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Jared Freed
Chit Chat Wednesday for you to listen to. I have a guess who will be your new boo. You're gonna love them too. Chit Chat Wednesday. I hope you're having a good day today. I hope it's gonna be a perfect week too. I hope you have a nice poo. It's a chat Wednesday too. Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed and it's a Chit Chat Wednesday. And today's guest is Nora Freed. Yeah, you heard right, Freed. Not a family member, not a cousin, just another comedian who happens to have the same last name spelled a little different. She spells it fried. I spell it Freed. We talk about that. I went on her podcast. She's just a fantastic comedian and great conversation on this show and I went on her podcast and I had a great time on that. You should go check it out. It's called New Yorker of the Week. I just looked down to read it because it was New Yorker of some New York of the Week. I really enjoyed going on her show and invited her right on here on Chit Chat Wednesday to talk about dating and New York and comedy and sex in the city and things we ate and Diet Coke. So I just love this conversation. So much fun, so easy. Check it out. Enjoy. Leave a comment if you had fun with it too. Leave a comment with your Sex and the City opinions and enjoy. Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming to you live from Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Wednesday is a Chit Chat Wednesday where I have on a comedian or a friend or an expert to have a little chit chat. Today we have two of the three. Maybe by the end we will also be friends because we're just meeting. This is our third time speaking, really. But they are a comedian. Hilarious. And you should all go follow them. And they're an expert in two things. New Yorkers, because they have a podcast called New Yorker of the Week where they talk to New Yorkers every week. And Sex in the City, because it was formerly a Sex in the City podcast. So I know we got a Sex in the City expert and she might sound familiar. We are not family. Nora Freed, thank you for coming on the show. How are you?
Nora Freed
Thank you so much for having me. I'm so upset that you just dropped the Sex in the City reference because right now. Because in just like that just came out and we are trying so hard to get away from Sex and the City. No shade to Sex in the City, though.
Jared Freed
Like, I Saw your goodbye video to Sex in the City. Sorry to interrupt, but I. I saw you put up a video of, like, the podcast is changing. Everyone does at least one. Hey, guys, I know you love this show, but we have to evolve video. And you. You're already doing it. This was. You guys were like, we're gone. We want to open it up. We want to broaden the show. We want to be the next Joe Rogan.
Nora Freed
And we're saying that's literally what we were thinking.
Jared Freed
I had a feeling.
Nora Freed
I woke up and I was like, I want to be Joe Rogan.
Jared Freed
I think I want to be the voice of this Sex and the City audience. But we're so stuck in the Sex and City world. We're going to open it up to New Yorkers and. Yeah, I love it. So hold on. You. You love Sex in the City, but you don't. And just like that. How do you feel about it? What is your. Kind of like, what's your. And just like that opinion?
Nora Freed
I love it. Wow. You look so Florida right now.
Jared Freed
I'm the most Florida I've ever been.
Nora Freed
I'm sorry, I don't mean to be. What are you. Are you drinking an Arnold Palmer?
Jared Freed
That would be the most Florida thing I can do. I mean, they still have iced coffee in Florida? They still do that?
Nora Freed
They do that?
Jared Freed
Yeah, they do iced coffee, but.
Nora Freed
Wow.
Jared Freed
Yeah. No milk. I don't. I'm not a milk in my coffee guy. Extra ice.
Nora Freed
Okay.
Jared Freed
Extra ice. Little bit of sugar free vanilla.
Nora Freed
The shirt, the painting.
Jared Freed
No cap. This shirt is a New York Cosmos shirt. This is as New York as it gets. Pele.
Nora Freed
I don't know what that is.
Jared Freed
You have a New York podcast.
Nora Freed
You gotta know the Cosmos. I know. I don't. I know it's bad. I. And I felt it a lot yesterday. I was actually on a date and I missed the Knicks game. And then I went to go meet up with all my neighbors, which is very New York of me. My entire building is friends. And so we all met up together. And it's. I know. It's literally. And we. I was like, so, guys, what's the vibe? I met them at 11, and they were like, the Knicks lost, right?
Jared Freed
That's the only vibe.
Nora Freed
You can't lose.
Jared Freed
That's the only story.
Nora Freed
That's the vibe, right? Well, yeah, but it's like, for me, it's like the Knicks are playing the Mets. Like, I don't even fucking know anymore. Like, I'm so, like, I am a woman. Hear me roar. And not about sports.
Jared Freed
Right. You will roar about Sex in the City. And no offshoots of Sex in the City every Tuesday.
Nora Freed
Jared, we did a rebrand.
Jared Freed
Sorry, there's a rebrand. Hold on. I have so many questions. From what you just told me, and.
Nora Freed
Every time I'm like this, I'm, like, bouncing all the time. That's a Hannah's problem with me.
Jared Freed
That's okay. I'm going to be. I'm going to reel you in.
Nora Freed
Okay.
Jared Freed
I'll really. I'll grab you. Okay. I'll make sure you don't float away too far. Okay, you brought up two things. I'll address the Knicks thing. Let me defend you. In your defense, the Knicks are the only New York team that everyone agrees on, so it was a big deal. But the Knicks. I've lived in New York for 18 years. Not one of those years was a Knicks year like it was this year. So it is new to be like, hey, the game is on. That is literally in 18 years of living in New York, I can't remember one instance where someone was like, did you watch the game? And I knew what they were talking about. So, yeah, the Knicks are the only team that can do that to the city. So I understand you're new at this. I'm new at this. We're all new at this. The. And they lost last night, which is sad because I was. I think the city's a happier place when the Knicks are happening and it's cool and it's the only Manhattan team. Okay, that's your defense. How was the date?
Nora Freed
Well, I showed up after. Okay, here's the thing. And I actually. Where did you go?
Jared Freed
How did you meet? Start from there.
Nora Freed
So, as you know, I've been released from. From a couple apps I try.
Jared Freed
I. So I was a guest on New Yorker of the Week, and I gave Nora the advice that she should shed.
Nora Freed
But the app shed me.
Jared Freed
Okay. As we know, no one has more sex in the city than you. After you've said that. That is a. That is the most sex in the city thing to say. That's my absent. Was it the apps that I shed, or did the apps shed me and.
Nora Freed
The app shed me? They were like, you can't come back. And I tried to go back, and.
Jared Freed
They were like, oh, yeah, you were kicked off for.
Nora Freed
I was kicked off for multiple things, none of them being scary. I just want to make that clear.
Jared Freed
I agreed. I agreed with the kickoff because you're dealing with the machine and algorithm, and you did use languaging. That If a machine read it with no emotion, they would go, get her out of here and you can go listen. That's called. Nora's new to this. This is what they call in the business a tease. Go listen to me on the New Yorker of the Week podcast. You can hear that whole story and we'll get into it here. See how good I am at this, Nora? This is why I make the big bucks.
Nora Freed
Okay, well, we. You know what? I made a lot on my tickle video, Jared, so don't, you know, you're not another tease.
Jared Freed
So now she's learning another tease to her podcast, New Yorker of the week. All she does is plug.
Nora Freed
Okay, we have boys in our inbox. That's all I gotta say.
Jared Freed
Okay, Tickle boys. Tickle boys, yeah. What is. What are they called? The people that like tickling videos?
Nora Freed
I don't know. You tell me. It's a man. And I don't understand.
Jared Freed
Don't make it. Don't. Don't, you know, don't turn me into this tickle monster.
Nora Freed
I.
Jared Freed
Okay, that worked way too well.
Nora Freed
It was so good.
Jared Freed
Yeah, that's the clip.
Nora Freed
It was low hanging fruit. It was good. I. Okay, so I've been kicked off a lot of apps, so my friend sent me this new app called Sitch. I don't know if you've heard of it.
Jared Freed
Honestly, we're at the point where it's the SNL sketch with the guy from Barry talking about clubs in New York. Yeah, like we are. We have.
Nora Freed
You never know anymore, right?
Jared Freed
You could be inventing an app out of thin air. Oh, it's Sitch. Where you meet on a street corner, you say, what's the sitch? And that's the password that gets you into, you know, into the. The bar that you guys have a $5 coupon for. Like, I, I. What is Sitch? What's the premise here?
Nora Freed
So the premise is that you write out a very, very detailed bio. It took me an hour. It's actually very reflective. It talks about, like, what you really are looking for in a person and what are things that are non negotiables for you and for me. That's something that I haven't really reflected on. Like, I do have, like, I do witchy stuff. Like, I, like, got a love candle in Baltimore and I lit it and, like, did a little prayer, and it didn't really do anything. You know what I mean? It's like we all kind of.
Jared Freed
You did this before you did the bio. Oh, I'm just sorry to interrupt You. I got to reel you in. This is. I got to make sure that we keep you. Keep you within 100ft of the ground. You lit the. I lit the candle before doing the bio.
Nora Freed
No, I lit the candle. I lit the candle when I turned 33. So it was a while ago. My friend got it with me, and we were like. We were at a witchy store, and he was like, nora, I think this is your time. Get the candle. And the lady was like, it's going to work.
Jared Freed
Lighting a candle on your 33rd birthday. Like, I think we need to, like, discuss what is weirdo candle, witchy woman thing. And what is like, hey, that's a day you should be reflective. Like, to me, a birthday. Lighting a candle, doing a little prayer, getting in touch with the universe. That makes sense. If you're the woman working at the candle shop, looking at a woman going, this will work. Guaranteeing it. You've fallen off the deep end. You are. You've lost yourself. You are in full witch mode. Put on a hat. Get a scarf. Get a cat.
Nora Freed
It's like how at the moon. I have a cat. Haven't done the moon thing. But here's the thing. So I got the candle, and I was like, you guys, I don't need the apps. First of all, they don't want me. I don't want them.
Jared Freed
Yeah, you're off the deep end. Saying the candle replaces the apps is, like, the craziest thing I've ever heard. I have a candle.
Nora Freed
I was like, hey, you're off the apps.
Jared Freed
Yeah, I got a candle. Someone would go, what? Hold on. Okay.
Nora Freed
Yeah, I'm off the apps. I have this candle from Baltimore. So I lit the candle, but then I got to the point in the candle where I couldn't reach my finger down into the candle. Cause it's one of those prayer candles. And so there's a little bit of wax left, right? And I was like. And I didn't want to buy one of those grill lighters, so I was just like, fuck it. You know what?
Jared Freed
Like, and how about a new candle? I mean, I think we've gone through. I think it didn't work. I think if you're at the end of the Wicked, that's crazy.
Nora Freed
There's moments where I look down on myself in my studio apartment at 33, lighting the candle, shoving my fingers into this prayer candle, being like, I need to find love. That I'm just like, nora, I think I'm gonna take a step back. This is not working out.
Jared Freed
It's not the candle.
Nora Freed
Just go outside. Just go outside, take a walk, talk to some people. We'll see what's up.
Jared Freed
Fresh air will do.
Nora Freed
Yeah. And I had been ghosted a bunch recently, and I had gone on some dates and I had been burned by a man, actually, who ended up in Miami. So I've been like, actually, sorry.
Jared Freed
Guess it's my fault.
Nora Freed
I know.
Jared Freed
Hold on. We are so far away.
Nora Freed
No, listen, listen. Okay, so then, so then I was like, sitch comes along and I'm like, this feels like such targeted ads for me, right? Like, this feels like it's for me. And so I'm like, I'm gonna really put my all into this profile.
Jared Freed
What are the ads? Are they including, like, hey, this is the app you don't get ghosted on. This is the app that you're intentional. And are these like, kind of the ads they're giving you?
Nora Freed
They're like, have you been. Have you been ghosted recently? You are. You could be compensated like that. It's like a funny, like, you know, when you like, see on the, like Michael the Bull, the. On the, on the subway, who's like, you have a broken leg from a construction site. Like, call me. It was like that, but for such. And I was like, I do have a broken leg from construction. You know what I mean? And fun spoke to me, you know?
Jared Freed
Yeah.
Nora Freed
So I. I was like, okay. And then my friend sent me a referral, so I got it for free. So I was like, great. So now I have a friend who's throwing it in my way or in my space. So I fill out everything and I'm really honest with myself. And I actually started. It was very emotional. I was like, wow. I really, like, these are things that are non negotiables for me. Like, there's some things that I didn't even realize. Like, I was like, oh, shit. Like, I really can't be with someone who's negative all the time. That's something that's like a no for me. Like, you don't know how many people I go out with that are like, I didn't get this gig. I'm gonna kill myself. And it's like, yeah, welcome. You know, like, we're at an open mic together. I know you never experienced that, but.
Jared Freed
Like, you never went to one open mic.
Nora Freed
Never went to. You're already like, you know, But I'm just saying, like, the world didn't exist before.
Jared Freed
You. Comedy. And on the seventh day, Nora Fried started doing stand up comedy and the rest.
Nora Freed
But I'M saying though, is that like, it's like life is hard. Like, let's be a little positive.
Jared Freed
Like, well, what's this all for? If you and I, you know, like, if my partner and I aren't having fun together, like, if we can't joke about it. But I think that's something that like artists run into is if you date another person in the arts doing, you kind of run into like a version of yourself that like, you can dig the hole together, you know, which is.
Nora Freed
I guess so. But I want the hole to be digging upwards. You know what I mean? Like, it's like I. I just feel like if someone's doing well, amazing, let's celebrate. If they're not. Like, let's figure out a way to like, make it move forward.
Jared Freed
Let's be.
Nora Freed
We don't need to. Like, the city's already so tough, you know, like, things are. Life is hard. Especially like, I'm just a little lady, you know what I mean? And it's like, we're having a hard time right now, you know, and it's like, let's just try to be positive. Am I positive all the time? No, but I like, try to be. So that was one of my non negotiables.
Jared Freed
Okay, good.
Nora Freed
I filled it out. I went out with someone last night from the app. We spent three hours together. Now I'm going to say something and it's going to sound really pompous and it's going to maybe don't clip it and maybe just delete it. I don't know. Whatever you want to do with it.
Jared Freed
Sounds like this is going to be the clip.
Nora Freed
I am a really fun time. Like, I. And I am a good date. I'm fun, you know, Like, I have a positive attitude about it. I have an interesting life. I can.
Jared Freed
You're there, you're there to party.
Nora Freed
I'm like, let's have fun.
Jared Freed
Let's get to know each other. Let's laugh that time.
Nora Freed
Exactly. I get. My nails look good, my hair looks good. I got my makeup on.
Jared Freed
You're ready.
Nora Freed
Good outfit on.
Jared Freed
It's a night.
Nora Freed
I'm good. I'm not saying I'm the best, but I'm like, I'm saying that like if there was a second best or maybe a third, I'm like, right, I'm hanging out in that area.
Jared Freed
You're in the top tier. You're. You're a 1 percenter when it comes to good.
Nora Freed
Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
Jared Freed
Yeah. And it's like first dates especially.
Nora Freed
I'm sure it's hard. It's hard then to know if you hate someone or not.
Jared Freed
Right? Because did I have fun or would I have had fun with anybody?
Nora Freed
Would I have had fun with a wall?
Jared Freed
Right?
Nora Freed
Like, would I. Would I have had fun with anyone? And the thing is, is that the guy and I, because we matched on this app, we. So it's a whole thing is that you get matched by this woman named Dani, who's like this. Who's like.
Jared Freed
She's the woman from the candle store. Hey, I was howling at the moon last night. She's like this AI Let me introduce you to this guy that sign up for the app.
Nora Freed
Yeah, she's this AI Bot, and she's like, hey, hey, I'm Danny. I'm the founder of Sitch. Like, what's up? Like, hey, what do you.
Jared Freed
It's an AI Bot.
Nora Freed
Yeah, it's an AI Bot and her name's Danny, and there's a picture of her. And then once you actually get matched with them, you get passed off to Jacinta.
Jared Freed
Another AI Bot.
Nora Freed
It's another AI Bot.
Jared Freed
Like an intercultural AI Bot.
Nora Freed
Why does is she like, I I literally, I, I.
Jared Freed
Why is your name Jacinta? What is it?
Nora Freed
I don't know. It's really random, but. And I'm sorry. I actually, I quit smoking, and I'm just, I'm just vaping now, and I'm just going to do it. And I smoked a bunch of cigarettes last night, so I guess I didn't quit smoking. So, like, here we are. But other than that, everything's great. I like work.
Jared Freed
It's just weird. They went from Nora to Jacinta. Like, or no, Dora.
Nora Freed
Danny.
Jared Freed
Danny. Sorry, Danny.
Nora Freed
Danny said Dora. I would have been like, I'm not doing this. Clearly they want me to relate to the person too much because I'm Dora and they're Nor. I'm Nora, and they're drawing Nora.
Jared Freed
Here's your new friend, Dora. She's gonna help set you up with. It's a new friend. I don't know. I'm mad about the AI setup artist because it's going to work because people have met in every ways, but, like, the idea that this AI Bot is somehow better than a Greek aunt is like, a little.
Nora Freed
Absolutely not. Yeah, my.
Jared Freed
It's a little. It's a. It's a little demeaning to humans. I don't know. I, I just don't buy the prem. I I, I buy it just because if you just. A hand in a bucket and pulled out Nora and Guy. It could work, you know, so. So they go through your. All your answers and then they find you a day. They go, I got one for you. And. Yeah, and what's.
Nora Freed
And it's. It's perfect alignment. Like, he was. He said the same thing. I said, what were your non negotiables? He says, I hate negative people.
Jared Freed
Okay.
Nora Freed
I was like, all right, let's go. I said, what's your favorite color? He asked me what was. And we were at that point in the date.
Jared Freed
What color? What does that matter? I couldn't handle it. She liked chartreuse too much.
Nora Freed
I. Okay, I just said I was. I was an amazing date. And now I am telling you that. We got to the part in the day where we were exchanging which our favorite colors were. But I promised it was a good date anyways. I said pink.
Jared Freed
But that's in the questionnaire. But I just don't know why that matters to Jacinta.
Nora Freed
No, no, no. This is when I'm with Paul. Sorry, I shouldn't say his name. Whatever. Bleep. You know. But anyways, so. So. Whoops. Sorry.
Jared Freed
Did you have fun?
Nora Freed
Okay. I said pink. He said, me too. I was like, oh, like, it was a little too much. It's like, it's. It's fine. If guys want to like pink, that's fine. You know, like gender norms, whatever. But it's like, you know, it's like, that's my color.
Jared Freed
That is really funny that I literally am sitting here going, what does it matter what their favorite color is? And the minute you said his was pink, I was like, this is a grift. This guy. This guy's taking advantage of you. I don't know what his. His angle is. Pink is just weird.
Nora Freed
It's. I love pink. My whole house is pink and I love it. And I just. I love it. But it's like, I don't want the. I want to. I want a guy who. I come in and I'm like, we're going to redo the home. We're not going to make it pink. We're going to settle on a color. Right? I'm not going to do that to you. My bathroom might be pink, but I'm not going to do it the whole house the way I did in my house. But you can't be like, wait, you like pink girl? Same. Let's do it. Let's, like, do the whole place pink.
Jared Freed
I don't. There are things. I don't care how progressive you are. If you're like hearing a guy go, I wrote down that my favorite color was pink too. And you don't stop the whole conversation. You, you're lying to yourself, to everyone, to the world. Like, I'm with you. It's too much. And also, how about we not make this part of the questionnaire? Like, I don't, I don't know why this is even in the, like, why is favorite color matter at all? What does Jacinta know?
Nora Freed
Just, just terrible. The worst part is that. So you get a match, right? And they say, hey, only one match. No, no, no.
Jared Freed
Like everyone is now an ad for sitch.
Nora Freed
No, literally, like, Jacinta, we're here. Okay. No, actually Danny's the, the owner. Anyway, so sorry, Danny. Anyways, so you get someone, they're like, oh, we think that such a great match for you. Check out his profile. Let us know if you want to go on a date with him. If he does, we'll set you guys up and we'll put you in a group chat. Me, you, Jacinta, and, and like Jacinta. And you all get to be in your. Are you at your mother's house?
Jared Freed
No, I'm right, it's, it's my place, but I, I'm writing down the name I just moved for the people listening that you said so that we can bleep it out.
Nora Freed
You don't live in New York anymore?
Jared Freed
I moved to Delray for good. I'm doing like a three month. This will all be explained on patreon jtra patreon.com.
Nora Freed
Okay, okay, okay.
Jared Freed
No, I've explained it. I, I, I basically was like looking for like three months to see if I like Del Rey and if I can make work work with it. And I'm doing it. And I also need it out of my apartment. You know, sometimes you get stale and I mean, as the co host of New Yorker of the Week, you know, this New York, my apartment, I was just like, I need it out.
Nora Freed
Yeah.
Jared Freed
And I was like, I need to see now if like a move can work. So I'm checking it out. So I'm in Delray Beach.
Nora Freed
But is that, did you furnish that apartment? Sorry, no.
Jared Freed
The, the fully furnished. Yeah. No, it's very beachy.
Nora Freed
It's very, the pillows were giving like mother. And I was like, oh, are you at your mom's house?
Jared Freed
No, but see, it's very Airbnb, like ready, like it's the Airbnb that you would expect to have that like matched like what you paid for it. I think Airbnb is generally. Are like, good neighborhood, bad place, or great place, bad neighborhood. And this is kind of like both good place and good neighborhood. It kind of. I definitely, like, I'm happy with the spot, but fully furnished, ready to go.
Nora Freed
Yeah, but see, like, last. Like, if I saw those pillows for people listening, they won't on YouTube.
Jared Freed
I just. I just. If you go to YouTube, you can see I held it up.
Nora Freed
Yeah, you held up the pillow. But the guy I went out with last night would be like, we need to get those in pink.
Jared Freed
Right.
Nora Freed
You know what I mean? And that's.
Jared Freed
Thank you for bringing us back to the. To what was necessary to talk about the pain. Yeah, it's just a. Weird.
Nora Freed
It's fine. There were a hundred other things.
Jared Freed
But anyways, so it's like a dog in a. And it's like having a puppy in your dating profile. It's like, what are you trying to pull here, dude?
Nora Freed
It's a lot. It's a lot.
Jared Freed
So how was the day? But it sounds like the day was good.
Nora Freed
It was great. But then after I met up with my neighbors, and I immediately felt this joy just being with them, and they're a bunch of dudes, and, like, they brought some of their friends and. And then there's two girls who I Also. From my building that were there, and they're so fun. And we were just hanging out, and I was like, you guys, I think I was dead for the last three hours. I think I just had the worst date ever. And they were like, what? You came here and you were like, you were there for, like, three hours because you said you were gonna meet us here at, like, 8, and now it's like 11 or something. You know, it's like, what happened? And I. That, like, I was like, I don't know. I just. Like, I feel so alive right now. And, like, some of them had brought their friends, and I was like, yes.
Jared Freed
This is what it's all about. Someone's like, did the gummy just hit? What's going on?
Nora Freed
No, but, like. And then. And then I. Yeah. And I don't know. I just felt so. So alive. And everyone was like, are you, like, on something? And I was like, no, I'm actually sober. And I. And. And I was just like, I don't know. I just feel so alive with you guys. And I felt like I was dead inside with that.
Jared Freed
Do you think that has to do with the AI nature of it? Like, do you think it's like, we.
Nora Freed
Were too good of a Match.
Jared Freed
Right.
Nora Freed
I feel like we had too clean in common. And I think it. I need someone who's a little different, who challenges me and is like, nora, you're being a wacky lady. Like, stop. Pull it in. You know, like, stop. And instead, everything I said, he was like, same. Yeah, let's paint the kitchen coral. You know what I mean? It's just like. It's. It was just. It's. It's the same where the.
Jared Freed
You have a Sex in the City podcast. I have a sex in this. Yeah.
Nora Freed
No, I don't have a sex to say podcast. That would be the one difference that.
Jared Freed
You rebranded your podcast from a Sex in the City podcast. I just rebranded my podcast from. Yeah, they. What do you think? And just like that, what's your. What's your opinion on the show? You're happy it exists. But however it exists, have you watched it? It's maddening. It's. It's really. Truthfully, it's. It's like. I think it's the most horrific thing they've ever done in the history of television. I hate every scene of the show, and I watch every single scene because there's this, like, fourth wall of the show, in my opinion, and you're the expert. I'm not gonna. I. I know Sex in the City tangentially. I'm not, like, the biggest fan, but I enjoyed Sex in the City because it was just, like, so much itself. Like, it didn't apologize. It was just like, this is us women living in New York, and they weren't, like, trying to speak for every woman living in New York, but every woman found themselves seeing themselves in the women that were on the show, which is, like, a really nice, connective thing. But then, over time, everyone wanted it to apologize for not being exactly everything to everyone, which is like, no show's ever going to do that. And it's almost like it's getting shit for how good it was. Like, yeah, yeah. The shit it's getting is because it was so good and so wide that, like, oh, if it doesn't include everyone's experience, now it's evil. And then the characters on the show, like, like, are sitting there apologizing. It's like, you. You made billions of dollars off this show. Be thankful for it. Like, don't. Yeah, yuck. My yum. From the early 2000s. And, yeah, maybe you wouldn't make it today. I don't know. I could go on and.
Nora Freed
I'm sorry, have you had a sex life the City podcast?
Jared Freed
This is. This is the rebrand of this show. This is now a Sex in the City podcast. It's called Freed and Freed. And we also have a moving company. I, I just don't like that every scene seems to be this, like, making sure everyone's okay type.
Nora Freed
Yeah, it's really, really bad. So, you know, they brought in Rosie. Rosie o' Donnell.
Jared Freed
Oh, really?
Nora Freed
Yeah, she's now Miranda's girl and she's. So you remember Che? Remember?
Jared Freed
So she's like likable Che? Is that what she is?
Nora Freed
I actually have a funny story about Che Diaz. What about my friend Bodega? Plug for Bodega, who's a drag king in New York. They were at the filming event just like that. Specifically the scene where Che Diaz does her scene. Set. Sorry, they're set.
Jared Freed
The stand up set that Che Diaz does is like, it's like as a comedian, you're like, you want to literally.
Nora Freed
You feel I almost killed myself?
Jared Freed
Yeah, you literally. I, I mean, like, I was like.
Nora Freed
If this is it, I need to kill myself right now because if I ever am in this situation, I'm going to kill myself. Like, this is bad.
Jared Freed
If, if I was like, if anyone's a comedian and feels like they haven't gone to the bathroom in a week, go watch that scene. You'll shit right away. Like, it moves your stomach.
Nora Freed
My friend had to watch that exact set about 50 times because they had to do takes of it. And each time they were in the front row having to go like this, right?
Jared Freed
You have to like fake laugh. You have to like. It's the funniest you've ever heard.
Nora Freed
It's great. You can see her in the crowd. We zoomed in when we first watched him. Just like that. We were like, oh my God, it's Hope. Hope's her name and non track name. We're like, Hope. And she was like, I'm not gonna lie, you guys. It was hard. It was a hard set. We, I mean, imagine, I mean, that's difficult over and over again with.
Jared Freed
Generally that's not easy. Yeah, good comedy, bad comedy, just to have to do that over and over again. It doesn't matter about the comedy, right?
Nora Freed
So it was, it was so Che to me was a very like. We had a personal connection to Che, right? As a friend group, we were all like, you know, Hope really put herself out there for Che. You know, we had. Hope had to do a lot of work with Che because, you know, she's in the audience having to cheer Che on for about seven hours. So every time that Che came on, we were like, hope, like it's your homie. And it became like a show, you know. But now Rosie's here and I don't know. Do you follow Rosie o' Donnell on, on Instagram?
Jared Freed
It's been a while since Rosie has been in my life. I would say you need to change that today. Well, I just read an article I do, you know, for those listening or watching on YouTube, Pop Culture Thursday on the J Train podcast, there was a recent article that Rosie and their child, like, don't get along. The kid, Rosie's kid has, I think, a lot of issues. Like, if I can speak without really knowing what the issues are, I think there's like a, maybe they're not in the, in the will or something and it's like, or something like that. Yeah, there's, there's like some sort of addiction issues going on or, I don't know. I don't want to speak out of turn. I, I, my good friend Rosie, I don't want her.
Nora Freed
You know, you should follow Rosie. She's such a good follow on Instagram. Her posts are spectacular. Like, and I've been, we've been following for, we, Hannah and I, my podcast co host plug. She, we've been following Rosie for a while now and we're like, like, she'll post a pigeon and be like, day today. And it's just like, it's just like, yeah, Rosie, it really is.
Jared Freed
How is Rosie? I mean, it is weird to think like, who gets remembered, who gets forgotten. And Rosie was like Ellen before Ellen, but maybe even bigger than Ellen. Like, it's weird that we don't have that tattooed to our brains or maybe. But I'm just thinking of like, what do we hear about as far as like host, daytime host, you know, legendary. She's legendary in a, the Koosh ball. Like the Koosh ball. She owned the Kush. Like that is. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, that's how crazy it is. She would throw kushes at the audience and that was like her big thing. That was her dancing, that was Ellen's, her version of Ellen dancing. To feel like that is lost.
Nora Freed
Yeah, yeah, right.
Jared Freed
And then she gets like remembered.
Nora Freed
She's back.
Jared Freed
She's back. I mean, she gets remembered, I guess for like bad takes and interviews. Like, like anytime I see like a Rosie tick tock show up, it's always like that. She was like, had like Britney Spears on and it's like, hey, you wear short dresses. Like, it's like in the questions are just like very old timey. But you're like, yeah, I. Again, it's another Sex in the City thing where I'm like, she was the biggest. Like, it wasn't like they weren't thinking of, like, being nice to people. Like, it's not like we weren't in the crowd. Like, yeah, short dresses, you know, Like, Rosie rules.
Nora Freed
I like, I. I don't know. I guess some people have problems with her. I don't personally, I. I don't.
Jared Freed
Yeah, maybe I'm over exaggerating the problems people have.
Nora Freed
No, I think they do. I think. I mean, more people have problems with Ellen, which is a whole other bucket of worms. But I just. I. Yeah, I. Is that the expression? Bucket of worms? Basket of worms, can of worms, can. I'm really bad. I'm really bad at expressions. Anyways, working on it, though. But I. What. What's happening?
Jared Freed
Let me. I'm doing a quick, quick pivot. We don't want to do too much Sex in the City because you've rebranded the podcast and we only have so much time.
Nora Freed
Well, I'm just saying that she. She's a nun now in Sex and the City.
Jared Freed
Oh, a nun.
Nora Freed
Yeah, she's an ex nun and she sleeps with Miranda. Sorry, Spoiler alert.
Jared Freed
That's funny. I like that.
Nora Freed
But that's all I have to say. And we can move forward.
Jared Freed
Okay. And we liked. Do we like it?
Nora Freed
I couldn't finish it. I had. I have it on pause. I wasn't emotionally ready for the whole thing. I was like, I can't do this right now.
Jared Freed
Here's some quick questions before we go. Everyone follow Nora Freed on Instagram. She spells freed wrong at Nora Freed Comedy Fried.
Nora Freed
Freed like fried.
Jared Freed
Freed like fried. If you go listen to New Yorker of the Week, you can hear how I get people to remember my name, which is not like, fried. Okay, Nora, on that subject, how many times were you asked if we were cousins or related?
Nora Freed
Like from the last episode, from any.
Jared Freed
Time since doing comedy. You started after me.
Nora Freed
Jared, I have to be really honest.
Jared Freed
Oh, no, I just lie to me. Say it a thousand times.
Nora Freed
I didn't know who you were before I saw you.
Jared Freed
Unbelievable. So we met at Club Cumming, which is like me walking in there was like, music stop. Club Cumming is Alan Cummings club, where Cat Cohen puts on a show on a weekly basis. A fantastic show. And it's Cat Cohen doing Cat, like, doing her act and allowing other comedians to kind of be a part of it and give her Kind of a break is how I would describe the show. And everyone should go to it. It's a fun, very New York experience. Like, hey, what did you do in New York? Oh, I went to Times Square. I went to the West Village. I ate some pizza. How about you do something new and different and cool? Go to club Coming. Go to a Cat Cohen show. That's like, to me, like, hey, there was like a meme for a minute. Like, hey, I got a place. This would be like a very I got a place thing to do.
Nora Freed
Totally.
Jared Freed
And I went on stage and I did a five minute set and I cried.
Nora Freed
I was crying.
Jared Freed
You're very kind.
Nora Freed
I literally. Jared, I was. I don't know if you. Cause I have a cackle laugh. It's really weird.
Jared Freed
I like you. You got a good laugh. It's a good laugh.
Nora Freed
And I, I was cackling. And I'm door lady, by the way, at clubcoming. I'm not just Snore Freed comedy. I'm. I'm door lady at Club Cumming.
Jared Freed
She does it all. I actually walked in, I said door lady. You know, I was really rude, but I walked in and you directed me to where to go. And I'd never met you before.
Nora Freed
I'm so good at that.
Jared Freed
You're a good director. And then I opened by saying, I feel like I interrupted the Glee trivia night and no one even reacted at all. It felt like I was being mean. I didn't mean to be mean. It did look like that's the thing. And listen, I'm okay to me. I kind of live in this nowhere ville of I'm not, you know, I'm not extreme enough to be Rogan. I'm not like they's thems and gays enough to be at Club Cummings. So like I was like happy to be there. And so I had a. I asked, I asked Kat to do the show. So I was happy to do it.
Nora Freed
It was so. Your set was so funny. I'd never heard of you before and it's not. And I'm not. I'm not. I follow like a couple of big comedians that I love and I. Other than that, I'm kind of in my little bubble and I'm trying and you know, whatever, but I'm just like, you know, if it happen, it happens. It's great. It's great, you know.
Jared Freed
How long have you been doing comedy.
Nora Freed
For like two and a half years now. Something like that. So it's been very new. So I'm just kind of like you.
Jared Freed
Know, other than seeing my set. What was your favorite. What's your favorite moment of comedy so far?
Nora Freed
Of life?
Jared Freed
Of comedy?
Nora Freed
Of. Of my comedy or, like, comedy?
Jared Freed
I've seen your comedy of your experience.
Nora Freed
I think we've. We produced a couple of shows at Club Coming, actually, that went really well, and my first one. But the first show I ever produced and host was called Mazel Baby, and it was a Hanukkah show, and it was all Jewish people doing sets, and it. For the majority of the people that we put on, and it was hilarious. And it completely sold out. And I was like, all right, I'm going to keep doing this. This is really fucking fun. And it was just such a good feeling. Like, it literally. Club Cunning. Mazel Baby, sold out, hosted by Nora Freedom. I was like, this is perfect. Yeah, but your set was really funny. And so that's why after I was like. I texted Hannah and I was like, I don't know who this guy is, but he was so funny. We shared him on the podcast, and we're not trying to do a lot of comedians, but this guy's just so funny. And then I realized we had the same last name, and I was like, oh, my God, is he my cousin?
Jared Freed
It took you that long to realize the same last name? Name? Oh, wait a minute. That's a long time to realize.
Nora Freed
I told you, I'm bad at expressions. Things processed differently, you know? But that now. Yeah, so that's. That was the story.
Jared Freed
I like the premise of your new rebrand New Yorker of the Week. And it's funny because it seems as though you're just like, look at that weirdo. Let's have them on.
Nora Freed
That's literally what it is.
Jared Freed
And so I think I was gonna. I wrote down to ask you, how is it. How do you ask people other than, like, me? I'm a comedian. Oh. Would you like to come on. My podcast is, like, the second thing I talk about with people generally. How do you go up to someone go you. Because you have a woman on there that. I'm, like, looking at her, and I'm just, like, in awe of her look. Like, how do you say? Like, hey, weirdo, can you just come on and talk to us? Like, how do you do that?
Nora Freed
It really. So I. During the day, I do sales. I've always had sales in me. So I. I'm. I'm always trying to, like, you know, it's. It feels like a sales job. I do all of our booking, so Hannah does all of our online social media Stuff because she's Gen Z and I'm millennial. She knows how to, like, tag and do all that and the clips and everything. And I just go out and, Nora.
Jared Freed
I'm sorry to tell you, you should know how to tag people. I don't think that's a. You can't just say, I'm a millennial and I don't get it, and then just say anything as things. You don't know how to do this.
Nora Freed
I do the business side.
Jared Freed
You're the business side, you know?
Nora Freed
And so I book people. I find people. Hannah will send me people and be like, nora, this person's dope. Let's go after them. But if you. If I find someone that I think is funny, I'll be like, okay, I'm gonna do everything I can to get them on. But, like, with you, you were so. I mean, not to say easy, but it was like. I was shocked. I was like, oh, my God.
Jared Freed
He said immediately, yeah, no, I'm.
Nora Freed
People are like, so sorry. I have to do 700 things, like, stare at my wall before I come on there.
Jared Freed
You know, to me, if. If we can work it out, zoom makes things easier. I mean, like. But also, like, if someone's like, hey, next week, next. I always tell people, like, when they're ever, like, with podcast stuff, I'm like, just give me a date and time. Like, just give it to me. I'll say yes or no, and then we'll figure it out from there. Like, we can negotiate from there. I. But that's okay. Hold on. I have.
Nora Freed
I chase. I can chase, and I can be persistent, and I'm very like, I have.
Jared Freed
I have some quick hit questions.
Nora Freed
Okay, ready?
Jared Freed
Best thing you ate recently? First thing that comes to mind.
Nora Freed
Oh, no, this shouldn't stress you out.
Jared Freed
This is.
Nora Freed
I. You know, and this is going to be. This is going to be. This is going to be bad. But I had a diet just now. I know that's kind of what a Diet Coke that just. I know that's not eating, and I know that's.
Jared Freed
That's the answer.
Nora Freed
That's not a body positive answer. But I just.
Jared Freed
Is it not?
Nora Freed
Well, I just. It's kind of like, I just had an amazing Diet Coke. Like, I just.
Jared Freed
I've had a Diet Coke that's changed my day.
Nora Freed
You know, where it's just, like, it hits the ice. It had a lemon. I was just like, I was having kind of a bad morning, and I had that, and I was like, whoa. Okay, let's go.
Jared Freed
This is a no Apologies for Diet Coke love podcast. Even though I have hated. On people who make Diet Coke, their personality, I think that's different than what we're doing now, which is to have a Diet Coke in a glass with ice. The. The first sip. I get it. Okay. Best thing you. Well, this ruins my next question. Best thing you drank lately.
Nora Freed
This is going to be crazy. The Diet Coke.
Jared Freed
Oh, I thought you had, like, a one in the chamber.
Nora Freed
No, I, like, relapsed last night, so I just drank some wine. No, I'm just kidding.
Jared Freed
Heroin. Oh. Can I say I know I didn't.
Nora Freed
Drink it, but that's not a good question for me because I'm like, all I drink is Diet Coke and seltzer. Oh, a Shirley Temple. A Shirley Temple. I had it last night, and I said to the people, I said to the.
Jared Freed
On the date, no.
Nora Freed
Oh, no. But I've crushed four. I crushed once. Four Shirley Temples on a date. And the guy was like, whoa. And I'm like, you just had four beers.
Jared Freed
And he's like, club soda or Sprite ginger ale. That's the way it's intended. That's probably the way it should be made. But that's.
Nora Freed
Yeah.
Jared Freed
I mean, I have an idea. Club soda. Well, I have a skinny Shirley Temple, which is also called a Cape Cod, which is club soda. Cranberry with a lime would be like.
Nora Freed
That'S not a Shirley Temple.
Jared Freed
Let me believe what I want to believe Let me. Let me live in this dreamland where.
Nora Freed
That can be my Florida he's gone. We lost him.
Jared Freed
Listen. Okay. Best place you visited?
Nora Freed
Well, I just. I went to Morocco earlier this year. That was really wonderful. It was great. I got. Actually, that's where I had the most luck with men. I got proposed to in Morocco, and he still follows up. He put me on a stage, like.
Jared Freed
Hey, are you ready to get married? Like, that's what he says.
Nora Freed
He's like, baby girl, let me know when. Just like. I don't. Honestly.
Jared Freed
How'd you meet him?
Nora Freed
He did my tattoo.
Jared Freed
Let's see the tattoo. And beautiful work.
Nora Freed
We just had a really nice connection.
Jared Freed
How long you spent a lot of time together? I mean, that's basically a first date.
Nora Freed
Yeah, it was. And he was holding my arm, and he was.
Jared Freed
Touch.
Nora Freed
No, but at the end, he was like. He was like. What did he say?
Jared Freed
He said, my favorite color is pink.
Nora Freed
No, no, he had, like a. He had a picture of an AK47 on the wall, like, a painting of it. So his favorite color wasn't Pink.
Jared Freed
Sorry, that maybe that's not his favorite color. Was death?
Nora Freed
Yeah.
Jared Freed
Did you go to Morocco with someone by yourself?
Nora Freed
No, I went alone. That's why your set was killing me. I love traveling alone. I'm going to Europe alone soon.
Jared Freed
Where are you going?
Nora Freed
I'm going to Portugal and Berlin. I remember. You're going the same way.
Jared Freed
I'm going to Portugal soon.
Nora Freed
I know. We're going to meet up.
Jared Freed
We're going to meet up.
Nora Freed
Stay a little longer.
Jared Freed
Okay. What's your pit? I need your pit of the week, my pet. Worst thing of the week.
Nora Freed
I Worst thing of the week. Worst thing of the week. My cat did that thing where she goes to the bathroom in the litter box, jumps up on the bed, litter everywhere, runs around, and I just cleaned the sheets, and it's just like, one of those things where I'm just alone and I'm like, do I clean them again or do I just let it go?
Jared Freed
Right. I once slept at a woman's place where there was a cat and, like, in the bed, I'm like, am I. Did I bring this in? And then now, even talking to you, I'm like, realizing, oh, that was just the litter.
Nora Freed
It wasn't you. It was the cat. And it's just one of those secrets that I just have to keep to myself.
Jared Freed
Right? You got to be like a slice of pizza, two boots. You got to have the, like, stuff underneath. That was a very New York reference.
Nora Freed
It was. It was a very New York residence. But, yeah, so there was. There was some litter on my bed. I brushed it off, and then I sat there and I was like. Like, did my sleep being in the litter, but I. Technically, I brushed it off, but I just cleaned the sheets.
Jared Freed
I'm with you. This sucks because emotionally, you have this, like, doubt of, like, am I a person who sleeps in cat litter? And you go, this is who I am. I'm too lazy to clean. It's kind of like, have you ever, like, gotten into bed without brushing your teeth at night? And you go, I'll have this. Like, is this who I am? And then you get up out of shame. You've shamed yourself. I get it. Nora Freed, thank you so much. This was a wonderful chit chat.
Nora Freed
Thank you for having me.
Jared Freed
Everyone go Follow Nora at NoraFried Comedy. Go, go, go, go. New Yorker of the Week. That's the podcast. You can find it all on her Instagram. I'm Jared Free. Back next week. Boom.
The JTrain Podcast - Episode Summary: "New Fried who This (Freid?!) with Nora Fried"
Release Date: June 4, 2025
Host: Jared Freed
Guest: Nora Freed
In this episode of The JTrain Podcast, host Jared Freed welcomes fellow comedian Nora Freed for a lively "Chit Chat Wednesday." Jared introduces the episode by highlighting the unique coincidence of their shared last name, albeit spelled differently—Jared as "Freed" and Nora as "Fried." This episode marks a significant rebranding from their previous focus on "Sex in the City" to a broader exploration of New York life and dating dynamics.
Jared delves into the recent shift away from the "Sex in the City" branding, discussing Nora's farewell to the show and her plans to expand the podcast's scope. He mentions Nora's dedication to evolving the podcast, aiming to emulate the expansive reach of Joe Rogan's platform.
Jared Freed [03:04]:
"I saw your goodbye video to Sex in the City. ... We want to broaden the show. We want to be the next Joe Rogan."
Nora confirms their mutual desire to move beyond the confines of "Sex in the City," expressing excitement about engaging with a wider New York audience and incorporating diverse topics.
Nora Freed [03:30]:
"I woke up and I was like, I want to be Joe Rogan."
A significant portion of the conversation centers around Nora's experiences with dating apps. After facing multiple app rejections, Nora discusses her friend recommending a new app called Sitch. Unlike conventional dating platforms, Sitch emphasizes detailed, reflective profiles that outline non-negotiables and genuine compatibility factors.
Nora Freed [08:35]:
"It took me an hour. It's actually very reflective. It talks about, like, what you really are looking for in a person and what are things that are non-negotiables for you and for me."
Nora recounts her initial date from the Sitch app, highlighting both the app's algorithm-driven matching process and the challenges of meeting someone whose preferences mirrored hers too closely.
Nora Freed [16:01]:
"I am a really fun time. I am a good date. ... good outfit on."
Despite the meticulous matching, Nora found the date to be overly synchronized, leading to a sense of disconnect and a realization that she needs a partner who challenges and complements her rather than mirrors her entirely.
The episode also explores Jared and Nora’s forays into the comedy scene. Jared shares his experiences performing at Club Cumming in New York, a hotspot for comedians and diverse performances. He reminisces about a memorable set where he felt a deep emotional connection with the audience, shedding light on the vulnerabilities of stand-up comedy.
Jared Freed [35:09]:
"I did a five minute set and I cried."
Nora, who has been performing comedy for approximately two and a half years, discusses her journey from producing shows like "Mazel Baby"—a Hanukkah-themed comedy event—to hosting and door duties at Club Cumming. Their shared experiences in the comedy community foster a genuine camaraderie, enriching the podcast's dynamic.
Jared reveals his recent move from New York City to Delray Beach, Florida, as part of a three-month trial to explore a new living environment. He describes his new residence as a fully furnished, beachy setup akin to an Airbnb, highlighting the blend of convenience and comfort it offers.
Jared Freed [22:16]:
"It's very beachy. It's very Airbnb, like ready..."
Nora humorously comments on the transition, linking it back to the meticulously curated environments typical of New York.
Nora Freed [22:23]:
"But is that, did you furnish that apartment? Sorry, no."
Jared explains that the move serves as a refreshing change of scenery, allowing him to break the monotony of New York and test the waters in a new locale.
Towards the end of the episode, Jared and Nora engage in a rapid-fire Q&A, addressing light-hearted questions that offer a glimpse into their personal preferences and weekly experiences.
Best Thing Eaten Recently:
Nora humorously answers with a Diet Coke, reflecting a playful deflection of the question.
Best Place Visited:
Nora shares her positive experience traveling to Morocco, where she had meaningful interactions and even a memorable date.
Worst Thing of the Week:
Nora describes a frustrating encounter with her cat, who disrupted her bedding—a relatable pet owner dilemma.
Nora Freed [44:09]:
"My cat did that thing where she goes to the bathroom in the litter box, jumps up on the bed, litter everywhere..."
The episode wraps up with Jared and Nora reflecting on their conversations, emphasizing the importance of genuine connections—both in personal relationships and within the comedy community. Jared encourages listeners to follow Nora on Instagram and check out her podcast, New Yorker of the Week, fostering a sense of community among their audiences.
Jared Freed [45:12]:
"Nora Freed, thank you so much. This was a wonderful chit chat."
Nora Freed [45:42]:
"Thank you for having me."
Listeners are left with a sense of camaraderie and anticipation for future episodes, promising more engaging discussions every Monday.
Jared Freed [03:04]:
"I want to be the voice of this Sex and the City audience. But we're so stuck in the Sex and City world. We're going to open it up to New Yorkers."
Nora Freed [16:01]:
"I'm a really fun time. I am a good date. ... good outfit on."
Nora Freed [38:23]:
"That's literally what it is."
Jared Freed [41:29]:
"This is a no Apologies for Diet Coke love podcast."
Nora Freed [43:03]:
"He did my tattoo."
This episode of The JTrain Podcast offers a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and insightful discussions on modern dating and the evolving landscape of media branding. Jared and Nora Freed's dynamic interaction provides listeners with both entertainment and relatable content, making it a must-listen for fans and newcomers alike.
For more engaging conversations and comedic insights, follow The JTrain Podcast on your preferred streaming platform and connect with Nora Freed's comedic journey on Instagram at NoraFriedComedy.