Welcome friends, as we begin the weekly recap for Sadistle School Week number three season three,

I'd like to tell you a story about the plumber, or you could say it's the story of a shower,

or you might call it beware of the power of bad advice. This is the story of Holly Finch and her

husband Hal, who had been looking for their dream apartment in San Francisco, which is not an

easy thing to do in San Francisco. It's very expensive and crowded market, good apartments going

quickly, but they found an amazing place. They moved in and they loved it. They loved everything

about it, in fact, except just one thing. The only sticking point was the water pressure in the

shower was really bad. Everything else was great. Their dream apartment, like I said, but that lack

less your shower, that very low water pressure just kind of became this daily annoyance that they

had to deal with. And they would always talk about how well we love our apartment except for this

one thing. Now right after they moved in, they talked to a plumber. Plumber came over, looked at it

and said, basically your pipes are just old. The pipes are seriously old. The only solution would be

to replace them, to do some major work that would cost only $20,000. No big deal, just $20,000 to

fix your shower. Holly and Hal said no thanks, and they resigned themselves to a lifetime of unsatisfying

showers. She mentioned it to one of her friends, and that friend sent a nice housewarming gift,

a low flow shower head. She was excited about this. She had bought it online and said, maybe this

will help you. And Holly got the gift and thought, oh, that's nice of her, but you know, we've

already heard from the plumber that the pipes are the problem. It would require major repairs.

So she just took that shower head and just kind of put it away in a drawer somewhere.

And then they lived in the apartment for two more years. So two more years go by, still a great

place, still a bad shower. One day they have their friend Joe over as a house guest. And Joe spends

the night, gets up in the morning, they're having breakfast. And Joe says, you know, your place is

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