Girl Dinner vs Steakhouse Dad with Jon Garbus - CHIT CHAT WEDNESDAY
The JTrain Podcast
Jared Freid
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jared kicks off Chit Chat Wednesday in Delray with John Gabrus, and they immediately “break up” as friends because Jared moved to Florida without telling him. They bond over midlife “why didn’t I just live near a beach?” energy, then detour into comedy-world gripes, including how movies love stunt casting when there are a thousand actual funny comics available. Gabrus shares his peak midlife-crisis triumph: a solo Mexico trip for surfing and intensive Spanish classes to get off his phone and feel alive again. They then end by playing a Hillstone menu game that reveals Jared is Team Girl Lunch while Gabrus is Team Steakhouse Dad. They promise to finally hang out, which in podcast terms means it might happen sometime before the next Ice Age.
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| 0:00.0 | Chit Chat Wednesday for you to listen to, I have a guess who will be your new boo. |
| 0:09.5 | You're gonna love them too. |
| 0:14.0 | Chit chat Wednesday, I hope you're having a good day today. |
| 0:19.0 | I hope it's gonna be a perfect week, too. |
| 0:27.3 | I hope you have a nice poo. |
| 0:30.9 | It's a chit-chat Wednesday, too. |
| 0:35.4 | Welcome to the J-Train podcast. |
| 0:37.3 | This is J-Train Jared Freed coming alive from Delray Beach, Florida. |
| 0:42.0 | That's right. |
| 0:43.8 | Every Wednesday is a chit-chat Wednesday where I sit with a comedian, an expert, a, a friend. Today, we have a friend today we have well you know maybe we'll get awkward right off the |
| 1:01.7 | off the bat today we have an expert in I would say live in his best life living a good life I |
| 1:10.6 | think this is a great way this guy knows how to |
| 1:13.3 | live a happy life friend i don't know we we hang out on podcast and well now there's it always seems |
| 1:19.3 | like we get along now there's beef now i i as i did as i did the intro i'm going you know we've been |
| 1:25.9 | talking about hanging out for a long time and a comedian. |
| 1:29.2 | So we have two and a half out of three. John Gabris, thank you for coming on the show. Oh, please. Thank you for having me. I mean, I consider us friends until now finding out you're in Delray Beach. Maybe we're not that good of friends. I didn't even know that. What are you talking? I haven't even informed you. I moved. |
| 1:43.4 | My whole life has moved. |
| 1:44.6 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, we're not friends. |
| 1:46.3 | We've got to build back up. |
| 1:48.0 | I'm sorry. Yeah, we're not friends. We've got to build back up. I'm wandering around New York City looking for a guy to eat abs with, and I find out you're down in Delray Beach eating apps with my great grandma. Your great grandma knows how to wield a wing. She is good at what she does at the table. |
| 2:02.6 | I like how she eats. |
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