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I know you're angry. It's Tuesday and it has no feel. The weekend was fun. You 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.

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Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is Jay Train Jared Freed coming to you live from Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you angry? Are you mad? Well, email the J Train podcast with your complaints and I will complain with you. I can promise you one thing. You're going to be seen and heard. I don't know how I might find a way to agree with your complaint in a way that you never thought could be an option. And maybe I, you know, I. I've said I'll agree no matter what. I will make you feel validated no matter what. Your complaint might be just missing the mark. And that's okay. You come here, we come here to the ticked off Tuesday to just let it fly. No judgments. You can complain about anything you want. Nobody here will look at you and go, there's bigger problems in the world. I'm not gonna play the morality game with you. That happens on the Internet and in life right now. Yeah, I'll get societal. Someone's gonna say to you, but there's someone here with a bigger issue. No, no, no. Not here, not here. Tick tock. Tuesday. Every Tuesday on the J Train Podcast. The J Train Podcast is a daily show. If you're new here, every day is a different theme. And if you want all five days, you got to sign up for Patreon. Patreon.com Jared Freed gets you coffee with J Train every Friday. And then as a Patreon subscriber, you get first dibs to complain with me on ticked off Tuesday, all you do is comment on that week's coffee with J Train and we'll get you on the show with your complaint. So every complaint today is from the Patreon. They are using their membership. If you don't want to sign up, that's fine. That is fine. You can send your complaint to jtrain podcast gmail.com. there will be a time where the Patreon subscribers don't feel like complaining. I don't know when but it'll happen. And then we go to the mailbox, we go to that mailbag and we, you know, sift around and find maybe your complaint. So I want you to subscribe to the podcast. I want you to subscribe on YouTube. I want you to come to a show, Richmond, Virginia that is approaching quickly. Washington, D.C. i'm doing a big theater there. I took a chance because D.C. has always been generous to me and I've always had a fun time in dc. The DC Improv is a really great club that I would go to instead of a theater if the timing worked out differently. But we're gonna do this theater and I would love for you to come, I'd love for you to bring your friends, your family. It is about being single at 40. I, I, I've kind of avoided saying that because the first special being called 37 and single, I don't want to like, I think I'm, you know, if I was to look back and this is more of a coffee with J Train topic, but if I was to be, you know, to, you know, look back at my career, what a douchey thing to say. If I was to look back, I'd be like 37 and single was kind of sewn together into. This is 10 years of jokes that I've been working on and just trying to get laughs with the family plan. The special I taped in December, that is a special, special, special, special to me. It worked for two years. No holes everywhere I went. Just really felt good to do it. I hope it comes out somewhere. I hope you can watch it, I hope you can see it sometime soon. I hope it gets the ability to be bigger, you know, to get seen. Because I, it is something I'm proud of. This next iteration is about going to Europe alone and traveling alone and kind of the questions you have to field as a 40 year old single man. Like all the, and it's from parents, it's from friends. So there'll be stuff about my parents, there'll be stuff about friends, will be stuff about trying to approach women and the back and forth I go with, with deciding, you know, trying to be in a serious relationship while also having my stomach kind of like get wheezy every time that's about to happen. So it's all that stuff. It's vulnerable, it's personal and it's funny. So. Jaredfreed.com for tickets. I want you to come, I want you to assemble the group chat family one especially. I love when people bring their parents. It makes me so happy. Okay, so that's enough out of Big Fat Me. I have two complaints and then I got one advertisement that will do. And then I have listener complaints. So we'll do my two complaints. We'll do the. The ad and then we got for complaints from you. That's our show. So. And go check out the YouTube. The YouTube. The YouTube. The YouTube. So also Instagram, we're putting out a clip every week. You know, I ask you to follow the Instagram. Maybe you listen to this every day and I can't thank you enough. Maybe you're just, like, here casually. That's why following the Instagram house, because maybe a video pops up, you go, oh, yeah, yeah, J train. I. I should, you know, listen to that episode. That looks fun. That's. That's kind of what. That's. That's my long. I'm here for a career, baby. I'm trying to get you along the ride at, you know, whatever point you can. Also, the Bachelor, the Golden Bachelor has started. I'm doing the live stream. I'm doing the live stream. Go to my Instagram if you miss the live stream. I put them all my highlights. I also put them on YouTube. So there it is. Here's my complaint. I got two. I stayed in three hotels last week. I stayed in many different Bonvoy hotels. But this isn't a Bonvoy problem. This is a hotel issue. Since the pandemic, the housekeeping, the cleaning of the room game that's being played is outta control. It feels as though we are dealing with a shell game with the room cleaning situation. It feels like they're showing you the right and they're doing something with their left. Because when you check in, some hotels will say, do you want housekeeping at your room on a daily basis? I always say yes. It is not rare that they won't ask anything about housekeeping at all and you have to bring it up. Do you do housekeeping? Oh, well, not every day. Once. If you're staying four days, we'll do it once. We'll bring you some towels. And it's like, how about we just be upfront about this thing? Why are we playing this vague game here? Just be up front. It should be mandatory. Tell me what the deal is. Give me the situation. Does a person come to fix up the room? I need to plan how I act in the room. And you're like, jared, what are you doing? You're gonna throw all this stuff on the ground and be a big pig in their sty? If there's no if there's gonna be a cleaning person. No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying I'm gonna be different with the towels. I'm gonna hang it up, use it twice. Jared, why don't you use it twice every time to save the environment? That's not helping the environment that they, that is asking us peasants to care about how we act while there's companies pumping smog into the air. You're not helping the environment by hanging up your towel. I'm sorry to break it to you. I know it makes you feel good. It ain't help it. So don't play that game with me. But I need to know, do I put my stuff, Do I, Do I, you know, judge up the sheets when I wake up so that I can get back into a bed that isn't tussled around? And honestly, it bothers me because these are jobs. They're hiring less people, they're paying less people so that their bottom line is better. And these are jobs that people need, that people want. I, I know maybe you don't want them, but there are jobs that are out there that someone can feel fulfilled and, and start their way. You know, this is. I, I, I just, I, I, I get so annoyed at this because, oh, we just don't have the staff. Okay, well, why is it because you're doing less housekeeping in the rooms so you can hire less people so you don't have to pay health insurance? Like, these are all things that I don't know the answer to, but it seems as though it's what's going on. Here's what I would do. Here's what I want. Here's my ask. When we check in, you tell us your policy. Not do you want, Not. Well, how many times do you need a cleaning service? It's like, no, no, no. Tell us what you do. Hey, you're here for three nights. We clean on the second day you're here. Okay? That's the deal. Fine. Be up front then. Tell me what time my room will get cleaned. That is an easy thing to do. You go, well, Jared, how do they know where they start? Well, let's create a process that says where they start, how long, give or take a room takes, and when. They'll get to you. Oh, you're in. And all the rooms are numbered, so look at that. It's easy to do. They don't want to do it. It's not that. It's. They can't. It's they don't want. So. Oh, you're in 5:13. 5:13 gets cleaned when it gets cleaned on every Tuesday and Wednesday or every second night or whatever of a stay at 11am 11 or from 11 to 1. Give me the. I'm okay with you saying it's a three hour window. They either get there at 11 or they get there at one. After one you're done. That's okay. Because then it tells me when I should have the do not disturb up, when I should take it down. There's just no communication and it feels as though there's no communication to save the Hotel Bonvoy Corporation money. And it could be Hilton. It could be anywhere. That's my first complaint. I'm so angry about that because I have it happen to me so many times. I'll take podcasts in the room, I'll put up the do not disturb and then I'll go to the front desk. Hey, so I had the do not disturb up. Can you make sure someone goes and takes care of the room now that I'm out of there and I'm out of there for six hours, Is that enough? I'm, I'm, I'm. Let me work with me here. Second complaint. This one drives me insane and I don't know if you'll be able to relate. That's the upsetting part is I am complaining. I'm yelling at a, a cloud. I, I am. And it will affect you at some point. This is coming. This is me. I'm the Randy Quaid in the Independence Day movie. I'm the crazy one with the, with that flies his plane and yells at the sky, the aliens are coming. The aliens are coming. This complaint is me being conspiratorial and a little bit cuckoo nuts. The way people are treating the algorithm as if it's a actual deity that is getting out of control. And I see it because I get comments on my videos and this is TikTok specific. Tick Tock specific. I will get comments on videos with people saying thank you to the algorithm for bringing me here. I have made the joke on my socials that, hey, we pray to Father algorithm so that he brings us good tidings. It is a joke because it lives in truth, especially on Tick tock. It doesn't feel like you have a connection to how people find you. It feels like their algorithm is, is really good at finding people to find you and to find your content that relates to them. That's their power on TikTok. What's annoying about that Is as someone who puts things on there to be seen. The people are seemingly thankful to an algorithm, not thankful to the creator, the comedian, the person putting this stuff out there. And they see the person not even being human. The consumer seems to be piggish in this sense where they're consume, consume, consume. Oh, thank you father algorithm. And then no acknowledgement that there was a human being that made these things that created that was funny. And a little bit of that has to do with people copying each other. A lot of the stuff you see is the same. I see it with my food videos and it bothers me to no ends because I'm not sure if I'm just wasting my time. What is even. And the other part about this is you get paid from Tick Tock. So it's a little bit take your money and shut the up. You know, be, be appreciative you're getting money. And, and I, I so like I'll put up these food videos and I love doing them. I go to a restaurant, I tape myself the whole time. I make commentary, I talk about the food, why I like it, why I like the place. I'm generally positive about the restaurants I go to the if I don't want to down any place. I went to a barbecue place in Kansas around near Kansas City, but actually in Kansas called Slaps. That was fantastic. Easy to be positive about Slaps. It's a really good barbecue place. The amount I'm doing shows at the Kansas City Funny Bone, the amount of people commenting. Thank you Algorithm for bringing me here. Oh, I gotta go to Slaps. Ready to go to Slaps. No acknowledgment of me. It drives me insane. Oh, you know, oh, that looks good. I'll go tomorrow. How about the comedian who brought you here that made you have fun with the restaurant and you go, jared, well you're being a baby. Maybe you weren't funny enough that that's always an easy way to shut me up. Acknowledge that. But it is crazy how we are not really into humans. More and more it's getting a little weird. And I would say that's kind of why the people who got big on tick tock in 2020, I don't really think that highly of them in a general sense. They are not appreciative of collaboration of people, of material, of I, I don't and generally just when I meet them, they put their stuff in the on the on on. They gave their tidings to father Algorithm and it brought them back good things and, and Money and, and views, not people, not a relationship with an audience. To me, this is my opinion. That's me sounding like a bitter, but just an opinion. Jtrain podcast gmail.com J train podcast gmail.com I mean, again with a tik tocker. When you're mimicking other people's trends and you're saying, oh, I'm doing a trend and getting hundreds of thousands of views on it, I, I, you go, well, you didn't. What did you do? You, you, I. There is some talent to lip syncing with the words. I don't know. We're sponsored. We're sponsored. Hello, fresh. I think this is the time of year for hellofresh. If you haven't tried out hellofresh yet, there's no better time. Hellofresh took it to the next level with a menu that's literally double the size. Choose from a hundred chef design meal options each week and fresh preference pre portioned ingredients show up right at your door. They've even added veggie packed recipes with two or more vegetables for that extra boost of greens and steak and seafood recipes that come at no extra cost. I'm a huge fan of a meal kit. I'm a huge fan of hellofresh. They're giving you 10 free meals in this deal. 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That's hellofresh.com jtrain10fm to get 10 free meals plus a free item for life. That's a great deal. I love that because it's helping you and it's helping the show. We're all jacking each other off listener complaints. These are from Patreon subscribers. Five bucks a month gets you four or gets you the Friday episode, which I, I think it's a good deal. I really do. I, I. And I'll say this, the. I see the number of subscribers for Patreon, people don't leave, which, that's a really, that's all I need. As far as a, a feedback is concerned. People keep their credit card on file, which is very. A compliment, and I appreciate that. I know we've done a lot of discussion about tipping on this podcast. Tipping is, is. It's the toughest complaint we get. I, I just saw Dumois put out, like, who are good. You know, they put up a question box. Dumois and is like, who's a good tipper? Who's a bad tipper? And people write in and you just have to, like, trust this anonymous person that what they're saying is true. Also, like, I don't know. Like, does Leonardo. Does Leo d. Does Leonardo DiCaprio have to tip a hundred dollars every coffee he gets? I'm a coffee tipper, so. And I feel good about it. It feels right to me. If someone, you know isn't a coffee tipper, I judge them. If someone left a dollar versus or left 10% versus 20% for coffee, I wouldn't judge them. I'd go, that's. That's what you do again. Well, you know, it's not fair of me because if I saw someone paying cash for coffee and then got a dollar back, I wouldn't judge them for not putting the dollar in the jar. It's just, it's weird the way the brain works, because pressing the button different than putting the dollar back in your wallet. This is me being open, vulnerable, and trying to see all sides. Here we go. I know we've done a lot of discussion about tipping on this podcast, but I want to know what you think the rule is for bartenders, okay? If it's an artisanal cocktail bar where they're creating something. Let me read that again. If it's an artisanal cocktail bar where they're creating something, I tip 20%. Otherwise, for something basic or a beer, I've always done a dollar to $2 a drink. I'm at the airport, my boyfriend and I got three draft beers between the two of us, I tip $6, and the man next to me called me cheap. Whoa. I don't know what to think. Am I wrong? A 20 tip would have been 8, 8.46. Interesting. You know, it, it, it is interesting. I don't think you're cheap. I think three draft beers between two people, to me, that's. And you gave six bucks. That's two bucks a beer. I think that's pretty good. Now, the beer costing, you know, you said a 20%. The cost of the beer is not up to the bartender. A draft beer you're getting. Also, I think I. Cocktails might be more of a. I think cocktails are where they make the most money. But a draft beer to me would be like getting a fountain soda. It's gotta be nickels and pennies and dimes. So I, I just don't think you're paying again like you do tip based on how much you spent there. But when it comes to a draft beer, I would. I'm with you. I think $6 for three beers is a very nice tip. And I'm with you as far as the artisanal cocktails are concerned. To me, if I were to do a tab, and I'm just talking this out with you, if I was to do a tab, it would be 20% on the tab. And that's again, to go back to the difference between leaving a dollar after getting your coffee and pressing the button that says 20%. I just, my brain goes in two different ways. I think to call you cheap is insanity to butt their way in. I think anyone who looks at someone else at a bar who did tip and says out of nowhere that you're cheap is a crazy person. That's the complaint. I don't think you're wrong. I think $6 on three beers is perfectly reasonable and generous. If someone was to say I did $3 on three beers, I would actually say they were reasonable and generous too. If someone said I tip more than $6 when it comes to three draft beers, I would say that's very nice of you, but I don't think of you as then the $6 person, whatever. So to me, this is all marginal. The crazy part of this whole thing is I got three beers between the two of us, I tip six dollars and the man next to me called me cheap. Who is he? What wouldn't be cheap? $7, $8 what it and how close is he sitting to see what your tab was and then to say whoa? And it's like, this is where I do believe what gets mixed into this. And I've used this word a lot late lately. Is this morality play? I tip more. So I am a Better human than you. And I can down you. And there's no. There's no nuance. The nuance here is three. I'm gonna. I'm gonna text my buddy, my friend, he. Uptown Social, if you live in Charleston or ever been to Charleston. Uptown Social, Sharehouse, bodega. These are all owned by my friend Keith, who's been on the show, one of my good friends. I'm gonna ask him what the tip is on three draft beers. And I'll put it on the Instagram today. We'll put it. I'll play. I'll show our text conversation on the Instagram at J Train podcast. It'll be in the stories because. Or we'll have it in the video if it's the clip that we end up doing, because I really can't find a fault with you. And again is six dollar tip on three draft beers. And I'm gonna give them all the numbers here. I'm gonna ask him. I'm gonna send them this. I'll say, what's your opinion? What say you? J train podcast@gmail.com. j Train podcast at gmail dot com. Well, hello, Jared. I have to get right to it today, but feather, Feather first. Thank you. Everyone gets excited. Or some people go, yeah. Oh, so I just skipped a paragraph. Anyways, there seems to be an epidemic of people starting group chats texting directly to just one person. Hold on. There seems to be an epidemic of people starting group chats texting directly to just one person, etc, with fun group hangs or vacations. That would require planning and effort. Okay, I'm kind of getting where you're going. I don't know. I'm. I'm still not sure what this is. I guess you're saying people go to a group chat or text, hey, let's do Acapulco in December. Everyone gets excited. Or some go, yeah, let's do it. And the idea just dies. This is getting annoying and exhausting to the point where I'm almost tempted to text back. So, okay, are you planning this then? Are you official cat wrangler here on this? Sounds cool. Yeah, I'm with you. Don't get me to dreamland without an idea of how we're gonna get this done. Like to say, let's go to Acapulco. Okay. Do you do. Do you have a promo code? Is there a reason you brought this up? I do need backstory. This isn't happening to me as much, but I do think that there's an age and a time where in your life where everyone's kind of like not moving into parenthood yet, not really marriage yet, and they're like, let's do something with this extra dough we have. And it's like, don't bring that up. And then not have a plan or a thought on how this is going to get accomplished. And it doesn't even have to be that they plan it. Hey, I'm looking at rates. This is how much the flights are. I'm looking at these dates is like more than enough because it's this thing of like they want someone else to make the commitment for them, which is really annoying. Perhaps I'm a bit more annoyed because I tend to be the default planner. Right. And you know, I think default planner, that's annoying. Default decision maker is really an annoying space to be in. Hey, we should go to Acapulco. Yeah, that would be awesome. Really? What do you think? When do you want to go? It's like, well, you brought this up, you brought me here. Give me a date and I'll say yes or no. Take a chance. And I'm perhaps I'm a bit more annoyed because I tend to be the default planner and I am not in the mood and I am not in a time in my life to do so anymore. This is busy as I'm sure is the friend who took the time to text everyone the idea but like have some self awareness. It is not just one friend who does it, although I do have a repeat offender in mind. Do they think the complicated plan, choosing dates, a venue, coming up with the cost, getting everyone to commit, by firm, by a firm, getting everyone to commit, etc. Is going to magically appear out of thin air or do they expect me to do it? It is a constant false alarm girl who cried vacay slash party situation up in here and I'm annoyed. Sign get it together. And by it I mean your idea. Yeah, I'm not a planner, I'm an ideas guy myself. But I would say I. The most annoying part of this is forcing someone else to be your confidence. And to be honest, this happens to me in dating where you know, I'm ready to be in a relationship but I also, you know, got this going on and I might do this and I might do that, but just say the word and this commitment is all your decision to make happen or end right now and make me feel bad and that gets me annoyed. In relationships generally that that's kind of a position I get put in. Yeah, I could work on a relationship with you while I got all this other stuff. Ju. Just say the word. And it's like, I do think this relates here because it's like they're texting this big group of, like, they're trying to outsource a confident decision. That's what makes me angry. Hey, what do you guys think about Aruba? And you're like, give me a date. Give me a time. Let me see the hotel you're looking at. And then I can come back to you and say, no, or I can go, this place looks great. This date is open for me. I'm in. It's not that you need someone doing the party planning. It's really that you need someone to go, I am up to do this on this date. And, and if I were you, I don't think so. Okay. Are you planning this? I don't think that gets you what you want. If you're up for a trip, I I and are you the, are you official cat wrangler here on this? I think that doesn't really get us anywhere. If you text it back, Date or place? Date, hotel in mind, and I'll think about it. That kind of puts them in the position of like, oh, well, I'm just thinking. Cause then you can see really what type of piece of shit they are. If someone texted me, hey, what do we think about Puerto Rico? I'd be like, when do you want to go and where are you thinking of staying? Well, I haven't really gotten that far. Well, sounds like you don't want to go to Puerto Rico that bad, and I don't want to go that bad. If you don't want to go that bad, you've really put a whole stink on this thing before we even got there. J train podcast gmail.com j train podcast@gmail.com Sign up for the Patreon come to a show. Jaredfree.com for tickets. My complaint is about E bike haters. Okay? I am an E bike user since I had my license suspended due to medical reasons, and I'm tired of people saying that E bike riders are just lazy that don't want to use a regular bike. I I'd like to meet this person who's railing against E bike users and how lazy they are. I don't doubt that they exist. Here's what gets me, like, frustrated with where we are in the world. Are you talking about, like, a random commenter you saw on an E bike video, or is it someone that came up to you and said, hey, lazy, why don't you get the real bike loser, right? Like if, if it's the ladder, if it's the person came to you, I go, yeah, that guy's an asshole. I think I saw a post the other day and it was like, shout out to like, being 30 and single, don't let anyone tell you it's over at 30. It's like, who's saying that? Have you met a person who says it's over at 30? Or are you taking one crazy commenter on a video about dating at 31 and making that a whole group of people who's out there railing against you? You don't have haters, I'm sorry to inform you. And you being everyone listening or watching in the world, me included, no one is thinking about you, no one hates you, no one wants to see you go down. Nobody is looking at your successes in life and being like, damn, got me again, we don't care. So this idea that like, and again, I'm gonna complain with you. I do agree that what does get said to me is you hear offhanded remarks about like, who needs an E bike? Isn't it defeat the purpose? And it's like, if you've ever been on an ebike and you felt the wind in your hair, you are like, this is the greatest thing to ever happen to me. And if you're using it to actually commute, it is a great way to get a eco friendly, health conscious commute to work that makes you feel good, that makes you feel like you had a little fun on the way to the coal mine you got to check into every day. So it is a. It's as crazy to say E bikes should be used to travel cross country as it is to say E bike users are lazy. Why would anyone do that? That's a crazy person. And we're just, we're just letting crazy people control the conversation. Which is even crazier to me. Okay, I'll move on. I live in a small Canadian city that essentially has zero public transit but does have a useful bike lane network. So I use my E bike to get around for commuting to work, running errands, etc. It's my vehicle in lieu of a car. I think that's wonderful. As a larger gentleman, I don't want to show up everywhere sweaty and out of breath from regular biking. Nor should you. An E bike makes a lot of sense. I take my bike, that is not an E bike around town and I'm like, oh man, good thing I'm just tooling around and not really going anywhere. If I was really going somewhere, I would want a bike that actually does the job. And this is what that's doing, especially at work, which is a top of a hill. Yeah, you don't have to explain yourself to me. It also just happens to be cheaper and more eco friendly than a car and, and is a ton of fun to boot. That's what this is about. I love our Canadian listeners. This is. I couldn't agree more with them. It there everything they said it's cheaper, more eco friendly and is a ton of fun to boot. Boom. That's the only reason that is. And, and you know what they call that? The moderates explanation. Yeah. I use an E bike to get to work and it's kind of nice to have the wind in my hair before I go into the office. And you know what, I'm not sweaty when I get to work. And also it's a pretty cheap option and I don't have to waste the gas in my car just to go, you know, half a mile. This is like the problem with being a comedian. You know, I stay at hotels that are, you know, a long walk or a short Uber drive. What I would do for an E bike ride to work. I know there are irresponsible E bikers that bike too fast on crowded paths, don't use their bells, and are generally nuisance to the public. I hate that all E bikers are being unfairly branded as losers when it's an essential all season mode of transportation for some of us. Thanks. I'm with you. It is. What we generally do right now is let me find my team and then we'll take the opposing team and we'll demonize them and make them losers and lazy pieces of who and, and it's just the answer somewhere in the middle. It's not the E biker. You know, it's like I, I've been doing, I did a, I've been doing a bit about getting fixed up and when I was first doing the bit, I would, I was struggling with how to start it and I still kind of am, but there was a point where I was starting it by saying everyone loves getting fixed up. And you'd have someone yell out, no fix up, sucker. They would, they would grunt or whatever it was. And I'm like, you don't want to. And I would ask, you don't want to be fixed up? No, fix ups are horrible. I, I don't want that at all. And like an ebike, it's not A fix up is a tool. A fix up is a mode of mode of meeting someone. An ebike is a mode of transportation. It just is. A hammer is a tool. There's no good hammers. There's no bad hammers. It's just a hammer. Now there's a hammer that might fit your life better and another hammer that doesn't fit your life as well. But generally a bad hammer is a bad hammer user. It's the people who use it that are bad. It is a bad hammer operator. So to say E bikes are, you know, users are late. No, E bike is a great option in a series of options. Let's do one more. J train podcast gmail.com J train podcast gmail.com Last one, Papa JT as we get into cold and flu season, I have a ticked off Tuesday for you. My co worker who sits about three feet away from me is sick right now and she keeps coughing everywhere. She does not cough in her elbow, but on her hand and does not wash her hands or use hand sanitizer. I am not a germaphobe as I work in healthcare, but have some courtesy and wash your freaking hands or at least cough in your elbow. It's so simple a 6 year old can do it. Also, there is hand sanitizer everywhere around us. It's not that hard to use it. Anyways, thanks for listening. A I know I'll get sick at some point, but mad at the disrespect from my co workers batch. I'm with you. It here's the thing. Here's the thing. We went through a moment called Covid. We were put face to face with the idea of germs and we were given a a two year reintroduction to how to be appropriate in public. If you don't know by now, I have to assume you're just trying to not know. Like you're trying not to be a public, you know, a a positive member of society. You know, I I talked on Patreon about sweating at the gym and not wiping up my sweat and how I when I go to batteries, I generally don't feel the need to wipe up my machine. I'm also not a big sweater, so when I get done with my machine, there really isn't a noticeable amount of sweat on my machine. And it's why I don't really go to a, you know, to the wet nap machine and scrub it down. Now I talked a little bit on Patreon so someone kind of yelled at me about that, which Is fine. I'm just saying there's, like, when I do sweat and I see it, there's a choice you have to make that, oh, maybe this time I should wipe it down. It is a mess. Or I make the choice that I'm not a wiped down guy. I would hope that I'm not going to make this into my religion to make this into. I would hope in that instance, I choose for, ooh, I sweat more than usual. Let me wipe this down. That's the more real and human way to live among society. Now, if someone's in the office coughing up a lung, there's a point where you would think it would occur to them to do the elbow to. To. To. To say, oh, I've got the first time. Use your hand. Oh, wait a minute, I forgot. I'm coughing like crazy. Let me make sure I'm really covering up. You would think there's a point where you go, what are they railing against? Are they. Are they really. Are they saying that the elbow thing, is that, like, their point of, like, contention that people who do elbow things are this way and people do hand is this way? You're just avoiding the reality here. So I'm with you. And there's a point. Two coughs in. There's a point where you have to feel some shame. One cough. Whatever. Again. I sweat a little bit on the machine. Whatever. Puddle of sweat. All right, let me wipe this down. I've gone too far. There's. There's an in between here. One cough, two cough. 3 cough. Now 4. We need to stand up in the office and say, hey, everybody, sorry, I'm hacking up a lung here. Got something stuck in my throat. Give explanations or we switch to the elbow and we start making sure that we're not patient zero. J train podcast at gmail dot com. Back next week. Boom. Okay, this is a very special add on to today's episode. Earlier, there was an email about tipping on a bar tab. I said that I would text my good friend who owns Hair, the dog share house, bodega. These are all in Charleston, South Carolina. These are beloved bars. He is a part of the service industry community there. He's gotten political. He's. He's helping change laws for the insurance. Keith does it all. I told him when he moved down to Charleston, he's gonna be the mayor. And that is what happened. So he is. His bars are wildly successful, and I would tell you all, you need to go to them. They are where I would send you if you were gonna go have A fun weekend with friends or family. They are awesome. I've done shows on the roof of his one bar during the pandemic. It's just I have a lot of, you know, Keith's one of my best friends, so I've been in both of his weddings. So, like, listen, here's Keith's answer. So I want to read the text exchange. And I gotta say, I am surprised. I sent him the email and I said, need your ruling here. And we will put these texts up on the clip we do on Instagram at J Train podcast. So I said, I send him the email and I said, need your ruling here. He was adamant. 20% at a minimum, every single time. No questions asked. Unless you are able to pour your own beer or make your own vodka soda, Follow the rules of society and do what's right. Tip 20%. There is no leeway in that answer. I'm surprised. I'll take the note to me and something that I mentioned on the show I could understand. If you pay with a card, I would think you go by percentages. You pay in cash, you drop a dollar. I think when the beer costs $5 and you drop a dollar, that is 20%. When the beer costs $7 and you drop a dollar, it comes back when the beer costs $4. But now that I'm thinking about it, a beer is never $4 anymore. So he has a point. And I wrote back. I said, so a draft beer being $5 and another one being $7 should get a different tip. He wrote, Yes, 20%. No, I got. And listen, Keith, the guy that I trust with this, I'm gonna go by what he says. And I have to agree with him. He's in the industry. And also, here's the thing about Keith. There's no. Period, end of sentence. No, if this. If that. He's got a hard line. I mean, what bothers me about this answer is that again, I'm gonna go back to something I talked about earlier, the Dumois thing. Someone. Someone was asked, this is the. This is my feedback. The Dumois thing. They asked the audience, who. Who has ran into celebrities and what have they tipped? Was it good or bad? And then they said, this person was bad. They tipped 10%, this person was great. They tipped 100. But then there was one celebrity that someone wrote, this person tipped 20%. So nothing. And it's like, well, hold on. The tip is meant as a gratuity. You should get credit. I would think 20% is a good tip. I don't think we should get in the business of that's a nothing because it's not guaranteed. So it's a good tip. But then I guess if you say 20, 10% is something, but that's not good, that's a bad tip. This is. This is. This. This is a quandary. This is a difficult conversation. That's why we're here in Ticked Off Tuesday to have these types of conversations. So I wrote, would you consider this person cheap? Here's Keith's answer. Yes, one to two dollars because you feel like the person didn't do any work for it, for it is cheap. Let me read that again. They say, I go, would you consider this person cheap? Yes, $1 to $2 because you feel like the person didn't do any work for it is cheap. Now, that's not how I would think about it if I gave a buck on a $7 draft, but that's how they're taking it. I can't tell the bartender how to feel. If it was bad service or you had to wait 10 minutes to get. Get a beer, that's one thing. Okay, this is fair. But if the bartender greets you quickly, takes your order and serves you with a smile, do the right thing and tip 20%. Okay? He's our. He is the J Train authority on bar etiquette. That's the opinion of the show. I wrote, so I did. Listen, I'm pushing back on him because I want the answers. I want a full answer. I can get how it's different with cash and a card. 10% on a beer when you're signing out for a whole check would seem pretty cheap to me. Would seem petty and cheap to me. So I wrote back, I can get how it's different with cash and a card. So I wrote back, I can get how it's different with cash and a card. 10% on a beer when you're signing out for a whole check would seem petty and cheap to me. But giving 10, but giving a 10 and throwing down a buck when it's $7 would seem fine. But I'm just asking the questions here again. I'm not looking to get in an argument. I'm just trying to get answers. He writes, it might seem fine, but it's not method of payment has nothing to do with it. And I wrote, okay, that's the rule. Then I came to you for the ruling, and that's the ruling. So I listen. We all had to do some soul searching today. I gotta rethink how I'm doing things. How I'm living my life. I gotta start bringing around change purses so I can get to the 20% on these dollar tips I'm leaving for these drafts. So that's the answer. That's our podcast. I'm happy we talked this out back next week, boom.