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August 8, 2025 11 mins

Chelsea and Catherine do a book roundup, and read a followup about gay underwear.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi, Catherine, Hi, chelseall y, I'm good. I'm good. I
just read that book James by Perceval Prescott Persivoy, Percival Prescott.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is that his name that has been everywhere?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Everett Percival Everett ef Yeah, James. It was very should
be required reading. It's an amazing book. You have to
read it, and it really shook me up for a
few days. I think I absorb sometimes I absorb things
so much, like I can't stop thinking about them, you know.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, it is personal.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Ever, I just double checked and it's like a retelling
of the Huck Finn story right.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
From his perspective, from the slave's perspective, so they have
like a guy.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yeah. So it's great.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
It takes you through like right before the war broke
out and on the Mississippi River and then kind of
he's trying to escape for his family and he's trying
to get back. It's just it's a saga. It's a
whole saga with Huck Fin involved in it. And it's
a nice retelling. It's beautiful but heartbreaking.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
And you do love a retelling of a classic too,
like I know you love Cirrus and those other ones
like yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
And then I read those women that have that podcast
I've Had It, Those two funny women. I think they
have a great podcast called I've Had It Podcast, which
is there's these two women from Oklahoma, and they have
a new book called Life Is Just a Lazy Season
of Shit Sandwiches. That's a pretty funny book that I
also just read. I'm reading Elizabeth Gilbert's book All the

(01:25):
Way to the River and I'm almost done with that.
That is a beautiful book. Yes, I started reading Demon Copperhead,
but I haven't finished that.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's kind of a hard reause it is.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I brought that to Whistler and I left it there
because I was halfway through and I'm like, Okay, I
don't want to not read this book, but I'm not
finishing this right now, and I had other books to
read for our podcast. So but everyone talks about that
book and it's been on the list for years and
years and years.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
And then what about You.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I started out this year reading a bunch of books
that I did not like. I didn't like like the
first five books I read this year, and I realized
it was because they were all from book Talk and
all recommendations from book talk, so I stopped doing that.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
But what's wrong with book talk?

Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I think it's just like people read a book and
they feel like they need to recommend it because it's
a thing that they read.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
But I will say some books that I have really
really loved this year.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
One is called The Reformatory and this is absolutely a
horror novel. But it's written by Tanana Reevedo, and it's
all about like Jim Crow South and a boy's reformatory, which,
of course, like all kinds of terrible things happen, but
she is a student of horror and weaves in all

(02:36):
these different elements like there are there's like a spiritual
aspect and a ghost aspect and like, you know, really
scary adults aspect. I mean, it is one of the
most beautiful books I've ever read. Probably not a great
beat reade, although that's where I read it, but I
loved it. And it was also when I couldn't stop
thinking about And then I just finished reading Lonesome Dove.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Do you remember that one went from the Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, I read it with my dad because he's like
a big cowboy guy, and I kept seeing it on
all these book tack lists, and that was one that
I can say is totally worth a read. Is It's
pretty long, but you just you are there with the characters.
It's beautifully written. It's so funny throughout and just like
very I mean, you just feel like you're there.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
So I also read Bright Young Women, Oh My God
by Jessica Nole.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
I read that last year and it's one of the
one of the best books I've ever read.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I loved it.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Remind me what.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
That's about and refreshment memory because I'm looking at all
my pictures and I was like, okay, yes, this is
I read this in Whistler and I remind me yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Because I was like, you have to read this one.
I saw it around your house.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
It is about, oh, yeah, you're the victims of the
serial of a certain serial killer who you do know,
but they don't ever name him in the book.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
But he's a real serial killer.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
And it is a telling of the stories of some
of his victims and other women who were impacted by
his murders.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Oh okay, yes, And then I did read here. I
read Beautiful World, Where Are You? By Sally Rudey.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's a great Oh yeah, she's wonderful.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
And then there's the other book I read, which isn't
for everyone. It's called hyper Focus, How to Work Less
and Achieve More by Chris Bailey. But that was kind
of just a that's not an escapist book. That's more
of like a functioning book. Yeah, you know, like how
to function. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, it's like a like a self healthy sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Isn't it amazing though, that you can read an entire
book and forget what the funk it's about.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I mean, it is amazing, and it's also very true.
It just it just happens. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
I am sad that I spent nine hundred pages reading
Can we ever.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Talk about Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yes we did, Yeah we did.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
I did force myself to read The Mists of Avalon,
which is like way from the eighties, and it's like
a retelling of the Arthurian legends from the women's perspective.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
And man Artherian legends.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
What are the legends of Arthur?

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Who is that arth King Arthur?

Speaker 3 (04:56):
And it was it was so boring and nothing happen
in nine hundred pages and the end wasn't even satisfying.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
And I feel about Demon Copperhead. It's just like, what
so depressing the subject matter. I hate when there's crystal
meth involved. Yeah, I don't like crystal. I mean there
may as well be. It's like the set. That's the setting,
you know, it's like a trailer park, and yeah, there's
like alcoholism and crystal math.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
It's just like I hate that vibe.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's like I want to be taken away on a journey.
Like the Elizabeth Gilbert book is so beautifully written because
it's about her lover and she finds this love of
her life and and then so she gets diagnosed with
cancer and it's about their last year together and they
had been friends for years, and it's this beautiful Syrian
woman and she's just is like this show. The book

(05:45):
is kind of like an homage to her love and
like how special and vibrant this woman was.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
You know, she's so dynamic.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
And complicated and complicated and she just like it and
lights up every room she walks into or tears it apart.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
So I could relate to that.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
One other book that I'll recommend to you and to
the listeners is called Tits Up and it is a
nonfiction book, but it's called Tits Up. What sex Workers,
milk bankers, plastic surgeons, broad designers and witches tell us
about breasts. And it's this woman, Sarah Thornton, and she
had to get a double misstectomy and kind of went

(06:21):
on this like journey to learn everything she cout about
breasts and socially, what the burden of breasts is and
physically and the good.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Things that they do.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
I mean, it was really interesting. I used the book
on tape for that one. He's read by the author
and she was great. So that is one I think
our listeners would enjoy it too.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Okay, great, Well that was a good little book.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Book round up, Book round up. Well are you ready
for a follow up?

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
This is from our Penis Toutcher episode Penis What Penis Toucher?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Remember our guy guy.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
So I sent her a bunch of recommendations from listeners.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Most of would you tell it?

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Also to get a shotgun so the next time he
touches his benis, you can just fucking shoot him.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Oh, I have a result that's even better than that.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
So most of them were about getting different kinds of underwear,
which we talked about.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Janelle said, Duluth Trading Company.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
I make special garments for men that have this issue
called bullpin, which I just think these names for these
are hilarious.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Dave said, as.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
A decently well endowed gay man, I feel this is
my annual good deed for straight men. There are several
companies most popular among gay men that design underwear that
createle all the goodies in a way that keeps them
in a position to avoid the uncomfortable flop to the
wrong side or split down there.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Wait a second, I need these underwear. Where do you
have the brand? Can we forget it's again?

Speaker 2 (07:43):
So he says. My favorite brand is called Andrew Christian.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Andrew Christian, Yes, he said, you'll see on their website
that is heavily marketed toward gay men. But I recommended
them to a bunch of my straight buddies, and not
only do they love them, but so do their partners.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Okay, I was at Wimbledon with a friend of mine,
an old friend of mine. His name is Max Eyes
Andbud he works at IMG. I think he runs all
of IMG, like tennis sports whatever. Anyway, he married this
girl that I went to high school with her name
is Farakats. She was the prettiest girl in high school.
Max Eisenbud landed her. He looks like mister potato head.
So the fact that he landed Fara CAATs is ridiculous.
So whenever I see him, I'm like, oh my god,

(08:17):
I can't believe she married you. You know, obviously he
does really well for a living she had. She's divorced.
He's divorced, so they came together and they raised their
kids together. And he's a good husband. I probably probably
not great, but anyway, I was with him during Wimbledon
a lot at the IMG House and I would come
there and when one morning it was very alarming because
he was sitting he posts up in this corner because

(08:38):
he's like the king.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
He acts like a king, and his.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Legs are spread open, and I'm like, oh my god,
your fucking balls are cumongous and spread out.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Max. I'm like, this is so revolting.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
I'm like, what are you wearing a skirt underneath your pants?

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Like what are you doing to.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Contain your balls? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (08:57):
And he's like, I don't know, just a really big balls.
I'm like, but you need to contain them.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Like I'm like whatever you're doing, you need to get
a pair of underwear that embrace them, that wrap them
up and split them so that one is on one
side and one is on the other side, and that
none of them are shooting down like a barrel.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, you shouldn't be seeing that. I don't understand.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
And boxer shorts are not. That's not underwear.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
That is not As you get older, you need to
reel them in and you need to contain them. You
can't just let them go. Yeah, I mean, what is
the point of boxer shorts. I don't understand. They're not
doing anything.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Keep you away from your jeans, I guess.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
And the man not for the outsiders.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, we need something for the outsiders, people who are
viewing you. If you're gonna sit there with your legs
wide open, then you need to contain your balls in
some sort of net situation.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
So can you please forward the company to Karen so
she can order Max Eyes and Bud. Let me tell Karen, right.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, it's Andrew Christian and he says one of the
collections is called Trophy Boy, So that is what we'll
buy for Max Eies and Bud.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Hold on, let me just send Karen a voice memo Karen,
Catherine sending you a link for these underpants. Can you
get like a pack for max eies and budd at
a IMG and send them to him from Chelsea. Make
sure there are like six or seven of pairs, like
a variety pack.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Thank you a week Day of the Week pack.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
And so I sent these along to Janet, who's Bill's wife,
and she said, Hi, Catherine, I'm humbled by this advice
and wonderful community.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Thanks for forwarding the advice. FYI.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Whenever Bill adjusts himself and doesn't realize it, my code
word for him now is Chelsea.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Oh that's that's really heartwarming.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, I love that. I thought that was great.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
I love entering marriages like in a confrontational way. I'm
also keeping marriages together. Yeah you know, yeah, I mean
that we're helping them.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
We split people up when they should be split up,
and then we be getting together when they.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Should be well, wrapping up. This is us wrapping up
by guys. We'll see you like.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
I added a second show in West Hampton August twenty first.
Now I'm performing in West Hampton and August twenty second,
I'm performing in West Hampton. So go to Chelseahandler dot
com to get your tickets.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
So I added a couple of new day I'm not
on tour yet, but I added a couple of dates
just because I felt like we need a little bit
more laughter and a little bit more.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Medicine for the end of the year.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
And I was wrapping things up, but I thought, maybe
let me do a couple more. So I'm adding three
more dates in addition to my Vegas residency, I'm doing
Westhampton Beach August twenty first, I'm headlining the Rochester Fringe
Comedy Festival September thirteenth, and I will be in Napa
on October.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Third, So those will be my last dates.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
Of the year.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Do you want advice from Chelsea? Right into Dear Chelsea
Podcast at gmail dot com.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Find full video episodes of Dear Chelsea on YouTube by
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