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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, guys, the High and Mighty Tour is about to begin.
Tour starts on February thirteenth, everybody, DC, I will see
you there to jump things off. February fourteenth, Atlantic City,
which I just added, Madison, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Detroit, Michigan, Cleveland, Columbus,
and Cincinnati, Ohio, Denver, Colorado, Portland, Maine, Providence, Rhode Island, Springfield, Massachusetts.
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April third, which is in Rohnert Park, California. That has
just been added. Chicago, of course, Indianapolis, Indiana, Louisville, Kentucky, Albuquerque, Masa, Arizona,
Kansas City, Missouri, Saint Louis, Missouri, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Nashville, Tennessee, Charlotte,
North Carolina, Durham, North Carolina. May sixth, I'm doing Netflix
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as a Joke festival. I will be in Los Angeles.
That is a new announcement. Saratoga, California, Monterey, California, Modesto, California,
and port Chester, New York, Boston, Massachusetts, Portland, Ore and Seattle, Washington.
I will be touring from February through June. Go to
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Chelseahandler dot com for tickets if you want to come
see me perform. I will be on the High and
Mighty tour. Hi Catherine, Welcome to a minnisode. Welcome to
a Dear Chelsea Minichow.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's actually very exciting.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We're doing these on video now because we're on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Hi Netflix, Hello, Hi Netflix.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
No, I'll see you at the Netflix is a joke
festival on the sixth of May, and.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
People gonna get tickets to that right on Chelsea Handler
dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, the best place to get tickets for my show
is Chelseahandler dot com, so you don't get gouged by ticketmaster.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Okay, perfect.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Well I've got some follow ups from a couple previous callers.
So one is from our Haileyloo Richardson episode she was
dating online and kind of lived in a small town
and was thinking about moving to a bigger city for
more opportunity. The advice and kind of like dip your
toe in the water, set your hinge settings to a
wider array of.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
People, and like the cities because you can always travel
there if you're close by.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So Lauren says, I just wanted to send an update
that I am officially moving to Madison, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
May first.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I just wanted to say thanks again for the awesome
opportunity to be on the show and to Chelsea for
her great advice. I see that Chelsea has a show
in Saint Louis on April twenty fourth. I plan to
attend with friends and can't wait. Thank you, Lauren.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Oh great, that's exciting. And she moved. Yes, love it,
love it, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yes, you're always encouraging people to take big moves, and
it's nice to hear.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
When people do.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I'm always encouraging people to move. Yeah, that really changes
the energy up?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It does it?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Does?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
You know?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Somebody was saying this was Caleb Heron, who I don't
know if you're familiar with him.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
He's an amazing, hilarious comic. But he was saying, he's
like I.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
He was living in la He's like, I felt like
I need to just sort of shake my life up
in every way just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So he still travels here.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
A lot, but he moved to like Missouri and it's
just like having a great time.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I feel like Nikki lives in Saint Louis, Missouri. NICKI
I feel like she does too.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I'm pretty sure she does.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, because she wants to. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't know if she still does, but I think
and she wasn't living with her parents, she just moved
there because she's from there. I think during COVID a
lot of people just move back to wherever they like more,
you know, once you realize you don't have to be
anywhere for anything.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, or like Haleelu moved to Arizona, haleel I moved too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Our next follow up is from Ethan. He'd called in
on a minisode. He was the guy who was having
like a long distance relationship with someone in Chicago. He's
in California, and they were like toying with whether the
guy would move. He was very in love, very tearful.
So Ethan says, hey, there, I hope you're doing well.
I wanted to give you an update. The boy from
Chicago and I have worked everything out. We've decided to
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be long distance friends for now and let things develop naturally.
It feels healthy and pressure free, and I'm genuinely happy
he's still in my life, just in a way that
makes sense for both of us.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Ethan, So not a big move. We haven't ruined any
lives yet, not yet. Not today, not today.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Okay, Well take a quick break and we'll get back
into our color when we get back.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Okay, and we're back.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
We are back.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So our caller today is Marie, and she's having some
wedding potential wedding drama. So she says, Dear Chelsea, I'm
a twenty eight year old woman and I'm getting married
next year. My fiance and I are having a destination wedding,
which means we're working with a strict guest cap of
one hundred people due to venue restrictions. We both live
very full lives and have a lot of friends, so
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getting a final guest list took forever. I have a
large friend group of about twenty girls from college. We
stayed closed for the last ten years, talk regularly in
various group chats, and take annual girls' trips together. There
are a small handful of women from this group who
I adore but don't keep up with one on one,
who didn't make the guest list. I feel confident in
this decision to not invite them, and I think they'll
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completely understand and agree about our level of closeness. However,
I'm dreading the way they'll find out Save the dates
are going out soon, and I know the group will
inevitably be full of photos of people receiving these save
the dates and general excitement around the event.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I hate the idea of these few.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Women finding out they're the only ones not invited because
they didn't get one. So my question is it better
to say nothing and let the unfold naturally or is
there a kind mature way to acknowledge it ahead of
time without making things awkward. Does addressing it beforehand create
unnecessary discomfort or is it actually the more respectful move?
And in a situation where it feels like I'm too
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close with them to not address it, but not close
enough to actually invite them, You're the queen of sisterhood
and what it means to be honest and a good friend.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
So I love your opinion.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Marie Hi, Marie Hi, Hi, You're so cute.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Oh my god, thank you.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You're welcome to How many of them?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
So you're cute?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
How many of the girls did you?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Out of the twenty girls, were you not able to
invite three?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Just horriful because I feel like if it was a
bigger group, it was half of them. This is self explanatory.
I would just let it like play out naturally, but
the small group makes it feel targeted and I just
don't like it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, and there's no way to include them even without
guests if you could.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Not. Really, I've just compromised so much with my fiance,
like my friends already take up the whole event, have
to let him invite people from his life too, So
I just feel like, again, I'm like confident in the
decision not to invite them, and I don't think that
they would be shocked. I just I don't like the
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idea of being like I didn't receive mine and no.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
No, I definitely think three is a tricky number to
leave out out of twenty. So I think that's a
little sensitive. So I think you should be You should
shoat it with some sensitivity and reach out to the
three girls beforehand, and maybe there's something nice you can
do for them that doesn't involve inviting them to your
wedding and sending them a nice card or a great idea.
I mean, you want them to find out sooner than later,
but I think you should definitely say something before just
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say listen. It was huge compromise to get as many
people as I wanted to wanted to invite to this,
Like we have a limit, and we have limited funds,
we have a limited capacity. I know you guys will
totally understand, but I just wanted to let you know
that I wasn't able to invite everyone from our group,
you know, and that makes it clear that they're not
invited to the thing. But I definitely think you should
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reach out before they find out another way and just
and you can also say, I know you're going to understand.
I'm sure have any of the three been married? Have
they been through this experience?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yeah, one of them has. And I think, like what
adds a different dynamic to this is I'm the first
one that's ever not invited the whole group. Like we
very much are a group that just we just are like,
come one, come all. We all love to hang out together.
So I think that's like playing in my mind a
little bit. I'm like I have to be the first
one that's like creating some sort of smaller group, which
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which kind of sucks. But yeah, I just have never
really heard I like, I love your advice, but I'd
never really heard of somebody like telling someone they're not
invited to a party before they.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, but but I think it's
a nice thing to do, considering that that everything you
keep saying just reinforces the fact that I think you
should do it, Like if they've all been included in everything,
like I think you should double down and like.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Listen, your friendship is very meaningful to me.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I don't want you to take this as a sign
that it's not, Like I still want the twenty of
us to do things in groups and all of those
you know what in your own words obviously, but I
don't want you to take not being invited to my
wedding as a personal affront. Like I actually try to
figure out every way I could do this, and it's
just not possible for me to go over the amount
of people that I have right now, you know, and
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lay it out for them. But I think it will
be appreciated more so than them finding out, because then
there's awkwardness and there's tension, So like, just get rid
of the tension before there is any.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, And I love the idea of sending them something,
whether it's like a little box of chocolates or some flowers,
and then really really hit like the nail on the
head of like I had. There are a hundred people,
my husband has a big family, et cetera, et cetera.
Like blame it on the venue. Having that cap I
think is helpful too. That way, it's not just like, oh, well,
you know, we wanted to have a small way. You know,
it's like, really, there's a strict number.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
I like it. I mean, I yeah, I had a
feeling I should address it. So it kind of answers
my Yeah, of course, that's why I came here, I guess.
But yeah, something felt wrong about.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Just not saying anything.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
It just like happened, especially because we are so active
in different group chats.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I think it's just like the.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Day and age now everything is online and indifferent. Everyone's
sharing everything twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So you might also think about the girls that are invited,
maybe just having a separate group chat, being like, hey,
not everyone from our big group is invited, but I
wanted to have a separate chat here since it's a
destination wedding and making plans. Yeah, and just kind of
letting them know not everybody from the group is getting
a save the date, but you guys will get your
soon and I'm so excited to have you, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I love it. Well, thank you. Yeah, okay, the.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Numbers small, so it's weird. I hate that the numbers three.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I don't like that either, So that's what's bumping me.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I know, I know, I know, I don't. Yeah, I
would like to expand it, but I can't. There's groups
that live together. There's like a whole dynamic that I
just yeah, I'm trying to navigate. So I'm thankful though
that I have such a great group of friends.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So yeah, and make sure you put that at the
end of the letter, just say I'm really grateful.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
This is just one of the things that I'm not
able to negotiate or mess with right now. So I mean,
I hope to make it up to you in the
future in some way.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Unless people say no, then they can be on the
second tier. But that feels.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Worse, right yeah right, yeah, yeah, I don't like this.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Well, you're getting married. Try and focus on the positive.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I gues, true, very true.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, all right, you know, okay, thanks for calling so
much fun.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Bye bye bye. All right, Well that's our minisode for today, Chelsea.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Okay, I love it. Wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Okay, guys, the High and Mighty Tour is about to begin.
I'm in DC February thirteenth. February fourteenth Atlantic City which
I just added. Fifteenth is Norfolk, Virginia. February nineteenth Madison, Wisconsin.
February twentieth is Milwaukee, Wisconsin. February twenty first Detroit, Michigan.
February twenty second, Rama, Ontario. That's Canada for those of
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you who don't speak Canadia. March thirteenth, Cleveland, Ohio. March
fourteenth Columbus, Ohio. March fifteenth, Cincinnati, Ohio. And then March
twentieth is Denver, Colorado. March twenty seventh, Portland, Maine. March
twenty eighth, Providence, Rhode Island. March twenty ninth, Springfield, Massachusetts.
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April tenth is Chicago. I'll be at the Chicago Theater
in April eleventh. Indianapolis, Indiana. April twelfth Louisville, Kentucky. April
sixteenth is Albuquerque, New Mexico. April seventeenth is Mesa, Arizona.
April twenty third is Kansas City, Missouri. April twenty fourth
is Saint Louis, Missouri. April twenty fifth is Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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April thirtieth Nashville, Tennessee. May first is Charlotte, North Carolina.
May second is Durham, North Carolina. May sixth I'm doing
Netflix as a joke festival. I will be in Los Angeles.
That is a new announcement. And May fifteenth Saratoga, California.
May sixteenth Monterey, California. May seventeenth Modesto, California.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
And then June fourth Portchester, New York.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
June fifth is Boston, mass And June twelfth is Portland, Oregon.
And then Seattle is June thirteenth. So suck on that, everybody.
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