November 8, 2024 • 14 mins
Jodi digs into the "other" stories that didn't make it to the show this week, and they all have a holiday flare.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Choti After the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I know that on Fridays we often just dig back
into emails and comments and questions, but not today. Uh oh,
there's some unfinished business I want to get to. Okay,
today's after the Show podcast is three Things to Know
Today cutting room floor from the week all the little
one hundred million stories that float around that could make
the cut for three Things to Know Today but did not.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
So if we were doing four Things to Know Today,
some of these would have made.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Correct, one would hope. But time doesn't permit just.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Little fun stories.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
There's always so much going on in the world, and
it's helpful to know these things and it's fun to
talk about.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
So I thought we should do it. Are you guys
ready for the cutting room floor?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, the Rockefeller Christmas the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has
been cut down and chosen.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's an eleven ton tree seventy four foot tall Norway
spruce that was cut down and put on a truck
and in front of a crowd. It was a family
that donated it and it's the first time the tree
will come from Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Old, these trees are because you know, they always have
these giant trees. I'm just curious how long it takes
to get.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
To grow them.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We could google it, I'm sure, but it's oh yeah, google.
We could always google it. But I just think that's cool.
I don't know, it's just an interesting somebody donates it,
it gets cut, you know, I didn't know that this
year it's been donated. I assume that it's been donated
in the past. You guys are going.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
A deep dive on three things, got room floor here.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You bring them up, a lot of questions, we shoot them.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Down, can google it and I'll move on.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You said it's a Norway spruce.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, just those words make you smell it, right, the
fantastic scent of a Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
That's going to be hard to giving up a monster
tree like that that's on your property. Of course, maybe they.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Have for that reason, right, They probably have lots and
not for that reason. I would think it's a proud
family moment that your tree was the twenty twenty four
Rockefellers Center Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And I guess it's too big to decorate anyway at home,
you think so.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
The Forest Service says they live up to three hundred
to four hundred years, depending on they can. So I
don't know if that means it takes that longer grow
it to seventy four feet or not all of that time.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Only to top it down, but wait for to bring
a lot of joy.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I understand that you chop something down that's beautiful, but
it's still it's.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
A famous tree, which is why we're talking about it,
and there has to be a new one every year.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And it's a cool story.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It says early growth. Sam's going to immediately think this
is funny. The early growth of a Norway spruce is
actually its slowest. It doesn't start to grow to it's
full until twenty to sixty years of age. Oh wow wow.
But I'm guessing the family is probably planting something else
in its place. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm just saying, you want to know for three hundred years?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, I like it. You want to move on to
the net cutting on the floor.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
In Norwales.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I mean, if you want to ask, right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
There happen has been around here for three hundred years? Really,
let's cut it down.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So we also should get the backstory after what you know,
we've never I've never dug in after the holidays are over.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Doing it, right, I'm hoping they're like wood chipper it
or use it for multus.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I was about to say, it's a lot of mulch
and fantastically.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And is it like a standard tree that you're really
worried it's going to die before Christmas gets here?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I mean, somebody's in charge of me.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You don't pick wrong, yeah, or that you keep it
watered in a way and you care for it in
a way that it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
They've been doing it so long. I'm sure they have
professional horticulturists watching.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm saying it's not probably just one person's job. It's
a team.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
After Christmas, that's a documentary. We could do the tree.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah over the Actually, you know what, right, that's you
should probably do that documentary. It's been there forever.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Let's send them a note and move on.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You get Brian Williams back to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I also want to know what the tallest one is that?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Do you want to google that and stuff?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Sorry, after the show, podcast is going to go on for.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
A paths moving on. I guess I see why this
didn't make three things to know.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
No, it actually could have been done in thirty seconds.
I mean it could have been like whoop.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Retailers are quietly now offering returnless refunds, So scratch your
head on that, and I'll explain. Shipping prices are high,
and they're getting higher, so stores like Walmart and Target
and even Amazon, even online places like Wayfair for some things,
they don't want to be bothered paying for you to
(04:34):
ship back unwanted items, so they're like, keep it along
with the full refund. Of course for you know, it's
usually for.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I don't know, it's got to be cheaper stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, dinky stuff is what the story said.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I've had that actually happen a couple of times. Yeah,
Amazon's told me that a couple of times.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
What do you remember what it was?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
One of them was something something dinky. No, one of
them was some power strip something, but yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
It was another power stall.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I mean it was like.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Thirty bucks or something like that, and it probably would
have cost them more to ship it back and then
receive it again. It's all business model math. I mean,
they're not you know, they're gonna either cut your loss
at the beginning or you you incur bigger losses getting
it back. Understand that the other thing, I was doing
a repair on the air conditioner that I needed some
industrial sized pads for that were like insulation pads to
(05:26):
keep the air conditioner from vibrating, and those things the
same deal. I think they were thirty five bucks or
something like that. And when they showed up there was
one short. Actually it was supposed to be a pack
of six, and it was a pack of five, and
they said, you know, they just they told me keep it,
and they shipped me another six. So I actually got
the set.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Oh nice, good for you worked it, did you?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I wasn't trying to work it. I was trying to
return it. Honestly, if you've never done that before, it's
it doesn't happen all the time at all. You will
know that as soon as you initiate the return on Amazon,
it will tell you immediately, you know, how can we
resolve the problem. If you're going to buy it again
or replace it smart then But you know, but if
you don't want another one or something like that, it's there.
(06:08):
They're a bunch of different options.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I mean to me, I've never had I've seen the
one star reviews where people get frustrated, But I've never
had any issue returning anything to Amazon either.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Ever, it's not just the danky stuff though, I'll say
that for some of these retailers, it's big hard to
ship items like desks sofas. There are people who have
kept sofas and gotten their money back. Oh okay, yeah,
I'm not I'm not suggesting that anybody work that. But
it's just the thing that it is called returnless refunds.
I get the refund, you don't return it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I always wonder about things that were shipped as freight
like that, because you know, that's not the ups. Guy
is not going to be dropping a sofa off at
the house, you know what I'm saying. It's going to
come DHL or some other you know freight you know company,
And it's I mean, if they're giving you free shipping,
somebody's paying for the shipping. So maybe it's you know,
(06:59):
they know what that cost is upfront.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
It's a game that they play.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Like you said, the business model, it's a I guess
it's a chance that they whatever they take and they
look at the at the end of the year return
on investment of offering.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That and not all things you have to be careful
when you purchase. Also, not all things, you know, if
not all things have free shipping on returns, sometimes that
it won't be what you're talking about. You actually will
have to pay the shipping to return.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah, and that's when you're mad, right, and you don't
know what to do.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I mean, I mean, I understand. I mean if if
you get the warning up front, you know that shipping charges,
the initial shipping charges to you, even if the ship
even if you ship it back free, the shipping charges
to you, don't you know, get refund and they'll tell
you that because it shouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's about reading up front. Now do we do a
lot of that in our impatient consumer way, No, But
you're right, it's there. Murphy's the one to read. Murphy
reads fine print. That's why he's a plethora of information
own business.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
At Some of the things I've returned to Amazon have
been because I did not.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Read read the fine print.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well, I bought the wrong whatever its size, it's not
compatible with that or whatever, you know, the size with
an iPhone not an android.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Murphy's shops online so often that I could do an
unboxing video almost every day. But I wouldn't because it's private,
Like we're at home.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know, he's in you know.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Whatever, wearing whatever. And sometimes there's the whole the words
that spill out of Man, I got the wrong thing?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Do you really want to box? You know? An opening?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
What did you call it?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Boxing?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
For vitamin C. That's not very exciting, you know. No,
it's I got another thing of you know, ibuprofen. It's not.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
No. But when you buy something that you've been waiting for,
that's another thing about Murphy. It doesn't matter what's going on,
if we have company, if dinner is on the table,
if there's if he gets a box, it's something he's
waiting for. He's unboxing it right there. Yeah, it does not.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You know that right. You don't realize that, do you.
I live with you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I know these things about you that you don't realize.
If you're waiting for something and you're excited about it,
you can't wait.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You want boxing right there?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, Like I've seen you on the phone doing business
unboxing something.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, it's called multitasking.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yes, it is all right.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Moving on from that, the returnless refunds costco. I know
you saw this food, dude, and it didn't make the
cut for food Dude. This week, Costco is now selling
a massive ham leg for the holidays that you can buy.
It's Serrano hamleg.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's the fancy ham leg.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It's the big, pretty fancy one.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Say, fancy ham leg.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Have you've seen them on.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Legs?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Had?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
These legs have like a holder so they're held up,
and then you're just supposed to slice the thinnest little
piece off, a bunch of thin little pieces off and
you eat those. You like when you get one of
those charcoterie boards at a restaurant and it's got the
special ham on it. That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Just like you can google that too.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You like to google while we do this, I don't care.
It's a massive Serrano ham leg. They're selling it for
you for your parties. You get togethers this season for
one hundred dollars and apparently it's a good deal for
feeding a crowd. It seems expensive, but it's ready to eat.
It's dry cured ham. It weighs fourteen pounds, making it
about seven dollars a pound for meat, and they say
(10:22):
it's kind of a steal. It was aged for twelve months.
It can it looks like it's pretty well, say, it's
a centerpiece. Some people don't think it's pretty. But think
of those old spread pictures you saw on you know,
magazines growing up.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That's what it is. That's what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I need to go, oh, that's a ham leg. Really?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
And it for what they spiral slice isn't right?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I think that.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I don't know why sizes they're like a big old
round sucker. Is this is more Morgle's a skinny and longing? I? Yes,
I have to see.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Is this like what the you know, the King Henry
the eighth used to eat or something like.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
That probably in your imagination.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yes, well no, I mean, I'm just saying whatever is
been joked about in the pastor and I didn't I
didn't know if that was turkey legs or hamley.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
It's massive as far as your refrigerator goes. If you
have a big table and it's a centerpiece and you
can put all kinds of stuff around it, it would
be it would become.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Oh wow, look at this.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
But you have to make sure that if you're going
to pick this up for one hundred bucks to feed
however many people that you have room for it in
the fridge, because they've got them at Costco.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
They have room.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I mean, I know that I've shown Toronto Hamley. I
have never seen that.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I feel like I've seen it seen because understand I
have since the time I was a little girl, been
looking through cookbooks and yeah, I got.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's where you're gonna spread thing. Cookbooks are the cooking shows.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Sounds like is it more gourmet?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Is it really think it is? I've never had one,
but it's always it's always presented fancy, you know, because.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You just like it's also the kind of thing that
somebody would fake. In other words, they're probably some of
them around Hollywood that look like a real one but
are not real.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
That makes sense for photo shoot and things like that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I mean, I'm used to coming in a reable pouch.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, me too. And then at Thanksgiving or whatever, the spirals.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, I love spiral sliced.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Okay, we gonna move on.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Now I see why these didn't make that.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, it's fun, right, this is fun info.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
And that's changed the name to three Things to drag out.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Ah, it's fun holiday.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Compos Three things that makes Murviy feel dumb.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You shouldn't feel dumb just because you weren't introduced to it.
You think I had anything fancy growing up?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Whatta that ham?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, I wouldn't feel anything about that ham because that's
really food snobs know that.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
But it's not even like I've watched food TV. I've
never seen one before. Okay, that's dumb.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
No, it's not dumb. Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Starbucks. They've rolled out the holiday menu this week. I
think you did mention that to us, Sam, So it's
peppermint mochas and caramel Breuley lattes. But they do have
some new things. A gingerbread cream cold foam refresher that
sounds crazy good. I can't even I would have to
write that down to order it cold foam like that
(13:10):
every year. Yeah, they're doing a Many dark toffee bunt
cake this year. That doesn't sound good to me, but
you know, because you like toffee.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
But it's a bunt cake many toffee.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Okay, dark toffee, Many bunt cake.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And is it molten in the middle.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
But they are bringing back the cranberry bliss bar, which
is a favorite. We have a friend who loves that
and I buy it for him. Every Christmas when I
know I'm going to see it.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I think they said they're going to bring that back
like permanently too, the Cranberry Bliss bar.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I'm all year round.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, I think so I might be missing messing it
up with something else, but I thought I read that.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I do have to say when all coffee houses, not
just Starbucks, we talk about Starbucks because you know, they
have so many specialty items and you know, everybody kind
of does their own thing like that. I did and
like it when they first started changing things up. You
roll up and you're like, I know what I want
and there's all this new stuff, and I didn't like that.
But that's also a very smart way to freshen the business.
(14:10):
You know, it's a really good thought to do that.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I love all their cinnamon treats.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Oh h, Monday Veterans Day, a tall free tall for veterans.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Oh yeah, we'll have to remind everybody about that. And
three things to.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Know missed any part of the show.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Get it All on the Murphy Salmon Jody Podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Choti After the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I know that on Fridays we often just dig back
into emails and comments and questions, but not today. Uh oh,
there's some unfinished business I want to get to. Okay,
today's after the Show podcast is three Things to Know
Today cutting room floor from the week all the little
one hundred million stories that float around that could make
the cut for three Things to Know Today but did not.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
So if we were doing four Things to Know Today,
some of these would have made.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Correct, one would hope. But time doesn't permit just.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Little fun stories.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
There's always so much going on in the world, and
it's helpful to know these things and it's fun to
talk about.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
So I thought we should do it. Are you guys
ready for the cutting room floor?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, the Rockefeller Christmas the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has
been cut down and chosen.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's an eleven ton tree seventy four foot tall Norway
spruce that was cut down and put on a truck
and in front of a crowd. It was a family
that donated it and it's the first time the tree
will come from Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Old, these trees are because you know, they always have
these giant trees. I'm just curious how long it takes
to get.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
To grow them.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We could google it, I'm sure, but it's oh yeah, google.
We could always google it. But I just think that's cool.
I don't know, it's just an interesting somebody donates it,
it gets cut, you know, I didn't know that this
year it's been donated. I assume that it's been donated
in the past. You guys are going.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
A deep dive on three things, got room floor here.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You bring them up, a lot of questions, we shoot them.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Down, can google it and I'll move on.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You said it's a Norway spruce.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, just those words make you smell it, right, the
fantastic scent of a Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
That's going to be hard to giving up a monster
tree like that that's on your property. Of course, maybe they.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Have for that reason, right, They probably have lots and
not for that reason. I would think it's a proud
family moment that your tree was the twenty twenty four
Rockefellers Center Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And I guess it's too big to decorate anyway at home,
you think so.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
The Forest Service says they live up to three hundred
to four hundred years, depending on they can. So I
don't know if that means it takes that longer grow
it to seventy four feet or not all of that time.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Only to top it down, but wait for to bring
a lot of joy.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I understand that you chop something down that's beautiful, but
it's still it's.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
A famous tree, which is why we're talking about it,
and there has to be a new one every year.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And it's a cool story.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It says early growth. Sam's going to immediately think this
is funny. The early growth of a Norway spruce is
actually its slowest. It doesn't start to grow to it's
full until twenty to sixty years of age. Oh wow wow.
But I'm guessing the family is probably planting something else
in its place. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm just saying, you want to know for three hundred years?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, I like it. You want to move on to
the net cutting on the floor.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
In Norwales.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I mean, if you want to ask, right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
There happen has been around here for three hundred years? Really,
let's cut it down.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So we also should get the backstory after what you know,
we've never I've never dug in after the holidays are over.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Doing it, right, I'm hoping they're like wood chipper it
or use it for multus.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I was about to say, it's a lot of mulch
and fantastically.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And is it like a standard tree that you're really
worried it's going to die before Christmas gets here?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I mean, somebody's in charge of me.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You don't pick wrong, yeah, or that you keep it
watered in a way and you care for it in
a way that it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
They've been doing it so long. I'm sure they have
professional horticulturists watching.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm saying it's not probably just one person's job. It's
a team.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
After Christmas, that's a documentary. We could do the tree.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah over the Actually, you know what, right, that's you
should probably do that documentary. It's been there forever.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Let's send them a note and move on.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You get Brian Williams back to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I also want to know what the tallest one is that?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Do you want to google that and stuff?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Sorry, after the show, podcast is going to go on for.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
A paths moving on. I guess I see why this
didn't make three things to know.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
No, it actually could have been done in thirty seconds.
I mean it could have been like whoop.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Retailers are quietly now offering returnless refunds, So scratch your
head on that, and I'll explain. Shipping prices are high,
and they're getting higher, so stores like Walmart and Target
and even Amazon, even online places like Wayfair for some things,
they don't want to be bothered paying for you to
(04:34):
ship back unwanted items, so they're like, keep it along
with the full refund. Of course for you know, it's
usually for.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I don't know, it's got to be cheaper stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, dinky stuff is what the story said.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I've had that actually happen a couple of times. Yeah,
Amazon's told me that a couple of times.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
What do you remember what it was?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
One of them was something something dinky. No, one of
them was some power strip something, but yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
It was another power stall.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I mean it was like.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Thirty bucks or something like that, and it probably would
have cost them more to ship it back and then
receive it again. It's all business model math. I mean,
they're not you know, they're gonna either cut your loss
at the beginning or you you incur bigger losses getting
it back. Understand that the other thing, I was doing
a repair on the air conditioner that I needed some
industrial sized pads for that were like insulation pads to
(05:26):
keep the air conditioner from vibrating, and those things the
same deal. I think they were thirty five bucks or
something like that. And when they showed up there was
one short. Actually it was supposed to be a pack
of six, and it was a pack of five, and
they said, you know, they just they told me keep it,
and they shipped me another six. So I actually got
the set.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Oh nice, good for you worked it, did you?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I wasn't trying to work it. I was trying to
return it. Honestly, if you've never done that before, it's
it doesn't happen all the time at all. You will
know that as soon as you initiate the return on Amazon,
it will tell you immediately, you know, how can we
resolve the problem. If you're going to buy it again
or replace it smart then But you know, but if
you don't want another one or something like that, it's there.
(06:08):
They're a bunch of different options.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I mean to me, I've never had I've seen the
one star reviews where people get frustrated, But I've never
had any issue returning anything to Amazon either.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Ever, it's not just the danky stuff though, I'll say
that for some of these retailers, it's big hard to
ship items like desks sofas. There are people who have
kept sofas and gotten their money back. Oh okay, yeah,
I'm not I'm not suggesting that anybody work that. But
it's just the thing that it is called returnless refunds.
I get the refund, you don't return it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I always wonder about things that were shipped as freight
like that, because you know, that's not the ups. Guy
is not going to be dropping a sofa off at
the house, you know what I'm saying. It's going to
come DHL or some other you know freight you know company,
And it's I mean, if they're giving you free shipping,
somebody's paying for the shipping. So maybe it's you know,
(06:59):
they know what that cost is upfront.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
It's a game that they play.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Like you said, the business model, it's a I guess
it's a chance that they whatever they take and they
look at the at the end of the year return
on investment of offering.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That and not all things you have to be careful
when you purchase. Also, not all things, you know, if
not all things have free shipping on returns, sometimes that
it won't be what you're talking about. You actually will
have to pay the shipping to return.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah, and that's when you're mad, right, and you don't
know what to do.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I mean, I mean, I understand. I mean if if
you get the warning up front, you know that shipping charges,
the initial shipping charges to you, even if the ship
even if you ship it back free, the shipping charges
to you, don't you know, get refund and they'll tell
you that because it shouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's about reading up front. Now do we do a
lot of that in our impatient consumer way, No, But
you're right, it's there. Murphy's the one to read. Murphy
reads fine print. That's why he's a plethora of information
own business.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
At Some of the things I've returned to Amazon have
been because I did not.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Read read the fine print.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well, I bought the wrong whatever its size, it's not
compatible with that or whatever, you know, the size with
an iPhone not an android.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Murphy's shops online so often that I could do an
unboxing video almost every day. But I wouldn't because it's private,
Like we're at home.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know, he's in you know.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Whatever, wearing whatever. And sometimes there's the whole the words
that spill out of Man, I got the wrong thing?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Do you really want to box? You know? An opening?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
What did you call it?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Boxing?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
For vitamin C. That's not very exciting, you know. No,
it's I got another thing of you know, ibuprofen. It's not.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
No. But when you buy something that you've been waiting for,
that's another thing about Murphy. It doesn't matter what's going on,
if we have company, if dinner is on the table,
if there's if he gets a box, it's something he's
waiting for. He's unboxing it right there. Yeah, it does not.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You know that right. You don't realize that, do you.
I live with you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I know these things about you that you don't realize.
If you're waiting for something and you're excited about it,
you can't wait.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You want boxing right there?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, Like I've seen you on the phone doing business
unboxing something.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, it's called multitasking.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yes, it is all right.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Moving on from that, the returnless refunds costco. I know
you saw this food, dude, and it didn't make the
cut for food Dude. This week, Costco is now selling
a massive ham leg for the holidays that you can buy.
It's Serrano hamleg.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's the fancy ham leg.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It's the big, pretty fancy one.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Say, fancy ham leg.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Have you've seen them on.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Legs?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Had?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
These legs have like a holder so they're held up,
and then you're just supposed to slice the thinnest little
piece off, a bunch of thin little pieces off and
you eat those. You like when you get one of
those charcoterie boards at a restaurant and it's got the
special ham on it. That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Just like you can google that too.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You like to google while we do this, I don't care.
It's a massive Serrano ham leg. They're selling it for
you for your parties. You get togethers this season for
one hundred dollars and apparently it's a good deal for
feeding a crowd. It seems expensive, but it's ready to eat.
It's dry cured ham. It weighs fourteen pounds, making it
about seven dollars a pound for meat, and they say
(10:22):
it's kind of a steal. It was aged for twelve months.
It can it looks like it's pretty well, say, it's
a centerpiece. Some people don't think it's pretty. But think
of those old spread pictures you saw on you know,
magazines growing up.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That's what it is. That's what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I need to go, oh, that's a ham leg. Really?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
And it for what they spiral slice isn't right?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I think that.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I don't know why sizes they're like a big old
round sucker. Is this is more Morgle's a skinny and longing? I? Yes,
I have to see.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Is this like what the you know, the King Henry
the eighth used to eat or something like.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
That probably in your imagination.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yes, well no, I mean, I'm just saying whatever is
been joked about in the pastor and I didn't I
didn't know if that was turkey legs or hamley.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
It's massive as far as your refrigerator goes. If you
have a big table and it's a centerpiece and you
can put all kinds of stuff around it, it would
be it would become.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Oh wow, look at this.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
But you have to make sure that if you're going
to pick this up for one hundred bucks to feed
however many people that you have room for it in
the fridge, because they've got them at Costco.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
They have room.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I mean, I know that I've shown Toronto Hamley. I
have never seen that.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I feel like I've seen it seen because understand I
have since the time I was a little girl, been
looking through cookbooks and yeah, I got.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's where you're gonna spread thing. Cookbooks are the cooking shows.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Sounds like is it more gourmet?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Is it really think it is? I've never had one,
but it's always it's always presented fancy, you know, because.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You just like it's also the kind of thing that
somebody would fake. In other words, they're probably some of
them around Hollywood that look like a real one but
are not real.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
That makes sense for photo shoot and things like that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I mean, I'm used to coming in a reable pouch.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, me too. And then at Thanksgiving or whatever, the spirals.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, I love spiral sliced.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Okay, we gonna move on.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Now I see why these didn't make that.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, it's fun, right, this is fun info.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
And that's changed the name to three Things to drag out.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Ah, it's fun holiday.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Compos Three things that makes Murviy feel dumb.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You shouldn't feel dumb just because you weren't introduced to it.
You think I had anything fancy growing up?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Whatta that ham?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, I wouldn't feel anything about that ham because that's
really food snobs know that.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
But it's not even like I've watched food TV. I've
never seen one before. Okay, that's dumb.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
No, it's not dumb. Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Starbucks. They've rolled out the holiday menu this week. I
think you did mention that to us, Sam, So it's
peppermint mochas and caramel Breuley lattes. But they do have
some new things. A gingerbread cream cold foam refresher that
sounds crazy good. I can't even I would have to
write that down to order it cold foam like that
(13:10):
every year. Yeah, they're doing a Many dark toffee bunt
cake this year. That doesn't sound good to me, but
you know, because you like toffee.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
But it's a bunt cake many toffee.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Okay, dark toffee, Many bunt cake.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And is it molten in the middle.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
But they are bringing back the cranberry bliss bar, which
is a favorite. We have a friend who loves that
and I buy it for him. Every Christmas when I
know I'm going to see it.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I think they said they're going to bring that back
like permanently too, the Cranberry Bliss bar.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I'm all year round.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, I think so I might be missing messing it
up with something else, but I thought I read that.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I do have to say when all coffee houses, not
just Starbucks, we talk about Starbucks because you know, they
have so many specialty items and you know, everybody kind
of does their own thing like that. I did and
like it when they first started changing things up. You
roll up and you're like, I know what I want
and there's all this new stuff, and I didn't like that.
But that's also a very smart way to freshen the business.
(14:10):
You know, it's a really good thought to do that.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I love all their cinnamon treats.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Oh h, Monday Veterans Day, a tall free tall for veterans.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Oh yeah, we'll have to remind everybody about that. And
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Speaker 1 (14:22):
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