Peyton Dex and Hunter Harris dive into a lively, multi-layered discussion blending pop culture critiques and personal reflections. They open with a deep dive into Love Island USA, dissecting its dynamics, including controversial moments like a man revealing he’s the father of a child from a relationship and a teen giving head during a family drive, which they call “off-the-dome genius.” The conversation extends to Summer House, where they analyze the evolving friendship between Amanda and Sierra, noting it’s marked by emotional imbalance and unreciprocated effort. They also explore broader cultural issues, including the performative celebration of Black love on reality TV, such as Nick from Nickelandria’s public declarations, and the perceived performative nature of Black women’s visibility in media. A major personal story is shared: Hunter recounts how he had a stroke at age 30 due to a congenital heart hole, which was quickly diagnosed and treated. This experience informs his upcoming one-woman show, *Broad Strokes*, where he reflects on survival, resilience, and his deep bond with close friend Hayley Bieber, whom he sees as a kindred spirit. The episode also touches on health trends, like using smart mattresses and Aura rings, and includes humor about reality TV tropes, such as the “silly goose” energy of characters and the absurdity of musical theater fashion. Throughout, the hosts maintain a warm, self-reflective tone, emphasizing authenticity, personal growth, and the shared experience of navigating complex social landscapes. The discussion blends humor, vulnerability, and cultural insight, creating a rich, layered commentary on modern entertainment and identity.
We've got a great show today.
Oh, we've got a lot to talk about.
We are doing a little bit of queening out.
We're doing queening out.
I've always said that about us.
We have comedian, actress, icon, Kat Cohen coming soon in about five minutes.
Scroll if you want to skip us, but you better not.
We're talking all things.
We talk Summer House.
We're talking Love Island USA.
Love Island USA.
We're talking about Kat's new show, Broad Strokes.
Yeah, and a little musical theater.
If you're a musical theater kid, this is an ep for you.
Every ep is with us.
That's true.
We give them a show, a little song and a little dance.
But I guess before we get into all that, you know, every time that I see Hunter Biden tweet,
I think of you.
Did you see that tweet?
I reposted it on my story that Hunter Biden gave up crack.
His release Twitter engagement was actually the best drug.
Can we say crack early in the episode?
Do you think?
I cracked my phone.
I don't know.
I'm looking forward to cracking up.
Y'all listen to this podcast right now.
But I feel like there's been so many things happening online actually this weekend away where I'm like, my cup runneth over.
Yes, agree.
One of those things is how I can never listen to a Michael Jackson song in the same way again.
Why?
Yeah.
You know why.
There's actually a few reasons I thought why, but now I know why.
Here's your PSA.
I was in Paris and I had a cab driver and this man told me, you look like Michael Jackson.
And I said,
what?
And he said,
you resemble Michael Jackson.
I said,
what?
He said,
yeah,
you know,
Janet Jackson.
I like,
yeah,
they're related.
Yeah.
So are you.
And you think that's the worst part of the story?
No,
I made a viral to talk about it,
brag.
And the comments said,
yeah,
you do look like Michael Jackson.
Have,
have a thousand people ever told you like Michael Jackson in the nose and in the lips
and the nose and the lips.
There's nowhere for me to go.
That's safe in this room right now.
Nowhere for me to go.
Actually,
I'm just like,
I hate this.
Take top back anyway.
I'm closing it.
No,
let's ban it.
Yeah.
And it now bring back the band.
No Hunter earnestly text me like,
wait,
it's like,
do you see it?
Or like,
I'm just,
cause I'm getting confused.
And I'm like,
baby,
you don't look like my,
and then I sent you that one photo and you said,
no,
wait now.
And actually in this photo,
I do see it and I'm not proud of it.
We got to share the photo.
The audience was you tell us they're like,
we already told her.
No,
that's crazy.
She's not listening.
That was a lashing occurred.
I'm so sorry.
This is like when I told you,
you look like Bernie Mac in that one photo and I did
though.
I,
we got that,
this carousel promo size about to hit that picture.
And me as a child looking literally,
it's actually the craziest thing because people don't believe
me when I say like,
I was like a late bloomer.
Like I used to have your dad's face.
I have,
I used to have my dad's face thing.
God,
I found my mother's,
but people don't believe me.
And then I tell them about the time that Hunter was like,
saw this one photo of me on in the Bahamas.
And I was fitted.
I thought I was looking like Raven Simone.
That's what I thought I was giving.
And Hunter looks at and goes,
why do you look like Bernie Mac?
But you did.
And that's just a smile.
I mean,
I'm like that.
So that's a king of comedy right there.
Which way should I go?
Are you joking brother?
And then I looked at the photo and I said,
well,
yes.
So Hunter does just have a pair of two eyes and yeah,
we wouldn't be this funny though.
If we weren't cute.
You're really cute.
Nerdy kid though.
Why was she like a beautiful child?
I was a beautiful baby.
It was eight and about 14 that things went a little
bit.
That's where the Bernie Mac pic was.
That's where I developed a personality through those years.
I was like,
I'm gonna be funny if I got nothing else,
I'm leaving here with something.
But anyway,
so yeah,
we were trauma bonded.
No,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
You know who else has trauma bonded?
Who?
The entire city of New York,
all five boroughs,
Nick's in how many four?
And I held up a three and a four.
Wait.
And you know,
Lewis was trying to teach me that.
I,
yeah,
yeah,
I got a little too gay with it.
Just here's the thing.
I've been a lifelong Knicks fan and you're a bandwagoner.
Of course.
Batty,
you love batty bandwagon.
You love bandwagoning.
I,
however,
have been in the trenches.
The last,
the last two years.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have been.
Spike Lee's like,
what about some 78?
There's nothing like the Knicks being out to win a championship.
And it's the year that I,
this year's my 10 year anniversary in New York.
So I'm just saying some things are in alignment.
Yes.
We get here.
They set their P word up.
Yes.
Who's your favorite Knick?
Okay.
I'm stuck between cat.
Cat daddy.
Big cat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um,
because one,
like to be serious,
like the,
his grief,
has he lost his mom and like the way that's been integrated in his story that I'm,
I'm,
I'm learning.
I'm learning.
I told you,
we were at the U S open together.
Cat and I,
big cat.
Oh,
did you talk to him?
I said,
what up?
I talked to his publicist a lot.
Nice guy.
That always takes us.
Um,
but something I'm really taken by is like the homoerotic,
deeply beautiful friendship that I said,
didn't respond to me when I said this,
which felt really good by the way.
But I said to Hunter,
this like fan cam edit of,
um,
Brunson.
And,
uh,
heart.
And they,
they,
Ooh,
heart love to play.
He just like me.
He has silly goals.
Hunter hates a silly goose.
Just like Brunson.
He's like,
we are literally in a press conference right now.
Can you stop eating a chicken wing?
And I'm like,
if that is not Hunter Yvonne Harris and me,
my phone fell.
it's just,
I was like,
Oh,
that's our dad.
You sent it to me.
And I was like,
I don't know who I am.
Cause I do feel spiritually very Josh Hart.
Okay.
Yeah.
I saw Brunson though is a little bit,
I mean,
he's,
he's giving like preacher's kid to me.
He's coach's son.
So,
and,
but that is my energy.
Sometimes I'm,
I'm willing to admit it.
It's only,
I feel like you have heart quality outside of me,
but,
uh,
we like get in our dynamic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Cause I,
I see heart in you too.
Yeah.
I see heart in you too.
Cause I read a big heart and I'm always saying it.
You've been opening it up lately too.
Big heart,
bigger ass.
We can't curse in the beginning of the episode.
Big heart,
bigger bleep.
But you know,
fill in the blank.
Big titty,
big booty.
We doing it.
We doing the damn thing over here.
Okay.
Let's get into this episode before we say something stupid.
All right.
Lock in.
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I'm Peyton Dex and I'm Hunter Harris.
And this is,
let me say this.
Let me say this.
Nixon four.
Oh,
thank God.
Thank God you're here.
We have to go in with us today.
I'm so happy.
She's got a blowout for this.
Got a blowout for this.
Like that's only for this.
That's how serious.
Dry bar Boston.
Wait,
and let's,
let's wake it up.
Can I talk about dry bar?
Dry bar used to mean something.
Dry bar used to be a place where you were treated like the princess you are.
You walk in champagne.
Yes.
It's cool.
Yes.
It's cool.
It's air conditioning.
The gals,
I'll come this way.
Come this way.
Dry bar.
Now you walk in.
First of all,
no free drink to everything's always like,
there's always like a loose fan.
The electricity is half out.
It's hot.
The women are like sweating.
The door is always open.
I'm like,
why keep it open?
They're not okay at dry bar.
And it's the last thing I'll say in my whole life,
by the way.
But when I went to dry bar in San Francisco,
I had to tell the amazing woman who did my hair.
And by the way,
I love her so much.
I had to go.
My hair,
it's a little wet.
Right.
That's the one thing.
Style me wrong,
but at least get the hair dry.
It is what's dry bar.
If you can't go to dry bar for a blowout,
where the hell can you go?
Where the hell can you go?
Someone needs to save it because I was in Boston
staying in this horrific hotel.
The kind of hotel where I was like,
I can't wash my hair in the shower.
You had me at Boston.
I kind of assumed it from there.
You weren't safe there.
I just got back.
I can't talk about it.
I'm traumatized.
But thank you to everyone who came out.
Love it.
Love your city.
Love your town.
Love your town.
Anyways,
so I did have to go to dry bar,
but I want someone to save dry bar.
Yeah.
Like it's an indie bookshop.
You're picketing.
Okay,
here's the thing.
Last time I went to a dry bar,
which was brave of me as a black woman to go.
I have a pretty loose curl pattern though.
Like it's not difficult to get my shit like straight,
but I was in a pickle and I was like,
okay,
what's the worst I can do?
It was like a lot,
by the way.
It got to a point where like the woman doing my hair was like,
I actually don't,
I think I can like handle it.
Like I can't.
She rejected you?
Like how does it have someone sub in?
No.
Mind you,
I'm barely rocking three C,
you know,
and it's like,
there's no reason.
She just kind of moved things around,
like wash my hair,
move things around and was like,
wow.
At what stage do you think she knew in the washing?
She's like,
I got to call him back up.
I think she knew when I walked in.
Cause she saw that I was black.
She's like,
she said,
oops.
I had a sub in SF.
I had a sub in SF.
I had three women.
Yeah.
It's always a woman.
And there's always beef between them.
Like there's always a storyline.
They don't want to be there either.
I don't blame them.
They don't want to be a dry bar.
I think on the tier of like jobs that really seem like day after day slog,
it's like TSA,
like clear agents and like dry bar divas.
It does not seem good for them.
There's a mutual suffering.
You know who I'm really worried about?
Have y'all been to the air ancient baths in Tribeca?
No.
Are you a freaking flyer?
No.
No, I've only been once.
Okay.
And it's similar even to bathhouse.
unfortunately yeah me too and so i'm worried about the people who work in these dark wet spaces
bring them into the light like in the dungeon you know i'm literally like are y'all they're
wearing like just sneakers yeah i mean everyone's naked i'm like are you guys okay this is fucked
up you have to work here yeah yeah we need to save them so we like now it's just like this is
basically like a summer house recap pod at this point so well i'm so happy to share with y'all
that i had never seen never seen it until 2.5 months ago i went to the source i went to season
one i watched and please do hospitalize me immediately i watched 10 seasons in two and a
half months and i'm caught up wow so let's go but see i love the cops i love that about you i love
a completist i love someone who is like if we're gonna do it we're gonna do it all the way yeah
yeah because it does inform the dynamics yeah yeah and i actually wish i did go back to like
i started i think like set
what?
well i've got i'm like love island just started i might i'm just like got a lot of work to do
yeah yeah and me complaining like to my parents about my my job of like i have to just catch up
on the violin and then i have to do it's just like it's been a long day it is a part-time job
though it really is i'm fully second screen i'm like you have to be though okay obvious question
but lover hater summer house obsessed okay it's the best okay the only thing it's not as good as
vanderpump rules that's okay i just found out ariana maddox is bi i just found out and you
know how i react to it
that's a huge part of her story about bisexuals interesting it's i didn't realize she was getting
eaten out in the back of a car by lala yes whoever that is diva lala just said on the valley i
actually need to get like a job like because lala you know all the programs lala said she only eats
cookie when she's drunk what do you think about that she's a muncher chomp chomp actually i
chomp chomp okay sorry very quick side note i went to get a facial they did an intraoral massage
a couple months ago a couple months ago oh no no it was it was like a surprise intraoral massage i was
like i don't think i need this she's like it's okay let's do it i was like oh okay then she's
like okay i'm gonna put my finger my thumb in your mouth and just chomp and so for the next 20 minutes
i swear to god she said chomp chomp no no no chomp no and i was like did you chomp history has been
something has happened here of course i chomped she was making me chomp no it didn't feel good
okay it really did not feel good i actually yeah it i did not but did you look snatched after like
did it do something it didn't matter i was so chomp now has like this like fight or flight
response in me excuse me in your mouth yeah i'm like oh god okay chomp okay summer house
lover or hater of this whole amanda west sierra kyle drama like do you feel like this is a
scandal oh i completely agree with you and i don't i've never watched pump rules so i'm not
super informed to make that decision well you're so lucky because now you have a gift to look
forward to exactly thank you what amanda what amanda does era is outrageous yeah it's just
that's what it is it's that friendship watching that friendship grow and watching i'm just
completely shocked but you know it's funny i kind of really wish that i watched it without knowing
what happened because when you said their friendship was growing i was like i think it
stayed the same the entire time
yeah only because amanda so much of her storyline was just kyle and sierra i feel like you see her
four more unique friendships with like page having um mia on even um the new who's the
sabrina bell sabrina bell is everything to me by the way their friendship felt fake i was like
sabrina i'm not in on but she is in the stars sabrina something i'm not i'm not gonna say no
to her just yet because you know i like a bitch that's
in the moon like i'm like come on down to earth diva i'm obsessed with her but i yeah their
relationship just like kind of felt stagnant to me or by force because like kyle was dogging her
and she didn't have page left in the house and so like the only other person i miss page i love her
i would die she's such a star i felt like amanda and sierra was like the friend you grew up with
from home that like maybe you aren't that close with but like she's there yeah yeah that's kind
of amanda's vibe but i do i mean one of my favorite parts of their friendship is the way that sierra
from early days is like i need you to like step it up like you're cool as hell like you're a pretty
girl like you have so much to offer what are you doing so you're still working at lover boy like
start being a swimsuit entrepreneur yeah they had to come to jesus i'm sorry at old navy they
had to come to jesus is that where they shot that i remember that life happens at old navy
life starts at old navy just by the way one of my best baby teas i fucking love old navy yeah
they have hits also like that mid-tier
fashion is like coming back in a really big way i agree like they're doing their stuff gap and
day crew by the way and what were you saying oh i was gonna say like maybe the more accurate thing
to say is like it was a one-sided friendship where like you see sierra putting in all this
like effort and energy and you don't ever really see amanda returning it in what feels like to me
like a real way yes but i think that's like really amanda's deficiency like amanda i cannot think of
her in a friendship where it has felt like totally reciprocated or except for west which listen um but
i do think that this i interviewed sierra and i asked her if she felt that amanda had been jealous
of her and she said that she didn't think so or she wasn't sure but i think that there's just a
way especially toward the end of this season where you see her like really laying it amanda laying it
on thick like on the conversation with mia at the beach when she's like uh west is so he like needs
to be you know like um on his like best behavior with her like sierra is so amazing like i only
want the best for her whatever and it's like the way that you're selling
this it's like a hat on top of a hat you're really like doing too much yeah and that's
when i started thinking maybe this did go back longer yeah than we're thinking like not even
the affair but just like the jealous like their dynamic between them kind of went sour because
why is amanda going above and beyond to like appreciate sierra right right when it's like
yeah like you sound like someone who's like about to betray her yeah that's the voice of someone
who's about to betray me yeah what's the one in the bible yeah yeah what's the one in the
bible so that's the bible jesus saying i think one of you bitches about to betray me wait i literally
saw this tweet that was like um imagine inviting like 12 of your like homies to see who betrays you
and i was like wait did sierra do this like i was like and then i realized it was about the bible
so my brain one day is gonna work sierra is jesus in sub-communities like totally it is the last
supper when they gather around the table oh the freedom dinner oh my god when they recline at the
table for the freedom dinner like wow well first of all i'm curious when do you think it did start
with amanda and west i think it started in the house even if it wasn't physical i think it
definitely start emotionally definitely start because first of all why yeah why are you and
also there is a moment at the freedom dinner when kyle was having his breakdown where the west was
like that's like like fucking like rosa parks was there that's what that's what lindsey lindsey's
allowed to call that dude she gets my bad but there's a moment where amanda's like trying to
calm kyle by fully putting her hand around his throat which i'm like so how's that gonna work
no um and kyle's like whispering in her ear and like grabbing her here grabbing her here i'm like
oh you mean west west was doing that yes sorry yeah um but that's like not a way that you rub
up on someone who is like just a casual friend because meanwhile whenever karl went to say like
amanda like that's fucked up that he said that to you whatever it was way more like
listen i'm so sorry about that like it was way that and not like yeah i know
hair body face they're like nuzzling it's yeah yeah yeah yeah imagine hugging your male friend
like i'm like it grosses me out well to hug a man that way is i know but every now and then
wait but can i ask a quick like digression what's the friendship dynamic on on vanderpump though like
as good as good friends no that's that's why it's like raquel was so random oh i was like okay i mean
it was crazy because she was in the friend group but it wasn't like yeah raquel and ariana were
besties okay like they weren't bed bugs yeah they weren't like yeah we were bed bugs together
um okay well i'm curious in this reunion like who do you think is taking it i mean i'm trying
to remember and how do you think amanda is taking it actually let's start there well i'm like worried
she's not with us i think that she's lobotomized a little bit yeah beta blockers should release a
statement like we did not have any part as a beta blocker frequent flyer when i get anxious that's
never how anyone i know acts like it's crazy she seems like just like her natural affect of
carelessness is like really on 10 in this reunion yeah she makes me sad i think sierra and lindsey
are doing amazing work
i'm gonna say pathy wait what is that i thought it was pathological liar oh so she's like oh she's
making it her own she goes you're path you're you're a path she said what you're a pathy we
don't believe anything you say it rolled off the tongue you're a pathy i go oh my god i go rewind
rewind i'll literally make brian go back and go back i said miriam webster hello get on your zoom
get to work word of 2026 pathy pathy was crazy what is a pathy and i was waiting for him the
whole time i started the show i go i'm waiting for you to be charming i'm waiting for you to
be charming yeah crickets okay and wake that up because i've always felt like west is a silly
goose and i don't like silly geese i he's giving no he's like giving very class clown middle school
boy af i don't know and he walks around with his belly all out like a toddler i don't like it i
don't like anything about it tumbling okay i do think white boys specifically who have like a
certain proximity to blackness gets boys very far because it may in the in the white boy or you like
boy community i think it's like a little bit of like a lie to say that he wasn't charming to this
group of girls and then i think especially sierra when you're like in this like very capital w white
space where like you see a boy that kind of feels like you at least understand bits of my culture
i'm gonna maybe point to you and you can play with me a little bit like she likes that like
will they won't they dynamic so like i'm just holding space for like i've dated a lot of
fucking fools and you know what and
honestly if you've dated a fool call me okay there's a support group we meet thursdays at six
but like it just i think he has a charm to him that now is really easy to like erase but there
was something that worked i think because of his whole complex thing like working a complex and
like being working fun yeah yeah i was like what did he do a youtube show or something like all
they do is instagram memes like that's all they do um but i do think you're right especially in
the house and as someone who's seen it from the very beginning it does feel like culturally a
space where west coming in his first party he brings black friends yeah and that feels huge
and i think that over time he just like maybe is so has like the this chameleon quality where he
becomes silly or goofier with like jesse solomon and i think the west that enters this house is
different from like the west that eventually becomes like the fan favorite i think he really
does like some yeah uh shape-shifting code switching in a way that is which he's calling
out now a little bit yeah yeah you move so different depending on who you're around and
that to me is the cardinal sin of bravo it's like that's why luanne was fired from roni for those
seasons where it's like if you live your life one way on camera and one way off camera no everyone
hates that it's like not it doesn't logically it can't work with that what was the wind's journey
with that she was like very marnie very like prim and proper yeah that matters book um and then
meanwhile the women are like we know that you're like
out here receiving dick we know you yeah and then she was a friend of and then she came back when
she was like willing to be like okay yeah i'm gonna fuck a pirate in a bush like i'm gonna do
what i'm gonna do speaking french to try and cover it up it's like you're still mic'd yeah
it was incredible like yeah i just did that watch last summer oh that was bliss i couldn't believe
that you get you get to work you are watching the show it's i was just telling i was just telling
you like i had never really gotten into reality tv until the pandemic yeah and then now it's like
there's so much amazing and it really women's stories matter it they just matter what did you
start with what was your entry point housewives entry point was love island oh like during like
dark days of the pandemic okay okay okay and then i got into the bravo the my gateway drug to bravo
was vanderpump i might need to take a hit of that it's crazy can i start somewhere later though do i
have to start from oh i wouldn't want you to not the beginning is it's like early housewives it's
like they don't know what they're doing they don't they're not yeah they're not performing yeah they're just
the one-liners are amazing yeah they're they're going there's a scene where kristin is about to
work out and she's ripping shots before her workout it's like that is the energy of vanderpump she is
just like me she's like quick shot and her trainer's like hell yeah like it's insane
but i see what you're saying i agree west you know he did have i it's hard to remember that
when he first came he was really good to her and like they had they clearly had chem yeah yeah and
then he just becomes someone else you're right yeah bathie i was rooting for jesse solomon and
sierra to make it work honestly i think what do you think about him it i'm an ally to the jesse
solomon community yeah i'm open now you just got so shy like he's in the room she's like jesse come
on now oh my god she tucks her hair behind her ears so coy what can i say no i'm sorry he's funny
he's so funny he's so sweet but you don't think he's a silly goose though he is a silly goose but
he's um tall and so that really does make a difference if you're if you're a silly goose
from up here honey let's be silly together right if you're silly it was from you're chuckling down
below like yeah i'm like but also like i streamed his music and i didn't hate it and then everyone
pointed a gun at me and now i'm into my own i love it i was like you have bars when he was
singing what would jesse solomon do at that did i was like you know you can sing too like you
you're doing this like you're doing a full song you're doing a bridge you're doing like a an extra
course just because you know you can i just remember a scene where he's like by the pool
and he's like it's so embarrassing i just wrote a song about this girl yeah and amanda's like okay
and i'm like jesse no but he is really funny but you know who's really funny i'm sorry kyle oh well
that's a comedian this is the funniest comedian i ever met you got to get him on your show i would
die i never met him but i do feel like these people are my close close friends i okay i know
that kyle is a bad husband of course and i know that he has made mistakes of course but who among
us has not i mean you can be a bad husband and a comedian my dad did it like it's fine and it's
allowed to learn close up i was on the vile files last week in los angeles oh my god okay okay
i have a lot of now i've heard it all so at this point i've heard everything
but i bring that up because on that show we talked about this fan theory that west wants amanda to
break up with him that he is like actually dara can you repeat what you just said now that amanda
is back on the sofa that i don't care about women that i'm a bad boyfriend that i will cheat on her
that i will lie to her face um and i truly think that he just like got caught up he thought okay
amanda is never gonna like break up our whole friend group like blow up her whole life for this
like rebound she does and then now he's okay well uh now they're just together and he doesn't want
to be that way because what is it how is he gonna in a in one month basically complete 180
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it was so rewarding when um she was saying like you know i know that i had these feelings for him
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You know who else I love?
Yeah.
The cast of a little show I like to call Love Island USA.
Heard of it.
What are we thinking?
What are we feeling?
Well, I'm behind.
I've not been in the mines.
I'm a couple episodes behind.
It's. Okay.
We cannot have another season like last season.
That's the top note.
We as a culture, as a country, will not survive if this season goes the way last season does.
And I saw someone tweeting, like, so this time last season, Huda was already fighting
with Amaya during a challenge.
Like, we really can't go back to that.
And this season, I don't see any, like, huge red flags except for the cop who said, and
I randomly happened to sleep with this woman and she got pregnant and now she has a son
that I'm the father of, but I left to be on the show.
Other than that, I don't see any, like, glaring, huge. Right.
Should we tell her?
I think so.
Like, don't you worry about him anymore.
Oh, thank God.
Okay, great.
Hey, you?
Like, it's like. What's that meme?
So I'm free.
It's like, don't worry, queen.
You don't have to worry about, like, the war.
It's like, don't worry about that guy.
You're good.
Love it.
Love it.
Yeah, when I was reminded that he had a son, I was like, go home.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, it does, like, when they're saying goodbye to him and she's like, your son's
going to be so proud of you.
I go, oh, jump scare.
I forgot.
Okay.
So for what?
Guy humping?
I mean, I guess.
But you're right.
The red flag.
So that was a moment.
Yeah.
And then I. Well, the main thing I want to talk about. Yeah. is Trinity giving head while her mother was driving the car.
And then her answer. And then her excuse being, it was daylight savings time.
I go, that's. But that's a star.
That's a star.
And I sat with it and I said. I get that.
That's why I watch reality TV, because someone says that.
I'm like, that's everything.
Like, you can't make that up in final draft.
You wish.
That's not coming to you in script form.
That's just simply off-the-dome genius.
Oh, I love a 22-year-old.
She's one to watch.
I love her lived experience.
Yeah.
I was going to say, I'm weirdly rooting for her and the blonde guy.
I kind of like him.
Matthew Gray goobler-ass bitch.
Oh, my God.
That is a really good comment.
I was like, who does he look like?
Who does he remind me of?
He looks like. Yeah.
I mean, the real romance is obviously between him and Zach, of course.
Of course.
What's his name?
What's a blonde's name?
Bryce.
Bryce.
Oh, Bryce the model.
Yeah, Bryce the model.
Yeah, they're cute.
We got to start getting more strict with the word model, I feel like.
Because everyone. Yeah.
He's model.
Let me. Pull it up.
Right?
Am I about to eat my words?
Let's see.
Am I wrong?
He's not a model.
Well, he's a trash collector as well.
Well, range.
Yeah.
That's actually sexier to me.
Bryce, model, pictures.
You said, so what campaigns have you booked?
I mean, he looks good.
I think he's hot for the record.
He looks like my ex-boyfriend from college before I realized I was gay.
The rapper.
But. The rapper.
And he's good at music, by the way.
He's good at music.
See, it's not like. I'm worried.
Come on.
Like, it's like. It's. You're on Instagram.
It feels like a little Instagram forward.
You're right.
I'm waiting for like a Calvin Klein.
Just at least one.
I don't know why all of a sudden model needs like a dictionary definition.
He's on. But it's like. He wears a swimsuit.
He's a model.
A model is a person on Instagram.
Like, that's. Like, we're all models, by the way.
Oh, yes.
I think. I mean, yes, obviously.
But I'm like. When boys specifically come on Levi and they're like, so I'm a model.
And I'm like. Well, Nick really was a model.
He'd modeled for. Well, because he got it from his mama.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's a real model.
Who was Nick?
Nick from. Nickelandria.
Oh, of course.
Are they still together?
You don't even want to start this conversation.
There's a red dot on your forehead if you believe anything other than the fact that they're
in big, merry love.
Like, they have stans that are shooters.
Oh, have you been on the website Threads?
Only against my will.
Right.
And it is a mass psychosis event.
Like. Wait, what's going on?
I'm out of the loop.
They. Oh, my God.
It's. If anyone doubts their love, they kill their family.
I'm afraid to speak about it.
Where do they live?
You're on a. Where do. Where do who live?
Nickelandria.
Not together.
I don't know.
Maybe she's in LA.
Maybe.
I would assume for work, but. I don't know.
I honestly have no idea.
But. Oh, I really struck a. I really struck a nerve here.
Well, no.
Because they're scary.
And they try to kill us once, too.
What are you saying?
And Hunter's been doxxed before, so we can't take any risks.
Okay, you can tell me off, Eric.
You can tell me off.
Yeah, yeah.
Wait, that's so funny.
I support Nickelandria.
And I think they're very in love.
And I think that they are on the marriage track.
Me, too.
One can only hope.
Me, too.
Same.
Same.
Wait, can I ask. Can I ask a really random question?
How. Because I know how you feel about. Is that your groove?
I love it.
Thank you for being alive, God.
What do you expect?
I'm like a theater kid.
I'm like. I'm like, bring back camp.
Bring back fun.
Bring back joie de vivre.
Like, God forbid we do a little drag.
Yeah, I mean, I was watching the Tonys.
I just watched Pink host the Tonys.
Like, of course I love that.
I saw one photo of her in the Peter Pan getup.
Oh, yeah.
Was that from last night?
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
Of course.
She did. Well, she basically did an homage to one of my favorite pop culture movies.
One of my favorite pop culture moments, which was Ariana DeBose's opening number at the BAFTAs.
Do you know what?
I thought you were going to say Alison Williams playing Peter Pan in that NBC live production.
And show it to the non-binary community, actually.
Thank God.
But I just love. Yeah, so I love the opening.
Yeah, those are three openings that I love.
Ariana, Pink, and Love Island.
What is that song?
Oh, I think it's just made up.
Like, AI invented it for the show.
Like, yeah.
Or like a girl in her closet.
It's sampling what?
It's sampling Mariah Carey?
I actually wouldn't know because I simply did fast forward.
Yeah.
That's not right.
Yeah.
It's Pride Hunter.
It's like, there's only a few things you can do to support it.
And I do a lot, actually.
And you know how much I do.
I was on Interior Motives.
Interior Motives?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Saying, I think gay men are clean.
And you go ahead and say that.
You'll be the only one.
And I was pilloried for it.
Anyway.
I just love it.
Okay.
So who's at the bottom for you?
Who do you not like on Love Island?
The current.
Okay, let me think.
The current Love Island.
Is that girl with the blonde with like the.
Kenzie.
Yeah.
The dancer.
Yeah.
Kenzie looks exactly like Candace Cameron Bray.
Do you agree?
Wait, who's that?
She.
From Full House?
Yeah, it's DJ from Full House.
And now she's known for like being unwell.
Republican?
Yeah.
She's like super Christian.
Yeah.
And of course, shout out to God.
Right, right.
I'm always shouting him out.
You know that.
Who do I not like?
God is a black woman.
Don't do that to a black woman.
She would have done this.
But do you remember that whole era?
Excuse me.
Going from like Ariana Grande to being like a black woman.
Some people are like, same thing.
If you think about it.
Okay, sorry.
Kenzie.
I mean, I don't.
All of the men.
I'm like, don't.
We're never getting a Miguel again.
The new bombshell, though.
Did you.
Could you work with him a little bit?
He said.
The new bombshell said, I've never been to a concert.
But YouTube is enough.
So.
I forgot.
I'm just concerned about the youth.
So there really is a male loneliness epidemic.
He's so lonely.
And he's so.
The issue is that when I started watching the show.
Yeah.
During the pandemic.
You know, I was in my 20s.
I was like, these are my crazy friends.
Now I feel like I could be their mother.
Of course.
They feel so young to me.
Don't they?
Yeah.
Well, he's 22.
That's crazy.
And so for a second when I was like, oh, he's a child.
That's a child.
And also not to take it back to Summer House, but it watching this as a.
31 year old.
I'm like, how was Kyle doing it for so long?
How was Kyle Cook, who's 43 years old and present day, hanging out in a house with people
10 years younger than him and still Party Girl 365 going to do it every single time.
It's amazing.
And he's still singing that one.
And he's still DJing.
Wait.
And the funniest part of the reunion was when the only time I've seen Kyle really break
down was when she goes, I like going out, just not with you.
I go.
That was like Greek tragedy.
I was like, this is like.
And even Andy's face was like, wow.
Like, oh, you went below the belt because, you know, that's where it hurts.
Yeah.
Love Island.
I'm trying to think.
And what do you think about the latest episode?
What?
Wait.
I was like, what?
It was the first recoupling, right?
That was.
Yeah.
So I think Casey and Anaya are really cute.
I love them.
They're real.
I really like them together.
What they have is real.
But, you know, what's annoying to me is like someone called.
He was saying like, oh, I just so you know, like love dark skinned woman.
I love black woman 100 percent.
And everyone was like, I'm stuck between two things.
Yeah.
What did you think?
Because a lot of people are like, this felt really performative.
Like you're looking for America's specifically black women's vote because that's who carried.
like, Nicolandria through the finish line.
Yeah.
And so some people are like, oh, like, that's fake,
but, like, Nick rapping with his little friends,
like, that's not fake, too.
Like, what do you call performative?
I think it's right in the middle
because a black man from California,
all my friends that are, unfortunately, straight
and are dating, it is very,
it is rare that a black man
is, like, ten toes behind a black woman, unfortunately.
That is just true.
And so part of me is, like, a little wary,
and I don't want to give him too much credit yet,
but I'm really glad he said that,
and I really hope it is true.
Yes.
But it did feel a little bit, like, to camera.
I know.
You know, it was a little, I don't know,
I'm wary about it, but. But I liked their recoupling speeches.
Yeah, it felt real.
I like her a lot.
But she seems too nice for the island.
She seems too nice for Fiji.
She's way too normal. No, I was like, you seem like
you respect yourself more than Miss Girl.
I know.
Beatrice?
Beatrice? Oh.
Who, when they asked,
when they asked her.
So, you picked Doggy.
Tell us about that.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my, yes, of course.
Because I go, this is the first episode.
It was literally like, ma'am,
like, this is the first episode.
Yeah, just like that feeling
of putting my hand behind my back
and getting my face up to the pillow
and just showing me how big you are.
I forgot about that.
I wanted to like her so much.
I really saw for her.
I was like, she has a big personality.
She's, like, so fun.
She's an accomplished woman.
She's a lesbian.
And then I. I said, huh.
She's old and brave.
I mean, you're struggling with her.
Yeah, I am.
I am.
That was hard to hear.
I forgot about that moment.
It's like, and spit in my mouth.
And it's like, whoa.
And Ariana Manchin's like, queen.
So, next.
Yeah, Ariana is, like, animatronic at this point.
The way she walks on the set,
I'm like, she's been just, like, defrosting.
That was hard, but love her.
Do you think she's a good host?
Safe space.
Safe space.
Um, yeah.
I think she's a host.
I don't think she's a best host,
but I don't think she's a bad host.
I think there could be better hosts.
Who was it before?
I don't know.
Love Island, for me, started at USU, too, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, I've not done the UK.
I haven't gotten across the pond yet.
Love Island began for me with PPG.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, Serena, Lea, Janaye.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Was that the Rob?
That was the Rob season.
Yeah, of course.
Oh, Rob's haircut.
How do we feel?
Didn't see this.
I didn't see it either.
What is it?
He has, like, a bus cut.
Let's get a visual.
Oh, I'm sure it looks sexy AF.
I was like, let's just pull it up.
Pull it up.
Imagine me.
Imagine me in Las Vegas.
Elevator opens.
It's Rob in overalls that say Arby's.
I go.
I'm.
No, it's good.
It's actually great.
I love when a white boy shakes his head.
Fuck.
It's so good.
To get me to.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's go ahead and get that answer.
Wow.
It's kind of giving, like, Brad Pitt.
It works.
It's giving Brad Pitt and Mr. and Mrs. Smith for sure.
Like, it's giving fucks.
Wow, I needed that.
Do you find anyone?
Is there, like, someone super hot to you on there?
I really feel like I'm too old.
I'm just like, these are my kids.
That's my niece.
That's my nephew.
I'm like this crazy gang of kids.
Like, they're.
Getting their hair done too.
Like Scooby-Doo.
I know.
These crazy kids.
It is Scooby-Doo.
It's like.
Yeah.
I'm trying to think, like.
No one this season is getting hot to me.
It's too early.
It's, well, never.
The boys, no.
I mean, obviously, I think, like, I love all women.
That's not true.
Happy pride.
But I will say there was a really iconic moment between, one, well, Beatrice, actually, and
the girl that's low-key.
I'm like, you're going to give us a tease.
She's.
What is her name?
Mel.
Mel.
Melanie.
I'm scared of her a little bit.
Mel is reality TV.
She's.
No, it's what she's doing.
Yeah.
The casting director was like.
Yeah.
It's fire out.
Day one, she's like.
I don't want to.
And it's like, she's, we're crying day one.
It's, yeah.
But I like when they do that.
Of course.
Like, Kenzie being like, fuck you.
I'm like, you just met two hours ago.
That was crazy.
I mean, her dancing.
She's a dancer.
You have to watch the intro because you have to see her jump into the splits.
I don't need to see that.
She has that at home.
Yeah.
I do that for her.
I just try to do the splits.
I do that for her.
Yeah.
One of my biggest regrets is, like, never learned how to do the splits.
I actually always wanted to.
Not even, like, a sex thing.
I just genuinely want to know how to do it.
It's never a sex thing.
Let's just for the record, it's never a sex thing.
I think it is.
Do people have sex like that?
No, because I tried it twice and it doesn't work.
It doesn't work on a strap or a regular.
Because they're just like, okay.
Well, it's just like, now what?
We're just sitting in a split together?
Like, it's just like, it takes so much to get into.
Okay, this is a family podcast.
Sorry, sorry.
This is a family show.
This is a family podcast.
It can be.
That my family listens to.
And shout out to Hunter's family.
I know.
And shout out.
That's how babies are.
They know.
I'm just kidding.
It's a stork.
Wait, can I go back to something that you brought up, which is musical theater.
But specifically being a musical theater kid.
One of my favorite.
What do you think is like the most like true stereotype of musical theater kids?
Oh, God.
I mean.
I love this question.
They're so, they're so annoying.
Because it's a gun.
It's like, there's only wrong answers.
It's like, we, I'm happy to claim it, like super annoying.
I would say like, poorly dressed.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
We're always in costume.
It's hard.
There's just some styles that you only see from a theater kid.
Like, there's hats.
Hair styles, specifically, too.
Hair styles.
Ariana is a good, Ariana DeBose is a good example of that.
There's hats you only see at a rehearsal.
Like, there's like a newsboy cap hybrid that you only see in a rehearsal studio.
Maybe a little.
Yeah, it's a very like, m'lady.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's funny because I was watching Nikki Bell, whose Instagram recaps I always love.
The red carpet.
And him doing the Tony's carpet.
He was like, no, no, no, no, no.
I was like, oh my God.
Ooh, wait, that's a good one.
It was so funny.
And I was like, I just love every person in that.
I was like, you are killing it.
You are killing it.
I think, yeah, Sarah Paulson had an amazing dress, but there were some crazy looks.
But I think because she's been like, I'm actually a little different than you.
Right.
She's like, I'm actually a TV star.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it was so funny.
He was like, no.
Was it, was musical theater like as horny?
As everyone said?
Not for me.
My life was not horny for so long.
And that's why I have to get up on stage and talk about sex incessantly.
Like, because of that.
Was there like a musical that like turned you out?
Where you were not like, wait, that was a crazy way to follow that question.
Oh, Lord.
I meant just like that.
Me in the splits?
Yeah.
On stage.
I love words.
I meant more of like, what like made you be like, oh, the musical theater.
Like, that's my gag.
And I mean, my favorite musical of all time is Sunday in the Park with George.
I mean, Sontag.
I'm familiar.
When Sontag comes into your space as a child, it's really space sacred and beautiful.
What are y'all's favorite shows?
That happened to me when I saw Marriage Story.
And Adam Driver sang it live.
Wow.
And I was like, who is this guy?
He's great.
I love that.
No, ignore AF.
Yeah.
And then I watched Company.
That was Sontag.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I watched Co-op, the documentary now, like satire.
Oh, I haven't seen that.
Oh, it's.
It's so funny.
Oh, my God.
I need to.
I need to.
You would love it.
Okay, great.
Yeah.
Company's one of the best.
Yeah.
I spent a lot of time, and I'm coming clean about something.
Yeah.
It's just like watching compilations of like people, different singers doing the last five
years.
It's so good.
Jamie is over and Jamie is gone.
Oh, my God.
Like, but I am saying something where I, again, red dot on my forehead.
I didn't hate Anna Kendrick's version of it.
I never watched it.
It's okay.
I mean, she's talented.
I think so, too.
Trolls is amazing.
I'm worried that you like love all music.
Yes.
When you led with Jesse, I go, okay.
So we're coming from a great place of Jesse.
My friends helped me reframe this.
I'm just like, I enjoy things.
Like, I like to enjoy.
You're the only person.
It's a great way to be.
I want to take some of that.
I definitely don't.
Yeah.
No, that's ying and yang.
Yes.
It's a perfect dynamic.
But I'm working on like having like a better barometer for like, like, or just having better
taste.
But like, the thing about me is my heart's open.
Like, you love life.
Yeah.
That's so special.
And I'm working on being like, hate it.
No, no, no.
I can make this work.
Never change.
Me writing in your yearbook.
Never change.
No, that was very me.
It was Lylas AF.
Lylas.
But yeah.
Anyway, I also like recently, I've never seen Hamilton, but TikTok put me on to that, that
one song that's like a total banger.
And I'm like, maybe this is good.
And maybe it's far enough now that I can enjoy it.
Yeah.
The one that's satisfied.
Yeah.
I have to say, I love Hamilton.
Hamilton but I prefer In the Heights In the Heights is one of my favorite shows of all time
that music it's in my head it's stuck in my head almost every day what's the first song if I'm like
you're off book sing it now what is it good morning
$20 for today's lottery one ticket that's it hey a man's got a dream
moving like heard it here first yeah my new cover um that whole soundtrack is like everything
everything yeah $96,000 I look okay I want to ask also like about your upcoming one-woman show
thank you so much for asking I would love y'all to come please come through all summer at the
Lucille Lortel theater or origin place of O'Mary which which we know and famously yes um my show
is called Broad Strokes it's about me having a stroke I'm fine and it's stand-up it's songs I'm
gonna be there all day
all summer come hang out if you're in New York and yeah I was just doing it in Boston
so that's a callback
City of Drybar
and yeah
I start rehearsals
at the end of the month
and it's gonna be
I'm like
I'm nervous but excited
well excited and scared
Sondheim
come on
you guys speak me out
so good to see you
no
I want to learn
I want to learn
your hearts are both so open
yes
okay wait
speaking
crazy transition
tell us about
the stroke
how that happened
let's get into that
I heard that you have
a close personal friend
Hayley Bieber
who has the same
thank you for asking
yes thank you
well
yeah I was
this is like
three summers ago
I was in my apartment
started feeling weird
but I get migraines and stuff
so I was like
oh whatever
and then I was
my arm stopped moving
and I was like
I think I should have a stroke
and then I went to the hospital
and then they were like
you did
and I was like
why
and I was born with
a hole in my heart
the drama
the show writes itself
come on
and basically
it's so funny
when they told me this
I was like
is that like really common
they were like
no
it's not uncommon
but it's not like
so common
I was like
okay
I'm gonna kill myself
anyways
and then if you have
this hole in your heart
it can cause a stroke
but there's a procedure
they closed it up
okay
so I'm good now
but that was kind of
the saga of that
is what the show
is about
because it was crazy
that's so insane
wait how old are you
I was 30
when it happened
right
I was 30 when it happened
right
I was 30 when it happened
right
I was turning 31
yeah
anyways
and so I was just like
it was just
so shocking
because I'd been
you know
healthy my whole life
yeah
lucky girl
yeah
and now
it's funny
I'm like processing it
as I write the show
as I do the show
and my main thesis is like
oh I'm not over it
that was really crazy
yeah
but I'm just so lucky
I'm just so lucky
that they knew what it was
and fixed it
yes
like and they figured out
quickly
and I've spoken to many people
who've had this since then
because like
oh I want to connect you
to my friend or whatever
and so many people
are like
oh I want to connect you
to my friend or whatever
and so many people
had like
multiple strokes
or were in the hospital
for like months
because they didn't know
what was causing it
so I just feel so lucky
thank you
thank you
thank you
that they knew what it was
and figured it out
and then when I got home
from the hospital
after the diagnosis
I google it
first thing that pops up
Hayley Bieber
I'm like
that was the first time
I was like
I'm going to be okay
because I'm like
I'm at death's door
and then I'm like
oh I'm actually
on the cover of Vogue
yeah
it's a different thing
I can't believe she had that
you're a Vogue ambassador
yeah
I know
and like
I need to connect with her
she needs to come to the show
Hayley please
come to the show
I feel close
come to Broadstroke
I think it's like
we're a couple
it's not even six
it's like four
we can figure it out
I know
we can figure it out
yeah
everyone's with
what with the internet and all
everyone's so connected
wait
I'm soft-fitting
into something else
which is
aura rings
so because I'm thinking
we're thinking health
or did you see what I did there
did you see how it connected
to that dot
because what
so we're sisters
right
you can't break this bond
they're in a sorority
how long have you been wearing
her
ladies and gentlemen
probably about
six
six
no longer than that
like eight months
okay
and what made you say
I want one
a brand event
oh god
actually no
I gotta get on your level
it was before that
I paid for it
I was thinking like
maybe I want an aura ring
maybe I want to like
because I have this like
smart mattress
I was like maybe I want
some more like health
tell me about that
later
that's a whole other story
is that the eight sleep
yeah
and it has changed my life
did they give that to you
no
okay
you were like thank god
I was about to be pissed
I was about to be like
yeah
what's going on with my career
the aura ring
okay
I
what really sold me on it
actually
my friend Jordan Holman
did an interview
for the times
with the founder
and he was like
I wear it
because it can tell me
like symptom tracker
if I'm about to become sick
and I was like
okay well I hate being sick
and I hate it in a way
like a man does
where he like acts like
he's the first person
to ever be sick
and I was like
okay sold
I want one now
and I was about to buy one
and they
I went to an event
and they gave me one
but I generally do really love it
what brought you to it though
like what made you say
like I'm changing
well actually I was like
I'm going into this
really intense summer
of doing this show
like I'm like
I'm going to be a monk
because when I'm doing this show
I get like so intense
it's like no parties
no booze
tons of sleep
exercise
and I was like
if I have a little tool
to track it
it makes it more fun for me
so I got it like
two months ago
and I'm so curious
like first of all
it thinks I'm dying
not actually
but like my HRV
yeah
what is that
who knows
what is your HRV
who knows
what's HRV
heart rate variability
is that right
sure
but I don't know
what it actually is
you're telling me
this thing yells at me
every single day
she says
is it buzz
girl
no
or something
no
just via the app
it's always like
symptom tracker
so you might not be well
like you need to
turn off the alcohol
turn off the
turn off the staying up late
it's like
yeah I'm
I'm really
on thin ice
a lot of times
I've been shocked
by the alcohol
information I've received
I don't want to know it
it really is so bad
for you
I don't want to know it
because I love
it's not trendy
but I love alcohol
I think it's amazing
like I think it's
unbelievable
you know
we're on FaceTime
I'm like
I love a little glass of rosé
what can I say
who doesn't
everyone's like
I like my CBD drink
it's like no you don't
you don't like that
your yerba mate
throw it out
yeah but it's just
such a bummer
that unwinding
with a glass
ruins your whole sleep
and your life
yep
right
because I just did a week
with no booze
and I was like
ding ding ding ding
like crown crown crown
and it's not worth it
I'm like
I'll take my
I'll take my low score
for everything
just to be like
I know
yeah I was six months sober
and I was gonna say
I've never been more
snatched in my fucking life
I was like
it was hard for all of us
how did you feel
to be clear
amazing
I felt bad
it was
because you didn't have your
you lost your friend
yeah it was really annoying
I'm joking of course
I'm joking
it's beautiful
every single friend though
that I was like
I'm drinking again
I fell to their knees
in a way that was like
thank god
what made you
what made you go back
I was bored
FOMO
I'm just gonna be honest
I was a little
I was just like
and there are things
I found things to do
for sure
like I
there are other things to do
than go out and drink of course
but going out and drinking
was so fun
your seltzer lime
that sort of
journey for you
what to order at a bar
instead of ordering
oh yeah yeah
that was really cool
formed a lot of community
a lot of sober people
in my life
but
well I've seen something
really alarming on socials
which is that
people are ordering
something called
like a dirty seltzer
where they like
they don't drink
until they have seltzer
with olive juice
what
I even
they're white friends
aren't they
I'm sure
I haven't seen
like who are they
to me they're an avatar
I go no no no
yeah get that off my timeline
by the way I love
just really quickly
your sub stack notes
oh thank you
I have so much fun on there
and I feel really
connected to them
I go like like like
okay wait
I do want to ask
one more question
on the show
oh yeah yeah
how do you feel like
at what stage
of
I mean this like
traumatic event
the recovery
did you decide
I can make something
about this
like I can turn this
into work
yeah
and is that part of
your process of
of you know
healing
yeah yeah healing
totally
I was truly
I get to the emergency room
I'm sitting there
I go this is gonna be
an amazing show
had not been diagnosed
did not know it was wrong
I was like
whatever this is
thank you
everything is content
just by the way
well it's funny
like when you're doing
like your first show
your first special
you have you know
25 years of
lived experience
to pull from
and then you're like
okay I have to do
another one
but I'm like
I have nothing to say
yeah
or whatever
and then
this was just like
a story
that the beautiful
universe
goddess above
gave to me
and so
yeah I just
as soon as it was happening
I was just writing down notes
remembering phrases
that I thought were funny
because when something
is traumatic
it's also funny
at the same time
like you're crying
but you're laughing
like I remember
sitting there with
my boyfriend
and I looked at my phone
it said it was
national girlfriend day
and I was like
in the hospital
happy national girlfriend day
and he's just
it was so
I don't know
I go this would never
happen to you
and he was like
I know it wouldn't
like this is so me
yeah
I was like
it me
like just remember
and just like
writing all those
moments down
but then I didn't
like start writing
the show until
that was in August
and I probably
started writing the show
in like
December January
okay
so
yeah it is healing
but it also
like
performing it
does bring up
some anxiety
so I think it's
a little bit
exposure therapy
I hope
I hope that the more
I talk about it
the less like
I used to not be able
to like talk about it at all
so progress
yeah
yeah
this is therapy
at the end of the day
like this is group
I know
have y'all done group therapy
I really want to get in there
is that good
never done it before
I like one
I'm only trying
like one to one
yeah yeah yeah
I want to be the favorite
like who the fuck
are all these people
and on that note
everyone to camera
can you just let everyone
know where they can follow you
and where they can see you
thank you guys so much
for having me
and let me say this
I love
that you have a table here
thank you
because a lot of people
don't like it
and I am
I am table core
it's so much better
like because I
experience podcasting
on my own sometimes
and like
to sit in a chair
and then it's just like
and I love
all bodies are beautiful
and I love mine
but like to just
to lead with this
is really hard
so I feel so
it feels like I'm
I'm on the news
yeah
yeah
and you
this helped me give
the takes I needed to give
so thank you both
for having me
I'm an emphatic speaker
I love table
thank you so much
that's the problem
table
I'm like it locks me in
I guess I would
say
catcohenbroadstrokes.com
get tickets for the summer
and yeah
follow me
at
cat underscore
cohen
that's fine
because someone has
cat cohen
and
we'll find her
and we'll
we'll finish her
oh
and she won't give it to you
it's confusing for her family
if she switches
she ate that
she ate that
no I know
she ate that
it would be confusing
it would be confusing
like you're not thinking
about her family
that's so funny
I'm a fucking bitch
that's so funny
this was years ago
I can't remember
- If we get our audience to like spam
them to be like give her her hand up her family is gonna be guess what more confused yeah no she
rocks she deserves it well thank you Kat so much thank y'all so much thank you this is so great
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The hosts, Peyton Dex and Hunter Harris, discuss pop culture, including Love Island USA, Summer House, and Kat Cohen’s new show *Broad Strokes*, which centers on their personal experience of having a stroke due to a heart hole.
They highlight a recurring theme of reality TV tropes, such as questionable friendships, red flags like a man revealing he’s the father of a child from a relationship, and a moment where a 22-year-old gives head while her mother drives—seen as a shocking, real-life moment.
The conversation touches on cultural commentary, including the performative nature of Black representation in media, the challenges of male loneliness, and the hosts’ admiration for the resilience and authenticity of Black women in entertainment.
Summary:
Peyton Dex and Hunter Harris dive into a lively, multi-layered discussion blending pop culture critiques and personal reflections. ” The conversation extends to Summer House, where they analyze the evolving friendship between Amanda and Sierra, noting it’s marked by emotional imbalance and unreciprocated effort. They also explore broader cultural issues, including the performative celebration of Black love on reality TV, such as Nick from Nickelandria’s public declarations, and the perceived performative nature of Black women’s visibility in media.
A major personal story is shared: Hunter recounts how he had a stroke at age 30 due to a congenital heart hole, which was quickly diagnosed and treated. This experience informs his upcoming one-woman show, *Broad Strokes*, where he reflects on survival, resilience, and his deep bond with close friend Hayley Bieber, whom he sees as a kindred spirit. The episode also touches on health trends, like using smart mattresses and Aura rings, and includes humor about reality TV tropes, such as the “silly goose” energy of characters and the absurdity of musical theater fashion.
Throughout, the hosts maintain a warm, self-reflective tone, emphasizing authenticity, personal growth, and the shared experience of navigating complex social landscapes. The discussion blends humor, vulnerability, and cultural insight, creating a rich, layered commentary on modern entertainment and identity.
FAQs
Kat Cohen's new show is called 'Broad Strokes.' It's a stand-up comedy and musical performance piece about her experience having a stroke at age 30, which was caused by a heart condition she was born with.
Kat Cohen experienced a sudden loss of movement in her arm, which led her to believe she might be having a stroke. She was diagnosed with a hole in her heart, a condition that can cause strokes, and the issue was successfully repaired through medical intervention.
The main theme of the show is about overcoming a life-changing medical event and the emotional journey of processing it, emphasizing resilience, gratitude, and the importance of timely medical awareness.
Kat Cohen mentioned her close friend Hayley Bieber, who also has a heart condition. They share a personal bond and are deeply connected, with Kat expressing a desire for Hayley to attend her show as a tribute to their shared experience.
Kat emphasizes how lucky she is that her condition was diagnosed and treated quickly, and she shares that many others with similar conditions go undiagnosed for months, leading to multiple strokes or long hospital stays.
Kat and Hunter often discuss 'Love Island USA,' 'Summer House,' and musical theater, with a particular interest in the cultural dynamics and behind-the-scenes moments of reality TV.
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