meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
U Up?

Is the Pen Pal Dating Trend Back?

U Up?

Betches

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

4.814.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Bethenny Frankel’s TikTok about pen pals sparks a debate between J&J and questions why this trend is still a topic years later as if it’s brand new. They act out how to handle a pen pal in dating when texts keep coming but no plans are being made. Later Jared and Jordana read a petty or prudent email about an ex still making NFL survivor pool picks after a breakup. They then question what counts as creepy and whether an age gap is a valid concern. J&J discuss age gaps in dating and explain when it is fine for older men to ask younger women out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the Friday Feels episode of the U-Up podcast. I'm Jordana Abraham. And I am Jared Fried. It is so good to be back here with you, Jordana. How are you? What's the haps? What's going on? I am great. Things are lovely. I just watched the TikTok that you wanted to discuss. Well, yeah, I sent you a TikTok that I watched

0:21.2

like the first five seconds of and never watched the end of it. Oh, really? You didn't watch the end of it? I literally like, well, because I get annoyed. Can I give you kind of how I feel with these TikToks that are about dating is like, I'm like, we did this. We did, we've answered this for seven years. So it gets annoying to me that like, and it's stupid.

0:39.3

I'm wrong. Can I just say I'm wrong?

0:41.1

Okay. We've answered this for seven years. So it gets annoying to me that like, and it's stupid. I'm,

0:39.6

I'm wrong. Can I just say I'm wrong? Okay. I'm wrong, but I get like personally annoyed that like

0:45.0

we've given answer to these things and women are still making videos going, I'm just so confused

0:50.4

why men have to be pen pals. And's like first of all you're not confused

0:55.0

You're a smart woman who went to college who started a business I mean the one I showed you was from Bethany Frankl

1:00.5

Yeah Bethany Frankl is on is one of she's not on Shark Tank to pitch her business she's on Shark Tank because she's a fucking shark

1:07.0

Yeah like she's a billionaire and she's going I'm just so confused why men are such pen pals.

1:13.3

Why are men looking for pen pals? It's like, stop being confused. These men are not stupid.

1:19.1

They're not, and we've talked about this here for years. These men know what they're doing.

1:23.4

There is a reason that you can figure out. I don't, I'm not a smart person. And I know why they're pen pals. Let's play the thing. But I do understand. What I can't believe is that I'm smart. I can't believe I know the answer and Bethany Frankel, who I have a great respect for. I think TikTok's the worst and best thing that's ever happened to her. Yeah. The worst thing that can happen. She might, how many videos does she make a day? I feel like everything in my feet is her. I can tell you exactly what happened with Bethany Frankl. The worst thing it could happen to a mouthy bitch is too much money. Is it? Well, because here's the thing. She's making money off of every video. So to her, love and hate doesn't matter.

2:03.6

It's attention.

2:04.6

Talk is talk.

2:05.6

So she keeps making videos and Bethany loves making money.

2:08.6

And these videos, she's probably making 50 grand a month.

2:12.6

Wow.

2:13.6

If you think about it, at a men.

2:15.6

It's a lot of Skinny girl Margarita. Right.

2:17.9

That she's getting for just being her. Right. I mean, that's the dream. Right. So she's getting the dream plus. So all these people are like, go to the video. Go to the video. I can go on her. I invite it. She follows me on TikTok. Oh, wow. We follow each other. I would love for her to come on.

2:33.3

I invited her.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Betches, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Betches and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.