Horror or Horrific with Rory Uphold - CHIT CHAT WEDNESDAY
The JTrain Podcast
Jared Freid
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Jared Freid sits down with Rory Uphold, author of A Final Girl’s Guide to the Horrors of Dating. They dive into the challenges of modern dating, from awkward app encounters to the importance of accountability and self-worth in relationships. Rory explains how the “final girl” of horror films mirrors the resilience needed in today’s dating culture, sharing personal stories along the way. The conversation highlights why in-person connections, honesty, and personal growth are key to navigating the dating world. Go buy Rory's book and remember, JTRAIN15 at checkout for a discount 🙌 👉 https://roryupholdshop.com/collections/the-final-girls-guide
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| 0:00.0 | Chit Chat Wednesday for you to listen to. |
| 0:03.8 | I have a guess who will be your new boo. |
| 0:09.3 | You're gonna love them too. |
| 0:14.4 | Chit chat Wednesday. |
| 0:16.0 | I hope you're having a good day today. |
| 0:19.4 | I hope it's gonna be a perfect week too. I hope you have a nice poo. |
| 0:30.8 | It's a chit chat Wednesday too. Hello and welcome to the J-Train podcast. |
| 0:38.5 | This is J-Train, Jared Freed coming in live from Delray Beach, Florida. |
| 0:43.5 | That's right. |
| 0:43.9 | Every Wednesday is a chit-chat Wednesday where I sit with a friend, a comedian, an expert. |
| 0:53.0 | Today, we have an expert, very exciting, an expert in the horrors of dating. |
| 1:02.3 | And I'm so pumped to have them on. They are the host of the podcast Crime of the Heart, but |
| 1:08.0 | they have a new book that is out. I think it's out right now. |
| 1:12.8 | If this, at the time, it'll be in the episode description, you can go buy the book and, |
| 1:18.7 | or do the wait list, but it's coming out October 1st. So I want to make sure you know that |
| 1:24.1 | so that you can pre-order or post-order, but, but, you know, we're close enough to the pre-order that you're going to get it when you would have gotten it anyways. So the link is in the description. The book is called A Final Girls Guide to the Horrors of Dating. Rory Uppold, thank you for coming on the show. Oh, thank you. Thank you for having me. That was a nice intro. Of course. It's great to have you. I've been on your podcast. |
| 1:45.2 | You have and people love you. Oh, that's way too kind. I had a great time. Yours is like, explain your |
| 1:51.0 | podcast because it kind of goes in with the horrors of dating kind of theme, right? A little bit. Yeah. |
| 1:57.8 | I mean, I think that one of the things that like like, inspired me is that so many people have these horror stories, but we're just kind of supposed to get over it. |
| 2:08.0 | Like, you could date someone. This might not be like the best parallel, but you could date someone for five years. They could cheat on you and break your heart and waste your time. And there's really nothing you can do about it. |
| 2:19.2 | But if I key your car, that's a misdemeanor. Right. I don't know. One seems worse to me. Right. And you're just supposed to kind of like get over it. And if you can't get over it, then people are like, what's wrong with him? Right. And it's also. And then, you know, to go back at that a little bit, you go, you know, two, it takes two to tango. |
| 2:39.4 | Like, and I'm not, you know, there's, again, like, there's like, it's a tough conversation to have because I don't want to like doubt the victim in a, in, in a real, like, horrific, you you know crime sense that something's someone's being like |
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