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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 alive from Delta Ray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Is something grinding your gears? Well, come on in to Ticked off Tuesday. Tell me what's on your mind. Any complaint is welcome. There is no complaint that's too small or too frivolous. It is your problem and it shall be heard. And I. That's the agreement here. You know the agreement. If you don't, you complain, I will complain with you. We might not fully agree, but I'll find a way. I will find a way to make you feel seen and heard. So if you want to send in your complaint, jtrain podcast gmail.com. but honestly, the best way to be involved with this show is to sign up for the Patreon. Because patreon subscribers for $5 a month, they get first dibs. I'm looking at four complaints today. One one is from the email inbox and it includes screenshots. So that's kind of how you separate yourself. You got screenshots, you got pictures. We are happy to talk that one through because we like on this show, you know this specificity, find out what it means to me. You and me are going to go deep if you get specific with me. Oh, I almost nailed it. I almost did that slam poetry just now. So I got my complaints lined up in front of me. I've got your complaints here too. Sign up for the Patreon. I'm on the road. Tempe, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Utah, Los Angeles. I have more dates coming. I'm pretty positive of that. But otherwise we move into book promotion world. I'm going to be doing some book, some live book talks. I'm doing like the book rounds that's coming in July, June and July. The book comes out in June. You can pre order the book link in the bio this episode. That is very helpful to pre order the book. We love pre ordering the book. Pre order the book. I will definitely be doing the audio version. So if you've gotten used to the sweet sounds of J Train, they will not let leave you by. So let's. And I have one sponsor, so today is like content heavy sponsor light. So I'm really going to push my own stuff. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. Go sign up for the YouTube. Here's my TikTok Tuesday. It was my birthday last week. It'll be two weeks out from my birthday. Here's one thing I really is tough about the birthday. I'm not a big birthday guy. I'm not a big bir. I say I'm not a big birthday guy. And then the whole week leading into my birthday, I let my birthday be an excuse to eat what I want, take naps when I want, do what I want the whole week leading in. And I start around February 15, right after Valentine's Day, I'm like, oh, here comes the birthday. February 21st is my birthday, if you don't know that. And, and as I get closer, I go, come on, it's your birthday. It's your birthday. Here's my complaint. The minute your birthday ends, you're like, oh, God, I have no excuse to get out of all the things I don't want to do. That next morning you wake up and the check has come due, the time to cash it. You got things to do, and at no point can you be like, well, it is my special day. I deserve it. You know what, Jared? Take that nap. It's your birthday. It only comes once a year. And then it's gone. Goodbye excuses, hello responsibility. And it sucks. And there is a letdown, especially as a not a birthday person, which now, as I say it, maybe I need to review that maybe I am a birthday guy. Maybe I do like a little cake with a, with a candle in it. Maybe I like a card. Maybe I like sweet nothings whispered into my ear. On the subjects of birthdays, my other complaint is, you know, your birthday then produces comments on your Facebook, Instagram. I get, you know, more than probably most on social media. I get a lot of love, which I am very appreciative of. It is it never, you know, I do, you know, I know this is a complaining podcast, but I, I, I genuinely cannot believe the kindness of others and people that enjoy my stuff. I have a Facebook fan account that I push out, the same thing I push out on Instagram and TikTok. Very similar. It's maybe I think I do more on TikTok, more on Instagram stories. I Tweet, I thread, I do all the things. So. But every now and again, because of my birthday, I started getting all these notifications on Facebook. Hey, your. Your personal Facebook, which I very rarely sign into, is getting some heat. So I go from fan account over to the personal account that I listen. I. And I talk about in the book Walking Red Flag, which comes out in June, how I was kind of there for the beginnings of Facebook. I remember sitting in my fraternity at lunch, all these guys hanging out. One dude came in. He's like, hey, I think we should have a Facebook group for our fraternity. And I was like, nope, nerd. And then we all laughed at him. Like, I. I remember being. And I was wrong. And then we found out that, like, hot chicks were on there, and we all kind of were like, I gotta go check out this Facebook thing. So w. So Facebook, I've been there since kind of the beginning, so I do. Did have an account. I remember Facebook albums. I remember, you know, going on it to, you know, to search out a girl that maybe your friend hooked up with. You know, you go, oh, let's see what she looks like. That. That's what Facebook really was. It was this, like, place to go look up, you know, girls that hooked up with your friend. So I remember, you know, the Facebook birthday that really became how you knew whose birthday it was. And I remember seeing. Oh, look at. And because Facebook was so small and the group was a little bit tighter, you go, oh, there we go. Guy went to high school with that. I still kind of know. Let me say happy birthday to him. It was right in the corner. And then, oh, girl that I'm in class with, let me say happy birthday. I didn't realize there are people that are still doing this. And I go onto my Facebook and I'm like, whoa. I have all these happy birthday messages. And I think, to me. So maybe this is a personal thing. To me, the time has passed. It is. We've moved on as a society. We went. We did the Facebook thing. We did the happy birthdays. And now. And I hope I'm not saying this, because it's just me, but I'm like, I couldn't believe the amount of people that are still kind of. And I don't think it's because they want to wish me a happy birthday. I think it has become for them a, like an ocd. I have to do it or it will, like, make me feel weird that I didn't do it. Move like it. And to me, look, listen, I have those things, too. When I see the red dot with the notifications that you have a like or a friend request or whatever, I have to look at it. I. I have to be at red dot zero when it comes to my inbox. I don't need that to be all open mail. I don't need that to be zero. But when it comes to a notification, I can't not look at it. So I have my own thing. So it did make me sad. And I will. This is my complaint is that these people are still wishing happy birthday to people. Almost, like, yelling it into a empty cave. And you're like, shouldn't that be a sign for your account to be just, like, disabled? You've become too addicted to Facebook. Like, we have all these, like, congressional hearings where Mark Zuckerberg sits up there, and he's like, we had no idea that, you know, teenage girls would ever think badly of themselves while seeing other, you know, women online dressed, you know, in. In bikinis, like. And you're like, what is this? Why are we even doing this? How about you do something? How about when you wish someone a happy birthday, they didn't return your happy birthday, and then you wish them another happy birthday. You need a therapist. You need your account disabled. It's over. What's going on with you? Why are you doing this still? You're wasting your time. You're wondering why you have money troubles and you're wishing people happy birthday on Facebook. I don't know. I'm not even talking about someone specific. I'm just saying there's probably someone out there that's like, oh, my life. I don't know what I'm doing. And then, happy birthday, Mike. What? Jtrain podcastmail.com Now I don't know. I don't know if this got too Facebook, but every now and again, and I have to say, let me give some props to Facebook. They pay well on the fan page. If they gets views, you get paid better than any other app. And then also, I've enjoyed that the. My Facebook fan account keeps growing. So if you. If you're a Facebook person, you want to see my stuff, it's on there. Go, please. Would love that. That helps me out. Jtrain podcast.com Let me get to the listener complaints before we do. We are sponsored people. Oh, I really like this sponsor because it's in the. 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FDA does not evaluate compounded products for safety, effectiveness and or quality. Compounded medications are not reviewed or verified by the FDA for safety, effectiveness or quality and are not FDA approved. Not available in all 50 states. So that is today's sponsor one sponsor. If they can help you, then you use them. And also the YouTube and the Patreon, all that stuff that helps the show. Here we go. These are the lists. Ticked off Tuesdays. We love your complaints. Every complaint is welcome. Keep sending them. My mom, sisters and I, five of us total ordered shrimp fried rice at a new Chinese restaurant. I love a shrimp fried rice. Love. I love any fried rice. I like a crab Fried rice. I like a pork fried rice. I like a vegetable fried rice. I like a chicken fried rice. I. If I was to put it on a list, it would go pork fried rice, shrimp fried rice, vegetable fried rice, chicken fried rice, steak fried rice. Eh, eh. Not looking for my steak to be in my fried rice. I'll take it. Crab fried rice. Anytime I've had it has been like unbelievable. The one at Q Kyu is like the like unbelievable. When the fried rice came out, there were only five shrimp in the family style size serving. Yeah, five is not going to be enough. I'd need to see the size of those shrimp. I got to get a size. Unless I have to fork a knife. Those shrimp, that ain't enough shrimp. That's a little shrimpy for my shrimp. Here's the thing. There are two different types. Sometimes you get those little mini shrimp, which I'm fine with. I'd rather the mini shrimp be sprinkled on salt based style than five individual shrimps that I could eat in one bite. They write only five. I would say that is only one shrimp per person. But I serve two shrimps, not realizing that would leave one of my s. But I served two shrimps, not realizing that would leave one of my sisters with zero. We asked if we could get more shrimp. Whoa, look at you guys. That. That is ballsy. Taking two. Yeah, it's. This is. Honestly, they. They get away with it with the shrimp fried rice because the fried rice is such a bountiful big dish and the shrimp are kind of like placed in there that when you take two, it isn't you being like, let me get all the shrimp. Because you just expect there's gonna be another shrimp hidden there somewhere. They looked at us funny, but yes, they said the kitchen would make more. Oh, they brought out another five shrimp over a smaller serving of rice. So they knew they were wrong, which was only. Was still only two shrimp per person. Oh, okay. Easy there, big fella. I thought of your shrimp soup story right away. Yeah, we had a shrimp soup saga here. We have made amends. There was a shrimp soup saga here on Tiktof Tuesday. Also the Patreon. We discussed that. I went to Red Farm in the West Village. On their website, they showed a different amount of shrimp with their hot and sour soup than actually came with the hot and sour soup. Then I was informed, that's not different restaurant. There was a whole thing. You can go back to Patreon and listen to it. I went in, I investigated. Why must we be so stingy? With the shrimp. I, I, you know, it's funny. This brings up a lot of, you know, social debates and commentary because you're saying, listen, I. Five shrimp on a family style size shrimp fried rice, not enough. Especially if they're one bite shrimps. 10 shrimp on a family style shrimp fried rice. That seems like we have hit a good number there for you to say, there's five of us. We only get two shrimp each. I think you're being a little bit much. If I'm to give you some pushback, I would agree with you that this is not enough shrimp. When it comes to five. I don't know if I'm splitting five people is like, to me, the max amount of people. I want to be splitting a family style shrimp fried rice with one more person, not enough rice. They also, but I do understand your issue. When they bring out, when they start at five and then they bring out another five, you're like, wow, you guys really thought you were getting away with something. Which kind of plays into society right now. Nobody's apologizing anymore. They kind of learned from Trump that if you just don't apologize, you'll find people who will agree with you no matter what your take is. These people who own this Chinese food restaurant have actually gone in an admirable way. They went, you know what? We looked at the situation. Here's five more. And now you're saying 10 for five people. What, two each? You need to give credit where it's due. When does the madness end? When does this litigation get finalized? So I think we can all put our forking knives down for just a second. What I will say is that 10 shrimp on a shrimp fried rice, I would go, okay, we're good. But the, the but I, and again, my shrimp story with the soup at Red Farm was because there was a picture that showed otherwise. If the picture shows 20 shrimp on the shrimp fried rice, I would go, okay, I'm with you. But I do agree with you. Five is not enough. Bring, bring out the other five. And they gave you a serving of rice, you know, to, to kind of make, make peace. I kind of give the restaurant a lot of credit for. You don't see a lot of apologies these days. You don't see a lot of, ow, Whoa, you got five. Okay, hold on. We'll go to the kitchen, we'll make this right, and then they bring you 10. 5 additional to make 10. I will say that when you do get in the game of counting the shrimp with your shrimp fried rice, I don't think you'll ever find that it's enough. What would have been enough? 15 shrimp. Do you want 15 shrimp on an order of shrimp fried rice? I don't think you would. I think you would. I think you would say I sound ridiculous. I think you would look at me and go, you know, you're right. Fifteen shrimp. You would have to then go on Yelp and tell the world that they're given 15 shrimp on a shrimp fried rice. So what's the answer? I think eight. Eight sounds appropriate. Four people, two shrimp each. You add a fifth, that's on you. To me. 10 we got there. But I don't like what I'll agree with you on. I don't like that they came out with five more. Five more is saying, we were trying to fuck you, but because you said something, now we can't. That's what I don't like. It's, it's like one of those things. It's like when you have a negotiation, I, I, if you go watch my YouTube, I talked about this with Cipher Sounds at the Cellar. My dad always said, if you have a negotiation and you say, yeah, I want a hundred dollars. And they go, yep, sounds good. Then they would have given you more. So when they give you five shrimp to your complaint about the five shrimp on the shrimp fried rice, you go, oh, wow, they really did fuck us. Jtrain podcast@gmail.com, jtrain podcastmail.com Another complaint from a Patreon subscriber. My ticked off Tuesday is whenever a TV show incorporates text messages into the plot, they show the character's phone screen for three seconds and I oftentimes have to squint and pause the show to read the screen. To understand the plot, we need the text blown up on the screen. Sincerely thought I had 2020 vision. I'm always distracted by a text in a TV show. Most of all, when they don't have the iPhone noises to go with the text, it throws me off. It makes it sound fake. And they have to pay for it. They have to pay iPhone. I think I'm like almost 99% sure that these, these TV shows would have like, when they have like a. Nothing throws me, they have to pay iPhone for use of the sound, for use of the look of the screen. So that's why they're not showing it for more than three seconds. They probably have some sort of thing where they get away with showing it if it's less than a certain amount of time. It's like music laws. You're allowed to play seven seconds of a song, but you can't play more than 15 or something like that. So there's a reason for all of this. AKA, also known as money, as the answer to all your questions are about money. But I would say this is. I agree with your complaint that I'm thrown off by the use of cell phones in TV shows when they don't have. When they don't buck up, the change for the iPhone noises. And then they're like, oh, I got to. Did you. All of a sudden you hear someone get a text, they're like, oh, I just got a text. And it's like. And you're like, what? Why is a fart noise the text message? What? What's that? And you're like, they're like, oh, that's my phone. I. I'm getting a bunch of texts, Boing, boing, boing. And you're like, what? That's not how a text sounds. No one has that in the history of humans. It always throws me off. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcastmail.com It is a ticked off Tuesday. We are angry. Okay, this has got pictures. We love pictures. Jared, every time you come to Albany, New York, my old co workers and I do everything we can to see you. Please come back. Thank you. I have a good time in Albany. The funny bone in Albany. I. It's times like those where I'm like, I wish I sold more tickets here. Like, I. That's the only thing. Like, because when I go to Albany, it's like I can see there's like 10 tables of people that like are excited and know me and are ready for the show. And then there's like one birthday party where they're like, what are we doing here? Why is this guy talking at the zapplebees? And it's like, but I'll come back to Albany. I gotta. Albany's gonna be a place where I'm gonna be working on. That'll be a place where I'll have loose material. Unless I start selling some tickets there. Then I'll come with a real fucking show. It's always a real show. I'm not, I'm not trying to like talk you out of tickets to my show. I'm just saying when, when it's light like that, you know, you choose these cities. If I'm doing a theater, a theater, as I am about to go to Vancouver and Seattle this week, you know, that's a show. I even say it differently. A show now for my complaint because I'm wildly annoyed and currently living it. Let me read this again now for my complaint because I'm wildly annoyed and currently living it as I write this. Okay, this is straightforward from the complaint. For the past year or two, I've been using the pickup and car side to go option at Walmart. Okay, so I didn't even know there was a pickup option at Walmart. The service is meh, not comparable to Target. But that's not the issue today. My ticked off Tuesday is about the reserved pickup parking spots. Every time I come here after about 10am they're filled. But guess what? Filled with empty cars, no drivers, no passengers, and thank God, no forgotten children. People park there and go inside to shop with zero shame. I've literally made eye contact with them while they do it. So I'm guessing and based on these pictures, you go park and they come out to your car with what you purchased online. These spots are for pickup customers who sit and wait in their cars. Instead, I'm circling the lot on my lunch break trying to find a place to park while empty cars and snow banks take up the reserved spots. I end up parking far from the door, which means the employees have to walk even farther than they should. It's ridiculous. I've had it. I want these cars to get towed. Someone needs to teach these people a lesson. Sincerely, Ms. This is my villain origin story. I completely agree with you. These pickup spots. So you go to the pickup spot, you go into the app, you say, I'm here and someone from Walmart comes outside with a bag full of the stuff that you ordered online. I get it. I've never done these before. I think we've gone too far with signs in the parking lot and that's why this sign isn't being respected. You have signs for, you know, people with children. First of all, you have the handicap signs, which is like of course. But then you have like 15 minutes and you have children in the car signs. I've seen all these signs where it's like none of us really know what signs are important and what are not, what are important, what aren't important. And this is one of those where it's like, I think we've gotten so signed up in the parking lot that now no one has respect for any of the signs. You know, oh, this is for people with dogs and this is for people with children and this is for people with that are doing a 15 minute pickup. And this is a five minutes on here in, in Delray Beach. There are signs that this is an Uber spot for Uber pickup. And it's like, no, this should be a real spot. This should be an actual parking spot. Your parking spot, the pickup area at the Walmart, like that's a functional need that goes on every day. I do understand they're going, well, you know, how many times is there going to be. I actually think the whole thing's fraudulent to begin with. Why not have a line area where you could be like rolling by? We just, I don't know. I, I, I'm going back on this a little bit. I, I, I get why this exists. Let's just agree it's a bad way to go now because no one trusts the signs. You're looking to like trust this thing that's not really enforced. No one respects it on all sides. And when it is empty, you're going, well, no one's here to pick up their stuff. We have to wait for this magical person that might exist. So I do understand everyone's frustration. To me, this isn't working. That's my complaint. The and, and you, you're mad at your fellow customer who's like, I just got to get in and out and how do I know anyone's ever going to show up here? We just leave these open for Elijah. We're just going to leave these spots open when I'm in a rush and I got to go get something so that some other person maybe will come and need this and have something picked up. So I understand their reason for parking in your spot. I understand why you're upset that they're parking your spot. But this is all Walmart's fault. Walmart should go. Walmart has enough money to create a system that doesn't involve a spot being unused in their lot at any time. They can't take a jackhammer and create a window in the side of the Walmart and have a drive through. They can't have a drive through. You can't have a little hut in your lot that people can pass through. So we don't take up 10 spots. I don't know. This is a, I'm an idea guy. I'm coming up with more ideas right now. Let's just agree these. Oh, this is reserved for moms with a 15 year old. Like, what are we doing now? How far will this go? J train podcast gmail.com j train podcastmail.com Ticked off Tuesday. Last one. Keep sending yours in. Sign up for the Patreon. We love a ticked off Tuesday. As of last week or so every time I go to scroll Instagram, every fourth or fifth post is an ad for a GLP1 medication of some sort from various companies. Since it's usually from different companies or different products, using the not interested tools don't seem to help much. Instagram ads. I agree it gets to be a little much. I know this is a product of what I follow, I know this is a product of what I follow and interact with. But I'm a 26 year old mom of 3 kids 5 and under and I'm still breastfeeding my 8th 8 month old child. I'm trying my best to lose weight on my own since I don't want to be on meds while breastfeeding and I'm so far what somewhat successful as I'm almost down 10 of the 45 pounds I want to lose. Congratulations. That's great. And congratulations on the children. I'm in the middle of a three month solo parenting stint as my husband is on an extended work trip and I really want to be able to scroll socials at the end of the night to not feel so isolated from the world and relax. But come on, I know I'm chubby. I'm trying my best here. I don't need the constant reminder. I hate my body. Leave me alone. Reading before bed. I mean, this is. I'm with you on the complaint and honestly, it's any product that you get served as a social media ad, they know what you're looking at. They know your thoughts, your fears, your hopes, your desires and they're weaponizing them against you. How many times on this podcast have I said that I have trouble finding a T shirt anytime. I am a boxy, tissue box shaped, barrel chested man. So I'm between an XL and a large. So anytime I wear a T shirt, it's either a belly shirt or it's a moomoo. And I've said this. How many years have I said this? I did all complaint about cuts clothing, sending me shirts to the point where I was in tears on the phone with them. Stop sending me shit cuts. I'm not a cuts. And then I this is a true story. I literally said cuts clothing messaged me, hey, let's send you some shirts. I go, yeah, I'm Excel. They sent me the shirts. It felt like I was in a hot dog casing. Then I sent them back. They go. And then like a year goes by, hey, let us send you some cuts clothing. I said, hey, we're not a match. Your fit is for a Longer, narrower, man. And they go, no, no, no. We changed our cuts clothing. So I said, okay, send some more. What size you xl? Well, how about we send you a double xl? Okay. They sent me a double XL and an xl. Both no good again. I'm a sausage man. And I went on a rant. I'm like, I'm so mad about this. This is so angry. I was like, I need a shirt that fits like this one. Then I go to check the shirt. It's from Chubby's. Do I need that? Do I need to know I'm a Chubby and I'm not a Cuts. I don't need that in my life. And it's like these social media ads, they're all done like that. Mine are the same as yours. You're sitting there debating a GLP one, saying, yeah, I would do it, but I got my kids and I'm breastfeeding. Ah, not right now. And you do. Not interested. And then they're like, hey, I mean, this ad, this episode is brought to you by Brello. I read it in the beginning. Brello Health. I mean, I'm. I'm pushing GLP1's to me. It's been good for me. I like it. I've been enjoying the process. I think Brello Health has a great product where they're helping people learn about it more. You probably heard that were like, oh, fuck again. I get it all the time. Every. Every ad on my Instagram. Hey, Chubby. Hey. How the T shirts fit? Not good, right? Right. Your T shirt doesn't fit well. Yeah, you got big old titties, so your shirts don't fit well. Hey, let us introduce you to hey. Let us introduce you to this hot and approachable woman that is going to tell you how good her boyfriend looks. And she's going to be kind of flirty when she says it. Maybe she'll hook up with you behind her boyfriend's back. Probably not, but she's got friends that look just like her that want you to wear this T shirt. Hey. Hey. You like eating chips and salsa, don't you? Yup. That's why your shirts fit. Like, hey, come here. We're gonna bring over this hot woman to tell you how good her boyfriend's arms look. You got good arms. Try our T shirt, fatty. That's every ad. That's every ad of my fucking thing. Every ad. So I get it. And it's annoying. Tell me once this is a T shirt, and then what am I gonna do? Order seven of the T shirts. See if it fits. It doesn't fit. I feel like now even the fatty T shirts don't fit me. I'm ticked off too. Ticked off. Tuesday, back next week. Boom.