659: Baldoni & Lively Settlement, Mayor Pratt and The Bear Surprise Episode
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we recap this week's pop culture news. Join us as we (hopefully, prayerfully, allegedly) put the Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively legal saga to bed, weigh the deeply chaotic merits of Spencer Pratt’s mayoral ambitions, and break down the hits and misses of The Bear’s surprise episode. Plus, Jamie comes in hot with an epic Rapid Red Lights.
Relevant links:
- Our full show notes are at knoxandjamie.com/659
- Listen to Shelf Respect, where we judge books by their covers, wherever you’re listening to this podcast.
- How Do We Feel: Justin Baldoni v. Blake Lively Settlement Announcement | Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser
- What’s the Word? :
- Spencer Pratt Running for Mayor (see also: Wikipedia) | Tommy Tuberville| Dog the Bounty Hunter | Chris Harrison | Jon Taffer (see also: Bar Rescue)
- The Bear Surprise Episode (see also: Dog Day Afternoon | Wiki) | Bottle episode
- Not a sponsor: Skylight Calendar
- Drive-bys: The Sheep Detectives | Ashley Tisdale dropped from group chat | Running Point | Katharine McPhee (see also: toddler drummer) | The Tonys | World Cup Adidas ad
- Red Light Mentions: The Odyssey Trailer | Hantavirus | Billionaires | The Pitt | All Golden Calves | Texas
- Jamie: musical - Suffs
- Knox: show - Lord of the Flies
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Aaron has to guess first since I guess first last time. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm going to say $4.99. |
| 0:04.6 | Now, normally I would do a prices rate $500. That's bad form. That's bad form. I think it actually doesn't work here. We have a higher standard here and we don't do that. That's right. So I am going to say $4.98. That's really not cool, Jamie. See, when Jason I used to do it, we write down our answers on our hands. |
| 0:22.2 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:23.2 | And then do what with them? |
| 0:24.0 | Because we were gentlemen about it. really not cool, Jamie. See, when Jason and I used to do it, we'd write down our answers on our hands. |
| 0:22.2 | Oh, okay. And then do what with them? Because we were gentlemen about it. What did you do with your hands? Because, so you write your number down. So I don't get to hear his and do what you just did because it's very bad for it. Why didn't you tell us to do that then if it was bad for? I thought you would naturally just be honorable people, but I guess I learned better. |
| 0:39.2 | It's not my nature at all. |
| 0:44.4 | Hello, welcome to us to number 6.59 of the podcast. I'm your host, Knox McQuoy. I'm your other host, Jamie Golden. |
| 0:54.0 | The popcast is a show dedicated to delightful ADC, and we're committed to educating you on things entertained, but do not matter. To find out more about these topical pursuits, check us out at Knox and Jamie.com. You can also find us on Instagram, threads, Facebook, and Blue Sky at The Podcast. Thanks for joining us this week as we are going to be talking |
| 1:11.8 | the hottest topics in pop culture this week. But before we get to the hot, hot, hot, hot, you guys |
| 1:17.8 | also hot, shelf respect. You know we have a third podcast, so we have faith adjacent. And then we |
| 1:23.1 | also have shelf respect where Knox and me and Aaron, we read books, we judge books by their cover |
| 1:29.6 | and then some. You can listen wherever you get to your podcast. There are two free episodes a month. |
| 1:34.8 | Right now, there's a great, there's a great little archive waiting on you. Non-Fick X, literary spring |
| 1:40.3 | awakenings where Knox revealed that maybe his book Spring Awakening was related |
| 1:44.7 | to a Where's Waldo book. Odd Reader Out. We did an odd reader out, guys, where one of us has |
| 1:50.1 | not read the genre or the topic or whatever, and they kind of the other one or the other ones, |
| 1:55.1 | introduce one to it, right? And Knox convinced me and Aaron to love short stories, and he did it |
| 2:00.5 | legitimately. |
| 2:01.3 | He really did. |
| 2:01.9 | He used all of his English degree. |
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