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Rachel Bloom DEFENDS The Crappy Boyfriend from The Devil Wears Prada

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Rachel Bloom DEFENDS The Crappy Boyfriend from The Devil Wears Prada", an episode of Lovett or Leave It published February 10, 2026 (31 min, about 5,991 words). It mentions 10 people, works and ideas, including Lisa Rinna, The Devil Wears Prada, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rabbi David Aaron, Flea Bag.

What this episode is about

Rachel Bloom defends the character of the "crappy boyfriend" from *The Devil Wears Prada*, engaging in humorous dialogue about relationships, personal dynamics, and cultural references. The conversation highlights Bloom's multifaceted talents and playful camaraderie, while also touching on the complexities of modern love and personal connections.

Key takeaways

  • Rachel Bloom hilariously reflects on the complex intersection of art, love, and Jewish mother expectations.
  • Pegging as a conversation starter? Welcome to the new age of intimacy and comedy.
  • In an era of short seasons, 13 episodes can still pack a cult classic punch—just ask Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
  • From love to invisibility, the pursuit of superpowers reveals our deepest insecurities more than you'd think.
  • Exploring how strangers' words shape us highlights the delicate balance between public persona and inner resilience.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rabbi David Aaron, Flea Bag
  2. – 10:00: The Devil Wears Prada, Malala, Lisa Rinna
  3. – 15:00: AG1
  4. – 20:00: Betsy Sedaro, Bobby Flay
  5. – 25:00: Bombas, The Devil Wears Prada

Notable quotes from "Rachel Bloom DEFENDS The Crappy Boyfriend from The Devil Wears Prada"

  • You created the show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend thank you I'd say currently watch it on streaming but it's streaming nowhere ware, but you can buy it on Amazon and iTunes. Will it be yours forever? I don't know. Do I want it to be.
    about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend · at
  • Because it is the month of love. And so I have before me the 36 questions that lead to love. Created by psychologist Arthur Aaron, popularized by the New York Times, designed…
    about Rabbi David Aaron · at
  • That's a that's a good night. That's a good night we're talking about. Lisa, is there any quality or ability you wish you had that you'd like to add to your repertoire?
    about Lisa Rinna · at
  • They asked me when I was talking to producers, they're What can you talk about with Doris Prada, too? And I was I think nothing.
    about The Devil Wears Prada · at
  • Rebrand every year. Sometimes it's the small things you do every day, even when everything else is chaos. One scoop of AG1 every day is the easiest thing you can do to add to…
    about AG1 · at
  • It's like I wish the best for in my head it was honestly my friend Betsy. Betsy Sedaro. I was like oh I just love her and I want the best for her. And then it's All right, now instead of Betsy, do it for yourself.
    about Betsy Sedaro · at
  • That my daughter is going to tell herself is, Yeah, she took me to school and then she went to be on Bobby Fle and I never saw her again.
    about Bobby Flay · at
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Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Lisa Rinna — Person · Main guest · 1 mention · first at
    Co-guest alongside Rachel Bloom; participates in the '36 questions' segment, discusses friendship, and mentions aspirations (lounge singer) and her memoir.
  • Rabbi David Aaron — Person · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as the psychologist who created the '36 questions to fall in love' framework used as the episode’s segment premise.
  • Betsy Sedaro — Person · Referenced friend (personal example) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as Rachel Bloom’s friend in a self-compassion exercise illustrating uncomplicated positive regard and how to redirect it toward oneself.
  • Malala — Person · Referenced public figure (example) · 2 mentions · first at
    Used as an example of someone who receives online hate despite being widely admired; referenced in a joke about who gets positive internet comments.
    There are times that if you look at Malala's Instagram where she gets hate for things and I'm like what are you doing? You're trolling Malala like wow.
  • Bobby Flay — Person · Referenced celebrity (context for anecdote) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in Rachel Bloom’s travel/parenting anxiety story tied to appearing on 'Beat Bobby Flay.'

Books & papers

  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend — Book · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a show created by Rachel Bloom, discussed in the context of streaming availability.

Media & podcasts

  • The Devil Wears Prada — Media · Referenced work · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of a sequel and its cultural impact.
  • Flea Bag — Media · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in comparison to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, discussing its episode count and influence.
    You could really tell people that you had the show that inspired Flea Bag.

Sponsors

  • Bombas — Product · Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at
    Promoted as comfortable socks and footwear, mentioned during an ad read.
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    Promoted as a daily health drink supporting nutrition and gut health, mentioned during an ad read.

Full transcript with timestamps

Do you want me to plug myself? Yeah. Call back. Right. I have occasionally plugged myself.

Oh, that's cool. That's cool. Wow. I finally caught up to that. I just like got that. believe it.

Please welcome to the stage a woman who does it all. And by all I mean sing, write, act, and help me rob a convenience store once. It's Rachel Bloom.

Look at this. Hi. I thought we'd never talk about that night. Um I was watching you when I walked in. You were in the leather jacket. I'm like, "Oh, we're going to look like the hottest girlfriends."

Really? And like one of us, one of us is the controlling one who was like, "No, you're wearing leather." It's you.

It's me for sure. Like we're in a It's a um behind the candalabra situation. Remember that movie?

Yes. I love that movie. And Liberace was like, "Get plastic surgery to look exactly like me."

I loved it. That's totally what our dynamic would be. Yeah. And I would do it and I would be like, "Go now."

And I'd be like, "It's 3:00 a.m." But okay. Yeah. Hi. We're in the month of love.

We're in the month of love. Rachel, this is real. Uh, my mother said this to me and I quote, "I saw that you have Rachel Bloom on the show this week. Please tell her I say hello."

Wow. And I really the harshness of that tone is per is just pitch perfect for Jewish mom.

Now tell her I say hi. You I will. Do you remember the last We met one time. One time.

It was lovely. We had a great conversation. Okay. Well, this is not a Why are you saying it in such a serious song?

Now, the last time, do you remember you're on this show, uh, my nephew did have to leave the theater because you and Robbie Hoffman were talking about pegging?

Sure were. Sure were. Uh, and Lisa, have you ever harried his Hamlin? No. If Sorry if that's too intimate.

No. We have not I was saying I have also not I'll I'll just use the Harry my Hamlin because if I say my your husband's more famous than mine so like I haven't danned his Gregor that means

okay yeah that kind of makes now Rachel as you mentioned it is the month of love as we're always calling it uh you created the show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

thank you I'd say currently watch it on streaming but it's streaming nowhere ware, but you can buy it on Amazon and iTunes. Will it be yours forever? I don't know. Do I want it to be streaming? Yes. Does anyone at the company of CBSP get back to me? No.

Oh, they're trying. I just want to get ahead of that. I believe you I believe you can get 1,600 pen by printing DVDs.

So, the world is made up of Did that last a season? a whole well I mean it by it depend not in the 22 episode era but today was a long season of 13 episodes.

My god it was a 13 episodes. That's how many episodes of Flea Bag there are total.

That's right. Actually yeah that's a good point. You could really tell people that you had the show that inspired Flea Bag.

Yeah. Like we were trying to do something that like had that Flea Bag feeling and the world just wasn't ready. I mean, in a sense, 600 pen was a cult classic for years before flea bag even existed.

This is a really relatable conversation. Now, as we discussed earlier with Lisa and and and Rachel, I know this is true to you two that that you both have great marriages in a in a town where they're they're, let's say, rarer than one would hope.

Uh, but it's time for a segment we're calling 36 questions to fall in love. Uh because it is the month of love. And so I have before me the 36 questions that lead to love. Created by psychologist Arthur Aaron, popularized by the New York Times,

designed to speedrun intimacy. The goal to make you fall in love with me or worst case each other.

First up, it's already happening, man. Yeah. First up, uh this is for both of you. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be? the ability to uh not let uh strangers hurt me.

Oo, wow. What a deep That's so interesting because I find that you're you're talking about words.

Yeah, I guess I I you know what it is is the ability for infinite self-compassion. That's really what it Well, because I I see that as the same I see why you would say the same thing because for me the only words from strangers that hurts are the ones I believe because people could say all people say all kinds of crazy things about me every day. Lisa is all positive on the internet but but

Oh yeah, right. Oh yeah, exactly. It's just her and Malala out there. But the uh

so lucky. But that's that's it's interesting. There are times that if you look at Malala's Instagram where she gets hate for things and I'm like what are you doing? You're trolling Malala like

wow. Yeah. I think the other side of that too is go to a BaskinRobins. Get ice cream

for sure. You need ice cream or go masturbate something. Go masturbate. Exactly.

Honestly, those are two great things that go great together. Yeah. That's a that's a good night. That's a good night we're talking about. Lisa, is there any quality or ability you wish you had that you'd like to add to your repertoire?

I like to be invisible. Okay. I like to be able to, you know, like walk through walls and be invisible when I'd like to be and just disappear when I want.

I didn't know magic powers were a thing in this. So, like that's really smart. Yeah, I just added it.

I would also probably choose a magic power if that were actually an option. Okay, noted. Rachel, when is the last time you sang to yourself or to someone else?

I mean, l I mean, I sing to myself pathologically all the time. Same. Uh, yeah. It's like

I sing all day long. It's little Is it songs that you know or is it songs that you make up in your head?

It depends. Like when the kids were little, I would sing, you know, nursery rhymes all day long. The wheels on the bus go round and round and all of those. I don't do that anymore, but when I do, then you should be worried now.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like if I'm in the shower singing, you know, the alphabet or farm songs, you should be a little concerned.

Do you know they changed the alphabet to get rid of elemento P? So now they sing it in a different cadence.

What are you talking about? What are you talking about? That is that is against the law.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P. Sorry. No, no, no. What is that? Like a Trump thing?

No, it's not a Trump thing. It it's the one thing that isn't. Honestly, it might be the kind of thing that led to Trump. But

that is wrong. Well, they the kids because when I was a kid, I thought l was l but it's baffling.

It's a what? That people think Lmento O is one letter? It's confusing. You can't keep track of what the letters are inside of Lo.

Yes, you can. It's really easy. L M N O P. Now, Rachel, I know um you can't We're just going to move on from that.

Well, I don't know how to resolve it. You just I'm not You just dropped I'm the messenger.

We killed Bin Laden bomb and we're just supposed to skate on by. They spread out the letters a little bit more evenly to make it easier for the kids to remember the letters.

No, you what? Honestly, you listen to yourselves. a tiny bit of change and you're like, "Make the alphabet great again.

I don't care that it's helpful. I don't care that it's a little bit better for the kids. I like how I like it."

Think about it. Think about how you're behaving. Sorry. H I J K L M N O P Q R S What is it?

But where you started, you'd already [ __ ] it up. So it's it's just the whole thing had to be adjusted. Everything moves around.

G H I J K L M N O P Q R something like that. S T U V W XYZ. Exactly. And it's really no fun anymore. They took all the fun out of it.

They took all the fun out of the alphabet song. [ __ ] Malala. now. Uh uh but then but there are plenty of things we're putting the fun back into like the devil wears Prada too that you're in.

I AM. YAY. OH, SO is my daughter. My youngest daughter is also in it. Yeah. I mean I don't think she speaks but she's in it.

Cool. She's in it. Yeah. Oh, wait. We got a sidebar after this about it. I I don't think we were in but I want to I want to I want to hear her story.

Yeah. I think she was at the Met Gala thing. Yes. That was where she was. Uhhuh. Yeah. Okay.

Anyway, go on. They asked me when I was talking to producers, they're like, "What can you talk about with Doris Prada, too?" And I was like, "I think

nothing. I signed an NDA with Mickey Mouse himself." Yeah. And if I say anything, he'll be like, "Oh, [ __ ] you're fucked."

So, can we just assume that Andy's boyfriend finally gets what's coming to him?

Um, the villain of Devil's product. Yes. He does fall into a volcano and his endrails spill out from his No, I I also that's that boyfriend never bothered me. Um,

I don't know. Like I She Yeah, I don't know. She was miserable at the job. He was calling it out. I don't I I don't know. I'm But I I think it's just a very good I think I can't separate the like reprimand of the boyfriend from like, well, is this a is this a writing no? Because I think it's a really well-ritten movie. And also, one of my best friends wrote the movie and wrote the new movie and so I'm protective of her vision in general. Maybe.

I think the movie is great. I just think that's right. I know a writer, so play your cards.

I like the movie. I just think uh the devil in the film is the hero. Uh Anne Hathaway is a is shouldn't throw her phone in the fountain. She should finish the week and then give notice to be respectful for the opportunity. And Adrienne Gier should appreciate that it's cool to be ambitious in your 20s. Yes, but structurally it's fast. Right. And so, Right. Right. If you're doing FA, you don't say, "Hey, devil, I'm going to stick around in hell. I've never read FA or seen FA, by the way. I'm saying Foust. I actually don't know much about Fou."

Well, we've seen We've no damn Yankees. Oh, so then I know Foust. So, and and about a dozen episodes of The Twilight Zone.

Yeah, exactly. So you don't say to Applegate and damn Yankees like, "Hey, I'll just play this one World Series and then, you know, I'm going to peace out and be with my old wife." No, you have to leave then because your contract with the devil ends at that midnight and you want to go back to be with your old wife. Do is anyone remember what Damn Yankees is about? Because that's what it's about.

No. Okay. I don't. I liked it though because Bob FSY I love the dancing but I don't remember it all.

Devil's Bargain. Lisa. Yes. Is there I am the devil's bargain pretty much, right? I know.

Is there something that you've dreamed of doing for a long time? And if so, why haven't you done it?

Well, um huh, you're stumping me. What have I dreamt of and why haven't I done it? Okay, you know what I'd like to do? Here's here's what I would like to do. I want to be like a lounge singer in a bar. I'm not kidding. Or sing at weddings.

Uh, I'm just gonna throw this out there. I am getting married on Memorial Day weekend of this year. And so

that would be [ __ ] iconic. That would be great. You just said, "Is there something that you'd like to do that you haven't done and why haven't you?" Well, I don't know. Those are the Yeah, I want to sing in a bar or at your wedding.

Wow. Oh, this is exciting. What's your What do you think your staple song would be?

Um, I would like to do like like what um Isaac Misrai does at the bar at um the

Carile. That would be really fun. And just like get up there and sing like my funny Valentine and like you know bar songs.

Whatever. Whatever Lola want. Like I don't think that's a good call back. Call back. Good tiein. See, I knew that.

Wouldn't that be kind of fun? Yeah. I also think you could get that show up at the Carile like tomorrow.

Today, like right like right now. I think I just put it out there in the universe. So now probably I'm going to have to do it.

You're going to you're going to get a call from them tomorrow. Hello. This is exciting. This is a good This is a good episode. Uh

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Rachel, what if anything is too serious to be joked about? Oh god, I don't [ __ ] know.

Hey, follow up. You have a new I mean I I actually o ve I I don't know if anything is too serious to be joked about to be honest because I I think when you put things on a pedestal of you can't talk about that and you start to to police that and then I just I think humor is the great equalizer and um it's also a way of I think relieving a lot of tension and so I think that when you say you can't talk about something or joke about something you only add to the tension. and stigma of it. And no, I will not give examples.

I totally agree. I actually think there I think there's no topic that you can't joke about. We actually this ends up being a debate and we make this show because I my view of it is no topic is too serious. But if you are going to joke about a serious topic, you have to be careful about the ethic of the joke. And that if you are making a joke about something serious that the that the punchline is not about someone or something that is doesn't make light of suffering in some way and that has you can defend it on the merits of what it means. And that is where we and sometimes they're like, "Yeah, yeah, we get it, John. The joke is ethical.

Everyone's going to boo you and you'll be an asshole." And I'm like, "You've made an important point."

Yeah. I I to me I see it more as and this is just maybe coming from more of a writing comedy perspective. I like I just think jokes that feel like oh that's punching down or that's a really offensive joke they're they're just lazy. I I think I I associate them like years ago when we first started talking about rape jokes. Um my oh everyone got so quiet. Um, my experience with a lot of rape jokes was just like they were hack they were hacky jokes that comics were make where they just weren't good comics. Like I remember I got introduced at some open mic. This is probably 16 years ago where someone was like Rachel Bloom's coming. She better watch her drink. I wasn't like affronted. I was like that's just a lame stupid joke.

It's just a lame roofy joke. And so I think that I I think if you look a lot of a lot of like offensive comedy, it's like, oh, it's also just like easy and lazy.

Yeah. It gets a it's a shock value. If the joke is because it's a shocking thing to say.

Yeah. And it's shock that it's tre territory other people have tread before. And so you're just being lazy.

Yeah. That's right. And no, I will not give more examples. Lisa, yes. What does friendship mean to you?

Oh, what does friendship mean? Um, it means that you have someone that has your back and you have somebody's back.

Yeah, I think that's nice. I think that's right. I just I always think that it's like almost as simple as a friend to someone you root for, right? Like I think I like that if you're rooting, you know, and I and I say that because I think

obviously there are a lot of people you root for that are not your friends, but I actually think sometimes that's a helpful way to think about it because I think sometimes people have people in their lives that are around them all the time that feel like or look like friendships, but are you rooting for each other? Because sometimes you're not.

Sometimes they're not. Yeah, that's actually a beautiful way. I have a I was talking about wanting self-compassion. I have this thing called the self-compassion workbook which I highly recommend for

I want to get that. That sounds great. Awesome. And it's been it's lit. It's wonderful. And it's just a literal workbook where you you work through kind of once a week. This is your exercise for And one of the exercises is like think about a person for whom you have

completely uncomplicated feelings of like I just want the best for them. And and you say to yourself, I think it's like I wish the best for in my head it was honestly my friend Betsy. Betsy Sedaro. I was like oh I just love her and I want the best for her. And then it's like, "All right, now instead of Betsy, do it for yourself.

How if how?" And I was like, "Oh." And it was such a revelation of like the uncomplicated like love I have for like Betsy. Um like what if is that's how I felt about

that is a great message. That's beautiful. I really like that. I really like that.

Uh and this is uh for both of you. Uh this will be our last question and it is from the questions to fall in love. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?

I do not. I was just thinking about this today cuz I just flew in from New York today and every time I get on a plane I'm like, "Oh, what if

what if this is the time?" Um, and I was going and I was in New York to be on the show Beat Bobby Fle, which was so fun. But I was also like, "Oh my god." Like, I think about my daughter. The story that my daughter is going to tell herself is, "Yeah, she took me to school and then she went to be on Bobby Fle and I never saw her again."

That would be sad, actually. It would be so just sad. Like, she couldn't ever watch a cooking show. She She maybe couldn't even go to restaurants and engage in like high quality food.

I think that's wishful thinking. Wow. I mean, I get the not watching the cookie shows, but I think she'd be eventually be able to go to restaurants.

Yeah, I guess so. But every not saying you want to be traumatized and horrible, but she could go to restaurants.

But you do that like I don't know if this I mean when you're when you become a parent, you know, your your heart is filled with uh constant fear. Yeah. And I every time I'm away Yeah. about to go on a plane, every FaceTime or phone call I have, I picture that I'm in the part of the movie that's her flashback

to like that's the last time I saw my mom. It's dark. It's I don't like it. I don't like I don't like

You have to help with that. But but I have the same So I have the same broken part of my brain.

Yeah. Because for me like once I was in a happy relationship, all my fears went into like if the phone I've said a version of this in the past. True. When the phone if if our call ends, there has been a building collapse. I I'm like in my that was it. That was why it went up. Yeah. Call gets dropped. Something horrible has happened. And I know that that's not true, but that's like the feeling right away. And they have to get back in touch to make sure there hasn't been some sort of gas explosion or something of that sort.

That's also I was going to say this is some [ __ ] epigenetic [ __ ] But this is also why your ancestors like survived a pogram probably because they were like maybe we maybe we hide out in the latrine or whatever you know.

Yeah. That's why I have mircat energy I think. Um and that was how we all fell in love.

Everybody uh Traders on Peacock and uh Lisa's memoir. You better believe I'm going to talk about it. You can pre-order it now. It'll be in stores on February 24th. And

do you want me to plug myself? Yeah. Call back, right? Excellent. I have occasionally plugged myself.

Oh, that's cool. That's cool. Wow. I finally caught up to that. Yeah, I just like got that.

And The Devil Wears Prada 2 is out on May 1st. And Rachel's new show, Do You Want Kids, which you are producing with your husband.

I just wrapped a pilot for ABC that I'm starring in that I co-wrote with my husband.

So, this is a pre-plug that if it gets ordered to series, it'll be on in the fall.

And maybe you'll write a part for me. Never know, right? Yeah. I can say I was sitting right here when you said I hope it gets picked up and if it does I go hi here I am.

I love the I love this for the show. A lot of good stuff coming out of this episode.

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Here's how it works. I'm going to just say some things that I think maybe I I screwed up and I'll just see how you feel about it.

Okay. Uh first of all, I think I took a little too much time uh uh kind of patting myself on the back about the trans the the the joke transition from planter fasciitis to arch support. Um we probably also could have used one more bonino rhyme. I think we were missing the third beat because I think you guys really liked the second one and you really took to it and I of course we should have had a third one just in the hopper. That's stupid. That's our fault. That's our fault. Lot going on when you put this show together. You don't catch them all. I just want you to know that was a mistake. Uh uh

I'm I'm trying. It's hard. Uh it's always darkest before the donino. That that's PERHAPS

OH. OH. OH. SO IT'S ALSO like word play. Yeah, it could have it only could be word play because it turns out nothing rhymes with with bonino. when you think about it. Hey, hey, Lisa. Yes. Um, you shared a really uh meaningful and poignant personal story about your family and then I just followed it up by asking if you were going to be on Traders Allstar.

That Yeah, that sucked. You were terrible at that. That was really like and like you take me down the road of like my father, you know, dying and then you ask me if I'm going to be on Traders All Stars.

So, do you think that's good reporting and good hosting? I mean, does that make your guests feel comfortable?

So, here's what I would say. I say those could be two different things cuz the joke did work.

They laughed. They did laugh. They did laugh. So, what's crazy is you want to know something? I've done that before to someone else.

Who? Do you remember? Anybody remember that exact thing I did? Oh, it was Patricia Arquette.

Oh, I love her. I love Patricia. All right. So, I'm in good company. Do you remember when I did that? How did she respond? She was not like that.

Honestly, here's the difference. This is the difference, honestly. And I think it's interesting, which is uh I because Patricia was vulnerable and she did that, I felt so bad.

And I'm not. No, no, you are. You are. You are. But there's a toughness to you. There's a toughness to you. And so I like I I feel less like I feel more like you are right. I could have been a better host, but I'm not like it wasn't like I I didn't I didn't feel like I had to quickly fix it because I'd like hurt you. You feel You see? No, I was not hurt. Exactly. And I don't think I hurt Patricia Ar. I think she could handle little old me. But there's a there was a there was a but there's a toughness that comes across with you. It's interesting.

Not that you can't be vulnerable and tough, but that was both. I saw both. I see both.

But I also don't blame you. I blame society. And I'll tell you why. For what? Everything in society now is like when I started like Kim and Eping comedy, it was still very Gen X of like don't be a sellout. Like don't sell mer don't sell merch at your shows. Don't like don't try to plug yourself. And now we're in a

plug culture. So every serious p I mean this is like a clam at this point, but like every serious podcast is like and that's when the child died. Do you need a new mattress? you know, and like and it's and it's horrifying and like the way people like go on social med like like Instagram is [ __ ] broken because you have the you know, one grid post about someone's past trauma with like an eating disorder and then the next grid post is just like I love these cupcakes and it's like oh it's it's all our lives are whiplash right now. The way we consume media is whiplash. So I feel like you whiplashing to another thing from a serious thing. We're not calling out most of social media for doing that.

So why should you be held accountable? Well, that's interesting. That that felt like I thought it was going to come back around in a better way for me at the end. But I will say the actual thought process was and this is interesting to me. I think let's get into it, which is I thought you'd already said something so beautiful and poignant and I needed to get out of it, but I didn't think it was necessary to have to push you to give even more. You you had already done what needed to be done. So, I was putting a button on the whole thing, which I did

perfectly. You did. You did. You did. So, so I did think about it. I also want to say if someone posted about an eating disorder and then posted about cupcakes, that actually might be two related inspirational posts. So, that was a bad that that's me critiquing myself that that was actually a bad example of of like if you have a [ __ ] up relationship with food and then you're like, I love cupcakes now. Actually, that's really inspirational. I just don't want to I'm I'm just I'm already I'm already seeing the like medium think piece and so like not that I'm like even important enough to merit a medium think piece but like just in case someone was like planning a medium think piece I want to get ahead of it and I want people to have the relationship with food that best suits them.

Um and then I think just one final one. Uh hey I'm sorry I made everybody sad and mad about the new alphabet and then compared you all to Trump. Uh, and um, and then uh, I feel pretty good about putting Lisa on the spot about singing at the wedding.

I was fine. I can't tell if I should ask Lisa to sing a few bars or not. Oh, let me think. Um, what would you like me to sing? you whatever you what was you you had said you wanted to sing like a piano bar song with Isaac Miss Ryan. What would you sing?

Um let's think. Come rain or come shine. How does that go? Come rain or come shine.

Wow. I I can't believe you haven't been singing at bars given that there are housewives who couldn't find a note with a magnifying glass, a shovel, and who are singing all across the country. So, that's exciting. I'm I'm staying tuned for I'm I'm staying tuned for future attractions,

future cabaret shows. Uh all right. Well, that's how we have to leave it. That's second thoughts.

Great. Uh Rachel Bloom, Lisa Rena, this was so much fun. Love it or leave it.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Rachel Bloom DEFENDS The Crappy Boyfriend from The Devil Wears Prada"?

Rachel Bloom (Guest), Lisa Rinna (Guest), Jon Lovett (Guest).

What is "Rachel Bloom DEFENDS The Crappy Boyfriend from The Devil Wears Prada" about?

Rachel Bloom defends the character of the "crappy boyfriend" from *The Devil Wears Prada*, engaging in humorous dialogue about relationships, personal dynamics, and cultural references. The conversation highlights Bloom's multifaceted talents and playful camaraderie, while also touching on the complexities of modern love and personal connections.

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10 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Lisa Rinna, The Devil Wears Prada, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rabbi David Aaron, Flea Bag, Betsy Sedaro. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Rachel Bloom DEFENDS The Crappy Boyfriend from The Devil Wears Prada"?

The episode runs 31 min; the transcript is about 5,991 words in 147 timestamped sections.

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