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Podcasts Taking New Years Week Off, Being A Millennial, and Tipping Judgement - TICKED OFF TUESDAY
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I know you're angry. It's Tuesday and it has no feel. The weekend was fun. You're still hungover from the eating and next weekend is too far away. What will you do with your day? It's time to get ticked off. Complain with your gripe. Right now, your friend Uncle J Train is here to tell you that you're right. It's a ticked off Tuesday. Ticked off Tuesday. You're angry and you don't even know why. Enjoy this podcast. It'll help you get to Friday.
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Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. Is J Train Jared Freed coming to you live from Delray Beach, Florida? That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Is there something on your mind? Send it to the J train podcast, jtrain podcast gmail.com. anything you're angry about, that is the promise of this podcast is that you complain to me and I will agree with you in some way or form or fashion. I will make sure you feel seen, you feel heard. Your complaints are valid. I will never look at you and go, well, that's not that big a deal. There's bigger problems in the world. There's no bigger problems. There are your problems and they. They are real. And it's a complaint duet. I'll complain with you. I'll find a way. I might not hear your complaint and go, oh, you're right on. I might find this other little neighborhood that we can take a little left turn into and discuss that. I'll find the nooks and crannies that you didn't even know existed. So we want you to send your complaints to jtrain podcast gmail.com email if you want to be guaranteed that your complaint will be heard here, you got to sign up for patreon patreon.com Jared free the link is in the bio. This episode. Every Friday you get coffee with J Train and you can comment with your tiktoff Tuesday on Coffee with J Train. It will be read here. You will get satisfaction. I can promise that. So. So that is the intro for this show this week. I have this feeling we're gonna get some new listeners. So I wanted to make sure that I explained what ticked off Tuesday is. This is a daily show. We start with my complaint, then we do. We have one ad, so we'll do one sponsor and then we'll do listener complaints. I have four in front of me. They are two out of two out of the four Patreon subscribers. Then we got two from the mailbox. So it is possible to have your complaint read here if you do not join Patreon. But I would suggest joining Patreon. It helps the show. It goes into production also. Happy New Year. That is my first complaint. It is New Year's week. Some of your favorite podcasts have taken a week off. I think that is garbage. I think that is crap. I think it shows how little they care about you, their listener. Well, Jared, that means you care more. I guess I do. I'm here for you. What week of the year is a podcast more necessary than this week? Take off. A week in the middle of the summer when we have things to do when we're at the beach. Not this week. The week that we're home with our family. The week where there's reruns on tv. The week when the weather is getting freezing cold and it gets dark at 4 o'. Clock. The week where I need to put my brain on the shelf more than any other week of the year. You're taking off. Oh, so you can be fresh and fit for the new year. You're taking off because no, we're not really taking off. There's a best of episode. A best of episode is basically spitting in the listener's face. And I am not going to do that to you. I am going to complain with you about these podcasters. What? You got to double up an extra podcast two weeks ago so that you can make sure to have something out this week. Another hour of work. I'm using, I'm using finger quotes because work is being generous for making a podcast. You needed to be fresh for next week. What tropical island did you have to go to this week? Where in Mexico are you sitting in the sun while we're all in in the coal mine, working our asses off, hoping for someone to talk about into our ear? You left us hanging. That's my first complaint. Second complaint, and it's a tough one to one. One of the Paul brothers boxed against a professional boxer this week. I think the Paul brothers, their whole thing is, I'm going to be this tough talking dude who's going to call out people and then I'm going to box them. Fine. I just found out that they made $92 million for boxing a professional athlete. This used to be like one of those hypotheticals you do with friends. Hey, would you go box Mike Tyson for $100 million where he's trying his hardest? All of us would say yes. All of us would say, hey, I'll get knocked out, but I'll wake up with $100 million and all of my problems will have gone away. Now, the thing that annoys me about this isn't that their ability to do this. It's not the ability to, hey, Mike Tyson, come box me and we get to make $92 million. That's fine. I don't like that. Now I'm hearing. Got to give them credit. They did pretty good in the ring. No, I give no credit. I'm not sitting here being like, whoa. They have all the time and energy to train for this fight. This isn't. This is like, whoa, look how in shape they got in. This is the same as, like, look how in shape they got in for the movie. They had a chef, they had all the drugs, they had a personal trainer, and they had time. Look at. I would be impressed with. Oh, my God. One of the Paul brothers boxed a professional boxer in his free time training after his shift at Costco. That would be impressive. They work at Costco and then they have to go fight a professional boxer. I go, whoa. And they stood in the ring with them. Don't give me this. Well, you got to give them credit. They did a pretty good job considering. Considering what their trainer. Considering what they're all the time in the world to get ready for this. Considering what the 92 million that they can lay on afterwards. I'm not really. No credit given. The fight wasn't even that great. I have one more complaint, and then we'll get to the listener complaints. I just did shows in Orlando. I had a good time. Funny Bone Orlando. It's in this, like, mall area that's, like, bumping, like, I would say there's a good energy there. There's tons of bars, there's tons of restaurants, and they're all, like, looking to, like, give you a big, you know, one pound beer and put it in your hand and have the music on loud. And it, it is a entertainment facility that I would say to someone if they were like, hey, I, I, where should I go in Orlando? I, I don't know if I'd send you here as much as I'd be like, that place looks like a place people are having fun. That is my, what I will say. It's called the Point, I think. And that's where the club was. Here's my problem. The club, because of that and because in Orlando, you know, whoever came, thank you. The people that came were great. But you're getting kind of random people walking up to the comedy club, which is what a comedy club is. Meant to do. Hey, we have the comedian. You can trust us. As the club walk on in. And then maybe I find a new fan. Maybe I find someone who enjoys the show. They buy a ticket. That's great. I mean, as a comedian, the. The best case scenario is everyone in the room bought tickets before it's a big night, it's already sold out. So then there's like, hey, we have to be. We want a great. When people. When the show sold out before you get there, there's this thing of like, this is a big night. I can't wait to see the show. When you can kind of float in, you go, ah, we'll see. Who knows? We'll get some food, we'll have some drinks, maybe we laugh, we'll be on our way. That is okay. And it's also, you know why I keep ticket prices as low as I can? I really don't. I really make a point to say, keep the tickets at this price. And if you're going online and saying, jared, I looked them up. They're like 500. No, no, no, they're not. Okay. They. Those are ticket resellers. Only buy tickets through my website. Only buy tickets through any comedian's website that you want to go see. Do not Google the name, because the first one that comes up is the promoted link, which is usually the ticket resellers. You go to their website, you buy tickets from their site. That is what they cost. It won't be as expensive as it may seem. I'm just telling you the truth. I'm giving you. This isn't even an inside scoop, but when you keep your ticket prices low, you also get people that come in, they go, whatever, 25 bucks to you. 25 bucks might be a lot of money. That makes you kind of like, zone in to others. They might go, who care? Yeah, Here, here, here's a 50. We're good. Two people. We're going to have some drinks. We get to see, sit. Like, a lot of people come to the show because they go, oh, I can sit. Which, okay, fine. Okay. It is up to me to perform to a level that makes you go, thank God we sat at that comedy club. Like, oh, my God, what a win. I want people to get the win. And I do believe I have the talent. And I've put in the preparation to make that a reality. That is my. That is my. That. That is my opening statement. I go on stage. First show Saturday. No, second show Friday night, which is known as the toughest night for a comedian to do his job, their job. Second show Friday has the reputation of, like, things get weird because the audience, it's generally the. The ticket that gets bought last. People generally buy early Friday, early Saturday, or they make a Thursday night. If you're there on Thursday, late Friday is like the last one to sell out, if it does sell out. So in my case, late Friday was going to be light, but okay, we got. We're going to have a show. We're going to have fun. The opener, Jeff Klein, who was great, hilarious all weekend. Jeff goes on stage, does a great job, brings me on stage. As I get on stage, two women are sat, I would say three rows back to the stage left. And that's okay, sit them down. Let's go. I'm on stage. Hey, give it up for Jared Freed. I come on stage and when I have an audience where it's light, so it's not full, and some of the people, a good amount of the people don't know who I am, I come out with energy, with smiling. I, you know, my plan is to come out hitting, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke. I want inst. I need to gain instant credibility so that I can get the plane in the air and then we can go to cruising altitude and I can do some longer form stories. I can, but then people will listen. So when I go on stage, I'm like, joke, joke, joke, joke. I'm trying to get again, I. I compare it to a plane because it's this big takeoff and then let's get to altitude so that we can cruise a little bit. That is not me saying that I, like, take my foot off the gas. It is more. I can do some other things. I can take a little bit of a breath between jokes. But in the beginning, especially Friday night show, people are a little drunk. They're waking up at weekday hours, but going to bed on weekend time, you want to come out hitting. So I come out, boom, boom, boom, boom. And I'm like. As I'm in the middle of this show, these two women have been sat and their order is taking, I would say, eight minutes. Eight minutes of order to the point where. And they're not trying to whisper. The waiter is trying to get the. Is trying to communicate with them. It's just not. It is to the point where their order is also now creating this dome of. They create, you know, their order has a perimeter. The louder you are with the order, the more you're interrupting the rows around you and then the rows around them. So the louder you are, the more of a crater you create in the room. I get done with like 10 minutes of me coming on. Joke, joke, joke, joke. I don't make. I don't go in the audience. I'm not. I'm just trying to get the plane in the air. And at a certain point, I look down and I go, how long is this order going to take? And they both look up at me and the waiter, they all look up at me like, yeah, I guess this is taking a long time. And I guess we are being loud. And the waiter even looks at me, he goes, we're almost there, we're almost there. I'm like, what did you get that would necessitate this discussion? It's vodka soda and that's it. Two vodka sodas, please. Done. What could take this long? And the one woman is like, they don't have the type of alcohol I like. And I'm like, well, now that you found out they don't have the alcohol you like, can we move on to the next one? We'll get whatever is the top shelf or the. The well version, Whatever price you're looking to get. This shouldn't be eight minutes. They. They don't have that. Okay, I'll have this. That should. How long it should take. My complaint isn't with, hey, they don't have their alcohol. My complaint is with the club. And. And it. My complaint. The club was. Everyone at the club was very nice. Everyone was very nice. They did a great job. Otherwise. My feedback to the Funny bone in Orlando is to say, if you have two people show up for 15 to 20 minutes late for the show, you have a lobby. How about, hey, guys, you have to be part of the credibility building that the opener would have done. The opener is there to build credibility, to show you what a show is like. You need to say to people as if they're walking into any other show, hey, before we can seat you, here's what's going to go down. The opener's on stage now. The headliner's about to go on. It's a two person show. You've already missed the first person. We need to take your drink order now while we're here. Then in the lobby, we can discuss. Do you have kettle? Do you have Tito's? And we can get your. Because. And. And my complaint is like, why I'm not the first show that's ever happened there. In what way are you looking out for the show when you sit two people down and then you go, okay, what are we ordering? While the guy's on stage. You're not helping at all. You're actually detracting. Why is it taking me? Who has never done like, I, I, I, I've never done any. I've never been away or at a, at a comedy club. I've never. Let me just admit maybe where I'm missing something because maybe someone says to me, we can't do it that way. That's impossible. And I'm willing to hear that feedback. But from my angle, I see no loss in. Hey guys, before you go sit down in a show that's already happening, here are your menus. Let's get the order done right away. Your waiters right here. We're going to bring them over to you because he's already into his section. I don't understand why I'm, I'm not a genius. I'm actually stupid. I went to a state school. I didn't do great on my SATs. Why am I so. Anyone could have had this like three second thought and no one did it. Jtrain podcastmail.com J train podcastmail.com and if you want to come see me on the road for this hilarious act. And I'm in San Diego this weekend. Okay, so New Year's in San Diego, plus the weekend Philly, sold out. Baltimore, Tampa, Atlanta, Charleston. We got the whole, I mean, I got so many shows. Toronto, Houston, Vancouver. I'm wearing the hat. If you're watching the clip, I'm wearing a Vancouver hat. Tempe, Houston, Dallas, New York City. It's almost sold out. Let's do some ticked off Tuesdays from listeners before we do. We are sponsored. I love this sponsor because it helps you. Rocket Money. The New Year's here. It's a great time to check in on budgets, keep an eye on your spending patterns with Rocket Money. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps you find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. The Rocket Money. Rocket Money tracks your online subscriptions. The user friendly dashboard gives you the ability to cancel with a few taps, saving you time avoiding unexpected charges. 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Join@RocketMoney.com JTrain that's RocketMoney.com JTrain RocketMoney.com J J Train okay, let's get to the listener complaints and you can join Patreon to complain and make sure it gets read or send it to jtrain podcast gmail.com. okay. First time writer, Patreon and benefit subscriber. Thank you. I write this in the moment. My ticked off Tuesday is train etiquette. There is a woman on a 7am train to New York City that feels the need to have a phone conversation on speaker. If you're using speakerphone. Let's just go with you're wrong. Let's just go with, you're bothering other people. Let's just go with, you've done wrong. If you're in the middle of the woods using speakerphone, okay. Even then you should be looking around. Okay. Anyone else in the vicinity? I guess I don't have to put my headphones in. That is a rare occurrence if you're on speakerphone more than you're on headphones. You've done wrong. Let's just say that with all due respect, I don't want to hear about your kitchen remodel while I'm trying to mentally prepare for the day ahead. Please wear headphones at the or at the very least, take it off speaker. Thanks for being the sole provider of my daily morning laughs. Thank you. Also, love the YouTube of your new apartment organization. Thank you. I love doing those videos. You can go on YouTube. This is, it's maddening because you, you want to go, hey, did you think about other people? Did you have any moment where you go, oh, this is really bothersome. And then you went, they can go themselves because that's what it feels like. That's where this person is. That's where I am when I hear someone on speaker and it's bothering me. I have to believe that we're not that far apart. So I go through the same thought process that I would go through if I had speakerphone. I would, if I was going on a speaker, I would go, am I gonna bother anyone? And then I would see someone that I was gonna bother and I go put on the headphones. So what this person had to have done, and this is why we don't like this person, is this person had to have sat down, gone, is this speaker gonna bother anyone? And then saw you and went, yeah, they're a big fucking loser that I don't give a fuck about, and they can go fuck themselves. I'll go on speaker still. That's, that's what, that's, this is why it's angering, because you might go up to this woman and say, hey, can you take it off speaker? And they go, oh, whoa, I didn't even. I lost myself. I'm so sorry. They there's retribution here, but that's not. Generally, it would be a long shot for this person to go, oh, am I on? I I, I'm sorry. I I, I. It's so early in the morning. Like, like. And the problem is, and this is where the anger comes from, we don't say anything because why we don't. We have to assume it is more likely. Speakerphone woman on the train at 7am Talking about her house remodel is crazy. Than it is that she's saying jtrain podcast gmail.com jtrain podcastmail.com Jared Love this daily format of the show. Perfect way to start my morning when I don't want to get out of bed. Oh, I love it. Here's my complaint. My best friend is a slob. Her house and her minivan are always a mess. Not just clutter, but actual trash. She has three kids, and I sympathize that it is hard to keep up with chores and such, but. But I came from a family with three times as many kids. Nine kids. That's, that's a lot of kids. And we managed to keep clean. So part of me feels like, what's her excuse? And I kind of feel like an asshole about it, but it makes me not want to go over to her place. And we always end up hanging out at my apartment. I live alone. She doesn't even seem to notice. She considers herself a maximalist, but maximalism equals trash does not equal trash everywhere. That's all. It bugs me. I love her, but. Oh boy. Yeah, this is a tough one because some gentle feedback to you when you say we had nine kids you have three. What's the excuse? That's an asshole way to look at it. You. You are already down the road of judgment, and you're down the road and listen, I agree with your complaint. It sucks that this person's messy. How you feed it to them or how you talk about it to other people, you know, that's a fix we can all make, because three kids, nine kids. I think the. The mess is marginal at a certain point. We also don't know what people are going through mentally, what addictions they're dealing with, where they are in their lives, what their partners are like to help, how, you know, the kids, developmental issues or things that are going on with the kids that you don't know about. Maybe you had nine kids that were all, you know, just got it right away. And she's got three kids that have their own issue. We don't know. So, like, I think the nine versus three. So how is it messy? You know, nine kids, that's nine people that can clean. Three. That's less cleaners. So I. Beyond how you sound. Your friend being messy is a problem. Is annoying. You have to hang out at your house all the time. I'm sure your friend is probably wanting to hang out at your house, get away from the kids for a couple hours. But I don't want to end up sitting in gross things when I go to hang with my friends. It would turn me off from hanging out with them. Also, minivan. Dirty minivan, for some reason, just feels dirtier. There's more, you know, crevasses to get weird goo and slime into. Yeah, and here's the other thing. And. And the real problem here is their messiness forces you to a place of judgment. They forced you to do nine kids versus three kids. And, wow, you can't even handle that. What? You are forcing us to look at you in a different way that we don't want to look at you. And here's the other problem. You can't even go to them with this. This is a problem that, like, you can't say anything at. And. And. And you'd say, well, hey, for Christmas, maybe you get them a housekeeper. You can't do that without explaining, hey, your place is a fucking mess, your kids are gross, you're disgusting. It becomes a judgment right away. There's no way to give feedback on this unless they ask for it. If they said, I am just the last thing I can do is clean the house. You go, I'm gonna get you a housekeeper. I'm Gonna do a month. That's my gift to you for the holiday season. Then maybe they get so used to it that they continue it. And now you're part of them making it better. But you can't do that unless they say, like, I'm just at my wicks end, I have no more strength. I don't know what to do. They need to come to you. That's the problem. J train podcast gmail.com jtrain podcastmail.com Jared I decided to get a massage day at a neighborhood spot I like because it's much cheaper than a fancy spa and still pretty good. They charge $60 for an hour, which is still a bit of a splurge for me. So I only go maybe twice a year. I get all of this. I understand the, you know, the, the local place that does massages versus the spa. I get it. I usually have a different masseuse every time, but there's typically the same woman at the front desk who I think runs the place. She wasn't there today. The massage itself was great, the massage. The masseuse was very nice, but I was caught off guard when I went to pay. I gave a 20% tip, which I think is standard, and she told me I was short and that the tip should be $20 for that hour. Well, no, that's not a tip at that point. That's what it costs. It wasn't really about the money. I could have given $20, especially since the massage was inexpensive and I know staff probably aren't paid that much, but it felt rude and uncomfortable to be told how much to tip. Yeah, no, that, that's not a tip. How about you? The massage place raise the prices of massages and that becomes a supply and demand thing. That becomes an economics class. You raise the price, you get less customers, but people are paying more. That's how it goes to tell people what they should tip. That's like you're not even a business at that point. You're, you're, you're. That's not a tip. And also, knowing me, that it was presented as if it were spa policy. That means this massage costs $80. It is not $60 massage plus $20 tip, or else we're calling the police. Like, that's crazy. If the front desk woman had been there, I would have asked her, but since she wasn't, it made me wonder if the masseuse felt she could push it. I told her this was a 20% tip and that I'd never been asked to tip a specific amount before she backed off, but now I feel weird and probably won't go back for a while. Part of me wonders if I should just pay. Should have just paid it. Should have. No. But another part of me who feels like I shouldn't be pressured into tipping more. It. The tip. The whole point of the tip is you did such a great job that I want to show how happy I was with the experience. It costs. There's, there's a reason for words. That's, that's the problem I have here. The, the, the they charge $60 for an hour and then I get to make a decision on what I tip. If it was they charge $80 for an hour and I tried to give them 60 bucks and they said, hey, it's 20 more dollars, that would be a different thing. This is a word problem. This is. You have misrepresented what the cost of the massage is. If it says on the door, we have $60 massages and then you walk in, they go, hey, where's the $20 tip? I would say you should have that on the door. It is an $80 massage. And don't make you paying your masseuses the wrong amount. My problem, that's your business. That's called a business plan. J train podcast@gmail.com J train podcast@gmail.com I got one more Patreon subscriber. Feather. Feather first laughed constantly during your Turner Hall Laugh constantly at. During your show at Turner hall, the high school gym in Milwaukee. That was a great show. I love Milwaukee. What a great show. Thank you for always being reliable for a good laugh. Thank you. I deeply related to your move in story. I just moved into a new apartment where management said the building's Internet provider was AT&T. So I ordered the equipment moved in and of course it didn't work. After two hours on the phone with AT&T unplugging, rebooting and moving the box around my apartment, they told me that I'd have to drive to Chicago or Michigan for replacement equipment even though I need need Internet to work remotely by Monday. That is not an answer to a person in Milwaukee. This isn't. You're not in Saskatoon. You're not in the North Pole. You are in a major city. This is AT&T. They should not be servicing people in Milwaukee. If they're telling you to drive to Michigan or Chicago. Oh, there's an issue with the Internet. Get in the car, drive to Florida about 20 hour drive, come pick up the box and you'll be on your way. No, that's not an answer. That's a non answer. That is them absolving themselves a responsibility. I noticed someone in my building named their WI Fi T mob. T Mob. Cause of AT&T sucks. So went to a nearby T Mobile store and was online in 15 minutes. This is plus free Hulu and Paramount Plus. Turns out Internet is over the air now. So building preferred providers are basically outdated nonsense. Which makes me wonder how many management companies are giving new tenants bad information. This is one of those. And you're not even complaining about this. But let me take this in a direction. I'm sure you're around my age. We are always the test generation. We are the analog to digital generation. We are the ones that have to deal with. Because what you're saying is what I thought. I thought the building is. Is strung up for a certain cable provider. And that's why I was asking the question. No, everything's in the air. Everything's digital. You don't need, you know, oh, the wires here are T mobile, so you got to do T mobile. The wires are AT&T. This is an AT&T building. This is kind of what we were brought up on as new adults moving into buildings. To hear that's not the case is like, you just blew my mind. You're right, because I was going along with the same premise as you. The buildings have a specific company that I need to make sure I dig in on. I. I'm done with free market. I am buying into a monopoly. And now you're saying we're back to free market, and this is all about our age. This is where you go millennials. We got fucked on timing. Gen Z will never know of a building going, yeah, we have a certain Internet provider. You got to do it, or else you got nothing. Huh, bitch? How about you shut your fucking mouth? Because you do what we tell you to do. Because we have a building full of AT&T people that's. And Gen Z will never know that we dealt with that. And now we have succumbed to it. And then we go, okay, where do I go for Internet? And then someone at the Internet goes, what are you talking about? You can go wherever you want. What are you, a loser? And you're like, hey, hey, it's a mind. Being a millennial is a mind. Every day. Happy New Year. Back next week, boom.