Wrong Turns Premiere w/ Bob the Drag Queen and Mae Martin

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We can think of no better way to launch a podcast than with our first two guests: Mae Martin and Bob the Drag Queen. Mae (Handsome podcast, debut album “I’m a TV,” and upcoming Netflix series “Wayward”) shares their secret crush gone horribly wrong, and perhaps the most incorrect way to use a spatula. Bob (RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, The Traitors, NYT best seller “Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert: A Novel”) reveals their ultimate kindergarten nightmare and the most least comfortable way to extinguish a roast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to wrong turns.
0:11.3	Studio audience goes crazy.
0:15.2	This is a podcast that celebrates shame and indignity.
0:20.0	I'm just fucking sick of all of the inspiration we're supposed to draw from all of the terrible moments in life.
0:26.1	And I feel like we're overdosing on it online.
0:29.1	And I just want somewhere, but I can chill and just own my cluster fucks without it needing to have a silver fucking lining.
0:36.6	Supervall.
0:37.1	And I wanted to bring my
0:38.2	friends on to commiserate with me. We are anti-inspiration pro commiseration here. I'm so done with
0:44.9	learning any kind of lessons. Yeah. I feel like I've learned a lot and I'm like I'm ready to just
0:50.9	not learn any more lessons. Is that because you feel like fully formed at wisdom?
0:54.8	No, I'm just exhausted.
0:56.7	May is so brilliant.
0:59.2	There's nothing else I can learn.
1:00.9	The voices that you are hearing right now are two people that I love so, so deeply.
1:06.5	One is a comedian, actor, writer, producer, and recording artists now.
1:10.6	Their new album is I'm a TV. Their latest comedy special is Feel comedian, actor, writer, producer and recording artists now. Their new album is I'm a TV.
1:12.9	Their latest comedy special is Feel Good, streaming on Netflix, and they are one of the hosts of the Hanson Pod, and their series Wayward, in which they star wrote and produced.
1:21.4	What a sleigh is on Netflix this fall.
1:24.0	It's May fucking Martin.
1:25.8	Yay!
1:27.9	I wish I had gone first because I feel like your
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