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Welcome to the Tangle with Kyle Ridley.
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We're gonna do a shorter intro today.
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I have another one of my dream guests on.
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She was on my list when I made this podcast a year and a half ago of 20 or 30 names, and she was right up there.
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I've been following her for about 20 years now.
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I'm speaking with Michelle Collins today.
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What a pleasure to have been able to just talk to her for an hour and get into the underbelly of her life and career and uh some of her upbringing.
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It was a true joy.
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I do want to preface this interview because I have been such a fan of Michelle's for so many years, and I have listened to so many of her podcasts and seen her live, and she hosts a daily show.
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So I'm very familiar with her work.
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But, you know, on this show I say we go high and low, we go deep and shallow.
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So I do think I caught her a little off guard with my initial questions because, you know, I think I know so many of these people from listening to them for years that I want to ask things that I I haven't heard before.
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And she is really truly someone who I think in the public-facing way really likes to stay in the light and wants to be happy and positive and funny because she's just so naturally funny.
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So a serious question to lead off might have caught her off guard.
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We do get there.
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We get there pretty quickly, and I knew we would.
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I just truly adore her, and I will have her back, and we will be all fun and light.
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She is going on tour on her In Big Letters tour.
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I've seen her live before.
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I'm gonna see her again.
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It's always a good time.
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She is heading to New York, Chicago, Tennessee, California, Pennsylvania, New York again, Buffalo, Houston, Atlanta, Raleigh, Boston.
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Make sure you get your tickets.
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Make sure to listen to Michelle's podcast.
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You can also subscribe to her Patreon.
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She is always dishing out content pretty much every day.
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So she basically gives you an hour of comedy and fun material every single day.
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So I really suggest that you subscribe to that.
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Follow her on Instagram, of course.
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So, yes, the start of this interview, I wouldn't say it was rocky.
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We just had to find our footing and a flow, which happens, you know, with interviews.
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We've both interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people and done hours and hours on end of podcasting.
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So we always work it out.
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We're professionals.
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I knew we would get there, and we do get there.
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But I really do appreciate that she just tries to stay on the positive side and keep it light and funny and humorous, because I think that's what life really should be about.
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There's enough heaviness in the world.
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But as we do on this show, I always like to ask things that I haven't heard before or aren't publicly facing that I can't easily research.
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So we get some of that as well.
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As far as what I've been tangled in, it's just been a really, really busy week with work.
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I am heading out of town tomorrow to Los Angeles, so I'm getting this out early, and I will be back late next week.
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So you'll have a full week to listen to Michelle, and I'll post plenty of clips, and we have some awesome people coming up, including Tuck Watkins, Kit Williamson, Anna Conkl, Matt Rogers.
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Lots of fun on the way before we hit that hundredth episode.
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Oh, I also want to say that I saw Le Miz at Only Theater here in Maryland the other night, and it was fantastic.
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So if you get a chance, it's running through January.
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It really suggests that you see it.
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It's probably my favorite musical.
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I've seen it many times, and I don't get tired of it.
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So every production I've seen has been beautiful.
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This one as well.
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All right, friends, let's get to the Stellar Hilarious, kind, warm-hearted former view host.
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We talk about that.
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That's where I fell in love with her.
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She has a lot to say.
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Catch her on tour, the big letters tour, the fantastic Michelle Collins.
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I want to start with just my my praise for you, Michelle, because I've been admiring your work for, I mean, nearly 20 years now.
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Preview days.
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I remember seeing you on the screen.
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And just like so many people I've had on this show, like uh Brian Sofie and Danny Pellegrino, I just think you are the funniest, quickest, smartest, like sharpest comedian and voice.
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When I
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listen to you, I'm just like, she comes up with stuff so fast.
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You need your own show.
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I know you have your own show, but we need you, as Brian Safe said, we need you on daytime every single day.
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Oh my God.
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Okay, you know what?
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I'm warmed.
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You're right.
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I'm sorry I was too quick.
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Quickest way to my heart is just complimenting me so graciously.
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And that is so sweet of you to say, you said 20 years, and I felt like I was in like a Spielberg film of some sort of like horrible flashback.
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Like, how has it been 20 years?
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Well, I think starting with Best Week Ever Day is you being on TV.
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I started VH1 in 2026 or 20, I wish, in 20, it doesn't even exist anymore, 2006.
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I should add for those listening, it is early.
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I'm at my parents' place in Miami.
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So, you know, I'll I'll I'll get into it.
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But that was such a nice intro.
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And also you named two of my favorite people on earth, Brian Staffee and Danny Pellegrino.
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And another one I'm actually interviewing later today who also adores you, Matt Rogers.
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Oh my God.
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Another one.
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He has my whole heart.
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I mean, I just love those boys so much.
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And, you know, how lucky are we to even be able to like know these people and actually know them personally because they have so many fans who obviously love their comedy, but I can vouch that they all the names you've mentioned are just like the loveliest, most open-hearted, kindest people.
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So I'm I'm thrilled for you.
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Tell Matt I say hi.
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And beautiful company.
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Yeah, when I started this podcast, I made a dream guest list with about 20 names and you are were like right up there, and so was Matt.
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So it's incredible to have two of them today.
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And I've knocked a few of them off, uh like Rosie O'Donnell and um Ross Matthews and some people, but I'm just so excited to speak with you.
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So we're gonna cover a lot.
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I want to talk about your upbringing, comedy, the new tour, the In Big Letters tour, and we'll see how much we get to, but there's a lot to cover.
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Okay, let's go.
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And I'm gonna try to answer some ask some questions that you haven't been asked because I know you speak a lot and you're on air every single day.
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I can answer them, but you can ask me anything you like.
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Go for it.
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Born in Miami, lived in New York for many years.
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I remember in the pandemic, you would have that show with Adam Rip on.
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You would do your Instagram and you have that big staircase behind you.
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But first I want to start off with where is your home right now?
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Because I feel like you've been traveling the globe for the last five or six years, and I can never really pinpoint where you're settling down.
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Are you just a nomad?
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It's a question a lot of people ask, and I'm always like, I guess it makes sense to ask because it's an interesting facet of my life at the moment, but also kind of, you know, I find it's a when I answer it, people go, oh, like the the tone people say when I tell them currently what my status is.
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So I moved to Europe.
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This was like now three years ago, probably, and I loved living there.
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I was living in Amsterdam, but you know, my work is here, my friends are here for the most part.
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So I came back, and the truth is, given what I do, I have work opportunities in New York, I have work opportunities in LA, and especially when I'm on tour, you know, I'm bouncing from city to city.
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So the truth is this I don't necessarily want to move back to New York or LA.
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I will go back to a city if work comes through for me in one of those places, then, you know, it opens me up to being able to like move where I need to move.
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But at the moment I'm in Miami, which is where I was born and raised.
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So Miami is where, like you could call it my base at the moment.
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But yeah, I was in London last month for work, working with BBC for like three weeks.
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So, you know, it allows me not to pay double rents, which for me is a cost-cutting measure.
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So I enjoy it.
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And you get a lot more family time because you're with your parents right now, right?
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Well, right now, but that's changing within probably two weeks.
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Yeah.
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I'm only like just because that sounds, and again, it's a loaded question.
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And even to open with it, we'll unpack later.
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But I'm here for like three days before going on tour.
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So it's
my storage is here, you know, not in their house.
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Obviously, I have a separate unit, but I am staying, but it's not healthy for me.
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So that is shifting extremely soon.
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But listen, it's free to stay here for three, four days versus throwing money at some residents in for four days and then moving on.
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So, you know, it works for me.
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I love seeing all your your content with your mom.
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I think she's hilarious.
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I love that you guys are so close.
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Thanks.
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Yeah.
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I want to go back to Michelle in the 90s.
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We're we're similar in age.
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We're just a couple years apart.
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What were the 90s and early aughts?
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Describe Michelle in those days.
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Oh, um, this is a very serious interview.
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Describe Michelle in those days.
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Well, I was in high school and college, you know, I went to high school here in Miami, North Miami Beach.
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And um, I was funny.
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Like I just, what did I do?
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I was in speech and debate in high school.
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I love talking about forensics.
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I don't know if you did anything like that, Kyle, because I know you're also pursuing your own hosting dreams.
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But uh yeah, it was a lot of fun.
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I had great friends.
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I'm actually seeing my one of my dearest friends from high school later today for lunch at Bell Harbor because we're ladies who lunch now.
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So nice to have friends for, you know, 35, however many years.
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But that was me.
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And then I went to college in New York and I was uh at Barnard College, highly controversial school.
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It's uh in Morningside Heights.
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And listen, I was just always this person.
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Like I always loved to make friends talk to people.
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You know, I mean, I was tall, I was loud, I love to sing, I love musical theater.
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And so that is pretty much many of the facets of my personality kind of unpacked for you, I think.
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Were you always told that you were so quick-witted and sharp?
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Did you realize that in a young?
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Because then you are like, Yes, I have always been told.
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It kind of
intellectualizes it in a way that makes me uncomfortable, to be honest.
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But did you did you understand that that was a skill?
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Like it was a comedic skill.
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Yeah, I mean, I think, well, sure, right?
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Like if someone's a good singer, they know that they're a good singer.
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Like it's something, it's not even a skill.
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It's like I enjoy doing it.
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I believe I was put here to do this, you know?
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So I was just pursuing what made me happy, and that was like acting, singing, doing comedy, those kind of things.
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But stand-up really only started, and I always give her credit for this because uh the one of the funniest people I've literally ever known in my life, Chelsea Peretti, was in my improv group at Barnard.
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I mean, it was uh called Six Milk.
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So it was like the Columbia University group that they just took pity on us, women's college girls, and like allowed some of us in.
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And Chelsea was really the reason why I started doing stand-up.
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So she always gets my flowers for that.
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Did it start as a like a random open mic or did you write a full five minutes to get on stage?
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What do you mean?
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What was your first time?
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I don't know.
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I mean, I I'm sure it was some shitty, I think it was like in a basement.
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I feel like there was like a Vietnam vet there.
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And I'm not saying that for laughs.
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Like genuinely, I remember there being like one guy who looked like Lieutenant Dan and like two other people, and I was like, let's do it, you know?
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And it was fun back then.
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I mean, I I don't know what the underground scene in New York is like these days.
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I'm sure it's probably 10 times better, but this was like back when UCB was a big thing, you know.
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So it was uh no, I I at the time used to like write my jokes out.
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Now I much prefer to get up and have like ideas in mind, but like kind of uh perform on the fly.
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For me, it's more enjoyable.
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Yeah, I was we mentioned it.
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I was a big VH1 boy.
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Best week ever.
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You were the managing editor for several years.
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What were uh, I guess if you could pinpoint some some really big highs and the the lows of
that era for you?
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I enjoyed it every week.
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It was a different era having those like recap shows.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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I don't want to like focus on the negative.
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I feel like that was one of the best jobs I've ever had.
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I was so lucky to work in media and I loved the people I worked with.
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I'm still very dear friends with many of them.
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I consider probably some of my closest friends in New York, including my friend Norman Baker, who I'm sure you know, who was Wendy's producer for many years.
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I'm at Norman working at Best Week Ever.
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It was like one of the best jobs I've ever had.
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I mean, it was at a time when we were allowed, you know, the time of Perez Hilton, we were never vicious like Perez was, because I never found Perez funny.
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I mean, we our goal was to be funny about celebrities.
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So anyone who remembers the show Best Week Ever, you know, we were giving Britney Spears shit and like, you know, it was at the time she shaved her head.
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I mean, now I cry.
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I love Britney.
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I'm the number one Britney fan.
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So I look back thinking, like, wow, we were so harsh.
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But I actually kind of miss those days because I do think we held celebrities accountable in a different way than we do today, where today it seems like there's like no humor revolving around celebrities, which I think is really dangerous because we give them a little bit too much power, in my opinion.
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I agree.
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I've spoken with some comedians who were regulars on like the Chelsea Lately show.
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And they were like, it was such a different time, and the the comedy was maybe considered mean uh nowadays, but like no one had a problem with it back then.
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So it's weird to backtrack 20 years later and be like, oh, that was unacceptable.
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It was it was a different time, but I I enjoyed it.
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Yeah, that's everything in comedy, right?
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Like you can rewind the clocks and people are pissed, and it's like sometimes they're right to be, you know.
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But again, we live in like current times, so I don't know how to put it.
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But yes.
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I mean, luckily none of those archives exist, thank God.
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So not that we did anything.
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Again, it was like for a network station.
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So we were not Perez, but we were definitely giving them shit in a way.
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But I gotta say, like it was, I couldn't imagine a better job to like sharpen your comedic skills than being able to like be funny every day and write about these people, you know?
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I agree, yeah.
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I enjoyed it.
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And then throughout it all, were you the comedian that would like at night, after your day job, go and work your stand-up sets in different clubs and show up at the comedy cellar and stuff like that?
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No, I mean, first of all, I should add that before I worked at and I want to just apologize in advance because this feels like James Liptany, and I I can tell that I'm not being funny on this podcast because it's a little AE biography.
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So I'm just letting everyone know I am a funny person.
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No, you're hilarious.
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It's making me very serious.
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It's making me very serious because I'm like unpacking my career in a way that feels like a little self-serious, and I want people to know that's like so not who I am at all.
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So please understand I am I'm just being a guest and I'm answering questions.
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But anyway, um, I worked as a legal secretary for I want to keep it light and fun.
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You know, I worked at as a legal secretary for many years after graduating for college, and that job really allowed me to do stand-up because I was done at 5 p.m.
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every single day.
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So 5 p.m.
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I would leave and I never did the clubs, which I was always more like the alt scene of comedy.
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I mean, there was a place at the time called Rafifi, I think on 11th Street.
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And so that really allowed me, but I never did, to be honest, I regret it a little bit not being more in like the comedy seller side of stand-up because I think that it's how do I put this?
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Like there's a certain level of skill you get when you go to stand-up comedy clubs where the audiences are like less supportive, I would say, than they're at, let's say at a Joe's pub, which is where I normally perform, where it's like warm and inviting, you know.
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I don't know how to put it.
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I was just always kind of doing the more storytelling side of stand-up than like male-dominated side of stand-up.
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Because those clubs for me were very male.
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And, you know, if you weren't like some skinny girl with, I'm not trying to denigrate any woman who performs there because they're
better than me, okay, but I'm just saying that it was oftentimes hard.
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And I had this happen to me early in my career where if, you know, sexually you didn't satisfy someone, you were not going to move up in those ranks.
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I learned that kind of early on.
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And that just was not I I if you saw these men, you would get it.
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Like it's just it was not worth it to me.
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Too many fedoras, you know what I mean?
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I had a fedora-free policy in my apartment.
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So that's where we were at, you know, and I never, I never did the comedy cellar in my life.
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I would love to, by the way.
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It's uh I one of my dreams actually to perform there, honestly.
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Well, it reminds me, I interviewed Kathy Griffin a couple weeks ago, and she said like 20 years ago, she played her first show in DC, and it was like one of those basement, the DC improv shows, and she did the two shows a night, so like five shows that week.
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And she was like, That I realized I didn't like clubs.
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It was very male-dominated.
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It was hard to like find your footing.
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And she was like, I prefer a theater, something a little more her people.
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And that was actually one of my next questions because you you've always been like that.
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You like your residencies.
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Even when you came to DC, you played the Birchmere, not like the improv or one of the comedy clubs.
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Like such a great dinner theater type of place.
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So you've always that's always been your scene, and not doing five shows in a weekend.
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Definitely not.
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And and again, I envy comics who do do that because I do think that it is, it creates a different performer.
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Like you're a little bit more maybe defensive.
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You get heckled more often, you know, those kind of things, which do make you, I think, a more confident performer.
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But by the way, love the Birchmere.
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Were you at that show, Kyle?
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I was.
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Kyle is a real fan.
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He's passed my test.
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You shouted out all the gleep heads.
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I did.
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I did.
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Remember how many?
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Um, weren't there a lot of like uh not endometriosists?
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What is the word?
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Etymologist?
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Like there was some, there was some kind of scientist.
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Like high-end, really smart people in that audience.
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Disease specialists.
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It was like all the DC disease specialists were there.
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I was like, is there something I should know?
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But I also think, and Kathy is a great example of this, that when it comes to our audiences, which are mostly women and gay people, it just feels like warmer when you go into a place like the Birchmere or a Joe's pub.
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It's a little bit pay perhaps more high-end, a little more elegant.
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You know, I wear gowns in my show.
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I just can't picture myself in a gown at the comedy cellar.
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I mean, maybe it's been done, but it just doesn't gel for me, you know?
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So that's that's where it falls.
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But yeah, it's um something I do wish I had done.
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Thank you for sharing that.
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And thank you for for dealing with my highs and lows.
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I say we go deep and shallow.
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So I am a journalist, so I was like, I didn't want to catch you off guard at 10 in the morning with like and came in so hot.
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I'm like, okay, you know, my parents are listening to every word here.
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So it's they're literally back there.
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No, and of course I know you're the most hilarious, but I I get serious sometimes too.
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But we'll lighten up.
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Thank you.
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No, and I love being serious.
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I just want people to know, like opening with that, like it's, you know, this is I I don't take myself that seriously.
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Like it's kind of humiliating having to unpack your comedy career when it's like I there's so many more great things to do in my life.
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Like I look back, I'm very lucky.
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Don't mistake me.
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I'm just saying, like, I, you know, the reverence uh is hard for me to kind of sign on to because it feels a little bit like scary to do that.
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But yes, anyway.
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Well, I revere you.
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Uh and I love you for it, Kyla.
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It's why I'm here.
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Let's get to your new tour.
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Yes.
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Uh, I'm really excited about it.
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In big letters tour.
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You're going to several new cities.
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So I saw your last tour.
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Is it similar in that you I know you love visuals, incorporating slideshows?
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You sing sometimes.
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Tell us about the doom material.
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Yes.
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So I did you see the show with the childhood slides?
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Were you with that one?
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Or are you with the last last tour?
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When I came to DC, probably.
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In DC.
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And then yes, I also saw you when you toured with Queer Eye.
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Oh, that was a fun show.
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They're the they're so sweet.
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We had a great time on that tour.
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Um, so the new tour and the new show, which I have done in LA and New York already.
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Yes, I do use slides because I have debilitating ADHD.
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It's one of the, like, and again, you can see everything was hard for me.
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Like three hours in that theater, I was just like, we need to end this.
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This just can't be my life.
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So I need the slides to kind of keep me in line with like the outline and the stories I'm telling.
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Plus, I have it as visual punchlines.
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This show is like, I would say, more personal than the last one.
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I discovered a lot of childhood photos and teenage photos because a lot of people wonder like, how does a woman like myself get made?
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How does this golem get shaped?
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You know, what factory settings went into this?
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And a lot of those pictures, which were honestly hard for me to kind of go through because, you know, I think everyone has stuff in, if you're a comedian, especially, you have things in your childhood that like you feel shame about, or in my case, I was bullied growing up, you know.
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So looking back at those photos from these times wasn't easy because I hate to say it.
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Sometimes I side with the bullies.
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I'm like, you know what?
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I get it.
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We're right.
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The bullies were right.
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I'll say it here on your show.
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So I sh I talk about that a little bit and kind of talk about shame and uh bodies and just weight and a lot of, I mean, it sounds so like Kathy comic strip as I'm talking.
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I'm like, what?
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I'm changing my show.
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That's it.
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Changing the tour.
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No, but I also tell funny stories just uh in life in general.
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A lot of audience work, no, nothing mean per se, but it's a lot of callbacks.
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It's very quick.
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I don't really breathe when I perform.
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And I don't think I realized that until I recorded my shows in LA and I was watching the footage.
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And I was like, how do people even understand what I'm saying?
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Like, I speak so quickly because my thoughts are running so fast from the adrenaline of just being up there and keeping tabs on every single thing going on in the audience.
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And I think if you have ADHD, you know, and especially combined with whatever traumas I'm dealing with, you know, we're following everything in the room.
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There is like not one a noise in the background, a light flickering, whatever it is is going to be incorporated into that show.
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And it's a mile a minute.
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So know that if you come see me, it's sort of relentless, but I I think it's enjoyable.
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And for those who like quick things, you know, I think you'll get a kick out of it.
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You will.
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It's so quick.
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I remember in the shows I saw, you would you'd do callbacks to like audience members from 10, 15, 20 minutes ago and checking in.
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It was this how it was all just kept in your brain, everything throughout the room.
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It's it's it's a big scale.
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It's a true men, it's um taking advantage of my mental illness, and I'm not that's the most serious thing I'll say on your show.
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And, you know, listen, but it's I love it.
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Like, listen, I love podcasting, I love live TV.
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I mean, it it has a lot in common with live television, right?
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Because it's like you are on the spot, it's happening now, everything matters.
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And to me, like walking that tightrope of being on stage or being on live TV is it doesn't get more exciting for me.
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I love that.
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So I love performing and I recommend you go to Michelle CollinsComedy.com.
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Uh, I'm in, I think, 10 cities, possibly adding more.
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We're performing in San Francisco, which is exciting.
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And funny enough, Brian Safi is opening for me in Philly, in Buffalo, and then
my friend, also genius Dylan Carlino, will be with me in Atlanta and Houston, which is on December 29th.
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So just fun.
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Come and hang out.
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I think I'm gonna go to the Philly show because that's the that's the closest to DC.
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It's see, it's only a two-hour drive.
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So I'm gonna go back to the city.
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Well, off record, I'll give you tickets.
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But um, tell your listeners to buy the tickets and they're not expensive and come get drinks.
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Plus, the crowds are fun.
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Also, my can I say something in all seriousness?
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I want to get this on record.
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This is gonna sound very cocky.
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My fans are so good looking that sometimes I go on stage and I'm like, why is this not?
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Is this like sponsored by Grindr?
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Like, what's going on here?
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Some of them I go in and I'm hot, like they're so hot, it's distracting.
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And I'm like introducing people to other people.
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So if you're single or perhaps in a loving relationship and just want to know what's out there, come to the shows just to get a peek.
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Cause Kyle, I mean, if you'll add to that stock in Philly, I'm telling you.
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Well, thank you.
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And it's obviously a diverse crowd, but there are many gay men in your crowds.
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I I mentioned many at the top of the show.
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Like, can you just talk about your relationship to the LGBTQ community and specifically gay men?
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Cause I feel like any gay men that I talk to that says they love you, then I love them.
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That's my kind of gay man.
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You know what?
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I think that there, and I'm gonna actually this is gonna sound terrible, but I'm gonna bring the bullying conversation kind of back into this because I think that when you're a child who has overcome things or were not popular at a certain time in your life, it creates sensitivities and humor that I don't think people who did not expect.
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Experience that can relate to.
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And for me, I was tall, I was loud, awkward.
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I changed schools in the fifth grade.
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I had a lot going against me, cut my hair short.
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We talk about that in the show.
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Shorter than this.
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This is like Rapunzel.
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You should see.
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Don't ask.
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I mean, don't even ask.
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I look like Regis Vilman, okay, in the sixth grade.
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And I'm like, it's weird that people didn't like me.
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But I do think that that kindness, I think it is actually like an inherent kindness and dare I say people-pleasing thing too, in a way that really it's the warmth that I just love.
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And I will say that I am so lucky.
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And I literally thank, I'm not religious, but I will sound so religious.
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I like thank God that these are my fans and that this is what I've been given in my life because and it goes not just gay men, the entire LGBTQIA plus community and and the women who also are fans, they bring their husbands.
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And I will say the husbands enjoy the show.
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The straight husbands will enjoy it.
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They're just not, they don't know about me.
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Like they're not exposed to me in any way.
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So they're sort of like on the outs.
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But I'm very lucky.
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And I um I don't know what else to say about it.
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It's just they're the funniest people.
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Like you want to know who's funny and look at who gay men find funny.
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That's gonna be your tell.
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And so it's uh makes me feel good.
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Yeah.
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How often are you generating new material?
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Are you a big journaler, writer, keeping stuff on your notes app, or is it it's a lot of it is off the cuff, obviously maybe bullet points, but are you not a long form writer in that sense?
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No, Kyle, I'm sure not.
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Um, as you know, I record four to five episodes of my podcast a week, which is and edit them and publish them.
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Like I'm essentially working in a me sweatshop, like a sweatshop that I made for myself about me.
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It's kind of like hell.
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So the amount of material and content that I have to spew on my podcast kind of undercuts my stand-up a little bit because sometimes there are stories that I just know will be fucking great on stage, and I have to like bite my fist to not tell it on my podcast and hold it for stage because one thing with me is that once I tell it on the podcast, it's done.
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I I have to have new stuff.
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I really don't like retelling stories unless they're your true classics.
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Like I don't
like to revisit.
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So, and truth be told, I have a terrible memory, so I usually forget them anyway.
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So, leading up to a show, I usually tell stories that happen in the weeks leading up.
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Like I'll open each city with new stuff, perhaps from that city.
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They're TJ Maxx, I'm a big bargain person, you know, like their Nordstrom rack, whatever it is, and uh then lead into kind of the bigger stories.
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But yeah, I don't, I never write stuff.
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It kind of takes the fun out of it for me.
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And that's pretty rare.
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It's pretty brilliant because you're generating new material every single day.
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You could easily cull through a week's worth of podcasting, be like, this will be in the new set, new set, but you're just you forget about it.
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But it's at least it's all on audio we can go back and visit because it's so funny.
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All of that every day.
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I'm like Beethoven.
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Like, once I go, they're gonna blow the dust off of those old like episodes and be like, she was a genius.
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Like that's my hope.
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Because it's not happening now uh live, but yes, it's it's a lot of stuff.
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But it's fun.
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I love doing the podcast.
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You have to come co-host, by the way.
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I don't know why that's not happened yet.
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Oh my gosh, I would love to.
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Yeah.
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What about life on the road?
00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:09.119
Because you've toured, you've toured with queer eye yourself.
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Are there any comforts or practices to keep saying?
00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:15.200
Are you the type to just go airport, hotel, venue?
00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:16.960
Are you traveling in a van, a bus?
00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:17.839
That's so funny.
00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:19.119
Can you imagine me on a bus?
00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:21.519
I can you literally imagine me on a bus.
00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:23.920
Like, I I and I love the bus.
00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:26.160
You know, in London, I'm the biggest bus head.
00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:32.880
Like I I love, and I'm so annoying on the bus in London because you know they say it's such a polite city, despite all the phone theft.
00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:35.359
And every time I get off the bus, I go, thank you, driver.
00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:37.039
I'm so unbearable.
00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:38.720
Like, but that's what they do.
00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:42.160
They say thank, especially the older generation, they always say thank
you to the driver.
00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:46.400
And I'm you've never seen a more annoying person than me going, thank you, driver, and like the door is closed.
00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:48.000
They speed off, mud hits me.
00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:50.559
Anyway, I do not take a bus.
00:25:50.720 --> 00:26:03.039
In this case, I'm taking flights, and I'll tell you, Kyle, and this is something I'm embarrassed to admit, but I am so close to hitting the top tier of United status next year.
00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:04.079
This close.
00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:06.480
And the one thing that's holding me back are the legs.
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:14.880
Like you have to, I've never been this close, and so now that's how I'm trying to learn about how am I gonna get to this one case status, which is the nirvana of United Status.
00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:17.039
And you have to just basically take connections.
00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:20.160
Like every flight, you gotta connect in Houston and take the connection.
00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:28.799
So something about this tour that I think people should know is your girl is on connections, missed connections, New York Times connections, every leg of the race.
00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:30.799
I'm in an amazing race nightmare.
00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:32.000
Will they lose my bag?
00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:34.720
Which, you know, I have some props, as you know, in my show.
00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:36.480
Maybe, maybe they will lose my bag.
00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:37.200
We'll see.
00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:43.039
But uh I am flying on United essentially to every single city.
00:26:43.119 --> 00:26:50.240
And then the other thing is, you know, I didn't know this, but a lot of Troy and comics, what they'll do is they'll book like the cheapest hotel because they're just like, well, you know, otherwise you lose money.
00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:53.039
Why pay 500 bucks a night to make a thousand?
00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:54.480
Like, doesn't make sense.
00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:57.440
I am not a snob with hotels at all.
00:26:57.519 --> 00:26:59.519
In fact, I love like a good airport hotel.
00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:03.759
Something about me, I need a good bed, good lighting, and a full-length mirror.
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:04.319
That's it.
00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:08.960
I don't need all, you know, Mumford and Son's interior decoration.
00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:14.160
I don't need pipe exposed pipes, like I don't need any of that stuff or like Soho 50 shampoos, none of that.
00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:16.799
But I also am not gonna stay in a day's end, unfortunately.
00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:19.039
So I don't I hope that no one who works there is listening to this.
00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:25.039
But yes, I so I'm doing like slightly nicer, shitty hotels, if that makes sense.
00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:27.279
And yeah, it's gonna be draining.
00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:30.480
I'm nervous on an energy level and also keeping up with the podcast.
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:33.759
Like I'm nervous about what this is gonna take out of me, but I've done it before.
00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:34.559
I'll do it again.
00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:38.480
I'm really excited Brian and Dylan are coming to some of the shows, and I'm excited to see everyone there.
00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:39.920
Like it's that's when it's fun.
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:41.119
The show itself is the best part.
00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:43.759
It's the travel that makes it, you know, draining and hurt.
00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:45.279
Yeah, it's gonna be great.
00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:50.480
And then you you mentioned like shittier, nicer hotels, but yeah, you love to shop also.
00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:51.200
You just mentioned it.
00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:53.039
Like you're a huge department tour person.
00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:55.039
You're not a big spender in that sense.
00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:56.240
You're not shopping upper class.
00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:58.480
So it sort of goes along with the hotels, right?
00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:00.799
Yes, that's a wonderful point, Kyle Ridley.
00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:01.599
It is true.
00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:05.039
I am a I'm a designer discount person.
00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:05.680
Yes.
00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:12.160
So I love, like, well, they closed them now, but I love that last call, Neiman Marcus, which are now done.
00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:13.839
So now it's moved into off-fifths.
00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:15.279
They all know me here in South Florida.
00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:22.000
There's not an off-fifth that my size 11s have not trounced through like truly like storming Normandy.
00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:28.000
I go into those stores with a goal, and I'll be honest, is that they have so much merchandise now that I'm overwhelmed.
00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:31.279
And I am someone who's, by the way, some of the racks, I'm six foot one, right?
00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:34.079
Talk about getting underarm, like working this part.
00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:38.960
I'm moving gowns, beaded, Oscar de la Renta's, and they're like higher than my head.
00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:42.720
And I'm going, how is a woman who's like normal five, five, how are they looking at this stuff?
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:45.359
I don't understand the physics of how they shop.
00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:46.880
That being said, I do love it.
00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:48.640
I have an addiction to discount shopping.
00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:49.839
It's what gets me out of the house.
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.160
I go to TJ Maxx, I go to Home Goods.
00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:53.039
Is it healthy?
00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:55.519
I really don't know if I'm ready to answer that, to be honest.
00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:56.799
I really have to think that over.
00:28:56.960 --> 00:28:57.440
Probably not.
00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:02.960
Well, I've been listening to you for years, and it seems to come up every single week on the show, every city you're in.
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:07.279
So are you constantly
purging and donating and just replacing?
00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:08.160
I am, yes.
00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:09.519
I donate a lot, which I do love.
00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:10.480
I'm not a hoarder.
00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:12.319
That should be, I don't think I am.
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:13.279
I love getting rid of stuff.
00:29:13.359 --> 00:29:15.759
In fact, I have a bag behind me that I'm taking today to donate.
00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:17.279
So I get rid of things.
00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:19.759
But also let me add that I'm not like a normal person.
00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:20.960
Like I have to have looks.
00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:23.920
If I'm doing something on camera, I need on-camera things.
00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:27.680
If I'm photographed, you need dresses for that or looks for that.
00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:29.119
I'm traveling a lot.
00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:32.880
I just feel like I need more things than a regular person, I think.
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:33.839
Maybe I'm crazy.
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:35.680
Maybe that's all women, especially, who do that.
00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:38.880
But, you know, I'm always looking like I'm doing watch what happens in the upcoming weeks.
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:46.400
And like I like to get looks in advance so that I'm not scrambling two days beforehand finding some slut dress to impress Andy with, you know.
00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:48.000
So I think I have a good one this time.
00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:48.799
But it's just fun.
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:49.440
I enjoy it.
00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:50.720
It's a way for me to unwind.
00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:52.079
It doesn't cost me that much money.
00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:53.519
Like I'm fairly good about it.
00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:55.920
Sometimes I'll sell the stuff on the real, real, make money.
00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:59.519
Most of the time I lose money, but you know, it's like the stock market with stuff basically.
00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:01.279
Are you a Marshalls fan?
00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:04.079
That's a really hard one to answer.
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:06.400
Because I know here's the crazy thing about Marshalls.
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:07.920
I could talk about this all day.
00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.279
You really opened up a can of worms.
00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:10.559
Big mistake, by the way.
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:17.279
I know that it's the same owners as TJ Maxx, but I cannot, for some reason, get into Marshalls.
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:22.880
And I know that in some cities in America, Marshalls is the better version, like TJ's is beneath and Marshall's is better.
00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:25.039
You tell me what city that is, and I will test it.
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:29.839
But I'll tell you that here in South Florida, I don't remember the last time I bought anything at a Marshall's.
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:32.079
It's a terrible thing to say because it's the same distributor.
00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:33.200
It's like the same pot.
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:33.839
I get it.
00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:35.119
I just don't like Marshalls.
00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:35.920
I don't know what it is.
00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:36.799
Why is that, Kyle?
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:37.440
Are you not in the middle of the case?
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:37.839
I don't know.
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:39.599
I prefer Marshall's to TJ Maxx.
00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:43.359
I think maybe in DC or Maryland, Virginia area, it might be the switch.
00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:44.319
I don't know what it is.
00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:45.759
Like, I mean, listen, I'm not gonna lie.
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:47.920
Did I get swindled by a TJ's this week?
00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:48.400
Yeah.
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:50.079
I went to the one at Saugrass.
00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:54.640
I saw a bag of treats called Jingle Crunch, and it looked like this is true.
00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:56.319
It's in the other room.
00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:58.480
There were six bucks a bag.
00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:02.160
I'm telling you this to warn your listeners, and it looked so I was so hungry too.
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:05.359
You know when you're hungry and you're in that aisle full of stuff made God knows where.
00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:10.160
And I bought three bags of Jingle Crunch because my thinking was the line was wrapped to the door.
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:15.119
I thought, if this is delicious, I'm gonna regret not having pulled in more jingle crunch.
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:16.000
So let me buy them.
00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:18.960
So I bought three bags, cracked it open, inedibly bad.
00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:21.440
Gave one to the doorman of the building, one of the new ones.
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:22.160
I hope that.
00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:24.559
And then I have one.
00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:25.920
I told my mom, like, give it to someone.
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:28.480
I don't know who to give it to, but it's not good, so don't buy it.
00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:29.519
Okay, moving along.
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:31.759
Moving along, and we're gonna go back to your career.
00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:34.160
Uh, I love how you like to keep positive though.
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:37.920
You even if there are negative experiences, you you tend to, I'm the same way.
00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:39.279
I like to remember the positive.
00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:42.160
But you've worked with some really you've worked with icons.
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:43.680
I know I'm gonna touch on two right now.
00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:46.640
You were a writer on Kathy Griffin's Bravo Talk Show.
00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:47.759
That's 2012.
00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:50.240
You were also a regular on the Wendy Williams show.
00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:58.480
Anything that you learned from those two, Queens, and specifically writing for Bravo back in the day, because that was I remember those two seasons, and I love seeing you on that show.
00:31:58.720 --> 00:31:59.039
Thank you.
00:31:59.119 --> 00:31:59.359
Yes.
00:31:59.519 -->
00:32:13.599
Well, I worked on the first season of that show as a writer, and Kathy was very generous letting me be a guest on that show because initially when we launched it, which I thought was such a funny idea, and I hope she doesn't mind me saying it here, because in case it gets stolen, but it's, you know, whatever it is.
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:19.920
Initially the idea was that she would have just regular people on as guests, like it would be a late night show, but she would have civilians on.
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:21.920
And I I still think this is brilliant.
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:23.599
I don't know why this kind of hasn't been done.
00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:30.319
I guess Ellen kind of did that when she would have games, you know, you pull people up from the audience, but literally celebrating someone as a guest on a show.
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:33.200
There was a guy who worked at the Santa Monica DMV named Jerry.
00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:35.119
I only met him one time.
00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:37.839
He is one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life.
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:42.400
He had a backwards Kang all hat on, read me to filth over my license plate.
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:43.440
Now I'll never forget it.
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:44.640
And we laughed and laughed.
00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:47.359
And I remember I worked at Kathy and I was like, we gotta get Jerry on the show.
00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:49.519
Jerry will kind of, you know what it reminds me of?
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:51.359
Uh, you saw Conan on Subway Takes.
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:52.240
It went viral.
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:58.000
And this woman, this woman went viral because I she's a bar owner, I believe, I think in Brooklyn.
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:04.799
But she was just a civilian who was, dare I say, funnier than Conan, rolled in, was like, you never see your kids, like this and that.
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:06.640
I'm not gonna repeat the whole exchange.
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:13.759
Most of the people in our lives, like just walking, are funnier than the professional comedians and cooler and more fun to be around.
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:15.599
So I'm all about celebrating those people.
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:25.279
I think Wendy was too, actually, because Wendy's audience, she was so blessed with the most fantastic audience, I think, who were so supportive of her and just got her.
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:30.480
Like they got that she was complicated and troubled and had overcome and made mistakes.
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:33.119
I mean, listen, I Wendy is one of my great idols in my life.
00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:34.400
She's made plenty of mistakes.
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:39.119
She's done things that maybe I wouldn't personally do, but she was so herself.
00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:40.480
She was so authentic.
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:42.240
And like you can't fake that.
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:44.240
I don't really know anyone who's doing it.
00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:51.200
Maybe Drew Barrymore in a very different chapter, like a different department of pureness, because Wendy had a dark side, as we all know.
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:54.880
But yeah, God, I just miss that kind of a personality on TV.
00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:58.079
Just like truly authentic and shady and funny.
00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:58.960
And that was funny.
00:33:59.039 --> 00:33:59.759
And Kathy, too.
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:02.799
Listen, Kathy is one of the reasons I'm a comedian.
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:05.279
And I'm sure you know because you grew up loving her too.
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:08.400
Like she's one of the greatest storytellers of our lifetime.
00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:12.159
And I want to thank her here just for giving me that opportunity to work with her.
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:17.679
Cause I was very, I was hired by her personally, and I was very, very flattered by that and very excited to work with her.
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:19.519
So, Kathy, if you hear this, thank you.
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:20.400
Send her my love.
00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:25.760
And similar to you, always, she's always generating new material and gets to cities early to generate new material.
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:27.199
It's yeah, it's a big skill.
00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:28.159
No, she's a genius.
00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:31.119
But Wendy, listen, I Wendy is like, I'll just put it this way.
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:39.360
Wendy has always supported me and has literally had no reason to, other than us being the same height, which is a big part of it, I think, because there's so few of us out there.
00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:43.360
But I really, uh, really want to see her back.
00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.280
And I just I adore her.
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:45.760
Adore.
00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:46.320
Yeah.
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:49.360
Will you watch the new documentary being created?
00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.079
You know, I maybe I guess I will.
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:53.599
I mean, I'm not gonna be on it.
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:54.719
Like, will I watch it?
00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:56.639
If people are talking about it, yes.
00:34:56.800 --> 00:35:05.440
It kind of reminds me of like that Mary Cosby documentary that came out that like no one really watched because the truth is we love Mary so much that we're kind of like, can't we just have this?
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:06.800
Can't we just like Mary?
00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:09.119
Like, I'm sure everyone has shit.
00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:11.840
Like, and no one really talked about that documentary.
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:14.000
And I sort of think the same thing will happen with Wendy.
00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:21.119
Like, I don't know, I think people just really hope for the best and see that she kind of got a raw deal in some senses, and we'll see about that.
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:21.679
I agree.
00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:22.719
I love Mary too.
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:25.679
She's just to see what she's become of the last few years.
00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:27.360
She's like the most powerful woman there.
00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:27.599
Yeah.
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:29.840
Imagine her being the most sane.
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:32.000
Like, she's like, and poor Mary.
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:36.000
I mean, this season is so hard for her, but um, no, I I love her and I love that show.
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:36.480
Let's be honest.
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:37.840
Stronger than ever.
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:39.679
All right, here we go.
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:46.239
I do need to talk about how I fell in love with you mostly because I would DVR every single day watching you on the view.
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:49.119
Yes, 2015 to 2016.
00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:51.119
You are on the panel with Whoopi.
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:55.440
It almost was like 2015 to 2015, funny enough.
00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:57.599
But let's go with 16 for this podcast.
00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:58.079
Go on.
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:04.320
You were the 15th co-host, you, Whoopi, Joy, Paula Ferris, Raven Simone, and Candace Cameron Beret.
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:06.159
You were not part of the 25th season.
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:10.239
By the way, I want, just before we even get into this conversation, um, two things I'll say.
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:14.719
I love Whoopi, so that can be an overarching umbrella to this conversation.
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:17.039
And also, I don't watch the show.
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:18.880
So that's not shady.
00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:20.960
And I always say that people think that sounds shady.
00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:25.440
That's coming from an authentic place of I was blessed to have that job.
00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:28.800
We can talk about it and you can ask me anything you want, but I was blessed to be there.
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:31.199
I I'm a pri I've always been a price is right girl.
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:33.440
I've always been a game show person, and that's just who I am.
00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:36.159
I watch British trivia shows literally every single day.
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:39.440
I put my VPN on, I watch Jeopardy, Wheel, Price.
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:40.480
I love game shows.
00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:44.400
So I just want people to know, like, yeah, I I didn't watch the 25th season.
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:45.679
I wouldn't have anyway.
00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:49.119
Listen, even if, but like I didn't watch it just because I don't watch that show.
00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:50.480
So, but anyway, ask away.
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:52.079
So I can't really speak to any of that stuff.
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:52.480
Yeah.
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:54.079
I don't watch either anymore.
00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:57.199
I stopped many years ago, but I did watch every episode that you were on.
00:36:57.440 --> 00:36:58.159
Thanks, babe.
00:36:58.239 --> 00:36:58.800
That's nice.
00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:06.639
Uh and it's always in the news, but yeah, I remember that 25th season, and I I
remember they had past co-hosts like film videos of and you were in a different city, right?
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:10.480
Paris or something if you filmed, oh my god, I filmed the the quickest.
00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:14.480
They were like, it was the first time I'd really heard from them in however many years, I guess five years.
00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:17.360
And you know, listen, people please her, that's me.
00:37:17.599 --> 00:37:21.199
And you know, I never spoke negatively about that show.
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:22.400
I could have, I didn't.
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:24.960
And so I was like, this is the olive branch we need.
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:29.199
And so I filmed in front of the Eiffel Tower at the super chic restaurant.
00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:33.760
By the way, I remember a way to connect with the people, a way to connect with the average American.
00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:35.760
I was like, let's do it in front of the Eiffel Tower.
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:37.119
But I was with my friend Lucas.
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:38.079
Hi, Lucas.
00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:40.400
If you hear this, he is like the chicest person I know.
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:41.599
You would shit for him.
00:37:41.679 --> 00:37:44.239
He is so elegant and gorgeous in every way.
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:48.480
And he was my filmographer at this restaurant, no pun intended, called Giraffe.
00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:50.159
This is all true, you can Google it.
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:55.360
And we filmed me in front of the Eiffel Tower, and I thought, oh, I didn't know what they were going to use it for.
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:59.199
And I thought, well, I want to make it good for them to show them that like it's all good.
00:37:59.280 --> 00:37:59.840
You know what I mean?
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.159
I know that this is like the gauntlet, I get it.
00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:08.880
And then I think I was like a one-inch size postage stamp in the very first episode's opening credits.
00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:12.000
And I was like, you can't even see the Eiffel Tower back there.
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:13.519
But yes, anyway, go on.
00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:14.800
Oh my gosh.
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:15.519
All right.
00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:24.880
Well, a lot has been made this year because it's the 30th season, and I had Rosie O'Donnell on my show, and she hinted that a lot of the hosts were gonna be back, and it became this big hoopla.
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:26.320
You did a video, page six.
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:28.079
A lot of outlets covered it.
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:31.519
Now, so far, Raven, Sherry, Lisa Ling have been back.
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:35.280
Candace Cameron was asked, but she said she didn't want to leave the state.
00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:36.400
Uh interesting.
00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:38.079
You don't expect to be asked.
00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:39.280
You've said they're not going to.
00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:41.599
No, listen, here's the truth, and this is real.
00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:45.440
First of all, I saw the video that you posted with Rosie, and I thought, oh, that's funny.
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:48.239
Because I here's the the honest to God truth.
00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:50.000
Like, I don't take it that seriously.
00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:51.360
I know a lot of people really do.
00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:52.079
I really don't.
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:55.679
And it's so funny because the comments are like, have some self-respect.
00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:58.000
It's like, I'm doing this because I have self-respect.
00:38:58.079 --> 00:38:58.960
I don't think people get it.
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:00.000
Like, you know what I mean?
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:03.519
Like, I wouldn't be if I was truly still hurt by them or whatever.
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:04.559
I'm so sensitive.
00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:05.840
I would not be posting these things.
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:06.559
Please believe me.
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:09.039
I'm doing it because like I don't really care, is the truth.
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:11.039
And not shaming them.
00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:12.480
Congrats on the 30th year.
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:12.880
I get it.
00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:16.800
But like, how am I supposed to care after 10 years of like essentially radio silence?
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:18.239
It's like, well, I get it.
00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:20.159
You know, no hard feelings on my end.
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:20.960
Ish.
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:22.639
Um, ish.
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:24.480
I'm sure there are people there who don't like me.
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:25.360
I mean, who knows?
00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:30.800
But, you know, I uh I saw the Rosie Cliff and I thought, oh, I knew I was going on tour.
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:32.559
I was in, God, I'm unbearable.
00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:35.599
As I'm talking about myself, I'm like, I am genuinely the worst person.
00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:39.679
I was in Milan, Italy in August.
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:48.320
And actually, I was going to meet Whoopi, funny enough, in Sicily, but then Mount Aetna, uh, cano blocked me and I couldn't get there because none of the flights are taking off.
00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:55.519
But anyway, um, I I posted it because also because I knew at the time I was gonna see Whoopi like, and I love her, and she's like almost family to me.
00:39:55.599 --> 00:39:57.199
I mean, I love her family so much.
00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:00.239
And frankly, if that's what I got out of this show, lucky me.
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:01.440
Like, who's luckier than that?
00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:08.159
I mean, that I'm not stepping on at all, and I don't want that to be misconstrued because that is like such an important thing to me, and I I just adore them so much.
00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:10.000
So I thought I'll make this video, it'll be fun.
00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:11.519
And can I say something, Kyle?
00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:14.880
Congrats to you for getting that clip with Rosie and
for getting her on your show.
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:20.400
And also, I would like some flowers too for getting it on the radar that this fucking reunion was even happening.
00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:29.039
Because without this clip, I'm like, all these people reached out going, you know, we didn't even know it was the 30th anniversary until we saw the news covering you talking about it.
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:30.480
And I'm like, thank you very much.
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:32.800
So this is where the hubris shows through.
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:35.760
But yeah, you know, I posted that and then I saw that that got pickup.
00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:49.280
And once we announced my tour, I was like, if the only thing I get out of being a view co-host for 97 seconds is that I can piggyback off of this anniversary year in any way to get a little bit of buzz, why shouldn't I do that?
00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:52.079
I mean, that's I think that's like totally normal in this day and age.
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:53.920
So I posted another funny little video.
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:57.360
I happened to be in London, England at the time, and I posted it.
00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:02.719
And um, and it got picked up by page six, which, you know, I love getting picked up by page six.
00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:03.679
I mean, who does it?
00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:05.199
It's so chic, it's so fabulous.
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:05.679
So, you know.
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:08.960
I'm still holding out hope because I think it's it's obviously more the fans that care.
00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:16.960
It's I know it's brushes off your shoulder, but I just think we want you deserve more respect because we've been following you for so many years, and you were so dynamic on that show.
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:18.159
That's how I fell in love with you.
00:41:18.239 --> 00:41:25.280
And that's really why I want them to acknowledge you because there hasn't been that many hosts over 30 years, and it wouldn't be hard to just have you back at the table.
00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:26.159
You're hilarious.
00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:30.159
You're in the zeitgeist, you're touring, and people know who you are.
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:31.360
It's just like she's hilarious.
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:32.000
Put her back on.
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:33.280
I have just I don't understand it.
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:34.639
I don't think your fans understand it.
00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:35.840
Well, I'll say this.
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:39.440
Thank you for saying that, first of all, and I just adore you so much.
00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:41.920
And for the fans, I'll go in two seconds.
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:48.159
They can put me in one of those hideous dresses they had me in 10 years ago, those matte jersey, Ralph Loren, knee length, whatever.
00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:50.400
It was the only thing I think they could find that fit me at the time.
00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:54.400
They can throw me in one of those and wheel me out, and I'd be happy to do it.
00:41:54.559 --> 00:42:03.760
Um, so yeah, for me, it would be great if yes, yes, no, no, I genuinely am spiritually free from the confines of this show.
00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:05.519
And I really, genuinely mean that.
00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:10.800
Um, which is why I do like having fun with them on it on Instagram, because like I know they're not gonna respond to me.
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:12.559
You know, so it's like whatever.
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:14.400
Like, you know, and it's all in good fun.
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:16.960
I don't think I've done anything that's like super bitter or anything else.
00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:18.480
It's just kind of like to me, it's funny.
00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:20.480
And you're clearly allowed back at ABC.
00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:22.480
I mean, you were just at dancing with the stars.
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:23.519
Oh my God.
00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:23.920
I know.
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:26.800
Well, my friend Julia is crushing it there.
00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:28.960
My God, her New York Times thing.
00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:29.199
Yes.
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.280
No, I love, and by the way, love ABC.
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:31.840
And you know what?
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:32.960
Can I just put this out there?
00:42:33.119 --> 00:42:34.079
Forget the view.
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.039
I would like to be asked to do celebrity wheel of fortune or regular.
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:39.280
They don't even have to call me a celebrity, just wheel me out.
00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:39.840
I mean, my God.
00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:42.559
Oh my god, or Jeopardy.
00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:43.920
So I just want to put that on record.
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:44.960
It's a true dream for me.
00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:45.599
Anyway, go on.
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:46.559
Flip it.
00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:48.400
Uh obviously, yeah.
00:42:48.639 --> 00:42:50.719
You host your podcast every single day.
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:52.719
You hosted Sirius for many years.
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:54.320
Uh with was it with Andy?
00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:55.440
It was the last year.
00:42:55.679 --> 00:43:00.719
They kept kind of moving me stations because I was on uh stars at first, and then they closed that down.
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:01.920
They moved me to something else.
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:04.480
And then my last year I was there, I was on Andy.
00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:07.039
And let me also just say, loved working in Sirius.
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:08.719
I don't have a bad thing to say about it, genuinely.
00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:10.960
It's just the media landscape always changing.
00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:17.119
When you sign on every day to do your podcast, do you arrive with just a clear head and no notes?
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:19.440
It's really just all off the cuff for the full hour.
00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:20.400
What do you want me to say?
00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:23.920
I mean, you don't wake up or you go to bed and be like,
we're gonna talk about that tomorrow.
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:25.119
It's because it that yes.
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:34.719
I mean, listen, for example, I had something happen to me just this morning, and I already recorded today's episode, but I know that come Thursday I'm gonna be I'm hosting a gala in Bermuda this weekend, please.
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:38.159
And so I'll be live from Bermuda this week.
00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:43.840
And I have a very funny story, actually TJ Maxx related, that will be opening my show.
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:45.519
But you know, my show is very Seinfeld.
00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:50.880
It's like things that happen to me during the day, uh, human interactions, the way other people behave.
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:52.079
I'm fascinated by that.
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:54.559
So I'd say like 30% of the show is that.
00:43:54.639 --> 00:43:59.760
Then we talk Bravo, obviously, and my co hosts every day bring some funny things, but it's you literally never know.
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:01.039
Know what you're gonna get with my show.
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:07.440
Yeah, and a lot of it is about your interactions with people because you are would you call yourself, I guess, a people person or extrovert?
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:10.800
Because you love talking to people in line and just getting to know them and pick their brain.
00:44:11.119 --> 00:44:11.920
Heaven to me.
00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:13.119
Heaven to me.
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:16.320
Listen, I don't even know where to begin.
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:17.760
I truly love interaction.
00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:18.960
I love interacting with people.
00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:28.159
I'm an extrovert introvert, which is, and I'll be honest, actually, going back to your first question about being with my parents, not having a space of my own at the moment is slowly killing me.
00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:34.400
Like I need to be able to come home, be by myself, you know, watch my game shows and like shut down a little bit.
00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:37.119
But I really love, I like making people smile.
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:38.239
I mean, I'm not coming through.
00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:43.440
I always say with the Karen haircut, I call it the reverse Karen because I'm like, call the manager, I'm gonna compliment you.
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:45.679
You know, that's like that's my haircut.
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:50.480
But um, I I enjoy making people's day and like bringing a little sunshine.
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:51.599
I love complimenting people.
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:53.039
I know that's really needy too.
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:56.079
I know that that like I get more out of it than they do in a way.
00:44:56.239 --> 00:45:00.159
But for example, if I see people working hard at their job, any job, I acknowledge it.
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:02.079
I go, I just I see you and just thank you.
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:03.920
Cause I don't think a lot of people stop to do that.
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:09.119
And there are a lot of people working for very little money who are working their fucking asses off, pardon my language.
00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:10.320
And so I like to acknowledge that.
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:12.320
But maybe that makes me some sort of savior complex.
00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:13.199
I don't know what I'm saying.
00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:16.400
I just think be nice to everyone, be kind, and hope to get it in return.
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:17.360
Beautifully said.
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:17.840
Thanks.
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:22.239
Now, I feel like you should have several comedy specials because you're always generating material.
00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:25.199
Are you gonna record this new hour?
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:29.119
Like you should be on streaming and have five under your belt by now.
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:33.199
Kyle, you're my only friend and congratulations, you're my new agent.
00:45:33.519 --> 00:45:35.280
I was waiting to tell you that.
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:39.679
I did actually record my shows in LA and thank God they were very funny.
00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:44.320
I did wear a gown from um the Gwyneth Paltrow goop collection.
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:45.840
That is not, I wish I were kidding.
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:46.960
That is a true statement.
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:50.320
And I only noticed later on that it had a weird fold by the vagina.
00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:54.000
So I'm parsing through how I'm gonna work around the fold.
00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:56.320
It's not actually of my body part.
00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:58.639
It's like the way it pleats looks like that.
00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:00.800
And I'm like, but that's me.
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:02.480
Like I'm never gonna have something go perfectly.
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:04.480
Something will always go wrong, something will be off.
00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:08.880
So uh we will definitely be releasing clips from that and hopefully turning that into something more.
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:10.320
But but thank you for saying that.
00:46:10.559 --> 00:46:11.199
Can I be honest?
00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:29.679
I think that a lot of streamers are not comfortable with a comedian like myself when so much of it, unless you're like Matt Reif, I hate to invoke his name here, but I don't think they're comfortable, especially with a woman, of giving them the reins of freedom to be off the cuff and not know kind of word for word what's gonna happen.
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:35.440
Like have that safety net of material is that's maybe my own opinion, but from just my experiences.
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:35.760
But yeah.
00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:36.079
Yeah.
00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:39.519
Well, I've had well, Kathy and Phoebe Robinson and Heather Shaw.
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:43.360
Like a lot of comedians now are just putting their stuff on YouTube, their specials on YouTube.
00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:46.480
It seems to be the way to go to own it and not have to deal with all the
network notes.
00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:52.559
So once this tour is done, that's something we're gonna look into just because I don't want to like waste it just yet.
00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:58.480
I want people to get it live, obviously, but it's something we're looking into, not to say it's for sure gonna happen, so still come to see the show live.
00:46:58.880 --> 00:46:59.519
Of course.
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.559
And over the years, you've also mentioned a lot.
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:04.559
Jokingly, you're like, I'm saving it for the memoir.
00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:05.679
I'm saving it for the book.
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:07.039
Is that coming?
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:08.639
Do you think you have a memoir in you?
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:09.599
Because we're waiting.
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:14.800
I have so many memoirs in me, Kyle, that I'm busting at the damn seams.
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:21.199
Here's here's like the sad truth about I okay, there is a very, I'm not gonna name him, but there's a very, very lovely guy.
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:25.199
I hope he hears this, who reaches out to me every three months, being like, please write your book.
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:28.000
And he works in this world and he's like, please write it, please write it.
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:32.559
And I'm like, listen, part of my charm is my severe mental illness.
00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:33.599
I mean, that's just real.
00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:35.920
I'm I'm not medicated, I'm not an Adderall.
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:39.519
I had Kelty Knight who just released a great book called The Fuck Them Theory.
00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:40.480
Let's plug Kelty.
00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:47.360
Kelty did my show, and she's just started Adderall, she's a little younger than I am, and was like, it changed my life.
00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:48.480
It's why I wrote the book.
00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:51.679
And can I be honest, I cannot find a quack doctor to give it to me.
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:52.239
And I need it.
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:57.360
Like I'm textbook ADHD from a young age, you know, like it is what it is.
00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:00.000
It's part of, I think, why my comedy operates the way it does.
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:01.840
But I would like to write my book one day, Kyle.
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:07.679
So if any psychiatrists are listening, any quack doctors, reach out to me because I need that script.
00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:10.400
I listened to that episode.
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:12.480
It was you're like asking questions.
00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:13.280
That was very funny.
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:15.280
And she got diagnosed late, yeah.
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:16.400
She got exactly.
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:27.039
But a lot of women are not diagnosed young because we I hate to say it, but I mean I think that a lot of women who have this are smarter or we're just, you know, the brain is working completely differently than like a normal human brain.
00:48:27.199 --> 00:48:31.599
And so we're like gifted kids and put in these smart classes and everything else.
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:36.079
But at this age, especially combined with other hormonal things, it's not a good combination.
00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:37.920
And it can be, I think, quite overwhelming.
00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:40.079
So yes, I'm working on it, Kyle, but thank you.
00:48:40.239 --> 00:48:41.920
I'll ask you for a quote for the book cover.
00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:42.559
So get ready.
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:43.199
I'll do it.
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:43.440
Yeah.
00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:45.199
She dedicated her book to Adderall.
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:47.760
I remember She's hilarious.
00:48:47.840 --> 00:48:48.480
I love Kalty.
00:48:48.559 --> 00:48:48.719
Yeah.
00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:49.840
Okay, a couple more things.
00:48:50.000 --> 00:49:01.119
Now I just want to get into every episode I ask all my guests the tangle, what they're currently tangled in, that they're loving, immersing themselves in, binge watching, reading, and then something annoying that they're working to get untangled from.
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:01.679
Ooh.
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:03.039
Oh, this is too deep for me.
00:49:03.119 --> 00:49:03.519
Okay, wait.
00:49:03.599 --> 00:49:06.320
And this is pop culture or this is anything in life.
00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:07.280
Anything in life.
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:09.199
Well, obviously, you've touched on a lot of it.
00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:12.239
You need to like move out of your parents' place and get your own space.
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:13.440
That's past tangling.
00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:14.400
That's I don't even know the words.
00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:15.840
Someone get Roger out here.
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:18.400
Like, that's an entwinement that uh yeah.
00:49:18.639 --> 00:49:19.039
Let's see.
00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:25.360
Well, I'm tangled in You know, I mentioned game shows earlier, and I do watch this British game show every single day.
00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:30.320
They did bring it to the US, and actually, our friend from The View, who's lovely, Sarah Haynes, hosted it.
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:33.119
But I am addicted to the British version called The Chase.
00:49:33.199 --> 00:49:36.159
I don't know if you've heard of the show or watched the American version.
00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:38.320
I can't go a day without watching that show.
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:42.000
I actually, it's like how Rain Man had to watch Night Court or People's Court, whatever it was.
00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:43.360
You know how he was like People's Court.
00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:48.239
If I don't see The Chase, if there's not a new episode, my skin, I'm like, I can't breathe.
00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:49.920
I need my quiz show.
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:50.960
It's like really sick.
00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:55.360
And I don't know why it is, but I it's my soothing self-care kind of a place.
00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:57.199
But what else am I really tangled in?
00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:00.079
Are you still doing the British podcast or the recaps?
00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:00.320
Okay.
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:01.039
Yes, yes.
00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:02.960
Uh, on the box for the BBC.
00:50:03.039 --> 00:50:05.920
That's what I was in London working on an upcoming special for them, actually.
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:07.360
Uh, that's I love them.
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:09.519
They are, I just love English people.
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:10.000
You know what?
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:11.519
Untangle me from English people.
00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:12.320
This would be great.
00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:15.039
Because so far I haven't gotten a visa to like live there.
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:16.800
I would move to London tomorrow.
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:20.800
And actually, this is another thing about where I'm living, is like I don't really want to live in New York.
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:22.239
I don't really want to live in LA.
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:26.239
I'm from Miami, so it's very familiar to me, but do I really want to live in Miami?
00:50:26.320 --> 00:50:26.559
No.
00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:29.280
So I'm figuring out where I actually want to live.
00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:33.360
And until I do that, I'm just gonna be this sad girl at like a courtyard inn.
00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:35.039
But yeah, what am I tangled in?
00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:36.320
I'm still answering your question.
00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:39.440
Is it mainly reality TV or are you doing much scripted?
00:50:39.599 --> 00:50:47.679
I just started the show War on um, I think it's on HBO with uh Sienna Miller, and it's pretty good.
00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:49.840
I'm only one episode in, it's actually London-based.
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:55.840
So if you've never been to London or want to relive your heyday there, they're at some fantastic locations and it's a beautiful show.
00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:57.280
But I'm reality all the way.
00:50:57.440 --> 00:51:00.079
I watch um I'm into traders.
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:04.639
Uh, I cannot wait for the upcoming celebrity traders with our friend Casey Wilson on it.
00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:06.880
Johnny Sibylli, like Bianca Del Rio.
00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:09.519
I mean, it's every great person in the world is on this season.
00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:10.400
Casey Wilson.
00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:11.440
Wilson's book right here.
00:51:11.679 --> 00:51:12.320
Oh my God.
00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:13.599
What a great book, huh?
00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:14.480
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:17.840
She shouldn't, I should text Casey and be like, Casey, how'd you do it?
00:51:18.239 --> 00:51:21.440
Casey and I, and she's uh talked about this on stage with me.
00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:23.039
We also were both on Well Butrin.
00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:24.960
That hasn't been enough to get me to write the book.
00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:28.960
So I need to know what extra sweet sauce she had to do that.
00:51:29.199 --> 00:51:31.280
Um Are
you watching all the housewives?
00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:32.400
We have so many on right now.
00:51:33.119 --> 00:51:34.079
I'm watching Potomac.
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:39.119
I'm a little behind on Potomac, but uh Potomac, Salt Lake, New York is fantastic this season.
00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:40.480
The new the new girls, yeah.
00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:41.360
I'm loving it.
00:51:41.440 --> 00:51:45.119
And I'll tell you, I also love that Carol Radziwell, and I'm happy she's back.
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:46.159
I love her.
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:52.159
When I interviewed, I interviewed Brittany Bateman a couple weeks ago, and she said her best friend is actually Haley from New York.
00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:52.880
You're kidding.
00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:53.280
Yeah.
00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:55.360
They became best friends in the last year.
00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:56.639
Well, okay.
00:51:56.800 --> 00:52:01.679
You know, I met Britney at BravoCon with Jared, and couldn't have been a nicer lady.
00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:05.760
I mean, just really being serious, because a lot of those women, especially there, they get tired, this and that.
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:07.360
She was super friendly and very sweet.
00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:08.639
I love Haley on the show.
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:11.920
I think Haley and Carol are why that show is good because they're funny.
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:13.199
You know, this is my point.
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:16.880
You have to have a funny person on Housewives for the season to work.
00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:19.679
So Potomac, I mean, everyone is pretty much funny on Potomac.
00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:21.519
Like, you got Karen and Giselle there.
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:22.480
That's I'm happy.
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:23.039
We're good.
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:23.519
Go on.
00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:27.360
My claim to fame is because I produced morning shows in DC for a long time.
00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:30.400
I was the very first person to ever put Stacy Rush on camera.
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:31.440
You're kidding.
00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:34.960
Yeah, she did like lifestyle mommy segments, yes.
00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:38.719
And then she moved to traffic and then she went to QVC and yeah.
00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:39.280
Wow.
00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:43.360
Well, you have an eye for beauty because she's just one of the most beautiful women to ever walk the earth.
00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:45.840
So, like, you know, you did the right thing.
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:46.559
She seems nice.
00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:47.360
I like Stacy.
00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:48.480
She is nice, yeah.
00:52:48.559 --> 00:52:48.960
She's very nice.
00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:51.519
And you're a big Salt Lake, Salt Lake girl.
00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:53.280
Who's who's your favorite on Salt Lake?
00:52:53.519 --> 00:52:54.960
Oh gosh, that's a tough one.
00:52:55.119 --> 00:53:02.480
You know, I love Bronwyn, but I'm seeing, I know he made a face because he you can't hear the face he made, but I saw it happen.
00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:12.320
Here's the thing, and I I've met Bronwyn and she's very sweet, but we see this phenomenon happen a lot, and I'm not gonna name other names, of fan favorites who morph.
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:20.239
Something happens, it gets to the head, the ego gets full, and it's almost like, and I understand this psychologically, but it's almost like they can't stay normal.
00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:28.639
All of a sudden, they lose the thing that was attractive about them, which is like being us and being one of us in that room.
00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:33.679
And sometimes the egos get a little big, and I'm just hoping like we all wanted Bronwyn to leave Todd.
00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:38.480
So I don't want to say, oh, my favorite version of Bronwyn was when she was with Todd because that's like anti-woman.
00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:39.599
I don't want to say that.
00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:43.119
But I just hope she keeps a level head, is what I will say.
00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:45.199
Um, and and stays true to herself.
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:45.519
Yeah.
00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:50.719
I had Britney and Heather Gay on my show, and they both said Bronwyn will likely have the hardest time at the reunion.
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:51.679
She has the most to answer for.
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:53.679
You know what though, I see it this season.
00:53:53.760 --> 00:54:03.440
I I think that I what I hope isn't happening is that she thinks she's better than the other women, even whether that's true or not, it's not a good energy to bring into that room.
00:54:03.679 --> 00:54:11.760
And it's it actually, even if that's true and she's doing 50 million things and this and that, as the viewer, we don't want to see her lead with that because it feels icky, you know?
00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:13.760
So I hope that that's not what's happening.
00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:14.559
But I don't know.
00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:17.519
So I mean, hypocrisy and yeah, I don't know.
00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:18.480
I mean, she's pretty much.
00:54:18.639 --> 00:54:22.079
I downloaded that song, The Hypocrisy, and it's great 39 seconds.
00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:26.000
By the way, it's one of the catchiest songs of the year.
00:54:26.079 --> 00:54:28.320
I mean, we're not giving that song its flowers.
00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:29.199
It's good.
00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:29.840
Sorry.
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:30.480
It is good.
00:54:30.639 --> 00:54:34.079
I what I thought was funny is though is she released the single, It's just Lisa Parlow.
00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:35.360
There's no Meredith credit.
00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:36.559
She's not in the song.
00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:37.920
No, that's hilarious.
00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:40.960
There's no manipulation, it's just her saying hypocrisy and bullshit.
00:54:41.039 --> 00:54:41.760
I'm bored.
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:45.119
Wait, I'm crying because I literally thought Meredith was the pitbull of that song.
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:46.559
You know, where she's like on it, but not.
00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:48.480
You know, she's like in the part of it.
00:54:48.960 --> 00:54:50.960
Uh before we wrap up, you are in Florida.
00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:52.960
Are you watching The Golden Life?
00:54:53.440 --> 00:55:00.559
Kyle Ridley, man of my dreams, sweetest podcast host I've ever met in my life, who's made me I'm getting Bronwyn head right now.
00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:02.159
I'm leaving this podcast like Bronwyn.
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:03.760
Like, I'm perfect.
00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:05.920
I am not watching The Golden Life.
00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:06.559
I'm sorry.
00:55:06.719 --> 00:55:08.719
I and I love Luann especially.
00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:10.559
I know Luanne, she's great, funny.
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:12.320
I just can't do it.
00:55:12.639 --> 00:55:13.599
Love Dorinda.
00:55:13.760 --> 00:55:15.519
You know, I like these girls, some of them.
00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:17.360
I just don't I don't have it in me.
00:55:17.440 --> 00:55:17.920
Are you watching?
00:55:18.079 --> 00:55:20.719
I watched the first episode and it was actually it was kind of sad.
00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:26.400
Uh I liked a lot of the women, but the the state that Sonia is in right now is uh is a bit sad.
00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:28.000
She seems to be really stuck in the past.
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:37.039
I'm sorry, now Sonia has been in that state for the past decade, and I actually think that she's one of the big reasons that that cast stopped working.
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:46.559
And uh like listen, alcoholism allegedly, because I don't want to, you know, uh I'll say that alcoholism for many housewives has been a recurring issue.
00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:51.679
It is something that, I mean, look at Shannon who had the I only bring her up because she has like legal things with the drinking.
00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:53.519
I don't think it's an attractive quality.
00:55:53.599 --> 00:55:58.320
And if you actually look at the ones that are on now, none of them are like drunks like that.
00:55:58.400 --> 00:55:59.760
And it makes for a better show.
00:55:59.920 --> 00:56:03.119
I mean, you can just do so much until you have someone in the bushes again.
00:56:03.280 --> 00:56:09.119
I don't find it funny, and especially at a certain age, my mother always said, Kyle Ridley, there's nothing uglier than a drunk woman.
00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:11.760
And understandably, she hates Sonia.
00:56:11.920 --> 00:56:12.960
And that's what I'll say about it.
00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:14.880
Like it, the act is old for me a little bit.
00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:15.760
Well, it's really old.
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:26.159
If you watch the first episode, which she says she's sober for like six months, but they keep showing her drinking and she's slurring and she keeps saying this is virgin, this is a mock tail, and it she's out of it.
00:56:26.239 --> 00:56:27.760
It's it's a little sad.
00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:28.639
We'll see what happens.
00:56:29.360 --> 00:56:34.800
Um, before we go, I'd have two things, two people that always come up on my show, and I know you're fans of both.
00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:35.119
Ooh.
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:39.039
Alanis Morissette, my number one uh idol of all time, have tattoos of her.
00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:39.920
You've seen her live.
00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:40.960
I saw you post about her.
00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:42.159
Yes, I have plenty of tattoos.
00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:43.679
I'm going to see her next month in LA.
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:44.719
So cute.
00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:45.760
Okay, I love that.
00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:47.119
Your relation to her.
00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:48.639
I know you've posted about seeing her live.
00:56:48.800 --> 00:56:50.400
I've seen Alanis twice.
00:56:50.719 --> 00:56:53.280
One time was at this is a great story.
00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:55.920
So one time, I think, meanwhile, everyone's like falling asleep.
00:56:56.159 --> 00:56:58.960
I was studying abroad in Budapest, Hungary.
00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:06.320
And to paint how old I am and also how sweet life happened to be, it was the summer before 9-11, upcoming title of my memoir.
00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:07.360
It was 2000.
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:09.760
She did that world tour, and that's how big of a fan I am.
00:57:10.079 --> 00:57:12.880
The summer before um we turned to 9-11.
00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:14.880
That's my upcoming book title, anyway.
00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:17.199
So I was in Nuremberg, Germany.
00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:18.880
Great place for a Jewish girl to be.
00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:21.280
And I convinced two friends of mine to come with me.
00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:22.480
And we had never camped before.
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:23.679
You know, I'm from Miami Beach.
00:57:23.760 --> 00:57:24.800
Like, we don't camp in Miami.
00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:25.360
It's swamp.
00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:26.480
We can't camp here.
00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:27.920
And so I was like, we'll be fine.
00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:31.519
We'll bring um a hoodie and a pillow, and we'll be totally fine.
00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:33.280
Like, no problem for this three-day festival.
00:57:33.360 --> 00:57:33.920
We get there.
00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:38.639
It is people have generators, they've got IKEA builds under these massive tents.
00:57:38.719 --> 00:57:39.920
And I'm sorry, I'm gonna say it.
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:41.039
Germans are assholes.
00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:42.639
We were sleeping on wet ground.
00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:45.679
I woke up one morning, my hoodie was full Kenny from South Park.
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:47.119
It was just this was open, okay?
00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:49.280
To a man flicking cigarette butts at my head.
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:50.719
This is a true story.
00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:53.039
That was the weekend I saw Alanis.
00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:57.519
And the reason we went is because Radiohead was there, and I still do
and loved Radiohead.
00:57:57.599 --> 00:57:59.679
So I was like, I dynasty Radiohead live.
00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:00.559
So we saw them.
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:04.480
And my friend was like a big tool fan, she, which is not for me, but she went to see Tool.
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:08.159
But Alanis Outcast performed, I remember, and it was an amazing lineup.
00:58:08.239 --> 00:58:09.360
Like it was just unbelievable.
00:58:09.519 --> 00:58:11.599
And Alanis was one of the highlights of that weekend.
00:58:11.679 --> 00:58:12.480
And then we had to sleep.
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:14.960
There was a torrential rainstorm in Nuremberg.
00:58:15.039 --> 00:58:19.199
So we had to sleep in the nonstop internet tent, which caved in from the rain.
00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:21.199
So this is how my weekend in Nuremberg went.
00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:23.119
But Alanis was a true highlight, yes.
00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:25.280
Well, she's still spinning on stage now.
00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:25.519
Yeah.
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:28.960
She's, I gotta say, then I saw her in Amsterdam like last year, I think.
00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:31.840
And she's what, seven millimeters high?
00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:33.199
I mean, she's so petite.
00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:34.880
Yeah, she's five, too.
00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:35.840
She's teeny.
00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:40.639
Her voice, one of the greatest talents, literally, of her lifetime.
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:45.519
I mean, she can bring a roof down every song you know, which is crazy because you think, oh, she's got a couple hits.
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:46.079
No, no.
00:58:46.239 --> 00:58:47.920
Literally every single song is famous.
00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:50.719
I mean, she is just an icon and you have great taste.
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You made me feel again better about myself.
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So thank you.
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Oh, thank you.
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And the last, she always comes up and she's hopefully gonna come on the podcast soon.
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Uh, Lisa Coudreau, were you of come the comeback fan?
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I think anyone who loves the comeback is my type of person.
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So I'm a like comeback fan as of late.
00:59:06.079 --> 00:59:09.519
I only watched it maybe three years ago, and I love Mickey.
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Mickey for me is the reason why that show is funny.
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Like every anytime he was on screen, I was on the ground.
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Um, but I would say I don't have like a comeback obsession like I do with like a Seinfeld or some other shows of that ilk.
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So uh, but I I think she's great.
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I'm a big lease ahead.
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I mean, I love her, but I don't have I probably the same level of passion for her as you do.
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I will be up front.
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Yeah.
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Michelle, this has been such a pleasure.
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That's it.
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I mean, my I am gonna I am gonna drive up to Penn.
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I'm gonna drive up to Philly in December.
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That'll be such a fun night.
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And knowing that Brian Safe, who was on my show a few months ago, I didn't know he was opening.
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So that would be so fun.
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I know.
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I have to change the poster, but um just I'll I'll give you tickets.
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But tell your listeners like, don't buy tickets.
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How could I make you buy a ticket?
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Can you imagine if I said you're gonna pay for tickets?
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Like, listener, can you even imagine after this hour that I've spent with this lovely fan?
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Oh, wait, are you are you singing this time?
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I know you like to sing sometimes.
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Okay.
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Oh, I'm singing cabaret.
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I am singing a Beyoncé cover, and I'm ending with a Whitney cover that I'm gonna be very upfront may not stay in because shockingly I'm not professionally trained, and the past couple times I've sung it, I had to like take the day off my podcast because I had like no voice left.
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But my God, do I give it my all Kyle?
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I really do.
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So yes, come to the show.
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You do, it's always a nice surprise because people probably don't know that you you're a great singer.
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I love to sing.
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Yes, Michelle CollinsComedy.com.
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I really want to be like stunt casted in something.
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So Mama Morton, Madame Thenardier, Christine, Phantom of the Opera, like some kind of stunt casting.
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You could be the genie.
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They've made women are doing being genie now.
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Sherry Shepherd is the first.
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I saw that.
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Yeah, but doesn't she sing a lot in it?
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Or is that not a big singing part?
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It's more like dance.
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I couldn't dance.
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That's the problem.
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Sherry is a better.
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I think that she's more, I think she gives more than I do, Sherry Shepard.
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Could you do you, you'd be fine doing eight nines, eight, eight shows a week.
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I I don't think
I would be.
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No, I'm being serious.
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That no, I'm like dead serious.
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For example, Bo and Yang, who are who I love with my whole heart, who's an O'Mary, I'm like, how is he doing this?
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I don't understand how people do this many shows per week.
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It just see, just like I compliment the Newark, New Jersey, Jersey Mike's employees, I'm gonna comment Bo and Yang for their hard work, their dedication to their craft.
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They're incredible people all around.
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And um, thank you so much for having me.
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And yeah, MichelleCollinscomedy.com.
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But Kyle, you're by the way, also congratulations on your new gig.
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Oh, thank you.
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I'm having fun.
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Yeah, I'll show clips of this on my new TV show too.
01:01:31.440 --> 01:01:31.840
They're letting me.
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Will you?
01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:33.280
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:01:33.519 --> 01:01:36.400
You splice it into me being like, I hate the view.
01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:38.719
I never want to be on that show.
01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:41.119
No, no, but you mentioned that.
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I could see you on Broadway.
01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:43.840
Maybe it's just a one-off.
01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:46.159
I I remember you did the one-off on the view.
01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:48.239
Oh my god, that was my last episode.
01:01:48.719 --> 01:01:49.280
That was my last episode.
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Wait, we're talking about um Ursula, or we're talking about when I sang in the karaoke contest.
01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:56.000
Because those are two different things.
01:01:56.239 --> 01:01:59.519
I remember you showed it in your your show at the Birch Mirror.
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You showed a clip of you being dressed up at the as as the View.
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They took you to Broadway.
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Oh my god, wicked.
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I forgot about that.
01:02:05.760 --> 01:02:06.559
That, oh my God.
01:02:06.639 --> 01:02:07.760
Well, that was in my last tour.
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I told the show, the story about how they put me in my least favorite musical ever made.
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I was like, thanks.
01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:14.960
Anyway, yes, like the least flattering costume.
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Yeah, that's what they did.
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And God bless them for it.
01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:20.239
Yeah, they should have me back just to put me in another hideous thing.
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:22.639
I don't know why they're not taking advantage of this.
01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:24.559
Like they could easily humiliate me.
01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:25.840
I know
they like doing that.
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So call me back.
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Let's go for it.
01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:30.480
Anyway, this has love to them.
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Love to Wendy and Kathy and all your beautiful guests.
01:02:33.679 --> 01:02:34.320
And Rosie.
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And Rosie knows you now, didn't she message you?
01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:37.519
She did.
01:02:37.679 --> 01:02:42.480
Rosie messaged me after going, I'm not going to do my impression, but she was like, you know, I don't know what I was saying.
01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:43.679
Like, I was just talking.
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And I took that opportunity.
01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:52.239
She never wrote me back, but I was like, I would be remiss if I didn't open this DM by telling you how much I love another steak out, which is one of my favorite comedies.
01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:54.800
And if you've never seen it, listener, you're only hurting yourself.
01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:56.960
She is so funny in that movie.
01:02:57.119 --> 01:02:58.400
And she never wrote back.
01:02:58.480 --> 01:02:59.280
Have you seen it, obviously?
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Yes, I've seen it.
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Isn't it?
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:01.599
It's with Emilio Esteves.
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Sure is.
01:03:02.239 --> 01:03:05.760
And Richard Dreyfus and a big old dog named Archie.
01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:08.400
Dennis Farina.
01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:09.679
It's one of the funniest movies.
01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:12.000
If you've never seen Another Steak Out, I talked about it on my pod.
01:03:12.159 --> 01:03:14.960
People watched it and DM'd me being like, you never steer us wrong.
01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:15.840
I'm telling you.
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Brilliant.
01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:18.159
Michelle, thank you.
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Kyle, this was a pleasure.
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Thank you for having me.
01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:23.679
Sorry, it opened a little serious, and but we got there, and I knew we would.
01:03:23.840 --> 01:03:24.639
No, I knew it too.
01:03:24.719 --> 01:03:26.480
I I as soon as I clocked it too.
01:03:26.559 --> 01:03:27.519
I was like, I'll lighten up.
01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:28.320
I'll work on it.
01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:28.880
It's early.
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I was like, Kyle, it's me.
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Okay.
01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:32.880
All right.
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Adore you, love you, guys.
01:03:37.599 --> 01:03:38.400
Thank you, Michelle.
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Make sure to catch her on tour, the big letters tour.
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She's heading all around the country.
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She's fantastic live.
01:03:42.719 --> 01:03:43.360
You're gonna love it.
01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:44.800
I will be at the Philly show.
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Maybe I'll see you there.
01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:48.480
Now let's get to today's Tangled-in song.
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What song am I tangled in?
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You know, I cannot go without mentioning my favorite all time, Alanis Morissette, who just released her first Christmas album.
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It's called Good Weather for Immaculate Conception.
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I am loving this album, and I wasn't sure that I would like truly love a Christmas album by her, but I love everything she does.
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And she has such a unique way of putting her spin on anything that she does.
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And I just want to reiterate that this is such a gay, LGBTQIA plus friendly celebration of a Christmas album.
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It's not religious.
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You know, some of the songs obviously mention Christ and birth and religion, but I love how she filled the album with guest spots with LGBTQIA plus voices, including Trans Voices, UK, Brandy Carlisle, Joy Aladokun.
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Sorry, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly, but also Amethyst Kia.
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She also has collaborations with Steve Martin and Martin Short.
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She has two original songs on there, To an Empath at Christmas time and Christmas on the Dance Floor, which needs to be a staple in clubs.
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I'm hoping it will be.
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It should be.
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I think I've already seen some remixes of it.
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I am always gonna love what Alanis Morissette does.
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I love that she's so in the zeitgeist right now.
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People are appreciating her.
01:04:57.519 --> 01:05:00.079
I've been loving her for 31 and a half years now.
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:05.280
But fame always goes in waves, and she's on a crest right now of a big wave, and I love it.
01:05:05.360 --> 01:05:08.960
And that is why I'm going to Los Angeles and I'm gonna see her live on my birthday.
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She also has a Joni Mitchell cover on there.
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She sings River, Silent Night, Oh Holy Night, Merry Christmas with Martin Shorts, Beautiful Star of Bethlehem with Brandy Carlisle.
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I really love Mama Mary.
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I had never heard that song, and it really gets you going.
01:05:25.199 --> 01:05:29.280
It's like a gospel, upbeat, chanting type of song.
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I uh been blasting it.
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Make sure to check it out.
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I'm hoping she does some Christmas performances of the song since we know we have a couple months.
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It's a joyous album, but it's also a sad album, as Christmas music can tend to be, and she says those are her favorites.
01:05:42.320 --> 01:05:50.000
Like she always found a tinge of sadness in a lot of the holiday music that she listened to growing up, and this showcases all sides, all parts.
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All right, my friends, I will be back next week for a recap of my Los Angeles trip.
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We have fantastic guests on the way.
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I love you guys.
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Make sure to like, rate, and subscribe.
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Leave a comment if you will.
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I will see and speak with you soon.
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Until then, you take care of yourselves.