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Jeremy Allen White Lookalike Contest, Lamar Odom's Kardashian S3x Doll, and Team John Stamos! - POP CULTURE THURSDAY - The JTrain Podcast w Jared Freid
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I was in Oklahoma City, which is an hour and a half away away back when it was a while ago now. And one of the time, and I've been there twice and one of the times I went, the power went out. So I remember there were people that were like coming from Tulsa to come to the show and like, you know, it got canceled and then they were in town and I ended up going to like a bar and I was like, I'll, you know, meet you at this, you know, I'll say hi at the bar. So this is my great return to Oklahoma. But the reason I'm going now earlier is because the I've had it ladies. I, they have a great podcast called I've Had It. I've done it a couple times. It tapes in Oklahoma City. So I'm gonna go a day early. It's with Jennifer Welch and Pumps. So they have this podcast that I've done a couple times and I was like, I'm gonna be in town. They tape in Oklahoma City. Why don't I get in touch? And they were like, yeah, come on down. So I'm going a night early. So that means tomorrow is a little bit of a packed day and I wouldn't have gotten this done. And explanation, explanation. Excuse. I hate when people go, that's not an excuse. That's just the reality of the situation. I don't know, maybe it is an excuse. I don't even know the meaning of an excuse anymore. That's what people say when they broke up with me and they said it was because of this, this and this. Are those excuses? Well, yeah, I guess that's their reasons. I'm already off kilter here. We have three sponsors. You've already heard the every plate sponsor that was a pre roll, Meundies and Herobred. I have stories in front of me to read, but we'll get to the sponsors first. Time to break out the stretch pants for Thanksgiving. Meundies has what you need from lounge pants and hoodies to sweats and onesies. Of course, they also have their famous underwear that come in tons of styles, sizes and colors. I wear Meundies underwear. Love them. And I have the lounge pants. 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The first story I wanted to get to and it's something I missed last couple weeks ago is the Jeremy Allen white lookalike contest. Now there were Chicago coordinates. It's king of the cam, the king of the carmes with a pack of cigarettes. So I don't watch the bear. And you'll say, I know, I know. You're going to react as if I didn't, you know, I didn't vote or something. How could you not watch the bear? I just haven't gotten into it yet. I think I tried and I watched the first episode and it just. Sometimes when I try to watch a show, it's like two in the morning and I just gotten back from doing shows and I've had a couple drinks of me and it's like, like. And then I'll like, remember watching half of it and ends up being a waste of my time because I don't want to go back to stuff. I kind of remember. Jeremy Allen White lookalike contest filled Humboldt park with white T shirts and blue aprons. I love that this is going on. So there was a Timothy Chalamet lookalike contest in New York and he showed up to it, an unnamed. And then there was also, and I didn't know this, a Harry Styles lookalike contest. So aping a recent trend and impromptu contests honoring stars including Timothee Chalamet and Harry Styles, on Saturday, November 16, Chicago held a lookalike competition for the actor who portrays the executive chef on the bear. Paper flyers began popping up last week, stuck to lampposts and other places around town touting the vent. I love that it's happening via this kind of old, weird way. The fact that there's posters on lamp posts and then people show up and it is this very old school word of mouth thing. And I'm looking at the guy who won and he does look like Jeremy Allen White. He does. And he's in the blue apron and the white shirt with the tight, tight shirt around his arms and they award him with a crown. I like that there's a guy next to him who looks enough like Jeremy Allen White to enter, but not enough to like proudly accept that he looks like Jeremy Allen White. That's the thing about a lookalike. It's only insulting. A lookalike is, you know, and I've talked extensively about how I don't want to hear who I look like. I don't want it, I don't need it. I think for the person who's like the lookalike contest, like for Jeremy Allen White, I'm not sure who. And when people get insulted, I would think the insulting part is if you look a little like him, but not enough to own it. Because that's the hard part is someone can also always go, especially if it's of a good. Like Jeremy Allen White is a good looking guy and he's got, he has features that are, that are, that are specific to him. He has a very specific face. So that's why the lookalike contest becomes fun because all of these guys have a specific face too. But I would hate, you know, I mean, if they did a Jared Freed lookalike contest, I would just be sitting there like, I don't think any of me and the Jared, Jared lookalikes would want that. I think it has to be someone so good looking because like that's the thing. Jeremy Allen White is definitively considered by the public a good looking guy. And then all these people show up and to me a lot of them are like, it's like to me, the one in the picture, I'm on Eater Chicago, there's a guy getting crowned and the next one was a guy where if someone said, hey, you look like Jeremy Allen White, he'll go, yeah, I get that. Sometimes he'd kind of blush and be happy about it. The guy who won, if he got it, he'd be like, it's unbelievable. Yes. It wouldn't be a compliment as much as it just is. They look a lot alike. I think it would be funny to go to the Jeremy Allen White cop. Like if I went dressed as him and in the, in the blue apron and in the white T shirt and then everyone was like kind of ignoring that I look nothing like him. Like I think that would be, I think it would be funny. Kind of like in the Chris, not what's his name? The Chippendales sketch. That's. To me you do it like the Chippendale sketch with the Chippendales SNL sketch where it's Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze and they're competing to be Chippendale's dancers. Like to me the funny bit would be showing up to the Jeremy Allen White lookalike concert contest. Totally serious. Being a Chris Farley type, you gotta be like a big guy and then just taking it totally seriously. That would be a hilarious bit. The winner, Ben Shabad also received a trophy and a crown. He also had a bit of help from a culinary pro bot had a few friends and family members urging him to enter. You have to be urged. Notably, he had the support of his stepbrother Josh Culp. The co chef and a co owner of Honey Butter Fried Chicken is a well known is well known in Chicago's restaurant scene. Josh is very influential in this process. This process. He was the first person to tell me about the competition, then let me have a blue apron to wear. You couldn't find what Shabbat writes in a text. So without him and his great team at Honey Butter, this would have been a normal weekend for me. The 37 year old Glenview man has been interviewed by the Sun Times, Tribune, BBC and other news organizations. Though he says he won't be quitting his job as a mental health therapist. It's have been really exciting couple of days. I didn't expect any of this, honestly. So I'm just trying to enjoy the ride. Enjoy the ride is hilarious. Culp, a big fan of the show, was proud of his stepbrother's win on Saturday afternoon and said he didn't have to do much to convince Shabbat to enter. I've always told him he looks like Carmi. I guess Carmi's his name in the show, culp said. When I saw the contest, I texted him immediately and told him that if he entered, he, if he entered, he'd win. I agree. I mean, this guy looks too much like him. After winning the crown, hoisted the crowd, hoisted Shabbat into the air, into onto their shoulders. However, he did not celebrate with an Italian beef sandwich. He headed back home to the suburbs to dine at Lefty's Pizza Kitchen in Wilmette. The competition was solid overall. Some of my competitors looked a lot like him, chipad writes. But they were a good group of people, not cutthroat. It felt like we were all part of the same team. Like, do you get together after that? And yeah, we're all keeping in touch. How do you guys know each other? We all kind of look like Jeremy Allen White. That's so we met at a Jeremy Allen White lookalike competition where a guy won a pack of cigarettes. That is funny. Sadly, though, temperatures only sagged to 50 degrees. Not freezing for a November day in Chicago. The event did not include an underwear competition. So what does Shabbat plan to do with the cigarettes? In an ideal world, smoke a with Jeremy Allen Whitey replies. I think here that's the thing. When Timothy shall be showed up to the Timothy Chalamet lookalike contest. That is like, you win. You are awesome. You. It would take a lot, you know, on this podcast, on this version of the podcast, we talk about like Q ratings, your likability index. Like, to me not to bring up Blake Lively again for a, you know, a 10th week in a row, but Blake Lively should have her. We talk a lot about Blake Lively's PR agent, trying to float that she's a fun and nice person, which seemingly no one believes, including this podcaster. If I was Blake Lively's PR agent, I would go around, put up flyers everywhere. We're having a Blake Lively lookalike contest. We're going to have it in Union Square. We'll do it in New York City. She's a New Yorker, but she's like livestream in Westchester. So whenever her limo picks her up to come down to the city one of these days and then she shows up to it and her and all her Blake Lively lookalikes, you know, and they give away something, you know, something funny, like from Gossip Girl. Was she in Gossip Girl? That would be funny. That would be. I think that is, like, the best. Yeah, she was in Gossip Girl. So you give away a Gossip Girl type thing or maybe do the lookalike as the Gossip Girls, you know, whatever that is. Man, these PR people should be coming to me now. This story is wild. Lamar Odom admits it's sick. He bought a sex doll resembling ex wife Khloe Kardashian. Now, Lamar and Khloe, the big story was when they dated, he kind of like, went. Disappeared, had drug issues. Like, his story is not. It's not a fun one. Khloe Kardashian's ex husband, Lamar Odom conceded it's a little off, quote, that he purchased a sex doll resembling his ex wife. I mean, a little off. How do people even know this? It's sick, he says. But I think we're all a little off, a little weird. The former Los Angeles Lakers player admitted during Tuesday's episode of the we're out of Time podcast. Okay, we official have too many podcasts. We have. People are a little too available also. That's not buying a sex doll that resembles your ex, who was a famous person in their own right, and then saying it's sick. But I think we're all a little off. Yeah, we're all. We all, like. I don't know, we all have, you know, eat a little too much. I don't. I don't know. To say we're all a little off. A little weird in reference to your sex doll that you purges. It's a little. You've kind of reduced this very weird thing into something we all do, which is not something we all do. Odom, who was married to the Kardashian star from 2009 to 2016, so they were married a while, went on to tell the host, Richard Tate, that the custom doll was in the process of being made. So he is making this. This is happening. They're going to make it to look like her. He said, I need, like, a harem. This is one of those things where he could go, yeah, I was joking, and I would be like, I hope you are. But when you're like, I need a harem, which I think a harem is like, he wants a bunch of Chloe dolls. What does a harem mean? The separate part. A harem in the former times. No, I want the harem. Is sometimes confused with haram. In a Muslim household, a harem is a part of a house set apart for women from which non family males are exclusive. Excluded harems existed in the pre Islamic civilization of the Middle east, in the courts of pre Islamic Assyria, Persia and Egypt. So what does it mean when a guy has an English what does it mean when a guy has a harem in English? The term harem can also mean the wives or concubines of a polygamous man. Yeah, so he wants to have a bunch of Chloe dolls to have sex with. These are sex dolls. This is this is a crazy story that he is sitting down and calmly talking about and admitted. The retired athlete, 45, also said he believes the doll is important for his mental health. I now we've gone now the mental health stuff has now the horses, the hay is in the barn, the horses left the barn. We have all lost our minds. We are calling everything mental health. Quote a sex doll that looks like your wife is about mental health? Tate wondered. For me it would be. Odom replied, how about you meet someone who resembles Khloe Kardashian? I just to get the sex doll is like it is wild how plainly he's talking about this. As for Odom, as for where Odom stands with the Kardashians, today he said, I don't speak to her but she cares about me. The former NBA star simply cited life as the reason for their distance. However, he he's more vague about their relationship than he is about the relationship he's about to have with a sex doll that is made like her. However, he claimed, I could text her and she'll reply. I mean yeah, I think she to me based on his kind of history with drugs and kind of disappearances and things like that. Yeah, he'll she'll answer because she's scared that you're going to like I would assume that you'd be scared that like she'd be responsible for you going off the deep end again. Earlier this month, Odom's manager, Gina Rodriguez, told TMZ that her client visited the real the real doll sex toy facility in Las Vegas. In town celebrating his birthday, he put in an order for a doll with voluptuous curves and facial features similar to Kardashians. According to his rep, Odom was excited about the lookalike because he can do this is crazy. This is a quote from his manager. I mean to me what are you hiding when you're this is the quote ready he can do whatever he wants with her sexually. So who's crazy? Him. Or they show a picture of Chloe Kardashian now from her Instagram where she's blonde, she looks like a different person now from when they were together. It is wild. But here's the thing. The manager is either like really bad at their job and they're as crazy as Odom is, or there's something worse here because when the, the manager, like you could just say he went to the real, like if the fear is that he was seen at the real self sex doll, real doll sex toy facility in Vegas and you go, oh my God, he was seen of pictures. How we can explain this? You go, he was given a tour as a celebrity. Like that is an easy one to like kind of brush off. But when you say he put in an order for, with, for a doll with quote, unquote voluptuous curves and facial features similar to the Kardashians. This is crazy. His rep was excited. According to his rep, this is their quotes. Odom was excited about the lookalike because, quote, he can do whatever he wants with her sexually. This is crazy. I mean, to me, if I see, I've always said, I've always felt for Chloe. She had the whole thing with the other guy where he was like sleeping around on her but having kids and then she was still kind of with him. I, I always thought, and this is insult to injury, just a story like this is embarrassing to her. I always thought she should move to an island and just be on an island. Like I've never. It is wild that story. We got one more sponsor, Hero Bread. The holidays are way better when you're not stressing out about carbs. With hero bread, get that soft, fluffy experience you love without the guilt. Hero products are not only delicious and super flavor, but they also only have 0 to 1 gram of net carbs, 0 grams of sugar and are high in fiber. Here's the thing. I love hero bread. It tastes delicious, but also it's letting you have the feeling of having bread without the guilt associated. You want efficient bread. That's what you want. You don't just want bread. 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If you're listening on Thursday, all my Australia, New Zealand dates are coming, coming, coming. Rochester as well. Okay. Pete Davidson's alleged bachelor fling shuts down dating rehab report. Pete Davidson's alleged bachelor fling shuts down dating and rehab report. Can't believe this shit. So I had heard about this story. The Bachelor alum Maria Gorgas shut down a recent report claiming Pete Davidson went to rehab for a second time this year following a brief romance with her. Now it is. This is. I have met Maria. I think Maria when she came to my show in Toronto, it was right around the time that she was really blowing up. And she was very nice. She came backstage, she came to the show. She was very nice and wonderful. I did feel. I never was. I never thought she was the hero. I thought she was a personality. And I. And I've always said that she was always a personality. I thought on the show she was someone. And I always compared it to like a call her daddy type of woman, hot girl that does what she wants and doesn't really apologize for it. And I didn't think she was as heroic on the show as she came out of it. I never saw what people really saw. You know, I saw someone who inserted themselves into someone else's insecurities and made it about them. Because if you remember, there was a girl that said that she felt insecure about being the oldest in the house. And then Maria kind of took that and ran and it turned into this whole story that it didn't have to be. And then another girl got involved who was more unlikable than Maria, and Maria stood up to her. And so it became like Alien versus Predator. Whoever won, we were going to lose. So the idea that her post bachelor life, I think it has been an interesting watch if I'm to. You know, I had heard rumors that she was going to be the Bachelorette and Then backed out very close to when the season began. And that's when Jen became the Bachelorette. I had heard those rumors. She came to my show with some friends. I was let down by that. They were told to stop talking many times, and then we're kind of talking during my set. And that was a letdown for me as someone who got them tickets and, you know, they had reached out to me. I was talking with Lexi from that season. We were DMing and she wanted to come to the show and brought her friends and I got them tickets, and I was kind of let down by all that. So as far as you know, I think she's a personality that, you know when it says the Bachelor alum Maria Gorgas shut down recent report claiming Pete Davidson went to rehab for a second time this year following a brief romance with her. I don't know what she's shutting down. Never dated Pete. So this is her quote. I also don't think it's fair to her to kind of insinuate because when the article and I saw the article, when you say Pete dates Bachelor alumni and then goes to rehab, you're kind of sort of insinuating that this is somehow her fault. And I disagree with that. I think that's a bad. That's a clickbaity thing that you're doing. So I can understand why that headline would make her mad. Like, hey, what the hell? Why am I even involved? You know, it could be Pete Davidson rehab. It doesn't have to involve her. Involving her is like a little weird if I. And in her defense, she writes, never dated Pete, false rumor. I'm friends with his sister. Case closed. Gorgas wrote on her Instagram story Tuesday. Just spoke to his sister. He's not in rehab and has been sober for months. The reality star continued in a second slide. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. To me, it seems as though in Maria, can't believe. And then she writes, can't believe this shit. It's very insulting to his recovery and my mental health. She added her and Lamar Odom using mental health just as frivolously as possible. And he's literally home. A source claimed to the U.S. sun Monday that Davidson had checked into rehab in Florida fairly recently, adding that he flew in on a private plane. The source went on to allege that he, the comedian, is in pretty bad shape this time around and not in a good place. Well, I know Pete a little bit, too. I know him from way back in the day. I know him Less now. That's sad to hear. According to the outlet, the alleged rehab stint was precedent, preceded by a secret relationship with Gorgas, 30, who appeared on Joey Grazaday season of the Bachelor earlier this year. See, I don't know why they would have a secret relationship. Why? Why would they? Why? I don't know. I. Davidson ended a fling with Maria just before he checked in, the source claim, noting that the alleged fling lasted up for a couple of months. However, a source close to Davidson echoed Gorgas's sentiments and assisted to Page Six that he's not in rehab. So we still haven't heard from him. We still don't know. We have one person who seemingly is upset that she's connected to him. I can understand, like if I. We reported in July that the Saturday Night Live star had checked himself into rehab for mental health treatment one month after he split from actress Madeline Klein. I mean, a source told People that at the time of Davidson's family and friends were happy to see him put his health and well being first. Earlier that month, the funny man revealed that one drug he could not stop using after getting clean from other substances. I can't quit weed yet. It's all I have left, he told the crowd on his rehab tour in Atlantic City. Well, I did coke and ketamine. I mean, they're quoting him on stage until I have. It's like crazy. I did coke and ketamine and fucking all the pills and all that shit. All I have is weed left. So it's almost over, but I'm holding on for a little longer. Yeah. So that's sad to read. I think. Here's the thing about this story, the Maria angle of it. It is interesting that when she refutes a story, she goes full nuclear. It's never nuanced. It's very Trumpian. It's very never dated. Pete. False rumor, exclamation point. I'm friends with the sister. Case closed. To me, if her response was, hey, it's a little shitty that a headline came out that somewhat makes it seem like I somehow drove him to rehab, that would be the. To me, the normal response. I do understand you can't give a normal response if you give. I think Maria kind of lives in this world. If you give any inch, they're going to take a mile. So she's got to come with fist punched 10 times forward. Like there were stories about her and Jen having a fallout, how they don't follow each other on Instagram or whatever it is. And when I saw that story, it was like, it was kind of like two people that were really like throwing haymakers across the Internet. And it seems that's her, like, kind of motto. But I do, when I read this article and you see the headlines, you go, yeah, that is kind of shitty to make it her problem if he's having problems. Because both things can be true. He could have checked into rehab. As they wrote, we don't know. And they could have dated, we don't know. Or they could have hooked up and it was nothing more than that. And to call it anything more would be like, annoying. I could understand that too. Mason Disick, 14, towers over Bomb Courtney Kardashian while on a grocery run Keeping up with Mason so this was like the first Kardashian kid, right? It was LD's kid, Lord Disick. Mason Disick, 14, towered over his mom Courtney Kardashian while shopping at Trader Joe's in Calabasas, California on Monday. The mother son duo appeared in good spirits for the out as they shared a laugh while reaching for a shopping cart. I mean, like it is crazy. I mean it's also crazy that I'm reading this story. Like this is part of my podcast. So I guess it is. You know, I'm not helping this dis except out wearing a black hoodie, black jeans and sneakers While the Kardashian star, 45, kept it casual in a blue hoodie and sweatpants. Kardashian, who shares the teenager with Scott X Scott Disick, who also joined by their 12 year old daughter Penelope Disick, the preteen sport. So now we're getting reports on what what these teenagers are wearing. Yeah, this is nothing. I just don't. This is the story. Here's another story about what people are wearing. Sabrina Carpenter covers up sequin mini dress with $350 coat for short and sweet to her after party. 350 for a coat isn't bad for someone that's a pretty good price coat and it looks good on her. Sabrina Carpenter keeps her dresses just as her album says, short and sweet. After her final Los Angeles show on Monday night. The Espresso singer, 25. She's 25, attending an afterparty at the Nice Guy in West Hollywood where she snapped in a where she snapped in a gold sequin mini with a plunging neckline and super short hemline. The sultry number was on brand for Carpenter who sports a series of similar metal mesh 2 piece looks on stage for her Short and sweet tour. Yeah, she's absolutely gorgeous. She's pinup. She's just like. It is like a painting. But the idea, you know, she's having, it says she covered up with a $375 wool coat from Ritzia. Is this an ad for aritzia and the $350 coat? Because everything Sabrina wears, if you're looking at her like outfits on stage, it is like untouchable. Could never buy it, could never wear it. I could understand how any, you know, woman at home is sitting there going, this is, you know, good for her. And then you bring up the coat and you go, oh, well, I can have a little piece of Sabrina by having the $350 code top the piece. The musician bundled up in Aritzia's slouch coat. Three look at, there's a link to it. I think this is an actual. This is an ad for the coat. And they probably get paid if you click through the ad to get to the coat to buy it. I mean, they show her in some of her stage outfits. Unbelievable. Christina Aguilera hit the stage to sing home some hits with Carpenter. And on Sunday night, comedian Marcelo Hernandez dressed as a Saturday live character. Domingo made a cameo. I saw that too. And that Domingo thing is huge on TikTok. Like, people really love it. And I didn't think the song or the sketch was like, so revolutionary, so funny. I think he looks kind of funny. I do think the song itself, the way he sings it, it's like, it's catchy. I saw someone comment that it scratches their brain in a certain way and I would agree with that. Like, I do think TikTok has this power over people where it's like the sound of it is like so much of the, of the draw of what becomes huge. Fans shouldn't cry because it's over. The tour kicks back off in Ireland next year. So she's done for the year. Jay Leno reveals nasty bruise on face after falling down a hill Landing on rocks two years after body burns yeah, Is Jay Leno okay? I'm sorry to laugh. I mean, he had this like burn incident and now they show him in a picture where he's wearing an eye patch. Jay Leno sporting a nasty bruise on his face after falling down a hill. What's he doing on a hill? Like he's an older man. This the comedian 74. 74 year olds shouldn't be on hills. They shouldn't be on rock. Faces arrived at Monday's Comedy for Kobe event in Beverly Hills, California, wearing an Eye patch with a massive bruise on the side of his face and a bandage around his wrist. He literally looks, he looks like he was in the Tyson fight. He explained to a TMZ pap that he had been staying at a hotel on top of a hill over the weekend when he wanted to visit the restaurant at the bottom. Instead of taking the designated mile and a half long path, mile and a half long path, he decided to go down the hill that was about 60 to 70ft high and didn't look that steep. I have to say, Jay Leno comes across. I've heard that he's like the nicest guy in the world. This is what everyone says, the nicest guy. And I know comedians. I know one where like he, back in the day he was faxing him jokes and then he called him and hired him out of nowhere. Like, like Jay. There are some amazing Jay Leno stories. And also there's a lot of hate with Jay Leno because back in the day it was like you were either a Letterman or a Leno guy. And Letterman, they, everyone felt that he got screwed. And Letterman was like the kind of the higher minded comedian and was kind of the absurdist where Leno was the mainstre. It was very Democrat and Republican. If you, if you kind of want to, you know, you know, if you want to boil it down to teams and. But the Leno stuff, I listen, I thought Leno did a great job of being the host. I thought he did a great job being a late night host. Now I heard way back in the day, like he was the standup that everyone was like, that's the guy. Like, everyone was like, that is one of the best standups. That is a writer. So he takes the work of being a standup comedian very seriously. The one thing I always thought was weird about Leno and this kind of goes into kind of the nature of this story, like for him to say the hotel and the hotel was on top of a hill. Yeah, this is my Leno impression. The hotel was on top of the hill and it was like a mile and a half steep mile and a half path that took you down to the restaurant. So I said, let's go down the hill, I'll go down. And then it was a little steeper than I thought. Like if that's his explanation, that's a weird. That is someone who doesn't know they're 74. That is someone who is, you know, has an ego. That, that is someone who, who isn't all totally aware is my opinion of that person and 70, I would go, 74. You're going down the. And I would point at the hill. I go, you want to go down that steep mountain That's. Is this a plant? This is your plan? Do you know how old you are? Look at you. Look how you walk on straight. On a flat path. The story about Leno that always drove me crazy was he would always talk about how he never spent his Tonight show money. He always brought. And this is a guy who's married with no kids, but he would always talk about every interview. And I don't know if people kept asking him about it. I know at a certain point it's a chicken or egg thing, but I do think that he had to have brought this up for people to keep asking about this. He would go, I never spend my Tonight show money. And it was like, to prove a point that he was a standup. Like, he really cared that people. He's like, I only spend the. And you'd be like, okay, well, where does all that other money go? You just have a bunch of checks that are on cash. Like, if I'm the NBC. If I'm NBC, I'm like, can you cash the checks so we can, like, do our own accounting here? Like. Or he's cashing the checks and you're putting it somewhere. The idea that you. Well, I never spent the Tonight show money. Okay? You have no kids, so what's. What the. What's that money doing? Did it go straight to a charity? Then if that's the case, good for you. But. And good for you for never mentioning the charity it goes directly to. Or is there just this Scrooge McDuck bank vault where you're swimming in NBC cash that you never spent? I just don't. I never understood why he had to keep bringing that up. I only. I only spend the money I make from Stand up. Okay, what now? What. What do you want us to do? You make a lot of money doing standup because you have the Tonight Show. So those are intimately connected. So I know you're bringing. But it goes back to him climbing down a rock face to get to the restaurant. You're like, oh, you need to prove some points. You are never going to say you're old. You are never going to say, yeah, the Tonight show matters to me. I guess. I don't know. I didn't mean for that to sound hateful of Jay Leno. I respect the career he's had. I've heard he's a nice guy. Okay, two More stories and then we'll get out of here on a mailbag Monday. Lindsay Lohan is in an age is an ageless icon in sheer plunging down in sheer plunging gown. Is this woman a witch? It says in quotes. Lindsay Lohan made her triumphant return to the big screen last year after a hiatus and she is keeping going with her upcoming holiday rom com. Our little secret. Let me just say Lindsay Lohan looks fantastic, this woman. And last night the star, 38, looked ageless at the Netflix's film premiere. NETFLIX FILMS PREMIERE IN New York City I saw her doing like, you know, you gotta hand it to her because she went from like the biggest star to kind of a joke. And then now you look at this picture of her, you're like, it's like none of that jokey stuff ever happened. Where she donned a sheer black dress from Zuhar Murad, spring 2025. So I saw her on Fallon and she was like funny and lively and it's like, I mean, she looks unbelievable. The Mean girls alum who recently dyed her hair. Her red hair, a light shade of strawberry blonde, shimmered in diamond bracelets and chunky rings, adding black platform peep toe heels. And it was her radiant beauty look, a courtesy of makeup artists. The makeup artist deserve Ash. Hello, Ash home. That got fans talking. I will say I don't know anything about makeup. This makeup artist deserves every amount of credit they get. I'm not saying I hope that doesn't sound like a downer to Lindsay Lohan, but like, you gotta go look at these pictures. It is like a painting. Is this woman a witch? One fan asked on X. That fan on X got, got the, got the, got the the title too. Another said she went and got her face snatched to the gods. Maybe she had a face, I don't know. She looks unbelievable. She's in a picture with some guy. Many others also reference the substance that Demi Moore film featuring an appearance enhancing drug. She does look incredible in that type of way where you're like, what are you doing? It is kind of one of those, oh, look at her. She was also joined by her mother, Lohan's husband, Bader Shamas. Bader Shamas, with whom she has a one year old son, stood by her side on the red carpet. She. She was also joined by her mother, Dina. Dina always looked good. And two brothers, Dakota and Michael. While her sister Aliana was absent from the event. I gotta say. Yeah, these are, they're long islanders. Good for Lindsay. I think it's gonna be to be a Child star and come out the other end. Over the summer, she was spotted filming Freaky Friday too. That's the movie where she's gonna, like, be back. I think. I think right now this is all a tease. Okay, we'll do a last story. Kind of sad, but kind of ridiculous. Dave Coulier defends John Stamos against backlash for wearing bald cap. For wearing a bald cap in solidarity with his cancer battle. So I saw this picture, and it was Dave Coulier who's recently found out that he has cancer. And it's John Stamos. And I saw it, I was like, did John Stamos shave his head? But I was like, it looked a little too, like, not shaven. And I kind of moved on with my life, to be honest. I wasn't like, oh, my God, is it bald cap? Is it not? I just didn't care. Dave Coulier is coming to John Stamos defense. The comedian, 65, clapped back at a bunch of negative comments. Negative comments via Instagram after his former full house costar, 61, was dragged for wearing a bald cap in solidarity amid Coolier's cancer battle. It's our friendship, and this is how we're handling a very tough time, he wrote on Tuesday. Humor is what drives me. I understand Dave defending John Stamos. Coulier praised Stamos for knowing how to cheer him up as he faces stage three non Hodgkin's lymphoma. I laughed out loud when he arrived wearing a ball cap. Okay, you walk in, you wear the ball cap. Being a true loving friend and brother, he continued wishing haters nothing but love. The impressionist, who revealed his diagnosis on the Today show last week wrote that he has since received messages from people inspired by his words and actions to say they're going to check in with their doctors. So I saw the picture it, here's what I'll say. Coolier added, I'm still going to laugh in the face of adversity when I lost my sister Sharon, my mother Arlene. Oh, and my niece Shannon to cancer. Oh, this is horrific, we try to say. But no, there's nothing to say for anyone looking to be mean to John Stamos because he took a funny picture with his friend. Going through a tough time is like crazy. We made each other laugh through the worst of it. So I'm choosing to spread the word about early cancer detection to help people, the actor concluded. That's just who I am. Stamos, for his part, has yet to address the backlash. Here's the thing people do shave their heads to act in solidarity with a friend going through cancer treatments. I think that's a beautiful, wonderful thing. I also think it's a beautiful, wonderful thing that John Stamos and Dave Coulier are friends. And I think the reason people get angry or lashing out at Stamos is like, oh, look at you. You care more about your good looks than you do the friend. But it's like he could have just not even. They could have no relationship at all. I don't know. It's weird to, like, judge that I'm Team Stamos on this one, even though I can. I do. I know where these people are coming from with their anger, but I think anyone would look at them and go, who are you to judge? It's just, it's crazy. Stamos promised an Instagram tribute Wednesday that he will be by his Fuller House co star side through it all. Yeah, like, that's the thing. Like, what would you rather. I'm not saying it's one or the other, but is it, hey, you know, he shaves his head, gets a photo and then never sees him again, or he wears the ball cap and they actually are friends and he is there for him and brings him soup and all those things. You don't know. This makes me angry at the Internet. Free John Stamos, Dave Coulier, I wish you well and I hope you get well soon and feel better. From the J Train podcast to you. All right, Pop Culture Thursday. Back next week, boom.