Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, Hey fam Today on the bright Side, it's Friday,
Speaker 1: which means we're popping off on some of this week's
Speaker 1: buzziest pop culture moments, and joining us for the entire
Speaker 1: episode is comedian Chelsea Devantis. It's Friday, June fourteenth. I'm
Speaker 1: Simone Boyce.
Speaker 2: I'm Danielle Robe and this is the bright Side from
Speaker 2: Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 3: Danielle.
Speaker 1: We made it to Friday. Here we are happy, Happy Friday.
Speaker 3: We made it.
Speaker 1: I think we need to raise a glass or some lacroix,
Speaker 1: because I mean, we're starting something new today.
Speaker 3: This is really exciting.
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking about the week's biggest moments
Speaker 1: in pop culture and it's something that we're calling popping off.
Speaker 2: So today we're inviting a bright Side bestie to join us,
Speaker 2: and I am making hearthands on the screen because a
Speaker 2: real life bestie of mine is here. She's a comedian,
Speaker 2: she's a TV writer and host of the Glamorous Trash podcast,
Speaker 2: which is one of my favorite pop cast to listen to.
Speaker 2: The hilarious, the very well read Chelsea Davantes.
Speaker 1: Chelsea is an Emmy nominated TV writer who's worked on
Speaker 1: shows like Girls five Eva, We Love and Not Dead Yet.
Speaker 1: She was also the head writer for John Stewart's The
Speaker 1: Problem with John Stewart on Apple TV Plus, and now
Speaker 1: she's making waves with her own memoir titled I Shouldn't
Speaker 1: be telling you this, but I'm going to anyway. Her
Speaker 1: memoir is a series of personal essays that tells the
Speaker 1: story of her upbringing and the trials and tribulations on
Speaker 1: our path to Hollywood.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to hear what she shouldn't be telling us. Chelsea,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the bright Side.
Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you everything because Dara Vesty and
Speaker 4: I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 2: We are so excited to have you. I read the book.
Speaker 2: I read it twice. It's just it's so good. And
Speaker 2: you are a celebrity memoir connoisseur. You've consumed hundreds of
Speaker 2: other women's stories, and now you put your own memoir
Speaker 2: out to the world.
Speaker 3: How's it felt.
Speaker 4: It's wild to talk about memoirs and then have your own,
Speaker 4: and then know that now yours can we talked about.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, whoo, the audacity, the confidence, who is she?
Speaker 4: It's been actually really wonderful. It was really scary. The
Speaker 4: first couple of days we were doing fun book to
Speaker 4: our stuff, but inside I was like, ooh, am I
Speaker 4: gonna throw up.
Speaker 3: Everyone knows everything about me.
Speaker 4: And then after a few days, like this beautiful feeling
Speaker 4: came over me of just like wow, I'm truly myself,
Speaker 4: I'm truly free.
Speaker 1: Wow, you're so brave. I have a vulnerability hangover just
Speaker 1: doing this podcast, so I can't.
Speaker 3: Imagine writing a whole book.
Speaker 1: So before we get into our pop culture kikey, I
Speaker 1: have a question for you, Chelsea. Yes, why did you
Speaker 1: want to tell your own story anyway? And what did
Speaker 1: you gain from this process?
Speaker 4: Really doing my podcast is what made me want to
Speaker 4: tell my own story because on the podcast, I recap
Speaker 4: and discuss women's memoirs all the time, and every time
Speaker 4: I encountered a memoir of this, like very famous woman
Speaker 4: talking about something that I thought was shameful, I felt
Speaker 4: more free, like Debbie Moore finding out her dad is
Speaker 4: not her real dad, or you know, abuse and toxic
Speaker 4: work situations. And then in several of the books they
Speaker 4: wrote like Jane Fonda wrote This, Brandy Carleile, Lonnie Anderson,
Speaker 4: they would write, telling your story will set you free,
Speaker 4: and if you can set yourself free. Your story is
Speaker 4: going to set someone else free too, and so I
Speaker 4: don't think you're ever really ready to tell as much
Speaker 4: as I told, but I believed in getting there, and
Speaker 4: I believed in what it would do for me and
Speaker 4: hopefully anyone who reads it.
Speaker 2: Okay, are you guys ready to pop off? We got
Speaker 2: things to talk about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's pop off. This is what I live for, Chelsea.
Speaker 2: I know every week you do a roundup on your Instagram,
Speaker 2: so this is right up your alley. The first story
Speaker 2: I want to bring up is something I've been personally
Speaker 2: very connected to. Rumors have been swirling about the status
Speaker 2: of Jennifer Lopez ben Affleck's relationship, and I think we
Speaker 2: have to back up to get the full scope on
Speaker 2: this because in February, Jennifer put out her movie This
Speaker 2: Is Me Now. She invested twenty million dollars of her
Speaker 2: own money, and this is when the internet started talking
Speaker 2: because people were saying it was unhinged. I watched it,
Speaker 2: I sort of agree. However, there was a companion documentary
Speaker 2: in which we saw ben Affleck appear. People on the
Speaker 2: Internet started talking again, and she kept calling it the
Speaker 2: greatest love story never told except for she was telling it,
Speaker 2: so the people started talking again, and then it just
Speaker 2: got out of hand. TikTok started talking about like all
Speaker 2: these bad encounters that they've had with j Low over
Speaker 2: the last thirty years. And fast forward, she cancels her tour.
Speaker 2: She and Ben are quietly selling their house, and I
Speaker 2: just feel like the media coverage has been brutally unfair.
Speaker 2: They keep saying it's like her and her ambition, but
Speaker 2: now everybody agrees.
Speaker 3: Tell me what you all think. First off, I need
Speaker 3: them to stay together.
Speaker 4: So everything I say here today it's not like my
Speaker 4: perfect projection. It's just what I want deeply inside. Because
Speaker 4: you cannot put out your love story in the way
Speaker 4: that she did and break up immediately.
Speaker 3: You both are.
Speaker 4: Actors, pretend two more years, two more years on the books.
Speaker 4: Absolutely not, You're not doing this. And also I can
Speaker 4: totally see how it goes to hating it on j Loo. First,
Speaker 4: we love to hate on women who have ambition, women
Speaker 4: at all, and she's been married several times, and she
Speaker 4: was so intense on talking about it while including clips
Speaker 4: from Ben saying please don't make this public. However, we
Speaker 4: are all forgetting the Ben has that Phoenix back, tattoo on.
Speaker 3: Us back, you us make good decisions side there. Okay, key,
Speaker 3: if you've never seen that tattoo, pull your car over,
Speaker 3: give it a Google. You're gonna lose your minds. So
Speaker 3: it's definitely I wish we were evening out a criticisms.
Speaker 1: I think the answer here is she just needs to
Speaker 1: be more private about her love life, Like they were
Speaker 1: clearly intentional about being out and about being in a
Speaker 1: position to be photographed. If your relationships are this short
Speaker 1: lived or tumultuous and you don't want to butt up
Speaker 1: against this criticism from everyone, why not just be more private.
Speaker 1: It feels like she's just way overexposed.
Speaker 2: Jane Fonda was trying to tell her that in the documentary.
Speaker 3: She didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 4: She was, but you know what, since Jlo is like, no,
Speaker 4: I need to make a movie, I need to post
Speaker 4: about it, then you have to be honest.
Speaker 3: I think that's why people are because she's.
Speaker 4: Trying to do vague little touches on this love story.
Speaker 3: But she just be honest.
Speaker 4: You called off your wedding three days before your marriage.
Speaker 4: That means the dubs were booked. They were in the
Speaker 4: cage and then you called your wedding off. How does
Speaker 4: someone reconnect twenty years later and instead it's like rose
Speaker 4: petals and symbols, and it's like, be honest, because you
Speaker 4: definitely can't fake authenticity, especially not in this moment.
Speaker 3: I think she keeps trying to.
Speaker 2: I think you're probably right. I'm going to tell a
Speaker 2: quick little j Loo story. So I worked at Entertainment
Speaker 2: Tonight online years ago, and they have these incredible catalogs
Speaker 2: of old interviews, like because they've been, you know, the
Speaker 2: gold standard of entertainment news for a long time. And
Speaker 2: so I had like the late shift, and I would
Speaker 2: stay late after I worked and just watch all of
Speaker 2: these old interviews with celebrities. And I've always loved j
Speaker 2: Lo and so I would watch, you know, hours of.
Speaker 3: Jay Loo interviews.
Speaker 2: There are interviews of her from back in the day
Speaker 2: talking about how she got the movie Selena, and her
Speaker 2: old agent is actually on camera saying that Jlo could
Speaker 2: never take the sort of like easy road. She had
Speaker 2: to do like five auditions to get Selena, and at
Speaker 2: the end they called her and they were like, we
Speaker 2: need you to do one final thing, and she did it,
Speaker 2: and she finally got the part and the agent called
Speaker 2: her and was like, it never just like comes to you,
Speaker 2: and we all think it does because she's so beautiful
Speaker 2: and all the things, but like she actually such a
Speaker 2: hard worker, so diligent, and so it's just hard for
Speaker 2: me to see like the consensus be that like we're
Speaker 2: all kind of off of her taking her down because
Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, she just worked so freaking hard. I
Speaker 2: almost think that this generation just doesn't like people that
Speaker 2: try hard, and she tries hard.
Speaker 3: I totally agree with that.
Speaker 4: And even if you're in on the drama of like
Speaker 4: she can't sing or she didn't sing her albums, isn't
Speaker 4: that more impressive?
Speaker 3: Right, person who can't.
Speaker 4: Sing has recorded sixty songs and goes on to her
Speaker 4: like that's I agree.
Speaker 3: I love her.
Speaker 1: Ambition, Chelsea. We're having so much fun with you. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back
Speaker 1: and we're back with our bright side bestie, Chelsea Davantes.
Speaker 1: All right, before we get into our next door, y'all,
Speaker 1: I have a quick question for you. Okay, when was
Speaker 1: the last time you left your house without your phone? Intentionally?
Speaker 3: Chelsea? Never? How do I know where he's right? Great?
Speaker 2: Point, Danielle, I mean directionally challenged Danielle over here. So yeah,
Speaker 2: when I was thirteen and had a phone that also
Speaker 2: played Snake.
Speaker 3: On it, I'm in the same boat.
Speaker 1: I never leave my house intentionally without my phone unless
Speaker 1: I'm a passenger princess and I'm with my husband and
Speaker 1: I decide to intentionally unplug. But this is mind blowing
Speaker 1: to me. Ed Sheeran recently sat down with this internet personality,
Speaker 1: Jake Shane, on an episode of his podcast Therapist, and
Speaker 1: revealed that he hasn't had a phone since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: Isn't a phone since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: That's rich People's stuff RPP. Rich people problems. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: gave up his phone almost a decade ago, in his
Speaker 1: mid twenties, and he says that he gave it up
Speaker 1: because he started realizing how many people had his number
Speaker 1: from his pre fame days and he he felt pressured
Speaker 1: to keep up with people.
Speaker 3: It was becoming overwhelming.
Speaker 1: He also felt like he was losing real life connection
Speaker 1: with the folks in his life and now supposedly this
Speaker 1: is how his life works. He barely has access to
Speaker 1: a phone. His team will give him one when it's
Speaker 1: absolutely necessary. But he does have an iPad. He just
Speaker 1: does everything by email, and then he only replies once
Speaker 1: a week. Can you imagine being in a business deal
Speaker 1: with Ed Scheran and you have to wait every week
Speaker 1: to get a.
Speaker 3: Reply from him.
Speaker 4: This is also something only a dude could do. Oh wow, Like,
Speaker 4: there's no female pop star who could unplug from her
Speaker 4: content like that, and we would be like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: You're just like a really weird, cool artist. That's a
Speaker 3: great point. I know this should be cool, but I'm annoyed.
Speaker 3: Why I get a new number?
Speaker 4: Does a butler bring you your schedule every day on
Speaker 4: a piece of paper?
Speaker 3: How do you know what's going on? Also?
Speaker 1: How do you link up with friends with family? How
Speaker 1: do you do how do you do anything? What if
Speaker 1: you have a question about something that you need to
Speaker 1: quickly google? I don't buy it. You think it's a
Speaker 1: fake story. I think that he probably has some sort
Speaker 1: of phone. He has a piece of metal that has
Speaker 1: an Internet and phone connection and it's just not maybe
Speaker 1: a smartphone. Maybe that's how he reduces the amount of
Speaker 1: distractions in his life. But there's no way you can
Speaker 1: be a human being in twenty twenty four and.
Speaker 3: Not have a phone. Guys.
Speaker 2: Larry King had a phone. I used to go to
Speaker 2: breakfast with Larry at Nate and no big deal. Well
Speaker 2: he had a flip phone, okay, because he didn't want
Speaker 2: to get like a bunch of text messages and stuff
Speaker 2: that wasn't for him. But he had a phone for
Speaker 2: people to contact him at eighty six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 4: I guess ad iPad is it is technically a phone.
Speaker 4: But this is the other thing I think of, Like
Speaker 4: whenever you meet a guy and he's like, oh, I'm
Speaker 4: not on social media or like I don't have a phone,
Speaker 4: I'm always like, oh, you're a cheating.
Speaker 3: Really, that's so interesting.
Speaker 1: I think it's so attractive when someone doesn't have a
Speaker 1: phone or social media.
Speaker 4: Oh really, I'd be like, who are you cheating on?
Speaker 4: You've ritted yourself out on this very day. Thank you
Speaker 4: for telling me.
Speaker 2: Especially if they don't connect their iCloud to their phone.
Speaker 2: It's like your first sure cheating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know about all this. My husband doesn't
Speaker 1: have social media.
Speaker 3: Oh now, Simon Aspire, not at all.
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't have social media and he's like a
Speaker 1: ghost on social media, so he doesn't he doesn't follow,
Speaker 1: He doesn't comment, he doesn't interact at all. He just
Speaker 1: like stalks me and maybe like a handful of our
Speaker 1: other friends. But I kind of like that he's not
Speaker 1: on social media.
Speaker 3: It's nice. Wait, what do you like about it? I
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's only room for one of us to
Speaker 1: be obsessed with social media in our house, because then
Speaker 1: otherwise I think we'd never connect. And I think it's
Speaker 1: good to like minimize the amount of people who are
Speaker 1: attached to their phones.
Speaker 3: That's nice. That's nice. That's nice for him and for Ed.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have to talk about a story that I
Speaker 2: don't want to talk about. Because you've heard of terms
Speaker 2: for guys in the past.
Speaker 3: On this show.
Speaker 2: We've talked about the Golden Retriever Boyfriends last summer.
Speaker 3: It was all he's so baby girl.
Speaker 2: Now there is a term for men that is taking
Speaker 2: over the internet.
Speaker 3: It's everywhere. It's on TikTok, on NBC. Guys.
Speaker 2: Even the New York Times is reporting on the rise
Speaker 2: of what is being called the hot rodent man trend.
Speaker 3: Legitimate journalist.
Speaker 2: This is basically a trendy name for a certain type
Speaker 2: of hot guy. And let me just give you the
Speaker 2: qualities of a hot rodent man. He tends to have
Speaker 2: more angular facial structures, beady eyes, untidy hair, and they're
Speaker 2: often lankier than typical Hollywood heart throbs. So some examples
Speaker 2: of hot rodent men allegedly are Jeremy Allen White from
Speaker 2: The Bear, both actors from Challengers, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Feist.
Speaker 2: Travis Barker is another one. People are on the fence
Speaker 2: about Timothay Schallomet being a hot rodent man. Do we
Speaker 2: like this term?
Speaker 1: I love it. I think it's so expressive and evocative.
Speaker 1: It's giving like ratitudey, it's giving rescuers down under.
Speaker 3: I'm here for it. I'm thinking like Pedro Pascal Chelsea.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. Look, you just said it's a nice term.
Speaker 3: We're describing hot people as rodent man, aren't we. I
Speaker 3: think it's a funny term.
Speaker 1: But you cannot say that Pedro Pascal is a hot
Speaker 1: rodent man.
Speaker 4: No, seriously, rodent man is a dig You're not being like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's a hot type of rodent ma.
Speaker 2: I think from what I'm gathering is rodent man is sexy,
Speaker 2: ugly sexy.
Speaker 4: Ugly right, Okay, I see what you're saying that, then yeah,
Speaker 4: then you're right better, Buscal's out.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I guess I'm gonna have a theme on your podcast today.
Speaker 4: But like, imagine you're like rodent women are in all
Speaker 4: the movies, Like, no they're not. Oh my god, dad
Speaker 4: bought us in. It's like and yet we're still making
Speaker 4: fun of mom jeans. So I'm just like, are you
Speaker 4: freaking kid me? You can look like a rodent and
Speaker 4: be a movie star.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm so with you. I know.
Speaker 2: I think this term is like borderline mean to men
Speaker 2: and frustrating and annoying to women.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think I can hold two truths. I think
Speaker 1: it's a hilarious term and I just love saying it
Speaker 1: a lot, But I also think that it's mean. Would
Speaker 1: would any if we were to talk to any of
Speaker 1: these guys, would they be like, oh, yeah, sure, I
Speaker 1: love being called a hot rodent?
Speaker 3: Like I don't think so, well.
Speaker 2: Are you Are you guys attracted to any of these
Speaker 2: hot rodent men?
Speaker 1: No, all of the cast of Challengers could get it.
Speaker 1: Oh there, I mean, but I think it's more about
Speaker 1: like the scenes that they were in, the setting that
Speaker 1: they were in, it was like very hot and sensual.
Speaker 3: Simona is a cenophile. Yes, I see if my love
Speaker 3: of challengers gives you that the great No, it's good challenges.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: If you like hot road it man, let me introduce
Speaker 4: you to a hobby called improv because for three hundred
Speaker 4: dollars a month, you can meet all of.
Speaker 3: The road it's you want. Oh my god, you're so right.
Speaker 2: We're taking a quick break, but we'll be right back
Speaker 2: to talk more pop culture.
Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2: We're back with the hilarious Chelsea Davantes up next. This
Speaker 2: better not be a tease, because we've been waiting too
Speaker 2: long for this. So on Monday of this week, on
Speaker 2: the red carpet for her fenty hair launch party in
Speaker 2: La Rihanna told reporters that she is not retired and
Speaker 2: she's looking to get back into the studio to work
Speaker 2: on new music. The question I have here is do
Speaker 2: we believe her? Because I can't take this run around.
Speaker 2: She always says it's coming soon, soon soon.
Speaker 1: Ooh, we're all getting played. We have been getting played
Speaker 1: for years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Rihanna. Oh, here's the thing.
Speaker 4: I do think that fancy the level of growth has
Speaker 4: run its course based on all that Rihanna has done
Speaker 4: and her super Bowl and her pregnancy reveal is huge.
Speaker 3: But if she wants to.
Speaker 4: Keep going and marketing all her brands, I think she
Speaker 4: knows an album would go to billionaire status and she
Speaker 4: would be taking a trip to space. That's how rich
Speaker 4: she would be. So I can see it somewhat being true.
Speaker 2: I feel that in the ether too, the Fenti marketing
Speaker 2: needs a little boost. I think I don't know if
Speaker 2: the numbers support our theory, Chelsea, but I feel it.
Speaker 2: What she said, which I think is interesting, is that
Speaker 2: she wants to go into the studio and kind of
Speaker 2: start fresh.
Speaker 3: And so I'm curious what this.
Speaker 2: New sound from Rihanna will be because she hasn't put
Speaker 2: out music in so many years. Since then, she's become
Speaker 2: a business owner, a mother, the world has changed, like
Speaker 2: the zeitgeist has changed.
Speaker 3: What are her influences now?
Speaker 4: I do think Rihanna is a genius, and I bet
Speaker 4: she's been watching and waiting and she's about to pull
Speaker 4: elements of like I think Beyonce's country album almost hit it,
Speaker 4: and I bet Rihanna is going to have like one
Speaker 4: country single, but then it is also going to do
Speaker 4: like some of her like Desperado music and like come
Speaker 4: in just like a tray.
Speaker 3: Wait, why do we think of a country song?
Speaker 4: Because I can kind of hear it in her in
Speaker 4: her last album, there's like a couple traces of twang,
Speaker 4: and I can just see her doing what you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, like the rest of the album to
Speaker 4: something else and then just having this country banger.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of country, Dolly Parton just announced that there
Speaker 1: is a Broadway musical about her life story in the works.
Speaker 1: It's called Hello, I'm Dolly, and it's coming to Broadway
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. So Dolly is actually pretty hands
Speaker 1: on with this jukebox musical. She's been working on it
Speaker 1: since twenty sixteen, and she wrote the musical score.
Speaker 3: I find that.
Speaker 1: Encouraging that she's so involved in the creative process rather
Speaker 1: than just handing it off to a group of producers.
Speaker 1: So it's going to feature some of her biggest hits
Speaker 1: and some new ones that she's writing specifically for this musical.
Speaker 3: So we're getting a two for one.
Speaker 2: Mmmmmm. I mean, I want to give this to you, Chelsea.
Speaker 2: I know you you love Dollie.
Speaker 4: I absolutely adore her. She's absolutely everything to me. I
Speaker 4: hope that since we are in Dolly's third chapter, she
Speaker 4: really takes the story and the music to a more
Speaker 4: gritty and real place because she's been through a lot
Speaker 4: of hard things. Yeah, she dances around it so beautifully.
Speaker 4: Yet in her memoir was recovered my podcast, it was
Speaker 4: she wrote in the eighties and had this moment of
Speaker 4: honesty before she kind of buttoned it all up again.
Speaker 4: And I want some of that stuff in her life
Speaker 4: story because I will watch anything she puts out. I
Speaker 4: will be at that show. But if you've ever seen
Speaker 4: like her Netflix Christmas special like It's you know that
Speaker 4: was a musical too, and I can't say something nice
Speaker 4: about that other than I love Dolly Parton.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for us to be immersed in Dolly Parton
Speaker 1: media stories about her. She's going to be in our feeds.
Speaker 1: I'm also excited to see who's going to attend and
Speaker 1: the outfits that people are gonna wear to go see this.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be really fun.
Speaker 2: You know how people have those birthday parties and they're
Speaker 2: all supposed to dress like the person whose birthday it is.
Speaker 2: I want, well, I want everyone to go to the
Speaker 2: Dolly musical dressed like Dolly.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: I would love that Gingham diamonds, plaid everything.
Speaker 3: Rhinestones for days.
Speaker 4: The seating have to be so tiered so that everyone
Speaker 4: could see over, the blonde wigs.
Speaker 3: And so true and the bumps.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, yours right? I love that so much. Okay,
Speaker 2: who would you want to play Dolly?
Speaker 3: It's so tough, is it? Young Dolly?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 3: I want christ and China wish to play current Dolly
Speaker 3: Rene in there at some point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Renee Rap is so it would be the
Speaker 4: most I would say, most intense acting role she would
Speaker 4: ever have to take on because Dolly partner is so
Speaker 4: sweet and always says what it is with sugar, and
Speaker 4: Renee Rap always says what it is with no.
Speaker 3: She's spicy, spicy.
Speaker 2: She would have to go into method acting, I think, but.
Speaker 1: She's so talented she could. I think she could totally
Speaker 1: be off.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Chapel roone love that amazing. That'd be great.
Speaker 2: I almost think that we need like three or four
Speaker 2: different Dollies to play Dolly throughout the years.
Speaker 3: I totally agree.
Speaker 4: And then when she turns forty, she should be played
Speaker 4: by Trixy Mattel the Dragon.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's fabulous. Well, I guess I just produced the show.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, we're Yeah, if they need any help, they
Speaker 2: can call us. Okay, before we let you go, Chelsea,
Speaker 2: what are you up to this weekend? Do you guys
Speaker 2: have any plans? Well, I'm on the middle of this
Speaker 2: book tour. I'm in New Mexico. I'm Santa Fe right now.
Speaker 2: I just thought a writing workshop. We're just going to
Speaker 2: show to night.
Speaker 4: Then we're going to Albuquerque, and then we're going to Portland,
Speaker 4: in Seattle, in La So I'm on MCT time, which
Speaker 4: is Mario Carry time, which is time does not exist.
Speaker 4: I didn't even know it was the weekend and I'm
Speaker 4: currently on tour.
Speaker 3: It's amazing that you showed up to this taping. It's
Speaker 3: pretty incredible. Good I deserve an award. Well, I have
Speaker 3: a question about your tour.
Speaker 2: Actually, so you're on tour in all these cities and
Speaker 2: the people coming are connecting to your story and your book.
Speaker 2: Are there any surprises that you've had in these irl moments?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't like traveling, So I'm just like in
Speaker 4: this Xanax Hayes As I fly from city in the city,
Speaker 4: but then meeting people makes every second of it worth it.
Speaker 4: In Chicago, I was someone had made a purse that
Speaker 4: said redacted on it because portions of my book had
Speaker 4: gotten redacted. Someone had made a jumpsuit this like glamb trash,
Speaker 4: Like unbelievable. And then as I've been signing books the
Speaker 4: other night, I was like, oh, I want to sign something,
Speaker 4: and I was like, what do you want me to say?
Speaker 3: And they're like, oh, I don't know anything.
Speaker 4: And I was like, well, just tell me one thing
Speaker 4: about you and she was like okay. I also found
Speaker 4: out that my real dad was not my Chad, and
Speaker 4: I was like, this is why I wrote this book,
Speaker 4: because you just feel so alone in your weird, little
Speaker 4: freak experience. Only to find that, like there's someone at
Speaker 4: every show who had to go through what I went through,
Speaker 4: and it was just like the most beautiful moment. And
Speaker 4: all those moments have made me so glad that I
Speaker 4: wrote the book.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad you're feeling that way. Danielle.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to show up in costume to one
Speaker 1: of her book stops.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, We're gonna dress up like you. Okay,
Speaker 3: dress up like Dolly Parton, but then come to my show.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, no, I want a Chelsea wig. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: wear a dress that you would wear. This is happenings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ready for thanks so ready. I'm always like this
Speaker 1: close to getting bangs. I just I live life on
Speaker 1: the edge. Yeah, totally join the Bank's army.
Speaker 3: And where is that? Chelsea? Thank you so much for
Speaker 3: hanging with us.
Speaker 1: Yes, thanks for stopping by our inaugural popping off pop
Speaker 1: culture Friday.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me a Dori Boles.
Speaker 2: Chelsea Devantees is an author, writer, comedian, and host of
Speaker 2: the podcast Glamorous Trash. You can find her memoir I
Speaker 2: shouldn't be telling you this, but I'm going to anyway
Speaker 2: wherever you find your books.
Speaker 1: That's it for today's show. On Monday, financial expert Missus
Speaker 1: dow Jones joins us to talk money moves. She's getting
Speaker 1: real about prenups, how to maximize PTO, and so much more.
Speaker 2: The bright Side is a production of Hello, Sunshine and
Speaker 2: iHeart Podcasts and is executive produced by Reese Witherspoon.
Speaker 1: Production by Arcana Audio. Courtney Gilbert is our associate producer.
Speaker 1: Our producers are Steph Brown, Jessica Wank, and Olivia Briley.
Speaker 1: Our engineer is PJ. Shahamatt, and our senior producers are
Speaker 1: Itzy Keithania, Jenis Yamoka and Amy Padula.
Speaker 2: Arcnna's executive producers are Francis Harlowe and Abby Ruzika. Arcana's
Speaker 2: head of production is Matt Schultz.
Speaker 1: Natalie Tulluk and Maureen Polo are the executive producers for
Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2: Julia Weaver is the supervising producer, and Ali Perry is
Speaker 2: the executive producer for iHeart Podcasts. Tim Palazzola is our showrunner.
Speaker 2: This week's episodes were recorded by Graham Gibson, Carl Catel,
Speaker 2: Jessica Crinchitch Bahied Fraser.
Speaker 1: Our theme song is by Anna Stump and Hamilton lighthauser.
Speaker 2: Special thanks to Connell Brne and Will Pearson.
Speaker 1: I'm Simone Boyce. You can find me at Simone Boyce
Speaker 1: on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 2: And I'm Danielle Robe on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 3: That's r b A Y see you Monday, fam.
Speaker 1: Keep looking on the bright side.