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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 Jay Train Jared Freed coming to you live from New York City. That's right, every Thursday is a Pop Culture Thursday where I go to Page Six and I read some headlines and then we riff on the articles. That's the show. If you have a Pop Culture Culture Thursday article that you want me to discuss, send it to j train podcast mail.com. that's the best way to get involved with the show. Just title it Pop Culture Thursday and I can get to it. I can say these are users submitted. So I don't have any users submitted. Today I went to Page six. I picked out some headlines. Kind of a slow news day, but I'm taping this, to be honest with you. I know that people like when these are taped as close to Thursday as possible. I'm on the road, I'm taping some you up podcasts here in New York. So tomorrow is kind of a big filming day. So I'm taping this on Tuesday the 16th and I'm going to go with the stories I've got. I there's still some good ones. Don't worry. We're going to make. We're going to make this a show. We're going to make this a show. So I'm going to get one ad. We have one advertisement. It is in the bio of this episode if you want to be reminded of it. If you think later, oh, wait a minute, I, I'd like to use Prize Pick especially this weekend. It's a app that is fantastic for getting yourself involved with the game. Here, I'll do it real quick. Prize Picks, that's who we're sponsored by. This episode is brought to you by Prize Picks. You and I make decisions every day. But on Prize Picks, being right can get you paid. Don't miss any of the excitement this season on Prize Picks, where it's good to be right. It's easy to play. Pick more or less on 2 to 6 player stat projections and if you're correct, you could win some serious cash. 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And, you know, we don't like hearing that our fun reality show characters are business people. But they are. And this is about M O N E Y. So here's the honest answer that Paige can't say. I make more money from doing my podcasts and our live shows and our sponsored content than I do on the show and I don't need the show anymore. That would be the. The version. She can't say it is a waste of my time to do these shows with these peasants. I am a star and I get paid more to leave the house to go talk about whatever skin cream I'm talking about than it does for me to spend 12 hours on TV talking to Kyle about all the problems he has in his life. I don't need the honest answer was would be I don't need this as much as Kyle needs this. Hopefully he saved his money so that he can pay for his future. When this show ends, I'll be just fine. Like I would love. I would love if we got like evil version. Evil, honest version. Because here's what it's going to say and I haven't read the article yet. When it says Paige desorbo reveals why she left Summerhouse. It's going to say, I'm just looking towards future opportunities and concentrating on my brand. It's going to be like that. It's going to be soft. But the real reason would be I make too much money for these losers and I'm not doing 12 hour shoot days anymore because it is a long day to shoot a reality show. Okay. Paige desorbo reveals why she really left Summerhouse. It's and again, really left makes it sound gossipy. Paige the Sorbo haven't had an overwhelming sense that she could Paige the Sorbo had an and this is in quotes, overwhelming sense that she couldn't go back to Summer House. She told Birdie at a new cover story. I don't know what Birdie is, but I saw the photo shoot that her and Hannah had and it was like a beautiful, glossy shoot. But I didn't. Birdie made it sound like they were Vogue. I mean, it was like, did this just start yesterday? I know I would have been doing a disservice to the show. They expect a certain level of showing up. Right. I'm right. And I couldn't give them that. Yeah, that's her saying I couldn't do 12 hour shoot days because the money wasn't as good as the other things I could be doing. Summer house didn't have 50 grand to give me per day, so I'd be a little glum on the set while the other people would be excited. You know, Kyle needs every penny he can get from the Summer House taping, she explained in her joint interview with fellow Summer House alum Hannah Berner, who left the show in 2021. Desorbo, 32, also refle her final season with the Bravo series. During the chat at the time of filming, cameras followed the emotional end of her relationship with ex boyfriend Craig Conover, which just Absorbo admitted was a hard storyline for her to share. Yeah, it's the most true one, the most real one. Her weighing in on Carl hooking up easy. Her her saying, yeah, I'm going through a breakup. Difficult being on reality tv. There's a level. This is a harsh word of, like, brainwashing. That's not real life. She admitted. You're not stopping people on the street and being like, I just had a thought. I just had a thought that I hate my boyfriend. Hey, I mean, good luck to Craig. Despite desorbo gut feeling that her time on reality TV was over, leaving the show was not an easy decision for her. She feared that her career would be over. She has to say that that is about as. That's as true as a fairy tale. There's an element of thinking you need that show and network, and Hannah was reminding me that they're not in charge are in your career. Right. She's making tons of dough from the stuff she does with Hannah, and the show pays her this much. But. But. And this is a big but. She gets the. The tweets, the dms, the Instagrams, the. Oh, my God, you know, all the comments kind of calm down when you're not on TV every week. That's the power of tv. You have to give up the illusion that you're, you know, not illusion, because you are on TV every week and there's a storyline, and you get to. You. You get the feedback right away, and you lose that, and you go, you know, it's like a. You kind of lose the drug, and it's like, you know, I. I'm gonna try and relate to, you know, what they're going through, but, you know, I have that with certain things I do. I used to do these happy, you know, happy 4th of July tweets, and I'd put it up as a carousel, and I love doing them. There were fun, stupid jokes about the holiday. I would do Merry Christmas to the family member who, you know, wears PJs on Saturday. And they became a little repetitive. And. But every holiday, I'd work on them, and I'd post them, and then over time, less likes, less shares. And then I started losing followers when I did them, and I'm like, you know what, Jared? It's time to put this away. But then you got to go, Jared, you know, those likes that you got? Those. Those. Those little, you know, even though you were getting shares from it and the feeling you got from it, you got to leave that feeling because it's not really helping your career. That's probably the same thing for Paige in this scenario, so good luck to her. Jon Cryer reveals his Two and a Half Men salary that was less than half of Charlie Sheen's. I mean, that makes sense, because I Just said, john Crier. And, you know, some of you went, oh, John Crier. What's he up to? Oh, the guy from Two and a Half Men. Oh, the guy from Sixteen Candles. And most of you probably said, who? Wait, what? John who? Oh, Two and a Half Men guy. And that's the reason he made half as much as Charlie Sheen. This. This is the thing again, to go back to how this episode started. It's nothing personal, is just business. It's just money. This has nothing to do with John Crier being a good person or a good actor. It's just who makes us the money. And that's something you have to remind yourself about, you know, when you're going through your career stuff. Me, I do this every day. It's not about me. It's not about me. It's about money. They think that direction can make them more money. And that's probably what they do in negotiations. They say, john Crier, we can offer you this. And he goes, but Charlie's getting that. And they go, well, then we're gonna have to say goodbye. We're gonna have to find a new brother of Charlie Shane. That's the reality. John Cryer reveals his shocking Two and a Half Men salary that was less than half of Charlie Sheen's. Here's the thing. It's gonna be a lot of money. I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna promise you that the amount he made will. Will buy you a house. Like, a house. I promise you it was half of Charlie Sheen's half. But it's going to be an amount that you're going to go, I'll take a third of that. Here it is. John Cryer wasn't earning nearly as much as his Two and a Half Men costar Charlie Sheen. This is one of those things, like, the context is so important because the idea that they'd be making the same if they made the same, I would say, wow, good for Jon Cryer's agent. Or, wow, Charlie Sheen really must have been a part of that. Like, when the Friends cast was like, I think the big news on the Friends cast was they were all making the same amount of money. And I'm sure you have to hand it to, like, a Jennifer Aniston probably. Like, Joey and Jennifer Aniston, probably. I don't know. I don't know. There was a hierarchy. I don't think Joey and Phoebe would make as much as Monica and Rachel, like, if you were to, like, rank them. But if Monica and Rachel say, we don't work unless Joey and Phoebe are getting what we're getting. Okay, now that changes things. Now we've. They've gone to bat, so Charlie could probably do that. During Sheen's final year on the sitcom, the platoon star. That's not how I would refer to Charlie. Sheen was making close to $2 million an episode, while Crier was earning at least two thirds less than that. And it wasn't until Sheen left that he began making $620,000 an episode. Okay, let's say $620,000 an episode. I think they make over 20 episodes in a season of a sitcom like that. But let's say it's 10. That's $6 million. Is that what it is? I'm gonna sound like an idiot. I'm doing this in real time. I mean, that is an amount of money, you know, that I'm not like 620 times 10. $6.2 million. Yeah, I'm an idiot. Okay, let's say. Let's say that number 620. And let's say it was. Hold on, I'm going. Let's say it was 20 episodes. That's $12.4 million a year. Okay, am I. And now is he doing the Wednesday the duo's pay? Like, if he wrote a book and put that in the book, I'm like, dude, how much money do you need? The duo's paychecks have come under renewed scrutiny in the wake of the Netflix documentary, AKA Charlie Sheen. Okay, nevermind. How much money does Charlie Sheen need? That's the question. Why is he making a documentary? Why does he have to talk about this? Which details Sheen's career, romances, and an infamous battle with drugs and alcohol. This makes me want to watch that. It's doing the job. In it, Crier claims that Sheen's contract negotiations went off the charts because his life was falling apart. The Pretty in Pink star went on to compare Sheen to an infamous global henchman. The dictator of North Korea was a guy named King Kim Jong Il. Crier explained. He acted crazy all the time and thus got enormous amounts of aid from countries who were so scared of him, they would shovel money at him. This is a wild comparison. Well, that's what happened here. She negotiation ones off the rails because his life was falling apart. Me, whose life was pretty good at the time, I got a third of that. I don't know if this is how John Cryer wants to be seen. Cryer added that CBS was under the. Was under the gun to sign Sheen because they had pre sold a couple extra seasons of the show. Eventually, Sheen, 60, was fired from the show in 2011 due to his erratic behavior, which included publicly criticizing the show's creator, Chuck Lorre, and claiming he was underpaid. After being fired, the major league star, who had proclaimed he had tiger blood, embarked on a tour. Ashton Kutcher replaced Sheen after his departure. In the sitcom air from four more seasons, you have the Ashton Kutcher years. Crier salary was then bumped to 620,000 while Kutcher was being paid 700,000 per episode. This is a. These are all crazy numbers. These are all, like, unrelated. They're so big that we aren't even considering how big they are. Pete Davidson, before we move on, I have shows this weekend. I'm in Kansas City. Come on out to Kansas City. Okay, Kansas City. I got four shows and then I'm gonna be in Richmond and then I'm in D.C. that's a theater. D.C. we need the people in D.C. milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago. Durham, North Carolina. No, Charlotte. Durham and Charlotte. Fort Lauderdale. Royal O. Columbus, Orlando, San Diego. More. There's New York. New York is filling up. Boston added a second show. Go get the tickets. Jared Free dot com. Okay. Why Pete Davidson looks up to great dad, Machine Gun Kelly. This is kind of a troll job to me. Like, you. You title it this, you know, you look at Machine Gun Kelly, I'm sure he's an okay dad. Like, I'm not. I'm not saying. But he doesn't have the look like the great dad. You go, okay, I like. Are we to believe Machine Gun Kelly is, like, sitting at home, like, you know, driving the kids to school? Maybe he is Pete. Pete Davidson told the crowd, told the crowd of Machine Gun Kelly, AKA Colson Baker at the daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards. I fucking love this dude. Just a couple of dads hanging out and called him a great dad. Colson is, I think, my oldest friend in this. In this tough biz. Davidson told a starry crowd that included fashion royalty like Iman, Zac Posen and Tommy Hilfiger. Pound for pound, I think he's the most talented person I've ever met. He can rap, he can play guitar, he can rock, he can act. Well, not to go against Pete here. Rock. He can play guitar and he can rock or not to. That's not a real thing. Like, he can rap, he can play guitar, he can act, period. I don't think it's. And he can. He can rock, man. Well, what does that mean? He just can rock. Okay. Okay, well, let's include which of these is not like the other. Davidson, who has a baby on the way with girlfriend Elsie hewitt, also lauded MGK's parenting skills. The star has a new baby with Megan Fox has a new baby with Megan Fox, as well as a daughter Cassie, 16, from another Relate 16. I think I've talked about this here before. I mean, he looks 16. He's a great dad, Davidson said. Pete, 31, continued of his musical musician pal. He always leads by example, and I'm grateful that I have someone that I can just shoot the or talk about what the hell is going on in our careers or how the world works. He's just a wonderful person and so resilient. I mean, this is quite a speech. This guy loves him. He's been around for two decades and he's 35. That's a crazy accomplishment. He's not going anywhere, the tattooed rap rocker, who has a new album, Lost Americana, told the crowd. Style. His style can be unconventional to to some, my name is unfamiliar, but I am completely unapologetic in my authenticity with what I sing and what I wear. These fashion events, Fashion Week is so. It is to me. I've been in New York City, or I was in New York City 18 years. Fashion Week is the most unrelatable thing to the everyday person. That has nothing to do with New York. It is because I've tried making fun of Fashion week For all 18 years I've been here and of the content I've produced, it is the content that gets the least amount of interaction. It is such an if you know, you know, type of deal. Like, the thing I would always make fun of is the amount of people say how hard the job of Fashion Week is. Like, people that you like, the most beautiful people in the world will look you in the eye and be like, I am so busy. Fashion Week is crazy. And you have to be like, yeah, I guess it's pretty nuts. And you're like. And they talk about. It's like it's going to a coal mine and, you know, going and you know, and putting your life on the line the way they talk about it. So you're like. And then if you try and, like, make that a joke or, you know, like, like even this speech where it's happening, I don't even. I wouldn't even believe it in a movie that Pete's giving this speech about what a great dad Machine Gun Kelly is while Tommy Hilfiger sits in the crowd. Like, is this a real thing? I. I'll stop Talking about it since it doesn't do well, I mean, let's do okay. So this article is crazy to me because I don't understand it. Bobby Bones admits he cheated on Dancing with the Stars before controversial season 27 win. Now, Bobby Bones is like a radio guy. It is weird that he would have won Dancing with the Stars considering you need like a big name. But Bobby Bones, being on the radio, you have a direct, you know, phone line to the voters so you can rally your audience in a way that maybe you know, Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel Air can't do. I just don't understand how you would cheat. Like, my best guess is that he would do something over the radio to get people to vote or tell them a certain way to vote that could get his votes heard quicker or get them to vote more than the next person. Than the everyday Carlton fan, Bobby Bones admits he cheated on Dancing with the Stars before controversial season 27 win. Bobby Bones just made his 20 season 27 win even more controversial by admitting he cheated. I cheated in the way of they give you a limited amount of time with your partner, like four hours a day, they say, he explained on Jason Tardick's Trading Secrets podcast Monday. So we would do four. We would do our four. I would record the session and then go by myself and rent a studio myself and train myself. Like, illegally spent time over because I was so far behind everybody else. I wouldn't call that cheating. I would say that's putting in the time and understanding that this could be a big career thing for you. The radio host, 45, who had never danced before the show, was a self proclaimed fish out of water. He revealed he was just as surprised as anybody when it came to his pro. His and pro partners Sharna burgess victory in 2018. Bones received lower scores than the other three finalists, Milo Meinham, Ivana lynch and Alexis Ren throughout the competition, but took home the mirror ball trophy thanks to an overwhelming amount of votes from viewers. Again, he had a direct line and he's an orator, he is a speaker, he is a, you know, he's the guy on the boardwalk selling you, you know, you know, mops, you know. So this guy, his name is Bobby Bones. I wasn't in any way polarizing on the show other than I sucked. He said, I didn't ruin. I didn't run out and say, like, I'm the best. I tried as hard as I could and got sevens. A couple of sixes, a couple of eights. Yeah, they like, you know, his personality won it Looking back, the Bobby cast host says his win was controversial among a small section of hardcore fans who who he now realizes would never have been on his side anyways. The fact that I was winning made it difficult on people who had always watched the show. I was anxious as crap. I mean this happens on the Bachelor. Like this idea of like, who do you want on the Bachelor? Someone who's controversial or someone who's looking for love? And Bobby Bones, who's not a great dancer, you go, whoa, I'm here for the dancing. Why would they have someone bad at dancing that keeps going? And it's like, yeah, he can speak directly to his audience to get them to vote. He can mobilize. Okay, I like this story because I think this actor interests me. Colin Farrell Drops F Bomb on Live TV during hilarious interview with Margot Robbie Colin Farrell seems to have this like a hundred percent approval rating. I think we just love a good looking guy who seems down to earth. And he seems down to earth. He and he gets this like he's a character actor. Like he's got leading man face and he plays character actors. He plays the penguin. He play. He's a real actor. Like we buy it more from him even though he's a good looking dude, not much of a gentleman. Colin Farrell accidentally dropped an F bomb during an interview with the Today show with his A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Star co star Margot Robbie on Tuesday while promoting their new film on the NBC morning Show, Pharrell Farrell and Robbie gush about their favorite onset snacks, a crisp or a chippy sandwich with host Craig Melvin. Okay, so yeah, we're talking about that. We like to eat. She's constantly got pregnant appetite for the last 30 odd years, Farrell said playfully about the Barbie actress who was expecting her first child while filming Tato cheese and onion white bread, white cheap bread, thick butter. And I brought one in every morning to her. That was my job every night was to make that for her, The Penguin actor, 49, added while enjoying the delicious snack himself. What is? Can you say it in English? After taking a bite of the sandwich during the live broadcast, he said, that's not bad. Is that tay do? That's tay do. Is that tay do? It is. Can you explain Page six? Come on, he says. I knew it. He declared after he received confirmation. Oh my God, the F word. The expletive language caught Robbie off guard as she stared at her co star and nudged him. Oh my God, Melvin, 46 said as Farrell CL chimed in. It is crazy to me. We this weird country this Weird time we live in where like Colin Farrell goes on the Today show and says, I knew it. And we're like, what? Oh my God. Oh, this is crazy. Oh, he's wild. And then like on the same tv, you're seeing crazier rhetoric, crazier things said. Like, it is. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't match the times. Oh my God. Like, to say, oh my God do I fucking knew. It is like crazy. As Chair Feral chimed in with a mouthful of food. They misheard me. Like, I know that you can't do that on the Today show, but I'm like, at the same time, you go, do we know what year it is? Are we living on the same earth? Fans took to the comments section of the Today shows Instagram post to share their thoughts on the viral moment. It's Colin Farrell. Not expecting Swearing is poor planning on your part. This is Colin. This is what he does. Like, I feel like a crazy person. I feel nuts. You have, because on one side it's like, that's how people speak. They say the F word. On the other side, are we supposed to know that Colin Farrell is this like, crazy? You never know what he's gonna say. Next guy. While living in a world where people are saying the craziest things I've ever heard every day, just in normal settings. Like it. It's almost like the Today show is existing in one planet and I'm existing on another. I laughed out loud when it happened this morning. Haha. Everyone's faces like, are these people for real? Like, do they live in reality? This was funny. And I love when swearing words accidentally make their way through. We're all human. Shit happens. Commented a third fan. Like, this person is living amongst us. That person votes. That commenter is like a real human being. Do they know we're not living in Mayberry and it's not black and white and this is an I Love Lucy and like this swear word, like, isn't like the craziest thing to happen is swearing in the morning not normal. I start swearing the second I get up. LOL equipped. A fourth netizen, a big bold, Beautiful Journey hits theaters Friday. So go see the movie. All right, we're gonna do one more. I like, well, maybe we'll do two more because Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's mystery wedding details revealed. This is gonna be the I'm a fan of the Cool Band wedding. This is gonna the Benny Blanco Selena Gomez wedding is gonna be the wedding. Your friend who wants to be better than everyone else is going to reference into the Taylor Swift wedding, which a bunch of basic people are into. They're into the off kilter, cool, Benny Blanco, Selena Gomez wedding. To me, if I hear someone bring up Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's wedding, I'm gonna know. They want me to think they are some kind of cool. And I'm gonna say it right now. I'm ahead of this curve. I'm ahead of this. If you talk to me about Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's wedding, I. I don't care. I don't care. There's one wedding. There's one wedding. There's one wedding. It's Taylor and Travis. That's it. We don't want to hear about their wed. You're going to come up to me. Oh, but Selena and Benny are the only wedding I care about. We get it. You're better than me. You're cooler than me. I'm just a basic bitch who likes Taylor Swift. And you're. Oh, you're Mr. Oh, you're like the renegade. You like the other celebrity pop culture duo. Ooh, like I'm already annoyed. And it hasn't even started happening yet. Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco reportedly set to tie the knot later this month at a private estate in California. The couple walked down the aisle in Santa Barbara on September 27, according to the new details from the Sun. The outlet also reported that guests will stay close by at El Encanto Hotel throughout the wedding weekend. The $3,500 a night rooms are reportedly all booked up for the weekend. 3,500 bucks. That is an expensive room. And then they can charge it. They can go. Yeah, listen, you got to go to the wedding. Like, it's almost an investment. All the guests will be picked up and driven in the location without knowing their destination. Ahead of the time. Ahead of time. That's fun. Everyone is so excited. Despite the mystery, they know it will be an amazing time. Yeah, that's the thing. Nobody wants to go. Everyone wants to go to a mystery wedding held by two billionaires. Let, let, let this also. Let me also, like, warn you. If you're out there being like, wow, Selena and Benny are doing like a mystery wedding. Nobody wants to go to your mystery wedding. Your mystery wedding where you had people pay for their own rooms and wear whatever they had, you know your mystery wedding is not going to be as good. Don't. This is what happens. This is the problem with social media. This is the problem with pop culture news. Someone's gonna get an idea their head. They're gonna go, I want a mystery wedding just like Selena. Well, you don't have the money. You. You are gonna bring me into a school bus to some campground and I'm gonna go, oh my God. There's nowhere to even shit. So don't get any ideas. Yes, we're all excited for Selena and Benny's secret, you know, mystery wedding. We are not as excited for your mystery wedding where a bus picks us up from a Fairfield in just an FYI. So don't get any ideas. Don't look at Selena's wedding and get any inspo. This will. This will only inspire a horrific version done by you. All right, let's go. Last story. I just love this because it's officially the end of using like, stuff you heard from a psychiatrist to be your shield for like getting any blame. Like, because this is the end. This story. Careless Nick Cannon. Careless Nick Cannon claims becoming a 12 time dad was trauma response to Mariah Carey divorce. Like, it's officially the end. You can't blame your anxiety. You can't say that. This is such a use to, to say, well, the reason I had 12 kids and didn't wear a condom. Well, it was a trauma response to Mariah Carey ending our, our marriage. I, I just went on a rampage. After Mariah Carey gets a divorce from you, you, you know, you forget condoms exist. It's like, this is craziness. This is. And he's just doing what people do. He's just trying to like put a little bow, a neat little bow on why he did something that he shouldn't have done. It's a rationalization that if you buy it, you're out of your mind. I don't know. The thing is, it's even crazier. It's crazy of Nick Cann think we would believe this. Nick Cannon was wild. Now after his ma, his and Mariah Carey's divorce, the masked singer host admitted on the Breakfast Club Monday that being a 12 time father was a trauma response from the breakup. That is not what it was. That is, that is him absolving blame from himself and he's just using words that he heard before that make it sound a little bit better than I don't like using a condom. The actor, 44, calls his action careless and frivolous. I mean, also saying this is careless and frivolous. There are 12 children out there that have to hear this. If I would have done the work and the healing after getting a divorce, I probably would have took my time and took my time in a lot of other scenarios they explained. For whatever reason, I thought that was the answer a lot of times, like, oh, I'm gonna figure it out over here. Now you're leaving trauma every step of the way instead of fixing it from this. Yeah, these are all nice and good. And, you know, he makes a few points here, but it's like this is repeating things you've heard. That sound good. Well, hi, pop culture Thursday. Back next week. Boom.
Host: Jared Freid
Date: September 18, 2025
In this episode of Pop Culture Thursday, comedian Jared Freid takes us through the latest celebrity gossip and news as reported on Page Six. With his signature blend of sarcasm and candid humor, Jared sheds light on headlines ranging from Paige Desorbo’s Summer House departure to secrets behind Selena Gomez’s wedding, all while offering his comedic, often brutally honest, insights on fame, money, and the addictive feedback loop of reality TV and social media.
[08:05–20:05]
Jared's Take on Reality TV Exits:
Jared asserts the true reason Paige left isn’t scandalous, but financial:
"There's no gossipy reason...my dad always told me, there's nothing personal—it's just business...I make more money from podcasts and sponsored content than I do on the show..."
— [04:20]
Honesty (That Can’t Be Said):
He imagines the “evil, honest version” of Paige’s statement:
“I make too much money for these losers and I'm not doing 12 hour shoot days anymore because the money wasn’t as good as the other things I could be doing.”
— [06:20]
Quoting Paige's Official Reason:
Jared reads the Page Six write-up:
“I had an overwhelming sense that I couldn’t go back to Summer House... I would have been doing a disservice to the show. They expect a certain level of showing up and I couldn’t give them that.”
— [09:40]
On Leaving the Limelight:
Jared compares losing TV feedback to losing the social media “likes” he once craved:
"There’s a level... of 'brainwashing.' That’s not real life... you get the tweets, the DMs, the Instagrams. The comments kind of calm down when you're not on TV every week...you kind of lose the drug.”
— [12:55]
[20:10–30:08]
The Business of Hollywood:
Jared explains pay differences are never personal:
“It’s not about being a good person or a good actor—it’s who makes the money. It’s nothing personal, it’s just business.”
— [21:05]
Salary Disparity:
Jon Cryer reveals he made less than half of Sheen’s $2M-per-episode salary, only hitting $620,000 per episode after Sheen’s departure.
Sheen’s Wild Negotiations:
Citing Cryer, Jared notes:
"Sheen's contract negotiations went off the charts because his life was falling apart. It was like Kim Jong Il—he acted crazy and they just kept shoveling money at him."
— [25:20]
Reflection:
“These are all crazy numbers. Like, unrelated. They're so big that we aren't even considering how big they are.”
— [28:24]
[32:00–37:20]
Headline Spin:
Jared jokes about MGK’s “dad image”:
“Are we to believe Machine Gun Kelly is, like, sitting at home, driving the kids to school? Maybe he is…”
— [32:52]
Davidson’s Gushing Tribute:
Pete, on MGK:
"Just a couple of dads hanging out... Pound for pound, I think he's the most talented person I've ever met. He can rap, he can play guitar, he can act... and he can rock."
— [33:50]
Jared’s Take on Fashion Week:
“Fashion Week is the most unrelatable thing to the everyday person... the most beautiful people in the world will look you in the eye and be like, ‘I am SO busy, Fashion Week is crazy.’”
— [36:04]
[37:35–41:28]
What Counts as Cheating?:
Jared breaks down Bones’ confession:
“He would record the session and then… rent a studio himself and train. I wouldn’t call that cheating. I would say that’s putting in the time.”
— [39:30]
Vote Mobilization Advantage:
“Being on the radio, you have a direct phone line to the voters, so you can rally your audience in a way that maybe, you know, Carlton from Fresh Prince can’t.”
— [37:55]
[41:35–46:52]
The Viral Slip:
Colin Farrell curses live on Today while making sandwiches for Margot Robbie:
“Oh my God, the F word.”
— [44:20]
Jared’s Perspective:
“It’s crazy... on the same TV you’re seeing crazier rhetoric, crazier things said... It doesn’t match the times."
— [45:30]
Fan Reaction:
“Not expecting Swearing is poor planning on your part. This is Colin. This is what he does.”
— [46:32]
[47:08–51:36]
“The Cool Band” of Celebrity Weddings:
Jared warns against comparing your own wedding to this ultra-exclusive event:
“If you talk to me about Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco’s wedding, I don’t care...There’s one wedding. It’s Taylor and Travis. That’s it.”
— [48:41]
Details:
Wedding set for a private estate in Santa Barbara, guests in $3,500/night hotel, all transported via secret location.
Social Media Reality Check:
“Let me warn you: Nobody wants to go to your mystery wedding. Your mystery wedding where you had people pay for their own rooms... is not going to be as good.”
— [50:08]
[51:40–End]
Jared’s Satirical Take:
“This is the end of blaming the therapist for everything. The reason I had 12 kids and didn’t wear a condom? Well, it was a trauma response to Mariah Carey ending our marriage.”
— [52:00]
Cannon’s Own Words:
"If I would have done the work and the healing after getting a divorce, I probably would have took my time... For whatever reason, I thought that was the answer a lot of times, like, oh, I'm gonna figure it out over here. Now you're leaving trauma every step of the way instead of fixing it from this."
— [53:01]
Jared’s Parting Shot:
“He’s just using words he’s heard before to make it sound a little better than ‘I don’t like using a condom.’”
— [54:16]
On Reality TV Money:
"These are business people. And this is about M O N E Y." — Jared, [04:45]
On Social Media Likes:
"You got to leave that feeling, because it's not really helping your career." — Jared, [13:42]
On Wild Celebrity Salaries:
"These are all crazy numbers...they're so big that we aren't even considering how big they are." — Jared, [28:25]
On Wedding Trends:
"Don’t look at Selena’s wedding and get any inspo. This will only inspire a horrific version done by you." — Jared, [51:15]
On Nick Cannon:
"It’s a rationalization that if you buy it, you’re out of your mind...he’s just using words that he heard before that make it sound a little bit better than 'I don’t like using a condom.'" — Jared, [54:16]
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