Is Saying Your Dog is your Kid an Ick?

U Up?

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Comedy, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.8 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Jordana and Jared talk about the strange week between Christmas and New Year when time feels fake, routines disappear, and the pressure to reinvent your life creeps in too late. Jordana’s growing baby countdown is upon us and Jared reacts to becoming an uncle and jokes about parenting prep and unrealistic TV labor scenes! Next, they react to a viral dating influencer who claims his high standards are why he is single, breaking down why the take feels insecure, manipulative, and driven by rage bait. Finally, they debate an icky or picky email about a date who joked that his dog was his child and why the timing made it more uncomfortable than funny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Friday feels episode of the U.S. podcast. I'm Jordana Abraham.
0:07.2	And I am Jared Fried. It is so good to be back here with you, Jordana, the week between
0:13.1	Christmas and New Year's where time and space and calories don't exist. Does work happen? Does it not happen? This is that week
0:23.6	that feels a little weird like you should be doing a little bit more. You might be on a walk
0:29.8	just to get away from it all. Yes. And you got us in your ears. We want to thank you for making
0:35.1	us apart. It's a big reflective week, I feel like. Huge reflective week. How am I going to, what's going to be new for me in the new year? How, this is the week where you start making your list. What is the, what are the changes I need to make? And a lot of people, it turns into, you know, the biggest download day of the year. That's, once we get to January, we'll talk about that next week.
0:55.7	We'll talk about it next year.
0:57.0	Next year, next week.
0:58.8	I hate those people.
0:59.9	See you next year.
1:01.1	See you next year.
1:02.4	I'm going to say that to you tomorrow.
1:04.9	I won't see you until next year.
1:06.4	Yeah, see me, you'll say it at the end of this episode.
1:08.9	Yeah.
1:09.3	That's how weird this week is. You don't know what day is. If there's anything you wanted to accomplish in 2025, it's probably too late. It is definitely too late. You're not going to lose 50 pounds today. It ain't happening. No. I'm sorry to be, I'm sorry to inform you. Yes. Maybe 26. That promotion isn't happening. 2026 will be your year, maybe. Was it your year in 2020? Is there another episode in this year? Because this could be conversation we could have in. They think there's a New Year's Eve episode. There's a New Year's Eve episode. So we will leave these questions that make you depressed the next episode. Yes. Right now, we're still having some fun.
1:44.6	It's Boxing Day.
2:04.2	I don't really know what that means. Boxing Day? Yes. What does Boxing Day mean? Is that British Christmas? It originated from giving gifts to servants and the poor, evolving the major day to like post-Christmas shopping sales. So like, you know. So we went from giving to the poor to, hey, I need some extra money on the discounts?
2:05.5	That's crazy.
2:08.1	I always knew it as a UK holiday.
2:09.7	Ours is Black Friday.
2:10.5	There's his box. Well, it makes sense.
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