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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 Free coming along from Richmond, Virginia. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Are you annoyed at something? Write to us, let us know. This is the only place on the Internet where you can complain freely about anything and everything. And I will find a way to make you feel seen and heard. I will find a way to see your complaint and find a new avenue to complain more. Even if I disagree with you, I will find a way to agree with you. What? Give you some push back a little bit. Sometimes it's necessary. Ah, I see you. But how about this? That's the whole point of this podcast. And if you want to be a part of it, the only way to do it is to sign up for the Patreon. That's not the only way. Let me, let me be honest. That is right now, currently, if you're a Patreon subscriber, you get coffee with J Train every Friday. Where I'm going to talk about going to a biscuit place. I, I, I, I haven't taped it yet, but I'm sure I will talk about the biscuit place. I hope I do. I gotta write that down. Write about, you know, biscuit place. I'm writing it down. Just, I, I can't believe they have like fast food biscuit places. It's so foreign to me. I, I'll talk more about it on Coffee with J Train. So you get fun stories like that and you also get first dibs at ticked off Tuesday. So the link is in the bio. This episode, Wherever you're listening, patreon.com Jared Freed because you can comment on Coffee with J Train with your complaint. It goes to the top of the pile. Now if you don't want to do Patreon, that's okay. You can send your complaint to j train podcastmail.com that's j train podcast mail.com I have four complaints in front of me. We have two sponsors which is great if the sponsor helps you use the code. If not, there's other. There's other ways to help this show. You can sign up for Patreon. You can share on your Instagram or on your Facebook or. I'm posting everywhere. We're doing clips, so share, share, share. Tell a friend, tell a friend. Tell a friend, friend, friend. Tell a friend, Tell a friend, Tell a friend, friend, friend. Tell a friend, Tell a friend, Tell a friend, friend, friend. Let them know about this great show. O that felt good. I wasn't as smooth. My voice a little raspy. Here in Richmond, it's been a long week. I'm doing shows also on the road. This. It's coming up Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Chicago. Need, need, need you to assemble the group chat. We're doing theaters. That's a little bit of a chance. I' they say, what do you want to do? And I'm like, I got the audience. Let's do it. And then you hope people show up. So assemble the group chat. I got a great show for you. I'm working hard on it. That's why my voice is raspy. All right, I got. I'll start with my complaints. My complaints are kind of short. This week I flew from. I flew a lot. This week or in the last month, I've been flying a lot. I flew Fort Lauderdale to LA for something that will be announced later. Nothing too crazy. Don't worry. This. It's not like I'm gonna get nothing that will make anyone excited. You know, you. You might be excited for me, but my mom will be the, you know, the only one that will really care. Flew for Lauderdale, LA and then LA to Atlanta, Atlanta to Richmond. That's a long kind of all within the span of three days. So that was a lot of travel. And, you know, I'm. Because the travel was made somewhat late. I'm like, middle seat comfort plus and below for the whole trip, you know, it was like mid. Actually, I did get bumped to first class on the way to la, which is nice. But then on the way back, I had middle seat comfy, and then I had aisle regular. And that's fine. That's okay. I and, you know, as a Delta diamond member, you know, I posted something about this online. Someone's like, oh, you fly middle seat. That that means you must not be diamond medallion. To me, that outs how people mischaracterize, like, what people think is going on versus the reality. Like, if you're someone who's confidently saying, oh, you're Delta Diamond Medallion, that means you never sit middle seat. Then you know nothing. You, you know absolutely nothing. Confidently. You confidently know nothing. Like, that's to me, it's crazy to be so boisterous and loud. And I'm a boisterous, loud guy. Because if you're Delta diamond medallion, that means you fly a lot. And that means you get whatever seat you get. And you are actually more likely to get middle seat. You're more likely to get, oh, we're just going to put you here because you book late and you book often. So I'm going into the plane for my Delta comfy class middle seat experience. And we're boarding and there's a woman in front of me. And here's the thing. When you fly a lot, like, I've seen it all. I get it. I, I've seen and I've had opinions and retracted them and gone, oh, I see it differently now because I am here a lot. Woman is boarding in front of me, and the gate agent looks at the woman and says, hey, you got three bags. I need you to combine two of those bags. It's only two on the plane or we gotta check something. That's the rule. That's it. That's, that's what it is. And whether you agree or disagree with the rule, that is a rule they are firm on. This isn't a suggestion. So the woman who's in front of me pulls off to the side very slowly, you could tell it was an annoyed pull off. And then looks at me and starts rolling her eyes at me while combining her second and third bag. Don't roll your eyes at me. I'm team airline. I'm team Delta. I am with corporate. I'm not with you. I'm not on team taking a flight once a month. Maybe you are holding all of us up. Us meeting, gate agent and me. Two people who have work to do. Don't come to me with your eye rolls. You should actually, if you fly enough with your dial, I, I, they give you. One of the crazy things they do for Delta is they give you a luggage tag that says what your medallion status is. It's crazy because you can't really even put your name on it. I think you can ask them to put your name on it, but you really can't. Like, you don't. And it's really just to put on your bag to let people know that you travel a lot. I want them to go further. I want a badge. I want a sheriff's badge that says Delta diamond medallion. I want A sheriff's badge that says Delta Diamond Medallion. And I want it big and huge like a big star, Like a sheriff would wear in the Old West. I want a cowboy hat that also says Delta Diamond Medallion member. So that people know who they're dealing with. When you roll your eyes at me, I want to be able to point at the badge and go. And in that instance, I couldn't because I to her, I was with her. No, we are not together. You're wrong. Turn that, turn those two bags into a Russian doll. Combine them. It's over for you. That's my first complaint. Don't roll your eyes at me. When you're at the, at the airport, I'll roll my eyes at the gate agent at you. I just went and walked around this mall. I'm in Richmond, Virginia. Here's my other complaint. Three complaints from me today. I'm walking around this mall. I love a high end walking, outdoor mall. I think it's great. It comforts me. I don't even mind that I've seen the stores before. I'm going to waltz around, I'm going to wander. I'm a wanderer. So I'm walking around, I'm looking for a cookie. It's a cookie situation. I saw Cold Stone Creamery. I'm like, ah, I don't think that's for me, that's too much. I wanted more than a sweet treat, less than a cold stone. A cookie would have done me right. I didn't want the cookie to be from Starbucks, so I wanted a very specific cookie. I wanted a cookie from a cookie place. I go on my Google Maps, I search cookie, Cold Stone comes up. That's not what I'm looking for. Then I go to this place and it's like a candy place. So I go into this candy place and I'm smelling and it smells like someone just made their lunch. Like, and it. To me, a candy place should smell like a candy place. Like, it should smell the smell of the candy. I mean, that's what cold stone does. The smell of a cold stone, the smell of a Auntie Ann's. Those places that brings you in and makes you want to purchase. I guess, like, you know, I'm thankful that the person like someone made like, like, like literally heated up last night's rest of like last night's leftovers and was like eating it at a candy place. And you're like, I guess it saved me from getting candy, which I'm appreciative of. But I'm also like, I walked in, I don't think I would have noticed the smell had it not been a candy place. Candy place, gotta smell like candy. So I walked. I'm like, is someone eating lasagna? Like, is there a lasagna cooking? And I couldn't believe it. I was like, this. This place should be reserved for, you know, for whimsy and magic. My last complaint. I walked into the hotel to check in and, you know, I walk in to check in, and it was Thursday night, long day of flying. And I said to myself, before walking in, I had headphones in. I just got out of an Uber ride that was like, way longer from the airport than I would have expected. And I said to myself, I remember saying to myself, jared, take out the headphones. Be a human. Talk to the person checking you in. Be eye contact, be right. This is your last time having human interaction for the day. Then you're going to go to bed. Do it right. Be a mensch. I literally had that speech with myself. And I took out my headphones, I go to the front desk. I said, hey, I'm checking in. The person looks at me. They're very nice. They go, need your id? Give me my id. And then I see that there's a water tub with cups to the right. I leave my stuff. I go over the water tub as their click, click, click on the computer. And I look at the person at the front desk and it's. There's two people at the front desk. There's one guy that's helping someone else or. No, there was one guy on his own, and then someone and a woman helping me. I take a big sip of water and I turn to the two people at the front desk and I go, you ever have one of those days where you just drink no water at all? And these two people looked at me as if I went outside the Matrix and did something wrong. There was like, no. Anything from them. They literally. I go. I take a big sip. I go, you ever have one of those days where you don't drink any water at all? And they literally went like this. They go and just turn their heads like. It was like two birds turned to me and said nothing at all. I was like, am I in a simulation? Did I go outside of the Truman show that I'm supposed to be acting in? All I'm asking is for them. I don't even care if they heard what I said. Just laugh, just go. Just do something that makes me feel like I'm here on Earth. I'm not asking for much. And I only got upset because I was like, I was like, let's have a moment with a human being. All day. I got my headphones in on the plane. Not making eye contact with everyone, eye rolling me. I was like, jared, just make a connection. They turned like there were two robots that were about to go and start murdering the whole town. Just. All right, let's get to your complaints. I got four in front of me. Before we get to your complaints, I got two sponsors. Hero Bread. Hero, the folks who brought you bread can eat on your. They. The folks. I'm reading their copy. But the folks that brought you bread you can eat on your diet are breaking out the noodles. That's right. I, I have to say Hero noodles. I'm on board with Hero's mission. That's my point. So the, the noodles have more protein, 60% fewer calories than other brands. 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My 62 year old coworker dated a guy they've since broken up who was super against plastic Tupperware shower curtain. My 62 year old coworker dated a guy they've since broken up who is super against plastic Tupperware, shower curtains, water bottles, etc. I usually drink my water at my desk from either my reusable bottle or a regular Poland Spring bottle that I bring from home. Ever since she broke up with the guy, she's been giving me shit about drinking from the Poland Spring bottles because of the microplastics I'm ingesting and the damage to the environment. Every time, I just give her a blank stare until she's done venting and say I do have a reusable bottle. I just Find that I never really Dr. From it because the tap water at home and the water fountains here don't taste good, so I don't drink as much. I am so annoyed for you. You should not have to explain your water intake and how one is better than the other to appease some rando at work who has their own issues. This is them trying to find a place in the world where they can have one on their fellow person and feel other people. Because if it's not one thing, it's the other thing. You know, they started with, oh, you're ruining the environment, then it turns into microplastics. They're like, for some reason, like, when that didn't work, they moved on to something else. It's coming after your body and it's like, just lay off me. Can we all just agree that we don't need to live forever and let's all just let it burn and we'll go away and hope that further generations can figure this thing out. Because we're not. It's also not us that's the environmental problem. Like, it's not like, what we can do in our effect on things. It's the big companies. It's them putting a chimney stack with the ash into the air like that. Like, there's like, it's beyond us. So to go talk to you at your desk when you have bigger stresses as you're getting a sip of water and you're just trying to feel good about your day for five seconds is a horrific personality to really put on other people. And they're doing it in the name of morality, in the name of they're better than you because this subject allows them to. Which is actually show. Which actually shows how they would act if they were a dictator to me. You want to use a reusable bottle, you don't like plastics, that's fine. Do it for you, do it for yourself. If that's what makes you feel better, good for you. But if you're going to take that information and use it to smash me during my break, that is you abusing the power of this knowledge. It's getting so infuriating because every time I recycle one of my Poland Spring bottles, she has to make a comment. Her desk has a clear view of the recycle bin in our office. Oh, this person is awful. Like, what does she want me to do? Stop drinking water while I'm at work 40 plus hours a week? If I was to ingest microplastics, just let me and try Going after the mega corporations that are destroying the planet. Not the woman who wants to stay hydrated. A hydrated or a hydrate or d. Or they sign off with a hydrate or dyedrate bitch. I like the sign off here. I totally agree. You and I are on the same page. It is just a way to get you. And listen, you're the easiest one to get on this. They don't go and talk to people at city hall. They don't go protest. They're just going to bother anyone within arm's reach because that's all they want to do. This is them doing it for themselves, not the earth, not your health. It is them getting to feel better than other people. They can politely go fuck themselves. I hate these type of people. Fuck off. That is my. I would go straight to fuck off. Hey, that water bottle is going to give you fuck off. See how go do it right now, as you're walking, as you're listening to this podcast, give a good strong one. Feels good, you know, it feels as good as telling someone how great you are because you recycle, you know, and also you're recycling. You're doing what you can. What a piece of shit. I don't mean to go. I. That really angers me. You have to work with this person. You get 10 minutes to hydrate and they're like, oh, let me put these horrific thoughts in your brain that make you feel like an evil person. Fuck off politely. I politely ask you to fuck off politely. With all due respect. With all due respect, do me a favor. I want you to fuck off. And I bid you fuck off. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcastmail.com Big fan of the pod. Patreon subscriber here. Thank you. I write to you from the M60 bus heading to LaGuardia and I'm ticked off. Listen. LaGuardia and public transportation. Listen, I commend you for trying, but I don't think that's easy to do at all. I know this is a familiar rant, but why is getting to LaGuardia so difficult? If you're unwilling to pay the $60 plus car fare. Car fare? Yeah, that's it. You're stuck. The fact that New York, New York City, the greatest city in the world, has no direct train option to any airport. That. You heard me correctly, if your feedback to that is, well, JFK, you can take the AirTrain and then you can connect. No, you can connect. No, no, no, no. If the fact that there is no direct train, that should be item One on the agenda for New York City. Item one, air travel is bigger than it's ever been. You have a city that is like the biggest travel to city and. And one that is, like, kind of necessary for a lot of people's work. Do better. Like, and the only thing you have is a bus to one of your airports. Like, at least jfk. Fine. You can do the air train to.
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The train to Penn Station. JFK. I'm still is going to say wrong is wrong. LaGuardia, you'd be like, wait a minute, what. So the airport that helps get people to the. What is considered the greatest and biggest city in the world is just like a random bus? You. You wouldn't even believe it. I live on the Upper east side and have often gotten from my door to my gate in under 25 minutes. Good for you. But I'm currently between jobs and car rides to and from the airport aren't in the budget. So I turned to the mta. Yeah, I mean, especially Upper east, you can get to LaGuardia pretty quickly. But this is brutal. For my 9:50. For my 9:55am flight, I left my apartment at 7:34 and I'm currently praying I'm making it by 9. It's New York. Is New York trying to get me down when there are multiple public transportation options to JFK and even Newark? Why is LaGuardia left out like the awkwardly tall chick in the group? It should not take an hour and a half to go seven miles. Sincerely, a pet, perpetually poor batch. This is like, listen, as a. As a person who loves New York City, this is the hole in their game. And it's something that I actually, since moving to Delray beach, driving to the airport, the West Palm Airport, and having it be 25 minutes away and I can leave a half. It's 25 minutes from door to door to airport. 25 minutes. I could leave my apartment a half hour before boarding and I'd be okay with parking. And it's not that I expect New York to be that, but I do expect. I didn't expect to feel so much less stress from my new airport thing and that and this and I have to connect more going out of West Palm and Fort Lauderdale. I'm. I'm. I'm kind of just like giving into that. This is. This is like a huge hole. I mean, the place where subways and trains are encouraged to people. You don't have one at the airport. Crazy. Jtrain podcast or gmail.com Jtrain podcastmail.com J Jared, I'm ticked off. And since you're a golfer, I have a etiquette question for you. All right, hit me. And I, I mean, I would feel ashamed to call myself a golfer because I'm just not good enough to do that. But I'm trying, I'm trying to learn and I, I really do enjoy when I enjoy it and I get frustrated by it. I'm frustrated. My husband and I split time between our city apartment and a vacation home on gorgeous rural desert golf course. We love it. But my two young energetic dogs have nowhere safe to run. The local dog park is. The local dog park is a 20 minute drive and full of rattlesnakes. I mean, this must be in Arizona and in the city. The park near us isn't safe. After my dog was attacked there. Hey. So I left my. So I let my dogs run on the golf course early mornings and evenings when no one's golfing. This is a tough one. I don't know the rules here, but I. Okay, I always. And also like, it's tough. This is a tough one because the local dog park being 20 minutes away by car. Like, I, I get why that's an issue, but that's not like what a golfer who just had his ball taken by Rufus is going to be okay with. So. So I let my dogs run on the golf course early mornings and even. And evenings when no one's golfing, I always pick up after them and have done this for two years with no issue. Okay. Until a cranky new neighbor started yelling, taking photos and reporting me to hoa. No one else seems to care. The HOA hasn't said a word. Am I the asshole for letting my dogs run on the course or is this lady just teeing off on me for no reason, Scooping the poop but sometimes stepping in it. Well, when you wrote I always pick up the poop and you're doing it early mornings, late at night. I don't understand how she is bothered like that. That's the one thing with complaints and anger. It's really tough to get me angry if I'm not experiencing it. Like the problem via what you're doing now is the dog barking. And they're like looking for a way to get your dog to not have to go out near their house. And this is their like way into that. That's, that's like one thing. But like, I don't think you're an asshole for letting your dog out, especially if you're picking up the poop. And especially if you've done this for legitimately years. Like, the annoying part to me is you move in somewhere and all of a sudden you're calling HOA on people who have, like, had an exp. Like, have been there. Like, there's a. We've established we're all good here. Or the only thing I could see from their end is like, hey, you gotta know, like, when they moved in, a neighbor was like, hey, just so you know, they let their dog out. It's kind of annoying. We've never said anything because we moved here afterwards. And they're like this, I'll say a word, I guess. But it's like, how is this bothering them? And also, here's what I am on your side about. Let's call me before we go to hoa. Let's be neighbors. Let's be humans. Let's be two people who can have an uncomfortable conversation, shake hands at the end, and go, I. We found a reasonable solution. Because that's my curiosity. Hey, I'm doing something a little bit on the line, but why don't you let me know what the issue is and how this is affecting you before we run to, you know, to the, you know, the HOA to be like, oh, they're not doing that. I got them. Like, let's work together here. We have to live next to each other. That's what annoys me most about your complaint. And I. That's where I agree with you wholeheartedly. Come to me first. You got a problem with how I'm doing things? You just moved in the neighborhood. Come to Papa J. Let's talk it out. We can find a solution. I'll try and understand your plight if you come to me and you go, hey, you're breaking the rules. And I would say, well, how is this affecting you? And you go, well, it's not. I just like rules. I would go, fuck off. That would be. That's my straight to fuck off stfo. That's straight to fuck off fom fuck off mode. I'm really in it today. A lot of swearing. I'm sorry if you're sitting in the car with your kids. Last one, Jared. I'm a PhD psychology student with a focus in end of life cancer care. Wow, what a. What a direction on Friday. I'm also truly humbled. Humble. I hate that word. I'm flattered when someone who was so smart chooses this podcast to let their brain melt with. That is really quite a comment, even if you don't mean it to be. I take it that way. On Friday, I spent the day in the cancer infusion center recruiting patients for a research study to help with death. With. To help with death anxiety. That is something I've never heard of, but totally get how it's a real thing that I would. You know, you're given so many days to live. Oh. Like, we see it in movies. So we. I think we. I become a little numb to that. Like, you have six months to live, and you're like, oh, okay. Hilarity ensues. Time to start dating. But in real life, you'd like. I don't even know how people would handle that. And they have to. After a long, draining day, I decided to stop at Chipotle on the way home for a quick pick me up. When I pulled up, I was disappointed to see that it looked like the Chipotle was under construction with construction tape over the doors and no trespassing signs. After a second look, I noticed that it was actually just fake construction tape and Halloween decorations. See photo attached. Yeah. The photo I'm looking at without, like, zooming in, which none of us would do, we would look at this and go, clothes for business. There is no way. I look at this picture and think, whoa, fun Halloween at Chipotle. No. I see this and I say, I guess I gotta keep driving and find somewhere else to eat. I guess that something happened. I guess someone broke a window and they're closed for renovations. Also notice the real no trespassing sign next to the entrance. I. I can't even see it. I guess I can see it if I zoomed in, but I'm. I'm looking at this on a macro level. On a macro. This is a Chipotle that is under construction and either hasn't opened yet or is being renovated from this angle. Who in the hell's idea was it to decorate all the doors and windows like that? Luckily, I noticed and was able to get Chipotle, but did not appreciate it after a long, upsetting, and emotionally Dr. Day. Yeah, this is a roller coaster. You're driving to. Like, you're driving to Chipotle. You're like, oh, all I need is a big fat burrito right to the mouth. And you're driving up and you're doing the thing where you're like, I'll get chips. Okay, let's get chips. Fine. You. It is. This is enraging because let's just imagine this person's day they're dealing with being a PhD psychology student. They're talking to cancer patients. It's been a hard day. It's been a tough day. They get in the car, they're like, you should get Chipotle. And none of us feel like we deserve Chipotle. If you're being honest, we all feel like that is like, am I a pig? Should I be getting something? Should I be spending the money? Should I be cooking for myself? Shouldn't I be healthy? So they're doing this in the car, and then they're like, no, Jared, you deserve it. Have a big fat burrito and shove it down your throat. And you know what? Get the chips and salsa and guac, too. And you were like, no, don't get the chips. You got to be healthy. It's Tuesday. No, Jared, you deserve it. You worked with patience all day. You need the Chipotle. Get the chips, get the guacamole, get the big, fat burrito, Get a Coca Cola. And finally you're like, jared, I'm doing it. You pull up to Chipotle, and you're like, oh, my God, it's closed. You could taste the Chipotle already. And now it's being torn from your hands. And now you're saying, oh, I already made the decision of what I'm gonna eat. I've already said I'm gonna be unhealthy. I was gonna be a Chipotle tonight. And then suddenly you're like, well, is it closed? Is it open? What is that? That construction tape? And then you're finally. You're like, oh, it is open. I don't need that emotional roller coaster. I don't need to go from. Don't have the Chipotle. Okay? I have the Chipotle. Oh, my God, they're closed. There's no Chipotle. No one should have to deal with with that. It's Halloween. It's not construction eve. This isn't. This isn't Bob the Builder day. Construction tape should not be there. It should be skeletons, witches, steam from a cauldron. That's a Halloween decoration. Don't make your place look like it's closed for business until next year so that I have to deal with this emotional ride that I just went on from. Don't have the Chipotle. Stay healthy to find you can treat yourself to. Oh, my God. I've already decided. I want Chipotle. Now I got to go 10 miles away to another Chipotle. Consider yourself heard. 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Date: October 28, 2025
Host: Jared Freid
Format: Jared reads and riffs on listener complaints, shares personal gripes, and delivers comic exaggerations around minor annoyances.
This Ticked Off Tuesday episode is dedicated to airing out everyday annoyances, from airport travel woes and misguided Halloween decorations to workplace environmental scolding and HOA busybodies. Jared Freid, recording from Richmond, Virginia, invites listeners to vent and delivers his signature humorous validation and over-the-top suggestions for “fixing” the world’s petty problems. The tone is comedic, empathic, and just a little bit exasperated.
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Jared’s approach is simple: “Are you mad? Write in! I’ll find a way to agree with you, even if I disagree.”
He stresses the communal, cathartic aspect of the show, celebrating complaint as bonding ritual.
Tone & Style:
Energetic, warm, occasionally profane, always comedic—Jared makes the most trivial annoyances feel universally relatable. He’s supportive of complainants, usually siding with them and escalating their gripes in exaggerated ways.
Takeaway:
If you’re ticked off on Tuesday, Jared is your man. Whether you hate fake construction tape at Chipotle, rants about microplastics, or the lack of a direct train to the airport, you’re in good company.
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