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The Red Ginger Lit The Fire
Ever had a retail experience so infuriating you wanted to call the Better Business Bureau? Detto and Casey launch into this episode with the saga of "Red Ginger" – a two-watch-wearing manager at Impossible Kicks who refused to help resolve a sneaker purchase gone wrong. The confrontation escalates to security being called, revealing the absurd theater of mall cop dynamics where three "miniature Paul Blarts" show up looking barely twenty years old.
From there, we spiral into a cathartic exploration of modern irritations and technological peculiarities. Why do staplers have two positions? What was the real purpose behind star-69 on telephones? And did keyboards include special symbols like @ and # just so they could eventually create the internet? The questions may sound random, but they tap into those small curiosities we've all wondered about but rarely discuss.
The most relatable moment comes when Detto presents his brilliant theory that "phone chargers are the new lighters" – both items mysteriously vanish when needed most, despite our best efforts to keep track of them. Anyone who's ever labeled a charger only to have it disappear anyway will find themselves nodding in vigorous agreement.
The conversation reaches its philosophical peak with a refreshingly honest critique of social media culture. Where are the pictures of court appearances, divorce proceedings, and overflowing toilets? Our digital personas present carefully curated highlight reels that bear little resemblance to our messy realities, and Detto's passionate call for authenticity might make you reconsider your own posting habits.
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Hey, everybody, welcome to.
Speaker 1:Saki Tumi, saki Tumi.
Speaker 2:Hey everybody, it's Ditto, we're back. Saki Tumi, a podcast that connects people to people. You know till I explode. Anyway, I'm here with Casey, my girl.
Speaker 3:Hi everyone.
Speaker 2:And I am about to let loose again.
Speaker 3:Oh boy.
Speaker 2:What a weekend.
Speaker 3:It was a weekend and you were part of it.
Speaker 2:You just happened to be here for it. I was Holy shit balls. We're going about Red Ginger. Oh boy, yeah, it's not.
Speaker 3:Ginger, ale either no, no, it's not, it's actually a person. It is at the mall.
Speaker 2:What was the store's name?
Speaker 3:Impossible Kicks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they suck.
Speaker 3:Yeah Well.
Speaker 2:That fake manager.
Speaker 3:The fake manager, because I still do not think he's actually. The manager was a pretty awful person.
Speaker 2:True or false? He was wearing two watches.
Speaker 3:He was wearing two watches.
Speaker 2:He had red hair.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:And he was overweight.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Dude. What a douche. All of the above, what a douchebag.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he wasn't cool.
Speaker 2:He was not.
Speaker 3:Nope.
Speaker 2:And they fucked up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know your son did buy shoes. He shouldn't have bought, that's right. But it does seem like they may have kind of swapped them for worn shoes and they refused to take them back.
Speaker 2:That would be fine. There's no way I'd ever be able to prove that Right. But I spoke with the associate on the phone and said do not sell this child shoes. Exactly. And she did they shouldn't have.
Speaker 3:The craziest part was that everybody else in the store seemed to be willing to help them, except for this one manager red ginger adamant and uh apparently kicked the kids out multiple times and then uh called security on us so I, I, I couldn't go no, I could not go there, not allowed to go because I was going to slug that dude in the face no, yeah, we it was not going to end well not bringing you with us so I sent one of my friends and he went with you and he went with you.
Speaker 2:Yes, he did yeah.
Speaker 3:And he argued very calmly, though Not anything that caused a scene, or there was no threats made or anything.
Speaker 2:That's because he's a sincere human being. He is, and that's why I asked him to go with you.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:I wanted to make sure you didn't get in trouble for anything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I'm not good at that stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm not good at that stuff, Right but I would have gotten in trouble 100%. That guy would have been dead on the floor.
Speaker 3:Well, he kept disappearing into the back room like he was hiding for little bits of time. It was very odd.
Speaker 2:Probably eating candy.
Speaker 3:And then he called security, which may have been the best part, because the three security guards that showed up looked like they may have been 20, and they were all about five feet tall Little kids. It looked like kids standing in front of us. It was hilarious.
Speaker 2:So you got three miniature. Paul Blarts, pretty much Mall cops.
Speaker 3:Yeah, All right guy.
Speaker 2:Know your role. You're a glorified phone monitor, anyway, red Ginger.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Dickhead and to go back a little bit, my son called me he did and said can I buy these sneakers? I said no long story short. He called me the last time. He's like they knocked them down to 120 bucks. I was like you mean, I'm only spending 60 for these things because you have 60 and I and I have $60. You want shoes? He's like yeah, if that's the case, go ahead and buy them. I do not want to make my son seem like he's right Because he's not.
Speaker 3:He was not.
Speaker 2:That little dick.
Speaker 3:I don't think he realized it was going to show how much he paid in cash.
Speaker 2:He had no idea. No, no, he got surprised.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he saw the receipt and realized oh crap he's going to see that I paid the full amount.
Speaker 2:But he put the girl on the phone, the associate, and like no, that's too much, Do not allow him to buy these shoes. And she sold them. She sold them to him anyway.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they should have done that. And then, when I called back and asked her why Red Ginger got on the phone, yeah, they're actually saying that Red Ginger was actually the person that sold the shoes to him.
Speaker 2:I would believe that at this point, so, that dude was a dickhead.
Speaker 3:That's the consensus among the kids.
Speaker 2:I would not shop Impossible Kicks at all ever if I were you. No Bunch of dickheads, honest to God. Now, the only reason I say that is I don't like crushing businesses either. Right, every small business needs a hand. But when you call and ask specifically, I actually didn't call. I was called but still asked not to do that. And you do it anyway. Well, guess what? Red Ginger Fuck you.
Speaker 3:Well then, refuse to exchange them, return them anything at all. It was insane.
Speaker 2:And blame it on him. Yep, take your commission and shove it up your ass.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, he said he wore them around the mall, so we're no longer taking them back because they're not allowed to be worn.
Speaker 2:Look, that's a part of the story where I'll be like he probably did. My son is lying. He's probably lying. I cannot believe every word he says. I get it Because he's trying to save himself.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:I did it when I was a kid. A lot of people do. If I'm going to sit here and believe my son over everyone else, then I'm an idiot. I am an idiot if I do that. My son is lying. He's like a credit card company oh jeez, If the lips are moving, he's lying, or a politician. Either way, the fact of the matter is, I had a conversation with a girl on the phone. Now the only thing I can say is do I really?
Speaker 1:know it was her no idea.
Speaker 2:I don't, I can't say it was on the phone. But I don't, I don't, I can't say it was on the phone, but I had a conversation with somebody who sounded like an adult right and had an intelligent conversation with me. I said do not sell these shoes to this person. And they did yep. So fat, red ginger with two watches. Why do you need two watches?
Speaker 3:I, I don't know one of them was fake too nah that kid.
Speaker 2:That kid, when he was younger, had two zeros in his number. Nobody wanted to call him. Remember the rotary phone? He had two zeros, nobody called him. It was like I'll just see that kid tomorrow at school. Screw that, forget you. And that's why he's so angry. He probably had a tight fade too, with light ginger on the top.
Speaker 2:I don't even know, I'm just calling this out, but I'm sure he did possibly and it didn't come to fruition until you guys got back to my house and the guy I asked to go with you said man, I want to slug that guy right in the mouth oh yeah and in fact, filed a complaint with the better business bureau because he was such a dick oh yeah, it really became really just not even about the shoes anymore.
Speaker 3:It was just about getting back at this one person that seemed so awful.
Speaker 2:He was awful. Yeah, I knew it on the phone. That's why I had to call you and say how tough are you? Should you go do this? Because I can't, I'm going to lose it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm not really that tough, unfortunately, but I had reinforcements and, honestly, the kids were all about fighting it.
Speaker 2:Of course they were. They thought they were going to win because they think that's how it works.
Speaker 3:All about it.
Speaker 2:They think that's how it works and they're idiots. Anyway, red Ginger, he had two zeros. Do you remember? Everybody? Yes, you wouldn't call them, you wouldn't, and that's why the guys like that?
Speaker 3:Wait, you actually didn't call people if they had too many zeros in their number.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't call people if they had a nine in their number, forget zero. Oh my God, eight was pushing it. Wow, seven, yeah, all right. Even my number was 6-6. So it's like, oh geez, even my number was 66. So it's like, oh geez, that's tough, even that's tough. You got to wait for that thing to come back.
Speaker 3:You did have to wait for it to spin all the way back.
Speaker 2:To do it again. Yeah, yeah, if your number was 0100, like a binary code, you were not getting called and you're probably a dork today. Oh geez, and it had nothing to do with you, it had to do with your phone number as a kid phone number.
Speaker 2:That's unfortunate that's how it went one zero, zero, zero, one one, whatever that song was, oh my god. Yeah, it's like oh god. And I went off the other day and I'm gonna go off again because there's a stapler sitting right in front of me right now and this is a fucking random thing. Why did staplers have two positions?
Speaker 3:You know you said this. I didn't know that was even a thing.
Speaker 2:Doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3:Makes no sense.
Speaker 2:Is it for books? Was it for books?
Speaker 3:But for what purpose? What did it do?
Speaker 2:It's a pamphlet. I don't know. I don't know what it did. I never looked it up, I don't know, but it either bends the legs in or bends them out. It's like a cheerleader staple.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, it's a cheerleader, a cheerleader. Yes, oh my God.
Speaker 2:It can bend in many directions.
Speaker 3:Or a gymnast let's go with gymnast instead of cheerleader, because gymnasts are a little more, older, older.
Speaker 2:Well, unless you're a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader, I just equate cheerleaders with high school.
Speaker 3:How old do you think most gymnasts are?
Speaker 2:20. 24 out of high school, they have to be able to train every day.
Speaker 3:I think you'd be surprised.
Speaker 2:You know what? I don't even want to know anymore. I'm done. Besides the zero, what's with the star 69? Like why was it star 69 that would redial?
Speaker 3:I have no idea.
Speaker 2:Explain it to me.
Speaker 3:I don't know, because they're backwards.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, Is that why Because? It's reversed, it's because they're switched.
Speaker 3:What's the star? Because that called them back right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, If you didn't get a call in time, you could just hit star 69. It would call you back. But why 69? I?
Speaker 3:you know, as a kid I had no thought on that at all. Now that you pointed out, I guess I see why that would be a thing, but I didn't know then why did you ever use the pound sign? What is the pound sign?
Speaker 2:It's the reason the internet was created Seriously just to use those symbols, just to use the symbols.
Speaker 3:Just to use the symbols.
Speaker 2:Hashtag me too.
Speaker 3:We don't use these often enough. We better put it on the internet.
Speaker 2:Well, you would look at a keyboard on a computer. Yeah, oh, I don't want to ever use that the at sign. When would you have ever used that before? Email?
Speaker 3:Probably never before email, but now all the time. I know the hashtag.
Speaker 2:But now, all the time I know the hashtag. Don't even get me started with the two backslashes. H-t-t-p-s, I guess. And why is the colon, the last one on the right hand, the last key? There has to be something about that. It's got to be the internet. It's got to be.
Speaker 3:That's all for the internet. You can staple. That's all for the internet.
Speaker 2:You can staple that right oh my god seriously, but which way would you stay? I, I don't know 69, though.
Speaker 3:Oh my god, there's so many things right now. You just threw out so many things oh, there's a lot.
Speaker 2:I have a lot to say, I have a lot. This is one of those episodes where it's like we're not connecting anybody to anybody right now. No, but we are, because I guarantee you, people think or have thought about this stuff. Like why are all the signals, all the symbols, important nowadays at the Hostetto Now underscore what, what I'm not? That's like the zero on a phone I'm not looking you up because I got to hit the underscore. Forget that, forget that. I'm not looking you up because I gotta hit the underscore. Forget that. Forget that. I'm not typing that in right now.
Speaker 3:Seriously.
Speaker 2:It's like having a zero on your phone, it's just hitting a different button at this point. But it's way over there on the other side and I can't reach it.
Speaker 3:Oh my, seriously, I don't think you type correctly anyway, so I don't know that it matters.
Speaker 2:I'm not a professional typer, in fact I suck at it, but still the underscore, and then you gotta hit shift. Forget this, I am too lazy to do this shit. No, no, no, no Okay.
Speaker 3:Oh boy.
Speaker 2:But I swear to God, the internet was invented for these symbols, so they didn't feel so useless. They printed them on all these keys and never used them so they didn't feel useless. So they didn't feel useless.
Speaker 3:The best part of the reason they were put on the keys to begin with Well wait. Well, those were just for computers. Oh, typewriters.
Speaker 2:They were on typewriters too. They were on typewriters. Wait, those were just for computers. Oh, typewriters, they were on typewriters too. They were on typewriters, yes, but when did you use them? I have no idea. Most people didn't even capitalize with a typewriter. That's why it's autocorrect.
Speaker 3:They didn't want to hit shift.
Speaker 2:That's why there's autocorrect, so you don't have to do it. Well, it really really autocorrects. All this autocorrect, it's like self-checkout. Who needs help at? Self check out? Everyone, everyone, everybody needs help at the self-check?
Speaker 3:do you know I?
Speaker 2:refuse. My gift card didn't go through.
Speaker 3:I won't even use the one at stop and shop, the first.
Speaker 1:I buy scan every single time there's some sort of issue. I didn't put it down to the right spot or something.
Speaker 3:The person has to come over every single time. I'm like I just want you to do this for me, I know, because you have to come over anyway.
Speaker 1:And now I have to wait for you to come over.
Speaker 3:Then get in line. Self-checkout is for when you're buying gummy bears, except a lot of places now have eliminated the cashiers, so at certain times there are no cashiers. Well, that's the thing you have to go to self-checkout, that's the thing Exactly.
Speaker 2:You have to go to self-checkout because they're always open. Yeah, but there's probably two cashiers there and there's four people in line, two in each and who the fuck wants to be fresh?
Speaker 3:There are certain places I regret every single time.
Speaker 2:Every time you go to self-checkout you need some help or something. It's like this ain't self-checkout, no, this is like hey, when you're done, come help me.
Speaker 3:Pretty much. Just go and get mine. It's so annoying. I would rather go through the line than have them do it for me half the time.
Speaker 2:Don't call it self-checkout if you need help. Hey, this pair of bra and panties doesn't have a tag on it. Can you help me out? Why are you buying bra and panties, sir?
Speaker 3:Mind your business, that's why I don't think that happens.
Speaker 2:Mind your business that's why. All right, pull it together. My new theory I just came up with this the other day. My new theory is that phone chargers are the new lighters.
Speaker 3:Like cigarette lighters.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cigarette lighters Okay.
Speaker 3:Because you can never find them.
Speaker 2:You never, yeah, cigarette lighters, okay, hmm, because you can never find them. You never find it when you need one Okay. And then you have to ask all your friends do you have a charger? Do you have a charger? Do you have a charger? It's true. It's like bro, what'd you do with yours? I don't know. I gave it to somebody but never got it back. They are the new lighters, they, they disappear out of nowhere. It's true. And you don't remember where you put it.
Speaker 3:Where do they go?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I have yet to figure that out.
Speaker 3:They never seem to come back.
Speaker 2:I have to yell at everybody Leave that lighter. I mean, charge her alone.
Speaker 3:I started labeling them Like they have names on them. It doesn't help.
Speaker 2:They started putting. They started putting stickers and decals and everything like that on lighters so you could tell it was yours. It still didn't stop it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Label it all you want, Go ahead. That thing is the minute you buy that thing.
Speaker 3:it's gone. But you're right, they just disappear.
Speaker 2:It's probably the person working self-cash out Self-checkout.
Speaker 3:Self-checkout is just pocketing it. You don't even make it out of the store with it.
Speaker 2:No. But it's like yeah, oh yeah, use my charger Right, excuse me, here you go, have at it. No, never comes back. It's true, somebody's over there smoking a bowl with it around their neck, or something.
Speaker 3:Back in the woods? No, but they still never come back.
Speaker 2:True, it's nuts, you're right, because less people smoke now and everybody needs a charger and it all comes back to Red Ginger, because he sucks. He's probably the one stealing it, and that's my last thing. That pisses me off the most. Okay, it just pisses me off. I hate, okay, it just pisses me off. I hate being on social media. I hate it. I'm glad that I lost all my shit and I'm glad that I started this for the podcast, for promotional reason.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:But I can't stand looking at everybody else having a fucking good time.
Speaker 3:You can't stand that.
Speaker 2:No, I can't. Where's your pictures of court? Where's your pictures of divorce? Where's your pictures of your traffic violation?
Speaker 3:do you typically take pictures of bad times. I mean, oh, look, you're crying, let's take a picture oh, let me see your food, though.
Speaker 2:Great, you made a meal for yourself, all right, you're able to do something properly. Where is the shit that actually happens?
Speaker 3:Yeah, nobody Where's your toilet overflowing Bad things.
Speaker 2:Where's your kid puking? You gotta clean it up. Where's the dog having diarrhea on the floor Like where's this stuff? Where's the pictures of this?
Speaker 3:You really want to see those.
Speaker 2:No, that's why I don't want to see the pictures of the other ones either. Because it's only fair If you're going to put up all this good stuff that happens to you. Put the bad shit up there too.
Speaker 3:True, but that's not how it goes. Shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2:Stop it, because you're just pissing me off, pulls my skirt up. I'll tell you that, for free it does. I can't take it. I really can't. It's like I am tired of looking at you guys. Pretend to be people. You're not when I'm here. We're all doing the same thing. Let's be honest.
Speaker 3:Pretty much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm trying to pretend I'm better than I am, but I'm not. I fuck up all the time. Please admit it. I've made so many mistakes. I think people hate me in different states.
Speaker 2:That's probably true, actually, exactly but I can admit it, that's what it boils down to. I can at least say, alright, fucked up, that was on me. Look, I didn't mean to do that, but I did it. It wasn't on purpose, even if you said it was for this, just shut up with it. It was for this reason, but I did it. Do you know what I mean? It wasn't on purpose and then, even if you said you know it was for this, just shut up with it. It was for this reason. You did it. Leave it right there. That's it. Don't go any farther Right and post those pictures. And what people should do is post pictures in court because, let's face it, let's face it, let's face it, that stuff is just funny.
Speaker 2:Some of that is very funny besides the dmv, or at least anything equated with the state, there's nothing funnier no, there are some pretty funny people in court it's a rock concert. You get stone walking in the door very true it just smells like weed. Not, I do not have a problem with weed. I like weed. I don't smoke it, I don't ingest it, it's not for me. It puts me. So here I am talking incessantly.
Speaker 3:If I smoked weed silence, really then, yeah, then you start asking what's wrong with me.
Speaker 1:I'm like now, I'm paranoid oh geez that's how it goes.
Speaker 2:Marijuana is not for me, okay, but I seriously do not think it does anything wrong, right? I think it's a good thing, I'm an advocate for it, okay, even though I don't particularly use it, and whatever. But you walk into the courthouse, oh, it's holy shit, balls, you're stoned yeah, it's like you are fucking stoned crazy, and then that's why the outfits on all these people become even more funny, because they're stoned.
Speaker 2:You know you think they make the state would clear the budget if they just put vending machines in there where you get food. You know I mean. Think about it.
Speaker 3:All these dudes got. Does anybody need snacks?
Speaker 2:All these people got munchies. Munchies yeah, I could use some Fritos.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and the outfits, the outfits. There are. The amount of jumpsuits, so interesting.
Speaker 2:The amount of jumpsuits that are there alone, it's like dude, come on.
Speaker 3:You're not on a basketball team. Just look, I'm going to court today. That's the outfit.
Speaker 2:I really want to impress the judge. Let's wear this LA Laker gear.
Speaker 3:Yes, the LA Laker Head to toe, I'm sure he's a fan Head to toe.
Speaker 2:It's like what are you doing, dumbass? What if he hates the Lakers gear with bright white shoes? All right, bro, come on Bright white shoes. Basically say to me you're a moron. If your shoes are that white, you've done something wrong. Oh boy, go walk in the mud. Fuck, get some dirt on those puppies. You know what I mean. Why are they so bright? Why do I need sunglasses to look at your freaking shoes? I don't know. Jesus Christ, I can't take it. I can't, I won't. Oh boy, I'll take that for free. Yeah, getting aggravated just talking about it. Oh yeah, I needed an episode I haven't blown off in a while.
Speaker 3:You haven't.
Speaker 2:It's been a while. It's been a while and there's a lot building up. There's probably a lot more that I can't even think about right now. Yeah, but holy cow, it's nuts, but that star 69 stuff still blows my mind.
Speaker 3:It's pretty funny. Why the star?
Speaker 2:Is it like?
Speaker 3:Oh God.
Speaker 2:The brown star. Oh God, why did they use that? I don't know. I'm done with this. Oh boy, Don't get it. But yeah, those symbols created the internet. Remember that.
Speaker 3:All right, I'm going to remember that. Trust me, it's true.
Speaker 2:So take your symbols and head over to Sakatubecom. Like and subscribe. Check out our store. Buy some merch for crying out loud. Yeah, put it up on the on your page so I don't have to look at you in court. You know what I mean. Come on, man, help us out. Anyway, guys, thanks for listening. Hope you enjoyed it and, uh, you know, as always, be good, be good. Hey everybody, it's Ditto. I want to give a shout out to my buddy, larry over at Legendary Graphics. He designed our logo for us. It came out fantastic. He does wraps, he does all kinds of customized stuff for you. If you get a chance, go to legendarycom. That's legendarycom. Check it out for anything you need. All right, guys, thanks, be good.
Speaker 1:Saki Dumi.
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