How Kris Jenner Changed Michael Yo’s Career - CHIT CHAT WEDNESDAY - The JTrain Podcast w Jared Freid
The JTrain Podcast
Jared Freid
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the JTrain Podcast, Jared welcomes comedian Michael Yo for a fun and wide-ranging chat. They laugh about Jared’s Golden Bachelor cameo, Michael’s time at E! News during the height of the Kardashian era, and how Kris Jenner helped launch him into reality TV. Michael also shares how Chelsea Lately jump-started his comedy career and previews his new A&E series 1000 Ways to Dine, highlighting unforgettable food adventures from underwater dining to intimate meals in Italian homes.
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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. |
| 0:31.0 | It's a chit-chat Wednesday, too. |
| 0:35.4 | Hello and welcome to the J-Train podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | It's a chit-chat Wednesday, and today's guest is Michael Yo. |
| 0:41.0 | What a pleasure to have Michael Yo on. |
| 0:42.7 | I saw him when I was in L.A. |
| 0:44.6 | We started texting. |
| 0:45.8 | I was like, get on the show. |
| 0:47.2 | And it happened to go with the end of E-News, which had been on the air for so long, |
| 0:54.0 | E-network. And Michael Yo was a part of that |
| 0:57.8 | universe, and he watched how the Kardashians got started. So we talk a lot about that world, |
| 1:05.1 | and, you know, I always think of VH1. I love the 90s as like that generation of comics that were doing TV things |
| 1:14.6 | I totally forgot that E was involved with that too and he's right and I and it is something |
| 1:21.2 | that I kind of lumped in with the VH1 people so very cool for me to hear about that era and |
| 1:27.4 | what it was like for Michael |
| 1:28.6 | Yo and how we got into stand-up. He's hilarious. He's doing a show in New York that all of you |
| 1:33.5 | should try and go to if you're in the city. Just a great episode. And then at the end, we do a game |
| 1:39.0 | based on his new show that's coming out. He's doing this show where he goes to like, wacky food |
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