Belichick's GF, Bieber's phone case, and Socialite Hat Lunches - POP CULTURE THURSDAY - The JTrain Podcast w Jared Freid

The JTrain Podcast

Jared Freid

Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It’s Pop Culture Thursday, and Jared is breaking down the wildest celebrity stories of the week. From the curious case of Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson’s headline-making relationship to Justin Bieber’s absurd new phone case, Jared explores the weird, the dramatic, and the downright hilarious corners of fame. He also unpacks Jamie Lee Curtis’s honest take on plastic surgery, the extravagance of the infamous “hat lunch,” and the unexpected announcement of a Honey Boo Boo biopic. With his signature mix of sharp insight and humor, Jared examines how fame affects identity, relationships, and public perception, while finding the funny in it all.

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Hop on the "JTrain" with comedian Jared Freid and his crew of pals, including YOU! Join us for an hour of laughs, gripes, and straight talk on modern love. Send in your questions, dish on the latest trends, and more to [email protected] – we'll tackle it all on air! It's a no-nonsense, fun journey where we escape reality for a bit, delivering quick laughs and razor-sharp insights into the wild world of life and love. Tune in every Monday.

Jared Freid is a stand-up comedian from Boston who is currently based in New York City. Jared is known to give great dating advice and is all-knowing of the Bachelor & Bachelorette nation! You can catch his latest comedy special on Netflix, “37 & Single”, where Jared discusses dating app frustrations, awkward setups, and breakup justifications. (For the record, Jared’s mom thinks his body is “just fine.”) Besides regularly headlining and touring around the country, Jared hosts two podcasts called “The JTrain Podcast” and “U Up? Podcast” with Jordana Abraham of Betches, where they discuss their takes on modern dating with issues ranging from apps to hookups to relationships. Check out more of his comedy and a live show today! 👉https://jaredfreid.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're a nosy bitch. You want the full sitch. Come to pop culture Thursday.
0:13.8	Hello and welcome to the J-Train podcast. This is J-Train, Jared Freed coming you live from the West Village, Manhattan. That's right.
0:22.6	Every Thursday is a pop culture Thursday where I go to page six and I click on some articles that
0:31.3	look interesting to me. We read them. We riff on them. We, yeah, you and I, you get to listen and I get to riff.
0:39.6	And I want to thank you for being a listener of the J-Train podcast. I went to page six. Let's just get
0:45.0	right into it. I went to page six to kind of like, I'll do like a brief once over. Not a lot
0:50.0	today. Not a lot, not a lot of like fun stories. I, you know, what's not fun? You know, I'm looking,
0:56.0	there's tons of ditty stuff. That's not really what I'm looking to get into. Uh, there's tons of
1:01.4	the Justin Baldoni, Blake lively thing. It's so far down the river that I don't even know if I could start from square one anymore.
1:14.0	And Justin Baldoni is now just the guy from the Blake lively lawsuit.
1:21.1	Like he, he, I don't even know what his career is anymore.
1:25.2	But I, and so I see him and I see that Taylor Swift's now being brought into it and text
1:31.0	messages.
1:32.4	And you have people saying that the Kelsey brothers unfollowed, Blake lively.
1:37.1	It just seems like such a mess that I'm like, I, it's, it's out of my pay grade.
1:44.2	Me, you're, you're a friendly pop culture enthusiast.
1:48.2	You know, page six enthusiasts.
1:50.3	It's just so far away from where it started.
1:54.8	I mean, I remember talking about it on this podcast and being like, okay, talking about it,
1:58.8	then going, oh, it's too much.
2:00.5	It's not fun, it's entered
2:01.6	into the serious world where we can't even have fun with it. And then it became fun again,
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