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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 to you live from Los Angeles, California. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you angry? Are you upset about something? Send it to me. Jtrain podcastmail.com you send me your complaints, I will complain with you. That's the promise of this show. Now, we do have a program in place. The program is if you sign up for Patreon, you get first dibs at complaining. Every Tuesday, I'm looking at four complaints in front of me. All of them are from Patreon subscribers. So if you are looking to complain with me and you want to be put at the top of the pile, sign up for Patreon. Patreon.com JaredFried if you sign up, it's five bucks a month. That gets you the Friday episode. Every Friday you can comment on Coffee with J Train with your complaint and we'll get to it the next week. That's the promise. Also, you get Coffee with J Train, which is a, I think a very good podcast. I think, you know, it's my diary, my personal diary. This week you're going to hear the full story of or if you sign up right now, you'll get the full story. Last week or last Friday's episode will be about my experience on the Golden Bachelor. That's right. So I'm excited to tell you that story because it is a very, very funny and wild story to me. So patreon.com jared free to get involved with Coffee with J Train, which also. Which, which, which, which also, which also. Which also gets you first dibs at TikTok Tuesday. Now, I got four complaints from listeners. We have one sponsor and then I also have my complaints. So I'll do my complaints, then we'll get to the sponsor. Then the four listener complaints. Before I do, I have shows I want you to come. Richmond, Virginia. If you know anyone near these places, send them. Richmond, Virginia. D.C. milwaukee, Minneapolis, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Chicago. They're all on My website right now. San Diego, Orlando, New York, Boston, all of Texas except San Antonio. I keep trying to. I think we're adding Tempe. Arizona's coming. I've never been to Tempe. I've been to Scottsdale. I've been a Phoenix. I heard that Tempe room is great, but that, that might not be out yet. So I know you're gonna message me. When is the ticket link? I don't hide ticket links. So when they're out, they're out. So come on out, assemble the group chat. Also sound for the YouTube. YouTube I am doing, I'm putting the Bachelor live stream on YouTube after I do it on Instagram and then at the end of it, there's a recap of the Bachelor and every Thursday around noon eastern time. So if you want a recap, just a, just a light sprinkle of recap all over your face, I give it to you there. So here's my complaints. You know, sometimes I'm like, I wake up and I'm about to tape a ticked off Tuesday and I'm like, I don't know if I got anything to complain about. And then the complaint fairy, you know, flutters down to my brain and gives me something that enrages me. Two things happened as I'm going to have breakfast tonight. Today I'm in Los Angeles. I'm here on assignment. I have, you know, I had a couple things to take care of while here that I'll go into on coffee. I, I will. When you hear this, it's probably a part of the Coffee with J Train episode that's out with the Golden Bachelor, you know, behind the scenes thing. So I go to get coffee and breakfast this morning because I kind of have like a big day of taping and then I have a show tonight. I call my parents now I call my mom and immediately and I kind of expect this at this point. I call my mom and I expect about 30 seconds to a minute of hello, hello, you there?
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I expect a buffer from 30 seconds to a minute. That's not a normal amount of time. That's a long time. Think of pick up the phone, call someone, see how long it takes for you to connect on a. Hello? Hello? Oh, good to hear from you. You will be talking within the first seven seconds of calling my mom. I've become accustomed to 30 seconds to a minute of figuring out how to talk to each other on the phone. That's just the, that is the going rate of calling my parents. It's a Full on minute of you there.
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Hello? Hello?
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Yeah, I'm here. I can't hear you. There's a lot of background noise. And then. And then them going, no. Well, why don't you take out the headphones? The headphones don't work. I can hear you.
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Hang up. They'll call back. I call back, they miss the call. They're calling me while I'm calling them. This is actually every time I call home. Every single time. It is a full minute. And if. And it. And if at the end of the minute, we don't connect, we'll try again tomorrow. Today wasn't our day. I give up. I say goodbye. We're done here.
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I can hear you. Muffles. Just a bunch of muffle.
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Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
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And then finally we get in, and if we don't get it, I say, I've. I have been in the middle of that one minute figuring out how to talk to each other. I've actually hung up and been like, okay, we tried. We gave it a shot. I've been with people. They're like, dude, what just happened? I'm like, nah. I tried to call them. They couldn't hear me. I couldn't hear them. We're gonna. We're going to punt this one. Let's give it away. We'll come back another day. So I call my mom, expecting this beginning.
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She goes, hello? And now I'm trying to, like, get on the same page as her. Suddenly the phone goes out and I'm like, I think she just hung up on me. Which again, to be expected. Finally. Then all of a sudden, I hear my dad's voice. He's like, hello? I'm like, hello. And now it's my mom's voice.
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Now it's three people at the same time going, hello, hello, hello. If you listen to it, I don't know if it would be funny. I'm annoyed. Just explaining it. Finally, it's my dad's voice, my mom's voice, and my voice. Even though I called my mom, my mom gets on the phone, she goes, I merged it. Did it merge? And if you're not familiar with the iPhone, if you're on the phone with someone and you see someone is calling you, you can press a button called merge that puts all the calls together as one call. I don't think my mom is at that level of iPhone usage. Let's just agree with that. The merge button shouldn't work for my mom. It shouldn't even be an option. We are not at phone 202. This is. We are iPhone 101 still. We have not passed level one. We are not getting. I mean, the fact that my mom thinks she can merge the calls as if she's Steve Jobs and knows how to use this phone. You can't press the merge button if you can't even figure out how to pick up the phone. So this is what gets me angry. We need our iPhones to give us options once we've shown the ability to use these options. The merge button shouldn't even be an option on my mom's phone until she can figure out how to pick it up and answer with when one person calls, putting three people on the same call, that is beyond the level she's at. And this isn't to say, I'm not calling my mom dumb. I'm not calling my family stupid. I am saying your family is the same way. Your family shouldn't have access to the merge button either. I think these phones should work like a video game. You only get to level three if you've passed level two. Things when you achieve certain levels in the game now you get options to use more stuff in the game. So you shouldn't really get the merge button unless you're like two years in and you go, oh, you know, like the rings connecting on your Apple watch. Like you've just achieved this goal. It should ring on your phone. You have done a good job with your phone on level one. Now you have access to new things on your phone. The merge button, the. I mean, the front facing camera. These shouldn't just. We shouldn't just open up the phone and have access to everything is my point. My mom should have to go through a year of doing things right on the phone to then, oh, okay, now you get merged. Whoa, look it out. And we'd all like that. I think we'd all like to feel like we've accomplished a goal and passed to another level. I just can't believe she even tried to merge the calls when we have literally a one minute.
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To get to get to together on the phone. So I get off the phone with them, we finally talk and I have to hang up and I gotta call my dad so that I can have an actual conversation. I go to breakfast, I go to this place, Earth cafe that I really like. I think it's a chain here. It's very up its own ass in the la way. It's very L A to me. It rings. L A, it smells. L A It looks L. A. If you're from this area, you know the place you're and they've got like very holistic looking place, outdoor coffee, fireplace kind of burning. It's I, I genuinely like it as a place, coffee shop, coffee cafe type of spot. I get my meal, I get an egg white omelette, I get the salad on the side, no potatoes, side of chicken, sausage, spicy. And I'll post this on the Instagram stories. If we don't use this as a clip, which I don't think we will. It comes with two very big and soft pieces of baguette, maybe the most delicious pieces of baguette I have ever seen. And it also comes with a ramekin of butter. Like the softest, most wonderful butter you have ever laid your eyes on. Butter. I would call it a knob of butter. It is very British looking, very British Bake off looking the baguette and the butter together as a picture that you're going to see on Instagram stories is going to make your mouth water. It is a cartoonishly delicious looking baguette slice and butter. You're going and I hope I, I hope I'm creating the image enough. It's like two pieces off of a baguette now. Nothing in the world of bread looks more delicious than these two things look together. I didn't eat them. I don't know how to explain how hard that was for me. That was me looking at the bread, looking at the butter going, no, no, it's Tuesday. No, we're doing egg whites. You've been eating like an animal here. You don't need the bread. Last night you had a fried trio at 9 o' clock before going to bed. You don't need this. You had sushi yesterday. You've been you bacon, egg and cheese from Layla bagels the other day which was delicious. You're going egg whites. I came into Earth Cafe, Hearth Cafe, whatever that's called, the up its own ass la Cafe to have an egg white omelette and to keep it simple, stupid. I wanted to keep it healthy. I wanted to walk out feeling like I've accomplished a workout based on and, and again I, I and I planned on today. No workout today. I went to Barry's yesterday. I am staring at these baguette slices and the butter, the whole meal. Why are we doing this? I think we need to opt into bread when you order. If you're going to order at a breakfast place, let's just have it all a la carte. I think to even have anything come with the omelette? We should have to add on when we're, when we are at our least ravenous. Your most ravenous is you've just had the egg white omelet. You just had the chicken sausage. Oh my God, I'm going to eat these two. It's going to get caught in the turbines. You know it's going to get caught. If I'm the wood chipper, my mouth is just going to get. You know, for me to not eat this bread and butter was like a real achievement in the way that I'm mad at Earth Cafe because it should be. Order the egg white. Okay. Do you want add ons? And at that point I would be okay spending a quarter more on each of the add ons just to not. I want to get it out of the way. I don't want to have to say no bread. I don't want to say I want to have to add the bread on. That is how bread should work. I'm going to get a sandwich with bread. This will make us, you know, because then I don't have the nothing bread, the bread I didn't want. I want the bread to be on display behind the register so I can see if it's a worth it bread or not. This is all things I want and to have just bread put on the plate when you get an egg white omelette. I think you're doing this to fuck with me. You're trying to mess with me. No one needs this. I want it. I don't need it. 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Okay, let's get to the listener complaints. You can, I mean, these are all from Patreon, so I would encourage you to sign up for Patreon, which I really love doing. Patreon.com Jared Freed Five bucks a month. All the ads are in the description of the episode, but if you do have a complaint that you don't want to sign up for patreon, that's okay. Jtrain podcast gmail.com Let me also do an ask for advice questions. If you're out there and you have an advice question, we always need those for the Monday Mailbag episode. Okay. Also, you know a good way to get around the Patreon, not to be like this guy, but like, if you did a complaint that turned into a question, that is a Monday mailbag advice question. So you could, you know, you could play. You, you could. With me. You could, you could, you could, you could make that happen. I am submitting a ticked off Tuesday on behalf of my friend. See, this person's kind of doing that. They're kind of skirting around the rules here. I mean, I would encourage you to tell your friend, listen to the show, they might need it. I am submitting a ticked off Tuesday on behalf of my friend who went and paid for a full body massage and didn't massage her back due to, quote, unquote, running out of time. The masseur apologized, but that was it. No, no, no, no, that's not. There's an easy Way to you. Apology. Apology is like, oh, I'm sorry you missed the train. It took too long. No, no, we can still do this. My back's right here. You're right here. What do you mean you ran out of time? Were you on your phone? My friend is too scared to complain even though she has a monthly membership. That's the reason to complain. It baffles me so much. I had to share here. I'm with you. This is baffling. Your friend doesn't really understand the art of complaining. If I'm them, I am considering myself as a monthly customer. If I. If I have a monthly membership somewhere, I believe I have a right to complain more than the one off person. They should want to make me the happiest. If I'm your friend, I got to go out. I. And you know, I think what happens with complaining is people think it has to be screamed. It has to be angry. You can complain while also staying calm and working towards a solution. So for your friend, if I were them, I would go up to the counter, hey, I'm not looking. And I. I do understand your friend being a little embarrassed because there is a person whose livelihood. Whose livelihood is at stake. So they don't want to, like, shame the masseur. I mean, to me, if I got to the end, you know, ding, your massage is over. Sorry. To get to the back, I'd be like, well, if I was the massage therapist, I would go, hey, I kind of, like, got lost in the sauce here. We're gonna give you 10 more minutes just so I can get your back. I didn't get to your back. That's their responsibility. And the back is like a lot of real estate. Like, I. What were they hanging on the face? And listen, I am someone. My. My dad has been known to get no back. He goes, I want. But you get no back so that everything else gets more. So where did they kind of get lost? Where did they meander? But if I'm the massage therapist, I don't want to someone walking out of there going, wait, I went for a massage. They never touched my back. Back is the one people are going to catch. Like, that's the one I wouldn't ever miss. I'd rather miss the forearm, the cal. Because people are more likely to be like, oh, yeah, I guess they did miss my calf. You missed the back that's missing. Like the major player in the massage game. So if I'm the. To me, it's like the massage therapist, they think, you know, if they're going. Oh, sorry I missed your back. Get you next time, buddy. Nuh. That's like why people go get a massage. It's the back first and the rest is like cream. Yeah, you got to complain. I'm going to complain about your friend. Your friend not complaining is allowing for this to maybe happen to someone else. Your friend's lack of complaint is really letting this person know it's okay. I would have gone up to the front desk. Hey, I'm not looking to get anyone in trouble, but I came for a one hour massage and they didn't do my back. I know that's not your responsibility, but it is the, you know, I have a and and then I would go and I'm a monthly member. I, I, you know, I belong here. So I don't want to get know this to happen again. I can't. When you're a monthly member, somewhere there is a bit of I care about this place. I want it to do well. I'm cheering for you guys. So dropping that little tidbit lets them know like I'm coming back. I want this to be done right. And it wasn't done right this time. Jtrain podcast, Gmail com. Jtrain Podcast mail dot com. I got another ticked off Tuesday. J Train. This may seem small. No, no, no. There's no small complaints. They're all valid. Your complaints shall be read and they shall be heard. That is the motto here. This may seem small, so you don't have to write that. But I do have a complaint. I like to pick up coffee sometimes when I do my Target mobile order because. Because you can get Starbucks and they bring it to your car, which alleviates the need to go to a different coffee shop. And you can just stay in your car, get your stuff and your coffee and go home. Okay, so I'm not familiar with the target mobile order, but I believe what's going on here is you do a mobile order, they'll bring out all your stuff, including a coffee which does feel like you are being treated like, like royalty. That is, that is a royal affair. You didn't even move and someone just knew to just greet you with everything you thought of. That's crazy. We are living in the future. My complete part is that they, my complaint part I believe they meant to write is that is that they never give you a straw with your iced coffee. That's crazy because the coffee cup lids you can now sip from. But I prefer a straw. Yeah, These lids, they're doing something we never asked for. We. I And I know what you're talking about. So the, the coffee, the iced coffee lids are now adult sippy cups. As if we were like looking at a toddler being like, oh, I wish I had one of those. No one asked for this. No one wanted this. And then I guess the feedback is, this is better for the environment because it's now one. It's less straws. And. No, no, no. This is. None of us wanted no straws. We have been hooked on these straws. This is how we drank. And then they made a change, as if we were all on board for this. We're not on board. It was at one point to save the turtles. It just feels like the coffee lid company wanted to crush the straw industry. And they've been better at the propaganda than the straw company has. The straw company is a lu. Is now seen as a luxury. It's now seen as something we don't need. That it's a murderous weapon. Oh, no. But why don't you take this top that makes it like a sippy cup? It's like, no, no, no. I didn't want to have my wawa. Okay. I didn't want to have, you know, my, my, my orange, my, my juice. I wanted an iced coffee like an adult from a straw that I can suck on. There's nowhere you can request a straw. And sometimes you get one and sometimes you don't. I think I. It. I think it should be standard that they can give you a straw or you can get a check mark where you can request a straw. Like where you can request a fork or silverware from a takeaway place. I need a straw. AKA Heather. Well, Heather, I'm on your side. You're totally correct. Beyond them, just assuming you'll take the sippy cup lid, there should be a notes part of the. I mean, this is. This is a Target issue. Target's mobile app order should also have a notes section. And the notes, we just want a human to read it and go and get it. So the notes, a simple note. Hey, straw, please. That's all you need to write. And the fact that you can't even put a note. What if I want extra ice? What if I want less water? This is the reason to go into the place. But if you've created this world where we can order from our car and you have to make it equal to the in store experience where a straw would be assumed. JTrain podcastmail.com, jTrain podcastmail.com I got two more here in front of me. A little bit longer. Dear Jared, really enjoy the podcast. I've shared it with friends and it's become a regular topic of conversation when we hang out. I love that. Thank you. I'm hoping this is a quick and easy ticked off Tuesday submission because I need someone on my side. I'm here for you. I belong to a gym in New Jersey with an outdoor pool that members pay extra for. Okay, I get it. I don't like when a gym has like and then this area you have to get the extra. I don't like that. Make me a gym member or don't. There's an outdoor Jacuzzi as well. Okay, I belong to a gym in New Jersey with an outdoor pool that members that pay extra for it. There's an outdoor Jacuzzi as well. There are signs stating that Jacuzzi is for members age 14 and older. Last week I was relaxing and said Jacuzzi when about six girls ranging from ages 6 to 8 entered the Jacuzzi and started to splash around. There were no parents around. No lifeguards either. I was in the Jacuzzi again the next day when a woman allowed her toddler to walk around the edge of the Jacuzzi. I had to move my towel and elbows off the edge when the kid wanted to pass. Plus I couldn't really relax because I was worried the kid was going to fall the entire time he was doing laps. My massage, my message to parents and gym staff, Keep kids out of the Jacuzzi. This is an extremely family friendly gym with water slides, pool toys, a rock wall, a kid's gym, organize kids activities and more. Wow. Let the adult spaces be the adult spaces so the adults can relax in peace. Thanks. Ticked in the Garden State. I totally agree with you. You didn't have to convince me. This is horrific. And here's the thing. If you're going to be a kid friendly environment, you have to protect the adults. No one wants to be the rando adult yelling at someone else's kid. We don't want to have to be put in the position of parenting. I don't want to be on video angry. Get your kid out of my pool. Nothing looks worse than adult angry at little kids. Like you're Mr. Wilson and they're Dennis the Menace. Mr. Wilson is the joke. Mr. Wilson is the loser. Dennis the Menace is the cool kid is the fun. And when you make it so that we're Mr. Wilson, it's very annoying. And here's the other thing. If you're going to have a Jacuzzi that says 14 and above. The problem with that age is no one. It's not like you can get a bouncer to check IDs. Who's to know? 14 versus 13 versus 16. Honestly, it should be no kids at the pool at all. They have a kids section. I don't know the layout of the pool. But you say they have a kids pool with water slides and all this stuff. Let them be in that section, put up a fence. And this is the adults only section of the pool. It's just. And I'm with you. I just think that you've been put in a position where you can't say anything because the option is go to management and say, hey, I'm paying extra for this Jacuzzi. It says 14 and above at the Jacuzzi. And I've just been noticing a lot of kids lately, like, that's the only way you could go. But I don't think any of us wants to be that person. I don't think any of us is choosing to be Mr. Wilson. I don't think any of us wants to be the old curmudgeon who doesn't want kids around. We don't want kids around. We don't want to have to ask for it. No, I'm with you completely. And what are you going to do? You go up to someone and someone goes, ah, it's just a kid. Yeah, it's a kid. Ruining my 10 minutes. I get to shut my eyes and actually relax. There's no other place in the world that I can relax like this. And now I got your kids stomping around the edge of the pool and I got to worry about them. You're not even worried about them? No. And. And at that point, they. You. I would want. If I went to the. The club, the gym, I would say, hey, you got to have someone out there enforcing your rules because they're not being followed. That's my move. I. And I'm with you. I just don't want to yell at someone else's kids. I don't want to be old man Carothers. Hey, get your kid out of my pool. You don't want to be that guy. Last one, Jared. Hope you're doing well. I'm so excited to see you in Milwaukee. I can't wait for Milwaukee. So I'm ticked off because there's a neighbor in my building who's outside quite a bit for smoke breaks. So I often see him outside the building when I'm coming back from work. There has been at least 10 instances where this guy sees me parallel parking. He comes up and starts giving me directions from outside the car. No, no, that's annoying. Get out of here. I. I also, I guess the way you're telling it, I'll get there, like, making gestures to tell me to keep backing up, stop, turn, et cetera. I'm sure he's trying to be helpful, but I can't think of a time he's legitimately seen me struggling to park on my own. Yeah, this is annoying. I don't like when people help before they're beckoned to help. Listen, sometimes we all need a hand, but why don't you wait until you're asked to give a hand? I don't need this, like, assumption that I don't know what I'm doing. The other day, he did this again. And when I got out of the car and tried to maintain a friendly tone, saying, thanks, but, you know, after living in this city for. You tried to talk to him, thanks, but, you know, after living in this city for a good 12 years, parallel parking is a breeze. A couple times I called out my car window saying, oh, I'm good, but. But the guy just keep directing me like I didn't know what I was doing. I hate this guy. Hate him. Get away. And also, he's causing more pressure on the whole situation. Like, everyone who parallel parks takes a deep breath before they do it. Like, okay, it's my time to be in the show. And then you hope for the best, and you do it as best you can. And then you say, maybe sometimes you nail it and sometimes you don't, but you don't want the pressure of someone watching you, like, you know, peering you down to, like, running, waiting to go help you when it's not about you. They're trying to make themselves feel good again. He probably just wants to help. No, no, no. He doesn't want to help. He wants to dominate you. He wants to be. He wants to show you that you don't know what the fuck you're doing, and he does. The guy's an asshole, but it's so annoying. And being a woman of color adds a layer to this, considering the stereotype that women of color are bad drivers. I don't know that stereotype, but I'm annoyed for you. I work in social services, making several home visits a day, and I often parallel park multiple times a day without help. And it's irritating coming home, and all of a sudden, someone's acting like I'm some helpless little girl. Laughing face emoji. This is annoying. Thanks for reading. No, listen, and that's the thing. It makes you think down, you know, go down the rabbit hole of, like, how do people see me? You know, we all. I think we all have this. We all have, like, what, you know, what our look is and what we think people assume we know and don't know based on our look. I have that, too. You might think, you know, white dude, whatever. I. But I. Oh, fratty guy. He's a big piece of shit. I. That's on my mind. If it has to come to mind in the same way. This is on your mind, you're saying, you know, a woman of color being bad driver, that's on your mind. And it gets, you know, enhanced when someone's, like, just kind of, like, inserting themselves into your day and making you feel bad. I don't know. I. I just. I don't want any help. I want to be ignored. I want, like. I don't want. This is like, you know, sometimes, like, you. You know, you trip. Are you okay? It's like, why don't you be, like, less quick to the. You are. Are you okay? How about you just, like, hold off on the. Are you okay? You do one little trip. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. Easy. Yeah, I. I didn't fall. It worked out. I parked my car. Didn't need you. It's so funny to say, oh, I'm good. Thanks. But, you know, after living in the city, like, he's not listening. This is about him. This guy's a narcissist. Oh, big tough guy. Gonna help you with back. What does he think? Unless he works at the airport directing planes and he has some sort of, like, professional background in this, we don't need him. It is. It is. It's really annoying because when you're parallel parking, you do. I think most 99.9% of people have this, like, insecurity. I don't want to be the person that can't parallel park. And then for someone to just, like, assume you can't. That everyone needs help. No. Get out of here. You could say it's a form of maybe hitting on you. That could be it. Like, he's like, this is a flirt of some kind, but it's definitely annoying. Ticked off Tuesday. Back next week, boom.
Host: Jared Freid
Date: October 7, 2025
This Ticked Off Tuesday edition of The JTrain Podcast centers on listener-submitted complaints, with host Jared Freid commiserating with the frustrations big and small that make everyday life so uniquely annoying. From the generational pain of parents using smartphones, to kids overtaking adult pool spaces, to unsolicited help while parallel parking, Jared uses his signature relatable, comedic style to validate these gripes and offer cathartic commentary.
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“You can’t press the merge button if you can’t even figure out how to pick up the phone.”
— Jared Freid, [08:37]
[11:00–15:50]
“For me to not eat this bread and butter was like a real achievement in the way that I’m mad at Earth Cafe because it should be… Order the egg white. Okay. Do you want add ons?”
— Jared Freid, [14:20]
[17:37–20:44]
[20:44–23:25]
[23:26–26:45]
[26:45–31:16]
On Family Tech Woes:
“I’ve become accustomed to 30 seconds to a minute of figuring out how to talk to each other on the phone. That’s just the, that is the going rate of calling my parents.”
— Jared Freid, [05:30]
On Bread Temptation:
“It is a cartoonishly delicious looking baguette slice and butter. You’re going and I hope I, I hope I’m creating the image enough.”
— Jared Freid, [13:10]
On Adult-Only Pool Spaces:
“No one wants to be the rando adult yelling at someone else’s kid. We don’t want to have to be put in the position of parenting.”
— Jared Freid, [24:20]
On Unsolicited “Help”:
“I don’t need this, like, assumption that I don’t know what I’m doing… He wants to be. He wants to show you that you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, and he does. The guy’s an asshole.”
— Jared Freid, [29:00]
Jared’s take throughout is empathetic, self-aware, and punchy, combining specific listener scenarios with broader observations—often framing universal annoyances in ways both commiserating and biting. His approach validates each complaint (“They shall be read and they shall be heard”) and foregrounds the comedy in everyday irritations.
In this episode of The JTrain Podcast, Jared Freid guides listeners through the comic trenches of daily annoyances, bringing humor, empathy, and some pointed social commentary along for the ride. Whether dealing with tech-challenged parents, forced bread temptation, or the boundaryless “helpers” of the world, Jared’s mission is clear: Your gripes are real, your pain is shared, and your complaints deserve the spotlight—until next Ticked Off Tuesday.