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Jared Freed
I know you're angry. It's Tuesday and it has no feel. The weekend was fun. You're still hungover from the eating and next weekend is too far away. What will you do with your day? It's time to get ticked off. Complain with your gripe. Right now, your friend Uncle J Train is here to tell you that you're right. It's a ticked off Tuesday. Ticked off Tuesday. You're angry and you don't even know why. Enjoy this podcast. It'll help you get to Friday. Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming live from Hilton Head, South Carolina. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. You, the listener, write to me, the podcaster, the comedian, the friend with your complaints and then I complain with you. That's right, all complaints are valid here on Ticked Off Tuesday. I will agree with you no matter what. All you got to do, send it toj train podcastmail.com but to be honest, the three complaints are from Patreon. So becoming a Patreon subscriber gets you first dibs. How do you sign up for patreon? Patreon.com jaredfreed that's patreon.com jaredfried gets you first dibs on ticked off Tuesday. Also, coffee with J Train this week. If you sign up right now, you'll hear the inner workings of how I ended up opening for Jon Stewart and the stories that go around that weekend. If you and then coming up, I am taping from Hilton Head because I am at a wedding. I am at. I am taping this the morning after a beautiful, wonderful, awesome, fun wedding that I'm at the hotel where the wedding took place. So I'm like looking at where the venue was out my balcony window as I, you know, field your complaints here in Hilton Head, South Carolina. I'll get into the whole wedding weekend on Patreon. All the odds and ends of that. I mean, my complaint today. So the way this episode works, if you're new here, listeners write in and I complain with them. But I always start the episode with my own complaints. So I'll do my own complaints. I got two a lot of ums today. I'm sorry I'm doing this early morning. I love an early morning podcast taping. I hope it because I don't know. My, my voice, as the kids say, sounds crispy. That crispy word has really entered the group chat a lot of people as I get indigestion as I, you know, this happens to me. I Don't know. I don't want to take you behind the curtains, but when I start taping, I'm like ready to tape. I like cough before I go. And then I start talking and I'm like burping and, you know, I guess I'm taking an air or something. So I have two. So here's the way it works. If you're new, and I'm hoping you're new, I love a new listener. And if you're old like me and you've been here a while, Share, share. Tell a friend about ticked off Tuesday. I'll do my complaints. I have a bunch of notes down here. I'll do the ads. We have two ads. Those ads are in the description of the episode. And then I'll do the listener complaints. I have three of them. They are from from Patreon. So these are subscribers. I am on the road to get into to close out the the ramble. Here I am on the road. San Jose, California. I've never been to you. I can't wait. I heard the club is awesome. This is something comedians talk about the clubs. We talk about the clubs like it's a Airbnb that we all visit. What did you think? How was the green room? How was the staff? Was it clean? Was it fun? How's the audience? We talk about you. San Jose has a reputation for being fun and awesome and I've never been. I've seen pictures of it. It looks like it's very nice. It has a good look, has a good marquee. Sometimes marquees matter. I that is a thing. So San Jose, Pittsburgh. I got a lot of people here at this wedding from Pittsburgh that they'll be coming to the show. Huntsville, Alabama, Manchester, which is Hartford, Connecticut. London, England. We're almost sold out there. Stamford, Connecticut. Bloomington, Indiana. That's the first time I've said that correctly. Brea, California. Spokane, Washington. Denver, Colorado. San Francisco. Added to the calendar, Kansas City, Missouri. Richmond, Virginia. So, Jared Free.com for the tickets, if you know anyone in those areas, you want to like forward them that link, that would be. I would consider that payment for the podcast that listen, payment comes in all forms and ways and forms. Forms and whatever. Okay, let me start my complaints. I don't know where to start because one could lead to another one complaint. It's like cutting off the head. Two more grow. Okay. Not drinking. I'm not drinking. I got got through. I had a great time at the wedding. I didn't drink. I'll talk about that on Patreon coffee with J Train. I. The drinking didn't. I don't know if I would have had a better time. I don't think I would. I think I would have had the same fun time that I had with the alcohol, without the alcohol. Here's the thing, my food guilt. And I didn't even know I had food guilt until I stopped drinking. And then I would have a meal and I wasn't like, for some reason the alcohol. And I'm sure there's someone out there with an answer to this. Drinking put this pressure on having a meal where when I was going to eat unhealthy, it had to be the perfect meal. And when I was going to eat healthy, everything else had to be so healthy so that I could get that perfect meal, so I could have the drink, so I could have the extra calories and so could maybe have late night food that night. You know, basically I was preparing for the storm that I knew would happen if I had drank. Basically, hey, be healthy all day so that you can have the dinner like a normal person. So that when you drink, you have your second dinner of like late night food, it won't crush you as much. And, and so I guess that was like. So now when I'm not drinking, there's not this like late night food thing. So I'm eating like a normal person all day long. And I don't think I'm losing any weight. I don't feel that difference. But I do feel better. This is all to say I have started putting every now and again a creamer in my coffee the way this creamer. And I always just assumed I had like dairy issues. I probably, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to give myself some sort of dairy problem without actually getting it tested. I'm not going to be one of those people that, you know, give you my, my, my sad tale of dairy issues without even having a doctor tell me that that's the case. So, no, I have no dairy issues. I'm out. But I would say that in the past, I'm putting creamer in my coffee. The amount it makes a coffee better. One creamer. And I used to fear a creamer. I would look at a creamer, I'd be like, oh my God, what am I going to do? Who would put a piece of cake into their coffee? Like, who would put. And a creamer is like 10 calories. Do we understand how minuscule 10 calories is in the grand scheme of your day? To have a Coffee taste that much better. I'm having. It's got a sweet and low and a creamer, and I might as well be having a frappuccino from tcby. This coffee has gone from something I was just having to not eat to something I'm enjoying, that is. And I'm mad at myself. I'm mad at my parents for, you know, basically, you know, to me, the dairy creamer is the same as the windows open with the AC on. Your dad would be like, they're wasting all the gas. And we just believed him because he was your dad. So then your whole life, if the window went down even like a inch and you had the AC on, you're like, oh, my God, I'm such a wasteful pig. But we don't know what's going on. We don't know how much gas is being wasted by the windows being down, the AC being on. I don't know if one affects the other. Same with dairy creamer. Oh, my God, you're gonna put that in your body. You're gonna have a dairy creamer. What are you. You're having. What have you given up? And it's like, no, this giving up. I'm just enjoying as I sit for my coffee with its dairy creamer, it's literally. It's the size of a dime. You're putting the size of a dime into your coffee that I'm having a 12 ouncer here. It has just improved it by leaps and bounds. And I'm sitting there afraid of it, as if it's like I was avoiding dairy creamer as if it was lava. So the not drinking thing has led me to. I'm reading my notes that I have one note that I'm like, why would I give myself a note that's like hieroglyphics? Why would I do that to myself? It just has been saying for years. I don't know what that means. I wrote this 10 minutes ago. Been saying for years. Been saying for years. I don't know what that complaint is. And now it's. This is becoming my complaint. Why would I write like a. Like a riddle? What was I doing trying to trick myself? Been saying for years. Oh, okay. Different complaint than the drinking. I had us under a drinking theme. Okay? I put up a TikTok on Thursday. So it's a Friday wedding, which I liked, because right now it feels like a Sunday. It is Saturday. I got the whole weekend in front of me. I flew out on Friday morning. I made a TikTok from the airport. They're making you go to the real IDs. Okay? So your ID might not work at the airport. You gotta have a real id. Now, I've been seeing the real ID marketing for a couple years now. I have been seeing it all around the airport. But I would argue, as a person who travels a good amount, as you know, they have not really made this as important a thing as it's going to be. I got to the airport on Thursday. They're like, day one of real id. There were people stopping you as you came in. Let me see your id. Do you have the real id? And I was like, I. I think I do, but I'm not sure. Like, that should be so apparent. If it's something like traveling that could be, you know, be in trouble for you. I brought my passport. Just knowing that real ID stuff was coming. I didn't even know what day it was. Apparently it was Thursday. I get to the airport and I'm like. And the guy's like, do you have a real id? I take out my id, goes, that's not a real idea. I got my ID renewed. Not renewed. I got a new ID three weeks ago because mine was literally breaking. From where? Jared, why are you using your ID so much? Because I travel so much. It was cracking, so I got a new one that wasn't cracked. Wouldn't you think there'd be a big sign on the website? Hey, you're getting a new id. You don't have real id. Do you want the real id? Here are the things you can do to get it. You need it by this date. Wouldn't you do that? Wouldn't you have that pop up in people's faces? And so I got to the airport. I use my passport. I made a TikTok. The TikTok now has 3.3 million views. It's done. Well, I guess. I don't know. I don't know what that even means anymore. The. The amount of comments that have. Again, back to my. My riddle that I wrote for myself. They've been saying this for years. You're on the government side. You're your team. Your team management on this one. Listen, if you have the real id, good for you. I'm not taking it away from you. I'm not saying. I don't know what kind of pat on the back you need for you to say that this has, like, been a clean operation. They've been telling us for 20 years. Have they? If that were the case, commercials on tv, it would pop up on every time you went to the dmv. It's not. It hasn't been. It hasn't been clear. You're basically doubting my whole reality here. I travel three times a month on a plane. Why didn't. They should stop me if this was so important and my whole point of the video was to say that we're going to have more fights at the airport, which we will. You're taking people who are at their most stressful time travel. Maybe families, parents with little kids. You have the real id and they're already running late, and they're like, wait a minute. What? What? When. When did this happen? You're saying. I'm. I'm just saying I. I live on the idea that I am with you in the center of the bell curve. I'm average, smart. I'm average. Average out here. I can tell you more than average. Travel. I don't have a real id. I just renewed my license. You're. You're going to say, well, you should have not. Are you. The teacher told us she was giving out the homework last week. Like, you're on the teacher side. You're on the man. I just don't understand this weird thing that goes on. And I see maybe I'm too much. I am too much online. But there's this weird thing on the Internet where. To me. Hey, where's. The real ID is not a political thing. It's a management. You did it wrong. This isn't being done right. And you're, like, defending your side and the political thing. No, it's the state's problems. They. There are people talking about the states like they're in the fucking federates. The federacy, like the Confederacy, like. Like they're a federalist or some shit. It's weird. Okay, back to the not drinking. Thursday night, we all get here. It's a party reunion. How you been? Where you been? Good to see you. We go to the bars. I'm not drinking. So my plan when I'm not drinking is to kind of like, hide in plain sight. I'm not looking to have a discussion of why am I not drinking every time I talk to a new person. Okay? I just want to not drink and I want to go to the bar and I want to hang with my friends. I don't want to make it into a thing. I don't. You know, when you don't drink, it's. And other people are. Their insecurities take over. Why aren't you. Should I not be? It's a Whole thing, I don't care, you know? And then my insecurities kick in. I'm not an alcoholic, I swear. No, I'm just having a little reset. I was drinking too much. Yeah, maybe I am an alcoholic. You know, you go through the whole roller coaster of emotions, so I'm not looking to do that. Every time I go to a bar, I get to the bar. I even order drinks for my friends. I'm like, okay, I need two. Two Coors lights and I need a tequila soda and one club soda. Splash of cranberry with a lime. That's my order. Out comes the two beers. Here comes the. The. Here comes the tequila soda in the rocks glass. And then here comes my club. My. The guy, literally, two hands, takes my club soda, splash of cranberry to lime, puts it in front of me in a big trash can. Plastic cup. I have a big old excel cup that you get at the movie theater because I got the non alk drink. Can we put my drink in the same glass as the regular glass? Do I have to stand out with my big kids glass? Big kids plastic cup. Like, I was sitting at Pizza Hut, like. And then I'm walking around with this big cup around the whole bar, and everyone's. I'm just wearing a sign that says, I'm not drinking. Just give me a glass that I can fit in with everyone else. Why do I have to be in the big cup that I. Oh, do you want to excel for a quarter more so I can show everyone that you're not drinking Tonight? I'm walking around with a big conversation piece in my hand. I couldn't even hold it in my hand, it was so big. And everyone said, oh, you're not drinking. What's that? What do you. Why do you got a soda? It was basically a cup that read soda. And it was so noticeable that later in the night, when people stopped drinking, they started ordering. So club sodas too. You know, now I go from now you. We were in a circle, and it's just like me, you know, everyone's got the big cup in their hand, and it's like everyone was getting outed for not drinking. And I looked, I go, look, you're not drinking. Are you done drinking? And they're like, I guess I am. The jig is up. Let us all. This is why non alk beer exists. You want to fit in. You want to hang out. You don't want to make it a thing. And then they make it a thing when they give you this extra large. I'M not drinking garbage pail to drink from. Okay, I got two more complaints. We did the creamers non al cups. This goes back. I got two more complaints. One is back to the Internet commenters. I. Not the commenters. I keep getting these tick tocks and Instagram reels about like, listen, the tariffs are in. You know the tariffs. Complain about the tariffs. Fine. Don't tell me you don't do. I don't want to hear the, the reels and the in the, in the tick tocks. They're like, you might not get soft shell crabs. Yeah, no, no, no. You're gonna be sitting at dinner and you're gonna be like, oh, man, I'd really love some soft shell crabs. And they're not gonna have them. You know why? We're gonna run out. You're gonna be sorry. And it's like, I don't want that video. I want the reaction video. Don't do this fear baiting thing where you're not gonna get your scallops. I'm telling you, three years from now you're gonna be. Because at some point maybe you'll be right. Maybe I'll be in a restaurant. They'll be like hour out of scallops. It's the tariffs. Can we just let that happen first? Do we need these, like, fear baiting. Fear mongering videos are like, you ain't going to have toys for Christmas. And it's like, how about we see what happen? There's just never any. Let it play out. Like, I want. I listen, I am team complaint. I am team. Oh, my God. There's no toys on the shelves. What's going on here? I need that to happen. There's just been too many years of videos of like, oh, man, you're gonna go out yout're gonna be getting dressed to go out and you're gonna go to your underwear drawer and all the underwear is gonna be gone and you're gonna be like, oh, my God, the tariffs came from my underwear. I should have known. And it's like, how about we let me realize, oh, my God, there are no more scallops. We used to have scallops. And then, and then we can take to the streets and march and. Because I actually think it ruins the cause. I think, because, listen, I think tariffs are crazy. I think, you know, I think economics, every economics class, like you like, that is like Econ 101, you know, that's a, that, that is a tax on the consumer. Like they tell you that day one of Econ 101. Like, I think that's a crazy thing. I think the way they did it where they just like blanket tariff. I think that's like insane. Like think the whole reciprocal thing. Like if you don't grow bananas then there's no reciprocal. We can't grow bananas. So we can't tariff in other countries. Bananas. We're just fucking ourselves. I could go on and on. Like I have a small amount of thought on this, but let's run out of bananas first I think because right now it. I don't trust the view, the video. Weirdly I don't even if I agree with it. Like, yeah, we might. I just don't want to have to worry about scallops. I got enough to worry about right now. Okay, my last complaint. This is turning into a crazy manifesto. I. I have a friend that listens to this podcast, this specific. I gotta ask him if I sound like a crazy person because I'm sitting in my hotel room. It's like 9:30 in the morning. I'm looking at the pool at the hotel. It's like rainy, it's gonna be a cloudy day. I want to go mini golfing. I feel like they got good mini golf here. Oh, that delicious creamer. I got two ads and then I got the, the complaints of the listeners. One more from me. Okay, I was at the wedding last night. When you go and get dressed for a wedding, you have a thought of how you're going to look the whole night. I think if I'm doing this, you're doing this. You put on your jacket, you decide tie or no tie? You actually have a plan. Okay, I'm going to go to the wedding. And maybe this is a male thing because we're kind of dress in layers. So like when I go to a wedding, it's like, okay, last night I wore like white pants that were like jeans. Is it was a cocktail attire wedding. And then I wore a button down shirt tucked into the jeans. I have a blue, blue woven belt. And then I had this blue jacket with blue shoes and no tie. I. My plan to me, I wear it out. I want to wear the jacket, I want to wear a shirt. If I took off the jacket, I didn't really like. I thought the shirt tucked in the pants. It looked fine. Maybe to other people. To me it looks sloppy. Like my pants would kind of like fall down a little bit. They, you know, they're a little loose. I wanted to keep the jacket on. The jacket with the shirt and the pants and the shoes. That's the look. I'm not looking to change that look. That is the look I want throughout the night. That's the look I want in pictures. That's what. That's the look I want to go home with. I think everyone does that. I think when a guy wears a tie to a wedding and then in the middle of the wedding he takes it off, it's not like, oh, I'm so tired. No, no, no. That was planned. That was him being like, okay, end of the night, I'll have the no tie look. I'll have the pre tie look. I'll have the I think it is more vain than men would allow you to believe. That is my belief. Don't come up to me and tell me, take off my jacket. Don't take off. Don't. Don't come up to me and go, hey, take off your jacket. It's hot. No, it's hot for you. I'm fine. I'm a jacket on guy. This was the plan. I came here. I came here. This is how I saw the night going. Take off your jacket. Why is your jacket on? Because I'm a fat fuck and I don't want to see my titties in the shirt. Okay? The jacket's a cover. Is that what they want? They want me to be honest. Do they want me to? Well, the jacket. Aren't you hot? Yeah, I'm hot, but I'm way fatter than I am hot. So how about you let me dance in peace to shout in my jacket? I get so annoyed. The idea that I would ever look at anyone and go, hey, take off your scarf. Hey, what are you wearing that dress for? Can you imagine me going up to any woman, man? Hey, what are you doing? Why is your hair in a bunch of look good when it was down? I'd sound creepy annoying. Aren't you hot? Your hair's down. Put it up in a ponytail. That's how I like it. Like, what do you. What do you. How about you let me wear my jacket and dance? Am I bothering you? Am I really like making you annoyed? Yeah, my jacket's on. That's the look. I'm wearing it to the end. We got two complaints. Caldera lab. Gents, skincare isn't just for tiktokers and your girlfriend. It's time you showed your skin. A little love with caldera lab. This is skin care for men. And I am telling you right now, I'm using it and I love it. I've never used skincare products. I Rarely, never like consistently. That's what I'll say. I've been using these and it's simple. They have, they have the get a routine going with the good. I use that, their award winning face serum. 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We got three in front of me from the Patreon subscribers. Jared, can we just have a moment to be ticked off about iced coffee? That is too much ice and not enough coffee. This is going to be a tough one for me. I'm an ice, I'm an extra ice by iced coffee guy. So I'm going to, I'm going to roll with you. Listen, I'll, I'll listen. This is why I'm a pro. I'll complain with you. I'll find a way. Where there's a will, there's a way. But I'm just telling you, let me be up front when I, I don't want to get, you know, outed. I don't want to be canceled when I order an iced coffee, extra ice. So we are on opposite sides of the coffee order, you know, aisle. But I'm going to try. I'm tired of paying $5. And I do assume people who get light ice, light ice is the order that people will do. I do see that as a form of cheapness which you bring up right away. I'm tired of paying $5. Okay. But again, we are different people. I will complain with you. I'm just letting you know I'm being honest. I'm tired of paying $5 and my coffee is gone in a few sips. The other day I went to a chain coffee shop and didn't ask for less ice. Well, it was a mistake. To top it off, the ice in the cup was not the ideal size and shape. There were large blocks. And I know how much you know. And I know you know how much this matters. I do. Ice matters. Ice preference matters. I'm with you. We. We are more alike than we are different. Even though this is, this is a. This should be a sign for the country. This is. You and I are just an inch away from each other, but we are from two different worlds. So that's my short and simple ticked off Tuesday. I want to know, how do you order your iced coffee? You're about to be disappointed. Sincerely, a girl chasing the perfect ice to coffee ratio. Okay, here's. I'm going to complain with you, but it's going to sound like I'm disagreeing with you, but I'm going to complain with you. I order my coffee. If I get an iced coffee, I want extra ice, I get extra ice. I think it makes me sad. It makes me depressed to have a coffee that is with melted ice. It looks kind of gross to me. It looks like it should be like near a garbage can to me. I want to feel that shake. I like the, the ice in the cup, the shake, the. But I do agree with you that if you get a coffee and you ask for light ice or you want an amount of ice, that. Here's the problem. It's. I, I actually think it's the order itself. There is no good way to say I want more or less ice. There is no worked in vernacular because when someone says, hey, I want an iced coffee, light ice, I, I have this issue with my name, okay? And then I hope this relates. Do you. They'll go, hey, what's your name for my order? And I'll go, I'm Jared. I think, Jared, people don't hear it, right? They go, jerry and I go, yes. Jerry and I just go along. Jared. Unless you enunciate it in an angry way. Jared. Like, unless I say it like that, people don't hear it. And again, this isn't me complaining about people not hearing it. It's. It's, I think the sound of it. I don't think the sound hits. I think when you say Michael, it hits harder because the enunciation is easier. Jared kind of like falls off. Say it right now. Go. As you're walking, say Jared. You kind of lose the ending. I think the same goes for light ice, extra ice. It's just not heard in the same way. Iced coffee, please. Iced coffee. One sweet and low. Like that isn't a directive. That is, to me, that's like hitting the golf ball. Pure light ice. It's like slicing. Again, I'm using golf metaphors. I've really lost it. I've really gotten into golf too much that's when, you know, I. I've really lost my mind. We're just so. I think the issue. And I'm with you. I listen. I just wish there was a. I wish there was a national coffee word, like, vocabulary. Because when you go, like, in Boston, you can get a large regular at Dunkin Donuts, and that means something. So if you say large regular. So large regular. Duncan, ordering regular coffee at Dunkin means with cream and sugar, not decaf, depending on who you. Who you are and where you're from, by the regular means cream and sugar. So, like, if you go to Dunkin Donuts back. And I don't know if that's still the case, but when Dunkin Donuts was more of a regional thing, a large regular was like one cream, two sugars. Like, it was like. And. And that's the thing. That's. That's what I'm kind of looking to have with this light ice, heavy ice thing. Like, if you went to a coffee place, and just every coffee place on the board it said americano cappuccino, and then below it it said ice options, and it said heavy ice, light ice. At least that'd be the vernacular. We just have. No way. We are all using different ways to say the same thing for you. You said you forgot. Well, there would be no forgetting if we all had the same languaging. Hey, I want. I want. You know, if I went up, I want an iced coffee on the rocks. That would mean extra ice. Just the whole country. We should just have the whole world on the rocks, mean extra ice. And then you could say, I'm trying to think of what the light ice version. I want an iced coffee. Keep it warm. Warm it up. That means less ice. I don't know. This is. Again, we're. We're spitballing here. I just think it's not the place. It's the. The communication is the issue here. And you ask my coffee order. I'm a heavy ice guy. We're from two different worlds. Romeo and Juliet. It is just two different worlds. Okay, this is west side Story. You're on the no ice cheapskate. You know, I'm worried that I'm never gonna have coffee again. I'm on the extra ice, you know, from privileged world of, you know, rich hot shots. So I get it. But I think we're asking for the same thing. We're asking for a language that gets our message across to the baristas so that we don't have to deal with a coffee that we didn't want to pay for j train podcast gmail.com j train podcast@gmail.com or join the Patreon for the price of a cup of coffee, you could be on the Patreon. All the links that I mentioned, by the way, are in the description of the episode. The Patreon, the ticket link, the, the, the ads. All of them are in the description. My tot. They're asking. They're taking away kcm Known crew member. Okay, there's a lot of, a lot of acronyms right now. They're taking away known crew member privileges for airline crew and we'll have to go through actual security and TSA PreCheck or an alternative design line that I'm reading like an idiot. Let me read this again. They are taking away known crew member privileges for airline crew and we'll have to go through actual security and TSA pre check or an alternative designated line because too many crew members were forgetting they had their gun, knife, weed, whatever it was in their bags. I was living in a world where the flight attendants weren't walking around with guns. I. This is, this is a shocking complaint to me. I agree with the complaint. Like, if I'm you and I'm going to work, I don't want to be in the line with the family of four who's going to Disney. Like, I don't want that variable ever being on my mind or a option for my getting to work, you know, drive. Because that's the thing we don't think of like a flight attendants like them getting to work as are like, I'm going on vacation, you know, so they're just trying to be in a place at a certain time where again, you know, if you're going to a flight, we're all trying to be somewhere at a certain time. But I'm saying I can understand why this would like infuriate you because you're like, at least I have my own line where it's a bunch of people who are on the same page. I don't want 30,000 different pages in one line, which is what making you go in the regular gen pop line would do. How about those people get punished, not the rest of us? I am even willing to take a test or get a background check to qualify. There's got to be a solution that isn't taking the whole thing away. I see this causing airline delays, passengers upset. Now suddenly 30 plus crew members are cutting them in line because this process will take a lot longer now. Yeah, and what are they going to do with that extra line? Does that become an extra TSA line? What? You know, where does that space go? I. I'm with you. I don't want this. I, like, I kind of, as someone who's been flying a lot the last five years, let's say I saw no issue with the idea that you're punishing the crew. Like, hey, one too many guns. It's like, yeah, punish those people. And I can understand, like, you know, I can understand someone flying with a knife or like pepper spray, because especially there's a lot of women who are flight attendants. You're traveling alone to, like, places that, you know, you're alone in, in cities. Like, I can understand, you know, wanting to protect yourself. The gun thing, I mean, I'm not going to get into that, but I just, you know, the idea that they're just getting on the plane and like, with a holster and like, like they're going to the saloon. I. Yeah, again, I don't. I, I hate an emotional response to a organizational problem. This sounds like an emotional response. Well, if one more goes through tsa, if one more crew member brings their gun, we're taking it away from everyone. Like, no one's policing each other. You don't know the flight attendants that you even fly with. You're going to work. Just make going to work easy. And the people who can't get to work with the EAS way need to be punished. Fire them. You brought a gun, you fired, you know, like. Or let's h. You know, just don't punish us. All this is like when you go to a boot camp class, when you go to, like, a fitness class, and they're like, we're not running. You know, they, they go, we're sprinting. And you make, you sprint at like, Barry's boot camp, and they're like, we don't stop sprinting until everyone's sprinting. And you look over and there's someone who's like, having a bad day and they're walking, walking, and they're like, come on, treadmill 10. We need you to sprint or else all these people here are not going to be able to stop sprinting. It's like, I don't know her. I just came here for a 30 second sprint. I don't want to do a minute if I don't have to. I can't yell at her. I'm not going to motivate her. If she's not going to get ready for the wedding now, then she's never going to get ready for the wedding. Let me stop sprinting. And it's the same for you. These gun people, whatever, they're bringing their knives. If they're quote unquote forgetting, they put it in quotes. They're not forgetting. Punish them. Don't punish me. I'm not going to go talk to my fellow worker in Iowa to be like, hey, did you bring your gun? I live in Atlanta. Let me have my line that gets me to work without being behind a family of four and punish them. Jtrain podcast gmail.com Jtrain podcast gmail.com okay, one more. I've got a ticked off Tuesday for you. So I called my mom the other day to tell her I was getting a job promotion and that it was coming with a nice salary bump. Congratulations. Let me just say before we get to this email that I haven't read, I'll give you what you want from that. If so, if you called me, you can call me. Hey, my mom. I called my mom the other day to tell her I was getting a job promotion, that I was coming with a nice salary bump. All I would say, congratulations. So happy for you. Because I have a feeling your mom didn't say that. I was looking for her to be excited for me and proud of my work. And she was. But right after the congrats came. Well, I'm just worried about you meeting a nice man and most likely making more money than him. Men, men can find that emasculating. And I don't want you to miss out on a great guy because of that. What the fuck is she supposed to do? This is crazy. I am with you. This is a crazy response from your mom. I was so annoyed, for one. Can we not just celebrate the moment? Yeah, how about we do that? The next call, if that is truly a concern, let's have this be the congratulations call. We'll go back to our corners of the ring, we'll take a break, we'll take a water. Oh, you call me 20 minutes later. You know, I was thinking about that promotion. Does it concern you that maybe some men will be emasculated by your newfound riches and fame? No, but thanks for the warning. Again at le at least let's just. At a minimum, moms are going to be moms. Mom's going to worry for you. They're going to find reasons to worry for you. Let's make that a separate call. Let's have this be the celebration call. This is like going to the birthday party. Hey. Oh my God, you're 40. Look at you. Are you worried about prostate cancer now that you're 40, it's like, well, let's do that later. Let's do that later. We're at the party. We're at the birthday party. Birthday for one. Can we not just celebrate the moment I'm with you? For two? I don't think he's such a great guy. And I wouldn't. And I would date him if he was. If he was mad I made more money than him. Thanks so much. Love the pod. Yeah. Like, in this hypothetical, you're basically. Listen, she just told you what she feels about your dad. I guess, I mean, like, it's also. Oh, you're a masculine. Like, first of all, you're either in a relationship with someone if they are, let's say. Let's say you are dating someone, you start making more money. Money. And they're like, I don't know. I just feel so weird about you making so much more money. And it's kind of like where I get all my worth from is that I'm a provider. You would talk it out. You'd figure it out. You'd. A good relationship would get through it and talk about it and find a way to make everyone feel good in this relationship. Or you wouldn't, and you dump his ass. And that's the thing. Like, your mom doesn't even trust you to find the right guy for you. That is what this is, hidden under the idea that your mom's like, oh, my God. But what will you do about this hypothetical asshole that you're dating that you can't stand up to, that you can't have a conversation with? Oh, my God. You're gonna be screwed the rest of your life. You're gonna be sleeping in a sexless marriage. Mom, let's just deal with what we got. I have this with my mom. There's no good news. There's no good news. There's no such thing. Mom, I'm going to a wedding this weekend. Oh, the flights have been getting canceled. Okay, good to talk to you. See ya. But moms, the one thing you can lean on. Moms are there to protect. This is a form of protection. I just want to see you marry the right guy. Well, how about I keep my salary a secret? I'll send you. You can put it into a money market account. Put my. How about I send you 10 of my salary? It'll be like I don't even make it. You put in an S P and I'll see where it is in 10 years. And then I'll use it on my honeymoon with my husband who couldn't handle me making more money. That is one thing I would like to see how I'd feel about it. You know, I would love to see how I feel about a woman making more than me. I think sitting here single in a, you know, hotel room looking at the pool after a wedding, I think I'd be like, thank God, let me take this sugar mama for everything. You know, I will go to all the nice dinners we'll go to. At some point it becomes ours, right? I don't know. Someone's like, no, I don't know. I. Who cares? Listen, I'll be. I'll be, who's in what world? Like, who's making more money? Who is it? She is. I don't give a fuck. All right, Ticked off Tuesday, back next week, boom.