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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 you live from Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Is there something that's just on your nerves? Send it to Tick Tock Tuesday. J train podcast gmail.com we take any complaint that is the premise of this show. If you're new here, you can complain to me about anything. There is no such thing as luxury issues here. They are all real problems. They're your problem. And we will find a way to make you sound heard, seen, viewed, all of those things. So, and, and honestly, sometimes I don't have. I'm not going to agree. I will find a way to make you validated. So that's the promise. So email J train podcast gmail.com. the second way to get involved with this show is to join the Patreon. Patreon is $5 a month and with your membership you get coffee with J Train every Friday and then you can comment with your complaint on coffee with J Train and they move to the top of the pile. I am looking at four complaints here, all from Patreon subscribers. So they are using their membership. I have two ads today, Joy Mode and Hero Bread. Joy Mode is for blood flow, sexual performance in a natural way. I've used it, I think it's pretty good. Hero bread. I ate it with breakfast this morning. Bread. The tastes just like normal bread. It is bread just with less calories and more fiber. If the sponsors can help you then because they all give you free money, we're going to get to that. But if you know, use the link in the bio to go and support the sponsors because they keep the show afloat, so does the Patreon. So how do you, you know, these are all ways to make the show, you know, pay back the show if it gives you any value. My I, we, we start with my complaints. If you're gonna high five me, you get one shot. Let's leave it at that. A high five at. I will take it with the. With the. I will take a high five with the spirit that is intended to come with it. I don't need to nail the high five to feel like we had the high five experience. I'm walking on a 1A. I do a walk from my apartment to Pura Vida here in Delray beach, and this woman is running towards me, and I see her. We make eye contact. She does a. Hey. She did a. She did a thing that also annoys me. She did a Go get em. I don't. I don't wanna be. Go get em. I don't wanna be cheered on. I don't want. Yay, Jared. No, I. That. To me, that feels like pity. I. That's why I hate the word support. I want to find a way to support. Why don't you do that? I'll feel the support. We don't need to say it. I want to. No, no, no. I provide a service, especially when it comes to people's career. I just want to show that I support. How about you enjoy the wares that I put out there and I will consider that support because now I am getting payment for the thing that brings you value. And I can pay my mortgage, pay my. For my groceries. That's support. When you say it, it feels like you want me to know that there was a favor being done. So let's not cheer people on. How about, good to see you? This woman's running by me. She says I. And I didn't hear it all the way. So I don't want to put this on that woman. Maybe she was saying, your shoes untied. Maybe she was saying, hey, chubby. I don't know. And then she puts her hand up for a high five, and I see it somewhat late, and I go to get it up. We miss each other. I'm still walking. I'm not going back so that we can connect. On the high five, I saw her turn. I saw. I look back. We missed the high five. And I. She goes. And I go. And she misses it on my left. And I go, oh, hey. And she, like, stops to. To, like, finish out the five. And I'm like, no, no, no, we don't have to do this. I got it. You're happy to see me, I'm happy to see you. Here's a high five. We did it. People do this with cheersing. I hate this when people cheers at a big group dinner. I'm not looking to spill my drink because you need to have your glass. Touch my glass because it's some sort of good luck, bad luck thing. I don't need that. Don't bring me into your obsessive compulsive disorder. Don't bring me into your tick. That I have to achieve. If you have a problem, you can't. Cheers. Just don't do the cheers. Raise your glass a little bit of a fake. Cheers. That's enough for me. We don't have to. No. Touch my glass. No. I don't want to spill my martini. I've been taking a lot of flights lately. This is more of my complaints. The I have been on multiple, multiple, multiple flights where they have said, hey, everyone, the flight is completely full. Make sure you put your bags above your head and then your backpack below the seat in front of you. And make sure your jacket isn't in the overhead because we are so full. Do not spread out. Actually get smaller. Everyone on the flight, scrunch up because we are so full that we all might not fit in here if you don't do a little ab routine. And then the flight takes off. Open seat, open seat, open seat. I don't want to be treated like a child. I get it. I get it. People don't listen. They don't listen unless there's consequences. You're trying to create this scenario where everyone says, well, we do it, but it is full. Find another way. If anything that, I mean, I just don't. Once the. Once I find out the lie, then I believe nothing. Then, hey, we're about to land. I will see. What about the thing where you said the whole fight was full? I just want to be treated like an adult. Let people break that rule. Hey, just say we have a rule. If you have a backpack, it goes under the seat. If you have a jacket, it doesn't go over the. Over your head in the overhead. If that's your rule, you know, use the rule, do the rule, don't do the. Well, hey, everyone, we're really full, so do us a huge favor. And then the whole front row is empty. Looks like we got them all. That drives me crazy. Oh, I bought. So I took an Uber to the airport. I get out of the Uber, check my pockets. AirPods gone. Sad day. It's one of those, you know, not the AirPods. The AirPods were in my ear. The air pad, the air. This is really a complaint about Apple that I've been doing for years. I don't like that Apple is considered this, like, progressive, awesome, fun company. I don't like It's a company there to make money. I know they put out a product that is handy and makes you more connected to the world. You know, the tool they make is, is quite a tool. I am wearing my AirPods. I get it out of the, I get out of the uber and the AirPod holder is in the Uber still. That's gone. Gone forever. That's, that's diving in the ocean with your sunglasses though the sunglasses come off your face. Gone forever. Stop looking. You know you're not going to get them back. It would be a miracle. So I just keep walking. I'm like, damn it, we had a good run and I needed new AirPods anyways. But now you're forced into a purchase you have to make it on. You can't make the purchase on your own time and it's annoying. I go to get AirPods at the airport because I hit my breaking point. You know, I go a week, I go, maybe I can make it. I got the AirPod Maxes that were gifted to me. So I have, I have options. It's not like I'm raw dogging everything, but it got to a point where I was like, it's time I went to an airport. Apple approved store, I think Houston. On the way to my gate I buy the, the nicest one, which I think was like 250, maybe $300. And listen, I think Apple products, iPhone it is. Anytime someone complains about the price of an Apple product that you're going to use for years, a thousand times an hour, I'm always like, that person is short minded. That person doesn't see the bigger picture because you use your. To me, an iPhone could cost a hundred thousand dollars. Like I, I actually considering how much I use my phone and how long it goes for, this is years before I get an upgrade. An iPhone is a deal. AirPods too. I had my last AirPods for years, used them every day. If you think of them on a, you know, pay for play basis, these products are really good. But they've got us, they've got us on the drug. They run the show. You do not run the show. You are just a, you are just, you know, just dominated by Apple because they, and I've said this for years, Apple could change the time a minute all, every day. And night would become day, day would become night. We would all go buy our iPhone time and switch our clocks. If Apple said today is a minute shorter, we're all a minute shorter. None of us would even notice. We would get to like it Was some, some nerd with bifocals on would be like, did you notice that the time is that there's 23 hours in the day? And we'd be like, no. But the Apple phone would never steer us wrong. They are in control. I open up the AirPods on the flight. No charger. I can't even believe we are living in a world where they can sell us AirPods and say, oh, you need a charger for that? Oh, you want them to have. You want them to have battery power? Well, you also gotta buy the charger. And then you. It's going to get worse. This is the beginning, not the end. They're going to start charging us for the box, the wire, the going to charge you to walk in the store. Apple could make endless amounts of money if they wanted to because none of us are going to go anywhere else. And then cue your friend with a green text bubble that now weighs in C. Samsung's pretty good. Shut the fuck up. We're not getting it ever. I will keep going with Apple no matter how much I am their bitch. So they know it, we know it, everyone knows it. We're not some loser on a Samsung. It ain't going to happen for me. They would have to literally blow me to get me to their product. Even if they did, I'd be like, I don't know. J train podcast@gmail.com J train podcast@gmail.com I have a couple sponsors. Hero Bread. Hero Bread is making bread better bread that's high in fiber, low net carbs with zero grams of sugar. Hero makes bagels, pastries, hot dog and burger buns. Even pasta and tortillas. You'd never know. Hero bread is low debt carb and high fiber. From the texture, it tastes great and the texture is amazing. I'm going to tell you right now. Buy the loaf of Hero bread. Use it for toast in the morning. You'll be a happier person if you are having breakfast. No toast because of carbs. I'm gonna give you the solve. This is the in between you were looking for. 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We got time for those la I just like listen if you're gonna buy a ticket we talked about that that vaunt that vaunted that horrible word support if you do want to support buying early does support that is helpful to know what's going on there. So those are the dates are coming up. There's always more to come. Jaredfreed.com Jared freedom.com Let's go ticked off Tuesday what's wrong with the people in group exercise classes who can't follow the instructor? When everyone leans right, there's that one person leaning left. When everyone's arms are going up, there's that one person whose arms are going down. Do they really not realize they are doing the opposite of 50 other people? If you want to do your own thing, please don't come to a group class. Lol. Thanks for the laughs at the Friday NYC show. A who follows directions. I totally agree with you. It is these people who make you feel stupid. Make you. You know, they're the think outside the box person. They don't care. They're they're here just to get a sweat and if it happens, it's good that they left the house. No, you're here because you're trying to work out the huge sub sandwich you had the night before and you need to get back to even. So this class is important and they're dilly dally so it's distracting you and I agree it's distracting you want to go to a place where you are in this class and all of you are warriors training for battle to go A battle where you go to Trader Joe's and you, you know, elbow out another, you know, middle aged woman. You know, again, we have to go to delusional places to live every day on this earth. And when people go outside of that delusion and kind of just whatever it makes you feel stupid for even trying. I'm with you. I don't like this follow the I and even more so the people that come to the class and they start chitchatting with people. And no one wants to talk to you at a workout class. No one came to talk to you. No one came for conversation. We came. The workout class. The beauty of a workout class is this. Just this one organized hour, 45 minutes. They've all shortened, by the way. They've all shortened. They used to be 55 minutes with a stretch. Now they're 45. They've all shortened. They think we don't know. We know. So they're going to charge you money to put you through this gauntlet that you never would have gotten elsewhere. I listen, I can go to the gym by myself for hours at a time. Because what happened was we got to the gym and we'd have our phones and then you see a friend, and then all of a sudden you're there for two hours and 15 minutes, including changing, and you're like, this gym is taking forever. So the fitness class was really an answer to how distracted we all get. The fitness class was like, I'm gonna zone in off my phone for an hour. And if you go on your phone during a fitness class, you're a loser. You can't take an hour away. What email are you maybe missing? What call are you waiting on? Is. Is Mima in the hospital and you're not sure if you're gonna have to go and collect her body to go get buried? I. I don't understand the people that bring their phone. If you bring your phone into the fitness class and you don't, if you take a selfie, at least you have to do that in front of everyone. We all watch you, we all pity you. We all understand it. The lighting's pretty good. So if you bring a phone into a fitness class, I just, I just need you to be the most high powered lawyer in town. I can't believe that there's these pressing matters that are happening in between sets when we're running around the gym. I just don't get it. Are you that addicted? And then, then they're the ones that are, you know, moving in the wrong direction. And now I'm looking at them and I'm maybe moving in the wrong direction. It is crazy how many times you go to these classes and you're like, I can't believe how little you gleaned from the instructional portion of this class. J Train podcast@gmail.com. j train podcast@gmail.com. we got more ticked off Tuesdays. Jared Patreon. Subscriber. You up? Subscriber. Thank you. Thank you. Over sharing Subscriber. I know that's not you. No, it's not me. But I'm happy you support people that I love. Big fan. You're hysterical. Well, thank you so much. I need to know if I'm insane or if this woman was. Okay, so we have an Am I insane or is this other woman insane? I'm on a flight, middle seat, row 39. It is what it is. I get it. Eat it. The woman next to me is super chipper and nice, which. Ignore. Let me reread. The woman next to me is super chipper and nice, which normally is great. But immediately I'm like, oh, no. Her husband is across the aisle with their two kids, maybe five and three. So we have you in the middle seat. The woman next to me, which I'm assuming in the aisle is nice and chipper. And across the aisle we have husband with two kids, five and below. And from the moment we sit down, she is talking, not yelling, just at a volume that feels like a slightly loud New York city bar. About 20 to 30% louder than normal. So let's. Let's say this is ready. If this is my normal. Let's say this is my non. Show talking voice. This is my show talking voice. No, I don't really. You know, I go back and forth. I would say it sounds like this. I. So 20 to 30% louder than normal would sound, I would think. Hello. Yes. Yeah. That is like getting pricked with a knife. I get that. And she keeps this up the entire flight, talking to her husband, the kids, narrating life. Narrating life. What? That's weird. Talking to your Jason. Jason. Like, if his name's Jason. And it's at that volume that j. Feels like a knife going into my ear, but just ever so slightly. Jason. Jason. That's. That's where I'm imagining the kids narrating life. Like, oh, this flight is going so long. Like, that's someone who's lonely. That's someone who can't, like, really function normally. I have noise canceling headphones on and can still hear her. She's polite. Oh, you're in the middle. I'll get up. Which somehow makes it worse because now I'm internally mad at a kind mom who loves her family. So this is like, do it all mom who's just not for you. I get that. Then we land. She stands up slowly stops, talks to her kid, just blocks the aisle without grabbing anything. I literally taught. I literally time it a minute and a half of doing nothing. Then when it's finally our turn. I literally time it. Then we land. She stands up slowly stops, talks to her kids, just blocks the aisle without grabbing anything. I literally time it a minute and a half of doing nothing. And when it's finally our rose turn, she starts packing up snacks, cups, bags. Her entire life. Yeah, that was for when you were waiting for the plane to to deplane while I'm standing there ready to go with no check bags. Her husband is totally fine with it. Like, yes, this is how you exit a plane. I hate that I'm mad because she's not mean, just wildly oblivious. Sincerely, A who just wants to get off the plane. P.S. love the JCU the J train cinematic universe. It has a noticeable impact on my day to day. Well, thank you so much. That means a lot. I'm with you. This it's. It's a problem that could easily be solved. Vigilance at the airport and people who are oblivious just it's oil and water. I agree with you. When you're moving through the airport, you should always be thinking of what else can I be doing to get us to our goal which is to not be at the airport. And I hear you. When the plane lands, gets to the gate at that point. I don't think getting into the aisle is the most important thing. I think people who jump into the aisle are a little bit stupid. It's the let me collect my things and put them in pockets so that when our row has its turn, all I have to do is is get out, put backpack on, get bag from above, walk out. If you're not doing all the other stuff before we get to our row, you're doing a disservice to everyone on the plane behind you. You, you did not work hard enough and I agree with you. Here's the thing. Moms get this oblivious pass, especially moms with young kids. We get it. We understand you have a job to do, but that would actually be make me more on my game. And you know dad who does nothing but doesn't say anything to his wife? It's really his fault for doing nothing because he feels he has no power to say anything because he does nothing. So it's a real bad situation with two people that you know really are ruining everyone else's life around them but don't even notice it. I notice it when I go to the X ray machine. When I go to the X ray machine when I am in line at TSA Pre, I do clear when I'm heading towards when I get in those Gates, these hallowed grounds. When I get to the ropes, I'm taking stuff from my pockets and putting them in my jacket pocket. Because I'm going to take off my jacket as one thing and put it into the X ray. So as I'm making my way towards the, the, the X ray machine, I'm taking things out of pockets, I'm taking off belts, I'm doing things that. So when I get to that moment, it's all in the jacket. I take off the jacket, I put it on the X ray, I'm walking. I see people so many times. They get to the, they get to the buckets where they can put their stuff in. And now they're taking stuff out of pockets. Now they're going, oh, my belt. Too late, too late. And it's the fault of the airports because at the ropes, it should have signs that say, start taking stuff out of your pockets. There should be signs from when you get out of the Uber, the taxi cab that say, get ready, get your stuff out of your pockets. X rays are coming. So I'm with you. I don't like that. I don't like this time. That could be utilized. Not getting utilized. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcast gmail.com I told you two sponsors Joy Mode. You shouldn't need to go to the doctor to get some help in the bedroom. Boost your sexual performance the natural way. Joy Mode. Here's how it works. Joy Mode supports nitric oxide in your body to help increase circulation. Increase circulation means increased sexual performance. Just tear open a Joy mode packet mixed with 8 ounces of water, take it anywhere from 45 minutes to 4 hours before sex, and you're good to go. No planning your night all around a pillow. Here's what I would say. If you're. There's two. There's two options for Joy Mode. You're having sexual frustrations. This is a great first step that you don't need to go to the doctor for. 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This lady who I asked what paperwork I owe to update a license that I have didn't get back to me until after the due date. That is. I mean, aren't you emailing someone whose job it is to help you with this? Like after the due date she should get. She should. Like, it should be one of those things where she has a special exception to extend the due date. At that point, once she let me know what to send her, I emailed the PDFs to which I guess for some reason populated a link within the email. When I attached them, the lady then texts me that the link isn't working and she did not have the PDFs to which I replied I didn't know what link she was talking about and told her to scroll down and see the attachments. She eventually found them. Then she let me know of some of the other paperwork that was due. As I completed the paperwork, I added the attached PDFs to the email chain. Finally I got the last the last of the paperwork done then. And then she said I still have forms to complete, which I replied if she would look at the email chain, she could see that all the paperwork had been completed and sent to her. Then she said she didn't know how to access the other emails in the chain and gave me no way to solve this problem. This should be done in the phone. You're. I mean your problem is in your email to give you feedback. I agree with you. This is annoying. You're already so deep in the weeds I don't even know what the fuck is going on. Like I'm reading this. I have no idea PDF, all this stuff. Even if I worked in this industry, I would have no idea at that. Halfway through this, hey, jump on the phone with me. Can you get on the phone, give me a call. We'll be done in 15 minutes. Because all this back and forth to me, the the issue is email. We leaned too hard on email. One phone call would have knocked us out. Then she said she didn't know how to access the other emails in the chain and gave me no way to solve this problem. It is so annoying to me when people are problem creators and they don't come up with any solutions. I then replied asking her what did she want me to do since her email isn't working and she wanted me to attach all 20 PDFs again and send them to her. It just really annoys me that all this was already past due because of her failure to get to alert us to what paperwork we needed and now she is not even able to work email. Take a free class at the library please. Or look up a class on YouTube or better yet even ask someone in your office for help. Kept this vague because of the sensitivity of the license. Yeah, this is. This is vague enough that if the email exchange was this vague, I understand why it didn't get done. But hope it all makes sense. It doesn't make sense. Thanks for complaining with me. Sincerely not an IT worker. It doesn't make sense. Which is why your problem isn't with the email. It's with this person saying thinking that they My issue with the person you're dealing with is they they're not an email person. They're not going to go on YouTube and take a class. They're not going to the library. Those are stupid responses to this person. This person should know enough about themselves that they aren't capable and, and they should say to you, hey, seems like we're missing something here. Get on the phone with me at five o' clock tomorrow. We'll bang it out. Nothing, nothing makes me happier than someone looking at me going no, this ain't going to work this way. Do it this way. And then this quote will bang it out. Will bang it out. Makes me feel chills down my body. I feel good. Knowing they are confident we will get it done. We are just not getting it done this way. Go to the library. Come on. Let's, let's not squish a square peg through a round hole. This square peg needs to do things longhand over the phone. It will take 10 minutes. Let's not knock our head against the wall. Honestly, when it's three emails deep, I don't even know how to read back on the emails once it starts moving over indenting into the page and it's hard to like scroll down and it gets this weird look to it. I'm out and I'm coherent. I'm living in a technical world. So yeah, I'm with you. This person's annoying. This person trying to figure out what how to live in 2026. Nope, you are in 1995. Let me take my time machine and join you there so that we can quote bang it out. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcastmail.com I got one more complaint again. Patreon subscriber. We love the Patreon subscribers. I want you to join. 5 bucks a month and the money goes back into the show. It's all for production. We're making videos on YouTube, we're putting up clips. V is doing a great job. Puts the podcast out on time every day as I drink my coffee. Last one. My ticked off Tuesday is an indecisive person in a food ordering line. I completely agree. I frequent a bakery. Yeah, bakeries are tough because you're dealing with coffee that has 800 different combinations and that is low as a number. It's probably thousands upon thousands. And then you're dealing with the indecision of like no one went to a bakery. Confident, no one goes to a bakery. I'm going to have a slice of cake today because I deserve it. No, when you walk into a bakery it's, I'm gonna get a coffee and should I have the cookie? I ate, you know, pretty well last night. I went to the gym today. But if I have the cookie now, I can't really go off tonight at dinner. I gotta keep it healthy tonight. And I really wanna reheat that Chinese food from last week. But you know what? I deserve the cookie. I should have the cookie. That's, that's someone at a bakery. No one's at a bakery. Efficient. I you, when you go to a salad place of the kale with the chicken and the, you know, all your add ins, that's, that's efficiency. When you go to a bakery, it's a lot of like soul searching. Do I deserve the cookie? Do I deserve the cake? Who gets a cake? Who gets, who gets a chocolate croissant at 4pm on a Wednesday? Now you're thinking about the time of day and whether you deserve it. So it's a bad situation if you came into a bakery knowing what you want because the only way you know what you want at a bakery is I'm going to an event, I'm bringing a gift. I came here with a purpose. There's a lot of people with no purpose at a bakery just wandering around thinking, maybe a cookie will fix my life. And they're wrong. It's not going to fix their life. They're going to be happy for the 10 seconds while they eat it and then they're going to get done. They're going to go, why'd I do that now I can't even eat the Chinese food I'm going to have later, and they're going to still have the Chinese food later. And okay, so I. I frequent a bakery and just want to order and then sit down with my coffee and food. All the time I'm stuck behind someone reading the menu like it's a legal contract. It ain't that complicated. This ain't the cheesec factory. Just pick something and move aside. We need a shot clock that gives them 30 seconds or they got to go back to the end of the line, which wasn't there before they walked up to the counter. Anyways, I agree with you. I think the shot clock idea is a good one. It should be a small clock facing the person from the register. Hey, good to see you. Click. One, two. No, that would be perfect and I would love it. At least there's expectations set. At least we know what we're getting. Okay, three in front of me. They got three 10 seconds clocks. I'll be out of here in 30 seconds. I got my order ready. And here's the thing. If you get up to the show, if you get up to the register, you don't want. You don't know what you want. Pull aside. How about we pull aside? I think those are the real heroes. Those are the people that should get the, like, Nobel Peace Prize. The guy who's in front of you, that's like a. I'm not ready yet. She can go, whoa, give him a medal. That is a hero. They should be honored at halftime of basketball games. How great would that be? Would you. Would you not get up and give a standing ovation? Tonight's hero amongst us, John o', Brien, who went to a Dunkin Donuts earlier this week, got to the front of the line, didn't know what he wanted yet, said, ma', am, I'm not ready. This person behind me can go first. You are the hero amongst us. And then the sad music comes on. Hey, now, Johnny, we need more John O' Brien's Out There JTrain podcast at Juma. Com back next week. Boom.
Episode: Bad High Fives, Bad Emailers, Lying Flight Attendants, & More Complaints! – TICKED OFF TUESDAY
Host: Jared Freid
Date: February 24, 2026
This Ticked Off Tuesday episode of The JTrain Podcast features comedian Jared Freid diving deep into listener-submitted complaints and his own everyday frustrations. True to the theme, the episode is a cathartic, humorous exploration of the little things that drive people nuts—from awkward high fives and questionable customer service, to indecision at bakeries and the eternal struggle with Apple products. Jared invites fans to send in their own gripes, promising a space where every complaint (no matter how “trivial”) will be heard and validated.
“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.” (00:00)
“There is no such thing as luxury issues here. They are all real problems. They're your problem.” (01:27)
(02:50–17:30)
“If you're gonna high five me, you get one shot. … I will take a high five with the spirit that is intended to come with it. … I'm not going back so that we can connect on the high five.” (03:31)
“I don't want to be cheered on. I don't want, 'Yay, Jared.' No, that feels like pity. That's why I hate the word 'support.'” (04:42)
“If you have a problem, you can't. Cheers. Just don't do the cheers. Raise your glass—a little bit of a fake cheers, that's enough for me.” (06:03)
“Do not spread out. Actually get smaller. … And then the flight takes off—open seat, open seat, open seat. I don't want to be treated like a child.” (07:09)
“I open up the AirPods on the flight. No charger. I can't even believe we are living in a world where they can sell us AirPods and say, ‘Oh, you need a charger for that?’” (10:54)
“Apple could change the time a minute all, every day. And night would become day, day would become night. We would all go buy our iPhone time and switch our clocks.” (12:45) “We're not getting [Samsung] ever. … They would have to literally blow me to get me to their product. Even if they did, I'd be like, I don't know.” (14:19)
Complaint:
People in group exercise classes who can’t follow instructions or insist on doing their own thing.
Jared’s Take:
“You want to go to a place where all of you are warriors training for battle... And when people go outside of that delusion, it makes you feel stupid for even trying.” (21:42)
Complaint:
Overly loud, oblivious passengers who block the aisle and draw out the deplaning process.
Jared’s Take:
“When you're moving through the airport, you should always be thinking of what else can I be doing to get us to our goal which is to not be at the airport.” (30:31)
Complaint:
Dealing with someone who can’t use email properly, causing missed deadlines and inefficient back-and-forth.
Jared’s Take:
“One phone call would have knocked us out… This square peg needs to do things longhand over the phone. It will take 10 minutes.” (42:11) “'We'll bang it out.' Makes me feel chills down my body. I feel good knowing they are confident we will get it done.” (41:59)
Complaint:
Being stuck behind indecisive people at bakeries who treat the menu “like a legal contract.”
Jared’s Take:
“They should be honored at halftime of basketball games… Would you not get up and give a standing ovation? Tonight's hero amongst us, John O’Brien, who went to a Dunkin Donuts... got to the front of the line, didn’t know what he wanted, said ‘I’m not ready, this person behind me can go first.’ You are the hero amongst us.” (47:16)
Jared’s signature mix of observational comedy and exasperation shines throughout. The episode is candid, relatable, and full of self-deprecating humor, perfectly capturing that feeling of being driven insane by life’s everyday inconveniences. Jared never shames listeners for their gripes, instead offering validation and laughter in equal measure.
Ticked Off Tuesday is an outlet for listeners’ and host’s shared exasperations, delivering an hour of commiseration and comedic relief. If you love observational comedy and hate indecision, group cheery rituals, or inefficiency, Jared’s sardonic take is essential listening.