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Being "Busy", Buckets Instead Of Toilets, and A Year's Supply Of Pancakes - TICKED OFF TUESDAY - The JTrain Podcast w Jared Freid
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Uncle J Train
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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Jared Freed
Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming to you live from Hartford, Connecticut. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Do you have a complaint that you can't really tell people because they they'd go, that's ridiculous. That's such a small complaint. There's so many bigger issues in the world. You have your health and this is a place. We don't care that you have your health. You can complain about anything you want. It's the only space on the Internet where you can complain freely. If you want to be a part of Ticked off Tuesday, you can send in your emails to jtrain podcast gmail.com. that's jtrain podcastmail.com. or you can sign up for Patreon. Patreon is getting their money's worth. They get first dibs. I have four complaints, all four from Patreon subscribers. So that you something. Sign up for patreon patreon.com Jared Freed. That gets you coffee with J Train every Friday. That rounds out the week. That's five J Trains a week. Coffee with J Train is like my personal diary. If you're listening right now, what you'll probably hear about is my trip to London. I'm in London. When you're hearing this, I'm in Portugal. Okay, Jared, how could. That's the thing about this podcast. How could I ever complain? I'm in Portugal. While you're listening to this on the beaches of Comparta. That's right. That's where I'm at. I'll tell you. I'll tell you straight up where I am. I'm on the beach right now. I'm probably sipping on an iced coffee. I love an iced coffee on the beach. Love ice coffee, extra ice. One sweet and low. Boom. Looking at the oce. That's where I am. I don't know where you are, but wherever you are, you can sign up for the Patreon patreon.com Jared Freed. Five bucks a month and you comment on coffee with J Train. And that comment, your ticked off Tuesday gets commented there and then it gets first dips. So that's what it gets you. I no sponsors this week. We're going straight to your ticked off Tuesdays. I have four listener complaints. I have one announcement. I have announced a tour. I am coming to a city near you. I know I am. I'm going to a lot of cities. Go to my website. Jared free.com Jared free.com Assemble the group chat. That's kind of why I went to London. I wanted to see if this new hour. It's a new hour, new from is it's new from the Netflix special. It's also new from the show that I had been touring around that I taped in December. So now I'm two hours away from the Netflix special. That's how I'm. I'm always grinding. Oh, I hate when people use the word grinding. What a. What a loser word. I'm out here grinding, hustling. So go get your tickets. Jaredfree.com that's where you can get the tickets. I'm coming to a city near you with a new hour of laughs every 10 seconds, baby. The new hours about going to Europe alone. Yeah, that makes it sound sadder than it is, but that's kind of the point. So assemble the group chat. I got four ticked off Tuesdays. My ticked off Tuesday. I really, I'm sitting here in Hartford, Connecticut and it's kind of my complaint every I am the shows are in Manchester, Connecticut, which is the town that abuts Hartford. It gets me so annoyed when someone just doesn't take the spirit with which you said something. It's find the spirit in what I'm saying. If I say, yeah, I'm in Hartford and I'm in Manchester, can we agree I got close enough. Can we agree that if you're in Manchester and you say I'm in Manchester, most people would think you're in the UK that you're not talking about a Connecticut town that's outside of Hartford. So I make these videos, I do these food videos and I and I love doing them. I'll go for a walk and I try to walk somewhere that is around where I'm at. So here Connecticut is, has become known for its pizza. I don't know when that happened. I think, I guess I would say it's Frank Sinatra based. Frank Sinatra used to was known for having Frank Pepe's pizza delivered to him in Manhattan. And it was his favorite pizza. I think that's the. The lore that's here. So there's Frank Pepe's, there's Sally's, and they call it a pizza, a P. I. Z. So Hartford style, Connecticut style pizza has become a thing in the same way Detroit style has become a thing in the same way Neapolitan is a thing in the same way. New York style pizza. I guess you could say this is happening with bagels. There's New York bagels, there's Montreal bagels. I would say a sourdough bagel is becoming more known as an la. Los Angeles bagel. You might be. And here's the thing. If you're. If you heard me say sourdough Los Angeles, Los Angeles bagel, you're an idiot. If you. If you got. Los Angeles doesn't have bagels, they don't eat bread. Well, you are going along with something you've heard a thousand times. And you're a hack. I'm telling you, you're a hack. The Los Angeles Bay. It should be called the Los Angeles bagel. We're probably not doing that because of hacks like you who go, well, they don't eat bagels in Los Angeles. Yeah, things have changed. Things are different than 1995. The world is changing. Time to catch up. We make sourdough bagels. They come out of Los Angeles. They're very good. They're different than a New York bagel. They're different than a Montreal bagel. Get with it. Catch up. We're not. We're not the weird ones. And this is kind of takes me to a complaint. It's these hillbilly townies who are on TikTok commenting on my video where I'm like, hey, I'm in Manchester, Connecticut, right outside of Hartford. And they're like, well, it's actually Woods Grove or whatever. I don't even know what the name someone. Well, it's actually. You're not really in Hartford. You're in Manchester. But that's not the good part of Manchester. There's another part of Manchester where you could be. And you could be near my house. You're right near my house. But it's not really Manchester. And the actual zip code is this. And it's like, okay, listen, townie, we're not going to name your specific longitude and latitude to tell people where we are on a platform that goes around the world. And I know you're. I know that's upsetting to you. I know the world is bigger than just your town. Your hometown is very small. You only see your Starbucks, your Dunkin Donuts, your ihop, and you don't get outside of it much. And someone from outside came in and said, yeah, it's around Hartford. And you were like, well, it's not really Harvard yet. Well, maybe you should check yourself. Maybe you should admit that the world's a little bit bigger than your. Than. Than your cul de sac that you're on. I just. It's just like this. And what I think it is, I think it's small town people trying to like get one on. You know, they're like, no, no, no, you don't know. It's actually this subsection of. And it's like, yeah, we don't care. We don't care. I don't care where it is. Honestly, I don't care. It could be 80 minutes outside of Hartford. That's what I said. Yeah, I'm outside of Hartford. That's it. And if we want to get into it, the whole world's outside of Hartford. The whole world. I could be. I could be in China. I'm outside of Hartford right now. Am I right? I'm right. I guess I'm right. Jtrain podcast@gmail.com if you want to send in your tick tof Tuesday about the hillbillies and townies in your area. J train podcast gmail.com or sign up for the Patreon. We love the Patreon. Love the Patreon people. Coffee. J Train is my favorite podcast to do. Not that I don't love Tik Tok Tuesday. Love a TikTok Tuesday. I love raging. I mean, like that just now, what I did, talking about the people in my comments telling me that I'm not really in Hartford. I'm actually in Manchester, but it's not really Manchester. It's another town nearby that felt like I just scratched an itch. And I think you deserve to scratch your own itch. Sign up for the Patreon complain. Put your ticked off Tuesday in coffee with J Train comments. And then I read it here. I got four in front of me. My ticked off Tuesday is when you email someone at work and they claim it got lost in their inbox or that they have too much going on to read their emails. I could, I could not agree more. I have too much going on to read my emails. Isn't reading emails part of the job description? Who amongst us is ignoring emails at all? Who amongst us doesn't have a to do list? Unless you are a billionaire sitting on the beach on your private island. Then you. You probably have to keep up with your emails just like the rest of us. And this whole, like, talking about how busy you are to kind of elevate you above the rest of society. We don't buy it. We don't buy it. We don't think you're that busy. We think you're actually the same amount of busy as the rest of us, which actually isn't that busy because we all spend about a half hour on the phone while sitting on the toilet when we have better things to do. So we're all not busy. We're all busy, but we're all not that busy. So when you say how busy you are, we don't buy it because we're not busy. But we are busy, just like you. So the idea that you. Oh, my God, I'm so. I have so much going on, I can't even read an email. Yes, you can. Not an excuse. You're doing fine. We're doing fine. We're all the same amount of busy. Then. Okay, so let me go back to their email. Then you have to send them a message. And if that gets no response, which isn't uncommon, we get a video call to discuss what was. This feels like the antithesis of productivity. Pro. This feels like the antithesis of productivity. Plus, we're all busy. Thank you. That's the point. Wouldn't it be easier for everyone if people could just set aside time each day to go through their emails? Especially when you're sending something that would take just five minutes to review on their own. Here's the thing. We need to start walking away from these people. You. You sent an email that needed to be answered. It didn't get answered. Okay, I got a float up river to the boss. Hey, miss, Mr. Mrs. Whatever. Hey, boss. I'm ready to go, but I sent an email to Janice a week ago and they haven't gotten back. I've given them enough time to answer emails, I think. I guess we're gonna have to keep on going without them. Oh, no. But I was busy. Talk to the boss. Not my problem. I sent you the email. Honestly, the only chance you should give someone who hasn't gotten back to your email is the follow up to your own email. You shouldn't have to cross into other communication territories to get an email back. It's email to get your email. If you're texting or calling or facetiming or dming. We're not going to cross into different mediums. I sent you an email. I followed up on my email. You didn't get back to the email. I move on. Jtrain podcast gmail.com J train podcastmail.com My ticked off Tuesday is my landlord wants me to use a of bunch bucket to pee and shit in during a bathroom reno. That is a crazy way to start this email. My. My. Your landlord looked at you and said, here's your bucket. Good luck. That's what they said to you. And also, if you have a landlord and they're doing a bathroom renovation, that's not your problem. You're the renter. That should have been made easier on you. They're doing something while you're living in the apartment. If they want to do something that badly, they have to make it so you can find a place to use the bathroom. They have to work around your schedule. You're the customer. You're not working with the landlord. So my landlord wants me to use a bucket to pee and poop in during the bathroom renovation. So my 1B. What? My one bathroom needs to be completely retiled since the tiles are all cracking and falling off the wall. I will not be able to use my one and only bathroom for about a week during the renovation. I told my landlord I can manage without the shower since I have access to one at the gym and my office, but would need a toilet. You're starting to sound like Oliver Twist. Like, this is crazy. I. And listen, you say landlord, so I'm not sure if you. If you're renting. I mean, I can go through the email. I haven't gotten through the whole thing. But I'm saying, when you say to your landlord, like, you don't work for your landlord, you work with your landlord. But the way you're even sending this email to me, I told my landlord I can manage without a shower. I got one at the gym and at the office. But please, I'll need a toilet. I can't stop pooping for a week. Do you really expect it? And then your landlord is like, pooping more. Please, sir, I'd like a toilet. Toilet. Like, what is this? Why are you working for this landlord? She offered three different toilet options. Okay, here are the toilet options that this orphanage, you know, this orphanage, what principal has offered, she offered three different toilet options. One, an orange Home Depot bucket with lid. I can't believe for half a second that you were like, hey, let's renovate the bathroom. And they were like, here's your bucket if you want to take a poop. That I. I don't know how they do that with a straight face to a silver looking ice bucket. Oh, so I can't. I can't imagine this is happening. Hey, here's option one. It's an orange Home Depot bucket. Oh, no, you. You don't want to poop in that bucket. Well, I also have a fancier hotel ice bucket that looks better for you to poop in. That's the other option Three, an outdoor waterless portable toilet used for camping, practically a bucket with a back. That is. Of the options, the camping foldable pocket toilet is the most reasonable, which is crazy that it's the most reasonable. How far away do you live from, like a Starbucks or a hotel or another building? How did they do this? How did they offer this to you with no smile or smirk or apologies? Like, if I was the landlord, I'd be like, okay, I don't even know what to. I would have so much preface. I would have so much other things to say other than, well, we got bucket one, bucket two, or bucket three. You choose where you poop. That is just not even. None of These are an acceptable sanitary solution for me. No, no, no. None of these are real solutions. These are offensive. How about you provide a hotel for a week or reduce my $3,000 a month rent for the month while I stay with friends or family? Okay, now we've gotten the answer to the question. I am seriously annoyed for you because I thought maybe you were misusing the word landlord. This should not be happening. And here's the most annoying part. I don't know who you go to. There is like, whenever someone brings up, like, the Better Business Bureau, like, I. I go, what are you out of your mind? You think that adds. That's threatening at all? I have this moment where I'm like, Better Business Bureau. What would they even do? Come over and go, here's your citation. Like, I don't know who you go to. Because what you're saying. And it kind of shows why people are so angered by housing things right now. It's costing a lot of money. You're basically working for your landlord. I don't know why you're taking orders from them. You're the customer. You pay the landlord to have a livable apartment. And then you said to them, hey, the tiles are coming off the walls. There's got to be something done. And they said, here's your bucket to poo in for a week while we take care of it. And you're like, that's not what we wanted. That's not taking care of it. That's not a solution. And I don't even know who you go to. I don't know who you talk to. I don't know if there's a better pooping bureau. I don't know if there's like a. A panel that would decide. Like, I. Like, do you go to the police? Like, that's my. My thought is, like, do I go to the police and say, hey, my landlord just gave me a bucket to poop in because they're fixing the tiles? I would actually say to you that I'm not gonna allow them to fix this bathroom because the tiles isn't enough for me to, like, switch up my life. If I can use the toilet and I can use the shower with the bad tiles, I'm taking that over stopping my life for a week to let people into the apartment that I live in, because that's the exchange. The exchange you made with the landlord is, hey, I will pay rent, and you provide a livable space. Now, if the tiles falling off the wall makes the space unlivable, you say to them, hey, we have to fix these tiles so that I can use the bathroom. And then they find a way to work around you, the customer, to make you happy. Right now you are walking on tiptoes around a landlord, and that is enraging to me. And I would say to them, I. What would you charge someone for an apartment for a week that had no toilet? That's what I would ask them. Oh, I'm sorry. What do you mean there is a toilet? I can't use the toilet for a week. 3,000amonth divided by four, whatever that is. I would say that's how much a week here is how much would you charge me for this apartment if it had no toilet and I had to make other. Other. That's what I would ask a simple question to a ridiculous problem because this is a ridiculous way they've tried to negotiate with you. Well, I have one of three buckets you can choose from, and that's where you can go. Diarrhea for the week? No. J train podcast@gmail.com. i am enraged by that one. Ticked off Tuesday, my wife won a year's supply of pancakes by running top 5 overall in. In a 5k and beating someone wearing a pancake suit. This is cartoonish, so it's just not a good prize for a 5k winner. Like, a 5k winner would want new sneakers, membership to a gym, maybe coffee, water supply. I don't think they're Looking for a year's supply of pancakes. Now it is funny that this pancake 5k involves a person dressed in a pancake suit where if you beat them, you get a year supply. Like that's fun. That's like a fun way to like support the pancake place. My wife ran 1830 after ran an 18th. Okay. I don't know why the time that they ran is important. After this achievement, I started promising all our new parent, friends and family to get ready for a box of pancakes. Expecting to get 26 or 52 coupons. Yeah, I guess how would I be. How. Before I read this, how would I expect to get paid for a year's supply of pancakes? If they wanted to cheap out on me, they would give me a lot of pancake mix. I. As opposed to like individually sized weekly pancake portions. I, I would be afraid I wouldn't start promising pancakes everywhere. The letter just arrived with all six coupons for free products in the states. Hold on. The letter just arrived with all of 6 Coupons for free products and the states enjoy. And states enjoy the enclosed year supply of coupons based on serving size. I would have balked at 12 and accepted it. But there's no world where anyone expects winning six of anything to constitute a year's supply. I could not agree more. I think six pancake coupons, is that six pancake orders at the restaurant, is that six boxes of pancakes? I was dreaming of handing out these pancake coupons to everyone and anyone and now we have to sheepishly go to the nieces and nephews and let them know the pancake fairy didn't come through. This is crazy. I would ask them how the six coupons would be divided amongst the 365 days. Now I just don't know if it's for pancake mix. That's where I would have thought they would have screwed you. Oh yeah, your supply of pancakes and then it's a box of pancake mix. And then you would have had to have gone with a ladle and like ladled out different, you know, the powder to each of your nieces and nephews. And that's the thing. This whole year's supply is so vague that it's frustrating. They can do whatever they want. Well, I only eat pancakes six times a year. That's a year's supply for me. And you're like, why are we screwing around with this? You promised something. Why don't you fulfill your promise? Don't go around the edges. Don't play in the. Oh, and the fine printed says that I eat one ounce of pancakes every three months and that's what you get. And it's like, no, you. You made my wife. This is the the enraging part is you made my wife chase after a guy in a pancake suit with the promise that they're doing this for a year's supply of free pancakes. And now my family name has been embarrassed because my wife chased a guy in a pancake suit for nothing. Now we're a bunch of big losers with no pancakes who go and chase anyone in a costume to try and win a free meal. J train podcast gmail.com that's horrific. I Great complaints this week by the way. These ones are all timers Golf cart drivers on sidewalks are the worst. I live in a really nice community with lots of long sidewalks and trails to walk and run with lovely views of the Rocky Mountains. Now that it's summer, the neighbor folk have resumed driving around at top speeds without consideration for pedestrians. And the frogs on the walking trails? They are nearly murdering us. Or completely murdering in the case of the frogs. Seriously, I have seen way too many dead frogs that have clearly been steamrolled. I can't believe they're allowed to drive the golf carts on a sidewalk or a walking trail. Like many of us, I walk and run with AirPods, listening to podcasts and detaching my mind from the stressors in the world around me. All of that goes to when, out of nowhere, a golf cart of iPad brained tweens or oblivious fat men. Hold on these this person use their English degree today. All of that goes to when, out of nowhere, a golf cart of iPad brained tweens or oblivious fat men whizzes past me without even the faintest of courtesy knocks. Courtesy honks. Sorry, no slowing down, no moving towards the left. Just a 20 mile per hour shock to my nervous system, nearly knocking out my rotator cuff. The HOA emailed a reminder about golf cart rules regarding speed, designated lanes, age limits, etc. But of course few care. I wish that in order to get a golf cart, people had to experience the pedestrian terror of golf carts unexpectedly speeding past them within inches of their arm on a path. That and also a mandate to clean up all the frogs that they run over. Thank you for your consideration on this matter. Appreciate you. Yeah, this is horrible. This is what's annoying about this is we don't want more restrictions, we just want people to engage with each other in in an orderly fashion. So the golf cart is a beautiful Thing, I love driving my parents golf cart around their community in Florida. I am actually thinking of getting my own golf cart. When for Delray, if I make this move permanent to Florida, I want to get a street legal golf cart. But with great golf cart comes great responsibilities. Because when you're right now they're forcing you to get political with the hoa. They are forcing you to go to the HOA and be like, hey, we need rules. And then when an HOA does is they go rule heavy. Now they've taken your wonderful community with walking trails and places you love to run and walk and views of the mountaintops. And they're going to add all these restrictions that you don't really want. All you want is people to drive the golf carts with some thought of the pedestrians. Now what you're saying, they whiz by you at 20 miles per hour. If they like, honk, honk, hey, I'm coming just to warn you, you'd be cool with it. So now they're gonna have, now your HOA is gonna go up. Cause they're gonna have to hire security guards, they're gonna have to put up signs that say, you know, miles per hour. They're gonna put up street cameras to regulate this whole thing. And it's all gonna be at your cost. You're gonna have to pay for it. This isn't gonna just happen by accident. This is gonna happen. You're gonna bring in the law and the law is gonna cost you money and it's gonna cost you time. And then suddenly you're gonna be pulling out of your driveway and you're not gonna use your blinker and you're gonna get pulled over by your own HOA policeman. And they're gonna say, sorry, gonna give you a $50 ticket and you're gonna go, oh, my God. The sliding doors moment was when I was caring about frogs and people driving golf carts like normal people. Now I am in HOA jail because I can't pay my tickets. It's horrible. This is the slippery slope we want to avoid. And it's all because these teenagers want to go on a joyride on a walking trail with their golf cart. J train podcast gmail.com j train podcastmail.com It's a ticked off Tuesday. Thank you for writing in. Sign up for the Patreon. Come to the shows. We got a tour. We're touring, baby. Back next week. Boom.