 Ok, greetings everyone. Greetings. This is James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 Progressive Discussions. Consumer Advocate. This is a special video. I am here at the local Lodi Home Depot. And I just spoke to an employee that says these plants, if they are in poor condition, in any way, shape or form, they are not allowed to mark them down as managers special because they are on consignment. Which doesn't make sense, which means they are probably going to return them and the plants will probably die and get put into a dumpster. This is my Consumer Advocate video. As you can see, all the beautiful plants are out. Tis the season. You've got seeds, you've got bulbs, you've got everything. Ok, it is spring of 2019. Here are the lovely bromeliads, pink quills, cyanosia. I highly recommend this. But anyway, it's really a tolansia. But anyway, look at the baby orchids. But look at this. Look at this. One of the most popular plants known. The snake plant. Look at this. It's just sitting here in no soil at all with a cracked busted flimsy pot and they won't mark it down. They refuse to do managers special. Look how this is one of the most durable house plants you can have. They can withstand low light, medium light, whatever. They were voted one of the top air purifiers, natural home air purifiers known. Look at this. I could save this plant very easily if they would mark it down from 398. Incredible. They flat out will refuse to do a managers special. And there are some others like that. It's incredible. They won't do a managers special. Look at the snake plant. It's just sitting here in no soil with a cracked pot. They won't do it. Do you know why? Because this is a private company. A vendor that comes in? Yes. So what happens is that it goes back to them? Yes. They're going to send them back. They're going to get a default. That's why home people cannot come. That's why the store manager cannot say do managers special discount blah blah blah and then put a sticker on. No, they're not doing that. I don't know if you want to see a manager special. I haven't spoke to the lady in charge. She told me what you told me. It's a separate vendor. It's a shame though. It is. Because you got to see what they have on the outside. Because these things can be easily saved. Look how good this looks. It's beautiful. And it's a shame. You got to see what I have at home. It's beautiful. You probably rescued some... Not from here. Not from here. They're not selling the house. I'm a worker over here. By the way, this bromeliad is actually a Talancia. It's in the Airplant family. Pink Whirl Cyanacea. This is one of the best bromeliads to have because you can... Have a chance of the bromeliad to bloom back. They don't die on me. The flower dies. I have a beautiful green. But the flowers... And when I keep water in the cup, it gets rotten. It rots on me. I put a water through inside of the cup. And that's all you do. In other words, you don't really wet the... No, I put a water through here and then it goes down the soil. And it seeps down. And you don't even have to wet the soil. No. Maybe that's what I did. I wet the soil and I put water in there. No, no, no. That needs too much water. Then it gets rotten. Yes. Because of the root. The root always stays moist. That's why they get rotten. Yes. And it's easier to bring a plant back alive. It's a will. And not if it's too much water. Orchids are very sensitive for root rot. You have to use the ice cubes, I heard. No. No. I have a spray bottle. And a high spray. And once every ten days, I put a little bit of water through the root. But otherwise, every other day, I spray the root. Because YouTube is wrong. They have people taking the orchid pot and soaking it in a bucket of water... ...to submerge and leaving it for twenty minutes. You know how many Phelanopsis died? They got rotten. You know? But you're right. I think... That's what I keep in mind. I have a plant now that has got three shootings. It's like the babies. Yeah, look at that. Three branches. And I have the big one. I don't have a big one. And all you do is you spray the roots. Wet the water. And plus I have the spray food that I spray the leaves into the flowers. About once a week, you do the roots? Yes. You do like a heavy spray? Yes. And even... It's like the air plant, I bet. Because the Talanthia sticks to the tree in the rainforest. Yeah. And they just capture whatever moisture and humidity is. Yeah. But that's... it's a different because... Well, the air... there's air circulation. Yes. Yes. So nothing gets rotten. The mist, the mist, the hair. Yeah. It's a... any greenhouse with the hair is different than the... any flower. The heat gets... it's different. Yeah, because when you have air circulation in the wild, nothing has a chance to get rotten because the air is always moving. So when it gets dry, it moves and it gets dry. That's the thing. Like if somebody has a problem with plants, the snake plant is easy. The cactus is easy. But you know, but you can... oh, you know what kills plants? If you put it near the heat in the wintertime? Yes. Forget it. It'll kill the plants. Yes. Yes. English ivy. It's very... Not twice a month with ivy. Yeah. The other one. Yeah. All the doctor's offices, they all have this. Yeah. Because they don't have time at the pool of water. No. They're always busy with patience. Non-stop. Boom, boom, boom. Yes. In the cactus. Yeah. Of course. This is... Cactus once a day. I have a big clay pot and I have all succulents and different cactus in the pot. Sunny window. Yes. And that's it. All right. Unfortunately, sir, if you want to find a manager, he's probably going to pay you the same... Yeah, I'm not going to make a big deal about it. I'm not like that. You know, it is what it is. That's why the reason is because they're going to send them back and they're going to get the complete fund from the insurance. Right. Because not everything is from Home Depot Corporate Office. Independent vendors. Oh, you want to be outside? It's three different vendors. Oh, really? Yes. Oh, wow. All right. Thank you very much. Okay. James P. Madonna, consumer advocate. Progressive consumer advocate. Progressive discussions. Megalife 21. I got home from shopping at the local all-D market, ALDI. Deli selected roast beef. All right. Caramel coloring. Finally sliced. All right. What? This looks like... like Arby's, like Steakham. Of course, that's ground black pepper because I love horseradish mayonnaise and ground black pepper on my roast beef. But I also like my roast beef rare to medium rare. But this is Deli selected. Now, what Deli selected this roast beef? You know, these corporations, they use words of exaggeration describing their product. It's like, I don't know if that's a meat byproduct or not. I really don't. Deli selected. Okay. This bothers me with this company, Bob. Bob's Red Mill. Okay. This says premium quality egg replacer. Okay. When I read the ingredients, it says soy flour. It doesn't mention anything about organic or non-GMO soy. Wheat gluten, which is fine. Well, look at this corn syrup solids. Sodium alginate. Now the corn syrup solids really bothers me. I'm very surprised that Bob's Red Mill. Now, I would get this if it was organic and non-GMO. But it's not. So it could be genetically modified corn. Okay. This is definitely a great value. The most nutritious whole grain probably on the planet, amaranth, also known by the Native Americans as kiewicha. It happens to be organic. So I'll definitely get two of them. I don't see any hemp protein though. They're really wiped out. Let me see. Nah, they're really wiped out probably because it's a holiday. It's Sunday before Easter Sunday. Let's see. Alright, so I'm doing pretty good. Now I'm going to get myself, if they have it, the preserved duck eggs, the century eggs. This is James P. Madonna, the founder, not that I ever lost it, the founder and creator of the Facebook group, International Brotherhood of Paula Barnes. I want to welcome my wonderful moderators of the group, Mr. Jeff Zanbello and Ken Thiesig. Very proud to have them. I just got home. I'm making a lovely dinner. A seafood scampi with a base scallops, shrimp and a creamy scampi sauce with linguine and vegetables and I got some, then I went to the Dollar Tree. Oh yeah, I got some organic milk. Went to the Dollar Tree. I got laundry detergent. Now I want you guys, don't laugh at me now. I want you to see something. Notice the ergonomic handles. Notice they're only a dollar each. This is the stain removing one dollar laundry detergent. Notice the nice position of the handle. Now eventually these will become empty. And my idea is this. Now watch. I could fill them up with anything I want. Maybe steel buckshot, maybe play sand, whatever. Watch this. My whole hand fits right through and they are so comfortable because they are ergonomic handles. Look at this. Now what does this remind you of Drobronis? All you pencil-knit geeks out there. What does this remind you of? Eh? Eh? I'll tell you what this reminds you of. It reminds you of a pair of very inexpensive kettlebells. Look. My hand fits right through. Ergonomic handles you Drobronis out there. Look. Ah. Look at this. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Instead of going to a sporting goods department and a department store and purchasing all those fancy kettlebells for people that want to do aerobic kettlebell swinging or kettlebells for women. There you go. The Dollar Tree. Liquid laundry detergent. Ergonomic handles. Look at me. You Drobronis. Look. Oh, by the way. I want to say also hello to Kashi Azad of Sydney, Australia. He's arriving this weekend I believe for the first time ever in United States in Southern Connecticut. That's right. The state of Connecticut. And he is doing probably one of the finest seminars that can ever be done. The man is generously giving out a pair of light but authentic Persian meals and one Shenabord to the people that are attending his seminar. No one else does this but Kashi Azad. He is a head coach of international Polyvon competition. He is a true Polyvon. Okay. He is Persian and he represents a company called Persian Yoga. So with these I don't want to call them cheap with these kettlebells that would actually work. I salute, double salute to Kashi Azad. Now getting back to these liquid laundry detergents with the ergonomic handles. Look at me. Look at me. Now just picture this full of buckshot either lead or steel or sand. Just picture. Look at it. Look. My hand goes right through you gibrones. You pencil neck geeks. Look. Look. Oh, James P. Madonna. I'm telling you. I love being a consumer advocate and the segment of my weekly show which also goes on YouTube. It is done live stream from the International Brotherhood of Polyvons with my co-host Jeff Zambello sometimes Donald Boos. Okay. Look at this. It's called Consumer Advocate Sucker Patrol. Don't get suckered into spending a lot of money for lighter weight aerobic oriented kettle bells because I just showed you how to save lots of money from the Dollar Tree with the new laundry detergent liquid laundry detergent. In this case, stain removing laundry detergent that I use. Stain removing for one dollar. And look at the ergonomic handles you jabronis. Look at that. Look how comfortable. So forget about spending all kinds of money. Look at me. This was completely spontaneous. When I picked these up off the shelf, I really did need laundry detergent. When I picked these off the shelf I put my hand in it. I felt how comfortable it was with the ergonomic handles and right away a light bulb appeared over my head and I started doing this in the Dollar Store. I don't give a shit if people are staring at me. Fuck them. I started doing this and there you go. Consumer Advocate by the way that seafood scampi with linguiney smells really good. I can't wait to eat it. With base gallops added. I will see you well it's Thursday tonight. I'll see you tomorrow night when I go live on the International Brotherhood of Polyvines. Bye bye. You jabronis out there. Oh by the way this is a Marlin. I used to go to the Florida Keys when my aunt and uncle lived there. Okay this is James P. Donner. Consumer Advocate Sucker Patrol for Megalike 21 Progressive Discussions. I'm here at the Aldi Market in Lower Dinook Jersey and I just want to show you exactly how incompetent upper executive management is in corporate America. Here you have a situation where they have a product that was coming in every week actually more than one product. In this case it is the gallon of certified organic milk okay. In gallons every week it's becoming in every week it flies out. Same thing with the frozen shepherd's pie. Same thing with the wild caught Alaskan pink salmon skin on you know certain items that sell very well that come in week in and week out okay. You know it sells. You know it's a hot seller. All of a sudden it stops coming in. It happened right now with the gallons of organic milk it happened with the shepherd's pie it happened with the frozen Alaskan pink salmon fillets. It comes in on which gives you the omega 3 fats and they know the item sells and all of a sudden it stops coming in and management gives you an attitude where you know they have no idea why it stopped coming in and they'll say something stupid that insults your intelligence like they'll say it's out of season. Alaskan shepherd's pie be out of season if it's made from ground beef and mashed potato okay. Here we have the oh good they do have it oh thankfully they finally have something great for now okay blueberry kefir all right so they do have that but there are many products that sell consistently every week and suddenly it stops coming in for weeks sometimes months on end stuff clams oreganata whatever stuff clams it's the same thing they get a big shipment it totally flies out of here and then it stops coming in for the longest period of time so this is all the this is how corporate things these are the people they hire I'm going to take a wild guess and say they hire imbeciles that do not get paid as much as competent executives nah that's mine excuse me sir oh okay yeah I know I'm doing a video about certain subjects like things that you normally get every week that all of a sudden don't fly out of here consumer advocate information for online shows okay like for instance give you an example okay as you can see I'm leaving all these market now headed for another store you see how rude that store manager was how arrogant he was looking in my black nylon laundry bag that I use as an oily bag because I refuse to pay for their bags but they do allow you to bring your own bag so he's looking in my bag suspiciously I tell the guy excuse me that's my bag and then he goes well I work here you know he started acting authoritative to me and I says well that's my bag I got groceries in there you know I'm not buying their damn bags I'm not falling for that scam this is all these in the lowline New Jersey so you know as you heard on the video because I said maybe I shouldn't have said anything because I mentioned the reason for the video he tells me it's against company policy to take videos of photos in the store and I said well you know what you're doing here in connection also with my video with my consumer advocate sucker patrol video it's typical corporate America it's all typical corporate fucking America okay so now I'm going to enter another store here I just cooked two large 85% lean burgers with Swiss cheese and hot sauce underneath it here I got various potatoes I'm trying for the first time the purple potatoes alright interesting these are not sweet potatoes these are real purple potatoes from what I understand the South American Indians the Incas in the Andes mountains grew hundreds of different varieties of potato where they originally came from as well as the peanut and quinoa so on and so forth alright now this is my problem alright here's my cast iron skillet these burgers are from Aldi alright 85% lean look at all of the liquid that came out of these so called 85% lean burgers 85% lean yeah this only means this is the second type of hamburger that I got from Aldi market alright this one is more expensive the other one 75% lean I think it's loaded with liquid as a filler as a cheap filler this is greed this is greed I wonder exactly who the CEO of all these is in Illinois what family owns the company if any this is corporate American greed look at that every burger that I've been getting that is frozen um and already formed into patties has this okay has this step is to get the ones that are not frozen and test them um the non-frozen hamburger patties and if the unfrozen ground beef does the same thing then I am absolutely convinced that they're cheating the consumer by adding any type of filler that they possibly can all these market I had a problem with them recently for several reasons as you can plainly see by the other consumer advocate videos one of the biggest ripoffs going the parking meter the parking meter is one of the biggest political scams going and here you have parking meters in Englewood New Jersey and it's not good it's old as the hills but it's a scam it's a legal scam okay here's another parking meter what a racket what a scam okay this is very clever commenter Jeff Sanbello put a slow down and use stop signs and prevent accidents they got the flashing red LED lights as you can see alright seems like every pair of stop signs is like that around here which is really good I'd say next to a high speed bump it's one of the best inventions for forcing people to slow down and preventing accidents this has been a mega lab 21 production