Taylor Swift Gets Engaged! Travis Designs The Ring, Where'd the Engagement Happen? And what did their ex'es post? - POP CULTURE THURSDAY - The JTrain Podcast with Jared Freid
The JTrain Podcast
Jared Freid
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week’s Pop Culture Thursday is all about, who else? Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce! Jared, aka the JTrain, is sifting through every Page Six headline and serving up his signature mix of eye rolls, laughs, and oddly specific analogies (salsa discourse included). From private-but-not-really-private wedding rumors to engagement ring drama that’s allegedly “designed” by Travis, Jared calls out the hype while still giving the Swifties their due. Along the way, he plugs his Patreon, shames you into buying comedy tickets early, and reminds everyone that pop culture is a business, baby. Light, funny, and just a little noodge-y, this is your weekly dose of riffs, rants, and reality checks.
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| 0:00.0 | You're a nosy bitch. |
| 0:02.5 | You want the fulsitch. |
| 0:04.8 | Come to pop culture Thursday. |
| 0:13.8 | Hello and welcome to the J-Train podcast. |
| 0:17.4 | This is J-Train, Jared Freed. |
| 0:19.2 | Come here, I'm from Manhattan, New York. That's right. |
| 0:23.9 | Every Thursday is a pop culture Thursday where I go to page six. I read the headlines and I riff on the |
| 0:31.5 | article. That's the show. If you have a pop culture story you want read on this version of the J-Train podcast, send it in. |
| 0:40.3 | J-TrainPodcast at Gima.com. |
| 0:42.7 | Title your email, Pop Culture Thursday, and we'll get to it. |
| 0:46.5 | Also, if you want to send it over DM, you can do that as well at J-Train Podcast on Instagram. |
| 0:51.9 | This is going to be a pretty lean episode. |
| 0:55.6 | There's no ad. |
| 0:56.6 | So I'll do an ad for myself, which is to join the Patreon. |
| 1:00.4 | It's $5 a month. |
| 1:01.8 | And every Friday you get coffee with J.Train, which is basically my personal diary. |
| 1:07.0 | I tell you stories from the week. |
| 1:09.2 | It is very personal. |
| 1:10.7 | I think I open up a lot there. |
| 1:13.3 | And if you go sign up now, you can get years of Coffee with J-Train. |
| 1:17.3 | There's not just this week's episode, but there's every week prior to this week. |
| 1:21.8 | And you can kind of dip in and out of my life if that's of interest to you. |
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