EXCLUSIVE: “THE BEZOS EFFECT” CRASHES VENICE WEDDINGS, GOLDEN BACHELOR MEL OWENS SPARKS AGEISM UPROAR, AND WILL SMITH STRIPS DOWN FOR THROWBACK THIRST TRAP
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s $50M wedding may have tanked Venice’s destination appeal, with bookings dropping sharply post-spectacle. Meanwhile, Golden Bachelor star Mel Owens is under fire after saying he won’t date women over 60—despite leading a show celebrating senior love. And Will Smith broke the internet with a nearly-nude cowboy hat post marking Wild Wild West's 26th anniversary.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:18.7 | Hello, Alo, Alo, Alo, Alo, hello, hello, hello, hello, I. Welcome to the naughty but nice show. I'm your host, drop shooter, and it is Wednesday, which means our dear friend Donnie Meacham is joining us, Donnie. It's been a minute, Donnie, are you there? Hello, la, blah, blah, blah, I know, just because you missed my melodic voice. We did. We did. We did. There's a lot going on in did. We did. We did. We'll fix it. We'll fix it. You sound good. You sound good. I missed you, my friend. We did miss you. You're the original. Nauty. The reason this show exists, Donnie Meacham, is because you were lucky enough to meet me. or maybe the other way around. Maybe I was lucky enough to meet you. You taught me how to do it, Donnie. |
| 0:56.9 | You taught me, talk me to meet me, or maybe the other way around. Maybe I was lucky enough to meet you. You taught me how to do it, donnie. You taught me, taught me, taught me. Yes, that's a big. I mean, I am the OG of Nottie But Nice Radio. And it's crazy that it's been years now. I mean, the longest years of my life, but God, it's been years. But no, seriously, it's like, this is one of those |
| 1:11.7 | things. You wanted to do it. And the thing about me is people who want to do something, |
| 1:18.0 | they show an interest and they show like an actual drive and they put in the work, I'm happy to |
| 1:24.1 | walk them through. I'm happy to stand beside them. I'm happy to do everything. I just hate when you have people who are like, oh, I want to do, do, do, do, do, do. But can you do it for me? No, I don't do that. No, no. Well, thank you for everything, darling. I don't tell you that often enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's because of you that this show now really |
| 1:45.5 | exist. It's that simple. So thank you, thank you, thank you. Let's jump in. What time is it, my friends, it is? Tea time. So a big, shocking story at the top of the show, the Bezos effect. Do you know what that is, Donnie? The Bezos effect. What could that possibly be? Let me tell you,dings in Venice have dropped after Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's |
| 2:04.5 | $50 million spectacle. So first we had the Clooney bump. George Clooney got married in Venice. Now we have the |
| 2:11.2 | Bezos bust. So in the wake of this really over the top wedding, It took place in Venice. sources are telling me that |
| 2:19.8 | destination wedding bookings in the floating city have plummeted. And they believe this is a |
| 2:26.9 | dramatic, dramatic reversal from the post-Clooney boom. So when George got married there a decade ago, |
| 2:33.8 | everybody wanted to get married |
| 2:36.1 | in Venice. It looked so romantic, didn't it? Oh, on the gondolas, it was so beautiful. Maybe |
| 2:40.9 | it was a simpler time back then, or maybe George is not quite as vulgar as these two. Since |
| 2:46.4 | these two got married there, people are like, I don't know if I want to do this anymore. I spoke to a couple of international wedding planners and they said Venice is now off the top ten list. So if you've got a lot of money, most people don't really have this option. You get married kind of close to where you live, where you can afford it, where your friends live, so that they can come to the wedding. Well, celebrities don't think like that. |
| 3:08.0 | Billionaires do not think like that. |
| 3:09.5 | They go around the world picking these really international venues. |
| 3:13.4 | I think Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, they got married in a castle in Italy. |
| 3:17.2 | We know Clooney got married in Venice. |
| 3:19.7 | And so Venice was always a very romantic city. |
| 3:22.1 | It will be forever. |
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