Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet - 40: Gas Stations in Wilmington, DE

Episode Date: August 28, 2019

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Call 1-866-531-2600 or visit connectsontario.ca. Please play responsibly. Welcome to Beach to Sandy, Water to Wet, a podcast featuring real reviews written by people who just need the world to know what they think. need the world to know what they think. Between you and me, I wanted to like this podcast, but I'd give it zero stars if I could. We're back and we are more cultured than ever i would say less cultured after that experience we are back in the united states we were in austria and germany for the last i don't know 12 days 11 days it felt like a lifetime it felt like a long long lifetime full of ups and downs going to like too many cities in too short of a time period no it was uh it was fun overall a great experience it was fun

it was just a lot um but overall really great yeah and we survived we did survive um we it was blaze's first time meeting all of his in-laws, both sides of the family, and there are a lot of them. There were a lot. I think that's the only thing. I think I forgot how many there are, and a lot of them I haven't seen in probably 20 years. So anyway, how are you? Me? Yes. Oh, I'm great. I thought you were asking them. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling excited that we're back, and I think we're going to... I don't know. We've got a lot more exciting stuff.

I think you have an announcement. Uh-huh. I have two things. Okay. One, I want to do a little shout-out to... Excuse me. What the hell is going on? Like, hold don't know.

Let me drink my cold press fruit stand juice beverage. What the fuck is happening? Oh, the grossest drink Trader Joe's sells. Oh my God. What is this? Use our promo code for the worst advertisement in history. Oh shit. That's not as good as I thought.

Okay. Wow. That's not as good as I thought. That's not as good as I thought. I know. I know. You have to learn good as I thought. Okay. Wow. Alexander, pressed juice is never as good as you think. I know. I know.

You have to learn that when you move to LA. It's literally fruit and vegetable juices with pink salt and cayenne pepper. Okay. Well, you should have known by reading the label. Okay. So, anyway, I have a little shout out to do to Daniela, who spotted me in Santa Monica. Oh, I forgot. On the promenade.

Alexander got recognized for the first time ever. And I'm sorry if I seem very awkward because i was startled i was it was a weird moment for me i've been recognized a few times and it is very scary when a stranger runs up to you because you i mean at least i usually assume i've done something wrong so i immediately become defensive and apologetic yeah yeah but it it was very nice to meet you and and she recognized ally ally too and she called you your stupid name she uh shouted bad boy of podcasting multiple times and now santa monica knows now everyone in santa monica needs to know or should know by now, who I am. But yeah, no, and I was very flattered and very surprised.

And still, I'm a little convinced someone paid her to do that. Yeah, it was me. You finally caught it. Yeah, maybe Allie was like, wow, he's been in such a bad mood and stuff. Let's cheer him up. Let me find a stranger to... But she was like, I'll give you five bucks extra if you recognize me too. Anyway, shout out to her. Hi.

Also, I want to tell everyone how much of an idiot I am. Finally. Last episode, I mentioned that Delaware is a state where the attendant pumps the gas for you. And Kayla messaged us and said, hey, you're an idiot. You might be a bad boy, but you're not very smart. And told me that, apparently, in Delaware, that's not even true. Why would you think that? Well, I googled it, and for some reason, I don't know what I looked at.

Maybe I just looked at the first thing and for some reason misread it. But then Kayla emailed us or messaged us, and i googled it again and couldn't find anything that supported that like my are you serious yeah so i was just completely wrong and googled it and googled new jersey which is where they do do that now i'm gonna get another email being like you're such an idiot because i didn't actually google that although i think no i think it's new jersey and oregon are like the only two Kayla. Stop making factual statements that are probably untrue. Yeah, Kayla did not call me stupid or an idiot. Was very nice about it. And thank you for fact checking. We're going ahead with the episode anyway and found some good reviews for you. Great. Well, this is episode 40.

Big 4-0. Yeah. So I have a little present for you. Uh-oh. But let me go get it. Okay. Now I want to be clear before I go get it. Okay. This is, I hope you remember this reference, and I'm a little scared that you're going to be like, what in the hell is happening here? That's the worst, when people message us a reference, and I'm like, fuck, what was that? That's the best, because it just feels so weird when people say, it was so- Do they have the right podcast? My favorite is when I say, it was so funny when you said this, and I'm like, that does sound funny.

I wish I came up with that. Good for me. I'm like that does sound funny I wish I came up with that good for me I'm hilarious okay let me see if I can go grab it and if you will never mind I'm just chilling. Waiting. Hold on. Hold on. Okay, she's back, but she doesn't have anything. Okay, hold on. Let me get my headphones. What kind of gift is this?

Okay, so because Blaze helped me with this, he's going to bring it in. Okay, Blaze, whenever you're ready. So this is our 40th episode. what the heck it's time oh 40 years 40 years left oh my god is that a long john donut it is a long oh my god i forgot to buy a cake and then blaze was like why don't you put it in a long john donut oh my god it's beautiful thank you blaze and christ I'm gonna, this is gonna go perfectly with my fruit stand juice beverage. Oh my god. That reference is when that person got that cake, right? And they were like, they, or they bought that topper for their cake. It was from Crab Cakes in Baltimore, or Crab, whatever. I shouldn't put it in a crab cake.

Oh my god. Anyway. That's so perfect. Bye. She's recording this on video if you're wondering why she said bye. Okay. Oh my god. 40 years blessed.

It's a long John Donut with 40 years blessed. The cake topper we talked about in, I don't know, episodes 31? I don't remember. Crab, what is it? Crab houses in Maryland. Crab restaurants. Crab houses. Crab homes. Um, crab, what is it? Crab houses in Maryland. Crab restaurants, crab houses. Crab homes. Oh, right.

Right. Yeah. So it was when they lost the cake topper on Nancy's 40th birthday. It was a whole to-do. Anyway. Oh. I didn't lose it. Oh, that's so sweet.

Happy 40th. Can I have a bite of that? You can probably see a picture on our Instagram because that's probably the post that we're going to use for it. Well, I should probably take a picture of it, I guess. Well, no. A picture of us with it. Should we take a picture on our instagram because that's probably the post that we're going to use for it well no a picture of us with it should we take a picture with it not right now i'm about to eat it oh we're eating it right now yes i just had a big one she took it over to herself and is like just taking off pieces and eating it okay if you if you want to see a

picture of what's happening right now you need to get on our patreon because i'm i've got some nice pictures of her just chowing down on this long john donut every patron just removed their donation we're not at 100 yet you guys don't get to see our uh live stream until you do that so we need 100 of you we're getting there anyway happy 40th happy 40th happy 40th we made it 40 and flirty or what is it 40 flirty and thriving yes um our theme our theme this week was gas stations in wilmington delaware did you know that um in delaware they pump the gas for you um i also want to start okay you want to tell us what our challenge is too just so people i have no idea oh yeah that was for me i'm gonna be frank with you i have no clue um i'm just gonna whatever it's the challenge was for me. I'm going to be frank with you. I have no clue. I'm just going to, whatever. The challenge was for me to find reviews of a church where the person had a churchgoer

come to their door and just be like, hey, come to my church. Forget what the word for it is. Come to my church. I like this one. I'm excited. Okay. It was fun. I don't even remember that, but I'm glad that that's what it was.

Go get it started. It's in Wilmington. Sure. Nope. I'm not going to do that. These poor people. Before we start, I wanted to do a little homage, if you will. Okay. We just got back from a trip. We did. Boy, are our arms tired.

When you say, we flew back from our trip. We did. Boy, are our arms tired. And we... When you say, we flew back from our trip, and then you'd say that? Jeez, you fucked up your dumb joke that I knew you were going to do. I was going to fuck it up for you and make the joke before you could, but then you fucked it up yourself, so it doesn't matter. You just said that word four times, and we got a nasty review saying that I had a dirty mouth, and I'm the only one who hasn't sworn yet on this episode so i just want to say that back to you haters who are saying mean things about me yeah i i do also swear a lot on this show i don't know why they called you out because i'm a

lady i'm in my petticoats anyway so we went to germany and aust. It was a wild ride. It was wild. So we were there for like 11, 12 days. Got back yesterday. And I, you know, I already miss it so much. Uh-oh. What do you have for us? I just found a couple reviews of a couple places we enjoyed on our trip. Schneebergbahn? Maybe.

Oh, shit. Well, the first one, I did one Germany, one Austria. In Germany, you and I had the pleasure of experiencing a really beautiful... Phantasialand. ...cultural place called Phantasialand. It's an amusement park, and it was actually pretty fun. Our family, we did this big family reunion thing, and they were like, do you want to go to a castle? Or do you want to go to an amusement park?

And we were like, we'd like to go to a castle. All four of us were like, castle, please. That was Alexander, Allie, Blaze, and me. And then they said, well, you're the only four out of 47 people who want to go to a castle. So you're coming to the amusement park. So we loaded on to the Kaiser tour bus. And we all took a trip to Phantasialand. And we had a great time.

We had a blast. However, James did not. Uh-oh. I think the problem was James went at Christmas time. James's review of Phantasialand was on TripAdvisor and the subject was All the Christmas Cheer of a Taliban Training Camp. Holy fuck. So this is what James had to say. It started well enough.

We entered via Chinatown, which was a calm and pleasant space. This turned out to be a trap. From the moment we passed into the Berlin section, where most of the attractions are located, we were met by aggressively loud and insistent shouting and wailing from a proliferation of squawk boxes cleverly positioned to eliminate any hope of escape. Is there some CD in circulation called 100 Traditional Christmas Songs Butchered Without Pity? Or simply, Let's Murder Christmas? or simply let's murder christmas because not only is it ubiquitous and inescapable it is conceived to ruthlessly crush any kindling of christmas spirit and stamp remorselessly on

the human face after an hour or two of it i have kids the world could go starve for all i cared and i could have cheerfully shot the little drummer boy whoa yeah rumpa pum pum what is happening why what what is this poor victim talking about i saw a sanctuary back in chinatown which was beautifully lit and with appropriately tinkling mysterious background music real magic but everything there was closed including what seemed to be the only decent service restaurant in the place nobody could tell me why i know the chinese don't celebrate christmas but they do usually like to make money i sat there for a while does this guy think that it's like that section of the park is like a separate entity run by like a chinese family or something maybe it was just very convinced by the...

True. For those who don't know, it's like literally just like a section of the park. It's very aggressively decorated though. Yeah, it is. And it's very well done. Not that I've been to China. I mean, like everything looks clean and nice. We went to a restaurant called Ling Bao.

That's like the hotel on the premises. Yeah. Other than all the Mao Zedong tapestries, it was quite tasteful. I sat there for a while watching the fun stirs stream past indifferently, lured by the hysterical screaming which they assumed issued from the fast roller coasters, but I would prefer to think came from people like me who could take no more. It's awful to be alone at Christmas. Children and the cerebrally challenged

will love this place. But if you have a vestige of soul that has survived the onslaught of Christmas and the urgent screeching of Santa Claus is coming to town, whoa, yeah, you will just grit your teeth and get through it, as is the noble self-sacrifice

required of a parent and a review so where does the taliban come in here oh that's in taliban town oh okay yeah also quite tasteful um they also love to make money off you anyway and they definitely don't celebrate christmas um that was what the fuck so wait the problem that this guy had was that they had christmas music uh-huh okay the way it was presented did not at first seem that way so i was very it was just like wailing and screeching and i didn't know that he was talking about christmas music until he went rumpa pum pum i could shoot the little drummer boy geez um well he said 100 traditional christmas songs butchered without pity was the name of the cd they were playing so

yeah i guess okay now i'm gonna move to a different country and it's not ling bao it's austria it's austria so alexander and i had the pleasure of going um withie and Blaze and Lisa Lampanelli up to the... Sort of a great joke. Up to Lower Austria's highest mountain. The whole trip I was like, oh, we're going on Austria's highest mountain, highest point in Austria. And we get there and then, like, I think Blaze corrected me. He's like, this is just the highest point in Southern Austria. I'm like, what?

That's right, folks. We went to Lower Austria's highest mountain. And the train was like an old steam engine, which is very cool from the outside. It's very cool for six minutes. From the inside, taking the an hour and a half trip up. Not so cool. 90 minutes. And I'd also like to point out that uh we had a weather problem

oh my god we probably would give this place two stars mostly because that wasn't their fault well okay sure we'd give it four stars yeah one for yeah it wasn't that okay we show up there and turns out we have a hike like a 20 minute walk to get to the restaurant we needed to go to where all the the family was going to have a lunch it starts pouring freezing cold water called rain but it was like really aggressive it was actually sleet inhale it was like very aggressive was it It was actually sleet and hail. It was like very aggressive. Was it? Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, that explains a lot because it hurt.

It hurt and we were in sandals and shorts and t-shirts because it was 80 degrees in Austria and we went up this mountain and oh boy, was it no longer that weather. Not at all. No. If you're listening to this on the day it comes out, check my Insta post from yesterday and you get to see my very wet shorts. It like i peed myself nobody wants that we suffer through a very wet and cold lunch then we get back to the train station which is where we realize they actually sell hoodies and we're like well we could have used these before we went up a freaking mountain. And so we all bought hoodies, which ironically stated, I love the Schneeberg Bond.

I love the train that just brought us to this misery. So now we all have matching hoodies. Yes, we do. And we all also had to throw away our shoes. So that's another fun matching thing. We literally had to throw away my shoes. My brand new Birkenstock literally had to throw away my shoes my brand new birkenstocks my not so brand new sneakers tragic um so you know i just wanted to like kind of give um a redemption oh okay from carl oh carl tell us carl had a four-star time also okay it seems to kind of match ours okay carl from missouri said the mountains were

absolutely beautiful however the train makes a stop about two-thirds of the way up for passengers to get off and order pastries from a small rest stop i was last in a very long line to order and as i was being served the train gave one big blast of its whistle and left without me. I was running and shouting for them to stop the train. Then I had to wait for another hour and a half for the next train to come. On top of that, my expensive jacket was on that train and was

never to be seen again. Don't worry, Carl. They sell these awesome hoodies at the top of the mountain. Don't you worry. You're in for a treat. You can share your love of the Schneebergbahn with the world. Even with all that,

the view at the top was breathtaking, making it worth all my trouble. However, I give the salamander train a zero for customer service. Oh. End of review. So, he had the right idea. Yeah.

Four stars. Four stars, that's nice. So, that was my... All things considered. My, uh, I wanted to give kind of the opposite viewpoint for both of those locations. Those historically, culturally relevant locations we visited. Oh, yeah. Just the greatest.

Yep. Especially Phantasialand. Especially that. I'd go back there, though. Not up on that mountain. It was pretty, I mean, to be fair, the beer was like four euros, so. Yeah, it was cheap. Yeah, it was super cheap.

Okay, so let's go to Delaware. Finally. What are we, like 30 minutes in? The next stop on our road trip. I started at Liberty Gas Station. What a great place to start. Thank you. Thank you.

I'm just trying to come up with a joke. I can't come up with one. We're way too deep into this episode. Elle gave Liberty Gas Station one star. Food is okay, but the white lady that serves the food at the counter is very unprofessional she was buying dove soap from a drug addict instead of taking my order when she should have end of review what a scenario i'm why i do like that it was specified what brand it was and yeah i wanted to know that

yeah because true like i feel like that kind of legitimizes it a little bit more unless it was like some crappy soap brand it'd be like ew but here it's dove soap it's like oh okay what if it was like keels hand lotion or like lancome face moisturizer that would be much better story however i do wonder if dove soap is maybe a euphemism that we naive babies don't understand hit us up hit us up sandy at gmail.com tell us what dove soap actually means just send us some yeah or send us okay i've got a review of eagle station by jess two stars the only reason i gave it two stars instead of one is because their gas prices are decent try to pay with a card though because the guy inside is a jerk i walked in he saw me

then went back behind a wall while ignoring I was there and a reveal I don't know why that just got me so good I know that's I was like not sure if I should include it because I'm like am I the only one that's gonna find this weirdly funny okay good I think it's because I was visualizing the entire exchange just like the soap exchange I'm trying to like picture what the hell is going on in this guy i imagine him like standing straight up as a guy as jess walks in and he gets all nervous like uh-oh and he just like takes one step to the side so he can't be seen behind a wall and then like only comes out when she leaves oh my god that's so funny to me and i think it's because i picture the guy just being really socially anxious yeah he's just in the wrong job kind of cute like oh he's just in

the wrong career um i have a review from donald also of liberty gas station we're still here trying to the lady's still buying soap so we haven't really left yet donald gave it one stars i wish i could give it zero stars did i say say Donald gave it one stars? What's the matter with me? I've been in Germany too long. Yeah. Donald gave it one star. I wish I could give it zero stars. They have the highest price gas that I've seen in Delaware.

The clerk in the small store, the store has room for two medium-sized people, is behind the bulletproof glass. You should try not to go there. End of review. So the problem was that someone was behind bulletproof glass. You should try not to go there. End of review. So the problem was that someone was behind bulletproof glass? Maybe it's that same guy that was hiding behind the wall. Hold on.

Yeah. Hold on. Fast forward a little bit. This guy found a job at a different gas station and accepted it because he could stand behind bulletproof glass. Delaware, do you not understand what walls and... I'm so confused. So let i do i think i picked this for you because i really enjoy that he described the size being like meant for two

medium-sized people medium and so the store is small has room for two medium-sized people and the clerk is behind the bulletproof glass so you should not go there yes sure cool makes sense donald it sounds like it it's not meant for them it's fine and for that reason donald wants to give it zero stars fine donald it's fine all right donald okay i've got a review from royal farms um i don't know if you came across those no it's not at all so i think it... Also, your first one was weird, too. Eagle something? Loyal Eagle? Eagle Station. Loyal Eagle.

So Royal Farms and, like, I did some Wawa ones. A lot of Wawa ones, mostly. Wawa ones? Wawa. Wawa ones. So Royal Farms has gas stations, but, like, also is known for their chicken. It's supposed to be really cheap and good. People are obsessed with the food at these gas stations.

And I mean, Wawa, I understand, because I know that's a thing. But at Shell stations, people were commenting on the food. It was very interesting. Weird. Well, this is a review of a Royal Farms in Wilmington, Delaware. Am I going to be able to eat any of that donut? You had three-fourths of it. I left some for you.

Thank you. Don't tell people we're eating big. It's so mad. That we're eating while recording? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Allie asked that today. I'm like, oh, yeah, we don't let it stop us.

Okay. This is a review by Joe. One star. Do you notice all your reviews for your stores are like one or two stars? Should be a warning sign. Royal Farms, go back down south. You obviously can't handle this market.

The Delaware market. Guys, we gotta penetrate that Delaware market. Anyway. I've been to this location for the third and final time. The store is unkept. Bathrooms have one sink, which barely operates and is dirty. Food is a zero out of 10. I ordered a chicken salad wrap.

Sandwich came out in a six inch wrap. Out of the six inches, only three inches had filling. Remainder was empty. It was like getting a quarter of a sandwich. Chicken was hard on the ends, and the one piece of sweet pepper and the two shards of onion, which were old, were all packed onto this anorexic sandwich. Whoa, whoa. Whoa, indeed. The finale was the cashier having a conversation across the counter, talking to her friends shopping in the store,

but how she doesn't know why people consider her a whore. Not a conversation for the checkout line. Three strikes and you're out. Sorry, Royal Farms. End of review. You can't handle this market. For good reason. This was on Yelp, but under the not recommended section.

You can't handle the Delaware heat. Oh, yeah. With your fried chicken. Yeah, I like how it's like southern fried chicken. section you can't handle the delaware heat oh yeah with your fried yeah you southern i like how it's like southern fried chicken you can't make it up here in delaware where we have all the good fried chicken at gas stations i've all most of the royal farms ones were like i'd rather go to wawa down the street yeah i think they're so obsessive over wawa that literally no one can penetrate their market well i'm gonna stop saying that penetrate their market. Well. I'm going to stop saying that. It's about. Penetrate their market is if I know what I'm talking about.

It's about time I open my loyal eagle branch across the street. Penetrate the market. But not penetrate that bulletproof glass. Right, Donald? Oh, boy. What a weird place this is. No offense, Daniela. Or no, that was the only person who saw you on the street.

Who corrected you? Somebody else? Kayla. Kayla. no offense daniella or no that was the one person who saw you on the street yeah who corrected you uh somebody else kayla kayla oh boy okay let's see what do we have here oh i what i know what i had i have it a liberty gas station um redemption oh dave gave liberty gas station five stars they have' food up in there. I stopped going to other places, cause their pizza is bangin' and their food is just good. End of review. What a wide range of adjectives he has for things. Just bangin' or good. Love it.

Or just good. I stopped going to other places, because their food is just too good sorry wawa you lost a customer to dave yeah weren't banging enough or just good enough oh true speaking of wawa i've got a the rest of mine are wawa reviews oh Oh, please don't DM us about Wawa. Oh God. I've been there one time in like New Jersey in 2012. I was depressed. So I don't have a good opinion of it.

Oh God. And then I went and had a great time and bought some subs. So it was on my way to, okay. The problem was, so on my way to a table tennis tournament, um, yeah,

I played, that was a problem. Full stop. stop no i played competitively in college good times um there's a video about it somewhere on the internet it is don't look for it that i made and then um and anyway so our like the president of our table tennis club slash team was a big fan of wawa i think he was from new jersey and he kind of ruined it with ruined it with his enthusiasm and would not stop talking about it the entire way there. And then I had it, and it was good, but I was like, what? I think I've done that to people with Skyline Chili, so I get it. I do like Wawa, though.

I went there and had a good sandwich. Yeah, so let's just move on. The food's banging. Food's banging, but let me give some bad reviews of it. Okay, great. Here's one from on. The food's banging. Food's banging, but let me give some bad reviews. Okay, great. Here's one from John. One star. This place really fell off.

I don't know if management is failing, but I do know for sure the employees are definitely failing. This is the fourth time in a row they screwed up my order, and I was the only one in line. So did they screw it up by accident, or did they do it on purpose? I'm starting to wonder. I'll never come back but to be fair all of the wawas around here have developed a real laissez-faire attitude about their job but this one is terrible fire them and hire me i'll show you dorks how to make a fucking hoagie and review oh my god i read laissez- and I'm like, god, this guy has a way about him.

Now this is a guy who knows about business. And then he talked about making a fucking hoagie, and I was like, yeah, I'm convinced. He really rallied me up, got me excited. Everyone hired John. MBA. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no.

John, calm down. Yeah, and also, let's not really... Never mind. Let's just move on from John. Actually, let's just hire him and fire everyone else so he can show you how to make a fucking hoagie. Yeah. Maybe he can show us how to make a fucking podcast.

Yeah. Maybe he can show us how to stop swearing every five seconds. Nope. Obviously he can't. It's too late for us. It's literally too late for us. Um, cool. So I have a review of okay so it's i don't know when this happened if this is a new thing or if this is a delaware thing where

companies on google can just like change their name like i saw a couple that were like uh you know bp station grand reopening recently or what like they were like added stuff to it now this one was called sitco gas station smiley face emoji oh i did see that or not that one but i've seen them use like like emojis in there they do that and the it was a smiley with the teeth showing which i don't like oh where its eyes are closed and it's like doing a weird awkward grin yeah um and so i didn't love that however i do love that the sitco gas station with smiley face has the most apathetic customers in delaware so i'm gonna read about them uh kirby gave sitco three stars

if you need gas you need gas and a review how does this shit happen to be fair it says if need gas you need gas but i need gas you need gas yeah so they even shortened it and made it even sweeter just like even simpler beautiful thanks kirby thanks kirby thanks kerb now i know exactly whether or not i should go there i was wondering what it would take to get me there. I have another Wawa review. Oh my god. This is a review by Lucy, two stars. Should I just change all R's in these reviews to W's?

Please don't. God, no. Help, no. Behind the hoagie counter, there was a little too much lollygagging and socializing for my comfort when I was in a hurry to get to work i once waited 10 minutes for an iced latte after my brain had exploded with stress i took it and left but there shouldn't have been a stressful experience cashiers are mostly friendly food is fresh and delicious especially the donuts end of review oh my god okay sorry please hold everybody at wawa says

things like lollygagging laissez-faire i've decided this is the strangest weird right customer base that's so true like so many of these reviews i'd read them and i'm like who are these people with the with the verbiage it's oh it and it gets better just i never i'll just tell you that there's another one that's too much lollygagging for my taste yeah oh god okay well i have the opposite thing going on in my next review this is another very apathetic review by megan of uh sitco gas station tell us three stars well it's defiantly a gas station now once again i need to translate that i'm i'm believe i believe maybe this is just an assumption i presume this was supposed to say it's definitely a gas station i've seen often that definitely is

is spelled as defiantly but i just love that like well it's defiantly a gas station you know what even if they meant definitely it was a very laissez-faire laissez-faire review right there laissez-faire attitude god well good to know about that sitco yep with emoji if you need gas you need gas because this is defiantly a gas station jesus christ oh delaware um here's a review by diana of uh wawa one star i spent some time looking for something cold to drink i decided to get unsweetened tea this wawa only had sugared sweet teas i asked the cashier and she states that they don't have any unsweetened drinks are you kidding i ended up with milk sad end of review and literally included a

picture of a half gallon of milk a quarter of it has been consumed grotesque so she's just drinking milk with a straw in the parking lot out of a quarter gallon container i'm imagining no straw just tipping it right up oh god tipping it like a moonshine jug and she's looking at someone picturing with a sweet tea gone that's disgusting yeah she drinks her milk in her car yeah super although that would be a complaint of mine if they didn't have unsweetened iced tea but then again not enough for me to go online write this ridiculous one-star review including a picture of a half gallon of milk. I feel like this is the person that texts photos every time something happens.

Probably like I do. Yes. But, like, anytime there's something to, like, add a photo to describe the situation where it's like, Yeah, I know what it looks like when you drink a gallon of milk, but thank you. Yeah. For the proof, I guess. Yeah, what the... It's so unnecessary.

Like most of the things we read here. But my favorite reviews are the ones with unnecessary photos. It really is the best. It makes it more enjoyable, for sure. Um, I mean, not for you guys, because you can't see them, but it's okay. Yeah, but we don't care. We don't care? We don't care?

This is a laissez-faire podcast. Okay, I'm so over that word. I'll stop lollygagging. That word is cancelled. Let's go to Shell. Donnie gave it one star. Had a terrible experience at this location. Came in on March 24th, 2018 to purchase a pack of cigarettes and was not greeted or even told thank you.

As I finished my purchase, I went to walk out of the store and the man who had a black turban on proceeded to give me a look as I wanted to walk out. I am a customer that has came into your establishment to make a purchase. I do not appreciate that I'm given dirty looks. And as I went to call them last night to give a complaint, whomever the gentleman was proceeded to act like he was not very concerned. Thumbs down emoji times five. Thumbs down for this shell station that treats their customers very wrong. As a manager myself, you don't treat customers unwelcome, and if I had my way, I would fire every last one of those gentlemen. End of review. I have a feeling that them firing them has nothing to do with that experience with the look

with just with the look yes interesting theory just a theory interesting theory you have what the hell people are too tightly wound here just a little bit they are i mean think about it they're like this is such a there's so much lollygagging and the man in a turban looked at me and i mean everyone's very high strung taliban oh wait that's austria or germany yeah that yeah yeah taliban and chinatown it's a whole thing uh germany delaware what's the difference don't shoot the drummer boy please please uh or do what lauren wants to do here in my two-star review of Wawa. Oh, great. It's a little similar to yours with the cigarette thing, but it goes a little different direction.

Oh, no. I've been a loyal customer for years, going at least four times a week, enough to recognize me. I am 32 years old, and the manager asked to see ID. So when I gave it to him, he said it was expired the same day and would not sell me my SIGs. Their policies are meant to prevent children from purchasing SIGs, not loyal customers. So, because he refused me and argued with me, I was late to work on my birthday with no way to get a new driver's license or my cigs he lied to me three times stating he couldn't sell me my cigs without scanning my license he was really enjoying being an asshole

i was so angry i almost threw my hot coffee in his face and i would have been justified in doing so end of review oh my god no no no Lauren! To physically harm someone and send them probably to the emergency room is really not... My god, right? That's not good. Nah. No, not really. Not quite. But that's a thing.

They literally scan the IDs. I do... That's a thing at like 7-Eleven. So I don't know. Yeah, why would that be a lie? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Why would that be a lie? Yeah, I don't know. And I also... And why would they not want to sell you cigs?

Cigar. Sorry. I don't like... That's her terminology. Why would they not want cigs? We're not cool enough to say shit like that. Why would they not want... Like, what?

Like, that's what I don't get. What is the point in them doing that? That's because it was her birthday, and he knew it, and he really wanted to ruin her birthday. Duh. Oh. Or it's a loyal customer who's an asshole every single time, and they wanted to get back at her. But my assumption is they didn't want to refuse her service, but they had no choice because of the law. I love when we just...

Discuss the law. Discuss the law. Yeah. It's really, really, really useful for our listeners. I think... We provide a lot of insight. Between our MBA and our law degree, we really have a lot of insight into these kinds of matters, especially as someone who buys cigarettes all the time.

Oh, yeah. Not... Don't forget my phd oh right in uh review theory what so dumb that was dumb let's delete it it's pretty dumb your turn okay so i have a review um of the same shell station where donnie had a terrible experience with a man in a turban. TJ gave this review, and it is a two-star review. Employees are extremely rude and condescending. I also never see any white employees, so I suspect there's a lot of employment discrimination. End of review. What? What is wrong with these people that's what are you talking about hilariously i've never seen

a white dude comment on a place and say there's so many white employees so there must be discrimination like i've never seen it the other way around. Like, oh, this gas station has only white employees. This is discrimination. But when it's no white employees, it must be discrimination. Right, non-white people. Wow. I haven't seen people say that either.

We've seen people say, I was discriminated against for being white. Well, that's true. This one's like a new level, like a new meta level of like- Wow. It's not even about- A whole nother level of out of touch. Yeah, weirdly out of touch. I'm like, especially because apparently, as far as I've learned from these reviews, gas stations only fit two people in them at a time.

Yeah, true, true. In Delaware, and one of them's behind a wall, so you don't really know who they are. Yeah. Who that person is or what their ethnicity is um god that's ridiculous but i just love that this tj has never seen a white employee there so he suspects there's a lot of discrimination going on in the hiring system well who knows maybe he has a whole notebook full of all the different gas stations uh oh god employment processes he goes to like the sunoco and he's like, well, two white employees, this place checks out.

I'm going to leave it in my good list for now. The BBB won't hear about this place. BBB. All right. I've got a review here from Jamie of Wawa, one star. And this goes into the special verbiage. Oh, again? Delawareans.

What is happening? Oh, what's it? Delawareans? Delawareans? Oh, God, I don't even want to guess. Delawites. Get it? As it should be.

Okay. Also, this is only happening at Wawa. Because I'm looking through mine, and I don't seem to have any that have been... What is it with Wawa and the way people talk? Their hoity-toity language. Okay, here we go. Okay. There was no bathroom.

I had to wash my hands after 12 consecutive hours of physical belaboring rugby. So now my... consecutive hours of physical belaboring rugby so now i thought we were gonna go with like with physical labor at like a literally anything like some sort of work something like positive for society sorry was it laborious what physical belaboring rugby belaboring rugby. Belaboring. Okay, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. So now my food. My Mac had absolutely not enough Old Bay. Therefore, it tasted not okay. Oh, dear. Secondly, I ordered chicken strips and barbecue sauce.

But with my order, I didn't receive any. Thirdly, the machine for beverages did not give me an option to cancel my order. Therefore, I was insatiable. Will my time in this store? Don't know what that means. Oxenar, I think this was meant for people of a higher caliber of language. Someone please translate. May I encourage that you temporize and make some arrangements with these complaints.

This is not. And a review. This is not real. What is wrong? I don't know, Delaware. Talk to usaware do you have an app that we can put these things into and figure out what the hell is going on do you know what temporize means it means to like temper something to avoid making a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time. So, for example, the opportunity was missed because the mayor still temporized.

Because he was, like, delaying it? Or temporarily adopt a particular course in order to conform to the circumstances. Someone recently insulted my intelligence in a review based on the language I choose to use. And it was either this person is the only thing I can guess is that it was this person, or maybe I really am just so dumb

because I don't even know what that... But I'm not proving myself here because I don't understand how that word fits into any of this. Listen, we've been speaking German for 12 days straight. I'm kind of over that. So I'm so sorry. Please don't call me dumb. It's a struggle to come into English.

And not normal English. This is high class English. This is Delaware English. Yeah. Delaware English. Wawa English. I do have good news, though. Oh.

This review is in the not recommended section on Yahoo. Oh, thank God. Yes. Not recommended for people like us no yeah i'm like if anyone if one more person calls me dumb can you just do it in like german and then maybe we'll talk okay how's that oh thank you sorry i'm so over it it really hurts my feelings okay um listen i'm sorry i haven't temporized. Temporize those complaints and get back to them. Temporize the complaints.

And I'll let you know. I wish I had more apathetic customers like the Sitco had. Like, this is defiantly a podcast. Three stars. They're not wrong. I would take that. If you need gas, you need gas. Beach, too sandy, water too wet. wet so we're moving to sunoco oh we're

moving to a redemption good five stars by camp twilight i hate that just kidding i have nothing against twilight don't don't at me center loves twilight i have no opinion i've never watched it or read it because i work with them not for them they know me personally great peoples basically friends of the family end of review what what the fuck was that i don't know that was five star i shouldn't be mean i think they are an employee. Yeah, I don't understand. They work with them, but not for them? Yeah. Okay.

Basically friends and family. Whatever you find pride in, I don't know. My reviews are very different than yours. I don't know what's going on here. That just caught me off guard completely. I don't really know what was going on there. But I liked it. It seemed happy and nice.

Yeah. Camp Twilight. They give their family five stars. That's good. them five stars basically friends of the family yeah i've got one more review here it's of a wawa one star by ricky oh wait there's a manager response i said no you work for us not with us you're fired also we're not your family please stop calling me dad oh sorry i've took it too far okay this is my this is a review by ricky the wawa one star poor service and jenna is the worst person and who pays extra for barbecue sauce even if i ask for extra barbecue in a cup,

I'm better off going to the other Wawa since I have no issues asking for extra barbecue and getting two instead of one barbecue cups. End of review. Ricky, did Jenna dump you? Yeah, what? So that's what I'm wondering. Is Jenna at all related to the barbecue?

Or is it just a completely different feud? She's basically like friends of the family. Oh, yeah. And that's the problem. There's some layers here, really, though. Ricky gives one star to his family. There really was like a bait and switch with this Jenna situation. I know.

I don't know if that would make more sense at the end or where it is. Like, it's like, poor service. And Jenna is the worst person. Like, you'd say and, like. And Jenna is the worst person. Like, you'd say and, like, if it's at the end. But then he went into a rant about barbecue sauce. It didn't seem that Jenna was connected to the barbecue sauce in any way. Or to the poor service, because it's poor service and. Or to the Wawa.

Like, maybe this is just. True. Like, he just adds that into every conversation. He just needs to spread the word wherever he can. He was going on his rounds, like, selling his and jenna jenna wouldn't buy any jenna keeps hiding behind the wall every time he shows up oh my god oh my god oh boy that's just i mean i can't even begin to address the barbecue sauce thing let's so let's not oh let's not great um i have one more redemption good i had a lot for i will say most of them like there was that one remember i read the pizza was banging

oh yeah that place had uh wait let me see where it was that was a liberty gas station people commented on the pizza like five stars like best pizza in town best pizza delaware must have some shitty pizza god damn it i'm sorry um no comment wait who am i head over to new haven if you want good pizza it's actually like head over to new ham your husband that's blaze poor blaze blaze blaze we love your pizza and your monotone i've just i've never had it so blaze just delivered you a donut oh thank you blaze and then i ate it so i guess i ruined that for after this review we're gonna take a break so i can eat that donut this is a four-star review by benson of the sitco gas station i live right by the store so i walk here on a regular okay hold on i forgot this is my favorite redemption ever okay i love it so much up now i'm quite sure this is

a child which are the best reviews okay not children reviews written by children i love those i love those things god damn it who am i i love those new haven we're jet lagged leave us alone we are literally so jet lagged dude we haven't even used that as an excuse yet shit we could use that all episode well now they know well we went to bed at like 6 37 p.m and then and we're jet lagged and yet we now they know well we went to bed at like 6 37 p.m and then and we're jet lagged and yet we're recording an episode that's probably gonna be like an hour and a half long by the way we're editing it on tuesday it comes out at midnight so like literally comes out when you're listening to this on wednesday when it comes out we recorded

it less than 24 hours before yes um and we're jet lagged. And we're not hurrying up and ending this. Oh, sure. We're lollygagging. Just read the review from the child that I love. Go. Four stars by Benson. I live right by the store, so I walk here on a regular. So there's this one time I went to buy Cheez-It, the box.

That's in parentheses, by the way. I went to buy Cheez-It, the box that's in parentheses by the way i went to buy cheese it the box and i peep at the register the man was looking around the box and he let me buy it and i got home and gave it to my mom she checked the expiration date and it was expired and i told her that might have been the reason the man was looking around it and they did refund with allowing me to get eight bags of cheez-its oh sorry eight bags of cheez-it oh this is very this is like one sentence by the way this whole thing the second incident is when i was going to my bus stop and had a field trip so i decided to get my sandwich from there and there were flies flying all around them and i had requested that they made sure none of the flies could get near my sandwich which they did do but they take long to make fresh food which is a good thing because their food is really good and i would

recommend it that was so sweet so cute oh i like that i like how they sold him expired cheez-its and he's like, it was great. Yeah. My mom brought them back and got me eight more. My mom threw a fit, so I had to return them. But they gave me more Cheez-It, parentheses, the bag. Cheez-It, the box. I like how they had to specify that it was a box.

Yeah. Oh, my. Well, because later they got the bag version. That's why. Is that what happened? Oh, yeah, you're right. They got eight Cheez-It, the bag version that's why is that what happened oh yeah you're right eight cheese it the bags of cheese it um i just love that like he specified that the man was looking at the box and noticed that it was expired and then sold it anyway and then he's like but it was nice he gave me eight more yeah oh please keep the flies away from my sandwich their food's really good

oh god i love it so much it's funny i had a sicko this made me very happy my challenge was to find a review of a church written by someone who was ministered at their door this is so that's the word for it right where they show up at your door and knock and they're like hi come to our church the person's like fuck off and they go on and write a review for that person's church that like i i think it's called threatening to derail me due to my social anxiety and also trespassing potentially but but. But. Sure. Sure. Ministering. We will get to the legal aspect later. Fantastic.

Who suggested this? Because this is very good. It was sent in by Caitlin. Oh, Caitlin, this is such a good one. Yeah, it really was. This is so brilliant. You guys are so much better at coming up with these than I am. Yeah, this is Caitlin who sent in like a bajillion things.

Oh, guys, send in more. They're so funny. Yeah. So, here's my first one. Okay. This is of Lancaster Baptist Church in Lancaster, California, written by JT. One star. This church is like a cult. When they came to my door, I let the gentleman speak, even though it was like 8pm. After he spoke a little, I said, you sound like a Jehovah Witness. He said yes. Hmm, made me think. And I was raised in the church, and I am saved, and anointed, and God welcomes all into his house to hear his word. But on this church website,

under three steps to be a member, number four new member class it says wait wait wait wait number four i know did he not just say three steps yes okay but apparently there's a fourth step okay okay that either they made up or is actually on the website that says that you have to complete a new member class okay and then there's more to it. It says members are removed from the church role when they stop attending or an open sinful behavior that is unbecoming to a Christian behavior. It is written. Romans 3.10. There is no one righteous, not even one. Mark 10.18 and 1 John 1, 8-9.

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If it's God's house, truly, who are they to turn his people away? Why are there flames coming out from around? Oh, no. Because I shouldn't be saying this stuff. You're being smitten. God never turned away anyone. End of review. what is going on

okay translate this for me so this is this is a a christian person who was visited and thinks that this the person who visited and his church turns people away if they sin or if they don't show up to class. Don't show up to class! If they have bad attendance, they cannot go to your church. And so, this guy's saying, well, the Bible says God doesn't turn anyone away, so you're not, you're a cult. What if this was just like a community college and they were like, we're not trying to get you to join our church.

You just need to go to class and like not drink on campus. Well, what's funny is with these reviews, I expected a lot of like atheists to write one star reviews. Turns out it was mostly other religious people who had problems with these churches. Christians competing with Christians. And basically. What a novel idea. Relig's Christians competing with Christians. Basically. What a novel idea. Religions versus religions. Wow.

Listen, I have a PhD also. It's in religious studies. And also sociology. Oh, good one. Mm-hmm. Next, I have a review by Sarah of World Mission mission society church in santee california in where santee s-a-n-t-e-e i've heard it i mean i've read that i don't know how to say that okay i'm saying it's santee i'm saying it's santé oh on santé santé my onions. One stop.

I also have a PhD in... Stop. French. Shut up. Okay. My... Laissez-faire. That's why I said it so well.

Yes. Moving on. My husband and I grew up in your typical calvary chapel type church in socal oh sure yeah one of those typical me too when we moved to san diego we were looking for a new church to join and these people came to our door one day and seemed so pleasant and friendly we decided to check it out if somebody comes to my door pleasant and friendly i I am very shocked. That's a bad sign. I am not happy about it. I'm very scared. Big mistake. They twist what the Bible says and we were kept in a small room for about six hours while

they explained their corrupted view of scripture to us. Oh my God. But at least the food was good. End of review. What? I want to know. Want to know what? How they corrupted it?

Yes. Who? My thought is is did they corrupt scripture or did the people in san diego corrupt the scripture and then these people i have two more reviews of this church so maybe we'll get some more insight yes oh hell yeah let's go let me get through them okay this is by dylan one star came to my door literally as I was on my way to Bible study. Insisted that I acknowledge God as a mother and a woman. Corruption indeed.

More I listened, the more I got a huge cult vibe, especially since they really didn't want me going to Bible study. Oh my God. End of review. Oh my God. Okay, one more from that same church by Steve Steve One Star. Don't fall for the cult. The teachings take biblical scripture and twist and taint it to fit their model of belief. I was approached by a missionary and I felt a great uneasiness, deceit and evil surrounding his teachings. Through the faith and knowledge God blessed me with,

I was able to rely on Jesus to guide me out of this brainwashing session. Jesus spoke to me and filled my heart with these words. Quote, only through Christ can you be. No works by human hands is enough. Only Jesus. End of review. What are you talking about? I don't know what's going on here. What are you talking about? I don't know what's going on here.

What are you talking about? He led you out of there? So, like, what? You just, like, closed your eyes and wandered out of this six-hour brainwashing session? I also don't understand. I think it's very... What's the word? Laissez-faire.

Yes. Thank you. I just think it's very, like, self-important when people say, oh, well, all these people are, like, heretics or whatever, they're Passing up scripture and like, painting it, yeah. But the Lord spoke to me and said, you, I will take you out of the- I'm like, what- so, what are you so special for, Jeff, that like, oh, Jesus is speaking to me directly to say, oh, come with me out of this.

Yeah. Like, no, he's not. What is he in your head? And because the other people are saying the exact same thing about Jesus talking to them or whatever. What? Yeah. I don't know.

I just, yeah, that self-importance and that idea that their religion is better than all of the other ones. It's just not. Guys, I have a PhD in religious studies, so what I'm i'm saying god damn it don't listen to anything we're saying right at least we're clear that we don't know what the fuck we're talking about like this is probably a cult too but like we're pretty self-aware that we don't know what the hell is going on either a cult of Escargatoire. Escargatoire! Holy crap, we are French. Okay, fuck. Okay, so now I went on a little bit of a different path.

Uh-oh. And I went on Amazon to find reviews of, like, a no-solicitor, like, product. And I found one. Stop that. Wait, like a sign or something? Yeah, that you would put on your front door. And I found one. It's called, like a sign or something? Yeah, that you would put on your front door. And I found one. It's called the No Preaching Door Plaque. Yes.

And it's a black like outline of or like black drawing of a man and a woman standing next to each other. One has, the man has like a briefcase. The woman is holding up a Bible looking thing. It has like a cross on it. So, it's as if it's like a book and it has a big red circle with a line through it it's like no literally a no preaching zone no preaching zone so i'm gonna start with i have a five star review and then a one star review okay here's a five star review by lynn i live in a heavily mormon populated neighborhood and since moving in a heavily Mormon populated neighborhood. And since moving in a year ago, we've had four to five people trying to talk to us about Jesus, God, religion. I have zero patience for that garbage. But I have no issue with the people, just their beliefs.

Oh, that phrase should be probably said very carefully in this country. So I do feel bad just telling them to fuck off as i always do oh now i don't have to be mean we're all in this together end of review just not our beliefs just i like how they're like i i really feel bad telling them to fuck off which i do every single time they come to my door i do it anyway i just feel bad about it now i don't have to feel bad about it because the sign's doing it for me but not bad enough to not tell people at my door to fuck off with their beliefs. Super duper. Oh, boy.

Okay, so now I have the one-star review. It's the only one-star review on this product by Ryan. So this is a well-received product, I suppose. I suppose so. Or just not very... Is there one that's just like, please don't ring my doorbell? Often reviewed. Even if you're the UPS delivery person?

There are so many like that. I would like all of them. Yeah. I'm so scared of talking to strangers. Well, here's a review by Ryan. I was going to buy this. Then I realized that as an American, I actually value the First Amendment, which provides for free exercise of religion and freedom of speech.

I may not agree with those who knock on my door, but there is no way I'm going to condemn the very people who have fought for 100 years to pave the way for the freedoms I enjoy today. What? If you don't want Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons knocking on your door, then move to Russia, where no one has free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, and is prohibited from outspokenly petitioning for a governmental

redress of grievances. End of review. Finally, someone read our children's book about the Constitution. Right. Wait. What? I like how the review goes goes i was going to buy this okay sure i'm sure you want to fucking buy this i love that it's like and then suddenly an epiphany

george washington came to him on a horse he spoke to me yeah he said i'll lead you out of this yes uh yeah it was in his amazon, and he suddenly had a vision. He left it in his cart and then got an email from Amazon. Hmm, would you like this children's book about the Constitution? We have recommendations for you on Kindle. I don't really think that this person understands much. Full stop. this person understands much well full stop i i feel like this was um yeah especially when they said that they've been fighting for a hundred years for this right it's like to whom do you

speak what why just in exactly a hundred years when this country is well over 200 years well i don't know have you been to the Creationist Museum? They have different views of when everything happened in the world. When God created America was only 100 years ago. Yeah. Well, this got me curious about the First Amendment and how it relates to solicitors. I see.

And I did find an article written by John Vile. We'll have to create a... From Middle Tennessee State University. It's like a legitimate article about door-to-door solicitation. Perfect. We can copy and paste it and put it in our next edition of our children's book, and we'll think about crediting him if we remember. We'll think about it.

But yeah, so he wrote this article about it and provided all these court cases that related to it turns out first amendment kind of does protect solicitors really quite a bit because i mean there are like the state laws regarding like um trespassing and stuff but in court case actual cases where it's religious institutions versus like people who are like stay off my lawn the religion institutions tend to tend to win they get to like there was one example where um they tried to pass some sort of bill that would force uh religious institutions to actually like it would require them to get permits for door-to-door solicitation, and it was turned down. The bill was, like, thrown out because it went against

the First Amendment. Really? Mm-hmm. That's so interesting. This guy kind of had a weird point about it, but went about it the wrong way, because... I like to think, like, legally speaking, sure, like, that makes sense. That doesn't surprise me. I would like to think if you do put up a sign like that, it doesn't necessarily legally protect you, but, like, probably people get that hint.

Yeah, and then they know, okay, this person will not... They're not going to be happy, and they're not going to switch over to my belief system if I go to their door and they have a giant sign with a man there you go holding a book up in there it's like those signs on the back of trucks and stuff that says we are not responsible for um it's like if something falls out and hits your car turns out that's not true at all they just put it on there to deter people from that thing yeah like on i don't know if it's like garbage trucks or whatever it's like trucks that say we're not responsible for anything that falls out that goes for your windshield it's like back up drive a safe distance away but that's bullshit you can

like yeah if something falls out of someone's truck they are liable for it even if they have a sign on their truck that says they're not what about the ones that have like um fake testicles hanging off of them? They're not responsible for anything. Oh, so that's legally binding. That is legal. That was actually, I believe, which amendment was that? 69. Well, that's the end of my challenge.

I regret everything. Good ending. You got a lot of reviews for that. Yeah, it was pretty good. That's like as many as I found. I kept looking, but. That was a lot. Yeah. I'm surprised. Some people had five-star reviews. They were like, oh, they came to my door. I checked it out. I loved it. Oh, really? That's good. Yeah, but I didn't want to read those. They weren't as fun. We don't like positive exchanges. Apparently, it works. Wow, it does work. Well, like, I mean, even with that one where she was like, we were looking for a new church

and these people came and they seemed friendly, so we checked it out. Yeah, they gave it a shot. And obviously then they perverted religion by saying God was a woman, but, you know, could have gone nice places. Yeah. There was a shot. Yeah. Wow.

Maybe we should start a religion escargatoire the church of escargatoire yeah oh feeling 40 flirty and blessed always always okay well happy 40th episode before the episode um you want to give us our theme for next week oh boy do i let me look it up first actually i'm gonna pull one from the jar because i feel like we've done that for challenges recently but not for let's do it oh boy there's a lot in here sandy oh my god there's a look at this there are a ton yeah oh wow let's see if you find a state that we haven't done yet oh right shit so i just happened to pick one from new mexico which we just checked the list and we haven't done and I'm so happy because it was the first one I picked and it's so good.

What is it? The theme is psychics in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That's good. I'm so happy. Okay, cool. That's a really fun one. Oh my gosh. I like that.

Me too. I'm really amped about that. That'll be really fun. And we haven't done anything really like that yet. I don't think like anything kind of esoteric and not really besides ghost tours. We did ghost tours, but that's different, I don't think. Like anything kind of esoteric. Not really. Besides ghost tours. We did ghost tours, but that's different, I think. Yeah. So, okay, cool.

So, what's my challenge? Your challenge comes from a listener who messaged us today. Oh, my. I was sitting down on the couch and I read this message and I was like, I gotta do this. We've really been lollygagging. It's similar to what they said. It's from Lauren, who's also a Cincinnatiincinnati native uh went to uc etc cool um and who day who day football season's coming up super bowl champs aren't you so excited guys when we start watch following

cincinnati football they're gonna love it oh man that's yeah no they won't okay so i'm gonna tweak it a little bit very slightly okay but here's my tweaked version your challenge is to find a review of skyline chili written by someone who is not from Cincinnati. Oh, wow. Okay, here we go. Yeah. Does it have to be positive? It does not. Good, because that'll be better.

Yeah, it'll probably be easier to find. You mentioned Skyline earlier in this episode. I could probably rally up, like, multiple people under this roof right now who would write me a negative review of Skyline Chili who are not from Cincinnati. Yeah. But I guess I'll go on the internet the first time ally i took ally to skyline we had our food and she was like why is it lukewarm like why is it and the terrible thing is that we were all at the table and we all went i never thought about that literally my entire life eating skyline i never thought of the fact that it's never served you hot. Never occurred to me before.

It's never been hot. And it is being cooked there. Like, you can see it in the little... You watch them make it right in front of you, and you get it. And it's not hot. It is pretty lukewarm. And I'm like, I kind of shrug my shoulders, and I'm like, whatever. And by the way, it is meat.

It's Skyline. It's my life. It is meat. Yeah. So that's an interesting thought. However, I do eat my pizza cold and i do eat things pretty like i i don't heat things up very hard but generally when you get it no yes originally i think but what i'm saying is the reason it never bothered me is that

like i don't mind that in general i think we're just indoctrinated you're right i really think we just grew up with it so it's normal for for us. So should we stop? Should we cancel our weekend solicitation route this weekend? Because I had a lot of brochures printed already. Yeah, about the glory that is Skyline Chili. The steaming, lukewarm chili. For those who don't know about Skyline, it's chili on top of spaghetti. With shredded cheese. With shredded cheese, and you can add onions, you can add beans, you can add both.

So good. And apparently, outside of Cincinnatiati that's a weird thing chili on top of spaghetti you mean it's like we oh yeah it's like weird to people yeah it's it's not so i think this challenge could be pretty fun but it's so good necessarily difficult but i think you'll find some good ones i'm very excited yeah oh i'm excited for both of these they're both close to my heart good episode 41 okay well excited to see you then we'll talk to you soon thought you're talking to me i was like nope bye we'll be together okay bye everybody Bye.