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Speaker 2: Okay, podcast starts now Wowow. Today we are in the
Speaker 2: studio in Hollywood, California.
Speaker 3: The life updates are NonStop, NonStop. I wish they would stop.
Speaker 3: I literally wish for one day there were no life updates.
Speaker 2: I would actually be so grateful for how to have
Speaker 2: one day where I don't have to text anyone that
Speaker 2: anything has happened.
Speaker 3: I swear to God, the way I am fielding phone
Speaker 3: calls left and right, you would not believe. So. First
Speaker 3: of all, I'm visiting La That's right to do my
Speaker 3: famous stand up show. So now two nights, Baby and
Speaker 3: I the other day, in the same day, you were
Speaker 3: in the hospital getting surgery while my sister in law
Speaker 3: was giving birth.
Speaker 4: Two hospitals, two coasts, two patients, two.
Speaker 3: Shows, and I am I'm feeling like, you know, the
Speaker 3: carmelo soprano, the matriarch at home. That's like, oh, my
Speaker 3: boys are are okay, that's my that's Carmel Southern Carmel soprando.
Speaker 3: And meanwhile, my mom, who's very invested in both things,
Speaker 3: like how's Sam, how's the baby?
Speaker 4: How's Sam? Calling me?
Speaker 3: The second I'm you know, entering a work there whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And then I'm visiting you at the hospital. I'm saying,
Speaker 3: I need to bring him two pastries. What if he's hungry?
Speaker 3: What if my boy is hungry? And guess what I was,
Speaker 3: and you were. Of course, I'm getting a FaceTime to
Speaker 3: meet the baby while I'm at the other hospital. Then
Speaker 3: I'm like in the lobby of the hospital, people around me,
Speaker 3: you know, having god knows what. And then I'm like
Speaker 3: in the best mood ever, being like she's so cute,
Speaker 3: and then everyone around me is like in the process
Speaker 3: of like dealing with some terrible illness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well you've really held it all together,
Speaker 2: my rock. You've been the rock to so many people
Speaker 2: this week. And yeah, I had a surgery and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm to the point and so many calls, so many texts.
Speaker 2: My family's like what's wrong, how are you? And I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't have time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well there is a I'm there is a sort
Speaker 3: of Munchausen esque thing happening with you where no one
Speaker 3: knows exactly what they do.
Speaker 2: Is well, it's because it's not like it's not like
Speaker 2: an easy it's not a quick word. You can't be like, oh,
Speaker 2: I had an appendectomy before, you know, it's sort of
Speaker 2: it's mine was sort.
Speaker 4: Of custom, yes, and you always go customer.
Speaker 2: I've never if you're getting your surgeries off the rack,
Speaker 2: you need to grow up. It's twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in Los Angeleshilosopher's weekend, like if you're if you're
Speaker 3: out there literally getting like you're like amputated, Like, grow
Speaker 3: up up, get a custom surgery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just know that it's perfectly fine. And was
Speaker 2: sort of kidney related and yeah, I'm going to say it.
Speaker 2: I have a catheterin currently.
Speaker 3: So we were saying, you know, we'll bring our guests
Speaker 3: in a second, and I am dying too. But the
Speaker 3: big debate this weekend was we are having you know,
Speaker 3: one of our true idols, role models, like she is mother,
Speaker 3: you know, everyone a raise, everyone has voted, and she
Speaker 3: is the President of the United States. Yes, and meanwhile,
Speaker 3: you have a catheter and there's no way around it
Speaker 3: around debate is do.
Speaker 4: We were like, will.
Speaker 3: Kathy find it funny if we bring it up, or
Speaker 3: will she immediately leave the room?
Speaker 5: To me?
Speaker 2: To me, it had to be brought up because it
Speaker 2: is so notable it is and I didn't.
Speaker 4: Know what was going to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I like the fear that struck me when
Speaker 2: the doctor told me that, And then I was like,
Speaker 2: the first thing I thought was like, so I'm going
Speaker 2: to be in a room with Kathy Griffin trying to
Speaker 2: do a comedy podcast while I have a catheter in.
Speaker 3: Okay, we actually need to bring her in because I'm
Speaker 3: shaking with anticipation. Oh my god, please welcome you become
Speaker 3: literally the president of the United States.
Speaker 4: Kathy Griffins.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I love her. She is around applause
Speaker 5: all right, first time. I'm so honored because I went
Speaker 5: on Twitter before it became x which is now just
Speaker 5: a Nazi playground, but prior to that, when it mattered,
Speaker 5: I asked to my fans, I said, Gaga has her monsters,
Speaker 5: Nick Minaj has the barbs. What do you guys want
Speaker 5: to be called? And the number one vote was they
Speaker 5: wanted to be called catheters. Oh my god, wow, I
Speaker 5: am honored and my catheters support you. I have had
Speaker 5: a catheter. I found it to be a great relief
Speaker 5: because when I didn't have it and could not void,
Speaker 5: which is the doctor word for me, it was so painful.
Speaker 5: I felt like somebody was standing on my bladder with
Speaker 5: a combat boot laughing. So my question is, how does
Speaker 5: your dick feel uncomfortable?
Speaker 2: Okay, it feels uncomfortable, but it's been getting better every day.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I've had it since Thursday. How long do
Speaker 2: we have it till Monday?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 2: But will say it feels every time I move. I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And the big part of the narrative is Sam's doctor
Speaker 3: is being very chill about all of this. Sam didn't
Speaker 3: even know he was going to have to do this,
Speaker 3: and the doctor was like, what's the big deal, right.
Speaker 2: He was like, well, most people will even want this,
Speaker 2: Like why are you being so weird about it?
Speaker 4: And You're like, well, I have to I have work,
Speaker 4: Like why be able to go to work? She's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: why wouldn't you.
Speaker 5: He's like, okay, well it's a normal letter that the
Speaker 5: doctors acting like none of us don't have a catheter.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then I also felt gaslap because I told my
Speaker 3: mom and I was like, isn't it crazy that we're
Speaker 3: going to you know, have to record in sama the
Speaker 3: caather And she's like, what's the big deal. I'm like,
Speaker 3: why is everyone trying to getsbating?
Speaker 4: It's normal?
Speaker 2: My mom was like that's horrible, And I was like, okay, well,
Speaker 2: don't go that hard, like I do have to do
Speaker 2: it with the baby.
Speaker 5: Wish I had one in, But I'm also granting that
Speaker 5: it's horrible and it also could be normalized for people.
Speaker 4: Normal normalized guys.
Speaker 6: Thank you. It's about time.
Speaker 4: It's about time I start the movement.
Speaker 2: I'm going out to dinner tonight, and I think it's
Speaker 2: I cannot something about how funny it will be to
Speaker 2: be having a martini and a catheter.
Speaker 6: As you can often. Are you going to drain yourself?
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to go as often as maybe
Speaker 2: like every.
Speaker 4: Hour, when the bag feels when the else.
Speaker 2: I keep saying for some reason, I keep referring to
Speaker 2: having the catheter as Diva Mode unlocked.
Speaker 5: Well, that's fabulous, that is fabulous.
Speaker 6: Right, turn that front upside down with that, I don't
Speaker 6: even need to pee.
Speaker 3: No Diva, honestly, Disa Mode Unlocked would be a great
Speaker 3: album title for you.
Speaker 4: It would be really good special type.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that's really genius.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 3: I have to confront about something which is so I'm
Speaker 3: as everyone every listener knows.
Speaker 4: I grew up in Greece. My family is Greek. And
Speaker 4: I happened.
Speaker 3: To see on a social media platform that you went
Speaker 3: to Madonna with ne e Verdalos my number one.
Speaker 5: The Queen of Greece, literally, the queen. She is the
Speaker 5: Britney spears of Greece. She cannot go three feet in
Speaker 5: Greece without being mobbed by.
Speaker 4: Fans literally, and that's not a joke.
Speaker 3: And I last summer was in Greece and my friend
Speaker 3: of mine.
Speaker 5: From my big fact the Empire franchise.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I was recently watching Curb. She's
Speaker 3: in a season one episod sort of Curb. Oh, Larry's
Speaker 3: like doctor or something. Remember, she's great, She's incredible. One
Speaker 3: of the biggest like pains of my life was I
Speaker 3: was in Greece and my friend had me over for
Speaker 3: lunch or something, and it turned out that the day previous,
Speaker 3: the previous day, she had had Nea Verdalos over and
Speaker 3: I had missed that lunch and went to the other lunch.
Speaker 6: That is a.
Speaker 4: Stranger That.
Speaker 6: Is not appropriate when you could have been with the
Speaker 6: Queen of Greece.
Speaker 4: Literally, So how was are you friends with her?
Speaker 5: I'm friends with there. We've been friends for a long time.
Speaker 5: I don't even remember how I met her. You know,
Speaker 5: a lot of these clubs I meet him at like that.
Speaker 6: I call it the charity circuit.
Speaker 4: Yes, you know.
Speaker 5: I went to a thing last night for the Gay
Speaker 5: and Lesbian Center and I ran into Gabrielle Union, who
Speaker 5: I haven't seen in years, or Gabby as I call her,
Speaker 5: or at least as she was called back in the day.
Speaker 5: And I don't know how I know Nia, but I
Speaker 5: love that she has this one country where she can
Speaker 5: go and she's got to have security and everybody wants
Speaker 5: a piece of her.
Speaker 6: And then she goes and Hey is out with Tom
Speaker 6: and Rita.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh I know Rita.
Speaker 6: The honorary King and Queen of.
Speaker 4: Greece and not even honorary. Excuse you, Rita will sorry.
Speaker 6: That's right, that's right, but there are two Greeks queens.
Speaker 3: When I was growing up, the big thing was Tom
Speaker 3: and Rita had a home in I believe in Tipers,
Speaker 3: which is an island, and he would there were stories
Speaker 3: that he would grill on the beach and like give
Speaker 3: everyone like a little blacky little.
Speaker 5: Sausage, getting getting sausage from Tom Hanks and.
Speaker 4: readA of course, you know, dancing in the corner traditional.
Speaker 2: Yea, yeah, do you feel like the neoverardalas? Okay, guys
Speaker 2: kind of yeah.
Speaker 5: When we went to Madonna, I don't know if you
Speaker 5: know the movie Soap Dish, but it's one of my favorites.
Speaker 5: And there's a great scene where Sally Field isn't getting
Speaker 5: recognized enough and so Woopy Gilbert takes her to a
Speaker 5: mall in Jersey. And I have to admit walking into
Speaker 5: the Madonna concert with Cia Harris, Hilton Lunel and the
Speaker 5: of ar Dallas and I got a lot of shout outs,
Speaker 5: like a lot of hay hay, and I was stopping
Speaker 5: and they are of course very famous, so they're all
Speaker 5: going really fast get into the seats. I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: speed up that moment, so I was slowing down posing
Speaker 5: I like it. Old Paris at least three times and said,
Speaker 5: you're on your own, bitch, it's my time now. But
Speaker 5: it was a fantastic night. We had a wild girls
Speaker 5: evening and I did do a post about it on
Speaker 5: my TikTok or my Instagram you can see it. Because
Speaker 5: as much as we all worship the Queen Madonna, I
Speaker 5: did not know she has a strict no air conditioning policy,
Speaker 5: which Rosie o'donnald said extends to her life and her homes. Yes,
Speaker 5: because she thinks it's unhealthy. And so we ended up
Speaker 5: leaving early because I'm an older gal, and we actually
Speaker 5: started getting overheated. And even though Paris Hilton was dressed
Speaker 5: up like S and M Madonna in some little off
Speaker 5: of sheet got from trashy laingerie that day, Lunelle was
Speaker 5: in like these fendy sweaters and see you had on
Speaker 5: this big taff at a gown that had layer to it,
Speaker 5: and we kept tripping on it and sitting on it.
Speaker 5: So we ended up having to leave early. And as
Speaker 5: a gay man. I feel very pachy about that, and
Speaker 5: I would not be surprised if man Donna yelled at me,
Speaker 5: although I don't know her, but if I ever met her,
Speaker 5: I'm ready for her to yell at me and say,
Speaker 5: who do you think you are leaving my show?
Speaker 4: I think it would be an honor for you to
Speaker 4: be Yeah, that would be I would.
Speaker 6: Be laughing and crying at the same time. And Dovini,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 4: She yelled at him. She yelled at Andy Cohen when
Speaker 4: I saw her. Somebody should well.
Speaker 3: I mean you're talking I think there are now Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's true.
Speaker 2: Wait, why did she yell at him because she was
Speaker 2: like she sort of saw him stop saying bad show?
Speaker 3: Yeah because he yeah, because he like talks about her
Speaker 3: on Watch What Happens Live, and she like spotted him
Speaker 3: in the crowd and was like, Andy, you stupid.
Speaker 6: Yes, I look.
Speaker 5: I gotta say. I loved her show. I think it's
Speaker 5: an amazing show. You should go see it if you can't.
Speaker 5: And the fact that she's doing the same dance moves
Speaker 5: as the freaking videos in the MTV Heyday and she's
Speaker 5: sixty five is pure inspiration. And so I've been reading
Speaker 5: a lot of ages comments on TikTok and Instagram, and
Speaker 5: I'm not having it. That is our queen. And does
Speaker 5: she sing? You know, probably not, but we don't really
Speaker 5: go to hear.
Speaker 6: The actual scene.
Speaker 5: She's not Maria Collis. I'm just saying she never was,
Speaker 5: but she's our Madonna. And the way she gives up
Speaker 5: the hits and she sings bad Girl, which she hardly
Speaker 5: ever sings Live and Lived to Tell, and she gives
Speaker 5: up the hits and it's a two and a half
Speaker 5: hour show, you know, not that I know because we
Speaker 5: love her. They tell me no, but it's a great show.
Speaker 5: And I love that she's doing it at sixty five
Speaker 5: because I don't think it's desperate. I think she's proving
Speaker 5: a point that while Share still tours, which is also
Speaker 5: one of my faves, but Madonna, just the dancing part
Speaker 5: is what kills me. And just you know that Jana
Speaker 5: Jackson tour is also amazing, and Janet at sixty is
Speaker 5: doing the same moves from the videos and also not singing,
Speaker 5: but not important to me, not important to me.
Speaker 4: Who is singing?
Speaker 6: Sea?
Speaker 5: Okay, Miley, I.
Speaker 4: Love my.
Speaker 6: Y I am over.
Speaker 4: I don't need everyone. I mean here's the big question.
Speaker 6: For I need to sing. Oh god, no.
Speaker 5: But when I did go see her Vegus residency, I
Speaker 5: did go with a genuine heterosexual who I dragged.
Speaker 6: Beautiful, who I'm divorcing because of this. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5: But he turned to me and he about twenty minutes in,
Speaker 5: so sincerely, he goes, I don't think she's even really singing.
Speaker 6: I think she's lip singing, sinking. I go, look around,
Speaker 6: you think these guys care. These guys are doing.
Speaker 5: Car wheels, their phones are out, they're jumping up and
Speaker 5: down and dancing.
Speaker 6: Nobody gives a shit. She's doing the best she can. Brittany.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's why Miley is such a big deal
Speaker 3: when she comes out, because people are like, oh my god.
Speaker 4: People can sing if they want.
Speaker 5: Kelly Clarkson, Kelly Clarkson, she can see anything.
Speaker 4: No, you know what, the big mystery is what Beyonce.
Speaker 5: Beyonce probably does. I would think she does like half
Speaker 5: it half because you can't dance that much and say,
Speaker 5: that's what people have to understand. She's really really moving
Speaker 5: around doing real choreography. So she's probably got the autotune mic,
Speaker 5: which is also fine. With me, with Me, it's part
Speaker 5: of the show, and it's a show, not a recording session. No,
Speaker 5: we're not in the studio with Phil Spector trying not
Speaker 5: to get shot. We're just trying to make the case
Speaker 5: happy and do a lot of fun dancing.
Speaker 2: M That was an incredible little snippet to hear the
Speaker 2: rest of the episode. Fine Stradio Lab, wherever you get
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Speaker 4: Now, get back to work. We don't pay to just
Speaker 4: sit around and listen to gay guys talk. Bye.