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You're a nosy. You want the full sitch. Come to Pop Culture Thursday. 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 Thursday is a Pop Culture Thursday where I go to Page Six, I read some headlines and I riff with the article. That's the show. It's a pretty simple show. If you have an article, a news story, a pop culture thing that you want me to comment on, send it jtrain podcast gmail.com j train podcastmail.com I've gone to page six. I've picked out some headlines. We start of course with the Amanda and West story. Now let me start with I am not like a summer house watcher. I don't know the lore. As if you've listened to this version of this podcast, Pop Culture Thursday. We we talk a lot about Q ratings. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear a name? Amanda Batula. To me, I'll give you West Wilson. West Wilson, newcomer to summer house, to me as a non watcher has been to me grungy new hot guy who wears a lot of clothing that looks like it could also be blankets. This has got unshowered hottie who waltzed into the show and seems blissfully aloof to all things. As far like it looks like he never works out but is in good shape like that. That's to me, my view of him. And again, you could come with your 30,000 word essay on the backstory of Wes Wilson. I'd come back to you with I don't care. I saw him at an event once. Women were drawn to him. To me he's central casting for guy a woman would hook up with after breaking up with a long term boyfriend. Now enter Amanda Bula. What is my Q rating? What is my view of her? From everything I've heard from Summerhouse or clips I've seen, it seemed that Amanda was the wife of Kyle Cook. He seemed to be this kind of cartoonish man who's trying to be successful, which is fun to make fun of. It seems that the world likes to make fun of Kyle, who has dreams of being successful, of being, he wants to be. I, I think he wants to be rich. And it doesn't matter how he's going to get there, drink company or DJing. And he also likes attention and women. So it seems that Amanda was married to this guy that was kind of like to be made fun of. And everything I knew about Amanda was She sat in bed during every episode of Summer House, a show about going to the Hamptons and having fun with your friends. Her and the other Grandpa Joe's, Paige and Ciara would sit in bed and judge everyone for going out. That was my understanding of how the show worked. People went out, had fun, and these three women would sit in bed and tell them how horrible they were for having fun. And they formed an audience from that, it seems. And again, this is my view. This is, you know, this is the annoying My truth when it's about fiends. The whole My truth thing is demented and annoying when it's about a show that I don't watch. Yeah, it's harmless. And this is just what this is. And again, my view is representative of probably a lot of men who are married to woman who's big fan of Summer House, guy who watches one scene from the kitchen while you're on the couch. So this is a point of view, not. Not one that matters. No point of view matters in all of this. But I would say that my view of the. The bed people from Summerhouse and I, and over the years I've known a lot of people who've gone on Summer House and are good people and friends of mine who I like very much. I think if I'm told that these people sit in bed and are in relationships and judge everyone who goes out, I kind of don't think very highly of them. I go, okay, well, that sounds like they're boring and not fun and, you know, never try, while also judging people for trying. Now are you judging people for going out and trying to fuck? Yeah, that's fun to do. And you will form an audience from that. It seems that the audience that I felt that Amanda had formed is someone I call the Sweatsuit Women. The Sweatsuit Women go on TikTok and report on the Bravo verse and other reality shows from a living room that looks very unkept and a sweatsuit that looks very unwashed. And they report on what seemingly is the cool table in the cafeteria. And these videos come up on my feet. And again, I am somewhat of a sweater woman myself, a sweatsuit woman myself. I am part of this group, tangentially, I am someone who talks about these things and I am the loser who talks about these things. But when your audience is sweatsuit women who report from their dimly lit living room that looks like it smells like a grandma's house after she's cooked a big meal, you are going to get, you have to abide by their Rules. Because the people who think that the people who sit in bed and judge other people but never go out are kind of like to be looked up to. I think that they're going to tear you down the minute they can when you don't abide by their rules. And their rules are we see the world in very punch up, punch down. We have a victim and, you know, we, we know, we want to know black and white who the victim is, who the, who the who the perpetrator is. And, and when Amanda Batula goes and hooks up with Aloof west, who was a situationship with Ciara, Amanda's supposed partner in bed judgment. Now you have Amanda, who's never been single on tv, who's never had to actually, you know, make a decision on TV that could disappoint her audience, that she's built the sweatsuit women from the Midwest. Now you got, you know, now we're finding out the real Amanda. Now we're finding out, she's finding out that the audience you build is the one you're going to have to deal with, that you have to answer to. Like, you know, when I do, you know, do standup, I know that I am doing standup with jokes that I love, but I also at some point know what jokes I'm going to have to answer for. And I think that's what's going on right now because it's weird. I was like, why is this such a big story? And it seems it's a big story because the people who run, you know, the narratives, the sweatsuit women from the Midwest, they are enraged. To me, it's a very simple story. You know, woman gets divorced, she's surrounded by some men in her life who are single, hooks up with one of those men who happens to have been in a situationship with a friend of hers. That's the real crime. You can't hook up with someone that your friend was in a situationship with. If they were an ex boyfriend, it would be different because the situationship is a lingering fart. It didn't go away. That person still has feelings involved. You have betrayed a friend that you claim as a friend. But then here, here are the other. Here's where we get to pop culture Thursday. Amanda Petula and West Wilson, Summerhouse co stars, are quote, pissed and quote, disappointed after romance bombshell. Let me go ahead and say, no, they are not. They don't give a crap. They care about themselves. They care as and again, these are influencers. These are people. An influencer's Job is to swim with the current of the Internet opinion. Never go against current because all these co stars are seeing, taking their finger, putting it up, putting it up to the wind. And they're going to which way does the Internet blow? And then they go, oh, Amanda's the evil one. Sierra's the hero. West is a doofy, aloof loser. Okay, there's my opinion. As you say, I shall go. So now because, you know, they, the Amanda Pula, Wes Wilson summerhouse co stars are reeling over the new couple's romance bombshell. None of the co stars are going to come out and go, well, Sierra and Amanda aren't as close as it seems. And Amanda and Wes are kind of cute together and they've always kind of been flirty and Sierra's not as into west as she was before. And Sierra's kind of like a little delusional about West. You know, he's never even said that he wanted a relationship or. And you know, in west, you know, no one even takes him seriously. He's an aloof loser. Like, none of them are going to get into the of it all. They're going to be direct and they're going to be shocked and chagrined and they're going to go and they're going to say the thing the Internet has told them to say. So excuse me, while I don't believe that. What's her name? So they get into these co stars. I don't believe for a second that any of the Lindsey Hubbard is mad at all. She's, she's protecting her money, her following. Influencers. Their job are to keep the following and grow the following. So they're not going to ever have an opinion that goes against the following. I know this because as a comedian who does stuff on social media, I can tell you from my perspective, my job is make the joke about the thing and then deal with the consequences of the audience. And whether they agree or disagree or they can see where I'm coming from. Again, this, this point of view I'm giving you, you have a decision to make. You might have already. I mean, there, there might be people who have already been like, fuck you, Jared. I love the bed, people who judge. I love the people who never tried. Like, to me, I didn't want to become a Jesse Solomon fan. I don't want to do that. He does look like someone. I would just make me go, but I'm, I'm, I'm moving more towards Jesse Solomon land. I'm going to go buy a ticket to One of his music shows. I'm going to watch him sing Sinatra. I, I, I, I think at this point because I'm getting annoyed at the idea that we have to choose a side here. They hooked up. You know, Sierra and Wes were broken up. What's, what's the story here? The story is betrayed audience who thought they had a queen in Betula. They do not. She was the bed woman. Who didn't have to make a decision. Who didn't have to choose. No King Solomon's decision here. No. Cut the baby. What do I do? Who gets the baby? She's never had to make a decision. First time she did now. Whoa. Who, this is who she is. Notably, the Mo the model and Batula were best friends until recently. Miller, 30, has since unfollowed both Batula and Wilson on Instagram on Tuesday. Well, that's also a play by Sierra. Again. The Internet is telling me how mad I should be. Swim with the current. On Tuesday, Betula 34 and West 31 issued a joint statement. Can you imagine issuing a joint statement with some chick you banged? That's what West Wilson is doing right now. He didn't even write it. He wouldn't. Yeah, sure, that's cool with me. He didn't even read it. Confirming their secret connection. That connection means they've connected P in the V and that was it. And he texts back. Sup? Following weeks of speculation and mounting evidence, their co star Lindsay Hubbard was quick to shade the statement via her Instagram story, the new publicist. She wrote at top, a photo of Love is blind season 10 villain Alex Henderson. I don't even get the reference. Also on the current season of Summerhouse, fans are watching the deterioration of Batula and Cook's four year marriage. They announced their separation in January. Again, this is all. Also, everyone knows what they're doing. The season is going on right now. They want a successful season. Tom Scandoval should be making money. Tom Scandoval, his name is Scandal. Sandoval should be making a percentage. Sandoval should be making a percentage because he did the. He walked so that these people could run when there was two feet in the sand. That was Tom Sandoval carrying you. They all owe him money. Cameras captured Miller and Wilson having Batula's back as she navigated her relationship struggles. The Betula Swim founder, the Amanda Batula Swim founder praised both Miller and Wilson for their Support In a March 3 interview two days later, Dumois reported that Batula and Wilson were spotted being openly flirty, allegedly even holding Hands under the table at an event in New York City. Yeah, there it is. And then they show a picture of of unshowered west with Petula on his shoulder. So listen, the beat goes on. They show Ciara they apparently she was sitting on the street and being comforted by a friend. That is a picture that's gone around to somehow insinuate that she can't even walk. She's so upset. Again, the sweatsuit women of the Midwest who report on these things, they will put their own insecurities and angers into the avatars of these people and play them out. And they realize that oh my God, Amanda, not one of ours. We are sponsored. Nutrafol. 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Find out why Neutral is the best selling hair growth supplement brand@neutrful.com spelled n u t r a f o l.com promo code feather that's neutrful.com promo code feather that's our one sponsor. The rest of this episode is cream. You're going to get all I mean page six. They must get a lot of clicks from stories about the royals because queen they do so many royal stories and I think anything Prince Harry Meghan Markle is just going to fly. I I that that's just because Queen he Here's a report. Queen Elizabeth refused to take Prince Harry's calls without a witness to keep a record of what was said sources I think this is the most relatable story I have ever read from the Queen. I think this is where we're heading. I mean to relate this to the Batula West Wilson Sierra drama. We live in a world of public opinion. The court of public opinion has way more power than it ever has because it used to be that to tear someone down you also needed a public profile so you had something that could also be torn down. And now if you want to take down the Queen of England, throw on your sweatsuit, go to your dimly lit living room, throw on that camera and start talking. You don't even have to shower and you have nothing to lose. So it is. This is me speaking from a place of having an audience and having people that tune into this show. So I know that any Jim or Joe can throw on, you know, TikTok and make some accusations that might not be true and it doesn't matter. So when it's Queen Elizabeth, I think this is the smartest. To me, Queen Elizabeth is way more in tuned with what is going on in the world than maybe your grandmother or your parents are right now. Queen Elizabeth II refused to take Prince Harry because Prince Harry is married to Megan Markle, who uses the TikTok machine. Who uses the machine that is public opinion or tries to at least. I think she's failed a lot of times. She's misread the room, she's put her finger to the sky and felt the, the wind of the Internet and misjudged the direction. But she knows this is how Meghan plays and Harry put it. They're together, they're, you know, you know, birds of a feather. Queen Elizabeth II refused to take Prince Harry's phone calls without another person present in the room. Following the following his 2020 exit from the royal life. Writer Hugo Vickers. Hugo Vickers is the most I write about the royals name I've ever heard. Sensationally claims in his new book after Harry and wife Meg. I don't think it's so sensational after Harry and wife. It's. It's more sensational that Queen Elizabeth II would have the knowledge and wherewithal gave a bombshell interview to Oprah Winfrey and started working on his tell all men memoir spare. Vickers, a longtime friend of the royal family, revealed whenever Prince Harry called his grandmother, she asked her lady in waiting to with her. The distress the Sussexes caused the queen in the last years of her life cannot be overestimated. He adds of Harry and Megan in his new book Queen Elizabeth II A personal story. I mean that's a quite a name he gave to the book, you know, when she's already passed and he, he's some guy who's friends with the family. Personal story. How about story you've put together? Harry, 41, moved his family to California in 2020 after his plan to Be half in, half out as a working royal was scuppered. Does Page Six have to use English words when they write about the English right in Page Six language? Scuppered by his grandmother, he then went on to make millions from selling tales of his life as the youngest son of King Charles and Princess Diana. Page Six is chosen aside, they are not for Markle and Harry. When Markle accused unnamed royals later reported to be King Charles and Kate Middleton of racism during her time inside palace walls during the Winfrey interview in March 2021, the Queen famously released a statement saying some recollections may vary. I mean, what a statement from the Queen, like what is she? A prescription drug, medication commercial? What is that? Some recollections may vary. That's her statement. What is she? Wegovy. Once Harry was In ensconced, page 6 changes their words for a British family article. In the multi million home he bought in Monacito, Page Six is told the Queen would remain monosyllabic. Monosyllabic. That's a quote. So that's not Page Six. During their calls there were a lot of one word answers. Yes and no and well placed. I said a well placed palace insider, not forgetting the Sussexes had also spoken out in their Netflix documentary. The Queen clearly wanted some kind of protection. Listen, I think this is a. This shows the Queen. If you thought, if there was ever a moment where the Queen was like, I don't know, what's this Internet thing? That's bullshit. This outs that. This is the Queen being totally aware of what was going on in 2020. We'll keep moving along. I mean some great stories today and I listen, if you are in Tempe, Arizona this weekend, I'm going to be there. I got five shows. Tempe, Arizona, St. Louis, Missouri, Norwalk, Connecticut, Vegas, Los Angeles, Jacksonville, Austin, the Hamptons, Maine, also Foxwoods and Mashantucket, Connecticut. I'm coming. Jim Carrey's ex Jenny McCarthy weighs in on clone theories surrounding unrecognizable comedian. There is only one way in from right now. We're gonna find out whether they're amicable or not. When. Whenever someone breaks up, you know it's Jim Carrey and. And Jenny McCarthy are ex, aren't married anymore. If she weighs in on him maybe being a clone with anything other that's with anything other than that's a ridiculous claim. That's not what happened. You guys are being crazy. That means Jenny McCarthy hates, despises, loathes Jim Carrey. Sorry to go British word with You. I'm so used to the Page Six loathe. I would never use that word. Jenny McCarthy is still on Jim Carrey's side. Of course she is. Of course. I. She's got to be getting money from him. Like Jim Carrey. You know, we see him on tv. He's relatable, he's fun. Guys. Guys got, like, at a minimum, 500mil in the bank. He's got a. He's got a little drip going off to Jenny McCarthy, you might be like, well, Jenny McCarthy has money. No, no, no, no, no. Not Jim Carrey. So she's getting money. She's on the payroll. I'm not saying he was a clone. I'm just saying, like, if it was any other answer than being on his side, it would be actually fucking batshit of Jenny McCarthy. Like, why. Why shake that tree. A month after the comedian sparked buzz with his unrecognizable quote, appearance at the Cease Cesar Awards. I don't even know what that is. McCarthy defended him, assuring people that he was not, quote, cloned. When asked by people at the iHeartRadio Music Awards 2026 about the conspiracy theories that he had been, quote, replaced with a clone, she assured that she had no doubt it was definitely Jim Carrey at the French Awards and said she simply focused on how happy he looked at the time. What's the quote? This is how not human they all are. Again, Jenny McCarthy, you. If someone says, was your ex cloned? You go, are you out of your mind? That's your response. That's a human response. He looked very happy at that award show, and I was happy for him. She told the outlet. That's the first thing I noticed. I said, oh, wow, Jim looks happy. McCarthy's husband, Donnie Wahlberg, chimed in, noting, you know, that's the part that, sadly, people miss. We're so obsessed with how he looks that we didn't consider how happy he looked. Are you. This is crazy. This is a crazy response to a crazy story. It is actually insane. And again, this kind of shows you who is leading the news cycle on the Internet. The Internet is leading the news cycle. All the publications are following the Internet and we are being led by craziest. Someone said, jim Carrey looks like he's cloned. And now we're talking about it. Some idiot in a sweatsuit in their living room is going, I don't know. He kind of looks off. Do you think he has, like, a replacement body double that went to the Cesar Awards in his place? And normal people would look at that person and go, hey, you should seek therapy for that opinion. That's a crazy person's opinion. Instead, they found all the other crazies who love to gossip. And now it is an actual story that Jenny McCarthy, his ex, is being asked about on a red carpet. And now Jenny McCarthy is afraid of seeming like she's being, I don't know, like insulting. And she's answering this as if it's not the craziest fucking thing she's ever heard. Do. Do you get how crazy this is? Oh, we just forgot how happy he looked. Oh, you thought he was cloned? No, I don't think so. But he did look happy. The sad part is that we're discussing how he looks cloned instead of being as if they're talking about how happy he looks and how we're missing the beat about how happy he is, as if there are clones running around. They're saying this in a world where we're living half clones, half real people. That's how crazy this is. J train podcast gmail.com. send it in if you have a. If you have a story you want me to discuss. I love this next story. It's delusional. Go to my YouTube love is blind season 10. All the commentary is on my YouTube also. Age of Attraction is going to be there. I did episode one that's on my Instagram and I did a video that's from the seller. It there's a bunch of crowd work from the seller this week. Jared Freed on YouTube. Go. You can also watch our Wednesday episode. Sharon Stone blasts blatant harsh sexuality and martyr. And this is a crazy story. Sharon Stone blasts blatant, harsh sexuality in modern tv. Says she fast forwards through sex scenes. Isn't this the woman who crossed her legs in a way that we all saw her vagina on a tv. Like, wasn't that like the whole bit from Sharon Stone? You can't go. And then she redid it. She recreated the Basic Instinct scene in red lingerie. That's the video they show as she's against. Here's the thing, you can't go, ah, we'll be a little sexual and then get surprised and horrified when it goes more sexual than you went. Sharon Stone is sounding off on what she sees as a shift in how sexuality is performed is portrayed on screen. The Basic Instinct icon said to today's on screen. Intimacy. Intimacy has lost the very thing that once made it powerful Mystery. In a candid sit down interview, Stone reflected on the famous scene that helped Define her career. So the sign, the. The famous scene is her showing her, and she's going, well, I just don't like how they're inter. How they're doing it now. It's. This is like. This is very much like, you know, yes, for me, not for thee. Is that the. Is that the saying? Sharon, when. Sharon, when you look at your legendary career, what do you think about? I remember when Basic Instinct came out. Cross the legs, uncross the legs, anchor Gayle King said. And I remember, is she wearing panties? That's how crazy it all became, Right? Right. It was a third of a frame. Now she's gonna make it artistic, right? It was a third of a frame. Stone, fire back. It wasn't even an entire frame of film. And so people were desperately trying to figure it out. She continued, And I think that idea of, oh, my God, this hope, the. This hope, this wonder. Oh, my God, this hope, this wonder, this mystery, this intrigue, this yearning is something that is what all of our profound sexuality is based in. So often now, when sex scenes on Come on tv, I fast forward. I don't want to see it. I don't want to have to go through all the blatant, harsh sexuality. For me, it steals from my own imagination. And I prefer my yearning, mystery, desire. I want to keep that alive inside myself. I think that is a very different thing than the article is portraying. She's right. I agree with Sharon Stone. She's saying that we're missing out on the setup. We're getting right to the punchline, which is we just, you know, I mean, go watch. I mean. But right now, one of the most popular shows, you know, the hockey show, the gay hockey show, they, you know, there's just dick gulping, which is fine. That's. That's okay. And there's fun to that. But it's also. There is a tease, I guess. Like in the first episode, the will. Well, they do in the first episode. There's not a lot of will they, won't they? It's like, get to the dick gulping. Let's go. So Sharon has a point. It does. You know, none of us want to wait to see what's going to happen. But the weight is what makes the payoff. The payoff. So I do think Sharon is right in a certain way. And she's saying. And she's also doing a little bit of backpack. She's saying, you know, oh, well, nowadays, back in my day, they'd make you wait. And it's like I showed half a frame and that was enough for people. And again she's going, look at how artistic I am. They're not as artistic today. Which I would agree with the statement. I love this article because it makes me angry. And I don't know, maybe there is a secret because this article and we'll this will be our final one. We're going to go a little shorter today. I got, I'm doing the audio book, so I got to go tape for five hours today. So I got to keep my voice a little bit Patreon. If you're going to join tomorrow on coffee with J Train, I'll talk about going to Salt Lake City. I'm also going to talk about meeting my girlfriend's parents and family a little bit. So sign up for Patreon. Plus you get first dibs on Tik Toff Tuesday. Elizabeth Hurley reveals unconventional quote free beauty secret while modeling string bikini bottoms If Elizabeth Hurley's secret free beauty secret isn't being Elizabeth Hurley like this is. This should be. If this isn't an April Fools. And it would be funny if, if Elizabeth Hurley said, oh, I got a secret to taking a great bikini photo. Just be Elizabeth Hurley and then started cackling while drinking a martini. I would love that. I would actually think very highly of Elizabeth Hurley. If it's anything other than that, it's going to anger me because what's Elizabeth Hurley going to tell all us losers about what? What secret is she going to give us to Wearing a string bikini, Elizabeth Hurley donned a red hot pair of bikini bottoms to serve up an unexpected beauty secret. The supermodel was pictured on Instagram in a pair of skin bearing snapshots. I'm trying to think of what she could even say. What could the reveal be? If it's like I wear, I, I don't know if it's like, hey, underneath my shirt I have like a bunch of body tape on that like lifts and tucks in a pair of skin bearing snapshots. Wearing a chain embellished blaze bikini bottoms from her Epon eponymous beach wear line. I think that means it's her name. She finished the look with a casual white sweatshirt. So I'm looking at her in the bikini and white sweatshirt. She looks unbelievable. In one snap, she raised her arms above her head while lounging on a white bed. In another, she modeled her fit figure while standing again raising her arms to show off her trim midsection. Come on, I mean she looks unbelievable. What's the secret? Come on, Liz. I don't personally guzzle weird green juices or take a lot of supplements, but I've drunk two mugs of warm water first thing every morning for as long as I remember and I swear by it. And it's free winky face emoji. The Austin Powers actress captioned the post On Tuesday, followers took to the comments thread to react to the revelation and Hurley's latest bikini snapshot. So Elizabeth early is telling us that she looks like that at her age because she drinks two glasses of warm water every morning. When do we do this and then come back to her? How many months in to my two glasses of warm water journey where at the end of it I'm still a fat fuck? Do I come back to Liz and go, hey, this might work for you because you're a genetic phenom and maybe you shouldn't serve this out as advice as like, do you know one person that it's worked for Liz? Anybody else? Someone commented. So that's the secret to your fountain of youth, one person wrote, while another added, okay, I'm going to start doing that. If I can look like you, none of us are going to look like her. The secret is being Elizabeth Hurley. Two glasses of warm. Can you imagine someone saying that to you? Listen, Elizabeth Hurley is lucky because I can still remember Jennifer Aniston saying that her secret to grade skin was positivity, and that still haunts me every night. So Liz is lucky that Jennifer Aniston is a bitter is a bigger crazy person than her. That's it. J train podcast gmail.com the promise is 20 minutes. I think we got there today. Pop Culture Thursday. Keep sending yours in back next week. Boom.