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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 Free coming along from Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Thursday is a Pop Culture Thursday where I go to Page Six, I read some headlines and then I riff. I go to the article, we read it together. I chose some headlines. This week I got, I think eight. And I love doing this podcast. I love doing Pop Culture Thursday. It feels like a, like a improv workout. So I hope you enjoy it as much as I like doing it. A great way to show that is to follow the Instagram at J Train Podcast. Well, I, I can feel the love. I, I gotta a very nice message on Patreon about how much someone loved Pop Culture Thursday. That's cool to hear because I just don't know. These all generally do very similar. As far as numbers are concerned, I'd like the numbers to go up. I'd like you guys to share the show or tell a friend. 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We love giving out free money here on the podcast. And we got some. Let's go to the articles. I, I, I picked these out. I like this headline because it confuses me. Julia Fox clarifies her sexuality after coming out as a lesbian. To me, you say, I'm a lesbian. We get it. What's to clarify? Isn't that the whole, like, julia Fox, I'm a lesbian. Cool. You like to be with women. Good to, I guess. Good to know. I don't even think it's good to know. It's just, okay, that's something I know now. That's something that's in my head. I will expect to see Julia Fox holding hands with a woman walking down the red carpet. Fine. I think it's weird when you say, you cla, you have to clarify sexuality after coming out as a lesbian. You go to me, I'm like, okay, who is asking for that? You know, you go, you go, who's being annoying about that? Because to me, if someone says, I'm straight, I'm bi, I'm a lesbian, I am. This is how I identify. All right, cool. There's nothing more to be said to me. If I came back at you and was like, what does that mean? I would be annoyed. That's me being annoying. And this is like one of those things that you're like, who's attacking who? I would think, because I do think people protect their communities. Maybe when I see this, when you have to clarify, I would think the LGBTQ community is sitting there going, hold on. You want to be in this group? We need Some like it is interesting in a world where we like see things in black and white. And you're like well that side hates this side for this reason and that reason. This does kind of turn it on its head where you go and again, I haven't read the article. Maybe I'm wrong. That's okay. I'm okay with being wrong. I'm just saying to me it would be people in the group going hold on, you want, you want to be saying you're this. We need some explanation here. Julia Fox identifies as pansexual. What is pansex? I'm sorry, Pansexual. She really likes hellofresh. Pansexual. Meaning. Let me google is sexual, romantic or emotional attraction towards people of all genders or, or regardless of their sex or gender identity. I guess that's not bi. Because you're saying it's not just the. Not just male. Female. You. You're just. It doesn't. Pansexual. People may refer to themselves as gender blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determinant factors in the romantic or sexual tra. Okay, so you like anything in the pan. Is that this makes me sound. I'm not trying to be dumb. One year after coming out as a lesbian, the actress clarified to allure that she could be attracted to anyone and anything. Anything in the wide ranging interview public. Anything. I don't think, I mean this is where you get. I get uncomfortable because I'm like I'm not looking to offend anyone with my stupidity. I'm here, I'm here listening, learning. I am talking while learning. So I do understand where someone be like just shut the fuck up. But I, I don't know. In the wide ranging interview public. I just think this is like very confusing to everyone whether people admit it or not. And if you don't admit it, I think you're like trying to like just not get involved because to say I could be attracted to anything, this is like to me that's like a bad premise for like a hacky joke like anything. What's next, you in the couch and it's like no, no, no, that's not, that's not what you know, the, the I don't know. In the wide ranging interview published Tuesday, the 35 year old explained if it were just down to the physical, I'm more attracted to the female body. Men don't do it for me at all physically. I okay, so I. That's okay. I just. That to me that makes you a lesbian. No. However, Fox noted that she could be attracted to a man's mind because she is a vibes person. She I don't think she should be the spokesman for all spokesperson for all of this. I think this is one of those interviews that like someone goes, you know, it makes it turns you off to the community a little bit. The uncut gem star went out to went on to say that she has never gotten full and never gotten to full relationship status with a woman despite definitely having crushes and doing some stuff. See, to me that means you like I would go, hey, why don't you figure this out? This is important to people. You're kind of, you're working through this. Fox can't see why a man would be beneficial in her life. I mean this is such a page six article because they are pulling out very right wing like rage bait. Can't see why a man would be beneficial in her life. Like that is something to like anger Long island, you know, man who reads page six and no longer wishes to entertain them. Yeah, this is page Six trying to get a rise out of people. I always find it funny because that's pretty obvious to me. That's rage Beatty stuff like she doesn't see how could a man entertain me in some construction work or reach Page six is like, God damn you, Julia Fox. Instead, Fox is laser focused on being a good mom to son Valentino, on being a good provider, on making her dreams come true. I mean that's a different story. Her wanting to be a good mom is different story than I'm attracted to everything but not a man's body. The model notably shares her four year old child with her ex husband Peter Artemiev, with whom she was married from 2018 to 2020. They show pictures of her. She's got like 17 different looks. I didn't know she had dark hair. Now sometimes she's got eyebrows, sometimes she doesn't have eyebrows. They show her with Peter who and they show her she's got range with Peter and show her with Kanye. Fox who briefly, briefly dated Kanye west in 2022, revealed that she was, she was that lesbian, but promised it won't happen again. I mean, Julia Fox, there's got to be. I would understand if I am in the lesbian community that I'm like Julia, let, let's let someone else tell. Take the mic. I I that story, even that story was a mess. I'm more confused about Julia Fox's sexuality after she cleared it up. TikTok star John Crawley, known as King Beard x dead at 47 now I don't know John Crowley's work. I'm not a King Beard X follower. I this is one of those that I personalize. I don't want to be known as my social media handle or funny nicknames I've given myself because I TikTok star John Crowley known as King Beard X I I I all I can think of is Jared Freed, known as Board Lord Dead is dead. Jared Freed, who's known who has been known to say I love them titties dead at whatever age. Like, I don't want my most embarrassing. It's like when someone repeats a joke you do or repeats. Jared Freed, comedian known for the Known for, like I don't know, for screaming. Like, I know. It's like when you retell someone's joke and you, you want to make it offensive. You. All you have to do is change the tone. So that's kind of how like I don't want in death to be remember? I I don't I want to be. How about we we should all be able to write our own death headlines because I did see Tik Tok star John Crawley. There was another version of this title that was on another website that said whose comedy and fun brought, you know, whose comedy brought love and joy to the world. That is a beautiful send off. Not hey, King Beard X is dead at 47. I I just TikTok star John Crawley, known as King Beard X, has died at the age of 47. Very sad, by the way. Okay, I'm looking at him. He does have a King beard. Crawley's former podcast co host and friend Anthony Caruso shared the news Tuesday on a GoFundMe page that has been set up earlier this month for the social media star's medical expenses. I'm really sorry to tell everyone the bad news, but pimp Monk X again, they gotta stop. How about his name? John? How about John? We can switch it up in death. We don't need to go by handles. Passed away yesterday. Caruso wrote in a brief update thanking those who had contributed to the fundraiser so far. So where's that money going? I guess to the burial feeds or fees. Caruso noted that Crawley's mother told him to thank you all and added that the fundraiser will go on to support fundraising and funeral. Helping John's mother, Caruso had set up the go. I mean, this is why you need a wife. This is. Or a spouse because no one's taking care, you know, with the. So you need, you need a spouse that's around your Age, because this is friend and former co host from podcast is not who I want in charge of putting out the word that I've passed. Like, if you know Jordana Abraham yet Jared's Jordana I trust to give care with my my passing. I just think a spouse is, like, worried about how they look a little bit more. So they're going to be like, Jared has passed not as this guy wrote it. Pimp face. Pimp Monk X. Why did he call him Pimp Monk X? And then King Beard X is also a name. Jared, the wizard of Ha. Board Lord. Yeah, all of my names would be very embarrassing in death. How about you play this when I die? That me being angry that anyone used a nickname that I. I know I gave myself these nicknames, but I, I, I gave them to me so that I could use them in a funny tone. I don't want them used in my death. John is currently in the icu. This was before he passed away. Caruso had set up the GoFundMe for Crawley, who had amassed over 3.5 million followers on Instagram and TikTok. Wow. John is currently in the ICU located in the state of Mississippi and is struggling to breathe. Oh, they show him without the beard. The beard was the way to go. Him with the goatee, not as good a look. John is the main breadwinner for his family, and unfortunately, he doesn't have medical insurance. I mean, what's he doing if you. He continued adding that Crowley's condition was quite unstable and that family and friends were worried about him. Who's the breadwinner for? If he went to the hospital, he was having trouble breathing. Doctors put him on a ventilator. He went to pass. We went past. Okay, so then they get into, like, the sadness. I mean, this is. Sounds like Covid. And I'm not gonna say he looks like a guy who wouldn't take the vaccine, but I'm just saying. Crowley was known for his comedic social media reactions to people consuming meals, his sharp wit, and his distinctive long beard. I can't. I'm sorry. I think there's nothing more embarrassing. I keep thinking of me. Jared was known for screaming at the Bachelor and liking charcuterie. No, I. I gotta. I think I need a relationship. I need someone. Why'd you get a girlfriend to make sure that my death wasn't embarrassing. Let's do another one. Um, before we do, I am on the road. If you're listening to this, this weekend, I'm in San Francisco. San Francisco Tickets are going quickly. Listen, it is a late purchasing world. Denver, we didn't get to the sellout until the week of and usually I get it before San Francisco. I can, I'm being told these tickets are going fast now. They were like, oh, all of a sudden people started getting so go get your tickets, assemble the group chat. I am also going to be in Providence, Winnipeg, Kansas City, Richmond, DC, Milwaukee, and then we've added Fort Lauderdale and Tampa. Jaredfree.com Jared Free.com also the YouTube channel. Go follow it. Go like and go watch these stand up clips I'm putting up every Saturday. Jay Cutler claims reckless ex Kristen Cavallari lied about divorce settlement. Borderline slander. Well, that means it's not slander. That's his way of telling, telling you how much it annoys him. Jay Cutler I will say this. Jay Cutler has, I mean there was the whole Jay Cutler face at one point. He has douchebag face. He always looks miserable. He looks like someone you wouldn't want to have a conversation with or that you would think is annoying. But I will say he does kind of represent the plight of the male Internet personality if I'm to give him any empathy. I don't know what happened with him and Kristen Cavallari, but I'm saying Kristen goes on and spills. You know, every week there's a Kristen Cavallari story here. And I don't think Jay would get away with divulging things about his relationship with Kristen in the way Kristen gets away with it. And that probably drives him crazy. Jay as far as support system is concerned, Jay Cutler claimed his reckless ex wife, Krista Cavallari lied about not receiving any money from him in their divorce settlement. Jay Cutler says, let's think of this logically. Not a penny. Okay? Married for, I don't know, seven years or so, three kids. I mean, Jay does not really do a great job of helping us to his side. When you describe, oh, married for a few years or whatever, what do we got? Three, five, two kids? I don't know. That's not really helping. Jay Cutler is known for like the Jay Cutler face. This, this was like an NFL meme for a long time. Smoking Jay, he's got a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Like that was like always. The thing with Jay is that he didn't care enough for football fans. But now he's in this like social media world, which I don't even know why he's in social media. If I'm Jay, this guy made. You can go and see how much I made in the NFL. He says this on the podcast. You can say go and see how much I made in the NFL. It's online. You can see the contract from year to year and the total amount at the end of 12 years. He added, I mean so you go to divorce and each side gets a lawyer and then you go to court and there's a Judge Cutler who earned approximately $127.9 million during his 12 year NFL career. Okay, Jay, Jay, get off the Internet. This isn't for you. You're not going to win. Here's the thing and this is where like Jay's face, not helpful. Jay's demeanor, not helpful. Jay's general outlook on life, probably not helpful to his cause. And I'm sure he does get cheered on by a certain segment of a audience that he is cheered on enough where he can't believe anyone has an issue with him. But it in the world of social media and this is kind of why we're as divided as we are like you're not going to win this one. Kristen Cavallari, I don't think that she's a honest person. I don't think she's a trustworthy source. When she says that she didn't get a dime from the divorce. I am sure that it is some form of I didn't do as well as I think I should have done considering I was married to a guy who, who made $127.9 million. She also has her own company, the Uncommon James, and that I'm sure does great and she wants full credit for it. But here's the thing. When you say I didn't get a dime from Jay Cutler, you're basically saying he's a deadbeat dad, that he's not owning up to his responsibilities. So I can understand why Jay Cutler on the other side of that is going it wants to rail back. But you're not going to win that war. You're not going to win. You are, you are douchey looking dad who, who didn't give enough money to Kristen Cavallari. And again like what, what would be enough? I if I'm Cutler. Because he then says not a judge in the state of Tennessee would have signed off on a divorce agreement that would allow him to keep every single dollar he made during their marriage. The former Chicago Bears quarterback, 42 and I'm sure he made a lot of his money prior to them getting married. So she's looking at the full on when you're married to someone, you have the full 127 when you're divorced from them. Okay, when did that start? Oh, well, he made like 30 million at the end of his career. So that's the Kristen Cavallari. You get half the 30 million. Here's your 15 million. She's going, what the fuck? So I do understand why she's annoyed at the system, but to say that Jay. And again, they both got lawyers, they both did, went to court, they did the whole thing. That's probably what she's annoyed by. And that's just, I mean, again, that's the discussion that's not going to happen online. And this brings me back to my point. Jay Cutler, if I'm you, put on the viori sweatpants, put on the golf shirt, take care of your kids, bring them to, you know, football practice, go play nine holes and then come home and work out. And that's your day. Like, I, I, if I'm Jay Cutler, disappear, you know, hook up with a new chick on, you know, from, you know, the, the Red Door Tavern every night. And that's your life. Like, whoa, what do you need this? Why does he need a podcast after he's made $127 million? Why? And again, this is me being bitter. Podcaster from my Del Rey kitchen. The former Chicago Bears quarterback, 42, said the Laguna beach alums skincare and jewelry company Uncommon James was a marital asset because it was created during their union. Okay, well, that tells you everything. That and look at, they got a. The picture of Jay is him in a Gulf of America hat. The Gulf of Mexico, renamed Gulf of America, he's wearing. So the Jay Cutler wants to be disliked, wants to have divisive conversations. And if she started the company during their marriage, he's basically, that's if I'm Kristen, that would annoy me. She starts, he makes 127 million before they get married. Then she starts a company after they get married, her company gets split up differently than his.127. Yeah, those are the breaks, kid. But again, to go back, I go back and forth on this because I'm a normal person who has normal conversations. I'm not sitting here in let me gain a follower because I wear a Gulf of America hat. That's the business Jay Cutler's in now, which makes me even more angry at Jay Cutler. J train podcastmail.com okay, let's move on. This next story is a follow up to a ticked off Tuesday. We got, we got a ticked off Tuesday about t Shirt gun etiquette and how people act with a T shirt gun. And during that rant I said that the T shirt gun. With great power comes great responsibility. That people are changed by a T shirt gun. There's I think when a T shirt gun shows up it has the equivalent effect of doing a line of cocaine. I think people become literally consumed by I need the T shirt. And we said and then the people wielding the T shirt gun, they have a lot of power. Ultimate power, ultimate corruption. And this is something I said before and now this story comes out and I am so interested. Woman in her 50s allegedly bit child six in Hampton's tussle over free concert T shirt. This is unbelievable. A woman in her face bit a six year old. This is how dangerous a T shirt gun is. A T shirt gun will make people into someone they didn't know they were. A T shirt gun. And I'm not letting her off the hook. I think she needs jail time. I think you bite a kid. But they're on the Hamptons. Talk about the dog days of summer. Love you. Page six. Page six hears that Hampton's cops are investigating claims that a woman in her 50s bit a 6 year old child in a tussle to claim a free T shirt at a concert. This is unbelievable. Sources out he said the alleged incisive incident. I guess that's a teeth thing. I don't know. Happened at the Tuesdays on the mate happened at the Tuesdays on main beach event in East Hampton last week. So they. Okay, so they show a picture of this, the guy with the T shirt gun. It looks like a more of a T shirt Glock is firing it out at people at the beach and it's like golden hour. They show the deck with the music and there's a crowd. I mean this is like one of those summer events that they show people going for the T shirt gun. T shirts look at and they're mauling one another. This is not the T shirt gun. It seems that organizers of the popular family it seems that organizers of the popular family friendly free concert series use T shirt cannons to fire the favors into the audience. There is no reason for them to have a T shirt cannon. This is a deck above the beach or where you could easily throw the T shirts to the people on the beach. There is no reason. During. During last week. During last Tuesday's event headlined by 80s cover band Rubik's Cube, a molar mole alleges a six year old kid grabs one of the T shirts. But a a 6 year old kid grabs one of the T shirts, but a 57 year old woman battles him for the T shirt and he prevails. But not before she bites him in the arm to get the upper hand. Wild. This is what T shirt guns do to people. I'm not again, not letting her off the hook, but I'm saying I don't think she bites a kid, a six year old, if there's no T shirt gun. A second source said the child was treated by medics and that cops have a suspect, have a suspect in the matter. And then they show a guy with the T shirt gun. He has it propped up like he is heading out pheasant hunting. Like this T shirt gun changes the shooter. It changes the people on the beach. It is to me, this is 50% and amen. The T shirt gun's fault. It ups the ante. Everyone is on T shirt gun drugs. When it comes out, that gun comes out, people are like. And then the guy behind is like, who wants a T shirt brought to you by Chase Bank. Who wants some bitch? The event, which is organized by the East Hampton Village Foundation. I mean, the East Hampton Village foundation should not have a wall of T shirt guns. Hey, we got the tunes on the beach event. Get your guns. Like, are they suiting up for battle? And supports various local charities. Is in its fourth year and is said to draw 2,000 to 5,000 people each week during its summer run. As the concert starts, patrons can enjoy swimming with the safety of lifeguards on duty and the ability to grab dinner right on the beach. As the beach hut closes at 8pm when the concert concludes, says the event site. If you're lucky, you may catch a limited edition concert T shirt for attending the T shirt canon. If you're lucky, you may catch a limited edition concert T shirt for attending from the T shirt canon. This is wild. So they have this like fun sunset hang. Come to the beach, we'll have some music, grab some dinner. And then at the end, and they're not helping this East Village Hampton. East Hampton Village foundation is not helping matters. Oh, and then we have a limited edition T shirt that you can't find anywhere else that's gonna be shot at you at 50 miles per hour. And it's like, you're not helping. No one is helping. And now you have this woman who's hopped up on limited edition T shirt and T shirt cannon foaming at the mouth. I better get a T shirt because I want to bring it home for my kids. And it's gotta be mine. And then all of a sudden this little six year old gets the T shirt and she's like, this is crazy. This is crazy. She's gotta get jail time. You gotta get jail time. You can't. We need, I need a picture of this woman. Or apparently you may be mauled by a partially domesticated middle aged lady. They show the guy firing off the T shirt gun again. This T shirt gun is a big part of this event. They got pictures. Cops told us they're not yet ready to release information about the matter. We need the J train podcast will not stop with this story. We will be following up. We need to see the woman. She needs to go to jail. You need therapy. You need like to do the issue with this, the, the law enforcement becomes very like, you know, this is where, you know, the rich and the poor get divided. If this happens at any other event, if that bad bunny in Puerto Rico, someone bit someone else in the crowd, they're thrown into jail, they're pressing charges, there are consequences. I don't care that this is on East Hampton and she bit a child. She needs to go to jail for at least a month. She needs to go to therapy. She needs to do public. You know, she can't be allowed around a T shirt gun ever again. A wild story. Let's do another. I, I just, I can't love that story more. I, I, I, I feel bad for the kid, but I really just can't be more in love with the story. Fearless Austin Butler rec. This is a crazy headline. Fearless. Austin Butler rescues Zoe Kravitz from aggressive B at K caught stealing London premiere. This is such a crazy headline. Fine. You want to call Austin Butler fearless for getting in the way of a B. To call the be aggressive is like actually crazy. Greer Barnes who's like one of the funniest people ever and one of those comics that you can see at the Cellar all the time. He has a, a bit about honeybees and African bees and it's so funny and it's kind of on this topic. But to give the bee a personality, like there's no chill be. Like if a bee landed on Zoe Kravitz's shoulder and Austin and then smoked a J, you wouldn't be like awesome chill. Be was kind of just hanging at the London premiere like and Austin Butler and him became good friends. Like to call the be aggressive is just a little much. Austin Butler didn't let a potential bee sting deter him from protecting his caught stealing co star Zoe Kravitz. The actor, 34, intervened. He's 34. I gotta say, I thought Austin Butler was 25. I thought him and Chalifo or Shalom Chalamet were like same saying. Kravitz and Butler both attempted to wave the bee away from her face during the Critter Focused. Before the Critter focused attention on the Elvis star, Butler then gazed at the bee flying around him before it buzzed off. We have gotten to the bottom of the barrel of stories. They do show a picture of the bee flying with Zoe and Austin's looking at it like, oh, look at the cute bee. Like, he is fearless. I will say this way more fearless than I assumed he would be. He is doing A. He is looking at the be lovingly. It is not how I would look at the B. I would be. This would emasculate me to no ends if they caught a picture of me on the red carpet. They. It would be like Jared free. Jared Freed flees in fear from B. That was just chilling. It would be like me, like, waving hands around. You would like. It would like the face I would make. I would literally go down as the most unfuckable person alive. I would make Time's most unfuckable list if they got pictures of me with a be. So this shows. I mean, there's one picture where Austin Butler is literally, like putting his hand out for the beat of land on it. Yeah, he is fearless. I'll give it to him. Now here's a headline where I don't know what to think because I feel bad that anyone got injured. Tamar Braxton, who. I don't know who that is. Found in a pool of blood. Oh, my God. With fractured nose. Oh, my God. Missing teeth. Oh, my. After mysterious near death experience. Okay, this is a story. The headline was different a minute ago because I. The headline was Pray for me where she's saying to pray for me, but I. Okay, I. That's why I picked it out. Tamar Braxton revealed that she woke up in a pool of blood after a mysterious, near fatal accident left her with a fractured nose and missing teeth. I struggled to write this, but everyone keeps calling me and honestly, I can't even really talk anymore. I'm so weak. The singer wrote via her Instagram stories. Tuesday, I almost died. Sunday, I was found in a pool of blood from my friend with a face injury. As the days go by, the worse it is. I fractured my nose, lost some teeth and mobility. I mean, this is what happened. I mean, she wrote it on a Instagram story. The way I look at life right now is totally different. Braxton48 added. As my health is on the mend, my mental journey begins. Pray for me for real. Here's the thing I need to know. When you do a. When it's a mystery of how this all happened, I'm going to reserve prayer. Like, listen, I don't wish this on anyone. I don't know their TV personality, but when I see Pray for Me like that, I would never like. If I listen, if I fell on my bike and fell on my face and knocked out some teeth, that would be a horrible injury that I would have to deal with. Even then I would tell people what happened and then I wouldn't say, pray for me. I would, I would say, I would say nothing. I would say, yeah, I'm an idiot, I fell, but I don't know what happened. Again, I just think the pray for me thing that takes a level of confidence. You're asking for people who just follow you on Instagram to pray for you. Dear God, please help this person I've never met who I. And again, people pray for other people. I listen, I, I think the better way to put it is good vibes appreciated. That would be my. A loving some good vibes right now. Yo, shake your hands at the sun. I don't know if that helps, but you know, that would be nice. I don't know. All right, last story. We had a. Some technical difficulties, so I had taped like half this episode. So I, I think I said I had eight stories, we're going to do one more and then second half got cut off, so I redid the second half. This is me being upfront and honest or not upfront, because I would have said in the beginning, but we, we did a little retaping. Not the beginning, in the middle we got a little cut off. Chris Martin defends keeping the Coldplay kiss cam at concerts despite astronomer CEO debacle. Here's the thing, we talked about a T shirt cannon. When a woman bites a six year old child at a beach party because they were trying to get the T shirt from the cannon, that to me is enough of a story to say, hey, we gotta be done with the T shirt cannon. And if I'm in the East Hampton, I gotta like rethink my T shirt cannon usage. It is doing something to people. I'm not letting that woman off the hook. She bit a child. But I have to take some responsibility of. Let's change our events so that we. Again, limited edition t Shirts going to be shot at you at 50 miles per hour. Okay, we might have up the ante a little bit. Chris Martin doing the kiss cam after a guy gets caught. A guy and a woman, both of them cheating on their spouses. That is not the fault of the kiss cam. That is not the. This is not. A guy tried to light his shoe on fire. So now we make you take off your shoes at TSA Pre. This is different. Do not like, honestly, who are the people that are against the kiss cam now? Wouldn't it look like you're cheating on your spouse? Hey, we got to get rid of this kiss cam. We're getting caught with our mistresses everywhere. We got to get rid of this. Like, who's that person? Chris Martin has no plans addition to kiss cam at Chris Martin has no plans to ditch the kiss cam at Coldplay concerts after now the now viral moment Chris Martin has no plans to ditch the kiss cam at Coldplay concerts after the now viral moment when he caught the former astronomer CEO Andy Byron allegedly cheating with the company's former HR chief, Kristin Cabot. Well, she was cheating too. Let's make sure that gets said. We've been doing the Jumbotron thing a long time. It's only recently that it became. Yeah. The front man told the crowd at the band's Music of the Spheres world tour stop in Hull, England on Monday. Life throws you lemons and you've got to make lemonade. So we're going to keep doing it because we are going to meet some of you. Keep doing it, Chris. Do not stop the kiss cam. This is not your fault. This is not the kiss cam's fault. People need to know there's a kiss cam going around. If you're going to cheat, do it in the bathroom. Do it on your own time. Don't ruin a cool, fun thing. We like the kiss cam. We like to see the couples. We like to judge the couples. We like to judge whether they're in love with each other or not. We like to see if they're mismatched and one is hot and oh my God, he's with her. He must have money. We like to do these things. Don't ruin our day. We like to look at an old couple kissing. We like an old couple frenching. We go, oh, my God, they're kinky. We do not ruin this for us, Chris Martin. Because if you back down, then the kiss cam is gone from everywhere. Then we lose the look alike cam. Nothing better than the look alike cam. When the person puts movie characters next to people in the crowd that look alike this Chris Martin, you have a responsibility. Keep this Kiss cam. We need this pop culture Thursday back next week. Boom.
This Pop Culture Thursday sees Jared Freid riffing through handpicked wild and weird stories from Page Six and beyond. He covers everything from Julia Fox’s confusing sexuality updates, TikTok star King Beard X’s passing, Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari’s messy divorce money talk, the animalistic frenzy surrounding T-shirt guns, to the viral drama of Coldplay’s infamous kiss cam outing cheaters.
Jared blends hot takes, relatable humor, and a persistent plea for common sense and empathy—while occasionally admitting when he’s just as confused by these headlines as the rest of us.
“I’m not trying to be dumb. One year after coming out as a lesbian, the actress clarified to Allure that she could be attracted to anyone and anything. Anything?...This is like, to me, a bad premise for a hacky joke. Like: what’s next— you and the couch?” (18:55, Julia Fox riff)
“How about we should all be able to write our own death headlines? ...I don’t want in death to be remembered...by handles.” (27:20)
“Jay’s face, not helpful. Jay’s demeanor, not helpful...But in the world of social media—you’re not going to win this one.” (36:10)
“A T-shirt gun will make people into someone they didn’t know they were...With great power comes great responsibility.” (44:54)
“To call the bee aggressive is just actually crazy.” (55:37)
“That takes a level of confidence...You’re asking for people who just follow you on Instagram to pray for you.” (58:59)
“Do not stop the kiss cam. This is not your fault. This is not the kiss cam’s fault. People need to know there’s a kiss cam going around. If you’re going to cheat, do it in the bathroom.” (1:02:32)
| Time | Segment | |-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 15:21 | Julia Fox’s sexuality and pansexual confusion | | 26:35 | TikTok star King Beard X obituary and social media legacy | | 34:21 | Jay Cutler vs. Kristin Cavallari: Divorce settlement drama | | 43:15 | T-shirt gun bedlam: Woman bites child for a freebie at a beach concert | | 55:05 | Austin Butler “fearlessly” rescues Zoe Kravitz from a bee | | 57:42 | Tamar Braxton’s mysterious accident and the “pray for me” dilemma | | 1:01:42 | Coldplay’s Kiss Cam continues despite cheating scandal controversy |
Jared moves expertly from eye-rolling pop culture fatigue to genuine empathy, all with a stand-up’s wit and a knack for exposing hypocrisy and absurdity. He pokes fun but never gets mean, often looping each story back to a relatable human experience or his own neuroses.
Final Note:
For more wild headlines and unapologetically honest takes, catch Pop Culture Thursdays on The JTrain Podcast. And if you see a T-shirt gun in the wild—watch your arms (and your kids).