Your Stupid Opinions - Ungrateful Alive, Gangster Flea Market, Plump & Useless

Episode Date: April 27, 2026

More of the funniest reviews on the internet! We read reviews for a flea market, where someone may try to "give you a dog", then possibly kidnap you. A Circkle K convenience store, where the employees... are said to be as bad as the "riff raff" customers. A live music venue, where the sound isn't quite what people want it to be, but the lack of windows really makes some people angry & much more!!   Join comedians James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman as they explore the most opinionated part of the internet: The Reviews Section!   Subscribe, and we will see you every Monday with Your Stupid Opinions!! Dont forget to rate & review!!   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for merch & more Check out James & Jimmie's other podcasts, Small Town Murder & Crime In Sports on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, everybody, and welcome back to your stupid opinions. Hey. Hey there. Thank you so much for joining us. We are excited today for more bullshit, more of people's garbage, more of their complaints and grievances for places that we don't even want to go. That's the far part of it. So this is fun, and we can't wait to get started. My name is James Petro Gallo.
Starting point is 00:00:37 I'm here with my co-host. I am Jimmy Wiseman. And you have chosen wisely. You have. To listen to this. It's going to be a lot of fun. Before we get started, head over to shut up and give me murder.com and get everything there is there. There's all sorts of merch from the show.
Starting point is 00:00:53 Tickets for live, small town murder live shows. It's all right there. Get in there and do that. That said, it's time. Let's jump into this right away. We're heading back to the Water Street Music Hall to finish up there, which was in, where was this? Water Street. It's got to be somewhere near the water.
Starting point is 00:01:11 It's not. Isn't it? Isn't it not? I don't know, but it's a dedicated live music venue. It's featuring touring bands on two stages. Okay. Here's one star here from Tarzan. Oh, he swung right in for a show here.
Starting point is 00:01:26 That's nice to see. Absolute trash. All caps, its own paragraph. Yeah. Absolute trash. Soul coughing show on 425. Soul. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:01:38 That's a band. Soul coughing. Yeah. Soul coughing. Okay. People from the middle to the back of the house couldn't hear. I mean, there was noise, but it was so muffled. You couldn't even make out what song they were playing.
Starting point is 00:01:50 That's a concert. That's a concert, pretty much. That's why I don't go to concerts. That's how they all sound. Oh, what's this one? Oh, yeah, I can't tell because they're doing it differently, too, because it's live. And it's great. And it's in the back.
Starting point is 00:02:02 Yay. Those little dots are playing a song I think I like. Is that? If it's the right one. Yay, concerts are fun. Yeah. Oh, God. I was the only, like, 15-year-old kid going,
Starting point is 00:02:15 really? You want to go to the concert now? Great. Perfect. Awesome. Yeah. And you'd go because your friends are going, but I was the only one who was not excited at all for this.
Starting point is 00:02:23 First one I went to was very late in life. I think I was 19. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's late. Yeah. That's late. So all my friends went to concerts in high school, and I was like, that sounds so awesome.
Starting point is 00:02:34 They'd all talk about how, oh, we were so fucked up, those guys. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, that sounds great to get to hammed. had hammered and have the actual artist right there. Then I went and it was like, I mean, I was, I was, yeah. Well, I went to Jane's addiction with my first concert. Okay.
Starting point is 00:02:50 They had podiums with lights underneath them and there were women on bikinis in bikinis dancing on them. And I was like, oh God, concerts are the greatest. But that's, Jesus, 19. So that was like late 90s, Jane's addiction. It was 98 or not. It was over, but well over by then. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:07 There was already porno for pyro. It was like they'd been broken up. That was like their comeback. shit, right? They were back together. Yeah. Yeah, before that. Christ. That's, that's kind of sad, honestly, when you see something like that. You're like, I mean, uh, Dave was there. It was, I mean, it was the whole band, but it was just very bizarre. Uh, my first big one was Lollapalooza. Oh, shit. Like 90, 96? No, before that, like 93, because I was young. It was like 14. It was like 93. The one with Primus headlining, I went and saw it in Phoenix,
Starting point is 00:03:40 at Allison Shane's and Toole and Rage Against the Machine and fucking Primus. Yeah, I never saw any of that. It was quite the fishbone. It was quite the fucking lineup there. It wasn't bad. Okay, so soul coughing. I mean, there was noise, but it was so muffled. After a few songs, they boosted the mix from the stage, so it was loud enough to hear, but still muffled if you were underneath or behind the balcony.
Starting point is 00:04:01 So the venue noticed that it sounded like shit. Yeah, or the roadie who does their sound shit noticed and turned adjusted something. So, yeah, we don't know if that is the. the bands people or the sound people from the venues also because i don't know sometimes there can be miscommunications between those type of things uh after okay so for full ticket price i got to hear about half the concert this place is just garbage if you're a music club and you can't even work a pa system then what good are you you're not you suck and i don't care what bands come i've never seen another show in this dump again.
Starting point is 00:04:40 Water Street is a joke. All right. Oh, my goodness. Wow, Sean, you have a lot to say. Here we go. Sean, one star. Wife and I were full of nostalgia since they opened the big side back up.
Starting point is 00:04:54 Oh, well, once the big side goes up. Remember when they closed the big side? That was the end of my childhood, Jimmy. It was a bad day. Yeah. The end of it. And that's where the magic ended. None of the bartenders
Starting point is 00:05:06 seemed to be in a hurry, particularly seeing as how it was packed. The African-American bartender with the long braids seemed nice enough at first, though. But on my second trip to the bar and ordering drinks, she told me the total. I reminded her I had an open tab. She snarkily responds, yeah, you're supposed to tell me that to begin with. Oh, Jesus. Okay, whatever.
Starting point is 00:05:30 Like supposed to say, hey, here's my drinks, but I got a tab, so don't, you know, she probably rung them up as cash on now. Oh, got it. So then the nightmare begins. Oh, boy. I fully believe our drinks were spiked. Oh, boy. Really?
Starting point is 00:05:45 Your bartender spiked it? Really? With what? That's a waste. No one's going to give you free drugs. I'm so sick of people thinking they're getting free drugs. Unless someone's trying to rape you, they're not giving you free drugs. They're not going to rape you and your wife.
Starting point is 00:06:01 Maybe your wife, but not you. And the bartender's too busy to be raping. Hold on. This guy was sort of annoying. Let me get my little tube of, you know. I buy like a hundred bucks worth of roofies every night just to give to a few people that piss me off. Sure, I don't make much. Just to ruin the night of the guy that forgets to tell me he has a tab.
Starting point is 00:06:22 I don't make a lot of money. I'll be honest with you. I'll make 150 and tips cost me 100 and roofies. But I think it's worth it. They really do. It is fun to know when I go to bed that somebody's having a bad night right now. Yeah, someone's not getting a little spinny right now. It's worth living at home.
Starting point is 00:06:38 driving an 84 Toyota SELICA. It's worth it. Okay. So we go to leave when we start feeling really messed up and try to cash out. We waited in a different line than the braided woman. The two other bartending women refused to help us cash out. All caps refused, by the way. They were practically ignoring us.
Starting point is 00:07:03 It became apparent that we had to go wait in the other woman's line to cash out. out. We stood there for nearly 10 minutes. Note to owners. This whole time you were losing money because they refused to tab us out and customers were stacked up waiting. So my wife goes and waits in the other line to cash us out. Needless to say, zero tip. Not a tip. Not a tip. No, no. Well, that's the other reason why the roofy thing loses her money. It's tough. Yeah. You know, insanely disappointing experience after having been going to Water Street for 30 years. The owner's better check their bartenders or it's going to be closed again soon enough, especially if drinks are getting spiked.
Starting point is 00:07:45 Okay. That guy's got strong fucking opinions. Probably not. Probably not. I would say not here. Okay. Here is Eric, one star. My goodness.
Starting point is 00:07:56 I have attended countless shows at this venue over the last 35 years, from Mo to Bob Weir to George Clinton. But last night's soul coughing show, was the last straw. Jesus, soul coughing, really. They really handled soul coughing terribly. Oh, man. The sound was so embarrassingly bad that I cannot believe they are ashamed of it.
Starting point is 00:08:17 If I own this venue, I'd be beyond embarrassed by it. Anything from the balcony back is just muffled nonsense. And the VI... I mean, anything in the back of any venue sucks. It sucks. Yeah. For music, yeah, it's terrible. And the VIP section is laughable.
Starting point is 00:08:36 Why even allow people up? there if there's no speakers up there. It really would not take much to ever, to make every, oh, I guess every is what they're going for. Every inch of this venue sound great. But for whatever reason, they're okay with people buying expensive tickets and not being able to hear shit. Yeah. Well, that tells me that they've probably, it's been open for 30 years. You don't think they've tried their hardest to make it as best acoustic as they can. I would think so. I think there was a problem. Bob Weir has been here, James. I think he's the lead guitarist for grateful Dead?
Starting point is 00:09:07 That's the Grateful Dead. Yeah. I think, wow, I can't stand the Grateful Dead. Can you imagine just plucking one member out and sticking them up there? I'd fucking blow my brains out. Jesus Christ. The dead suck. They're fucking terrible.
Starting point is 00:09:22 I'm sorry. I know people like the Grateful Dead. They are fucking terrible. They have a few songs that are fucking great, right? They have 7,000 songs, and you just said they have like three songs. And they're not even that good. Well, they play them all in one night, too, without a break. I get it.
Starting point is 00:09:39 Shut up, you fucking... It's a dark ones too, don't they? I don't care. They're so annoying. They're saying, I love... I'm all into psychedelic shit and acid stuff, and that's all great. They're boring, period.
Starting point is 00:09:55 Just because I'm tripping out doesn't mean I want to be bored, pissless. I can't take it. Santana's better, right? Yeah, Santana's a real fucking musician. I mean, those guys, I'm sure they're fine, but they're just boring. They don't show you anything.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Santana's, apart from that one song. They fucking hate that one song. Oh, that later of Santana? No, 70s, 60s. Watch the original Woodstock Santana set. It's fucking awesome. They come out on stage.
Starting point is 00:10:21 No one knows who they are. They're brand new. They get like a smattering of applause. By the end of it, everybody loves them. They had like a 20-minute set. Because that guy can fucking shred. They just rip that shit, man. It was like, goddamn, that's a band.
Starting point is 00:10:34 We're grateful dead. We go up there. Hey, guys. He has on acid, too. It would be cool if we could play these instruments. If all of us were on acid, we wouldn't have to play very good. No one would notice, right? That's what I feel like their...
Starting point is 00:10:46 That's what it is. Yeah, it's their plan. I feel like they just suck. All right. So anyway, after that Grateful Dead rant here. Point is, this place has been around and hosted legends. George Clinton. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:03 Legends. Yeah. And this guy thinks that they just have... Half-ass put this place together haphazardly. I think there was a problem between soul-coughing sound people and the, you know what I mean? Their roadies. Soul-coughing, perhaps, James, didn't do sound check. Maybe.
Starting point is 00:11:19 Maybe they got there late. They just popped out there and assumed that everything would be fine. And lo and behold, it's not. We go to these theaters that have, and rock venues too, and play in there. We see all the signs for bands load in three o'clock in the afternoon. Like, they want people there six hours before the show to get to. started. It's crazy. Yeah. You guys, if you've been to a concert, your headliner is exhausting.
Starting point is 00:11:43 They've been there so long. He's so tired. I love when they'll tell us, like, they're like, load-ins three o'clock. We're like, it's two dipshits and a laptop. Load-in is about an hour and a half before the show. That's load-in. We'll be there. We'll set our computer up and then we'll just sit a green room and eat pizza.
Starting point is 00:11:59 Load in's 30 minutes before doors. We'll see that. We'll see you that, exactly. And they're like, what? Trust us, trust us. I assure you. I guarantee you. We don't have any stacks. None of them.
Starting point is 00:12:09 No. It's just us. There's no. There's no, there's no, key tar. No, no. You don't have to tune for key tar. This once great venue is absolute garbage now. Thanks again for taking my money and delivering the most subpar product I've had the displeasure of hearing in the last 30 years.
Starting point is 00:12:26 Shameful. Wow. Wow. Jesus Christ. 30 years and this is the worst. Austin, one star. What a waste of a night. Waste is a.
Starting point is 00:12:36 in all caps for some reason, by the way. It doesn't seem like... Is there an eye in it? No, that would be great. Visited this venue on New Year's Eve and was super stoked for the United We Dance Rave. Oh, my. I can't think of anything I would like.
Starting point is 00:12:50 Two things I would like to do less than go out on New Year's Eve and go to a rave. And if you combine them together, wow. Hell on Earth. Hell on Earth. What was supposed to be an incredible night to bring in the New Year was a complete fail, all caps again on a fail. Really? Take your ecstasy and shut the first.
Starting point is 00:13:06 Yeah, that's what I mean. Again, the music doesn't have to sound good. You're all on drugs. Right. EDM is the same as the Grateful Dead. They've all made a deal that everyone here is high and no one cares. So the music can suck. It's fine. Yeah. We're all on drugs and we're trying to fuck. That's it. That's it. The sound system sucks. Not sure how you can mess up EDM music, but they managed to do that. Terribly loud, vibrating bass and awful screeching feedback. Yeah, how do you mess up something that's already so fucking messed up to begin? That's tough. That sounds like the description of EDM.
Starting point is 00:13:38 That's going to say, that's a tough one. Not to mention watered down $30 mixed drinks, $30 for a mix. How dare you? Dude, we've been to like nice places on the road and a mixed drink is not $30. Even in a nicest steakhouse in a city. It's, you know, and a good vodka, it's still not $30 for a martini. 18, 20. Maybe.
Starting point is 00:14:00 And that's like, Jesus, we're in the wrong place. We need to. We're not coming back here next year. 30 is insane. and the lingering sewage smell throughout the venue. Very nice. That's a 30-year-old building. Yeah, safe to say I won't be returning.
Starting point is 00:14:14 Isn't this in like Rochester or some shit like that, Albany? That makes sense. Somewhere like that. Maybe upstate New York somewhere. Jill one star. Eh, this place was all right. Decided to give it a chance since they do have a good lineup of performers, but everything else fell short.
Starting point is 00:14:32 Venue is extremely old, made of only brick with no window. It's called historic, stupid. It's just a bricked up building. No windows at all. None. No. Well, most performing venues don't have windows in the fucking venue because then the sound will get out and other sound will get in. Well, yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:55 And when the sound escapes, if your show goes to 11 o'clock, you've got noise ordinances. It's got to be bricked up. That's how it works, man. How many places do we go where the actual theater has a fucking windows in it? Zero. I don't think we've played with the window. Never. If we did, we'd be like, why the fuck is there a window in here?
Starting point is 00:15:15 It's the first thing we'd say. Yeah. Remember Lath Boston, one of our first live shows? And they have, they closed the curtains, but you could still see because it was light out. You could still see like traffic passing by on the whole wall of windows. It's awful. You can't do that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:30 That was a nice place, too. But that's no good. We have played old Jewish synagogues that had stained glass. Well, yeah, that wasn't meant to be a music venue. That's why. That was just us when we first started looking for a place to get like 400 people maybe and whatever. Felt like AC didn't work. It's a stand-only venue so it gets superhuman and muggy fast.
Starting point is 00:15:53 No smoking signs everywhere, yet it reeked of sale sigs. Strange. Okay. I should hang around a while. Why a little less? Oh, you know what? There's probably a green room and that's probably leaking out. Yeah, because the bands do everything they want in the green rooms of these places.
Starting point is 00:16:10 Yeah, because that's just the way it works. It's the only good part of showbiz is that you can do whatever you want in the green room and they don't care. Because if you leave, they're fucked. That's a room full of people. Yeah, it's international waters in there. Yeah. Sound was okay. Bass was way too loud.
Starting point is 00:16:29 I'll be sticking to my usual spots from now on. I'd rather drive a little further for a solid experience. Jason, one star. I went to see Seven Dust there tonight. What year was this? A year ago. 2025, my friends. In the year of our Lord, 2025, this man went to see Seven Dust.
Starting point is 00:16:53 I saw a band from 2005 in 2025. Wow. Who sucked in 2005? I had their album. I fucking... It's crazy. When I saw them, I never expected them to look the way they did.
Starting point is 00:17:11 They have a crazy little black guy as their lead singer and is a really hardcore, rageful metal band. And boy, they all go hard. They were great then, but I haven't heard of them putting out an album. Well, now they do the same thing,
Starting point is 00:17:25 but they're all sore afterwards now is the difference. The ventilation was very poor, It was hot as blazes in there. Hot as blazes. On top of that, there was an odor of sewage in the air. Okay, that seems to be a permeating thing here. My friend bought four drinks and it cost him $92. Yeah, that's a little much.
Starting point is 00:17:47 God. Good Lord. Holy shit. This place is a dump. You're better off staying home. Not even going to a different place. Staying home. Holy shit.
Starting point is 00:17:57 Tiffany, one star. Refund policy says no. No, but the show was postponed. Organizer of the event cannot be reached, and the number when called isn't answered with a voicemail option. Thoroughly scammed out of that ticket money. No, you weren't. It was not canceled.
Starting point is 00:18:13 It was postponed. Yeah, you'll probably, that ticket will probably be good. They will honor that ticket. The next one. Yeah. Okay, here is T1 star. Worst venue in Rochester. Boom.
Starting point is 00:18:27 Oh, it's in Rochester. There we are. Worse than any venue in Buffalo. or Syracuse. Not Buffalo or Syracuse. They're known for their top-notch venues. If I say, Jimmy, what do you know about Syracuse? You go to top-notch music venues, obviously.
Starting point is 00:18:42 That's what I know. I know. Orange men trudging around in four and a half feet of snow. That's Syracuse. There you go. Don of a McNabb trudging to practice back in the day. Derek Coleman trying his best to get to the arena. Everybody just follows him.
Starting point is 00:19:01 As he cuts a path in the snow. Yeah, he's cut. Coleman's going to the arena, everybody, and they all follow. The setup makes no sense and makes it impossible to move. You need to fight to get to the bathroom or drinks. Sound is really rough. Also, the floor is 100% going to cave in. Oh.
Starting point is 00:19:22 That's not good. No floor should wobble and bend that much. Yeah, probably not. No. Folks are nice, though. That's good. Maybe they'll help you when you fall to your death into their basement. That sounds great.
Starting point is 00:19:37 It's a wooden floor. Apparently. I mean, we've seen a lot of wooden floors, but they're not squishy or... No, they don't bend. No, there's other shit under them that's more solid, I would think. Trusses down there. Bobby, one star. The Australian woman really rubbed me the wrong way.
Starting point is 00:19:56 Okay. That's because she rubbed counterclockwise. See? You're expecting clockwise. That's why. That's your problem. Insufferable woman of no character. That's a great sentence.
Starting point is 00:20:09 Well, she's Australian. She's got character. I assure you. There's something in there. It's fun, yeah. Rude and disrespectful, beyond belief. How are you going? Yeah, cunt is more of a term of endearment over there, really.
Starting point is 00:20:23 I think that's what you missed up. Hi, cunts, how are you? And they were like, oh, this place, they've never been so insulted. She was just trying to be friendly. Jessica One Star, this place is so ratchet. I remember when it used to be cool. I also remember when people used to say ratchet, and that was a long time ago.
Starting point is 00:20:41 And so you can remember back when she was saying ratchet with everyone else, it was cool back then. Just after seven dust's last album. Yeah. Okay, let's get the hell out of there. Yeah. I feel like we've had enough of that place. Had enough.
Starting point is 00:20:58 Had enough. I need to stop at the last album. the store. We're going somewhere else, but I got to stop off at the store real quick. Where's the... Where's the... Where we got to go? Well, we're going to stop off at a Circle K. Yeah. By the way, if you don't know what a Circle K is, it's like a 7-Eleven or a... It's a convenience store, gas station.
Starting point is 00:21:12 Conoco, Sonoco. Any QT, whatever you want to say, you know, soda machine... Shitty hot... Wawa in Philly and Philly. Wawa. I said Wala. Imagine a terrible version of that. That's Circle K. Yeah. There's about... In Phoenix, where this one is, There's about, I don't know what, 80,000 of these in Phoenix, basically. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:21:32 And no one goes, no one wants to go to any of them. Within a mile of my house, I have five. I can think of them right now. And you don't go to any of them because there's a QT somewhere near there, right? And that's much nicer. Well, I do go to them because of this reason right here, James. If you buy two packs of cigarettes, your 10th pack is $5 off. Jimmy wades through meth addicts to get $5 off a future pack of cigarettes at some time.
Starting point is 00:22:03 A pack of cigarettes in the distant future. Distant future Jimmy's smoking habit is going to benefit from that. Distant future Jimmy goes, that was worth it. That was worth it. Say five bucks. Of course, I had to give them five bucks to all the people outside asking me for money, but still, it's fine. Yeah. I had to give that $5 to a man who says he's stranded, but he's been here for six months.
Starting point is 00:22:29 Yeah, he's been here every day for six months. So, yeah, Circle K is the omnipresent convenience store of Arizona. And now they're spreading. Spreading every. There's one by me in New York. Stop it. I swear to God. A Circle K?
Starting point is 00:22:44 A fucking Circle K. It's the one when you come from the airport. Oh, I know exactly where it is. Yeah, that's circle K. By the meat market. By the car wash and there's all, yeah. Isn't there a butcher right there? No, no, that's the other place you're thinking of.
Starting point is 00:22:57 I know what you're thinking of. This is the one where there's like a car washing of Dunkin' Donuts and stuff over there. But there's a Circle K right there. By the dunks? Yeah, across the street from it. Oh. Yeah. So this is that.
Starting point is 00:23:10 Oh, that one. Yeah. That side. I'm thinking about the dunks like right over here by Stewart. Oh, by my house right here. Yeah, yeah. No, the other one, yeah. No, this here, okay.
Starting point is 00:23:19 This is at $6.99 East. Buckeye Road also. So this is... Don't go there. Why are you doing this one? This is not a good neighborhood, let's just say. This is horrifying. Seven Street and Buckeye, that's not good.
Starting point is 00:23:31 This is one of those where you go. How much gas do I have? I can make it. I'll make it to a better one. This isn't safe. I'll push it the last couple of miles rather than staying here. This is bad. It's open 24 hours.
Starting point is 00:23:43 It's got 2.8 stars on Google, which is not good in case you're wondering. That's out of five, not three. So that's bad. Everybody in Phoenix knows you don't go south of I-10 and you don't go west of I-17 until at least 83rd Avenue. And north of, fuck, you got to go real north to get past 83rd Avenue. Yeah, and that's really, we're talking definitely after dark, but probably... Oh, boy. Probably most of the day.
Starting point is 00:24:13 I would say, yeah, I would say you're probably safe from about noon to four, maybe. Seems like there's a lot of activity. Yeah. A lot of people coming in and out. Stop stopping there to get sodas and shit once in a while. So you might be safe. The bad guys might sleep noon to four. I think that's what I mean.
Starting point is 00:24:26 You got to get some sleep. I think that's the safe time. And then after that, though, you better go. Rebecca, five stars. Charlene is so friendly. Oh, boy. Hi, Charlene. Whenever I come to the store, she always has such a line.
Starting point is 00:24:41 Always has such a line in great patience and such great patience and super customer service. Customer service. It's circle gay with customer service. There's always a line here in the morning is what she. saying. Charlene loves it. She has great patience with it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:55 She works, she's getting paid to be there. You're the one that's patient. And these are people she sees every day. Of course she has patience for them. Yeah. I enjoy stopping at the store and walking in and seeing her working. Amazing employee. Okay.
Starting point is 00:25:10 Charlene. That's got to be. Yeah. No one is that over the moon about a fucking Circle K employee. Not a Circle K employee. And if you were that over the moon about a Circle K employee, you'd be like, I come in every morning and there's the same person working there, and I have yet to see open source. Congratulations.
Starting point is 00:25:26 Good job. That's like a, wow, at a Circle K. That's something. Yeah. Well, QT only allows you if you grow fish to only have a mustache. And that's the only thing you're allowed to have there. You can't have a full beard or anything. You can just look like a ridiculous pedophile.
Starting point is 00:25:43 No problem. That's great. And at Circle K, they encourage that just for the ladies. Yes. That's perfect. It's a frightening place. It is. And wherever the store is, it's the worst of the employees.
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Starting point is 00:28:38 What? I'm already a member. Leave me alone. Is that like some sort of Circle K? That's how I get $5. There you go. All they want is a phone number. So I put in a landline that I had in like 2006.
Starting point is 00:28:55 Yeah, they don't care. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Give them somebody else's number. That's the difference. As long as you remember what number you put in, that's all it matters. Yeah. People are stupid. Yeah, you don't have to give them your number.
Starting point is 00:29:05 Pick a number. You don't have to give a real number. You just put in a number that you remember every time. That's it. That's all. But the only reason why I keep coming back to this establishment is because of, Charlene. Kayla.
Starting point is 00:29:18 Oh, it's Kayla. Now it's Kayla. Just a great encounter every single time with a great attitude and serviceable. Does that mean you throw one at her? Servicable sounds like, I'd fuck her. She's very servicent. Not the woman of my dreams, but you know what? I'll service her from time to time.
Starting point is 00:29:37 I'll give her servicing if she needed it. She's personality makes up for a lie, you know? I come to think, I come to think, of all of my other encounters with other employees, and it has not been as delightful as it has been with Kayla. Kayla's her girl, man. I come to think. You do? I come to think. I come to think. Now my head's finally clear. I couldn't think before that. I was all clogged up in there. That is true. As soon as you finish, you always can think. Yeah, everything. You're like, I shouldn't have done that in the fourth grade.
Starting point is 00:30:16 That was very dumb of me to do that. Every time I come to think, it's usually regret. Yeah, it's clarity. A lot of whoops. It's clarity. Okay, next one, two stars. I'll give it two stars for one or two of their employees that were actually chill. I assume Charlene and Kayla is all I can imagine.
Starting point is 00:30:34 When I pull up for gas, I want to feel like I know the people at the store I regularly come to. I don't know who manages this location, but the store, but everyone is, trying to sell you on this inner circle, as if no one knows how to hold an authentic conversation every day, they see me. And yes, I'm still signed up. Inner circle. It feels like he's outside the circle. He's outside the circle, even though I'm in the circle.
Starting point is 00:31:00 I'm in it. You have my phone number. This isn't Mayberry. If I go to 7th Street and Buckeye to a Circle K, I don't need everyone to go, hey, James, when I walk in and I wave to him. This isn't cheers. I can go in and get my shit and leave. I could be anonymous.
Starting point is 00:31:13 It's fine. Probably feel a little insulted if everybody at 7th Street, Buckeye knows my name. Yeah, I go, oh, God, I got to stop coming here. What have I done that these people know? How do they know me? Inner Circle Nazis is what I call them. That's that way you call them? Wow.
Starting point is 00:31:30 And I have taken my business down the street to 7-Eleven where I am no longer harassed. Oh, well, I think they don't need your phone number. Yeah, they don't want your phone number. Tammy, two stars. get rid of Annabelle and maybe your rating will go up. Very poor customer service skills. Annabelle's the bad one. Annabelle, you suck.
Starting point is 00:31:52 Well, you probably don't suck, but this person's probably a little. This person believes you do. She's in a rush. Chris, one star. I love when they describe the employees that they've interacted with. Their name isn't enough. They have to give a name and then a physical description of them that's always flattering. when it's a one-star review.
Starting point is 00:32:15 Annabel, the one with, we know who she is. She's got a name tag. The one name, Annabelle, probably. Okay, one-star, Destiny, the Plump customer service rep. Is extremely unhelpful and useless. Wow. Yeah. She's been plump.
Starting point is 00:32:38 Plump, at least that's kind of a nice way to put it. Plump. When describing like a turkey or a chicken breast, Plump is a very, that is a very positive thing. Yeah. So plump can be good. Plump isn't as bad as, you know, that fat bitch or something.
Starting point is 00:32:58 It's plump is a little nicer. Not great. I wouldn't call it. There's no reason to really mention it at all. Just destiny would have worked, but still. Destiny. The fat destiny, that one. What if there's another one and she's fat too?
Starting point is 00:33:10 Oh, man. Well, then you're really, What if the one is more plump than fat? Is that a... I worked here for five years, so I know I can buy a roll of quarters if they're in stock. I came in and asked for $10,
Starting point is 00:33:23 asked for $10 of gas and a roll of quarters. What a weird request. Go to the bank. Yeah, I'd like two gallons of gas and a roll of quarters, please. She immediately says, I don't have quarters. I say, you can just hit the button on the safe.
Starting point is 00:33:40 she rolls her eyes and says, do you want to wait five minutes? Right, because it takes a while. It takes a minute. After helping one person, she waddles around, taking her sweet time. You know,
Starting point is 00:33:52 because she's plump at all. She's got a plump waddle. Now I picture like a duck, basically. Like a fat duck walking around. Okay, so she's waddling and taking her sweet time, but immediately can get me the quarters.
Starting point is 00:34:09 So first she didn't have, have them. And then I had to wait five minutes, but neither of those things were true. She just lies because she's lazy or unfriendly or I don't know what her issue is. Terrible job. Horrible customer service. Do your job and be better. You can drop a couple of pounds, too. That's just, you know, unsoliciting advice. Do your job and get a Peloton. Yeah. Oh, man. Daniel One Star, stop by to get drinks before working. and they are closed at 4 a.m. although advertised as a 24-hour store. Yeah, that's the thing about this neighborhood and the one over there on like 7th Street.
Starting point is 00:34:46 Really everything up 7th Street. They close from like 1 to 4 or whatever or 1 to 5 because that's the robbery time. Because they're getting robbed. There's no point. Yeah, it's true. That is the robbery side. They've been robbed so many times. It's cheaper to close.
Starting point is 00:35:01 It's just cheap. Yeah, and that's crazy. That's wild. This is the third circle K I've been to this morning that was closed with no signage. telling me when they would reopen and why they're closed. They'll reopen when they're not scared anymore. That's when they reopen when the sun's up and the bad people go to bed or arrested. So he's, yeah, this guy is running around this neighborhood at 4 a.m.
Starting point is 00:35:22 going to a bunch of terrible neighborhood circle gaze. He's on a bike. And he's got a picture. Oh, he's got in his car because I see his rear view mirror. He's got a picture of the store just closed. Just the door shut. That's the picture like we're supposed to, like we didn't believe him that it was closed. Oh, look.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Look. See? And same thing from Liz, one star. Went today and no signs of store being closed, walked in, and Charlene proceeded to yell at me. Charlene. Thought she was patient. We thought we knew you, Charlene. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:53 Her patience is out the fucking window when we're closed. Proceeded to yell at me and told me they were closed and that I broke in and that she was going to call the police and have me deported. What the hell you do? Charlene. Charlene. Wow. You are not kind of impatient. Wow.
Starting point is 00:36:13 After some words, I bet there were some words. Like, fuck you, Charlene, you pitch ass. There was some words. Fuck you, Charlene. Yeah, after some words that I won't tell you what I said, even though it was probably horrible, I walked out and then she put signs of system down, not that they were closed. Honestly, looks like they just hire anyone to have a body at the store. Yes.
Starting point is 00:36:36 That's Circle K. That's Circle K. Yeah. Everybody that goes in there that works there for the most part looks like they are in the midst of a bad habit of some kind. All of them. And if it's not a habit, they're in a health crisis. It's something is wrong.
Starting point is 00:36:56 Yeah. This is not a job you take unless it's a last resort. This is a last resort job. Sarah, one star. I was attacked by one of the workers early this morning. Oh. Okay. Which was completely unnecessary.
Starting point is 00:37:10 He did not need to grab my electric scooter from me. Mm-hmm. We're talking about a disabled person here? Or were you riding a bird scooter inside the gas station? Oh, electric scooter from me just to push it into my chest. He bruised my leg along with deep cuts along with bending my thumb back while I was trying to grip my bike. I didn't do nothing but ask for freaking water. You rode an electric thing.
Starting point is 00:37:39 I don't think this was a handicapped person. I don't think. I think this they rode a bike in there. A bike in there. I said, can I get a water cup? No, motherfucker. You can get out of my store. Yeah, I think that's what happened too.
Starting point is 00:37:51 Okay, that's, that's a little better. Here is Tucson Local is their name. Well, that's a, you're a problem immediately. Yeah. One star. The worker with the dark wig and highlight. tonight at 7.30 p.m. on Sunday, February 23rd, is absolutely so rude, all caps. I've been here before, and this worker is always so disrespectful, always on the phone.
Starting point is 00:38:16 Super unprofessional, and I will not come back, especially with that type of, and typa is Typa, type of, type of, type of, with that type of energy around, just wasting company time away. company time. The one down the street for me that's paired with the McDonald's has a young kid in there that brings a Sony. Remember that Sony with the handle in the middle and the two yellow speakers? Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:45 They evidently make it and it's Bluetooth and this motherfucker, it has lights in it and shit. This kid is jamming the fuck out. He's like dancing while he grabs your shit behind the camera. That's hilarious. It's so funny. That's the last one that's going to get robbed though because he is having such a time.
Starting point is 00:39:02 Usually the ones connected to the McDonald's are actually a little bit better. Yeah, it's a little cleaner. It's almost like McDonald's comes in there and go, we have food over here like that needs to be of a certain... We're selling fish. Yeah. Yeah. We literally have fish over here. You've got to clean this up.
Starting point is 00:39:18 This is terrible. You can't have a shit trail all the way through the store. Fish will spoil, man. We can't have that. Mr. Boston, one star. Mr. Boston. Came to Arizona. Came to Arizona.
Starting point is 00:39:32 Here he is. He's going to be pissed about everything. This store has become the worst kept store I've ever been to. Coffee station is a complete mess, all caps, and no cream, no tea. It's really not that hard to empty the grounds in the coffee machine or stock them with beans. You would think they would pay attention to that, seeing how it's six in the morning, and people want coffee, all caps. This guy is not at his coffee. He's very upset about.
Starting point is 00:40:02 Keep going down the road. There will be a Starbucks shortly. You do not hold a circle case coffee. A Dutch brothers and QT and everywhere else. There will be a thousand coffee shops. There will be one that women are in bikini serving them. Yeah, there's plenty of them. We've done it before on the show.
Starting point is 00:40:19 Right up the road for me. You have hired a bunch of high school dropouts and then hired their friends and family to go along with it. Yeah, that's the only people who are. work there. Nobody wants to work here. Yeah, no one with even a GED would work here. There's no reason to. Yeah, that's why they're here to get enough
Starting point is 00:40:38 money to buy the GED. Yeah. Poor management leads to poor employees. Fix it or continue losing customers. Watch what happens when they put it up a QT in the area. You'll be sorry. You'll be sorry, mister. There is one right down the road.
Starting point is 00:40:55 I was going to say, isn't there one near there that I can think of? There's one right up on Indian school. I think there's one down on Buckeye somewhere. One on Thomas somewhere. Oh, yeah. Yeah. 24th Street there is.
Starting point is 00:41:06 They're all over the place over there. That's South Indian School even, so yeah. Yeah, yeah. But this is at Buckeye, so just, I mean, this is south of the 10. You have to go up. Yeah, this is a Washington. You got to cross the 10. Jefferson.
Starting point is 00:41:15 There's one on Van Buren. Right there. Yeah, right there. Boom. Thomas, one star. Fake gas receipts. Oh. Exclamation point.
Starting point is 00:41:24 Okay. Pumped $100. $100 cash. Get me out of here, baby, of diesel fuel, and they hand out a debit receipt duplicate for regular wrong pump number and from 40 minutes plus earlier. Then they argue about it. Nice way to scam the register out of the $100 bill. Okay. So he paid $100 and they gave him a an old receipt. And he needs a receipt for his taxes and whatever for his company or whatever it is. They're like, it's $100 and a receipt, so get out of here. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:42:01 I got you, bitch. Yeah. Mike, one star. Gummy the clerk was on the floor stocking. Gummy. Gummy the clerk. Gummy the clerk was on the floor. Okay.
Starting point is 00:42:13 I called twice and she gave such an attitude about having to get up and help a customer out. Come on, gummy. You can do better. Three exclamation points. Is he calling her that because she has no teeth? I don't know if that's her name or if she's like the nickname they gave her. That's gummy. That's we got a plumpy and dummy over here and gummy over here.
Starting point is 00:42:33 That's perfect. I hope plump. Gummy. Come on, gummy. Andy one star. Filthy, disgusting gas station. Hey, you ain't getting it now. You do not use the restrooms here.
Starting point is 00:42:46 I would never, never, never, never. I'd shit my car first before I didn't know they had them for you. I didn't know you're allowed to use them either. They are beyond filthy, disgusting, filled with graffiti and several racist words. I'll bet they are. Yeah, sounds like, yeah. Rarely is their toilet paper, hand towels, or soap. This store is far too busy for the employees they have on staff.
Starting point is 00:43:12 Normal Circle K prices and policies. And there's later on, there'll be pictures of the bathroom. I'll talk about those. But, you know, QT has forced the hand of all gas. station owners in the metropolitan Phoenix area to up the ante because QTs are all clean. I mean, you're paying 20, 30 cents more for everything they have. They're clean. And you're not going to get stabbed in the store.
Starting point is 00:43:36 Yeah, that's the mop fee. Yeah. They clean the soda machine lines. They do all the health stuff that you should probably. Like their food is edible. They have a robot. They have a robot mopping the floor. It's like a big, like a big giant Roomba.
Starting point is 00:43:52 And they don't touch it. They just press go, and it just goes and cleans their store. That was somebody's job a minute ago. Now they got a fucking robot. That's kind of shitty. That sucks. Some poor college dropout wanted that job. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:06 QT gets college dropouts, not high school dropouts. They go to Circle K. Yeah, that's true. We know of a comedy dropout who is doing very well on the Circle K or the QT career track. Well, James, he doesn't have to mop the floor anymore. That is a boss. That's true. That'll do it. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:44:27 Okay. Ken, one star. Thieves don't go there, gave two lottery tickets, each for $10 total, total. 20. She gave me $12, so I gave $8 to never set foot in a circle K again in my life. No punctuation. No, boy. From what I can glean, their thieves.
Starting point is 00:44:46 Thieves, period. Yeah. Thieves, exclamation point. Don't go there. Separate sentence. Period. Yeah. period, gave two lottery tickets each for $10 total.
Starting point is 00:44:57 Period. Period. 20, period. She gave me $12, man. Well done. She gave me $12, period. So I gave $8 to never set foot in a circle K again, comma in my life. Perfect.
Starting point is 00:45:14 Actually, comma before the again, if you really want to get technical about fucking grammar. But that's fine. Okay. That is super fun. He did regular cheap, like low rent map. Yeah. Pumping it out, quick. Anthony one star, unsanitary, especially around the fountain drink machines.
Starting point is 00:45:35 Oh, yeah, they're going to be gross. Parking lot is very dirty as well. I would suggest stopping here. I think you left a word out. And Circle K, if you ever get a drink and you go to put the lid on it, You pull a lid, throw that away. Yes. Pull the next one, throw that away.
Starting point is 00:45:55 I'd go like six lids down. Fuck you. If it was cleaner, I wouldn't waste your six lids. That's on you. Yep, clean it up and you'll get the first lid. But until then, I'm digging. Oh, I'm digging. There's hepatitis on the first three at least.
Starting point is 00:46:10 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Covered in it. Covered in it. There's an incurable on the first three. Oh, for sure. For sure. Speaking of sure, not sure is the next person. one star. Oh boy. The backup clerk, and then parentheses, Mexican.
Starting point is 00:46:27 Okay. Well, I think I found the culprit of the graffiti. Jesus Christ. Yeah. I wonder what it says on that graffiti. If we could find out, I think we can pin it on somebody here. The backup clerk, Mexican, rang up the Mexican in line behind me and left me standing in line. I got gas one night. and the pumps, that's a separate story now. That's just one story is another story. That's just justifying my graffiti. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:59 That's one experience that allowed me to put racial slurs on the wall of a bathroom and feel justified for it. I got gas one night and the pumps said see cashier for receipt. So I went inside and for some reason the cashier was unable to give me a receipt. Every time, was he a Mexican? That's my reason the reason. Maybe we didn't understand what you said. Yeah, maybe that's it.
Starting point is 00:47:21 Every time I stop there, I'm pestered by someone asking me for money. Yeah, because you're in downtown Phoenix. And you're at a circle case. That's where people stop. The nicest circle K's have a creep out front. Absolutely. Every fucking one of them. Everyone.
Starting point is 00:47:37 Everyone in Phoenix. Yep. And it's gotten worse as Phoenix has gotten more expensive, too. It's not gotten any better. Wolf one star closes at 2 o'clock every day, says corporate management says it's okay that they close and are not a 24-hour store like is advertised, would like to hear what a GM or hire says about this. They say they got tired of cleaning brains off the cigarette packs behind the counter when they
Starting point is 00:48:02 got robbed every other fucking night. So it's easier this way. Police presence tends to push away their clientele. That's the problem. There you go. It's another way of looking at it. It's hard to sell a thirst buster with seven cops in the parking lot and a man with handcuffs on.
Starting point is 00:48:17 Yeah. It's a tough one at that point. Okay. Tiffany one star. Unprofessional staff. All right. Arguing with the customer, then when the customer leaves, talking about the customer with other customers. That's the only reason I work here. What else am I supposed to do? Who else can I tell at this point? And you all, if you're a cashier, I've been a cashier at a gas station.
Starting point is 00:48:40 When someone acts crazy and then they leave, you all look at each other like, everybody saw that, right? What the fuck was that? And everybody shakes their head and go, Jesus, I'm sorry. And other people, apologize to you because they feel bad. Yeah, the only reason I would work here if I was in this much bad as shape financially that I needed a job like this, I would certainly, that's part of the perks. I get health insurance and I get to make fun of these motherfuckers. That's it. Have you ever seen clerks?
Starting point is 00:49:09 That's the job. You know what I mean? I'm not even supposed to be here today. Yep. Never. Hopefully this Circle K gets closed down soon. they never do. They linger forever after their long dead.
Starting point is 00:49:24 That's the thing about gas stations. They are so profitable. That's it. And they said they don't have gas anyways, which we know they do. Yeah, they do. Because many people have bought gas here. Okay. Tara, one star.
Starting point is 00:49:35 Clean your store. Four exclamation points. We will not. Order product and hot dog buns. Change the hot dogs on the grill. You're going to make someone sick, four exclamation points, all caps. you would buy a hot dog from this location. Even if they're fresh, you're going to get sick.
Starting point is 00:49:53 You are living on the edge if you're doing that. Yeah. Hire polite people who don't make rude comments. Go out of your way to go to QT. Yeah, you should have done that to begin with. That's how it works. Vincente, one star. Or Vicente, one star.
Starting point is 00:50:11 Went to use the restroom with my son. You're not a good parent. Not only was... Emergency. Yeah, that's an emergency. Not only was the restroom trashed. There was even a dirty magazine on the floor. Oh, free dirty magazine.
Starting point is 00:50:25 That's something for your kid to learn about. That's called polite. A man was done with it and he left it behind. I'll leave it for the next man. That's nice to do. It's a good thing. He thought he was doing a favor. Never going back.
Starting point is 00:50:40 That's service with a smile. Leonard, one star. Girl inside was very rude. She had long reddish hair. She really needs to work on her customer service. I won't be back to this location. Of course you won't. Okay.
Starting point is 00:50:55 CM one star. Horribly dirty, disgusting bathroom. It's hard to imagine buying food, drinks, and snacks from here. Please employee someone helps. Please employee someone. I think employee is what they're going for. Please employee someone to keep your facility clean. Okay.
Starting point is 00:51:14 Yeah. I would say. Next person, Thomas, one star. Restrooms are of disgrace. Do not enter that room for the love of God. Like it's the room from Saw or some shit. Carrie always is chained up in there. For the love of God, don't go in there.
Starting point is 00:51:35 When I mentioned the restrooms need some attention, literally no reply. Then there's a reply from the owner after that. No reply. Here's a reply. Here's your reply. Hi, Rick. Thank you for letting us know. The name is Thomas, by the way. Hey, Rick. Hi, Rick. Which I think is hilarious.
Starting point is 00:51:53 Hi, Rick. Thanks for letting us know and we're sorry about your experience. We've passed it on. I just wanted to get to, hi, Rick. We really pay attention. Oh, my God. That's fucking funny. James, one star. Rude customer service. I buy a snack and the cashier said if I'm interested in losing weight. that guy has an MLM back there he's trying to capitalize he sees someone buying like shitty snacks he's like hey if you're interested in changing
Starting point is 00:52:22 your lifestyle a little bit here Rosty one star If I can give you zero I would Not right close enough in a foreign language It's probably I don't think English is the first language here Customer service no experience Unprofessional trying to fight with the customer What unprofessional
Starting point is 00:52:41 What unprofessional. There is no punctuation of any kind in that, by the way. Okay. Here we go. Dwayne, one star. Bad service with employee girl with a super bad attitude spelled the less popular A-D-I-T-U-T-E. Attitude. Attitude.
Starting point is 00:53:04 Not toad, attitude. She got an attitude, and I don't like it. answering questions in a really bad mood, super dirty. Her or the Circle K? Probably both. Yeah. Aaron, one star. Lots of riffraff down here.
Starting point is 00:53:23 Yes. That's a mighty courtly way of putting it for what's down there. Riffraff. A worst bathroom in the state. In the state. You go to you and get a better bathroom. That's saying something. And then the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:53:41 pictures. It's a Circle K bathroom. It's a disgrace. It's horrifying. It's actually less gross than I see a lot of them. Graffiti. I didn't, I really didn't know that there were Circle K's that had public restrooms. Most of them, you go in there, they go, yeah, we don't have a bathroom. I never thought about going to the bathroom in a circle K because it's gross. I've seen the inside of the store. I don't want to see the bathroom. That's what I mean. It's disgusting. If I see what the hot dog roller looks like and it's nasty. I'm not going to the bathroom. This is where food is.
Starting point is 00:54:11 The hot dog roller. The fountain machine, you get a drink in that little clicker where you put the cup in with the little tab clicks. You pull your cup out. It keeps going because there's so much syrup gummed up in the actuator.
Starting point is 00:54:24 It's disgusting. It's everywhere. It's horrifying. And then finally, one star from Troy sucked. Sucked. Sucked. All right.
Starting point is 00:54:33 Now that we've stopped at the store. Yeah, exactly. We've gotten gassed up. We've got a free dirty magazine. We're all ready to go. I think I need some crap. I need some garbage. What do you think, Jimmy?
Starting point is 00:54:45 You want some garbage? I'm good for a little bit of hoarding. Let's go to the flea market where we can get some shit. Yeah, let's do it. And I got to admit I like a flea market, even though it's shit and I never buy anything. I enjoy perusing garbage for some reason. I like it. And antique shops?
Starting point is 00:55:02 I like wandering through those, too. Yeah. Yeah, thrift shop type things. sells like other people's shit that might be in demand. A yard sale, I'm out. No, I'm not looking through your shit in the yard. Someone else has to go through it first. You take it to a thrift store.
Starting point is 00:55:17 They throw the garbage in the garbage and put the decent shit out there. There should be a filter. Yeah, they need a filter here. We need a gatekeeper for shit. A shit keeper is what we need. Somebody goes, this might be valuable. The crap keeper, as I like to call them. Somebody with Google first.
Starting point is 00:55:31 So, yeah, we're going to US One Metro Flea Market. Where's that? This is in West Columbia, South Carolina. Yikes. It's Booth's number four, number 146 to 149, 3,500 Augusta Road, West Columbia, South Carolina. Oh, boy. It's got 4.2 stars on Google out of 4,600 reviews. That's pretty good, right?
Starting point is 00:55:59 Yeah, usually that many reviews is like landmarks have that and, you know, the Empire State Building and shit like that. 600, yeah, that's a lot. So let's find out what people think here. Here's Paul, five stars. Flea, flea markets are what you expect. A little bit of everything. I noticed security, which was nice. Yeah. Felt very safe, family friendly, a fun day out, and you can pick up items for a good deal. All right, then. Here we go. Five stars from dawn. Great place to stroll around and just look. but I went with a $20 bill. I bought two $25 hats for $15 for both.
Starting point is 00:56:42 So $50 worth a hat for $15 is what she's saying. Saved $35, exclamation point. Also bought drinks and snacks for four and came home with $3 in my pocket. You bought drinks and snacks for four people with $2. Oh, for four people. I was like, wait, that math doesn't add up. $4.15 is 19. You got $3 left?
Starting point is 00:57:07 So you got drinks and snacks at 50 cents per head. Yeah. Seven months ago. Amazing. No. You didn't is what that is. What did you get? And there's a picture of the hats and they both suck.
Starting point is 00:57:19 They're both stupid hats. Yeah. Very stupid. But she saved. You spent 15. You didn't save $35 because you wouldn't have bought those dumb fucking hats. No. And they're not worth $25.
Starting point is 00:57:31 It look like shitty hats. Right. You weren't there for hats. No. You were just there to spend. You were there with a budget and you'd spend it. It's gone. And she's happy.
Starting point is 00:57:39 It's like she's got three free dollars in her pocket is what she's looking at it. You add 20 you dumb dumb. Yep. That's fun math. Linda, one star. The only good thing I can say is the lady that sells the donuts is awesome. Okay. Her price is very reasonable.
Starting point is 00:57:55 And when you ask for extra sugar, she really gives you extra. Oh, boy. Lays it on you. So this star. Which should be five just for her. Otherwise, this market is a very loud market, very dirty. And the bathrooms are another story. It's loud and dirty.
Starting point is 00:58:13 Another story. Yeah, where is this? Is this like New Delhi? Where is this flea market? They're acting like it's like an Indian street market or something. Very crowded, lots of people. There was a monkey stole my backpack. It was wild.
Starting point is 00:58:25 It's loud and dirty. Yeah, real weird. Okay, we sold here and stayed the night. and literally watched the homeless people that live out back of this market sit and do drugs on the table. Hope to never go back. We sold here and stayed the night?
Starting point is 00:58:43 What does that mean? I guess they sold a bunch of their shit there and then stuck around. Oh, sold here. Yes, sold stuff. Probably stayed till the next day. Watch homeless people out back doing drugs at night.
Starting point is 00:58:53 That's what homeless people do at night sometimes. Well, that's where flea markets are in the neighborhood where people do drugs at night. Yeah, they're generally in a centralized area. You're going to sell there, take your money, and go stay in a different area. Yeah. You slept in your car, probably.
Starting point is 00:59:08 Right. Or that's probably why. Yeah. Go ahead. Why'd you stay in the rest area? No, shit. Okay. Brock, one star.
Starting point is 00:59:17 On Saturday, December 13th, 2025. I love when they start out like that. A group of friends and I were planning travel arrangements to the Columbia, South Carolina area. You were. We called the U.S. 1, Mexico. Metro flea market to obtain updated information due to the fact that we were going to be traveling several hours. I hope not just for here. That seems silly. An adult male answered the customer service line. After initially asking a very basic question, the mail, in a mixture of what sounded
Starting point is 00:59:50 of anger, overwhelmed, annoyance, and talking very fast while yelling, didn't respond to the simple question. In the midst of his episode, we ended the phone call and abruptly hung up. At the least, we hoped it was an unauthorized individual answering the phone to prank. You know, someone just taking a shift who doesn't really work there. If this wasn't, there are some serious underlying issues going on in Columbia, South Carolina at the US One flea market. Needless to say, we diverted to Savannah's area flea market and was greeted with a great welcome upon our arrival and an enjoyable day. Okay.
Starting point is 01:00:29 I have to say, yeah, this entire thing, the grammar is perfect in this, which somehow is more annoying than bad grammar in a review like this that's so like, snickety and shitty and annoying
Starting point is 01:00:43 that you're just like... Real bitchy. Yeah, real bitchy. You're like, yeah, at least be a dummy too. Use your, you know, a handle of English grammar for good, not for evil.
Starting point is 01:00:55 You know what I mean? It's even more annoying that they're smart enough to absorb every rule of the English language, but not smart enough to understand they were probably pranked. Probably somebody fucking around. Yeah. That's probably what happened. Somebody, they probably dialed the wrong number and then said, is this the flea market? And they're like, yeah, this is a flea market. Diff shit.
Starting point is 01:01:18 Yeah, this is a flea market fucker. What's up? What you need? We got fleas if you need them. Yeah. What? We only sell flea. Flea.
Starting point is 01:01:26 We got lots of them. How many you need? What are you talking about? Oh, God. All right. Mr. One Star. Always overcrowded and noisy, and most booths look like stuff stolen off Amazon trailers.
Starting point is 01:01:41 Probably. I'm pretty sure last time I was there, someone tried to siphon gas out of my truck while I was shopping. Okay. That's when you know you're in a very trash spot when someone's siphoning gas from your car. Pretty sure. How do you, what are the tale tell signs of that? Is it gas down the side of your car? Open, open gas tank thing, hose dangling out of it maybe, I don't know. Crackhead laying unconscious with gas flooding his mouth next to it. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:02:16 That is very funny. Good God. Kimberly, one star. Even one star is too much, exclamation point. In other words, if I could give it, zero stars. I would, yeah. I would. Run down place. Loud music. Very sketchy place. Honestly, felt unsafe.
Starting point is 01:02:36 Mostly junk will never return. Uh-huh. I've never been to a flea market in a very nice neighborhood. No, wow. This is excellent. Yeah. Because, you know why wealthy people just throw their used shit out? They don't go sell it at a table.
Starting point is 01:02:49 That's why. And they're not looking for yours. They don't want yours. Yep. They don't want yours and they're not selling you theirs. That's how it works. Get the fuck out. That's, I guess, that would be the luxury of being rich, never having to deal with other people's shit for any reason.
Starting point is 01:03:05 Taking their shit, you're giving the mere shit. It's all, everyone keeps their own shit. I'm just thankful to be in a position where I'm done with Facebook marketplace and buying or selling. I'm not putting anything on there. I just look at cars on there. I just look at all cars on there. Unless it's a car, right. That's a great place to peruse cars.
Starting point is 01:03:25 Other than that, fuck that. I'm out. I don't care. I don't care. I don't put my fucking address in somebody's DMs. No way. Nope. Not only that.
Starting point is 01:03:33 And if it's somebody's used crap, I don't want it. I don't know. I don't want to deal with the thing of going over there and talking to the guy. I don't need it. I don't need it. My ex-girlfriend had me go pick up a fucking bookcase. When I went to buy it, they put it together in a room with carpet, and they had pinched a piece of the carpet.
Starting point is 01:03:49 And they just lifted it, pulled the string, and then cut it. So there was carpet attached to a bookcase. Because they're... Oh, my God. Just dumb fucks that couldn't put together a bookcase. Yeah. See, that's not worth it. I'm not doing this ever again.
Starting point is 01:04:05 I just brought on somebody's carpet. Oh, God. So you got a bookcase and a piece of carpet. Is that extra? How much... Okay. I'll match your price for the bookcase, but how much you want for that carpet coming out of it? Now, that's got to be extra, right?
Starting point is 01:04:23 Like six strings that were hanging... I was like, what is that? I took a screw out and I was like, oh my God, they just, they pinch the carpet and just cut the car. That's pathetic. Their carpet is a big hole under it. That's what's hilarious. Rather than taking the bookcase apart that is now stuck to the carpet, they cut a hole in their carpet. They said, pull it harder.
Starting point is 01:04:51 You got to pull the carpet out with it, so you got to really, you got to really yank off. it, you know what I mean? I'm like, why is there blue strings? Oh my God, that's carpet. Blue carpet at that. Blue carpet. Good God. With now a hole in it.
Starting point is 01:05:08 Dark carpet is very noticeable. Oh, yeah. When's the last time a fucking square yard of blue carpet was sold in the United States, 1983? I mean, you know that carpets. And you don't put a bookcase together in the corner that you're going to put the put the bookcase up. So this person put a bookcase together in the middle of the room and then cut the fucking
Starting point is 01:05:32 hole in it. That is so goddamn funny. Oh, my God. Oh, okay. Robin, one star. It was not like any flea market I have been to before. Okay, that's good. That could be good.
Starting point is 01:05:50 Yeah. Yeah. I was afraid to let my teenage boy wander far for fear of. fear of how people were looking at him. Oh, my God. They wanted a cornhole? Why were they looking at him? What are we talking?
Starting point is 01:06:02 Looking at him in what way? Congratulations on having a hot son. Yeah, he must really be drawn some attention. It reminded me more of the markets in small Indian villages rather than a flea market. Holy shit. Yeah, I think that's what we're going for here. Sex traffic yourself. They're going to sex traffic your teenage boy.
Starting point is 01:06:22 Lindsay, one star. If you want to be hassled by a guy trying to, quote, give you a dog. That's the quote, quote, give you a dog. Right as you get out of your car, buy a bunch of junk, get secondhand high, and possibly get kidnapped. This is the place to go. That doesn't sound bad. I like dogs. And anybody, I'll take secondhand highs.
Starting point is 01:06:49 Yeah. And I might buy your junk. You never know. So you know what? Now I'm kind of sold on this place. The kidnapping is a little scary. Yeah. I think I'm pretty sturdy.
Starting point is 01:06:57 I think I can hold my own. I'll plant pretty good, I think. Tough to pick me up. I'm carrying. Let's go. Let's go. Columbia, one star. Beware, beware.
Starting point is 01:07:09 The operator of this business is a liar and a thief. Oh. The business is cell phone screen repairs, iPad, tablet, and screen repair, laptop screen repair. So nude downloader. Yeah. You also download all your nudes and sell them to some sort of weird Pakistani dark web or some shit.
Starting point is 01:07:30 The fappening is going to get a fresh upload every Saturday. I don't know what that is, but that sounds like that. It's a website for nudes. That's all it is. Okay. I don't know that, but that's pretty funny. He told me that the parts for my Tashiba tablet, was on back order for months.
Starting point is 01:07:53 Why don't you go to a place with walls? Maybe you'll get a fucking better deal. No one's fixing my electronics unless they have walls. I'm sorry. You've got to have walls to fix my electronics. And I got news for you. The parts for your Toshiba tablet are discontinued. They have been around.
Starting point is 01:08:12 They're in a warehouse somewhere in 2007. That's where those parts are. Who the fuck is there of a Toshiba tablet? I've never heard of that before. It doesn't matter anyway, because you can get rain on your shit in this place. Like, this is ridiculous. You have to have walls. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:08:32 We were trying to fix it, but in the middle of it, there was a downpour. Yeah, it was a downpour. Your whole shit's ruined. And your parts are back in 2011. So between those two things, I would say, throw it out. Fuck your to Shoeba. We're trying to build a time machine to fix this fucking thing. We're working on it.
Starting point is 01:08:52 Come back in a couple weeks. We keep getting pretty far in the time machine, but then it rains and we got to start over. Oh, my God. When I dropped by his shop and demanded the tablet, he gave back what he said was repaired, but he had switched the serial number card into a Big Lot tablet, which was not my tablet. Okay. Big Lot tablet? I have included pictures of his booth at the U.S. number one Metro,
Starting point is 01:09:21 flea market, 38, 40, and 42, and pictures of this liar and thief. Uh-huh. Stay away. You took electronics to the flea market to get repaired? That is wild. That is a brave choice. It's a, it's a, it's a very strange, it's a very strange choice to be perfectly honest
Starting point is 01:09:44 with you. I can't imagine taking anything that I, that I love that's tech, you know what I mean, anything. Anything. Not a chance I'm taking it to a flea market asking to work on it. No way. I'm not even taking it to the flea market because someone's going to steal it from me or out of my car or something. I'm not taking it there. You crazy?
Starting point is 01:10:04 That's wild, man. It's a really wild choice. I don't know that I want to even take my phone there in my pocket. Matter of fact, leave your kids at home. They're valuable. Don't take them. The flea market? Okay, the last one here.
Starting point is 01:10:17 One star from Anna. I used to love going to this flea market. It has definitely changed in the past few years. It seems like a lot of the regular sellers have been pushed out by gangsters. Oh. Gangs? I picture like, like, you know, like John Gotti's back there. Mobsters.
Starting point is 01:10:36 What do you want, sweetheart? I got a table full of stuff. Let's go. What is it? Fully dressed, jewelry, everything. Yeah. Let me ask you a question now. We got a whole truck of this shit.
Starting point is 01:10:46 You got old, you like this. I got old truck of it back there. I also got some Tishiba parts for an iPad in case you're interested. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. Right, no, no, no, right in there. Right there. Right in there.
Starting point is 01:10:59 We're both, you can't see this, but we're both doing the De Niro Goodfellas. Robert De Niro turned the corner. In there. In there. Go in there. There's not a guy in there that's going to shoot you in the head, I swear to God. No murder is in there. It's perfectly legitimate.
Starting point is 01:11:12 It's just full addresses. It's perfect. Go in that. I got a whole bunch of them. You'll love them. You'll love them. Whatever you want. It's up to you, honey.
Starting point is 01:11:19 Take whatever he wants, sweet. All tables are chained up and lined with tarps. The new folks in there are selling, are not following the rules, or it could be management not enforcing the rules. Either way, it's more like a bodega than a flea market. Miss the folks who used to sell there and miss the old vibe of the place. You can barely walk because of tents lined up all on the outside and music playing loudly to blow out your ear drums.
Starting point is 01:11:47 the owners need to clean up this place. Right. Okay, we will leave it at that for this week. It's trash. It's trash. Yeah. And it sounds hilarious, though, honestly, if I'm being perfectly honest. I kind of want to, I would go to this place because it sounds funny. I'd go minus my children plus a gun or a weapon of some sort.
Starting point is 01:12:08 Yeah, yeah. Always carry your box cutter with you. It comes in handy. I always do. Always carry something. I got a new switchblade that I'm really enjoying carrying. Oh, nice. Fun.
Starting point is 01:12:16 With a spring, it's a fucking sick switchplate. My brother got before him for Christmas. It's pretty amazing. I'm enjoying carrying that. But the, I don't go. Oh, do you need a switchboard? I had a great switchblade. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:28 And I had brought it to Philly when we did a show in Philly into my backpack. And then I had driven home and it didn't fly. So the next time I flew, I forgot it was in my backpack and TSA took it from me. And I'm like, God damn it. Oh, no. Yeah, she pulled it out and went click and I was like, fuck. And she's like, got to take. It's the good news, James.
Starting point is 01:12:46 Your birthday is right around the corner. That's true. That's true. He wants to get me a switchblade. A very nice switchblade, maybe in the mail. Oh, man, I got to look at yours when we're done here. All right, all right. So there you go.
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