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Jared Freed
I know you're angry. It's Tuesday and it has no feel. The weekend was fun. You still hungover from the eating and next weekend is too far away. What will you do with your day? It's time to get ticked off. Complain with your gripe. Right now your friend Uncle J Train is here to tell you that you're right. It's a ticked off Tuesday. Ticked off Tuesday. You're angry and you don't even know why. Enjoy this podcast. It'll help you get to Friday. Hello and welcome to the J Train podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming live from the West Village of Manhattan. That's right, every Tuesday it's a ticked off Tuesday. Are you angry? Are you upset? Is there something that's on your mind? Send it to the J Train podcast and I will complain with you. Now how do you get involved with ticked off Tuesday? I have to tell you, Patreon is growing so more people are taking advantage of their ticked off Tuesday opportunities. You if you become a Patreon subscriber, you get first dibs at being a part of this Tuesday show. We actually end added a fourth ticked off Tuesday this week because of how many we got on Patreon. So here's how you sign up. Patreon.com Jared Freed that is $5 a month. It's more if you go through. If you do the web version I think it's $5 and I think if you do the through Apple it's more. So you get we got to pay. We got to pay. Our are Apple dealers. So go on the web version. Sign up five bucks. I just found this out. So but sign up and you get coffee with Jay Train every Friday with his which is basically my personal diary. I just tell stories from the week. Right now there's a. I haven't done the one that would have come out Friday, but I have done the one that came out two Fridays ago. And it's about me going on a date with Brooks Nader, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. Yeah, that's right. Your boy J Train. So sign up for that also if you're in Pittsburgh. I'm in Pittsburgh this weekend. I'm also coming to Huntsville, Alabama. I'm coming to London. Get those tickets. London. If you know anyone in the area, send that around Pittsburgh, Huntsville, same for you guys. And then I got way more dates all throughout the summer. Jaredfree.com we're gonna get right into it because we got the four complaints from the Patreon people. We have one sponsor so this Is a pretty lean episode. I. I got my own complaints. Just so we can get right into it. My fur. I got three complaints. My own complaints. Yeah. I get to do three. It's my show. And if you want to not sign up for Patreon J Train podcast gmail.com youm can also DM your complaints to the @j train podcast. Go follow that account. That really helps the show. Also, I'm on TikTok. We have a J Train podcast Tick tock account. Follow that. Follow me. Wizard of ha. The wizard of ha on Tick Tock. So, yeah, how much more plugging can I do? Here's the thing that I'm annoyed with. I just went and got dinner. I'm taping this on Monday night. The week before it comes out. I got. I got. Against my own better judgment. Can we just. Can we just say that we're done with brandzino? Brand zino is at every restaurant, so. So wouldn't if just by, like, kind of like in your. Your own, you know, antennas going up. Don't your antennas tell you the same thing, that there's a reason these restaurants are serving branzino? Is it a cheap fish? Is it nothing to cook? Is it. Is it just easy? Do you pop it in that? Put. Do you put salt and pepper on it and pop it in the oven and you take it out and you go, here you go. It's not tasty. It's not filling. It's always expensive. Sometimes they'll debone it in front of you and you get some bones in there. I just don't know what we're doing with branzino. I. You know, salmon is hearty. Salmon is filling. Salmon makes you go, ooh, this had some taste. You can do some things with salmon. I've. I'm yet to see a branzino that. I'm like, whoa. I was blown away from the branzino. I'm at the point with branzino where it's becoming a religion for me. It's becoming one of those things that I'm gonna hold as a core value that my children and my children's children will not be allowed to order a branzino because, honestly, I would need to eat three branzinos to feel satisfied after the meal. And so I think this is a waste of money. I don't think there's a branzino that I've had that outdoes another brandzino. They're all generally fine. And I have to say, I'm judging other people who Order it and say they like it. Because I just think it's thoughtless to go. I don't think anyone's ever loved a branzino. I think you've liked it. I think you dealt with it. I think you were okay with your order. I don't think anyone ever walks away from a restaurant and goes, whoa, I gotta go back for that brand. Zino, you're not. You're not full enough. It's not tasty enough. It's just, we're doing one thing with it. It's one move, and it's not a good enough move. Okay, here's my second complaint. I'm doing a lot of walking. I've been walking a lot, getting my steps in. I think we're past the point. There's, there's, there's a point with all information where we receive it. It's new information. We go, whoa. It's a fun fact to bring up at a party. And then that time ends. I think the time of 10,000 steps where you get to tell someone, you know, that was a marketing campaign in Japan, it's over. We know 10,000 steps was invented out of the sky by someone in Japan with a marketing program. And if this is the first you're hearing it, I don't think you talk to anybody or you've never talked about steps. Everyone knows. Everyone knows 10,000 steps is nothing. But let's also agree it's something. The idea that 10,000 steps because it was invented by someone that was trying to sell you something, means it doesn't mean anything at all is crazy. That's not a response. So when someone says, I got 10,000 steps today, and you go, you know, that's just a marketing campaign. Yeah, well, they got 10,000 still. Is it. Is it better than 7,000? Is it worse than 13,000? Do numbers still exist on the planet just because this marketing person decided to make some dough off of some scheme? The scheme and the idea of getting 10,000 steps are two totally different things. So. And I see this a lot. Someone I saw TikTok guys like, oh, you gotta go walking. I don't do half hour cardio anymore. I do to my 10,000 steps and it's been really good for me. The idea, oh, you know, that's bullshit. You know, you don't need to get 10,000 subs. That was a number just invented out of the sky. Who cares? If that's what gets people walking, then they got them walking. It's. But are we against goals? Here's my Last complaint because we got four ticked off Tuesdays from the listeners. Patreon subscribers. I'm getting tired and maybe I'm online too much. Not maybe I am online too much. The reviews of places and people and things on TikTok are lacking credibility. Not by the person. I don't need the person who reviews a place to be an expert. I need them to be fully aware. I need them to acknowledge where they live on this earth, who they are. There's a place near me called the Hungry Llama. Everyone should go to the Hungry Llama. It's great. It's a coffee shop. I support a lot of the coffee shops down in the West Village. I have been, as you know, if you're listening to this show, Blackstone on the corner of Hudson and Christopher, that's my go to. Hungry Llama opened fairly recently and it's near the Elk. The Elk is this fancy, I would call it Hamptons esque Coffee Place. I like that place for different reasons. I think it's a great place as well. Hungry Llama opened within the last year and they have a ton of seating in it. It is as much a work workspace as it is a coffee shop. They also have a full kitchen that's just. They're cooking right in front of you. I had never had the food there. I've gone there and the owners are very nice people, young couple. I respect anyone who's making an investment in being entrepreneurial. They are doing that and they're there all the time. I've gotten to know some of the people that work there. Everyone there is a wonderful person. They went viral recently. Recently. And I had no idea. I walked in, I walked over. It's a block away from where I live and there's a huge line outside and I'm like, there's a piece of me that's like, I can't believe this line. And then there's another piece of me that's like, what happened? What video got made? And I asked them, they said, yeah, a girl made a video and she. I think NYC date spots made a video. And. And that went viral. And now everyone's here to get our breakfast burrito. That in turn made me get the breakfast burrito. It's fantastic. Let me say it's as good as a breakfast burrito can be. Something in New York City, tough to find, kind of. So. So now they're on my algorithm, you know, because I frequent it. The geniuses at TikTok know how to find you. And this guy with no following, he does a review of the Hungry Llama about the line. And it's all about how long it took him to get a burrito, the breakfast burrito that he had been seeing. And at one point, he makes mention that all the people at the Hungry Llama are people he doesn't like. And the worst type of people were there. I just think it was a lack of awareness of you are there. You. You're one of the people that are at the place that you're considering bad people, not great people. And you sprinted there after seeing a viral video about a breakfast burrito. So let's not act like you are this in the know New Yorker. You're not. You're a lemming. You're a loser, just like me. I'm a loser. I didn't even get the burrito until I was told that it went viral on the Internet. That's how these things work. But don't walk out of there going, and the burrito wasn't even that great. And I waited in line for 45 minutes. You waited in line for 45 minutes. You had the option to leave that line at any time. You waited in it because of a viral video. So let's not act like you're on the cloud in Elysium while all us peasants are churning away waiting for a burrito that wasn't worth it. The burrito's delicious. This place is great. You. And for. You just have to mention if you're going to do a review where you talk about the line, you talk about the people you're in the line with, the people you are not sent by the New York Times on their dime. You came on your own dime. I'm seeing this a lot on TikTok. It's this like. And listen, I'm a complainer. This is called Ticked Off Tuesday. It's these, like this trashing. I do a lot of restaurant stuff on TikTok. I kind of keep in mind that I don't want any place to. I don't like walking away from a place going. Got him. I'd rather walk away from a person who I've dealt with and speak in hypotheticals. Oh, you know, the. I just did a video. The couple that gives you advice about dating. I didn't say this couple named so and so. I'm not trying to. I'm trying to make laughs and jokes and relate to you got. There's a TikTok that I'm seeing a lot now, and it's from women who are dating going on TikTok saying that every. They. They've seen all the men on t. On the. They're. They're seeing all the men on the dating apps and they're all awful in comparison to the amazing women that are on these dating apps. And they're saying they look at the women on their guys on their guy friends accounts and they're all amazing and wonderful and unbelievable and every man that they see is gross and disgusting and horrible. It just. To me it's a bad actor argument. You're trying to get. I'm trying to understand the goal of a video like that. Is it to connect with other women who believe that there's no guy on there that is worthwhile. And it's like, well then there. Then you meet someone on there and suddenly you found the one guy that was worthwhile and worth dating and that wasn't an ogre. I just. Because one day you're going to meet someone and this whole bad nightmare is going to be over and you're going to get off the apps and oh my God, I thank God I'm not dealing with these things anymore. It just. It's fraudulent, it's mean, it's bitter. It doesn't sound great. You can connect with other women going through dating struggles in a different way. And here's the thing. Nobody's gonna stop you. You are in a power position any no man. And I don't think they're equivalent because I do think men have a certain power in the dating world that I do think they acknowledge by. Because they know you can't go on a dating app or on TikTok. It's so hard for us men. You can't do that. That joke doesn't fly. That take doesn't fly. So it just. There's nobody that's going to. You know, the only people that are going to like shoot back at or shoot back. I mean what I mean like spout. Spout off back at someone who does the. All these ugly men is an ugly dude who's doesn't know how to control his ego that was just punctured. So you're going to win. You know, there's no chance taken here. I don't know. It just. There's another way to complain about dating. This is the easiest complaint to say. All the men are horrific and all the women are yes girls, girl, you're a true hero. Something doesn't taste right. That's what I'm saying. J train podcast gmail.com. it's a ticked off Tuesday, you come here to complain. I will complain with you. That's. I'm going to complain with you. A complaint duet of sorts. I have an ad. It's in the description of this episode. You're gonna then if you can use it. It's Herobred. They've been around. Try it. This is me asking you to try. Try it. You need bread. Summertime. 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That means there's all these variables to the start of your day. You are extra tired when you're traveling, so you need those extra hours of sleep when you finally get to do it. This was clearly set from the previous guest and not deactivated from housekeeping. But really, who is using alarm clocks in this day and age? Can we make sure housekeeping disarms these? Or even better, remove them altogether? Stay safe out there, J Train. Love all your podcasts. And stand up. Well, thank you. I can't agree with you more. Here's the problem. There's a couple things that are annoying about this. One, we have the technology. We have. This is like, not. This is something. If you can. If. If we have the ability to now make AI movies by typing in a command, we also have the ability to wipe clean the alarms in all the rooms for the next day. That should just be the going thing. That if you set it on the first day, it wipes out every night. Every alarm in the hotel wipes out every night. 12am, we start new. And that should be something they announce when you check into the hotel. It's. It's. Nothing is more annoying than when we have the technology and we're not using the technology. Here's the other problem. I do think the alarms are worth having in the room. I agree there. I do think there's a peace of mind when you set your phone alarm and then you set the backup alarm that's in the hotel. And it is crazy that we haven't updated the technology. It seems as though when they have these alarms or the phone, this is to me, like, just like the phone. You have the phone in the room, you have the alarm in the room. Update everything. Make it so it's a new version. Usually these alarms that go at 4:30 and 5:30, they're probably the old one. It's horrible. I'm with you. And it's like, at this point, here's the thing about the alarm. Who are you going to complain to? They're going to go, oh, you get nothing back for that. I just stayed at a Weston in San Jose and it was so outdated that it made me frustrated. The AC didn't work well. And then I went to the front. Front desk. I go, hey. I go, hey, the AC isn't working. They go, yeah, our technician's gone. Do you want to switch rooms? And it's like, no, I don't want to switch rooms. I don't. I have unpacked. I've gotten myself in there. I'm not. I can deal with it. And it may. It drove me crazy because it's like, then I'm like, okay, maybe I should call Bonvoy. And then you go like, if I were you, I'd call Bonvoy. But I don't even have like a relation to their help desk. Like, at least with Delta there's a central location. Every time I go to Bonvoy, I feel like I'm dealing with every different hotel I go to and there's no way to like get any retribution. It feels like you're alone in this JTrain podcast. Calm JTrain podcastmail.com My ticked off Tuesday I 29, female. I'm going on my boyfriend's 30 male family vacation to Aruba in June. Love Aruba. Great weather all year round. It will be the two of us, his parents and his brother and brother's wife. Both 36. This sounds awesome. His parents are paying for everything, which I am obviously thankful for. Now for my truly luxury lounge complaint. Go for it. You're in the right place. My boyfriend's mom texted in the group chat yesterday that two of the tickets for the flights were upgraded to first class. I saw this message and ignored it assuming my boyfriend's parents would obviously be getting the upgrade Upgraded first class tickets. I was wrong. Yeah, I. I don't know. I disagree with your assumption to me. Why would she even text it if they got the upgrade? I would think maybe these are an addition. Today she texted everyone again and said she has decided. She and I. What this is. This is a rags to riches tale. She. Today I had no there was not to me I was with you. Oh cool. Two upgrades. Good luck. I would have thought you were last on the list. You're the girlfriend of the younger brother. You're not even the wife. Iris. She decided that maybe this is her way of getting to know you Today she texted everyone again and said she has decided. I love that she. I love that she's turned this into her own like royal decree. I have decided that I don't know her name that Lauren and I shall be taking the upgrade today. She said she has decided that she and I will be taking the upgrade first. We'll take the upgrade of first class tickets so we can catch up together on the flight. This is her way of getting you a glass of wine and getting to talk. And how serious are you about her boy? I responded saying that was very generous but that my boyfriend's dad and her should really take the upgrade. Tough One I, I think. Did you go to her individually? I will, I responded. So you responded the whole group chat. It sounds like saying that was very generous but that my boyfriend's dad. Yeah, I don't know how I would play it. I'm with you. You got to do one like ah, no, no, no. And then if they insist you take it. She doubled down. I obviously am grateful for being on this free trip, but I really don't want to sit on the whole flight next to her. You better do it. And also I think it's a kind of strange thing to offer to that to add another layer to this. I think her offer may be a dig at my boyfriend's brother's wife. The plot thickens. I get along great with my boyfriend's brother and his wife, but his boy. But boyfriend's brother's white. Let me read this again. I get along great with my boyfriend's brother and his wife. But boyfriend's brother's wife and the mom have had issues in the past. The mom is trying to get a team together. She is trying to get a ragtag group of misfits to go against the other daughter in law and make sure she's got numbers. I, I'm, I'm with you. This is uncomfortable. You can't, the story is being told out of order because if I had known that going in this it would make it tougher because the order you tell it in, which is fine. I, I, I'm being picky is like oh, he, she offered me the upgrade. I'm the I'm, I'm the, I'm, I'm the girlfriend of the younger brother and the other, the other one's married and oh to me she wants to get to know you knowing that she doesn't like the sister in law or the other son's wife. This is tough because you gotta like make sure you, you want to be Switzerland. You don't want to get involved. You don't want to take a team. You want. And if I'm, if I'm really thinking about this, you kind of don't mind that the mom has an issue with the brother's wife. It kind of, you know, you like that all attention's on her. You can kind of skate by. You're the unbelievable, you know, daughter in law compared to the, the bad girl. You know, I, I kind of, if I were you, you were in a good spot and you want to keep your good spot and this could ruin it. I get along great with my brother's Boyfriend's brothers. Wife. Okay, but boyfriend's brother's wife and the mom have had issues in the past. And boyfriend's mom has made several comments in the past insinuating to me that she likes me much more than the brother's wife. Oh, you're in trouble. Anyways, please complain with me for being offered a first class ticket on a free trip. Love the podcast. I'm not going to complain with you that you were offered a first class ticket on a free trip. I'm going to complain with you that this mom has put you in a position that rocks the boat. That you have been easily, you know, you know, you've been. You've been on a ship that has been just gliding along. You found the boyfriend you like the mom you love the brother you love the. The brother's wife, everyone's good. The father, you're on the family group chat. And then the mom is like, get into the drama. Hop into this boiling pot and start swimming with me. And I think that is the worst part of this. Not. It's not the first class ticket. It's the fact that the mom is trying to recruit you. And if you don't go along with Mama Bear, she is gonna. It's one side or the other. You are now involved in drama, which you didn't ask for, but she's bringing the drama play to you and she's serving it up and she's going, take a bite. Join me in hating my son's wife. This is tough. You didn't ask for advice so I could give it. I think you got to go along to get along. The problem is this. There's no avoiding when you do this. That you're probably going to have to go to the brother's wife and say something to her to try and soften her. I think your job. I would go in a fix it mode if I were you. I would talk how great you think the brother's wife is, but you got to be careful. You can't go too much because then the mom will know you're on her side or think you're on her side. This sucks. This is awful. You have been asked to choose a team, and this flight is where you're being asked to do it. And she's honestly. And she's. She's trying to grease the wheels here. She's. I can't believe I'm losing words right now. She's bribing you with the first class. You guys will be sitting in front, look at, and nothing will Be worse than when you guys get on the plane with your champagne in hand and your, your future sister in law probably because you'll probably marry this guy if you're going on the family trip, is walking down the aisle and the mama bear is just glaring at her and you gotta go, you gotta look at her and go, I'm sorry, sister. Yeah, this is tough. Please write back in with what happens jtrain podcast@gmail.com. j train podcast gmail.com get another ticked off Tuesday. I work in a typical office setting. There's an older woman that talks to me way too much. I can normally handle small talk, but every time I wear a cap, a capped sleeve. What is it? Oh, this is hilarious. I don't know what a cap sleeve is. Excuse me for my ignorance. I'm looking for cap sleeves. Okay. So they're like, they're like shoulder harnesses. They kind of look like. It's like not a. I've seen this sleeve before. If you're a guy or a woman, anyone who didn't know a cap sleeve was. You'll know the minute you see it. It's not like a full sleeve, but it's like open chest is out. So I can normally handle small talk, but every time I wear a cap sleeve or tank top, she stops by my office to say, you are freezing me to death. This is a yuck. My yum of what you're wearing. Like, I'm fine. I hate this. When I go outside without a coat, you're not wearing a jacket. What? And it's like, how about you believe that I made a decision for myself, that worked for me. You do you. I'm going to do me and why don't we not bother each other with this? This. Like again, like when you say you're freezing me to death, it's like this, like you're judging me, but you care about me. But it's like, oh, but you're doing this to me. You didn't do anything to her. Okay, don't look at me or stop at my office then. I feel like a toddler saying that. But seriously, it's every single time. I can assure you these are professional tops, not spaghetti strapped or too thin of straps. No, no, no. It doesn't matter what you're wearing. This is a total judgment. This is her looking at you what you wore to work and going, how could you think that was right? It's horrible. And she's below me on the corporate hierarchy, so I don't think she is. Hinting for me to be more professional? No, she thinks this is appropriate work talk. I'm not cold. And. And the fact that she's taking something you're wearing and making it like it's ruining her life. If this shirt that I'm wearing is making you cold, you better seek therapy. You better go find someone that can hypnotize you into not getting cold from what other people wear. You put on a sweater. Put on an extra sweater. If looking at me makes you shiver to death, well, you turn into a snowman every time you see someone with bare skin. Get out of here. I've successfully managed to dress myself appropriate for the day without checking my weather apps for 28 years. But now, suddenly, I'm stalking the weather app to ensure it'll be warm enough to justify my choice of shirt. You shouldn't have to justify. This is how I like to dress. And this is the warmth that I need. One day I wore a skirt on a day it rained. Her reaction was as if I walked into the office naked. What do I reply to, you are freezing me to death. Get in the ground, bitch, and die already. Like, I just. What do you. What do I reply to, you're freezing me to death. Go tell someone who fucking cares. Not my problem. What do I reply to, your freezing me to death? Well, I'm going to give a eulogy at your funeral for how annoying you are. What do you reply when someone says, you're freezing me to death? Better warm up so you don't die? I, I, I think this is crazy. I am with you. This is annoying. This is, this is like, I hate this version of someone who you can't say something mean back to, and they don't even realize they're being mean. This is just them really assaulting you with their horrific attitude and issues. It's like when you talk to someone who's truly depressed, the most depressed people find a way to make you depressed as well. And that's kind of what she's trying to do. She's looking at you going, look at this person who can wear whatever they want and looks good wearing it and doesn't care about the weather. And woe is me. I'm always cold. And looking at people who don't dress appropriately for the weather makes me even colder. And it doesn't. It makes them realize they couldn't wear the things that you get to wear. And it's, It's. What do I reply to, you're freezing me to death. Why don't you. I don't even know. I don't even know you freeze me to death. I would look at them like they were crazy. I'd be like, are you. I would go, are you really gonna die? Are you okay? I would get serious. Are you okay? So I would go literal. What I'm wearing makes you colder. Is that a real thing? I've never had that happen to me. So you see me dressed appropriately for the weather and it makes you colder? I think you should probably keep an extra sweatshirt in your room or maybe go talk to a therapist, because that seems kind of crazy. Jtrain podcastmail.com, jtrain podcastmail.com We got one more ticked off Tuesday. I'm ticked off today at the way some products use the nutrition facts section on their packaging. I've recently lost 35 pounds by using the new map. Good for you. They used to sponsor this podcast. It's dope. But that's not what I. What this is all about. The new map had a good thing going. I. I haven't seen it in a bit, but I was always a fan. I recently found this delicious spinach and ricotta ravioli that makes me makes a few of my meals quick. Let me read that again. I recently found this delicious spinach and ricotta ravioli that makes a few of my meals quick, easy, and delicious without eating fast food, trying to avoid it as much as possible. My complaint is that the one. My complaint is that on the nutrition facts, it says a serving size is one cup of ravioli. That's not how we measure ravioli. Stop it. One cup. Yeah, I'm with you. That's. That's a. That's trick. Just do the whole package. Let's do this like Halo top. Give me the calories and the whole thing. Let's just imagine. I know this isn't what you meant. I know this isn't what you want. I'm supposed to split this into fours. Each ravioli I should cut up into four pieces and. Yeah, I know how you would do it. Well, let's do it how I do it. Let's just make an assumption. I'm going to eat the whole thing in one sitting for everything, whether it's a big bag of popcorn or your raviolis. I'm having the whole thing. So just do the nutrition facts like this. And then I can do the math. I can feel good about myself that I had half of it. Oh, I had half. Good to know. Didn't get to the. To the end of this mountain. Just do the whole bag Everything should be the whole bag. Everything should be the whole. No more portions. Cut the crap. There was a bag of chips at the comedy club I was at last week. It had two different calories. It was like 120 and 350. And it's like, just put 350. Let's just assume I'm eating the whole thing. And if I don't, big win for us. Big win for fatty over here. Didn't eat the whole bag of Cheetos. One cup. The ravioli are roughly the width of a measuring cup. Do you really expect me to pull out my measuring cup and put one ravioli in at a time? This is. This is how they get you. They don't want you to measure it. They want to confuse you. They want to upset you. They want to make it so they can put as little calories as possible on there. So they do a cup. What about the space on the sides of the measuring cup that aren't filled? Because this is a solid food. You can't measure like you can measure rice. I'm with you. This is. This is them not wanting to admit that there's a lot of calories in these raviolis, but you don't care. Just give me what it is. Stop lying. Stop playing the games. Just tell me how many raviolis are one serving so I can pop a few on the stove and know how many calories I'm consuming without overthinking it. I'm with you. Do the whole bag. There's 20 in here, and it's 10,000 calories. Okay. I can work my way back from there. They're all the same size. It can't be that hard to. Just tell me how many raviolis are considered one servings. Sincerely discuss it. I'm with you. This is horrible. First of all, I'm not a ravioli guy. I don't like ordering ravioli. I think it's a waste of money. It is in the branzino category for me. But I do understand getting ravioli in a package. The way you're getting it is the way to go. Just tell me how many calories in the whole thing. I'm not gonna not buy a package of ravioli because it says the whole thing is 10,000 calories, man. Well, that's the thing. They're so worried about losing a customer that they're losing a fan. They're losing you. Ticked off Tuesday. Back next week, Bo.
The JTrain Podcast: "Office Outfit Judgement, Hotel Alarm Clocks, and Nutrition Facts - TICKED OFF TUESDAY"
Release Date: June 3, 2025
Host: Jared Freid
In this episode of The JTrain Podcast, host Jared Freid dives into a series of listener-submitted grievances, aptly titled "Ticked Off Tuesday." The monologue-style podcast addresses everyday annoyances with humor and relatability, offering both Jared's personal takes and interactive discussions with listeners.
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Jared kicks off his first complaint by expressing his frustration with the ubiquitous presence of branzino on restaurant menus. He questions the culinary merits of the fish, suggesting it's often prepared in a lackluster manner.
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Discussion: Jared criticizes branzino for being overly simple in preparation—often just seasoned with salt and pepper and baked—resulting in a bland and unsatisfying meal. He contrasts it with salmon, which he finds more versatile and flavorful. Jared humorously vows to discourage future generations from ordering branzino, highlighting his strong aversion to the dish.
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Transitioning to health and wellness, Jared addresses his annoyance with the standardized 10,000 steps goal, labeling it as a marketing invention rather than a meaningful metric.
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Discussion: He argues that the 10,000 steps target was arbitrarily set to promote a product or service and has since lost its original intent. Jared questions the relevance of the number, suggesting that personal fitness goals should be individualized rather than adhering to a one-size-fits-all approach. Nonetheless, he concedes that if the benchmark encourages people to be more active, it serves its purpose despite its questionable origins.
Jared delves into specific grievances submitted by his Patreon supporters, offering both empathy and comedic relief.
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A listener shares frustration over being rudely awakened by hotel alarm clocks set for early morning flights.
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Discussion: Jared empathizes with the inconvenience of hotel alarm clocks, especially when they seem to be remnants from previous guests’ schedules. He advocates for technological solutions that automatically reset alarms daily, reducing unnecessary disturbances for future guests.
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Another listener expresses discomfort over unsolicited first-class upgrades from a boyfriend's mother during a family vacation, leading to familial tension.
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Discussion: Jared dissects the complexities of navigating family dynamics, especially when unsolicited gestures from in-laws come with strings attached. He advises maintaining neutrality and open communication to mitigate tensions, emphasizing the importance of preserving personal relationships over material benefits.
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A listener complains about a coworker who criticizes their choice of attire, particularly when wearing cap sleeves or tank tops, leading to uncomfortable office interactions.
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Discussion: Jared highlights the absurdity of workplace judgment based on clothing choices, advocating for personal autonomy in attire. He mocks the coworker's over-the-top complaints, suggesting that such behavior stems from personal insecurities rather than legitimate concerns.
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The final complaint revolves around deceptive nutritional labeling, where serving sizes do not accurately reflect typical consumption.
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Discussion: Jared criticizes companies for manipulating serving sizes to make products appear healthier or fewer in calories. Using the example of packaged ravioli where a single serving is deceptively labeled as one cup, he argues for transparency in nutritional information, allowing consumers to make informed decisions without being misled by arbitrary measurements.
Throughout "Ticked Off Tuesday," Jared Freid masterfully blends humor with valid grievances, creating an engaging narrative that resonates with listeners. By addressing a diverse range of topics—from culinary disappointments and health fads to family drama and workplace etiquette—Jared not only vents his own frustrations but also fosters a sense of community among his audience. His candid and comedic approach makes the podcast a relatable and entertaining platform for airing everyday irritations.
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These highlights encapsulate Jared's blend of humor and critique, making "Ticked Off Tuesday" a compelling listen for anyone seeking both laughter and a voice for their everyday annoyances.