Jesse Metcalfe

Podcrushed

Lemonada Media

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Metcalfe comes on Podcrushed and opens up about being bullied for being “too pretty,” carrying a chip on his shoulder into Hollywood, and how the peaks and valleys of his incredible career introduced him to spirituality. He revisits John Tucker Must Die with Penn for the first time in decades, including JTMD moments from behind the scenes, and a dinner moment involving edamame that still haunts Penn to this day. There’s soap-opera hell portals, pilot-season pressure cookers, and a brutally honest reckoning with fame and identity. Funny, uncomfortable, and unexpectedly deep — this one's a banger. David is offering our listeners a special deal: buy 4 cartons and get the 5th free when you go to https://davidprotein.com/PODCRUSHED Right now, new customers can get 15% off sitewide at https://magneticme.com. 🎧 Want more from Podcrushed? 📸 Instagram 🎵 TikTok 🐦 X / Twitter ✨ Follow Penn, Sophie & Nava Instagram Penn Sophie Nava TikTok Penn Sophie Nava See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:06.1	We're all eating and there's edamomame on the table.
0:08.5	Right?
0:09.5	There's edamomai on the table.
0:11.6	And you shot an edamame.
0:13.0	No.
0:13.9	No.
0:14.3	So I had never seen edamame before.
0:17.6	You're like, what is this?
0:18.3	And the whole time I'm just kind of like, what are they doing?
0:37.7	No, so here's what I did. After like halfway through the meal, I find I'm like, I'm going to have some. And I reach in and I, I start to like, and I'm just like, what the fuck is this? And I realize, that's when I realized, this has already been in somebody's mouth. Welcome to Pod Crushed.
0:39.2	We're hosts. I'm Penn.
0:41.0	I'm Nava. And I'm Sophie.
0:43.8	And I think we could have been your middle school besties.
0:45.6	Penn, would you have let us braid your hair?
0:48.0	If my wife doesn't make me cut it.
0:50.9	Oh, God.
0:52.2	No, but this is in middle school. I was married in middle school, David.
0:55.4	Hello, hello, and welcome to Pod Crush.
0:58.4	I am your host, whose name you already know, let's be honest.
1:02.9	I'm joined by my nameless, faceless co-hosts.
1:05.9	Navakablin and Sophie Ansari.
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