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TSA, Hotel Water Stations, No AC At The Summer House, & Name Tags - 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 Jay Train Jared Freed coming to you live. Hi. From Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday, where you, the listener, complain with me, the comedian. That's the show. You just can complain about anything you want. That's kind of why, you know, I've been told this is kind of considered a safe space, an act of mental health, really. This is your place to make your own. Get comfy, cozy, and complain your little heart out. I'm gonna complain. I got a. I got a few complaints. Nothing too major, but I'm gonna do my complaints and then I'm gonna read your complaints. Now, how do you complain with the show? Email jtrain podcast gmail com. That's jtrain podcastmail.com. that is the easiest way to complain with me, but it's not the easiest way to get on the show. The best way to get on the show is to sign up for the Patreon. Patreon is $5 a month and it gets you an extra podcast a week. It's not an extra. It is the Friday episode if you want the Friday episode. We do this every Monday through Friday. And the Friday episode is Coffee with J Train, which is my personal journal that is me telling you about what happened that week. It's my diary. And I would say, you know, the feedback from V, who has worked with other podcasters and comedians, and V is always, you know, the feedback she's giving is. It's, it's complimentary. I, I know she works for this show or works with me, you know, so maybe she's blowing smoke up my ass, but she basically says, like, wow, you're very personal in a way that you might not have to be. So I really, I don't know that that podcast is my version of therapy. So I would love for you to sign up for Patreon. And if you want to complain, all you have to do is comment on the Coffee with J Train with your complaint. The first two are from Patreon subscribers. The second two are from emailers. So we got a good mix today. We have two sponsors, but I'll start with my complaints. I have a few. I stayed at a hotel in Salt Lake City. As many of you know, I'm a autograph hotel guy. That is. That is Bonvoy basically taking over the management of a boutique hotel. I stayed at a place called the Ash or something. I think it's the Asher. It was in, like an old railroad and Ash. The Asher Hotel. Asher Adams. And it's an autograph collection. I thought it was nice. Beautiful bar in the lobby. Can we. If we're gonna have a lobby bar, can we have a late night menu? You're in a hotel. A hotel is very much a timeless place. And I get it. You can't have people working all night. But let's have like, let's fake it. Let's have like five things on the menu that could be put in a fridge, and you can. And I think when you say late night menu and you have that as the heading, we all kind of give some grace. We go, thank God there's a late night menu. I don't look at a late night menu and go, this is what they do. No, no, no. A late night menu is seen to me as a favor by the hotel knowing, hey, you know, the kitchen's closed. And. And if anyone complain about a late night menu, I think that they're probably the problem. That someone, you know, maybe the hotel's getting ahead of the complaint. They're like, we don't even want to deal with it. We don't want to deal with these monsters. But if I saw a late night menu, I would go, wow, I'm just happy there's something there could have been nothing. Late night menu was telling you, hey, we did the best we could here with what we've got. Just do five items, wrap up some sandwiches, and then have someone that puts them on a plate. You have the bartenders here. I just don't get it at a hotel hotel bar. Because this Asher hotel had a beautiful hotel bar. And all I wanted to do was sit at it. And I got there a little bit late from flying in from Fort Lauderdale, and I was like, here we go, let's do this. And ah, sorry, sir. Kitchen closes at 11. Well, are there any chips back there that are left over? Why don't we put that on a late night menu, Charge me three bucks and we'll call it a day. Now I'm tipping My other complaint about the hotel, and let me reiterate, the hotel was great. The staff was nice. My, the cable in my room wasn't working. Well, the cable in the room not working did anger me. But this happens. This is not, this is just. You have a large building with a lot of cable. And they came in right away and fixed it. Here's a couple issues. I go to the room. It is very dry in Salt Lake. I think it's drier than it has been even for them because again, like mountain towns can be dry. Denver gets a little dry. I think they've had like no snow this season. I think like the, the ski places are like in a little bit of trouble over in the Utah area, which I feel for. So I was dry in the hotel hallway and a few of these hotels are doing it and they're acting like this is this nice service. This is a lesser than. Instead of having water bottles in the room, they have this hallway water station that has a freezer and a spigot and you can get what they say is ultra filtered water is served here. And then inside the freezer there were bags of ice. I have a few complaints about this one. If you're going to do this, you better have some sort of thing to put it in. In the room. There was no Nalgene and you. That even annoys me because they'll have a water bottle in the room that's like hotel, you know, merch. And then they say, and you can take the water bottle for 52, 95. And you're like, I, I don't want this water bottle. I'll never use it again. I have nowhere to pack it. I'm not a water bottle guy. That's a personality. That's a personality even beyond the Stanley people. I'm talking about Nalgene hiker, water bottle at the airport guy. That ain't me. I am plastic water bottle. Give me that waste and give me those microplastics and inject them into my veins Guy. That's me. That's what I was brought up on. That's what I was promised for my future. Let's stick to it. It's too gone. We are too far past gone to make me a water bottle guy. And you might be saying, but Jared, the environment that's under the list of not my problem. Don't tell me about the environment and how I'm helping by using a water bottle that says coexist on the outside while there's these huge smokestacks spewing garbage into the air. And again, this is kind of, you might say this is kind of the, this is the, the temperature of the room right now, of the country. You know, Fuck me, fuck you. That's the, I would say that would be on the T shirt of America right now. Fuck me, fuck you. That's America. That should be land of the fuck me, fuck you. So, yeah, I'm kind of caught in it. Fine. That, that accusation I would accept. So I'm not going to become a water bottle guy. And they have these, these stations for the water, but then they don't even have a water bottle in the room. So what are we going to do? Do I put my mouth up to the faucet and drink like we're, we're out in the playground? What, what's going on here? And if you're going to have a station like this, let's have it all. If you're going to have a freezer with ice that are, that are packed into bags and a nice looking spigot for us to drink from. How about a few candy bars in that freezer? How about maybe a bag of chips? How about maybe a granola? What are we doing? It was just this. It really left. When I see this nice station, I have expectations that are immediately ruined. My last few complaints are going to go into the TSA thing as a traveler, you know, listen, I'm on the road every weekend. I am going to be in St. Louis this weekend. I would love for you to come to the shows. I have Austin, Jacksonville, the Hamptons. I got, I got nothing but dates. Oh, I got Vegas, Norwalk, Connecticut, Maine. So go to jared free.com for the tickets. I think I just added Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut as well. Here's my. You know, if you want my perspective on what's going on with tsa and I guess this is political, but it, it's really more about the me, you nature of the country. This is really more just like what I've noticed, like as a traveler. Some. And listen, who would I consider a traveler? Before we get into this, we are sponsored Rocket Money. It's easy to lose track of your spending. Seeing all your finances in one place can help. That's why there's Rocket. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. Rocket Money helps you set financial goals and stay on budget by giving you personalized insights on your spending. See all your subscriptions in one place. And cancel with just a few clicks. This is like finding a $20 bill in your pocket to me. 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It starts with all the videos you see are of lines and three hours and oh my God, it took me so long. And then, then the news is kind of following social media. They're saying, oh, they're talking about on social media. So we're going to send a camera crew and we're going to send someone to talk in front of the line of miserable people in their pajamas. And it just adds to the tension. It just flying and traveling is stressful. You're changing up the hours of your day. You're, you're, you're leaving consistency for variability. And that's the tough part about flying. And I'm okay with that. I've come to terms with that and I now handle that with knowing that, like, hey, if I leave on a normal day, If I leave 15, if I get to the airport 15 minutes before boarding time, I'm going to be fine considering what's going on in my life, which is I have clear, I have TSA pre, I have touchless. So knowing all those facts about me, I make an educated decision when all these videos show us a line and say it's five hours and then don't reference what level of traveler they are or what the traveler was equipped with. You have done half of the news report. If I'm and social media, I get annoyed at the social media people who don't say it because they're trying to pop off. And I think less people would comment if they said, hey, I'm TSA pre, I'm clear. I'm also touchless. It took me two minutes to get through and you don't have a problem as opposed to leaving out that information. So people go, well, are you touchless? Are you TSA pre? What about me? So then they get more comments. That's kind of where my brain goes, which again is not a good place for my brain to go. I, that's lacking trust for my fellow American. But when the news makes no report of it, when they're just showing a line and then they, and they don't say, well, this is regular without TSA pre. What you know, make you're the news. Make us a better equipped traveler by having all the information. Don't just show me a line that's four hours to make me go, oh my God. And then I get to the airport an hour early and I find out, oh, that was just general boarding. And you can go online. You can search these things out. I flew through the Philadelphia airport. They had a great tracker that told you each and, and again, that's information I wish I had known. Hey, go to your airport's website. They have trackers for how long the lines are at both TSA pre and regular check in. And this kind of leads me to my like overall complaint, which is it feels like we've just given up on each other. Like, it feels like, like to me all I heard was they're not paying the TSA agents and it's because headline government. And then everyone just got in single file line behind someone whose team they associated with. They said, well, it's the Democrats fault. Well, it's the Republicans fault. Not once or very few times. You hear, well, this side's trying to get this thing and that side's trying to get that thing. And here's why. The chip of TSA is being used to make people want to call their government. You know, Representative, I, you just hear very little of that. It's just, it's either, well, TSA is screwed up and it's going to take forever. That's giving up. Or it's, well, it's that side's fault that's giving up. And I just, it, it, it makes me kind of depressed because I don't want to have to go and look for this information. I feel like I'm looking for a team to cheer for. Even if I found a team to cheer for in this TSA debate. I don't think I'd be cheering for anyone. I would just, I, I would, I would actually come to the point where I would go, well, there's nothing I can do. I'm so small in this world. And again, a lot of these recently on the, on the J Train podcast, ticked off Tuesday, are about feeling small, inadequate, and unable to have any control over the things that frustrate you. Because I looked at this whole thing and I'm like, is not one person gonna say, like, I don't even know who to blame? And you're gonna say to me, who to blame based on what religion you pray to, what side of the aisle? But I just think, you know, like, I live in a world of one at a time and give me the information. And it does feel like, and even I, who's trying to be that way, I'm, I'm, I've lost aversion of curiosity. And I think when you lose curiosity, that means you've lost passion for it and the belief that maybe a difference can be made or maybe something can be changed. And I noticed that from my fellow traveler. Nobody said it was just blanket blame. It never became, hey, this is the I, I, I feel like after two weeks of this, or whatever amount of weeks of this travel thing, while I'm traveling every week, I should have some sense of, like, what's at stake and the reason that someone isn't getting paid and, and if I'm working at tsa, which these people are angels, the fact that any of them go to work without being paid is, like, insane to me. I would never show up I again, I, I and, and to know that you are being used to make people upset again, this is, like, reflective of, like, hey, help the environment. No, no, no. How about the company with the, the big pipe that, that spews smog into the sky? Let's start with them. You know, hey, be nice. That's us. Yeah, of course I'm going to be nice to the TSA agent. How about you not make them the people that have to deal with this shit? And it does feel like they don't tell us. They, the government, they, it feels like they just want you to be mad and not thoughtful, not curious. 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Wrap yourself in luxury with Lola blankets. Okay, so let's go to the listener complaints again. Sign up for the Patreon. It's five bucks a month and you get first dibs to complain with me. I'm going to be having a book tour soon. I would love for you to order the book, pre order the book. I'm doing the audio version today. I'm taping this at 8:30 in the morning because I have to go tape from 2 to 7. I'll talk all about the audio version of the book on coffee with J. Tran if you sign up for Patreon. But that's a process. That's a real job. I, I underestimated it if I, if I'm gonna be honest. Okay. So my mom moved to where I live, Chicago last fall and I haven't lived near family since I left home for college. You and I both. I'm living in Delray Beach. It is the first time I've lived within a half hour of my parents since college. It is weird. It is different. It is a dynamic that you have to work out. Last night I went to my parents for dinner and just got beat up verbally for an hour. And then I left and they gave me a bunch of stuff. I. And you. You don't even know how to process that. And they write, overall, it's wonderful. I agree with you. You know, even as I say that overall, it's wonderful. It's great to see family without it being an event for a short time. Let's eat dinner and I'll go home. I had that experience last night. I am with you, but again, I'm with you. Any but I agree with. I will tell my mom when to arrive. And she, without fail, shows up 30 to 45 minutes early. I'm losing it. Yeah, this is something I haven't. My parents don't come to me. I go to parent Island, I take my verbal assault and then I leave with goodies. That's the move. You can't come to my house. My mom. I'll be over in 15 minutes. Three days later. Oh, I got caught up with something. Am I wrong that being excessively early is just as rude or more so than being late? I totally agree. Being early. No, we all. And again, especially. I think it's especially rude to a millennial. We are obsessed with efficiency. We. And I mean, not to bring us back to the TSA complaint, but like, you're. You're with our efficiency, which is really annoying with the TSA stuff. So, you know, the, the, the. We want a world and we like, hey, here's the reason it's happening. We want solid reasonings when someone's early. Like, and when. When someone says, I'm coming in a half hour and then they show up an hour earlier. Or what if someone says they're coming at 6 and they show up at 5? You have planned a day for a 6. A 6pm arrival. So, yes, they are in your way and they are ruining your day in the way that someone who is late is ruining your day. Same thing, just on the different side of the scale. I wasn't even home. She's like, I'll just let myself in. No, then you're going to yell at me about what wasn't cleaned. I have a whole process before a parent comes over. No, it's my house. I'll let you in at 4ish. She's going through a lot, but it's. But it's extra stressful when I don't have the time to be ready for guests, even if it's just my mom. No, no, no. You are in a safe space here. Your mom getting to your home early without you being there is a disaster. Honestly, if I'm. You send her this podcast, this episode. Send her this. Right this, this moment. Hey, mom, you're being a. Okay. And listen, when you invite parents over, you're inviting everything that comes with it. You're inviting a lot of variability. The thing. You're gonna get yelled at. You don't even know what you're gonna get yelled at for. She's gonna say to you, have you been to the doctor the last six months? And you're gonna go, I went five months ago. And she's gonna go, what? You gotta go. Every four months, she'll switch it up. She'll sw. She'll move the goal post on you. And you know what? You're prepared for that. You're okay with that. Your mom's going to look at you. She's going to come over and go, when's the last time you went to the pulmonologist? And you're going to be like, what's a pulmonologist? She goes, you don't even know what a pulmonologist is. And that's okay. But don't show up earlier so that I can't get ahead of all the other complaints that will come with when you get there earlier. Like you saying that you don't like the lock system in my house because you tried to get in. You go, oh, I don't know if this is. This works, this nest thing that you have, this, this ring camera. I don't know if it's working. I don't know if you did it right. All these complaints, you're trying to get ahead of those. Who leaves the bathroom like this? Well, I leave it like this. When I'm going to come home first, clean it so that you won't complain about it later. So, yeah, getting anywhere early, especially someone's home, you can get to the doctor's early. You can get to any other thing. You can get to any establishment of business early. But don't do this to your family. If anything, family can get to your house either five minutes early or 10 minutes late. That's it. After that, don't show up at all. Jtrain podcast gmail.com J train podcast gmail.com Ticked off Tuesday Jared, I'm a huge fan. Just saw you in Boston. Can't wait to see you in Portland, Maine this summer. I'm very excited to come to Portland, Maine. I have been going to Portland my whole life and I've never done a weekend of shows there. I've done like when I first started I did a couple shows at like a bar but this is a different story. I'm very excited. My ticked off Tuesday happened last summer, but it still still ticks me off to this day whenever I think about it. Last August, a group of my family and family friends rented a beach house in North Carolina. It was a 12 bedroom house with six bedrooms on the first floor, six bedrooms on the second floor. The rental was from Saturday to Saturday, one full week from Sunday to Saturday from Sunday to Friday. So you go from Saturday to Saturday, but from Sunday to Friday so you get there on Saturday, but from Sunday to Friday the AC was out on the first floor, meaning anyone who had a bedroom on the first floor had no AC for virtually the entire week. That is a problem. Any version of no AC in a house you rented for a beach weekend is the problem. Before I get to your email to me, that's the Airbnb owner. That's the landlord issue. I think it goes without saying how hot it is in North Carolina. Okay, from Sunday to Friday the AC was out on the first floor, meaning anyone who had a bedroom on the first floor had no AC for virtually the entire week. Again, that's a problem. I think it goes without saying how hot it is in North Carolina in August, but it was horrific. Yeah. Just you didn't even have to put a North Carolina on this summer in August and and especially the rental aspect. This isn't your home in August because your home things can happen again in the way things can happen in Airbnb. But you have paid a premium to have a vacation week so there's someone working for you. Being the landlord, it made me it made being in your room or bathroom uncomfortable at all times. Especially when you want to shower and get ready for a shower and get ready after a Long beach day when you're trying to sleep in a hot and humid room. The worst part, no, this is awful. And now you're forced to go buy fans probably to like try and make it a little bit more comfortable. My dad was in charge of communicating with the owner of the rental house and I encouraged him to negotiate some sort of refund. The hot the house cost about $30,000 for the week. And to me, the AC being out was a huge deal. Borderline vacation ruining. I'm with you. To me. Chop 10 grand off of that. Hey, we want $10,000 back. There was no AC. When I had later asked about the resolution with the owner, my dad said that she had given back the security deposit with no questions asked. No, that's not enough. No, the security deposit gets returned to you if the house is in good order, which I'm sure it was. It doesn't get returned to you because the AC was broken. That's just not how a security deposit worked. This has enraged me. I'm with you because I felt like we would have gotten. This has enraged me because I felt like we would have gotten that back anyways. Yes, you, you should have. And I felt like she had taken advantage of us and that more should have been done to make up for the no ac. I'm with you. Am I overreacting or was this super annoying? No, this was super annoying. Love to hear your thoughts. Thank you for all the laughs every week. Well, thank you for being a Patreon subscriber and using it, using your subscription to write into this show. And I, I could. This here's a. Here's the real reason it's annoying. Yes, you should have gotten money back. Five grand feels like, kind of like that's, that's the number, you know, If I say 10 and they say 2500, let's get to five grand and we'll call it off. Because 30,000. Listen, it is a 12 bedroom house. So I'm, I'm sure it's a beautiful home and I'm sure it has all the glitz and glam that comes with a 12 bedroom house in North Carolina. I'm sure this was a Nicholas Sparks novel. Here's the real complaint. And you're looking more national and I'm looking more local. Finding out your dad is a little bitch is really the biggest problem with this story. And that is what would kind of dig at me. Your dad, who was in charge of communicating with the owner, comes back to you and says, hey, everybody, I know you all have been sweating your ass off like it's a sauna here, but I got us something. Don't you worry. They're going to give us back our security deposit and like to say that and expect us to be like, oh, dad, oh my God, look at the king of deal making right here, our dad. Now you start to understand why you've lived the life you have lived since your birthday. Anytime I. In my mind, anytime. And I. I'm sure you love your dad, and I'm sure your dad's a great guy. But the fact that he got nothing. No, he didn't get back the security deposit because the AC broke. He got back nothing. The. The big bagel, he got back nada, zilch, bagel, nothing. And he comes back and says, hey, everybody, I got back our security deposit. Your dad's delusional. And the fact that he put himself in charge of communicating with the owner means he probably thinks he's this big businessman guy who can make the deal. And you know what? He's none of that. He shouldn't have been in this position. It was too much for him. It doesn't fit his personality. And now you can be assured that anything you didn't get from birth until now, it's because your dad thought of himself this big businessman, I'm in charge guy. And you know what? He's misjudged his whole character. Maybe he's a numbers guy, which would make sense to be in charge of like, hey, 30,000 divided by 12. There's our number for what people have to pay. But he ain't a negotiator. He ain't. He your someone else should have been. Honestly, it should have been you. You're angry about this. You have energy. You have the motivation. Get that money, girl. But this is for. Again, like, I've connected a lot of dots here, and I'm sure your dad's a great guy, but this is what would enrage me. Why is he in a position that absolutely does not fit his personality? And at this age, he should know that. Hey, who wants to deal with the owner of the house and make sure that we don't get screwed over out of money? Your dad should have put his hand back into his pocket and said, no, I am not one to mess with someone who might end up us. Jtrain podcast, gmail.com. j train podcast, mail dot com. Got it. Ticked off Tuesday. Two more to go. I would love for you to sign up for the Patreon. These are. You know, the promise here is a 20 minute show. We're at. We're. We're in the 30s right now. Jared Feather. Feather my titch off Tuesday. When online shopping stores will post the same item multiple times, just in different colors. Why do they do this? I don't. If I don't like the style of a top. I see this all the time. You're totally Right. This is a new thing. They make it look like they have this huge catalog of items. And underneath the item, they'll show you all the different pictures of the colors that it comes in. But then beneath it, they'll put the different colors of the. Of what it comes in. So they just repeat themselves and they're trying. Here's the thing. What I was told with online marketing is like, you just want it to show up for someone. If. If they see it twice, they might not buy it. If they see it four times, they're going to buy it. So the whole point is this is. This is a way of. This is basically them saying, like, this is their voodoo. This is them putting a spell on you. And. And. And we have no control over it because also they include the color options in a bar below the items picture that you can toggle through. If I wanted to see the item in one of those colors, I would just click on it. No, I. I know you and I have seen the same thing. It drives me crazy too. This is all part of, like, messing with your brain. And it bothers me too, because I go to the page and you go, I just want to see the item. And then below I can go through the colors. And then here's the other thing they do. They give all the different items different names. I see this with, like, Chubbies, which I'm a huge fan of Chubbies. I think they do a great job. I think they've been around for. I'm wearing their shorts right now, but Chubby's does this where it's like, oh, do you want the. The plaid epotomous? And it comes in plaid. Oh, do you want the stealth black bomber? And there it is in black. And it's like, no, no, I don't need. Like, you've marketed too close to the sun. We pull it back and I know what you're doing to us. And they all do it. Duplicating items list. Duplicating item listings like this leads to pages of products to go through unnecessarily. I'm with you. I don't know what. Why retailers do this. It's all of them. Yeah, they all doing it. My time is valuable. They want you to see things. The more you see a product, the more likely you are to buy if you see it once. I mean, I do this with my dates. I post my dates every day. Some people are like, I know your dates by heart. And I'm like, listen, I'm sorry. I appreciate that you're watching My stuff, but I need to put it up because I need people to see it multiple times to be reminded. Screenshots below for examples from two different stores. Thanks for all. You do love the pot. Listen, I, I, I know exactly what you're talking about. It's the product, it's the, it's the bar below it with all the different colors and then you go to the next one, then you scroll down, same product, different color, same bar and it's this is to fuck with us. This is again, the closer we inch towards AI is the closer we inch towards a future where we're being manipulated left and right. This is a manipulation and that's annoying. Jtrain podcastmail.com J train podcast gmail.com Big fan of the pod. I'm so excited to have a ticked off Tuesday to submit. Thank you. I was at a work event on Thursday night with a couple of co workers. I spotted someone from across the room that I definitely knew but couldn't place. I knew I really should know her though. Of course as I'm walking across the room my of course as I'm walking across the room with my co workers, this woman says Ava and calls me over to her. I still can't place her, but luckily everyone is wearing name tags. I look down to see her name tag and she's wearing a jacket totally covering it. No. No. Fuck you bitch. Stop it. Stop playing this squid game with your name. There's a name tag for a reason. Put it out there for everyone to see. Or if you don't want to wear it, if you don't think it looks cool. If this, you know, if this outfit was thought out and you're like a name tag ruins it. Go up to people. I'm so and so. Hi, I'm Christine. You might not remember me. You have to do that. That's your responsibility. Then since I couldn't see her name tag which would have said her name and the organization she's with, I had to endure super awkward impersonal niceties. It seems so obvious to me that I didn't know her name. Plus it seems so obvious to me that I didn't know her name. Plus my co workers were standing right next to me so they saw that I couldn't remember her name too well. Your co workers, I, I mean this is a little on you. Hey. Hey. Good to see you. This is my co worker, Ronald. And then Ronald should have been like, hi, I'm Ronald. Give me your name now you're out. I even tried to Introduce them to this woman, hoping she'd say her name, but she didn't introduce herself back. So awkward. No, no, no, no. If you're in a name tag scenario, you have to give your name. You even have to point at your name tag. Hi, look at. I'm Christine. As you point to the name tag, covering your name tag with your jacket should not be allowed. I'm with you. This is horrific. And here's the thing. I. And again, when name tags are out, that means that is a portion of the conversation. That's what this whole event's about. Knowing names. This is why I love. I have to say I, I, I know I, I, I kind of shill for them a lot recently on this podcast, but really only on this podcast. I don't know, maybe you haven't noticed Puravita putting name tags on all the people who work there. I love it. And that. And now I know all their names. I'm happy. I know all their names. It took a few times but that name tag sitting right there. It feels so good to know someone's name and had it and have it made easy for you and not awkward. People can't be expected to remember a random acquaintance's name at a random event sign. Scrambling for a name. I'm with you. Also at an event with name tags, there's a lot of names. Your job at an event where there's name tags. It sounds like this might be like a networking opportunity that is bad on the person you saw. Hey, you might not remember me. I'm Linda. We, we know each other from this. I mean at that point, that person, all they're known for is guy. I don't know. And that's not what they want either. 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