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I know you're angry. It's Tuesday and it has no feel. The weekend was fun. You're still hungover from the eating and next weekend is too far away. What will you do with your day? It's time to get ticked off. Complain with your gripe. Right now your friend Uncle J Train is here to tell you that you're right. It's a ticked off Tuesday. Ticked off Tuesday. You're angry and you don't even know why. Enjoy this podcast. It'll help you get to Friday.
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Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming along from Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday where you, the listener emails me the comedian with your complaints and I complain with you. That's the show pretty easy to understand. This is a safe space for complaining and that is how we start this episode. I start with my complaint, then I read the listener complaints. If you want to be a part of this show, you go to Patreon. You sign up for patreon patreon.com Jared Freed 5 bucks a month gets you coffee with J train. Plus you get first dibs on complaining on this show. You comment on coffee with J Train with your ticked off Tuesday, those go to the top of the pile. If you do not want to be a Patreon subscriber and you still want to complain with this show, email jtrain podcast gmail.com I am on the road. I would love for you to come to the show Tempe, Arizona this weekend. I've never been to Tempe. I've been, I've been to Phoenix, I've been to Desert Ridge Live. I've been to the other rooms, this room. Other comedians have told me it's great. Tempe, St. Louis, Norwalk, Connecticut, Vegas, LA, Jacksonville, Austin, the Hamptons and Portland, Maine. I'm going to start with my complaint because it's about complaining. I live here in Delray Beach, Florida. I think Delray beach is a town that I, well, I cheer for Delray beach because I am a resident here. I have purchased a home here. I, I want Delray beach to be the best. Delray beach it can be like in the way that you cheer for your hometown. It's called being a homer. I try to look on the bright side of Delray Beach. So you're going to have to take this complaint. You're going to, you could say, Jared, you're a little emotional. I saw right now Delray beach is doing a project and I can get you the name. It is a re. Be project. You. It is. So I'm, I'm, I'm. I'm looking it up because I'm looking at Delray beach project. I just googled. Okay. The Delray beach shoreline restoration project, costing approximately 19.2 million, began in late January 2026 to add 325,000 cubic yards of sand to. To 2.65 miles of coastline. Now, the money has come from the Palm Beach County, Delray beach as a town, as a city, as well as the disaster relief from a hurricane in 2022, because there was erosion from the hurricane. To me, this is your. Your government at work doing what they should be doing. Delray Beach. It's in the name. You got to have the beach. You. Delray beach is its biggest star is the beach. Tourism is driven by the beach. I moved here thanks to the beach. The beach is as important as the. To me, as important. Probably a little bit below clean running water. So the beach is an important asset to this town. And it's why this town has nice things going on in it. That's why on the 4th of July they do fireworks and it's a beautiful display. And they do things in town for the, the kids. And there's a dj. All of this is thanks to our good pal the beach. Now, this project where they're re sanding the beach includes actually doing the project. So there is a long pipe that is just going the length of the beach. There's a long pipe. The pipe looks post apocalyptic. The pipe. The pipe looks post apocalypse. The pipe looks post apocalyptic. The pipe does not look great. The pipe makes you a little bit sad. They have done their best with the pipe. There's little sand hills that go over the pipe that you can walk over so that you can get to the ocean. The pipe will not be there forever. The other day I saw a TikTok of a person complaining about their trip to Delray beach. And they're staying at the Grand Opal and they paid all this money and they never saw a Yelp review telling them that their view would be ruined by this pipe. And I would say to this person, a giant fuck off. That is. And. And it's not the person because it is actually human. And again, I'm on a complaint podcast. This podcast is all about complaints like that. If someone wrote in to this podcast with a complaint about the pipe in Delray beach and how it ruined their view for their big beach weekend, I would say, okay, I would find a Way to complain with you. I would say there should be signage. It should explain how much it's costing, what it's for, what's going on. There is not enough signage. Now, if someone wrote in, because I was at the bat, I was at the beach this past weekend, if someone wrote in that their wedding was happening on the beach, which was something that was happening, and behind their wedding, there's this giant pipe, I would say, yeah, that's. Thanks. I'd like to know if there's going to be a giant pipe, but thank God we live in 2026. Just like we have the technology to make a beach replenished in 2026. We also have the technology for Photoshop. We also can take a picture and we can take your fiance out of the picture and put in a hotter dude. So we can do a lot with that picture, including removing the pipe from the picture. So these are easy solutions to your problem. But I would say to you, as a complaint, if it was written to this podcast, I would go, I get it. But the thing about this podcast is about packaging the complaint. How do we package it so that you feel seen? And I can find a way to agree with you and we can all go, you know what? It feels a lot better that we're all on the same page, that we're all complaining about this stupid little thing and we move on with our day. We got it out of our system. When I see this TikTok, it makes me angry at the packaging of complaints, that anyone can jump online and have a complaint about the pipe that's going through the beach in Delray Beach. And I would say, because then I have to digest it. I have to be put on a hero's journey to go discover what's going on with this pipe and why it was put in and how much it costs and where the money came from. And. And yes, by the end of this journey, I do feel better about the pipe. I actually am happy they're doing the pipe. I'm happy that it exists. I'm happy it's working, that it's happening. It does make me angry at this complainer because in any other world, if we went to the beach and you had a friend, and again, it's rewarded because they're negative, because they're angry at, I guess, the Opal grand for not warning them that a pipe would be running through their vacation. And if I'm to give feedback, if you're staying at the Opal grand, which is a perfectly nice hotel in a great Part of town. You're not spending $7,000 a night. You're not on the island of St. Bart's so, like, it wasn't like the Opal grand or Saint Barts. That's not what was happening here. It was the Opal grand or other beach in Florida where there might be worse than a pipe. It won't be as nice as Delray beach, which has been ranked as the number one beach in Florida. And it's the only place in the country where you can go to the beach this time of year. So this is all to say not to go down a road of trashing this person. If I were to go to the beach with a friend and the friend was like, oh, come on, this pipe, this is disgusting. It makes me so sad. We would all know that's my friend. Sad Mark. Only the saddest among us, at least we would know the context with which it was being said. Oh, that sad Mark, he looks. He sees the glass as half empty. On the Internet, we don't really get background on the people who complain. We don't. And the feedback never gets back to them. We never get to take sad Mark by the lapels and say, hey, you're a net negative on society. You make people sadder than they should be. You could have been more curious. You could have looked at this pipe and said, I, what is this all about? Looked into it, got the information, then been happy. It is a no work position to be a complainer. There's no energy. The only energy is in the complaint. The real energy goes to the curious. The curious person who looks it up and sees what it's all about and goes, wow, they're doing such a. This is a marvel of technology. And I'm happier to know this information. But I just hate that the people who complain like that and post that video get sustenance. I want them to be starved. I want them to not have sustenance. And they're getting the most because they're going to find other miserable people. It's going to pump it up to the top of the feed. And now we're all looking at it and we're a little bit sad and we're going, yeah, maybe he shouldn't have had a pipe at the beach. But he should. He should. Jtrain podcast gmail.com J train podcast gmail.com I have four listener complaints in front of me. They are all, all from Patreon subscribers. So they are using their, they're using their membership. Five bucks a month. Coffee With J Train, which is my. You know, I love doing TikTok Tuesday, but coffee with J Train is like my heart. My heart and soul. I. It is my weekly diary where I tell people about my week. You can go to YouTube. Sign up for the YouTube. I gave out my dates. My last announcement. We have two sponsors or we have one sponsor. Okay, we'll do it right now. Hero bread. Hero bread makes bread better. Hero bread is high in fiber, low net carbs with zero grams of sugar. Bagels and pastries for breakfast on the go. Hot dog and burger buns for holidays and cookouts. Pasta and tortillas for healthy lunches and nutritious dinners. You'd never know. Hero bread is low net carb and high fiber. It tastes great and the texture is fantastic. I just had Hero noodles. They're elbow macaroni style noodles. They were fantastic and I didn't feel bloated. I didn't feel too full. It was really delicious. I made, I made, I made Mac and cheese like, like, I made like a, like, like a poor man's Mac and cheese. 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That is like the greatest compliment in the world. And it gets better every time. Thank you. My tot is I sent a Tick Tock in a group chat of four of my friends from vet school that relates to an inside joke everyone is in on. And someone asked me to screen record the Tick tock so they can view it. Yep, yep. I think we've all been there. Yeah. This is horrific. Tick Tock has really separated group chats. It's not made it easy. Their whole. Their whole message function is a little bit of a mystery to me. And I, I do. And then now all the apps are. The, the goals of these apps are to keep you on them so they want. They need you to sign up. They don't want guests coming. And I think it's. We're moving into this next iteration of the apps and I'm getting messages, I think, from Meta being like that they're going to charge me for certain things. I just ignore the messages because I'm like, not even sure if it's like one of these, like, scams where they're trying to get me to click on something so I just delete it when it happens. It happens. But we saw this with Uber. Uber was like, hey, everybody, stop taking that taxi cab. It's dirty and they charge too much. Come to Uber, nicer cars. You're going to be in a Toyota Camry. You're going to get to put that middle armrest down. They're gonna show up like they're your chauffeur. You look at you, you're rich. But really, it's only $15 for this ride. And don't worry, we won't tell. And then the taxi cabs went out of business. And now meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. The cars are not as good. The drives are more expensive. All of a sudden your friend Uber ain't such a friend anymore. They got bills to pay and they want your money to pay it. So this is happening with the, with the apps. We're seeing it and TikTok is the first one where if you send it to a friend, they go, oh, I don't, I don't have this app. It won't let me in. Can you, can you explain it to me? Can you tell me a, tell me a tale? Can you, can you tell me a tick tock? And you're like, what is this? And then you start to get annoyed and they either sign up for TikTok or you lose the friend. Really? And it's, it's, and it's, it's annoying. And then I don't know why they do this. I share the link some they don't even want you sharing the link on another platform. I share the link on another platform and all of a sudden I'm like messaging with the person. I get sometimes in my messages, the profiles of people who clicked over from Instagram. It's like showing up in my message. I'm like, did I message this person by accident? What's going on here? Why is this rando here? And I'm like, do they think I'm like, I'm in love with them? Like, you know, like, do they think I'm trying to like message them? Like, you get it's stressful. She specifically said so now. But then it becomes it's not the apps we blame. We blame our group chat. We go, that friend's annoying. They can't even sign up for TikTok. Who do they think they are? What do they think they're above it? They think they're better than me. And that's when us peasants start to argue and fight while the apps make more money and they sit on their golden throne and they say, look at these idiots. That's the whole game. She specifically said, can you screen record for us old folks again? This is, this is what's going on. That's old folks this. And I, I, I can't stand your friend. That's the, that's the move these days. The, the, I'm better than you because I'm worse than you. You're up on these trends. Look at how cool I am cuz I'm old folks. I don't know tik tok. And then look at this is, this person's on the same page. She specifically said, can you Screen record for us old folks, the emailer writes. We are the same age, 27 and most definitely not too old to be on Tik Tok. Yeah, everyone there is a friend of yours who's too old to do everything. They've been a grandma since they've been 18 years old. And it's this way of saying they're better than you for not knowing things. Even though it's their insecurity to learn something new. But they're going to put that insecurity on you. What a piece of dog shit. I would never be on a group chat with this person. This is simply an outrageous request. I agree. What do you work for them? What are you there? Screen recorder. What do you bring them? The news from TikTok like they're fun. Jester, you're asking me to switch apps Screen record the video with volume, come back to the chat, send the video. That's bananas to me. This really ticked me off. I told her that's a hard fricking no. Download the app like the rest of us. Normie. Sincerely, TikTok Doom Scroller I am with you. This friend. I would move them out of the group chat. We'll start a new one. Tiktokers only. You're out. Sorry. I guess you're too old to relate to us youngins. It is such a this friend is such exists in every group. This. This form of elitism for people that don't get into new things again, it's their problem. They don't want to learn. They are insecure about what they'll find out and they'll find out that it's good and they're making it your problem. J train podcast gmail.com Send in your TikTok Tuesdays but more importantly, sign up for Patreon. That's the way to get it. My ticked off Tuesday. Very social media heavy episode. My ticked off Tuesday Instagram ads. Yes, I fell for one. This super cute swimsuit popped up just about 300 times and I caved and bought it. It's great. I love it. My issue is the same. So my issue is that the same swimsuit continues to show up on my Instagram and Facebook ads multiple times a day. I already bought it. Please leave me alone now. Teary face emoji. I agree with this. This is the most annoying part. Once you buy something, it should stop. We're done. We're over here. I don't want the emails from the company I just bought from. Take a break. Have a sig Like I don't know how are they good enough to hear us talking about some hat or swimsuit that we want or need, but they're not good enough to stop them once you've bought the product. We did it. You got what you want. Now get the hell out of here. Shoe scat. I just. I'm with you. It gets very annoying. And then what it really does, it makes you go dark. It makes you go deep. You start going, should I have bought it? Oh, my God. They're giving 20% off now. That's the worst version, is that you looked at something, you go, fine, I'll buy it. It's the 300th time I've seen it. They got me. And then a week later, hey, you want this thing you just got for 10% off? You're like, I got me again. I overpaid. Knowing you over. This is the great problem with the Internet. We weren't built to know all of this. We were built to believe that we were doing it right, no matter how stupidly we were operating, that you were doing great things, no matter how unsuccessful you are in comparison to your neighbor. You used to go on vacation and, and assume that you were going on the same or better vacation than the person who lived next door to you. Now you go on vacation and you go on Instagram and you see the vacation your neighbor's taking and you're going, how the fuck did they afford 1,500 a night? Their parents must have money. Wow. They didn't work a day in their life, not like me. And it's separating us. This is the world Mark Zuckerberg wanted. Zucks wanted a world where we were all as lonely and unhappy as him. And he's got it. You did it, Zucky. You did it. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcastmail.com Let me give a quick plug Let me give a quick pluggy plug stain to. I might end up doing video on Spotify. We're talking about it. I, I talking about it. I'm, I'm, I'm pushing this. I'm going to get into video on Spotify. If you're on Spotify, subscribe to the J Train podcast. Make sure you subscribe there if you're a Spotify user. If you're not, and you maybe use this. I don't know how you got here. I'm assuming you have an app of choice, but Spotify, we're going to have a video of every episode. So you're going to be able to see me and Del Rey On a daily basis. Dear Jared Feather. Feather. I had a Mexico trip planned with my husband and five friends flying Sacramento to Puerto Vallarta with a connection through John Wayne. Now John Wayne I think is the Burbank Airport that everyone in LA talks about. It's like one of those things that like people wear as a personality. Like, oh, you got to go through John Wayne. That's the best airport in the world. It's the way people talk about PBI Palm Beach International. I booked this ticket, I booked his ticket with points plus fees on my card and mine with a gift card plus my card. Okay, so you go in Sacramento to Puerto Vallarta with a stop at John Wayne. He booked with points and gift cards. Right before the trip, I got a last minute appointment with a specialist in Orange county. So I went to change our flights to go down early. When I opened the app, our trip was just gone. No upcoming flights. I checked my email and only saw the original confirmation. So I called Southwest. They told me that John Wayne to Puerto Vallarta legged. They told me the John Wayne to Puerto Vallarta legs both there and back had been cancelled. I never got a single notification. No email, no text, no nothing. The only rebooking option would have us leaving at 8pm, taking multiple legs and arriving the next day. So after taking would have. The only rebooking option would have us leaving at 8pm, taking multiple legs and arriving the next day. So after talking with our group, we canceled the trip. Here's where it gets worse. They wouldn't offer any compensation. That's crazy. And the 500 and the $500 gift card I use got turned into a non transferable flight credit that expires in a year. Awful. The $181 in fees on my card will be refunded, but that's it. I was also told there's no manager to speak to and I'd have to submit a complaint online. I had this happen. It's make it a job. They make it. So the only w. The only person that could do it is an old woman where her whole day and month is spent on this task. Like I always think of my grandmother when I think of something like this. My grandmother, she couldn't believe that anyone would not use a coupon. She couldn't believe that anyone would do anything that didn't include a deal. But she spent her days, hours calling these places, getting the deals. You know, you, you can't be an extreme couponer and then look down on the other people who are like, yeah, I go to a job to make money to enjoy these things so I don't have to extreme. You know, it's one of the other. So. And then. And these companies do this. Then after the call I got. I only got a cancellation email from my husband's ticket, not mine. I checked my account, saw they refunded the full $681 as a flight credit instead of splitting it correctly. So I had to call again. The next re. The next rep said she'd fix a help desk, but couldn't confirm anything in writing and basically told me to trust it would go through. No, no, no, we're not going to trust it went through. We're going to. We're going to wait on the. On the line while you put us on hold. So my question is, is there anything I can actually do here, or am I just stuck eating this because the airline messed up and no one is accountable? Sincerely, a who is hoping to team up with Jordana and take down Southwest and JetBlue. That is a reference to Jordana hating JetBlue, which. Which I agreed with at the time. Here's the thing. Here's what really bothers me here. And is there anything you can do? You can take a week off from work and figure this all out. That's what you can do. You can spend from the minute you get done with work until you go to bed at night doing all the things, and hopefully they have a line that's open. Here's what really bothers me about the whole gift card points thing. It seems as though they set up a transaction, the gift card transaction and the points that come with stuff without setting up a back office. They were told, hey, people buy gift cards, and it's the best idea. I think the gift card, the invention of the gift card is fraudulent. The invention of the gift card comes from a bad place. And that's why all gift card experiences go bad. It started with, and people tell you this, oh, you should have a gift card, because people will just give you money and they end up never using it. That is a bad place to start any business on the premise of, hey, you can fuck people out of their money. So now everything connected to it is sour. And what they do is they go, hey, you can fuck people out of their money. They'll buy a gift card. They won't even use it. And then here's what happens. People use the fucking gift card and then they have problems with the gift card, and then they want to talk to someone about the problems they have with the gift card, and then, where's your help desk? And then they're not set up. So that's what's going on with Southwest. Southwest sat there. Mr. Southwest and Mrs. Southwest were like, hey, wouldn't it be great to set up a program where people can use a gift card? Because they'll probably just buy them and not use them. So then Mr. And Mrs. Southwest, we can fly private and fuck all these people. That's the whole plan. And now you have an issue because you're being a diligent consumer, and they're like, oh, you gotta talk to someone. Well, why don't you take off a week of work and we'll figure this out together? No. How about you trust us that it went through? No. Jtrain podcast, gmail.com. okay, let's do one more Ticked off Tuesday again. Join the Patreon if you want to be a part of this. All of these are Patreon complaints, and that's what your membership gets you. You get coffee with J. Drain, and you can complain with me on this show. Jared Feather. Feather. I was just at the movies to see Scream 7. So there's a new Scream. And they write, hated the ending. But that's not my complaint is hate is saying you hated the ending kind of ruining the movie. I know you think you're not ruining the movie. I'm doing this on a. On a podcast, so I'm helping you to ruin movie. But I guess I. I don't know, hated the ending. That would be. You're in people's heads. Should your review of a movie. Should I go? Should I not go? That's why I loved when we did the movie reviews with the baby. My good friend, the baby. It was like I wanted him to tell me, plane, movie couch, movie theater, movie. That's what we all want to know. Or no movie at all. I don't care about your ending complaints. Should I watch it on a plane or should I watch it in a theater? Or should I sit on my fat ass on the couch and watch it there? That's all I want from you. Okay, sorry. You wrote into the show with another complaint. My local AMC theater has the stadium seating, reclining seats, as most do. However, when I got to my seat, I realized the wall in front of me that separated my row from the next was built so high that it actually cuts off the bottom of the screen pretty significantly. They sent a picture. This is wild. Especially in a time where the. The. The. The. The mantra of the movie theaters. The the, hey, movie theaters are going extinct. We need. And what they all say, we need to keep up with the home experience. We need an experience that is so much better than at home that people want to leave the house. And again, part of that's the movie and. And the review that I just said. When I want to review, I want to know, should I leave the house or can I watch at home and have a very similar experience there without having to spend money on snacks and gas and all of these other things? So when you have a movie theater in 2026 with a wall that gets in the way of the screen? Like, did they even get the note that, like, we're in 2026 and that you're, like, on the verge of going out of business and no one wants to go to your theater? Like, this is why IMAX movies are becoming more and more. They go, okay, we got to give something for people to go to. So it's like, this is like, in a level of confidence that you go, are you guys even aware of what's going on? It's a bit hard to explain. So I'm attaching a pick for reference. I'm looking at the picture. It's not hard to explain. It's cutting off half the screen. So that recline. That reclinable. Reclinable. That reclining seat can't be reclined. This photo was taken with me sitting up in my chair. Hadn't even been reclined. So we're not even reclined. And it's cutting off. I'm looking at it. The screen has a Coca Cola on it. You can't even see the bottom of the glass. You know that. That Coca Cola glass, they're known for that curve that, you know, you're picturing it in your mind's eye. You're basically getting to the middle of the. Of the. Of the pint glass of Coca Cola. I'm average height, so I just don't understand how these dimensions are so off. I turned around to look at the wall behind my own seat. And you could easily cut off a foot and you could easily cut off a foot, and it would still provide full coverage for the people behind me without obstructing any view. Aren't we supposed to be encouraging people to go to the movies? Exactly. This is where you go, is anyone watching these things? And this is where you get to what we're all upset with and aren't we? This is. I mean, I. This might be making a bigger issue out of this than maybe. And going a Little deeper than they're asking for. But that's why you're writing into TikTok Tuesday. This is why the mom and pop and, you know, was so great. Mom and pop were at the theater and going, oh my God, seat 21A has an issue. And the owner of the theater knew where to find Seat 21A. AMC as a corporation is so big that I think their problem is probably unfixable. Like no one at the theater. If you're ripping tickets and you're doing, you know, janitorial work or cleaning the theater or you're doing the popcorn sales, no one really gives a shit about the theater experience. Maybe the manager, but you better have a really great manager that's going to every seat and be and. And then petitioning their manager who's like, you know, AMC east coast wing to get this fixed. And then the AMC east coast wing has to go up the. This is the problem with big faceless companies being investment tools rather than actual companies that care about the happiness of the customer. So AMC is fucked. This just seems like a major glitch that no one bothered to fix. So I guess I'll just watch this two hour movie in full upright position. Thanks for letting me rant, moviegoer who wants a refund? I would get a refund. I would, I would bring this to the front guy and say, hey, I need a manager. I take my finger, swoop around, bring in corporate, let's go, go sit. And then if they say, no, come sit with me in the seat and you tell me how this movie experiences. You tell me. And this is the problem. This is like, why do few people feel, you know, we have more, we have bounty, we have good things going on. We have all these things at our disposal and we're just not as happy as we once were. Don't. There's a feeling of grim. There's a feeling of sadness. I think something like this is more to blame than other things that get brought up on a daily basis. I think this is one of those that you go, I wanted a Saturday night at the movies. I wanted to walk away and have a good time. And how it ended. Nah, it's the whole thing. Did I go to dinner and have good food and sit in a movie and feel comfortable and watch a great film? If I got like three of those now instead of having a great meal, you go out to a meal where the menu's too big and the fruits and vegetables taste like nothing. And then you go to the theater where you can barely see the screen and the movie ends with a horrible ending. Again, we had it all, but it just didn't have the sustenance it once had. J train podcast gmail.com it's a tick Tough Tuesday. We do this every Tuesday. I would love for you to share the show. Make it your Instagram story. Share it on TikTok. If you are one of those young whipper snappers that can share on Tick Tock, I will be back next week.
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The JTrain Podcast: Ticked Off Tuesday — The Delray Beach Pipe & Recording A TikTok For Someone
Host: Jared Freid
Date: March 31, 2026
In this vibrant Ticked Off Tuesday episode, Jared Freid broadcasts from Delray Beach, Florida, bringing his signature comedic gripes to the forefront. The episode dives into everything from local infrastructure projects (and the complaints they inspire) to pet peeves with social media sharing, frustrating online ads, airline debacles, and movie theater design flaws. Audience complaints are sourced largely from Patreon contributors, creating a space for listeners to vent about everyday annoyances both big and small.
Collective Catharsis Through Complaining:
Jared champions the power of communal griping, blending comedic empathy with listener rants. He both models and unpacks how to constructively ‘package’ complaints, so unimportant annoyances can be aired and dismissed, rather than breeding negativity.
(Starts ~01:09)
"If someone wrote in to this podcast with a complaint about the pipe in Delray beach and how it ruined their view for their big beach weekend, I would say, okay, I would find a way to complain with you." (07:24)
Jared's point: complaining is okay if it’s constructive and packageable, but reflexive online griping – particularly TikTok style — lacks curiosity and context, and just spreads negativity.
"The real energy goes to the curious. The curious person who looks it up and sees what it's all about and goes, wow, they're doing such a... this is a marvel of technology. And I'm happier to know this information. But I just hate that the people who complain like that and post that video get sustenance. I want them to be starved." (09:44)
(16:13)
"The, I'm better than you because I'm worse than you. You're up on these trends. Look at how cool I am 'cause I'm old folks. I don't know TikTok." (19:42)
"We are the same age, 27 and most definitely not too old to be on TikTok." (19:53)
(24:35)
“Once you buy something, it should stop. We're done. We're over here. I don't want the emails from the company I just bought from. Take a break. Have a sig.” (25:07)
“This is the world Mark Zuckerberg wanted. Zucks wanted a world where we were all as lonely and unhappy as him. And he's got it. You did it, Zucky. You did it.” (26:58)
(29:07)
“It seems as though they set up a transaction, the gift card transaction and the points that come with stuff without setting up a back office... all gift card experiences go bad. It started with... ‘you can fuck people out of their money.’" (32:11)
(35:09)
"Especially in a time where... the mantra of the movie theaters — we need to keep up with the home experience... and then you have a movie theater in 2026 with a wall that gets in the way of the screen?" (35:23)
"I would get a refund. I would, I would bring this to the front guy and say, hey, I need a manager. I take my finger, swoop around, bring in corporate, let's go, go sit. And then if they say, no, come sit with me in the seat and you tell me how this movie experiences." (38:08)
"The real energy goes to the curious... I'm happier to know this information." (09:44)
“There's a friend of yours who's too old to do everything. They've been a grandma since they've been 18 years old.” (20:51)
"Once you buy something, it should stop. We're done. We're over here. I don't want the emails from the company I just bought from." (25:07)
“The invention of the gift card is fraudulent... that's why all gift card experiences go bad." (32:30)
"AMC is fucked. This just seems like a major glitch that no one bothered to fix." (37:54)