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Big Showers, Milk Options, and "You get the next one!" - 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 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Do you have a problem? That would be difficult to tell someone because they would look at you and go, but you're lucky to be alive. No, we're not. We're not lucky. We're angry. We're mad. We want to complain. And this is the only podcast on the Internet that lets you complain about anything you'd like. I'm not going to look at you and go, oh, well, there's more horrible things going on in the world. No, no, no, no, no. These are your problems and they shall be heard. Now, if you want to be heard on Ticked off Tuesday and complain, and again, the premise here, you write in with your complaints and I will complain with you. I will validate you. I will make sure you are heard, you are seen. I might find a way to complain even more about what you're complaining about. I might find an angle you never even thought of. I might find a way for you to go, wow, it's even more annoying than I assumed it would be. That's what I'm here for. You know, sometimes there's complaints here that are difficult for me to do that with. And that's okay. We. Fine. Find a way. You know that when you come to Ticked Off Tuesday on the J Train podcast, you are going to be in a position to have that itch scratched. So how do you get involved? Sign up for Patreon. They get first dibs. I am looking at four complaints today, all from Patreon. Patreon.com Jared Freed. What do you get with the membership? It's five bucks a month. You. You get coffee with J Train every Friday. And then you can comment on coffee with J Train on the PI on the Patreon app with your complaint. And it's guaranteed to get read on this show. If we don't have Patreon, then We go to the mailbag. So if you want to send in yours. If you don't want to sign for patreon, that's fine. Jtrain podcast gmail.com jtrain podcast gmail.com. that is the email email address. Also, you can DM us@j Train Podcast. I would love for you to follow the J Train podcast on Instagram. Also, look, we're in Plug city. I might as well take a trip around the block. The YouTube channel. YouTube. I'm putting up every Chitchat Wednesday on YouTube. You can see my guests. You can see me. I'm putting up crowd work every Saturday on. On YouTube. Every Saturday. J Train. What do we call it? Saturday night J Train. So I'm putting up crowd work. What do I ask from you? Like it? Subscribe to it. Comment. Those are all forms of payment to me or you support the sponsor. We have one sponsor today. All the sponsors are in the description of the episode. And then I also have shows. Come to the shows. I am going to be in Huntsville. Oh, I was just in Huntsville, Alabama. Thank you to the. And listen, what's. You're getting this on Tuesday, I think the 17th. I'm taping this in Pittsburgh, which is a couple of weeks before. If you're signing up for Patreon, you're going to get all about the Pittsburgh shows. You're going to get all about my trip to New York. It's. I mean, the Pittsburgh shows, talk about roses and thorns. I had some weird things going there. Also had some, like really nice people come to the show. I want you to come to the shows as well. Assemble the group chat. Manchester, Connecticut. That's hard for this weekend. London, England. Very few tickets left there. Stanford, Connecticut. Bloomington, Indiana. Brea, California. Spokane, Washington. Denver, Colorado. San Francisco, California. East Providence, Rhode Island. Kansas City, Missouri. Richmond, Virginia. Chicago, Illinois. We have more dates coming. Jared.free.com. so that is Plug City. That's everything you need to know. And again, all the things you might be going. Jared, again with the Plug City. Oh, the shows, we get it. Oh, you know, like subscribe. It matters a lot to me. It may matter nothing to you. And I, I think I have to get used to that. I think that's a lot of the complaints we get on the show. I'm going to do my complaint, then I'll get to the four listener complaints. I'll do an ad in the middle. My complaint. I'm in Pittsburgh. I am staying at what I would call a boutique hotel. If you've listened to this show, you know that I am a fan of the autograph collection of the Bonvoy offerings. Bonvoy Hotels, Marriott, Weston. And then they have this autograph collection. What it seems to me is that Bonvoy went and purchased boutique hotels in different cities, and they're always a little bit nicer. They're always like, not there are. I appreciate how nice they are. I appreciate that they go a little bit extra. They're always in cool areas. They're priced correctly. They are priced 250 to 350. You rarely go over 350 in an autograph. It happens. Don't call me out on it. I'm just saying I. Autograph is pretty. Is priced pretty correctly. I'm at the industrialist in Pittsburgh. I think I stayed here actually the first week or month they were open. They opened during COVID I think, and it's still being considered new in Pittsburgh. If you're in Pittsburgh, the one thing about this town is they adapt very slowly. It feels like it's the year 2006 here. I had such a wonderful time on the radio. I went on DVE with Randy and Bill. They're like institutions there. They have a radio show where you go and shoot the with them and have a blast. And that was the old way of comedy. As a comedian, you used to go on the road and you do the morning radio, and then you'd go do the shows, and if you did well on morning radio, people would show up. And when I started going on the road and traveling around the country was towards the tail end of the morning radio being a thing. I used to get booked on local tv, local radio. It's very minimal now. Now it's different. It's, you know, you hope people that like your podcast come to the show and bring friends. I say it all the time. Assemble the group. Chat. Pittsburgh is still living in 2006. They're still supporting the local radio show, which I love because I. I will say Randy Bauman and Bill Crawford, these guys are great guys and they got a great show. It's fun to do. And I go on there. I come in a night early and I get on there and I sing, dance and dust. I bring it and I know they appreciate. They say to me every time I'm on there, like, thanks for bringing the energy. I come in there as if I'm coming on to my own headlining show, and I love doing it. I have a blast. We talk sports, we talked Aaron Rodgers. It's great. I. I bring this up all to say, I'm staying at this hotel downtown. And the downtown area. You know, everyone talks about this hotel. The industrialists. Oh, it's new. It's not that new. Okay. And it's a very nice hotel. It's in the autograph collection price. Right. My manager is very helpful with getting upgrades. He called up beforehand and he gets me an upgrade to the presidential suite. He called me, he goes, dude, this is hilarious. You're gonna be in the presidential suite. I am sitting in it right now. I have a living room. I have a big table, huge TV. It's like a 65 inch TV. It's awesome. I'm very happy. So when I checked in the hotel, the women at the desk, they're like, welcome to the Industrials. And I said, I'm Jared Freed. I give him my id and they go, whoa, we got you in the presidential suite. And I'm like, I heard. I can't wait. They're like, yup, it's got this huge TV and it's got the living room. And I'm very excited. I'm getting again, I'm excited to get a cool room in downtown. Awesome. At the right price. At a price you feel good about paying. And then one of the women that was checking me in, she goes, and the shower has multiple shower heads. Which I thought was kind of a weird thing to say to me. It like, I don't know if that's something I'm bringing up. I'm. That's kind of one of those things. Like. And wait till you see the shower. That could be fun. I don't know. Hey, the shower has multiple shower heads. I was like, cool, nice. Like, you know, it's probably one of those things. I don't know if she meant it to sound so peculiar, but it did. Just. If I was to reference the shower, I would go, and the shower is great. Wait till you see the shower. But. But she said specifically, and the shower has multiple shower heads. And I go, oh, that's cool. She goes, yeah, that's really nice. You know when you get the multiple shower heads. And I go, yeah, that's pretty good. Like, I didn't know what to say to it. So they get me my key, I go up to the room and I go to the bathroom. And the shower does have multiple shower heads. It has two shower heads that are on either side of the shower. But the shower is so big that the shower heads don't reach each other. They may as well be two individual showers. If I am being told there's multiple showerheads in the shower. I am assuming that I am walking into a shower that could also work as a car wash. That could also work as me just standing there with while the jets pound against my body and I have to leave at some point because it's irritating my skin. This was not multiple shower heads to me. These were two shower heads that were far enough apart that you could not even be in both at the same time. So the options are you go in the left shower and you shower there, or you go in the right shower and shower there, or you stand in the middle and your toes get hit. With both showers, I don't even understand how this would be fun for a couple. Like one cup. If you were in a couple, your wife would be in one and you'd be in the other. It would be as not sexual as showering individually. It makes no sense. It felt like a genie's wish gone badly. As if I was like, genie, genie on the wall. Who's the farest of the. You know? It was as if I was like, jeannie, here's my first wish. I want a shower with multiple shower heads. And then it was this. I'm going to post the video of that I took on the J Train Podcast Instagram account because I need you to see how ridiculous this shower situation was. The tub is also in the shower. So it was just a shower room, which to me isn't helpful. I don't like to take a shower where I'm also cold while taking the shower. This is a shower room where you can only get under one of the shower heads. And if the other one was on, that's nice. But it's like it wasn't even on at all. So this is like most of the complaints here on the J Train podcast ticked off Tuesday. It's an oversell under deliver. If someone told me you're going to get multiple shower heads, get excited and only one can reach me. That's one shower head that's not multiple. There's one and there happens to be another one in the area, I guess. 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I think we all asked for the Delta Lounges to be better, but the idea that this Delta One Lounge just dropped out of the sky and it is so superior to the regular Delta sky club that it's almost shocking. Writing to you from the Delta One Lounge at jfk, which is, as you previously described, pretty fancy schman. Yeah, that's. I'm, I'm describing it now. It is a wonder. I'm flying in the morning and was thrilled to see they have Matcha tea. My morning bevy of choice. That is wonderful to walk into a lounge and find that they have the exact thing you wake up every morning with. What a win. They even have a selection of non dairy milks for us. Sensitive tummy New Yorkers. Soy oat. But where's the almond milk? Okay, that's just not even possible. You don't go to the store and go, oh, we have to have alternative milks. Yeah, get the soy, get the oat, forget the almond. That's part of the menu. That's not a weird one. Is it too much to ask for this third, and I'd argue relatively standard non dairy milk and signed drinking my oat milk matcha with my pinky up and my stink face on. I agree. This is crazy. This is an undersell over. This is an oversell under deliver. Of course we have alternative milks. We got your oat, we got your soy, we got your, your, your, your, your, your, your nut milk. Oh, you want almond milk. The one that has been heard of the most. That's crazy. That's crazy because to not have. It's almost as if they only had room for two alternative milks and they went into a hat and then they picked out soy and oat and just were like, that's all we got. Like. And you're in the Delta One lounge. They could have just. To me, you have no other milks or you have them all. Don't get me tempted with other versions of milks that I don't want because we all have an order. Well, I'd rather not know. Like, I would rather you have none of it than some of it because at least it wasn't even a thought on your mind. Now I know that I'm the third milk. I'm not even in the top two. Soy and oat. Go ahead. Of almond. I would argue almond milk is the top of the alternative milk scene. Oh, no, we don't. Yes, we have soy oat. We also have, you know, rat titty milk. Oh, almond. Excuse me. No, I'm sorry, we don't have almond milk. And even the way people say it, oh, I'm sorry, I don't have almond milk. That is, that is annoying. When someone says they don't have the alternate. Oh, no, no, no, no. It always sounds like no. Who are you? What are you, a pig? No, no, no, we don't do almond milk here. This is the Delta One lounge. No, we are. We only the best of the milks and you're a trash pig. That's what it feels like when they say it. J train podcast@gmail.com. j train podcastmail.com keep sending in your emails. Also just a gentle reminder of sending in advice emails. We always need advice emails for Mailbag Monday. We're always looking for your advice emails. Ticked off Tuesday. J Train Feather. Feather. My ticked off Tuesday is about the taste of medicine. I recently got sick and had to use these liquid antibiotics. You swish in your mouth and they taste horrible. This bothers me because I have kids, and all they do is make fun flavors so kids will take their meds as adults. Can't we have fun flavored medicine back? They have the technology to do it. All the best. That's the real issue, is we know you can. So why won't you? Well, I have to live in as an adult where I have black coffee with no sugar just because I'm an adult. Why can't we have fun? We like delicious things. Also, if you're gonna make the medicine that has to be swooshed around in your mouth, number one on the list is cure me of my ales. Number two, make sure it doesn't taste like I'm swooshing around diarrhea water. Make it taste. I mean, you know, I have to swoosh it around. So make it taste good. Why? In what world? And if you're not gonna do that, make it a pill. Make it so I can. They have liquid gels. That's just the liquid of the medicine. Right? Make it different. Don't do a swoosh without thinking of the swoosh is actually torture. What they're doing when they're making a medicine that doesn't taste good, and then they're like, yeah, put it around your taste buds for about 30 seconds. What is this, a dominance thing? Are you trying to, you know, have one on me? Are you trying to make me feel badly? Are you doing. There's a question left to be answered. Are you doing this because you can? Are you doing this to people? Are you going, yes, screw them. They got to swoosh it around. They're going to taste this garbage. Because I can do it. It feels like a dictator got his way just to mess with the peasants. This should be. Here are the flavors. Medicine should be cherry, winter green, or bubble gum. Those are the flavors. We don't want. Licorice. We don't want. I would say cherry blueberry, wintergreen, bubblegum. That's it. End it there. End it. That's. Those are the flavors. Cotton candy. I'd take that. We want fun flavors that a clown would be named. Hey, it's cherry the clown. Blueberry the clown. Wintergreen the clown. It's. Holy shit. How great is cotton candy the clown? Yeah, that's what we want. Our flavors to taste like we want. And especially gonna make a swoosh. J train podcast gmail.com jtrain podcastmail.com or you can sign up for the patreon that's right. Get involved. Ticked off Tuesday. I get that eggs are more expensive and restaurants have to charge more. I understand that. My gripe is restaurants keeping costs flat and making the items smaller yet. That's not what we want. We have grown this fat from this country. We're not going backwards. Don't start. That's the thing you got us here. You made your omelets a six egg omelet. We're not going to five eggs because of the cost. Raise the cost, keep the eggs. Let. We're not going back from here. We have become accustomed to eating a half a carton of eggs. Do not think for one second I'm going back to four eggs from six. Keep it at six. That's the price. Own it. Have some confidence and serve it up. Don't go to this. Well, because of the cost. We're going to give you half a sandwich. No, no, no, no. If I want to keep costs down, I'll get the special, the half a sandwich and a soup special at lunch. I don't. This is it. My. I have been ordering a breakfast burrito from the spot across the street from me and I used to be able to eat half for breakfast and half for lunch because it was so massive. Now that they've made it smaller, I cannot do that. I'd rather them just up the price and keep the same amount of food. I'd pay more than 15.90 for a big old chorizo veggie and egg burrito with some hash browns if it meant I could stretch out the meal. I'm with you. We don't want to go. This is. You go more expensive, you own it, you deal with the people. Hey, what happened to the chorizo vegan omelette burrito? We had to raise the prices. Eggs went up. I'd rather that than, hey, where's the rest of my burrito? Eggs went up. So we're giving you less so that we don't charge you as much. No, no, no, let me decide. That's. I mean, honestly, that's like the whole idea of like, of, of money losing its value, you know, that is the whole. That's how it works. That's the, that's what's going on. You're not going to, you're not going to like, fix the dollar like you raise it because that's what happens. You're not there. I don't know. I could be way off on this and my economics degree might be, you know, not working in right now. But that's how it works. The dollar gets weakened because you have to raise the price on your burrito and let it happen. Swim with the river. You're not going to change things. You're not going to make sure the dollar stays strong because you gave a smaller omelet. Give us our fat omelette and give it to us with six eggs. We don't want four. We didn't grow up in a six egg land to then go backwards to four eggs. Jtrain podcastmail.com we got one more. A little bit longer. We love a specific complaint. These are all very good today, but we do love and this one seems to be a story which I really appreciate. Ticked off Tuesday. Feather Feather. I am a co owner in a small business. My partner is in another phase of life than I. She is 65 and her children are grown and out of the house. I'm 38 with two little kids. Okay, so here's the dynamic. We have co owners of a business. One is 65 with grown adult children and the other is 38 with two little kids. We have a relationship with a distributor that gives us lots of opportunities for travel and we go on business trips quite often together because of our different life phases. My partner always brings her husband on these trips while mine stays back with our kids. My luxury complaint is that her husband loves to pick up a tab at a coffee shop or happy hour on these trips and then say, I got this one, you can get the next one. No, fuck that. No, no, no, no. You have a free trip, sir. You can keep picking it up or don't pick it up at all. I'll get my own coffee, thank you very much. If I have to deal with this oh you1 deal that you're striking up, I don't know what the next one is and I might not have the money for the next one. I, this, this is garbage. I, I, I totally agree. I despise this. They write. I really just, I really just prefer to pay my own I really just prefer to pay for my own food and drinks every time I'm with you. Split it up or put it on the company card where we can write this whole thing off. That would make more sense than this third party husband walking in. I get the coffee, you get the next one. No, no, no. I don't know where we stand. I don't want to have to keep tabs. I don't want to have to keep receipts. He picked up. It's happened for years and on one of our first trips Money was really tight for me. He picked up a coffee shop tab for the group and said his little phrase. Later my quote unquote turn came up at the bar before we were leaving for dinner. Everyone ordered. I mean coffee order versus a bar order. Totally different things. Everyone ordered. And when my partner's husband ordered his gin and tonic, the bartender offered an upgrade to the gin, which he took. Everyone went back to the table and I got the tab. This is crazy. Also, this guy is getting a free trip. They're not paying for their room. He's staying it in it. He's getting Also, is he out of work? Does he not have a job like he's getting? Honestly, if you get brought along on the free trip, you should be like offering every tab. It should be your pleasure. All I had to do was get my flight in this hotels for free. I got the coffee, I got the beer. Or just don't say it. Just you do you, I do me, we'll go in different directions. The gin and tonic ended up being 27. Oh my God. I was drinking cheap house wine to keep my cost down and this stupid drink really pissed me off. When I when I got to the table, I asked him how it was. He shrugged. It's fine. Well, this his his love or not love of the drink matters very little. It's the fact that he's going on a free trip and not really acting like the plus one. When you're the plus one, throw down a card. When you're the plus one,. Get the coffee. When you're getting one of the major expenses, flight, hotel, Uber, for free. Let me throw in, that should be your pleasure. And he's 68 years old. He's 65. I think he can afford it. He had the greatest run in the market that any generation has ever had in the history of America. And he's pinching pennies. He must have been a real dumb fuck to not have the extra dough to pay for the bar tab. For the 38 year old whose generation went up and down and up and down like, you know, like a yo, yo. I said it's disappointing that the top shelf isn't fantastic. I love how passive aggressive this whole thing is. When I got to the table, I asked him how it was, he shrugged. It's fine, I said. It's disappointing that the top shelf isn't fantastic. This was five years ago and I still think about it. He's always picking up the tab first on these trips. But I've stopped returning the favorite. As you should he gets what? The coffee? Screw him. Just pay for your own if you're going to splurge on vacation. Check for one, please. Not a fan of a rotating tab. I'm with you. I don't like. If you're getting the tab, you get it because you want to, not because you want it coming back to you. That's the rule. That's it. Don't get a tab you can't afford. Don't go on a date you can't pay for. Don't go for dinner that you're going to have to worry about how many appetizers are ordered for the table. Take yourself out of it if you got to. And I'm not saying you shouldn't go to dinners and you shouldn't go to group dinners, but not all group dinners, not all vacations for everybody. Take a minute, back out if you. Or don't offer that. That's the thing. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to do anything. Just, oh, you're getting coffee. Very nice. Yeah, I'm right behind you. I'm going to go next. Separate checks, please. Yeah, separate checks. No, separate. That's all that has to be said. If anything. J train podcast@gma.com ticked off Tuesday. You guys always kill it. Keep sending them in. Join the Patreon back next week. Boom.