Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet - 192: Reviews of Claire's

Episode Date: August 3, 2022

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than that, I don't think i had oh i saw ghosts the other day no i'm not kidding where in knoxville tennessee where at the like where were you we were at the courtyard marriott this is weirdly like more believable than if you had told me you were at some haunted house i know i think i've only ever seen one ghost in my life and it was what at the queen mary right the one in the that yeah in a top hat slash maybe that's who it was what if he was on a ghost what if it was slash and they were the the employees had to say oh yeah you can't go through there because they had to protect we have a celebrity vip guest i mean that's a ghost exactly right okay he's getting a private tour of

mr whaley's quarters he's always i felt an affinity for him you know the hats and everything um no there was a man sitting at the foot of the bed and everything um no there was a man sitting at the foot of the bed i said please oh dear god that's terrifying so it's i'm serious no one's gonna believe me except m no i don't not believe you i was dead asleep 4 a.m and all of a sudden one of leona's toys started going off and i heard like let's play and i was like what the f and so i like woke up she has like this little fake cell phone and so it was going off in one of our bags so i woke up and i looked over and i saw what i thought was blaze sitting at the foot of the bed just staring at me and i said i got my glasses on i said blaze and then it literally like evaporated

whoa and then i turned over and blaze was like asleep next to me anyway it was very scary um so that's my my scary that's my update i know i give some ghostly updates on this show every once in a while so i figured um you know the people deserve to know yeah no i'm glad i didn't know about that until just now hope you didn't bring them back i wanted to save the good news for the podcast spread the good news anyways speaking of ghosts yeah we're doing reviews of claire's oh yeah the spookiest uh the spookiest of haunts i will say um you know it is kind of you know now i feel i feel on edge about everything i say um because there was someone who tweeted at us who has worked at eclairs for i think they said 17 years oh dear and they said like i'm so nervous

for this episode and i was like wow now everything i say is in that kind of context of what will they think you know um and so i'm i'm not trying i'm gonna try to be you know i love clear i was gonna say i i didn't know you had anything negative to say. No, I was just kind of going to say, like, it seems a little bit like a relic, but maybe that's just because, like, my generation was so obsessed with it. And now, like, we've outgrown it. I don't know. I don't know. But to me, it feels kind of like a relic.

But I don't know if that's a bad thing to say or not. You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't know if that's a bad thing to say or not. You know what I mean? Yeah. For those who don't know, Claire's is a boutique for all things tween. Did you just come up with that?

Yeah. That's a great... I'm trying to figure out a way to introduce Claire's to those who don't know what it is. Well done. But it's... Yeah. They do ear piercing. That's like their main, I think their main thing because they claim to do more piercings than anyone, which I guess makes sense because what other chain piercings do you know that

are like all around the country? And I think they have international locations too. Do they really? I'm pretty sure. Well, apparently they also have locations in walmart which was news to me oh like how they have a mcdonald's in a walmart they also have a clairs and i america's best eyeglasses that kind of thing subway um oh here it is michelle sorry i wanted to make sure i got the right credit to the right person who's worked at clairs for almost 17

years which is quite a accomplishment. And Michelle even said, the only Claire's employee I would trust to pierce my ears is someone who's been there for that long. Absolutely. And like I read some stuff about like, oh, the employees don't want to pierce ears, but they have to. And it's like kind of sketchy. Michelle says,

just remember as you read the slander that we are christine's provider of classy trashy headbands and that is true i do like the headbands um they have some cute earrings i am kind of allergic to all of them but other than that they're pretty cute i got my ears pierced at eclair's nice yeah i was six and mom was very frustrated with the employee because she kept saying oh the dots are wrong so then mom took the pen from her and put the dots on herself and of course um it was a very embarrassing day um that's so weird though i thought you got one was that claire's i thought that your ears were pierced by like a long-lost twin at summer camp was that not what happened i'm so confused that's what i told you i told you a lot of things yeah i think i maybe your childhood is probably like a big blur of just lies from me um and they

did your long lost twin at least have a british accent that part was true okay good yeah i didn't lie to you about that um and we did have a really cool magic handshake. But I couldn't show that part to you because, you know, it's secret and all that. Yeah, of course. But I did get my ears pierced there. Nice. And you know what? That was a good time. 1997.

I can't imagine it was good. Sounds terrible. Maybe Michelle did it. Wait, that was longer than that. 17 years ago, wasn't it? I'm old. Never mind. Never mind.

Okay. I like 10 years. Yeah, yeah't it? I'm old. Never mind. Never mind. Okay. By like 10 years. Yeah, yeah. No, not quite. All righty. Should I give a review? Please. I'm starting with one that kind of gives a little more, not context, but like you mentioned

about your generation. This is a three-star review, so it's kind of redemption, but kind of not. It's very just middle of the road. This is by Jasmine. Three stars. Don't judge me for shopping at Claire's, but you know this place was the shit. If you were a girl from the ages of 11 to 16 and into hoop earrings, Buddha bead bracelets, wild makeup, and anything that said princess on it, lol. I'm only here for the deals they have available at the outlet Claire's instead of the retail Claire's.

What's the difference, you ask? I am ask. I legitimately... I figured you'd like some. I need to know. They have the 10 items for $10 for a longer period of time than the retail store. Anything in the sales section that was originally $10 or less is automatically $1 when it rings up, and you don't have to buy 10 items. Items that were originally $10 and up have their newly written sale prices in red and take an additional 50% off that red price.

Not bad at all. Damn. I got a couple pairs of cute earrings and a lanyard with a bunch of smiles that have braces on them. For the future dentist in me lol for three dollars since claire's accessories are cheap i know i pay for what i get and don't expect the earrings to last forever thanks to genie letting me know about the outlet promo smiley face end of review wow where's the nearest one of those yeah oh i forgot to mention this is in uh camarillo california what the hell i don't want

to go all the way over there i know i'm sorry for my lanyard needs my discount lanyard needs yeah um that's amazing i kind of want to go back to eclairs and just really like revel in it because i feel like i've come full circle there was like an a post claire's version of rio which makes a lot more sense i was thinking amarillo that's probably yeah that's me too sorry um i had like a post claire's phase where i was like ew you know i don't want i want to go to hot topic instead of claire that's true that's what it felt not that i went to really either of them you probably got dragged there i brought francisca there yeah at times i remember yeah um and I always brought her there just for her sake, not mine. Yeah.

There was that one at, I mean, obviously Kenwood Mall, but then at Newport on the levee there was one. Yeah. I think that one's gone. Oh, of course. I feel like everything's gone. Tragically. But yeah, I think that makes sense.

That progression. Claire's and Hot Topic and Spencer's. And Journeys and all that. Journeys. And now I'm kind of back to my like like oh claire's was fun and i like it and i want to go buy stuff there yeah some more headbands i guess you also have a child now that's true too that's true too do you remember um the the big thing when I was like in my Claire's craze. Were those bunnies that said like negative things? What were those? Happy tree friends?

No, that was different. That was like Cartoon Network or something. No, that was like I think German or something. That was like a fucking violent thing. It was really. What were those rude bunnies? It was called like happy bunny is that right happy bunny yeah yeah and it would say like f you and i was like oh yeah look at my pencil oh my god oh my god oh my god one of them said uh one of them some of

them were a little problematic i think oh i'm sure yeah one of them was like i'm psycho and i was like cool oh gee this is my new pencil case i found one that says me won't hurt you oh my god that was the shit i thought was so funny it's all about me deal with it yeah i'm not listening i hear the other ucky people calling you I hear the other ucky people calling you. That was good. That was a good one. Cruel but cute, so I'm worth it. What?

Anyway, this is the kind of shit that I would buy because I thought it was edgy, you know? Oh, yeah. It was so edgy, though. It was edgy though it was edgy so the first review i have is from hannah she her who sent um a review of eclairs in texas and of course it was in the not currently recommended section of yelp so here is a one-star review by eve terrible service staff was congregated behind the register chit-chatting about the Bachelor and not helping the customers. Went in to buy a comb, and when I asked, they just blew me off and said they didn't have any. When I found it on the wall myself, I said, this is what I was talking about.

They still said, oh no, we don't have those. I just stared and walked out. End of review. I don't know if they walked out with the comb. Oh, maybe. Honestly, at that point, is it really shoplifting if they. I don't know if they walked out with the comb. Oh, maybe. Honestly, at that point, is it really shoplifting if they said we don't sell that? Yeah, true. You're just finders keepers.

It's like when you go in the grocery store in the checkout and they scan it and it doesn't work. It's free. I think that's how that works. That's what I always say to cashiers. It's free. They love it. They laugh every time. Yeah, you take a paper clip and you scratch all the barcodes and you're like well i guess it's free now so you do that all the time um wow yeah i i feel this is that it sounds about right for the claire's employees not the

ones that have been there 17 years of course but no not i don't know. And I also found some where they complained and the employees were... Never mind. I'll read them. I'll read one later. But, man. This is what I was talking about. Okay. It's intimidating.

Yeah. I'm scared to go into affairs. I was always intimidated by the employees. Yeah. I'm scared. I'm still intimidated. Me too. My next one is from veronica she her um here's a one-star review

one star by uh nadine i got my ear pierced and they pierced my mask and my hair. This lady pierced my earring onto my mask and my hair. I had to rip both my mask out and my hair out, and it hurt. Not to mention it was super expensive. It was $80, and I didn't get the very good ear solution either. Never going back there again to get my ears pierced would have been cheap also to get it done professionally.

End of review. Xenert, can I read a review I have? Is it similar? This is from Laniece. It's a Claire's in New Orleans one star by Jessica. Got my cartilage pierced and she pierced it through my mask, which I had to wear. My mask was stuck on the earring. I had to cut my mask to get off the earring. She tried to get the back of the earring off, but couldn't get it off. And it just irritated it even more. End of review. No.

So they're like different reviews, but like the same. That's wild. I thought we accidentally read the same one, but this one has a photo. Yeah, this one does too. Oh, no. Why? That's so gnarly looking because I've got, I got my cartilage pierced at a, not a Eclair's because the internet was like, please don't do that because they use the piercing guns.

But I got my cartilage pierced and it hurt, like it probably took 10 days to stop like hurting. So the, the, the idea of getting like fabric caught in it yeah makes me want to scream it makes me want to scream i'm i'm afraid of just getting my ears periods period yeah like i wouldn't do that yeah it all starts like a hot needle and an apple on the other side that's what i told you i always said growing up here i already disinfected it for you i'm ready to go here's the ice cube and you just i'm still working on it yeah i'll get it i'll get you to agree one day thank you thank you um but you do have to wear a mask no when we do this that is crazy

that's so wild crazy crazy crazy um sorry i didn't mean to just like jump on your tail there um so speaking of lenise uh she her she's on a ton of them and she sent each one as like a separate link so it was like on google maps when you can like share a review so they were all sent separate so there was like a slew of like 12 emails from lenise and in every email the body pretty much just said she her so that we remembered i love it um so this is one that she sent in of a claire's in baton rouge uh this is one star by crystal tanya is truly rude all she does is do tiktok dances instead of servicing customers i don't even know and hope she does not still work there plus she smells foul end of review oh that's got to be a person they know right it's not very nice that was not nice she smells foul okay sure i mean i guess if

she's doing tiktok dances you probably do get a good whiff of her every now and then when she you know i'd leave one star if i went into eclairs and they weren't doing tiktok dances because then it's not the authentic experience what's the point even yeah yeah i totally agree i wouldn't believe that it's an actual claire's no agreed um this next one i'm gonna i'm throwing in the middle so we can we had a little buffer before and a little buffer after oh thank god this isn't a serious review um but this was sent in by uhiannon, who specifically said, this is Claire's for Zandy. X-Teen, do not read. I have an email also from Rhiannon, but it was a different one. The one after this one.

Well, this one is kind of a callback of sorts. I'm trying to think. Don't. It's not about. Is it from the piercing episode no Alexander no I don't want to talk about this

okay so here is oh my god how do I even remember that here is the review four stars went in for a quick Prince Albert

lady did it right in the lobby of Walmart pretty impressive thanks Walmart and Claire's Went in for a quick Prince Albert. Lady did it right in the lobby of Walmart. Pretty impressive. Thanks, Walmart and Claire's. Do you know what a Prince Albert is? Well, I'm sure I'm guessing it. It's related, but different.

What? Are you going to tell me? I don't want to guess. So the last one was the pearl fuck yeah this one is the penis piercing oh got it oh yeah i did know that yeah prince albert is for penises yeah okay great prince albert is for penises don't you forget don't forget about that okay um i hated the pearl one it still makes me cringe no i don't want to think about it um but yeah uh yeah claire's yeah ryan and bringing that in just just to give a little bit of uh call an excuse to call back the pearl thanks a lot also i love that um this reviewer specified that it was one of the Claire's in the Walmart, which is hilarious.

They're like, just for context. I did see a lot of those kind of fake reviews that were like, oh, no, they accidentally pierced my. What? I don't know. My mask? My mask. Oh, wait, that one was real. What?

I don't know. My mask? My mask. Oh, wait, that one was real. So Rhiannon sent reviews of different Claire's across Missouri and said, my ADHD got the best of me and I hyper fixated. And said even sometimes they put Claire's stores in Walmart. So that's where I got that intel. If you end up with more emails from me, send vibes that I'm okay because it's getting close to midnight on a Wednesday, but my brain is telling me that a new fun project might be going through the 50 states alphabetically and reading every Google review from every store. I was very relieved to go back to our inbox and see that this was the final email.

Thank goodness. There were not a slew of every state, but I did get some good ones from Rhiannon here. This is Claire's in Lake St. Louis, Missouri, and this is claire's in state in lake st louis missouri and this is a one-star review by sherry not very good customer service the stuff is overpriced then i hear the makeup there can give you cancer if that is the case the makeup needs to be taken off the shelf end of oh my god what happened here i don't know and i feel like that's just something someone says like oh that stuff gives you cancer yeah and then she takes it way too seriously it's like a cal but it's not i thought oh if my first thought

was a california proposition that tells you that something has something that causes cancer birth defects or something um but i can't imagine that's the missouri thing specifically yeah i don't think uh i don't think so um so i don't know i don't know either i i just uh yeah it definitely sounds like that though you're right like that like well i hear that like diet coke gives you cancer right i heard rats in a test you know but i also like that the first complaint is that the stuff is overpriced but then the second complaint is like by the way it might give you cancer that's so true and if it were cheaper i would buy it but the priorities of these people it's kind of wild they're a local guide so telling it like it is um i did google

it and apparently the u.s the fda and oh sorry the fda found asbestos in children's makeup products so claire's i mean i issued a recall last week after the fda found cancer causing toxin in some products shit no and that's the thing is is i am not surprised and i i stopped buying like those kind of makeup like those mysterious makeup palettes a long time ago because there is not much oversight on those. And you shouldn't put that on your mouth and your eyes and all your orifices. Don't put them on all your orifices. Don't put them in the pearl either. Don't put them on your Prince Albert or your pearl.

So, yeah, I would recommend maybe skipping the makeup section. Okay. You know, just from my own perspective. Oh, boy. Okay. My next one is of Eclair's in New York City. In the Upper West Side. This is a one-star review review this is by pamela i had my ears pierced at

claire's i was never happy with my original piercings which i've had for 30 years and the result was disastrous helen keller could have done a better job matching the two placements one was far too low and it was re-pierced twice both times as ridiculously awful as the first too low too close to my ear and more now i have scar tissue and have to wait five weeks to go to a good place to start from scratch the jewelry is pricier but beautiful and worth it at the the good place, sorry. Oh, oh, oh, oh. If that wasn't clear. I was having like a whiplash moment here.

Okay. I know. It took me a couple reads to realize that they were saying that the better jewelry is at the good place or going to in some weeks. They don't use Claire's method using a sort of staple gun. Also, my ears got infected despite scrupulous care. You might get lucky at Claire's, but I would never recommend it to anyone

unless I really didn't like the person. People were friendly, but totally inept. End of review. Okay. First of all, I don't know if you could call that scrupulous care. You have like 14 holes in one of your earlobes and I feel like there's no way

you're going to keep that clean and not infected how many freaking holes did she get in her ear three different holes my god that sounds terrible at that third one as the employee i would be crying i would have quit like i would be so stressed out putting holes in someone's ear and they're all crooked and the person doesn't like them and the stress i mean and these people working there like they're not expert you know piercers like they're not that's not their job typically yeah i can't i can't imagine having to do that as a job especially to like kids like as a retail like that's you oh you get a a job at like a summer job. I feel like a lot of these people are high school students.

Yeah, because they're at the mall or at like local, yeah. You can either get a job at Journey's or get a job at Claire's and at Claire's you have to pierce people's ears. Yeah, it's kind of luck of the draw. That's wild to me. And then you end up sticking needles through people's ears. Yeah. They do do the piercing gun yeah um which sounds less scary to me than the ones at the real piercing you're so american that the gun is more

comfort so the gun is more my comfort level um put that up to the side of my head and i'll feel fine no but like when i got my cartilage they have like a needle and it's it's just like i don't know something about it the gun seems like oh well you don't even see it happening god it's so wild the whole thing i it scares me well i can't believe some places still do cartilage because that is the thing you're not supposed to do with it with a gun a piercing gun yeah you're really not supposed to do your cartilage with that my goodness and it's also a lot more of a risky piercing because it's very thin or yeah i think it's closer to your brain i don't know maybe oh my god maybe i made that part up but i think if it's infected it's a lot more dangerous i mean i assume that the gun is designed in a way that it can't just like go into your brain no sorry that's not what

i meant i'm like am i missing something that's not what I meant. I'm like, am I missing something? That's not what I meant. Are they like pulling it out away from your head and like just shooting through? Well, to be fair, she has. And hits a wall behind you? It's like a harpoon. Like a harpoon gun? Oh my God.

She has like three. And if you hit whichever stuffed animal you hit on the wall, you get to take that one with you, like a carnival game. No, what I meant was if it gets infected, it's a lot more dangerous because it's closer to your brain. I think. No? Am I wrong about that? What do you mean it's closer to your brain?

It's on your ear. I don't understand. Like if you get an infection right here, it's... Why are you looking at me like that? On the top of your ear rather than the bottom of your ear but like your ear is connected like to your head i guess close i look i don't know i'm not i could be making this up i don't know um i'm just trying to walk you through this i'm not trying to debate this because i don't know anything i don't know. I'm just trying to walk you through this. I'm not trying to debate this because I don't know anything. I don't know.

I don't know. But all I've heard is that this is a more likely to get infected and be a more dangerous piercing. And you shouldn't be doing it with a piercing gun i think i according to the association of professional piercers um piercing guns in general are just uh a piercing gun isn't designed for cartilage only soft tissue because of proximity to the brain no piercing cartilage with a gun which by the way can create hardcore hypertrophic scarring and even blow it up blow what up i don't want your brain yeah this is a lot okay anyway um cartilage blow up because this is too much i'm saying a lot of this is far too much a lot of words that shouldn't be probably said okay um so this is too much i'm saying a lot of this is far too a lot of words that shouldn't

be probably said okay um so this is also from riannon it is of eclairs in richmond heights missouri and it's a three-star review by diamond your ex my okay everybody i married a little boy named diamond in preschool okay and i feel like it's about over you when he was in preschool next question no i'm just kidding we were both in preschool and we got married on the playground anyway and then i found out later he was like the head of like Cincinnati LGBT because he's very much gay. And I was like, well, I guess I never stood a chance, you know? No, you didn't.

Man, I thought we had something special. You did not. We did not. But anyway, sometimes when I think about Diamond, Alexander would like to remind me about my... I mean, no, you're like, yeah, you're putting him into our episode here with bringing his name into this. Okay, fine. This is a three-star review by Carrie. Oh, I was about to say Sunshine.

Stop! Why am I always... I was going to say dating. I definitely didn't date Diamond. We were three. We were married, though. Playground rules, you know? Yeah.

Okay, so this is Yeah. True. Okay. So this is by Carrie. Three stars. They carry little cute things for young girls and teens. I'm a grown, mature woman. Therefore, I look for fine jewelry. End of read. Oh.

Sounds like this person turned 18 and is over Claire. And is at Hot Topic. I'm looking for fine jewelry at my local Spencer's Gifts. I only buy rope bracelets from the finest retailers at Kenwood Town Center Mall. So I'm sorry. I don't go there anymore. Oh, my God. Oh, boy.

Oh, man. Belly button piercings from Journeys. Oh, good stuff. All the fine retailers. Only the fine retailers only the best only the best um my next one is an international one actually oh vancouver british columbia canada let me guess um they do have stores in or they did have stores at least in europe and china i found out okay look that up so uh but here is a review uh this is by uh magdalene two stars oh your ex

yeah mary magdalene looks like i had a very vivid imagination in sunday school oh boy a chance it's about to never mind we never never stood a chance just like to be normal oh i see as you and i as humans like never as like american citizens as like people of this cultural nation this cultural world our society we never saw a chance true um two star review oh my last

visit could have been an at work infomercial on what not to do at your workplace it's called being at work not a bar during happy hour there were four staff members on duty, three girls and one guy. Nobody said hello to me or even acknowledge me or any of the other customers who came in. I'm just trying to picture happy hour.

Like, do they have like a charcuterie board and like rosé? At Claire's? Yeah. She's like, this is not happy hour. Yeah. I'm wondering like what in what in eclairs as an employee could you could you oh okay be participating in to make it actually look like happy hour because i have a feeling that none of these employees feel like they're

at it no friday happy hour i mean it's pure conversation because apparently that's when conversation is only allowed to happen it during at a bar during happy hour. Oh, I see. Okay. So there is no wine and cheese pairing or anything like that. There's lots of wine. Oh, there's lots of wine. Wine.

Okay, got it. Got it. Got it. It's not like they were too busy with customers or stocking anything. No, they stood around talking very loudly and laughing about their social lives, completely ignoring everyone. I heard about parties they have been going to, who was getting drunk on what, who was singing into a mop slash broom when certain songs came on. As a matter of fact, one girl screeched at another that, you're not on shift. Why are you going back there for?

To get the mop slash broom okay i take it back this does sound fun this is a happy hour like happy hour um one thing that also in this specifically this employee said to another you're not on shift so this employee's not even i love that they're like hmm it's friday happy hour should i go to happy hour sure yeah no i'll go to claire's instead yeah and also but this person said oh they're all on duty but then admitted that one is not even on so it's just fun interesting i was like i don't know there's some cracks in her story yeah it was clear that two of the three girls were totally flirting with the guy and trying to impress him with tales of their badass selves they were acting like they were out at a bar

not at work so utterly unprofessional that i almost wanted to say something i couldn't believe this went on the entire time i was there still Still never once was I acknowledged or asked if I was doing okay. Was I finding what I was looking for? Offered a basket or told about the buy three get three promo? No, not at all. Too busy with each other's personal lives to give a shit. I finally went up to the one girl who wasn't as loud or in on the conversation. I asked her where a metal clip was and she said they didn't have

what i was looking for and instead showed me something completely unrelated i found the item i needed myself i grabbed a few other things to take advantage of the buy three get three free promo like you knew all about the promo exactly why does anyone need to what you sound like you're telling everyone else about the problem are you like is this an undercover boss situation like a secret shopper like no one's telling you like, is this an undercover boss situation? That's what I'm thinking. Like a secret shopper. Like no one's telling you. Like the checklist is like, sorry, they didn't tell me anything about the promo. When I went up to the cashier to pay, they all ignored me.

They just kept up talking loudly and inappropriately and laughing away. I stood there just a few feet away and was completely ignored. there just a few feet away and was completely ignored speaking of unprofessional the one girl's outfit a mini dress way too tight and way too short for work c pics i snapped a pic of their little we are too busy to help you party finally the girl who i'd asked for assistance earlier rang up my stuff i was pissed off about this as I left. Why are these people even there? I really want to bring this to the attention of management because clearly they don't have a clue what is going on after they have left. End of review. Wow. Okay. Maybe I'm just projecting. Probably I'm just projecting, but I kind of have FOMO. Like, does this person just feel like they want

to be part of the in-group? Like, I have FOMO a little bit. I'm like, this sounds like fun. Yeah. And I feel like I want to know who was singing in the mop. I guess we found that out. The one who's not on shift. Like, you know, I want to know these things and have a beer with these people. I sound like a blast.

They do. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. It's just so... People get so upset about this kind of stuff. I understand if they're, like, actually actively being rude to you, but I don't know. It's just so, people get so upset about this kind of stuff. I understand if they're like actually actively being rude to you, but I don't know. This is,

this doesn't seem like a fair assessment of the situation. I mean, they're having a good time. Let them have a good time. Isn't it better than if they were miserable and you can't win with people. Yeah, you're right. It's either they're having too much fun or you're going to say they don't seem like they even want to work there exactly their attitudes are shitty it's like well

make up your mind man that bums me out they're just trying to well i guess not really because they didn't really care they still had a good time despite her good for the withering gaze good for them oh i did see one review and it said something like, um, Claire's doesn't care about you. They only care about money. And I'm like, I'm like, come on. How dare you talk about slander. Michelle, I hope you plugged your ears. I know that that might be a little too much for you to hear. Uh, wow. Why do most people in this world work? It's so they can afford to live i mean oh my lord how much do you think these employees are getting paid not enough a living wage bullshit um and also just get there to be taking their pictures okay i was gonna ask did they put a picture they did not that i could find um i pictures they say i i looked at the pictures so the thing is they

had updated their review so they had reviewed it before like four stars and then knocked it down but uh so that that review had pictures but it was just of things in the store it wasn't of okay any employees thankfully um so maybe they thought twice maybe it was removed i don't know but don't don't do that jeez just it's one thing if they're doing something like dangerous or like terrible or i don't know don't just snap their picture because you don't like the way they're dressed so inappropriate it's not okay also illegal um isn't it what isn't i think it's illegal to take pictures of people without their consent especially to post them on the internet and say i don't know i think it is i've googled this before for other reasons why those pictures are you taking

is your lawyer like look into this because you're gonna be in big trouble hang on oh man oh i was trying to take a picture i thought it was gonna make the little oh you're taking a picture i was like you said hold on i was like oh okay she's busy doing something no i was hoping that it would make like a click sound so that oh you're taking my picture yeah so that as you were saying like whose picture are you taking that I could make the little camera click? OK, I'm contacting the lawyers. Oh, my joke was so absolutely destroyed just now.

I that was the biggest fail. How come sometimes when I take a picture, it makes a horribly stupid loud noise? Is your ringer on? Yeah, I just turned it on. Volume yep what a funny joke can we talk about how funny it would have been we can just pretend i just heard the click of your camera thank you wow i get it that's better you're taking my picture without my consent so much better thank you um who are you uh pamela no wait i don't know their name i think you probably oh magdalene my ex who are you my ex um well that's just too bad you know yeah let's see if this works

nope there's simply no picture. Now I have about 12 photos of just like. Take a screenshot. That'll make a sound. Oh, that's so smart. Why didn't I just do that? Okay, wait. Say the joke again.

I don't remember. Okay, say. I think my brain can remember things from a minute ago. Say. Christina, who are you taking pictures of christina who are you even taking pictures of oh don't worry about it isn't that funny everybody that was really funny thank you okay um man screenshot that alexander you're so smart i know okay here is a review sent in by tristan he him it's a review of um his local claire's outside the capital mall in olympia washington oh he also says that uh he and his mom and sister got stuck in a traffic jam on a mountain

pass for a few hours a couple months ago and they all listened he basically forced everyone in the car to listen to beach to sandy which is precisely the move that i would recommend i thought this was related to going to be related to claire they all pierce each other's ears where is this one going no this is about us oh good you know i like to buffer anything we discuss with just like a little anecdote about all about us yeah that pertains to us so he says um they listen to a few episodes of your podcast uh whale watching and halloween movies i don't even remember any of that but it sounds hilarious They listened to a few episodes of your podcast, Whale Watching and Halloween Movies. I don't even remember any of that. Me neither.

But it sounds hilarious. And then he said, afterwards, my mom said the reviews were kind of funny, but she found your banter the most entertaining. I know. At first I read that and I was like, it makes me so sad when people write in like, haha, my husband hates your show. And I'm like, why would you tell me that? It makes me sad. My husband gets mad at me every time I bring up your show. Yeah, he hates it and he doesn't think you're funny. But I do. I'm like, why would you tell me that? It makes me sad. My husband gets mad at me every time I bring up your show.

Yeah, he hates it and he doesn't think you're funny. But I do. I'm like, why would you say that? That just makes me sad. Okay, so he says, the reviews were funny, but she found your banter the most entertaining part because it reminded her of the way she talks to her sisters. Cute. That makes me happy. Because you get plenty of the opposite.

Yeah, the banter people don't always love. That makes me happy because you get plenty of the opposite. So yeah, it's nice to get that one. The banter people don't always love, which is why we talk so much in this episode about everything but Claire's. So this is a one star review of a Claire's in Olympia, Washington by Tim. And just so you know, I'm going to change the name. One star view of a Claire's in Olympia, Washington by James. And just so you know, his profile photo is like a sepia toned photo of him in a military uniform. Like he looks like a veteran from the photo. Gorgeous.

Yeah. So I don't know. It just to me, it adds aesthetically. It adds something to see that photo. Sometimes those photos really affect the way you read these reviews. Yeah, because I still remember the one that you were reading of. I forget. Obviously, I don't remember because I don't remember what it was of.

But he had a puppy in the profile picture. Oh, yeah. And the review was so nasty. Yeah, and there was a cutest dog. Yeah, I think it was at pet stores. But anyway, so sometimes I just feel like it flavors the review was so nasty. Yeah. And there was a cutest dog. Yeah. That's right. I think it was at pet stores. But anyway. So sometimes I just feel like it flavors the review a little bit. That's why I have a picture of Prince Albert.

Stop. That's my profile picture. That's why you keep getting kicked off Google. They keep shutting down your account. Whoops. One Star by James. Claire's is the absolute worst store in our mall. The staff are hateful, snarky.

They constantly manipulated all these little girls through an emotional battery and slights and put downs. They even try to pit them against each other when customers come in groups like BFFs or mother-daughter and especially father-daughter. Wait, what? There's some sort of social warfare going on. Sounds like Hunger Games hunger games yeah especially father daughter what they pit you against each other and i mean again based on the promo photo they're saying that the employees pit the customers against each other okay so which is hysterical i don't think that's true but what i think is funny is that there have been multiple reviews we've read where employees have said, oh, we don't carry that. But they do carry that.

Right. Are these employees just like completely messing with. They're just mind games. I think so. It feels like it. It feels a little bit like it. They manipulated all these little girls through an emotional battery in slights and put downs see that is dramatic as fuck that's like especially

without specifics yeah yeah well there is more information i hope that's not happening i hope so too i really hope so too the manager didn't even know that one of her workers had been clocked in for over three hours doing personal business on her iPhone, setting up a sexual encounter with her Fawk boy at her lunch break. Okay, Fawk boy is spelled F-A-U-K. Oh, that's not, yeah. B-O-I is one word. I don't know if this person doesn't know what they're writing.

Like, I don't know if they don't understand what... I don't know. I don't know if this person doesn't know what they're writing like I don't know if they don't understand what I don't know I don't know I genuinely don't know and again I want everyone to keep in mind this like very old-timey classic military photo as the profile so I like just to give you some context you know wow this store absolutely criminal you have bitter victims getting off on sadistic displays, power trips, body mutilation. I think this person is, I don't know, reading into things. Let me finish this last paragraph. You have bitter victims getting off on sadistic displays, power trips, body mutilation with inexperienced, performing piercings on clients of non-consensual ages. Honestly, if I had the authority, I would have made arrests. Felonious ones.

Hate and sexual in nature. End of review. Holy shit. Yeah, it's a lot. This feels conspiracy theory-ish. Right? conspiracy theory ish right sounds like this person assumes that something while some things are on the surface there's much deeper uh stuff going on yeah i mean i i i have a pro i have a hard time really believing that the deep-seated criminal activity they think is going on is like

actually going on um in a very intentional way i mean you're right it sounds like they're pitting claire's as pitting claire's is like this sort of um evil empire that has like all these moving parts like they have bitter victims who are getting off on sadistic i mean wow like we said earlier we i feel like so many of these employees are just these are summer jobs for them they're maybe high schoolers or um young people i don't know what why i don't as if they're part of this like crazy machine that's i mean maybe michelle can speak to this as a veteran Claire's employee, not a veteran like James, but a veteran Claire's employee who has 17 years. Shot a few guns in her days.

Yeah, she shot a few of those harpoons through people's ears. I do want to know, Michelle, like, do you feel like you deserve to be arrested for felonious crimes for, I mean, i don't even want to ask about the other one because it hate and sexual felonious crimes is like a very i mean that's like the highest level big accusation and it's very confusing because we don't know right we don't know what happened to this person specifically we do know that there was a fuck boy incident oh yeah yeah how does that my god it escalated um yeah go from that to turning into felonious assaults or whatever i know i think the thing we can kind of get a little glimpse into this person's life is saying that they pit people against each other when they come in in groups especially father daughter i feel like there's something there because why would you say that unless that's like a

personal experience you know um maybe i mean i don't know this feels like a a dangerous place for us to um to guess what's going on. That's why I'm all the way in and I'm waving to you. Come on in. The water is warm. This feels so... You're like dragging me back. Somehow this is going to come back to bite us.

You're totally right. I'm so scared of this person. You're completely right. So anyway, that's that. I'm done. You are. Okay, good good let's move on um i have the last thing i have anna actually sent this in at 12 18 a.m as i was getting ready for bed oh perfect and i thought i'm just gonna see what's in here real quick this is from anna she

her and the subject is dark things are happening at your local cla's and I to that I say yeah we know James already told us we just found out I can't wait for the the juxtaposition of that last review and whatever this is yeah to see the dark things to see what else is in the underbelly of Claire's um so here is the first one I have it is of a Claire's's in somerset kentucky it's a one-star review by amanda 27 for a pop socket what is this paris hilton prices jesus christ end of review so talk about wow cd underbelly paris paris hilton is involved i don't know what that has to do with anything i don't even year is it this is four months ago that this was written so i don't know what a paris hilton price is um i don't know if you're referring to the hilton franchise i don't

know if you're referring to does paris hilton have like a line of pop sockets maybe i don't know i think a new show right maybe yeah i think so that sounds right um but still it's called undercover in the seedy underbelly of you know though paris hilton seedy underbelly i don't like it when that's attached to a human being um i will say though when it comes to celebrities being associated with Claire's Paris Hilton, that's a pretty good one. Yeah. Not even if I don't know if she had any association with them. I don't either. But it would fit.

Right. Yeah. Like I could see like a Hello Kitty thing going on. I don't know. But somehow I am. It's like Avril Lavigne is the hot topic as to claire's that's exactly i think that was an sat question yeah and i think i got it right okay so this is another was my last one it's a review of a claire's in memphis tennessee and this is uh a redemption it's a four star review by Amber.

Here we go. Four stars because it's next to my favorite place that does butt vacuum therapy. Love crush. End of review. Excuse me? And then Anna wrote, what is butt vacuum therapy? And I'm here to tell you what it is. Wait, that wasn't a typo?

Oh, it's real. But it wouldn't end to our claire's adventure butt vacuum therapy get your butt augmented without any surgery but vacuum therapy is the most revolutionary non-surgical butt enhancement technique hold on i have to click the link to read more and get my cookies and algorithms all whoa look at the image that came up and get my cookies and algorithms all. Whoa, look at the image that came up. What the hell?

Someone's butt. I see that. With big suction cups on it. It says, butt vacuum therapy is the most revolutionary non-surgical butt enhancement technique that gradually lifts and plumps the buttocks. Now I get why the Teletubbies had they were just where are you going with this you know they had the best butts around excuse me because they had that vacuum friend oxen are that's so stupid what are you talking about

they did explains everything they did have some plump hips yeah yeah you're not wrong about that yeah they were looking good i mean it doesn't feeling good because they got the vacuum butt vacuum therapy from that sucky boy butt vacuum therapy stop putting words these words together i love that it also exfoliates the epidermis which i think famously means skin and i don't know why they need to say epidermis like that. But it also stimulates the dermis. I don't like the word dermis. Improves lymphatic flow. So, you know, this is, it's right next to her favorite butt vacuum place. And I feel like that's...

What's the name of the butt vacuum place? It was called... Nunu's? Xenor, stop talking about Teletub tubbies talk about a seedy underbelly talk about seedy underbelly it's called love crush with a k okay in memphis tennessee i'll look it up wow it has great reviews oh no logan heard me talking logan's calling me he doesn't call me that often oh no he knew i was talking about oh he knew butt vacuum therapy and new new yeah which one um he's like wait i told you all this he's like he's like give me credit oh no um

so yeah you know there's love crush um I feel like that gives all the information we need. And that's all I've got for you. Love it. Love it. Yeah. Okay, so now on to my challenge. Yes. So this is from Drew.

Do you remember it at all? I did, but now I don't. So no. Okay. I'll tell you. This is from Drew. He, they. And it was to find a review where someone confesses to a crime.

Oh, yeah. I had fun with this. Good. The first one is a forum on TripAdvisor. We're going to start kind of loosey-goosey. It's of an all-inclusive resort in Aruba. And it's the question and answer section. And Gary says, hi. exclusive uh resort in aruba and it's the question and answer section and um gary says hi i know it's illegal but can i buy ganja on the beach and then literally right after that

my bad sorry in the same post like i don't know he's already apologizing oh no before even getting any answers so hi i know it's illegal but can i buy ganja on the beach my bad sorry and um here's a response by lucas are you serious really families go and use facilities and no in the past two times i have been you cannot buy it and then benny responded wait wait wait what a fucking nerd i know what year is this it says over a year ago which is not that does not help at all helpful to me like the least helpful thing you could say might have been a year ago might have been 20 we don't know literally no way to know um christina what and then there's another response from benny who's trying his best

i did smell it once on the walk from our room to evening meal oh my god that's actually weirdly like sweet i know like it might be possible because someone else did it like if i had known you were looking i would have gone and found the source of the smell so sweet i love that on their way to evening meal um so that that's just like a little taste of, you know, just some illegal-esque activity. And it's not necessarily admitting a crime, but admitting, well, he did say sorry. I don't know. He's apologizing for wanting to do. Was that it?

That was it for that one. Yeah. Oh, man. I kind of want to go respond. And say what? And say, like, it'll be okay like more that other part lucas whatever yeah but like you know what if you're gonna write on tripadvisor about looking for drugs quote unquote someone's gonna have an issue and they called it ganja too the fact that

they called it ganja and they actually did respond to their own i think after this and said something like well i would never do it in front of my kids but sometimes on vacation i like to let loose so um i'm you know what i'm just mad for this person i know they deserve support they deserve to get high legal activities as much as they want yep on their aruba vacation so this is actually more admitting of a crime this is by mark s and it is a review of the haiku stairs in hawaii i don't know what that what is that uh i don't know but it is closed now oh after this illegal activity haiku stairs hawaii uh it's an iconic place.

It's a staircase, and it's also called the Stairway to Heaven. I'm not going up that. No. Scary. No. That sounds like a lot of stairs. And it's now private property. And, I mean, to really give you a spoiler, you were not supposed to go up it like this was like a they had closed it off to tourists because um it's it was dangerous people are getting injured

and also it's just it was considered illegal trespassing and so it was not meant to be a tourist attraction um and so this is a review of the stairs. If I can find it. Oh my God, no. I literally accidentally replaced the tab with butt vacuum. Mark S gives it four stars. We can dispel some of the rumors surrounding this hike. First off, one, it is illegal and you are trespassing. Two, it's Hawaii and no one seems to care.

There's a security lady taking photos of you as you come out, but there were no fines or police. Most people on the trail simply walked past the security on the way up with no issue. This is a long hike, so be prepared for a trek. I would recommend a headlamp, gloves, and plenty of fluids. In is high and long, but out takes half the time and is quick. The views and adventure was still spectacular, even in the fog and rain. Nothing short of a clear memory here. I enjoyed every wet and windy bit.

I highly recommend it. End of review. I feel like you shouldn't highly recommend it if you're saying, first off, it is illegal and you are trespassing. Yeah, not to be a nerd like Lucas. Yeah, exactly. But tourists kind of suck already. Yeah, especially in Hawaii. In a place like Hawaii, especially.

So to then also not follow the local laws and stuff is kind of shit. To just so blatantly disrespect the wishes of locals, of the culture, of the people who own this property. It's just wild to me that somebody would say, I highly recommend going, bring fluids, and just walk past the lady taking your photo who's reporting you to security. I mean, yeah, of course they're not going to do anything, but that doesn't mean go right ahead. Just go to the beach, find some ganja, and relax. Yeah, just smoke some ganja. Who's that hurting? Smoke some ganja at home and just watch videos of Hawaii. Exactly.

That's what I do. Marcus probably has a GoPro video on YouTube and even the title of the video probably says, My Illegal Hike, so that he can get all this credit for his illegal trespassing that he seems so proud of. Some sort of, it's got to be some clickbait headline. We went on the most illegal hike in the world. Find out why this place has been closed to tourists, but we went anyway. Nerd took my photo to send to security. Well, here's his photo right back.

Okay. I will say I have watched those. Not fully, but have you seen those YouTube videos where people just walk through cities? No. They just walk. That's cool just walk that's cool it's like an app for an hour do you just smoke ganja and watch that yeah really high quality too high quality is it like a gopro or do they hold a camera it's like a gopro i assume yeah and do they do stuff or do they just kind of wander just walk through the city and sometimes it's like

rainy a little bit what cities have you there's like new york cool um that sounds amazing yeah and they're like a lot of like europe ones in europe like just like and it's usually like early morning there's not that many people and it's kind of peaceful and you know i'm watching a couple docu-series about um crimes like uh the theranos one i just watched i just watched the we work one and i know that this doesn't seem connected but in my mind it is which is when i picture these office spaces where they're kind of like these new trendy whatever i picture a video like that playing in the background the whole time of one of these offices like someone just wandering through new york city and they like hire a specific person to just wander around and live stream their footage like it's just I don't know in my mind I'm like that's so

random but also like weirdly enjoyable to watch yeah I'm kind of into that that's fun anyway if anyone uh is interested I'm gonna go uh to this place called the haiku stairs with my GoPro and you can just hear me like panting trying to get to the top yeah it's and then me falling yeah it's gonna be really cool to watch um just kidding don't trespass okay so this is a review that was actually sent in by hannah who also sent a claire's review earlier so sent me a little double whammy and this is of a place called smoker's choice in syracuse it's a five star redemption and i looked up smoker's choice and their slogan is your local tobacco and cigar outlet i wonder if they sell any other paraphernalia yeah so here is the review and this is a five star

review by richarditting to a crime. Only place in Syracuse that will accept my fake ID. Always buy myself blunt wraps and go home, have some fun. Thanks, Smoker's Choice, for everything. End of review. And there's a photo. Very helpful review for many people, I'm sure. I agree.

And totally not concerned with admitting. That looks like a still from the movie Office Space. What am I looking at? Yeah, this photo doesn't even really look real. So I don't know what's going on with this picture. But it is of a guy with a blunt in his mouth and sunglasses on in the kitchen. In a kitchen. But it looks like old.

Like it looks like 90s yeah am i wrong i don't have glasses on it's kind of far it does look kind of well no no yeah ignore me i think it does i don't know it looks like a myspace profile photos in some ways i don't know why um but so that's one admitting a crime now this one's just a photo so i feel like this isn't gonna fly really well but um i found it on tripadvisor and the caption of this photo is this photo almost got us arrested didn't know it was illegal lol um and it is of a photo of a woman or it is a photo of a woman standing um next to a clearly like military personnel in i i don't know i don't know which country to be honest i was very confused by this whole photo album that they posted what were they

doing did they say um oh they were just taking a photo oh it's the osan air base in south korea is where this photo was taken oh she just was taking a photo next to um a guard i think okay and um said she didn't know it was illegal to take photos with them but i just love her kind of like posing and saying didn't know it was illegal uh almost got arrested here it is putting it on the internet i'm gonna put on the internet the guy literally has his hands on an automatic weapon like it's a very frightening photo uh so there's that and now i'm gonna do something that you don't want me to do cruises so kaylin a whole new episode a whole episode next week all cruises did that win yeah of course it was i know i just i haven't checked it in days i remember telling you last

time i checked it was at 80 or something i remember telling you to hold out hope but so kaylin she her wrote in and said after last week's episode where christine found reviews from cruise critic i had the idea that there could be an ongoing theme where christine finds a review from there for every theme or challenge can you repeat that yeah so after okay caitlin has the idea that there could be an ongoing theme where christine finds a review from cruise critic for every single one um and then she said sorry not sorry xandy and so i did um you know what i can't deny what there's some great content that comes out of that place. I love it there. I love them. I do. But Eek, look, when it first started, the reason that the whole thing is me being annoyed at it is because she screamed Eek at me like 50 times.

And then it followed me. It wasn't just ended once we stopped recording. This Eek thing has been going on forever. People Eek at me all the time. It's mostly me, but other people too. Alexander, I felt bad, so I made a list. No. A game.

I made a game for you. Oh, I love games. Yeah, which is where you have to guess some of the laws people have broken. Ooh, okay. Let's do it. Because I went through a ton of forums of people talking about what was illegal and what they've done that broke the law. And I'm curious if you can come up with any. Two, three, four, five, six.

I have eight things that I've stumbled upon that people have admitted to. Yeah. Do you have any thoughts? Sneaking alcohol in. Definitely. We already knew that was a thing. Definitely. Drinking underage slash sneaking alcohol on board. So good that was a thing definitely uh drinking underage sneaking alcohol on board so good one check okay check um maybe there's a curfew or some hours that

they're not supposed to be out and about no so there is uh like local country's laws so i have that it's very vague but it was some of them were like oh women aren't supposed to go alone off the off the ship okay without it like a male companion or you know depending on the country so there are i'm sure there are curfews regarding like different country's laws okay okay so that is technically one yes uh being in areas of the ship that they're not supposed to be in that is is not one that I found. Okay. Um, but, I mean, I'm sure that also happens.

I don't know, murder? These people are probably capable of that. Not that I saw, but yeah, I don't- Wow, there's that many more laws that they break? I mean, some of them are so specific and random. Um, one of them is wearing camouflage in certain countries. Oh! Yeah. That is- Apparently certain countries. Oh, that is?

Yeah, apparently certain countries you're not supposed to wear camouflage. Do you have any other guesses? Your laugh makes me think that I'm not going to come up with any. There's just some really random ones. I don't know. I don't know if you'll ever guess them. Probably not then. Scattering ashes. Oh, that's yep scattering

loved ones ashes yep that is definitely one that people have admitted to um this one is interesting and i actually have i think a review of this yep uh photocopying copyrighted photos from the ship okay yep um one is drinking absinthe, which people were debating whether or not that was. That's so specific. Yeah. One was buying Cuban cigars. Oh, yeah. Oh.

That's a big one. These are interesting, though. Right? And, like, I could see that being a thing with, like, plants, like native plants. Oh, sure. Well, the last one, it looks like they're taking rocks or natural items from beaches or parks. So that's another one. I mean mean someone even

said that the person in front of them at customs had packed a giant pail full of sand and just like packed it down and the security did not know what to do um and so everyone was like this the whole thread was this person saying my grandma really really wants a rock that's why you bring an urn fill it with sand oh and say these are ashes yes and they say you can't do that either you can't throw those say oh no i won't scatter them she just wants to lay in bed with me oh wow yeah so i there were a lot of forums um most of them did say eek so i'm gonna leave i'm just gonna let you know that without like really going through the whole thing. I can hear it. Yeah.

But so instead, really the only thing I want to read is a forum about photocopying photos from. Yeah. From the or getting. We recently had a thread about getting those photos. We did because one of my challenge. Yeah, that's true. Because my challenge was about finding about about getting those photos. We did because one of my challenges. It's interesting. Yeah, that's true. Because my challenge was about getting the wrong photos.

And the facial recognition stuff. Oh, my God. And Kaylin said since she accidentally stumbled upon the Cruise Critic, which is where that happened. So we're back at the photos. They have something for this show. We should just do our show all Cruise Critic. I mean, at this point, might as well do a well do spin-off yeah there's so many for i mean you could find like everything and so this is a review by sable rose or not a review i'm sorry it's just a forum post but

the question the title of the forum is can i take the pics i bought on conquest to walgreens to print out and this is sable Rose's post. 8x10 picture, but I'd like to put them on a CD and take them up and get some smaller prints made. Teff, not one word from you about copyright infringement either. Smiley face. So I guess there is a user who likes to get on everyone's case about copyright infringement. I don't know who Teff is, but sounds like a party pooper. Probably a professional photographer who has had their stuff stolen many times. An assistant at a law firm or something he's like i know about all these laws you're breaking

um so teff sounds like a lucas in my mind like don't you do that you know this is a response by lsu traveler and they're uh just so you know they're spent they've uh tweaked their font to be italicized purple in aerial oh good so just you know for fun lsu colors are purple oh wait you're totally right that's probably why go tigers yes you can i heard some say it can't be done but have been doing it for a while never seen a watermark i've scanned them for relatives had copies made at photoshops and i've put them on a cd never had a problem never seen a disclaimer but haven't looked for one either so this person is clearly admitting that they are breaking the law breaking the law i don't know they didn't see anything they didn't see anything so they didn't look for anything but they also didn't see it because their eyes were closed.

And then this is the final response. This is by Jen. As a Walgreens store manager, I can tell you that our company policy is that no professional photos may be copied without a release from the photographer. We are subject to huge fines if we are caught copying professional photos. Most cruise lines, Carnival included, have no problem faxing you a release for the photos. Once they have your money on board, they really don't care. I've copied many formal portraits with the release. If you want to try without a release, go ahead.

Just don't come to my store. It won't happen. End of review. Ooh. Hey, if that's all it takes, I mean, just go through with it. Get that release. No, and then sable rose literally responded like oh they're faxing the release now perfect so yeah i just love like jen's like not in my not in my walt greens like my first thought was i was worried that the cruise was like no like

you have to pay us even more money blah blah i know they were keeping but if apparently it's respecting the photographer's rights too i'm like like, yeah, I like that. I think what happened is if you buy the prints, then they can give you the release, you know. That makes sense. They're not going to like fight you on that. I think that's fair. Yeah, if you paid for them, you know, I think it makes total sense. That all makes sense. I think that seems fair on both sides. I mean, as someone who is kind of like LSU traveler.

No, was it? Yeah. As someone who sees myself in LSU traveler, I think I probably wouldn't even bother getting that fax. I think I would just go in. Try and do it. I would try to find where Jen works and go to any other Walgreens. Got it. But if I've already paid for it.

Okay, okay. True, true, true. I feel like that's the catch there. If I i know they're gonna send me a release like whatever yeah i don't know um i don't think i mean as a walgreens uh customer uh here in northern kentucky i don't think anyone really is gonna give two shits if i'm printing like i really don't think they care yeah i get photos printed there a lot i didn't know that was a policy i didn't either i guess i never tried yeah it like protects the photographer but like also this was in 2005 and i wonder if like that's the whole

thing photo printing like people care as much now you go and like basically do it yourself right yeah exactly it's like all digital now i don't know that anyone really cares anymore um but yeah so i don't know i just thought that one was uh not in my walgreens you know and so that's all i got for you today there were again like a lot of forums about doing illegal things but i thought i would just mention what they were instead of actually reading every forum um that was good reading every eek that was good thank you so that's that so next week we've got cruises and your challenge my challenge which how could i forget i can't even forget it's a review is written from the perspective of a baby oh my god alexander oh no yeah it's gonna be a nightmare episode for everybody uh me included

so i'm just gonna admit it right here and now yeah and patrons sorry again for that lack of content last month that one's on me that month got away from us yeah i mean it was on me too i just left town it was probably the most hectic month for me health wise um yeah oh and after we record every episode this last sometimes i've taken a nap every time yeah i've been so exhausted by the end with gg um so but today i can't i think we're tired of your excuses and i think there's no excuse for not giving patrons the content they deserve i'm gonna get send them all a note for my doctor oh my god i have a doctor's note give it give us your mailing address and i'll mail you a copy um i think we do require mailing address on patreon so we could

i think so so we could just send out like a mass and that's it like not even any other like bonus thing do you think we need nothing they'll actually want just do you think we need a release from before walgreens prints those out for us they might not they might need a release for us just well at least jen will need a release not at her walgreens you know okay we'll work on that um we need like a hippo release yeah um all right well so we'll see you all next week for that chaos episode the most disturbing episode we've probably done in a while and that's saying something yep all right talk to you soon bye Bye.