Dear Chelsea - Minisode: Cosby Voice with Yamaneika Saunders

Episode Date: June 13, 2025

Yamaneika Saunders joins Chelsea to talk about the worst/best dinner they ever had.  Then: A therapist-cum-psychedelics-dealer gets trolled online by her ex.  * Need some advice from Chelsea? Email us at [e-mail] * Executive Producer Catherine Law Edited & Engineered by Brad Dickert * * * * * The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the Podcast author, or individuals participating in the Podcast, and do not represent the opinions of iHeartMedia or its employees.  This Podcast should not be used as medical advice, mental health advice, mental health counseling or therapy, or as imparting any health care recommendations at all.  Individuals are advised to seek independent medical, counseling advice and/or therapy from a competent health care professional with respect to any medical condition, mental health issues, health inquiry or matter, including matters discussed on this Podcast. Guests and listeners should not rely on matters discussed in the Podcast and shall not act or shall refrain from acting based on information contained in the Podcast without first seeking independent medical advice.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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a lot of the biggest names in music and sports. It's kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We met them at their homes, we met them at their recording studios. Stories matter and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast

season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Over the years of making my true crime podcast, Hell and Gone, I've learned no town is too small for murder. I'm Catherine Townsend. I've heard from hundreds of people across the country with an unsolved murder in their community. I was calling about the murder of my husband. The murderer is still out there.

Each week I investigate a new case. If there's a case we should hear about, call 678-744-6145. Listen to Hell and Gone Murderline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, welcome to a mini episode where these are our mini-sodes. We have a special guest on our mini-sode. Her name is Yamanika Saunders. You may have heard her. Hello?

What? I'm trying to look thin next to you. Okay, well. Thank you. They brought me water. Wow. It's like a liter of water. Isn't that crazy?

Thank you, my love. I appreciate it. Yeah, I need it. I'm thirsty. What's in that thing? I'm dry. Vaginally? You need a lubricant? Every time I'm around you, my pussy is the driest it's ever been on earth.

You be drying bitches' pussies up because you need all the moisture you can get down in your motherfucking bad cave, bitch. Do not come for me, I'm high. Catherine, are you listening to this? Are you listening to her talk about her dry pussy? Okay, I wanna make sure we're recording, because I would like that as part of the episode.

Okay, thank you. Welcome, pussies everywhere. I wanna say something while Yamanika lathers herself up. We're not gonna say where we went. Please don't, Chelsea, don't do it. I'm not going to. Are you doing this? I am not gonna say where we went.

No, but you're gonna say something, Chelsea. I'm gonna say, listen, we go out all the time. It could be anywhere. Baby. I can't, okay. Yamanika took me to one of the worst meals I've ever had in New York City. The worst meals.

It's so hard to have a bad meal in New York City. There are so many beautiful restaurants in this city. One of the reasons I love to come here. One of the reasons I spend so much time with you in New York is because we go to different places and we eat and it's always a good situation. Last night was the worst. I actually woke up this morning angry. I woke up this morning and I thought when was the last time I had such a bad meal? Because you're racist. There's no, you have to be. Racist? How dare you say something about race? I have to be racist. How dare you say something about my in this climate? I have to.

There were, it wasn't a black restaurant. Are you talking about you? I'm racist against you? Yeah. Okay, because I went to your other restaurant the other time we went up to Harlem and we had a great meal. So I don't know what you're talking about, racist. Oh right, I did have a good meal.

Yeah, so you did one good one. And now you fucked up. Have you ever? No, it wasn't your vibe. It was aggressively bad. It was aggressively bad. It was aggressively bad. There was a thing, you know what it is, Chelsea? The thing about it is you gotta remember

that your taste buds, they're in a different tax bracket as well, right? I'm still the type of bitch that'll go to TGI Fridays and tell you, yeah, the five boys here. Why are you talking like Bill Cosby right now? What is this voice that you're using? Wait a minute. Or Red Fox.

Bill Cosby? Somebody. You're talking like some old black man that I know. I've been raised by old black men. OK, but why are you talking like an old black man? You're not old and you're not black. Psh. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Anyway, there wasn't just me, there was the four of us last night. I'm not going to get into any more details.

Nobody else said that. Nobody else said it. I said that. You said it for everybody and everybody had to imprint with your attitude. No, that's bullshit. I got a text from Renee this morning going, can you fucking believe that meal last night? No, no, no. I got a text from Renee saying this was the best place she'd ever been to before.

Fucking that's a lie. Show me the text. It's not a lie. I said no, no. I got a text from one day saying this was the best place you've ever been to before. Yeah, fuck it. That's a lie. Show me the text. It's not a lie. I said it right now. I said it from there. Okay, show it. I'll show it.

Show it. Yeah. Well, what were you getting right there? See, well, see, this is bullshit. What is the thing you were doing? It's totally fine. I'm telling you. Let's keep moving.

Have you ever eaten there before? Absolutely. I have eaten there. I told you also when people decide to go upstairs and outside, outside in New York City takes down the quality of the food. Okay, there's that voice again. Okay, Catherine, do we have an update for some of our, what's going on today for our mini-sode? Our mini-sode, I like to say mini-sode.

I love how you did that voice and you bail out on me. I love it. Yeah, because you're full of shit. I can see the wheels turning, just one full of shit after another. It's just blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm over it. And now she's wearing a shoulder brace today.

What happened to your shoulder? She can't talk because she's laughing so hard. I told you yesterday. You tap, remember I kept saying, yeah, I know, but what happened to it? My rotator cuff is like, was some shit. Oh. Yeah. Did you hurt it working out? You said you benched too heavy.

Yeah, but it was not on my trainer, it was on me, cause I was doing stuff I wasn't supposed to do on my own time, outside of her. I was trying to get back cause I was at 275 with it. And I'm trying to get back to like deadlifting that, you know? Okay, well be careful, because if you get a tear. I know, I got to. When you were doing that shoulder lifting,

did you also have lipstick all over your teeth? You just get to an age where you don't give a fuck about where the makeup lands. Why even bother though? Yeah. If it's going to be on your teeth. No, no, no. I opened my bag up. I saw my lipstick was open. I put my face in the bag.

I came out with some lipstick. I don't care where else it is. It looks like you actually put your face in the makeup bag. Is that what you're saying? Yes, I did. Like the Jetsons. I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the podcast, Betrayal. Police Lieutenant Joel Kern used his badge to fool everyone. Most of all, his wife, Caroline.

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And this is season two of the World on Drugs podcast. Yes sir, we are back. In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star-studded Podcast. Yes, sir. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players

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Okay. Jill says, help, I'm being trolled on the internet by my ex. Dear Chelsea, I'm a 43-year-old psychotherapist in New York City, never married, no kids, but myriad rich life experiences. However, my dating life has not been a source of light. Every relationship, like clockwork, after six to nine months goes awry. I wonder why I'm finding the same guy in a different t-shirt? Men with zero accountability and putting me down to serve their own ego?

After going no contact immediately following my most recent breakup, my ex has taken this to a new low by trolling me on the internet. He launched a smear campaign at what seems like an attempt to elicit a reaction from me. So here's the thing. In addition to being a psychotherapist, I've engaged in underground work in the psychedelic space. While I'm interested in the power of psychedelics for psychological and healing insights, I also fully support if someone takes them recreationally. Who cares, right? As long as someone isn't hurting themselves or others, I see no reason to have any judgment

when it comes to how someone manages their life or makes money. It's also one of the ways I make money. For what it's worth, I have student loans for my master's degree and the mental health field doesn't pay much while in clinical training. So as this ex fancies himself a comedian,

he has mined me for material and used me as fodder on a public platform, debasing me as a drug dealer and named other private and personal details, joking that my practice is a front for psychedelic sales. How do I move forward from feeling violated and exposed? Jill. Hi, Jill. Hello, Jill.

Hi. Hi, this is our special guest, Yamanika. She's here today. Nice to see you, my love. I'm excited about this. This sounds very, really easy, comedian. He had a flash in the pan about eight years ago, but not actively writing and working and going up.

But is he actually hurting your practice in any real tangible way? That's the thing. I think that his reach isn't that large. I think it's probably more ego-driven and the debasing and the minimizing and the way of no accountability that my work somehow is triggering him or just the zero accountability and pointing fingers is now more of my, the piece that I have more problem with. This is 100% your problem.

You understand this, right? 100% is your problem. And you still invested in it. That's why you've not healed from it. If you were over this guy, he could fucking drop right in front of you off the 90th floor into a splat. And you'd walk over him to get a Dunkin' Donuts.

I'm telling you, you've got to get over the guy and move the fuck on. It doesn't matter what he's saying. And he's trying to agitate you because that's all he's fucking got. He's a loser. I agree. He's completely, I honestly think you have to pay

absolutely no attention, give him absolutely no reaction, and just ignore him until he runs out of steam and finds somebody else to occupy his time and thoughts. Like, it's just so lame and so meaningless, and if it's not having a big impact on you, like, it's the let them theory. Let him, let him go and spit himself out. You know, without you engaging,

there's only so much gas he has. And here's the things we need to focus on with you, right? I'm a beautiful woman. I'm a woman, a career woman who's done very well for herself. I can take care of myself. Any man would be blessed to have me, specifically, for these things that I can,

it cannot be focusing back on him and not focusing on you. You're sitting here, you look very beautiful, like you got yourself together. Maybe a few guys somewhere think you're crazy. We've all got a few guys that, you know. You have more than most people. Well, you too, okay, well together,

we can't go to the East Coast a lot, right? We barely here, all right? But focus on the positives of you and less on what he got going on because you're a beautiful woman, focus on that and what you've done in life. Yes, absolutely. I agree with her and don't worry about your hallucinogens,

like affinity for that. Don't be apologized for that. You're allowed to do whatever the fuck you wanna do. You're on hallucinogen. I think that my own fears is being called a drug dealer when it's like, it is this gray market and- But you're not a drug dealer. Don't worry about that.

It's all bullshit. You know how much money drug dealers make? You focused on the wrong thing. Yeah, you got to come to my academy about not giving a fuck. Yeah, that's true. The whole breaking bad was about that, wasn't it? The guy was a drug dealer, he was a teacher, then he was hustling drugs. Yeah, but that didn't end well for him, y'all.

I didn't watch it. So what was the point of even bringing it up? Because somebody told me to watch it in reverse and somehow he wins. Yeah, but if you't end well for him, y'all. I don't know. I didn't watch it. What's the point of even bringing it up? Because somebody told me to watch it in reverse and somehow he wins. Okay, well, watch it in reverse. I don't know. I've never watched a day of the episode. Okay, well then don't bring it up.

You can't bring that up if you've never even seen it. Well, I heard stories about it. Okay, anyway. Was it not about that? Yeah, it wasn't. It's not a success story in the end. Anyway, don't worry about- He doesn't die in the end, does he?

Don't worry about any of this. That guy's a loser. Just ignore him. The guy breaking bad? Yeah. Well, no. But you shut the fuck up for two seconds. I'm sorry, but you're fine.

I think I was just wanting you to call him a loser on a public- He is a loser. He is a loser. Oh, he's a- Okay. So you're fine. Move on with your life. Forget about him and that will end soon.

Okay. Block him on everything because the only way you're seeing any of this stuff is because you're following still. So like block his email so you're not getting any of that communication. Block him on social. Yeah. He's not your problem anymore. It doesn't matter. Right.

Right. Exactly. Yeah. Thank you, guys. Okay. Take care. Thanks, Jill. Goodbye. I love how you reference a show that you've never even watched.

I mean, that's so- I know enough. It's okay. Okay? Okay, what? I don't know. Did you... I don't know you had a good point. Here's the reality.

This young lady, beautiful young woman, and you know I hate to give white women too much credit, but she's a beautiful white woman. The way she not focused on when I see this woman and I'm like, wow, she seems like such a lovely woman. A man would be dumb not to like, whatever. Go focus on the guy that can see the beauty of who you are and what you got going on. And I'm telling you, I just got to the point where I learned this myself. As you get older, you go, why was I wasting so much time trying to act like I needed to

find somebody that was going to accept me instead of just letting that person find me, I find them. And enjoy your life. So much time wasted being young, worrying about who we going to be in a relationship with. And then you get older, you realize you only want a motherfucking in your crib. There's also just like a chemical thing. When you're not doing something, when you're not mingling with someone, they can only mingle

about you or long after. It runs out of steam if there's not two energies colliding. If it's just one guy circling, eventually he's going to drown. Eventually there's no one else mingling with him. So like, when people are in your life and are causing you distress, like, you just like exit far right. And don't look at them, don't talk to them, don't engage ever.

And yeah, have a little faith in yourself. Yeah. Yeah. All right, thank God you were here today, Yamanika. Thank God you came, got lubricated, you're with lipstick on your teeth. I'll see you in another, we're going to do another mini-so. So I'll see you next time. Thank you.

And you can find Yamanica on Instagram at Yamanica. Okay, my remaining dates for Vegas. There are remaining dates for this year. Summertime is coming and I will be in Vegas at the Cosmo doing my residency on July 5th. We will be the next state that I'm there. July 5th, August 30th and then November 1st and 29th. November 1st and November 29th. I will be in Las Vegas at the Cosmo performing Inside Myself at the Chelsea. It's called Chelsea at the Chelsea for a reason. Okay?

Thank you. Do you want advice from Chelsea? Write into dearchelseapodcast at gmail.com. Find full video episodes of Dear Chelsea on YouTube by searching at Dear Chelsea Pod. Dear Chelsea is edited and engineered by Brad Dickert, executive producer, Catherine Law. And be sure to check out our merch at ChelseaHandler.com.

I know a lot of cops, they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. This is absolute season one, Taser Inc. I get right back there and it's bad. Listen to Absolute Season 1, Taser Inc. on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts. Why is a soap opera western like Yellowstone so wildly successful? The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Glod. And this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. Last year, a lot of the problems of the drug war this year, a lot of the biggest names in music and sports. This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We met them at their homes. We met them at their recording studios.

Stories matter and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Over the years of making my true crime podcast,

Hell and Gone, I've learned no town is too small for murder. I'm Catherine Townsend. I've heard from hundreds of people across the country with an unsolved murder in their community. I was calling about the murder of my husband. The murderer is still out there. Each week I investigate a new case. If there is a case we should hear about, call 678-744-6145. Listen to Hell and Gone Murderline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart Podcast.