September 19, 2024 • 31 mins
Golden skin, a crisp embrace,
The scent of warmth that fills the air,
A feast of flavors, pure and base,
In every bite, a love affair. The juices run, so tender, sweet,
Each shred of meat, a perfect taste,
From first to last, a purest treat,
No morsel left to go to waste. The crackling skin, a savory dream,
A symphony of roasted bliss,
With every bite, a quiet gleam,
A comfort found in something this. The herbs and spice, the secret blend,
Infused in every golden turn,
A simple joy that knows no end,
A hunger only this can burn. On plates it rests, a sight divine,
The centerpiece of home’s delight,
Each piece a treasure, yours and mine,
A meal that warms the coldest night. So gather round, and take your share,
Of this, the finest, humble fare,
For rotisserie’s tender care,
Is food that’s beyond all compare.
The scent of warmth that fills the air,
A feast of flavors, pure and base,
In every bite, a love affair. The juices run, so tender, sweet,
Each shred of meat, a perfect taste,
From first to last, a purest treat,
No morsel left to go to waste. The crackling skin, a savory dream,
A symphony of roasted bliss,
With every bite, a quiet gleam,
A comfort found in something this. The herbs and spice, the secret blend,
Infused in every golden turn,
A simple joy that knows no end,
A hunger only this can burn. On plates it rests, a sight divine,
The centerpiece of home’s delight,
Each piece a treasure, yours and mine,
A meal that warms the coldest night. So gather round, and take your share,
Of this, the finest, humble fare,
For rotisserie’s tender care,
Is food that’s beyond all compare.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Do then.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now it's Ranger Ryan, Johhas Brand.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Dotza and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Tomish, Betty b and podcast please try up.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
God wow, Hello everyone, Welcome to The Ranger Ryan Show,
a personal journal podcast from me, Ranger Ryan.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And someday we're going to get JT to do an episode. Hey,
you know what I forgotten? What's that you told me
to make an email?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I did? I recommended that?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, yeah, I did it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You did it? Okay? Well yeah, where can people write
in with their questions about how to how to handle
things in life? No?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, no, Dodge, you'll do that. Tell us what you
want us to talk about or fine.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
How we would handle things, Ranger Ryan. Here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm dealing with what you guys do in this situation. Yeah,
you know what in my responsibility.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Oh fine, that's a terrible situation. I recommend not being
in that situation.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Fine, I'll do it whatever. That's fine. If you want
to write, I'll gladly read it. But I just understand
I'm not going to reply. I don't want to think
I'm rude. I just don't know what to write back.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, okay, So it's to be fair. Ranger Ryan is
not a writer. Judge Jay is but will not be
checking the email.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, Ranger Ryan Show at Outlook dot com. When I
tell people Outlook dot com they have no idea what
I'm talking about. But Hotmail they were fine with.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, it's like Roadrunner, Oh quit, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I use Outlook at work, I use Outlook everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
No, Outlook is actually uh, it's still very but it's
pretty standard.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Ranger Ryan Show at Outlook dot com. I also took
it upon myself to create a Twitter at Ranger Ryan Show.
We also need to promote the YouTube, which is farthest
from studios. At farthest from studios regularly. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's every week every week. Instagram at farthest from studios,
(02:20):
Facebook dot com, slash a bunch of numbers, slash farthest
from studio. I know, I did the whole thing. I
did the whole gamut. I didn't make a mind space.
You can be in charge of the my Space. And
it's funny. MySpace is music related, and I think a
lot of people by now have noticed that the intra
music changes every episode. Yes so, and also the ending
(02:45):
music changes every episode.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But it's like a whole new production. No one has
ever heard except for Ryan and Judge Jay.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah. So it's been it's been a it's been fun.
I think I'm just gonna put a compilation together and
we're gonna put on Spotify just I can put all
these all these great songs out there for everyone to
listen to. So today I want to talk about Costco Chicken.
That's what I'm gonna talking about today. Oh okay, so
this let me get this toy from the dog.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah yeah, you uh. I mean, so we're talking about
Costco Chicken. So there's a there's a there's a strong
food centrality in a lot of your content. I mean
the very first episode. Obviously, we have my diary. My
diary is mostly and you know, yeah, I get it,
like you a food diary would.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Make it's a food diary sense, Yeah, it's a food diary.
I mean, there's a few other things I want to
talk about, but I just want to talk about things
that are changing. You know, there's so many things changing,
and I'm sure you can you can mention some things
that have changed, like what I'm talking about, but it's
very disconcerting.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I Costco Chicken changed, it is.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
But I'm going to save the costco Chicken for the
last fifteen minutes of the show. First, I want to
talk about Amazon returns. Yes, okay, So there is a
lot of garbage product on Amazon, and.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's getting closer to wish than it was before.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And you are you're really taking chances. You know, even
the reviews are not what they used to be as
far as you know, keeping you on the right path.
So I do a lot of Amazon purchases, but I
also do a lot of Amazon returns.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Where do you simply go to return things coles? Okay,
which I can, we'll get into.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And now when you do an Amazon return, I noticed
this towards the end of July. I noticed this. It
kind of gets like threatening you now, like it's it
gets very thready. So basically it tells you it mentions
restocking fees and these are all prime things, right, mentions
(04:54):
restocking fees and mentions partial refund and all these little
evil red ex's come.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Up and then and it always defaults to store credit
always default credits through to get to return to credit card.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
If you want your money back in your credit card,
not only is it going to take fourteen days, but
it might not be the full amount because everything is
overly inspected. I'm assuming based not the way they word it,
and I don't know. It's uh, I don't feel I
don't feel as welcome as they used to with Amazon.
(05:28):
I feel like, you know, I don't want to say
that I've taken advantage of the system. It's not like
I think.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think the system is probably just overly generous to
capture market share and now it's recouping.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, you think that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, I think that's that's part of it. I think
the other part of it is that the leadership has changed.
It's gone. Amazon has now gone through its managerial revolution,
where in order to build a product, like you have
these innovators and they do wild and crazy things to
get to get a new product out there, Amazon being
the product that the product is ease of obtaining something
(06:01):
for a really reasonable price usually. But you know, it's
not just Jeff Bezos who has left the company like
they're like the leadership staff has turned over a great
deal and it's gone into the hands of managers. And
the key is that innovators find a way to make
something new and interesting, because that's what you have to
(06:24):
do to establish a product on the market, to establish
a business. But managers just find a way to make
the thing that exists pay more money. That's all they do.
And usually that that's like the best case scenario. And
so I think that's part of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I don't know if you've experienced this. It's not just
like the return policy and all this stuff. Amazon loses
a lot more packages than they used to. I've been
experiencing that for the past two years. And delays you order,
Like so I order books from time to time. I
haven't ordered very many lately because I've got too many books.
(07:04):
But I used to order books all the time, and
it would be a regular occurrence. You order one version
of a book and a different version shows up, you
return that, you order the version that you'll ordered again,
and a different version that you never even seen before
shows up of the same book. Like this would happen
three and four times. It's like they would never get
me the version that I was looking for. So I'm
just looking for Like I already have two paperbacks in
(07:26):
the series. I don't need a hardcover, I don't need
the British paperback. I just need the paperback that's going
to match these other two. And like you just can't
get it because Amazon, like the process is just out
of whack. And you would think managers would be able
to tighten things like that up, but managers understand that,
you know, the thing that pays is what's important, not
(07:47):
overall satisfaction, and they realize that it's simply not worth
going to you know, new bookstores for most of these things.
So that's a quality that they can sacrifice, and that's
weird out.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Risk it Like that was their original bread and butter.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Books, Like, yeah, it was. It was. Amazon was originally
about books, and it was the whole the whole thing
that was great about it was you know, you go
to the bookstore, Well they have a lot of books,
but they don't have all the books Amazon. Amazon has
all the books. You know, if it's in print, even
out of print, you probably can get it from Amazon
for a really great deal. Even used they got great deals.
(08:25):
But they always have every school books, college books, like
artistic books, coffee table books, really off the wall independent publishing.
I do remember a good book. Hey, I remember your
novel that was up there.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And there a cookbook up there.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, you know, and as somebody who's been on the
publishing side as well, you understand and I understand like that,
you know, this is a market share that is not
providable to the average person who writes a book, but
you can make it happen. If people like your book, great,
you know it'll sell. Uh. I mean, you do still
have to promote, because nothing sells by itself. But anyway,
(09:04):
it's just like I think overall that the product quality
on Amazon has kind of just gone downhill. I wonder
if because you've done so many returns, they've put you
into a bucket where you're They're like, I don't know,
you're costing us too much money. You don't pay enough
on your Prime subscription for the nonsense that you're dealing
that you're providing.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So do you get here here? I don't have you
ever seen that screen?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, I've never seen that much red on a thing.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So I'm in I'm in a bad zone. Yeah, When
do I get out?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
As soon as they kick you off a Prime? Probably
all right?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So it says view our return policy, based on the
condition of the item when we receive it, your return
could be subject to red X restocking fee, red X
partial refund red x zero refund zero. You have to
click I understand, and that's when you pick your return location.
(10:00):
We have whole Foods, we have coals, we have ups
ups pick up, and I really like to use that
because I really feel like I'm getting there. It's like, Okay,
come and pick it up. You want to beck, which
is fine. I mean there's I mean there's certain large
(10:20):
items where I'm just like, but Coles is my go to.
I know that Coles did this thinking like, hey, we're
doing awful, let's get people back in our stores.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And how can we do that the back of the store.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, yeah, you put it where the.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Straightforward it's like, well maybe I could buy a pair
of socks while I'm here.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
They give you a ten percent off coupon every time
you return something. It's good on like four products in
the store. Because it's all fine print, an entire sticker.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I didn't notice that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Oh it's I never used. Nobody does. And I think
it's really backfired because I'm pretty sure I don't think
Amazon's paying them for the labor in any way.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So they're literally just doing this for the traffic.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I mean, what what is the agreement?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Here. Yeah, I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I mean, Coals to me has really just you know
what's funny though, My wife and kids are at Coals
right now while we're recording this. Oh, I would hate
for them to spend money, but when they're going with
a neighbor just for like whatever, school clothes or whatever.
And my wife came back like five minutes aentter she left,
(11:34):
and she was like, Becky wants to go to Coals.
I need to get my Amazon return because that's really
that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
She wasn't back to like grab the Coal's credit card
and the forty percent off coopon h.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Noah, we got some Coals cash. I'm sure she does.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And like whenever the Coals cash like forty percent off,
like I think it was thirty percent, it was like ten,
twenty thirty, but then eventually they added in a forty
and it's like anytime I see a forty, I'm like,
take a look, see if I need a pair of shoes. Yeah, yeah,
that sort of thing, because they're on sale forty percent off.
If they're on sale and you use a forty percent off.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You can't use. You can't do when it's on sale.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I thought you could, but no, I don't know. I
don't buy in on I don't buy expensive shoes, but
forty percent off of inexpensive shoes is a great deal,
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah. Yeah, And the Coal's version of shoes are not
available anywhere else. It's kind of similar how Minards versions
of shower heads aren't available anywhere else because the inside
of them are plastic and everywhere else they're metal. Right,
So coals it is. Uh, it's the worst version of
that shoe.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, okay, So what you have to keep in mind
is I do a lot of things that destroy my
shoes pretty quickly for a living. So and I know
people are like, oh, you should wear boots and stuff
like that. Eh, for a lot of the stuff that
I do, wearing boots just makes the day harder.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Oh yeah, you know after the day, hey, when you
get home, Yeah, taking them off is the best part
of your day.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Oh yeah. In fact, I've taken to keeping like flip
flops in the car, and like a lot of times
at the end of the day I'll take my shoes
off and put on flip flops to drive home, just
because sometimes my feet hurt, you know, I'm working in
a two story house right now, frequently going to the basement, frequently,
frequently going to the third floor. Sorry, three story house. Uh.
(13:19):
And you know, I might do thirty five sets of stairs,
thirty five cases of stairs in a day, you know,
and that adds up. And if you're especially if you're
carrying equipment, carrying you know, materials, you know. So I
go through shoes a lot, so it's kind of important
that I have that. I jump on deals when they're there.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Understood. It is recommended that you buy shoes every six
months anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Oh is it because of foot Yeah? Yeah, hygiene?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
No, No, not hygiene, it's actually the soles get destroyed
within six months.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah. Than like you're you're you're not walking correctly because
of that. So when I do, you have seen some
of the weird shoes that I wear?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Though I do, you wear the weirdest shoes I wear?
I will wear some embarrassing. Everybody's like, you got what
dot you guys do YouTube video punkasts, It's like if
his shoes are in the shot, we are toast.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
One day out, I was working on a deck in
those really weird shoes that I wear with my brother
Don and the people's kids came outside and one of
them asked Don. He was like is he Is he
working in socks? And I was like, yeah kind of.
So it's like there's sock shoes. Man, they're great, but
it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Please don't tell anybody about that. A little late now
I bleep that all right? So all right, so I
think we've we've dolved into the changes in Amazon, even
though apparently some of them I might just be because
of me.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
But I have noticed certain things though, like it doesn't
default back to the card that used to be a
standard thing. Oh I bought this. It wasn't what I expected.
I haven't even opened it. I just need to return it.
Please send it back to my card.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And actually stually the one of the newest things is it,
uh you know, once like oh, would you like an
expert to call you? And it's like, no, it's an
HDMI cable that isn't working. Yeah, it's probably AI, not
a person.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Oh yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, entirely could be.
And if it's not now, like within two years, like
oh yeah, within two years. If you're calling a line,
if you're calling if there's any phone conversation with the
corporation and you're not talking to an Ai. Something's wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, the most entertaining part of this podcast is Ai
the songs.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So all right, so Costco, Costco Chicken? Are you a member?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Uh No?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
But uh I know lots of people who are, so
I can go to a Costco anytime I want to.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh, I'm pretty sure you have to be a pang
member to go. Pretty sure?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Those are the rules. Okay, well I've it's been a
long time since I've gone. You didn't use that.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Sharing memberships are not allowed. Who's this person?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Come on, everybody does this?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Who's this person?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
So it doesn't rattle them, doesn't You're not going to
get a finder's feet. No. I guess it's like you
can provide. You can provide, like, oh, I need these
five things, you know, and how are they going to
control that? So whatever?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Are you going to the store? No, I haven't been.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I haven't been to the store since we worked at
that other store that's closes.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay they check ID now, Oh at checkout they don't
do in the beginning. You can just splash a little card,
but at checkout they've checked ID. Every time. Anyway, that's
not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the chicken.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
The chicken downfall.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
So this happened. It was happened in July, but it's
been something that's really been weighing on me because that
is something I get weekly. Okay, Costco Chicken. We usually
buy it on Thursday. I have been doing keto for
over a year, even though I haven't been back on
(16:51):
it since the cruise actually, which you know who cares.
But anyway, so we get a chicken every Thursday, and
and in July, out of nowhere, no warning, nothing, they
got rid of the box that it comes in it
and now comes in a bag. Oh okay, why why
(17:15):
not the plastic box? What happened? So plastic shortage.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's probably just cheaper to package in a bag.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Cheaper to package is that savings passed on to.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Me in the form of the dollar fifty hot dogs
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Problem those hot dogs? I mean, you know as much
as I the Okay, so I'll make an argument for
the Costco bag. So when you buy a Costco Chicken,
it comes to this big, giant plastic tupperware right, black bottom,
clear top. Yeah, and it's big it's the size of
the chicken, right, hold the bird. It's got to hold
(17:52):
the bird. But it keeps it nice, you know, it
doesn't get that condensation rubbing up against it like a
bag would. However, come trash night when you dispose of
that chicken, the plastic house well, it uh doesn't fit
well in a trash bag, especially a kitchen size. So
(18:16):
in that idea it is superior. But as far as
keeping the skin nice and you know, rubbery as opposed
to slimy, the plastic bag, you know, it conforms to whatever.
So it presses up against that skin and you're gonna
get some soggy skin.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, you're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Some, okay. And the skin is important on a rotisserie chicken.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It is.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Where, you know, all the flavor, that's where all the
flavor is. But it's just it's it's one of the
great joys I have in life is rotissary chicken skin.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And it's just it's just gone.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It's gone. I mean, it might as well be sing.
I don't even know, slimy chicken.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Are you able to keep chickens here?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
What live? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah you could totally just like yeah, but I want
to do like feeder chickens, right, yeah, yeah, you do
laying chicken. Yeah, I mean, especially with egg prices the
way they are.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, I would just you know, we've talked about it.
We have a spot that it could work. But still
I'm not concerned about that. I'm concerned about Costco's chicken changes.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Now, I will say they didn't raise the price, even
though they made it cheaper for them. They didn't raise
the hot dog, but they've raised almost everything else. So
I just think, as you know, as a member, I'm
paying whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So into like three hundred dollars a year or something
like that. No, I had no idea what it is.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I'm on my mom's card.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
My wife is okay, so we're no.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
No, like you can have two people per car, oh okay, okay,
So I don't know. We're just like a bonus. So
I don't really know. But I do know that Sam's
Club still has the plastic box.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
They're still Sam's around here. I thought they all closed
around here.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
No, there's still. I mean it's not convenient, but Sam's
has much better deals. You can become a member for
twelve dollars a year something like that. Oh oh wait,
twenty four dollars a year, because twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Four so barely a barrier at this point.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, so it was twenty four bucks. It was like
a group on, but it only works for people who
have never been members, so I wasn't able to renew
it first first, Yeah, yeah, because I haven't been a
Sam's member in a year. But it's I try to
sign up for the deal, right, and try.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
To say, it's like twenty four bucks.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Sweet, see a costco chicken. That's my whole thought. So
I get on Sam's Club and I sign up and
it says only works for people that are non existing members.
I'm like, okay, I got plenty of emails. Ranger Ryan
showed outlook do right, and then I just it's still said,
(21:12):
you know, change the email, and it still said you
can't do this because you already remember yeah, And I
was like, okay, I'll use a different I'll use.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
My wife's did you turn on the VPN at that point?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So I use my wife's name and I switched browsers.
I wasn't like completely clueless. I the VPNs on by itself.
I mean, it's just but anyway, I use my wife's name.
And it says, oh sorry, I already remember wow, And
I was like, okay, So I tried all kinds of
different things, and I think it goes by the address.
(21:46):
That's really the only thing I couldn't take.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's like people move, I mean, you know, yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I changed the phone number, I changed the names, I
changed the email. And I'm not trying to be dishonest.
I mean my wife's never been a member, right yeah,
so it's still I just wanted to save half off.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Right yeah. I think it's fifty dollars a year and
whatever you will probably save in one visit, so maybe,
I mean, you know, whenever we go to Costco, it's
like you can look at your cart and let's say
you have five items and you already met you already
know it's a hundred bucks because everything there's.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Twenty bucks, right, yeah, you know, like minimum Right, everything's
twenty bucks. It's like, oh, okay, they're back with the
lemon almonds, which is a great time of year that's
usually in May. They have these lemon cello almonds. So
they're almonds covered in white chocolate, dipped in like a
lemon cello coating.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Man.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That's good, but anyway, So they have all these you know,
like twenty bucks, a big old baggage. It's maybe ten bucks,
but you got to buy two or something, so it's
twenty bucks. Get the big soda whatever, it's all twenty bucks.
Everything's twenty bucks at least. And I don't know if
(23:11):
you're saving that much because we actually did a comparison
with like a Walmart plus order to like a costco
shopping trip, my wife and I, and it wasn't substantially
cheaper on Walmart, but it was like four bucks cheaper.
And that's without a membership, right, And I know we
don't personally pay for the membership, were tacked on as
(23:32):
the second person. But I just feel like I don't
know if it's worth it anymore. Like I guess what
you are paying for is maybe that brand, right, like
Kirkland's brand, because they're their product are good, you know,
like the Kirkland brand product is good stuff. It's not cheap,
(23:56):
but it's good. But I feel the same way about Aldy,
you know, like al Theise the opposite, like it's very good,
but it's super cheap.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Compared to and no membership and name brands. But also
like much smaller selection typically I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, but it's also very seasonal. If you like something
at Aldi, most likely two weeks from now, you can't
get it unless it's like a base product.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Well, and the other thing I like about Aldi is
that they really have a high contingent of like much
smaller businesses which are more regional as opposed to like
the you know Sam's, Walmart, you know Costco. These are
You're not in there unless you are a major player
in the food service industry. And I kind of also
believe in the entrepreneurial spirit of people starting businesses and
(24:43):
like trying to provide food for people out there and
earn a living doing that, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
So so I mean anyway, after the Costco chicken thing,
and it's funny, uh chickens, right, we used to buy
whole chickens all the time. Yeah, whole chickens used to
costs a dollar ninety nine for the whole chicken.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Like I used to get them all the time because
I used to break down my own chicken and it's
way cheaper. Cooking a chicken breast on the bone is
way more flavorful than cooking like a whatever whatever they
sell the stores like so bos breast, yeah, there you go,
bonus breast, gross, boneless, and frozen. Yeah. So yeah, we
(25:24):
used to do our own chickens. Like I used to
buy whole birds. They were two bucks, three bucks, four
bucks at the most. There's a mere and stuff, and
you know, I was like, whatever, we'll just go buy it,
buy a raw chicken. And I guess I haven't done
it in a few years, right, and I'm just not
used to it. And it was like eleven to twelve
(25:45):
dollars for.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
The chicken and a bag.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
No, no, you know for the uncooked chicken.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, I got you. I got you.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
And I'm like, well, of course I'm going to get
the six dollars cooked one from Costco in a bag.
Why I want to get a twelve dollars uncooked chicken. Yeah.
So I don't know where the constant fact. I don't
know when that changed. I mean, it could have been
too recent, I think, because I think I remember complaining
about it Visa B like twenty twenty. So maybe maybe
(26:15):
it's just been something that's been escalating.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
There's that, I mean, inflation is hitting everything. There have
been some disruptions in the chicken production market. From what
I Understandsco's still six bucks. Yeah, I mean they buy
a lot of chickens. They do buy a lot of chickens.
They cook a lot of chickens, cook a lot of chickens,
that's true. I mean I used to there's millions of
(26:38):
birds a day, so I used to, uh, before I
went to my office. I had to be in the
office around eight and Costco for premium members. Oh no, SAMs,
maybe it was Sam's.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Well anyway, Yeah, I mean they had fresh chicken at
eight o'clock in the morning basically, so somebody's cooking those chicken. Yeah,
and they pay their employees. Well a full disclosure. I
worked for Costco for nine days. It was after I
got laid off at the place we worked together, and
(27:13):
I was like, all right, whenever, I'll just work over
across the street.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You got to buy out, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
It doesn't mean I couldn't get it. That's still laid off.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
No, No, you got. You got the option of retaining
a job. But what job, well, they like they if
I recall correctly, they gave They gave me you could
apply for other positions.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, but you don't get the Severns back right.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
And that was the thing I wass was like, like,
if they just offered me a severance package, I'm taking it,
you know. And they never did. They offered you one.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I just had to leave no severans coming my way.
So yeah, I got the Severnce package and I walked
across the street and worked to Costco. So yeah, it
wasn't for me. It wasn't.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Okay, it was still retail, I guess. No, No, I was.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I was.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
You would have got cooking the chickens.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I wish see if I could have got that gig man,
oh boy, I would have fought that bag thing too,
But I would have loved that job. So I worked,
uh nine pm to six am or something.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Oh okay, ten six am. Yeah, the overnight shift is rough.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, I mean it's not. I like working hard. I
have no problem with that. It's just just wasn't for me.
I guess the chicken job. So that's the one that
the chicken job. All right, let'spend the way.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I let's say we got Ryan's dreams job.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
So kai guys gonna talk about Costco Chicken for thirty minutes.
Well we did it. We found a way, all right,
spend the way I spend the way I don't want
to turn the volume onto al Right, what have we got? Wow?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
All right, tell everybody what the wheel has spoken. So
we've got dance.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Party, dance party song, presumably about Costco or tissory chicken.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, yeah, and the trials of Amazon returns.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah, stick with one.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You're not that much.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I don't. I don't want to get confused. It'll it'll
be talking about returning chickens.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
It'll be a mess, like get partial partial refund on
a lightly used chicken.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
It could be a mess. We'll stick, I'll put it in.
I'll see what happens. But dance party already is is
gonna make it a little weird. We'll have to see
what it is.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
All right.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Well, thank you as always for listening. Until next time,
we'll see you later.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
In the heat and turned so slow, Golden Skin with
a perfect glow, Spices pants Flame, the Sad Night.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Rote the three Magic in the Night, rolled the Surri
(30:52):
turned it slow
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Gold of Skin, watch it flow rolled, Siri, Spices Night, Chicken, Chicken,
Dance Tonight, Rotestrin, turn it slow, shaken shaken, watch it glow,
Rotistery Spices Day Night Shac and Chicken Hardy to Night
(31:18):
Night
Do then.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now it's Ranger Ryan, Johhas Brand.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Dotza and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Tomish, Betty b and podcast please try up.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
God wow, Hello everyone, Welcome to The Ranger Ryan Show,
a personal journal podcast from me, Ranger Ryan.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And someday we're going to get JT to do an episode. Hey,
you know what I forgotten? What's that you told me
to make an email?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I did? I recommended that?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, yeah, I did it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You did it? Okay? Well yeah, where can people write
in with their questions about how to how to handle
things in life? No?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, no, Dodge, you'll do that. Tell us what you
want us to talk about or fine.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
How we would handle things, Ranger Ryan. Here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm dealing with what you guys do in this situation. Yeah,
you know what in my responsibility.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Oh fine, that's a terrible situation. I recommend not being
in that situation.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Fine, I'll do it whatever. That's fine. If you want
to write, I'll gladly read it. But I just understand
I'm not going to reply. I don't want to think
I'm rude. I just don't know what to write back.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, okay, So it's to be fair. Ranger Ryan is
not a writer. Judge Jay is but will not be
checking the email.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, Ranger Ryan Show at Outlook dot com. When I
tell people Outlook dot com they have no idea what
I'm talking about. But Hotmail they were fine with.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, it's like Roadrunner, Oh quit, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I use Outlook at work, I use Outlook everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
No, Outlook is actually uh, it's still very but it's
pretty standard.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Ranger Ryan Show at Outlook dot com. I also took
it upon myself to create a Twitter at Ranger Ryan Show.
We also need to promote the YouTube, which is farthest
from studios. At farthest from studios regularly. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's every week every week. Instagram at farthest from studios,
(02:20):
Facebook dot com, slash a bunch of numbers, slash farthest
from studio. I know, I did the whole thing. I
did the whole gamut. I didn't make a mind space.
You can be in charge of the my Space. And
it's funny. MySpace is music related, and I think a
lot of people by now have noticed that the intra
music changes every episode. Yes so, and also the ending
(02:45):
music changes every episode.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But it's like a whole new production. No one has
ever heard except for Ryan and Judge Jay.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah. So it's been it's been a it's been fun.
I think I'm just gonna put a compilation together and
we're gonna put on Spotify just I can put all
these all these great songs out there for everyone to
listen to. So today I want to talk about Costco Chicken.
That's what I'm gonna talking about today. Oh okay, so
this let me get this toy from the dog.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah yeah, you uh. I mean, so we're talking about
Costco Chicken. So there's a there's a there's a strong
food centrality in a lot of your content. I mean
the very first episode. Obviously, we have my diary. My
diary is mostly and you know, yeah, I get it,
like you a food diary would.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Make it's a food diary sense, Yeah, it's a food diary.
I mean, there's a few other things I want to
talk about, but I just want to talk about things
that are changing. You know, there's so many things changing,
and I'm sure you can you can mention some things
that have changed, like what I'm talking about, but it's
very disconcerting.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I Costco Chicken changed, it is.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
But I'm going to save the costco Chicken for the
last fifteen minutes of the show. First, I want to
talk about Amazon returns. Yes, okay, So there is a
lot of garbage product on Amazon, and.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's getting closer to wish than it was before.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And you are you're really taking chances. You know, even
the reviews are not what they used to be as
far as you know, keeping you on the right path.
So I do a lot of Amazon purchases, but I
also do a lot of Amazon returns.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Where do you simply go to return things coles? Okay,
which I can, we'll get into.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And now when you do an Amazon return, I noticed
this towards the end of July. I noticed this. It
kind of gets like threatening you now, like it's it
gets very thready. So basically it tells you it mentions
restocking fees and these are all prime things, right, mentions
(04:54):
restocking fees and mentions partial refund and all these little
evil red ex's come.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Up and then and it always defaults to store credit
always default credits through to get to return to credit card.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
If you want your money back in your credit card,
not only is it going to take fourteen days, but
it might not be the full amount because everything is
overly inspected. I'm assuming based not the way they word it,
and I don't know. It's uh, I don't feel I
don't feel as welcome as they used to with Amazon.
(05:28):
I feel like, you know, I don't want to say
that I've taken advantage of the system. It's not like
I think.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think the system is probably just overly generous to
capture market share and now it's recouping.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, you think that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, I think that's that's part of it. I think
the other part of it is that the leadership has changed.
It's gone. Amazon has now gone through its managerial revolution,
where in order to build a product, like you have
these innovators and they do wild and crazy things to
get to get a new product out there, Amazon being
the product that the product is ease of obtaining something
(06:01):
for a really reasonable price usually. But you know, it's
not just Jeff Bezos who has left the company like
they're like the leadership staff has turned over a great
deal and it's gone into the hands of managers. And
the key is that innovators find a way to make
something new and interesting, because that's what you have to
(06:24):
do to establish a product on the market, to establish
a business. But managers just find a way to make
the thing that exists pay more money. That's all they do.
And usually that that's like the best case scenario. And
so I think that's part of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I don't know if you've experienced this. It's not just
like the return policy and all this stuff. Amazon loses
a lot more packages than they used to. I've been
experiencing that for the past two years. And delays you order,
Like so I order books from time to time. I
haven't ordered very many lately because I've got too many books.
(07:04):
But I used to order books all the time, and
it would be a regular occurrence. You order one version
of a book and a different version shows up, you
return that, you order the version that you'll ordered again,
and a different version that you never even seen before
shows up of the same book. Like this would happen
three and four times. It's like they would never get
me the version that I was looking for. So I'm
just looking for Like I already have two paperbacks in
(07:26):
the series. I don't need a hardcover, I don't need
the British paperback. I just need the paperback that's going
to match these other two. And like you just can't
get it because Amazon, like the process is just out
of whack. And you would think managers would be able
to tighten things like that up, but managers understand that,
you know, the thing that pays is what's important, not
(07:47):
overall satisfaction, and they realize that it's simply not worth
going to you know, new bookstores for most of these things.
So that's a quality that they can sacrifice, and that's
weird out.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Risk it Like that was their original bread and butter.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Books, Like, yeah, it was. It was. Amazon was originally
about books, and it was the whole the whole thing
that was great about it was you know, you go
to the bookstore, Well they have a lot of books,
but they don't have all the books Amazon. Amazon has
all the books. You know, if it's in print, even
out of print, you probably can get it from Amazon
for a really great deal. Even used they got great deals.
(08:25):
But they always have every school books, college books, like
artistic books, coffee table books, really off the wall independent publishing.
I do remember a good book. Hey, I remember your
novel that was up there.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And there a cookbook up there.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, you know, and as somebody who's been on the
publishing side as well, you understand and I understand like that,
you know, this is a market share that is not
providable to the average person who writes a book, but
you can make it happen. If people like your book, great,
you know it'll sell. Uh. I mean, you do still
have to promote, because nothing sells by itself. But anyway,
(09:04):
it's just like I think overall that the product quality
on Amazon has kind of just gone downhill. I wonder
if because you've done so many returns, they've put you
into a bucket where you're They're like, I don't know,
you're costing us too much money. You don't pay enough
on your Prime subscription for the nonsense that you're dealing
that you're providing.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So do you get here here? I don't have you
ever seen that screen?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, I've never seen that much red on a thing.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So I'm in I'm in a bad zone. Yeah, When
do I get out?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
As soon as they kick you off a Prime? Probably
all right?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So it says view our return policy, based on the
condition of the item when we receive it, your return
could be subject to red X restocking fee, red X
partial refund red x zero refund zero. You have to
click I understand, and that's when you pick your return location.
(10:00):
We have whole Foods, we have coals, we have ups
ups pick up, and I really like to use that
because I really feel like I'm getting there. It's like, Okay,
come and pick it up. You want to beck, which
is fine. I mean there's I mean there's certain large
(10:20):
items where I'm just like, but Coles is my go to.
I know that Coles did this thinking like, hey, we're
doing awful, let's get people back in our stores.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And how can we do that the back of the store.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, yeah, you put it where the.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Straightforward it's like, well maybe I could buy a pair
of socks while I'm here.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
They give you a ten percent off coupon every time
you return something. It's good on like four products in
the store. Because it's all fine print, an entire sticker.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I didn't notice that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Oh it's I never used. Nobody does. And I think
it's really backfired because I'm pretty sure I don't think
Amazon's paying them for the labor in any way.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So they're literally just doing this for the traffic.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I mean, what what is the agreement?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Here. Yeah, I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I mean, Coals to me has really just you know
what's funny though, My wife and kids are at Coals
right now while we're recording this. Oh, I would hate
for them to spend money, but when they're going with
a neighbor just for like whatever, school clothes or whatever.
And my wife came back like five minutes aentter she left,
(11:34):
and she was like, Becky wants to go to Coals.
I need to get my Amazon return because that's really
that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
She wasn't back to like grab the Coal's credit card
and the forty percent off coopon h.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Noah, we got some Coals cash. I'm sure she does.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And like whenever the Coals cash like forty percent off,
like I think it was thirty percent, it was like ten,
twenty thirty, but then eventually they added in a forty
and it's like anytime I see a forty, I'm like,
take a look, see if I need a pair of shoes. Yeah, yeah,
that sort of thing, because they're on sale forty percent off.
If they're on sale and you use a forty percent off.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You can't use. You can't do when it's on sale.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I thought you could, but no, I don't know. I
don't buy in on I don't buy expensive shoes, but
forty percent off of inexpensive shoes is a great deal,
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah. Yeah, And the Coal's version of shoes are not
available anywhere else. It's kind of similar how Minards versions
of shower heads aren't available anywhere else because the inside
of them are plastic and everywhere else they're metal. Right,
So coals it is. Uh, it's the worst version of
that shoe.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, okay, So what you have to keep in mind
is I do a lot of things that destroy my
shoes pretty quickly for a living. So and I know
people are like, oh, you should wear boots and stuff
like that. Eh, for a lot of the stuff that
I do, wearing boots just makes the day harder.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Oh yeah, you know after the day, hey, when you
get home, Yeah, taking them off is the best part
of your day.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Oh yeah. In fact, I've taken to keeping like flip
flops in the car, and like a lot of times
at the end of the day I'll take my shoes
off and put on flip flops to drive home, just
because sometimes my feet hurt, you know, I'm working in
a two story house right now, frequently going to the basement, frequently,
frequently going to the third floor. Sorry, three story house. Uh.
(13:19):
And you know, I might do thirty five sets of stairs,
thirty five cases of stairs in a day, you know,
and that adds up. And if you're especially if you're
carrying equipment, carrying you know, materials, you know. So I
go through shoes a lot, so it's kind of important
that I have that. I jump on deals when they're there.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Understood. It is recommended that you buy shoes every six
months anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Oh is it because of foot Yeah? Yeah, hygiene?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
No, No, not hygiene, it's actually the soles get destroyed
within six months.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah. Than like you're you're you're not walking correctly because
of that. So when I do, you have seen some
of the weird shoes that I wear?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Though I do, you wear the weirdest shoes I wear?
I will wear some embarrassing. Everybody's like, you got what
dot you guys do YouTube video punkasts, It's like if
his shoes are in the shot, we are toast.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
One day out, I was working on a deck in
those really weird shoes that I wear with my brother
Don and the people's kids came outside and one of
them asked Don. He was like is he Is he
working in socks? And I was like, yeah kind of.
So it's like there's sock shoes. Man, they're great, but
it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Please don't tell anybody about that. A little late now
I bleep that all right? So all right, so I
think we've we've dolved into the changes in Amazon, even
though apparently some of them I might just be because
of me.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
But I have noticed certain things though, like it doesn't
default back to the card that used to be a
standard thing. Oh I bought this. It wasn't what I expected.
I haven't even opened it. I just need to return it.
Please send it back to my card.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And actually stually the one of the newest things is it,
uh you know, once like oh, would you like an
expert to call you? And it's like, no, it's an
HDMI cable that isn't working. Yeah, it's probably AI, not
a person.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Oh yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, entirely could be.
And if it's not now, like within two years, like
oh yeah, within two years. If you're calling a line,
if you're calling if there's any phone conversation with the
corporation and you're not talking to an Ai. Something's wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, the most entertaining part of this podcast is Ai
the songs.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So all right, so Costco, Costco Chicken? Are you a member?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Uh No?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
But uh I know lots of people who are, so
I can go to a Costco anytime I want to.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh, I'm pretty sure you have to be a pang
member to go. Pretty sure?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Those are the rules. Okay, well I've it's been a
long time since I've gone. You didn't use that.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Sharing memberships are not allowed. Who's this person?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Come on, everybody does this?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Who's this person?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
So it doesn't rattle them, doesn't You're not going to
get a finder's feet. No. I guess it's like you
can provide. You can provide, like, oh, I need these
five things, you know, and how are they going to
control that? So whatever?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Are you going to the store? No, I haven't been.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I haven't been to the store since we worked at
that other store that's closes.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay they check ID now, Oh at checkout they don't
do in the beginning. You can just splash a little card,
but at checkout they've checked ID. Every time. Anyway, that's
not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the chicken.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
The chicken downfall.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
So this happened. It was happened in July, but it's
been something that's really been weighing on me because that
is something I get weekly. Okay, Costco Chicken. We usually
buy it on Thursday. I have been doing keto for
over a year, even though I haven't been back on
(16:51):
it since the cruise actually, which you know who cares.
But anyway, so we get a chicken every Thursday, and
and in July, out of nowhere, no warning, nothing, they
got rid of the box that it comes in it
and now comes in a bag. Oh okay, why why
(17:15):
not the plastic box? What happened? So plastic shortage.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's probably just cheaper to package in a bag.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Cheaper to package is that savings passed on to.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Me in the form of the dollar fifty hot dogs
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Problem those hot dogs? I mean, you know as much
as I the Okay, so I'll make an argument for
the Costco bag. So when you buy a Costco Chicken,
it comes to this big, giant plastic tupperware right, black bottom,
clear top. Yeah, and it's big it's the size of
the chicken, right, hold the bird. It's got to hold
(17:52):
the bird. But it keeps it nice, you know, it
doesn't get that condensation rubbing up against it like a
bag would. However, come trash night when you dispose of
that chicken, the plastic house well, it uh doesn't fit
well in a trash bag, especially a kitchen size. So
(18:16):
in that idea it is superior. But as far as
keeping the skin nice and you know, rubbery as opposed
to slimy, the plastic bag, you know, it conforms to whatever.
So it presses up against that skin and you're gonna
get some soggy skin.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, you're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Some, okay. And the skin is important on a rotisserie chicken.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It is.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Where, you know, all the flavor, that's where all the
flavor is. But it's just it's it's one of the
great joys I have in life is rotissary chicken skin.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And it's just it's just gone.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It's gone. I mean, it might as well be sing.
I don't even know, slimy chicken.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Are you able to keep chickens here?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
What live? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah you could totally just like yeah, but I want
to do like feeder chickens, right, yeah, yeah, you do
laying chicken. Yeah, I mean, especially with egg prices the
way they are.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, I would just you know, we've talked about it.
We have a spot that it could work. But still
I'm not concerned about that. I'm concerned about Costco's chicken changes.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Now, I will say they didn't raise the price, even
though they made it cheaper for them. They didn't raise
the hot dog, but they've raised almost everything else. So
I just think, as you know, as a member, I'm
paying whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So into like three hundred dollars a year or something
like that. No, I had no idea what it is.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I'm on my mom's card.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
My wife is okay, so we're no.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
No, like you can have two people per car, oh okay, okay,
So I don't know. We're just like a bonus. So
I don't really know. But I do know that Sam's
Club still has the plastic box.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
They're still Sam's around here. I thought they all closed
around here.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
No, there's still. I mean it's not convenient, but Sam's
has much better deals. You can become a member for
twelve dollars a year something like that. Oh oh wait,
twenty four dollars a year, because twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Four so barely a barrier at this point.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, so it was twenty four bucks. It was like
a group on, but it only works for people who
have never been members, so I wasn't able to renew
it first first, Yeah, yeah, because I haven't been a
Sam's member in a year. But it's I try to
sign up for the deal, right, and try.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
To say, it's like twenty four bucks.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Sweet, see a costco chicken. That's my whole thought. So
I get on Sam's Club and I sign up and
it says only works for people that are non existing members.
I'm like, okay, I got plenty of emails. Ranger Ryan
showed outlook do right, and then I just it's still said,
(21:12):
you know, change the email, and it still said you
can't do this because you already remember yeah, And I
was like, okay, I'll use a different I'll use.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
My wife's did you turn on the VPN at that point?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So I use my wife's name and I switched browsers.
I wasn't like completely clueless. I the VPNs on by itself.
I mean, it's just but anyway, I use my wife's name.
And it says, oh sorry, I already remember wow, And
I was like, okay, So I tried all kinds of
different things, and I think it goes by the address.
(21:46):
That's really the only thing I couldn't take.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's like people move, I mean, you know, yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I changed the phone number, I changed the names, I
changed the email. And I'm not trying to be dishonest.
I mean my wife's never been a member, right yeah,
so it's still I just wanted to save half off.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Right yeah. I think it's fifty dollars a year and
whatever you will probably save in one visit, so maybe,
I mean, you know, whenever we go to Costco, it's
like you can look at your cart and let's say
you have five items and you already met you already
know it's a hundred bucks because everything there's.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Twenty bucks, right, yeah, you know, like minimum Right, everything's
twenty bucks. It's like, oh, okay, they're back with the
lemon almonds, which is a great time of year that's
usually in May. They have these lemon cello almonds. So
they're almonds covered in white chocolate, dipped in like a
lemon cello coating.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Man.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That's good, but anyway, So they have all these you know,
like twenty bucks, a big old baggage. It's maybe ten bucks,
but you got to buy two or something, so it's
twenty bucks. Get the big soda whatever, it's all twenty bucks.
Everything's twenty bucks at least. And I don't know if
(23:11):
you're saving that much because we actually did a comparison
with like a Walmart plus order to like a costco
shopping trip, my wife and I, and it wasn't substantially
cheaper on Walmart, but it was like four bucks cheaper.
And that's without a membership, right, And I know we
don't personally pay for the membership, were tacked on as
(23:32):
the second person. But I just feel like I don't
know if it's worth it anymore. Like I guess what
you are paying for is maybe that brand, right, like
Kirkland's brand, because they're their product are good, you know,
like the Kirkland brand product is good stuff. It's not cheap,
(23:56):
but it's good. But I feel the same way about Aldy,
you know, like al Theise the opposite, like it's very good,
but it's super cheap.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Compared to and no membership and name brands. But also
like much smaller selection typically I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, but it's also very seasonal. If you like something
at Aldi, most likely two weeks from now, you can't
get it unless it's like a base product.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Well, and the other thing I like about Aldi is
that they really have a high contingent of like much
smaller businesses which are more regional as opposed to like
the you know Sam's, Walmart, you know Costco. These are
You're not in there unless you are a major player
in the food service industry. And I kind of also
believe in the entrepreneurial spirit of people starting businesses and
(24:43):
like trying to provide food for people out there and
earn a living doing that, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
So so I mean anyway, after the Costco chicken thing,
and it's funny, uh chickens, right, we used to buy
whole chickens all the time. Yeah, whole chickens used to
costs a dollar ninety nine for the whole chicken.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Like I used to get them all the time because
I used to break down my own chicken and it's
way cheaper. Cooking a chicken breast on the bone is
way more flavorful than cooking like a whatever whatever they
sell the stores like so bos breast, yeah, there you go,
bonus breast, gross, boneless, and frozen. Yeah. So yeah, we
(25:24):
used to do our own chickens. Like I used to
buy whole birds. They were two bucks, three bucks, four
bucks at the most. There's a mere and stuff, and
you know, I was like, whatever, we'll just go buy it,
buy a raw chicken. And I guess I haven't done
it in a few years, right, and I'm just not
used to it. And it was like eleven to twelve
(25:45):
dollars for.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
The chicken and a bag.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
No, no, you know for the uncooked chicken.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, I got you. I got you.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
And I'm like, well, of course I'm going to get
the six dollars cooked one from Costco in a bag.
Why I want to get a twelve dollars uncooked chicken. Yeah.
So I don't know where the constant fact. I don't
know when that changed. I mean, it could have been
too recent, I think, because I think I remember complaining
about it Visa B like twenty twenty. So maybe maybe
(26:15):
it's just been something that's been escalating.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
There's that, I mean, inflation is hitting everything. There have
been some disruptions in the chicken production market. From what
I Understandsco's still six bucks. Yeah, I mean they buy
a lot of chickens. They do buy a lot of chickens.
They cook a lot of chickens, cook a lot of chickens,
that's true. I mean I used to there's millions of
(26:38):
birds a day, so I used to, uh, before I
went to my office. I had to be in the
office around eight and Costco for premium members. Oh no, SAMs,
maybe it was Sam's.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Well anyway, Yeah, I mean they had fresh chicken at
eight o'clock in the morning basically, so somebody's cooking those chicken. Yeah,
and they pay their employees. Well a full disclosure. I
worked for Costco for nine days. It was after I
got laid off at the place we worked together, and
(27:13):
I was like, all right, whenever, I'll just work over
across the street.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You got to buy out, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
It doesn't mean I couldn't get it. That's still laid off.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
No, No, you got. You got the option of retaining
a job. But what job, well, they like they if
I recall correctly, they gave They gave me you could
apply for other positions.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, but you don't get the Severns back right.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
And that was the thing I wass was like, like,
if they just offered me a severance package, I'm taking it,
you know. And they never did. They offered you one.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I just had to leave no severans coming my way.
So yeah, I got the Severnce package and I walked
across the street and worked to Costco. So yeah, it
wasn't for me. It wasn't.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Okay, it was still retail, I guess. No, No, I was.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I was.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
You would have got cooking the chickens.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I wish see if I could have got that gig man,
oh boy, I would have fought that bag thing too,
But I would have loved that job. So I worked,
uh nine pm to six am or something.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Oh okay, ten six am. Yeah, the overnight shift is rough.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, I mean it's not. I like working hard. I
have no problem with that. It's just just wasn't for me.
I guess the chicken job. So that's the one that
the chicken job. All right, let'spend the way.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I let's say we got Ryan's dreams job.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
So kai guys gonna talk about Costco Chicken for thirty minutes.
Well we did it. We found a way, all right,
spend the way I spend the way I don't want
to turn the volume onto al Right, what have we got? Wow?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
All right, tell everybody what the wheel has spoken. So
we've got dance.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Party, dance party song, presumably about Costco or tissory chicken.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, yeah, and the trials of Amazon returns.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah, stick with one.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You're not that much.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I don't. I don't want to get confused. It'll it'll
be talking about returning chickens.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
It'll be a mess, like get partial partial refund on
a lightly used chicken.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
It could be a mess. We'll stick, I'll put it in.
I'll see what happens. But dance party already is is
gonna make it a little weird. We'll have to see
what it is.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
All right.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Well, thank you as always for listening. Until next time,
we'll see you later.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
In the heat and turned so slow, Golden Skin with
a perfect glow, Spices pants Flame, the Sad Night.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Rote the three Magic in the Night, rolled the Surri
(30:52):
turned it slow
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Gold of Skin, watch it flow rolled, Siri, Spices Night, Chicken, Chicken,
Dance Tonight, Rotestrin, turn it slow, shaken shaken, watch it glow,
Rotistery Spices Day Night Shac and Chicken Hardy to Night
(31:18):
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