Your Stupid Opinions - The Wrong Way To Wipe, Bad Buffet & Where Not To Bury Grandpa

Episode Date: September 25, 2023

Join comedians James Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman with their new podcast as they explore the most opinionated part of the internet: The Reviews Section!This week, we explore a buffet, where... you maybe shouldn't eat the crab legs, a product that doesn't exactly wipe what it's supposed to, a cemetery that may leave Grandpa hanging, and much more!! Subscribe and we will see you every Monday with Your Stupid Opinions!!!Don't forget to rate & review!!Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie WhismanSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to your stupid opinions ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Hello everybody! Hey! Welcome back to Your Stupid Opinions. We are here. My name is James Petrigallo, here with my co-host. I'm Jimmy Wissman. Thank you folks so much for joining us. We're very excited.
Starting point is 00:00:35 We thank you for listening to the first two episodes, and we've gotten great feedback. And can't wait to dive back into it with some more. Thank you. And we'll be back every Monday morning, so we can't wait. Let's get right into this. Now, we told people, by the way, and we will have the reviews of the Freedom Ass Wiper, which is coming. That's going to be in this episode. The stick.
Starting point is 00:00:55 But let's start out with something that everyone on this earth is going to have to deal with eventually. Because maybe you don't go to Wendy's. Maybe you don't use some of the products. But eventually, everyone's going to die. And you're going to need somewhere to go. So let's find out about the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan. In Detroit? In Detroit.
Starting point is 00:01:17 They've got one, too? People die everywhere, Jimmy. It's wild. They die in Michigan. They die in Iowa. I guess Forest Lawn, is it a corporate? No, it's probably just die in michigan they die in iowa i guess forest lawn is it a corporate yeah no it's probably just there's a forest and some lawn it's a good name for a cemetery it sounds peaceful doesn't it it does i want to take a nap there where do you want to be laid to
Starting point is 00:01:35 rest forest lawn i believe that sounds good well sounds beautiful yeah few people don't think it's so good it only has 2.9 stars on google here that's exactly other than we told them to bury my relative and then we went there and their my mother's corpse was gone and they said we just threw it in the river because we didn't have any more room and then charged my credit card anyway unless that happens i don't know what three stars there is to complain about here. Incredible. It's just listed as cemetery in Detroit. So self-explanatory.
Starting point is 00:02:10 11-8-5-1 Van Dyke Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Here's five stars. We always got to be fair. Let's start out. This person loves it. Mike Spurlock loves it. Okay. Francesco was extremely helpful.
Starting point is 00:02:23 I assume he's someone that works there. Or just a guy who was wandering helpful. I assume he's someone that works there. Someone that works there, yeah. Or just a guy who was wandering around. He's a real nice guy. It's the guy who hangs out in cemeteries and helps people. Yeah, cemeteries, they're rarely in really nice neighborhoods. So, I was looking for my great-grandparents' grave markers, and I doubt anyone has looked at them in 50 years. He went out of his way to help me. Not only did he drive out to the grave locations with me, Francesco got on his
Starting point is 00:02:48 hands and knees and helped me dig up the sod to find their markers. Wow. It's almost like there's not a lot to do at a cemetery if you work there. Fantastic customer service, which again, at a cemetery you don't hear very often because
Starting point is 00:03:03 customers technically are dead. Very few customers, yeah. He said they are also going to raise my relatives' grave markers so they're easier to find in the future. Excellent service. Five stars. Very nice. Very nice. Now let's find some people who had a little bit of a different experience.
Starting point is 00:03:20 What's that? Well, let's find out. Fascinating. I can't wait. Curtis here. One star. And this is the only review Curtis has ever left on Google, so it find out. I can't wait. Curtis here, one star. And this is the only review Curtis has ever left on Google, so it must be something. He starts out with, emergency, please help.
Starting point is 00:03:39 There is no emergencies, because at best case scenario, someone is dead already. So they're not going to get any more alive, any deader. So we can all take a breath. I love that he chose reviewing as the answer to the emergency. It's going to take so long for the answer. Please take to business reviews site and social media to plave. I don't know what that means to, I guess, give, have, plave a negative review of Forest La cemetery and cole's funeral home due to their incompetence we must dig up dad and rebury him what hopefully not by hand i don't know me and my brother gotta go out and dig him up now it's a real pain in the ass plave i think is place place
Starting point is 00:04:20 that maybe place a negative review very painful for us you can search in google for each business go to the reviews tab rate each business one star i will prove my more extended review in the comment section 50 reviews should today should go a long way so he's got a goal to have a review like a wave a tsunami of reviews all go up on the same day and really crush their soul. Because he has to move his family from here? He has to move his father. By the way, no one did that. Yeah, no one took his advice.
Starting point is 00:04:53 Because no one's reading that. Because it's a cemetery's Google reviews. Who's reading that? I wonder what the incompetence is. Like some sort of fee wasn't paid and now they want... Bury him wrong? They have to rebury him. Yeah, somewhere else.
Starting point is 00:05:06 Buried him in the wrong place, not next to his wife or whoever he was supposed to be buried. I don't know. It's crazy. That's so shitty. Let's find out another one. One star. This is Spring is this person's name.
Starting point is 00:05:19 Okay. My father recently passed away. Well, that's terrible. No one likes that, obviously, and was placed in the wrong vault by Forrest Lawn. That's even worse. That's not great. How did you find out? Well, she goes in and takes a peek at him every once in a while to make sure he's still there.
Starting point is 00:05:36 Pulls the drawer open? Yeah. His name was on the... He's very afraid of zombies is the thing. Just make sure. His name was on the purchased vault and located a few feet from his burial site. No one took the time to check the vault prior to the internment. Once they're in there, they're in there.
Starting point is 00:05:53 Yeah. Instead, they used one of their cemented vault, knowing we purchased one from the funeral home. After the internment, a counselor saw the vault and took a picture. It was too late then. counselor saw the vault and took a picture it was too late then now after grieving grieving the death of my father during his service and burial we now wait for a second burial a heavy emotional burden yeah what what is worse you can't you can't mess this up this is the thing when you're dealing with somebody's remains of their loved one you you you're not allowed to screw that up and you really have very little leeway to screw it up.
Starting point is 00:06:25 There's a body. They purchased a hole or a slot in the wall or something. You stick it in there, the correct one. Not hard. That paperwork has got to be impeccable. There's no room for error here. This is amazing. Moving people afterwards, that's just desecration.
Starting point is 00:06:44 Exhuming people, yeah. unless we have to do dna testing this is brutal so next up is a woman named shelby with a one-star review okay one star this cemetery does not even deserve the prestige of one star okay you know all that one star prestige that comes i am extremely saddened that my poor grandpa is now buried in this heartless piece of land ran by the most shameless immoral arrogant people what have what are they doing to people in here it's a speak in hushed tones put the person in the right hole collect your money it's not hard anybody can run a cemetery what's wrong with these people
Starting point is 00:07:29 do not come here all capital letters by the way which is like she's being held hot do not come here gunman um please save yourself from heartache and misery and learn from my family's experience with this despicable place wow Wow. Then there's details. Here we go. This is what I'm looking for. How'd you screw it up? Our group showed up to my grandpa's graveside service, which was scheduled for 1 p.m.
Starting point is 00:07:53 When we walked up to the burial site, it was a truly horrendous view. His grave was carelessly open, the vault set askew above the ground, and there were four chairs haphazardly placed off to the side that's the image that we showed up to at the time his service was supposed to start there was nothing to set his casket on nothing to lower it into the grave no way to even remove the lid from the vault they just didn't do any any prelim work at all
Starting point is 00:08:22 no prep even if they did if they had the vault off, it looks like you're supposed to just, as pallbearers, fucking launch this thing in. Put it right in the hole? Yeah. Nothing, no little shelf thing to put it on. It was only then, at the time when our service was set to begin, that a, and in quotes, counselor, made us aware that graveside funerals are first come, first serve. What does that mean? What does that mean?
Starting point is 00:08:51 We've got four going right now. That's all the platforms we have. This is all the chairs we have? And all the platforms? That's all we got. Put your own grandpa on the ground, all right? Just do it. We got other stuff going on.
Starting point is 00:09:02 First come, first serve. We were forced to stand around and wait for an unspecified around of time with our four chairs while we were waiting for the backhoe to come finish digging the grave before our eyes okay that should be done the night before no i mean you can't watch that jesus oh just dig grandpa's grave everybody i'll check my phone um wow dig a grave before our eyes some guy just a billabong hat fired up at john deere out of the way people somebody moved them fucking chairs will you jesus christ i gotta lay the stabilizers down get clear i got four other stiffs to put in
Starting point is 00:09:38 the ground what the fuck is happening this is fucking fucking, this is crazy. Wow. While we were waiting for the backhoe to come finish digging the grave before our eyes, the counselors that they had on duty, which are the most callous, insensitive, sorry excuse for people that do not deserve the term counselor, never showed any sympathy. That's your only job. Everything you go, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. No matter what happens at a funeral, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. No matter what happens at a funeral, I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 00:10:07 I'm so sorry. I'm sorry you have to watch this. Yeah. Hydraulics operate on this fucking cat. Hands in front of you, locked like this. Head down solemnly. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:10:17 Just, fuck, funeral. Funeral. While a diesel motor just churns. Wow. And there's dust and dirt all through the air. Yeah, Jesus. They never once apologized for what was happening, never showed any compassion for us. Instead, they spewed excuse after excuse, never taking any responsibility, and actually tried to turn the blame on us for lack of communication.
Starting point is 00:10:41 Oh, you wanted him in a hole in the ground. We were just going to leave him in a field. You wanted him actually in the ground. Oh, Jesus Christ. You wanted six feet. I'm sorry. We got to four. I don't know. Hey, Bob, these people want him in the ground. We were just going to put him up there. Well, yeah, dig the fucking hole. Get the back up. We were leaving it a little more shallow
Starting point is 00:10:57 so you could be closer to him when you pray over him. What the fuck is going on? I can't even fathom the kind of audacity that it takes to try to place blame on a mourning family. If I put all the things that were said and done poorly by Forest Lawn Cemetery in this review, it would be pages long. It's already pretty long. What I will say is that we had to stare at our grandpa's partially open grave for almost an hour. Then we had to stand around and watch a backhoe come dig the rest of it.
Starting point is 00:11:23 We had no other option but to place my grandpa's casket inside of the vault and do the service around that. We watched as they looped a chain around the vault, watched him dangle midair by the arm of the backhoe. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Oh my God. The torture. Well, like, beep, beep, beep, goes off, and oh no, Grandpa's swinging back. The fucking chain. By a chain?
Starting point is 00:11:48 What is it, an El Camino engine? What are we doing here? This is ridiculous. Pulling a water pump? We're fucking putting our grandfather in the ground. This is horrifying. This is not this reviewer's fault. This is their fault.
Starting point is 00:12:03 No. This is true. First come, first serve is one thing, but if you're going to do that with the remains of human beings, at least tell people what windows you have open for doing this with dignity and not chains. Well, we have a dignity window at about two o'clock. Outside of that, we treat them like an engine hoist. I apologize.
Starting point is 00:12:22 That's all we got. Oh, my God. Yeah, after that, sorry. them like an engine hoist. I apologize. That's all we got. Yeah, after that, sorry. That's all we can do. When making the arrangements, had anyone given us a rundown of how things are done at this place? I hope that's not standard operating procedure. No kidding. That's coming from me.
Starting point is 00:12:35 And what to expect when we arrive? We could have prepared ourselves. This is going to be terrifying and horrifying, and Grandpa's not going to be buried with dignity. Let's prepare. But nobody ever said anything we came ignorant of their backwards ways and naive enough to think that anybody there would actually care that we were burying a loved one shame on this place i hope that no one else has to experience what we did please please please if you're in a position that you have to bury a loved one
Starting point is 00:12:59 do not do it here forest lawn is not worthy of them. Not worthy of your corpses. They're out there at lunchtime with a Weber over your family's grave. This one has a picture, which I find amazing. Okay. Oh, fucking great. AM is the name. One star.
Starting point is 00:13:19 Here we go. Quote, please keep up the cemetery. This is not cool. Exclamation point. what's going on the upkeep of this cemetery is poor exclamation point while visiting my mom's grave on christmas a burial casket is just left out in the open and there is a picture of a casket just sitting maybe a foot off the road you know the road because it's just off the fucking look at it here i'll turn the phone nobody's there look not a soul it's just a casket sitting out there just no one will come on christmas right nobody visits dead people on christmas we just leave that casket there maybe it's that poor lady's grandpa we didn't have any chains christ no chains
Starting point is 00:14:03 i was very disturbed and if i had an input on where to bury a loved one, it would not be here. This is the first time, not the first time noticing things, just my first time posting them. Just a casket sitting there. It's right off the road. It's not like by a hole. There's no hole that's going to go there. It's someone, they were like, we'll get that later. That was just put aside for later.
Starting point is 00:14:24 Nobody showed up yet. Just put it right there. Put it there. It's fine. Okay, here's Erica. Okay, one star. My grandfather's body is stuck at the funeral home because his standard size casket cannot fit in the crypt he purchased from Forest Lawn Cemetery. What?
Starting point is 00:14:43 So he's just stuck there. Have tried calling them at the funeral home. Like, we need to get rid of him. He's in there like, we're trying. His hole's not big enough. Tried calling their main Midwest Memorial Group office and no one is answering. To make matters worse,
Starting point is 00:14:58 no one from Forest Lawn Cemetery has even tried to call my family. Thank you, Forest Lawn Cemetery slash Midwest Memorial for your professionalism and compassion. One star. I think that's sarcasm. Yeah. Yeah, that is.
Starting point is 00:15:13 So you have a measurement that your drawer is or your crypt, whatever, and you have to buy a casket that fits inside that. Which a standard casket shouldn't fit in there. Right. unless it's the kid's wing what are we doing right what's happening what's happening here yeah did he buy the toddler section the pediatric wing is that where we are now pediatric funeral wing um so here's the last review here from shirley one star the most heartless place on god's green earth to bury your loved ones wow that is a lot i was appalled and very saddened that the treatment our loved one was given this place doesn't even
Starting point is 00:15:53 deserve one star they should be ashamed of themselves yeah and there's a four likes on that as well all these negative reviews have a lot of thumbs up likes from people really other people agree with this shit. So there we go. Okay. Funerals, everybody. We've gone as dead as we can go. Now let's be alive with the Freedom Wand ass wiper, everyone.
Starting point is 00:16:15 Let's do this. Okay. Vitally fluids and functions operating fucking perfect. It's wonderful. Freedom Wand multi-purpose toilet aid, 145-inch toilet paper helper for all people with range of motion limitations, portable toilet aid for holding tissue, razor, and other personal hygiene products. Oh, boy. $42.99 on Amazon.
Starting point is 00:16:38 Wow. And it's just a piece of plastic with some grippy things on it. It's a stick. Is it like a trash grabber, but it's shorter? shorter no it doesn't grab it's got like like slots here look at it again i'll turn the screen through look see it's got the little things up there that thing is 42 42 yeah it looks like it's it's 12 cents worth of plastic is what it looks yeah it looks like it would break in two minutes here so only comes in white too with a green handle okay no brown for some reason which is what it should be um here's a five-star review and they hate it which is i think they messed up here because it says lousy product in all capital bold letters and one two three four
Starting point is 00:17:18 five six exclamation points i think they mean it they may mean mean it. Dead serious, yeah. This is Barbara. Okay. This item was a waste of my money. I tried three times to get the stupid stick to hold the toilet paper, then tried the wipes. Nothing would hold on. A big dud. I couldn't afford this item to begin with, but needed help after my latest surgery on my rotator cuff. What a disappointment. Oh, God. The embarrassment. It's a tough one. It's a tough one. I remember when... I won't get into that. help after my latest surgery on my rotator cuff what a disappointment yeah the embarrassment it's
Starting point is 00:17:46 a tough one it's a tough one it's uh i remember when i won't get into that but yeah rotator cuffs are tough christmas is going to be very tight as usual but to waste over 40 for what uh what hurts is the fact that i literally threw away this money shame on you for ripping people off and you get to keep it you can't return it can't return well it's a no it's got poop on it well i mean if the thing didn't even hold the paper did you try to get paper on it and then go back if anybody i assume yeah if anybody anything that goes in or near an orifice of your body that's not returnable i think that's again it's it's the it's your dildo policy sir that's your dildo you can't return it because it's yours.
Starting point is 00:18:27 Don't care what you did. OK, three stars from Chris. Here we go. It doesn't hold toilet tissue. Well, you have to work to get at it to get work at it to get it to hold a razor. Well, keep it as I need it. The man wiped his ass with it and then shaved his back with it now it does have some positive reviews here's a five star after getting injured my mobility became limited and this was just what i needed i was injured not too long ago
Starting point is 00:19:00 and having trouble with my reach i haven't had someone else help me with my behind in many years and was not eager to ask for help now very understandable more more understanding i could not be i get you chief in many years i hope it's as many years as you've been alive no shit this allowed me to maintain my dignity good for them that nice. Okay. Here's one star. Really bulky doesn't work as claimed. That's the headline here. All right. Quote, and I'm not making fun of, you'll see. Okay. Quote, I'm fat and hope this would help make it easier to wipe. Let's get that out of the way. The fact that they say that means they're one of these people who's like, I don't care if you call me fat, I'm fat. Look at me. Okay. Don't worry about it. So I've done this to me, but I'm trying my best. We're not taking the shots.
Starting point is 00:19:49 We'll let them take the shots. Unfortunately, this product failed. It's too wide to fit between my fat rear and the seat. That's what it says. Okay. Yeah. So I tried the front. Wrong angle.
Starting point is 00:20:02 So I tried the front. Wrong angle. Dot, dot, dot, wrong angle is my favorite thing ever. Never even got it near enough to test if it would hold the paper tightly enough, though I could easily pull it out with my fingers. So I thought, I hope that she means the toilet paper or he means the toilet paper and not the poop. So I thought I'd test it with a shower scrubby and use it for washing my feet. Won't even close on one of those like they claim it will.
Starting point is 00:20:34 I wouldn't trust its grip on a razor. Definitely not worth $40. Okay. That's fair. Okay. Wow. Uncomfortable piece of junk. One star. Okay. Wow. Uncomfortable piece of junk. One star. Okay. I do not like this product at all. Okay.
Starting point is 00:20:52 I do not like it with a ball. I do not like it. I do not like it because I'm tall. I do not like it. On a call. Wow. Okay. I love when we're starting out with poetry that's yeah you want someone puts poetry into the review i'll take it seriously put it that way the toilet paper holding fingers release the toilet paper as you wipe and you end up with the rubber to fingers directly against your behind oh no that does not sound comfortable then they they say not comfortable, which I agree.
Starting point is 00:21:26 Yeah. I've used the one with the slot to press the TP into when it works so much better and is way cheaper than this one. When I try to fill out the info to return it, it does not allow me to give my own reason but makes me select ones that do not apply. It wasn't damaged, ordered by mistake, et cetera. It's just a piece of junk that doesn't work. Fair. apply it wasn't damaged ordered by mistake etc it's just a piece of junk that doesn't work fair um yeah because the other reasons for returning make it your walk that's it's your anything you are why i tried to well it's yours then i was in the bath yours if the package is open in your bathroom it's yours but i put it in it's yours, it's yours. Yeah, but I put it in the... It's yours.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Yeah, it's yours. Yeah, that's exactly right. After you pooped, you had poop on your hands, it's yours. Okay. Next one here. Just take a 20 out and burn it. One star. 40?
Starting point is 00:22:19 Two of them. Yeah. Really, they must have got a deal. Maybe they got it on sale. We don't know. Yeah, on Prime Day. Does not, capital letters, hold the tissue. You just make a nasty mess because the tissue ends up being dipped in the toilet if it hangs on that long.
Starting point is 00:22:34 Oh, my God. This sounds like a disastrous. Oh, Jesus. Disastrous fucking item. I do not understand this review at all. Okay. It's from a woman named mary one star and her her subject her title is nada okay yeah then this is her entire her entire review
Starting point is 00:22:55 is capital letters shave legs that's it i don't know what that means if it's an order or what here's one from Trudy she shouted it at the wand shave the legs it did nothing this thing is not voice activated nada you guys I thought it had Siri or Alexa Trudy did like Alexa nada
Starting point is 00:23:22 freedom ass freedom wand ass wiper, shave legs, piece of shit. This is worse than fucking Johnny five and short circuit here. I'm telling you to come forward. Worse than that cheap room by Bob. So one star from Trudy,
Starting point is 00:23:41 not meant to be used by females as her subject line. Oh, I totally disliked this instrument. One star from Trudy, not meant to be used by females is her subject line. Oh. I totally disliked this instrument. I like the way she put that, by the way. Totally disliked this instrument. First of all, its intended use is to wipe your butt from the front. Women cannot do this without possibly causing an infection created by dragging the wand through their vagina. Obviously. Yeah. If you are a female, it's... Why don't you do it from the back then? out possibly causing an infection created by dragging the wand through their vagina obviously
Starting point is 00:24:05 yeah if you are a female it's living room why don't you do it from the back then i don't know why it has to be listen man there's a lot going on over here so let's not ask any questions i don't i don't understand this whole thing if you are a female it's useless also listen to this one the toilet paper does not release easily they have the opposite problem they get the toilet paper you can't fucking get it out now you gotta touch it shit paper and you gotta pick it off with your fingers meaning you have to unroll it from the wand uh by hand yourself so instead of putting it in the little fingers she just rolls it around it and uses it like you would any stick she can get any stick in her house and do this with it you
Starting point is 00:24:49 get a stick in the yard it does just a stick yeah pick a switch i gotta take a dump this is crazy stuff man uh and then finally the last one and this is the reason why they don't take them back i would assume one star disgusting, disgusting, from Lisa. That's her subject. Received package with a hair inside the bag. Oh, no. And it's a short hair, too. There's a picture of it.
Starting point is 00:25:13 You don't want that in there. Oh, boy. Really disappointed. Wouldn't recommend. Yeah, I would say so. That is horrifying. So that's something. You're trying to.
Starting point is 00:25:23 You need that. If you need that if you need that you need that make a decent quality product that people can fucking use and maintain whatever dignity they have at this point this is terrible so poor oh jesus can you imagine needing that fuck oh so we've we've died we've wiped our asses now we're starving obviously We're very hungry after that last product, clearly. Aren't you hungry, Jimmy? Stomach's growling now. Couldn't. Don't lie. Couldn't possibly eat.
Starting point is 00:25:52 Well, you better be awfully hungry because we're going not only to a restaurant, to a buffet. Oh, yes. We're going to Zhang's Buffet in Cheekt to waga which is just east of buffalo okay so an outside of buffalo chinese buffet with 2.3 stars on google how do these places stay open with two stars 2.3 stars from a chinese place um that is that's a little terrifying yeah i mean for many restaurant 2.3 stars that's i mean for food the stereotype is you're gonna get sick and then and you go to a 2.3 star buffet you're asking for it that's like eating gas steak and gas station chicken and then wondering why you have to stop to go to the bathroom who would do that turnpike chicken
Starting point is 00:26:44 turnpike pennsylvania chicken jimmy i bathroom who would do that turnpike chicken turnpike pennsylvania chicken jimmy i wonder who would do that to themselves and then try to eat the chicken as you go to throw it out because it was bad and made you sick unreal uh uh now let's find a couple positive reviews let's let's try to we we gotta find we gotta be fair we don't know maybe this is all lies and all slander. We don't know. This is from Paige in Depew, New York. Five stars.
Starting point is 00:27:12 My family and I absolutely love going here. Yeah. Okay. Out of all the buffets we've been to, their food is freshest with plenty of variety. The desserts are great. The freshest. The freshest buffet in town. The desserts are great. The freshest. The freshest buffet in town. The desserts are great, too,
Starting point is 00:27:29 and they're reasonably priced. It's a buffet, so I wouldn't come here expecting the food to be fresh out of the oven since it has to sit out, but they take great care in quality compared
Starting point is 00:27:38 to other places we have been. It's not that kind of fresh. It's a different fresh. It's hot. They keep the steam trays pretty hot. It's three that kind of fresh. It's a different fresh. It's hot. They keep the steam trays pretty hot. It's three hours old, but it's been under the heat the whole time. So it's fine. Freshest buffet I've ever had.
Starting point is 00:27:54 It's not fresh out of the oven, you see. Not like fresh fresh, like food that, you know. Not like the definition of fresh. Recently cooked. Not like that kind of fresh. Fresh if you're coming to a Chinese buffet in the outskirts of Buffalo fresh. You know what I mean? Like that fresh.
Starting point is 00:28:11 It's that fresh. It's that fresh. Off the side of the highway fresh. You get it. Thruway exit fresh. You understand. Completely not fresh fresh. Not fresh fresh.
Starting point is 00:28:23 Here's Tim. Timothy from Lockport, new york he is easily pleased let's just say yeah he i i don't know who timothy looks like an adult man from his picture but it sounds like he let his eight-year-old make this review terrific five stars zangs is great by the way zangs is z-h-a-n-G. I had a feeling, yeah. Zangs is great. I especially like the spelling of Zang with the silent H. What? What fucking difference does that make in the food?
Starting point is 00:28:55 What possible, possible difference could an H in the fucking name on the sign make in your food? Let's go to Zangs. Talk about easily pleased. he's looking for positives oh the nh is pretty cool it means there's culture here oh he said there should be silent h's in many more names and words what he just likes silent H's. I mean, this is an eight-year-old that just figured out an H can be silent, and they're like, this is cool. I'd like to put H's in everything. My name's Zach, but I'd like that to be with an H. Z-H-A-C-K.
Starting point is 00:29:37 Zach. I think I'm going to do that. What are you talking about? It gets better jimmy there's one more line with five words and it really puts the cherry on top of a buffet here let's get after it quote i like to watch tv what are you talking about it What are you talking about? It feels like whatever he ate has made him insane. The dye in the sweet and sour sauce, that pink shit, is really... The not fresh, fresh spare ribs, sir, they have got you going. He must have mixed that sauce up with cough syrup and drank a lot of it, because this is crazy.
Starting point is 00:30:27 They put the wrong mushrooms in the salad bar. Wow. I like to watch TV, man, especially shows with a silent H in the title. Oh, my. I wish Kung Fu had a silent H in Fu. I really do, man. I'd have watched
Starting point is 00:30:44 it for years, man, and I'd have done Kung Fu, taken Kung Fu. I'd have eaten Kung Pao Chicken, even though that's not the same word. That's the greatest review of all time. I don't know what they're talking about. We can stop the show now. That's what I mean. Everybody, we've reached pinnacle. This is it.
Starting point is 00:31:02 How does it get better than that? We found the man oh man jesus christ i like to watch tv i like to watch tv okay ponies like to run great yeah that was great here's jeff from buffalo okay one star this recent, too, within the last two months. Disgusting food. I believe it. I got food poisoning that night. Oh. That's not good.
Starting point is 00:31:30 Crab legs never come out. You should probably be thankful of that. Oh, yeah. You're going to eat shellfish from a- Are you out of your fucking mind? You've got to trust a place to eat shellfish there. I've got a feeling the last guy ate the shellfish. Oh, tons.
Starting point is 00:31:46 Yeah. It's like, whoa, man, I see lots of colors on this TV. I like watching TV. Holy Christ. Crab legs never come out. Just a pan of hot water. That's what they come out in. They brought it out, opened the pan, and it was just hot water.
Starting point is 00:32:02 There you go. It's crab flavored. We dipped crab in there crab water just get a scoop it's a little bit old day in there give it a try nothing was hot and everything was undercooked and poor quality oh jesus that sounds dangerous i would not let my dogs eat here well no we get you sick no Party of four and a hundred bucks later just to throw it all up. And it's true. All the workers are miserable and rude.
Starting point is 00:32:30 Oh, it's true. Yeah, it's true. So if you've heard that. I heard it and I saw it. Weird that buffet workers who work in a restaurant where they don't get tips would be surly. Strange. So all the shit of food service without the one benefit of food service which is you get tips odd odd flappy food service surprise those are angry people weird right serving that shit
Starting point is 00:32:53 so that's his whole review there okay rachel from buffalo two stars for rachel okay two stars the soup and chicken with broccoli were the only good things. And by the way, Rachel is an elite 2023, so she reviews a lot. Yeah, she does. She's one of those people. I had the crab legs. Uh-oh. You brave, brave woman.
Starting point is 00:33:17 Don't tell that man that didn't get them. Oof, yeah. She had them all. She's going to be pissed. He's going to be pissed at you. This is from like two days apart, these reviews, too. Oh. Now you have crab legs.
Starting point is 00:33:28 Great. I had the crab legs. They only put out about six clusters twice during the visit. They had very minimal crab legs, just to legally say that the sign outside is true. We do have them. We do have them. We're not going to make them for you, but crab legs are available. I swear we've got plural ones. They tasted like they went bad. Okay, well, then don't complain that there's not a lot have them. We do have them. We're not going to make them for you, but crab legs are available. I swear we've got plural ones.
Starting point is 00:33:46 They tasted like they went bad. Okay, well, then don't complain that there's not a lot of them. Don't eat them. Additionally, the fried shrimp tasted like they also went bad. Oh, don't eat that. I would assume they probably take the oldest shrimp and use those to fry with because that covers some of the flavor. You can't make that a shrimp cocktail or something. And when shrimp is bad, man, oh not good that will taste awful you can yeah it's like what is that ammonia and there's something wrong with that
Starting point is 00:34:15 there's there's shit from the bottom of your shoe i believe is mixed in there my nose stings why yeah what's going on oh my nose stings. My nose is stinging. I don't like that. The peanut dessert was beyond stale. Beyond stale. The pizza had raw dough. Oh, well, you know what? Don't eat pizza. Now, that's...
Starting point is 00:34:35 I'm going to jump in here, Rachel. You don't get to complain about pizza. You went to a place called Zhang's Chinese Buffet and said, I wonder how their pizza is. Well, if you go to Sal's Pizzeria, I don't recommend the beef and broccoli as well. So it goes both ways. We're not blaming the Chinese people here. This is picking ethnicity and eat that. You ate pizza at a place where there is crab legs. Are you out of your, what is wrong with you?
Starting point is 00:35:01 And that's a place where you go, oh, they have pizza. That's weird. Don't eat that food that you're surprised that they have. Why is that here? They never gave a refill and only cleared the plates once. Again, not getting tipped a lot. I will say that aside from the crab legs, they did continually bring out fresh food. It was just awful.
Starting point is 00:35:22 She said there was only chicken with broccoli is the only good thing. Disgusting. Keep bringing out bad, good food. It was just awful. She said there was only chicken with broccoli is the only good thing. Disgusting. Keep bringing out bad, good food. So there we go. Here's another Kimberly, or just Kimberly. Kimberly from Buffalo. Two stars. Okay.
Starting point is 00:35:34 First, it wasn't bad. Okay. Okay. Well, that's a good start. Two stars. But workers were rude when I, workers were rude then when I was getting some dessert. There there was a fly in all capital letters in in there. One of the employees.
Starting point is 00:35:51 I what the fuck? One of the employees. I G me Instagram me. Is that can you do that? That's weird. Can you can you? I don't know what that what that means. And when there were and when their machines in the front wasn't working, they had attitude.
Starting point is 00:36:09 Okay. I wasn't a PLE experience. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, Kimberly. Come back when you've learned what you're talking about. I hope you're okay with whatever this food did to you. Yeah, I think the crab legs definitely poisoned her. They're fucking people up. This is not good.
Starting point is 00:36:27 Here's Jillian from Eastside Buffalo. One star. First, we had a fight with the flies. That's first. Had to fight with flies. They didn't have plastic silverware. I would hope not. It's a restaurant.
Starting point is 00:36:43 I hope it's regular silverware. The seats were falling apart the tables were dirty it's like they don't have enough people working to clean after someone uh someone after someone left these there's no punctuation here so i'm flying blind they didn't refill my drink at all i was thirsty thank gosh I had a water bottle in my bag I had to share with my friend because she also thirsty. What the fuck? I don't know. She has a picture of a Poland spring bottle sitting on the table. She had to bring
Starting point is 00:37:14 with her. Yeah, that's the one I used. So, uh, D-O-B-U D-E-O-B-U is the name from Front Park in Buffalo. One star. This place near my home, this place nearby my home, but I go one time that all they sell bad foods,
Starting point is 00:37:35 and one woman look at you all time when you eat food. They watch you all time. I don't feel like to go to that place again in my lifetime for sure it's a very it's an asian man and he's speaking i don't speak chinese so i give him a lot of credit what a nightmare to go go there get awful food and then have somebody stare at you while you eat what do you think just look at him go this really sucks you know go back to it wow this is terrible as you're eating every bite go. It's not getting better. Jesus.
Starting point is 00:38:06 Getting worse as it's getting colder, sweetheart. Oh, man. All right. Let's find Raisa in North Tonawanda, New York. Okay. One star. My daughter and I went to get some food after she was out of school don't need to know that no care don't care where you came from where you're going to get food what your event was
Starting point is 00:38:31 none of that shit matters in a review get to the food i assume you showed up to zhang's chinese buffet because you saw the sign that said zhang's chinese buffet you said oh crab legs and you came in there you're gonna be disappointed yeah i usually don't write these, but it was just so bad. That's helpful to go, listen, I'm not a big complainer here. The rice was crunch. Is that like new slang? That shit was crunch, man. Yeah, is that some fucking TikTok slang?
Starting point is 00:38:58 I think that means good now. Yeah, I think. Is that bussin'? I think it's sort of like that, but the rice was crunch. I'm going to say crunchy. The sweet and sour chicken slash crab rangoons and others were cold. The servers do not talk to you or even smile. Well, at least they weren't staring at you.
Starting point is 00:39:17 So you made out. I signed the check. It was 30 for my daughter. She's seven. The price advertised was not what I paid. And then I put a $4 tip and then they put it in as nine. So that was the cherry on top. Truly one of the worst buffets I've ever been to.
Starting point is 00:39:40 They adjusted your tip. Wow. That's criminal. You can't do that. Yeah. That's actually a crime. They'll take away your fucking machine for that shit. Absolutely. Like a credit card company in a second will take away your machine for that.
Starting point is 00:39:49 I've worked at restaurants. That's crazy. Trust me. The thought has come up to people and you go, okay, you can't do that. Jesus Christ. They'll shut the restaurant down for that. That's fraud. They just put change on there.
Starting point is 00:39:59 Yeah. Well, put a 10 in front of it. Can't do that. Yeah. Let's do it. Yeah. Put that decimal point in a different spot. We got something.
Starting point is 00:40:14 Holy goddamn shit. That is wild okay um andrea here we go oh man that's uh andrea uh jay from buffalo one star this is what my husband saw in the men's room of the bathroom at zhang's while we do not initially fault the restaurant the response we got was disappointing to say the least. It says fuck N-words and it's written out. There's a picture of it here. We notified both the waitress who appeared to think we were lying. Well, that's an easily proved thing. Don't tell the lady, tell the man. Yeah, come with me over here.
Starting point is 00:40:40 It's in urinal three. What do you mean you haven't been in there? um it's in urinal three what do you mean you haven't been in there so despite the fact that it was easily verifiable or the manager which admitted she knew it was there but there was nothing they could do because it doesn't wash away about black box it out then put a fucking sharpie over it at least it's your right even if you felt that way even if you were fucking yeah you know what i mean even if you were asshole, why would you put that in your place of business? Like, that's obviously not good for business. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:08 It's not good for fucking business. It's a red wall. Just get a little red paint. Fuck a paint over it. I know it's there. I used a sponge and it's still there. Fuck. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:17 We pointed out a simple paint job over the phrase was probably sufficient in which we were rewarded with a blank stare. We don't have paint. We don't have have paint they will never get my business again if you don't care about your customers then you won't get my hard-earned money okay that's that's that sounds awful that place don't eat the crab legs everyone stay away um fucking awful okay next up the phoenix bus station and greyhound terminal by the airport yes the shit one there and this one is uh personal for my cousin who helps put this show together yeah because he was stuck at this guest at this bus station like 30 years ago for like a horrible hell time yeah he had like my charlotte airport experience at the greyhound station in like 1991 bus they
Starting point is 00:42:06 did and then a bus left i guess a bus the bus they were supposed to be on they were told they let other people go on and took it away so he said him and a bunch of other people that were stranded on this bus that was supposed to go commandeered a bus and just walked in with all their shit and sat down and said none of us us are fucking leaving. This bus is going to Los Angeles. And they eventually took them there. That's how shitty a bus station is. You can just get on a bus and demand to be taken somewhere, and they'll eventually just take you there.
Starting point is 00:42:35 If you paid a ticket fee, then they have to. They have to, so they did. This is 2115 East Buckeye Road in Phoenix. That's the one. It's a terrible area, too. Awful area. 2.8 stars. I don't know how it even got that much.
Starting point is 00:42:48 I dropped someone off there one time, and I was like, Jesus Christ, I'm going to get stabbed through my car window just fucking stopping to let this person out. Here's David. Yeah. David is of local guide status on the review site here. 207 reviews he's put up jesus christ david david shut the fuck up um you know what i mean jesus christ man four stars he gives it uh hadn't ever ridden a greyhound bus before very fortunate of you oh look at you it's your privilege oh and thought the phoenix station was a was clean and
Starting point is 00:43:28 convenient gross are you kidding me what there were two clerks working the desks uh desk so check-in was quick and efficient printed the tickets at home well yeah that's efficient the bus bus left almost on time and arrived so close to schedule in San Bernardino. Seats were comfortable but short on legroom. Yeah. Four stars. He rode it from here to San Bernardino? San Bernardino.
Starting point is 00:43:54 Now, I will say this, though. Yeah. If you are riding a Greyhound, you should expect it to suck. Yeah. It's not a luxury experience. So you should go, this is going to blow. yeah it's not a luxury experience so you should go this is gonna blow so to to be surprised by i mean there was people working there and they got me in pretty quick and the bus got there reasonably on time and the seat wasn't that bad you go fuck that's better than i expected for a
Starting point is 00:44:15 greyhound right yeah i get four stars that's a shade above walking there yeah mediocrity is top tier for a greyhound so here's one from jared jared needs to shut the fuck up even more he has 366 reviews who goes that many places he's going places just to review them now that's what it is at this point yeah he's like a pokemon go player oh one star for old uh for old jared like being in a porta potty whole time you're on property. Yeah. Stinks like shit and piss there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:51 Yeah, because there's a lot of people shitting and pissing outside of that place. It's all over the place. It's gross. That's not a good place to be. No. Employees suck. Manager sucks even more. Freaking joke of a person.
Starting point is 00:45:08 Jared, I take it all back. Keep reviewing, man. Freaking joke of a person, brah. That's what he sounds like. I am loving this. I want to hear. We're going to do a show of all Jared's reviews next time. Just Jared's reviews.
Starting point is 00:45:22 We're not going to do that, but one of these days, maybe. Freaking joke of a person so disappointed even stepped foot on this property so many people broke on the in and outside of life yeah that's a greyhound bus station in the worst neighborhood in phoenix what do you expect what do you want sir all of these things you go yep this is exactly what i expected it's crazy how i really i was you know i walked in and i said i will have a first class ticket please and they're like that's 38 dollars and i was like wow this is gonna be. And then I was surprised it was shit.
Starting point is 00:46:10 It's $38 to go from here to Boston. And I was like, I was expecting it to be really great. So many people on the, ah, Jesus, God, my stomach just walked. I have a horrible cramp. Jesus Christ. Hurts so bad. How do you expect anything better than this? There's a Circle K right there where the worst people are buying all kinds of booze and then going to the Greyhound. They're buying people, Jimmy.
Starting point is 00:46:42 They're buying women outside. They're buying crack. They're buying everything. It's a world market out there and they are packing it into their suitcase and getting on a greyhound that's what you you should expect this to be the worst however long it takes to get to your destination that you've ever spent ever ever ever spent however long it's amended at all three exclamation points yes you have it correct yeah okay joanna only has five reviews so it has to be real bad for joanna to pitch in here one star this is only from two months ago too very recent the other one was new it was like brand new there for Jared. Okay. Probably worst trip I had.
Starting point is 00:47:25 Worst trip had in my life is what it says. Man sitting smack up against me tried to molest a seven-year-old girl at the Phoenix bus station and still him get on a bus next to me. You didn't call the police? Apparently they caught him trying to molest a kid and they were like give it give us that kid get on the bus let's go pal you're getting on that bus fuck get out because the police are waiting outside and they just were like that's at the bus station though they're like i don't know he didn't kill her so unless someone is actively injecting themselves with something or murdering someone we really try to stay out of other people's business. Holy shit.
Starting point is 00:48:08 Bus driver refused to kick him off after trying to grope. So he got on the bus and then tried to grope more. Wow. I had to call the police. Good. Rude drivers. No room in seats. Ghetto staff.
Starting point is 00:48:20 Awful. No safety at all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Again, $38. I expect to be sitting next to a child molester who was just released from prison the jail drove him from the jail to the bus station dropped him off there that's what i assume that's just every person i'm sitting here i can't believe that's still happening it's still that yeah i can't believe it it was a trope in
Starting point is 00:48:43 like when when road trip came out and that girl was riding to Boston and then Todd Phillips on the bus tried to suck her feet. That's still happening. It's still happening now. That's crazy. Greyhound is in the 70s. They're in another decade, man. They're like, it's.
Starting point is 00:48:57 It's unbelievable. You want to go back in time? Get on a Greyhound. It's back in time. Your kids will get molested on a Greyhound. And you. You might get groped. And you. Everybody gets molested on our greyhound. It's back in time. Your kids will get molested on a greyhound. And you. You might get groped. Both of you.
Starting point is 00:49:07 Everybody gets molested on our greyhound. Wow. Travis here is a local guy that says on his review thing, one star. One star. Didn't like it. Didn't like it. Okay. Drug use slash smoking cigarettes as we slept.
Starting point is 00:49:23 Yeah. There's a smoking section on the bus? No. People just do it. After they shoot up, they need a smoke. What are they going to do, stop? That's the thing. Once you've shot up, you really need a smoke to take the edge off.
Starting point is 00:49:36 You're like, ah, that feels good. That could be kind of cool to just take one to L.A. and just drink the whole fucking time. Oh, yeah, get shit hammered and shit in the bus. It's great. That's where you went. Is there a toilet on it? It's gotta be.
Starting point is 00:49:49 So drug use slash smoking cigarettes as we slept slash being cursed at by the driver after half the bus points out he was about to run off the road while falling asleep. Oh my God. And he's like, I don't need your attitude right now back there.
Starting point is 00:50:04 Everybody shut the fuck up then having him try to pin the blame on us for quote scaring passengers literally had to emergency order a plan back and cancel round trip but apparently these reasons aren't good enough to get a all capital letters letters, partial refund debited back to me. Not even the whole thing. I'm not even looking for all of it. They ask you these questions when you go for a refund. Do you buy a ticket?
Starting point is 00:50:32 Yes. Was there a bus? Yes. Then we did our part. Done. That's all we promise you is that a bus will exist. If a bus exists, we've done our part. Didn't say you're going to get there when.
Starting point is 00:50:49 I will be highly suggesting no one takes their family or loved ones that they care for on this bus and never ride alone. I'm going to tell everyone that right now. Everyone, never take your family or loved ones or anyone you care for on this bus or ride alone. I'm saying that. That's from us that's yeah i'll barely ride i'll barely ride a city bus fuck a greyhound i'm never doing that fuck no i'll hitchhike first i'll walk it fuck looking for a ride if i figure hitchhike because on the bus you know there's going to be awful people on the bus you know that hitchhiking you might get a, you know there's going to be awful people on the bus. You know that. Hitchhiking, you might get a nice person.
Starting point is 00:51:27 You never know. They might kill you, but you might get a nice person. You got a 50-50 chance at least. On the bus, you're just walking in like you're going into a holding cell, basically. Like they took you to county for the night. Fucking buckle down. Nobody fall asleep. Wow.
Starting point is 00:51:44 Let's see. In fact, don't ride this bus at all well yeah obviously completely unprofessional on the phone and the email support won't even offer details besides that's not our policy uh unless you didn't make it exactly what i said right unless you didn't make it would you die on the bus did it crash if a bus made it from departure to destination, we don't care what happened on the bus. Yep, that's all there is to it. You owe us the fee. Not a care in the world from them. This was my 50-plus-year-old mother and sister's experience coming to visit me and try to get a partial refund back to their debit card so they can afford a ride back home when they finally want to go.
Starting point is 00:52:23 We are all mentally and financially exhausted. Thanks a lot, Greyhound. It was only $220 we asked for out of the $620 paid. They paid $620? They could have rented a fucking car. You could have paid an Uber to drive you. That's what I mean. Seriously.
Starting point is 00:52:41 We had a fucking Black Lane take us from Tampa to Orlando, and it was way cheaper than that. It was like $300, $250. Way cheaper. Yeah. So you could rent a car for $620. A nice one. Absolutely. I'll delete this if they take their customer safety more seriously and offer a better response.
Starting point is 00:52:59 So if Greyhound Bus turns into a better company. We'll never delete this. It's never happening. James here gives it one star. The water fountain didn't work. Well, you probably shouldn't be drinking out of that anyway. Who knows where that's coming from? It's Phoenix water.
Starting point is 00:53:15 You don't want that. You don't want that. And none of the vending machines work. There was nothing to drink and no... There's a circle. Okay, across the street. Go there. Yeah, it's right there.
Starting point is 00:53:23 And no out of water signs on the machine so i just watched people walk up and put their money in like i did i stopped i stopped a few but then i got tired of being the only one to say something so he just let people do it and i just took your money, didn't it? He's like, I've given up on life. I'm at the Greyhound station. Might as well give up on this, too. Fuck these people. They may as well throw their money away, too.
Starting point is 00:53:54 Oh, my God. Let's see here. Andrea, one star, calling the district Greyhound station on this facility. Extremely rude employees need training and customer service immediately. Nope, they greyhound they don't need that at all they may as well work at zangs for christ's sake yeah go ahead facility is filthy outside main entrance way is absolutely disgusting four stars there's poop out there yeah yeah that's true and it's and they don't even have like shade at the front door it's a very small amount so you go from blasting ass hot sun with like that it's that it's that gravelly asphalt in the front too it's not even a nice
Starting point is 00:54:30 pavement it's so bad oh god damn it that is um terrible uh outside main entrance disgusting outside from end to end parking lot and walked up to the front doors is filled with smoking smoked filters from cigarettes don't worry about that that's they should sweep it up but that's not poop wait to wait till you get on the bus yeah yeah no shit still be heroin needles hanging out of people's arms if you're lucky it's heroin
Starting point is 00:54:56 and not meth spills everywhere with no signs posted service to enter on the bus is so disorganized beyond means okay and then finally someone else had a little bit of a different Service to enter on the bus is so disorganized beyond means. Okay. Okay. And then finally, someone else had a little bit of a different thing here. This is Jesus.
Starting point is 00:55:12 Yeah. Maybe he's just because he's Jesus. They gave him a little leeway here. But five stars from Jesus. Get the fuck out of here. 426 reviews, too. Jesus gets down with reviews. He's seen some shit.
Starting point is 00:55:23 Great customer service and information booth. Both ladies were great. Made my check-in easy and simple and hassle-free. Cordial and attentive. Very clean restrooms. What? Did he confuse the airport with the bus station? Maybe.
Starting point is 00:55:39 He's like, oh, I thought I was at Sky Harbor the whole time. I thought it was a place brand new or something. Terminal 3 is very nice. Holy Jesus Christ, man. Wow. Let's see. I'll give one more. Three stars.
Starting point is 00:55:52 Three stars, mind you. Three. Bathroom's very dirty. Okay, number one, that's one star at that point. Well, they went after Jesus, probably. He used to be clean. Jesus wrecked that place. He destroyed it with some holy shit.
Starting point is 00:56:09 He gave that bathroom holy hell. Keep kids close to you. Homeless hang around and pervs too. Three stars. Three stars. That's more than halfway there. They do not have a drink machine and tourist area to shop at this location so almost perfect it's it's a structure that just is there to house people
Starting point is 00:56:33 who are waiting for your kids to come in so they can molest them three stars oh and don't try i hope you don't have to pee also three stars um i don't even know what the fuck to say about that. Yeah, and then the other ones are a lot of horrible, a lot of dirty stuff, needles everywhere. Jesus Christ. That type of shit. Shit you would expect. A bus station. A bus station type of thing.
Starting point is 00:56:57 Now, let's end this with a couple from something, a place that a lot of people are pissed off about. And for good reason. Even us who sometimes have to use them, even though it's just how the business works. Ticketmaster. Oh, yeah. 1.3 stars for Ticketmaster. How?
Starting point is 00:57:14 Well, what do you do? What do they do? It's because we're forced. We have no choice. That's what I mean. We have no choice. So if we have to interact with you, one star, suck our dicks,
Starting point is 00:57:22 is our review always. Yeah. Wow, that is fucking amazing uh one star bought tickets for a show on october 10th this is in idaho this person i got an email stating they moved the event to october 2nd we are out of town that day i called about a refund and was told i will not get a refund and i cannot sell the tickets either. Is that even legal? They changed the agreement. $417. So ridiculous. It also depends on what the
Starting point is 00:57:52 agreement is to the performer and whether they do refunds. There's all these different deals. Nothing is standardized and that's what drives people fucking crazy. That's so fucked. I don't blame them here. Okay. One star from Susan. I had to sell tickets to an event.
Starting point is 00:58:08 Tickets sold. However I cannot get my payment. After numerous emails and trying to get a live chat still no payment. I could not verify my checking account. I kept saying I was entering the wrong amount. Then I was told I have to have a credit card on file unless something else happened. Then I'm told payment would be returned within seven to ten days.
Starting point is 00:58:30 It's been almost a month. Still no payment. I'll never use Ticketmaster again. Well, you're never going to go anything again because they have all the tickets. I never had any problems with StubHub, so I will go there. Well, StubHub is a second reseller. Yeah, it's a reseller. Somebody else bought them from Ticketmaster to sell them on StubHub, so I will go there. Well, StubHub is a second- You're going to pay more money.
Starting point is 00:58:45 That's a reseller. Yeah, it's a reseller. Somebody else bought them from Ticketmaster to sell them on StubHub. Yeah, and you're going to pay the ticket price, all the Ticketmaster fees, and then some, too. Right. Yeah. So, one star, and this is one that we found that's very annoying. One star, we don't purchase tickets very often from Ticketmaster, and we're unaware that they actually sell scalped tickets at huge markups on their own website.
Starting point is 00:59:08 Bastards. Then we've had people come to – I've gotten messages going, how fucking dare you guys? You guys say you like your fans and all that. How dare you charge $300 for a ticket for your Boston show? It's like we're not charging that. The ticket was $40. You're right. There's someone reselling it for that, but not us at all.
Starting point is 00:59:27 Right. So that's really annoying. Only a little dot with two arrows in it and verified reseller ticket. Vaguely communicate. Well, that's actually pretty clear. Verified reseller ticket means scalped. Right. That's just euphemism for scalping.
Starting point is 00:59:41 Right. Yeah. Resaler meaning resale. Resale. It-sale. It's being sold over again. Yeah. Vaguely communicate that you're about to pay multiple times what the ticket was originally sold for.
Starting point is 00:59:52 But is it worth it to you? That's the thing about this, too. That's the thing. Yeah. In a market like that, I mean, if they have the same tickets available for regular price also, then it shouldn't even be mixed in there. But if it's a sold-out show, it's is it worth it to you or not at that point that's that's the way it works that's not really swift worth four hundred dollars to you then go see her then go see her the original ticket value should be
Starting point is 01:00:12 really displayed along with the scalp ticket price that's fair that's fair i'll be looking into starting a class action lawsuit good fucking look you're gonna have to it's gonna take you years you and pearl jam for the last 35 years have been trying to do this and they had a little bit of a platform to do it with so i don't think you're you got shit happening for you that fucking guy's looking jeremy for christ's sake yeah he's he's did you sing jeremy no you didn't so to show the original ticket price and compensate, that's spelled wrong there. So they're customers who fell victim to Ticketmaster's deceptive resale ticket scheme. Now it's a scheme. Yes.
Starting point is 01:00:57 And here is one star Rolling Stones tickets. They're going to be expensive. Get ready to pay. Good luck. Thursday, February 14th, presale. Got in going to be expensive. Get ready to pay. Good luck. Thursday, February 14th, pre-sale. Got in right at 10 a.m. Tickets were advertised at $119. I have pictures that they started at $379.
Starting point is 01:01:15 So disappointed to hear the scam on the news the next day. Scam. Scam, scam. Was it a scam on the news? They heard it. who the fuck man you're going to see keith richards it's a it's a legend of a name you're gonna pay huge prices to see you're gonna pay yeah if i said wow rolling stones tickets are only 140 i'd be surprised or
Starting point is 01:01:37 119 i'd be like wow that's cheaper we weigh up in there we in the back of the upper deck what's going on here i can see the stones cheaper than buying AirPods. That's nuts. To get a bunch of 80-year-old men to come together and, A, remember the fucking chords and get them to all jump around for three hours and play songs is going to cost you fucking money. Yeah. They're not even from this country, for Christ's sake. You should be happy you're seeing.
Starting point is 01:01:58 What are you talking about? You know what I mean? They came all the way here and put on a fucking show for you. What do you want? And they're only here because the lead singer has a brand new baby. That's it. Got to get a few more million in the kitty. So we'll end up with Stephanie here, one star.
Starting point is 01:02:16 I buy a lot of concert tickets, and it's always a new scam with Ticketmaster. So they're saying they're changing up. They scalp their own tickets. Right now the scam is, if you're lucky enough to get one when they go on sale, they do not resell them for printing so they can hold off the buyer from selling them to a third-party
Starting point is 01:02:35 site, which is where they have all the ridiculously inflated tickets that they are selling, meaning Ticketmaster. So they don't want you horning in on their fucking scalping, is what this person is saying. Most of the time you have to go to third-party sites to get are selling meaning ticket masters so they don't want you horning and horning in on their fucking scalping is what this person is saying most of the time you have to go to third-party sites to get tickets because they say they say they're sold out immediately and i know i have not been able to buy on their site and had to go to a third-party site only to come back to them three weeks later
Starting point is 01:03:01 and they are selling them well that's that's that's tickets they release in waves too i've worked in ticketing you they release in waves that way they can have different keep the demand going yeah keep the demand going it's just what they do here um let's see i know they are either they either own or have shady dealings with vivid seats tickets now and stub hub they are the scammiest of scammers I mean it's an industry that they've been doing it was in Fast Times at Ridgemont High for Christ's sake that's what they do tickets are a fucking racket it seems like
Starting point is 01:03:34 absolutely brutal and it is it's a racket so there you go beware of Ticketmaster as everybody should anyway and next week be ready for I like to give a tease for next week next week we have something called the Accommodator. Oh boy, that sounds like a dildo. That is a chin dildo that you strap to your head and put on your chin from Adam and Eve.
Starting point is 01:03:55 And I'll show you the picture of it just to get you excited for next week. There it is. So that's next week, everybody. Check out the chin dildo and many other crazy things that's going to be on our personal product corner as we're going to get into next week i don't want to kink shame a soul no look in the mirror when you're doing it oh the straps are the funny part they just look silly so there you go everybody that is your stupid opinions if you like the show check out our other two shows crime in sports
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