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Breakfast Potatoes, Cutting Cookies In Half, and Golf Coverage - 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 Bloomington, Indiana. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Do you got something on your mind? Send it into the J Train podcast because everybody, every Tuesday you complain. And I listen and agree. That's the premise of this show. You write in with your complaints and I find a way to make you feel seen and heard and maybe a direction for your complaint that you haven't even thought of. How do you send in your complaint? Jtrain podcastmail.com. that's way one. You can DM us@jtrain podcast on Instagram. That's way too now. You can also sign up for the Patreon. Patreon gets first dibs. And I have to be. I have to be honest with you. They're using their subscription. They are using what they paid for five bucks a month, which gets you the Friday episode. The Patreon episode. And it's patreon.com Jared Freed. You get coffee with J Train every Friday. And that is like my personal diary. And then if you are a patron subscriber, you can comment on that post every week with your complaint and it's guaranteed to be read here on the podcast. So I have four complaints. They are all from Patreon subscribers, so they are using their membership to its fullest. I have my complaint that I'll go over in a second and we'll do a couple ads. We got two ads. All the ads are in the description of the episode. My thing with ads on podcasts is if they help you, then you use the code and that helps the show. That's what it is. I'm not sitting here begging. There might be something here that we're pushing that you go. It doesn't have anything to do with my life. That's okay. But if it does, I want you to use the code. I want you to support the show or you can join the Patreon or you can share this episode. There's so many ways to help out this show. In addition, I'm on the road. I am going to be in Denver, San Francisco, Providence, Winnipeg, Kansas City and Richmond. Those are all great fun cities. And if you are near or close or in them, I want you to assemble the group chat jaredfree.com for tickets. Today's complaint we're taping these a little bit ahead of time because V is going on vacation. The producer for this show. So we're getting a a bunch of ticked off Tuesdays and Mailbag Mondays done ahead of time. So I'm here in Bloomington taping these. So I've kind of separated my complaints to do on two different ticked off Tuesdays. Last week I talked about the CEO and the people who kind of puff out their chest while talking about a guy where there's nothing more to say. You know, the guy cheated on his wife. We saw it, we watched it. That sucks for them. What else you're gonna do? You're gonna build a career off of that. Good. I guess. Good for you. Whatever. I'm not gonna. I already did that complaint. I go for breakfast today. Now let me start with this is gonna be I'm really gonna make a meal out of this one. As I talk about a meal because I go for breakfast and it was a suggested place. I'm not gonna name the place because it's not worth naming. I only name things or I try to name things and I'm gonna like glow up on that. I'm really gonna love on to me, this place was fine. But I would also say in their defense, breakfast is really hard to make. Great. Now you're if now you're saying, wait a minute, I have a breakfast place I love when I go for breakfast. I'm looking to keep things simple and I'm looking to keep things healthy. What I get and I'll tell you my order Egg white omelette with mushrooms, onions and peppers with tomatoes on the side, sliced tomatoes like I'm an old Jewish man. A side of bacon, extra crispy. Maybe toast. If they're doing a special home baked toast option. That's my order now. I can really get that anywhere. Now if you're a sweets person, breakfast I think offers way more differentiation. Breakfast places could be amazing because they have this special pancakes. To me, if you're a savory person, there's not as many ways a breakfast place could wow you. But if you're a sweets person, they could have a scone, they could have a Pancake. They could do, you know, a bunch of different things that I think on the sweet side of things, you might get a waffle. They have waffle toppings that surprise you. The sweets people really have the breakfast place by the balls. You could really have a great breakfast experience at a. If you're a sweets person. Now, as a savory person, it would really come. It really comes out. The eggs are going to be the eggs no matter where you go. To, to me, to have a savory breakfast place, really wow me. It would have to have good sauces for the eggs or a breakfast potato that makes you go, wow. I've never had anything like this. This is where my complaint comes in. First of all, I went to a place that was suggested to me and someone said it's their favorite place. They go back every time. And I went to this place and. And my assumption was they must be a sweets person because for the savories, it wasn't wowing me. First of all, my bacon came out before my order. To me, if you're a breakfast place worth your. Your goods, you know, worth worth your weight in gold, you bring the bacon out with the meal. In what world am I ordering a side of bacon to have as an appetizer? I guess your feedback might be, well, that's pretty delicious. Yeah, it's delicious, but it's not how you eat your breakfast. If you're getting an egg white omelette with a vegetable side and then an extra side of crispy bacon, you probably have visions of that bacon being. You have a vision of that bacon joining your egg white omelette. Bacon comes out first, sitting on the table, and I just have to sit there waiting with bacon in front of me, and, and I don't know. I mean, who has the strength? Finally, my egg white omelette comes out. And now I did a little bit different this time. I didn't get my sliced tomatoes. I know. You're, you're, you're. You can't believe it. Here's what I did. They came with breakfast potatoes. And in my opinion, if I'm gonna. This is my thought process. I thought, okay, the egg white almond will come out. If the potatoes are good and fun and interesting, maybe I'll dabble. I'm gonna show the picture on Instagram. These breakfast potatoes honestly made me regret going to the restaurant at all. They were the cubed potato that looked more French fry than breakfast potato looked like. I would call it freezer aisle breakfast potato. Now, at that point, I have to question the whole restaurant. If this is the thought that was put into the breakfast potato, then I have to think that there was no thought put into the whole place at all. Or maybe you're just not thinking of the savories. This is a sweets breakfast place. Savories need not apply. Because I saw these breakfast potatoes and I'm going to go to my Instagram, go to Act J Train podcast. It's going to be the clip for this episode. Because when I see breakfast potatoes like these ones, I go, you went to the supermarket, you picked up breakfast potatoes, and this wasn't of concern to you. There was no thought of, let's have a breakfast potato that could wow the pants off of people. You didn't want to make the effort. To me, you are now not a breakfast place. You're not the greasy spoon. You are grocery store spoon. I was thinking about that. So the disappointment in the breakfast potatoes really made me disappointed in the whole experience. The equitable was fine. It was fine. Like, that's all it was again. So then I started thinking, what is my breakfast potato ranking? Here are my from, from best to worst. And now you might find a hole in my ranking because you'll go, well, what about this one or that one? I think whatever you think of goes into these four. Okay. Number one is the hash brown. The hash brown that gets made on the griddle gets kind of smashed down. It has the. The. The crunchy edges. It looks like it's string cheese. I love it. The hash brown is number one. Number two, the breakfast potato. This is the potato that is like a russet or a new potato, and it's chopped into cubes. And there's. There's onions and peppers. Put in a little bit of. There's some. There's some herbs and spices. It looks like it was made in a skillet. It's kind of got that reddish oil looking to it. It might be a little spice to it. Number three, the McDonald's hash brown. Yes. That is its own thing. I know it goes lower on this list than maybe you would want, but to me, you are a fraud and a hack. You're not really thinking through this. The McDonald's hash brown is its own category, but if it was every day, we wouldn't love it as much as we do. It is a treat. It is a treat to be had once in a while. I like the McDonald's cornered the space. They were like, this is going to be a food that, you know, is us. It's like tissue and Kleenex the McDonald's hash brown, if you saw it with no packaging, you go, that's a McDonald's hash brown. That I appreciate. Is it great? It's good. It's really good. You wouldn't want it every day. You wouldn't want it above an actual hash brown. You wouldn't want it above a breakfast potato made at a really good place. 4 and last is the home fries. Home fries are awful because you might run into this situation. The one I ran into today, the one where it looked like it came from a freezer aisle at a grocery store I should not look at because a home fry might go the good direction. But just for the chance that it goes in this direction that I ended up in today has to go last on the list. Okay, that's my complaint. Jtrain podcast gmail.com we have two sponsors. 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This was before much of the staff had an opportunity to even make a selection. I find this crazy. As do I. If someone wanted a maple bar, they would have opened the box to find 2/3 of 1 followed by 2 thirds of a chocolate bar and glazed. The same coworker has done this. When someone has brought in cookies average size, non crumble size, which I could understand splitting, and even cupcakes. I'm sorry, but I believe individual sized desserts should be just that. Just for one. I am with you and I'm enraged, actually. I think this person has brought their food issues to work and made them everyone else's problem. That is. And. And you know, here's the thing. You can't have it all. And they're living in a world where I got here first, I got my knife, I'll have a little bit of everything. And it's like, you didn't even think of other people. And this is one of those complaints that if you brought it to them, they would be like, it's just a cookie. What's your problem? And you're like, it's not just a cookie. This is a way you live your life. You live me first. And everyone else can go fuck themselves. And you did it with the cookies. And you would do it if we were on the Titanic. You'd push me out of the way to get to the lifeboat first. So I'm with you. This is crazy. And it's like, here's the thing. Take one and go with it. Take the full thing. Or why don't you use some interpersonal skills and start buddying up? Find a snack partner. Because that's what they're avoiding. Hey, do you want half of this one? And then we also get half of that one. That's called being a friend. When I get a sandwich and I go with another friend and they get a sandwich and then I say, hey, let's get a third sandwich to split so that we can try everything, that's called being a human being on earth and being able to talk to people and being able to negotiate. This person has opted out of human interaction and made it everyone else's problem now. Jtrain podcastmail.com, jtrain podcastmail.com Keep sending in your complaints. Also use the Patreon patreon.com Jared Free My ticked off Tuesday is about professional golf coverage. I'm a huge golf fan and watch the majority of PGA events. I'm watching the Open right now and Rory is about to tee off. I get that he is. Okay, so the Open, I'm. I'm guessing it's the, the British Open. Maybe we got this just recently because that's this weekend. I get that he is one of, if not the biggest name in the golf right now. Seeing him tee off is a big deal. But they just have been showing him standing there on the tee box for 2, 10 minutes talking about him growing up near this course while there are probably over a hundred other golfers on the course hitting golf shots that we are tuned that we, that we are tuned in to see. I obviously get that you are going to show Rory's tee shots, but no one cares about watching him walking to the tee box for 10 minutes. Show us the other golfers actually playing golf. I'm with you as a new golfer and as a new golf fan, but I always kept up with golf. Golf is an extremely watchable sport and the watchable part is very much in the hands of production. I watch tons of golf TikTok videos. And the beauty of golf TikTok videos is that there's a beginning, a middle, and an end. There's a beginning. We see the shot they have. We see them take the shot. We see where it lands. We see how well they do on the hole. We want that. So Honestly, based on TikTok, these producers know exactly what we want to see. We have put the footprints in the snow. So we don't want to see Rory talk about nothing. We don't want to see his. We want to see what club is he choosing, how far away? Because a lot of golf viewing, in my opinion, as a new watcher and a new person new to this thing. So I'm. You're kind of hearing it from the baby's mouth, so to speak, is I want to know. Think about what I would do because I know my yardages and you know, your yardages. This is the, the idea that we need storyline is actually fraudulent and doesn't work for this sport. We need more storyline in baseball and basketball and football. We really need less in golf unless it's about how Rory doesn't like who he's playing with. What is there to talk about? I don't care that he is from what this area. And he's the son of so and so. They do this with the baby after the golf tournament. And this is a big golf thing. I'm noticing they kind of, they're in this, like, old school. Like, I play my golf, I got my wife and I got my kid. And they try to play up that angle and it really doesn't speak to me at all. When they show Scheffler winning and then he goes and sees his wife and baby. They treat it as if Scheffler is coming home from war and seeing his wife and baby for the first time in six months and he feels lucky to be alive. And that is the way they treat it. And I'm like, is anyone else eye rolling this but me? Like, do we all feel stupid? Like, yeah, I'm sure he loves his wife and kid. I like my parents. I like my brother. I like, I like my family too. What are you talking about? Why does it. Why does. So again, your complaint is valid. The idea that they think these people that golf, for whatever reason, they feel more than us so that when they go away to work, oh my God. And there's the wife and kid and oh, he really loves his baby. Yeah, so does the rest of the fucking people watching jtrain podcastmail.com these are really good complaints today, let me just say, because I'm fired up. You know what else I'm fired up about? Herobred. Eating regular bread is crazy when you can have hero bread. I actually agree with that. Herobread tastes just as good as any other bread, but it's better for you, has more fiber, has less carbs. It has. And so it's going to keep you fuller longer and you have goals and you want to eat bread and feel good about your body. So Herobred's a no brainer. And I'm telling you right now, try it once, you'll have it forever because I have it in my freezer and it's great. 11 grams of protein, 22 grams of fiber, so you can enjoy burgers, brats and taco Tuesdays with the best of them without compromising on your goals. With Herobred, you're not even giving up anything because it tastes incredible. I agree with that. And you'd never know it was. I just lost the page of my notes. You would never know it was low net carbs and high fiber. It is it's delicious. You wouldn't know it tastes just like fluffy bread. You're used to get ready for all the flavor with none of the compromises. All of your favorite recipes are covered by Heroes lineup of buns, breads, bagels, tortillas and dinner rolls. And they even make small batch drops of limited edition items that you can look for forward to. So I've had the bagels, I've have the bread in my freezer. It's just all really good. And if I had the choice between more fiber in my bread and less, I'm taking more. Herobread is offering 10% off for your order. Just go to Hero Co use code J train at checkout. That's code J train at H e R O co so two sponsors. They are in the description of the episode we have a long ticked off Tuesday. I gotta read. Okay, you ready? I work part time and have a full time nanny for my daughter. Yes, first world problems. You don't have to say that. Here you are in a safe space. The beauty of TikTok Tuesday is that you have to explain none of no, there is no one here to go. Aren't there bigger issues? Oh, first world problem. Don't do that. That's my ticked off Tuesday. Get out of here with your first world problems. These are your problems and they shall be heard. Our nanny is an angel on earth. Okay, listen, you pay her also, so she's very nice to you and so wonderful with our family. However, whenever I'm in the dining room eating or in the living room taking a minute to myself, I'm usually listening to a podcast on speaker from my phone, meaning everyone around me can hear. Not a big deal. Since I'm home and my toddler daughter and our nanny are all are the only ones around and they move around the house from nursery to the playroom, it's, etc. What really irks me is that she will begin telling me a story or asking me a question, fully aware that I can't hear her because I'm listening to a podcast. I used to live with my significant other. This was a big point of contention in our house when we lived together. I would like have headphones on and they would tell me like a full story and I'd be like, wait a minute, I missed everything because I was in the middle of a podcast. And again, you do have this thing with a podcast where you're like, okay, I'm tuning out to the world and I say it all the time. Put your brain on the shelf Let me take the wheel. That's what you're doing. This is a form of self, you know, of mental health and therapy. It's not actually therapy, but you know what I mean. All right. She's very soft spoken. But even if volume weren't an issue, I'm usually tuned in the podcast since it's my time. It's my me time. I agree. I get that completely. I usually have to tell her to please hold while I press pause, ask her to repeat herself, then engage in a combo. I then give the combo about 45 seconds to dwindle, and go back to my podcast. Yeah, this is horrible. This is all awkward. I've done this. You have to go. You have to, like, be the. You have to be, like, the obnoxious CEO. You have to, like, put a finger up to them one moment and then point at your ear, and then you have to press pause. And then you go. And then you have to. You listen to their story while you have one headphone out. And, you know, you look like you're not listening. And then they get done. You go, okay, are we done yet? And you start to slowly put the AirPod up to your ear, and they're like, yeah. And you're like, okay, goodbye now. And it's like you're literally closing off the door to your brain, to them, and you feel bad, and then you have to search back to where you were. It's. It's. This is all horrible. She will start. Usually start talking again soon after I press play. I feel like because it's a podcast, she doesn't feel it's interrupting. But I would never just start a convo with someone who's in the middle of a TV show or a movie and expect them to be listening to me. I wish you would give me a hand signal, say, excuse me, some, or something so that she doesn't have to repeat herself and I don't have to lose my place. So random. But, man, it really ticks me off. I get it. You know when this really happens. In an Uber. You'll be in an Uber. You'll set up your headphones because you're like, I'm going to sit and zone out while I get charioted away to wherever I'm going, like, I'm the Queen of England back here. And then they're like, so, how's the weather? And you're like. Or the. Like, so where are you going? And you're like, excuse me? And you take out the headphone. You're like. And they're like going anywhere special. You're like, nowhere special. And then you go to try and cut off the conversation. Then they go. Then you, like, slowly, you're putting the AirPod back to your ear. You're like, are they done? Are they done? Are they, are they done? Yeah. And the weather's been crazy lately. You're like, oh, they're not done. Yeah, weather's crazy. And then you start putting it back to your air. Slowly, slowly, slowly. They're like, you know, the, you know, 95 has been a mess. Oh, yeah, I don't drive much. You know, again, this happens with Uber. This happens with a nanny. This happens with, you know, someone you live with it. It is because, again, the point of a podcast is to get away from your own thoughts. So there is a turning off of your brain, you know when it happens. Also, in a restaurant, if you're eating alone, you put headphones in. Hey, how's the meal going? You're like, excuse me, just want to see how your first bites were. You're like, they were great because I was in headphone mode. And then you get to, you know, wipe your hands off, get the AirPod back in. It's horrific. This is a bad problem and I don't envy it. And you're in a position of nanny and I'm at home and I should be lucky. Again, you started with first world problems. You're like, do I deserve this? Should I? So I gotta be nice to the nanny even though I'm paying them. Horrible. Last one. Dear Papa jt, I'm writing to you while in flight after just finishing the most recent ticked off Tuesday episode. It turns out to be impeccably timed because just as the episode ended, I had something that ticked me off fall into my lap. Literally. The flight attendant came by to offer tea after clearing the meals. I folded my seat back tray in half to give myself a little more room because it's small enough to hold a cup of tea. I know exactly what you're talking about. It's the tray that like goes over your lap and you can fold it in half. And now you have this like little kind of side table to your left. I get it. There are two even. Okay, so there are two even. There are even two indents on the half folded side that make it clear. It's made for drinks. See attached photos. I don't need to see the photos. I know what you're talking about. You fold over the table, then it has a little cup holder kind of. However, as I Took the tea and put it on the indent. The cup was too tall to fit in there. The cup was too tall to fit there and it bumped against the top of the chair and that meant the hot tea spilled on me. I guess I'm not understanding and I don't have the picture in front of me. So here's my As I took the tea and put it in the indent, the cup was too tall to fit there and it or maybe too wide and it bumped against the top of the chair and that meant the hot tea spilled on me. Well, we don't want hot tea spilling on you. So here's my TikTok Tuesday complaint. If they're going to put an indent on the tray implying that a cup should go there and then they should serve tea in cups that have low enough clearance to actually rest on the cup holder without hitting the chair. I'm with you. The chair. The. The chairs should match the cups. The cup holders should match the chairs. The. The cup holders should match the cups. This is very simple. And you know what? The chairs are in your flight. So just get the cups that match that. Now I have a wet lap for the rest of my flight. Three more hours and I have to fold the tray all the way out so that I don't have a lot of room. So what do you think? Valid or should I have kept better special awareness? No, I would assume with a especially on a flight, they know you're strapped in, they don't want you getting up and moving around. So make that as easy as possible. Make the cup holders work for the cup, make the trays work for the trays. I have this one more factor. This is a red eye flight. So I'm already sleepy. Love you forever. A wet blanket. Fetch. No, this is bad. This is bad. You. They don't want you moving around. This should all be user friendly. What I hate is when they bring out the tray and they put it in your lap, the table sometimes doesn't push out enough. The table should go out all the way to the chair in front of you and all the way towards your waist and it should go back and forth. That should be an easy thing to ask for. And honestly, they don't want you getting up. They don't want you getting up from the chair. They don't want you moving around. Yeah, this is bad. I do want to see what you're talking about, but I can't see it because there's no picture here. But I would say I know what you're talking about when it comes to these. And also a lot of these places have started switching up the cups because they're trying to be like. No, they're trying to be, you know, zero emission. So now they have cups that are not made for the seats. And their words were before. And we're the ones that have to pay with wet laps. J train, podcastmail.com Keep sending your complaints. We'll be back next week. Boom.