Reservations For Bar Stools, Low Water Pressure, and Kids On My Lawn - TICKED OFF TUESDAY
The JTrain Podcast
Jared Freid
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jared’s in Dallas for Ticked Off Tuesday, hyping the Patreon (where the real complaints jump the line) and kicking things off with two everyday rants: gas stations that “label” broken pumps with a sad little piece of tape, and a new apartment with shower pressure so weak it turns bathing into a light misting. Then the listeners come in hot: one new homeowner gets hounded by the same window company so aggressively it goes from annoying to genuinely creepy, and she needs a go-to line for the dreaded “do you live alone?” question. Another duo tries to relive their Boston glory days with a casual early dinner… and discovers the city has apparently gone “velvet rope + reservation-only bar stools,” sending them on a scavenger hunt. We also get a property-line showdown (dogs, poop, and a kid sledding on someone else’s lawn), plus a grad-school friend feud where a former friend gets drunk and affectionate, then goes ice-cold sober. Plenty of petty, plenty of relatable, and just enough chaos to make you grateful you’re not the one dealing with the window guy.
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| 0:00.0 | I know you're angry. |
| 0:02.0 | It's Tuesday and it has no feel. |
| 0:08.0 | The weekend was fun. |
| 0:12.0 | You're still hung over from the eating. |
| 0:16.0 | And next weekend is too far away |
| 0:21.6 | What will you do with your day? |
| 0:26.6 | It's time to get ticked off |
| 0:30.6 | Complain with your gripe right now |
| 0:35.6 | Your friend Uncle J. Train is here to tell you that you're right. It's a ticked off Tuesday. |
| 0:50.0 | Ticked off Tuesday. You're angry and you don't even know why. |
| 0:58.3 | Enjoy this podcast. |
| 1:01.8 | It'll help you get to Friday. |
| 1:08.6 | Hello and welcome to the J-Train podcast. |
| 1:11.3 | It's J-Train, Jared Freight coming live from Dallas, Texas. |
| 1:14.7 | That's right. |
| 1:15.3 | Every Tuesday is a ticked-off Tuesday where you, the listener, complained to me, the comedian, |
| 1:20.1 | and I complain with you. |
| 1:22.0 | That's the promise of this show, is that if you complain to me, I will find a way to make you feel seen, make you feel |
| 1:30.2 | heard. Any complaint you want to send in, send it to J-Train Podcast at gmail.com. But that, you know, |
| 1:36.5 | that's not a great way to get on this show. Every email today is from a Patreon subscriber, |
| 1:43.6 | except for one. So three out of four are from the Patreon subscribers. They get first dibs. So sign up for Patreon. You get coffee with J-Train, which is every Friday, and I tell stories for my life. And then you can comment on coffee with J-Train with your ticked-off Tuesday. Those get moved to the top of the inbox. So that's how it works. |
| 2:01.6 | I think I explained it well. If you're listening right now, Beach Mountain, North Carolina, I'm going to be there for my birthday weekend. I'm also going to be in Tempe. I'm going to be in Vancouver. Seattle, we added a second show. I'm going to be in L.A. Those are my dates. Oh, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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