Comping The Bill, Movies with Parents, and Not Upholding A Reservation - TICKED OFF TUESDAY

Summary

The JTrain Podcast

Host: Jared Freid
Episode: Comping The Bill, Movies with Parents, and Not Upholding A Reservation - TICKED OFF TUESDAY
Date: December 9, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this Ticked Off Tuesday episode, Jared Freid dives into listener-submitted complaints with his signature blend of empathy, candor, and humor. The show focuses on validating minor frustrations and turning everyday annoyances—especially those around eating out, family gatherings, and hospitality missteps—into cathartic comedy. Jared shares his own gripes, tackles four major listener complaints from Patreon, and offers up memorable rants about social etiquette, generational quirks, and the universal desire to feel seen when things go wrong.

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Jared’s Opening Rant: The Exhaustion of Over-Explaining (00:50–09:11)

Key Points

• Jared opens with the promise that every complaint, no matter how neurotic, is worthy of validation:
  “You shall be seen, you shall be heard. You shall complain. That is the promise of Ticked Off Tuesday. It is for your mental health. You’re welcome.” (02:00)
• First complaint: Today’s tendency for people online to over-correct harmless advice by raising “worst case scenario” objections.
  • Example: Jared gives dating app advice about being specific (e.g., mentioning a favorite coffee shop) but gets flooded with warnings about “not giving away your location to stalkers.”
  • Frustration with people treating public forums as if basic safety is unknown to adults.
• Second complaint: Overly detailed explanations required in modern life, including lengthy sponsor disclaimers and constant reminders that the podcast isn’t real therapy.

Notable Quote

• “I am so exhausted by the people who come on the Internet to act like we don’t have parents, we were raised by wolves.” (05:17)

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Comedy Club and Bar Food Etiquette Rant (09:12–17:51)

Key Points

• Jared recounts a late-night experience after a series of comedy shows in Florida:
  • Encounter at a bar with an acquaintance who criticizes his demeanor:
    “Every time I see you here, you look miserable.” (12:25)
    • Jared’s internal monologue skewers unsolicited psychoanalysis from strangers.
  • Moves to a second bar, orders chips & guac with salsa—leading to a double charge and a mountain of chips.
    • Bartender jokes to another customer about Jared’s chip surplus.
  • Rant about how commentary from service staff (about food or how you look) can take the fun out of simply enjoying yourself.

Notable Quotes

• On being “the face of misery”:
  “Maybe you coming over to me saying you don’t remember me makes me miserable 10 out of 10 times.” (13:30)
• On unnecessary commentary from staff:
  “Big fatty over here’s got chip—the chip corner’s really chipping it up. Why don’t we all have some of his chips?” (17:20)

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Listener Complaint 1: Comping the Bill vs. Surprise Desserts (20:23–22:30)

Key Points

• Listener recounts a dinner where a restaurant messed up an order, then tried to “make up for it” by bringing an extra dessert instead of comping the missed entree.
• Jared is fully on board:
  • Extra dessert is a token gesture for the staff’s benefit, not the diner’s.
  • The true sign of empathy is taking something off the bill, not foisting more food upon an already full table.

Notable Quote

• “The real gesture would be opening up the tab...You did the right thing. It wouldn’t be as, you know, with the dessert bring out. It’s—they get the moment. What’s this? Oh my god, you didn’t have to. The waiter did it for THEM.” (21:30)

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Listener Complaint 2: Movies with Parents & The Dreaded Remote Pause (22:40–26:19)

Key Points

• Listener’s dad insists on pausing every family movie the second anyone moves—even to the adjacent kitchen.
• This results in awkward silence (and, on Thanksgiving, everyone hearing the listener pee).
• Jared expands, noting:
  • Boomers’ lack of devices means total, uncomfortable focus on the “absent” party.
  • Generational difference in how people occupy “paused” downtime.

Notable Quotes

• “Your parents are sitting on that couch like two eagles perched, just peering at you, watching that bathroom door as you’re peeing. And you feel it. You feel them waiting, hovering, asking. You done in there? You want to grab me something while you’re near the kitchen? Are you still peeing? Your stream sounds pretty light.” (25:20)

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Listener Complaint 3: The Persistently Leaky Coffee Lid (29:34–30:42)

Key Points

• Listener is fed up with takeaway coffee cup lids that still spill or leak, ruining clothes and car trips.
• Jared agrees, riffing on the lack of innovation in cup/lid design since the “sleeve.”
• His suggestion: Large cups, half-filled, for car coffee—more space, less spillage.

Memorable Moment

• “Charge us half as much, put the coffee in a large cup and give us half a coffee. Hey, I want a car coffee. Give me car-size.” (30:19)

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Listener Complaint 4: When Restaurants Don’t Uphold Reservations (31:00–40:09)

Key Points

• Listener’s family reserved a private room for Thanksgiving (booked six weeks in advance, confirmed day-of), only to find it given away on arrival.
• To add insult, management handled it terribly:
  • Accused the family of “abusing staff” and “stalking” the current occupants.
  • No effort to resolve; only dirty looks and no compensation.
• Jared’s analysis:
  • This is fundamentally a failure of hospitality; business should have communicated with both parties and offered minor gestures to ease the experience (champagne, apologies).
  • The misuse of victimhood (“I make $4 an hour”) is deeply manipulative and unhelpful.
  • The correct, empathetic resolution is modeled by Jared in an impromptu improv of “how it should have gone.”

Notable Quotes

• “No, there is no free dessert that will fix this issue. We do not want to sit in the middle of the room. We want to sit in a private room like we discussed.” (31:26)
• “If you want to use the victim card, you go to the 3:30 reservation room and you go, ‘Hey guys, you have had a great time. We do have another reservation coming in. We made promises...’ That is the shortest distance between problem and solution.” (36:56)
• “That is called service with a smile. That is not, ‘Well, I make $4 an hour so everyone can go f— themselves.’” (39:43)

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Final Thoughts & Tone

Jared manages to blend genuine empathy for everyday annoyances with razor-sharp comedic delivery. His tone is high-energy, self-deprecating, occasionally profane, yet always focused on validating listeners’ frustrations. The takeaway: complaint can be a form of community—and, if you’re going to mess up, own it honestly, with humor and humility.

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Useful Timestamps

• 00:50–09:11: Jared’s opening rant on over-explaining and advice culture
• 09:12–17:51: Comedy club/bar food etiquette and service industry rants
• 20:23: Listener complaint 1: Comping bills vs. extra desserts
• 22:40: Listener complaint 2: Movie pauses and family dynamics
• 29:34: Listener complaint 3: Leaky coffee cup lids
• 31:00: Listener complaint 4: Restaurants and broken reservations
• 36:56–39:43: Jared’s model “how to fix it” script for restaurant mishaps

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If you love relatable rants and want the full catharsis of someone saying what you’re thinking—plus some genuinely useful social scripts for sticky situations—this episode is can’t-miss JTrain.

Transcript

[A]

I know you're angry.

It's Tuesday and it has no feel.

The weekend was fun.

You 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.

[B]

Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming to you live from New York City. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Is there something on your mind? Send it to Ticked Off Tuesday. My promise is that I will complain with you. It will be a complaint duet. You shall be seen, you shall be heard. You shall complain. That is the promise of Ticked Off Tuesday. It is for your mental health. You're welcome. I am here to help you to get something off your chest that someone might say, well, there's other issues. No, I will find a way to agree with you. Maybe not fully. You know, I'm not going to just sit here and be a patsy. I don't even know what the word patsy means, but I. I hope I'm using it correctly. I'm not to just be a shill. I am going to give you constructive feedback that includes finding a way to validate your complaint. Now, if you have a complaint, you get to be a part of this show. Email jtrain podcast gmail.com now. Every single complaint today is from Patreon subscribers. The the deal with Patreon is you pay $5 a month. You get a podcast every Friday called Coffee with J Train and you can comment on Coffee with J Tr your ticked off Tuesday complaint. And that goes to the top of the pile. That's. That's what you get with your membership. So if you're looking for $5 therapy of a certain kind, obviously it is not therapy for real. I can't believe I'm even explaining that. Nothing bothers me more about 2025 than the idea that we have to make sure the extremes are covered. That's my first complaint. I think someone commented, I put out a clip. Here's my complaint. Now we start every episode with my complaint. This wasn't even going to be a complaint because I have another one. But here's my complaint. I posted a clip about what you should do on a dating app. If you go Back to mailbag Monday from the week of December 1st, I post I the basically one of the emails is like, I'm starting a dating app profile. What would make you swipe right, so to speak, on a prompt. And my advice to that, like I'm not going to sit here and be like do this prompt, say this thing. This will get you a swipe right. I don't even think that's the right goal on a dating app. You don't want swipe rights, you want swipe lefts on you being you. Because whoever does swipe right is going to be more into you because you've written something personal and interesting and vulnerable. I think taking away vulnerability on a dating app is the biggest mistake people make. I think a lot of people do that because they're afraid to go too far. Whatever. I have all my own opinions on that. You can buy the book in June 2026. It's called Walking Red Flag. It's coming out at a bookstore. Bookstore near you. That's my welcome to Plug City. Now.

I put up basically be specific if you like going to a certain, you know and I use as an example, hey, you know I like coffee. Every morning this coffee place is my favorite. Basically saying don't just say I like coffee, but say there's a coffee place in town that I love. And I get this specific order because you're looking to where. The problem I think people have with dating apps, the problem I have with dating apps, the problem you have and I'm I've heard from most women specifically is you're meeting people that you're not really sure what they're there for. I would say you are closer to finding out how interested someone is by how curious and responsive they are to something specific in your life and how. And you'll connect more if they're like, wait a minute, I go to that coffee place every Tuesday. I always get this. I don't really get that, you know, you're already deeper in a conversation if you're vulnerable. And again, when I say these things, the advice I'm giving is diet and exercise. I am right. There is no to argue my points that I'm giving right now is to reveal that you're insecure, that you're not ready to date, that you've been hurt in the past, all things that are okay, but on the Internet you get to hide on the Internet. Now someone commented on my TikTok post of this advice that has been cut up to be made into a one minute post that we are putting up. Well, you, you. I can't believe I'm complaining about this. Sometimes you start the show, you don't even know where you're going to go. They were writing, they commented something along, along the lines of, like, well, don't give away where you're sitting, where, where you get coffee because, you know. Or like, basically, like adding on to my advice, make sure that you don't give away too much because you don't want to be. Make sure the place that you give away is safe. And, you know, basically acknowledging that you don't want to give your coffee place away because you don't want to, like, give away, you know, a place you go to or that might be interrupted by a stalker. And it's like, I am so exhausted by the people who come on the Internet to act like, we don't have parents, we were raised by wolves. Like, when I say, hey, be specific about the coffee place you go to, there is nothing in my advice that is saying, well, give the address and what time you go so that any random murderer can come in and murder you. Oh, make sure you let them know where they can find you. Let them know to go to the coffee place late at night and you'll be there at 1am and they're going to come there and tell them to bring their knife to behead you. That is not what I'm saying. And it's like, we all know that. We all know that this person gets to feel good about themselves by commenting on my post with this morally unarguable point. Well, make sure you don't give what time you're gonna be there because you wouldn't want to deal with a stalker. And it's like, we all know, we all know, and we know there's horrors in the world. We're having fun here. And you could do that with any post. And that's the problem. And now look at me. I'm sitting here being like, whoa, you know, like, double talking for. I'm double talking for the craziest person who could ever exist. That's my first complaint. Second complaint, and I didn't. I was only going to come on with one. You're getting two for two for your, your, your dollar today. How do you pay for this podcast? Share it, tell a friend, make it your Instagram story. Join the Patreon. We have two sponsors, Nutrafol and Herobred. Both sponsors I believe in. They have promo codes that can get you free money. If they help you, you help them. That helps Me. Boom. We're all jacking each other off the other way to pay for this podcast. Come to a show. Come. I'm gonna be in Orlando and San Diego to finish out the year. Then Philly, there's like 20 tickets left. Baltimore, there's tickets left. I got a whole schedule. Jared Free dot com. Now, here's my complaint. I did the show in Fort Lauderdale and Miami this past weekend. The shows were great. If you came to the shows. Thank you. If you want to hear about what happened on the shows, sign up for Patreon. I'll give you the whole backstage kind of story behind everything that happened. That's what we do on Coffee J Train. It's basically my diary when I get done with the shows. So this is a story that I would tell on Coffee with J Train, but it's a complaint and I have other stories to tell on that podcast.

After Miami. Miami is not easy to get to from anywhere in Florida. It is just the driving alone. People in Florida drive fast and crazy, and they, you know, I. I'm sure there's a Floridian that takes pride in Florida driving. To me, it's like a lot to fly. To drive from Delray to Florida to From. To drive from Delray to Miami is not an easy drive. It's not driving, you know, to Cleveland from the middle of Ohio. And there's no cruise control. Basically, what I'm saying. I. How long am I going to go on this? Okay, enough, Jared. So coming back, I drove V back to. She was staying in Fort Lauderdale, so I gave her a ride. And then by the time I got back to Delray Beach, I was pooped. And I was also, I think after a show, I'm not just drained, but I'm also jacked up. It's hard to explain. So a lot of times I like to go to a bar and sit and kind of melt on my phone.

I go to one bar and there's a woman there who recognizes me, and I know her via a friend. I'm not gonna. The. The friend may or may not be a famous person. So they know this famous person who's a friend of mine, and they know me through them. They come up to me, and this is the second time they've seen me at this place. And I do know who they are, but not in that way. I sit at the bar and I'm just having like, literally a soda at like 1am and again, it's late at night. I'm at a bar. You open yourself up to Being around drunk people. I'm not drinking. I'm just sitting on my phone, just looking to be out and. And kind of come down from the show, from the ride, from the weekend, which was a lot of parent time that you can watch on YouTube. We are putting out behind the scenes. My parents are involved this week. It's a whole thing. This woman comes up to me and she taps me on the shoulder and she goes, jared. And I go. And I look at her and it's taking me a minute to put everything into focus. If someone came up to you behind you, tapped you on the shoulder and said your name, you're not going to know right away. And especially if it's someone who's friend of a friend. She goes, you're going to act like you don't remember me. I. When she said that, I was like, here we go. This is going to be horrific. She goes, it's me. I'm so and so's cousin. And I go. And as she goes, it's me. I'm blank. I go, I know. I like, if you're gonna do the Guess who I am game, how about we give me 30 seconds? How about you give me a little bit? Any game show worth its weight in game show would give me 30 seconds. There would be a clock. Start it up, okay.

She goes, you know, you're gonna act like you don't know me. I'm. And I'm like, I know. Hey, how are you? She. And she goes. She goes, so, what's going on? I was like, I had a show. I'm just hanging. How was it? It was great. A lot of fun. She goes, every time I see you here, you look miserable. And it's like, I don't know what to do with that. I don't know how much I can deny that at that point. You're miserable. You can't climb out of the miserable hole you have. You have to say. You have to either just go, no, I'm fine. And you sound like you're the least fine person, or you. You literally go, well, it's been a long night. I had to drive. I had a lot going on. Like, I. This person doesn't deserve me opening up to them. Also, to say that to someone, it's almost like a challenge. Do you need me to tell you that I'm miserable? Is that what you want me to say? Every time you see me, I'm miserable. Maybe I have a miserable fucking face. Maybe I am the face of misery. Maybe I'm the mascot for Stay the fuck away. Maybe you coming over to me saying you don't remember me makes me miserable 10 out of 10 times. Maybe you're the constant in this miserable look that I have. I don't think I'm miserable any other time than when I'm around you.

So I get through that conversation. I get up, I'm like, it's time for me to leave this bar. I'm hungry, though. So I go to another bar. I sit at the bar and I order. They have chips and salsa, and they have chips and guac. I want chips, guac, and salsa. To me, salsa for the bowl of salsa, it costs 10 cents. It, it, it's. Salsa is probably one of the bigger upsells in the history of food. I'm saying that out of my ass. I don't know that for a fact, but I would assume salsa doesn't cost a lot. Guac, I kind of get that. It would cost more. I get it. Guac. Avocados cost a pretty penny and they go bad quickly. They're not something that keeps. So I want chips, salsa, and guac. I think if you order the guac.

You should get salsa with it. If you order the salsa, you shouldn't get guac with it. I think that should be kind of the rule with all things when it comes to chips and salsa, chips and guac. So I say to the guy at the bar, I go, I'd like chips and salsa. I. I said, I want the salsa and the guac. So now that goes in as two different orders. Now at 1:30 in the morning, I'm at the bar. I order chips and salsa. I order chips and guac with salsa. Now I get salsa and chips, guac and chips with two, what I would describe as garbage pail size buckets of chips. I have so much chips in front of me, it looks like I am sitting at a buffet for someone's high school graduation. It is chip central. I'm on the chip corner. I'm Mr. Chips. And the guy sets both of them down and he's like, whoa, that's a lot of chips. And I'm like, yeah, you gave me a lot of chips. I didn't ask for two buckets of chips, please. I didn't say that. So the guy puts down the chips. He's like, that's a lot of chips. I'm like, yeah. I mean, I didn't say to you, please give me as much chips as I can handle. All I did was say guac, salsa with chips.

So I'm sitting there with my two buckets of chips, the guac and the salsa. I'm fine. And again, that's how they brought it. Cute girl. Cute girl sits to my left. She sits down. The bartender looks at her and goes, hey, how you doing tonight? She's like, I'm good. He goes, want any chips? This guy's got enough for everybody. The whole corner of the bar laughs like it's like it. They laughed as if we were on Happy Days. It was a sitcom. Like, the Fonz came in and made a chip comment about the nerd at the bar.

And she's like, no, I'm good. I'll have a drink. I'll have a tequila soda. And everyone. And I'm like, why do we have to. I think.

Beyond ordering. I don't need any commentary on my food from the staff. I don't. I am willing to give up the nicety of how are the first bites? Which I don't even like. They always come over to you when you're mid first bite. It feels like they're doing it to dominate you. They want to mess with you. They want to get you in the middle of your first bite. They want to see you a little rattled. Let's just end it. You bring the food. If there's a problem, we'll come to you. Let's stop it. No. Oh, somebody liked it. Wow, a lot of chips. This guy's got enough chips for the whole bar. Big fatty over here has got chip the chip corners. Really chipping it up. Why don't we all have some of his chips also? What's he doing offering my chips to anyone? I got the chips.

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Fast forward time for dessert. Fast forward time for dessert. We order two desserts and the lady puts them down on the table, then puts a third down. We say we didn't order it. She said it was complimentary. Okay.

Little. Little payback. Here you go. We're sorry. We want to make it up to you. Here's a slice of pie. Here's my complaint. While a thoughtful. While a thoughtful gesture, I find it extremely annoying when restaurants do this. How about taking something off the bill. Instead of giving us something extra we didn't even order, give us one of the desserts we did order for free. I'm with you. That's the better play. Let's be honest. We don't even need dessert to begin with. And now we have three desserts to consume, because who leaves dessert on the table? Thanks for the laughs last night. Always look forward to seeing you live an overfed batch. I am total agreement with you. I think it is a nice gesture. And you go, whoa. But it's almost like, you know, to add to your complaint, this is the waiter. The way the. The waiter looking for you to like. It's almost like they want you. This is more for them than it is for you. Because you guys, now the waiter gets, oh, all is forgiven. Thank you. How could you do this? They're going to get all the thank yous in the world, and you're going to get what, an extra love handle? This is not what you want. The real gesture would be opening up the tab. And they would still get the thank yous, but not as much. You open up the checkbook, you go. And they look at you. They go, we took one of the desserts off the tab. We really felt badly about what happened. And then you guys would go, appreciate it. Thank you. You did the right thing. It wouldn't be, as, you know, with the dessert bring out. It's. They get the moment. What's this? Oh, my God. You didn't have to. The waiter did it for them. The real gesture is taking it off the bill. Also, the waiter risking losing tip percentage, which I know that's small. If they're thinking that way, you're thinking you're being like Pennywise dollar foolish type of deal. They're like, you know, to say if that's their game. And they're like, well, I don't want to lose a percentage. You go, come on, you made a mistake. That's what the tip is supposed to, like, reflect. Take it off the bill. So to me, this was the least painful way for them to make it up to you, which is annoying. You were the one whose night was messed with. Your mom missed out on her dinner. Take it off the. Take the dessert off the bill. Jtrain podcast, gmail.com. keep sending them in or sign up for the Patreon. All four today. Patreon complaints. Jared. My family loves watching movies together, especially during the holiday when it's just the immediate crew. My mom and dad, both in their 60s and me and my 30s. 30s. We love the time together. We definitely have our fair share of bickering, and nothing brings it out faster than my dad with a remote in his hands. Ooh, dads love a remote. He takes full control and pauses the movie every time anyone gets up to do anything, even if it's just walking into the kitchen where the TV is still perfectly visible. That's always been annoying, but this Thanksgiving, he truly escalated. I got up to use the bathroom off the living room. I got up to use the bathroom off the living room. And he paused the movie again, which meant my parents had to sit there in total silence listening to me pee. He says he doesn't want me to miss anything, but at this point, it feels like psychological warfare. The worst part is that afterwards, he complained that the movie was really long. Here's the peeing in peace. Yeah, this is. This is a problem, because the minute you get up and it is all on you, the pressure for this movie, the minute that movie pauses. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. And here's the other problem. This is what this podcast is for. I'm going to point out an issue that you didn't even see. Your parents aren't pulling out their phones and just mindlessly scrolling. Like, if someone paused a movie, I wouldn't even care. There's a bridge outside my new place that goes up. I. This bridge could take three hours. It could take three minutes. I don't know. I'm on my phone, I'm scrolling. Your parents are sitting on that couch like two eagles perched, just peering at you, watching that bathroom door as you're peeing. And you feel it. You feel them waiting, hovering, asking. You done in there? You want to grab me something while you're near the kitchen? Are you still peeing? Your stream sounds pretty light. Have you gone to the doctor lately? Yeah. You want a heavy stream? It sounds like you're just doing a tinkle. This should be a flowing pee. Are you okay? Have you been sexually active? All these questions coming from the living room. You're just trying to pee. You're just trying to get lost in the shuffle. They are fully zoned in. This is a generational problem. If it was you and your three friends and they paused the movie, it wouldn't matter. Everyone would be on TikTok. Everyone will be on Instagram. It would be as if you never got up to peace. So this is really the problem with boomers. This is really the problem with them not really having anything to look at or be concentrating on other than you. And it seems like you said my mom, dad, both in their 60s, and me, the immediate crew. No siblings, just you in the bathroom, your mom yelling, hey.

Make sure you wipe the seat after you're done. I know. Well, this is a woman. That, that, that's what I would get yelled at. You never wipe the seat after you're done. You get pee everywhere. That's really a tinkle. Yeah. No, this is no good. Jtrain [e-mail] J train podcastmail.com we're sponsored again. Hero bread. I'm a huge hero bread person. I have the slice of toast with breakfast. Don't skip the bread at your next holiday meal. Try Hero bread. Hero makes sliced bread, bagels and dinner rolls. All Hero products are high in fiber with zero grams of sugar. Hero breads is soft and fluffy. You'll think it's regular bread every time. I am here to tell you it's delicious and it's efficient. Hey, Jared, do you want bread with a hundred calories or do you want bread with less than 100 calories? I'll take less than, please. Do you want bread with no fiber or extra fiber? I'll take extra fiber, please. I want bread that's low calorie and keeps me fuller longer and gives me that satisfaction that only a crunch could give. And that's what you're going to get with hero bread. Check out Hero's tortillas and croissants. They have heroes always adding something new to their life. They're basically saying, you want bread? We're gonna make it better for you. For a limited time, herobre. I also put some in my freezer. It's great. Hero. For a limited time, Herobred is offering J train listeners $10 off your order. Go to Hero Co. Use code feather at checkout. That's code feather At H E R O co. We got two more complaints from listeners. Jared got a ticked off Tuesday fresh off of Thanksgiving and it's coffee related. I'm about to get a coffee after I'm done here. Why do we still have hot coffee lids that leak and drip on you when you drink from them? Yeah, I. I don't get how we haven't nailed the lid thing. This happens with iced coffee a lot. You'll iced coffee. I've a lot of leakage. Like the lid doesn't form a seal with the cup. Me and my boyfriend were heading to Thanksgiving yesterday and got coffee for the road. After five minutes of drinking his his white sweater was completely drenched in brown. We spent the next 10 minutes with me pouring water onto his hand while he attempted to dab and scratch the coffee out of his white sweater, all while swerving around the highway. I mean, this is a public safety issue. He now, now he gets up to show. Now he gets to show up with a damp, tan, splattered sweater. How have we not figured this out by now? I just, I agree. Here's the thing. It seems as though we have just stopped on figuring out the lid situation. When we had hot coffee cups, they would do the double cup and then they were like, we're wasting cups. How about the sleeve? The sleeve is really the last coffee invention we have as a society. Why aren't we still going? Why isn't there a coffee like a car coffee cup that has a sleeve attachment that goes up like one of those cones that the dog wears after going to the hospital? Give us something. I just want effort and to say, well, we got the lid, so it's on you. No, no, no, no. As a society, there should be more creativity being put into what are we doing with these cups? And I, I go lidless. I think the lid sometimes causes more problems. I'm, I'm a big lidless guy. If you've been listening to me for a long time, you know, when I drink an iced coffee, when I have a coffee, I try to like emulate being at a barbecue. I just want to sip, sip, sip. I, I rarely, you know, I have it in the car, but I'm making half coffees. That's the thing. Hey, why don't we do this? Charge us half as much. Put the coffee in a large cup and give us half a coffee. Hey, I want a car coffee. Give me car size. That's a good idea.

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Jtrain podcast gmail.com youm gotta sign up for Patreon. You'll hear all about the Miami and Fort Lauderdale shows. Also jaredfree.com for tickets. Last one. This has been a fun episode. My family traveled from New York and Chicago to my mom's hometown in Ohio and booked the only private room at a nice restaurant for Thanksgiving, reserved six weeks in advance for our group of 12. This all sounds wonderful. You're In Ohio, you got the whole family. New York, Chicago, the Midwest meets the Northeast. A coming together of families and you do a six weeks in advance for a group of 12. Nice restaurant. Okay. My mom confirmed the reservation the day of, but when we arrived, the host told us the private room was taken and offered us a table in the middle of the restaurant instead. Nope. Nope, that's not what we did here. Nope, nope, completely wrong. No, there is no free dessert that will fix this issue. We do not want to sit in the middle of the room. We want to sit in a private room like we discussed. We are here in part because you promised us a private room for 12 where we could have our 12 person family Thanksgiving. Even after we showed emails confirming the room, they refused to ask the current group who had been there since 3:30 and had already takeout containers. Well, at that point, they didn't ask them to wrap it up. Ah, come on. Hey, we got our next group in here. Let's go. 3:30. I. What time did you make your reservation for? You don't say whatever, 3:30. If you're there at 6, that's enough. Two and a half hours is more than enough. And especially for a restaurant Thanksgiving. This isn't your aunt's house. While we waited and checked the room twice, the manager yelled at us across the host stand, accusing us of abusing her staff and stalking the people inside. Wow. I mean, I hate that word choice. You're using words like stalking and abusing because you want to fend them away. That's like taking a big stick and lighting it on fire and waving at a big yeti. At the end, we ordered nine dessert. We finally gave up. Okay, an hour past our reservation time, we finally gave up and sat in the loud main dining room. You don't even have to describe the main dining room as loud. You don't have to do that with me. You reserved a private room. It was promised to you. They did not fulfill their promise. I would have left. I. And again. Well, here's the other thing that's the most annoying part. They have you between a rock and a hard place because you can't leave. Where are you going to go on Thanksgiving? Where are you going to go? McDonald's. You can't go home. We got some turkey in the fridge. No, at that point you're being forced to say we're doing Domino's Thanksgiving and you know, basically giving up. That's Thanksgiving up.

At the end, we ordered nine desserts and tried to cancel a couple minutes later, but the server said she couldn't because she already put them into the system and added, I don't make the decisions. I make $4 an hour.

Listen, these people are not responsible for the minimum wage in the country. Okay? To say they're doing. This is the game this restaurant's playing. And here's the thing. You're a business. You decided to open on Thanksgiving. Don't say to us, well, we're trying. It's Thanksgiving. No, you made this business decision to be a Thanksgiving restaurant. We trusted you to come through with this service. You're not coming through. Don't come back at us with your alpha victim mentality. That's the thing. They're trying to use victimhood to punish you. Well, I make $4 an hour. How about you shut the fuck up and take what I give you? Like that's bullshit. She got $150 tip. We got no apology, no comped anything, just dirty looks all night. Sincerely an abusive stalker. I'm sorry. Yeah, this is horrible.

I don't know. Well, you, you go. Well, what's the plan here? It's, it's not just that it happened, but what's the effort made? Hey, we're here for our 6pm reservation. Hey guys, we have a group that's still in there. We can't seat you in that room, but we made a reservation for the back room. I specifically called you to make sure we were good for 12 people in that back room. That is why we are here. Your food is nice and good, but your room is why we made the reservation here. Listen, I am really sorry. It's. Their reservation started at 3:30. Let me go talk to them and let them know that there's another. Like to me, if you're going to play the victim card, calling someone an abusive stalker and saying, I make $4 an hour, shut the fuck up. Take what we give you. That's like not even a, a play that gets us towards a solution. If you want to use the victim card, you go to the 3:30 reservation room and you go, hey guys, you have had a great time. We have loved having you. We do have another reservation coming in. We made promises. I would really would love for you guys to wrap it up. And then they would go if their issue with you would to say, well, there's no time limit like that. Again, this brings us back to my first complaint of this whole episode.

The extreme of the extreme reason to not leave that room would be that person, that group being like, well, you said there's no Time limit. I don't see any fine print in the contract that says we have to be out of here in two and a half hours. That would be like a piece of shit thing to respond with. Seeing another family cold and hungry outside of the private room that reserved the private room and going, fuck them, we're going to be here as long as we want is the most extreme and unreasonable response to hey guys, you've been here since 3:30. We got another reservation coming in. To me, that is the shortest distance between problem and solution. Instead, they chose to appease these animals who have been eating for two and a half hours to make you guys angry. They could have had two big groups of happy customers and they chose to have one group unhappy, to not bother another group. Because of what? That's crazy.

Cause. Cause I'm trying to think of what that group in the room would even say that would. Because they would go, oh shoot, we didn't even see the time. Okay, we'll go to a bar. Like they have options. And I'm zoning in on that because them saying the $4 an hour, all that other shit is a result of taking the wrong turn at a very specific juncture. There's a point in this, in this complaint where this could all. You wouldn't even have written this email.

You. There is a point where, hey, we're here for our 6 o'. Clock. They turn to the back room, they go, oh wow, they're still in there. Hold on. I am so sorry. I can play this out so easily. I am so sorry. Go take a seat. We're gonna send you guys a round of champagne for Thanksgiving. Go, come on, we'll send you some champagne. Go take a seat in our lobby. I know there's not a lot of chairs. Let the, let, let, let grandma and grandpa sit and I'm gonna send over a bunch of champagnes. Elaine, can you get the champagne? Go grab this family. Give this family a lot of Thanksgiving loving. A little champagne. Yeah. Give the kids grape juice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, and you guys go over there. Let me go talk to this, this other group. They, they've been in there a minute. Hey, Johnson family, I'm sorry to let you know, but we have this room reserved starting at 6 o' clock and as you can see, 5:50. So I don't wanna, you know, I don't wanna ruin the good time, but what I'm gonna say to you guys is we're gonna offer. You guys go out to our bar. Yeah, we have a bar room in the other room and we got a bunch of. We. We're going to send you a bunch of Rumpelman shots. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The. The peppermints. That time of year. Yeah. Christmas has come. We are in holiday season. We got a bunch of Rumpelman shots for you. Whoever wants them. The kids. Yeah. We'll give them some Gatorade. We'll give it. You guys go in our bar room and we're going to hit you with a shot. And. But we need to get you out of here. And listen. 550. Take as long as you need.

Look at how I handled that. Look at. Look at that. No, that is called service with a smile. That. That is not. Well, I make $4 an hour so everyone can go themselves. I'm the loser who has to work on Thanksgiving. You guys get all your happy families. Is that how you want to be? You want to see a loser feel like more of a loser? It's like the direction taken is just crazy to me. It's unreasonable.

What an episode. I knew it was gonna be good post Thanksgiving. J Train podcast back next week. Bo.