My Mother-In-Law Won't Stop Moving Tables! Help! - MONDAY MAILBAG
The JTrain Podcast
Jared Freid
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Jared kicks off a classic three-email Mailbag Monday from the road before diving into the good stuff. First up: a listener nine months into a serious relationship asks how to handle two persistent guy texters (one old flame, one married coworker); Jared recommends a graceful “text breakup” to clear space for the new relationship. Then he dismantles the TikTok mantra “date them till you hate them,” arguing that ignoring $5 problems only turns them into $1,000 blowups have the small talks early. Next, an in-law dining dilemma: a mother-in-law who always asks to move tables; his move is tactical detachment, go “wash your hands,” don’t sit until the seating czar approves, and stop treating preferences like moral crimes. He also shares updates on the Table for One tour, a finished special, a finished book, and the daily 20-minute minimum promise. Quick, candid, and just the right amount of chaotic.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a mailbag munder. |
| 0:03.3 | You've got problems there. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm going to help you from the comfort of my chair. |
| 0:15.1 | It's a mailbag Monday. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to the J-Train podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | This is J-Train, Jaredford coming alive from Kansas City, Missouri. |
| 0:28.7 | That's right. |
| 0:35.8 | Every Monday is a mail-bag Monday where you, the listener, email me, the comedian, with your questions. |
| 0:39.2 | Anything you'd like, anything, anything you want to advise on, anything you want to hear an unbiased voice from. That's my job here. Look at it from |
| 0:47.7 | as many angles as I can to give you a person. I'm giving you me and I'm not saying better, worse than anyone else. I'm giving you me. And I'm not saying better, worse than anyone else. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm giving you the ability to ask someone what they think and they're not going to be softening. |
| 1:04.6 | They're not going to be, well, they're not going to know your background. |
| 1:10.0 | They're not going to know anything really about you except the problem. |
| 1:14.5 | And that's why we don't trust a lot of the people that give us advice. |
| 1:18.0 | Or, oh, you knew me in high school. |
| 1:20.5 | I'm not that way anymore. |
| 1:22.2 | And we don't trust the source. |
| 1:24.7 | So I have no reason to lie to you. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm just a guy sitting here on a highway Spring Hill suites in Kansas City, Missouri dealing with your issue. If you want to email the |
| 1:40.5 | podcast, I love your emails, relationships, friend advice, parents, anything you're |
| 1:48.2 | going through, just any perspective, send it in. J-trainedpodcast at gmail.com. J-train |
| 1:54.4 | podcast at gmail.bba. I feel a little bit, a little bit all over the places I start up here. |
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