Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - "Huge Skulls Chat" (w/ Michelle Collins)

Episode Date: April 10, 2024

Matt & Bow are thrilled to welcome Michelle Collins back to Las Cultch and deeply thankful their relationship recovered from the loss of the Amsterdam live show audio. Thanks be to God, as we now ...have this episode, wherein the girls discuss developing immunity to hot people in Amsterdam, Vegas, The View, Nicholas Galitzine, and "what's in my bag?" culture. All this, Drag Race BTS, current Bravo thoughts, and a discussion on what Miami is all about. Go get tickets to see Michelle's BIG NATURAL tour! Portland! Talking to you...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Real Housewives of New York City are back for another bite of the Big Apple. Look who it is. Joined by elite new friends. Rebecca Minkoff. Have you ever heard of her? But things could change in a New York Minute. She had this wild night and ended up getting pregnant by some other guy. What?
Starting point is 00:00:19 You told her? Not today, Satan. Not today. The Real Housewives of New York City. All new Tuesdays at 9 on Bravo or stream it on City TV+. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, five-year-old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez was found off the coast of Florida. And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba? Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to
Starting point is 00:00:46 take his son with him. Or stay with his relatives in Miami? Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And T and I have no problem going there. Listen to Levels to This with Cheryl Swoops and Tarika Foster-Brasby, an iHeart Women's Sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Look, man. Oh, I see.
Starting point is 00:01:44 Wow. Bowen, look over there. Wow. Is that culture? Yes. Oh, I see. Wow. Bowen, look over there. Wow. Is that culture? Yes. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Las Culturistas.
Starting point is 00:01:52 Ding dong. Las Culturistas calling. Well, another episode. Can we just quickly mention, and I would love to know more about your time on RuPaul's Drag Race. Oh, this semifinal episode, which is, I guess, what we're calling it now. We've never called it that before, except now. This is the BTS tea.
Starting point is 00:02:12 So Joel Kim Booster had guest judged like a week and a half before me. And then literally I was recording my album in L.A. And they reach out and they're like, can Matt come literally tomorrow to do something? And I was like, OK, maybe they had a guest judge come out. They said, it's not judging. It is something else, but it's a big part of the episode. So I said to Joel, I was like, how many girls were there when you were there?
Starting point is 00:02:34 He was like seven. So I was like, oh, that feels like there might be very few girls there. So I get there. I'm essentially doing the Tic Tac lunch. I was going to say, which is such a huge supplanting of such an iconic thing.
Starting point is 00:02:50 But I think this is my girl being so undeniably good and talented and charming. I didn't miss it. I didn't miss the Tic Tac lunch. This is why it works as a thing that's not the TikTok lunch, because with Rue or Michelle, there's a guard up,
Starting point is 00:03:08 whereas I got immediately that they were talking to me like one of the girls. And so I sat down and literally it was so funny. I get there and I go to my trailer and there's probably about 90 minutes to go before we tape. And they go, OK, here are their books And here's an info sheet about all of them. And I was like, what? They're books. What did you read? Because you seemed pretty up to speed,
Starting point is 00:03:31 but how much did they write and how much did you read? So they each wrote like two essays each. The materials that they gave me, what I was surmising was that they had to write two, I guess, contrasting essays that said something about them. What it seemed like was write one funny one and one more vulnerable one. Great. It was all like that, except for Plain Jane's, who kind of were both more...
Starting point is 00:03:54 Sardonic. Karma comedy forward. Yeah. And so it was a lot, though. I was excited and it felt like I had homework, but in a fun way. So get to the runway do the four interviews i will say what you saw on tv was pretty much the way it felt in the rooms great outside of the fact that i'm surprised that play and jane got such negative critiques
Starting point is 00:04:16 and if i had something to say about all four of them it was just like safira's star quality is like through the roof the roof. Like, she has so much, like, gravitas, and she so clearly knows herself, and I was so impressed with her. Nymphaea, I walked away, and the producers were literally like, she's never even used that tone of voice before. This was huge. Like, she never opens up.
Starting point is 00:04:37 She's goofy. As we can see on the show, that's kind of been true. Plane felt like... One of the girls? One of our friends. Like, yeah, it was just kind of, like, very normal felt like one of the girls, one of our friends. Like, yeah, it was just kind of like very normal. And then Q was great.
Starting point is 00:04:48 But the fact that there's the top three that there is, I'm not surprised. Oh, it had nothing really to do with Q. It just had to do with the three of them feeling like the three. And I was really happy with how it went. And I'm so happy that it was positive and everyone looked really great coming out of it.
Starting point is 00:05:03 And it was so fun. And you were just so good at facilitating that. Yeah. It seems like maybe in the edit, they had you set a trap for Jane when you move for plane, when you didn't really, that wasn't the plan. I would like to clear this up. That is not a, there was no traps being set for plane. I was having a lot of fun with plane and we actually had probably the most casual conversation out of the four of us because we had a lot of back and forth planes. Essay was called being a bitch can be an act of kindness.
Starting point is 00:05:33 So I asked a pretty simple question off that, which is how have you been a bitch as an act of kindness in the competition? It's not a trap. If it was the name of her essay, you know what I mean? Like totally. And I think that I had tons of positive things to say about my time with plane, competition. It's not a trap if it was the name of her essay. You know what I mean? Like, and I think that I had tons of positive things to say about my time with plane, but the clip they showed was if an interviewer asks you to be shady, you don't have to be shady, which is true. It's
Starting point is 00:05:55 something that everyone's had to learn. Like anyone that does any interviewing or, you know, any like, you know, pop culture discussion or talk about other people on a platform, there's always going to be the opportunity to say something uncouth. You just can't take the opportunity all the time, which maybe is useful for playing to learn. You know what I mean? Sure.
Starting point is 00:06:16 She's on a journey of self-discovery, as we can tell, and we wish her the best. We wish all top three queens the best as they head into the grand finale. But, oh, we also wanted to say, or I didn't tell you about this, Beau, but I feel like we should announce this. So readers, Katie's publicist finalists will remember that we have upcoming our big 400th episode. It's where we will have the iconic 400, the iconic 400 people of culture.
Starting point is 00:06:46 It will be one of our biggest episodes yet. Maybe the biggest episode yet. Here's the thing. We are well past our 400th episode. We forgot. We missed it. We, I think on episode like 407 or 408, 409, we missed it.
Starting point is 00:07:03 We did not do it, but we will. We missed it, but we will. And we will get to 2013. We've just had a lot of culture and a lot of business to take care of. Please listen when we say that we are designating the iconic 400 episodes, plural, because it will be multiple episodes.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Hear that. That will be the time to celebrate 400 episodes of Lost Cult. Yes, it's coming. The nominations for the Culture Awards are coming. It's a big time in Lost Culture lore. It really is. It's a big time in Lost Culture lore. I mean, Lost Culture was on
Starting point is 00:07:34 Drag Race. Like, they said the words Lost Culture reached us on Drag Race. Hello. Hello. I was gagged. We've sold out our show. You know what I mean? Like, the Culture Awards are sold out. Thank you all so much for being so excited. Thank you for being excited. We are looking into a live stream
Starting point is 00:07:49 option. We really want to make sure everyone can watch this. We're so sorry if that process was stressful for anyone, but we're so excited to see you all there in any capacity, virtually, spatially. It'll be great. Speaking of a big time in Lost Culture lore,
Starting point is 00:08:05 speaking of Lost Culture lore in general. Yes, there are some things. Our guest is deeply woven into that tapestry. 100%. This is a figure in Lost Culture, in the larger picture that is Lost Culture. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I think when the aliens in decades to come
Starting point is 00:08:24 find the artifact that is last coach they're gonna be like this was a podcast hosted by michelle collins and if they find a huge skull if they open the trunk and it's my skull i'm gonna be so mad it's just a huge skull they're like it's mish what are you talking about huge skull and they're gonna go stop it now so basically what had happened was we went to amsterdam and literally one of the only reasons why we even did a show in amsterdam was because our guest today lives there and we thought what a fun opportunity to do a great live show with our guest and get it on tape and bring it back to the States.
Starting point is 00:09:06 That did not happen. That did not happen because I'm just going to say the venue lost the audio. And then our guest didn't believe us and thought there was a conspiracy. No, Michelle, we can show you the emails. We were like, what are you talking about? And this is like a pretty, this is a great storied venue.
Starting point is 00:09:22 And they somehow didn't get their stuff together to like record like live audio, which no problem. It's, it's hard. It's things happen. It's things happen.
Starting point is 00:09:32 We're not, we're a little bit peeved because it was a great episode. It was the funniest I've ever been, but it's completely fine. You know, I'll never reach those heights again, but it's fine. It's okay.
Starting point is 00:09:44 Afterwards. I was like, Michelle thinks that we thought she was funnier than us. And so we tossed the episode. Not at all. I was like, maybe she thinks because you didn't. I don't think so, honey. That was controversial, to say the least. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:56 And then I thought I think she thinks we quote unquote lost the audio because we didn't want that on there. But now we're setting you free. We want you to do whatever you want to do. Let me tell you, since the honeymooners, I don't think an episode has been lost of anything. Okay. The last lost episode was the fucking honeymooners and now lost culture recess.
Starting point is 00:10:16 And I had my worst ASOS dress on. I was feeling cute. Actually, just the other day, I was walking with friends of mine and most of my listeners, because I have a show, just the other day, I was walking with friends of mine. And, you know, most of my listeners, because I have a show, the Michelle Collins show. I'll plug away. It's fine.
Starting point is 00:10:31 And this is Michelle Collins, by the way. But welcome to the pod. Michelle Collins. Fine. Lose that too. Who cares? Cut that out. Cut the name.
Starting point is 00:10:38 Bleed my name. This whole thing is going. This is already marked for deletion. I was walking through like town with my friends and the two coolest Dutch people I've ever laid eyes on they were so dressed so cool they were young like Gen Zers and they went Dutch they went Michelle and my friends
Starting point is 00:10:58 thought they knew like that we were friends I would never have such cool friends no offense to them but I was like yes and they go oh we're fans could not have said it in a bigger throwaway way, yes. And they go, oh, we're fans. Could not have said it in a bigger throwaway way, but like I loved it. They're like, yeah, we're fans. We saw you at Las Culturistas. And I thought, oh, two people who witnessed the famed
Starting point is 00:11:14 Las Culturistas, right? So anyway, but I had the best time with you. Thank you for asking me. Listen, it was so much fun. Who cares? We had a blast. We had a blast. And then we had a lovely boat ride the next day, the day before. That was so fun.
Starting point is 00:11:30 Remember the boat? Remember our sea captain who looked like they scraped him off of the side of one of the wooden posts? He was so weathered and hot. Wait, why do I remember him being hot though? He was very weathered. Remember? That'll do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm saying
Starting point is 00:11:45 he was like a... Yeah. When a Dutch man is rugged, it's a complex flavor profile. Do you know what I mean? Sometimes you don't expect these Dutch guys to be sort of dressed down, not really giving a fuck.
Starting point is 00:12:01 I don't know. He was cool but he was Dutch hot in a way that I am not accustomed to. That's my thing. This is the problem, having lived here a year, is that when I first moved here, my eyes were shining with how hot the people here were. It was upsetting.
Starting point is 00:12:18 You know, coming from New York, where you feel physically sick looking at people after, what, 15, 20 minutes? Do you want to throw up? I got here and i was like i thought oh my god i these are the best looking slim fit they and they all dress down that's the thing that there's no there are no gown shops in town if actually i'm going to send you the instagram account of this woman who sells like high-end clothes who genuinely looks like tan mom and she's the most elegant woman in the Netherlands. Like I can't even tell you,
Starting point is 00:12:45 but after being here a year, my eyes are basically, how do I put it? It's like, you know, the Eddie Murphy joke where when you eat Ritz every day, you grow accustomed to it. Like I'm so used to how hot the people here are. Right. I'm like immune to it in a way.
Starting point is 00:13:00 And then now I'm also starting to see the ugliness as well because I've been here so long that, you know, I always liken people to kind of like animals so there are like a lot of frog faces here a lot of like wide set pug eyes anyway they love me I'm a huge hit and I can't wait for the government
Starting point is 00:13:15 to hear this when my visa renewal is up anyway the government of Amsterdam the government of Amsterdam is that the one it is I guess the Netherlands the government of Amsterdam the Amsterdam that the one it is? I guess the Netherlands. The government of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam government is coming for us all. The only reason why I did my I don't think so, honey,
Starting point is 00:13:31 about this very lovable personality is because I've never heard anyone, rightfully so, say a bad word about her. And she is. And of course, I adore her too, the most talented person on earth. So it felt fun and really dangerous. After someone from the audience, I'm not going to say who and really dangerous after someone from the audience.
Starting point is 00:13:45 I'm not going to say who everyone knows someone from the audience screamed her name out and Matt refused to do it. And then I scrapped my plan and I thought I'm going to do it. Cause that's just funny. In the meantime, since that she's looks incredible. Her show is like number one. I mean,
Starting point is 00:13:59 it's just, I think it's because of me. I think that I, so basically Michelle, do you want to say what your I Don't Think So Honey was about? Yeah, I do. And I hope she hears this
Starting point is 00:14:08 because I'm a fan. I wanted to know and I'm happy that we lost the episode. It was about Kelly Clarkson. A moment like this is Kelly Clarkson. You know, my whole thing, which I'll say here and I'll say to her face,
Starting point is 00:14:20 is you're already the most talented singer. Why are you stealing food out of my mouth in the daytime talk show circuit? You know, there's only like seven chairs open. That I'll stick to. That's the same with Jennifer Hudson. All these singers that they're- Andrew Barrymore too.
Starting point is 00:14:35 What do you make of Sherry? Because Sherry was technically sort of in that, you know, milieu for a little bit and then kind of re-returned. Well, I don't have any opinions about any former Vue co-hosts personally. So I wish her the best. I don't really know Sherry well.
Starting point is 00:14:50 Her training jumped out. Hold on, hold on a second. Michelle, I marvel at the fact that you are so, and can I just say like classy and you have been so respectful about commenting on The View. From where I see it, it seems like you have such restraint. And I feel like, and please don't take this the wrong way, what we love about you is that you can just talk and talk and talk.
Starting point is 00:15:22 You have the gift of gab. You are unfiltered. So I find it so interesting and complex and beautiful that you have really... I'm not asking. I'm not teasing anything out of you. No, I'll say something. I'm just saying that's amazing.
Starting point is 00:15:35 Oh, tease it. I've got tickets to a tour to sell. It's called the Big Natural Tour. You can buy tickets. I may bring the view up on stage. And I'll say this about it. And maybe this is like a good teaser to get people to buy tickets by the way I sing in the show
Starting point is 00:15:48 I love it I really hope you guys can come if you have the chance but I'll say this I have bitten my tongue about a lot of the things that went on there I think partially due to light PTSD and then just also being raised
Starting point is 00:16:04 in a family home where we took the high road. It was just not, you know, I find it ugly. And frankly, you know, it took me a long time to kind of come to terms with the fact that it was
Starting point is 00:16:14 and still is the biggest thing I've really ever done and allowed me the opportunity to gain fans. I had the serious show, you know, all these things happened because of that. So I can't spit,
Starting point is 00:16:23 you know, where I came from. But I'll add that it does frustrate me a hair that i have behaved so well and then this show has absolutely never invited me back they've never they have a podcast they've never asked me back and matt i know you were so sweet about me on that show and that meant the world to me by the way i always go out of my way to say you're one of the lost great hosts of that show. You are. Another lost thing. No, I just mean that you were this great host on it
Starting point is 00:16:52 and it feels like what you said, it feels like that era kind of gets lost. You know what I mean? Me and Raven and Candice. I mean, I love them, but what frustrates me is like, okay, I'm playing the game and Kelly. Oh, who
Starting point is 00:17:10 was on? It was, oh no, Paula. I don't even remember. There were like 17 people, but it bothers me that I played the game right and then I'm not rewarded a little bit. You know what I mean? They asked me, I'll tell this much, for the 25th anniversary season, they did reach out to me. It was the first time I had heard from them. Are you getting a little gossip?
Starting point is 00:17:25 See, it's fun. I got to sell tickets, people. I'm telling you, Michelle Collins, live, the big natural tour,
Starting point is 00:17:31 big natural tour, singular, because it's big natural. So one big one, 25th anniversary, they reached out to me. I was very open to it. You know,
Starting point is 00:17:40 the negative feelings or what have you, which one day I'll write about in a book after they have me on, I have buried. So I thought, okay, they said, hey, can you do an intro? We're going to do all the hosts in the 25th anniversary intro. So this is, by the way, one of the worst stories ever because I sound horrible, but I was in Paris. The lights
Starting point is 00:17:57 go out. It's lost again. And my friend, I said, this is so fabulous. We're at the Eiffel Tower. I know. It's like a wonder they lost it again. That's so weird, Michelle. We can't reschedule. I'm like, it's amazing you don't have me back on. I'm in an ermine coat.
Starting point is 00:18:15 I have a crown on. I'm like, I don't know why they won't have me back. No, but anyway, there was an Eiffel Tower behind me. An Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower. And there was one of them. You've been. An Eiffel Tower, the Eiffel Tower. And there was one of them. You've been. An Eiffel Tower.
Starting point is 00:18:29 You've been. You know how it is. Don't tell anyone. And I was like, oh, this is fabulous. And so we shot for like an hour of me going, walk into the, you know, whatever the thing was that they wanted me to say. And I really wanted to look good in it, et cetera.
Starting point is 00:18:43 Send it in. And you know, I don't watch the show. To be fair, I didn't watch it before I was on it I always say I watched it when I was literally on it like on so anyway uh then the show the premiere comes out and I swear they put me in I'm trying to think what's the tiniest three by three pixel square on an HDTV you couldn't see it looked like I was in front of an antenna in Schenectady. Tiny Skull. Oh, finally. That's the one gift.
Starting point is 00:19:12 That's the tour name. Tiny Skull. And I was like, okay, you know, whatever. I wasn't bitter about it. Because what are they going to do, feature me? I was on the show for like six months, you know? So fine. But then that whole season, I thought, you know what?
Starting point is 00:19:23 It's shitty. And I'll just say it. It isn't nice. It's like, listen, I exist, you know, and I've played the game, thought you know what it's shitty and i'll just say it it is it isn't nice it's like listen i exist you know and i've played the game but now i guess i don't have to anymore so that's exciting thanks no now now it's now it's it's off to the races now that you're getting dangerous now they're gonna want you back because the show lacks danger now i will say that yeah the show since the show has become, we're five moderate women. You know what I mean? It's just kind of like, it lacks a little bit of that energy.
Starting point is 00:19:50 You know who tries to start mess is Sunny. But because she's the only one trying to start mess, and also it's kind of just funny when she does, because you can see her rev up and deliver, and it's just like, you don't believe this. You know what I mean? Like she was like, well,
Starting point is 00:20:07 I think a woman should be able to kill her husband if she cheats. And we're like, no, you don't. Oh my God. And then all of a sudden, like Alyssa, Alyssa Farrah Griffin on the show,
Starting point is 00:20:18 like suddenly turned a corner and is like life likable queen. And you're like, wait, what? Hold on one second. They were all, they were all so sweet when I went there, but there is an element of,
Starting point is 00:20:29 let's call it that quality that the view has where it can get dangerous when you're watching it, which is missing, which I can't tell if I miss or whatever. But like you said, you don't watch it. I really don't. I watch Price is Right every damn day. My brother gave me his direct TV.
Starting point is 00:20:43 Another host I'm not crazy about, Drew Carey, but we'll take it. I love my games. I love my games. I can't help it. No, I don't watch it. But you know what? Listen, if I reached out to my friend who works there being like, hey, I'm in town next week to do some promotion, you know, but I think that they really do want to forget about Candace Raven and I. And, you know, they never talk about Rosie Perez. She was on the season before me and we crossed over a little bit. But yeah, they never, remember there's just a couple of people that it's like, you know, we were on, we were on the,
Starting point is 00:21:18 you had a confetti cannon go off when I got hired. Do you remember? You know? Do you think it's like that time politically was so, like, it feels so foreign like Trump just
Starting point is 00:21:29 starting out or like, like the beginning of all of that feels so far away that there's like the distance is, is the focal point
Starting point is 00:21:39 is so like fucked up and all over the place. Maybe that's it. I don't think it's on you guys. Oh no. Listen, I personally think that there were so many things going on behind the scenes with the producers
Starting point is 00:21:49 that we were just sort of, what's the word in war? There's a word for when people just die. Casualties. Friendly fire. Unfriendly fire. We were just, the collateral maybe is the word I'm looking for. They didn't care. It okay next we gotta bring other people in so it's fine you know listen
Starting point is 00:22:09 i'm grateful i rented you know when i moved up back from l.a to new york to do the show i was so sure that this was like my longtime big break that i rented the nicest apartment my joke is that i came back in the coming to america limos like I was just like, I'm so rich now. I'm on ABC and I rented a two bedroom, huge apartment at Columbus Circle. Like who do I think I am? A two year lease. You thought you were a corporate media girly. CMG.
Starting point is 00:22:36 And now I wear threadbare dresses with hot pink bras on. Okay, this is what happens. Anyway, that's a lesson to you kids out there. When you get hired for daytime TV, get a studio. What were you going to say? Get a studio. It's the Big Natural Tour. Thank you for sharing that.
Starting point is 00:22:59 The Real Housewives of New York City are back for another bite of the Big Apple. Look who it is. Joined by elite new friends. Rebecca Minkoff. Have you ever heard of her? But things could change in a New York Minute. She had this wild night and ended up getting pregnant by some other guy.
Starting point is 00:23:15 What? You told her? Not today, Satan. Not today. The Real Housewives of New York City. All new Tuesdays at 9 on Bravo or stream it on City TV+. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose.
Starting point is 00:23:29 My latest episode is with Jelly Roll. This episode is one of the most honest and raw interviews I've ever had. We go deep into Jelly Roll's life story from being in and out of prison from the age of 13 to being one of today's biggest artists. We talk about guilt, shame, body image, and huge life transformations. I was a desperate delusional dreamer and the desperate part got me in a lot of trouble. I encourage delusional dreamers. Be a delusional dreamer. Just don't be a desperate delusional dreamer. I just had such an anger. I was just so mad at life. Everything that wasn't right was everybody's fault but mine. I had such a victim
Starting point is 00:24:03 mentality. I took zero accountability for anything in my life. I was the kid that if you asked what happened, I immediately started with everything but me. It took years for me to break that, like years of work. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust me, you won't want to miss this one. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean. He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere.
Starting point is 00:24:46 Elian Gonzalez. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with.
Starting point is 00:24:57 His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation. Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, as part of the My Cultura podcast network,
Starting point is 00:25:23 available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You said something before we started recording that you had, one, had a day and two, were just in Germany and that you're not the same. So tell us what happened.
Starting point is 00:25:42 Tell us what happened today and tell us what happened in Germany. Today, I just worked all day and that alone was traumatizing for me because that never happens. Like when I'm working from like 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. I don't remember the last time that's happened. So I really worked hard.
Starting point is 00:25:55 I went to Frankfurt last week. Thanks, Bobo. You were so great on the show, by the way. The two of you were just, can I say how proud I am of the two of you? Is that, I really mean it. I sound like your mom. But I just am like, look at my boys thrive and it's the of you? Is that, I really mean it. I sound like your mom, but I just am like,
Starting point is 00:26:07 look at my boys thrive. And it's the best feeling in the world. I really mean it. You know, you're our favorite. It means everything to our face. Honestly, I will say it, it truly was like, there was only so many ways to communicate. The episode was truly lost. And the fact that you, for even one second,
Starting point is 00:26:22 thought that we would like ever not use even a second of time we would like ever not use a even a second of time we had with you was like i just wanted you to know like that that was legitimately what happened and it was very embarrassing and like so anyway listen i don't even remember that night was so fun it felt like a fever we had a blast it was just we went on vacation with you and we loved it by the way i'm going to greece in June. Please come because right now it's just me, which if you know Mykonos, it's not the vibe. It might be
Starting point is 00:26:50 the vibe though. You might be the queen. It could happen actually. Well, I went last week. I don't know if you know the podcaster, Laura Shane Hall. She does the Sexy Unique podcast. Very, very funny. Yes, of course. She's great. She and her family friend
Starting point is 00:27:05 were in germany and i thought oh all because i live in amsterdam let me go to germany i figured what's the worst that can happen i just watched zone of interest by the way anyway i got on a train to listen it was supposed to be did you watch it have you seen it i can't no wait yeah i i did i did i just it was hard yeah Yeah. Very hard. Everyone said, everyone who told me to see you in a theater are my enemies. And by the way, this is, no,
Starting point is 00:27:29 because if I had sat in a theater with those sound effects going off. I know. One way ticket to the loony bin for me. I don't think you know how sensitive I am. Because they usually give a round trip. There's all this material and more in the lost episode again my funniest show ever you really were tearing it up this was like it's not that good um i got a one-way ticket to
Starting point is 00:27:57 frankfurt four hours it actually relates to zone of interest hear me out four hours from amsterdam to i'm telling you i can make that joke amsterdam to frankfurt get on the train at 8 a.m looking good i woke up i like to wake up early and pack in the morning do my makeup i really never know i'm always in first class on the train because it's like an extra ten dollars but then you can like kick dirt in people's faces i'm kidding i'm kidding you know you can speed past people like i love doing that so anyway already there was an issue with the train we had to take a connecting okay no problem I'm kidding. You know, you can speed past people. Like I love doing that. So anyway, already there was an issue with the train.
Starting point is 00:28:27 We had to take a connecting. Okay, no problem. Get on a new track. We're on the train for about an hour. I'm doing work for the show, believe it or not. And we come to a halt, a grinding halt.
Starting point is 00:28:36 We're stopped for about an hour to two hours. And in German, they keep coming over the loudspeaker, which again, not a safe feeling for me. And they're like, uh, uh,
Starting point is 00:28:44 hello. Um, we have some power lines on the track. We are going to try. It's a safety issue. We cannot do anything about it. We have buses going to take you to Dusseldorf. I was supposed to be in Frankfurt by now. I'm going to fast forward. I now am sitting on the floor of a bus. I have pictures
Starting point is 00:29:00 with the road next to me. Hold on. Now they take us to Dusseldorf to get a train. Get on that train. I actually meet some very lovely Dutch people. We're like all kibitzing about the stress of it all, right? And train comes to a stop again and I'm looking on my phone on the app
Starting point is 00:29:16 and I'm like, this is weird. It says it's not stopping in Cologne. Do you want to know why? The one day that I decide, I swear on my life to go to Germany. Do you know what they found on right near the train station? A world war two aerial bomb that hadn't been detonated. Please listen to me.
Starting point is 00:29:36 They found a world. They unearthed. They're like, Oh, Michelle's here. Perfect. Unearthed. Oh,
Starting point is 00:29:44 big skull. OBS. Perfect. They unearthed old big skull OBS. Perfect. They unearthed a torpedo or some shit and they couldn't have the trains go by because they're afraid that the vibration of the train is going to set off this bomb. So it wasn't a power line issue. It was. It was two things.
Starting point is 00:29:59 First the power line, then the bomb. End of story. I ended up with my big ass bag. You know, I always take a lot of shit with me in a place called Koblenz, which I was rotting in this piss stinking train station for two hours. And then right as I'm getting on the train, I see a guy with the most beautiful TK Maxx bag and I missed it. I didn't get
Starting point is 00:30:15 to go. This is not a good story. Anyway, it took me 11 hours to get into town. I'm just saying next time I go to Germany, they're still finding bombs on the ground. Jesus Christ. Isn't that wild? It's not funny, but interesting. And it did relate to Zone of Interest. How do we use it?
Starting point is 00:30:32 You were like, it relates to Zone of Interest, I promise. It's a World War II bomb. Yeah, it's a bomb. It's Zone of Interest. That's unbelievable. I know. We went to Berlin right after Amsterdam. We saw you. Did we go from Amsterdam to Berlin right after Amsterdam We saw you Did we go from Amsterdam to Berlin?
Starting point is 00:30:48 Was Berlin our last stop, Beau? We did Berlin It doesn't matter Anyway, it's very somber The first time you go, there it is There's this very intense feeling you have to get over The wall, there's an energy Once you get over it, you're fine
Starting point is 00:31:04 And then it's a fun, lovely, great city. We had an amazing time. We went and smoked weed on the floor with peaches at a bar. It was incredible. That's like it. But like there's a heaviness at first. Gravitas. There's a gravitas.
Starting point is 00:31:15 But you're right. There is a feeling when you get into a town like that. And it is depressing. The worst place where I feel and it's actually for the opposite reason. Have you ever been to Vienna, Austria? No, it's actually for the opposite reason. Have you ever been to Vienna, Austria? No. It's too pretty? Exactly.
Starting point is 00:31:28 Vienna has the opposite thing where it's so pristine and so beautiful. There was not an overlook or a balcony in that town where I couldn't see you-know-who giving a major speech. Every balcony, I'm going, well, it was like my mind was like AI-ing him into every little nook and cranny in Vienna. So I might just need help.
Starting point is 00:31:47 But yeah, it's, listen, I love Germany. I actually like Germany. Munich, I love. If you've ever been, it's a beautiful place. You know. Well, again, funniest episode. Similar of the year. You have to bring this stuff up in the 400.
Starting point is 00:32:02 Clip this part. But you're so nice to have me back I really appreciate it people still talk about someone spilled sauce I was just gonna say that's one of our most famous most notable episodes of all time when Michelle told the story about getting into an elevator and spilling I guess ponzu sauce all over
Starting point is 00:32:22 the floor and Leah Michelle walked in and Michelle told her spilling, I guess, ponzu sauce all over the floor and Leah Michelle walked in. At the BevMo. Yep. And Leah Michelle walked in and Michelle told her someone spilled sauce. It was me. But she gave me such a dirty look that
Starting point is 00:32:35 I didn't know what, her boyfriend was very friendly and then she looked at me so dirty. But you have to understand that that elevator, just want to make it known because anyone who's been to LA needs to know that it's where the crazy rock and sushi is. That's their house sauce. It's ponzu really mixed with some sesame oil if we're going to go there, but there's a Target, a
Starting point is 00:32:52 BevMo. That same elevator and I think I told this on your show as well, was where one time I was by myself going to Target and a guy who had white out contacts with flops came up to me. Are you scared? What'd he say? Are you going to cry? oh are you gonna cry so i had that haunted elevator for me it's one of the reasons i left la i'm not even joking like
Starting point is 00:33:14 right unfortunately the state of the world is shit yeah so it's just a reflection of kind of what's happening all over it's happening in miami i mean it's happening everywhere uh cost of living being insane. I just, I mean, Bowen, you, what about the girls getting punched? Well, you know, they think that that was like a Reddit conspiracy with those punching ladies. Yeah, because they never found the guy, right? Well, they think it was more than one guy.
Starting point is 00:33:36 And that it was like a Reddit thread where they said, go in this area and punch these ladies. But somehow, amazingly, Bethany got herself involved, which is a really good gift. I mean, she had to figure out. So how did that happen? Because I heard about Bethany getting in the mix,
Starting point is 00:33:50 but I didn't bother finding out how. I mean, she just was like, I got punched. You know, something like some tics. She said, but it was months ago. And I'm thinking that tracks, she probably did, but I don't think it's related to this. Right, right, right. think it's related to this. Right, right, right.
Starting point is 00:34:09 I just keep my head down. I don't know if that's, I don't know if that's like, I don't know what that means. But I just kind of like go to the train, take it to work. I thankfully, the train pulls right into my office. I don't have to step back outside in order to go inside another building. So I feel like I have a pretty myopic view and scope of the city, but I I'm, I'm having an okay time here. The weather's getting nice.
Starting point is 00:34:34 Do you go to the restaurants below Rockefeller center? Are you in town? No, they're nice. They're nice. We're going to Del Frisco's baby. Come on. Hold on.
Starting point is 00:34:43 Can we, I'm about to, I don't think so. Honey, Del Frisco's, which one? The grill? Cause there's two Del Frisco's. Oh, Come on. Hold on. Can we, I'm about to, I don't think so, honey. Del Frisco's. Which one? The grill? No.
Starting point is 00:34:46 Because there's two Del Frisco's. Oh, all I don't think. Which one? The one that's by Rock Center or the one that's by Sirius? There's the Del Frisco's. Oh, the one by Sirius. No, there's the one by Sirius,
Starting point is 00:34:56 which is. I never go. You never go. No. People from the office get delivery from Del Frisco's at Rock Center all the time. There's a place called Jupiter. That's great.
Starting point is 00:35:06 We go to Rock sometimes. I can tell Matt's. They have these like cheeseburger egg rolls. Oh my God. I know. Tell you something about Del Fresco's. When I work at Sirius, I used to go there. I used to go there.
Starting point is 00:35:23 There's a bartender who works there. You probably know him. He kind of has like a skeletor energy he's like a bald big Irishman the skeleton and skull imagery on this episode is out of bounds he's very like hot squidward no because he's bald but he has like
Starting point is 00:35:41 the dents on the side you know he's like a slimmer guy Irish I've never I don't know if anyone on this planet hates me more than this man I've never had because he's bald, but he has like the dents on the side. You know, he's like a slimmer guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Irish. I've never, I don't know if anyone on this planet hates me more than this man. I've never had someone be so mean to me when I show up. Like the water always smells like dog. But the only reason why I used to go there is because they had a seared tuna sashimi salad
Starting point is 00:35:59 that I loved. And it was like $37. It was three chunks of sashims, some, you know, wonton strips you know like real dumb bitch food like dumb yeah and i loved it and i went there last time with my friend lucas and we sat at the bar which i love to sit at the bar anywhere i go i love a bar i want to be in the mix love to look at everyone yeah cool girl vibes the ultimate cool girl vibes. I'm at the bar. You can talk to me. I'm watching. I'm watching people.
Starting point is 00:36:27 It's the best. And also as a tall person I can like stretch my legs out. You know, it just gives me room to breathe. Anyway, I open the menu. Guess what? No sashimi tuna salad on the menu any longer. And I called Tristan, I don't know his name, over.
Starting point is 00:36:44 And I said, I said, Trist, I don't know his name, over. And I said, I said, Trist, what's with the, what's with the lack of the sesame salad? My favorite item's not on the menu. My number one item isn't on the menu. And he said they were bought
Starting point is 00:36:57 by another restaurant group ever since they sold us to fill in the blank. I don't know who it was. He's like, so they've made some decisions and they took the salad off the menu and we left and we went instead we laughed i'm not eating fucking cheeseburger egg rolls no offense so we laughed i can barely squeeze into my ribbed dress as it is and we went to uh oceania what is that place? That's another Jesus. Ocean Prime? No. No, it's the one also in Sirius building. Yeah, yeah. And we went there
Starting point is 00:37:28 and I had like a $97 like scrimp. I don't even know. The whole town is upside down. I had to leave. Right. This was the last time you were in New York? Or no? This was a while ago. This was a month and a half ago. A month and a half ago. Yeah. And so you're like, oh, this city
Starting point is 00:37:44 is in the toilet. That's when I decided to leave. When I saw that the tuna salad was off the menu, that's when I found out. You were like, this isn't my city anymore. I don't recognize this place. I just want to make it clear to everyone as well, now that we're airing our, like, doing our, like, ombudsman segment,
Starting point is 00:38:00 I left New York not because of the crime, but because I had a bathroom that wouldn't not be brown. The grout, the tiling. This was my breaking point moment. I had two. One was I got stuck in the elevator at the Clark Street stop on the 23 train.
Starting point is 00:38:16 You had a huge famous stop. One of the great stops. No, that's a terrible stop. It's horrible. One of the great stops. There's no stairway to get up. And I got in that elevator and I swear to God, it was like the casting team from the bus from Speed
Starting point is 00:38:29 had put everyone on that elevator. It was like unorthodox Jew, like a guy with a whale spear. I was like, what is happening? The casting team from the bus from Speed. It was like everyone motherfucker was on it. And I looked around me like, okay, this town still has it. And then it got stuck and we were stuck on that elevator.
Starting point is 00:38:51 And I had an anxiety attack seriously where I was like, of course, I had never had claustrophobia in my life. And you're in an elevator and you're underground. Like that's underground hell with genuinely with central casting. And I thought, okay, not city's not for me and then i was away for a bit in a very nice modern bathroom came back to my uptown apartment and i had a very lovely apartment i had a great deal on it even though i think there was mold in the ceiling and i was seeing stars every morning when i woke up great deal it was definitely like
Starting point is 00:39:23 mold there was 100 mold in the ceiling in this apartment. I don't want to shout out the address, but anyway, my bathroom. First of all, I had that coffin shaped tub, which I hate. You know, they have, why did they do that? Why do they shave some tubs like coffins? The shape of the middle. Fill your fantasy. Wait, that's funny.
Starting point is 00:39:41 And then the tile was so old, Tylee Minogue. And I looked up and I saw the grout and it didn't matter. I could get on my hands and knees scrubbing it with a toothbrush and toothpaste and it was not going to not be brown. And the brown grout, how now brown grout,
Starting point is 00:39:58 is what got me out of that. Okay, so that's where you're at with New York. What about Miami? What about Florida in general as having grown up there? Funny you bring it up because truth be told, if I do end up moving back to the US,
Starting point is 00:40:10 now listen, I say this about New York. It would be Miami. So many people are doing Miami. I know. Yeah, yeah. I would move back to New York for the right job, you know, obviously network TV
Starting point is 00:40:20 in a second, but Miami's fine. Listen, great shopping. If a single person is debating moving there, if you're a straight woman, you have to really be comfortable with the idea of dating Pitbull. If that is something that you're a fan of,
Starting point is 00:40:34 and he's the best smelling celebrity I've ever met for the record. No one smells better than Pitbull. Oh, I believe it. And lovely, sweet as pie. But the styling of Pitbull, that whole, that kind of a vibe, that has to be your thing if you're going to move there.
Starting point is 00:40:48 We're going to call it a Miami aesthetic. Yeah. A flow, literally a flow rider man. Yep. Florida man is actually flow rider man. A flow rider man. That's actually a big distinction because you can have Florida man
Starting point is 00:41:03 walking around really any part of the country, but a flow rider man is all over. A flow rider man is Florida specific. That's actually a big distinction. Because you can have Florida man walking around really any part of the country. But a flowrider man is all over. Flowrider man is Florida specific. Yes. Specific. Yeah, I probably would. Do you guys ever go down there? We should do a little trip.
Starting point is 00:41:14 We went down there for New Year's. Two New Year's ago. And it was fun. We were just like all over the place and so I need to go back there and we were like in an Airbnb and I think Miami is a place where you gotta be in a nice swanky hotel
Starting point is 00:41:33 I think I've been to Miami for the last time really? stop why? I don't enjoy here's the thing it lives in a thing for me where it's like, it feels like you can go and you want to be relaxing, but also be like turned on if you want to,
Starting point is 00:41:52 like in terms of the nightlife, it's just a little too much of both. It's a little too, it's just the energy is too high for me. Even if you're relaxing, quote unquote, you still have to dial into it in such a crazy way. I don't know. It's just,
Starting point is 00:42:07 there comes a point at night where things turn in Miami and it just goes, I think I've not outgrown it, but like, it's just not the way I would choose to vacation. And if I'm ever going to Miami, it would be that. So I don't know. I have something to say.
Starting point is 00:42:20 Go ahead. Much like we are stereotyping Los Angeles and New York, you have seen, and by the way, I left Miami when I just turned 17 because I hated it. So understand, I'm not some God knows what Miami person, but I know that the Miami that you've seen is a very specific part. You've been
Starting point is 00:42:35 to South Beach, I'm assuming, downtown, maybe Design District. There is, you know, you're not wrong. It's a very flashy town. Money is king. Everybody wants to have the most money and look the most expensive. It is a lot. No question about it.
Starting point is 00:42:50 But within the town, you can still find pockets of like good restaurants. Now, especially like a lot of New Yorkers are down there, like Northeast people. I think it's gotten a little bit better, but that is a very touristic thing. Did you drive when you were there or you were there or
Starting point is 00:43:05 you were just taking ubers everywhere we were taking ubers i think i think it would have been a totally different vibe had we been there for longer than it was and it wasn't new year's and we weren't like doing a certain thing you know our best friend jared who's like your biggest fan is also from miami oh no kidding yeah hook us up because i always need more friends down there but every time i come on your show i beg for for friends. What is that? That happened also at the Amsterdam show. Let's unpack that. Forget my name. I'm always like, I need friends.
Starting point is 00:43:29 Fabulous. Let's talk. Let's do it. You have such cool friends though. You have cool friends. When we, speaking of Chaconis, we sat with some swanky, swanky friends. Here I am saying swanky again. What am I?
Starting point is 00:43:40 But then we had a great time with your friends. Also, those Gen Zers who stopped you in the street could have been your friends. We got to start building more bridges. I was attracted to your one. I was hitting it off with your one friend. Kevin. I felt that there was a vibe between us.
Starting point is 00:43:57 I had a good time talking to Ben, right? You guys, come back. Look at me. Come back. And just in case the listener is wondering yes i was sitting alone no i'm joking you know it's literally in the middle of you bring two gays to the show we're like bye bitch i'm sitting with my legs crossed on the ground i don't even have a seat you're like sit there dog i'm like okay i sit on the ground i'm like it's it's fine. I don't mind it. No, they're the best.
Starting point is 00:44:25 I do have very lovely friends here. I'm joking about that. Miami, come back to Miami when it's not New Year's. Here's the thing though, and just on the topic of New Year's, no city that you don't live in, if you're visiting a city on New Year's, you will have a bad time. Period. That's right. It doesn't matter where it is.
Starting point is 00:44:41 Correct. New York is not better. Except this last New Year's where we were in New York, I loved it. We were home matter where it is. Correct. New York is not better. Except this last New Year's where we were in New York, I loved it. We were home. We were working. We were working, but we were just like, it was so, there was no packing within two days. There was no like, okay,
Starting point is 00:44:57 where should we go now? What reservation should we make? There was none of that. There was no itinerary. It was just like, we're home. Everyone come over to my apartment. And we went to Mexico City a couple years ago. I would love to visit Mexico City when it's not New Year's. Becca Ramos,
Starting point is 00:45:14 producer Becca says, New Year's Eve house party is the best way to go. Period. I do want to say, however, that I had one of my best New Year's in Las Vegas many years ago. Vegas is actually fun in New Year's because what I love many years ago. Oh, my friend and I, Vegas is actually fun in New Year's because what I love about Vegas, many people hate it.
Starting point is 00:45:29 It's whatever you want it to be. I say, so if you want to be like a dumb slut, great. If you want to just gamble, drink, have a good dinner somewhere, see a nice show.
Starting point is 00:45:38 It is what you want, which is nice. Yeah. We had the best fucking time in Vegas. We met people. We had, um, big martinis at the Petrosian Bar in the Bellagio Hotel. We saw Celine Dion.
Starting point is 00:45:48 So Celine, God bless her. We saw Celine. Then we went and watched fireworks over the strip and I bought these like $2 light up Minnie Mouse ears that when I put them on my scalp, it felt like my entire body was getting electrocuted. Anyone you know this feeling? Anyway, it was fabulous, fabulous.
Starting point is 00:46:04 So Vegas actually can be well because vegas can't turn up more than it's already turned up you know what i mean so it's like it's already operating at a new year's eve energy literally 365 days a year 366 on the leap and so on like any given day you can have that experience and so it doesn't feel like you have to like adjust to anything because you're just like, this is Vegas. Right. Yeah. I've never been to Mexico City, though. We should all go do a live show there. We should all go.
Starting point is 00:46:36 The Real Housewives of New York City are back for another bite of the Big Apple. Look who it is. Joined by elite new friends. Rebecca Minkoff. Have you ever heard of her? But things could change in a New York Minute. She had this wild night and ended up
Starting point is 00:46:52 getting pregnant by some other guy. What? You've told her? Not today, Satan. Not today. The Real Housewives of New York City. All new Tuesdays at 9 on Bravo or stream it on City TV+. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose. My latest episode is with Jelly Roll.
Starting point is 00:47:11 This episode is one of the most honest and raw interviews I've ever had. We go deep into Jelly Roll's life story from being in and out of prison from the age of 13 to being one of today's biggest artists. We talk about guilt, shame, body image, and huge life transformations. I was a desperate delusional dreamer and the desperate part got me in a lot of trouble. I encourage delusional dreamers. Be a delusional dreamer. Just don't be a desperate delusional dreamer. I just had such an anger. I was just so mad at life. Everything that wasn't right was everybody's fault but mine. I had such a victim mentality. I took zero accountability for anything in my life. I was the kid that if you asked what happened, I immediately started with everything but me. It took years for me to break that, like years of work.
Starting point is 00:47:56 Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust me, you won't want to miss this one. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean. He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba.
Starting point is 00:48:40 Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation. Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Michelle, what are your hopes and dreams for the summer?
Starting point is 00:49:13 Besides Greece, are you going to Greece? So I have a lot coming up, actually. So, okay, tour first, even though it's not technically summer. Where are you touring and when is it? Okay, big natural tour. So it starts on April 23rd. We're doing Atlanta, Town Hall in New York,
Starting point is 00:49:28 the Savant Theater in Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon in a big theater, the Aladdin Theater, then Philly, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. And Boston is sold out already. Where are you playing in Chicago? City Winery. Oh, fun.
Starting point is 00:49:42 Cute, cute venue. Should be fun. But yeah, if you live in LA or New York, definitely, definitely get a ticket. The other shows are like nearly sold out, but LA and New York are the big venues and Portland, Oregon. So we have special guests, Brian Soffie, Daniel Schneider, Mamrie Hart. Yes. I don't know if you'll let me say, but Kat Cohen in New York
Starting point is 00:49:58 is going to be there. Oh, great. Yes. It's going to be fun. Perfect. Wait, I wanted to say, I played at the Aladdin Theater in Portland it's such a funny vibe because you get there and it looks like a high school auditorium and you're like there's no way my agent had been like yeah this venue
Starting point is 00:50:14 is great man they're gonna love you man and then I was like I get there and I'm like huh it's like very Portland vibes that venue turns all the way up like it fills up and you're like, oh my God. Like I remember before I got on stage,
Starting point is 00:50:29 it was one vibe. And then I got on stage and I was like, hold on, wait, this is one of the fun shows. Like it really, really, really was great. I really liked that theater. I happen to love Portland. You're going to have a fun time there. Brian Safi is coming with me to that show.
Starting point is 00:50:43 And I'll add, I just need people to buy tickets for that show because I think I know like seven people there. They're so sleepy there. Portland sales are slow but they will come. When Matt and I did I Don't Think So Honey as a tour there in Portland, that was the first show and it was
Starting point is 00:50:57 I think one of my favorite shows. It was. It was great. And then I remember I got such a bad taste in my mouth about Seattle going forward because we performed the very first time that Bowen and I toured for I Don't Think So Honey. We took it around the country. This was a whole different era. We went to Seattle and we played at an all ages, no alcohol venue. And Discovery Zone.
Starting point is 00:51:22 What was it? We were opening a Discovery Zone what was it we were opening a Discovery Zone but then I was like it was the most silent I think it was the most silent comedy show I've ever but did you redeem it with have you heard of Christmas though one of my favorite cities by far
Starting point is 00:51:40 to perform in Seattle having heard of Christmas I did the Moore Theater by far to perform in Seattle. Having heard of Christmas, I did the Moore Theater last time, which is a little bit bigger. And then before that, I did the Neptune, which I'm going back to this year. Spoiler alert.
Starting point is 00:51:54 Such good energy. Seattle fucking rocks. I love Seattle. You know, I've never been to Seattle and I have a friend here who's from there who was like, you need to perform because of the best crowds. Literally just last week, we were talking about it. I should add one last thing which is also a spoiler because I'm also doing Five Nights in London
Starting point is 00:52:10 at the end of June. At the Soho Theater. The best. Tickets will be on sale this week. We're going to announce it officially but I'll give you the scoop that's happening I think June 25th through the 29th. Oh that's so great. I'm excited. The best area, best theater, June 25th through the 29th. Oh, that's so great. Yeah, I'm excited.
Starting point is 00:52:25 There's just the best area, best theater, best vibes. Oh, man, that's so great. I'm really excited. I hope you can come for it. Then we're all going to Greece, the three of us, to Mykonos. I don't know what I'm doing this summer. I want to like go, you know, I went on a cruise last summer with my parents
Starting point is 00:52:39 because again, like the friends are just knocking the door down. So I went to Iceland and to Norway with my parents. And I have to tell you, I feel like I'm coming off as the worst version of myself. Like I love Vegas. I had a great time on a cruise, but genuinely I had fun on that cruise. And I won't do it again.
Starting point is 00:52:55 Just saying. The people watching, you are basically on an insane asylum at sea. So everyone is drunk. Everyone's just like horrible in their own kind of ways. Some people are fun. You can sometimes meet fun people wait we saw there was a singer on the boat who this is a really funny quick story that you'll die so we there is a singer that they build as like being the most not michael crawford but he was like the second most performing phantom of
Starting point is 00:53:19 all time in phantom of the opera i don't remember his name. And so we love Phantom. So my parents and I, we go, we hobble down to the theater to see this guy and he gets up and he sings two songs from Phantom of the Opera to the sequel. And then he spent the rest
Starting point is 00:53:34 of the show singing like Queen songs. So I have video, which I actually am going to show in my show of my mother just fuming in her seat. She's like so pissed.
Starting point is 00:53:42 She can't stand him. The next day, elevator doors open. Who walks up? But this guy, he's like, I think Welsh and he's got this big stomach and he walks out. And my mom goes, oh, I'm so sorry. Are you the singer from the show? Oh no. Oh no.
Starting point is 00:53:57 You're dying. I'm at this point, honey, I shrunk the kids. It's the witches. There's green smoke coming out of my jacket. I'm not even alive it's just I'm a little rat in like a dress and she goes are you the singer
Starting point is 00:54:11 from last night and he goes why yes I am you know very proud of himself I am ready to receive a compliment yeah and she goes just wondering why you chose to sing Phantom of the Opera 2 when they're billing you as phantom 1 and also you sang like he sang a song from oliver which is i guess is like my dad's favorite
Starting point is 00:54:33 musical but he sang like one of the worst songs from oliver that had my dad's seething so then she goes and why of all the songs in oliver that you could have chosen? Why did you? I mean, I'm like this. It was like the Jack Nicholson movie. It was shining. It was shining. It was the shining. As good as it gets. She was in the back wearing glasses and
Starting point is 00:54:57 my mom was Greg Kinnear and then I was the dog. My mom was Greg Kinnear. Second time you've designated yourself as a dog for this episode. Really? I was that little Brussels Griffon or whatever the fuck they're called. Anyway, so that was that.
Starting point is 00:55:14 I had the best time on that boat. If that guy is listening, I'm so sorry. I'm not proud of her behavior. She's a monster. Anyway, she'll be one of the shows. Talk about your mom because I want to know about her takes recently because I know she always has pop culture takes like you sometimes post the emails you get from her i just want to know like what's up what's what's mom thinking doing saying lately mom is upset you know i do a weekly episode because i have a patreon with the show and once a week my mom and i do an
Starting point is 00:55:37 hour for the highest bidder uh at patreon.com slash mish call. It sounds like an old defense, but no. No to the people who pay the most. But she's really big on Deal or No Deal Island. Like this is her new favorite show. Oh yeah, this is like taking over. Yeah. Yeah. It's on NBC too, I think they're showing it there. She loves the traitors like everyone does.
Starting point is 00:56:00 You know what she's obsessed with, which I haven't watched yet? Survivor Australia. She found- Oh, it's the best. 100%. How do you watch it? Because she watches it on something called SouthHemmyTV.com. But if I have to hear her say this again, I'm going to like end it all. She's like, well, my SouthHemmyTV.com. I'm like, stop. They did have it at one point on Paramount Plus.
Starting point is 00:56:23 And they don't anymore. But there was one iconic season that they had of Survivor Australia. It was like, I guess maybe it was season four or something. I don't even want to say who won it because I would like people to find it. But someone that's on Australian Traders season two was also on this season of Survivor. By the way, I want to say, Australian Traders Season 1 is, I'm going to call it the pinnacle of reality television.
Starting point is 00:56:53 I think it is the single greatest reality TV season of all time in a competitive sense. Australian Traders Season 2 The worst. is the worst thing you could ever watch. It honestly becomes more of a comedy. So bad that they canceled it. And the worst thing you could ever watch. It honestly becomes more of a comedy. So bad that they cancelled it. And the whole thing was cancelled.
Starting point is 00:57:09 Did they? Yeah. The Australian version? No kidding because I watched that too. One was very good. Unreal. Is the guy you're talking about that hot as shit giant guy with a beard? Luke. I had to look him up. There's a guy who was on Survivor Australia who was like, I think we're Instagram friends. It was a guy who was on Survivor Australia who was like, I think
Starting point is 00:57:25 we're Instagram friends. It doesn't matter. Anyway, it doesn't matter. But yeah, he was, I think, on one of these other reality shows. Anyway. The cast of Australian Survivor at any given time is it is a collection of the hottest people in the world. And I can't say that about the American version.
Starting point is 00:57:42 But this Survivor, by the way, I'm sorry, this season is really sucking. I watched Survivor, you know that. It sucks. It's not good. It's a sit. It's a sit. What's sit? It's long. They're long episodes. You gotta sit for them. I'll say this. Last
Starting point is 00:57:57 season was excellent and it also really only got really good around episode 6, 7. We're at that point now where they've merged in this season, and I feel like it's going to get more interesting. But I will say the boogers that they cast that you had to get through in the beginning, it's actually some of the worst gameplay I've seen in decades on the show. like I'm 90 years old and it feels like there hasn't been this level of A super fan and B horse shit gameplay at the same time
Starting point is 00:58:32 to where I'm like we gotta stop with the toxic positivity and casting here there is a casting issue and like I understand if people are excited but there was a do you remember Banu do I remember Banu he's's here. He's on his knees here.
Starting point is 00:58:47 He said, your dog's sick. That was a low point in reality television. There was a second where I thought Banu was hot, but then it got too much. He was photogenic and handsome. Yeah. But then it got to be a lot.
Starting point is 00:59:06 Mish, what does mom think about the Kate Middleton stuff does she have an opinion oh man there was a moment where I was worried for myself not her because I knew that I had joined like K-Anon like whatever the QAnon version of the Kate Middleton conspiracy theories I'm one of the few people still on X and I feel
Starting point is 00:59:22 it being very a really slippery slope with things like this because people are still very funny on X and I feel it being very, a really slippery slope with things like this because people are still very funny on X. Like the tweets are hilarious and then they're engaging. And so when people are pointing at all these conspiracy theories, it's fun. You're like, wow, this was before the video. But then even with that video, people saying her eyelid is, you know, glitching out and her shark teeth and the ring and all this stuff and it's tough to not watch it back and be like are they right am i you know i don't know i think that they could have avoided all of this by just being a little bit more transparent in the beginning because something that happened that i think to be honest with you i don't think they hated was the fact that there was all of this
Starting point is 00:59:58 like craziness online and that went on for a very long time. And of course, like she is deserving of her privacy and also deserving of the time it takes to figure out what really is going on. Because, you know, when you get a diagnosis like that, or you think you're getting a diagnosis like that, you also want to make sure that you have all the information and that you have a plan and stuff. But the fact is like, we can't act like she's not one of the most famous people in the world. You know what I mean? And so especially when you doctor a photo and when you do all these things, it's like they didn't help themselves there. And I will stand and say they have the worst PR in the world.
Starting point is 01:00:37 And I think that the if there was any inappropriateness that went on in terms of the discourse about what she was going through, they did not help themselves there. And I'm not talking about William and Kate. I'm talking about the machine around them that did not create a positive, healthy space for her. And I also say that taking accountability for the way everyone talked about it, but then only to be chastised after the video comes out. It's like,
Starting point is 01:01:03 well, you kind of ginned up this fervor around it that didn't have to exist. I would agree. My thing is that hot guy, Thomas, I forget his last name, who died, that young guy, who died supposedly from,
Starting point is 01:01:20 I mean, it supposedly was a gunshot wound, I guess. It kind of never fully, I guess, came out what did it. But then when they said the rifle, it supposedly was a gunshot wound, I guess. It kind of never fully, I guess, came out what did it. But then when they said the rifle, it sounded like one of the Looney Tunes rifles. Something about it also was off to me. And people think that he had like a sharp implement or like that he was bludgeoned,
Starting point is 01:01:37 which is a word I love to say. But there's something with that too. And that's where I started getting into the weeds about was Kate having an affair and what's going on and it just seemed suspicious that all of this was happening at the same time. What can we do to tell you to get off of X? Thomas Kingston. Me?
Starting point is 01:01:54 I need a job. Honestly, outside of what I do, I need to work. I know. Are you off of it? You deleted it? We're off. I mean, I have a porn old. I have one where I just like follow porn. I have one where I just like follow porn accounts I have one where I follow porn stars and rollercoaster construction
Starting point is 01:02:09 my feed is wild you're giving me shit about deleting it why can't I enjoy the things I like if you're enjoying what you like I don't understand why I have to be shamed because I'm not watching like guys jerking off is that okay I mean honestly the tweets or whatever you want to call them I'm not on threads. Every time it's accidentally
Starting point is 01:02:27 opens the seats, the seats. I still love it. People are funnier than ever. I'm sorry. And yes, I do see a lot of horrific things as well. And I immediately block anytime I see something that I'm like crosses a line, they're gone, but it's, it's it's endless unfortunately it's endless no problem no problem at all i feel like i love you the thing is like i feel like i of course want to be on there and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh but i think because there's that context is removed like i can't even engage because people can jerk off to it yeah for'm just saying i can jerk off to lots but you have so many it's like there are only so many things that are funny these days and that's where i find laughter you can jerk off to anything you can go anywhere and find porn so it's funny that
Starting point is 01:03:15 that's the thing that you still are giving them your business with i mean wow is tv comedy that bad like we have to be on x to laugh like nothing out there for day-to-day stuff yeah because we have no blogs anymore you know i'm 100 actually we have no there's nowhere else to go for like hot takes and quick news quick rapid things i don't know i miss gawker every day me too in the interest of like uh you know it's quick takes before we get to i don't think so honey do you have any bravo or housewives takes you have to get off your chest what do you feel about all the recent stuff we're talking what like Summer House I'm watching
Starting point is 01:03:49 I'm liking it whatever we don't so whatever I don't even know what I don't even know what Carl and Lindsay is oh I actually don't you know I watch it again just for there to be sound in my house I don't know how else to put it ASMR Vanderpump is fine I'm not loving this season I don't know how else to put it. ASMR. Vanderpump is fine. I'm not loving
Starting point is 01:04:05 this season. I don't find joy watching it. Really, I'm kind of in a bit of a rut at the moment because Potomac is over. Potomac wasn't great this season. We all know that. What else is on? Jersey starting. I might have to start watching Jersey. I stopped for a while. I'm excited for Jersey.
Starting point is 01:04:21 I guess, you know what I've been re-watching is like season 10 of OC, the Vicky and Brooks of it all. That was the golden age right there. I don't even really know why I asked because we're kind of in the dead zone, but I hope it gets fun again.
Starting point is 01:04:37 You're right. There's nothing on. What do you think about the New York casting? Have they finalized it? I think it's pretty finalized. It's just all the women returning, right? No additions? No additions. Everyone's coming back.
Starting point is 01:04:50 They haven't even said any friends of. It's just the six of them coming back, which I think is the right move. Sure. But that promo of them, like split screen on a vertical video, like, is it there? I like, people have already commented on this
Starting point is 01:05:04 like weeks ago, but like it's, is it there is not enough of a commented on this like weeks ago but like it's is it there is not enough of a thing for that promo to have made sense and what's her face Aaron doesn't know what the hell was going on and continues to suck and as decide like
Starting point is 01:05:19 I'm like I looked at that grid and I was like oh I don't really care about most of these people that's how I feel I want oh, I don't really care about most of these people. That's how I feel. I want to say, I like Erin. Erin is a great vibe in person. I'm sure she's a great vibe in the room. Yeah, but we're not- And she sent me a great bottle of mezcal.
Starting point is 01:05:36 My loyalty can be bought. No, just kidding. By the way, she doesn't bother me to the extent that some people hate her like by the end like aaron at first i had goodwill towards all of them actually and by the end aaron really fucked herself i was like okay and i love how i say like i'm not excited for it i will be drooling for the first episode like i can't wait for it to start so but i did their bravo con panel and i i really so the only one i didn't meet was jenna lyons because she wasn't even at bravo con she didn't step foot
Starting point is 01:06:11 into the arena i guess yeah i don't know for whatever reason but the five of them i really enjoyed actually a lot and it seemed like they were a very cohesive cast and i will say the bravo con audience was going fucking crazy for them. I think that show was a bigger hit than you were supposed to moderate? I was supposed to go to moderate the OC panel. That would have been fun. I booked
Starting point is 01:06:36 my travel. It cost me. I felt like the Monopoly man on the United website. I was like, let's go for it. It was so expensive. And then they were like, oh, we'll reimburse you. And then when I said, hey, because I'm coming from so far away to Vegas, it just didn't work out with the money. They were like, let's go for it. Like it was so expensive. And then they were like, oh, we'll reimburse you. And then when I said, hey, cause I'm coming from so far away to Vegas. It just didn't work out with like the money. They were like, we'll pay for two nights hotel. I was like, and then what am I sleeping
Starting point is 01:06:53 in the Bellagio fountain? Like on the top of the center spout. Like, where am I going after that? Oh, they come on. They could have ponied up for more to get you out there. They could have ponied and they didn't. So I thought, you know what? And I went to Milan instead because again,
Starting point is 01:07:05 I'm relatable. Good for you. Please come to my show. I won't bring up Milan one time. Michelle Collins. Live. Talking about it really well. MichelleCollinsLive.com.
Starting point is 01:07:14 I'm excited for the show. I'm going to sing. I wrote a new parody song for it. I love it. Wait. All right. Well, you know where to get tickets.
Starting point is 01:07:21 We should do Vegas. That's hopefully an easy trip for us, right? 100%. I love Vegas. I will go this easy trip for us, right? A hundred percent. I love Vegas. I will go this summer. The summer sucks. I'll go in the fall.
Starting point is 01:07:31 I'm addicted to Vegas. I literally, I fucking love Vegas. I turn up. You sit in that Bellagio bar, that Petrosian bar. They all know me. I made my first name. And one martini is like $37. They're huge.
Starting point is 01:07:45 You see, when I say every walk of life in that lobby under the truly glass every person every alien every specimen somehow walks rolls their way through and it is the best to me there is no better people watching on the planet than right there
Starting point is 01:08:01 especially during BravoCon by the way the best during BravoCon was like, I stayed at, I forget what I said, Cosmopolitan. And the best was running into the Gorgas and the Foodas. Oh. Just roaring through the lobby.
Starting point is 01:08:18 I loved it. Joe Gorga and John Fuda both stand 4'6". Their wives are 19 feet tall. And just gorgeous and stunning. And just watching them walk through. It's like BravoCon was the best because it was just like mascots everywhere. I was describing it as like you watch Mickey and Donald Duck walk around,
Starting point is 01:08:40 but they actually never take off the masks. You know what I mean? That's just them. Shannon Storm Spador coming up to me saying she's a fan. I'm like, Shannon, you're too never take off the masks. You know what I mean? That's just them. Shannon Storm Spador coming up to me saying she's a fan. I'm like, Shannon, you're too good. That's fun. I was going to ask if Joe Gorga took a picture in the big high heel in the Cosmopolitan lobby.
Starting point is 01:08:53 You know, they have that big high heel you can sit in. That would have been fun. I would have enjoyed that. Cosmo's fun. Listen, it's cheesy. I'm not cheesy like that. I hate fleur-de-lis famously. I don't like swirls. Like there are certain design elements I don't love and that's very Vegas all of those things. It's very Grand Lux
Starting point is 01:09:09 Cafe but I do really lean into that's the Miami Suburban girl in me though. I love things like that. Yeah I mean we connect on that. The Real Housewives of New York City are back for another bite of the Big Apple. Look who it is. Joined by elite new friends.
Starting point is 01:09:31 Rebecca Minkoff. Have you ever heard of her? But things could change in a New York Minute. She had this wild night and ended up getting pregnant by some other guy. What? You told her? Not today, Satan. Not today.
Starting point is 01:09:46 The Real Housewives of New York City, all new Tuesdays at 9 on Bravo or stream it on City TV+. raw interviews I've ever had. We go deep into Jelly Roll's life story from being in and out of prison from the age of 13 to being one of today's biggest artists. We talk about guilt, shame, body image, and huge life transformations. I was a desperate, delusional dreamer, and the desperate part got me in a lot of trouble. I encourage delusional dreamers. Be a delusional dreamer. Just don't be a desperate, delusional dreamer. I just had such an anger. I was just so mad at life. Everything that wasn't right was everybody's fault but mine. I had such a victim mentality. I took zero accountability for anything in my life. I was the kid that if you asked what happened, I immediately started with everything but me. It took years for me to break that, like years of work. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust me, you won't want to miss this one.
Starting point is 01:10:53 On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean. He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere. Elian Gonzalez. Elian Gonzalez. Elian Gonzalez. Elian. Elian.
Starting point is 01:11:14 Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him.. His father in Cuba. Mr. González wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom.
Starting point is 01:11:34 At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation. Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to Chess Piece, the Elian González story, as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, it's time for I Don't Think So Honey. Wouldn't you say, Bo and Yang?
Starting point is 01:12:01 I would say so. Let's do it. All right. So this, of course, is the segment that we do famously on this podcast every single time. And we even do it on Lost episodes. You know, somewhere out there, there exists an I Don't Think So Honey Kelly Clarkson by Michelle Collins. And it will be repeated. We don't know.
Starting point is 01:12:18 Maybe she has new takes. We'll see. But I certainly have a new take. It's as a result of watching and consuming culture and I'm noticing someone is really, really present in the culture right now and I just want to point it out. Okay. This is Matt Rogers. I don't think so,
Starting point is 01:12:33 honey. His time starts now. I don't think so, honey. Nicholas Galatzine logistically. This actor is in every single thing and I don't understand how it actually happens. I am not, I don't think, so honeying him as a talent. I really liked him in Bottoms.
Starting point is 01:12:52 I respect his straight ass being in Red, White, and Royal Blue. I think we need more amazing, talented, straight actors to bring gay sex to the screen. I want to see your takes. But what I really, really don't understand is just logistically how he is the lead in all of these things. All of a sudden it would suggest a couple of things to me. One, that there are no other actors in his demographic and two,
Starting point is 01:13:18 that he is AI. I am here to pitch. I think that Nicholas Galitzine is the first AI actor. I don't actually know any sighting of him in real life. So I am pitching to pitch. I think that Nicholas Galatine is the first AI actor. I don't actually know any sighting of him in real life. So I am pitching this. Nicholas Galatine is AI. If anyone can disprove this, please come forward. But I think we have to watch out for AI Nicholas Galatine.
Starting point is 01:13:37 It's the only explanation for his ubiquity. And that's one minute. The letters are in his name. Listen, you are correct, sir. I don't know. I don't know. I'm like Russell Crowe in what? A Beautiful Mind.
Starting point is 01:13:50 A Beautiful Mind. You're like pop culture Russell Crowe. You're like Russell Crowe in L.A. Confidential. Love that movie, by the way. Am I wrong? This person is suddenly A-list in a way where I'm like, where did this get? What happened to,
Starting point is 01:14:08 whatever happened to it takes 10 years for an overnight success? Yeah. Because I think now it takes one night for an overnight success. It literally is an overnight success. I don't know this person. Okay, you do though.
Starting point is 01:14:19 He's very talented. You've seen him. No, he's, here's the thing. He's good. He's good. And he's also cute. here's the thing he's good he's good and he's also cute but the thing is like it has now become a situation where i don't think anyone else books that's so interesting he's the lead in a romantic comedy with anne hathaway just like straight away you know what i mean like he's like starring opposite jul opposite Julianne Moore in this huge Mary and George
Starting point is 01:14:45 series. These aren't little things. These are him opposite these Oscar-winning actresses in these projects that they're doing, and it's not the first time. There was no on-ramping. It was just straight shot up into the sky.
Starting point is 01:15:01 I think even if it was Red, White, and royal blue, that to me logistically doesn't seem like it could have been the thing because that wasn't that long ago when all these products have become concurrent. It's just like if you look at any given time over the past year and a half, he's been starring
Starting point is 01:15:18 in something major. That it can't have just taken a couple weeks to shoot. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, logistically, I think he has to be artificial intelligence. Because show me him outside of a movie. He's Simone, I'm telling you. Simone.
Starting point is 01:15:34 Simone. I feel like I just looked at him. I'm excited for that Anne Hathaway movie, but I feel like this happens with a lot of actresses too, where all of a sudden I'm being subjected to these young people in general who I've never laid eyes on.
Starting point is 01:15:50 I assume they're like TikTok people because I don't know where else people are discovered these days, but- Industry plant. Industry plant. That's what I'm saying. I agree.
Starting point is 01:15:57 I actually believe deeply in the idea of industry plants. You got one right here. I'm one right here. Oh, you're so lucky. How did I become an industry plant? I know.
Starting point is 01:16:08 I just want to be planted. That's great. People don't suspect a thing. I know. They would if I made it. They'd be like, okay, someone planted her,
Starting point is 01:16:16 I guess. The seed finally grew. Put my stone in dirt. The seed finally grew. No, at this point, at this point for us, they repot us. Go. Yeah. The best is when you do here. I don't know what I'm saying. At this point, for us, they repot us. Go. The best is when you do an interview and the comments are like,
Starting point is 01:16:31 they really are trying to make them happen, huh? Like, oh, God. I don't know. Like, they. It's just so funny. It's just impossible. I mean, this goes back to Matt's whole premise that he made years ago, which is there should be new famous people every, let's say, 10 years.
Starting point is 01:16:50 10, 15 years. Because now what's happening is there is no way for new people to be famous, except if you're a Nicholas Galatine, I guess. But then I also reject that notion a little bit because I'm like, we still have stars. They're just a little bit. It feels like there's more chaff
Starting point is 01:17:08 to sift through. Well, go watch the movie Dune 2. All the movies, literally every new movie star is in that movie. It's Zendaya, Timmy, Florence, and Austin Butler. The four of them. And then I would say outside of that there's like Tom Holland. Like that generation,
Starting point is 01:17:23 and Sidney Sweeney. That generation, we definitely do have movie stars. It's done. We're locked. We're there. And Nicholas Galatstein now. I just didn't see the progression with him. It just felt like it came out of nowhere. Right, right.
Starting point is 01:17:37 And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Because you can sort of track everyone else. He arrived in these huge projects out of nowhere. It's funny. Well, he's gorgeous. Beautiful kid. And he's,
Starting point is 01:17:50 and by the way, chock full of talent. I've never seen him in anything. What a talent, you know? Well, I was watching an interview with Anne Hathaway and she was like, well,
Starting point is 01:17:59 thank God we have Nick. And I was like, Oh wow. Really? You didn't know who this person was. I didn't know who this was. Um, I would say the other guy in rare white and real blue, like, oh, wow. Really? You didn't know who this person was. I didn't know who this was. I would say the other guy in Rare White and Muriel Blue, he, he, I've seen the, the cobblestones laid out for him. You know, like he like took the big, the bit parts and like worked his way up.
Starting point is 01:18:16 Yeah. You know who we should ask? Because he was in Bottoms. We should just flat out ask Rachel Sennett and Ayo if he's AI. Because they can answer it. Because they worked with the AI creation in the film if this is true or they could confirm or deny he
Starting point is 01:18:30 is a living breathing flesh person. Rachel, Ayo, reach out to us and look it's a totally acceptable answer if you're like he is AI but he's so good he's so sweet we're like yeah totally we just have to get to the bottom of like his existential nature you know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:18:45 Listen, we're just two industry plants reaching out to two other industry plants to let us know about this other industry plant. Let us know, girls. Oh, to be planted. Boys, what a blessing on both of your lives, honestly. Seriously. Anyways, so Bo and Yang,
Starting point is 01:19:02 so my phone famously died this morning. No. And I almost overslept so I don't have it with me. You want me to time? Yeah of course. This is good you've earned you've earned this you're now a legendary guest so you can even do the whole thing as a former judge of the culture pageant we'll call it
Starting point is 01:19:18 okay so let me figure out how my timer works it's a stopwatch correct? Oh Jesus. You know what? You know what? Hey, hey, plant one. Keep it down. I got it. Okay. I am not plant one.
Starting point is 01:19:30 Let's be clear. Whatever. You're looking at plant one over there. They said, I guess. I can use the second one. Is that going to be a problem for the recording? Hold on.
Starting point is 01:19:38 We're back. Nothing. You know, I use one of these things. I don't want to talk about it. Cut that out. Here we go. Bowen Yang. I don't think so, honey. I'm one of these things. I don't want to talk about it. Cut that out. Here we go. Bowen Yang. I don't think so, honey.
Starting point is 01:19:47 I'm going to start now. I don't think so, honey. British Vogue. I need more videos of what's in my bag from actresses. I think I don't need to watch any more TV or play any more video games or read any more books. All I need to do for the rest of my life is watch What's In My Bag videos. What is it about these videos that is so soothing? It reveals so much about these people.
Starting point is 01:20:11 It makes them relatable. If we all did a What's In My Bag video, it doesn't matter for what platform, we would have 1 million new fans. These are very effective marketing tools that make me all of a sudden care for fucking Daisy daisy edgar jones that make me think you know maybe maybe emma what's her face maybe hermione is emma watson is a compelling i
Starting point is 01:20:36 can't even remember her name maybe emma watson is a compelling celebrity it makes me really enjoy these people no matter what charlie XCX has an amazing one. Pamela Anderson has such a good one. This is the best media we could ever have come up with in the history of time. And I need more of them. And there's a stoppage. They've stopped making them. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:20:57 And that's one minute. Listen, I think that there is something about the fact that, and tell me if this is true because you do like a product, you know what I'm saying? It's like you, I'm sort of like, there's like one thing in all of those bags where I'm like, I could buy that thing. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:21:17 Like, and I retail therapy famously works. And that's why those things have started to work on me personally is because I'm like, Oh, that's an attainable thing I could do. And if, and essentially they're being sold to us, that's why those things have started to work on me personally is because I'm like, oh, that's an attainable thing I could do. And essentially they're being sold to us. That's really what that shit is. It's like
Starting point is 01:21:29 QVC. I don't know. I don't think so, honey. Like Wirecutter doesn't really get it right all the time. And what is actually more reliable is these What's In My Bag videos where you have someone being like, no, I live and swear by this. This should be the only endorsement that matters. And you believe them because, you know,
Starting point is 01:21:45 I've just changed once again, my I don't think so, honey, based on both of yours. I always do that. Like I have one in mind and I've just changed. I'm going to do a whole new one now because you've inspired me. But I'm going to give kind of an opposite take of you because I guess I'm,
Starting point is 01:21:58 no, I'm not trying to veer away from what you're saying. I just, I'm like a little more skeptical, but maybe because I've been burned. Yes. Okay. It's happened. Oh, I'm like a little more skeptical, but maybe because I've been burned? Yes, okay. It's happened. Oh, I can't wait to hear this. Well, can I also add that I broke when I was going to Frankfurt, Germany
Starting point is 01:22:14 the day they found that bomb. I have a ring cam in my house that the wire was like around this big vase and as I was like running out the door, I tripped on the wire. No. The vase came crashing down. I vacuumed it like running out the door, I tripped on the wire. The vase came crashing down. I vacuumed it up.
Starting point is 01:22:28 There's no question. I have ceramic shards on my feet right now. And just keep in mind, there's no question for the past like 20 minutes. I'm like, oh, when I get up, there's just going to be like Wilson blood prints across the floor. Thanks guys. You get up with a stumpy foot.
Starting point is 01:22:42 Like, ah. We turn and ban ice cream anyway this is so fun we'll see you in Vegas we'll talk we gotta go do the cruise you get up
Starting point is 01:22:49 and like fall over cause your foot is a bloody stump what if my I don't think so honey was about Forrest Gump I'm like Forrest Gump I like
Starting point is 01:22:56 back to the forefront fuck that no to the forefront okay this is Michelle by the way Michelle you look amazing. Do I?
Starting point is 01:23:07 You look radiant. Oh my God, that's really nice. But always. You're so sweet. Wait, can I, I might even just do all three things I wanted to, I don't think so honey, in one. Yes, please, please, please. I think I can get it in.
Starting point is 01:23:16 Do whatever, and there's no time limit for you, honestly, but I'll hold this up. No, that's the fun of it. That's the fun of it. I have an immediate anxiety attack. I'm in the elevator and then it's Clark Street. Okay. No, let's do it. Take it away. I'm ready.
Starting point is 01:23:27 Central casting from speed. The people on the bus from speed. This is Michelle Collins. I don't think so, honey. Her time starts now. Okay. Initially, I don't think so, honey. Theater tickets, aka cabaret tickets. I'm coming to New York for three nights. I decide I'm going to be
Starting point is 01:23:43 chic. I saw it in London. It was fantastic. I said, I'm going to see it again in New York. Cause I love it. And I love the music and the story. And I went on their website and one ticket is 390. Not most expensive ticket. The most expensive is over 600 for one ticket.
Starting point is 01:23:56 It was 399 for like limited view. I want to see for $500 with the fees. I want to see red main head to toe. Sorry. That's how I was really pissed me off. So if anyone's listening in his connections now, but then what I wanted to change for $500 with the fees. I want to see Redmayne head to toe. Sorry. That's how I was really pissed me off. So if anyone's listening in his connections now, but then what I wanted to change it to say, I feel crazy right now.
Starting point is 01:24:10 Micro machines is Bethany Frankel suggestions in her, her influencing because I fell for it. Okay. Well, don't nag me in my own. I'm going to think so, honey. I fell for it.
Starting point is 01:24:21 I thought I will not stand for it. I fell for it because I thought I will not stand for it. And I'm having five seconds. I fell for it because of exactly what you said, that she had something attainable. I'm going to continue. She had something attainable that I thought, I want that. She had Hermes lip oil.
Starting point is 01:24:37 Listen to the dumbest bitch in the world. That would be me. And I'm watching her with her jigsaw face, lathering the lip up with this oil. I said, I need the Hermes lip oil. Only thing I can afford. I go into Hermes in Amsterdam with no makeup on. I look like Trunchbull.
Starting point is 01:24:50 Okay. I walk in. I swear to God, I look like, I don't even know. I don't even want to insult myself, but it was not a good look for me. And I come inside and they were like, can we help? Yeah. Like all rude. First it started where I tried on a pair of shoes that were a little tight a size 42
Starting point is 01:25:05 ladies and the woman there was like oh they're tight what size are they and i went she went she went that's the biggest size we made that happened to me i went you don't think i know that you fucking bitch please okay that was the first neg at aires. Anyway, so that bothered me. And then she did apologize to me because I didn't handle it well. I like walked away silently. You didn't handle it well. I was like, she was like, I'm only a size 36. I said, well, you're five and a half feet fucking tall.
Starting point is 01:25:35 What do you think? You know, I'm big. Leave me out of it. Anyway, I went to buy the lip oil. Hold on. I'm getting fired up. And it was 60 euros. And I thought, all right, it's like one Uber Eats. I'll starve tonight and I'll eat my lip oil hold on i'm getting fired up and it was 60 euros and i thought all right it's like one
Starting point is 01:25:45 uber eats i'll starve tonight and i'll eat my lip oil and i got a table for one that's how much i eat size 42 anyway i get the lip oil cola it was called cola flavor i don't whatever it's like a pink color who knows i put it on first of all packaging this is really and i don't think so honey air mess packaging i'm giving it a three First of all, packaging. This is really an, I don't think so. Honey, Hermes packaging. I'm giving it a three out of 10. Horrible. Worse than wet and wild from fucking Dwayne Reed.
Starting point is 01:26:10 Number one, number two, horrendous packaging. Like the, first of all, it's a glass tube. So anytime you put it down, it's like rolling left and right.
Starting point is 01:26:18 All it's, I'm telling you, I'm the captain in Titanic trying to keep it on the table. That's first. Second of all, just follow along. How many more minutes do I have left? That's a joke. Oh girl. I open it up. Please trying to keep it on the table. That's first. Second of all, just follow along. How many more minutes do I have left? That's a joke. Oh, girl.
Starting point is 01:26:27 I open it up. Please. I open it up. I'll kill you. I'll have you killed. Headed it down. Listen, you deleted the first one that I did. No, you have to keep going. You deleted the first brilliant thing. She still doesn't believe it. You deleted it, she said.
Starting point is 01:26:43 She's still trying to fucking No, no. We are exonerated. She still doesn't believe it. You deleted it, she said. She's still trying to fucking... No, no. We are exonerated. Listen, you are, I know. So wait, so I come home. Second thing. I take this hard, they call it a,
Starting point is 01:26:55 it's like a doe foot applicator. That's what they, that's what Bethany calls it. A doe foot, who knows? Anyway, I take the applicator. It's hard as a rock with this oil. I'm going, huh? I put it on my lips. Y'all, it tasted like hard peppercorns.
Starting point is 01:27:08 Listen to me. This is lip oil. My joke is like cacio e pepe. Like I put it on. I'm going, what is this? You know, you want to taste cherry, floral, something kind of delicious minty. It was Szechuan peppercorn oil. It was Szechuan General Cho's lip oil.
Starting point is 01:27:22 I put it on. That's why Bethany was like, yum, probably your first meal all day. Leave that in. Anyway, so I put it on. And then it tasted so bad. I never use it. Of course,
Starting point is 01:27:37 I can't return it. So I got fucked out of like $70. That's an eighth of my cabaret. And humiliated. Oh my God. So not only can't I afford cabaret tickets, I have an Hermes lip oil I can't even use and I was humiliated about my big fucking feet at that store by that little bitch.
Starting point is 01:27:53 And that's my, I don't think so honey. I was going to talk about my manicure which looks like dentures but no. This is better. I love manicure. And that is four minutes and 27 seconds. I'm leaving in. Every word of it. Every word was perfect.
Starting point is 01:28:10 Oh my God. But I will say, this is not a nag. I do think Bethany on TikTok doing product reviews is a different thing. Why? It is not editorial. What I like about the British Vogue videos, even if it is like,
Starting point is 01:28:23 oh, this person clearly has a deal with Valentino or whatever, I still like watching these people. It doesn't matter that I know them. I just like watching anybody talk. I have gone down a rabbit hole on YouTube of just any old vlogger talking about what's in her bag. I'm like, there's something so soothing and comforting about this. But Bethany reviewing tuna from cans, I'm like, she's something so soothing and comforting about this. But Bethany, like reviewing tuna from cans,
Starting point is 01:28:46 I'm like, she's out of her fucking mind. Listen, anytime she mashes something down with a fork, I'm sick. Anytime she's like the rice cake, she's like, you gotta mash it. She always is using a fork. I've never seen a knife in her house. And there's just, she's a very hard person to watch eat.
Starting point is 01:29:01 But there is, yeah, genuinely, there is something very, I think I may have just recently unfollowed her. There is just something inherently watchable about her. Much like that Bellagio lobby where it's, you know, it's just like, wow,
Starting point is 01:29:14 I can't believe someone is just doing this shit. And truth be told, I do like some of her opinions sometimes on makeup and things like that. I like watching her put the stuff on, what have you. But when she went to that TJ Maxx in the Hamptons to give out her used makeup, that for me was,
Starting point is 01:29:29 that was really a new low in culture and society. I could not. And I'm generous. It wasn't about, it's just the fact that it was used. You want to give them something, you're rich, go to fucking Sephora, buy them gift cards. Don't bring them some half eaten peppercorn lip oil.
Starting point is 01:29:43 Right. I mean, like it's it's like Bethany's reached that point now where it's like broken clock is right twice a day yeah it's like we can totally appreciate specific things about her still
Starting point is 01:29:57 but it's like but I mean I'm like that's not to say that she can't come out of that phase because I feel like now I am personally even though we know what we're getting now with Azalea Banks, it's like, I can totally disagree with her on so many things, but I can, I can agree with her on other things.
Starting point is 01:30:12 And what I love about new is about Azalea Banks is newest takes on cowboy Carter, which she doesn't like for whatever, for all her reasons is we've now found out that she is a huge KT Tunstall fan. She stans KT Tunstall. It's unreal. And it's hilarious. It's amazing.
Starting point is 01:30:31 I am obsessed. The Black Horse and the Cherry Tree was a movement, not a moment. Suddenly I see- That's a rule of culture number eight. Black Horse and the Cherry Tree was a movement, not a moment. Not a moment. Azalea Banks over here talking about how the melody in Suddenly I See is one of the best pop music
Starting point is 01:30:46 melodies ever. I'm like, she's not wrong. She's not wrong. It's crazy to single out that song with Black Horse and the Cherry Tree right there. Even if it weren't by the same artist. Her face is an apple. Suddenly I see. It's literally not even better
Starting point is 01:31:02 than Texas Hold'em's melody. He's right. you're both right i love azalea banks because she's one of the few people now that we don't have poor wendy williams speaking her truth she's one of the only people that is allowed to be truthful does not care about the remonstrations of quote-unquote getting canceled or people not liking her or not getting hired for things she is a free spirit And that to me is so admirable. And we need more of that is the truth. We need to be able to allow people to say shit
Starting point is 01:31:30 without having their throat slit. Totally. And what she's saying about Tyler, the creator, and Lil Nas, I don't totally disagree with either. About how like there is this trope, there is this trope within like gay celebrity culture where it is like, oh, you got to date some like fucking a specific kind of person. Anyway,
Starting point is 01:31:48 that's all. Oh, that's interesting. I love her. I think, I think the fact is like some of her opinions, like, like even if they seem wild,
Starting point is 01:31:59 she will, she will bring out the PowerPoint presentation. You know what I mean? She never just says anything. She's always like, this is why I think this. This is the experience I'm bringing to this. It might be wild. You might not agree with it, but this is my experience.
Starting point is 01:32:14 And I think the fact that we are all so up in arms about someone being like no holds barred in what they think is kind of actually a problem with us and not her. Yes. And she's funny as shit though. She's so goddamn funny. She is a linguist. The words that she chooses,
Starting point is 01:32:30 the rhymes, the things, the puns. My friend Dave and I, we just DM her shit to each other all day and like shoot tears of laughter. I think she's one of the great poets. No, she's one of the great poets. She's genuinely one of the best lyricists of her generation. She has one of the great poets. Genuinely. Genuinely one of the best lyricists of her generation.
Starting point is 01:32:45 She has one of the best Burns roasts, whatever you want to call it, of calling Grimes, of saying that Grimes looks like she smells like a roll of nickels. That is the funniest insult that's ever been written. Yeah. Ever. Anyway.
Starting point is 01:33:01 No, she's, anyway. And one of our best minds is right here with us it's Michelle Collins it's just a full round of applause industry number three boys I first of all thank you so much for having me back on the show after the horrific
Starting point is 01:33:18 loss after we deleted the last episode can you imagine me being so up in arms, but I don't think it's funny. Delete it. That's my allegiance to celebrity is that delete the episode. How dare she?
Starting point is 01:33:32 I don't know. I mean, listen, it was fun, but I just, I drew you both. Nobody makes me laugh like you two. And I know,
Starting point is 01:33:38 I hope one of you can come to one of my damn shows. You're working so much. You're coming. I want to come to, in fact, I'm going to be... When are you in New York? When is that happening? New York show is May 6th is Town Hall
Starting point is 01:33:49 and then LA is April 25th. May 6th? I'm not going to be able to make that. May 6th could happen for me too. It's within the realm. This is really... Don't say it if you don't mean it. So don't say for sure. Let me know. Don't buy tickets. Well, I already said it, Michelle.
Starting point is 01:34:05 So what am I supposed to do? Go back in fucking time? I said it. I'm going to try to be there. Listen, I wanted you on stage, but I'm not going to put that pressure on you. You come in the audience. We'll come. Now I'm like, yeah.
Starting point is 01:34:15 Look at me. Look at me. If you want to get on stage, we'll talk. If you can do it. I am going to try. I am dying to get back to New York sooner than later. And I'll pay you. I'll pay you if you get on that stage. Listen, we'll take all this
Starting point is 01:34:30 business off mic. Seven lip oils. That's it. Okay, great. Take the business off mic. Leave the sin. Leave the sin I want to hold these boys accountable to the fans. I love you both. Thank you for having me. We love you so much. What do you say. Thank you for having me. Love you, Michelle, so much.
Starting point is 01:34:45 What do you say, Bowen? We end every episode with a song. What song? I need you like water Like rain I need you like water From heaven You changed keys in the middle of that. I need you like water from heaven
Starting point is 01:35:06 You changed keys in the middle of that. There's a feeling in your eyes That tells me the truth I need you No, that wasn't even the right words, but Bowen just literally plucked out of obscurity I Need You by Leigh-Anne Rimes, which is a Christian song.
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