Dear Chelsea - Minisode: Gayest Cities with Chelsea + Catherine

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

Chelsea + Catherine help a couple of recent grads pick the perfect next hometown.   * Order a signed copy of Chelsea’s new book HERE! * 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.

Hey, what's up y'all? This is Eric Andre. Well, I made a podcast called Bombing about absolutely tanking on stage. I tell gnarly stories and I talk to friends about their worst moments of bombing in all sorts of ways. Bombing on stage, bombing in public, bombing in life. I want to know what's the worst way they ever bombed or have they ever performed way too drunk or high or was there ever a time where they thought they were going to crush and they stunk it up. Listen to Bombing with Eric Andre on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

podcasts. With Eric Andre. 45 years ago, a Virginia soul band called the Edge of Daybreak recorded their debut album Behind Bars. Record collectors consider it a masterpiece. The band's surviving members are long out of prison, but they say they have some unfinished business. The Edge of Daybreak, Eyes of Love,

was supposed to have been founded up by another app. Listen to Soul Incarcerated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, Will. Do you ever get overwhelmed by how much science happens these days? Constantly. I'm like, ah, there's so much science,

I can't keep track of it all. Then it's a good thing our podcast, Part-Time Geniuses, is counting down the 25 greatest science ideas from the past 25 years. That's right, Mango. We're talking animals. In a paper called quote chickens prefer beautiful humans. Right. This was actually the title of the paper. They all

discovered that much like humans, chickens are attracted to symmetrical faces. Got it. We're talking medical miracles. He's an endocrinologist who found a way to stimulate insulin producing cells using, wait for it, the saliva of a Gila monster. There's no way to make that not sound crazy. We even talked to some of the experts behind these breakthroughs. It's a week full of fact-packed stories you won't want to miss. So listen to the part-time genius countdown of the 25 greatest science ideas of the past 25 years, starting Monday, March 3rd on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey you guys, I'm Catherine Legg. I'm a racing driver who's literally driven everything with four wheels across the planet. And I've got a new podcast. It's called Throttle Therapy. This season, I'm competing in some of the world's most notorious racing events. Tune into my new podcast, Throttle Therapy, with Catherine Legg, an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.

Hi. Hi, Catherine. Hi, Chelsea. Welcome to our mini, mini, mini, mini-soats. Just like a teeny, weeny, so. Chelsea, I have a fun email from someone that totally relates to our Naomi Watts episode that just came out. Maggie says, I can totally second that menopause is not all terrible. It's not all doom and gloom.

I'm 58 and post menopausal, and I'm here to tell you that menopause is something to look forward to. Oh. All caps, it is a gift. It's complete liberation from everything. The patriarchy wants us to think it's bad because we stop giving a shit about men once it starts. The pharmaceutical industry wants us to think it's bad because they can sell us meds for it, but it's awesome. To quote Kristen Scott Thomas in Fleabag, I lead a very healthy life and menopause is magnificent." So that's an exciting

thing to look forward to. She also says, I have two vacation properties, Joshua Tree and Palm Springs, and I save all my Dear Chelsea episodes for when I'm driving to my properties. Oh, I love that. As soon as I get in the car, I tell Siri to play Dear Chelsea and you and your guests are my company as I drive. Love it, Maggie. Oh, that makes me happy. I love that. Yeah. Men it, Maggie. Oh, that makes me happy. I love that. Yeah. Menopause Maggie. Yep, menopause Maggie.

Chelsea, we have two callers today for couples counseling. Oh, okay, great. They are Kendall and Olivia. They are calling in from the East Coast and they say, dear Chelsea, this is Kendall writing in. My girlfriend and I are both 24 years old. We met at UNH and have been together for two and a half years. I live in Mass and she lives in New Hampshire and we can't decide on a third state to move to.

I don't want to move back to New Hampshire as I went to school there and we don't want to stay in Mass as we've been doing long distance back and forth from both states. Any help on how to decide on a third state to move to or any states you love being in. Love you both so much. Thanks for any help, Ken Doll. So we'll wait for Olivia before we respond. But I have thoughts. I do too. Yeah. Right off the top of my head.

Yes. Well, we can get started. We'll just wait for her to pop in and then we'll recap. What about Connecticut? That's a good one. I have been there a couple of times before. I mean, if you're already on the East, do you like the East coast, like that Eastern seaboard?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I like that part of the country too. That's kind of my, that's where I'm from. I'm from New Jersey, so it's not quite, but I grew up on the Cape, so I like that vibe. I like New Hampshire, I like Massachusetts. I think Connecticut is a nice compromise between the two and it still has the same vibe that you're used to.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, definitely. We've also gone to Portland, Maine a couple times. Oh yeah, Portland Maine is awesome. It's like so fun and quaint, but there's like tons of stuff to do. Especially for lesbians. Yes.

Right? Yeah. What don't you like about, hi, hi. We were just talking about your future and whether or not you're gonna move to Connecticut or Maine. Sounds good, yeah. Those two we've been talking about a little bit. Portland, Maine, whenever I perform, whenever I go to Portland, Maine, I always want an extra day there because I just love that food and I love Portland. I find that just to be just a cool,

cool town all the way through. It's like a mini city, you know? It's totally manageable, and there's a lot of like-minded people there. You can pack up your lesbian Birkenstocks and just go up there together and hit it. Connecticut, I was mentioning, but Connecticut has certain parts that are really beautiful and certain parts that are a bit more rough. And I'm thinking like the beautiful parts

are really pretty expensive. But there are like cities like Hartford, and you know, there are cities in Connecticut that could be I mean it would be worth doing a little like trip where you guys go to like hang out in some cities in Connecticut. Go to Stanford, go to Hartford or you don't want to go to Boston right because you're from Mass? Yeah and we're not big city people. Okay. Okay. So I would say go to Portland first and see what the vibe is there if you guys like that. Go for a weekend and see how you like it.

Have you ever looked into the night sky and wondered who or what was flying around up there? We've seen planes, helicopters, hot air balloons, and birds. But what if there's something else, something much more ominous, that appears under the cover of night? Silent. Unseen. Watching.

They may be right above your car late one night as you cruise down the road, or look like mysterious lights hovering above your home? Drones. Or are they? We used to work drones because it was comfortable to other people. One minute it was there, and one minute it wasn't. Oh, that is beyond creepy. Do you feel like this drone was targeting you specifically?

Yes, absolutely. Listen to Obscurum, Invasion of the Drones on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Mark Seale. And I'm Nathan King. This is Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli. The five families did not want us to shoot that picture.

Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli is based on my co-host Mark's best-selling book of the same title. And on this show, we call upon his years of research to help unpack the story behind the godfather's birth from start to finish. This is really the first interview I've done in bed. We sift through innumerable accounts. I see 35 pages in the re-enactment.

Many of them conflicting, — That's nonsense. There were 60 pages. — and try to get to the truth of what really happened. — And they said, we're finished. This is over. They're always not gonna work. You gotta get rid of those guys. This is a disaster. — Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli features new and archival interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, James Kahn,

Talia Shire, and many others. Yes, that was a real horse's head. Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. September 1979. Virginia's top prison band, Edge of Daybreak, is about to record their debut album, Behind Bars, in just five hours. Okay, we're rolling.

One, two, three, four. I'm Jamie Petrus, music and culture writer. For the past five years, I've been talking to the band's three surviving members. They're out of prison now and in their 70s. They're past behind them. But they also have some unfinished business. The end of their break, Eyes of Love, was supposed to have been followed up by another album.

It's a story about the liberating power of music, the American justice system, and ultimately, second chances. Listen to Soul Incarcerated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is John Cameron Mitchell, and my new fiction podcast series, Cancellation Island, stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently canceled. In the future, we will all be canceled for 15 minutes.

But don't worry, we'll take you from broke to woke or your money back. Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies like Bad Touch Football, Anti-Racism Spin Class, and mandatory Ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the cancel to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing. Karen, where have you brought us? Cancellation Island, where a second chance might just be your last. Listen to Cancellation Island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

What kind of stuff do you guys like to do? Are you hikers? What are you doing for fun time? I feel like I'm more of like outdoorsy kind of stuff. I mean, but we both like doing the crafty set of things too, like the pottery, the wine, sip and paint nights, those kinds of things. And Liv's always been a big skier, but I've never skied in my life, Chelsea, believe it or not.

But we want to get into snowboarding actually. What about Vermont? Ooh. I haven't been to Vermont like as an adult. Vermont's pretty cool. I don't know where, I haven't been to Vermont in so many years, I'm just trying to think of like what the main cities there are.

Montpelier. Montpelier. But Vermont is cool, but once you're on the East Coast, then you can have access to those ski places. I mean, there's Camelback, there's a bunch, there's, you know, in Connecticut, there's Stowe, there's Killington, so you can have access to those ski places. I mean, there's Camelback, there's a bunch, there's, you know, in Connecticut, there's Stowe, there's Killington. So you can have access to all those places

once you're in that area. And then there's Rhode Island. There's Providence, there's Provincetown, that's super gay. Yeah. That's fun. I mean, I've been there a bunch of times and that's a blast.

And Providence, Rhode Island is awesome. I don't know what the cost of living is there. Like if it's expensive, I probably, I've been there a bunch of times and that's a blast. And Providence, Rhode Island is awesome. I don't know what the cost of living is there. Like if it's expensive, I probably seemingly, but I'm sure there's areas in all of these places that kind of go across the board from more affordable to less affordable. And if you do decide to venture away from the Eastern Seaboard, I will say,

Chicago is an amazing city to be young and gay in. It is a great place. You can head up to Andersonville, which is like a lot of cities have like a boys town, but that's where all the lesbians live. Like it's wonderful. That's funny, yeah. All the boys town, there are lots of lesbians

in boys town. Yeah, not a lot of cities have a spot for lesbians. Well, at least gay men are allowing gay women to take over versus straight men allowing straight women to take over. Right. allowing straight women to take over. And then I would also say, go to the other Portland, check out Portland, Oregon, it's fantastic. There's lots of outdoorsy stuff,

but also lots of creative people. But I love your idea, Chelsea, of go for a weekend. Do a three-day weekend in a bunch of different cities, get an Airbnb, walk around. And make sure you incorporate all the things you love. You know, like make sure you incorporate the outdoorsy aspects and like the crafting aspects. Do your research before you go so that you can get all that stuff in.

Like make sure you're going to the restaurants that you're interested in going to, the kind of style of food you like to eat. And so that you're experiencing the city and don't just stay in one area of that city. Really, really take in the city. Yeah.

Yeah, definitely. Thank you guys so much. Yeah. Best of luck and let us know where you settle, okay? Or where you start visiting and love and that sort of thing, okay? Yeah, definitely. And congrats on being together and being in a happy, successful relationship, girls. Thank you, right?

You don't hear that that often anymore. I know. I know. It's nice to see though. All right. Have a great day and check back. And Chelsea, can I just back up Brittany Broski and say thank you for the interview you did with Harry Styles. Like when she said that, I was like, oh my God, yes, someone's noticing it. So thank you. Doing the good work. Bye. So cute. Oh, wow. That was a quick one.

So easy. Okay, wow. One and done. It's all in a day's work, everybody. All in a day's work. We'll see you next time. Adios. Hey, what's up, y'all?

This is Eric Andre. Well, I made a podcast called Bombing about absolutely tanking on stage. I tell gnarly stories and I talk to friends about their worst moments of bombing in all sorts of ways. Bombing on stage, bombing in public, bombing in life. I want to know what's the worst way they ever bombed or have they ever performed way too drunk or high or was there ever a time where they thought they were going to crush and they stunk it up.

Listen to Bombing with Eric Andre on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Bombing with Eric Andre. Forty-five years ago, a Virginia soul band called The Edge of Daybreak recorded their debut album, Behind Bars. Record collectors consider it a masterpiece. The band's surviving members are long out of prison, but they say they have some unfinished business. They had a daybreak, eyes of love, but supposed to have been following up on another app.

Listen to Soul Incarcerated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey Will, do you ever get overwhelmed by how much science happens these days? Constantly. I'm like, ah, there's so much science, I can't keep track of it all. Then it's a good thing our podcast, Part-Time Geniuses, is counting down the 25 greatest science ideas from the past 25 years. That's right, Mango.

We're talking animals. In a paper called, quote, chickens prefer beautiful humans. Right. This was actually the title of the paper. I like this. They all discovered that much like humans, chickens are attracted to symmetrical faces. Got it. We're talking medical miracles. He's an endocrinologist who found a way to stimulate insulin producing cells using, wait for it, the saliva of a Gila monster. There's no way to make that not sound crazy.

We even talked to some of the experts behind these breakthroughs. It's a week full of fact-packed stories you won't want to miss. So listen to the part-time genius countdown of the 25 greatest science ideas of the past 25 years, starting Monday, March 3rd on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey Hey you guys, I'm Catherine Legg. I'm a racing driver who's literally driven everything with four wheels across the planet. And I've got a new podcast. It's called Throttle Therapy.

This season, I'm competing in some of the world's most notorious racing events. Tune into my new podcast, Throttle Therapy, with Catherine Legg, an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.