Dear Chelsea - Must Be a White Lady with Kevin Hart
Episode Date: November 7, 2024 Kevin Hart joins Chelsea to talk about his relationship with his kids, why nobody is invited to his house, and why he doesn’t care about getting bunions. Then: A wife wants payback for an early...-morning shock. A hot tub drama creates a rift in a marriage. And a (very hot) woman swears she’s not on Only Fans. * Catch Kevin in his new comedy tour Acting My Age, and Fight Out, now streaming on Peacock! * Need some advice from Chelsea? Email us at DearChelseaPodcast@gmail.com * 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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Hi, everybody. Today is Tuesday, actually. It's Election Day. So we are recording this episode on Election Day, and we do not know the results of the election. So here we are. Are you watching
the news? You're going to wait till later? No, I've had a very, very busy morning,
and I am choosing to be as optimistic and positive until we have something to not be optimistic and positive about.
I woke up this morning.
I did a workout.
I signed about 1,000 of my books, sheets for my new book that's coming out next year.
And I signed a bunch so that they can put there called tip sheets so that they put them in the book. And then we had a huge contractor meeting with all these new contractors that I had to hire to fix my house for all the bad
contracting done. So that was a big, I wasn't really part of that. I saw it from the inside out,
people circling the house, but there was a lot of very responsible looking men here this morning.
And that made me feel very excited about the potential of my house finally being done one day.
And so all of my team was here working with everyone.
And then I did something else.
It feels like I've been up for almost three days.
I'm going to my friend Connie's house to watch the election tonight.
I do not believe that we will have an answer about who won the election tonight.
But hopefully we'll get lots of good
news. And if you're listening to this on Thursday and the election didn't go the way that we wanted,
I'll be back to discuss that next week. I think that's a great way to put it. My
dad went in for surgery today. He said he doesn't want to be present for the results. He wants to
be sedated. So he's having a heart surgery today. That's good. Yeah, I think that's the right way
to handle this. That's good. I will also think that's the right way to handle this. That's good.
I will also be sedated.
I haven't chosen what drug is going to do that yet.
I have to go up to my little drawer
and figure out what kind of goodies.
I have so many goodies.
I have so many new goodies to try out.
So I don't know what.
Excellent.
Something that says love all over it.
So maybe I'll pop one of those suckers.
Oh, fantastic.
Yeah, I want to feel love.
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It's your sign. Today, our guest, first of all, I was in Vegas this weekend. I saw Adele
on Friday night, which was amazing, before my show at Caesars on Saturday night, which was amazing. Thank you so
much. It was so much fun. I loved how many people came out. It was so, so much fun. I had like 48
hours of great times in Vegas. And then Kevin Hart, I ran into, unfortunately, at Adele. And he groped me.
I groped him, too.
And then we decided to go gambling.
He was with Aniko, his wife.
I was with my cousin, Molly.
And I would just like to say that the amount of money that Kevin lost during our gambling
session in his private gambling room that was attached to his hotel room is too embarrassing
to say on this podcast.
You're an idiot.
Anyway, our guest today stars in Peacock's Fight Out,
along with every other movie that you'll have ever seen in your life.
And you can catch him on his newest comedy tour, Acting My Age,
and he is definitely not acting his age.
Please welcome Kevin Hart.
This is my friend, long, long time friend.
Yes.
Kevin Hart.
I'm very happy to see your face.
I'm always happy to see you,. I'm always happy to see you,
actually. I always love to see your face in the beginning, at first glance. In the beginning?
Like I see you coming and I think, oh, fun. This will be fun. Then it dies down.
It's not a dip, but I think there's an anticipatory level of excitement when I get to see you.
Great word. Yeah. Well, you've used a couple words wrong in the short time that you've been here,
so I had to correct his grammar as I do.
So hopefully, you know, if you say anything wrong here, I can correct you. The good news is I'm with the dictionary.
And you're only an hour late today, which for you is early.
I'm not an hour late.
You're not late when you give a heads up two to two and a half hours before.
When you say, wait, wait, wait, that's fine that you're late.
I don't care.
No, but I just want to make it very clear.
You said, I'm on my way at 11 o'clock.
I'm sorry.
And you were supposed to be here at 11.15.
Totally fine.
You live in East Bubblefuck.
I'm on the other side.
I'm in Calabasas.
Well, that's where the cheaper homes are, I guess.
I don't come over the hill.
Right.
I don't know why you live in Calabasas.
Because I don't want a backyard the size of my hand?
Yeah.
How about that?
Maybe that's why.
Anyway, Kevin's here.
Kevin, what do you have to say for yourself?
What do I have to say for myself?
In general.
In general.
I have to say I'm proud of me.
You are?
Yeah.
I'm proud of you, too.
If I had to say something, I would say that.
I would say, though, we're in a different time.
I'm getting older.
So now— Do you feel like you're getting older? Absolutely. I feel like I though, we're in a different time. I'm getting older. So now.
Do you feel like you're getting older?
Absolutely.
I feel like I'm fucking crushing it.
And I'm 49.
Well, yeah.
Getting older doesn't mean.
But I mean, looks wise, like body wise, you know, like my skin.
You get better.
Well, I've always been curious about your desire to work so much.
I know you want to.
Well, no, I'll let you speak about why you want to work as hard as you work.
I mean, look, half of it's fair, half of it's commitment.
It's the idea of completion.
So starting something and not finishing it, it doesn't sit well with me.
So right now there's so much that I've started, right?
Not just in entertainment or comedy or acting, you know, from a creative space, once you start building businesses and
once you start developing like an infrastructure full of minds and people to help this thing last
forever, it gets more difficult as you go on. It's not, it's not easy building a business with
businesses in it. So completion, like I feel like I have to complete the task at hand. And what that looks like is still to be determined, right?
Because it's constantly growing.
It's expanding.
So what once was just the idea of a production company
has turned into an independent studio.
That's turned into a multi-layered entity
with a VC attached with fun and development and opportunities to merge and partner
with. It's grows and grows and grows. And you look up and you got a staff of so many. And it's like,
well, fuck, I can't stop if I wanted to, because now I've invested all this time and people have
invested time into the thing that I believe in. So now I owe them the return of energy and it just keeps going.
But I think I do believe by time I'm 50 to 53, that a lot of these things should have hard
punctuations on them. And then I can kind of sit back and go, wow, man, it's dope that that happened.
And how old are you now?
45 now.
Okay, 45. So tell me about how you handle difficult situations in business.
Like when something doesn't go your way, how have you learned and grown to deal with that kind of stuff?
That's the easiest thing to understand in business.
The bulk of things don't go your way.
At first, all ideas are bad ideas to most.
You got to prove your case.
And what you'll find for me is that a resume without receipts is
just a piece of paper. It's just words. Proof of concept is important. So without a proof of
concept, I'm always selling you on an idea. What I've learned is that an idea is something that
comes a dime a dozen. Everybody has one. But if my idea comes with a return, that's a different
thing. So how do I put myself in the best position to make my partners understand that there's a mutual alignment where if I win, you win.
If you win, I win.
And that's also a track record, right?
Absolutely.
With all of the stuff you've done.
Absolutely.
You can trust your company, your brand, your, you know, whatever you're calling yourself these days.
Okay.
What are you calling yourself these days?
I mean, you just said, I think you just went through it.
Right, right.
A brand, you know, a businessman.
And then I'm very curious because I know how close you are with your wife and your family.
And this may sound like a boring question, but I am very curious as to how you manage to balance everything and spend enough time with your family and your wife and your kids.
It's a system.
It's a routine system so if you've
been doing it long enough you'll find that any routine is very easy to stay true to there's no
different from waking up early in the morning going to the gym then going to work after the gym
then making it home for dinner eat dinner with the kids kids go to sleep then you watch a movie
then you go to sleep you wake up and masturbate yeah well yeah you're doing i'm sure yeah i have to i'd be probably doing it anyway i don't think i need to okay that's why it's weird
that you're doing i get it which is which is once again why i just don't feel like i don't need to
right you don't need to address it fine but i don't need to address i don't need to do it okay
my wife thinks i'm hot yeah well that's a separate conversation i'm having her on next week well i
mean if you want to talk to her fine all she's going to do is tell you i want to jump his bones all the time
and i would too i've walked by me and i've seen me wow i want to get a piece of that no there's
been times where i've looked at myself in like a reflection i'm like i fuck yeah like i get it
right yeah yeah i don't know if you do that you actually don't even have to look in the mirror
because if you turn on the television you can just watch yourself in any sort of credit card commercial or airline commercial or toe spacers commercial.
It really doesn't matter what you're promoting.
Have you ever worn toe spacers?
Okay, no.
Okay, well, I just started wearing them the other day.
I'm not going to wear them and I don't need to answer a question about those.
Why? Don't you want your toes to stay apart?
No, I don't.
Why not?
I didn't know that to be.
What if you get a bunion?
Okay, then you get a bunion. No, but
do you want to look at a bunion?
I don't want to look at a bunion, and if I had to,
I don't care. I'm at an age where, you think
I care about my feet? I would hope so.
Why? 45, it is what it is.
What do you mean 45? You're not dead.
You have a whole lifetime ahead of you. This is what
it is. This is mid-century. You have
another, hopefully, 50, 45,
50 years, and you want to go around with bunions?
I have no desire to correct my feet.
You know what I equate that to?
Like, people that are 60 that get braces.
It's too late.
I agree with you.
It's over.
It's over.
I agree with adult braces.
Yeah.
You waited till now?
60 years old, you going to fix it up?
We done dealt with it through all this time leave it
alone that's how i feel about my feet now to answer your question about my kids my kids and
my time is a system i'm i'm dedicated to a home schedule and if i'm filming a movie it changes but
it's the reverse of touring right like touring you're going on the weekends you're home during
the week if i'm filming a movie i'm going during the week but i're going on the weekends, you're home during the week. If I'm filming a movie, I'm going during the week, but I'm home on the weekends. So the kids understand
that and they have, and they grow up understanding what my job is. And when dad's home, it's great.
And when he's gone, we know what he's doing, but we talk all the time. My younger kids, I think,
are going to get a different version because I'm slowing down a little bit.
Are you?
Well, yeah. I mean, I need to be home more and I can. I had the luxury of working from the office
at home, so I don't have to be in the office as much or have to be on the go as much. I think
the bigger things have gotten, you're in a position where you can delegate and have other people kind of execute things where you once upon a time had to do it yourself.
I don't have to do as much of that anymore.
So my younger kids definitely get, I think, a bigger dose of me than my olders did at this age.
But my older kids were so close.
Yeah, I know.
They're getting the dose that they need.
I would say that that is the most important age. Your older kids are at the age where they need you the most. They need your influence
the most.
Absolutely. You know, what I like is that they're comfortable enough to talk to me,
good or bad. There's no secrets. I mean, there probably are. Well within reason, I know that
there's probably things that my kids don't tell me. And like any kid, I get it, right?
But there's a lot that they do come to the table with that we talk about.
And, you know, I like the fact that they are very confident that there is no bad reaction from their father.
Like it's dialogue all the time.
And it's never met with negative energy or an angry tone.
And that, to me, that's what I'm most proud of with them.
Like that's where I can see the benefit of our relationship
or the time that we're spending.
Like, I can see it paying off in real time.
Yeah.
Because of the people that they've become.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's nice.
Yes.
That's my win.
What do you think about when you think about your own childhood
and you think about what your kids have?
What do you think about that?
It's crazy, man, because, you know, you don't see this happening.
And the way I grew up, how I grew up, I was a happy kid.
I was a happy fucking kid, man, and with less.
And the reason why I was happy is because you just appreciated
the things that you had or that you were able to do.
Going outside was a big deal.
Playing with my friends outside was a big deal.
Playing basketball in the schoolyard was a big deal.
Walking to the store to buy candy was a big deal.
Those were the big things.
We didn't need the grandioso version of trips and adventures.
We had the steps.
We had the walk from where we live to meet up at a friend's house to go to the playground,
to go back from there to a friend's house, sit outside, play a game that we created,
go back to the house, step, repeat.
Like, that's it.
If you were lucky, you were in some extracurricular activities.
I swam, played basketball.
My mom did the best that she could.
Yeah, when you talk about that, that makes me nostalgic for my own childhood, actually,
because there was an electricity in the air.
Like, even just going out in the street after school and playing, like, Red Rover, Red Rover
with the neighbors all on the street.
It's like, where does that happen anymore?
Are there neighborhoods in Minnesota where that happens?
I hope so.
Yeah, not in Los Angeles.
I think the kids that are fortunate enough to grow up in the neighborhoods,
and by that I mean like, you know, where there's a nice connectivity within community.
People live in close proximity, and the kids grow up knowing that friends across the street or down the street.
And as they get older, that rapport gets better.
Now, you know, it's not my kid's fault, but respectfully, we don't have neighbors, right?
Like, there's no walking to the house down the street.
Like, we're living to hopefully get a high level of privacy and exclusivity just in home because we don't want to be bothered or
we don't want to be approached or it's me, it's not them. So because of that life that we now live,
they don't have that. So it changes, but then the kids get old enough and they're driving. So
my kids are driving at the age 16 and they're going to go to my friend's house. And after that,
we're going to go meet and do whatever. You a little bit more freedom but the idea of what you're doing is different from what I was
doing right it's I don't my kids aren't hanging out after school they're not hanging out at the
school and not breaking their necks to go to pep rallies or the football games it's different now
and you know electronics and social media it's changed all of that to where
from afar people feel close but you don't have the same synergy do you think you're addicted
to social media no that's not i could give two shits about it but at one point it was
it was what drove the machine so i'm one of the early winners in the space of social media about
understanding the value of it like anything else's going to be good and bad.
I think that the bad
is a little more present today,
but I also think that the good
is watching this younger generation
crack the code
and figure out a different side
of economic payoff.
They've cracked the code
to where the value in return
and energy creative on social media is making the millions of dollars live streaming, gaming, vlogging, you name it.
They've cracked the code and made it a business.
So you're looking at a lot of people take care of themselves and their families from doing the thing that we thought was like real simple and just one note.
They've created a tear to it.
So I take my hat off to them, but I also understand like, I don't, I don't do that.
I don't have that machine. You don't have to do that. Well, you don't have to do that. It's also,
yeah. Okay. Moving on from that subject. Cause who cares? I want to ask you, what are you most
proud of as a person? Not of your accomplishments, but what is like a lesson that you learned that you
didn't have to learn more than, you know, once or twice that you're proud of like understanding
that lesson? I think the biggest lesson I'll probably say is don't expect others to give you
what you give them, right? Like one of the biggest things that I'm now very comfortable with understanding is my heart is different.
And the energy attached to making others feel good or to put others in a position to do good is a high level energy.
And just because you have that, it doesn't mean that other people should.
Everybody operates differently. Right. And everybody shows their love or shows
their value or shows their, I guess you can say commitment differently. So I took the pressure
off of others when I stopped expecting you to do what I do or to work the same way that I work.
Did that happen when you met the Plastic Cup Boys?
I mean, me and my guys have definitely had our peaks, hills, and valleys.
But I think they're all not only talented, but they're all chasing different things for themselves.
So you go through this period where you want the most for everybody.
And if they're not doing what you think, then you don't think that they're doing enough.
Or you go through a period where you feel like you're helping so many people.
And then when they exceed beyond what you've provided for them, when they have their own
success beyond what you've given them, there can be friction because you're like, wait,
wait, wait, you're going out.
The whole idea is for everyone to fly by themselves.
But some people in leadership positions want to hold on to everybody and say,
don't exceed beyond the success that I've given you. You know, that's an interesting point because
I don't suffer from that. I'm very much a, I want to see everybody fly. I want to see everybody
get to the highest level of a win. To me, that's special. If you want to know the true definition
of success, the true definition of success is
look at the success of others around the successful
person. If you really want
to get into it. That's like when I put you on
Chelsea Lately.
Why are you playing?
Nobody thought because of his height
and because of his body type that he would ever be
successful. I just don't think it was intentional.
I was like, oh, that's a cute little nugget.
Let's put him on Chelsea Lately. And guess
what he did as a thank you? After three
or four appearances, he
decided that he wanted to only be a guest on
Chelsea Lately, that he didn't want to be on the panel anymore
because he was becoming too famous.
That's what he said after I put him on the show
and that was his first television appearance, probably.
I think it was the right move. On the Jeffersons. He played that
little kid on the Jeffersons, too, but that was a long
time ago. But I think that that was the right move. And just Jeffersons. He played that little kid on the Jeffersons too, but that was a long time ago. But I think that that was the right move.
And just to kind of punctuate what I'm saying,
you were trying to keep him.
To hold you down?
I think I said, good for him for asking,
and the answer is yes, is what I said.
Because I wanted you to fly like a little bird.
You actually were very supportive of my progression in those days.
But also, I think one thing that I'm really good at is,
I don't forget. You don't forget the road or the journey so it's like those things that helped elevate you
you don't turn your back on them when things start going well you figure out great ways for you to
maintain those relationships and those platforms right like like how how did I get to the place of like crazy availability and awareness from a fan base was because of all the things that I was able to do.
So that panel was very important when the panel turned into just being a guest.
Very important. That audience attached to late night with you was a very important audience.
Like those things transfer in the ticket sales. So you don't shut the door on it. You do that while doing other things. And I think I did a good job of maintaining
all of that as things continue to grow. And even today, when you look back and we're able to go
and do a podcast, the dope thing about these relationships is like when people go and look
at how long over the course of time you've stayed true to a friendship or stayed true to a great
energy and a great rapport. It's a story. It's one long story. Wow. They started here. They went here
and they've been doing this all the way. Oh my God. It's so dope that they still find a way to
maintain a relationship. It's so dope that we're able to connect those dots with them. That to me
is special. You don't have many of those. Well, you do. I mean, loyalty
is a big thing for you. You're very loyal. And I love that about you. I feel the same way about
being loyal to people and reciprocity. But like what you're saying is not hanging your hat on
reciprocity. Like don't expect from others what you give, which is also a good life lesson. And
another thing that I very much respect about you is your vibration.
You are operating at a high vibration.
You want to bring people in.
You're a lover.
You've always been this way.
I've never seen you be an asshole once.
I mean, you are an asshole.
Well, that's— Like, you are an asshole.
It's contradictory to what you say.
Yeah.
I mean, I already talked about that stuff, so I don't need to expound.
I'll do that.
I just don't think you need to say that.
Right.
I think you're an asshole, but it's a good asshole, and it's a ridiculous asshole. Well, I don't need to expound. I just don't think you need to say that. I think you're an asshole but it's a good
asshole and it's a ridiculous asshole.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know if you can be
a good asshole but okay. But loyalty
is important to you. Very.
Absolutely. So when you say what you just
said, which is don't expect
other people to give you the
love that you're giving them necessarily,
then how does loyalty
play into that? Well, I don't think it's just love. I think it's the energy, right? Like you
just said, if you're operating at this crazy vibration, this high vibration, like you just
said, I can't expect everyone to meet me here. I understand what's special about where I am,
and I understand how passionate I am about wanting so much for so
many if you don't have the same wants for yourself I can't get mad at you I can't take that as like
disrespect or or I can't get frustrated I have to then say it's dope and I understand like what you
want for you is for you I want to just do what I can
to help you and then I hope you get whatever it is that you want it's much easier when you can
process it differently and look at it with a dual POV then look at it from one perspective which
used to be for me I used to suffer from well if you don't want what I want that you don't want
the best for yourself like that's crazy like you don't want obviously you're not trying to be the best and everybody's not trying to do that everybody's
not trying to be the best and some people want to be enough or some people want a little bit or a
little taste and some people want to be content there's a there's different levels for a reason
and to my to my fault a younger version of myself, it was like, man, if you're not on
this page and you just don't see what I see, then I just can't have that around because your energy
is taken away from my energy. And that's not the case all the time. You should be able to separate
it. You should be able to understand it. You should also be able to let people figure things
out on their own time. And sometimes when they do, it's a great full circle moment.
If they don't, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't affect you to the point of no return.
But I used to operate as if it did at one point.
That's the biggest lesson that I think I had.
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Can you put your pants back on?
What do you mean?
Oh, nothing.
This isn't a visual podcast, but I still need you to put your pants back on.
My pants weren't on.
You would have known.
I will also have you put on your headphones right now because we're going to start with Put those over your pants, actually. We have collars, and you're going to put your pants back on. My pants weren't on. You would have known. I will also have you put on your headphones right now
because we're going to start with a collar.
Put those over your pants, actually.
We have collars,
and you're going to give advice to real people.
They call in for advice.
It's called Dear Chelsea.
They call in for you for advice?
Is that how you wear?
These people are asking you for advice?
Have they seen you?
Is that how you wear headphones like this?
Who are you?
Beats?
You don't need two ears.
Why not?
Because you only need to hear in one ear.
And it's not an air, it's an ear.
You're probably one of those people that wear two pods.
Who does this?
You wear both your pods when you're on the phone.
But what's the point of having a thing on your face?
Because I want to still hear you clear.
You're going to hear me in the fucking microphone, miracle ear.
I can hear you just like this though.
Yeah, see that?
See, this is, you know what that's called? this though. Yeah, see that? See, this is,
you know what that's called?
These crazy.
Gaslighting?
No, this is crazy.
This is what the millennials
are talking about.
Oh, are you talking about me?
I'm a millennial?
Are you talking about me?
No, I'm saying
you're what they talk about.
Oh, millennials
are talking about us?
No, I didn't say us.
They're talking about,
oh, you think that
I'm talking about me only.
Yeah.
Women like me
who go like this?
If you did that,
they would go,
she gets it. No. Yeah, all right. Remember I told you that. That's stupid. Women like me who go like this. If you did that, they would go, she gets it.
No.
Yeah, all right.
Remember I told you that.
That's stupid.
First of all, it fucking hurts my earrings, and it hurts my ears.
Well, then there's more reason for you to have one off.
No, it hurts my ears to have it off.
Why would it hurt your ears to have it off of your ear?
Because my ears are way bigger than your ears.
They always have been.
Are your ears on your cheek?
It's catching my ear. Look at how big my ears are. bigger than your ears. They always have been. Are your ears on your cheek? It's catching my ear.
Look at how big my ears are.
Wow.
Holy shit.
Have you ever seen?
They keep growing.
Yours are like little two Oreos.
It's like a bat wing.
Jesus.
My ears actually are a very embarrassing feature.
They look like a labia.
The bottom part is like labia.
It's like flappy.
I don't know.
I know.
They're bigger than my vagina. It's like appy. I don't know. I know. They're bigger than my vagina.
It's like a whole nother person on your fucking ear.
Jesus.
What do we have today, Catherine?
Oh, we have some very juicy questions for you, Kevin.
Our first question comes from Kelly, and she has a question about her best friend.
Try and be serious, okay?
Okay.
This could be serious, or it could not be.
We don't know yet.
There's a mix.
I get it. This isn't rocket fucking science. yet. There's a mix. I get it.
This isn't rocket fucking science.
Shut up.
Answer the questions.
I get it.
Dear Chelsea, my best friend and I have been friends for over 20 years now, but lately
she's been getting on my nerves.
Welcome to the club.
Every time we go out to do anything, she is overtly sexual with any male around.
She got divorced a couple of years ago, so this is her
first time being truly single. She's joined every single dating app, and I'm glad she's getting out
there. But what I'm not so cool about is her acting like a cat in heat every time we're out
in public. A few months ago, we were at her daughter's 21st birthday, where she was hitting
on her daughter's friends to the point of adjusting her shirt so her cleavage was fully on display.
Her daughter was mortified.
I did address that her daughter looked embarrassed by her behavior,
and she just laughed it off, so I don't know how to approach this or if I even should.
Last weekend, she hit on my married friend before even taking the time to ask if he was married.
I'm heading out right now with my friends and did not invite her,
but I know this is going to be a topic of conversation, and I feel the need to defend her.
Am I being a prude, or is this just a phase I should wait out?
Kelly.
Hi, Kelly.
Hey, Kelly.
Hi, guys.
Hi, this is Kevin Hart.
Do you recognize him?
He's our special guest today.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, okay.
Hi, Kevin.
You want me to go?
Oh, sure.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
I think I have a pretty good wrap on this.
Okay.
Okay.
First of all, you know, I think that you have to have a little bit of understanding to the fact that she's divorced.
In life after divorce, if you haven't been divorced, you don't know what that's like.
So companionship is something that people want, something that people long for and fiend for.
It sounds to me like there's just a want and need for companionship.
And that companionship right now is being filled with flirtation or fun in the environments that you're going to.
So if you were looking for a real change and it was annoying you at a high level,
I think that you should just change the environments that you attend with this particular friend.
In other words, if you don't want to be a part of the flirtatious or salacious things or ways I think
you change it to just a lunch or an early dinner and there's not the crazy party environment or
the world where you can approach or be approached and I think for you you'll then have a better
a better understanding of what that relationship is and then you can separate yourself and she can
go do her thing when she wants to.
And you don't have to be annoyed
and come off as the friend that's prudish
or just not fun within the world of fun
that she's looking for.
How long has she been divorced?
She's been divorced about three years.
Okay, so she's not newly divorced.
Not newly divorced.
She's just getting out of the newly divorced area.
Right, getting out of it, yeah. And she's been in two long-term relationships since then.
And so is this flirtation like horniness level? Has it spiked? Is that what you're noticing?
Yeah, I've definitely noticed in the past probably three months that it's really, really spiked. She just gets overly like touchy and feely with people that she really doesn't know.
She doesn't really know their situation. Yeah, I know. And she's making people around her uncomfortable. Some of my friends have
said, I'm a little uncomfortable with her around my husband because she didn't even know that he
was married to me. She was just in this big friend group and was like petting him. I was like, oh,
yeah, I can see that. Well, I think Kevin's advice is great and sound. But I think so, too.
If the problem continues, cause like it could really be
like a hormonal female thing. You know what I mean? Cause all of a sudden someone going around
and like, you know, kind of semi groping people is, is a problem and it will become a problem,
especially since people are fucking married and they don't like that. But if you want to have an
honest conversation with her, I would, as a woman appreciate a woman having an honest conversation
with me saying like, Hey, your behavior, which has happened in the past, your behavior was inappropriate or you're, you know,
like, hey, you made someone feel uncomfortable. You don't want to shame her and say everyone's
talking about you. But you want to do you do want to be honest as if out of a friendship,
you kind of owe each other honesty to say, hey, that guy's married and his wife was there and he
was uncomfortable and she was uncomfortable. And cite one example instead of 10, you know?
Right.
When you do want to have a conversation,
if it gets to the point where you think
you have to have the conversation,
if you, in the business of defending her,
I think you could just say,
she's just going through something right now.
I'm going to be her friend.
And, you know, hopefully this is just a phase.
Is that really going through something?
Some people were just a little faster with life.
No, no, because she said this isn't typical of her behavior right she said in the last three or four
months so maybe like she's in a fucking mindset like you know what i've i haven't let go and just
completely let loose and you know what at this time i just want to fucking do what i want when
i want in return granted yes rubbing some people the wrong way
flirting with husbands when you don't know right that they're married okay yes but it's not like
she's going and said oh this is my husband then she's still doing the shit she didn't know I'm
saying if she's in a mindset of I'm going to live and operate differently for me I think you should
just be open in the discussion like hey just tell me where you at where you are mentally like are you on like a more free life living journey right now because
it's appearing like you know you just you look like a fucking cat in heat right now like every
guy you flirting with look like you want to fuck everybody if that's the case let table it so i
know where you are and i can let you operate when and where you want to do that but you can't do that in all the settings it's coming off crazy but let me know because me and you are and I can let you operate when and where you want to do that. But you can't do that in all the settings.
It's coming off crazy.
But let me know because me and you are close enough.
So I'm on the table.
I'm on the table of understanding.
That's actually really good advice.
I wasn't expecting that from you.
You don't expect me to be a sound person?
Not a sounding board.
No.
Common sense?
Well, it's not common sense.
It's a little bit more nuanced than common sense.
And I wouldn't expect common sense from it's not common sense it's a little bit more nuanced than common sense and i wouldn't expect everybody wants to attack everybody wants to attack the person with like
ho like activities no i'm not saying that i'm just saying when you make someone feel uncomfortable
i want to know if i made someone feel uncomfortable if i was at a party and was like hitting on a
husband i could tell you you've definitely made yeah well that was intentional this is not
intentional i don't think well and i'm sure there's like room for levity
in that conversation about like,
girl, you gotta tone it down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
It doesn't have to be so serious, you know?
Yeah, I definitely wanna come at it
from a place of love and understanding
because I know everything she's been through.
On her human diary, she's mine.
Yeah.
I get that, but I really love that approach.
Yeah, yeah.
A two-pronged approach where you talk, but also maybe she's a brunch friend for a while, yeah. A two-pronged approach where you talk,
but also maybe she's a brunch friend for a while.
What is a two-pronged approach called?
What is that?
Remember what we used to talk about?
I think it's called a two-pronged approach.
I think that's what you would call it.
I think a two-pronged approach is actually called.
I was thinking of the shocker.
That's what, remember the shocker?
I think that's, sorry, this is unrelated.
Actually, it might be directly related to her.
Maybe that's exactly what she's looking for
is the shocker
give her the shocker
and send her on her way
anyway
I think that
those all sound like good options
do you
absolutely
yeah thank you guys so much
I really appreciate it
okay
thank you for calling in
thank you
bye
that was good
Kevin
yeah
for you
yeah
what do you mean for me
I was impressed by that
why can't you just like
give the compliment
and stay there?
We'll see.
Because you do it
and then there's this weird change
that happens right after.
It's like the car
just goes to the left.
It's like we're
on a great road.
Do you want to make
car jokes right now?
I don't think so.
All right.
I'm sorry.
Well, our next question
comes from Jennifer
and this one is just an email
so she won't be joining us but but the subject line is hot tub fury.
Dear Chelsea.
Don't you have a show about hot tubs?
It's a cold tub.
Cold tub.
A cold tub.
Oh, you do the cold plunges and all that stuff?
He does a bit like that, yeah, too.
One day she'll support me.
I believe I have supported you on several occasions.
I think I worked out with your fucking trainer, too.
You did.
On a show.
What was that show?
Was that the Cold Plunge show?
Wet to Fit.
That was Wet to Fit.
Wet to Fit.
Jennifer says, Dear Chelsea, I have an absolutely effed up situation I am dealing with.
I've been married to my husband for 14 years, together for 20.
We own a business and a home together.
On to the hot tub fury.
There's a woman who circles our friend group. Let's call her Abby. On New Year's Eve 2020,
she got naked in my hot tub at a party and I told her flat out that I was uncomfortable with her
being naked in the hot tub with my husband. I told my husband the same thing. I have zero
problems with him having single female
friends, and he has a lot that he sees for drinks or shows that I don't wish to attend or don't
care about. In 2022, when I went on a cruise, I later learned that Abby had been at my home when
I was not there. Then this past New Year's Eve, she got naked in the hot tub again in front of me.
I confronted her and asked her to leave. I was away this past Friday
night and around 11 p.m. I got a text from a neighbor telling me the dogs were barking.
I checked the cameras. I see him standing naked behind our bar with two cocktails in front of him.
So I switch views and see Abby naked in our hot tub. I didn't say anything to him. I couldn't
decide my next move. So I waited. When I got home,
I realized that I wasn't eating or sleeping, so I decided to confront him. I have since found out
that Abby is at my house whenever I go out of town. I have also gone through all the camera
footage and found that nothing beyond the naked hot tubbing and some bizarre sitting in the bar
naked has happened. They never touched each other, not even a hug when she was leaving.
It's so bizarre to me. I'm uncertain if this is cheating or severe boundary stepping.
I don't feel like I can leave and start a new life and career at 46. Help, Jennifer.
Well, she really needs to be a caller. I know. Because A, there's so many questions. Do they have cameras? They don't have cameras. The husband knows about the cameras. Right. So of course,
he's not going to be doing anything on camera.
So perhaps they're not doing anything in front of her,
and then they go inside and do something.
I mean, that's one theory.
Right.
Like, he's not an idiot.
It's his house.
So why would he be fucking somebody on camera?
That seems really stupid.
Yeah.
Kevin, what do you have to say about this?
I mean, this is just stupid.
I mean, like, literally, this
is one of the ones where you,
what are you asking? What help is she looking
for? Like, if you're okay with
your husband having female friends
and you have been for the duration
of your marriage and your relationship,
and you choose to not be around
those environments, so that means
that you support whatever the world of fun is.
And his level of comfort has progressed and grown over the years.
And if the female friends come over your house when you're not there and you're aware or not aware.
You set boundaries or lines.
It appears that you've already set some type of boundary that this is okay i don't i don't know what husband in his right mind is having female company over as if a wife can't find out when
there's cameras and camera footage and you checking the cameras and then seeing her at your house
numerous amount of times like and then her getting naked in front of you when you there obviously
like she doesn't feel like she's doing anything wrong.
So somewhere along the line, somebody's not being very clear with what's happening.
But also you did say she asked this woman to leave because she was naked.
Your husband understands that's also setting a boundary, saying you don't want to be around that.
And then the husband's, she's there all the time
when you're gone. That's fishy.
But she got naked again.
And he was naked too.
But then at that, she said at the New Year's party
I don't trust your, but I also don't trust
the husband. I think the husband is fine.
You think so?
The husband ain't doing nothing wrong. He's like, look at the cameras.
Go look at the cameras.
I ain't touch this woman. I ain't do a goddamn thing with this woman. Yeah, he's naked. So what like, look at the cameras. Go look at the cameras. I ain't touch this woman.
I ain't do a goddamn thing with this woman.
Yeah, he was naked.
So what?
We sitting at the bar having a drink.
The hot tub got hot.
We got out.
We sat at the bar.
You see it right there.
Yeah, yeah.
That's his defense.
You don't think I know there's cameras?
Obviously.
I know you can look at this.
He's being upfront.
We're not doing anything wrong.
I find that behavior very suspicious.
I don't think two people are hanging around naked because they're nudists. I don't think that. I don't think two people are hanging around naked
because they're nudists. I don't think that. I don't think that's a thing. I think there's
probably something more to the story that you're not willing to face. And if you don't want to face
it, then I would say turn off the cameras and look away. I'll tell you another big thing. The
whole idea of strangers over your house. Like I've never been a company at my house guy her
saying oh yeah well she's there and other people were there at the house like this is why you don't
invite people to your home weird shit happens when weird people get free and get comfortable
somebody feeling that comfortable that they can get naked at your home where you lay your head
and your husband, that's a problem within itself.
And if it's happening a number of times, clearly somewhere along the lines,
when it happened the first time, somebody was like, hey, go girl.
Somebody supported it.
Like you don't double back and do the naked thing again if it was met with
aggression or resistance the first time.
Exactly.
There's some information being left out.
Exactly.
You told her not to be naked in your house.
You asked her to leave, and the minute you were gone,
she went back and did the same thing you asked her not to do.
So she has no boundary with you
because somebody else has let her know
that she doesn't have to have a boundary,
and that somebody is your fucking husband.
So you have a problem with your husband.
I believe something more is going on between those two. You're 46 years old. That is not the end of the world. Please don't ever say, what am I going to do as a 46 year old woman?
Plenty of shit. You could change the channel anytime you want in this life. And apparently
they say, if you make it through the next 10 years, we can live till we're 120. So you might
have a whole life ahead of you. I don't know if I
mean, I've already spoken about how I don't want to live that long. I can't afford to live that
long. It'll be exhausting. What am I going to be doing stand up when I'm 109? Like, I hope not.
I don't want to see that.
Nobody wants to see that.
I don't want to see that.
I mean, talk about vaginal dryness, you know? I mean, honestly, 109 years old, my God,
I will figure out a way to get a wet pussy at 109.
Anyway, we got a little off track.
But you know whose pussy isn't dry?
The woman who's sitting in your jacuzzi naked.
That's an aggressive.
That's a very aggressive.
It's an aggressive move.
So do we send her to couples counseling?
Do we tell her to check out of the marriage?
You're not couple counseling.
Have a direct conversation with your husband.
This is not a very hard problem to solve.
Yeah.
It's very easy.
All right.
And if he won't stop seeing Abby when? Well, then that's a big red flag too.
This is all very odd.
There's no counselor that you're going to go to.
I mean, it's good actually to go to a counselor with him.
So to have someone tell him a third party, this is not normal behavior.
You don't have naked opposite sex people at your house when your wife is out of town.
That leads to one thing.
I mean, where are they going when they're-
Drinks at the bar, right?
Yeah.
Very bold.
Very bold.
All right, Jennifer.
Well, keep us posted.
Well, our next caller is Savannah.
Her subject line is, my stepmom thinks I'm doing porn.
Oh.
Dear Chelsea. Oh, that's perfect. Kevin just launched his OnlyFans thinks I'm doing porn. Oh. Dear Chelsea.
Oh, that's perfect. Kevin just launched his OnlyFans page.
Oh, amazing.
So that's perfect. He's actually on it right now.
Dear Chelsea, my stepmom has been in my life since I was 10 and I'm now 31.
We've had a pretty good relationship for most of my life, but for a year now, we haven't spoken.
I got out of rehab last year, and at first she and my whole family were nothing but
supportive and proud. When I got out of rehab, I had moved back to my apartment after treatment
and was enjoying some time before reentering the workforce, especially since I was still
in treatment three times a week. I began to get questions about how I could afford being unemployed.
Then my dad called me, who I have the closest and most loving relationship with,
and asked me if I was selling my body on the internet or doing that, quote, only funds thing.
I was aghast.
I have no judgment, nor do I condemn that line of work,
but it's just simply not something I'm comfortable with, and I have a successful career.
After some interrogation, I found out that my stepmom told my mom and dad that I was doing OnlyFans
because I had once asked an offhand
question about, oh, what do people put on their taxes if they're making bank doing that sort of
work? That was last year. We haven't spoken since my dad called with her on the line to host the
apology. We haven't had a genuine conversation since, and that's over a year, which is extremely
unlike us. How do I get us both to move on? I feel like I need a genuine apology where my dad
isn't policing the phone call and it appears she's fine going on without speaking forever.
Please help. I want our relationship back, but I need more from her. Savannah.
Hi, Savannah. Hey, Savannah. Hi, Kelsey. Hi. In your stepmom's defense, you look like you could
have your own OnlyFans page. You're very hot. Yeah. You know what I mean? So and
women like that are always think younger girls are up to something. And I'm like, I'm not up to
half the shit you think I'm up to. I'm just honest about what I am doing. So it sounds a lot worse
because everybody else is lying. But anyway, so she's just like kind of holding a grudge against
you since that happened. Do you feel like or it's just not the same since she confronted you?
I think she's afraid to talk to me again after she knows that she spread a rumor about me that
was really damaging, especially in a really vulnerable time. I was just getting out of
rehab and figuring out, what do people think of me now? I'm going back into the workforce. How
do I explain this year gap I took? So I was really dealing with insecurities. So she hit me at a
really low point. So when my dad called and said, you know, your stepmom's on
the phone and she kind of just said, well, we didn't know what you were doing. So I just didn't
know. And I'm like, that's not a valid enough excuse to make up the rumor that you did.
So we've just been going for about a year with really not reaching out to each other,
seeing each other at big family events and kind of saying hi. And I know we need to have another
conversation to really
clear the air. Well, this is probably a good step in your recovery, actually, to have an adult
conversation that isn't acrimonious and to actually say, hey, listen, I know things haven't been the
same in the last year. And I just want you to know exactly why it struck me so hard, because I was in
such a vulnerable spot in my life. You really, that was so unfair that you assumed because I asked
one question. And so I really, really hurt me. And, but I, we're, we're past that, I hope. And
I would love to like work towards building back our relationship, right? I mean, that's all reasonable.
Absolutely. I think I just wish she had the gumption to, you know, I have a stepsister who
she finds over as she should, that's her daughter. But I just wish I felt like she knows something's wrong and she misses the relationship too.
Because it feels like we're just in a stalemate forever.
I know, but don't wish for what you can do.
You could be a bigger person here.
Kevin was trying to say, what were you trying to say?
Well, Chelsea, for one of the few times, you're actually kind of right.
And I never actually say that.
I've really never, I don't think I've ever
agreed with you it's probably like yeah this is probably like one of the first times I feel like
you said something good um I'm going to give you a really good cut to the chase moment and this is
what a volume of people high volume of people suffer from right I was talking about earlier
like the expectation yeah of what you feel you would do, you put on someone else.
And if they don't meet that expectation, it bothers you, right?
People are so afraid to just be direct and have forward-facing conversations.
Like a year gap of like a fall in a relationship doesn't make sense.
It's something that's honestly not that difficult.
It's not, this isn't a hard problem. Is she
wrong for assuming that you were doing something?
Absolutely. Is it
uncommon for women today
to be doing the thing that she assumed
or that she thought based off of whatever
was she heard? It is what it is.
It's a multi-billion dollar
business where everybody's doing it. And by the way,
it doesn't mean that if you were, you're doing
porn. You could be posting regular
pictures. You could be wearing
toe spacers. There's a lot of foot fetishes.
It could be anything. I thought about toes.
Okay, listen. It could be
anything. And I'm just saying the first
assumption and thought attached to it
doesn't have to be the worst. So
there is just a assumption
and assumption that's taking place.
You're hurt because of her assumption and you think that I'm doing something that I would never do.
She's like, well, I thought because of what you said and okay, I spun it and put it out there.
It's a real easy conversation.
Hey, we were close.
It's real stupid for us to have this thing holding over our head.
I just didn't like your timing of it.
You know what I was going through?
And I felt from you, if anybody, you should actually have a little more sensitivity in knowing how vulnerable I was at
that time. Now, if you didn't, maybe we missed some key conversations, but I was at a low and
coming out, you hitting me with that, it kind of put me back down. And like now as I'm becoming
back to myself of old and experiencing life and loving life,
I'm realizing that I'm missing what we once had.
I want to work on getting back there,
but I need you to understand where I was.
And also I want to hear from you just in like addressing that and being
accountable for that.
Then let's move on from it.
But it's a five minute to 10 minute conversation.
These things don't have to be drawn out.
And you're being the bigger person because she's your stepmother. So technically she is the more mature, older version of a woman who should
have been, you know, making these inroads to you already. But this is a great exercise to actually
just say, fuck it. I don't care about the smallness of another person. I'm going to be the big person
and say, yeah, no problem. I mean, you know, it's over, but this is where I was coming from. And I'd
love to build back our relationship and get back to normal.
This feels awkward.
And guess what?
If the relationship doesn't make it back to the standards of old, it happens.
It's life.
Like, so holding on to a concept or holding on to this feeling of, oh, like that may not
be in your best interest for the new version of yourself that you've now become.
So don't be afraid to say, okay, like,
if we don't get back, we don't.
But at least I got this off my chest
so you can know how I feel.
And I know that I was very adult with how I approached you.
It was very much mature.
This isn't a catty moment of back and forth.
This is one of simple understanding.
And I feel like if we have that, it's good.
Absolutely. I agree with all of that. And then at the end the end you can just say and thanks for the great idea i actually
started an only fans page and i'm crushing it yeah yeah by the way i'm i'm thinking about it
because you need more money well oh for her i thought about that we had a trip to chicago
we were watching my niece and nephew and i thought about just saying like oh i'm going to disappear
for an hour i've got an appointment with my only fan, so I'll be right back. Yeah. But I think that's the bigger picture.
You know, always just step above. When people are being low about something, just be bigger.
And congrats. Yeah. I guess I'm just afraid that if I come with that, that she'll hide from it or
won't address it or I won't get the resolution. It doesn't matter what you get. It matters how you go after it. Like you be the bigger person,
you do it. If you don't get the results you desire, that's on her. That's not on you.
You've done your part.
Chelsea, actually, you brought this up on another episode recently was
forgiving someone before you get the apology. You know, you had sort of the forced apology,
but I wonder if you can go in, you know, with a sense of empathy.
Like she might be feeling kind of embarrassed about what she did.
Yeah.
And like going in being like, spend some time with yourself, forgive her, and then approach it.
Do you know what your dad said to her?
Because I bet you your dad gave her an earful about that.
So my dad had to call me one morning, early in the morning.
He was like, and my dad and I are very close.
He'll always see me as his little girl. know we talk three times a week but it was the worst call ever
he called me early in the morning he just said are you doing porn which hearing that from his mouth
I was just like oh I told him no um he believes me he is frustrated now that there's tension of
course so the rumors put to bed but I know he's just wishes the tension would be over and he has, he believes my side. He knows that that's not what I was up to. So yeah, it's really just
the conflict between us that's left. Yeah. Well, congratulations on getting sober. Kevin has been
struggling with his sobriety since I met him. Oh, how's it going, Kevin? Well, you know,
I have little shoes, so it's tough to kick it. Did you get that? You see that joke right there?
No, I did not get that. I'll think about that
once you leave and try to piece that together.
Lucky enough,
I haven't, but I do admire
those that have
made it out of the fire. So that's pretty dope
to hear you say, I did, I was,
but I am now.
I think that's special. Real heroes
don't always wear capes, buddy.
Okay, thanks for calling. Thanks, Savannah. Yeah. Okay. Thanks for calling.
Thanks, Savannah.
Bye, Savannah.
Thanks.
Bye.
Savannah really looked like a Savannah.
Didn't she?
No, I know.
She really did.
So just to be clear, there is no link.
Oh, no, there is not.
Although she said on her pre-interview, her cousin does OnlyFans.
So it's like a thing that's in the realm of reality for her family.
But I'm saying just-
No, there's no link.
Got it.
There's no link. For the listeners. She's very hot. But I'm saying just- No, there's no link. Got it. There's no link.
For the listeners.
She's very hot.
I'm just saying.
Anyway, moving along, moving along.
Well, let's take a quick break
and we'll be back to wrap up
with a very stupid question.
Oh, great.
Okay, we're going to take a break.
I'm going to give Kevin a quick bath
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Perfect.
That's a great way to end this.
I like it.
Gina says, dear Chelsea.
This what this some of our conversations today is probably some of the most serious conversations we've ever had. Even though this I wouldn't consider this a serious conversation.
There were moments of seriousness within the conversation.
Yeah, I think so. For you and me, because usually
it's not very serious. No, no.
But I think some of those questions
required a
good POV. No, no, no. I mean, even our own
conversation before the questions.
Yes, this was a lighter.
There's harassment coming from one of us to the other
person. You, to me. Yeah, usually.
That's true.
I'm not going to lie.
And you take the abuse very well.
You almost seem to enjoy it.
Well, yeah.
I mean, I've just grown accustomed to it.
Right.
Okay.
That's what I wanted to say.
That's what it is.
Well, Gina says, Dear Chelsea, I couldn't think of a better person to help me decide
if I should listen to the little devil on my shoulder that wants me to seek some mostly innocent revenge on my husband. We have been happily married for one year and
living together for three. While living together has come with the expected amounts of uncovering
stupid shit we are going to argue about, there's one silly thing we haven't come to a resolution on.
The water diverter in the tub slash shower. He thinks it's no big deal to leave it on the shower
setting, and I think it's a common courtesy to put it back to the tub setting so no one gets
sprayed in the face with cold water at 6 a.m. I'm sure you can guess which of us keeps getting
sprayed in the face at 6 a.m., but I'm not here to discuss our disagreement nor our flaws. Like I
said, I'm here to discuss revenge. We recently installed a dog shower attachment in our home's only bathroom.
Ever since we installed it, I can't help but think how if I just accidentally leave that diverter in the new dog shower position, he will get sprayed directly in the face at 5 a.m.
I say do it.
Absolutely.
No question.
First of all, I want to thank you for bringing a question like this to the podcast because we need more levity.
And I like the stupidity of this.
And absolutely retaliate against your husband.
That's so funny.
And after I just gave you a bath that we get a bathtub question.
That's actually, it's not.
But I just want to back up.
The dog diverter is in their shower.
Yes.
I just wanted to make sure I heard that correctly.
And the only one in the house.
The only one.
You'll be guaranteed to be sprayed in the face.
Got it. So the dog takes a sprayed in the face. Got it.
So the dog takes a shower with the couple?
Got it.
Or in the same shower as the couple?
Yeah, same shower.
That's a bigger question.
One more guess.
I'm going to guess that these people are white if I had to guess.
Probably.
Why do you say that?
Why are you being discriminatory?
It feels a little racist.
As a matter of fact, I'm willing to bet the farm on this one.
Why would you say that white people would have, why?
Because black people, what?
The dog is probably showering with a hose outside.
There's no such thing as a diverter in the black household,
especially not in the one bathroom in the house.
Get that goddamn dog outside and go get that out there.
Get that dog in the bucket and figure it out.
Yeah, that's what it is.
It is so true.
It's very true.
You don't let your dog sleep in the bed.
No.
No.
Black people don't like that.
No.
All my black friends, when they ever see me, they go,
you look like one of those girls who sleeps in bed with your dog.
And my other friend, Yaya, always goes,
white girls don't wash their legs.
We've talked about this.
White girls don't wash their legs. I go, about this. White girls don't wash their legs.
I go, why do my legs need to be washed?
They're fucking covered all day.
It's very true.
It's not like my legs are going out without me.
It's very true.
And when I take a shower, all the soap from my shower comes down.
Tiffany, I had this conversation with too.
So you feel like that's washing.
It's not like my legs are out there gardening all day without me.
So bad. You fucking wash your legs. out there gardening all day without me. That's so bad.
You fucking wash your legs.
No, I don't think so.
What do you mean you don't think?
What is going on with your legs that they need washing?
It's your body.
You wash your body, Chelsea.
Your entire body.
You don't pick and choose.
I have hot spots.
I have hot spots that I wash.
I get one, two,
three, four. And I get
those going and then the fifth is
the head and then everything is fine
after that. No, it's not, Chelsea.
That's like cleaning in between your toes.
Who got in there? What do you mean?
Who got in there? Who got in my leg?
That it's dirty. The back of your knee.
Do you see how the back of your knee is right now?
Yeah, with clean clothes over it. Okay, yes, but you're going to conjure up sweat on the back of your knee Do you see how the back of your knee is right now? Yeah, with clean clothes over it
Okay, yes, but you're gonna conjure up sweat
On the back of your knee
No, no, I'm not a molester
Why would I be sweating on the backs of my knees?
Because you're sitting with your legs crossed
Yeah, crisscross applesauce
Okay, this is a hot spot
Behind your knees is a hot spot
No, no, no, maybe for you
It's not for me, okay?
This is just where we're culturally different
Well, yeah, I guess so.
Well, I'm just telling you.
It really is.
And this is a thing that we just have to nip in the bud.
Also, you probably don't even use, like, a wash rag.
You're like a hand.
No, I don't use a wash rag.
Oh, my God.
No, I don't.
Nothing.
Oh, because your hands have the...
Because your hands are...
But why is it...
This is your scrubber.
Oh, because you have the loofahs on your hands are... But why is it... You're scrubbing. Oh, because you have the laloofas on your hands.
Why?
Why don't you...
Why is sleeping with the dogs...
I mean, I understand that that is actually dirty.
Yes.
But who cares?
What do you mean who cares?
That's my bed.
That's my bed.
The dogs are outside all day,
running around in the backyard,
playing and stuff.
Then you want them to come in,
jump in the bed, sleep in the bed.
You've never pissed the bed and slept in it?
No, you wake up after you do it.
Now, definitely, I have wet the bed
at young and old age.
I am definitely guilty of that.
But immediately, I get up,
and this has to be changed.
This has to be...
This is ridiculous.
I once...
This is not a flattering story,
and that's why I'll share it.
I once was very, I don't remember what drugs I was on, but I was on something and we were in bed
and I had to pee so many times before I could go to sleep. And we were in a hotel room in Vegas.
This is when I was in my twenties. And I was so sick of getting up to pee that I just said,
I'm just going to pee right here and I'm going to move over onto the other side of the bed.
And I thought I could do that.
And then when I moved over to the other side of the bed, I was like, this is disgusting.
I can't.
Just pee there too.
Yeah.
Because it spreads.
Yeah.
And that was the last time I peed in the bed.
By the way, this is a good moment just to kind of point out to the listeners that this is who you're asking your questions to.
This is who you are asking for sound advice from.
The woman that felt that she could pee on one side of the bed and roll over and that there wouldn't be pee there.
And that, no, forget the smell.
None of that stuff matters.
Okay.
I'm going to change her name from Chelsea to Hotspot.
Hotspot Chelsea. Because you name from Chelsea to Hotspot. Hotspot Chelsea.
Because you only watch her.
What if I go into the shower like it's an emergency?
I don't want to be lingering in there, so I have to get all the zones right away just in case.
Because I've treated it like a fire drill.
No, why are you in a rush? to get all the zones right away just in case because I've treated like a fire drill. No.
Why are you in a rush?
So if I dilly-dally around with my legs and my arms.
You're adding a three-minute time stamp to your shower.
Yeah, I don't like being in the shower for that long.
So that's probably why.
This is so interesting to me because this debate is ongoing.
It is.
It's the one thing.
There's so much that we discuss, but nobody wants to just nip this in the bud. And I think it all goes away. We would
feel more comfortable as a culture if we would just hear some white people say, you know what?
I understand the washcloth and I get it. Okay. If that's what this is about, I'll meet you halfway
and I'll use a washcloth. It doesn't mean I'm going to wash my entire body,
but I will.
I'll start by at least admitting
that the use of the washcloth is important.
And then we can rest there.
And I think we can work on other stuff in steps.
But the double bang of no washcloth
and only hot spots,
that's a lot. That's a lot to digest.
Kevin, I want to thank you for coming over
today. What the fuck, man?
Why are you acting
like that? He's not trying to sleep in the...
He's a dog sniffing
you. Why are you being like that?
It's the way he looks at me while he's doing it.
What's his deal? Confrontational?
You've had a problem with all of my dogs.
Every dog I've had, you're never of my dogs. Every dog I've had
you're never friendly to dogs.
Because they all think
I'm 50 cent.
No.
They don't think you're 50 cent.
They think I'm 50.
Before we wrap
Kevin
what do you say to Gina?
I know Chelsea
you say spray him in the face.
Should Gina spray
her husband in the face?
I want Gina
to fucking get a hobby.
Okay?
I want Gina
I want Gina
to figure out
what else to do during the day
instead of talking to me about the goddamn shower settings
so what do i do do i i mean what do you guys think do i get them back or do i i feel like
it's payback like what what are you talking about like god damn it do you want to switch it yourself
you don't if you know it's there automatically happens usually it's supposed to automate anyway yeah and anyway is right
anyway this is the end of this episode and the episode the episode's title will be called
anyway not to be confused with any ways good night good one good night man i'll see you next week
love you chelsea thank you i love. Thank you. I love you, Kevin.
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