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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 you live from Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Thursday is a Pop Culture Thursday where I go to Page Six and I go through some headlines and then we riff. I promised you a full week of the J Train podcast and here we are, January 1st. Happy New Year. I'm taping this Tuesday, December 30th, 8.41am to kind of let you behind the curtain, to let you know kind of where I'm looking, where in time and space I am looking at Page Six. I, I went, you know, I go and choose these articles before. Let me just let you know not to get you too revved up. It is a light news week here on Page Six on Pop Culture Thursday. But I think that's when this podcast is at its best, when we can take some scraps and make it into a meal. Because honestly, this is when Page Six gets creative with what they're going to report on. And I want to wish you a happy New Year. Let me go back a step. Happy New Year. Thank you for being here and starting your year with me and the jcu, the J Train cinematic Universe. There is no ad that is my gift to you. Well, I mean, I didn't do it. I'm, I would have taken an ad if we had one. But this is generally like the weakest ad day of the year. So let me just do an ad for myself. If you are, you know, this year I have shows all around the country. Go to my website, jared free.com. jared free.com. get your tickets. I'm going to be in Baltimore. Right now. I'm in San Diego. There's seven opportunities. Does that sound douchey? There's seven chances to see me in San Diego. Philadelphia, sold out. Baltimore, Boston. Second show is selling out. New York. We're almost sold out. To Toronto, we're almost sold out. So there's a lot of shows out there for you to come to. Charleston, South Carolina. Beach Mountain, North Carolina. Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta. I would love for that Buckhead theater to fill up. Houston, Dallas, where tickets are low, Come on out, tell your friends. It's a great show. It's called the Table for One tour. Also, if you want to be, you know, if you're like, hey, I, you know, I, I, I, I'd like to support this show. I hate the word support. I hate the word support. If you want to join the Patreon which isn't supporting that is there is a. You get something for your Patreon membership, which is Coffee with J Train. Coffee with J Train is already taped for tomorrow. It is my personal diary. In my personal diary, I just basically tell stories from the week I have already taped tomorrow. So I can tell you as a preview. I talk about this annoying interaction I had at the beach. I talk about doing a show. Two shows in Delray beach that were like pop up shows and the difficulty of doing those shows. I talk about the town. If you go two weeks back, I'll. I'll give a little preview. I've been talking. I have gone on the GLP ones now. If you come to my show, my standup show, you know, that's something I talk about on stage and the weirdness I have with my parents about it. I'm talking about that on Patreon. I'm kind of like gonna do like a GLP1 corner. I forgot to do it this week. So it's not in the episode that comes out tomorrow. But if you go two weeks ago, there's some talk just why I started it, how, how it felt to start. It is quite a mind. I. And I think you hear from people and they're a little bit embarrassed to talk about it vulnerably. And I'm gonna try and do that. I'm not saying I'm better than anyone else. I'm not saying that. I, I think I. But I think I'm just seeing a lot of people. You know, even when people are like, oh my God, the inflammation is gone. It's like you lose weight, you lose inflammation. Like, like it is amazing how much diet and weight is just connected to everything you do. So people are like, oh my God, I, I want to hug my parents again. This drug must be doing it to me. It's like it. So I think there's a lot of craziness and also there's like the negative, negative negativity. Negative negativity around it be from people who are fearful. You know, the. And it's fitness people. I would say that it's going to be a net positive for fitness people. I think it's a net negative for snack food companies because I am snacking less, I'm eating the same snacking less difference. That will all be talked about on stage and on Patreon because honestly, it is personal. So I like to go to a paid platform to talk about personal stuff like that. Not that I don't get personal here. I just Think, you know, especially talking about it on stage. I know the Patreon subscribers and to give them a shout out. They are so caring and wonderful and the relationship we have there is just, like, unreal. So I would love for you to be a part of that. I'd love to, you know, have you as a Patreon subscriber, because I really do believe I, you know, I feel like I know them on a different level. So again, and you got to pay for that level. So. Patreon.com/jared freed. Let's get to the articles. I love this, I love this story as a first one, because we're going to get this story maybe for the rest of her life. And it's also a very New Year's story because what gets reported on Page Six this time of year is this celebrity celebrated New Year's in this specific way. Lauren Sanchez dances on her seat while partying with husband Jeff Bezos in St. Barts. You know, it's funny, like, we're transitioning from Lauren Sanchez, wife of Jeff Bezos, to Lauren Sanchez, her own thing. And I do think when you have billions of dollars, as Lauren Sanchez does, you that is kind of what your job is at that point. I think this, to me, this is a PR her. I would, I would be, I would be not even shocked a little to find out that Lauren Sanchez's New year's resolution for 2026 is to be her own name and not Lauren Sanchez with husband Jeff Bezos. Like, I think this is a place story by her PR people. And again, this is a very, this isn't just billionaire. This is a very Page Six New Year's story. This celebrity in this locale is partying on New Year's. And look at, I mean, we might be getting Lauren Sanchez dances on her seat while partying in St. Barts. We're going to get it, like, next month, it'll be partying in Aspen. The, the month after, it'll be partying in Santrope. And then like, you know, the 4th of July on, on top of the, on top of the Empire State Building. And then September, she's partying on, at a, on top of the, a chair at a, during the horror at Rosh Hashanah. And then during November, she's on top of a chair Thanksgiving. Like, where this is Lauren Sanchez's life from now on. Because when you're in this, this level of money, it's get in Page Six, go to different locales, start a charity. She'll start a charity that and that's been the great reveal of the charities. Like, you hear about charities growing up, you're like, wow, these people are doing good. I have become so cynical to charities. Nonprofit means the money is used. Now, how it's used is not really what we know. You know, we are a nonprofit that helps this. Okay? We never hear the percentage of money that goes towards whatever this is. So nonprofit could mean Lauren Sanchez, CEO of nonprofit that gives money to blankets for kids, makes a few blankets, and then makes, you know, a couple million a year on her own so that she feels fulfilled and doesn't have to be someone else's woman. She can be Lauren Sanchez instead of Hus, you know, wife of Jeff Bezos. So I love what. Here's where Page Six is at its best. How do they make an article based on Lauren Ch. Sanchez is. Is. Is dancing on her chair at a bar in. In St. Bar. It's like to me, if I saw someone dancing on their chair in Saint Bar, I'd be like, look at that asshole dancing on their chairs. Is that the article? Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are kicking off the New Year St. Barts. The couple who spent Christmas in Aspen. I told you. Were spotted Monday at celebrity hotspot Nikki Beach. Sanchez rocked a big sun hat while the tech billionaire soaked up the scene with a group of friends under the watchful eye of his security team. Spy, says the spy. Now they show a picture. And I mean, it doesn't even look like she's dancing. She. Oh, she put an arm in the air with her phone in the other hand. This is the least fun person trying to look like they're having fun that I've ever like. If I saw this person with their phone in one hand, hand above their head, I'd be like, they don't know how to have fun. That is not someone having fun. There was security everywhere, Said the gobsmacked onlooker. What do you think is gonna be there? He's the richest guy in the world. He owns the most famous company in the world. At one point, several bikini clad bottle girls, including one riding on a motorcycle came out with the sparklers to celebrate a birthday. With Sanchez immediately popping up a on a banquet to dance a motors a spark, a bottle woman, bottle girl, whatever. On a motorcycle is taking it to a whole nother level. Like, I've seen what is coming next. A bottle girl riding on top of a parade float that said, go fuck yourself. Poor people came up to the table and said, hey, it's your birthday. We have got the birthday restaurant celebration, which started at waiters and waitresses singing Happy Birthday and then turned to, you know, chilies with their own rendition. And then maybe they light a candle to sparkler to now woman with sparklers on a motorcycle with a machine gun. Happy birthday, motherfucker. Like, where are we going? Where will this go? I'm going to be watching. I'm not going to be there. I'm not. I got not. I'm not a fucking, you know, billionaire. I'm going to be reading Page Six. They're going to be like, Lauren Sanchez celebrated her birthday at Nikki Beach. And it was a celebration. A model girl came out riding on top of a tiger and was shooting, you know, throwing machetes at a target while singing Happy Birthday. Like, we are. We're heading towards crazy land. Well, I mean, we're already there. If you said, if you went back 40 years, so 2025, let's say it's 2026, January 1st. You go back 96 would be 20 years. You go back to 1976 and you say to someone, hey, you know, in the future, the birthdays, they're gonna have aspiring models on motorcycles with sparklers coming out for your birthday. They'd be like, what? Why? What? So America's fine, right? They would. They would go, so everybody's getting along and everyone's doing well. We'd be like, no. Well, a few people are. A few people are fine. The rest of us have existential dread and anxiety and worry about feeding our family every day, But a few people are celebrating a fun birthday. Like, Hold on. It gets weirder. At one point, several bikini clad bottle girls, including one. Okay, the Bezos $500 million mega yacht club Koru, which has a wooden sculpture of Sanchez on the prow. What is a prow. Has been spotted in the area. I know what a bow is. A bow prow. I got to Google this. What is a prow? The portion of a ship's bow above the water. Oh. So to explain it, this is actually way more insane than what I thought it was. Jeff Bezos has a ship. I'm going to explain this because I need you to know, you know those pirate ships, that the front of the ship would have a sculpture of a mermaid on the front. And you'd be like, whoa, look at that ship. You. You only saw it in, like, Disney cartoons. Jeff Bezos has one of those on the front of his ship of his wife. That's crazy, okay? Because I need to see it now. So he has. Can you Imagine. Oh, my God. That is. I'm looking at it. If this is AI, let it be AI. Oh, my God. So on the front of his ship, there's a sculpture of her as if she's the mermaid coming out of the front of the ship. How do you react to Jeff showing you that? Like, that's beyond sexual. Like, I. I think it would be less weird for a couple to be like, oh, yeah, that's her sex swing. I'd be like, cool. You know, good for you. And that's our boat. And on the front of the boat is a wooden sculpture of my wife as if she's a mermaid. You know how they used to have in the Disney movies? You've never even seen that in real life. Yeah, that's on the front of that ship. I'd be like, okay, what are you two into? That is. That's the point where, you know, you go, what's too much money? I think. I think that's. How about the artist? Hey, what are you working on, man? I am making a sculpture of a woman to put on the front of a boat for a billionaire, and it's his wife. Yeah, it's completely batch Bach, cuckoo bananas. Okay. I told you the stories today were going to be awesome because look at this. This is my favorite. Page six. Elizabeth Hurley, 60, spills her tip for flattering beach pic while modeling leopard print bikini. What is gonna be Elizabeth Hurley's big tip for me to look good in a bikini on the beach? What? What can I learn from Elizabeth Hurley other than, hey, here's my tip. Be Elizabeth Hurley. That's how you look good in a bikini on the beach while taking a picture. This. This tip is gonna. If it's not, put on all your clothing and wear your bikini underneath your clothes. That's how you look good in a bikini. Picture on the beach. I have to say this is one of those stories that enraged me because then they show her in a bikini and you're like, I. There's no tip to be had the Christmas. This Christmas, Elizabeth Hurley is giving everyone the gift of the perfect bikini. Snap. Life's a beach. She captioned her Dec. 27 Instagram post. Standing tall with one hand on her hip, wearing a leopard print bikini of her own design. So it's her own bikini. Buy my bikinis. That's. That's fraudulent. Hey, you want to look like Elizabeth early, buy my bikinis. I'm going to say none of us look like Elizabeth early if we put on her bikinis. With her signature smoky eye. And glossy lip. Her layered brunette hair falls to her shoulders. The then thin gold hoops barely visible on each ear. The six year old model looked unbelievably flawless. Yeah, we know. When I shot my first American Vogue cover in a bikini, of course, the extraordinary Stephen Maisel taught me how vital backlighting was for a flattering beach pick. To this day I heed his wisdom. So here I am showing off Elizabeth Hurley beach. She added, so backlighting, that's the key to looking like Elizabeth Hurley in a bikini. I dare, I dare all of the men out here to tell your girlfriend, wife, whoever, just start taking pictures of them while in their bikinis and be like, no, no, no, the backlight is perfect. You're going to like this picture. Elizabeth Hurley said, good backlighting makes a good bikini picture. So just, you're good, I'll take it, don't worry. You don't even need to look. I'll post it right away. Do that. Try and take a picture without your girlfriend, wife looking at it while they're at a bikini at the beach and just tell them that Elizabeth early said it's fine because the backlighting is good. Why try and do that? Give it a shot and then have a friend take a video of you trying to do that. And let's send that to Elizabeth Hurley. Let's show her how her tip is helping out all these wonderful couples out there. What a load of shit. That story gets me so angry. I like this story because it's one of those stories that, you know, you hear a lot about critical thinking and how important that is these days. There are many stories put out there to make you mad. Maybe we should like all be practicing on page six so that you can like, you know how to handle when the more important stories come. Because this one, the answer, like this headline is way more salacious than I bet the situation is. Denise Richards and her ex Aaron phipers evicted from LA home over 84,000 in unpaid rent. Let me go ahead and say that I don't believe that Denise Richards and her ex are like shivering on the streets while sleeping on cardboard boxes. This makes it sound like that this make because when you use the word evicted LA home 84,000. 84,000 is a lot of money to everyone except for Lauren Sanchez who has a wooden sculpture of her on the front of her husband's boat. I mean but this is like one of those stories that I think page six like combs like a certain section of like public information. So like I think these Things happen with rich people. Denise Richards and ex Aaron Fipers have been ordered to vacate their home in Calabasas, California, after failing to pay rent, according to court documents obtained by page 6. Again, publicly available information to make a great headline, A Los Angeles Superior Court judge signed off on their landlord's request to evict them from the property on Friday. They're probably haven't been in this property. They're exes. They probably haven't been in this property for a decade. According to the complaint, the two owe 84,000 in rent they haven't paid. The landlord also requested the two pay attorney fees for damage. Like this is a fight in court that they are arguing. And this is the the other side putting out a salacious story. It has to be. This is them leaking this to embarrass them into coming to a conclusion on their case. No question. Richard's 54 vipers. 53. I've never heard fipers. Honestly never heard of this guy. So, I mean, that doesn't mean they don't exist. I. I hate when people are like, never heard of you. And you're like, yeah, okay, sure, people haven't heard of me. Sign a lease for the property in June 2020. They paid a $24,000 security deposit. Oh, wow. Richards is no longer living in the Calabasas property. There it is, four paragraphs in. Amid her contentious divorce from Vipers after nearly six years of marriage, she claims she moved out of the home two years ago. In court, docs obtained. See, this is all part of the divorce. This is the home. The, the. This is the homeowner trying to get his money or their money. Classic Page Six. Love it. But this is what this podcast is all about. Like, I, I think that makes us better news consumers. I like this story. I like this story because it just show. It's a lesson. Cardi B hits back at mean fans dragging her relationship with Stephen. Stefan. Stefan. I think it's Stefan. Stefan Diggs. I can't go back in time. Here's the lesson in the Cardi B hits back at mean fans. You're never going to win. You are responding to the most deranged losers. People who are telling you how to do your relationship with someone that you. They've never met either of you. They're deranged. They're crazy. But now the article becomes about Cardi B and her mean fans. To any audience, to all of us, that makes it seem like Cardi B has 50. 50 people who like her and people who hate her. It's really 1%. Cardi B bluntly addressed all the hate she's been getting. This is the hardest part about having an audience is you have to just eat it. You have to see mean comments and you have to go because responding to the comments gives them power and then having this like everyone's mad. They're not. So it makes people think like boy, you're in more trouble than you actually are. Like her and Stefan Diggs. I don't know. I know he plays for the Patriots. I don't know what's happened in the past. Now I in my mind based on the like you know, Cardi B hits back at Mean Fans Dragging a relationship with Stefan Diggs I can't go back in time to me he cheated on her. He she went back to her went back to him. That's my assumption. I move on. That's how all of us are. The rapper said some of her fans have been a little too mean and they've been dragging her for the past three or four days, detailing in a video she posted Monday on X. Y' all need to calm down, she said, asking fans if they were okay. I can't change shit. I can't go back in time, she continued. I already had a baby. You want me to put my baby back in my I I just became maybe I'm wrong. I just became way more of a Cardi B fan. Do you all want me to put my baby back in my Is quite a response. Like she's right. What do they want from her? The Grammy winner 33 in the New the New England Patriots wide receiver 32 welcome to Baby Boy. On November 4, she noted she can only go forward now. You want me to leave my man and yours? What you all I mean to do? She has I love when she is an uber celebrity. Like Cardi B is like huge. I like that she's talking to them like human beings. She's like what's what's the plan here? Like it is every person with an Internet haters dream to like have a face to face. Like what do you want me to do? Just be calm with them. Cardi shared that she has had a busy year ahead preparing for her upcoming coming tour and was already super stressed out. I need my support system, my fans to love me, she admitted. I want you all to come to my tour and enjoy yourselves with me. They show them kissing on a boat. Here's the other thing that people aren't like in tune with. You're talking to her as if she's like a struggling mother with no future. Cardi B Has a pension of Spotify money coming in that you can't even imagine. So the idea, like, oh, no, what will she do? Stefan Diggs might not be a great guy. We. We care about you. She's gonna be a. Okay, don't be dragging me. She's stressed. That's enough. All right? It's enough. Cardi ended her video wishing what happened. I just want to know what. What happened between them, because I'm assuming he cheated. Cardi handed her video wishing her fans health, money, prosperity and happiness for the New Year. She's wishing that to everyone who don't comment. The nice people. The other one, she's like, go yourself. Wish me the same thing. All right? I like Cardi is great. She said, leave me alone, though. Shit. Damn, y' all scare me sometimes. I'm with you, Cardi. Cardi's message to fans comes after Diggs, who fathered multiple newborns within months of each other, appeared to skip spending Christmas with her and her son. That's sad. Okay? But that's not any of our business. Also, skip spending Christmas. He's a football player. What are you guys talking about? He has practice. He had a game. Like, of course he's not at Christmas. My brother works in the NFL. They're not. They're not with you. They're not doing the same schedule as you. This is. This is the thing. The Internet has made us believe. We are all kind of doing the same thing. Cardi B isn't on winter break taking a trip to Delray beach, okay? She ain't like you or us or me. She is living a great life. That is different. That's why she's Cardi B and she's not you. Teresa and Des Moines team Cardi. If you have a pop culture story that you want done here on Pop Culture Thursday, send it in j train podcast gmail.com jtrain podcastmail.com Also, if you don't. If maybe you're just listening to this. I want. Let me. Let me pimp out the other shows Mailbag Monday, we're getting some great emails. If you need advice, send in your email jtrain podcast gmail.com if you want to complain with me on Tuesdays. Ticked off Tuesdays. J train podcast gmail.com if you have a guest that you'd like to see on the show j train podcast gmail.com or follow us on Instagram at J Train Podcast and you can DM the account with any of Your questions or complaints. Okay, let's do, we'll do a couple more. I love this story because it's kind of what this show has turned into. Like, this is like a PR discussion show. My old flame, Brooks Nader. Yes. We went on a date. Brooks Nader from Dancing with The Stars supermodel SI swimsuit issue. Brooks Nader styles a $1200 belt as a shirt in 19 degree Aspen. This is Brooks Nader. Let me tell you what I know about Brooks Nader based on the date we went on. This chick plays bright ball. This chick is here to win. This chick is here to be like Gisele Bunchin level model personality Heidi Clum. She wants it, she's here for it. Okay, so let me, let me just say that that's my opinion on Brooks. Brooks Nader. This was all. She didn't just look at her closet and go, what should I wear? Abercrombie jeans? No. The. Should I wear the Forever 20? No. Oh, you know what, let's go with the $1200 belt and I'll wear it as a shirt. It's 19. What's the weather? 19 degrees. Yeah, I'll wear the belt as a shirt. That's not what happened. Her PR person said, hey, this belt company wants to show off their belt. They're going to give you some money, put it on as a shirt. We're going to get it in Page Six and they're going to give you the belt. They're going to give you some money. Like, I'm sure this was incentive laden. In addition to the incentive of being in Page Six and having your name in the news. Brooks Nader, what she does best, keeps the ball in the air. She is keeping the beach ball afloat. And the beach ball is her name and the beach ball is her career. And her, you know, in the news, she keeps it in the air. There isn't a week where there isn't a Brooks Nader story. And Brooks Nader is great at that because I'm looking at the shirt. It's, it's not even comfortable. It's not even comfortable. No one would wear that shirt for more than 10 minutes. They. You would wear it and go around your apartment with a friend. Like, look at, look at me, I'm wearing a belt as a shirt. Look at, I'm a fucking idiot. Because this isn't. I can't believe it's twelve hundred dollars, twelve sixty dollars. That belt. That's like finding out the white rice at the sushi place is like $7 they that is a $6 and 98 cent markup. This is a, this is a belt that Santa Claus would wear. Brooks Nader is buckling up to beat the winter chill. Good work, good work, Page Six. You always bring a smile to my face. While the temperatures dropped to 19 degrees this past weekend in Aspen, Colorado, Nader opted to go topless wearing nothing but a wider nothing but a wide leather Chloe belt. $1,260 across her chest. Though even the most beautiful belts are typically worn as accessories and not full blown articles of clothing, the designer price tag still costs significantly more than even the warmest winter tops. The reality star pair, the double buckle belt with a high waisted black. Yeah, and then we go in her outfit. This is, this is. Keep Brooks in the news at whatever it is. She's in a belt top and there's a picture with a guy behind her and he's in a full knee length trench coat. Mink. A mink trench. She looks unbelievable. I mean of course they show her with the belt like in another picture when she wore it hosting and she wore it as like a normal belt. This is Brooks Nader. Hey Brooks baby. We haven't been in Page Six in a minute. Put on a belt, you know over your chest and we're, we're good for another week. You're good for the new year. Okay, let's do one last story. Nikki Bella, 42, fuels dating rumors with Eagles cornerback Cooper Dean, 22 with telling outfit choice. So is Nikki Bella the former wrestler the Nikki Bella and Cooper Dean De Jean. I'm sorry if I'm Dean Dijon. Dating rumors are still going strong. So I'm looking at him. He is childlike, 22, but he plays for the Eagles. I guess. After the wrestler's latest social media upload, the total Bellas alum who also goes by Nikki Garcia, but whose real name is Stephanie Nicole Garcia Colace. Okay. Over the shared an Instagram video over the weekend of herself strutting through the Lincoln Financial Field stadium and in a jersey honoring the defensive back walking into Sunday like the former reality star 42 capturing the footage. I mean we just put anyone together. I listen good for them if they're hooking up. 42. 22. Fine. I don't like I, that's not like I wouldn't be like I don't look at any 42 year old and high five them for dating a 22 year old. I don't, I don't. That's not where my brain goes. Some people it does not for me. I look at it, I go, I guess you needed to be in Page Six or, you know, you needed to hook up or you didn't. I don't know. I just. She and DeJean, 22, sparked romance speculation earlier this month when Bella filmed herself exploring the Pennsylvania Stadium. So I think they just flirted and we just go, I guess they're hooking up and it's like, it's, it's we're dream cast. Oh. They partied together in a bar. Okay, so, I mean, she's hot, don't get me wrong. I. We did it. I mean, this is going to be a little bit of a tighter episode. We got, you know, listen, the 20 minute promise is the daily promise. Thank you for listening to pop Culture Thursday. Happy New Year. Be safe. Enjoy your weekend. Happy 2026. We did it. Boy.