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Minisode: Refresh My Memory with Chelsea + Catherine · Life Will Be the Death of Me with Chelsea Handler

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  Speaker 1: Hi, Catherine, Hi, chelseall y, I'm good. I'm good. I
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  Speaker 1: just read that book James by Perceval Prescott Persivoy, Percival Prescott.
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  Speaker 2: Is that his name that has been everywhere?
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  Speaker 1: Everett Percival Everett ef Yeah, James. It was very should
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  Speaker 1: be required reading. It's an amazing book. You have to
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  Speaker 1: read it, and it really shook me up for a
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  Speaker 1: few days. I think I absorb sometimes I absorb things
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  Speaker 1: so much, like I can't stop thinking about them, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is personal.
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  Speaker 3: Ever, I just double checked and it's like a retelling
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  Speaker 3: of the Huck Finn story right.
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  Speaker 1: From his perspective, from the slave's perspective, so they have
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  Speaker 1: like a guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So it's great.
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  Speaker 1: It takes you through like right before the war broke
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  Speaker 1: out and on the Mississippi River and then kind of
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to escape for his family and he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to get back. It's just it's a saga. It's a
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  Speaker 1: whole saga with Huck Fin involved in it. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a nice retelling. It's beautiful but heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 3: And you do love a retelling of a classic too,
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  Speaker 3: like I know you love Cirrus and those other ones
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  Speaker 3: like yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then I read those women that have that podcast
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  Speaker 1: I've Had It, Those two funny women. I think they
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  Speaker 1: have a great podcast called I've Had It Podcast, which
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  Speaker 1: is there's these two women from Oklahoma, and they have
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  Speaker 1: a new book called Life Is Just a Lazy Season
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  Speaker 1: of Shit Sandwiches. That's a pretty funny book that I
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  Speaker 1: also just read. I'm reading Elizabeth Gilbert's book All the
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  Speaker 1: Way to the River and I'm almost done with that.
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  Speaker 1: That is a beautiful book. Yes, I started reading Demon Copperhead,
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  Speaker 1: but I haven't finished that.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of a hard reause it is.
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  Speaker 1: I brought that to Whistler and I left it there
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  Speaker 1: because I was halfway through and I'm like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to not read this book, but I'm not
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  Speaker 1: finishing this right now, and I had other books to
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  Speaker 1: read for our podcast. So but everyone talks about that
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  Speaker 1: book and it's been on the list for years and
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  Speaker 1: years and years.
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  Speaker 4: And then what about You.
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  Speaker 3: I started out this year reading a bunch of books
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  Speaker 3: that I did not like. I didn't like like the
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  Speaker 3: first five books I read this year, and I realized
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  Speaker 3: it was because they were all from book Talk and
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  Speaker 3: all recommendations from book talk, so I stopped doing that.
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  Speaker 4: But what's wrong with book talk?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just like people read a book and
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  Speaker 3: they feel like they need to recommend it because it's
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  Speaker 3: a thing that they read.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say some books that I have really
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  Speaker 2: really loved this year.
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  Speaker 3: One is called The Reformatory and this is absolutely a
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  Speaker 3: horror novel. But it's written by Tanana Reevedo, and it's
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  Speaker 3: all about like Jim Crow South and a boy's reformatory, which,
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  Speaker 3: of course, like all kinds of terrible things happen, but
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  Speaker 3: she is a student of horror and weaves in all
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  Speaker 3: these different elements like there are there's like a spiritual
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  Speaker 3: aspect and a ghost aspect and like, you know, really
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  Speaker 3: scary adults aspect. I mean, it is one of the
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  Speaker 3: most beautiful books I've ever read. Probably not a great
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  Speaker 3: beat reade, although that's where I read it, but I
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  Speaker 3: loved it. And it was also when I couldn't stop
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  Speaker 3: thinking about And then I just finished reading Lonesome Dove.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember that one went from the Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I read it with my dad because he's like
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  Speaker 3: a big cowboy guy, and I kept seeing it on
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  Speaker 3: all these book tack lists, and that was one that
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  Speaker 3: I can say is totally worth a read. Is It's
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  Speaker 3: pretty long, but you just you are there with the characters.
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  Speaker 3: It's beautifully written. It's so funny throughout and just like
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  Speaker 3: very I mean, you just feel like you're there.
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  Speaker 1: So I also read Bright Young Women, Oh My God
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  Speaker 1: by Jessica Nole.
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  Speaker 3: I read that last year and it's one of the
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  Speaker 3: one of the best books I've ever read.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it.
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  Speaker 4: Remind me what.
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  Speaker 1: That's about and refreshment memory because I'm looking at all
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  Speaker 1: my pictures and I was like, okay, yes, this is
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  Speaker 1: I read this in Whistler and I remind me yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because I was like, you have to read this one.
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  Speaker 2: I saw it around your house.
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  Speaker 3: It is about, oh, yeah, you're the victims of the
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  Speaker 3: serial of a certain serial killer who you do know,
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  Speaker 3: but they don't ever name him in the book.
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  Speaker 2: But he's a real serial killer.
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  Speaker 3: And it is a telling of the stories of some
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  Speaker 3: of his victims and other women who were impacted by
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  Speaker 3: his murders.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, yes, And then I did read here. I
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  Speaker 4: read Beautiful World, Where Are You? By Sally Rudey.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great Oh yeah, she's wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's the other book I read, which isn't
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  Speaker 1: for everyone. It's called hyper Focus, How to Work Less
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  Speaker 1: and Achieve More by Chris Bailey. But that was kind
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  Speaker 1: of just a that's not an escapist book. That's more
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  Speaker 1: of like a functioning book. Yeah, you know, like how
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  Speaker 1: to function. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a like a self healthy sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing though, that you can read an entire
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  Speaker 1: book and forget what the funk it's about.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is amazing, and it's also very true.
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  Speaker 2: It just it just happens. I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 3: I am sad that I spent nine hundred pages reading
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  Speaker 3: Can we ever.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker?
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  Speaker 2: Yes we did, Yeah we did.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I did force myself to read The Mists of Avalon,
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  Speaker 3: which is like way from the eighties, and it's like
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  Speaker 3: a retelling of the Arthurian legends from the women's perspective.
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  Speaker 4: And man Artherian legends.
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  Speaker 2: What are the legends of Arthur?
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  Speaker 4: Who is that arth King Arthur?
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  Speaker 3: And it was it was so boring and nothing happen
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  Speaker 3: in nine hundred pages and the end wasn't even satisfying.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel about Demon Copperhead. It's just like, what
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  Speaker 1: so depressing the subject matter. I hate when there's crystal
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  Speaker 1: meth involved. Yeah, I don't like crystal. I mean there
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  Speaker 1: may as well be. It's like the set. That's the setting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's like a trailer park, and yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: like alcoholism and crystal math.
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  Speaker 4: It's just like I hate that vibe.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I want to be taken away on a journey.
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  Speaker 1: Like the Elizabeth Gilbert book is so beautifully written because
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  Speaker 1: it's about her lover and she finds this love of
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  Speaker 1: her life and and then so she gets diagnosed with
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  Speaker 1: cancer and it's about their last year together and they
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  Speaker 1: had been friends for years, and it's this beautiful Syrian
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  Speaker 1: woman and she's just is like this show. The book
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  Speaker 1: is kind of like an homage to her love and
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  Speaker 1: like how special and vibrant this woman was.
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  Speaker 4: You know, she's so dynamic.
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  Speaker 1: And complicated and complicated and she just like it and
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  Speaker 1: lights up every room she walks into or tears it apart.
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  Speaker 4: So I could relate to that.
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  Speaker 3: One other book that I'll recommend to you and to
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  Speaker 3: the listeners is called Tits Up and it is a
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  Speaker 3: nonfiction book, but it's called Tits Up. What sex Workers,
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  Speaker 3: milk bankers, plastic surgeons, broad designers and witches tell us
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  Speaker 3: about breasts. And it's this woman, Sarah Thornton, and she
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  Speaker 3: had to get a double misstectomy and kind of went
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  Speaker 3: on this like journey to learn everything she cout about
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  Speaker 3: breasts and socially, what the burden of breasts is and
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  Speaker 3: physically and the good.
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  Speaker 2: Things that they do.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was really interesting. I used the book
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  Speaker 3: on tape for that one. He's read by the author
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  Speaker 3: and she was great. So that is one I think
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  Speaker 3: our listeners would enjoy it too.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, great, Well that was a good little book.
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  Speaker 2: Book round up, Book round up. Well are you ready
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  Speaker 2: for a follow up?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: This is from our Penis Toutcher episode Penis What Penis Toucher?
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  Speaker 2: Remember our guy guy.
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  Speaker 3: So I sent her a bunch of recommendations from listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Most of would you tell it?
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  Speaker 1: Also to get a shotgun so the next time he
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  Speaker 1: touches his benis, you can just fucking shoot him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I have a result that's even better than that.
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  Speaker 3: So most of them were about getting different kinds of underwear,
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  Speaker 3: which we talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Janelle said, Duluth Trading Company.
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  Speaker 3: I make special garments for men that have this issue
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  Speaker 3: called bullpin, which I just think these names for these
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  Speaker 3: are hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Dave said, as.
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  Speaker 3: A decently well endowed gay man, I feel this is
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  Speaker 3: my annual good deed for straight men. There are several
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  Speaker 3: companies most popular among gay men that design underwear that
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  Speaker 3: createle all the goodies in a way that keeps them
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  Speaker 3: in a position to avoid the uncomfortable flop to the
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  Speaker 3: wrong side or split down there.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second, I need these underwear. Where do you
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  Speaker 1: have the brand? Can we forget it's again?
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  Speaker 2: So he says. My favorite brand is called Andrew Christian.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Christian, Yes, he said, you'll see on their website
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  Speaker 3: that is heavily marketed toward gay men. But I recommended
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  Speaker 3: them to a bunch of my straight buddies, and not
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  Speaker 3: only do they love them, but so do their partners.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I was at Wimbledon with a friend of mine,
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  Speaker 1: an old friend of mine. His name is Max Eyes
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  Speaker 1: Andbud he works at IMG. I think he runs all
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  Speaker 1: of IMG, like tennis sports whatever. Anyway, he married this
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  Speaker 1: girl that I went to high school with her name
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  Speaker 1: is Farakats. She was the prettiest girl in high school.
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  Speaker 1: Max Eisenbud landed her. He looks like mister potato head.
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  Speaker 1: So the fact that he landed Fara CAATs is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: So whenever I see him, I'm like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe she married you. You know, obviously he
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  Speaker 1: does really well for a living she had. She's divorced.
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  Speaker 1: He's divorced, so they came together and they raised their
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  Speaker 1: kids together. And he's a good husband. I probably probably
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  Speaker 1: not great, but anyway, I was with him during Wimbledon
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  Speaker 1: a lot at the IMG House and I would come
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  Speaker 1: there and when one morning it was very alarming because
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  Speaker 1: he was sitting he posts up in this corner because
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  Speaker 1: he's like the king.
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  Speaker 4: He acts like a king, and his.
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  Speaker 1: Legs are spread open, and I'm like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: your fucking balls are cumongous and spread out.
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  Speaker 4: Max. I'm like, this is so revolting.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, what are you wearing a skirt underneath your pants?
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  Speaker 4: Like what are you doing to.
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  Speaker 2: Contain your balls? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: And he's like, I don't know, just a really big balls.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, but you need to contain them.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm like whatever you're doing, you need to get
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  Speaker 1: a pair of underwear that embrace them, that wrap them
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  Speaker 1: up and split them so that one is on one
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  Speaker 1: side and one is on the other side, and that
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  Speaker 1: none of them are shooting down like a barrel.
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  Speaker 2: No, you shouldn't be seeing that. I don't understand.
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  Speaker 4: And boxer shorts are not. That's not underwear.
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  Speaker 1: That is not As you get older, you need to
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  Speaker 1: reel them in and you need to contain them. You
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  Speaker 1: can't just let them go. Yeah, I mean, what is
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  Speaker 1: the point of boxer shorts. I don't understand. They're not
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  Speaker 1: doing anything.
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  Speaker 2: Keep you away from your jeans, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: And the man not for the outsiders.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we need something for the outsiders, people who are
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  Speaker 1: viewing you. If you're gonna sit there with your legs
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  Speaker 1: wide open, then you need to contain your balls in
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  Speaker 1: some sort of net situation.
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  Speaker 4: So can you please forward the company to Karen so
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  Speaker 4: she can order Max Eyes and Bud. Let me tell Karen, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Andrew Christian and he says one of the
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  Speaker 3: collections is called Trophy Boy, So that is what we'll
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  Speaker 3: buy for Max Eies and Bud.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, let me just send Karen a voice memo Karen,
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  Speaker 1: Catherine sending you a link for these underpants. Can you
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  Speaker 1: get like a pack for max eies and budd at
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  Speaker 1: a IMG and send them to him from Chelsea. Make
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  Speaker 1: sure there are like six or seven of pairs, like
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  Speaker 1: a variety pack.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you a week Day of the Week pack.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And so I sent these along to Janet, who's Bill's wife,
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  Speaker 3: and she said, Hi, Catherine, I'm humbled by this advice
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  Speaker 3: and wonderful community.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for forwarding the advice. FYI.
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  Speaker 3: Whenever Bill adjusts himself and doesn't realize it, my code
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  Speaker 3: word for him now is Chelsea.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's that's really heartwarming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. I thought that was great.
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  Speaker 4: I love entering marriages like in a confrontational way. I'm
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  Speaker 4: also keeping marriages together. Yeah you know, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 4: that we're helping them.
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  Speaker 3: We split people up when they should be split up,
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  Speaker 3: and then we be getting together when they.
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  Speaker 4: Should be well, wrapping up. This is us wrapping up
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  Speaker 4: by guys. We'll see you like.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I added a second show in West Hampton August twenty first.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm performing in West Hampton and August twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: I'm performing in West Hampton. So go to Chelseahandler dot
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  Speaker 1: com to get your tickets.
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  Speaker 5: So I added a couple of new day I'm not
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  Speaker 5: on tour yet, but I added a couple of dates
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  Speaker 5: just because I felt like we need a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more laughter and a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: Medicine for the end of the year.
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  Speaker 5: And I was wrapping things up, but I thought, maybe
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  Speaker 5: let me do a couple more. So I'm adding three
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  Speaker 5: more dates in addition to my Vegas residency, I'm doing
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  Speaker 5: Westhampton Beach August twenty first, I'm headlining the Rochester Fringe
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  Speaker 5: Comedy Festival September thirteenth, and I will be in Napa
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  Speaker 5: on October.
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  Speaker 2: Third, So those will be my last dates.
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  Speaker 5: Of the year.
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