Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 108 - Tool Guys with Jesse Farrar

Episode Date: February 25, 2025

This week, the first week of a doubleheader. We had our friend Jesse Farrar to talk about a ton of stuff, my smoothie, my old manual labor days, my love of Milwaukee tools and Home Depot. You can find Jesse at Your Kickstarter Sucks and Go Off Kings and https://bsky.app/profile/yourkickstartersucks.com There is more Chris at https://www.patreon.com/notevenashow And for more Guys content, streams and SHOCKTOBER: a deep dive into shock jocks you can click patreon.com/guyspodcast, Join us on the Sunday Night Stream every Sunday night at 8:00 EST and I am on https://bsky.app/profile/murderxbryan.bsky.social  Guys is on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/guys.pod Guys has a Post Office Box now! PO Box 10769 Columbus Ohio 43201

Oh, welcome to guys podcast about guys. I'm Brian tool, man. And I got mr. Harbor freight with me, Chris James. This is my tool guy voice. Here he goes, and then next week I'll do a Maynard voice. Whoa, you know what I mean? So hi Mr. Harbor Freight.

I don't, yeah that part of it I, should I pretend to know what that is? Will it make me seem more manly? Yeah. I'll tell you one thing it is, it's cheap crap is what it is. It's for crap heads. Totally agree, 100%.

Well, Harbor Freight has its place. Sorry to step in. Look, there's a time and a place for Harbor Freight tools. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water here. It's a brand of tools. It's sort of a lower end Freight tools. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water here. It's a, it's a brand of tools. It's sort of a lower end brand of tools. The lowest end brand of tools. I don't know what it's like at the dollar store.

It's its own store. Um, but it's, it's, it's its own standalone store. Like in the old days where Sears would have a hardware department, it's as if you picked that up out of Sears and placed it like on the crappiest street in the town and everything in there Is worse quality than craftsman, but thank you, but craftsman is not great either My craftsman has fallen off as well because of private equity. Yes. Chinese EAM is what they call it. Actually

I think that's probably an unnecessary Eponym for the lower quality generic tools, but I do think eponym for the lower quality generic tools. But I do think, um, I think Harbor Freight can make sense sometimes because I think it's good to have that market pressure, right? Of like, well, if there isn't, if there isn't this generic brand, then all we have is the premium brands that can run wild on the pricing, right?

So that means everything's Dewalt tier. Does everything need to be Dewalt tier? Not for the hobbyists, not for the weekend warrior crap. That's crap. You know? So you're saying that from a market standpoint, yeah, I thought you were going to say there's a place for them in someone's home, but no. No, they suck.

You're saying just to exist there, just to be there is good and positive, but you would never yourself use those tools, Jesse. This black thing behind me is Harbor Freight. What is it? The curtain? It's a blanket thing, it's like a moving blanket. Oh, see that I would think would be fine, right Jesse, to get a Harbor Freight moving blanket?

Of course, or like a toolbox, like a big garage toolbox or whatever. No, you don't get one. You gotta get a Craftsman or a Snap-on. I would never get the toolbox because that's like, everyone's looking at you like this is like an Harbor Fre the toolbox because that's like, like then everyone's looking at you like this is like an Harbor Freight dude. You know, I would get...

Who's looking at you? I would get the DeWalt toolbox and I'd have a bunch of Harbor Freight shit inside that DeWalt toolbox. Now I get a Milwaukee. I'm a Milwaukee guy. You know, when we, when I worked at the cable company, it was all Milwaukee. They did lots of good for me. Like 25 years ago, you mean. Well, that's the only time

I ever had to, well, no, there was the, there was the roofing job that I had for three months where I, I went to the store and I bought a hammer that I thought looked cool. By the way, Jesse for ours here, we didn't even, oh, I interrupt. Thank you. Yes. Hello. Jesse's one of our favorite guests. He's a friend of ours, actually. Thank you, that's right. He's an acquaintance of the show. Do you ever think about how long it is we've known each other by, sorry to interrupt, Brian,

isn't that weird? Doesn't it seem like, doesn't it seem like in some ways it's still a new friendship, but in reality, it's like, it's been like a million years. It's like because we haven't seen each other a lot of times in real life, I think. That has to do with it. Is that part of it?

Yeah, I think it is, because I recall the times I've met you in real life. It's always a great time. We always have fun together. It's so much fun. You drove me in a Tesla one time. That's true. Hey, that was a long time ago before we moved this guy away.

He's like, one thing I like about this is the politics of the guys who made it. I mean, at the time, at the time, honestly, at the time, his politics were released publicly, very different. Yeah, not not clear to me then. Yeah, he wasn't into Hitler at that time. I guess publicly I didn't know about it. Yeah. But so I went to the store to guide to get tools for the roofing job.

They, you know, you need a hammer. I don't remember what else you need a general labor power tool you're like a general like you were just like a lay well I was so bad at general labor that I then became a safety monitor so I stand there the safety monitor almost doesn't seem like it should be a downgrade from stop fucking things up Just make sure nobody falls off the side of the building. But in a perfect world, wouldn't you graduate the competent worker to safety supervisor? It might not be a real position, Jesse.

I think it might be sort of a, yeah, something where it's like, that's what they say till the end of the day because they don't want to cause a big scene on the Before they sort of politely ask him to stop showing up I say I would wear my hard hat either that was like a whole big fucking thing. You're like used I wouldn't wear it and then when they get the work, I'd be like I left it at home. I don't have it That's why someone and then would they would they sort of say hey, that's one of the more important Pieces of equipment. Yeah, they did this thing and then you'll learn about this later

But anyway, so I got to tell you about the tools I bought first. I bought a black hammer but it had kind of a pinkish handle on it and they Cracked them up there at the job. Was it the only one available? No, but it looked cool to me like was like, this is a high beast hammer. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they were like, it's pink. But then, yeah.

Did you at all think about the fact that in the mid 90s, heading to a job site with a pink hammer might lead to some ridicule from the other two? First of all, so early 2000, secondly, this is, I'm working with Jim, Dynamite Jim Dandy, the guy I've told you about. He's my foreman, he's my boss. Forgot Jim Dynamite Jim Dandy. The guy I've told you about. He's my foreman. He's my boss forgot that Dynamite Jim was in the picture and also forgot this was post

Y2K. So, all right, that's fair. And he was my boss and Raj was his number two and we would have to fucking go to Middletown, Ohio and stay Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. We had to stay there every week so we could work on top of AT&T buildings laying rubber roofs. Didn't you work for like a, like a very short time, three months and they had me traveling. I can't even, I wasn't really traveling. It was driving 90 minutes away from home and staying in a shitty hotel. You know what I mean? They were, I basically, if there was

an undesirable job, they sent me there. Like, so we go out to Middletown and Jim and Raj would get him fight. They get real drunk every night and get into fights. And then one of them would grab the work van and start driving down the street, yelling at the other one and he'd be chasing them. And we'd have to go out and like get them because they were all away from their wives and stuff like that. So they were fucking just maniacs, man. So that was, but yeah, I wouldn't wear my top hat or top hat,

but that would be cool. That would actually be, I would have worn that at that time, especially when I was Mr. Derby guy, showing up to the site with a top hat and a pink hammer. Well, they bought a pink help. They bought a pink hard hat. And they're like, if you don't start bringing your hard hat, you're going to have to wear this. So I had to wear that for a while too. They might as well put you in panties. If you show up like that, you know, it was crazy. Yeah. They're in, put you in panties and a bra and stuff. Well, they separated me from Jim, which I felt was kind of fucked up. Cause I think Jim said, can you get this guy away from me? Which is a guy that I knew all my life. That's why I went and worked on it. So you sort

of just get the feeling like all of a sudden you weren't allowed to work near like Jim never said anything to you himself, but all of a sudden you weren't allowed to work anywhere near Jim. And you know, he was just like, I don't want you on this job where you're traveling. I don't want you on AT&T was like the most important client of the roofing company. It was like AT&T and Ohio state university were the two most important. So they just didn't want me up there. Yeah. So they sent me with other guys and the other guys were like, Hey, you're the safety monitor. Make sure everybody ties off. And then I'd be like, Hey dude, you're not tied off. And he'd be like, fuck you. And he safety monitor, make sure everybody ties off. And then I'd be like, hey, dude, you're not tied off.

And he'd be like, fuck you. And he would just go back and do whatever he was doing. So you did not command a whole lot of respect. But it's not pop, not like I did at the cable company where I did use Milwaukee tools only. That's what I was getting at. And that was because they provided those to you. Yeah, you didn't buy those.

Yeah. I didn't buy those. Yeah. I didn't buy a single tool for the cable job. Well, some people would buy stuff for the cable job. Like out of their own pocket and not get reimbursed for it. Which I always thought was like, come on, what are you doing? Well, if it makes their lives easier, it's maybe not fair, but it is a justifiable thing. I think, right?

I understand what you're saying. It's like, you're like, oh, what a loser. But it's like, well, but it is a justifiable thing, I think. Right. I understand what you're saying. It's like, you're like, oh, what a loser. But it's like, well, he is, you know, he's spending eight hours a day doing this job. If he can, you know, spend a hundred dollars to make it way better. Yeah, that's that's an injustice, but I would probably do that in that position. Sometimes you got to do it. You got to take Brian. Sometimes you got to take matters into your own hands.

You understand? Yeah. If I don't got, if're not giving it to I fucking lost my flathead screwdriver And just started carrying a butter knife in my tool bag when I was working there cuz I was just like I'm buying another one I'll tell you how to butter knife. Yeah But a nice at home. There's a butter knife in my toolkit downstairs now. I don't have a flathead There's a butter knife in my tool kit downstairs now. I don't have a flathead. You need to go to Harbor Freight. And honestly, like, I mean, just the idea of not having a flathead screw, listen, I'm no tool guy,

but I mean, just the idea of having, not having a flathead screwdriver seems very odd. You know, it's not like something that's, it's something that's difficult to get or expensive or anything. A dollar 99 Harbor Freight right now, 3 1⁄8 of an inch by an eight inch slotted screwdriver from Pittsburgh brand, a dollar 99,

or you can get an eight piece for $9.99. You can even get an eight piece nugget for $9.99 these days. Yeah, are you kidding me? That is a great point from Jesse, is that you can't even get a eight piece nugget for that price. You can't even get a eight piece nugget for that. You can't. I wish you could. Well, yeah.

Harbor Freight's in the shit house with its with its customers lately. I went to our slash Harbor Freight and guy goes, are coupons done? Mm hmm. Sorry, I've been out of the loop for a while, I guess, but I haven't been watching for the last four or five weeks for coupons. And it looks like they're done. I see lots of instant deals, but no 20% off coupons. So are those days gone for every?" He says, every. Or am I missing them? And Kentucky Friedman says, I used to go all the time with my 20% coupon and I would inevitably

buy something, sometimes multiple impulse items and also get a freebie. It was cool. Now I go occasionally and often leave with nothing. The magic is gone. Oh, so that person there is hoping that somebody from Harbor Freight is reading these posts. A lot of these guys are. Well, I used to go there and let me tell you, once I got in there with the 20% discount, I would often just make a bunch of impulse purchases. It had not no, uh, discount at all.

And they would end up making a large profit off of me as a customer. No more. I would end up spending six to $800. I don't remember, what was it that we talked about recently? Yeah, now what? The guy kept saying I was gonna spend $600. Oh, at the Swinger Resort. Yes. Where the guy got kicked out by Big Rob was like,

I was gonna spend six, I spent $600 yesterday and I was thinking about spending more than $600 here tomorrow, but you kicked me out. It's like, okay. And Big Rob was just, yeah, anyways, he was doing what he needs to do, keep everything safe and the vibes good. This guy goes, same, it'll be interesting

to see how this new strategy pans out. Next guy goes, well said, I'm a half mile from a Harbor freight and drive past it now on my way to Home Depot, which is four miles away. Home Depot? Depot, yeah. I used to go to home. That's interesting now that,

see these people really are aggressively trying to signal to the Harbor Freight people now, like we're going to, you know, I'm just going straight by the store to their direct competition now, you know? I'm curious if Harbor Freight sees Home Depot as competition. Yeah, you think they're in an entirely different

customer base? Yeah, I think that're in an entirely different customer base? Yeah, I think that's gonna be a whiff from the R slash Harvard grade guys. But doesn't Home Depot have, doesn't Home Depot have, like they'll have some lower end tools, right? Oh yeah, they got that, I think it's called like HDX or something like that,

like their crappy tool. Milwaukee among them. Those are great tools, those are some great power tools. They're entry level power tools. I don't know what that's called. They're Milwaukee among them. Those are great tools. Those are some great power tools. They're entry-level power tools. I don't know what to tell you. They're not entry-level. They are. They're expert level. I can read you some posts. Milwaukee and Ryobi. I mean they have some stuff that's helpful and I wouldn't. That's not right of you to say. I wouldn't tell you not to buy them. I'm just saying those are not they're not pro tools. They're probably great for a guy like Brian. Absolutely. No I was a pro when I was using them. I've been a professional. I know you are a good tool. You are silly. You're on a heavy dose of pills. You

were and you're not take your job seriously. You crashed the car often. You know what? One of the last things I did, I did a few bad things at the end to try to get fired. One time I just drilled through somebody's power line to see if it had shut all the power off in the apartment and they had to get there. That sounds like a serial. I just wanted to see what would happen, man. I wanted to get fired.

I was trying to get fired. I was trying to get fired. I was doing everything possible. Every rule that you could break, I was breaking and I was going to meetings and being a total fucking pain in the ass. But we discussed really your bosses was a pill guy as well. Yeah, he was in the pills. He was in a pills. But what were you doing at the end? You were getting my pills. You were

being really what? Just if you've ever worked at a place where they have regular meetings, like once a week and the meeting at the end always inevitably you can. Sorry, Jessica. Yeah, Jessica. Kick out of this party or as soon as if you ever worked at a time, I'm tuned out. Yeah. I mean, Brian said three months is like a short amount of time.

That's the longest I ever worked at a job. So I was just kind of like, well, so wild. And Brian and I have both worked a bunch of like classic you know, warehouse, retail, all kinds of hotels, you know. When you have meetings and they inevitably at the end there's one guy that makes it contentious. Yes. He just for the sake of it, just like

asking questions. Devil's advocate on shit and just being a real shit head. Yeah. I was that guy. I was extending meetings by like 45 minutes. What kind of stuff would you bring? Like what? You would just like find a point of contention within the things that they said.

Chris, if there was a new rule at the company like Bill Maher would say, I would be like, what? We can't do that. That doesn't make any sense. Does that make sense? How does that make sense for the business? Just asking a hundred questions, being as belligerent as possible. You were needlessly reluctant to change

just for the sake of it. I told you I almost got in a fight with Randy. My one boss that wasn't on pills, me and him squared off. He would have beat me up. But yeah, he was clear headed. Jesse is like on his computer here. It's like, Jesse, you can come back to the conversation.

I will stop talking about you guys were done talking about jobs or whatever. This guy goes red. Wait, Brian, what are you eating? Smoothie. You're eating with you are eating with a spoon. They fucking made it wrong. And I'm not going to get into that. Well, I'm just curious because you're eating with a spoon and it looks like there's a bunch of chunks and stuff in it.

So they didn't- It is just a bunch of chunks. They didn't blend it enough? Didn't, no. That's too bad. What would you do if you were making a smoothie, Chris? Well, listen, first off, I had a beautiful penis. Don't.

What? Penis. I don't even understand the- Sounds like a guy saying penis, but it's doubled. No, I know what it is It's definitely the smoke charm before I was like what is it never smoke charm before? This is a defensive mechanism against me talking about what he's eating for lunch, which is an extra lot It's a jumbo. It's a jumbo extra large smoothie from smoothie king and he's eating it with a spoon It's got caffeine protein power. It's got caffeine, protein, power.

It's got all kinds of shit. Anyway, no, no, no, you don't get the move. What does it have in it? What? Yeah, I'm interested because everyone's always asking me about my smoothie recipe and I'll never tell. We all know that I got the famous smoothie recipe that's delicious. Let you tell everyone loves to hear about that. But chia seeds.

No, I just put a bunch of stuff. I just, when you get smoothie king, you can just add a bunch of modifiers to it. And I added a bunch of modifiers, but some gut health blend, a little bit of energy blend, a little bit of a fiber blend, you know. Okay, so two questions. Number one, do you think that maybe making all

of the powdered additives to your blended fruit smoothie could have contributed to the strange consistency you're now dealing with using a spoon? I just saw the consistency of it. It's not the type of chunks I was imagining because it doesn't, it seems almost like shaved ice formed into chunks. Like you- Hold on, I have to hang up

on Lone Depot again. Oh, you're still getting the. All day long. Still getting the calls. It never stopped. It never stopped. If it stopped for me, Katie's like, it just got a call from loan depot.

Well, this, so the second question is going to seem like it's in poor taste after the reveal that you're being hounded by debt collectors. But can you tell me how much the smoothie. It's not debt collectors. Just to be clear, it's not debt collectors. If it was debt collectors. Just to be clear, it's not debt collectors. If it was debt collectors, I'd be like, oh, I get it. I get why they're calling. You try to apply. Yeah. Oh, the mortgage thing. Yeah. Yeah. How much was the smoothie, Brian? Oh, I don't want to get into that.

Get a good question. With all the modifiers, I would imagine those aren't free, right? It's like 60 ounces. I can tell it It looks like a double gulp an old double gulp from yes from 7-eleven enormous. Yeah, it's enormous It is gigantic. Can you only $23 that is? a gift card though Fucking much that is outrageous The other night the other night I went out and I had rigatoni bolognaise and a drink at a nice Italian restaurant and that's a budget

cost. Yeah, that Brian that is true. That's a tip too. That's the tip. Did the cash register even open when they rang it up because it was it's like too much money like they won't allow them. It's like they need to get a pit boss over no it's fine it was I had a gift card it's not a big lie then I pan three dollars really and that was the tip imagine that imagine going to smoothie king with a $20 gift card and having to open up your fuck What's the flavor of it can you tell us the flavor does it even have a we kale with blueberry extra blueberries That's what he's eating the fucking blueberry jam on top of it. That's what he's so good out of the fucking thing Yeah, I had listen. I don't want to get into it, but I had a really hard morning this morning. Oh, what happened? Huge crap and some barfing so I was like I can't eat my regular breakfast

So let's just get into this fucking are you okay? Are you I'm perfectly fine now. I don't the poisons out of me Okay, what do you think? A little more back in, sounds like. You think you ate something bad? This is the health! I see, that's what, because that's what it struck me as, Jesse, when he was saying all the, it's a classic move when you're feeling kind of shitty

and you're like, I'll just go to the smoothie place and I'm like, I'll get all the added things, the like, you know, boosters and everything. That's what I that like yeah you know boosters and everything so I got a bunch of boosters yeah that makes sense to me now I'm feeling boosted as hell though what what what do you think made you it was just like so do you ate made you just open diet dr. pepper can you wait till you're done with the fucking no I'm not with the smoothie I just finished it. Let me see the cup. It's so big. Let me see it.

It's so big. Okay, he did finish it. I told you, it is not a waste of money if you finish it. Let's get into some tools. We will right now, but I just wanna say, I've never seen a smoothie cup that big in my life. Maybe I'm really- Oh, get outta here. I might be like a naive Canadian here,

but I've never seen a smoothie cup that big. You gotta go to Smoothie King, baby. They make the big ones. Bring a 20 if you go. Big ones, yeah, well, yeah. Let's do one more Harbor Freight thing before we get to some other tools. This guy goes, I'm done.

All I can say is screw Harbor Freight. They got rid of their coupons, fine. But even when they have crappy free items with purchase multiple times, they sell out. It smells like a bait and switch. I was getting a Bauer jigsaw for $60 and all I wanted was their crappy $3 bucket. But instead I'm now making a conscious effort

to buy everything on Amazon. I ended up getting more powerful ones. Seems to be decent with LED and a laser for $40. Oh, that's going to work out. An Amazon tool with LED and a laser for $40, that is going to be, it's going to be with you. You're going to hand that down to your grandkids, I would imagine.

I love, this guy goes, I work at Harbor Freight. Bauer was always excluded with the $20 coupon. So there's the first issue with your post. Also, you can get a rain check for any item in the store if it's out of stock, including the price you would have got with the coupon. But I'm sure the employees would rather you shop elsewhere at the few dollars you would have saved is enough to trigger you. I fucking love when the employee comes in and lays it on them. That's so good. You entitled prick. Yeah, that should happen more often where like a retail employees and stuff come on those forums

and cause then they have the anonymity where they can't get fired or whatever. They just come on and just tell these people off. Say the things that they can't say. Yeah. Right. They come on and say, we don't fucking care about you. Like you are not important to us. You one guy are not even because you're posting

on a subreddit. You probably wrote a Google review and a Yelp review. You're still not important to us. We still do not care. If you want to feel important, go talk to your family because we don't care about you at all. This guy goes, you have no idea how right you are in the OP like feeling strong goes, I never expected to use a 20% on Bauer. I'm well aware of the limitations. And then our employee comes back and goes, seems like you haven't figured out stick with online shopping. Oh yeah. If you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen. My man said, man, stick behind your little computer screen where you're safe little boy. Here comes another. Now here comes another. This is great. This is our big fight for the

episode. I just got coupons over this past weekend. So you're wrong about that. I'm sure they won't miss you. Let us know how the freebies and coupons to Amazon give you. And I hope you like the 17% increase for prime. And he goes, I got a better jigsaw with the LED and laser for $20 less harbor freight prices aren't great anymore when they're charging about the same as others with the 90-day warranty didn't ask for your blessing he's really really excited about his laser and his LED he is this next the guy goes then don't make a public post and then he goes and yet somehow still didn't ask

for your opinion and permission. So now we're getting a couple of snippy guys going at each other. Ryan, did you know that if you downloaded the Smoothie King app, you could have saved $2 on your next smoothie. Yes, I used the Smoothie King app, Jesse. And it still costs $23?

Yeah. Wait, did you get, did you earn 2300 purpose points? I have, I have a bunch of purpose points too, but I can use them Let's see the let's see the balance on the purpose point. I would imagine eight bucks Yeah, so not even honestly not even making a dent in the smoothie today Didn't and they wouldn't let me you know what I mean? They wouldn't let I had to give car I'm gonna be honest about the gift card too. I didn't use it. What is every time I typed it in, it said there was a problem with the system. Maybe you can't use it on bulk purchases. It's not a bulk purchase. It's one smoothie. It got flagged as a commercial order.

All right. I went to garage.com. I think it's called garage. Yeah, the garage journal and a guy asked, what are your top three grail tools that you got on your wish list if you win the lottery? Okay, I'd like to hear from you guys as well. Yeah, what are your grail tools? Now that's a printer.

That's a brand? No, I just like, if you, yeah, if money was no object, what would you be filling out your garage with? Like my whole, they're just saying like my holy grail. I thought grail was like a... That's an awesome name for tools though. It really would be. I would say, yeah, 3D printer, if that's on the table,

I mean, that's what I'm getting. That's wild, you know, you can print whatever like fucking. I figure I'd use it every once in a while Make maybe make a Lego that I need. Oh that would be yeah That's a good call for you make a Lego if you lose a piece or whatever I would be using it for that if it was like a puzzle person or whatever you could do make a puzzle piece for yourself If you think that's even easier, don't it? Yeah. Yeah Yeah

I would say gives us his few I can show you guys a picture of the one his grails are they're pretty nice I wonder if we have the same grails what are yours Jesse? Jesse? What are yours? I think my grails would probably well it wouldn't be that torque wrench for $750. I can tell you that I Kind of would like to I would like to have a saw stop, which is the, it's the table saw with the special blades and the charges that if it touches your finger or a hot dog, it explodes and pulls the disc down. So you can't cut your finger off.

That's not that expensive. You can get one of those for $1,500. I don't think that's right. Uh, well, the one I see from Ohio power tool was $1,599 for us for a saw stop table. Yeah. That's an Ohio power though. Maybe they have different tools, but okay. Yeah. Maybe, maybe you're looking at a Harbor freight basically.

It's our, oh, how much are they then? 3000. I see a $3,000 one. Yeah, that's what my understanding was that they were in the three to $5,000 range, but I could be, maybe they have a different version now that I'm going with. You should get one on credit. Like a digger, that wouldn't count.

I can't be driving the tool, right? Like a- Oh, I don't know. That's kind of interesting. Because if I could be driving the one that I would get a digger. You know what I mean? Like that would be like a backhoe or a funny loader or something like that.

I'd get a front hoe dig, dig myself a pool or something like that. You know what I mean? Just get to start landscaping, doing all kinds of stuff on the land that I don't yet have. But here's a metric flank drive. This guy wants his five hundred and seventy five, but. Here's a metric flank drive. This guy wants his $575. Now it's a whole set and it's a bunch of wrenches. It's back ordered too. So good luck, I guess.

Yeah, good luck getting that motherfucker. And then a handle flex head ratchet, a long one. It's $265. So that's the OP stuff. How about you, how about a planer? I think a planer would be a good one to get if you're, if you ever do any kind of handy craft in the house and you work with, I don't know, Brian,

I don't know if you got into this, but the wood, the lumber you get from the big box stores is very green. It's very wet. So it doesn't hold its shape very well and it's very frequently uneven and bowed. So you stick that stuff through a planer, a pretty expensive device, but that flattens it out and you can use it for, you know,

your craps around the house. I think that'd be a fun tool to have as well. I don't think I've ever, I have a, my saw is like one I got for $3. That it's like a hand, it's just for your hand and you can, it was the saw dowel rods. I still have it. So if I really need to saw something

that would take 12 hours to saw, but I could do it. Dowel rod project. I had this couch that was falling apart and it needed secure something to secure it to me. So I, I cut a dowel rod and stuck it in a couch and it fixed it for a while, but I didn't have getting a new couch. Unfortunately, this guy goes, is it just a scratch off for a couple hundred bucks and not a real lottery?

To me, the lottery is the mega millions. With that kind of money, I don't care about tools anymore. Oh, good point. Life is gonna change significantly and I will no longer be interested in doing any sort of tool projects. I'll be sailing this high seas, you know, on a yacht, doing that type of stuff.

This guy goes, my tool would be another fully equipped shop out back alongside the one I use now with a dedicated skilled technician in it to take care of all the families, automotive and repair needs. So I can stop concerning myself with such at 72 and more fully enjoy my fabrication repair and machine shop. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I guess, sure. Yeah.

That's kind of like the- I'm kind of like the, I wish for more wishes, genie wish. Kind of not really, not really in the spirit of the thought exercise I feel like. I built a guy in apartment behind my house and if anything ever went wrong, I would call him and he would come and fix it for me with a fully equipped office that's not mine.

He's not using my tools. These are our tools. I would build a time machine. Me too. Right. I would go back in time and fix some of the issues that have led to some of the political strife that we're doing.

You know what I would do if I went back in time? It's so nice. Yeah. I would go back to four minutes into sucking my girlfriend's titties and say, do something else. Four minutes still, huh? Yeah, four minutes is fine. Four minutes is still a very long, long time.

It's a four minutes is still a very long, long time. It's a full song. And so I just, even I love, I do like the fact that it sort of goes to show that even in your fantasies, you can't even imagine yourself not being obsessed with that titty. Even in your wildest dreams, you're still like way more into it than a normal guy.

I'd say, cut it out. I slapped myself on the back of. I'd say, cut it out. I slapped myself on the back of the head and say, cut it out, do something else, you know? You gotta worry about the butterfly effect though, with that, right? If you go back and stop the titty sucking, you know, when you come back, maybe you come back-

I become the greatest pussy eater in the country. Yeah, probably not. How do you figure that's getting mentioned? Unless you're about to move my ass out of the country. I don't know why I'd be leaving, but. How do you figure that's good? Unless you're about to move my ass out of the country. I don't know why I'd be leaving, but a 12 foot three eighth inch shear, fully tooled mandrel blender gigantic as in five by 20 cutting table stations set up for a laser and plasma bridges, as well as a fourth and fifth axis for tubing, notching and weld prep beveling. That guy's a tool guy.

Oh, wow. That's what you're supposed to be asking for is plasma tools. I think that's this guy. This guy's really funny. You guys are like this five foot five, 36, 24, 36. OK, and he sounds hot. No, no, no. He's saying that's what he wants. And then this guy even funnier. This is going to get you guys laughing for sure. Oh good for two with a flat head gotta have a place to rest the alcohol

What? in this That's really short as well. Yeah, but if she's like a table if she has a flat head, she's a table Yeah, no, I get that. Yeah, I don't know. What about a table? I was just thinking of that why not build a table if you're the in the tool here in the tool thing But again, it's not a necessary thing to build Jesse. They got all kinds of them every Every pretty much store you go to a lot of them have the tables you can buy Oh, I've not seen that and then he just goes my wallet would be all the tools I would need I wouldn't fix shit no more

Yep And then he just goes, my wallet would be all the tools I would need. I wouldn't fix shit no more. Yep. R M E R R says triple my shop size to 3000 square feet, a really high quality metal lathe manual mill, small and close to the, and see mill most importantly, hire an assistant skilled in running these. I'll still put around. It's so straight. All these guys wanted to assist it. We're trying to slave. I think they're tired. They're tired. Well, they're going to pay them, Jesse. It's so straight. All these guys wanted to assist it. Which I slave. I think they're tired. They're tired. Well, they're going to pay them, Jesse. It's just not an employee, I believe, if you're paying them.

But but all right. What do you think they're paying them, Chris? Well, I don't know. They're rich, right? So I think that's part of it is what they're saying. They could afford to pay them. But you're right. Rich people aren't known for paying people. I agree that these people in their fantasy are probably trying to pay them the least

possible amount of money that they can get away with. I agree. I just it's they just are they tired? Are they all older people? A lot of the tour guides are older. I mean, it is exhausting to every day have to be cutting and fucking climbing ladders. And I guess if you don't like it yeah yeah yeah and then this guy does you do that do you do listen I can see he doesn't climb ladders I know he doesn't I think he does sometimes I think he's he's done it before I'm the ladder King you're the ladder King I climbed so much I've

climbed more ladders than you ever would know that's you know what I'm gonna give it to you I'm not gonna challenge you on the ladder thing. You probably got me beat, but I have been up one and I have looked down and I have seen, you know, all the stuff below me and kind of gone like, yeah, all right, that's down there. So what are the ladder? I've been up a ladder for sure.

Definitely gone, climbed up a ladder and like onto a tree, climbed up a ladder on the roof before. The time I got robbed, the two guys were standing at the bottom of the ladder while I was at the top of it, menacing me. And, uh, that was scary actually. Yeah, of course. Uh, so yeah, he goes, but I'll become more of an idea and design guy while my assistant keeps projects moving.

So let's go to R slash Dewalt. Crappy. But what's the, what's the Dewalt problem? Oh, they're just not as good as Milwaukee. They're like one step under Milwaukee. That's not true, right? Jesse. It's definitely, I mean, it's not reflected in the retail price of the tools.

So if that's a personal preference, I guess I can't argue it, but I don't, I don't know that that's conventional wisdom. This is this right here. This is 2005 Brian. I just keep on getting tricked into buying a cheap set of bits for $12 at Home Depot They're absolute trash. I think I would have better luck at Harbor Freight Anyone interested in a class-action lawsuit for fucking us over? the class action lawsuit is one of the

favorite tools of the stupid. So I've, I'm getting ready to gather these goddamn bits. Aren't working. Yeah, I guess so, man. I don't know. Here. The first guy goes, mine are great. What the fuck are you doing? And then the next response is using wood bits on concrete LMAO.

Oh yeah. I can't do that. You can't. And the guy goes, shit, I don't know, but I caught myself doing that a few months ago, even though I have plenty of masonry bits and no better wasn't thinking. And then a rush put some to put some tap cons in next guy goes to $12 trail bits. I'm buying our $12 drill bits. I'm being tricked and it's all a big conspiracy.

Yeah. I mean, that's that person's probably got it the most right. It's like, yeah, the O P does respond to him. Okay. He goes, but you don't think that they should be usable. I mean, all my other person's probably got it the most right. It's like, yeah, the OP does respond to him. Okay. He goes, but you don't think that they should be usable. I mean, all my other tools from the wall are. Yeah, they should be usable, but other people say they are usable. Yeah.

He says, uh, they are usable, but they're just still cheap bids just because they're DeWalt branded doesn't mean you're going to get the kind of quality you would get. If you spend 40 to $50 on a bit set. That's right. And then the guy goes, uh, next guy goes, go to Harbor freight then, or are you too stupid to not be tricked anymore? Might've been more than fine for what little I paid for him. So the problem is if you go to the DeWalt subreddit and you start yelling about the wall, it's not, they're not going to treat you like, Oh, Hey, you know, this guy, you know, a little bit there loved a wall there. There. It's like, there's not

people complaining about the walls. It's people talking about how much they love it in all seriousness. I could not believe how much these people like their brand of tools like and I went to every tool sub right. So I went to Rio B. There's a whole bunch of fans of Rio B which seems crazy to me. Makeda there's a whole bunch of fans of Makeda and you know there's even Harbor freight guys. This guy goes I'll tell you right now very best drill bits are from vessel tools. Them Japanese dudes are making some good stuff. A lot of us are using them. Vega bits are

okay too. So the Japanese dudes are actually making really good. I believe that. That's a weird way of I feel like putting the, I mean I know it's supposed to be a compliment, but I don't know. Does that strike you as odd to say Japanese guys make good tools? Does that? Yes. Maybe I wouldn't. Yeah, I think the way he's saying it is kind of like he's making it seem a little bit more in the country of Japan they Produce high quality tools even you know like Japanese companies is it even our swords there They but is that not true Jesse? He has a look at it. Is that not true? Is that not a true?

I think I would just say I like this particular company's products But but is it not but but if there's more than one company in that, if it's like, you know, there are things like that, definitely, where they're like, hey, the cars in, you know, German engineering or whatever, where there's like a country where stuff like that is like generally being made well. You think this person's just sort of a run-of-the-mill raises guy or something?

I guess I wouldn't level a charge of racism at that guy. He's a tool enthusiast. But maybe I would just choose my words more carefully, I suppose, when it came to my tool allegiances. It's so important to get the facts across about which brand you support, you know? This guy goes, it is a poor tradesman that blames his tools. That's a little bit of a variation on a theme.

I've never heard that one before. Well, the OP goes, hmm, 120 K a year and I'm making shit up. Fuck you off. Fuck you off, douchebag. Fuck you off. Fuck you off. Yeah. So he makes 120 K a year with tools, I guess. Or what was the job? What? He's like a tradesman. I see. So he's saying if I'm if I don't know shit, then how the hell am I making

one hundred twenty K a year? Yeah. And a guy goes, go buy better drill bits. That's a good point as well. If you are bringing that sort of income, it's also going to be a business expense for you. So you're going to be able to write it off as well as as an expense. This all started with a guy saying he used wood bits on Masonry and then and it's not off into the no they were just they were just joking about that. I think Slash tools D supreme asked what are the stereotypes of certain power tool brands?

Now here's here's where we get into what? This almost feels like the thinly veiled racism project a little bit This is like well not always this guy goes. Let's talk about some true, but funny stereotypes really quick Oh the guy goes my girlfriends and wives use Ryobi Okay, so that's so it's a woman's brand ladies. Who's man? I do Sorry, I was just saying there's a Canadian comedian named that Canadian guy and he had the famous bit where he said that you're allowed to say negative stuff about ethnic foods. So he just used it as a way to say a bunch of racism.

I've mentioned it, but it's my favorite thing ever. I seen him do it 10 years later and he had updated it by adding new racism to it. I saw a guy do it once at an open mic. His name, he was the first time he'd ever been there. He dressed like he was at like a sports bar. His name, he called himself Spike, and his whole thing was about eating at a hibachi place, like the entire bit.

He was like doing the impression of the guy and stuff like that. I was like, I don't know about that. Yeah. Kulo says Milwaukee fans are insufferable both on the internet and on job sites. Everyone else is fine. They're literally the only ones in person who I've ever heard worship their tool brand. Everyone else doesn't care. And he goes, also I've seen r slash tools, model citizens on job sites before full 2000, mil $2,000 Milwaukee pack out setups, Milwaukee tools, NYPEX pliers, veto pouches, whereas screwdrivers the gummy bear coded Allen keys

literally look like they came here from a shopping list and only bought the tools for maximum up votes. Well, that's interesting. Not, not valuable guys, not valuable. You got to get out there and make 120 grand. That's the important thing. It goes second year journeyman who spent 10 grand outfitting their van Milwaukee t-shirt, coffee cup, and a hard hat with Milwaukee light and marker order.

Even though, even though the GC doesn't require hard hats, those guys were not very good at their jobs. I seriously mean that. Not one of them worked at an acceptable speed or quality of output. That's funny to me. So Brian, so they're basically saying that the most insufferable dickheads

when it comes to tools are people who are fans of Milwaukee tools. Well, that's what losers always say about winners. And? And? Guys who don't, guys who are not wearing Uh-huh. Well, that's what losers always say about win and and and Guys who don't guys who are now wearing their hard hats, right? Fair enough. No, no These guys wear their hard hats even when they don't need them Oh, so this you were sort of good you were going on that but yeah, you couldn't wear a hard hat I thought they looked so uncool

Yeah, you but you would wear a derby hat or whatever. That was not when I was at work though. That was This guy goes you'll know someone's a snap-on guy cuz he'll tell you Yeah What do you snap on guy? Oh looks you can tell me you're a vegan, right? Same thing to as far as yeah, Jesse's probably right about that. That's right. Not likely actually You don't think that they would be those two things? No, this guy goes to wall user here. I absolutely killed a set of Ryobi before going yellow.

So Ryobi's crap. Oh, okay. Cause that is the one thing that, yeah, maybe people who are not big fans of tools, maybe you don't know. Um, most of the tool brands do have sort of a defining color palette and they try not to, I feel like there's a distinct, um, attempt not to, uh, cross over into one of the, I don't know, there could be like a fun quiz, like name the color

and name the tool brand. It looks bad if you don't have it all the same color, you know, like my entire truck was red. So you're right. Yeah. Chances are the guy that's in charge of the warehouse for the tools was a Milwaukee guy. If you went to his house, everything would be red. You know? Yeah.

Every single person at work had Milwaukee drills and saws and stuff like that. Could I interject for a second and edit point for Chris? Sorry. Would you rather me refresh so that my video works better or would you rather have the audio split and then annoying? Or you know what I'm saying?

Well, it doesn't, the video doesn't bother me at all. I'm also not gonna edit this out either. This is an important thing for people to be able to hear and understand that this isn't. I'm kind of choppy. I've disabled hardware acceleration in Chrome. I wonder if that's maybe the cause of some of my problems. It doesn't matter though.

We can tell when you're talking, which is the important part of it. Bothers you, you can by all means leave and come back. I don't want to jam you up in the edit bay. No, it's okay. You can do whatever it doesn't. He doesn't have an edit bay. he has a very nice computer though this guy goes on this guy yeah Brian didn't give me a chance to make my decision

because he's all hopped up on boosters I am I did get an energy booster this guy goes yeah I got to that drill wait he's still trying to make his decision he's just he's trying to decide if he's gonna leave. If I leave the studio and come back, does it ruin the, does it ruin the audio? No, it doesn't. Not to me, it doesn't. No, it doesn't, don't worry. Okay. It's wonderful to me.

Brian, this would just be, as much as I love you, this would be sort of a Chris and JF conversation. It's fine, it's fine, Jesse, you can do it. Okay, okay, all right, thanks. This guy goes, yeah, I got two dead drills of Sawzall, four batteries, six port charger, multi-tool sander, the three gallon shop vac all dead in three years, all brushless, including sander and shop vac too. And then this guy goes, damn bro, you leave them in a lake.

Anyway, I looked at some reviews of some home depots. This one is from 2388 can be street in Vancouver, British Columbia. You know, I've been there. Oh, you know I've been there. That's it. That's it. Oh, that's right at Camby Broadway. So that's right at the Camby, the Broadway SkyTrain station. So that's a real busy location. There's a Canadian tire right there as well, which is another hardware store. Well, that might come up a few times. I would imagine it would because there's a lot of people who use them to complain about one another, you know? Yes.

And then there's also a Best Buy right there, a Winners, Home Sense, which is like a Marshalls. So this is a big- Best Buy is good. This is a big center with a lot of different shopping areas, a very popular, one of my mom's favorite places to go shopping actually, so yeah, I'm good It's a Paul says one star. I was in Home Depot on Cambie Street Tuesday December 10th around 11 15 a.m

I was looking for a Dremel drill kit first person. I asked he says they're over there in a corner I keep looking he again says over in the corner no help. I Disagree with that saying it's over in a corner. Told you where it was. I just I do want to say before these got it when I had to install my bidet and it was like I had to do a bunch of like plumbing stuff, I had to like switch out the because it wasn't it wasn't set up or I could just do it. Normally I had to change out pipes and stuff. So I went to this very home depot and worked with a guy, an older guy,

older South Asia dude who was like so into it and so helpful and I came back three times and we got it done and oh, that's bad though What? Did you go back three times my fault? He wasn't that my fault? No, it was all my fault because I didn't have the information. I didn't have the information that to provide So he said this is what you have to get for me And then I did that. And then I was like, why is this happening now? And then he explained that aspect to it to me as well. And also it was a trial and error thing. It wasn't like, he's like, we have

to try this thing to see, like, I think this might work for it. If we like Jimmy this thing up or whatever, you know, it was like, we had to, it was kind of a mock you would, that's why you don't, you're having trouble understanding it. It was kind of a mock you would that's why you don't you're having trouble understanding it It was kind of mock situation. He goes he begins talking to the other salesman I go up to them and say you're out of stock. He goes he says they're all up on a high shelf He doesn't points to empty display case and says which one do you want? This was my what this was to be my first Dremel purchase Talk about a couple of useless salespeople. They offered no help at all.

On my way out, I told a lady at the front desk they were no help at all. I've never complained before, but this got me fuming. This guy, you've very impotent. You're writing a review about it. The first time you've ever complained and you're putting a pen to paper on it, I doubt it. That's a fundamental misunderstanding

of the purpose of the employees in the store. Chris leaned on them for their expertise in a specific area and they were willing to help and I think went above and beyond. Whereas this guy expected them to be salesmen. They're not salespeople. They don't get commission. They don't get, no, they're home improvement people

who are interested in home improvement stuff. Some of them aren't but like a lot of them are in that location Like they're really into the shit and they're like into their particular And I will say that sometimes they do have a tendency to be like they assume people know more than they do You know, I think everyone has a tendency to be that way Sometimes and I think that's maybe what happened there is that these guys assume that you knew what the fuck you were looking for and they told you where it was

and they asked you what you wanted and that was their job. And by the way, the Dremel tool is not, it's not like you need a bunch of fucking hand holding to figure out the Dremel tool. There's like literally there might be two Dremels and one of them is blue and one of them, I'm not saying this to make fun of Brian, one of them might actually be pink. Like they might have

like the guy version for like carving pumpkins or like shaving down some fucking trim. And then there might be the lady version. I love trim. This is for like cutting your dog's nails or something, but that's like, there's not like a whole lot because it's just one tool that has the dogs, a little shit soup poodle. I know. And the dog. Yeah. And it's not the dog's fault.

And it's not the dog's fault. The dog has like, yeah, like the dog's very sweet. The dog's probably wearing a dress, which, you know, the dog doesn't even know. You know, there's a red Dremel tool, Milwaukee brand. You could get that one. Yeah. This guy goes one star today. I know, you know, there's a red Dremel tool, Milwaukee brand. You could get that one. Oh yeah. This guy goes one star today. I had the worst customer service experience of my life at this location.

All right, let's hear it. I give Mr. Coretti a zero out of 10 review in terms of taking care of the customer. Avoid him at all times. I like going there has named and shamed. I know that's changed the review. By the way, you can't give them one star and then one guy zero out of 10. That's all over the place.

That guy. That's not the purpose of the name tags. It's not that you can you can publicly shame them afterwards. That's not the purpose of them. I don't think Home Depot guys covering up their name tag like cops with their badge number. I want to see your home depot surveillance video. Oh yeah, you know there's a lost prevention guy in the back got all that shit on lock. Oh boy. Yeah, I mean you go to him. He's too he's too busy. I'll tell you the Home Depot the easiest place to steal from in the whole entire world. Like I don't think there's an easier place to steal from. That's funny that you say that

because I do believe that's the case at this location as well. There's like, famously there's like a big main entrance and there's this back little corner entrance that no one's ever really at. And it really seems strange. But they do have pretty good security there because it's also a huge thing that gets stolen a lot. Of course, because there's gotta be the number one thing to resell and stuff like that. Mine got stolen all the time or I lost them. I usually say stolen but so right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So you can also just buy a container and put the stuff in it. You know what I mean? Yeah, you can do big. Oh, hey, I'm

buying a trash can. You know another thing that you can do too is you can just go in there with a bag and just stuff it It was stuff and just run out, you know a snatch and grab if you have a violence gang You can get a lot done too Actually, he goes uh, I would you know more about this from dealing with loss prevention guys on the show But I think I would just say as a as a blanket warning if you're stealing from a store, they know you're doing it No, they don't. They're stupid as hell, Jesse. Not always, Jesse, not always.

I will say not always. The retail theft, I would say, is in the billions and I think there are people who are pretty sophisticated with it and I think that they get away with it. Because it just happens so much and I know around here it happens so much, but it just might be that there's so much and in like, you know, like around here it happened so much. But it just might be that there's so much of it happening that they can't stop at all.

You know, it might not be that they're clever, but there's they're trying to stop it. But it's happening so much that they can only stop like, I mean, everybody I knew who kind of made a living for a time doing retail theft and stuff. You're going to get caught sometimes. Like that's just kind of part of it. It's the same thing. I used to know this guy that worked at a pizza shop with me named Luke and he hit on every single woman that came into the pizza shop. Everyone every time and I'd always be like, man, dude, you don't have anything going on. You are going to pizza shop. You're making, you know, $5 an hour. And he's like, Yeah, but if you ask all of them,

some of them will say yes. Yeah, that's the classic. I remember, like people saying that when I was younger, and I was like, Well, I'm definitely not going to do that. There's a lot of things emotionally inside of me that are going to definitely stop putting myself out there in that kind of way. But it was it was definitely like a concept that was floated to me a lot when I was in my teens,

is that like, hey buddy, I only need one of them to say yes. I asked 150 girls in a weekend and one of them says, yes, guess who got laid this weekend? Me, not you, you know? And it's like, you're right, you are right. Rootless in the pudding, gang. And that's how the stealing works is like, okay, well, I went to Kroger in the morning and I jammed a bunch of steaks down my pants and I got away with it.

But then I went later on in the day and I got caught like stealing. I don't know. Baby formula. Yeah. Because it's harder to steal. But, you know, most of the time the police come and they're just like, all right, we're going to take you maybe to jail for like the night. And then you're out. And like all the guys I knew that was doing that stuff, they didn't care about going to jail. It was like nothing. They just get a magazine and sit around all night. And then either you won't go to jail in Canada.

Yeah, that's the thing. But, but I just remember I worked at best by for this kind of blow your guys by a couple of years. And it was definitely- Wait, without getting fired, without trying to quit? He got fired. I did get fired for giving a guy my own, it was no cell phone that he could afford,

so I just gave him my own cell phone that I had at the next door. Right, stealing from the store. It was my own cell phone, it was the opposite of stealing. That wasn't technically stealing, I get what you're doing. You stole a sale, did you not? A sale, I stole a sale, that's what Torben, my German store manager, told me. Piece of shit.

Which, by the way, I harbor no resentment against Torben. He was a store manager, and those people have the hardest job in the world that I respect for everything that they do. But yeah, they. It could have been you if you'd kept your nose clean. It could have been you over there. Oh, no.

Oh, you know what? I have a lot of confidence in myself, Jesse, but no, no, no, I could never elevate myself to the position where I would be a strong enough willed individual to be a store manager of a Best Buy location. Just think about what your life. I was a lead for like, I don't know,

like six months and got demoted. Like there are some people that just can't be managers. I was not cut out to be a manager at all But I all I was gonna say was then we got stuff stolen from the store like because we would have meetings about it And there was definitely like they had a whole loss prevention Department or whatever like people who were monitoring it and they would get stuff stolen all the time Like people just get away with it. Like they would just we wouldn't realize that it was happening There's people who are just really,

really good at stealing, you know? This guy goes, after giving me a hard time picking up my order, he refuses to call another supervisor and told me he is the boss here. And he's not gonna give me my prepaid order, keeping me waiting for 50 minutes. He still did not apologize.

I love shopping at the Home Depot, but unfortunately after my interaction with Mr. Karidi, I feel sorry for the company that has chosen such unprofessional and childish person to represent their business. Not only am I not satisfied, but I'm disappointed in the training process and how the management team is being such bad role models

for the other employees. I feel sorry for the company is such a sweet thing to say. They're the ones who suffer at the end of the day if their employees are doing a bad job. Jesse, they're going to see it at the end of the day with the sales are going to go down eventually. Maybe not right away, but you know, here's a guy that was definitely trying to steal one star.

The products were with the wrong price tags on the shelf that were messed up. So it was difficult for customers to find the right products. Also, when we tried to scan the product itself, checkout station, the employee there came to us right away and said, I can do it for you while we did not need her assistance. Then she said, you got it. After I scan the product and she left, if customers need help, they would ask for assistance. This happened previously and it was unnecessary. That means they did not want us to use the handheld scanner.

Sounds to me like you maybe have a reputation. And also it's like you're mentioning that things on a different, like you went up to the store and you're like, it said it was 899 at the front. And it's like, well, no, it's, you know, I did have this happen to me about a week ago where it was like, this thing was in the wrong position. I took it up to the front and then they scanned it and it was like 8.99 instead of 5.99. And I was like, oh, I thought it was 5.99.

And then they said, no, it's 8.99. And I said, ah, darn it. And then I paid for it and I left. I had the same thing happen to me too, Chris. I went out, I got myself a little treat and I went and they rang everything up that I had added same thing happen to me too Chris. I went out. I got myself a little treat And I went and and they rang everything up that I had added to it And they said it was gonna be $23 and I said well that doesn't make cuz that seems good I thought maybe it was like I thought maybe at most it would be like maybe eight maybe like Second let me talk to my accountant before I have this particular bad

Let me talk to my accountant before I have this particular beverage. I way I looked at some reviews that Harbor Freight on Dublin, Granville Road, a store that I have been to. Okay. So this is Columbus in this is in Columbus. Steve says horrible. One star. You would think they could hire someone intelligent enough to be able to accurately state if something's in stock or not wasted three different tricks because online says

limited stock, which actually means we have display models, but nothing available for sale. Ridiculous. I'm going to spend a little more money to buy an Amazon, but we'll still save in the long run because I will actually have what I want without wasting lots of time and gas. Good going, helping Jeff and contributing to the decline of brick and mortar stores, five stars for ignorance and none for service.

Well, you're the one who's making the jump from, you're having one issue with retail and now you're jumping online. So you are more a part of the problem. You know, you got to give a different retail outlet if you really believe in the cost of all. I might be, I might agree with this guy. I might be on the same page with this guy. I might be on the same page with this guy. I really do think, I do think, I do think we are at a point where we have computers

to streamline the inventory process. And yet the online systems are not able to report what is even carried in the store, much less what is actively on the shelf. It's taken a huge step backwards. I do agree with that aspect of it, definitely. Not just with tools, just with retail in general, that you will constantly go,

like, yeah, it will happen to me regularly, too. You're at the Nike store or something, and it's just like, oh, I'm not really sure. There's the Hudson's Bay Company, the oldest retailer in our country of Canada. It is run like such a crazy place. There's all these old ladies work there and they just seem to be hanging out

and chatting and stuff. And nobody knows what the stock is or where stuff is or when it's coming or how. You just got to accept it as part of it. But yeah, it does seem like that's an acceptable thing at the retail level and it shouldn't be probably. I would argue that you probably shouldn't get in your car and drive to the store if it says limited stock available. Agreed. My argument. We know by now what that means. I agree with that. But it's a shame

that it's come to that. There was a time. Look, I was I was definitely a spoiled kid. I know that now having three kids of my own, I was definitely a spoiled kid. I know that now having three kids of my own, I know what a spoiled kid looks like, it ain't my kids, but I was one growing up. My mom got such a good relationship with, I don't know if it's like the purchasing manager, the store manager, the video games manager,

whoever it was at Toys R Us, we would know the time of day that the truck was coming in with the new N64 games on it. And she could be there to grab the game or the Power Ranger toy when Power Rangers were crazy. She was like on a first name basis with the lady who worked there and would know the minute to show up so she could get her mitts on the new thing for me to have as a kid. But yeah, that doesn't exist. That doesn't exist anymore because first of all,

the guys in the back are taking the shit off the truck and putting it on StockX. So that's one reason that that doesn't exist anymore. But it does seem like the flow of capital and the computerized, like the technology bloat that's in these companies has made things so much harder that the retail fronts for these companies feel like empty like black boxes like they want you to go online to do it they don't want you to

show up in the store it's actively hostile to people and it's hits tool guys so much worse because all they want to do is go slap their dicks around at the hardware store to talk about like a different washer nut or whatever the fuck. Like they don't, you know what I'm saying? Like they don't even want to show up, grab the thing and get out. They just want to go play. And it hurts them so much more that stores are shells of themselves now. Yeah, you've changed my opinion on it in the sense that like, you're right, he's talking about like, he just wants to be able to go to a store and that doesn't exist at all. Period. Anymore. He's not, he's saying, he knows it's,

he's not just frustrated with this one company. He's saying the overall, in general, you can't do the old hardware store thing that you used to do, maybe locally in small towns or whatever. Yeah. Plumbing warehouse or something. Yeah. But it's not the same. Not at these places. You can't do it. And that is really part of the beauty. I mean, it's a famous thing in like culture almost of these like, I mean, you know, the conversations being had, who knows what they're, you know,

if they're good or whatever, but still, it's like a cultural thing. It's removed, not to blow it out of proportion. It has, to a certain extent, the internet, the insidification, to use that term of art has removed what is essentially a third space for retired persons to, to exist. And you're right. Do you want to go, do I want to go there and there and hang out with those

fucking guys? I sure don't know, but it really is like, I think that's a loss to like our society at large, that even the places that are like, okay, ostensibly, this is a retail establishment for you to spend money. You can come in and hang out. I mean, who cares? You know what I mean? It is. It's hot.

It's like hostile architecture. Like they make McDonald's less comfortable. So the old guys don't go in there and drink coffee for four hours. They just turn the fucking tables, you know, they're at the construction sites. It's crazy to see them at the construction sites. Now they're just all because they got nowhere else to go. You know, I know. They want to watch people work. That's the fucking hole. Actually, I would even argue that they would like to work like, yes, if you could for working. Yes. Yeah.

If you could just go some, like I said, this reading all this stuff and this tool stuff got me like almost nostalgic, especially because on the tools on our slash tools, they take pictures of their work vans. And I'm, I'm just looking at these work vans. Like this is the coolest shit I've ever seen in my life. Like this guy, this is a real way to set up a work van and stuff like that. Like I was like so into it. And I was like, no, sorry. I didn't mean to go ahead. Well, I was just like, if I could go install cable, you know, right one day a week in the springtime, I would fucking do that. I would love that.

It would be great. But instead you have to give your whole life over to the cable company, to the contracting company who works for the cable company. And yeah. Do you, do you know about the concept of, maybe I'll say it wrong. Um, Umbrella. No. So the, the Umarell are it's, it's like an Italian, uh, cultural institution.

Um, it's, uh, they're, they're men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially road work, stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice to the workers. That's literally means little man. That's not just an Italian thing. I hate to say that's the thing that I'm very familiar with in Vancouver as well. Sure. Old people.

I mean, I pay attention. I mean, my wife was always like, how do you, how do you know the newest like restaurants that are open? That is my shit. Yes. Yeah. Cause I'm everywhere. You have to know when the new bank is going,

wow, I can bank over here now if I want to. It's coming up. Be here in eight months. I got a new bank coming in. She's like, how'd you know about this place? I'm like, cause I walk by it and I'm always watching them build it. From the day they put up the first piece of fucking plywood

or the first bit of foundation, I'm trying to figure out what the fuck this place is going to be. What does it look like? I can do that like an awning over the front there. I wonder if it's a dealership again. It's like a puzzle kind of as you're like seeing it formed or something. You're like, oh, what is this going to be? I guess it's not like a puzzle because you know what a puzzle is, but I don't know.

I don't know what the thing I'm thinking of, but you're like sort of thinking like, what is this going to be? You know, it's exciting. but I don't know what the thing I'm thinking of, but you're like sort of thinking like, what is this gonna be? It's exciting. R slash Makita, this guy posted the latest Makita catalog. I'm showing Chris and Jesse, I mean, look at this. There's so many tools. I'll make it the photo for the episode,

but it looks like almost like a big wheel, you know? It has like a center to it and then a bunch of tools. More tools than you've ever seen in your life. Wow, what a lost art this is, huh? like a center to it and then a bunch of tools. More tools than you've ever seen in your life. Wow, what a lost art this is, huh? The layout of the tool catalog, the double page spread by the way of this is immaculate. Wow, that's so cool.

It really does look old school. That really looks like an old, old thing, you know? Yeah. When me and Kate go to like, we'll go to antique stores and just fucking wander around. And I've, I find one that has a bunch of Chilton manuals. I'm just like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen. Cause every guy I grew up with had the Chilton manual

for their car and like, we're able like, oh, I got to change the air filter. Let me turn it to the air filter page of my Chilton for my 76 Nova. It's, it's funny how, how useless those things seemed at the time. And now the simplicity of them and the art that goes into them feels completely lost and alien when it's just like, this essentially, this essentially is like an advertisement wrapped in some like a technical language that I'll

never really understand. But like think about all the work that went into that. Right? I mean, they had to have somebody design the manual to put the little art in there. And this was 20 and 30 years ago when that wasn't as trivial as like opening up Photoshop or whatever. Like a lot of people worked hard on those things and

now they're just gone. They're lining up all the weed whackers and all the like they're lining everything up. I know guy goes catch them all. Next guy goes don't tell my wife and a guy goes when she'll say something about just ask her when did she when did she buy her last purse or shoes last time? What did she do with the previous one? It's a really simple thing. You just you open up your wife's purse closet and then when all of the purses come falling out in a comical fashion, then you say, honey. And then that's the end of that. I think I'm going to Home Depot, babe. Because we are too long. Well, that's next week.

Jesse, we're doing, thank you. We're doing two guys next week. The band. Oh brother. We are definitely, well, I was like a little cheeky this time. So we did fart guys, smart guys, tool guys and tool guys. Right. You got to make your own fun.

And if it requires you having a few boosted smoothies before you get into a creative writing session, then so be it. Who can, it doesn't hurt nobody. Ryobi makes some decent cordless power drills. This guy goes, I tell people this often, buy a brushless Ryobi tool over a brushed Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita, et cetera.

The brushless Ryobis behind those brands, premium lines, but it's ahead of their brush tools in every way. I don't know what that means. And then the guy goes, more than decent, but the color sucks. I found that like really funny to like be like, listen, I like these tools. I don't like the color of them. So I will not be purchasing. I mean, I prefer certain colors over other colors. But yeah, I think for something like this, something like this. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. I think, you know, the tool, the quality of the tool

would be the most important thing, the only important. But that's funny, the colors things, we sort of think of them naturally as just like an arbitrary signifier, but people do have a legitimate attachment to them also. They become enamored with the specific tool. And like Brian was saying, it's weird if you have, you know, 10 of one and one of the other,

they're like, you know, just not gonna do that. Yeah. The guy goes, I agree. I wish they would make them mostly black with just a little bit of green. So he's actually redesigned the whole thing. He's saying, listen, we know green's your color, but let's have a little more subtle in that.

But Jesse, you would, so if you would, you would never pick something based on its color though, it would always be the quality of it. Right. I think aesthetics are like not, not a consideration, but mostly that would come down to like the size of the device. You know what I mean? device, you know what I mean? Um, motion on the ocean. Yeah. Jesse would say that he, Jesse would say that he looks at the, he doesn't look at the color of the tools.

He looks at the content of the tools character. Wow. That I would love to have that quote attributed to me. Unless this is coming out in February, in which case maybe I would say this will be a blind invention completely. I did not invent invent shit I had nothing to do with it I did not invent shit you did invent shit not invent shit you did this last guy goes I love this guy he goes uh he goes I dislike all the tool displays

posted here so people post their tools. Yes. And their drawers and stuff. And he goes, if you spend more time polishing and making foam cutouts for your tools, you should probably donate them to an apprenticeship program where some kid will at least use them. I love this guy. He is too much of a tool guy to even he's like this fucking tick tock generation has got to post up their fucking memes of their tool. You know, like he's just like, it's about the fucking tools, you know, you don't need to be.

But really, it's just like, hey, man, it's the age we live in. You're on a forum right now talking about this shit. People just want to be using your tools instead of talking about them on the internet. I'm in my garage working right now. Yeah, you can break. I'm doing text to speech right now as I fucking. Right. Yeah. But it just obviously people are they're enthusiastic about it. And it's like I want to find other people who are enthusiastic about it. Share this. I mean everyone wants to do that. You

get like some cool shit or whatever. You're like I want people to see this who would appreciate it. I get a cool shirt and I'm like oh you know I was wearing a shirt today. You are wearing a very cool shirt. Yeah I mean people you want people to see it who appreciate it, you know But the gatekeeping is the other side of that coin If you want to if you want to find a place where you can share your enthusiasm with like-minded folks You also know that the other type of person that's gonna be there is the guy who goes like well Yeah, you don't really like it like I like it. Yeah, I like it the right way.

You don't like it. A good you don't like it good enough. Yes, I put a thing up on the screen. This is one of my favorite phenomenons and this is something I really didn't even notice until I started doing guys. Really? It was I think I probably fallen for this a hundred fucking times, right?

Whatever. I don't even know what it is, but I agree with you. Yeah, Google or you go to Amazon, you type in the thing, Milwaukee oscillating tool. You hit search. The first thing that comes up is cordless oscillating tool for Milwaukee, 18 volt battery, six variable speed, brushless motor tool, oscillating multi toolkit

for cutting wood wood drywall nails remove grout and sanding battery not included. Now it is the color of Milwaukee tools. It is it says it is for Milwaukee tools. Another thing with their battery system. Yeah. And another thing they do is they also make it in yellow and have a listing for, for dual style oscillating tools. And I do not blame any of these guys that fall for this shit. It's, it's the most evil thing

Amazon does. I think, well, no, the making people hang on a minute. Yeah. No, but it's one of the things that Amazon does that I think is like, it's so evil. It's just for the most gullible people. He's like, Oh, it's $62. The Milwaukee one or the one I saw because they think this is Milwaukee. Still the one I saw was $99. I'm saving $30. I'm getting the exact thing I need when you're not getting the thing you need. You're getting a shitty version of the thing you need Stupid people. Yeah, most definitely and it's yeah, I've fallen for this you have to have fallen for this at least once I don't think that I have I'm not saying that is like I don't think that I have I think I scrutinize my purchases Maybe Brian you may be the least scrutinizing

his purchases guy that I know. Brian, you probably bought a t-shirt of the fake AI bad. That was an accident. I don't think that, I'm just saying, I'm not saying I'm like the smartest guy in the world. I think everyone who listens to this podcast. I still don't know why I bought that t-shirt.

Like it's a t-shirt I wouldn't ever wear. Yeah, of course. But like I just think that, right away when I see this, I can see that it's not a Milwaukee product. Fair, fair. Because I can see that the visit the store DIY tool fit or whatever that thing with the logo that's not Milwaukee. That's the thing that tells me right there

that this is not a product. And also I'm quite aware of that thing about that advertised version will be above the actual ones you're looking for but it is fucking annoying and misleading no doubt. We did see it on the grilling guys episode quite a few times where guys would get a grill thinking it was a Weber the stuff wouldn't line up and then they'll be like that'll cost $395 to ship back to China to get a new one. It's like, damn, that sucks.

That's a scam. First guy calls it faulty saw to one star. The oscillating saw is defective. It just started running on its own, randomly out of the blue. That's scary. My wife called me in a panic saying she heard a noise. Found it was the saw running on its own and she couldn't get it to stop.

Okay, that's that is a concern. I would say that that's you can't have that happening, right? Real maximum overdrive situation. I mean, that could be dangerous. I don't know. It's fine. It's fine if the saw starts going on its own and won't stop. What do you think it's gonna do really? It's just gonna run until the battery. Well, what type of what I'm just saying, what if it turns on and you're like, and won't stop. What do you think it's gonna do really? It's just gonna run until the battery dies. What type of, I'm just saying what if it turns on

in your like, you know what I mean? Like in your bed? Like you're laying in your bed with your saw and it turns on? No, what type of saw is it? What type of saw is it? It's like an oscillating, it's a small one. It really is, like it's for like trim.

You know what I mean? It's for cutting trim. I know you love that stuff. I love cutting trim. But I was just thinking I was just I was just thinking right through all the trim yeah I guess it's a small it's a small saw so yeah it's just a hand tool so I guess it turning on on its own wouldn't be unless you were like checking the blade on it or something like that your finger something stupid like that but what what did she think was happening though Chris

what I think she was just scared. She was just scared probably of a ghost, I would imagine. Right. Like no haunted saw. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I told her to remove the battery and that stopped it. No shit. That makes sense. I wouldn't store it with the battery in it even. And it doesn't have a spirit in it.

It's got a battery in it. I think everything has a spirit in it. But's got a battery in it I think everything has a spirit in it But I know that's matter is a battery is essentially as tech like a spirit Don't even start saying tools have spirits just to make me seem like a crazy person No, I mean, I think everything has sort of a I mean even but it's animal the plant kingdom and animal objects Even I think they all do they are still powered by sort of the same Like magnetism if you want to call it that or I don't know do. They are still powered by sort of the same, like magnetism if you wanna call it that, or I don't know how spiritual you are,

but there's some kind of energy, right, that's in all things, and it just, I think it just starts from creation. So. And that's why it's like, people think it's odd, but that's why it's not actually that odd to fall in love with something that isn't necessarily a person, you know, or a place.

There's more stuff that's not person than is person. So the odds that you'll fall in love with something that isn't a person is actually quite high. If you're open to the idea. And it's based on energy, Brian, have you ever felt any sort of energy? I hate when people say energy. He doesn't need to eat like his $20 smoothies

is about the only time he ever feels it, I think. Yeah, hey buddy, I think you might need more of an energy boost than that smoothie because you aren't feeling any of the energy here Yeah, I think you're crashing a little bit off your smoothie Emergency blueberries. Can we can you get a door dash of some an energy boost? Oh god, that would cost $40 Yeah, that's because I've done it before. You want to know or yeah, did that? You did the pancakes that were so expensive. $91. That was too much and I'm never going to do it again. That was when I learned I was fucking up. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Uh huh. Because I told her to remove the battery and that stopped it. When I got home, I reinstalled the battery with the switch in the off position. The stall started running. I moved the on

off switch back and forth to no avail. The only way it would shut off was to remove the battery. I returned the saw and the batteries to Amazon. So this- Yeah, it sounds like there was an issue with that one. It does, that does happen sometimes, probably. Of course it happens. But you can't buy Milwaukee tools on Amazon.

This is a caveat emptor situation. You gotta know what you're getting into. And you're not gonna get a deal off. That's like saying, I went to the fucking store and I got a good deal on AirPods. You will not get any deal on AirPods. There's nowhere to get a deal on AirPods. Certain things that have a market price

that stays consistent no matter where it is. And it's just like people need them so much and we'll buy them no matter what that they don't need to put them on sale, you know? Because I use this for about four months and it stopped working. Contacted the supplier, sent a replacement. It's a wonderful tool. I call it my toy, one star. That's confusing.

That's really all over the place. This guy goes tricked. It's not a DeWalt, but they sure lead you to believe it is. If you don't want to DeWalt, this may work for you. I prefer the brand name. I want to do one more site then. I want to hit one more Home Depot before we get out of here.

It is on name so much. Why didn't you search it on Google? Truly? Google. They probably did, though. I don't know. I think if you search to all tools on Google, I think to all is coming up first. That's what I'm looking for.

Real deal. I think if on mine, if I put it in there, it'll have a shopping links that will come up on Google and it will be real deal. The Walt tools. I'm looking a shopping links that will come up on Google and it will be real deal. DeWalt tools. I'm looking at shopping links right now. Yeah. There's some, there's some Amazon ones, but yeah, you're, you're maybe right. Maybe you're right. That oscillating tool is $185 by DeWalt, not 68. Yeah. See that's again, that's like that too. You gotta realize.

And I know we shouldn't be making these people are gullible and stupid and whatever, but like that, that should be a, like a real red flag, you know, never is though. It just, it's one of those, I did it for years and years and years, whereas just like, let's buy the thing that's the cheapest. And then when it falls apart, we'll get mad about it, then buy the cheapest thing again. And then when it falls apart, we'll get mad about it and buy the cheapest thing again. That's about a pair of thinking, but you weren't thinking you were buying the expensive thing. That's what I'm saying is like when you're online and you see like, Hey, wow, this product is 33% of what it

normally costs like 60. Wow, that's incredible. That's, you know, it almost seems too good to be true, right? Like. Well, let's look at this Nashville Home Depot and see what goes on in Nashville. You've been, you've been to. There's probably a bunch of them though, Jesse, right? There are quite a few Home Depots.

Yeah, the ones in Nashville would probably not be the closest to me, but I maybe have walked through them. Maybe, Joyce Lane is what it is, but yeah, I don't think there's a home D I I've been to your place and it didn't seem like a place where there'd be a home Depot. There is one closer to him though. Definitely like there's

which one is that Jesse? Uh, there's a, do you want to say what's the address of the one that's close and then how far away from your house is well, I'll leave out the last part. There is a Home Depot in Hendersonville, which if you know I live in Galaton, I think that's probably an open six. That's in Sumner County,

and Hendersonville is also in Sumner County, and that's on Main Street, or no, rather it's on Anderson Lane, sorry. It's just off Main Street, it's on Anderson Lane. Well, we're looking at Joyce Lane, one star. Ricky goes, maybe not a one Main Street, it's on Anderson Lane. Well, we're looking at Joyce Lane, one star, Ricky goes, maybe not a one star place, more like two stars. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

you can change it before you post. Respect, respect. Well, he's got a good reason for it, he goes, but I need to counter the obviously fake five star reviews that say thing like everything in this place seems to be having a great day. Oh, I see, he's fighting. So he's counter, he's doing a thing, yeah.

He's fighting for humanity against the robots in a way. This is crazy what he went through. My main complaint is that I tried to pay a $10 balance on a rental was told by someone at the counter that it was all good and I didn't need to worry about it. Then I came back to rent something else and found out I have my account blocked because the $10 balance was sent to collections. The people working were nice enough to override the block and allow me to rent. Still, here I am chasing down a $10 debt that I attempted to pay immediately

after the item was returned. Anyone giving Home Depot a five-star review is senile, insane, or not a real person. Two stars minus one for inflating the ratings. You don't seem to really, that's not true. Your experience was bad, no doubt. But it's not like everyone's having that experience. I hate this one. This is one we hate on guys. I think we've had it a few other times.

One star went today, walked around the store, looking for a few things. Not one person asked that they could help find anything. And no one was really around. Wouldn't have bought anything, but had a drink to pay for since we were drinking it in the store. You can't do that.

That's trashy, I think. That's a trashy thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the trashiest thing you can do. You open a bag of chips and a drink and then scan the fucking empty bottle. That's like teenagers who are trying to be like, I don't give a fuck.

They want attention. But they're paying. So it's even, it's just trashy. I actually have a review here, Brian, from the Hendersonville Home Depot. Keith says, I ordered, you sound pissed off, sorry. Keith says, I ordered a wrench, he's just crashing. I ordered a wrench, I needed to repair my car.

They said they had it in stock. I made the mistake of paying for it online Expecting an email that it would be ready for pickup never received it I found out days later that the order would be at their store a week later When I called the recording checked my order and said it was at the store I would get an email when it was ready I called the next afternoon and was on hold for 20 minutes then informed that the wrench would not be there for a week I tried to cancel the order but was informed that I couldn't do that until they had the ranch. Stay away from this store. I

drove over to Advanced Auto and picked up a wrench so at least my car is now running. Now let me add something, a little bit of flavor to this post which is that Keith A is reporting on the Hendersonville Tennessee store from Hendersonville, North Carolina. Ah, so Keith, I love it. I'm kind of thinking maybe there was a little bit of a mix up as to where the ranch went. That's fair. Oh, I thought he was reviewing the wrong. That, that may be, that may be, but given that there's

something of a ghost wrench happening in Keith's it seems like department. Yeah. I read this happening with a door too. Yeah. But a wrench just go buy the fucking wrench. I mean, they're all over stores. You can get it in a grocery store. You can get a right in times. Yeah, I want one there. Because the self checkout cashier was completely unaware and unfriendly.

Once we were finally helped, I bet I go to Lowe's next time. I always get help that's needed there completely disappointed in the neighborhood Home Depot first of all it's not the neighborhood Home Depot second Home Depot second thing is a neighborhood second off you're supposed to be able to use the self-checkout yourself you do this that's the whole purpose of it the fact that you need help every time might be an issue with you you know at this store one star at this store what you trying to do has replaced how can I help you? There are a few good employees, a lot of bad ones that are rude and sometimes even menacing.

If they look up from their phones to acknowledge you at all, it's to tell you it's not their job or problem. Bad store. So I've been going there for over a decade. It wasn't always this way. Lucky that right down the road in Madison is a perfectly great Home Depot that is full of great employees.

Just keep driving. Driving to another town? That's, well, Madison is probably not that far away from where they are. And that's, I think the Madison one is also like a distribution center. So it may have more. Larger store, more stock perhaps.

Yeah. You're thinking, I mean, maybe you're saying that that store is getting it from them anyways. It may very well, yeah, I think it might be. Cut the middle. And finally, the last thing we're gonna do here, this is the most horrific store I've ever been in. I've told myself 100 times never to stop in Briley Parkway

as the whole store is full of incompetent people from top to bottom. Could never get a will call or delivery, right? Ask to speak to a manager and it's at least a 30 minute wait. I love that. I love making someone wait 30 minutes. That's gotta feel good. It is. Oh man. Back at the call center. Oh, we would make them wait so fucking long, but fine. I'll get you in contact with the manager. It might take a minute. He's taking some other calls. Yeah. Fucking just an hour if they're, but then I just sat on the phone for three

hours with AT&T a couple of weeks ago. So I'll be on the other side of it. Yeah. It's not as fun to be on the other side. Do you ever click on the show reviews that are not currently recommended thing on Yelp? I'm not on Yelp. I'm on Google this time, but yes, I have clicked them.

Why are they good? I don't know. This is a weird one on the home Depot. It says my son who is in college and was working at Home Depot for two years, got multiple awards for above and beyond and promoted. Got another award this morning. They said hardest working in the store.

Well, he was actually fired later today for a dispute with a coworker. Turns out it was online dispute on his phone and off the clock that got him fired. And he did not start the dispute. It's none of Home Depot's business regarding private conversations on private phones off hours. Wow.

That's fucking incredible. You can only imagine, and this is an award winning, boy. What a fall from grace in the same day, no less. In the same day he's won an award. I mean, imagine it's like, oh, holy shit, guess what? You've just been awarded the fucking, you know the NBA MVP and then now we found out you've been using steroids and you're actually toast Yeah, you know was off the guy. Yeah, he's fully threatened to kill. He did something so inappropriate that they couldn't

Allow it to go it became like a criminal matter or whatever the safety of the people in this store. You don't fire your best employee. No, because of some shit that happened. Oh, I wish I could read the whole story there. I know. Oh, that's one of the beautiful ones. I kill you. You want to say that family in the middle of the fucking store. Like just saying, like the craziest shit ever. It's like my award winning employee. Next time I see you at the store, I'm coming after you with a fucking sawzall. It's well we can't have you come in to the store then you've you've you've actually mentioned a web a specific weapon yeah we have them in stock too that's the thing you know we do you're taking the metal off of his neck as he leaves the store because not one person there has been knowledgeable of any

product that's famous Home Depot thing. And he goes, if I could give less than one star, it would be negative infinity stars. Oh, that's going to take the rating. I've never ever heard somebody try to give a negative infinity stars. All right. Well, that was fun tool guys episode. I don't want to hear about this smoothing.'m on I think I'm on vacation during this when this airs because I'm gonna go to Tucson, Arizona Wow, yeah, mr. Tucson over here that in Orlando, Florida No, it was between that Tampa Tampa. Sorry in Vegas, but I chose

Tucson. Okay, you're gonna do some what what are you? We're gonna go out to the desert and be warm. My niece lives there actually, she goes to college there. So we're actually going to visit somebody that we know that's very nice, that we love. Don't you have anything planned for the trip when you're there? Nope, not a thing. It's a no plan trip, it's like,

you wanna just relax, do nothing. It's being warm. Gotcha. Because I'm miserable. I hate winter. Oh, the walking around is cold, right? It's not even that I'm walking the convention center now. I'm just doing laps at the convention center. So it's not cold.

Yeah. I've begun to walk up and down flights of steps. Now I'm like all in the steps. All right. Flights. So that is a show. Jesse, you got anything you want to plug? Hey, of course. Well, uh, anything you want to plug? Hey, of course.

Well, I would love to plug some trim perhaps later. Um, the, the go off stream on Twitch. Um, I don't know when this comes out, but I'm sure we'll have something crazy going on. Then we've, we have successfully petitioned Twitch for front page consideration. So sometime later this month in February, I think the 24th, maybe stop by and see us on for front page consideration. So sometime later this month in February, I think the 24th, maybe stop by and see us on the front page. I think we might be doing temperature night on the front page where Stefan and I will scan and guess some temperatures of various objects

using some different methods. That's going to be popular. That is going to be popular. Are you guys considering doing like a tongue flicking contest to see who can flick their tongue the fastest See like that they well, we'll have you on for that and that was and they would do some shit like they would do that far off And a lot of their ideas you call me any day and I'll come in Upstairs and turn free where he kind of comes in and he does the tongue even though he's the ref

Yeah, and he's better than all the countries better Like stone cold. Yeah, how are you practicing? Don't like that thing I cast the podcast of course Probably next month will be coming out with for arch My favorite movies look some very fun movies. I think we're going to do this time around. I've got a good idea for it. Um, and we'll have some guests on and talk some crazy, silly movies.

So stop by and check that on the Patreon. If you don't, I'm more of a four arch than a Mike Tober. I liked both, but I'm glad to have at least one guy in my corner. Well, everybody's Mike Tober. I get it. I love Mike. I love Mike Tober as well, but it is nice to get a little encouragement like hey, you know It's okay for to watch the shitty dad movies instead of the Italian art house grind core cinema every now

And I'm Mike Tober guy, I don't I'm more of a Mike Tober guy. It's like I like to well I like to be challenged I know and I and I can't because I'll fold like a cheap suit Oh, I mean you're the films Jesse the films you watch they don't challenge me as I'm saying I don't well, did you watch the Muppet one where there's like a detective see that's a perfect movie to me I didn't get it. I didn't understand it. I couldn't make heads or tails Oh, it was over you it's what it was over. I was I did watch the honestly I watched the old Muppet movies fairly recently like when the last year and they are fucking fantastic

Muppet movies are just so fucking funny and good. They're so good. Yeah, I'm more of a Jesse movie guy I I like feel smart when I see your movies cuz I'm like, oh, I've seen all these That does feel really good thank you. Yeah, I love it. I'm a big fan. Have you watched The Beekeeper? I did watch The Beekeeper, yes. It's the best movie in the world. I mean, The Beekeeper's great.

The Beekeeper is really good, yeah. What about Carry On? That's the newest one I saw that I really liked. Oh, I loved it, loved it. I haven't seen it yet. I went to see one of them days at the movie theater. It was pretty good. I do have to say I liked it and I found it funny.

I did not laugh, but that's me. I go to movies, I don't laugh. You didn't watch carry on yet. Carry on is pretty stupid and pretty good. Brian, you'll like carry on. I think I'm working on. I'm working currently on severance and in my favorite TV show, Rogue Heroes.

I don't even know what that is. Is that a Lego show? Dude, you could know, watch Heroes. I don't even know what the, is that a Lego show? Oh dude, you know, watch it. You'll love it. It's great. Have you seen the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare? Yeah. Also great.

It's basically the same story. Yeah, I've watched, I watched, is there more than one season of that? They just started the second season. Okay, cause I watched the first season and I did. Oh, that's good. Oh yeah, yeah, I did. I did enjoy it.

I started watching a show that has, what's it, James Marsden plays the president and he gets assassinated and it's like, it's really weird, like sci-fi kind of show. And it also stars like Sterling Brown. He's like the star of it. It's really good, really good. Yeah, good. So we're gonna do tool guys next week with wolf

parade. We will see you later. Good bye. Bye.