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Supermarket Return Policy, Hotel Patios, and Giant Baseball Stadium Beer Cans - TICKED OFF TUESDAY
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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.
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Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming to you live from Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Do you want your complaint heard? Well, this is the place for you if you have a complaint. All you gotta do is email jtrain podcast gmail.com, anything you'd like. But I'm gonna, I'm gonna be fair with you. Most of the complaints that get on the show are from Patreon subscribers. Today I got four compl. I got four complaints. We do have four complaints every Tuesday, all four from subscribers. So what do you get with your subscription? You get Coffee with J Train and then you can comment on Coffee with J Train with your complaint. And that goes to the top of the pile. Coffee with J Train is my personal diary. I love doing it. It's my not to say I, you know, I do compare my children. Ticked Off Tuesday is a favorite podcast for me to do. Coffee or J Train is, is really a personal space for me. I, I go into the week that was, I tell stories. So if you like this show, you're going to love that show. I do believe so. Sign Patreon the the links, all our links. As I sip a water, all of the links for this show are in the bio of the episode. So sign up for patreon patreon.com Jared Freed. That gets you into Ticked off Tuesday. If you want to just take a shot and send it to the email J train podcast gmail.com. i start every episode with my complaints. I was just in Tempe, Arizona. I, I, I gotta say, let me just give a shout out to the Tempe Improv. That is, that's a perfect comedy club. That is a great comedy club. It is comfortable. The stage is great. The audience is set up perfectly. The staff is wonderful. I cannot give enough compliments to the Tempe Improv and let them know how appreciative I am as a comedian. You Know I've been doing this long enough. April 1st was my 16 year comedy anniversary. That was the first night I did an open mic. That was my first stand up and ever. I, I remember doing it April Fools because I was a fool for doing such a stupid thing. And I am still here 16 years later. Oh my God, I'm 100 years old. N I don't care. It's fine. I just think, you know, 16 years, you encounter a lot of highs and lows and great. Especially standup wise. You've. I've seen, I, I, I can't say I've seen every room, but I've seen a lot of them. And the tempe improv is doing it right. I stayed at the Marriott on Butte Mountain. Whatever. Butte Mountain. In the Marriott you can go look it up. It's, it's formed into a mountain. It's, I would say at one point this hotel was probably like, whoa. They put it in a mountain. It in. It does look aged, but it's really nice and fun and it's got a cool water thing going on. They got like a. The reason I stayed there is it had a bunch of pools and it looked like I had a water slide. And I was like, that seems pretty cool. That's fun. It's on a mountain. So it was pretty cool. And the views are insane. Even though you're looking at the highway, behind the highway is Looney Tunes. It's Wiley, Wildy, Coyotes. So it's Beep Beep, the, you know, the, the Road Runner. You can tell. Why did Looney Tunes look the way it did? Why did Roadrunner? And while, Is it Wile E or Wild E? I think it's Wiley Wiley Coyote. Wiley. Yeah, Wiley. Like Wiley, you listen. You know why they painted that? Like you can tell this needs to be painted. So the one issue I have with the hotel is I had a patio room. Now the patio room was again to explain this hotel you. The lobby's on the top floor. The rooms go down the mountain, so to speak. And behind the rooms is the pool. But I had this patio room. I, I went with my lady and we get in the room and immediately we're getting in there to get changed and go do our day. You know, we got there early in the morning and, and behind the room is this patio with a little bit of a, you know, with two chairs and a table and like, oh, that'd be nice to go out on the patio, have a coffee. And as we're literally changing to get ready for the day after being on a flight, this like 13, 14 year old kid walks by our patio and we're like, oh my God. We're like, you know, half naked, shirts off, you know, trying to get changed. And you're like, wait a minute. What good is this patio situation if at any time there's a walkway that leads behind your room that they can look in and see you having the windows open? What? Why? It makes no sense because what ends up happening is you live in this room that is entrenched in fear because all you're thinking about is the whole weekend is like, hey, we have to put the shades down. Because what if someone walks by while we are in an intimate situation? Whether that be changing or love making you. You know, as a listener here, I'm a lover. I can't be contained. I'm an animal. I can't be held to a back door that is open to society's gaze. So what good is the patio at that point if. If you can only open it up the minute you guys are in full suit and tie and covered? It doesn't even make sense. And the trail led to the pool, which I ended up using. We ended up going down the stairs where the pool was, using the trail and. And I was walking by other people's rooms and no, when I was walking by other people's rooms, I wasn't looking through the window. I wasn't trying to see what they were doing. I don't even know if I could see it. But just from the inside, all you're thinking is that you're on stage, you're being viewed. It didn't make sense. If they had said to us, hey, there's a reflective thing on the window that people can't see into. So don't worry, go ahead, keep those shades, you know, undone. Have fun. But they didn't. And I like the hotel. They let us into our room early. No charge. Even something I've talked about here, you can get charged for that. Okay, my next complaint. I was given a gift. The gift and who it's from are not really an important part of this story. They could be important at a later time. I was given a gift. Now, when I receive a gift, a thank you note is necessary. I planned on writing a thank you note. It has been written, it has been sent. I ended up seeing the person the thank you note was meant for before they received the thank you note. I think this is the worst case scenario for a gift. If anything, when you give someone a gift, when I Receive a gift. We don't see each other until you receive that thank you note. Because now when I saw them, I had to go, oh, and thank you for your wonderful gift. And then I had to go, don't worry, a note is coming and the note isn't going to be any more than the thank you I was giving them in person. The note is the gesture that you cared about the gift so much that you sent them a note and went to the mail. And no one ever does that. But I could see the disappointment in their eye and their I could see that they didn't believe me when I said, oh no, the thank I gotta thank you note coming, but I want to thank you for the gift. They went, oh yeah, sure, sure. And then I had to run home and write that thank you note. And now I'm rushing a thank you note that when I wrote it after seeing them, what can I write to outdo the in person thank you? There's nothing. Hey, and in addition, I know I saw you before, but I, I want to make sure you know I'm even more thankful than I looked in person. Like, what do you even say? Honestly, if you give someone a gift, just go hide until all the thank you notes have been received and then emerge from your cave and then you can be thanked again. I want to thank you after you receive the thank you note. I want the thank you note to get there you to go, oh my God, they mailed me a thank you note. And then for me to see them and them go, hey, no need. That note was way too much. It's the least I could do. I'm so thankful. Because now you can half ass the thankful after the note's been received because they read it in their head as more thankful than you actually were. I know you get it. I have a third complaint. I was in Tempe last weekend. The shows were great. Everyone who came to the shows, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm looking for. There was one show Thursday, so and two shows Friday, two shows Saturday. When it's one show Thursday and I'm with my lady, we are looking to go to a dinner. That would be nice because we won't get the opportunity to go to a dinner the rest of the weekend. My plan for the weekend was nice dinner Thursday night after the show, chill out. We flew that day long day, have a nice dinner, get drunk, treated nicely by a beautiful space. And then it was going to be Friday hike, which I'll talk about on coffee with J Train and Then Saturday, Pizzeria Bianco, which for lunch, which I will talk about on coffee with J Train or. I've already talked about it. It's out already. It come out on third on Friday of last week. Thursday night we could not find a place that would be open at. I needed a kitchen that was going to be open at 9:45. I needed to aim my phaser at 9:45pm which is 12:45 East coast time. I'm not looking to eat 10pm 1am East Coast. No, I want that 9:45 time. I want to do the show 7:30 to 8. It was going to go 7:30 to 9. Take. Take pictures as I always do. That's right. Pictures are happening on the road. If you're in. If you're in Norwalk, Connecticut, Vegas, Los Angeles, Jacksonville, Austin, the Hamptons, Maine, Cleveland. I'm coming. Jared free.com for tickets. My issue is there is no search function that exists to help you find a restaurant with a kitchen closing in mind. Like when you do Google Maps, there is a way to search a route and then have it arrive by and it will tell you when to leave. Like if you're going to JFK and you have a flight that is at 2 o' clock and you want to be at jfk at 1pm you can put in Google Maps that you want to arrive at JFK at 1pm and put where you are and it will say based on travel times they have recorded in the past based on the data. This is what it's all about. Data. When does the data serve you and I, the normal peasants? The this is a time and it says to you this ride has taken anywhere from an hour to an hour and 20 minutes based on this time of day, this day of the week, this date, date in the year, this place on the planet. That function does not exist for kitchen times, closing and restaurants that you want to get to late. And it's because there's not a lot of people looking for late food options other than college drunks. My issue is I'm really a very small group of people. Honestly, there's not. And it's sad there's not enough money. If I were a billionaire, that is the only reason to become a billionaire. To make your small problem that wouldn't get any attention, a real problem that gets attention that gets solved. Because if I were a billionaire I would create this app because I needed it and only I needed it. And then people who are like me that needed to eat at 9:45 at night once a week when they go to Tempe would be like, thank God this is here. But there's not enough of us to, you know that. That you know. If you need to fly somewhere and you're a billionaire, you take a private flight. If you need to fly somewhere and you're not a billionaire, you pool your money together to go fly JetBlue or Delta. But if there's not enough of your people to pull your money together, I'm explaining literally the definition of a business, why a business is created. There's no business to this because there's not enough of me. Jtrain podcastmail.com we are sponsored. I have four. Four. 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You, you feel the seasons changing. I'm coming to Cleveland. Would love to see at the show. I went to, I went to opening day for the Guardians here in Cleveland on Friday. I wanted a reg regular 12 ounce or even a 16 ounce beer to sip while enjoying the game. There were all. They were only selling 19 ounce or larger cans. I can't even imagine there's a a larger can than a 19 ounce can. What are they doing giving out buckets? This is crazy. Like you're just, are you sitting there with two hands drinking from your caveman size? What are you, Fred Flintstone? I hate this. Because then the bottom of the fourth can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But because then the bottom fourth of the can is super warm by the time I get it. Nobody wants a warm beer. Beer is only good when it's ice cold. That's why Coors Light made a whole campaign off of this. They changed the mountains blue so you know it's good enough to drink. There is nothing worse than a room temperature beer. I would switch to draft beers. But then you're risking the spill traveling to and from your seat. I totally agree. I totally agree. You want honestly charge me more for three 12 ounce beers than you would one 19 ounce large can. That's because I would take it. I go, I'm char, I, I, I honestly wouldn't notice the charge. But if the charge was like, hey, this is an ice cold beer charge. Maybe they're afraid of people drinking faster. Also a regular koozie doesn't fit on the Chodi gigantic cans. So this isn't a solution either. I would just like some variety in my options. Thanks. Love everything you do. I hope you make it to Cleveland soon. No warm beer here. I will be in Cleveland. This is a great complaint. You are absolutely right. I don't even like the response of oh, put a koozie or a cozy. Whatever the cozy. That doesn't keep it cold. That doesn't do a great job. Anyone who swears by that is out of their minds. We want a normal. I also want to keep count of the beers I'm having. I want to have one beer and then throw it away and then take a minute, take a break. I don't need a constant IV drip of warm beer into my veins. I Want one ice cold freshie. Then I want to have a hot dog. Then I want to sit, enjoy the weather, look at the idiot who's yelling at another idiot. Then I want to go back, get another beer, crack it open, have it, then have a hot dog. This is what they're doing is they're supersizing this to almost. I guess it's to charge you more because if they fit the beer in one can and there, you know it costs like a dime to put this beer together. I don't know. It makes no sense to me from a business perspective. It doesn't make any sense to me either. They could charge you more. They could charge five. What I would love to know how much is a beer at Guardians at Guardians game I would love to know what they would need to charge beer at Cleveland Guardians games. Progressive field ranges from $2 to $5 for a value 12 ounce cans. They do have it Miller Lancores during promotions or in specific areas to over 13 to $19 for premium larger. So the best deals this is an AI overview I didn't do much of a search is that it's 2 to $5 for a 12 ounce miller lighter, Coors Light, pregame and select stands. I don't buy that because if that's the case we would see mayhem and bedlam at every Guardians game. There'd be just hammered people running across the field. 13 plus for a 16 ounce option. These are based on 2024 to 2026 reports. The $2 beer specifically reported during special events. 4 to $5 deals for standard affordable options. This is price of beer at every MLB stadium. But they're not telling us. And I've seen those big cans. I don't even like the big aluminum bottle that they serve. Yeah, I'm against this. I'm with you. They show why. Okay, so this is the price of a beer at every stadium. Red Sox it's 1010 79. It might be an average. Well we'll keep our eyes on this so we'll have our news team working on it. Totally agree with your complaint Jared. You're the best. I have a 12 week old and your podcast have been getting me through the night feedings. Well if you're listening to this while feeding them at night. Hello. Congratulations on your baby. To the baby Goo Goo Gaga Uncle J Train says hello. My ticked off Tuesday. Why is Delta the worst? My husband is a Delta Sapphire card holder. The fee is $650 a year. He had to book a last minute work trip in Basic economy. He tried to go the sky miles. He tried to go to the sky Miles Club. And of course they couldn't let him in because he booked basic economy and not the main cabin. That's crazy. He even offered to pay to enter, but they said no. The. This, of course, isn't my only gripe with Delta, but reinforce how ridiculous they can be to their loyal customers. I think what's going on with Delta is what's going on with the industry. Loyalty doesn't matter. I, I, and I'm saying this for me to be, for me to have been Delta loyal, it was actually very easy. I lived in New York city. There were three airports that were basically Delta hubs. Newark, JFK, LaGuardia. Yes. Other airlines go through there. But I had the choice of all three with booking. So going any other airline was kind of not even an option for me because I could go direct really to most places. And if it wasn't direct, I was going to find a flight through another airline that maybe the time didn't work out. So I just went Delta anyways because the time would be better for me. I would take an early flight to Atlanta and then Atlanta to the world. So now that I've moved to Delray Beach, Florida, and I have, you know, Delta's my first look, but even, I'll even take. Let me backtrack a second. When I went last year, I flew the most I've ever flown. Once I got to Diamond, I kept getting miles and points, but it didn't help me in the future to get diamond again. At the end of the year, I lost it all. It didn't really bump over. So there was really. And what you keep hearing is that this because companies aren't flying again. This goes back to why isn't there an app that can help me find a kitchen that closes at 9:45 there. We're losing buying power as business travelers. Your husband has no power. Everyone is an individual flyer now. There is more for Delta to make from the bachelorette party that all books Delta Comfort together than there is your husband that travels every week and gets basic economy and hopes for an upgrade. So they're treating them better and they're trying to get your husband to buy up so that he doesn't run into this again. It's. There's no loyalty program. It, it is really because they're not your husband and I, myself included, are not their most important customer. Their most important customer is the value flyer who will opt up for a little bit more. But Maybe, maybe not first class. Like honestly I, I, I wouldn't be surprised if they're going to have full flights of Delta Comfort again. When I go to purchase a ticket on Delta when it shows me the options. There are now so many options to upsell me that I'm like at this point the price I saw is not the price. It is jtrain podcast gmail.com jtrain podcast gmail.com we're sponsored by Factor. Healthy eating feels complicated until you try Factor. Okay, so Factor is going to send you a meal that is creative and delicious and portioned correctly. That is not a meal kit. It is a pop in the microwave situation. It is a TV dinner. Done. Hi. Yet I that's what I would call it. I'm sure Factor wouldn't like that to be something that they'd be called. I'm doing the ad for them. I might hear feedback that they're like that's not. But I need to explain it to you because I loved Factor when I had it because I would have this pre portioned meal that is a meal that I would never cook for myself. 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See website for more details. Those are our sponsors. I got two more from listeners. I got two more. These. I'm looking at the size of these emails. Depthy. We love a, we love a specific email here. Here on the J Train podcast. This comment. They left a comment on my Patreon coffee with J Train which you can sign up for this Comment is for ticked off Tuesday. I'm more amused and annoyed than gen. Than it genuinely ticked off. I mean, I would say most of these are amusingly annoying. I would say mo. Like, when I saw the patio outside of my hotel room with a kid running by as my girlfriend and I are getting undressed, I was like, oh, that's annoying and hilarious. I don't think I've ever laughed that hard in my life. Oh, but it's. It's about heckling guys at your Salt Lake City show. Yeah. So listen, I'm dealing with hecklers, as most comedians do. I don't know if I'm more honest than the next comedian. This is kind of like. This is kind of. Is like, you know, a perfect show. A standup show is really hard to come by now. Do I try to take what I'm giving? You know, you learn something. I'm very happy. I've taken improv. I took three levels of improv classes. I think that was enough to understand kind of the. The. The what to do with improv and how to do it. But the. I once had a teacher. He was one of those guys that, you know, at the airport, they're bald. I don't mean to be like. I. I would. They're. They. They have a religion. They're almost Buddhist. No, not bald guy. Airplane. That guy's the funny. The movie Airplane. The gay guy who says when he goes, the. The fog is getting thicker and Leon's getting larger. That guy, Steven Stucker. He's hilarious. I. It. It came up bald guy, Airplane. But in. In Airplane, they actually show them giving out pamphlets and Harry Krishna. So I think I had a. I had a improv teacher who was a Hare Krishna. Very nice guy and really talented. But, you know, he kind of. He. He said something that stuck with me. Everything you're given is a gift. You have to receive. Every new component of a scene as a G means if someone comes to you and says, hey, I'm giving you flowers, you can't look at that person and go, oh, you went in the direction of flowers. That's not funny at all. The funny will come as long as you accept the direction you're given. So this person who said, I'm more amused and annoyed than genuinely ticked off. But it's about the heckling guys at your Salt Lake show. First off, I love the show. I don't think I've ever laughed that hard in my entire life. Thank you. My face was aching from laughing so much. But I was inspired to write A mildly ticked off Tuesday submission because of that one dude who wouldn't shut up about Ruth's Diner. Now, Ruth's Diner, I'll give some backstory. I'm using the mug right now. If you watch. I mean, I don't put these videos out. We might soon on Spotify. I'm drinking from a Ruth's Diner mug. I went, I love the experience. Maybe we'll make this the clip. I'm drinking from a Ruth Steiner mug. Ruth Diner was suggested, I'm guessing, by this person who's writing into the show. I got that suggestion. A. And I love a recommendation. That's thoughtful. They were like, do you like to go to. They knew I like to go to diners. They know that I'm looking for, like, an egg white option. They said that this place, Ruth's Diner, is in, like, the mountains and is in a train car. And it's really eclectic and weird and. And it had like a Mexican spin on it. And I was like, great wreck. I'm gonna go. I love this place. And so I went. And then I put it on video. I put it on my TikTok, put it on my Instagram. And this guy kept yelling out, how was Ruth's Diner? And I'm like, it was great. And then throughout the show, he kept asking how Ruth's Diner was. I was like, I think I answered your question. It was almost as if he was like, it wasn't funny enough that I didn't give him enough. I was like, I really did. I. There's literally a 15 minute video out there with all of my jokes and commentary on Ruth's Diner. And it's like, I don't know if it was enough for him. And listen, if someone yells out at a show, I just was in Tempe. If you were at the show in Tempe, there was a girl in the front. I'd rather the guy who yells, hey, what do you think of Ruth's Diner? Than the girl in the front in Tempe. She just kept having a full conversation, as if I was her waiter at Applebee. Like a full. Every time I'd start a premise, you'd go, oh, my God, Ozempic. You know, my brother Jason is on Ozempic. I don't know why he won't get on Ozempica. She just kept going on and on. And I said her. I go, hey, are you. What's going on? She's like, oh, I'm just telling her about my brother. And she didn't Even understand that's a tougher heckler than the guy. Hey, what do you think about Ruse? At least when the guy yells, hey, what do you think about Ruse? The whole audience is sitting there going, okay, we have the villain. We have our hero, Jared. I hope he saves the day with the girl in the front who's just talking. There were people in the back like, why is he talking to this girl? She's just having a fun time. So this person writes, I just want to set the record straight. I was the one who recommended Ruth in the comments on last week's Patreon post. I, I, this is why I went. So when the guy started yelling about Ruse during the Saturday night show, I couldn't believe my bad luck. Not that I wanted all the credit for the recommendation, but I was planning to ask you about it during the meet and greet like a normal human. Yeah, no, I left it. Imagine my surprise when the guy right behind me starts yelling about Ruse so much that you literally had to ask, dude, do you work for Ruth's pr? What's the deal? I just turned to my boyfriend and said, I'm in hell. But to be fair, my boyfriend deserves some credit too. I had asked him for restaurant recommendations to give to you. He suggested Ruth's. All in all, just a funny and aggravating coincidence to be sitting in front of the dude who wouldn't shut up. Thanks for a great show. And I can't wait to check out Walking Red Flag when it arrives in June. Yes. My book, Walking around. Thank you. This person's wonderful. This person is the goal when it comes to what I do. I love that you came to the show with your husband. You guys enjoyed. You gave me a great recommendation. Yes. The guy behind you. And again, to use it as a gift. What do you think of Rus? It was great. What do you think of Ruse? I don't know. And then he's like, what do you think of Ruse? And it's like, do you work for that? Like, are you trying for extra pr? Hey, you know, like in. That's when you try to do the. You know, then you would hope to do a bit or whatever it was. Listen, I had a great time. I think I'm getting more people yelling out because usually when I perform, if I have a set that I love, if I have a set that I feel is ready, it is. I. I can sing, dance and dust with it. I can, I can. It is more song than it is conversation. But as I work towards that goal, it is more conversation than song, if that makes some sense. So. But I do think both shows can be fun. I think when you're singing a song, it's meant for us for a a theater situation, and when you're having a conversation, it's meant for a club. And that's why I go to Wise Guys. That's why I go to the Tempe Improv. That's why I had such a great time at these shows and because I'm figuring it out. And that's kind of what you're seeing from any comedian whose goals are to make good bits and have a good show. If you're going to someone who doesn't have that goal in mind, they're looking in the audience. Where are you from? What do you do? They're doing a lot of crowd work. So that's my commentary on standup as a genre. But thank you for coming. The show. I do remember that guy. It was annoying. I probably we taped every show so I'll have a clip of some sort come out. Jared this is my second 2024 Aldi disaster. Now Aldi is a German grocery store that has exploded and I think they kind of do a Trader Joe's everything is our brand type of thing to keep prices down. I don't know. This person writes, I'm officially done with the company after boycotting for nearly six months. I caved when my ex girlfriend wanted groceries and bought a bag of cherries for $6.47. I clearly remember three types of cherries in the store and I picked the perfect bright red ones, but at home they were awful. A few days later I bought blueberries that could only be described as the gruel from the Matrix. I decided to return them and the cherries, which I still had almost entirely. I decided to return them. And the cherries, which I still had almost entirely and looked fine at the store. The cashier said she couldn't take my cherries back because we don't sell that bag. I had the receipt so this made no sense. Two managers came over and for nearly 10 minutes three employees argued with me. One manager even told me I had to go to the store. I bought the mat and review security footage at my of my purchase. I mean, this should be pretty easy clean. How could they dispute that those are the cherries that are sold at their store? I went to another store and got the exact same mess as if I was trying to scam them. Calling corporate got me nothing but frustration. I like this person because they seem to have all the time in the world. This is like what my grandmother would have done growing up. I remember coming to my grandparents house and my grandmother would be clipping coupons and, and I used to think everyone did that. That's before you come to realize that like time is limited and most people go to a job at 9am, come home at 5pm and then coupon clipping might not be the first thing they're thinking of at that point. So this person reminds me of my grandmother that you have time to just go from Aldi to Aldi to try and figure this out. And I appreciate that you write into us to let us know what we should do in this scenario. Aldi has officially lost me for life and I am shocked at how unnecessarily hostile their customer service is. What happened to basic decency? Well, here's my thing is I agree with you. It's annoying where it's like, I bought these cherries here, this is the package. And it's annoying because when you're Aldi, when you're a grocery store, this is called breakage. This is called, there's a name for this in economics, I'm sure that I'm missing where it's like you kind of have this slush fund of we're just going to give people their money back and not ask any questions. I think Trader Joe's really has that policy where you can just bring it back and they go just, yeah, here's your money, we don't care. Because it's not worth anyone's anguish at this point. I was in the airport yesterday. I have been buying the mugs at Starbucks that are the state mugs. My mom wants to collect all the state mugs from Starbucks. So she sent me on this hero's quest to go from Starbucks to Starbucks across this great nation of ours. And because I travel so much, I can get her any of these that she wants and they have them. But at the airport, the Starbucks, the line is crazy. The line was being held up by this woman who did mobile ordering and they didn't give her whole order. She asked for the manager. The manager said, yeah, we don't have the item you asked for. The woman goes, I want my money back. They go, okay, well show us the card you used to make the purchase. She was like, I don't have my card. They go, you don't have your card? We can't do it without your card. She goes, I don't have a card. What are you going to do now? And now we're at an impass because. And I'm on. I'm on Team Starbucks side. If you don't have. Here we go. We could take care of this right now. Just show us the card so we can run it through our system so that we can make sure that we give you your money back via your card. And the woman goes, I want cash. And it's like, we can't do that. You didn't pay in cash, so we can't give you cash again. This even swap. Here are the cherries. Here you go. I'll take my money. It should be just. This should all be simple. It's one plus one. The minute they look at you and go, we don't sell those cherries. Do you not. Do you think I came here to give you fake cherries? Do you think I'm getting ahead six 95 at a time? Just give me the money and we'll be on our way. Anyone who this is. Here's where I'm even more on this person's side. Anyone who got in the car, put the cherries in the front seat, put a seatbelt over the cherries, drove to Aldi, asked for their money back, has so much time that if you don't give them their, your money, their money, that if you don't give them their money right now, you are going to have to deal with them for the rest of their lives. So it is in your best interest to just get rid of this person who has all the time in the day. Jtrain podcast@gmail com. Jtrainpodcast@gmail.com. it's a ticked off Tuesday. Back next week, boom.