Guys: Episode 108 - Tool Guys with Jesse Farrar

So, welcome to guys, a podcast about guys.

I'm Brian, Mr.

Tool Man, and I got Mr.

Harbor Freight with me, Chris James.

This is my tool guy voice.

Hey, how's it going?

And then next week, I'll do a Maynard voice.

Whoa, the, you know what I mean?

So,

hi, Mr.

Harbor Freight.

I don't, yeah, that part of it, I

uh,

should I pretend to know what that is?

Will it make me seem more

manly?

Um, yeah, I'll tell you one thing: it is, it's cheap crap, is what it is.

It's for crap heads.

Totally agree.

100%.

Well,

Harbor Freight has its place.

Sorry to step in.

Look, there's, there's a, there's a, a time and a place for Harbor Freight tools.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater here.

It's a brand of tools.

It's sort of a lower-end brand of tools.

The lowest-end brand of tools.

I don't know.

It's like at the dollar store?

It's its own store.

It's its own standalone store.

Like in the old days where Sears would have a hardware department, it's as if you picked that up out of Sears and placed it like on the crappiest street in the town, and everything in there is worse quality than Craftsman.

Thank

Craftsman is not great either.

Craftsman has fallen off as well because of private equity.

Yes.

Tinesium is what they call it, actually.

I think that's probably an unnecessary eponym for the lower quality generic tools.

But I do think

Harbor Freight can make sense sometimes because I think it's good to have that market pressure, right?

Of like, well, if there isn't...

If there isn't this generic brand, then all we have is the premium brands that can run wild on the pricing, right?

So that means everything's DeWalt tier.

Does everything need to be DeWalt tier?

Not for the hobbyist, not for the weekend warriors.

That's crap.

You know, so you're saying that, like, from a market standpoint, yeah, like I thought you were going to say there's a place for them in someone's home, but no, you're saying

just to exist there, just to be there is good and positive, but you would never yourself use those tools, Jesse.

This black thing behind me is Harbor Freight.

Wait, what is it?

The curtain.

It's a blanket thing.

It's like a moving blanket.

Well, that's, see, that's, see, that I would think would be fine, right, Jesse, to get a Harbor Freight moving blanket.

Of course.

Or like a toolbox, like a big garage toolbox or whatever.

No, no, you don't get one.

You got to get a craftsman or something.

I know that.

I would never get the toolbox because that's like

that.

Everyone's looking at you like this, like an Harbor Freight dude.

You know, I would go to the bottom.

Who's looking at you?

I would have to get a wall toolbox, and I'd have a bunch of Harbor Freight shit inside that.

Well, that's a toolbox.

No, I get a Milwaukee.

I'm a Milwaukee guy.

You know, when I worked at

the cable company, it was all Milwaukee.

They did lots of good for me.

Well, that's the only time I ever had tools.

Well, no,

there was the roofing job that I had for three months where I

went to the store and I bought a hammer that I thought looked cool.

By the way, Jesse Farrar's here.

We didn't even

know thank you.

Yes, hello.

Yeah, Jesse's one of our favorite guests.

He's a friend of ours, actually.

Thank you.

That's an acquaintance of the show.

Do you ever think about how long it is we've known each other?

Sorry to interrupt, Brian.

Isn't that weird?

Doesn't it seem like doesn't it seem like in some ways it's still a new friendship, but in reality, it's like

a million years.

I've never seen each other a lot of times in real life, I think.

Is that part of it?

Yeah, I think it is because I recall the times I've met you in real life.

It's always a great time.

We always have fun together.

So much fun.

You drove me in a Tesla one time.

That's true.

Hey, that was a long time ago before we

got.

He's like, one thing I like about this is the politics of the guys that

at the time, at the time, honestly.

At the time, his politics were at least publicly very different.

Yeah, not clear to me then.

He wasn't into Hitler at that time.

I got it.

Publicly.

I didn't know about it.

But so I went to the store to, I had to get tools for the roofing job.

They, you know, you need a hammer.

I don't remember what else you need to do.

You're a general labor.

You need to get a power tool.

You were like a general, like you were just like a labor.

I was so bad at general labor that i then became a safety monitor so a stand there the safety monitor almost doesn't seem like it should be a downgrade from

but it's almost

it is get out of my way stop fucking things up just make sure nobody falls off the side of the building but in a product world

wouldn't you like graduate the competent worker to safety supervisor it might not be a real position jesse i think it might be uh sort of a okay yeah something where it's it's like, that's what they say till the end of the day because they don't want to cause a big scene

before they sort of politely ask him to stop showing up.

I wouldn't wear my hard hat either.

That was like a whole big fucking thing.

You were like.

I wouldn't wear it.

And then when they got the work, I'd be like, I left it at home.

I don't have it.

That's what I'm saying.

And then would they sort of say, hey, that's one of the more important

pieces of equipment.

Yeah, they did this thing, and you'll learn about this later.

But anyway, so I got to tell you about the tools tools i bought first i bought a black hammer but it had kind of a pinkish handle on it and they

that cracked them up there at the uh

was it the only one available no but it looked cool to me like i was like this is a high beast hammer oh i like this yeah yeah yeah but they were like it's pink but

did you at all at all think about the fact that uh in the mid 90s heading to a job site with a pink hammer might lead to some ridicule from first of all so early 2000s Secondly, this is I'm working with Jim, Dynamite Jim Dandy, the guy I've told you about.

He's my foreman.

He's my boss.

I forgot that Dynamite Jim was in the picture and also forgot that this was post-Y2K.

So, all right, that's fair.

And he was my boss and Raj was his number two.

And we would have to fucking go to Middletown, Ohio and stay Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

We had to stay there every week.

So we could work on top of AT ⁇ T buildings laying rubber roofs.

Didn't you work for like

a very short time?

Three months.

And they had me traveling.

I can't even, well, I wasn't really traveling.

It was driving 90 minutes away from home and staying in a shitty hotel.

You know what I mean?

I basically, if there was an undesirable job, they sent me there.

Like, so we go out to Middletown and Jim and Raj would get in fight.

They'd get real drunk every night and get into fights.

And then one of them would grab the work van and start driving down the street, yelling at the other one.

And he'd be chasing them.

And we'd have to go out and like get them because they were all away from their wives and stuff like that.

So they were fucking just maniacs, man.

So that was, but yeah, I wouldn't wear my top hat or top hat.

That would have been cool.

That would actually be, I would have worn that at that time, especially when I was Mr.

Derby guy.

This guy's showing up to the site with a top hat and a pink hammer.

Well, they bought a pink helmet.

They bought a pink hard hat.

And they're like, if you don't start bringing your hard hat, you're going to have to wear this.

So I had to wear wear that for a while, too.

They might as well put you in panties if you show up like that.

You know, that was crazy.

And put you in panties and a bra and stuff.

God.

Well, they separated me from Jim, which I felt was kind of fucked up because I think Jim said, can you get this guy away from me?

Which is a guy that I knew all my life.

That's why

I'm funny.

So you sort of just get the feeling like all of a sudden you weren't allowed to work near.

Like Jim never said anything to you himself, but all of a sudden

you weren't allowed to work anywhere near Jim and you no he was just like I don't want you on this job where you're traveling I don't want you on AT ⁇ T was like the most important

client of the roofing company it was like AT ⁇ T and Ohio State University were the two most important so they just didn't want me up there yeah so they sent me with other guys and the other guys were like hey you're the safety monitor make sure everybody ties off and then I'd be like hey dude you're not tied off and he'd be like fuck you and he would just go back and do whatever he was doing so you you did not command a whole lot of respect but it's not pop not like i did at the cable company where i did use milwaukee tools only that's what i was getting at and but that was and that was because they provided those to you like you didn't yeah you didn't buy those yeah i didn't buy a single tool for the cable job well some people would buy stuff for the cable job like yeah out of their own pocket and not get reimbursed for it which i always thought was like come on what are you doing well it makes their lives easier it's It's maybe not fair, but it is a justifiable thing, I think.

That's right.

I understand what you're saying.

It's like, you're like, oh, what a loser.

But it's like, well, he is, you know, he's spending eight hours a day doing this job.

If he can, you know, spend $100 to make it way better,

that's an injustice.

But I would probably do that in that position.

Sometimes you got to do it.

You got to take, Brian, sometimes you got to take matters into your own hands.

You understand?

Yeah.

If I don't got, if they're not giving it to me, I fucking lost my flathead screwdriver and and just started carrying a butter knife in my tool bag when I was working there because I was just like, I ain't buying another one.

I'll tell you that.

I already had a butter knife.

Yeah.

And butter knife's at home.

There's a butter knife in my toolkit downstairs now.

I don't have a flathead.

You need to go to Harbor Freight.

And honestly, like, I mean, just...

Just the idea of not having a flathead screwdriver.

Listen, I'm no tool guy, but I mean, just the idea of having, not having a flathead screwdriver seems very odd.

You know, it's not like something that's

something that's difficult to get or expensive or anything.

$1.99 to Harbor Freight right now,

three-eighths of an inch by an eight-inch slotted screwdriver from Pittsburgh brand, $1.99, or you can get an eight-piece for $9.99.

You can even get an eight-piece nugget for $9.99 these days.

Yeah, are you kidding me?

That is a great point from Jesse, is that you can't even get an eight-piece nugget for that.

You can't.

I wish you could.

Harbor Freight's in the shithouse with

its customers lately.

I went to R/Harbor Freight and guy goes, are coupons done?

Sorry, I've been out of the loop for a while, I guess, but I haven't been watching for the last four or five weeks for coupons, and it looks like they're done.

I see lots of instant deals, but no 20% off coupons.

So are those days gone forever?

He says, every.

Or am I missing them?

And Kentucky Friedman says, I used to go all the time with my 20% coupon, and I would inevitably buy something, sometimes multiple impulse items, and also get a freebie.

It was cool.

Now I go occasionally and often leave with nothing.

The magic is gone.

Oh, so this that person there is hoping that somebody from Harbor Freight is reading these posts.

A lot of these guys are.

Well, I used to go there, and let me tell you, once I got in there with the 20% discount, I would often just make a bunch of impulse purchases that had not no discount at all.

And they would end up making a large profit off of me as a customer.

No more.

I would end up spending $600 to $800.

I don't, what was it that we talked about recently?

Yeah, now the guy kept saying I was going to spend $600.

Oh, at at the

swinger resort, where the guy got kicked out by Big Rob.

Was like,

I was going to spend six, I spent $600 yesterday and I was thinking about spending more than $600 here tomorrow, but you kicked me out.

It's like, okay.

And Big Rob was just, yeah, anyways, he was doing what he needs to do, keep everything safe and the vibes good.

This guy goes, same.

It'll be interesting to see how this new strategy pans out.

Next guy goes, well said.

I'm a half mile from a harbor freight and drive past it now on my way to Home Depot, which is four miles away.

Home Depot?

Depot, yeah.

I used to go to Home Depot.

That's interesting now.

See, these people really are aggressively trying to signal to the Harbor Freight people now.

Like, we're going to, you know, I'm just going straight by the store to their direct competition now.

I'm curious if Harbor Freight sees Home Depot as competition.

Yeah, you think they're in an entirely different customer base?

Yeah, I think that's going to be a whiff from the R slash.

But doesn't Home Depot have, have doesn't Home Depot have

like they'll have some lower end

tools, right?

Oh, yeah, they got that I think it's called like HDX or something like that.

Like they're currently Milwaukee among them.

Those are great tools.

Those are some great power tools.

They're entry-level power tools.

I don't know what the title is.

They're not entry-level.

They are.

They're expert level.

I can read you some posts.

Milwaukee and Ryobi.

I mean, they have some stuff that's helpful.

That's not right of you to say.

I wouldn't tell you not to buy them.

I'm just saying those are not they're not pro tools they're probably great for a guy like Brian absolutely no I was a pro and I was using them I've been a professional I know you were the good tool dude you were silly you're on a heavy dose of pills you are and you were you would not take your job seriously you crash the car often

you know what one of the last things I did I did a few bad things at the end to try to get fired.

One time I just drilled through somebody's power line to see if it had shut all the power off in the apartment and they had to get a serial kill that sounds like a serial i just wanted to see what would happen man i wanted to get fired i was trying to get fired

i was trying to get fired i was doing everything possible every rule that you could break i was breaking and i was going to meetings and being a total fucking pain in the ass but we just really your boss is was a pill guy as well yeah he was into pills he was into pills but what were you doing at the

pills you were being really what

just

if you've ever worked at a place where they have regular meetings, like once a week,

and the meeting at the end always inevitably gets.

Sorry, Jesse can kill.

Yeah, Jesse.

Jesse can kick out of this party or as soon as if you ever worked at a place.

I'm tuned out.

Yeah, I mean, Brian said three months is like a short amount of time.

That's the longest I ever worked at a job.

So I was just kind of like, well, shit.

It's so wild.

And Brian and I have both worked a bunch of like classes.

Well, when you have meetings, retail, all kinds of hotels, you know.

know when you have meetings and they inevitably at the end there's one guy that makes it contentious

yes he just for the just for the sake of it just like and asking questions devil's advocate on and just being a real head yeah i was that guy i was extending meetings by like 45 minutes what kind of stuff would you bring like what you would just like find a point of contention within the things that they said chris if there was a new rule at the company like bill maher would say I would be like, What?

We can't do that.

That doesn't make any sense.

Does that make sense?

How does that make sense for the business?

Just asking a hundred questions, being as belligerent as possible.

You were needlessly like reluctant to change just for the sake of it.

I told you, I almost got in a fight with Randy.

My one boss that wasn't on pills, me and him squared off.

He would have beat me up.

Well, yeah, he was clear-headed.

Um,

Jesse is like on his computer here.

It's like, Jesse, you can come back to the conversation now.

Yeah, I didn't know if you guys were done talking about jobs or whatever.

This guy goes red.

Wait, Brian, what are you eating?

Smoothie.

You're eating it with a you are eating it with a spoon.

They fucking made it wrong.

And I'm not going to get into that.

Well, I'm just curious because you're eating it with a spoon and it looks like there's a bunch of chunks and stuff in it.

So they didn't.

It is just a bunch of chunks.

They didn't blend it enough?

Didn't.

No, that's too bad.

What would you do if you were making a smoothie, Chris?

Well, listen, first off, I had a beautiful penis.

What?

Penis.

I don't even understand the...

Sounds like a guy saying penis, but it's doubled.

No, I know what it is.

It's definitely not.

You never smoked sharing before?

And I was like, what?

He said, you've never smoked sharp before?

This is a defensive mechanism against me talking about what he's eating for lunch, which is an extra large.

It's a jumbo.

It's a jumbo, extra-large smoothie from Smoothie King, and he's eating it with a spoon.

It's got caffeine, protein, powder.

It's got all kinds of shit in it.

Anyway,

you don't get the move off.

What does it have in it?

Yeah, I'm interested because everyone's always asking me about my smoothie recipe, and I'll never tell.

We all know that.

I got the famous smoothie recipe that's totally cool.

We won't let you tell.

Everyone loves to hear about that, but chia seeds.

No,

I just put a bunch of stuff.

I just, when you get smoothie king, you can just add a bunch of modifiers to it.

And I added a bunch of modifiers, but some gut health blend, a little bit of energy blend, a little bit of fiber blend.

You know, okay, so two

questions.

Number one, do you think that maybe making all of the powdered additives to your blended fruit smoothie could have contributed to the strange consistency you're now dealing with using a spoon?

I just saw the consistency of it.

It's not the type of chunks I was imagining because it doesn't, it seems almost like shaved ice formed into chunks.

You want to have to hang up on Lone Depot again.

Oh, you're still getting the.

All day long.

Like it never stopped.

never stops.

If it stopped for me, Katie's like, just got a call from Malone Depot.

Well, this, so the second question is going to seem like it's in poor taste after the reveal that you're being hounded by debt collectors, but can you tell me how much the smoothie back?

It's not that, just to be clear,

it's not that.

If it was debt collectors, I'd be like, oh, I get it.

I get why they're calling.

Intro people like that.

Yeah.

Oh,

the mortgage thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How much was the smoothie, Brian?

Oh, I don't want to get into that.

Good question.

With all the modifiers, I would imagine those aren't free, right?

It's like 60 ounces, I can tell.

It looks like a double gulp, an old double gulp from 7-Eleven ounce.

It's enormous.

Yeah, it's enormous.

It is gigantic.

It was only $23.

That is so fucked up.

I had a gift card, though.

That is so fucking much.

That is outrageous.

The other night I went out and I had Rigatoni Boladier's and a drink at a nice Italian restaurant, and that's a bunch of costs.

Yeah.

Brian, that is true.

That's a tip, too.

That's the tip.

Did the cash register even open when they rang it up?

Because it's like too much.

Like they won't allow them.

It's like they need to get a pit boss over.

No, it's fine.

It was, I had a gift card.

It's not a big one.

I ended up paying $3, really.

And that was the tip.

Imagine that.

Imagine going to Smoothie King with a $20 gift card and having to open up your fucking old wallet out drawer.

That's fair.

That's fair.

I get what he was saying.

What's the flavor of it?

Can you tell us the flavor?

Does it even have a kiwi kale with blueberry, extra blueberries?

That's what he's eating the fucking blueberry jam on top of it.

That's what he's scooping out of the fucking thing.

Yeah, I had, listen, I don't want to get into it, but I had a really hard morning this morning.

Oh, what happened?

Huge crap and some barfing.

So I was like, I can't eat my regular breakfast.

So let's just get into this fucking taste.

Are you okay?

Are you

perfectly fine now?

The poison's out of me.

Okay, what?

A little more back in.

You think you ate something back?

Because that's what it struck me as, Jesse,

when he was saying all the, like, it's a classic move when you're like feeling kind of shitty and you're like, I'll just go to the smoothie place and I'm like, I'll get the all that, like, added things, the like, you know, boosters and everything.

That's what I got, a bunch of boosters.

Yeah, that makes sense to me now.

I'm feeling boosted as hell, though.

What, what, uh, what do you think, Major?

It was just like something you ate, Major?

What did you just open?

Diet, Dr.

Pepper.

Can you wait till you're done with the fucking smoothie?

No, I'm done with the smoothie.

I just finished it.

Let me see the cup.

It's so big.

Let me see it.

So big.

Okay.

It is.

you did finish it it is i told you it is not a waste of money if you finish it let's get into some tools we will right now but i just want to say i've never seen a smoothie cup that big in my life maybe i'll get out of here i might be i might be like a naive canadienne here but i've never seen a smoothie cup that big you got to go to smoothie king baby they make the big ones bring a 20 if you go big ones yep well yeah uh let's do one more harbor freight thing before we get to some other tools this guy goes i'm done all i can say is screw harbor Freight.

They got rid of their coupons fine.

But even when they have crappy free items with purchase multiple times, they sell out.

It smells like a bait and switch.

I was getting a Bower jigsaw for $60, and all I wanted was their crappy $3 bucket.

But instead, I'm now making a conscious effort to buy everything on Amazon.

I ended up getting more powerful ones.

Seems to be decent with LED and a laser for $40.

Oh, that's going to work out.

An Amazon tool with LED and a laser for $40.

that is going to be it's going to be with you you're going to hand that down to your grandkids i would imagine i love this guy goes i work at harbor freight bower was always excluded with the 20 coupon so there's the first issue with your post also you can get a rain check for any item in the store if it's out of stock including the price you would have got with the coupon.

But I'm sure the employees would rather you shop elsewhere if the few dollars you would have saved is enough to trigger you.

I fucking love when the employee comes in and lays it on them that's so good you entitled prick yeah that should happen more often where like a retail employees and stuff come on those forums and because then they have the anonymity where they can't get fired or whatever they just come on and just tell these people off say the things

yeah right they come on and say we don't care about you like you are not important to us you one guy are not

even

because you're posting on a subreddit you probably wrote a google review and a Yelp review.

You're still not important to us.

We still

do not care.

If you want to feel important, go talk to your family because we don't care about you at all.

This guy goes, You have no idea how right you are.

And the OP, like feeling strong, goes, I never expected to use the 20% on Bauer.

I'm well aware of the limitations.

And then our employee comes back and goes, seems like you haven't figured it out.

Stick with online shopping.

Oh,

if you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen, my man said.

Shit, man, stick behind behind your little computer screen where you're safe, little boy.

Now, here comes another.

This is great.

This is our big fight for the episode.

I just got coupons over this past weekend, so you're wrong about that.

I'm sure they won't miss you.

Let us know how the freebies and coupons at Amazon give you.

And I hope you like the 17% increase for Prime.

And he goes, I got a better jigsaw with the LED and laser for $20 less.

Harbor freight prices aren't great anymore when they are charging about the same as others with a 90-day warranty.

Didn't ask for your blessing.

He's really, really excited about his laser and his LED.

He is.

This next, the guy goes, then don't make a public post.

And then he goes, and yet somehow still didn't ask for your opinion and permission.

So now we're getting a couple snippy guys going at each other.

Brian, did you know that if you downloaded the Smoothie King app, you could have saved $2 on your next Smoothie King?

I used the Smoothie King app, Jesse.

And it still costs $23?

Yeah.

Wait, did you earn 2,300 purpose points?

I have a bunch of purpose points too, but I wouldn't figure out how to use them.

Let's see the balance on the purpose points.

It's like $8.

Yeah.

So not even, honestly, not even making a dent in the smoothie today.

It didn't.

And they wouldn't let me.

You know what I mean?

They wouldn't let me.

I had the gift card.

I'm going to be honest about the gift card, too.

I didn't use it.

Why?

Why not?

What?

Because every time I typed it in, it said there was a problem with the system.

Maybe you can't use it on bulk purchases.

It's not a bulk purchase.

It's one smoothing.

It got flagged as a commercial order.

All right.

I went to garage.com.

I think it's called Garage.

Yeah, the Garage Journal.

And a guy asked, what are your top three Grail tools that you got on your wish list if you win the lottery?

Okay, I'd like to hear from you guys as well.

Yeah, what are your Grail tools?

Is that now 3D printer?

That's a brand?

No, I just like if you, yeah, if money was no object, what would you be filling out?

Like my whole, they're just saying like my holy grail.

Mm-hmm.

I thought Grail was like

that's an awesome name for tools.

It really would be.

I would say, yeah, 3D printer, if that's on the table.

I mean, that's what I'm getting.

That's wild.

You know, you could print whatever, like, fucking.

I figure I'd use it every once in a while and maybe make a Lego that I need.

Oh, that would be, yeah, that's a good call for you.

Make a Lego if you lose a piece or whatever.

I would be using it for that.

If it was like a puzzle person or whatever, you could do make a puzzle piece for yourself if you makes puzzles even easier, don't it?

Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

I would this guy gives us his view.

I can show you guys a picture of the one his grails are.

They're pretty nice.

I wonder if we have the same grails.

What are yours, Jesse?

Jesse, what are yours?

I think my Grails would probably, well, it wouldn't be that torque wrench for $750.

I can tell you that.

i kind of would like to i would like to have um a saw stop which is the

uh it's the table saw with the special um blades and the charges that um if it touches your finger or a hot dog it explodes and pulls the disc down so you can't cut your finger off well that's not that expensive you can get one of those for fifteen hundred dollars um i don't think that's right

Well, the one I see from Ohio Power Tool was $1,599.

For us for a saw stop table?

Yeah.

That's an Ohio Power, though.

Maybe they have different tools, but okay.

Yeah.

Maybe you're looking at Harbor Freight, basically.

Oh, how much are they then?

$3,000?

I see a $3,000 one.

Yeah, that's what I, my understanding was that they were in the $3,000 to $5,000 range, but maybe they have a different version now that I'm

on credit.

Like a digger, that wouldn't count.

I can't be driving the tool, right like a oh I don't know that's because if I could be driving the the one then I would get a digger you know what I mean like that would be for what like a back hoe or a front hoe back hoe or something like that I'd get a front hoe dig dig myself a pool or something like that you know what I mean just get just start landscaping doing all kinds of stuff on the land that I don't yet have but here's a metric flank drive this guy wants it's $575 now it's a whole set and it's a bunch of wrenches it's backordered too so good luck, I guess.

Yeah, good luck getting that, motherfucker.

And then a handle, flex head, ratchet, a long one.

It's $265.

That's the OP stuff.

How about a planer?

I think a planer would be a good one to get.

If you ever do any kind of handicraft in the house and you work with...

I don't know, Brian, I don't know if you got into this, but the wood, the lumber you get from the big box stores is very green.

It's very wet.

So it doesn't hold its shape very well.

And it's very frequently uneven and bowed.

So you stick that stuff through a planer, a pretty expensive device, but uh, that flattens it out, and you can use it for you know your uh crafts around the house.

I think that'd be a fun tool to have as well.

I don't think I've ever, I have a my saw is a like one I got for three dollars

that it's like a hand, it's just for your hand, and you can it was the saw dowel rods.

I still have it.

So, if I ever need to saw something, it would take 12 hours to saw, but I could do it dowel rod project.

I had this couch that was falling apart, and it needed

to secure something to secure it.

So I cut a dowel rod and stuck it in a couch and it fixed it for a while, but had to end up getting a new couch, unfortunately.

This guy goes, is it just a scratch off for a couple hundred bucks and not a real lottery?

To me, the lottery is the mega millions.

With that kind of money, I don't care about tools anymore.

Oh, good point.

Life is going to change significantly, and I will no longer be interested in doing any sort of tool projects.

I'll be sailing this high seas, you know, on a on a yacht

doing that type of stuff.

This guy goes, my tool would be another fully equipped shop out back alongside the one I use now with a dedicated skilled technician in it to take care of all the family's automotive and repair needs.

So I can stop concerning myself with such at 72 and more fully enjoy my fabrication, repair, and machine shop.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, I guess, sure, yeah.

That's kind of like you that can work on your stuff.

I'm it kind of like the I wish for more wishes genie wish, kind of not really, not really in the spirit of the thought exercise, I feel like.

I'd build a guy an apartment behind my house, and if anything ever went wrong, I would call him and he would come and fix it for me with a fully equipped office that's not mine.

He's not using my tools.

These are other tools.

I would build a time machine.

Me too, right?

And I would go back in time and fix some of the issues that have led to some of the political strife that we're you know what i would do if i went back in time so nice yeah

i would like go back to like four minutes into sucking my girlfriend's titties and say do something else

Four minutes still, huh?

Yeah, four minutes.

Four minutes is still a very long, long time.

It's a full song.

And so I just even, I love, I do like the fact that it sort of goes to show that even in your fantasies, you can't even imagine yourself not being obsessed with that titty.

Even in your wildest dreams, you're still like way more into it than a normal guy.

I'd say, cut it out.

I'd slap myself on the back of the head and say, cut it out, do something else.

You know, you got to worry about the butterfly effect, though, with that, right?

If you go back and stop the titty sucking, you know, when you come back, maybe you come back.

You've become the greatest pussy eater in the country.

Probably not.

How do you figure that's going to be?

Unless you're about to move my ass out of the country.

I don't know why I'd be leaving, but

a 12-foot, 3-8-inch shear, fully tooled man drew blender.

Gigantic, as in 5x20 cutting table station set up for a laser and plasma bridges, as well as a fourth and fifth axis for tubing, notching, and weld prep beveling.

That guy's a tool guy.

Oh, yeah.

That's what you're supposed to be asking for is plasma tools, I think.

that's this guy this guy's really funny you guys are gonna like this five foot five 36 24 36.

okay

damn he sounds hot no no no he's saying that's what he wants and then this guy even funnier this is gonna get you guys laughing for sure oh good 4'2 with a flat head gotta have a place to rest the alcohol

what

He's being a misogynist.

But that's really short as well.

Yeah, but if she's like a table, if she has a flat head.

she's a table, yeah.

No, I get that.

Yeah, I don't know.

What about a table?

I was just thinking of that.

Why not build a table if you're in the tool thing?

If you're in the tool thing,

but again, it's not a necessary thing to build, Jesse.

They got all kinds of them.

Every pretty much store you go to.

A lot of them have the tables you can buy.

Oh, I've not seen that.

And then you go, my wallet would be all the tools I would need.

I wouldn't fix shit no more.

Yep.

R-M-E-R-R says triple my shop size to 3,000 square feet.

A really high-quality metal lathe, manual mill, small and close CNC mill.

Most importantly, hire an assistant skilled in running these.

I'll still put around.

It's so strange.

All these guys want an assistant, which I slave.

I think they're tired.

They're tired.

Well, they're going to pay them, Jesse.

It's just known as an employee, I believe, if you're paying them.

Sorry.

What do you think they're paying them, Chris?

Well, I don't know.

They're rich, right?

So I think that's part of it is what they're saying they could afford to pay them.

But you're right.

I mean, rich people aren't known for paying people.

I agree that these people in their fantasy are probably trying to pay them the least possible amount of money that they can get away with.

I agree.

I just, it's maybe they just, are they tired?

Are they older people?

A lot of the tour guys are older.

I mean, it is exhausting to every day.

have to be cutting and fucking climbing ladders.

I guess if you don't like it, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then this guy.

Jesse, do you do that?

Do you do, listen, I can see.

He doesn't climb ladders.

I know he doesn't.

I think he does sometimes.

I think he's done it before.

I'm the ladder king.

You're the ladder king.

I climbed so much.

I've climbed more ladders than you ever would know.

That's, you know what?

I'm going to give it to you.

I'm not going to challenge you on the ladder thing.

You probably got me beat.

But I have been up one and I have looked down and I have seen, you know, all the stuff below me and kind of gone like, yeah, all right, that's down there.

So

I've been up a ladder for sure.

Definitely.

Gone, climbed up a ladder, like onto a tree, climbed up a ladder onto a roof before

the time i got robbed the two guys were standing at the bottom of the ladder while i was at the top of it menacing me

and uh that was scary actually to tell you the truth

yeah of course uh so yeah he goes but i'll become more of an idea and design guy while my assistant keeps projects moving so let's go to r slash dewalt crappy

what's the dewalt what's the dewalt problem oh they're just not as good as milwaukee they're like one step under milwaukee that's not true right just

it's definitely it's not reflected in the retail price of the tools so if that's a personal preference I guess I can't argue it but I don't I don't know that that's conventional wisdom this is this right here this is 2005 Brian I just keep on getting tricked into buying a cheap set of bits for $12 at Home Depot.

They're absolute trash.

I think I would have better luck at Harbor Freight.

Anyone interested in a class action lawsuit for fucking us over?

The class action lawsuit is one of the favorite tools of the stupid so i've

i'm

these goddamn bits aren't working yeah i guess so man i don't know here the first guy goes mine are great what the fuck are you doing and then the next response is using wood bits on concrete lmao oh yeah i can't do that you can't and the guy goes shit i don't know but i caught myself doing that a few months ago even though i have plenty of masonry bits and no better wasn't thinking and in a rush put some to put some tap cons in next guy goes the twelve dollar drill bits i'm buying are twelve dollar drill bits i'm being tricked and it's all a big conspiracy yeah i mean that's that person's probably got it the most right it's like yeah well the op does respond to him okay he goes but you don't think they should be usable i mean all my other tools from dewalt are

Yeah, they should be usable, but other people say they are usable.

Yeah, he says they are usable, but they're just still cheap bits.

Just because they're DeWalt-branded doesn't mean you're going to get the kind of quality you would get if you spent $40 to $50 on a bit set.

That's right.

And then the guy goes, next guy goes, go to Harbor Freight then.

Or are you too stupid to not be tricked anymore?

Might have been more than fine for what little I paid for him.

So the problem is, if you go to the DeWalt subreddit and you start yelling about DeWalt,

it's not.

They're not going to treat you like, oh, hey, you know, this guy.

They love DeWalt there.

It's like, there's not people complaining about DeWalt.

It's people talking about how much they love it.

In all seriousness, I could not believe how much these people like their brand of tools.

And I went to every tool subrout.

So I went to Ryobi.

There's a whole bunch of fans of Ryobi, which seems crazy to me.

Makita, there's a whole bunch of fans of Makita.

And, you know, there's even harbor freight guys.

This guy goes, I'll tell you right now, very best drill bits are from Vessel Tools.

Them Japanese dudes are making making some good stuff.

A lot of us are using them.

Vega bits are okay too.

So the Japanese dudes are actually making really good.

I believe that.

That's a weird way of, I feel like putting the,

I mean, I know it's supposed to be a compliment, but I don't know.

Does that strike you as odd to say Japanese guys make good tools?

Does that just

maybe I wouldn't.

Yeah, I think the way he's saying it is kind of like he's making it seem a little bit more

in the country of Japan, they produce high-quality tools.

Even you know, like Japanese companies.

Is it

swords there?

They go to the bottom of the corner.

But is that not true?

Jesse has a look on it.

Is that not true?

Is that not a true thing?

I think I would just say, I like this particular company's products.

But, but is it not, but

if there's more than one company in that, if it's like, you know, there are things like that, definitely, where they're like, hey, the cars and you know, German engineering or whatever, where there's like a country where stuff like that is like generally being made well.

You think this person's

just sort of a

run-in-the-mill raises guy or something?

I guess I wouldn't level a charge of racism at that guy.

He's a tool enthusiast, but maybe I would just choose my words more carefully, I suppose, when it came to my tool allegiances.

It's so important to

get the facts across about which brand you support.

It is a poor tradesman that blames his tools.

That's a little bit of a variation on a theme.

I've never heard of that one before.

Well, the OP goes, hmm, $120K a year and I'm making shit up?

Fuck you off.

Fuck you off, douchebag.

Fuck you off.

Fuck you off.

Yeah, so he makes $120K a year.

With tools, I guess?

Or

what was the job?

He's just flexing.

He's a tradesman.

I see.

So he's saying if I don't know shit, then how the hell am I making $120K a year?

Yeah.

And a guy goes, so go buy better drill bits.

That's a good point as well.

If you are bringing that sort of income, it's also going to be a business expense for you.

So you're going to be able to write it off as well as an expense.

This all started with a guy saying he used wood bits on masonry and then and it spun off into the no, they were just they were just joking about that, I think

R slash tools D Supreme asked what are the stereotypes of certain power tool brands now here's here's where we get into what

this almost feels like the thinly veiled racism project a little bit.

This is like well, not always.

This guy goes Let's talk about some true but funny stereotypes really quick.

Oh, that can be a lot of fun.

Because my girlfriends and wives use Ryobi.

Okay, so that's so it's a woman's brand?

Ladies who are a woman's brand.

Sorry, I was just saying there's a Canadian comedian named That Canadian guy, and he had the famous bit where he said that he you're allowed to say negative stuff about ethnic foods.

And then so he just used it as a way to say a bunch of racism.

And I've mentioned it's my favorite thing ever.

I've seen him do it 10 years later and I was, and he had updated it by adding new racism to it.

I saw a guy do it once at an open mic.

His name, he was, he was the first time he'd ever been there.

He dressed like he was at like a sports bar.

His name was, he called himself Spike.

And his whole thing was about eating at a hibachi place.

Like the entire bit.

He was like doing the impression of the guy and stuff like that.

I was like,

I don't know about that.

Yeah.

Kulo says Milwaukee fans are insufferable, both both on the internet and on job sites.

Everyone else is fine, they're literally the only ones in person who I've ever heard worship their tool brand.

Everyone else doesn't care.

And he goes, Also, I've seen R slash Tools model citizens on job sites before, full $2,000, $2,000 Milwaukee pack out setups: Milwaukee tools, Nypex pliers, Vito pouches, wear a screwdrivers, the gummy bear-coated Allen keys literally look like they came here from a shopping list and only bought the tools for maximum up votes.

Oh, well, hmm.

That's internet points.

Not valuable, guys.

Not valuable.

You got to get out there and make 120 grand.

That's the important thing.

Second-year journeymen who spent 10 grand outfitting their van, Milwaukee t-shirt, coffee cup, and a hard hat with Milwaukee light and marker holder.

Even though the GC doesn't require hard hats, those guys were not very good at their jobs.

I seriously mean that.

Not one of them worked at an acceptable speed or quality of output.

That's funny to me so Brian so they're basically saying that the most insufferable dickheads when it comes to tools are people who are fans of Milwaukee tools uh-huh and well that's what losers always say about women and and and

guys who don't guys who are not wearing their hard hats right fair enough no no these guys wear their hard hats even when they don't need them oh so this you were sort of you were going against the green on that but yeah you couldn't wear a hard hat I thought they looked so uncool yeah you but you would wear a dar derby hat or whatever that was not when i was at work though that was

uh this guy goes uh you'll know someone's a snap-on guy because he'll tell you 20 times

yeah

what do you snap-on guy oh it looks you're gonna tell me you're vegan right it's probably not the same thing to as

yeah jesse's probably right about that that's probably not likely actually this guy

you don't think that they would be those two things

no This guy goes, DeWalt user here.

I absolutely killed a set of Ryobi before going yellow.

So

Ryobi is crap.

Oh, okay.

Because that is the one thing that, yeah, maybe people who are not

big fans of tools, maybe you don't know.

Most of the tool brands do have sort of a defining color palette, and they try not to.

I feel like there's a distinct attempt not to cross over into one of the...

I don't know.

It could be like a fun quiz, like name the color and name the tool brand.

It looks bad if you don't have it all the same color, you know?

Like my entire truck for work was red.

So Milwaukee, right?

Yeah.

Chances are the guy that's in charge of the warehouse for the tools was a Milwaukee guy.

If you went to his house, everything would be red.

You know?

Yeah.

Every single person at work had Milwaukee drills and saws and stuff like that.

Could I interject for a second?

And edit point for Chris.

Sorry.

Would you rather me refresh so that my video works better or would you rather have the audio split and an annoying?

Are you know what I'm saying?

No, it doesn't, the video doesn't bother me at all.

I'm also not going to edit this out either.

This is an important thing for people to be able to hear and understand.

This isn't.

I'm kind of choppy.

I've disabled hardware acceleration in Chrome.

I wonder if that's maybe the cause.

It doesn't matter, though.

We can tell when you're talking, which is the important part.

If it bothers you, you can, by all means, leave and come back i don't want to jam you up in the edit bay because i know you can do whatever it doesn't he doesn't have an edit bay he has a very nice computer though this guy goes uh this guy didn't give me a brian didn't give me a chance to make my decision because he's all hopped up on boosters

i am i did get an energy booster this guy goes yeah i got two dead drills wait he's still trying to make his decision

i'm still thinking he's just he's trying to decide if he's gonna leave if i leave the studio and come back does it ruin the uh does it ruin the audio no it doesn't not to me it doesn't no it it doesn't.

Don't worry.

Okay.

Wonderful to me.

Brian, this would just be, as much as I love you, this would be sort of a Chris and JF conversation.

It's fine.

It's fine, Jesse.

You can do it.

Okay, okay.

All right.

Thanks.

This guy goes, yeah, I got two dead drills, a sawzall, four batteries, six-port charger, multi-tool sander, the three-gallon shop vac, all dead in three years, all brushless, including sander and shop vac too.

And then this guy goes, damn, bro, you leave them in a lake.

Ah.

Anyway, I looked at some reviews of some Home Depots.

This one is from 2388 Camby Street in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Oh, you know I've been there.

Oh, you know I've been there.

That's it.

That's at

right at Camby Broadway.

So that's right at the Camby, the Broadway Skytrain station.

So that's a real busy location.

There's a Canadian tire right there as well, which is another hardware store.

Well, that might come up a few times.

I would imagine it would because there's a lot of people who use them to complain about one another, you know?

And then there's also a Best Buy right there, a winner's Home Sense, which is like the Marshalls.

So this is a big Best Buy is good.

This is a big center.

We've got a lot of different shopping areas.

A very popular, one of my mom's favorite places to go shopping, actually.

So, yeah.

I'm good at it.

So Paul says, one star.

I was in Home Depot on Camby Street Tuesday, December 10th, around 11.15 a.m.

I was looking for a Dremel drill kit.

First person I asked, he says they're over there in the corner.

I keep looking.

He again says over in the corner.

No help.

I disagree with that.

Saying it's over in the corner.

I told you where it was.

I just, I do want to say before, these, got it.

When I had to install my bidet and it was like I had to do a bunch of like plumbing stuff, I had to like switch out the, because it wasn't, it wasn't set up where I could just do it normally.

I had to change out pipes and stuff.

So I went to this very Home Depot and worked with a guy, an older guy, older South Asia dude, who was like so into it and so helpful.

And I came back three times and we got it done.

And oh, that's bad, though.

What?

You had to go back three times.

My fault.

He wasn't that.

It's all my fault.

No, it was all my fault because I didn't have the information.

I didn't have the information that to provide.

So he said, this is what you have to get for me.

And then I did that.

And then I was like, why is this happening now?

And then he explained that aspect to it to me as well.

And also, it was a trial and error thing.

It wasn't like, he's like, we have to try this thing to see.

Like, I think this might work for it if we like Jimmy this thing up or whatever.

You know, it was like, we had to it was kind of a mock you wouldn't that's why you don't you're having trouble understanding it it was kind of a mock situation he goes he begins talking to the other salesmen i go up to them and say you're out of stock he goes he says they're all up on a high shelf he then points to empty display case and says which one do you want

this was my what this was to be my first dremel purchase Talk about a couple of useless salespeople.

They offered no help at all.

On my way out, I told a lady at the front desk they were no help at all.

I've never complained before, but this got me fuming.

This guy, you've got very impotent.

You're writing a review about it.

You're the first time you've ever

putting a pen to paper on it.

I doubt it.

It's a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the employees in the store.

Chris leaned on them for their expertise in a specific area, and they were willing to help.

And I think went above and beyond.

Whereas this guy expected them to be salesmen.

They're not salespeople.

They're not salesmen.

They don't get commission.

They don't get no.

They're like, they're home improvement people who are like interested in home improvement stuff.

Sometimes.

But a lot of them are in that location.

They're really into the shit and they're like into their particular.

And I will say that.

Sometimes they do have a tendency to be like...

They assume people know more than they do.

And I think everyone has a tendency to be that way sometimes.

And I think that's maybe what happened there is that these guys assume that you knew what the fuck you were looking for and they told you where it was and they asked you what you wanted and that was their and by the way the dremel tool is not it's not like you need a bunch of fucking hand holding to figure out the dremel tool

there's like like literally there might be two dremels and one of them is blue and one of them i'm not saying this to make fun of brian one of them might actually be pink like they might have like the

the guy version for like carving pumpkins or like shaving down some fucking trim and then there might be the lady version that's like

this is for

like cutting your dog's nails or something.

But that's like, there's not like a whole lot because it's just one tool that has

a little shit to poodle.

I know, and the dog, yeah.

And it's not the dog's fault, and it's not the dog's fault.

The dog has like, yeah, like the dog's very,

the dog's probably wearing a dress, which, you know, the dog doesn't even know, you know.

Oh, there's a red Dremel tool, Milwaukee brand.

You could get that one.

Yeah.

This guy goes, one star.

Today I had the worst customer service experience of my life at this location.

All right, let's hear it.

I give Mr.

Coretti a zero out of 10 review in terms of taking care of the customer.

Avoid him at all times.

I like

him as named and shamed.

I know.

That's changed the review.

By the way, you can't give him one star and then one guy zero out of 10.

That's all over the place.

That guy, that's not the purpose of the name tags.

It's not so that

you can publicly shame them afterwards.

That's not the purpose of them.

I don't think.

Home Depot guys guys covering up their name tag like cops with their badge number.

I want to see your Home Depot surveillance video.

Oh, yeah.

You know, there's a lost prevention guy in the back.

Got all that shit on lock.

Oh, boy.

Yeah, I mean, you go to him.

He's too busy.

I'll tell you.

Home Depot, the easiest place to steal from in the whole entire world.

Like,

I don't think there's an easier place to steal from.

That's funny that you say that because I do believe that's the case at this location as well.

There's like famously, famously, there's like a big main entrance and there's this back little corner entrance that no one's ever really at.

And it really seems strange, but they do have pretty good security there because that is also a huge thing that gets stolen a lot, of course.

It's got to be the number one thing.

It's easy to resell and stuff like that.

Mine got stolen all the time, or I lost them.

I usually say stolen, but

anyway,

God.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So you can also just buy a container and put the stuff in it.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, you can do big.

Oh, hang on, buying a trash can.

Do you know what another thing that you can do, too, is you can just go in there with a bag and just stuff it with stuff and just run out, you know, a snatch and grab if you want.

Yeah, if you have a violence gang, you can get a lot done, too, actually.

You know more about this from dealing with loss prevention guys on the show, but I think I would just say as a blanket warning, if you're stealing from a store, they know you're doing it.

No, they don't.

They're all stupid as hell.

Not always, Jesse.

Not always.

I will say not always.

The retail theft, I would say, is in the billions.

And I think there are people who are like pretty sophisticated with it.

And I think that

they

get away with it.

And because it just happens so much.

And

around here, it happens so much.

But it just might be that there's so much of it happening that they can't stop it all.

It might not be that they're clever, but they're trying to stop it.

But it's happening so much that they can only stop.

Everybody I knew who kind of made a living for a time doing retail theft and stuff, you're going to get caught sometimes.

Like that's just kind of part of it.

It's the same thing.

I used to know this guy that worked at a pizza shop with me named Luke, and he hit on every single woman that came into the pizza shop.

Everyone, every time.

And I'd always be like, man, dude, you don't have anything going on.

You work at a pizza shop.

You're making, you know, $5 an hour.

And he's like, yeah, but if you ask all of them, some of them will say yes.

Yeah, that's that's the classic.

I remember like people saying that when I was younger, and I was like, well, I'm definitely not going to do that.

You know, there's a lot of things emotionally inside of me that are going to definitely stop me from ever putting myself out there in that kind of way.

But it was definitely like a concept that was floated to me a lot when I was in my teens, you know, is that like, hey, buddy, I only need one of them to say yes.

I asked 150 girls in a weekend and one of them says yes.

Guess who got laid this weekend?

Me, not you, you know?

And it's like, you're right.

You are right.

right

and that's how the stealing works is like okay well

you know i went to kroger in the morning and i jammed a bunch of steaks down my pants and i got away with it but then i went later on in the day and i got caught like stealing i don't know baby formula yeah

because it's harder to steal but you know most of the time the police come and they're just like all right we're gonna take you maybe to jail for like the night and then you're out and like all the guys i knew that was doing that stuff they didn't care about going to jail it was like nothing they just get a magazine and yeah you wouldn't go around in Canada either you won't go to jail in Canada yeah that's the thing but but I just remember I worked at Best Buy for it's gonna blow your guy's mind a couple of years and uh it was

without getting fired without trying to he got fired I did get fired for trying for giving a guy my own it was no cell phone that he could afford so I just gave him my own cell phone right that I had next door it was my own cell phone it was the was the opposite of technology stealing i guess

you stole a sale did you stay a sale i stole a sale that's what torbin my german store manager told me um which which which by the way i harbor no resentment against torben he was a store manager and those people have the hardest job in the world and i respect them for everything that they do but yeah they

it could have been you if you'd you know if you'd kept your nose clean that could have been you over there i oh no oh you know what i have a lot of confidence in myself jesse but no no no i could never elevate myself to the position where I would be a strong enough willed individual to be a store manager of a best buy location.

I was a lead.

I was a lead for like,

I don't know, like six months and got demoted.

Like there are some people that just can't be managers.

I was not cut out to be a manager at all.

But all I was going to say was that we got stuff stolen from the store.

Like, because we would have meetings about it.

And there was definitely, like, they had a whole loss prevention department or whatever, like people who were monitoring it.

And they would get stuff stolen all the the time.

Like, people would just get away with it.

Like, they would just, you wouldn't realize that it was happening.

There's people who are just really, really good at stealing, you know?

This guy goes, After giving me a hard time picking up my order, he refused to call another supervisor and told me he is the boss here and he's not going to give me my prepaid order, keeping me waiting for 50 minutes.

He still did not apologize.

I love shopping at the Home Depot, but unfortunately, after my interaction with Mr.

Karidi, I feel sorry for the company that has chosen such an unprofessional and childish person to represent their business.

Not only am I not satisfied, but I'm disappointed in the training process and how the management team is being such bad role models for the other employees.

I feel sorry for the company, it's such a sweet thing to say.

Because they're the ones who suffer at the end of the day if their employees are doing a bad job.

Jesse, they're going to see it at the end of the day with the sales are going to go down eventually.

Maybe not right away, but it's, you know.

Here's a guy that was definitely trying to steal.

One star, the products were with the wrong price tags on the shelf that were messed up.

So it was difficult for customers to find the right products.

Also, when we tried to scam the product at self-checkout station, the employee there came to us right away and said, I can do it for you.

While we did not need her assistance, then she said, you got it after I scammed the product and she left.

If customers need help, they would ask for assistance.

This happened previously and it was unnecessary.

That means they did not want us to use the handheld scam.

Sounds to me like you maybe have a reputation.

And also, it's like you're mentioning the things on a different,

like you went up to the store and you're like, it said it was $8.99

at the front.

And it's like, well, no, it's, you know, I did have this happen to me about a week ago where it was like this thing was in the wrong.

position.

I took it up to the front and then they scanned it and it was like $8.99 instead of $5.99.

And I was like, oh, I thought it was

$5.99.

And then they said, no, it's $8.99.

And I said, ah, darn it.

And then I paid for it and I left.

I had the same thing happen to me too, Chris.

I went out, I got myself a little treat.

And I went and they rang everything up that I had added to it.

And they said it was going to be $23.

And I said, well, that doesn't make because

I thought maybe at most it would be like maybe eight, maybe like maybe nine.

Hang on a second.

Let me talk to my accountant before I have this particular beverage.

I looked at some reviews at Harbor Freight on Dublin Granville Road, a store that I have been to.

Okay, so this is in this is in Columbus.

Steve says, horrible.

One star.

You would think they could hire someone intelligent enough to be able to accurately state if something's in stock or not?

Wasted three different trips because online says limited stock, which actually means we have display models, but nothing available for sale.

Ridiculous.

I'm going to spend a little more money to buy on Amazon, but we'll still save in the long run because I will actually have what I want without wasting lots of time and gas.

Good going, helping Jeff and contributing to the decline of brick and mortar stores.

Five stars for ignorance and none for service.

Well, you're the one who's making the jump from you're having one issue with retail, and now you're jumping online, so you are more part of the problem.

You know, you got to give a different retail outlet if you really believe in the copy of the I might, I might, I might be, I might agree with this guy.

I might, I might be on the same page with this guy.

I really do think, I do think, I do think we are at a point where we have computers to streamline the inventory process.

Yeah.

And yet the online systems are not able to report what is even carried in the store, much less what is actively on the shelf.

We've taken a huge step backwards.

I do agree with that aspect of it.

Definitely.

And not just with tools, just with retail in general.

You will constantly go like, yeah, it will happen to me regularly too.

You're at the Nike store or something.

And it's just like oh i'm not really sure there's a the hudson's bay company the oldest uh retailer in our country of canada it is run like such a crazy place is all these old ladies work there and they just seem to be hanging out and chatting and stuff and nobody knows what the what the stock is or where stuff is or when it's coming or how it's just you just got to accept it as part of it but yeah it does seem like that's an acceptable thing at the retail level and it and it shouldn't be probably i i would argue that you probably shouldn't get in your car and drive to the store if it says limited stock available.

Agreed.

My argument.

We know by now what that means.

I agree with that, but it's a shame that it's come to that.

There was a time, look,

I was definitely a spoiled kid.

I know that now having three kids of my own, I know what a spoiled kid looks like.

It ain't my kids, but I was one growing up.

My mom got such a good relationship with, I don't know if it's like the purchasing manager, the store manager, the video games manager, whoever it was at Toys or Us, we would know the time of day that the truck was coming in with the new N64 games on it.

And she could be there to grab the game or the Power Ranger toy when Power Rangers were crazy.

She was like on a first name basis with the lady who worked there and would know the minute to show up so she could get her mitts on the new thing for me to have as a kid.

But yeah, that doesn't exist.

That doesn't exist anymore because, first of all, the guys in the back are taking the shit off the truck and putting it on StockX.

So that's one reason that that doesn't exist anymore.

But it does seem like the

flow of capital and

the computerized, like the technology bloat that's in these companies has made things so much harder that

the retail fronts for these companies feel like...

empty like black boxes like they want you to go online to do it they don't want you to show up in the store it's actively hostile to people and it hits tool guys so much worse because all they want to do is go slap their dicks around at the hardware store to talk about like a different washer nut or whatever the fuck.

Like they don't, you know what I'm saying?

Like they don't even want to show up, grab the thing and get out.

They just want to go play.

And it hurts them so much more that stores are shells of themselves now.

Yeah, this guy changed.

You've changed my opinion on it in the sense that like, you're right.

He's talking about

like he...

He just wants to be able to go to a store and that doesn't exist at all, period.

Right.

Anymore.

He's saying he knows that he's not just frustrated with this one company.

He's saying the overall, in general, you can't do the old hardware store thing that you used to do, maybe locally in small towns or whatever.

Yeah, a plumbing warehouse or something.

Yeah, but it's not the same.

Not at these places, you can't do it.

And that is really part of the beauty.

I mean, it's a famous thing in like culture almost of these.

Like, I mean, you know, the conversations being had, who knows what they're, you know, if they're good or whatever, but still, it's like a cultural thing.

It's removed, not to, not to blow it out of proportion.

It has, to a certain extent, the the the internet the the insidification to use that term of art has removed what is essentially a third space for retired persons to to exist and you're right do you want to go do i want to go there in there and hang out with those fucking guys i sure don't no but it really is like i think that's a loss to like our society at large that even the places that are like okay ostensibly this is a retail establishment for you to spend money uh you can come in and hang out i mean who cares you know what i mean It is, it's hot, it's like hostile architecture.

Like, they make McDonald's less comfortable so the old guys don't go in there and drink coffee for four hours, they just turn the fucking tables, you know?

They're at the construction sites, it's crazy to see them at the construction sites now.

They're just all over because they got nowhere else to go, you know, and all peeking.

They want to watch people work.

That's the fucking whole thing.

Actually, I would even argue that they would like to work.

Like, yes, if you're a proxy for working, yes.

Yeah, if you could just go some like I said, this reading all this stuff and this tool stuff got me like almost nostalgic, especially because on the tools on R slash tools, they take pictures of their work vans.

And I'm just looking at these work vans like, this is the coolest shit I've ever seen in my life.

Like this guy, this is a real way to set up a work van and stuff like that.

Like I was like, so into it.

And I was like.

No, sorry.

I didn't mean to write.

Go ahead.

Well, I was just like, if I could go install cable, you know,

one day a week in the springtime, I would fucking do that.

I would love that.

It would be great.

But instead, you have to give your whole life over to the cable company.

To the contracting company who works for the cable company.

Yeah.

Do you know about the concept of, maybe I'll say it wrong, Umarrel?

No.

So the Umarl are, it's like an Italian cultural institution.

They're men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially road work, stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice to the workers.

Yeah, that's

literally means little man.

That's not just an Italian thing, I hate to say.

That's the thing that I'm very familiar with in Vancouver as well.

Sure.

I mean, I pay attention.

I mean, my wife is always like,

how do you know the newest restaurants that are opening?

And I'm like, my shit.

Yes.

Because I'm going to go to the bathroom.

You have to know where.

You have to know when the new bank is going.

Wow, I can bank over here now if I want to.

It's coming up.

Be here in eight months.

I got a new bank coming in.

She's like, how'd you know about this place?

I'm like, because I walk by it and I'm always watching them build it.

From the day they put up the first piece of fucking plywood or the first bit of foundation.

I'm trying to figure out what the fuck this place is going to be.

What does it look like?

It looks like it's got like an awning over the front there.

I wonder if it's a dealership or something.

But again, it's like a puzzle kind of as you're like seeing it get formed or something.

And you're like, oh, what is this going to be?

I guess it's not like a puzzle because you know what a puzzle is, but

I don't know what the thing I'm thinking of, but you're like, sort of thinking, like, what is this going to be?

You know, it's exciting.

R/slash Makita, this guy posted the latest Makita catalog.

I'm showing Chris and Jesse.

I mean, look at this.

There's so many tools.

I'll make it the photo for the episode.

It looks like almost like a big wheel.

You know, it has like a center to it and then a bunch of tools.

More tools than you've ever seen in your life.

Yeah.

Wow.

What a lost art this is, huh?

The layout of the tool catalog.

The double page spread, by the way, of this is immaculate.

Wow.

That's so cool.

It really does look old school.

That really looks like an old, old thing, you know?

Yeah.

When me and Kate go to like, we'll go to antique stores and just fucking wander around.

And I, I find one that has a bunch of Chilton manuals.

I'm just like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen because every guy I grew up with had the Chilton manual for their car.

And like, we're able, like, oh, I got to change the air filter.

Let me turn it to the air filter page of my Chilton for my 76 Nova.

It's funny how

useless those things seemed at the time.

And now the simplicity of them and the art that goes into them feels completely lost and alien when it's just like,

this essentially is like...

an advertisement wrapped in some like technical language that I'll never really understand.

But like, think about all the work that went into that, right?

I mean, they had to have somebody design the manual to put the little art in there.

And this was 20 and 30 years ago when that wasn't as trivial as like opening up Photoshop or whatever.

Like a lot of people worked hard on those things and now they're just gone.

They're lining up all the weed whackers and all the like they're lining everything up.

I know.

The first guy goes, catch them all.

Next guy goes, don't tell my wife.

And the guy goes, when she'll say something about, just ask her.

When did she buy her last purse or shoes last time?

Simple.

And what did she do at the previous one?

It's a really simple thing.

You just, you open up your wife's purse closet, and then when all of the purses come falling out in a comical fashion, then you say, honey, and then that's the end of that.

I think I'm going to Home Depot, babe.

Yeah, I think.

Let's look at some unpopular tool opinions.

This first guy goes real.

The songs are too long.

Well, that's next week.

Thank you.

We're doing tool guys next week, the baby.

Oh, brother.

We are definitely.

Well, I was like a little cheeky this time.

So we did fart guys, smart guys, tool guys, and tool guys.

Brian, you got to make your own fun.

And if it requires you having a few boosted smoothies before you get into a creative writing session, then so be it.

Isn't that hurting nobody?

Ryobi makes some decent cordless power drills.

This guy goes, I tell people this often, buy a brushless Ryobi tool over a brushed Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita, et cetera.

The brushless Ryobi is behind those brands' premium lines, but it's ahead of their brush tools in every way.

I don't know what that means.

And then the guy goes more than decent, but the color sucks.

I found that like really funny to like be like, listen, I like these tools.

I don't like the color of them, so I will not be purchasing them.

I mean, I prefer certain colors over other colors, but yeah, I think for some

tools, though, for something like this, yeah, that's what I was going to say.

I think, you know, the tool, the quality of the tool would be the most important thing.

The only important thing is

the colors things, we sort of think of them naturally as just like an arbitrary signifier, but people do have a legitimate attachment to them also.

They become enamored with the specific tool.

And like Brian was saying, it's weird if you have, you know, 10 of one and one of the other, they're like, well, you know, I'm just not going to do that.

Yeah.

The guy goes, I agree.

I wish they would make them mostly black with just a little bit of green.

So he's actually redesigned the whole.

He's saying this.

And we know green's your color, but let's have a little more more subtle in that.

But Jesse,

you would never pick something based on its color, though.

It would always be the quality of it, right?

I think aesthetics are like not

a consideration, but mostly that would come down to like

the size of the device.

You know what I mean?

Motion on the ocean.

Yeah, Jesse would say that.

Jesse would say that he looks at the

he doesn't look at the color of the tools.

He looks at the content of the tools character.

Wow.

I would love to have that quote attributed to me.

Unless this is coming out in February, in which case, maybe I would say.

Yeah, this will be out in February.

That's a Brian invention completely.

This is coming out in March.

I did not invent it.

I had nothing to do with it.

I just said I did not invent it.

You did invent it.

I did not invent it.

You did.

This last guy goes, I love this guy.

He goes,

he goes, I dislike dislike all the tool displays posted here so people post their tools yes in their drawers and stuff and he goes if you spend more time polishing and making foam cutouts for your tools you should probably donate them to an apprenticeship program where some kid will at least use them I love this guy.

He is too much of a tool guy to even, he's like, this fucking TikTok generation has got to post up their fucking memes of their tool.

You know, like, he's just like, it's about the fucking tools.

You know, you don't need to be.

But really, it's just like, hey, man, this is the age we live in.

You're on a forum right now talking about this shit.

People talk about it.

Shouldn't you be using your tools instead of talking about them on the internet?

I'm in my garage working right now.

Yeah,

I'm doing text-to-speech right now as I fucking, right?

Yeah, but it just, obviously, people are, they're enthusiastic about it.

And it's like, I want to find other people who are enthusiastic about it, share this.

I mean, everyone wants to do that.

You get like some cool shit or whatever.

You're like, I want people to see this who would appreciate it.

i get a cool shirt and i'm like oh you know i i would like to wear a cool shirt today you are wearing a very cool shirt yeah i mean you want people you want people to see it who appreciate it you know but the gatekeeping is the other side of that coin if you want to if you want to find a place where you can share your enthusiasm with like-minded folks you also know that the other type of person that's going to be there is the guy who goes like well you don't really like it like i like it yeah i like it the right way you don't like it a good you don't like it good enough yes i put a a thing up on the screen.

This is one of my favorite phenomenons.

And this is something I really didn't even notice until I started doing guys, really.

It would, I think I'd probably fallen for this a hundred fucking times, right?

I don't even know what it is, but I agree with you.

You Google or you go to Amazon, you type in the thing, Milwaukee Oscillating Tool.

You hit search.

The first thing that comes up is cordless oscillating tool for Milwaukee, 18-volt battery, six-variable speed brushless motor tool, oscillating multi-tool kit for cutting wood, drywall nails, remove grout, and sanding.

Battery not included.

Now,

it is the color of Milwaukee Tools.

It is.

It says it is for Milwaukee Tools.

And another thing they do is they also make it in yellow and have a listing for

Dewalt style oscillating tools.

And I do not blame any of these guys that fall for this shit.

It's the most evil thing Amazon does, I think.

Well, no, making people.

No, no, no, hang on a minute.

Yeah, yeah, no, but it's one of the things that Amazon does that I think is like, it's so evil.

It's just for the most gullible people.

He's like, oh, it's $62.

The Milwaukee one or the one I saw, because they think this is Milwaukee still, the one I saw was $99.

I'm saving $30.

I'm getting the exact thing I need when you're not getting the thing you need.

You're getting a shitty version of the thing you need.

It's a bunch of stupid people.

Yeah, most definitely.

And it's fallen for this.

You have to have fallen for this at least once.

I don't think that I have.

I'm not saying that is like, I don't think that I have.

I think I scrutinize my purchases maybe too.

Brian, you may be the least

scrutinizing his purchases guy that I know.

He's not a t-shirt or the fake AI band that was an accident I don't think that I'm just saying I don't I'm not saying I'm like the smartest guy in the world I think everybody

bought that t-shirt like it's a t-shirt I wouldn't ever wear yeah of course yeah but like I just think that like right away when I see this I can see that it's not a Milwaukee product fair right because I think it's not what these guys are doing to visit the store DIY tool fit or whatever that thing with the logo that's not Milwaukee that's the thing that tells me right there that this is not a product.

And also, I'm quite aware of that thing of how that advertised version will be above the actual ones you're looking for.

But it is fucking annoying and misleading, no doubt.

We did see it on the Grilling Guys episode quite a few times, where guys would get a grill thinking it was a Weber,

the stuff wouldn't line up, and then they'll be like, That'll cost $395 to ship back to China to get a new one.

It's like, damn, that sucks.

That's a scam.

First guy calls it faulty saw.

One star.

The oscillating saw is defective.

It just started running on its own, randomly, out of the blue.

My wife called me in a panic saying she heard a noise, found it was the saw running on its own, and she couldn't get it to stop.

Okay, that is a concern.

I would say that that's, you can't have that happening, right?

Real maximum overdrive situation.

I mean, that could be dangerous.

I don't know.

That's fine.

It's fine if the saw starts going on its own and won't stop what do you think it's gonna do really it's just gonna run until the battery dies well what type of what i'm just saying what if it turns on in your like you know what i mean like in its in your bed like you're laying in your bed with your saw and it turns on what what type of saw is it what type of saw is it it's like an oscillating it's a small one it's it really is like it's for like

trim you know what i mean it's for kind of trim yeah i know you know

but i i was just i was just thinking i got a path right through all the trim yeah i guess

it's a small saw.

It's a hand tool.

It's just a hand tool.

So I guess it turning on on its own wouldn't be unless you were like checking the blade on it or something like that.

Sure.

Finger, something stupid like that.

What did she think was happening, though, Chris?

I think she was just scared.

She was just scared probably of a ghost, I would imagine.

Right?

Like, no.

A haunted saw, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I told her to remove the battery and that stopped it.

No shit.

That makes sense.

I wouldn't store it with the battery in it even.

And it doesn't have a spirit in it.

It's got a battery in it.

I think everything has a spirit in it, but I understand that.

A battery is essentially as tech, like a spirit.

Don't even start saying tools have spirits just to make me seem like a crazy person.

No, I mean, I think everything has sort of a, I mean, even, but it's animal, the plant kingdom, inanimate objects, even.

I think they all do.

They are still powered by sort of the same.

like magnetism if you want to call it that or i don't know how spiritual you are but there's there's some kind of not there's some kind of energy energy, right, that's in all things, and it's just I think it just starts from creation.

And it's, and that's why

it's like people think it's odd, but that's why it's not actually that odd to fall in love with something right that isn't necessarily a person,

you know, or no, because there's more stuff that's not person than is person, so the odds that you'll fall in love with something that isn't a person actually quite high if you're not.

It's based on energy, Brian.

Have you ever felt any sort of energy?

Hey, he doesn't say like $20 smoothies, is about the only time he ever feels it, I think.

Yeah, hey, buddy, I think you might need more of an energy boost than that smoothie because you aren't feeling any of the energy here.

Yeah, I think you're crashing a little bit off your smoothie.

Let's get this guy some emergency blueberries.

Can you get a DoorDash of an energy boost?

Oh, God, that would cost $40.

Yeah, that's because I've done it before.

You want a more damage?

He did the pancakes that were so expensive.

$91.

That was too much, and I'm never never going to do it again.

That was when I learned I was fucking up.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah.

Because I told her to remove the battery, and that stopped it.

When I got home, I reinstalled the battery with the switch in the off position.

The saw started running.

I moved the on-off switch back and forth to no avail.

The only way it would shut off was to remove the battery.

I returned the saw and the batteries to Amazon.

Yeah, it sounds like there was an issue with that one.

Yeah, it does.

That does happen sometimes, probably.

Of course, it happens.

But

you can't buy Milwaukee tools on Amazon.

This is a caveat emptor situation.

You got to know what you're getting into.

And you're not going to get a deal off.

No, that's like saying, I went to the fucking store and I got a good deal on AirPods.

You will not get any deal on AirPods.

There's nowhere to get a deal on AirPods.

There are certain things that have a market price that stays consistent no matter where it is.

And it's just like people need them so much and will buy them no matter what that they don't need to put them on sale, you know?

He goes, I used this for about four months and it stopped working.

Contacted the supplier, sent a replacement.

It's a wonderful tool.

I call it my toy, one star.

That's

confusing.

That's really all over the place.

This guy goes, tricked.

It's not a DeWalt, but they sure lead you to believe it is.

If you don't want a DeWalt, this may work for you.

I prefer the brand name.

Why did you get it?

I want to hit one more site then.

I want to hit one more Home Depot before we get out of here.

I have a brand name so much.

Why didn't you search it on Google?

Truly.

They probably searched it on Google.

They probably did, though.

I don't know.

I think if you search DeWalt Tools on Google, I think DeWalt is coming up first.

That's what I think.

I think the real deal.

I think on mine, if I put it in there, it'll have shopping links that will come up on Google and it will be real deal DeWalt Tools.

I'm looking at shopping links right now.

Yeah.

There's some Amazon ones, but yeah, you're maybe right.

Maybe you're right.

That oscillating tool is $185 by DeWalt, not $68.

Yeah, see, that's, again, you got to know that, too.

You got to realize.

And I know we shouldn't be making these people are gullible and stupid and whatever, but like that should be

a problem.

That should be a...

Like a real red flag.

It never is, though.

It just, it's one of those, I did it for years and years and years where it's just like, let's buy the thing that's the cheapest.

And then when it falls apart, we'll get mad about it, then buy the cheapest thing again.

And then when it falls apart, we'll get mad about it and buy the cheapest thing again.

That's different than thinking, but you weren't thinking you were buying the expensive thing.

That's what I'm saying.

It's like when you're online and you see like, hey, wow, this product is 33%

of what it normally costs.

Like 60%.

Wow, that's incredible.

That's, you know, it almost seems too good to be true, right?

Like, well, let's look at this Nashville Home Depot and see what goes on in Nashville.

There's probably a bunch of them, though, Jesse, right?

There are quite a few Home Depots.

Yeah, the ones in Nashville would probably not be the closest to me, but I maybe have walked through them.

Maybe.

Joyce Lane is what it is.

But yeah, I don't think there's a Home Depot.

I've been to your place, and it didn't seem like a place where there'd be a Home Depot.

Well, there is one closer to him, though, definitely.

Which one is that, Jesse?

Do you want to say?

What's the address of the one that's close, and then how far away from your house is?

Well,

I'll leave out the last part.

There is a Home Depot in Hendersonville, which

if you know I live in Gallatin, I think that's probably an open secret

in Sumner County, and Hendersonville is also in Sumner County, and that's on Main Street.

No, rather, it's on Anderson Lane.

Sorry, it's just off Main Street.

It's on Anderson.

Well, we're looking at Joyce Lane, one star.

Ricky goes,

maybe not a one-star place, more like two stars.

Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa.

You can change it before you post.

Respect, respect.

Well, he's got a good reason for it.

He goes, but I need to counter the obviously fake five-star reviews that say things like everything in this place seems to be having a great day.

Oh, I see.

So

he's doing a thing.

He's fighting for humanity against the robots in a way.

This is crazy what he went through.

My main complaint is that I tried to pay a $10 balance on a rental, was told by someone at the counter that it was all good and I didn't need to worry about it.

Then I came back to rent something else and found out I had my account blocked because the $10 balance was sent to collections.

The people working were nice enough to override the block and allow me to rent.

Still, here I am chasing down a $10 debt that I attempted to pay immediately after the item was returned.

Anyone giving Home Depot a five-star review is senile, insane, or not a real person.

Well, two stars, minus one for inflating the ratings.

You don't seem to really.

That's not true.

Your experience was bad, no doubt.

But it's it's not like everyone's having that experience.

I hate this one.

This is one we hate on guys.

I think we've had it a few other times.

One star went today, walked around the store looking for a few things.

Not one person asked if they could help find anything.

And no one was really around.

Wouldn't have bought anything, but had a drink to pay for since we were drinking it in the store.

You can't do that.

That's trashy, I think.

That's a trashy.

You don't do that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's the trashiest thing you can do.

You open a bag of chips and a drink and then scam the fucking empty.

That's like teenagers who are trying to be like, I don't give a fuck.

They want attention.

Yeah.

But they're paying.

So it's even, it's just trashy.

You know?

I actually have a review here, Brian, from the Hendersonville Home Depot.

Keith says, I ordered a, you sound pissed off.

Sorry.

Keith says, I ordered a wrench.

He's just crashing.

I ordered a wrench.

I needed to repair my car.

They said they had it in stock.

I made the mistake of paying for it online, expecting an email that it would be ready for pickup.

Never received it.

I found out days later that the order would be at their store a week later.

When I called the recording, I checked my order and said it was at the store.

I would get an email when it was ready.

I called the next afternoon and was on hold for 20 minutes, then informed that the wrench would not be there for a week.

I tried to cancel the order but was informed that I couldn't do that until they had the wrench.

Stay away from this store.

I drove over to Advanced Auto and picked up a wrench, so at least my car is now running.

Now, let me add something, a little bit of flavor to this post, which is that Keith A is reporting on the Hendersonville, Tennessee store from Hendersonville, North Carolina.

So Keith,

I'm kind of thinking maybe there was a little bit of a mix-up as to where the wrench went.

That's fair.

Oh, I thought he was reviewing the wrong.

That may be.

That may be.

But given that there's something of a ghost wrench happening in Keith's

wrench department.

Yeah.

I read this happening with a door, too.

Yeah.

But a wrench.

Just go buy the fucking wrench.

They're all over stores.

You can get it at a grocery store.

You can get get a ranch.

I've bought one there.

He goes, the self-checkout cashier was completely unaware and unfriendly once we were finally helped.

I bet I go to Lowe's next time.

I always get help that's needed there.

Completely disappointed in the neighborhood Home Depot.

First of all, it's not the neighborhood Home Depot.

It's a Home Depot.

There's no such thing as a neighborhood.

Second off, you're supposed to be able to use the self-checkout yourself, you doofus.

That's the whole purpose of it.

The fact that you need help every time might be an issue with you, you know?

At this store, one star, at this store, what you're trying to do has replaced how can I help you?

There are a few good employees, a lot of bad ones that are rude and sometimes even menacing.

If they look up from their phones to acknowledge you at all, it's to tell you it's not their job or problem.

Bad store.

So I've been going there for over a decade.

It wasn't always this way.

Lucky that right down the road in Madison is a perfectly great Home Depot that is full of great employees.

Just keep driving.

Driving to another town?

That's well, Madison is probably not that far away from where they are.

And that's all.

I think the Madison one is also like a distribution center, so it may have more.

Larger store, more stock, perhaps, you're thinking.

I mean, maybe you're saying that that store is getting it from them anyways.

It may very well, yeah.

I think it might be.

And finally, the last thing we're going to do here, this is the most horrific store I've ever been in.

I've told myself a hundred times never to stop in Brilly Parkway as the whole store is full of incompetent people from top to bottom.

Could never get a will call or delivery right.

Ask to speak to a manager and it's at least a 30-minute wait.

I love that.

I love making someone wait 30 minutes.

That's got to feel good.

It is.

Oh man, back at the call center.

Oh, we would make them wait so fucking long.

But fine, I'll get you in contact with the manager.

It might take a minute.

He's taking some other calls.

Yeah.

Fucking just an hour.

But then I just sat on the phone for three hours with AT ⁇ T a couple weeks ago.

Kind of sucks to be on the other side of it.

Yeah, it's not as fun to be on the other side.

Do you ever click on the show reviews that are not currently recommended thing on Yelp?

I'm not on Yelp.

I'm on Google this time.

But yes, I have clicked them.

Why are they good?

I don't know.

This is a weird one on the Home Depot.

It says, my son, who is in college and was working at Home Depot for two years, gotten multiple awards for above and beyond and promoted.

Got another award this morning.

They said hardest working in the store.

Well, he was actually fired later today for a dispute with a co-worker.

Turns out it was online dispute on his phone and off the clock that got him fired, and he did not start the dispute.

It's none of Home Depot's business regarding private conversations on private phones off hours.

Wow.

Well, that's fucking incredible.

You can only imagine.

And this is an award-winning employee.

What a fall from grace in the same day, no way.

Same day he's won an award.

I mean, that's imagine it's like, oh, holy shit.

Guess what?

You've just been awarded the fucking, you know, the NBA MVP, and then now we found out you've been using steroids and you're actually toast.

Yeah, he threatened to kill the guy.

Yeah, he

fully threatened to kill him.

He did something so inappropriate that they couldn't allow it to go.

It became like a criminal matter or whatever for the safety of the people in the store.

Don't fire your best employee.

No.

Because of some shit that happened.

Oh, I wish I could read the whole story there.

I know.

That's one of the beautiful ones.

I'll kill you and say fucking family in the middle of the fucking store.

Like just saying like the craziest shit ever.

It's like, my son is

an award-winning employee.

Next time I see you at the store, I'm coming after you with a fucking sawzall.

It's like, well, we can't have you come into the store then.

You've actually mentioned

a specific weapon.

We can't have you.

And we have them in stock, too.

That's the thing.

No, we do.

You're our

boy.

Taking the metal off of his neck as he leaves the store.

He goes, not one person there has been knowledgeable of any product.

That's the famous Home Depot thing.

And he goes, if I could give less than one star, it would be negative infinity stars.

Oh, that's going to tank the rating.

I've never ever heard somebody try to give a negative infinity stars.

All right.

Well, that was fun, Tool Guys episode.

I don't want to hear about this smoothie.

I think I'm on vacation during this when this airs because I'm going to go to Tucson, Arizona for a few days.

Yeah, Mr.

Tucson over there.

It was between that and Orlando, Florida.

No, it was between that and Tampa.

Tampa, sorry.

And Vegas, but I chose Tucson.

Okay.

You're going to do some...

What do you think?

We're going to go out to the desert and be warm.

My niece lives there, actually.

She goes to college there.

So we're actually going to visit somebody that we know that's very nice.

Don't you have anything planned for the trip when you're there?

No, it's just.

It's a no-planned trip.

It's like, you want to just relax, do nothing.

It's being warm.

Gotcha.

Because I'm miserable.

You're hating.

Walking around is cold, right?

Well, it's not even that.

I'm walking the convention center now.

I'm just doing laps at the convention center, so it's not cold.

Yeah.

I've begun to walk up and down flights of steps now.

I'm like all into steps.

All right.

Flights.

So that is the show.

Jesse, you got anything you want to plug?

Hey, of course.

Well, some trims.

I would love to plug some trim perhaps later.

Some trim.

The Glocking stream on Twitch.

I don't know when this comes out, but I'm sure we'll have something crazy going on then.

We have successfully petitioned Twitch for front page considerations.

So sometime later this month in February, I think the 24th, maybe stop by and see us on the front page.

I think we might be doing temperature night on the front page where Stephan and I will scan and guess some temperatures of various objects using some different methods.

That's going to be popular.

That is.

Do you guys consider doing like a tongue flipping contest to see who can flick their tongue the fastest?

See?

Like that?

Well, we'll have you on for that.

And they would do some shit.

They wouldn't.

That's not that far off.

That's a tougher idea than a lot of people.

You call me any day, and I'll come and

get right upstairs and talk about it.

Referee, where he kind of comes in and he does the tongue, even though he's the ref.

Yeah.

And he's better than all the controls.

He's better.

Like Stone Cold is the ref.

Yeah.

How are you practicing?

Don't.

Okay.

That thing.

And

the podcast, of course,

probably next month will be coming out with Far Arch,

a theme of my favorite movies.

Look, some very fun movies I think we're going to do this time around.

I've got a good idea for it.

And we'll have some guests on and talk some crazy, silly movies.

So stop by and check that out on the Patreon if you do.

I'm more of a Far Arch than a Mike Tober.

I liked both.

I'm glad to have at least one guy in my corner.

Look, everybody's Mike Tober.

I get it.

I love Mike.

I love Mike Tober as well, but it is nice to get a little encouragement like, hey, you know, it's okay to watch the shitty dad movies instead of the Italian art house grindcore cinema every now and then.

Yeah, Mike Grindcore.

I'm sort of more of a Mike Tober guy.

I don't, I'm more of a Mike Tober guy.

It's like, I like to, well, I like to be challenged.

I know, and I, and I can't because I'll, I'll fold like a cheap suit.

So I can't.

The films, the films, Jesse, the films you watch, they don't challenge me is what I'm saying.

I don't.

Well, did you watch the Muppet one where it's like a detective?

See, that's a perfect movie to me.

I didn't get it.

I didn't understand it.

I couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on.

It was over you.

It's what it was.

Way over.

I did watch the, honestly, I watched the old Muppet movies fairly recently, like within the last year, and they are fucking fantastic.

The early Muppet movies are just so fucking funny and good.

They're so good.

Yeah.

I'm more of a Jesse movie guy.

I like feel smart when I see your movies because I'm like, oh, I've seen all these.

There you go, Jesse.

That's great.

That does feel really good.

Thank you.

Yeah, I love it.

I'm a big fan.

Have you watched The Beekeeper?

I did watch The Beekeeper.

Yes, the best movie in the world.

I mean, The Beekeeper is great.

The Beekeeper is really good.

Yeah.

What about Carry-On?

That's the newest one I saw that I really liked.

Love it.

I haven't seen it yet.

I went to see one of them days at the movie theater.

It was pretty good.

I do have to say I liked it and I found it funny.

I did not laugh, but that's me.

I go to movies I don't laugh.

You didn't watch Carry-On yet?

Carry-On is pretty stupid and

pretty good.

Brian, you'll like Carry-On, I think.

I'm working currently on Severance and in my favorite TV show, Rogue Heroes.

I don't even know what that is.

Is that a Lego?

Oh, dude, you know, watch it.

You'll love it.

It's great.

Have you seen the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare?

Yeah.

Also, great.

It's basically the same story.

Yeah, I've watched.

I watched the.

Is there more than one season of that?

They just started the second season.

Okay, because I watched the first season.

Oh, it's good.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I did.

I did enjoy it.

I started watching a show

that has,

what's it, James Marsden plays the president and he gets assassinated.

And it's like, in it's really weird, like sci-fi kind of show.

And it also stars like Sterling Brown.

He's like the star of it.

It's really good.

Really?

Yeah, good.

So we're going to do Tool Guys next week with Wolf Parade.

We will see you later.

Good.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.