Speaker 1: Hi, It's Mattie from Access Podcast, the podcast about podcast Z.
Speaker 1: My voice is a little kind. Yeah, yeah, I'm going
Speaker 1: through the change. When it's time to change. You got
Speaker 1: to You don't know that Brady Bunch. Gosh, I'm so old.
Speaker 1: Well I'll tell you somebody who who would get my jokes.
Speaker 1: It's it's Rob Shooter. We luckily when we did the interview,
Speaker 1: I had a voice. Um. If you don't know who
Speaker 1: Rob is, he is a gossip guy from Naughty Gossip.
Speaker 1: He does the Wendy Williams Show all the Time, that
Speaker 1: Today's Show, Good Day New York, the Elvis Durant Show.
Speaker 1: He's the guy with the awesome English accent. Anyway, he's
Speaker 1: coming up next on the show, but it's check him
Speaker 1: out right now. From his new podcast, The Royal Wedding,
Speaker 1: Megan muchles half brother insists that his children should not
Speaker 1: should not be invited to the Royal wedding because they
Speaker 1: have not seen her since they were children. So the
Speaker 1: brothers coming forward here, the half brother and really saying it,
Speaker 1: although everybody wants to go to this wedding, goodness en
Speaker 1: as we do. I do that her family, her distance family,
Speaker 1: I guess should not be invite, So rather before we
Speaker 1: start talking about the wedding, I'm I'm interested to talk
Speaker 1: about you and you and you know you've devoted most
Speaker 1: of your life to celebrity and talking about celebrities and
Speaker 1: and I just wonder what was the first, you know,
Speaker 1: like piece of celebrity gossip that you remember seeing and going, God,
Speaker 1: this is really hard. It's even deeper than that. I
Speaker 1: can remember being in the playground when I was six
Speaker 1: or seven and Craig Smith was caught kissing this girl
Speaker 1: behind the bike shared and I told everybody at school,
Speaker 1: and I was the most popular person in the whole class.
Speaker 1: I learned, I really learned at an early age to
Speaker 1: be nosy. I'm just nosy person, and I love people
Speaker 1: telling this stuff. And I don't know why they do,
Speaker 1: because it's painfully obvious. I'm going to tell everybody else.
Speaker 1: But I experienced gossip at a really early age. And
Speaker 1: I think sometimes people think with the word gossip they
Speaker 1: think of bad things or or it's a little bit
Speaker 1: sleazy or a little bit naughty. I don't know. In
Speaker 1: my family, around the table, gossip and chalk and chatter
Speaker 1: and laughs about family members and friends was what we did.
Speaker 1: So I grew up in a household where to gossip
Speaker 1: was sort of a positive thing. It meant, it meant
Speaker 1: we cared about each other, It meant that we wanted
Speaker 1: to know what everybody was up to. It wasn't a
Speaker 1: bad thing. It's it's sort of like a different angle,
Speaker 1: a different way of looking at gossip. I grew up
Speaker 1: in a world where chatting about people it didn't have
Speaker 1: to be me, and like gossip doesn't always have to
Speaker 1: be be me, And so I grew up in a
Speaker 1: world where we're gossiping and talking was sort of a
Speaker 1: good thing to do, you know. And I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I think people do trust you
Speaker 1: is that, you know, you came from a world of
Speaker 1: being a publicist where you're putting out, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of what people you want people to think about somebody
Speaker 1: to gossip to. It's it's it's like you said it
Speaker 1: as this connotation, but the way you do what you
Speaker 1: do this naughty but nice kind of It's I like
Speaker 1: to say that my website, Naughty gossip dot Com is
Speaker 1: a pinch. It's not a punch. It's really easy when
Speaker 1: I think about it, when I go out for dinner
Speaker 1: with my friends. My really mean friends are so interesting
Speaker 1: and so fascinating, and I sit there gasping at all
Speaker 1: the mean things they say. But when I get home,
Speaker 1: I need to have a shower. Now. My nice friends
Speaker 1: are awfully nice, but they're a little bit dull, and
Speaker 1: so if I can be in the middle, if I
Speaker 1: could be naughty but life, then I think I've sort
Speaker 1: of hit my sweet spot. And by nature and an optimist,
Speaker 1: I like people, I like celebrities. I'm not a mean girl.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not sitting there thinking of mean things
Speaker 1: to say. I think it's just as interesting, if not
Speaker 1: more so, if you've got engaged, or you fell in love,
Speaker 1: or you met somebody really cute. That to me is
Speaker 1: just as interesting as a breakup or a divorce or
Speaker 1: something a little bit more more tragic. But you're right.
Speaker 1: For years and earth, I worked with Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson,
Speaker 1: Alicia Keys bon Jovi, But the one that I learned
Speaker 1: the most from was PDD. Puffy was a client of
Speaker 1: mine for many, many years, and I say this is love.
Speaker 1: I worked for Puffy, he paid me. I don't really
Speaker 1: know what he does like he's deelish, but I don't really.
Speaker 1: I think he sells t shirts. I sort of think
Speaker 1: he has a vodka. But what he does do better
Speaker 1: than anybody else is he makes the world more interesting
Speaker 1: and more exciting. And he's he's our generations Barnum Like
Speaker 1: he just puts on a show. He's a he's a
Speaker 1: ring master. He's in the middle of the circus in
Speaker 1: a red coat, waving his arms and even changing his name,
Speaker 1: his name Sean. You know, I called him Sean, and
Speaker 1: so I learned from him how to have fun and
Speaker 1: tell tales and have an exciting sort of life. And
Speaker 1: so I really thank Puffy from that, and that's how
Speaker 1: I really got into the business of being a celebrity
Speaker 1: gossip columnist. I do think it's people's nature to be
Speaker 1: to enjoy self righteous indignation, you know, where we love
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, I'm so indignant, and the Internet
Speaker 1: has just made it more so, it has it has.
Speaker 1: But I think I'm a big believer in gentle hate like.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I like gentle hate like and
Speaker 1: it always makes me laugh, Like this morning, before talking
Speaker 1: to you, I just did the Wendy william Show, and
Speaker 1: I work up with this huge sort of cold stare
Speaker 1: on the side of my map, this massive thing to say.
Speaker 1: And but the show had to go on, and the
Speaker 1: people in the makeup room had gentle hate and it
Speaker 1: made me laugh, like I can laugh at my own
Speaker 1: flaws and imperfections. I think too. Everybody asked me where
Speaker 1: do I get gossip? Where do I find it? And
Speaker 1: to be honest, my best sources are reporters at The
Speaker 1: New York Times, are at ABC or at my Heart radio,
Speaker 1: or I'm just allowed to print stuff that you might
Speaker 1: only say or my only whisper. And so I think
Speaker 1: it as journalism. I know that's going to annoy people
Speaker 1: and sound nothing but the same effort that goes into
Speaker 1: reporting a story at ABC or NBC. I make that
Speaker 1: effort with celebrities. I call sources, I call restaurants, I
Speaker 1: have backup um and I got over there being in
Speaker 1: the celebrity world for as long as I was as
Speaker 1: a publicist, I had access to stuff that celebrity columnists
Speaker 1: never gets, like. I've been backstage at the Oscars and
Speaker 1: the Golden Globes. I've been there when j Loo's shoes
Speaker 1: didn't fit. I've been there at photo shoots for the
Speaker 1: cover of Vogue and Vanity Fair, and so I was
Speaker 1: lucky to have access for all those years to these
Speaker 1: amazing places, and that's really paid off now with the
Speaker 1: with the quality in the tyber gossip I get. You know,
Speaker 1: my very first producing job was for g Gordon Liddy, Like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. I have a couple of things that
Speaker 1: I really know I can't say, and so he's dead.
Speaker 1: He's dead. I'm going to let him out. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know some deep ship on this. Do you think
Speaker 1: the culture has changed a little bit? Maybe the Housewives
Speaker 1: or the Kardashians have done this. I feel bad now
Speaker 1: for the old school celebrities like the Julia Roberts and
Speaker 1: the Cameron Diaces, who we just don't really care about
Speaker 1: it anymore. Like I want the Real Housewives, I want
Speaker 1: nine leak snatching a wig. I want the Kardashians, you know,
Speaker 1: causing mischief. I think the world has really changed with
Speaker 1: sort of like reality shows and celebrity shows, and the
Speaker 1: old days of these really sort of like a list
Speaker 1: celebrities have sort of gone like I would rather, gosh,
Speaker 1: this sounds terrible. I get more hits on a sort
Speaker 1: of interesting story about a Kardashian than I would on
Speaker 1: a great story about George Clooney. People want to know
Speaker 1: about these reality stars amazing. I guess the point too,
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, was, I mean, do
Speaker 1: you still have those stories that you know you can't
Speaker 1: tell or is it to the point where everybody just
Speaker 1: knows everything's gonna get told, so there's no point keeping
Speaker 1: it in. Well, it's interesting as as a as a
Speaker 1: publicist when when something terrible and to a client, whether
Speaker 1: it be involved in in illegal drugs or sex or stuff,
Speaker 1: they that would that would get out. It's going to
Speaker 1: get out. So as a publicist, I would give it
Speaker 1: with my client's permission to a friendly outlet. I'd rather
Speaker 1: appear in a place where that that that would frame
Speaker 1: it in a way that would be kind and gentle.
Speaker 1: Then it breaks in as a real hard news story.
Speaker 1: So often people call me with stuff that it's going
Speaker 1: to get out. So rather do it on laudy Gossip
Speaker 1: than on some other site that's not going to handle
Speaker 1: it quite as quite as kind as I had. But
Speaker 1: I do have stories, like you know, my husband's a songwriter.
Speaker 1: I've been married to Bruce for years and he wrote
Speaker 1: a lot of the Barry Man of those songs, like
Speaker 1: you know Barry came out the closet recently on the
Speaker 1: cover of People magazine. I've known that for but but
Speaker 1: for twenty years I didn't say a word like So
Speaker 1: there's stuff that I know. It's also true whenever I
Speaker 1: go to a TV show, I do that Today Show
Speaker 1: and Wendy Williams, anything that happens in a green room
Speaker 1: I won't report on. So I've seen celebrities, a real
Speaker 1: A list superstar celebrity haven't melt down and melt down
Speaker 1: in the green room over a very very innocent question
Speaker 1: that was going to be asked for her, And ultimately
Speaker 1: she walked off the show that that was delicious, and
Speaker 1: I sat there in the corner absorbing it all. But
Speaker 1: I never reported it because I was invited into the house.
Speaker 1: I was invited into that living room, I was invited
Speaker 1: into that family. And so there's places like that that
Speaker 1: I'm I'm careful about. Yeah, And I also I don't
Speaker 1: I don't act people. There's a couple of gay celebrities
Speaker 1: now who have not come out, not of the older generation,
Speaker 1: but you know, in their twenties. I know I know
Speaker 1: at least one, maybe two singers at the moment who
Speaker 1: are struggling with it. I'm not going to act them.
Speaker 1: I know two health stories at the moment, one involving
Speaker 1: a major British star that I'm not gonna do something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm careful about it. I think what makes me for
Speaker 1: good is that for as much aside Prince I, there's
Speaker 1: there's there's another fifty percent that I don't do you
Speaker 1: think that celebrity is now vying for attention from the
Speaker 1: reality show we call the Trump Presidency. Yeah, well, Trump's
Speaker 1: sort of like a I don't say a symptom, but
Speaker 1: Trump's reflection maybe of what's going on in America and
Speaker 1: around the world. Like Trump is now an example how
Speaker 1: celebrities really really powerful and knowing people and think we
Speaker 1: knowing them. I think a lot of people think they
Speaker 1: know Donald because of the Celebrity Apprentice. What they don't
Speaker 1: know is that that was a set set up in
Speaker 1: Trump Tower on the twentieth floor. That's not his boardroom,
Speaker 1: it's not his office, it's not his assistant. I guess
Speaker 1: it's his children. But but like but but it was
Speaker 1: little Like I said, I've been into his apartment. I
Speaker 1: went there to interview Milania when she had a jewelry collection.
Speaker 1: And you walk in or you get in the elevator,
Speaker 1: you walk up the elevator and there's these two massive
Speaker 1: gold doors, um and they open the doors, and the
Speaker 1: first floor of the apartment it's a set. There's light
Speaker 1: in the ceiling like on a on a movie set.
Speaker 1: And they also have a fountain in the living room,
Speaker 1: this big fountain. And when I left, I heard them
Speaker 1: flick the switch that the fountory went off. So it's
Speaker 1: a it's all like the whole thing is set up
Speaker 1: for television. TV is really really powerful, whatever your politics are.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no doubt that he's, you know, the
Speaker 1: star who knows how to be. He knows how to
Speaker 1: make things about himself. And there's a gossip columnists, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's delicious. I think that for yours. There's been
Speaker 1: stories about Donald's when he was a celebrity league in
Speaker 1: stuff to the press and the papers, and he knows
Speaker 1: how to He knows all the columnists, he knows them
Speaker 1: all by name. He knows phone numbers and our emails,
Speaker 1: like Donald Donald knows how to how to work the media.
Speaker 1: Now I like to check out the rags all over,
Speaker 1: so I check out the British rags, and he knows
Speaker 1: a lot of coverage on the Trump presidency and and
Speaker 1: and then on the flip side, you know, to kind
Speaker 1: of uh, you know, he's into this Royal wedding podcast.
Speaker 1: You know, Americans are obsessed with English everything. I was
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this this weekend. I was watching Victoria.
Speaker 1: I was reading about the Napoleonic Wars from the perspective
Speaker 1: of an English captain. And you know, Eddie Izard had
Speaker 1: this line where he goes, well, I'm from England, That's
Speaker 1: where the history comes from. And it's true, we are
Speaker 1: obsessed with English everything. That is. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: do know that I've benefited from it. I know that
Speaker 1: here now. Honestly, I'm really not that smart and I'm
Speaker 1: not very interesting, but having this accents makes me sound
Speaker 1: like Mary Poppins. I can always murder who in Britain
Speaker 1: people would have told me to shut up years ago.
Speaker 1: If you went to London, you would be a sensation
Speaker 1: with your adorable accents. It's just I don't know. Being
Speaker 1: a Britain in New York in America has certainly helped me.
Speaker 1: I think that I think that we have to really
Speaker 1: credit the Royal Family for this. It's it's the first
Speaker 1: reality family of all time, and they're awfully good at
Speaker 1: have package in it and and given a storylines. And
Speaker 1: so maybe you know, there is they hate me for
Speaker 1: saying that they're the original Kardashians, like the Royal Family
Speaker 1: just have have sort of really set up a way
Speaker 1: to be really digen It's hardly interested in sixty million
Speaker 1: people are in America over three million. It's always the one.
Speaker 1: It's a one story. And so what the Brits have
Speaker 1: done with the Royal family is tell the story of
Speaker 1: a nation through five or six characters. It's like a
Speaker 1: soap opera. And so now that Megan has married into
Speaker 1: that family, we have another character. And so I think,
Speaker 1: I think part partly that's why people are so obsessed
Speaker 1: with Britain. And there was a time many many years
Speaker 1: ago when Britain, you know, sort of ran the world.
Speaker 1: So I think we all somehow have a linkage back
Speaker 1: to the Motherland or you know, I mean, we all
Speaker 1: have a relative or a distance relative, or a very
Speaker 1: distant relative that might have been British at some point
Speaker 1: my friend's joke, there's so many Brits now in New York.
Speaker 1: It's like we're getting the colony back. Like I feel
Speaker 1: like I should wear a red coat to walk around,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like I would say that America, but
Speaker 1: that they're They're awfully kind, and I think America's in America.
Speaker 1: Ricans in London are really welcome if you ever travel
Speaker 1: to Britain as an American. The Britas love Americans. We
Speaker 1: love American TV, we love American films, we love American
Speaker 1: food in the same way that there's some difference towards
Speaker 1: Britain in in America. In Britain, we love the Americans.
Speaker 1: I'm now, I now want to either start a podcast
Speaker 1: or ready book called the Plantagenets the Original Kardashians. They
Speaker 1: really really well. I die with dit An Abbey and
Speaker 1: all these other shows that are so successful. Oh please,
Speaker 1: I could be nothing but great for my career. I
Speaker 1: hope more more more royals get married, and then after
Speaker 1: the way that I'm sure I'll have a podcast on
Speaker 1: the babies, and then hopefully not, but maybe there'll be
Speaker 1: a divorce podcast. Like you never it, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm a I'm a podcast nerd. I
Speaker 1: left morning shows ten years ago to get into starting
Speaker 1: an app called Stitcher and been in podcasting ever since.
Speaker 1: And now back with I Heart and I was when
Speaker 1: they got the when we got I got email about
Speaker 1: your podcast. I was like, Ah, this is the kind
Speaker 1: of podcast that I want to see more of because
Speaker 1: I think that the world podcasting evolves and we're finding
Speaker 1: you know that it's going from being these NPR podcasts.
Speaker 1: He's really well produced and what you're wonderful to, you know,
Speaker 1: podcast more than the everyday person wants to. Like you
Speaker 1: say about the scrappy podcast, I'm not saying that, I'm
Speaker 1: saying that. I'm saying that it's more mainstream. I think
Speaker 1: to hear your flaws. They want to hear everything they want.
Speaker 1: They want now to to hear you pick your notes.
Speaker 1: They want to hear you missproducial words. I think people
Speaker 1: listen to podcasts and all media now as if we're
Speaker 1: their friends, and I'd love to be. It's it's fun
Speaker 1: to communicate in a way that's really authentic, that you
Speaker 1: don't have to be too fancy, you don't have to
Speaker 1: pretend to be Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer anymore. I'm
Speaker 1: friends with Holder, who's just been um Announswers a co
Speaker 1: anchor of the Today Show, What hold of successes? Apart
Speaker 1: from the fact that she's brilliants, so she's authentic, that
Speaker 1: really is who she is. So when you see her
Speaker 1: on camera on the morning show or you go for
Speaker 1: dinner with her, that's that's hold up. And I think
Speaker 1: that people mag and smellophony. And that's what's so delicious
Speaker 1: about the Successful podcast is that I think they really
Speaker 1: capture the truth. You know, you had I read a
Speaker 1: quote from you. It said and you said, the amount
Speaker 1: of effort in time people have spend trying to cover
Speaker 1: something up, even their own personalities, is ridiculous. Just find
Speaker 1: the truth, and yeah I did. It's it's it's easy
Speaker 1: to talk in soundbites on TV for two or three minutes,
Speaker 1: but to see I was terrified when I was offered
Speaker 1: this job to do this podcast. I was terrified of
Speaker 1: sitting there for half an hour. So twenty is half
Speaker 1: an hour and rattling on and on and on, and
Speaker 1: like the accent is good for five minutes, but come on,
Speaker 1: it's just Ania and so I just it was like,
Speaker 1: what am I gonna say. And then once I got
Speaker 1: past myself and just started to sit there and enjoy it,
Speaker 1: I was like, I can go to a bar tonight
Speaker 1: with a friend or or a new a new friend,
Speaker 1: And like I said, there were hours and talk. So
Speaker 1: why am I worries about half an hour? I think
Speaker 1: that's the way you should go into this. Like it's
Speaker 1: I pretend I'm sitting there. Maybe I don't put them,
Speaker 1: but with a glass of wide I sit there and
Speaker 1: I talk and talk and I find all the great
Speaker 1: news of the week and all the breaking stuff out
Speaker 1: of London. And then I think what we've done too
Speaker 1: is we found some really interesting guests to come on
Speaker 1: and tell us the real dish at this. This amazing
Speaker 1: royal expert Nicki Gostin Australian, she came on and she
Speaker 1: went there like she talked about sex before marriage, had
Speaker 1: Harry and Megan dune the deed, which in the Royal
Speaker 1: family is quite shocking. You're not really meant to do it.
Speaker 1: But Nikki was hilarious and it was a really really
Speaker 1: fun episode. This week's episode, there was a rumor that
Speaker 1: the Cake Boss Buddy the Cake Boss, was going to
Speaker 1: make the Royal cake. So we slept out to his studio.
Speaker 1: We went out to the bakery and we walked. Did
Speaker 1: we were invited, we did just like completely sort of darted,
Speaker 1: but we will did. He was in the kitchen and
Speaker 1: he came and talked with us about the royal cake
Speaker 1: and he didn't deny it, but he didn't confirm it.
Speaker 1: But then he told us about if he did get
Speaker 1: to do the cake, what he would do and how
Speaker 1: he would get it there. Could you FedEx the cake
Speaker 1: to London or does he have to go and bake
Speaker 1: it that. I think people are really interesting in life,
Speaker 1: not just some podcast listeners. Really listen to this, because
Speaker 1: in life, if you think somebody is a bit dull
Speaker 1: or they don't talk very much, is because you haven't
Speaker 1: found the subject that they want to talk about. And
Speaker 1: everybody wants to talk, even quiet people, when you find
Speaker 1: the subject, and nine times out of ten, it's what
Speaker 1: they do for a living. People love to talk about
Speaker 1: what they do for a living. You could follow anybody
Speaker 1: around with a with a camera and make a documentary.
Speaker 1: I think I think he could. There's a story within everybody.
Speaker 1: And and when I first you know, you know, looking
Speaker 1: at this podcast like how they can do a podcast
Speaker 1: about this every week and you know, a gossip and
Speaker 1: what's going to happen And it comes down though to
Speaker 1: to the host and and this is where your skill
Speaker 1: as a true interviewer comes out and making it a
Speaker 1: conversation and not just you know, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, sound by TV stuff, and the conversations
Speaker 1: you have on this podcast are fascinating. People talk to me,
Speaker 1: I'm shocked me. That's my questions that I think I
Speaker 1: get away with it because the accident. I asked them,
Speaker 1: if you don't you do your personalities, why you get
Speaker 1: away with it? You just said it. The accent gets sold.
Speaker 1: Although I did hear when you said it's twenty minutes
Speaker 1: and you're done with my accents. I did say when
Speaker 1: you said Sean from when you're talking about well, if
Speaker 1: everybody said it the way you said, if you'd be
Speaker 1: very happy to be called Sean all the time as
Speaker 1: you're recorded for every shot out there. But if you write,
Speaker 1: if you talk to people and ask them questions, and
Speaker 1: then if you're smart enough to just shut up and
Speaker 1: let them talk, they will tell you everything. They really
Speaker 1: will tell you everything. In my PR days, we used
Speaker 1: to always know who you were by finding out who
Speaker 1: you hate it And I think that's true in real life.
Speaker 1: Who do you hate and that's who you are, so
Speaker 1: you know if Bonto hates Bruce Springsteen, did he hate
Speaker 1: jay Z, Jaylo and Mariah? But I think it's really
Speaker 1: interesting in life if you figure out who people like
Speaker 1: and who they hate. It's such a reflection. So I
Speaker 1: use a lot of my PR tricks on people. I
Speaker 1: try to shut up and let them talk. Everybody has
Speaker 1: a story. I try to ask them cheeky questions and
Speaker 1: I asked, I think the stuff we want to know,
Speaker 1: like I mean, I do want to know about the
Speaker 1: royals and sex. I do want to know like if
Speaker 1: Kate and Mega Markle are friendly of not and not
Speaker 1: so friendly. I do want to know what it's like
Speaker 1: to leave your country, which she did. She lost, left
Speaker 1: her friends and her family, went to a palace, which
Speaker 1: can be quite a lonely place. There's not there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of people in that palace to be that
Speaker 1: friendly to you. And now I love the little details
Speaker 1: a royal source of man in Britain come with. The
Speaker 1: big test was when she met the Queen if the
Speaker 1: core gives liked Mega, and so if Mega the Court
Speaker 1: of the Dogs, and I was like, my god, that
Speaker 1: is so true. And I've had friends who my dogs
Speaker 1: don't like and I'm not friends at the mony. The
Speaker 1: dog doesn't like you, there's something really wrong with you exactly.
Speaker 1: So I think it's applying all those things from our
Speaker 1: lives to theirs. That makes hopefully half an hour of
Speaker 1: interesting chatter that people can can sign up to in
Speaker 1: the sun lots of gossip. Is there anything shocking that's
Speaker 1: coming up on the podcast that think? Yeah? I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean you and I are you know, we're just talking.
Speaker 1: There's some really light food questions about protocol, what what what?
Speaker 1: What she will wear? You know, she's divorced, she's a
Speaker 1: divorcing so will she wear white? Probably the off white
Speaker 1: who's going to perform at the wedding. He's really good
Speaker 1: friends with Ed Sheering. Will he be there? Elton John
Speaker 1: has already taken a couple of days off his schedule.
Speaker 1: We noticed that just so happened to coincide with the wedding.
Speaker 1: What will happen after the wedding? What's going to be
Speaker 1: her role? She's she an amazing human being and she's
Speaker 1: TV ready because she's been on televisions for so many
Speaker 1: years that maybe her slickness is a little annoying to
Speaker 1: some of the Brits. Will they at the minute they
Speaker 1: love her, but it's it's it's the Megan miracle. At
Speaker 1: the moment, she's everywhere. How must that be affecting Kate Middleton,
Speaker 1: who's the star of that family. Kate's are bossy boots
Speaker 1: and so Kate runs that royal family. The Queen's favorite
Speaker 1: is William. So if William likes you, everything is fine.
Speaker 1: So I think just watching this this old traditional family
Speaker 1: try really hard to adapt and make missteps. It's delicious
Speaker 1: to watch them. Man, it's so nice that they're trying
Speaker 1: so hard. So there's tons of stuff and every day
Speaker 1: and there's another question like royal men, this get this.
Speaker 1: Royal men traditionally don't wear a wedding ring. Harry has
Speaker 1: said he will. I think that's fascinating, little bit. William
Speaker 1: doesn't wear a wedding ring. His dad doesn't wear a
Speaker 1: wedding Prince Charles, his grand Prince Philip doesn't wear a
Speaker 1: wedding ring. So I think this interesting stories about that too,
Speaker 1: and hand this this old fashioned, creaky institution is trying
Speaker 1: so hard to be hip and cool. What will be
Speaker 1: the first song they danced her at the wedding? Well,
Speaker 1: the queen dance um. So each week we're trying to
Speaker 1: dig into these questions. Today we have a royal etiquette
Speaker 1: expert coming on. Did you know when the queen finishes
Speaker 1: her dinner, when you eat with her, you have to stop.
Speaker 1: So if you're still hungry, or if she's not hungry,
Speaker 1: you better eat quick because the minute the Queen puts
Speaker 1: her folk dad didn is over Halter that. I just
Speaker 1: love these details. If she doesn't want dessert, that the
Speaker 1: table does not get dessert. Do you imagine? You know?
Speaker 1: It's funny because I watched you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: the history stuff and I see that with like Victoria,
Speaker 1: But I didn't think they still did that. If they
Speaker 1: still do it, they still absolutely do you know? In
Speaker 1: Victoria there's a lot of them the TV show on PBS,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of a storyline about her husband, Albert
Speaker 1: and how he felt left out. Historically in the royal family,
Speaker 1: if you're a king and you marry someone, she becomes
Speaker 1: the queen. If you're a woman, if you're the queen
Speaker 1: and you marry someone he's not the king. Prince Philip
Speaker 1: is not the king, and so are all these rules
Speaker 1: that are so interested what will Megan's role be? She
Speaker 1: doesn't really have a role. The second son or the
Speaker 1: second child was always thought of as a spare in
Speaker 1: case anything went wrong with the air and the stair,
Speaker 1: and so you know, historically it's only ever happened once
Speaker 1: when the king abdicated because of another American, Waly Simpson. So, now,
Speaker 1: what has Harry's life going to be with Megan that
Speaker 1: I'm already hearing that. You know, they're they're thinking of
Speaker 1: having a house here in America. She's American? Like will
Speaker 1: they have a flat in New York that would be delicious?
Speaker 1: Or l a or or should where will they live?
Speaker 1: And so there's tons of questions that are not answered,
Speaker 1: and so each week we try to find out what
Speaker 1: those answers are, and more importantly, we'll all the listeners
Speaker 1: contact to us, like what are your questions? Can she
Speaker 1: cross her legs? Can she curtsy? All that stuff that
Speaker 1: we find so charming on Dad's and happy in Victoria.
Speaker 1: We're going to find the answers to each week, all right,
Speaker 1: speaking of questions, I'd like to end with my three
Speaker 1: killer questions, so I've got them for you. The first
Speaker 1: question I ask is if you could listen to a
Speaker 1: podcast featuring anyone in history, whose podcast would you like
Speaker 1: to listen to much A really, really good one. I
Speaker 1: think it would be Queen Victoria because I'm watching the
Speaker 1: Queen Victoria serious at the moment. I'm obsessed. I think
Speaker 1: it would be Queen Victoria, although it might be more
Speaker 1: interesting to talk to Queen Elizabeth's corgy. Corky has seen
Speaker 1: it all. Dogs have seen it. Dogs have seen it all.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Next one, okay, the next one
Speaker 1: is if you were going to build a celebrity Big
Speaker 1: Brother House right now, who would you like to see
Speaker 1: in it? Oh? God, I'd have to have a Christianna.
Speaker 1: I'd have to have Christianna in there. I would probably
Speaker 1: like Matt Lower in that little country versual but at
Speaker 1: one and find out what's going on there. And then
Speaker 1: I love myself some Liza Minelli, just old school, fabulous
Speaker 1: sequence and show business. A share or a a Liza. I
Speaker 1: would imagine them in the shower the show would have
Speaker 1: come out with with Liza, I saw I saw. So
Speaker 1: Lisa did this reality show and she taped it in
Speaker 1: her apartment and she was married to David guests at
Speaker 1: the time, and somebody I know, a camera guy, had
Speaker 1: like two minutes of footage that we've watched endlessly on
Speaker 1: Loop and sat in his room and drank wine. It's
Speaker 1: the best two minutes of TV I'd ever seen. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'd have a lie, definitely, Liza would be in the house.
Speaker 1: And what's the last podcast that you've benched that I've
Speaker 1: listened to? Yeah? That you yeah? That? Or that you
Speaker 1: listen one? There's got Elviston ran on Z one hundred.
Speaker 1: There's a lady on his show called Bethanie Watson and
Speaker 1: her and two girls have a podcast. It's three of them,
Speaker 1: and I love it because I'm a guy and it's
Speaker 1: like listening to a lee and the most I mean
Speaker 1: and the nicest possible way that the questions they they
Speaker 1: ask and the things they say have me absolutely howling.
Speaker 1: And even as a gay man, I love how how
Speaker 1: different our minds work and our experience as a life is.
Speaker 1: And so the last what I listened to is Bethanie
Speaker 1: Watson's podcast on My Heart Now, and it's trific. It's
Speaker 1: really fun. Well, I hope the next time that someone
Speaker 1: asked you that question, the answer is Access podcast with Maddie. Maddie,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna listen to it right. Thank you for having
Speaker 1: the spending time with me. Bye. That was funny. That
Speaker 1: was He's great. I really enjoyed talking to him. You
Speaker 1: guys had a great rapport. I think guys like that
Speaker 1: are so used to not getting to talk about themselves
Speaker 1: because they're talking about celebrities all the time and everything,
Speaker 1: and and when you're in that kind of job, it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, hey, monkey boy, perform, you know,
Speaker 1: come on, talk about this one thing and then go
Speaker 1: um where. He's an interesting guy, Like I didn't even
Speaker 1: get into about half of the things I wanted to
Speaker 1: get into with him because I just I just find
Speaker 1: him to be a solid human being. I've read some
Speaker 1: good articles with him, and just he's he's he's just
Speaker 1: a good dude. I really liked him, So I hope
Speaker 1: he had a good time. I hope you like me.
Speaker 1: As you can tell, I don't have a voice. I'm
Speaker 1: a little sick. You got me sick? Thank you? No, No,
Speaker 1: it's the illness. It's going around the office. It's a plague.
Speaker 1: Um we call it. It's the I Heart Digital plague.
Speaker 1: Everybody's had it. Uh, we're all in quarantine. It's bad.
Speaker 1: It's bad, but we soldier on into our show. So see,
Speaker 1: I want you to talk a lot. Tell me about
Speaker 1: some podcasts that I need to be listening to. All right,
Speaker 1: So these are all based around pop culture culture podcast
Speaker 1: and the first is The Cooler with Emmanuel Jamdra and
Speaker 1: Carly It's part of San Francisco's NPR station k q
Speaker 1: e D. And they're young, they're fun. They just hit
Speaker 1: on anything that's going on recent to what's going on
Speaker 1: in the world, and funny and cute and yeah, I
Speaker 1: love this show. Let's let's hear a little taste of it.
Speaker 1: Now that I am a parent, I have to deal
Speaker 1: with this Valentine thing. Last year in kindergarten, I had
Speaker 1: decided what to do because you can't just go hand
Speaker 1: and candy out Willy Newly anymore. People have allergies. Some
Speaker 1: people it's like Halloween again, gluten free exactly. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: there are guidelines. It's like my childhood Celiac. No offense
Speaker 1: anyone with elect disease I hear it's bad. Now Jamdra
Speaker 1: has reached out. I think they're coming on the show hopefully.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get on there. I'm looking forward to having
Speaker 1: them on and they'll be in studio and we'll do
Speaker 1: that on a Facebook Clive too when they're in studio
Speaker 1: and access podcast. Yeah, we should have done today, but
Speaker 1: I wasn't feeling good. I don't feel like doing it.
Speaker 1: But we'll do more of that. We've got some cool
Speaker 1: cameras we built into the studios, and U and Z
Speaker 1: is the keeper of all of that. I am the gatekeeper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're. I don't think people know what a video
Speaker 1: queen you are. You work for the San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 1: I did The Warrior, the Warriors, Stanford on and on.
Speaker 1: Not the A's though, which are really the good ball
Speaker 1: team in the Bay Area anyway. So our next podcast
Speaker 1: is called The Daily and they're by the New York
Speaker 1: Times and it's hosted by Michael Barbaro. And like The Cooler,
Speaker 1: it really dives into a certain topic that's going on
Speaker 1: right in the moment. So sometimes politics right now, mostly
Speaker 1: about the Olympics, and I'll pick one little thing and
Speaker 1: explain it in twenty five minutes. This is for you,
Speaker 1: one of the hottest podcasts out right now right, So
Speaker 1: I start my day with it, you know, just to
Speaker 1: get a quick bit of news. Yeah, if you want
Speaker 1: to sound like you know what you're talking about with podcasts,
Speaker 1: exactly started the daily and they'd be like, so did
Speaker 1: you hear on the Daily today? And then people with
Speaker 1: automatically think you're smart. Let's hear a little taste this weekend.
Speaker 1: At the opening ceremonies of the two thousand and eighteen
Speaker 1: Winter Olympics, one hundred and sixty nine plainly dressed athletes
Speaker 1: arched out in drab gray coats and blue jeans, competing
Speaker 1: not for a country but under the name Olympic athlete
Speaker 1: from Russia. What Russia did in the last Winter Olympics
Speaker 1: to earn them that punishing I know. Two Dip Queens
Speaker 1: America America. The two Dip Queens TV thing was like listen,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'll go back to the podcast. Well, here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I'm against this in general because I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of audio and this American life couldn't pull it off.
Speaker 1: This American Life tried to do a TV show and
Speaker 1: they admit it fully that it didn't work because this
Speaker 1: is an audio medium. It just doesn't have Let you
Speaker 1: go on Facebook live for a quick minute. Then I
Speaker 1: feel like that works here and there. But yeah, a
Speaker 1: whole special or TV shows, it's just not for me.
Speaker 1: Not my thing. Not my thing. I'm an audio guy.
Speaker 1: But hey, you're gonna make a buck. Make a buck,
Speaker 1: and if you'd like to turn this into a television show,
Speaker 1: we absolutely love to do it. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I love talking with his voice. All right, what's kind next?
Speaker 1: So my last one is a sports slash art slash
Speaker 1: life one and it's called Open Run. I don't know
Speaker 1: this one. So it's by the Uninterrupted Network, which is
Speaker 1: Lebron James's network. And come on, Lebron James not a
Speaker 1: fan fan, I don't know, but I love you wor
Speaker 1: the finals? Once? How is how's Lebron when you're you're
Speaker 1: like working, you're down on the court, locked in. You know,
Speaker 1: he's focused. He's not rude to anybody, none of the
Speaker 1: players are. Yeah, he's not flirting or anything. No, he
Speaker 1: I mean Lebron. Once he's on the court, he's on
Speaker 1: the court. He's there to play the game. But you've
Speaker 1: had you've had some players flirt with you. I will
Speaker 1: not say you have had some with you. By Jesse Williams.
Speaker 1: Still the Lady. This is by Jesse Williams. Were talking
Speaker 1: about open red, Go ahead. Okay, so Jesse Williams, he's
Speaker 1: on Gray's Anatomy and Stefan Stephen, Mark Calacus, mar Lacus.
Speaker 1: Was it Draymond Green? Did my lips are sealed? It
Speaker 1: was Clay Thompson. He's quiet, but I bet he first,
Speaker 1: as he's super sweet, but it was not him. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great. They talked about sports. Sometimes they have Lebron
Speaker 1: on the show. They do live shows with like Real
Speaker 1: Union to talk a lot about the Warriors too, because
Speaker 1: you know that's cool. We are dope. Let's check it out.
Speaker 1: Let me spin you a little tale of childhood. Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan ruined my fifteenth birthday because, uh, I went to
Speaker 1: the Knicks Bulls game where he dropped the double double Nickel.
Speaker 1: I love, I love Lebron. I mean you can't, as
Speaker 1: if you're a fan, you have to. You have to
Speaker 1: appreciate what who he is and what he does, and
Speaker 1: but I can still just you know, hate on him
Speaker 1: for being Yeah, because he's a baby, and he cries,
Speaker 1: and he gets every call he wants, and he travels
Speaker 1: and and but he's he's oh my god, oh don't
Speaker 1: get me starting on that anyway. Go Warriors dubbed Nation Forever. Alright,
Speaker 1: good job, thank you. I appreciated those. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening to Access podcast everybody. The show was
Speaker 1: produced by z and we have had our engineering done
Speaker 1: by David Williams and Horse Wong and Red Reads a big,
Speaker 1: big help with us in the studio in fact, and Anna,
Speaker 1: let's mention Anna Anna, who's an engineer here who put
Speaker 1: in the video system which you'll be seeing on all
Speaker 1: of our podcasts here at iHeart Radio. After I reel
Speaker 1: against video and podcasting, but it's more making them in
Speaker 1: a tea shows. Casey Franco, thanks for all you do, Dalton,
Speaker 1: Sean Rick, everybody in the digital department here, special thanks
Speaker 1: to Chris Peterson, the godfather of podcast at I Heeart Radio,
Speaker 1: Katie Wilcox and on Um Parker here at I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio San Francisco. I am going to go drink some
Speaker 1: tea as you suggest tested and fix my voice. And
Speaker 1: all I want you to do is go to I
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Speaker 1: and check out some podcasts today and share them with
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