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Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. Is J Train Jared Free coming to you live from New York City? That's right. Every Thursday is a Pop Culture Thursday where I go to Page Six and I find some fun headlines and we riff on them. That's the show where Pop Culture Thursday. If you have a pop culture story that you want done on this show, just send it J train podcast gmail.com. we take all submissions. I am taping this. I do like with Pop Culture Thursday to tell you when I'm taping this, to tell you kind of when this news is coming to me. It is Wednesday at 4:30 in the afternoon. This is probably as late as I tape a Pop Culture Thursday so that I can get it over to our producer, V, and she can make it ready for you guys in the morning. So thank you guys for being listeners. Thank you for telling a friend for sharing this show. Thank you in advance for doing that. If you haven't already, you can support the sponsors to support the show. As far as the rest of the year is concerned, I'm in Orlando, I'm in San Diego. Philadelphia is sold out. Baltimore, there's tickets available. Boston tickets are going really fast. I've been hearing New York City city. So that's getting us into the new year. And in other announcements, my book feels weird for me to say I have a book. It is called Walking Red Flag. It is a dating advice book. That is what the book is. It is personal. It is. It's more personal than I can even imagine putting out there. That is the stories of love and loss and trials and tribulations and regrets. And if you were looking to have a very vulnerable look at the feelings of a straight man who's 40, you know, over the years of his dating, you're going to get that from this book. So Walking Red Flag. I think the link will be in the episode bio. If it's not, you can go on Amazon. Just search my name. We're in. Preorder comes out in June. What I was told is preorder is very important. So if you're listening right now and you want to be. You want to support. I hate that word. If you want to, if you want to buy the book, that'd be great. Cause I do believe you're getting something out of it. It is a good book. Everyone that reads it, they first say it's funny and then they second say the second thing they say is that it's pretty vulnerable. Funny and vulnerable. Which, yeah, I, I don't know how much more I can do than that. So you're getting something. You know the cost of the book if you want is, is makes sense. 30 bucks I think if you get a hard copy and then I think 16 bucks if you get the, the, the web ver, whatever. I'm so not a reader that it's crazy. I'm promoting my own book.
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This first one, I think we're late to this one, but I did have this like, you know, you get a taste in your mouth from a story. Alex Earl And Braxton Barrios split up after two years together. If you listen to you up, Jordana and I have a little bit more of a breakdown of this. I just it. And here's the, here's the title of the article. Why Alex Earl and and Braxton Barrios split after two years together. Listen, I will say I met these two on the beach in Cannes. That's a crazy sentence. I just said. Second crazy. I'd say that's the second most crazy thing said on this podcast too. I have a book that's coming out. So Al, when we met them, Jordan and I were doing a panel in sofra for Spotify and these people were there on the beach with us. We were having coffee, going in the ocean and then this hot couple who we referred to as hot couple sat next to us. And then they were like, we were like, oh, look at the hot couple. Like we. And then later in the day people were like, yeah, that's Alex Earl and Braxton Barrios. We were like what? And, and no one knew Braxton was at the time. And I knew Braxton Barrios because he used to play for the Miami Dolphins and my brother worked for the Dolphins. So I knew him a little bit from that. To me, the title why Alex Earl and Braxton Barrios split after two years together. It is quite reasonable for Alex Earl to have her star climbing after going on Dancing with the Stars and say, hey, I have other priorities that will make me not feel good about the partner I'm being to someone else. And that's why I'm breaking up. My priorities are my career. My priorities are. And I think that's like a reasonable. The reason I am interested in this title is because the commentary on Alex Earl ending it with Braxton Barrios, which I believe is what happened. Alex Earl and Braxton Barrios lives were reportedly heading in different directions before they decided to split. Earl really wants to spend more time in LA while Braxton lives in Florida. See, Braxton is at the end of his NFL career. The average NFL career lasts like three and a half years. So Braxton is about to not be in a position of fame and sports. He's going to go into something else, something a little bit more boring, something that makes him less money, something that doesn't require him traveling around and having a different lifestyle. That's fine. That's nothing. There's nothing to be said bad about that. Alex Earl is looking to have a full on celebrity career, do movies, do music, whatever it might be that is in her head. Right now and in her dreams, that's fine. What I thought was so interesting because I have a front row seat to the dating world. Every time there's a breakup, a celebrity breakup, I see the reaction. And when it's a man breaking up with a woman because he's on the up and up, when you have those stories where the guy ends things or doesn't want to be in the relationship every anymore, you seem, it seems to be the same group of women or people. People that come that, that are in the comments section just crushing this person for leaving this this person or ending this relationship are the same people now that I'm seeing going that are all of a sudden are all of a sudden cold business people. That's what bothers me. These people who are all about emotions and how could you do that? And you. Oh, you good. I didn't. I never got good vibes from him. Now become you. Yeah. Alex has a big career to get to. She's on the up and up. She's got to go to the next level. Like they all of a sudden become cold people. So that's what gets me so annoyed at this because I'm like, it's not that Alex Earl ends it with Braxton Barrios. They're two young hot people. I'm not worried about either of them. It is the commentary that comes out of it. This. All of a sudden these tough talking people are like, well, Alex has to go to Hollywood. She can't be with some loser, a retired NFL player. Like they get a little mean. The tinge of it doesn't taste good to me. It bothers me. Yeah. I guess as a straight man that it feels like this like weirdly unfair criticism that that goes too heavy in all directions. Alex Earl and Brax Barrios lives were probably headed in two different directions before they decided to split early. Really? Okay. The pair realized they were going growing apart as a couple as they spend less and less time together. The source added. A source previously told Page Six that the influencer of the NFL athletes breakup after dating two years was also distance induced. This is again, this is woman dumping man coded. It's distance. We can't right now. I just love being in la and he has to be in Florida. There's no air travel. Also Earl 24. 24. I again, like, I am not here to like admonish Alex earl going to LA at 24 and wanting to be single. I think that's like good as she should. I kind of just. This is more a story about the audience than it is about. The couple is now focused on a new chapter and is in good spirits despite the breakup, the source added. Yeah, she's fine because she ended it. Earl's rep and also, you know, Braxton Barrios gets a ton out of Alex. Earl being this on the rise celebrity, he gets a lot of pride out of that, I'm sure. The Dancing with The Stars Season 34 competitor was photographed all smiles while partying at Art Basel on in Miami. On Friday night, Earl hit the town with several influencers at an event. Yeah, I, I, I don't care about their breakup. I care about how it's received. The nature of going from oh my God, I can't believe they would leave so and so to she's gone the up and up. Yeah, he's a loser. Got to got to move on. Got to find the next level. It's like these are the it seems like it's the same people talking out of both sides of their mouth.
I like this article title because it lets me play a little bit of a fun guessing game.
Upper east side soccer mom Kips Upper east side soccer mom kicks up controversy asking about private jet for Suns games. He's never flown commercial. It is my I'm willing to put a couple buckos down that this Upper east side soccer mom who's saying her son needs to fly private to go to his intramural soccer games. I have a belief that no one would say this unless there was something to gain.
Saying, hey, my son's never flown commercial. He needs to fly private. That's a hateful thing to say. I don't care if you do only fly private. You have to know you were born here on Earth unless you were born into royalty. And you yourself have also never flown commercial and only hang out amongst people who only fly private. There's no way this is, this is an alien showing up to Earth and talking and trying to fit in to say, well, my son has never flown commercial. How will he, how will he fare? The only reason for an Upper east side mom to kick up controversy asking about private jets for the son who has never flown commercial is because they themselves are an influencer. They themselves have influencer aspirations. That is my guess. I haven't read the article. We're going to read it, but that is my guess because you wouldn't say something so hateable, so disgusting, so controversial because you're putting this out there on the great wide Internet where everyone gets a turn to agree and disagree because they know that they will Find an audience that will be literally like it. This is to me spreading chum in the water to make sure the sharks come and eat. So let's see. I don't believe that just some random Upper east side mom wrote a letter to the soccer club to be like, I don't think he can fly commercial. We need some private jets. I don't think she did this quietly. And it got out there. That's my. Okay, let's see what happened. They've got soccer goals. The moms of the Upper east side Facebook group has sparked another controversy. An anonymous member allegedly posted a tone deaf message asking advice on flying private to her son's travel soccer games. Okay, again, we're not going to find out who this is. Anonymous post again. You know, you, we. I clicked on this to see who this person was. The only other option was that they're anonymous and they don't want to be known. My son is joining a travel soccer team. He has never flown commercial and I haven't flown commercial in a while. Wrote the anguish mom in a post to the private group seen by Page Six. So someone in the group was so angered by this message that they were like, I gotta make sure Page Six knows about this. Would it be wrong of me to fly private while my son flies with the team and coach? I know that parents often serve as chaperones, so I'm thinking about hiring his former nanny to serve as a chaperone. I mean, this is Richie Rich, the movies type of shit. This is Richie Rich shit. This is like, can you imagine? Like, I just don't. Where's the shame? And do you need shame?
Can you get ri. I feel like Carrie Bradshaw. Can you make enough money where shame doesn't exist? Like, there's no, there's nothing to be lost by writing this. But they are writing anonymously. But like, even to say, like, hey, everybody, I'm wondering, like, to put this onto any forum. This should be embarrassing. There is such a thing as being embarrassed of your wealth, being embarrassed of how lucky you are. It seems they have forgotten that by writing that, I mean, because you could fly private, hypothetically, you, you. You have the ability to fly private. Your son goes to the game, you go, hey, son, I'm going to fly private. I'll meet you there. Or you say to your son, hey, I'm going to meet you there. You go with the team, I'll meet you there. And then you say nothing. That's like the classy. That's what I. That's what to Me, a normal person would do. They would have a little shame.
Am I a bad parent? They wondered to the group. I want to support him, but I want to be comfortable and not travel coach and stay at a Holiday Inn. I feel like it's okay and actually better that he get exposed to flying commercial. I mean, these are things.
They're writing this. I can't. I don't have the ability to imagine this person being a real person. You're doing this to start trouble. I don't care that it's anonymous. The message of the group with over 35,000 members. You went to 30. I mean, this person should be outed. You need. We need to know who this person is. Why are they doing this? Is this a bot? Is this like a. Is this a bot sent here from another country to divide our country? Like, is this what they're doing? They're going to private. This is. This is. You can't go to 35,000 people and just wonder aloud whether you should take your private jet to go to the soccer game because I don't know if I could ever stay at a holiday. You just can't. This has to be a bot.
Sparked polarizing replies, parodies, and some saying it can't be real. Page Six has anecdotally heard enough about private jet and travel sports to know that this is among the upper crust. This is a thing among the upper crust. So Page Six is saying these things do happen. I'd be embarrassed. Here's how bad this is. I'd be embarrassed to be in the group. This would maybe make this. This would make me think about, hey, I don't want to be in this group anymore. I can't be associated with someone in this community either way. Replies included. Remarks such as, can you adopt me? What did ChatGPT recommend? And you're the worst. As well as. My friend's kid was on a team a few years ago where some of the parents had planes, turns out flying. The coach staff private helped with playing time. So they're trying to get a free flight. Others accused the post of being pure rage bait. I'm with that group. You can't be this person. This can't. And honestly, I would want this person interviewed. Like, what's. If they do exist, let's talk to them. Let's. Let's hear what they think about the world, about what's going on. I. I just.
That's a tough. That's a tough story because, you know, we're living in these times where it's like, what is real, what is fake? We always have to do that math of like, is this a prank? Am I being pranked while sitting in my own home scrolling on my phone? I'm on a Facebook group. I'm just making sure the soccer team has the proper, you know, I'm connecting with the other parents, I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. And then someone comes in here and you go, I can't believe I have to do the mental math here. Pamela Anderson reveals the last time she saw Liam Neeson an actor sweet gesture after the split. Now I like this headline because I'm wondering. So they dated during the promo for Lethal Weapon, which Liam Neeson was the lead and Pamela Anderson was his love interest. I guess they were co leads because I. She's in that movie as much as he is. I saw the movie. It's funny, it's really good. There is non stop jokes in that movie and, and Pamela Anderson's really good in it too. So what is the sweet gesture? As a guy, single, who has broken up with women in his past, I would love to know what gesture that Liam Neeson did that I could maybe copy or emulate in my life. Like this is one of those things. I go, what did he do? There's no love loss between Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson following their whirlwind romance. In fact, they last saw each other in August when he surprised her by coming to see her star in the revival of Tennessee Williams play in Camino Real at the Williamstown Theater Festival. He's such a supporter of this new trajectory in my career and kindly tells me he is proud of me. Anderson, 58, gushed to people on Tuesday. I'm sure, I'm sure we will always be in touch in each other's lives. See, I don't think a normal person can go to an ex and be like, hey, I'm just want to let you know I'm proud of you. I don't think that would be heard in a, in a way, I don't think that would be taken. Well, I don't think anybody wants their ex being proud of them. Anderson and Neeson, undeniable chemistry first made headlines while they were promoting their summer movie the Naked Gun. Yeah, Naked Gun. I think I said Lethal Weapon.
If you must know. Liam and I were romantically involved for a short while, but only after we finished filming. The actress admitted to people, revealing that she spent an intimate week with him at his home in upstate New York. I mean, this sounds magical. However, she Claimed she had her own room and that the assistants and family members were in and out of the residence while she was there. I mean, that's a movie. I think sometimes you read these and you're like, I would watch a movie about, you know, Baywatch. Former Baywatch star and movie star from the Taken franchise somehow find each other and go to upstate New York for a week for a romantic week. Tries and trips. Let's. Let's see that movie. The Baywatch star said she spent her days happily tending to a rose bush overgrown with mint, which he appreciated. I mean, that's. This is crazy. This sounds like. It's like. This is like. This is like from another time. She's. She's tending to a bush. We're all sitting here, you know, raging against Facebook groups and talking to people who are bragging about private jets, and Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson are just, you know, pruning shrubs. Is this what's going on? Are we living on two different planets? Is. Is. I'm sitting here in the freezing cold with my nose tickling from the New York weather, and they're upstate with the shrubbery.
It's two different planets.
Following the romantic Lost Week, Anderson and Neeson went their separate ways to work on other films and reconnected to promote the Naked Gun. So to me, these are two. Two adults who are single and worked on a movie, and they go, hey, we have a little bit of the thing here. I gotta go that way. You gotta go that way. I'll see you when I see it. It seems like two people who enjoy each other's company but aren't looking to get more serious than that. And I. I kind of like. That's, like the sweetest of them all to me. I. I envy it.
This story.
It is about Ozzy Osbourne's last words. And it got me thinking, like, what. What would you want your last words to be? Because it says, Ozzy Osbourne's touching last words to wife Sharon before his death revealed. So we're going to find out what his last words were. What do we think they are? I think they are I love you. They gotta be, I love you. You were an amazing wife. I. I don't think it's gonna be like, rock on, Sharon. Rock on. Like, I don't think that's how it.
What do I want my last words to be? I want my last words to be funny, heartfelt, beautiful. I want someone to say that they're beautiful.
I think I need to be. It's gotta be to A loved one because it gets more beautiful. You can't look at your nurse and be like, you know, and say something and they consider it beautiful. It has to be said to the love of your life. Sharon Osborne revealed her late husband Ozzy's final words before to her before his death. He was up and down to the bathroom all night. It was like 4:30am and he said, wake up. I said, I'm already bloody awake. You've awoken me up. Sharon recalled in Wednesday's episode of Piers Morgan Uncover Uncensored. And he said, kiss me. She remembered. And then he said, hug me tight. Oh, that is beautiful. Sharon, 73, tearfully reflected on their last moments together, wondering if there was more she could have done. What? Well, you know, you hugged him tight. Maybe you hugged him too tight. Sharon. No, that's.
Hey, we got the toxicology reports back. Sharon, did you. Did you hug your husband really tightly? He asked me to. Sharon, 73, reflected, oh, if only I'd have told him I loved him more. Well, if only I had held them tighter. No, well, tight maybe, you know, you don't want to hold him too tight. He did pass. The next morning, Sharon said that Ozzy went downstairs to work out for 20 minutes before he passed away. Hey, your last. The last thing on earth was a workout. That's like the worst thing that could happen to me. That's not what I want. If I die after working out, consider the whole thing a failure. Consider me upset. Do not say he died doing what he loved. He died doing what he hated. This is the worst thing that could ever happen to Jared. I want to die on a day. I was like, I don't need the gym. I'm going to get a bacon, egg and cheese and then I die after finishing the bacon, egg and cheese. That's how I want to die. Not. I mean, this is the worst sentence I've ever read. Sharon said that Ozzy went downstairs to work out for 20 minutes before he passed away. I please, God, please let me pass away on an off day. Please don't have it be within any minutes of the gym. I will. My last words, if I die after the gym will be, I should have gone to the HIIT class. That's how that would be. All regret. Hey.
Okay.
Let'S do this one. Where are we on time? We got some time to do another one. Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton shut down split rumors with shopping outing. Now, I read that article and I go, you have taken a lot of liberties. Page six. The idea that a Couple goes shopping. So I guess they're good. That's not how it goes. That's not. If they had said, if Gwen Stefani and Blake show, like, hey, can you guys stop asking us. Breaking up. We're not breaking up. We love each other. It's. We're totally chill. That's different than, oh, look, I saw them at Kohl's and it was like, well, who cares? You saw them at Kohl's. That doesn't mean anything. They could be shopping for, you know, separate sheets for the beds that they're sleeping in because they don't sleep together.
I, I just don't, you know, they're cool. Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton shut down split rumors with a joint outing on Tuesday. No, no, no. It's him behind a.
They're at a grocery store. He's. He's pushing the cart. I mean, this doesn't look like a happy couple. This looks like a couple that went, listen, if I've. I've done things with people that I've broken up with an hour later that look like we're a very happy couple. Like the idea that, well, they're, they're getting groceries. So, you know, the relationship has to last as long as the food lasts. Like, that's not how it goes. The two were first seen chatting while walking out of the grocery store as Shelton, 56, pushed a shopping cart out of the store before loading their bags into the back of their suv. I don't know. I, you know, this doesn't tell me anything here nor there for me. Stefani, 56. I gotta say, 56. She looks Uncle Believable. Blake looks very much like a dad who's divorced that is going to pick his kids up at McDonald's. Stephanie Stefani looked put together in a pair of jeans while with a tank, white tank top, oversized coat. She also supported a fight. I don't. This is a non story. This is one of those stories that. And I knew it. This is a. To say they're like, fine. No, this is. You filled space.
This story is kind of interesting because it's a weird title.
I just. The title spoke to me. The. Or the headline. Kyle Cook shares regret after wife. Amanda Batula claims he slept at fan's apartment. There's no excuse. The title doesn't make sense. Shares regret after wife. Claims he slept at fan's apartment. There's no excuse. So it's a claim by her that he's not admitting to. And now he's saying there's no excuse. So what happened? Did you sleep at a fan's apartment? How would he sleep at a fan? Kyle Cook is denying his wife Amanda Patula claim that is denying his wife Amanda Patula's claim that he slept in a fan's apartment and came home at like 6:30 in the morning. So the rumors are it this whole Tom what's his face.
This is kind of like the, to me, the whole Amanda Batula Kyle Cook thing. All the news is centered around will they be breaking up. Everyone is kind of. And the show that they're on, I think they're on Summer House is teasing that they're going to be breaking up the Tom Sandoval the scandal.
What scandal produced are a bunch of reality people who aren't that smart trying to fool us into thinking that they're going to have a scandal of their own. So I don't like when my reality show participants become aware and become producers on their own show. It feels as though based on me not even being a fan of this show that these two are complicit in producing their own season. It feels like they are looking to make some money off of this. It does feel like. Here's my prediction. On December 10, 2025 at 4:58pm, these two will be broken up. These two will go their separate ways. One will start a clothing line, one will keep doing his alcohol. And they will, this season will be every week they'll be weighing in on their breakup as it's happening on the show. So again, this is too involved. I, I think Scandoval was real. And then we get all the unreal versions of it because this whole story, there's no excuse for staying out as late as I did. But I want to be clear that I did not sleep at a fan's apartment. Cook, 43, told PEOPLE in a statement on Tuesday. Like, who cares? I was at an event that Amanda chose not to attend, which moved to a bar, then to an after party. So you went out late? I don't use anything to keep myself wired.
Okay. I mean that's one of those that's like, well, who is. What are you talking about? Is everyone doing drugs but you? So I think I ended up falling asleep on a couch and suddenly it was almost 6am I don't know about that one. That's, that's a, how do you do that? I, I guess like to us normals.
You go, what is, what do you mean you fell asleep on a couch? How old are you? You know, don't talk to us like we're all 22 years old. Like, oh, I just, I passed out. I nodded off on a couch when I was out until 2 in the morning. All of us are in bed. All the people that are your age that like watching this show, all the people that connect with you on this show because we're around the same age, we don't go out until that time of night and we aren't going to parties and events. We don't associate with people who keep use something to keep themselves wired, as you put it. So dude, I need a better explanation than that. I, I just said I don't care about this and now I immediately cared and he, here's the, oh, this is, now he's asking himself questions. Ready? Do I regret the situation? Absolutely. Well, what is the situation? But that's the truth and full extent of what happened. I mean. A rep for Cook did not immediately respond to page 6 request for comment. Cook and Petula's marital problems took center stage in Bravo's Summerhouse Season 10 trailer. See, it's in the trailer, which was released on Monday. So now it's in the trailer. After Pula 34 told her co star Lindsay Hubard and Sierra Miller the story of her husband's night out, Miller responded, that's insane. I mean, nothing is more reality TV show.
I don't, I don't like, you know, I'm not a fan of this relationship. Not, none of it's relatable to me. Two people with great bodies.
That they've been married and I don't know, they just don't. It feels like they are business partners more than they're a married couple. It seems like they both are playing the game. And, and now we're at the point where it's like.
You know, we're playing the game too much. Like, I don't want you hashing out your argument about the trailer after the trailer came out. You know, it's, it's just all too much.
Now I'm getting articles that I didn't pick out before and I'll do one more just because there was this Sydney Sweeney's denying something. Sydney Sweeney addresses insane rumors that she's had plastic surgery. Let's. I think to call them insane rumors is like not acknowledging how pervasive plastic surgery is. I think I'm using the right word. Like plastic surgery isn't like happening. You know, there's little procedures happening every day for everyday people. So to be like, whoa, you crazy person. Me, plastic surgery? A Hollywood actress? How could that be? Who would even make such an accusation? It's like, I think we're at the point where it would be more insane to say someone didn't have any form of plaque plastic surgery than to accuse them of having it. Like, I kind of live in a world where they have all done procedures whether. And you go, well, Botox, does that count? All of it counts if you go to a plastic sur. I mean, I guess Botox, they go, well, you go to a person. A dentist could give Botox. Listen, I am living in a world where all celebrities of all kinds are doing something to enhance their look. That is just the truth to, to me, as I see it, to say these rumors about me having plastic surgery are insane. No, no, no, they aren't. Sydney Sweeney. I mean also you are like, this isn't take. That doesn't take away from your look or how beautiful you are. Sydney Sweeney is shutting down the rumors that she's had plastic surgery during a new interview for Allure with her housemate, the housemaid co star Amanda Sed. The 28 year old actress was asked to debunk a beauty rumor about herself and she had a sharp response. Let's debunk them all. I mean I have never gotten work done. Okay. But like to say it's insane.
I mean she does have a body that's like it, it, it does her, her curves alone. You go, I mean that's like lab produced as like, like it is very Jessica Rabbit, you know, I'm so scared of needles. You have no idea. That's not the. Stop it. Seyfried, 40, told her co star that plaque surgery is really effective once you get older. But Sweeney reiterated that she's too scared of needles to do it. This is the. Too scared of needles is the. That's how you can tell that Sydney might not be a girl's girl. To say the reason for plasma no plaza. I'm too scared of needles. Rather than. Yeah, I'm just not ready for it yet. I, I'll probably go down that road. I'll probably, you know, as the, you know, as I get older, I'll probably, you know, to acknowledge the world around you. But to sit here and go, me, that's insane. Why would you ever think I would get plastic surgery? I'm too afraid of needles. That's not what we're talking about. Sydney Sweeney. You cannot compare a photo of me from when I was 12 to a photo of me at 26. Yeah, you're living. This is what people do who are kind of assholes. They'll say something that is, like, an irrefutable fact. You're like, oh, you can't Compare me at 12 to me at 30. Yeah, no one is doing that. We are saying that most celebrities are doing something to enhance their look. She literally wore a wig, like, a week ago to go on Fallon.
Of course I'm going to look different, right? This is how people who are jerks and aren't having good faith conversations live in the margins, the undeniable margins. Of course, my pictures from when I was 12 look different than 30. Are you kidding? You don't think that they would look different? You're like, well, of course, but you also look different from 28 to 30. How do you explain that? You know, you can't. They're not looking to have this convo. She isn't looking to have it, but, I mean.
Good for her and her look. I mean, she does look great, but I mean, to do that next. I love Amanda Seyfried. I mean, talk about sounding cool and chill. For her to sit next to someone being like, I don't. I'm afraid of Needles being kind of a jerk and, like, stonewalling this conversation. For her to go, yeah, really? It helps in your look as you get older. Like, good for her. That's great. I mean, I have a lot of respect for her for that. So. All right, Pop Culture Thursday. Back next week. Boom.
Host: Jared Freid
Episode: Alix Earle Breakup, Ozzie's Last Words, and Kyle Cooke Sleeps On A Fan's Couch
Date: December 11, 2025
In this Pop Culture Thursday, Jared Freid dives into recent buzzy stories from Page Six and the wider tabloid universe. With his signature blend of wit and insight, he riffs on the breakups, scandals, and viral moments making headlines. This week: Alix Earle’s high-profile breakup, a viral “private jet soccer mom,” Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson’s touching post-romance dynamic, Ozzy Osbourne’s last words, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton divorce rumors, Kyle Cooke’s night out drama, and Sydney Sweeney on plastic surgery speculation.
[05:00 - 11:05]
"These tough talking people… now, all of a sudden, are like, 'Yeah, Alex has a big career to get to. She’s on the up and up. She’s got to go to the next level.' They all of a sudden become cold people. So that’s what gets me so annoyed." (09:10)
"This is more a story about the audience than it is about the couple." (10:29)
[11:14 - 18:09]
“What is real? What is fake? We always have to do that math—is this a prank?” (18:09)
[18:09 - 22:34]
“I don’t think a normal person can go to an ex and be like, ‘Hey, I just want to let you know I’m proud of you.’ I don’t think that would be taken well. I don’t think anybody wants their ex proud of them.” (19:45)
“It seems like two people who enjoy each other’s company but aren’t looking to get more serious than that. That’s like the sweetest of them all to me. I envy it.” (22:01)
[22:34 - 25:43]
“What do we think they are? I think they are 'I love you.' They gotta be, 'I love you.' You were an amazing wife. I don’t think it’s gonna be like, ‘rock on, Sharon!’” (23:10)
“If I die after working out, consider the whole thing a failure… I want to die after finishing a bacon, egg, and cheese.” (24:25)
[25:45 - 27:58]
“If they had said, ‘Hey, stop asking us, we’re not breaking up!’—that’s different than ‘I saw them at Kohl’s.’ ... I’ve done things with people that I’ve broken up with an hour later that look like we’re a very happy couple.” (26:45)
[28:03 - 32:43]
“There’s no excuse for staying out as late as I did. But I want to be clear I did not sleep at a fan’s apartment” (30:20)
"All the news is centered around 'Will they be breaking up?'...I don't like when my reality show participants become aware and become producers on their own show. It feels like they are looking to make some money off of this." (29:14)
“How old are you?... Don’t talk to us like we’re all 22 years old. All the people that connect with you on this show...we don’t go out until that time of night.” (30:56)
[32:54 - 36:44]
"I think we're at the point where it would be more insane to say someone didn't have any form of plastic surgery than to accuse them of having it." (33:30)
“All celebrities of all kinds are doing something to enhance their look—that is just the truth to, to me, as I see it…” (33:50)
On public breakup reactions:
"All of a sudden these tough talking people are like, well, Alex has to go to Hollywood. She can't be with some loser, a retired NFL player. Like they get a little mean. The tinge of it doesn't taste good to me." (09:30)
On viral “private jet” posts:
"There is such a thing as being embarrassed of your wealth…can you make enough money where shame doesn’t exist?" (14:52)
On reality TV drama:
“I don't like when my reality show participants become aware and become producers on their own show…now we’re at the point where it’s like, we're playing the game too much.” (32:27)
On death and gym routines:
"If I die after working out, consider the whole thing a failure… Please God, please let me pass away on an off day." (24:25)
His summary of celebrity plastic surgery culture:
"To say these rumors about me having plastic surgery are insane. No, no, no, they aren't, Sydney Sweeney." (33:50)
Jared keeps the tone sharp and conversational, toggling between genuine curiosity about relationship dynamics and skeptical eye-rolling at tabloid theatrics. His commentary is always underpinned by a keen sense for the absurdity of internet and celebrity culture, making this episode both funny and insightful for anyone who cares about—or can't help annoying themselves with—pop culture news.