Blake Lively's "I'm a normal person tour" and Nicole Kidman's Fake Orgasms - POP CULTURE THURSDAY - The JTrain Podcast w Jared Freid
The JTrain Podcast
Jared Freid
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
It's Pop Culture Thursday!! 🍾🗣🗞 with his signature wit and candid takes. Jared gets into a funny review of the pop culture stories that have him fired up, including a Page Six headline about Nicole Kidman needing a break from filming sex scenes due to "fake orgasm exhaustion" for her upcoming film Baby Girl. He dissects the headline’s absurdity, diving into the world of PR spin and questioning the authenticity behind some of these attention-grabbing stories. Of course, Jared can’t help but offer his unfiltered opinion on the entire Hollywood machine and the PR games that fuel these narratives.
Jared goes on to talk about how celebrities manage their image, particularly through the PR lens, and uses Blake Lively as a case study! Jared discusses how Blake Lively handled the promotion of a movie with sensitive topics, like domestic violence, and how her response seemed disconnected from those issues, impacting her public image.
He points out that after the negative response, there appears to be a concerted effort by her PR team to shift the narrative with stories that paint her as relatable and down-to-earth. Jared humorously analyzes headlines like “Blake Lively waited like a normal person for a table at a NYC hotspot” and her interaction with HGTV stars, Chip and Joanna Gaines, calling them “too convenient” and clearly part of a strategy to boost her “Q rating”—a measurement of public likeability.
Jared also reflects on his own proximity to Don Angie, the restaurant featured in one of these stories, and how the descriptions in the press are designed to make Blake seem like “just one of us,” eating large portions and mingling with fans. He even jokes about Blake being portrayed as someone who enjoys “fun cocktails” and lasagna, like any other New Yorker, calling it a calculated PR move 😅
In closing, Jared transitions into another piece of celebrity news, covering a red carpet event where Huma Abedin, now engaged to Alex Soros, caught everyone’s attention with her jewels, but he quickly returns to how stars like Blake use the media to control public perception. Remember there are celebrity PR stunts and how the public narrative is carefully shaped.
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Hop on the "JTrain" with comedian Jared Freid and his crew of pals, including YOU! Join us for an hour of laughs, gripes, and straight talk on modern love. Send in your questions, dish on the latest trends, and more to jtrainpodcast@gmail.com – we'll tackle it all on air! It's a no-nonsense, fun journey where we escape reality for a bit, delivering quick laughs and razor-sharp insights into the wild world of life and love. Tune in every Monday.
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Jared Freid is a stand up comedian from Boston and who is currently based in New York City. Jared is known to give great dating advice and is all knowing of the Bachelor & Bachelorette nation! You can catch his latest comedy special on Netflix, “37 & Single”, where Jared discusses dating app frustrations to awkward setups to breakup justifications. (For the record, Jared’s mom thinks his body is “just fine.”) Besides regularly headlining and touring around the country, Jared hosts two podcasts called “The JTrain Podcast” and “U Up? Podcast” with Jordana Abraham of Betches, where they discuss their takes on modern dating with issues ranging from apps to hookups to relationships. Check out more of his comedy and a live show today! 👉https://jaredfreid.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the J-Train podcast this is J-Train Jared Freed |
| 0:04.3 | coming alive from the West Village Manhattan that's right it's a pop culture |
| 0:09.0 | Thursday we this is the J-Train Daily now I hope you're enjoying the daily format of this show. I like doing it. It is a somewhat, you know, it's part daily, you know, I would say, part daily temperature check with me if you care about that. |
| 0:28.8 | It's part daily journal of sorts. It's part, you know, a show. You know, there's a premise to every day. |
| 0:39.0 | There's mailbag Monday, ticked off Tuesday, Chit-Chit-Chit-Chit-Ch Wednesday and Pop Culture Thursdays. |
| 0:45.0 | We're going to do the Pop Culture items today and how do you how do you you know and and the |
| 0:49.8 | promise is a minimum 20 minute episode. |
| 0:52.8 | I read the comments. |
| 0:54.7 | I read the reviews on Apple for some stupid reason. |
| 0:58.9 | Someone commented that like 20 minutes, |
| 1:02.1 | half of it is all ads I I just disagree with you I just that person |
| 1:07.4 | probably doesn't even listen anymore but I think I'm fulfilling the promise of a |
| 1:11.9 | show every day that isn't just me reading ads. I don't know why |
| 1:16.3 | I'm letting this get in my head a little bit because it's been work to like do |
| 1:21.2 | this every day and make sure that this is ready. I'm taping this |
| 1:24.6 | Wednesday. I even changed the day of taping for pop culture Thursday so that'd be closer to the |
| 1:30.8 | date. Then I read another review and listen I'm picking out the |
| 1:34.3 | negative ones there's been some very nice ones. Here's a good way to pay for this |
| 1:37.8 | show if I'm going to do an ad is go review and comment on Apple that you like the show. |
| 1:45.0 | Because it's weird what motivates people to write a review. |
| 1:50.0 | Someone wrote that they were very angry at me about my pop culture Thursday review of |
| 1:56.2 | Kristen Cavalieri it seemed as though and you could always tell like these people |
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