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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. The J Train podcast. Is J Train Jared Freed coming alive from Delaware Beach, Florida. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Well, why don't you email j train podcast gmail.com and let us know your complaint. That's how you get involved with the show. Well, that's one way. The, the real way. The what? The way to make sure your complaint gets read. Sign up for patreon patreon.com Jared Free. That gets you first dibs. Every Friday, coffee with J Train comes out. That is my like personal diary. And you can comment with your complaint on that week's coffee with J Train. And that gets you moved to the front of the pile because today are four complaints. Four from Patreon subscribers. They are using their membership. Also on Patreon, there is video on there right now. You can watch my parents get interviewed by V and we can do a little tour of their house. People have really enjoyed the, the, the Patreon community has enjoyed the video that we added on there. Five bucks a month. Get extra podcast. You get the Friday episode. You get first dibs here. Also if you're in San Diego, I'm going to be there this weekend for New Year's. Also coming to Baltimore, Atlanta, Philly, sold out. Charleston Beach Mountain, North Carolina. I'm doing a show there. I'm also coming to Dallas, Houston, New York, Toronto, all these great cities. Tempe, go to jaredfree.com, get your tickets. But San Diego mostly, if you know anyone in that area, tell them I'll be in town. J Train is coming to town. Ho ho ho. And, and let me just say, let me start out my ticked off Tuesday. I do my complaints first and then we'll get to the ads and then we'll get to your complaints. This podcast let me do part promotion, part complaint. You have a podcast that took today, this week off. You are subscribed to a podcast that took this week or next week off. I promise you I Promise you. And you know who ain't your Your dear old Uncle J train. I am every week here. Okay if you're. I'm just saying I don't know if I'm getting enough credit here for all, for all the, the, the the the the the talk. I, I never shut up. And it's for you right now. You have a walk, you have a, you have a moment where you need to put your brain on the shelf and you need me to take the wheel and I'm happy to do it. So, so here's my ask of you. Share it. Join the Patreon. Show some love back. I'm coming to you for the holiday season. I'm going to get to my, my other complaint. Okay so let me get into all my complaints. I wrote them down. I was so. Okay, my last complaints of story. I'm just going to start with like the, the odds and ends here. A lot of these are going to be move in related. My shower door opens inward and to open to turn on the shower you have to get a spritz of water. It, it is crazy to me that this is how the shower was built. So you can either. Basically the only way to turn on the shower is to also get spit in the face with shower and it's not even like you're getting spit in the face with the temperature you want. It's always freezing cold right in your face. How do you build a shower that way? How on earth do you make a shower where every time you turn it on there was no thought of a human being turning it on? Isn't that part of the process? I'm also. I have a washer dryer. I know it's a brag I don't understand and I've never understood this and I haven't dealt with this in a bit because I used to bring all my stuff down to the washer dryer room and I'd have the pods and I'd put it in my little sack and I'd go down there. Now I'm dealing with the big. I'm getting like industrial sized detergent, fabric softeners. Why is it? It's why. And I've noticed this for a long time but it, it got it bit me in the ass this week. Why are we writing detergent and fabric softener really small on the bottle? I want you to go look at your detergent. Look. Try and find the word detergent. Try. Do me a favor. All clothing cleaning products for whatever reason they write it very small. What they are whether it's fabric softener or detergent or any of the other things that I have no idea how to use. None of this. I only know one. Like to me, I come, I came up in the per plus generation. Per plus was shampoo and conditioner. It's all in one. That is my generation. For whatever reason, the clothing cleaning game hasn't caught up to that. So fine, if you haven't gotten there yet, but also if you're not gonna, it should. When I go to the shower, it says shampoo, it says conditioner. For whatever reason, they're playing this weird game where they don't want you to know right away. It shouldn't even be a. I shouldn't even have to squint my eyes to find detergent because this week I'm using the new laundry machine that I have and I poured the fabric softener into the detergent hole. And in my mind that means you've broken the whole thing. It's horrible. You have ruined your whole washing machine. That's not what happened. But that is how it feels. Why should I even. There should be no question here. Okay, I have a story. I promised a story. But I, I, I have a few other things. These are Christmas related, I think. I'm, I, I have to say the blow up Santas that are going on yards and lawns, I guess yards and lawns are the same thing. The blow up Santa game has. The blow up lawn ornament game has really come a long way. It started as lawn gnome and they were ceramic. And every now and again, someone in my neighborhood would take their jeans, fill it with straw and put it upside down in a bush and you'd go, look at this family. What a fun family. Look at that family. They got a personality. And I always would think, wow, look at that family. They don't even care about those jeans. They said put with these jeans are reserved for a smile. And I always appreciated it. Now you can go to the store and buy blow up Santas that are like doing all the things. You can get one mowing your lawn, you can get one singing and leading a choir. I recently saw a blow up Santa that looks like it's sneaking into a window. I think we've gone a little too far. I think when I am driving along and see what looks like a robber sneaking into someone's home and I have a whoa, whoa, whoa. And I'm like, oh, no, it's Santa. It's a blow up. I think we've gone a little too far. I think we are now shocking people. We don't need to give people a heart attack as they're driving along in your neighborhood. What's next? We're going to see Santa, you know, banging some guy's wife in the window when we're gonna go, no, it's a blow up. Don't worry, we don't have to call the neighbor. It just seems like we have gone one step too far in the blow up game. Here's another complaint. The playlists. I've thought this for a while. The. The Christmas music is at a point where there's enough that we can start separating Christmas music into pop Christmas music and the oldies. I think it's time. I think we have enough of a playlist that we can have multiple playlists. I do not need. As a Jew, I'm here to have fun, be amongst the season. I am ready to jingle ball all through the hallways. I don't want Noel on the same album as Jingle Bell Rock. I think we can have Jingle Bell Rock over here where, where I'm dancing in the aisles and enjoying the season. And we can put Noel over there for you and Grammy and Grandpa to sing at the top of your lungs in church, in the pews. I don't need to be a part of Noel. I can't even believe I know any lyrics to Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel. Like, I. I'm mad that I even know that. Shouldn't be in my world. I should be in Jingle Bell rock land over here with Mariah Carey and all the Backstreet Boys Christmas songs. Let's have a separation of church and rock. Let's do a little separation. I just don't like it how I'm halfway through Noel and I'm like, what am I doing here? One last complaint. These are not holiday related. Delray beach has a parking issue. It is something that's been told to me. I kind of. I believed it, but it wasn't like something I was like, dealing with. So it never hit me. I have recently come into finding that this parking issue is an issue. The problem I have, not that you have to pay. I don't mind if you're going to put parking reserved for customers only. How about you put the hours you're open during business hours? I don't need the sign that says, we will tow you if you park in our parking lot no matter how late, like at 11pm If I'm parking in the lot for the grocery store. I think we can, like, be okay with this. I'm not staying overnight, but just say during business hours. It should say that on the sign. Otherwise it should be free game. Let us all park there. And you should be open to that. Honestly, it's an advertisement for your store. If I can park in front of your place and go, oh, that's where this is now, I know I'm likely to come back. My last complaint. I have a gym in my building. I live in Florida. So you think, well, what's the reason for the gym? I like that it's there. I'm trying to get my steps back. The, the, the move from New York to Florida has come at a cost to my steps. New York, you get the steps in even if you don't want to. Here, you take a car. You really don't need to take steps. I, and also, I'm not wearing my watch, you know, my apple watch to get my steps. Here's the problem. I get on the treadmill today after the gym. So I go to the gym, I get on the treadmill to walk a mile. I'm like, let me get a mile of steps in just so I can get it on here. It's like kind of like putting the medicine inside the dog treat. Like, I'm just like looking to just jump on that treadmill and get a mile. I'm next to a guy and he is, like, chugging along. He's doing his thing. He gets off the treadmill and he starts wiping it down, which I'm fine with. I'm not a big wiper. If I'm not sweating. If I sweat and I notice it, I'll wipe. This guy got on all fours and started wiping the treadmill mat. He was wiping the floor of the treadmill. Now if you're going to wipe the floor of your treadmill, I need you to look around to all the other people in the gym and say, hey, I'm crazy. Hey. Sorry. I just, I have this thing where I need everything wiped. I can't just wipe one thing. I got to wipe everything. This is me. Because now what you've done is really placed a judgment on everyone in the room. Now I can't wipe down the machine. I'm on enough for me to equal you. I'd have to get on the floor and wipe the treadmill and then get on the ceiling and start doing the ceilings and doing the windows and start wiping down. You know, I'd have to, like, literally bathe myself with the cloth that I pulled from the, you know, the wipe down thing. This is. You need to Alert everyone. This is my insanity. Don't let my insanity make you feel anxious. I'm not going to judge you if you wipe down the normal thing to wipe down on the treadmill. So now I'm in a position. This guy won't leave. He's stretching, he's doing. He's doing arms, he's doing abs. And I'm like, ah, I want to get off this treadmill. But I got Mr. Clean over here on the ground. I needed him to go, hey man, if you wipe it because I wiped it down and I'm not wiping the floor. I'm not getting down on my hands and knees. I'm not Cinderella. I don't got my evil stepsisters telling me that I hadn't wiped everything up. That is crazy. I just need you to tell everyone what I am doing right now is crazy. Don't let this be a judgment on you. J train podcast@gmail.com J train podcast@gmail.com we are sponsored people Neutrophil Finding thoughtful gifts gets harder every year. Neutrophil makes it easy. 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It could be anything that someone could go, well, there's other bigger problems in the world. No, no, no, no, no. The only problem is your problem here. TikTok Tuesday. I have been bombarded with requests from my mom about supplying her with a Christmas gift list. See, that is horrible. I do not want to have to make a list of things that someone else has to buy for me because then it becomes this anxious cycle of do I deserve these things? How much is enough? Now I'm judging the money that they have in their wallet. How much do I ask for myself? Am I being too much? Like, this is one of those things? My mom would be like, make a Christmas. Like, I. I thank God every day. I don't deal with this because my mom would go, make a Christmas lift and then I would make this and she'd go, what do you think we're made of money? And you're like, you, you asked me to do this. You. This is. This is all to me, making a Christmas gift list is maybe the most you are. It might be the most vulnerable thing that could be ever asked of someone. Make me a list of all the things you think you des. No. I want out of that game. You tell me what I deserve from you and I will agree. And then if I disagree, I will talk badly about you behind your back. That is how I want to play this. I don't want to tell you what I want from you. I want you to tell me what you will give to me and I'll go. Can you believe they only spent this much on me? That's what I want. So a Christmas gift list is something that has been a requirement in our holiday gifting tradition since the mid-90s, so these requests were not surprising. However, I was given the stipulation that gifting was being cut back. Too vague. Nope. Hate that. This year and we only would be receiving three gifts a piece. Well, are they three large gifts? Is it three small gifts? Is it three medium gifts? No, I don't like to cut back. While trying to do my part, I meticulously sent a list with a mix of items I truly need. A couple splurgy things and a handful of inexpensive small stocking stuffer type items. Basically, I was trying to cover all my bases with my list to give everyone options that varied in price, need, etc. I hate this. I'm so sorry you're going through this. So why is it that I keep getting text messages from my mother to review sweaters, blouses, and other things that aren't on my list? I hate that too. You. You ask for a list, that's the list. I don't want other things. Doesn't this defeat the purpose of the list? Why did I spend all this time scouring the Internet to possibly be gifted something I don't want or need? And if this whole cutting back thing is real, then is it too hard to stick to the list? Oftentimes I put off buying things for myself in hopes that they're gifted to me during Christmas to save myself some money. Additionally, somehow I am the only member of my family that supplied a list. Anyone? For this year, I followed up with my family members several times and have either heard nothing back or have heard Let me think about it. Sincerely, stick to the list. I am so sorry you're going through this. This is my version of hell. Now what they've done to you is they've made you make a list and now you've become your mom in some weird body switch movie where now you're the one asking people for list and they're Avoiding you. You're the annoying one. Asked for lists, and you didn't even want to make a list in the first place. This is horrible. I just. I think this is. My mom did this to me. Whoa. You want to have lunch? Yeah, I would love to have lunch. Get me a turkey sandwich on an everything bagel. And then she goes, you want a bagel or a wrap? I asked for an everything bagel. Now she's telling me I shouldn't have a bagel. Don't ask me. You want to be my nutritionist? Get me the wrap, and then I'll deal with it, and then I'll not eat it so that I can go get what I want. Hey, this is really. I can't think of a greater punishment than asking someone to make a list of gifts that someone else should buy for them. That is the worst thing I have ever heard of. Jtrain podcast, gmail.com, jtrain podcastmail.com Feather, feather. Love you forever. I have a ticked off Tuesday. Just saw you at the Long Beach 9:00pm show. You know, the one sitting next to the woman who ordered a drink while you poured your heart out. You were fantastic. But you know what wasn't? The parking situation. Okay, so I did a show in Long Beach. I. I don't think I talked about it. Did I talk about. Will I talk about it on Coffee with J Train? I don't think it got. I. I didn't get to it. I. I mentioned on Coffee with J Train that I went to Long Beach. There were two. I did two shows in Long Beach. Okay? The first one was full. The second one was not full. And there were these two older people at the bar, and one was, like, a veteran. He's wearing this, like, Navy vet hat. And I appreciate his service, but he. And he was, like, probably in his 80s, and he's with a woman who's, like, in, like, reindeer hat. Like, she had, like, the Christmas look of older woman in Long Beach. And they were having the best time and were so nice, but they were so loud that I'd have to, like, do the set and then make fun of them. And literally, I was talking, I was doing a bit about something, and she starts ordering a drink in the middle of my bit. It was a fun night. But this. And this person, I know who they are. They were right next to them. So the parking situation, not your fault, obviously. Yeah, this. They do this at this. This pizza place, which is great. And they do this great comedy night. And I'm really appreciative that they do it, but I don't know their parking situation. I just have an absolute disdain for places that there is no place to park. But it's also too far from most places to Uber. The Uber for my house to your show tonight was more than the ticket itself. So we drove over. So we drove over an hour early, only to drive in circles for a half hour. It's a beach town in the winter. It shouldn't be hard to find parking, but it was. Luckily your show was amazing, so it was worth it. But oh my God, what a nightmare. The parking situation was over it. Thank you. Have the best night. The pissed off Parker. I. I agree with you. This is. This is actually something I relate to fully. Listen, the show was fun. I'm happy you found a parking spot. This is just some. The nature of some towns. This is. Again, to go back to my complaint in the beginning, Delray beach has a parking issue to the point where I will drive four minutes from my place and I'll be like, I should have taken an Uber because now I'm gonna have to park. Pay to park. And I'm like, at this point, it would all been better to take an Uber and then you can at least have a drink and not worry about your car. So. Yeah, I. I hear you. This is annoying. It's. And it's. Again, this. And because Uber's prices have gone up, it's not even, like, economical. You don't even know what the. Again, you don't know what the. What. What. Way to go. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcastmail.com Love the episode. My tot is my parents complaining that they can't hear me when I'm talking to them on the phone with my AirPods. This is. I mean, you're speaking to my soul. How can I have a conversation with everyone else in my life with my AirPods on and no one has any issues? Then the moment I call my mom with my AirPods, she immediately complains that she can't hear me and then is annoyed at me. I just started hanging up. It makes me. I just started hanging up. It makes me so mad. I have. I know exactly what you're talking about. I have this issue with my parents, too. They'll pick up, they'll go, what's with all the noise in the background? And I'm like, how are you the only one I hear this from? I think there's a level of. I think there's a level of distraction that maybe older generations can't Deal with, like, they see a fly and they are suddenly following the fly. And I think this is what happens with the AirPods. It has some ambient noise, but it is annoying that they then blame you. You go, well, it works for everyone else. And also when my parents pick up the phone, it's. It's like, I gotta like, snap, hey, hey, hey, I'm here. Keep it here. Like, I'll hear my mom. She's like, elaine, Elaine, I'll get back to you tomorrow. And I'll be like, you listening to me, Elaine, Elaine. Yeah, I'll talk. I'm talking to my son. She'll. My mom will talk more to people around her about how she's talking to me than she will talk to me on the phone. So I totally understand what you mean. And then you. Here's the thing. The AirPods are made for a full conversation. When you put your hand up to your. When you put the phone up to your ear old school style, that's like a two minute conversation. If it goes longer than two minutes, you're like, my arm is hurting. I'm sore. No, there's a reason for the AirPods. And it's almost like. And if you can hear me enough to complain about the noise you're hearing, then you can hear me. You. You hear me? Do you hear me now? You do. So let's get over this. J train podcast gmail.com j train podcast@gmail.com. i love listening to the pot every day. Thanks for last. I have a tot for you. Why do I keep getting paid ads for holiday events or New Year's Eve parties that are not in my area? That's really annoying. I mean, I don't, I don't know why you're getting these, but they have the ability. They have the ability to geo target you. It's so frustrating to think that to. It's so frustrating to think that looks fun only to find out it's in Chicago, Miami, Nashville, or somewhere else several states away? Yeah, I don't know. Would that be because someone near you bought a ticket for a Chicago event while you're in New York or someone near you is going to Miami? Also, you shouldn't. This is like one of those things where it's like, why are we more depressed? Why? Well, you shouldn't have a daily reminder of the life that you could be living on your phone. It just. It is not natural to see how great the weather is in Florida while you're looking at darkness and frigid temperatures. I Had this when I was in New York. I'm like, why am I missing Florida even more? It's like, well, I'm looking at it on my phone. I'm seeing it again. It goes the other way. I'm sitting here in Florida. I see everyone get the first, you know, the first flurries of snow. I'm seeing the first snow in New York. I'm going, did I make a mistake with my life? It's like, this is where the Internet has too large. We don't need to see the huge party going on in Miami. We don't need to see. And then you start questioning, you go, how do they afford the trip to Miami? How is everyone staying at that hotel? The comparison game. They say comparison is the thief of joy, but we look at feeds of things to compare ourselves to every day. Do they think someone's going to spontaneously spend a hundred dollars per ticket and pay for the last minute holiday flights and hotel? No, I don't think they think that at all. They don't care. It's honestly, honestly, those people who are paying for those ads are probably mad that you're seeing it too. They don't want an ad being seen by someone in New York when they're doing a party in Miami. It's even worse because since I'm seeing those ads, I'm not seeing ads for local events that I might actually be able to go to. Right. This is the Geotargeting isn't geoing. As a marketer, I know this is completely avoidable. These events, these events have giant ad budgets and the luxury of casting a wide net at the expense of those of us who actually want to go out and mingle in our own cities. How are we supposed to do IRL winter if we can't find the local IRL events? I'm with you. I think New Year's Eve parties are really hard to find. I agree. It doesn't seem like, especially as you get older, you kind of like, like a real New Year's Eve event as you get older would be like, hey, I'm doing a dinner for 20 people and I'm taking resumes and I'm only allowing 20 people. It'll be 10 women, 10 men. We're all going to be single. Part of that resume will be single. That would be a great idea for a party. I would, I would pay $500 to know that I am going to a dinner where everyone, I, I, this is a, I, I actually think this is a great idea for New Year's Eve. $500. It's going to be a cocktail party where everyone's going to wear name tags. You're going to get caught. All you can drink, all you can eat. You'll get the meal and drinks. Everyone on their way in has to fill out a, like a, a questionnaire and then we'll go around the table during the dinner to answer these questionnaire and they'll be very specific questions. Afterwards, there'll be a hangout, there'll be a playlist playing and it'll be a comfortable surrounding to all hang out and watch the ball drop. I, I think 500 I would do that for. It probably isn't enough because to find New Year's Eve events after a certain age when you're single is just difficult. But you'd have to trust the person reviewing the resumes. Or maybe you say, hey, I'll do, you know, four different rooms with four different dinners. And then they all siphon into this other bigger room where, you know, if you got more than the 20 resumes, I, I'm onto something here. Let me know what you think. But I agree with you. I, I, I. Especially if you're in the market for New Year's Eve events. It does feel like there's like, there's like giant party or there's nothing or it's like your couple friends who are like, yeah, we're all going to be in our PJs and talking about how much we love each other. It's like, yeah, I don't think I want to be a part of that J Train podcast. Every Tuesday's a ticked off Tuesday. Back next week, boom.