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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. Is Jay Train Jared Freed coming to you live from Kansas City, Missouri? That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you upset? Are you angry about something? Well, I want you to send it in to Tick Tock Tuesday because this is the only podcast on the net that allows you to complain about anything, anything you want. And I will complain with you. I will find a way to make you feel seen, make you feel heard. You will form with me a complaint duet. That is a beautiful song that everyone gets to hear. So if you want to be a part of TikTok Tuesday, I I make this promise is that with your Patreon subscription you can get first dips. Patreon.com Jared Freed it is in the description of this episode you get coffee with J Train. There was a coffee with J Train last week about going to Winnipeg and playing golf with a fan of the show, a fan of Ticked Off Tuesday. So I was really happy to talk about that. I talked about Kimmel. That was a tough one to talk about. So if you want to go hear my opinions and, and I talked about sweating and if you go listen to it, I think something I forgot to mention is I'm not a big sweater. So I think that's important to the story and I wish I had put it in. That's my ticked off Tuesday is that I. It's hard to go back because I read the comments on these things and I'm like, ah, that's where I would have maybe made more of an explanation. But you know, this is the fun of Coffee with J Train is it's very much my personal diary. You're very much getting me in the moment and my feelings and you know, what are you going to do with people going to disagree with those feelings? That's okay. So sign up for Patreon. And what people do is they comment.
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Coffee with J Train with their complaints and they get first dibs. Now if you don't want to sign up for Patreon. That's fine. And you still have a ticked off Tuesday. Send it to J train podcast@gmail.com. that's J train podcast, mail.com title it ticked off Tuesday. That is the way we find it and go through it. If we don't get enough Patreon ones today, the their memberships have been used. All four complaints today are Patreon complaints. I have my own complaints and then we have one sponsor. I, I mean, before I get into the complaints, I mean, they're kind of related. I, I'm off the road. After I'm done with Kansas City, I'm going to go back to Delray Beach. I got a few projects to do while I'm home, and so I'll work on those. But I then go to Richmond, D.C. milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, Durham. And these are mostly theaters. Charlotte, Fort Lauderdale, Miami. We got Detroit, Columbus, Orlando, San Diego. So Orlando, San Diego are clubs. All the rest, except for Richmond are theaters. If you heard a city that's near you, I want you to come, I want you to assemble the group chat. It's a great show. It's a fun show. I'm here, you know, I'm here in Kansas City working on making that show a theater experience. So come, come, come assemble the group chat and buy the tickets early. Buy them, get them, get them involved now. So that, you know, that's just very helpful as far as, you know, ticket things are concerned. Let's get into my complaint. I mean, my complaints, not that big. I have one that's like an overarching complaint, but the other are, first of all, can we like, as part of the room cleaning experience, you know, I would assume housekeeping goes through and checks, you know, the soaps, make sure those are full. When they're like the big pump, they go, make sure that things are in the room. The coffee thing, the coffees are replenished. How about we make sure that the outlets work and if we have a bad outlet, we like contact the front desk or let them know I just charge my phone or what I thought I was charging my phone and then go to it after hours, hooked up, and that's nothing, Nothing happened. And I, I think that's one of the bigger letdowns in life is thinking you're charging your phone and it is actually not. Even worse is doing that overnight. And you're like, oh, God, I have just started my day on the worst foot it could ever be started on. Waking up to phone plugged in. It didn't charge is. It's. It's really a bad way to go into a day. If it happened on a Monday, like, bad sign for the week. You should just. Honestly, that could be. That should be reason enough to call in sick to work. Hey, woke up, phone was plugged in, didn't charge. I'm going to need a day to catch up. I think that's. Any boss in the country, any company that should be pto, that should be allowable. Take the day. We won't even count it. You're right. This can't happen. You can't come in like this and listen, some of you might work at a desk in an office where you just go to your office and plug in. If you're not. You understand what I'm talking about? Because when I like go on a flight or and in the room, the phone is plugged in as if it's a landline. Because I need. You know, when you're on your own, you kind of need that. As far as like going out. It's an essential. My second complaint and as I'm vamping a little bit because I was. I thought I had a third, but maybe not. But my real complaint today is I bought or I didn't buy. I was given a hat by a company called Bat Bros. And this company's pretty cool. They invited me in. I think this is. Is this them? They have a hat that is. Let me look this up. Yeah, the Bat Bros. Great website. They have merch. They're like a baseball lifestyle company is what I would call them. The Bat Bros. SC is our rating system for BBCO Bar Bat. I don't know what that means. Okay. I'm just saying they have a hat that I have and it is an ode to the. It's. No, I. I messed up. Baseballism. Like orgasm. Yeah. No. Bat Bros too. It's Bat Bros. But it's called Bat Bros. Ro. Baseball Rope Cap. It's called. They're the Bat Bros. But they also have this hat that they sell and it's the. It's an O. Here it is. You can find it on ebay. But they have. It's. It's an ode to the baseball Ism is the name of the store and they gave me some stuff while I was in San Francisco. I think they have another one that they have in Chicago. I'd been in their store before, noticed this hat didn't end up getting it. And now this hat is like been on my mind. It is the wild thing hat. It is major league Major League is a movie from the late 90s. It was a baseball rom com. I thought the second one was funnier than the first. The first was a little bit slower. The second one was a little more slapstick. But it is 1980s. Wow. I'm old, huh? So this movie, Major League and the logo for the movie and, okay, so 1989. I can't believe I. So major league two is more in line with my age because I would have been, like, aware. 89. I'm four years old, so I'm not really, like, sitting down for a rom com. So it makes sense that I would Prefer Major League 2 to Major League the original. But I loved that movie. And Charlie Sheen, who's in the news because his documentary is this, like, Rick Wild Thing Vaughn, and he is, like, back in 89, you know, police Academy kind of had this trope of, like, these, like, you know, these trash pail kids that were like, you know, these street toughs that would wear a leather jacket and have, like, a mohawk and they. They kind of like the hipsters of the day, but like a tougher hipster. So the storyline is that this guy's got major heat, but he can't control the ball, and. And he just needs glasses. So the. The. The. The mascot for the movie, which is crazy to even think this used to be a thing. There was a football movie where they copied that. They had this too, where it was the football with the mohawk. So the. So the cartoon that the. The symbol of the movie was a baseball with blackroom glasses on it and a mohawk. And I'm looking at it. It does have Native American feathers in it as well, which I didn't notice until now. So the. Here's what. Here's where I get bothered. Okay? I got this hat. The hat is awesome. I love. And on the hat, I don't think it has the native feathers in it as it does here, the picture I'm looking at here. So I don't know how problematic where I stand or where that logo stands in the, you know, the problematic, you know, spectrum. But here. Here's my complaint. I wear the hat, and I've gotten people saying, oh, my God, I love that hat. I love that hat. Oh, my God. It hits at a nostalgic button. It scratches an itch. Now, the Cleveland Indians changed their name to the Cleveland Guardians. They changed the name because they wanted to be more in line with the times. And they, you know, especially the logo, you could see there have been points made where the logo is offensive. It's it is a cartoon picture of a Native American. Okay. So they change the name. They change it to the Guardians. I think the Guardians is the worst name that. And it's like. It bothers me how down the middle and forgettable it is. It is so down the middle, forgettable. And I know they tried to connect it. They're like, you know, they tried to connect it to the city, and they claim that these. These. I understand. Listen, if you're from Cleveland, I'm not trying to, like, misexplain or, like, lessen this thing, but, like, the. Apparently there are these statues on the bridge that leads in the city, and they guard the city, and there's some sort of history there. That history is lost on me. And it's also lost on, seemingly, the team because they don't really have a look that is Guardians. They have a look of, you know, for their uniforms, and now they just go with a big C and it says Guardians in big, tacky letters that makes it looks like a baseball team from a movie. And that's kind of the ironic part is what my complaint is. I have gotten so much feedback, and I don't know to. My issue is the we are so afraid of feedback. And this goes back to me talking about Coffee J Train. If we disagree, that's fine. But they were so if you try to please everyone, you please nobody. And that's what the Cleveland Guardians mascot does. It pleases nobody. There's nobody in the world who thinks the Cleveland Guardians have the best uniforms, the best logo, the best mascot. They have nothing. They have nothing. You also. I'd bet more people think of them as the Cleveland Indians than they do the Cleveland Guardians just in their mind's eye. So to me, a few years into this Cleveland Guardians project, you have failed. I am not petitioning for the team to go back to the Cleveland Indians. I think changing it is the right decision. So here we go. What do you do in a world where you can't go back? And currently you have been so creatively void that you went with a statue that is on a bridge so that no one would get mad at you? That's the only reason to name it that way. Why wouldn't you be a little bit quirky, a little bit fun? Like, there's no fun in Cleveland Guardians. But I have gotten enough fun feedback from my hat that I wear every now and again with the logo from the movie Major League of the Baseball with the sunglasses and the Mohawk. Why not be the Cleveland Wild Things? Who in the World is upset with that. But also, who cares? Who cares? It scratches a nostalgia. It makes you think of Cleveland. You go, I start thinking of those songs at the beginning of Major League Cleveland. Cleveland, Cleveland, City of. That was the Randy Newman song that they had. Every time I go to Cleveland, I think of the movie Major League. I don't think of the Guardians. Oh, the statue. That's a fun fact from a bad tour you took because you had to take it. You have the good logo. You have the name the Cleveland Wild Things. You have the good hat. You have the. You have the logo people would want to wear. You could do a Rick Vaughn night where you do cut off sleeves. Where am I? Where am I missing here? What am I missing? Is my question. And the reason it bothers me is because you had the opportunity to go fun and quirky and a little different and you chose corporate there. And it's happening more and more. The more we get afraid of this boogeyman that doesn't exist. This people are mad. This is what we do. I'm doing it now, but I know we refer to people are mad. Everyone's saying, oh, you're going to get people mad. Show me the people. Have them line up. Put a microphone in the middle of the room and have them step up and tell me why the Cleveland Wild Things isn't a great name. And you're going to find that the people that line up that mic aren't the most creative people in the world, aren't the funniest, aren't great storytellers. They're pretty numb. So that's my complaint. I think if they're the fact that they're not the Cleveland Wild Things, I'll never let this leave my mind. And everyone that says something to me now, I've become this unbearable person. It's turned me into a horrible, annoying person. If I'm wearing the hat and someone's like, oh, I love that hat. I'm like, don't you think that should have been their name? They changed their name. Why wouldn't it be the Cleveland Wild Things? It has to do with the town. It has a little cork. It's a fun logo. And then the person's like, okay, good to see you. Nice to meet you. Goodbye. You know, so that's my complaint. 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And when they do, you're like, thank you. Thank you. Okay, your complaints ticked off Tuesday, stale movie theater popcorn. Couldn't agree more. Couldn't agree more. You're right. You're absolutely right. You got the popcorn machine. I want it popping all the time. Popcorn costs. Like popcorn and soda. Like the cost. If you look into it, it's like, it's like the number one pennies thing. Like it is a big batch item that doesn't feel big batch. But when you think about it, you're like, oh, the, the syrup that go into the soda with the, with the bubble, you know, with the bubble water. They get that in bulk. And then you think about the. The popcorn, you know, the, this popcorn seeds. You're like, oh, that comes in a bag that's bigger than. Than you. You know, I understand it's expensive and you need it to be profit and you need it to be profitable to operate. No, it's not expensive. That's how cheap it is. I don't mind paying that. What I mind is when you go in the evening to the last set, instead of fresh, hot delicious popcorn, they are pouring it out of literal plastic trash bags and claiming it's fresh. I've seen this. This is very annoying. And you know, you do that trick that they tell you to do it McDonald's, they say, you know, there's like a trick to getting hot McDonald's fries. Like if you're. And that's the thing. When you go to the movies, you want popcorn, but you want it to be special movie theater popcorn. That's why they sell literally called movie theater popcorn. And it's an upsell. You can get regular butter popcorn or movie theater popcorn when you get the microwavable. There's a reason for that. Because you want a different, upscale version of popcorn. There's a noticeable difference. And for $11 a tub, I just want it hot and fresh. Thanks for all you do. I am so with you. If anything you can figure. Here's the bothersome part. If the feedback is there would be so much waste to have it. Keep Going, then make it in smaller batches. I think if you said to someone, I think there, listen, for every 10 people that come in, if you said to all 10 of them, hey, we got a new batch popping right now. It'll be ready in two minutes. I can't believe that nine out of ten of those people wouldn't be actually excited that they got there within two minutes of a new batch being made. So let's think of, like, you know, you know, so many complaints here about expectations versus reality. This person's expectations is to have hot movie theater popcorn. And the reality becomes a big old bag that they're scooping out of that looks like it came from an alley. What do you want? What's. What would make you happy? Oh, hey, we're still popping a new batch. You're gonna have to wait over there for like, two minutes. Oh, my God. Yes. Thank you. Oh, my God. I'm like, thanking them now. The tenth person. There's one good reason to not want this is if you are in a rush to see a movie. But I would as a person who shows up when they think the previews end. If you go back and listen, there's a coffee with J Train about me going to the movies in Bloomington, Indiana, and I act like a crazy person. If there was hot, fresh popcorn coming out, it would change the story, I would think so. There's two ways to go about it. You have popcorn that you're continually making, and whatever goes cold. You give to homeless. You give to a shelter. Maybe you put it in a bag, go straight to the soup kitchen. That's fun. Great. We love that. Or you make small batches. You only make enough where it has to be hot. But no one's going to the movies and saying, when you make that decision, should I get the popcorn? Should I do it? You do it with. It's going to be hot. You can't get it at home. I can't make popcorn like this on my own. If the popcorn at the movie can be done at your house, you have ruined our movie. That's why we're not coming to the theaters. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcastmail.com also sign up for the Patreon. There's. People are getting their. They're using their. They're using their membership. Ticked off Tuesday, a year and a half ago, we got a new Samsung microwave. Its digital clock loses about two minutes per month. That's crazy. That's. We're already in crazy town. We have gotten on the highway and the city limits for crazy time. Crazy town were right by the on ramp because that is crazy. You got a, you got a Samsung microwave. Samsung, a digital company, like a huge company in the year 2023. And every month you lose two minutes on the clock. Why isn't that clock WI fi? In other words, if I set this to the correct time on January 1, by February it's two minutes slow. By March it's four minutes behind. For the first year or so I thought I was going cuckoo. Yeah, I feel like I'm going cuckoo as well. I kept resetting the clock, sometimes even setting it to be a minute or ahead by a minute or two, only to find it slow a few weeks later. Finally, I searched the Internet and found multiple other people complaining about the same thing, including one who posted on a Samsung message board. This is actually nuts. Samsung's response was that the electricity in their home must not be metering consistently at 60Hz. How is everything else doing that? No other appliance has this issue with my supposed subpar electricity. I'm with you. This is crazy. Why can't Samsung just admit that this is a long term torture device designed to slowly induce insanity or chronic lateness. Thank you and hope you're enjoying microwave life in your new kitchen. I am enjoying having a microwave. If you know me, you know I hadn't had a microwave since 2021 because I didn't want to nighttime eat. The microwave has not encouraged more nighttime eating. This is crazy. You can't buy at this point. If you buy something in 2023, the clock should be hooked up to some sort of satellite. It should do it on its own. It is caveman technology to set a clock in this day and age. It is crazy. And for Samsung to then go, it's not us. Like the problem is you're an electronics company. You're a genius at every turn. Except this one. There's gotta be something where they lose money just by, well, they don't want to do a recall. Maybe that's the big thing. Samsung would probably cut off their own arm. Mr. Samsung would cut off a toe to not do a recall. A recall is bad news and, you know, bad pr. Plus on top of the bad, it's the gift that keeps on giving. It's bad PR because then there's the news story. That's a very local news story. Samsung, maker of the greatest microwave in the world. Apparently not every two minutes, every month you lose two minutes on the time people are late for work. Samsung doing a recall, sending you. Then they got to send you a new one. So now they lose money on the one they. They sold you. Now they're out. You know, now yours is half price, basically, to them. And they're. And the way they're getting around, they're going, oh, I guess it's your. Your electricity. And. And. And they're doing a thing that annoys me. They. They take your question and turn into more questions. I don't like when that happens. I have a question. My clock is. Loses two minutes a month. I think my microwave's broken. They go, well, how many. How's the electricity in your home metering? And you're like, what's a meter? What's what? How would I know? I'm not an electrician. And now they've created confusion. They're trying to keep you. They want to destabilize you. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcast gmail.com. we got two more. My tot is people that feel the need to stand next to you when you're at the checkout line instead of behind you. Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy. You're right. There's a line. We are at checkout. I go, there's a little bubble around me, an imaginary bubble. And then you go, that's how it works. And also, when you're standing next to me, it looks like we're checking out together. You're confusing the whole thing. I was checking out a target, and this woman was literally standing right next to me. We could have appeared to be a lesbian couple with my toddler in the cart. Yeah, I. This happens at the airport with, like, tsa. Are you guys together? Then you have to, like, look at the person. It's like, would I ever fuck them? You know, like, you have to, like, have that moment, like you're looking at each other and you both get insulted. Me with them? Come on. I could do better than that. I took a step back to create some distance between her and my toddler, and I literally stepped on her. As I was paying, I noticed I was missing something from my bags. The same woman had put her stuff on top of my things on the conveyor belt instead of behind my stuff. No. This person is a monster. What the fuck is wrong with people? I looked at my stuff under her pile and asked, I'm sorry, is this yours? She goes, no, it's yours, sweetie. With attitude. Okay, then get your shit off of my stuff. I had to be rung up again for the rest of my items. People are really lacking self awareness these days. Yeah, Self awareness. Emotionally. Okay. You know, we have that and we have that. You know, we have a lot. We have an abundance of that. Self awareness in physical space is really bothersome. It's like, just notice where you are on the planet. That's all we ask and respect the line. And also, you're impeding the checkout process. You're. It's. It's the equivalent of getting up when the plane lands right away. Like, you're probably more in the way than you are getting off the plane earlier just because you're racing to get out. And it's like also causing friction in this, you know, in this line. So they think like, well, if I get further ahead, I'm ahead. It's like, well, no, not always. Sometimes when you let things happen, it goes quicker than you forcing them to happen. Yeah, I just. The physical space thing, like, when someone does that to me, when someone gets too close to me, I go, I shake. I do a full body. I'm afraid, like, you shocked me. To let them know so that they know that you. I become a shock collar, a human shock collar. They get. Someone gets too close to me in line, I can feel them and I just go. And they. And they jump back because I want them to remember. I want them to remember this moment that is a physical. That is a physical moment where they go, oh, I guess I was too close. Yeah. Watch out. Johnny Buzzstein is going to start sizzling if you don't move back. This target line has a. I got a little perimeter around me. Do that, I'm telling you. Well, next time someone gets close, you're going to feel my buzz. Buzz. Last one, Jared. Longtime listener, Patreon subscriber. Hope to see you in SLC Salt Lake City. I. I thought that was on my calendar, and it keeps slipping through the cracks. I know the guy who owns the club. He's a really nice guy. I enjoy the club. Now, to my complaint, my husband and I had a 10:52am tee time a few Saturdays. A few Saturdays ago. Okay. If you don't golf, the tee times are very specific because if it's a busy course, they keep people like 12 minutes apart. It's one of those things about golf that you don't know about until you get involved with the game. They are sticklers to times when you hear, I had a 10:52 tee time, like that's a real thing. When we got to the first tee, we were pleasantly surprised that we may not be paired with anyone. Again, you get. There's four is the max. And if it's two of you, you can move a little. Now that 12 minutes you get per hole, but it's not. That makes it sound more, you know, makes it sound more strict than it is. But the 12 minutes, ish now becomes a little bit, you know, the clock. You're not on the clock as much, and you can kind of like, dilly dally and you can have a little more fun and you don't have to, you know, meet someone new, which is like a little bit more exhaustion and energy. After waiting a few minutes, my husband starts getting ready to tee off on the back tees. When an older man, let's say early 60s, rolls up with three young girls, let's say 20 somethings, okay, that's. I mean, at that point you go, okay, what's going on here? Because four's the max. You're a group of two. If it's him and his daughter, okay, that's fine. But three, okay. As they blow past us toward the front tees, I ask if they were booked for the 10:52 tee time. After ignoring me and parking two tee boxes in front of our cart, one of the girls finally responded. 11, 12. That is not 1052. And again, this is one of those things where the. That's the thing about golf. There is a politeness. And you go, 1052. It's all. Golf is a game of rules. And if someone just disregards them, they can. If you just go, this is stupid. It's all fake. Fuck you. It's hard to, like, really fight against that. Which means not only were they not playing with us, there was another tee time before they were up. Look, you want to go hang at the golf course before the round, that's fine. But do it at the clubhouse until you're on deck. And absolutely do not park your carts in front of other players trying to tee off. That more than anything. Listen, you can wait wherever you want. Respect the tee time, but make sure the cart is behind the people who are trying to tee off. Like that is crazy behavior. And nobody on the first tee wants to be watched like that. No one wants someone breathing down their neck. No one wants to be rushed. This is. The game has a clock, but it is an invisible imaginary. Hey, let's move it a little quicker. That's why they have these rangers on the course. They come around, hey, you're behind schedule a little bit. Letting you know, you know, that's different than someone tapping their foot and has Their golf club on their shoulder, like, ah, ah, this is annoying, but do it at the clubhouse until you're on deck. And absolutely do not park your carts in front of the other players trying to tee off. We ended up having a great round, just the two of us, but this totally threw off our vibe for the first few holes. And that's the thing. It does. Sincerely at a loss for spelled F o R e words. I agree with you. This is horrible. This is annoying. And there's nothing worse than that. First hole, feeling rushed. It's why my dad and I play together and we fight. We argue on the first hole, I would say 75% of the time, because my dad is always in a rush to go nowhere, to go nowhere. And in golf. And he's in a rush in the way that we are. And this is his mindset that even though he belongs to this club, he's can golf. And this is. This is all stuff he paid for and is doing by the rules. But it is like, hurry, hurry, hurry. Someone will be here. We can't get in trouble. And I'm like, you have this tea time. We have the time. Let's chill out. Let's relax. And it gets me so annoyed because he'll be like, okay, come on, come on. And it's always, hurry up and wait and hurry up and wait, and we get in this argument. And by the end of the first hole, I'm like, when did this happen? He was rushing me once, and then he gave me. He made fun of me the rest of the day. Oh, we can't rush Jared. I'm like, well, how about you act normal? There's somewhere between me being annoyed, I'm being rushed, and you not rushing me. And it does you. It takes you. If you're annoyed at the first hole, you are not feeling good until, like, hole five. No matter how well you play, you're like. You're just tense. It is a loose game. It's about relaxing. It's about being outside. It's about smelling the air. And now you've got this guy and his, you know, TikTok models on the yacht in front of you, you know, playing music, and you're like, hold on, hold on. Let us get into this. Jtrain podcast@gmail.com. jtrain podcast, gmail.com ticked off Tuesday, back next week, boom.
Episode: Cleveland's Mascot, People Standing Too Close, and Movie Popcorn
Host: Jared Freid
Date: September 23, 2025
This episode of The JTrain Podcast delivers another "Ticked Off Tuesday," with comedian host Jared Freid fielding listener complaints about life’s daily frustrations and offering his own humorous, high-energy takes. Calling in from Kansas City, Jared covers a hodgepodge of peeves—from hotel outlets that don’t work, to the lackluster rebranding of the Cleveland Guardians, to stale movie popcorn, clock-losing microwaves, and space-invading strangers at the checkout. The tone is classic JTrain: playful, animated, and full of self-aware rants that tap into collective everyday annoyances.
On unnecessary corporate compromise:
"If you try to please everyone, you please nobody. And that’s what the Cleveland Guardians mascot does. It pleases nobody." (Jared, 14:50)
On nostalgia and team branding:
"Why not be the Cleveland Wild Things? Who in the World is upset with that. But also, who cares? ... It scratches a nostalgia. It makes you think of Cleveland ... you have the good logo, you have the name." (Jared, 17:25)
On fresh popcorn expectations:
"If the popcorn at the movies can be done at your house, you have ruined our movie. That’s why we're not coming to the theaters." (Jared, 33:20)
On personal space at checkout:
"Just notice where you are on the planet. That's all we ask. And respect the line." (Jared, 40:14)
On broken clock appliances in 2025:
"It is caveman technology to set a clock in this day and age. It is crazy." (Jared, 36:37)
| Segment | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------------------------------|:----------:| | Opening monologue & Patreon plug | 00:00–06:00| | Hotel outlet complaint & phone charging | 06:30–08:30| | Baseball branding complaint — Cleveland Guardians/Wild Things | 09:20–25:00| | Sponsor ad (skip) | 25:00–27:30| | Stale movie popcorn (listener complaint) | 28:00–34:15| | Microwave clock loses time (listener complaint) | 34:40–39:00| | People standing too close at checkout (listener complaint) | 39:30–44:30| | Golf tee time etiquette (listener complaint) | 44:50–49:50| | Closing | 49:50–end |
Jared's style is conversational, energetic, and peppered with asides and stand-up-style exaggeration. Throughout the episode, he aims to validate listeners’ frustrations while extracting humor from mundane situations. He doesn’t shy away from a rant but keeps the mood light and self-aware, frequently riffing on his own reactions and those of others.
For listeners seeking catharsis in the commiseration of daily annoyances, this Ticked Off Tuesday delivers classic JTrain: passionate, relatable gripes, plenty of nostalgia, and a steady stream of laugh-out-loud moments. Whether it’s branding misfires in pro sports, the indignity of lukewarm popcorn, or people who can’t respect a line, Freid zeroes in on the little failings of modern life—and makes you glad you’re not the only one annoyed by them.