcasters say something um wrong as you try to correct them from through your phone is like the closest to feeling like a ghost you could ever feel like you must all feel that quite often constantly um also the trying to make eye contact like i'm just

picturing her like throwing her head down trying to oh my god true get attention just like wide eyed i mean i wouldn't want to make eye contact with you. Everyone's averting their gaze. If you're really trying to make eye contact with me, I will really try not to make eye contact with you. Exactly. It's like, I'm like a scared animal. Like, I need you to like be ready, like have some food at the ready. It's like if you can feel someone staring at you, you're, I mean, at least for me, my instinct is not to stare right back. Exactly. Can you imagine if someone's staring at me and I just wide-eyed like, just stare at them? No. But that's Ellen for you.

Finally, instead of leaving furiously, I determined to make my grievance known. I approached a young man named Cam and asked what it took to get waited on in their store. He was friendly and apologetic and explained that they were working through some things. The first thing to work through is instruction on how to greet customers and to ask, even if you are busy, if they are being waited on, customer service, I'm sorry, costumer service 101. I think 101 should be learning to spell the word customer. The actual subject at hand.

Yeah, and I feel like we've had a couple Customer 101 recently, Customer Service 101 reviews. True. I feel like we could probably teach a class at the local community college if we get our portfolio ready. The problem is, you're going to say 101, you're just going to teach them everything because everyone has a different opinion on what Customer Service 101 is. Also, very nitpicky, are you weighted on at a store as well? Is that ever proper english i'm just curious like that's like i get what they're saying because you can like wait on someone hand and foot even if it's like not at a restaurant even when i think of that i think of

like being fed i think that's a separate issue though i think it just means being served okay just being okay huh interesting okay no just curious yeah like i said it's nitpicky i've just I think it just means being served. Okay. Just being. Okay. Huh. Interesting. Okay. No, just curious. Yeah. Like I said, it's nitpicky. I've just, I feel like I don't hear it in that context. I know you're trying to get knowledge out of me, but you have not yet signed up for

my course. And if you want to learn, you're going to have to pay for the credit hours. Okay. He did answer my questions thoroughly, but at that point I was too mad to give you any of my business. I will purchase elsewhere. I have since heard from others who have frustration reports from your store. Maybe next time, if I'm dressed a little more elegantly and reek of money, I'll get waited on. Oh, wait, there won't be a next time. Who are you talking to about the Apple store? Cam. I mean, I get like, I don't know, sometimes being like, oh, I had a bad experience.

But I feel like I'm hearing about all these experiences from other people that I know who've gone to the same store. I'm canvassing the summit and I'm walking around asking. Also, I love how it's like, they weren't giving me this. Oh, and then the moment they did, I walked out. Like, what? Yikes. She literally said he answered all of my questions very thoroughly, was very apologetic. And then I said I was too mad to even go through with the purchase.

That's a you problem, friend. Poor Cam is like, I'm just trying to keep it together here. Yeah. I mean, come on. Also, you need an appointment at the Apple store. I'm sorry to say. I feel like every time I go there they're like we don't have time for you i'm never expected when i go to an apple store i'm not walking in like expected to be

waited on yeah but you're also looking down at the floor true and what you need to be doing is kind of getting under people's faces as they look down at their ipads so can i get in that gaze zone up at the ceiling. Get in the what zone? I said gaze zone. Oh, okay. Also gaze zone. I was like, get in the gay zone. The gay zone could be fun too. I imagine it is.

But what I'm saying is, you know, they're looking at their iPad and you need to get in that line of sight to break the eye contact with the iPad. True. To really make sure, you know, you're being seen. Especially if they're dealing with another customer. Costumer. Costumer. Costume-y. Especially when it's during covid yeah oh yeah put your face right in there that'll get their attention so anyway thanks uh elliot thanks elliot uh my first one is of i i fixation okay i was gonna ask this and now i don't know if like your experience is the same because you just did this but don't they have the wildest names like even in the time that you just

took to find reviews like you probably stumbled upon some really weird ones yeah um eye fixation well it's there was it feels like there was no in between it was either something weird or something like so generic. So plain, yeah. Just to the point where it seems fake. Like iPhone repair. Yeah. That's the name of your store?

The one after this one I'm reading a couple from is called Wireless Technologies. It does sound like a fret for something. It sounds like a fake course at college. At my community college. Yeah. You take Costumer 101 yes there you go and wireless technologies this is the best course ever the best school ever i'm gonna make millions wireless technologies like what do you learn about oh uh a calculator like i can't teach calculators though somebody else has to do that to teach calculators I need to

hire somebody an adjunct teach calculators remember that calculator dad had to teach us how to use I never learned it I was like forget it because he's just going to confuse me our dad had this like wild calculator I'm sure so many engineers or whatever like that's a very normal calculator but not for when you're in seventh grade I didn't think so basically you it has so many more capabilities this is just how he buys things same with like your zune that he bought or her i bought a zune he bought an i river um google it folks that's what my dad bought me instead of an ipod and i river uh so he bought this i river and he was like and he might be right saying, oh, it has more. There are more possibilities with it, but that's not necessarily what you want.

It's the same with like a MacBook. It's like nobody bought. Typically you don't buy a MacBook because you want to have really good control over all the little details. Like that's, I feel like what a, you know. A Windows PC, a PC or even more like something, another operating system. Yeah. Same with like an iPhone versus an Android. Android.

Yeah. You can customize a lot more iPhone. You're kind of stuck with what they give you, but that's what I want. Right. Exactly. So anyway, Steve knows what I want and he gives it to me. Freaking calculator. Like you had to put in a number and then put it in like it's memory bank.

This is real. And then you put in a new number and then you have to call on that old number to do something with it like by using the memory bank or something like that so what i think dad called it like a galaxy something galaxy s calculator say android but we kind of already played that um yeah so anyway though yeah what was what where did we even get on this wireless technology you're interviewing for the adjunct position at my college. I'm failing, huh? To teach.

You know more. I never learned that calculator. True. I can teach. I can teach about that one calculator. That's pretty damn good. Yeah. Thanks.

Well, here's a review of iFixation at Arizona Mills. Here's a review. Two stars. This is by Eloise. Look, no offense to that guy that assist me today, but I am rewriting this as walking away from this place because I was forced to write a good review before I could pay for my fixed iPhone 6 screen.

First, I would like to say I got told it was only $110 to get my screen fixed. I come back after two days of getting that quote, and the price is now $120 plus tax, so $130 total with a three month warranty, which they are honoring. Now I'm thinking, why am I paying $20 more than what I was quoted two days ago? I mentioned it and he says he doesn't know who and why they told me 110, but it's $130. He mentioned he had to get any amount off taken off approved by his manager. So he called his manager and they approved

i can get five dollars off only if i write a good review on yelp right in front of them so i was forced to make an account and post a review before i could pay for my phone and leave not caring if i was in a hurry or not this place just left a bad taste in my mouth who does that earn the review don't force it here's your stinking review your manager asked for by the way i would have gave one star but i do have to admit my screen is fixed so that's the only reason they got an extra star end of review i would have given one but this i can see it so clearly that i just don't even need to. Wow. Yeah. This is not the only example I found where someone is one of these specific type of places is saying, we will give you a discount if you can leave us a review. Gosh, that's so shady.

Yeah, it is really shady. I know a lot of people do that, but it's so shady. Also, I love that they like hand you the phone back to make you do it. Like, they're fixing the phone. They can't hold the phone hostage. many places seem to try for my research research how do you post it if you're not holding exactly in this case they had to but so many people they were just all over some weird and that kind of made it hard was just how many terrible reviews i read that were like yeah that's really shady and really shitty god so that was a two star it was two stars because the phone was fixed successfully she's like i'm gonna give you

credit where credit is due um now let me out of this basement at the tempe mall because um i did i did your bidding please let me out oh so sketchy so sketch Okay, so this is another one sent in by Elliot, and it is of the same Apple store in Birmingham, Alabama. And this is a one-star review by Jason. I made an appointment to have my broken iPad replaced. After waiting a week for the appointment and driving 60 miles to the store, I was told they did not have my replacement and to come back the following week. I wanted to choke my genius, but I realized killing him would be doing him too big of a favor. When I came back the second time to pick up the replacement, no one wanted to take the time to assist me to make sure it was working properly.

I had to stop at Verizon for them to get it to work customer service at apple does not exist how sad and um we did you just glossed over that not you the reviewer why is that allowed like why is review that and say that yeah and it's not a like a hidden it's not like one of those not recommended reviews like how is talked about wanting to kill someone yeah like and the only reason i didn't choke my genius out by the way my genius uh choke my genius out was because it would be too nice yeah see i could see that that's the thing is this person doesn't seem very okay well it's terrible but i feel like that's a thing of um i could see a uh an employee in the service industry gets threatened and they say oh yeah you want to

kill me you'd be doing me a favor something like self-deprecating like you know like that in the in that context yeah if you're doing it whatever but oh my god to just say like i'd be doing this person who is working at the apple store a favor by killing like that's not you don't say that by the way to be sitting there assessing the situation like they're trying to be like hey sorry we're really backed up if you want to come back and do like a genius bar appointment um and he's like should i grab his neck and then you put it on the internet that's the wild part that's why i'm shocked yelp isn't like doing a scan for killing yeah true you know that should have been flagged immediately a flagged word but um

my goodness that's what it is i don't understand i i couldn't i i wouldn't even say like oh i wanted to kill them i was so mad but even if you do that to your friends or something is one thing but to just write on the internet and so specifically that you want to very choke them and you'd be doing a favor by killing them. You're really showing your hand here. Like, yikes. Yeah. Oh, my God.

What is this? That's like a Dexter comment of like. Why are we talking about this? Like, I was going to murder him, but I'd rather he suffer. You know what I mean? Like, it's really dark. Sorry. Can you tell I've been watching Dexter?

Okay. Yeah. Wow. The new one? No, I'm still on the old ones and I stopped for a while. So, I'm trying to catch up again and yeah wow the new one no i'm still on the old ones and i stopped for a while so i'm trying to catch up again and then watch the new one i hear the new one's good i watched the original series the whole thing because everyone said like don't watch the last season of dexter and it got me all bummed out so i didn't finish it and now now i'm thinking you

need to so you can get to the new one yeah yeah so uh i maybe i should check out the new one anyway he's mostly like in a um a genius bar at like an apple store most of the time in the new one which i feel like i don't know could go either way could you imagine it like this this new show deals with like service like employees and they're terrible rude customers that they have to deal with yeah he has to like get he has a job at the Apple store or something. He was hired by Apple to kind of do the dirty work, you know, for Steve. Okay, so here's a review of Wireless Technologies in Cincinnati. This is by Robert, one star, with an owner review.

Response? Yes. Well, yeah. Both. Both. One star. robert one star with an owner review response yes well yeah both both one star don't use this service the owner is a vulgar cheater he asked me 40 just for make my iphone work again and he didn't give me a diagnosis what was wrong after he fixed out the phone, the speakers in the frontal camera aren't working anymore. He's a vulgar thief. Don't use his services. End of review. Oh, boy. And the owner, all caps.

Sorry to hear that. I wish that you came back so that I can fix it. End of review. Oh, no. Sorry to hear that. Vulgar thief speaking. Sorry to hear it didn't work out for you. It was just so funny.

This person getting called vulgar and speaking sorry to hear it didn't work out for you so funny this bird's getting called vulgar and a thief and everything and they're in all caps i'm like my eyes went to the all caps i'm like yes it's gonna be so dramatic just like cut him down and it's like wish you wish i could help you fix it come back come back sorry about your full frontal camera not working uh so i love when people complain oh they charged they were trying to charge me this for that so I paid it yeah I mean I feel like there's so many complaints of like they wanted this much money and so I accepted their offer. Like just go somewhere else or fix it yourself.

Well that's what I was gonna say when he says just to fix my lousy iPhone it's like well what what are you gonna you clearly can't do yourself otherwise yeah you'd still have a full frontal camera i guess i'd i would prefer if i did that they'd tell me what was wrong with it like a diagnosis like the person said but would i necessarily know what's going on like understand or really care i don't know i don't know he doesn't have a camera anymore he seems to know what's wrong yeah so for what it's worth honestly for me i'm like if if it just gets the job done, that's fine. But that's the problem with these reviews. I read so many that were like, just weren't getting the job done. Didn't work. These people would just get their phone back and it wouldn't work right in another way. And it would just be broken and

then more broken and then more broken. I'm reading these sagas and I'm thinking, wow, there's so much here. It's got to be juicy. And then it's like, no, that just sucks. That just sucks. And also, like what real, I mean, I had this issue with my laptop where I just had to keep, remember calling and going in and it was just such a pain and like, it wasn't even their fault. It was just unfixable in the end. But it's so frustrating because you don't have your phone or your laptop or whatever. Like you're living without basically yeah your connection to everybody i don't know it's a very i it's a very high stress um scenario i feel like and i'm with you um i'm sorry i she's a high stress and then she grabs her box of wine i'm so glad you clarified because it really sounds like i'm peeing. High stress and suddenly.

Everywhere. Yeah. And I think the one big problem is the way Apple doesn't allow these stores to use. They force them to use third party parts and not official Apple parts because they don't want them to. They want Apple to fix it for you. They want you to have to pay Apple to fix it, which is not ethical. And I think there have been changes and hopefully laws that are coming into place to make it more possible for these third parties to actually repair your phones for you.

Yeah, but how many geniuses have to be choked out before true change is enacted? That's what I am wondering. Not enough. Not enough. Never enough. No. Okay. So I have an email from Olga here who sent a review of Smartphone NYC. Again.

So generic. Look at New York City. If you haven't, look at New York City iPhone repair. They're all like wireless technology. I'm like, how many LLCs can exist under that name? Is that allowed? Like, I don't know. Unless there's like one Beeper King situation where like he really owns all of them.

True. Could be. So this is a one-star review by Mina of Smartphone NYC. Just get ready. Unfortunately, Google wouldn't allow me to rate this business any lower than poor to fair because even before I can have anyone assist me, I was greeted by a rude receptionist who barely mumbled hello under her breath. Because my phone was dead upon my entry, I asked if I could use her landline available behind the desk so that I could ask my mother

whether or not I needed to buy more than one of what I was planning on purchasing. I noticed that she didn't seem very pleased with my request, but I just figured she was having a bad day. She continued rolling her eyes and I thought she misunderstood me. So I told my friend who I came with that maybe she didn't understand what we were asking for, sincerely thinking there was a language barrier because she did have an accent. And she very abruptly jumped in and said, I understand what you're asking, just not why you are asking. Luckily for her, I'm not one to get nasty with someone who probably is dealing with some sort of personal issue and taking it out on me. She handed me the phone and I handed it back, thanked her and walked out. I don't know how she acts with others, but I really hope this was a

one-time thing. If not, I think the manager should reevaluate his decision to hire such an unwelcoming receptionist who should be a good not bad representation of a place which otherwise seemed very pleasant pros clean organized good merchandise cons no further explanation necessary. Why did you even put a pros and cons thing if you didn't need to put the pros and cons thing? Wow, there's a lot and I don't like any of it. The thing, oh, well, I heard that she had an accent, so therefore she didn't know what I was saying. Like, yikes. Big yikes. Also, to say that to your friend standing right next to you to be like, maybe she doesn't speak English. That's just rude.

Wowza. And then said, I'm not one to get nasty. Thankfully, it's like, you just did something that sounds real nasty. And the fact that you're, again, I say this almost every week. If you're writing about it, admitting it, that means it was bad. Like, I don't know. I feel like your tendency would be to like soften the blow and the fact that you said that this happened i'm like yikes to under yeah it could have that that

means it could have been even worse than this like my my the way i imagine this scenario is her literally turning to her friend and being like maybe she doesn't understand english you know what i mean like that's the vibe i'm getting from this attitude of like well she did have an have an accident. It's not my fault. I thought she couldn't understand me. And it's like, what the fuck? I love how it's vague of, oh, I needed to use their landline to ask my mother about the things. Like, it was very vague about what they were buying. So, maybe that was part of it, like whatever it was, and that they needed to buy. And I assume- But she went in to get her phone repaired. I'm like, what are you buying? And then is it like at a mall? Do you think is this like with other locations? So maybe they were like, oh, I'm going to go to other stores and I need to call my mom to ask about-

Oh, maybe. Like, oh, she needs a gallon of milk. Maybe she needs two. Yeah, like something exactly like oh can i use your phone to do this but also if your friend's there i don't know maybe your friend doesn't have a phone but like i would be surprised if you come in with your cell phone i feel like if you're judging somebody for having an accent in new york city i feel like you're the kind of person who would judge your friend for not owning a cell phone i mean that might be just a vague broad statement um but i What a wild time. Wild times.

Yeah. Oh, this was in New York City. I forgot about that. Super fun. Interesting. Interesting. Super good. Yeah.

That's one word for it. My next one is also of wireless technologies with an owner response. Oh, boy. This is a one-star review by George. um this is a one-star review by george very rude and nasty when trying to get a ups package and a review okay um here's the response from the owner in all caps again i think you are talking about yourself because your words represent your behavior and response. What does that even mean? It means I am rubber, you are glue. What you say bounces off me and sticks to you. That was too many words to type out. I don't know how that phrase actually goes. I haven't said it since I was in third grade.

I think that's actually correct. Also, like I'm starting to believe that uh the owners the owner fixed his own phone the way this is like all capital letters and like he has no full frontal camera and his phone only types and caps lock is broken on the phone oh no it could be i'm just saying so right um so next up i was researching um researching I was searching our inbox to see if anybody had sent in like repair spots. And this came up and it's a, an instrument like music repair. And it was just so good. I, I had to use it. I was afraid it would get lost in the between you and us folder. Okay. So I'm sorry. Okay, I'll allow it. It's cheating, but it's from Maggie. She, her. It's at a place called JJ Music Sales and Repairs in London, Ontario,

which has 4.9 out of 5 stars on Google with 434 reviews. So highly rated. And this is a one-star by a local guide named Jim. Fender does not put little white stickers with fake serial numbers on their guitars. I had a good look at a few things in the store. Lousy knockoffs at best should not be selling name brand stuff unless it is real. Response from owner. LOL, Jim, the white sticker is our price tag.

End of response. Oh my god, people are ridiculous. It literally says LOL, Jim, enter enter the white sticker is our price tag he really wow that is a that is a true lol that is a that's this boomer running this guitar place was really laughing out loud i bet laughing that's hilarious though like raffle coptering all over the music store i think that's so that's so how wild that you're wandering around being like stickers all over these guitars i don't know how it's not an original what do you wonder i don't know what where people's brains go sometimes also how expensive are these guitars that he thinks it's an entire serial number instead of a price tag. True. Wouldn't that, I guess, a couple hundred bucks, it'd still be like five numbers.

Maybe he really just thought. Yeah. I have a feeling those guitars are much more expensive than a couple hundred bucks. Okay, probably then, yeah. Yeah. So, it would be a series of numbers. A series of numbers. But whose thought is, I'm going to not bring this up to them.

I'm not going to say anything in person. I'm not going to question it. But I'm going to go on the internet to try to, like, get them. I'm not even going to tell the BBB, the Better Business Bureau. I'm going to tell Google. Yeah. Just, I'm going to tell everyone on the internet and catch them. He's a local guide.

Maybe he has 63 whole reviews. So, he could have an entire following depending on his word. Sure can. Good, Christina. That's so possible. Jim knows Fender back and front. It appears so. My next one is of Solaris.

C-E-L-L-A-I-R-I-S. Okay, Solaris. Solaris. Another one of those good ones. i thought that was pretty quality clever it's in the walmart uh in in a walmart in las vegas i think cool um here is a one-star review uh this is by greta don't go here this place was whack as fuck i came to get my screen fixed and ended up walking out with my front and back camera not working and he didn't even put my screen on right my phone screen is sticking out at the bottom end of reveal oh no there's just so many of like wow actually getting

messed up and i was like cracking up every part of that phone is wrong was that all in capital letters too i bet it was i bet the caps lock is also broken i was in her um yeah no that's so bad i don't know why it's so funny that's so bad like my everything's upside down my camera doesn't work it isn't even on the phone like it's not even a screen protector it's just not even there my mom's phone number is deleted from the contacts no even worse ask her how many gallons of milk she needs they texted my mom like asking for weird requests there were a lot of reviews i read where people said that uh they went through their stuff they were sending texts to their phones and not from their phone but to their phones so after they repaired

it they would like keep testing no that they would afterwards about deals and whatnot without asking would just be like oh like hey i've got your phone number i love that that seemed to be a very big theme with these places i thought it was like gonna be you know hey hottie i met you at the oh gosh and i kept your number but okay yeah it makes a lot more sense that it's just like a yeah not that i read maybe i'm sure people have done that hey hottie we've got a great deal on iphone repair this weekend are you on my phone did you read the text i get or something from you break i fix i feel like that's slanderous um wow wow okay well i have um a redemption here oh please this is of so here's a good one cpr cell phone repair oh cpr i'm stupid i didn't

even get that that like that's funny though uh cpr cell phone repair and rancho penesquitos and this is a five star review the heck is the heck is that? I have no idea. I'm assuming California. Somewhere in the southwest, I assume. Rancho Penasquitos. I like that. Rancho. Are you Googling?

Yes. It's with a Q-U-R. It's in San Diego. Okay. I was close. I mean, I was right. Did I say California? Yep.

Good. So this is a review. It's a five-star review uh and i specifically searched for a word in this review to see if it came up can i guess what word sure p it's been peed on their phone what if every week i just like google the word p to see if anything comes up i feel like i'd have way more p reviews don't get my idea because i want to start doing that now did you say you'd think you'd have more yeah i feel like i would have found some eventually right yeah i'd say you'd have more than normal more than i would otherwise it would be more likely than just stumbling upon a review about p um so it's not p it's not p is that even remotely close? Not even a little bit. Okay. Rollercoaster. Mm-mm.

Does it have to, like, Eiffel Tower? No. Fish tank. Mm-mm. I'm thinking of various bizarre ways to break your phone. I'm getting it now, but no. You just thought I was just saying sledgehammer. I really thought you were just saying words, and I was like, you're good at this.

How is that? I'm good at were just saying words and I was like, you're good at this. How is that? I'm good at what? Saying words? Yeah, because I look around and I'm like, stapler, chair. That's a good one though. Stapler. That'd be funny. Stapler.

Like pencil. Like if someone managed to break their phone with a pencil. Ooh. Okay, I'm done. It was the word iPod Nano. That was very misleading. That is two words. That is a product that I just- I searched the word Nano. Oh, that was very misleading that is two words that is a product that i searched the word nano oh okay no that's not true i did search the word i thought yeah

because i wanted to see if people were getting those repaired yeah which one though you'll find out oh wait which one were you interested in hearing about the one that you brought to the table really any okay because i'm just saying there are a lot of different generations of that thing i had my own but what was yours i didn't have one of those uh didn't i had one of the ones with like the really like thin tall ones not the one not when they remember when they turned it into like just a square screen i thought that was a shuffle oh never mind i'm an idiot i know okay i'm looking at ipod nano over the years google images okay no no not with the screen the ones that are like the clip-on ones yeah those are that's what i was thinking of okay that's is that a shuffle too or nano the clip-on the clip-on is that also a shuffle too or nano? The clip-on? The clip-on, is that also a nano? A shuffle, yes. That's a shuffle on me?

Yeah. Okay, so yeah, I remember the nano. The nano came in different colors and was like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The square tall one, weird ones. Yeah, I had one of those. Good times. What's up?

What's up with the iPod nano? I'm sorry. Okay. Five stars by Greg. Jake was able to fix my iPod nano fifth generation yes i still use my nano hashtag haters gonna hate if anyone has ever had a busted nano you know how difficult these things are to repair several other shops in the area refused to even look at it fortunately this shop did and now it works hooray Thanks for your service.

End of review. I love it. So the iPod Nano 5th generation came out in 2009. Okay. And this review was written in December of 2021. Wow. I was going to ask. He's had it a long time.

Because, I mean, these reviews sometimes are like at least 10 years old. Yeah. So 12 to 13 years, this guy's had his iPod nano. Pretty impressive. That is very impressive. I can't think of a single piece of technology that I still own that, that that's that old. I,

I feel like my computer, my 12 years, 13 years, whatever I said. Yeah. My computer, my, no,

I don't think my computer parts, I think I've finally upgraded all of them because I've been upgrading them over the years. And I feel like there was something recently that I still had in there. But still, nothing that I use that often. But especially with an iPod Nano, like that's been replaced by an iPhone. Yeah, true, true. You can have all your music on an iPhone. So I'm just like amazed that this person still uses their Nano as regularly with the access to an iPhone nowadays.

So I was very impressed by that. And I think iPod Nano fifth generation. I don't know if that's I don't think that's the one I had. I think I had one earlier than that, but still pretty impressive because I definitely don't have it anymore. I would like to say quick, I think I was right. Okay. I think that the Nano, they had one that was square with the screen and that was the Nano and the Shuffle was the one without the screen.

Oh, yes. So I think I was always right. What's the one we had that was black and white though? What? Our first iPods ever those were eye touch no no no no no oh the or our first first ones they were black and white you had a black one i had a white one and they were i just looked this i had a nano i never had one of those square screen ones this is so was it an ipod nano like the original yeah like ipod this is so stupid oh we yeah we had an ipod nano that

the first one yeah the first way early one okay sorry yes we did i think the first gen black and white ones yep they're selling that for a thousand bucks on ebay let's go find ours fuck alexander yeah god it had one whole gigabyte. Wow. Yeah, incredible. That's a lot of photos. A lot of songs. Do you imagine using your iPod Nano for photos?

Yeah, it has half of one photo. Anyway, sorry, this is so boring for everybody. But yeah, that was my last iPhone one. Good, I've got one more. Great. This one's a little bit of a saga and very short saga, but saga nonetheless. This is a review of Mobile King Cell Phone Repairs. Oh, Beaver King.

In Galveston, Texas. Beaver King? Beaver King. Oh, Beaver King. Yeah. Same thing. This is by Georgina. One star.

Is it though? No, of course not. I was just like a G name. Oh, I used George earlier. Let me say Georgina. One star. If I could give zero stars, I definitely would. The manager said he could replace my iPhone 11 camera for $109 or just fix the crack for $35,

but the camera would not work properly. I agreed to the $109 because I wanted it to actually work, not look like it does. He said it would only take 30 minutes. It actually took an hour, so that resulted in me being late for work. I go back in to pay and get my phone back, and it's not fixed. He only fixed the crack, something I told him I did not want done in the first place. When I asked why he did not fix what we agreed on, he said his cameras were all defective and I could come back tomorrow, but I still would have to pay $35. I was livid

because I was late to work waiting for something he fixed without my consent and my camera still doesn't work. He could have just said he could not fix it due to his defective cameras and i would have just took my phone as is and came back another day but he did not understand that and still wanted me to pay for something i didn't want and take my broken camera and go i refused and he slammed the door in my face and said have a great day lol don't go here if you want your time wasted and your phone not fixed uh business owner response followed by a reviewer response okay ready oh shit okay here's the owner response you should be ashamed of yourself for spreading lies for god knows why end of response that's it uh-huh and then here we go here's two updates within this okaydated review with two updates. Okay.

Update. Now the manager keeps calling me to delete the review, and when I said I would not, he said, Fuck you. You're a whore. I don't give a fuck about your review. What? And that's how he conducts a business? He literally won't stop calling me.

I had to block his number. Don't go here. He will curse you out and call you out your name. He's ridiculous and very unprofessional. Update. Oh, what? Sorry, I was just going to interject briefly. So it started with have a nice day.

Slam the door in your face to you're a whore. Yes. Holy shit. Also, I just realized I read them a little out of order. That update happened after. So that update happened. Then the owner said you're lying you're lying well for god knows why makes a lot more sense now i think because like sorry yeah it's a very aggressive

lie if it is if it is a lie uh so then so yeah so then the manager says you're lying about this and then here's the update after reading that the manager said you're lying uh this is what georgina hate that i picked that name oh don't worry since i'm such a liar i'll definitely post the screenshots of my call log showing you call me back to back you're lucky you cursed me out over the phone or i would post that as well end of review and sure enough there is a screenshot of multiple calls in a row coming from that number, coming from their phone. Honestly, this is not a lie. It sounds like a lie. But part of the reason I never answer my phone is because I like to have everything recorded.

And if somebody's going to leave a voicemail, then I got that shit recorded. True, true. I used to record all my phone calls and then that got a little aggressive. Is that illegal? It is in California. So I had to record all my phone calls and then that got a little aggressive. Is that illegal? It is in California. So I had to stop. So I had to stop. I didn't have to, actually, but I chose to.

But there was a time where I was recording all my calls. Hey, in some cases, it's better safe to protect yourself. Also, if you're recording something and it proves you right or whatever and someone's treating you poorly through the recording like i'm saying i don't know i yeah not that bad unless you're ending the things but to be fair sometimes like so the issue was that i was having like a um a creditor issue i was having a couple issues but one of the issues was like a creditor issue where i had these creditors like trying to call me and it was a nightmare and so every time they did call because i was in california i would say just so you know i'm recording this call and then it's legal because

if they know it's a two-party consent so if they want to keep the call going yeah if they don't ask me to stop recording then that's smart it's perfectly legal oh okay listen i did my research is that why whenever i call you're you tell me you were you used to not anymore but you used to tell me just so you know i'm recording this call every time no matter what well i didn't want to bring all my issues to the table but yes you were one of my big issues your your your caveat was longer than our conversation some days i would say you need to to auditorily sign this waiver that you will. Please repeat your name and the date after the tone. And then you went.

Yeah, I thought it was a whole thing. It was a whole thing. It's a whole thing. And then I'd say, you want me to get you some dinner when I pick it up? And then you'd say, sure. Then I'd hang up. And then the one time you didn't bring dinner, you some dinner when I pick it up? And then you'd say, sure. Then I'd hang up. And then the one time you didn't bring dinner, I was like, I'm taking this to court. So, who's the loser now?

And then my creditor started calling you when I wanted you to pay my legal fees. Anyway, what the fuck is this episode? I don't know anymore. I can't wait for people to listen to this on their iPod Nanos. Oh, my gosh. Hope we've told them enough about iPod Nanos so they understand what generation they have. It's too bad that their front-facing cameras don't work. I'm sorry, full frontal cameras don't work.

Full frontal cameras. Oh boy. What the hell was your challenge? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah so my challenge was from victoria and the original challenge was to find a review where someone was at a sporting event and got hit by a different kind of ball oh and then i believe we just change it to somebody got hit by a ball okay because i think it would have been hilarious if you managed to find that though. I tried.

That's so hard though. I googled type of sports balls and I tried everything under the sun. You googled types of sports balls. You're like hoping a high lie ball made it into a baseball stadium or something. I was like volleyball. Yeah. I don't know I mean you could have done at a baseball game

A beach ball Shit Okay time for us to pause again Could have done that Didn't do it I do if this counts It probably doesn't but I do have reviews Where people got hit with a ball in like

An unlikely place Yeah I love it Anything you have that where people got hit with a ball in like an unlikely place. Yeah, I love it. No, anything you have that involves people getting hit by balls, I'll be happy. Excellent. So the first one I brought to the table was sent in by Taylor. She, they, and this was sent in and already read on the podcast, but I brought it up when we said the challenge and I wanted to just start off with it. This is a two-star review

of the uh charleston river dogs stadium oh yeah yeah yeah good one this is a good one by bobby good time my girlfriend got hit by foul ball and management didn't seem to care ems and ushers were great but bill murray and management don't care bill murray especially doesn't care. Bill Murray. So true. You never even gave him a chance to care. Yeah.

Like, did you actually reach? Maybe they did. I mean, he might have been the one at bat. He might have been the one that hit the ball. He didn't hit a ball. He just, like, threw it in her face. No. No, that's Bill Murray slander, and I didn't mean it.

But I remember I read this in, like in the minor league baseball stadiums episode, and my favorite part is that at the beginning it says, good time. And then the rest is like, it's just so bad. I was going to say, when you started to read this, you said good time, and I thought, was this a good time? I thought this was a negative. It was a beach ball, but no. No. Uh-uh. So that's just to start off a little appetizer, if you will.

And this is a review of something called Flux Freestyle. And this is basically like a trampoline park. Ooh, that's fun. Yeah. And this is a one-star review by Anna on TripAdvisor. My boyfriend and I decided to have a fun Friday night by going to Flux first, first for both of us, and then to dinner after. It's quite pricey to go, especially with the additional purchase of socks at two pounds, which seems to be quite steep for socks with some gel underneath. But the price wasn't a problem, as I just wanted us to have fun.

We arrived at least half an hour early, since you are warned about the safety presentation being 20 minutes long. During our wait for the safety presentation, we noted that the kids currently jumping were having fun and that although there's litter around the place, the lady at the till came around to sweep it up. We waited until 5.55 when the lady at the till decided to put on the presentation and it only lasted four to five minutes, so we arrived early for no reason truly. We were let out onto the trampoline park. It's quite small in size, but it seemed effective at passing the time. There were two male workers who were there to look out for people bouncing around as well. Everything was fine and fun as we bounced around, having a go at the dodgeball area, where another little boy joined in throwing squishy balls at my boyfriend. So it was fun

for more than just us. Now the reason I've marked so low is that purely an accident happened. Someone threw a ball at me while I was in the air, which I wasn't aware of until I had landed on it. I had twisted my foot and fell in a heap. I struggled up and limped out of the dodgeball area to wait for my boyfriend, who was unaware of my injury injury even though he potentially caused it oh no like it just says someone threw a ball at me so now she's saying it could have been you is that what she's saying yeah she's yeah so she doesn't know where the ball came and doesn't and he must have been i don't know do you think he said that wasn't me and she like

still doesn't believe him and is airing it out to Yelp or something? Because she's like, it could have been him who caused it. And it's like, I guess just because you didn't see who it was, maybe it was. Yeah. But it's purely an accident. This is how I broke Francisca's leg. Yikes. On a trampoline.

On a trampoline that had like balls on it. Oh, no. So, hearing this, I'm like, oof, yep'm like oh yep yikes yeah anyway she didn't break her leg spoiler alert no her boyfriend did i limped out of the dodgeball area to wait for my boyfriend who was unaware of my injury even though he potentially caused it as he saw me on the ground and thought i just wanted to stop playing in that area like a toddler she's just having another fit he don't mind her oh my god she's just having a tantrum i wonder if she's like i hurt myself and he's like oh really i thought you were just acting like a baby you were throwing a tantrum on the trampoline like what i thought you were just done playing here so you that's like a fainting

goat like you just lay down you're like i'm done i'm gonna play dead you know when d and i like we've had you know board game nights or whatever playing games and then someday sometimes middle of my turn i just like lie down on the ground she's like has to tell everyone oh that he's telling me he's done playing games it took us a while to understand this um she says it might be my fault uh i don't know he might blame me for this later where is he i don't know under the table probably accurate laying there yep um okay he saw me on the ground and thought i just wanted to stop playing in this area now the injury i do not get oh i'm sorry here you get a cat just made it sound even more ridiculous he thought i was done with this area because i was just laying on the ground i don't communicate with my words normally he knows that i just

he always has to read the trip advisor review afterward to fully understand what actually happened did you have fun today read my review. I'm not done posting it yet. You know you have to wait. I can't. Now the injury I do not blame on Flux at all. What I am disappointed and upset about is that the two individuals working did not acknowledge my obvious pain and were more concerned with bouncing with a group of young kids and teaching them to perform tricks. I even limped out of flux past the lady on the till to no acknowledgement from her either. I have spent the evening with ice around my foot and now I cannot put any weight on it.

So just be careful, guys. They won't acknowledge or look out for you. End of review. I'm like, I mean, you walk past the lady at the cash register, but like... They probably also thought you were just throwing a tantrum or they were just like oh well she's just like walking with this i mean i don't know they probably didn't even notice you were walking with a limp like if you're injured you say something

i'm sorry i like i know i i think if they had seen what happened and saw everything and no one said anything like yeah that's kind of shitty i mean i don't know i don't know what they can do that did happen in some reviews though where it was like um somebody threw a ball and it hit me and i fell over and they laughed and i was like that's not great yeah and i i remember one time when i was rollerblading over by lunkin we did that uh rollerblade that we went around the trail um i was rollerblading i fell hurt myself was crying i like dragged myself over to the side and i was like crying i hurt myself and the lady like either walked i don't remember biked up stopped and just laughed in my face like it was this whole and i remembered it so vividly

that she was just would just laugh at me and i'm like oxen her mom told you to stop calling her that lady don't say that no was it her this whole time can you imagine no um how old were you i don't know like was this like like middle school or something oh so you were a kid yeah yeah that's really fucked up oh no as a kid i fell over another time like in like high school like freshman year or something i was biking in the rain trying to get home and like i tried to get up on a curb um and i like slipped and fell and hurt my leg and i had to like drag my bike up and i made eye contact with so many people in their car it was raining so i really don't blame them but like i fell in the street and had to like drag myself and my bike out of the street so i didn't get run over i was in the middle of a

street it was a terrible thing for me to do i blame myself but then i'm dragging myself up onto the sidewalk the bike is like barely getting it on and then i was just like holding my leg and i made eye contact with so many people just sitting in their cars at the red light staring awkward and then you got home and that lady made you soup and got you a band-aid sorry and then she laughed and laughed um no no i wonder that's hard because i feel like you know your instinct would be to help but also i feel like that's hard as an adult in a car to pull over and talk to a kid that's why i don't blame you know it's such a weird thing i don't blame anyone for that i just i rode my scooter down wolper and you

know how it's like a giant ass hill yes and i my I, my razor scooter. And I, I, I hit a, I don't know. A crack. A crack in the pavement. Thank you. And I went flying and I busted up my knee. It's still really fucked up from that. And it's, I like skin, not even skin. I just like busted up my whole leg.

And I just kind of laid there like totally in shock. And this woman and this little girl across the street were like, are you okay? Like she tried to help. But of course, I'm so socially anxious. And I was like, I'm fine. And I like jumped up and kept walking. And I got home and I was just like drenched in blood. Like I fucked up my kneecap.

Like I really screwed up. But I'm like, that lady stopped to help me with a little girl in tow. And I was probably 12. And I just was like, I'm totally fine. That lady was probably 12 and I just was like, oh, I'm totally fine. That lady was probably very relieved. Like, oh, I can tell this kid's not fine. She's totally cool. And I went home and mom was like, what the fuck happened to you?

Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, nobody laughed at me, so I can't complain, but good times. Good times. You really sent me into a spiral here. Yeah, this got weird. I need therapy. Aren't you in therapy?

No. Oh, that's your first problem. I know. I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm freaking trying. It's hard. It's hard out here.

Well, this will help. This is a review of Dick's Last Resort. Oh, dear. San Antonio Riverwalk location. This is a surprising location the last one nothing against that review i'm glad you brought it to the table was not surprising i'm like of course you're gonna get hit by a ball at a trampoline park to be fair two people did that is fair so trying to get trying to complete the challenge half-ass diddly

here's a review of the dick's last resort in san antonio and this is by alina two stars title is like a scene from the movie animal house overview unusual atmosphere felt like we were eating meal at an animal house frat party rip roaring fun for kids in some ways but the overall atmosphere was very adult-oriented. Food was mediocre, but the live music was good. In-depth. Dick spills itself as the restaurant your mother always warned you about, or something to that effect. In fact, the waitstaff will tease and sometimes actually insult you. When we walked up the steps, a waiter started yelling at one of our party immediately,

calling her a bad mother because she was with her young children under 10. As we walked through the door, someone else asked my 17 year old if she were a minor and then drew huge X's on both her hands with a black marker when she answered affirmatively. They sat our party at, oh, do you think that's so that they're not like sexually harassing a minor? The moment you said, I'm like, yeah, I don't think that has anything to do with alcohol. Oh, no. And I'm like, and yeah, if you don't know what this place is, you're not going to have a good time. Yikes. Because we, I mean, we did a whole episode on this, but yeah, the whole purpose of this place is to demean, they're meant to demean you and treat you like crap and

uh yeah so well that's what happened you you were rollerblading at the dick slasher and they were like that's hilarious oh that's sad coming they set our party of 10 in front of a two person soft rock combo which had a great sound but between the music and the other shouting laughing patrons, we had to scream at each other to be heard. The waitress tore sheets of butcher block paper into lengths of about a yard each and placed them in front of us, and members of our party who had been there before immediately began ripping up the sheets to form small paper balls, which they threw at other patrons. Most of the other patrons responded by throwing paper balls back at us.

Soon we were forming teams with complete strangers. Hey, I've got your back, kind of thing. And the whole area was involved in a paper war. The waitstaff occasionally walked by and threw napkins into the air in the general direction of the tables. A lot of the napkins landed on the floor, so we really had to watch our step, or I'll slip. Several times, the waitstaff had to walk around yelling at people to stop running and to stop throwing ice and napkins. At one point, a waiter walked behind us and put ice down the backs of our shirts. At another, the waitress danced for quite some time with one of the men in our party. Some customers, seemingly at random, received paper hats which said things like i stuffed my bra or i cried

when i watched brokeback mountain and other similar sayings if you have kids please note especially that these hats are in the shape of condoms is that true i don't know i don't think we even ever i think this lady's just seeing things at this point but i don't i'm not surprised like i've heard that's what a condom looks like i'm'm not sure, but that's what I've heard. Nobody knows. Cause I like, I feel like that would have come up in another review. We read whatever. Our waitress asked us for drink orders almost immediately.

Most of us ordered non-alcoholic drinks, but those who ordered beer received quart sized bottles. The food was served within about 15 minutes of our ordering, but was completely mediocre. I had a steak with no apparent seasoning at all and none too tender and crab cakes, which were flavorful and spicy, but way overcooked. Almost everyone else had the shrimp buckets, which contains so few shrimp, they should have been appetizers and were bland as well. One member of our party wanted cocktail sauce, but the waitress never came back. Oh, I feel like cocktail sauce is the perfect Dick's Last Resort, like, you know, segue into a hilarious joke. Yeah.

Maybe the 17-year-old asked for cocktail sauce and they were like, we're not going there. But I don't know. What would they even say? I got your cock-tail sauce. Like, is that it? What else is there? That's it. No, that's it? Okay. That's the joke joke got some cock for your tail oh no i got it tell me you write on the condom hat i love cock tail sauce really small okay wow good one right no no because they would just put i love cock as if it's a like a negative on the hat and just leave it at that. I know, but then the joke is I asked for... Okay, never mind.

You guys get it, right? Okay. Get it? Yeah, we know. We figured it out that the word cock is in cocktail sauce. It's a little bit advanced. Oh, it's a little bit. A little bit.

Another member had the grilled chicken, which strangely enough was extremely peppery unfortunately the waitress never came back to refill his soft drink nor did she refill my iced tea which was ruined after someone threw a paper ball in it although we had stopped throwing paper balls when our food was served a lot of other customers continued to throw them at us the beer drinkers did not require refills the only member of our party who complimented the food was the one who ate the ribs. Although normally I would consider the prices reasonable by Riverwalk standards, around $20 per plate or under, for the small amount of mediocre food, it wasn't a good deal unless you factor in the fun. In spite of the drawbacks, we will probably visit again the next time we're in San Antonio, but I wouldn't if I still had

small children. End of review. Wow. That was a very informative review i'll give them that what was the star rating two oh i know it doesn't seem like you'd want to go back but it's at least very informative they really assessed every part of this i mean i've learned i've learned thing we did an entire episode on dick's last resort and i feel like i learned things agreed so i didn't know about the paper ball throwing and now if they give me a bunch of paper, usually I would have taken that and played hangman or like colored on it. No?

At a restaurant? No, I'm with you. Paper and crayons? Do they give you crayons though? Oh, I have my own pack. Oh good, thank goodness. That I take around with me. Yeah, no, I would like to participate. It all seemed kind of fun. I think I would hate this place. This is not my kind of place.

Absolutely. But I like the paper ball throwing for some reason. That's kind of fun. I like that they made teams. Also, I love the person being like, they, my ICU was ruined when a paper ball went into it, which I guess now in the current climate. Yeah. Somebody else touched that.

So. Oh, that's true. I understand why you wouldn't want to drink that. Is that just a recent review? No, it's from 2007. So back then we all ate, that's true. I understand why you wouldn't want to drink that. Is that just a recent review? No, it's from 2007. Okay. Back then we all ate each other's germs. True.

Okay, so I have one more and it's, oh no, sorry, I have two more. This one is kind of random because I said, I was telling Blaze like, man, I can't think of what kind of, I hadn't thought of beach balls. And I was like, I can't think of what to search. He's like, what about a Pokeball? And I was like, okay, I'll try it. And I searched for it. I searched for in Yelp and I searched through a Pokeball.

And. Success? It came up with iPhone screen repair. No. In Santa Monica, California. No. And I was like, this is a really weird crossover. That is so weird.

And so it doesn't even fit the challenge, but I was so weirded out by like the exact thing. I want it. It was the only review that came up and I was like, that is really strange. So the place is called iPhone Screen Repair, iPad Screen Repair and iPhone Unlock. That's the entire title of the place. That's like an Amazon product opened a store. Yes. In Santa Monica, California. And this is actually a redemption.

It's a five-star review by Nolan. Here we go. Long story short, I dropped my iPhone playing Pokemon Go and shattered the screen. I threw my phone instead of the Pokeball. That's funny. So somebody, a Pokemon got hit with an iPhone instead of the Pokeball. That's funny. So somebody, a Pokemon got hit with an iPhone instead of a Pokeball. Threw my phone instead of the Pokeball. Noob.

A friend recommended this place to me and after reading some of the reviews, I decided to check it out for myself. Raimi helped me out really nice and explained what needed to be done. And I was surprised how affordable it was to fix it. that's it there has to be a catch i was expecting a shitty job for paying that much got back my phone and it looks like new very happy with my repair would 100 recommend this place to anyone end of review that was nice wonderful right i love that i love that he's like that's funny all my fault i threw my phone at a pokemon by accident i wanted that snorlax so bad there are probably so many like broken phones phone issues because of pokemon go i wonder that with like um the uh with the oculus when

you're holding a thing and like with a wii where people were breaking their tvs because they would like let go by accident there's a reason they tell you to strap up. There's wrist straps. You gotta put them on. You gotta put it on. I always do. I do too. Not that I play Wii anymore.

Because I don't trust myself. I guess on my Switch, which does that even have straps? I don't even know. It does. Oh, okay. Mine don't. Why? My Wiimote?

My, or what are they called? Yeah, because you put the thing. You slide it onto a thing that has this. Oh, you slide it onto something else? Yeah, you slide it on with a little lanyard on it. I don't know. It has a lanyard on it. I believe you.

I promise. Oh, I believe you. I love those videos of people who use VR for the first time and fall over and stuff. I've not seen that, but Em has a video of me using VR for the first time and it is, and stuff i've not seen that but m has a video of me using vr for the first time and it is it's on our patreon on this we're trying i love that it is i look i look nuts i mean i really look nuts i want to oh my god it sounds so fun because uh yeah i love watching people just like freak out at something especially if you can see what they're looking at at the same time oh that's cool they just like fell off a building or something and then they freak out or they like

run right into a wall oh geez because they just completely like forget where they are yeah like if you're susceptible yeah to that which like i feel like i i don't know if i am but i feel like i i don't trust myself no unless you unless i I feel like unless I go into it like telling myself over and over again like it's not real not actually move like your body well that's why like with the the haunted house ones I'm like I can't do that Jesus somebody jumps out at me and I'm like in my living room I'm gonna crack my head open on the table or something phasmophobia game all the time on my computer but it has a VR option yeah and i haven't tried it because i don't have vr um we have it yeah i've never used it because it's yours oh well it's just in a drawer we

never use it i bought it for blaze for christmas gotta get on that this isn't um this is a escape your reality a little bit i really want to i bet there's some like newborn simulators you can play while my baby is in the other room i'm like diapering another baby um okay so this is the uh this is my final one it's a redemption four stars and it's of the cartier place suite hotel and i abridged this wow i know this is surprising well i haven't found out what happens yet, but I'm assuming I'll be surprised. So it's a four-star route by Monica, and I abridged it because... So Cartier, like... It's spelled like The Watch, but I don't know.

Okay, where is it? I have no idea. Okay. Cartier Place Suite Hotel. Totally forgot to write down the city. I apologize. The pool was full of unsupervised children at least a dozen kids were throwing balls and noodles around with no adults visible

i hope those were pool noodles i had the same thought do you want to actually hope they weren't do you want to know something embarrassing that happened when i was little yes i was at a party at like one of these big fun centers and it was, they had pools, like you did different stations. It was like they invited the whole grade and like third grade or something and they had different stations. And there was one where it was like an indoor pool and the lifeguard or whatever. Of course, I was hanging out with the lifeguard and she was like, instead of the other kids, she was like, oh. the lifeguard and she was like instead of the other kids she was like oh and then in the next uh room we're going into they have all sorts of stuff and they have noodle they have a ton of noodles and i went noodles are my favorite food oh no and she went no no i meant pool noodles

and i went i know i was making a joke and everyone was like oh that's so funny and i like totally wasn't making a joke but i played it off like i was just a joke and everyone was like, oh, that's so funny. And I like totally wasn't making a joke, but I played it off like I was just being hilarious. And I was so embarrassed. And now looking back, I'm like, whatever. But at the time I was like. Well, yeah, Christina, I'd hope you'd look back and think whatever and not have that like hanging over you. Still live with a nightmare every day.

And I still had like a German accent at that point in my life. So do you remember any of the children that were there? No. Exactly. I don't know. It would just be so funny if you're just like still like harboring like feelings over this event. I bet someone out there is like, man, there's this really funny kid. She was hilarious.

My favorite joke of hers is when she would talk about pool noodles, but pretend that they were actual real noodles for her to eat. I remember just being mortified i almost cried on the way home i was like i'm so embarrassing i get too over eager and i yell how i love to eat noodles and like then i just make a fool of you always do that you're so right i can't stop you're so right i can't stop myself okay so uh when noodles and company came to cincinnati for the first time i wore my bathing suit into the restaurant and brought a pool noodle and he said oh looks like i got the wrong memo

i know i was escorted out but security did think it was slightly funny one of them smiled i think yeah so embarrassing god what a fool It was slightly funny. One of them smiled, I think. Yeah, yeah. So embarrassing. God, what a fool. So these kids are throwing around noodles, and I thought- Oh, yeah. How did this start? Oh, yeah. The kids are throwing around noodles.

I was just picturing them with cooked spaghetti. Exactly. Just like handfuls. That's what I thought they were going to give me spaghetti in the next room. They weren't. They didn't. You imagine if never they actually did they gave me shitty cardboard pizza like next this room is the indoor pool room the next one's just a fucking like cooked pasta room spaghetti room it's just plain it's just the spaghetti oh Oh, boy. Wow. At least a dozen kids were throwing balls and noodles around with no totals visible.

The front desk has cameras, so they were certainly aware of this. They range from about 8 to 13 in age. I teach grade 7, so I am pretty good at figuring out ages. No one reading this review is going to be like, come on, you don't know how old they were 8 to 13 yeah yeah i bet they were 7 or 14 also 8 to 30 is such a wide range like nobody's gonna be like you're lying exactly what a strange thing i teach grade 7 so i am pretty good at figuring out ages i sat in the hot tub for a while which was at least hot enough but i got hit by a ball so i am pretty good at figuring out ages i sat in the hot tub for a while which was at least hot enough but i got hit by a ball so i decided to leave end of review if i'm at the cartier hotel and whatever yeah i don't know she could have got hit with a ravioli and

could have been worse yeah i just have my mouth open but if they were uncooked i'd be like here right in the hot tub. Oh, yeah. Cook it on up. Cook it up. Just a little soupy soup. A little Monica soup. Oh, is that the reviewer?

I was like, what's Monica soup? It's like, is that like a Rachel is the sandwich and then a Monica is like a pasta soup? Yes. Delicious. Wow. Love that broth. Love that broth. Love that broth. So I know what the next episode is. I think it's Shein. It's Shein. And I don't have the challenge, so I'm thrilled. Yes, and I do. And I'm ready for it. So I'm thrilled that I don't have to do any more work. Excellent. For that. But yeah, so we'll talk to you all then. Thanks so much for hanging out. Go fucking Bengals.

They actually won and they're going to the Super Bowl. Going to the fucking Super Bowl. We cannot believe it. I don't think you all even understand how much emotion went through my brain. Maybe that's why you have a headache today. Oh, true. That was yesterday. I'm like hungover. I didn't drink.

I drank like two beers over the course of the hungover. I didn't drink. Honestly. I drank like two beers over the course of the whole day because I was nervous and had to. You had a weird day. Maybe that's why. That's a good point. I think the whole city is like on edge. We're a little confused. It's a weird time because I didn't believe it.

Like when it happened, I kind of didn't believe when I woke up. One thing I will say, this is so out of the out of left field but you posted a picture of us and stuff who day blah blah blah people who are like i know you know what i'm gonna say i think so that they're like to you they're like you like the bengals since when oh yeah and then they're like oh well i was thinking people were like oh i was thinking of xandy and i'm like what about you i'm a girl it's a weird thing right I'm like reading these comments and I'm like when I hear about sporting equipment like pool noodles I literally think of pasta so they're like oh she must just not even understand what a football is bangles is is that a type of

type of dessert she heard pigskin and went I'm sorry I'm a vegetarian and then they were like wow what a loser that was good thank you so you so much. Yeah. So, yeah. Big Bengals fans over here. Not that that should have ever been questioned. I'm like, I mean, yeah. We grew up going to the games. We have been rooting and tooting Bengals fans from the beginning. Yeah. From day one.

Like, we had in our childhood bedroom, like, a Bengals football helmet and, like, had it. Oh, good times. Anyway, yeah. So, I don't people were definitely like i didn't know they said i didn't know you knew anything about sports yeah it's stuff like that like i'm like what that's a strange thing weird yeah and also it's not like the first time you've posted anything bengals related i really don't think so but oh well yeah so it doesn't matter. Bengals are winning this fucking Super Bowl. We said that, too, a couple months ago. We did. Year of the Tiger.

Year of the fucking Tiger. To be fair, I say it every year. Yeah. That the Bengals are winning the Super Bowl, but this year it's happening. We knew one day it, well, we didn't know what happened, but we knew it might happen. I was telling Dee, I was hoping this would happen in my lifetime but i didn't think it would happen now no like i was like maybe when i'm older i was like okay joe burrow has given us hope and everything like maybe some for a few years what it's happening

now very sudden i feel like i wasn't spiritually fully prepared maybe that's why the headache thing is going on for you yeah i my brain can lot to process my puny little cincinnati sports brain can't handle this i thought you were gonna say earlier what the people who were saying like um okay i respect you as a person but i cannot support you because i am a chiefs fan and i'm like okay but like get beat twice losers yeah i'm like you won twice let us have a fucking shot for a minute like i supported the chiefs when they were at the super bowl'm like you won twice let us have a fucking shot for a minute like i supported the chiefs when they were at the super bowl and like you know love a good underdog story and like just let us have a turn like we played a fair game of all teams the bangles please yeah i'm like

let's start some patriots shit going on fucking losers let us have we know we are and then the person being like i'm a browns fan was like, come on, take a minute. Take a minute. If you go to the Super Bowl, trust me, I'm going to be like, what the fuck is going on? I'll be just as surprised. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. Yeah.

Anyway, on that note, thanks, everybody. Good times. Bengals. Go Bengals. Hootay. I'm going to go fix my brain, hopefully. Good luck. Thanks.