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Obsessed: The Podcast
The Daily Beast
4.5 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rachel and I have a new show Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch. |
| 0:05.0 | It's an otherworldly comedy podcast where I, along with my co-host Irene Bremis, |
| 0:09.8 | talk to my funny friends about their own experiences with the eerie and the unknown. |
| 0:14.3 | Psychics, spirits, astro projection, check, check, and check. |
| 0:18.5 | You may think we live in a world where there's a logical explanation for anything out of the ordinary. |
| 0:22.7 | But after you spend some time with me and my pals, you might have your doubts and find that you too are woo-woo. |
| 0:29.2 | So when the lobsters come for us, when our lobster overlords come, you heard it here first. |
| 0:36.1 | Join me for a podcast that turns the mysterious tales of my funny friends into a spirited conversation. |
| 0:42.3 | Search for Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch, wherever you're listening now. |
| 0:50.7 | I probably know less about late night TV than everybody else. |
| 0:55.0 | I became a late night host the way that people become realtors. I didn't set out in my life to be a late night host. I grew up in a different country. We didn't have that. No one grows up wanting to be a realtor. You just put you, when you get to be a realtor, you think, well, you know, it's not a bad job. It's pretty good job and I kind of like it. What happened is that Letterman, David, |
| 1:11.8 | doing the time slot. |
| 1:13.2 | So I was really basically working for days. It's not a bad job. It's a pretty good job and I kind of like it. What happened is that Letterman, David, owned the time slot. |
| 1:13.2 | So I was really basically working for Dave, but Dave was making his own show in New York. |
| 1:17.2 | CBS were paying no attention to me because they didn't own the time slot. |
| 1:21.4 | I mean, basically they were paying me to do a show that they weren't paying any attention to. |
| 1:28.0 | Hello and welcome to Obsessed the Podcast. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today on the show we have a very funny comedian |
| 1:36.7 | who spent a decade as host of The Late Late Show on CBS. |
| 1:41.1 | His new documentary series for CNN is called America on Purpose. Craig Ferguson, welcome to |
| 1:47.2 | Obsess the podcast. Thank you, Matt. And thank you for having me on Obsessed the Postcast. Why is it |
| 1:52.5 | called Obsessed? We're just obsessed with you mostly and some other things too. Yeah, you know, it's |
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