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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 me, the comedian goes to Page Six and reads a few headlines and riffs on the articles. That's the show. If you have a pop culture story that you'd like me to read and, you know, do my thing, I don't know if I would call it, make fun of. Comment. Comment. If you want me to make commentary. If you want me to make commentary. That sounds like the dumbest thing I've ever said it, but send it J train podcast gmail.com. you can send it to this idiot who just said, if you'd like me to make commentary, if you'd like me to riff on a subject, I would love to do that. Send it in J train podcast gmail.com. i'm looking, I'm all over the place right now because we're taping this as late as possible. It's 10, 10pm Eastern time on the East Coast. I just said Eastern time. Look it. I'm all over the place. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Let's. Let's reset. Let's reset. We'll reset. We'll reset. We'll. We'll start it. I'm not going to start it over. We're keeping this in. I've taped this already. And then we had a technical issue that I'm hoping won't happen again. And we're going to tape it again. But you know what? Sometimes mistakes give us gifts because the first article is a gift that I didn't do the first taping. I'm going to read the headline. Hat Heist hits Aspen as $2,000 Fuquet toppers snatched from St. Regis. Now, as a human who has purchased a hat in Aspen that costs a ridiculous amount of money, I have a kimo Sabe hat. I'll wear it. I think this will probably be the clip. I will put it on in solidarity with my fellow stupid, expensive hat people. I will put it on to show that I am with my friends who had their hats stolen. Let me join you. I put a fist to the sky. Us hat people need to band together against this type of crime that is hitting our country. Aspen should not have to deal with this. Here's the thing about hat heist hits $2,000. The $2,000 fuquet toppers. You're. This is A perfect crime. If you're going to steal something, steal something that is so ridiculous and stupidly expensive that someone would be embarrassed to report it. If this hat on top of my head got stolen, it would be an embarrassment. It would be, I couldn't talk about it. I couldn't care enough about it. I. The amount I would have to care about. Like, I would care if it got stolen. If this hat got stolen, I would be like, distraught. The money aspect, it's not $2,000, but it's close enough for me to go, I need this hat back. I feel horrible that it got stolen. The problem is I wouldn't be able to tell anyone, even the police. They'd be like, we have other things going on. So the perfect crime is stealing something that people aren't really motivated or a little bit embarrassed about chasing down. Like, you think the police are going to go after the hat thief with the energy that they would, you know, a kidnapper or a murderer. There are other things going on. I know you're saying, well, it's Aspen, but there are problems in Aspen that supersede the hat group. Was it another job by chapau o shaposh, chapotians 11? Or was it Bonnet and Clyde? You're always fun. Page 6. There was a high altitude crime caper capper. They spelled it at the swanky St. Regis in Aspen. Page six is told that when a thief pulled off a smash and grab raid of pricey limited edition Nick Fuquet toppers, each ringing in at $2,000 each. If your jaw has dropped from the $2,000 price tag, that is what a hat costs. A fancy hat. Naspen is going to run $2,000, especially when it has. I don't even know who Nick Fuquet is, but I'm sure that's an important person. That anytime there's a name on a product, oh, this is the Nick Fuquet version. You go, okay, I guess that's a thing. I guess that costs more now. In a brazen raid, they are. They're already calling the Milner Dollar Heist. I guess a milliner is a hat. They keep referencing hats. I don't know. Just because I have purchased a stupid expensive hat doesn't mean I know all the hat types. This is one of those things that someone who knows a bunch of different hats is having a day. They are so proud of themselves and we have to go, oh, Milliner Dollar Heist. I guess that's a hat. I'll just believe you. A master Brimal smashed. I can't keep doing this with the pos. The window of a display right outside the hotel's hot hotspot, Snow lodge. Security photos show an attractive man in his late 20s, dressed in jeans and a puffy vest, reaching into the display and grabbing a hat, all while t talking on the phone during the. During. This is a quite a description. A security photo show an attractive man in his late 20s, dressed in jeans and a puffy vest, reaching into the display and grabbing a hat, all while talking on the phone during the fedora fiasco. Wow. So I gotta say this is one of those articles that you're like, this is a description. I would love to, you know. Attractive man in his late 20s, dressing jeans and a puffy vest. He just puts on that hat and looks like he belongs in. It's a perfect crime. He puts it on. They go, oh, Pierre, I see you put your hat on. And he just walks right out. This is Thomas Crown affair. Literally a crown Thomas puts on his crown affair. Look at. Now I'm doing puns. I'm not even a pun guy. A man in a trench coat can also be seen with the source telling us that he was allegedly working as a outlook lookout, according to security footage. Yeah, they show the guy in the vest. He is attractive. That's gotta be nice. When you see the report on you stealing the hat. And they go, attractive man in a puffer vest and jeans. And you're like, thank you, thank you. Did the police decide on that? We saw an attractive man with beautiful eyebrows and a full head of hair. He walked out with the hat on. He looked like a size XL in a T shirt. He probably should wear a double xl. He looks like he could lose a few pounds. Still attractive, though. If he lost a few, he'd be very attractive. But since he's a little overweight and looks a little sloppy, we're going to say he's just attractive with a lot of potential like that. I would hate to hear the description of me, a chubby man in his early 40s who looks like he should probably start shaving a little bit and taking care of himself. Took a hat from the Aspen hotel. Like, I. I don't. How about we leave it as man took hat from the hotel. That would scare me. The, you know, the accomplice. Attractive man in a puffer vest with jeans and his l. Not as good looking friend who did the lookout. We're seen taking that. He's on his phone while taking. I'm looking at the picture. It is very nonchalant. He is really chilling while he's doing this. A source tell us two pricey lids were taken. Hat King Fuquet, whose work bears a signature matchstick in the brim, tells us the scenario feels very Thomas Crown Affair. I just said that. Minus the chic choreography. He said, referring to the sexy dance between Pierce Brosnan and Renee Russo in the 1999 movie about a billionaire art thief. Well, he's. That was a remake. I think they. They don't really reference the original. A police report has been filed. We are told St. Regis owner Stephanie Day Betts gave a stern warning to the culprits. This is Aspen. And crime of this nature never goes unresolved for more than a couple days. What a this. What? Tough talk from the St. Regis person. My God. This. This is Aspen. And in Aspen, you're going to buy a $30 bacon, egg and cheese. And you're going to be hanging out with people who haven't worked their whole lives. And we're going to bring you to justice. If you steal our hats. If you steal our $2,000 hats, you're going to be brought to justice. Cause this is Aspen. You don't get away with stealing our hats with fake matches and feathers in them. We don't just sit down. When our hats and our. And our ascots and our cumberbuns get stolen. We stand up. We will get you. You think our. We rest on our laurels when our accoutrements for our suits get stolen. When our ridiculous accoutrements get stolen, we stand up. We will get you. What? What? A message to the criminals. This is Aspen. What are you. What are you in the 300? We will get you. We will come after you. The display was created by artists Benjamin Vo tor and Hunter McCann and features a mountain scene with a moving gondola lifting caviar tins. I mean, they're making it so hard to feel bad for them. We will find you. This is Aspen. You will not steal our hats that cost $2,000 made from Beaver skin from our display cabinets that have caviar tins. You will not do this to us. Like, who is on there? So who's cheer at this point when you mention the caviar tins and the display that shows a gondola that's fake. Who's. Who was who amongst us is not cheering for the criminal. The tins, probably much to the thieves dismay, were empty. Yeah, okay. Yeah, they were eaten. The tins probably cost more than a normal hat. The stolen styles were part of a limited edition collaboration between Fuquet and Snow Lodge's Pop up with Caviar Caspia. I mean they should steal everything from these people. Snow Lodge owners Jayma Cardoza, who also owns Montauk Surf Lodge, tells us it's surprising and disappointing that someone would break a window, damage an art installation and walk out with two hats like it was nothing. That's not who we are as a community. No, we enjoy our we. This is not who Aspen is. We wear sunglasses indoors at night. We wear hats that are made from beavers and have feathers coming out of them with our initials singed into them. And we eat cav just like everyone else, one scoop at a time in between taking bumps of cocaine that we used that we paid for with our parents credit card. We are a good community. They show pictures of the of a DJ and it's like steal everything from these people. Unbelievable. What a great article. Love this you if you have an article you want me to riff on jtrain podcast gmail.com we have one sponsor for today's episode. Want to eat better but don't have the time? Check out Factor no meal prepper recipes, just real food in two minutes Factors Meals are designed by dietitians and prepared by real chefs with a wide variety of weekly options. You'll never get bored. Try trying to keep a specific diet. Factors GLP 1. Friendly high protein and calorie smart meals make it easy to eat healthy. I'm going to tell you right now. 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Make Healthier eating easy with Factor. That's our one sponsor. Use them if they help you. I think it's been helpful for me. I love Factor also. I have shows in Houston and Dallas this weekend. Dallas is like 90 sold. Houston, we're at like 60%. They said the room will look good no matter what. It's at a, it's at the, not the Hard Rock. It's at the House of Blues, which I've never done before. Last time I was in Houston, I did the club. I've always had great shows in Houston. I always like the audiences. I would love for you to come. Bring friends. It's going to be a fun show. You're going to laugh every 10 seconds. That's, that's the promise, you know. I don't know. I know. I, I keep that promise. I, everyone has fun. I don't really hear from I, you know, amongst all the things I don't hear negativity on my stand up that, you know, you go to Reddit, I think you can search on Reddit. There is like a review of my, the, the, all the, the Reddit one. I, I don't read any of the Reddit, but there's one about my stand up that was like very warm and glowing and nice and I, I really appreciated that. All the other stuff, I'm like, okay, they just hated something I said and found a community of other people who think I'm not that great. That's fine. The stand up one is pretty positive. If, if you're hearing this and you go look it up and you find negative on the stand up, don't show me. But I'll just go on believing that it's pretty positive. I like this. This is another article that didn't get in the original taping. And then we'll go back to the ones that I did before. I, I don't, I don't want to keep referencing that. I'm annoyed that we had this technical difficulty, but I am happy that we had the fuquet hat article that I enjoyed reading. Travis Scott makes wild reference to ex Kylie Jenner's breast implants and new song Rosary. Now I've never heard the song Rosary. I am familiar that with Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner having been a thing. Is Kylie with Timothy Chalamet now keeping up with his ex Travis Scott? What do we think the crazy thing that he would say it says? I mean for page six to be clutching pearls makes? Travis Scott makes wild reference to ex Kylie Jenner's breast implants and new Song rosary, it's in a song. So here's what I would say. If it rhymes with something, it's not that wild. You're more choosing the rhyme than you are making the statement. If it has no rhyme at all, that makes it more wild, in my opinion. If it says that they're like, not great, that would be wild. Like, that's a mean thing to say to me. Being mean is actually wilder than being nice. If it's like, these are some amazing implants that are beautiful. Like, if it's positive, it's not that wild. If it's negative, it's actually wild because you're starting a fight. And. And I honestly think the path of least resistance is what most people take. So let's go with if it's a negative reference to her titties that are brand new and. And it's not a rhyme, that's wild. That's what I'll consider wild. Keeping up with his ex, Travis Scott seemingly made a wild reference to ex Kylie Jenner's breast implants on Don Toliver's new song Rosary. She look at me like Scotty man, that S on my chest, Scott. Yeah. 44.5C. The way they sit, I need to test straight up. He rapped, referring to a breast implant size measurements that is estimated to be between a D and a double D cup. Okay, I don't know if I'm reading it right right now. It's not that wild to me. Hate it most when you be out. I swear it's cool when you do less. Don't sweat it. She get me right tonight she can be my medic. The Sicko mode rapper, real Name Jaquez Webster Jr. Added Page Six has reached out to Jenner's rep for comment but did not immediately hear back. The Goosebumps MC cryptic lyrics came months after Jenna revealed the exact details of her highly sought after bl boob job. I remember this. I actually think that it was really nice of her to do because instead of being like, hey, here's a picture of Kylie Jenner's boobs. I would like the same ones. She was like, here's what you can do. Here's how you explain it directly to the PL plastic surgeon. I thought that was like, actually very kind of her. When a fan questioned the mom of two how to get her perfect natural boobs to sit like that, Jenna responded, 44, 45cc moderate profile, half under the muscle silicone. Like, I think that's like a. A service she did. So what's The Wild. Additionally, Kylie cosmetics founder also provided the name of Beverly Hills, California, Dr. Garth Fisher. Well, that's more of a favor to Garth than it is the people. Hope this helps. Lol. She concluded her candid confession. Jenna previously denied getting any work done on her breasts. I haven't gotten breast implants. Everyone is obsessed with that, she wrote on her website in 2015. Truth is, I've gotten older. I've gained 15 pounds. My body hasn't changed. I've definitely filled out. Then they show a picture of her in her bikini. I mean, she's unbelievable. However, in 2023, she made headlines for admitting to getting a boob job at age 19 on an episode of her family's Hulu show. I wish I could do it all differently because I wouldn't touch anything, she said. That's what everyone says after they're hot and they've like, done, you know, stop it. I I want to see the Wild at at this point, they they the ex's share daughter Stormy and son Air Force. She's now dating Timothy J. To me, if I can't read it and go, whoa. Immediate reaction. Not that wild. Now, I said this in the the original taping earlier that got wiped out, but I started it because we didn't have those are two pretty good articles that I enjoy talking about on a show like this, Pop Culture Thursday, which listen, again, if you have a article that you want read, send it in. I I at the beginning of the episode I originally taped, there's tons of stuff about Savannah Guthrie and her mom, which is like a wild story. And I it's not something that it's not a road we're gonna go down here. I mean, like four out of the top. I'm looking at the top of the screen on page six. Five out of five, all about, you know, we, we send our best to the Guthrie family. We hope her mom gets found, but it's like they really are eating up that story. Why Taylor Swift is hesitant to invite Blake Lively to Travis Kelce's wedding amid Justin Baldoni drama. I this article bothers me because Taylor Swift being hesitant to invite Blake Lively, I completely understand that she's hesitant to invite a woman that she was friends with who then went to do like, a court case that she knew would out all her and her friends. And we also don't know what Blake want. Like, what does she want from this at this point? There are points where you can settle it. Both the reputations have been ruined. Baldoni and Blake Lively, they're both forever tied to this case. If I'm Taylor Swift, it's like, yeah, do I want someone at my wedding who seemingly has put their own issues? And again, this is where it sounds bad, because when this first started with Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, it was a case where you're like, I actually was like, ah, I'm gonna not touch this, because it's about subjects that are really serious. And then you get into. And then it gets away from that original thing. And now we're down the road of he says, she says. And it's not even about that at all. As far as the public is concerned. It's just a case. It's lost its meaning. It's lost its true value. But then now Taylor Swift has to deal with this. And there's a point where you go, okay, what am I here for? What is it to get? Is it about my ego that we're, like, keeping this going and I want to ruin Justin Baldoni because he's, in effect, ruined me and my. You know, there's a. There's a lot here where, like, is Taylor Swift hesitant to invite her? Yeah, I get that. It's like saying, man hesitant to date woman who constantly tapes tiktoks about her dating life. Yeah, of course he is. But it. It does. I think it doesn't make Taylor sound great. I think this article makes her sound bad. And it's probably also the reason she's like, why would I invite this girl? She's got. Every story about her is about this case and about a subject that, like, I don't really want to be involved with. Blake Lively is on her own, kid. The Gossip Girl alum may not get an invite to her once close friend Taylor Swift's upcoming wedding to Travis Kelsey, according to a new report. A source told Us Weekly on Wednesday that the pop star, 36, feels some hesitation about putting Lively, 38, on the star studded guest list. Yeah, I love this next line. It would likely trigger a media frenzy, the outlet noted. Well, let's just say the frenzy is there. Whether Blake Lively is there or not, it changes the frenzy. It adds another flavor to the frenzy. Taylor Swift getting married is a media frenzy. You can't go up from there. It's like saying, I'm a billionaire. No, I'm a good billionaire. No, no, no. We are all in crazy town. We're already there. They're reporting on who's in the Bachelor bachelor rep. Are you like, this is media frenzy. The idea that this will lessen or make More of a frenzy. But Swift's friendship with Lively has been under scrutiny since the singer was dragged into her pal's legal battle. With the ends with us co star Justin Bon. Here's the thing. If you. If you. I don't care how you got there. And listen, this may make me a bad friend, but I don't know how you got there. But if there is a judge ordering that your texts with me get revealed to the public, I'm hesitant to invite you to anything. Lunch, dinner, you know, even a walk. I'm like, I don't know. I don't know if I want to deal with this. So I'm with Taylor on this Jtrain podcast, gmail.com, j train podcast, mail.com this story, this story is like a Mad Lib. This is like one of those headlines that I read. And I go, I gotta just look at it. Steve Wynn buys stepson Nick Hisom $32 million mansion after family fallout over raunchy music video. This is as crazy a headline as it gets. Steve Wynn, who is a Las Vegas real estate tycoon, by stepson NICK H.I.S.M. a $32 million mansion. I mean, you win the stepson lotto at that point, you're getting a $32 million mansion from your stepdad after family fallout over raunchy music video. What music video could he have made to create a family fallout? And then you're getting 32 million. This is just a bunch of stuff in one headline that goes, yeah, I'm going to read about someone that I have no relation to. The house always comes out on top. I like that because Steve Wynton's a Vegas guy. Last year, Page Six reported that casino billionaire Steve Wynn was so upset about stepson Nick Hisom's pop video, which. Which featured a team of muscular porn stars in various raunchy scenes that he kicked him out of the family's LA mansion. That is a crazy description that he. Nick Hisam's pop video featured a team of muscular porn stars. Can you believe, you know, stepson mom marries billionaire. We did it. I got access to a billion dollars. Good for me. It also goes the other way. Billionaire marries hot mom. Oh, my God, I gotta have her kid. As a stepson, and he's into making music videos like, this is all. I mean. But perhaps they're reaching an understanding because the Source tells Page Six that Wynn this week bought Hisam a $32 million Palm beach mansion. So 25 minutes from where I sit right now, there is a guy who is known as stepson of Steve Wynn. That is what he's known for. Who made a music video. Not, not successful music video, not music video of song, you know and love. It is stepson of Steve Wynn. That is his name. Has a $32 million Palm Beach. Palm beach mansion. Saying it's 32 million. Like, that doesn't even describe how expensive that is. The taxes, the, the maintenance, the electricity. Just to have that on a yearly basis. And it's like when your job is Steve wins. Like, that's how rich Steve Wynn is. The six bedroom, nine bathroom waterside estate on ultra exclusive Everglades island in West Palm Beach. Bel to advertising executive Richard Shapps and his wife Linda. Do you think Richard and Linda Shapps are like, what the fuck? Like, he had to be advertising executive. They had to really do a career and have a life together. And then who, oh, who's going to buy our home? The, the asshole stepson is this, what is this? Malibu's most wanted. Like, he's just gonna walk into a $32 million estate and, and what, what next? They show a picture of the kid. He is detestable. I'm looking at him, he's in a T shirt with a, with a suit jacket. And I don't think there's a more punchable face that I've ever seen in my entire life. Steve Wynn, who, like, is considered complete genius. Like, guy created Vegas and like the new age of Vegas, the Bellagio, the Wynn Hotel. If you've ever been to the Wynn Hotel, you develop a respect for the guy who made that. Like, Steve Wynn is like a legend in, in every word, in the sense of just a legend. And now I'm looking at the stepson and I, I, I do see how society, I do see how it all ends. Like, I kind of. This is one of those articles that you go, oh, hey, well, the sides are being divvied right now. And this kid is on a side that I am the opposite of. I just. And, and I'm someone who has been lucky at every turn. Like, I'm not even. That's how I know it's getting worse. Because I have nothing to be upset or envious or jealous or I've never gone without. And I'm looking at this kid and I'm going, he's living in a $32 million mansion a half hour from here, not paying for it, just sitting there thinking of the next porn star that he's going to have come in and make a music video with him. On a, on a, on his iPhone. Hisam and reps for Wind didn't get back to us about the new house. You know, they didn't win. And his wife, Andrea Hisam also snapped up a $12.9 million West Palm beach mansion in 20, a source told Page Six at the time. This has got to be a tax thing to put it in your stepson's name. It can't be that he's in a more expensive house than they are. When plans for his stepson Alex and Nick Hisom to redevelop the property with his own dock and views of Mar a Lago into a one of a kind Palm beach manse. In May, Hisom released a music video for his song so Cool Babe which has been removed from YouTube. It was too much for YouTube. Like, that's insane. The steamy video had featured racy pool makeouts, a threesome shower scene and appearances from only fan star Reno Gold, porn star Hazel Hoffman, influencer Austin Casey and model Jacob Jokers. I gotta say, everyone in the music video has something that they offer to society except for Nick Hyssop. Like the stepson of Steve Wynn is just a guy with a house. Only fan star Reno Gold like only fan star, porn star, influencer, model. These are all people with jobs. And then it's stepson Nick Hisop. Isn't there like an embarrassment of that? I wonder how he explains it. Because all of us rationalize what we do. All of us rationalize how we got to where we are. That's why like the privilege conversation is very difficult to convince someone. You have to really be like, you have to really lack a lot of self confidence to like buy into the privilege thing. Where someone says you have privilege and you go, I know I have nothing. I'm, I, I, I don't deserve anything. I have like that's a hard thing. That's not to say privilege doesn't exist, but it's. Everyone rationalizes their own privilege to make sure that they can wake up every morning and live on this hellscape to make sure they can get up and say I am worthy of getting up. I have something to fight for. I am, you know that that takes a certain delusion. We have to get over our own privileges and whatever they are. How does he do it? That's what I wonder. How does Nick Hisom STEPSON of and listen, I only know what I know in this article so you I could be informed of all these other things that he's done and career he had and how hard the mom had it. I get it. I'm just saying the way he's sold here is not very, is very hateable. Sources told Page Six. Wynn and Andrea were furious. While one claimed that the staff at their LA home packed all of Hisom's things into his car, then moved the car into the street. Oh my God. How do you deal? They packed up my Porsche and they forced me out. Hism at the time told us that it was untrue, but then begins posting on social media pictures from a hotel room. I love this line from the article. This is Nick Kissam ready, the stepson of Steve Wynn. I dropped the raciest video of the summer. Hisom told us at the time. Did it cause tension? Sure, but name me a family dinner table that hasn't seen tension sometimes. Bottom line, I love my family and they love me. And this is a great, this is a great quote from him because what he's done, he said, we all got family, we all got issues. We all sit at the dinner table that's 70ft long with our chef and butlers that serve us the soup course followed by the, the aperitif followed by the sorbet to cleanse our palate before the main course. We all have that. We all sit as a family and have our woes, right? Every family sits at their 50 yard long table and share a meal and their problems. And it's like what Nick Kissam is doing. Stepson of Steve Wynn, billionaire. He's basically saying we're all alike in this crazy mixed up world. And I gotta say this is like the let them eat cake of our time. This is a very. And I'm saying this with all the privilege in the world. I am not the one that should be mad. And I am, but maybe I have the time to read about this. Someone who's like, who could get even angrier would be like, sorry, I have like work to do. I do actual things. You. You read stupid articles. So. Okay, we move on. We Wore what? Founder Danielle Bernstein reveals next chapter after calling off Cooper Weissman engagement. Here's what I know about We Wore what? Danielle Bernstein, she is divisive. Just her as a person. People either just love her style, are into what she's doing or they are really angry about her. I know that she had a. And the other thing I know is that she in the planning of this wedding that she was having to Cooper Weissman. Cooper Weissman. What a. What a name. That I would be like, nah, don't pick him for the, for the Flag football team. He's not going to block. Cooper Weissman doesn't block. He stands on the sideline. He flirts with the girls while the game is going on. Cooper Weissman's a guy at summer camp that's like great at the socials. Like, he's great at the dances and, and, and, and gossip. He's not really an athlete. He wasn't going to, he wasn't going to box out. Cooper Weissman doesn't box out. He doesn't set picks. He doesn't pass. Just a name that says a lot to me. Maybe, you know, give me some feedback if you disagree. What do you think Cooper Weissman spells for you? Danielle Bernstein, though, really divides the culture, the people. People really don't like her. I, I think she's, she's beautiful and she wears clothes well, which does well on social media for women. Like a lot of women will follow a woman for her style. I've never done that. I've dated girls who are like, I just like her style. I don't know why I follow her. And usually it's someone who just looks good in the clothing. And I would say Danielle Bernstein is very much manic, mannequin esque and very much like, like a hanger, you know, like, I mean, not my type. I like a curvier woman, but I could see why women look at her and they go, okay, I can see how the outfit looks. You know, she's got enough of a butt to fill out the jeans. She's just a good vessel for a fashionable clothing line. But people really don't like her. People really. And that's. And now I'm looking at Cooper Weissman. He's unlikable too. But they're a beautiful couple. They do, they are good looking. Here's how I know they're unlikable. She's in the Nike hat with sunglasses on with a hood over it. And he's in a beanie that's half off his head. This is the look of two people who have never had a night where they ate too much and then hugged a pillow afterwards. They've never had to not touch another person's body because they ate too much. And I'm just against that lot of pictures. I mean, there's a picture of her hugging him while having abs that would anger any normal person. And now they're splitting up. And here's the thing. When you're a divisive person on social media, the stories and the, the who did what and where, when did it End of it all. It will never end. This is, you know, the. There are people that are very excited, frothing at the mouth knowing that Danielle Bernstein has gotten a. Has ended her engagement, which I've already read this. I'm not sure what the future holds, but this choice took courage. I would really appreciate privacy and grace for both of us during this time she closed. Thanks to her followers for the support. Yeah, I, I just, I know that people are just like. I think she did something where they were getting engaged and she told people what to buy for their outfit for their engagement party. The former couple had an elaborate engagement party in October, but fans began to notice that Bernstein stopped posting her significant other for the following months. It's just interesting to me with someone like this where it's like, I don't know how. I think, I don't know how she became as big as she did, but people really have a strong opinion on her. I do not. We'll do one more. This one I'm reading because I just can't. The name is just crazy to me. Since we're on the subject of people's names. Ellen Von Unworth. Ellen Von Unworth is the craziest name I've ever heard my entire life. That is out of a novel. That is out of like, I am Ellen Vaughn Unworth and I have a reservation. Like, I just see her always angry about a reservation. Ellen Vaughn Unworth doesn't wait for a table. My people made a reservation and they said, I shall be sat. Ellen Von Unworth. Like, when you keep the Vaughn, I guess it's from another country. Fine. Ellen Von Unworthy. Just that is the lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. That is from a book that I have never read that I was supposed to read for summer reading. And I just can't have. Like, do you have to say the full name? Does she go by Ellen? Hey, Ellen's here. Like if I'm Ellen on. If I'm Ellen Von On Worth, I gotta go by Ellen Von Onworth every time. Ellen Von Onworth excommunicated from NYC party scene over Melania Trump doc photo. So she's Vaughn uninvited after iconic German photographer Ellen Von Unworth shot Melania Trump's movie posters for her Amazon doc. New York City party planners are now saying she's snapper non grata. Great sentence by page six. I'm looking at her picture now. No one has ever looked more Ellen Vaughn unworthy than Ellen Von Onworth looks. This is the most. I mean, and now I'm looking at her pictures. It's weird that Ellen Von Onworth. All the pictures feature her in some sort of pantsuit jacket where she's doing an homage to Michael Jackson. She's going with a Michael Jackson look that is actually crazy. She committed to the Jackson and multiple pictures of her in a jacket that has big gold buttons and like a pilot's jacket that you can only call Michael Jackson. That's the thing, the look she committed to. There's no question. There's no like, oh, well, you know, she's doing this thing. No. There's only one way to describe it. It is, hey, I am the biggest Michael Jackson fan alive and I'm gonna dress just like him. I don't care what that says about me or who you think I'm cheering for in the allegations against Michael Jackson. I'm just gonna wear it. I would have to look damn good in a look to have it bring up the memory of someone with such a weird social history as Michael Jackson. Like all three of the pictures her in a very the the fourth one way more Jane Goodall. I guess she only dresses as weird 90s stars. Is Jane Goodall. You consider her a 90s star. I mean, it's Jane Goodall and then a lot of Michael Jackson. A lot. There's one where she's wearing a jacket. If she's not on a on her way to a costume party that's all Michael Jackson themed. Then she deserves an intervention. We should put these pictures up. I don't. You got to look at this article. The you go to page six. Just search Ellen Von Onworth. It'll come up if we don't use this as the clip because I did want to use the hat thing at the beginning. All right, that's it. Pop culture Thursday. If you had a good time listening to this, share with a friend. If I talked about an article that a friend would enjoy, share this with them. Go follow the Instagram YouTube. 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Hosted solo by comedian Jared Freid, this Pop Culture Thursday episode is a rapid-fire riff session on the latest in celebrity headlines, absurd wealth, and viral drama. Jared brings his signature self-deprecating humor and sharp cultural insight to stories ranging from high-end hat heists in Aspen to Taylor Swift’s wedding guest dilemmas, while poking fun at both celebrities and the out-of-touch worlds they inhabit. Listeners are encouraged to submit stories for Jared to riff on in future episodes.
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| Time | Topic | Jared’s Take / Memorable Line | |------------|--------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:35 | $2,000 Aspen hat heist | “Perfect crime…you’re too embarrassed to report it.” | | 13:23 | Travis Scott & Kylie Jenner implants lyric | “If it rhymes it’s not that wild, you’re just rhyming!” | | 21:16 | Taylor Swift wedding guest drama | “If there’s a judge ordering your texts, I’m hesitant to invite you…” | | 27:49 | Wynn stepson $32m mansion, raunchy video | “Every participant has a job; the stepson’s job is stepson.” | | 40:32 | Danielle Bernstein & Cooper Weissman breakup | “Cooper Weissman doesn’t block…doesn’t set picks…great at the dances.” | | 46:01 | Ellen Von Unworth’s party ban and her name | “Craziest name ever…That is out of a novel!” |
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