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Life Will Be the Death of Me with Chelsea Handler

Minisode: Perspicacity with Chelsea + Catherine

Life Will Be the Death of Me with Chelsea Handler

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture

4.34.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Chelsea and Catherine learn about the need for a new vocab segment, a son wants his mom to move in, and an auntie gets caught playing favorites.  

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Executive Producer Catherine Law

Edited & Engineered by Brad Dickert

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.2

I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different.

0:08.0

What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club?

0:12.2

Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story.

0:18.8

Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story.

0:23.2

It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on

0:30.3

the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, hello. Hello, Chelsea. Hello, how are you? I'm great. Thank you for feeding my meter today for me because I'm incompetent and I can't park in a parking structure. I mean, I am incompetent when it comes to knowing what cars are. So I knew it was a silver car. There were a lot of silver cars and I definitely had to like beep the key rates for

0:54.2

which one. It's great. First of all. But okay. And I yesterday you guys gave me a like a, I want to say

1:00.6

certification. Validation. Validation for my car. And I get down to the parking lot, pull out. I have

1:07.7

everything but the fucking ticket, of course. And I'm a hot mess. You know, everything's a hot mess with me. And I, so I'm like, fuck it. I pay $25 to record my own podcast. And then this morning I get out of the car and there's the validation ticket. I'm like, this is a mess. Everything I do is a mess. You know what? It's okay. We're going to give you validation. I know. It's like somebody needs to just come and park my car every single day. Yeah. Well, I have a suggestion from a listener that I thought was kind of funny. Is it for me personally? Kind of. I love it. I am actually curious what you're going to think about this. Okay, great.

1:44.8

Justine says, she wrote in, and her subject line of her email is, you think Rob Lowe knows what perspicacious means, vocab queen?

1:53.8

She said, dear Chelsea, I think my vocabulary is pretty respectable, particularly for an American at this point in time.

2:00.6

Yet my workouts are routinely interrupted when I have to pause and Google the definition

2:05.2

of some big word, one that you know damn well your guest does not know the meaning of.

2:09.7

You think Rob Lowe knows what chicanery means.

2:12.4

Perspicacious?

2:13.2

Please.

2:14.1

He's too beautiful, and so am I.

2:16.5

I mean, you're a goddamn hero for our culture. You're educating the masses, but you're also interrupting my flow. So here's my pitch. Can you decode your superior dialect for the rest of us plebeians at the end of each episode so we can all become less stupid together? Maybe it can be a new mini segment. Thanks in advance, Justine. Yeah, that's a great idea.

2:34.8

I know. I was like, I love that. I love that idea. Vocab words. We all need to build our vocab.

2:39.2

Yeah, yeah, for sure. So now when I hear like big words, I'll just, we'll just do a little. I can clarify, perspicacious means very perceptive.

2:32.6

Yeah.

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