Hello and welcome to The Great Beyond, and is this good companion pod where we follow up on last week's episode, answer listener questions, and catch up with each other. The person I'm catching up with is, of course, Jason Doyle. Hello. Hi, J.D. Thanks for coming this week, and thanks for wearing your $50 t-shirt that you got at the Duran Duran Duran concert. Notice that it's not a Duran Duran Duran T-shirt.

No, it is not.

The Duran-Duran merch was garbage.

I have to say, like, I know they were trying to recapture the 80s sort of vibe, but they didn't even do that well.

I think it was also their new album or whatever, so it's art from that. And who gives a shit?

Anyway, so I got a La Freak Sechique shirt.

Very simple.

$45 plus tax, which ended up here in Atlanta, it was about $50.

And as I mentioned, they spun around the terminal, gave me the option of tipping.

I did not tip.

Yeah, I'm starting it a little bit more stringent with that, to be honest.

I'm starting, like I'm just starting to try to categorize things.

I can't remember where, oh, I think, yeah, I was at a wine shop, a bottle, bottle of wine. Okay. Go in, go to the case, grab a bottle, bring it to the front. It's $24. Yeah. They turn the thing around. 20% tip on that is like the standard option. The minimum. Wow. No, not the middle. No, there was an 18% 20, but the middle was 20, and that was the recommended.

And I just thought, like, why is it any different than going into the gap, picking up a t-shirt

and bringing into the cash?

It's not.

Now, when you go to the gap, they don't spin it around.

But even if, let's say, I had gone and said, hi, could you recommend, I'm going over to a

friend's house for a barbecue, can you recommend something that pairs well with charred meats?

Because this guy doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.

Then they show me to, I don't know, a nice San Giovese.

Do I then have to tip?

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