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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 Jay Train Jared Freed coming to you live from Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you angry? Are you upset? I want you to write into me and complain with me. Jtrain podcastmail.com, jtrain podcastmail.com every Tuesday. You complain, I listen, I make you feel validated, or I just find the place in your complaint that you haven't even thought of. I find a little nook or cranny for me to wedge myself into and help you complain even more. Complain in a way that you never thought of complaining. So I want to thank you for being a listener to this podcast. It doesn't happen without you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I love doing this show. The daily version. This is fun. If you're new here, Tuesdays is our complaint day. Write in. How do you write in? Well, there's two ways to do it. You become a Patreon subscriber because they get first dibs. Patreon.com Jared Freed if you sign up, you get coffee with J Train and then you comment on Coffee with J Train with your complaint. I read it here and you comment on, like, the most recent episode of Coffee with J Train. We'll get to it. I have 1, 2, 3, 4. All four complaints today are from Patreon subscribers. So it's really, it's become the only way to get on this show. And I. They're using the membership. Every week I have complaints from subscribers. So if you'd like that. I mean, five bucks a month to be able to complain about anything. That's. That is the show. You can complain about anything. Anything. I will never look at you and go, well, there's bigger problem. I will push back on the direction you've taken. Maybe that's something new. You know, I used to say, I'll complain with you no matter what. Well, sometimes I look at your complaint. I go, I hear where you're coming. But he let's go this way. I got, I got another, I got another direction for you. And that's what this is all about. This is about discussion. I'm not trying to slam you. That's the thing with a complaint, you know, I mean, I have a huge complaint. I have three complaints today. My first is that I complain about my parents all the time. I complain about them to their faces. I tell them what my complaints are and they laugh at themselves. That's what makes it fun. That's why we have a good relationship. I think I was thinking about this. Like, I don't complain about my parents. And they, well, sometimes they'll be like, you're being crazy. I'll go. And then I'll explain it another way. I'll go, well, can you imagine someone seeing this all go on? They would think you're crazy. And they laugh. You know, eventually they laugh or we keep arguing about it. I mean, the whole premise of my special the Family plan, which is yet to be released, is based off of a one minute story about a fight that my parents and I had for or my dad and I, an argument we had for a while. Like, he still believes in his side, he still thinks he's right. So I don't think argument and discussion is a bad thing as long as both parties can feel like they're not being made to be evil. Which is, that's, that's where the tenor is in, in the country. If I'm in the country, that makes me sound like a big douche. But I do really believe that we make the other person evil so that there's no way out. So then they hold their position even more and they make you evil. And really you can have a discussion and argument. And then I, I even hate saying this because some people go, you don't have to be evil. As they're like arguing an evil thing. It's like, okay, so now I'm the douche. I'm just saying. So my first complaint is that I'll have people that like, I'll put out these complaints and like, they're, to me, they're fun. They're like crazy. And then the response. And, and I understand when you put things on the Internet, the problem I have when I put things on the Internet is that I have a very normal. You guys are normal. You. Everyone listening right now is a normal everyday person like me. We're all normal. We're not, you know, you know, I, I just, I know comedians who have like followings where they're like, Putting their head on cartoon bodies and you know, turning them. You know, you don't have the time. You're listening to this on the way to work with your kid, getting breakfast ready, all that shit. So you're normal fucking person. So I know that when I put something out there and it does well, the li. The vast majority of a post that does well is people going laughing or ah, yeah. And liking or just doing that and watching longer than the person who's going, fuck this guy. So to have. So when something gets big and viral, then you the only people that comment are like out of their mind. Craziest or really supportive people, you know, like. So that's the hard part. Because the response of like, well, enjoy them. They're gonna die one day. To any complaint about my parents is actually fucking insane. Yeah, I know, I know. We're all gonna die. Is that. That's a fun reminder under my posts about my parents judging my body while I eat. I what am I supposed to do? Go, not say anything and just go, well, they're gonna die. So I just go, just keep letting them scan my body while I eat dinner and not tell them that they're being fucking ridiculous. Well, they're gonna. It's always the saddest fucking loser too. Well, I know, of course I know my parents are gonna die one day. Of course I know that. It's gonna be sad for me, of course. I mean, I'm preaching to the choir. That's the premise of this show. When someone says, well, there's bigger problems. We know that. We know there's bigger problems. But I got my problems and I don't give a fuck about the greater, bigger world. Right now. The line of Starbucks takes forever. I wasn't even gonna complain about that, but I mean, I just, it got me so annoyed. Someone's comment was like, well, and you know what it does? It like really takes the funny out of it. That's my biggest complaint. Hey, my, my, My mom kept saying, this is your dinner. This is your dinner. She kept repeating that that was the joke. And it was. I was laughing as she's going, you know, this is your dinner. And I'm like, ah, you. It's not my lunch. Oh, it's my dinner. Okay. And I'm having fun with it. And then I put it, you know, I tell the story and I put it on, you know, the world wide web. Hey, you know, one day they're gonna be dead and you're gonna regret. You're gonna miss these times. Yeah, I'LL miss the ability to have more things to complain about that I'll miss the most. Ah, man, I got no more craziest to. To tell me that they're doing me a favor by not giving me the potatoes that they had as leftovers. As if I'd stuffed the whole potato in my mouth at one time and then not realize that I was full and then go out and have a McDonald's dinner. All right, I'm a little off the rails. Let's get back on the rails. I got two more complaints and then we'll get to your complaints. I'm going to be in Richmond, Virginia this week. Richmond, Virginia. Washington, DC. Those are the next two stops. I would love for you to get tickets. DC's a big room. I need you. I don't. Yeah, well, whoever's there, I'm going to make laugh, but. All right, Jared, free.com for tickets. I'm also going around the country, so here's my other complaint. What if someone was. I. I can't. If someone just saw me on my computer. Here's my other complaint on the subject of. Well, let me go into this complaint. Penn State football. It. It is really a bad time to be a Penn State football fan. And it's not because if they were garbage and they sucked, at least I wouldn't give them any energy. I would go, oh, they suck. Whatever. Penn State's in a bad place. And I, you know, I went to Penn State. I'm an alumnus. I don't really take, you know, some people, I am an alumnus. I don't really take a lot of, you know, pride. I like my friends. I like Penn State. I like the brand of person that goes there. Salesman people. We're all salesmen, you know, not a lot of, Not a lot of doctors and lawyers. Yeah, there's lawyers, sales, you know, I'm sure a lot of ambulance chasers. Look at. I'm really talking shit. School. I don't know. Penn State, State school, fine school. You did with it what you did, you know, like. Yeah, I think a State school like that, you made it into what you. You wanted to make it because you could be an idiot, you could be smart, whatever, so. But I like my experience and I like watching Penn State football. And what I love about Penn State football is it is like every season is like a balloon and you're blowing it up and. And you want that balloon to get as big as possible. You just want to keep blowing into the balloon. Because with every win of the football season, the More your friends get together, the more people congregate, the more people talk to each other, the more people get excited for the next week. It builds. And that's the fun of college football. It gets you a reason. It gives you a reason to talk with your friends and you know, be stupid idiots the way you guys were in college. That's the fun of being of going to a college football school there. You know, it's a built in community based on this seasonal thing. And Penn State lost last week and this is will be two weeks later to UCLA which was oh, and Ford and they have a coach, James Franklin, which I have been a hater of. I am a James Franklin shit talker of the highest degree. James Franklin is a great recruiter. That is undeniable. He gets really great players. He doesn't seem to know how to coach them on offense. It seems as though and, and now they go season to season where they have a good offensive coordinator, they have a bad offensive coordinator. Well, this is one of those off seasons last year, I think and they were really good last year. And I think that was due to they had one sensational player on offense, Tyler Warren, who now plays for the Colts. And I think he's doing really well now. That guy was one of the best college football players I've ever seen. And that's not, I'm, I, I'm not a historian. I'm just saying Saquon Barkley was like special to watch. Tyler Warren was special to watch. These are two people. Paul Puzzlesny was special to watch. The defensive people, different story. There were. They've had great defenses and they've had some cornerbacks. The guy Brisker who plays for the Bears, he was great. But I'm talking offense. You never got a lot of offensive players. Everyone's. And everyone's mad at the quarterback here. I'm rambling. For those that you know, that aren't football fans, here's the point. We are stuck. Penn State, this is, this is really a depressing time because you have a coach who can recruit with the great ones. He's one of the greatest recruiters in the country. He also can't coach offense. So it's like you're in this really bad spot. Do you get rid of a coach who can get you the best players to get a new coach who might be a bad recruiter but a good offensive play caller? And if you could, if you could find both a good recruiter who also can call offense, they'd be the greatest coach of all time? So there's a reason that you can't find both. It's tough to find. So you risk. If you get rid of this coach, which, you know, I'm not like, what, you know, I don't want. He's got, he's made millions, billions of dollars. So I'm not really sad for him to lose his job. But I would say if you get rid of this coach, you're kind of. You don't know if you're going to go up and again. You don't want to lose what you've had. You're in this tough spot and it's a sunk, sunk cost fallacy. It's like that. It's like, oh man, I, I just don't want to go beneath where we are now. And that's the risk right now. You know what you got, you got, you know, the enemy, you know, so it's really depressing because you fire James Franklin, you go, oh, that's exciting. We're gonna get this new coach. But who knows this guy, the next guy. I mean, like, because they had. You could tell in the best thing you can do. If you're a college football fan, you want your team to come in fourth. Because now with nil, you can spend money and the alumni spend money on players. So if you have a motivated alumni, they're going to spend money to get you the best players. So if you go in fourth, everyone's like, look how fun this season was. And that's what happened last season. Last season. Everyone's like, look how fun this season was. And then they brought back the whole team. None of them went to the NFL. They brought back the quarterback, the lineman, everyone. They paid them all big bucks. And now we're here losing a fucking ucla. I don't know if that complaint made sense. I hope it did. I'm just. My complaint is we're stuck. We're stuck in mediocrity because you got to take a big risk. And if you take that big risk, I don't think we can do that. We. I'm not on the fucking team. Last complaint. I love being a comedian. I love it. I love doing this job. I think it's crazy that I get to talking to a mic by myself at 9:30 in the morning. And on next week, you'll listen to this on Tuesday. And you laugh. You enjoy. Maybe you enjoy. I just love it. I love being a comedian. I hate telling people I'm a comedian. It is absolutely brutal. And it's not you guys, because if you Saw me in a bar. And you said, hey, Jared, I listen to your podcast. I would say, thank you so much, great to meet you, I'm Jared. What's your name? And we'd have a nice conversation, no problem. That's great. What happens is last night, you know, people will come up to you and the person will go, I was at a bar last night, I'm watching the game and are you a comedian? And I say, yes. And then they were very nice. That's the easy part. But then the friend who they're with, who doesn't know me at all, which more people don't know me, the know me. I get it. Oh, you're a comedian. How long have you been doing it? Do you do it full time? Are you. Are you funny? Like the. Just imagine answering these questions. Imagine how much you just have to eat it. You just have to go, yeah, and smile and be nice. You just gotta eat it. There's no answer. That's good. Yeah, I've been doing 15 years full time. Yeah, I do it full time. Are you funny? No, I'm not funny. These are all answers I give every time. Can you tell us a joke? Can you tell us a joke? This was me in a bar. Just hang. And here's the thing, the comm. If you want, if you know, oh, you're not being very funny. That happens. You're not being very. For a comedian, you're kind of quiet. Here's the thing, a good comedian, if they're at a bar, they're either very quiet or you would never want to be around them ever. Like, they're just always have to be the center of attention. Both exist. Both. Both can be good comedians. There's no middle ground. They're either very quiet and they're just chilling and having a good time. That's a good comedian. I believe that. Or they're Bozo the clown and going crazy in the center of attention. And you go, I'm exhausted by you. Both exist. And the exhausted by you. Comedians, they're good too. They're usually improvisers, they're more of an actor. But I don't think there's, you know. So here's how bad it is to be asked if you're a comedian. If I see another person say that they're a comedian, willingly, I think they're awful because no one would ask for this. No one would want this conversation to happen. And I probably, when I started, I wanted to tell everyone, I'd be like, I'm a comedian. You know, you want to tell people. So, like, if I saw a guy. Yeah. And I'm a comedian, I'd be like, oh, so that's how bad it is to tell people. I don't even believe that person would ever even do this if that was how willing they were to say this. Jtrain podcastmail.com, jtrain podcastmail.com I got four complaints from listeners. Thank you for being here with us on a Tuesday. I feel really good. I worked out this morning. I just feel at ease. I'm, I'm, I'm just like, when I get to Delray. Well, maybe it's the rain. There was a thunderstorm. I walked by a room in my apartment. I'll talk about it on coffee with J Train. There's just a hole in the ceiling. I just walked by. It was crazy. And I texted the realtor. But then I started taping here. I were sponsored Herobred. I talked about this on Monday. Herobred. I think, like just solves a problem. 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I need your advice on a mother in law topic that I want to handle delicately. Okay, so this seems like an advice slash complaint. My mother in law. I. When did we start with mil? I guess mother in law. I guess once we started texting more, that's when mil. There's some bride ones. All right. My. My mil. My mother in law is sweet and rarely gives us issues. My in laws live out of state and when they travel into town for holidays to help us with the kids. I've noticed over the years that my mother in law's perfume really bothers me. She prays on a lot of it. She prays. She. I think it meant she puts on a lot of it. She prays for it to make her smell better. She puts on a lot of it and it's a very powdery, older woman floral smell. Even days after she's left the house, the couch. Even days after she's left the house, the couch and guest room especially all have strong lingering traces of her perfume. I've tried lighting candles to mask it, opening windows, obviously washed all the bedding, even replaced the guest room upholstered headboard with a wooden one, hoping that it would help. Unfortunately, it hasn't. This is so funny because all I, you know, my mother in law is sweet and rarely gives us issues. And then but this one thing and I get that it's like this big florally smell. I mean I, I would be able to ignore this, but it is funny to me that you're like, you know, there's someone out there with like the worst mother in law of all time and they're like, hey, what if they just smelled like, like potpourri? And they're like, I would take that in half a second. Okay. It honestly ticks me off how something as small as perfume could take over the whole house. I don't want to offend my mother in law because it's not like she smells Sweaty or unshowered. It's the scent itself and the amount used. Last Christmas, I asked her if she wanted. Last Christmas, I asked her if she liked to go to perfume shopping since I needed to go to the mall anyways, but she said she's been wearing the same perfume for 40 years and loves it. Listen, we can complain about this. I'm with you. This is annoying. This is. It takes over the house. At least you know when she's coming. Grammy's here. I can smell Grammy coming. How would you handle this situation? Asking her to stay at a hotel seems extreme. And I'm grateful for her help with the kids when she's here. I want them to grow up with their grandparents knowing that I myself did not get that opportunity. Thank you. Well, this is. There's no solution. The solution. Deal with it. That's the solution. It is funny, you know, you're, you know, I, I saying I want them to grow up with their grandparents knowing that I myself did not get that opportunity. This is what. Well, this is what you didn't learn from, you know, you didn't have grandparents growing up, which is. And I'm sorry. I had grandparents growing up. Grandparents are learning the act of compromise. You get a huggy. You know, you get to hug and cuddle your big old grandpa, but he's going to move a little slow and he's going to forget stuff, and sometimes he's going to say some stuff that you're going to be like, whoa, Grandpa. But also, you get the literal love of a grandparent and, and your kids will appreciate that forever. And I think your problem with the smell. Listen, I agree with you. It's annoying. I'm. I'm gonna make you feel validated. That sucks. But even when she says she's been wearing perfume for 40 years and she loves it, she obviously loves it because she's putting on a lot of it. Do you gotta eat this? Just like me with the. Are you a comedian? Yes. Do you tell us a joke? I'm sorry, I don't got any. I'm a stupid. You know, I gotta eat it. I just think I. What? I. I would wonder, you know, what do you. I sometimes, you know, it's funny. Like, you asked what I would do. Nothing. I would just deal with it. Nothing. I think that's very male. Like, the idea that I'm going to, like, tell a woman who's been wearing the same perfume for 40 years, like, get that off. It smells like garbage. No, that's like something my. But then I think of my mom, like, my mom walks by people smoking cigarettes and like, coughs in their direction to let them know. And it's like, why? And you're like, well, what, are we going to do something about this? No, you don't. I don't think you got to do something about this. I think you deal with it. I think you, it's a fun joke for you and your husband. And this is what you know. You got to pay the admission to get the grandparent. You got to pay the toll. Some people's tolls are way worse. But I'm not going to do that to you. I'm not trying to make you feel, like, minimize your issue. This is your issue. But I would say, like, what can you do? I mean, you've tried all these smell techniques. I don't know, it's like, maybe I, I, I would do nothing. I think I'd be like, thanking my lucky stars that I have mother in law that is sweet and rarely gives us issues. Because here's what you're going to do. You're going to create an issue. Hey, can you put on a little less of that perfume? It's, I just can't. She's going to this, that is something that I would never forget. And it's her poor perfume of 40 years. It's not like she's like, hey, I found this new perfume. What do you think? Here's what you do. And you came here for looking for a solution. I'm going to give you one. You get a friend. You get a friend, you know, that you don't plan on having at like, family occasions. This is a friend that you would never have over for Thanksgiving. You have a, this is such a sitcom idea. Next time Grammy comes over, you have the friend come in to the house to like, drop something off. And you say, come in, Jennifer. You gotta meet Grammy Elaine. And Jennifer comes in and you have Jennifer throw a fit. Jennifer, what is that? Oh, I'm sorry. You ever start coughing? I can't. What is that smell? Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, what is that? And have her start sniffing around. And everyone's gonna go, no, I don't smell it. And she'll go, I'm sorry. And then you have to have her go, your perfume, I'm not allergic to anything. I do. You put on a lot of it. And that's the only way to have a message get through to grandma that the perfume is a lot. And then so you, not one friend, you get three. Three different friends to come Over. Over the course of the weekend, different points of time. So one comes at night. Hey, do you got any sugar? Come in. This is our neighbor, Grammy, Elaine, this is our neighbor Michelle. Nice to and have them. Oh, I'm sorry, your perfume. And then they go, oh, I must have something. And then they go away. And then the next morning, hey, this is our neighbor Jonathan. Jonathan. Hey, you know, the kids wanted a soccer ball. You got an exercise. Grammy, Elaine, this is our neighbor Jonathan. And he starts coughing. So you get. And then you. By the third one and they start going. It's just a lot. Did you put on a lot today? Did you spill it? Have them say, did you spill it? And that I think is the only way to get the message across. It can't come from you. You will ruin your good thing. This is your only shot you got is to kind of side door this information to her jtrain podcast or gmail.com jtrain podcastmail.com Short one ticked off Tuesday. The woman behind me on my last flight put her bare toes on my armrest. Her toes on the armrest in front of her. Need I say more? It is crazy. I get what you're saying. So you're in the chair and then behind you. I can't believe she pushed them up enough for you to even see. Because like I'll cross my legs and maybe my foot will be in the aisle as I cross my legs if I'm sitting in the aisle seat. That's the crazy part. For her to put her toes on. I'm not. It's more gross that you should have to touch their skin and the part of their feet. And here's the grossest part. The only reason their toes are out is because they're probably wearing open toed shoes. So they are walking around getting their feet dirty and then putting their dirty feet on you. Yeah, it's horrible. I mean that you could do that. You start coughing, sorry, your toes smelled. I think that's one of those things that you can look back and go, excuse me. I think a simple excuse me said in the right tone that would help in that scenario. Excuse me, excuse me. And you look at the toes, you look behind you go, excuse me. And that should be enough. And again, in this world of videotaping people and canceling, if that doesn't do it for me, I'm giving up on the whole argument. It's gross. But excuse me, let's do another one. Ticked off Tuesday. I am so sick of people who are overly critical of other people using ChatGPT I've seen, I've even seen on dating profiles. Swipe left if you use ChatGPT. Of my friends, I am one of the only ones with a corporate job. I use chatgpt sparingly. But when I've mentioned this to some of my friends, they act as if I'm single handedly burning the rainforest down by asking ChatGPT to do tedious things to free up more of my time. Gee golly, we can't all be perfect thinkers all the time. Sometimes I need, I, sometimes I just need AI to help me explain complex topics to plebeians. Plebeians. Plebeians lock me up, why don't you? Yeah, the AI conversation is weird. And you know what it is? It's just fear because we don't know what it is or what it's going to become. And I don't know how to use ChatGPT so it's easier for me to go. Anyone who uses it is lazy and not really doing the right thing. And now you hear that using AI somehow uses a bot like water, which is like another thing where it's like I don't need someone making me into. That's what they do. They make you into evil and stupid and less than, oh, chatgpt, you know, a bottle of water for every time you want to look up. You know how to write an email. It's like that's not true. And if it is true, put it on the new, like let's get, you know, don't just say it offhand as if it's fun fat. This is obviously open for discussion and I'm with you. Chat gbt, the dating app thing, I mean it's just the concern doesn't match the use. Most people using Chat GPT. It's the same way you're using your phone. I think this is my opinion, it's the same way you're using your phone. But then I think when someone vilifies it it's like, oh, I guess they're writing your whole profile and you're just like a totally different person. It's like, no, this is a flavor of me written in a way that makes me feel better and more confident, which is something we're all doing for everything. So you know, I think when someone says no chatgpt, they're just. To me, it's just them being like to say no anything is crazy blanket. No, no, no, don't come here with your chat gbd. It's like, well what do you Mean, explain that more. Well, don't write your whole response, you know, via a robot. Yeah, I'm not doing that. I'm doing. I'm taking what I would respond and asking, you know, questions to the AI to see if they can find me. You know, can write it in a better way to make it a little bit more palatable. You know, it's like, I agree. It's the blanket statement. We got one more. Let's do it. My tot is about people who have no concept of personal space. I'm with you. This sucks. I'm a guy that sat down to have a bite at a restaurant by myself in peace. It was pretty empty, so I took a four top half booth, half chairs. I get it. I sat on the booth side about halfway through eating a random guy. I believe a restaurant employee early for about halfway through eating a random guy. I believe about halfway through eating. This has no commas. So I. Maybe this person needed Chad GBT about. Because right now it says about halfway through eating a random guy. Like, I don't think you were eating a random guy. About halfway through. About halfway through eating a random guy. I believe a restaurant employee early for his shift sat right adjacent to me on the booth side, probably about a foot and a half away. That's crazy. He proceeded to lounge back and listen to videos out loud on his phone. That's even crazier. He showed no regard for me at all if he is an employee. This is one of the most unprofessional things I've seen at a restaurant. Yeah, I don't get. We're in an empty place. Let me huddle up next to the only person here. That is just crazy. Watching something without headphones. It should be a certain type of crime. I saw. I'm a Bethenny Frankel fan, but she was like, someone yelled at me for watching videos on my phone without headphones. Yeah, you're wrong. I wouldn't go up to her and say something, but you're wrong. It's a crazy person thing to do. You have the headphones. You have the headphones. We can use the headphones. Why don't you just do it? Like, we all don't want to hear what YouTube videos you're watching and listen. I have watched my phone and had no headphones in. And then if someone said something, ah, okay. It would annoy me, actually. Yeah, I'd probably be annoyed. But then I'd come back to, yeah, I guess not everyone wants to hear, you know, this pool cleaning video, but I agree with you. I just sit somewhere else. Get away from me. I mean, one and a half feet away in a booth. That's crazy. And now you're just like on a couch together. Like you're at a drive in movie. You on a date. 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Episode: My Mother-In-Law Wears Too Much Perfume, Penn State Football, and Feet - TICKED OFF TUESDAY
Host: Jared Freid
Date: October 14, 2025
This episode of The JTrain Podcast, hosted by comedian Jared Freid, features his signature Tuesday segment: “Ticked Off Tuesday.” Listeners (mostly Patreon subscribers) write in with their personal complaints, and Jared riffs on them, offering both catharsis and comic insight. The episode covers everything from family relationships and college football, to airplane etiquette and office technology woes, wrapping each topic in Jared’s self-aware, punchy wit.
Timestamps: 01:09 - 15:15
Timestamps: 15:16 - 24:46
Timestamps: 24:47 - 30:41
Timestamps: 31:50 - 41:24
Timestamps: 41:25 - 43:15
Timestamps: 43:16 - 47:17
Timestamps: 47:18 - 50:33
Regarding public “bigger problems” dismissal:
“We know there's bigger problems. But I got my problems and I don't give a fuck about the greater, bigger world. Right now, the line at Starbucks takes forever.” (11:57)
On family compromise:
“You gotta pay the admission to get the grandparent. You gotta pay the toll. Some people's tolls are way worse.” (38:58)
Advice to the listener about their MIL:
“You're going to create an issue. Hey, can you put on a little less of that perfume? It's, I just can't. That's something I would never forget.” (40:23)
| Time | Segment | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:09 | Show intro, Ticked Off Tuesday explainer | | 09:32 | The internet’s “enjoy them, they're gonna die” comments | | 15:16 | Penn State football woes | | 24:47 | Comedian-in-public awkwardness | | 31:50 | Listener: MIL perfume complaint | | 41:25 | Listener: Airplane bare feet complaint | | 43:16 | Listener: ChatGPT shaming complaint | | 47:18 | Listener: Restaurant/no personal space complaint |
This episode of The JTrain Podcast delivers a relatable, funny therapy session for life’s minor annoyances. By validating every complaint—no matter how trivial or idiosyncratic—Jared creates a space for empathy, laughter, and absurd but pragmatic solutions. For fans of observational comedy and those in need of a cathartic gripe, this episode is peak JTrain.