The Last 10 Pounds with Jared Freid: Tuesday, June 10th, 2025

28:48I listen. Who am I to come into a show that's been established and be like, here's how you should change it. But I'm like, it does need maybe it needs a celebrity factor. It does need a celebrity hook. And I do think a famous younger brother is a great way because that's also from Love Island, UK, which is so much more successful than the US. The one season I watched, which is like the big, the best season, season five, Molly May and Tommy Fury, who's the younger brother of Tyson Fury. Right. And so that was like a big get for the show that Tommy was on. He turned out to be like such an amazing guy, except for last year.

29:19And then he fell in love with Molly and they've been together since and they have a baby. And like, it's just been amazing. And so now we're two for two on famous younger brothers carrying a season. Right. And I because I'm watching this and it's just to me, it's like young kids dating. It feels very saved by the bell. Like, it's just like I don't really relate to them very well. And I'm a big dating show fan. Like, I'm not a reality show hater. Like, I love The Bachelor. I yell at The Bachelor on my Instagram. Like, I've kept up with it. But the thing about The Bachelor that I really like is the arc of it.

29:56And that's what this lacks is there's a beginning, middle, and end. This seems like we're just treading water. We're just sitting around until they throw another wrench into the villa. Have you ever gone out with someone from The Bachelor? No. I feel like in your career. I've met a lot of them, but I've never been on a date with one of the girls. I shot my shot once. With whom? I won't say names. Of whose season? oh it was when i can't remember what she was on but i was like i i basically put it out there i was like hey just uh i know you're going through like a whole season thing and no she did she ignored the message and i was just like all right we shot we shot that's the thing about and listen i speak from experience when you shoot your shot it's called shooting your one s s h o t not shots do you know arielle frankel from the bachelor i know yeah is that the one yeah well because she's Jewish and she's amazing and gorgeous.

30:49Because I made fun of her. I'm obsessed with her. Well, I made fun of her the whole season for, you know, the Jewish thing. Because I kept talking about how my parents would act. Like my whole, the whole bit was like, I knew she was Jewish and like, kind of like made fun of that. So then I was like, hey, listen, no things are, you know, kind of wild right now or whatever. But if you ever want to get a drink and then just not even acknowledged, not even the read receipt, which I know how that works. You can turn those off on Instagram. Or you just like don't open it. You see the person. You just delete right away.

31:21Just like she saw the subtle like hey and was like, no, no, no, I won't even read this. Just let me delete right away. I'm cracking up. I just want to say of all like. I can't believe you guessed it right away. Because like she's the one to go for it. I was like she had laughed at a bunch of my jokes. So I was like, OK. At first when you were talking about it, I figured it was someone from back in the day, like Nick Vile season. because I feel like, I don't know, that's just who I associate with The Bachelor and the newer girls are like younger. But then I was like, who would I set you up with from The Bachelor?

31:56Ariel. Well, I mean, a lot of the fans, because I kept making fun of her on the show and a lot of people were like, Jew, you know, you're a Jew, that Jew, go make a Jew. Well, she did go out with the other Jew. Who was, oh yeah. I don't know who that is. I don't watch the show anymore, but I did. He's a nice guy. Yeah, and we went out like once just for the Jews. and then for us for the jewish people and and now she's like it's just a queenie and she was like dating some celebrity okay yeah but anyways i love that let's just like didn't work i guess old jared wasn't celeb enough oh 10 pounds to lose it was the 10 pounds i think if i had taken a cent back but the thing is if you didn't have those 10 pounds like you'd have to like just sit with yourself right and be like well what was it nothing to do now nothing to blame it on right so it's good right right this is i'd be responsible for cancer still being around and you'd have to really deal with why ariel didn't want my personality holy shit the thing i make a living on i'm seriously cracking up okay well we'll talk a little bit more about love island later in the show because we have a love island story and now without further ado to do it is time for the fast five stories that you need to know.

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38:24Because these are all PR agents that are kind of like making, you know, sending it over to the page six people. So I just love, where's this coming from? I kind of like, that's something that always crosses my mind. Yeah, and that's a good question to ask, like in general, as a history major. So that's something that you always have to consider the source. Right. You know? Exactly. Who stands to gain? Right. Right. I mean, there's so many stories like that. You're like, wow, this is really glowing for this person. You're like, they must be awesome. You're like, oh, that's their story. Right. Well, our first story is a little update because Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift went to a wedding this weekend of his cousins.

39:02I'm sure that you saw was like very normie behavior. Okay. I didn't see, but good for the – what a way to – do you think that would make you happy? You're the normie cousin? I was talking about this because I did the show with Margot yesterday And she was like don't you think like it's a little weird for the bride Like to have Taylor there she like takes off all the attention Taylor's the bride everywhere she goes Right but I do feel like you could Seriously be like that insecure to be like I don't want Her there because she's going to take the spotlight off of me Or you can recognize that it's like the coolest thing ever That Taylor Swift was at your wedding like I think there are really two types Of girls and I think more people Would like want the clout of like Taylor Swift Was at my wedding that's iconic it's officially The best wedding in our friend group right even If it's done it here's you're right because what we have to acknowledge is that Taylor Swift is a once in a generation star she's Michael Jackson you know she had the largest tour ever you know money wise you know like that you go to this I didn't go to the arrows tour I respect it but I didn't go yeah you have to say that yeah I mean like no I'm like but I'm just saying like I she's categorically like one of the biggest celebrities on the planet ever yeah so that i think what's that like elvis elvis taylor swift michael jackson so it's funny like it's there's a level of celebrity you have to be that every bride would be okay with being like she couldn't be like to me if it was like i'm not to besmirch but like besmirch away but if it was like um i'm trying to think of uh who's a singer that I'd be like, if it was like Gwen Stefani.

40:36Yeah, it's like just a big to-do and is it worth the drama? Gwen Stefani might be, I think to be a, because everyone's got to get a picture with Taylor. Taylor knows she's Santa Claus. Everyone's got to sit on her lap and get a picture. So Taylor knows that she's basically going to work. Like the bride has to know that everyone's going to be at the Taylor exhibit at least for a minute during her wedding. It has to make sense for everybody. So I think the it is just a very interesting plight for that bride that I think if the grandma, if everyone at the wedding knows who the person is, then you can't be upset.

41:17Yeah, I think it's more iconic than it is a detraction. Yeah, but it's dependent on how big the celebrity is. Like if Benson Boone came to your wedding, your grandmother would be like, who? Benson? Benson Boone? You know, like Benjamin Boone? But I do feel like if Benson Boone came to your wedding, it would be a distraction. He's flipping. But he's like small enough of a person that I would make him sing. Like I would never ask Taylor to perform. Yeah, I would never ask Taylor to perform. Like, what are you, crazy? Right. But like, I'm sorry, Benson, get to work. Get up here. Right. It's a good point.

41:54But then Benson, what if he's like, this is my Saturday. I want to enjoy the open bar. But when you're the bride, you are the star. The way anyone would do anything for the bride wants Benson to sing, come on up. But that's the point where Benson goes, have fun. Thank you for the invite. I'll send a great gift. I think Benson's too small for that reason. Yeah. If I'm the bride, I don't want Benson Boone dimming my shine. Okay. I and he's a very divisive person for some reason now like have you ever seen tiktoks where people hate him? No, I'm not on tiktok. So I'm just like I can understand why people like they think he's like mass produced They think he's like like industry plant basically the the artists out there.

42:39I think he's great I think he's great too. I'm a huge fan The songs hit like okay all these artists like complaining like you make a good song Right. It's it's a very gen z like you get to look like you're an artist and you know things by making fun of Benson and making fun of things that are popular but like sometimes things are popular are really bad like and actually most things benson boone's songs that i've heard are really good whenever i get hate on tiktok my the thing you always have to remember when someone's like this sucks and i'm like i have a hundred thousand views on something the thing that you could always say back to them is like well someone loved this so much that it's the only reason you're seeing it that's beautiful if you think about it like that's the that's the sad part about algorithms is like you need it's fossil fuel you know you need someone you need the hatred of losers to take off yeah their gas for my car but that's why it's inherently negative right that's why you have to go extreme everything's the best everything's the worst you can't be moderate and i'm a moderate i'm a i'm a guy who everything is good and bad i just said that to you with dating like it's um you're in the middle i'm i'm i'm a big middle loser.

43:48That's why Arielle won't get back to me. Well, the story from the wedding is that actually there's a picture going around of the table place card for Taylor and Travis and it says Taylor and Travis Kelsey like leading some to believe are they secretly married? I for sure thought they got engaged that time that they had a party for the end of the hours tour and like she had blurred out her ring finger in all the pictures and was hiding her, like she was acting like an engaged person. In some pictures being like, huh? And then literally it's blurry. And then in other pictures being like this, knowing those were the ones she wanted to post.

44:24Right. So I actually would like be open to the idea that they're secretly married. I can't believe that this is the story is whether or not they're married and not that this was a faux pas by the bride and groom to not put her, like she's losing her last name. Yeah. She's the most recognizable name in all the world. Like how many times? It's like when George Clooney started dating the doctor and they're like, you know, they started calling, you know, they were like George Clooney and the doctor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's like the people were like, no, she's got a career too. Like George Clooney's wife.

45:00Right, right, right. And then they do like whatever her name's husband now to get back at him in a thing that he didn't even like ask for. No, that's powerful, Jared. That's powerful stuff. We've changed society. So I don't know. I can't believe that's not the headline. It's like, how do you not have Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey? But if they're married, I don't know. Then they would be Taylor and Travis Kelsey. Or they would be Kelsey Swift. I don't know. I don't know how that would work. I could see her being traditional in her personal life where it's like, I'll take my husband's name in familial settings.

45:33And then, of course, I'm not Taylor Travis Swift. That's a reasonable. people are reasonable do you think they're secretly married based on this I think that what I know of Taylor is she is way more in tune with the internet than most mega celebrities are she knows the joke she knows the inside talk all the bracelets the friendship bracelets that's all like internet chatter that she picked up on I do think she likes this are they aren't they thing that's going on. I think like the only reason to blur your finger is to keep up, keep the, you know, the gas on the fire. I am of the belief as a Taylor fan, I think she, there's no bigger capitalist in our society.

46:19Like I think she loves making money. So I think she will stoke the flames of her own story even though there's no need to do it anymore. You've won Taylor. Yeah. You've made all the money. But is that how you stay on top? Right. But like, I don't know, I guess that's how you stay on top but like what's on top? You know, I don't even think it's about money necessarily all the time at this point like she just has something to prove right well that's the thing i think that's it's never about money once you've made that much money it's making the money yeah you know it's being the top dog you know like you know when you go why do these billionaires keep making rockets they get off to yeah making the rockets so i I think Taylor has that in her too.

47:00Like some people like food, me. Alcohol, me. Women, me, but not as much as food and alcohol. And some people like making money. Like if someone gave me$10 million right now, the way I would disappear off the face of the earth. Right. Like I would do stand-up. That's it. You do the stand-up for the love of stand-up. I love doing stand-up. I love writing a bit. I love figuring it out. I love the puzzle of it I love the puzzle of like Trying to get more people to my stand up Which is doing podcasts and things like that But I would just You would be like Jared's like doing like a A 20 seat room In the back of a bar In Delray Yeah And it would just be me doing For the 20 people Like I would do that And I'd have my house near the beach And they'd be like Is that Jared?

47:53I have a big beard So that would be enough 10 million would just be enough for you I think 10 mil would get me there I don't know maybe I gotta look up I gotta do some Are you high maintenance? I am until I'm not Like I Again I like to complain But I don't need very much Like I think like But I don't know maybe because I'm a slob I'm not like It's not like a point of pride Right I don't know like I just Are you high maintenance? Yes You have needs I have needs but I handle my needs That's why I don't think I'm high maintenance I don't make it other people's problem. I take it all on. But I have needs.

48:33Like, you know, if you could fly first class, never private the rest of your life, that's the only thing you could get. Would you would you be OK with that? No, I want the potential. You want the potential. Like I want it. Yeah. Right. Once you've flown private, I've done it a couple of times. just the not going getting there the minute the plane takes off is like you realize how crazy that is and you're like I can't not see this again I know I've met a few comics who go private to their gigs and I've talked to them about it I've like asked them like how do you be relatable and be I watched one comic a very famous comedian go up at the cellar he told this whole thing about first class and then he got off stage he's like i haven't flown commercial in like 30 years and i was like that's so funny that he's still doing airplane stuff yeah and i i talked to another comic and he was like i was like you know he was famous guy and i go well what did i go you know what are your fan they go we've started talking about it like in there publicly like because it's hard to talk about like listen i don't cry for the plight of the private flyer right but i in their world it could go south like it might not hit the way you think it's just you're trying to relate to a big crowd of people and you have to explain that you fly private yeah and they were saying they were like it's like having it's like time travel and they were like i get home and sleep in my own bed and i get all that time back and i'm like yeah that's a good point yeah i get that yeah 10 million wouldn't get me to private that's the problem no you need like a hundred million to be private it forever this is what people listen for the relatable humor yeah no but this is like i feel like this is our conversation like claudia and i always talk about like if we won the lottery like what would we do what would you do oh would you do this show still i i think yeah once a week i think maybe once a week um but i think in addition to like you know the business element of it like i think especially as a mom like in different aspects of like my life um it's nice to like have adult conversation like flex my creative muscles like funny and like stay because you can get like pregnancy brain mom fog like all of these things but i do think the show like keeps me sharper than i would be if i wasn't like forced to talk all the time right so i i think yeah and we would talk about how it life is in the lottery right the show would probably be like well it can go either direction.

51:08I would think the show, like any podcast I would do if I did once a month, like would be like jet fuel. I have like 30 stories. It would be five hours long. Do you know how many women like Arielle Frankel that I had would be dumped by in a month? You know how many stories I would have? Oh my gosh. Okay. We need to get into our next story, which is another. How was the wedding? I think it was great. It looked really nice. And I wish them a lifetime of happiness. Do you think you'd be okay with being referred to as the normie wedding yes if in the context of taylor swift like everyone's normie that's fair so like that's not an insult she changes everything she's the son yeah yeah um our next story is another like we're just gonna fall down the rabbit hole here because justin baldoni's 400 million dollar countersuit against blake lively and ryan menolds has been dismissed by a judge this is a major setback for justin baldoni as his countersuit against blake ryan and their publicist as well as his lawsuit against the new york times have been tossed out by a judge the judge granted the motion to dismiss the$400 million lawsuit filed by Baldoni and the Wayfarer parties against Lively and Reynolds, which alleged extortion and defamation, as well as a$250 million defamation lawsuit against the Times.

52:17The judge noted, though, that Baldoni's legal team can still amend the claims for breach of implied covenant and tortious interference with contract if they choose to, with the deadline of June 23rd. So does this end everything? Like, I just never, Is this story over yet? I don't think it's ever going to be over. Like, are we still going to trial in March? Yes. Oh, they are. Right. Well, I thought it was all tossed. I thought this was like the end. I pray. Again, I, I, this is a story that I've talked about. Of course. And it started as, oh, this is a fun. So good for content. Right. Hilarious.

52:51Oh my gosh. Hot takes left, right. Really no, like both of these people are incredibly successful. Like there's no one that you feel so sorry for. So like however you want to come out of it, like there's no like wrong thing to say. I don't know. It started as a story. I don't know. There's so many subjects here that are like real subjects that people deal with that are serious subjects. So like I when I chew on the bone of a story, I'm always like, oh, fun story. Like I don't want to be in the world of someone going, you just reminded me of this horrific thing for my life. So when it started as like Blake Lively is like kind of a monster, I was like fun, page six.

53:30And then it turned into a harassment story and a lawsuit. And then you go and I kind of did the Homer Simpson into the bush thing because I was like, ah. Because you went hard against Blake in the beginning. I didn't go hard, but I was just like. You were anti-Blake, but that's fine. Well, I just thought it was funny because Blake was one of those people where you could see there was like some page six stories of like Blake was in line at this restaurant. What's the restaurant with the Italian place with the lasagna that's like in circles? Carbone? No, it's in the West Village. It's on Greenwich Avenue.

54:02You're the West Village guy. I know. I'm the West Village girly. She was like seen at this restaurant, like signing autographs. And she ate like a normal person. I was like, and I remember reading this and going, something's off. Like, why is this so glowing to her? But I also feel like I saw a story today of something about how she was shopping and she was rude. And it's like the same thing on both sides. Like I feel like, you know, people planning negative stories about her, people planning positive. I literally don't care. I'm sure she's a massive diva. Like she's one of the biggest stars in the world.

54:30Sure. I don't care. Like I really don't care. She's like nicest. Not caring is like kind of the funnest place to be where you go, wow, I guess this person is planting stories this way. This person's planting stories that way. But then when it started getting into subjects where I was like, I'm going to like back out. And then it got fun again. Right, right. It kept going back and forth between horrific and fun. Yeah. And there's a point where this, we're so far away. And what people try to do when you talk about something like this is they try to morally discredit you. So they say, how could you talk about this subject?

55:07And you go, well, I was talking about them saying hi to someone in line at Carbone. Right. You know, like I, you know, so and then it just becomes not fun and gross. But I do like I for me, Justin Baldoni, like. I think they both keep this. This sticks to them in the way that Coke and Pepsi, the first thing out of your mouth, like what's the first thing you think of with Blake Lively? I heard she's a terror, you know, and then what's the thing? First thing you think of Justin Baldoni? It's inseparable. He might be a horrific, you know, flag waving, fake feminist, fake feminist, arasser. Yeah. So they both come out worse, net negative.

55:48They need to have a meeting, actually, and be done with this. Come out with their hands held high in the sky together. Everything that we've seen. I think he has more like I feel like she could get over it because like it seems like she tried to steal his movie. It didn't work out. But like his whole reputation is like he has Deadpool. They'll be fine. I just got Blake Brown Beauty in the mail. They just sent me PR, like the whole kit, her hair care line. I don't know why because I've jumped ship recently, like very publicly. But I will say I've really enjoyed the hair care. So she has her hair.

56:15They have their movies. They have their family. They'll be fine. Justin Baldoni, his whole name is riding on this suit. So it is a little bit more real for him at this point. But they do need to meet and like drop it because it's so bad for both of them. And nothing good is going to come of this. And people are so tired of talking about it, so tired of hearing about it. especially now that he's had this loss. I feel like he has other irons in the fire of like how he can get his name back. But, and people say defamation is hard to prove. So of course this was thrown out, but. I'm telling you, he needs that more than she does.

56:50I, I, I, and I'm speaking about this. He needs to let it go more than she needs to let it go. No, I think he needs her to hold his hand up in the sky more than she needs. They need to talk about it. She doesn't need to talk about it. He needs to talk about it with her and like have this front-facing public thing. I'm probably, maybe I'm only saying this because I'm a man. I just like, I can see, I don't think we ever think of him as anything other than that guy from the lawsuit. And I think it's either he goes and talks with her and is like, hey, can we like both? And she's nice to him and helps him through that.

57:26Or here's another direction for Justin. Him and Kirk Cameron get together and they create the faith-based rom-com that everyone is asking for. Like, I think he either goes, Kirk Cameron, way right, you know, go Moms of America, or he gets Blake to help him out. But I think things are worse for her right now than for him. I think a lot of, I think most people are on his side. But I'm just saying, like, I'm thinking like Grandma. You know, Grandma might know that Blake Lively's tough to deal with. Tough to deal with on set is different than like you created an environment of harassment. Yeah, I don't think that plane was landed.

58:13That's the only thing. I don't know him from anything else but this movie. Me neither. Her, it could be 7 ,000 other things. Yeah. Hair care. That's what I agree with. The Upper East Side, whatever the people. This is like do or die for, like this is all he has. And he was supposed to have the next movie and now obviously there can't be a next movie except his character, I didn't read the sequel but I don't think his character would be in the second movie. Oh, there's a next movie? That's what this is all about. Her and Ryan wanted to take the second movie from him because he had the rights to everything.

58:46And so that's what he alleges and that was their motivation behind smearing him. This whole story is so... The movie snatchers. Just like you said, this is so down the rabbit hole that I don't even know what this is really about. And then people are like, well, did she just have a crush on him? It's like, see, this is craziness. And then Ryan got mad. Right, this is like the funniest, like that's what's so funny about it. It's like you could line 10 people up and ask them about this story. They would have 10 different answers. You know what? Let me just tell you, that's literally what I've been doing the last two weeks, doing this show with different co-hosts.

59:21Because every single day there's something in the news about it. And like I try to ignore as much as I can. I've tried to ignore it, yeah. This case being thrown out is something that if we're following the story, we have to touch on. So I have had this conversation with so many different people. I'm like, we all agree. We need a moratorium on this story. Nobody wants to be here. We're not having fun anymore. And it's not good for anyone. It's not. That's why I had Homer Simpson in this one. because I was like, there's nowhere I'm going to get from this story to even have like a fun bit. No. Like it's not even a fun bit.

59:58It's not enjoyable for any, like no part of it is enjoyable. Right, because I got a text from a friend yesterday, the friend I talk to every day. Your bestie. He was like, my bestie, easy there. He was like, it's thrown out. To me it was over. Like I was like, and then we discussed this. What does he, does he care about pop culture, bestie? That's all we talk about. What does he do for work? He's not. He has like a regular job. He's like an accountant. That's hysterical. Yeah, this is what we talk about. No, this is like our whole lives is what we've talked about. We love gnawing on the bone of stupid stuff.

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1:04:04that's better help h-e-l-p dot com slash toast um aaron rogers is fueling marriage rumors with a ring scene in his stealers contract photo so two things aaron rogers is signing with the stealers claudia and i actually had a bet about this i'm pretty sure on the show we were we talk a lot about him because he's just like so interesting and she said he was going to retire that he's like done our modern day philosopher aaron rogers right and i said he's not going out this way he will take he will go up to another team that's like i watched the enigma documentary of his i was like this is he literally like broke himself trying to heal his achilles heel like to just not play anymore no no no he signed with the stealers i think she has to make a charitable donation now because i won oh good yeah this is this is nice in his photo i would have backed your bet you would have yeah i thought it was a sound bet he's absolutely taking the only way he wouldn't have played anymore is if no one wanted to take him but i think you know there's always the browns Like some team will take him just to sell tickets.

1:05:01Right. And he's still better than like half the league's quarterbacks. Like to say he's bad is like not the strongest take. Like he's one of the top 15 to 20 quarterbacks in the world. Right. Like he's not zero. So as long as he's not zero and he wants to play, there'll be a team for him. Right. In his photo signing with the Steelers. he's also the most insufferable human being I've ever. You're not an Aaron fan? This guy stinks. Aaron's party? Aaron's party. I was just in Pittsburgh. I was just at shows in Pittsburgh. And Pittsburgh's the biggest football town in the world. Yeah. No one cares about football more than a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, but they are Steelers fans.

1:05:46They love the culture, hardworking, grit. And they are so not excited. They're not. That's the vibe. The vibe I got was like, please don't ruin, don't embarrass our team. It's like your sister marrying a guy that you're like, as long as she's happy. But could you see like his level of like passion and theirs? If they can get on the same page, like them just being like obsessed? Listen, the Steelers. Like if he starts winning for them and like. Winning fixes everything. He's Steelers proud and then they have that like zeal. Winning is the fix-all for anything. Making money and winning are two things that make everyone happy.

1:06:31Smooth everything out for. The minute you stop making money, you make a little less the next month. Hey, why are you doing the ad read that way? Aaron Rodgers to me is a narcissist who loves himself more than anyone else on earth. He thinks his opinion is smart and revolutionary. He thinks that going to a quiet room and closing his eyes for a few hours makes him somehow on a different level than the rest of us. And because he can throw a football and he gets paid$10 million a year, he can believe that. I think that if they're winning, they'll be okay. If they start losing and he starts doing things that make sure Aaron Rodgers looks good, that's what worries Steelers fans the most.

1:07:14Because they love it. To me, to Steelers fans, and listen, I'm a football fan. I've went to Penn State so I know Steelers fans very well they just want the team wave the towel go team and and just be they want the family to be good and is he a team player I think if you win you are but you know even if they lose like I feel like even with the Jets like they've stung it was really bad all around but like he was like in with them through the losses like giving pep talks and he also had a coach that got fired in the offensive court you know like but i'm saying like the coach got fired like it wasn't in the documentary yeah that might have been left out of the documentary he made about himself did he make it yes he doesn't just do a document i just think he's like uh he is just i i it is that thing of like if you can throw a football now i have to like hear you wax on yeah you know like no you know So I don't know.

1:08:15I do think the Steelers, like I could, I just, I mean, I went on stage every night the last weekend. It was like Aaron Rodgers. And it was just like this, like, okay, I hope it goes well. They're stealing themselves. I think it's like a wait and see situation. He'll have to prove himself. But this is a passionate town that is never waiting. Go Steelers. And you go, Aaron Rodgers, what do we think? And they're like, we're just hoping for the best. You know, it's like a, you know, I used to say that about Buffalo. Like the Buffalo fans were always like, they treated the Bills like it was their like in and out of rehab younger brother.

1:08:51They were just like, no, no, no. Be nice to him. He's going to be okay. No, we hope for the best. And we just don't speak too loudly around Buffalo Bill. You know, like same feeling with this. Okay, I understand. It will be exciting for the NFL storyline though. Of course. Because if it goes north, great. If it goes south, interesting. If it goes south, it will be interesting. Listen, he's never going to be bigger than the Steelers to Pittsburgh people. So no one's going to take his side. I think he knows that. I think in New York, the Jets, there's division already. People know they're a bad franchise.

1:09:33You could blame it on a million things. Right. With the Steelers, it's like salute the flag. Yeah. So I think he knows that. I think he's smarter than that. Well, anyways, the story at hand is on his hand in the picture. He's wearing a ring on his ring finger, on his married finger. He is like with a new girl and people are wondering if another one, if he's married. It also sort of looks like an aura ring, which you're not supposed to wear on your ring finger. And it actually doesn't look like an aura. It does. That looks like a ring. That looks like a ring. That looks like one of those like rubber rings that Midwestern dudes wear with their Viore shorts at the gym.

1:10:08Yeah, at the gym. Like I'm taking off my wedding ring and I'm putting on my rubber ring. Right. It's dude who very much wears Viore and Bonobos type of ring. Do you think Aaron Rodgers is married to Taylor Swift? Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Swift, I don't think he's married. But that ring, it's tough to like. He's literally wearing a wedding ring. Right. He's not married. Well, maybe. Sometimes it's like it's just it's what you're looking at. Well, here's the beautiful thing about being Aaron Rodgers is you get to always be like, it's about the football. So what am I going to talk about? Am I married?

1:10:48Why would you care if I'm married? No, I care. I do think he knows people care. I think in the way Taylor Swift, I'll be fair to Taylor, I think he's one of those people who knows what's being written and said about him. I wouldn't be surprised if he heard me on this podcast. Oh, I wouldn't be surprised. But we're really kind to Aaron. I just said he stinks. But I think that's balanced, you know? Right. Yin and the yang. Except what he did to Shailene. I don't know what he did. But ever since. What did he do to Danica? Danica just came out and. Olivia. What about Olivia? What about. Danica was like.

1:11:19She was pretty damning. Without. It was just like. That was a really hard part of her life. Yeah. That you know. The Aaron Rodgers split. And then his family. There's just. There's a lot. That's the thing. He leaves a lot in his wake. When you said he's interesting. He is interesting. Yeah. I do think he is interesting by his own design. Yeah. Like I. I think. I think he's inherently just an interesting person. So like things follow him. You think that he. I think when you make a documentary about yourself where you're the hero, like you think of yourself a certain way. You think of yourself as the underdog.

1:11:51I was never drafted, you know, unrecruited, had to go to Cal, had to transfer. I know the story gets, you know, has to back up. Rhett Favre was taking the draft, waiting in the draft waiting room. Yeah. He is writing this story. You know, sometimes. I'm literally lapping it up. I'm like, he was passed over in the job. He's been through so much. It's like the R story page on the wedding website. Women write that for themselves. Yeah. They write, well, at first I wasn't into him, but then he took me out 7 ,000 times. It's like their own, that's their own version of writing Marvel. Yeah. You know?

1:12:29That is so funny. We all love being the underdog. By the way, we love it. No one believes they're the villain. No one believes they're the Hawks and the Mighty Ducks. We're all the ducks. We're all the ducks. Right? Our next story, we're actually going to skip ahead to our Love Island story because Love Island Beyond the Villa trailer and premiere date have been set at Peacock. So Peacock just announced that Love Island, last season's Love Island, is getting a spinoff show of like following them in L.A. like Vanderpump Rules style. Yeah. So the trailer premiered yesterday and it played after last night's episode of Love Island.

1:13:03And season six Islanders will be on Love Island beyond the villa, which will premiere on Sunday, July 13th. The series cast includes like a bunch of the stars from last season and appearances from other former Islanders. It features Ariana as well. They visit her sandwich shop. Something about her. And yeah, this is a first of its kind. I think it's an amazing idea. Yeah. Well, it's them looking at the valley and going, we can outdo that. No, but it's like we had this amazing season with this great cast and it was like, you know, lightning in a bottle. Why does it have to end there? Like we now we have these stars.

1:13:42Why not put them back on TV? And why do we have to wait till someone else picks them up? Like a Vanderpump Rules or a Summer House? Like, why can't we make our own show? Right. No, this is I mean, this is the the streaming wars kind of happening before our eyes again. Like I bring up the Valley because that's a show where they're like, oh, we'll take all these people and put them in this one. And they're like, well, we have people. It's it's the good and bad of the follower economy where it's like, oh, they have a following. So put them on this show. The good part about these guys is they had a successful season.

1:14:11Yeah. So there is interest. They are interesting. They are performative in the way we want them to be performing. So this is I think this comes from a good place of like they like them. it's always a safer bet to go with people who have a record of being good on reality tv even if you seem interesting or even name that we've heard of like right you're just talking about this yesterday with rachel zo going on real housewives of new york like yes she's interesting but don't forget she had her own show like she can do the job as opposed to other big names who go on real housewives who flop but but that's because we they're untested you know they could be good but they could also not be just because they have a name we know doesn't mean much some Some people get a taste for that and they realize they don't like it right away.

1:14:52Like, I think it's like, you know, you have something go, you never see a lot of this happens a lot on TikTok, which you're not on. But I think, you know, that like someone goes viral for something and then they do it to death. Yeah. You know, you can like they go and you can tell that person liked the feeling of going viral. They wanted to make sure they went viral again. So, you know, if they, you know, go viral for like, hey, I'm going to bop my head to music from the early 2000s. Oh, that that works. So keep on playing the hits. And they keep going with it. If that, you know, if they want to be creative, they would do something else that fit their creative, you know, creative muscle.

1:15:34Yeah. So I think is this is a no brainer. Like if you're Peacock, especially. It's a no brainer. But they don't. But people don't do this. You know, no one's ever given the bachelor, the people who came from a good season of the bachelor, then follow those girls in LA. Like it's right. You know, the bachelor, the bachelor universe to me that I think they've made too much money to ever. To me, they're the$10 million. We do this once a week. Yeah. Like we've already made our money. I don't want to do any more. Yeah. No, they're not really acting competitively. Right. I think for the bachelor and it's what bothers me because like there's so many things where it's like we're doing this date again.

1:16:10Yeah. We did this date. You could put 10 minutes of thought and brains. One brainstorming session would have an even better date. Yeah. And you can tell it wasn't done. So for this, it's like, you know, the bachelor's like, oh, we could have this and this. And then they go, no, they're making money. It's a cash cow. But I like that. I think Peacock is like one of those things where they're like, we're fighting for our lives. We need the next show. Even they do like Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip. They do these like alumni shows. Because I think they do traders. I think they've really seen the value in repurposing reality TV stars who have a proven track record.

1:16:47And I think that's a really sound formula. I mean, look at, you know, I'm in and out of Survivor. But I used to be big on Survivor back in the day. Seeing Boston Robb back, I love that so much. This is a guy who performed. He was amazing on TV. This is what he's meant to do. And then you see him on Traders. You're like, yes! bring back this guy who's like just good you know it doesn't have to be so hard so that's very exciting of course the one season I didn't watch so I don't know who any of these people are and I might watch the show actually looks like really good especially if these were my people like if these were any of the seasons I watched or like I don't know Love Island UK season 5 people like oh my god I'd be freaking out so I understand people are really excited is it them trying to like make it in Hollywood um that's like from what I saw it's like the couples from the show Some of them are still couples.

1:17:38They're living together. Drama amongst friends. I think some of the BFFs, the besties, having some infighting. Just like, I don't know what you would call it. A docu-series. A docu-series. I think you know who's done this well underratedly? 90 Day Fiance. 90 Day Fiance has done a really good job of like, hey, we're going to like, we had this couple, bring them into this next show. And they have them watching on the couch. They do a good job of keeping the 90-day community, you know, up and running. Abressed. Yeah. Well, that is all the time that we have for today. I feel so sorry for the Dear Toasters community because you guys are going to have to be on pause.

1:18:18Talk too much. I'm sorry. No, we just had so many great conversations. Okay, good. And we, like, are out of time. And I want to get this episode up. But, like, thank you. Thank you. This was such a pleasure. This was such a pleasure. And I'm sorry to the DTQ. I will make it up to you. I'll come back and do a question. I do this all this time where like the episode goes too long and we don't have time for dear toasters. And so like we push it to the next day or like sometimes doesn't happen that week. The backlash we get. So I'm ready for it. I understand. Blame Jared. Blame me. If you want some email.

1:18:46I answered dating emails on my Monday episode of J Train. I have two podcasts. Right. Well, that's tell us everywhere. We can follow you and listen to you. No, no, no. The J Train podcast is daily. I do Mondays. I take emails. Tuesdays people write in with their complaints and I complain with them it's a complaint duet Wednesdays is chit chat Wednesday I have a guest I would love to have you on there's so much left unsaid we have a lot to talk about especially I need Florida recos Thursday I do pop culture Thursday that's why I like seeing page 6 I just read page 6 and I just go off the top of the dome And then I do the You Up podcast with Betches.

1:19:31You Up, every Wednesday and Friday, we talk about dating. We take modern dating podcasts. We've been doing it for seven years, and it's a pleasure to do. And I'm like the male, I give you whatever the guy's thinking. That's what we need. Yeah. And we do cherish that advice. I hope you guys got some good dating tips from Jared, a little male POV. You have to take what I say and just know that I'm speaking honestly about my own situation. I'm not an expert. and I'm giving you basically, if I'm thinking it, I'm within 10 % of any guy you're dating. Because most people are very similar. We're all 10 % away from each other, how we're feeling, how we're thinking.

1:20:07So whoever you're dealing with isn't 100 % away from me. If you do the math on it, if you're logical. But yeah, so the UF podcast has been, it's such a pleasure to do and I love working with Betches. So it's great, yeah. And then 37 is single. It's a stand-up special. You can watch with your parents. You can watch with your friends. I'm sure they'll relate to it. Love that. And you're Jared Freed on Instagram. At Jared Freed. Love that. Well, thank you so much for being here. This was an absolute pleasure. And we will see you all tomorrow. Love ya. Bye.