Office Bathroom Shaming, Doctors Appointments, and Interviews - TICKED OFF TUESDAY - The JTrain Podcast w Jared Freid - The JTrain Podcast

The JTrain Podcast: Office Bathroom Shaming, Doctors Appointments, and Interviews - A Detailed Summary

Release Date: March 25, 2025

Host: Jared Freed
Podcast: The JTrain Podcast

Introduction: Ticked Off Tuesday Kickoff

Jared Freed opens the episode with his signature “Ticked Off Tuesday” theme, establishing the podcast as a sanctuary for listeners to vent their frustrations. Broadcasting live from Manhattan’s West Village, Jared emphasizes the podcast's mission to validate and explore listeners' grievances, no matter how trivial they may seem. He shares a personal anecdote about performing in Morris Plains, New Jersey, highlighting his passion for solo travel and connecting with audiences through relatable content about being 40 and navigating life’s uncertainties.

Notable Quote:
“You can complain about anything. Anything that you…” – [00:00]

Listener Complaint 1: Office Bathroom Shaming

The first complaint delves into the discomfort of dealing with a CEO who makes inappropriate and shaming remarks about employees' bathroom habits. One listener recounts how their CEO has persistently voiced disapproval of where colleagues choose to relieve themselves, creating an uncomfortable and intrusive work environment.

Key Issues Discussed:

Invasion of Privacy: The CEO's comments about bathroom usage invade personal privacy and create an awkward atmosphere.
Micromanagement: Using bodily functions as a point of control reflects broader micromanagement tendencies.
Workplace Morale: Such inappropriate comments can significantly harm employee morale and willingness to return to the office.

Notable Quotes:
“She continues making inappropriate comments about how she doesn't like it when people go number two in the bathroom.” – Listener
“This is crazy. She is passive aggressively trying to send a message about how she wants to control where the poop is going in the office.” – Jared Freed
“It's like, good for the not for me type of thing… why do you want me to come back?” – Listener

Listener Complaint 2: Frustrations with Doctor’s Appointments

The second complaint addresses the inefficiencies and frustrations associated with scheduling doctor’s appointments. Listeners express their annoyance over limited morning slots, delayed availability, and overzealous appointment confirmations that add unnecessary stress to what should be routine healthcare interactions.

Key Issues Discussed:

Limited Availability: Difficulty in securing preferred morning appointments leads to inconvenience.
Ineffective Communication: Overly persistent follow-ups from medical offices regarding confirmations create additional annoyance.
Operational Inefficiencies: The misalignment of appointment times with pre-appointment requirements, such as fasting, complicates the process.

Notable Quotes:
“There's a 1:30pm option in two months. I've been going to the same doctor for years.” – Listener
“If you're expecting to pay, get paid time and a half or something. Sincerely pissed off.” – Listener
“The doctor's office should only be open from like, the doctor's schedules should be like 5am to 10am.” – Jared Freed

Listener Complaint 3: Overcomplicated Corporate Job Interviews

The third complaint focuses on the excessive and often bewildering process of corporate job interviews in the finance sector. A listener shares their exasperation with enduring six rounds of interviews, extensive reference checks, and prolonged background checks for what should be a straightforward administrative role.

Key Issues Discussed:

Lengthy Interview Processes: Multiple rounds that seem unnecessary and time-consuming for the position.
Excessive References: Demanding more references than reasonable, stretching into irrelevant professional territories.
Background Checks: The timing and extent of background checks disrupt the hiring process and candidate experience.
Unrealistic Job Expectations: Misalignment between advertised work hours and actual demands placed on employees.

Notable Quotes:
“I made it through six rounds of interview. That should be a complaint in itself.” – Listener
“How awkward is it to ask an employer for from five to eight years ago to talk about me?” – Listener
“What are you waiting for? Dig into these flavor-packed meals your household will love.” – [Referenced from another complaint]
“You need three people to like, speak for me. And then that wasn't enough.” – Listener
“They tell you up front to expect 10 to 15 hours of overtime per week. I guess, wouldn't that be called overtime.” – Listener

Jared’s Insights and Commentary

Throughout the episode, Jared Freed provides insightful commentary on each complaint, empathizing with the listeners and expanding on the broader implications of their frustrations. He highlights how such issues reflect deeper systemic problems within organizations, whether it's a lack of respect for personal boundaries, inefficiency in professional services, or overly rigid corporate hiring practices.

Key Takeaways:

Empathy and Validation: Jared consistently validates listeners' feelings, creating a supportive environment.
Systemic Issues: The complaints illustrate widespread issues that many individuals face in professional settings.
Humor as a Coping Mechanism: Jared uses humor to navigate serious topics, making the discussion engaging and relatable.

Conclusion: Encouraging Listener Engagement

Jared concludes the episode by encouraging listeners to continue sharing their grievances for future “Ticked Off Tuesday” episodes. He reiterates the importance of the podcast as a safe space for venting and mutual understanding, fostering a community where everyone’s voice is heard and validated.

Notable Quote:
“Ticked off Tuesday, every Tuesday here on the J Train podcast. Keep sending them in back next week.” – Jared Freed

Final Thoughts

This episode of The JTrain Podcast adeptly addresses everyday frustrations that resonate with a broad audience. From invasive workplace comments to bureaucratic hurdles in healthcare and convoluted job interviews, Jared Freed provides a platform for listeners to voice their annoyances and find solidarity. His blend of humor, empathy, and insightful commentary makes the podcast both entertaining and meaningful for those seeking a relatable outlet for their daily grievances.

Transcript

Jared Freed (0:00)

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 to you live from the West Village of Manhattan. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. You, the listener, write in with your complaints and I complain with you. I will find a way. I will find the nugget that maybe you didn't see. I will validate you even if I, you know, there's times where people write in with their ticked off Tuesday and I'm like, I don't see it, but I see where you could go with this. And that's the fun. That's the thing. You can complain about anything. Anything that you. And this is a safe space. This is a safe space to get things off your chest. I mean, my complaint today is very frivolous. It is. My complaint is dumb. My complaint is. It is. You would say, Jared, you know, it would sound ungrateful, actually, but we're in, you know, we're in the luxury lounge. We're in ticked off Tuesday. This is where it's supposed to happen. So if someone heard my complaint here. Oh, Jared, come on. What are you talking about? And I'm going to get into my complaint. This is a, this is what they call a tease in the biz. If you're listening now, I'd love to come. I would love to have you come to a show. I would love to have you come to a show. I just performed in Morris Plains, New Jersey. It was a small room above a restaurant. It was so much fun. Just go to work out new material. It's all very loose. It's fun. It's, it's, it's a lot about traveling alone. So if you followed my journeys across Australia, New Zealand, it's the feelings of being 40 and going on a trip by yourself and, and all that comes with that. The questions, the, the insecurities, all that stuff. So I, I would love for you to assemble the group chat. It's going to be a fun show. I'm not a lot of dates we're, we're pulling back a little because, you know, if I want to get into my workflow. All this stuff is discussed on Coffee with J Train on Patreon. How do you support the show? Come to a show patreon. Patreon.com Jared Freed, coffee J Train is every Friday. That fills out the week. That gives you five days of J Train and you get first dibs on Ticked Off Tuesday. All three complaints today are from Patreon, so they get the first dibs. If, you know, if there's a week where the Patreon people don't complain, we go to the, we go to the mailbox and I got a lot of complaints in the mailbox. So how else do you support the show? You know, tell a friend, tell a friend, Tell a friend, Tell a friend, tell a friend, tell a friend, Friend, friend. Tell a friend, Tell a friend, Friend, friend, friend. Tell a friend, tell a friend, tell a friend, friend, friend. Share on your Instagram stories. That was beautiful. It's a ticked off Tuesday, so those are, you know, the ways to help the show. You know, there are costs here. Support the sponsors. I'm going to read the sponsor right off the bat. We're going to get to it. So. Oh. So the shows, I'm coming to Rochester and I'm coming to Nashville, those are going to be like workout fun shows. There'll be some interactive qualities to it because, you know, I've been kind of going in the crowd a little bit. You know, listen, I got, I gotta, I got a full skill set here. You know, I've been, you know, I watch some of these crowd work videos on, on, on Instagram and on, on Tick Tock and I'm like amateur hour. I'm just saying I can, I can crowd work with the best of them. I think it's cocky Jared today on Ticked Off Tuesday. I know I listen, it's not because I think that I practiced it. I hosted, you know, as a host. When you host. I used to host at the Comedy Cellar every night. Hey, that is all improv hosting. You got to do your bits but also go out of your bits to get the crowd a little bit looser. Hey, where you from? What do you do? Which is, it does get old after, what do you, where are you from? What do you do? How long you guys been together? These are all the questions comedians ask. So but I promise to get away from hey, where you from? What do you do? And maybe we'll ask that question Rochester and Nashville. So I'm pulling Back a little bit from the touring schedule because I'm going to really go after it in the fall, but I want to have a good, I want to be able to go in the fall and with a set that's like boom, boom, boom, boom. Laughs, laughs, laughs, laughs. Oh, that could be a good DJ set. How come when I see these videos of people DJing, the only one that looks like they're having fun is the dj just the only one that's like getting into it and dancing and then everyone else is kind of like taping the dj, having fun. And this isn't me being against DJ music. I think DJ music can be great. I think I, I was out when I was in Cannes, they had a DJ there. I talked about it here. I talked about on Coffee with J Train, they had a DJ that I was like, oh my God, like this guy is unbelievable. I was at the Spotify like concert and then afterwards someone was like, no, that guy's like legit. Like makes $30 billion a year. Like he's like one of the most famous DJs of all time. I'm like, well, there's a reason he's unbelievable. We have one sponsor. All. As always, the sponsors are in the description of the episode. Every plate. Here's the thing. I'm trying to get healthier. You're trying to get healthier. How do you do that? It's portion control. It's creativity. 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Those are our announcements. My complaint. I went to the Knicks game last night. Yes, the New York Knicks. I will say this, the New York Knicks are, to me, that is the one New York City team you know, the Yankees belongs to. The Bronx belongs to kind of everybody, the Yankees. When the Yankees are good, you don't feel it in Manhattan is my point. I, you know, I've lived here 17 years now, so I, I do think I have a, I think I have some feel of what, how this city, like the buzz of it all. Madison Square Garden is just plopped in the middle of the city. It is, it's kind of crazy that it's where it is. And you. I. So Nimesh Patel, comedian, friend of the pod, friend of mine, he has a special coming out April 1st. If you're, this is a plug city for Nes. If you're sitting here at your phone near your Netflix account, just put it on your queue. It is so incredibly helpful to comedians to put these specials on your queue. So go do that as soon as you can. But Nes brought me, he, he is in touch with the, I would say the celebrity, you know, person, the, the person who deals with celebs, so to speak. I have gotten this treatment before and you feel crazy and weird and you're like, I don't deserve it. Nimash has kept in touch with them. So he kind of like is a little bit in their ear. Hey, I would love to go to any game and I wish I had done it a little bit more. But Nimesh has done a good job, and he has the number of the person. He's like, okay, anytime, you. And Saturday night, the Knicks were playing the Wizards. The Wizards suck. The Wizards are literally, like, tanking to try and get the first pick in the draft. But it's a Saturday night at. At Madison Square Garden. It doesn't matter who they're playing. There's a buzz, there's an energy. You're at the center of the world. And I would say the Knicks, I. I mean, I'm a Celtics fan, but I like this version of the Knicks. I like Jalen Brunson, so. And I like the way they play. Like, I like watching them. And when you're in Madison Square Garden, it is electric. It is. I just think it's. There's. There's not many basketball stadiums like it. And so listen, who am I? Like, you're like, Jared, you're talking about msg, of course. Yeah. That's who. This isn't new news. I know. So here's my complaint. And again, the tease earlier was like, how are you going to complain about getting VIP treatment? Courtside tickets for free at Madison Square Garden on a Saturday night? Well, let me tell you, they have this thing where you go back to this room and they have all this food out, but there's. Then they bring you to your. Your chair, but you're kind of stuck in this chair for the half. Like, there is no moving. You can't. If you want to go to the bathroom, it would be crazy. It would be a journey. It would take you 10 minutes to get out and in. And if you wanted to get another drink, you're crazy, dude. There's no way that's happening. So my complaint is, like, they don't really prepare you for being locked into the seat at courtside for the whole game. We had this seat that was behind the bench. So we did. It's not like we're, like, on the court, but we were as on as you could be. And you have to, like, kind of prepare, like, you're going camping. Like, we, you know, in the back room, I'm like, oh. He's like. I'm like, what are you going to drink? He's. And then they offer you a to go cup. There's a piece of me that's like, maybe I should have gotten two, you know? So we both order double. He gets a double Hendrix. I get a double Tito's and soda. And you get it, and you go on your way. But then you're like, man, I Wish there was like, to me, if I'm to, like, review, if I'm to complain again, I am complaining about VIP for free courtside seats to the, the Knicks game. This might be the reason I never go back. I, I, I'm just saying, I, I hope not because I love the experience. But on the way out of the back room, they should have, like, a table of things that could go in your pocket because you get to those seats, you're strapped into the roller coaster until halftime. And then if you, then you come back to the room and then you go back to the seats and you're strapped in until the end of the game, that should be warned, that should be told to the people going, hey, you're going. You know, it's going to be tough for you to get out of here. And the table should be like, mini can they do have mini candy bars in a bowl. But I just want the table to be full of, like, you know, popcorn, bag of chips, and then how about some nips? How about some, like, alcohol? Like you, you put out a little bit of like a, you know, a couple, and you might be saying, well, didn't I just see Tracy Morgan puke on the floor? You know, wouldn't they, like, not want people to be hammered on courtside? I know, I'm not looking to get hammered. I'm just saying a double vodka soda with no peanuts or pretzels and, you know, and you could get up. It's just tough to get up. So I just wish that table, I just wish they had this table on your way out with a sign that's like, pack up. Pack up courtside. You know, see people, you're going to, it's going to be a little bit of a ride. I would have popcorn, peanuts, nips, like different alcohol. Airplane Nips are airplane siiz alcohol bottles. A little tiny soda. You know, those little, they, they do those on the Delta flights. They have like, the hat. How about the mini Coca Cola, mini Diet Coke, mini, mini club soda, maybe a little ice. That's like, packaged again. You, you know, I'm complaining about something that's really, it's tough to complain about. But I, I, I did have a moment where I'm like, I'm not going to get up for a drink. There's 10 minutes left in the second quarter. I'm stuck. I'll get one at halftime, and I probably don't need the second drink of the half. But it's not to say I wouldn't like it. The option. Let's get to the listener complaints ticked off Tuesday. And if you have a complaint, you can sign up for patreon patreon.com Jared Freed. Or you can send it to jtrain podcastmail.com or you can send it to the Instagram account at J Train Podcast ticked off Tuesday. My CEO makes weird and inappropriate comments about pooping in the office bathroom. Yeah, I think you can. It's been a while since I've been in a corporate setting. I don't want to hear about the pooping of anyone at the. I think I do understand how this conversation can happen. Taking a break, gonna go sit in the. The real office. But I. I think when it's CEO, you have aged out. You have. That's. You know, there's a line from. I've never even seen the show. What's the move? Mad Men. But that's what the money's for. You know, like, when you don't like. I guess to me, I think this line is famous because it's like, you know, if you don't like your job, but that's what the money's for. So I want to talk about my pooping. Well, that's why you're the CEO. That's what the money's for. So that you'll shut up about your pooping. I work for a small organization, 30 people. They have recently been trying to get folks to come back into the office. At first started requesting we come in four days per week. Then they realized no one was coming in, so they requested only three in office days, then two. And I usually come in just once a week. This come back into the office thing, it's just not going well. Thing is that my new CEO continues making inappropriate. I mean, this is why you're not coming in. The thing is that my new CEO continues making inappropriate comments about how she doesn't like it when people go number two in the bathroom. We have thi. Oh, this went in a direction I did not see coming. I thought it was like this CEO, bro, dude being like, yeah, I just took a fat one. Just laid a hairy turd in the pool back there. Like, no, this is. This is a woman who's outwardly telling people to stop going number two in the back. That's. I think this is worse how she doesn't like it when people go. I mean, this is. You're shaming people for their bodily functions. Thing is that my new CEO continues making inappropriate comments about how she doesn't like it when people go number two in the bathroom. We have two bathrooms with three stalls each. One woman and one for everyone. Okay. She jokes, quote unquote, that people should use the one individual bathroom downstairs that you need a key to get into for their number twos. I can't. When does she bring this up? They keep the key in the front on the admin's desk. So even if this was what you wanted to do, everyone knows what you're grabbing the key for. Yeah, no, we all want to go. We want privacy in all forms. We don't want someone knocking at the door. We don't want someone knowing what we're going to do. We don't want the key. Hey everybody, I need the key for the poop toilet. No, that's not what we want to do. She also made comments about not liking to pee in the three stall bathroom with someone else in there at the same time. It's so ridiculous. When is she bringing this up? Don't try to make us come into the office and then harass us about our perfectly natural bodily functions. I'm with you. This is crazy. She has brought both things up multiple times and does it in a joking way, but we all know she's serious. Yeah, all jokes come from truth. Using the office bathroom is not my first choice either. But I refuse to use the scary downstairs bathroom and will continue to use the office for my number two with a courtesy flush. I'm with you. This is crazy. I don't like to me, this woman, this, this person. I'm not. There's no reason this CEO is passive aggressively trying to send a message about how she wants to control where the poop is going in the office. And it's like this is kind of the problem people have with like inviting people back to the office. It's like, it's like good for the not for me type of thing. It's like the people asking you to come. The reason people aren't wanting to go back to the office is they're seeing how much their life is improved by being able to like be at home and be a responsible adult who gets their job done while also getting the things in their life life done. Creating a job that's also part of their lifestyle. And they're being told to come back to the office by people who get to do that because of their level of pay or level in the office. So it's like, so that's why it's unreasonable. You go, you, you don't come in every day. You don't have like the PTO thing that I have to do. So why you want me to come back? So that you can go and be at home and kind of like do your day the way you want to do it. It's, it just feels gross. And this person now being like, well, trying to micromanage everyone's poops and where they put their. That's crazy. And I would say that this person, I think that they do this probably with everything. Like, I, I, I would hate this as much as I don't like when someone says, you're ordering too much food. What are we. All this food. Who's gonna eat all this food? We'll make do. How about that? How about we'll bring it home if it's too much? Better too much than not enough. To me, that's the same type of joke. Oh my God, all this food. Shut the fuck up. Yeah, there's a lot of food and maybe I want to eat every single fucking morsel. All this food. Who could eat all this? People are really pooping in the upstairs toilet. Oh my God. Who would even do that to their fellow co worker? I would. I don't want to go downstairs. Too bad. It's a fucking bathroom. We do what I want here. Oh, I'm so ticked off with you. And it's like, how do you even respond? Like, what do you say to this person? Like, this is the thing. Someone, the problem is they're using their level of job, their CEO title. They wouldn't make this joke if they were just like a regular, you know, worker. A regular worker. Be. They wouldn't feel comfortable doing this. It's all, this is a punch down situation because how do you even. Can you believe people should use the upstairs bathroom for the peeing and downstairs for pooing? Hey, I know you're saying that in a jocular manner, but do you mean that, that, like, is that what she wants you to do? Do you mean that? Do you have a problem with me pooping up here? Like, how could you even respond to this? To know when. So you just have to like, listen to her. No, she doesn't like it. And then go, I don't give a fuck. I'm so annoyed at this because again, I don't think it stops at this for this person. I think that's how they do everything. Who could order? Who takes a cab this short? Me. I don't want to walk. I'm a fat, I'm a fat ass who doesn't want to walk. Who, who does? You don't take the subway. You take A cab? Yeah, I do. I don't give a fuck about money, I guess. Like, like, what do they want? J train podcast@gmail.com. j train podcast.com. it's ticked off Tuesday. You can hear in the tone of my voice, I'm ticked off for that listener. Keep sending them in. Here's the second one. We have three today. Nothing is more annoying than trying to make a doctor's appointment. They emailed reminding me it was time for my annual checkup and call. I'll get to the. I agree with this person calling to ask for a morning appointment. And the receptionist gives you a 1:30pm option in two months. I've been going to the same doctor for years. The receptionist knows I love the 8:30am slot. Yeah, we all do. Yeah. If they fill up quick, email me a few weeks. Or in the case. In this case, months out so I can get to the time slot I prefer. Thanks for all the laughs. I'm with you. The doctor thing is broken. The way they make. I've had this. They're like, okay, we're gonna need you to come in and you can't eat the night before. And make sure you don't eat for 12 hours before. What time do you want? We got 5:30pm Available. You're like, that's who. Who on earth is coming to the doctor at 5:30pm when they can't eat, you know, 12 hours before? That's not how it works. We want the morning first appointment. If anything, they should just make. The doctor's office should only be open from like, the doctor's schedules should be like 5am to 10am and then go home. That's when you take all the appointments. Like, there should be no afternoon appointments. And here's another thing. When you make a doctor's appointment, they are so afraid of getting stood up. My doctor. Emails, calls, calls, voicemails, voicemails. Please get back to us. Please tell us if you're coming. Tell us. I made the appointment, I'm gonna be there. One confirmation and it's over. Texts and calls and hey, it's. And then it comes in this weird number. Just making sure it's like, have a little confidence and listen. I do understand from there. And they're like, I just want to get my day put together. Like. And at that point I just think, hey, you got to get in touch a week before and if I don't come, then I can't come back to you ever. I have some sort of rule also for this person. I could not agree more. Hey, your yearly checkup is coming up. Great. I'm calling to make my appointment so we can get you in here six months from now. It's like, well, if that's how you're filling up, maybe you should be. Hey, your yearly checkup is coming up in six months. Let's get that appointment on the books that they, maybe they need to change how they do things. J train podcast@gmail.com. j train podcast@gmail.com. it's ticked off Tuesday. Are you angry? Send it in. Last one, Jared. I have a ticked off Tuesday for you. So I've been interviewing for corporate jobs and finance for the past couple of months. Finally made it through six rounds of interview. That should be a complaint in itself. Six rounds. Hey, what changed from round four to round five? Like after round three, you go, you got your information, make a hire. I got to the stage where they were ready to issue an offer, but first they needed to call my references. No problem. I gave them three former employers who they already contacted and had great things to say. Well, I am happy for you. Now the recruiter is asking for one to two more references. I mean, enough. What do you want to call my first grade teacher? You got the references? This is the thing again. Reference three to reference four. What are you going to find out? Interview four to interview five. What is left to know at this stage? I'm actually pretty livid. Yeah, I'm with you. I've met with six people at the company, completed a case study, shared three references. I mean, honestly, your, your part time job is now interviewing for this one company and you still don't trust that I'm a good fit? I need six people to vouch for me. Yeah, it's not like you're going to be living together. I know work is, you know, maybe someone could say, well, work, you know, you want to make sure you work with the right people. But still, like, there's a point where you go, how important is your company? What do you guys think you're doing? You think you guys are doing the Lord's work, that you, you need, you need these, you know, vetted people. They need to be like godly spirits to come work at your company. How awkward is it to ask an employer for from five? How awkward is it to ask an employer from five to eight years ago to talk about me and recall specific scenarios where I struggled or could have communicated better? Yeah, I don't even know who you go to after one to three when you give three former employers. Okay, and again, you're not 800 years old. What if you only had one job and you're leaving your one job to go to this new job. You get three people from that company and then they go, yeah, we're gonna need two more. Okay, who do you want my parents gonna tell you how I clean my room in middle school? It feels insane. And not only that, but once this is done, there's a two week long background check. I mean, to me, the background check should have been done already. You went through six rounds of interview with a convicted felon. Like you wouldn't you want to know round two? Oh, let me make sure that we, once, you know, it's like getting pre approved for the loan. Like get, let's get pre approved here. I can't believe I have to go through all this for an average admin role at a finance company. And the finance thing is annoying me too. You're not doing like, it's not like you're dealing with kids, you know, like you're dealing with numbers on a page. And oh, and let's not forget they tell you up front to expect 10 to 15 hours of overtime per week. I guess, wouldn't that be called. That wouldn't be called overtime. At that point you can expect 10 to 15 hours of overtime. How about you're going to work. Add that on. These are the, these are the numbers. When you know it's coming, that's your work week. You know, don't tell me I have a, you know, 40 hour work week. No, it is a 55 hour work week. I guess they're saying that because you'll be expecting to pay, get paid time and a half or something. Sincerely pissed off. I'm with you. I just think the whole interview thing is, it's like, because also you have to be on your best behavior because you want this job. They got you by the nuts. And I have to admit, I'm far away from this world. I am. But I, you know, the thing that, you know, that we have, or I guess in my world would be auditions. But auditions have like, you know, for me, they kind of go away because of, you know, stuff like this. This is why so many comedians love doing podcasts and love kind of owning their own kind of place in the world. They don't have to, you know, every day show. Oh, we're gonna have to do another audition. Let's do a third audition to see if you can play the, the brother with no lines in the movie, you know, and it There's a point where you go, am I not enough? The self doubt is the thing. Like, you needed six times a police, a back. You needed six different conversations, a background check and three recommendations. You need three people to like, speak for me. And then that wasn't enough. You're like, I need one to two more. What are you going to hear? What you think there's this big reveal, one person all of a sudden. Oh, I know. Their dark past. 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