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Correcting Grammar Online, Late Hairstylists, and Tipping Police - TICKED OFF TUESDAY
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I know you're angry. It's Tuesday and it has no feel. The weekend was fun. You're still hungover from the eating and next weekend is too far away. What will you do with your day? It's time to get ticked off. Complain with your gripe. Right now your friend Uncle J Train is here to tell you that you're right. It's a ticked off Tuesday. Ticked off Tuesday. You're angry and you don't even know why. Enjoy this podcast. It'll help you get to Friday.
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Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is J Train. Jared Freed coming you live from Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Do you have a problem with something or someone or a general group that is out there that is just making you touch us? Swell. Send in your complaints to J train podcast gmail.com. that's jtrain podcastmail.com. that is the best, that's the second best way to complain with me because this show is a complaint podcast. You complain to me and I will make sure you feel seen and heard. I will find a way to come around to your complaint and find that little crevasse that maybe you didn't cover. Or I'll just tell you you're right, which feels good in itself. So that's kind of the therapy that's going on here. The best way to get involved with this podcast is to sign up for the Patreon. The Patreon is where it all happens. I do coffee with J Train every Friday and then you comment on coffee with J Train with your complaint. I have dates coming up. I'm going to be in Salt Lake City, Tempe, St. Louis, nor Connecticut, Vegas, LA, Jacksonville, Austin, and then I have just added West Hampton beach for the fourth of July weekend. I did it not last summer, but the summer before sold out show in the Hamptones. So get those tickets now. The Hamptons show is like a one off event. I'm excited to do it because I'm excited to go to the Hamptons. I'm gonna probably hang for the weekend. So last time I did it, Hannah Burner did some, did, did a set, did some time as we say in the biz before she did the Tonight Show. So that was cool to have Hannah come on and do do a set. And you know there's a, I'm not, I'm not promising that she's a much bigger celeb now. She might not even take my text at this point. But the Hampton show, that's one to kind of get on your horse and get those tickies. YouTube putting out YouTubes. Every Saturday, I put out crowd work stuff on YouTube longer. You can see kind of the. The. The. The ebbs and flows of a show on the road. I think that's kind of cool to, like, pop into Orlando and see what it's like when I'm on stage in Orlando. What? Because you would never go there. Like, I brought my parents to a show in Nashville once, and I was like, this is cool to show them a club, you know, Zany's Nashville, which is one of my favorites. Just to show them what it's like. This is what the road is. This is the job. You know, there's a lot of glitz and glam. I know you. I know. I know Jared. Glitz and glam freed. You know, I glitz and glam. But this is the stuff that happens under the hood. This is how the glitz and glam gets done. So YouTube is where that's all happening. Comment. Subscribe. Do all those good things. Sign up for the Patreon. 5 bucks a month gets you access here. I have complaints. I haven't even looked at the complaints yet because I wanted to come on here. I come on here. Ready? I'm shadow boxing now. Only V can see this because we don't put out the video. I'm shadow boxing. Getting ready to complain because I am so angry. I put out a TikTok about daylight saving time. Day. I put out this TikTok about daylight saving time. Is it daylight savings time? Daylight saving time. Here's the thing about language. Do we get there? Did you. Did we get to the place where I conveyed what I meant? Daylight saving time. Daylight savings time. If you went up to 10 people on the street and said, hey, is it daylight saving time? Is it daylight savings time? I think you'd go. I think you'd get like 50. 50. I think there would be. And I'm not saying we should go on this earth being wrong about stuff. I'm not per. I'm not asking for stupidity. I don't want people to be dumber than they were before. I want us to get better. But I am not responsible for every person I come in contact with to be better than before. Because did the. Did the thing. Did what I was trying to convey get through? Did I get us over the finish line? The video was about how daylight saving time is that fun part of the year where I get to spend a full month saying wow, it's 9am, but it's really 8am that's the whole TikTok. Because I do that every time we do Daylight Saving Time, or whatever the other one is called. Because I don't know and I don't give a shit where we fall back. All I remember with Daylight Saving Time, spring ahead, fall back. That's all I remember. That's all I need to know. At 41, I'm done. I'm done with knowing about Daylight Saving Time. I post this on TikTok the talk. Maybe by this point it'll be on Instagram and a comment. I'm not going to say their name, but we'll show the picture in the clip. We'll. We'll scrub the name, maybe, who knows? It doesn't matter. It's on my TikTok right now. Their comment is Daylight Saving Time. No s at the end of saving with a smiley face, surrounded by hearts. This person is the problem with society. This person is the reason we will be in a bunker 10 years from now by candlelight, talking about the world we once had and loved. This person is the reason we are all at each other's throat. This person is the reason we all can't stand each other, don't trust each other, don't like each other. This person and this comment, which they will say, whoa, Jared, being dramatic. I'm just trying to help you so that you can be better, is the reason the world feels like a darker, worse place than it felt growing up. Because they're not trying to help me. And they will live on a moral high ground of I'm just trying to help you so that none of us normal people who have normal conversations, who are just getting along in our everyday life, they will try to do that to shut us up. This is why I've done podcasts where it was talking about the little things, the annoyances in life, the dating questions, that the one person at your brunch table can go, who cares about them? Texting you back. We all care. This is why I've done this. This is my purpose in life, is to understand that we are all alike in some little way. The things that get to me, the things I notice are human and I want to say them out loud so that you know you are also a human being who notices and feels these things. Do you feel them less or more? I don't know. But. But we all feel them. And I feel that this person is the reason we are collapsing like a dying star. And they're everywhere. They're everywhere. They're at your brunch table. They're in the comments section on Facebook, TikTok and Instagram. They are out here telling us they're helping us. This person isn't going to come back to me in the fall and say, hey, remember, there's no S at the end. Or if I talk about daylight saving time in the future. Good job, Jared. Happy you learned. They don't give a shit about me. They don't care about you. They don't care about me. They care about feeling better about themselves. This was a personal narcissistic move to make themselves feel better about them knowing something that I don't. Because my video had nothing to do with whether there was an S or no S at the end of daylight savings time. I just. I just screwed up. I put an S at the end. Oh, no. Did you understand what I was saying? We got there, didn't we? We got there without the correction, didn't we? Without you having a pat on the back festival. I see this a lot. And the problem Is they'll get 4 likes on their comment and look it, they'll go, that's right. Us people who know how to say it are all here to help. We're all good people. They're bad people. They're the reason the tenor is not good on the Internet. The reason you close the app. I saw the other day, Claudia Ashri, girl with no Job. I'm a fan of the Girl with no Job cinematic universe. I have been on the toast. I've been on the toast with Jackie as well as Claudia. I. I think Ben is a great guy. They're all great. I love them all. I'm a fan. I saw that she was dealing with someone who was just cast on the Real Housewives, that this person has been continuing to contact them about just mean things. Mean. There is no debate that this person was being mean. But under the guise of that about Claudia and weight and GLP1s and under the guise of her knowing a plastic surgeon or being the daughter of a plastic surgeon and it's disgusting. It's actually disgusting. The things this person was writing to Claudia. And then what they do is they kind of hide under the idea and this is the move. They go to the top of morality mountain and they say they go into Claudia's past and tweets that she did when she was in her 20s and early on and things she's apologized for and paid for to me, has paid the. You know, has paid for with things that she's lost a show that she had with aol, I think at the time. But honestly, these things have been done already. These, these, these, these are the, these past problems that she had have been discussed and aired and we've done that. And then you have this person who has said, who's consistently writing to her in her DMs, just horrid, horrible things, is now trying to bring those up and going, well, you had these problems and this false equivalency land from this person who got an opportunity to go on the rail. Housewives with no talent, no funny, no nothing. They had a rich parent, so they were around the Hamptons, around New York. So now they're on a TV show because they hired a PR agent who got them on. And now they're living in this world where they're somehow on the same level as Girl with no Job and the things that she's built. It really angered me and it was very similar to Daylight Saving Time. No s at the end. Similar, but different. These people should be ashamed. J train podcast gmail.com j train podcastmail.com we are here on Ticked Off Tuesday. I'm ticked off. I got one sponsor today. One sponsor. Quo. We do one sponsor. Then we go to the complaints of our listeners. The complaints are from Patreon. That's how you get on this show. They go to the top of the pile. That's how it works. Quo, if you are a small business, you're going to want to listen to this ad. It's an advertisement. I like what Quo is doing because they're helping you miss less customers. That's the whole deal that they want you to miss less calls and they want to organize your small business, which as a small business owner myself, I would like to be more organized myself. And I think that's what Quo does. So we're going to go to the ad, but I have listener complaints and you can also send them in. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcastmail.com and again, the YouTube I want. Oh, the book Walking Red Flag is in pre sale right now. You can pre order Walking Red Flag. We just talked about doing an audio version. I am going to do the audio version. So pre order the book. The book is a, it was a. The book. I can't even believe what the book is turning into behind the scenes. There's going to be more to be said about the book. Here's what it is. It's good. I, I can say that to you right now. I've Got an. You know, I'm, I'm one of those people. I'm not confident until someone tells me to be confident. I've had enough people come back with feedback on the book that makes me believe that it is a. I know, it's funny. It's funny and it's going to make you feel better about dating Quo. Quo. Quo, that's our sponsor. It's annoying when your boss hits you up on email, text and call. That's why today's episode is brought to you by Quo. The smarter way to run your business communications. Quo is the number one rated business phone system. The Quo app works on your phone or computer wherever you are. Get calls, texts, voicemails, transcripts and contact details all in one place. Communicate fast, stay aligned and deliver results with Quo. Make this the time where no opportunity and no customer slips away. Try quo for free. Plus get 20 off your first six months when you go to quo.comjtrain that's Q U-O.com jtrain no missed calls, no missed customers. So go get involved with Quo. If the ads help you, if the sponsors help you, then it's a no brainer. Then you help the show. Let's do some email, some listener complaints. Again, Patreon is the way to go with these. I got a few from Patreon, a couple from the mailbag. I was the second of three people to volunteer to give up my seat on an overbook flight for $800 gift card. So when they have an overbook flight, they start offering like, anyone want $500 gift card? So you were the second of three people to volunteer to give up my seat on an overbooked flight for an 800 gift card. One seat became available. First person to volunteer was given a choice to stay or go. Then me, Then the third person, then me and the third person were called out together and asked to figure out who would take the money. That's annoying. I'm with you. So annoying. Why was the first guy given the chance to choose, but I was left to duke it out with some rando? She got the money because they yelled at us for. For taking too long and I don't have a backbone. No, this is annoying. You were the second of three to volunteer. You were like, I'll give it up. First person to volunteer was given a choice, stay or go. They go, I'm going. I'm taking the $800. Okay, now we go to number two. It doesn't make sense to go two and three. No, no, no, no. There's a re. There's a reason for the numbers. There's a reason the first person was called up first and now we go to the second person at that point, bring all three of us to have a three legged race. Why don't we all have. We should, you know, throw the gift card down the hallway and have us chase to see who gets comes up with it. Do a little fumble Rooski. If we're going to do it this way. That's crazy. You go number one. Get up here. We got something to talk to you about. Would you like the $800 gift card or would you like to take the seat that just opened up? No. You want the, you want the money? Take your money. Get out of here. Number two, come on up here. Do you want the $800 gift card? Nope. Okay. Get out of here. No, don't. Because what they did, they didn't want to get through number two. And then number three goes, well, I don't want it either. Now they have an open seat. They needed to create a market, which is what they did. There's economics, there's game theory at play here. And I don't know if they're doing it knowingly. It's sadistic and manipulative and horrific. If they're doing this by accident, what, what a win for them because to call you both up at the same time and raise the 800 gift card to the top as if this is a money in the bank wrestling match. Horrific. JTrain podcast@gmail.com JTrain podcastmail.com It's a ticked off Tuesday. We are angry. Jared. I'm writing this in real time because I'm so annoyed and currently listening to your show. So this feels like the appropriate place to go with my rage. I think you're right. I booked a hair appointment for 2.30pm I hit traffic and was stressed the entire drive thinking I was going to be the one. I booked a hair appointment for 2.30pm I hit traffic and was stressed the entire drive thinking I was going to be one minute late. I walk in at 1:31, say hi to my stylist. She's actively consulting another client about what she wants done with her hair not finishing starting. Okay, so you walk in one minute late to your 2:30, you say hi and she's actively consulting another client about what she wants done with her hair not finishing starting. So there's a little bit I. What I would do is feel relief that I didn't impede on someone's day and then Immediate. I would feel immediately annoyed that we are now late, but more annoyed that there's nothing I can say because I was late. So they should be a little late. I want them to be as kind to me as I would be to them. And you know, all that stuff. I sit down, 15 minutes go by, nothing. I finally walk up and politely ask, hey, was my appointment at 2:30? She asked me what time I have. I show her the confirmation text and email and she goes, yes, that's the time. Then looks back at the other client, says she double booked us and that she's almost done. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. I am enraged. Nope. It should be. Do you. I. The immediate is listen, let's say she didn't know. What time is your appointment? Oh, 2:30. I. I need an immediate. Oh my God. I'm horrible at doing my life. I need some show of. I am the worst person alive. I need one. Do the act. Do the act. Turn up the music. Start dancing. You got to do a little. I can't have. Oh, I double booked. She's almost done. No, that's not how it works. It has now been over 20 minutes. I am still sitting here. No apology. Yeah, the no apology. They know, like, let me work this out. Oh my God. I double booked. I never make this mistake. I'm really sorry. Here, you know what? Let me get you a glass of champagne. We put away champagne when there's like bachelorette blowout parties. I'm gonna get you champagne. Lisa, Lisa. I'm gonna get the hair wash girl. Just to give you a wash. Let's get you wash in your hair. I know. We'll do two washes today. Nothing feels better than washing your hair. Lisa, Lisa, we're going to wash your hair. Get her some champagne. That's the appropriate answer. Lisa, get her a glass of bubbly. Let's start rubbing the temples. Get her in the chair. That's how you respond to double booking people. Not oh, I double booked. I'll be done in a minute. No, no. No apology, no update, no offer of water. Look at you. Just want a water. You're not even asking for champagne. No acknowledgment of, of my existence. I'm with you. I am. This is horrific. I'm about to pay 300 plus dollars. It doesn't matter if it's $10. It is the act of. This is the thing. And this is, I think the worst part of the world today. The. If I apologize, then I've shown weakness. Then you have the opportunity to own me. How about you apologize and then fix it and we can come to an agreement that we hope this never happens again. And I really appreciate that you saw the error of your ways. We live in the no apology era, and I just don't get it. I make mistakes, you make mistakes, we all make mistakes. It's. How do you figure it out after you've made that mistake? That is a good person and this is something that it's lost in us because we're so afraid of having someone use this thing from our past to make us all, you know, to own us, that we don't want to give anything. Never apologize. They tell you, never apologize. Your first mistake, apologize it, because they'll use it against it, against you for the rest of your life. No, real people don't do that because real people know that they might fuck up and that they want the same act of, you know, comeback story that you're given no acknowledgment of my existence. I'm about to pay 300 plus and getting your hair done takes hours. Yeah, I've heard this. It's Friday night. I have a date later that I now have to rush for. With that price, I should be treated a little better. If I were 20 minutes late, I'd be charged a fee or cancel. But if they're 20 minutes behind, we're just supposed to accept it quietly. I thought writing this would calm me down, but I'm still in the waiting room and it's 3pm so it did not. No, I'm. I, I would. I'm enraged for you. I'm not even in the waiting room. I love you though. Thanks for the safe space to complain. Feather, feather. I am on your side. This is horrific. I don't know what the answer is. I do know why it's happening. J train podcast gmail.com j train podcast gmail.com Jared, I have a ticked off Tuesday for you. There's a bakery I go to once in a while to get a treat to help me through work. I generally eat very healthy and regimented, so when I do indulge in a midday treat, it's a big deal to me. Today I went to the bakery, saw they had chocolate chip pumpkin bread. I love a chocolate chip pumpkin bread, which I have had before and loved. I was excited to have a piece. I did take note while I was in line that the pieces were cut a bit unevenly and I could see there was an end piece amongst all the other middle pieces. I didn't pay attention when the treat was bagged up. Just brought it back to the office. When I opened the bag, I saw they gave me the end piece that was also cut smaller than the other pieces available. I know there were at least a dozen good sized pieces to choose from. Why give the customer the smallest end piece over the more desirable cuts of pumpkin bread available? Actually, why even sell end pieces to begin with? Save them for the staff or sell at a discounted price like in the day old bagel section. Am I right? From treat yourself to ticked off, I'm with you. This is horrific. When you order any pastry or any. When any. I listen. I'm not here to debate end piece versus middle piece because to some people the end piece is the best piece and to some people the middle piece is the best piece. You assuming that the end piece is somehow equivalent to the day old bagels, you and I would have a disagreement, a debate. That's fine. We can be on two different sides of the aisle on this one without vilifying. I would say to you, the real problem here is when I say, hey, I'd love to have the pumpkin bread with chocolate chips. Yes, sir, right away. And if it's out in a case in front of me. Anyone in particular you want to have? Well, I'm not really an NPs guy, but I'd love a middle slice. That should be the conversation. The fact that they're just throwing it in a bag to kind of like get one past you is the annoying part. You why have it on display if we're not allowed to decide which one in the display we want? That's part of the order. So this isn't about end pieces versus middle pieces. I don't want to create a debate. I don't want division. I am saying, when you get to the counter, hey, I'd like some chocolate chip banana bread or pumpkin bread or whatever you're having. Great. Hey, I saw the chocolate chip pumpkin bread. I loved it last time. I'd like to take another slice. Oh yeah, it's beautiful. We really make it really great here. Any particular slice you want? That's a good salesperson. That's a good bakery. Bad bakery is trying to, you know, get rid of the lesser pumpkin bread so that later when someone's like, ah, do I deserve it? Should I have it? That person is more enticed to buy it because there's the better pumpkin bread out in front of them. No, no, no, no. They should. And, and honestly, if they, if they get to the end of the day and there's all these end pieces left, maybe they should figure out a new way to do it because that's when you slice them and put them out like this. That's what we why you do that? So that we could have a choice. J train podcast@gmail.com J train podcastmail.com It's a ticked off Tuesday. I I actually started this show thinking I had no anger or complaints in me and I am now so much more enraged than when I started this show. I want to thank you for being a listener here. I love doing this podcast. I love doing this show. I love doing it daily. Subscribe comment on YouTube or Apple Music or Spotify. Wherever you listen. There's a comment section that I'm told helps this show, but who knows? Jared this happened a few years ago, but I still think about it. It ticked me off. I was at a busy bar and after ordering my drink, the bartender swiped my credit card, swiveled one of the. Hold on, let me reread. I was at a busy bar and after ordering my drink, the bartender swiped my credit card, swiveled one of those giant iPad like screens for me to tip, and went to get my drink. For context, the screen is about double the size of an iPad and at eye level so everyone behind me could see. I put cash down on the bar for the tip and click 0 on the screen. A guy waiting for a drink, probably late 20s, early 30s, called me out in front of everyone. Oh, you're not going to tip? What are you? What are you, Clark, Kentucky? What are you, Superman? What are you? What are you, Robin Hood? Take from the rich, give to the poor. Oh, you bartended a few weeks in college and now you got to call everyone else out who doesn't tip on the screen even they're gonna give cash, which is actually worth more than the tip because they don't have to take tax on it. Who are you? Mind your fucking business. I can't even. This happened to me. Oh. I was like, what do I have to complain about? I do have a complaint. I was at the pool the other day and I'm in Puerto Rico on vacation. This woman looks at me and goes, do you need. You want me to put some cream on your back? Fuck off. Maybe I like my back a little burnt. Maybe I was trying to get a base before I put on the suntan lotion so it would turn into a tan. What an assumption. Oh, you're not going to tip. I told him, not nicely, that I already Tipped in cash and then had to stand there until my drink came. I'm mad for two reasons. I'm with you. I'm mad for all reasons. The guy was out of line. A total of smug tipping. The guy was out of line. A total smug tipping vigilante. I agree. Robin Hood. He thinks he's Robin Hood. He thinks he's doing a good deed and he thinks that the sacrifice of your like, he thinks embarrassing you is worth it to tell everyone he sees not tipping. And it's not. You're not a net positive dude. The tipping screen being on full display is ridiculous. Why cash? I usually like to pay in tip in cash, but didn't have enough for both. Also, in this cashless world, sometimes management takes a cut of card tips. So I stick to cash when I can. Listen, you don't have to explain why you do cash. It works. Your money is good here. That's the saying. Is it green? It pays. Just because we've gone cashless doesn't mean that your green money needs an explanation. This happened at a tiki bar on the Belt line in Atlanta when I was about 26. I don't care where it fucking happened. This is bullshit. This guy should go sexless for the rest of his life. He thinks he's a hero. That's the most annoying part. Thanks. Tipped off Tuesday. Yeah, that's pretty good. P.S. my friends and I saw your Atlanta show at the theater with a Christian rap group. Hassled you during your photos. Our pics were hilarious and much appreciated. Well, yes, a JCU tailed that story. Thank you for coming. I hope you came to the next show. I just did Atlanta and Alpharetta. I'm all around the Georgia area now. I'm ticked off. No, I just don't like this idea that he's helping. Mind your business, I'll mind mine and I'll keep tipping in cash. That's my big grievance with this is this idea that he's somehow walking around telling everyone who should tip and who shouldn't tip. The size of the screen. I listen. We should all live in a world where maybe our tip doesn't get seen in the way so that anyone could maybe assume we didn't tip. Let's assume everyone's doing the right thing. You're not that great a person for tipping. That's what annoys me. His mentality is annoying. He thinks he's some sort of hero when he gives 22%. We're all doing it, buddy. That's why he believes you didn't tip. He thinks he's doing such a heroic thing by tipping that you and all these other people aren't tipping. We're all tipping. You didn't catch anybody. You're not Robin Hood. You're not giving to the poor. We're all gonna do the right thing, which is a minimum. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcast mail.com Ticked off Tuesday, every Tuesday, back next week. Boom.