Refrigerator Hostage Negotiation

On this episoide of the Strawberry And Lizette Mexican / Ginger Podcast we talk about a glizzy straw, the pandemic banana, opening your front door "prison style", Strawberry's hostage refrigerator and more!

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Episode Transcript

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It's the Strawberry and Lizette Mexican Gingerpodcast. Not suitable for a younger audience.
All right, Sacramento, we arehere. So this is the Strawberry
and Lazette's Uncensored podcast, A littlesomething that we're going to do off the
air so you guys can get toknow us a little more now that we
have a new home here in Sacramentoand on the radio with the new Kiss
one O seven point nine. Soit's a way for you to interact with

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us off air and we can probablytell stories and you know, share things
that we can't do on the mic, either because the stories are too long
or the FCC has a problem withthe way Lazette uses words words of the
bad kind. Why me, Idon't know. Why is it always you
don't not like it? Ain't youYou're not listen. Strawberry's fiance sitting right

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next to me, and I justwant to let her know that he's just
as bad as I am. Allright, We're just gonna put that out
there, So yeah, follow uson Instagram at Strawberry and Lazette, and
then you can tune in live everyafternoon on Kiss one or seven point nine
here in Sacramento, and you canalways dream on the free iHeart app.
But we're gonna be doing a uncensoredpodcast from time to time. Stuff that

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we you know, didn't get tooon the radio or can't talk about on
the radio for one reason or another. Anything else you want to say as
part of the intro. Yeah,try drinking your your beer with the glizzy
straw. I want to know howto No, I had a guy which
is so weird. Are we startinga whole new Yeah, So, so
you want to explain the video topeople who haven't seen it. There was

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a guy at a baseball game.I forget what games in New York,
and that doesn't matter. He wasat a baseball game and he was recorded
from like a few rows back makinga straw out of his hot dog,
like just the ueni and he pokeda real straw through the hot dog to
make a hole and then used hishot dog straw to drink his beer.

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Yeah, so he like went viral. So we had when I was in
elementary school, we had we hadhot Dog Day. So it was a
big deal. It was it waseither every Thursday or like once a month.
I forget what it was, butit was a big deal to have
hot dog Day, and so it'swhat you were excused for lunch. And
then you go, like you walkdown like this hallway and there's the hot
dog lady and you you get likechips and a soda and a hot dog

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and whatever. You pay like abuck fifty for it costco style, and
so there's you know how in elementaryschool, there's always that one weird kid
in your class. They always likethey either like I don't know, eat
their boogers or like they they justdo something weird. There's always that one
kid, right, So we hadthis one kid named Kevin, Fucking Kevin
freaking Kevin. So Kevin, andthis is back in like second grade.

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On hot dog Day, Kevin wouldunwrap the hot dog. He would take
a straw and he would poke itthrough the middle of the hot dog,
you know, long ways, andhe would pull out, you know,
the core, like an apple core, the core of the hot dog,
and then he would take that thathot dog core out of his straw and
eat it. And he would eathis hot dogs that way. He would

(02:58):
poke a straw in the middle ofthe hot dog and take out like a
core sample of it. He waseating like hot dog spaghetti. He was
eating hot dog spaghetti. That's disgusting. So he did that back when I
was in second grade. And nowI see this guy at the Yankees game
or wherever he was at the baseballgame somewhere, punching the air like I
did that right twenty years ago.Now doing it with red We've all done

(03:19):
it with like red vines, likeyou you bite the top and you put
the red vine in your should.But this guy did it with the hot
dog. That's disgusting. And he'sgone viral for that. That is horrific.
I wonder what that take. Likedoes it Does it actually give some
type of like aroma flavor to thebeard? He gagging? Sorry? But

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like does it? Though? Whywould you do that if it was that
disgusting? I have no idea.I have no it's the fiance. The
fiance. It's not like covering hermouth, she's covering her ears. Her
face is red. But like weshould we should try it. You want
to try that. We should havedone it to day. You wanna do
it monday? You want to waittill monday to do it? What does

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that sound? My label maker?What the fuck is wrong with you?
I'm making a label for the phonenumbers. Nobody knows the phone numbers in
here. Dude. I love labelare you kiddy? I love labels and

(04:26):
label makers. It's the best.And this one has different fonts. I
have like six different fonts. Didyou see that? Snoop Dog posted a
video some crackheads from Selena's dancing ina parking lot no on Instagram? Yeah,
yeah it took place. He putsSelena's on the map. Now let
me see, let me go tohis Snoop You're not the one putting Selenas

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on the map, of course Iam. Of course you are. I
don't see it. It might havejust been in his story. This was
a couple of days ago too,either anymore. Yeah, the way Snoop
post, jesus, it's a fulltime job just to follow Snoop's Instagram.

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Oh he definitely is not doing ithimself. Yeah all right, Uh check
where's I can hear nothing? Check? Check? Check? Check there here
and keep drinking cold drinks? Allright? Check your michaelosette. Yo,
there we go. Listen, listen, listen, that's loud red Bull.

(05:32):
There you go, that's what youneed. I haven't had one in so
long. Congrats, congrats, goodstuff. Okay, I dude, I
gotta tell you this freaking story.Okay. So yes, no, no,
no, no, okay, okay. So yesterday during the show,
so my beautiful fiance supposed to cometo the show with us, help us

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out with some stuff. That's mesorry. Behind the scenes, get to
the station. Zett's like, yo, we're your fiance. I'm like,
gosh, she's at the house,like, we're waiting for this delivery.
Like we're supposed to get this deliveryfrom our landlord, a new refrigerator,
a delivery. So during the day, the problems with this sorry, during
the show, the problems with thisdelivery escalate. We get off the air,

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Lazette leaves, the landlord calls me, and all hell breaks loose after
you left. So when Lazette left, oh god, I miss it.
Miss it. So I sent Wastea voice message. I'm like, yo,
I have to tell you the storybecause since you left, I've been
back and forth with the landlord.It's the craziest story. So then I
get home and the story continues toescalate. Oh my god, Okay,

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well, what are you waiting for? Starting from them. This is why
I'm like, before we start theshow tomorrow, we got to record this
as a podcast. So just movinginto this new place, we noticed something
was wrong with the fridge, Like, you know, it's just not staying
cool. It's taking forever for theice. I think something's wrong. So
we call the landlord. They're like, no, we checked and everything's fine.
I'm like, I don't think it'sfine. So I kept telling them

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the refrigerator is not cool, it'sit's it's two. So they send a
repair guy over. Referator. Theysend a repair guy over. The repair
guy confirms, oh, yeah,there's something wrong with the compressor. You
guys need a new one. Isaid, there you go. Landlord says,
sorry, we spent the last snappedyour fingers like that you so old.
Landlord says, sorry, we didn'tbelieve you for the last three weeks.

(07:24):
We will send one over tomorrow.Sorry if we didn't believe you.
And I'm like, cool, noproblem. And I'm like, you know
what, send me the dimensions soI know it's gonna fit, or like
just you know whatever. So theybought it. I don't want to say
the name of the store. Theybought it from a very well known big
box hardware store. Very well known. I don't want to mention their name.

(07:46):
Well, I don't want to sayit because I may endorse them one
day, and I don't want thisto come back and stab me in the
back because I will sell out theirfault. No, so they go,
so then what doesn't matter. Yeah, you're right, you're right, it's
not because they they third party contractedout. You're right. So she buys
it from Lows. Right, No, landlord says, sorry about that.

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We just bought a new refrigerator fromLows. It's going to be sent tomorrow.
I said, dope. She goes, what time? I said,
do it before one o'clock because Igotta get the day going. I gotta
go to work. She goes,it'll be there before one o'clock. They
said between ten thirty and two thirty. But I said it's got to be
there before one o'clock. They said, sure, no problem, and this
is with your landlord the landlord.And landlord said, you know, matter

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of fact, if if it's oneo'clock and Lows hasn't delivered the refrigerator,
I'll even come over to your houseand I'll let them in and you know
whatever, you can trust me,it said, cool, no problem,
you can trust me. So they'resupposed to be there ten thirty in the
morning. Right, it's ten o'clock. I'm up, I'm on my laptop.
I'm making tiktoks. I'm just I'mchilling waiting for him. I'm waiting.
I'm waiting. I'm waiting. Dude, I gotta go to work.
It's one o'clock. They're not hereyet, So my fiance stays at the

(08:52):
house. Two thirty comes around.Now we miss the entire window. I
text the landlord. I'm like,yo, it's past two thirty. Lows
didn't deliver the refrigerator. She goes, Oh, that's weird. Let me
let me find out what's going on. According to Lows, not only did
they show up to my house,they said they rang the doorbell, they

(09:13):
knocked on the door, nobody answered, so they left and I said,
no, I was home the wholeday. Landlord goes, all right,
let me call back Lows. Theproblem is Lows like third party contracts set
out with the delivery company. Soit's not Lows. It's like this delivery
coming they high, So I don'tmake that clear. So landlord calls again
later on. I'm like, dude, it's not here now. The story
is, oh, yeah, itwas. It was four sixty five Main

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Street. The landlord goes, wedon't live on four sixty five Main Street.
We live on like three oh oneMain Street. Like, what is
this address, I'm just making upnumbers. They go, oh, yeah,
well they said they dropped it offat four sixty five Main Street.
But you dropped off the refrigerator.The landlord paid for it somebody else's place.
Yeah. He's like, no,that's not right. All right,
we'll call you back. Landlord callsthe third time, back and forth with

(10:00):
the Lows people, the delivery people. They go, okay, got it,
it was the right address. I'mjust gonna make it up three oh
one Main Street. The delivery drivertook a photo of your house the doorstep
that shows the address. He says. Not only did he deliver it the
new refrigerator, he had the theperson signed for it, and he took

(10:20):
the old refrigerator out. And I'mlike, I've been home the entire day
until one, and my fiance hasbeen home the entire day. Told now
it's four o'clock the picture of yourhouse. Yeah, so what right?
And so that so that's what,that's what. Yeah, And so my
landlord calls me. So now itkeeps escalating because he keeps getting different stories.

(10:41):
And so now the next time hecalls me back, the story is
okay. So not only did theyshow up knock on the door, they
called the owner, you know,the landlord, two or three times.
He didn't answer. They dropped offthe new one, took the old one.
We have a photo of your yourfront what And I'm like, how
you drive there? You knocked onthe door, but you couldn't get ahold

(11:03):
of anybody to let you win,and you dropped it off and picked it
up and you was all up insidethe house like that don't make no sense,
doesn't make any sense. So whoare these people? Fast forward now
that now you left it. SoI'm going through all this while we're on
the air. You leave shows over. My landlord is still trying to figure
this out. Right, he getsahold of the delivery people, and I

(11:24):
want to make sure I don't getdrinking cold beers out of their brand new
fridge out pretty much. So thedelivery driver, he gets hold of the
delivery people who say, no,man, we delivered it. Somehow he
gets ahold of the actual driver.The driver goes, yeah, I got
your refridge water. He's like,it's in my truck. But you know,

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it's after five o'clock. My truck'sat the house. I'm home right
now. But for a couple ofbucks, even though I'm not supposed to
be working right now, I'll driveit over to your house right now.
And so the landlord calls me.He's like, okay, there's been an
update. So the driver admitted thathe still has your refrigerator. It's in

(12:07):
his truck. The trucks at thehouse now. Granted, at the end
of the day, the drivers aresupposed to go back to lows to offload
the old refrigerators or return the newrefrigerators they didn't deliver. Whatever. For
some reason, my delivery driver stillhas my fridge in his truck. Trucks
at his house. He goes,tell you what, give me sixty bucks,
I'll leave my house right now andI'll go deliver your refrigerator. Landlord

(12:31):
calls me. He's like, hey, man, for cash under the table.
He's going to come over right nowand I'm like, ah, no,
no, no, no, no, no, you're being scammed,
you're being bribed, You're being played. I don't want to I'm just out
of principle. I don't want totake part of this. I would rather
wait for three more days and fightthis with the general manager of Lows and

(12:52):
the delivery company, and like,I don't want to pay this guy for
running this scam on you. Plus, I was telling my fiance, say,
I don't want this type of dudein my house, like walking around
my living room, like who knowsfirst he lied about delivering papable of stealing
a whole big ass refrigerator, right, I got all these little artifacts in
here, right, So I'm like, I don't want him in the house.

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So then I call the fiance.I'm like, yo, I'm just
not gonna have the guy come back. We're gonna have to deal without a
fridge for another two days. Becausethat's what the guy said. It's Thursday,
Friday, deliveries are already scheduled.You probably won't get this till Saturday,
maybe even Monday. So he washolding a hostage. He told us,
He's like, if I don't deliverit tonight, did you ever talk
to the driver yourself. No,No, the landlord is doing all this

(13:33):
back and forth. He's just updatingme. And so the guy's like,
I'm so mad for you. He'slike, I can leave right now.
You'll get it today, you'll getit in twenty minutes, if not,
maybe Monday. And so I calledmy fiance. I'm like, I don't
want to deal with this guy.I don't want to reward this scammer,
right, And so I called thelandlord back. I'm like, no,

(13:56):
man, like I appreciate it,because the landlord didn't want us to go
without a fridge in a couple ofdays. And I'm like, I appreciate
it, but I'm not going tobe party to this where you are being
swindled out of some money for someguy scamming us, saying, first off
that he delivered the fridge. Hetold his boss he already delivered the fridge.
Now he wants cash under the table. I'm like no, So,
not only do I want you tocall this driver back and say nope,

(14:18):
we're not doing it, keep thefridge and you're getting fired, right,
I said, I want you toactually report him, like call Low's call
the delivery service they hired report thisguy. Landlord goes okay. So now
it's like eight o'clock at night,and so I get a text back.
He's like, yeah, you know, no problem. They're going to try
to get it out first thing inthe morning, but all the Friday deliveries
are already scheduled, so you mayget it over the weekend. He's like,

(14:39):
and I told him about this guylike wanting money, money out of
the table. They didn't say anything. He's like, I get the feeling
this happens a lot or quite often, because he wasn't surprised. He didn't
say anything. He's like, oh, okay, And I'm like, so
there's a guy I don't know whereparked with my refrigerator in his truck and
the trucks in his driveway, andfor some reason this is okay, Like

(15:05):
the delivery company's cool with it.Lows is cool with it. Do you
know delivery company is no. ButI was waiting today for them to show
up because I was gonna be like, I'm gonna get a photo, like
just to make sure that it wasdelivered right. But first he's like,
yeah, I dropped it off.No again. The stories are. Yeah,
I dropped it off at like sixZho five Main Street. We don't

(15:28):
live there. Somebody signed for it, then it's no. I dropped it
off at the right address and theowner signed for it, and we took
the old refrigerator out. I'm like, there's no refrigerator in my house.
Like, we don't have an oldone, we don't have a new one.
What are you talking about. He'slike, sixty bucks and I'll bring
you the frids that you ordered.He's like, all right, you got
me. What? How is thisa thing? How did this happen?

(15:52):
That's crazy? Yeah, nothing likethat has ever happened to me before that
I can think of. And again, it's not Lows, it's this third
party they hire. So I don'twant to throw Lows under the bus.
I want to be clear with this. I'm looking for his email, his
text right now here go update.This is as of this morning, at
noon. This morning, at noon, sorry, okay. I talked to

(16:14):
the Lows delivery team. They aretrying to arrange delivery today, but said
it will likely be tomorrow, whichis gonna be Saturday. I let them
know the delivery window is ideal beforeone thirty I asked him to call back
once they have an update. Hesaid, what's crazy last night? What's
crazier is he didn't even seem surprisedby the story. I'm guessing there have
been other similar reports. And thenblah blah blah Saturday or Sunday for them,

(16:41):
that guy is renovating his whole entirehouse for free. Oh, here
we go by stealing stuff. Ididn't I didn't even check this text.
I requested a different delivery driver giventhe situation. They understand, and I'll
let you know when I have more. Yeah, that was last night.
Also, But what a weird caper? What a weird that's crazy? Like?

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How am I not going to knowthat? You should fight him?
Right? But like you hear whensomeone knocks the door, you hear when
they ring your doorbell as soon asyou open the door, just pop prison
style, you punch the guy inthe face as soon as you walk into
gem pop with my what so thathappened? And I wanted to say,
style, I want to tell youthat story. How weird is that makes

(17:30):
no sense? Yeah? That's insane. I would be pissed. Yeah,
how would I would be so madthat I would call my dad let him
handle it, to cut up hereand handle it himself, because I don't
get involved in stuff like that.I don't like confrontation. That's what my
dad is for. But to fallon and say, oh, yeah,

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we delivered it, it's not here. Yeah, it's in my truck in
my garage right now. What anyway, that's weird as hell to So I
bought this banana that's in our studio, I mean our office. Oh,
given the background story, did somebodyask you about it today? Because somebody
told me about it today. Ijust told me about today too. The

(18:12):
lady next to us, Yeah,okay, same, Yeah, she was
like, so we got this newoffice. In the office is a little
like mini fridge. It's a littlered bull fridge, and there's a lot
of stuff that was just like leftin there from when the pandemic happened and
everything shut down. And honestly,I don't know the people that were in

(18:36):
that office before us. I don'teven know who they were, where they
went, but there's a fridge leftin there. We inherited a refrigerator,
a little mini fridge with like aglass front door so we can see inside
without having to open it. Andinside the fridge is just one banana that
is completely black and shriveled up,and we're like, ill, well,

(19:00):
obviously we're not touching that, like, so it's just sat there. We
haven't used the fridge, we eventouched it. Today I find out that
the banana got left there in thebeginning of the pandemic in twenty twenty when
everything's shut down the beginning of twentytwenty, because I remember it was my
birthday weekend, so it was likeMarch sixteenth that everything's shut down, and

(19:21):
the banana has been there ever since. So it's going on two and a
half years two right now, soalmost three years, three and a half
years. Yeah, that this bananahas been in there, and it's like
all black and shriveled. It lookslike just peel at this point, Like
that's how small it is. Soanyways, I put a poll on Instagram

(19:44):
if you should open it or notopen the banana, open the fridge,
open the banana. I haven't evenopened the refrigerator since we moved into that
office, have you no, Soit's kind of like Indiana Jones sixty six.
I'll start here ten percent say no, Okay, don't open the banana
to see what's inside. Okay,good, I like them. Twenty four
percent say no, that's so unsanitary, but do it, and sixty six

(20:11):
percent and say yes, open thebanana and c withinside. So I think
you should open a withinside way.You have to gross, you have to
Instagram said you got a good point. You do make a good point.
If there's there's a ppe station.Yeah, on the corner right there,
they got gloves. They do havegloves and masks. That might be something

(20:36):
we do on Monday when my refrigerator, My refrigerator finally shows up. No,
open the banana today. It's Friday? Is it banana Day? It's
National dog Day. You got toopen the banana. It's National toilet paper
Day. This is something I didn'tknow. It's National no orange popsicle Day.

(20:56):
I got to open the banana.Okay, we'll think about it.
Anything else you want to say tothe people before we wrap up the first
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O v E and I am atStrawberry Radio. For the people who have
been following the podcast when we werein Seattle, you understand that Lazette has
to spell her name weird because someother lady has the Instagram and she won't
give it up. Did you getthe text I sent you about like how

(21:40):
to get somebody's either texted it toyou or I sent it to you on
a DM how to get at anInstagram account? Name like delete it so
you can. I swear i'd sentit to you, all right. Anyways,
I saw some guy on either Instagramor TikTok's like, this is how
you do it? How do youdo it? I'll try to find it.
If I didn't send it, youtell me, I don't remember how

(22:00):
to do it. But it's justlike it's literally you just like email this
one person and you say this onething and they go, yeah, cooler
problem. I'm simple find it,but hold on, easier said than I
did send it to you. Isend it to you here. I'll even
double tap it. Boop, thereyou go. I send it to you
already. All right, that's thepodcast. We will talk to you next time.