January 6, 2026 • 36 mins
I’m CT… When I’m not busy being Arroe the podcaster, I live in the real world. Everybody has to have a job. Mine is C.S. Customer Service. Solutions, relationships while keeping my team motivated to keep a constant connection with each guest who’s chosen to stop their day to visit our location. Episode 207 Bring me a coke! People peeing freely. Your freedom of speech.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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your exploration. My name is ct When I'm not busy
being Arrow the Podcaster, I live in the real world.
I mean, everybody has to have a job, right Mine
just happens to be CS customer service, you know, solutions
relationships while keeping your team motivated to keep that constant
(00:45):
connection with each and every person who has chosen to
stop into that location. Episode number two hundred and seven, Bring.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Me a coke.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
People being freely and your freedom of speech.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
This is CTCs.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Transition Walk dy number one out of four. Kind of
a different kind of a transition walk. Today I had
a movie premiere, which meant I had to go out
of town, and then you struggle like hell to get
back into town so that you can get.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
To CTCs on time.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
More importantly, so I can get out here and get
this walk in, because that's how important it is. I mean,
every expert that I talked to when it comes to
you know, meditation and spirituality and learning how to have
great health, they all say, you got to take that walk.
And so it's just one of those disciplines that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You've got to accept.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Take the walk, clear your head, get that heart in shape,
and you know what, go into work and make it
a great day because you're in the business of creating solutions.
Oh wow, I got to get back out here in
this greenway. I walked all the way in. I was
on my way back out, and I realized I did
something on my way up the hill to get back out,
(01:54):
and that is is that I was. I was tired
of chewing on my gum, so I threw the gum
to the side, thinking, no, that's enough, and everybody throws
their gum out. But three quarters of the way back
I had to google it. Man, am I injurying the birds?
This is yes, So I have to go back down
the hill. I gotta go back down the hill, find
(02:16):
my gum and get it off that path because I'm
not bringing injury to a bird. Because I got tired
of that that rubber band that was in my mouth.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So this guy calls up and what did he ask you?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
He asked if we could bring him a coke to
the bus stop, which is like right here, and he
was like, I can't move. I was like, do you
want me to like called like nine to one one
or something, and he was like no, I'm good, it's
just like I just need a coke.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I was like, and us back, He'll pay me back
or something. I was like, okay, and then that's a
night I'm on hold, asked Leena.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I was like, I'm not. I'm not too comfortable doing
that because what does this scam? What if I right
that you're his victim?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, a lot of busted theft today.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And the reason why is because it's the same time
people over and over and over again. The very second
they walk into the store. We know what's going on,
we know where they're going. They're either going over to
HBC or they're going to the to the meat department,
but they're going to grab whatever they can and and
so you try to just you know, engage in a
conversation and try to get them to go in a
completely different direction. And then you get up on the
speaker above and you say, look, a security we need
(03:21):
you to take photographs and video of all sections of
the store and please report back to management. So but
a lot of thefts today, But it's just once again,
it's the same damn people over and over again. And
isn't that the way crime is in America right now?
You know, you really don't know how tight a grocery
store community really is your local grocery store in that
(03:41):
particular neighborhood, that there's a big chance that somebody who
is shopping at the store is the caretaker of somebody
that you know, an aunt, an uncle, a mother, a father,
maybe a husband or a wife. And it just it
just blows me away that to hear everybody's journey and
what they're doing in the everyday world, and how we
all come together in this grocery store and somehow, some
(04:01):
way there's harmony. Well, of course, you know, you have
thefts and stuff like that, but screw that crap. That's
nothing but a base note. And but the fact that
you know, people, you know, we all have these things
that we're doing in life, and it's helping somebody in
our grocery store community and I love that, and especially
as our team here is facing a lot of these.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
These older folks.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
They're they're they're really starting to get Alzheimer's and needing
help and things and so, but it's it's so bizarre
to see other people in the community that shop at
our store consistently. They're there, they're caretakers, They're the ones
that are taking care of him.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Blows me away.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Theft comes in so many sizes and flavors. We just
had a girl middle aged. You know, when they walk in,
you're going, oh God, you're up to something. You probably
want double your money back, because it's the look. It's
the look. No, I'm not being biased. What I am
is I'm being This is who we deal with on
a daily basis. You can walk into a pawnshop and
they're gonna do the same damn thing. But what happens
is that she's got a receipt. She's bringing back a
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high powered toothbrush, some teeth whitener and and some other products,
and it totals over one hundred dollars. And so when
it's up that high, this isn't about me anymore. This
isn't about Hey, I'm mister captain, nice guy. We're going
to figure out what's going on here, because this doesn't
look good at all because the top of the receipt
was missing. That's usually where the story is, where did
you buy it, who did you buy it from, who
(05:17):
was the person that was on the register, blah blah blah, and.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So that was missing.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And then we also noticed that that the numbers on
the bottom of the receipt didn't match what we thought
was right. I mean, it looked like it was a receipt,
but no, it was a refund receipt. And as my
manager on duty says, he says, you've already gotten money
back from this. No, go back to the store that
you think you bought this, and you know, see if
you can get the money back, because you're not getting
(05:43):
over one hundred bucks from us tonight. I just thought
something very valuable from someone, you know, the old saying
the customer is always right. He says, you know, the
most important part of that saying is missing. I said,
what are you talking about. We've always heard the customer
is always right and he goes, yeah, in taste, the
customer is always right in taste. In other words, whatever
(06:04):
their taste is they're always right. It doesn't mean that
the customer is really always right. Oh my god, never even.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Heard of that, you know. I gotta be doing some
research on that and find out is that really really
the story?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Please do not move. There's more CTCs coming up. Some
of our stories were covering people who are peen on
the floor of a grocery store not once, but twice,
plus the tim scam.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What would you do?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Hey, thanks for coming back to CTCs. Still to come
on this section of the show. People peen on the
floor not once but twice, plus the tim scam?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
What would you do?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Transition walk day number two out of four. Out here,
this beautiful force on a fall I day, I don't
think so. This is what they call an Indian summer.
And yet we haven't really dip below thirty two degrees
yet to actually earn that honor yet, so that might
be an October November kind of thing. But we're headed
up in near ninety degrees today. So it's a little
stuffy inside this forest, but I need it, my God
(07:11):
in heaven. I was busy inside that studio, going in
every single direction with interviews, going all the way up
until my timeline where I needed to get the hell
out of there.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It's called the eleven thirty rule.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I've got to be up by eleven thirty so I
can get into see us by two o'clock. Kind of
do exactly what I'm doing, which is taking this transition
walk because the mind is never settled, it never wants
to be. It has to live off the energy of
all things growing for it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Ooh, that is some deep shit there. I will see
you and see us. I just walked into the store.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I was informed that we've had five major spills in
the past forty five minutes before I got here. Five
people dropping their coffee, people dropping their jugs of water,
people dropping spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And wine and kombucha. And my god, if you've ever
smelt kombucha on a grocery store floor, it is absolute worst.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So I say, okay, said, what the hell is going
on here? That people are dropping everything? And the only
thing I can figure out, and I'm no expert in this,
but yet I try to study everything, and that is
that people are in a damn rush. They need to
calm the hell down, get out of the damn rush mode,
and just step into your weekend. Don't run into it.
A coworker says that he's going to turn into this
two week notice, okay, because.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I guess he didn't ring up two hundred dollars with
the alcohol.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
What whoa whoa he made.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
He just convinced me that he is going to be
in so much trouble because he let somebody go the
two hundred dollars worth of wine and he didn't he
forgot to look in the box. And then and he
said he got written. You know, he's going to get
written up by the big boss.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So I kind of don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I have a vague the other the new manager up
here had said something to me, but I don't know
the specifics of what happened.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But he will receive himself check out or in the red.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
He says on the registrat he forgot to check because
you know how it is when you have those boxes
around the box who we writ enough?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Plus he says, I don't want to deal with that.
He says, I'm gonna quit before I get it, before
the you know, before he talks to me.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Let me go over there and talk to him. He'd
be mad.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Bill says, you're a trouble maker.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Uh huh yeah you could do.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You have any other starting in the revelations, he'd like
for sure, he stir up trouble Yeah that's mean.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Wowkay okay, troll follows me.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Really came downstairs and Jim, Jim the front door doesn't left, okay, no,
no fix it?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh okay, that your job over there?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Everything?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah wow wow Nick me well yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Zero yeah right right, not even a free ranch or open.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And the door handle game, oh god, oh god, just
call Jim.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I tried to put it back on since it's like
a hill.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
We we couldn't put the car back together, and he
came over with a tool and we did it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I didn't want you to have a fan cart, right good.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I tried to like slid it back on, and I
should be able to slide back on if I missed.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Put the little row that plied the two into the door,
right wow?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Doubles two.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I swear to god it people are putting us in
a really rare move.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I mean, we're like all the struggling.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So I said, two customers too. And I don't say
this a lot, but there were Karens. The first lady brings.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Me back two peaches.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
One teach is fucking petrified, and she goes, I go,
I go, did you get him here?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I got him at another story. Okay, she told me
the story. I said, when did you get him? They
had two or three days ago?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Is strety petrified that So I already knew before I
even looked it up.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
So I go, two or three days ago, all right,
I go, well, I have to look it up otherwise
I don't know how much money to give you. She
goes okay, And I go over there and I key
it in from that time period. Nothing. Then I go
over there and extend it out two weeks.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
She bought the ship a loven days ago, and so
I came back over here and I go, hey, you
got a.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Live one note. She's walking out with a toothbrush.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Down.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah, she's I mean, I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
But so I called her out and I go, yeah,
you got it on the eighth today is nineteen.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I was like, you got it eleven days ago.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
She goes, no, no, and I go yeah, yeah, I go,
I can print the receipt off and show it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, I has a date on it in time that
you bought. Yeah, And she says, I don't know how
that happened yet. No, you know what, I'll give you
a refund, but don't sit here and.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Likeell me a petrified, moldy fucking peach you bought three
days ago.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
There's no fucking see right.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
We Usually when I see petrified moldy peaches is the
night that we have to strip the floor and they
under we find it underneath the shells.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, And you sit there and you just go, God,
there are TV shows that would buy this to just
to eat it.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
And then the other lady that that is germophobe that
comes in here all the time, and every time she
comes up and she starts bitching, like the sugar getting
ring up right, She goes, this.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Happens all the time and I and I go, I go, does.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
That say the one dollar price on the price tag? No,
I think it's in your attic. So I pull out
the paper and it's flat and I go, it's.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Flat, it's not sugar. And she goes, oh, I'm so,
I'm sorry. I'm such stupid.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
And I wanted to be like, yeah, that you are,
because every fucking week here something there's.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Something she hasn't done on her to get the same
price for frow. Yeah, and she'd be raised with like,
we're fucking children.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I think that's the reason why I went. She came
up too.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, well.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Right as I'm fucking finishing up the first refund I did.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And I was like and when.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
You were like when you were like, do you want
me to get this? I was like, no, I want
this bid.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
See. I think that's the reason why her husband stands
thirty five feet away from he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Want to deal.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
That's something people don't realize a lot of times. The
spouse will come in here, yeah, and one of them
is embarrassed by the end.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, Yeah, it's just so true. Oh okay, So we're
doing the Petrick Petpriag Farm pumpkin cheesecake cookies, which which
you look like, what do you think it is? White
chocolate on it, soft baked autumn exclusive. God, we've been
dying for this thing all day. Are you take the
first one? You smell like.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Really like sugar cookie lake bu ship.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
They're sticking together, man's pologize yo. Oh yeah, man, it
is it's like pumped him.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
They can think about this, wow, wow, enjoy.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That's like pumpkin pie with chocolate chips in it. Off Tec,
you're missing out on some great cookies.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Bill a good thing. What do you think of it?
Who goes.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Very spicy?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
They really they put some love in these cookies.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's pickles, right, some new grand They were like, we'll
say I like it all at awful two dollars of
a bottle. Persons bring him back return He didn't bring
him back, and I gotta bring him back? Yeah? How
long you got to bring him back? Oh, I gotta
bring him back. I'll bring him tomorrow. They sit in
my fridge so much vinegar. I'm like, this is supposed
(14:19):
to be the kosher you know deal pigs.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, they've in putting a lot of vinegar in
every day.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Overdoing it, just overdoing it. I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
One time I'm out a ton two different sort of
something that this is probably good. I'm like, you can,
You're welcome to try it. I was like, go open
you and if you don't want to try mine and
see what you're like.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Enough wow, wow wow.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Maybe about forty five minutes to an hour ago, you
told me a story about a gentleman that brought in
a watermelon and then well he came back because the
second watermelon was a piece of craft as well. Oh
and and of all things, I couldn't find his receipts. Yeah,
just I did.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I did.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
But if I just think it's so funny that not
even two hours ago you were telling me this story
and he's back again.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Oh that's crazy. Did you look at him?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I looked at him.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
To me, it looks fine. Well, the one he brought
back this morning. Look on, So I don't know what's
he said, rot.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well he says it's got a it's got a discolorization.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And I'm going on, I said, I think all food
has a discolorization.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
You just gotta yeah, quit looking at your food.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Man, What the fuck that was that? Why do you
beat on the door like the fucking police.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I do, Yes, it's it's my taekwondo. Man, I'm trying
to knock the fucking door.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And now the dumb dad joke of the day, why
don't you trust somebody with the name Chris? Why don't
you trust somebody with the name Chris? Because if Chris
crossed Apple sauce, what is he going to do to you? Well,
at least a golf clap. Hello, are you still there?
Is the time to cancel the show? Is that a
(15:55):
bad one?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Hello? Are you still there? Did the guests?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Actually, Peter, I don't know's you're shitting the front of
this pant.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
He's alcoholic, right right right?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Jesus, I know, I don't know, but that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Do you not pick that up? Justication is urine?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
No, there was one night I picked up a human dog.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Shit, I mean human dog ship.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Human dog.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You human crap? My god. I'm a double gut too.
I had a clean ship.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I'm to d all the time, like copy made.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
People's like She's like, Jill, are you in self checkout?
I feel like going on your ship?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I know, White, I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And now another exciting addition of what would you do?
All right?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You work for the grocery store? Okay, you're up in
customer service. Maybe you're even at the register. Tim, who
I have known for almost five years, because I just
celebrated my fifth year anniversary here. Tim earlier today spent
five hundred dollars of his elderly money on a gift card.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It was a visa.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Five hundred bucks came off from his card and in
all the years that I've known Tim, never once I
have ever seen him purchase a gift card, especially for
five hundred dollars. Tim comes back into the store tonight
and he wants to exchange that five hundred dollars Visa
card for five Apple cards.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And I said, we don't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
We don't exchange, and he goes, well, she said that
we can't really work together unless I get her five
Apple cards at one hundred dollars apiece. What would you do?
That right there, to me is a red flag. First
of all, he's an elderly man. She still wants five
hundred dollars. She's telling us what cards to put it on.
(18:03):
I looked at him, and when I have a lot
of love in my heart, I looked at him and
said to him, I love you. You know, I've seen
you through some really bad times.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Tim.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I've seen you go to the hospital. I have seen
you in this store stumbling around. I have seen you
really try to struggle through life. And I said, when
I see something like this, I don't want to offend you,
but this is a scam. And Tim goes, I'm a
Christian man, there's no way this is a scam. And
she's a celebrity. And I thought to myself, Jesus Christ,
(18:35):
that's exactly. That's that's exactly who's going to try to
whip you off somebody who says they're a celebrity.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
But anyway, what would you do? The situation is I
kept asking him.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Five different times before he paid another five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I asked him sternly, like I was his father. Are
you sure this is what you want to do?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Said yes, yeah, I'm just thinking he's gonna be back
here tomorrow telling.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Us that he's been scammed.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Please do not move. There's more CTCs coming up next.
In fact, some of those stories include is your freedom
of speech under attack? And number two, We're out of bags,
paper and plastic. Hey, thanks for coming back to CTCs.
A lot of fun things still to talk about your
freedom of speech? Is it under attack? And are we
(19:30):
really out of bags? Transition Walk day number three out
of four?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Who you can tell that we are still in the
remnants of the summer of twenty twenty five. Humidity is high.
It smells like summer more than it smells like fall.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Problem is the leaves are starting to change on the trees,
I've been in the podcast studio today. I've been doing
a lot of pre programming because I've got something very
important to do on Tuesday. And pre programming means you've
got to load those things up. You've got to be
there no matter what for your listener, no matter what.
You have no excuses if you truly want to be
a podcaster. Well, I've also done some research about this
(20:05):
recent thing with Jimmy Kimmel, the censorship, and I really
did want to go into it thinking that he's podcasting
the last frontier for the freedom of speech, and everything
that I read says, no, it's not the last frontier.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It's one of them, but it's not the last.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And they believe that things will be worked out in
American media.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
But for how long will it work out?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And will there always be somebody attacking those who are
just trying to use and exercise their freedom of speech.
Very interesting story, it really is. And then you got
to go to see us, oh God, talk about a
place of not having freedom of speech. You got to
say what they want you to say because it's about
solutions with their brand on it. Well, the day starts
(20:53):
with seeing Rick out in the parking lot Quick is
the one that was injured from the bar because that
kick on his leg. And then he was forced to
quit because he's got a meniscus entry and nobody really
wanted to take care of it, and so he said, look,
I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
The pain is too bad. I can't I can't be here.
So now he has cut his tongue, he can't talk.
He says he's stressed out. Oh God, I'm praying for
this guy. I'm praying. Did you see Rick when he
was when he was here, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
So he walked by and say anything, and then he
walked back by and I said, how are you doing
to Rick?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And he handed me another I know this one he
gave me was I cut my tongue. I'm not trying
to be rude. How are you hope you have a
great day? And I looked at him and he said,
I'm praying for you.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Then yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
He said thank you, mouth, thank you to me, and yeah,
gave me it's this fault.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Well he he pointed to a thing that was on
the note that he said that he's stressed out.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And now I'm thinking, did you cut your tongue? Because
you bit your tongue what's going.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Probably I hope he doesn't listen. Is he a listener?
But you know, no, good to see you. Yeah to
the same old, same old man. But I have a
good guys. He's a sweet guy. But he's at his
(22:07):
fucking mine. Yeah. I think he's got a lot of
personal issues.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I think he's struggling with a lot of personal vices.
And I think that's how I ket us done.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Today is employee Appreciation Day.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Every year at this time, what they do is they
like to throw us kind of like a little mini
party because they don't want to give us the big
party yet that's not coming until next weekend when we
get what's called the profit sharing check. And this time around,
they're actually saying, invite your friends and family over because
there's gonna be a ton of food. Well, now, you
can't use words like that around me because I like food.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Now, well I.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Invite my family and friends. I mun just tell them that,
Yeah I've got family and friends coming, Let me go
ahead and.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Collect their food for them.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Okay, No, I wouldn't do that, oh my god, but
I know people that would.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I really do. Not once but twice yesterday somebody Pete
on the floor. You picked up the first peep? What
about Brian with the second p last night? Wait, you
told me the first time was actual fiss. Well you
came from the guy and he was standing right there.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Literally the second time I thought it was pickles because
she was like.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Right where the pickles are. So I was like, okay,
maybe something broke and you know they.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Picked it up.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I don't know, I would have never thought it was pissed.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah. Yeah, And she showed me the picture. Weird and
so the lady she I feel like she was like a.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Cracktor though she was acting all the kind of weird
and like kind of like I don't know anyways.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yes, and so she also had like, you know, her
dress was wet. I was like, girl really, And so
whenever she was at self checkout, she was with somebody else.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
She had told Jamie to come get me customer service, right,
and so I was like okay, and then I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
And then when we both come back, she's gone. She
just disappeared.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
O my god.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I was like, really, so you go piano floor and
then just like shout to escape.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I go work with our for thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Thirty minutes because she needs to take a break. And
shit happens here.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
As soon as you walk away. A lady comes up,
and Nellie's already waiting on somebody. And the lady goes
the lottery machine. No, Jenny came up first. Oh the machine,
take my money.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I said, Okay, you're gonna have to wait a minute,
and so I go get the keys, but you're not here,
and she's tied up with a customer.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Oh no, and I go.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
She goes right here, right here, I'm gonna pay you now.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And I go, how are you gonna pay me? You
got money on the fucking machine. I go, you need
to stand out in the machine. So no want to
spend your fucking money and wait. Yes, So she's okay
and she goes down there.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
And then one of the associates comes up and me
and goes, I got a problem about tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I got football, So is there any way I can
come in earlier? So then Elly goes Bill, she needs
slaying this guy. We don't return and gift cards. And
so I'm standing here, hold the lottery keys. Me.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Jenny's up here smacking into the thing. Another lady comes up.
She can't get in the fucking lottery machine. The associates
still in my ear, following me up and down through here,
fucking ask me about Hey, jenn if somebody search.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
For you tomorrow, I got football. I'm like, motherfucker, hang on.
Then I go down here. Deal with this fucking dude
who's trying to return a gift card man food. You
told and she told last night.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
You're getting scamm You're buying five hundred dollars an Apple
gift card for dealing scam.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Keep all to him anyway, So I go, I go,
why did you buy him? I'm trying to help someone.
Do you know that person? Yes, I've known him for years.
How are you communicating with him through email?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I go, that's signed number one. I guess sounds like
you're being scammed. What can you do about him? I
can't do nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I go, he warned you.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
He goes, I'm gonna get evicted. He was just sitting
here three days ago asking for food. But he's got
six hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You just spent one thousand dollars. Yes, for god damn it. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
So I'm explaining to Nelly why I'm short with her.
Kissed off.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
I goes, I've been dealing with him for three years. Yeah,
it's always a fucking issue. And so she's being a
pathetic and I'm not. And I finally get Jenny's fucking I'm.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Calling you forgetting that you went to the bar.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
So I'm like sky cut and I'm get kissed off
because I'm like, sixty was answers.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Why an't the answer me all this ship?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I asked you, I said, we're gonna go help out
and yeah, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, we're good. Look at this and it was like
the eye of the hurricane.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
The eye passed over when you left, unless the fucking
storm came to fuck me in the ass.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
And so this is so I get the one lady
of forty bucks. Then the other.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Lady figured out what happened to her dollar in the water,
and you see, then I told the associate what to fucking.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Do and it actually worked. And then finally the guy
begging us to fucking return.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Six hundred dollars a good cards fucked off and went away.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
And then I came to you and I'm like, man,
I got a fucking story. This is my fucking insane Yes.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
It was no. I was like, bro it's just me.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
And then Jill came up because he was over there,
and like I was just like, what the hell man?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And then Jenny's bitches she was like, h you're here.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
I was like, girl, I told you she came up earlier,
and I'm it was a similar situation.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I was trying to help the fust and she goes hello,
and you're gonna wait. You're gonna stand in there a
way real way come back. Yeah. I like, you're just
gonna have to wait. Fuck off?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Like how old is she?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Like?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Does she not know?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
She doesn't care?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
So this is probably is bad to say, but I
think it's a cultural thing.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, yeah, she's.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
It's some of the Stasia sold their inflection and their
speech and they're polite versus rudiness.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Is a lot of different than this. But you would
them she would start to pick up on how.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Many No, No, she's no, she's not not at all.
Turn it off.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
But people people want to shoot on the retailer. It's
just fast and it's like you have no just been
one day here? Yeah yeah, and I think you exchange
your abd.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Al Right, it's time to do a food tasting here.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
We're gonna do the Oreo Cookies apple Pie a la
mode and it says flavor cream. So so I was
hoping that there was gonna be apples in it, you know,
like how the blueberries.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
You know, there was like we really chunks of blueberry
that was with it.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, so do you what do you think it's many?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I think it's like that.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Okay, Ryan, you're gonna do one?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
All right? Smells really good?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Oh oh it smells.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I smell the apple.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I wonder if it's like a granny smell.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Okay, that's so bad.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
The cinnamon comes in late. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I mean you definitely got the apple flavor and then
then here comes the cinnamon flavor.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
What do you think, Ryan?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I like that?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yeah. Yeah, it seems like brown sugar for some reason.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You think it tastes like brown sugar cinnamon?
Speaker 4 (28:40):
No, I think it's sugar.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Wow, that's interesting that you would put that like in
you know, apple pie Ala mode.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Hm. You could change brown sugar, yeah, I would just
good good with milk.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's what's missing as the milk on.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
This transition walk day number four, head of four. My god,
we're finding me here had to get my gut on today.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Oh yeah, man, I got to replenish the soil at
which I walk upon so that I can get to
those solutions. It's not going to happen by walking on water,
because I ain't that guy. I don't have that kind
of confidence. I have been so busy today in the
podcast studio, I've always been about imaging. Imaging has been
my source of success in so many ways and years
(29:30):
because that's what I used to do in radio. I
was the image director and then I became a production director.
But image is everything. And even when I put it
into commercials and radio, I always wanted to image the business.
I didn't give a flying fuck that your business has
been and family owned and operated for twenty five years?
What does that mean to somebody who just moved here?
Who the fuck are you?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
And so?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But it's one of those things where image is everything.
So I've been working on podcast logos this is like
two weeks now, because image is everything.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
When somebody see.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
That photograph or that that image of what that podcast
is about, you've got not even one full second to
get them to tap in. If that if that book
cover does not do it, they're judging you by that
book cover, whoa way too much information? Hopefully this doesn't
come across it. I'm being a real jerk or a butthole.
(30:22):
But you know i'd get in from.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
The car into the store, you know, hay cet hey CT.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Hey cet hey CT.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
And my answer is always one thing. Asked me at
ten o'clock to night, how I'm going? I'll give you
a much clearer better answer.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Does that make me a butthead? Does that make me
a jerk?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Did you forget to order bags again?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I mean, there's nothing going on out there, but I
did not forget. I must have sucked it up.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Though she's getting I felt like she's gonna ask us
what papers?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Oh my god, no, Brian, we got shorted wednesday.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
I've got like half a box soleassa sulphonia.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
What about pastic banks so looks like horomos oud of
those as well.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I think we've got enough to get to the nine here.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Oh well, I don't know what to say about this.
You know, it's I guess this is the crudging coming
out in me. But everybody that's anywhere between you know,
twenty one and younger.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Is coming up to me saying, do you know what
today is? You know what today is? Said?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well, today is Sunday, right, and they go yeah, no, no,
it's the twenty first of September. And they try to
sing earth Wind Fire September. And I look at them
and I go, do you even know what you're singing?
And they go yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the twenty
first of December song.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
And it's like, no, no, seriously, do you know anything about
earth Wind and Fire? And they go, well, yeah, they
sing the twenty first of September song.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I go, there, yeah, a lot more than that, dude.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Maybe you need to go do some work on YouTube
and then get back to me, because yeah, it's a
great song. Yeah it's a you know, a talk starter,
but man, there's a lot more to it than just
that one lyric that you're hearing the twenty first of September.
I don't know if I'm off my game today or
if I'm just hearing people wrong. Stoneman comes up to
me and he says, I'm looking for the dish liquid.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
What the dish liquid? Where do you guys have the
dish liquid appen?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I literally looked at him and going, I have no
idea what you're talking about the dish liquid, and he goes,
you know, to clean plates. Well, now I understand what
it is. I mean, I called a dish soap, and
what's wrong about that? So dish liquid is the I
guess that's a new street slang for I got to
get myself some dawn.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Who am I off today?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
I don't know if it's because we have an NFL
home game today, but I mean this is Weekenu'ber three
of the NFL schedule, and the first two weeks nowhere near.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
As crowded as it is in here.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I mean it's literally a line in every single lane,
not for the registers, every.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Single lane like that.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Right now, I'm in the paper towels, I'm in the clorox,
I'm in there. There's a line going through here because
people are sitting here shopping and it's almost like a
holiday shopping spree. But everybody was watching the games and
so now it's like, oh, we got to go to
the grocery store and then we pay for it on
our side, well they pay for it, but we hopefully
have the manpower to make this happen. I've been a
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part of the store for five years, and I'll tell
you what, I still to this day get so screwed
up and junked out. And what I mean is I
freak out when I see people who have walked through
the store with their sushi and their baked chicken and
their donuts and they've eaten a couple of pieces and
then they put it on the shelf.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
They don't go up to the counter and pay for it.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
They get what they want out of it, and pretty
much they got a free luncher. They're going to get
a free early dinner. It's what they're going to do.
But it just grosses me out because I mean, it's
like the customers have to see that before I see that,
but it's my goal to make sure they don't see it.
But by the time I get there, I think they
did see it. And that's why grosses me out. It's like, Oh,
so I'm shopping to Attie pig Side. Yeah, yeah, I
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would say that today all these people in here, you're
shopping at a pig sty. We sell pro football merchandise
inside our store that really promotes our local pro football team.
And today they won. Everybody's all fired up, excited, and
so I walk over there to where the T shirts
are and the scars and.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
The knitted hats and things like that.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I'm thinking, Nah, you know, we're feeling good about our team. Man,
maybe I should just go ahead and get one of
those winter hats, you know, with like a big check.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Gutty ball up on top. Yeah, I'm feeling good about
this team. Forty four dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Forty four dollars for a winter cap. Oh, this very
easily could turn into this. What would you do? You
gonta fork out that forty four bucks with one win,
two losses so far for the season.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You know you want it? I know you want it.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I had one of those conversations this past weekend with
a former co partner and creator from the world of radio.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
In fact, that was her producer.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
When it came to her clients and needing advertising for
radio as well as television. And so we're talking and
she goes, well, what are you doing these days? And
why is it that I'm talking to you so late
like this? And I said, well, I'm just coming from
the store. What do you mean you're coming from the store.
I said, I'm in CS Oh what is that I'm
in customer service at a grocery store.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
You're what I said? Yeah, I said, you know that.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
The thing is is that it's like doing a live
radio show and there's people there.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
You know, a live radio show inside the studio is
a studio show.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
But when you're with a live group of people for
eight hours, it's an amazing experience.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
So let me understand here again. You work for a
grocery store. Oh boy, oh boy, how would you feel
at a moment like that?
Speaker 8 (35:51):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Well, there you have it, another exciting edition of CTCs.
The upside downs, the twists, the spins, the INDs, the outs,
the stumble the I don't know what is going on here?
The mood swings. Holy crap, are we going through a
bunch of those? Is it because of this modern day society?
As a do because we feel like that we deserve
to have more? And what about those people that go
you work at a grocery store?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I smell like it, I you know, I you know,
I kind of look like that guy at a grocery store,
you know, like nerdiness. I always want to see your license.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
You know, he's just.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Being I don't know, Hey, thanks for being here. Do
me a favor, create a podcast of your own. And
I do mean that because I want to know what
goes on inside your business, because to me, that's where
the real conversation begins. And we're not just sitting here
trying to have a pissing contest. No, No, it's about
relating with each other. We all bring something to this planet.
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Why aren't we talking about it. I'll see you next
week on CTCs.
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your exploration. My name is ct When I'm not busy
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relationships while keeping your team motivated to keep that constant
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connection with each and every person who has chosen to
stop into that location. Episode number two hundred and seven, Bring.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Me a coke.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
People being freely and your freedom of speech.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
This is CTCs.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Transition Walk dy number one out of four. Kind of
a different kind of a transition walk. Today I had
a movie premiere, which meant I had to go out
of town, and then you struggle like hell to get
back into town so that you can get.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
To CTCs on time.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
More importantly, so I can get out here and get
this walk in, because that's how important it is. I mean,
every expert that I talked to when it comes to
you know, meditation and spirituality and learning how to have
great health, they all say, you got to take that walk.
And so it's just one of those disciplines that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You've got to accept.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Take the walk, clear your head, get that heart in shape,
and you know what, go into work and make it
a great day because you're in the business of creating solutions.
Oh wow, I got to get back out here in
this greenway. I walked all the way in. I was
on my way back out, and I realized I did
something on my way up the hill to get back out,
(01:54):
and that is is that I was. I was tired
of chewing on my gum, so I threw the gum
to the side, thinking, no, that's enough, and everybody throws
their gum out. But three quarters of the way back
I had to google it. Man, am I injurying the birds?
This is yes, So I have to go back down
the hill. I gotta go back down the hill, find
(02:16):
my gum and get it off that path because I'm
not bringing injury to a bird. Because I got tired
of that that rubber band that was in my mouth.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So this guy calls up and what did he ask you?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
He asked if we could bring him a coke to
the bus stop, which is like right here, and he
was like, I can't move. I was like, do you
want me to like called like nine to one one
or something, and he was like no, I'm good, it's
just like I just need a coke.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I was like, and us back, He'll pay me back
or something. I was like, okay, and then that's a
night I'm on hold, asked Leena.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I was like, I'm not. I'm not too comfortable doing
that because what does this scam? What if I right
that you're his victim?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, a lot of busted theft today.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And the reason why is because it's the same time
people over and over and over again. The very second
they walk into the store. We know what's going on,
we know where they're going. They're either going over to
HBC or they're going to the to the meat department,
but they're going to grab whatever they can and and
so you try to just you know, engage in a
conversation and try to get them to go in a
completely different direction. And then you get up on the
speaker above and you say, look, a security we need
(03:21):
you to take photographs and video of all sections of
the store and please report back to management. So but
a lot of thefts today, But it's just once again,
it's the same damn people over and over again. And
isn't that the way crime is in America right now?
You know, you really don't know how tight a grocery
store community really is your local grocery store in that
(03:41):
particular neighborhood, that there's a big chance that somebody who
is shopping at the store is the caretaker of somebody
that you know, an aunt, an uncle, a mother, a father,
maybe a husband or a wife. And it just it
just blows me away that to hear everybody's journey and
what they're doing in the everyday world, and how we
all come together in this grocery store and somehow, some
(04:01):
way there's harmony. Well, of course, you know, you have
thefts and stuff like that, but screw that crap. That's
nothing but a base note. And but the fact that
you know, people, you know, we all have these things
that we're doing in life, and it's helping somebody in
our grocery store community and I love that, and especially
as our team here is facing a lot of these.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
These older folks.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
They're they're they're really starting to get Alzheimer's and needing
help and things and so, but it's it's so bizarre
to see other people in the community that shop at
our store consistently. They're there, they're caretakers, They're the ones
that are taking care of him.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Blows me away.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Theft comes in so many sizes and flavors. We just
had a girl middle aged. You know, when they walk in,
you're going, oh God, you're up to something. You probably
want double your money back, because it's the look. It's
the look. No, I'm not being biased. What I am
is I'm being This is who we deal with on
a daily basis. You can walk into a pawnshop and
they're gonna do the same damn thing. But what happens
is that she's got a receipt. She's bringing back a
(04:56):
high powered toothbrush, some teeth whitener and and some other products,
and it totals over one hundred dollars. And so when
it's up that high, this isn't about me anymore. This
isn't about Hey, I'm mister captain, nice guy. We're going
to figure out what's going on here, because this doesn't
look good at all because the top of the receipt
was missing. That's usually where the story is, where did
you buy it, who did you buy it from, who
(05:17):
was the person that was on the register, blah blah blah, and.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So that was missing.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And then we also noticed that that the numbers on
the bottom of the receipt didn't match what we thought
was right. I mean, it looked like it was a receipt,
but no, it was a refund receipt. And as my
manager on duty says, he says, you've already gotten money
back from this. No, go back to the store that
you think you bought this, and you know, see if
you can get the money back, because you're not getting
(05:43):
over one hundred bucks from us tonight. I just thought
something very valuable from someone, you know, the old saying
the customer is always right. He says, you know, the
most important part of that saying is missing. I said,
what are you talking about. We've always heard the customer
is always right and he goes, yeah, in taste, the
customer is always right in taste. In other words, whatever
(06:04):
their taste is they're always right. It doesn't mean that
the customer is really always right. Oh my god, never even.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Heard of that, you know. I gotta be doing some
research on that and find out is that really really
the story?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Please do not move. There's more CTCs coming up. Some
of our stories were covering people who are peen on
the floor of a grocery store not once, but twice,
plus the tim scam.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What would you do?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Hey, thanks for coming back to CTCs. Still to come
on this section of the show. People peen on the
floor not once but twice, plus the tim scam?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
What would you do?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Transition walk day number two out of four. Out here,
this beautiful force on a fall I day, I don't
think so. This is what they call an Indian summer.
And yet we haven't really dip below thirty two degrees
yet to actually earn that honor yet, so that might
be an October November kind of thing. But we're headed
up in near ninety degrees today. So it's a little
stuffy inside this forest, but I need it, my God
(07:11):
in heaven. I was busy inside that studio, going in
every single direction with interviews, going all the way up
until my timeline where I needed to get the hell
out of there.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It's called the eleven thirty rule.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I've got to be up by eleven thirty so I
can get into see us by two o'clock. Kind of
do exactly what I'm doing, which is taking this transition
walk because the mind is never settled, it never wants
to be. It has to live off the energy of
all things growing for it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Ooh, that is some deep shit there. I will see
you and see us. I just walked into the store.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I was informed that we've had five major spills in
the past forty five minutes before I got here. Five
people dropping their coffee, people dropping their jugs of water,
people dropping spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And wine and kombucha. And my god, if you've ever
smelt kombucha on a grocery store floor, it is absolute worst.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So I say, okay, said, what the hell is going
on here? That people are dropping everything? And the only
thing I can figure out, and I'm no expert in this,
but yet I try to study everything, and that is
that people are in a damn rush. They need to
calm the hell down, get out of the damn rush mode,
and just step into your weekend. Don't run into it.
A coworker says that he's going to turn into this
two week notice, okay, because.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I guess he didn't ring up two hundred dollars with
the alcohol.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
What whoa whoa he made.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
He just convinced me that he is going to be
in so much trouble because he let somebody go the
two hundred dollars worth of wine and he didn't he
forgot to look in the box. And then and he
said he got written. You know, he's going to get
written up by the big boss.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So I kind of don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I have a vague the other the new manager up
here had said something to me, but I don't know
the specifics of what happened.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But he will receive himself check out or in the red.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
He says on the registrat he forgot to check because
you know how it is when you have those boxes
around the box who we writ enough?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Plus he says, I don't want to deal with that.
He says, I'm gonna quit before I get it, before
the you know, before he talks to me.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Let me go over there and talk to him. He'd
be mad.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Bill says, you're a trouble maker.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Uh huh yeah you could do.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You have any other starting in the revelations, he'd like
for sure, he stir up trouble Yeah that's mean.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Wowkay okay, troll follows me.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Really came downstairs and Jim, Jim the front door doesn't left, okay, no,
no fix it?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh okay, that your job over there?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Everything?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah wow wow Nick me well yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Zero yeah right right, not even a free ranch or open.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And the door handle game, oh god, oh god, just
call Jim.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I tried to put it back on since it's like
a hill.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
We we couldn't put the car back together, and he
came over with a tool and we did it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I didn't want you to have a fan cart, right good.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I tried to like slid it back on, and I
should be able to slide back on if I missed.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Put the little row that plied the two into the door,
right wow?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Doubles two.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I swear to god it people are putting us in
a really rare move.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I mean, we're like all the struggling.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So I said, two customers too. And I don't say
this a lot, but there were Karens. The first lady brings.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Me back two peaches.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
One teach is fucking petrified, and she goes, I go,
I go, did you get him here?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I got him at another story. Okay, she told me
the story. I said, when did you get him? They
had two or three days ago?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Is strety petrified that So I already knew before I
even looked it up.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
So I go, two or three days ago, all right,
I go, well, I have to look it up otherwise
I don't know how much money to give you. She
goes okay, And I go over there and I key
it in from that time period. Nothing. Then I go
over there and extend it out two weeks.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
She bought the ship a loven days ago, and so
I came back over here and I go, hey, you
got a.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Live one note. She's walking out with a toothbrush.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Down.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah, she's I mean, I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
But so I called her out and I go, yeah,
you got it on the eighth today is nineteen.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I was like, you got it eleven days ago.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
She goes, no, no, and I go yeah, yeah, I go,
I can print the receipt off and show it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, I has a date on it in time that
you bought. Yeah, And she says, I don't know how
that happened yet. No, you know what, I'll give you
a refund, but don't sit here and.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Likeell me a petrified, moldy fucking peach you bought three
days ago.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
There's no fucking see right.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
We Usually when I see petrified moldy peaches is the
night that we have to strip the floor and they
under we find it underneath the shells.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, And you sit there and you just go, God,
there are TV shows that would buy this to just
to eat it.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
And then the other lady that that is germophobe that
comes in here all the time, and every time she
comes up and she starts bitching, like the sugar getting
ring up right, She goes, this.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Happens all the time and I and I go, I go, does.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
That say the one dollar price on the price tag? No,
I think it's in your attic. So I pull out
the paper and it's flat and I go, it's.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Flat, it's not sugar. And she goes, oh, I'm so,
I'm sorry. I'm such stupid.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
And I wanted to be like, yeah, that you are,
because every fucking week here something there's.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Something she hasn't done on her to get the same
price for frow. Yeah, and she'd be raised with like,
we're fucking children.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I think that's the reason why I went. She came
up too.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, well.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Right as I'm fucking finishing up the first refund I did.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And I was like and when.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
You were like when you were like, do you want
me to get this? I was like, no, I want
this bid.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
See. I think that's the reason why her husband stands
thirty five feet away from he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Want to deal.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
That's something people don't realize a lot of times. The
spouse will come in here, yeah, and one of them
is embarrassed by the end.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, Yeah, it's just so true. Oh okay, So we're
doing the Petrick Petpriag Farm pumpkin cheesecake cookies, which which
you look like, what do you think it is? White
chocolate on it, soft baked autumn exclusive. God, we've been
dying for this thing all day. Are you take the
first one? You smell like.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Really like sugar cookie lake bu ship.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
They're sticking together, man's pologize yo. Oh yeah, man, it
is it's like pumped him.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
They can think about this, wow, wow, enjoy.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That's like pumpkin pie with chocolate chips in it. Off Tec,
you're missing out on some great cookies.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Bill a good thing. What do you think of it?
Who goes.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Very spicy?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
They really they put some love in these cookies.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's pickles, right, some new grand They were like, we'll
say I like it all at awful two dollars of
a bottle. Persons bring him back return He didn't bring
him back, and I gotta bring him back? Yeah? How
long you got to bring him back? Oh, I gotta
bring him back. I'll bring him tomorrow. They sit in
my fridge so much vinegar. I'm like, this is supposed
(14:19):
to be the kosher you know deal pigs.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, they've in putting a lot of vinegar in
every day.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Overdoing it, just overdoing it. I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
One time I'm out a ton two different sort of
something that this is probably good. I'm like, you can,
You're welcome to try it. I was like, go open
you and if you don't want to try mine and
see what you're like.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Enough wow, wow wow.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Maybe about forty five minutes to an hour ago, you
told me a story about a gentleman that brought in
a watermelon and then well he came back because the
second watermelon was a piece of craft as well. Oh
and and of all things, I couldn't find his receipts. Yeah,
just I did.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I did.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
But if I just think it's so funny that not
even two hours ago you were telling me this story
and he's back again.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Oh that's crazy. Did you look at him?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I looked at him.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
To me, it looks fine. Well, the one he brought
back this morning. Look on, So I don't know what's
he said, rot.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well he says it's got a it's got a discolorization.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And I'm going on, I said, I think all food
has a discolorization.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
You just gotta yeah, quit looking at your food.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Man, What the fuck that was that? Why do you
beat on the door like the fucking police.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I do, Yes, it's it's my taekwondo. Man, I'm trying
to knock the fucking door.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And now the dumb dad joke of the day, why
don't you trust somebody with the name Chris? Why don't
you trust somebody with the name Chris? Because if Chris
crossed Apple sauce, what is he going to do to you? Well,
at least a golf clap. Hello, are you still there?
Is the time to cancel the show? Is that a
(15:55):
bad one?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Hello? Are you still there? Did the guests?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Actually, Peter, I don't know's you're shitting the front of
this pant.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
He's alcoholic, right right right?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Jesus, I know, I don't know, but that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Do you not pick that up? Justication is urine?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
No, there was one night I picked up a human dog.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Shit, I mean human dog ship.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Human dog.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You human crap? My god. I'm a double gut too.
I had a clean ship.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I'm to d all the time, like copy made.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
People's like She's like, Jill, are you in self checkout?
I feel like going on your ship?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I know, White, I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And now another exciting addition of what would you do?
All right?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You work for the grocery store? Okay, you're up in
customer service. Maybe you're even at the register. Tim, who
I have known for almost five years, because I just
celebrated my fifth year anniversary here. Tim earlier today spent
five hundred dollars of his elderly money on a gift card.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It was a visa.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Five hundred bucks came off from his card and in
all the years that I've known Tim, never once I
have ever seen him purchase a gift card, especially for
five hundred dollars. Tim comes back into the store tonight
and he wants to exchange that five hundred dollars Visa
card for five Apple cards.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And I said, we don't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
We don't exchange, and he goes, well, she said that
we can't really work together unless I get her five
Apple cards at one hundred dollars apiece. What would you do?
That right there, to me is a red flag. First
of all, he's an elderly man. She still wants five
hundred dollars. She's telling us what cards to put it on.
(18:03):
I looked at him, and when I have a lot
of love in my heart, I looked at him and
said to him, I love you. You know, I've seen
you through some really bad times.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Tim.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I've seen you go to the hospital. I have seen
you in this store stumbling around. I have seen you
really try to struggle through life. And I said, when
I see something like this, I don't want to offend you,
but this is a scam. And Tim goes, I'm a
Christian man, there's no way this is a scam. And
she's a celebrity. And I thought to myself, Jesus Christ,
(18:35):
that's exactly. That's that's exactly who's going to try to
whip you off somebody who says they're a celebrity.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
But anyway, what would you do? The situation is I
kept asking him.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Five different times before he paid another five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I asked him sternly, like I was his father. Are
you sure this is what you want to do?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Said yes, yeah, I'm just thinking he's gonna be back
here tomorrow telling.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Us that he's been scammed.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Please do not move. There's more CTCs coming up next.
In fact, some of those stories include is your freedom
of speech under attack? And number two, We're out of bags,
paper and plastic. Hey, thanks for coming back to CTCs.
A lot of fun things still to talk about your
freedom of speech? Is it under attack? And are we
(19:30):
really out of bags? Transition Walk day number three out
of four?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Who you can tell that we are still in the
remnants of the summer of twenty twenty five. Humidity is high.
It smells like summer more than it smells like fall.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Problem is the leaves are starting to change on the trees,
I've been in the podcast studio today. I've been doing
a lot of pre programming because I've got something very
important to do on Tuesday. And pre programming means you've
got to load those things up. You've got to be
there no matter what for your listener, no matter what.
You have no excuses if you truly want to be
a podcaster. Well, I've also done some research about this
(20:05):
recent thing with Jimmy Kimmel, the censorship, and I really
did want to go into it thinking that he's podcasting
the last frontier for the freedom of speech, and everything
that I read says, no, it's not the last frontier.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It's one of them, but it's not the last.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And they believe that things will be worked out in
American media.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
But for how long will it work out?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And will there always be somebody attacking those who are
just trying to use and exercise their freedom of speech.
Very interesting story, it really is. And then you got
to go to see us, oh God, talk about a
place of not having freedom of speech. You got to
say what they want you to say because it's about
solutions with their brand on it. Well, the day starts
(20:53):
with seeing Rick out in the parking lot Quick is
the one that was injured from the bar because that
kick on his leg. And then he was forced to
quit because he's got a meniscus entry and nobody really
wanted to take care of it, and so he said, look,
I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
The pain is too bad. I can't I can't be here.
So now he has cut his tongue, he can't talk.
He says he's stressed out. Oh God, I'm praying for
this guy. I'm praying. Did you see Rick when he
was when he was here, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
So he walked by and say anything, and then he
walked back by and I said, how are you doing
to Rick?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And he handed me another I know this one he
gave me was I cut my tongue. I'm not trying
to be rude. How are you hope you have a
great day? And I looked at him and he said,
I'm praying for you.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Then yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
He said thank you, mouth, thank you to me, and yeah,
gave me it's this fault.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Well he he pointed to a thing that was on
the note that he said that he's stressed out.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And now I'm thinking, did you cut your tongue? Because
you bit your tongue what's going.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Probably I hope he doesn't listen. Is he a listener?
But you know, no, good to see you. Yeah to
the same old, same old man. But I have a
good guys. He's a sweet guy. But he's at his
(22:07):
fucking mine. Yeah. I think he's got a lot of
personal issues.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I think he's struggling with a lot of personal vices.
And I think that's how I ket us done.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Today is employee Appreciation Day.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Every year at this time, what they do is they
like to throw us kind of like a little mini
party because they don't want to give us the big
party yet that's not coming until next weekend when we
get what's called the profit sharing check. And this time around,
they're actually saying, invite your friends and family over because
there's gonna be a ton of food. Well, now, you
can't use words like that around me because I like food.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Now, well I.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Invite my family and friends. I mun just tell them that,
Yeah I've got family and friends coming, Let me go
ahead and.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Collect their food for them.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Okay, No, I wouldn't do that, oh my god, but
I know people that would.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I really do. Not once but twice yesterday somebody Pete
on the floor. You picked up the first peep? What
about Brian with the second p last night? Wait, you
told me the first time was actual fiss. Well you
came from the guy and he was standing right there.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Literally the second time I thought it was pickles because
she was like.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Right where the pickles are. So I was like, okay,
maybe something broke and you know they.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Picked it up.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I don't know, I would have never thought it was pissed.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah. Yeah, And she showed me the picture. Weird and
so the lady she I feel like she was like a.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Cracktor though she was acting all the kind of weird
and like kind of like I don't know anyways.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yes, and so she also had like, you know, her
dress was wet. I was like, girl really, And so
whenever she was at self checkout, she was with somebody else.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
She had told Jamie to come get me customer service, right,
and so I was like okay, and then I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
And then when we both come back, she's gone. She
just disappeared.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
O my god.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I was like, really, so you go piano floor and
then just like shout to escape.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I go work with our for thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Thirty minutes because she needs to take a break. And
shit happens here.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
As soon as you walk away. A lady comes up,
and Nellie's already waiting on somebody. And the lady goes
the lottery machine. No, Jenny came up first. Oh the machine,
take my money.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I said, Okay, you're gonna have to wait a minute,
and so I go get the keys, but you're not here,
and she's tied up with a customer.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Oh no, and I go.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
She goes right here, right here, I'm gonna pay you now.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And I go, how are you gonna pay me? You
got money on the fucking machine. I go, you need
to stand out in the machine. So no want to
spend your fucking money and wait. Yes, So she's okay
and she goes down there.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
And then one of the associates comes up and me
and goes, I got a problem about tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I got football, So is there any way I can
come in earlier? So then Elly goes Bill, she needs
slaying this guy. We don't return and gift cards. And
so I'm standing here, hold the lottery keys. Me.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Jenny's up here smacking into the thing. Another lady comes up.
She can't get in the fucking lottery machine. The associates
still in my ear, following me up and down through here,
fucking ask me about Hey, jenn if somebody search.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
For you tomorrow, I got football. I'm like, motherfucker, hang on.
Then I go down here. Deal with this fucking dude
who's trying to return a gift card man food. You
told and she told last night.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
You're getting scamm You're buying five hundred dollars an Apple
gift card for dealing scam.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Keep all to him anyway, So I go, I go,
why did you buy him? I'm trying to help someone.
Do you know that person? Yes, I've known him for years.
How are you communicating with him through email?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I go, that's signed number one. I guess sounds like
you're being scammed. What can you do about him? I
can't do nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I go, he warned you.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
He goes, I'm gonna get evicted. He was just sitting
here three days ago asking for food. But he's got
six hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You just spent one thousand dollars. Yes, for god damn it. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
So I'm explaining to Nelly why I'm short with her.
Kissed off.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
I goes, I've been dealing with him for three years. Yeah,
it's always a fucking issue. And so she's being a
pathetic and I'm not. And I finally get Jenny's fucking I'm.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Calling you forgetting that you went to the bar.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
So I'm like sky cut and I'm get kissed off
because I'm like, sixty was answers.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Why an't the answer me all this ship?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I asked you, I said, we're gonna go help out
and yeah, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, we're good. Look at this and it was like
the eye of the hurricane.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
The eye passed over when you left, unless the fucking
storm came to fuck me in the ass.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
And so this is so I get the one lady
of forty bucks. Then the other.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Lady figured out what happened to her dollar in the water,
and you see, then I told the associate what to fucking.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Do and it actually worked. And then finally the guy
begging us to fucking return.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Six hundred dollars a good cards fucked off and went away.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
And then I came to you and I'm like, man,
I got a fucking story. This is my fucking insane Yes.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
It was no. I was like, bro it's just me.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
And then Jill came up because he was over there,
and like I was just like, what the hell man?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And then Jenny's bitches she was like, h you're here.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
I was like, girl, I told you she came up earlier,
and I'm it was a similar situation.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I was trying to help the fust and she goes hello,
and you're gonna wait. You're gonna stand in there a
way real way come back. Yeah. I like, you're just
gonna have to wait. Fuck off?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Like how old is she?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Like?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Does she not know?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
She doesn't care?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
So this is probably is bad to say, but I
think it's a cultural thing.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, yeah, she's.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
It's some of the Stasia sold their inflection and their
speech and they're polite versus rudiness.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Is a lot of different than this. But you would
them she would start to pick up on how.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Many No, No, she's no, she's not not at all.
Turn it off.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
But people people want to shoot on the retailer. It's
just fast and it's like you have no just been
one day here? Yeah yeah, and I think you exchange
your abd.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Al Right, it's time to do a food tasting here.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
We're gonna do the Oreo Cookies apple Pie a la
mode and it says flavor cream. So so I was
hoping that there was gonna be apples in it, you know,
like how the blueberries.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
You know, there was like we really chunks of blueberry
that was with it.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, so do you what do you think it's many?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I think it's like that.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Okay, Ryan, you're gonna do one?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
All right? Smells really good?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Oh oh it smells.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I smell the apple.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I wonder if it's like a granny smell.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Okay, that's so bad.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
The cinnamon comes in late. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I mean you definitely got the apple flavor and then
then here comes the cinnamon flavor.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
What do you think, Ryan?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I like that?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yeah. Yeah, it seems like brown sugar for some reason.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You think it tastes like brown sugar cinnamon?
Speaker 4 (28:40):
No, I think it's sugar.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Wow, that's interesting that you would put that like in
you know, apple pie Ala mode.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Hm. You could change brown sugar, yeah, I would just
good good with milk.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's what's missing as the milk on.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
This transition walk day number four, head of four. My god,
we're finding me here had to get my gut on today.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Oh yeah, man, I got to replenish the soil at
which I walk upon so that I can get to
those solutions. It's not going to happen by walking on water,
because I ain't that guy. I don't have that kind
of confidence. I have been so busy today in the
podcast studio, I've always been about imaging. Imaging has been
my source of success in so many ways and years
(29:30):
because that's what I used to do in radio. I
was the image director and then I became a production director.
But image is everything. And even when I put it
into commercials and radio, I always wanted to image the business.
I didn't give a flying fuck that your business has
been and family owned and operated for twenty five years?
What does that mean to somebody who just moved here?
Who the fuck are you?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
And so?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But it's one of those things where image is everything.
So I've been working on podcast logos this is like
two weeks now, because image is everything.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
When somebody see.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
That photograph or that that image of what that podcast
is about, you've got not even one full second to
get them to tap in. If that if that book
cover does not do it, they're judging you by that
book cover, whoa way too much information? Hopefully this doesn't
come across it. I'm being a real jerk or a butthole.
(30:22):
But you know i'd get in from.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
The car into the store, you know, hay cet hey CT.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Hey cet hey CT.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
And my answer is always one thing. Asked me at
ten o'clock to night, how I'm going? I'll give you
a much clearer better answer.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Does that make me a butthead? Does that make me
a jerk?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Did you forget to order bags again?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I mean, there's nothing going on out there, but I
did not forget. I must have sucked it up.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Though she's getting I felt like she's gonna ask us
what papers?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Oh my god, no, Brian, we got shorted wednesday.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
I've got like half a box soleassa sulphonia.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
What about pastic banks so looks like horomos oud of
those as well.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I think we've got enough to get to the nine here.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Oh well, I don't know what to say about this.
You know, it's I guess this is the crudging coming
out in me. But everybody that's anywhere between you know,
twenty one and younger.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Is coming up to me saying, do you know what
today is? You know what today is? Said?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well, today is Sunday, right, and they go yeah, no, no,
it's the twenty first of September. And they try to
sing earth Wind Fire September. And I look at them
and I go, do you even know what you're singing?
And they go yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the twenty
first of December song.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
And it's like, no, no, seriously, do you know anything about
earth Wind and Fire? And they go, well, yeah, they
sing the twenty first of September song.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I go, there, yeah, a lot more than that, dude.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Maybe you need to go do some work on YouTube
and then get back to me, because yeah, it's a
great song. Yeah it's a you know, a talk starter,
but man, there's a lot more to it than just
that one lyric that you're hearing the twenty first of September.
I don't know if I'm off my game today or
if I'm just hearing people wrong. Stoneman comes up to
me and he says, I'm looking for the dish liquid.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
What the dish liquid? Where do you guys have the
dish liquid appen?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I literally looked at him and going, I have no
idea what you're talking about the dish liquid, and he goes,
you know, to clean plates. Well, now I understand what
it is. I mean, I called a dish soap, and
what's wrong about that? So dish liquid is the I
guess that's a new street slang for I got to
get myself some dawn.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Who am I off today?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
I don't know if it's because we have an NFL
home game today, but I mean this is Weekenu'ber three
of the NFL schedule, and the first two weeks nowhere near.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
As crowded as it is in here.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I mean it's literally a line in every single lane,
not for the registers, every.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Single lane like that.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Right now, I'm in the paper towels, I'm in the clorox,
I'm in there. There's a line going through here because
people are sitting here shopping and it's almost like a
holiday shopping spree. But everybody was watching the games and
so now it's like, oh, we got to go to
the grocery store and then we pay for it on
our side, well they pay for it, but we hopefully
have the manpower to make this happen. I've been a
(33:17):
part of the store for five years, and I'll tell
you what, I still to this day get so screwed
up and junked out. And what I mean is I
freak out when I see people who have walked through
the store with their sushi and their baked chicken and
their donuts and they've eaten a couple of pieces and
then they put it on the shelf.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
They don't go up to the counter and pay for it.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
They get what they want out of it, and pretty
much they got a free luncher. They're going to get
a free early dinner. It's what they're going to do.
But it just grosses me out because I mean, it's
like the customers have to see that before I see that,
but it's my goal to make sure they don't see it.
But by the time I get there, I think they
did see it. And that's why grosses me out. It's like, Oh,
so I'm shopping to Attie pig Side. Yeah, yeah, I
(33:58):
would say that today all these people in here, you're
shopping at a pig sty. We sell pro football merchandise
inside our store that really promotes our local pro football team.
And today they won. Everybody's all fired up, excited, and
so I walk over there to where the T shirts
are and the scars and.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
The knitted hats and things like that.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I'm thinking, Nah, you know, we're feeling good about our team. Man,
maybe I should just go ahead and get one of
those winter hats, you know, with like a big check.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Gutty ball up on top. Yeah, I'm feeling good about
this team. Forty four dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Forty four dollars for a winter cap. Oh, this very
easily could turn into this. What would you do? You
gonta fork out that forty four bucks with one win,
two losses so far for the season.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You know you want it? I know you want it.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I had one of those conversations this past weekend with
a former co partner and creator from the world of radio.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
In fact, that was her producer.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
When it came to her clients and needing advertising for
radio as well as television. And so we're talking and
she goes, well, what are you doing these days? And
why is it that I'm talking to you so late
like this? And I said, well, I'm just coming from
the store. What do you mean you're coming from the store.
I said, I'm in CS Oh what is that I'm
in customer service at a grocery store.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
You're what I said? Yeah, I said, you know that.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
The thing is is that it's like doing a live
radio show and there's people there.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
You know, a live radio show inside the studio is
a studio show.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
But when you're with a live group of people for
eight hours, it's an amazing experience.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
So let me understand here again. You work for a
grocery store. Oh boy, oh boy, how would you feel
at a moment like that?
Speaker 8 (35:51):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Well, there you have it, another exciting edition of CTCs.
The upside downs, the twists, the spins, the INDs, the outs,
the stumble the I don't know what is going on here?
The mood swings. Holy crap, are we going through a
bunch of those? Is it because of this modern day society?
As a do because we feel like that we deserve
to have more? And what about those people that go
you work at a grocery store?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I smell like it, I you know, I you know,
I kind of look like that guy at a grocery store,
you know, like nerdiness. I always want to see your license.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
You know, he's just.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Being I don't know, Hey, thanks for being here. Do
me a favor, create a podcast of your own. And
I do mean that because I want to know what
goes on inside your business, because to me, that's where
the real conversation begins. And we're not just sitting here
trying to have a pissing contest. No, No, it's about
relating with each other. We all bring something to this planet.
(36:48):
Why aren't we talking about it. I'll see you next
week on CTCs.
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