Jessica Simpson's Divorce, Taylor Swift's Addition, & Today Show Memories - POP CULTURE THURSDAY - The JTrain Podcast w Jared Freid
The JTrain Podcast
Jared Freid
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Jared Freid is back with another Pop Culture Thursday to break down the hottest headlines and nostalgia-inducing moments! This week, Jared dives into the rumors surrounding Jessica Simpson's divorce and what it says about celebrity relationships. Then, he unpacks Taylor Swift's latest addition (to her career or her life—you’ll have to tune in to find out!) and its impact on her already-dominating narrative. Finally, Jared reminisces about the Today Show era that shaped our mornings, complete with hilarious takes on the absurdity of live TV.
Whether you're here for the tea, the throwbacks, or Jared's signature rants, this episode delivers the perfect escape from your day. Share it with a friend who loves a pop culture deep dive!
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Hop on the "JTrain" with comedian Jared Freid and his crew of pals, including YOU! Join us for an hour of laughs, gripes, and straight talk on modern love. Send in your questions, dish on the latest trends, and more to jtrainpodcast@gmail.com – we'll tackle it all on air! It's a no-nonsense, fun journey where we escape reality for a bit, delivering quick laughs and razor-sharp insights into the wild world of life and love. Tune in every Monday.
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Jared Freid is a stand up comedian from Boston and who is currently based in New York City. Jared is known to give great dating advice and is all knowing of the Bachelor & Bachelorette nation! You can catch his latest comedy special on Netflix, “37 & Single”, where Jared discusses dating app frustrations to awkward setups to breakup justifications. (For the record, Jared’s mom thinks his body is “just fine.”) Besides regularly headlining and touring around the country, Jared hosts two podcasts called “The JTrain Podcast” and “U Up? Podcast” with Jordana Abraham of Betches, where they discuss their takes on modern dating with issues ranging from apps to hookups to relationships. Check out more of his comedy and a live show today! 👉https://jaredfreid.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the J-Train podcast. This is J-Train Jared Freed coming alive from the West Village of Manhattan. That's right. |
| 0:08.8 | Every Thursday is a pop culture Thursday. I go through page six. I click on headlines. We read the article, the article, article, we read the article together and I give you some hot takes along the way. That's this podcast. It's every Thursday. If you're a fan of this show, sign up for Patreon. Patreon.com slash Jared Freed. It's $5 a month. You get a Friday episode, so you get to round out the week. |
| 0:38.8 | It's coffee with J-Train, which I consider like my personal diary. |
| 0:43.0 | Tell stories from the week that was this week. |
| 0:46.1 | I'll be talking about going to Phoenix and playing golf and all that good stuff. |
| 0:53.4 | It's patreon.com slash Jared Freed, five bucks a month oh also if you want to be |
| 0:58.0 | first dibs on complaining for ticked off tuesday ticked off tuesday then you can comment on coffee |
| 1:07.1 | with j train with your complaint and we take those first so that is my call to |
| 1:12.4 | action for that also I'm coming to Australia and New Zealand if you're listening |
| 1:17.1 | in those parts come to the show would love to have you bring a group bring some |
| 1:21.0 | friends I come in hot ready to go good I got a good show to do it's gonna be |
| 1:27.2 | pieces of the special I just |
| 1:30.7 | tape because I've never done it in Australia or New Zealand. So I got all my, my, my, my, |
| 1:36.8 | my arrows to shoot from the sheath. There's no joke that I can't do from that. And then it's also going to have a lot of the new stuff that I've been working on that |
| 1:46.8 | I'm very excited about. |
| 1:48.0 | I got a new story to tell. |
| 1:49.7 | I never called myself a storytelling comedian and I'll get this, I'll get into this on |
| 1:55.1 | coffee with J-Train on Patreon tomorrow. |
| 1:57.0 | But I'm excited to kind of like continue the type of comedy that I just taped a few weeks ago, |
| 2:05.0 | which kind of the whole thing being one story that goes into bits. And again, it laughs every 10 |
| 2:12.0 | seconds, but it's got kind of a through line and a little bit of a message not a preachy message just a |
| 2:19.3 | personalized note to it so I'm excited because I was like maybe I won't be able to do this again |
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