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"The First Look" w/ Kate Berlant

StraightioLab

Big Money Players Network and iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The day has finally come... our most requested guest of all time, live and in the flesh! Kate Berlant joins us to talk wedding guestlist logistics, father-daughter chemistry, the ethics of small talk, and her big immunity secret. Plus: We investigate the not-so-subtle politics of that magical moment when a groom sees his bride for the first time. Best of luck to all the couples out there! 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed human.

0:19.8

Podcast. Just kidding. We wanted to let you know that we have two Podcast starts now.

0:21.4

Just kidding.

0:22.3

We wanted to let you know that we have two shows in San Francisco literally this week.

0:28.3

We have two.

0:29.3

One is a stand-up show on January 22nd.

0:32.9

That is a Thursday in San Francisco.

0:35.8

And then the other one is a Stradio Lab live show with Marie Faustin

0:40.2

and Brittany Carney and potentially some more exciting guests. And that is Friday, January 23rd.

0:45.6

There are tickets available for both. And they are available in our bio. And we have been keeping

0:50.3

this so secretive and not posting because we are weird. Yeah, so basically tell all your friends, come to our shows. Sketchrest is so fun. We had such a good time last year and we can't wait to see you, San Francisco. So get tickets now and enjoy the up. Bye. Podcast starts now. Wow. What is up? Everyone around the globe. We are coming at you live from Los Angeles, California. How are you feeling? Um, so amazing. Um, we are still, it is still the day after the Golden Globes, which it was last episode we recorded. Yeah, and who knows what order we're releasing them in. So now you've been, you've had like an LA week, I want to say. Like you've been working, you were at the globes. I want to know where your head's at. Um, because like, that's kind of weird. Yeah. And you're like pretending like it's normal. Well, so I've had this, I live in New York City, as some people might know. I'm here for the month. And people keep asking,

1:45.6

what are you here for? What's the big gig? I say, lower your expectations. But last week,

1:51.4

I did feel like, you know what I felt like? There was an early Inside Amy Schumer's sketch where she does a

1:58.2

VO gig, and she walks in holding a giant coffee and wearing like it's like

2:02.5

no makeup and just wearing a hoodie. I was kind of feeling that fantasy. I was feeling the fantasy of being like it's normal for me to be in all these like spaces with famous people like sure I'll go do a Vio gig. Sure I'll go do two recordings of the I heart studio. Sure I'll go to the Globes and watch in the overflow room. And so I, and I think I'm currently coming down from that because I don't have any more

2:21.4

glamour. the IHeart Studio, sure, I'll go to the Globes and watch in the Overflow Room. And so I,

2:17.7

and I think I'm currently coming down from that because I don't have any more glamorous things for actually the foreseeable future. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, well, except for the, the current recording that we're doing. Well, of course. With one of my favorite comedians, actors, and writers. One of the most glamorous recordings. One of them, we have glamorous recording. someone who, I mean, I think

2:35.8

that she was wearing a full on, laced

2:38.0

in comedians, actors, and writers. One of the most glamorous recordings. One of the most glamorous recording. Someone who, I mean, the, the, I think that she was wearing a full on laced in wig. I think that's not her hair. I never know if I can talk yet. Please welcome Cape Verlant. Hi. Hi. Thank you for that sweet. Oh my God. I really don't know the rules at this point when you're... Well, we didn't explain them to you. No, no, no, no.

2:53.7

But this is every pocket, you know, Hi. Hi. Thank you for that sweet. Oh my God. I really don't know the rules at this point when you're...

2:51.6

Well, we didn't explain them to you.

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