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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. Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. Is Jay Train, Jared Freed coming to you live from Providence, Rhode Island. That's right, every Tuesday is a tick tock Tuesday where you, the listener, complain to me, the podcaster and comedian, and then I complain with you and it's a complaint duet every Tuesday. And I want you to send in your complaints. Jtrain podcast, gmail.com. that's how you send them in. And you can complain about anything you'd like. That's right. This is the only place on the Internet where all of your problems are valid. We will find a way to make you feel seen. You will. It'll feel like a, a big old hug of your heart. Now if you want to send it in, you can send it to the email or you can join Patreon. Now Patreon gets first dibs and I got four complaints in front of me. They're all from Patreon, so they're using their membership. The link is in the description of this episode. Patreon.com jaredfreed and you get coffee with J Train every Friday and then you comment on Coffee with J Train with your complaint and we read it here first. It gets put to the front of the line. Five bucks a month. So I would love to invite you to, to listen on Patreon and get involved with that program gets you the fifth podcast of the week. And otherwise there's a YouTube channel, there's an Instagram page you can subscribe to, and all that good stuff. And I'm going to be in Winnipeg. Coming up, Kansas City, D.C. richmond. So we've got dates in my calendar. If you're sitting in an American city, go to jaredfree.com because I'm probably coming to a place near you and right now I'm looking at theaters. Now we're moving in from. You know, I'm in Providence this weekend and I love the club here and club is just a different thing than the theaters. It's, it's a little more intimate. It's a little more talky. I'm figuring out bits. When I come to those theaters, we are going to sing, dance and dust. It's time to get on stage and perform. Turn on the music, turn on the, you know, I gotta like you. I gotta bring it. So I want you to assemble group chat. I want you to bring your friends, your family, your brother, your sister, your mommy, your papa, anyone who wants to have a laugh every 10 seconds for an hour. Would you, would you be into something like that? So those are the announcements. We have one ad. I have some brief complaints. And then we'll do the ad and we'll get to the listener complaints. I have four of them. My complaint. I'll start with this. I love the college game day football pregame show. It's on espn. It's called College game day. They go from city to city. They go, well, city to city. They go from Collegetown to college town. And they do kind of the tailgate leading into Saturday. Saturday, college football. I've watched it, I've talked about it on all of the podcasts that I do, how much I love this show. The reason I love it is there is a kid like joy I get watching Lee Corso, who's been on the show forever, put on the mascot head to pick the big game of the week. And I've talked about this to. I, I like the, the weird part is it's been a subject here on this show or the jcu, the J train cinematic universe. How much I just love this pregame show, how much I think it's great. I, I criticize it. There's things I don't like. I think the Pat McAfee edition and has been tough and it feels like a different show. But, you know, again, I cheer for the show this week and I just, I'm, I'm taping this on Saturday right after the, the pregame show has happened. It was Lee Corso's last time putting the mascot head on when he makes his choice. And bittersweet, you know, what a run. Because Lee Corso's an older man, it was starting to get weird with him on the show and he probably, you know, I think he's probably two years too late on leaving the show. But, you know, you don't want to be pushed out. You don't want to be, you do want to be missed. I, I don't know. Since it's happened, it's happened. So whatever. Like, for me to say, oh, he should have done it, should have left two years ago. That would be me being miserable and not really celebrating the moment. And it's nice that he got one last showcase, and it was the opening week of college football. What annoys me is I put up a picture that said, I, hey, this is what I'm crying about. Like, I was crying watching him with a Brutus the Buckeye helmet on. Helmet mascot head. He's got Brutus the Buckeye on. He's doing the wave. Lee's Corso has picked his last game. I post the picture about me, and I'm saying, this is what I'm crying about. That's the fun joke. But it's honest and it's real. And it's all these things. I cannot stand how messed up we are as a society. Yeah, I'm going to society where you can't just agree. Lee Corso. Like, okay, I guess the feedback that annoys me is. And I'm using this as an example, but it happens in all things where teams are at play. And we live in a world right now where everyone associates with some sort of team, whether it be football, baseball, basketball, political hometown, whatever it may be. This person responds. And it happens all the time. I'm not trying to, like, just lay blame on this person. Well, as a Badger fan, I still was crying myself. What does you having. What, what does you being a Badger fan have anything to do with Lee Corso putting on the mascot head one more time? And people do this with everything they have to give reason or credibility. This false credibility with. As a Badger fan, even I was crying when Lee Corso put on the Buckeye helmet. What? This has nothing to do with. You can't cheer for Lee Corso doing his last football pick because he wore another team's mascot helmet. A team that isn't even playing your team. Don't you hear? And that's what gets me so enraged. Don't you hear how diseased you sound in the head that you can't even. And this is like Homerism. This is, this is. Nothing bothers me more than Homerism because I guess as a. I take a little bit of pride in that. I am from a place of huge Homerism. I'm from outside of Boston, but I moved when I was 18 to go to college. I go to Penn State. I've always been in enemy territory. I've always been in a place that was not backed up by a hundred thousand of my friends. I guess when I went to Penn State. You're a, you're a home team, but I, I. That I Can see the national picture, the bigger, grander scale. These people that say, well, even as a Badger fan, I was crying. Really? Oh, oh, oh. You could even. You could put aside the team that no one has brought up, no one gives a shit about, no one has even thought about. You can put aside your fandom for something that has nothing to do with what's going on now. To have a moment for an older man leaving a position that, like, he was, like, amazing at and we loved. Even as a Badger fan, I could get beyond my own insecurities to cheer for a guy wearing another team's mascot head. Oh, really? Oh, my God. You could. We should. Oh, my. We. We. We should elect this person mayor. They could see beyond the fact that this has nothing to do with team pride. This has nothing to do with what team you cheer for. This has to do with a guy who picks games by putting a dumb mascot head on his own head and waves like he's the Queen of England. You. You have nothing. Your team has nothing to do with what's going on. And you want to go up to that person and grab them by the lapels and go, do you hear yourself? Do you hear how crazy you are? Do you hear how diseased you are? This has nothing to do with your football team. That means you care a little bit too much about your football team. That means you can't. You are so biased that you find that you have to defend. You're not biased even when there's no bias to be found. That drives me crazy. And people do it with everything. As a mother, as a person from Boston, even I can get beyond how sick and fucked up I am to say, oh, oh, yeah, the Yankees had a good season. Oh, good for you. My next complaint, I'm staying at Marriott. A Marriott, A classic Marriott. I've stayed here maybe five times at this point. The Marriott downtown Providence, which is, like, kind of like on the outskirts of downtown. It's a classic Marriott. It's like one of those with, like, the M Club and. And it's one of those that, like, touch my heartstrings a little bit, you know, you. It's like that early 2000s, late 90s business hotel where, yeah, you just don't see it as a pool. And, like, you know, it just like it. It's got all those, like, amenities that you're like, I can't believe it goes on like this here still. I go to check in, I go, and I'm waiting behind a woman who's having an issue. Fine. She's having an issue, and she has monopolized everyone working there. There's three people working there, one person with an issue, all three helping her. Okay, If I'm one of the three, I peel off. I go, excuse me. Seems like you guys got this covered. Sir, come on up. I'm also, like a bonvoy, you know, person. Like, I, I have some status here. Like, I've. I stayed these a lot. Like, I, I. That shouldn't matter. I'm doing what the woman does with the badger helmet. No, no, that doesn't matter. I don't need to qualify myself as someone who should get help. But I. I will say, if I'm in that triumvirate helping that one woman, hey, looks like you got it covered. A lot of cooks in the kitchen. Here, let me help this guy. That didn't happen. So they basically, all three of them, helped this one woman find. I waited, and I'm being. I'm going. I was gonna say 15 minutes. Let me. Let me make this more realistic. I. And, and. And you. Let me just say to you, this is a long time to wait. 7 minutes. 7 minutes waiting for this one woman who had an issue to get help by three people who work at the Marriott, all just not concerned that I'm waiting for seven minutes. Now you say seven minutes, Jared, Is that a long time? Yeah, that's a long time. That's a long time to be standing in the middle of the lobby with three people that work at the hotel, go run on a treadmill for seven minutes. Just go right and tell me that's not a long time. And, and let's. We'll come back, we'll reconvene, and we'll talk about how seven minutes isn't a long time. It's a long time. Finally, someone gets to me, and I say. I say very little. Hi. Good to see you. Thank you. I don't complain about the seven minutes. I just waited. I was like, I'll save that for ticked off Tuesday. They say, okay, your id, Please give my id. And then they say, we don't have a room ready. And I'm not excited, but I'm not mad. I just say, okay. And they say, let me go check. And this is without me saying anything. I just said, okay, no room ready. Let me go check. And they go on the computer, they tap, tap, tap, and then they go, let me call over my manager. They call over the manager. I have made no complaints. All I've said is okay. And I'm waiting To hear what the next move is. The manager then looks at me and says, we don't have a room ready for you right now. Our check in is 4 o'. Clock. I hope you have a great stay here once we get you in. Like. Like, closed off the conversation as if I was screaming and ranting and raving. I didn't say anything. It was just this, like, demeanor of, like. It was almost like it was. I was being spoken to by someone who was training the staff for how to handle a difficult customer. Your room. We hope you enjoy your stay, sir. Like, it was like, period, no room ready. Like, we're not even gonna, like, have it out as far as, like. Because in my mind, I would say, well, is there a lesser room ready? Is there a. Is there maybe, like, a room that you guys hold on to? What? I would have further questions. How much time? When do you think? Have we spoken to housekeeping? I know you were just on the computer. Like, let's talk to. It is 2 o' clock at the time. That's another big part of this. Two o'. Clock. We have nothing ready. No explanation. Okay, well, 4:00 is coming. That's. That's the point where I start getting free shit. So let's have a talk here. It was basically like, we hope you have a good stay. Goodbye. So they go, we don't need your credit card yet. We'll let you. You can go sit. And again, this hotel is on the outskirts of town. I have all my stuff. They're like, you can use our amenities. We have a gym, we have a pool. You can go sit in the M Club. We'll let you into the M Club, which is their, like, snack room. I said, I'll sit in the M Club. So they go to let me in, and the person takes my bags, and that's it. In my mind, there's the guy. We just. I'm literally within earshot. Like, you can see me from where the front desk is. In my mind. You just told me we don't have a room ready. 4 o' clock's the time I check in. I would assume whenever those rooms get ready, you get a call or a ding on the computer or something that tells you, hey, the guy that's sitting 10ft away who just tried to check in can now go to his. Now his. His. His room that's ready. I go in the M room. I eat. I eat pretzels. I eat all the things I don't want to eat, all the things I'm eating. Pastime food. I'm eating pretzels, goldfish, Swedish fish. All things that you would say, don't eat them. Don't do it, don't do it. Have a good meal. Nope, I'm ruined. It's over. I'm eating cookies, I'm eating Swedish fish, I'm eating pretzels, I'm eating. And it's on and on and on. And it's because I just have this time where I can't go anywhere and there's a piece of me that's like, go to a restaurant. Go do something else. But I want to get in the room as soon as I can. An hour goes by. I say, it's three o', clock, let's just go check in. I go to the front desk. They go, yep, room is ready. You don't know how much that annoys me. I've been sitting 10ft away. You can see the back of my head from where you're standing. Yup, the room is ready is not a good enough response. I need. Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. They called 10 minutes ago. I need something to just say, the room is ready. In my mind. How long has that been? Has it been. I've been waiting for an hour. Was it 20 minutes ago? Was it 50 minutes ago? Did you find out 10 minutes after I left here? And now I'm, you know, a fistful deep into goldfish that I never wanted to eat. And you want to say, like, hey, when did the. And it doesn't make. I even thought to myself, jared, don't say a word. There's nothing to talk about. If I'm them, I'm going to lie to you. I'm going to say, oh, just popped up on my computer the minute you walked up here. And I would look at them like Larry David. Really? Really? The second. This second, they would go, yep. And I'd have to eat it. So don't even go down that road because you're going to get mad that you're being lied to. Jtrain podcastmail.com if you want to send in your complaint to ticked off Tuesday, where every Tuesday on the jcu, the J Train Cinematic Universe, we are sponsored. Herobred. Herobred has already kept your diet on track with their bagels dinner rolls and sliced bread loaves. 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Put those out during, you know, a barbecue or tailgate, no one's going to know the difference. They're all going to be happier. You're. I mean, I wouldn't put them out. I'd put them aside for myself and then have the garbage for everyone else. So, as always, heroes has their staples. Tortillas, hot dog buns, hamburger buns, so you can eat all your favorite foods without derailing your progress. I am a huge proponent of what Hero's doing. I love the idea of efficiency. And that's where Hero's going. You're going to have bread. It's going to be better bread, and it's going to taste just as good as the bad bread that doesn't have all this stuff in it. So Herobred is offering 10% off your order. Go to Hero co. Use code Jtrain at checkout. That's Jtrain@h e r o dot co. Okay, let's do the listener complaints. We have four of them. Jared. I have a tot. I took a Friday night. My. I'm. I'm all over the place. I took a Friday afternoon off work and went to the hair salon for a full refresh. Highlights, haircut, and a blowout. This process takes at least three hours. My salons playlists are all over the place in terms of genre, but the music is generally pretty good. Today I walked in and a slow, weepy hoser. Today I walked in and a slow weepy hoser song was playing. Okay, that's fine. Maybe the next song will be more upbeat. No, the next song was hoser. I don't even think I'm saying it right. Hosier. Hosier. I know who it is. And for three Solid hours. This salon played nothing but Hosier. I think Hosier is a. Air. Is an earbud musician. That. That is a guy. That band, whatever that is. He does a lot of. It's like, a lot of, like, deep, guttural, sad songs. We don't want that. I didn't even know Hozier made three hours of music. I don't even. I don't even dislike Hozier. I'm with you. I don't dislike him. But it's not. There should be a whole station that says, no Hozier. But. But a sad man yodeling is not the right vibe for a Friday afternoon at the salon with the girlies. I agree with you. And for three straight hours, if an establishment is going to insist on playing songs by just one artist, the artist should be switched up at least hourly. Thank you for listening. Sincerely, Hosier's newest hater. I listen. That's the problem. This isn't a hose. Your problem. This is a salon issue. This is. They. They should have. If this doesn't exist on Spotify, it's crazy. But it should just be salon hits. Happy for an hour. Like, no salon should ever be one musician. That's crazy. I listen. And it's unfair to hose your. Because we're sitting here crapping on him. But it's to make an example of all these salons. It's gotta be. And again, for three hours, you want to be refreshed. You don't want to be on. You want one sad yodeler. When you're on a flight and you have your earbuds in and you're looking to have a good cry. Not at the salon. The salon. You want to be kept afloat. You want to be happy. You want to be excited for the new you that is about to come out of this ugly cocoon you've been in. So it's really the salon that it should be outlawed. To tell you the truth, it should be outlawed for salons to play one artist at all. You know, at all. And honestly, I would. I'm a little bit angry. Like, I would go to the salon and be like, who's in charge of the playlist? That would be my first question. Who's in charge here? And then you'd look over one woman crying because she's going through a breakup, and you'd go, hey, this isn't about you. Earbuds. You put in your headphones. You have your sad time there. We're all trying to keep up morale. And that's another thing. At A salon. You don't want to doubt what you're doing for even a second. Sad music at a salon. Nuh. Because that now you're going down. You're going down your rabbit holes. You're going, do I. Do I even deserve to have these highlights? Do I need the blowout? It's costing me all this money. Should I be spending three hours? Another way you need pop, upbeat music to encourage you to spend the money you're spending to take the time off from work that you're taking. Jtrain podcast gmail.com jtrain podcastmail.com and join the Patreon. I'm telling you, these are all from Patreon subscribers ticked off Tuesday from work about me being ticked off five seconds after clocking in today, I got told by my coworker, hey, I asked coworker B, who complains more between me and you, and he said, you. I'm like, okay, first of all, it's 82 degrees in here again. And second of all, what's your point? Yeah, I don't want the idea. This is bad. Listen, I want this podcast to have a reputation of like, oh, they complain and it's fun, and that's the complaining podcast. You and I, we don't want that personal branding of a complainer, which. This is what they're saying to you, like, I don't want to be discussed in the cafeteria. Hey, who do you think complains more? Miserable Jared or miserable Timmy? It's like, no, no, no, I don't want to be in that debate. I'm like, okay, first of all, it's 82 degrees in here again. And second of all, what's your point? They were. They weren't insulting me, but it was a weird convo to be greeted by. Yeah, it's absolutely weird. I tried to explain. It's part of my culture. I said New Yorker, but I meant Jewish. But they don't understand. Since I live in the south now, I don't think you have to do that. That. No, no, your culture isn't complaining. What are the complaints that you think are frivolous? That. That's my thing. Everyone's allowed to complain. And if you're saying, I'm this big complainer, so what's the. What's the complaint that you take issue with? What's the thing that you disagree with? Because that's the only way I would be brought up in a. Who's a bigger complaint off that? Oh, these are the two people that complain about everything that no one should complain about, well, name me the things that you think I'm, I'm being wrong about. That's my question. And they're like, yeah, it's always funny when you do it. Like you're Larry David crazy comparison for people who don't understand Jewish humor. I don't like the Larry David comparison either. I don't even think that's necessary. But then they bring up again and again. Oh, there she goes, complaining again. That's why this podcast exists. It's these people who say, oh, complaining again. It's like, well, am I wrong? That's my question. I refuse to stop kvetching as it brings me and others joy, but the constant back and forth commentary about it is exhausting. Just let me rant about what we're all thinking, maybe even join in a little. Join in. Live a little sincerely. Sweaty. The AC is still broken. Well, listen, I think two things. Your complaint's valid. I don't want to be told that I'm the complainer, because then I go the, the next question. I, I, I think I wouldn't build the brand if I'm you on I'm this Jewy complainer. I think that's like a bad move to me. When I complain, I believe in my complaint. I'm not just complaining to complain to annoy people or against someone. No, I want you to tell me where I've gone wrong here. Do you think it should be 85 degrees in the office? If you think it should be, then we should talk it out. But don't just say, because what happens is when you get called the complainer now, they have basically minimized any opinion you have on anything, and you're kind of doing that to yourself. Oh, this is what I do. Well, what happens now? You're, the, you're, you're the girl who cried Jew. You're like every. Oh, is that Jew with all their complaints? No, no, no. It's 82 in here. It's too hot. Because what you're doing, and I don't mean to come back at you a little bit, but I'm telling you, you're not helping. My question to them is my response to oh, you're the office complainer isn't, well, that's just us Jews. No, no, no, no. That's humans who have a right to have a problem with how they're being wronged. So tell me the complaint that you think is a problem and let's talk it out. That would be my thing. Let's get specific. Don't Go vague on me because they're going vague to shut you up indefinitely. That's not what we want. Jtrain podcastmail.com, jtrain podcastmail.com I am fired up today, I gotta say. It's Saturday. It's a beautiful day out. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go to this restaurant. I think I'm gonna do a video on TikTok of me going to this restaurant. It looked so good and I am hungry. TikTok Tuesday from 30,000ft. Hi, Jared. Wow. I had to write in for ticked off Tuesday because I'm currently mid flight to Chicago for work and I'm listening to ticked off, obviously, when something truly unhinged happened. We're about to take off. I've got my audiobook queued up, headphones in, ready to zone out, when the older man sitting next to me taps me on the arm and says, would you pray with me? No, no, no, no, no. I, I Goodbye. Get out of here. I'm not praying with you. I don't need that negativity in my head before a plane takes off. Do you think we're going to have a problem? Why are you praying? Did you see something? Would you pray with me? I'm a pastor and it's important we pray. No, no, no, no. It's important you pray. It's important that I nod off and fall asleep while thinking happy, positive thoughts because nothing's going to go wrong on this flight to Chicago. What? They write what? Sir? I guess I believe in God, but enough to suddenly hold hands and spiritually lift off together with a stranger and. Absolutely not. It totally freaked me out. And now I've been stuck next to him for the whole flight while he casually works on a religious crossword puzzle like, this is just a normal Tuesday. I hate this. No, we don't need to pray. You signed up to talk to this weird spirit in the sky and you believe in it, and good for you. You need to do that. You need to do that. You need to do the OCD, touch the doorknob 10 times so that this plane doesn't fall out of the sky. You need to pray to some spirit, you know, to the cloud, and make sure that the big guy with a beard, you know, takes us over to Chicago. Not me. I didn't sign up for the clergy. I'm all for people doing their thing. That's the thing. You've put me in a position. If someone said that to me, I'd go, no, I'm good. You can pray. And, and, And I also don't even pray for me. But I'll assume it's being you're praying for us because you're on this plane with me too. I'm all for people doing their thing, but maybe don't ambush a stranger with a surprise prayer request in an enclosed metal tube. I didn't sign up for this midair ministry. Still freaked out, still listening. Send help. It's horrible. This is horrible. I think the assumption. Listen, we all have our own connection to whatever spirit you pray to. Fine. Whether that be that you're a big God person or not, whatever in between the spectrum is there to just put that on someone where now I have to say no to this thing that like I don't need. Like what's going to happen. You pray. Hey, would you want to pray with me? I'm good. We're halfway through the flight, the flight starts going down, the guy's looking at me going, you're going to hell. You should have prayed with me at the beginning. And it's like, I don't need that. I don't need that in my head. You pray, you do your thing. I'm happy for you. Don't put your thing on me. What? And then say we. It's important we pray. No, it's important to you that you pray. It's important to me that I get extra gummy bears when the basket comes through the aisle. Don't put your needs on me. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcastmail.com We are here on a ticked off Tuesday. Great complaints today. These are fantastic. Last one, my tot. Hey Jared, I have been a listener for the past couple years, a benefit subscriber to you up and have seen you live with the latest being in Batavia. I love Batavia. I had such a great time there. Speaking of Chicago, great meeting you and thanks for taking photos with me and my cousins. Of course I take pictures after every show. We're going to figure it out for the theater shows. Cannot wait for your show in Chicago in the fall. I can't wait. Let's talk about sauna etiquette. And I'm a bit ticked off so I frequent the sauna almost daily for my 15 to 20 minute relaxation session for all the health benefits at my gym in Chicago. Okay, so you do 15 to 20 minutes of sauna at the gym in Chicago. I will go into the sauna, check with other ladies if they are using the sand timers on the wall and find my spot and start to sweat. This has been Happening more often where the sauna turns into a whispering gossip session between one to two ladies. My problem here is not them talking, the whispering. Look, I get it. You have a few minutes with a friend to catch up. I have done it myself at a spa with my girlfriends, or even in a said. Or even in said sauna. But the real problem is the sound that the whispering gives off. I'd rather have people talk at a low volume than whisper, as you are already interrupting the silence of the sauna. So you. So you might as well speak up, bitch. So you might as well speak up so I too can hear the gossip and save me from awful whispering noises while I try to relax. Yeah, yours truly, too hot to handle. I am with you. There is nothing more annoying than. That's all you hear. And also, you get a word. And he cheated on. And you're like, okay, well, give me the rest. I want to know who cheated on who. And he likes. What does he like? And she said, and it's like, give it all or don't go do it at all. Also, we're in a sauna. Like, you know the players here. It's over. Just have it out. Have it out. No one cares that much about whatever you're talking about. That's the thing. They. They. They think, oh, what are you. What are you going to run? To run home and tell everyone about, you know, Eileen and her and her husband having issues? You don't care. I care enough to hear it. Here. Make these 15 to 20 minutes go by faster than they would have because I'm listening in to you and I don't have to sit here going, wow, it's so hot. The time takes a long time to go by. No, make it entertaining for everyone. Awful. Jtrain podcast@gmail.com back next week. Boom.