Uncle J Train (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.

Jared Freed (1:09)

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 where you, the listener, write into me, the comedian and podcaster with any and all complaints. Any problem you have is welcome here. You will be agreed with, you will be empathized with, you will be seen if you write in to Ticked off Tuesday. Now, how do you write into the show? There's three ways. J Train podcast@gmail.com J Train podcast@gmail.com. you can send it over DM to the J Train Instagram account at J Train Podcast. That's, that's at J Train Podcast. See, like a good broadcaster, I'm repeating myself. I'm making sure you get the message that I want heard. I would also like for you to follow that Instagram account. Here's the third and easiest way to be a part of Ticked Off Tuesday. You sign up for the Patreon patreon.com Jared Freed, you sign up. It's five bucks a month. Okay? That gets you an extra podcast that gets you the Friday episode of the jcu, the J Train Cinematic universe that gets you coffee with J Train every Friday. And the way to submit your ticked off Tuesday is to comment on Coffee with J Train with your complaint. We will collect them and we'll answer them the next week. All of today's, all of today's complaints are from Patreon. So, you know, we're at a point in the, the, the, the evolution of this show where the Patreon subscriptions are going up, which I appreciate. That helps to fund this whole thing. You know, if you're not a Patreon subscrib, have ads, but these guys on Patreon are floating your boat, so to speak. They're the ones that are making sure production stays afloat, you know, so it does, you know, the ads don't pay for everything. I'm just, I'm giving you some of the Business here, that's not a complaint. I'm just letting you know the economics of it all. Don't just be. Don't just be a consumer without wondering of the economics. I think about that all the time. I talked about that on, on Coffee with J Train. There was a bartender that was working the bar at the hotel after the wedding and he just didn't care that a whole group of people that were like fiending for that last beer of the night were like coming in like we were coming in like animals from a wedding. And he was just like, no, I'm closing in 45 minutes. Which, fine, those are the rules. But like I had this whole business plan. I talk about it on Coffee with J Train, like if, if. But then, you know, if I think about again, I'm not just gonna consume. That guy obviously didn't see the incentive. Maybe there isn't this wad of cash that he would have come into had he taken care of the 40 people who came in drunk from a wedding. Maybe that he's done it before and gone. It's not worth the money. There's no money here. I could understand that. So I guess. So this is. See how I just thought about the person on the other side. I thought of the bartender. That's what I'm asking you to do with this show. Think of me. So how do you pay for the show? You support the sponsor, use the promo code. You sign up for Patreon. Patreon.com Jared Freed. That comes with its own benefits. You can get to listen to the Friday episode of the podcast. You can also get first dibs at a ticked off Tuesday. And you Here are other ways to pay for the shows. Subscribe to the YouTube, comment on the Instagram, like the Instagram page, like the post that I'm doing. I, I consider sharing the show as good as signing up for the Patreon that you just shared it to 200 people that watch your stories on average. So again, I'm not going to. This is, this is my own Ticked Off Tuesday. Yeah, I'm a little complaining right now. Let me admit I'm a little complaining. I have one complaint and it's actually a restaurant review. Yeah, I'm a creative. I will take the space I am given and do with it what I may. I'm a creative. I'm an artist, as you know, and part of my art is the complaint. And I was thinking like I went to a restaurant in New York, so I want to give a review that is a recommendation while Also complaining about it. This is the thing about the world today. I, I don't know, maybe I, I've never thought of myself as like an old soul. I think when people say they are, they're douche. I don't like that. I don't like self descriptions is my point. But if I were to like think of myself in the world today, as far as podcasting is concerned, I don't even know what I'm doing is even for anyone like I. Because when people review restaurants now they, they do. It's a 9.7 and they're copying Dave Portnoy from Barstool who is doing a bit that he created the whole pizza review thing where he goes it's a 9.3. Everyone knows the rules. You only get one bite. Now he's being copied. I I think he's the original and he's not even the original. He's do the bit he does is Vince McMahon. He is doing heel character bad guy. I've always thought of him as doing a version of Vince McMahon which works. That's why the WWE has been successful so long. It works for men, it works for that type of guy. I'm that type of guy. I love a male soap opera, which is what wrestling is. So I but I would never do a restaurant review that way. When people are like, what do you give it? What's your rating? No, my rating is a 1000 word article on my thoughts and feelings and it's going to go back and forth and it's going to have critical. It's going to be praising, it's going to be all things. That's how I review. You go watch my food video. I put some food videos out there. I like to go take a trip to a restaurant. It's not negative. There are thoughts and maybe some notes that I'm giving and that's where we're going to go today. I get. So here's my complaint. My complaint. And you're going to see this. I'll have pictures on the Instagram page is I think we're not. Restaurants are not being thoughtful about the bite. There's no bite thought. And I went to a bagel place in Delray and I asked for and this is the order. And don't come at me when I'm. I'm going to say my order. They're about. They might be naming a sandwich after me. And I will talk all about that when that happens at Blackstone Coffee on the corner of Hudson and Christopher. That would be what I would consider one of the greatest honors of my life. I have been working on this sandwich for, for the entirety of me living in the West Village recently. I think I perfected it because what I want, when I have a sandwich of any kind, I want this, this meeting of. And again, it's not just taste. I'm looking for something different. If I'm looking for something that tastes good and can keep me in the game of being healthy on that day, I don't want to. I don't want to take myself out of the game. I want a sandwich that can satisfy my hunger, that can make me happy, put a smile on my face, and keep me in the game where the day doesn't feel like a wash. If you get a bacon, egg and cheese on an everything bagel, you're out of the game. It's a wash. Goodbye. You're on. You're on. Disgust. The disgusting boat. Drifting away. Off to see. Ta da. And this isn't me saying you're disgusting. I have been a passenger on the SS Disgusting many times in my life. I take many times in my life. Three times a week I'm on SS Disgusting. I'm shipped away. Big fat elephant me on SS Disgusting. Honestly, I'm trying to avoid all day, my health regimen, my eating, staying healthy, you know, eating healthy regimen is how long can I stay off of SS Disgusting? When do I board the ship? Now? If I board it in the morning with my breakfast now we're at sea a really long time and I'm likely to never get off of SS Disgusting. I hope this is making sense. I am an artist. It should be. So here's my point last. You know, if I wake up in the morning and I have egg whites with mushrooms, onions and peppers, put a little sauce and hot sauce. Put a little salt, pepper and hot sauce on it. Oh, my God. I'm, I'm. I'm not even on the dock to board SS Disgusting. I'm. I'm on the beach with abs. I'm, I'm on. I'm on hard body beach. This metaphor keeps getting better and better. I'm like, I do this off, you know, this is all off the cuff. I don't write any of this. I wrote one line. There's one line I wrote, and I'll get to that line as I continue my, my 1000 word review of a restaurant I haven't even named yet. Where was I? So the sandwich that I get, the morning sandwich is a. Is me going onto the dock. I'm not on, you know, egg white, mushroom, onion, pepper, salt, pepper, hot sauce, side of turkey bacon. That's on hard body beach. Now, as I travel towards the SS Disgusting, you know, you. Your breakfast gets a little bit worse for you. So then my. So the breakfast sandwich I get. There's a number one at Blackstone Coffee. The number one is seven grain bread, egg white spinach. It's like an egg white spinach omelet with turkey. I then took that sandwich, exchanged turkey bacon for turkey. I just like it better. There's maybe a little crunch. Okay. Then I was putting salt, pepper, hot sauce on egg white spinach, turkey bacon, seven grain. That wasn't getting me where I needed to be mentally. That meant inching forward on the dock, entering onto SS Disgusting. I added avocado. You might go, well, avocado is healthy. It's more calories. We have Inch towards SS Disgusting. Avocado, egg white spinach, turkey bacon, salt, pepper, hot sauce, seven grain. Pretty good sandwich. It wasn't getting me there. It didn't have two things, volume and taste. I'm adding the salt pepper because the taste is lacking. It's just didn't have missing something. So the artist went back to work. I go back to my brushes, and I go to my easel and I say, jerbear, where are we going with the sandwich? I add in red onion and tomato. I'll give you a second to make a. I'll give you a second to metaphorically chew on that to go, wow. Yeah, he did it. I did it. I made the perfect. I made the perfect. Not the perfect sandwich. The choice between that and a bacon, egg, and cheese of calories don't exist. Of course. Of course. We're going bacon, egg, and cheese on everything. Bagel. Come on. Maybe we're putting a hash brown in there. I don't know. We can get wild. If calories didn't exist, we could all just party down. No, this is in a world where you're trying to avoid boarding SS Disgusting and sailing off to F. I'm trying to avoid that. I'm trying to avoid having to stretch out a T shirt every time I put it on. Okay, but this keeps me on the dock. I ain't on the beach. So that's the sandwich that might be named after me at Blackstone. I have tried to repeat it again. When I go to Del Rey, I go to. I think it's called Way Beyond Bagels. I like Fit Food Cafe in. In. In Boca. Fit Food Cafe doesn't open until 10am So I go to way Beyond Bagels, which has a great, not good, great coconut iced coffee. Jared, coconut iced coffee. Who are you? Try it. Delicious. Unbelievable. It's like bodega coffee. It's light, great cup there. And Way Beyond Bagels has a great bagel. So when I go there, I get egg white turkey bacon on an everything flagle flat bagel. Jared bagel. I don't know. This is the one disappointing part about working with the nutritionist. You find out that a bagel is like 7,000 calories. That that's a disappointing piece of news. And again, inching forward, I, I choose to believe that's not boarding S.S. disgusting. I'm still. But I'm on the edge of the dock. So I get egg white turkey bacon on everything flagle. So I try to take my order from Blackstone, bring it down to Boca. I go, let me get egg white turkey bacon, tomato, onion, everything flagle. I'll show you the picture. But they put what I would consider an onion chopped in half onto this bagel. A full on onion. Like I literally is as if it was the equivalent of me taking an onion and eating it like an apple. There was no bite thought. You got to have bite thought. Now to fast forward and to get to my restaurant review, Emmett's on Grove. Here's how I would title my Emmetts on Grove review. And this is the thing I wrote. Here's the title to my Emmetts on Grove Review. Emmett's is the perfect restaurant for socialization with one big problem. Nope, let me. I gotta redo it. I didn't even read what I want to make sure I read it right. Is the. Okay, here's my Emmett's on. I'm repeating it. Okay, here's my Emmett's on Grove headline for my review. This is the headline for my Emmett's on Grove review. Emmett's on Grove is the perfect restaurant for socializing with one fixable problem. That's it. That's. That's the review. It's a great restaurant to go meet people, get together with people, you know, go on a date. No tv. It is for socializing, is for rubbing elbows. The bar is great. It's got a good vibe. It's young but without feeling like you're in a young space. I think if you went on a Saturday at 8, it wouldn't be as good. I went Thursday, 9:30, 10 o' clock. Perfect. The bar was hopping and it had an energy. It was people, big groups, dates. It had it all. Groups of three. It had Room for new people to meet one another. I loved it. They also have a Chicago style. I don't even know if this is really a Chicago style. They're claiming it in the way Detroit is claiming Sicilian pizza. I don't even buy that. I've been going to Detroit my whole, whole life. I ever heard of Detroit style pizza until like two years ago. It feels like someone in Brooklyn just wanted like failed. New York moved home to Detroit was like, I'm going to bring this thing called Detroit style pizza. Now we got a cool thing here. I don't know. To me it's a Sicilian pizza. Maybe. I mean, the only thing I can think of is that Little Caesars, which started in Detroit or was owned by the, I think the Ilitch family that is from Detroit. Maybe Little Caesars like invented. Maybe they're just mimicking a. Or doing a high end Little Caesars pizza. That's the only thing I can think of as far as why it would be called Detroit style pizza. Listen, I'm willing to be wrong. The Chicago bar style pizza is like a cracker crust to me. Again, this was Domino's. Domino's used to have the cracker crust. That's why I love Domino's. But they are doing at Amazon Grove an unbelievable cracker style crust. What they would call Chicago bar style pizza. It's absolutely wonderful. It is perfect to share. It is delicious but doesn't fill you up because of how thin the cracker crust is. It is for hanging with friends. You could eat half the pizza and not look like you ate half the pizza. It is four. Let's get three of them and they'll probably be leftovers. But no one's going to look at someone weird if there isn't. You know, it's like. It is great for getting together with friends. Jared, what's the problem? What's the fixable issue? I went into Emmett's on Grove and I didn't get the pizza because I was there for dinner by myself. It felt a little weird to order a pizza and maybe eat the whole thing by myself. I kind of didn't want that look as far as look, you know, for me that wasn't gonna be the headline to my journey. I ordered the Caesar salad and it was full on leaves with three. I would call them garlic bread croutons. Why would you call them garlic bread croutons? You had to like, you couldn't think of garlic bread and try and take a fork, a knife to garlic bread. The knife would. Unless you had like A really sharp steak knife. The knife wouldn't go through. It'd be, like, rubbery. That's kind of how this was. This isn't to say that the garlic bread wasn't good. It just didn't go with what I wanted out of a Caesar salad. To me, I want. I want lettuce dressing crouton on every bite. I've had the panko dusting on Caesar salad, and I think that's actually like, where we should be going with the Caesar salad as far as bite thought is concerned. This had no bite thought. This had me chopping up the salad myself, taking the garlic bread crouton. Calling it a crouton is a. Is not what it is. And having to go bite for bite, left hand with the garlic bread crouton, right hand with the fork. It was a disgusting mess. It's not worth it. Don't get it. Not. And if you're on a date, God rest your soul, because you better hope that this person likes you, because you're about to look like a weirdo. Eating this salad and Caesar salad and a pizza pie on a date is usually a great move. They've ruined the move. This can be fixed. So then I ordered the. The burger. The burger. Which was delicious, by the way. Okay, the burger. No bite thought. No bite thought. The burger came with this, like, onion jam on it. And then they took. And jam is, like, not doing a justice to the consent. It was like an onion something on a burger. Thick one. Not a smash burger. With cheese sauce that looked like it was ladled on from a big old pot. The cheese sauce had. It was, like, whiz, but upscale. But the burger, you couldn't pick it up. You couldn't pick up the burger. What? In what world. And this goes back to the bagel with an onion on it. In what world? I gotta be able to pick up the burger and you're saying, jared, you want less Cheez Whiz? Put it on the side. This isn't working. I cut through it. I'm gonna share pictures on the Instagram. I cut through it. I tried to make. I was on the phone with someone. I'm trying to text with them. I go and I had to say to them, hey, I'm gonna have to go away for an hour. I got a burger to eat here. I can't do this with one hand. This isn't manageable. Put the cheese thing. Put the cheese sauce on the side. Make. Have some bite thought, and let's make this burger enjoyable to enjoy with friends. I mean my hands were full. J train podcast@gmail.com J train podcast@gmail.com I have three ticked off Tuesdays. I have one ad we're going to do now. The ad is in the description of the episode. Please support the sponsors if they support you. I think that's a fair ask. Hair shedding isn't your fault, but ignoring it kind of is. Nutrafil makes it easy to get your groove back. If you heard of Nutrafol's hair growth supplements and wondered do they actually work? It's a fair question. Many hair supplement over promise and under deliver. But Neutrophil is different. As the number one dermatologist recommended hair growth supplement brand trusted by over 1.5 million people and is clinically tested to deliver real results in just three to six months, it asks for a personal endorsement. Here's what I'll say. My mom has been using it now for years. 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Okay, let me get back to the the ad. Find out why Neutrophil is the best selling hair growth supplement brand@nutraful.com spelled n u t R F R A F O L. I've spelled it a thousand times and now I sneeze once I'm out of the game. N U T r f o l.com promo code feather that's neutrophil.com promo code feather support the sponsor. If they support you because they support us, that should be. That's like a Great slogan for podcasts. Support the sponsor. If they support you, because they support us. And then they make us all have entertainment every week for you to put your brain on the shelf. I got three listener complaints on a ticked off Tuesday. I mean, listen, I'm doing these daily. We're already at 25, 24 minutes, whatever it might be. What a value. What? What? What a piece of work I'm putting out there. You think the Kelsey brothers are doing this daily? No, they're doing once a week and they're going for an hour. Come on. Come on. If only I were a hall of fame center in the NFL, I'd be a better podcaster. I guess that these are complaint. I. Okay, I sound like an asshole. I Jared all the feathers. Thank you for all you do as a U up and J train subscriber. Thank you to both. Are you kidding? That's like the greatest. As I complain about the Kelsey brothers. What am I doing? I'm living the life. You help make the mundane tasks of daily life more bearable. Here's my ticked off Tuesday complaint. Well, thank you. I am both a teacher. Insert. They write insert standard commentary about teachers here. I like teacher. I get pushed into this just because I said I wouldn't date one. Which I'm. I'm reviewing that. Thought I would date a teacher. I think I would. I am both a teacher and a mother. A mother. I don't know about that. Okay. Last week was Teacher Appreciation Week. Well, this is amazing. Which was directly followed by Mother's Day weekend. Let me start by saying my particular school took very good care of us throughout the week, and Mother's Day was fine. Perhaps another complaint for another time. Oh, kids are in trouble in that house. But those are not my issues. While I get to be celebrated during these occasions, making sure I celebrated the other teachers and mothers in my life added a level of stress that sort of negated the whole thing. This is a huge issue. I totally agree. There's gotta be a way to solve. Like, if you're a mom or a teacher, like, you don't have to say happy Mother's Day to all the other mothers. You don't have to say happy Teacher Appreciation Week. You are the one being appreciated. I. I get it. Well, then you have your own mom, and your mom goes, I don't know. I think you should be off the hook. Like, this is tough because it's like, you know, who's. Who's it up to to celebrate mother? Well, my dad growing up, this was like a constant Fight that like, would cause anxiety for me. My parents would get in a fight. My mom was like, what are you doing for me for Mother's Day? To my dad? And my dad was like, you're not my mom. Well, and I agree with my dad. I my mom, why are you making this into a thing? And then it, and then she's like, you're not going to do anything for me for Mother's Day. And he'd go, you're not my mom. Why would I do anything? And it's like, well, you're gon help the kids do something for me for Mother's Day. And it's like they can't do anything on their own. It's like, well, yeah, Dad, I don't have a license to be able to go out to CVS and get a card. So she does have a point there. It became this whole thing where it's like, why are we having this argument? That never needed to me, Mother's Day was always just stressful that listen, you're getting, if you're a therapist, you're getting a whole window into my, my life right now. But those are not my. Oh, let me go back to this. Okay, so I had multiple teachers to buy gifts for. I don't think you should have to buy anything for the other teachers. Teacher Appreciation Week. Let it be for everyone else that you don't have to go to your teachers and your teacher's teachers. Mother's Day. I get it. On top of this, I had to make sure to get a gift from my own mother. Okay, so I had multiple teachers to buy gifts for. Plus the constant emails asking for donations. Just leave the other teachers out of it. On top of this, I had to make sure to get a gift from my own mother and was also the one to make sure my mother in law was acknowledged as she does not live locally. That's. I mean that's what I would be mad at your husband about. That's his problem. I mean, back to my dad's, you know, rationale for Mother's Day. I am certainly grateful and appreciative for all the ways I was recognized, but sometimes it feels like it would be easier if some of these quote unquote holidays didn't exist. Sometimes all I really want is for all the things to be taken off my plate. You totally have it right with the fourth of July. Great holiday of just having fun with the pleasure of gifts or with. Without the pressure of gifts or sentimental family gatherings. Thanks for the safe space to complain. It's why Fourth of July and Super Bowl Sunday, two greatest holidays of the year. You owe nothing to nobody. No cooking, no just show up unless you want to have a party. You know, Thanksgiving there is my other favorite holiday. But there is someone has to do it. So I'm with you. I think the teachers doing stuff for other teachers. That is crazy for you to be on any email from another teacher. No, I am a teacher. I'm a teacher too. I don't have to do. I don't have to appreciate you. Appreciate me? How about we Teacher Appreciation week should be your class. That's is something you put out to your students and let their parents grovel at your feet and kiss your ass so that you're nice to their kids. That's what Teacher Appreciation week it should be. I'm ready to get bribed week. Not oh well, no, let me go take care of the other donate. Who are you donating to? You got your own problems. You're a teacher who doesn't get paid enough and has a bunch of brat kids who don't appreciate you. And then the one week you have Teacher Appreciation Week, you're sending donations to other teachers. No, you get the appreciation. This, this angers me. The Mother's Day thing, I don't know if we can figure out. I don't think that Teacher Appreciation week should be that close to Mother's Day. I think we should spread those two out and you could say, well, no, no teachers or, you know, mothers. But let's just agree there's a correlation there that those, those, those statistics match up a little bit somewhere along the way. J train podcast@gmail.com. j train podcast@gmail.com. another Patreon subscriber ticked off Tuesday sign up. Oh, and another announcement shows I just added Providence. I'm gonna be in San Jose, California. If you know anyone in that area, let them know if you're in that area, come. I just added San Francisco, Alabama. Huntsville, Alabama. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. London. London, London. Jared free.com I got more dates coming in the fall. This week I'm doing a if this will come out on Tuesday, Sunday before this comes out, I'm doing a photo shoot to try and get some pictures taken with like all the so I can put out like some. Some media marketing tools to promote the fall tour which will be in more theaters and more major cities. My ticked off Tuesday is that there's no consistent scale for food spiciness. Totally agree. Spiciness needs to be a scale like octane for gasoline. I love spicy food and have had extra hot. That's meh. And extra hot. That's actually spicy. Same thing goes for fast food. Spicy chicken sandwiches. They're spiced, not spicy. Spicy so hard. Because it's like a pain tolerance thing. Because they go on a scale of 1 to 10. What. How painful is this for you? What they should have is, is like, when you board the ride at Disney, they have, like, a video presentation. And there have been some tiktokers who have done a great job of spoofing those. They're all the same. They're like, hey, welcome to the science lab. Oh, my God, we sprung a leak. Get in. Come on, we gotta go. And then you get into the cart and they're like, leading you along this storyline. I do think you need that type of video at the food establishment. If there's like a spicy thing going on, the, like what you said, extra hot. That's on a scale. There's like, hot, extra hot, medium, neutral, not hot at all. They should have a video of the person going, for me, that's a 1 out of 10. But I love spicy foods. Like, you don't know who we're judging this by. Is it someone who is a big spicy food eater? And they're like, it's a two. It's nothing. It's like, well, if you love spicy foods, I would imagine that a two for you might be a seven for me. That's. We need more language. We need more communication. There should be some sort of video accompanying all spicy foods. And this is easier to do at, like, a Wendy's, where it's like just any place. And they listen. I understand what. Because you asked the wait staff, what's the buffalo wings like? Oh, they're pretty spicy. What's. Oh, how spicy? You need any place where you don't have a waiter. A waiter should be able to translate this and give more context to the spicy situation. If you're at, like, like a Dave's Hot chicken. Like a hot chicken place. Like, this is what I'm imagining. Where they have that scale. It's like a thermometer, and it's like, shows you the different heats that they have. That's got to come with a video accompaniment because you're ordering at a counter. You just have to know. I need to know the person. I need to know where they went to college. I need to know where they grew up. That's a big part of this. I trust spicy from someone who's from Louisiana. There I judge someone from Louisiana's ranking of spiciness way more than I trust the ranking of spiciness from someone who's from New York, New York. I don't even know if we know spicy at all. I'm going to try. I'm going to trust most people from the south when they talk about spicy stuff. Maybe not Boca in Florida, but like other southern regions. If someone's from South Carolina and they tell me hey it's really spicy, I'm taking them seriously. So I want to know the honestly. So I guess now I'm reviewing my my solution. I agree with this person. Next to anything called spicy, it has to have the name, the mailing address, where they're from, their age of the person telling you the spicy I want to know like John Smith from Norwood, Massachusetts. I'm not really trusting his spicy scale. I'm going to assume his version of spicy is actually a medium. Now if it's like Cheryl at Toufe from Baton Rouge and she goes it's very spicy, I'm going to assume that's going to put a hole in my tongue. Think the the background of the spicy arbiter is important. J train podcast gmail.com j train podcast gmail.com here on ticked off Tuesday. Got one more. Let's do the last one Ticked off Tuesday. My sister just got married in St. John last week. Congratulations. I've never been to St. John. I assume it's beautiful. When she was planning her wedding last year she asked if I would come if it was a destination wedding. I said yes. Well now I have a second child and I just had to travel to St. John with two kids, 2 year old and 8 month old. The biggest problem for you I'm sure is like who's going to babysit your two month two year old and eight month old your parents are at the wedding like that to me. And again I don't know. I don't have a kid. I'm in a shoebox sized apartment in the West Village. I'm living in LA la land. I am not the one to like tell you how to like leave your kid with anyone. I would assume at 8 months old you're more likely to want to leave the kid with your parents or their or maybe it's your husband's parents but they would probably be invited to the wedding and I'm maybe I just assume the gender. Maybe it's your wife's parents. I don't know like the in laws could but they're probably invited I would think especially a St. John wedding. There's some dough here. It was the furthest thing from a vacation. Yeah, I can't, I don't envy going with any eight month old anywhere. It's expensive to travel between. Airfare for all of us, a rental car, Airbnb, Airbnb food, et cetera. I mean, if I have an 8 month old, we're staying at a hotel, the Airbnb. I'm not using someone's towels. I want on site help and security. But to each their own. For context, a frozen cheese pizza at the grocery store there is $19. Here's the other thing you did. You're going to a grocery store in Saint John. I don't know if you're going to do this. Do it big, but I understand. This is, this is the problem. St. John, your, your, your sister screwed you. They chose an island that should only be traveled to by like hot people in their 20s and old people with nothing with money to burn. Like, and billionaires. You, you know, if they had gone to Aruba, which is like an accessible island that like has big, you know, Disney style hotels, like St. John to me is probably like sexy time, you know, Is it a French island? If it's a French island, it's just more French. They, you know, they've got like, probably cloth diapers for the kids. Oh, would you like a bobby pin for your diaper? You know, it's like, no, no, no. I want, I want Huggies that would, you know, get thrown away in a garbage and cause more trash. Like I want American trash island, not St. John and my Speedo. Yeah, your sister's. You. Mac and cheese with chicken. The grocery store, that is 19. I mean, the fact that you're at the grocery store, I'm, it's, I got chills, shivers down my spine. Mac and cheese with chicken on it at the restaurant was $28. Also, St. John has nothing but bars and beaches again. Yeah, it's hot people island. This is billionaire island. Neither of which are enjoyable with babies. No, it isn't. We had to leave dinner early the two times we went out to dinner with my family because my kids were losing their minds. I had to make breakfast, lunch and dinner for all nine of us. What is going on? My parents, my siblings and their spouses. What are you, Cinderella? Why are you doing all of this? This is the wedding. What are your parents doing? Get your parents, get them the fuck up. Have them cook their own eggs. Their spouses, my, my siblings and their spouses. You got an eight month Old on your arm and you're, you're cooking eggs in the morning every day because no one else was taking initiative. Wow. That might say a little bit more about you. Not to give you some feedback when you're. No one's taking the initiative. I, I would literally. If initiative would never move me from the couch. Let, let be everyone else's problems. Oh, you're hungry for breakfast. Well, I just ate. I'm good. Better make your own. And my kids need to eat. Well, make it for your kids. Oh, while you're in the kitchen, can you make my kids some breakfast? And my husband. No, you make your breakfast. My 2 year old was fine. Was finding all kids of thing. My 2 year old was finding all kinds of things in the the not baby proof Airbnb to break. Yeah, this is a disaster. And now we're back home and the eight month old is sick on mother's day from germs I assume she got in the airport slash plane. Vacations are more work than working right now. I, I'm sorry you went through this. This is awful. And there's so many people to be upset with. Your sister who had the wedding on the island that is made for people with abs and billions of dollars. Your siblings who made you cook for their sp. Your parents who sat on their old asses and didn't help at all to cook or clean the Airbnb. Who your husband for not saying to you, hey, let's get a hotel room that has, you know, booster seats and kids play zones and help with cleaning the room. No, this is, I, I have so many people I'm upset at for you that I'm actually saying like you should like get a divorce. I, I, I think you need to like leave this family. I think you're gonna go. You gotta stop talking to these people. People have to know. They have to know. This was like, I, I mean, I'm not going on the next vacation with the family. What I'm cooking for you. Is that how we're gonna play it? Play this for them? Send this podcast to your family. I mean, they need to know what they put you through. And listen, I don't know, maybe you're writing this for, you know, maybe this is. You've taken creative liberty. I, but I believe you. You wrote into the show. I'm, I'm agreeing with you. This is, everyone did their best and it might be that you're like an A personality because you did initiative. That word. No one took the initiative. I do not care. I'm not cooking for my brother's wife because they didn't want to wake up early now. Oh, you ate already? Yes, I did. Because I'm an adult who feeds themselves. My kids had to eat. Good luck. J train podcast@gmail.com back next week. Boom.