A Billionaire Gives Dating Advice, Zac Efron On Dancing With The Stars, and Backstreet Boys Are Back! - POP CULTURE THURSDAY
The JTrain Podcast
Jared Freid
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Jared is broadcasting from the porch of his new Delray Beach apartment for Pop Culture Thursday, thanks to a WiFi disaster he’ll fully unravel on Coffee with JTrain. He kicks things off with a Business Insider piece about billionaire Bill Ackman giving the world’s most awkward dating advice, and dives into why “May I meet you?” sounds more like something an alien would say in a human disguise. Jared then riffs on Zac Efron strategically showing up for his brother on Dancing with the Stars, Kim Kardashian’s finger-piercing controversy, and Zach Bryan’s dramatic “earth-shattering” mental health headline that turns out to be far more sincere than the title suggests. Finally, he breaks down Minka Kelly shutting down Jenna Bush Hager live on air and shares his own memories of feeling quietly judged on morning TV. It’s headlines, riffs, porch recording energy, and plenty of pop culture chaos.
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| 0:00.0 | You're a nosy bitch. You want the full sitch. Come to pop culture Thursday. |
| 0:14.1 | Hello and welcome to the J-Train podcast. It's a J-Train Jared Fre, coming live from Delray Beach, Florida. |
| 0:21.2 | That's right. |
| 0:21.7 | Every Thursday is a pop culture Thursday where I go to page six. |
| 0:26.4 | I find some headlines and we read the articles and riff. |
| 0:30.0 | That's the show. |
| 0:30.8 | I do have a user submitted article that user, listener, user. If you like this show and you want to be a part of pop |
| 0:42.3 | culture Thursday and you want to hear what my riff would be on whatever article that caught |
| 0:48.5 | your eye i would love to do that all you got to do is email j train podcast at gmail.com. I'm a little bit, a little bit, |
| 0:56.9 | I guess, is the word demure? Am I going to use a word? I don't know. I'm a little quieter, a little |
| 1:03.6 | calmer today because I'm taping from my porch here in Delray Beach Beach I'm in the process of moving into my new apartment |
| 1:16.3 | and I don't have internet and the only place I have it is on this porch so we're taping |
| 1:21.4 | outside you can kind of see it if you go to the Instagram whatever clip that we posted |
| 1:26.8 | at J train podcast on Instagram and on TikTok. |
| 1:30.4 | I'm posting all the clips on TikTok as well at Wizard of Ha if you want to follow me on |
| 1:36.0 | TikTok. |
| 1:36.9 | And so you'll kind of get a little glimpse over the weeks and months and years. |
| 1:41.6 | I'll post more. |
| 1:42.4 | But I will talk all about my issue with the Wi-Fi |
| 1:46.4 | on tomorrow's Coffee with J-Train, which I am fired up to tape because I had a Wi-Fi issue |
| 1:56.4 | that we're going to get into. I'll tell the full story. That's what Coffee with J-Train is. |
| 2:02.2 | It's me telling stories from the week. |
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